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**Advance**

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Organization Information
Status
Determinant

Location
Territory One

Mission
Redistribute wealth through A&W Act
Defeat Disrupt
Maintain Power over the Territory (later the United Territories)
End embargo imposed by the World Council (Episode 2)

Affiliation
Geoff Algebra
 Li'l C
 Katie Brightman (Determinant)
Rymmington-Svist (Determinant)

**Advance** is the ruling political Group of the Country in *Not For Broadcast*.

## Description

Advance is the current ruling political party in the country, being elected at the start of the game after the previous Prime Minister resigned due to a sex scandal. The party is initially ran by co-Prime Ministers Julia Salisbury, a lawyer for the national court system, and Peter Clement, a popular TV personality who rose to fame with his own D.I.Y. show *Just The Job*. Following Peter Clement's death, the party is solely run by Julia Salisbury.

### Claims and Promises

Advance claims to be committed to equality for all citizens and large scale wealth redistribution through "simpler", "fairer" and "unavoidable" tax policies, they promise to make the rich pay their "fair share" and bring an end to tax dodging through "hiding wealth offshore" and "creative accounting" in order to properly fund public services such as health and education and facilitate an overall improvement of living standards.

Advance promises to unite the Territory into a "cohesive" society with an emphasis on cooperation and a community spirit, opposing competition and individualist attitudes, the party aims to build a "New Future" designed after these aims and confronts those who want to maintain (and later, restore) the old status quo, in particular the opposition group Disrupt.

## History

### Early Government

Advance won the election in a landslide (with 81% of the vote, an overwhelming mandate) thanks to their promises of highly taxing the "historically wealthy" and using the money to implement large scale progressive reforms, primarily through the Assets and Wealth Act.

The party manages make due on its promises by revoking the passports of the rich until they pay their taxes, in order to force them to contribute to the A&W Act rather than flee the country and take their money to a less tax heavy nation, this results in a massive surplus in the government budget which goes towards public services and providing funds to ordinary citizens, making 90% of the population wealthier and putting the nation on track towards a "permanent end to poverty", by Day 232 of Advance's government "homelessness has been all but eliminated" under their program.

However, sanctions imposed by the World Council (designed to cripple Advance's redistribution project and prevent popular uprisings inspired by it from happening in foreign nations) along with the emergence of the Disrupt movement put heavy pressure on the government, leading them to enact increasingly authoritarian measures to maintain power and control public opinion; Throughout the game, Advance instructs the news networks, including the National Nightly News, to play mandatory public information films (which act as propaganda for the party) during ad breaks, and they sponsor numerous theatre companies and musical groups (such as Hey, Friendship, Heatrash and the Novaries) to promote their agenda on TV.

Additionally, after the sanctions crisis begins, the party "advises" the NNN to begin censoring anti government criticism, including (but not limited to) condemnations of police brutality, condemnation of the party's euthanasia program (Transition Centres), discussions of underground scientific research and support for Disrupt, which is branded as a terrorist organisation (its spokesman, Alan James, is banned by Advance), this "advise" becomes a stable of all future NNN broadcasts. How much of this censorship is carried out is at the discretion of broadcast editors, like Alex Winston.

### 20 Week War and Aftermath

After announcing its initial sanctions regime the World Council later decides to impose a full economic blockade on the Territory after some foreign countries (such as Svenland) chose to speak in favour of Advance and refuse to enforce the sanctions policy, Advance responds with military strikes in an attempt to break the blockade, sparking a conflict later known as the 20 Week War which drains much of the Territory's supplies. In order to end the war Advance conducts nuclear attacks against 4 foreign cities, with Prime Minister Julia Salisbury publicly claiming credit and threatening to detonate more devices unless the remaining countries surrender unconditionally, this leads to their annexation by Advance under the banner of a new nation, the United Territories, the Territory becomes known as Territory One and foreign nations such as Irkistan and San Palmarino become known by other Territory numbers, disbanding as sovereign nations in what Advance terms the "New Future". Peter Clement passes away shortly after, leaving Julia Salisbury as the sole head of the government.

Advance's rule over the United Territories is threatened by growing militancy from Disrupt, which launches a full scale uprising in an attempt to topple Advance, hijacking the National Nightly News to play broadcasts encouraging citizens to storm Team Headquarters and demand elections and encouraging Alex Winston to play a tape in the ad breaks containing a "confession" from Katie Brightman, who is forced to condemn Advance. The uprising results in failure and Disrupt is driven underground, with Alan James surviving (if Alex followed Alan's instructions) or destroyed with Alan James being killed during the uprising (if Alex did not follow Alan's instructions).

### Fate

#### Jeremy Alive, Alan Alive

If both Jeremy and Alan are alive they will return to overthrow Advance in the finale by raiding the Channel One broadcast centre while Prime Minister Salisbury is participating in a broadcast of the Nightly Show, Jeremy will offer Alex the choice of whether or not to play leaked hidden camera footage he has recorded exposing Disrupt's leadership. The standoff will end peacefully and lead to free elections in the Territories, the possible results of these elections being determined by public support for the factions and whether or not Alex plays leaked hidden camera footage captured by Jeremy exposing the leadership behind Disrupt.

* If the footage is not played, possible results include: A successful re-election for Advance, Advance's defeat at the hands of Disrupt, or a coalition with no party gaining a majority.

It can be assumed that if Advance loses to Disrupt they disband as a party, but in the other 2 outcomes they will remain a significant power in the Territory.

* If the footage is played, Disrupt's ruling cabal with be exposed discussing their plans with scandalous language and revealing that Alan James will be disposed of.

Regardless of public opinion towards the two factions, both Advance and Disrupt will lose the election and receive only a tiny share of the vote each, being replaced by a new party known as Accord, it can be assumed that Advance disbands or becomes irrelevant as a result.

#### Jeremy Dead, Alan Alive

If Jeremy is dead Alan and Disrupt will return in the finale without his support and the standoff will instead lead to violence as Julia offers her own footage exposing Disrupt that Alex can choose to play.

Regardless of Alex's choice Julia will be executed by Alan, leaving Advance without leadership.

* If the footage isn't played the the Nightly Show crew will die as Alan detonates a bomb vest strapped to his chest, destroying Advance's media mouthpiece.

Presumably this results in the disbanding of Advance as party, with removal of any remaining influence for their old membership or other potential rivals to Disrupt, as Disrupt's ruling cabal takes over the Territories. The epilogue here is a children's television programme starring Frankie Fun as himself and a disgruntled Geoff Algebra as Doofnut.

* If the footage is played, Alan will be killed and the news feed will be cut off by the security forces.

If public support for Advance is high this leads to this leads to anarchy with numerous groups and clans warring over the Territories, it can be assumed Advance disbands with the loss of Julia's leadership, but the party's former membership presumably play some role in the territorial conflict. If public support favours Disrupt instead, the nation will fall under military rule and it can be assumed that Advance disbands as a result of Julia's death, the remains of the party are likely eliminated by the military.

#### Jeremy Alive, Alan Dead

Alternatively if Alan is dead but Jeremy lives, he will arrive at the Nightly Show studio for the finale broadcast on his own (with the help of some of the news team, particularly Megan and Jenny) and offer Alex leaked footage related to Advance which exposes a major scandal.

* If the footage isn't played Jeremy will be arrested while Megan and Jenny will back down from their attempt to expose the government, and Advance will remain in power with Julia Salisbury as leader.

If Advance is the dominant faction, Jeremy will later return to the Nightly Show in the epilogue, having been re-educated through "Betterment" and converted into an Advance loyalist. If Disrupt is the dominant faction instead, Jeremy will be killed during his time in custody, either way there is no further challenge to Advance's government and the Territories remain firmly under Julia Salisbury's leadership as Premier.

* If the footage is played Julia Salisbury is revealed to have murdered Co-Prime Minister Clement after he threatens to go on the news and condemn her as a monster for her decision to detonate the nuclear devices and annex the foreign nations of the United Territories, it is revealed that Peter didn't know about Julia's plans for "liberation night" and would've attempted to prevent them if he did, Peter is clearly outraged by the casualties caused as a result of the bombings and refuses to back down, leading her to order his death. Jeremy, Megan, Jenny and the rest of the staff are arrested as Julia is left alone to try and justify her actions to the audience.

If support for Disrupt is high enough this will lead to former Prime Minister and Disrupt benefactor Jacob Hamilton-Mann taking power, with Advance presumably disbanding afterwards. Otherwise Advance will reform as the "New Look Advance Party" and remain in office, with Prime Minister Salisbury being replaced by Katie Brightman and the nations outside Territory One returning to independence, with Julia standing trial and potential facing life in "Betterment" on charges of conspiracy to commit murder (of Peter Clement), human rights violations (or genocide) and war crimes (during Liberation Night).

#### Jeremy Dead, Alan Dead

If Alan and Jeremy are both dead Advance will be guaranteed to remain in power and no intruders will appear during the Nightly Show's broadcasting for the finale. However, Alex can potentially interrupt the show by playing another piece of leaked footage (this time provided by the head of Channel One and Alex's boss, Boseman), his decision will determine who leads the party into the New Future.

* If the footage is not played the broadcast continues on schedule and ends as intended, Julia Salisbury will remain as Prime Minister of the United Territories and the leader of Advance.

If support for Advance is at a high the whole nation will remain firmly under the party's control, if support for Disrupt is high instead then some segments of the nation will fragment and Advance will be forced to reinforce their power over Territory One while leaving some other areas to remain outside the control of the government in a state of insurrection.

* If the footage is played it shows Julia speaking with her government's chief scientist, who explains that a botched test of Advance's planned scheme to deal with overpopulation through contraceptive crops in Territory One has resulted in a virus which is causing mass sterility across the territories, Julia decides to lie about the cause to protect the government from damage to its reputation, blaming the fertility crisis on the bombings at the end of the 20 Week War as a plausible narrative for the population and promoting childlessness as a positive value to maintain morale, rather than revealing the real cause of the crisis to the public and risk a public backlash against the administration. As a result of the tape's scandalous exposure, Julia will be condemned by the news team and storm off, ranting that the footage is both illegally obtained and falsified as part of a conspiracy, she is later replaced by Katie Brightman as Advance leader and Prime Minister.

Regardless of the public's perception of Advance they will remain in office under Katie's leadership, public opinion of the party will later reach a high as she is revealed in the epilogue to have been re-elected with overwhelming majority for a three terms, she announces numerous planned policies including a 4 day working week, free education and a universal basic income.

## Trivia

* In older versions of the story, Advance were the adamant "bad guys" and instead held the name of Disrupt, but this was later changed as the developers felt the game was lacking nuance and didn't accurately reflect politics or their values.
* Advance takes over a total of 36 territories as part of the New Future, annexing most of what would be the equivalent to Europe and Central Asia in NFB's world.
	+ This contradicts the "A Renewed Mandate" epilogue that takes place more than half a year after the Finale, which states that Territories 33 and 34 were processed following Julia Salisbury's re-election.
* Advance's government is partially inspired by the Socialist Republic of Cuba.

## References

1. ↑ https://notforbroadcast.fandom.com/wiki/File:FactionFavoritism.png
2. ↑ https://clips.twitch.tv/CourteousDaintyFishDatSheffy-ItRexeXvF7aR1Wka
3. ↑ https://clips.twitch.tv/UnsightlyDepressedPlumberRedCoat-vnVnLVOLHlqcLoaI