The Republic [Political RP - OOC] [Reboot]

[Apostolic Hungary]

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Nation Name: Apostolic Hungary
Character Name: Josef von Saxe-Zahringen-Tengen
Character Age: 36
Character Gender: Male
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Character Party: Traditionalist Allianz
Character Strengths: Well educated, intelligent, strong ties with the armed forces and the rural population
Character Weaknesses : Overconfident, too trusting, and politically inexperienced
Character Short Bio: Born in Tengen in 1982, Josef Albrecht Aloysius von Saxe-Zahringen-Tengen is the current pretender to the title of Grand Duke of Lowenmark, and the oldest son of Albrecht von Saxe-Zahringen-Tengen. Strictly educated in the Ducal family’s traditions, Josef graduated from St. Wolfgang’s Catholic University in Tengen before entering the Radolfzell Air Force Academy in 2001. Receiving his commission in 2007 he served five years in the Lowenmark Air Force before leaving in wake of substantial cuts to the military budget. However retained a commission in the Standschützen. In the fall of 2014 he met Kathrin Sophie von Hohenberg and married her the following year. In 2015, Duke Albrecht relinquished headship of the house of Saxe-Zahringen-Tengen due to failing health, and the title passed on Josef. The Traditionalists instantly rallied around the new Grand Duke, and the movement to restore the monarchy was revitalized. Increasingly popular with the younger generation of conservatives, Duke Josef begin his campaign for parliamentary election on the advice of the leaders of the Traditionalist Allianz.
Other info about your character: Member of the Order of the Golden Fleece, has two daughters and a son, is devoutly Catholic and an avid hunter.

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[Republic of the Cristo]

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Nation Name: Republic of the Cristo
Character Name: Kurt Richter
Character Age: 46
Character Gender: Male
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Character Party: TA
Character Strengths: Mr. Richter is astonishingly ruthless. Not so much in a malign way, but the ends to which he will go in order to achieve his goals make him a mark hard to pin down for his opponents. Another strength would be his conviction - plainly unpopular to many, Kurt has never hid his desires or intentions to anyone nor has he blatantly changed his beliefs throughout the course of his adult life. With that in mind, many people ( rivals included ) respect him for that conviction, a man who truly believes in what he says.
Character Weaknesses : His ruthlessness has garnered him a dangerous image to many in the political world. That he might turn around and suddenly side with the opposition in order to attain his goals makes many wary to trust him in any sort of compromise.
Character Short Bio: Richter was born middle class in the rural northwest of Lowenmark. His schooling years were markedly average. He would join the Aviation Corp following high school and serve in the Signals Corp as a Signals Operator. He would meet his wife Kathrine while in the Aviation corp and get married after dating for two years. Throughout his 8 years in the Aviation corp he would take college courses to become a public attorney. He would not officially engage in politics until after his tenure as an active duty soldiers was completed, were he would immediately begin attending numerous academic debates across Lowenmark, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. At 33, he would join a Pro-life protest group known for it's high profile stunts - his talents for lawyering would be called upon frequently while working with the group. At 36, He would become a member of the Traditionalist Alliance begin working at a local level. Now, at 46, he looks to run for the senate on a Hardline New Right political stance.
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He is, currently, the face of the more radical and nationalist wing of the Traditionalist Alliance. His loyalty to conservatism ( indeed, even the monarchy ) is much more questionable than his loyalty to nationalism.

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[Republic of the Cristo]

Is there a leader of the TA yet?

[The Free Republic Of Arconia]

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Nation Name:The Free Republic Of Arconia
Character Name: Heinrich Bauer
Character Age:42
Character Gender:M
Character Appearance:Blonde Hair, Blue-green eyes, wears glasses, average build, has a beard, 1.95 meters tall
Character Party:National Liberal Party
Character Strengths:Good Speaker, sociable
Character Weaknesses : does not work well with communists/socialists, has anger issues
Character Short Bio:Born in 1976 to a middle class family, Heinrich grew up in a conservative family. As a college student, he began to feel disgruntled by the state of party politics within the Christian socialist union. During a semester long stay in America, he discovered libertarianism, and began to apply the same general thinking to his own political beliefs. He hoped to work within the party to change the state of it, but left to join the National Liberals in 2015. He decided to run for a seat in parliament
Other info about your character: served 3 years in the Standschützen, left because of eyesight issues.

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[Republic of the Cristo]

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Nation Name:The Free Republic Of Arconia
Character Name: Heinrich Bauer
Character Age:27
Character Gender:M
Character Appearance:Blonde Hair, Blue-green eyes, wears glasses, average build, has a beard, 1.95 meters tall
Character Party:National Liberal Party
Character Strengths:Good Speaker, sociable
Character Weaknesses :Can't see without glasses, does not work well with communists/socialists
Character Short Bio:Born in 1991 to a middle class family, Heinrich grew up in a conservative family. As a college student, he began to feel disgruntled by the state of party politics within the Christian socialist union. During a semester long stay in America, he discovered libertarianism, and began to apply the same general thinking to his own political beliefs. He hoped to work within the party to change the state of it, but left to join the National Liberals in 2015. He decided to run for a seat in parliament
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You might want to make him older.

[The Free Republic Of Arconia]

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Nation Name:The Free Republic Of Arconia
Character Name: Heinrich Bauer
Character Age:27
Character Gender:M
Character Appearance:Blonde Hair, Blue-green eyes, wears glasses, average build, has a beard, 1.95 meters tall
Character Party:National Liberal Party
Character Strengths:Good Speaker, sociable
Character Weaknesses :Can't see without glasses, does not work well with communists/socialists
Character Short Bio:Born in 1991 to a middle class family, Heinrich grew up in a conservative family. As a college student, he began to feel disgruntled by the state of party politics within the Christian socialist union. During a semester long stay in America, he discovered libertarianism, and began to apply the same general thinking to his own political beliefs. He hoped to work within the party to change the state of it, but left to join the National Liberals in 2015. He decided to run for a seat in parliament
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You might want to make him older.

Ok he is now 32

[Republic of the Cristo]

You might want to make him older.

Ok he is now 32

The average age of an American congressman is 57 - a British MP is 50 - German Parliamentarian is 55. Just as an example.

[Apostolic Hungary]

Is there a leader of the TA yet?

Alagarve reserved leadership of the TA, but he hasn't finished his app yet.

[Republic of the Cristo]

Is there a leader of the TA yet?

Alagarve reserved leadership of the TA, but he hasn't finished his app yet.

Just curious.

I am planning on heading a more radical and nationalistic wing of the party - will attempt to get his conservative knickers in a twist.

[The Free Republic Of Arconia]

Ok he is now 32

The average age of an American congressman is 57 - a British MP is 50 - German Parliamentarian is 55. Just as an example.

I feel an appropriate age for the party would 36-40, given the national liberals are mainly Young Conservatives and students. Would that age be fine?

[Apostolic Hungary]

Alagarve reserved leadership of the TA, but he hasn't finished his app yet.

Just curious.

I am planning on heading a more radical and nationalistic wing of the party - will attempt to get his conservative knickers in a twist.

I think that's a great idea, I was just telling him that nationalism ought to be gaining some ground (anti-nationalist myself, but it's where the political zeitgeist is).

[Republic of the Cristo]

The average age of an American congressman is 57 - a British MP is 50 - German Parliamentarian is 55. Just as an example.

I feel an appropriate age for the party would 36-40, given the national liberals are mainly Young Conservatives and students. Would that age be fine?

Im not the OP, I can't make you do anything - but generally political figures are early 50's onward. It's not so much the base which determines the representatives of a party, but the more prosperous and well to do members of that base: typically adults who have worked a well paying job for years and are financially self sufficient and have had time for at least masters degree in college or more - people who are fully independent. 30's you are still in the middle of your real and professional job and not usually totally well of by that point.

But hey, you do what ever.

[The Free Republic Of Arconia]

Also perhaps a new IC Should be started.

[Guimar]

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Nation Name:Guimar
Character Name: Jurgen Weisskopf
Character Age: 60
Character Gender: Male
Character Appearance:An old man with short gray hair, blue eyes, and an egg shaped head with a heavily receding hairling. (Will post picture later, I can't now.)
Character Party: National Liberals
Character Strengths: Experienced, Charismatic, Energetic,
Character Weaknesses : Arrogant, Paranoid, Insecure.
Character Short Bio:Jurgen came from the city of Since, a city in close distance to Konstanz, only 30km. His parents were wealthy politicians in Singen who had various roles including Mayor, chairman, and more. As a result of his parents wealth he received a good, religious education at a local prestigious Catholic School. Here he became well vested and informed in both his faith and created the foundation for his conservative values. By the time he became roughly 18 however, his parents sent him off to Berlin to study politics and law, the notion already formed in both of their heads that Jurgen was to go into politics aswell. Which he eventually ended up doing, and also held various city leadership positions and even represented Singen at the national legislature, for the Christian Socialist Union. Jurgen married early for the time, at around 22, to a woman by the name of Angelika Brandt, a middle class woman out of Kreuzlingen. They would end up having 3 children, a boy, and 2 girls, the girls being twins. The eldest child, Antonin, became a businessman and owns a national chain Supermarket company, and is also very connected with the national community, including politically. He eventually joined the National Liberals when the party associated with Jurgens beliefs much more then the Christian Socialist Party.
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Being one of the oldest in the National Liberals, he is usually a source of advice and help in most times.

[Republic of the Cristo]

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Nation Name:Guimar
Character Name: Jurgen Weisskopf
Character Age: 60
Character Gender: Male
Character Appearance:An old man with short gray hair, blue eyes, and an egg shaped head with a heavily receding hairling. (Will post picture later, I can't now.)
Character Party: National Liberals
Character Strengths: Experienced, Charismatic, Energetic,
Character Weaknesses : Arrogant, Paranoid, Insecure.
Character Short Bio:Jurgen came from the city of Since, a city in close distance to Konstanz, only 30km. His parents were wealthy politicians in Singen who had various roles including Mayor, chairman, and more. As a result of his parents wealth he received a good, religious education at a local prestigious Catholic School. Here he became well vested and informed in both his faith and created the foundation for his conservative values. By the time he became roughly 18 however, his parents sent him off to Berlin to study politics and law, the notion already formed in both of their heads that Jurgen was to go into politics aswell. Which he eventually ended up doing, and also held various city leadership positions and even represented Singen at the national legislature, for the Christian Socialist Union. Jurgen married early for the time, at around 22, to a woman by the name of Angelika Brandt, a middle class woman out of Kreuzlingen. They would end up having 3 children, a boy, and 2 girls, the girls being twins. The eldest child, Antonin, became a businessman and owns a national chain Supermarket company, and is also very connected with the national community, including politically. He eventually joined the National Liberals when the party associated with Jurgens beliefs much more then the Christian Socialist Party.
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Being one of the oldest in the National Liberals, he is usually a source of advice and help in most times.

He's only like 60, how i he one of the oldest?

[Alouite]

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NS Nation Name: Alouite
Political Party Name: The National Liberal Party (Nationalliberale Partei)
Political Party main color: Light Blue
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Political Party Founder: Herman Dietrich, Erika Voß and Conrad Sternberg
Political Party Leader: Johann Wägner
Political Party History: The National Liberal Party, founded in 2014 by former CSP members Heinrich Dietrich, Erika Voß and a disgruntled former member of the Greens, Conrad Sternberg. The National Liberal Party was one of two splinter parties that resulted from the scandal associated with the CSP and merged with it's counterpart the Euro-skeptic and Nationalist Kundgebung von Patrioten (KvP). Their merger was drawn out and involved several positions from both parties being set aside, but in the end the parties agreed on the need for more power to be granted to the citizenry, for a moderately regulated but otherwise free market economy, for a skeptical position on the European Union and for a greater emphasis on civics in the nation. In 2016 the party exploded in popularity as reports of migrant crime were in the news throughout Germany and the NLP's nuanced approach to the migrant crisis has been well received in the country. Furthermore, in 2017, with the election of a new party leader Johann Wägner who was a popular Mayor of Überlingen and formerly an officer in the Landwehr the party has continued to gain popular support. During the year of 2017 and leading into 2018 the party held several rallies celebrating Lowenmark's history of independence as a free state and hosting conferences in which they raise concerns regarding the current trajectory of the European Union.
Political Party Values and Goals: The party is socially conservative on several political positions such as abortion and issues surrounding transgender identity and is also known for supporting limits to immigration to allow for proper resources to be allocated to the integration of new citizens in Lowenmark. The party has rapidly grown in its Euro-skepticism and sees the poverty in Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal as being emblematic of the organization's failures to allow people to elect members of European Parliament and the concentration of power in the hands of France and Germany. With regards to business, the party believes that with the exception of breaking up oligopolies and multinational corporations which clog up the market and prevent small businesses and native corporations from functioning, regulations should be simple and mostly focused with sanitation and environmental conservation. The latter of the two, environmental conservation, is mostly rooted in the sense of national pride that they derive from the beauty and cleanliness of the country in comparison to others. The party believes in the importance of the consent of the governed, and firmly believes that if 15% of registered voters in the nation sign a petition for a referendum, that that should become a government priority. Finally, the party believes in a need for the country to overhaul its welfare system and re-configure it based on the Swiss model.
Other info about your party: The party is officially secular though it associates with Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and moderate Muslim community leaders in the country which it sees as being an important part of a working community. The party is known for its association with the Swiss FDP, the Austrian FPO, and the Italian M5S.

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Character Name: Johann Wägner
Character Age: 45
Character Gender: Male
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Character Party: National Liberal Party
Character Strengths: Charismatic, Intellectual, Powerful Speaker.
Character Weaknesses : Disliked and actively opposed by the Establishment, a bit of a Loose Canon sometimes, struggles to get votes from a significant number of the elderly, particularly those 65 and older who tend to consider him 'brash' due to his rants about the European Union and Immigration crisis.
Character Short Bio: Born in Salem, Lowenmark to Wilhelm A. Wägner, a Retired Captain in the Landwehr, and Corina Wägner, Johann was raised in the small city where he embraced his ancestry and succeeded with ease in the local school. At age 18, he joined the Landwehr and served faithfully rising to the rank of Lance Corporal, after his initial three year contract expired, he re-enlisted on a five year contract which he served with distinction eventually being promoted to the rank of Sergeant Major before retiring. With years of military service behind him, he went to college and studied Economics and Business Management, when he graduated in 1998 he he moved to Überlingen and began looking for jobs. However, after only four years working as a banker for Deutsche Bank he found himself disinterested in his career and he settled for joining the local police department in 2002 where he was given an early promotion to Sergeant after six months of service due to his prior military service. During his time in the police force he met a young woman working at the precinct named Christina Ross, and fell in love. Together they would get married years later and had their first child, Lukas in 2006. In 2007 he retired from the police force and aged 34 he decided to run for mayor. He campaigned with the support of the police and used his military background and educational experiences to justify his capabilities and was allowed to run as a representative for the NCU party. He learned that he was a good public speaker during his run for office and pledged that he would not sell out to corporate interests unlike several of his opponents. The result was him getting elected by a 4% margin, defeating the incumbent CSP mayor Karl Bauer, and with this upset his political career began.

Mayor of Überlingen
(2007-2015)

Johann knew that he was going to have to deal with rising poverty resulting from the global recession which had begun towards the end of his campaign for office, and deep down he knew that the wrong move could sink his career. However, he remained steadfast pushed for community outreach and put massive funding into a city renovations project. The project would invest money into restoring the city center and roadways outlying it. The current police chief in power was respected by most Überlingen Citizens, so, he decided there would be no Deputy Mayor, and that instead, when needed, the Police Chief would step in to assist in any affairs not managed by the mayor. During the renovations project hundreds of homes that had been abandoned by the poor in the city were torn down across the city and he used the reconstruction project to create jobs, called the Civil Restoration Corps. The jobs created renovating the city and removing abandoned houses helped boost the economy as well as businesses and tourism saw a boost. Later in 2011, he began the Business Restoration Project, and began promoting local shops and businesses, cutting taxes on local businesses as well as putting jobs programs in place after getting a sponsorship from more successful businesses in the city. The jobs program connected struggling businesses in the community to unemployed workers who could not find work. In 2011 he was re-elected, now with a majority of the vote gaining 53% of the vote. To celebrate the city's recovery from the recession, in 2012 the Überlingen Riverwalk and Downtown Überlingen were given a complete overhaul with any abandoned buildings towards the outskirts of the city being auctioned off to startup businesses or converted into something useful. In 2013 he furthered community outreach by having the police and the CRC work together to clean up and fix broken down neighborhoods removing litter, fixing pavement, and repairing damaged educational and public buildings in a project which was sponsored by businesses in the city in exchange for the funding to count towards charitable donations by those businesses. Later that year, the Anti-Corruption campaign was launched, later than would've been desired, but still in good time, by the end of the year over 50 notable businessmen, policemen, and even a city council member along with members of small gangs that had formed during the peak of unemployment were arrested in Operation Cleanup which aimed to root out much of the corruption in the city. While far from perfect, Mayor Wägner had kept the city from falling apart as many other small European cities had, had cleaned up the River area and renovated the city, brought down crime significantly, and used his limited but now substantial knowledge of business and economics to help grow the economy. However, there are significant number of people who say he was not nearly enough of an interventionist in his approach to fixing problems in the city and only made it look aesthetically better while leaving the actual problems in place. His achievements made him genuinely happy, however, they also made him crave a greater project, so he ran for Member of Parliament representing Überlingen against incumbent and already disliked Klaus Schauer in 2014 endorsing his police chief in the mayoral elections.

Member of Parliament
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Winning the election with an 8% margin over his closest competitor Klaus Schauer, Johann ran a positive campaign for the most part, speaking about his military service, time in the police force, and progress while Mayor of Überlingen. He said in a conclusion to one of his political speeches in Überlingen, "What I have done in Überlingen I will work towards for all of Lowenmark. I will never forget my time as mayor of our city, and as your member of Parliament I will never let them fall behind in their current line of progress. However, for me, it is time to aspire to something higher. I truly believe that I could contribute greatly to this beautiful nation, but in the end, that isn't even what this is about. It is about us as citizens of Lowenmark and what we can do when we stand together for greatness, and against corruption, and those who would seek to divide us. Together, we will accomplish many great things." and from that day on he was labelled a firebrand in his own political ideology. He had defeated the establishment in his party, and after a rocky start against Schauer who started out with a 32% of the vote to Johann's 30% managed to grow a grassroots movement and fund his political campaign 75% on individual contributions, with the rest, coming from businesses in Überlingen. Many the same companies that he had worked with during the Überlingen Renovations project, so he took some relief in knowing that in the past it hadn't effected his ability to run his office without corporate interests. Soon the election came and the results were relieving, 35% to 29% with Schauer being defeated handily after a widely watched debate between the two in which Johann roasted the politician for his inactivity in Parliament and laziness.

With the elections over, Johann began working towards crafting legislation that would provide tax breaks for small businesses across Lowenmark owned by citizens and give them a competitive edge over businesses that were run by businesses from out of the country. The legislation managed to get support from the newly formed NLP and a minority of the CSP, but his own CSU was not interested in backing his legislation and it ultimately failed to be passed. This led to Johann attending several NLP conferences and eventually changing parties. However, Johann rose to national and even international prominence after the 2016 Panama Papers scandal tore through Lowenmark humiliating the incumbent Chancellor. Johann became a major voice of the opposition and he called for the resignation of the Chancellor becoming a major part of the political push against the CSP. He made a speech on state television in which he famously stated of the CSP leadership that "These elected representatives, who were almost exclusively elected in areas with low voter turnout, have acted like entitled grown up children who are angry because their refusal to think freely of their corporate donors compels them to fight against the welfare of Lowenmark's people. This is not a Gottschalk problem either, it's the entirety of the CSP who make off with money storing it away in tax havens while they proclaim a moral high ground on other matters, these people are incapable of cleaning their hands of corruption because they are the corruption. I have gotten a lot of support from dissenting members of the CSP in some of my anti-corruption proposals, and I would even endorse in their campaigns if they requested it, though I have heard word about splintering and would encourage them to break away from these corrupt and bloated egotists who run the CSP as soon as possible. This is a problem of corrupt officials trying to bar real progress and a working system from being put in place." at a rally in Konstanz. A senior member of the CSP reacted by calling Johann 'a raving lunatic mad with his pursuit of power'. However, he rebutted these claims in a second speech, this time in his birthplace of Salem where he said "These people now dare call me a lunatic mad with power. But what is lunacy is blocking a proposal to place restrictions in place that will prevent the government from repeating these obvious crimes against the country. For that is either lunacy or deep, deep corruption. And mark my word, if it is the latter it will be uprooted." In 2016 news of elections came and Johann spent much of his time campaigning with both NCU and members of the new NLP and the KvP splinter party in an attempt to build a coalition in the coming election. This led to him increasingly coming to find the KvP agreeable and in late 2016 after the horrors of the the migrant crisis became apparent he spearheaded the merger between the NLP and KvP in which the KvP became a wing within the NLP. His popularity and relative experience was much appreciated by the young party and in the 2017 leadership election, Johann was made the new party leader. Since his election his views have evolved further with him coming to vocally oppose far left elements in the country, holding increasingly Euro-skeptic rallies and promoting his own brand of a fusion of National Liberalism and Classical Liberalism.
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[Republic of the Cristo]

My app is done

[Apostolic Hungary]

Should see some updated, nicer maps later today. I sent them to Lowenmark earlier.

[Lowenmark]

Should see some updated, nicer maps later today. I sent them to Lowenmark earlier.

Updated OP. Thanks for the maps.

[Lowenmark]

I want to make a communist party but seeing there is already one what do I do OP

Well, Labour Party isn't really communist, but you can certainly apply for leadership or membership.

[Lowenmark]

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NS Nation Name:Anderhold
Political Party Name:National Citizens Union/Nationale Bürgerunion
Political Party main color: Blue and White
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Political Party Founder:Theodor Wulff
Political Party Leader:Gregor Landauer
Political Party History: The National Citizen Union was founded post-WW2 by social conservative, Theodor Wulff. The party's main principles during this time periood was that of rebuilding and support for the US marshall plan. In 1964 it entered government for the first time along side the Christian Social Party, during this time the party was lead by moderates such as Ernst Thiel moved the party more and more to become liberal, accepting more and more social reforms. However, following the panama papers coming to light, the party has recently gone through a leadership election, it's winner being hardliner Gregor Landauer who has pushed the party towards an authoritian ideology in an attempt to block the growing power of the Traditionalist Alliance. There has been little to no support recently by the National Citizen Union to the Christain Social Party, who they claim have betrayed their Christain Heritage.
Political Party Values and Goals:
-Remain Part of the EU for now
-Limited government intervention
-Securement of economic surplus
-Expansion of the military to keep up with Nato Agreement
-Try and remain in goverment and show stable leadership
Other info about your party:
Allied to European People's Party

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Will do Gregor Landauer's application tomorrow. Goodnight

Eh... NCU is probably the last party in Lowenmark to support authoritarianism, and the TA certainly isn't enough to provoke such a change. The NCU isn't really a Christian party either. That's more the TA and CSP's racket.

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Nation Name: Apostolic Hungary
Character Name: Josef von Saxe-Zahringen-Tengen
Character Age: 36
Character Gender: Male
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Character Party: Traditionalist Allianz
Character Strengths: Well educated, intelligent, strong ties with the armed forces and the rural population
Character Weaknesses : Overconfident, too trusting, and politically inexperienced
Character Short Bio: Born in Tengen in 1982, Josef Albrecht Aloysius von Saxe-Zahringen-Tengen is the current pretender to the title of Grand Duke of Lowenmark, and the oldest son of Albrecht von Saxe-Zahringen-Tengen. Strictly educated in the Ducal family’s traditions, Josef graduated from St. Wolfgang’s Catholic University in Tengen before entering the Radolfzell Air Force Academy in 2001. Receiving his commission in 2007 he served five years in the Lowenmark Air Force before leaving in wake of substantial cuts to the military budget. However retained a commission in the Standschützen. In the fall of 2014 he met Kathrin Sophie von Hohenberg and married her the following year. In 2015, Duke Albrecht relinquished headship of the house of Saxe-Zahringen-Tengen due to failing health, and the title passed on Josef. The Traditionalists instantly rallied around the new Grand Duke, and the movement to restore the monarchy was revitalized. Increasingly popular with the younger generation of conservatives, Duke Josef begin his campaign for parliamentary election on the advice of the leaders of the Traditionalist Allianz.
Other info about your character: Member of the Order of the Golden Fleece, has two daughters and a son, is devoutly Catholic and an avid hunter.

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Accepted.

[Lowenmark]

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Nation Name: Republic of the Cristo
Character Name: Kurt Richter
Character Age: 46
Character Gender: Male
Character Appearance:

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Character Party: TA
Character Strengths: Mr. Richter is astonishingly ruthless. Not so much in a malign way, but the ends to which he will go in order to achieve his goals make him a mark hard to pin down for his opponents. Another strength would be his conviction - plainly unpopular to many, Kurt has never hid his desires or intentions to anyone nor has he blatantly changed his beliefs throughout the course of his adult life. With that in mind, many people ( rivals included ) respect him for that conviction, a man who truly believes in what he says.
Character Weaknesses : His ruthlessness has garnered him a dangerous image to many in the political world. That he might turn around and suddenly side with the opposition in order to attain his goals makes many wary to trust him in any sort of compromise.
Character Short Bio: Richter was born middle class in the rural northwest of Lowenmark. His schooling years were markedly average. He would join the Aviation Corp following high school and serve in the Signals Corp as a Signals Operator. He would meet his wife Kathrine while in the Aviation corp and get married after dating for two years. Throughout his 8 years in the Aviation corp he would take college courses to become a public attorney. He would not officially engage in politics until after his tenure as an active duty soldiers was completed, were he would immediately begin attending numerous academic debates across Lowenmark, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. At 33, he would join a Pro-life protest group known for it's high profile stunts - his talents for lawyering would be called upon frequently while working with the group. At 36, He would become a member of the Traditionalist Alliance begin working at a local level. Now, at 46, he looks to run for the senate on a Hardline New Right political stance.
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He is, currently, the face of the more radical and nationalist wing of the Traditionalist Alliance. His loyalty to conservatism ( indeed, even the monarchy ) is much more questionable than his loyalty to nationalism.

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Accepted, though the TA isn't really nationalistic at all.

[Lowenmark]

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Nation Name:The Free Republic Of Arconia
Character Name: Heinrich Bauer
Character Age:42
Character Gender:M
Character Appearance:Blonde Hair, Blue-green eyes, wears glasses, average build, has a beard, 1.95 meters tall
Character Party:National Liberal Party
Character Strengths:Good Speaker, sociable
Character Weaknesses :Can't see without glasses, does not work well with communists/socialists
Character Short Bio:Born in 1976 to a middle class family, Heinrich grew up in a conservative family. As a college student, he began to feel disgruntled by the state of party politics within the Christian socialist union. During a semester long stay in America, he discovered libertarianism, and began to apply the same general thinking to his own political beliefs. He hoped to work within the party to change the state of it, but left to join the National Liberals in 2015. He decided to run for a seat in parliament
Other info about your character: served 3 years in the Standschützen

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I need weaknesses in his character, i.e. character flaws, not general weaknesses that he posseses.

[Lowenmark]

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NS Nation Name: Alouite
Political Party Name: The National Liberal Party (Nationalliberale Partei)
Political Party main color: Light Blue
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Political Party Founder: Herman Dietrich, Erika Voß and Conrad Sternberg
Political Party Leader: Johann Wägner
Political Party History: The National Liberal Party, founded in 2014 by former CSP members Heinrich Dietrich, Erika Voß and a disgruntled former member of the Greens, Conrad Sternberg. The National Liberal Party was one of two splinter parties that resulted from the scandal associated with the CSP and merged with it's counterpart the Euro-skeptic and Nationalist Kundgebung von Patrioten (KvP). Their merger was drawn out and involved several positions from both parties being set aside, but in the end the parties agreed on the need for more power to be granted to the citizenry, for a moderately regulated but otherwise free market economy, for a skeptical position on the European Union and for a greater emphasis on civics in the nation. In 2016 the party exploded in popularity as reports of migrant crime were in the news throughout Germany and the NLP's nuanced approach to the migrant crisis has been well received in the country. Furthermore, in 2017, with the election of a new party leader Johann Wägner who was a popular Mayor of Überlingen and formerly an officer in the Landwehr the party has continued to gain popular support. During the year of 2017 and leading into 2018 the party held several rallies celebrating Lowenmark's history of independence as a free state and hosting conferences in which they raise concerns regarding the current trajectory of the European Union.
Political Party Values and Goals: The party is socially conservative on several political positions such as abortion and issues surrounding transgender identity and is also known for supporting limits to immigration to allow for proper resources to be allocated to the integration of new citizens in Lowenmark. The party has rapidly grown in its Euro-skepticism and sees the poverty in Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal as being emblematic of the organization's failures to allow people to elect members of European Parliament and the concentration of power in the hands of France and Germany. With regards to business, the party believes that with the exception of breaking up oligopolies and multinational corporations which clog up the market and prevent small businesses and native corporations from functioning, regulations should be simple and mostly focused with sanitation and environmental conservation. The latter of the two, environmental conservation, is mostly rooted in the sense of national pride that they derive from the beauty and cleanliness of the country in comparison to others. The party believes in the importance of the consent of the governed, and firmly believes that if 15% of registered voters in the nation sign a petition for a referendum, that that should become a government priority. Finally, the party believes in a need for the country to overhaul its welfare system and re-configure it based on the Swiss model.
Other info about your party: The party is officially secular though it associates with Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and moderate Muslim community leaders in the country which it sees as being an important part of a working community. The party is known for its association with the Swiss FDP, the Austrian FPO, and the Italian M5S.

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Character Name: Johann Wägner
Character Age: 45
Character Gender: Male
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Character Party: National Liberal Party
Character Strengths: Charismatic, Intellectual, Powerful Speaker.
Character Weaknesses : Disliked and actively opposed by the Establishment, a bit of a Loose Canon sometimes, struggles to get votes from a significant number of the elderly, particularly those 65 and older who tend to consider him 'brash' due to his rants about the European Union and Immigration crisis.
Character Short Bio: Born in Salem, Lowenmark to Wilhelm A. Wägner, a Retired Captain in the Landwehr, and Corina Wägner, Johann was raised in the small city where he embraced his ancestry and succeeded with ease in the local school. At age 18, he joined the Landwehr and served faithfully rising to the rank of Lance Corporal, after his initial three year contract expired, he re-enlisted on a five year contract which he served with distinction eventually being promoted to the rank of Sergeant Major before retiring. With years of military service behind him, he went to college and studied Economics and Business Management, when he graduated in 1998 he he moved to Überlingen and began looking for jobs. However, after only four years working as a banker for Deutsche Bank he found himself disinterested in his career and he settled for joining the local police department in 2002 where he was given an early promotion to Sergeant after six months of service due to his prior military service. During his time in the police force he met a young woman working at the precinct named Christina Ross, and fell in love. Together they would get married years later and had their first child, Lukas in 2006. In 2007 he retired from the police force and aged 34 he decided to run for mayor. He campaigned with the support of the police and used his military background and educational experiences to justify his capabilities and was allowed to run as a representative for the NCU party. He learned that he was a good public speaker during his run for office and pledged that he would not sell out to corporate interests unlike several of his opponents. The result was him getting elected by a 4% margin, defeating the incumbent CSP mayor Karl Bauer, and with this upset his political career began.

Mayor of Überlingen
(2007-2015)

Johann knew that he was going to have to deal with rising poverty resulting from the global recession which had begun towards the end of his campaign for office, and deep down he knew that the wrong move could sink his career. However, he remained steadfast pushed for community outreach and put massive funding into a city renovations project. The project would invest money into restoring the city center and roadways outlying it. The current police chief in power was respected by most Überlingen Citizens, so, he decided there would be no Deputy Mayor, and that instead, when needed, the Police Chief would step in to assist in any affairs not managed by the mayor. During the renovations project hundreds of homes that had been abandoned by the poor in the city were torn down across the city and he used the reconstruction project to create jobs, called the Civil Restoration Corps. The jobs created renovating the city and removing abandoned houses helped boost the economy as well as businesses and tourism saw a boost. Later in 2011, he began the Business Restoration Project, and began promoting local shops and businesses, cutting taxes on local businesses as well as putting jobs programs in place after getting a sponsorship from more successful businesses in the city. The jobs program connected struggling businesses in the community to unemployed workers who could not find work. In 2011 he was re-elected, now with a majority of the vote gaining 53% of the vote. To celebrate the city's recovery from the recession, in 2012 the Überlingen Riverwalk and Downtown Überlingen were given a complete overhaul with any abandoned buildings towards the outskirts of the city being auctioned off to startup businesses or converted into something useful. In 2013 he furthered community outreach by having the police and the CRC work together to clean up and fix broken down neighborhoods removing litter, fixing pavement, and repairing damaged educational and public buildings in a project which was sponsored by businesses in the city in exchange for the funding to count towards charitable donations by those businesses. Later that year, the Anti-Corruption campaign was launched, later than would've been desired, but still in good time, by the end of the year over 50 notable businessmen, policemen, and even a city council member along with members of small gangs that had formed during the peak of unemployment were arrested in Operation Cleanup which aimed to root out much of the corruption in the city. While far from perfect, Mayor Wägner had kept the city from falling apart as many other small European cities had, had cleaned up the River area and renovated the city, brought down crime significantly, and used his limited but now substantial knowledge of business and economics to help grow the economy. However, there are significant number of people who say he was not nearly enough of an interventionist in his approach to fixing problems in the city and only made it look aesthetically better while leaving the actual problems in place. His achievements made him genuinely happy, however, they also made him crave a greater project, so he ran for Member of Parliament representing Überlingen against incumbent and already disliked Klaus Schauer in 2014 endorsing his police chief in the mayoral elections.

Member of Parliament
(2014-)

Winning the election with an 8% margin over his closest competitor Klaus Schauer, Johann ran a positive campaign for the most part, speaking about his military service, time in the police force, and progress while Mayor of Überlingen. He said in a conclusion to one of his political speeches in Überlingen, "What I have done in Überlingen I will work towards for all of Lowenmark. I will never forget my time as mayor of our city, and as your member of Parliament I will never let them fall behind in their current line of progress. However, for me, it is time to aspire to something higher. I truly believe that I could contribute greatly to this beautiful nation, but in the end, that isn't even what this is about. It is about us as citizens of Lowenmark and what we can do when we stand together for greatness, and against corruption, and those who would seek to divide us. Together, we will accomplish many great things." and from that day on he was labelled a firebrand in his own political ideology. He had defeated the establishment in his party, and after a rocky start against Schauer who started out with a 32% of the vote to Johann's 30% managed to grow a grassroots movement and fund his political campaign 75% on individual contributions, with the rest, coming from businesses in Überlingen. Many the same companies that he had worked with during the Überlingen Renovations project, so he took some relief in knowing that in the past it hadn't effected his ability to run his office without corporate interests. Soon the election came and the results were relieving, 35% to 29% with Schauer being defeated handily after a widely watched debate between the two in which Johann roasted the politician for his inactivity in Parliament and laziness.

With the elections over, Johann began working towards crafting legislation that would provide tax breaks for small businesses across Lowenmark owned by citizens and give them a competitive edge over businesses that were run by businesses from out of the country. The legislation managed to get support from the newly formed NLP and a minority of the CSP, but his own CSU was not interested in backing his legislation and it ultimately failed to be passed. This led to Johann attending several NLP conferences and eventually changing parties. However, Johann rose to national and even international prominence after the 2016 Panama Papers scandal tore through Lowenmark humiliating the incumbent Chancellor. Johann became a major voice of the opposition and he called for the resignation of the Chancellor becoming a major part of the political push against the CSP. He made a speech on state television in which he famously stated of the CSP leadership that "These elected representatives, who were almost exclusively elected in areas with low voter turnout, have acted like entitled grown up children who are angry because their refusal to think freely of their corporate donors compels them to fight against the welfare of Lowenmark's people. This is not a Gottschalk problem either, it's the entirety of the CSP who make off with money storing it away in tax havens while they proclaim a moral high ground on other matters, these people are incapable of cleaning their hands of corruption because they are the corruption. I have gotten a lot of support from dissenting members of the CSP in some of my anti-corruption proposals, and I would even endorse in their campaigns if they requested it, though I have heard word about splintering and would encourage them to break away from these corrupt and bloated egotists who run the CSP as soon as possible. This is a problem of corrupt officials trying to bar real progress and a working system from being put in place." at a rally in Konstanz. A senior member of the CSP reacted by calling Johann 'a raving lunatic mad with his pursuit of power'. However, he rebutted these claims in a second speech, this time in his birthplace of Salem where he said "These people now dare call me a lunatic mad with power. But what is lunacy is blocking a proposal to place restrictions in place that will prevent the government from repeating these obvious crimes against the country. For that is either lunacy or deep, deep corruption. And mark my word, if it is the latter it will be uprooted." In 2016 news of elections came and Johann spent much of his time campaigning with both NCU and members of the new NLP and the KvP splinter party in an attempt to build a coalition in the coming election. This led to him increasingly coming to find the KvP agreeable and in late 2016 after the horrors of the the migrant crisis became apparent he spearheaded the merger between the NLP and KvP in which the KvP became a wing within the NLP. His popularity and relative experience was much appreciated by the young party and in the 2017 leadership election, Johann was made the new party leader. Since his election his views have evolved further with him coming to vocally oppose far left elements in the country, holding increasingly Euro-skeptic rallies and promoting his own brand of a fusion of National Liberalism and Classical Liberalism.
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