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They tell me somewhere a man can be happy
I ask them where, o’ where can it be?
Why should I dream of those wonderful things?
They’re for cabbages and kings
I ask them where, o’ where can it be?
Why should I dream of those wonderful things?
They’re for cabbages and kings
For two decades, the planet had been quiet. The Kessler Effect had choked the life out of satellite networks, neglect had silenced underseas cables, and war had crippled land communication infrastructure. But in the short half decade leading up to ‘54, parts of the world began to hum again. Communication networks that once were constrained to local areas expanded to cover entire regions, across polity borders, and in some cases even transcontinental.
A generation was beginning to grow up in a world where water, food, shelter, and electricity were common. Children didn’t understand how seeing a blue sky multiple times a week felt for their parents and grandparents. A generation had watched the world’s dying breaths, and now they were watching its first steps. A generation had only known overcast, sickness, and struggle, and now are seeing the growth of comfort and progress. And now, a generation was being into a world that changed and expanded with every day.
In East Asia, the Japanese home islands are mostly united under the EAEC, though they remain in a poor state compared to the growing cities on the Korean Peninsula. The Iron Blood State and Republic of China have for the most part restored order along the entire Chinese coastline. The IBS also organised and assisted the creation of the North State in the old Inner Mongolia area to shield the northern frontier, an area that could become complicated with the formation of the Siberian Soviet Federation to the northwest. Across the southern IBS-ROC border, the Republicans have expanded their land and air forces, raising tensions in the divided pre-war Chinese region.
The rapidly improving Republic of Vietnam is at this point the most highly developed polity in Asia, and despite its strongly pacifistic constitution, newly minted warships make it clear that Vietnam will not shy away from defending itself. Its southern neighbour, the Niijima-Haus Directorate, has steadily expanded further into Indochina and the pre-war Indonesian islands, with Siam and Java joining the Directorate. Further south, the Dunedin Treaty Organisation flexed its new naval muscles by sending a contingent of peacekeepers to secure New Caledonia and nearby islands as well as supplying and organising the Commonwealth of South Australia.
The Indian subcontinent has almost entirely come under the administration of either the northern Dominion of India, or the Federation of South India. While there may be tensions in the divided subcontinent, the two Indias have calmed worries with a declaration of friendship and cooperation. No doubt this extension of friendship was offered by the Dominion to gather allies against the gathering storms to the west. With a military larger and more powerful than the nearest five polities combined, the Islamic Khilāfa of Afghanistan could be well on its way to dominating the region, assuming it doesn’t collapse under the strain of its own armed forces.
Most of the Arabian Peninsula and southern Mesopotamia has been incorporated into the rapidly growing Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the most highly populated polity in the world in 2054. The Kingdom’s neighbour, the Sanctuary Republics, have steadily improved and expanded, and like its pacifistic sister-polity Vietnam, strengthened its army and air force. Off the coast of Syria, the rapid development of the Republic of Cyprus has made the island-state have by far the highest standard of living in the world.
Surrounding territories continue to be folded into the Sahel Protection Alliance, which is poised to become the main uncontested power in West Africa. The Treda Union has formed out of the Congo, and the unfortunately named client polities of the Jovian Triumvirate and the Oort Aspirant have been established along its borders. Opposite the Treda Union, the Zanzibarland Reclamation Authority has steadily expanded along the east coast while continuing to further its scientific capabilities.
Western Europe is one of the most clear examples of the changing times, with trans-polity travel and communication becoming rapidly commonplace as most territory has been reclaimed from total anarchy. Atlantica continued to reclaim the Iberian Peninsula, as well granted independence to one of its rapidly overgrown research post-turned-colony, Ibericus. Sharing a border with both Atlantica and Ibericus is the Socialist Union of Democratic Societies, which by ‘54 had recovered the entirety of pre-war France’s territory, as well north-east Iberia. Across the English Channel, the Oxford-Cambridge Directorate has likewise restored the British Isles to organised civilisation with the establishment of two technocratic satellite polities: the Edinburgh-Glasgow Directorate in Scotland, and the Administrative State of Ireland. The Federal Republic of Germany has restored its pre-war borders, with the Netherlands also joining the Republic. The border with the S.U.D.S. has been calm for the most part, though the still-in-disarray Belgium between the two polities could be source of tension. Switzerland has been united under the acquisitions of TransLuna Incorporated. While physically small compared to its neighbours, the young, rapidly developing and innovating polity is already a drawing in talent from its neighbours, and even from those further who brave the journey. The Italian Peninsula has once again reunited under the Republic of Italy, which has been steadily also improving the infrastructure of its core territory. Across the Adriatic, much of the Balkans have been folded into the Republic of Bulgaria, along with the puppet state Croatia along Bulgaria’s northern border. The Federation of Soviets of Russia put a large focus on the east, expanding into the Transural region, as well as establishing the Siberian Soviet Federation. The FSR also organised the Ukrainian Federation of Soviets on its southwestern frontier, creating a buffer between it and the growing balkan power. Surrounded by the Germans, British, and Russians, the Nordic Empire sent troops to secure Sweden and Finland, as well as a marine detachment to bring Greenland into the Empire. The Nords also supported the formation of a client state, the New Teutonic Knights, between the FRG and FSR to strengthen the fascist projection of power on mainland Europe.
Besides Nordic Greenland, the North American Arctic has been fully claimed by Norsoc in Alaska, and the United Nations of Earth in the pre-war Canadian arctic territories. Pre-war Canada has in fact been completely folded into back into the control of polities, with most of the central provinces being claimed by the UNE, while Quebec and the Atlantic provinces united into the new Black Rose polity. North America’s other two socialist polities, the Combined Syndicated States of America and the Columbian Union, came into a small degree of competition during their expansions. Sympathisers to both polities clashed in Virginia over which to join, with supporters of the CSSA eventually ousting their competitors. The two polities were quick to dispel notions of direct conflict, but the image of a united socialist ideology in the pre-war United States has been shaken. The Mexican Federation has managed to win back most of pre-war Mexico from local militias and narcos, as well as expand south into most of Central America. Meanwhile, the Caribbean Islands have for the first time been fully united. With the sea under the Holy Kingdom of Zion’s control, the Rastafarians can now turn their attention east, if they dare make the transatlantic voyage.
By securing Panama, the pacifistic Gran Colombia may have created a flash point between itself and its neighbour, the military-led Mexico. Unorganised territory is also becoming increasingly scarce between Colombia and its southern neighbour, Intendência Verditas, which has expanded significantly in the biodiversity-rich pre-war Brazilian territories. Verditas’ southern border is shared with the People's Socialist Republic of Uruguay and its satellite Brazilian Democratic Workers' State. While the South American polities have a shared history of struggle against the metanational corporations and their puppet states, they have significantly different ideological standpoints, even between the Verditas eco-socialism and Uruguay's Posadist socialism
The world’s polities were not only active in expanding on land. A number of polities took the rigorous and expensive steps to reclaim Earth’s . The Federation of South India, the People's Socialist Republic of Uruguay, the Sahel Protection Alliance, TransLuna, and the Zanzibarland Reclamation Authority were the first five polities to restart their space programs. Breaking through the cloud of debris left by the Great War and the Troubles is no simple or cheap task, and will continue to be a massive roadblock to the redevelopment of space. Two polities, a TransLuna and South India, have taken the lead in clearing away orbits of debris, an effort that will make future space development for the rest planet easier.
The state of humanity is without a doubt improving. But as survival becomes less of a motivator, other struggles rise to take mankind’s attention. Many polities are increasing in size, so to are they increasing in diversity. Originally small like-minded communities banding together, polities are now made up of tens of millions of people. And as polities grow, they come closer and closer to their neighbours. Already in many regions of the world, polities are sharing vast land borders, and the mental divide between ‘us’ and ‘them’ is being reconstructed. How people identify, whether it be by ideology, polity, ethnicity, or religion, friction within and between polities is growing by the year.
But cities are growing. The skies are clearing. Roads and rails are opening. Children grow with food on their plates, go to school, and find jobs as they grow. There is work to be done, but humanity is learning to stand once again.
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Bonuses:
The Republic of Cyprus embraces its diversity: +Cohesion
The darkness outside Bulgaria is kept at bay: +Cohesion
The Nordic Empire’s berserker heritage serves it well: +Military Readiness
The Columbian Union’s Guard pushes onwards: +Military Readiness
Panzergrenadieres keep Germany’s borders safe: +Military Readiness
The SPA’s military may be a bit dated, but they are resourceful, +Military Reserves
The EAEC rejects theology, but embraces mysticism: +Cohesion
Uruguay reinvents time, language: +Cohesion
Vietnam renounces war as a privilege of the state: +Cohesion
The Niijima-Haus Directorate is doing something in Borneo: +Wealth in Borneo
South India has a well maintain administration: +Cohesion
The Dominion of India deals with friction in the north: +Military Readiness
The Oxford-Cambridge Directorate is watching: +Cohesion
Caliph Wakil Razaq Al-Ummah is the ‘benevolent’ ruler of Afghanistan: +Military Readiness
China is no more, but the Iron Blood State stands strong: +Cohesion
TransLuna’s Hecate I’s development is well underway: +Orbit development
Opportunity is grown in Intendência Verditas: +Bio expertise
S.U.D.S. pushes for further cooperation between socialists: +Cohesion
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Stats
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This next turn, all major polities have 6 development points to spend, except for the below:
Black Rose: 11 points (none spent last turn)
Columbian Union: 7 points (Virginia point refunded)
All minor npcs have 3 development points.
Available actions are:
- Claim a province. In the event two players claim the same province, rng will decide the winner, and the loser will be refunded their point next turn. Newly annexed provinces will have randomised ideology. Claiming a distant overseas province requires 2 points. There's a handy little line on the map in Antarctica that shows what is considered 'distant'. 'Blitz' claims are okay, but any encircling, wall building, snake chains or any other silliness will be dealt with.
- Improve a province. This will improve the wealth of a province by 5. (note: value may change as balance is fine tuned)
- Change Political Freedom/Centralisation. May change freedom/centralisation to any degree.
- Improve/Change Tech Expertise: provides 2.5 tech points, which can be placed into expertise. Can be placed in amounts as low as 0.5.
- Improve Cohesion by 5%. All polities begin at 50%.
- Improve military. Raises military readiness by 5, military reserves by 5, and 5 EP worth of military units (Army Div=1, Air Wing=2, Navy Group=5).
- Convert province ideology. Change the ideology of one province within your polity to your preferred ideology.
- Space program. Opens up an orbit ‘province’ for your polity with a small amount of wealth. This represents satellites.
- Improve space. Improve the orbit ‘province.’ NOTE: at game start, orbital development is greatly restricted by space debris. Represents expanded satellite programs.
- Remove space debris. Removes 5 ‘debris’ from orbit.
- 2 points, create npc in a nieghbouring province. You may create an npc using the regular signup sheet. Next turn the npc will handle its own development, but will be friendly with your polity and share your ideology. In the following turns, the npc will receive 3 points to spend each turn. Creating an npc in a distant overseas province requires 4 points.
Once again, please send orders via private message (conversation, whatever). Orders posted in thread will not be processed.
Got orders in for everyone last turn, great job. Let’s keep things fast paced here, so I’m setting orders due at the same time again. Friday the 16th at around 19:00 JST. I’ll give another heads up a day or so before orders lock.
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