Bruuma scraps plans for exotic cattle farms after disappoing trials


Ostriches were among the species the regime sought to introduce in the local diet.

The Bruuman Ministry of Agricolture has announced it will not move forward with plans to raise new animal species as cattle, after trial farms gave disappointing results. Ostriches and giant breeds of rabbits were among the species involved; foreign experts had warned about the inefficiency of this plan since its launch two years ago, but were unheard. A sister project to raise edible insects was technically sucessful, but culturally a failure since its product encountered mass rejection - eating bugs is associated with the dire famines that ravaged Bruuma in the late 50's. This project will be still moved forward, but the insects will be used to produce chicken and pig forage.

According to rumors, a high ranking official has been "removed from office", which depending on the sources could mean anything between been downgraded to been fed to the alligators.

(This post was last modified: 06-24-2019, 12:32 PM by VPRB.)

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Kai Fa shipyards deliver two frigates to the Bruuman Navy


The two frigates docked in Tou Fou before beginning the journey to New Orleansburg

The Kai Fa’s state-owned military shipyards in Tou Fou have delivered two guided missile frigates to the Bruuman Navy, according to an official note. The ships left the port of Tou Fu at an undisclosed time in the previous month and recently docked in New Orleansburg, probably sailing along the South-Western route to Bruuma.

The two countries have begun trading military equipment right since signing the Treaty last year: among the goods going back and forth, Kai Fa is probably supplying much needed electronic and IT components while Bruuma provide artillery and other heavy equipment. 

Kai Fa has boasted a long maritime tradition, both civil and military, since the era of the Southern Kingdom (1527 -1861), while Bruuma has suffered much from its lack of a proper blue water navy in all its recent engagements. The Voodoo-Marxist regime is also building two destroyers on its own in its bid to strengthen its naval warfare. 

Some analysts believe that after the Serevan War the Bruuman generals are busy with a much more reorganization of their forces, hinting that the massive amount of weaponry the country recently poured on the markets, and the acquisitions of new, specific equipment, could mean it is emptying its stocks of the most dated pieces and acquiring modern ones as part of a renovation process.

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Bruuma and Olympia signs a trade agreement


A cocoa cultivation in Bruuma. Agrarian and mineral products will be the main exports toward Olympia.

The Ministry of Economy of Bruuma has announced that the country has signed a trade deal with Olympia. The island country will supply minerals, including cobalt and nickel, and agrarian products, chiefly cocoa, sugar, tobacco and coffee, for a lower price in exchange for fixed purchases. 

The Ministry has expressed his wish that "this could be the start of a wider program of trade that will extend to a wider array of exports".

(This post was last modified: 07-25-2019, 03:49 PM by VPRB.)

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Bruuman Army unveiled new vehicles at Armed Forces Day parade


The Vosemvago Kobra IMV was unveiled at the BPDF Day on July 23rd.

As every week post-July 23rd, military analysts were waiting for pictures to be released from the Bruuman People's Defence Forces Day parade in Bayougrad. The annual recurrence is the occasion for the regime to unveil its new toys for the armed forces - or, at least, those it wants to show to send a message abroad.

As rumors had anticipated, the BPDF is in the process of upgrading its stocks and its branches are reshaping themselves after the lessons learnt in the wars fought in the latest years. The Bruuman Army, after its experience during the Serevan War, is  betting on more agile, fast and lighter mechanized infantry and has presented two new vehicles: the Vosemago Kobra infantry mobiliy vehicle and the mine resistant ambush protected Proforce Sila.


The Air Force and the Navy did not make announcement this year, but they are undoubtly carrying on analogous operations. The latter has recently acquired two Kai Fa-built frigates and should be in the final stages of construction of two destroyers in its own shipyards, while the former has been quieter but is suspected to be both working on new missile tests and upgrading the electronics on its existing fleet.

(This post was last modified: 09-19-2019, 11:21 AM by VPRB.)

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Puerto Pollo commutes remaining death sentences


Inside the Otis Zanahoria prison in Danjer Cove

The Puerto Polloan Ministry of Justice has announced that the sentences of all remaining death row inmates in the island were commuted into lifetime. Currently, three people were held in the death row for murdering a guard in a failed boat hijhacking attempt in 2016: the men, former members of the FDP militia, were at large and when found by authorities tried to steal a patrol boat, killing a soldier in the process, but were then soon boarded and arrested.

The last executions in Puerto Pollo were carried on in 2015, mostly for crimes committed by FDP and government forces during the Second Civil War. The number of executions, both official and extrajudicial, carried on between 2014 and 2015 by the winning revolutionaries forces is unkown but estimated in the range of some dozens people.

(This post was last modified: 09-06-2019, 06:40 AM by VPRB.)

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In Kai Fa tattoo culture is booming
 

In Kai Fa’s history, tattoo were worn by two categories of people, both of whom seek to estrange themselves from society: criminals and monks. After the Communist regime rose to power, tattooing was officially banned  as an “anti-social behaviour”. Still, the imprisoned criminals and the few remaining monks carried on, in secrecy, the trade. After the reforms of the Nineties, the restriction was gradually relaxed and then formally abolished in 2002, as the new generations rediscovered tattoos both through the foreign capitalist countries and their national Buddhist tradition. While still shunned by the elderly and in the countryside, young urban folks in Tom Yam and other cities now sports inked skin in increasing numbers, and some monasteries now support themselves by drawing the traditional, geometric religious tattoos on the skin of both locals and tourists.

(This post was last modified: 10-21-2019, 04:54 AM by VPRB.)

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Bruuma declares an environment-health emergency over invasive snails



Bruuma has declared an environment-health emergency over an invasive specie of snails. It is not clear how the pest enetered the county, but it spread for some times in the North-Eastern areas before the local authorities realize the invasion. Not only the creatures damage cultivations, but they are a vehicle for pathogens, including some dangerous to humans.

Among the countermeasures implemented, there is an old-fashioned one: squads of civilians and soldiers are being sent to the fields to collect all the invasive snails they can find.

(This post was last modified: 10-21-2019, 04:55 AM by VPRB.)

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Kai Fa deploy troops in Reizen


Kai Fa troops in the streets of Seranuma

Kai Fa troops have been spotted in Seranuma, the main Reizen city under the control of the Workers' Party of Reizen. The expeditionary force is composed of infantry and could amount between a few dozens and a few hundred soldiers. Both Kai Fa and Bruuma have been backing the WPR in the past months, but so far limited their involvement to aerial and material support. Only non-combatant advisors and technicians were deployed on the ground so far. The move is probably a response to the massive joint offensive of Sedunn and the Empire against another faction, RIM, which control a strech of land between the two.

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BREAKING NEWS - Papa Unclepear unveils his successor at Independence Day: meet Brother Unclepear



During his annual speech for the celebration of the Bruuma Independence Day, Papa Unclepear has stunned his country and the whole South Pacific by unveiling his successor, named only as Brother Unclepear.

The man, unseen before, appears to be in his late thirties. Papa Unclepear said that his successor "has already served the cause for all his life, and is already part of the leadership of the Party and the Army". 

According to the speech, Brother Unclepear will shadow Papa until Revolution Day (April 13th 2020), when he will assume the leadership with the title of Dear Leader. Papa Unclepear, who has ruled Bruuma since 1956 and is now believed to be in his mid-ninties, will then "ascend to take his rightful place among the Masters and the Loas to continue guiding the nation from a superiori state of being" and will thus remain nominally the of Eternal Leader forever. For those unfamiliar, the official ideology of the country mixes up communism and voodoo.

It is yet unclear the relationship between the two: Papa described the brother as "the new avatar of the Revolution" and "his spiritual successor".

In a short speech, Brother Unclepear praised his predecessor and vowed to keep guiding Bruuma on the current path in the 21st century. 

Both Chairman Lo Pol, Core Leader of Kai Fa, and El pollo Diablo, Boss Maximo of the Commonwealth of Puerto Pollo, were present, seated in the Grandstand.

(This post was last modified: 11-08-2019, 08:58 AM by VPRB.)

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Puerto Pollo try to revive its ice cream industry



Ice cream was once a favourite leisure of Puerto Polloan middle and high classes, even a status symbol: machinery was costly and powdered milk had to be imported, given that the dairy industry was basically non-extant on the island. During the First Civil War, most ice cream parlours were bombed by FARPP during the harshest phase of the war between 1981 and 1983, seen as "bourgeois targets". In the years of the Second Republic, ice cream was available mostly as an import or as a cheap, water-based sherbet.

The regime has now decided to revive the industry for the benefit of the common people. A public production plant is due to open in 2020, and leasing contracts are already being allotted for future parlours. It will be seen if, given the high costs, the government will manage to make this plan economically viable in the medium-long term.

(This post was last modified: 05-19-2020, 06:38 AM by VPRB.)

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