User:Nathan1123/Industrial proposal

Do not industrialise without moderator permission, industrialising counts as building railways, factories, mass shipbuilding or anything the mods deem to be industrialising. You will receive a strike. To industrialise you must receive permission from 2 mods and you should fit these requirements: Industralising takes time, the date you are approved for is only the begining, it is a decades long proccess of buildup. Britain, Burgundy, Belka, Rhineland, Prussia and any colonies they may hold can industrialise already. Everyone else:
 * 1) Have a region or your whole country being densely populated.
 * 2) Have an agricultural surplus in both yield and efficiency with explanations as to why your agriculture is good.
 * 3) Have deposits of natural resources such as coal, iron and wood with rivers also being useful.
 * 4) Extended technological contact with Europe. (not just any contact, technological contact there is a difference in that you basically need Europeans helping you)
 * 5) Law and order with no civil wars or anarchy.
 * 6) Preferably being a small nation in size and population in comparison to your neighbours.
 * Nation name:
 * What year you think you should start industralising:
 * Why you fit the requirements:
 * Signature of 2 moderators:
 * Nation: Arabia
 * Year: Late 1870s
 * Reasons:
 * Mesopotamia and Palestine are very densely populated, more so than OTL
 * The fertile crescent in the heart of the Middle East is the original homeland of farming and a huge source of agricultural civilizations for thousands of years. The Rashidun Caliphate began heavily investing in agricultural science in the 17th century, and is responsible for most of the agricultural practices and technology used by Swahili, Egypt, and a number of other Arab nations.
 * Wood is very plentiful across mesopotamia as the cedars of Lebanon. Iron mining in Iran produces 33 million tons of iron ore per year, and 35 million tons of procured iron. Roughly 10 million tons of steel are produced per year, as well as roughly 3 million tons of coal (with a total reserve of roughly 2 billion tons of coal). Other resources ammount to a total of 68 types of minerals and over 30 billion tons of reachable reserves (unreachable reserves for this time period are much greater).
 * The Middle East from the Abbasid Caliphate onward is very much tied to the cultural and technological trends of Europe, albeit slightly delayed. Damascus was among the most modern cities in the western world in the 1610s. There is direct support from France for industrialization. Support was given from Belka directly while they were in Civil War, and indirectly now through Egypt, which it is tied closely with. Burgundy and Brazil also support our technology in smaller ways.
 * But of course, Islam is a religion of peace! The nation is almost a single unit in its political identity under not only the House of Jaffar, but the parliamentary entity known as the Shay Al-Nass. All forms of sectarianism and radical religion have long since been extinct.
 * Well, southern parts of the nation (Oman, Yemen, and Hejaz) are more light population densities, espically compared to nations in East Africa and India, so there is that.
 * Note 1, resources: The mods already agreed with me that Arabia would have been attempting industrialization during the time it was NPC. Well, Arabia and Persia used to be one and the same during most of the period the NPC Arabia would have been going through its proto-industrialization phase. After Persia's independence, the lack of resources placed industrialization on hiatus. But now, the latest war with Persia placed them back into a Union with Arabia, and thus the proto-industrial phase can be completed. In other words, proto-industrializaiton has been going on for a long time, roughly since the 1810s, placed on hiatus from Persia's indepenedence, and now can be completed.
 * Note 2, motivation: The population of Arabia is rather large, like China, but by this point it is determined (as described in my posts) that added labor has reached its peak performance, and thus proven to be insufficent, especially now in competition with European companies in the same region. Furthermore, the limited coal in Lebanon established a single coal factory in Beirut, which demonstrated to the rest of the companies how much more perforcmance can be gained by industrialization.