Live wargame in little old NZ.
"Farmers, shopkeepers, police officers and a mayor have volunteered to play "bad guys" in a large-scale realistic war game.
The military exercise, involving 2200 personnel from 10 countries including crack US Marines, is being played out in South Canterbury towns, ports, and farms.
Backroom staff at the New Zealand Defence Force have spent months concocting Exercise Southern Katipo 2013 – a scenario where the lower half of the South Island is a made-up Pacific nation called Mainlandia.
After 29 members of the 'Mainlandia Defence Force' were killed in a supposed 'training accident' in 2010, ethnic tension has erupted between the imagined 'Bekaran' and 'Alpirian' regions.
Peace talks failed and now a New Zealand-led task force has been sent to the region, arriving by air and sea, in Timaru – the centre of the Bekara region.
The soldiers, sailors, and airmen have been told to restore law and order."
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They'd better watch out for the sheep – they're more dangerous than they look!
Cheers,
Aaron