Iron and Steel; 20th Century AH [RE/Continuation/OOC/OPEN]

[The New Byzantine II]

I already finish the app and also TRADE WITH UKRAINE! WE HAVE BEST FUR COATS AND WE OUTRANK RUSSIA

Why not?

Because of winter! Soldiers who do not experienced in the winter battle must have fur coats!

[Sanabel]

Why not?

Because of winter! Soldiers who do not experienced in the winter battle must have fur coats!

No I'm saying, why shouldn't I? I'll send some ships to Crimea to buy coats for my hearty, tall, ice skating Dutchmen.

[The New Byzantine II]

Because of winter! Soldiers who do not experienced in the winter battle must have fur coats!

No I'm saying, why shouldn't I? I'll send some ships to Crimea to buy coats for my hearty, tall, ice skating Dutchmen.

That's a good decision! Our economy will be increased!

[Sanabel]

I think my foreign policy will be to trade with all('cept commies), try to stay neutral, and defend my colonies.

[Sanabel]

I'm surprised we don't have a Scotland yet.

[Military Lands of the Scottish People]

Guys, what if the Depression era came on the RP which it is the downfall of the global economy and the rise of National Socialism and Fascism?

Republican Spain v Nationalist Spain

[New Decius]

Guys, what if the Depression era came on the RP which it is the downfall of the global economy and the rise of National Socialism and Fascism?

Republican Spain v Nationalist Spain

Well that will depend on how things turn out.

IRL, the reason the Depression happened was because Europe was devastated after the Great War and the United States economy collapsed thus causing the economies depending on it to recover to collapse.

[Vicavian Empire]

Republican Spain v Nationalist Spain

Well that will depend on how things turn out.

IRL, the reason the Depression happened was because Europe was devastated after the Great War and the United States economy collapsed thus causing the economies depending on it to recover to collapse.

i think we have an issue with people not making apps even though they reserved nations

[New Decius]

Well that will depend on how things turn out.

IRL, the reason the Depression happened was because Europe was devastated after the Great War and the United States economy collapsed thus causing the economies depending on it to recover to collapse.

i think we have an issue with people not making apps even though they reserved nations

Or they are working on them. You your self said your own application took a while


I have not even fully finished my application yet. And I'm the OP

[Soviet Chernarus]

i think we have an issue with people not making apps even though they reserved nations

Or they are working on them. You your self said your own application took a while


I have not even fully finished my application yet. And I'm the OP

Decius, can you update the map in the OP?

[The New Byzantine II]

I don't know if you can now accept the players who have posted their application though.

[Sanabel]

i think we have an issue with people not making apps even though they reserved nations

Or they are working on them. You your self said your own application took a while


I have not even fully finished my application yet. And I'm the OP

There should be a time limit, to keep things moving.

[Soviet Chernarus]

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All accepted.

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Declined.

Reason: Military is way too high - its about 3.5 million, which is about 14.5% of your population (which is insane, btw). The German Army had 700,000 men at the start of OTL's Great War, and later mobilized some 3.8 million men, and they have a significantly larger population than Denmark-Norway and are one of the Great Powers. Also, "because conscription" is not a valid excuse for your military being so huge.

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Accepted, although I think the military's a bit too high.

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'Cepted.

[The New Byzantine II]

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All accepted.

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Declined.

Reason: Military is way too high - its about 3.5 million, which is about 14.5% of your population (which is insane, btw). The German Army had 700,000 men at the start of OTL's Great War, and later mobilized some 3.8 million men, and they have a significantly larger population than Denmark-Norway and are one of the Great Powers. Also, "because conscription" is not a valid excuse for your military being so huge.

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Accepted, although I think the military's a bit too high.

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'Cepted.

How about me?

[Vichtander]

Full Nation Name: The Irish Free State
Short Nation Name: Ireland
National Flag:

Territory: (On Home Continent) Independent Ireland (Not Under English Control)
Colonies: (If Any) N/A
Client States: (If Any) N/A
Official Language(s): English, Irish Gaelic
Form of Government: Republic
Head of State: Éamon de Valera
Head of Government: (if different)
Capital City: Dublin
Population: 10,220,000
Ethnicities: Irish, English, Scottish, German
Religion: Mostly Catholic with a protestant minority in the North
Army:
Active: 350,000
Reserve: N/A
The IFS army is quite small seeing that they only recently acquired independence from the British. As a result, they are largely unorganized and untrained with either outdated or stolen arms from the British Occupation. The size of the military is certainly subject to change within the RP.
Navy: N/A but subject to change during RP. Ships are made, but not warships.
Air Force: N/A but subject to change during RP.
Economic Strength: Relatively weak but improving fast due to the increase in industry since independence. Main industries include agriculture and its products. There are other sectors such as improvements in healthcare, brewing companies such as Guinness, and maritime sectors, the most prominent being ship building.
Infrastructure: The nation's infrastructure is quickly improving due to it's fast growing population and social reforms to a more conservative society. Most of these improvements include urbanization, road construction, and urbanization.
Scientific Research and Development: The scientific development of the country has been relatively slow in the previous decades but has seen a massive increase recently and is continuing to rise. Most of these developments include ship building and healthcare although breakthroughs are being made in the agrarian sector.
Primary Goals:

Unify Eire under a single nation
Develop a stronger military presence in the world
Continue Scientific advancement
Improve the world of healthcare
Achieve the world's highest standard of living

History: There is really no deviation other than the country, for the sake of the RP, is forced to come to existence in 1900 rather than 1917. The country still acquired independence by the same means. Also, The Great Famine never took place. Dr. Douglas Hyde, an Irish Scholar, worked for eleven years at Trinity College in Dublin to find a way to avoid potato blight in the main crop of Ireland, the potato. Finally, in the year 1842, Dr. Hyde was able to create a type of substance that would protect the Irish potatoes from Potato Blight.
RP Example:

Uachtarán Preston Benton (Uachtarán is Vichtrician for President) steps to the podium in front of the Paul-Benton House (The Vichtrician version of the White House) to deliver a speech on the rights if Jong to be an Independent nation, as well as its individual similarities between their people in the capital city of Francias Bay. He calls for the independence of Jong.

"The Vichtrician character has been not only religious, idealistic, and patriotic, but because of these it has been essentially individual. The right of the individual against the State has ever been one of our most cherished political principles. The Vichtrician Constitution has set down for all men to see the essentially Methodist and Vichtrician principle that there are certain rights held by every man which no government and no majority, however powerful, can deny. Conceived in Grecian thought, strengthened by Christian morality, and stamped indelibly into Vichtrician political philosophy, the right of the individual against the State is the keystone of our Constitution. Each man is free. He is free in thought. He is free in expression. He is free in worship.

To us, who have been reared in the Vichtrician tradition, these rights have become part of our very being. They have become so much a part of our being that most of us are prone to feel that they are rights universally recognized and universally exercised. But the sad fact is that this is not true. They were dearly won for us only a few short centuries ago and they were dearly preserved for us in the days just past. And there are large sections of the world today where these rights are denied as a matter of philosophy and as a matter of government. We cannot assume that the struggle is ended. It is never-ending. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. It was the price yesterday. It is the price today, and it will ever be the price.

The characteristics of the Vichtrician people have ever been a deep sense of religion, a deep sense of idealism, a deep sense of patriotism, and a deep sense of individualism. Let us not blink the fact that the days which lie ahead of us are bitter ones.

May God grant that, at some distant date, on this day, and on this platform, the Uachtarán may be able to say that these are still the great qualities of the Vichtrician character and that they have prevailed in The Jong Regime as well as the rest of the world. On this day, I say, let The Holy Red Democracy of
The Jong Regime be free."

Followed by the enthusiastic and confident cheering of Benton's fellow countrymen, he is escorted off the podium by Servicemen and brought to the limousine waiting for him where he will arrive at a Presidential Jet waiting for him and his trip to Jong.

[Sanabel]

Is that a ship building competitor I smell?

[Military Lands of the Scottish People]

Full Nation Name: The Irish Free State
Short Nation Name: Ireland
National Flag:

(Image)

Territory: (On Home Continent) Independent Ireland (Not Under English Control)
Colonies: (If Any) N/A
Client States: (If Any) N/A
Official Language(s): English, Irish Gaelic
Form of Government: Republic
Head of State: Éamon de Valera
Head of Government: (if different)
Capital City: Dublin
Population: 10,220,000
Ethnicities: Irish, English, Scottish, German
Religion: Mostly Catholic with a protestant minority in the North
Army:
Active: 350,000
Reserve: N/A
The IFS army is quite small seeing that they only recently acquired independence from the British. As a result, they are largely unorganized and untrained with either outdated or stolen arms from the British Occupation. The size of the military is certainly subject to change within the RP.
Navy: N/A but subject to change during RP. Ships are made, but not warships.
Air Force: N/A but subject to change during RP.
Economic Strength: Relatively weak but improving fast due to the increase in industry since independence. Main industries include agriculture and its products. There are other sectors such as improvements in healthcare, brewing companies such as Guinness, and maritime sectors, the most prominent being ship building.
Infrastructure: The nation's infrastructure is quickly improving due to it's fast growing population and social reforms to a more conservative society. Most of these improvements include urbanization, road construction, and urbanization.
Scientific Research and Development: The scientific development of the country has been relatively slow in the previous decades but has seen a massive increase recently and is continuing to rise. Most of these developments include ship building and healthcare although breakthroughs are being made in the agrarian sector.
Primary Goals:

Unify Eire under a single nation
Develop a stronger military presence in the world
Continue Scientific advancement
Improve the world of healthcare
Achieve the world's highest standard of living

History: There is really no deviation other than the country, for the sake of the RP, is forced to come to existence in 1900 rather than 1917. The country still acquired independence by the same means.
RP Example:

Uachtarán Preston Benton (Uachtarán is Vichtrician for President) steps to the podium in front of the Paul-Benton House (The Vichtrician version of the White House) to deliver a speech on the rights if Jong to be an Independent nation, as well as its individual similarities between their people in the capital city of Francias Bay. He calls for the independence of Jong.

"The Vichtrician character has been not only religious, idealistic, and patriotic, but because of these it has been essentially individual. The right of the individual against the State has ever been one of our most cherished political principles. The Vichtrician Constitution has set down for all men to see the essentially Methodist and Vichtrician principle that there are certain rights held by every man which no government and no majority, however powerful, can deny. Conceived in Grecian thought, strengthened by Christian morality, and stamped indelibly into Vichtrician political philosophy, the right of the individual against the State is the keystone of our Constitution. Each man is free. He is free in thought. He is free in expression. He is free in worship.

To us, who have been reared in the Vichtrician tradition, these rights have become part of our very being. They have become so much a part of our being that most of us are prone to feel that they are rights universally recognized and universally exercised. But the sad fact is that this is not true. They were dearly won for us only a few short centuries ago and they were dearly preserved for us in the days just past. And there are large sections of the world today where these rights are denied as a matter of philosophy and as a matter of government. We cannot assume that the struggle is ended. It is never-ending. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. It was the price yesterday. It is the price today, and it will ever be the price.

The characteristics of the Vichtrician people have ever been a deep sense of religion, a deep sense of idealism, a deep sense of patriotism, and a deep sense of individualism. Let us not blink the fact that the days which lie ahead of us are bitter ones.

May God grant that, at some distant date, on this day, and on this platform, the Uachtarán may be able to say that these are still the great qualities of the Vichtrician character and that they have prevailed in The Jong Regime as well as the rest of the world. On this day, I say, let The Holy Red Democracy of
The Jong Regime be free."

Followed by the enthusiastic and confident cheering of Benton's fellow countrymen, he is escorted off the podium by Servicemen and brought to the limousine waiting for him where he will arrive at a Presidential Jet waiting for him and his trip to Jong.

How is it 10 Million when Ireland's population is near 6,000,000 today?

[Military Lands of the Scottish People]

Is that a ship building competitor I smell?

Speaking of ships some time in the game want to combine our scientific minds for more navy ships, not just trade?

[Vichtander]

How is it 10 Million when Ireland's population is near 6,000,000 today?

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt ... PtqXoiSLyM
I still exaggerated a bit though.

[Sanabel]

Is that a ship building competitor I smell?

Speaking of ships some time in the game want to combine our scientific minds for more navy ships, not just trade?

Sure. If this army thing pans out. I may need to quickly bomb the Irish ship building infrastructure first...jk.

[Soviet Chernarus]

All accepted.



Declined.

Reason: Military is way too high - its about 3.5 million, which is about 14.5% of your population (which is insane, btw). The German Army had 700,000 men at the start of OTL's Great War, and later mobilized some 3.8 million men, and they have a significantly larger population than Denmark-Norway and are one of the Great Powers. Also, "because conscription" is not a valid excuse for your military being so huge.



Accepted, although I think the military's a bit too high.



'Cepted.

How about me?

You're accepted too.

[Sanabel]

How is it 10 Million when Ireland's population is near 6,000,000 today?

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt ... PtqXoiSLyM
I still exaggerated a bit though.

You exaggerated by 6m according to that.

[Vichtander]

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt ... PtqXoiSLyM
I still exaggerated a bit though.

You exaggerated by 6m according to that.

Then I'll just go back and add to the deviation that The Great Famine never happened.

[Sanabel]

You exaggerated by 6m according to that.

Then I'll just go back and add to the deviation that The Great Famine never happened.

Ok

[Sanabel]

Would Ireland be aligned with the Papal States/Southern Italy?