Borland

B 50,000

Total GDP :

B 1,473,610,250,000

## About Borland

Borland is a 393,744SM (Square Miles) nation located in Southern Eporia. Borland is a democracy run by Prime Minister Hek Jordus. Borland is very industrious and run many factories building many different types of things, However the main thing Borland builds is cars, Guns and ammunition. Borland also has a lot of cotton plantations as the climate in Borland is similar to real life southern USA.

## Borland's History

### WW2 (1940-1949)

**Intro**

Borland Committed a total of 1,500,000 soldiers in WW2. XXX,XXX Soldiers died in the fighting.

Borlish Peak Military 1,500,000

750,000 Borlish Army

250,000 Borlish Navy

300,000 Borlish Airforce

150,000 Borlish Supremes (Equivalent of the SS)

50,000 Marines

**How The Army Was Organised**

Borland organised their soldiers into 4 Divisions of 5k each, making the main frontline force 20k , this meant that Borland didn’t have to swap to a full war economy and whenever those divisions lost men Borland could just refill them. It also meant that the Borlish army had enough ammunition and guns going around without having to swap to a full war economy.

**Divisions**

**1st Division**

**2nd Division**

**3rd Division**

**4th Division**

### 19th Century- Early 20th Century

19th Century was Borland's wild era, the country was running alive with criminal activity and just general lawlessness. Gangs would rob steal and murder and law enforcement would struggle to control them. One of the biggest gangs were the Vanesian Raiders, at their height they numbered 200+ and were responsible for 8 Bank robberies, 34 Train robberies, 210 Home robberies and 500+ Murders, The Vanesian Raiders broke apart in 1897 and were all eventually arrested or killed by 1905. Law enforcement managed to get a better grip on the situation in Borland in 1904 and the wild era came to an end

## Borland's Government

### Prime Minister

Leader of the winning party in a General Election. Appoints ministers, and sets out the general direction for the country through manifesto and proposing laws to parliament.

### Departments

##### Ministry Of Military Affairs

The Ministry Of Military Affairs is in charge of making sure the 3 different military departments are working properly. They are also responsible for equipping and training personnel. They can request funding from Department Of Economical Affairs. They also allocate Military Personnel to each of the 3 departments according to who and what they need. The Ministry has a minister who oversees the ministry.

**Department For Military Defence**

The department for military defence is responsible for defending the nation and preparing for any large external threats, and will intervene in internal threats if they become to large for The Department Of Justice to control.

**Department For Foreign Operations**

The Department For Foreign Operations are in charge of coordinating deployed military personnel on missions in other countries. They must work very closely with the Department Of Foreign Affairs to make sure they are taking the correct military actions.

**Department For Covert Operations (BSN, IBSN)**

Department For Covert Operations are responsible for coordinating the BSN and the ISBN and reporting any internal threats to The Department Of Justice (and in some cases Department For Military Defence). They also report external threats to The Department Of Military.

##### Ministry Of Foreign Affairs

**Department Of Foreign Diplomacy**

The Department Of Foreign Diplomacy is in charge of negotiating with other countries. This could be for a number of reasons such as negotiating peace after a war or negotiating trade deals. They work very closely with The Department Of Foreign policy.

**Department Of Foreign Policy**

The Department OF Foreign Policy are in charge of informing all of the other Departments about what is happening between Borland and other nations eg. telling the military to stop attacking another nation if a peace deal is agreed. They also tell the diplomats about what concerned Departments want in the way of relations with other countries. Their main job is to make sure the other Departments comply with how the nation treats other countries and they are in charge of deciding how the nation treats other countries based on what the diplomats have come back with.

**Department Of External Business**

The Department Of External Business are in charge of helping businesses get the trade deals they want with other countries.

##### Ministry Of Internal Affairs

**Department Of Education**

The Department Of Education are responsible for ensuring everyone in the nation is adequately educated. They are in charge of making sure each school is teaching people properly. They can request money from The Department of economic affairs to build schools or upgrade existing ones.

**Department Of Justice**

The Department Of Justice are in charge of running the police force, prisons, equipping the police force, keeping criminal databases, linking the police with BSN and IBSN, giving police powers, writing laws and getting them approved by the Great Leader.

**Department Of Internal Business**

The Department Of Internal Business are responsible for regulating the Businesses within Borland. They also make sure businesses aren't exploiting their workers, customers or engaging in illegal activity.

**Department Of Public Infrastructure**

The Department Of Public Infrastructure builds roads and licences public companies to build their own infrastructure such as pipes to carry water, rail networks, tube networks, electric, etc. They also licence companies to teach and licence new drivers.

**Department Of Economical Affairs**

The Department Of Economical Affairs grant all of the departments and counties the money they need. They collect all of the money made by the counties and redistributes it to the counties in accordance with what they need. They also take some of the money and put it towards what the departments need.

**Department Of Immigration And Border Control**

The Department Of Immigration And Border Control regulate who and what comes into the nation and keeps illegal goods an illegal immigrants out of the nation. They deal with illegal immigrants and sending them back to their country of origin and they deal with legitimate applications to move to Borland aswell as those legitimately asylum seeking.

### Parliament

Parliament is where Borlish legislature is written, debated and voted upon. It is the main government building in the country. Parliament consists of 600 seats for MPs. Borland is divided into 600 areas where these MPs run that area. MPs are voted in every general election, the party with the most MPs elected has their party leader as the Prime Minister. Below is a chart of the last general election.

#### November 2021 General Election

Conservative Party (Hek Jordus) : 402 Seats

Liberal Party (Omen Volt) : 100 Seats

Workers Coalition (Joseph Hawk) : 61 Seats

Borlish Greens (Karen Downes) : 37 Seats

### **County Councillors**

Cannot make their own laws but can allocate funding from the department of economical affairs to places within their county.

## Economy

### County Funds

County Council must pay all of the money earned by the county (from taxes or other methods) into the national bank where it is re-distributed by Department Of Economical Affairs to all of the county depending on how much each county needs. This helps county that are in trouble as they can receive funding if they underperform.

### Trade

As Borland doesn't trade much with outside countries, different counties make different things and trade them with each other.

## Cities Of Borland

### Bordon

The Capital City of Borland, Also the largest city and the area with the highest GDP per capita in the country. The Population of Bordon is 8,439,215. Bordon is essentially the main hub of Borland, Bordon hosts most of Borlands trade by sea with other nations, Bordon hosts Borlands justice system by having a lot of Borlands Courts and prisons. Bordon was the first ever settlement to be established by the Borlish state way back at their formation. The Financial and educational hub of Borland, a lot of business headquarters are situated here and a lot of universities, schools and colleges operate here. This is part of the reason for the extremely high population, people also decide to move to Bordon due to the fact that it has the best Bus services in the country and a metro that rings around the city and is planned to be expanded.

### Thetford

The industrial heartland of Borland and second biggest city with a population of 6,598,109. This City produces majority of Borlands manufactured goods which are then sold off to businesses in Bordon and then around the world. This city is also the home of the Borlish arms industry and the home of the Borlish Automotive industry among many other industries situated here. This city creates a huge amount of jobs in factories, people commute daily from all over Borland to get here to work, this is also the reason the city has such a high population.

## Borland Infrastructure

### Rail

Rail covers a lot of Borland, even a lot of small towns get railway tracks. Above are the major railways of Borland.

### Road

Blue - Motorway (3 Lanes each way, 60 MPH on outer lane, 100MPH on two inner lanes)

Green - Arterial (2 Lanes each way, 60MPH on outer lane, 70MPH on inner lane)

Grey - Arterial (1 Lane each way, 50MPH)

### Public Transport

#### Tube / Underground

There are underground rings around Bordon to get people around the city easily and the same with Thetford. However no other cities have tube services.

## Borland Military

### Military

**Personnel-**

70,000 F.E.A.R. (Normal Borlish Military)

40,000 F.E.A.R. Special Forces

10,000 Airforce Personnel

10,000 Naval Personnel

**Fighting Vehicles-**

80 Main Battle Tank

127 Light Armoured Transport

**Airforce-**

250 Borland Fighter Tempests

20 Borland VTOL Jets

25 Training Aircraft

**Navy-**

2 Heavy Cruiser

2 Light Cruiser

20 Corvettes

13 Destroyers

50 Patrol Boats

**Missiles-**

20 Cruise Missiles

0 Nuclear Missiles

### Spies

The number of spies Borland have is confidential but the different spy departments are here :

BSN-

Spies focused on looking for external threats such as secret weaponry made by other countries or other countries building military

IBSN-

Spies focused on looking for internal threats such as terrorist threats or finding criminals (Works closely with the police force)

## Law and order

### Jails

Jails are where people are held before their trial after being charged with an offence. There are 30 Jails in Borland each with a capacity of 500. There is a total jail capacity of 15,000. As of right now 4,955 are held in Jails across Borland.

### Prisons

**Minimum Security Prisons-**

Borland currently has 40 Min sec prisons with a total combined capacity of 40,000. These prisons are used to keep people who are Minimum Security. as of now there are 2,500 inmates in these prisons.

**Medium Security Prisons-**

Borland currently has 15 Med Sec prisons these prisons can house a total of 15,000 inmates combined. These prisons hold the Medium Security Offenders. There are a total of 1,783 inmates held in these prisons.

**Maximum Security Prisons-**

Borland currently has 10 Max Sec prisons with a total capacity of 5,000 inmates. This prison is used to hold the most dangerous Maximum security prisoners who are so dangerous they will never be released. These Prisons currently have 156 inmates.

#### **Super Max Prisons-**

Borland currently has 5 Super-Max prisons with a total capacity of 1,250 inmates. These prisons are used to hold the most dangerous prisoners in the country who are too dangerous to even be in Maximum Security. They are permanently locked down and never allowed out of their cells because they are so dangerous. These prisoners will never be released. These prisons currently have 1,157 inmates.

**Specialist Prisons-**

Borland currently has 2 of these. It is used to hold foreign threats, criminal politicians and extremely wealthy criminals. It can hold up to 650 people. This facility is in an undisclosed location in Bordon. It currently holds 195 inmates.

Bordon Specialist Prison (BSP) - 195/500

Thetford Specialist Prison(LSP) - 0/150

### Borland National Police Force

65,846 Police Officers

All Police are given 1 Shotgun, 1 Assault rifle, 2 Handguns, 3 Sets of handcuffs, 2 bulletproof vests, 1 stab proof vest, 1 notepad (will be replaced when it is full), 2 pepper spray cans and 1 taser (ammunition is supplied each day)

Police deployed for riots are given the same equipment plus 10 tier gas cannisters, 2 riot shields, 2 riot batons.

ALL police are authorised to use lethal force on armed targets. Arrests are preferred but if they must kill they are authorised too.