Kamchatka isn’t a country particularly well suited for urbanisation and industry. It is heavily mountainous with thin valleys and passes interlinking inhabited areas. For much of post-flood history, they relied upon the sea as the primary tool of state. None the less, compared to many of it’s neighbours, Kamchatka simply does not an industrial center.

Now in recent years there have been many attempts to correct this. The Ravenburg naval drydock for example is largely built of coastal dockyards and artificial spurs out into the sea, preventing the use of the limited flat land. Transport between hub locations is also limited, with an extremely rudimentary rail network and transportation fleet conducting the bulk of the work. There has never been a suitable interlinked road system, despite several attempts over the years - most of the budget for such an endeavour is eaten up maintaining the railway.

Shan Sopka, in the open environment of the central valley, contains the bulk of industry as it stands today simply due to it’s location, and this is true of the First Citizens new investments.

To co-operate with the explosive growth the nation is expected to have over the next two years through Siberia, 24 new factories are to be constructed throughout the central valley. Most of these will be for day to day goods to support the economy. Some are earmarked for luxuries, opiates, medicines, crabs, products like that. A few will augment the military engine, particularly to reinvigorate and rebuild the Kamchatka navy, a long term project to help secure the coastline. All will prove invaluable in supporting the war effort.

What is being kept heavily under wraps is that this will cause significant shortages over the short term, particularly in day to day goods and metals. The public will notice little more than a price bump, easily waved away by state press. The 1st Goshan, up in Siberia will notice the issue, but have been fully debriefed.

This is a tax on the 2nd Goshan, who saw a significant manpower bleed following the failed coup - mostly in the officer corps. Their potential involvement in the coup makes this “life essentials” tax the first of several harsh steps against them, though most hope the First Citizen will stop short of an outright purge.

The next two years will be transitory, and painful. But on the other side will emerge a state simply more capable of economic and military action.

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