Update: 2056
Peaceful Events
The Treaty of Baltimore overturned order in the Americas.
(See Military Events)
The CWOH Commonwealth decided to be proactive and purge the government of spies, setting the ones they did find (a smattering of informants for various American countries, notably Texas and the Atlantic Kingdom) on course for very public trials. Various navy drills around Hawaii have reinforced the message that CWOH is well prepared to defend against enemies both local and communist.
Atlantic Kingdom estates in de-Canadianized Canada have become productive.
(+1 Atlantic ASP)
Aware that the Treaty of United Americas had become all but defunct, Queen Victoria of the Atlantic Kingdom signed into a new alliance: the Vienna Pact with the Neo-European Union.
Texas created a truly dense network of defenses along the Dakota border with the Atlantic Kingdom. It bristles with AA emplacements.
The Confederation of United Archipelagos emphasized local industry to try and reduce dependence on international trade.
The Union of Patagonias research into factory automation paid off massively, though all the technology has led directly to huge layoffs.
(+2 Patagonian ASP, +2 points invested in Patagonian ASP growth, -Patagonian approval rating)
The USACS government tried to rescue its rather abysmal international reputation via the Bamako Conference, which mostly involved shepherding skeptical diplomats through childrens rallies and Sahara railroad lines, all the while pointing out places where atrocities were not occurring. Condemned as a farce in many American and European countries, the Conference nevertheless assuaged the one nation that really needed to be assuaged. The Balt Confederacy has reaffirmed its commitment to LIARS.
Many minor terrorist attacks occurred across USACS, while large units of the Kélen Toumanis UMAD troopers seem to be swirling around Cape Verde. In other random news, the USACS is now an even larger oil producer.
Consul Nico Romano kickstarted a dramatic year for the Neo-European Union with a speech announcing Roman advances in cloning, genetics, and human modification. Investigative journalism quickly uncovered program links with France and UK, and various minor exposés infuriated the religious, especially the Catholic Church, which was still smarting over the nationalization of its French assets. The Pope gave a number of speeches denouncing those who dared at tampering with God s finest creation, which led to protests and full on-riots from Dublin to Zagreb. But as the crisis escalated, it became clear that the Vatican was not the prime mover of the unrest
(See Military Events)
(-UK approval rating, -French approval rating, -Roman approval rating)
Roman elections gave Nico Romanos NFP-PRR a sweeping mandate, allowing the Consul a second term and almost wiping the old PRR out of the Senate.
The USACS withdrew from Sri Lanka and the Maldives, prompting new rounds of celebrations across India. Madras reasserted control over the islands and demobilized its conscript army.
(-42 Indian irregular divisions, +Indian approval rating)
The resolve of the Chinese Fourth Assembly of Military Talent finally cracked, as a good third of its members defected to sign the Treaty of Bangkok. Bangkok technically turned the Asia-Pacific War into a police action. The official government of the erstwhile Middle Kingdom was now the Proletarian Republic of China (PRC) rather than harried Republic of China (RC). Tibet, granted official independence, organized itself under the auspices of Indian Union observers, while Manchuria, North Korea, and parts of Shandong were ceded to Japan, a hugely populated South Chinese coastal strip was ceded to Siam, and parts of Xinjiang were ceded to Russia. Unfortunately, drawing all sorts of new lines on the map did not erase all resistance. The Japanese general named Proletarian Overlord of China found himself hard-pressed to stabilize his new state.
(-11 Republican Chinese divisions, -14 Republican Chinese irregular divisions, -7 Republican Chinese squadrons, -5 Republican Chinese groups, -1 Republican Chinese ASP, +Tibet, +Proletarian Republic of China)
(See Military Events)
Siam and the Iranian Umma engaged in a diplomatic dance. The former was paid handsomely, but handed over Borneo to the latter rather than to Java, as the Supreme Leader Khamenei claimed he had wanted. Meanwhile, a number of islands east of Java that Mojtaba Khamenei had thought included in the sale were not released at all, perhaps because the chain included Hindu Bali and Catholic Timor.
Japan worked at integrating its new prefectures of Manchuria and North Korea, establishing local Citizens Guards and systematizing analog transfer protocols for sensitive information. With the Proletarian Empire in control of local railroads, airwaves, and internet, the prefectures were cut off from the outside world, but whatever other policies were implemented did good things for the national economy.
(+1 Japanese ASP)
With the end of the Great Patriotic War (as the Asia-Pacific War was called inside Japan), the idea of an Imperial Proletarian nationhood above petty ethnic and religious differences became a common propaganda theme, second only to the notion of glorious work. Damage to the Home Islands is being cleared up, and if all goes well, the metropole should be back to prewar production levels in 2057.
(+Japanese approval rating)
Iran handed Sulawesi back to the Imperial Proletarian Emperor, who ordered the island purged of the Islamist collaborators.
The Siamese government started drawing up plans to develop rural areas, even while it continued whipping the populace into patriotic fervor.
(+Siamese approval rating)
Military Events
The Treaty of Baltimore, among other things, did quite a number to Brazil.
(See Spotlight)
(Brazil and South Africa merged into Atlantic Kingdom with stats modified, -7 Atlantic divisions, -6 Atlantic groups, -1 Atlantic ASP)
The Confederacy of United World Archipelagos, utterly determined to crush the Marxists that had fled the Guianas, intervened mightily, with over a dozen divisions and matching airpower. Stonewalled by the locals, plagued by informants, and unacclimated to the local geography, the most fearsome communist plague to yet grace South America was wiped out, victim to just the sort of near-unilateral action that had long undermined the Treaty of the United Americas.
(-2 Archipelagic divisions, -2 Archipelagic groups)
The new Atlantic Dominion of South Africa, bolstered by American troops, wiped out the last remnants of Zulu resistance.
(-2 Atlantic divisions)
President Gahiji claimed he heard God trumpet, declaring war on the corrupt Ethiopian monarchy. He wasnt the only one with that general idea; USACS cells took advantage of the distraction to launch revolutions in various cities and pledge direct allegiance to the Kélen Toumani. Unprepared for a pair of major threats, the Ethiopian military tried to deal with the communists first and lost Addis Abba, leaving the Negusa Nagast in Egyptian hands. A little thing like losing their emperor wasnt enough to make the Ethiopians breakthey simply crowned his eldest son. But by years end, most of the historical Axumite heartland was in Egyptian hands, where a vast relief package was slowly proving that the occupiers lived up to their propagandized status as providers of food, education, and equality. Meanwhile, most of the lands to the south owed loyalty to USACS, and the royalists were increasingly squeezed in the middle. Much of the land they still control is Somali and not particularly patriotic.
(-6 Egyptian Republic Janissary divisions, -6 Egyptian divisions, -7 Egyptian squadrons, -1 Egyptian group, -33 Ethiopian divisions, -15 Ethiopian squadrons, -16 Ethiopian groups, -Ethiopian approval rating, -3 Ethiopian ASP)
The various foreign agents in Europe (calling them communist had gone out of style) continued their barrage of terror attacks in the French Republic, even as it became clear they were also responsible for a great deal of the violence at the anti-cloning protests. The UK weathered its second storm, cracking down on its share of cloning dissenters in a matter of days, and the Roman Republic did almost likewise, mobilizing the Praetorian Guard against Balkan dissent and quenching rumors of revolt, but poor France, which had alternated between such highs and lows in recent years, finally tipped over the edge as leftist revolutionaries seized control of Iberia. Most of the Republics industry was concentrated in French-speaking lands, which was both impetus for uprising and damage control for the economy, but the bright side seems to be lost on President Briand, who is by now more hated than the recently deposed monarchy. Even further good news, the die-down of Parisian terror attacks, cannot quell talk of restoration.
(-10 French divisions, -5 French squadrons, -7 French groups, -French approval rating, -2 French ASP)
Per the Treaty of Bangkok, West Xinjiang was Russias reward for war against China, which somewhat upset the local Uyghur rebels whose desire for self-determination had been overlooked. When Moscows troopers moved to occupy the territory, they found a large Iranian army, which had violated Tibetan sovereignty in order to preemptively annex the more northerly Muslim land. The Shia had been invited; the Uyghurs having decided that the Supreme Leader was better than corrupt Russians. Perhaps not realizing the scope of the calamity, the Russian presidency ordered its soldiers to contest West Xinjiang, which the Supreme Leader of Iran quickly declared a violation of Iranian sovereignty. Under such pretext, the Iranians launched a general offensive, seizing Amu Darya bridges and pushing the front lines past vast territory in Central Asia. The Kazaks and other locals were neutral about the whole affair; the Russians had gone to great pains to bribe regional leadership, but not enough to get meaningful support against the victorious forces of the Umma. Shrazs secondary attack met its objectives equally wellIranians pushed through the Caucasus, crossed the Volga, seized Astrakhan, and linked up with allied armies on the other side of the Caspian.
(-7 Iranian divisions, -3 Iranian groups, -9 Russian divisions, -4 Russian irregular divisions, -7 Russian groups)
Siamese forces under Major General Poi Son defeated the Shan uprising in good order, and with only a minimum of massacres.
Much to their chagrin, the Japanese found that the Republic of China and the rump Fourth Assembly of Military Talent were not quite done fighting, Treaty of Bangkok or no Treaty of Bangkok. Bolstered by tacit cooperation with the eastern, Uyghurs who realized Siam and Japan had no love for them, the capitalist Chinese hung onto some positions on the Yellow River. In the south, they were less lucky. Siam, bolstered by the already legendary Pois Boys, crushed all mainland resistance below the Yangtze. At years end, the Fourth Assembly still exists, but areas across the free parts of the country are slipping out of control. Indeed, smelling the solemnity of victory, the Siamese PM is contemplating stepping down and letting a more peaceful leader handle the transition to a new era in East Asia.
(-4 Siamese divisions, -2 Siamese irregular divisions, -1 Siamese group, -1 Japanese division, -1 Japanese group, -4 Proletarian Chinese divisions, -6 Proletarian Chinese irregular divisions, -10 Republican Chinese divisions, -18 Republican Chinese irregular divisions, -8 Republican Chinese groups)
