Imperium Offtopicum: Valiant Nations

Country Name: Indian Empire
Capital: (New) Delhi
Government: Federal Constitutional Monarchy
History: Ultimately, one Princess Mary became fed up with the rapidly worsening state of affairs in Britain, as ultraconservative, ultranationalist Arthurism took over the government. Though she was a member of the royal family, she couldn't bear to see a free country turned into authoritarianism, despotism, and chaos. So, together with those liberal members of the establishment who seemed to agree with her, Mary left Britain behind. A plan began to form. She'd need somewhere where she could find support, from both the British administrators and the locals. The white colonies, ever loyal to the crown, wouldn't give her that support - not from someone now branded as persona non grata at home. Africa was, sadly, too underdeveloped.

There was one place: India. She'd already visited it several times, and she decided that she really wouldn't mind going back.

When King Edward died in 1910, the entire country was shaken. The time had come So, arriving in Delhi, in a triumphant ceremony, in January 1911, Mary had herself crowned Empress of India and unilaterally declared India's full independence, quite immediately pissing off those at home. She immediately promised reforms, and to protect the rights of both the Anglo-Indians and all the Indians equally and to give Indians the equal rights as all other of Her Majesty's subjects, something that flew directly in the face of Arthurism. With Arthurism all the rage, Mary was quickly branded a "pretender" in Westminster, exacerbated by the fact she was a woman. Still, quickly managing to get much of the Raj's bureaucracy on her side and replacing those that disagreed with pliable exiles or friendly Indians, Mary had every intention of returning to Britain. Without Britain's jewel, her wealthiest colony, how long could the rest of the rotting British Empire last?

Indeed, it appeared that the entire Empire was doomed. With Britain having absolutely no way of getting India back, the local garrisons willing to support Mary's government thanks to increased pay and promises of land, and Mary's provisional imperial government quickly organizing more, it was clear Britain had lost India for good. Even if India were to be retaken by some miracle, the spirit of independence the events of 1911 had given India would not fade away quickly. Further afield, Britain started shedding colonial possessions left and right, either through other countries' land grabs or rebellions. By 1912, seeing the writing on the wall, the panicking colonial government of Hong Kong had decided to pledge allegiance to Delhi, and the rest of India's colonial authorities had easily fallen in line.

In any case, a brief period of confusion in regards to India's future ended by the monsoon season of 1913, when the Government of India Act 1913 was passed, establishing the country as a constitutional monarchy - what Britain was meant to be, minus the filth of Arthurism. One (Viscount) Norman Hadley would become India's first Prime Minister, uniting the Whig and moderate Tory blocs that formed the vast majority of the newly (re)constituted Indian Parliament under an impromptu coalition, one that was more than able to govern the new country effectively. Over the next few years, Mary and Hadley working in conjunction would build a solid foundation for a just and democratic Indian state. Though she had left Arthurism behind, Mary continued to take a semi-active role in the affairs of the country - though officially, Hadley was in charge, it could not be denied that the Empress performed quite a bit of activity behind the scenes, acting as a unifying figure in an increasingly fragmented political environment. But unlike the autocrats in Westminster, Mary was committed to merely ensuring that the same travesty would not recur here.

Hadley retired from politics in 1920 to return to his home in Colombo (since renamed Port Hadley after his death), and with the breaking of his coalition in his wake, that year the controversial Liberal Winston Churchill succeeded him. Churchill, an unabashed racist who did not get along well with the Empress and was heading a minority government to boot, was horrifically ineffective, and was soundly defeated in a vote of no confidence in 1921. Moderate Tories would enter government next, with prominent exile author Rudyard Kipling as their leader. Though Kipling's tenure as PM was generally quite successful, with India entering a phase of rapid economic growth, political dissatisfaction meant that this period saw the rise of the Indian Labour Party from a third party to a serious contender for government, which desired to give full representation and democracy to all of India's people, and gained support from not only Indians but also from reformist Liberal exiles disaffected after Churchill.

This phase came to an end in 1925, when the Empress Mary died of an unfortunate bout of malaria. Her daughter, who happened to be the only one of Mary's children that had left Arthurist Britain, was crowned Empress Mary II. Mary II, fortunately for the country, was not only Indophilic to to the point of eccentricism - preferring the sari to any British dress, for one, and going as far to adopt the very Persianate title Shahbanu-i-Hind for herself - but also committed to continuing reforms, and indeed. In 1927, Kipling's government was toppled by the Philip Snowden-led Indian Labour Party, with what was considered the Empress's somewhat tacit support.

With the passage of the Government of India Act 1929, universal suffrage (female suffrage, surprisingly, included) was established in 1929 to elect the House of Commons, which in itself was greatly enhanced in power. The reorganization, but simultaneously irritated many Conservatives who wished for the Anglos and Anglo-Indians to retain their great power. Under the new system, India would theoretically have two parliamentary leaders - a Prime Minister, elected from the House of "Lords" (now meant to represent the Anglo and Anglo-Indian community) and a Vizier, elected from the Commons.

The Prime Minister would represent the country in foreign affairs and the affairs of the Anglo and Anglo-Indian community, while the Vizier would generally manage the rest of the country's internal affairs. The first (and current Vizier) was also a Labour Party member, Vallabhbhai "Sardar" Patel.

Despite the relative strangeness of the whole situation, Delhi has shown its commitment to uplift all its people, and the fact is that for the first time in living memory, India's living standards have increased more than just noticeably. Mary II has become something of an Indian nationalist symbol supported even by people such as Gandhi, Nehru, and Patel, and perhaps it's for the better that this supposedly temporary situation becomes permanent?



Administrative Division Map:


Black: provinces under direct control
White: large areas under princely state control
Red: puppets

Do note that there are still princely states elsewhere; this is just a greatly simplified map of the rough situation.
Also, Sind should be black.
Also also note that the Andaman and Nicobar islands do not in fact belong to us.

Prime Ministers of the Indian Empire:
-1: Norman Hadley (Lib/Con: 1913-1920)
-2: Winston Churchill (Lib: 1920-1921)
-3: Rudyard Kipling (Con: 1921-1927)
-4: Philip Snowden (Lab: 1927-????)

Viziers of the Indian Empire
-1: V. "Sardar" Patel (INC: 1929-????)


In Government:
-Indian Labour Party/Indian National Congress: A multiethnic, center-left party, Labour is a continuation of the old Labour Party that acted as a resistance against Arthurism. Its ranks grew throughout the 1910s and 1920s, and after 1927 emerged as the first party of the Indian Empire entering the 1930s, bolstered by the bulk of the Nehru-led Indian National Congress agreeing to a merger in 1925. Currently under the joint leadership of Philip Snowden and Sardar Patel, who are currently serving as PM and Vizier, respectively. It - and the current government's policy - is dominated by social democratic economics, political reform to lessen the differences between the Anglo and Indian communities, and a foreign policy that takes on an anti-imperialist tone while retaining nearly all the hawkish anti-Arthurism of the previous governments.

Other Major Parties (in order of popularity):
-Conservative Party of the United Kingdom: Currently led by Anthony Eden after Rudyard Kipling's retirement from politics in 1929, the Tories represent the moderate to conservative Anglo population, and the maintaining of the status quo in regards to the political status. They claim to be the direct continuation of the old Conservative Party from before the Arthurist days, and generally espouse a variant of a Disraeli-esque One Nation ideology, with the Anglos acting to "uphold and lift up" the Indian population by promoting "British values" - most of their opponents just see this as condescending, imperialist, and mildly white supremacist. However, with the rise of the far-right Unionists, the Tories have somewhat moderated in the past five years, to the point where actual Indians do vote for them in small but noticeable numbers, Indian Christians in particular.
-Indian Liberal Party/Swatantra Party: The remnants of the party of Hadley and Churchill, and the party of Gladstone before them, have since been reorganized as a multiethnic party focusing on liberal economics (as opposed to the socialism of Labour) while avoiding taking a line on reform - this latter one has continued to cost, but it is necessary to avoid splitting the already tenuous party. Despite the failures of the Churchill era, the Liberals gained a boon when the "Swatantra" right wing bloc of the Indian National Congress, led by C. Rajagopalachari, opposed to Labour's economic policies decided to first leave the INC, then align with the Liberals. It is currently under the joint leadership of Archibald Sinclair and Chakravarti Rajagopalachari. The Liberals are, surprisingly, popular in rural India, where the peasantry is mildly opposed to Snowden and Patel's socialism. The United Provinces wing of the party is led by a young up-and-comer named Charan Singh, whose name has become famous in Indian political circles.
-All India Forward Bloc (AIFB): When the INC voted to fold into the Indian Labour Party in 1925, "Netaji" Subhas Chandra Bose's left-wing ultranationalist faction, angered with the INC's decision to "collaborate" and align with the Indian Labour Party, exited the party. Since then, under Bose's charismatic leadership, the Forward Bloc has emerged as an ideologically driven party, equal parts Sun Yat-Sen, Huey Long, and something entirely original. The AIFB calls for (possibly violent) revolution to overthrow the Empress, and Bose has held several open meetings with Sun Yat-Sen and the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, as well as with members of African and other developing-world radical leftist parties. Bose's populism has made him quite popular in rural India especially, while his opponents - including Sardar Patel - denounce him as a dangerous demagogue.
-(All India) Muslim League (ML): Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the Muslim League represents the Indian Muslim community. Since the coming to prominence in the party of the Jinnah-led "Iqbalite" faction the ML has shifted to calling for the creation of an independent Muslim republic. Unsurpisingly, it continually manages to get a significant portion of the Muslim vote, but it's numbers have in fact been declining since the mid-1920s, mostly to the rising AIFB.

Minor Parties of Note:
-Burmese nationalists: Several have been elected to the House of Commons, but there continues to lack a unified, single voice for the cause of Burmese nationalism. The most outspoken Burmese nationalist is one Aung San, who is currently an independent MP representing Rangoon - though he is currently looking to form a unified Burmese front, he has had limited success in doing so.
-Communist Party of India (CPI): Actually formed by a merger of the original CPI with the exiled Communist Party of Great Britain in 1924. Sylvia Pankhurst and Shripad Amrit Dange currently co-lead this left-internationalist party. The CPI's support has ebbed and flowed in the past decade, but has never really reached significant numbers in support. Since about 1930, it has found itself in the odd position of acting as a voice of sanity and Marxism-Luxemburgism(?) in opposition to the Longist/Sunist-influenced AIFB and Bose. A somewhat obscure Chinese exile by the name of Mao Tse-tsung leads the CPI's rural wing. By all accounts, young Mao is going places. Mao has been joined in his humble Bengal abode by a Korean exile named Kim Il-Sung.
-Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK): A republican Tamil nationalist party which calls for the creation of an independent Republic of Tamilakam in the south. It briefly enjoyed widespread support as an organization in the mid-1920s but has since lost most of its support to the AIFB.
-Independent Labour Party (ILP): The name aside, the ILP mostly acts as a lower-caste activist group led by B.R. Ambedkar, as an anti-capitalist group actively pursuing the destruction of any caste structures in the country. Ideologically, it is very much aligned to the larger Labour Party on a national level, and in fact could be considered all but a subgroup of Labour, but the two parties often compete in local government.
-Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS): If the Forward Bloc is a left-wing nationalist group, then this is its right-wing equivalent. The party has not seen the same level of success as the Forward Bloc, due to its lack of a charismatic leader such as Bose, and the fact that Hindu nationalism is not nearly as powerful due to Boseism's influence. Nevertheless, the RSS under K.B. Hedgewar hopes to call on the massed peasantry of the country to someday establish a true Hindutva state.
-Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD): A Punjabi/Sikh nationalist party, calling for the creation of an independent Khalistan state. They are somewhat popular in its native land but not so much elsewhere, and have remained fairly steady in support for the last decade.
-British Unionist Party: The far-right of the Anglo community is represented by this loosely aligned collection of breakaway Tories "led" by Austen Chamberlain, who tend to fight amongst each other even more than they do Labour. They also have no capability to gain any Indian votes whatsoever, and their ideology gives them unflattering comparisons to Arthurism. As such other than a few seats in the Lords the Unionists are all but entirely insignificant.

Other Institutions:
-Provincial Governments: The directly ruled provinces each have local provincial assemblies elected with universal suffrage as per the 1929 Act, though their power is somewhat limited in scope, mostly to managing local welfare programs, infrastructure, health, and education. The princely states have also been encouraged to give similar provincial representation. Some, such as Mysore and Travancore, have done a by all accounts perfect job of doing so, but others, such as Hyderabad, have, to say the least, not. This latter only solidifies discontent against certain princes.
-Princely States and the Durbar: The princely states of the Raj have been carried over into the new Empire, albeit with a drastically altered role. Under the 1929 Act, the princely states have found themselves deprived of any armed force, and while they retain authority over internal affairs, the 1929 Act also stipulates that each princely state (or agency of princely states) is appointed a "representative" by the Empress in order to ensure that the princes act within the bounds of parliamentary national laws. However, this does not mean the Princes are ignored completely. Every year, the Empress calls together a council of all the princes, some 565 of them, in the Indian Empire, as a "consultation." This is the Durbar, and has been in effect since the 1913 Act; in theory, it acts vaguely as a third house of Parliament, but in practice its power is extremely limited, and fewer than a third of India's princes even bothered attending the 1931 Durbar - many of them, rulers of what are no more than small towns, are in fact just MPs and see no reason to attend. It is no secret that the Snowden-Patel government sees this whole structure as the pointless relic of a past feudal age, and seeks to dismantle it; the support of the Indian populace is pretty clearly behind them, and it would not be a difficult task to do so, but no actions have been taken in this regard, yet.

Economy: In 1911, Empress Mary inherited what, despite what was considered the "brightest jewel in the crown of the British Empire," was one of the poorest and most backwards economies on Earth. India could no longer simply be a tool for providing cotton and raw materials to feed the bellies of British factories; it was now a free country, an empire no less, with her own dignity. The focus of successive Indian governments since then, once it was clear that no one would be returning to Britain any time soon, was to attempt to jump-start industrialization to create the beginnings of an advanced economy, yet one still connected with the world, and, following that, to maintain industrial growth. It cannot be said those policies have failed. India's living standards, life expectancy, health, and so forth have all drastically and consistently increased since the 1910s. Entering 1932, more than a quarter of India's population now lives in cities. That being said, many of the benefits of these advances have yet to filter through to India's countryside, which still remains entirely agrarian.

India's infrastructure is surprisingly good. A large-scale improvement of Indian railroad network was a pet project of the Hadley government's economic program. India currently has one of the largest and most widely used railroad networks on the planet. It is again being modernized by the Snowden-Patel government to run fully on diesel.

Despite all this, India's economy is still largely agricultural. India leads the world in cotton production, something which greatly helped with the development of a native textile industry. Tea is also a major component. Aside from this, mining is also a major component of the economy.

The Snowden-Patel Labour government since 1927 has more focused on implementing welfare programs rather than nationalization (with the notable example of the banks, which were nationalised in 1930, and Indian Railways, which were nationalized to begin with). Nevertheless, one of the things that has been encouraged has been the formation of workers' cooperatives. Calcutta in particular has a large number of these, and they appear to be doing just as well as their non-cooperative counterparts.

India openly trades with most of the world save for openly Arthurist countries, and unlike many other countries, is open to trading with Communist countries as well.

Jai Mary II, Shahbanu-i-Hind!

Capital: London
Government: Single Party Parliamentary Monarchy
PoD: 1837, Queen Victoria takes the throne of Great Britain, the Kingdom of Hanover recognizes Ernest Augustus as king of Hanover. Victoria, taking the advice of a more conservative friend and declared herself queen of Hanover. Hanover did not support the claim of course. Over the years Victoria however would focus her efforts on Maintaining Hanover, seeking friendships and alliances specifically with Austria, who wanted to weaken Prussia. While it was impossible for Victoria to declare war to reclaim Hanover, she was able to eventually convince parliament to back her claim.
the UK declared war on Hanover, and was quickly able to overrun and put herself on the Throne of Hanover. Over the following years of her rule Victoria would become a beloved queen, she would consolidate her power and become the most powerful monarch in British history. This paved the way for The Arthurian Ideology, Modern Britain and the current power of the British Monarch.
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Capital: København

Government: Unitary Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy

Prime Minister: Thorvald August Marinus Stauning [Socialdemokraterne]

Monarchy: King of Denmark, King of Norway, Protector of the Danish Crown Realms Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm X Slesvig-Holsten-Sønderborg-Lyksborg

Anthem: Der er et yndigt land

Currency: Danish Krone [Dansk Krone;kr.]

A Brief History of Denmark:

With dual defeats at Copenhagen and the subsequent Treaty of Kiel and Congress of Vienna, it seemed as though the power of Denmark-Norway had entirely collapsed. The Kingdom of Norway was ordained to the Kingdom of Sweden under a personal union with the close of the Napoleonic Wars, and despite a brief Swedish-Norwegian War in 1814, the utter defeat of Norway and the subsequent Convention of Moss placed Swedish King Charles XIII on the throne of Norway, there to remain for a mere four years. The only saving grace for Denmark, whose navy was twice destroyed at Copenhagen and whose union partner had been forcibly seized, was its retention of Iceland, Greenland, and its fledgling colonial possessions. Danish losses during the Napoleonic Wars themselves, not to mention the Treaty of Kiel, were horrendous. Almost all the straw-thatched buildings in Copenhagen were burnt to the ground, while sturdier structures were pounded down by unparalleled tonnage of British artillery and incendiary Congreve rockets. The Danish royal family, in addition, declared the national bankruptcy of Denmark in 1813, due to the nation’s inability to sustain a state of continuous war. Nonetheless, this destruction opened up a massive opportunity for unprecedented growth, expansion, and advancement. In what would come to be known as the Danish Golden Age [Danske Guldalder], Danish arts and architecture would receive a revitalizing breath with the influx of German romanticism into the parlors and halls of Copenhagen, propagated by lecturers such as Henrik Steffens, Adam Oehlenschläger, and N.F.S. Grundtvig. These thinkers, in tandem with a great many others, would serve to develop and coalesce a uniquely Danish form of Romantic nationalism, culminating in 1827 with the publishing of “A Treatise on Danish Romantic Nationalism” by Grundtvig [En Afhandling om Dansk Nationalromantikken]. In Copenhagen itself, streets were widened and reorganized. Local architects, Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøllm, Andreas Hallander, and Johan Martin Quist in particular, erected French Louis XVI Style influenced apartment complexes and various other buildings throughout the city. In regards to the arts, the Golden Age of Danish Painting was spearheaded by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, a Paris-educated neoclassicist, who contributed immensely to the development of a decidedly Danish style of painting, influenced heavily by realism and neoclassicism but maintaining a grounded, unpretentious air. A similar development was seen in the field of Danish sculpture, this one headed by the Rome-educated neoclassicist Bertel Thorvaldsen. Romanticism took a strong hold in Danish music as well, alongside considerable influence from Nordic folksongs and legends as seen in the works of Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann and Hans Christian Lumbye. In early 19th century Copenhagen, Danish literature witnessed incredible development and maturation as well. The esteemed Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Grundtvig, Oehlenschläger, and of course the world-renowned Hans Christian Andersen all were outstanding leaders in the refinement of Danish literary culture. In the field of philosophy, Danish thinkers were initially influence primarily by Hegelian thought, though the advent of Søren Kierkegaard would bring about a distinctly Danish influence on the world stage of philosophy. In all the scientific fields, one name stands above all the rest. Hans Christian Ørsted. Well remembered for observing that electric currents induce magnetic fields, Ørsted also contributed directly to Danish science by founding the Copenhagen-based Selskabet for Naturlærens Udbredelse, or Society for the Dissemination of Natural Science, in addition to the Danish Patent and Trademark Office and the Danish Meteorological Institute. The Danish Golden Age also saw, politically, the rise of liberalism and nationalism in Denmark, and the advent of the Danish Constitution on June 5th 1849 that saw Denmark transition into a constitutional monarchy. It is generally accepted that the Danish Golden Age ended in its first incarnation with the entrance of Denmark into the Brothers’ War [Brorkrig] on June 26th, 1866 on the side of Austria against Prussia.

The Danish constitution rode into Copenhagen on the shockwaves following the Revolutions of 1848. While the Kingdom of Denmark itself did not see any particularly violent or significant political upheaval, the recently developed liberal and nationalist mindset had already taken root within the sociopolitical Danish elite. The Austro-Prussian War, or Brothers’ War, was only twelve days underway when the Kingdom of Denmark announced its intervention officially separately from the Austro-Prussian War citing its opening of a Third Schleswig War, but for all intents and purposes on behalf of the Austrian Empire against the Kingdom of Prussia. For the Danes, another war with Prussia was inevitable, if not exactly popular. While Denmark had won the First Schleswig War (1484-1851) and suffered losses in the Second Schleswig War (1866) in the form of transferring hegemony over Saxe-Lauenburg to Prussia (interestingly enough, the Second Schleswig War was a major catalyst in exacerbating Austro-Prussian tensions, with Austria not heeding the Prussia’s call to arms), it had done so at an extreme cost. The Danish Council President at the time, Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, head of a coalition Nationale Godsejere-Nationalliberale (NG-NL) government, advocated caution in regards to the new German war. Despite this, it was painfully apparent to a great majority of the landed elite at the time, if not the general populace of Denmark, that a be-all and end-all resolution to the age-old Schleswig-Holstein question would be potentially feasible if Denmark were to initiate yet another Schleswig War. Thus, on June 26th, 1866, the Kingdom of Denmark, under King Christian IX of Denmark, much to the chagrin of Council President Christian Emil Frijs, announced a state of war with the Kingdom of Prussia under the name of the Third Schleswig War. While officially separate from the Austro-Prussian War, Danish officers and troops in the Third Schleswig War saw limited cooperation with Austrian allies during the mutual conflicts, most notably following the disastrous Battle of Langensalza that almost saw the surrender and annexation of Hannover by Prussia at the Battles of Seesen and Magdeburg, where Danish reinforcements assisted the battered Hannoverian army in stalling a numerically superior Prussian force whilst waiting for Bavarian allies to arrive from the south. By the July 3 Battle of Königgrätz, Danish troops had already reoccupied Saxe-Lauenburg and occupied Hamburg and Lübeck, Prussian troops being drawn southwards to assist in the steadily worsening war effort against Austria. By the turn of the New Year and the winding down of the Austro-Prussian war after a spectacular Austrian victory at Königgrätz, Denmark had already occupied the two Mecklenburgs and was poised to mount an invasion of Prussian Pomerania or perhaps even Brandenburg. In early 1867, only a few small skirmishes of note took place between the Danish Royal Army and the Prussian Army: at Damgarten, Tribsees, Tornow, Eldenburg, and Dambeck. By this point, the Prussian Army was utterly exhausted by continuous harassment from all directions, and the Danish Royal Army was beginning to similarly tire, though at a much lesser rate. Thus, separately from the Austro-Prussian Second Treaty of Dresden, which merely officially affirmed the status quo ante bellum, Council President Frijs negotiated an end to the Third Schleswig War starting February 3rd, 1867. The Treaty of Rostock, signed and ratified February 17th, 1867, was a stunning diplomatic victory for the moderately resurgent Kingdom of Denmark. Not only did it affirm direct Danish control over the Duchies of Schleswig, Holstein, and Saxe-Lauenburg, but it transferred, in a similar fashion to the Prussian victory at the Second Schleswig War, legal control over the Free Hanseatic Cities of Hamburg and Lübeck to the Royal Family of Denmark (though not to the Kingdom itself). As a final precautionary nail in the coffin, the Treaty of Rostock also consolidated the two realms of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Mecklenburg-Schwerin into a single Grand Union Duchy of Mecklenburg (ordained and affirmed by Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg on March 3rd, 1867) as a buffer state between the newly empowered Denmark and the newly weakened Prussia with minor territorial concessions to both Prussia and Denmark: the former Bishopric of Ratzeburg was ceded to Denmark, the towns of Rossow, Schönberg, and associated territories were returned to Prussian administration, and Prussian Pomeranian control of Zettemin was transferred to the new Mecklenburg. With the later signing of the Second Treaty of Dresden, ending the Austro-Prussian War, Denmark had effectively and surprisingly secured its position once more as a middling power in Europe.

For the remaining period between 1867 and 1872, the Kingdom of Denmark saw few incidents regarding foreign or military affairs of particular import, save for the annexation of the Ashanti Empire in 1869 headed by the Danish Gold Coast Company. A conquest-minded expedition to stop the continual Asanteman raids on the Danish Gold Coast forts was headed by Major Erik Christian Anker, which embarked from Hamborg on August 6th, 1868, saw limited success in fighting the experienced troops of the Ashanti until the December 14th Battle of Agogo, where by a complete fluke, Major Anker’s expeditionary troops managed to capture Asantehene Kofi Karikari, thereby ending the war and incorporating the Ashanti Empire as a constituent state of the Kingdom of Denmark and strengthening the nascent Danish colonial empire. But on September 18th, 1872, an event occurred that would prove to be the single most decisive factor in determining the rebirth of Denmark as a relevant European power, eclipsing both the Danish Golden Age and the Treaty of Rostock. On September 18th, 1872, the King of Sweden and Norway, Carl Ludvig Eugen XV & IV passed away, supposedly leaving the throne to Oscar II. The Norwegian peoples, who had chafed under the ineffectual rule of Carl Ludvig in comparison to the spectacular recovery and growth of their former union partners and southern neighbors in Denmark, began to harbor rebellious tendencies. Riots spontaneously erupted throughout Norway: the Christmas Riot in Bergen being the most famous, but also including the October 20th revolt in Christiania and the December 10th to 17th riots in Trondheim and Stavanger. Norwegian textile workers and fishermen went on extended strikes, and the Norwegian Storting convened in deemed crisis on January 16th, 1873 to discuss the matter of a sustainable and achievable dissolution of the Swedish-Norwegian union. After a couple days of deliberation, the Storting decided on a proposition to the incumbent King of Denmark, Christian IX, to reclaim the Crown of Norway and reunite the Norwegian and Danish kingdoms. On January 25th, the Storting officially announced the dissolution of the Swedish-Norwegian union and the instatement of King Christian IX as King Christian VIII of Norway. The following day, the Kingdom of Sweden declared the annulment of the Swedish-Norwegian union to be illegal and announced its intention to occupy Norway and reinstate the union. The Kingdom of Norway responded with a direct intention of war, which was reciprocated by the Kingdom of Sweden. On January 27th, the Kingdom of Denmark mobilized to the aid of its once-more union partner. Thus started the War for the Norwegian Crown. At the start of the war, it appeared as though Denmark and Norway were stunningly unprepared in comparison with the battle-tested Swedish military, one of the premier forces in the world at the time. Indeed, the Swedish Army won several battles in early 1873 along the Swedish-Norwegian border. Østfold and Hedmark were seized in a series of minor engagements and conflicts spanning February and March 1873, while by April 7th, the Norwegian capital of Christiania was being sieged by Swedish troops. The Storting moved operations on April 26th to the city of Bergen, ferried by Danish boats. And indeed, it was the Royal Danish Navy that would prove to be the saving grace of the Kingdom of Denmark in times of war. This time, unlike the disastrous battles at Copenhagen against the British, the Danish fleet was deployed against a far inferior Swedish navy in terms of both quality and number. While the Swedish army stormed across eastern Norway, the Royal Danish Navy harassed and bombarded the Swedish ports of Norrköping, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Sundsvall, Umeå, Luleå, Visby, and especially Helsingborg. On April 23rd, the Royal Danish Army landed a detachment to the almost entirely cut off from Stockholm island of Gotland at Kräklingbo. The Battle of Kräklingbo was incredibly one-sided, with the Swedish defenders being relatively untrained in comparison to their mainlander counterparts, not to mention being cut off from all manners of supply lines from Sweden proper, but still counted as the first proper victory for Denmark and Norway against Sweden between their respective armed forces.

Meanwhile, in Bergen, Copenhagen, and Stockholm themselves, a tenuous, precarious, and overall sticky situation was developing. Long disgruntled by the quickly expanding economic power and influence that Denmark held, as well as fearing a challenge to their own mercantile dominance, the Kingdom of the Netherlands sent an offer to the Swedish to lend their assistance in the conflict to the extent of direct military intervention by the Dutch naval forces. Similarly, the Russian Empire, itself fearing the potential economic repercussions of a Denmark controlling the Sound, tentatively extended offers to their former enemies the Swedes of more limited, more cautious assistance to prevent a grossly powerful Denmark. Meanwhile, an ever-vengeful Prussia watched the situation carefully from the south, though was more occupied by its horrific conflict with France. With the odds against Denmark and Norway, it was the guile of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Folketing member Andreas Frederik Krieger that would herald victory to the Danes. It was indeed Minister Krieger that had the insight and foresight to predict potential Russian support to the Swedes, against the opinions of much of the rest of the Folketing, who could not imagine in any way cooperation to manifest between Russia and Sweden. In a personal plea to King Christian IX following his impassioned petition to the Folketing on May 1st, Krieger pointed that neither an assurance on the safety of Russian shipping nor explicitly stating to St. Petersburg that the Kingdom of Denmark had no plans for territorial expansion would particularly be harmful statements to the diplomatic credentials indeed the real war goals of Denmark. As a result, with the consequences being on Krieger’s head, a special diplomatic envoy was sent, with Krieger at the lead, on May 5th to St. Petersburg to call for an audience with the Emperor. The mission was a surprising success. It came as a shock to the Russian ministers, and indeed, to the Folketing back in Copenhagen that Krieger’s intuition had been correct. And thus, with the Russian fears annulled of a Danish Sound and a new toll, and as a result of Krieger’s many speeches calling for the nullification of Sweden’s ‘new imperialist tendencies’, which particularly were the fears of many of the Russian elite, the Russian Empire was swayed to the Danish position, with the Russian Emperor Alexander III ordering mobilization of a small army to Finland. Despite overwhelming Swedish success on the battlefields of Norway, and their actual seizure of Christiania on May 13th, the threat of opening up a second Finnish front against a far superior Russian army was too great for the Swedish crown to ignore. Thus, on May 17th, the Kingdom of Sweden sued for peace with the Kingdoms of Norway and Denmark. Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian diplomats met in the St. Petersburger Yusupov Palace on the Moika, holding Russian-moderated peace talks that would last for weeks. Despite an aggressive Danish push for the repealing of the Second Treaty of Brömsebro and a reincorporation of Gotland into Denmark, Russian ministers reminded the Danes of their promise to refrain from territorial gain, and any attempts on the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Sweden were more or less disregarded. Finally, after much deliberation and back and forth banter on trivial details, the Treaty on the Moika was signed by all associated representatives and plenipotentiaries on June 2nd, 1873, thus ending another war-filled chapter in Danish history. Moika dismantled the Convention of Moss and its resolutions half a century prior, and accorded the throne of Norway to the Danish ruling House of Slesvig-Holsten-Sønderborg-Lyksborg and the incumbent King of Denmark, Christian IX of house the same under the title of Christian VIII of Norway, following the January 25th Storting declaration. In addition, to prevent further northern bloodshed or conflict, the Kingdoms of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, as well as the Russian Empire, all agreed to a complete, mutual recognition of the signatory nations’ borders as was acknowledged at the signing of the Treaty on the Moika. Indeed, this secondary clause would prevent further conflict in the Nordic regions for the remainder of the 19th century and well to the present, as well as foster a begrudgingly, steadily thawing relationship between the Kingdom of Sweden and the newly reunited Twin Realms of Denmark and Norway. For the time, Denmark’s future looked to be nothing but promising.

Economy:

The Kingdom of Denmark operates a moderately industrialized economy with significant service emphasis.

Agriculturally, the counties on Jutland are home to several expansive cow and pig farms, especially near the south of the peninsula and nearing Slesvig. In the Danish Frederick Islands, subsistence agriculture is the prevailing method of financial sustenance. Recently, Danish corporations have been looking to expand spice and tropical fruit plantations on the islands, with some limited success. On the Danish Virgin Islands, only a few small livestock farms are kept, with the soil being poor for farming. In the Danish Gold Coast territories, agricultural endeavors are primarily centered about the Kingdom of Ashanti, where a great majority of the populace survives off of subsistence agriculture, but corporate plantations for kola nuts, oil palms, cocoa, and various grains are starting to take root in both the Kingdom of Ashanti and the Northern Provinces.

As is befitting of its name, the Danish Gold Coast is home to nearly the entirety of all Danish mining-related projects and programs. Some particularly noteworthy products that flow from Guldkyster mines are: gold, mercury, and recently diamonds. Efforts by Danish Royal Petrol to search for petroleum in the Gold Coast have been to this point unsuccessful.

The Kingdom of Denmark Proper and its Local Dependencies [the Duchies of Slesvig, Holstein, Saxe-Lauenburg, and the Free Hanseatic Cities of Lübeck and Hamburg] are for the better part considered industrialized. While mineral resources are next to none, the regions along the Elbe River and Limfjorden have seen sustained industrial development since, respectively, the 1850's and the tail end of the 19th century. The islands of Lolland and Fyn are home to the industrial centres of Nakskov and Svendborg respectively. The capital island of Sjælland, meanwhile, remains for the most part in the process of industrialization, save for the nationally-renowned Steel Belt [Stålbælte] between the cities of Køge and Vordingborg. Manufacturing in overseas possessions is localized to the Gold Coast Company Region in its cities of Fort Christiansborg and Fort Kongensten. Danish industry is supplied primarily by French and Belgian coal and iron, as well as other raw mineral materials from [insert nations here] colonies and rubber from Brazil. The nascent Danish industry produces a variety of manufactured goods.

The Kingdom of Denmark operates a small royal-held railway system. The Continental Railway spans from Hamborg up to Ålborg, with a derivative route to København crossing the Little and Great Belts [one of the greatest technological feats in Danish history]. Danish Royal Rail operates in conjunction with the Danish Gold Coast Company in the Danish Gold Coast a coastal railway from Fort Sekondi to Fort Kongensten, as well as a smaller railroad from Fort Christiansborg through Kumasi to Tamale.

The true pride of the Danish economy is its vast merchant fleet. The Koffardi is one of the largest in the world holding approximately 9% of total tonnage. Nearly all of the significant constituencies of the Kingdom of Denmark, with the sole exception of the Danish Virgin Islands, is home to an internationally ranking port in terms of annual tonnage. In Denmark Proper is København, now the premier port in Europe with the fall of the Dutch as a significant mercantile power. In the other continental Danish constituencies are the Free Hanseatic Cities of Hamborg and Lybæk, significant ports in their own rights. In the Danish Gold Coast lies the capital port of Fort Christiansborg, the largest of many stops on the from the Cape to Gibraltar. In Iceland and Greenland there are the nationally significant ports of Reykjavik and Julianehåb respectively. In the Danish Frederick Islands, the sole East Asian possession of Denmark, Port Carolusborg, founded only in 1879, is a quickly growing city, with a heightened influx of immigrants due to the lax taxation and large potential for profit by tapping into the burgeoning Danish spice trade.

In 1892 the Kiel Canal was constructed, expediting the oft-traveled London-Copenhagen route.

Administrative Divisions:

-Kingdom of Denmark and Duchy of Slesvig [Kongeriget Danmark og Hertugdømmet Slesvig]



-Southern German Ducal Territories [Sydlige Tysk Hertugdømmer]



-Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands [Grønland, Island, og Færøerne]



-Danish Gold Coast [Danske Guldkyst]



-Danish Frederick Islands [Dansk Frederiksøerne]

Country Name: The Socialist Federation of the Free South German Republics
Capital: Inzigkofen
Government: Single-party socialist federation
PoD: Austria emerges victorious after the Bruderkrieg and maintains domination over south German affairs.
Flag: The star and rose
Map: Below

History: The Austrian victory at Königgrätz effectively ended the Austro-Prussian War in 1866, though small-scale fighting continued until early 1867. The Second Treaty of Dresden officially ended the war on a return to the status quo, though in many eyes it confirmed Austrian power in the south German states. Foreign Minister Otto von Bismarck of Prussia would be made to resign by the Kaiser shortly thereafter. Bismarck would go down in history hated by German nationalists who blamed him for the inability of Germany to unify during the 1800s and called him "the man who broke Germany apart". Whether or not he deserves that claim is debated by historians, though this would not stop him dying, still in disgrace, in 1889.

Emperor Franz Josef would move quickly to consolidate his power in Germany. A few months after the war ended the Kingdom of Bavaria, Kingdom of Württemberg, Grand Duchy of Baden, Grand Duchy of Hesse, and other minor states all joined together in what was referred to as the South German Federation. Saxony was also offered a place within the Federation, but it was declined by King John. While in theory the power was held by appointed officials from each of the member states, in reality the SGF was nothing more than a puppet state to be ruled by the Emperor in Austria.

The Emperor had unprecedented success in Germany. However, in the rest of the Empire, things would be much more troublesome. A group of Hungarian nationalists met in Budapest not long after the war's end. This group, thinking the Empire was weak from its fight against Prussia, issued demands that would have led to greater Hungarian representation and power within the Empire as a whole, though at the expense of the other nationalities. Not wanting to surrender Austria's newfound respect among the world powers, Franz Josef had the leading members of this so-called Congress arrested while others fled the city. The Hungarian aristocracy and people were outraged, and this began a period of Hungarian history known as the Widerstand. There would be frequent fighting in the streets between Austrian and Hungarian citizens living in Hungary, as well as with Austrian police.

Despite the continued Hungarian unrest during the Widerstand period, the Austrian Empire was doing fairly well. This was not the first period of Hungarian unrest, and everyone knew this certainly wouldn't be the last. One contemporary quipped, "The Hungarians complain about the whip, but only rarely try to move out of its way." The man holding said whip, Franz Josef, was expected to meet his brother, Emperor Maximilian of Mexico on June 3rd, 1873, in Trieste. Historians today note the relative lax protection given to the emperor for this event. Franz Josef was greeting a crowd while waiting for his brother's ship to arrive when two men broke through the masses. Against all odds they made it to the Emperor and stabbed him three times in the chest with the knives they carried before his guards could subdue them. They were identified right after as Hungarian nationalists, brothers.

Franz Josef was rushed to a hospital in Trieste as Maximillian was notified on the event. Against the advice of his guards, who felt unprepared to deal with an assassination against him, he still met with his brother in the hospital and would stay in Austria for the duration of Franz Josef's recovery. Sadly, the recovery never came. His wounds became infected and the Austrian Emperor would linger in pain for three weeks before finally dying on June 21st, 1873. He was 43 and had ruled Austria since he was 18.

Austria was silent as the body of the long revered emperor was brought back to Vienna to be laid to rest. After a period of mourning his only son, Archduke Rudolf, was
crowned Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary in a very somber ceremony. His latter title was disputed by the Hungarians. Gathering in Budapest only three days after Rudolf's crowning, the Hungarian aristocracy published the Issue of the Crown, declaring Hungarian independence from the Austrian Empire and named Count Gustav Kálnoky Regent of the Crown of Saint Stephen, to rule until a proper king can be chosen. Two weeks later, the Croatians declared support for Kálnoky and the Czechs formally declared neutrality in this issue. The War of Saint Stephen had begun.

The South German Federation was quick to assist their Austrian allies. In particular Prince William of Württemberg, commander of the Federation forces during the war, would rise to prominence as the dominant military commander on the Austrian side of the war. Emperor Rudolf had next to no involvement with military affairs and would spend much of his time locked up in his palace, with rumours going around while the soldiers fought for his crown, the Emperor was spending time with his mistresses. With morale falling and the military outnumbered, certain members of the Austrian nobility approached the Czechs and offered them a deal. If the Czechs sided with the Austrians, they would be granted much desired autonomy after its end. With some reluctance, the Czech leaders agreed.

Despite this much needed support, the war went poorly for Austria. Multiple attempts at marching on Budapest had ended in only minimal gains and by 1875 it had become clear than everyday this war goes on, more Germans die than Hungarians and Croatians. The Emperor did not take the news well. Whatever contact with the rest of his court he had vanished as he sank into a state of depression. The nobility, worried by the lack of leadership Rudolf has shown, approached Karl Ludwig, his uncle, offered him the regency, declaring Rudolf unfit to rule. Karl Ludwig's regency did not last long, though. On January 30th, 1876, Emperor Rudolf was found dead in his room, along with one of his mistresses, in an apparent suicide. This event was hidden for weeks, before the Regent finally announced that the Emperor had died in a hunting accident. Many knew it was a lie.

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Rest when I am not tf2ing. can.

Country Name: Greater Cascadian Union
Capital: Seattle
Government: Totalitarian Unitary State
PoD: It wasn't long after the USA acquired the Western states in 1848 that tensions were on the rise. The US had no means of stopping Asian immigration as its military was exhausted. As the rest of the North joined Acadia, Western secessionist movements became increasingly prevalent.
Eventually, the West seceded and formed a Confederation - The Western Confederacy. However, times were tough in this new country. A three-way race war was underway as whites fought to keep their African slaves and Asian immigrants demanded more representation.
Surprisingly, a unity movement gained traction that called for equal rights for all citizenry, starting off rather small and modest in the former state of Washington. This movement, though starting off with good intentions, became the most militant of the camps - and the most popular. Eventually, this movement got big enough to take up arms and removed the governments of the Confederacy that were deemed racist and counterproductive. The leader of this army of militants - an African-Asian man from Seattle named Adebola Li - declared the Cascadian Union once order was restored.
Not long after the Union was founded, the Quebecois Revolution went underway, and in a stroke of opportunism northern Cascadia was annexed. For years, there was much discussion between Li and regional governors about how the government of Cascadia should be structured. In the end, it was decided that Cascadia shall become a Unitary State. Regional governors would be elected, but the federal government remained supreme - and ran by the military, with Adebola Li as the General of the Armed Forces. The military held a monopoly on weapons and arms and were in charge of most emergency services (from policing to medical), while most other goods and services were privatized entirely.

Modern Society and Politics: To this day the military plays a strong role in Cascadian society and remains the supreme authority on national matters. All public workers are considered enlisted individuals, meaning that any doctors, secretaries, and others that work public facilities hold some kind of military ranking. That is to say one's place in the military sufficiently sums up one's place in society. There are exceptions to this rule, of course. Private enterprise is still legal, and most services outside of emergency services, law, and government are completely privatized.

The head of state and government is known as General of the Armed Forces and is the highest military ranking in Cascadia with 6 stars. Under the GAF is a cabinet of other generals, assigned to different regions of Cascadia. The GAF is chosen of that group, and another general is chosen to take the GAF's previous post. Four generals make up this group, each having 5-star rankings. Each of these generals have unique titles: General of the Northern Command, General of the Eastern Command, General of the Southern Command, and General of the Pacific Command. Often, these generals are referred to as "Commanders" to further distinguish themselves from subordinate generals. Each has absolute authority in their region, with the exception of the GAF taking command. In peacetime, each General sees to the governance of these areas. The exception of this is the capital, which is directly governed by the GAF.

While the country is not a democracy, there are political factions. However, given that nobody has any incentive to organize these factions aside from some labor-oriented ones, factions that do not align themselves with the military do not usually fair well. This does imply that factions are indeed recognized by the state and can have some influence on the state of affairs that way. Every so often even one of the four Commanders could be aligned to a faction.

Popular Culture:
The culture of Cascadia is surprisingly lively for a military dictatorship. Despite ongoing tensions between the races in the underground, many syncretistic cultural events spring up around the country every month of the year, most being government-sponsored. In addition to syncretism, there are several pride parades to celebrate individual races, also sponsored by the government. This doesn't come without problems though. There is an extremist group for every race, and sometimes they feel brave enough to violently disrupt these events, many times ending in military police intervention.

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Nation Name: Acadian Republic
Capital: Boston
Government: Democratic republic
POD: During the Hartford Convention in 1815, the New English states elected to secede from the Union rather than suffer any more at the hands of Southernors who would put their own interests above that of the nation. The nascent republic immediately made a peace with the United Kingdom, and quickly turned to become an important strategic ally for the British, against the Americans. As the Americans continued to expand west and grow in strength, the nervous New English requested to buy large portions of Canada - the Maritimes, the island of Newfoundland, and parts of Ontario and Quebec, so that they could counter the strength of the Union. The British, interested elsewhere, agreed to sell in 1840, for a sum of some $20 million dollars.
Meanwhile, in the United States, the increasing tensions between slave holding states and free states continued to grow to a boiling point. When the Mexican-American War was launched, and the United States gained the Mexican Cession, every single territory gained statehood with legal slavery. What was left of the North was done, and they washed their hands of what they perceived as the failed Union. Though initially declaring themselves completely independent for a few short years, it was not long before they were admitted into the Acadian Republic.

Politics: The political system works much the same way as the United States does, though without a House of Representatives; each state sends two representatives to the National Senate, where they enact policies that effect the entire nation. The states themselves also have legislatures to enact local laws.

In terms of political parties, there are three major ones: the Federalists, the Democrats, and the United Socialist party.

Political party map:


The Democrats stand for free trade and non intervention by the government, finding the most support in rural areas and farmland.
The Federalists are more protectionist, seeking to protect American business interests and find most of their support in the upper and middle classes of urban regions, and most of New England as well - the Federalist party was the one who is responsible for Acadia's independence, and New England does not forget that.
The United Socialists are most popular by the poor in industrial centers, and are the smallest party.

The current Senate is made up of 40% Federalists, 35% Democrats, and 25% Socialists. The president is one Mr. Eugene Debbs, a Federalist.

Economy: The Republic is based off of simple capitalism and industrialism. Though there is a healthy agricultural sector, it has been mostly overshadowed in the past few decades by the ever-growing industrial sector in the Great Lakes, and the tranport sector along the coast. Both the agricultural and industrial sectors rely on the shipping infrastructure along the East Coast to export their goods worldwide. Many worry in recent years that there are too few restrictions on large corporations, which increasingly increase the size of the wealth gap, and have increasingly large influence in the country's political system.

Military: Military service in the Republic is entirely voluntarily, and land and air forces are kept small. Though a small Federal Army, and Federal Air Corps, exist, most of the Republic's defense comes from localized National Guard units trained by the Federal Army but equipped and stationed in their local states. It is estimated that there are over 300,000 personnel in National Guard units nation-wide. Outside of a handful of rebellions and a few skirmishes with the United States, the nation has never been involved in a major war. Much of the nation's force comes from highly trained, rapid response forces used to destroy key targets in enemy nations and such.

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The amount of rage cived will have over this is too damn high.

expressing interest, will nation later.

Claiming a Japan with the home islands, phillipines, indonesia, australia, new zealand, historical pacific islands, and Hawaii. And Hong Kong and korea.

Rest later, but POD will be very early for the reference of any other nation forming in the area.

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Country Name: Divine Empire of Japan
Capital: Kyoto
Government: Absolute Monarchy
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1855:
-Rogue clans attack Chinese shores in an act of mass piracy, bringing thousands of slaves back to Japan. China's Taiping Rebellion kept them from ever fully learning the extend of Japanese hostilities. The city of Fuzhou is sacked. Emperor Kōmei assures the Chinese government that these acts of violence were nothing but clans who were out of line, and promises action will be taken against them. Whether or not the Chinese government received the message is still hotly debated, as the country was in turmoil at the time, but several Japanese envoys and diplomats were killed.

1870:
-Riots begin breaking out over shortages of food in some villages due to the influx of Chinese slaves. Initially, lords send their Teiheishi to quell the malcontent, but that was a temporary fix. Class friction is more common than ever between the privileged Teiheishi and the plebeians.

1871:
-Freedom of religion is never introduced. Instead, clans begin to teach their common people to revere their local shogun as demigods among men to maintain order, living scions of the elements. Only some clans accept these teachings, the majority reject it after trials, or never attempt to implement them at all. Those that succeed quell their respective rebellions quickly. The rest merely wait it out.

1896:
-The Meiji Restoration saw rising industrialization in Japan, to better deal with other modern-day colonial powers. However, the traditional ways are not to be forgotten, and the Emperor made this clear to his subjects. The Imperial government, colloquially known as the Restoration Government by native Japanese, merely changed around some names, but the spirit of feudal Japan remained pure in the face of Gaijin culture and contraptions. Rifles were handed to Neo-Ashigaru, land supplied to prominent Teiheishi, lords assigned to rule various provinces, armored regiments built for the defense of the glorious Divine Empire. The Tokugawa family is exterminated, and the Imperial government uses religion to justify its first morally-questionable act.

1914:
-A year of national mourning as Emperor Meiji passes into the spirit world. His adventures in the nether are drawn, written, and printed in what quickly becomes a short series of classic children's picture books throughout Japan. The Imperial Priesthood crowns Meiji's son, Taishō, as Emperor of all Japan. The nation moves forward with his father's latest plans: the annexation of Korea and Taiwan.

1915
-Emperor Taishō is struck by what his advisers call a "divine madness". He locks himself in a single wing of the Imperial Palace, allowing no one but a single servant to bring food for three and a half years straight. The Imperial court takes matters of state into their own hands. Political power is shuffled about, and Emperor Taishō essentially has no power near the end of his self-imposed isolation; his heads of staff run the country like the decadent empire it has become, and utterly new faces populate the army and navy.
-Imperial court believes the Imperial Army and many clans have the logistical and armored support necessary to invade Korea. The Japanese struck without warning, securing a beachhead and creating forward command posts in newly-captured Suwōn and Haelu. The fighting begins in earnest as Korean military rallies under the banner of Gojong.

1918:
-The great doors of the Imperial Palace's east wing open, and a man step out. His face is gaunt, his figure alarmingly thin. He wanders about the palace in a daze, and none of the staff recognize him with his uncut hair. Lord-General Uesugi, the protector of Thailand is visiting the palace at the time, and steps inside the open east wing. Books are stacked everywhere, filling every surface of the wing, which is considerably large. He makes his way to a work table near the Emperor's quarters, and begins reading through some of the jam-packed notebooks and scrawls. He sits down to read it all, flabbergasted by the contents. Former Emperor Taishō is shuffled out of the Imperial palace by guards, believing him to be a dirty commoner who somehow snuck onto the premise.
-Lord-Commander Uesugi distinguishes himself in combat, routing half of the Korean army with nothing but three Kagō tanks and a heavy weapons platoon. Many honors are won, even though Japanese-held territory only moves forward a quarter mile.

1920:
-Lord-Commander Uesugi is elected as Emperor by the Imperial government, as Emperor Taishō is nowhere to be found and never sired an heir. Dissent in Korea was beginning to grow, and Japan needed to act quickly and decisively before things spiraled out of control. Uesugi Daichi leads Imperial Kagō into Korea, instantly putting down the short-term armed resistance. The hearts of the people, however, continue to elude Imperial control.
-Japanese forces, after suffering bloody losses across the Korean battlefield finally rallied and fanatically charged under the (literal and figurative) whip of Gorou Shinobu, a dogmatic and violent preacher of Neo-Shinto. Soldiers storm heavy weapon emplacements as armored vehicles create the thunder of war. Infantry losses are heavy, but Seoul is captured. Imperial governance begins.

Administrative Divisions:


Industrial Centers:


Economics:
Laissez-faire. Prominent merchant families have risen to great power within the Divine Empire of Japan and, as such, are considered minor nobles. Their children are exempt from military drafts and menial work, same as the samurai.

Military:
Compulsory. Samurai will go through towns on the top of armored personnel carriers, calling out to volunteers. If none volunteer, the town crier reads off names compiled by the Imperial government. Anyone on that list must serve as Neo-Ashigaru or deckhands aboard a maritime vessel. Only samurai are allowed to pilot tanks and planes, though the remaining crew is usually made of of household military servants. Each clan maintains its own army, made up of civilians recruited from their respective territories. The Imperial Army is maintained by the Emperor, soldiers drafted from his family territories. The difference between the Imperial Army and a clan army is that the Throne maintains the air force and the navy. The prospect of being bombed, and the lack of administrative screwups make most clans follow the Emperor with loyalty in their hearts.

Society:
Imperial Japanese society, circa 1870. It operates on a caste system. The noble-born are held in higher regard than the commoners. This system has been known to cause class tension in the past, but is somewhat alleviated by the teachings of Neo Shinto. Family members of the same clan generally tend to live in their respective clan's territory, but five family members from each clan are required to be at the Imperial court in Kyoto, as advisers, delegates, and last but not least, assurances of loyalty.

Country Name: Mongol Khanate
Capital: Bogdiin Khüree
Government: Absolute Monarchy
History:

During the 19th century, Qing China entered a long phase of decline. At the same time, the Qing Emperor issued a decree in 1838 which would allow migration of Han Chinese into Mongolia. This caused outrage among the Mongolian aristocracy and the Mongol population as hundreds of thousands of Han Chinese would move into Mongolia, making the Mongols a minority in their own land. Taking advantage of the First Opium War (1839 - 1842), the Mongol aristocracy elected Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj as Khan of Mongolia and declared Mongolia's Independence.

The Mongol War of Independence was a long conflict fought between 1839 and 1856. Until 1842, the Mongolians were able to easily gain control of both Outer and Inner Mongolia and consolidate their position. Once the Opium War was over, however, the Qing begun a series of offensives which eventually drove back the Mongols to Outer Mongolia. Those offensives were successful mainly because of overwhelming Qing manpower. From 1849 onwards, the Qing launched a total of twelve expeditions into Outer Mongolia.

The Mongols, under the charismatic leadership of Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, employed scorched earth tactics and guerrilla warfare. Almost all of the twelve Qing expeditions followed the same pattern. An overwhelming Qing army would march into Outer Mongolia unopposed, but due to lack of supplies such a huge army could not be maintained. As the Qing retreated, the Mongols would harass them and exterminate them viciously.

By 1856 both enemies were exhausted. On one hand Mongolia was decimated by the constant warfare and scorched earth strategies and the majority of it's population was at arms. The Qing had lost too many men and had other more serious issues to face, like the Taiping Rebellion. So, no side wanted to continue the war any further and a peace treaty that recognized Mongolia's independence was signed.

From 1856 to 1881 Mongolia entered the face of reconstruction. It closed itself from the outside world and concentrated on healing the wounds of the war of independence. In 1881, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj died. He was succeeded by his nephew Chimediin Saikhanbileg. He continued his uncle's policy of isolation and Mongolia became one of the few (if not the only) nations which were completely isolated. The only contact Mongolia had with the outside world was some minimal trade with Qing China and Russian merchants.

In 1911, Chimediin Saikhanbileg died and he was succeeded by his son, Damdin Sükhbaatar, the current Khan of Mongolia. Under his reign, Mongolia opened up and trade increased with both China and Russia while European technology was imported into Mongolia, mainly on the field of military. However, Mongolia still remains fairly isolated and any technological advancements are limited to the military.

Politics:

Mongolia is an absolute monarchy exercising power through a court system. The most powerful officials below the Khan are the Chief Eunuch and the Chancellor. The two main factions in the Mongol Court are the more progressive Eunuchs and and the most conservative Clan Leaders.

Khan: Damdin Sükhbaatar


The Khan is the Supreme Leader of Mongolia. He is an absolute monarch and rules through decrees. He resides in the Imperial Palace of Ulan Bator. Typically, he comes every day to the Imperial Court to discuss with his Officials about the policies his government will take. The current Khan is Damdin Sükhbaatar, who took power in 1911.

Chief Eunuch: Buyan Sechen


While the practice of having Eunuchs was widespread in China, it was rare in Mongolia until 1845. That year, during the Mongol War of Independence, a Qing Eunuch named Zhao Wexiang was captured following a crushing defeat of a Qing army. Zhao offered his services to the Khan Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj and organized the first group of Mongol Eunuchs. Since then, the practice of having Eunuchs has become widespread as Eunuchs cannot claim the throne and they can guard the Khan's harem.

The Chief Eunuch is the leader of all of the Court's Eunuchs. While officially his authority is limited to ordering the Palace Eunuchs, in reality the Chief Eunuch is almost as powerful as a Prime Minister, especially if he has a close relation with the Khan and is a charismatic figure. The current Chief Eunuch is Buyan Sechen.

Chancellor: Khorloogiin Choibalsan


The Chancellor is the Head Minister of the Imperial Court. He is usually chosen from the traditional clans of Mongolia and represents the Mongolian aristocracy. He usually excels in the bow and horse riding and is far more conservative than the progressive and open to new ideas Eunuchs. The power of a Chancellor varies, depending on his personality and how much support he has in the Imperial Court. The current Chancellor is Khorloogiin Choibalsan.

Economy: Almost 80% of the Mongol population follow a nomadic lifestyle and live from breeding livestock. Animal husbandry is the mainstay of the Mongolian economy. Mongolia also produces small quantities of apples, European black currants, watermelons, muskmelons, onions, and garlic.

Society: Nomadic families move couple of times a year. They move for the summer and winter. The winter location is usually located near mountains in a valley and most families already have their fixed winter locations. The winter locations have shelter for the animals and are not used by other families while they are out. In the summer they move to a more open area that the animals can graze.

The Mongolians are very supportive of their absolute monarchy and there is literally no democratic opposition. Most Mongolians are uneducated and live a nomadic lifestyle and they care little about having participation in politics. Even the most progressive Mongolians want only reforms within the framework of the absolute monarchy.

Military: Service in the army is voluntary. The majority of the soldiers come from the small urban population of Mongolia. As the vast majority of Mongolians live as nomads, the only well paid job in urban centers is being a soldier. The Mongolian military has not participated in any war since the Mongol War of Independence (1839 - 1856). The Mongolian army is made up exclusively from cavalry. The cavalry uses rifles imported from China and Russia.

Administrative Divisions:



Green: Western Mongolia Province
Orange: Southern Mongolia Province
Blue: Eastern Mongolia Province
Red: Bogdiin Khüree Province

Major Cities and Industrial Centers:



Red: Bogdiin Khüree
Brown: Ulaangom
Green: Dalanzadgad

Map:

Omega124 said:

The amount of rage cived will have over this is too damn high.

expressing interest, will nation later.

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This is exactly the reason I said people shouldn't be designing their nations before sign-ups. It was all far too likely to go far too wrong and now people are just going to be pissed off with each other.

Subbing: will lay claim to around Egypt and Arabia. Will construct later on.

Robert Can't said:

This is exactly the reason I said people shouldn't be designing their nations before sign-ups. It was all far too likely to go far too wrong and now people are just going to be pissed off with each other.

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its exaclty why i am the second guy to post, so my stuff wasn't taken.

OFC THAT DIDN'T REALLY HELP NOW DID IT

/glares at mosher

(kidding)

sorry cived :C

THE GREEK REPUBLIC​

Official Name: The Second Hellenic Republic

Hymn: Ymnos eis tin eleytheria - Hymn to Liberty

Government: Parliamentary Republic

President of the Democracy: Pavlos Kountouriotis

Prime Minister: Eleftherios Venizelos

Currency: The Drachma (&#8367

Official Language: Demotic Greek

Official Religion: Secularism

Administrative Regions and Cities:


Capital: Constantinople

PoD: The Greek Rebellion happened in 1821 against the Ottoman Empire. After bloody victories and defeats, the Great Powers of the time decided to intervene, and the conflict was stopped, with Greece being given Peloponnese. In the First National Assembly in 1828 held in Patra, Alexandros Mavrokordatos, a pro - British politician, supported by the Phanariotes and the wealthy merchants, was chosen as the Governor of Greece. Nevertheless, mostly thanks to support from Great Britain and due to the diplomatic influence of Ioannis Capodistria, a prominent diplomat of Mavrokordatos' government, Greece expanded and her borders were finalized in the London Protocol of Greek Independence in 1830. Greece would assume control of Peloponnese, Athens and a small part of Continental Greece, while it would become a Monarchy, being ruled by Leopold I of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
On his election as as Governor of Greece, Alexandros Mavrokordatos, seeing the need for reform, took great steps to ensure the modernisation of Greece. He launched a major reform and modernisation program that covered all areas. He re-established military unity and re-organised the military by accepting the traditional militia members, the klephtes, into the army while making them depend on a higher authority on the reasoning that Greece was now independent in part and that it needed an organised army to fight back the Ottoman Scourge. Some of the leaders of this militia were convinced to join, while others like Kolokotronis refused for political reasons, as he had been accused in the past of fraud by members of the British party. Mavrokordatos also introduced the first modern quarantine system in Greece, which brought diseases such as typhoid fever, cholera and dysentery under control for the first time since the start of the War of Independence. Furthermore, he tried to undermine the authority of the traditional clans (or dynasties) that he considered the useless legacy of a bygone and obsolete era. However, he underestimated the political and military strength of the capetanei (καπεταναίοι – commanders) who had led the revolt against Ottoman Empire in 1821, and who had expected a leadership role in the post-revolution Government. When a dispute between the capetanei of Laconia and the appointed governor of the province escalated into an armed conflict, he called in British troops to restore order, because much of the army was controlled by capetanei who had been part of the rebellion.
The move of the Mavrokordatos government against various demographic populations who had been thriving at the expense of others (like the Maniates) made the Mavrokordatos government hated. However, things would change once Leopold I arrived in 1830 as the first King of Greece. A foreigner to Greece, his fears of being hated by the population would later on be verified. At first, he had been seen like a savior to the Mavrokordatos Governement. Despite not being an Orthodox, and as such not able to become King of Greece under the Orthodox rite, his popularity surged during the early 1840s. While King Leopold managed to enforce western ideas of hierarchy inside Greece and reform the education,the justice and the army systems according to his standards, he did not decide to keep Greeks out of the leading positions. However, corruption was prevalent in Greek politics at the time, and the Senate, a justicial body, was often a tool in the hands of the monarchy.
Following the surge of liberalism in Europe and the revolution in France, many protests erupted accross the country asking for better unemployment rights and for measures to be taken against corruption and financial relationships between members of the Senate and members of the public sector. As foreign troops landed in major ports like Piraeus in order to stop a possible revolution like that in France, Leopold I passed no measures, becoming ever more content and satisfied with his power. While they could do nothing for now, the Greek leaders of the army and the navy plotted together with the Phanariotes, whose role was now minimal and limited to that of education within the borders of a public system, and the wealthy merchants in order to overthrow King Leopold. In 25 March of 1850, the anniversary of the uprising against the Ottomans, Leopold I was presented by the army and the navy with an ultimatum: either he would agree to a Constitution for Greece and would leave the country, or he would face a rebellion. Leopold could not but yield to the demands, and as such he left the country one year later, in 1851, ousted by the subjects that he had ruled for almost 20 years. The Second Republic of France supported this move, while Britain remained neutral, having close ties with Greece, and Russia condemned this movement.
In 1851, the Greek Constitution of the Second Hellenic Republic was decided upon. Universal suffrage for men was consolidated, while a unicameral body, the Voule (Parliament) was also to be formed. The President of Democracy would be the ceremonial Head of State that could veto laws, while the Prime Minister was the Head of the Government. Elections were also called between the 2 major parties, the "Esostrefikon Komma" (Isolationist Party) and the "Ekdikitikon Komma" (Revachist Party). Seeing that war was brewing between Russia and the Ottoman empire, the Revachist Party managed to gain a majority of the seats and as such formed the government. Greece was now arming itself in case of a war. When Russia invaded the Ottoman Empire in 1854, Greece invaded and occupied Thessaly. However, the other Great Powers intervened and landed in Piraeus, stopping Greece from making other gains at the expense of the Ottoman Empire. Seeing a relative failure in making any meaningful conquests, and doing little to no reforms, the Revachist Party was weakened severely in the next elections, leading to the victory of the Isolationist Party in 1854.
The leader of the Isolationist Party at the time was a politician named Constantinos Kalaris, a respected freedom fighter from his youth. Having served mostly in the navy, he followed with naval reforms that would strengthen the organisational structure of the Greek navy without necessarily constructing new ships. He also went forward with internal reforms, creating the first administrative divisions with heads appointed by the central government that would put the basis for later reforms under Venizelos. This meant his consecutive electoral victories in 1857 and 1860 too. His eventual death in 1863 meant the need for new elections within the party and within Greece.
The Greek political parties had changed radically ever since the first ones in 1851. There were now three parties reminiscent of the old ones: The Reformist Party, the Conservative Party and the Reactionary Party. Zinovios Valvis, an academic of great prestige who had studied both theology and law and also further expanded his knowledge in the classical universities Italy, and the Conservative party won with a great number of votes, capable for forming a government independent from the wishes of the rest of the Parliament as they held the majority. A great problem within the Greeks was the language question. There were two dialects of the Greek Language, the Demotic, the one of the people, and the Kathareyousa, that of the Church and the aristocrats. When Valvis' Government enforced the Kathareyousa, that sealed the government's failure in the elections of 1866, where Dimitrios Voulgaris of the Reactionary party won. He also consecutively won the 1869 elections. However, his terms are known only for the prevalent corruption, which gave rise to Charilaos Trikoupis and the liberals in the elections of 1872.
The period from 1872 to 1899 is characterised by the continuous alternation of offices between the Conservatives and the Liberals. Charilaos Trikoupis was one of the few visionaries, and he marked the history of Greece. Trikoupis was conviced that political instability, which characterized the public life, was due to the financial relationships between the parliament members and members from the public sector, an issue that was still unresolved and had actually spiked in the last years of the Voulgaris administration. As such, his administration is known for cracking down on corruption and further refining the administration system into Perifereies (administrative Divisions) and smaller numerous muncipalities. The governors of the Perifereies were to be chosen by the government, while the advisory body of each Perifereia and the muncipality governor and governing body were to be elected.
Greece remained a very poor country throughout the 19th century. The country lacked raw materials, infrastructure and capital. Agriculture was mostly at the subsistence level, and the only important export commodities were currants, raisins and tobacco. Some Greeks grew rich as merchants and shipowners, and Piraeus became a major port, but little of this wealth found its way to the Greek peasantry. Greece remained hopelessly in debt to London finance houses. By the 1890s Greece was virtually bankrupt. Poverty was rife in the rural areas and the islands, and was eased only by large-scale emigration to the United States. There was little education in the rural areas. Nevertheless there was progress in building communications and infrastructure, and fine public buildings were erected in Athens. Despite the bad financial situation, and Trikoupis' opposition to the idea, Athens staged the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896, which proved a great success. Moreover, corruption and Trikoupis' increased spending in works of infrastructure overtaxed the weak Greek economy, forcing the declaration of public insolvency in 1893 and to accept the imposition of an International Financial Control authority to pay off the country's creditors. Trikoupis stood before parliament and made the most famous statement of his career: "Δυστυχώς επτωχεύσαμεν"
("Regretfully, we are bankrupt"). Trikoupis could not negotiate with the creditors, and as such he was forced to resign. Nevertheless, his legacy lives on. During his reign, Greece managed to diplomatically take over Epirus and Crete, the first one in the Berlin Conference of 1878, while the latter because of a rebellion that helped the Greek Government seize the chance and declare war. While the Greek army was ill - equiped and near the brink of collapse, the Great Powers intervened and stopped the Ottoman Empire from moving onto the rest of Greece.
In July 1908, the Young Turk Revolution broke out in the Ottoman Empire. Taking advantage of this, the Greek Republic moved against the Ottomans in Macedonia, where Thessaloniki was finally liberated. It was during this time that one can first distinguish a major Greek personality, Eleftherios Venizelos. In 1906, he joined the Liberal Party. He was quickly noted by it, as he was known for his political activism against the Ottoman Turks in his homeland, Crete, and as such he was immediatly put into charge of the party, as the Liberals lacked another famous personality like him. From 1908 to 1932 Venizelos marked greatly the history of Greece, being the dominant personality in it.
On 20 May 1911, a revision of the Constitution was completed, which focused on strengthening individual freedoms, introducing measures to facilitate the legislative work of the Parliament, establishing of obligatory elementary education, the legal right for compulsory expropriation, ensuring permanent appointment for civil servants, the right to invite foreign personnel to undertake the reorganization of the administration and the armed forces, the re-establishment of the State Council and the simplification of the procedures for the reform of the Constitution. The aim of the reform program was to consolidate public security and rule of law as well as to develop and increase the wealth-producing potential of the country. Venizelos had also begun taking measures to prepare the Greek military for future conflicts with the Ottoman Empire over the realisation of the Megali Idea in the form of calling French and British military experts to train the Greek troops, while also securing the supplies needed the re - armament of the Greek army. His decision was prudent, as it was during these years that war erupted and Greece expanded in the Balkans. In 1912, Greece seized the Ionian Islands from the failing British Empire after a pro - Greek revolution took place.
In the same year (1912) Greece, Montenegro, Serbia and Bulgaria declared war against the Ottoman Empire. Being under reform and still feeling the effects of the Young Turks Revolution, the Ottoman Empire was severely weakened and as such lacked a powerful army and navy. The allied Balkan powers were successful, with the Greeks managing to seize Albania, Thrace minus Constantinople and the Aegean islands before the Great Powers intervened. The Treaty of London ended the year in 1913, with North Epirus being declared an independent Greek Republic, much to the dismay of both the Greeks and the Albanians, Albania being given all the lands that it claimed minus North Epirus, Serbia and Bulgaria being given the lands both claimed and Greece being given the Aegean Islands and a part of Western Thrace. Soon, the four allies fell out over the partition of Macedonia. In June 1913, Bulgaria attacked Greece and Serbia, beginning the Second Balkan War, but was beaten back. The Treaty of Bucharest in 1913, which concluded the Second Balkan War and left Greece with the southern half of Macedonia.
Venizelos' decision to build up the military was fully justified in the Greco - Turkish Conflict of 1915. The Turkish people, dissapointed by the Young Turks Government that had failed, they had formed numberous communist militias that struck out against the Governement and in 10th January of 1915 declared a "Glorious Revolution" against the Sultan. The Great Powers, not wanting the Bosphorus straits to fall to Communists, promised Greece the realisation of the Megali Idea if they struck out against the Turks. While Venizelos was at first neutral in the whole conflict, because such an action would give him the enmity of the Turkish populations, the majority of the Parliament was for the war. As such, war was declared against the Ottoman Empire in 22th January of 1915, and the Greek armies marched against Constantinople, while they also established a beachhead in Smyrna with the help of the superior Greek navy and the local population. Greece had managed to capture Smyrna, Constantinople, parts of Bursa before the Great Powers intervened. Peace was concluded between the two states in the treaty of London in late 1915, in which Greece was given its current lands. A clause within the treaty was also a population exchange. The Orthodox population of the lands near the borders of Greece and Turkey would be accomodated within Greece, while the Muslims, except from those of Constantinople and urban Smyrna, would be accomodated in Turkey. This led to a targeted by the government "colonisation" of Greeks from Asia Minor in the lands of Epirus, Macedonia, Thrace and Smyrna in order to repress the slavic and albanian elements of the areas in order to assimilate them.
The end of the Greco - Turkish Conflict ushered a new age in Greece. With the Megali Idea realised and the Greek people liberated, the European Greeks, more traditional citizens in comparison to those new - comers, were shocked by their many different traditions. This, in combination to the incorporation of the North Epirote Republic in 1917 led to some right - wing parties appearing, without making any strong gains. On the other hand, the Pontic and Turkish populations felt more and more repressed by the rest of the Greeks, while they also had to face poverty from poorly - run governmental accomodation programs. As such, the Anatolian party, a left - leaning liberal party with gains in these populations, and the various communist parties started gaining strength. This in turn led to even more fanatic policies from right - wing parties, forcing Venizelos and the old liberal coalition to take measures both against the unions and the paramilitaries and various fanatics, being hated as such by both fanatics. Currently, Greece is facing elections in 1932, and is in a precarious situation.

Politics: Greece is a Parliamentary Republic. Currently, the Liberals under Venizelos are dominating the Parliament, but things are starting to change, as both the Fascists and the Communists started gaining power in parts of European Greece and in regions with Pontic populations respectively.

Economy: The economy is mainly agrarian with a weak industrial and a big services sector. The economic policy adopted by the government is that of a free market.

Society: Ever after the Greco - Turkish war, Greece as a society is a conglomerate of different people. While most of the possible difficulties have been avoided thanks to a limited population exchange in the treaty of Sevres, there is still some tension between Greeks, Albanians, Turks and the Pontic population.

Military: As the liberal military staff which has served ever since the Balkans Wars has begun retiring, the Greek military, although competent, is facing currently difficulties regarding the various doctrines that can be used in this new age of warfare.

Governing Coalition:
Komma Fileleytheron - Liberal's Party (Classical Liberal)
Anatoliko Komma - Eastern Party (Liberal with Left - wing influences)
Eleythero Demokratiko Komma - Free Democratic Party (Liberal with Right - wing influences)

Major Political Parties(Represented in Parliament):
Syntiritikon Komma - Conservative Party (Opposition) (Conservative)
Elliniko Ethniko Sosialistiko Komma - Greek National Socialist Party (National Socialist)
Ethniko Rizospastiko Komma - National Radical Party (Conservative/Fascist actually)
Demokratiko Sosialistiko Komma - Democratic Socialist Party (Democratic Socialism)
Epanastatikon Komma Ellinikoy Laoy - Revolutionary Party of the Greek People (Marxist/Leninist)
Komma Ethnikis Aneksartisias - Party of Ethnic Independence (Right - Wing Party)

Minor Political Parties/Movements:
Evraiki Politiki Enosi - Jewish Political Union (Jewish Political Pressure Lobby mostly)
Agrotiko Komma - Agrarian Party (Maoist)
Vasiliki Enosis - Royal Union (Fringe Royalists)
Proodeytiko Komma - Progressive Party (Liberalism)
Sosialistiko Komma - Socialist Party (Socialism/Isolationist - Anti Comintern)
Demokratiki Enosis - Democratic Union (Liberalism with Right - wing influences)
Ethniko Enotiko Komma - National Unionist Party (Socialist - Liberal mix)

Parliamentary Composition:

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in all seriousness, I'll just come up with something new
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Country Name: Republiek Zuid-Afrika
Capital: Kaapstad
Government: Apartheid-esque single party democracy right wing funtime land
PoD: In 1815, it was established that the Dutch would retain control over the Cape Colonies.
As a result of various strict Calvinist governors, French Huguenots went into the interior of South Africa, forming such nations as Stellaland and Noevel Bretanje.
Various conflicts occured, including the takeover of German Bushmanland after independence, but undoubtedly the most important conflict was the War of Independence, a bloody conflict not unlike the Boer Wars, except everyone spoke Dutch.

In roughly 1920, President Andries Pretorius was elected, with Herman Botha as his deputy. There is no voting for colored or black people, and in fact, black people are herded to reservations, nominally-sovereign areas of the country. Colored people live in so called "blikdorpjes" (tin hamlets) in the major cities.

Only one party can be found in South Africa, and that is the Broederbond. Originally the independence movement, the Broederbond is not very friendly to the native inhabitants, using terms as "cattle" to refer to them.

An interesting aspect of the South African nation is Huguenot (OOC: OTL Afrikaans-ish). A linguistical source of confusion, it looks like French phonetically spelled for a Dutchman. As an example, the lord's prayer
Notter Peer, kwie is oo sieus,
Kwe ton nom swa sanktifië,
Kwe ton regen viën,
Kwe ta volonte swa fet suur la ter kom oo siel.
Don-noes ooshoerdwie notter pen de se joer.
Pardon-noes nos offenses
Kom noes pardonnon oosie a seu kwie noes on offensees.
E ne noes soemee pa a la tentasion,
mees deelivernoes du mal,
Sar sest a twa kuappartiënen le regen,
la pwiessans e la gware, oo siyekels des siyekels.
Amen.

Rough expansion of South Africa

Map:
Flag rationale =
Red - blood spilled during war of independence
White - The core of the nation
three black arms - represent both the three main conflicts against natives (Khoisan, Xhosa, Zulu) as well as The three distinct areas of the country - South Africa, Huguenot Stellaland, and more native than German Bushmansland. Also three Vs - Vrijheid (freedom), Vrede (peace) and Vaderland (Fatherland)

OOC: Theoretically, Cived could also claim South Africa and be accepted because of better application post.

Robert Can't said:

This is exactly the reason I said people shouldn't be designing their nations before sign-ups. It was all far too likely to go far too wrong and now people are just going to be pissed off with each other.

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I know I was one of the worst offenders of this but I completely agree.