[b]Nation Name[/b]: Gens sans Frontier
[b]National Flag[/b]:
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[b]Location[/b]:
Central Africa. Marked in black.
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[b]Land Owned[/b]:
See: map
[b]Population[/b]:
50 million
[b]Language Spoken[/b]:
French, English, Swahili, Kituba, Tshiluba, Chokwe, Umbundu, Kimbundu, Ganguela, Kwanyama, and other assorted languages not necessarily local
[b]National History[/b]:
Forged since before the war that ended the world, Gens sans Frontier has its origins in numerous NGO's, PMCs, and even small companies of the UN operating within Central Africa. Of the private armed assets active in the region was US-based Absolute Securities, a young private security firm; operating in Central Africa due in part from the spreading trend of African nations and communities to hire private security, as originating in South Africa. Though lacking the ultimate muscle of these South African or older American and Isreali firms, Absolute Securities was a leader in the Central African market. Not out of the size of its force or low contracting costs, but out of diversity in its contracting abilities.

To call Absolute Security back then a strict mercenary would have been a misnomer. Not heeding the foreboding fate of rapid liquidation as often suffered by new outfits over legal costs stemming from employees committing accidental war-crimes in the field Absolute Security's then-CEO and self-proclaimed Field Commander Andrew Saxsen diversified Absolute's model and operating procedures. As opposed to strictly operating as hired-guns, Andrew plied his company to the unique demands of operating in Central Africa, and frankly the African continent in general.

By the time of his beginning operations the western world was undergoing an economic revolution the likes of which last seen during the industrial revolution. Manpower as an economic carrier was being replaced with mechanized work, automating the entire - or nearly entire - process of manufacturing. As 3D printing became the standard of building manufacturing industries themselves shifted hard. And like-wise, low-skilled work across the spectrum of western economies were being replaced one-be-one by automated processes. It became required that for one to have any hope, they needed to be educated. And it was to this class, Saxsen lived in, and it was in it still he found no suitable work.

Trained academically by the US army, Saxsen took what loans he could he took himself, some friends, and his capital to found Absolute Security. Soon, they were hired out by Kinshasha to safeguard the vital mineral routes of Central Africa and their infant modern manufacturing. From Kinshasha, Andrew grew his company fast. Capitalizing on an international class of the disenfranchised Andrew advertised his company out to the adventurous and the wanting, promising a place to work and to have an identity and to have value for one's self. He offered jobs not only as guns-for-hire, by local area medical practitioners, logistical experts and caravan drivers. In effect, he began incorporating the activities of the local NGOs and absorbing further PMCs into his outfit to create a trans-national economic outfit. By the time of The War, Andrew's outfit was diversified to the point that it was considered too broad to fail with a diverse range of subsidiary branches. It was not uncommon for parcel deliveries to be carried out by the armed personnel of Absolute Risks, and many of the continent's western-born adventurer truck drivers were registered to the company, forming a logistical framework that spanned from South Africa to Morocco with the administrative know-how to cut the deep and confusing African Red Tape.

By the time the bombs fell and the world went to ruin the ripples brushed Africa in a chilling wind. The world outside the Congo went black. And soon, the people came.

Through the network established by Absolute Securities refugees from Northern Africa fled the pollution and devastation of the north to Central Africa. Likewise they came from the south. To the point that even though they could afford it, it stressed the local NGOs and the remaining UN operations. For security and efficiency of operation they - and Absolute Security - laid down their original names and banners and became a people with a nation. Gens sans Frontier.

The native governments of Central Africa could do little. The DRC and RoC having largely surrendered their own armies to Absolute Security and the other PMCs now dwarfed by the young and energetic company. And though they did not go peacefully, they too folded.

The surreal and awkward refugee crisis indirectly caused by Absolute stressed local resources past the breaking point and in the panic to distribute food and medicine many died as old tribal tensions bubbled and the patchwork of tribal and ethnic groups settled already in Central Africa began to react violently against the foreigners from afar. It took considerable muscle and significant blood to bleed the tribes into submission and to disarm their people, and disband their militias.

Andrew Saxsen however wouldn't live to see his company became a quasi-state in its own right, with a border too blurred to really control. He passed at the age of 57 to complications caused by Malaria. And with his passing the dubious role of leadership was passed to Joseph Zubata, a South African by birth.
[b]Leader[/b]:
Joseph Zubata
[b]Describe the Govt.[/b]:
Autocracy disguised as an old Corporate Hierarchy.
[b]Technological Overview[/b]:
Scattered. Many of the arms possessed by the regional militias under Kinshasha's control are beyond dated AK74 and even AK101. However Gens sans Frontier's fundamentally cosmopolitan identity has had immediately pre-war weapons in the hands of the soldiers on the ground, tools such as anti-missile lasers and ballistic ceramics. Drone capabilities exist within its arsenal for recon and light-duty offensive operations.
[b]Cultural Overview[/b]:
There is no specific cultural identity of the people under Gens san Frontiers. Much of its population are descendants of foreigners who had fled the devastation proper of the western world and the mishmash of interwoven identities of Central Africa. The 'cultural' identity of the region is therefore something more akin to a "salad bowl" of human identity with each tribe now living alongside another, but with no purposeful, out-of-the-way contact with the other.
[b]Military Description[/b]:
Varies. Semi-trained militia groups drawn from local tribes form a rudimentary backbone of the "army". But they're little more than an odd collective designated tactically as defensive ground troops and auxiliaries to the better-armed and better-trained PMC and UN descendants. Outfitting and gear can vary greatly between unit, with little-to-no standardization.

Some mechanized units are still in operation, maintained studiously through the generations and fueled from bio-fuel to supplement the difficulties of acquiring oil in Central Africa, let alone any other material. It's thus believed that these "modern" regiments are on par with upkeep and ability with other post-war nations given the collapse of economic globalization and the already drawn status of some natural resources.