Imperium Off Topicum: Cold War 2

[Terran Empress]

OPEC Times​

New Lands join OPEC
Last year saw the Annexation of British Columbia, Sinai, and while the annexation of the Northern territories failed, negotiations with Quebec to gain the lands are underway. With the inclusion of new lands the government has been rearranged. British Columbia has been given full statehood within OPEC and is currently electing their Senate Members and their Head of State. Sinai has been proven to contain too few people to have their own government within OPEC and as such have been placed under the military jurisdiction of Saudi Arabia.

New Government in the Blue Nile
The People of the Blue Nile have spoken. A Pro-OPEC head of state has been put into power. Immediately following Doge Hickel offered them watcher status to OPEC. They quickly accepted allowing them to send a representative to vote for the Doge in an election, however with watcher status they only gain 1 vote opposed to the High Council members 2.

Doge Hickel Calls for a new League of Nations
We at the OPEC times are here to provide you with the facts, and well theirs no better facts then what came from the Doge's mouth itself.

With the recent nuking of the Vatican and the declaration of war by multiple states on Fascist Italy I have decided that for the good of humanity we must create a new League of Nations to ensure prosperity and peace throughout the Earth and make sure another nuclear crisis like the one that happened in Cairo, or heaven forbid, the Nuking of another holy city like the Vatican. Thus we wish to get the nations of the world to band together and recreate the League of Nations to make sure something like this never happens again, for the good of humanity and to make sure we don't wipe our self out through nuclear armigedion.

In other news the OPEC Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in Anchorage have moved their "doomsday clock" from five minutes to midnight to three minutes to midnight. Due to the recent nuking of the Vatican and the heating up of world nuclear activity and aggression.

Election
Five years ago Doge Hickel created OPEC to secure a newly independent Alaska would be able to survive in this new world. He along with the head's of state of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Persia created OPEC and created a government based off of the Constitution of the United States along with the Government of Venice during the middle ages. Hickel was elected in 1960 and took office in 1961. Now it is 1964 and it is once again time for elections. To remind everyone their are a total of 62 votes for this election, 30 for the Senate, 31 for the High Council, plus one for the Blue Nile which is a Watcher States of OPEC and has one vote in the High Council. The Votes required to win are 40, this is not a perfect split but it ensures that whoever wins is the person wanted by both the people and the leaders of OPEC to ensure the best possible candidate gets in. In the event that no candidate gets 40 votes then the winner is chosen by the popular vote of OPEC. Each State of OPEC gets 6 votes 2 for each representative. In the Senate where the people vote for who they want the elective representatives vote that way (this is not a First Past the Post Election, the votes are split based on how the people vote, ie if half the votes go for one candidate and the other half goes to the other then half of the state's votes go to one candidate and the other half go to the other). Due to Alaska's overwhelmingly small population they only get one vote, to bring the total up to 31, with British Columbia and Arabia both getting 3 votes, Iraq gets 6 votes, and Persia gets 18 votes due to its incredibly high population within OPEC. Making the Senate and the High council have equal representation within this year's election. Enough of how the election works On to the Candidates. This year we have two candidates. The current Doge of OPEC and the President of Alaska Wally Hickel. Being the Doge he has no Representation within the Senate even though he is the leader of Alaska instead the people have elected a "Prime Minister" to represent them in the Executive Officer position in the Alaskan members of the OPEC High Council. The other candidate is King Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, head of state and King of Saudi Arabia. As the Head of State of Saudi Arabia he does have two votes in the OPEC High Council, however he forfeits them to his other two representatives in order to run for the position of Doge. This is going to look like a great election and we at the OPEC times promise to keep you up to date on it and give you the highlights to every debate.

 

[Patriotic_Fool]

The Newspaper of Victory!

Victory in the East!

The heretics and traitors to the state committed the worst atrocity. Instead of freeing the Italian people to their rightful Leader, the crazed Pope unleashed Hell. A true friend of Satan and all the Unholy, the Black Pope detonated a nuclear weapon in our beloved Rome. Sources say he watched the carnage from afar, giggling and indulging himself with multiple women as the Italians burned.

A great victory has come to the Italian State, however! Despite the harrowing loss, the Pope was caught and brought to justice. His body was tossed to the dogs. The immense girth of the Pope allowed them to feast for days.

 

[NinjaCow64]

Australian Comrade Daily
News for the people, by the people!​

Madagascar invaded by England! Traitors sabotage Australian aid! British warships are headed towards Australia!

Madagascar was the site of a major naval engagement just yesterday. Australian aid ships, filled with grain to be sent to starving children effected by the attempted coup, was intercepted by British war ships and destroyed. Investigations into this matter found that Admiral Jones was actually a British spy, who gave details about our aid ship deployments. He denied the allegations originally, but High Chancellor Menzies hopes that after a round of interrogation in Room 101 he will see the error of his ways and confess.

After the Madagascan government was desposed, the British Empire formally declared war on the Australian government. Military action is being organized to combat the British fleet and liberate Madagascar, however, there has been a surprising lack of volunteers for the position of Head Admiral, delaying the process on the subject.

OCC: More "news" will be provided throughout the update as I want to do more, I can't do it right now. And no hard feelings Ravus, I just wanted to RP as a dick.

 

[Ravus_Sol]

Australian Comrade Daily
News for the people, by the people!​

Madagascar invaded by England! Traitors sabotage Australian aid! British warships are headed towards Australia!

Madagascar was the site of a major naval engagement just yesterday. Australian aid ships, filled with grain to be sent to starving children effected by the attempted coup, was intercepted by British war ships and destroyed. Investigations into this matter found that Admiral Jones was actually a British spy, who gave details about our aid ship deployments. He denied the allegations originally, but High Chancellor Menzies hopes that after a round of interrogation in Room 101 he will see the error of his ways and confess.

After the Madagascan government was desposed, the British Empire formally declared war on the Australian government. Military action is being organized to combat the British fleet and liberate Madagascar, however, there has been a surprising lack of volunteers for the position of Head Admiral, delaying the process on the subject.

OCC: More "news" will be provided throughout the update as I want to do more, I can't do it right now. And no hard feelings Ravus, I just wanted to RP as a dick.

OOC: why would there be hard feelings?! I love Saturday morning cartoon villain Australian. You even included starving children and YET ANOTHER British Spy

I look forward as ever to more 'news' from down under. Just to be clear though, does Communist Australia consider itself at war (Blaming the British as always.) or is this just the fun RP times?

...I've just realised that no matter what I need to write another news story. One second.

 

[NinjaCow64]

OOC: why would there be hard feelings?! I love Saturday morning cartoon villain Australian. You even included starving children and YET ANOTHER British Spy

I look forward as ever to more 'news' from down under. Just to be clear though, does Communist Australia consider itself at war (Blaming the British as always.) or is this just the fun RP times?

...I've just realised that no matter what I need to write another news story. One second.

OCC: We are at war with Britain. We were always at war with Britain.

Seriously though we are at war now. And in case you didn't notice, the Admiral Jones was the guy who replaced the last "British Spy". Thanks for the compliments by the way.

 

[Ravus_Sol]

The British Times​

Breaking news!​

Double Reverse Quadruple Agent Caught!
The King has revealed that one of our spies has turned rogue. Admiral Jones was a highly placed double agent that has turned the tables and is now falsely pretending to unbetray us while allegedly not working for a foreign power while purporting they he is trying to hide he really does.

Even now Admiral Jones is pretending to resist spilling state secrets in the ears of the Australian Government. Eventually he will allegadly break and betray his false loyalty and give half truths to support his Sextuple loyalties.

The King has disavowed Admiral Jones and all his previous and future actions. He also states that any rumours that this is an octuple power play is baseless lies.

 

[christos200]

The Islamic Times

The only true Islamic News​

War in Italy:

Italy and the Papal States are still at war. Italy tried to gain the upper hand by nuking Central Italy, but this only isolated Italy and now the entire world is against them.

The Caliph said that ''the use of Nuclear Weapons in a War Crime. However, we shall not go at war or blockade Italy. The all mighty Allah will punish him.''

Coups in Korea and Sri Lanka:

The Caliph condems the German Nazi for trying to coup Korea, and China for trying to coup Sri Lanka.

''We condem those two nations, for they use their power to overthrow the legal Government of Korea and Sri Lanka. However Allah destroyed their plans.''

The tour of the Caliph:

This year, Caliph has decided to make a tour all over the country. The tour will begin from Tunis, the capital of the Caliphate. The Caliph will visit all major cities of the nation.

At a speech tonight, the Chaliph said ''We are the true Islamic Nation. While other people have forgoten their faith, we will never forget it. Because we are not North Africans. We are not Libyans or Tunisians. We are Muslims!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our Great Islamic Nation has grown in power. Where once we were a few Nomadic Tribes living in the Desert, now we are a regional power and a modern Nation, thanks to Allah.

Our economy has grown a lot. Our people have always been trading. Trade is our power. And thanks to trade, our economy has become one of the largest in Africa.

Next year we shall also develop our army and military power, and then the power of Islam will be restored to it's former glory.

Long Live the Nation!!!!''

Speech of General Ahmet Al-Rashid:

Today, the General of the Islamic Holy Army made a speech:

''Right now, our army is the smallest in the world. Althought we are a peaceful nation, we need more troops for the security of our Nation. So, we shall arm more men to enlarge our army.

Our forces right now are made mainly by a small army of volunteers. However, over the past two years, they have trained enough to be considered a fighting force, and a strong one.

Now, more and more men are interested in working in the Army, and we are able to enlarge our project and create a truly mighty army.

Next year, our forces shall see an increase of 500%. 5 new mighty armies ready to protect our Nation.

Long live the Nation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!''

 

[Terran Empress]

To Quebec
From OPEC
As we have not heard back on the Purchase of the Northern Territories I would like to ask you again, name your price and we start negotiations from there.
RSVP
-Doge Hickel

 

[GhostWriter16]

All into armies and attack Argentina (Again) with everything we've got.

 

[Jehoshua]

In light of the abominable nuking of central Italy by the adherents of Fascism with Italian Characteristics AND its blockade of our shores. The Holy See in all humility makes known its request for foreign assistance, financial, diplomatic and military against the abominable scourge that has seen fit to slay unnumbered thousands of the very people it claims as its own in its blind pursuit of dominion and power over the Earth.

All the nations of the world must stand, united and as one, against this threat to humanity itself. Whether they be of differing religions, be they nazi, orthodox fascists, communists, capitalists, monarchists or besides. Only by standing against this threat together can it be extirpated and cleansed from this world.

The Holy See has stood alone for years against this threat, will the rest of the world even now after its use of the most evil of weapons still stand idly by, giving only the meaningless protests of words unsupported by action? Heaven and Earth await the answer of the Masters of Men.

 

[GhostWriter16]

As a South American dictatorship, our powers to intervene are limited.

The Neo-Inca have ramped up security measures and are gearing for likely inevitable war.

We will not, however, declare war on anyone at the present time. We are willing to loan money to the Papacy if he is interested.

 

[KaiserElectric]

The Nordic Chronicle​

Nuclear Attack in Rome: Thousands Presumed Dead or Missing

Driven by utter desperation, the forces of Fascist Italy launched a nuclear weapon at Rome. The death toll has been estimated as nearly two thousand, along with a number of state and religious officials, including his holiness Pope John XXIII. Following news of the attack, all trade was suspended with Fascist Italy and the Ambassador was recalled immediately. Similar actions have been taken by nations allied with the Republic.

"This was an unprovoked nuclear attack against innocent people," commented Minister of Foreign Affairs Lars Amundsen. "[Mussolini] will be brought to justice for this heinous act."

Support for the Catholic Church, meanwhile, has grown considerably. While support for local churches has poured in, candlelight vigils have been held nationwide for the lives lost. The largest vigil in Stockholm was even attended by Protestant and atheist groups, some traveling from as far away as Iceland. "(Tonight), we are all Catholics," remarked one anonymous self-proclaimed atheist.

"Iron Skies" Bill Signed By Prime Minister

The controversial Air and Industry Enforcement Act, colloquially nicknamed the "Iron Skies Bill", has officially been signed into law following approval from the Nordic Congressional Assembly. The bill, set to accomplish the task of modernizing industry and building up the Nordic Air Force, is set to go into effect within the year, despite the opposition of the Unity Party.

Voting was initially deadlocked until news of the nuclear crisis in Italy was spread, leading members of the left-leaning Unity Party to side with the opposing Republic Party. "Thanks to [Italy], the game has changed. We need to be ready for whatever happens next," remarked Unity Party Congressman Martin Leer.

Protesters Gather at German Embassy

Amidst the Italian crisis, protestors affiliated with the Nationalist movement Nordic United gathered outside the German Embassy to protest the German possession of Denmark. The largest gathering in the past few months, Nordic United has been growing steadily more powerful withing the last few months. Protests have not culminated in violence as of this report, but officials are not taking chances. "We've made sure they (Nordic United) are toeing the line. We're not risking any sort of violence here." remarked Embassy Security Chief Tomas Harson.

Representatives of both the German Government and Nordic United were unavailable for comment.

 

[Omega124]

To: Nordic Republic
From: Germany

We thought we were Aryan brethren, but apparently we were wrong. Denmark has been ours since 1940, and we will not relinquish it under any means. Besides, the Danes think being part of the Reich is wunderbar.

To: Holy See, Itay
From: Germany
CC: World

We still hope to stay neutral, but the new bombs have heightened our forces. Any spillover fighting into German lands will not be tolerated. This is your first and only warning.

 

[Nukeknockout]

To: USSR

Since you have three trade routes open and we have five, we would like to open three trade routes with you.

To: Italy, Papal States

The glorious board of risk assessment has come to the conclusion that getting involved with powers utilizing nuclear weapons is not an especially great idea. Until such time as the civil war is concluded, this is the last communique either of you will receive from the Glorious Empire of Panama.

To: Great Britain

Keep your filthy mitts off the Antilles. They're Caribbean, they petitioned for integration, and we will integrate them. The Glorious Empire refuses responsibility for any British forces interfering with the Integration process. We still hold no hostility towards you, and have two trade routes if you wish them.

Subject: Asia

The glorious archival division has expressed weariness in keeping up with the events of Asia, thus the Glorious Empire of Panama will cease doing so for the foreseeable future.

 

[Red_Spy]

To: Panama
From: The USSR

Actually, we only have 2 routes open as the Targaryens accepted our offer of trade with them. We could do 2 trade routes, but not 3.

 

[Nukeknockout]

To: USSR

Two it is, then.

Leaves us with three open.

 

[KaiserElectric]

To: Nordic Republic
From: Germany

We thought we were Aryan brethren, but apparently we were wrong. Denmark has been ours since 1940, and we will not relinquish it under any means. Besides, the Danes think being part of the Reich is wunderbar.

Please note that the opinions of a fringe nationalist movement do not reflect the opinions of the Nordic government.

 

[Ravus_Sol]

British Communiqués

Panama

To: Great Britain

Keep your filthy mitts off the Antilles. They're Caribbean, they petitioned for integration, and we will integrate them. The Glorious Empire refuses responsibility for any British forces interfering with the Integration process. We still hold no hostility towards you, and have two trade routes if you wish them.

To, Panama
From, King Edward VIII of the British Empire

I regret to say that the map leaked to the public was an older one, made before we made enquiries into the public of the Caribbean. The people have indeed spoken and we trust the Antilles more in the hands of the Panama then your more aggressive neighbours.

Your offer of trade does go a long way to pleasing my people, I would also ask for confirmation of open borders so that ships may pass into the Caribbean and also through the Canal (following all the rules already stated by yourself.) We hear you have 3 routes available now and would be happy to have all 3 with you.

-

Icelandic Alliance

To, Nordic Alliance & OPEC
From, King Edward VIII of the British Empire

We notice that due to events you both have 1 trade route available, OPEC due to the blockade. We have spoke of this in private but would like to publicly have 1 more Trade Route opened with each of you.

-

The Other Superpower
To, The Watcher States of America
From, King Edward VIII of the British Empire

We would like to enquire how many trade routes you have available so that we may bring our trading alliance closer.

 

[Nukeknockout]

To: Great Britain

Panama accepts the offer of three trade routes with Great Britain, and hopes that this incident will not increase tensions between our nations.

 

[KaiserElectric]

The remaining Trade Route with the British Empire is acceptable.