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[b]Name of Nation:[/b] Greater Union of Veluca (Official) Velucan Republic (Shortened) Velucan Directorate (Unofficial)

[b]Nation Characteristics:[/b]
[i]-Government:[/i] In theory, Veluca is the largest democracy of the world with its 300 million people, but there hasn't been an election since the end of the void war as foreign threat and meddling prevent the Union from showing a moment of weakness. Still, this has been over 20 years ago, half the lifespan of a kobold, and so whole generations have never tasted democracy and the entire system has become quite militarized as power is shared between a couple super corporations and the administration that is now entirely military. This military industrial complex is in turn not headed especially by the strategists who have taken a backseat since its been so 'long', but rather by technical experts who lead the country like an engineer a building project rather than a general an army.

[i]-Culture:[/i]The kobolds never really had a culture outside of long forgotten tribal roots, having instead being colonies and protectorates of one or another nation through the years. Their culture was thus not stained by 'history' and rather than making the Kobold culture 'shallow' as others would call it, it allowed them to build a culture from the ground up and shaped the kobolds into what an elite of people wanted them to be: Daring Builders and Explorers! The past is terrible, the present isn't all that great either, but in the future the hopes of the nation are!

[i]-History:[/i] Liberated by the Aldabetan Republic and forged into a union mainly made to facilitate resource extraction and exportation to the republican mainland, the kobolds showed surprising zeal in their industrialization. Although they were never considered equals by anyone at any point during their history, after the void war, the kobolds have proven themselves able to explore the darkest corners of the solar system and muster an impressive force ready to rush forward into the unknown.

[b]Nation Location:[/b] Orange on the map.

[b]Nation Initial Population:[/b] 300m

[b]Species Name:[/b] Kobolds

[b]Species Characteristics:[/b] Small, weak and short lived, these tiny reptiles also have a reputation of extreme stupidity, but this is only true in the fact that they have a very wide distribution of intellect. The dumbest individual in existence will most likely be a kobold, but likewise this race produces a surprising amount of genius per capita. 

[b]Side Chosen in Void War: [/b]Aldabetan, though Veluca was a sideline for most of the conflict that used the war to industrialize massively to produce goods for the Aldabetan warmachine, though after the war they were quick to jump on a chance for peace.

[b]Technological Level:[/b] Modern, but with huge gaps from places to places, with people still living an almost medieval lifestyle as farmers in the hinterlands of the Union.

[i]-The Deep Fleet:[/i] A lesson from the Void war was that surface assets are easily destroyed by space weapons and long range missiles, as such, the navy of the Union is, outside of small, fast, agile but short range coastal strike crafts, are made of enormous submarines, ranging from submerged battleships and carriers to pocket 'Submarine Fighters' hidden from the Empire's eye in the sky.

[i]-Air and Land: Hammer and Anvil:[/i] Veluca believes in tanks and bombs, lots of them. Their tanks are widely considered inferior, but are numerous to the extreme and shielded enough to allow a couple years of life to its crew should the nation be nuked. Likewise the air force is serviced by many solar and atomic powered aircrafts that spend month in the air in international airspace to strike a devastating second strike to any who would menace the Union. Speed and firepower are the main focus of the airforce. The bombers won't come back, but they'll go through!

[i]-The Space Force: Technically complying:[/i] Many designs of space elevators and other more fancy designs have been made, but the Union knows it would frustrate the Empire into action, something it cannot afford at the moment. So, the Union had to make do with simply having one of the largest conventional rocket cosmodrome of the world. That's not to say they are without resources though... Kobolds like to build big, but they can also build small. Experimental kill vehicles, disguised as used rocket debris of previous launches, still orbit the planet, in theory capable of inflicting catastrophic damage to space stations by suddenly accelerating into them should war occur.

[b]Special Resource:[/b] Room temperature superconducting material 'ERZAT'. Incredibly useful to make anything maglev related or the newest kind of super computers, Erzat was until recently exported to the world freely, though it has since then been nationalized as a strategic resource worth too much to send anywhere outside the nation.