Cathay Transient Workers Protocol

The Cathay Transient Workers Protocol is a series of secret agreements between the Democratic Republic of Daxia and a number of nations including but not limited to Cartadania, Stenza and Faneria. The protocol sets out terms and conditions under which the Daxian provide thousands of manual laborers for work in these nations. The majority of the workers are of Cronan extraction and of uncertain status under Daxia's Basic Law.

Cartadania
As Cartadania's population began shifting towards higher end careers, fueled by the elimination of baccalaureate education costs, Cartadania's Department of Labor recognized an impending shortage of labor in key industries set to go through rapid expansion in the coming decades. Much to the dismay of the Secretary of Humanity, in August 2008, the Secretary of Labor and Secretary of State began talks with the Daxian government to establish a worker's plan that allowed workers from Crona to work in Cartadania, where they formed the lowest rung of the industrial I/O. Primary areas of focus were agriculture, mining, certain divisions of the automotive industry, and buildout of the national rail system, which saw a massive uptick in productivity. Today, it is primarily the agriculture and mining industries that benefit from these workers as automotive and rail industry trend towards automation and degree-restricted careers

Daxia
In the wake of the conflicts in Crona termed as the the Deluge, populations numbering in the millions of people came under the direct control of the Daxian government. The destruction of industry and agriculture during conflicts led to a catastrophic collapse of local economies and a massive rise in unemployment. An analysis by the Ministry of Labor in 2009 estimated that there were around five million unemployed Cronans and at least twenty million underemployed or working only sporadically. A white paper suggested that supplying some of these unemployed individuals for work abroad would be most efficient and far cheaper than of trying to create enough local jobs. Instructions were given to commercial attaches posted at embassies to foster contacts with local and regional governments and offer to enter into accords to provide workers for labor intensive economic activity.

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