Revolution IOT History Thread

Since I thought it'd be a good idea to do a little write-up over the various now-defunct nations of RIOT, I wanted to at least share the first one I worked on. This thread should be for the discussion of history inside the game in-detail. I'll use this thread and the game thread for the basis when I post "history articles" like the one below. You can post your own history articles (and it doesn't just have to be over a nation. It can be about culture and science and more as long as it's not completely stupid). Just make sure you PM me BEFORE posting an article.

Good articles will get your nation a bonus in the game for a turn. Helping me with information on my next article will get you something too if the help was pretty....helpful.
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Players may not remember that small nation of Abyssinia which lasted only eight years (1952-1959 which means three turns game time). However, it was one of few truly democratic nations in the world at its inception (and at its demise) and the only one to have restored order in a large part of East Africa.

Abyssinia (sometimes referred to as Ethiopia)

Abyssinia was created in 1952 as one of dozens of post-Revolution nations. A highly-capitalistic monarchy, Abyssinia was a stable government in Africa until 1958 when crisis started rocking the foundation of the government. That was the same year Abyssinia reached its territorial zenith by being the second major player on the Red Sea. The government collapsed in 1959 and unlike the collapse of several other post-Revolution nations, the country collapsed completely, leaving a power vacuum in the region which was partially filled by first the Pirates, then Na-Na-Nine, and then partially by the Neo Old Kingdom. Still, there are parts of the region that have yet to recover.


History

In 1950, two men, Sahlei Selassie and Adamu Taye, helped reestablish order in the region. Sahlei Selassie was royalty in the pre-Revolution government while Adamu Taye was a popular political figure in the region. They created a new government with the capital set, again, in Addis Abeba and by 1952, Abyssinia was a functional nation-state The new country contained most of Ethiopia, Eritrea, and parts of Yemen across the Red Sea. By 1958, Abyssinia would control all of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and large parts of Sudan and Kenya.

The country socially-forward compared to other nations in the region. For starters, it was the only country in Africa in the country to have universal suffrage. A feat that has yet to be matched even now (1968). The Conservative Capitalists were the controlling party in Parliament for the eight years with Libertarians being a close second. The Socialists and Liberal parties were small, but still respected parties in Parliament. Finally, there were the Fascists and the Islamic Party of God. While voting for the Fascist Party of Abyssinia wasn't against the law, it was socially frowned upon much. The Islamic Party of God, despite the country with a population being 33% Muslim (compared to 55% Christian), had the same amount of influence in Parliament that the Fascists did which is to say, not much, due to their extreme fundamentalism.

Adamu Taye became was Abyssinia first of only two Prime Ministers. During his term, Abyssinia took small steps to modernization but not large enough. By 1956, 15% of the population was unemployed and the number was growing. In February 1958, Ras Gobena became Prime Minister but by then, the writing was on the wall. Paramilitaries were popping up in Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, and Yemen. The government couldn't afford the costs of maintaining a large modern army. Things finally came to an end when Ras Gobena and the Abyssinia family fled to Egypt. The government collapsed.


Development and Economy

Abyssinia relied heavily on agriculture. While there were more than a few factories in the country by 1958, Abyssinia was still very much an agrarian nation which largest agriculture exports was coffee beans. Not much can be said about development as it was hampered by the 1955 Famine which put the nation on the path to collapse in 1958.

Military

Abyssinia weak spot which was never exploited by outside nations but was exploited by internal elements is the military. Lacking much in the way of industrial might, Abyssinia heavily relied on imports from nations like Na-Na-Nine in southern Africa, the DB Corporation, and sometimes the Neo-Old Kingdom. Because of this, Abyssinia's armored divisions still used old pre-WW2 Italian models. Oil production plummeted immediately following the Revolution. However, the Holy Land did eventually recover most of the oil production in the Middle East and oil prices dropped.

Abyssinian small arms were largely old Italian rifles. By 1956, DBC sub-machine guns and Soviet assault rifles were beginning to flood the markets but Abyssinia had a hard time buying everything in needed because of the famine the year previous.

Foreign Policy

Abyssinia, until 1955, was highly isolationist. In 1955, there was a dispute of claims between Great Britain and Abyssinia over Somalia but since Great Britain's government collapsed and was overtaken by English Socialists, Abyssinia took the territory without trouble.

Legacy

Today (1968), much of former Abyssinia is still lawless and controlled by warlords. Somalia and Eritrea is controlled by the Neo Old Kingdom however. For the most part, this nation was ignored internationally and no attempts at peacekeeping had even came up falling the collapse of the country.

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Next Nation Article: New Rising Sun (1949-1955)

The New Rising Sun was a small, post-Revolution nation that, while not significant in itself, created a situation in which the Pacific West Coast of North America was plunged into a long grueling war.

History

The Allies launched Operation Downfall during the beginning of the Revolution. Because of this, Downfall failed and so did much of the nations of the world. Japan itself was in a period of chaos in the two years between Downfall and the New Rising Sun in 1949 when the Zaibatsu took power. The history of the Allied soldiers in Japan following the aborted Operation Downfall is….sketchy. The Zaibatsu, using the Allied soldiers, who like the rest of Japan were fighting for survival in the post-Revolution world, took power and the soldiers ended up settling in Japan.

This would cause later in 1955 when the Japanese, tired of the massive number of foreigners competing for jobs in the New Rising Sun, took up arms against both the Zaibatsu and European/American soldiers who had taken the side of the government. There were a myriad of other problems as well which will be discussed shortly.

The public leader of the New Rising Sun was Representative Keiko Kajami. She represented the nation and was the Head of the Propaganda Ministry. Beyond that, she had very little power as the Zaibatsu controlled domestic affairs and how the nation would interact with the outside world.

Another major issue of the New Rising Sun was State Atheism. The Zaibatsu, fearing (or maybe trying to scapegoat) that Christians or domestic religions would try to supplant the power of the corporations, ordered State Atheism in 1950. State Atheism made public displays of worship, idols, etc. punishable by law. "Religion in the household" was legal as long as it didn't organize. Hundreds were put to death for trying to organize religion inside Japan.

Japan practiced eugenics and thousands of physically-disabled (at birth) and mentally-disabled men, women, and children were sterilized between 1953 and 1955. Homosexuality was called as a "mental disorder" and so, they were sterilized as well.

Development and Economy

Japan's economic growth stagnated through the New Rising Sun period, even as the population managed to grow. Unemployment rose but not quite like it did in Abyssinia. For the most part, Japanese factories were still clocking in but the problem was the lack of resources. Japan couldn't maintain a navy to keep Korea, China, and British Columbia in check and soon those territories were being threatened by internal elements.

Japanese agriculture and mining brought in more money through trade between 1949 and 1953 as the Zaibatsu slowly began rebuilding the factories and shipyards destroyed during World War 2 and the Revolution. By 1956, Japan was close to pre-war production.

Foreign Policy

Again, the New Rising Sun was one of those nations that looked inward. By 1956, the government was fighting to keep control of Korea (which soon degraded into chaos), China (where a Warlord had taken power in 1955) and British Columbia (where, of all people, Pirates had taken power).

There was a coup d`etat that supported the popular uprising and soon, the European/Americans and Zaibatsu were booted from government.

Legacy

Today (1968), the Chinese Warlord that had taken control of Japan's Chinese territory is still in control of the region 13 years later. The Vancouver Pirates later on would challenge Batmanistan for control of the West Coast (and win). The Pirates were later reunited under the Pirate King but the Vancouver Pirate's time of power was ended by a resurgent Batmanistan, Na-Na-Nine, and Southwest Africa.

Today, the Japanese Home Islands are controlled by the DB-supported Zaibatsu.

(Just a suggestion... why not cut out the other nations from the maps?)

civplayah said:

(Just a suggestion... why not cut out the other nations from the maps?)

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That would involve me uploading a new map. Although, future updates will have me just cut up the map.

i could write up the Spanish History article, but in all honesty, i think Sonereal should do it. it will take weeks for me to write up everything on the expert level.

Mathalamus said:

i could write up the Spanish History article, but in all honesty, i think Sonereal should do it. it will take weeks for me to write up everything on the expert level.

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My work isn't exactly "professional".

it is way more professional than mine though. and it would be full of bias. better an impartial person do it.

République Française

The République Française (also known as the Fourth French Republic, France, and Eastern France) lasted from 1945 until 1956 when the Republic broke down into the French Civil War. The French Republic is remarkable in that it somehow managed to survive the cataclysmic Revolution (one of the few nations to do so). However, France had lost the western half of the nation but Paris remained in-tact. France, despite its growing economy, was plagued by two extreme problems which caused its collapse.

Socialist Great Britain across the English Channel sent aid to the Socialists in France while the Fascists continued to grow in power in southern France. The Federal Republic, led by Vincent Jules Auriol (1945-1952) was unable to deal with the growing factions in time. However, it was during the presidency of René Jules Gustave Coty that the Fascists finally seized control of government. The Battle for Paris began shortly thereafter and after a string of rapid victories by Socialist Northern France, Southern France had been pushed back south.

During the eleven years of the Fourth French Republic's existence, Europe had been at peace. Spain and France were both mixed economies. Fascist Portugal was Capitalist and the Yugoslavians to the east were Socialists. There was a balance of power between Capitalism and Socialism in Europe until the collapse of the French Fourth Republic.


Politics of the French Republic

The first President, Vincent Auriol, was a member of the Nationalist Party of France and the Nationalists controlled the French Congress between 1945 and 1949. President Auriol's single eight-year term of office was marked with France reestablishing order in many parts of France. However, the economy continued to worsen. Many factories and farms destroyed during World War 2 still were in a dire state of disrepair and the unemployment rate was dangerously high. After a wave of protests in 1948, the voters made their presence know by voting in a Socialist majority to make up the Third Congress in 1949. Finally, Vincent Auriol was voted out and replaced by René Coty in the 1952 Elections.

Coty's, a member of the French Socialist Party, victory sparked protests in the southern half of France where most of the Nationalist and Catholic voters were. Slowly, Coty's government began receiving aid from Great Britain while the southern half began acting more and more independent of the northern half until finally, the Civil War broke out in 1956.

Economy of the Fourth French Republic

World War 2, the extremely brief World War 3, and the following Revolution saw a large amount of French industry destroyed in high-intensity aerial bombings. Briefly by the Germans but then intensely by the Soviets. France spent a large part of the time between 1945 and 1956 reestablishing something close to pre-war France economically speaking and had achieved pre-war levels in 1954. If it hadn't been for the Civil War, there's a good chance that France would've been an industrial power house by the end of the 50s.

Most factories, in the early years, were focused on military production. Between 1948 and 1953, the nation was slowly transitioning back into production of consumer goods but as internal stability began to weaken, the focus shifted back onto the production of small arms and armor.

Military

The Fourth French Republic, for a brief time, was a regional military power and a buffer zone between socialist Central and Eastern Europe and, at the time, Capitalist Republic Spain. French weapons left over from the Second World War filled the French arsenal until new weapons, such as the FAR-51 (French assault rifle), came into production and began to slowly phase out submachine guns and rifles as main frontline weapons.

French armor was the best in the region but mainly because so many survived the wars. In any case, a new tank began rolling off the assembly line shortly before the French Civil War called the Gaul Tank which was based on a heavily-modified German Panther Tank. When the Civil War broke out, the few Gaul Tanks fell into Socialist France's possession.

Foreign Policy

The French were no allies of the Nation of X, the DB Corporation, of Batmanistan. However, France did get along with their neighbors for the most part. Yugoslavia to the east was too far away for the question ever to come up. However, Spain and Great Britain were friends, if not allies, of France during the early 50s. When a coup by English Socialists in the military took control of Great Britain's government in the mid-50s, ties weren't severed by Great Britain became isolationist.

Legacy

Today, France is part of the Western European Union, a supra-national organization of Great Britain and Socialist France. The Western European Union was one of the first nations to detonate an atomic bomb shortly after the American League and the nation played a large role in the Nile War.

Next Article: Holy Land up until the Khitan War of Aggression.

The Holy Land (also known as Greater Israel or just Israel)

The Holy Land (also known as Greater Israel or Israel) was a nation created in Palestine that, in time, controlled large parts of the Middle East. It lasted from 1948 to late 1967. At the time of writing (1970), the Holy Land's role in regional politics is still controversial. Holy Land (which will hence be referred to simply as "Israel") created a system throughout the Middle East where the Judges controlled territories and the government was so decentralized that the difference in governance between even two neighboring territories would be quite noticeable to a tourist traveling through the region. Israel's state religion, Orthodox Judaism, was enforced to various degrees throughout the region despite the religion clearly being a minority. Some Judges were liberal and allowed a relatively high amount of religious tolerance while, in other regions, Sunni Islam and Christianity were suppressed. Especially in Ankara (which lead to the infamous Ankara Riots of 1965).


Israel is infamous for having started the Nile War which lasted from 1957 to 1963, leading to the deaths of seven million soldiers along with displacing millions of civilians in the Sinai and Eastern Nile regions, and for declaring "Jewhad" (Holy War) against Spain, leading to the Mediterranean War which resulted in the first use of atomic bombs being used in war and lead to the destruction of Maryland earlier this year (1970).

History

During the First World War, the British issued the Balfour Declaration. Flash forward twenty years and tensions between the Zionists and Arab and Palestinians escalate to the point of revolt. The British aided the Zionists against the Arab revolters through arming them. However, as the Second World War came to an end in Europe and the Third World War began, a man leading the more fundamentalist of the Israelis establish control over Israel in 1948. The Holy Land as it was called had one of the stranger political systems.

King David became the King of the Holy Land but since the Holy Land had markings of a Constitutional Monarchy, the Prime Minister was the representative of the Holy Land in international discussion. The unicameral parliament's only power was the power to decide where state funds would go. The Judges, governors of their own region, had far more power over their territory than the Prime Minister or Parliament had with the power to enforce the laws and collect taxes as they see fit.

The constitution forbade the Holy Land's Prime Minister, King, or Parliament to declare war. Only the Priesthood could declare "Jewhad".

Early on in its history, the Holy Land came into conflict with neighboring Egypt (officially called the Neo Old Kingdom). The Priesthood of the Holy Land claimed that "Greater Israel" should span from the Euphrates to the Nile and very strongly opposed the Pagan beliefs of the Neo Old Kingdom. The rhetoric was harsh with lines such as

"You on the other hand, are the leader of the Sons of Ham. You exist only to serve us. You should be swearing vassalage to us. That said, we will allow you to live peacefully, FOR NOW".

Meanwhile, the Holy Land's government clamped down on demands of the Muslim populations for an independent Islamic state (or any independent state really). Israel did not see the Muslims as an enemy and accepted that they were also the "sons of Abraham" and only the most dictatorial Judges forbade Muslims worship. The Holy Land, like a select few other nations, opposed European colonization of the Middle East. By 1956, the seeds of conflict were planted between Spain and the Holy Land. When Juan Carlos of Spain declared himself Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (after seizing control of Constantinople), Egypt and the Holy Land found themselves temporary on the international argument.

The Nile War

However, by 1957, tensions had reached a pitch. The Egyptians and Israelis had dug lines of static defenses near Sinai. High Priest Aaron (a title, not his actual name) of the Holy Land went to parliament in Jerusalem and told the Prime Minister and Parliament of his dream of the Lord telling him that the Judges should raise their armies and take Egypt's Red Sea coastal territories and the Sinai. The Holy Land offered generous payment in exchange for allowing the Holy Land military annex Sinai and everything east of the Nile. Clearly, Egypt refused.

Finally, the Holy Land attacked but the entrenched Egyptians repelled the Israeli invaders who attacked across the Red Sea and the Sinai. Even as the attacks failed, the Holy Land offered Egypt one last chance to accept the deal to which Egypt refused. By the Autumn of 1957, Maryland was threatening to use "atomic bombs" on Israel if it did not withdraw. The Holy Land called their bluff.

In 1958, Egypt took the initiative and began blockading the Holy Land through the Eastern Mediterranean. Meanwhile, Maryland marines landed near the town of Ashdod, 30 miles from Jerusalem. The Battle of Ashdod resulted in a Marylander loss and after a week of intense fighting, Maryland had been forced back to the sea and 1.5 million were dead. The political situation in the Holy Land slowly deteriorated as Jerusalem had come close to having Marylander soldiers parading through it and the Priesthood, sensing that the 800,000 Holy Warriors were killed by God as a sign that there was sin in camp. Lots were drawn across the country and one man his family were burned along with their possessions and home.

The Pirates (a criminal organization based in Vancouver) attempted to send ships to aid the Holy Land but Marylander and Egyptians ships sunk the Pirate ships. This was in January, 1959. In the summer of 1959, Maryland landed another large force. This time in Turkey. Despite suffering heavy losses, the Holy Land Army had been pushed back and the beaches had been secured. By October, the Marylander succeeded in taking the first territory of the war. This sparked the Turkish Rebellion which the Judges of each Turkish province quelled through excessive force. In spite of the these setbacks, the Holy Land took Sinai in November.

On December 3rd, 1959, the Western European Union declared war on Egypt and Maryland. Throughout the month, the Maryland Empire and Neo Old Kingdom attempted to persuade the Spanish Empire to intervene due to a mutual defensive clause in the Mediterranean Union Charter. Spain declined even condemning Israel or the WEU, let alone declaring war and to get around the Article One of the MU Charter, Spain disbanded the Mediterranean Union.

The Western European Union and Marylander ships clashed in the Mediterranean Sea throughout the month until the Treaty of London was signed on January 14th, 1960, ending the war with a white peace. The Western European Union had proven itself in combat while Maryland and Egypt got the WEU out of the way. The white peace clause was enforced by the Amurian Soviet Republic.

In the largest military victory in Greater Israel history (and the greatest Marylander military defeat), Greater Israel's army somehow got behind the approaching Marylander Army. The Holy Land destroyed the supply lines and quickly took back the port and before the Marylanders realized it, they were stuck in no-man's land between Ankara and the Greater Israel Army.

There was a short lull in fighting which picked up in 1961 when the Holy Land launched an invasion to take the Sinai for the third time. Again, the Egyptians repelled the attack. That summer, the Egyptians attempted to succeed where Maryland failed and take Jerusalem but the Isarelis knocked them back. The war had become a stalemate. So in 1962, the SRFJ (Yugoslavia) proposed the Treaty of Doboj to the Holy Land which wish to create closer economic, cultural, and political ties and create an alliance. Article Three stated that Yugoslavia will not get involved in ongoing wars but Article Six stated that Yugoslavia will send weapons in the Holy Land's aid.


The Pharaoh of Egypt sent a request for a ceasefire so negotiations could begin. Neither side, at that point, was winning the war but Yugoslavia stated that they will only support a treaty in which Egypt at least loses the Sinai and concedes defeat. Spain, former allies of the three warring parties, publically supported this sentiment. Slowly, Egypt and its Fascist Totalitarians ally-in-war, Maryland, were finding themselves being turned on by the Socialists. The SRFJ First Fleet took off from ports in Greece in March. Meanwhile, Spain's Emperor announced support for the Holy Land and a recently unannounced alliance.

Maryland not only recalled diplomats from Spain, but is accused of having rigged a car bomb in the cars of Spanish diplomats in Maryland, killing several. Spanish embassy workers in Egypt were killed for attempting to refit the embassy as a Jewish synagogue. Yugoslavia kicked out Egyptian diplomats but unlike the others, did not do something over-the-top to anger the populations of those nations. The year went on and the situation intensified as the Holy Land launched another attack against Egypt. The Egyptian-Marylander blockade on Holy Land ports was starting to take its toll. 1962 ended with Yugoslavia and Spain declaring war on Egypt. Spain closed off the Gibraltar to Maryland leaving Egypt, alone, to fend off three Mediterranean powers.

Which, at that point, Maryland was no longer an ally. In April of 1963, the military launched a coup and set up a totalitarian communist government which made a 180-degree turn in Marylander foreign policy and declared war on Egypt. With the growing power of the Socialist World, leadership in Spain began to question siding with them in the war against Egypt which was realized when the Emperor attempted socialist reforms based on English Socialism. The rest of the leadership was becoming growingly frustrated with Communists in general.

The war ended with the Treaty of Tel Aviv that year. The Neo Old Kingdom was forced to cede territory east of the Nile, including the Sinai, and their single Turkish holding in exchange for a paltry payment.

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Will be Continued

Be more biased!

be less biased. i disbanded the MU because it was horribly ineffective.

note: i will try to write up a spanish history article.

It would have been perfectly fine since France and England left.

Mathalamus said:

be less biased. i disbanded the MU because it was horribly ineffective.

note: i will try to write up a spanish history article.

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The problem with that is that it fits with Spain's history of indecisiveness during the Nile War in which you at first pledged neutrality, then disbanded the MU when members started demanding you join in on the war, and then finally you declaring war on Egypt. Unlike Maryland, there was no military coup or anything to explain the constant change in foreign policy so disbanding the MU to keep yourself (Spain) out of the war made more sense than disbanding the MU during two years into the war for "being horribly ineffective" and even then, the history article plays is straight. The MU was horribly ineffective but for more reasons than "just because you said it was horribly ineffective" but because Spain's foreign policy up until recently was horribly ineffective.

yeah, i apologize for that. indecision is rampant. sometimes it leaks out to games.

and i cant write the history article without it being horrible...

Mathalamus said:

and i cant write the history article without it being horrible...

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Write one. Send it to me. I'll tune it up, edit it, and add stuff.

Holy Land continued

By the end of the Nile War, Egypt's government had adopted English Socialism.

The Holy Land had hardly seen peace for a year before tensions between it and Spain grew to a fever pitch. Spain's Emperor abdicated the throne of Spain and became President-for-Life of the newly minted Mathalamus Republic. The Holy Land Priesthood accused the new Mathalamus Republic and its leadership as "Idolaters". Immediately, the Holy Land threatened to gun down any Spanish ships that came into the Eastern Pacific and Spanish diplomats not of the Jewish faith in Greater Israel were stoned to death if they didn't convert.

The SRFJ responded to the Holy Land's drastic actions by warning them of turning on former allies. The Holy Land revealed information about Spanish military leaders planning an invasion of Portugal and stated that should Spain attack Portugal, the Holy Land will invade Iberia. This escalated very rapidly as the Western European Union voiced vocal support for its Socialist neighbor. Among Yugoslavian leadership, the warning from Egypt was starting to seem not too far fetch. The Egyptians warned that the Holy Land wouldn't stop at the Nile and that it would spread its fingers across the globe. In less than a year, the Holy Land had adopted an aggressive foreign policy that eerily echoed Egypt's warnings.

The DB Corporation, in turn, announced that should Spain attempt to take Lisbon, it would blockade all of Spain's ports. In 1964, the Corporate Navy was the largest in the world and if any nation was capable of blockading Spain's numerous ports, it was the Corporation. In 1965, Spain declare war on Greater Israel after abandoning plans to invade Lisbon when Fascist Portugal revealed its atomic arsenal to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The Mathalamus Republic's demands were for cession of all Israeli Turkish lands, turnover of former Egyptian lands, and for the Holy Land to become a client state of the Mathalamus Republic. However, it was Article Three of the Mathalamus Declaration of War which sealed the deal for the Holy Land to wage war.

"Church and State in the Holy Land will be separated. The Judges and Priesthood will be replaced by secular governors." Fighting did break out sporadically in the Mediterranean Sea for a month before something odd happened.

The Mathalamus Republic and the Holy Land signed a white peace. Mathalamus's President, Juan Carlos, stated that the "Ultimate Shadow Controller" forced him to sign the peace and needless to say, the mental stability of the man started coming under suspicion by the international community. The Mathalamus Republic did end up declaring war a year later after the Khitan Invasion of the Holy Land starting in 1966. The Republic's war aims were "return Egyptian lands to Egypt" and "Protect the Jewish Culture." Meanwhile, the USSR demanded the Holy Land cede its Turkish provinces. Khitan's reason for the war was because, in its alliance with the Soviet Union and the DB Corporation, it was becoming the lesser partner. The DB Corporation had the largest navy in the world. The Soviet Union controlled land from Siberia to Eastern Europe while Khitan only had the largest army in the world with the Soviet Union a close second.

This started the Period of Confusion in international questions. The American League denied Spanish ships access to the Eastern Mediterranean (pretty much guaranteeing that Spain couldn't get to Israel). Maryland brought up the question why Spain thought that invading the Holy Land is a good way to protect the Jewish people being conquered by Khitan. The Soviet Union revealed to the world its scientific supremacy by launching the world's first satellite and detonating an atomic bomb.

Finally, the DB Corporation and Spain stated that they will force their way through the Eastern Mediterranean if the American League didn't let them through. Now, at the time of writing (1971), I, as an author, can help but grin ear-to-ear every time I study how Fawne Till, President of the American League, handled the situation. Instead of declaring war on Spain and the Corporation, Fawne Till declared war on the Holy Land, an ally after mysteriously announcing that Spain and the DB Corporation can come in and help Egypt take the Holy Land.

Juan Carlos, smelling a trap, declined the offer. But the declaration of war by the American League, compounded by the threats from Spain, the DB Corporation, declaration of war by Egypt, Khitan, and the USSR, broke the camel's back of the Priesthood. Notably High Priest Aaron who, along with the rest of the Priesthood, declared Jewhad against Spain.

By this point, the government of the Holy Land was collapsing but the declaration of the Second Jewhad lead to several attempted assassination attempts on several high-ranking military and political Mathalamus Republic official. Several were killed and Juan Carlos himself barely survived but the damage was done. Spain's government had been thrown into chaos and made ripe for the beginning of the Mediterranean War which broke out in June.

The Holy Land's history article ends here.

The Soviet Union controlled land from Siberia to Eastern Europe while Khitan only had the largest army in the world with the Soviet Union a close second.

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"Only" huh?

taillesskangaru said:

"Only" huh?

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By then, there were several atomic powers. So, having the largest army in the world in RIOT 1967 was as big as a deal as the Soviets having a largest army in the world in our 1967. Sure, kinda of a big deal but the threat of atomic/nuclear war was clearly more important.

Next Article: Probably the Amurian Republic or Na-Na-Nine.

Atomic bombs aren't really that bad...

Also, Amuria (in the non-rp sense) just got a name change. They still exist.

Double A said:

Atomic bombs aren't really that bad...

Also, Amuria (in the non-rp sense) just got a name change. They still exist.

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Still a mark transition. The Amurian Republic was isolationist compared to the successor USSR.