Update: 2055
Peaceful Events
Roads and farms received additional investment by CWOH, turning the nation into a major exporter of what was once Canadian grain and laying the groundwork for an economic spike.
The Atlantic Kingdom built an Arctic port at Kugluktuk with slave labor, but its chance at quick profitability was dashed.
The Atlantics initiated Operation Exodus, whereby most Canadians were drugged and dispersed through Queen Victoria’s older patrimony to work as serfs or slaves, their lands parceled up and turned into estates for the Queen’s military. Children under thirteen were ripped from their parents and handed off to middle and upper class Atlantic families to allow them proper upbringings. All this upheaval has essentially eliminated chance of coherent northern rebellion, but it has interfered considerably with economic development in Victoria’s new lands.
The Japanese sold their eastern Pacific islands to the Atlantic Kingdom, withdrawing the region’s few natives to the Home Islands in an odd echo of Queen Victoria’s Sioux City evacuation the year before.
The Texan economy is booming, thanks to ‘Bio-Fuel’ (but somewhat less thanks to Austin’s strange decision to finish what Queen Victoria started, leveling every town in the area annexed from the Atlantic Kingdom).
(+1 Texan ASP)
The people seem to really love El Jefe, who, by the way, apparently never had a different name.
(+Mexican approval rating)
The Confederacy of United World Archipelagos continued pouring money into the infrastructure of its newest member states, but the country seems to be reaching a carrying capacity of sorts. Growth is mostly based in international trade and is increasingly fragile.
The Patagonian army shuffled back to the Brazilian border to help prevent infiltration by communist guerrillas.
War fervor spiked in the USACS. According to official policy, two minutes out of every citizen’s day are devoted to hating Europeans. Mass conscription was instituted, and foreign diplomats in Bamako report that the new units seem almost as competent as professional soldiers.
(+40 USACS irregular divisions)
The Egyptian government poured vast amounts of money into the pro-environmental development of desert communities, making some discoveries about solar power, attire, and desert-friendly crops. In the words of President Gahiji, “God has given us a land of sharp contrast, one of great bounty and one of desolate waste. Perhaps it is time to these wastes and look for the gifts God has hidden for us.”
A new kind of war is fought in the shadows.
(See Spotlight)
(-UK approval rating, -French approval rating, -Balt approval rating, -7 Japanese irregular divisions, -Japanese approval rating, -1 Japanese ASP)
Spanish separatism has begun to rise. ‘Why is the Second Republic based in Paris?’ ask some demagogues. ‘Why should the old conquerors take precedence over us?’
(-French approval rating)
Japan withdrew its claims on the Russian Far East and Beringia in return for Moscow’s help against the Chinese. The continued revisions to Treaty of Helsinki have restored a measure of the oligarchs’ prestige, and indeed they seem spurred to new levels of activity, whipping up hate against Bejing, laying the groundwork to start restoring the economy, taking extreme air gap measures to internet virus-proof their financial sector, and offering some limited cultural concessions to the Central Asians to put a dampener on potential unrest.
(+Russian approval rating)
Rome and Israel negotiated a free trade agreement.
(See Military Events)
Inspired by the UK’s Cyber Renaissance, Consul Nico Romano declared a Roman Techo-Revolution and gave a lot of speeches about the need to be “open-minded to scientific breakthroughs” that “will increase the welfare,” but has not inaugurated any public programs to follow his words.
Rome began matching German border fortifications with their own, and even built some on the border with Romania.
The Germans withdrew their troops from Mongolia via the Trans-Siberian railroad, and their Balt and Ukranian allies followed along. Thus reinforced, the Germans shut down their military systems, greatly improved firewalls, and rebooted.
Israel’s internal crisis has decelerated, with some signs that the Lehi really don’t get along with the Islamists very well, and are willing to talk peace with Prime Minister Livni.
Iran, in possession of a huge percentage of the world’s oil reserves since its annexation of most Arabia, further expanded drilling and dug new pipelines. The states of the Neo-European Union are growing dependent on Iranian petrol; embargo at this point would do meaningful damage to their various economies.
(+1 Iranian ASP)
Despite many diplomatic tantrums and harsh words, the Iranian Umma and the Indian Union found their way to a negotiated peace. All Muslim land occupied by Iran in 2053, plus Socotra, would be handed to the Supreme Leader, but Madras would get a hefty subsidy for two years. Victory celebrations took place in both countries, louder in Iran because they fit with the established narrative of successful jihad.
(+Iranian approval rating)
The USACS failed to withdraw from Sri Lanka and the Maldives, in noncompliance with a secret accord that the Indians quickly made public.
The Siamese government managed to define the country’s ongoing electronic meltdown as a symptom of the Chinese. Given the circumstances, peace advocates have become increasingly rare.
(+Siamese approval rating)
China took a page from India’s book and began raising levies in a patriotic fervor.
(+50 Chinese irregular divisions)
The Japanese declared the Asia-Pacific War as the Great Patriotic War (of Chinander Capitalist Dog Aggression Against the Imperial Proletarian State and the Imperial Proletariat of the Second Japanese Empire of the Proletariat), apparently because the ill-defined thing was in dire need of more names. Work hours were doubled, chemically complicated rations helped with the patriotism, and endless plans for insane victory memorials were bandied about until the common Japanese was far more interested in how skyscrapers were supposed to hang upside down from the clouds than in the continuing Chinese resistance to their Proletarian Emperor, He Who Holds Up the World.
(+Japanese approval rating)
(See Military Events)
The Japanese transitioned their financial sector into a mixed system of isolated servers and hard copy backups, aimed at minimizing damage done by any Siam-style internet attack.
The Japanese economy, aided by patriotic fervor, is starting to recover from Chinese occupation.
(+1 Japanese ASP)
Military Events
Between them, Quebec and Patagonia sent thirty groups of ultra-modern warplanes to help Brazil rid itself of communist infestation. Swaths of rainforest where bombed into firewood, but the Marxists were forced to abandon their camps and flee northward over the border into the unstable Guianas, where they count on international law to prevent TUA pursuit. Terrorist attacks in Brazil have dropped off significantly.
(-1 Brazilian division)
The USACS ceded Zululand to South Africa, handing of the problem of the stubborn rebels to the whites. Eager for a big victory, the Afrikaners brought their professional military to bear and mostly wiped out the resistance. As their forces were evicted from towns and cities, important Zulu leaders raved about an Egyptian betrayal.
(-3 South African divisions, -2 South African groups)
Some unknown group has launched a wave of rocket attacks at the USACS cities of Casablanca, Bamako, and Tunis.
The Ethiopian Emperor was caught in a palace coup and replaced by a new Negusa Nagast more amenable to the landed interests. It sure seems the landed interests need protecting; communist insurgents are appearing everywhere, and some areas have already slipped out of capitalist control.
(-5 Ethiopian divisions , -Ethiopian approval rating)
The Chinese sent a considerable force to reoccupy Mongolia, which was accomplished easily, as German resistance was rather non-existent. Meanwhile, the Uyghurs revolted and forced Beijing’s administrators from Xinjiang, while the free Tibetans raided eastwards.
(-1 Chinese division)
The Japanese launched their Jinan-Seoul Campaign at the same time the Russians pushed down into Manchuria and their Far East, almost catching in a vise the Chinese professionals and levies that rushed northwards. The Chinese retreated in good order, even though the Russians and the Japanese used every form of biological and chemical weapon they could get their hands on, but Beijing itself fell behind the front lines. Returning an old favor, the Japanese began setting up a puppet Proletarian Republic of China, and Shandong Province was only saved by events at sea.
(-4 Japanese divisions, -2 Japanese groups, -2 Russian divisions, -2 Russian groups, -2 Chinese divisions, -4 Chinese irregular divisions, -6 Chinese groups, -1 Chinese ASP)
With the Chinese abruptly reemphasizing warfare in the north, the Siamese found themselves in control of the southern battlespace and rather hindered by their defensive mentality. The First Army in Fuzhou abandoned the city and broke northwards in a pillaging rampage until they reached the Shanghai urban area, which was captured despite heavy casualties from attrition, but the only other real action of the front was the destruction of the fairly limited Chinese army based in Hanoi, which was harassed until it disintegrated.
(-8 Siamese divisions, -1 Siamese group, -4 Chinese divisions, -6 Chinese irregular divisions, -2 Chinese groups, -1 Chinese ASP)
The Shan continued to fight Siamese federal forces, but their rebellion couldn’t do much more damage beyond harassment.
(-1Siamese division)
Japanese military communication became extensively analogue, which prevented complete disaster on high seas, as ships that were not quickly switched over grew a habit of running into mines. As it was, the Chinese navy got in a few good blows while the Imperial Proletarian forces were in disarray, but with Siam in the picture, the numbers game had shifted, and the Bane of the Xiao Riben no longer had the forces necessary to cut off supply lines from the Home Islands to the mainland.
(-2 Chinese squadrons, -4 Japanese squadrons)
As the Home Islands experienced social turmoil, various Japanese-held Pacific islands that had not been sold to the AK threw out their small garrisons and pledged allegiance to the Confederation of United World Archipelagos.
A Japanese fleet with heavy air support forced the Chinese at Taiwan to surrender, but when this reclamation fleet tried to do the same at Sulawesi, it bumped into an Iranian dispatchment that had already seized the island. Jumpy trigger fingers led to a limited clash, but commanders on both sides quickly decided they had better things to do than hammer each other to pieces without direct orders. Meanwhile, with Iranian protection and advisement, the runaway Siamese state of Java (which had been spared the digital plague) was set up as independent.
(-1 Iranian squadron, +Java, -1 Japanese squadron)
I had send orders from uni and left the USB stick there. So there is a chance one of the assistants sold my orders to the highest bidder.
