Botswana (1983: Doomsday)

Botswana is a state in southern africa that is surounded by primarily lifeless desert and chaotic nation and city states.It is bordered to the far south by south africa,to the north west by angola and to the east the remenants of zimbabwae.It avoided total destruction in the war and is now one of the largest states (Land Wise) in south africa.

Pre Doomsday
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Botswana

Doomsday
Botswana was not hit by nukes in doomsday but the swarm of refugees from south affrica overan the capital in a short spate of time removing the majority of the botswanan government with the exception of vice president Peter Mmusi who was vistiting the northern provinces at the time.

Aftermath
In the aftermath of doomsday the southern provinces were in chaos due to an influx of refugees from south affrica and the northern provinces were in a state of shock due to the news.The vice president ordered the military to shut out the southern provinces,This was due to the swarm of refugees coming in from south affrica and having a smaller area would allow the BDF to enforce botswanas borders without having to introduce full conscription although he did ask more people to volunteer to join.He also tasked them to restore order to the north and reintroduce central government.By late 1985 the northern provinces were secure and the south was comnpletely cut off.The military imposed martial law and rationing was instated to deal with the complete loss of imports.Electricity was cut off to all but the most vital of purposes and botswana cut itself off from the world.

Rebuilding
Despite the chaos in the south botswana was able to recover from the war far more quickly than its neighbors and by 1990 martial law had been lifted and rationing was relaxed.Mmusi ordered the military and the populace to begin rebuilding the infastructure that had once only existed in the south.New power plants were built to run on anything that burned and transport infastructure was rebuilt.With power restored and farming now set up Mmusi relaxed the rationing even furthur and allowed botswanan people to have electricity for the first time in nearly 10 years.

The Elections
In 1994 Mmusi anounced that he would be steping down as president and that botswana would return to being the parlimentary republic it had been before the war.To that end he dispatched the botswanan military to the south to recover the constitiution of the government.When they returned in 1995 they brought with them the constitution and news of other nations in south affrica,Setting up the electral system took most of 1995 and in december that year the first parlimentary elections in 12 years were held.However the results of presidential elections were inconclusive and Mmusi stayed on as president with the new parliment.Under the new constitution the parliment had the power to overturn Mmusi's decisions with a 2/3rds majority,ensuring that he would never become a dictator.

In the 1999 elections Mmusi decided not to stand as an MP at all and handed his position as head of the Botswana Democratic Party to the curent head of the military Lt General Ian Khama.Khama stood for presidency and won with the BDP under his 4 year term botswana became more seclusionist withrawing from the borders to control only administration zones 1,6 and 7 having withdrawn from zone 2 in the last year and the other zones following doomsday.Under his reign his atempts to withdraw back to only francistown and maun were blocked by the congress but his seclusionist efforts weren't suported by the general populace and in the 2003 elections he was replaced by Ian Mmusi (Not a relative of Peter Mmusi) of the Botswana National Front that advecated expansionist polices.

Expansionist Period
Under Ian Mmusi the botswanan army reocupied the zones lost under the previous government and began to move south into zones 5,3,4 and northern zone 9.The army atempted to restore order to the populace but was only marginaly sucsessful.Aware of other factions to the south of botswana he ordered the army to expand and introduced conscription in preperation for a war.However an uprising in southern botswana where the locals had been treated like scum ment that any further expansionist movements would have to wait.Despite the troubles in the south most botswanans had never had it so good and Mmusi's government were elected for a second term.

The south turned into a lawless warzone and the locals were slaughtered in thier hundreds,However a botswanan reporter snuck into the zones and wrote about the chaos in the indpendnent newspaper the Botswanan Times.The images of fellow botswanans being treated like dirt and the discovery of large organised groups of south affrican refugees resulted in massive anger at the government and even prompted secluded MP Festus Mogae who had spoken out aginst both seclusion and expansion to come out of hiding and form the Botswanan Unity Party that advocated a midle ground.With the release of the photos though a vote of no confidence in Mmusi was passed and Festus Mogae's unity party won the following elections in 2009.

Unity Period - Modern Day
Under Mogae's government the botswanan army was withdrawn from the southern areas to only the northern areas of the lower zones and Mogae ordered soldiers to begin searching the land surounding botswana,A move that will inevitably bring them into contact with other nation states.Mogae has also anounced that he wishes to begin construction of a canal that would link botswana with the sea although this will involve massive amounts of work and possible conflict with whatever remains in angola as one of the prospective plans would involve linking the okavango to the sea,A descision is scheduled to be made by mid april 2010.

Government
Botswana is a stable Parlimentary republic lead by a president who is both head of state and head of government as well as being commander in chief of the botswanan armed forces.Presidential and Parlimentary elections are seperate Thier are three main political partys in botwswana which can be devided into three categorys.

Expansionist
This group is headed by the Botswana National Front,Political partys in this group tend to belive that due to botswanas better survival they have a devine right to spread out into the south of botswana and the countrys surounding areas.These partys are normaly most popular in a seclusionist government and are opposed by them in every way.

Seclusionist
This group is headed by the Botswana Democratic Party,Political partys in this group tend to belive that botswana should build up its homeland to reduce poverty and restore people standered of living to at least as good as it was before the war and that they should shut themselves off from the world.

Unity
This group is headed by the Botswana Unity Party ,Political partys in this group tend to belive in a middle line between the seclusionist and Expansionist viewpoints.

Military
Botswana has a large armed forces devision that enforces law across the nation and acts to protect its borders.It remains around its pre war strength of 12,000 with a small airforce consisting of british BAC Strikemasters and cargo aircraft as well as an army that includes a mechanised devision and several tanks.

Economy
Botswana is self suficant with electricity supplied by several power plants in the north.Food is provided by farming plants and animals,Botswana also has around 5 factories that are used to produce military equipment and utilities.Botswana has its own curency,The botswanan dollar.

Religion
Protostant christianity is the primary religion in botswana and it is overseen by the archbishop of francistown.There is only one cathedral in botswana but most towns have a church.Islam is also poular in the west of botswana with some vilages having a mosque.

Media
Botswana has several radio and T.V stations as well as three national papers.The botswanan government funds a media corperation,the botswanan news agency or BNA which has a TV station and two radio stations.The TV channel BN1 (Botswanan News One) primarily broadcasts news and TV debates,The BN1's radio equivilant radio station BR1 (Botswanan Radio One) broadcasts the same things as its TV partner but the other chanal BR2 broadcasts music and comedy shows.

The other broadcaster in botswana is the independent botswanan media corperation or BMC,It operates two TV sations which focus on entertainment and news as well as a radio station that focuses on music,The BMC also owns the national newspaper the Botswanan Times.The other two newspapers are independent but both have a similar theme.

Sport
There are only two large sports in botswana which are rugby union which has seen a massive uprising in popularity mainly due to its endorcement by Peter Mmusi and the fact that it was the first sport to have a national competition reinstated,Most towns and cities have a stadium and there is a large sports arena in francistown that is used to host the finals of the competition.The other popular sport in botswana is football which takes place in the time when rugby union is not on,Football teams also tend to use the same stadiums as rugby ones and both sports have a large publicity base

Foreign Afairs
Due to most of its governments being seclusionist botswana has not yet established relations with most of its neighbers but it is aware of them and the Leauge of nations.It is likely that now they are under a pro relation government they will formalized relations with thier neighbors and apply to join the LON.