Afterfall: Post-Apocalyptic Roleplay [OOC, Sign-Up, Open]

[Volnotova]

Afterfall

IC Thread

It has been 40 years since The Fall, the four way strategic nuclear war that broke out between the Reich, the United States, the Imperial Federation and the Republic of China in the early 80s.
Billions of lifes were lost and countless of treasures incinerated forever.
The cause for the greatest loss of life in human history remains shrouded in mystery. All we know is that on the 4th of december 1984, the light of civilization was temporarily extinguished. Only to be slowly rekindled as the decades passed.

Now, after 40 years humanity has somewhat managed to recover. Slowly emerging again from the immolated, irradiated, chemically contaminated and infected wastelands that now envelope the Earth.
New powers have risen from the ashes of their predecessors, all eagerly claiming their share of this now blackened world and violently asserting their supremacy.
Only time will tell if they will end up making the same mistakes as their ancestors or instead chose to undo the scars of this battered world...

This is a country based RP.

While it focusses on RPing there are some initial rules.

When making an application you have 50 points (excluding starting bonusses) that are divided into 5 categories (Population, Civilian Industry, Healthcare, Military Manpower and Military Technology).

The point system is to prevent godmodding and to create a more interesting world. What each category does is explained further bellow:


Population = Points * (2,500k-25k*Total Points)

Civilian Industry = Points * (1000-Population Points*10) (GDP/PPP per capita)

Healthcare = Points * 0.1% (Pop growth every day, since nation creation date)

Military Manpower = Each point equals 0.25% of your population being turned into military personel.

Military Technology = Each point equals 2.5 years of military progress from 1980 upwards with a max of 20 (Compared to our own world).
(i.e. 20 points would include partially autonomous UAVs/Drones, exoskeletons, stealth technology, supersonic and orbital aircraft, railguns, directed energy weapons, AI controlled sentries, etc.)

Country Name:
Form of Government:
Ideology (If applicable):
Leader (If applicable):
Your countries territorial claim (Look below for starting location bonusses, one bonus max):
Short History of the nation:

(Max 50 points)

Civilian Industry Points:
Healthcare Points:
Population Points:
Military Manpower Points:
Military Technology Points:

You also recieve 1 free point to spend every week. (Counting from the start date of the RP, thus if you are a new player you recieve additional points as well)

World Map on 4 Dec, 1984

Starting in former US territory and its sphere of influence grants a +4 bonus to Military Technology.

Before the Fall the United States was arguably the most technologically and scientifically advanced society on the planet, hosting many of the worlds most brilliant minds who brought forth countless discoveries and inventions to the benefit of its people.
While much of its research was focused on civilian needs, it's military & industrial R&D complex was rivaled by the none. Surpassing all others in both scale and scope and producing a wide range of incredibly sophisticated military technologies that were envied by many.
While it did not save them from the horrors of nuclear war, it did leave valuable artifacts littered across North and South America - artifacts and machinery that survivors were able to use for their own ends in the new hostile environment created by the nuclear exchange.

Using reverse engineering to retrieve valuable knowledge from these devices all countries that start off in the former United states or it's Sphere of Influence recieve an additional (+4) points in Military Technology.

Starting in former Nazi territory and its sphere of influence grants a +4 bonus to Civilian Industry.

What was once known as Nazi Germany formed the mightiest empire Europe had ever seen.
A ruthless totalitarian state, founded on the principle of unquestionable obedience to the Party and it's - de jure - eternal Führer. It was the epitome of brutal subjugation combined with fanatical militarism.
It's zealous pursuit of "cleansing" Europe of its "decadent Atlantic and Asiatic influences" and "Judeo-Negroid poison" left tenths of millions of deaths in its wake.
From the Ural mountains and Caspian sea in the east to the atlantic beaches of Portugal and Norway in the west, the Nazi empire dominated the continental Europe. Ruling it with an iron fist.
Yet even after 'unifying' (or rather, subjugating) the continent, it's thirst for blood and conquest was remained unclenched.
One of it's most memorable aspects was arguably it's being in a state of permanent total war.
Every year hundreds of thousands of conscripts would be send to it's eastern border to fight the "Asiatic hordes" encroaching from Central Asia and Siberia. Combat was ferocious and merciless.
While it failed to push beyond the Ural mountains and into the Siberian heartland, it nevertheless remained fixated on war and it's pursuit.
Acting on the apocalyptic warnings of the imminent 'final' nuclear war, it's elites facilitated the construction of gargantuan underground complexes - dedicated to the production of war material and the survival of the herrenvolk in face of the imminent "nuclear immolation".
All across the continent mighty citadels were hewn from its mountains.
While the Nazis had firmly believed themselves emerge from the war victorious, history would prove them wrong.
Once the famines and plagues got the better of them the facilities they had so eagerly constructed simply became abandoned.
Yet, while some may be showing some wear, many remain in absolutely pristine conditions.

Reclaiming these subterranean fortresses grants additional industrial capacity. All countries that start off in the former Nazi Empire or it's Sphere of Influence recieve an additional (+4) points in Civilian Industry.

Starting in former Chinese territory and its sphere of influence grants a +4 bonus to Population.

Before the conflict the Republic and its close allies were without doubt population bombs.
The Yangtze river delta alone - and that is just one example out of many - formed an uninterrupted patchwork of metropolises and industrial centres, with each city on it self having the population of a medium sized country.
While much of it has been reduced to rubble during the exchange, a sizeable population nevertheless survived.

Using these "human resources", all countries that start off in the former Chinese Republic or it's Sphere of Influence recieve an additional +4 points in Population.

Starting in former Imperial territory and its sphere of influence grants a +4 bonus to Healthcare.

The Imperial Federation, colloquially called the "British Empire" was without question the largest empire the world had ever seen.
Controlling, directly or indirectly, most of Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Australasia and parts of the Americas its span was unmatched by all others.
While much one of its many crowning achievements still inspire awe in the post-war generations, one of it's particularly outstanding ones was its bio-warfare program.
Having weaponized countless deadly pathogens, including, but not limited to, anthrax, the dengue virus, smallpox and the bubonic plague. It's rulers wanted to make sure that even if there was still anyone left after they would emerge from their bunkers, they at least would not be able to pose a threat and would simply be finished off as time passed, succumbing to the deadly microbes infesting their now obliterated cities.
The British plagues have wrecked havoc across the world, leaving large swaths of land uninhabitable for centuries and continuing to kill millions of people each year.
Yet the result of its extensive biowarfare program were other equally well-known advances. Mainly its outstanding breakthroughs in the fields of vaccinations, genetics and bio-engineering.
While it's mighty metropole might have been incinerated together with the rest of the empire, the valuable knowledge it had accumulated over time nevertheless continues to live on with its survivors.

Using this priceless knowledge all countries that start off in the former Imperial Federation or it's Sphere of Influence recieve an additional +4 points in Healthcare.

Current Countries:

The Nordic State
The Manhattan Confederation
Third French Empire
The New Conglomerate
The Frigid Empire
New Pictish Empire
Imperium di Roma

MAPS:

North America:
(Image)

Europe:
(Image)

(Will make a map of 2024 soon)

[Volnotova]

Country Name: The Nordic State
Form of Government: Totalitarian One-Party State
Ideology (If applicable): Neo-Nazism
Leader (If applicable): Valhärd Alquist
Your countries territorial claim (Look below for starting location bonusses, one bonus max): Götaland, eastern Sweden and southern Finland.

Civilian Industry Points: 26+4 ($21,000 GDP/PPP per capita)
Healthcare Points: 5 (0.5%)
Population Points: 9 (40,950,000)
Military Manpower Points: 2 (0.5% manpower)
Military Technology Points: 8 (2000s tech)

[Volnotova]

Bump

[Volnotova]

Bumpity bump bump.

[Saragrossa]

tag for interest.

[Kentsland]

I'm interested. I'll get an App up later. Can you reserve NYC, New Jersey, Connecticut, and southern NYC for me?

[Volnotova]

I'm interested. I'll get an App up later. Can you reserve NYC, New Jersey, Connecticut, and southern NYC for me?

Done.

[Kentsland]

Sorry for the wait, but alas, my application!

Country Name
The Manhattan Confederation

Form of Government
'Direct Democracy' although only the privelaged may vote

Ideology
-

Leader
Jordan Haller

Your countries territorial claim
New York City, Rhode Island, the Hudson Valley, Connecticut, Rhode, northern New Jersey.Map here

Short History of the nation
Following the Fall in 1984, groups of likeminded NYC wealthymen (led by Orlando Gorsaki) usurped NYC mayor Lance Kingston who attempted to restore order. The majority of the remaining National Guard troops and the remaining population was split between Gorsaki and Kingston. With the assasination of Gorsaki in the summer of '85, Kingston managed to seize the city. An aristocracy of the wealthy richmen formed and established Manhattan as the seat of their power. The Manhattan Confederation was then officially founded in the winter of '85. The aristocracy, which remains today, is supported by poor civilians who majorly work in farms, factories, and the military. Manhattan, vastly rebuilt since the war, remaines the seat of government and the wealthiest location. The rest of the NYC metropolitan area is made up of small townships in the dangerous and deserted streets, protected by the Manhattan Guard. The majority of people here work in factories. The Jersey meadowlands, Hudson Valley, Connecticut, and Rhode Island is mostly farmland.

(Max 50 points)

Civilian Industry Points: 12
Healthcare Points: 8
Population Points: 11
Military Manpower Points: 9
Military Technology Points: 10 [+4]

[Jabawoky]

Okay so help me understand a little bit.
I've been on nationstates for a while, but never RP'd... ever. So I really have no clue what I'm doing. Do I use a current nation or build a new one? How many territories can I claim? I'm kind of at a loss and the rules aren't really... they're not a specific as i thought they would be.
Help a brutha out.

[Kentsland]

Okay so help me understand a little bit.
I've been on nationstates for a while, but never RP'd... ever. So I really have no clue what I'm doing. Do I use a current nation or build a new one? How many territories can I claim? I'm kind of at a loss and the rules aren't really... they're not a specific as i thought they would be.
Help a brutha out.

Both, depending on the forum you are in. Here, in Portal to the Multiverse, you create a nation/character to play as for the RP [Like here I'm playing as The Manhattan Confederation, while elsewhere I may play as a wild west cowboy, a 10,000 BC tribe, or a 2014 Germany]. In International Incidents, Factbooks & Info, Sports, Global Ec, and NS you roleplay everything as the nation you created for the game, stuff from showing others the tanks you use to RPing a royal wedding to buying equipment for an upcoming war. [Like i'd be acting as Kentsland here, you as Jabawoky]

Does that make sense? If there's any Qs just ask. There are some threads at the beginning of each forum that may also help you learn how to play

[Rygondria]

can i make a new roman empire.

[Volnotova]

can i make a new roman empire.

You'll have to fill in the form.

I'll make an IC thread later today.

[Greater Bosna (Ancient)]

Can i reserve Bosnia?

[Silver Firenze]

Country Name: Third French Empire
Form of Government: Constitutional Monarchy
Ideology (If applicable): Bonapartism
Leader (If applicable): Napoleon IV Bonaparte
Your countries territorial claim: French Colonies in Northwestern Africa ( Imperial Federation )

Short History of the nation: After german victory in WW2, lot of frenchmen started to worry about the future of Europe. German Reich dominated all of Europe and there were little hopes for independence. National Socialism was very uncomfortable for the upper classes. Vichy Regime, german puppet, ruled with an iron hand. Many french decided to escape to Africa, to former french colonies, where they could live under british protection. Few millions of frenchmen managed to emmigrate there. That included House Bonaparte. However, after loss of the war nationalism and monarchism was spreading like a wildfire. French nation was dissapointed with republic. After the apocalypse, house Bonaparte was waiting in the shelters and it grew strong. When the surface became habitable, Napoleon IV started to unite former colonies and proclaimed the Third French Empire.

(Max 50 points)

Civilian Industry Points: 25
Healthcare Points: 6+4
Population Points: 8
Military Manpower Points: 4
Military Technology Points: 7

[Conglomerate of Iron]

Before I submit APP, just wanted to say, great idea.

Name: The New Conglomerate
Government: N/A
Ideology: Anarcho-Capitalism
Leader: Dagny Taggart, the richest woman in the "country" and industrial genius.
Claims: Pennsylvania, states around it.
History: As the US government steadily became more controlling leading up to the nuclear war, many citizens became infuriated with the controls it put upon their lives and the taxes levied upon them. Dagny Taggart would form the National Anarchist Party with her immense wealth and use it to gain a majority in Pennsylvania. She foresaw the war, and built bunkers to protect as much of thepopulation as possible. AS the people emerged from their bunkers, they found a world in need of industry and capitalism. Private courts and community rules are the primary laws, with absolute freedom of movement, choice, property, etc. all guaranteed. Property is agreed upon contractually, and is accepted by the community. Their is no military in the normal sense of the word, but their are militias of private citizens ready to fight for liberty from the oppressive state.

Civilian Industry: 15
Healthcare: 8
Population: 12
Military Manpower: 5
Military Tech: 10+4

[DEC-LAND]

Country Name: The Frigid Empire
Form of Government: Dictatorial police state
Ideology (If applicable): Pure Laissez Faire, free market.
Leader (If applicable): Ibrahim Ali Sahrnahev, Commander in Chief
Your countries territorial claim: Alaska and northeastern Russia (Bonus for USA)
Short History of the nation: A small group of friends in the light of what was going on in the late 70s came together and made a bunker in Alaska, when they came out, everything was gone. They took over and instituted a government strictly controlled by the military.

(Max 50 points)

Civilian Industry Points:10
Healthcare Points:5(+1 pop. every 2 days)
Population Points: 9 (40,950,000)
Military Manpower Points:9(921,375)
Military Technology Points:16+4 (total:20) post-modern tech.

[Rygondria]

Country Name: Imperium di Roma
Form Of Government: Empire
Ideology: Imperialism
Leader: Romulus Agustus
Your countries territorial claim: Italy greece and egypt
Short History of nation: The empire emgerged from the ruins of rome. A tribe of tuscans resettled rome and started to conqueror the other tribes of italy while trying to make the radioactive wasteland farmable again. Eventually the tribes of southern italy reading books from the era before the nuclear war learned about a great empire of romans that spanned western europe even before the reich. They decided they wanted to be the new version of this empire and the tribes of soutern italy began to invade nothern italain tribes eventually defeating the last tribe in what was venice. These tribes where then united into one empire. The newly united tribes then fought off the swiss tribes and then empire turned thier attention to greece, They gained greece not by conquest but by diplomacy inheiriting it from the greeks last king. They then invaded egypt to help protect the new gained greece from egyptian invasion. Today the empire is looking for new lands to add to the empire and to make rome once again the envy of the world.
Civilan Industry points:5
Healthcare points: 10
Population points 10
Military man power points: 5
Military tech Points:10

[DEC-LAND]

when will the IC thread go up?

[Volnotova]

when will the IC thread go up?

In an hour or so. Gotta finish something first.

And a lot of people all of the sudden. (I really believed this RP was going to die in the cradle )

[Conglomerate of Iron]

when will the IC thread go up?

In an hour or so. Gotta finish something first.

And a lot of people all of the sudden. (I really believed this RP was going to die in the cradle )

Are we all accepted? Lol.

[Firstaria]

I'm gonna tag because I want to see what your max claim would be. I don't feel like entering a post apoc RP with people wanting to play already an empire, it's boring.

[Volnotova]

In an hour or so. Gotta finish something first.

And a lot of people all of the sudden. (I really believed this RP was going to die in the cradle )

Are we all accepted? Lol.

Well, most. Also, some you forgot to account for territorial starting bonusses when points.

Country Name: Imperium di Roma
Form Of Government: Empire
Ideology: Imperialism
Leader: Romulus Agustus
Your countries territorial claim: Italy greece and egypt
Short History of nation: The empire emgerged from the ruins of rome. A tribe of tuscans resettled rome and started to conqueror the other tribes of italy while trying to make the radioactive wasteland farmable again. Eventually the tribes of southern italy reading books from the era before the nuclear war learned about a great empire of romans that spanned western europe even before the reich. They decided they wanted to be the new version of this empire and the tribes of soutern italy began to invade nothern italain tribes eventually defeating the last tribe in what was venice. These tribes where then united into one empire. The newly united tribes then fought off the swiss tribes and then empire turned thier attention to greece, They gained greece not by conquest but by diplomacy inheiriting it from the greeks last king. They then invaded egypt to help protect the new gained greece from egyptian invasion. Today the empire is looking for new lands to add to the empire and to make rome once again the envy of the world.
Civilan Industry points:5
Healthcare points: 10
Population points 10
Military man power points: 5
Military tech Points:10

Italy, Greece AND Egypt seems like a bit too much to me. Would Italy alone be okay for now? (Or just a part of Italy and a part of Greece). Seems like a bit early for transcontinental empires after civilization it self was obliterated less than 40 years ago.

Okay so help me understand a little bit.
I've been on nationstates for a while, but never RP'd... ever. So I really have no clue what I'm doing. Do I use a current nation or build a new one? How many territories can I claim? I'm kind of at a loss and the rules aren't really... they're not a specific as i thought they would be.
Help a brutha out.

You basically make a new "nation"/application for this RP. You also spend (50, excluding starting bonusses) points on starting 'attributes' and you recieve 4 additional points depending on what location you start off in.

As for claims. I am not someone that is really stern when it comes to this. I don't mind larger-than-expected territories per se. But huge transcontinental empires and the like seem to be pushing it.
I also take into account the territory it self that people claim (see the Third French Empire application earlier), I am more willing to accept 'large' territorial claims if those territories formed functioning countries/subnational entities before the nuclear war or if they are defined by geological major features (mountain ranges, major rivers, steppes, etc.).

[Rygondria]

Are we all accepted? Lol.

Well, most. Also, some you forgot to account for territorial starting bonusses when points.

Country Name: Imperium di Roma
Form Of Government: Empire
Ideology: Imperialism
Leader: Romulus Agustus
Your countries territorial claim: Italy greece and egypt
Short History of nation: The empire emgerged from the ruins of rome. A tribe of tuscans resettled rome and started to conqueror the other tribes of italy while trying to make the radioactive wasteland farmable again. Eventually the tribes of southern italy reading books from the era before the nuclear war learned about a great empire of romans that spanned western europe even before the reich. They decided they wanted to be the new version of this empire and the tribes of soutern italy began to invade nothern italain tribes eventually defeating the last tribe in what was venice. These tribes where then united into one empire. The newly united tribes then fought off the swiss tribes and then empire turned thier attention to greece, They gained greece not by conquest but by diplomacy inheiriting it from the greeks last king. They then invaded egypt to help protect the new gained greece from egyptian invasion. Today the empire is looking for new lands to add to the empire and to make rome once again the envy of the world.
Civilan Industry points:5
Healthcare points: 10
Population points 10
Military man power points: 5
Military tech Points:10

Italy, Greece AND Egypt seems like a bit too much to me. Would Italy alone be okay for now? (Or just a part of Italy and a part of Greece). Seems like a bit early for transcontinental empires after civilization it self was obliterated less than 40 years ago.

Okay so help me understand a little bit.
I've been on nationstates for a while, but never RP'd... ever. So I really have no clue what I'm doing. Do I use a current nation or build a new one? How many territories can I claim? I'm kind of at a loss and the rules aren't really... they're not a specific as i thought they would be.
Help a brutha out.

You basically make a new "nation"/application for this RP. You also spend (50, excluding starting bonusses) points on starting 'attributes' and you recieve 4 additional points depending on what location you start off in.

As for claims. I am not someone that is really stern when it comes to this. I don't mind larger-than-expected territories per se. But huge transcontinental empires and the like seem to be pushing it.
I also take into account the territory it self that people claim (see the Third French Empire application earlier), I am more willing to accept 'large' territorial claims if those territories formed functioning countries/subnational entities before the nuclear war or if they are defined by geological major features (mountain ranges, major rivers, steppes, etc.).

Italy would be fine.

[Volnotova]

And the IC thread is up.

[DEC-LAND]

if your app. was not specifically rejected, is it accepted?