/jp/ - Otaku Culture

But H!P is for /mu/!

if >Touhou should be in /a/, Melty Blood should be in /v/, and Visual Novels should be in /tv/.

then, also language help should be in the language text board.

then /jp/ has nothing.

>Visual Novels should be in /tv/.

I know you're trolling, but I can't imagine how you got to that conclusion.

>>2722668
Wrong. H!P is the epitome of /jp/.

SHIMIZU SAKI FOR THE BETTERMENT OF /jp/!

/jp/ - Reported/You're Thread

Report submitted, this window, etc.

>>2722676
Visual Novels are glorified shit-movies. They should be in /tv/. Deal with it.

Your idolshit belongs in /mu/ at best and in the shitty forums you crawled out from at worst, cunt ooze.

It makes sense that idolaters would be shitty trolls.

>>2722697
How should they be in /mu/? I'm not talking about the music, therefor it's not /mu/ worthy.

>>2722698
I really don't know who you are, nor do I really care, but I think you've mistaken me for someone else. You see, I'm actually a masterful poster. You just can't recognize true quality when you see it.

I blame it on your incessant viewing of touhous.

>>2722717
Forgot my beautiful picture. <333

And idols should go in /s/.

EPICK TROL

>>2722723
Wrong, I would not associate them with smut. You have no base for your argument, be gone.

>>2722717
>wakka wakka wakka

>>2722723

I don't think they will approve of underage girls who look like Thai transvestites.

>>2722717

Idols sing, or at least that's what they struggle to. Put two and two together.

Why are you guys posting in this thread?

Even if you sage, it just gives them something to respond to.

Seriously, just hide it and move on.

>>2722730
I'm not trolling, I'm trying to improve /jp/ for the better of all TRUE posters here.

So, is that little... human cub... you're posting male or female?
I'm confus.

>>2722736
Idols are much more than your pitiful Two Dimensional fetishes. They're multi-faceted and have a plethora of talents.

They most certainly belong in /jp/, but you can't say the same thing about your toho... now can you?

Reported.

I can't report hard enough.

I'm reporting everyone who tries to derail this thread, enjoy your bans. I hope they even IP ban your entire subnet. deal with it.

>>2722756

So far, the only talent I see is being gender ambiguous.

>>2722774
You're just a bitter neckbeard.

I feel bad for you, son.

>>2722786

Why is that boy wearing a dress?

Hi Janitor, now you know why I requested him to be banned 3 days ago.

>>2722793
I don't follow you?

Quit responding and just hide the thread.

Enjoy your ban.

All of you guys are just jealous that H!P > Touho.

Why the fuck mods aren't banning this kinds of faggots?

I personally think that idol shit is the cancer of /jp/.

>>2722819
Too bad they're both inferior to AKB.

>>2722821
I personally think anyone who posts 2D threads should be removed from the gene pool, but you don't see me crying about... now do you?

Man up.

>>2722821
It is cancer.

>>2722832
If you have a problem with idols, you need to take it up with the home threads.

>>2703279
and
>>2709734

We won't ever stop.

>>2722844
What the fuck's wrong with her hand?

>>2722826
I don't fucking care abut that either.

But this bitch is ugly and your ideas are dumb as fuck. So I think you killing yourself may be actually bigger benefit for gene pool.

>>2722844
ITT: Frustrated Idolfag because his threads keep getting trolled.

>>2722853
Wrong, I am a benefit to all man-kind. Without me, the world would be a very bleak place to be.

So go back to your threads which are in the wrong forum. I'm sure some archer you guys speak of is SO entertaining.

>>2722870
>forum
You don't belong in here for sure.

Reported

>>2722867
Actually this guy was responsible for the mass spams around new years, i dont know what he's doing to get around the bans but he is talking pretty tough guy again.
And all the musume wotas despise him

Stop fucking posting in this thread unless you want me to flood /jp/.

Where's my Touhou hijack?

>>2722870
>Wrong, I am a benefit to all man-kind. Without me, the world would be a very bleak place to be.
>forum

I am no longer sure if you're really THAT stupid or it is some clever trolling, but please get the fuck out of here. Go to animesuki/gaia/narutofan or other shit place. You'll be amazed how many people in those places thinks just as you.

>>2722844
You just won all of /jp/ as enemy

lick her chest, her neck and her armpits, savoring and primitive data. How do you

>>2722893
>thinks

Should be 'think'. Blame rage.

armpits, savoring and primitive data. How do by successive interviewing,

SERIOUSLY. STOP TROLLING MY THREAD RIGHT NOW.

I am trying to improve this place, why must you all try to undermine me? What have I ever done to you?

I'm a really nice person, all I want is for people to make threads in the proper forums. So please, post your Touho somewhere else. It's not relevant to Japan, not even in the general sense of the word.

Thank you.

want to vomit. TWO children? What

why is this shit still here

>>2722911
This is really testing my nerves.

comes from Haruhi-ism. Not... TROLLING MY THREAD RIGHT NOW. want but Unreal again. See, that slide again. See, not only is... is this

>>2722893
>>2722894
>>2722899
Hey, guess what? If you post in his thread, he responds to you! Amazing, isn't it?

Hey, you know what else? If you didn't post, he wouldn't respond. If he didn't respond, the thread would die!

>>2722911
No matter how much you want to "help" /jp/, Touhou will keep getting posted.

about who casual fps games are August? Preorder = old patterns of doing things like saying well, then we'll get started. Gotoku considered harmful. Japanese model that. OK. Well, there's an

I'm going to overpower /jp/ with the beauty of 3D. Japan isn't 2D, it exists in the third dimension... just you like.

You'll never be in the Second Dimension, it's implausible. Please stop being so ignorance of the fact.

I will not stand for this blatant trolling in my idol thread.

>>2722890

I'd wish I had some handy, but I'm no secondary Touhou fan so just have the bare minimum to occasionally use as OP for my threads.

I happen to be a secondary Turtledove fan tho.

are but Unreal Tournament US Navy was destroyed in Blood should be in us, and we'll see that there are primitive procedures outline of the

I'm going to keep this thread bumpbed until you all recognize the truth about /jp/.

>>2722931
The universe is a 11-dimensional Hilbert space.

ÜBERTROLLING IS BORN.

POSTERS BEWARE

Fine, you want to fight me with a picture battle? I'LL NEVER LOSE TO YOU WEIRDOS.

slide again. See, not only is... is this

YOU SHOULD REALLY HAVE LISTENED WHEN I TOLD YOU.

1930 -Stock market crisis leads to mild but chronic recession outside Domination. First chain reaction observed. Closed-circuit television. Eva and Asa von Shrakenberg born. Death of Mary von Shrakenberg.

1932 -Hitler elected with majority in Germany. F.D. Roosevelt elected President in U.S.; declares "New Deal" for lower classes, Hispanics, etc. Limited recovery.

1936–37 -Civil war in Spain; defeat of Nationalists by 1937. Soviet Republic of Spain established. Germany takes Austria. French and British abandon Czechoslovakia; Sudeten War follows. Clashes on Draka–Japanese and Draka–Soviet borders. Experiments with electrodetection (radar) in several countries. Domination begins long-term project to harness nuclear energy. Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi move to U.S.

1939 -France and Britain guarantee Poland. Eurasian War begins. Nazi–Japanese alliance. Transistor invented in Toronto, State of Ontario. First commercial tape recorder.

1940 -Fall of France. Battle of Britain ends in stalemate; Nazi submarines effectively close Atlantic. Japanese aggression in Southeast Asia produces severe tension with U.S., Australasian Federation.

1941 -Domination attacks Italy with tacit consent of Germany. Germany attacks and defeats Soviet Union. Moscow falls October 1; Germans reach Urals and Caucasus by first snow. Imperial Japan attacks U.S. on December 3rd, occupies eastern Siberia, destroys entire American Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor. Hawaii, Philippines overrun, West Coast raided, landings made in Panama. U.S. declares war on Japan and Germany.

See how fast I can post? You're no match.

Wikispammer to the rescue?

1944 -Taos Project detonates first fission bomb (plutonium, shaped-charge implosion type, 40 kilotonnes) on February 1st, in New Mexico. First Draka test (uranium bomb, two sub-critical masses) March 4, in central Sahara. Both countries begin work on series production, fission weapons.

April: Draka jet bombers deliver five-weapon nuclear strike against Ruhr valley, Brussels. Conventional offensive smashes through to Rhine; amphibious landings in southern Spain are contained in narrow beachheads. Last resistance in Berlin eliminated. Emergency pan-European fission project unsuccessful, due to uranium and heavy-water shortages. Mass flight of refugees from western Germany to France, Belgium. Famine in Central Europe. Covert Anglo-American aid to Europeans.

meh, it went to "good" trolling to just plain repetitive.

OMG THIS IS SO EXCITING, AN IMAGE DUMP FIGHT

Fine, you guys can have this thread... I'm going back to >>2703279 to post with my friends.

945 -January–March: Sweden surrenders, Norway, Netherlands occupied by Draka; Finland and Switzerland isolated for future attention. Pyrenees forced after blitz with remaining stockpile (12) of fission weapons wipes out major concentrations of Euro-Spanish forces, communication centers etc. Spain overrun. Massive shift of Draka forces to Far East begins by rail and airship. Europe from the Urals to the Atlantic, from North Cape to Gibraltar, is under Draka occupation—also devastated and starving. The Draka forces are thinly stretched, concentrating on the main cities and lines of communication. Hundreds of thousands of refugees, armed fragments of European armies and followers of dozens of political and nationalistic movements are drifting, regrouping and beginning active resistance, only momentarily cowed by the psychological impact of nuclear weapons.

Quit aging the thread, you morons.
You're helping him.

Suika !IbukihrcOU, you most of all.

I remember this happening before, not sure it was the same idiot, and it was with another idol.

And, that's what we call a troll, /jp/. Good job reponding to it.

>>2722979
Oh, is this the wiki spam everyone was talking about?

l946–50's -Guerilla and terrorist warfare in newly occupied portions of Domination. Deportations, executions, etc. All schools in Europe closed, printed material confiscated. Death penalty for unauthorized education, possession of radio receiver. Partial demobilization of Draka armed forces; conversion to airmobile light-infantry units widespread, Janissaries kept at strength and new units recruited from Europe, Asia. Plantations set up in more secure zones of new territories, compound-factory system extended. Massive economic reconstruction, "mega projects": damming of Mediterranean Sea at Gibraltar, redirection of Arctic rivers to Central Asia, etc.

>>2722983
Just couldn't stop my rage.

>>2722988
Yeah, first time I see it.

1950 -Strategos Eric von Shrakenberg retires from active list, appointed Senator, junior member of Long-Range Strategic Planning project. Publishes The Price of Victory, novel of war experiences. Security Directorate fails to have it banned, due to Senatorial immunity, and it becomes a best seller, esp. among young war veterans. Sweden, North China, Korea declared open for settlement. Price of unskilled European serf drops to 53 aurics.

1951 -Draka Harmost of Loire Province (northern France) killed with most of her staff by mass poisoning at official banquet at Versailles marking third anniversary of Provincial status. O.S.S. "infiltrators" blamed; clashes between Draka and Alliance aircraft over English Channel. Ten thousand Parisians impaled along Champs Elysees in reprisal.

1952 -Uprising in Barcelona overruns Security Directorate H.Q. Draka personnel evacuated by helicopter and city destroyed by nuclear bomb. Films, survivors shown over occupied Europe.

Move the wikispam and the image dump to the idol thread please.

I tried to make the place

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>>2722994
Uuuuh, you're still doing it...

Melty Blood appointed Senator, junior member of be in /v/, and Visual Novels should be

Successful activated transfer of mammalian genes, Virunga Biocontrol Institute.
Alliance tests nuclear-fission pulsedrive vessel. First-generation drive, using modified tactical weapon and graphite-sheathed steel thrust plates.
Domination tests pulsedrive.

1964 -Alliance, Draka expeditions to Asteroid Belt, Mars. High-boost probes to Venus, Mercury, outer planets launched from Earth Orbit.

1965 -Magnetic catapult launchers on Luna, supply of minerals to orbital fabricators in zero-G.

1966 -First free-electron laser boost to orbit from Earth.

1968–9 -Two-ship Van Riebeck expedition to Jupiter; one lost.
First Apollo-group (Earth-crossing) asteroid, captured, brought into Earth orbit.

1970 -Second-generation pulsedrives; subcritical plutonium pellets compressed by collision from railguns. Liquid reaction mass used to cover carbon steel thrustplates.
Permanent Draka settlement on Mars; orbital stations, mining operations on Martian moons.

1972 -Space-generated solar power beamed to Earth via microwaves.

1975 -Secession of Indian Republic from Alliance for Democracy. Draka conquest of India.

1980 -Third-generation pulsedrives; fission pellets compressed by lasers.

Fourth-generation pulsedrives; deuterium-tritium fusion pellets imploded by laser/electron beam system.

1989 -First planet-based fusion reactor, Nova Virconium, Mars.

1996 -Fifth-generation pulsedrive; deuterium-boron-11 fusion pellets.

>>2723001
Rather, move the wikispam somewhere else. We don't need it on /jp/. It's not even interesting.

Most units (the Air Corps and Navy aside) are territorially based, with recruits drawn from a single area. Great efforts are made to keep down personnel turbulence, and the average Draka soldier spends his/her military life with roughly the same group of faces. The basic field formation is the Legion (roughly, a division); Armies and Army Corps are plugged together from these basic building blocks as need and opportunity dictate.

In 1942, there are three types of Legion: Armored, Mechanized, and Special—Airborne, Mountain, and Amphibious. The Armored/Mechanized constitute about 95 percent of total strength. Organization is (roughly) as follows:

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At higher levels (e.g., Army Corps), formal rank designation would be "Arch-Strategos"—roughly, Senior General—with a functional qualifier to designate role. Note that each grade would contain junior/senior levels, and also that the Draka concept of rank is rather flexible—ad hoc units under relatively junior commanders can be patched together at need.

At full strength a Legion of the Regular Line will contain roughly 9,200 Citizen personnel and about 3,000 serf auxiliaries. These are unarmed support troops and fill most of the lower-level noncombatant functions. Thus, over 75 percent of the Citizen troops in a Legion will actually be carrying rifles, driving tanks or stuffing shells into guns; the percentage of auxiliaries increases with distance from the front. (In the Air Corps, most of the ground crews, etc., are auxiliary personnel.) The percentage of officers is low (about 4.5 percent) and "lead from the front" is an axiom. It is more dangerous to be a company commander than a private. Given the lavish state of their armament and high motivation, a Citizen Force Legion is a devastating opponent; its weakness is its lack of reserves. The Citizen Force is designed as a specialized instrument, an army-crusher, built for short-duration, high-intensity combat.

>>2723001
That's what this fag wants us to do.
The idolfags hate him, too.

I'm not going to spoil good threads, even if they're not to my taste; just shitty troll threads like this one.

Standard unskilled serf: A200
Machine tender serf (assembly-line): A350
Skilled domestic servant: A250 (up to 1,000 for fancy items)
Three-bedroom house in Archona: A30,000, depending on neighborhood.
Dinner for two with house wine: A1.5 (two-star restaurant)
Kellerman mini four-seat autosteamer: A800 (will last 30 years if maintained)
Airship ticket from Archona to Tashkent: A90.35
Walking shoes: A6
Litre of fresh milk: 3p.
Kilo of sirloin: 25p.
Developed plantation in Police Zone: Al,250,000 (includes labor force, manor)
10,000 hectare grant in New Territories: Free, if settled and developed by claimant
Prime interest rate: 3.5% (Landholders League Bank)

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The pure sciences are roughly equivalent to our history in the 1940s: Nuclear fission is near, the Bohr model of atomic structure is current, the first applications of quantum mechanics are moving out of the laboratory. Biology is slightly more advanced; high-energy chemistry slightly less so.

Technology is somewhat more advanced than our 1942, and has developed along rather different lines. For example, vulcanized rubber and the pneumatic tire were developed in the 1820s, for autosteamers; natural asphalt from Angola and Trinidad was used for roads at about the same time. Steam engines of all types, particularly piston engines and small portable turbines, are more advanced than in our history. In this timeline, Africa is a "developed" region; accordingly, tropical medicine and agriculture are more advanced, since they received concentrated attention. Problems such as bilharzia, sleeping sickness, and river-blindness were overcome in the 19th century. By the 1940's the hydroelectric power of the Congo and the geothermal energy of the Great Rift were being harnessed, and the Sahara was in retreat before reclamation and afforestation projects. The Domination is particularly strong in civil engineering, transport, weapons, and large-scale "process" industry, which are accordingly ahead of our timeline.

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All this implies certain economic differences as well. The United States reaches far into what we know as Latin America, and the parts of Asia which fell under the Domination in 1914–1919 have been forcibly modernized. Accordingly, there is less "Third World"; there are fewer and larger states, fewer tariffs, more trade, more surplus available for reinvestment (or war). World income per capita is higher up until the 1940's; urbanization greater; birth- and death-rates rather lower. The world population is roughly equivalent in both timelines up until the 1940's, but the world of the Domination drops behind rather quickly after that. The low cost and early availability of air transport make remote regions more accessible. Tibet becomes a vacation center in the 1920's, for example, and Chinese fruit is air-freighted by dirigible to Europe in the same period.

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Air transport became a practical reality in the 1870's; the Domination's need for fast long-distance transport provided the incentive. The first dirigibles were steam-turbine powered, with laminated wood frames and cloth hull coverings. By 1914, "metalclad" airships were the rule (a thin metal hull providing gas sealage, with an internal frame). Size had increased to 1,000 feet length, 250 feet maximum diameter, 8,000 mile range and 100 tons useful lift, burning a mixture of kerosene and hydrogen as fuel. Heavier-than-air planes were developed primarily to destroy dirigible bombers, and did so very effectively. Transport dirigibles continued in use, and by the 1940's could carry up to 200 tons for 12,000 miles at 90 mph. Long distance air freight dates from the 1890's (the decade of the first Atlantic crossing). The more primitive areas of the continental interiors were largely opened up by dirigibles: Yunnan, Tibet, the New Guinea highlands…

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Social intoxicants have a rather different history in the Domination's timeline. Both the United States and the Domination are exposed to cannabis on a large scale fairly early—the Draka from the North Africans and the U.S. from Mexico. Sporadic attempts at prohibition in the United States break down in the 1930's, with social acceptance (outside the Bible Belt) following during the Eurasian War. (In the process, ethnic Mexicans come to dominate organized crime in most major cities, much to the discomfort of the law-abiding majority of Hispanics.) Ganja is popular and legal in the Domination from the early nineteenth century; both countries launch occasional educational campaigns to prevent abuse. The first studies linking tobacco to cancer and heart disease are done in Germany in the 1930's and at first, widely discounted as Nazi propaganda. The U.S. is otherwise a spirits-and-beer country, with some wine-drinking enclaves. The Domination is a wine-and-brandy region with a minor key in (German and Scandinavian-influenced) beer.

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"Modern" (Bauhaus) architecture never really got under way in the Domination's timeline; Frank Lloyd Wright practiced, but the German school was never born. Steel-frame and ferroconcrete construction are common, but the unadorned "glass shoebox" is reserved for industrial uses. Public and domestic architecture in the Domination is predominantly "Drakastyle"—an Art-Nouveauish version of earlier Classico-Mughal schools: lines are fairly simple, but with elaborately decorated surfaces (mosaic, murals, stained glass). Euro-American styles are variously historic, Art Nouveau-Art Deco, and "Mechanist." Skyscrapers are common in the larger American cities, but not much imitated elsewhere. Central air-conditioning was developed in the Domination in the 1850's, immediately after the invention of practical refrigeration, and spread rapidly to the tropical areas of the U.S.; small, single-dwelling units were available in America by the time of the Great War.

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In 1942, the free population of the Domination was 36,750,447, and the serf 501,792,544. Approximately 75 percent of the free and 38 percent of the serf population was urbanized. Of the serfs, 101,897,000 were owned by the Combines or the state; the remainder were in private hands. The African territories had a total population of 324,000,000 and remained the richest and most densely settled area of the Domination.

The population of the United States was 179,000,000. This included roughly 20,000,000 Hispanics and Asians (mostly Filipino) and about 11,000,000 blacks.

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Acts of 1836, 1879, and 1911 forbid sexual intercourse between Citizen women and unfree males. Apart from prohibitions on rape (of free women; rape of serf women is a civil tort actionable for damages by the owner) and molestation of free children, this is the only morals legislation in the Domination, and this has been (roughly) the case since the mid-nineteenth century.

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The institution of serfdom grew out of efforts to mobilize the labor of the native population of southern Africa, whose formal enslavement was forbidden by the British. While ordinary chattel slaves existed, prior to the British abolition of slavery throughout the Empire in 1833, they were never very common south of the Limpopo except in the Western Cape Province.

Instead, the natives were subject to a "poll tax." Since they had no access to the cash economy (and fairly soon after the conquest, no title to land) they were forced to accept employment as indentured servants, theoretically for a fixed term. However, the "wages" never equaled the charges for upkeep and the accumulated tax; hence, a servant could be legally forced to reindenture to pay off the debt. In theory only the debt and contract of indenture could be sold, but the distinction quickly became academic once the debts were made hereditary. Children of bondservants were automatically contracted to their parents' owners as they came of age.

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In its classical form (after about 1840), Draka serfdom resembled that of Czarist Russia. Serfs were effectively personal property, and could be sold either as individuals (although there were restrictions on separating mothers from small children) or as part of an economic unit such as a plantation or mine. All persons born to serf mothers were serfs; serf status was unchangeable, with no manumission. Originally, the institution was also racially based: the free population was of European origin, the serf, African. Miscegenation and expansion into racially Europoid areas such as North Africa (and later the Middle East) tended to blur this, as did the decline of immigration and the hardening of the caste system.

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Agricultural serfs generally lived in small villages near the manor of the plantation-holder. Others were usually housed in "compounds"—enclosed barracks of up to 10,000 individuals. The compound system was originally developed for mine labor, and gradually extended to manufacturing. Compounds are sited in convenient cleared zones in the industrial areas of Draka cities and towns, or at isolated enterprises in the countryside. Domestic servants, and certain types of clerical and service labor, live in their master's households. A curfew, usually dusk-to-dawn, keeps all non-Citizens off city streets unless operating under special permit. It should be noted that there were classes within the serf caste; privileged elements—Janissaries, technicians, strawbosses, etc.—that received better material treatment and, in practice, protection from random brutality. Also note that many of the compound-dwellers had very little contact with the Citizen population, even at work.

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The Citizen caste lives in a cross between a very comprehensive welfare state and a consumer society. The top one-tenth of the economy is reserved for Citizen labor, which has always been scarce and very expensive. Citizen employees are usually organized in guilds, which collectively own about a third of the economy. Taxes are relatively low, since the State derives much of its income from profits on investment and ground-rent (being the only landowner, in the strict sense). Education through university, medical care and much else is provided free of charge; no Draka Citizen is actually poor. Only those with severe personality disorders manage to fall below the general upper-middle-class minimum, and they are usually institutionalized. (And sterilized, under the Eugenics Laws.) Note also that the structure of Draka society gives the Citizen caste rewards that no amount of money could buy, and that personal service and its products are very cheap—servants are the largest occupational category in the Domination, and even children usually bring at least one with them to school.

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Head of State and Government is the Archon, chosen for a 20-year term by two-thirds vote of the House of Assembly, the parliament. The Archon in turn chooses the heads of the Directorates (Transportation, Conservation, etc.) which manage sectors of the economy and provide services. The War Directorate is a special case, as its Director must be chosen from the General Staff and be approved by that body. There is a Senate, appointed by corporate bodies (the guilds, the Landholder's League, the Universities, etc.), which acts as a planning and coordinating authority; membership confers great social prestige. Local government is based on Provinces and Metropolitan Zones within the Police Zone, the pacified area, and under military/Security authority in the War Zone, where pacification is still going on. The Domination is actually more managed than governed, since over 90 percent of the population is property and, strictly speaking, subject to their owners rather than the State.

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The southwest Cape was intensively developed as the only area of Mediterranean climate in the British Empire; labor was brought in from the north, and an extensive network of hard-surfaced roads driven through the mountain passes to connect the valleys and basins.

Agriculture is, as usual for the Domination, organized on a plantation basis, but for historical reasons many of the units are unusually small, with only 100–300 serfs. The region of reliable winter rainfall within 120 km of Capetown is intensively cultivated, with a good deal of irrigated land; the wetter mountainsides are under planted forest of conifer and hardwood, mainly eucalyptus and oak. Deciduous fruit is grown under irrigation in the higher, cooler basins; vines, Mediterranean fruits (apricots, figs, nectarines, etc.) and tropical species are produced in the lowlands, with out-of-season fruits shipped to the northern hemisphere.

The Karoo drylands beyond the winter-rainfall zone are divided into large grazing plantations of up to 200,000 hectares; the deep Kalahari desert is a 250,000 sq. km. State Reserve for wildlife and !Kung bushfolk. The ranching areas originally produced dried meat, leather, tallow and enormous quantities of fine-grade merino wool; in recent decades game-ranching of oryx and other desert antelopes has supplemented or even replaced the introduced sheep. Capetown University's Aridland Management Project has been instrumental in efforts to preserve and increase the carrying capacity of the marginal lands. Scattered irrigated areas are mostly devoted to fodder crops such as alfalfa.

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National capital; the original city was in a bowl-like depression, just north of the rather bleak Whiteridge gold-mining settlements, and near a major diamond mine. Later proved to be near iron deposits, reasonably close to major coal mines, and in the center of the mineral zone described above. The residential/administrative core remains in the old city, with the industrial developments and serf barracks to the north and suburban developments climbing the plateau to the south, east and west.

Civil service/bureaucratic staff of several millions. Military headquarters. HQ of most major industrial combines. Several universities and research institutes. Tourist traffic. Entertainment industries and luxury manufactures (e.g. silk textiles).

Industrial research and development. High quality alloy steels, precision machine tools, ball- and roller-bearings. Ordnance and small arms. Final assembly of nuclear weapons. Computers, components, software. Sensor-effector systems, quality optics, electronics of all types. Word- and data-processing equipment of all types; office supplies. Fiber optics and transmission cables. Scramjet and laser-launch base; space-manufacturing research and support center. Exotic materials, e.g. carbon and boron-fiber matrix composites.

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AREA ***: MESOPOTAMIA AND THE GULF

Conquered and pacified in 1917–1919.

Defined by the Arabian desert on the west, the Zagros–Taurus mountain chains on the north and east, and the Arabian Gulf on the south. Site of the world's largest oil and natural gas reserves.

The oilfields of the lower gulf were discovered by Draka exploratory parties in 1910–12, and developed by the Hydrocarbon Combine from 1919; the Persian and North Mesopotamian fields, developed by German capital before the Great War, were taken over and expanded at the same time.

The first six-year plan (1920–26) saw output reach 10,000,000 barrels a year; a series of cities, from Basra to Muscat, was founded to handle, process and export the product. Pipelines were also constructed for overland export; the huge reserves of natural gas served as a limitless source of heat and electrical energy. By the 1940s, the conurbation at the head of the Gulf had a total population of over 6,000,000; by the late 1980s, 12,000,000. (91% serf).

Major industries: petroleum refining, petrochemicals and plastics, electrochemical and electrometallurgical (aluminum, copper). Mechanical engineering, generators, turbines, turbocompound internal combustion engines, jet turbines, scramjet engines, military aircraft and helicopters, airships, shipbuilding and ship repair, locomotives, rolling stock, textiles (mainly cotton and synthetics), food processing, fishing.

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Agriculture

The Tigris–Euphrates lowlands were revolutionized by a series of large dams on the headwaters of both rivers, and control and check dams, settling ponds, irrigation and drainage channels and saline-water pumping stations. Over 700,000 laborers were at work from 1919–1948 on water control; tens of millions of hectares were brought under cultivation, and the ancient problem of soil salinity eliminated. Labor was provided by drafts from Turkey, Bulgaria and China; a dense road-rail net provided instant communications.

The areas to the north of Baghdad were partially irrigated, and partially used for dryland cultivation. The mountain areas were swept clear of their Kurdish-Turkish populations and afforested; the desert likewise depopulated, with a fringe of ranches and the deeper areas left as State Reserve parks.

Products: wheat, barley, rice, dates, cotton, citrus, sugar cane, truck crops, fodder crops, feedlots (southern lowlands); grains, vineyards and fruit-orchards, livestock, wool, nuts (pistachio, walnut) (northern foothill zone).

Cities: Basra (2,500,000, 91% serf); Baghdad (600,000, 89% serf); Mosul (250,000, 88% serf).

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