Blood and Iron [OOC/ALT-HISTORY/OPEN/REBOOT]

[Holoska]

Everyone's allying everyone, which is gonna make World War I even more painful.

[St Georges Territory]

Everyone's allying everyone, which is gonna make World War I even more painful.

Kinda feel screwed as Afghanistan, considering I'm surrounded by much powerful countries.

You want to be friends?

[Holoska]

Everyone's allying everyone, which is gonna make World War I even more painful.

Kinda feel screwed as Afghanistan, considering I'm surrounded by much powerful countries.

You want to be friends?

Afghanistan wants to ally California. Is that it?

[The Valyria Empire]

Everyone's allying everyone, which is gonna make World War I even more painful.

Yup, and the Turks are gonna be in a lot of pain.

[La Cancion de Guerra]

Nation App

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Formal/Full Nation Name: Confederación Perú-Boliviana
Informal/Simple Nation Name: Peru
National Flag: Peru-Bolivia
Government Type: Confederacy
Head of State: Supreme Protector Justiniano Borgoño Castañeda
Head of Government: The Cortes Generales (Bicameral Parliment)

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Map: http://imgur.com/SpBgurp
Population: 5.2 Million Peoples
Military Population: 10,000
History of Nation: The confederacy began existence in 1836 and went through initial turmoil in the first five years due to wars of independence by rebel forces. The first head of state, titled “Supreme Protector”, was the Bolivian president, Marshal Andrés de Santa Cruz. The original confederacy comprised the fractured North and South Peru and the nation of Bolivia. During colonial times, the territory comprising the Audiencia de Charcas, also known as Alto Perú, now Bolivia, was an integral territory of the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru from its creation. In 1776, it was administratively severed and became a province of the newly created Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. Still, for geographical and historical reasons, it always remained closer to Lima than to its administrative capital, Buenos Aires, in present-day Argentina. The Peru–Bolivian Confederation was the only effective attempt to unite them and has served ever since the successful defeat by the rebel Simon Bolivar for which Bolivia retains name sake but the confederacy no longer officially recognizes, if for only a brief moment due to pressure from rising tensions. It was not until the final calming of war and rebellion that peace could be achieved for the confederacy which eventually became a unitary state in 1873. Since then elections have been instituted for Peru, with the official name sake for the land still being the confederacy while there are two official states in the union (Peru and Bolivia).

By 1880, a new era had been ushered in that championed more conservative values as the Partido Conservador (Conservative Party) held control from 1880 to the present day of 1891. This would mark the very first politically stable time for Peru, albeit by a small electorate of roughly 30,000. Allies would prove to be the next mission for the confederacy as relations with Spain were still the primary mode being that the confederacy maintained a weak but consistent relationship with the Spanish crown. Issues with the people of Peru persisted, as wealthy business men ushered in an era of conservative ideals that would improve Peru but maintain unpopular rulers. Under the Conservatives, the high world price of silver and increased production of copper, lead, zinc, and tin combined to create a period of relative prosperity. The Conservative governments continued to encourage the mining industry through the development of a rail network to the Pacific coast. The growth of commercial agriculture, such as the development of the Bolivian States natural rubber resources, also contributed to a stronger economy. Agricultural production in the highlands increased as the haciendas expanded in some regions. The latest economic accomplishment was to extend the Antofagasta-Calama Railroad to Oruro in 1889. The extension of the railroad drastically reduced the cost of transporting minerals to the Pacific coast. Economic growth was skewed, however, as railroads that were built to export minerals started to bring imported wheat from Chile that hurt local industry. For now the country is growing but by no means is a super power and should the conservative ideals of the confederacy persist, local industry will suffer in the increasingly open economy while the people believe to be under an Aristocratic Republic.
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[St Georges Territory]

Kinda feel screwed as Afghanistan, considering I'm surrounded by much powerful countries.

You want to be friends?

Afghanistan wants to ally California. Is that it?

Honestly, I'll take anyone who aren't the Byzantines

[Kerbodine]

Everyone's allying everyone, which is gonna make World War I even more painful.

And this is why Superior is probably going to stay as neutral as possible. The Switzerland of America.
Except I get to sell massive amounts of steel and food to everyone involved.
I sure hope nobody violates my ability to trade peacefully... (And no, this isn't an allusion to Real Life, I would never do something as immoral as say that 'all of a certain side's ships can use my flag to appear neutral even if they're actually Q-ships or carrying military goods. That would be far more offensive to the people of Superior than a ship carrying a few citizens into a war zone getting sunk.)

[The Valyria Empire]

Afghanistan wants to ally California. Is that it?

Honestly, I'll take anyone who aren't the Byzantines

I swear when we have our WW1 I'm going to be the Germany of this universe where everything will be blamed on me, I'll get turned into a republic and then I'll go fascist and start killing Je....I mean Muslims as the final solution.

[Kerbodine]

Can everyone please include dates and their nation at the beginning of In-Context posts?

I'm currently writing a January 10th edition of the Chicago Tribune, and it's rather difficult if I have no clue if Texas is invading Louisiana or if the Iberian king was just almost assassinated.

(Texas, I hate to pick on you, but you mention model 1894 guns and mass-produced airships; makes it hard to tell what era you're living in. Please find explanations for such things, and I'd prefer we not start pushing technology a decade forward.)

[Newne Carriebean7]

Can everyone please include dates and their nation at the beginning of In-Context posts?

I'm currently writing a January 10th edition of the Chicago Tribune, and it's rather difficult if I have no clue if Texas is invading Louisiana or if the Iberian king was just almost assassinated.

(Texas, I hate to pick on you, but you mention model 1894 guns and mass-produced airships; makes it hard to tell what era you're living in. Please find explanations for such things, and I'd prefer we not start pushing technology a decade forward.)

the crazy aide named richard has a small prototype like airship model in his room, and he also is a bit unstable, and so the ship might be imaginary in his head.
also, the model 1894 guns, I'll swap them out for colt lighting carbines, or better yet, the 1850's style colt repeating carbine. I never mentioned airships, I just had the mayor promise the future assassin aide lots of things, such as his own airship business, the man knows very little about it, and so is just trying to calm the mad man down from stabbing or shooting him, as I had seen before... I did some research I could find the earliest zeppelin in 1900, and so I might adjust the design to a smaller one, essentially two big air sacs that are connected with a carriage that also has an engine to steer a mortar, along with some rudders.

[Danceria]

Honestly, I'll take anyone who aren't the Byzantines

I swear when we have our WW1 I'm going to be the Germany of this universe where everything will be blamed on me, I'll get turned into a republic and then I'll go fascist and start killing Je....I mean Muslims as the final solution.

Wait, aren't you Deus and Vulting already, without the assistance of Hadolf Atler?

[St Georges Territory]

Honestly, I'll take anyone who aren't the Byzantines

I swear when we have our WW1 I'm going to be the Germany of this universe where everything will be blamed on me, I'll get turned into a republic and then I'll go fascist and start killing Je....I mean Muslims as the final solution.

See man, this is why we can't have nice things

[Nuxipal]

I swear when we have our WW1 I'm going to be the Germany of this universe where everything will be blamed on me, I'll get turned into a republic and then I'll go fascist and start killing Je....I mean Muslims as the final solution.

See man, this is why we can't have nice things

I'd say we could be friends (I'm China), but to be fair. China is more likely to try and extract tribute from you than outright ally you. Now, if you became a tributary, then I suppose we could see how an alliance works out for us. Nothing like having a million chinese soldiers marching through your country to your defense.

[Holoska]

Meanwhile, both Texas and Mexico want to be my friends, and both of them are gonna call me into war against the other. Feck.

[St Georges Territory]

See man, this is why we can't have nice things

I'd say we could be friends (I'm China), but to be fair. China is more likely to try and extract tribute from you than outright ally you. Now, if you became a tributary, then I suppose we could see how an alliance works out for us. Nothing like having a million chinese soldiers marching through your country to your defense.

I suppose that's better then having the Mughals, Russians and Byzantines tear me to shreds, I would be interested though.

[The Valyria Empire]

I'd say we could be friends (I'm China), but to be fair. China is more likely to try and extract tribute from you than outright ally you. Now, if you became a tributary, then I suppose we could see how an alliance works out for us. Nothing like having a million chinese soldiers marching through your country to your defense.

I suppose that's better then having the Mughals, Russians and Byzantines tear me to shreds, I would be interested though.

Honestly, Byzantium has no reason to go to war with you at the moment. You hold no traditional Roman land nor do you have any valuable resources.

Also that post above was a joke, I'm just saying I feel like everyone is going to brand me the bad guy in this RP.

[St Georges Territory]

Honestly, Byzantium has no reason to go to war with you at the moment. You hold no traditional Roman land nor do you have any valuable resources.

Also that post above was a joke, I'm just saying I feel like everyone is going to brand me the bad guy in this RP.

Yeah, I'm not sure why they would label you a bad guy- genocidal tendencies notwithstanding.

EDIT: I actually was thinking about flooding Constantinople with opium, we'll see.

My main problem is the whole killing turks, and the whole sacking Mecca thing.

Meanwhile, both Texas and Mexico want to be my friends, and both of them are gonna call me into war against the other. Feck.

I've rp'ed with Newne in a different thread... he's an independent spirit, good luck.

[Nuxipal]

I suppose that's better then having the Mughals, Russians and Byzantines tear me to shreds, I would be interested though.

Honestly, Byzantium has no reason to go to war with you at the moment. You hold no traditional Roman land nor do you have any valuable resources.

Also that post above was a joke, I'm just saying I feel like everyone is going to brand me the bad guy in this RP.

As one of the two (three?) Muslim nations left in the world.. you and the Mughals really should try and get along. Right now all I plan on doing, is industrializing. Getting my Emperor some heirs. And of course, enforcing rule across all of China. Then, if we feel the time is right, we can get some foreign policy going.

[St Georges Territory]

Honestly, Byzantium has no reason to go to war with you at the moment. You hold no traditional Roman land nor do you have any valuable resources.

Also that post above was a joke, I'm just saying I feel like everyone is going to brand me the bad guy in this RP.

As one of the two (three?) Muslim nations left in the world.. you and the Mughals really should try and get along. Right now all I plan on doing, is industrializing. Getting my Emperor some heirs. And of course, enforcing rule across all of China. Then, if we feel the time is right, we can get some foreign policy going.

If you check the Mughal app they basically claim a very strong portion of my territory, I'm trying, but it wouldn't hurt to have a friend like China

[Holoska]

Also that post above was a joke, I'm just saying I feel like everyone is going to brand me the bad guy in this RP.

- Religious persecution
- Ethnic persecution
- Enforcing state religion
- Desire to aggressively expand borders
- No distinguishable democracy

"Why does everyone call me the bad guy?"

[Danceria]

Meanwhile, both Texas and Mexico want to be my friends, and both of them are gonna call me into war against the other. Feck.

Not interested in warring with Texas, too busy pondering what to do with Venezuela, and the Caribbean atm.

As for Byzantine's actions, I have this to say

> Implying we're not Imperializing, and good, civilized christian nations who'd probably go out to drinks with the Emperor responsible for ending the Muslim Scourge once and for all and avenging the Crusaders.

[The Valyria Empire]

Also that post above was a joke, I'm just saying I feel like everyone is going to brand me the bad guy in this RP.

- Religious persecution
- Ethnic persecution
- Enforcing state religion
- Desire to aggressively expand borders
- No distinguishable democracy

"Why does everyone call me the bad guy?"

>What every monarchy did basically from 300 AD to 1913 AD

[Holoska]

Not interested in warring with Texas, too busy pondering what to do with Venezuela, and the Caribbean atm.

I know, but Texas is about to pull the trigger and both nations are gonna ask California to take a side.

>What every monarchy did basically from 300 AD to 1913 AD

You're the only one that openly flaunts it, though. Every other nation at least tries to hide it.

[The Valyria Empire]

Not interested in warring with Texas, too busy pondering what to do with Venezuela, and the Caribbean atm.

I know, but Texas is about to pull the trigger and both nations are gonna ask California to take a side.

>What every monarchy did basically from 300 AD to 1913 AD

You're the only one that openly flaunts it, though. Every other nation at least tries to hide it.

What's can I say, Byzantium is basically that old man who sits around dreaming of the old days who hasn't caught up with the times yet.

Trust me, there will be civil unrest, its freaking Byzantium. Civil unrest and Byzantium are like oreos and milk.

[Nuxipal]

Not interested in warring with Texas, too busy pondering what to do with Venezuela, and the Caribbean atm.

I know, but Texas is about to pull the trigger and both nations are gonna ask California to take a side.

>What every monarchy did basically from 300 AD to 1913 AD

You're the only one that openly flaunts it, though. Every other nation at least tries to hide it.

>.> Did you not read this part of one of my posts:

"The Qing Dynasty held a similar title, but they were all but extinct. There was currently an order out for the last member of their family to report to Nanjing to commit suicide."

Not exactly hiding if I send out a public order for the last member of a former royal family to come to a specific place for the purpose of committing suicide.

As one of the two (three?) Muslim nations left in the world.. you and the Mughals really should try and get along. Right now all I plan on doing, is industrializing. Getting my Emperor some heirs. And of course, enforcing rule across all of China. Then, if we feel the time is right, we can get some foreign policy going.

If you check the Mughal app they basically claim a very strong portion of my territory, I'm trying, but it wouldn't hurt to have a friend like China

That's rough. Perhaps you could send someone down the Silk Road to Beijing. Request an audience with the Emperor to plead your case before him.