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The Insurgency of Positivania Positivania a peaceful nation Let us imagine an independent sovereign nation somewhere in the world. The liberal democratic government of this nation respects all the rules of due process and the people can live freely and peacefully under a law that treats all citizens equally. I will therefore call this country Positivania. Positivania is a modern state with an infrastructure that is very similar to most of the civilized countries and has a population of about ten million people. Positivania`s economy is relatively weak, except one region which is called “Minerich”, where a lot of mineral resources are located and which therefore has the strongest economy with the brightest future prosperities in the state. Minerich has a population of approximately one million people. But, since Positivania is interested in having as much prosperity as possible for all of its citizens, Minerich has to subsidise the poorer parts of the country with a substantial amount of money every year. This is and has never been a problem for a majority of the population of Minerich. Beginning of the Insurgency A small underclass minority of the population of Minerich, however, started opposing the subsidy in 1994. Instead of alleviating poverty of other regions they wanted to be more selfish and use the money to support only the residents of Minerich. These disruptive forces were not allowed to operate on the political level because the Constitution of Positivania forbids the foundation of a party that has the aim to split the country. Hence, the opponents of the subsidy founded a terrorist organisation in 1995, called the “Free Minerich Terrorists” (FMT). The FMT, having no more than some dozens of members at that time, started assassinating politicians and also attacking some civilians, who opposed the growth of the FMT. The aim of the activities was not primarily to eliminate those who were killed but to frighten the whole community of people, who were