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[conehead234]

To: Italtian Central Africa.
From:The Arabian Caliphate

We will restore order in your land. But first we need a RoP in Ocitannia and Egypt to reach you or we can take the oceans to your land but we will have to make a beach landing in Italian held central Africa.

To:Ocitannia north Africa and Egypt
From:Arabian Caliphate

Can you help your Islamic Brothers in the Arabian Caliphate and let us have a have a RoP in order to restore peace to the people of Italian Central Africa.

 

[Amenhotep7]

Orders:
Grow Economy

To Brazil

It is important that we of South America defend the home continent and protect our interests. Though we are of different cultures - Portugese and Mesoamerican - we would like to extend an olive branch. Would you accept an MPP?

 

[stalin006]

OOC: The flag is a modifed flag of the russian racist group "White power 88". I did choose the flag because it is a modifed Imperial Russia flag and because it looks cool to me. I don´t support racism and this group!

Thanks to RoddyVR for translating "organization for financeering the flight of zepelins" into Russian!

nah, is ok, the flags i have posted are hybrids of the nazi and soviet regimes (my nation being communist germany in a post ww1-era, i couldnt resist)
i hope noone minds either.

 

[das]

Well, I don't mind any flags. All orders are in apart from Amon Savag's, so I take it he forgot he signed up.

From: Italian Central Africa
To: Arabic Caliphate

We thank you!

From: Egypt
To: Arabic Caliphate

Ofcourse! Feel free to travel through Egypt at any time!

From: Occitania
To: Arabic Caliphate

While we are not your "Islamic Brothers", we are willing to see order in all of Africa. We agree.

Should I start the update now?

 

[das]

Starting update.

 

[das]

Update 2 - Year 1903

Global Events:

The Iroquois have sacrificed large amount of their still-developing economy to speed up their militarization program.
The gamble succeeds, and only four years are left to go. Concerned, the Sioux start forming the Red People’s Army in their own ambitious project.

The coming of a new Emperor to Brazil leads to reforms, though most of these are purely nominal.
The cultural unity and strength of the Empire grows due to missionaries doing their job well in Africa.

After the coup in Italy, two new alliances appeared in Europe – the METO, of Italy, Burgundy and Hungary, and the Triple Alliance of UK, Occitania and Iberia.

PRG (Germany)’s government decides to back down in Alpine Italy. The Italian’s rejoice and Antuan’s popularity grows even farther, as Italy begins to recover from the economic crisis.
In Germany, only a few are opposed to the solution of ceding Alpine Italy, but most are glad that the conflict is avoided.
Many protest however the fact that Germany ignored the pleas of their ideological allies in Caucasus for a military alliance.
In the mean time, after committing their industry to the “Five-Year Plan”, German leadership finds out it’s a misnamer, as there is only one year left to go.

Hungarians fortify their entire border with Germany “just in case”.
This is a great line of fortifications like none before and is called the “Magyar Line”.

In Finland, the campaign against the social-democrats has mixed success. Some of them are captured, but the majority, including the famous Väinö Tanner, seem to have disappeared.
Rumors are that he fled either to Germany or to Scandinavia, or even to Russia.

In Russia, massive industrialization pays off, and the country is in shape to start working on the extensive Moscow-Baghdad railroad.
Also, the Russians begun working on zeppelins – both for military and economic use. The project is very promising, and will take six years.

The earthquake during the last year was the last straw for the Turkish people.
Rallying under a military junta led by Kemal Mustafa, an officer from UK’s “Army of Turkey”, the Turks rebelled and took control over the northeastern part of the colony, including the city of Trebzond.
Riots against the British take place in the rest of the colony. The British forces are on their way to put down the rebellion.

Meantime, in Africa, Arabia became a colonial power, acquiring Italian Central Africa and restoring order there – in fact the very word of Arabia promising support to the colonial government dismoralized the rebels and allowed the colonial forces to move into the previous-rebelling territory.
Generalissimo Antuan did protests this, but decided not to do anything, as Italian Central Africa is not something worth wasting paper on in his opinion.

Madagascar continues to prosper, industrializing and trading, becoming within two years one of the most prosperous nations in the world.
A new program to raise military efficiency has begun, and will take six years.

India begins it’s own new project, seeking to turn their military into the most efficient and most up-to-date in the world, and to raise the education and self-awareness level of their population.
Previously it was also planned to quadruple research to bring India into a new age, but it was decided it would take too much time and money, so that part was cancelled. This project will, apparently, take seven years.

Tibet Invaded and Partitioned – Details Below!

Japan also increases education, and now has the highest education in the world.
A new type of a ship – an Aircraft Carrier – is invented, though it would take six years to implement this invention into reality by constructing ten such ships.

Random Events:

A new oilfield has been found in Arabia, and already it is being exploited by an Arabian entrepreneur.
It bears great profit for the Arabs (+1 Economy).

The continuous division of Finland’s population between the two camps – Conservative and Social-Democrat – damages the cultural unity of the country (-1 Culture).

Spotlight:

Invasion and Partition of Tibet.

“Japanese Buddhists, attack not your Tibetan brethren.”
- Dalai Lama, 1903, upon hearing of Japan’s invasion.

As 1903 begins, reconnaissance planes fly from three countries into Tibet – from Japan, India and Russia.
Most of the Tibetans think it is just a training exercise of sorts. Soon afterwards, other planes follow, dropping bombs on the military positions of the Tibetan Army and Guard, which is poorly-armed and dismoralized. The only three cities of Tibet were bombed.
Soon afterwards, Japanese, Indian and Russian mountain troops invade. The last division of the Tibetan Guard was destroyed by Indian troops in Lhasa.

After two weeks of mountain fighting, Tibet is divided between the invaders, each taking one of the cities.
During the invasion, bombers, that were only used before in the last year of the WWI by the Japanese against Russian troops, now had a much bigger role, of tactical and strategic bombardment.

A brief incident took place when Japanese troops opened fire on Russians, but soon Russians retreated from the Japanese-occupied area as ordered, and conflict was avoided.

Most of the world’s statesmen ignored these events, as not all even knew that Tibet existed, and obviously noone protested the division of the mountain country, apart from some Chinese Buddhists.

NPC Diplomacy:

From: Turkish Rebels
To: Arabian Caliphate

The British oppression lasted long enough.
We ask you, our Islamic brethren, please, help us throw off their yoke. We need any assistance we can get.

From: UK
To: The World

Whoever gives any sort of support to the rebels in Turkey, will be considered in a state of war with the UK.

OOC:

I added some new culture and economy levels so you will have more to advance to.

 

[tossi]

From: Russia
To: ex-Tibet

Northern Tibet is now a province of the Russian Republic. You will not be terrorized and we will indutrialze your nation, to give you a better life then before! If you resist the army of the Republic will become your enemy - if you cooperate they will become your friend and helper! The Dhalai Lhama will remain your religous leader, but Vladimir Stenckovich and the Duma will rule over you. We won´t interfere with your religion and your monasterys and monks will be left in peace!

To: India & Japan

We congratulate each of you to the success of the Tibet campaign. I think the borders are fine right now don´t you?

India, since you have control over the Dalai Lhama we request that he is left untouched! His death would make the Tibetans revolt for sure!

Japan, luckily our troops were clever enough to pull back! This could have escalted in a war!

 

[conehead234]

Secret

To: Turkish Rebels
From: Arabian Caliphate
You have our full support. We will start shipping weapons and supplies to your held territory. The Arabian Caliphate is going to negiotate with England to try to get them to withdraw from Turkey. Well Shipments of weapons and supplies should be arriving soon.

Unsecret

To: England:
From:Arabian Caliphate
We demand that you withdraw from Turkey. You have oppressed our Islamic Brothers long enough. I will give you 1 week to respond and 2 weeks after that to hand control of the country to the rebels. We await your response.

To: Egypt
From: Arabian Caliphate
Want to join an alliance. We can call it the Arab League. We will be united and strong.

 

[das]

From: UK
To: Arabian Caliphate

Is that a threat? For the best of your people we hope it is not...

From: Egypt
To: Arabian Caliphate

Ofcourse! We agree!
*secret*
From: Turkish Rebels
To: Arabian Caliphate

Thank you! May Allah bless you in all of your undertakings!

 

[Jason The King]

das, what happened to those two other countries who were going to purchase air bases?

 

[conehead234]

To:England
From:Arabian Caliphate
It is not a "threat". It is a step you can take in the right direction in order to preserve peace in the world. It is clear that the peaceful Turkish people do not want to see your ugly faces anymore and nor does the Muslim world. We will ask you again, WITHDRAW FROM TURKEY!

Secret

To:Egypt
From:Arabian Caliphate
Thanks for joining the Arabian Caliphate in the Arab League. I believe I am headed into a war with England. Will you support us in this war? If we are victorious Egypt will gain naval and air bases in Turkey and maybe the English East Africa. Also in order to allow our economies to grow, I propose a rail road Linking Cario and Bagadad. What do you think. May Allah bless you.

Unsecret

 

[stalin006]

OOC:
does anyone know how to send images through PMs? i cant figure it out w/ the new forum version.

 

[Jason The King]

stalin, use the tags, uploading through the ftp server. The link to the ftp is at the bottom of every page between "chatroom" and "conatact us" links. Upload your file, then when it is done, put IMG tags around the link: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/"your file"

Hope that helps.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

Orders:
Hand the Dalai Lhama over to Japan, since they're the ones he moaned at and I want him off my hands
Increase navy.
Increae education.
Send out the navy with as many planes and armies as can fit. Start heading south.
Continue the NIP.

 

[stalin006]

PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF GERMANY

AND NOW A MESSAGE FROM THE MINISTRY OF PLENTY
THE FIVE YEAR PLAN HAS BEEN COMPLETED IN FOUR YEARS!
Thanks to the excellent leadership of the soviet volk, the nations education and industralisation has outstandingly increased in output. Vladimir Lenin, the prime designer of this has gained much popularity.

AND NOW A MESSAGE FROM THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH
ELECTIONS ARE OVER, HERE ARE THE RESULTS:

Vladimir Lenin : 62%
Leonard Trostky : 24%
General Hindenburg: 14 %

During Lenins speech he announced the completion of the 1st five years plan and said that more great things will be completed.

orders to be PMd.

 

[conehead234]

The Arabian Caliphate

Elections were held. 3 different parties were competing to elect their candidate Caliph. The recent turn of events in Turkey greatly effected the election and when the results were in the Shiite party had won with 69% percent of the vote. The new leader Caliph Mohammad Al Hussein gave a speech in Baghdad’s town square. His speech is below.

People of Baghdad and the Arab world, today you made the right decision of electing me Caliph of this great nation. I call that we start to industrialize our nation, and I am pleased to announce that Egypt has joined us in a new alliance called the Arab League. Our goal is to unite all Muslims under this banner. But first our Islamic brothers in Turkey need our help. The English Imperialism has oppressed them long enough, they have decided to revolt and we support the Turkish rebels. The English refuse to withdraw from Turkey and because of this there will be serious consequences for England. I call on Muslims to fight England in the name of Allah! March to Turkey and overthrow the British oppressors! Free the Turkish people! Jihad the name of Allah!

Orders will be Pmed

The Arab League flag.

 

[stalin006]

FROM GERMANY:
TO METO: Italy, Burgundy, Hungary:

We gave liberty to the alpine italians, let that be a sign for peaceful co-existance between us, lets start it by signing a 3 turn NAP

 

[Finmaster]

HELSINKI TIMES
January 15th, 1903.

AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE NEWS OFFICE OF THE FINNISH SOCIAL-DEMOCRAT PARTY:

A SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC COUP HAS TAKEN PLACE IN FINLAND!
Receiving German military training, we were able to drive the conservatives out of Helsinki after several battles that lasted from 2nd to 14th of january. We were able to capture king Pauli I and his army leader Mannerheim and place them in prison. “King’s right hand” Svinhufvud was also imprisoned, but was released as he was found “not guilty” for crimes against the constitution – despite being a conservative leader, he had been in a Siberian prison when king Pauli took over, so he could not be blamed for the “anti-democratic coup” that took place in 1897. It is now believed that Svinhufvud will continue being the leading conservative politician, fighting against the growing influence of us Social-Democrats. Meanwhile, all social-democrats and other leftist political prisoners have been set free from prisons.
Our plan is to hold parliamentary elections as soon as possible and return Finland to it’s democratic ways, as it was for a short time during our autonomy in the mid 1890’s. Later it shall be democratically decided wether Finland wants to stick to conventional democracy and parliamentarism or try out the new, improved German version of it, called communism.

Announcement signed by:
Väinö Tanner, leader of the Finnish Social-Democrat Party.

***

HELSINKI TIMES
March 30th, 1903.

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN FINLAND IN MARCH 1903
Social-Democrats remains as the biggest party after the elections with 90 seats, but they lost the majority (103 seats they had had the last time when there had been a parliament in Finland, in 1895-96). Conservatives, who have been ruling the country alone since 1897, becomes the biggest rightist party. Perhaps a bit suprisingly, the two biggest parties get less than ¾ of all seats, as a surprisingly big number of small parties make the parliament.

Party name (status on the political field) – seat numbers
Social-Democrat Party (leftist, some members communists) – 90
Conservative Party (rightist, conservative) – 57
Progression Party (central-rightist, liberal, supports cooperation with leftists to unify the nation) – 25
Swedish People’s Party (rightist, officially conservative, some members liberals) – 14
Agrarian League (central-leftist agrarian party, liberal) – 7
Karelian Alliance (central-leftist, liberal) – 5
True Finns (far-rightist, a fascist party) – 2

Political group – seat numbers
Leftists Parties (socialists) – 90
Central Parties (liberals) – 37
Rightist Parties (conservatives) – 73

ALLTOGETHER: 200

And the new parliament, holding now the highest legislative power, immediately began their legislative work..

VOTING #1: THE VOTING FOR THE TEMPORARY HEAD OF STATE
(This voting took place in the parliament since it is not yet decided wether Finland will become a Democratic Republic, People’s Republic or an Absolute Monarchy.)

Väinö Tanner, Social-Democrats: 102 votes (Social-Democratic, Agrarian and Karelian party members all gave their vote to Tanner)
P. E. Svinhufvud, Conservatives: 94 votes (all others voted for Svinhufvud)
4 empty votes. Some liberals didn’t like either.

As a result, Väinö Tanner has became the Temporary Head of State for Finland, holding the highest executive power.

VOTING #2: THE VOTING FOR THE FORM OF GOVERNMENT FOR FINLAND
Democracy: 101 votes (all central liberal parties and some social-democrats and conservatives supported)
Communism: 57 votes (most social-democrats supported)
Absolute Monarchy: 42 votes (fascists and most conservatives supported)

Since one option (democracy) got the majority of all votes, there is no need for another round, and Finland is declared a democratic republic. First presidental elections are to be held in 1904, and the temporary head of state (i.e. Väinö Tanner of the Social-Democrats, see voting #1) will run the country until then in cooperation with the government that he appoints and which the majority of the parliament has to support.

***

HELSINKI TIMES
May 1st 1903

VÄINÖ TANNER GIVES IT TO ALKIO TO FORM A NEW GOVERNMENT

After the election, Tanner appointed Agrarian League, a small central-leftist liberal agrarian party, to form a new government for the nation. And quickly a new, rather leftist government was born, made out of Social-Democrats, Agrarians and Karelians. Prime minister is Santeri Alkio, leader of the Agrarian League, but most ministers of the cabinet are (naturally) social-democrats, including the minister of domestic-, the minister of foreign-, and the minister of economic affairs.

VOTING #3: THE VOTING FOR PARLIAMENT’S SUPPORT FOR THE NEW GOVERNMENT

Should the newly-appointed government, led by prime minister Santeri Alkio of the Agrarian League, continue as the government of the nation?

YAY – 102 (All members of the government parties, i.e. social-democrats, agrarians and karelians, supported)
NAY – 98 (All members of the opposition parties, i.e. all rightist parties, opposed)

Since the government got the support of the majority of the parliament, it may resume their administering as the first government of the Republic of Finland.

***

The new Finnish Constitution of 1903

§1: Finland is a constitutional, democratic republic, with president as the Head of State.
§2: Power in Finland is divided into legislative, executive and judicial power.
§3: Legislative power is held by the 200-seated parliament, selected by the people, and their right is to ratify laws. They can also decide at any time wether or not the current cabinet can continue as the government of the nation. Parliament must ratify president’s decision about declaring war or making a peace before such a decision becomes valid.
§4: Executive power is held by the president, who is also the Head of State, in cooperation with the government: president appoints the prime minister who appoints the cabinet. The cabinet must at all times have the trust of the parliament; if the cabinet does not get at least 101 parliament members (i.e. the majority of the parliament) behind them, then the cabinet must be dissolved. President is not responsible for his actions to the parliament, only his cabinet is. President also has some juidical and legislative powers: he can use his veto-right on laws that the parliament has passed, and he has the right to absolve convicted criminals. He has also the right to dissolve the parliament and hold new parliamentary elections. The cabinet must also dissolve after every parliamentary election. President is the leader of Finnish foreign policy, and can ratify diplomatic agreements in cooperation with the cabinet. Decisions about declaring war or making a peace must be ratified by the parliament as well.
§5: Juidical power is held by courts, who get to select their judges independently.
§6: Parliamentary elections are held every 4 years. President is chosen for a 6-year-term by the people of Finland. If nobody gets a majority of votes in the first round of the presidental elections, the elections go on with fewer candidates until one candidate receives the majority of all votes.
§7: In normal law-making a majority of votes is enough for a law to pass, but in order to change the constitution 5/6 of all votes are required – or optionally it can be changed with less votes by two parliaments in the following way: 2/3 of all votes, and then 2/3 of all votes again after parliamentary elections.

 

[Finmaster]

Finland
DIPLOMACY:

From Väinö Tanner, the Temporary Head of State of Finland

To Scandianvia and Baltic Federation:
We wish to remove ourselves from the Pan-Baltic Alliance.

To People's Republic of Germany:
We thank you for the military training and other support, without it we don't think this coup could have been possible. We hope we can immediately begin plans for mutual naval defence operations in the Baltic Sea area, as well as some sort of trading agreements, yes..?

 

[Heine]

To Dalai Lama:
We did this to secure the buddist religion to still survive in this hard world, we offer you (as long as you do nothing against the japanse government) to rule in the JAPANESE province of Eastern Tibet, you and your poeple will have the same rights as it had when Tibet was free and none of your poeple will be conscripted, we will also support your way of pacifism by not allowing weapons inside the province of Eastern Tibet

To India:
We are glad you send Dalai Lama into our countrey.

To Scandinavia:
We "kindly" suggest you to hand over the islands of Fiji and surrounding islands, these islands are o not much worth for you, but for Japan they have a strategical location.

Orders:
Increase Airforce and Army.
Try to reach next age (Enlightment)