"So that is it?" asked the Chairperson.
"That about sums it up. Once completed, we stand to make billions of golds a year," replied Director of Human Resources Apollo Lucitonis as he finished his presentation on the massive national project. The Chairperson wanted to hear it, alone, straight from him.
The model laid across on a desk of its own in the Director's room. The Board was entirely behind this project and it was up to Bustos to give the final stamp of approval. He had some reservations for litterally cutting his nation in half. It would not be the first time such a proposal came up, but had never made it pass The Board for their approval.
However, it was not surprising that it had this time around. The Allied States had opened their borders and it was only a matter of time when the proposal resurfaced. Especially since it has been Apollo's pet project for quite some time. A water canal, connection the two oceans that bordered the Allied States on the West and East. Avenues for transportation to and from one half of the nation and other obviously had to be address, one of the main reasons it had always failed to garner much approval. Apollo had taken care of that problem; MagLev rails.
Magnetic Leviataion rails that would bridge above the proposed canal and that was not just it. Once the canal was completed and the short rails were bulit, there would be an extension project, to increase the length of the MagLev rails across the Allied States. The whole project had four main goals.
1) A shorter alternative route between the two oceans.
-Generate revenue from tolls.
-Generate revenue from the excess hydropower generated from the Canal.
2) Development of maglev rails to keep the top and bottom halves conntected.
-Generate revenue from tolls.
-Power for the MagLev would come from the Canal's hydropower.
-Rails will eventually stretch from the northern border to the southern border.
3) International leverage to stop, hinder, or restrict trade of enemy nations.
4) In times of crisis or war, the Canal and the MagLev can be used to move supplies, equipment, and personnel quckly.
It would be the largest contruction project Taijitu has ever seen. The price tag was nearly 40 billion golds for the Canal and intial MagLev alone, with an estimate of 5 billion golds a year to complete the rest of the rail system. The Canal and initial MagLev would take ten years to build with the remaining rail taking an additional ten years, totalling nearly 100 billion golds in the twenty-year construction project. A majority of that money would come back from the tolls of each transportation system but also from taxes of all the jobs created in the process.
"Okay let's do it," said the Chairperson.
