Blackened Skies
- Thread starter Nuka-sama
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Immaculate
unerring
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Denmark signing in.Haven't read the thread just yet. Orders deadline if not posted elsewhere?
Please note that you have been invited to a tea party by Her Majesty the Queen (post 53).
Seon
Not An Evil Liar
Btw, I just realized that the information regarding Spain is really scarce compared to the other nations (I couldn't find any history that mentioned them in much detail). How did the Spanish Republic come to be in place of the Spanish Empire? What's the government in charge of the nation like atm?
Traveller76
Prince
The Sublime State has noticed the increase in oil exports from Romania above regular quotas. We are willing to provide security in the Black Sea, the Bosporus and Mediterranean near our coastline to prevent any piracy and provide aid in case of storms or accidents. This will be paid in shipping fees based on the amount of shipping above the 1929 quota. The new fees will be announced soon.
Kadri Erkan Kartal, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Kadri Erkan Kartal, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Shadowbound
Incorrugible
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From the People's Republic of France
To the United States of America
We'd like to buy some oil.
To the United States of America
We'd like to buy some oil.
Angst
Rambling and inconsistent
J.K. Stockholme
Right Opposition
Wolfgang Jäger
Chancellor of the Collective Republic, Chairman of the Collectivist Party and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces
To Wolfgang Jäger we owe the character of the Collective Republic.
Born in 1882 to working class parents in Hessen Wolfgang Jäger moved at a young age to the Ruhr where he laboured in a factory until the Revolution, sending much of his earnings back to his family. Sympathetic co-workers saw charisma and determination in adolescent Wolfgang, and helped introduce him to informal schooling programs run by the more educated and literate workers of the Ruhr. From young adulthood until the Revolution Wolfgang Jäger was a prominent organizer at his local Catholic church, through which covert union activity took place despite ongoing government suppression.
Among the workers in his factory Jäger was in the minority that supported strike action to oppose the Second Franco-Prussian War, leaving Jäger frustrated by the complacency of the Ruhr workers. When the riots in the Ruhr became the Revolution on the Rhine, Jäger eagerly established a workers’ council for his factory, which he was immediately elected to lead.
The German Civil War was chaotic and bloody; Jäger’s family are believed to have perished in a mass grave dug by imperial soldiers. Meanwhile the workers’ crusade that followed the intervention of Great Britain in the Dutch and Belgian Revolutions and the German Civil War left a deep impression on the Ruhr workers. The robust and highly trained British forces decimated unorganized levies the Ruhr workers’ councils marched into battle.
Consequently Wolfgang Jäger became an outspoken proponent for the creation of a standing army and the centralization of the Ruhr's nebulous collection of autonomous factories into a socialist state. Working class patriotism was high and the multiple defeats the British dealt to the Ruhr workers, who fought without help from the French, spurred the creation of a central council above all other workers’ councils. The central council’s first act was to institute a tax to build a Red Army, apportioning the funds to a working group on which Wolfgang Jäger was founding a member.
The contours of the Ruhr state became readily apparent. No factories within the Ruhr proper defected from the Red Army tax, which was quite popular, though the further one travelled from the industrial core the more hesitant councils were to join the project.
Jäger became known for his remarkable administrative and organizational skills as he began assembling the new Red Army. Among the founding commanders, he was the most aggressive and uncompromising, training recruits into disciplined fighters obedient primarily to Jäger, who surrounded himself with talented officers promoted on merit and loyalty. The Red Army’s most fearsome warriors were those under Jäger, who ousted the officers of the general staff opposing his bid for leadership and became Supreme Commander with recognition from the central council.
Wolfgang Jäger ascended to political supremacy democratically. The Red Army was the most organized and well-funded institution within the country, and in a crucial election his candidates swept majorities in most of the Ruhr workers' councils. Jäger's Red Army politicians were known informally as the 'collectivist' camp, opposing the less organized 'autonomist' camp, a group of independents who opposed further centralization. After the Red Army's electoral victory on the promise of security and stability, Jäger officially founded the Collectivist Party as a political organization with himself as leader, and an inner circle of Red Army officers.
However the Collectivist Party’s popular support was fragile and many within the Party held contradictory views, threatening to splinter into factions – only through the ruthless quelling of dissent was a semblance of stability and security established across the Ruhr. Jäger prohibited non-Collectivist political activity along with the formation of factions within the Party, and instituted a policy of periodic membership purges. Promising to bring about a more rational organization of the economy for the security of the Ruhr workers, Jäger also ended the autonomy of the workers’ councils.
The 1920s are known as an era of Collectivist state-building – when the Collectivist Party, under the careful stewardship of Wolfgang Jäger, built workers’ institutions to parallel those in advanced capitalist countries. If the capitalists have an army, the workers need an even better army! Likewise, the workers will have better schools, courts, bridges, culture, ethics, government – everything – so the Party said in those years.
Wolfgang Jäger, childless and never married, tirelessly constructed the architecture and tone of the Collective Republic. The product of his political labour is the strongest armed forces in Europe vigil over a popular socialist government, of the collective, for the collective.
The United States Government is not in the business of selling oil, however Christian Oil, Standard Oil and Texas Combine Oil are major global suppliers of oil, and associated products, and should be willing to assist the French Government in procuring whatsoever oil it requires.
We, the people of the United States, humbly acknowledging Almighty God as the source of all authority and power in government, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Ruler among the nations, His revealed will as the supreme law of the land, in order to constitute a Christian government, and in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, expand the Christian faith, and secure the inalienable rights and blessings of life, liberty, faith and the pursuit of happiness through hard work and frugality to ourselves and our posterity, and all the people, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence
Terran Empress
Hornet
gaaaah, didn't realize it started >.< my bad, Australasia is here
Due to how my work week is organized (and some diplomacy I was waiting for until today), I'd need the time until Thursday or Friday to submit orders. Is it acceptable, or should I just put some simple orders quickly by Wednesday?
Yeah, I usually get my orders in early. This week I have a bunch of nightly online meetings at work. But I'll try to get everything in as soon as possible.Don't worry, have them in by Friday if you can.
The earlier orders get in the quicker the update, if you can please get them in by Wednesday
Civ'ed
I ain't gotta explain a thing
Death of a legend
The death of Pieter Jelles Troelstra is hereby announced by the Republican Government of the Dutch Provinces. A frontrunner in the social-liberal complexes of the Revolution, Troelstra represented a force within the political fronts of the revolution, calling for an increase in rights for all. His work in the Revolution, and after it, will not be forgotten. Known as the "Father of Universal Suffrage", Troelstra's connections to socialist parties were unfortunate but overlookable on the path to progress.
Troelstra is survived by the work of his wife Nienke van Hichtum, a famous children's book author, and his own work, most notably the Manifest des Vaderlands (Manifest of the Fatherland) and Nij Frysk Liteboek (New Frisian Songbook), works of nationalism that have been held up by parties across the spectrum.
Pieter Jelles Troelstra
The bells of history toll thy name, Troelstra!
The death of Pieter Jelles Troelstra is hereby announced by the Republican Government of the Dutch Provinces. A frontrunner in the social-liberal complexes of the Revolution, Troelstra represented a force within the political fronts of the revolution, calling for an increase in rights for all. His work in the Revolution, and after it, will not be forgotten. Known as the "Father of Universal Suffrage", Troelstra's connections to socialist parties were unfortunate but overlookable on the path to progress.
Troelstra is survived by the work of his wife Nienke van Hichtum, a famous children's book author, and his own work, most notably the Manifest des Vaderlands (Manifest of the Fatherland) and Nij Frysk Liteboek (New Frisian Songbook), works of nationalism that have been held up by parties across the spectrum.
Pieter Jelles Troelstra
The bells of history toll thy name, Troelstra!
Still missing orders from:
-France
-USA
-Italy
-GFA
-India
-Denmark
-Great Qing
-National Han Republic
-Guangxi
-DR of Brazil
-Bolivia
-Thailand
Oof, that's nearly half of our players. I have talked with a few of you, but for the others, we have reached the Wednesday deadline. For all of you who got orders in today, I'm going to give you a nice little bonus as a way of thanks
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For all others, I will likely want to work on the update as much as I can on Saturday, so please try to get your orders in by Friday at the latest, or they may not be accepted.
-France
-USA
-Italy
-GFA
-India
-Denmark
-Great Qing
-National Han Republic
-Guangxi
-DR of Brazil
-Bolivia
-Thailand
Oof, that's nearly half of our players. I have talked with a few of you, but for the others, we have reached the Wednesday deadline. For all of you who got orders in today, I'm going to give you a nice little bonus as a way of thanks
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For all others, I will likely want to work on the update as much as I can on Saturday, so please try to get your orders in by Friday at the latest, or they may not be accepted.
Grandkhan
Telvanni Master Wizard
Orders sent. Sorry, sort of forgot about the deadline. 
Angst
Rambling and inconsistent
OOC
Sorry for being so late. I rambled some orders to you on Facebook. I don't have time to fully formalize them. Sorry.
Sorry for being so late. I rambled some orders to you on Facebook. I don't have time to fully formalize them. Sorry.
