Decker's Drakia...
It is 2002 and the former Supreme Autocrat of Drakia Laverne Decker has passed after over fifty years of ruling the Empire of the dragon. His nurses and most trusted inner circle of staying beside his bed as he called out for his late son's one final time before his eyes closed forever upon the mortal world. The genial tyrant who had slowly and meticulously torn down the foundations of Societism in the nation of its birth, had gone to whatever awaits us all at the end of stay on this Earth. Leaving behind a legacy that would be felt for all of humankind in the centuries to come the bonded labor system that had forged Drakia had been torn out from its roots.
Yet for many of Africa and the Middle East's native population it was small consolation. Their population having been decimated over the fifty years of Decker's Population Management. From secret sterilizations masqueraded as common vaccinations to increased workloads to outright engineered famines, from Province to Princely State. One after another their population would decline in cold, meticulously manner who's full scope would be impossible to realize until decades later. When they had discovered that they had become the minority in the lands of their ancestors birth, the gaps caused by the loss of bonded laborers having long since replaced by automation and freed white laborers. Descended from the European bondsman taken from across Spain, Russia and Rhomania, taking up vital careers that many of the "first citizens" had scene as beneath them.
While the native bonded population of Drakia had slowly declined the free white's sky rocketed. Not only from those of Slavic or Iberian descent who's children were emancipated or even gaining their own freedom but by the added incentives of the Decker Era. Additional benefits, tax deductions, free land, potential state sponsored vacations and other such perks, when coupled with the slight increased difficulty in gaining contraceptives lead to a steady population boom. By 1961 the common White Drakian household numbered four to five children on average, something that would stay consistent well into the 2000, until declining into a 1.5 average growth rate by the 2020.
Yet the effects of Decker's Population Management would be felt across Drakia. The steadily increasing attrition rate of bonded labor through a combination of increased labor demands and drug dosages. Mixed with not only the lowered replacement rate of bonded labor but also the growing adoption of automation. Saw the White Citizenry of Drakia being increasingly freed up from the need to keep the bonded in line, combined with their own growing population. Not only meant that the Dragon's empire would not only avoid stagnation and remain competitive with the rival Alliance for Democracy but even stay ahead in certain areas. As the white population of Drakia were now able to invest more of their individual man & brain power into other fields besides the military.
The Drakia of 2000 was the world leader in the fields of biomedicine and genetics. Making disturbing headway thanks to a combination of no longer being bound by an outdated and inefficient economic system, a lack of moral concern to live testing (both human and animal) and a willingness for the brute force approach. Being the first nation to effectively resurrect a species from extinction in 1996 with the Tasmanian Tiger. Something that made headlines across the globe with even Situationist China grudgingly complimenting the Drakian Scientific Community for its success. With many individuals actually heading to Drakia for medical treatments be it in the form of bio printed hearts or crispr based gene therapy. Even if there is some controversy over the new genetically engineered Drakensis generation.
Yet unknown to many there was a far darker side to the Drakian's field of expertise. Known only to a small vital few, the Dragon had sought far more horrifying uses of its mastery of the biological arts. Deep beneath the waters the waters of the Congo Lake, hid a scientific facility that housed a collection of biological horrors. From artificial parasitic fungus, neural implants that could override ones free will, genetically engineered monstrosities, bio computers made from the brain matter of human embryos and all the other potential horrors of biogenetics imprisoned deep beneath the water, never to see the light of day... for now. (Imagine dead space, systemshock, resident evil and the Evil Within thrown into a blender.)
Though what was most shocking at least to the public eye was not just the thawing of relations between the Societist and Democratic blocks in later decades but rather the fact Laverne Decker willing handed over power to his chosen successor (a man practically raised from birth for the job) in his final years. Effectively throwing out the window the tradition of a violent rise to power whenever a leader dies in Drakia. Practically the final nail in the coffin for the few remaining Societists figures in Drakia. A bloody metamorphosis has occurred in Drakia and now the Dragon may just be more dangerous than ever now that is no longer shackled by the past.
