I made this NPC for Tolni last turn. Worked pretty hard on it and I want to let everyone have a chance to read it. This would have been the nation I played as, if I joined in Romania (although I wouldn't have started in Transylvania likely)
Name: Noul Stat Românesc (New Romanian State)
Ideology: Isolationist
Centralisation: High
Political Freedom: Limited
Tech Expertise Priorities: Bio > Materials > Computing > Psych > Energy
Claims: Translyvania
Extra: Romania, like many other nations, was hit hard during the Troubles. The Balkans became a sight of major combat between the Russians and NATO, not to mention ethnic conflicts of various Balkan nations (particularly as NATO broke apart as the Troubles grew worse). For Romania, the greatest humiliation suffered by the people was the loss of Transylvania to anarchic chaos of Magyar invaders and mutinous Romanian troops, and the near-total razing of Bucharest by the Russians. Compared to their southern neighbors, the Bulgarians, the Romanians resented that they had to take the brunt of the bear's assault.
Even after the Third World War ended with a whimper, fighting in the mountains of Translyvania has never fully ceased. Romanians refused to give up what they thought was their rightful land from the Hungarian occupiers, and vice versa. Conflicts were nowhere near as savage or total as they were during the Third World War, but the region did not know peace, and it was becoming increasingly clear that the fighting would never cease until one side was pernamently evicted from Transyvania entirely.
Mihaela Şoimescu, a Wallachian woman only in her 30s, does not really know life before the Troubles. But what she did know, was stories of a greater time, stories of inspirational leaders like Michael the Brave, Stephent the III and, of course, Vlad Dracula himself.
A song passed down from before the troubles, a call of arms by her ancestors to keep her nation pure from the barbarians who dared sullied the Romanian state.
Siomescu formed a group of volunteers across Moldavia-Wallachia, known as the Armata Națională de Eliberare (National Army of Liberation, or ANE), and marched west to Translyvania. With only one goal in mind, she organized a campaign to wipe out the Hungarian presence in Transylvania. At the cost of numerous war crimes that have led comparisions to Vlad III (which, of course, she embraced), Mihaela Şoimescu forced the Hungarians out of Translyvania, and set up work creating a new Romanian state in said region.
The NSR is almost synonymous with the Partidul Național al Lucrătorilor (National Worker's Party, or PNL), a political organization Soimenscu formed after her victory in Transylvania. It is the only legal party in her New Romanian State, and its bureaucratic apparatus is the government's bureaucratic apparatus. Capitalism and "Bolshevism" are both rejected in favor of the supremacy of the nation-state. The means of productions are nationalized and turned over to the workers, who are in turn kept in line by party commissars, who are given prominent roles in every union. Private enterprise is illegal; everything is controlled by the workers in the name of the state. The only legal (not recognized; I mean
legal to speak) language is Romanian, and the only legal faith is the Romanian Orthodox Church. Anyone oppossed to this new order are branded as either Bolsheviks or Reactionaries, and promptly are dealt with.
Siomenscu has decided to align her state with Bulgarian interests, knowning that Bulgaria is simply too powerful to challenge at the present moment. Her rhetoric is instead aimed more to denounce the Germans and the Russians, who are both painted (along with the Turks) as the traditional oppressors of the Romanian people. They also serve as good examples of why internationalist socialism and capitalism are doomed to fail, and why her so-called "national socialism" is the future of humanity.