Kargintina wrote:Nation Application
Full Nation Name: Republic of Britain
Short Nation Name: Britain, "The Republic"
National Symbols: Flag
Coat of Arms
Capital: London
Territory: British Isles, South Africa, Australia, British India
Form of Government: Parliamentary Republic
Head of State: President H. H. Asquith
Head of Government: Prime Minister Henry Hyndman
Population: 46,000,000
Military Description: The Army is very similar to how it was before the revolution that ousted the monarchy. The soldiers are well-trained and supplied and British officers are veterans of the Revolution. Military academies still stand and ensure that the British military is a professional of a force as it can possibly be. Weapons include the SMLE MK III, Lewis Gun, Webley revolver, Martini-Henry, and the Vickers MK I Machine Gun. British forces are deployed in India, Australia, South Africa and Ireland as garrison forces.
Economic Description: A strong mixture of Capitalism and Socialism, businesses can be owned by private corporations but the government regulates the corporations to hell. Workers get a full minimum wage of 25 pounds and can strike with full government support if they wish. However, competition is strongly encouraged by the government. Middle Class pays heavy taxes but the Upper Class has it worst, paying almost 60% of the nation's taxes.
Ideology: Social Democracy, although economic struggle is forcing more and more people to the Right as high taxes and business regulations sit heavy on the Middle Class.
Allegiance: Anyone who doesn't like Germany or the USA
Goals: Support the CSA, take the German Empire down a notch, protect former British colonies as they are on the path to becoming their own nations.
Point of Divergence: 1860
History: 1860, Almost 90 years after Great Britain's embarrassment at the hands of the 13 colonies, the fall of the United States into Civil War present a juicy opportunity to exact some light revenge upon the United States. After meeting in secret in London, Prime Minister Henry John Temple began a full funding of the Confederacy leading to their victory to distract the people from the crisis in India. In India, British forces were entrenched in combat against the Muzals which proved to be costly upon Britain and her Indian allies, a estimated 1,000,000 casualties betook the British coalition during the eight-year conflict. The people of Britain did not take kindly to this failure, and Left-Wing anti-war political parties began to spring up and speak out against the British monarchy.
The 1870s are argued to be the worst decade in the history of Britain. After a fight in Manchester between radical left-wing and local police turned into a mass riot the entire nation was put under martial law under the orders of Queen Victoria. Between 1876 and 1878 the United States decided to seize Britain's incredibly important colony of Canada and drive them off the North American continent. A year later Britain was defeated again in the Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa. At this point, the British economy was crumbling and the people blaming the Monarchy and the Nobility for the failures of the Empire. A mass revolt by the Irish in 1882 was the final straw as the military collapsed through mass mutiny. The solders no longer trusted their government after so many humiliating defeats. Suddenly, the streets of London, Manchester, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Liverpool were filled with riots. Workers rose up against factory owners and the English church, blaming them for the corruption and failure of the government. The revolt was supported by ex soldiers who no longer felt loyalty to the British government.
Victoria abdicated to Australia in early 1883 and began to set up a provisional monarchy there. Edward VII, Victoria's eldest son, led an angry mob of 50,000 Royalists to London in an attempt to retake the city and restore his mother's rule. After a failed attack, Edward fled to Edinburgh where he began to regroup his forces. The Republicans led a massive army north where they finally crushed Edward's forces once and for all. Ireland agreed to the New Republic without firing a shot, only two weeks before Republican forces would have invaded the island. Four years later, New Republic forces landed in Australia to capture the Queen in exile. After a small conflict, the Queen and her nephew George V were both captured; and Victoria, Edward and George were all executed on December 31st, 1889; with the officially declaration of the new Republic only 24 hours later. The conflict resulted in a total 350,000 deaths.
The Republic was not without turmoil however, as Anglicans protested the regime change until 1900 when Freedom of Religion was finally passed. Former nobility members demanded to be allowed into the new government which the Republicans reluctantly agreed to. The first election in 1900 saw President Henry Hyndman of the Socialist party elected as the nation's first real president after the end of the provisional government. The Parliament was in a divide with Socialists as the majority and the Conservative party consisting of mostly Nobility, Anglicans and Royalists as the two majority parties. The second ever election in 1905 saw Hyndman re-elected until 1910. Then, the silent majority elected moderate Liberal and former Nobleman H.H. Asquith to the presidency. To appease the Socialists, he appointed former President Hyndman to the position of Prime Minister, and tried to balance between the two radically different political parties. Asquith's realpolitik heavily follows the strategies of German Chancellor Otto Von Bismark in his manipulative tactics. Despite the end of the slave trade, Asquith has aided the Confederacy in transporting Slave labor over the Atlantic in order to secure trade from the Confederacy in return. He has also tried to befriend the Holy Roman Empire in order to secure an ally to counter Britain's main world rival: The German Empire.
It is now 1914, Asquith nears the end of his highly controversial term and both the Socialists and Conservatives race to find a candidate for the presidential campaign of 1915. Only time can tell what will come of the British Republic as the world seems to spiral towards conflict.
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