stSBNES6 "Survival and Victory"

stSBNES6 “Survival and Victory”

OVERVIEW

I am very excited to be starting this NES. I must first of all thank everyone who had helped me along with putting it together. First of all Das, for putting together the amazing althistory that we will be using. Then Stalin006, who helped me with the map and with parts of the rules. JosefStalinator also helped with much of the rules and gave me good ideas. Finally Feanor put together the original tech tree which I edited to use for this NES. Thank you to all of you for your help.

RULES

Basics

Countries

You can play as any of the countries in the stats or you may start a rebel movement. I must warn you, rebel movements will not have an easy time in this NES as I tend to be critical of them. On the other hand, I am also critical of countries who fight the rebels, and so if you are careful it is possible to succeed.

Ruler

The person most directly in charge of the country. I tend to hold my players up to a high standard and they play not the country as a whole but the faction within the country that controls the government. This means that you are not omnipotent and cannot do whatever you want with your country. You do what a government can do and use only that to solve the problems that arise.

Government

This is the type of government that your country has and the general political leanings of the government. Governments can change, and they most likely will, but they must do so in a realistic manner. You cannot just say that the government changes, you must give a realistic reason and process for it to change. I will also expect you to act as your government, and Fascist governments allying with Social Democracies will not go unpunished.

Size

This is a stat that represents the stat of your country. The idea originally belongs to Das. The sizes go from Tiny (1) to Huge (5). The number in parentheses serves as a multiplier for the amount of eco points you must spend to increase the level of Infrastructure, Education, or Living Standards. This means that it is 5 times harder for a Huge country to increase any of those stats than it is for a Tiny country.

Military

The Military is divided into Army, Navy, and Air Force. Within each one there will be a number of specific units. It is best to use the units in combination with other units for maximum effectiveness.

Army

The Army is divided into infantry units and mobile units. Infantry units include basic infantry, marines, paratroopers, and mountaineers (mountaineers represent not only mountain units, but also units that specialize in other sorts of environments, such as winter, desert, etc.). Mobile units include cavalry, tanks, motorized and mechanized infantry. All units are divided into divisions.

To increase an army a government spends money to recruit people and arm them with weapons. Infantry costs 1 eco/division. Any type of specialized infantry costs 2 eco/division as well as all mobile units.

Further, army units are the only units that have a training value. To the best of my knowledge all countries used regular troops in navies and air forces, and I do not want to further complicate the NES. There are four training values – Militia, Conscripts, Regulars, Elites. Militia are troops that serve only part time and are called into service only when the need arrives. They usually fight poorly but cost only ½ the price of Conscripts (so you get 2 divisions of infantry/eco or one division of specialized infantry/eco) Conscripts are soldiers who are called to serve their country for a specific amount of time, usually without much training or pay. They are the base units for most countries and are the units for which the cost was given above. Regular troops cost two times as much as Conscripts and are professional soldiers who dedicate their life to the army, and so have extensive training and experience. Finally Elite troops cost 3 times more than Conscripts and are the best units there are. These are professional troops who have the best training and the most experience of all other soldiers. They are very expensive to train when you are recruiting troops, and so most Elite troops are soldiers who have seen a lot of battles and have been trained in combat. All of these different trainings are denoted by a letter in parentheses that follows the division (e.g. Infantry Division (M) for an Infantry Division of Militia training)

Finally, when a new technology is researched and better equipment for infantry becomes available they can be upgraded to the higher level by paying 1 eco/division. Only infantry can be upgraded in this way, tank divisions and mechanized divisions have to be purchased anew since you cannot easily upgrade vehicles.

Navy

The navy is made up of capital ships, surface ships, and submarines. Capital ships are Carriers, Battleships, and Battle Cruisers. Surface ships include Heavy Cruisers, Light Cruisers, and Destroyers. Submarines are submarines. Capital ships cost 2 eco/ship, surface ships cost 1 eco/ship and submarines 1 eco/2 ships.

These units have no training and cannot be upgraded. You can scrap older designs if you want, but you will have to purchase new ships when new technologies are developed.

Air Force

The air force is divided into light planes and heavy planes. Light planes are interceptors, fighters, and close air support planes. Heavy planes are tactical bombers, strategic bombers, and naval bombers.

Again, these units have no training and cannot be upgrades. Light planes cost 1 wing/eco while heavy planes 1 wing/2 eco.

Economy

The economy is divided into four sectors of the economy. The sectors are agriculture, industry, services, and commerce.

Agriculture

Agriculture denotes the income a country receives from its agriculture and its raw materials. Having a good agriculture is absolutely imperative to having a good industry.

Industry

Industry is the measure of the industrial capacity and the income from industry that a nation receives. This number can never be higher than the sum of agriculture and commerce (the resources you have from your country plus the recourses you trade for) You also cannot give more build orders every turn than you have industry. For example, if your industry is 6 you cannot build more than 6 units/turn.

Services

This sector is the most self sufficient sector. It is the amount of taxes the government gets from local business, incomes of citizens, etc. Usually this number is lower than the others and it is rather difficult to raise. This also determines how much you can spend on raising your infrastructure, education, standard of living, or technology. This means that if you have 4 points in services you will not be able to spend more than 4 eco/turn on all of these areas.

Commerce

Commerce is income from trade. It is very easy to get when you sign trade agreements with other countries, however, be careful, if war comes and your trade routes are cut this number will go down sharply and your income will plummet.

Economy Again

When you add the four numbers for these four sectors you get the number for your total economy. This is your eco/turn that you can spend on whatever you want, given the restrictions in this section.

You can transfer 1 point from any of the four sectors to another sector every turn. This represents the slow reforms of the economy you can undertake.

Also, you can grow any one of your sectors. But to do that you have to invest, in a single turn, as much eco as the next level, and you cannot use for that turn the eco from that sector. So, for example, if you have 4 points in Services you can grow Services by 1 point by spending 5 eco on it that turn and for that turn you cannot use the 4 eco Services gives you.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure represents the roads, bridges, etc. of your country. It is rated on a scale of 0-5 and, unlike other NESes, it does have a major impact on the game. Not only will your troops move faster, but infrastructure also affects the economy. An infrastructure of 0 will give you a 50% penalty to your industry and commerce. An infrastructure of 1 will give a 20% penalty, an infrastructure of 2 a 10% penalty, an infrastructure of 3 no penalty, an infrastructure of 4 a bonus of 10% and an infrastructure of 5 a bonus of 20%.

To increase infrastructure you must spend eco equivalent to the next level of infrastructure multiplied by your size multiplier. For example, if a small country (size 2) wants to go from infrastructure 2 to infrastructure 3 it must spend 6 eco points, but they do not have to all be spent the same turn.

Finally, all countries have to maintain their roads. Because of that all countries with infrastructure level 3 have to pay 1 eco/turn to maintain it, infrastructure level 4 takes 3 eco/turn to maintain, and infrastructure level 5 takes 5 eco/turn.

Education

Education works the exact same was as infrastructure, except it has an effect on research. Education of 0 makes research impossible, education of 1 increases the cost of research by 50%, education of 2 increases it by 25%, education of 3 has no effect, education of 4 reduces it by 25% and education of 5 reduces it by 50%.

Education is increased and maintained the same way as infrastructure.

Living Standards

Living Standards work the exact same way as infrastructure, except they affect Services and Agriculture instead of Industry and Commerce.

They are increased and maintained the same way as Infrastructure and Education.

Stability

Stability is rated on a 5 point scale. Stable-Dissent-Protests-Riots-Civil War. Low stability will reduce the effectiveness of the economy as a whole. Starting with Protests the economy takes a 20% hit every stability level, up to 60% at Civil War.

Stability cannot be increased using money and has to be increased using other means.

Technology

Technology is divided into a number of tech trees. At the beginning of the game the stats will indicate what technologies every country has, and after that I will PM all active players of the research they have done. I believe that keeping research secret makes the game more interesting. (Thank you Stalin006 for the idea).

There are different levels and different branches of research in every tech tree. For example, in the Heavy Planes tree there are Tactical and Strategic Bombers. You do not have to research the whole tree if you want to research only one of them, you can skip the rest of the technologies.

In order to research a technology you have to have the technology that goes before it and invest as much eco as the level of that technology.

Most military technologies are self explanatory, they give you new and better units. The industrial technologies give a bonus to one of your economic sectors.

Secret technologies can be researched when you have the prerequisites for it, but there is no specific amount of eco needed for it. You can begin researching it and how long it takes depends on luck and some other circumstances.

Researching ahead of real world techs is ok, but not by more than one year. After that the price begins to go up by 50%/year, so you can do it, but it will be more expensive for you.

Projects

Projects are your bread and butter. Everything that is not listed here can be put into a project. You tell me what you want to do and how you want to do it and I will tell you how much it will cost and how long it will take. This can range from industrialization, creating a spy network, or a terrorist attack.

Investments work very similarly, but they are less formal than projects. If you see a place in your country where something can be improved you can indicate that you will spend an X amount of money on that and I will take into account and give you any benefits of your investment.

Final Note

Turns will be 3 months long beginning with January 1936. I may change that if I see that it needs to be changed. Updates will be once or twice a week but I will always tell you at least 4 day ahead of time so you have time to send orders. Any questions and or problems can always be addressed to me, and I will do my best to solve them.

If you see any way that the rules above are unfair, give someone an advantage that shouldn’t be there, etc. go ahead and tell me. The same goes for the stats.

All of these rules are made to make the NES more realistic and more fun, but they are by no means meant to stop creativity or innovative ideas. If you want to do something and do not see it in the rules chances are you can do it, you just have to talk to me either on msn or through a PM.

Now let us all have fun together.

On March 3rd (16th) 1917, a brick fell on the head of a drunken (after celebrating the abdication of Nicholas II) Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerensky, knocking him out cold. "The last thing he saw before everything went dark" (c) was a grinning polar bear on a building from the roof of which the aforementioned brick fell. Naturally, Kerensky later thought this to be a mere hallucination caused by the shock; this careless dismissal has contributed to the defeat of the late 23rd century Poacher Rising, but then again, these puny humans were doomed from the start, not to mention that this is a needless digression.

Anyway, as usual when I (or any other althistorian NESer for that matter) say something about an assault of a polar bear or of a penguin on a person of any historical importance, this means that said person will undergo subtle (at first!) changes that will affect the course of world history in a most serious fashion. This would not be an exception, as Kerensky became more cunning and ruthless. Combined with his OTL oratorical skills and capacity for political intrigue... it made a most fearsome combination, for the lack of a better word. When on May 5th (18th) of the same year the Provisional Government of Russia suffered its first crisis due to Pavel Milyukov, the foreign minister, re-committing to the old, pre-revolutionary war aims (in case you haven't noticed, all this was occurring on the background of World War One) and Knyaz Lvov's government fell apart, Kerensky was there to pick up the pieces, becoming prime minister. Having supported Milyukov's initiative at first, he has remained committed to it, though not as fanatically.

To maintain de facto control over Russia, Kerensky resorted to the classical (with some modifications) "carrot and stick" methods. As the carrot, he continued the social and civil reforms he had commenced as the minister of justice; while the stick was aimed against his political enemies. Using the May Riots of the same old 1917 as an excuse along with some fairly questionable evidence of planned treason and collaboration with the Germans, he ordered arrests of leading Left eSeRs and Bolsheviks, in which he was much assisted by ex-terrorist now-military commissar and deputy minister of war, Boris Viktorovich Savinkov, an important eSeR of the right wing. Meanwhile, general Lavr Georgievich Kornilov, who gave up on trying to enforce order and discipline in the revolutionary Petrograd and asked for a command in Galicia, was put in control of the infamous wide-front Kornilov Offensive against Germany and Austria-Hungary, in July. Despite the oratory of Kerensky, despite Kornilov's efforts to restore military discipline and despite good preparations, the general offensive (which saw the first Russian "tanks" used, to not much effect for the most part) has soon bogged down after the first three days with many casualties as the army begun to disintegrate anyway. His control slipping, Kornilov had to consent to grant more control over the military to Savinkov, who immediately begun re-organizing it along "revolutionary lines", much to Kornilov's and Brusilov's disgust. Discipline was lessened, and this kept the soldiers in line... for now.

At that point, the army was quite weak, and all that was required from the Germans was a good blow. But, firstly, the Germans were not aware of just how bad the Russian situation was, and, secondly, they were busy on the Western Front. The Russian offensive that came later than in OTL but was more thorough has caused some changes here as well; the Entente forces suffered even more than in OTL, but still advanced; and in July, synchronously with Kornilov, launched a major offensive in Flanders that culminated in the bloody Battle of Passchendaele, while further south the French probed German defenses and advanced where feasible. Anyway, at Passchendaele, Haig eventually came out victorious, having forced the Germans to retreat from westernmost Belgium, but only at the price of horrible casualties that prevented any further advances in the year.

And by the time the forces were ready to press on further, it was no longer really needed. Germany, embattled on all fronts, was making its enemies bleed for what few inches they had gained, but clearly, this could not go on forever for simple economical reasons; but as if that was not enough, Germany's allies were collapsing. The Ottomans were gradually being pushed out of Armenia, Palestine and Iraq - of what few territories there they still held. The Germanophile Greek king was overthrown in favor of a Venizelian republic. Bulgaria, much like Russia, only needed one moderately-successful enemy offensive to fall. Austria-Hungary was also holding out only due to the German troops there.

While on the other hand, American troops were en route to Europe, Kerensky's Russia turned out much more stable than the Germans thought it to be and, unbeknownst to them yet, the Polish leaders were negotiating with the Russians. Autumn 1917 saw several new Entente offensives away from the Western Front - the Turks were routed and thrown into full flight on all fronts, Bulgaria was forced to surrender (soon after, by a separate peace, signing away its access to the Aegean Sea to the Greeks) and Jyzef Pilsudski (who was not arrested due to the different situation in the Eastern Front), started a mutiny of Polish Legions right at the front that allowed Boris Savinkov to make an unexpected new breakthrough in Galicia and even Belarus (as some of the German forces were diverted westwards for a planned offensive). This offensive, too, was stopped, but not before Vilnius and Lvov were in Russian hands again. The Czechoslovakian Legion has also distinguished itself in this offensive with its ferocity in combat, encouraging a Czech rebellion back at home.

Jubilant that he now had a victory, although a one rather lesser than what he has hoped for, Kerensky forced through some more radical reforms (providing for a gradual land reform in the favor of the peasants), secretly arranged an accident for Kornilov who was getting increasingly unreliable, arrested some more opposition leaders for that and the usual stuff and then signed the controversial Treaty of Minsk with Jyzef Pilsudski and Roman Dmowski (of the pro-Entente Polish National Committee), promising Poland full independence and the support for Polish western claims, in exchange for Poland resigning all claims to territories east of the old Russian Kingdom of Poland's borders (so Galicia was going to be divided into two halves, a Russian one and a Polish one). Plans were made for a coordinated Russo-Polish push towards Brest-Litovsk in 1918, but by then, the war has already ended.

As if the previous German situation was not bad enough, now it got even worse. Austria-Hungary soon begun to fall apart altogether. Encouraged by this, the Romanians rejected all peace endeavors and incited rebellions among their ethnic brethren in Transylvania. In the Reichstag, Matthias Erzberger and his followers were joined by much of the army staff in demands for an armistice; himself, Erzberger, as the leader of a "democratic" coalition of the Zentrum, the Social-Democrats and the People's Progressive Party, managed to persuade the Kaiser, with the help of the staff and some "hints", to appoint him Kanzler and to commence armistice negotiations. They dragged on, true, but warfare died down again and eventually, an armistice was hammered out, to the chagrin of those of the German general staff that saw it fit to surrender.

Then, at Versailles, the peace negotiations begun. At one point, they broke down at Kaiser Wilhelm II's insistence, as enthusiasm died down in the face of the harsh terms demanded... but soon, the Germans had to return to the negotiations table again, as the unthinkable had happened - the German troops, having been assured of peace coming soon and having become more lax and peaceful during the Armistice, mutinied when preparations for a potential resumption of warfare begun. That the fleet mutinied as well and that riots broke out in major cities was less surprising as compared to that. Though all this could be put down, it would take time and troops, and even then there was, for the first time, a risk that soldiers will join the civilian rioters. There clearly was no going back now.

But while peace negotiations went on, war has continued elsewhere - most notably, the Ottoman Empire continued to crumble. Although Mustafa Kemal had crushed the Russian offensive in Armenia and retook some ground there, that was the only bright spot as rebellions commenced in Kurdistan and the remaining Turkish-held Arab territories, Enver Pasha and the rest of CUP begun clearly preparing to flee and the British taking over Syria. Soon enough, the Ottomans had to request armistice as well, though it as clear as day that they were doomed. As for Austria-Hungary, the Armistice did not save it from fighting; although the Russians ceased their offensive operations and agreed, as a gesture of good will (and to lessen the Habsburg suspicions), to dismiss the Czechoslovak and the Polish Legions, said Legions, in good order and with clandestine Russian aid, soon attacked in Galicia on their own, staring a guerrilla war that soon spread all the way to the Sudetes. When Vienna complained, Petrograd pointed out that these organizations had nothing to do with Russia, and that Russia had no control of them whatsoever; but if Vienna really wants the Russians to put an end to it, the Russians would gladly oblige it by sending in troops to help keep order. The Austrians, of course, shut up at that and tried to defeat the rebels... but then, new risings begun in Transylvania and Bosnia (Romania and Serbia were evacuated as per the terms of the Armistice). The Danubean Monarchy was aflame.

All that somewhat changed the text of the final Treaty of Versailles (as released on March 4th 1918), as had US President Woodrow Wilson's obstinate meddling that was, for the most part, ignored. Kerensky meddled as well, suggesting that Austria-Hungary should simply be destroyed and replaced with a "New Eastern Europe". Germans vehemently opposed this, but it was clear to them by then that Austria-Hungary, at best, would lose well over a half of its territory. Ottoman Empire would cease to exist. Germany will survive... but will also lose much, so much that Kaiser Wilhelm II shaved off his moustache and went in exile to Netherlands (possibly the rumors that he was to be put on trial encouraged this as well). Thankfully, the Dutch queen did not agree to his extradition...

In truth, however, the demands for a trial were just there for the show, as were many other formalities and tokens in the Treaty of Versailles. All the things that mattered there came out of sheer pragmatism. The German colonial empire was liquidated and partitioned between Britain, France, Japan and to a small extent Belgium (much to the ire of USA whose colonial ambitions in the Pacific were thwarted just as the idealistic intervention of Woodrow Wilson; this has greatly influenced the American withdrawal from world affairs outside of the Western Hemisphere for the next decade). Severe limits (though not as severe as in OTL) were put on the German army, as for navy it had to be turned over to the Entente, chiefly to the UK. France took over Lorraine-Alsace and occupied Saar; Germans evacuated Belgium and Luxembourg. The rest of Rhineland remained German, but was demilitarized. Denmark took, by plebiscite, the northern half of Schleswig-Holstein. A republic was installed in Germany, Matthias Erzburger forming a provisional government. A Polish Republic was declared with Roman Dmowski and Jyzef Pilsudski forming a sort of a shaky biumvirate; it gained, beyond the Russian Congress Poland, Krakow, Western Galicia, Poznan, the Danzig Corridor and, eventually, a de facto protectorate over the Free City of Danzig itself. Austria-Hungary survived (with army limitations), but had to grant independence to Czechoslovakia, cede South Tyrol, Istria and Dalmatia to Italy, cede Galicia to be partitioned between Russia and Poland, cede South Transylvania and South Bukovina to Romania and cede Bosnia-Herzigovina to Serbia (which entered a personal union with Montenegro). Russia officially became a Republic, inheriting, however, all the responsibilities of the old Imperial government, including the debts (and the territorial claims, on the brighter side - Russia took over Eastern Galicia and North Bukovina). Finally, the Ottoman Empire was destroyed and replaced with a rump Turkish Sultanate, with the capital in Ankara and control over some parts of Anatolia. Greece, which barely had time to even have a few skirmishes with the Turks, was arguably the biggest winner here, adding to itself Thrace and the region of Smyrna. After much debate, Constantinople, the Straits and the Marmara Sea were turned into a "Zone of the Straits", under international control. Italy received a protectorate over the south-western corner of Anatolia. Russia established a protectorate over Western Armenia. A Kurdistani Republic - effectively a buffer state between Russia and the Entente's new Middle Eastern Possessions - was set up. Lebanon, Syria and eastern Anatolia (south of Kurdistan) became French protectorates; the British took Palestine, Transjordan, Iraq and Hejaz as protectorates.

Much trickier was a matter of finance. The UK, France, Belgium and Russia wanted the Central Powers to pay heavy reparations; USA did not care as much about Germany, in truth, but wanted the UK and France to pay out their debts; and the French wanted the Russians to pay out theirs. After many concessions and compromises from all sides... nothing really was achieved, though Russia attained a reduction of its debts by consenting to the creation of the aforementioned Zone of the Straits.

The world has entered the post-war age. The age of even more war.

1920-1927.

During World War One, nearly 7 millions have perished, and many more were crippled or wounded. The countryside and the cities alike were ruined; economy was shattered by the deaths, the devastation and the war expenses.

But that, of course, was not enough to stop more war. Already in 1918, the year the Treaty of Versailles was signed, war, after a short retreat, returned - not yet in full force, but returned. In some places, like in Mexico (though by now, Carranza's victory was assured if not for his "problems" with the USA) or in China (where Sun Yat-sen, with clandestine Russian support, took over the south and defeated the warlord Duan Qirui), it never even went away. In Europe, the British had put down the Irish rebellions, both with local volunteers and with parts of the forces from France, despite the protests of the free press and the Americans (the former being concerned with the slowness of the demobilization, the latter - with the Irish cause). Although the Irish Volunteers were defeated, having not received neither German nor American military help, and the provisional government of Ireland was arrested, an underground resistance movement persisted, while terrorists tried to attack the Parliament, failing miserably but causing much concern. Violent risings took place in Germany, where the Spartakusbund made an ultimately-unsuccessful bid for power as a republic was being set up, and in the rump Austria-Hungary, which was even more confusing as Hungarian, German and Slavic nationalists fought each other, the government, the intervention forces and the rare local communists.

In Turkey, one of the primary causes for war in the post-war world was exhibited as General Kemal Mustafa, of Dardanelles and Armenia fame, launched a coup d'etat against the weak government of the Turkish Sultanate. Immediately, he began preparing for a revision of the Versailles Treaty. His preparations, however, were not as covert as he would have liked, and the Entente had learned of it. Deciding to act together for once, the Entente also prepared - with limited forces available after the de-mobilization - for a war with Turkey. A casus belli was needed, or, more importantly, a provocation. British and French ambassadors pushed the Greek government to claim that the Turks were massacring Pontic Greeks. Greece declared war on Turkey after a brief diplomatic exchange. Ioannis Metaxas led the Greek army from victory to victory over the weak Turkish forces, until arriving at Ankara where Kemal Mustafa had gathered all that he had. Having ordered a levee en masse, Kemal Mustafa prepared a massive attack that, in the end, successfully overwhelmed the Greeks, Metaxas dying in the process. By then, the furious Venizelos had realized what sort of a game the Entente was playing, but it was pointless for him to do anything about it. The Turks begun their counter-offensive, pursuing the Greeks back to Smyrna, when the Entente governments begun offering intermediation and demanding that the Turkish army is lowered to allowed levels. When asking about details of the Entente peace plan, Mustafa was outraged but not surprised by the way it created a Pontic Greek autonomous republic, disbanded much of Turkish army, crippled Turkey with war reparations to be paid to Greece and surrounded it with demilitarized zones. Knowing that such a treaty would be political suicide, Mustafa stalled negotiations while his army was being clandestinely increased further - he intended to take advantage of enemy war-weariness by bleeding them white against Turkish defenses and getting a more favorable peace. He had planned all this well, too - Turkey consisted of easily-defendable terrain, and he was going to make the Entente fight for every pass. Germany agreed, very secretly (so secretly it wasn't learned for many years later), to smuggle arms and ammunition, and the few illegal U-Boats that were not yet disassembled, to the Turks; they were assisted in this by a good old friend of the CUP, Aleksandr Israel Lazarevich Helphand. And manpower could always be found...

Yet Kemal Mustafa forgot about one thing - the loyalty factor that can only be tested in such a difficult situation. When the Entente powers declared war and first skirmishes begun in late 1918, Mustafa's old friend, Ismet, led a military coup against him, convinced that Turkey cannot survive. Mustafa was shot by one of the soldiers he had mobilized, out of one of the first German rifles. Ismet founded a government along with Fevzi, the Sultan's Minister of Armaments that at first defected to Mustafa. Now they hid the German weapons and U-boats for future use or sale, and urgently requested for an armistice. As the Entente governments were having some problems with anti-war riots and a few crises back in Europe, they were only too happy to attain peace without struggle. The Sultan's government was restored, with Ismet becoming the Minister of War (pre-coup position of Kemal Mustafa, as it happened) and Fevzi becoming the Minister of Finance as well as of Armaments. Turkey paid out some reparations (not as bad as the ones first proposed), announced DMZs and granted autonomy to the Pontic Republic.

And Venizelos lost the next elections, allowing for a brief "civil war" in which the Greek military defeated rebellions and forced the conservative government to restore monarchy under King Constantine.

Back in Asia, Arabic revolts in Hejjaz were put down by the British, who by then had determined to maintain as much control over the Red Sea as possible; however, some internal autonomy was granted to inland Hejjaz. Other Arab insurrections had to be dealt with as well. In Persia, the Majles, an oligarchic parliament, were losing control as the country descended into anarchy, and had to rely ever-more on British support. In Afghanistan, prince Amanollah killed his father and took power, declaring war on the United Kingdom and signing peace after some inconclusive skirmishes, having forced Britain to acknowledge the full independence of Afghanistan.

In India, a few riots and local insurrections took place as well, and ended with lots of martyrs.

As the 1920s begun, it was increasingly obvious that the War to End All Wars didn't end any but itself. Still, the end of World War One and the Old World Order certainly have changed things, and before the next big war could take place, a period of "picking up the pieces" should take place. The great powers rebuilt themselves, the winners consolidated gains, the losers - prepared for revanche. In the new world order, new strategies were needed; plans were made and changed, and the preliminary power-struggles and conflicts begun.

In the Americas, USA, despite Wilson's efforts, firmly withdrew from the affairs of the Eastern Hemisphere. The economy, however, was prepared for war, and the army was already raised, so it had to be used somewhere. Thankfully, Mexico existed for just such purposes - Venustiano Carranza's unstable government, despite the de jure recognition extended to it by USA, still was quite anti-American and nationalistic. Now, Wilson himself was opposed to any new intervention attempt, but he was won over by the proponents of such an intervention, most notably the rising American oil capital. When in 1918 Carranza attempted to nationalize the Mexican oil industries, a diplomatic crisis has started and was inflamed, and the Americans invaded Mexico, easily crushing it as civil war resumed when Alvaro Obregon launched a coup d'etat. By 1919, the war was over and by the Treaty of Veracruz, Mexico's new, pro-American puppet government leased several military bases and ports, ceded some tiny borderlands and Baja California to USA, and entered a customs union with America as well. Woodrow Wilson dedicated the rest of his presidency to extending said customs union across Central America and the Carribean; he also tried to create a League of Nations, but, even on the American scale, it was not very successful and was abandoned after 1921 when Warren Harding won the elections. USA, however, was firmly turned to the economical domination of the Western Hemisphere.

The United Kingdom and France were now closer together than ever before. Though France, at least, still maintained pretty good relations with Russia (these declined overtime, admittedly), the true Entente consisted of these powers. All territorial disagreements in Africa were regulated by a series of treaties in the early 1920s. Both countries underwent gradual economic recovery (in part thanks to the steady arrival of German reparations), coupled with social reforms, most notably the creation of universal suffrage. In foreign policy, the two countries were also in agreement - together, they blocked German attempts to intervene in Austria-Hungary, and consistently acted to weaken the Germans; for this purpose, relations with Italy, Austria-Hungary and Russia were improved as to form a cordon sanitaire in the event of Germany trying to rearm.

But the Germans, for now anyway, had other pursuits, such as making the French withdraw from Saar, paying off the reparations as fast as possible and trying to recover from the sorry state German economy was in - though Germany itself was not invaded apart from the 1914 Russian offensive, its economy was just as damaged as say that of Britain, WITHOUT the reparations. The German government had to take loans from USA as well, and at the same time suffered an alarming rise of inflation.

Italy was dominated by the national-liberal government of Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, who emerged a hero from Versailles, having secured many territorial gains for Italy as he had promised. The economy was being bolstered by the initial Austrian reparations and the integration of newly-gained lands, social strife was dealt with by radical social reform. In 1923, when Albania (which Italy occupied from time to time since late WWI) collapsed into yet another civil war or maybe just a large blood feud between the clans, Italy has annexed Albania, but, to improve relations with Greece that have been strained as of late, sold North Epirus to King Constantine. The Entente didn't protest - it didn't really care about Albania, and wanted a strong Italy to help it oppose Germany and (a new, rising concern) Hungary. Yes, Hungary.

Austria-Hungary was falling apart ever since 1918. By 1922, it ceased to exist altogether - despite the best Entente diplomatic efforts, there just weren't enough people in either Austria or Hungary interested in the union being continued. A republic was declared in Austria and requested German annexation, but Italy and the Entente prevented this; Karl IV remained the parliamentary monarch of Hungary, introducing liberal reforms to some consternation of the local conservatives. All communist risings were crushed as well.

Poland, at the moment, was still ruled by the pro-Entente President Roman Dmowski, whose coalition government was rather unwieldy and fragile. The primary domestic problem was that of social reform, but there Dmowski and Pilsudski pretty much agreed, and the Polish conservatives were way too weak to oppose this. Foreign policy was more confusing - though both Pilsudski and Dmowski were in agreement that the Entente was Poland's best friend as of the moment, Dmowski also wanted to maintain good relations with Russia, whereas Pilsudski was in a more militaristic mood; he was also less hostile to the hypothetic prospect of a future alliance with Germany, if relations with the UK and France were to worsen.

In the Balkans, a re-alignment was taking place in the wake of the weakening and the eventual destruction of Austria-Hungary - both a one in the local diplomacy, and a one at home. Serbia, in the wake of the defeat of the "Yugoslavists" that wanted a united South Slav state, was dominated by the Serbian nationalist Prime Minister Nikola Pasic. The aging King Peter I was increasingly falling under Pasic's influence, but remained himself a firm liberal, and also a committed ally of the Entente; however, under his son Alexander I Serbia begun distancing itself from the radical republican Russia, instead courting the Entente, Italy, Greece and Romania. One of the main reasons for this was the Russian-backed revolution in Bulgaria.

Bulgaria was at the time obviously weakened by the defeat and the reparations, and this economic weakness has increased social strife. The firmly anti-monarchist Agrarian Prime Minister Aleksandur Stamboliyski passed radical reforms, introducing universal suffrage and giving land to the peasants. He was also taking an anti-military stance, instead relying on militias and encouraging "soldier soviets" and other reforms along the lines of Boris Savinkov's "people's army" in Russia. Thusly he outraged the military leaders, and they have prodded King Boris II of Bulgaria into assisting a coup d'etat in 1923, just after Stamboliyski's landslide electoral victory. It was successful at first, but Stamboliyski escaped for Plovdiv, where he had some supporters; having won over the local garrison, he led an armed insurrection that quickly spilled out into the countryside. Still, the Bulgarian army, after the defeat of a few mutinies, was more than capable of defeating Stamboliyski's militias, and soon it begun crushing the countryside revolts, forcing Stamboliyski to resort to guerrilla tactics. He would have been doomed if not for the Russian government, which provided his troops with advisors and weapons, including many WWI officers of Savinkov's. As it was, he had pulled through with their help, having organized his rag-tag forces into something like an army. The royal forces were being harassed at every step and were outnumbered, and though they have defeated Stamboliyski's first real offensive in this war at Pazardzhik, he then took personal command and rallied his troops. In an operation that was officially led by him, but really by two of the Russian advisors from the eSeR party - Alexander Antonov, who, having distinguished himself during Savinkov's reconstruction of the army and in dealing with the rising of the generals (see below), took command of the military side of the operation, and Vladimir Burtsev, the "Sherlock Holmes of the Russian Revolution", controlled the intelligence. In a daring operation, the Agrarian (or "Green") forces advanced along the Balkan Mountains, losing many men to disease and attrition but in the end suddenly arriving at Sofia itself. It was taken in a well-planned assault assisted by a local socialist rebellion. The captured Boris II abdicated and went into exile in Switzerland in 1924.

As mentioned before, Pasic has assembled against it a coalition of Romania (where the pro-Agrarian prime minister Iuliu Maniu was assassinated, and was replaced with General Alexandru Averescu, through whom King Ferdinand I had gained more influence than ever before over the Romanian politics) and Greece (where, too, the monarchy was regaining power). This coalition was, however, loose, uncoordinated and unprepared, and its intervention on the "White", i.e. monarchist, side in Bulgaria came too late. The Greeks failed to force the passes in the Kardzali Mountains due to logistical problems, while the Serbs, having advanced all the way to Sofia, were met with well-prepared defenses that kept the Serbs at bay. Romania had the worst of it - after the first few victories, the Parliament begun demanding the end of the intervention, and just as a domestic political crisis was ignited, Russia declared war on Romania (but Romania alone), and was soon supported by Hungary ('tis an alliance of convenience). Romanians tried to put up some defenses, but they were not strong enough for a three-front war, especially as an armed republican revolt begun in Wallachia. Soon, Ferdinand I joined Boris II in Switzerland. By the Treaty of Satu Mare, Romania restored South Transylvania to Hungary. By the Treaty of Bucharest, Romania, under its new democratic Russian puppet government, ceded Dobruja to Bulgaria in exchange for not having to pay reparations, was nonetheless guaranteed rights of transit on the Danube and recognized Stamboliyski's new Provisional Government; it was also temporarily occupied by Russia for "demonarchization", and ceded South Bukovina to Russia. Greece promptly backed out of this war, recognizing Stamboliyski; Serbia followed suit, but kept a grudge.

This "Third Balkan War" has greatly raised the concerns of the Entente, and strained its relations with Russia greatly. The sinister phantom of a Russo-Bulgaro-Hungaro-German alliance was in sight. That was the worst-case scenario, anyway.

Anyway, in Russia itself, the post-war years were very controversial, but certainly quite exciting. Though Kerensky won election after election with remarkable ease (not much of competition left free and in the country itself at the same time), he still had to enact various radical social reforms, divide all land among the peasants and further strengthen his government. His reforms, of course, angered the army. Mikhail Nikolaevich Tukhachevsky, a young, rising-star general, has organized in 1920 a military coup with the support of some old-guard generals, including Brusilov who was only a grudging supporter of Kerensky in the best of times. The coup itself, known as the "Rising of the Generals", had failed - Boris Savinkov had learned of it and took precautions, arresting Tukhachevsky's supporters in the Petrograd and Kronstadt garrisons, and sending loyal troops to arrest Tukhachevsky's forces, with the help of the railroad workers, en route to the city. Tukhachevsky himself was captured with his army, with scarcely a shot being fired. As for Brusilov, he got ill and could not join the abortive coup; having learned of his participation from questioning, Kerensky had him retire, but honorably and with a fairly large pension.

Yet that was not the end yet - despite Tukhachevsky's defeat, one of his followers, Pyotr Nikolaevich Wrangel, who commanded the Russian forces in the Ukraine, raised a monarchist rebellion that was soon backed by Grand Prince Kirill, who came back from the English exile of the Romanovs. From Ukraine, he struck out towards Smolensk, where he was joined by more rebelling troops, and from there moved to take Moscow; only there, he was stopped by the local militias and the loyal part of the army. Though eventually, he took Moscow by assault, valuable time was lost and a guerrilla war had commenced in the territories he has seized; in the end, Wrangel was surrounded in Moscow, and, after the failure of his break-out attempt, he negotiated amnesty for his followers and shot himself (some claim that he was shot by Kerensky's men). Anyway, after these events Kerensky's power was only reinforced, despite the grave threat that came to it. Kerensky continued his radical reforms and encouraged the gradual industrialization of Russia, attracting much foreign investment. And, as I already mentioned, he also assisted likewise-minded regimes, strengthening Russia abroad.

Africa was quite uneventful - a few rebellions here, Ethiopia modernizing there...

The Entente - meaning, as said before, the UK and France - had deteriorating relations with USA, due to the issue of their loans; their staunch opposition to Wilson's self-determination and the British suppression of Ireland furthered the estrangement. Rather than rebuild their relations with USA, the Entente, fearful that the Americans might one day side with the Germans, strengthened its ties with Japan. These ties were improved further as relations with Russia begun declining as well, again due to the loans and Kerensky's vaguely-socialist domestic policies. USA did nothing about that yet, aware that the Entente was unlikely to attack it first; however, as the American capitalists were already investing much into Russia's improving economy and as trade with Russia grew due to the development of its Far Eastern and Siberian territories, American diplomats begun probing Petrograd for hypothetic cooperation against theoretical Japanese aggression. Same with Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary Chinese Republic, which was largely armed with Russian and American weapons and crowded with Russian advisors. Said Republic was, by 1927, in firm control over China Proper sans rebel-held Yunnan (which was secretly assisted by the British, who disliked the prospect of an alliance between Russia and China, particularly a strong China), and formally at least its authority was acknowledge in Manchuria and Sinkiang, with much Russian help; Mongolia, meanwhile, was an autonomous province. Radical social reforms were in place, the country was being forcefully modernizing, industries were being built up and the army was also being trained and re-fitted. Yet China's stability was fragile, as the country was to find out in late 1927, when Sun Yat-sen finally died from old age.

Japan itself was growing in strength, especially building up its fleet as the Chinese direction of expansion seemed potentially dangerous, due to the prospect of a war with Russia and China at the same time.

1927-1936.

Since the end of World War One, two initially separate, and considered to be uncombinable, trends were on the rise in Europe. One was the rise of socialism - though their triumph was never complete, the socialists forced through radical social reform and weakened the big capital. Another, somewhat damaged by WWI but in the long-term only strengthened, in Central Europe anyway, was nationalism, in many countries combined with revanchism. It was considered impossible by many on both the Left and the Right that these would ever be united, but in the early 1920s, the ideas begun spreading and gradually, the National-Socialist (back then not yet called so) ideology emerged, taking from the Left their domestic policies (radical egalitarian social reforms, an economy that is either planned, either close to planned), and from the Right - their aggressive foreign policies, fusing them, making the required adjustments. Slowly, but surely, these ideas spread among the masses that disliked the rich at home and the enemy abroad almost as much in these days.

What helped these ideas, of course, was the crash of the US Stock Market in August 1927. After a period of rapid expansion, stock market begun to stagnate and decline, but wild speculation continued. Prices soon begun falling, and with it, the stock market itself fell as well, amidst panicked sales of stocks. The American economy was dealt a harsh blow; soon enough, damage spread elsewhere. The worst-hurt countries were those in the Americas, as their economy was increasingly tied together with that of USA; this crisis particularly weakened the existing South American governments, causing eventual chaos there. China was hurt badly too; as this came in the same year as the death of Sun Yat-sen, the Middle Kingdom has suffered a double blow. Russia suffered as well, as did the UK and France. The rest of Europe was not quite as bad, though Germany was noticeably hurt.

Anyway, the world economy was shaken, and amongst the somewhat disillusioned masses National-Socialism begun gaining an ever bigger following, as were other radical movements that until now were merely marginal. To deal with the economic problems, many governments adopted some socialist policies out of sheer necessity. Numerous political crises commenced as well.

The Republicans in the USA were finally overthrown in 1928, when Alfred Emanuel Smith won in a bitterly-contested (not the least because he was a Catholic) election. His program of moderately socialistic policies to fix the economy was widely criticized, but there did not seem to be much of an alternative as the American economy was in a bad state and the banks still were closing. He continued this during his second term. In foreign affairs, he was something of an isolationist, as were many American politicians at that time who believed in an "America First" policy. Nonetheless, some development took place. Though the grip on Mexican government was decreased, the USA retained close contact with all the Carribean countries, and countries with Carribean coast (plus Ecuador), as these were the countries that retained the customs union with America. American influence was badly weakened to the south from there, due to the breakdown of trade caused by the frantic efforts of local governments to isolate their economies from that of America, and to the political instability that ensued, and to the isolationist policies. As America begun to recover, American capitalists begun looking more at the Northern Hemisphere - trade with Western Europe and East Asia, particularly the UK, France, Russia, and China (as it, too, begun to stabilize in the end), increased. Thus as of 1936, America was at a crossroad not just because of the elections at home, where Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Al Smith's political successor, competed with the ever-more-popular Herbert Clark Hoover AND the rising-star National-Socialist Huey Pierce Long. It was also at diplomatic crossroads, with routes of strict neutrality, renewal of alliance with Russia and China or re-rapprochement with the Entente becoming ever-more appealing for one informal political faction or another.

The Great Depression, as it was called in the USA, was not much better in South America as I had already mentioned. However, the long-term effects could be claimed to be positive. After WWI, the French cultural influence in Latin America was broken. Now, so was American economical influence. As no power was in place to truly replace either, this resulted in the growth of South America's autonomy, both cultural and economic. Admittedly, it was accompanied by somewhat less pleasant events - numerous governments fell, others entered civil war, and the new governments begun propping up nationalism and, to improve their standing at home, also practiced "standing up" to whatever threatened or seemed to threaten their countries. And that, quite obviously, resulted in several wars.

In Peru, president-dictator Augusto Bernardino Leguia y Salcedo was overthrown in 1927, as his capitalist backers were crippled and his nationalist supporters were outraged by his appeasement of Peru's many neighbors that seeked territorial revision. Victor Rael Haya de la Torre, the founder of the pro-Amerind National-Socialist Aprista movement, immediately returned to the country from his Venezuelan exile (in OTL, it was a Mexican exile, but de la Torre hated gringos and their puppets...) and was elected president, having then foiled a military coup. Soon, he begun nationalizing industries, playing a successful game of bluff with the American government, and in 1929, as the Tacna-Arica territorial dispute with Chile was blown out of proportion, de la Torre's first war begun. Simply put, it was a revanche for the Pacific War in the 19th century, as both Tacna and Arica were taken from Peru during that war with promises of a plebiscite that never came. However, at first anyway it was a Chilean-Peruvian affair - despite de la Torre's best efforts, Bolivia was too unstable for its government to take part in a risk military adventure. Anyway, although neither side was stronger militarily, Peru was more economically-independent to begin with and had more manpower. It also got lucky - the Peruvian troops quickly took hold of the Carretara Panamericana highway, breaking through Chilean resistance, and arrived at the city of Tacna to face half-prepared Chilean troops. In a heated battle there, the Peruvians came out victorious, but with heavy casualties, and the rest of 1929 was wasted on maintaining control over Tacna and bringing logistics back into shape. The Chileans, meanwhile, fell back and dug in. The war would probably have continued with a stalemate on the border of Tacna and Arica, if not for an ambitious Peruvian decision, in late 1930, to try and test out a certain new kind of troops. In 1931, Peruvian paratroopers were dropped off just beyond the Chilean positions. Surprised, the Chileans missed their chance to slaughter the Peruvian paratroopers; by the time they did, the Peruvians launched a new offensive, and broke through to besiege the city of Arica. Impressed, the Bolivians joined in as well, seeking to retake Tarapaca and Atacama, also gained by Chile from the Pacific War. The Bolivian army, well-trained and well-armed, forced the Chileans to call off their counter-offensive, and attempt a retreat to more defensible positions; but the advancing Peruvians and Bolivians caught up with the retreating Chileans, and turned this retreat into a rout. Meanwhile, Carlos Ibanez del Campo's military junta in Chile had collapsed into inter-fighting and a popular rebellion soon restored democracy in Chile. Naturally, that made things even worse as the remnants of the army fell apart. The Chilean government soon had to restore the borders of 1874 and promise reparations. Soon enough, of course, it also collapsed and was replaced by the world's first lasting communist government.

Said government hardly could have lasted for long next to a nationalist, "fascist" Argentina, had the Argentineans not been otherwise preoccupied. Jose Felix Uriburu, the dictator of Argentina since 1928, has in 1932, having consolidated his regime and enacted vaguely National-Socialist (but NOT Aprista, and not as socialist as corporatist) reforms, decided to invade Uruguay. Uruguay was one of the worst-hurt by the collapse of the Stock Market, having a trade-driven economy, and this has intensified the political tensions between the Argentinophile Blancos and the Brazilophile Colorados. The Colorado president, Gabriel Terra, ruled as a de facto dictator since his election in 1930, having abolished the constitution and rooted out his political opponents. The remaining Blanco leaders approached the Argentineans for support, which they eagerly provided, soon besieging Montevideo. Naturally, this prompted Gabriel Terra's alliance with Brazil, and the Brazilian forces swiftly occupied the Argentinean province of Misiones.

Brazil itself was a reformist authoritarian state of National-Socialist leanings, but also more corporatist. It was led, since 1930, by Getulio Vargas, who, though more concerned with domestic reforms, was not about to tolerate a pro-Argentinean government in Uruguay. Still, perhaps it would have been better had he not acted, as his control over Brazil was not yet strong enough. Conservative revolts soon broke out in the north, distracting his attention and troops. Still, Brazil had superior manpower, and managed to occupy, in 1932-3, the eastern half of Corrientes and most of Uruguay. However, the Argentinean defenses grinded away at the Brazilians, as did the Blanco guerrilla war in Uruguay. In mid-1933, Uriburu has decided to end the war with a decisive offensive; for that purpose, he had previously raised, with the help of German military advisors, special "choquetropas", also equipped with the latest German weaponry. These units were used to break the Brazilian lines in Corrientes and outflank the Brazilian-Colorado forces in Rio Grande do Sul and Uruguay itself; then, the main Argentinean forces entered the fray as well, exploiting the victory and routing the Brazilians at Artigas and Plato Alto. Montevideo was also taken; Gabriel Terra was gunned down while trying to escape. Meanwhile, the powerful (on the Latin American scale, of course...) Argentinean navy struck out, raiding the portal cities of south Brazil and destroying the Brazilian fleet; eventually, it even shelled Rio de Janeiro, though only briefly and with the only real goal being intimidation. It worked - combined with the military defeats and an economic crisis. Even more rebellions begun in Brazil, Vargas was assassinated by the wife of a dock worker who died from wounds suffered in the Argentinean bombardment, and the provisional military junta pledged for peace (only to be overthrown a year later by a weak coalition government that lasted until 1936). Argentineans were generous, only demanding the recognition of the new Uruguayan government, and war reparations to both Argentina and Uruguay, plus the demilitarization of the Rio Grande do Sul. Okay, maybe they weren't all that generous, especially if one considers the secret protocol that recognized Uruguay to be firmly and indisputably within Argentinean sphere of influence, which paved way for Uruguay's eventual annexation into Argentina after a probably-faked referendum, in 1935.

Meanwhile, the UK and France were in an increasingly desperate situation. Despite the general improvement at home after the economical near-collapse and the political crises of late 1920s, in both cases resulting in the adaptation of some socialist policies (OOC: on the level of the OTL New Deal, not beyond that, naturally), the foreign affairs were going badly. The last 1920s saw much political strife to the east of the Vosges and the south of the Pyrenees, and much of it has left the Entente increasingly isolated politically, with the only reliable allies being Spain (after the downfall of Primo de Rivera in 1928, and his replacement with a liberal parliamentary monarchy, if not a particularly stable one as of 1936) and Greece. The new rise of trans-Atlantic trade with the USA in the 30s has put the Entente at the crossroads as well - it had to choose between Japan and USA, aware that in the latter case it risked having to fight an alliance of convenience of both Russia and Japan at the same time.

In Iberia, as already mentioned, Spain was a parliamentary monarchy of liberal leanings, troubled by conservative patriotic (pro-German) dissent on one side, socialist - on the other and, on the third, the rising tide of separatism in Galicia, Basconia and Catalonia. As for Portugal, it was controlled by a vastly-unstable military junta which was running the country into hell as economy crumbled further.

Scandinavia saw a rise in strife between Denmark and Norway (over the Danish territories of Iceland and Greenland), and Russia and Sweden (more on the latter later).

As if the economical situation of Germany was not bad enough as it is, the Stock Market's fall in USA made things even worse, especially as Gustav Stresemann, who had dominated German politics after Erzberger, has died from bad health soon after (but not before getting the French to hold a plebiscite in the Saar, that resulted in the French evacuation of the region as it voted for Germany). The SPD kanzler of a 1928 moderate coalition government, Hermann Muller, has badly mismanaged the economy, trying to continue his expensive social programs, and the coalition soon fell apart; Germany underwent a period of political instability, coupled with riots and a NSDAP (National-Socialist German Worker's Party, although, as many historians had pointed out, it was not National-Socialist at all) coup attempt, and this as social programs had to be curtailed and the economy was as bad as ever. Finally, the army had had enough. Hans von Seeckt, the genius behind the small, yet very efficient Republican Wehrmacht, had launched a military coup d'etat in 1931, establishing a conservative, yet pragmatically-progressive military-based regime in Germany (although in recent years, there was talk of restoring monarchy - either under Wilhelm II, either under von Seeckt himself though the latter option seems unlikely; officially, von Seeckt is a president operating under martial law, but it cannot go on like this forever). Soon enough, he begun restoring Germany's status as a great power, if a weakened one - he had managed to force a reduction in war reparations, and established working relations with Sweden, Italy, Hungary and Poland, not to mention Argentina which he has greatly assisted against Brazil, while getting an opportunity to test out those weapons that have been forbidden for Germany in this South American "polygon".

The Great Depression has affected Italy, though not as much as Western Europe. Technically, the Italian economy was not hurt badly; what WAS hurt was the political stability. By then Vittorio Orlando has already retired from politics, followed up by nonentities under whom social strife accumulated. Thus, dissent rose. The events of 1927 only added to this. Strikes became more and more widespread. At some point it seemed as if a civil war between the Italian socialists, led by Giacomo Matteotti, and everybody else, was unavoidable. Or maybe there would not even be a civil war - just a revolution. In the end, what has happened was a revolution of a different kind - a National-Socialist democratic revolution, as Benito Mussolini, the leader of the National Italian Party since 1925, won the 1929 elections and in due time, with quiet royal sanction, took much of the power from the Italian parliament. His reforms were definitely of a mildly National-Socialist nature - all the heavy industries were nationalized, and social reforms were carried out. And, of course, as a nationalistic foreign agenda required, there was some territorial self-aggrandizement. In 1931, when the female regent of Ethiopia, Zauditu, died and Ras Tafari took power as Haile Selassie I, the Italian government did not recognize Haile's ascension and instead begun courting the Ethiopian Muslims whose patron Iyasu was overthrown by Zauditu and the Christian nobility back in 1916. After some border incidents and Mussolini securing a grudging British consent, the Italians have invaded Ethiopia. It has proven a tougher nut to crush than was thought, but in the end, the Italian army, strengthened during Orlando's and Mussolini's respective tenures as prime ministers, came out victorious, and in 1933 Ethiopia was united with Italian Eritrea and Somaliland into the united colony of Italian East Africa. Back in Europe, Italy was diplomatically-undetermined, having to choose between the Entente, the re-emerging German power and the new Russian alliance system (see below).

In Central/Eastern Europe, there were three small (though not at all tiny or impoverished, for that matter) states that, much like the USA and the Entente, were at the crossroads. Poland, since the political downfall of Dmowski and the death of Pilsudski, was a weak parliamentary democracy, with general Wladyslaw Sikorski a possible military dictator. Poland was, on one hand, bound by the Treaty of Minsk which made it a Russian ally; on the other hand, it was also an ally of the Entente, and had no grudges with it, exactly because France and the UK were far away. And finally, Hans von Seeckt's reconciliation with Poland created a real opportunity for a German-Polish alliance versus Russia, Czechoslovakia and the Entente alike. As for Czechoslovakia, it was, until the 1930s, a stable, prospering democratic state, but ethnic strife was clearly undermining it now that Tomas Masaryk was dead. Greedy eyes were being cast at it by both Hungary and Germany, but whom to turn to for protection: Russia or the Entente? Likewise to the south of Czechoslovakia, Austria was in trouble. Though it evolved into a moderate-conservative democracy with strict neutrality and comparative stability, as of 1936 it too was threatened from within (where the Anschlussists, the Viennese socialists and Slovenian separatists threatened) and from without, as Germany seeked anschluss, Italy intended to grab Slovenia for more tenable borders and the Hungarian Habsburgs seeked to revive their old empire in its full glory, although that would be risking the hostility of Germany and Italy alike. Austria needs to maneuver between these threats, but it too will need other allies. In recent times there were also some voices for a "Central Entente" of Poland, Czechoslovakia and Austria, possibly sponsored by the Western Entente as well...

In the Balkans, grudges were simmering and everyone was preparing for a new war. In Serbia, a hardline nationalist royal-backed dictatorship arose under Punisa Racic; though its ruthless ethnic cleansing policies in Muslim parts of Bosnia alienated the Entente somewhat, still, an alliance of convenience remained. Romania still was under its puppet government, and only Russian intervention kept it under control. The people are angry, very angry with the puppet government. Bulgaria had continued its Agrarian policies as the aging Stamboliyski became more and more authoritarian, crushing all resistance; by the end of his life, he was also increasingly insane, and according to some he even intended to destroy all cities and make everybody go to villages. In foreign politics, his Bulgaria was pretty much isolated but for its alliance in Russia. Finally, Aleksandur Stamboliyski was poisoned and died in 1930, some say as per the orders of Boris Savinkov, the new Russian leader. Hristo Bontchev, an apparent nonentity, took over, formally abolished democracy in the country and started National-Socialist reforms miming those in Russia. He also begun building up a new, modern Bulgarian army to augment the militias, to the concern of the new Greek fascist government, as well as the Serbian one. Indeed, Greece saw some tumultous times, with political intrigue, bitter elections and arguments between the king and the parliament. Finally, prime minister since 1928 and war hero since 1918, Nikolaos Plastiras, "O Mavros Kavalaris", has had enough of it, and abolished monarchy. The new Greek republic was not much more stable, especially with a failed monarchist coup coming in 1930, and soon, Plastiras had to forget about his republican views for a while and rule as a dictator to get something done at least. And that he has done, establishing a firm corporativist dictatorship, launching radical reforms, modernizing the Greek army and, finally, in a bid to increase domestic support, forced, with the Anglo-French support (the Entente wanted Greece to be a strong buffer against Russia and its allies, including Turkey if the worst comes to be), a plebiscite in the Zone of the Straits that culminated in the Greek annexation of the said Zone amidst Russian and Italian outrage, although he has refused to move the Greek capital to Constantinople as some had proposed, citing it to be too close to a potential war zone.

In 1929, Aleksandr Kerensky was suddenly gunned down by one of the surviving left-wing eSeRs. In the elections that were held soon after, a left-wing coalition united by Lev Trotsky rose to power, but it almost immediately fell apart after Trotsky proposed even more and even more radical social and economical reforms that would have made Russia a socialist state. Two separate coups were launched, one in the Duma itself where Boris Viktorovich Savinkov and his National-Socialist Revolutionaries (NeSeRs) picked up the pieces from Trotsky's coalition and took over the city, and another was just outside of it, as the recently-returned Admiral Kolchak led a monarchist rebellion in Kronstadt, which was soon supported by some other generals. Trotsky himself fled for Moscow where he had some support and started a rebellion there. The NeSeRs defeated Kolchak himself, having destroyed a large portion of Russia's Baltic fleet in the process with a bombardment of Kronstadt after attempts to break out from there had failed, but other monarchist rebellions continued. Trotsky's Social-Democrats (re-united after the collapse of the Bolsheviks for the lack of strong leadership) were rebelling in central Russia and the Far East. Meanwhile, the autonomous republic of Finland declared independence, wishing to separate itself from Russia's troubles. The Russian Civil War was on.

The result was, for once, always in doubt. At one point it seemed as if Grand Prince Kirill, who set up a government in monarchist-held Kiev, would win this time; but then, the charging monarchist soldiers were turned into a bloody mess by the revolutionary artillery under Moscow. Slightly later, the insane prospect of an anarchist victory appeared after bat'ka Nestor Makhno had ambushed and annihilated a NeSeR army in the Pripet Marshes - yet, of course, Makhno remained a nuisance apart from this, although a very persistent one, being only betrayed and turned in by his followers in 1933, already after the civil war's end. Then the monarchists again seemed likely to win - they took over southern Russia, and were moving to surround Moscow... but wait, Trotsky signed a local truce with the NeSeRs, and routed them at Vladimir. And then Antonov was flown back from Bulgaria and took command over the Russian forces in Bessarabia and West Ukraine, moving to take Kiev and to force Kirill to flee for Crimea. By 1932's beginning, though, it was increasingly obvious that despite Trotsky's victories, he was doomed, having antagonized the people in the territories he had held and not having enough troops to prevent the peasant rebellions incited by the NeSeRs. Meanwhile, Savinkov had negotiated the capitulation and reintegration of the short-lived Trotskyte Far Eastern Soviet Republic, in exchange for amnesty and assistance against the Japanese who already occupied North Sakhalin and were only forced to give it up in 1934, under American pressure.

Finally, one of Trotsky's associates had killed the Lion of the Revolution with an ice-picker during the Second Siege of Moscow (the second having taken place during the Rising of the Generals), and Kirill's escape plane fell into the Black Sea. Finland was re-invaded and forced back into the fold brutally, before it could organize any defenses, although the fighting around Turku was quite nasty, as Swedish volunteers and weapons were sent to help the Finns; naturally, this didn't contribute to good relations between Russia and Sweden. The NeSeR regime had prevailed, and begun putting the classical National-Socialist policies into place. The Duma was dismissed and replaced with the Central Committee of the NeSeR party, as dominated by Boris Savinkov, the "vozhd" ("chief", "fuehrer", "duce") of the Russian National-Socialist Republic (RNSR). The heavy industries were largely nationalized, though some private industrialists were allowed to run them for Russia, and the American assets were untouched. A strong secret police, based on the old "battle organization" of the right-wing eSeRs from whom the National-Socialist Revolutionary Party descended, was created, to ensure that no such rebellions would happen ever again. Industrialization was sped up, as were the education programs and the creation of a new, "revolutionary" army. Alliances with Bulgaria were strengthened, and the hand of friendship was extended towards Mussolini's Italy as well.

Turkey was slowly rebuilding, and ties with Russia increased as the new Sultan, Abdul Mejid II, was perfectly prepared to ally with the Shaitan if he allowed him to regain at least some of the lost lands, especially those lost to the hated Hellenes.

Arab revolts started and ended in the Middle East, eventually culminating in the increase of local autonomy for the new British and French colonies there; also, separately, Jewish immigration to Palestine increased, especially as anti-Semitism rose back in Europe.

In Persia, British puppets reigned supreme, after the defeat of a nationalist coup led by Reza Khan.

In India, disappointed with Gandhi's methods, the local nationalists rallied around Subhash Chandra Bose, who begun organizing an armed revolt to take place in the late 30s, as the world situation deteriorated...

After the death of Sun Yat-sen, all hell broke loose in China, especially as the economy plummeted once more and as Russia soon was distracted back at home. Warlords emerged just as soon as opportunity for them had, Uighurs and Mongols claimed independence, and Qing loyalists, with clandestine Japanese backing, took over Manchuria despite the initial Russian efforts to crush them (that only succeeded in 1934). For a while, it seemed as if the Japanese were going to attack as well, and clearly as the Japanese established ties with the Qing government they were up to no good. Only a stern Russo-American warning prevented their intervention, it seems.

The most heated struggle took place within China Proper and Sun Yat-sen's KMT itself, as Sun Yat-sen's most promising lieutenants, Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei, tore the KMT apart and struggled over the remains. It was a bitter struggle that seemed never-ending, as Chiang Kai-shek dominated the north and Wang Jingwei - the south. In the end, the more flexible and cunning Jingwei secured the backing of the American capitalists and the Russian government, and with their help defeated Chiang Kai-shek, who fled to India. Yet Wang Jingwei's position was still insecure; Yunnan and Sinkiang were still outside of government control, although Mongolia has settled down as an autonomous republic again. If China were to be attacked now, it, much like Russia in 1917, would have simply fallen apart again...

And Japan, frustrated by the American opposition to its would-be intervention in the Russian Civil War, was now more determined that a war should take place soon than ever before. A powerful new fleet was being built up, and the economy was already being refitted towards the coming showdown with those who seek to deny to Japan its destiny.

Far from all was yet decided as year 1936 came to an end, but what was clear that, no matter in what configuration and with what results, war would be coming, a war that will be, if the lesser ones are any indication, even worse than that war that was meant to end them all...

Here is the technology tree we will be using. Thank you Feanor for putting it together. I editted it some to reflect exactly what I want to do with it.

Army Technology:

Infantry
LVL 0: Great War Infantry
LVL 1: Early Infantry (1936)
LVL 2: Basic Mountaineers (1937)
LVL 3: Basic Infantry (1939)
LVL 4: Basic Paratroopers (1940)
LVL 5: Basic Marines (1941)
LVL 6: Improved Infantry (1942)
LVL 7: Improved Mountaineers, Improved Marines (1943)
LVL 8: Advanced Infantry (1944)
LVL 9: Advanced Mountaineers, Advanced Marines (1944)
LVL 10: Semi-Modern Infantry, Advanced Paratroopers (1945)

Mobile Infantry
LVL 0: Great War Cavalry
LVL 1: Basic Cavalry (1936)
LVL 2: Improved Cavalry (1937)
LVL 3: Advanced Cavalry (1938)
LVL 4: Basic Motorized (1939)
LVL 5: Semi-Motorized Cavalry (1940)
LVL 6: Basic Mechanized (1941)
LVL 7: Improved Motorized (1942)
LVL 8: Improved Mechanized (1943)
LVL 9: Advanced Motorized (1944)
LVL 10: Advanced Mechanized (1945)

Armor:
LVL 0: Great War Tank, Tankette
LVL 1: Early Light Armor (1936)
LVL 2: Basic Light Armor (1938)
LVL 3: Basic Heavy Armor (1938)
LVL 4: Improved Light Armor (1939)
LVL 5: Basic Medium Armor (1940)
LVL 6: Improved Heavy Armor (1941)
LVL 7: Improved Medium Tank (1942)
LVL 8: Advanced Light Armor, Advanced Heavy Armor (1943)
LVL 9: Advanced Medium Tank, Super Heavy Tank (1944)
LVL 10: Semi-Modern Tank (1945)

Airforce Technology
(CAS=Close Air Support, STR=Strategic, TAC=Tactical, NAC=Naval)

Light Planes
LVL 0: Great War Interceptor
LVL 1: Early Interceptor (1936)
LVL 2: Basic Interceptor (1937)
LVL 3: Basic CAS (1938)
LVL 4: Basic Fighter (1939)
LVL 5: Improved Interceptor (1940)
LVL 6: Improved CAS(1941)
LVL 7: Improved Fighter (1942)
LVL 8: Advanced Interceptor(1943)
LVL 9: Advanced CAS(1944)
LVL 10: Advanced Fighter (1945)

Heavy Planes
LVL 0: Great War Bomber
LVL 1: Early Tactical Bomber (1936)
LVL 2: Basic Tactical Bomber (1937)
LVL 3: Basic Naval Bomber (1938)
LVL 4: Basic Strategic Bomber(1939)
LVL 5: Improved Tactical Bomber (1940)
LVL 6: Improved Naval Bomber (1941)
LVL 7: Improved Strategic Bomber(1942)
LVL 8: Advanced Tactical Bomber (1943)
LVL 9: Advanced Naval Bomber (1944)
LVL 10: Advanced Strategic Bomber(1945)

Naval Technology

(SB=Submarine, BB=Battleship, BC=Battlecruiser, CA=Carrier, HC=Heavy Cruiser, LC=Light Cruiser, DD=Destroyer)

Submarines
LVL 0: Great War Submarines
LVL 1: Dive Boat (1936)
LVL 2: Short Range Submarine (1937)
LVL 3: Improved Short Range Submarine (1938)
LVL 4: Medium Range Submarine (1939)
LVL 5: Improved Medium Range Submarine (1940)
LVL 6: Long Range Submarine (1941)
LVL 7: Improved Long Range Submarine (1942)
LVL 8: Electro Submarine (1943)
LVL 9: Improved Electro Submarine (1944)
LVL 10: Semi-Modern Submarine (1945)

Light Ships
LVL 0: Great War Destroyers, Great War Light Cruisers, Great War Heavy Cruisers
LVL 1: Early Light Cruisers, Early Heavy Cruisers (1936)
LVL 2: Basic Destroyer (1937)
LVL 3: Basic Light Cruiser (1938)
LVL 4: Basic Heavy Cruiser (1939)
LVL 5: Improved Destroyer (1940)
LVL 6: Improved Light Cruiser (1941)
LVL 7: Improved Heavy Cruiser (1942)
LVL 8: Advanced Destroyer (1943)
LVL 9: Advanced Light Cruiser (1944)
LVL 10: Advanced Heavy Cruiser (1945)

LVL 0: Great War Battleship, Great War Battle Cruiser, Great War Carrier
LVL 1: Early Battle Cruiser (1936)
LVL 2: Early Carrier (1937)
LVL 3:Basic Battleship (1938)
LVL 4: Super Heavy Battleship (1939)
LVL 5: Basic Battle Cruiser (1940)
LVL 6: Basic Carrier (1941)
LVL 7: Improved Battleship, Improved Carrier (1942)
LVL 8: Improved Battle Cruiser (1943)
LVL 9: Advanced Battle Cruiser (1944)
LVL 10: Advanced Battleship, Advanced Carrier (1945)

Industrial Technology:
LVL 1: Basic Machine Tools, Basic Agriculture Equipment (1936)
LVL 2: Improved Machine Tools, Improved Agricultural Equipment (1937)
LVL 3: Advanced Machine Tools, Advanced Agricultural Equipment (1938)
LVL 4: Advanced Construction and Production Techniques (1939)
LVL 5: Basic Assembly Line, Basic Synthetic Oil (1940)
LVL 6: Improved Assembly Line, Basic Synthetic Rubber (1941)
LVL 7: Advanced Assembly Line, Improved Synthetic Oil (1942)
LVL 8: Advanced Mass Production, Improved Synthetic Rubber (1943)
LVL 9: Advanced Logistics and Supply, Advanced Synthetic Oil (1944)
LVL 10: Advanced Conversion and Refurbishing, Advanced Synthetic Rubber (1945)

Electronics
LVL 1: Basic Computers (1936)
LVL 2: Basic Encryption and Decryption (1937)
LVL 3: Basic Radar (1938)
LVL 4: Improved Computers (1939)
LVL 5: Improved Encryption (1940)
LVL 6: Improved Decryption (1941)
LVL 7: Improved Radar (1942)
LVL 8: Advanced Computers (1943)
LVL 9: Advanced Encryption and Decryption (1944)
LVL 10: Advanced Radar (1945)

Secret and Special Technology

Rocketry
LVL 1: Rocket and Jet Propulsion Theories (1936)
LVL 2: Rocket and Jet Propulsion Early Trials (1937)
LVL 3: Rocket and Jet Propulsion Engine Prototypes (1938)
LVL 4: Rocket Stabilization and Guidance (1939)
LVL 5: Cruise Missile (1940)
LVL 6: Early Ballistic Missile and Rocket Interceptor Engines (1941)
LVL 7: Jet Engine (1942)
LVL 8: Advanced Missile Guidance and Engines (1943)
LVL 9: Advanced Jet Engine (1944)
LVL 10: Advanced Ballistic Missile (1945)

Nuclear
LVL 1: Academy of Atomic Research (1936)
LVL 2: Atomic Research Facilities (1937)
LVL 3: Academy of Nuclear Research (1938)
LVL 4: Isotope Separation (1939)
LVL 5: Nuclear Fuels Research (1940)
LVL 6: Nuclear Reactor Prototype (1941)
LVL 7: Nuclear Power Production (1942)
LVL 8: Nuclear Waste Bomb (1943)
LVL 9: Semi-Fission Bomb (1944)
LVL 10: Fission Bomb (1945)

Special / Secret Weapons:
Prototype Rocket Interceptor, Rocket Interceptor
Prototype Jet Fighter, Jet Fighter
Prototype Jet CAS, Jet CAS
Prototype Jet Tactical Bomber, Jet Tactical Bomber
Prototype Jet Strategic Bomber, Jet Strategic Bomber
Air to Ground Missiles
Surface to Air Missiles
Anti-Ship Missiles
Cruise Missiles
Ballistic Missiles

Country Afghanistan
Ruler Muhammed Zahir
Government Fascist
Size Small (2)
Army
Infantry 1 Infantry Division (C), 5 Infantry Divisions (M)
Mobile 1 Cavalry Division (C)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 3
Agriculture 1
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 0
Infrastructure 2 (-10%)
Education 1 (+50%)
Living Standards 1 (-20%)
Stability Dissent
Technology INF(0) CAV(0)
Projects

Country Argentina
Ruler Agustin Justo
Government Fascist
Size Large (4)
Army
Infantry 5 Infantry Divisions (C), 1 Mountaineer Division (R) , 1 Mountaineer Division (C)
Navy
Capital Ships 2 Battleships
Surface Ships 2 Heavy Cruisers, 2 Light Cruisers, 2 Destroyers
Submarines 3 Submarines
Air Force
Fighters 3 Interceptor Wings (OB)
Bombers 1 Naval Bomber Wing
Economy 12
Agriculture 5
Industry 4
Services 2
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 1 (-20%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Stable
Projects

Country Australia
Ruler Joseph Lyons
Government Social Conservative
Size Large (4)
Army
Infantry 3 Infantry Divisions (C), 6 Infantry Divisions (M)
Mobile 2 Cavalry Divisions (C)
Navy
Surface Ships 2 Heavy Cruisers, 2 Light Cruisers, 1 Destroyer
Air Force
Bombers 1 Tactical Bomber Wing
Economy 12
Agriculture 5
Industry 3
Services 1
Commerce 3
Infrastructure 2 (-10%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Austria
Ruler Wilhelm Miklas
Government Fascist
Size Tiny (1)
Army
Infantry
Mobile
Navy
Air Force
Economy 7
Agriculture 1
Industry 2
Services 2
Commerce 2
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Civil War
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Belgium
Ruler Leopold III
Government Market Liberal
Size Medium (3)
Army
Infantry 12 Infantry Divisions (C), 1 Mountaineer Division (R) , 1 Mountaineer Division (C)
Mobile 1 Cavalry Division (C)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 10
Agriculture 2
Industry 3
Services 2
Commerce 3
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%) 3/9
Stability Dissent
Projects

Country Bhutan
Ruler Jigme Wangchuk
Government Paternal Autocrat
Size Tiny (1)
Army
Infantry 2 Infantry Divisions (M)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 3
Agriculture 1
Industry 1
Services 0
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 0 (-50%)
Education 1 (+25%)
Living Standards 1 (-20%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(0) CAV(0)
Projects

Country Bolivia
Ruler Jose Tejada Sorzano
Government Social Liberal
Size Medium (3)
Army
Infantry 4 Infantry Division (C), 2 Infantry Divisions (M)
Mobile 2 Cavalry Division (C)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 7
Agriculture 3
Industry 2
Services 1
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 2 (-10%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Dissent
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Brazil
Ruler Luis Carlos Prestes
Government Left-Wing Radical
Size Large (4)
Army
Infantry 2 Infantry Divisions (E), 3 Infantry Divisions (C), 8 Infantry Divisions (M)
Mobile 1 Cavalry Division (C)
Navy
Air Force
Fighters 1 Interceptor Wing
Economy 7/9 because of instability
Agriculture 4
Industry 3
Services 2
Commerce 0
Infrastructure 1 (-20%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2(-10%)
Stability Protests
Projects First Five Year Plan (4/40 2/20)

Country Bulgaria
Ruler Hristo Bontchev
Government National Socialist
Size Small (2)
Army
Infantry 8 Infantry Divisions (C)
Mobile 2 Cavalry Divisions (M)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 7
Agriculture 4
Industry 2
Services 1
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Canada
Ruler Mackenzie King
Government Market Liberal
Size Large (4)
Army
Infantry 1 Infantry Division (C)
Navy
Surface Ships 1 Destroyer
Air Force
Economy 13
Agriculture 6/5
Industry 3
Services 2
Commerce 2
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Chile
Ruler Arturo Alessandri Palma
Government Communist
Size Small (2)
Army
Infantry 2 Infantry Divisions (C), 1 Mountaineer Division (C)
Mobile 1 Cavalry Division (C)
Navy
Surface Ships 2 Light Cruisers, 1 Destroyer
Submarines 1 Submarine
Air Force
Fighters 1 Interceptor Wing
Economy 9
Agriculture 2
Industry 2
Services 3
Commerce 2
Infrastructure 2 (-10%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Dissent
Projects CSD (1)

Country China
Ruler Wang Jingwei
Government Paternal Autocrat
Size Large (4)
Army
Infantry 2 Infantry Divisions (R), 3 Infantry Divisions (R/OB), 22 Infantry Divisions (C/OB), 56 Infantry Divisions (M/OB), 2 Mountaineer Divisions (M)
Mobile 2 Motorized Infantry Divisions (C)
Navy
Surface Ships 2 Light Cruisers, 4 Destroyers
Air Force
Fighters 1 Interceptor Wing
Bombers 1 Tactical Wing
Economy 14/18 because of instability
Agriculture 9/10
Industry 5/7
Services 3
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 1 (-20%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 1 (-20%)
Stability Protests
Projects New Model Army (0/30 1/8)

Country Columbia
Ruler Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo
Government Social Democrat
Size medium (3)
Army
Infantry 1 Infantry Division (C)
Mobile 1 Cavalry Division (C)
Navy
Surface Ships 1 Destroyer
Air Force
Economy 6
Agriculture 3
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 1 (-20%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Dissent
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Costa Rica
Ruler Romualdo Jimenez Oreamurio
Government Social Liberal
Size Tiny (1)
Army
Infantry 1 Infantry Division (C)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 4
Agriculture 1
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 1 (-20%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Dissent
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Cuba
Ruler Jose Barnet y Vinajeras
Government Market Liberal
Size Small (2)
Army
Infantry 1 Infantry Division (C)
Mobile 1 Cavalry Division (C)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 5
Agriculture 2
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 2 (-10%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Czechoslovakia
Ruler Edouard Benes
Government Market Liberal
Size Small (2)
Army
Infantry 2 Infantry Divisions (R), 24 Infantry Divisions (C), 1 Mountaineer Division (R)
Mobile 1 Light Armor Divisions (R)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 11
Agriculture 3
Industry 4/3
Services 3
Commerce 2
Infrastructure 4 (+10%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Stable
Projects

Country Denmark
Ruler Thorvald Stauning
Government Social Democrat
Size Small (2)
Army
Infantry 1 Infantry Division (C)
Navy
Surface Ships 2 Heavy Cruisers
Submarines 2 Submarines
Air Force
Economy 7
Agriculture 1
Industry 1
Services 2
Commerce 3
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Dominican Republic
Ruler Rafel Trujillo
Government Paternal Autocrat
Size Tiny (1)
Army
Infantry 1 Infantry Division (C)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 3
Agriculture 1
Industry 1
Services 0
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 2 (-10%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Ecuador
Ruler Federico Paez Chiriboaga
Government Social Liberal
Size Small (2)
Army
Infantry 1 Infantry Division (C)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 6
Agriculture 3
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 2 (-10%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country El Salvador
Ruler Maximillano Hernandez Martinez
Government Paternal Autocrat
Size Tiny (1)
Army
Infantry 1 Infantry Division (C)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 4
Agriculture 1
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 1 (-20%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country France
Ruler Albert Lebrun
Government Social Liberal
Size Huge (5)
Army
Infantry 1 Infantry Division (E), 38 Infantry Divisions (C), 4 Mountaineer Divisions(R)
Mobile 4 Cavalry Divisions (C/OB), 2 Light Armor Divisions (R/OB)
Navy
Capital Ships 1 Carrier, 7 Battleships
Surface Ships 8 Heavy Cruisers, 8 Light Cruisers, 13 Destroyers
Submarines 18 Submarines
Air Force
Fighters 3 Interceptor Wings (OB)
Bombers 5 Tactical Bomber Wings
Economy 33 (extra 10 points this turn)
Agriculture 10/8
Industry 12/10
Services 6/5
Commerce 5
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 4 (-25%)
Living Standards 4 (+10%)
Stability Stable
Projects Kingdom (5/10 1/2) Elite (0)

Country Germany
Ruler Hans von Seeckt
Government Social Conservative
Size Medium (3)
Army
Infantry 35 Infantry Divisions (C)
Mobile 3 Light Armor Divisions (R/OB)
Navy
Capital Ships 2 Battlecruisers
Surface Ships 2 Heacy Cruisers, 7 Light Crusiers, 4 Destroyers
Submarines 3 Submarines
Air Force
Fighters 9 Interceptro Wings, 2 Interceptor Wings (OB)
Bombers 5 Tactical Bomber Wings, 6 Tactical Bomber Wings (OB)
Economy 41
Agriculture 9/7
Industry 18/14
Services 6/5
Commerce 8/7
Infrastructure 4 (+10%)
Education 4 (-25%)
Living Standards 4 (+10%)
Stability Dissent
Projects VolksTraktor (12/20 2/4)

Country Greece
Ruler Nikolaos Plastiras
Government Fascist
Size Small (2)
Army
Infantry 22 Infantry Divisions (C)
Mobile 2 Cavalry Division (C)
Navy
Surface Ships 2 Light Cruisers, 2 Destroyers
Submarines 2 Submarines
Air Force
Economy 12
Agriculture 4
Industry 3
Services 2
Commerce 3
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Guatemala
Ruler Jorge Ubico Castanego
Government Paternal Autocrat
Size Tiny (1)
Army
Infantry 1 Infantry Division (C)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 5
Agriculture 2
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 2 (-10%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Haiti
Ruler Stenio Vincent
Government Social Conservative
Size Tiny (1)
Army
Infantry 1 Infantry Division ©
Navy
Air Force
Economy 5
Agriculture 1
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 2
Infrastructure 2 (-10%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Honduras
Ruler Tiburcio Carias Andina
Government Paternal Autocrat
Size Tiny (1)
Army
Infantry 1 Infantry Division (C)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 5
Agriculture 1
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 2
Infrastructure 2 (-10%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Hungary
Ruler King Karl IV
Government Fascist
Size Small (2)
Army
Infantry 8 Infantry Divisions (C)
Navy
Air Force
Fighters 1 Interceptor Wing
Bombers 1 Tactical Bomber Wing
Economy 14
Agriculture 4
Industry 4
Services 3
Commerce 3
Infrastructure 3 (0%) 1/8
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Dissent
Projects

Country Italy
Ruler Benito Mussolini
Government National Socialist
Size Medium (3)
Army
Infantry 33 Infantry Divisions (C), 10 Infantry Divisions (M), 10 Mountaineer Divisions (C)
Cavalry 3 Cavalry Divisions (C)
Navy
Capital Ships 4 Battleships
Surface Ships 9 Heavy Cruisers, 14 Light Cruisers, 21 Destroyers
Submarines 13 Submarines
Air Force
Fighters 5 Interceptor Wings
Bombers 3 Tactical Bomber Wings, 3 Naval Bomber Wings
Economy 18/22
Agriculture 7/6
Industry 8/7
Services 4
Commerce 3
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Dissent
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects Magna Italia (1/10 1/8)

Country Japan
Ruler Prince Fumimaro Konoe
Government Paternal Autocrat
Size medium (3)
Army
Infantry 18 Infantry Divisions (R), 28 Infantry Divisions (C)
Cavalry 8 Cavalry Divisions (C)
Navy
Capital Ships 6 (5) Carriers, 7 Battleships, 4 Battlecruisers
Surface Ships 16 Heavy Cruisers, 25 Light Cruisers, 24 Destroyers
Submarines 9 Submarines
Air Force
Fighters 4 Interceptor Wings
Bombers 4 Tactical Bomber Wings, 2 Naval Bomber Wings
Economy 28
Agriculture 7/6
Industry 11/9
Services 4
Commerce 6
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Stable
Projects SAP (5) Yoshi (1)

Country Kurdistan
Ruler Ali ben Jawad
Government Paternal Autocrat
Size Small (2)
Army
Infantry 2 Infantry Divisions (C), 1 Mountaineer Division (C)
Navy
Submarines
Air Force
Economy 4
Agriculture 1
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 1 (-20%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(0) CAV(0)
Projects

Country Liberia
Ruler Edwin Barclay
Government Social Conservative
Size Tiny (1)
Army
Infantry 2 Infantry Divisions (C)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 4
Agriculture 1
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 2 (-10%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(0) CAV(0)
Projects

Country Luxemburg
Ruler Joseph Bech
Government Social Conservative
Size Tiny (1)
Army
Infantry 1 Infantry Division (C)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 4
Agriculture 1
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Mexico
Ruler Lazaro Cordenas
Government Social Democrat
Size Medium (3)
Army
Infantry 4 Infantry Divisions (C)
Mobile 2 Cavalry Divisions (C)
Navy
Air Force
Fighters 1 Interceptor Wing
Economy 9
Agriculture 5
Industry 2
Services 1
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Nepal
Ruler Tribhuvana
Government Paternal Autocrat
Size Small (1)
Army
Infantry 2 Infantry Divisions (M)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 4
Agriculture 1
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 0 (-50%)
Education 1 (+50%)
Living Standards 1 (-20%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(0) CAV(0)
Projects

Country Netherlands
Ruler Hendricus Colijn
Government Market Liberal
Size medium (3)
Army
Infantry 14 Infantry Divisions (C)
Mobile 2 Cavalry Divisions (C)
Navy
Surface Ships 4 Light Cruisers, 3 Destroyers
Submarines 3 Submarines
Air Force
Fighters 3 Interceptor Wings (OB)
Economy 15
Agriculture 5/4
Industry 3
Services 3
Commerce 4
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 4 (+25%)
Living Standards 4 (+10%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country New Zealand
Ruler Michael Savage
Government Social Democrat
Size Small (2)
Army
Infantry 4 Infantry Divisions (C)
Mobile 3 Cavalry Divisions (C)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 6
Agriculture 3
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Nicaragua
Ruler Juan Bautista Sacasa
Government Social Conservative
Size Tiny (1)
Army
Infantry 1 Infantry Division (C)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 5
Agriculture 2
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 2 (-10%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Norway
Ruler Johan Nygaardsvold
Government Social Democrat
Size Medium (3)
Army
Infantry 2 Infantry Divisions (C)
Navy
Surface Ships 2 Heacy Cruisers
Submarines 2 Submarines
Air Force
Economy 6
Agriculture 1
Industry 1
Services 2
Commerce 2
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 4 (-25%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Panama
Ruler Harmodio Arias de la Madrid
Government Market Liberal
Size Tiny (1)
Army
Infantry 1 Infantry Division (C)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 5
Agriculture 2
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 2 (-10%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Paraguay
Ruler Eusebio Ayala
Government Market Liberal
Size Small (2)
Army
Infantry 2 Infantry Divisions (C)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 5
Agriculture 2
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 2 (-10%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Persia
Ruler Reza Pahlavi
Government Paternal Autocrat
Size Medium (3)
Army
Infantry 1 Infantry Division (C)
Mobile 1 Cavalry Division (C)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 7
Agriculture 3
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 2
Infrastructure 2 (-10%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(0) CAV(0)
Projects

Country Peru
Ruler Victor Rael Haya de la Torre
Government National Socialist
Size Small (2)
Army
Infantry 4 Infatry Divisions (C), 3 Mountaineer Division (C)
Navy
Surface Ships 2 Heacy Cruisers, 1 Destroyer
Submarines 1 Submarine
Air Force
Economy 8
Agriculture 3
Industry 2
Services 1
Commerce 2
Infrastructure 2 (-10%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Poland
Ruler Maciej Rataj
Government Paternal Autocrat
Size Small (2)
Army
Infantry 14 Infatry Divisions (C), 1 Mountaineer Division (C)
Mobile 1 Cavalry Divisions (C)
Navy
Surface Ships 1 Destroyer
Submarines 1 Submarine
Air Force
Fighters 2 Interceptor Wing
Bombers
Economy 8/19 because of instability
Agriculture 7/5
Industry 7/5
Services 3
Commerce 2
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Civil War
Projects

Country Portugal
Ruler Antonio de Fragosa Carmona
Government Paternal Autocrat
Size Medium (3)
Army
Infantry 2 Infantry Divisions (C)
Navy
Surface Ships 2 Destroyers
Submarines 1 Submarine
Air Force
Bombers 1 Tactical Bomber Wing
Economy 10
Agriculture 3
Industry 2
Services 2
Commerce 3
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Romania
Ruler Gheorghe Tatarescu
Government Social Liberal
Size Small (2)
Army
Infantry 6 Infantry Divisions (C), 3 Mountaineer Divisions (C)
Mobile 6 Cavalry Divisions (C)
Navy
Air Force
Fighters 1 Interceptor Wing
Bombers 1 Tactical Bomber Wing
Economy 6/10
Agriculture 4
Industry 2
Services 2
Commerce 2
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Riots
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Russia
Ruler Boris Savinkov
Government National Socialist
Size Huge (5)
Army
Infantry 84 Infantry Divisions (C/OB), 5 Mountaineer Divisions (C)
Mobile 3 Cavalry Divisions (C), 5 Motorized Divisions (C), 5 Light Armor Divisions (R), 4 Light Armor Divisions (C/OB)
Navy
Capital Ships 4 Battlecruisers (OB)
Surface Ships 2 Heavy Cruiser (OB), 5 Light Cruisers (OB), 8 Destroyers (OB)
Submarines 25 Submarines (OB)
Air Force
Fighters 3 Iterceptor Wings (OB)
Bobmers 3 Tactical Bomber Wings (OB)
Economy 40/50 due to instability
Agriculture 17/15
Industry 20/15
Services 5
Commerce 8
Infrastructure 3 (0%) 15/20
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Protests
Projects First Five Year Plan (0/200 2/20)

Country Serbia
Ruler Punisa Racic
Government Paternal Autocrat
Size Small (2)
Army
Infantry 17 Infantry Divisions (C), 1 Mountaineer Division (C)
Mobile 4 Cavalry Divisions (C)
Navy
Surface Ships 1 Destroyer
Submarines 1 Submarine
Air Force
Fighters 1 Interceptor Wing
Bombers 1 Tactical Bomber Wing
Economy 10
Agriculture 4
Industry 3
Services 2
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Siam
Ruler Phot Bhahalyodin
Government Paternal Autocrat
Size Small (2)
Army
Infantry 3 Infantry Divisions (C)
Navy
Surface Ships 2 Light Cruisers, 1 Destroyer
Air Force
Fighters 1 Interceptor Wing
Bombers 1 Tactical Bomber Wing
Economy 6
Agriculture 3
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 2 (-10%)
Education 2 (+25%)
Living Standards 2 (-10%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) HC(0) LC(0) DD(0) CA(0) BB(0) BC(0)
Projects

Country South Africa
Ruler James Hertzog
Government Market Liberal
Size Medium (3)
Army
Infantry 3 Infantry Divisions (C)
Navy
Air Force
Economy 6
Agriculture 3
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Spain
Ruler ?
Government National Socialist
Size Medium (3)
Army
Infantry 7 Infantry Divisions (C), 1 Mountaineer Division (C)
Mobile 1 Light Armor Division (C)
Navy
Capital Ships 2 Battlecruisers
Surface Ships 6 Light Cruisers, 4 Destroyers
Submarines 2 Submarines
Air Force
Fighters 3 Interceptor Wings
Bombers 3 Tactical Bomber Wings, 2 Strategic Bomber Wings
Economy 6/14 because of instability
Agriculture 6/5
Industry 4
Services 2
Commerce 2
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Civil War
Projects

Country Sweden
Ruler Per Albin Hansson
Government Social Democrat
Size Medium (3)
Army
Infantry 3 Infantry Divisions (C)
Navy
Capital Ships 3 Battlecruisers
Surface Ships 4 Heavy Cruisers, 2 Light Cruisers, 1 Destroyer
Submarines 2 Submarines
Air Force
Fighters
Bombers 1 Tactical Bomber Wing, 1 Naval Bomber Wing
Economy 7
Agriculture 2
Industry 2
Services 2
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Switzerland
Ruler Albert Meyer
Government Market Liberal
Size Small (2)
Army
Infantry 6 Infantry Divisions (C), 3 Mountaineer Divisions (C)
Navy
Air Force
Bombers 1 Tactical Bomber Wing
Economy 6
Agriculture 1
Industry 1
Services 2
Commerce 2
Infrastructure 4 (+10%)
Education 4 (+10%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country Turkey
Ruler Abdul Mejid II
Government Paternal Autocrat
Size Medium (3)
Army
Infantry 10 Infantry Divisions (C), 1 Mountaineer Division (C)
Mobile 3 Cavalry Divisions (C)
Navy
Air Force
Fighters 1 Interceptor Wing
Bomber 1 Tactical Bomber Wing
Economy 6
Agriculture 2
Industry 2
Services 1
Commerce 1
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Dissent
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country United Kingdom
Ruler Stanley Baldwin
Government Market Liberal
Size Huge (5)
Army
Infantry 36 Infantry Divisions (C/OB)
Navy
Capital Ships 7 Carriers, 14 Battleships, 3 Battlecruisers
Surface Ships 2 Heavy Cruisers, 19 Heavy Cruisers (OB), 36 Light Cruisers (OB), 38 Destroyers
Submarines 4 Submarines, 10 Submarines (OB)
Air Force
Fighters 3 Interceptor Wings (OB), 3 Interceptor Wings (OB)
Bombers 5 Tactical Bomber Wings (OB)
Economy 47
Agriculture 9/8
Industry 17/15
Services 6/5
Commerce 15
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 4 (-25%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Country United States
Ruler Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government Social Liberal
Size Huge (5)
Army
Infantry 20 Infantry Divisions (R)
Mobile 1 Cavalry Division (R)
Navy
Capital Ships 3 Carriers (OB), 18 Battleships
Surface Ships 18 Heavy Cruisers, 12 Light Cruisers, 33 Destroyers
Submarines 20 Submarines (OB)
Air Force
Fighters 2 Interceptor Wings (OB)
Bombers 4 Tactical Bomber Wings (OB), 1 Strategic Bomber Wing
Economy 57
Agriculture 18/14
Industry 22/16
Services 7/6
Commerce 10/9
Infrastructure 4 (+10%)
Education 4 (-25%)
Living Standards 4 (+10%)
Stability Dissent
Projects

Country Venezuela
Ruler Eleazar Contreras
Government Paternal Autocrat
Size Medium (3)
Army
Infantry 2 Infantry Divisions
Mobile 1 Cavalry Division
Navy
Air Force
Economy 7
Agriculture 3
Industry 1
Services 1
Commerce 2
Infrastructure 3 (0%)
Education 3 (0%)
Living Standards 3 (0%)
Stability Stable
Technology INF(1) MNT(2) CAV(0) ARM(0) INT(1) TAC(1) NAC(3) SB(1) HC(1) LC(1) DD(2) CA(0) BB(0) BC(1) MT(1) AE(1)
Projects

Alliances

American-Mexican Alliance
American-Cuban Alliance
American - Russian Alliance
The British Commonwealth
UK-Persian Alliance
The Entente: United Kingdom, France, Spain, Serbia, Poland and Greece
Russo-Polish Alliance
Russo-Bulgarian Alliance
Russo-Chinese Alliance
United Kingdom-Kurdistani Alliance
United Kingdom-Siamese Alliance
United Kingdom-Dutch Alliance
Franco-Dutch Alliance
Franco-Belgian Alliance
Franco-Luxemburg Alliance
Bolivia-Paraguay-Brazil Mutual Protection Pact
Sino-American Alliance
United Kingdom-Belgian Alliance

NAPs
Japan and Russia sign a NAP until March 1938
Greece and Seria sign an indefinite NAP
France and Italy sign a NAP until January 1938
Bolivia and Paraguay sign a NAP until January 1939
Brazil and Mexico sing a NAP until January 1939
Japan and China sing a NAP until October 1937
Germany and Dutch sign a NAP until January 1939
Entante and Russia sign a NAP until March 1938

Other Agreements

Germany guarantees the indepenence of Poland, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Austria, Czechslovakia, and the Netherlands.
Brazil-Chile Treaty of Friendship


Germany - Stalin006
Russia - Insane Panda
USA - Symphony D.
UK - Azale
France - Capulet
Japan - JosefStalinator
Canada - ThomAnder
Argentina - Disenfrancised
Italy - Swissempire
Serbia - Cleric
Sweden - Contempt
Netherlands - Wubba360
Brazil - Feanor
Poland - tommy toon
China - Alex994
Hungary - das
Spain - Gelion
Belgium - Icmancin
Greece - KrimzonStriker

Update 1 - http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=175877&page=12

Japan confirming!

and first post!

Damn you Jo. Still not sure if I'm Poland or Russia . . .

Confirming Italy.... Stormy, can you confirm who got which powers?

Me=China

germany..... altough i tought u were going to choose

Confirming the UK... I believe I was the only one to apply.

Applications:

Germany: Stalin006
Russia: Insane Panda
USA: Symphony D.
UK: Cuivienen
France:

Reservations:
Japan - JosefStalinator
Canada - ThomAnder
Argentina - Disenfrancised
Italy - Swissempire
Serbia - Cleric
Sweden - Contempt
Netherlands - Wubba360
Brazil - Feanor
Turkey - Azale
Poland - tommy toon
China - Alex994
Hungary - das
Spain - Goober
Mexico - Kentharu
Belgium - Icmancin
Greece - KrimzonStriker

I still have an open France. Those of you who have applied for a nation but did not get it, please go ahead and chose another one.

Stormy, what do the slashes in my economy mean?

I believe silver also applied for France, amongst his other applications.

And what's up with my (Poland's) funny looking city I think it should give me double eco since it's so big

explain the slashes tomorrow
its off to bed for me right now

bummer, oh well confirming mexico

Mussolini looked over the crowd.

He raised his hand in a closed fist in the air, in not an angry way, but a confident suave way.

La gente, la gente dell'Italia

And the people cheered back, "La gente del Dichiarare, la gente dell'Italia"

Have I not lead you? Have I not built Italia, brought efficency, brought self-suffiency?

According to the "free" press he had. The people answered, "Sì e molto più"

Have I not brought security, freedom, loyalty and life to Italia?

"Sì e molto più"

Do you trust me, my people?

"Sì, alle estremità della terra"

You do, and you should. For it is not me, its we. Its all of us. Its the people of the state. We have defeated our enemies!

"Il socialista, l'anarchico, il Repubblicano radicale, il marxista, lo straniero, they are defeated"

And we spread from qui a là. We are generazione Il Nuovo Impero Romano. We are making L'Utopia del Dichiarare. The Utopia of the State

"L'Utopia"

I have brought stability, security. I have revitalized the economy. We have done this. You and the State. The State and you!

"Il Dichiarare è buono"

Sì, la mia gente, il dichiarare è molto buona

"Mussolini il grande"

La gente è grande

And together the people and Mussolini cheered "Il Dichiarare è grande"

And then as Mussolini waved and left, the people chanted his name.

OOC: 1st story