The Returnee Crisis is a time bomb, slowly defusing
AP Kuressaare
The crisis in Loago and Cabaon that started over a year ago and brought the destruction of the "Virunian Family of Nations" (the reformed version of the old colonial empire) and has pushed about a million people out of Loago and Cabaon which might be the biggest human migration in the 21st century. The nearly all of them are white Loagans of Virunian, and a minority of them of Gunnish, Pelasgian or Engell ancestry.
Their main goals were to return to their homelands, especially Virumaa, but there were other programs of resettlement, targeting those white refugees, especially in Engellachia, but also Natal. Some of the Gunns decided to go to Port Stanley, while others have seen Pelasgia as their best change for a fresh start. Out of the Nethian refugees, Port Stanley and The Empire of Azraq absorbed many of them.
This huge population movement has brought over the year up to 750,000 people into Virumaa, though estimates go towards a million, pushing the country's population to 10 million and severely straining the infrastructure of the country. Some of the analysts have already stated that what saved the Corporatist regime by now was the fact that the majority of the returnees came in late spring, and have the whole summer and early autumn to try to set up their life before the long and cold Scanian winter reaches the country.
The huge population movement is a strain to the protectionist Virunian market and can be a boost, for many of the returnees as skilled, as they have worked in the administration and the industries of Loago but the government needs to know how to quickly adapt to this sudden wave of arrivals. But it can also represent the final nail in the coffin of the corporatist regime set up more than 60 years ago, if the government shows itself as ossified and stagnant, as a social and labour conflict will be brewing between the workers in the Corporations who know that the arrival of sudden new skilled employees means that there is now a tight competition for the job.
"It is clear by now that the New Economic Mechanism, organised by Koit Sokk, wasn't as much as a good will arrangement to let people set up private enterprises, but rather, in the general view of events, the leadership of the National People's Action might have observed that the wave of returnees might actually overwhelm them and they will not be able to integrate the new Virunians into the corporatised state system, hence they liberalised the regulations, letting them organise themselves and set up their own privately owned companies. It is a step forward that modernises the regime," stated Olev Sisask, political analysts for Panoraam.
The regime has started a series of infrastructure projects, from the electrification of the Polar Railway, linking Imavere to Vendra and the Canal linking Lakes Vissi and Jaala to the Ida Sea to the building of housing estates in Imavere, Raasiku and Kuressaare, with even an ecological project in the far north designed to reduce the shrinking of the taiga. Those are all done with the goal of integrating the returnees, as State Elder Koit Sokk has stated that "the return home of so many Virunians must not be seen in such an apocalyptic way, but rather we must now work all together, for we are given the chance to make the country great."
AP Kuressaare
The crisis in Loago and Cabaon that started over a year ago and brought the destruction of the "Virunian Family of Nations" (the reformed version of the old colonial empire) and has pushed about a million people out of Loago and Cabaon which might be the biggest human migration in the 21st century. The nearly all of them are white Loagans of Virunian, and a minority of them of Gunnish, Pelasgian or Engell ancestry.
Their main goals were to return to their homelands, especially Virumaa, but there were other programs of resettlement, targeting those white refugees, especially in Engellachia, but also Natal. Some of the Gunns decided to go to Port Stanley, while others have seen Pelasgia as their best change for a fresh start. Out of the Nethian refugees, Port Stanley and The Empire of Azraq absorbed many of them.
This huge population movement has brought over the year up to 750,000 people into Virumaa, though estimates go towards a million, pushing the country's population to 10 million and severely straining the infrastructure of the country. Some of the analysts have already stated that what saved the Corporatist regime by now was the fact that the majority of the returnees came in late spring, and have the whole summer and early autumn to try to set up their life before the long and cold Scanian winter reaches the country.
The huge population movement is a strain to the protectionist Virunian market and can be a boost, for many of the returnees as skilled, as they have worked in the administration and the industries of Loago but the government needs to know how to quickly adapt to this sudden wave of arrivals. But it can also represent the final nail in the coffin of the corporatist regime set up more than 60 years ago, if the government shows itself as ossified and stagnant, as a social and labour conflict will be brewing between the workers in the Corporations who know that the arrival of sudden new skilled employees means that there is now a tight competition for the job.
"It is clear by now that the New Economic Mechanism, organised by Koit Sokk, wasn't as much as a good will arrangement to let people set up private enterprises, but rather, in the general view of events, the leadership of the National People's Action might have observed that the wave of returnees might actually overwhelm them and they will not be able to integrate the new Virunians into the corporatised state system, hence they liberalised the regulations, letting them organise themselves and set up their own privately owned companies. It is a step forward that modernises the regime," stated Olev Sisask, political analysts for Panoraam.
The regime has started a series of infrastructure projects, from the electrification of the Polar Railway, linking Imavere to Vendra and the Canal linking Lakes Vissi and Jaala to the Ida Sea to the building of housing estates in Imavere, Raasiku and Kuressaare, with even an ecological project in the far north designed to reduce the shrinking of the taiga. Those are all done with the goal of integrating the returnees, as State Elder Koit Sokk has stated that "the return home of so many Virunians must not be seen in such an apocalyptic way, but rather we must now work all together, for we are given the chance to make the country great."