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Novo Wagondia wrote:

I have a quick question for you all:
I recently read an article about military recruitment in the US, and which areas had higher rates of enlistment (The Atlantic South states exhibited the highest rates whereas the Northeast was lower than all other regions, to highlight the extremes).
Which states or regions of your nations show the greatest loyalty to the military, and have the highest rates of enlistment? If they are considered more patriotic or descendants of a higher military tradition than other areas of the country, why is this so?

During "The Terran Wars" (2020-2100): The Ivory Coast & Ghana are considered the most willing to volunteer into the Ocearan Army, while the Island Provinces and Madagascar are among the least. Tanzania had very little volunteer rates for until the 2040s as a direct result of the distaste for war brought about by the millions of tanzanians who died during the "Great African War" (What Oceara calls the War against the Orson Empire between 2020 and 2026 due to most of Oceara's military operations being located in Africa) and the mass conscription of their population

After Oceara started to expand into the stars (2100+): The Terran Provinces of Oceara would be among the most willing to the fight for the Ocearan Empire, only rivaled by the Core worlds. The Terrans, with the time passed since the horrific blunders of the Great African War the generations entering into the age of intergalactic expansion were more often than not born during or just before the much more successful Ocearan Military Campaigns (The Orson Reunification Wars & The Monarchist-Federation War) and as a direct result grew up in a period of rapid militarization and where military propaganda was most distributed in Ocearan History.

These Terrans built some of the best military academies in the entire Empires and formed the bulk of the Ocearan Officer corps in the early days of expansion before the sheer numbers involved with the populations off-earth made them more rare to see in comparison to volunteers from off-world. These academies have a reputation with turning out superior officers & troops to the rest of the Empire, Terran-trained commanders being considered more proficient than even those trained on Planet Oceara as war veterans would often teach at their academies while the other academies of the empire, due to their numeration would be often taught by-the-book strategies rather than develop new strategies based off the experiences of previous wars.

With the quality of volunteers from the Terran Provinces, the Ocearan Government decided to give the Provincial governments permission to develop their own propaganda to encourage people to at least volunteer during peacetime to receive training and would often leave loyal war veterans with long histories of successes in the field to be involved with the political processes there, often being voted in as Provincial Governors. The loyalty of these governors played a large part in the consistent adoption of conscription in the Terran provinces during wars, however this conscription was limited to those who have already been through the military academies and as such were either equivalent or more skilled than their volunteer counterparts across the empire.

Due to the fact the Island of Oceara is under direct Imperial Administration, it is has the least number of volunteers and conscripts, as Conscription was only ever adopted on the imperial level once during the Alexandrian War and little attention of the Imperial Government is brought directly to administering the island due to it's small size and lack of importance in this age.

The Issue of developing a government-mandated service to make sure the bulk of the population is prepared for military service in wartime is still being debated, although it is still largely being considered constitutional as the provincial governments can be granted permission to initiate conscription of their own populations at their own discretion.