PCBaller World/Greater Illinois

[[File:Greater IL.png]]
Greater Illinois is a totalitarian, semi-federalist state formed when a clique of industrialists, military leaders and academics supplanted the incumbent leadership of the states of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin during the American collapse, turning the national guard against them soon after. Gradually, after years of social engineering, researching and developing industrial capacities, the state has become a perfect technocratic managerial state, with the individual being free to live their own lives, but having little to no power outside of the realm of the free market, while experts and executives work behind the scenes. Despite massive corporate paternalism and overbearing authority, the state is still one of the very few in existence that has a HDI of over 1.0. Will Greater Illinois fully realize its ambition? Or will it be crushed within its own mechanism? Information:
 * Fun Fact: Greater Illinois has re-purposed the inferior "block" organization system within its cities in order to host a highly-efficient system of trams, as well as reforming the blocks to serve as interlocking fire zones, should the need arise. They're also the only American state to go Metric.


 * [[File:Nattrans2.png]]
 * Interest Groups


 * [[File:Christy.png]]

For the sake of preventing needless over-complication, the old functions of the Senate and the House of Representatives are retained in order to not overstrain older bureaucratic systems. However, they are now essentially just an extension of a greater technocratic system, with senators and representatives appointed directly by the state and/or elected in "totalitarian" elections (with the state selecting candidates for the population in order to simulate the illusion of control). As such, the only "legal" party (and literally the ONLY party) is the AFP. Despite the unified nature of being under a single party, various official "cliques" have formed from each of the three major sectors (military, industrial and academic, respectively). Despite this, the cliques are only there for organizational purposes, and do not view each other as direct competition, since they all have the same goal in the end, which is to preserve the state and reunify the Mainland. BERNHE0504 and Tiberius live in this territory (although Tiberius moved from somewhere else) and were chosen to be the president and vice-president, respectively, for 8-year-long terms. However, the both of them have rather little executive power, mainly being there to coordinate the technocrats and sign bills. Recent shifts within the party (especially after the Arimexican Debacle) have drastically weakened the Ultramilitarist Clique, which has allowed the declining Industrial Clique to stabilize and the ultra-technophiliac Accelerationist Clique to dominate the political scheme of Greater Illinois, with them holding over 50% of the senate. However, support for the Canadian War has not faltered, and both the Industrialists and Accelerationists have pledged their support to the Militarists in that endeavor. The ACL, being a partisan movement, has a clearly-defined leader who calls most of the shots. That man is Patrick. He just wants to praise God, for Christ's sake!


 * [[File:Nattrans2.png]] American Forward Party 59/59 (Senate), 118/118 (House)
 * [[File:Ultramil-Antifurry.png]] Militarist Clique (8/59, 22/118, [[File:DownArrow.png]])
 * [[File:Corp.png]] Industrial Clique (21/59, 41/118,  -   )
 * [[File:POSTHUMANISMICON.png]] Accelerationist Clique (30/59, 55/118), [[File:UpArrow.png]])
 * [[File:BERNHEflash.gif]] BERNHE0504 (President)
 * [[File:Vamp.png]] Tiberius (Vice President)


 * [[File:Christy.png]] (Partisan Movement)
 * Reports of a small [[File:Fundamentalism2.png]] Christian Fundamentalist sect within the movement are growing. This sect makes it harder for the ACL to negotiate with Greater Illinois.
 * [[File:MonPatconSun.png]] Patrick (Leader)

Greater Illinois is a very interventionist state that is surrounded on all sides by hostile powers. As such, they have spent exorbitant amounts of resources on making a rather small, yet extremely potent and advanced army.

Greater Illinoisian relations are quite weird, being based mainly on pure pragmatism instead of pre-collapse loyalty or even if the state reciprocates the feeling.

An example of this would be giving the Colorado progressives more ecotech, since the technocrats believe they can do serious good with it, despite Colorado's opinion on Greater Illinois. They tend to be quite pragmatic in who they'll actually support abroad, and only a select few states (the Beryists, the ████████ists, the Phibunsongkhram Reclamationists and even the Koreans from time to time) are granted access to Greater Illinosian technology. The rest of their relations mainly consist of providing weapons, food, capital and supplies towards "aligned" nations (those that have the potential to become Greater Illinosian allies), as well as partisan groups in countries they don't like. Given the very advanced nature of their so-called "outdated" weapons that they supply insurgencies with, Greater Illinosian meddling is often dealt with [attempted] brutality from their enemies and absolute devotion from their beneficiaries.

Foreign Policy: Specifics:
 * [[File:Irredentism.png]] (American territories only)
 * [[File:NeoLiberal-icon.png]] /[[File:Imp.png]] (Internationally)
 * [[File:Mega Yes.png]] Allied
 * Thailand
 * Eastern Polish Republic:
 * Beryist Reich
 * Quebec
 * [[File:Yes.png]] Cordial
 * Polish Hispaniola
 * Islamic Emirate of Finland
 * Sorbia
 * Lebanon
 * [[File:Meh.png]] Speaking Terms
 * Korea
 * Cascadia
 * Liberal Federation of America
 * European Commonwealth
 * Byzantium
 * Colorado
 * [[File:No.png]] Cold
 * Hungary
 * Northern Germany
 * Eastern California
 * Puerto Rico
 * Autonomous Texas
 * [[File:Mega No.png]] Hostile
 * Poland
 * Worker's Commune of Arimexico
 * [[File:Ultramil-Antifurry.png]] At War
 * Communist Canada

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