New transit terminal at the Solentian-Istalian border opened: border fences still under constructionThe new tranist terminal shall facilitate and increase the trade between the two nations and the flow of goods through Istalia and the rest of terra. Due to the lower cooperation tax and much more laissez-faire economic policy as well as lower wages many Istalian companies invested in Solentia as the free trade agreement allows them to export their produced goods back into Istalia without tariffs. Istalia still exports more to Solentia than the other way around but the trade deficit has been reduced to just over 50 million SOL last year and is expected to be even within the next few years.
Generally the trade deficit with the rest of the world has been reduced as Solentia is now one of the few countries in the world which does not levy any cooperation tax nor employer contributions nor has it a minimum wage and trade unions and strikes are outlawed.
The capacity of the new terminal shall be up by more than 30%. It however creates a bottleneck at the highly congested Solentian motorways. Plannings are under way to increase all Solentian motorways to three lanes in each direction after the finishing of the Solentian-Istalian border fence. This section of the border fence is the last to be finished. The fence itself it already finished, however the watchtowers as well as the mines, self-shooting devices still remain.
The responsibly minister already outlined the general decrease in terms of illegal immigration and praised the workers for their attention to detail and the whole country for its persistence in this endeavour.
The mines and self-shooting devices are in front of the two main fences, floodslights are still missing as well
Factory turns out 100 tons of tabun and sarin per year: First artillery shells integrated into army: Biological weapon of last resort declared After decades of development it is now census among independent Solentian experts that the Solentia army is in posession of non-conventional means of attack and defence conssiting yet only out of artillery shells filled with two kinds of gases and a small number of biological carriers. The development is however scheduled to carry on and plans to develop rocket-based carrier systems and a series of even more deadlier agents are also in development.
The main fear in the eyes of many experts come from the still underdeveloped state of the Solentian army which is still in more than insuifficent. However as training improves the percentage of broken/non-usable equipment is down from 63% to just 12% according to the ministry of defence. The massive investments into the military have surely helped but they were not enough to obtain new weapons systems.
The toll of the special weapons programm however is yet unknown but experst estimate the number of killed homeless test subjects to around 12,000. The government strongly denies that any tests were conducted with humans involved.
On another note the minister of defence applauded the ranking of Solentia in the Aelius Celer Institute for Minorities Studies.
It showes we need to step up our enforcement of anti-gay laws. A big crack-down an all gay resturants and bars is planned and will soon be done. Gays are the cancer of terra and women should be at home where they belong. We encourage all gays or other garbage to leave the country now. Solentia is not gay.