1884 - The Age that never was [AH-RP: OOC]

[Garwall]

Wait, Mish is in this RP? Oh god, I just blatantly plagiarized his idea of an Anglo-Scandinavian union.

*Her. Her idea. To the best of my knowledge Mish is a she.

Reservation

Name of the State: Anglo-Scandinavian Union
Area to be reserved: Great Britain, northern Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Canada, Normandy, Gold Coast, Gambia, Bahamas, Bermuda
Code: reserv6

FYI parts of Canada are taken.
Also, I'm very curious of your choice of Northern Ireland, but not the rest, Normandy, and no India.

I noticed. Might expand my claims to include some more colonies, just using that as a base point to start with.

[The Jonathanian States]

*Her. Her idea. To the best of my knowledge Mish is a she.

FYI parts of Canada are taken.
Also, I'm very curious of your choice of Northern Ireland, but not the rest, Normandy, and no India.

I noticed. Might expand my claims to include some more colonies, just using that as a base point to start with.

You probably should include at least parts of India, though, since it was of massive significance for OTL's Britain.

[The Kingdom of Glitter]

Application

Of State and Government
Official name of state: Kingdom of Columbia
Short name of state: Columbia
Native name of state: Same as above
Flag, Seal, Coat of Arms, Other symbols:
-Flag
-Coat of Arms
-National Anthem - Battle Hymn of Columbia
Form of Government: Federal Parliament under a Constitutional Monarchy
Description of Government: Three branches of government: executive (monarch and PM's gov), legislature (parliament), and judicial (courts). Parliament has two houses: Chamber of Representatives and the Senate. Country is organized into 10 shires.
Government Ideology: Capitalism, Democracy(ism), Liberal Conservatism/Classic Liberalism

We the People
Population: 12,007,229
Extended population: N/A
Primary/National Culture: Yankee
Other accepted and/or integrated cultures: English, Scottish, Irish, French
Other cultures: German, Italian, Native American
The Economy
Major Exports: Industrial nonsense, robber barons, fish probably
Major Imports: Foodstuffs, coal, steel
General Description: The Columbian economy is a regional powerhouse. Under the free market system it has thrived, undergoing rapid industrialization. Over time as companies continued to purchase one another, a group known infamously as the "robber barons" have been able to slowly monopolize under their shared control. These titans of industry did not restrict themselves to Columbia's borders and often invested in the growing economy of the Blessed States of America. Currently Pan-Columbian business is quite intertwined as the two nations are slowly discovery their economies can easily be held at gunpoint by a select few men.

Army, Navy, and Others
Branches: Royal Columbian Army (RCA) and the Royal Columbian Navy (RCN)
Troops:
-Active: 45,000
-Reserves: 50,000
-Shire Guards: 35,000
Ships:
--4 Ironclad Battleships
--15 Ironclad Cruisers
--8 Ironclad Monitors
--18Frigates
--10 Man o' Wars
--25 Sloops
--20 Torpedo Boats
--1 Submarine

History
During the Atlantic Revolution the shires known as Novascotiashire, Ottawashire, and Huronshire rebelled against colonial rule and sided with the rebelling colonies. After the Atlantic Revolution (1776-1781) ended and the failure of the Second Continental Congress to agree on the proposed Articles of Confederation, the northeastern states abandoned attempts to unify with the mid-Atlantic and southern states. A meeting of the northeastern delegates resulted in the establishment of the Kingdom of Columbia at the Boston Conference of 1781. The nation's crown was offered to Henry Benedict Stuart - the Jacobite pretender living in Rome. He accepted the offer and moved to Boston with his family, taking up residence in the Palace of Boston. The country slowly established itself and its shires adopted regional assemblies.

The Kingdom sat by and watched the world war over the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon. Under Prime Minister John Adams the nation's views of France took a turn for the worse until the fall of the Adams Government in 1800 and the victory of the Columbian Democrats under the new Prime Minister George Clinton. The nation's views on France shifted from hostile to neutral and the Alien and Sedition Acts as well as the other unconstitutional laws passed by the Adams government were repealed. Columbia became a hotspot for industrialization and railways quickly sprawled across the nation early on during the First Wave of the Industrial Revolution. Factories likewise popped up around New York City, Boston, and other major population centers. Immigration slowly began to trickle in and has only continued to grow the nation. Titans of industry slowly began to centralize the Columbian economy under monopolies, and have recently begun expanding their portfolios outside of Columbia.

Other Info:
-Monarch: Alexander I of Columbia
-Prime Minister: Chester A. Arthur
-Secretary of State: Edward J. Phelps
-Secretary of War: Redfield Proctor
-Secretary of the Treasury: Charles J. Folger
-Secretary of the Navy: William E. Chandler

Code: App6

[Elepis]

Reservation

Name of the State: Union of the Iberian Republics
Area to be reserved: Spain, Portugal, Philippines, Taiwan, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, Cabinda, Mozambique, East Timor, Macau, Tangier, Hispaniola
Code: reserv6

[Kosovo12345]

Reservation

Name of the State: Celtic Union
Area to be reserved: England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and a few colonies in Africa and Asia
Code: reserv6

[The Kingdom of Glitter]

Reservation

Name of the State: Union of the Iberian Republics
Area to be reserved: Spain, Portugal, Philippines, Taiwan, northern Morocco, Cuba, Puerto Rico
Code: reserv6

Cuba and PR are part of Mexico, the rest is fine.

[Elepis]

Reservation

Name of the State: Union of the Iberian Republics
Area to be reserved: Spain, Portugal, Philippines, Taiwan, northern Morocco, Cuba, Puerto Rico
Code: reserv6

Cuba and PR are part of Mexico, the rest is fine.

Okay, will change

[The Jonathanian States]

-Snip snap, the Glittmaster's app-

I do not see any issue with this.
Let it henceforth be ACCEPTED.

[Das Germane imperie]

Reservation

Name of the State: Greater Wallachia
Area to be reserved:

Code: reserv6

[Garwall]

Reservation

Name of the State: Celtic Union
Area to be reserved: England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and a few colonies in Africa and Asia
Code: reserv6

Already reserved that, mate.

[The Jonathanian States]

Reservation

Name of the State: Greater Wallachia
Area to be reserved:

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Code: reserv6

Byzantium includes nearly all of Wallachia proper....

Reservation

Name of the State: Celtic Union
Area to be reserved: England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and a few colonies in Africa and Asia
Code: reserv6

Already reserved that, mate.

Yes.

[Kosovo12345]

no england i cri
can i be a rebel group

[The Jonathanian States]

Reservation

Name of the State: Union of the Iberian Republics
Area to be reserved: Spain, Portugal, Philippines, Taiwan, northern Morocco, Borneo and Java
Code: reserv6

Mhm.

no england i cri
can i be a rebel group

Maybe. I'll have to make an app for that, and you'd have to fit your history to that of the country/countries you are in.

[Das Germane imperie]

Unless the Byzantine player is willing to let me have Wallachia, I will go as Transylvania if possible?

[Garwall]

Unless the Byzantine player is willing to let me have Wallachia, I will go as Transylvania if possible?

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Why play such a minor state? There are plenty of other large players that we need, such as a France, China, etc.

[Elepis]

Application

Of State and Government
Official name of state: Union of the Iberian Republics
Short name of state: Iberia
Native name of state: unión de las repúblicas ibéricas
Flag, Seal, Coat of Arms, Other symbols:
Flag
Seal
Coat of Arms
Anthem
Form of Government:Federal Parliamentary Republic
Description of Government:
Government Ideology: Imperialism, federalism, democratic socialism
We the People
Population: 20,560,660
Extended population: 14,500,000
Primary/National Culture: Castilian
Other accepted and/or integrated cultures: Portuguese, Catalan, Basque, Moor
Other cultures: Berber, Chinese, Filipino, Timorese, Latin Americans, Black Africans

The Economy
Major Exports: Iron, Coal, Rubber, Lumber, Oil, Wheat
Major Imports: Refined goods, machinery, luxury goods,
General Description:
The economy of Iberia itself can be split in to two distinct sections. Catalonia, Aragon, the Basque Country, Portugal and Asturias are all heavily industrialized, churning out coal and iron from the mines in Asturias and the Basque Country which is either exported and sent south to the factories of Catalonia and Aragon to be made in the products such as ships and steam trains. Employment is high in these areas and despite their smaller populations, there are a number of large towns and cities such as Barcelona and Guernica, all thriving off the back of mining and industry. Portugal is home to the nations largest port, Lisbon, and is also home to a small industrial economy, at least in the north.

The south, including Castiles, Andalusia and Extermadura is the opposite. Outside the regions few cities (such as Madrid and Seville) there is very little industrialization or urbanization. These lands are given over too farming and almost nothing else. The Federal Government based in Madrid has tried many times to reform the economy of these areas but because of the lack of natural resources its has yielded little progress. Most people in these areas live in villages and towns, with very few cities.

The most developed of Iberia's colonies are the Philippines. The Philippines are home to a number of large towns and cities as well as Iberia's premier pacific port. The colony of Taiwan is also experiencing an industrial boom at the present as well. Despite this however, most of Iberia's empire is not urbanized and the economies of most of the colonies are agricultural.


Army, Navy, and Others
Branches:
Federal Army-ejército federal (based in Iberia)
Federal Navy-marina federal (based in Iberia)
Assault Guards- guardias de asalto (based in Iberia)
Colonial Army-ejército colonial (based in the colonies)
Colonial Navy-marina colonial (based in the colonies)
Troops:
Army-157,000 active
Assault Guards-50,000 active

Ships:
- 6 battleship
-- 19 protected cruisers
-- 13 gunboats
-- 6 armoured cruisers
--6 frigates (steam)
-- 10 submarines
-- 24 torpedo boats


History

The Battle of Ksar El Kebir in 1578 saw both the death of the young king Sebastian and the end of the House of Aviz. Sebastian's successor, the Cardinal Henry of Portugal, was 70 years old at the time. Henry's death was followed by a succession crisis, with three grandchildren of Manuel I claiming the throne: Infanta Catarina, Duchess of Braganza (married to John, 6th Duke of Braganza), António, Prior of Crato, and Philip II of Spain. António had been acclaimed King of Portugal by the people of Santarém on July 24, 1580, and then in many cities and towns throughout the country. Some members of the Council of Governors of Portugal who had supported Philip escaped to Spain and declared him to be the legal successor of Henry. Philip II of Spain marched into Portugal and defeated the troops loyal to the Prior of Crato in the Battle of Alcântara. The troops occupying the countryside (Tercios) commanded by the 3rd Duke of Alba arrived in Lisbon. The Duke of Alba imposed on the Portuguese provinces a subjection of Philip before entering Lisbon, where he seized an immense treasure; meanwhile, he allowed his soldiers to sack the vicinity of the capital. Philip II of Spain was crowned Philip I of Portugal in 1581 (recognized as king by the Cortes of Tomar) and the Philippine Dynasty began. When Philip left in 1583 to Madrid, he made his nephew Albert of Austria his viceroy in Lisbon. In Madrid he established a Council of Portugal to advise him on Portuguese affairs.

Portugal's status was maintained under the first two kings of the Iberian Union, Philip I and his son Philip II of Portugal and III of Spain. Both monarchs gave excellent positions to Portuguese nobles in the Spanish courts, and Portugal maintained an independent law, currency, and government. It was even proposed to move the Royal capital to Lisbon.

When Philip II of Portugal (Philip III of Spain) died, he was succeeded by Philip III (and IV of Spain) who had a different approach on Portuguese issues. Taxes raised affected mainly the Portuguese merchants (Carmo Reis 1987). The Portuguese nobility began to lose its importance at the Spanish Cortes, and government posts in Portugal were occupied by Spaniards. Ultimately, Philip III tried to make Portugal a royal province, and Portuguese nobles lost all of their power.

This situation culminated in a revolution by the nobility and high bourgeoisie on December 1, 1640, 60 years after the crowning of Philip I. The plot was planned by Antão Vaz de Almada, Miguel de Almeida and João Pinto Ribeiro. They, together with several associates, known as the Forty Conspirators, took advantage of the fact that the Castilian troops were occupied in the Thirty years War. The rebels killed Secretary of State Miguel de Vasconcelos and imprisoned the king's cousin, the Duchess of Mantua, who had governed Portugal in his name.

However, the new Portuguese regime did not enjoy the support of all the country and a civil war erupted in the Kingdom. Philip recalled his troops from Europe, ending Spanish involvement in the Thirty Years War. The veteran Spanish soldiers marched south form Galicia in to northern Portugal where the majority of loyalist forces were based. The combined armies marched south and were met by rebel forces just north of Lisbon.

The Battle of Lisbon was a long and drawn out affair and at some points it looked like the rebels were going to arise victorious. However, just as Braganza himself lead what he thought would be the winning infantry attack against the weakened Spanish center, reinforcing loyalist cavalry who had march through the day to reach the battle launched a devastating charge against the rebel rear, destroying large parts of Braganza's artillery. The reinforcements boosted the moral of the main loyalist force and beat back Braganza's attack, which, until the point had been succeeding. The rebel forces, caught between and hammer and anvil broke and ran. Braganza and his generals attempted to rally the rebels who were fleeing to Lisbon but he was killed by Spanish heavy cavalry before he could do so.

The Royal Army took Lisbon without a fight, capturing the rebel leaders and their families as they tried to escape to the New World. The majority of the army was demobilized while a force of mostly cavalry and light infantry searched the countryside of southern Portugal for remaining rebels, with a guerrilla war waged in the southerly Algarve region for the next decade.

King Philip reversed his centralizing policy (all be it reluctantly), returning Portugal to its status as co-kingdom with Spain. However, in the decades between the Baganza Revolution and the year 1791 the Hapsburgs slowly but surely centralized Iberia. Not just binding Portugal to Spain, but also slowly eroding the autonomy of Aragon, Navarre and the other states thus making "Iberia" indistinguishable from "Castile".

In 1789 Iberia was at boiling point. The monarchy was corrupt, it had ignored the wishes of the people, had saddled Iberia with needles debt and had sent Iberian men to die in pointless wars. The people of Iberia were angry but the nobility, the church and the King did not listen. Only one more thing was needed for Iberia to launch itself in to revolution, and that event happened in the year 1789, oddly, in a different country.

The French revolution inspired the people of Iberia, from Porto to Madrid and Barcelona the poor were angry and wanted change. The French Revolution led to the founding of a number of dissident, republican secret societies, the most powerful being the left wing Peasants and Workers Union, or CTU. Over the course of two years, the CTU organized itself, sending agitators all over Iberia to stir up support and by 1791 they were ready. The CTU had infiltrated the lower echelons of the army and on a warm night in June the men of the Madrid garrison mutinied against their officers, arresting them. As the garrison mutinied, CTU supporters marched on to the streets were they met with the garrison forces in the Plaza Mayor. The garrison had taken hundred of muskets, pistols, swords and even some cannon from the Magazine next to their own building and used these to arm some of the civilians.

This force, led by the disciplined garrison but made up mainly of unorganized proletariat marched on the Royal Palace of Madrid. The Royal Guard had got news of the revolt and had formed up in the square in front of the Palace. At first the guard resisted but they were overwhelmed by superior numbers. The revolutionaries stormed the palace, arresting a number of ministers and generals. However the Royal Family had escaped, they were however apprehended on the river Manzanares trying to flee in a punt.

That same night, revolts had taken place in all the major cities across Iberia, bringing the country more or less under revolutionary control. Luckily for the new Union of Iberian Republics, all the colonies but Brazil declared support for the Republic as they had experienced similar oppression by the Royal government. Revolutionary France also sent a small contingent of troops to help put down the last monarchists. In return, once Iberia was stable in late 1792, the Union sent its own troops to aid France against its many enemies.

At home the new government, made up of a coalition of the ten largest republican societies, lead by the CTU began instituting reform. It declared Castile, Catalonia, the Basque Country, Portugal, the Algarve, Galicia and Andalusia separate "Republics" within the Union with control over their own Judiciary and local Legislature. It also barred the Catholic church from political affairs, abolished all noble titles and broke of aristocratic estates among the peasants.

The Royal Family were put on trial in Madrid for "Treason Against the People". The radical Unión Catalana wanted the entire family shot while the moderate Pueblo de Castilla wanted punishment to be exile to Brazil. After a lengthy trial, the King, the twenty year old Crown Prince and the King's brother were sentenced to death by hanging (which was carried out in public, the men being hanged slowly from a bridge over the Manzanares, their feet either just touching or in the river water) while the remaining family were exiled to the Azores.

However, two great betrayals were to hit the Union in the year 1804. Firstly, the Hapsburgs exiled on the Azores were able to bribe the captain of a warship and were spirited off in the night to Brazil and secondly, the French general, Napoleon declared himself Emperor. The government of Iberia saw this as a great betray of republicanism, the French and Iberia, especially as Iberian soldiers had died to help France, even fighting with Napoleon himself in Egypt. Iberia broke off diplomatic relations and called back its troops from France. Napoleon, sensing that Iberia would join the coalition against him, invaded in 1807.

The French forces broke the Iberian Federal Army in two battles, one on the Ebro and another outside Madrid. The French occupied Spain and pushed deep in to what was Portugal before allied British forces arrived and held Lisbon against French attack. As Napoleon turned his attention east, a sideshow of what was to become the Napoleonic wars took place in Iberia, with British, Federal and Guerrilla forces slow pushing back French occupying forces.

After Napoleon was defeated, the Union was restored but it was broke and for the moment powerless. In Latin America, revolutionaries had risen up against Iberian rule and instead of fighting a series of expensive and fruitless wars, the government in Madrid sold the colonies in South America and Mexico their independence and used the money to rebuild Iberia.

Since the Napoleonic Wars Iberia has not done much on the world stage, instead building up its cultural, military and economic power and keeping a stance of Splendid Isolation. But now, with Iberia rich and its military back to a standard Charles V and Pizarro would be proud of, perhaps it is time for Iberia to erupt on to the world stage yet again?


Other Info:
President: Mariano Sagasta Member of the CTU

Claims: Spain, Portugal, Hispaniola, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Sao Tome & Principe, Macau, Philippines, Taiwan, Best Timor, those two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, Abidjan, Goa

Code: App6

[Sveltlana]

Unless the Byzantine player is willing to let me have Wallachia, I will go as Transylvania if possible?

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Hello, my little brother.

I am Russia, here to take care of you.

[The Jonathanian States]

Unless the Byzantine player is willing to let me have Wallachia, I will go as Transylvania if possible?

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Transsylvania indeed is open, as is moldavia (only the last one, though).

Unless the Byzantine player is willing to let me have Wallachia, I will go as Transylvania if possible?

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Hello, my little brother.

I am Russia, here to take care of you.

Ah, yes, good old Mother Russia.

[Das Germane imperie]

Unless the Byzantine player is willing to let me have Wallachia, I will go as Transylvania if possible?

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Hello, my little brother.

I am Russia, here to take care of you.

Well, we'll always have Russia standing up for us slavic nations...

...And pushing us down.

[Sveltlana]

Hello, my little brother.

I am Russia, here to take care of you.

Well, we'll always have Russia standing up for us slavic nations...

...And pushing us down.

Oh, balderdash!

Russia wants the good of the little peoples.

[Aldelxane]

-removed-

[Garwall]

Added a map to my reservation.

[The Jonathanian States]

Added a map to my reservation.

Yeah.... I don't quite think this will work out.
A union of two unions, retaining small attachments of both, and sprawling all over the wold, including in the unconquerable jungles in the heart of darkness...

[Das Germane imperie]

Wait! Would it be to late to change to Prussia? And I mean East Prussia, the real one and some Polish land, not taking anything taken by Russians yet of course?

[The Jonathanian States]

Wait! Would it be to late to change to Prussia? And I mean East Prussia, the real one and some Polish land, not taking anything taken by Russians yet of course?

It would not be to late considering your Transylvania never was properly reserved by you and it is upon.
Though FYI, Gdansk, Pommerania, and Brandenburg west of the Altmark are currently Hanseatic.