How is structured Italian governement?
Presidential Republic.
What's the political setting of governement and population?
The government is highly nationalistic; the population is divided between highly-conservative (though mainly republican) rural dwellers and the population of the industrial centres that is increasingly moving towards socialism.
Does the nation and population have irredentist aim to remaining northern Italy and Sicily?
Sure.
How are the relations with Sicily?
Pretty bad; there is a fairly strong underground pro-unification movement there, and the royal government is not amused.
How generally are Italian relations with other nations?
Relations with the HRE are horrible, given that Italy was born out of a rebellion against the HRE. Irredentism hasn't made it any better, and has led to further complications with Montferrat. Italy scarcely has any allies at the moment (lots of prospective ones, though), but it doesn't have any enemies other than the three already mentioned either.
How's the religious setting?
It's pretty funny, on one hand the population is strongly Catholic, as is the government, but the latter at least is frequently clashing with the Pope, even though the latter has by now agreed to renounce all territorial claims, paving the way to reconciliation.
Xin Ming. Let's not forget that.
Ruler: I'd go back to the alt-hist thread and look this up, but I'm out of town; das, can you please fill this in?
It might make sense to just let the players pick those things for themselves.
Culture: The "true China." It is very nationalistic and is a sworn empire of the Qing.
I don't think that this is what silver wants to have here.
Navy Description: Ming China never had a significant navy, and it's ocean-going ships were all decimated by more advanced Japanese and Portuguese battleships.
Err... what ocean-going ships?
It has been building up its military as of late, both on the land and the sea; the land army in particular is of higher quality than you would credit it with, though that wouldn't apply to any conscripts.
Nation Background: China was conquered by the Qing, who's dynasty lasted for a long time. After a successful revolution, the Qing allied themselves with the Portuguese and Japan to reconquer China. The Ming recently rebelled again and a war with the Qing seems imminent.
That's really not how it went. See threads.
As such, Das, would you mind giving a recount of the status of Flanders and how, exactly, it came to dominate over the more northerly Dutch?
Technically, the distinctions between the north and the south were never as strong as they had become in OTL; Flanders by now is more of a general term for the entire region, not to mention, you know, the nation name. Not that there isn't some regionalism, ofcourse. Still, it was united from the time it first became independent from the HRE, and was only briefly fragmented at one point afterwards (during and immediately after the Fifty Years War).
Portugal does look a little overpowered
Portugal
is much more powerful than in OTL. Lots of reasons.
The state in the Balkans is called the
Tsardom of Serbo-Romea. It is [wiki]Uniate[/wiki], though not all of its population is.
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