Company Forces To Observe Vorona
Fotheringhay City, Williamsbourne. Hours after the totalitarian leader known as Thule came to power in Vorona, the Executive Cabinet of the Imperial East Terra Company met for a special meeting in Raleigh, New Wessex. The discussions are believed to have centred around how The Company should react to the threat posed by the new regime to the IETC's plans to establish trading posts along the East Coast of Terraincognita. Chief Factor, Thomas Barnes, has announced that a small carrier group will be deployed to 'observe the intentions of the new Anglo-Deltarian regime and, if necessary, establish a defensive screen around the small island nation.'
Chief Factor Thomas Barnes in the uniform of Commander Imperial Company Naval Forces, wants to deter any aggression from the new Angle-Deltarian regime.
The carrier group is thought to be led by Commodore Sutermeister who will be based on the small carrier IETCS Royal Sovereign. The group will comprise of Royal Sovereign, 6 Type 45 Destroyers, 10 Fotheringhay Class Frigates, 4 Pauk Class Corvettes, 6 Sonya Class Minesweepers, 6 Astute Class submarines and 12 Vintalli Class Fast missile boats. Barnes has said that this deployment, 'represents the single largest deployment of Company forces since our establishment over 20 years ago - I do not want the new Anglo-Deltarian regime to be under any illusion that The Company is under any obligation to be submissive towards their totalitarian state.' While The Company does not seek conflict with Anglo-Deltaria, the deployment of naval forces in addition to an expansion of naval construction orders seeks to prevent any escalation of aggression from the former Archduchy.
Gaduridos and Anglo-Deltaria compared
Gaduridos and Fotheringhay
GDP: 49.7 trillion GAD
Debt/Surplus every year: +200 billion GAD
% GDP total Debt: 0%
Population: 456.7 million
Defence Expenditure: 3.9 trillion GAD
% GDP Debt: 0%
Anglo-Deltaria
GDP: 30.9 trillion GAD
Debt/Surplus every year: -30.9 trillion
% GDP total Debt: Greater than 3000%
Population: 10.6 million
Defence Expenditure: 1.8 trillion GAD*
* According to Imperial Company economic analysts, Anglo-Deltaria possesses a crippling debt which requires it to borrow its entire GDP every year in order to fund its public spending programmes. The problem for the tiny island nation is that the country has been borrowing excessively for decades which has led our analysts to suggest that it is only capable of paying the interest on its loans leaving it no capital to invest into defence either to maintain even a tiny standing armed force or to buy new equipment. The amount of debt in Anglo-Deltaria has thus been calculated to at the very least exceed 30 times the country's GDP. The Financial Director of the IETC, Valentino DiMarcio, has said that 'Anglo Deltaria do not pose any economic or military threat to our forces or our country - they have riddled themselves in massive and outrageous levels of debt in order to artificially improve their GDP so that they now have no real chance of recovery. Mr Thule can certainly not follow through with the kinds of threats that he has been making towards The Company lately - he can thank his predecessor, the Duchess of Verona, for his impossible financial position.'