StockNES

I appreciate everyone's patience as I slowly continue updating while finishing off other projects and obligations in RL. I do apologize for badly missing my originally intended deadline of about a week ago, but the update is in progress and will be posted before the end of this month. As a consolation prize everyone can (maybe?) be happy to know I put off some of the update to read up on war-simulation material (which I came across thanks to SymphonyD) which gave me some ideas which I'm hoping to employ if not in this update hopefully in the next one.

You got me excited.

Sorry to multi-bump, just wanted to say I'm very impressed. Great work Somehow this whole NES escaped my radar.

I live in hope that one day I'll know what happened to the French.

I need know what happens to this.

Update 2 – 2202​

The Daily Standard​

NORTH AMERICAN NEWS​

UC ENDS CIVIL WAR, BUT LOCATION OF WU LEADERSHIP STILL UNKNOWN
The Western Union’s high stakes negotiations failed to get them the bargained peace they wanted, as the UC prosecuted both a ground offensive and a covert war against their leadership this year, resulting in UC recapture of the western territories. The UC defection campaign, which included full amnesty for commanders and their soldiers who surrendered, though ineffective during the early months of the new year, became a defining program wherever UC troops were ordered to march – it seems though few leaders were proactively responding to UC entreaties of surrender, when UC divisions were spotted within fighting distance, WU army units collapsed into UC hands. Many commanders therefore evacuated the countryside to major cities so that they could ostensibly surrender after a siege (even if artificially brief) to preserve their honour. The bulk of the action was in fact seen by the UC air force, which kept up the aerial attacks to pressure western battle groups to surrender. The UC air force was also tasked with two other missions, keeping western gunships grounded, and controlling airspace as far as the borders of the Mormon State and Mississippi. The first mission was successful, as paratroopers were dropped to rob the west of their gunships, returning them to eastern stockpiles. The second mission however has unleashed new tensions which will continue to haunt North America – UC fighters spotted large convoys of supplies moving from both the Mormon State and Mississippi into the Western Union – these convoys were shot at, resulting in a military response from the Mormon State’s air force. Neither side escalated the affair further, though the UC reports they lost the convoys after that point anyway. The Mississippi convoys were not defended by friendly aircraft, and were totally destroyed. The Mississippi Baptists, with support from the Mormons, have protested diplomatically the destruction of non-military goods entering the WU, but have not raised war readiness in response to the attack. Beyond the UC occupation, defections and air campaign, countries in the region are all well aware of the UC covert campaign against the WU leadership – who are outlaws in the eyes of Washington, to be taken in dead or alive. Though only inconclusive evidence has been mustered to prove their position, UC press have loudly decried the harbouring of these fugitive leaders in the Mormon State and Mississippi, and most politically conscious people in all three states at this point assume those governments are helping keep the WU executive hidden.
(UC: +2 Infantry Divisions, +1 Artillery Division, +1 Gunship, +Stability, +4 Banked EP, +1 Banked IP)
(WU: -Existence)
(Mississippi: -2 EP destroyed en route to the WU)

CALIFORNIANS OUTLINE NEW SOCIAL PROGRAM
The Shepard government, after strenuous leftist and labour union pressure, has calmed the nation’s workers with the passing of several social reforms and the creation of a welfare system. The plan includes stricter safety requirements in hard industry, expanded compensation for families and victims of workplace accidents, a 10% increase in the minimum wage over the next few years, lower rates on loans for companies which borrow from the national bank if their working conditions are good, expanded social security for retirement and medical care, and finally a scholarship fund for students. The diverse package has greatly enhanced the credibility and the prestige of David Meyer’s radical left as the reforms greatly outstripped the expectations of the average Californian and the unions. Governor Shepard has even been criticized for giving in to labour power way too easily, and the conservatives within California, especially the pro-business lobbyists, are likely to now give her government a hard time come the next election. Realistically however, though wide-ranging, the reforms will take at least a decade to come fully into effect, and aren’t likely to disastrously impact the national budget.

RIOTS IN MISSISSIPPI AGAINST INEQUALITY
Following the very public destruction of substantial government property headed off to the rebel Western Union, and allegations that the wealthy executives of that now defunct country are being harboured by the Baptist government, the people of Mississippi’s major cities started a chain of riots this year, claiming the government has failed to use its treasury for the good of the common folk. Rioters looted retail areas in major cities while the police trying their best to mitigate the riots while minimizing injuries or deaths caused by police action.
(Mississippi: -Stability)

MEXICAN ELECTIONS
Mexico held nationwide elections this year, contested primarily by the three major parties of the country, the Liberals, the counter-modernist Greens, and the centre-right Mexican Prosperity Party. The results of the election reduced the Liberal majority to a minority government, and after negotiations with the anti-war Green Party, which gained voters who were disaffected by the war with Venezuela, failed to coalesce a government, the Liberals found a compromise with the centre-right instead. The continuation of peaceful protests in Texas further reduced the ruling party’s credibility during the election, though their honest attempts at integration mitigated this perception on the left.

TEXANS FORM LOCAL PARTY, BUT ISSUES REMAIN
With cautious but supportive gestures from the federal government during this Mexican election year, the indigenous demonstrators in Texas have been recognized and new programs have been introduced to try and increase the number of Texans in local government and administration. Though partially successful, very few Texans actually qualify for the government positions, as many of them have kept to native jobs such as ranch management or local labour services. Local Mexican administrators therefore came under criticism for some new hirings which displaced better educated Mexicans for indigenous Texans – and even more pressing, the local government has refused to significantly increase the representation of Texans on the police forces of the region until serious efforts are made by the Texan people to demonstrate their cooperative intent. The year saw a few more public demonstrations, including with firearms, which were carefully handled by police, preventing any violent incidents this year. The main positive result of the year was the formation of a local Texan political party that advocates for reform instead of secession, though many of the complicated problems which caused the demonstrations last year remain, including and especially the widespread possession of often illegal firearms by indigenous Texans.

SOUTH AMERICAN NEWS​

SAO PAULO CIVIL WAR ENDS IN RED VICTORY
The communists of the Workers’ Federation of Sao Paulo have vanquished what remained of the white army, though at the unlucky cost of their entire armoured and mounted branches. The whites had been preparing for anti-tank warfare since mid-last year, mining major routes towards the urban centres of their territory while also setting up infantry ambushes in minor urban areas to spring upon enemy infantry, and harass the overall advance towards the expected target of Brasilia. The reds marched first with their cavalry and armoured divisions, incurring heavy losses, though there was little the north could do to stop their eventual advance to Brasilia, where both the red and white armoured divisions were wiped out in the last major battle of the war. The reds spent the rest of the campaign cleaning up the country, encircling or forcing the surrender of confused white soldiers, who have been reincorporated into the red army. It’s a new day in Sao Paulo; the industrialized proletarian federation will have to decide what to do with former white officers and their soldiers, as well as any remaining aristocrats or collaborators with the defunct Kingdom of Sao Paulo.
(WFSP: -1 Cavalry Division, -1 Armoured Division, +3 captured Infantry Divisions, +1 captured enemy Artillery Division, +1 Army Grade, +5 Banked IP)
(KSP: -Existence)

LA PLATA ANNEXES RIO GRANDE
The first foreign policy initiative of the Marshal Romano was the invasion of Rio Grande do Sul, the breakaway state which gained its independence from the stipulations of the treaty corporate La Plata signed with monarchist Sao Paulo – both regimes which have been toppled in the past two years. La Plata mobilized and invaded the small military governed state after a revolt in the capital by radical leftists, who barricaded the streets and refused to clear when ordered by the military. Romano declared his solidarity with the protesters, and within two months the La Platan armed forces had taken over the small country. After vehement protests by the Gaucho Republic, and alarming concern voiced from Peru, the La Platan government declared to all of South America that Rio Grande had always been a province of La Plata, and its corporate-leaning military dictatorship would be replaced by benevolent communist rule under the oversight of the local revolting leftists. The invasion itself was swift, the small Rio Grande forces being overwhelmed by La Platan aerial attacks, and their army surrounded by a larger La Platan force.
(La Plata: -1 Infantry Division, -1 Artillery Division)
(Rio Grande: -Existence)

EUROPEAN NEWS​

SWEDISH-ENGLISH TRADE AGREEMENT
Completing the finishing touches from last year’s negotiations, and despite the democratic-technocratic divide among Europe’s powers over the French Civil War, England and Sweden have concluded a naval trade power agreement this year. Both powers have agreed that the Baltic should be the protected zone of the Swedes, the Atlantic that of the English, and the North Sea the joint sphere of both powers – in effect a promise of both Sweden and England to keep their navies outside of their respective backyards. The terms instead allow unrestricted passage of economic vessels, which receive protection by the relevant oceanic power as laid out above with equal force as if it were their own national’s vessels.

SECOND DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS
The democratic nations of the north Atlantic and Europe have again convened in Berlin for the Second Democratic Congress. The delegations of England, the Celtic Union, Italy and the Republic of Germany again discussed the possibility of a pan-democratic military alliance, as well as their mutual security interests with special respect to the crisis in France. The Underground of France, the United Commons, and California were present as observers. In light of the outbreak of war in France, the conference’s conclusions were not open to the public, however most speculate that a broad military alliance will be far off, even if cooperation will continue among these states.

GERMAN COMPUTER SCIENCE TAKES OFF
The Republic of Germany has created the Dresden Information Technology Research Organization, a large government controlled and funded laboratory dedicated to the development of computing and information systems technology. The fancy organization has provided lucrative jobs for specialists in the field, and both students, professors and private sector experts have applied, filling the organization with talent. The DITRO has already partnered with major German industries to improve efficiency through the application of IT and computerized labour, which the government believes is the first step before widespread use by the public. The labs are even being learnt about by students in secondary school, where the government has introduced compulsory computing and IT classes as part of the curriculum.

SPECIAL: FRENCH CIVIL WAR​

MASSIVE THREE-WAY INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION ESCALATES WAR IN FRANCE
Five separate countries in Europe have all formally entered the French Civil War on their various preferred sides, radically increasing the ferocity and devastation of the war. On the side of the liberal Underground, both the English and German militaries directly entered into combat operations in the first couple months of the new year, while the Lombards declared war in the first month of spring in support of technocratic ARON; simultaneously, and to the surprise of Europe, the generals of the French military regime have proclaimed a new counter-modernist government, and acquired the direct military help of both Catalonia and Spain. The English and German expeditionary forces more than tripled the size of the Underground’s available manpower, as well as equipped them with the most advance air force in Europe – which spent the first half of the year fighting an almost equally large French air force, before the full effect of the Lombard intervention was felt along the Rhone river valley. There the technocrats caught the French from behind, which would have forced the retreat of many divisions from the northern front fighting (primarily) combined English, German and Underground forces, had the Catalonians and Spanish not intervened as well, slowing the Lombard advance up the Rhone valley and towards ARON’s holdings. The end of the year saw liberal and technocratic victories slowly advance the occupation by the united front against the regime through central France. Outside of direct intervention, Bavaria has increased its war readiness and publicly upheld support for ARON, while some liberal European nations as well as the belligerents have provided funding to their preferred factions.
(Underground: -1 Cavalry Division, +Army Grade)
(England: -1 Infantry Division, -1 Artillery Division)
(Germany: -1 Fighter Squadron)
(France: -1 Infantry Division, -1 Cavalry Division, -1 Artillery Division, -1 Fighter Division, +Army Grade, +Air Force Grade)
(Catalonia: -1 Infantry Division, +Army Grade)
(Spain: +Army Grade)
(ARON: +Stability)
(Lombardy: -1 Infantry Division)

PARIS CAPTURED BY UNDERGROUND AND ARON
Both the Underground and ARON placed the highest premium on the capture of Paris, each moving decisively in the city’s direction. Neither side coordinated their occupations nor was an agreement about the city’s division made, resulting in an enormous amount of confusion, leading to cracks in the apparent alliance between the two factions. Though the French military made a slight effort to defend the city, the overwhelming Underground forces encouraged their retreat to the larger front with the rebels rather than the precarious corridor to the city. Most of the city and the corridor between it and the French army was occupied by the Underground; aerial survey by fighters, combined with continuous bombing of French military targets made the ground advance relatively easy, as tens of thousands of soldiers occupied the most populous parts of the city, quickly securing supply lines for relief of the city’s food crisis. ARON conducted a similar operation, but without an air force or as sizeable an army; they were mostly only able to occupy the outskirts of Paris in the east. Over the course of the year, the war still raging south of Paris, dozens of violent incidents took place between supporters of ARON and the Underground. Several incidents involved one side attempting to send relief aid to the other side’s occupied territories, while on other occasions partisans who believed they resided under the wrong rebel group took to violent actions themselves, officers and soldiers of the victimized faction then retaliating against the other with force. Both ARON and the Underground have had to make strenuous efforts to stop outright skirmishes, and after each incident public assurances of cooperation were always issued, but the tensions in Paris are very unlikely to disappear without concerted effort, and if they trigger a larger incident, it could derail the shaky alliance.
(Underground: -1 Infantry Division)
(France: -1 Infantry Division)

FRENCH GENERALS PROCLAIM NEW COUNTER-MODERNIST GOVERNMENT
The assassination of the supreme commander has left a major power gap in the French military government; his death may have even proved useful to the generals who took over, as they received exactly the opening they needed to change their ideological and political orientation. To the shock and surprise of Europe, the general staff of France proclaimed the abandonment of nationalism, and instead now claim that their only goal is to return to a time before the supreme commander and the civil war – to create a stable and traditionally minded French society along counter-modernist lines, inspired by their Iberian allies. The new governing council, during the same proclamation, also publicly announced a military alliance with Spain and Catalonia, as well as the promise to free the Basque nation as a counter-modernist state after the war. This change of tone, which reverberated through the state press loyal to the regime, has much increased the appeal of government victory among the public, especially with the support of longstanding counter-modernist states to the south.
(France: +++Stability)

LOOTING AND GANGSTERISM RUN RAMPANT
To compound the escalating civil war, gangs and mobs have overtaken many municipalities behind the lines of the belligerents, as well as within still contested areas of the front. Criminals who had existed even before the war have taken the war as an opportunity to acquire weapons and defend their municipalities as small gangster-states, and these militias have heightened the food shortage with their raiding and disruption of civilian activity behind and between the borders of the conflict. The huge amount of confusion presently fogging the war made it difficult to realize what was happening in these towns and villages, and unfortunately German air drops of non-perishable goods into these settlements were quickly taken by the gangs, strengthening their power in the territories held by and surrounding the Underground.
(Underground: -Stability)

AFRICAN NEWS​

ALGERIAN NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL PROJECT
The government of Algeria has taken economic growth into their own hands this year, planning a comprehensive multi-part economic project intended to specialize the Algerian economy in textile production. The plan involves expanding and mechanizing dye and cotton production, as well as investing in government run textile and clothes factories. Though many countries already produce all of these raw materials and final goods, the Algerian government hopes to out produce them, which may require reducing wages and benefits to workers in these new factories to compete internationally.

PAN-AFRICAN CONFERENCE HELD IN CONGO
In the beautiful city of Kinshasa-Brazzaville, the delegates arriving for the Pan-African Conference were greeted by dancers and cultural festivities organized by the President for the occasion. Delegations from Congo, Algeria, Burkina Faso, Zambia and South Africa were present, which made for a divided and diverse crew of diplomats. While general pleasantries about increasing trade and improving relations were all agreed, the specific proposals offered by Congo, such as a central African bank, some form of “anti-imperial/European” military defence, and the idea of a common African currency were rejected by the end of the conference. The countries of Burkina Faso and Zambia both offered the idea of an ideological pact around military rule, which of course came in direct conflict with the monarchism of Algeria, and the liberalism of South Africa. Most countries that were invited declined to attend, several publicly mocking the idea of “African-ness” itself, especially in light of the hostilities among states across the continent.

CONGOLESE EXTRACTION PROJECT
The government of Congo has begun expanding mining operations, building rail, and building new hospitals in the villages which supply the labour for the aforementioned two projects – all as part of a national program of mineral extraction, particularly of gold, diamonds and tin, which are hoped to start earning the Congo government some money for other national projects into the future.

ASIAN AND PACIFIC NEWS​

NEW SKYSCRAPERS BEING BUILT IN ARAB SULTANATES
A series of new skyscrapers are being built across the Arab Sultanates’ major cities, housing huge new corporate spaces for office workers; the buildings are being sold to major companies within the Sultanates to help boost that country’s services sector, with special attention to the financial industry there which is becoming central to the Indian Ocean’s economic ecosystem. The new buildings are filling up fast because the country’s middle class outstrips the country’s need for managers of the country’s consumer products industry.

PAN-INDIAN CONFERENCE HELD IN HYDERABAD
Representatives from the intelligentsia of Hyderabad, Maharashtra, as well as anonymous delegates from Odisha and the Ganges, gathered in Chennai to discuss the possibility of forming a united lobbying force to work towards the integration of their respective countries, with the aim of a pan-Indian state. The conference was a smashing success by all accounts in the free presses of Hyderabad and Maharashtra. The delegates concluded a manifesto of their intent, and proposed to create unified lobbies for their goals in their respective states – though not to contest elections as political parties, in the hope that existing politicians may incorporate the lobbyist’s aims into their program instead.

PAN-INDIAN DEMONSTRATIONS DISPERSED BY POLICE IN ODISHA
Calling on the government of Odisha to consider reforming the government in line with India’s other major liberal states, demonstrators were told immediately to desist from their protest in Odisha’s capital, where the police used harsh anti-riot tactics against the largely peaceful demonstration – resulting in multiple deaths and a few wounded among the demonstrators. The police were highly successful in quelling the demonstrations, however with simultaneous demonstrators working in Hyderabad, forcing pan-Indian supporters into hiding may only push the problem off into the future rather than resolve it.

GANGES UNVEILS FIVE YEAR PLAN
The communists in the Ganges have finally unveiled their first five year plan since their liberation from Pakistan, which will oversee the electrification of much of the country in conjunction with an energy expansion modeled after their spiritual neighbours in China. The plan is meant to finally bring concrete gains to the people and the villages of the Ganges, which has for so long been economically behind the standards of the rest of the world’s most developed countries.

BACK PAGE​

California has completed its eastern Nevada mining and metallurgy facilities, which have increased the country’s income of raw materials, and were completed with significantly reduced number of fatalities due to the new labour reforms.

Fearing the possibility of an English refusal to allow California to attend the Democratic Conference in Berlin this year due to a new agreement between California and Bavaria, California paid for its own independent expedition to Europe, using its own ships, which journeyed through the Panama Canal and docked in Hamburg’s newly expanded harbour. The experience has improved California’s open ocean naval knowledge.
(California: +Navy Grade)

Naval specialists from Mexico and air force specialists from California have been exchanged as part of a comprehensive treaty of friendship between those two states. The agreement also entailed non-aggression, access to the Panama Canal, a reduced tariff, and a Californian investment of capital in Mexico’s industrial centres.

Restructuring has taken place in the western territories of the UC, where older eastern clades have come to rebuild, such as Saeder-Krupp, Koch, Ares, Madison-Hamilton-Jay, and AmerIndian. Furthermore new clades have also been re-established by rural communities who supported the clades that formed the Western Union before their unpopular secession.

A telecommunications network has been built in Mississippi, the first of its kind for the rural and conservative country.

Investments in air force training are finally paying off for Mississippi, which has high hopes of building its own air force for national defence.
(Mississippi: +Air Force Grade)

The Mormon State has also advanced the national skill and combat effectiveness of the air force, after undertaking experimental training operations to increase readiness after the UC attack on their supply convoys.
(Mormon State: +Air Force Grade)

Riots took place in Venezuela over the last reparations payment to the United Commons, which police overcame only with brutal use of force – the government has reasserted the promise to restore democracy when stability returns.

Venezuela has initiated two new projects, the expansion of the port of Maracaibo, plus the construction of new oil refineries along the countries coastal metropolises to develop locally extracted oil.

Brazilian small arms and personnel weaponry industries have received a shot of government money; the weapons are asserted to be at the disposal of the military in the end, which means the government is both paying for the factories and then buying the product – the business elites in Sao Francisco have vocalized hope that after the initial investment, the factories will go up for sale to them for private exports to other countries.

The English Unity informational campaign continues to gain momentum among the federation’s constituent states.

Elections have taken place among the English Trade Federation’s constituent states; conservatives winning in England, Normandy, Brittany and Portugal, liberals forming government in Holland, Calais and Andalusia.

The English government has directly invested in Russian agricultural goods, expecting the investment to help foster exports from Russia of such goods to the ETF at favourable rates.

Sweden completed its Lapland mines this year, which have been hooked up by the local cargo marine to the country’s industrial centres for further employment of copper and gold resources.

Germany’s Hamburg Naval Base has been completed, as the nation moves towards a grander navy and a larger harbour for foreign trade.
(Germany: +Navy Grade)

Czechia has completed its national rail expansion, giving the country, in conjunction with its telecommunications networks, one of the densest economic infrastructures in the world.

Mandatory military service has been passed in Czechia, where the Czech Royal National Defence Initiative now trains all public school students for the first year after post-secondary in basic arms training, first aid, and some guerilla warfare. For now it’s a bit of a pilot project, but several years of funding may improve the efficacy of recruits going into Czechia’s army.

The first batch of Bavaria’s Salzburg Academy officers are now entering the military, improving the skill of the army in this time of European tension.
(Bavaria: +Army Grade)

Lombardy’s investments in military colleges across the country have strengthened confidence among the militarist elements of Lombard society in technocratic governance – a new College of Maritime Warfare has even opened up in Genoa this year. The strong military response to the crisis in France has also done wonders to improve the legitimacy of the regime.
(Lombardy: +Stability)

Kiev and Russia in a show of friendship run low-cost army drills together – they are a force to be reckoned with.

Botswana’s government has begun investing in national highways with the aim of improving continental trade across its sparsely populated country. The highways should be largely complete by the end of next year.

Green Skies Company in South Africa has completed a large batch of energy efficient coastal wind farms.

A new naval coast guard has been created to defend Australia’s waters and protect their merchants from piracy.
(Australia: +Navy Grade)

Australia’s government has decided to focus on new renewable energy sources, finding plenty of open space for solar complexes in the outback.

Modernist Monthly​

PRAGUE THEATRE SCENE
Contrary to the militarization which much of the modern world seems to spend state revenue on, the counter-modernist Czechian monarchy has built new theatres and invested in artistic programs, attracting a very bizarre cosmopolitan crowd to the theatre scene in Prague. Combining local talent with Bavarian, German and Hungarian artists, who either aren’t publicly funded or aren’t fully free to perform their art without ideological intervention on behalf of the neighbouring governments. The Czech government has been rather tolerant of this incredibly foreign and diverse crowd, which frequently bring in tropes and motifs of their respective homelands in combination with local cultural ideas – and we should hope on behalf of modernity and culture that the government refrains from intervening in this bright spot of the fine arts in Europe.

The Financier​

GROWTH

MARKET REPORTS​

EUROPEAN MARKET
Potential Lenders
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SUB-SAHARAN MARKET
Potential Lenders
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Potential Borrowers
Congo: 2 EP

Story Bonuses​

Congo has big ambitions for a big continent. (+5 IP)

California has a feisty and combative left-wing. (+1 EP)

Talibah Amrani, has endowed us with a wonderful summary of Algeria’s political-geographic makeup. (+5 IP)

The United Commons of America still boasts the most revolutionary democracy in the world. (+5 IP)

The constituent states of the English Trade Federation are equal members of a harmonious union – or so the London will have you believe. (+5 IP)

There are some diligent statisticians in Czechia nowadays. (+1 EP)

Mexico’s parliamentary debates a free and fair, including even radical libertarians and the Christian Union. (+Stability)

And hell is what Lombardy gave the French. (+5 IP)

The reds of the Workers' Federation of Sao Paulo can now truly celebrate their charter of freedoms. (+1 EP)

OOC​

Ahem, so um, apologies for that ridiculously long wait. I can assure everyone playing or watching this NES that it will not die in-between updates – if this NES ends for any reason it’ll end on an update, so that I don’t waste this NES’s players’ time writing orders to never see anything realized of them.

Anyway, how about we resume a decent schedule, and place the next order deadline at Wednesday evening the 24th of this month. Due to the long period since the previous update, I will be dropping players who are unresponsive by Sunday this weekend and taking over their diplomacy so that the NES runs smoothly.

This update more than any other is especially prone to stats errors, so feel entirely free to voice anything you think is odd.

@<nuke>:
Yes you do need to continuous some amount of money on intelligence annually to reap the benefits of your agency.

@TaylorFlame:
I’d like to know when elections take place, what kind of electoral system your country has, and what the term limits are.

I’ve reduced the IP story bonus by a half, it was rather too much before – may even still be a bit big actually.

World Map:

The fight for France continues. For liberalism! Democracy!

São Paulo is finally at peace, with the definitive victory of the worker's forces over the monarchist rabble. The Worker's Council has declared an amnesty for monarchist soldiers up to the rank of sergeant. Higher ranking officers will be under arrest under their case is considered favourably by a special unit of the Counter-Revolutionary Activities Police (CRAP).

An new project was also announced by the First Engineer from the Council to rebuild and overhaul damaged infrastructure, as well as to subsidise the transition of the monarchist industrial system to collectivisation or cooperativism.

To Zambia and Burkina Faso: As we share common views on how a proper government should be structured, and common interests in defending ourselves from imperialists and improving the lives of our people, I suggest that we should form a trilateral defensive pact, and a trade union, to further exchange of goods and commerce between our peoples, and to increase the security of our glorious African nations.

To Algeria: I believe that we have much to gain from mutual trade and commerce. You have vast supplies of oil, wheareas we have resources of gold, dimonds and tin. I believe that we would both benifit from trade of these resources.


To South Africa: We also have a lot to gain from the establishment of mutual trading ties. We offer our tin, in exchange for your coal. Rise Africa!

Excellent update Stockholme. I continue to thoroughly enjoy this NES.

To Mississippi,
From the United Commons,

Enough with the antagonism and clumsy espionage. The United Commons is so tired of conflict and violence. And your people are tired of it also.

Hand over your WU government puppets, stop sending saboteurs and subversionists to the commons, and pledge to normalize relations. Or else.

To: La Plata
From: Workers' Federation of Sao Paulo

As both our countries share the ideal of communism, and given that we are direct neighbours, it would cause us great satisfaction if we could come closer.

To such an end, we propose to you a military and economic alliance, to provide mutual aid in the event of foreign attacks and to promote the flow of goods and services across the border, stimulating the growth of both states.

This is our proposal:

Treaty of (X) said:

Let it be known to the world that henceforth and for as long as this treaty remains valid, La Plata and the Workers' Federation of Sao Paulo agree


1. To provide each other aid, either economically or militarily, should any third party threaten the security of one of the signing parts;

2. That the current state of peace is the most desirable for both countries and so that neither signing party will take arms against each other or against any law-abiding citizens of either country;

3. That neither country shall harbor enemies of the other state;

4. To cooperate in developing new military technology and tactics in all fields, and so to
temporally tranfer high-ranking officials and instructors to train and instruct allied forces;

5. That there shall be no restriction to the importation of goods from either party by the other party unless mutually agreed;

6. To further cooperate economically, culturally and scientifically in any joint ventures which they may partake in the future.

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The lands of the former Brazilian country are considered by us as our direct area of &#8203;&#8203;influence. This newly installed communist regime in Brazilian lands goes totally against our interests.

And this 'possible alliance' will be seen as a direct threat to our security and way of life. We ask that La Plata consider its next moves. The current regime of São Paulo is seen by us as illegitimate, therefore it would be inappropriate to sign any agreement with such government, especially a military one.

From California
To the United Commons
We very much regret to have to inform the United Commons that we heavily disapprove of your actions against the Mormon state (with whom we have a treaty). We do not desire to act on any behalf but will be forced to if your military performs any more unlawful violations of the Mormon State's territorial integrity.



To the Mormon State
Although we do not support your actions on the behalf of the WU, California fully disapproves of UC intervention on your territory and is ready to provide any needed assistance in case of repeated violation of your borders.

Golden1Knight said:

The lands of the former Brazilian country are considered by us as our direct area of &#8203;&#8203;influence. This newly installed communist regime in Brazilian lands goes totally against our interests.

And this 'possible alliance' will be seen as a direct threat to our security and way of life. We ask that La Plata consider its next moves. The current regime of São Paulo is seen by us as illegitimate, therefore it would be inappropriate to sign any agreement with such government, especially a military one.

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We would like to point out to Brazil that we have been around for seven years, fighting to gain our right to exist. The Brazilian effort at trying to assert some sort of control or influence over us is at best laughable.

Cadellon said:

From California
To the United Commons
We very much regret to have to inform the United Commons that we heavily disapprove of your actions against the Mormon state (with whom we have a treaty). We do not desire to act on any behalf but will be forced to if your military performs any more unlawful violations of the Mormon State's territorial integrity.

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To California
From the United Commons

To clarify, the UC has never "violated Mormon State territorial integrity". The opposite is true however- as evidenced by the secretive military convoys intercepted by the UC airforce.

This aside, we would ask that California step in to arbitrate the current disagreements between the state of Mississippi and the UC. Specifically we would like them to stop harboring and funding secessionists and saboteurs. If they do that, the UC would like to normalize relations and potentially begin trading with our western partners.

Joining as La Plata.

JoanK said:

Treaty of Montevideo
Let it be known to the world that henceforth and for as long as this treaty remains valid, La Plata and the Workers' Federation of Sao Paulo agree

1. To provide each other aid, either economically or militarily, should any third party threaten the security of one of the signing parts;

2. That the current state of peace is the most desirable for both countries and so that neither signing party will take arms against each other or against any law-abiding citizens of either country;

3. That neither country shall harbor enemies of the other state;

4. To cooperate in developing new military technology and tactics in all fields, and so to temporally tranfer high-ranking officials and instructors to train and instruct allied forces;

5. That there shall be no restriction to the importation of goods from either party by the other party unless mutually agreed;

6. To further cooperate economically, culturally and scientifically in any joint ventures which they may partake in the future.

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- Signed,

Comrade Marshall Ferdinand Romano