Indonesia

From Gothpoodle

• Population: 350 million
• Aspects: Stable, Powerful, Repressive, Third Wave

Indonesia has suffered many reverses of fortune in the course of the past century. By 2015 a series of secessionist movements had caused the loss of not only East Timor, but also the Irian Jaya province and most of the Moluccas. For decades the country struggled with internal ethnic division and corruption, before attaining a measure of stability under a nanosocialist government in the early 2060s. The new regime has aggressively pursued territorial expansion, coming into conflict with China and the Pacific Rim nations. After the TSA defeat of 2085, Indonesia took up leadership of the Alliance and has held it ever since.

Indonesia was founded more as a Javanese empire than as a unified national state, and to this day there is no strong sense of national identity based on ethnicity. This has made the country difficult to govern without repressive methods. Today, the Indonesian Infosocialist Party has used ideology to build a unified state. Indonesian citizens tend to regard the rest of the world as corrupt, driven by capitalist greed and ruthless exploitation. Whether they are Party members or not, they tend to regard their own nation and the TSA as a whole as the best hope for the soul of mankind. There is political dissent in Indonesia, but it is rare and usually centers on issues outside the basic principles of nanosocialism.

Although Indonesia has repudiated the more controversial actions taken by the TSA’s old Thai leadership, there are persistent rumors of similar “black weapons” programs being mounted somewhere in the country. Meanwhile, in the past few years Indonesian agents have been aggressively pursuing a campaign to circumvent the trade embargo by stealing patented Fifth Wave technology. It is unknown whether this indicates hidden economic problems within Indonesia, or simply a decision by the TSA leadership to step up the pace of confrontation with the rest of the world.

The population of Indonesia enjoys some prosperity and a reasonably even distribution of wealth. Indonesia has largely been cut off from the global web as a result of economic sanctions, but access to the TSA’s own web segment is commonplace. Fourth Wave technologies are available as well, although there are few bioroids or bioshells in Indonesia, and advanced human genetic modification is limited to the political elite. Fifth Wave technology is rare and very expensive, and usually involves breaking the anti-TSA embargo on such goods.

See also East Timor, Maluku Selantan, and New Guinea.