IOT XV: Clanking of the Swords

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I'm a simple man

Capital: London
Government: Totalitarian Single-Party State
History: According to the esteem communist and Jewish authors who write the history books on the continent and North America, the United Kingdom suffered a string of prolonged, crushing military defeats in the 1920's that resulted in the rapid decay of the empire. The books fail to mention that work of the communists in stirring worker unrest in the factories on the eve of victory, ultimately snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

This is where the Hammer Party comes in. All we did was settle the score. We pushed the riffraff out of the government and created a new government based on the rights of Anglo-Saxon men. Our cultural superiority has, so far, already seen the remnants of the Welsh protoculture disappear.

Would you like to see Britannia rule again, my friend?

[1] Waiting for the Worms

Joining in Argy.

Claiming the greater Utah/Deseret area more Sunday when i get back from camping.

However i have plenty of other ideas and may not go there, so if someone wants it go ahead...

Excluding Jeho because of the last time he was Deseret

(AKA if the North seceded from the South)

System: Quasi-Fascist Imperial Meritocratic Junta

Capital: Panama City

Economy: Mixed War Market

Currency: Imperial Credit

Military: divided into colours. Land armies are red, the navy is blue, the air force is yellow, logistics & communications are green, special operations are orange and the imperial guard is purple. The military is vital the quasi fascist society of the Imperium. The law is set in martial style to full on eye for an eye, while military training ranges from basic considerations to harsh tests of power. Power is what motivates the Imperium and what it values above all. The strong is what motivates the Imperium, taking their stance in the world to stand high. However the Imperium also believes in rewarding merit, seeing the truly strong as those who rise through trial as oppose to privilege.

Freistaat Preussen


Capital - Berlin
Government - Parliamentary Democracy
President - Erich Honecker (Liberals)
Chancellor - Wilhelm Pieck (Conservative Party)

Confederação Paulista



Capital: São Paulo

Roman Republic



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Capital: Rome
Government:

Rome has the political framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic: the Consuls are the heads of state, and there is a pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Grand and General Council. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.

The legislature of the republic is the Grand and General Council (Consiglio grande e generale). The Council is a unicameral legislature with 600 members. Citizens 18 years or older are eligible to vote. Beside general legislation, the Grand and General Council approves the budget and elects the Consuls, the State Congress (composed of ten Secretaries with executive power), the Council of Twelve (which forms the judicial branch during the period of legislature of the Council), the Advising Commissions, and the Government Unions. The Council also has the power to ratify treaties with other countries. The Council is divided into five different Advising Commissions consisting of fifteen Councillors who examine, propose, and discuss the implementation of new laws that are on their way to being presented on the floor of the Council.

Every six months, the Council elects two Consuls to be the heads of state. The Consuls are chosen from opposing parties so that there is a balance of power. They serve a six-month term. The investiture of the Consuls takes place on 1 April and 1 October in every year. Once this term is over, citizens have three days in which to file complaints about the Consul's activities. If they warrant it, judicial proceedings against the ex-head(s) of state can be initiated.

Language: Italian
Currency: Lire
Economy: Mixed
Religion: Atheism

History: In 1830, Roman Republican Rebels overthrew the Pope and established a Roman Republic. It's government was based on that of Ancient Rome. The Austrians tried to restore the Pope, but they failed because of other problems in Europe. An invasion by the Kingdom of Two Sicilies ended with the defeat of the Monarchical armies by the rebels in the Siege of Rome (1832).

The Pope was forced to leave for Spain and the Republic pursued an anti-catholic policy which led to Rome becoming an atheist nation. Gradually, from 1860 to 1910, Rome unified Italy under it's rule, either by war or diplomacy. More specifically, in 1860 Rome annexed in a diplomatic way the Northern Italian States, except for Venice, which was invaded and annexed in 1880. In 1910, the Roman Republic invaded and took over Southern Italy and Sicily, thus unifying Italy.

From 1910 on, the Roman Republic has seen a steady industrialization and development of it's economy, while it's Republic remains stable.

Why not, in

The New Zulu Democracy

Capital: Harare
Government: Democracy
President: Dumisani Mabuza

Having image issues, Reserving North France West Germany Belgium and Luxembourg

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The United State of Pacifica

Government: One Party State
Languages: English, Spanish
Currency: Pacific Dollar
Economy: State-Run
Capital: Los Angeles
Religion: Predominantly Christian
Social Situation: Socially Moderate

Sorry Terran, but you did say it was available... I'll move if you want to assert prior claim though.

DT

THE REPUBLIC OF IBERIA​

Government: Democratic Republic ('Merican style, **** yeah)
National Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic
Currency: Reals
Religion: Predominantly Catholic across Iberia, though along the south coast of Iberia and north coast of Africa there is a large population of Sunni Muslims.
Economic Left/Right: moderately conservative
Social Left/Right: pragmatic, slightly liberal

Claims (capital is Barcelona):

joining as...

the Ottoman Empire



(because it wouldn't be me if i started anywhere else...)

capital: Constantinople
Government: Constitutional Monarchy
Current monarch: Mehmed V
general aims: be a middle power.
backstory:

they lost world war I still, but the ottoman Empire had a smart idea to retreat to Anatolia, effectively abandoning huge swaths of desert and poorly defensible territory. when the middle eastern front has ended, the British was able to liberate the area known as Kurdistan. barely. they also failed to make any headway at Gallipoli.

because of the way that Turkish troops conducted themselves in battle, they gave the ottomans a more favorable peace treaty of treaty of Lausanne. basically, they keep everything they managed to keep. that meant no military occupation, no Greek troubles, barely a national movement, and an Ottoman Empire slightly better off than before.

in case anyone cares, this is what i want to control at the absolute most:


obviously, i am open for negotiation, and i honestly could give up all of Europe outside of Edrine and Constantinople if i had to. (ex, someone joining as Greece).

Government: Autonomous Communes and Soviets headed by the Nabat, which oversees military matters and national emergencies, along with allowing discussion of political matters among its members.
Capital: Kiev
Leader*: Andriy Melnyk
History: Will write later

*Leader refers to the most influential member of the Nabat at the time. There is no head of state or government. Previous leaders are Nestor Makhno (1918-1934) and Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum (1934-1945), otherwise known as Volin.

Edited my post with info.

The Central Asian Republic
Capital: New Merv
Gov't: Unicameral European Republic
History: The Turks of the area, in the chaos that followed in the ME after the retreat of the Ottoman Empire, united politically. The new republic is shaky but expanding, hoping to use the natural resources of the area and its strategic location for financial gain.
Claims:

Leaders:
Prime Minister: Abdul Aziz Thaabli
President: Amir Khan
Head of the Army: Fuad Chebab
Head of the Navy (Caspian Sea): Nazim Kadri
Foreign Secretary: Ismail Akbay
Interior Secretary: Hayrai Patel

Reus said:

You claimed over some of my territories

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My bad, fixed that.

The Louvain Commune​

Capital: Louvain
Government: A system of Communes answering to the People's Revolutionary Council, a body that meets in Louvain and is comprised of representatives from each of the local Communes.
Religions: Majority Catholic but significant Dutch Protestant and Anglican (especially Welsh Anglican) presence. The Catholics have however been branded Heretics by the Pope as after the People's Revolution the Communes instigated the protestant concept of priesthood of all believers. Religion is now a large part of the running of the Communes and many members of the priesthood have significant influence in the communes.

History: Following the Great War the greater French Republic was failing under the weight of a corrupt and bureaucratic system and an increasingly strong desire for regional independence. During the 1920s in this atmosphere of dissent the first imaginings of revolution occurred. It was in this time that the first meetings of the Occitan People's Revolutionary Society occurred. In the backstreets and bars of Toulouse's university the revolution was born.
However the Occitan Society grew so quickly in popularity across France that the government knew it needed to take a hard line and crush them before they turned to active rebellion. The Night of a Thousand Flowers was the climax of the crackdown. The forces of the French government marched into the places where it knew the society was active and destroyed them, killing over a thousand young men thus giving the night its name. Following this the remaining society members fled the large centres and faded into the woodwork and France was calm for a decade or so.

Meanwhile Welsh nationalists and English Socialists began arriving across the channel attempting to flee their own country for fear of persecution. The Welsh community in Louvain became the new beacon of the socialist ideals that the Occitan Society had initially held and the old Occitans as well as the new wave of Socialists began to flock to Flanders during the late 30s. The new influx formed the core of the Louvain People's Revolutionary Society and as with the Occitan Society its influence soon spread across the French territories with a message of socialist self rule.

On the 2nd of May 1940 the students of Université catholique de Louvain baracaded themselves in the city centre in protest to a recent law passed restricting the rights of Dutch, German, Walloon and Flemish Citizens for 3 nights they alone held out against the government forces and then on the fourth night they were joined by members of the Louvain Society and the Welsh Community. By the 6th night the city was under control of the society and by the end of the month all of Flanders was in open revolt.

Over the next few months the revolution organised itself, keeping its centre in Louvain and the revolt grew larger and larger with people joining from across France. The People's Revolutionary Army was established aided by the Louvian People's Revolutionary Committee and Commissariat. The revolutionary forces marched against the French government forces and the war lasted for 3 years before the battle of Liege where the Government was defeated and a peace settlement was made.

Things didn't go entierly favourably for the Louvain Society following that. With territories in the South of France lost to the old Government and the old Rhineland territories also going independent it was hardly the united nation the revolutionaries had hoped for but it was something. Over the next few years the government became more established and the beginnings of a national identity began to form.