The imperial canadian dutchy wrote:Generic Info
Nation Name: Il Impero Italiano/ The Empire of Italy
Symbols:
National Personification: Italia Turrita
Flag: Il Tricolore (Image) Well plus the Murat's coat of arms
CoA: The Arms of the House of Savoy http://i.imgur.com/tKfDiTw.png
Anthem: Il Canto degli Italiani (Unofficial Popular), Marcia Reale di Ordinanza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5N-H00ujEg
Homeland Population: (population of everyone considered a citizen)42,055,100
Imperial Population: (include population of colonies)14,511,000
Location/Claims: http://i.imgur.com/cg05CFQ.png(Tell me if anything conflicts with Luna) Lighter Dark Green is the Italian puppet of the Kingdom of Greece
Capital City:
Roma
Government Info
Government Type:Unitary Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy
Brief Explanation of Government:
The Kingdom of Italy is dejurely a fully democratic parliamentary state with a monarch, however de facto it is a Enlightened despotism with the Emperor having extensive powers in the country, as well as being one of the Grand Marshals of Italy. The Consul is generally a weaker political figure who often simply stamps the Emperors decrees into practice, However the consul is elected from a popular proportional vote.
Ideology: Pan-Italian Nationalism,Imperialism, Anti-Socialism, Bonapartism, Colonialism, Royalism, Irredentism, Enlightened Despotism
Leader/s:
Emperor Vittorio-Napoleone I di Savoia-Murat (Funnnnn)/ Humbert I of Savoy-Murat (Son of Achille-Napoleone di Savoia-Murat)
Emperor of the Italians, King of the Lombards, King of Sardinia,King of Jerusalem and Cyprus, King of the Greeks, Prince of the Albanians, Lord Protector of the Southern Cantons, Emir of Tripoli, and Protector of the Holy See
Consul: Vittorio-Maria Giuri (Fronte della Patria/FdP)
Population Info
Brief Description of your people:
The Italian people are loud, boisterous and proud people, formed from the stock of Ancient Romes first citizens in the Empire, from the province of Italia, the Italian people throughout centuries of division are a diverse folk with many harsh regional differences. However Italians share their new homeland which they conquered from the Stranieri together. The Italian people are also defined by their staunch Catholicism, and in regards to the rest of Europe moderate liberalism.
Religion:Vasty Roman Catholic, Muslims in IEA and Libya
Ethnicity:European
Main/Accepted Culture(s): Italians, Arabs (Somewhat depending on levels of integration, believe IRL Italy considered them Muslim Italians), Italian Jews, Eritreans
Other Cultures: Arabs(Above), Germans, Slovenes, Croats, Arpitans, Ethiopians, Somalis
Military Info
Army:
Esercito Imperiale Italiano: 58 Divisions
The Esercito Imperiale, under the Kingdom of Italy is for what it counts advanced due to the reforms in place by the Murats, introduced from the French army following Napoleon's defeat and Murat's defection to the Alliance. The army is decently well trained for being a newly formed country. It's equipment however is generally superb after the revolution of Industry organized by the Prime Minister Gianluca Tence in 1890, with the army having adequate numbers of Guns, and field artillery to remain effective. The dominant tactic of the main force of the army is to focus on defending the alps and it's valleys from foreign invasion, especially in the Autonomous Cantons of Ticino and Grigioni.
Guardie Alpini: 62 Battalions
The Alpine guard is one of the pride and joys of the Italian Military command, being one of the most effective and well armed mountaineering troops in the world at this time. They are superbly suited to the current Italian defense strategy. The Alpini are armed well for their environments with light weight guns and mortars being some of the more common armaments. Training wise as said earlier the Alpini are arguably some of the finest mountain troops in the World.
Bersaglieri: 21 Regiments
The Bersaglieri are the Italian elite light infantry noted for on parades jogging instead of marching. Training wise they are some of the most elite troops in Italy, noted for their speed of attack and decent training. The Bersaglieri are quite well armed with Italian light weaponry and light artillery.
Arditi: 27 Units 18,000 men
A project just recently started by the Italian command staff, was the creation of Storm trooper units to punch holes in the enemies defenses if the Italian army was to go on offensive into enemy lines. These soldiers are selected due to their bravery and their ability to not be bothered by the sound of close incoming shells. They are masters of hand to hand combat and train extensively in fencing, due to their elite nature the training is superb. In the way of equipment it is intentional that they are equipped lightly and primitively typically with only a dagger, rifle and hand grenades to quickly and effectively shut down resistance in trenches. Due to their reputation for bravery and brutality and use of knives, many call them "Crazies" it is commonly thought that they were recruited from insane asylums in colloquial (At least in my experience) Italian thought.
Corpo Aeronautico Militare: 42 Squadrons
The CAM is the Italian air force, being one of the pioneers of the practice, the Italian air force currently is quite decent although the homegrown air industry is still quite weak, and most planes coming from either France or Britain. None the less training in the CAM is usually focused on defending Italian cities and or conducting small raids on the enemy. The equipment was generally french Nieuports.
Carabineri: (A fucking lot)
The Carabinieri are in a sense Gendarmes, but also provide the service of being barrier troops. As far as training goes, they are still essentially police officers with slightly increased training. Equipment wise they do need much because once again, their sole purpose in war is to build machine gun posts and defend the rear from unruliness.
Navy: (branches, number of troops, quality of navy, etc,)
8 Dreadnought Battleships
20 Cruisers
35 Destroyers
The Quality of the Italian navy grows better as time passes, as Italy begins to focus on protecting it's interests in the Mediterranean, as well as enabling it to protect it's colonies from foreign aggressors. Italy's ships are generally well made, not up to par with Great Britain, but definitely not awful. It's crews are decently well trained with it's admirals preform generally averagely.
(I'm shit with navies)
Other Info
Brief Description of your Economy:
The Economy of the Empire of Italy, is a growing market with continuing industrialization providing a great deal of jobs to the new economy as well as helping to produce the goods that's the growing middle class would like to purchase. The economy is organized in a mixed way, with the Imperial state owning some of the majour industries such as the Arms and Naval production industries, but ,mostly the state relies on the Capitalist class to grow the economy. Trade is also a large portion of the Kingdom's income with Genoa,Venice and Trieste being some of the busiest ports in the Mediterranean, they have grown even larger due to imports from the colonies of new exotic materials, as well as cheap rubber and coffee.
Goals:
1.)Not die
2.) Watch Europe Burn
3.) Sneak in and steal the Adriatic
4.) Maybe if we aren't too shit, take the lands claimed in France
5.) Acquire Comrade Napoleons corpse to intern into the Pantheon in Rome (Super sekrit Muratian goal)
History:
1815: Murat decides against supporting Napoleons return from Elba, and exposes his plans to the Coalition, swaying support in favour of Murat keeping the throne in the Treaty of Vienna.
1820: Following the aftermath of the war, Murat still can see what he saw before in his prediction of Italian patriotism, in response to this, he offers a union of houses between the dominant native Italian power in the North: Sardinia Piedmont by offering his son to marry the daughter of the King in Sardinia, and the King in Sardinia's heir to marry Murat's daughter, forming the House of Savoy-Murat
1848: The Revolutions in the Italian peninsula, are funded by both of the members of the Union, in this timeline the revolutions succeeded in pushing the Austrians out of much of the Po valley as well as forcing Umbria into the hands of the Neapolitans much to the Pope's dismay. The Revolutions in the north went further than before, as the fighting spread from the Austrian controlled lands to the Swiss, as Piedmontese troops began to supply the Nationalists in Ticino and Grigioni into revolting and leaving the Swiss confederacy, joining the Union with special privileges as it held under the Swiss Confederacy, in return for the lost territory the Piedmontese would pay 3 million Lira in damages to the Swiss general council.
1849: Following this the two states, with the support of France, declare war on Austria and seize the land claimed by prominant Liberal Patriots in the Union, which included the Austrian Kingdom of Venice, and the Duchy of Trent at first, however the Italian alliance soon faired better than expected the Littoral was secured, Austria, in no position to keep fighting was forced to cede the Italian's claims to the Union.
1850: The Empire of Italy is declared in Milan, with the Archbishop crowing the new Emperor with the Iron crown and laurel leaves, symbolizing him as the heir to the Holy Roman Empire, and of the Roman Emperor's of old.
1857: The Pan-Italian railway from Aosta to Reggio di Calabria is built, by connecting the disunited states railways.
1860: The Papal States are invaded by the Empire forcing the Pope to flee inside of the Vatican and watch powerlessly as his lands are taken by the United Italy, an offer to the pope is given by the Leaders of the Emperors army which is similar to the law of guarantees which the pope quite obviously denied, following this, the Italian Empire, offered to carve the territory of the Vatican into an Independent dependency of Italy, in which the Popes would pay a meager rent to the Italian state in return being allowed to govern in independence, as well as giving the pope privileges in Italy, such as honorary Citizenship, in return, The pope would recognize the Authority of the Emperors, and recognize the gains made by the Italian state, by the treaty of Ostia Antica.
1865: Industrialist Gianluca Tence, becomes prime minister of the Italian Empire, and begins a series of reforms encouraging and subsidizing industry throughout the Empire, focusing especially on the impoverished south, Signore Gianluca also laid plans for the invasion of Libya for which he gave special subsidies to the arms industry to begin producing weapons.
1867:The Invasion of Libya begins, as the Emperor formally announces from his balcony in the Quirinal Palace a declaration of war upon the Emir of Tripoli, as to pave the way for Italian power in the Mediterranean, as well as claiming what many Italian Nationalists believed as the Birth right of Italy in Africa, the so called fourth shore, Forces began to land later in the year, quickly making work against the local militias, however the Desert could not be secured due to the lawlessness of the Bedouin tribes.
1868: To appease the Pope even more after the Treaty of Ostia Antica, the minarets of the mosques of Tripoli, Benghazi and Misurta were torn down and the mosques refaced as churches, with Italian citizens being imported to take up residences in the old bourgeoisie houses of these cities as the overclass.
1869: Construction begins on the Libyan railroad to make rule easier in the troubled part of Metropolitan Italy, in which to allow the local Carabinieri to quickly respond along the coast to threats.
1870: The Empire of Italy under the Fini cabinet declares war on the Archduchy of Austria, in an attempt to seize the Austrian littoral, which due to it's large Italian population was sought after heavily by the Nationalists. The war began with Italian forays into the hills of Gorizia which happened with minimal success from the Italians, until encouraged by Propaganda the Italian populace began to provide assistance to the Imperial army through path finding and passages unknown to the Austrian army, allowing the Italians the advantage of terrain, the Imperial Army continued to be successful until Trieste in which the army was bogged down n fighting the Austrian's in the Karst, this was due to the general lack of support from the Slovenians in pushing off the Austrian yoke, fortunately the Austrian forces broke in the late fall. Due to the gravity of the situation and the entrance of winter, which was made harsher by the Bora winds in Trieste, the Austrians and Italians entered peace talks, in which Italy would sign a Non aggression pact with Austria, Austrian would recognize the Italian claims to the Littoral and Cariniola and cede these lands, and Italy and Austria would both bay reparations for the damages.
1880: The Expedition of 1880 was launched in a strike on the Ethiopian Empire, in response to the ongoing colonization of Africa, Italian forces, numbering 100,000 were sent to secure the coast and establish supply routes, these forces were then attacked by the Ethiopian army, which was historically routed at the battle of Bannio Nuovo in which the Italian and Ethiopian armies were both heavily damage, following a lengthy war in which in finality the capital of Ethiopia was seized, the Italians offered a generous peace deal of Italy propper only seizing the Eritrean coast, while the Negus Negast of Ethiopia was to recognize his sovereign as the Emperor of the Italians, in exchange for the continued freedom to the rule Ethiopia, the Italians themselves were to help develop said country until further terms were to be agreed on.
1900:The Italian government under the orders General Afredo Levi ordered false flag movements under the banners of Greece to allow for a pretext of War to defend Italy from the Greek harassment. As such the Italian Imperial Army struck at the Greek client state of Albania, while blockading the ports of Attica in an attempts to force the Greeks to the Table. ultimately the Italian army encircled the Greeks at the Battle of Argyrokastro in which two divisions of Greek soldiers surrendered to the Italians, later leading to the occupation of the entirety of Greece. Peace although damaging was in no means harsh for Greece, which was forced into an Alliance with Italy, as well as personal Union. Greece however was to remain a completely free on the books nation, with only minor cessations of Corfu, Crete and the Dodcanese, and the annexation of Albania.
1910: Completion of the Alpine forts which began construction as a defense from both sides of the more apparent European blocs as to defend Italy's neutrality in the affairs of Continental supremacy.
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