Antarctic State Military

The military is an integral part of the country's history, and to this date is very significant to its culture. Cyberia's military, collectively known as the Cyberian Military Forces, are a wholly voluntary service. In the context of employers, it is the largest association in the country, which is easily due to how deep the service is integrated into society. The service has its own news websites as well as its own news channel that keeps its citizens and personnel alike informed of progress, issues and other interesting topics.

Citizens are always near to home-country military presence, and oftentimes there are events and shows held to display advances in technologies both electronic and physical. Examples of such advances include caseless ammunition and vehicle-mounted and vehicle-charged railguns.

Though its population of military personnel dwarfs the civilian population, the military plays a significant if not the most important role in the provision of quality of life for its citizens. The citizens in turn provide able bodies for enlistment and economic stability and prosperity for the country as a whole. Enlistment is culturally regarded by many, but not all, to be the duty of every able citizen.

History
The origins of the CMF began as a covert military alliance between 20th century US and Soviet armed forces. This alliance only applied within the continent of Antarctica, as both superpowers were using the continent for its rich resources using civilian mine-workers.

Higher-ups of both Soviet and American militaries slowly but steadily felt the urge to keep all the resources for themselves. This eventually resulted in a bloody militant takeover in the early 2000's of all resource mines on the continent, much to the dismay of the mother countries.

This now disavowed separatist conglomerate held its ground against many counterattacks and scavenged anything and everything they could from the units they defeated. The mother countries then ceased their counterattacks in an effort to draw thin and wait out what remained of the detached conglomerate's rations and other such support. This however only served as an opening for the separatists to launch trade operations with outside countries, and thus turn a profit out of the Antarctic mines just as done before.

With these profits, this new military power began to grow and develop at an exponential rate into an entirely new sovereign nation that became known for its heavily defensive nature. This new nation officially called themselves, Cyberia.

Uniforms
The enlisted and NCO ranks can be seen wearing thick, rugged and insulating fatigues in dark blue digital camouflage, reminiscent of 21st century US Navy uniforms. Commissioned officers wear much the same camo, but on a fancier tailored battle dress complete with gold braid and gold shoulder stripes.

Armaments
Most units tend to be supplied with high capacity, high rate of fire firearms, even in public. 5.45×39mm is the most common cartridge chambered, for logistical reasons, as it can be seen standard in infantry automatic rifles such as the AK-107, as well as specially modified into rifles that do not come standard in the round. A popular example of the latter is the FAMAS specially chambered in 5.45×39mm and specifically manufactured that way with other modifications for the CMF, known to them under the name R3. Such a variant was not approved for manufacture by the French however. It is a common sight to spot a tank or other armored vehicle driving along a roadway, or one or more military aircraft flying overhead, for instance, the Ka-52.

Strategic Installation
CMF activity in its present state is majorly focused on defending its land from potential invaders, as well as extending its reach to and establishing bases at any and all strategic locations on the continent of Antarctica. Its current overall goal is to heavily fortify all of the shore and fix its weak points. This further necessitates the installation of more mining stations in order to fuel its expansion over its own claimed land.

Military Bases
Bases are a very important installation for the CMF, as it provides shelter, supply and service to personnel. All Cyberian military bases are built surrounding a very large nuclear fission reactor. Specifically, a fast breeder reactor. This reactor supplies energy to the base itself as well as the city that usually surround the bases. While fusion power is technically feasible, swapping to such a system has been deemed by the CMF as unimportant, citing the lack of documentation and innovation compared to the very well researched fission power systems.

Bases are ￼usually quite large, as they combine branches that other militaries keep separate, generally air force and army. Only coastal bases include naval activities.

Due to high elevations, many of the military runways are installed with EMALS aircraft catapult systems. Otherwise, runway lengths would need to increase a great deal, due to the thinner air requiring more lift and thus more speed for takeoff.

Continuous R&D
Another major focus is the continuous tinkering and adapting of new technologies, usually founded upon existing hardware and steadily expanded upon and/or modified again and again into new variants and possibly new standards. The city of Overcast is the most significant contributor to the CMF's R&D processes. Land and air vehicles play a critical part in the forces, arguably more critical than small arms, and is a recurring target in the research and development of new technologies. Cyberia has a propensity to accurately reverse-engineer existing designs, both hardware and software, and steadily improve upon them, which is especially true under the command of the current Director of Research & Development, Colonel Rikharthu Tavash.

Civil Integration
Military jobs titles extend into civil roles, as civil services such as law enforcement, emergency medical & fire response, and governmental agencies are all operated by the military itself and only employ its own personnel.

Government Integration
The majority of government offices require its agents to be currently serving in the Cyberian Military Forces. Depending on the sphere of influence a particular office has, it may require that only a certain rank of personnel be employed in that position. Government office holders are given a special branch of occupational codes to be identified under.

Emergency Civil Services
Emergency medical and fire response teams are also populated only by military personnel, as they are to be trained very similarly to military medics and corpsmen, but are almost exclusively deployed to afflicted civilians. These response teams are rarely armed.

Law Enforcement
Law enforcement is a subset of military police that deals largely with civilian affairs. There is a distinct understood difference between policemen and police officers. To become a policeman, a citizen must complete a basic training course which includes a written exam, with satisfactory or exceeding scores, then opt for enrollment in a police academy as a civilian law enforcer. Police officers are policemen who have risen through the ranks of the civilian police and hold authority over lesser-ranked units of multiple men. Enlisted policemen as well as officers often carry a handgun, taser and handcuffs/zipties as part of their standard loadout. They also wear blue uncamoflagued uniforms, in contrast to the military's digital camo. Except in times of emergency, civilian police and military police generally do not exercise authority crossed over one another; civilian police protect and serve civilians, while military police protect and patrol military bases where the majority of residents are not civilian.

Riot Control
Riot control, otherwise known as SWAT, and derogatorily known as "Attack Dogs", is seen as the middle ground between civilian police and military police. They are distinguished by their completely black uniforms in contrast to law enforcement's blue. They also wear ballistic vests, helmets with visors and occasionally carry clear shields on one forearm. A common stereotype against RC is that they "shoot first; ask questions later." In reality, RC is trained specifically to order targets down before taking more aggressive action, unless the target is in immediate likelihood of harming hisself, bystanders, or RC themselves. While they still largely operate within civilian populations, riot control is much more aggressive, as they are tasked with suppressing organized crime and rioting, as well as dealing with armed civilians who are marked for arrest. Riot control is best known for the carrying of 12 guage Saigas and KRISS Vectors, as well as the public operation of APCs such as the BTR and LAV, stripped of most of their secondary weaponry, given law enforcement paint jobs, sirens and lightbars. They are known to carry and use both lethal and less-than-lethal ammunition depending on escalation. This can be visibly differentiated by the vibrant color of magazine inserted. Even when public relations are calm, riot control can most often be found patrolling civilian airports and other such very important installations where civilians, inside and out.

Runway security riot control in particular are a special unit authorized to operate Tunguska anti-aircraft vehicles.