Liberté, Égalité, Hégémonie!

Tani Coyote · Apr 23, 2011

Chapter XIV: The Brief Bonapartes Part Four: Heretics Pt. II

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Princeof Persia · Apr 23, 2011

Very nice.

Tani Coyote · Apr 23, 2011

State of the Empire

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BuckyRea · Apr 24, 2011

While your back is turned, China and India are laughing at you. Destroy them and burn their ruins. Salt the earth and rape their crops. Now.

Takhisis · Apr 24, 2011

You are one genocidal maniac, eh?

Tani Coyote · Apr 25, 2011

Takhisis said:
You are one genocidal maniac, eh?

Oh no, I'm benign compared to what France will be like in 2 turns... when we complete the Manhattan Project. Time for an AW game!

Tani Coyote · Apr 25, 2011

Chapter XV: The Brief Bonapartes Part Five: Heretics Pt. III

Spoiler Table of European Emperors :

Louis VI's smile at Russia's destruction would fade upon seeing what the Chinese cooked up: in 1769, the Chinese started another war with the Mongols. It was obvious Mongolia wouldn't stand a chance, and so, Louis made preparations to seize the Urals from Mongolia, so as to keep China from catching up.

Come 1771, however, Louis met with the Chinese and traded technologies, propelling both superpowers into the "Modern Age." While China had signed an embargo against Europe, Louis was still content to try and cooperate with them.

Europe won a "Domination Victory" after 121 Hours, 20 minutes, and 8 seconds, but the Emperor didn't think Europe was truly dominant so long as Cathay remained anything but a) a supercrater, b) a province of Europe, or c) a mixture of both.

In his last year of rule, Louis saw the fall of Lulea, making the Scandinavian death toll 950,000 civilians and 150,000 soldiers. He also saw the refitting of 108 Riflemen into Machinegunners, making the Empire impenetrable.

The fall of Murmansk immediately after the army reformation upped the death toll of 180,000 soldiers and 1.16 million civilians for the Vikings. Weeks later, Louis VI passed away, and his heir, Henry III (r. 1773 - 1798), took the throne.

Henry would have an easy rule; he was tasked with finishing what his forefathers had started - that is, the elimination of the Viking regime and therefore, all truly independent nations in Europe. The Union of Eire, Scotland and the Antipodes, while independent, was largely considered only a step up from a client state of the Empire, with its very existence entirely dependent on Europe's approval.

Tromsu was Henry's first capture, in 1774. Tromsu wasn't reduced beforehand, so some people dared resist. The death toll would climb to 1.38 million Scandinavian civilians thanks to their foolishness. The Vikings now had lost 200,000 soldiers, and were confined to their final city - Trondheim. Trondheim's vast garrison was made of 4 Pikemen and 4 Crossbowmen. The Emperor reasoned that if the city fell, the people wouldn't resist as there'd be no state left to fight for. As such, mercy would be shown.

Henry III was commonly called "The Reformer" both before and after his death. First, he was a military reformer, building two biplane squadrons to test their value, while he also built no less than 9 Airports in the major cities.

Henry also built the Pentagon, a huge office for the military to coordinate its efforts, in Dusseldorf. He reasoned that the European Empire should stop being so centered on Paris and Strasbourg, and moved the military headquarters there accordingly.

Henry's social reforms, however, also came with military success, as the Vikings were finally destroyed. While 800,000 people lived within Trondheim proper, Henry purposely kept too many from dying out of humanitarian goodwill, and while 100,000 perished in the intense street combat, Viking losses only totalled 1.5 million civilians and 300,000 soldiers. Few soldiers had been lost by Europe, and in his victory speech at Trondheim, Henry proudly announced, "No longer will Europe be known as the 'Butcher of Nations!'"

Henry's expansion of the economy, military successes, and general kindness to balance out his great sense of logic and duty, however, paled in comparison to what his 25-year reign was best known for...

Alas, 599 years of Bonapartist rule had come to an end...

Tani Coyote · Apr 25, 2011

Chapter XVI: Spreading Democracy

The New Revolution

Henry III was the last European monarch. Despite finally ending a war and promising peace, notables spun reality to villify him, as he also had Marxist leanings. Henry saw a growing tide of rising resentment, and reluctantly held a referendum on his leadership. 52% voted in favor of abolition of the monarchy, and he formally abdicated as Emperor of the European Empire in 1798, overseeing a caretaker government until the Election of 1800.

The reform was enormous, and Henry actually proudly oversaw it, pointing out loopholes that would allow individuals to recreate the monarchy and absolutism.

First, Henry pointed out that the centralisation of the French state had hurt Europe's expansion abroad; bureaucracy created inefficiency and forced labor created resentment. As a result, the distant colonies stagnated, being forced to build naturally despite plenty of cash being available to rush projects to completion. Paid labor was standardised, and minimum wage laws introduced. Henry turned the revolution against the notables, curbing their quasi-serfdom once and for all.

Next, Henry standardised elections - a President would be elected every 5 years after 1800. The President could serve as many terms as he liked. The only requirement to be President was to be a citizen and a resident of the European Union for 25 years. It also stipulated that one should have served one full term as a Governor of a Province, member of the Consulate, Tribune in the European Tribunate, Senator in the Roman Senate, or at least 5 years as a Justice of the Supreme Court. For the first election, the candidates would be fielded by a committee formed between His Majesty's government and several notables in the Republican movement.

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The Tribunate would directly represent the People, with provinces all getting seats based on population. There would be 500 Representatives at all times, and all provinces were guaranteed one. Tribunes would serve 4 year terms, with half the Tribunate up for grabs every two years.

The Senate was meant to represent provincial interests. Senators would serve to guide foreign policy as well. Their importance in that field made each Senator serve six years, with each province being given one. 1/3 of the Senate would be up for election every two years(in the case of provinces not being divisible by three, the remainder would be allotted based on admittance to the EU), to ensure fresh new ideas could come in from the provinces should their interests change. Senators would be directly-elected, unlike may nations which would have their upper house be nominated by privileged elements.

The two Houses, together, would: declare war(51% majority required if President asks, 66% if he does not), and pass most laws (simple majority). The House alone could raise and cut taxes, and confirm the Chancellor's appointment, while the Senate alone could ratify treaties(including peace!) and dismiss the Chancellor. The Tribunate could try a federal official, but the Senate would have to convict them and come up with a punishment. Senators could also filibuster - that is, until cloture was invoked with a sixty seat majority, any Senator could talk as long as he wanted. The Senate or House alone could give a vote of no confidence.

The President would serve a five-year term, with no limits, and would be head of state. He would command the military, represent the state at all functions, and have the power to veto. He would also control all appointments. The President would be elected by direct popular vote, with simple majority required; if no candidate received the vote, a new election would be held with the two largest recipients of votes in the prior election.

The President's appointments would have to be approved by the Chancellor, who would not make any mistakes by merit of being able to be deposed at any time. These appointments were the heads of the military, heads of the government agencies, the Consuls(cabinet members in other systems), and justices of the Supreme Court.

The Chancellor was the head of government, and approved by the Tribunate. He could be nominated by the President, but if rejected, the Houses would instead debate their own candidate. The Chancellor could dismiss any Consul at any time for any reason, but he needed the President's approval to get a new one in(in the meantime, the previous Consul would serve until his successor's confirmation or until the next election, whichever came first). The Chancellor was responsible for directing most aspects of the government, and giving a report to the President on a weekly basis. The Chancellor could be dismissed by the Senate.

The Consulate was the equivalent of a Cabinet, with a Consul heading the various Cabinet positions, examples were: the Treasury(responsible for minting currency and collecting taxes, and prosecuting counterfeiting and tax evasion accordingly), Defense(responsible for the military), and Foreign Affairs(responsible for foreign relations). The Consul who led a Ministry was responsible for gathering information and sharing it with the President and Chancellor, whoever was relevant(for the most part, Foreign Affairs and Defense being the only ministries that regularly kept in contact with the President). The various Consuls could also suggest candidates and policies for their fields, as an example, the Defense Minister could suggest generals, the Treasury Minister the head of the Revenue Service, or the Foreign Minister various ambassadors. Consuls had to be jointly approved by the President and Chancellor, but the Chancellor alone could dismiss them at his leisure.

Finally, the Supreme Court was the highest law in the land. It voted to hear cases, being composed of seven Justices, with a first among equals in the Chief Justice. The Supreme Court's primary duty was to interpret the Constitution, and it could also render laws unconstitutional - be they federal or otherwise - provided it could cite a section of the Constitution.

These all made up the machinery of the national government; provinces were permitted to structure their governments however they liked, provided all positions were democratic in some way or another.

The Constitution was short and sweet to make it flexible, but also enumerated various rights and freedoms:

Spoiler Amendments :

-Amendment One guaranteed the freedom of speech provided it did not incite harm against fellow citizens, freedom of the press provided national security was not deemed jeopardised, freedom of religion so long as no harm was done to someone against their will, the right to petition the government, and the right to peacefully assemble.

-Amendment Two forbade the government from endorsing religion, and likewise, forbade religious institutions from sponsoring any political initiatives. Religious individuals could do as they pleased, but those in the service of institutions could not run for government office at the national level. Religious individuals would be allowed to form political organisations, but the actual churches were not allowed, as no church could represent all its members.

-Amendment Three gave the People the right to own any weapon for self-defense purposes, for the proper arming of militias for security, and also to resist the government should it become oppressive. Automatic weaponry was new, but its lethality was readily apparent based on stories of formerly-terrifying Mongolian horsemen being slaughtered like cattle by Chinese weapons, and so, fully automatic weapons were specifically forbidden so as to preserve the peace. It would be up to the governments to set standards on the weapons.

-Amendment Four gave protections against searches and seizures, making general search warrants illegal; warrants had to be specific to the detail of what could be searched and what couldn't be. Citizens were protected against any seizure unless the illegal item in question was in plain sight - i.e. drugs during the Prohibition era being in the seat of a car.

-Amendment Five was meant to provide protections during trials - citizens were guaranteed the right to a fair trial. Fairness entailed that citizens could not be forced to testify against themselves, that they be given a chance to provide evidence in their defense, and that they be free from intimidation. Citizens were also guaranteed that property, their freedom of movement, or their life could not be taken without a trial first. An exception to these rules was crimes that took place during war, where the government could suspend the right to trials for cases regarding national security for ordinary citizens. Soldiers were held under a different standard and did not have any specific protections other than what the leadership deemed reasonable; the reasoning behind this was not only the importance of the military, but also the fact signing up was entirely voluntary.

-Amendment Six added further stipulations about trials, saying that all accused people had the right to know what they were accused of. They had the right to see any evidence that had been gathered against them, and all people were entitled to a lawyer if they could not afford one. They had the right to call witnesses in their favor, and also see who was testifying against them. The trial would have to be impartial, so a dedicated screening process would determine who could be randomly selected to serve on the juries that would reach verdicts. Finally, police were required to list all the rights accused had: the right to remain silent and the ability to summon a lawyer - from the public purse if necessary - would have to be elaborated in particular. Anybody not told their rights could not be held by police.

-Amendment Seven dealt with the army. The army was forbidden from quartering troops in a citizen's home without their consent during peace, while provisions for quartering would have to be made during war. Furthermore, the army was forbidden from drafting people unless the nation was declared to be in crisis - which could only come about if four-fiths of both houses agreed it to be so.

-Amendment Eight dealt with civil suits, and stated that the right to trial by jury would be preserved in the case of incidents where money demanded exceeded the bare minimum - food, water, clothing, and shelter. The cost of these would be determined by the government of an era.

-Amendment Nine stated that just because the Constitution did not list certain rights did not mean that the people did not have them.

The Nine Amendments would stand the test of time for the most part and set the basis for a liberal democratic republic. The French Republic gave way to the European Empire, which in turn gave way to the European Union... a union of several autonomous provinces, all working for mutual interest.

Pre-revolution, the Empire had run a surplus of 1410 per term. Post-revolution, despite the fact support for a gigantic military was diminished, it ran a surplus of 1076 per term. A huge cut, but the many limitations that were lifted more than compensated. Workers, for example, would work 50% faster than before! As an example of this: a common Worker could road a tile in a single turn! The surplus returned to 1553 per term once tech levels were adjusted, meaning it was now possible to get even more money for putting less in as a percentage!

Spoiler Table of European Presidents :

Henry served as Henry Bonaparte as the first President of France from 1800 to 1815, elected in January of 1800 and becoming President in February. He said he was getting old and had grown tired of governing, and that younger people should take the reins of the Republic; he himself said, in his farewell address, that he represented the old order, and now that the Republic had existed for fifteen years... there was a generation of new politicians to represent the young democracy.

Henry's successor was Jacques Sarkozy. Jacques had all the traits the common man wanted - he was hard working, from a middle class background, and was fiercely patriotic. Jacques' term would signal the return of de facto monarchy, where popular Presidents could easily serve for more than a decade.

Jacques was a dark horse, but that just made people love him all the more. He rose through the ranks and soon took the primaries of the Nationalist party, the right-wing, interventionist cousin of the left-wing, cooperationist Liberty Party.

Jacques knew how to stroke the people of Europe's egos, and said that the state had always been built on expansionism, and to abandon that now would give people like Emperor Jiaqing of China the edge they needed to dominate the world. He cited the Mongolian War as the latest extension of Chinese ambition, and that without a counterweight, China would easily dominate Asia, and then, the Americas, to create a Pacific Empire even Europe would have difficulty challenging.

In 1829, Jacques arranged for the Chinese to be dealt with so that the secrets of Fission could be acquired. This put China and Europe on an equal playing field. Upon hearing China planned to start a conference of world nations, Jacques assumed the worst and decided to start his own instead.

In 1831, eager to score a fourth term, Sarkozy got the approval he needed to destroy the Arab Emirates. A loose union of Najd, Iraq, Kuwait, Hedjaz, Yemen, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, and Dubai, the United Arab Emirates was a theocratic state, more or less. While Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait had insulated their theocratic qualities and became more and more like the provinces of Europe, it was not enough to combat the horrid offenses of the hardline Islamic regime: execution of homosexuals and apostates, executions and torture for blasphemy, the oppression of women, the persecution of non-Muslims, etc. Jacques was able to talk of "spreading democracy" and "liberty" and was able to use these trigger words to make dissenters feel ashamed of themselves. It was no wonder he was able to get the approval after just a week.

Using some infrastructure Henry had built to try and increase trade with the Arab people, he used for the opposite purpose, to instead destroy them.

Babylon was hit first, artillery slaughtering its people. To rally popular support, he had an international incident force the Arabs' hand first, and thus, it became a defensive war.

The Arabs had 13 units or so in Babylon, based on scouts' estimates. They would be a tough nut to crack!

Once Babylon was on its last legs, the former Emperor Henry died after a long, fruitful life. It is said that he died because history was repeating itself - Jacques Sarkozy gave the order to butcher civilians.

Sarkozy didn't obliterate the citizenry, but he did reduce a city of 500,000 to a humble 100,000. It is speculated he didn't go fully genocidal because the Hanging Gardens were in the city, and their destruction would ruin much of its value. 3/4 of all citizens resisted, but they would pay the price. 2 Arab Settlers were captured and converted into six workers.

With the Arabs having lost 100,000 soldiers and 400,000 civilians while Europe lost hardly any, the decision was made to push onto Basra so as to form a unified front against Arabia proper.

Basra was estimated to have 16 units within based on projections. Forces were ordered to strike the city of 950,000. The city had the whole enchilada - Saracen Bowmen, Pikemen, Elephant Archers, Horse Archers, SPEARMEN. Swordsmen... Chuck Norris...

After missing SEVEN times in a row, artillery finally started hammering the city's infrastructure only to start missing again. While many Arabs lost their lives, many gunmen lost their jobs.

2 more Settlers were captured with the city. The war was already paying off! No people resisted in Basra, thankfully. Iraq and Kuwait were abolished and the Mesopotamia Territory built in their place. While the citizens were starved to feed their occupiers, the death toll had quickly risen to 1.35 million Arab civilians and 250,000 Arab soldiers.

With 34 artillery batteries still operational, the President decided to press an attack on Mecca itself.

Dreadnoughts in the Red Sea established there to be at least 28 defenders of Mecca(is this Rhye's or Teturkhan?!). Europe was capable of mustering 9 cavalry forces to strike the Arab capital.

The Arab city of Mecca had 1.2 million people living within it. After an exhausting battle, only redlined units could muster a fight, and so, all artillery was ordered to kill. Even the biplanes were ordered to give light bombing.

By the time it was captured, only 700,000 remained. The Arab civilian death toll was now 2.05 million, with 400,000 military deaths. Machinegunners had come along with the Col. Infantry to secure the city and keep its people in line. It was a hard battle that the Union barely managed to muster enough troops to win, but the quick thinking of some generals allowed a transport from Europe to whisk troops away to Mecca, and thus, the Arabic capital was now another occupied territory. The Arab government fled to Aden.

In 1842 CE, the Chinese and Indians signed a Mutual Protection Pact, knowing that once Arabia fell, the Europeans could easily pour into India and then China would be surrounded.

Meanwhile, Sarkozy had won the 1840 election, but his popularity waned despite his victory. A lack of any real victories since 1836 (when the Battle of the Hedjaz slaughtered many Arab soldiers) and old age were all it took for Liberty nominee Charles d'Anjou(s. 1845 - 1870), who descended from noblemen but had become a people's man. He advocated greater welfare for the people, and he was deemed a radical for daring to propose universal healthcare. But the idea grew, as he stated, "We use taxes to destroy life but not help prolong and enhance the quality of it?" Many caught on, and it helped propel him into the Presidency.

His moderate position was foreign policy, where he advocated taking a strong position towards the Sino-Indian Alliance so as to keep them from formenting revolts in Indochina, which was commonly viewed as the "trump card" of the European Union.

President d'Anjou's first success in promoting international peace was the founding of the United Nations in 1846, where Europe, Zululand, Ethiopia, India and China were given universal veto power as a sign of friendship between the two spheres.

While he promoted friendship, military excesses had killed another 100,000 Arab civilians in Mecca, raising the death toll to 2.15 million Arab civilians.

1853, it was established that about six Pikemen made up the core of Riyadh's defenses. An attack was ordered.

The death toll due to starvation had risen to 2.3 million, as troops marched on 600,000-inhabitants Riyadh. Riyadh's capture upped the civilian deaths to 3 million as the countryside was picked clean, and the majority of urbanites starved. With railways hooked up to Riyadh, it became plausible to attack Muscat...

A successful spy ring was set up in 1855, and they revealed Arabia to have 2 Spearmen, 1 Ansar Warrior, 4 Saracen Bowmen, and 12 Pikemen in their ranks; one of the Saracens was wandering the desert, so there were 18 units spread across 3 cities.

While troops hammered Muscat's defenses, the President initiated a cheap black ops operation in New Guinea, that unseated the Chinese governor of the region and put a European governor in his place. Shortly after, the governors of Indian Australia were overthrown, and their possessions merged with European Australia.

No artillery were available to obliterate Muscat, but its light defenses were easily penetrated. The death toll had risen to 3.4 million Arab civilians and 600,000 military deaths.

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D'Anjou died in office in June 1869, and his Vice President Rene de Gaulle, a war hero who had worked in the Arab campaigns, took office. Come 1870, he won election in his own right.

Rene de Gaulle would see the Arab campaign to its completion. In 1871, his forces hammered Salalah, a city in the middle of the Arab peninsula's southern coastline. A city of 450,000, he made it a city of 10,000. With the Arab civilian death toll now 3.9 million with 700,000 military deaths, the rich city of Aden was a natural target, and the last bastion of Arabic culture. 6 Pikemen and 1 Ansar Warrior guarded it.

Aden fell, and Arabia with it. The Arab War's death toll was finally a solid 4.2 million Arab civilians and 750,000 Arab soldiers. Very few thousand troops were lost on the European side due to smart use of artillery.

The European Union now controlled 50% of the world's people, and 28% of its landmass, compared to China's 12% of the population and 7% of its landmass.

Takhisis · Apr 25, 2011

Hey, that's like kicking a puppy.

King of Anshan · Apr 26, 2011

How's the USA in the West? I thought the statue of Liberty would give them a modern era Great Library? But good luck taking over the world. :goodjob:

Tani Coyote · Apr 28, 2011

Takhisis said:
Hey, that's like kicking a puppy.

What is?

I'm about to kick the tiger in the mouth... with a nuclear boot.

King of Anshan said:
How's the USA in the West? I thought the statue of Liberty would give them a modern era Great Library? But good luck taking over the world.

The SoL is a modern era Great Library yes, but the USA and the American states are hopelessly behind - only one city has been founded by them COMBINED. This was intentional as part of the variant. I'll dispose of them once China and India are sufficiently butchered. Maybe Axum too since I've killed so many countries, people, and waged so many wars that even they are annoyed with me despite my MPP.

Now that I have 50% of the pop... it may be time for one last War to End All Wars...

Tani Coyote · Apr 28, 2011

Chapter XVI: The Boondock Toussaints

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Tani Coyote · Apr 29, 2011

Chapter XVII: World of Tanks

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Takhisis · Apr 29, 2011

You've already won, why do you even keep playing?

Tani Coyote · Apr 29, 2011

I want to see how many casualties my Chinese Extinction Attack can rack up...

That and, why not go out with a bang? :evil:

Takhisis · Apr 29, 2011

So you'll go Dalek on the Chinese?

Tani Coyote · Apr 29, 2011

I already have! The next update will have the genocide of 14 million people in one turn and counting.

Also, the Ethiopians backstabbed me. I guess the MPP isn't enough to prevent a nuclear attack-inspired war... ah well. I wanted some Saharan resort territory anyway.

Takhisis · Apr 29, 2011

Backstabbed you? Or have they just realised that you're a power-hungry genocidal maniac?

You may be evil, you may even be a hedgehog, but there's no way you're sexy.

Tani Coyote · Apr 29, 2011

Hey, just because I want to wipe out my only threat and am willing to exterminate their nation as well as their state to ensure they can never rise again does NOT make me a genocidal power-hungry maniac! So yes, they did backstab me. l3 Ungrateful Axumites! I take them under my wing and they do this... sigh. Ah well. Time for some BBQ'd Addis Ababa.

You know you want it.

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An excerpt from the upcoming chapter:

Chosen Targets:

Shenyang (12) - 3.3 million people; 25,000 defenders
Qingdau (17) - 6.2 million people; 20,000 defenders
Beijing (6) - 960,000 people; 105,000 defenders
Guangzhou (13) - 3.8 million people; 40,000 defenders
Hainan (8) - 1.6 million people ; 20,000 defenders
Fuzhou (14) - 4.3 million people; 20,000 defenders
Shanghai (15) - 4.8 million people; 40,000 defenders + large naval garrison
Delhi (5) - 640,000 people; 35,000 man garrison

Sensing the danger, the Dutch, Iroquois, Aztecs, Zulu, Inca, Japanese, Koreans and Americans - every other nation on Earth sans the Axumites, Germans and British - declared war on Europe.

The bomb dropped on Fuzhou, after Shanghai, prompted the Axumites to declare war. Well, if they insisted on being foes rather than friends, why not?

Agents assessed the damage after Delhi, Beijing, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, and Shanghai were in ruins.

The death tolls were staggering:

Delhi - 25,000 soldiers; 570,000 people
Beijing - 65,000 soldiers; 900,000 civilians
Fuzhou - 10,000 soldiers; 4 million civilians
Guangzhou - 15,000 soldiers; 3.6 million civilians
Shanghai - 35,000 soldiers; 4.2 million civilians

Takhisis · Apr 29, 2011

So the Chinese aren't 'people'?

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