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[[Category:Nations]]
[[Category:Asia]]
[[Category:South Asia]]
[[Category:Indian Bloc]]
* '''Population:''' 1.8 billion
* '''Aspects:''' Great Power, Controlled, Third Wave
For most of the past century, India has exercised considerable
influence in its own region. For example, Indian
troops won two short conventional wars with [[Pakistan]] in
the 2020s. India also provided much of the diplomatic
weight enforcing [[Singapore]]an neutrality in the late 2070s.
Despite all this, India has continued to fall short of truly
global influence. Although it has a large population, a
well-educated elite, and a sound military establishment, its
serious social problems have prevented it from attaining
global power anytime in the last century. Today, India
seems to be a “sleeping giant,” perhaps ready to awaken
and shake the world.

India is characterized by
factionalism. Its huge population
is chronically divided
along lines of religion, ethnicity,
class, language, and
ideology. Indeed, in many
ways India is less a nation
than it is a loose confederation
of many nations. This
factionalism has often
weakened Indian government
and caused rapid shifts
in policy.

The dominant trend in
current Indian politics is a struggle over nanosocialism. The
local [[nanosocialism|nanosocialist]] movement goes back to the late 2050s,
and has managed to win a substantial bloc of seats in the
People’s Assembly. Meanwhile, the conservative Indian
National Alliance opposes the further spread of socialist
ideas. The INA has held the government since 2082, and
has done much to make India a more effective power on the
world stage. Its policies are based on a confrontational
stance toward [[China]] and the Transpacific Socialist
Alliance, an aggressive Indian space program, and the
development of [[Fifth Wave]] industries. Despite the INA’s
successes in economic and foreign affairs, it has failed to
stem the growth of Indian nanosocialism, and it seems possible
that the coalition will fall within a few years.

If the INA loses power, either peacefully or through
civil war, then India would almost certainly join the
Transpacific Socialist Alliance. This would more than double
the population and economic strength of the Alliance,
and bring the powerful Indian military onto the side of the
nanosocialist bloc. This would certainly discomfit the
TSA’s main rivals, China and the [[:Category:Pacific Rim Alliance|Pacific Rim]] nations. On
the other hand, India’s entry into the TSA would also upset
the alliance’s leadership structure, forcing Indonesia to step
down from its current position of prominence. Outside
observers have noticed a distinct lack of enthusiasm among
the TSA leadership toward the prospect of nanosocialist
revolution in India. Clearly, whether India succeeds in
increasing its global influence or not, it stands at the
fulcrum of today’s balance of power.

India is the most populous nation on Earth. The per capita
GNP is about half that of the United States at the
beginning of the century, but this productivity is not shared
equally by the whole population. Instead, about 10% of the
population has a high standard of living with the full range
of Fifth Wave technology, while the bulk of the population
lives at a much lower standard. India has done much to
ensure that all its citizens have an adequate diet, protection
from infectious diseases, and decent housing, including the
creation of a small number of very impressive high-biotech
[[arcologies]]. Despite this, in much of the country even a telephone
or a personal computer is still a luxury.

For decades, India has applied its own distinctive
approach to technological and economic development. The
social elite maintains cutting-edge technological skills, and
acts as a managerial class. Meanwhile, Indian entrepreneurs
have always had access to a vast pool of unskilled
(but hard-working and inexpensive) labor. They have often
found ways to apply such workers to produce the same
goods and services as a much smaller skilled force. The
strategy of investing relatively little in the workforce has
carried over into the adaption of new technologies. While
India has produced several impressive mega-projects,
domestic industry has not invested heavily in sophisticated
computers, robots, bioroids, or gene-altered human labor –
but Indian businessmen have often manufactured such
goods for export.

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