Multipolarity III - Signups

This game is not due to start until TUG completes.

This ruleset is open to revision and may change during the intergame period.

Rundown:

By this point you know the rules, but let me recap in case anyone's new:

-Multipolarity is a franchise based on soft power, and it is not uncommon for there to be tensions! However, be courteous to other players. Disputes should remain in character and never be personal.
-The GM is supreme, and may alter the map, rules and anything else at his whim. I try to be fair with exercise of these powers, however.
-In line with the above, the GM may issue penalties and bans with moderator consent.
-While you are free to use any information from chatrooms in your gameplay decisions, please do not post them in the thread, the social group, or any public place. It creates more tension and drama than it is worth.
-Please keep the basis of any and all diplomacy justified in some IC manner. Regardless of how strong your OOC grudge for another player or his nation choice may be, you need to give some logical IC reason for it. I'm not too strict, so please think of at least something.

World Map

Crash Course in MP3 History

Starting Out:

Veterans of MP1 and 2: if you start as a country different from your usual one, I will give a bonus. I want to avoid MP1 and MP2's issues leaking into this one if possible.

Choose 10 territories and a color. Then answer this template below; be as vague or as specific as you want:

Name:
Government: Scores brownie points with NPCs if you line up.
Currency: NPCs like to decide which currency to use based on your economic strength and alliances, bestowing benefits on you.

Economic Policy: 0-10, where 0 is zero regulations, and 10 is completely state-owned.
Social Policy: 0-10, where 0 is full libertarianism, whereas 10 is totalitaranism.

Failure to fill any of these will let the GM decide via his best judgement. You are free to clarify your positions on any stat.

Expansion:



Roleplay:



Economics:


Finance:



Diplomacy:



War:



WMD and their usage:



Espionage:



Revolts:



NPCs and their anatomy:



NGOs

Players may join the game as NGOs, organisations that are not tied to a piece of land. They operate out of one NPC (and may pick up others as time goes on) and control that NPC’s policies. They cannot mingle the finances between the two, but collect hefty tribute from the NPCs they rule over.

NGOs build bases for 10 gold a piece, and recruit 1 agent per turn from their bases. These agents can die, unlike government forces, but will always replenish so long as they have bases somewhere.

A special NGO is the Pirates, who operate fleets all over the world and target trade. Pirates are cowardly and attack the wealthiest convoys, but only if they are defensless. Building a large fleet to protect your trade ships is a must. They secretly control some ports and use these for safe haven. By getting rid of all pirate ports, you can seal the pirates’ fate.

Conservative Republic of Romney

(Romney's Republic for short).

Government: Conservative Trading Republic

Currency: The American Dollar

Economic Policy: 2. Staying true to republican roots, Romney's Republic promotes free trade, almost completely unregulated capitalism, and free enterprise.

Social Policy: 2. That government is best which governs least ~ Romney. From Romney's immense wisdom, he decided that the Romney Republic should be fairly free. There are minor regulations and limitations to prevent anarchy and total chaos, but the republic itself does not have governmental power. It instead has financial power, and in Romneyland, money is king.

Claiming Malta, Jehruslahem and the areas surrounding Jehrulsahem. I know that's not how you spell it but meh.

The Imperium of Man





Other names for the nation: the Manx Empire, the Empire of Man, the Manx Imperium, the Free Isle of Man...
Emperor: Gilmore of the Flanagon Dynasty
Capital: Peel, on the Isle of Man.
Goverment: Absolute Imperial Monarchy, 9 on the social scale.
Ecomony: Capitalist, marked 2 in the ecomonic scale.
Nation Plan: Expantionist with ecomonic interests.
Currency: Imperial Pound
Religion: the only faith permitted is Christainity, in only the Prostestents, Catholics, Methodists and the members of the Imperial Church of Man (the Imperial Church was set up by imperial supporters to reinstall the idea of Divine Right) are permitted and then on condition they all agree that the Emperor is divine. The Emperor is himself is offically of the Imperial Church of Man (its good to be the Emperor), while his wife Rein is a Catholic.

History: The Imperium’s roots dates back to 2299 with the Manx House of Keys, having somehow survived the conflicts, then collapse due to bankruptcy and a series of riots that accorded after a scandal which the Manx government were prepared to sell off the south of the isle for cash. Till 2312 the Isle of Man was officially in anarchy. Teig Kinrade had begain the process of altering this in 2306, using diplomacy and necessary force to unite the breaking away part of the Isle of Man but he in 2310 was murdered by his brother Urman, who completed uniting the Isle of Man and then declare a police state, till 2319 where he decided to not simply be the Dictator of the Isle of Man but rather the Emperor of Man, crowning himself in Peel cathrederl. This resulted in a rebellion leaded by Vorgell Killley. Although her Free Manx Rebellion was crushed in 2321, Urman’s rule ended in the next year where in the first of August he was pushed off a cliff by a bolder. Mystery is in who organise this or if it was a accident but Urman would be succeeded by his son Thorfin. Thorfin I was not as harsh as his father but proved to maintain the authoritarian rule till his death in 2356, a period marked in only a slight economic rise and general territorial stagnation. His successor, Hamoun I, lasted till 2367 where he was murdered by his son Germont, whose sister Eue would kill and replace as empress in 2372.

Eue ruled till 2401 when her son Hamoun II came to the throne after her death. His rule would last till 2439, to be succeeded by Thorfin II. He attempted a policy of expantion but ceased his failed attempts to claim Ireland in 2458 when another democratic rebellion rose up, leaded by Dorrin Greenstone. The Democratic Memorial Force though became one of two to face Thorfin II when in 2461 the Flanagon family in Ireland succeeded in coupling Ulster and then commenced a invasion to claim the imperial crown, the leader John Flanagon using a claimed linkage to Eue as a justification. 2466 saw John as winner, publicly executing both Thorfin II and Dorrin at the same moment. Then came 2467 with all its chaos. The Manx were cursed with sea monster appearing outside its land; Emperor John being on his imperial flagship during the time, becoming one of the first victims. His successor would be his brother Ree, who leaded the Empire in focus of protecting against the monster till 2479; the same year he developed the navy to drive out the monsters he suffered a fatal heart attack. His son William leaded till 2497, leading a period of rapid expansion with the new navy and battle hungry marines to take the whole of Ireland, Wales Cornwell, south west Scotland and north west England. Then he suffered poisoning, being succeeded first by his son Philip who then was assassinated by his brother Gilmore in 1st December 2499.

Now Gilmore is the Emperor of Man, leading the Imperium of Man in a new age. Having established the support of many corporations such as O’Neil Industries and the Royal Bank of Scotland (renamed the Imperial Bank of Man in tribute to the Imperium) the isle emperor sees himself as a great leader of a new imperial age, seeing himselve as the national saviour of the Manx. With his twin sons Magnus (the eldest of his children via a few seconds) and Denel growing under the nursery of the Chief Imperial Advisor, Baron Lonan Nelson of Rushen and his wife Rein, lone child of CEO Jack O’Neil of O’Neil industries, Gilmore now strives to make the empire expand, hoping to lead his nation into a economic power, oppression those who stand against him. Will he make an empire that will stand the test of time?

Oh boy. It has begun.

Name: Federation of Bengal
Government: Democracy, with some left wing aspects, where the state tends to take care of some of the aspects, which could have been otherwise.
Currency: Taka
Religion: 57% Hindus, 23% Muslims, 11% Buddhists with sparse Arian Christian and Jewish (Farsi) influence.
Economic Policy: 4 , the state government does control some of the production departments, viz, local products like Jute and Rice products. Mostly others are free to be traded. The state does however impose certain bans and trade tariffs, on some items to check matters of inflation or shortage.
Social Policy: 5 , While the government does exactly control the civic activities of the people, it does sometime interfere in cases of political aspirations; Interaction with other nationalities is monitored, and can be intervened if, it goes against the state's aspirations.
National Policy: Interventionist, with the objective of economic expansion.
Armed Policy: Bengal, till date, has been against drafted troops. Troops undergo professional training and their upkeep is taken care by the state itself. Each of the states have been allowed to maintain their existing garrisons, that existed before the union happened. While the northern plains fielded good infantry the southern counties fielded excellent guerrilla fighters that excelled in fighting in the swamps to the south, which required rapid deployment via small boats and steamships.

Head of state : President Jeevan Ram

History : The area has been known for the widely cosmopolitan demography. The individual counties, fought with each other for supremacy, often resulting in casualties and economic losses with opponent captains often following scorched earth policies. The Battle of Farakka (2494 CE) proved to be a decisive factor in uniting the territories. With the capture of most of the other warlords, it was easier to convince the other warlords into uniting them into one union. Selim Ismail, the exwarlord from Dhaka was made the Minister of Warfare while the other "prominent" warlord, Sooraj Singh was made the Minister of Internal Affairs and Foreign Office.

Claims: Yellow claims in Eastern India


OOC: I have tried not to do any metagaming at all. The present day date is 2500 CE isn't it ?

Correct sir. Date is 2500 CE.

I want the south of South-America.

Meaning, Falkland islands, that island south and the most southern provinces.


more to follow

Chirstos, you can have 10 provinces you know.

Claims in Dark Blue:



Anthem:

Link to video.

Government: Benevolent Monarchy, people have no say in government, but they have free speech and all that stuff. (7 on the scale)
Economy: Capitalist, with regulations (3 on the scale)
Currency: Spam. Literally, cans of spam are used as currency. Coins with the awesome face on it are used for smaller amounts.
Capital: Spamvalleta, but Spamusalem is probably the more important and larger city

Leader and Advisors:


History: Throughout the years, spammers have been unfairly persecuted. Sure, there are the bad spammers, but they are few and far between. Most people practice the art to entertain the masses. But we were rounded up, forced to make reasonable posts and be compared to robots that talk about enlarging your ding dong! And we say no more! Kenji Bovine, the man from Japan is here to declare a crusade against people who will not let us spam! He will protect the principles of spam, the humour, the fun and the food!

Ideology: There is freedom of ideology in the nation of the Spammer’s Crusade, but we also require our citizens to follow these basic rules. Plus obvious stuff about not killing people and stealing and all that jazz.

1. Spam is an art form and shall not be stopped by any man woman or child.
2. With great spammyness comes great responsibility, spam shall only be used for good, not evil.
3. Robots that want to enlarge your ding dong are AD bots, not spam bots. Spam bots are robots that can produce spam. Get your facts straight. Read one of our dictionaries, they will tell you the truth.
4. ???
5. PROFIT!!!

They are the most basic rules of the Spammer’s Crusade and disobeying them will get you punished badly. Also killing, being a peedo, stealing and all that jazz will get you punished as well, but that goes without saying.

So this is the Spammer’s Crusade. Let your people spam, or, as our Transport Advisor says, YOU WILL REGRET IT!!!

How to ruin The Spammer's Crusade. Lesson 1:

Flood the market with low brand canned spam

...and upon hearing of the spam currency the Imperium of Man declares the food product known as spam to be produce in quanity amounts to be sold to the Spammer's Empire.

Based on what we have so far, this will probably be one of the best IOTs ever.

I haven't even revealed who our NPC cast will consist of...

mayor said:

How to ruin The Spammer's Crusade. Lesson 1:

Flood the market with low brand canned spam

Click to expand...

Ah, but only Crusader's Brand Spam is accepted as currency. So Neslon says:



At your foiled plan.

And don't bother trying to make counterfeit cans, we have measures against that. It will fail.

But what if I am able to provide your citizens with spam of the same quality but cheaper in price, what will you do then?

EDIT:

NinjaCow64 said:

Spoiler Anthem :

Link to video.

Click to expand...

wait you're not using:
Link to video.

Reserving Germany-South/EastBaltic area. Will have a map in like seven hours.

Actually, reserving Canada/Alaska region.

Federal Republic of Solitude
Capitol: Solitude (Located in RL Hartford, CT)
Government: Federal Bicameral Republic, Presidential System
Currency: Republic Marks
Economic Policy: 4, Mixed-Economy
Social Policy: 2, New England Style Social Policy[/CENTER]

History


In the year 2097, a cataclysmic event was triggered that shaken the status quo of the new world order. The then Republic of Coruscant, enacted a hardline stance and retreated into isolationism in the name of self-preservation. In the year 2163, after a millennia of armed conflict. The destructive nature of man could sustain itself, no longer. The world was plunged into an abyss of nuclear fire and radiation. Then a series of conflicts with exotic races and anomalies were triggered during the course of of the centuries. The collapse of the Republic, was akin to the fall of the Roman Empire of classical antiquity, slowly and gradually.

It was not, as some had predicted, the end of the Republic and the world. Instead, the apocalypse was simply a prologue to another bloody chapter in human history. For man and other exotic aliens had succeeded in destroying the world. But war, war never changes. In the early days of the Republic, thousands were spared the horrors of the cascading apocalypses by taking refuge in enormous underground shelters, known as vaults. But when they emerged, they had only a changed world to great them.


When they emerged on, the human inhabitants set out across ruins of the old world to build new societies, establishing new villages and towns from the ashes of the Republic of Coruscant. One notable settlement was founded by three groups of vault dwellers from New London county in the ruins of Hartford. With the only standing sign with the inscription of the word "solitude", the settlers founded Solitude. The Solitude settlers later in the months found a ruined New England flag in the ruins of the old Connecticut State Capitol. Where the pine tree once was, was just a burnt out hole. The settlers then decided upon themselves to apply a figure of the gray wolf, that is common in the region. They soon developed their seal to it.

The government started out as a town hall style, before they start hearing of other settlements wishing to join under the banner of Solitude. While they were welcoming of other settlements joining under the banner. The question remains, if they are still Coruscanti in the sense that a citizen of the Byzantine Empire is a Roman. Or are they an entirely new political entity. A gathering took place in Norwich, consisting of town politicians under the Solitude banner, commenced a meeting known as The Council of Norwich. For a period of months, the politicians agreed that the Solitude Republic is it's own political entity by it's own right. After a brief morning period after they've learned that the rest of the Republic of Coruscant outside the Sol System has fallen to a Sith Empire, It became evident right away that the Solitude Republic is indeed a new political entity with many of the citizens adopting their new demonym: Solitudians. Shortly, the confederation of towns, became a federalized republic with a presidential system and a bicameral legislature, using knowledge of governance of nation's past that have been preserved.

As decades passed, what had been the heart of the Coruscant Republic in the American northeast, united beneath the flag of the Solitude Republic, dedicated to old world vales of democracy and the rule of law. The Republic grew, incorporating settlements across New England and New York. The Republic sent out scouts to the west, seeking territory and wealth.

OOC: I'd figure if I'm going to start as a country different from my usual one (Republic of Coruscant), I may as well go with the way of the Fallout franchise way (United States -> New California Republic, Enclave, Brotherhood of Steel, etc).

I see that illegitimate spam is being legitimize and called "roleplaying" again.

Claiming Algeria.

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Moderator Action: Embargo deleted.

THE PAPAL STATES

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Government: Absolute Monarchical Ecclesiocratic Theocracy
Head of State: The Pope
Religion: Catholic Christianity (The Catholic Church)
Currency: The Lira
Economic Policy: 4 (fairly free, some regulation to ensure conformity with Catholic teaching
Social Policy: 7 (civil liberties and society are protected, but theological and ideological error is suppressed and the political process of the state is solely in the hands of the Curia)

History: Throughout the chaos of the third millenium of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Catholic Church endured, and the Holy See, in fits and starts and with periods of withdrawal in temporal authority to the confines of the Vatican, became a bastion of strength and order for the faithful and the world at large in an era of chaos, converting much of China and many of the so-called Demon race to the Divine and Catholic Faith and regathering authority and power lost during the era of ignorance that reigned from the 20th century to the 22nd.

After the second anomaly shattered the power of the Quincumvirate of mercantile republics, much of Italy looked to Rome to lead them, and quickly came under the wing of the Papal States marking a high point of Papal dominance on the peninsula. As this new multipolar order arises, the Papal States, with renewed vigour and with the immortal strength of the One True Faith in its right hand now looks set to rise as a major temporal power, as the sword of the faithful, seeing the results of a rejection of the divine order, seeks to restore Christendom to its former glory and as the Church did after the fall of the Roman Empire, lift the world out of the darkness of ignorance and into civilisation.

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note: Ninjacow, you can't claim Sicily as it already belongs to a pre-existing power.