D'Artagnan59
The Gascon
Actually, I'll claim New Zealand.
LizNES4: Our Ancestors Sins
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ZeletDude
The Lion
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The Federation of Columbia
Current Prime Minister: John Menchatik
~~~~~~
History:
1996: The Plague first appears in The USA.
1997: The Plague spreads to the Northwest U.S
1998: The United States Government is unable to respond and civil war breaks out
2000-2050: The Second American Civil war.
2052: The North West States of Alaska, British Columbia, Yukon, and Idaho sign the Constitution of Federation which is the predecessor to the Columbian Constitution. With the capital proclaimed in Vancouver. The Constitution was based heavily on the old American one.
2058: The Constitution of Federation is deemed insufficient, and major politicians of the Federation gather in Seattle and discuss the creation of a new Constitution. (See below)
2059: All states agree to the Constitution.
2068: The “Shield” attacks to reclaim it’s lost territories in British Columbia and Yukon, they are repulsed after 2 years of bloody fighting.
2068-2150: Relative peacefulness and unprecedented economic growth, the Columbia Federation is ready to take its place as a dominant power in North America.
Flag of the Federation:
Flags Meaning: The Union Jack is to symbolize the historical presence of Britain in this area of the world, while the four starts represent the four states in the Federation. (Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, and Yukon)
The Constitution of Columbia.
Hope we can do DIPLO now?
To: The Japanese Empire
From: Federation of Columbia
We are both brothers of the Pacific can we come to some sort of agreement regarding trade?
Current Prime Minister: John Menchatik
~~~~~~
History:
1996: The Plague first appears in The USA.
1997: The Plague spreads to the Northwest U.S
1998: The United States Government is unable to respond and civil war breaks out
2000-2050: The Second American Civil war.
2052: The North West States of Alaska, British Columbia, Yukon, and Idaho sign the Constitution of Federation which is the predecessor to the Columbian Constitution. With the capital proclaimed in Vancouver. The Constitution was based heavily on the old American one.
2058: The Constitution of Federation is deemed insufficient, and major politicians of the Federation gather in Seattle and discuss the creation of a new Constitution. (See below)
2059: All states agree to the Constitution.
2068: The “Shield” attacks to reclaim it’s lost territories in British Columbia and Yukon, they are repulsed after 2 years of bloody fighting.
2068-2150: Relative peacefulness and unprecedented economic growth, the Columbia Federation is ready to take its place as a dominant power in North America.
Flag of the Federation:
Spoiler :
Flags Meaning: The Union Jack is to symbolize the historical presence of Britain in this area of the world, while the four starts represent the four states in the Federation. (Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, and Yukon)
The Constitution of Columbia.
Spoiler :
Hope we can do DIPLO now?
To: The Japanese Empire
From: Federation of Columbia
We are both brothers of the Pacific can we come to some sort of agreement regarding trade?
Amon Savag
The Great
The Unified States of America/NPC
Confederacy, Houston
Economic Points: 2
Stability: 7
Army: 5 Divisions
Navy: 5 Groups
Air Force: 5 Squadrons
Unique Unit:
Other:
Background: Also considering itself to be the successor of the United States. As the East erupted into Civil War, and California went its own way, several prominent Western Senators began pulling the way-word states into a union, however loose it is.
Confederacy, Houston
Economic Points: 2
Stability: 7
Army: 5 Divisions
Navy: 5 Groups
Air Force: 5 Squadrons
Unique Unit:
Other:
Background: Also considering itself to be the successor of the United States. As the East erupted into Civil War, and California went its own way, several prominent Western Senators began pulling the way-word states into a union, however loose it is.
Julius Gandi
The Foreign Disease
Dzien dobry, Polska Imperium please 
Julius Gandi
The Foreign Disease
The Eastern States of America/NPC
Military State, New York
Economic Points: 3
Stability: 7
Army: 5 Divisions
Navy: 5 Groups
Air Force: 5 Squadrons
Unique Unit:
Other:
Background: Considering itself the true successor state to the old United States, the Eastern States of America have attempted to maintain the image and ideology of the old regime. They've thus far failed at both.
Military State, New York
Economic Points: 3
Stability: 7
Army: 5 Divisions
Navy: 5 Groups
Air Force: 5 Squadrons
Unique Unit:
Other:
Background: Considering itself the true successor state to the old United States, the Eastern States of America have attempted to maintain the image and ideology of the old regime. They've thus far failed at both.
Amon Savag
The Great
Kara, have you got AIM?
TheLizardKing
Let's talk Michelle.
@Karalysia
If you write a backup story to support your reasoning, you can turn any of them into a communist/fascist nation.
As for everyone else, I'm actually going to the game today, after school, so I'm afraid I may not really be able to get on again today. So any questions, or comments you have will have a response by tomorrow.
If you write a backup story to support your reasoning, you can turn any of them into a communist/fascist nation.
As for everyone else, I'm actually going to the game today, after school, so I'm afraid I may not really be able to get on again today. So any questions, or comments you have will have a response by tomorrow.
Haseri
Emperor
I would like to request:
The United States of Europe/NPC
Theocratic Oligarchy, Paris (Pope Alexander IX)
Economic Points: 3
Stability: 7
Army: 5 Divisions
Navy: 5 Groups
Air Force: 5 Squadrons
Unique Unit:
Other:
Background: The Pope moved his court to Paris and never looked back. With "God on their side", the French military soon began to secure control of France once more. Soon thereafter, requests from Spain and Germany for military aid, and general aid sprouted in, and France quickly dealth with the rebellious savage mobs. Soon, a large portion of Europe was requesting admission to the "Holy Union". The new reformed "United Nations of the World" also gave the nations swathes of territory in North Africa and Asia "to rebuild".
The USE: Smiting heathens in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Also conquering space.
2000: Pope John Paul II escapes before the Vatican City is quarantined against a Soviet-made virus. Only a select few of the artifacts from the Vatican Archives make it out with him. Over the years, operatives would sneak back into the city to get more.
2001: Construction begins on the New Vatican project in Paris, France.
2005: JP II dies, never seeing the New Vatican completed. Benedict XVI takes over. Inserts agents into the French military forces and government.
2010: New Vatican completed.
2014: Majority of French military and government officials are now Roman Catholics. Protestants angry.
2016: Riots over the size of quarantine areas, low pay and other things begin in the winter.
2017: Army called in. In one riot in Calais, the soldiers are reported to be uttering prayers as they fire on the violent crowd. In relatively more peaceful areas, the police are heard doing the same while on patrols.
2020: Roman Catholicism is declared the offical French religion. Other religions are not yet banned, but many non-Christian groups start rioting.
2021: Pope Benedict XVI dies, aged 94. In his place is Pope Urban IX.
2022: The Year of Blood. After a years of growing intolerance, other faiths (including a few Protestant sects) riot violently. The Excommunicate National doctrine is brought in. The army is free to fire on any non-Christian they deem to be excessively breaking the law. Almost every major mosque, synagogue and temple in France is destroyed.
2025: Almost every non-Christian in France is either dead or has fled the country.
2029: Protestantism constitutes about 1% of the French population. Condoms are a rare black market item, used by gay men and out-of-wedlock couples, both of which have to keep their status secret.
2031: A report from the sole remaining Protestant think tank finds that nearly 50% of children in France have been molested by their local priests over the past 30 years. Urban IX dismisses these claims, as do the French authorities, now under Catholic control. The think tank is shut down after its owner was found to be embezzeling funds and spending it on prostitutes of all sorts of genders and religions. He was in fact, framed, but he killed himself a broken man.
2035: A terrorist cell kills the French President, most of the government and Urban XI. Pope Innocent XIV is declared the new Pope, and emergency President to almost no opposition.
Rest of the history to come later, if TLK lets me have the USE, that is.
The United States of Europe/NPC
Theocratic Oligarchy, Paris (Pope Alexander IX)
Economic Points: 3
Stability: 7
Army: 5 Divisions
Navy: 5 Groups
Air Force: 5 Squadrons
Unique Unit:
Other:
Background: The Pope moved his court to Paris and never looked back. With "God on their side", the French military soon began to secure control of France once more. Soon thereafter, requests from Spain and Germany for military aid, and general aid sprouted in, and France quickly dealth with the rebellious savage mobs. Soon, a large portion of Europe was requesting admission to the "Holy Union". The new reformed "United Nations of the World" also gave the nations swathes of territory in North Africa and Asia "to rebuild".
The USE: Smiting heathens in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Also conquering space.
2000: Pope John Paul II escapes before the Vatican City is quarantined against a Soviet-made virus. Only a select few of the artifacts from the Vatican Archives make it out with him. Over the years, operatives would sneak back into the city to get more.
2001: Construction begins on the New Vatican project in Paris, France.
2005: JP II dies, never seeing the New Vatican completed. Benedict XVI takes over. Inserts agents into the French military forces and government.
2010: New Vatican completed.
2014: Majority of French military and government officials are now Roman Catholics. Protestants angry.
2016: Riots over the size of quarantine areas, low pay and other things begin in the winter.
2017: Army called in. In one riot in Calais, the soldiers are reported to be uttering prayers as they fire on the violent crowd. In relatively more peaceful areas, the police are heard doing the same while on patrols.
2020: Roman Catholicism is declared the offical French religion. Other religions are not yet banned, but many non-Christian groups start rioting.
2021: Pope Benedict XVI dies, aged 94. In his place is Pope Urban IX.
2022: The Year of Blood. After a years of growing intolerance, other faiths (including a few Protestant sects) riot violently. The Excommunicate National doctrine is brought in. The army is free to fire on any non-Christian they deem to be excessively breaking the law. Almost every major mosque, synagogue and temple in France is destroyed.
2025: Almost every non-Christian in France is either dead or has fled the country.
2029: Protestantism constitutes about 1% of the French population. Condoms are a rare black market item, used by gay men and out-of-wedlock couples, both of which have to keep their status secret.
2031: A report from the sole remaining Protestant think tank finds that nearly 50% of children in France have been molested by their local priests over the past 30 years. Urban IX dismisses these claims, as do the French authorities, now under Catholic control. The think tank is shut down after its owner was found to be embezzeling funds and spending it on prostitutes of all sorts of genders and religions. He was in fact, framed, but he killed himself a broken man.
2035: A terrorist cell kills the French President, most of the government and Urban XI. Pope Innocent XIV is declared the new Pope, and emergency President to almost no opposition.
Rest of the history to come later, if TLK lets me have the USE, that is.
Lord of Elves
Suede-Denim Secret Police
- Joined
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- Messages
- 6,976
The Second Byzantine Empire
A History
There are few things that are so powerful as an idea. Ideas survived the War and the Plague, ideas would come to define the new world that came after the desolation, so much as ideas had defined the world of the past. Turkey and Greece were countries hit particularly hard by the Plague, being such close neighbors to the Soviet Union and its eastern-European satellite states. During the Dark Age that came after, like many parts of the world, various groups would seek to define the new personality and character of the region, like others had done throughout the rest of the world. None of these groups were quite so successful, indeed, none of the groups were successful at all when compared to the Keepers.
A History
The Keepers were, as their name implied, obsessed with the keeping of knowledge and technology. A belief that technology was man's tool in understanding the universe, and a holy, noble and sacred task brought them a fire that was almost religious in its zealotry. The Keepers were led and founded by a man simply known as Alec, who would be known as Overseer.
By the mid-2040's, they had some thousand followers, and had established regions of control throughout Turkey, Greece and even Israel. It would be in 2050 that Alec would die, leaving no heirs to succeed him, either by birth or by chosen succession. This would be the Crisis of the Keepers, and it would last for three years before a man rose to lead the Keepers again. This man took on Alec's name as Alec II, and set that tradition for the rest of the Keepers' existence. In addition to their reverence and near-worship of technology and the accumulation of knowledge, the Keepers had in their time begun to adopt tendency of nationalism, taking it as part of their creed, and what better nation than the Byzantine Empire, successor to the Roman Empire, the survivors and innovators who continued after the Fall?
Over the rest of the 21st century, the Keepers established a large level of authority over Greece and Anatolia, as well as certain parts of the Middle-East. Playing a direct and semi-national role in the regions' politics, by the beginning of the Oversight of Alec III there were cries that it was the responsibility of the Keepers not only to maintain the knowledge of the past, but to guide the peoples of the world that they might be ready for its use and application, to create a new and better future. Alec III latched on to this movement. The great cities of this part of the world, had in some measure been rebuilt by this time, and in them Alec III said, ... I can see much promise for the future. Conferring with his advisers, it was in 2099 that Alec III proclaimed the Second Byzantine Empire, as a new kind of nation, dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge, the preservation of that knowledge, and the continuing purity of knowledge. Alec III was made Emperor, as well as Overseer of the Keepers, and the duality of these positions continue onwards to current times.
As Emperor Alec I of the Byzantines, Alec set himself diligently to the expansion of the borders of his new nation, and to maintaining the power of the Keepers within its political and cultural superstructure, so as to prevent the myriad selfish and brutish desires of man to override the assuredly noble purpose of our endeavor and bring the greed, lust and suffering which had defined the old nations upon the new Byzantine Empire.
Through the Byzantine Wars, Emperor Alec I amassed a considerable amount of land, in which he saw the establishment of his authority, political, economic and ideological. Unlike those Overseers who came before him, Alec III of the Keepers had of sorts a marriage (carefully hidden), and with it an illegitimate daughter which he had named Theodora.
Political posturing and intrigue brought Theodora to the throne as Empress and to the seat of Overseer in 2127 at the age of thirty-one. She had, even among those who were supposedly allies, many enemies. Those that did not trust the hidden daughter of Alec III, even the Alec III to possess the discerning wisdom necessary to lead either the Keepers or the Empire. Empress Theodora III of the Byzantines, however, proved herself as a strategist and as a politician during the Persio-Byzantine War. In the mid-2130's, the rapid and ruthless expansionism the Keepers demanded of the Empire was beginning to take its toll.
Though victories had been claimed in the myriad series of brush wars that had constituted the decades of the 2110's and 2120's, the Empire's military was neither as adaptable nor as fanatical in most parts as the Keepers who sat behind the throne and moved the arms of those who sat within it. Various Persian national groups stood resolute against the Empire, who had come into combat with it after the massacre of various Keeper archivists in Tehran shortly before the death of Emperor Alec I. Byzantine ambassadors, who had been snubbed by their Persian counterparts, called for war. War there was, but defeat after defeat plagued the worn Byzantine armies. Theodora, with more than a little protest from her advisers, exercised her power over the armies, and through a series of military victories, lead them to Tehran. Shortly thereafter, their Persian enemies crumbled and surrendered.
The Empress had finally earned the respect of her advisers, and the respect of the Keepers of whom she was Overseer. Thus would begin what even her former critics had referred to as a golden age, and the new Empress would be at its helm, poster girl for the Empire and the ideological order it represented. Since then, according to the Empress' orders, the Empire has taken a much greater interest in affairs outside its borders, and seeks to influence them for its benefit and the benefit of mankind.
Structure
The Empress maintains ultimate authority throughout the entirety of the Empire, though she delegates this authority through appointed provincial magistrates who are generally selected for their loyalty to imperial and Keeper ideology and political aptitude. These magistrates order under the Imperial Law as determined by the reigning Emperor or Empress the domestic and civil affairs of their province, and maintain regional offices for the ultimately-national Ministries of Education, Transportation and Civil Defense and Calm. The Keepers continue to be a largely-hereditary organization, and through their influence most posts in the imperial government are hereditary. Institutionally, the government is atheist, the Keepers maintaining the blind faith necessitated by religion was one of the greatest reasons for the downfall of the pre-Plague world, and although openly-religious citizens of the Empire are generally prevented from coming into any type of authority or holding educational posts, they are not openly persecuted save for in the eastern mandates from recently liberated Persia.
The Ministry of Technology maintains control over digital archiving and information technology throughout the Empire, and is directly controlled by the Keepers. A de facto partnership exists between the Ministry of Technology and the imperial military, who compliment each other with funding and support in questions of political intrigue.
Through the influence the Ministry of Technology maintains over the media a fervent nationalist spirit is encouraged, which is reinforced in the schools. The government openly embraces capitalism, but remains wary of the potential for "the spirit of the entrepeneur to focus too exclusively on the needs of the individual". This train of thought represents a mode of society in which those individuals who are of greater service to the pursuit of knowledge or the maintenance of the state which represents the "interests of knowledge" to be favored. Though this is seen as a means of weeding out those who are of no use to society by the imperial government, outsiders criticize this as poorly-hidden apathy for the less fortunate.
Amon Savag
The Great
The Unified States of America
Amono Saiiji, surely of japanese descent, had assumed control of the federal government of the Unified States of America. He assumed control over a government that was strictly a proponent of national security. Since the birth of the Unified States of America, no senators had been elected. Only reputable diplomats and generals, learning from the mistakes of the old federation of states called the "USA", destroyed by the great plagues of the 20th century.
The law of the land called for "Soldier citizens", meaning that nobody was a citizen without serving a 4 year term in the military first. This means that only those who had an actual stake in the freedom they have could provide guidance for those who did not. Those who risked their necks to provide the freedoms they all enjoyed could run for office, and vote. It was possible to be immensely rich within the federation and not have served in the military, but that same person would have no chance at influencing the election by his own ballot.
Since there were plenty of people that wished to be citizens, the military never had a shortage of man-power. All the weapons manufacturing, development, and research was done by the service.
Amono Saiiji was briefed, put on the Commander in Chief hat, gave his inaugural speech, and set about the business of national security.
Amono Saiiji, surely of japanese descent, had assumed control of the federal government of the Unified States of America. He assumed control over a government that was strictly a proponent of national security. Since the birth of the Unified States of America, no senators had been elected. Only reputable diplomats and generals, learning from the mistakes of the old federation of states called the "USA", destroyed by the great plagues of the 20th century.
The law of the land called for "Soldier citizens", meaning that nobody was a citizen without serving a 4 year term in the military first. This means that only those who had an actual stake in the freedom they have could provide guidance for those who did not. Those who risked their necks to provide the freedoms they all enjoyed could run for office, and vote. It was possible to be immensely rich within the federation and not have served in the military, but that same person would have no chance at influencing the election by his own ballot.
Since there were plenty of people that wished to be citizens, the military never had a shortage of man-power. All the weapons manufacturing, development, and research was done by the service.
Amono Saiiji was briefed, put on the Commander in Chief hat, gave his inaugural speech, and set about the business of national security.
TheLizardKing
Let's talk Michelle.
I've got a second to get on- I love all the history's! Haseri, you may certainly have the USE.
To all players- assume you have the faction, unless I say otherwise.
To all players- assume you have the faction, unless I say otherwise.
Commander Gorma
Warlord
- Joined
- Dec 15, 2009
- Messages
- 125
I would like to claim tanzania
Omega124
Challenging Fate
Northumbria/Omega
Republic, Nottingham:
Economic Points: 2
Stability: 7
Army: 5 Divisions
Navy: 5 Groups
Air Force: 5 Squadrons
Unique Unit:
Other:
Background: One of several British splinter states. After the USE attempted to secure control of Great Britain, violant wars broke out across the island, stalling the USE's advances. Northumbria became the essentially the home of the "Old English" government.
Sotry to comeif accepted
Republic, Nottingham:
Economic Points: 2
Stability: 7
Army: 5 Divisions
Navy: 5 Groups
Air Force: 5 Squadrons
Unique Unit:
Other:
Background: One of several British splinter states. After the USE attempted to secure control of Great Britain, violant wars broke out across the island, stalling the USE's advances. Northumbria became the essentially the home of the "Old English" government.
Sotry to comeif accepted
Heraclius49
Emperor
I will take The Federation of of Southeast Asia.
Omega124
Challenging Fate
OOC: Kaiserreich... What a good mod...
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