General Development Plan (Premysloides Dynasty)

General Development Plan
In 1622, Empress Irene, after long discussions and cooperation with her closest advisors and members of government, publicly presented "General Development Plan".

Empress Irene did not want to start some kind of great reforms and reformation of Empire, but rather implement technological, economical and social development plan - General Development Plan - that will improve conditions within Empire.

Greatest achievement of General Development Plan was railway system of Roman Empire, which expanded from 1,250 miles in 1600 to 82,000 miles in 1650.

General Development Plan is evaluated as most ambitious, largest and most successful project in history of Roman Empire. General Development Plan building took 36 years of massive full-scale building, reconstructions and full-work and cost 47 billion Hp, or 1.3 billion Hp yearly ($2.35 trillion/$65.27 billion per year)

Development Provinces
General Development Plan was not strict plan that will improve every each province by same rate. Empress and Imperial Government divided Empire in to "Development Plan Provinces".

Every each province had different needs, problems and gaps that had to be overcome, or at least decreased. Empress and Government understood that they can not implement same rate of development, industrialization and infrastructure building and improving to all provinces and so they initiated deep survey, based on statistic data and surveys.[[File:G-D-P.png|thumb|left|General Development Plan provinces (Purple => Central Development Province, Brown => Caucasus Development Plan, Yellow => Revitalization and Industrialization Plan of Russia, Black => Development Plan of Africa, Red => South Arabian Development Sector, Bright Green => Middle East Development and Infrastructure Plan, Blue => Northern Sector of Development and Infrastructure, Green/Blue => Persian Development Sector) It was nine different provinces with different needs and problems. These provinces did not copied historical, civilian or military provinces and in many places, they overlap or crossed. These provinces were:
 * link=https://althistory.fandom.com/wiki/File:G-D-P.png]]Government commission evaluated:
 * GDP per capita
 * Literacy rate
 * Tax revenues
 * Budget expenditures
 * Crime rate
 * Unemployment rate
 * Industrial production rate
 * Economy by sectors
 * Birth rate
 * Death rate
 * Public opinion
 * Provincial governors reports


 * Central Development Province
 * Richest and most developed provinces of Greece, Macedonia, Balkan, Dalmatia, Thracia, Bulgaria and Asia Minor.
 * Implementing new technologies
 * Building subway systems in Constantinople, Thessaloniky, Smyrna, Trieste and Athens
 * Telephone communication network
 * Introduce electronic technologies (early computers) in to local administrative
 * Building railway infrastructure
 * Building "Central Railway" -> Trieste -Rijeka - Zadar - Sibenik - Split - Podgorica - Skopje - Thessaloniky - Kavala - Alexandropolis - Constantinople - Nicomedia - Ancyra - Caesaria - Adana - Iskanderun
 * Building "Serbian Railway" -> Subotica - Novi Sad - Beograd - Kragujevac - Nis - Mitrovice - Pristina - Prizren
 * Building "Greater Greece Railway" -> Drac - Ioánnina - Karditsa - Lamia - Athens - Corinth - Argos - Tripoli - Sparti - Kalamata
 * Building "South Eastern Balkan Railway" -> Skopje - Sofie - Plovdiv - Sliven - Burgas
 * Building "North Eastern Balkan Railway" -> Skopje - Sofie - Vraca - Pleven - Craiova - Bucharest - Brašov - Kluž
 * Building "Western Balkan Railway" -> Trieste - Lublan - Zagreb - Banja Luka - Sarajevo with connections to Podgorica and Kragujevac
 * Building "Transcarpathian Railway" -> Beograd - Temešvár - Arad - Oradea - Baia Mare - Mukachevo - Kolomyja - Suceava - Bacau - Galati - Buzau - Pitesti - Craiova - Beograd
 * Building "Northern Railway" -> Constantinople - Sinope - Samsun - Trabizond - Batumi
 * Building "Western Railway" -> Constantinople - Bursa -Smyrna - Antalya
 * Building "South-Eastern Railway" -> Antalya - Mersin - Adana - Iskanderun
 * Expanding ports
 * Increase Port of Constantinople capacity from 500,000 t per year to 750,000 t per year
 * Increase Port of Smyrna capacity from 200,000 t per year to 450,000 t per year
 * Increase Port of Athens capacity from 245,000 t per year to 425,000 t per year
 * Increase Port of Limassol capacity from 175,000 t per year to 250,000 t per year
 * Increase Port of Constanta capacity from 57,000 t per year to 150,000 t per year
 * Increase Port of Trieste capacity from 200,000 t per year to 400,000 t per year
 * Improving infastructure connections
 * Building highway system copying railway infrastructure (above)
 * Expanding universities and civilian research institutes
 * Opening new faculties of University of Constantinople (Faculty of Electronics, Faculty of Technical Engineering, Faculty of Astrophysical Research and Faculty of Genetics and Advanced Biology)
 * Opening Imperial Academy of Science sections in Athens, Corinth, Ancyra, Antalya, Skopje, Split, Trieste, Bucharest, Temešvár, Constanta, Sinope, Trabizond and Iskanderun
 * Caucasus Development Plan
 * Caucasian states of Abkhazia, Georgia, Armenia, Ossetia and Azeria.
 * Resources development
 * Surveys for oil and gas resources near Caspian Sea
 * Industrialization
 * Building oil refineries and oil industry
 * Building tire production facilities
 * Building plastic industry
 * Expanding ports
 * Increase Port of Baku capacity from 200,000 t per year to 450,000 t per year
 * Increase Port of Batumi capacity from 45,000 t per year to 90,000 t per year
 * Increase Port of Sukhumi capacity from 75,000 t per year to 150,000 t per year
 * Diversification
 * Development of tourist infrastructure
 * Support for high-value agricultural goods (wine, sugar plantations)
 * Infrastructure
 * "Transcaucasian Railway-Highway" -> Sukhumi - Kutaisi - Tskhinvali - Tbilisi - Karakilisa - Jerevan - Vararakn - Shirvan - Baku
 * "Western Railway-Highway" -> Sukhumi - Poti - Batumi
 * "Eastern Railway-Highway" -> Derbent - Baku - Shirvan - Lenkoran
 * Revitalization and Industrialization Plan of Russia
 * South Arabian Development Sector
 * Middle East Development and Infrastructure Plan
 * Northern Sector of Development and Infrastructure
 * Polish-Baltic Development Area
 * Persian Development Territory.