India

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Indian Union
Government Type: Bi-Cameral Parliamentary Democracy Capital: New Delhi Leader: Uknown Population 956,778,000 Human: 78% Elf: 4% Dwarf: 5% Ork: 11% Troll: 1% Other: 1% Per Capita Income: 10¥ Estimated SINless: 30% Below Poverty Level: 25% Corporate Affiliation: 22% Education: Less Than Twelve Years: 43% High School Equivalency: 12% College Degrees: 26% Advanced Degrees: 18% Major Ethnic Groups Indo-Aryans: 72% Dravidian: 25% Mongolian & Other: 3% Major Languages Spoken Hindi: 60% English: 20% Major Religions Hindu: 84% Sunni islam: 11% None/Other/Unaffiliated: 5% Currency: Indian Rupee (INR) Exchange rate: 1 INR = 0.4¥ DocWagon/EuroMedia/Pala Health Coverage: Major Urban Centers only Guaranteed Response Time: 15 minutes

Contents 1 History 2 Politics 3 Geography 4 Economy 5 References 6 External Links

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Corporate Presence
Renraku Computer Systems in Madras (cd.78)

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Primary Source: Shadows of Asia, pp. 50-64 The first cases of VITAS occur in New Dehli (tt.104, sr3.24)
The Indian government controls the Sriharikota launch facility (yotc.19).
A nuclear exchange with Pakistan some time in the 2020's turned most of Kashmir into a wasteland (SotA 2064.15)
Vishakapatnam renowned for vicious pirates (cp.123)
Calcutta was almost destoyed in the 'teens thanks to VITAS and the fires that followed but is now the largest city in the Indian Union with 10 million citizens. It was rebuilt as a cutting edge, state of the art sprawl and although attempts were made at cleaning out the surrounding slums they were unsucessful (ssg.74).
Return of the Hindu caste system, with heavy cyberware implantation amongst the Kshatryias (warrior and ruler caste) and Munis (cleric subcaste) as a form of ascetic worship(ssg.75)

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