Backstory: Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Austro-Hungarian Empire sends an ultimatum to Serbia, demanding compensation and an apology for the action. With the backing of Russia, the Serbians refuse, and the Austrians turn to the German Empire. With German backing, the Austrians declare war on Serbia, and with the Russians not backing down in their support for Serbia, Germany soon declares war on Russia. Not much later, the French, also, refuse to remain neutral in the war and Germany declares war on France, enacting the Schlieffen Plan and invading through Belgium. Shortly afterwards, Britain declares war on Germany.
The war ended early in 1919 when, after the Russians surrendered following the October Revolution, the Germans launched a hugely successful offensive against France and Belgium with the fresh troops from the eastern front. America had never intervened, leaving Britain and France alone against the Central Powers. Within a few months, Belgium had fallen and German troops marched on Paris. After Paris fell, the German offensive continued to gain momentum, and a few weeks later France officially surrendered. The signing of the Treaty of Versailles signaled the great decline of France and the rise of Germany as a world superpower, with France being forced to cede a sizable amount of eastern France to Germany and being forced to pay huge war reparations.
Following their victory against France, Germany then turned it's attention to the situation in Russia; the Russian Civil War was raging, with the Reds and Whites fighting a bloody war. While the Kaiser was eager to send Lenin back to Russia to destabilize the Russians and help Germany win the war quicker, he had no intentions of actually allowing Russia to become a Communist state; following the French surrender, Germany intervened into the war, helping the Whites fight the Reds. With German assistance, Lenin and his revolutionaries were crushed and the Russian provisional government was returned to power.
Britain, on the other hand, refused to surrender, electing instead to continue fighting, but two years later, after a mix of German and Ottoman troops had seized the majority of the British overseas holdings, the British finally surrendered. Like France, Britain suffered greatly from the loss of the war; all the British colonies, aside from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, and the Caribbean were taken away, the British were forced to give full independence to Ireland, and they, like France, were forced to pay significant war reparations.
Unlike with Britain and France, the peace treaty with Italy was significantly different; instead of taking land, like the Central Powers had done with the rest of the Entente, Italy was, instead, split into two different nations in order to weaken them, with the northern half of Italy being put under the control of the Pope and being turned into a revived version of the Papal States, while the south was turned into a Republic.
While Germany prospered following the war, Britain and France were both in very unstable positions, with both nations' governments becoming incredibly unpopular and with discontent building up. Only a few months after the Treaty of Versailles was signed, Communist revolutionaries rose up in France, the incredibly weakened French government easily falling to the revolutionaries. The Commune of France was established, a revolutionary Communist government running it, serving as a new vanguard for the revolution in Europe; the Third French Republic was driven into exile, establishing themselves in the French colonies and starting up a government in exile. While the Communists were easily able to seize control of metropolitan France, the colonies were much less willing to fight for the Revolution and the French government in exile was able to take control of the colonial territories.
Like in France, Communists also rose up in Britain in 1925, a few years after the defeat against the Germans, plunging the British Empire into a state of civil war. After several bloody months of fighting, the Communists seized control of Britain, forming the Republic of Great Britain. The British Royal Family fled to Canada, along with numerous other supporters of the monarchy, where they started up a government-in-exile and started working towards liberating their homeland. While the Communist movement had grown very sizable in England and Scotland, due to the unpopularity of the government due to the loss of the first world war, Canada and the other British dominions were largely unaffected by the loss and, as such, remained mostly in favor of the monarchy and remained under royalist control.
The Revolution continued to spread, spreading to Mexico next and then to the Italian Republic, revolutionaries seizing control in both nations. With the Communist movement growing so strong, the Communist International was formed, with an alliance between the revolutionary states being forged and with the major Communist powers working together to formulate plans to spread the revolution and to make decisions on the future of the movement. France once again became a powerful and influential voice on the international scene, with the Communists becoming a strong force across the globe.
The history up until this point stops at January twentieth, nineteen thirty six, on the day of King George V's death. Tensions between France and Germany are at an all time high, with the French actively gearing up for war against the Germans to retake their lost territories, with the remnants of the Entente lead by King Edward VIII from Canada actively preparing to launch an invasion to liberate Great Britain from the Communists, and with Communist revolutions brewing in a number of nations.
Rules:
1: Basic RPing rules; no godmodding, no number-spam, and no meta-gaming.
2: Make all posts at least a paragraph long, please; I have neither patience nor tolerance when it comes to short posts. If you really can't find something to post about, ask somebody else to post something involving your nation in their next post.
3: Use proper grammar and spelling; if you can't take a minute or two to proof-read and spell-check your posts, then this is not the RP for you. I hate bad grammar, so don't expect me to tolerate it here.
4: No OOC in the IC; this ought to be obvious, but just in case you didn't already know, keep the OOC in the OOC thread and the IC in the IC thread.
5: Realism, please; Ethiopia, Albania, and other minor nations aren't going to be becoming major world powers anytime soon. I'm perfectly fine with people changing the history of their nation, since alternate-history is the entire point of this RP, but, please, try to stay at least somewhat realistic.
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Nation Name: Canada
Head of State: King Edward VIII
Head of Government: Prime Minister Mackenzie King
Government Type: Constitutional Monarchy
Alignment: Canada leads the Entente.
Population: Around twelve million and six hundred thousand.
Military Size: Around six hundred thousand, with an especially large naval force.
History: (considering the fact that I already included a bit of Canadian history up in the backstory, this segment is going to be short, since I don't need to say very much)
With Great Britain falling to the Communists, the role of leading the dominions of the British Empire fell upon Canada. The monarchist government-in-exile set up operations in Canada, with King George choosing to lead the liberation efforts from Canada. Considering this, large quantities of royalists flooded into Canada from Great Britain, fleeing the Reds; with significant amounts of British industrialists, inventors, generals, and scientists filling Canada, this, of course, was a huge boon to the Canadian economy, and Canada quickly rose to relevance on the international scene. Leadership of the Triple Entente fell upon the Canadians, and Canada, under the guidance of the British royal family, became the leading opponent of the Communists on the international scene.
With a clear task at hand, the liberation of Great Britain and the restoration of the British Empire, Canada quickly started militarizing the nation, gearing up for an invasion of the British Isles. The Canadians started constructing a grand navy with which to counter that of the Communists, and started training up a sizable army to storm the beaches of the home islands. This is what the Canadians have been doing since the start of the Revolution, preparing for war with the Communists in Britain, and, with the coronation of King Edward VIII, are getting ready to finally liberate Great Britain and put the royal family back in power.
Goals for the RP: Liberating the British Isles and restoring the British Empire.
RP Sample: I'm the OP; I don't need one.
IC: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=318160
Map: Since I don't have the means or skills to make a map myself, I would appreciate it if somebody could draw up a map once we have a decent number of players.
Important Nations: Simply put, this is a list of nations that are important for the RP and that need players. If you're going to join, I would prefer it if you choose from one of these nations, though it is by no means a requirement.
Germany
Commune of France
Republic of Great Britain
United States
Russia
Austria-Hungary
Italy (both the Papal-controlled north and the Communist-controlled south)
List of Nations:
Canada - Fascist Russian Empire
Germany - Galter Gulcher
United States of America - Kargintina
Republic of Russia - Argentarino
Allgemeine Ostasiatische Gesellschaft - The corporate states of Astavar
Socialist Republic of Italy - Steta Isles
Hispaniolan Republic - Sebastianbourg
Egypt - The Khedive
Austria-Hungary - Monkeykind
Poland - Veroxia
United States of Central America - Soviet Chernarus
Socialist Republic of Spain - United Provinces of Atlantica
Reservations:
National France/Exiled French Government - Zenoch
