1906: Alternative Divergence [AH][OOC-CLOSED]

[Dahyan]

Is France technically still open?

[TENNOHEIKA BANZAI NIHON]

Is France technically still open?

Spain just opened up

[Dahyan]

Is France technically still open?

Spain just opened up

Hm, I see. I am not immediately sure what sort of alternate history I could do with Spain, however.

[Kazarogkai]

A Basque dominated Spain would be interesting something like an oversized Navarre if you will.

[Empire of Techkotal]

I withdraw my reservation for france.

Reservation

Nation Name: Empire of Aksum
Territory: Ethiopia,Eritrea, Djibouti, remaining Sudan, Somalia, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, upper part of Mozambique until it meets the britisch colonie.
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[Remnants of Exilvania]

Spain just opened up

Hm, I see. I am not immediately sure what sort of alternate history I could do with Spain, however.

Now France has reopened.

[Novacom]

I withdraw my reservation for france.

Reservation

Nation Name: Empire of Aksum
Territory: Ethiopia,Eritrea, Djibouti, remaining Sudan, Somalia, Chad, Central Africa, Cameroon, Uganda, whatever isn't British yet down south to Lake Malawi.
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*Note: Reservations will last for 48 hours. The OP board reserves the right to be subjective in regards to accepting and removing reservations.

Tentatively accepted, though you might want to talk to our British Player about how he took what I can imagine would have been part of your territory, I will say this we'll be wanting an explanation of how this empire came to be and it may not got all of that if nothing else based on how it looks on the map.

[The Hobbesian Metaphysician]

I assume the map is only slightly out of date and the rest of India, Nepal and western Burma isn't taken yet? If so, here's my reservation
Just putting this here for official purposes just in case

Reservation

Nation Name: Yavanarajya Empire (Indo-Greek Kingdom survives)
Territory: India(what's left of it), Nepal, Western Burma
#AltDiv (do not delete this, it's for keeping track of the apps)
*Note: Reservations will last for 48 hours. The OP board reserves the right to be subjective in regards to accepting and removing reservations.

Also I understand you're probably skeptical of someone with the amount of posts I have. Fear not for I've RP'ed extensively here before several years ago under the user of 'reddogkeno101' and had several thousand posts. If it's easier for you if I were to use the discord rather than the OOC thread, let me know.

The south of India is British, but other than that your claim seems to be alright

It will be interesting to see how you explain a Hellenization of India, but I am a bit confused - your reservation is for an Empire, but you're going for a Socialist state?

Probably meant to change it, but either went to sleep or didn't have time.

[Kenobot]

Full Nation Name : Yavanarajya Socialist Republic
Majority/Official Culture : Greco-Indian
Territorial Core : Northern India, Nepal, Western Burma (What is left in the subcontinent essentially)
Territorial Claim : Afghanistan, Indus River Valley (Pakistan), Sri Lanka, British India
Capital City : Alexandria in the Āryāvarta (Location - New Delhi)
Population : 180,000,000

Government Type : Unitary Socialist Republic - Think the Soviet Union without the federative nature of it
Government Ideology/Policies : Revanchist - Yavanarajya has long been in decline thanks to the decadence of the ruling elites, something which the foreign imperialists have taken advantage of; now controlling much of our former territory. As well as this, the ruling Yavanarajya Socialist Worker's Party is a Totalitarian Communist Party and have enacted 4 Five Year Plans so far, with the next one due at the end of the month at the next sitting of the People's Council.
Government Focus : Widespread reform and consolidation of power
Head of State : President of the People's Council Euthydemus Theos
Head of Government : General-Secretary Diodotus Antimachus
Government Description : The Yavanarajya Socialist Republic is the home of the Communist Revolution. 20 years previous, the 2000 year old Empire of the Euthydemid dynasty collapsed after a century of humiliation at the hands of British

Majority/State Religion : Buddhism has long been the majority religion in the sub-continent, long since having pushed Hinduism, Jainism, Christianity and folk religion from it's borders. However as the empire declined, so did Buddhism; for it was the Greco-Indian Kings and Emperors of old whom spread the religion and were seen to be the guardians of the legacy of the Buddha. With the overthrow of the Euthydemid Dynasty 20 years ago, while Buddhism is still widely practiced; the state atheism of the Yavanarajya Socialist Worker's Party has significantly weakened the already struggling faith of Buddhists across Yavanarajya

Economic Ideologies : Totalitarian Communism
Major Production : Tea, Rice, Cotton Textiles, Silk, Spices, Steel
Economic Description : Yavanarajya finds itself in the middle of its economic transition from a largely agricultural one into an industrialised economy on par with its European counterparts. Previous to the revolution, opium was an extremely lucrative trade for Yavanarajya, however the Yavanarajya Socialist Worker's Party abolished the trade and destroyed all opiate crops in an effort to cleanse the country of the opiate epidemic that had gripped the country for the last century.

Development: Semi-industrialised
Development Description : (As above)

Army Description : The People's Army is the largest land force ever assembled on the sub-continent, with a general staff and officer corps staffed with veterans of the civil war 20 years' previous. More than capable of handing out damage across the subcontinent while backed up with newly built rail lines across the country. However what the People's Army has in manpower and experience, it lacks doubly in its equipment. While a quarter of the Army has modern equipment produced from the Army's ordnance factories, the remaining three quarters is either under-equipped with new equipment or lacking any modern equipment; equipped with scavenged British equipment or primarily with homemade muskets. While certainly an improvement from the Army that emerged from the Civil War 20 years ago, the People's Army still has progress to make before facing off against it's local neighbours.
Army Weakness : Under-equipped
Naval Description : The People's Navy is one of the smallest navies across the globe; quite the opposite of it's land forces counterpart. Consisting of three destroyers, four ironclads (three of which are in mothball) and an outdated light cruiser, the People's Navy is primarily tasked with patrolling Yavanarajya's waters and has very little power projection ability.
Naval Weakness : Small, inexperienced crew, no naval tradition and little shipbuilding capacity.
Further Military Description : [[OPTIONAL]]

National Goals : Complete economic reforms, modernise Army, reunite the subcontinent under Communist rule.
National Issues : As above
National Figures of Interest : President of the People's Council Euthydemus Theos; a hero of the revolution and leader of the Yavanarajya Socialist Worker's Party
National Ambition/Aspirations : Reunite the Subcontinent and spread totalitarian communism

History :

From Humble Beginnings...
From the remains of Alexander's conquests in the Far East when the Greco-Bactrian King Demetrius invaded the Sub-continent in the early 2nd century BCE, the Greco-Indian Kingdom that would later become Yavanarajya was born. Spanning across Afghanistan and into the the Indus River Valley, the Kingdom based itself on both some of the most defensible land on Earth as well as some of the most fertile. After the death of its founder Apollodutus I in 163 BCE, the Kingdom found itself in the middle of a succession crisis that would plunge the Kingdom into chaos on and off until 150 BCE when Menander I of the Euthydemus dynasty became King. Over the course of his reign, he would solidify his hold on power by appointing eunuchs to many positions of power, instituting dynastic succession and ensure great stability for the Kingdom. Towards the ends of his reign, he and his sons and his eldest grandson, Polyxenios, would march with their troops on the neighbouring kingdoms of North-West India and conquer the entire Indus River Valley and Rajasthan in long campaigns that cost many Greek lives. Towards the end of these wars in a battle to take Kannauj, King Menander I led a charge with his sons and grandson against a numerically stronger local garrison, which led to the mortal wounding of the King and his three sons. In the fighting, Polyxenios himself proved to be an extraordinary warrior in the field and merciful ruler, sparing those whom had mortally wounded his father, grandfather and uncles. His heroic displays led to his fellow Greeks proclaiming him the Emperor of the Greeks in the East and likewise the Northern Indian troops proclaiming him to be the messenger of the Buddha on Earth, naming him Patriarch of the Dharma and the rightful successor of Ashoka the Great. Following the ascension of Polyxenios, the Greco-Indian Empire would go on to conquer the lands known as 'Āryāvarta', where he established a new city named 'Alexandria in the Āryāvarta'. This was to become the new capital of the burgeoning Empire and the home for the Emperors of the Euthydemid Dynasty for the next 1900 years.

Consolidation
Over the course of his reign Polyxenios would prove himself truly worthy of the titles bestowed upon him on his ascension to the throne. Polyxenios began the journey that would lead to the modern state of Yavanarajya in 95BCE, by having his children raised by both Greek and Indian tutors and himself adopting the title of Devanampriya, or 'Beloved of the Gods', a title which Ashoka had used centuries before. In 90BCE, the Indo-Scythian hordes began their incursion into the Empire, causing chaos and destruction in Afghanistan, who's people had already felt abandoned by Polyxenios' turn to his Indian subjects, leading to the revolt of a local garrison in Afghanistan. Fortunately, this revolt was put down, but not by Polyxenios' hand but by the Indo-Scythians as they proceeded to sack Arachosia. Learning of this, Polyxenios marched his armies west towards Arachosia and faced the Indo-Scythians in battle at the battle of Arachosia in 85BCE. Proving victories, Polyxenios and his enormous and largely Indian army then followed this up by pushing the Indo-Scythians back into Central Asia. While the Indo-Scythians would continue to harass the Greco-Indian Empire for some time after the death of Polyxenios in 70 BCE, they would never regain their lost strength which they once had; eventually fading into obscurity. Following the defeat of the Indo-Scythians, Polyxenios would retire from most of his duties; giving power to his eldest son, Diomedes.


Diomedes the Great
All Hail Devanampriya Diomedes, Emperor of the Greeks in the East, Patriarch of the Dharma and Emperor of the Indians. It was this last title, which had changed from 'Successor of Ashoka', which was to be the most prominent of them all over the next 34 years of Diomedes' reign. An administrator at heart, Diomedes personally led thorough bureaucratic and administrative reforms across the Empire in the first few years of his reign, admitting thousands of Indians previously kept out of the bureaucracy into it. Appointing the first Indian Chancellor of the small council, the first Indian general and most important of all, the first Indian consort. Diomedes was the first of the Yavanarajya.

The reconquest of India
In 15CE, the Great-Grandson of Diomedes, Apollophanes, came to the throne. It was Apollophanes who dropped both the titles of Emperor of the Greeks in the East and Emperor of the Indians. Instead, Apollophanes adopted the title of Emperor of the Yavanarajya. Upon adopting this title at his coronation, Apollophanes declared his intent to 'reconquer' his birthright as the successor of Ashoka and conquer all of India. With dignitaries of many neighbouring kingdoms present at this ceremony, Apollophanes proved his intent by arresting those dignitaries present and sending them home with a letter demanding each local ruler submit to the authority of Apollophanes or be put to the sword. The Bengali lords and those few remaining northern rulers submitted to Apollophanes; those of the Deccan Plateau however resisted. It was with this, that the war of unification began. Lasting for the almost the entirety of Apollophanes' reign of 15 years, the Deccan plain was covered with the blood of hundreds of thousands of Indians. By the end, Apollophanes' army stood victorious and had subjugated all of the subcontinent.

Splendid Isolation until....
Following the unification war and Apollophanes' death, the Empire turned inwards; not seeking expansion and not interested in foreign entanglements. It remained this way for centuries; occasionally fending off invading migrating tribes from Central Asia, but no real threats as by this stage the Empire was almost 'too big too fail'....that was until the Europeans came East in search of spice, wealth and power. In 1630 the East India Company first arrived on Indian shores. Given permission to trade from several cities in the southern tip of the subcontinent, the East India company eventually began pitting local rulers against each other until they 'helpfully' offered to step in and restore order....for a price. By 1860, that price was too high; even for the here unto silent and passive Emperor, who marched the ill-prepared, under-equipped and largely obsolete army south to retake their land. The First Anglo-Yavanarajya War was, at first, a decisive victory for the Yavanarajya Empire; however once the British government sent reinforcements and nationalised the EIC into the newly formed British Raj, they quickly retook their possessions and made quick work of the much larger Imperial Yavanarajya Army force that was sent to hold the area.


The Beginning of the End
The defeat of the Imperial Army in the First Anglo-Yavanarajya War in 1860 marked the beginning of the end for the Euthydemus Dynasty, which had ruled for near-on 2000 years. Revolutionaries of all colours began to appear across the empire; from hardline nationalists, to democratic revolutionaries and even a few socialists. Eventually, these revolutionaries rose up in revolt once the utterly humiliating terms of peace were decided in the Treaty of London (1862), however with no unified purpose other than to defeat the Emperor, most of the revolutionaries quickly dispersed once the Imperial Guard began firing on them. But not the Yavanarajya Socialist Worker's Party. The Democratic Socialists of the Yavanarajya Socialist Worker's Party charged forward into the barrels of the Imperial Guards' guns, causing the much of the Guard's morale to break and for them to flee, but not before hundreds of the revolutionaries lay dead on the streets of Alexandria in the Āryāvarta. News of these events spread like wildfire, which eventually reached the ears of Theodamas Aniketos; the leader of the Marxist faction of the Yavanarajya Socialist Worker's Party. He had kept his fellow Marxists on the sidelines during the revolution, believing the party's position not strong enough yet. Proved right by this massacre, which also endeared the public to the courage of the party, Theodamas saw an opportunity; he would take control of the party from the crippled Democratic Socialist wing and use the wave of popular support for the party to fill their ranks and secure his position.

The Revolution!
By 1884 the Yavanarajya Socialist Worker's Party, now swelling with Marxists after its takeover by Theodama Aniketos, was poised to strike. Having enveloped the nationalists and left-wing revolutionary movements and making false promises to the democratic revolutionaries, the party was now the most powerful force in all Yavanarajya. It began on New Year's Day 1885 with a bang; the carriage of the ailing Emperor Diomedes XVII was bombed, killing him and his entourage including the heir, Apollodatus. This was followed by two divisions of troops loyal to the party storming Alexandria in the Āryāvarta and the subsequent proclamation of the Yavanarajya Socialist Republic. However, this was not without its opponents. The Emperor's youngest brother, Apollophanus, fled the city and raised an army in rebellion to restore the monarchy. It did not take long however for the newly formed People's Army to chase down the Royalist Army, which it easily defeated in open battle. Following this, royalists across the nation either went into hiding or fled abroad; however it soon became apparent that there would be no pretenders left to take the throne following the capture and execution of the entire Royal family whom had resided at the Imperial palace.

Revolutionary Yavanarajya
With the entire former Empire under the control of the Socialist Worker's Party, Theodama Aniketos was named as the first President of the People's Council and his young protege Euthydemus named the General-Secretary of the Party. Following this, the two began implementing the much needed economic, social and political reforms that would transform the country from a backwater 'Sick man of Asia' into the Modern Socialist State that they wished it to be. First came the 5 year plans which introduced innumerable technological innovations hereunto ignored and exponentially expanded the industrialization of the country, which had been effectively limited to textiles and steel mills until that point. Then came the collectivisation. The aristocracy of old had been hunted down and their property seized by the state, while the merchants who had not submitted to the new regime suffered the same fate. This left much of the countryside unworked; something which if left unchecked could lead to a famine. Knowing of the dangers of famine from the mismanagement of the Imperial administration, the new authorities began collectivising these lands and work soon began on much of them.

Over the course of the next 15 years, the country would steadily progress towards its goal of industrialisation and the dream of a communist utopia. However it was not to be for Theodama Aniketos, who had struggled for years with the stress and anxiety of his new role and finally in 1896 it caught up with him; found dead at his desk passing from exhaustion. Following this, his no-longer-young - now experienced protege Euthydemus Theos took power as President of the People's Council, naming Diodotus Antimachus, the son of a former Imperial general, as his deputy and General-Secretary of the Party. Euthydemus and Antimachus; nationalists first and communists second; are dedicated to one cause; the reunification of Yavanarajya under their banner. Spending the next 5 years continuing the work of his old mentor, Euthydemus put emphasis on improving the local arms industry and instituting military reforms, led by Diodotus whom he appointed minister of war alongside General-Secretary. This 5 year plan for the Army is scheduled to be complete in 1906 and looks set to complete the Army's transformation from rabble and former imperial troops into a unified professional Army that would rival and even perhaps surpass most if not all of its neighbours. As 1906 dawns, Yavanarajya finds herself on the verge of re-emerging as one of the Great Powers, but without friends and with many who would gladly see the revolution crushed. Where shall fate lead her? That remains to be seen...

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Repost because had to remove all mentions of red from the app seeing as the Paris Commune wasn't a thing.

[Novacom]

Full Nation Name : Yavanarajya Socialist Republic
Majority/Official Culture : Greco-Indian
Territorial Core : Northern India, Nepal, Western Burma (What is left in the subcontinent essentially)
Territorial Claim : Afghanistan, Indus River Valley (Pakistan), Sri Lanka, British India
Capital City : Alexandria in the Āryāvarta (Location - New Delhi)
Population : 180,000,000

Government Type : Unitary Socialist Republic - Think the Soviet Union without the federative nature of it
Government Ideology/Policies : Revanchist - Yavanarajya has long been in decline thanks to the decadence of the ruling elites, something which the foreign imperialists have taken advantage of; now controlling much of our former territory. As well as this, the ruling Yavanarajya Socialist Worker's Party is a Totalitarian Communist Party and have enacted 4 Five Year Plans so far, with the next one due at the end of the month at the next sitting of the People's Council.
Government Focus : Widespread reform and consolidation of power
Head of State : President of the People's Council Euthydemus Theos
Head of Government : General-Secretary Diodotus Antimachus
Government Description : The Yavanarajya Socialist Republic is the home of the Communist Revolution. 20 years previous, the 2000 year old Empire of the Euthydemid dynasty collapsed after a century of humiliation at the hands of British

Majority/State Religion : Buddhism has long been the majority religion in the sub-continent, long since having pushed Hinduism, Jainism, Christianity and folk religion from it's borders. However as the empire declined, so did Buddhism; for it was the Greco-Indian Kings and Emperors of old whom spread the religion and were seen to be the guardians of the legacy of the Buddha. With the overthrow of the Euthydemid Dynasty 20 years ago, while Buddhism is still widely practiced; the state atheism of the Yavanarajya Socialist Worker's Party has significantly weakened the already struggling faith of Buddhists across Yavanarajya

Economic Ideologies : Totalitarian Communism
Major Production : Tea, Rice, Cotton Textiles, Silk, Spices, Steel
Economic Description : Yavanarajya finds itself in the middle of its economic transition from a largely agricultural one into an industrialised economy on par with its European counterparts. Previous to the revolution, opium was an extremely lucrative trade for Yavanarajya, however the Yavanarajya Socialist Worker's Party abolished the trade and destroyed all opiate crops in an effort to cleanse the country of the opiate epidemic that had gripped the country for the last century.

Development: Semi-industrialised
Development Description : (As above)

Army Description : The People's Army is the largest land force ever assembled on the sub-continent, with a general staff and officer corps staffed with veterans of the civil war 20 years' previous. More than capable of handing out damage across the subcontinent while backed up with newly built rail lines across the country. However what the People's Army has in manpower and experience, it lacks doubly in its equipment. While a quarter of the Army has modern equipment produced from the Army's ordnance factories, the remaining three quarters is either under-equipped with new equipment or lacking any modern equipment; equipped with scavenged British equipment or primarily with homemade muskets. While certainly an improvement from the Army that emerged from the Civil War 20 years ago, the People's Army still has progress to make before facing off against it's local neighbours.
Army Weakness : Under-equipped
Naval Description : The People's Navy is one of the smallest navies across the globe; quite the opposite of it's land forces counterpart. Consisting of three destroyers, four ironclads (three of which are in mothball) and an outdated light cruiser, the People's Navy is primarily tasked with patrolling Yavanarajya's waters and has very little power projection ability.
Naval Weakness : Small, inexperienced crew, no naval tradition and little shipbuilding capacity.
Further Military Description : [[OPTIONAL]]

National Goals : Complete economic reforms, modernise Army, reunite the subcontinent under Communist rule.
National Issues : As above
National Figures of Interest : President of the People's Council Euthydemus Theos; a hero of the revolution and leader of the Yavanarajya Socialist Worker's Party
National Ambition/Aspirations : Reunite the Subcontinent and spread totalitarian communism

History :

From Humble Beginnings...
From the remains of Alexander's conquests in the Far East when the Greco-Bactrian King Demetrius invaded the Sub-continent in the early 2nd century BCE, the Greco-Indian Kingdom that would later become Yavanarajya was born. Spanning across Afghanistan and into the the Indus River Valley, the Kingdom based itself on both some of the most defensible land on Earth as well as some of the most fertile. After the death of its founder Apollodutus I in 163 BCE, the Kingdom found itself in the middle of a succession crisis that would plunge the Kingdom into chaos on and off until 150 BCE when Menander I of the Euthydemus dynasty became King. Over the course of his reign, he would solidify his hold on power by appointing eunuchs to many positions of power, instituting dynastic succession and ensure great stability for the Kingdom. Towards the ends of his reign, he and his sons and his eldest grandson, Polyxenios, would march with their troops on the neighbouring kingdoms of North-West India and conquer the entire Indus River Valley and Rajasthan in long campaigns that cost many Greek lives. Towards the end of these wars in a battle to take Kannauj, King Menander I led a charge with his sons and grandson against a numerically stronger local garrison, which led to the mortal wounding of the King and his three sons. In the fighting, Polyxenios himself proved to be an extraordinary warrior in the field and merciful ruler, sparing those whom had mortally wounded his father, grandfather and uncles. His heroic displays led to his fellow Greeks proclaiming him the Emperor of the Greeks in the East and likewise the Northern Indian troops proclaiming him to be the messenger of the Buddha on Earth, naming him Patriarch of the Dharma and the rightful successor of Ashoka the Great. Following the ascension of Polyxenios, the Greco-Indian Empire would go on to conquer the lands known as 'Āryāvarta', where he established a new city named 'Alexandria in the Āryāvarta'. This was to become the new capital of the burgeoning Empire and the home for the Emperors of the Euthydemid Dynasty for the next 1900 years.

Consolidation
Over the course of his reign Polyxenios would prove himself truly worthy of the titles bestowed upon him on his ascension to the throne. Polyxenios began the journey that would lead to the modern state of Yavanarajya in 95BCE, by having his children raised by both Greek and Indian tutors and himself adopting the title of Devanampriya, or 'Beloved of the Gods', a title which Ashoka had used centuries before. In 90BCE, the Indo-Scythian hordes began their incursion into the Empire, causing chaos and destruction in Afghanistan, who's people had already felt abandoned by Polyxenios' turn to his Indian subjects, leading to the revolt of a local garrison in Afghanistan. Fortunately, this revolt was put down, but not by Polyxenios' hand but by the Indo-Scythians as they proceeded to sack Arachosia. Learning of this, Polyxenios marched his armies west towards Arachosia and faced the Indo-Scythians in battle at the battle of Arachosia in 85BCE. Proving victories, Polyxenios and his enormous and largely Indian army then followed this up by pushing the Indo-Scythians back into Central Asia. While the Indo-Scythians would continue to harass the Greco-Indian Empire for some time after the death of Polyxenios in 70 BCE, they would never regain their lost strength which they once had; eventually fading into obscurity. Following the defeat of the Indo-Scythians, Polyxenios would retire from most of his duties; giving power to his eldest son, Diomedes.


Diomedes the Great
All Hail Devanampriya Diomedes, Emperor of the Greeks in the East, Patriarch of the Dharma and Emperor of the Indians. It was this last title, which had changed from 'Successor of Ashoka', which was to be the most prominent of them all over the next 34 years of Diomedes' reign. An administrator at heart, Diomedes personally led thorough bureaucratic and administrative reforms across the Empire in the first few years of his reign, admitting thousands of Indians previously kept out of the bureaucracy into it. Appointing the first Indian Chancellor of the small council, the first Indian general and most important of all, the first Indian consort. Diomedes was the first of the Yavanarajya.

The reconquest of India
In 15CE, the Great-Grandson of Diomedes, Apollophanes, came to the throne. It was Apollophanes who dropped both the titles of Emperor of the Greeks in the East and Emperor of the Indians. Instead, Apollophanes adopted the title of Emperor of the Yavanarajya. Upon adopting this title at his coronation, Apollophanes declared his intent to 'reconquer' his birthright as the successor of Ashoka and conquer all of India. With dignitaries of many neighbouring kingdoms present at this ceremony, Apollophanes proved his intent by arresting those dignitaries present and sending them home with a letter demanding each local ruler submit to the authority of Apollophanes or be put to the sword. The Bengali lords and those few remaining northern rulers submitted to Apollophanes; those of the Deccan Plateau however resisted. It was with this, that the war of unification began. Lasting for the almost the entirety of Apollophanes' reign of 15 years, the Deccan plain was covered with the blood of hundreds of thousands of Indians. By the end, Apollophanes' army stood victorious and had subjugated all of the subcontinent.

Splendid Isolation until....
Following the unification war and Apollophanes' death, the Empire turned inwards; not seeking expansion and not interested in foreign entanglements. It remained this way for centuries; occasionally fending off invading migrating tribes from Central Asia, but no real threats as by this stage the Empire was almost 'too big too fail'....that was until the Europeans came East in search of spice, wealth and power. In 1630 the East India Company first arrived on Indian shores. Given permission to trade from several cities in the southern tip of the subcontinent, the East India company eventually began pitting local rulers against each other until they 'helpfully' offered to step in and restore order....for a price. By 1860, that price was too high; even for the here unto silent and passive Emperor, who marched the ill-prepared, under-equipped and largely obsolete army south to retake their land. The First Anglo-Yavanarajya War was, at first, a decisive victory for the Yavanarajya Empire; however once the British government sent reinforcements and nationalised the EIC into the newly formed British Raj, they quickly retook their possessions and made quick work of the much larger Imperial Yavanarajya Army force that was sent to hold the area.


The Beginning of the End
The defeat of the Imperial Army in the First Anglo-Yavanarajya War in 1860 marked the beginning of the end for the Euthydemus Dynasty, which had ruled for near-on 2000 years. Revolutionaries of all colours began to appear across the empire; from hardline nationalists, to democratic revolutionaries and even a few socialists. Eventually, these revolutionaries rose up in revolt once the utterly humiliating terms of peace were decided in the Treaty of London (1862), however with no unified purpose other than to defeat the Emperor, most of the revolutionaries quickly dispersed once the Imperial Guard began firing on them. But not the Yavanarajya Socialist Worker's Party. The Democratic Socialists of the Yavanarajya Socialist Worker's Party charged forward into the barrels of the Imperial Guards' guns, causing the much of the Guard's morale to break and for them to flee, but not before hundreds of the revolutionaries lay dead on the streets of Alexandria in the Āryāvarta. News of these events spread like wildfire, which eventually reached the ears of Theodamas Aniketos; the leader of the Marxist faction of the Yavanarajya Socialist Worker's Party. He had kept his fellow Marxists on the sidelines during the revolution, believing the party's position not strong enough yet. Proved right by this massacre, which also endeared the public to the courage of the party, Theodamas saw an opportunity; he would take control of the party from the crippled Democratic Socialist wing and use the wave of popular support for the party to fill their ranks and secure his position.

The Revolution!
By 1884 the Yavanarajya Socialist Worker's Party, now swelling with Marxists after its takeover by Theodama Aniketos, was poised to strike. Having enveloped the nationalists and left-wing revolutionary movements and making false promises to the democratic revolutionaries, the party was now the most powerful force in all Yavanarajya. It began on New Year's Day 1885 with a bang; the carriage of the ailing Emperor Diomedes XVII was bombed, killing him and his entourage including the heir, Apollodatus. This was followed by two divisions of troops loyal to the party storming Alexandria in the Āryāvarta and the subsequent proclamation of the Yavanarajya Socialist Republic. However, this was not without its opponents. The Emperor's youngest brother, Apollophanus, fled the city and raised an army in rebellion to restore the monarchy. It did not take long however for the newly formed People's Army to chase down the Royalist Army, which it easily defeated in open battle. Following this, royalists across the nation either went into hiding or fled abroad; however it soon became apparent that there would be no pretenders left to take the throne following the capture and execution of the entire Royal family whom had resided at the Imperial palace.

Revolutionary Yavanarajya
With the entire former Empire under the control of the Socialist Worker's Party, Theodama Aniketos was named as the first President of the People's Council and his young protege Euthydemus named the General-Secretary of the Party. Following this, the two began implementing the much needed economic, social and political reforms that would transform the country from a backwater 'Sick man of Asia' into the Modern Socialist State that they wished it to be. First came the 5 year plans which introduced innumerable technological innovations hereunto ignored and exponentially expanded the industrialization of the country, which had been effectively limited to textiles and steel mills until that point. Then came the collectivisation. The aristocracy of old had been hunted down and their property seized by the state, while the merchants who had not submitted to the new regime suffered the same fate. This left much of the countryside unworked; something which if left unchecked could lead to a famine. Knowing of the dangers of famine from the mismanagement of the Imperial administration, the new authorities began collectivising these lands and work soon began on much of them.

Over the course of the next 15 years, the country would steadily progress towards its goal of industrialisation and the dream of a communist utopia. However it was not to be for Theodama Aniketos, who had struggled for years with the stress and anxiety of his new role and finally in 1896 it caught up with him; found dead at his desk passing from exhaustion. Following this, his no-longer-young - now experienced protege Euthydemus Theos took power as President of the People's Council, naming Diodotus Antimachus, the son of a former Imperial general, as his deputy and General-Secretary of the Party. Euthydemus and Antimachus; nationalists first and communists second; are dedicated to one cause; the reunification of Yavanarajya under their banner. Spending the next 5 years continuing the work of his old mentor, Euthydemus put emphasis on improving the local arms industry and instituting military reforms, led by Diodotus whom he appointed minister of war alongside General-Secretary. This 5 year plan for the Army is scheduled to be complete in 1906 and looks set to complete the Army's transformation from rabble and former imperial troops into a unified professional Army that would rival and even perhaps surpass most if not all of its neighbours. As 1906 dawns, Yavanarajya finds herself on the verge of re-emerging as one of the Great Powers, but without friends and with many who would gladly see the revolution crushed. Where shall fate lead her? That remains to be seen...

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COLUMBIAN CONFEDERATED REPUBLIC
RÉPUBLIQUE CONFÉDÉRÉE COLUMBIENNE

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Full Nation Name : Colombian Confederated Republic/République Confédérée Colombienne
Majority/Official Culture : French with New World influence
Territorial Core : CCR
Territorial Claim : Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rondonia, Tocantins
Capital City : Boquette-Montréal (Bogota-Cerros Orientales)
Population : 16,868,992

Government Type : Federal Republic
Government Ideology/Policies : Libertarian, Free-Market Capitalist
Government Focus : President Brousseau’s administration is mostly focused on strengthening the nation’s mineral and agriculture production, as well as obtaining more Pacific territories. The President is also concerned on diminishing the influence of far-right ultraconservatives from the Democratic Party and implement more liberal policies.
Head of State : President Francois-Phillipe Brousseau
Head of Government : President Francois-Phillipe Brousseau
Government Description :

• Outline: The Columbian Confederated Republic is a federal republic consisting of states (New Aquitaine, Inca, Guyana, Amazon, Equateur, and Cayman Islands) and one territory (Pacific Territory). The government is divided into three separate branches;
• Executive Branch: The President is elected via electoral vote, with each state gaining a number of electoral vote based on the population of the state. The President forms a cabinet to manage matters of government. The President’s term of office is five years, and can only be elected maximum two times. The House of Representatives hold the right to impeach the President, but an impeachment process could only go with consent of the Senate. States are headed by Governors, with their legislative bodies being the State Congress. Each state follows the same system as the national political system.
• Legislative Branch: The Columbian Congress is divided into two houses; Senate, the upper house, and House of Representatives, the lower house. Senators serve six-year terms while Representatives serve three-year terms. There is no term limit for legislators. Representatives are elected from their congressional district, as individual states is divided into congressional districts of 100,000 citizens. There are currently 188 Representatives serving in the Congress. The senate consists of six individuals for each state and two individuals for a territory, with the total of 32 Senators currently in office. Senators are divided into three types. The two Senior senators are senators who had served for more than one term representing a state. Two Junior Senators are senators who served in the Senate for their first time. Both Senior and Junior senators are elected by the State Congress. The remaining two Independent senators are Senators elected by popular vote of a State’s citizens. Independent senators must not be affiliated to a party, while the others are party members.
• Judicial Branch: The Confederation Supreme Court handles final judicial matters. The country is divided into several judicial districts, corresponding to but not necessarily, a state. Each judicial districts are headed by the District Attorney, while the Attorney General heads the Supreme Court. An independent committee of judges presided over every court. Judges are entitled to hear the opinion of citizen jurors, and make judicial decisions considering the jurors’ decision.

Majority/State Religion : Christianity (Roman Catholicism 68.4%, Protestant 32.2%)
Religious Description : The Confederatie Republic is officially a secular state, but both Catholicism and Calvinist Protestantism, descended from the Huguenot movement in France, plays major roles in Columbian society.

Economic Ideologies : Free-Market Capitalism
Major Production : Agriculture (livestock, cotton, tobacco, rubber, coffee, wheat), Mining (oil, coal, gold, iron, nickel), Industry (textile, rubber, parts manufacturing)
Economic Description :

• Agriculture: The first French settlers arriving in Columbia made their wealth through vast plantations and the variety of crops they were growing. Almost eighty percent of New Aquitaine (Colombia) and Guyana’s exports are all agriculture-related, such as the production of wheat and livestock in New Aquitaine, and the massive cotton and tobacco plantations in Guyana. Slowly, the larger and richer Viceroyalties began to divert from plantations, as too many settlers were moving in and good arable land was becoming scarce, and also due to the influence of the Catholic Church which advocated more rights to the indigenous populations who were used as indentured labor. Meanwhile, in the rural and forested Guyana, plantations boomed at an exponential rate as investors flocked to fund vast plantations. The opening of the Amazon Territory and State of Equateur (Ecuador) also bolstered agriculture production into thirty-five percent of the national GDP. However, these achievements often came at great cost due to the indigenous population forced to work on the plantation as indentured laborers with very poor conditions. Other emerging agricultural industries including wine, which has been extensively promoted in the 1800s due to the arrival of Meditteranean immigrants to the Incas who used the warm and humid temperature of the coast for extensive vitricultural activity. Coffee and tea, in the highlands of New Aquitaine, and fishery in the Cayman Islands made significant contributions to the agricultural sector.
• Mining: Vast coal reserves were discovered in Les Guaquires (La Guajira) in the early 1800s; however, explorations and mining activity did not start until the late 1850s. Mining is a considerably new sector in Columbia, only appearing in mass numbers in the administration of President Alexandre Boursellier in 1841. Boursellier’s extensive railroad projects in the Inca and New Aquitaine opened up the mineral-rich lands for exploration. Substantiaal deposits of gold are found in Terre-Panche (Tolima) region of New Aquitaine, leading into a gold rush in the 1860s. The remaining gold mines are mananged by several companies, both state-owned and private, but the production is limited by the New Aquitaine state government to prevent the fall of gold prices and exhaustion of gold. Gemstones, such as emeralds, are found in vast quantities in Columbia – New Aquitaine is the world’s leading producer of emerals, mainly found in the Columbian Andes. Halite salt mines are operated in the Muisques (Cundinamaraca) region. Other minerals such as copper, silver, and iron has been explored in the Incas, as well as substantial amount of gold, but there are currently no large-scale mining operations in the state. This may change as one of President Brousseau’s administration focuses are to increase the mineral production significantly.
• Industry: Columbia’s traditional industries include shipbuilding, mainly located in Nouvelle-Marseille (Cartagena) and the Cayman Islands, and textile, located in nearly every major city of Columbia. The two industries are supported by the increased production of agriculture, mainly cotton and tropical hardwood, although the shipbuilding industry experienced a substantial decline due to the emergence of ironclad battleships. The main industries of Columbia now includes mineral refinery, Guano trade, fabricated metal parts for engines, tools, and others.

Development: Semi-industrialized
Development Description : Major parts of the country is modern due to mass industrialization and economic growth, and sufficient infrastructures to support it. However, several parts of the country remained lacking in development, such as the dense forests of the Amazon and Guyana.

Army Description : The Confederated Republic’s army is primarily defense-oriented, with significant portions of it spread through the rural territories of the Incas, Guyana, and Amazon. The main goals of the Army is defending Columbian settlers to open the interior, and also safeguarding the nation’s borders. The Army has about 180,000 personnel, and military service is voluntary.
Army Weakness : The Army is not suited for offensive campaigns and is focused on defense warfare, as well as jungle and guerilla warfare and expeditionary trainings. About forty thousand of the Army is thinly spread on the rural jungle territories of the Amazon and Guyana, so mass mobilization of the Army is hard to done.
Naval Description : The Confederated Republic’s navy is a medium-sized navy consisting of sixty iron-clad battleships and about a dozen wooden ships for training and expedition activities. Navy funding is larger than Army funding, due to the constant patrols between New Aquitaine and the Cayman Islands, and patrols between Columbia’s Pacific territories. President Arsenault’s reign in the 1856 placed a larger emphasis to the Navy as the bulwark of Columbian defense, and significant efforts to modernize and increase the navy’s efficiency had been done. The Columbian Navy boasts one of the most advanced ships in the Carribean, despite their small size compared to other navies they enjoyed a technological advantage.
Naval Weakness : Due to Columbia’s extensive Pacific territories and very long coastline, the Navy is thinly spread; there are four fleets of fifteen ironclad ships, each patrolling the Carribean, the New Aquitaine (Colombia) coast, the Incas (Peru) coast, and the Pacific islands. This number is significantly smaller than other navies in the region, but Columbian ships are generally more durable and faster. The Navy’s doctrine is to avoid confrontation at all costs unless deemed necessary, and the Navy itself acts mainly as a defense forces rather than offensive.
Further Military Description : None

National Goals : The Confederated Republic under President Brousseau’s administration seeks to improve its production of minerals (coal, nickel, iron, and gold) and agriculture, the two traditional supporting pillars of Columbia’s economy. Recent discovery of oil at the coast of New Aquitaine (Colombia) has led to several oil rigs being estabilished, and the government is looking to ramp up the production. The Confederated Republic is also interested in expanding its colonial possessions in the Pacific, as trading outposts has been estabilished in New Caledonia and New Zealand.
National Issues :

• Transportation and Development: Much of the Guyana and the Amazon is still largely jungle, though extensive settlement and opening of the forest for plantation had started to open the country for further development. Main ways of transportation in these areas involve only steamboats and other vessels. The harsh wildlife such as jaguars, and disease outbreaks also threatens further settlement in the area, though the Army is dispatched in large numbers to safeguard settlers moving into these states. The government is looking to subsidize economic development in these areas to open more forest lands for development.
• Human Rights: For much of its history, indigenous tribes and civilizations are largely looked down by the French colonial government. After independence, however, indogenous tribes enjoyed more freedoms and participation in the government, though isolated tribes in the Amazon and Guyana are forced to abandon their villages and join Columbian settlements estabilished in the area.

National Figures of Interest :

• Augustin Marie de Villaincourt: Father of the Revolution, the first President of the Confederated Republic is honored on nearly every main road, plaza, and more than thirty city names. Both the Democratic and Federalist parties claim descent from Villaincourt’s ideology, though neither are close to what he envisioned as President.
• Francois Bertillon: General of the Columbian Revolution and second President of the Confederated Republic. Though the later parts of his administration is ridden by scandals, Bertillon Is stil respected and honored as one of the Confederated Republic’s most important founding fathers.

National Ambition/Aspirations : [[OPTIONAL]] [[Not really a set objective, but rather the big picture that your nation is drawing towards]]

History :

• 1502: French explorer Clément de Labeaume joined the expedition of Rodrigo de Bastidas into Hispaniola and the Central American Coast. The next year Labeaume returned to France and requested a royal funding to mount an expedition to South America.
• 1504: Labeaume and a fleet of five ships set sail to South America in October 1504. He landed on the Cayman Islands and claimed it in the name of Louis XII, King of France. The French expedition estabilished a small settlement named Sainte-Anne.
• 1505: The coast of Panama is sighted, but Labeaume refrained from landing there due to increased Spanish presence in the area. He eventually landed near the Gulf of Uraba and founded an unnamed temporary fort. His expedition returned to France in July 1505, bringing large bounties from the American coast to the French court. The King sanctioned another expedition to America, and Labeaume returned in August 1505, a mere two moths after the first. He reached Sainte-Anne in September and wintered there until January, when he continued the expedition.
• 1506: The small fort in the Gulf of Uraba are destroyed by indigenous tribes; only a small fraction of French soldiers remained. Labeaume rescued them and sailed further east where he founded the settlement of Nouvelle-Marseille des Indes (Cartagena) on a peninsula.
• 1507-1525: American possessions of France are generally regarded as dangerous and risky investments, limiting colonial growth. However the toll of French wars sent many peasants and merchants to the American colonies in hopes of evading taxes and military service. The population of Sainte-Anne and Nouvelle-Marseille doubled in this period.
• 1527: Labeaume’s fifth and final expedition founded the town of Sainte-Marthe des Caraïbes (Santa Marta) in the place of a Carib village, which the French destroyed. Sainte-Marthe would later serve as a base for further French incursions to the interior.
• 1528-1534: Relations between the French and indigenous tribes started out peacefully, but incursions to the interior and the cutting up of forests worsened the relations up to the point when native tribes frequently attack French settlements. The French responded by razing their villages and forced the natives to work on French plantations. These attacks and the European diseases brought by the French diminished almost all of the native population. In the same time, French explorers began venturing further south through the Pacific coast, where they made contact with the Inca Empire. News soon spread to France of the contact. At the same time a smallpox epidemic ravages the Inca, killing emperor Huayna Capac; civil war erupts between Atahualpa and Huascar.
• 1529: An aspiring French explorer who had served under the Duke of Orleans’ army before, Mathelin Delaunay, was granted royal license to conquer the Inca Empire. He sent his lieutenant Auberthus Bourtelot to estabilish alliance between France and the tribes oppressed by the Inca Empire. Delaunay started his expedition with a thousand men and recruited tribal warriors to fight against the Incas.
• 1533: Delaunay executed Atahualpa after foiling a plan to get Huascar killed. Bourtelot arrives with further reinforcements; Cusco submits to Delaunay after the French plundered all Inca treasures they could find. Another French force defeated the Inca warror Ruminawi at the Riobamba. Delaunay bombed the Coriancha and erected a large wooden plaque, inscribed with “Montjoie Saint-Denis”, the French battle cry, on top of the Inca temple. He then installed Manco Inca as a puppet to rule over Peru.
• 1535: Lawyer and merchant Jean-Baptiste Alphonse de Chauvigny settled in Sainte-Marthe, bringing four families to estabilish plantations in the area. Chauvigny, a successful merchant, soon grew wealthy from his possessions and started importing more weapons from France, and supporting colonization efforts. In 1536 he was elected the first known mayor of Sainte-Marthe. Down south in Peru, Delaunay proclaimed the founding of the Viceroyalty of the Incas; he chose the Rimac Valley as the site of his new capital. Delauney founded Cité du Saint-Denis (Lima) in the year. At the same time, disagreements broke out between Bourtelot and Delaunay over the matter of French rule. The situation went so tense that Bourtelot even backed Manco Inca, the Incan claimant for Emperor, in attacking Saint-Denis; Bourtelot are defeated and executed by Delaunay, while Manco Inca fled to Vilcabamba and estabilished a new Inca state.
• 1537: Chauvigny, with about two thousand men, thirty native guides recruited from the local Tairona and Chimila tribes, and four Catholic priests, set up an expedition to find the legendary El Dorado – city of gold – and to extend French influence in the area. Sanctioned by the King, he christened the expedition as a crusade and began the journey in February.
• 1538: Chauvigny’s expedition costed him nearly six hundred men at the time, and another hundred were sent back to Sainte-Marthe.
• 1539: The conquérants arrived in Founsa (Funsa) in November, and celebrated Christmas at the hold of a Muisca chief loyal to the main Muisca city of Bacata. Initially, the Muisca tribesmen saw the French conquérants with distrust, even attacking them in some cases – but eventually most of the chiefdoms considered the heavily armed, pale-skinned newcomers as sacred and did not dare to attack them.
• 1540: The French allied with Tisquesusa, a Muisca chief who controlled Bacata, and battled against another Muisca army that costed the chief his life accidentally in a friendly fire. Afterwards Chauvigny christened the Bacata savanna under the name of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, his homeland, and founded the twin settlements of Boquette (Bogota) and Mont-Royal (Eastern Hills). To further cement French rule, Chauvigny gathered the remaining Muisca chiefs in his new fort at Mont-Royal, a sacred ground to the Muisca, and declared that they must all convert into Catholicism and accept the King of France as their suzerain, while Chauvigny himself acting as royal representative in the area.
• 1541: After receiving a delegation bearing royal sanction from France, Chauvigny founded the Viceroyalty of New Aquitaine with its capital in Boquetta. In the first years of his reign, Chauvigny extensively encouraged French immigration, especially after the land was heavily depopulated due to the native tribes being struck by disease, and forced to work under the French colonial regime. The characteristics of terrain matched that of France’s mountainous regions, and soon hundreds of settlers opened the jungle route to settle in Boquetta.
• 1544: The conquérant and first Governor of the Incas, Mathelin Delaunay, died of old age. Former supporters of Bourtelot tried to take over Saint-Denis, but Delaunay’s lieutenant Fleurent Rochefort, who had earlier defeated an Inca army in Riobamba during the conquest and founded the city of Bambaville, marched to the city gates bearing a royal letter, claiming the Viceroyalty for himself. Supporters of Bourtelot fled to Vilcabamba, where they executed Maco Inca and replaced him with an Emperor that would help them retake Saint-Denis, but political chaos ensued. Rochefort, sensing an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, declared war on the Neo-Inca State. Vilcabamba is sacked and the last Inca emperor, Tupac Amaru, is exiled to France.
• 1546: The institution of slavery is estabilished on New Aquitaine and the Incas. Native populations are no longer considered subjects to the French king, and are legally allowed to be taken as slaves. This results in mass rebellions and the diminishing of the native population, up to the point where slavery isn’t profitable anymore; it is abolished in 1600 to prevent further casualties.
• 1551-1640: Situation in France became increasingly tense as the reign of Henry II actively persecuted Protestants in the country. Thousands of these Huguenots fled to New Aquitaine, where they founded the city of Carrefour (Bucamaranga) as a religious haven. However, the government of Viceroy Chauvigny did not tolerated heavy Protestant migration to New Aquitaine, and soon restricted Huguenots coming in. In compromise, Chauvigny sent a letter to Paris asking to organize an attempt to settle the lands surrounding river Essequibe (Essequibo) to the east. In 1570 a trading post was set up on the mouth of the river to survey attempts to conquer inland, as well as trading with the natives. Meanwhile, the Huguenot population in New Aquitaine was exponentially growing – by 1600, Protestants has estabilished the cities of La Providence (Medellin) and Troyes (Cali) as the Edict of Nantes forced more and more Huguenots to leave France. Chauvigny’s successor Maussart Chéron became increasingly worried that mass Protestant immigration could spark religious tensions, and so he ordered the Huguenot immigrants to settle in the Essequibe river. More and more settlement were estabilished by French Protestants along the river, and the surrounding regions are estabilished as the Viceroyalty of Guyana in 1640. Guyana was declared an all-Protestant colony; Catholicism are prohibited and all remaining Huguenots encouraged to move to Guyana to avoid further religious tensions in Europe. However, the underdeveloped and heavily forested region did not attract many settlers until further opening of new settlements in the 16th century.
• 1606: The city of Longchamps (Georgetown) is founded on the mouth of Demerrara river by Philippe Reverdin, a Huguenot noblemen from Dordogne. About ten other Protestant families migrated to the city with him, estabilishing the first European settlement in Guyana. Economic activity in the region consisted of mainly cotton amd sugar plantations, using slave labor.
• 1640: The Viceroyalty of Guyana is estabilished on Longchamps.
• 1645: The ban on Protestant immigration into New Aquitaine and the Incas is lifted. The two Viceroyalties instituted one of the first legislative assemblies in the Americas, forming two groups; one promoting freedom of religion in the French colonies, and the other rooting for traditional French culture and Catholicism. Plantation activity in Guyana continues to expand with Huguenot and Walloon settlers estabilishing the towns of New Rochelle (Linden) and Rosignol (New Amsterdam).
• 1700-1780: Liberals who opposed Louis XIV’s increased centralization of power in the hands of the King fled in large numbers to South America, where the Viceroyalties are more democratic and regional legislatures are more estabilished. The frequent wars conducted by France led peasants who wanted to avoid conscription to the South American colonies, as the central government had not yet imposed taxes and conscription to the colonies.
• 1735: Religious riots broke out in La Providence between the Protestant-dominated citizens and the Catholic forces of Governor Jacques Aubertin de Saint-Pierre. Citizens of Providence lynched the Goveror-appointed Mayor and barred the city gates from the Governor’s forces.
• 1737: Peace was signed in Boquetta between the Protestant citizens of New Aquitaine and the Catholic Viceroyalty regime, advocating freedom of religion in the colony. Another Protestant colony was estabilished north of the Incas, forming the Viceroyalty of l’Equateur (Ecuador) with its capital in Castres (Quito).
• 1748: The French Viceroyalties of South America abolished state religions, making them effectively secular countries.
• 1782: Pierre Chaufourier and Herbert de Villepin is appointed Governor of New Aquitaine and the Incas, respectively. The governors are powerful members of the Royal court and are sent to South America to extract large sums of taxes, to repay the past wars of Louis XIV. This led to the resentment of colonial citizens.
• 1783: Governor Chaufourier of New Aquitaine instituted the Chaufourier Act, prohibiting all trade between New Aquitaine and other countries except for France. Tax of imported goods from France was also increased by 10%.
• 1786: The Mayor of Nouvelle-Marseille, Augustin-Marie de Vaillancourt, openly refused to pay the taxes imposed by Governor Chaufourier. The city has been taxed in almost all export goods it produced, including fish, textile, wine, and even ships. Chaufourier blocked French goods coming to Nouvelle-Marseille. In response, de Vaillancourt had the French Navy ships burned and sent trade delegations to Britain and Spain, violating the Chaufourier Act.
• 1789: Chaufourier brought four regimens of grenadiers from France to invade Nouvelle-Marseille. Other cities throughout New Aquitaine refused to let Royal soldiers into their territories in rebellion. In Easter 1789, the Governor of the Incas, Herbert de Villepin, is thrown out of the window on the Cathedral Basilica Notre Dame de Saint-Denis. Peasants enraged by heavy taxation banished de Villepin’s soldiers and erected wooden statues of the conquérant Delaunay, founder of Saint-Denis.
• 1790: Battles erupted between Chaufourier’s forces and the citizens of Nouvelle-Marseille. Cities throughout New Aquitaine sent delegations to form the Continental Army. De Villaincourt sent a dispatch to the Incas, asking them for support against Chaufourier’s forces.
• 1791: The first Congrès Continental des Columbias is held in Saint-Denis in Christmas 1791, including delegations from New Aquitaine, the Incas, Equateur, and the Guyana. Through an unanimous vote, representatives of the Viceroyalties agreed to proclaim their independence from France in 1792. A revolutionary leader from the Incas, General François Bertillon was chosen to lead the Continental Army against Chaufournier’s forces.
• 1792: The cry of independence in February 1792; Augustin-Marie de Villaincourt declared Nouvelle-Marseille independent and part of the new State of Columbia, followed by other cities across the French viceroyalties. In August, General Bertillon defeated Chaufourier’s forces in the Battle of Périgneux (Barranquila).
• 1793: Chaufournier, routed and defeated, was finally captured and executed in the Place de la Révolution (Plaza Bolivar) in Boquetta. The Continental Congress in Saint-Denis proclaimed General Bertillion as the head of the Transitional Government of the States of Columbia a week afterwards.
• 1794: The third Continental Congress drafted the Constitution of the Columbian Confederated Republic in March 1794. Delegation of former Viceroyalties ratified the Constitution which estabilished a federal republic consisting of former French colonies, now turned independent states. The constitution of Equateur is estabilished a month later; the Incas and New Aquitaine in June; and Guyana in July. General Bertillon left matters of government to the Fourth Continental Congress, and left to the Cayman Islands where he banished French officials and estabilished the State of Cayman Islands which later also ratified the constitution.
• 1795: The Fifth Continental Congress appointed Augustin-Marie de Villaincourt as President of the Confederate Republic, with General Francois Bertillon as vice president.
• 1796: The First Amendment of the Constitution. Originally the Constitution outlined the form of a federal republic with representatives of all states elected among themselves into the Congress, however the model was becoming increasingly unpopular due to the under-representation it gave to the people of smaller states, such as Guyana, the Cayman Islands, and Equateur. Meanwhile larger states of New Aquitaine and the Incas accuse the smaller states of over-representation due to the same number of legislators of each state in the Congress, making smaller states with lower populations on par with bigger states with large populations. The Sixth Continental Congress is called again at Saint-Denis, this time with President Villaincourt presiding over the Congress. There was a significant and fierce debate about whether the federal system would be abolished completely to make an unitary state, or that more rights are to be given to individual states, making Columbia a sort of alliance between those states. Ultimately the Sixth Congress agreed upon dividing the states into several electoral regions according to their population, and re-creating then unicameral legislature of the Congress according to this model. Only New Aquitaine and the Incas ratified the First Amendment.
• 1797: Smaller states refuse to sign the First Amendment until the amendment itself is amended. The Seventh Continental Congress is called again at Saint-Denis, and representatives agreed to split the Congress into two houses; the House of Representatives, which follows the model outlined in the original First Amendment draft (representatives elected in electoral districts divided according population), and the Senate which follows the legislative system as outlined in the original Constitution text (four representatives chosen by each state regardless of population). The Senate retains the upper house while the House is given authority as the lower house. De Villaincourt, himself a supporter of states rights despite hailing from New Aquitaine - then largest state in Columbia, proposes to attribute more responsibilities to the House. Eventually the House gets all rights to form budget-related bills while the Senate have rights to propose other bills important to governance. The district of Montreal in Boquetta is designed new National Capital to replace Saint-Denis.
• 1800: De Villaincourt ended his term and refused to take part in further election. He instead endorsed Bertillon and his programmes of economic independence from Europe. However, this sparks an opposition since Bertillon’s programmes diminished the control of individual states to manage their own economies. The three plantation states of Equateur, Guyana, and Cayman Islands endorsed Bertillon’s rival, Governor Pasquier Laurent-Bechard from Equateur.
• 1801: Bertillon won the election due to popular support for his past as a revolutionary general. Bechard’s supporters formed the Democratic Party of Columbia, while Bertillon and de Villaincourt’s rallied to form the Federalist party.
• 1802: The Second Amendment. Government recognizes the right of citizens to free speech and criticism of the government.
• 1806: Bertillon is elected for the second term. He pushed for the formation of the Columbian Federal Bank, the central bank which would manage all affairs regarding the Columbian Franc including printing and gold reserves. A major scandal erupted when Bertillon is caught in a meeting with several plantation and mining businessman, leading to allegations that he planned to give away the Department of Treasury to oligarchs.
• 1807: Bertillon tried to win back popular support by instituting the Third Amendment, which granted rights to all citizens to bear arms, form militia, and defend themselves shall the central government violates the rights given by the other Amendments. Almost all of Representatives agreed to the Amendment. Significant pressure on the Senate by citizens led to the Amendment being ratified. While his later administration is still rife with scandals, Bertillon managed to pass one of the most important and essential laws of Columbia, and he is well regarded as a national hero.
• 1811: Pasquier Laurent-Bechard is elected President. Celebrations in Castres, Sainte-Anne, and Longchamps is held for his victory. A fervent supporter of states rights, he enjoyed mass popularity in the states that still implement slavery and indentured labor, such as Equateur and Guyana. However, his relations to the plantation businessman who controlled these states’ politics led to distrust, both from the Democratic and Federalist factions. Bechard returned the power to print money into the Department of Treasury in 1814 to eliminate allegations; enraging the bankers and businessman who had made their investments in the Central Bank.
• 1815: Bechard is assassinated, sparking mass protests in major cities. The Democrats, knowing that by now they would never have support of the Incas and New Aquitaine, made agreements with the Federalist faction to support Bertillon’s former vice president Reginald Duverger. There is essentially only one candidate in the 1815 election.
• 1816: Reginald Duverger is elected President. He gave the Federal Bank back all the monetary powers stripped by Bechard, while simultaneously limiting further incursions to the Bank by businessman. The compromise led to stability and Duverger’s further popularity.
• 1821: Duverger is elected for the second time. He pushed for more policy of states and citizens rights, including the First Amendments which granted individual states to run their own economic policies according to their regional congress, the Second Amendment which granted citizens right to free speech, political freedom and forming new parties, and the Third Amendment which granted citizens the right to bear arms. Duverger also estabilished the Territory of Amazon, sponsoring settlement of Columbians into the Amazon rainforest, connecting Guyana and the rest of the mainland.
• 1826: Everard Clérisseau of the Democratic Party is elected President. He instituted the Land Reform Act of 1827 which stripped indigenous tribes of their native lands, and officially opened the Territory of Amazon for Columbian colonization. Clérisseau was an ultra-conservative in regards to economic policy and race; he sponsored mass immigration from Europe to South America to populate the country with European Christians. He increased the size of the Army from a mere 60,000 to almost 300,000 with most of them stationed in indigenous territories. Europeans estabilished settlement and plantations along the Japura and Acre rivers, founding the cities of Vert-Ville (Rio Branco) and Villaincourt (Manaus). Clérisseau went so far as to giving free Columbian citizenship to any European settler who agreed to settle the jungle and open the forested lands to business.
• 1831: Columbian explorers and merchants began venturing into the Pacific islands, offering assistance to the Pacific chiefdoms in form of food and weapons. Thomas Fleurin de la Croix, of the Federalist Party, is elected President. He continued Clérisseau’s program of mass colonization of the interior. The timber and plantation industry thrived in Columbia due to the immigrants and indentured servants coming. This led to massive native rebellions as immigrants and Columbians alike began pouring down to the jungles to estabilish settlements. The Columbian Army commited atrocities to insurgents in the Bloody Winter of 1833, which led to mass criticisms to De La Croix’s administration.
• 1836: Due to the atrocities commited by the Army in his reign, De La Croix is outvoted by a Democratic candidate, Barthelemy Gaudin, in the 1835 elections. Columbian businessmen increased their presence in the Pacific islands, giving assistance to many warring chiefdoms, and fabricated wars against one another. Gaudin estabilished the Pacific Territorry in 1837 which initially consisted of small atolls in French Polynesia and Tonga. Gaudin’s administration saw the construction of ports throughout the Magdalena River, railways over New Aquitaine’s flat coastal regions, and roads throughout the countryside.
• 1841: Gaudin is reelected into office. Opening of Amazonian jungles has led to roads being bulid across the forest, but much of the transport sill utilizes the Japura and Acre rivers. Meanwhile, settlers started to arrive in the Pacific Territory; Columbian merchants began estabilishing trade outposts in Fiji.
• 1846: Federalist Alexandre Boursellier is elected into office. Boursellier invited foreign companies to invest in the new railway system being built in the Andes; however this system did not connect to the New Aquitaine system because of the difference in elevation. The new railway which is built from 1846 to 1851 boosted mining and farming production in the Incas. This also led to further opening of Amazonian jungles, as plantation crops and timber are now more easily carried to the north via the Andes.
• 1851: The Democratic National Convention of 1850 resulted in riots between the faction of Barthelemy Gaudin, former Columbian President, and the more socialist-leaning faction of Allard De Guignes, Governor of New Aquitaine. Disillusioned by the Democrats’ internal strife, popular vote elected Boursellier back into office, but his second term is plagued by Democratic criticism. Boursellier is impeached on 1854 following allegations of corruption. Democrats, gearing for the 1855 Presidential campaign, gave more incentives to the Democrat-controlled Amazon territory in order to gain more votes from the immigrants residing there, including opening new roads and granting more land concessions to settlers.
• 1856: Democrat Jean-Pierre Arsenault is elected President in 1855. His administration saw the Amazon territory granted statehood within Columbia. Fiji is stationed with Columbian Navy personnels and integrated into the Pacific Territory.
• 1906: Present day. President Francois-Philippe Brousseau of the Federalist Party was just elected in 1905. Main issues involve the civil rights of indigenous tribes, which had been forced to settle in Columbian cities in the Inca and the Amazon during 1856 to 1900, increased government subsidies for mining companies, and the rivalry between conservative Democrats and liberal Federalists. Several expeditions are planned further into the Amazon interior, as the Columbian government rushes settlement further into the east to prevent other countries from colonising first.

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Full Nation Name : Imperio Mexicano (Mexican Empire)
Majority/Official Culture : Mexican
Territorial Core : Mexico proper. Central America, Hispaniola, what remains open of Southwestern USA, Galapagos Island, Easter Island.
Territorial Claim : Southwestern U.S (Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas)
Capital City : Mexico City
Population: 43,000,000

Government Type : Absolutist Monarchy
Government Ideology/Policies : Reactionary Catholic State
Government Focus: Economic stability, Order, Revanchism.
Head of State: Salvador II
Head of Government : Salvador II
Government Description:
Reactionary monarchist regime, power centered on the monarch. The country is divided into divisiones (divisions) each governed by a local governor who is selected based on loyalty to the state and his competence. These governors are selected from the aristocracy and remain loyal due to their dependence on the state. These governors are appointed "deputy-governors" who in turn serve their governors and help administer their division. The government is authoritarian and maintains a secret police (officially unofficially part of the government- Los Zetas) censorship, and restricts unapproved political organizations.
Majority/State Religion : Roman Catholicism
Religious Description : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church

Economic Ideologies: State capitalism
Major Production: Tropical fruit, beef products, mineral ores, steel, cement, textiles.
Economic Description:

The state oversees and regulates the economy according to the nations needs at the time. Northern Mexico has high concentrations of mineral resources and is largely centered around cattle ranching, agriculture, and mining. Central Mexico is home to most of the nations industry and factories and has high levels of economic and infrastructure development. Southern Mexico and Central America have mixed levels of development and are largely dominated by the tropical fruit industry, although fishing and shipbuilding are also important here. Hispaniola grows sugarcane and has a small fishing industry along with some related industries. The nation has a growing petroleum industry, which is currently under the direction of the state.

The government maintains influence over the private sector via guilds which are controlled by a cabal of government and industrial magnates who act as collaborators who together ensure that economic control is kept in the hands of the government. The nations vital resources are owned by the state.

Development: Semi-Industrialized.
Development Description :

The country has unequal levels of development, with much of the countries industrial strength centered in Central Mexico. The entire country is however, for the most part connected by railroads and telegraph lines. Northern Mexico and Central America remain poor and relatively un-industrialized, still relying on agriculture as its main economic export.

Army Description:

Name: Ejercito de Tierra Imperial - (Imperial Land Army)

Army Strength: 2,200,000 total, 540,000 standing army (20 infantry divisions, 14 cavalry divisions and non-combat personnel), 1,980,000 army reserves (93 infantry divisions and additional auxiliary units and non combat personnel).

Since its defeat to the Busang Republic, the Imperial Land Army has been revamped and rebuilt to meet the challenges of protecting its large frontiers. The army has been expanded to include just over two and a half million men, whom are conscripted universally at the age of 18. The ETI has been drilled to mobilize its large force quickly using railways and telegraph stations placed strategically along important regions and potential battlefronts. The poor state of the countries border regions, particularly the northern frontier- leaves much to be wanted however.

The ETI is an offensive oriented force, with the army being drilled in maneuver warfare and military doctrine emphasizing mobility and maneuver. The Army is led by a landed nobility class known as the Haciendados who are a noble caste of society whose ancestors are said to be a mix of the best Spanish and Aztec warriors and princes. They are the countries modern equivalent of a warrior caste and they dominate the officer and leadership roles within the ETI.

Army Weakness:

The country faces the possibility of a war on two far and separate fronts. It is unclear as to whether the nation will be able to sufficiently supply its large army with its current economic capacity, especially at the level which its neighbors can field. The officer corps is mediocre due to the fact that many officers have connections there due to their family or social connections. This is further exasperated by the fact that few officers have seen actual combat and have no experience in modern warfare.

Naval Description :

Name: Armada Imperial de Mexico - (Imperial Mexican Navy)

Ship prefix: ASM (Armada de su majestad)
Capital Ships:
4 Battleships
7 Armored Cruisers
4 Monitors
1 Ironclad
16 Destroyers
26 Torpedo Ships
3 Submarines
19 Gunboats
41 Auxiliary ships

The Imperial Mexican Navy's (Armada Imperial Mexicana) primary mission is protecting Mexico's Pacific and Atlantic shores. Additionally the AIM is in charge of the protection of its overseas trade and territorial waters. The AIM is divided between the Pacific and Atlantic fleets, and acts as the countries primary defense against foreign invasions. Learning lessons from conflicts in the 18th century, the Navy has made it its mission to maintain parity with the navies of its neighbors. Furthermore, the AIM has dealt with the two ocean defense problem by helping finance the construction of a canal through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

The AIM has in recent years taken great pains to modernize its navy, with the inclusion of the construction of four new modern battleships, which together constitute the current peak of Mexican naval engineering. Old ships are being decommissioned, ending up either scrapped or sold.
Naval Weakness:

The AIM's "new navy" is untested and lacks significant experience. Furthermore the countries current roster of ships may become quickly obsolete in an era where naval warfare developments are becoming more and more rapid. The Navy is also much smaller than those of the worlds major powers.

Further Military Description:

National Goals : Maintain domestic stability, acquire territorial claims, become the dominant power in the region, develop the national economy.
National Issues : The country needs more economic development and the country suffers from tense social conflict in some regions from ethnic and class conflict, as well as political dissent by certain sectors of society.
National Figures of Interest : N/A
National Ambition/Aspirations : Expansion, stability, international prestige.

History :

- 1519: The first Spanish Conquistadors arrive in Spain. The Spanish Conquest of Mexico and Central America begins. At this time the Aztec Empire is the largest power in the region.

- 1521: The Spanish Conquest of Mexico culminates with the capture of Tenochtitlan- The last Aztec emperor dies. Most of Central Mexico is soon subdued. Veracruz becomes the capital of the new Spanish colony of Nuevo España.

- 1538: Central Mexico is mostly pacified and the encomnienda system is established. Spanish missionaries lead the conversion efforts of the region and convert millions to Catholic Christianity. At the same time the population of the natives declines drastically over the next few decades. Central America, and Southern Mexico are by this time, mostly conquered as well. A strong class of nobility known as colorados who are a mix of native and Spanish blood become an integral part of the Spanish colonial garrison. The Colorados become important in the repartimiento system, which forces natives to give free labor to their masters for a few weeks out of the year.

-1550: The Spanish Empire leads efforts to expand northward with limited success, with the natives of the region remaining fierce and hard to subdue. Native population continues to decline. "Los colorados", who are a minor landed nobility class develop a strong relationship with the army and become the main cavalry force of the Spanish army in the region.

-1600: Tenuous control is established over the Northern areas of Mexico. Expeditions continue into North America. At this time the Spanish empire is fueled by resources from New Spain and becomes a critical part of its empire. The native population stabilizes at around 4 million people.

- 1641: Expansion is hampered by Korean colonization on the west coast of North America, but settlements are established throughout the North American southwest establishing it as part of the colony of New Spain. At this time, the native populations decline seriously hampers the growth of the colony and the Spanish Empire establishes a settlement new expanded program for its settlers to come to the Americas. People from Europe migrate to New Spain in small waves throughout the next century.

- 1700: As New Spain enters the 18th century, New Spain harbors a rigid caste system based on race. Peninsulares status as the de jure rulers of New Spain starts to build up resentment within the Criollo classes of New Spain. El generación de 98 becomes the informal name for an organization of criollos dedicated to the establishment of more formal control of New Spain by criollo settlers. Although the Spanish attempt to crack down on this organization, it continues to grow and gain popularity over the Criollo classes. Race riots break out in some cities, agitating for improved social conditions.

- 1733- The rebellion of 1733 begins in the city of Puebla and the Spanish colonial troops siege the city. The rebellion is crushed although most of its leaders are pardoned, who later on go on to become leaders of new subversive organizations and dissenting intellectuals. Under the influence of liberalism, Mexico City becomes the center of intellectual thought in the Americas.

- 1767: The Spanish Army loses badly against an alliance of indian tribes at the battle of Rocanegra. This humiliating defeat contributes to the resentment of the native criollo class and leads to the Spanish colonial army to increasingly come under the control of the criollos. The colorados by this time acquire significant influence as they amass political and monetary capital.

- 1779: A native mestizo priest named Ernesto Morales calls for social reform and is executed by the local authorities. This incident causes outrage in the local community and this develops into a mob of mestizos attacking a local armory, arming themselves and later attacking and destroying a local hamlet and large estate. This encourages a rebellion of the criollos who manage to overthrow their leaders and seize control of Spanish units in Colima. Various similar uprisings occur throughout the country with various results.

-1780: By this time full blown conflict is in swing in several regions of New Spain and the native criollo classes largely decide to side with the rebellion. Although the rebellion has no clear goal at the outset, rebel leaders from across New Spain gather in secret at the city of Jalapa to make demands. Despite the various political and material interests of the members of this new group, the liberals dominate and create the Plan de Jalapa asking for more local autonomy and a seat in the Cortez in Spain along with several other concessions. The Spanish Crown rejects the proposal and order the leaders arrest for treason. At the same time, the colorados having stayed mostly loyal to the crown are not represented at the meeting at Jalapa. This begins the future tension between the two classes. At the same time, the meeting declares a "new assembly" known as the "Nueva Junta" - (New Junta) and they declare their independence from the Spanish Empire as the Mexican Republic.

- 1781: After declaring independence, the viceroy of New Spain marshals his forces and marches on the nearby cities of Puebla, Queretaro, and Toluca. All except Puebla fall, and the Spanish are defeated at the First Battle of Puebla, giving new life to the rebellion. However despite the increasing popularity of the revolt, the geographic distribution of the rebel forces leads to a failure of the rebels to bring a counter attack against the Spanish loyalists. This year also sees the birth and morphing of the factions which will come to be center-stage in Mexican politics for the next 40 years- the Mexican radical liberals, the Mexican Conservatives, and the Moderates.

- 1782: Despite initial successes, many regions in rebellion fail to develop into cohesive forces and are quickly subdued by the remianing Spanish Forces in Mexico. The Mexican Separatist Army is formed at Jalapa on April 23rd, 1782 out of the various defecting units of the Spanish Army. This force is bolstered by the ranks of peasants, former slaves, and lower middle class castizos. Reinforcements from Cuba arrive at Veracruz and bolster loyalist morale. While some colorados join the Mexicans, most stay loyal to the crown.

- 1789: After several years of warfare, neither side gains the upper-hand. Leading an ambitious charge, General Lazaro Diaz of the Mexican Independence Army moves for a capture of the city of Morelia. Urged on by the Spanish Crown to crush the rebellion, Spanish forces meet the Mexican forces just outside the city of Morelia. The Spanish are defeated, and the Spanish Army is routed- where it is later crushed again near Mexico City. After decisively destroying the Spanish, Mexico City surrenders and Spanish forces are scattered and unable to resist the Mexican forces.

- 1790: The Plan of Iguala unites all the separate factions of New Spain to agree to form a Constitutional Republic, headed by a president. This plan is controversial and the Mexican conservatives from this point on become alienated from the mainstream political consensus. The nations first elections take place ever. A separatist conservative named Alejandro Quesada is elected the First President of the Mexican Republic.

-1792: New Spain, now de facto the Mexican Republic- continues to mop up Spanish forces still in the country. A new army lands at Veracruz unopposed headed by Jose de Iturbide. He defeats the Mexican army on Dec. 12 due to poor coordination by the Mexicans at the battle of Cordoba. However, after this battle Iturbide and his Army defect to the Mexican side. The Mexicans accept Iturbide and the fighting stops.

-1795: Spain refuses to accept Mexico as independent officially, however the Mexican Republic and Spain sign a truce which indicated the end of the war of independence. The Colorados are by this point disenfranchised and ruined, some flee to Spain but most stay and move north to the frontier where they are largely unable to interfere in Mexican politics. Although peace is mostly established with Spain, the Republic will remain unstable for the remainder of its existence.

-1802: Rebellions are semi-common, and the now greatly reduced Mexican Army struggles to maintain order. The government, headed by Antonio de Niquim is ruled by a coalition of moderates and moderate liberals in the National Assembly. Niquim fails to establish order and struggles to legitimize his government. A riot takes place in Mexico City, which almost escalates into a siege. The riot is appeased only by conceding more rights and land to the peasants. This further alienates Spanish Conservatives, as the concessions are largely done at their expense of the Church and wealthy landowners of Central Mexico. Despite this the concessions fail to bring about the change that the radicals and peasants wanted. Furthermore, Central America becomes de-facto independent at this time, further de-legitimizing the Republic.

-1806: The 1806 elections prove a disaster for Niquim, and he steps down in favor of a radical liberal government headed by Fausto Vargas. The Vargas regime implements radical secular reforms, including the seizure of Church property, the subjugation of the Mexican aristocratic class, and the liberalization of the economy.

- 1808: The San Juan incident occurs. A priest is killed along with his flock after barricading himself and his congregation in a Church in the town of San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec. Although the details are unclear and the incident was considered unintentional, the church lights on fire killing the priest and almost 100 people. This incident shocks the nation, and citing the incident as proof of the current governments cruelty- the conservatives in the national assembly resign in protest. This sparks the creation of the "Sociedad secreta", a reactionary intellectual group which begins distributing anti-government propaganda and pamphlets. Among this group is Augustin de Iturbide, who advocates for a coup against the government.

- 1810: The radical liberal government conducts a purge of its institutions of "enemies of Mexico", however this causes unrest leading to Augustin de Iturbide leading a coup against the government and manages to take the government by surprise, culminating in the fantastic siege of the national assembly hall. During the siege, President Vargas is killed. The national assembly is killed. Iturbide becomes the de-facto military governor of Mexico. Iturbide beings his reign by giving the Church assertive authority over spiritual and secular domains. Iturbide meets with conservative elites, and together with a newly formed Junta rules Mexico. Rebellion springs up across the country as the liberals rally their support.

- 1811: The Junta declares the abolishment of the repartimiento system, however the rebellions continue to spring up across the country. Iturbide leads the army in campaign after campaign, quelling insurrections and mutinies across the country. During this time however, infighting and political squabbles lead to the destruction of the Junta. The state enters a civil war, with several different factions vying for control. Iturbide retains control of central Mexico however, and for the next 10 years spends the time campaigning against his enemies.

- 1821: Iturbide wins the civil war, and after a proud military procession through the streets of Mexico City, he is declared emperor of the First Mexican Empire. Iturbide begins implementing his "division" system. The country is divided between governors from members of the former "Colorado" class and they are given sub-governors to help them administer their appointed division. The nations old liberal institutions are steadily replaced by those approved by the royal family.

- 1830: Mexico declares war on the Central American States and fully annexes the nation over the course of a decade. Augustin died May 1, 1831, the war pursued by his son Salvador I who was crowned emperor after both of his elder brothers died along with their father of yellow fever. Central America is integrated successfully over the next two decades successfully, with the order and stability largely quelling insurgency. Immigration from the east and the west drives more people to the frontiers, helping settle the areas which were previously tenuously controlled. Hispanola is invaded by the Mexicans after a brief reconquest attempt by the Spanish, with the Imperial Mexican Navy conquering the island in a punitive expedition. Hispanola, like Central America integrates successfully into the empire.

- 1850s: Mexico loses a war against the Busang and large amounts of territory north of the Rio Grande are ceded to them. The Mexican Empire begins militarizing, building up its martial power after the lessons learned in the "Great Northern War." Despite the hit in prestige and legitimacy, the Monarchy stabilizes. At this time, the monarchy begins encouraging more economic development in order to compete with its neighbors. In 1857, Salvador I dies of Tuberculosis, leaving it to his 8 year old son Salvador II.

- 1864: The 7 year regency manages to maintain order until 1864 when Salvador II takes the throne at just 15 years old. Salvador II proves to be a skilled and capable ruler, albeit a reclusive and enigmatic one. His life is marked by the shame of losing to the Busang, which throughout his life he makes his project to strengthen the nation against foreign enemies. Nicknamed "El niño soldado" (The Boy Soldier) his emphasis on military expansion is responsible for the nations accelerated militarization.

- 1870s: Mexico begins industrializing in earnest, as the nations stability encourages development and modernization. Railroads, telegraph lines, and factories are built throughout the country with help from outside capital and sponsorship from the government. At this time, the Mexican government begins intensifying its efforts to establish a manufacturing base in the country. Migration to the country continues. Mexico continues this trend of modernization and industrialization into the modern era. Mexico takes the Galapagos and Easter Islands, and establishes naval bases there.

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Full Nation Name : Imperio Mexicano (Mexican Empire)
Majority/Official Culture : Mexican
Territorial Core : Mexico proper. Central America, Hispaniola, what remains open of Southwestern USA, Galapagos Island, Easter Island.
Territorial Claim : Southwestern U.S (Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas)
Capital City : Mexico City
Population: 43,000,000

Government Type : Absolutist Monarchy
Government Ideology/Policies : Reactionary Catholic State
Government Focus: Economic stability, Order, Revanchism.
Head of State: Salvador de Iturbide
Head of Government : Salvador de Iturbide
Government Description:
Reactionary monarchist regime, power centered on the monarch. The country is divided into divisiones (divisions) each governed by a local governor who is selected based on loyalty to the state and his competence. These governors are selected from the aristocracy and remain loyal due to their dependence on the state. These governors are appointed "deputy-governors" who in turn serve their governors and help administer their division. The government is authoritarian and maintains a secret police (officially unofficially part of the government- Los Zetas) censorship, and restricts unapproved political organizations.
Majority/State Religion : Roman Catholicism
Religious Description : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church

Economic Ideologies: State capitalism
Major Production: Tropical fruit, beef products, mineral ores, steel, cement, textiles.
Economic Description:

The state oversees and regulates the economy according to the nations needs at the time. Northern Mexico has high concentrations of mineral resources and is largely centered around cattle ranching, agriculture, and mining. Central Mexico is home to most of the nations industry and factories and has high levels of economic and infrastructure development. Southern Mexico and Central America have mixed levels of development and are largely dominated by the tropical fruit industry, although fishing and shipbuilding are also important here. Hispaniola grows sugarcane and has a small fishing industry along with some related industries. The nation has a growing petroleum industry, which is currently under the direction of the state.

The government maintains influence over the private sector via guilds which are controlled by a cabal of government and industrial magnates who act as collaborators who together ensure that economic control is kept in the hands of the government. The nations vital resources are owned by the state.

Development: Semi-Industrialized.
Development Description :

The country has unequal levels of development, with much of the countries industrial strength centered in Central Mexico. The entire country is however, for the most part connected by railroads and telegraph lines. Northern Mexico and Central America remain poor and relatively un-industrialized, still relying on agriculture as its main economic export.

Army Description:

Name: Ejercito de Tierra Imperial - (Imperial Land Army)

Army Strength: 2,200,000 total, 540,000 standing army (20 infantry divisions, 14 cavalry divisions and non-combat personnel), 1,980,000 army reserves (93 infantry divisions and additional auxiliary units and non combat personnel).

Since its defeat to the Busang Republic, the Imperial Land Army has been revamped and rebuilt to meet the challenges of protecting its large frontiers. The army has been expanded to include just over two and a half million men, whom are conscripted universally at the age of 18. The ETI has been drilled to mobilize its large force quickly using railways and telegraph stations placed strategically along important regions and potential battlefronts. The poor state of the countries border regions, particularly the northern frontier- leaves much to be wanted however.

The ETI is an offensive oriented force, with the army being drilled in maneuver warfare and military doctrine emphasizing mobility and maneuver. The Army is led by a landed nobility class known as the Haciendados who are a noble caste of society whose ancestors are said to be a mix of the best Spanish and Aztec warriors and princes. They are the countries modern equivalent of a warrior caste and they dominate the officer and leadership roles within the ETI.

Army Weakness:

The country faces the possibility of a war on two far and separate fronts. It is unclear as to whether the nation will be able to sufficiently supply its large army with its current economic capacity, especially at the level which its neighbors can field. The officer corps is mediocre due to the fact that many officers have connections there due to their family or social connections. This is further exasperated by the fact that few officers have seen actual combat and have no experience in modern warfare.

Naval Description :

Name: Armada Imperial de Mexico - (Imperial Mexican Navy)

Ship prefix: ASM (Armada de su majestad)
Capital Ships:
4 Battleships
7 Steel Cruisers
4 Monitors
1 Ironclad
16 Destroyers
26 Torpedo Ships
3 Submarines
19 Gunboats
41 Auxiliary ships

The Imperial Mexican Navy's (Armada Imperial Mexicana) primary mission is protecting Mexico's Pacific and Atlantic shores. Additionally the AIM is in charge of the protection of its overseas trade and territorial waters. The AIM is divided between the Pacific and Atlantic fleets, and acts as the countries primary defense against foreign invasions. Learning lessons from conflicts in the 18th century, the Navy has made it its mission to maintain parity with the navies of its neighbors. Furthermore, the AIM has dealt with the two ocean defense problem by helping finance the construction of a canal through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

The AIM has in recent years taken great pains to modernize its navy, with the inclusion of the construction of four new modern battleships, which together constitute the current peak of Mexican naval engineering. Old ships are being decommissioned, ending up either scrapped or sold.
Naval Weakness:

The AIM's "new navy" is untested and lacks significant experience. Furthermore the countries current roster of ships may become quickly obsolete in an era where naval warfare developments are becoming more and more rapid.

Further Military Description: N/A

National Goals : Maintain domestic stability, acquire territorial claims, become the dominant power in the region, develop the national economy.
National Issues : The country needs more economic development and the country suffers from tense social conflict in some regions from ethnic and class conflict, as well as political dissent by certain sectors of society.
National Figures of Interest : N/A
National Ambition/Aspirations : Expansion, stability, international prestige.

History :

- 1519: The first Spanish Conquistadors arrive in Spain. The Spanish Conquest of Mexico and Central America begins. At this time the Aztec Empire is the largest power in the region.

- 1521: The Spanish Conquest of Mexico culminates with the capture of Tenochtitlan- The last Aztec emperor dies. Most of Central Mexico is soon subdued. Veracruz becomes the capital of the new Spanish colony of Nuevo España.

- 1538: Central Mexico is mostly pacified and the encomnienda system is established. Spanish missionaries lead the conversion efforts of the region and convert millions to Catholic Christianity. At the same time the population of the natives declines drastically over the next few decades. Central America, and Southern Mexico are by this time, mostly conquered as well. A strong class of nobility known as colorados who are a mix of native and Spanish blood become an integral part of the Spanish colonial garrison. The Colorados become important in the repartimiento system, which forces natives to give free labor to their masters for a few weeks out of the year.

-1550: The Spanish Empire leads efforts to expand northward with limited success, with the natives of the region remaining fierce and hard to subdue. Native population continues to decline. "Los colorados", who are a minor landed nobility class develop a strong relationship with the army and become the main cavalry force of the Spanish army in the region.

-1600: Tenuous control is established over the Northern areas of Mexico. Expeditions continue into North America. At this time the Spanish empire is fueled by resources from New Spain and becomes a critical part of its empire. The native population stabilizes at around 4 million people.

- 1641: Expansion is hampered by Korean colonization on the west coast of North America, but settlements are established throughout the North American southwest establishing it as part of the colony of New Spain. At this time, the native populations decline seriously hampers the growth of the colony and the Spanish Empire establishes a settlement new expanded program for its settlers to come to the Americas. People from Europe migrate to New Spain in small waves throughout the next century.

- 1700: As New Spain enters the 18th century, New Spain harbors a rigid caste system based on race. Peninsulares status as the de jure rulers of New Spain starts to build up resentment within the Criollo classes of New Spain. El generación de 98 becomes the informal name for an organization of criollos dedicated to the establishment of more formal control of New Spain by criollo settlers. Although the Spanish attempt to crack down on this organization, it continues to grow and gain popularity over the Criollo classes. Race riots break out in some cities, agitating for improved social conditions.

- 1733- The rebellion of 1733 begins in the city of Puebla and the Spanish colonial troops siege the city. The rebellion is crushed although most of its leaders are pardoned, who later on go on to become leaders of new subversive organizations and dissenting intellectuals. Under the influence of liberalism, Mexico City becomes the center of intellectual thought in the Americas.

- 1767: The Spanish Army loses badly against an alliance of indian tribes at the battle of Rocanegra. This humiliating defeat contributes to the resentment of the native criollo class and leads to the Spanish colonial army to increasingly come under the control of the criollos. The colorados by this time acquire significant influence as they amass political and monetary capital.

- 1779: A native mestizo priest named Ernesto Morales calls for social reform and is executed by the local authorities. This incident causes outrage in the local community and this develops into a mob of mestizos attacking a local armory, arming themselves and later attacking and destroying a local hamlet and large estate. This encourages a rebellion of the criollos who manage to overthrow their leaders and seize control of Spanish units in Colima. Various similar uprisings occur throughout the country with various results.

-1780: By this time full blown conflict is in swing in several regions of New Spain and the native criollo classes largely decide to side with the rebellion. Although the rebellion has no clear goal at the outset, rebel leaders from across New Spain gather in secret at the city of Jalapa to make demands. Despite the various political and material interests of the members of this new group, the liberals dominate and create the Plan de Jalapa asking for more local autonomy and a seat in the Cortez in Spain along with several other concessions. The Spanish Crown rejects the proposal and order the leaders arrest for treason. At the same time, the colorados having stayed mostly loyal to the crown are not represented at the meeting at Jalapa. This begins the future tension between the two classes. At the same time, the meeting declares a "new assembly" known as the "Nueva Junta" - (New Junta) and they declare their independence from the Spanish Empire as the Mexican Republic.

- 1781: After declaring independence, the viceroy of New Spain marshals his forces and marches on the nearby cities of Puebla, Queretaro, and Toluca. All except Puebla fall, and the Spanish are defeated at the First Battle of Puebla, giving new life to the rebellion. However despite the increasing popularity of the revolt, the geographic distribution of the rebel forces leads to a failure of the rebels to bring a counter attack against the Spanish loyalists. This year also sees the birth and morphing of the factions which will come to be center-stage in Mexican politics for the next 40 years- the Mexican radical liberals, the Mexican Conservatives, and the Moderates.

- 1782: Despite initial successes, many regions in rebellion fail to develop into cohesive forces and are quickly subdued by the remianing Spanish Forces in Mexico. The Mexican Separatist Army is formed at Jalapa on April 23rd, 1782 out of the various defecting units of the Spanish Army. This force is bolstered by the ranks of peasants, former slaves, and lower middle class castizos. Reinforcements from Cuba arrive at Veracruz and bolster loyalist morale. While some colorados join the Mexicans, most stay loyal to the crown.

- 1789: After several years of warfare, neither side gains the upper-hand. Leading an ambitious charge, General Lazaro Diaz of the Mexican Independence Army moves for a capture of the city of Morelia. Urged on by the Spanish Crown to crush the rebellion, Spanish forces meet the Mexican forces just outside the city of Morelia. The Spanish are defeated, and the Spanish Army is routed- where it is later crushed again near Mexico City. After decisively destroying the Spanish, Mexico City surrenders and Spanish forces are scattered and unable to resist the Mexican forces.

- 1790: The Plan of Iguala unites all the separate factions of New Spain to agree to form a Constitutional Republic, headed by a president. This plan is controversial and the Mexican conservatives from this point on become alienated from the mainstream political consensus. The nations first elections take place ever. A separatist conservative named Alejandro Quesada is elected the First President of the Mexican Republic.

-1792: New Spain, now de facto the Mexican Republic- continues to mop up Spanish forces still in the country. A new army lands at Veracruz unopposed headed by Jose de Iturbide. He defeats the Mexican army on Dec. 12 due to poor coordination by the Mexicans at the battle of Cordoba. However, after this battle Iturbide and his Army defect to the Mexican side. The Mexicans accept Iturbide and the fighting stops.

-1795: Spain refuses to accept Mexico as independent officially, however the Mexican Republic and Spain sign a truce which indicated the end of the war of independence. The Colorados are by this point disenfranchised and ruined, some flee to Spain but most stay and move north to the frontier where they are largely unable to interfere in Mexican politics. Although peace is mostly established with Spain, the Republic will remain unstable for the remainder of its existence.

-1802: Rebellions are semi-common, and the now greatly reduced Mexican Army struggles to maintain order. The government, headed by Antonio de Niquim is ruled by a coalition of moderates and moderate liberals in the National Assembly. Niquim fails to establish order and struggles to legitimize his government. A riot takes place in Mexico City, which almost escalates into a siege. The riot is appeased only by conceding more rights and land to the peasants. This further alienates Spanish Conservatives, as the concessions are largely done at their expense of the Church and wealthy landowners of Central Mexico. Despite this the concessions fail to bring about the change that the radicals and peasants wanted. Furthermore, Central America becomes de-facto independent at this time, further de-legitimizing the Republic.

-1806: The 1806 elections prove a disaster for Niquim, and he steps down in favor of a radical liberal government headed by Fausto Vargas. The Vargas regime implements radical secular reforms, including the seizure of Church property, the subjugation of the Mexican aristocratic class, and the liberalization of the economy.

- 1808: The San Juan incident occurs. A priest is killed along with his flock after barricading himself and his congregation in a Church in the town of San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec. Although the details are unclear and the incident was considered unintentional, the church lights on fire killing the priest and almost 100 people. This incident shocks the nation, and citing the incident as proof of the current governments cruelty- the conservatives in the national assembly resign in protest. This sparks the creation of the "Sociedad secreta", a reactionary intellectual group which begins distributing anti-government propaganda and pamphlets. Among this group is Augustin de Iturbide, who advocates for a coup against the government.

- 1810: The radical liberal government conducts a purge of its institutions of "enemies of Mexico", however this causes unrest leading to Augustin de Iturbide leading a coup against the government and manages to take the government by surprise, culminating in the fantastic siege of the national assembly hall. During the siege, President Vargas is killed. The national assembly is killed. Iturbide becomes the de-facto military governor of Mexico. Iturbide beings his reign by giving the Church assertive authority over spiritual and secular domains. Iturbide meets with conservative elites, and together with a newly formed Junta rules Mexico. Rebellion springs up across the country as the liberals rally their support.

- 1811: The Junta declares the abolishment of the repartimiento system, however the rebellions continue to spring up across the country. Iturbide leads the army in campaign after campaign, quelling insurrections and mutinies across the country. During this time however, infighting and political squabbles lead to the destruction of the Junta. The state enters a civil war, with several different factions vying for control. Iturbide retains control of central Mexico however, and for the next 10 years spends the time campaigning against his enemies.

- 1821: Iturbide wins the civil war, and after a proud military procession through the streets of Mexico City, he is declared emperor of the First Mexican Empire. Iturbide begins implementing his "division" system. The country is divided between governors from members of the former "Colorado" class and they are given sub-governors to help them administer their appointed division. The nations old liberal institutions are steadily replaced by those approved by the royal family.

- 1830: Mexico declares war on the Central American States and fully annexes the nation over the course of a decade. The same process which occurred in Mexico occurs in Central America, and the areas is pacified and integrated into the empire within the course of two decades. Immigration from the east and the west drives more people to the frontiers, helping settle the areas which were previously under tenuous Mexican control. During the same decade, a short war between Mexico and Spain ensues and the Mexicans invade and conquer Hispanola.

- 1850s: Mexico loses a war against the Busang and large amounts of territory north of the Rio Grande are ceded to them. The Mexican Empire begins militarizing, building up its martial power after the lessons in the "Great Northern War."

- 1870s: Mexico begins industrializing in earnest, as the nations stability encourages development and modernization. Railroads, telegraph lines, and factories are built throughout the country with help from outside capital and sponsorship from the government. At this time, the Mexican government begins intensifying its efforts to establish a manufacturing base in the country. At the same time, migration to the country continues. Mexico continues this trend of modernization and industrialization into the modern era.

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Accepted

[Dahyan]

Reservation

Nation Name: French People's Republic
Territory: France plus Andorra and the RL Spanish regions of Basque Country, Navarre, Aragon and Catalonia
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[Tracian Empire]

Reservation

Nation Name: French People's Republic
Territory: France plus Andorra and the RL Spanish regions of Basque Country, Navarre, Aragon and Catalonia
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Sadly, as our intent is to get players for both France and Spain, we can not allow either claim to take territory from the other nation, as it would make that other nation less attractive for potential new players. So you can have France, and perhaps if you can explain how the new French government could have retained control of its colonies some colonial areas, but no Spanish territories.

[Dahyan]

Reservation

Nation Name: French People's Republic
Territory: France plus Andorra and the RL Spanish regions of Basque Country, Navarre, Aragon and Catalonia
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Sadly, as our intent is to get players for both France and Spain, we can not allow either claim to take territory from the other nation, as it would make that other nation less attractive for potential new players. So you can have France, and perhaps if you can explain how the new French government could have retained control of its colonies some colonial areas, but no Spanish territories.

Fair enough, I'll take it. As far as possible colonial possessions go, I assume this could only apply to some parts of Africa? Because I think all former French colonies in the Americas and Asia are currently occupied already, judging by the map.

[Remnants of Exilvania]

Sadly, as our intent is to get players for both France and Spain, we can not allow either claim to take territory from the other nation, as it would make that other nation less attractive for potential new players. So you can have France, and perhaps if you can explain how the new French government could have retained control of its colonies some colonial areas, but no Spanish territories.

Fair enough, I'll take it. As far as possible colonial possessions go, I assume this could only apply to some parts of Africa? Because I think all former French colonies in the Americas and Asia are currently occupied already, judging by the map.

Some tiny Paicifc Islands and some chunks of Brazil could still be colonized.

[Tracian Empire]

Sadly, as our intent is to get players for both France and Spain, we can not allow either claim to take territory from the other nation, as it would make that other nation less attractive for potential new players. So you can have France, and perhaps if you can explain how the new French government could have retained control of its colonies some colonial areas, but no Spanish territories.

Fair enough, I'll take it. As far as possible colonial possessions go, I assume this could only apply to some parts of Africa? Because I think all former French colonies in the Americas and Asia are currently occupied already, judging by the map.

Yeah, some bits and pieces of Africa are free. Parts of Brazil could also have been colonized, and according to the current history of the Columbian player, those territories were French colonies at some point.

[Dahyan]

Fair enough, I'll take it. As far as possible colonial possessions go, I assume this could only apply to some parts of Africa? Because I think all former French colonies in the Americas and Asia are currently occupied already, judging by the map.

Some tiny Paicifc Islands and some chunks of Brazil could still be colonized.

Sounds good. I'd like to reserve the part of Brazil in between the British Guyana and Brazilian possessions as French territory then. I believe it's around the RL states of Pará and Maranhão, if I looked it up correctly. As well as New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna and Clipperton Island like RL France. Would that be acceptable?

[Sarderia]

Even before I have to properly review the app - you seem to have not taken into account one of the points from last time. You have to properly justify how your nation is so much like the US in terms of government and politics.

Added more history to explain the govt system.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

I've edited my claims btw
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[Tracian Empire]

Some tiny Paicifc Islands and some chunks of Brazil could still be colonized.

Sounds good. I'd like to reserve the part of Brazil in between the British Guyana and Brazilian possessions as French territory then. I believe it's around the RL states of Pará and Maranhão, if I looked it up correctly. As well as New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna and Clipperton Island like RL France. Would that be acceptable?

The map has to be updated - the exact borders in Brazil have changed a little, but France could have a colony in Brazil.

I am also admittedly not familiar with small islands, but they should be free, I will get back to you after I update the map, but the claim as a whole is accepted

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

Full Nation Name : The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Majority/Official Culture : The Empire is very multicultural. Though the Anglo-Saxons of the British Isles make up the majority of the ruling government, the wider empire is also made up of many other peoples: Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Indonesian and Indian peoples to name a few.
Territorial Core : https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ ... 2.poss.png
Territorial Claim : Note, many of these are more "hopes and dreams" then serious claims.
Capital City: London
Population:
-Great Britain: 39,700,000
-Ireland: 7,000,000
-British India: 72,401,500
-British Java: 30,000,000
-British East Indies (excluding Java): 2,000,000
-Australia: 4,120,000
-New Zealand: 967,000
-British South Africa: 3,383,000
-British West Africa: 2,800,000
-British East Africa: 2,600,000
-British Brazil: 10,750,000
-British Cuba: 1,500,000
-Total: 177,221,500

Government Type : Semi-Constitutional Monarchy
Government Ideology/Policies : Militarism, Imperialism, Capitalism, Pragmatism, Real Politik
Government Focus: The British Empire is mainly concerned with having economic security and dominance on the world stage, as well as having the power projection and military power to protect and expand said economic-political interests.
Head of State: Cerdic III of the House of Wellesley (By the Grace of God His Majesty Cerdic III of House Wellesley, Bretwalda of the British Isles, King of the Anglo-Saxons, Northumbrians, Welsh, Irish and Scots, Defender of the Javanese Kingdoms, Protector of the Imperial Realm
Head of Government: Lâdwitan Cuthbert [Last Name]
Government Description: The British Government is a Semi-Constitutional Monarchy: in which while the monarch still has near-supreme powers, there still remains a legislative body that can, at times, counter it. There are two primary legislative bodies: the Witenagemot and the Thing. The Witenagemot

The British King, or Bretwalda as it is officially known, has a rather large reaching amount of abilities. He can pass legislation and law, declare wars and make agreements by his own words without having to consult the main legislative body, the Witenagemot. However, the Witenagemot has the option to "veto" the actions of the king if there is a 2/3rd majority. This is counteracted by the fact that the King himself can also veto a Witenagemot law

Majority/State Religion : Anglican Christianity
Religious Description : [[OPTIONAL]]

Economic Ideologies : Capitalism
Major Production : Coal, Iron, Gold, Silver, Industrial Consumer Goods
Economic Description :

Development: Modern
Development Description : [Explain further why your nation is in one of the above categories]

Army Description : [[Describe your nation's army in as much detail as you can]]
Army Weakness :
Naval Description : [[Describe your nation's navy in as much detail as you can]]
Naval Weakness : The Empire's size and distance means that the Royal Navy is rather spread across the globe: though its mass size is sufficient to police the various corners of the realm, it would be a much more difficult task to concentrate them together.
Further Military Description : [[OPTIONAL]]

National Goals :
National Issues : [[what needs to be fixed in order for your nation to achieve its true potential]]
National Figures of Interest :
-Harold Godwinson
National Ambition/Aspirations : [[OPTIONAL]] [[Not really a set objective, but rather the big picture that your nation is drawing towards]]

History : [[Can be in paragraph or bulletpoint timeline.]]
RP Sample: [[Either a link to a past post, or an example written right here.]]

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