Nation Application NS name: Kingdom of Joohan
Nation Name: Kingdom Of Serbia
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https://imgur.com/qJfUNRk Leader/s: Regent Zivko Dusan
Population: 5.5 million
Political Stability on a scale of 1 to 5: 2
Description of Government: A temporary monarchy - by the end of the year the monarchy will be dissolved due to the royal family being believed to be entirely dead. In it's place, a single-party military dictatorship shall hold the reigns of power with supremacy.
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Capital: Belgrade
Economic prosperity on a scale of 1 to 5( 5, it's like the war never even happened! 1, dark ages misery ): 2
Agrarian or industrialized state: Agrarian
Role of Women in society ( likely to have changed in many more war torn areas ): Women, due to a majority of adult men dying off during the war, have obtain significant status and position in the new Serbia. Female laborers, managers, local officials, even party leaders are a common sight ever since the end of the war and the still relatively low male population.
Active military troop count ( separate by branches ): 69,000 total soldiers.
67,000 soldiers are employed in the royal army
2,000 airmen are employed in the royal air force
there does not currently exist a navy
Total possible troop count: 1.8 million
Average age of soldier: 17
Are your troops more tactical or fanatical?: fanatical
Are your troops more organized or unconventional?: unconventional
Is your doctrine bold or cautious?: bold
Average soldier on a scale of 1 to 5 ( 5, your an Army Ranger. 1, you're a 13 year old with a rifle): 2
A general run down of your equipment ( as well as anything of note ): The average soldier is fielded with a mosh posh assortment of equipment from the first world war ( mostly from the former Yugoslav and Austro-Hungarian armories ) such as typical bolt action rifles and pistols - to modern late war weaponry left over from axis soldiers such as assault rifles, armored vehicles, bazookas, etc.
For notable equipment left over, in addition to about a dozen jet planes left over by the Luftwaffe and some nerve gas, three radio frequency weapons were also captured and are in use by the army.
Enemies?: First and foremost Croatia - followed by Germany, Italy, and an unspoken resentment towards the Roman Catholic Church
Nation's history: Though rebellion and revolt had been a common theme throughout Serbia since the occupation had began in 1941, the resistance movement had begun amping up the ferocity and boldness of their attacks beginning in the opening days of 1945, in solidarity with the dozens of other revolts occurring throughout the occupied Slavic world. With fewer troops than ever carrying out the counter-insurgency, partisans and chetniks began dropping hit and run tactics in favor of more bold maneuvers like overwhelming isolated patrol groups and fire bases. The policy of killing 100 civilians for every dead German soldier was quickly dropped by February of that year, in response to undermanned squads being completely mobbed and murdered when attempting to enter a town. With minimal supplies and reinforcements being able to reach the country, Italian and German forces retreated to secure, defensible positions throughout Serbia and Montenegro - allowing for partisan groups to have free range over the countryside. It was believed by most commanders, at the time, that they would be able to hold out in their defensive strongholds until reinforcements could arrive and would assist in retaking the countryside.
As months passed and the occupying forces continued to desperately defend their defenses from the wrath of vengeful partisans, the notion of reinforcement and supply was shattered when Italy withdrew itself from the Axis and the war effort entirely ( in response to Germany's unapproved atomic bombing of Sicily ). Suddenly, Italian and German forces now found themselves forbidden to cooperate with each other by their respective military commands, even further isolating the remaining pockets of Axis defense. With mounting casualties mounting in the millions continued to rake the Axis across the world, the notion of reinforcing the German defense pockets ( and even the Italian defenders ) become an impossibility. By January of 1947, the last defensive pocket was cleared of German soldiers outside of Novi Sad. The capture of these strong points were the culmination of months of siege and close range combat. For the axis defenders, they knew that there would be no mercy for the prisoners, forcing most to fight to the death. For those few who had managed to be captured, the partisan retribution for months of battle and years of occupation would be brutal: torture, execution, and even rape were common atrocities placed upon those few unlikely prisoners.
With the axis driven from Montenegro, Serbia, and Macedonia, debate began fermenting among the various rebel groups as to their next course of action. Two questions in particular divided the rebel groups: Who should lead the new government, and what of the fate of the rest of Yugoslavia? Throughout the occupation, the rebel groups had largely been separate into two camps: Chetniks ( monarchist loyalists ), led by Draža Mihailović, and Partisans ( communist revolutionaries ), led by Joseph Broz Tito. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the partisan's had slowly begun to recede further from the dissident scene, what with lacking support from their foreign backer. They still maintained a sizable power base in the highlands of Montenegro, however, and led the siege of several Italian hold outs. Fighting between these groups had been a constant struggle prior to the general Slav uprising of 1945, during which each side had agreed to cooperate against the German and Italian occupiers. Now that the Germans and Italians had effectively been driven out of the country, fighting between the two groups started up once again. Though the Partisans were outnumbered by the Chetniks,the fighting was largely stagnate, with little progress made on either side. By March of 1947, to many commanders on both sides, it was clear that in the current state of conflict that no victory could be had for either side without out decisive action. Mihailovic believed that, were he able to defeat the Croats to the north ( a collaborationist state which had assisted the axis in the occupation of Yugoslavia ) and reunite them into Serbia, that popular support would decisively swing towards the Chetniks, allowing them the strength, morale, and manpower they would need in order to finally declare themselves the legitimate leaders of Serbia.
Diverting a force of some 16,000 men from Serbia northward, he would lead an offensive all along the Serbian-Croat border, seizing numerous villages and valleys. It would only be a week into the campaign however before Mihailovic found his forces on the retreat from an Ustase counter offensive. Mhailovic's offensive had been hastily planned and, overall, poorly executed. When the well trained and disciplined Croat military arrived and engaged with his rebels, they were quickly outmatched across the entire front and forced to retreat back to Serbia. Thousands would be killed in the route, including Mihailovic himself.
Within less than two weeks, the Chetnik's had lost thousands of soldiers and their leader. In the midst of their chaos, now was the partisan's time to strike. Out from the highlands of Montenegro, the Partisans caught the disheveled of guard and would proceed to massacre them. For days on end, battle after battle, the Chetniks would be pushed back ever further into the interior of sacred Serbia by a numerically smaller foe. In a miraculous turn of events, fortune would smile upon the Chetniks at the battle of Smederevo. In a city less than 40 miles away from Belgrade, the remnants of the remaining Chetniks forces had assembled for a final desperate defense before the Partisans seized Belgrade. Thousands had died on the retreat northward, and including numerous high ranking officers of the movement. The exact leader of the Chetnik defense would remain unclear until Zivko Dusan had stepped forward to assume leadership. Having only previously been the rank of captain with the Chetniks, he was chosen out of desperation for a leader, and for fear for what ever reprisals the Partisans would wreak upon such a commander. While the Partisans rested and prepared before their assault of the city, Dusan had his newly found army frantically preparing: fox holes were dug, trenches excavated, barbed wire was laid, land mines were placed, artillery was entrenched, and a bold ( risky even ) plan for victory was drawn up.
After three days of preparation, the Partisan forces finally began their attack on the city. They were met with immediate success having managed to break through the first line of defenses in only a few hours and managing to storm the outer portions of the city. In their stupor of momentum, thousands began rushing in past the defenses into the outer city - it was then that Dusan sprung his trap. It was only a few minutes later that artillery and mortar shells began raining down upon the Partisans who had made it into the city. While hugging to the ground, machine guns had been moved into pre-established holes in collapsed buildings. When the barrage stopped, the Partisans jumped up from the ground, only to cut down by the hidden machine gun nests. At such a close range, the Partisans were unable to use their own artillery without killing their own troops, so their infantry was forced to push up at a gruelingly slow and bloody pace. After a day and hundreds of lives lost, the partisans had destroyed the machine gun nests, finally allowing them to move forward, into the city. It would only be a few meters forward though, did they discover a new threat. While they had been pre-occupied with the machine guns yesterday, land mines and other ieds had been set up only a few meters ahead of them. With dozens more casualties and another day lost, the Partisans were able to move forward once again. Only a few hundred meters further however, did they finally find the second line of Chetnik defense. A huge trenchline dug right through the center of the entire cityscape, surrounded by barbed wire and barricades, forcing the unprepared Partisans into funnels of death. After only two days of fighting at the line, the demoralized Partisans had lost nearly two thousand men, and were forced to retreat from the city. Their route was, however, not an easy one, for upon arrival back to their camp, the unthinkable happened: the Chetniks counter attacked. Thousands more Partisans would be killed in the counter attack, resulting in a tremendous victory for the Chetniks, and their new commander, Zivko Dusan!
For the next year, Dusan ( now officially the supreme commander of Chetnik forces ) would drive the Partisans out of Serbia, and even out of their bases in the Montenegro. Joseph Broz Tito would be captured in January of 1949, and executed as a traitor in June. In January of 1949, Dusan would declare the Kingdom of Serbia and independent nation once again, establishing the monarchy of Karađorđević dynasty once again as the leader of the Kingdom. There was a problem though. Following Peter II's execution by the Germans in 1945, there were no known members of the royal family still alive. Dusan, now ruling as regent, declared that, if it the year were to reach 1956, and still no member of the royal family could be found, Serbia would become a republic.
With Dusan and his cadre now firmly in charge of the Chetnik movement and Serbia as a whole, he began to reshape the country in his own radical image.
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