Capto Iugulum

[SouthernKing]

To: The Washington Government
CC: The Denver Government
Re: The Treaty of Washington
From: Jacksonia

While we applaud peace, note that Jacksonia will continue to recognize both governments for the time being. Also note that Jacksonia will not rejoin any Union, whether it be First or Second, at the current time.

To: Vinland
From: Jacksonia

Our borders are open for any American refugees willing to settle.

To: Florida
From: Jacksonia

Do not fear! Help is on the way!

To: Brazil
From: Jacksonia

If you are truly "the leader of the free world" like you have positioned yourself as, perhaps you should stop jingoistically threatening war against every single country who crosses your path unfavorably. We will stand by our Pacific Concord allies in any conflict.

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Blue Bacon: You forgot Jacksonia. We do believe that we are still in North America

 

[Luckymoose]

To: Brazil
From: Jacksonia

If you are truly "the leader of the free world" like you have positioned yourself as, perhaps you should stop jingoistically threatening war against every single country who crosses your path unfavorably. We will stand by our Pacific Concord allies in any conflict.

TO: Jacksonia
FROM: Brazil

Perhaps you should remember your place as a rebel government in the American Civil War. Brazil has fought for democracy around the world, but we will not allow Japanese puppets to sail past our naval bases with thousands of soldiers and battleships. The Second Union is the rightful government, and at no time will we allow any soldiers from a noted anti-Second Union alliance system to set foot on this side of the canal. We have our rights as the leaders of the free world to hold back such tyrannical acts by less than free governments for the betterment of democracy in the western hemisphere.

Aggression towards a participating member of the Pacific Concord is grounds for the invocation of the defensive terms of the signing agreement. If Florida decides to invoke the terms of the Pacific Concord, Peru is more than capable of rendering assistance without tarnishing the waters of the Caribbean.

TO: Japan
FROM: Brazil

And any such actions against ours are in direct violation of the various alliances Brazil is in. We will not bow on the command of a freedom hating Asian empire. These are the Americas, not China.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

To: Jacksonia
From: Vinland

We will inform those refugees who remain of the possibility of traveling to Jacksonia. If you are particularly interested in receiving them, then we would appreciate if you would fund some transportation and several agents to travel into their communities and aid them in leaving before the July 1st deadline hits. If they remain where they are beyond this point, then they will be transported to the territory of the Second Union.

Additionally, we advise that you do not recognize the legitimacy of the Allied Territories of America. For America to thrive once more, democracy is a must, and at the present, General Wallace stands, regrettably, in opposition to the powers of democracy.

 

[erez87]

OOC: I must say I love the situation in the USA. They always complained to me as Genoa for being a separating force. BOO-YA!

 

[Lord of Elves]

From: Workers Commonwealth
To: Vinland
CC: Kongo Society
We wish to emphasize that we were prepared to offer the terms you have proposed to the members of the Kongo Society. We remind you both of what compromises the Revolutionary Government was prepared to make in the name of Nordic, Scandinavian brotherhood:

1. We were prepared to permit Emperor Harald, and all members of the royal family, to return to Scandinavia where the monarchy would maintain all titles and estates, but no political power. Emperor Harald would have been permitted to travel freely through the Workers Commonwealth, and go abroad as he chose, as an important and respected ambassador of Scandinavian cultural brotherhood and heritage. It would not, however, have been in the Emperor's power to put his name to the recognition of parliamentary governments, or to influence the political process.

2. The Scandinavian Kongo Society would have been (we emphasize that these were not only our proposals, but our ultimate goal for the management of the empire) made a labor union within the Workers Trade Congress. Its shareholders, employees and benefactors would have maintained their positions within their organization and all accorded authority. It would be the right of the members of the Kongo Society labor union, the same people who currently make up that organization's provisional government over the colonies, to determine how to spend the Kongo Society's profits. The Kongo Society would continue to administer financial and industrial endeavor in the Scandinavian Kongo, and its essential processes as a force for civilization in Africa would be almost completely uninterrupted by the Revolution.

3. We were and are more than willing to offer complete and total amnesty to any who fled the Fatherland in the wake of the Revolution, and use the resources of our lawful and efficient governance to repay any injustice they and their property may have suffered at the hands of looters and opportunists, whose activities during the December Coup this government has never endorsed nor sought to tolerate.

We must conclude that if these generous terms are not enough for the Kongo Society, then it is not interested in reunification, but the mindless, traitorous and avaricious pursuit of profits as a pseudo-national entity, existing in spite of and at the expense of the Scandinavian nation and people.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

To: Kongo Society
From: Vinland

As we have for several years in the past, we implore you to accept these extremely generous terms offered by the Stockholm Government.

 

[SamSniped]

To the Young Turks in Kurdistan
From King Mahmud
I would like to talk with your leader, to settle our differences.

 

[ChiefDesigner]

To: World
From: African American Republics

This war was never about ideology; it is about every one of the American successor states' attempt at genocide. The ATA, the USA, west Florida; each state has nothing more in mind than the calculated murder of every African man, woman and child in America.

There is no greater hypocrite than the American; the intent of the USA is clear. Once the war is over, they will put every black man, woman and child back in chains; the emancipation will be revoked, and the voting booth will be marked, as it always has, "Whites Only".

As evidence, we have offered peace to every one of our neighbors; every one has declined, no doubt plotting their own means of re-enslaving the African race. Thus, in light of the impending genocide of the African American, we ask for the Great Powers of the world to intervene on our behalf, and formally request mediation from any power willing to broker a peace agreement between ourselves and the American successor states.

 

[Blue Bacon 3]

OOC: SouthernKing: Oh right, the casualties list. Sorry, I'll add it in.

To: Pacific Concord
From: Florida

We request admission into the Pacific Concord (OOC: it was in my orders last turn, I believe), and we do request assistance liberating our territory from the Proletarist scum. They are an ever present threat to us.

To: Florida
From: Peru

We are happy to inform that the Grand Republic of Florida is already a member of the Concord by the vote of 1914 - we believe a clerical error was made somewhere in the system (OOC: EQ swapped Florida with Aztlan because Aztlan applied earlier on, but took longer to process), but as noted by the presence of Florida's delegation in the Concord headquarters (OOC: the social group) the Republic has indeed been accepted.

As can be seen above numerous members have already pledged their immediate assistance, and so too does Peru.


To: Mississippi
From: Peru

Vacate all troops west of the Mississippi (including New Barcelona) or war will be declared by the expeditionary forces at contact. A scorched earth withdrawal strategy will also result in declarations of war.

TO: Peru
FROM: Brazil

Peruvian military vessels and men will not be allowed access into the Caribbean or Aztec Gulf.

To: Brazil
From: Peru

Rest assured, as Japan points out we had no plans to utilize the gulf as a route as we clearly remember and have heard of the Brazilian claims to the South Atlantic, South Pacific, Arctic Ocean and the Carribean Sea (we had no illusion that the 'Carribean Sea' meant just that rather than anything east of the canal and west of the Atlantic including the coastal waters of central America and West Florida (as ships would be able to take such a route to avoid your threats regarding the Carribean Sea and Aztec Gulf)) - regardless of what their governments may have to say about it). We thank Brazil for this public reminder and announcement to the world that their military control encompassing the international waters of three entire oceans and a spare sea was not enough, and that Brazil now also controls the Aztec Gulf and the eastern coastal waters of Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Aztlan, the Mayans, and West Florida.
In other words, our route does not take us through your rapidly growing territories.

 

[Luckymoose]

To: Brazil
From: Peru

Rest assured, as Japan points out we had no plans to utilize the gulf as a route as we clearly remember and have heard of the Brazilian claims to the South Atlantic, South Pacific, Arctic Ocean and the Carribean Sea (we had no illusion that the 'Carribean Sea' meant just that rather than anything east of the canal and west of the Atlantic including the coastal waters of central America (as ships would be able to take such a route to avoid your threats regarding the Carribean Sea and Aztec Gulf)) - regardless of what their governments may have to say about it). We thank Brazil for this public reminder and announcement to the world that their military control encompassing the international waters of three entire oceans and a spare sea was not enough, and that Brazil now also controls the Aztec Gulf and the eastern coastal waters of Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Aztlan.

TO: Peru
FROM: Brazil

Your petty attempts at making Brazil into the bad guy are laughable. We have a naval base on the Panama Canal to prevent military actions against or through it by powers outside the Brazilian alliance. We are fully in our rights to withhold a hostile military from accessing the seas of our friends and our own territories. It is our job, our purpose in the international community, to guarantee that lesser nations are protected from such movements. Peru is a known hostile state, allied to a hostile empire, with full intention to aid a power that has refused peace with our own ally. We do control these seas.


OOC: I think you people have modern delusions associated with politics. You can't just move a war fleet into regions guarded by an alliance directly in opposition of your own, far from your own territorial waters, without consequences. If you can't handle them, get out of the naval business.

 

[Blue Bacon 3]

To: Brazil
From: Peru

Florida, Aztlan and the central American nations have never requested Brazil to preemptively bar the naval activity of any third nation within their coastal waters, nor has any third party asked them for access.
Furthermore Colombia allows the movement of naval tonnage equal to or below that of a light cruiser through their canal and coastal waters, though we are quite aware what would assuredly happen were we to heed their words.
At any rate this issue is moot as we had no plans to and will not be entering your claimed waters and as such consider this discussion finished on our part.
As regards Florida, it is an independent nation and has never refused peace with the Second Union, only annexation. This too will be our final statement on that topic, as such please refer any further diplomacy regarding Peru to Japan.

OOC: If I come off as curt here it's just that I want to avoid quiet time again.

 

[Azale]

OOC: EQ, it is late and I have written a ton. I think you'll like how I handled the election. I still have military to go. My intention is to send as soon as possible tomorrow, but if the college internet does not cooperate (hanging out with the lady there) then I'll have it written up but unable to be sent until the afternoon.

I hope this is ok

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

Well, orders are due in the next 16 hours or so. My wife and I have been together (not married, but together) seven years as of today, and we are of course celebrating it. Therefore, I will not begin proper work from players orders until late in the evening, so excluding revisions, there should be substantial time for any of you late senders to get those orders in.

 

[J.K. Stockholme]

Politics Since the First Election

Gaston Blaché, Journalist

Coordinating the upper and lower houses, and running the nations many operations domestically and politically requires a good bandwidth of intelligent personnel. Gradually, since the first election, the position of Prime Minister has become central to the kingdom’s administration. The latest election brought the National Unity leader Pascal Saysset into the lower house, and with the king’s assent, he composed a new conservative cabinet.

Ten prominent ministers, each either an elected delegate of the Chambre des Députés (House of Commons), or an appointed noble from the Chambre des Pairs (House of Lords), occupy the ten ministerial positions within a reigning government. The first election saw a marginalized cabinet, more of a constitutional formality than an effective tool of the kingdom. When the election results came in, the king made the party leader at the time assent to his recommended cabinet ministers. All were from the Chambre des Pairs.

The position, from my research, was a political tool, the ministers were chosen to sit back and allow the king to govern, in exchange for their complacency. It was especially important to the king that the land holding gentry be cordial with the new democratic system.

However this election saw a rough leader, unlike the first National Unity victory, Saysset, commandeer the cabinet. His silent ascend to power, without the king’s notice, allowed him the leisure to pick his own ministers, and this year, demonstrably increase the power of the lower house over the general administration of the kingdom.

The interesting item to myself, is why the king hasn’t responded with even light demands to ease such moves. Perhaps these requests hide behind even my detective work, but the ministers continue to gain support in their constituencies, and no laws have passed which were not yet sent by a member of Saysset‘s tough cabinet.




Excerpted from Démocratie et la Constitution de Occitània
(English: Democracy and the Constitution of Occitania)
Written by Professor Alain Paraire of the University of Toulouse

…it is here in the constitution the general outline of the bicameral system is revealed. Two houses, of the lords, and of the people. Clearly styled in the essence of the British parliamentary system, the Occitanian parlement consists of the Chambre des Pairs (Chamber of Peers, or House of Lords), and the Chambre des Députés (Chambre of Delegates* or House of Commons). The functions of these two systems I will lay out below.

Chambre des Députés

This is the nation’s lower house. The sum of its delegates is 200, representing the 200 fixed constituencies of the nation, which it is important to note, are irrespective of the jurisdictional borders save for they do not cross said borders. That is, the constituencies do not represent townships, counties, or any of the kingdom’s other lower legislative branches.

Each constituency runs a vote each 3 years for the composition of the lower house, and the candidate with the most votes succeeds onto the chamber. Voters are of course citizens of the kingdom, and furthermore, registered with a ballot number.

All members of the lower house are equal in their rights to vote on bills and to propose them, however ten members of the lower house are appointed jointly by the current government’s leader (i.e. the Premier Ministre (or Prime Minister)) and the reigning monarch.

There are various titles which, have had their names changed in the past elections, but the most prominent are the ministers of defence, finance and foreign affairs. The final position is the house speaker, who is always appointed by the monarch.

Once a bill passes the vote in the lower house, which involves several bill readings and debates, it must be ratified by the upper house, which also goes through the same process.

Chambre des Pairs

The members of the upper house are entirely appointed, and can be grouped into two. The peers and the prelates. And of course, the chamber speaker, who is again appointed by the monarch.

The peerage of Occitania, though much smaller than in the age of feudalism, still persists in the form of noble blood and land owning gentry. All the peers are appointed by the monarch, who is allowed precisely 85 choice peers after each election. Because of the prestige of the position, the more powerful and important nobles are frequently chosen over most others, and frequently act outside of any party lines or whip. So even while the upper house can be dominated by the monarch’s choice, it frequently isn’t, especially as many nobles protest when they are not chosen for the chamber.

The other group is the prelates, a group of exactly 15 bishops or clergymen of the country selected by the monarch. The requirement be they lead a church or other clerical institute, and be of outstanding contribution in their field. They represent the general interests of the church and the people in the upper house.

Cabinet des Ministres

Besides the two houses, remains the centre of administration, which has succeeded the role of the king’s court: the cabinet. This is the organ which ministers are appointed into by the Premier Ministre, with the monarch’s consent. They are the intended bureaucratic heads of the nations ministries and departments, and are condensed into 10 highly qualified men of the elected lower house.

This is a brief overview, and in the coming chapters I will discuss the state of this paradigm as of the second election. Certainly the official premises of the constitution are not all being observed as expected, and so, we must go into detail…

*The intended translation of this was to be ‘delegates’, however frequent foreign translations turn it into ‘deputies’. Both are acceptable, however standard Occitan writings prefer the former.

 

[Luckymoose]

To: Brazil
From: Peru

Florida, Aztlan and the central American nations have never requested Brazil to preemptively bar the naval activity of any third nation within their coastal waters, nor has any third party asked them for access.
Furthermore Colombia allows the movement of naval tonnage equal to or below that of a light cruiser through their canal and coastal waters, though we are quite aware what would assuredly happen were we to heed their words.

TO: Peru
FROM: Brazil

Nor would they have to. If Colombia lets them through, sure, but that doesn't prevent our capture of them on the Caribbean side.

 

[ChiefDesigner]

To: Mississippi
From: Peru

Vacate all troops west of the Mississippi (including New Barcelona) or war will be declared by the expeditionary forces at contact. A scorched earth withdrawal strategy will also result in declarations of war.

You seem to have left us with no options besides 'war' and 'war'--it may escape your mapmakers that Nueva Barcelona is on the east side of the river, and provides Concord forces with a convenient beachhead into the heart of Mississippi.

Say we were fool enough to accept your utlimatum. Do you really expect us to believe that Concord forces will simply stop at the Mississippi?

We suggest that Florida look to its northern border, in the three years of life it has left...

 

[Blue Bacon 3]

To: Tennessee
From: Peru

While the Concord is anti-proletarian at the core, the Grand Republic of Florida's natural borders is clearly the Mississippi river (we reject drawing an airline south of where the Mississippi ends). The Concord does not have an urge to destroy anything and everything it is opposed to, so natural borders will suffice. Regardless, we were speaking with Mississippi, but your input is noted.

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

No more order revisions are allowed beyond this point. New sets of orders will still be accepted.

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

Olympics 1916: Buenos Aires, United Republic of Argentina​

Athletics/Track & Field

100m race
Gold: Argentina
Silver: Hungary
Bronze: Corsica

200m race
Gold: Mayan Republic
Silver: Kurdistan
Bronze: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

400m race
Gold: Franco-Burgundian Confederation
Silver: Flanders
Bronze: Paraguay

800m race
Gold: Germany
Silver: Cuba
Bronze: Sardinia

1500m race
Gold: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Silver: Mayan Republic
Bronze: Japan

3000m race
Gold: Germany
Silver: Aztlan
Bronze: New Zealand

Marathon:
Gold: Germany
Silver: Paraguay
Bronze: Switzerland

110 m Hurdles:
Gold: Argentina
Silver: Germany
Bronze: Italy

Long Jump
Gold: Franco-Burgundian Confederation
Silver: Portugal
Bronze: Peru

High Jump
Gold: Franco-Burgundian Confederation
Silver: Japan
Bronze: Brazil

Pole Vault
Gold: Spain
Silver: Denmark
Bronze: Argentina

Triple Jump
Gold: Chile
Silver: Germany
Bronze: Italy

Discus Throw
Gold: Argentina
Silver: Aztlan
Bronze: Brazil

Javelin Throw
Gold: Hungary
Silver: Germany
Bronze: Franco-Burgundian Confederation

Shot Put
Gold: Germany
Silver: Hungary
Bronze: Franco-Burgundian Confederation

Decathlon
Gold: Italy
Silver: Franco-Burgundian Confederation
Bronze: Sardinia

Equestrian Events

Dressage
Gold: Germany
Silver: Angola
Bronze: Denmark

Racing
Gold: Brazil
Silver: Paraguay
Bronze: Germany

Fighting

Boxing
Gold: Flanders
Silver: Argentina
Bronze: Corsica

Fencing
Gold: Japan
Silver: Italy
Bronze: Argentina

Wrestling
Gold: Japan
Silver: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Bronze: Argentina

Gymnastics

Gold: Bulgaria
Silver: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Bronze: Vinland

Rowing

Gold: Netherlands
Silver: Germany
Bronze: Italy

Shooting

Military Rifle
Gold: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Silver: Netherlands
Bronze: Roman Empire

Free Rifle
Gold: Peru
Silver: Franco-Burgundian Confederation
Bronze: Roman Empire

25 m Military Pistol
Gold: Germany
Silver: Argentina
Bronze: Cechy-Morava

25 m Rapid Fire Pistol
Gold: Peru
Silver: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Bronze: Pontic Republic

Free Pistol
Gold: Netherlands
Silver: Occitania
Bronze: Switzerland

Sporting Events

Balompie
Gold: Flanders
Silver: Peru
Bronze: Denmark

Polo
Gold: Brittany
Silver: Guangxi
Bronze: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

 

[bestshot9]

Good to see we Romans know our ways around a rifle.