Imperialism

china is a little angered with the sudden intrusion of russian kgb. state your buisness or china will deport your units back to russia.

Italy agrees with China. If you are going to invade a country with spies at least do it slowly.

The USSR denies everything. Meanwhile they wonder exactly why the hell so many people are claiming to find KGB agents when so far only one agent has been compromised and he's in Germany (they're very unobtrusive at the moment, they only get easy to find when they're looking for stuff)

[he has a point]

[sorry about that, alright. i'll play dumb for now. but when they start fishing for information we'll be asking questions.]

As the international orchestra rest and relax, they recieve their new music. And that music is.... The Blue Danube Waltz, Serenade (yes the one we're playing in orchestra right now), and Chanson de Matin.

Meanwhile, the information for Japan's research has now been revealed:

Research on Human Developemtent (80%)

Research on Human Mind and Body (75%)

Development of Nano Technology (85%)

Wind Energy (75%)

Hydro Energy (78%)

City cleaners (79%)

Research on living matter (for example: animals, plants, bacteria) (65%)

Days without incident: 124

Days till Astronauts arrive at Asteroid Belt: 20

They also continue to keep their other project and creation both a secret.

The USSR fails to care, as they're working on secret projects with India. More or less secret anyway.

Japan thinks that sooner or later, they must hold a meeting with the countries to present their new creations.

The members of the orchestra refuse to play until Serenade is removed from their music. they end up playing Beethoven's 5th instead.

[did you ever even bother to listen to the youtube version of Serenade, Tara? It's actually pretty good with every body combined. but oh well.]

It was agreed, Serenade was replace with Beethoven's 5th, giving every member a higher moral as soon as they began playing it.

Days without incident: 131

Days for astronaut travel: 21

Ireland's Current Progress Report:

Space Research: lv 5, 50%

Space Travel: Lv 3, 25%

Whisky Perfection: 100%

Drinking Game Creation: 75%

Construction of Irish Asteroid Station: 15%

Construction of 5 Nuclear Power plants: Done

Rebuilding of Ireland's Road network: 75%

Current Population: 40 Million

Current Net Worth: 300 Billion

Current Debt: 20 billion

Current Biological Research: 30%

*NEW* Air-Space Commercial Space Flight: 50%

Average Life-expectancy: 90 Male, 95: Women.

Average Debt/ person: $1,000

Average Crime Rate: *ALL TIME LOW* 1 per 100,000

The US begins infiltration of the USSR, while executing counter infiltration due to recent breaches in security. USSR suspected, but no information was stolen.

[I don't like to play Serenade it is really pretty though]

The international orchestra does a concert in Disneyland. They play all the songs from Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty, The Lion King, and The Little Mermaid.

The crowd cheers, little kids scream with joy, teenage couples sit next to each other listening to the music that they listened to when they were little. In the back ground while the orchestra played, fireworks were shot up, giving the night sky a beautiful color as it is mixed with music. The last song the orchestra play for as an encore is When You Wish Upon A Star from Pinnochio with an soloist american singer. Again, while the song plays, fireworks shoot up, showing pictures of the characters in Pinnochio.

The USSR meanwhile furthers their collaborative efforts in Siberia with the Indian support. Their scientists are working hard on researching, and the military is a superb exercise in high technology.

Brazil, by the way, had first chair violinists, violists, and harpists in the concert.

Brazil sends its "top" engineers and theoretical physicists to work with the USSR and India

Meanwhile, Brazil accepts Irelands offer of aid in building their own space station, and with a joint effort, the primary module is complete in (insert reasonable amount of time here) and Brazil then tests its railgun-like space shuttle launch systems, and succesfully adds the pre-fabricated modules to the space station, making it a very comfortable, secure, and research-friendly environment. Brazil begins making plans to found a twin moon city near the Italians'. Brazil thanks Ireland. :drunken:

Brazil opens trade trade with Australia, and after intial misgivings, the Australians become staunch Brazilian Allies :king:

Brazil moves most of its navy to the south-western African coast, and sits there :suspect:

Spain and Portugal, wary of the situation in the east, decide to form a bloc within the EU to oppose Russian Imperialism. Few other countries join, each pressed internally and externally by the Russians or their own affairs. Brazil, interested in gaining a foothold in Europe, takes advantage of the Iberian Alliance to ally with both Spain and Portugal at once, though they don't agree on many issues and the alliance is tenuous.

[The EU is gone, you know.]

The Soviets refuse to allow Brazilians access to the Russo-Indian technology research.

Project Molniya: 86% but stalled on a particular issue.
Operation Zapadnye Burya: 90%

Italy's moon colony begin dressing up as anime characters.

Japan, finding a new discovery in science, quickly puts half it's researchers to work on it while also continuing other projects.

Days without incident: 136

Days for Astronaut landing: 15

The US, wary of the growing military power on it's southern border, completes testing on the large object orbiting Earth, while still keeping it a secret from the world. The US successfully installs stealth and radar jamming equipment on the object. The US speeds up testing on new materials to be used on Solar Panels in an attempt to improve the efficiency of panels everywhere. The project is expected to take 4-6 weeks. The US also spies the Japanese spacecraft through Hubble and beams a greeting message to the craft wishing the crew well.

Taethos wrote:The USSR again points out that the accused are likely not KGB. They officially agree to the Brazilian proposal. Wary of their nukes, however, they begin stockpiling more of their own, determined to outnumber the less stable country.

What proposal was the USSR agreeing to if not that of allowing us into the technological alliance?

Also, Brazil officially requests knowledge of what Project Lightning and Operation Western Storm are.

brazil has reached its quota of 1,000 nukes. all nuclear efforts are now peaceful and aimed at energy production.

Ireland Begins Construction of a Large Dome around its Country. Ireland Refuses to state why.

The proposal of removing KGB agents from Brazil.

The USSR's government asks what the hell Brazil is talking about.

Taethos wrote:[The EU is gone, you know.]

The Soviets refuse to allow Brazilians access to the Russo-Indian technology research.

Project Molniya: 86% but stalled on a particular issue.
Operation Zapadnye Burya: 90%

Brazil refers to the above projects, which translate roughly as, what Brazil previously stated.

Brazil recalls the scientists on account of the misunderstanding, but petitions, again, to be allowed into the Russo-Indian Technology alliance. Brazil also thanks the KGB for its honesty.