The Voice of Zahir al-Muntadhir
The Voice of Zahir al-Muntadhir (Voice of Zahir for short) is the unofficial but true news source of Medina, fighting for freedom from the tyranny of the dictator.
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July 4772
After Two Years in Power, MJZ has Expanded Foreign Ties and Domestic Economy
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With the MJZ in power for this long and elections not scheduled for another year, in June 4773, it's time to check in to see what they've been doing. Firstly, opening up the nation to outside investors (although regulated and restricted in what they can do) has skyrocketed many industries into a boom. With the average income per capita higher than any time in the last 100 years, the livelihoods of the people of Medina are incredible. Medina has looked to many foreign investors to modernise the systems which haven't received any upgrades from non-domestic sources in over 100 years.
The city of Khairpur, previously impoverished and overcrowded due to it's distance from the Dictator's palace and natural resource fields, now an international trading hub and growing to accommodate it's population.
The megacorporation 3M had officially been invited into Medina to modernise the nation's health industry. The health industry hadn't been very influential nor had it received the attention it probably needed over the last 100 years, but now 3M will be importing the latest of medical technology into Medina. This will revolutionize the care given and the ability to give said care, saving thousands of lives every year. It also goes hand in hand with the investments in other industries, such as media (private media other than the state media channels), defence industries (although they must share a large fraction of both production and profit with the Medinian government), and finance, with Medina being a large foreign tax haven (high tax for companies and people operating within the nation but low taxes for all those just dumping their money in and other foreigners, provided they don't operate in Medina).