LizNES5: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying, And Love The Bomb

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To: Germany
From: Denmark

Why should we give you our land?
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OOC: ....okay, well then. I guess I'm NPC California, commander gorma, should you wish to have some diplomacy at any point.

TheLizardKing said:

To: Germany
From: Denmark

Why should we give you our land?
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OOC: ....okay, well then. I guess I'm NPC California, commander gorma, should you wish to have some diplomacy at any point.

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You reject our offer I'm assuming? Okay.

From: Dutch Empire
To: Germany, Denmark
We would offer to provide neutral mediation towards the creation of a peace treaty to end this conflict. Should you take us up on the offer, we welcome your ambassadors to Amsterdam.

Regards, Prime Minister Christofoor De Vries

TLK, did you see the map I sent? You kinda had all my forces thrown at a fairly sparely populated area, and about 1,500 miles away from where my main assault was to be made.

Wait, were stats updated? I didn't see anything in my orders or stories mentioned in the update. I know I didn't do much but I just want to make sure you actually remembered I was in this NES.

No, they haven't.

Karalysia,

Are you still California?

I shall be taking over as Canada from now on, as suggested. Allow me to read up on current events.

Meanwhile, is the stats in page 1 up to date?

A public address by the new President:

To the traditional states of the Federal Republic of the United States of Gran Colombia,

• Antioquia State,
• Bolívar State,
• Boyacá_State,
• Caqueta (sothern region bordering Ecuador),
• Narino (north-western coastal region bordering recent infantry action),
• Roraima (region in south-east bordering the Amazon river),
• Cundinamarca Stat,
• Magdalena State,
• Santander State,
• Tolima State,
• Zulia State (region around Maracaibo lake and extending eastwards nearly to Caracas),
• Guárico State (region around Caracas), and
• Anzoátegui State (far western Colombia near Trinidad/Tobago),

President Andrés Pérez is happy to recognize,

• Panama State, and
• Guatemala State

as full and rightful members of the Estados Unidos de Gran Colombia. Furthermore, we recognize

• Nicaragua State,
• Costa Rica State, and
• Honduras State,

as states who have not yet found their way home but which are on their way.

Colombia’s estados perdido have begun returning to her, righting the injustice and treachery of 1899 and 1931. The wrongs of the past are being set right. May what we have forged together never be cleaved asunder again.

Viva Estados Unidos de Gran Colombia!​

Diplo:


To the remaining government of the Central American Republic,
From the United States of Gran Colombia,

You now reap the seeds of treachery that you had sowed not so long ago. Already we control the major urban and industrial centers of the estados perdido (OOC: Spanish for lost states- our term for the CAR) and you government and soldiers have been forced into the hills and jungles. You may continue to fight there for years and years but you do so against the wishes of the people. The people yearn to return to their beloved mother, our great shared federation. Listen to your people, lay down your arms and find a peace and prosperity again.

We will be lenient to your past aggressions, but if you continue your tradition of aggression and violence, you will suffer.

We ask for peace; we ask for your surrender.

Nice Update

OOC: Estados Perdidos, not Estados Perdido.

((I invaded because the Merchant Marine ship blew up in their waters, near a Coast Gaurd ship. Even if I didn't finish Part 2, I thought that was pretty obvious.))

EDIT:

Milarqui said:

OOC: Estados Perdidos, not Estados Perdido.

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Perhaps that's how it is in Latin America?

Omega124 said:

Perhaps that's how it is in Latin America?

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Nay. Spanish is written with the same rules everywhere in the world. Adjectives also have plural forms in the Spanish language. They may have some words that are different, but the rules are the same.

I actually checked if miliarqui was online when i wrote that but he wasn't so i just went with my best guess. Guess what? I don't speak spanish so i had to do my best.
EDIT: didn't mean to sound snippy- just saying i don't speak spanish is all

No need to get snippy. Did Russia not turn up, Liz? Awesome update, though.

@Julius

Yes, you are still in this, no stats haven't been updated, and I really couldn't write about anything you did in your orders.

@Nader

Yes, I had you gain some land to the East. Indochina's orders were to invade roughly the same region as well. You can split up the turkey however you want after the war.

@Seon

Welcome

@Immaculate

Karalysia quit, I'm going to be handling NPC diplomacy.

@Omega124

I was away from internet for the better part of the last week, and had little time to read your story as I was too busy updating. If it's something as important as a cassus belli, that's generally something people include in their orders. While I did read over your story, obvious or not, I imagine some sort of diplomacy would follow an incident. Not a wanton invasion. Something, I didn't really penalize you for from the get go, so I don't see why you wish to debate it.

@Eltain

What do you mean about Russia? They sent in orders. But, I couldn't write really anything about them.


That's really a recurring theme. Many of you sent orders with little more then spending. While, I suppose this is fine, it's hard for me to actually write about your nation doing anything. If you want mentions in the update, give me something interesting to write about. That, or give me some details. This update was fairly small, not because I was lazy, it was because at least a third of my orders were just spending.

To: Gran Colombia
From: Central America

We are not giving up our homelands to you.

The Iberian Union (II)
Politics
Political Parties
Ever since the 1830s, when José I Bonaparte managed to consolidate his rule, and when the new Spanish Constitution was written down, political parties have appeared in Iberia, claiming to represent the interests of the population, or at least a part of it. Currently, the most important parties are these:

• National: the major parties that get representation in all of Iberia:
  • CIDA (Confederación Ibérica de Derechas Autónomas, Iberian Confederation of Autonomous Right-Wing Parties): a center-right party born in the 1920s from a coalition of older right-wing parties, it is currently the ruling party in the Iberian Union. It is quite moderate, and willing to negotiate with other parties in order to reach a consensus that satisfies most of the population, but there are still matters in which they do not want to give in, such as the matter of religious education.
  • PPI (Partido Progresista Ibérico, Iberian Progressive Party): the main center-left Spanish party, born in the end of the 19th century by the hand of famed politician Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, it is currently in the opposition in Congress. Like the CEDA, it is quite moderate, although it differs in matters they believe affect to the freedoms of the people: for example, they wish to make it so that no child is forced to have a religion class at school if he or his parents wish it.
  • PSOI (Partido Socialista Obrero Ibérico, Iberian Socialist Workers' Party): a left-wing party founded in the end of the 19th century by Pablo Iglesias, it defined itself as Marxist before a younger generation took over in the 1920s and changed it to what has been called "socialdemocracy". Currently the third most voted party in the whole nation.
  • PTI (Partido Tradicionalista Ibérico, Traditionalist Iberian Party): this extreme right-wing party was born with the republic, intending to gain the Carlist supporters' votes and expanding their influence in order to restore the absolutist Bourbonic monarchy. Those that support them are people that like to embrace the romanticism and glory of the old Spanish Empire, believing that only under an absolutist king can Iberia become a superpower once more.
  • PCI (Partido Comunista Ibérico, Iberian Communist Party): founded in the 1920s when the PSOI split after the turn of the party towards more moderate positions, the PCI is to the left what the PTI is to the right, but instead of calling for the restoration of the absolutist monarchy, they call for the abolishment of the current republican system and replace it for the "dictatorship of the proletariat". They are more or less equalised with the PTI in vote intention.
• Regionalist: these parties are the ones that only are voted in certain parts of Iberia.
  • IC (Izquierda Catalana, Esquerra Catalana, Catalonian Left): representation from Cataluña, Levante and Baleares-Cerdeña. They call for the independence of the three Comunidades into a new state. While they attract several people thanks to some of their ideas, their call for outright independence doesn't sound well in the minds of the general population.
  • CR (Convergencia Republicana, Republican Convergence): representation from Cataluña, Levante and Baleares-Cerdeña. A coalition of center-right catalan parties, while it supports the idea of an independent Catalan state, they nonetheless acknowledge that working with Iberia is better than working against it, and as such it attempts to collaborate with the CEDA in that regard.
  • ETA (Pais Vasco y Libertad, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, Basque Country and Liberty): representation from Vascongadas. The left-wing Basque independentist party, it is allied to IC in attempting to gain independence for their regions. Some say that they are a bit too enthusiastic in their attempts to do this.
  • EAJ (Partido Nacionalista Vasco, Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea, Basque Nationalist Party): representation from Vascongadas. A centrist party, it is said to be the Convergencia Republicada of the Vascongadas, for their support of the Republic.
  • EB (Izquierda Unida, Esker Batua, United Left): representation from Vascongadas. An offshoot of the PSOI, it acts as the moderate counterpoint to ETA in the Basque left-wing.
  • BNG (Bloque Nacionalista Gallego, Bloque Nacionalista Galego, Galician Nationalist Bloc): representation from Galicia. A center-right Galician nationalist party, it advocates for greater autonomy given to the Comunidades, but always keeping the integrity of the Republic.
  • PSP (Partido Socialista Portugués, Partido Socialista Português, Portuguese Socialist Party): representation in Algarve, Atlántico, Douro and Tejo. The representative of the PSOI in Portugal (with whom they are allied to) they call for further integration of ancient Portugal into Iberia, and for Portuguese to become an official language in all of Iberia.

Congreso de los Diputados
The Congress is the Lower House of the Parliament, and as such the most important. It is Congress where the President and the Prime Minister are voted on, and where most debates are held over laws.

Congress is elected once every four years, with the most recent elections being in 1957 (meaning that 1961 will have new elections). Every election, all parties develop a list for each province with several candidates on it, and depending on the number of votes lists get in a province, then a number of candidates from the list are chosen to represent the province. With 76 provinces on the map, the whole Congress has 500 Deputies, with the number of deputies each province gets fluctuating based on the population.

Elections of 1957:
- CIDA: 253 deputies (simple majority)
- PPI: 115 deputies
- PSOI: 100 deputies
- PTI: 4 deputies
- PCI: 4 deputies
- IC: 3 deputies
- CR: 4 deputies
- ETA: 2 deputies
- EAJ: 3 deputies
- EB: 3 deputies
- BNG: 4 deputies
- PSP: 5 deputies

Senado Español
The Senate is the Upper House of Parliament. While the Constitution of 1912 gave some of its powers to the Congress (such as the voting of the President) it still holds several, such as vetoing laws passed by Congress, approve constitutional ammendments, approve the appointment of the judges of the Constitutional Court and of the National Court Prosecutor, disciplining regional presidents or suspending local governments.

The Senate is formed by 100 senators, 76 of which come from each province, 18 are appointed by the regional governments and the remaining 6 are appointed by the President. They are chosen every four years in the mid-terms between each Deputies election. Last election was on 1959, meaning that 1963 will see a new Senatorial election.

Elections of 1959
- CIDA: 50 senators
- PPI: 30 senators
- PSOI: 15 senators
- PTI: 1 senator
- CR: 1 senator
- EB: 1 senator
- BNG: 1 senator
- PSP: 1 senator

To: Maritime States
From: USMA

Would you be willing to become a protectorate of the USMA in return for us stopping this New English aggression?

To : Denmark
From: USMA

If you hand over control of Greenland and Iceland, then we will send you military aid in your struggle against Germany. Otherwise, you will not survive.

To: USMA
From: The Maritime States

Yes! Sure! Just stop these madmen!

To: USMA
From: Denmark

What exactly does aide entail?