[center][b]TURN 1[/b], [i]Spring, 1910[/i]

[b]ECONOMIC TREND[/b]: -1 (Factories generate 7 this turn)
[[color=f49ac2][b]Empire of Saurilia[/b][/color]: [i]Saurilian industrialists back expansion[/i]: +1 Saurilian Support ]
[[color=fff200][b]Kingdom of Etelia[/b][/color]: [i]Regia Aeronautica funding increased[/i]: +1 Air Research increases by 1 Step ]
[[color=f26522][b]Republic of Estaratia[/b][/color]: [i]Estaratian intelligence agency receives funding[/i]: Estaratia may increase any Intelligence Tech by 1 Step ]
[[color=92278f][b]Grand Frienian Empire[/b][/color]: [i]Labor dispute is settled[/i]: +$40]
[[color=darkorange][b]Chaegon Empire[/b][/color]: [i]Open trade with Thecia[/i]: Thecia +1][/center]

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[b]SUPPORT[/b]
[[color=f49ac2][b]Empire of Saurilia[/b][/color]]: +1 (Event) + 0 (Colonies) + 7 (Factories) + 0 (Trade Pacts) = 8 Support
[[color=fff200][b]Kingdom of Etelia[/b][/color]]: +0 (Event) + 1 (Colonies) + 3 (Factories) + 0 (Trade Pacts) = 4 Support
[[color=f26522][b]Republic of Estaratia[/b][/color]]: +0 (Event) + 2 (Colonies) + 2 (Factories) + 0 (Trade Pacts) = 4 Support
[[color=92278f][b]Grand Frienian Empire[/b][/color]]:  +0 (Event) + 2 (Colonies) + 2 (Factories) + 0 (Trade Pacts) = 4 Support

[b][color=red]ALL NATIONS PM ACTIONS AND EXPENDITURES[/color][/b].

[b]ORDERS RECEIVED[/b]
-- [s][b]ETELIA[/b][/s]
-- [s][b]SAURILIA[/b][/s]
-- [s][b]ESTARATIA[/b][/s]
-- [s][b]FRIENIA[/b][/s]
-- [b]CHAEGON[/b]

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[b][center]THE WORLD[/center][/b]

Peace reigned, but the nations at large suffered. The Grand Frienian Empire, a long standing and bellicose nation of Centran, was deeply in debt. Still yet, the Republic of Estaratia was even larger in debt. The people clamored for the demilitarization of their armies, which both had escalated over the [b]Frieno-Estaratian Affair[/b], which ended in Winter, 1909. The [b]Frieno-Estaratian Affair[/b] began over the sovereignty of Kelric, which Frienia pressed and Estaratia supported. Observers from Foulic, Etelia and Saurilia looked on as war looked impending. When the Frienians blinked, peace was ensured. But only just.

The Etelians laid down the hull of the [i]Macchi[/i], a Bendetto-class dreadnought that would be finished sometime in 1912. The ship would be armed with a main battery of four 12-inch (300 mm) guns and would be capable of a top speed of 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph). 

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[i]Blueprints of the Bendetto-class[/i][/center]

The Saurilians, who long harbored localized police forces enacted the [b]Regional Law Act of 1910[/b], which organized a local police force. While expensive, it would help keep the fringe criminals at bay, ensuring that smugglers and banditry was kept to a minimum. 

In the south, the [b]Chaegon Empire[/b] stumbled under the weight of an impending debt. All was not last however, as a free trade deal was signed with the southern [b][color=lightblue]Kingdom of Thecia[/color][/b], which would have effects not immediately, but later down the road. The impoverished nation of [b]Thecia[/b] and the indebted nation of Chaegon would be prosper in the next few years from the trade agreement.

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[i]Thecian coastal city of Kydonia, 1910[/i][/center]

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[i]The World, Spring 1910[/i][/center]