While Mississippi’s active military is largely volunteer, many of the lower enlisted ranks were convicted of minor offenses and allowed to choose military service over exile. The military trains them up to a minimum standard, often beating sense into the more spoiled examples, and then tries to find them menial jobs on Earth where they are least likely to hurt anybody, including themselves. They are not considered an active part of the military, and are primarily sent on ancillary missions. Most end up serving in disaster relief, especially when storms break through the hurricane barriers and make landfall. Most make their inevitable return to civilian life after their terms run out, but some decide to stay on longer. And some of Mississippi’s best officers started their military career on that path before mustanging their way into the command or flag ranks over time.
Mississippi has a professional military as most nations measure it. Most of their equipment is primarily geared towards providing fast and responsive security for their various gaming districts on Earth and beyond. The majority of the senior enlisted and officers are well-paid volunteers who spend decades in service. The casinos encourage these career soldiers to leave after their second or third decade to avoid stagnation in the ranks, though the best of them often return after a decade or two in the civilian sector. This keeps the military small while providing them with a large pool of well-trained leaders capable of being rotated back into service at a moment’s notice. This proved invaluable when The War came upon us all, and they rapidly expanded to meet the new alien threat.
Mississippi prides itself as a safe place to live, to work, to visit, and to game. There is no “gambling” in Gaming State you understand, and all of their employees are trained and ready to help all visitors game to their hearts content at the best casinos on Earth and beyond. Part and parcel of that training is how to gracefully cut their guests off once they have reached their gaming limit. Each guest’s limit is calculated by the best gaming cybers upon arrival, to make certain that no guest pays more than they can afford based on their current financial status. It would never do to cause a guest to regret coming because they “lost” too much money in Mississippi. Revenues improve when a guest has fun and comes back again and again over the course of a lifetime, a fact that has greatly expanded as lifetimes have lengthened into the centuries.
The casino-led government of Mississippi leads a State with one of the highest standards of living in America. The people are friendly and masters of bleeding foreigners of all the money they can afford to lose. The State is peaceful and safe for visitors and locals alike. The reason for this is simple. The casinos do not believe in imprisoning those who break the peace or hurt others. Prisons cost money to maintain. It is much better to put such people to better use, or be rid of them altogether. Those convicted of minor offenses are granted the option of serving their terms in the Mississippi Defense Forces. Those who commit less minor crimes are required to spend their sentences in exile, where they can see how people outside Mississippi live. The worst dangers to peaceful society are executed after a scrupulously fair and swift trial.
America is not to blame for all that has happened in Afghanistan these last few weeks. That is casting the blame too far. Biden is not to blame. That is casting the blame too narrowly. The entire Biden administration is to blame. Their appointees and staff are in many cases the same people who ran foreign policy under the Obama-Biden administration. They oversaw the fall of Libya and Benghazi. They flew planeloads of cash to Iran. They enabled the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. This is not their first goat rodeo. This is not the first nation destabilized or destroyed on their watches. Now they have abandoned our own citizens and allies in Afghanistan. They should all be fired for cause. They should be impeached. They have betrayed our allies and us. They did not need to do this. They chose this path. Never Forget.

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