Generic Info
Nation Name: The United Batavian Republic | The Second Batavian Republic
Symbols: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... public.svg
Homeland Population: 6,435,000
Imperial Population: 26,515,000
Location/Claims: In Orange: WIP
Capital City: Amsterdam
Government Info
Government Type: Constitutional Meritocratic Revolutionary Republic
Brief Explanation of Government: There are provincial colonial governments that recognize local customs and promote Dutch as a financial language along with secularism as a stance on state religion. The Government itself has an Executive Branch consisting of the Premier Consul whom is elected every five years, the National Governor whom is appointed by the Premier Consul, and his Personal Council of Advisers whom he appoints and can delegate authorities to if the position is established and the man is verified by the Consul. The Consul is the second form of government, each province can elect two consul representatives throughout the Mainland and Suriname where elections are conducted half a year early and the results are withheld to be tallied along side Mainland votes. The Consul is voted in through popular votes. The Premier Consul is also elected in this manner. There is also a National Court which upholds the Bill of Rights and Batavian Constitution. These rights include freedom of religion, speech and press among other things, the National Court's members are voted in through the Consul and every ten years they contest the right to remain on the Court. Local government is run by Provincial and Colonial governors whom can address anything unmentioned in National Law, and cannot vote to leave the Batavian Republic nor to override a National Law. The Consul is re-elected every five years, but during the second year of the Primier Consul's term so as to allow time between election cycles. Petitions are allowed to be made by the people, any petition that reaches over 150,000 signatures will instantly be placed on the Consul floor, though this number is adjustable in the future for eventual population growth.
Ideology: Classical liberalism, Individualism, Progressivism, Romantic nationalism, Expansionist nationalism, Civic nationalism, Anti-Xenophobic, Jingoism, Militarism
Leader/s: Premier Consul Wilhelm Johann Simonis (Goes by William John Simonson in English)
Population Info
Brief Description of your people: Tolerant, Diverse and Jingoistic, the Batavian Republican people are prided in Progressive, Romantic, Militarist, Imperialist, Individualist and Civic Nationalist politics. Because of this they are good at assimilating foreign peoples as local customs are promoted.
Religion: Secularism recognizing all Branches of Christianity, Sunni Islam, Judaism, and Agnosticism.
Ethnicity: Dutch, Flemish, Moroccan,
Main/Accepted Culture(s): Dutch, Flemish, Moroccan, Berber, Indonesian, German (Key: Main/Accepted)
Other Cultures: N/A
Military Info
Armed Forces: 1,275,750 (Less than 5% of Population)
Army: 800,000
Service Pistol(s): FN M1900, FN, M1905, FN M1910, Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless (Army Rangers)
Service Rifle(s): Marlin Model 1894 (Line Infantry), Winchester Model 1907 (Army Rangers), Ross rifle (Most Colonial Units)
Service Machinegun: Hotchkiss M1909, Holt Gun
Drill Rifle: Lebel Model 1886
Batavian Republican Army: 300,000
-Dutch Army Rangers: 10,000 (Light Dragoons)
-National Dragoons: 15,000 (Conventional Dragoons)
-Dutch Artillery Corps: 40,000
-Revolutionary Guard: 500
-Dutch National Air Division: 5,000
-National Armed Forces: 229,500
Moroccan Corps: 300,000
-Moroccan National Army Rangers: 10,000
-Royal Moroccan Cavalry Corps: 15,000
-Moroccan Artillery Corps: 25,000
-Royal Guard: 500
-Black Guard: 5,000
-Moroccan National Guard: 200,000
-Moroccan Coldstream Guard: 44,500
Indonesian Corps: 150,000
-Indonesian Colonial Army Rangers: 10,000
-Indonesian Colonial Cavalry Corps: 10,000
-Indonesian Colonial Artillery Corps: 15,000
-Indonesian National Guard: 100,000
-Indonesian Revolutionary Guard: 1,000
-Indonesian Mercantile Army Corps: 10,000
-Indonesian Local Militias: 3,500
-Indonesian Colonial Guard: 500
Batavian Suriname Corps: 50,000
-Dutch Suriname Army Rangers: 10,000
-Suriname Jungle Cavalry Corps: 5,000
-Colonial Guard: 35,000
Navy: 475,750 (Will specify w/ ships later)
Standard Pistol: Savage Model 1907
Standard Rifle: Ross rifle
Machine Guns: Modified Maxim Gun (Called "Holt Gun")
Drill Rifle: Baker rifle
-Dutch North Sea Fleet: 250,000 (10 Dreadnoughts, 15 Pre-Dreadnought Battleships, 8 Armored Cruisers, 15 Protected Cruisers, 3 Scout Cruisers, 35 Destroyers, 18 Submarines)
-Dutch Suriname Fleet: 50,000 (6 Pre-Dreadnought Battleships, 2 Armored Cruisers, 4 Protected Cruisers, 1 Scout Cruiser, 8 Destroyers, 4 Submarines)
-Dutch East Indies Fleet: 75,000 (2 Dreadnaughts, 9 Pre-Dreadnought Battleships, 4 Armoured Cruisers, 2 Scout Cruisers, 17 Destroyers, 9 Submarines)
-National Revolutionary Diplomatic Transport Division: 750 (1 Pre-Dreadnought Battleship "Queen of Indochina", and 1 Scout Cruiser)
Other Info
Brief Description of your Economy: Seeing a growth in wealth due to colonial imports and Industrialization at home and abroad, the Dutch Economy is strengthening and the middle class is expanding and there are reasonable business regulations in place.
Goals: Maintain the Dutch Domain and further Dutch trade and military interests worldwide.
History: Formed on January 19th, 1795 by Revolutionary France, the Batavian Republic was initially short lived until the re-establishment of monarchy under the House of Napoleon. However, when the Napoleonic forces were defeated in the battle of Waterloo in 1815, the Dutch House of Orange family regained solid power over the Netherlands under the leadership of King William the First of Orange-Nassau and went on to retain this power for the next 60 years, though there always was a republican revolutionary minority that met privately and continued dreams of a united and free Batavia. During this time they expanded trade into failing Spaniard colonies and began to influence areas of the world such as the Rif in Morocco and Indonesia, the Padri War (1821–1837) consolidated Dutch power in the region of Indonesia, and the Java War (1825–1830) irradiated the largest resistance movement and saw the depopulation of large areas to make way for Dutch colonists and merchants. The Reformed Church was declared the official religion, and King William the First of Orange-Nassau ruled with an even hand until his death in 1847 which occurred under odd conditions.
His son William the Second whom fell heavily ill shortly after abdicated the throne to his younger brother Frederick whom claimed there were assassins about due to the odd coincidences of his Father and less than a year later, his older brothers death. During his ten years of rule he increased repression throughout the Dutch realm, which led to early frustrations between the commoners and the royalty. When he died his son Alexander rose to the throne and took after the repressive side of his father instituting harsh treatment of the common man and so the first riot occurred on November 11th, 1859 in Amsterdam as people demanded fair treatment, and furthermore a reform to limit the king's power. King Alexander hated these ideas and sent in a force of three thousand men to crush the revolt. This only kindled the fire however as a call for Napoleonic scale reform was made by the revolutionary minority which was now gaining traction, a conference to discuss terms of such an uprising between the prominent radical figures of the time was held in a small building in Utrecht, however, able to detect the increase of revolutionaries in the area, the revolutionaries were arrested and the Dutch Army began cracking down on locals more strictly. For over half a decade it stayed this way with harsh tension between the common man and the crown and occasional skirmishes.
However, in 1867, on June 1st, the King's birthday, the Revolutionaries rose up to defeat the crown in a war called the Birthday Revolution. For three years the civil war raged on, however, as traders began switching to the revolutionary side due to revolutionary rhetoric becoming increasingly popular and the tide began to shift. With the Battle of Antwerp the King ordered the execution of four prominent revolutionaries which led to the Second Amsterdam Uprising and saw the arrest of the King by the Revolutionary Guard whom stormed the city during the riots. On January 19th, 1870, the 75th Anniversary of the Batavian Republic, the Second Batavian Republic was established immediately demanding universal suffrage for all male voters regardless of religion, stature, or wealth. The Batavian Republic began to move towards secularism and individualism. On September 22nd of the year 1873 the Secular Restoration Act was signed re-instating the Napoleonic Freedom of Religion stance, and giving tax breaks to any religious foundation that fit non-threatening categories.
In the year 1874, the Spanish declared war on the Netherlands viewing the new republic as weak and accusing them of several dishonest trade practices. However, with a weaker Navy (The Dutch Navy was unaffected by the revolution which only took place on land), the Spanish were no match for the Dutch Fleet which had been rapidly shipbuilding since the end of the Napoleonic Wars and modernized before the revolution. With a strong fleet and a half-blind eye from the Protestant United Kingdom which had begun to see good trade relations with the Batavians, the Dutch landed in the Canaries and fought for eight months before securing the Islands. Demanding this as a concession from the Spanish in exchange for the end of a blockade on their colonial ports. The Spaniards eventually signed a very aggressively worded white peace agreement which painted the Spaniards as unreasonable aggressors, but otherwise only saw that the Batavians were seen as powerful as the former Kingdom of the Netherlands.
After the war, in 1878, former Army General Johann Tunison formed the Dutch Army Rangers, a highly maneuverable light cavalry and infantry dragoon unit that's aim is to be usable in both colonial and European terrain. These Dutch Army Rangers are light cavalry/infantry whom can scout, ambush, augment larger forces, and set up forts for use by other units among other things. With the rise of Batavian nationalism after beating a former world power, the Dutch declared war on the Sultanate of Morocco after a trade dispute in 1882 where the Moroccans claimed several trade agreements were between the King of Morocco and the Dutch King, not a Batavian Republic. The Invasion of Tangiers soon saw an increase in traction. Local liberties were low, and Dutch introduction of economic opportunities and progressive culture coincided with a pretender movement in Morocco,one of the Moroccan princes supported the some of the Dutch reforms and saw a chance to make a deal with the Dutch. He raised an Army of revolutionaries to liberate Morocco and the Dutch immediately pledged support in exchange for a protector contract where they would install him as Sultan of Fez, which the Prince eventually accepted. The Moroccan revolutionaries and Dutch Forces met in Fez and soon launched a force to take Marrakesh of 9,000 Dutch Army Rangers, 12,000 Dutch Regulars and 13,000 Moroccan revolutionaries. The Moroccan loyalists were unable to resist the modernized forces despite 45,000 forces defending the capital. With the capital besieged the Moroccan pretender was made the Monarch of the Rif in exchange for him accepting a protectorate agreement which required them to be in a permanent alliance and trade agreement with the dutch and have a constitutional monarchy in exchange for technology, foreign goods at low prices, protection by the now respectable Dutch Navy, and a promise of expansion southward in the eventual future to help his family consolidate power as the new helm of the Alaouite family.
The Atlas Mountains were rich in phosphorous, a known explosive, and used it to transform the Atlas Mountains into a railed region that in the next few decades created the Moroccan National Railroad. The Dutch also began building railways along with canals and a Monument to the soldiers who fought in the Batavian-Spanish war called the "Batavian Freedom Monument" which was built in Amsterdam with a smaller copy in Tangiers which was approved by the Sultan as a collective insult to the Spanish across the strait. The War with Spain became romanticized and was called the "War of Batavian Prestige and Restoration" and was considered a justification for why the Republic was superior to Monarchies such as Spain from then on in politics. As the Bavatian republic fought four wars with Algerian nomadic rebels in the East of the Rif consolidating their grip over those areas and proving their use to the Fezzan Sultan. In 1892 the Batavian Republic began improving relations with the United States of Columbia and began emulating their policy to avoid large wars with European Major Powers.
Since then the Netherlands has seen an increase in support for its secular politics, stabilization among it's territories and the standardization of currencies under the New Guilder, and under the Metric System in scientific and economic regards. The Batavian Army now has been conducting Air Flight Research since 1907 though it has largely evolved in it's goals, and has been modernizing and standardizing all of it's forces to use service weapons with some specialized weapons for certain units. They contracted the Browning co. and after a fair negotiation had them open a factory in Amsterdam and Rotterdam soon after this negotiation they made the FN M1900-M1910 series standard issue. Léon Nagant invented the Nagant M1895 in the Netherlands as well and it was made standard issue for all Army Rangers. Additional weapons were added to this list. The Navy used the Ross rifle along with Moroccan, Indonesian and Suriname forces. The construction of the Atlas Aeroplane is underway and telegraph stations have been set up throughout the nation to provide communication between military posts. Most recently, the Batavian Union Party has been elected into office to set regulatory policy with former admiral, military governor of Suriname, Mayor of Amsterdam, and Consul in the National Assembly, Wilhelm J. Simonis (Referred to in English as William Simonson) and in his first year he passed the Anti-Trust & Workplace Regulation act setting a minimum wage, higher taxes on the rich, the official recognition of labor unions, and workplace standards in reaction to those said to exist in Columbia in the Jungle by Upton Sinclair also being found present in the Batavian Republic, finally, religion based discrimination in the workplace were banned to ensure fair competition for jobs, this act, signed in 1912 became the staple of Wilhelm's policy, and in two years when he runs for re-election, he is currently set to have a high voter turnout due to several minor voter reforms that allow for early vote casting and anonymous voting booths.
FOR THE MOTHERLAND!!!!
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