A Victory in the East (Alternate History RP/OOC) Open

[Union Princes]

Kinda half confused about what Britain considers to be highly valuable to be given in exchange for Hong Kong. I feel like Boris has completely missed the hidden meaning in the telegram.

[TENNOHEIKA BANZAI NIHON]

Posted. I left the Senkaku Islands operation open in case China wants to have a physical response to it. As for the UK, the Emperor usually doesn't make state trips for negotiations like this, so I sent the Ambassador instead, but the Prime Minister is an option too.

[American Pere Housh]

Kinda half confused about what Britain considers to be highly valuable to be given in exchange for Hong Kong. I feel like Boris has completely missed the hidden meaning in the telegram.

HK is valuable to GB because its a major naval base for the Royal Navy in the Pacific and the UK doesn't abandon its citizens.

[Kenobot]

Looks like the British would rather be friends with Imperial Japan than the free world. Once you make your bed, you've got to lie in it. Should be interesting to see what the Russians propose

[TENNOHEIKA BANZAI NIHON]

Looks like the British would rather be friends with Imperial Japan than the free world. Once you make your bed, you've got to lie in it. Should be interesting to see what the Russians propose

Japan is richer, has a more powerful military, and willing to stand up to communism. That makes it more attractive than Australia.

[Kenobot]

Looks like the British would rather be friends with Imperial Japan than the free world. Once you make your bed, you've got to lie in it. Should be interesting to see what the Russians propose

Japan is richer, has a more powerful military, and willing to stand up to communism. That makes it more attractive than Australia.

You're also an Imperialist state and there's still a score to settle in the eyes of some from 1945. Missed out on Little Boy and Fat Man

[Union Princes]

I really do wonder what why you guys think that Japan is richer than China when China is the third largest economy in the world, behind the US and Russia.

[Rhim Flavezztowland]

Nationstates Name Rhim Flavezztowland

Nation Name The Union of North African States (UNAS)
Capital Luxor
Type of Government Federal presidential constitutional republic
Head of State(s) Helena Linduthando
Head of Government (if applicable) N/A
Picture of Leader

Party in Power Unionist Party of North Africa (UNI) - a majority-centrist political party with social democratic and left-wing populist factions
Executive Title President of the UNAS
Flag


Currency North African dollar (NA$)
Population 218.2 million (2020 estimate)
GDP $4,310 billion (2020)
GDP Growth 1% down from 2019
Inflation 0.04% from 2020 to 2021
Population below poverty line 7.51%
Gini 39.8
Value of currency compared to United States Dollar NA$ 1 = US$ 1.02
Major trade partners Kingdom of Greece, United States of America, Free City of Constantinople, Federal Republic of Germany

Total military size 2,100,000
Breakdown of ground forces The UNAS's ground forces operate as a single land service branch called the North African Army (NAA), which has 891,000 active personnel and 9,000 inactive personnel as of 2021.
Breakdown of naval naval forces The UNAS's naval forces operate as three branches: a maritime service and search-and-rescue branch called the North African Naval Corps (NANC), a maritime land force service branch called the North African Marine Forces (NAMF), and a maritime security and law enforcement branch called the North African Coastal Intelligence Agency (NACIA); the total amount of personnel of those three branches combined as of 2021 is 500,000.
Breakdown of air forces The UNAS's air forces operate as two branches: an air service and search-and-rescue branch called the North African Air Force (NAAF) and an air security and law enforcement branch called the North African Air Intelligence Agency (NAAIA); the total amount of personnel of those two branches combined as of 2021 is 700,000.
Major foreign military suppliers if applicable The UNAS's major foreign military supplier is the United States of America.
Extra Armed Forces details N/A

Ongoing major and minor domestic Issues Ever since 1977, the UNAS has been dealing with sporadic violence from Islamic extremists.

Religion Breakdown The UNAS's population is 59% Muslim, 21% Christian, and 19% irreligious; the other 11% of the UNAS's population upholds religious beliefs other than those aforementioned.
Political Breakdown The Unionist Party of North Africa (UNI) holds 58% of the seats in the UNAS's legislature, while the Progressive Party of North Africa (PROP) holds 40% of them; the other 2% who hold seats in the UNAS's legislature are independent politicians.
History
The UNAS was founded in 1897 as a product of the North African Federal Revolution of February that year, with Mamoon Aschsepsen al-Suleiman being its first president. It initially consisted of 3 states: Egypt, Libya, and Algeria. 2 years later (in 1889), al-Suleiman chose Luxor as the permanent capital city of the UNAS and made it coterminous with a special state-level administrative district the Capital District (C.D.); the admission of Morocco to the UNAS came 5 years after that (in 1904), thus increasing the number of UNAS states to 4 (excluding the C.D.).

Daawood Hakizimana al-Assad took over al-Suleiman's position in 1906 after the latter's death, thus making the former the second president of the UNAS. Under al-Assad's administration, the UNAS was enlarged for a third time, with the admission of Eritrea to statehood in 1908 increasing the number of UNAS states to 5 (excluding the C.D.). From then on, the UNAS was enlarged thrice more (once in 1935 under Raamiz Markata el-Rauf's administration with the admissions of Mauritania, Western Sahara, and Niger; once again in 1961 under Kaalim Amenemant al-Azam's administration with the admissions of Chad, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia; and once again in 1989 under Saara Habibah al-Hassan's administration with the admissions of Cameroon and South Niger), and the amount of UNAS states excluding the C.D. is currently 16.

The first war the UNAS's armed forces fought in was the Second World War, which the country entered on the Allies' side in February 1942 when then-president Naseer Aseskaf el-Beydoun declared war on Nazi Germany. After the war ended in 1945, the UNAS experienced a 51-year-long economic boom that was characterized by suburban development and the cross-country proliferation of interstate motorways, with the first of such roads in the UNAS being the M1 between Casablanca in the state of Morocco and the capital of Luxor that was opened in 1951 after 5 years of construction to much fanfare. The aforementioned economic boom was followed in the UNAS by a nationwide economic recession that lasted from 1996 to 1997 and ended as a result of policy reforms made by the 1997-2004 administration of Muhyddeen Meshindi (who took over Moosha Runihura el-Farooq's position as president of the UNAS after the latter was forced to resign over the aforementioned recession).

The UNAS got its second female president in the country's history in 2016 (after Saara Habibah al-Hassan, who was in office from 1988 to 1992) when Helena Linduthando was elected to the position in the UNAS presidential election of that year; she was reelected in 2020.

Organization Membership Although not a NATO member, the UNAS is still aligned to the NATO.
Goals Public and Private The UNAS has publicly stated its intent to admit Tunisia, Mali, Burkina Faso, the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, and Benin to statehood in the union since 1992; other public goals of the UNAS include clamping down on Islamic extremism within the country and stabilizing ties with Saudi Arabia. One of the UNAS's currently-private goals, however, is to admit Malta to statehood in the union...

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[Arvenia]

I'm waiting for USA, Germany, Australia, Russia, Cuba, Greece, Korea and China to respond to the recent terrorist attacks in Jakarta.

[TENNOHEIKA BANZAI NIHON]

Japan is richer, has a more powerful military, and willing to stand up to communism. That makes it more attractive than Australia.

You're also an Imperialist state and there's still a score to settle in the eyes of some from 1945. Missed out on Little Boy and Fat Man

In that sense, Japan is willing to take action, where others are not.

Speaking of such, China, do you still have the same bases as IRL and the same ships docked in the same places?

[Imperialisium]

Red October standing by...

[Union Princes]

Launch a Pearl Harbor and everyone in the Sphere is getting invaded, alright?

I'll make my post this weekend

[TENNOHEIKA BANZAI NIHON]

Launch a Pearl Harbor and everyone in the Sphere is getting invaded, alright?

I'll make my post this weekend

It is just important for a small plan. Does China have its same bases and same ships stationed there?

[Union Princes]

Launch a Pearl Harbor and everyone in the Sphere is getting invaded, alright?

I'll make my post this weekend

It is just important for a small plan. Does China have its same bases and same ships stationed there?

The bases are the same with Shanghai being the largest. As for the fleet, having the largest divergences, is gonna be concentrated in Shanghai

[TENNOHEIKA BANZAI NIHON]

It is just important for a small plan. Does China have its same bases and same ships stationed there?

The bases are the same with Shanghai being the largest. As for the fleet, having the largest divergences, is gonna be concentrated in Shanghai

So the South Sea Fleet doesn't have the Liaoning?

[Union Princes]

I don't have any carriers if that's what you're referring to. It's all in the production queue

[TENNOHEIKA BANZAI NIHON]

I don't have any carriers if that's what you're referring to. It's all in the production queue

I see. So does the South Sea Fleet still have its cruisers?

[Union Princes]

Maybe, I don't know. The OP said I'd don't start off with the carriers, I probably don't start off with the cruisers either

[TENNOHEIKA BANZAI NIHON]

Maybe, I don't know. The OP said I'd don't start off with the carriers, I probably don't start off with the cruisers either

China poses less of a threat than I thought it seems.

[Union Princes]

Obviously, Japan didn't get its entire navy sunk nor strapped by severe military restrictions after WW2. So of course Japan have a better navy at the start

[TENNOHEIKA BANZAI NIHON]

Obviously, Japan didn't get its entire navy sunk nor strapped by severe military restrictions after WW2. So of course Japan have a better navy at the start

Japan will still have to make sure things stay that way. It is a pity China's main shipyards are too far away for certain unofficial Japanese plans.

[Union Princes]

Cool it with the Pearl Harbor plan, that trick can only work once.

[TENNOHEIKA BANZAI NIHON]

Cool it with the Pearl Harbor plan, that trick can only work once.

The plan is not what you think, and will be executed sooner than you would think.

[Imperialisium]

I specified you could have Liaoning and Shangdong...

I just didn’t allow people to have all this extra stuff such brand new carrier battle groups and all that being coincidentally built and ready within IC weeks or months of the RP starting. Because that would be insanely meta.

[Union Princes]

But I thought all carriers had to be done by 2025 or 2026 since I'm building them all at once