1890: Alternative Divergence [AH][OOC-DEAD]

[The Manticoran Empire]

Full Nation Name: The Hanseatic League
Majority/Official Culture: German
Territorial Core: North Germany
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Capital City: Hamburg
Population: 40,584,368

Government Type: Federal Presidential Parliamentary Republic
Government Ideology/Policies: Republicanism
Government Focus: Economic expansion, military modernization, maintaining stability.
Head of State: President Wolfgang Kruger
Head of Government: Prime Minister David Dietrich
Government Description: The Hanseatic League is a parliamentary republic with a unicameral legislature called the Senate. Originally formed as a council of representatives from multiple trade guilds, the Senate was reformed in the 17th century as the League declined in power and influence. Hamburg became a central player in the reformed league, with a direct route into the North Sea that didn’t involve braving the Scandinavian controlled Denmark Straits. Furthermore, the increasing competition from wealthy individuals saw the Guilds lose most of their power and influence as the wealthiest families vied for control of the companies. With the loss of Guild influence, the Senate was reformed from a haven of the rich with no elections to a fully elected body. However, this system was rife with corruption. Merchant families no longer had a need to run for political office. Instead, they could buy senators by bankrolling their campaigns. This changed in 1850 after two years of protests, riots, and armed clashes.

The 1850 reforms saw new legislation governing campaign contributions and increasing the political power of the general populace. Where before Senators could only be voted out in election years, now constituencies could hold recall elections at any time. All that would be required is a majority of the constituents to agree that the Senator had not represented them properly and should be replaced.

Majority/State Religion: The official religion of the Hanseatic League is Lutheranism.
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Economic Ideologies: Capitalism
Major Production: Steel, coal, trade
Economic Description: The central part of the economy is the booming overseas trade centered along the North and Baltic Sea coasts. Cargo ships laden with all manners of manufactured goods sail to foreign ports, returning with raw materials, coal, and oil. Relatively minor contributions are made by the Ruhr Valley and parts of the Rhineland which fall under Hanseatic control.

Development: Modern
Development Description: The wealth gained by overseas trade and the industrial power of the Ruhr and Rhineland have allowed the League to reach a level of development rivalling that of the British Empire and other European powers. Paved roads, railroad lines, telegraph wires, electric power, and other sorts of infrastructure crisscross the nation.

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National Goals: Maintain stability and modernize the military.
National Issues: Republican and Socialist reformers and revolutionaries.
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History:

As the old Hanseatic League declined in the 16th Century, reforms in Hamburg’s government led to reforms across the League. Legislative councils, including representatives from the Church, the local Guilds, and the People who lived in the city, were formed. However, the majority of the power was in the hands of the Trade Guilds, a fact that would continue for almost 200 years. Gradual reforms in the 17th and 18th centuries would give greater power to the Church but it would be the French and English revolutions in the 1790s that would finally tip the balance in favor of equalizing the power of the Church, the Guilds, and the People. This didn’t happen overnight, which led to a wave of riots and protests in 1848 that was the final nail in the coffin of Guild dominance in the League.
RP Sample: 1935-2000 Era War
Fallout: New Hope, Old World
1912-1990 Era War
South the Mason
Fallout: Age of Strife

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An updated app. Not quite finished but starting to get the basics figured out. Alternate history can get difficult when you're trying to create a state that died in the 1600s and wasn't really a state.

[Tracian Empire]

Full Nation Name : (en:) The Sublime Tatar State - (tat:) Бөек Татар Дәүләте - (kz:) Ұлы Татар мемлекеті - (uz:) Yuksak tatar davlati - (ru:) Возвышенное татарское государство

Alright, I love the app overall, I love the concept, but there a few things that need to be fixed:

• You should replace the few mentions of the Abbasids that have remained like in the religious description
• For the development, there is of course nothing conceptually wrong with the idea of the Tatars modernizing faster than Russia. But even a very modernizing state would have to deal with the realities of Russia's geographical situation. You do mention that the infrastructure is very spread out, that's of course true, and as a consequence of the same issue, distances, your industry would also be relatively spread-out, concentrated in certain areas that would favor industrialization, while your other areas would probably still remain relatively agrarian and undeveloped. This should be reflected in the Development field, where it should be Modernized/Semi-modernized or something along these lines. And this situation of the industry being somewhat spread-out should also be mentioned, here or in the economy section.
• You would have the second largest army around with full mobilization, which of course, makes a lot of sense, but I would like you to discuss training and equipment a little. Your army would obviously be in a much, much better situation than the Imperial Russian Army, but with such a large reserve force, there would clearly be differences in training and equipment that could go very well in the weaknesses section/
• You'll have to change the navy description I'm afraid. If by battleships you mean pre-dreadnought battleships, then it's way too much. You would have a considerable navy, not negligible at all. The Russian Empire, with a lot more coast than you and with a much bigger need for naval forces, had 13 ironclads in 1890, and five of them were broadside frigates.
• As for the history. Firstly with Timur, it's more than alright for your Golden Horde to have defeated him, but you need to sync your history with that of the Indian app. Timur can't really be conquering Delhi and attacking the Golden Horde in a span of a few years, and since the Indian history still needs an existing Timurid empire, you can't have it collapse in yours. You need to make it clear that you're only conquering some parts of Timur's realm.
• Other than that, I'd just like to see a bit more turmoil because of the reforms. Having a tribal and conservative society like that of the Tatars slowly turn into a more Westernized one is clearly going to be met with a lot of opposition. Murad Khan's reforms would be one of the situations where this should happen. You do mention a lot of retaliation against nobles for Murad III, so that works, but I'd also like to see some reasoning for it. Reforms generally only happen when prompted to, and you've had some quite radical reforms. Either spread them out among multiple khans so that it's a slow effort to keep Tatarstan in line with its neighbors, or have some sort of events that prompt the reforms. Noble rebellions to justify the dissolution of the Kurultai perhaps, local rebellions to prompt a more Byzantine style of government, a military defeat or a military coup attempt to justify the reformation of the military, stuff like that. Because as it is right now, Tatarstan modernizes incredibly well and sheds most of its past issues, but without having ever particularly run into problems because of those issues - it was winning at all fronts, expanding, and so on.
  

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The map and list have been updated, Northern Germany, the Netherlands, Sudan, and Ethiopia are now free and can be applied for.

[Tracian Empire]

Full Nation Name : Aztek Ascendancy

If the other CO-OP's have no issue with it, accepted!

[Bluepillar]

Reservation

Nation Name: The Kingdom of the Argentine
Family Reservation: The Staurts
Territory: the black | the encircled area | The Coast of Cameroon
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[Bluepillar]

Full Nation Name: The Majestic Kingdom of the Argentine
Majority/Official Culture: Argentinian
Territorial Core : the black/remainder of South America, and the nearby islands | the encircled area | The Little Cameroon territory that the OPs said I could manage to create
Territorial Claim: The UK and all British territories (bloodline/archaic/traditional - presume to be inactive) | Uruguay | The Amazon | Portions of Southern Brazil, and the border with Brazil | South Georgia Island | Cameroon
Capital City : New London (Buenos Aires)
Population : 11,737,700 (Mainland, Islands); 900k in the Mission

Government Type: Constitutional Monarchy, with an ascendant Crown and a parliament - one chamber of which is elected - reduced in power.
Government Ideology/Policies: N/A
Government Focus: The Crown and its cadet branches have acquired local legitimacy by marrying into or granting nobility to powerful, local indigenous, mixed, and colonial families while maintaining connections with European families through direct marriages with the crown. The Staurts would be best described as Mixed, nowadays, and the majority of the population is, in fact, Mixed or indiginous. The Crown has prepared heavily against potential British invasion, fearing reprisals for any missteps or a need for the Republican government to earn favor at home and turning to war, preparing a variety of forts for the navy and army across the whole of the country - erected since the day that they were forced into the Argentine - while cultivating an economy that is one of the fastest growing on the entire planet and economic connections that, while much useful, have indebted them to the Romans and created a dependency. With a fast growth rate, the economy is glowing, and wealth has found its way into the locals. However, in Chile, notably, investment by locals has gone from 51% to 35% as Europeans come to make up the majority of ownership in that province - a sign that there is a careful balance to be achieved between the local population, immigrants, and foreigners that may never step foot into the country.
Head of State: King Alistair of the House of Stuart, Queen Mother Gregoria of Rome (de facto co-ruler)
Head of Government: King Alistair of the House of Stuart Queen Mother Gregoria of Rome (de facto co-ruler), Premier Counsel Isaiah Moruga
The Ministers of the Crown & Privy Council: Isaiah Moruga (Premier Counsel) | Kai West (Deputy Premier Counsel/First Secretary of State) | Various members of the Cabinet and Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Government Description: Meanwhile, the monarchy in the Argentine is more powerful than they had ever been in the now-United Republics - propped up by a professionally trained aristocratic officer corps, European military and political advisors and connections, a loyal nobility, as well as well-courted indigenous and Mixed families (including those granted nobility and land, having their equivalents considered uplifted, broad religious freedoms) present in the government, military, and economy. A House of Lords and House of Parliament exists, indeed, but the Parliament as it originally existed is no more. Worried about losing power, the central government is more focused on the monarchy than ever and a larger amount of delegation directly from the monarchy is the result. Granted, the placement of influential advisors of the people and the bourgeoisie as well as the election of mayors and certain other elements of the government remain - perhaps to discourage another uprising. The government in Peru is more independent than the other provinces, featuring the most powerful of the Mixed families, and the largest amount of influence over Ecuador. Control of Peru, a Special Autonomous Region, is maintained through a combination of economic entanglement, a unified currency, mutual interests of defense, entanglement with the more powerful families, entrenchment of immigrants, external interests by investors hoping to maintain the economic value derived from investment of the state, as well as the merging of Upper Peru and Peru into a closer entity with government influence in Upper Peru lending additional influence in the state of Peru. The State of Peru is, effectively, de jure autonomous, but there is no worry for the military there due to the use of a professionally trained aristocratic officer corps loyal to the monarchy - meanwhile, the Navy’s officer corps is seen as largely more open to the population by common people. The factions of the government and military are content, of the Argentines practices a purposeful acknowledgement and encouragement of religious freedom and acceptance. The Premier governs through advice and delegation rather than through their own, executive power.

Majority/State Religions: Catholicism
Religious Description: N/A

Cultural Description: With over 92% of the country, including the Natives, Catholic there remains a certain strength of the Catholic church and a Catholic king within the Kingdom of the Argentine. Connections with indigenous families in various parts of the country, including where the indigenous and mixed race are a majority such as in Bolivia, are something important that has been cultivated over many decades. Linguistically, the Kingdom of the Argentine has become largely English speaking, but it is not uncommon to find indigenous or mixed race people that speak their own tongue alongside that, or for more isolated Andean villages to have a small number of assigned speakers that communicate with the outside world. Compared to real life, minorities benefit from more rights than in real life even as those of European descent venture throughout the Kingdom of the Argentine - especially towards Patagonia - coming to live alongside or adjacent to them. The minorities in the Kingdom control a much larger slice of the economic pie than in real life at the current time period, and the areas they occupy are both more heavily invested/connected to the economy and more developed, leading to immigration across the Kingdom, and a higher English speaking rater amongst the indigenous population. With the parliament stashed with loyalists before their powers were legally limited and instead given to the Crown, the Stuarts of the Majestic Kingdom of the Argentine are amongst the most powerful in any western monarch and while some amongst the old nobility might possess a generational memory of their power as members of the House of Lords, the new nobility has no such concept. Who is Argentine is easy. Every single individual on the mainland is a citizen. The Kingdom is a multiethnic nation that is increasingly becoming a cultural melting pot as the cultures of certain citizens of or immigrants to the Kingdom diffuse throughout the nation.

Economic Ideologies: Capitalism combined with some neomercantilist tendencies, leading to a dependence on certain foreign elements while creating a highly lucrative export market. Featuring one of the most open economies on the planet by the time the 1820s approached, they hoped to shed dependence on foreign elements.
Major Production: Agricultural, Fishery, and Forestry Foods & Goods, Mined and Extracted Goods, Nitrate, Saltpetre, textiles, shoes, confectionaries, various other commodities sold under the geographical and commodity diversification seen in Argentina during this time period
Newer and Smaller/Minor Industries: Shipbuilding, Arms Manufacturing, the steel and metallurgy industries
Areas Hoping to be Explored or Expanded by the Government/Industries: Shipbuilding | Arms manufacturing | the steel and metallurgy industry (although many aspects of metallurgy already exist, and in the east easily date back to the Incan Empire) | natural resource exploration and harvesting | the Chemical Industry, including synthetic dies and expansion of agricultural chemistry manufacture, with the hope of Argentina one day being self-sufficient in these to compliment their pre-existing industries instead of reliant on foreign imports of synthetic dies and agricultural chemicals
Economic Description: Featuring a variety of Roman-Argentinian companies, as well as a Roman monopoly over the railroads and Roman control over a third of the factory and foundry capabilities in the nation as well as control over three-fifths of the shipyards in the nation, with two-fifths by Roman-Argentinian and Argentinian companies (one-fifth each), and liberal economic policies, Peru, for example, lacked the economic flaws of a patchwork of liberal economic areas in a sea of colonial monopolies. All in all, Argentina is both more developed and heavily industrialized than it was at this time in real life. Featuring heavy investment by foreign powers, and with an export growth rate of 6.7% as well as a wealth of two-thirds that of nations like the USA, France, or Germany, the Majestic Kingdom of the Argentine has the fastest growing economy in South America as well as the one most attractive to foreigners across Eurasia with foreign immigration subsidized while foreigners, especially Europeans and Asians, migrate without subsidies due to comparatively impressive wages. At this time, the Kingdom of the Argentine is considered to be en route to become the United States of South America due to the level of economic growth and investment present. In Ecuador, the economy is largely based on agriculture and coffee. In Argentine’s central provinces, the economy is significantly more diversified. The Kingdom of the Argentine is undergoing an export led boom, exporting a large variety of products to European, American, and Asian countries - owing this to an open, multilateral economic system that features low trade costs and trade liberalisation. While in debt by over 48 million gold pesos in 1876, a currency reform, tough actions, and more caused the ratio in debt to GDP to plummet - creating the circumstances necessary for the bimetallic system to succeed. Unlike in real life, the banks are under control of the crown, and their central authority meant the suspension of convertibility never occurred. Rich in resources and with an increasingly healthy economy and industrialized society, the Kingdom of the Argentine has brought in capital for railroads and industries (including the construction of factories, shipyards, and foundries) in the past decades led to thousands of miles of railroads being completed by the current date across the entire country. Vast amounts of goods are shipped across these railroads for use throughout the country and also often carrying goods for shipping overseas. Meanwhile, the French, Romans, Iberians, and Germans make up the vast majority of European immigrants - who come here, sometimes through subsidies, for comparatively impressive wages as mentioned earlier.

Development: Industrializing/Modernizing (progress: semi-modernized)
Development Description: With widespread foreign connections, and one of the fastest growing economies on the planet, the Kingdom of the Argentine is 30 years into a rapid industrialization process. Manufacturing their own equipment as well as importing whatever they need, the Kingdom of the Argentine’s economy has become a success story.

Army Description: Inheriting the officer corps while the Republicans inherited the bulk of the navy, the Argentine’s army is not something to scoff at and has imported enough arms to sufficiently prepare the army, the reserves, and any conscripted soldiers. These include 100,000 units of armaments for the eastern provinces alone. The total size, active and reserve, of the Kingdom of Argentine and the Armies of Lima, La Paz, Santiago, Buenos Aires, and Quito is 165,000 men. In the Mission, the military numbers 1,800. These have been justified by the longstanding practice of preparing for a potential Republican invasion - a convincing ideological threat, with promises of puritans threatening the religion of the Catholic majority of the nation. Featuring a rotating membership for the Colonial Army, training in that region, as well as regular ventures between mainland provinces for the soldiers had led to a well trained army that can engage directly or in intense guerrilla and irregular warfare - posing a significant challenge for those that might hope to encroach upon the freedoms of a nation with resources such as Argentine’s.
Army Weakness: The army possesses an aristocratic officer’s corps, and while professional training takes place the promotion is not meritocratic, putting them at a disadvantage when it comes to a comparison to meritocratic officer corps in foreign nations. Lately, the monarchy has been dealing with tensions between the Old Nobility - the inherited officer corps from the days the Stuarts ruled over the British Empire - and a coalition between the progressive New Nobility and the non-officers, who seek meritocratic leadership within the army much like in the navy, the navy also supporting meritocratic leadership throughout the military - with major military figures and various politicians believing it would make the military strength of the Kingdom of the Argentine even greater, hoping to shed the outdated hierarchy of an army that risks leaving their commendable military more and more behind other western powers the longer that outdated hierarchy exists. Like the navy, their talent largely comes from war games, advisors, education, and training, but not actual, direct engagements with other foreign powers. The Kingdom hasn’t been in a war in quite some time, and that has taken its toll.
Naval Description: Manned largely by the merchants and commoners for the protection of trade, protection of and communication with the Colonial Mission, anti-piracy, coastal and national defense, the potential need to support allies abroad, and other such roles, His Majesty’s Royal Navy possesses many coastal patrol and river vessels, 13 wooden ships, 5 armored cruisers, 2 protected cruisers, 4 coastal defense ironclads, 7 ironclads, 3 high-speed cruisers, 7 modern small cruisers, 4 destroyers, 36 torpedo boats, 1 ironclad battleship, as well as many ships in construction either domestically or abroad (8 gunboats, 6 torpedo boats, 2 destroyers, 7 armored cruisers, 2 ironclad battleships), various auxiliary vessels (including torpedo boat tenders), a network of coastal artillery batteries, and a domestic merchant navy. The navy is significantly more competent in the construction of their own vessels than the Brazilian navy, and, thankfully, has so far been able to afford to purchase or construct much larger and more modern vessels than their neighbor. Unlike the army, the navy features a non-aristocratic officer corps, and is considered the people’s branch. Unfortunately, the bulk of the navy’s experience comes from war games, foreign advice and officers (an inherited experience, that will help greatly should it come to war) and the protection of Argentinean trade interests. The navy has an advantage in defense, however, through their ports, forts (including those on the islands, and in the Mission) and their long coast line that could not be conceivably completely blockaded by any individual world power - with even a combined French-British blockade likely to find it close to impossible to completely terminate the advantage of one of the world’s long coastline, with access to two oceans.

Naval Weakness : The navy has never been in a major naval battle, much less a war, and no amount of war games, foreign advisors, education, and officers can make up for this lack of experience. This is perhaps the definitive flaw the navy has in comparison to the more active European powers. Without a naval arms race in South America, despite the larger size of the Argentine navy compared to the real life one at the current date they lack that which they did in real life. Much effort has gone into regaining some of the naval supremacy once overseen by the Stuarts as the legacy of the most successful, most powerful, island-nation ever to exist, but what their navy once was as an English-speaking peoples is not only fleeting, but impossible for them to ever reach.
Further Military Description : The entire armed forces is supported by a network of army and naval forts across the mainland, islands, and in Cameroon as well as coastal artillery batteries, across the nation in the need of a deterrence of invasion or to maintain a front line anywhere across the nation. The marines number about 10,000 and are the most elite and highly trained part of the military, featuring a professional, meritocratic leadership.

National Goals : Formation of military alliances | Expansion of Colonial Endeavors | Reclamation of as much of the Stuart reputation as possible | Garner further influence on the continent, form a bulwark against Republicanism, foreign overreliance, and achieve the investment of economic interests in neighboring Brazil

National Issues : Anti-Gregorianists, whom believe that the Queen Mother exerts too much influence over the Crown and wish for the King to rule of his own power without influence from her - this echoes and is entangled in a national, and sometimes international, discussion surrounding women’s rights as much as the future of the Kingdom | Republicanism (which is less of a problem than the dispute between pro-Gregorianists and anti-Gregorianists, and in Argentine Republicanism has yet to make a major splash due to the success of the Stuart monarchy in overseeing the Kingdom of the Argentine thus far) | Foreign Dependence on arms, vessels, and in the economy | the nation is still not completely modernized/industrialized, and is still in the process of becoming so. It will take until the 1930s for her to become completely industrialized, with the least amount of industrialization present in the virtually exclusively agrarian Ecuador, and the most present in modern day Argentina and Chile | Global Instability/Rising Tensions (admittedly, too much war will result in misfortunes for an export-focused economy) | Foreign entanglements on the continent that threaten the sovereignty of the Kingdom of the Argentine | A coalition of various factions within the Kingdom hope to modernize the hierarchy of His Majesty’s Royal Army

Interestingly, the national issues are less focused on the monarchy itself, and more focused on things surrounding the crown, but not necessarily the Crown itself, and tradition versus new progressive ideals that hope to change the family. It is these traditional values versus a burgeoning and increasingly large progressive coalition that threaten the well-entrenched traditional values of the old guard. The matter is somewhat complicated, however. The place of women in the Kingdom, the radical ideas of Princess Anabella that she is trying to inject into the Argentine Women’s movement, the tradition of the aristocratic military corps, the combined patriotism, pragmatism, and dreams of the New Nobility versus the conservative ideals of the Old Nobility and their associates, the intent on some of modernizing the hierarchy of the army, the economic dreams of the old slave caste (a member of which, now one of the wealthiest men in the Argentine thanks to his tin mine in Chile, uses his wealth to fund said economic dreams as a leader of his community) and the role that Pro-Gregorianism and Anti-Gregorianism - the overarching dispute where many, but not all, of these issues seem to coalesce - don’t seem to invite the end of the monarchy at all, but will, no matter which factions come out on top, absolutely change the Crown and the entire Kingdom forever.
National Ambition/Aspirations : complete the industrialization and modernization of the nation, lessening of foreign dependence, to complete the modernization of the navy, and the creation of domestic manufacturing capacities for weapons of war and the navy.

Important Figures:

• Queen Mother Gregoria di Canossa of Florence (WRE) - a staunch supporter of her son, figurehead of the Argentinean Women’s Movement, and a Machiavellian-style master manipulator, the Queen Mother Gregoria of Florence, an influential member of a powerful patrician family of Tuscany and daughter of a German Princess, is also far from done raising her son, who has only recently turned 20 and with whom she, like with all her children, shares an extremely close bond as she continues to ensure their futures and that of the country (even at the expense of people like her husband). With her strong connections to the Western Roman Empire, she is essentially the living embodiment of the relationship between the Kingdom of the Argentine and the Romans, and is a definitive linchpin in their mutually beneficial relationship. It is assumed that without her widespread influence, their relationship would not exist as it does. The Queen is also pushing for him to marry a European foreigner, but the King currently finds himself in an exploratory phase that the Queen has gone through great pains to keep… uhm… discrete. He is simply not ready for a marriage, but has capitulated and promises to seek a wife at some point in the future, though has made no promises as to when that will occur, just that it will at some point. Meanwhile it has not escaped her notice that he has a preference for socialization with the more attractive male members of his court that he has appointed, but she finds relief in the fact that she has discovered he has, in the past, had a woman in his bed. Perhaps the most powerful woman in the Kingdom of the Argentine, she regularly performs public duties, the role of a diplomat, and some say that, at times, she is effectively governing alongside her son. It is questionable as to how far the Queen Mother would go in entertaining a wife of her son that would encroach upon the position she has staked out for herself as one of the most powerful women on the continent. While not possessing any official powers, her influence over the King is so thorough that he has come to view her as an equal - though he has, of late, taken many more responsibilities upon himself.
• Quriwaman Choque Chipana - The grandmother of the King on his father’s side. Now pushing 60, she is a member of one of the more influential Quecua families, and hails from the Chanka people. She is perhaps most responsible for the form of what is perhaps best described as syncretic form of Catholicism that the King expresses, and alongside the Queen Mother is responsible for the King’s sympathies, tendencies, and, of course, his reverence of women.
• Crown Prince Arthur of Stuart - In the circumstance that the Queen Mother’s attempts to get her eldest son to father a legitimate child fail, she is left with the hope that his younger sibling, Arthur, can successfully father a child. Fertile (she has already avoided a situation, just as she did with her husband) and interested in women, he is prone to the same fancies of freedom and expression as his elder sibling - who he does love dearly - but is pressed by his mother’s desire for whom she wishes him to marry at the expense of the type of women he fancies. The Crown Prince has become a figure of focus for the anti-Gregorianists and pro-Gregorianists, and so far has managed to avoid becoming entangled with the former despite their repeated and, for him, worrying advances.
• Princess Anabella - Princess Anabella, who spent three years in China absorbing the radical ideas of a Chinese military woman, is an interesting figure in the Kingdom, as she is the oldest daughter of the Queen Mother, but also unmarried. It is uncertain when she will be married, or to whom, but the Queen Mother hopes to marry her off for political and economic gain in the hopes that this will compensate for the King’s lack of a marriage as it is so far. She has an interest in the future of the country, but would prefer a comfortable marriage to a man in a high profile Roman family rather than to someone on whom she might use the talents of poison her mother has taught to her. Having visited the Chinese for three years, she hopes to inject her radical ideas into the Kingdom. She is far ahead of the curve, but if married off it is plausible that her radical ideas will die with the marriage - or infect a foreign court.
• Gabriel Baker - a mining magnate descended from the old slave caste of the Kingdom of the Argentine. With his father a slave, and him not remembering his own slave days, Gabriel Baker is a definite force in the making of the future of the Kingdom. He owes his original success to a valuable tin mine in Chile, and as one of the wealthiest men in the country, is personally bankrolling the economic dreams of the old slave caste in the hopes of increasing their mutual wealth so that they may have a larger role in their society now that they are free.

History :

• Early 1600s - beginning of colonization in the area that would come to be the Kingdom of the Argentine. While the Protestants would be attracted to North America, in South America there would be a significantly higher trafficking of Catholics to the Argentine.
• Late 1790s - The House of Stuart fled to the Argentine, a land of royalists, and the nation would widely be recognized as independent by the 1810s. With no attempt by the British at invasion, the Kingdom of the Argentine would be shut out of the British economy and would suffer for a time, but the closeness of the nascent Brazilian Empire would help to muffle the blow. By the modern date they would feature a flourishing economy after forming relations with various other European nations, replacing Britain and France in their economy wholesale, as well as undertaking certain economic initiatives. Forming a series of marriages with powerful, local families and being propped up by the domestic colonial army, the Stuarts would establish themselves with the blessing of the Pope, earning the favor of the countrymen - who were vastly Catholic - within. This led to little to no internal difficulties in the early years, save for difficulties between the New Nobility established by the Monarchy and the Old Nobility that would follow the Crown. Those old difficulties remain, having not been entirely settled, and there is a starkness between the conservative attitude of the Old Nobility and their associates in comparison to the more progressive, multiethnic New Nobility and their allies that has become apparent in the modern date. Admittedly, with the Old Nobility’s numbers devastated, and replenishment of the noble ranks a requirement for a functioning House of Lords, they had to make due with the concession of a promise of the heir to an Old noble family. It would not be until the 1850s that the Stuarts would become mixed with indigenous blood, and the Kingdom’s old blood aristocrats - some of whom are less conservative than others - would hold to tradition as their primary binding.
• 1820 - the economy becomes one of the most open on the planet, courting foreign investments, and eventually leading to extensive Western Roman and other European investments in the territory. While it would not be until Queen Gregoria that investment by the WRE would reach the levels it has in present day, this would establish the groundwork for the future development of Western Roman influence in the Kingdom of the Argentine.
• 1852 - Establishment of the Mission in Africa, in one of many steps to garner back the status that the Stuarts lost with the humiliating loss of their homeland and empire to a Republican uprising. Initially small, it would grow to encompass a series of external coastal provinces outside of the Argentine mainland. The establishment of settlements, and construction of various bases is a primary goal in this Mission, which features significantly less state control than the colonies of European nations. Initially established individually, by the nation in its selfish desire, it would be when Gregoria di Canossa The coast of Cameroon, which would be invested in by both the WRE and the Kingdom of the Argentine, would be the location of a joint economic venture between the Western Roman Empire and the Kingdom of the Argentine. Over the following decades, the Mission in Africa would grow by the tens of thousands, with trade arrangements with tribes deep within Cameroon complicating the Argentine relationship with Prussia, especially now that they have hopes for the South Georgia island for themselves.
• 1853 - Abolition of slavery across the Crown of the Kingdom of the Argentine through an act of Parliament.
• 1857 - The heir of the Kingdom is born, and they are ethnically mixed.
• N/A - a 15 year old Gregoria di Canossa arrives in the Kingdom of the Argentine. Quickly proving to have mastered the fineries of courtesan politics, using her cunning, wiles, and foreign connections, her machinations will allow herself to entrench herself in her new home. Her influence upon the King results in the formation of the nation’s merchant navy.
• 1860s - The golden age of the Kingdom of the Argentine begins. At home a new mission is undertaken in an attempt to encourage trade within the nation, the results of which would begin to be successful by the 1870s, and result in a massive economic boon and a high level of economic growth by the modern day. The exploitation of some of the most fertile lands on the planet has begun to push population, economic, and other areas of growth to levels that have (or will) rival and then surpass that of nations like Canada and Australia.
• 1871 - While pregnant with another child, the future King’s younger sibling, the Queen Mother secretly poisons her husband to death with a poisonous concoction of Italian origin and seizes control of the Kingdom after Gregorian loyalists eliminate potential threats to her taking the regency with little issue. Worried that the way the increasingly paranoid and aggressive king was speaking about the countries with which she had cultivated relationships, including her homeland,would harm the country, she assassinated the King before he could begin to enforce protectionist policies that she feared would decimate the economy and her children’s future by driving away desperately needed foreign capital. Many assumed he had simply died of a sickness, as the Queen seemed wrack with sadness, and successfully eluded suspicion. She would rule for 18 years, and in that time would establish a powerful influence over her children and the Kingdom that would continue to be of note after her regency ended in Argentine’s Gregorian Period. A short lived uprising in Paraguay, where her opponents had fled to fortresses in the area - fearful of increasing Roman influence in the Kingdom - was stomped out within 6 months after the forts were encircled and supplies were cut off. Telling tales of traitors, the Gregorian media network never let whispers of the soul of the Kingdom being sold to the Romans spread.
• 1890 - The Kingdom of the Argentine becomes a super-exporter.
• 1886 - The King, educated for years by European (primarily Roman) tutors, and is coronated. The Queen Mother - a member of a powerful, Roman merchant family - ends her regency. Shortly afterwards, the Eastern Roman artist Stelios Maras joined the Court of the King of the Argentine. 15 years the King’s senior, his presence has been explained away as the King seeking out what he lacked growing up - a fatherly presence. The King’s younger brother becomes the heir.
• 1890 - The 20th birthday of the King of the Argentine. With a central monetary authority and the fiscal authority found in the same Crown, there was a coordinated fiscal and monetary policy, preventing any economic misfortune that would lead to the end of immigration subsidies and any economic crisis connected to issues arising from a closeness with Baring Bank.
• 1890 - After a heated debate in parliament between pro-Gregorianists and anti-Gregorianists, the Argentinean ironclad battleship Margarite, named after the Queen Mother’s mother (rather than herself, as was originally suggested by others) is bombed in port in protest by a group of anti-Gregorianists who believe that the King should rule without interference from her. The perpetrators are arrested and a handful of members of parliament step down. Handled cautiously, various high profile individuals are placed under house arrest and/or are executed for treason after being connected to the incident - oftentimes having their families stripped entirely of wealth, land, and title, with said wealth, land, and title being given to pro-Gregorianists. In the aftermath, things are significantly more muted, but lines have been drawn between those who see no problem with the Queen Mother living out the remainder of her life by the side of the King and traditionalists that thought she would step aside more completely.
• 1890 - Oil has been aware to exist in Upper Peru since the colonial era. Now, talks of exploration of the area begin.

RP Sample: here is one of dozens of RP posts over the past 8 years. If you need more, I have many, many others.

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[Empire of Techkotal]

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Nation Name: The German empire
Territory: https://imgur.com/a/GOdR8bs
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[Empire of Techkotal]

Honestly I will take all of Germany now, because none of the northern German states stayed in the RP.

[Bluepillar]

Honestly I will take all of Germany now, because none of the northern German states stayed in the RP.

How do you intend to acquire that ICly post-approval?

[Tracian Empire]

Honestly I will take all of Germany now, because none of the northern German states stayed in the RP.

How do you intend to acquire that ICly post-approval?

He is simply going to apply for the entirety of Germany from the beginning

[Bluepillar]

How do you intend to acquire that ICly post-approval?

He is simply going to apply for the entirety of Germany from the beginning

I see. When I sent this I thought he had already been approved. I was confused.

[Tracian Empire]

He is simply going to apply for the entirety of Germany from the beginning

I see. When I sent this I thought he had already been approved. I was confused.

It's understandable, but the Kingdom of Swabia, his prior nation, was just reserved - he made an app for it but it was never accepted. He is going to make a new reservation for the entirety of Germany and work from there

[Bluepillar]

I see. When I sent this I thought he had already been approved. I was confused.

It's understandable, but the Kingdom of Swabia, his prior nation, was just reserved - he made an app for it but it was never accepted. He is going to make a new reservation for the entirety of Germany and work from there

Awesome. <3 thanks for the clarification.

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Map and list have been updated! Russia and Central Asia, Arabia, and most of the interior of Africa are still free and open!

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Nation Name: Unnamed Transcaucasian Federation/Confederation/Thing
Territory: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Russian Caucasus, Southern Ukraine.
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[Tracian Empire]

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Nation Name: Unnamed Transcaucasian Federation/Confederation/Thing
Territory: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Russian Caucasus, Southern Ukraine.
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Reservation accepted!

[Sarderia]

Re-apped!

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Nation Name: The Sublime Tatar State
Territory: My previous claim (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Central Asia, minus Caucasia and Southern Ukraine)
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Full Nation Name : (en:) The Sublime Tatar State - (tat:) Бөек Татар Дәүләте - (kz:) Ұлы Татар мемлекеті - (uz:) Yuksak tatar davlati - (ru:) Возвышенное татарское государство

Majority/Official Culture : Tatar/Turkish (the combined culture of all Eurasian Steppe Turkic peoples)
Territorial Core : As discussed
Territorial Claim : Baltic States, Wallachia, Moldavia, Finland
Capital City : Khonşehr (Saint Petersburg)
Population : 130,840,120

Government Type : Absolute Monarchy
Government Ideology/Policies : (official:) Monarchism according to Sharia Law; (de facto:) Imperialism
Government Focus : National unity, Military (defense and expansionism), Economic growth
Head of State : Emperor Sultan Temür VII Borçiğin Khan of Tatarstan, Tsar of all Rus
Head of Government : Prime Minister Boyar Mustafa Suleyman Pasha
Government Description : The Emperor of Tatarstan is the Head of State of the Tatar Empire, serving in his capacity as Khan, Sultan, and Tsar. This responsibility however is delegated to the Prime Minister who is elected by the Kurultai (Imperial Legislature) which in turn is elected by popular vote. Any legislation is proposed either by a member of the Kurultai or the Emperor (through the Prime Minister), and all laws must be signed by the Emperor (Royal Consent). The supreme judiciary body is the Supreme Court of the Tatar Empire. There is no constitution though there are a series of written tradition and precedents which regulated how the Kurultai and the Prime Minister (and the cabinet) functions.

Majority/State Religion : Sunni Islam
Religious Description : Sunni Islam, the official state religion, is the form of Islam rthat is characterized by strict adherence to the sunnah, or the actions of Prophet Muhammad. A shura council of Ulemas, formally headed by the Caliph, issue formal fatwas (commandments) that interpret the Islamic holy books (the Quran and the Hadith) into national and religious laws. The Tatar Empire maintains cordial relationship with all other Muslim state in the world, with the Euthydemid Mughal India taking the prime position due to being the largest Muslim state in the world. The Tatar Emperor also claimed the title of Caliph - the leader of all Muslim rulers, taking the title of Amr al-Mu'minin (Leader of the Believers), although this has very little effect.

Economic Ideologies : Capitalism with Islamic characteristics
Major Production : Industrial goods, Textile, Grain, Coal, Iron, Steel
Economic Description : The Tatar economy is very strong, producing a significant amount of Europe's industrial output. It has been growing at a stable rate and the Government has always maintained a rate of positive growth through various economic incentives such as investment and land reform.

Development: Modern
Development Description :

• Infrastructure: The condition of infrastructure in the Tatar Empire is overall decent, but very spread out compared to other European states, due to its extremely massive size. A series of well-maintained roads exist which connects Ukraine, Russia, the Baltic coast, and inner Central Asian regions such as Kazakhstan and Bukhara. Likewise, railways can be found across the country connecting Tatarstan's largest cities.
• Public Order: Through balancing the two principles of secularism (with European and Turkic influences) and Islamic law in the government has proven beneficial as it maintained the stablility of the Empire. With a system of laws modelled on the British and Roman laws the Tatar Empire has managed to maintain a relatively peaceful condition.
• Industrialization: The reforms of Murad III, Tatar Emperor, introduced Western-style government, education, and laws that gradually hastened the process of westernization for the Tatar Empire. As a result Tatarstan also caught up the Industrial Revolution early, at a relatively similar time as its European counterparts. It is one of the world's largest producer of steel, timber, and coal - and manufactured goods, such as tools and vehicles.

Army Description : The modern Tatar Army was founded by Kanuni (the Lawgiver) Murad Sultan in 1690 as a part of Westernizing the Tatar Empire's government. The Army's structure is highly centralized, divided in 4 main divisions that each manage a part of the Empire's domain; the Northern Army is responsible for the Capital, Northern Russia and Karelia as well as the Baltic coast; the Southern Army in Moldavia, Ukraine, and Crimea; the Central Army in Russia proper and Belarus; and finally the Eastern Army which manages the Army operation from Central Asia to Kamchatka in the far east. Respectively the strength of each Army is 108,000 (Northern), 96,000 (Central), 128,000 (Southern), and 80,000 (Eastern) - with a total of 412,000 active soldiers and an additional reserve force of 8 million. There are five main military academies located in Khansehr (SPB), Moskow, Kyiv, Kazan, and Bukhara. Primary standard-issue rifle is the Zulfikar rifle (Mosin-Nagant). The Cavalry consisted of largely one-sixth of the Army, and is a highly effective shock troop with hundreds of years of experience.
Army Weakness : Too spread out, having to manage the vast Tatarstan territory.
Naval Description : The Tatar Navy is negligible for the most part, as it only owns 9 battleships, 6 armored cruisers, 15 protected/unprotected cruisers and 38 torpedo boats/destroyers. The Navy is split in half, the Baltic Squadron being stationed in Khanshehr and the Black Sea squadron stationed in Odessa. However the Tatar Navy also manages the coastal defenses - one of the most formidable in the world as Tatarstan is known for its quality artillery and ranged weaponry. The Navy consists of 15,000 sailors and coastal gunman, as well as 14,800 Marines (one of Tatarstan's most elite forces)
Naval Weakness : Same as the Army, too spread out and thin. The Navy, while still receiving a large amount of government spending, is allocated lesser spending compared to the Army.
Further Military Description : -

National Goals :

• Consolidate: Tatarstan is a vast, and immensely expansive country. The centralized government system as envisioned by succesive Tatar Emperors has been quite successful in practice, but for the Emperors to maintain their power, they must consolidate further.
• Defend the Frontiers: The great Tatar Empire is surrounded everywhere by enemies. To the north are the Scandinavians, a pagan country that threatens the capital with their possessions in the Baltic coast. To the west, the Triple Monarchy, an increasingly revanchist state, looks towards Tatar possessions with a hungry eye. And to the south, the ancient rival of Tatarstan, the Eastern Roman Empire, controls Constantinople - the link from the Black Sea to the world. To survive, Tatarstan must play its politics carefully and balance one threat with another, all the while increasing the size and quality of its armed forces to deter the enemies.

National Issues :

• Communism: The rise of Socialism has been particularly prevalent in Tatarstan - several successive wars and internal conflicts brought even more and more resentment among the worker classes. The Tatar Empire must manage cautiously the threat of a Communist revolution if it wants to survive well into the 20th Century.
• Swords on all sides: Tatarstan is surrounded by enemies everywhere. As such it is in the Empire's needs to maintain a sufficiently large force to deter the invaders, or expand to neutralize the threat.

National Figures of Interest : Fatih Batuhan Khan, Kanuni Suleyman Khan, Kanuni Murad Sultan, Genghis Khan
National Ambition/Aspirations : To secure the borders and integrity of the country; to advance the industrialization and increase economic productivity; to claim the Baltic coast and estabilish hegemony in the Baltic State for the Tatar Empire

History : The history of the Sublime Tatar State can be traced back into the Mongol Empire, which Tatarstan claimed continuation from. At his death in 1227, Genghis Khan divided the Mongol Empire amongst his four sons as appanages, but the Empire remained united under the supreme khan. The westernmost lands occupied by the Mongols, which included what is today southern Russia and Kazakhstan, were given to Genghis' grandson, Batu Khan, who eventually became ruler of the Blue Horde, and Orda Khan, who became the leader of the White Horde. In 1235, Batu with the general Subutai began an invasion westwards, first conquering the Bashkirs and then moving on to Volga Bulgaria in 1236. From there he conquered some of the southern steppes of present-day Ukraine in 1237, forcing many of the local Cumans to retreat westward. The Mongol campaign against the Kypchaks and Cumans had already started under Jochi and Subutai in 1216–1218 when the Merkits took shelter among them. By 1239 a large portion of Cumans were driven out of the Crimean peninsula, and it became one of the appanages of the Mongol Empire. The remnants of the Crimean Cumans survived in the Crimean mountains, and they would, in time, mix with other groups in the Crimea (including Greeks, Goths, and Mongols) to form the Crimean Tatar population. Moving north, Batu began the Mongol invasion of Rus' and spent three years subjugating the principalities of former Kievan Rus', whilst his cousins Möngke, Kadan, and Güyük moved southwards into Alania.

After Öz Beg Khan assumed the throne in 1313, he adopted Islam as the state religion. He built a large mosque in the city of Solkhat in the Crimea in 1314 and proscribed Buddhism and Shamanism among the Mongols in the Golden Horde. By 1315, Öz Beg had successfully Islamicized the Horde and killed Jochid princes and Buddhist lamas who opposed his religious policy. Under the reign of Öz Beg, trade caravans went unmolested and there was general order in the Golden Horde. The Golden Horde Khan Berdi Beg, who ascended the throne in 1357, was killed in a coup by his brother Qulpa in 1359. Qulpa's two sons were Christians and bore the Russian names, Michael and Ivan, which outraged the Muslim populace of the Golden Horde. In 1360, Qulpa's brother Nawruz Beg revolted against the khan and killed him and his sons. In 1361, a descendant of Shiban - a son of Jochi - was invited by some grandees to seize the throne. Khidr rebelled against Nawruz, whose own lieutenant betrayed him and handed him over to be executed. Khidr was slain by his own son, Timur Khwaja, in the same year. Timur Khwaja reigned for only five weeks before descendants of Öz Beg Khan seized power. In 1362, the Golden Horde was divided between Keldi Beg in Sarai, Bulat Temir in Volga Bulgaria, and Abdullah in Crimea. Meanwhile, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania attacked the western tributaries of the Golden Horde and conquered Kiev and Podolia after the Battle of Blue Waters in 1363.

The Blue Horde Khan Toktamysh, who ruled from 1381 to 1395, faced several attacks from the Turkish warlord Tamerlane (Timur) in what would be called the Toktamysh-Timur War. Tokhtamysh attacked Mamai, who had recently suffered a loss against Muscovy, and defeated him in 1381, thus briefly reestablishing the Golden Horde as a dominant regional power, and executed him. Tokhtamysh sent an envoy to the Rus' states to resume their tributary status, but the envoy only made it as far as Nizhny Novgorod before he was stopped. Tokhtamysh immediately seized all the boats on the Volga to ferry his army across and commenced the Siege of Moscow (1382), which fell after three days under a false truce. The next year most of the Rus' princes once again made obeisance to the khan and received patents from him. Tokhtamysh also crushed the Lithuanian army at Poltava in the next year. Tokhtamysh invaded Transoxania and reached as far as Bukhara, but failed to take the city, and had to turn back. Timur retaliated by invading Khwarezm and destroyed Urgench. Tokhtamysh attacked Timur on the Syr Darya in 1389 with a massive army including Russians, Bulgars, Circassians, and Alans. The battle ended indecisively. In 1391, Timur gathered an army 200,000 strong and challenged Tokhtamysh at the Battle of the Kondurcha River, but this time Toktamysh had prepared a grand army composed of German mercenaries, Poles, Russians, Bulgars, Circassians, Alans, and even Mongols from the east. Timur was soundly defeated in he battle, and was driven out of several parts of Central Asia. Toktamysh and Timur then signed an agreement that gave Toktamysh control of Bukhara and several parts of Transoxiana, but allowed Timur to keep the rest. With his incursions to Central Asia a failure, Timur re-focused his efforts to India instead.

Toktamysh died in 1395, and was succeeded immediately by his nephew, Batu Khan - Batuhan Akbar - which is considered one of the greatest Khans of the Golden Horde and the founder of the modern Tatar State. In 1395, Batuhan led a 90,000-strong army to attack the Timurid Empire, finishing what is uncle had started. The Timurid Empire, led by warlords Temür Qutlugh and Edigu, has raided the White Horde portion of the Golden Horde. They declared themselves rival Khans and placed the White Horde firmly under his control. He then marched to Bukhara, defeating Barak Khan, the grandson of Urus Khan, and killed the entire House of Urus and their supporters in what would be known as the "Massacre of the Khans". Batuhan ordered half of Bukhara's inhabitants to march with him into Sarai Batu, alongside their warriors, and placed a garrison loyal to him to govern Bukhara. In 1405, Batuhan again marched east to Sibir, killed the Khan Taibuga, and razed Chimgi-Tura. Batuhan was particularly tolerant for a Khan of the Golden Horde, and his court was composed of Muslims, Buddhists, Tengri Shamanists, and also Christians. He invoked the same treatment in Sibir as he did in Uzbek. In 1426, Batuhan utilized the civil war between Vasily II, Grand Duke of Muscovy, and his uncle Yuri of Zvenigorod to back Vasily. He destroyed cities loyal to Yuri, and made Vasily II his vassal. Batuhan also initiated the policy of "Western Settlement", bringing thousands of Turkic tribes east into traditional Rus lands and intermixed with the local population. He moved the Golden Horde capital from the tent-city of Sarai Batu into the city of Sary-Su at the Volga (Volgograd), with defensive walls and towers. Here, he proclaimed himself as the "Khan of all Tatars, Turks, and Mongols" - and dissolved the Kurultai. Anyone who wished to challenge Batuhan would see their domains razed, pillaged, and their families killed. While never converting to Christianity himself, Batuhan funded the construction of the famous Sarysu Cathedral of the Immaculation, and sent an ambassador to the Eastern and Western Roman Emperors alike, estabilishing cordial relations. Shortly afterwards, Batuhan's son Temur Khan attacked Muscovy, and forced Vasily II to integrate Muscovy into the Golden Horde. From now on, Vasily II only rules in name in his city, merely giving legitimacy to Temur Khan to rule over all Muscovite domains.

The conquest of Russia is finished with the defeat of the Novgorodian Republic in the Battle of Shelon, where the armies of Süleyman Khan soundly defeated the Novgorodian army. At this period the Golden Horde emerged as one of the strongest states in Eastern Europe, having conquered all Russian principalities under Tatar rule. In 1512, Agha Muhammad Khan, the ruler of the Golden Horde, attempted an invasion of Lithuania. Despite making heavy gains in the start, the Golden Horde's advancements were halted by the arrival of the Bohemian Army, and Agha Muhammad decided to turn back into Moscow to quell a Russian rebellion. Things more or less stayed the same, with the graduall Turkicization of Russian lands ongoing under the reign of successive Khans. The reforms of Murad Khan in 1520 implemented a Byzantine-style system of government in the Golden Horde. Known as Murad Kanuni (the Lawgiver), he dissolved the Golden Horde and replaced it with a centralized, imperial Tatar state, and made the Khanates in Bukhara, Samarkand, and Siberia territorial governorates under the rule of the Tatar Emperor, reigning in Sary-Su (Volgograd). There are several consequences of this reform; most notably the Bloody Kazan incident where a coalition of two dozen nobles created their own Kurultai in response of the ever-centralized style of administration by the Emperor. They were soundly defeated in battle two years later, and from now on, the Emperor instituted a military reform wherein feudal levies would only comprise half of the Tatar Army (the rest are troops loyal to the Emperor). This ratio would be gradually shifted in favor of the Emperor in the next decades. Only in 1654 did the rules change for a moment, since the Cossack Khan Bohdan Khmelnytsky turned to Emperor Mehmed II and begs for his support in return for his allegiance. Thus starts the next Tatar-Commonwealth War, with Tatar Forces flooding across the Commonwealth's eastern holdings. The Tatar-Commonwealth War concludes with a Tatar victory, much of Ukraine as well as Bessarabia and Moldavia being lost and vast parts of Lithuania being ceded to the Tatars.

In 1685, the brief Tatar Civil War happened out of a dynastic succession dispute. The two branches of the Borjigin family, the branch of Murad III and that of his cousin, Mehmet, each claimed the throne themselves. This happened because of the vague succession laws, as well as the outdated (according to Western standards) Kurultai system allowing vassals and nobles to extend influence over parts of the central government. The civil war, albeit brief, was one of the bloodiest chapter of Tatar history, with the forces of Mehmet even burning the city of Saratov in one of the war's engagements. Murat and the nobles who supported him was defeated in the Battle of the Volga (1689) and subsequently executed. This made the government, especially Murad (now crowned Murad III) realize that Tatarstan's system of government is extremely outdated and in a dire need of reform. The Tatar Emperor Murad III sent ambassadors and diplomats across Europe in hopes of implementing a Western system of government in the Tatar Empire. Known as Murad the Great, he abolished the institution of vassal khanates, replacing them with territorial governors; he instituted a system of public education, of mixed Western-style schools and the Islamic madrasa system, and he reorganized the Turco-Mongol nobility to follow Western-style feudal rules. Murad III dissolved the traditional clan-based Kurultai and replaced it with a democratic assembly of elected representatives, and centralized power even more in the hands of the Emperor. However, many does not favor this policy, and at least a dozen massacres happened under Murad's rule; such as the Slaughter of Bukhara, wherein Qutlugh Beg, a vassal of the Khan, was murdered alongside with a hundred member of his family, his palace torched, and the Emperor set up a democratic government in the style of German city-states in the city. Nobles who were not willing to follow the reforms are purged alongside the entirety of their family, and their possessions confiscated by the state. The Kurultai's dissolution also prompted several uprisings throughout Tatarstan, though none did ever garner huge popular support - it seems centralization was way more popular in the eyes of the peasants. Though this earned him the ire of the nobles, Murad III was heavily popular and respected by the peasantry - Turkic or Slavic alike - because of his secular reforms and religious tolerance, and curtailing of the nobility's power. The effort of industrialization still pertains until now - in the 18th century - through several programs focused on developing Tatarstan's industrial output, such as coal and steel mining, tools production, and others.

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[Empire of Techkotal]

Full Nation Name : The German empire
Majority/Official Culture : Swabian
Territorial Core : https://imgur.com/a/GOdR8bs
Territorial Claim : The German empire is the centre of Europe and has since a long never expanded beyond its borders, due to in fighting. Though that might change in face of a great threat like the Republics.
Capital City : Stuttgart
Population : ca. 54.000.000

Government Type : Confedaration / Absolute Monarchies
Government Ideology/Policies : Imperialist
Government Focus : The goverment is focused on maintaining stability and some degrees of unity in the empire.
Head of State : Emperor Wilhelm II
Head of Government : Emperor Wilhelm II
Government Description : The emperor is part of the Swabian kingdoms dominance over Germany. He decides over war or peace. Through the last decades of war the empire has gotten a little bit more unified and the kingdoms in Germany follow the laws made bv the emperor. In case of war the emperor has full controll over the empire and can rule as he sees it fit.

The empire is divided into several kingdoms, which in turn see to the administration of the empire and carry out the orders of the emperor. Officialy all the kingdoms are beneath the kingdom of Swabia and have to carry out its orders, but the last centuries have shown, that that doesn't work.
The kingdoms in Germany all have a small standing army and ensure themselves some automomy through it.


Majority/State Religion : Catholic
Religious Description :

Economic Ideologies : Capitalism
Major Production : Steel, machines, cannons, chemical products and some electric products.
Economic Description : The massive German industry has started to grow even more in the last decade through new technologys and is exporting its products all over the world. While at the beginning Germany was one of the leaders in Iron smelting and coal mining. Through the industrialization it rapidly developed to become one of the worlds leaders in terms of industrialization rivaling Britain and Korea. First the imperial arsenal made many advancements in their production technics, partly stealing industrial secrets from Britain, and started exporting their weapons freely in the world. Then the machine industry rose up to incredible hights. Thanks to realtivly open global trade the companies could export their products to nearly every place in the world.
In the last two decades the developing electronic and chemistry industry made great leaps forward. The german empire is leading in chemistry and produces some of the highest quality goods in the world in terms of machines and metall products. The recent militarization brought a new boom to the German industry as the new warships are being build and the kingdoms have started another arms race to see who has the biggest army.
Development: Modern

Development Description : The empire has been developing since the end of the 30 years war trying to increase the number of manufacturers. During the early 19th the empire invested heavily into the coal and iron mines, that were poping up. Over next decades the state gave money to whom ever had any interest in settling down with a company in the empire. They activly funded new development projects to further advance their own capabilitys and catch up with Britain. The empire expanded and repaired its road network. Then the train was discovered in Britain, the empire started to develope its own. They later build up their own railway network and have steadily increased it over time. New telegraph posts were build and electricity generator were put into service. During the last decade the development of the empire further increased and the country began developing at a faster rate then at any time before. True golden times may be upon the empire, if this continues.

Army Description : The imperial army is a professional army, that has a long history of bloodshed and wars. After ruling the empire for a half a millenia and always trying to keep it stable and unified. The army has become a symbol of which every German can be proud. The army is a well structured and organised unity in the empire. Men from every corner of Germany can be found in it. The empire always keeps the imperial at 1% of its total population.

The emperor as the commander in chief personaly spends a lot of his time with the army. The general staff keeps planning, learning, teaching and organising war games.
The officers and generals are well trained soldiers who rose through the ranks with the king always testing new ones. In case there are to many new ones well trusted generals will test the officers. This tradition has been established in the 17th century, during which trust worthy officers became a necessity and the army transformed from a feudal one into a standing force of Landsknechts with the pike and shot warfare.

The there are the standing armies of the kingdoms, which in peace times together normaly make up again around 1% of the total population. To keep them relativly organised, the imperial army organises their equipment. At least as long as the kingdoms pay.

So the total amount of active soldiers in the empire is around 1 million.

While the soldiers have to train every day and keep themselves fit. They live relativly good lives. Many structures of old are still intact and house them. There they keep the equipment in a good shape and train themselves. Large garrison quarters have been build with large training grounds to exercise the troops in and make maneuvers. They are always (not after they shot most of their rounds in a maneuver) in a good shape and well fitted with rounds. The soldires use the Gewehr 88 which the imperial arsenal makes for them. They wear all kind of uniforms in bright colours. The army still represents the armies of the early 19th century looks more like the Napoleonic army. Though the problem ,of large colums moving towards the enemy no longer being a viabel option, already occured to the generals. There is no real strategy yet to replace it and the generals are experimenting a lot.

The armys artillery has been updated and schools for cannoniers exist since 1803. They have been recently modernised with the maps having been updated to new standards. They now show the differnce in height as it has been measured by the cartophotagrahers of the kingdom. The light artillery had to be also updated with a small shield, due to concerns of the common class that shrapnels could hit their fathers. Though that pushed the production costs. The army operates a great amount of field cannons and some heavy artillery. T

Army Weakness : The army lacks a little bit behind, because the nobles still somewhat dominate the high ranking positions. The empire has one of biggest standing armies of the world, but it is hoplessly out dated. The army still seems to be stuck in the early 19th centurie, while their equipment is far ahead of them. As it currently stands the kingdom does posses the strenght to fight on mutiple fronts, though it might end catastrophic. They also don't really have a plan how to fight a modern war.

Naval Description : The imperial navy is relativly small. It never played a large role in the eyes of the empire. There only a few ships to protect the coast and trade of Germany and a small high seas fleet.
The high seas fleet in general protects the empires colony and the trade routes.
The empire posses: 4 battleships and there are two pre-dreadnoughts under construction.

Naval Weakness : The imperial navy has never really got a lot of attention. Though the recent construction of several battleships and cruisers gave Admirality some hopes.

Further Military Description : The empires army uses the telegraph extensivly to communicate quickly. There are also some flag towers which can direct orders if it isn't to foggy or if it doesn't rain. There are also some who use ballons to get a better view of the battlefield, but they have to be hold with a rope, that way they don't fly away.

National Goals : Make the empire great again or make the emperor gain glory. Lets say it like this the empire is still under near absolute controll of the emperor and because of that his personal goals are the national goals.
National Issues : The empire is still divided into kingdoms and their rulers can partly ignore what the emperor demands. They also tend to take a part of the tax collected and use it for themselves. All the kings are positioning themselves around the emperor, because they seek to influence him and veto new laws.
National Figures of Interest : Frederick. I, Wilhelm. I,
National Ambition/Aspirations : Hold on to their monarchy and deal with the threat of Republicans.

History : Under Otto I the east francian kingdom was reformed into the holy empire of Germania. He himself was crowned as emperor by a newly elected pope in Aachen. He later crushed the Magyars to the east and stabilised the eastern border. Under his reign the eastern dukes slowly pushed to the east and brought christianity to the Barbarians in the east. After Ottos death the empire continued on its path. The empire became a stable and relativly secure place to live in. Citys were founded and castles were build to the west.
In 1152 Frederick I became king of the empire and in 1153 he was crowned emperor in Aachen just like Otto before him. Frederick gave his cousin Heinrich the lion Bavaria back and let him oversee the north of the empire. After several years of peace and stability Frederick gathered his knights and the knights of Heinrich to attack the Capetian dynasty the current rulers of the western francian kingdom. They took the fortresses and gathered all their knights for one battle. In 1159 Frederick won a great battle in the Alps. He annexed all of northern Brugundy into his own dukedom of Swabia and declared it a kingdom. Later his son Heinrich IV became king, while he went on the first crusade. There he died, while taking a bath in a river.
His son Heinrich consilidated the power of the emperor and strengthend his gripp on the empire. New laws were passed and new citys were founded.
After him the Swabian kingdom couldn't bring their next king on the throne of the empire, but it did survive.
During the 13th century the kingdom of Bohemia became a major player in the empire. Even with the emperor meddling in the war and forbidding a war the kingdom of Bohemia didn't listen and conquered all of Hungary forming the double monarchy. They later expanded further east.
The teutonic Order was tasked with bringing faith to the heretics in the east and to convert them with force.
In the 15th century the empire saw many conflicts with the the kingdom of France and had to give up some territorys in Lorraine. Later in the 15th century during a war over the lower dukedom of Lorraine the kingdom of Swabia pushed the french knights back and after the family of Lorraine had nearly ceased to exist as many of their sons had been slain in battle. The kingdom of Swabia annexed parts of upper Lorraine. This caused a civil war in the empire in which the position of the emperor had been heavily weakend as he couldn't do much.
The dukedom of Saxony was defeated in battle by the kingdom of Swabia and it became a vassal. The dukedom of Franconia and the dukedom of Bavaria put up a better fight. They fought with honor for their cause and forced the kingdom of Swabia back. The Swabians later bribed the Bavarians to keep out of the conflict. Having decreased the enemy forces the Swabian knights defeated the Fraconian knights. The war ended and Swabia was in control of Lorraine.

In the 16th and 17th century the empire grew ever more weaker as the former kigdom of Bohemia caused many wars. During this time the new firearms and the Landsknecht made the knights nearly useless. Because of this the kingdom of Swabia together with other dukedoms created a new army of the empire the imperial army. It was a well structured and disciplined force and the first and only attempt to make something else out of the mess the empire had become.
In the 30 years during the 17th century, in which only a few battles took place, the former kingdom of Bohemia was cornered by many forces and the emperor tried to force his position upon Bohemia. After the treaty in 1648 the fprmer kingdom of Bohemia and all its other kingdoms and the Dutch left the empire. The empire lost nearly half of its size.

During the age of exploration some Swabian ships sailed around the world and brought new goods from the world. During the 17th century the Swabian kigdom saw the rise of Brandenburg. At the end of the century Brandenburg had gained the territory of Schleswig. At the Beginning of the 18th century the kingdom of Swabia succesfully backs up Brandenburg in a war against Sweden and recaptures some northern territorys. Brandenburg seized the territorys and became known as Prussia.
The Swabian king later realized he had created a problem the empire with this action.
During the seven years war Prussia gained more territory in the empire. Between 1803 and 1815 the great civil war started in the empire. Which saw the empire nearly tear itself appart. Large colums of line infantry met on the field of battle and shot eachother. After the battle of Leipzig the war ended. The Swabians had crushed all resistance in the empire and ensured their rule over it.

The emperor then forced reforms on the empire. As he didn't wish something like this to ever happen again. The empire was centralised and the dynastie of the Staufen became the ruling house of the empire.The state was reorganized and many new offices were constructed. Thousands of people were employed as officials and the empire began to structur itself.
At the end of the 18th century the empire had to construct many fortifications at the Rhine against the revolutionary France. During the early 19th century the kingdom of Swabia build up the imperial army to a new army. His son Wilhelm I later began the modernisation of the kingdom. The kingdom invested a lot into modernisation.
In 1848 rebellions broke out in citys. They were brutaly crushed and since then socialist are being hunted down ever more violently.
Later the imperial army was increased and became the largest standing force of the empire.
The empire started to modernize in the second half of the century again and developed the capabilitys of its military further.

After having secured a small gain in his oversees possessions, emperor Wilhelm II invested large amounts of capital into the army. The emperor also started to increase the size of the navy slightly, while fully concentrating on the education of the officers and generals. As one of the major industrial powers he saw it as only fitting, that the empire would have one of the largest armies.
As the economy looks good and most people are well fed. The only danger that is at the horizon is the threat of the republican ideas.

RP Sample: https://www.nationstates.net/nation=emp ... id=1345770
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[Tracian Empire]

Unless the CO-OP’s find any issues that I have missed, Iberia and Argentina are accepted.

[Bluepillar]

"Gabriel Baker - a mining magnate descended from the old slave caste of the Kingdom of the Argentine. With his father a slave, and him not remembering his own slave days, Gabriel Baker is a definite force in the making of the future of the Kingdom. He owes his original success to a valuable tin mine in Chile, and as one of the wealthiest men in the country, is personally bankrolling the economic dreams of the old slave caste in the hopes of increasing their mutual wealth so that they may have a larger role in their society now that they are free."

I need to add this dude to my app.

Do character expansions like this even need approval, or is it all cool in the hopes of worldbuilding?

[The Industrial States of Columbia]

Hovering over here a wi bit. What would be open/ needed?

[Tracian Empire]

Hovering over here a wi bit. What would be open/ needed?

Arabia, Mongolia and most of Central Asia including Tibet and Xinjang, and most of Russia. I'll be updating the map today

[The Order of the Sovereign Heavens]

Full Nation Name:
The Greater Transcaucasian Confederacy

• Armenian: Մեծ Անդրկովկասյան դաշնակցություն
• Alanian: Стыр Фæскавкaстон Дæшанaттæ
• Kartvelian: დიდი ამიერკავკასიის კონფედერაცია
• Ukrainian: Велика Закавказька Конфедерація

Transcaucasia

• Armenian: Անդրկովկասը
• Abkhaz: Aнкавказ
• Adyghe: Aнкъаукъаз
• Alanian: Фæскавказ
• Chechen: Aнкавказ
• Greek: Υπερκαυκασία
• Kartvelian: ამიერკავკასია
• Ingush: Aнкавказ
• Lak: Aнккавкказ
• Lezgian: Aнкъавкъаз
• Mingrelian: ამიერკავკაცია
• Rutul: Anqawqaz
• Ukrainian: Закавказзя

Majority/Official Culture:
List of National Cultures:

• Armenians (lingua franca, main state language)
• Alans (national language)
• Kartvelians (national language, numerous subgroups)
• Slavs (national language, mostly Ukrainians)
• Abkhaz (regional language)
• Abaza (regional language)
• Avars (regional language, numerous subgroups)
• Circassians (regional language, numerous subgroups)
• Dargins (regional language)
• Greeks (regional language)
• Khinalug (regional language)
• Laks (regional language)
• Lezgins (regional language, numerous subgroups)
• Nakhs (regional language, numerous subgroups)
• Tsez (regional language, numerous subgroups)

Territorial Core: The Caucasus (both South and North) up to the meeting of the Volga and Don, Southern Ukraine up to the Dniester
Territorial Claim: The Armenian core of the Confederacy claims Greater Armenia from the Persians and Byzantines, the constituent Cossack states desire the Crimean Peninsula, the constituent Kartvelian states desire Adjaria.
Capital City:

• Confederal Capital: Gavar, Armenia
• Numerous regional capitals

Population: 25,374,000

Government Type: Confederation of monarchies (de jure), federal constitutional monarchy (de facto)
Government Ideology/Policies: Imperialist, conservative, federal, militarist.
Government Focus: National unity, military growth, defending the borders, facilitating land trade across the Caucasus
Head of State: Shahanshah King Leo XIII Hethumid, Shahanshah of the Greater Transcaucasian Confederacy, King of Armenia
Head of Government: Vahagn Avetis Torosyan (V.A. Torosyan), Grand Chancellor of the Confederacy
Government Description:

The Confederacy is a largely disunited group of semi-independent Duchies, Counties and Baronies, with a few Grand Duchies and one Kingdom to its name. However, it does have a central government, located in the Confederal Capital of Gavar, within the Kingdom of Armenia. The Confederal Government has been gradually stripping independent powers away from the petty nobles and placing it in the hands of the growing Confederal Government. The Gavar Government acts as a constitutional monarchy, with the King of Armenia pretty much the undisputed head of the Confederation and the government, headed by an Armenian Prime Minister, acting as a democratic counterbalance. As such, it could be said that the government is bicameral, with the Noble Council ruling in name and signing off on bills presented by the Confederal Government, and the Lower House acting as a parliamentary democracy.

Majority/State Religion: Officially secular, Armenian Apostolic Church clear majority
Religious Description:

The Kingdom of Armenia is home to the Armenian Apostolic Church. Throughout the years since the foundation of the Confederacy, the Armenian church has been gaining popularity against the falling trend of other faiths in the Confederacy. However, still-popular remain the Islamic and Zoroastrian faiths, as well as some groups in the mountains which still practice ancient pagan traditions.

Economic Ideologies: Mercantilism with burgeoning Capitalist tendencies.
Major Production:

• Mining:
  • Zinc
  • Copper
  • Lead
  • Limestone
  • Dolomites
  • Marble
  • Touchstone
  • Clay
  • Gemstones
  • Other metals
• Production:
  • Cognac
  • Wood products
  • Timber
  • Paper
  • Wood pulp
  • Textiles
• Agriculture:
  • Potatoes
  • Vegetables
  • Wheat
  • Grain
  • Maize
  • Corn
  • Sunflowers
  • Tea
  • Tobacco
  • Grapes
  • Watermelons
  • Tomatoes
  • Barley
  • Apples
  • Tangerines
  • Cotton
  • Apricots
  • Cabbages
  • Sugar beets
  • Peaches
  • Cucumbers
  • Onions
  • Persimmons
• Domesticable Animals
  • Horses
  • Sheep
  • Hogs
  • Dairy Cows
  • Beef Cattle
• Other
  • Oil
  • Gas
  • Coal
  • Sand
  • Gravel
  • Mineral water

Economic Description:

The economy of the Greater Transcaucasian Confederacy is extremely decentralised, like much of the rest of the Confederacy's politics. With the patchy spread of industrialised agricultural practices throughout the largely agrarian state, and with the difficult transition to higher levels of technological advancement often not taking place in the smaller baronies, counties or even duchies, it can be very easy to see most of, if not all of, the Confederacy as backwards and somewhat primitive. The Confederacy has long worked in its mission to show Transcaucasia as a prime region for overland trade, now specifically between Persia, the Eastern Roman Empire and the Tatar State, as well as facilitating trade across the Black and Caspian Seas. Transcaucasia, thus, sees its trading ambitions as heavily tied-up within its geopolitical situation, especially with the Eastern Roman Empire, specifically the city of Constantinople, blocking off trade to the wider Mediterranean.

Development: Semi-industrialised
Development Description:

Infrastructure: Transcaucasia has attempted, with varying success, to advance its infrastructure and allow for further movement across the Caucasus mountains. While railways are present on both sides of the mountains, as well as running through Abkhazia and Dagestan to circumvent the Great Caucasian Mountains, any crossing of the mountains must be done by more archaic means. Given the political interconnectedness of the Confederacy, however, this is largely not an issue, but it is most likely that, once the Confederacy's technology advances to a suitable point, they will invest heavily in attempting to travel through the mountains with train tunnels. Roads are fairly advanced across the whole Confederacy.
Industrialisation: The level to which the Confederacy is actually 'industrialised' differ based on where you go and who you ask. The heartlands of Armenia, Georgia, Abkhazia and parts of the North Caucasus are all fairly industrialised, with farming and mining equipment assisting in both tasks. Further out of the heartlands, towards the smaller duchies, counties and baronies of the Confederacy, and within the highlands of the Great Caucasus and the Cossack Hosts to the West, the industrialisation is far lessened, with most equipment

Army Description:

The Confederacy invests very strongly into its army, acting as the pride of the entire Confederacy and one of the main unifying factors for the disparate state. Each constituent state of the Confederacy is expected to contribute to the standing force in some manner or another, with many of the more mineral-rich regions, such as Alania, opting to invest more heavily into the provision of equipment rather than troops. The army has a strong officer corps which has gradually been shifting away from a nobility-based rank system and towards a more meritocratic system. Most of the ethnicities within the Confederacy have their own army subdivisions, allowing for, in many circumstances, more unit cohesion between the men of that unit, while also specialising the unit for the terrain and situations extant within the unit's home territory.

In terms of composition, the Confederate Army is comprised mainly of mounted infantry, irregulars, such as skirmishers, and full cavalry, though the latter is falling out of favour within the army. There are a disproportionately high number of Slavs within the military compared to the population statistics, as the Cossack states of the northern regions provide heavily to the Confederate military. With the vast majority of the military dressed in traditionally Caucasian garb - long chokha coats as standard, with gazerei on them, usually used to carry rifle cartridges, the Transcaucasian military has its own very distinctive clothing style. Soldiers will wear either traditional bashlyks or papakhas for headgear, though there is call to transfer to the use of kepis, and most soldiers will carry khanjalis, double edged daggers endemic to the Caucasus, both as a hand-to-hand weapon (which most soldiers are trained in) or for use as a bayonet. The only soldiers not to extensively use khanjalis are the cavalry, who carry more traditional cavalry sabres. Armed with the Alanian RFV-series of rifles (рог фæлхатын винтовкæ), produced in the Alanian industrial heartland of the Confederacy, the equipment of the military has been standardised from the formerly disparate equipping process that was popular with the early Confederacy. As part of General Spartak A. Giorgadze's military reforms, the confederacy's military is a far more standardised force than it once was, though with the regional specialisations that make it more versatile.

There is a strong culture of militarism within the Confederacy - not particularly the expansion into new lands, though there are various groups who believe they are entitled to some of the surrounding lands, most notably the Armenians, Georgians and Cossacks - which has led to a high military size for the population, approximately 3% of the population being involved in the army at any one time - about 700,000 individuals.

Army Weakness:

The weaknesses of the Transcaucasian military can be roughly divided into two parts: logistical and tactical. For a well-trained (though not always well-organised) force, skilled in horsemanship, hand-to-hand fighting, riflemanship and other important matters of warfare, the Transcaucasian military occupies a strange niche which requires it to project force across two sides of the Caucasus. As such, the matter of supply lines can be one which causes certain issues, as well as the simple matter of setting up defensive positions when the greatest defensive line, the Caucasus mountains, lies at the centre of the country. The military also acts as a force to keep the Confederacy together, as sometimes the aims of the constituent states can be somewhat disparate, requiring the military's guiding hand. Finally, a matter of potential (though historically very rare) disloyalty among the military's units arises, since each unit tends to speak a different language and come from its own local area. Those internal differences could be exploited by an enemy who knows how to attract the soldiers of one group, and great care must be maintained to ensure that armies are not fighting groups that they might naturally be allied with (Iranians fighting the Persians, Pontic Greeks fighting the Byzantines etc.)

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National Goals : [[What are the main objectives of your nation?]]
National Issues : [[What needs to be fixed in order for your nation to achieve its true potential?]]
National Figures of Interest : [[OPTIONAL]] [[Are there any Mother Teresas or Moses that we need to know about?]]
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[Bluepillar]

Hovering over here a wi bit. What would be open/ needed?

Arabia, Mongolia and most of Central Asia including Tibet and Xinjang, and most of Russia. I'll be updating the map today

also the Netherlands and maybe Belgium, right?

[Bluepillar]

"Gabriel Baker - a mining magnate descended from the old slave caste of the Kingdom of the Argentine. With his father a slave, and him not remembering his own slave days, Gabriel Baker is a definite force in the making of the future of the Kingdom. He owes his original success to a valuable tin mine in Chile, and as one of the wealthiest men in the country, is personally bankrolling the economic dreams of the old slave caste in the hopes of increasing their mutual wealth so that they may have a larger role in their society now that they are free."

I need to add this dude to my app.

Do character expansions like this even need approval, or is it all cool in the hopes of worldbuilding?

i put this dude in my app yesterday, so. probably gonna put anymore characters i make somewhere in a notes app.