Iberia - After the Triple Alliance's intervention in Spain's, the region erupted into chaos; decades of civil war left the peninsula in chaos until, in 1795, a combined Moroccan/Algerian force launched the Reconquista of Iberia. With Castille, Portugal, and various Iberian factions constantly warring, Muslim soldiers landed in Granada. The populace of Granada, tired of constant warfare and strife, accepted the law and order that strong, Muslim rule brought on them. Superior, undivided Muslim forces soon pressed against the Christian nations in the north, and by 1830, half of Iberia had fallen. However, Christian nations in the rest of Europe deigned to intervene on behalf of the remaining Christian kings in Iberia. By 1880, the Christians weren't in as quite a desperate situation, though Catalonia had lost Barcelona in the fighting. Civil war in the French regions left Bearn and areas north of it poorly defended, and Catalonia seized it purely as a new source of food and manpower. In 1910, tensions between Northern Iberia and Andalusia have sparked again as Muslim armies mass on the Castillian border, Portugeuse ships raid Muslim shipping, and Catalonian militia regiments sow the seeds of rebellion in Barcelona; Iberia is at a boiling point, who will emerge victorious?
France - The splintered state of France another product of Triple Alliance intervention, France was split into many tiny states. Over the decades, duchies and kingdoms have slowly emerged as dominant powers in the region; Bar, along the German border, plots to bring back the glory of Burgundy, while the North French Federation seeks new trade routes and partners. In the west, Berry exerts dominance over its capital in Bordauex, plotting a way to reacquire their old city of Berry. In central Gaul, the tired, beaten, and disgraced true French kingdom plots, planning on its eventual reunification of France - and perhaps, given the right circumstances, it will emerge as a power to rival Germany itself. In the south, the Occitanians sit atop their rich nation, enjoying a position of great wealth and prestige - the only problems being the Catalonian occupation of parts of France. What will happen in France? Who's to say?
Poland - One of the three founding members of the Triple Alliance, Poland is one of the great powers of Europe. Before the Polish-German war of 1727, Poland was ruled by the Jagiellon family and it's lands streched from Bohemia in the west, Moscow in the east, Saint Stanislawbug in the north, and Istanbul in the south. After being allies for nearly three hundred years, Germany and Poland split after arguements over the Balkans when Germany left the Triple Alliance and found the German Confederation with it's vassal states and Austria. When fighting broke out over Holstein only thirty years after, Poland quickly joined it's ally The Kalmar Union in defense against Germany, starting the Polish-German War. The war intially went well for Poland, but then it suffered a series of large defeats that contuined through the rest of the war. When peace was signed in Berlin on 1734, Poland lost most of it's Hungarian territories, Bohemia, it's Greek holdings, and parts of Russia. Not long after the defeat revolutionaries blamed the royal family on the loss, and the Jagiellon family was ousted from power in 1759 and the Polish Republic was declared shortly after. Currently, Poland is a relativily poor nation compared to the rest of Europe, but has the largest, but not well trained, army in all of the world. Due to the poor state the country is in several influecial and radical groups are growing in power inside Poland. The largest of these are the nationalists in the North, and the communists in the south. Many expect the upcoming elections to be decisive in the history of the nation.
Italy - Italy, a peninsula in Europe constantly existing in a fractured state; though far more unified than ever before in its fractured past, the three nations that have a grip in Italy still vy for control constantly and are constantly undermining the efforts of the others. The Italians, who maintain an iron grip on the central region of the Italian peninsula, are in a precarious position, wedged between the powerful armies of Austria and the invincible navies of the Sicilians. The ancient Austrian Empire, a powerful entity stretched along the Adriatic Sea and in Lombardy with armies rivaled only by the Germans. Though, no matter how powerful its allies, its political situation is poor; nestled between revanchist Italians, Balkan states, and the powerful Germans, it will have to play its cards wisely to come out ahead. Finally, in the south, is the fairly new, and economically powerful, Sicilian Empire, stretching from Sardinia to southern Anatolia. With a powerful navy and a powerful economy, it is poised to dominate the Mediterranean; however, due to its relative newness and nationalist feelings of the different regions of its populace, for how long can the Sicilians maintain their island empire? It appears as though there will never be an Italian power that dominates all Italian regions, without drastic change.
North America - North America, a continent once belonging to vibrant natives, since wiped out by the Dano-German settlers who dominate the continent. Though Denmark acquired far more of North America than the Germans, much of the fertile eastern seaboard became home to German settlers; a strong presence of German soldiers generally kept Danish raiders away. Not long after the first German-Polish War in 1727, in which Denmark was a participant, the German Reich was forced to raise taxes in their few remaining colonies that Denmark did not strip them of to pay war debts and to restabalize the Dano-German border in North America. German colonists, angry for having to pay for a war the Reich fought for them, declared independence shortly afterwards. The German Reich, exhausted from a long, grueling war with the Danes and Poles, put up only a half-hearted resistance before letting go. The newly founded "republic," founded on ideals of "liberty," was led under the iron rule of President Jorge Warshipington. Under the leadership of Warshipington, Amerika entered pursued a policy of "liberating" other parts of Amerika. The Danes, naturally, were not happy about this - the rest of Amerika belonged to them! The Kalmar Union issued a warning to the nascent Amerikan state - cease and desist or face annexation. The Amerikans chose to go to war.
Over the next six years, 1838-1844, Amerikan militias and under equipped regulars engaged in several conflicts with Danish Colonial Militias and a handful of Royal Armies - the war would have continued as a stalemate, if not for the actions of Simon Barley, a farmer-turned-revolutionary from the Danish province of Vestkysten. With the support of local farmers and workers, using promises of a proletarian state, ruled by the workers, where all men were equal, along with arms shipments from the Amerikans, an enormous revolt broke out in Vestkysten's capital - Helgen Henry (San Francisco). With Danish forces exhausted by years of fighting Amerikan forces - even if they had made gains, small or no - the Danes surrendered control of Vestkysten to the rebels. Now forced to retreat into New Jutland - surrounded by revolutionaries to the west and Amerikans to the east - the Danes were forced to march north, leaving New Jutland to the mercies of Amerikan and Vestkysten forces. Not two months after the Fall of New Jutland, reports came in of the atrocities that either side committed on one another, as Amerikan forces attempted to crush the Vestkysten People's Army, to march their army from sea to shining sea, and both Vestkysten and Amerikans raped and pillaged the landscape to feed their armies. With Kalmar forces beaten and ragged, and with newly-formed Vestkysten armies already in control of Vancouver and pushing north to Alaska and a nationalist movement starting in Canada, Kalmar Union forces fled through Hudson Bay, to quell revolts in colonies that were not quite as hopeless as North Amerika.
Now, Vestkysten communists and Amerikan "revolutionaries" continue to fight over war torn New Jutland, a nation nearly irrevocably scarred by war. In the north, the Canadians, having since broken off the Kalmar Union, mass their troops on the Amerikan and Vestkysten borders, paranoid of invasion. In the south, the Floridian League, a sovereign nation that still bows to both the German Reich and the Kalmar Union, gives arms to all sides and continues to earn a tidy profit in it's small island empire.
South/Central America - Though generally a poorer region than its more northernly neighbors, nationalist embers burned just as brightly in South America as the northern continent. In the north, Kalmar-dominated Gran Colombia held a convention, after some particularly harsh taxes were instituted on them to pay for the Polish-German War. After several protests and the destruction of several merchant vessels docked in Gran Venezuela ports, the capital of the province - Caracas - was occupied by Kalmar Colonial Defense Forces. The people, outraged, rose up to drive the soldiers out - and they were brutally, brutally suppressed. The Kalmar Union was not willing to lose any more colonies to "revolutionaries," not after the debacle in North America. Revolutionary sentiments boiled in the country for some years, until, in 1895, they hit a boiling point - Gran Venezuelan Militia units, along with Guyana Regulars and Colombian peasants rose up; the Kalmar Union, already distracted with revolts in the mostly German cultured Danish East Indies, couldn't dedicate enough forces to hold onto the three provinces. And thus; the Republics of Colombia, Gran Venezuela, and Guyana were born; the Danes were mystified. How had simple peasants and militiamen rallied enough manpower, small arms, and decent enough training to beat some of the best Danish infantry units in the army? The answer, naturally, was the English - a beaten and humiliated nation that was forced out of their native lands around London and forced into exile in Brazil, the English were always out to avenge their defeat at Danish hands and saw the Northern South American Revolution as the perfect time to do so. Thousands of English weapons, grunts, and officers trained and supplemented North South American forces enough to, if not outplay, to overrun Danish divisions posted in Caracas and in other parts of Venezuela.
The nascent republics, however, were weak - and Kalmar was always looking for to regain their American holdings. Delegates from all three nations arrived in Caracas to discuss a unification treaty - linking all three together economically and militarily, to fight off both foreign and domestic threats. The Treaty of Caracas was signed June 1st, 1901, and the South American Confederation was born.
The Incan Empire, an ancient empire based along the western coast of South America, had only maintained its rich, though backwards, nation through the good will and protection of the Danes. Incan gold in exchange for Danish protection - and as such, after the fall of the South American Confederation to revolutionaries, the Incan Empire became the strongest presence of Kalmar influence in South America. Without any colonies remaining in South America - or, indeed, any of America besides the Caribbean - the Danes began to exert their hefty influence with the Incans, ultimately ending with the Incan emperors being forever vassalized to the Kalmar monarch. As such, Danish officers supplemented Incan soldiers in a war against the English, in which significant tracks of land were transferred to the Incans.
