The Disease II: Plague Done Right

[:) Smiley]

Syrian operatives remove an entire nuclear weapons facility from official RCS maps, and then proceed to cart off the WMD's.

[joncha]

Burkina Faso politely ignores the madcap antics of teh Russian Federation.

[mrmitchell]

The Forum Game Times - Week 3, 2005

Ireland announces the subsidization of beer. Immigration to the nation triples. Oh, and something about vaccines too.

China announces that there has been a significant increase in flu deaths over the winter season. New policies for flu treatment have been initiated, and study into the reason for the spike has begun. Japan is now giving tests to every person travelling from China.

Cuba has no money. It can't build a damn wall all the way around itself. Fidweld Castro must've lost his mind. Anyways, after making that announcement, the US stepped in and SECRETLY told Cuba to back off.

The USA has said it will give $50B of tightly monitored food and educational aid to Syria in return for the drop of its WOMD program.

Russia issues statement that all corperations must pay their workers all wages due within 1 year

Corporations give tremendous protest to statement. Anyways, some of them go ahead and do so, and inflation triples. The rest are filing various suits or making threats to leave Russia if such an antibusiness environment will be created.

President Kassiopeia of the Republic of Finland thinks that the new disease is a very, very bad thing and tells his aides to issue a statement to tell everyone how distraught he is, etc.

Everyone scratches their head. There has been no new disease discovered, just a spike in flu fatalities. Unless Finland knows something we don't....

Americans have taken full control of Baghdad, at the price of many dozens of soldiers' lives and possibly a thousand Iraqi civilians. In Afghanistan, Some Guy Looks Into the News reports that 90% of Afghans still have no standard education or healthcare. Everyone gets mad but no one really does anything.

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[Whoha]

Belize will begin distributing firearms to all able bodied men aged 20-40.

[Kassiopeia]

Everyone scratches their head. There has been no new disease discovered, just a spike in flu fatalities. Unless Finland knows something we don't....

The President slaps his forehead - due to extensively efficient health care, the flu hasn't been in Finland for over a generation, and the President had simply forgotten that such a disease even existed.

This new strain might be nasty, so all Finns are recommended to have some fruit (or pills or anything) with some vitamin C and dress up warm. Warmer than usual, that is.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Orders for next two weeks:

--Institute a tax credit for getting drunk.
--Declare war on Jamaica for creating Red Stripe beer.
--Everyone piss and/or crap in the Saint Georges Channel. (Those who can't do so directly, just send jars of urine and/or feces.)

[Gamecube64]

Lesotho requests $50B from the USA for their WoMD (Weapons of Monkey Destruction) projects, since with the $50B they won't need to fend off the relentless apes from their farms.

Lesotho bans all immigrants from Asia, Russia, and the Middle East.

[Frozzy]

Britain shall ban immigration from China and visitors from Asia.

[joncha]

Burkina Faso stays the course.

[FlameFlash]

1. Continues producing oil.
2. Encourages US to allow Iraq to make it's own oil choices and makes plans to cater to OPEC to begin an embargo if the US doesn't comply soon enough for its tastes.
3. Continues passport transition, hiring Indians who have been fired/laid off from US corporate jobs to manage the massive computer handling required for project.
4. In response to Syria banning all travellers from the Middle East, closes all trading with Syria (and encourages OPEC to follow suit) get your oil somewhere else!

[:) Smiley]

Syria...

turns over bio weapons program to US inspectors.

invests in education, with specific emphasis on various high-tech engineering fields, such as nuclear physics, rocket science, and chemicals.

redraws RCS maps to show Russia as a Syrian territory.

[mrmitchell]

Forum Game Times

Massive crowding in Ireland. A hundred thousand new immigrants and mostly tourists have appeared out of nowhere, looking for lodging and booze, while productivity falls because everyone is out getting drunk. The economy swings downward except beer companies, which are busy buying fleets of expensive cars for Irish government employees.

The Saddam Hussein trial saga continues this week, as Saddam interrupts a witness's testimony to say "yeah, but Kim Jong Il, that ********er, y'all ain't got no idea what he's going to do. I worship that guy, he is like the King of Evil."

Scientists from the World Health Organization confirm that the sharp upturn in flu deaths appears to be, based on preliminary evidence, a fast-spreading strain of influenza that originated from Beijing several months ago. Oddly, the strain shows signs of laboratory modification, but maybe WHO did that without noticing.

Deaths from the strain now mount to the thousands in Beijing and other Chinese cities. All infected people must be quarantined as soon as they're confirmed, say WHO sources. And be careful where you travel.

The Russian economy falters, as the inflation rate soars and profitable companies leave Russia. President Tassadar's strange policies are blamed, but he still can show an improvement since Putin's disastrous Thanksgiving Crash, where the stock market actually became negative for a short time.

WHO secretly informs G8 national leaders that the "flu strain" in China appears to be something very, very serious, and warns them all to keep watch, as of the many thousand infected, there are only about a dozen survivors. The disease does not really match the flu enough to be called a "strain".

President Edwards made a surprise visit to Iraq to announce a new program where Iraqi-owned oil companies may compete in limited markets with those American-owned.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

The Irish government copyrights all things Irish and demands royalties for their use from non-Irish. Because if it's not Irish, it's crap.

[Whoha]

Belize protests voting irregularities in the US that led to the VP candidate being elected president, as we have had no reports of an assassination or election.

[FlameFlash]

1. Begins subsidizing flu shots.
2. Yet again continues to produce oil.
3. Applauds US actions regarding Iraqi oil but hopes to see more in the future.
4. Begins rejecting new applications of passports from any resident of China unless further screening and a waiting period in quarenteen is met.
5. Begins restricting visitors from nations who have also visited China within the past year.
6. Extends a recommendation to the US and other heavy oil using countries that given the proper science and thought on the new flu strain, a cure might be developed, or at least a vaccination and promises to increase production of oil to lower prices if enough countries begin doing so, however the amount of countries has of yet been undisclosed.