| From: | Tomer Brisker <brisker@******.CO.IL> |
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| Subject: | Israel V. 4 (hopefully the final version will be 6) |
| Date: | Tue, 3 Feb 1998 11:46:46 -0500 |
Israel (version 4 - Feburary 3, 1998)
Tomer "Nailer" Brisker - brisker@******.co.il
Ralfi "Zapper" Balli - aet1424@********.technion.ac.il
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(>) Well folks, I decided to compile a file for those of you who are
thinking about paying us a visit here in Israel, so enjoy! <disp. grin>
Also helped me with some of the information gathering and compiling is a
friend of mine, Zapper.
(>) Nailer
Israel
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Population: appx. 26 Million with SINs, about 1 million SINless.
Humans: 60%
Dwarves: 14%
Orks: 10%
Trolls: 5%
Elves: 9%
Others: 2%
(>) Has anyone else noticed the extremely high percentage of dwarfs in
Israel? 14%, and only 9% elves. In the UCAS it's more like 2% dwarfs and
13% elves.
(>) Steel
(>) Maybe it's like Tir Tairngire -- more people there are elves than
anywhere else, isn't it?
(>) Lander
(>) That's to do with elves immigrating to their "promised land", if you
ask me.
(>) The Man
(>) I think you have confused elves with pepole of the jewish religion.
(>) Zapper
(>) What's the difference, when it comes to reasons for emigrating? One
goes to Tir Tairngire because most of the people there are elves, the other
goes to Israel because most of the people there are Jews. However, that
still doesn't explain the high percentage of dwarfs.
(>) Mr. James
(>) What caused these %'s is that most of the People who immigrated to
Israel after the awakening from islamic countries that oppose the metas
were those who's "metaness" could not be discuised, all the elves had to do
was a small plastical surgery and they look human.
(>) Nailer
Area: roughly 130,000 square km., Divided into 4 areas:
Sinai- 60,000 Square km.
Jordan- 40,000 Square km.
20th Centuary Israel- 20,000 Square km.
Golan and South Lebanon- 10,000 Square km.
Capitol: Ha'Gush Ha'Mercazi (hebrew for the central metro, consisting of
the area from Tel-aviv to Jerusalem)
Major Citys: Ha'Gush Ha'Mercazi- 9,000,000;
Haifa Metro- 5,000,000;
Be'er Sheva Metro- 3,000,000;
Eilat- 2,000,000;
Rabat Amon- 1,000,000;
El Arish- 500,000.
Average Population density: 207/square kilometer, Much denser in the old
Israel, and much less in Sinai and Jordan.
% Literate: 90%
% Urban: 80%
Population Below Poverty Level: 17%
Unemployment Level: 9%
Persons of Corprate Affiliation: 0.0001%, these are the representatives of
various corps in Israel, as subsidery employees are not considered=
corporate.
Sales Tax: 15% (except Eilat)
Per Capita Income: 30,000¥
[GM info: Price index (calculated before street index): American items:
1.5, Europen items: 1, Israeli items: 0.75, Others: 1]
Religions:
Athiest: 30%
Jewish (Reformed): 30%
Jewish (Conservative): 10%
Jewish (Orthodox): 5%
Muslim: 10%
Christian: 10%
Others: 5%
Main Industies: Hi-Tech Weaponry, Hi-Tech Computers, Services, Agriculture
Hospitals: 273
Felonious Crime Rate: 12 per 1000 people per year.
Education:
High School Graduates: 63%
College Graduates: 37%
Advanced Studies Graduates: 17%
(note: college graduates also count as high school graduates and so on)
(>)Here is some more info for you:
Military ratings (1(worst)-10(best)): Infantry: 7
Airforce: 10
Navy: 6
Matrix: 8
Magic: 5
Magic: 5% have magic, of which: 60% are hermetic adepts,
30% are hermetic mages,
4% are shamnic adepts,
3% are physads
2% are other
1% are shamans
(>)Nailer
(>) Intersting to note that most of the hermetics are practitioners of
Kabalah (which means that they think that their magic is a gift from god),
and that means that their view of astral space is diffrent from that of new
age hermetics. (It has something to do with the Garden of Eden).
(>) Zapper
History:
In 2004 Libya unleashed a chemical weapons attack against Israel, in an
attemt to catch Israel by surprise and start a war. Luckly for Israel,
inteligance reports stated this might happend, so NBC masks and chemical
antidotes were given to the population and only 58 people died. This attack
has been seriously criticised by many countries, and Libya wes expelled
from the UN and many sanctions were put on it.
(>) Like Libya cared about that. They'd been boycotted by Western nations
for years by that time. Anyone remember the American bombing campaign of
1986, for example?
(>) Shigar
(>) No. Do you?
(>) Peter Pan
(>) Well, not first-hand, no...
(>) Shigar
(>) I heard that some European countries were considering to lift the=
boycott.
(>) Zapper
The Israelis responded with a nuclear strike that destroyed half of Libya's
cities, one day after the great New-York earthquake and Libya hasn't fought
Israel since. By that time Most countries were too busy dealing with their
own disasters (such as the great NY earthquake) and thus had not had the
time to deal with the Middle East, and also since by the time the Americans
recovered, a cease-fire has been reached, they couldn't do much. Later,
military historions complemented the perfect timing of the attack so that
noone would mind. In 2016 Prime Minister Chaim Schon was assassinated, and
the assassin was killed in violent confrontations.
During the Awakening, Israel was lightly affected, and has not suffered any
severe losses. Israel adapted to Goblinization reletivly easily, as
Israelies are used to have diffrent people with them, since Israel has
always been a country of mixed cultures. Only few magicians appeared,
mostly became hermetic casters. Srafim (6 armed flying reptiles) and
verious other Biblical creatures have apeared during the Awakening, but
have not created a major threat, and even helped people in some cases.
In 2033 the Alliance for Allah, a federation of islamic countries, open a
joined war against israel, with the purpose of re-conquering the holy land
and liberating the muslims therein. It becomes clear that peace will not be
possible. Due to this war, Israel conquers all of Lebanon, about 1/2 of
Jordan, all of Sinai, and more of the Golan Heights. In the Oslo 4
agreements, reached on 2035, all of the Palastinians were moved to northern
Lebanon, now New Palestine. During the same time, the Mosad terminates many
heads of terorist organization, a move that causes all of the terorist
organizations to unite into one, called the Lohamei Allah, arabic for
Wariors of Allah(God), based in New Palastine. The WOA is powered by Iran,
Syria, and verious Neo-Nazis and Antisematic groups from all over the
world. The WOA still exists in the 2050's, altough many attempts were made
to destroy it.
(>) No surprise they're still fighting Israel... First they spend three
quarters of a century trying to liberate the west bank of the river Jordan
from Israeli occupation, then when they're just about succeeded they're all
deported.
(>) Peter
(>) But don't forget that it was the Palastinians who decided to fight
Israel without any provocaion in the first place, and that decision that
got them deported.
(>) Zapper
Israel of the 2050's:
Today Israel still creates High-Tech weponry, and newer and improved
versions of verious older Israeli weapons, such as Uzi III SMG, Galil II
Assault Rifle, Desert Eagle III Pistol, and others. They also make excelent
drones and unmaned aircrafts, as well as improved aircrafts. The Israely
Airforce is considered one of the best in the world (Qualty-wise, not
Quantety-wise), as well as the Mosad (Israeli CIA). The IDF has 2 special
forces: Matrix and Magic, aka M&M, which are distributed amongst the other
forces. Matrix is responsible for country-wide Matrix securty.
(>) As well as decking into enemy county's Matrix systems and messing
things up.
(>) Nailer
Magic is responsible for magical assistance, and are scattred throughout
every unit, helping both in pre-combat, combat, and after combat.
(>) Groups from the M&M are occasionally sent to UCSA and CAS for advanced
training.
(>) Nailer
(>) Actually, the advenced training stuff is just to keep good political
relations between us and the UCAS and CAS. The REAL advenced training is
done in the high security facility in the Negev, and I talk from experience
when I say that the security there is so tight, that not even a fly can get
in unnoticed.
(>) Zapper
Politics:
As far as political ties go, Israel is allyed with UCSA, CAS, England, the
Saudi Caliphate, the Scandivaian Federation, and verious City-States
throughout the world. It's major enemies are Iran, Syria, Palastine, and
verious other City-States. Israel has a representative on the Security
board of the UN. As far as politics go, Israel is ruled by the only
democratic goverment in the middle east.
Israel uses a similar system to the Tirs when it comes to the megacorps.
(See Below) Also corps can make contracts with the government for better
terms, for example Fuchi made a contract with the government to provide it
with computers, and in exchange they have recived a tax deduction of 10%.
[GM Note: feel free to make up any others.]
Eilat is a tax free zone, which means there is no sales tax there.
All sorts of items that are legal in the UCAS are less legal here, some
even illigal.
[GM Note: Legalety Codes are 2 levels higher, if it takes it off the scale-
it's illigal.]
All magic users need to register with the IMA, Israeli Magic Association.
Locals are usually registered by their family as soon as the ability is
discovered, and outsiders need to register upon arrival. After the
registeration area at the entry point, everyone is astrally scaned and
those that are detected as magic users and have not registered are
automaticlly exiled from Israel for 3 years. If an arriving magic user has
a criminal record or no SIN, he is not allowed into Israel, and if such
mage is detected after the registration area, he is exiled for 5 years.
This is to prevent terorist mages from entering Israel.
(>) And that's if you're lucky, The first thing they do when they detect
you is to detain you for questioning, and if they don't like your answers
then it might be some time before you see the outside world again.
(>) Zapper
Matrix:
Israel has a closed matrix network, Which means that there are a limited
number of connection points between the Israeli matrix and the outside
matrix, all of them choke points with extremaly high securety.
(>) There IS black ICE at these choke points, that will most likely kill
anyone who tres to go through. Luckly for you, I maintain a link to the
outer matrix which isn't loaded with ICE. Only problem is you will have to
prove you are worthy of using it by finding it. Once you do, you will face
a very strong black ICE, which would most likely kill you unless I
personally give you the entry code. The code changes every 24 hours, so you
better hurry once you have it.
(>) Nailer
Restrictions on Megacorporate Activity:
Strictly speaking, megacorps cannot operate in Israel-only specially
created subsidiaries can. Not corporations in the legal sense, these
subsidiaries do not enjoy corporate protection from creditors and other
legal difficulties.
The Israeli government requiers the subsidiaries to issue megacorporate
shares, at a par value negotiated between the parent megacorp and the
subsidiaries at creation. the government then buys
5 percent of those shares at the negotiated value, assigning the remaining
shares to the individual tapped as the president/CEO of the subsidiary.
This individual must be a citizen of Israel or receive special dispensation
from the government. After completion of the share deal, the government
allows the firm to do buisness.
The subsidiary may channel any of its profits not earmarked for
reinvestment back to the parent megacorp (appropriate taxes withheld, of
course). The share value must reflect any further capitalization. If at any
time the parent megacorp wants to sell the subsidiary, or even as little as
10 percentof its assets, it must first obtain written approvel from the
government.
As a primary shareholder, the president of the subsidiary is held
personally responsible for any judgements leveled against "his" company.
The firm's creditors may legally approch the president to settle the
subsidiary's debts, and the president is legally liable for any criminal
activities committed by the subsidiary.
These regulations are designed to prohibit corporate executives from
avoiding personal responsibility and accountability by hiding behind the
legal construct of the corporation. The president of a megacorp subsidiary
operating in Israel is personally accountable for all actions of that
subsidiary, and the government can legaly seize all his property-including
all his shares in the subsidiary- if he steps out of line.
(>) Generally speaking it's working. The corps just don't play fast and
loose with the law like they do in UCAS and elsewhere.
(>) Nailer
(>) What about the extraterritoriality of multinational corporations?
(>) Ohad
(>) No such thing in Israel. Anyway ,the subsidiaries aren't
multinationals, they are Israeli corps that just happen to be affiliated
with a megacorp. The megacorp doesn't own them, not legally- the president
of the subsidiary owns it. Twisted but effective, isn't it?
(>) Nailer
Major Policlubs:
*SINs For The People- This policlub tries to get SINs for those who don't
have them, which results in the low percentage of SINless people in Israel.
(>) Shadowrunners pay attention here. If you can reasonably claim to be
Israeli (even if you're not) you can try and make use of these peoples'
services if you're in need of a SIN. Look the part and act the part and
you're most of the way there.
(>) Lois
(>) Might want to get a hebrew lingasoft as well.
(>) Nailer
(>) That's the only reason I'm not dead now. A SIN I got in Isreal stopped
an over eager Lone Star from beating me to death as an amusing diversion.
(>) Kristling (the Weird) Ravenwing
(>) But just remember the that no matter what, if the goverment dosn't want
you to get it you will most likly won't. <disp. grin>
(>) Shabak Guy
(>) True, so for that reason you'd better appear to be legitimate. Don't do
runs in or against the state of Israel before you apply for one of their
SINs, for example.
(>) Al Luring
(>) If you need any help obtaining a SIN, drop me a line and maybe I can
help you- I've got some influence in this policlub (I happend to be one of
their sponsors).
(>) Nailer
*Metahuman Rescue- This policlub tryes to rescue metahumans from nearby
islamic countries that don't like metahumans and bring them as refugees to
Israel. It is often confronted by the Arabs Go Home! policlub.
(>) This is a way for getting into Israel if you are metahuman- get the
Metahuman Rescue to get you out of an islamic country and into Israel, but
be sure to have a cover story for all the chrome. Also, if you need any
help here let me know, I contribute to these guys as well.
(>) Nailer
*Arabs Go Home!- This policlub tries to get all muslims out of Israel. It
is frequently confronted by the Metahuman Rescue and Equality For All
policlubs.
(>) I encourage you to do runs only against this policlub, not for it.
These guys are BAD.
(>) Nailer
*Equality For All- This policlub works for equality between all metaraces
and religions, and is supported by a large portion of the population. It is
often confronted by the Arabs Go Home! policlub.
(>) Contact me for runs against "Arabs Go Home!" sponsored by "Equality
For
All".
(>) Nailer
Adventure Ideas
* The runners are hired by the goverment/Mosad to terminate WOA leaders.
* The runners are hired by the opposition to overthrow the goverment.
* The runners are recruited by the IDF for special operations (deckers and
mages- for M&M)
* The runners are hired by the Mosad as special agents.
* The runners are hired by one of the policlubs for a mission.
Tomer Brisker
Adm, CinC of GSC
LtCmdr, Sci of the USS-Navigator-A (SFO)
LtCmdr, Sci of the USS-Greyhawk (ISF)
brisker@******.co.il
"Vaya Carenis Anendus!!!!!"
A wise man once said that peace is a dream.
Let's all be dreamers.
