A Place In The Sun
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Give me Mozambique then. And when you put me on the next map, make sure my color is: 0073C7.
mrrandomplayer
Hopeless Situation Warrior
Thanks to the culture system, the glorious Venetian Empire was ruined. Instead:
Misrate Caliphate
Capital: Cairo
Government: Technically the Caliph rules religious life and the Sultan rules the country, but it's really run by a small oligarchy of Egyptian businessmen.
Backstory: When Napoleon invaded the Ottoman Empire in 1807, a small group of industrializing Egyptian businessmen, calling themselves "the Power Builders" essentially eliminated all of the Sultan's authority in Istanbul and declared independence from the Ottoman Empire as the Misrate Sultanate, with the Sultan of Egypt as the official ruler but the Power Builders holding the real power. Turkey objected, but wasn't able to do anything about the situation, and when the Sultan's massive army was annihilated at the Battle of Adrianople, that cemented Egypt's independence. With Turkey capitulating to France, the Power Builders moved quickly, establishing a large army and conquering Hejaz and Israel from the tattered remains of Ottoman authority. Afterwards, Egypt invaded North Africa up to Tunisia and conquered the Barbary pirate states. Now, the Power Builders are focusing on industrializing Egypt and bringing it to the power level of a European nation.
Misrate Caliphate
Capital: Cairo
Government: Technically the Caliph rules religious life and the Sultan rules the country, but it's really run by a small oligarchy of Egyptian businessmen.
Backstory: When Napoleon invaded the Ottoman Empire in 1807, a small group of industrializing Egyptian businessmen, calling themselves "the Power Builders" essentially eliminated all of the Sultan's authority in Istanbul and declared independence from the Ottoman Empire as the Misrate Sultanate, with the Sultan of Egypt as the official ruler but the Power Builders holding the real power. Turkey objected, but wasn't able to do anything about the situation, and when the Sultan's massive army was annihilated at the Battle of Adrianople, that cemented Egypt's independence. With Turkey capitulating to France, the Power Builders moved quickly, establishing a large army and conquering Hejaz and Israel from the tattered remains of Ottoman authority. Afterwards, Egypt invaded North Africa up to Tunisia and conquered the Barbary pirate states. Now, the Power Builders are focusing on industrializing Egypt and bringing it to the power level of a European nation.
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christos200
Never tell me the odds
Republic of France
Capital Paris
Government: Presidential Parliamentary Republic
Consul: Napoleon II Bonaparte
Language: French
Ethnic Groups: French, Dutch
Parliament: National Council
Members: 100 Councilors
Election: Universal suffrage of all French men who are 25 years old or older.
Parties:
Party of Order (75 seats)
Liberal Party (20 seats)
Revolutionary Party (5 seats)
Ideologies:
The Party of Order, which is headed by Napoleon II Bonaparte, represents a conservative ideology: They believe in denying women's right to vote, they support the Catholic Church, they believe that the current establishment is the best and they want to avoid war in Europe.
The Liberal Party has more liberal policies: it is against the rights of the Catholic Church, wants to strengthen the peasants and give women the right to vote. However, they agree with Napoleon's foreign policy and want to avoid war.
The Revolutionary Party is a more extremist version of the Liberal Party. The party was formed by extremists who left the Liberal Party, but they agree with their "mother" party on internal policy. However, on foreign policy they want to see an expansion of Democracy in all of Europe through war.
There are a few supporters of monarchy in France, but the constitution forbids such parties from running in the elections. All parties, in order to be legal, must agree that they will abide the constitution and that they are democrats.
History
In 1797, Napoleon Bonaparte, a General of the newly founded French Republic (which was founded after the French Revolution of 1789), invaded Italy, defeated the Confederation of the German Nation and established the Second Republic of Rome. In 1804, after the December 25 Coup, Napoleon became Consul of the French Republic and effectively Dictator of France.
Most countries in Europe were afraid of the French Republic and Napoleon's ambitions and united against him. Napoleon crushed the Spanish in a lighting campaign in 1806, culminating in the Battle of Madrid (May 12), when he crushed 50,000 Spanish troops with an army of 30,000 French, allowing the creation of the Iberian Union. In 1807, the Ottoman Sultan declared war in France and Napoleon invaded the Ottoman Empire.
In June 18, French troops landed in Crete and by July 27 all of the Balkans had been taken over by Napoleon. In August 2, Napoleon with 50,000 men crushed an 120,000 men strong Ottoman army in the Battle of Adrianople, and the next day French troops occupied Constantinople, forcing the Ottoman Empire to capitulate, allowing Egypt to become an independent Caliphate.
In 1812, once France was stable enough and Napoleon believed that the people were ready for a real democracy, he stared liberalizing the regime until 1817, when France became a true democracy. In free and fair elections, he managed to be elected again and again Consul and died in office in 1823.
His son, Napoleon II Bonaparte, rallied the supporters of his father and formed the Party of Order in 1824. Meanwhile, the opponents of Napoleon, who where until then unorganized due to Napoleon's (I) popularity, which made any opposition meaningless, formed the same year the Liberal Party.
In 1824, the Party of Order won the elections, something that would be repeated in 1828 and 1831. The Liberal Party did not managed to change the political scene of France, but they managed to stabilize themselves and gain loyal supporters in French society. In 1829, Liberal extremists left the party and formed the Revolutionary Party, but only few support their extremism.
Now, in 1831, Napoleon II has won once again a landmark victory in free and fair elections and his popularity is unchallenged.
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JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
Updated claims for everyone!
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Heroically Clueless
mechaerik
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United Provinces
Capital: Buenos Aires
Government: Confederal Republic
Ruler: Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas
Province Claims:
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mrrandomplayer
Hopeless Situation Warrior
Wat nuthin 5 me? Outrage.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
You're in the previous map.
mrrandomplayer
Hopeless Situation Warrior
I'm not playing as Venice.
fite me irl
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
Ohhhh, well, I hadn't seen you post your provinces so I assumed things 
Robert Can't
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United Empire of Great Hubuyeo
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Capital: Pyongyang
Government: Bureaucratic Monarchy
Emperor: Gwangdae Emperor
Prime Secretary: Jeon Bakgeol
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hey there bby
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
Robbie, nooo! 
Game starts sometime in the next week, whenever I get a block of free time to write up the update, probably Tuesday. Ideally people should finish their country's backgrounds by Monday; if they're not done by the time I launch I'll just make stuff up.
Sign-ups are still accepted until then.
Sign-ups are still accepted until then.
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