RED DAWN: The Next World War, An Alt History of WW2 (OPEN)

[Orostan]

IC soon?

[Democratic East-Asia]

you know what, I like your government description. I will take that and attempt to use it.

Alright, time to get to work.

Nice. Can I go ahead and make a list of the members of the Council of People's Commissars?

Sure thing I guess. I dunno a lot of this. Go for it.

[Democratic East-Asia]

You know what, I am confused. I have Trotsky as leader and Castriarta has some other guy...

Screw this. I shall fix some stuff.

[Castriarta]

You know what, I am confused. I have Trotsky as leader and Castriarta has some other guy...

Screw this. I shall fix some stuff.

You have Trotsky as General Secretary, which I assume means General Secretary of the Communist Party. General Secretary of the Communist Party is different from Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets and from Premier of the U.E.S.R., and it is merely extra-democratic to maintain all three as separate posts with separate duties instead of consolidating power into one office. BTW I added the list of People's Commissars to my app.

[Democratic East-Asia]

You know what, I am confused. I have Trotsky as leader and Castriarta has some other guy...

Screw this. I shall fix some stuff.

You have Trotsky as General Secretary, which I assume means General Secretary of the Communist Party. General Secretary of the Communist Party is different from Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets and from Premier of the U.E.S.R., and it is merely extra-democratic to maintain all three as separate posts with separate duties instead of consolidating power into one office. BTW I added the list of People's Commissars to my app.

Ok, sure. I'll link your app to the roster for now, before I combine things.

[Democratic East-Asia]

All details filled out now.

Full Nation Name : The Second Spanish Republic
Short Nation Name : Spain
Flag / National Symbols: Flag, Coat of Arms

Government Type : Semi-presidential Republic
Official Political Ideology : Liberal Democracy
Head of State : Niceto Alcalá-Zamora [deceased]
Head of Government : Juan Negrín y López
Government Description : A weak coalition of the liberal, republican and socialist parties.

Territory : Spain (except Gibraltar), Spanish Sahara, Guinea, the Protectorate of Morocco and the International Zone of Tangier
Territorial Ambitions : Differs between factions.
Capital City : Madrid - one of the largest cities in western Europe and located directly in the centre of the peninsula, all major factions on the mainland have roughly equal numbers of supporters here.
Population : 25.5 million.

Majority/Official Culture : Spanish

Majority/State Religion : Catholic

Major Industries / Economic sectors:
Amount of Industrialization : Catalonia and the Basque countries are the only two places where the value of manufacturing output exceeds the value of agriculture by 1938.
Economic Description : Spain is dominated by its agricultural sector, whose output is small in comparison to other European countries due to the low quality of the land and the poorly suited weather, with most of the country dominated by mountains and drought a frequent occurrence. The economy experienced a widescale revitalisation in the 1920s, with the land reform being instituted and an influx of foreign investment. In the aftermath of the Great Depression, however, economic growth was halted, and by 1938 there is little industrialisation outside the major cities and agricultural output remains poor.

Military Description

Army: 750,000 Infantry, with a further 250,000 in paramilitary groups. 490 tanks. 1500 artillery pieces. 310 armoured vehicles.

Navy: 1 España-class dreadnoughts, 4 cruisers, 17 destroyers, 6 B-Class, 6 C-Class and 3 D-Class submarines.

Air Force: 950 aircraft.


National Goals : Spain is divided into factions, each hoping to establish a new Spanish society adhering to their specific ideology.


History : In this timeline, General Miguel Primo de Rivera’s 1923 coup fails, resulting in a more stable, long lived Second Republic, lasting from 1923 up to the start of this RP, but Spain is far more polarised, too, setting the stage for a Spanish civil war more divisive and brutal than before.
In 1923 General Rivera, with the aid of King Alfonso XIII, attempted to take control of the Spanish government. He was, however, thwarted. This lead to the king’s abdication, although, crucially, not his exile. The Second Spanish Republic is founded in place of a monarch, with Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquis of Alhucemas, at its head. Things were going well for the new republic in its first few years, enacting a largely liberal, social democratic agenda to little opposition. However, the great depression threw the republic into disarray. A slew of weakened coalition governments drive the Republic further into recession, with far-left and right movements on the rise everywhere, and the military at all times moments from taking control. In late 1937, while strikes ravage the country, President Niceto Alcalá-Zamora holds a rally on Christmas day in order to ask the workers to return to their jobs. The routine speech goes awry, when Alcalá-Zamora is shot dead. 1938 dawns on a Spain in the midst of a succession crisis, with those on the far left and right seeing this as a chance to gain power. On the left, the moderate centre to centre-left republicans find themselves in a faction with the UESR-aligned Socialist Party, as well as the radical syndicalist CNT-FAI, operating out of Catalonia. The right consists of paramilitary groups operating under the leadership of the fascist Francisco Franco. Franco, a supporter of the Monarchists and the Prince Alfonso, is seen by his young patron as a radical extremist, useful for achieving his goals but useless once the monarchy is reinstated. Even among the aristocrats, typically a bastion of monarchist support, their is a divide, for some plot to restore Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma to the throne, a man of a differing line of descent in the Bourbon tree to the prince Alfonso, but popular among the Carlist movement. No matter which monarch takes control, there are those who recall the days of the Spanish Empire, and look overseas to the vast areas of central and south America that they once control, hoping to once again rule the Atlantic. While the left and right stand ready in their fractured factions, there are other movements in Spanish society. The military stand ready to take control independent of either faction, although to do so would surely spark war. In Galicia, and in the Basque country, people who never really felt integrated into the Spanish nation-state see this as a chance for greater autonomy, while the Aragonese aristocracy look west, to the Mediterranean they once controlled and remember when they were a major force in Europe in their own right. In Morocco, the Sultan Mohammed V has his own plans for independence, although doing so threatens to draw both Britain and France into the conflict in order to protect their own interests in the Tangier International Zone. Others perhaps will look with greedy eyes to Spain’s colony in Guinea, or hope to establish a friendly communist country on the Atlantic, or perhaps to keep the nation capitalist, no matter who controls it. No matter what happens, Spain in 1938 is a country that stands on the brink of anarchy.


#RedDawn1938

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[Democratic East-Asia]

Behold! The Glorious SU-100Y

[Hashirajima]

<Long app is long>

Done.

[Pacificora]

Reservation App

Name of country reserved: Persian Socialist League
Territory: Iran (and Afghanistan? Or am I not allowed to do that?)

[Democratic East-Asia]

Reservation App

Name of country reserved: Persian Socialist League
Territory: Iran (and Afghanistan? Or am I not allowed to do that?)

Reserved. Leave Afghanistan be for now though.

[Pacificora]

Reservation App

Name of country reserved: Persian Socialist League
Territory: Iran (and Afghanistan? Or am I not allowed to do that?)

Reserved. Leave Afghanistan be for now though.

k

[Democratic East-Asia]

k

It is not yet of Persian clay. You can invade later if you like.

[The Grande Republic 0f Arcadia]

Tag West Germany or All of Korea(Capitalist)

[Democratic East-Asia]

Tag West Germany or All of Korea(Capitalist)

West Germany is taken, and Korea is a Japanese colony as of 1938.

[Pacificora]

k

It is not yet of Persian clay. You can invade later if you like.

Aren't they socialist?

And am I part of the greater Socialist Union?

[Democratic East-Asia]

It is not yet of Persian clay. You can invade later if you like.

Aren't they socialist?

And am I part of the greater Socialist Union?

Afghanistan isn't part of the UESR as of now, it's simply been coerced to do mostly what the UESR says. But yes, you are part of the UESR.

[Castriarta]

It is not yet of Persian clay. You can invade later if you like.

Aren't they socialist?

And am I part of the greater Socialist Union?

Read both apps for the UESR because they have separate information, that way you'll know how the UESR state is structured and how each autonomous republic is structured as well.

[Democratic East-Asia]

Aren't they socialist?

And am I part of the greater Socialist Union?

Read both apps for the UESR because they have separate information, that way you'll know how the UESR state is structured and how each autonomous republic is structured as well.

I'll honestly have combine things soon just to clear stuff up.

[South Vict]

Read both apps for the UESR because they have separate information, that way you'll know how the UESR state is structured and how each autonomous republic is structured as well.

I'll honestly have combine things soon just to clear stuff up.

I changed my mind.

[Democratic East-Asia]

I'll honestly have combine things soon just to clear stuff up.

I changed my mind.

What do you even mean? Changed your mind on what?

[South Vict]

I changed my mind.

What do you even mean? Changed your mind on what?

I reserve Tibet.

[Republic of the Cristo]

Tag

[Savojarna]

How extensive do UESR sub-republic apps need to be? I mean, my political system is largely described in the union system, for example, right? About military, do I get my own or do I get assigned military by the UESR leadership?

[Orostan]

How extensive do UESR sub-republic apps need to be? I mean, my political system is largely described in the union system, for example, right? About military, do I get my own or do I get assigned military by the UESR leadership?

You can just make a normal application, you get your own political system and military.

[Democratic East-Asia]

How extensive do UESR sub-republic apps need to be? I mean, my political system is largely described in the union system, for example, right? About military, do I get my own or do I get assigned military by the UESR leadership?

You can just make a normal application, you get your own political system and military.

This.

Just make a normal application for the most part. The Union's political system really only applies to the union itself, and individual republics often have their own methods of governing. As for the military, don't do anything absolutely insane, and be realistic. You have your own individual military.