In 1898, the United States of America and the Empire of Spain seemed on the brink of war over the explosion of the USS Maine in Cuba. However, cooler heads ultimately prevailed and with the sale of Cuba to the United States, peace was assured in the Caribbean. This peace was temporary as the understanding created by this agreement between the USA and a European power would be the foundation for the now famous Portsmouth Meeting. Initiated by Kaiser Wilhelm II and Czar Nicholas II in early 1901 as an overture to further cooperation with the new President, Theodore Roosevelt. Eventually expanding to a conference of representatives of over a dozen nations and twenty nationalities, the Treaty of Portsmouth would assemble the greatest alliance the world had ever known. By the end of the year a worldwide assualt was launched against the British Empire.
For over a hundred years the British Empire had dominated global politics, but with the Portsmouth Meeting, this was to be no more. The combined navies of the world amassed themselves against the Royal Navy across the globe, and the fight would be vicious in all the oceans. Despite the tenacity of the Royal Navy, they were ultimately overwhelmed by the modern ships and massive production of the Japanese, American, and German fleets. The few nations which stood alongside the British, such as the Ottomon Empire and the Low Countries were overwhelmed and their lands absorbed by the conquerers. American and European invaders even made it to the shores of Britian itself when London and the British countryside erupted into a civil war. Only the Raj of India managed to mantain its borders as the Royal Family fled to the colonies.
No formal truce concluded the war with the remnants of the British Empire. The Royal Family secured its rule over India with brutal force and the tacit support of influential Indian leaders. Britian itself found its island in the midst of a bloody civil war between communists, warlords, and the radical right. None of the Allied nations dared to even set foot on the bleeding island, and with the remains of the Royal Navy under Indian control, peace naturally ensued. All over the world, new empires had been born overnight as people used the opportunity to establish new nations and expand their own empires. To manage the difficulties of the newly reformed world, the Great Powers formed the Council of Nations, a body to mediate disputes and issues between the emerging powers of the new world order.
Following the end of the war in 1905, the victors consolidated their gains and the battered world began to lick its wounds and the economy recovered with the resurgence of global trade. In North America, the United States was the undisputed regime from Cuba to Alaska, with the Caribbean becoming an American lake and Canada being prepared for its admittance as new states into the Union. In South America the emerging power of Argentina with US support used the chaos to establish its control over the Falkland Islands and its neighboring nations of Paraguay and Uruguay.
Europe became the world's most obvious bearer of change, as new nations appeared and old nations expanded. Britian became the world's first communist nation as the civil war concluded in 1908, even as a new democracy was stablizing on neighboring Ireland. The Low Countries had disappeared from the map as their empires and nations disappeared into the empires of France, Germany, and Japan. A new Rome had emerged as the thriving state of Italy marched across the Mediteranean, absorbing the prime lands of the former Ottomon Empire. In eastern Europe, the Austrian-Hungarian Empire had had long last regain its complete control over the Balkans, despite vicious resistance by the Serbs and Romanians in the Great War. In St. Petersburg, a new style of government by the Russians emerged as the Czar became absolute ruler of both the Church and the state, using the reconquest of Constantinople as the means for a religious revival within the Russian nation.
In Europe dominated Africa, the continent remains divided, even with the removal of Belguim and Britian from colonial aspirations. Northwest Africa has fallen under the control of the strengthened Italian Empire, while West Africa remains controlled by France. The southern part of Africa has fallen under the control of the ascendant German Empire, and the newly formed Boer Republic. In the northern colonies native dispute has risen in recent years as independent African interests begin sponsoring insurgencies. In the west, Liberia begins extending democratic ideals to the Africans, in the east the imperial ambitions of Eithiopia continue to mount and the pan-Islam movement also gains strength.
In Arabia, the destruction of British and Ottomon dominance over the Arabs, lead to the rise of a pan-Islamic state led by Ibn Saud. Highly contested by the secular regimes of India, Persia, and Italy, the new Islamic regime pledges the restoration over the entire Caliphate. The still British dominated Indian Empire continues to rule most of southern Asia, continue to pine for the days of British dominance. In China the Qing Dynasty continues to rule, the Boxer Rebellion bringing about a very anti-European, anti-West imperial leadership. They especially remain anti-Japanese, especially with recent expansion by Japan into the East Indies and Australia. Australia remains divided by the mandates to the United States, Germany, and Japan, posing numerous conflicts and difficulties for the governing powers.
With the world divided between the new empires, the globe is ripe for another Great War, and the stage for the modern era has been set.
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This began as an intellectual discussion between myself and a fellow history major. It was followed by construction of a map regarding the nations of the post-Great War world and the construction of an NES along the lines of rules similar to my Eve of War NES. However, this is not the same kind of NES.
The difficulty with the style of the Shadow of Rome NES and the Eve of War NES which I have most recently moderated is that the emphasis is on military and military expansion. Sitting still economically and developing is frequently boring and slowed. A militarist power is far more rewarded than a developing industrial one.
One movement toward correcting this issue is the change from monthly turns to annual ones, as frequently demanded by members of both Shadow of Rome and Eve of War. However the main movement is a new system of economy management which allows for reflection of the modern era's key platform of political dispute, namely the division between public and private influences within the government. The new system will allow the development of your own personalized economy, with the extremes being the following:
1. A fully militarized state ready for total war.
2. An utopian, socialist state with welfare and near total government ownership of industry
3. A commercialized nation owned and operated by the corporations.
Most nations will start somewhere in between these extremes, but it is possible for players to shift their economy as they choose. This should be considering the inevitable economic and political consequences that would result.
Furthermore, my team of history majors has done extensive research into elections, coups, and human interest events which has occurred in the previous century. Over thirty nations are available for play at the start of the NES, and the governments have been accurating reflected with our interpretation of the times. Our military tech tree has been developed with the decades in mind, allowing for research all the way until the modern era. Numerous events will happen as they did historically, especially in regions unaffected by the Great War, such as parts of South America.
I hope that this NES will help demonstrate and reflect the development of our modern 2007 society, and that the effort put into this will help provide the most accurate depiction of this era to date in NES form. I will be accepting reservations at this time, and a nation list and a map will be provided.
Sample Nation Stats
United States of America
Republic: Republican Party
Capitol: Washington D.C.
Dissent: 10%
Base IC: 20
Military Spending: 5
Public Spending: 2
Private Enterprise: 13
Military Quality: 4
Army: 23 Infantry Divisions, 4 Cavalry Divisions
Navy: 22 Capital Ships, 14 Cruiser Groups, 28 Destroyer Groups
Background: The United States was one of the biggest winners in the Great War. With the annexation of Canada and the occupation of much of the Caribbean, the US economy has boomed in the years following the War. However even as President Roosevelt is midway through his third term in office, heated debate and unrest has arisen over the management of the new territories. Factions have divided in American politics between pro-state and pro-independence, even as the people of the occupied regions begin to stir against the invaders.
Nation List, Reservations
Abyssina
Afghanistan
Argentina
Austria-Hungary
Boer Republic
Bolivia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Chile
Chinese Empire
Congress of British Workers- germanicus
Dar-al-Islam
Denmark
Ecuador
Eire- Tyrion
Empire of India- tommy toon
France- Nuclear kid
Germany- THe Farow
Greece-
Holy Russian Empire- Azale
Italy- Warman17
Liberia- Swissempire
Mexico
Nicarauga- Slavic Sioux
Nipponese Empire- Shadowbound
Norway
Persia
Peru
Portugal
Serbia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland- LightFang
United States of America- TheLastJacobite
United States of Central America
Venezuela
World Map
For over a hundred years the British Empire had dominated global politics, but with the Portsmouth Meeting, this was to be no more. The combined navies of the world amassed themselves against the Royal Navy across the globe, and the fight would be vicious in all the oceans. Despite the tenacity of the Royal Navy, they were ultimately overwhelmed by the modern ships and massive production of the Japanese, American, and German fleets. The few nations which stood alongside the British, such as the Ottomon Empire and the Low Countries were overwhelmed and their lands absorbed by the conquerers. American and European invaders even made it to the shores of Britian itself when London and the British countryside erupted into a civil war. Only the Raj of India managed to mantain its borders as the Royal Family fled to the colonies.
No formal truce concluded the war with the remnants of the British Empire. The Royal Family secured its rule over India with brutal force and the tacit support of influential Indian leaders. Britian itself found its island in the midst of a bloody civil war between communists, warlords, and the radical right. None of the Allied nations dared to even set foot on the bleeding island, and with the remains of the Royal Navy under Indian control, peace naturally ensued. All over the world, new empires had been born overnight as people used the opportunity to establish new nations and expand their own empires. To manage the difficulties of the newly reformed world, the Great Powers formed the Council of Nations, a body to mediate disputes and issues between the emerging powers of the new world order.
Following the end of the war in 1905, the victors consolidated their gains and the battered world began to lick its wounds and the economy recovered with the resurgence of global trade. In North America, the United States was the undisputed regime from Cuba to Alaska, with the Caribbean becoming an American lake and Canada being prepared for its admittance as new states into the Union. In South America the emerging power of Argentina with US support used the chaos to establish its control over the Falkland Islands and its neighboring nations of Paraguay and Uruguay.
Europe became the world's most obvious bearer of change, as new nations appeared and old nations expanded. Britian became the world's first communist nation as the civil war concluded in 1908, even as a new democracy was stablizing on neighboring Ireland. The Low Countries had disappeared from the map as their empires and nations disappeared into the empires of France, Germany, and Japan. A new Rome had emerged as the thriving state of Italy marched across the Mediteranean, absorbing the prime lands of the former Ottomon Empire. In eastern Europe, the Austrian-Hungarian Empire had had long last regain its complete control over the Balkans, despite vicious resistance by the Serbs and Romanians in the Great War. In St. Petersburg, a new style of government by the Russians emerged as the Czar became absolute ruler of both the Church and the state, using the reconquest of Constantinople as the means for a religious revival within the Russian nation.
In Europe dominated Africa, the continent remains divided, even with the removal of Belguim and Britian from colonial aspirations. Northwest Africa has fallen under the control of the strengthened Italian Empire, while West Africa remains controlled by France. The southern part of Africa has fallen under the control of the ascendant German Empire, and the newly formed Boer Republic. In the northern colonies native dispute has risen in recent years as independent African interests begin sponsoring insurgencies. In the west, Liberia begins extending democratic ideals to the Africans, in the east the imperial ambitions of Eithiopia continue to mount and the pan-Islam movement also gains strength.
In Arabia, the destruction of British and Ottomon dominance over the Arabs, lead to the rise of a pan-Islamic state led by Ibn Saud. Highly contested by the secular regimes of India, Persia, and Italy, the new Islamic regime pledges the restoration over the entire Caliphate. The still British dominated Indian Empire continues to rule most of southern Asia, continue to pine for the days of British dominance. In China the Qing Dynasty continues to rule, the Boxer Rebellion bringing about a very anti-European, anti-West imperial leadership. They especially remain anti-Japanese, especially with recent expansion by Japan into the East Indies and Australia. Australia remains divided by the mandates to the United States, Germany, and Japan, posing numerous conflicts and difficulties for the governing powers.
With the world divided between the new empires, the globe is ripe for another Great War, and the stage for the modern era has been set.
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This began as an intellectual discussion between myself and a fellow history major. It was followed by construction of a map regarding the nations of the post-Great War world and the construction of an NES along the lines of rules similar to my Eve of War NES. However, this is not the same kind of NES.
The difficulty with the style of the Shadow of Rome NES and the Eve of War NES which I have most recently moderated is that the emphasis is on military and military expansion. Sitting still economically and developing is frequently boring and slowed. A militarist power is far more rewarded than a developing industrial one.
One movement toward correcting this issue is the change from monthly turns to annual ones, as frequently demanded by members of both Shadow of Rome and Eve of War. However the main movement is a new system of economy management which allows for reflection of the modern era's key platform of political dispute, namely the division between public and private influences within the government. The new system will allow the development of your own personalized economy, with the extremes being the following:
1. A fully militarized state ready for total war.
2. An utopian, socialist state with welfare and near total government ownership of industry
3. A commercialized nation owned and operated by the corporations.
Most nations will start somewhere in between these extremes, but it is possible for players to shift their economy as they choose. This should be considering the inevitable economic and political consequences that would result.
Furthermore, my team of history majors has done extensive research into elections, coups, and human interest events which has occurred in the previous century. Over thirty nations are available for play at the start of the NES, and the governments have been accurating reflected with our interpretation of the times. Our military tech tree has been developed with the decades in mind, allowing for research all the way until the modern era. Numerous events will happen as they did historically, especially in regions unaffected by the Great War, such as parts of South America.
I hope that this NES will help demonstrate and reflect the development of our modern 2007 society, and that the effort put into this will help provide the most accurate depiction of this era to date in NES form. I will be accepting reservations at this time, and a nation list and a map will be provided.
Sample Nation Stats
United States of America
Republic: Republican Party
Capitol: Washington D.C.
Dissent: 10%
Base IC: 20
Military Spending: 5
Public Spending: 2
Private Enterprise: 13
Military Quality: 4
Army: 23 Infantry Divisions, 4 Cavalry Divisions
Navy: 22 Capital Ships, 14 Cruiser Groups, 28 Destroyer Groups
Background: The United States was one of the biggest winners in the Great War. With the annexation of Canada and the occupation of much of the Caribbean, the US economy has boomed in the years following the War. However even as President Roosevelt is midway through his third term in office, heated debate and unrest has arisen over the management of the new territories. Factions have divided in American politics between pro-state and pro-independence, even as the people of the occupied regions begin to stir against the invaders.
Nation List, Reservations
Abyssina
Afghanistan
Argentina
Austria-Hungary
Boer Republic
Bolivia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Chile
Chinese Empire
Congress of British Workers- germanicus
Dar-al-Islam
Denmark
Ecuador
Eire- Tyrion
Empire of India- tommy toon
France- Nuclear kid
Germany- THe Farow
Greece-
Holy Russian Empire- Azale
Italy- Warman17
Liberia- Swissempire
Mexico
Nicarauga- Slavic Sioux
Nipponese Empire- Shadowbound
Norway
Persia
Peru
Portugal
Serbia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland- LightFang
United States of America- TheLastJacobite
United States of Central America
Venezuela
World Map
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