Point of Divergence V 5.0 : It's Alive! (OOC / OPEN)

[Speyland]

well i disagree with ms d.d.'s definition. real science fiction is fiction ABOUT science. doesn't matter a drizzling bit if its rural or urban, past, present or future.
if its not about science, and it can be the 'soft' sciences as well as the hard, it can have all the techno eye candy it wants, and still be fantasy. not high fantasy perhaps, that's the provence to tolkin, the s.c.a. and unicorns and dragons. good fantasy is consistent with itself too.

at any rate, isot CAN be science fiction, and a lot of it HAS been done in that genre, it just has to be about the science, people believably doing it, the social implications of the results of their doing so, and so on. it may not even have to seem all sciencey, but for me the most fun is when it is.

sending self regenerating nanites back through time could create all sorts of wonderful fun chaos. actually hadn't heard the term "isot". been years since i've had much of a chance to keep up. after all that, i'm probably not smart enough to do the real sciencey stuff, even things like social psycology.

Full Organization Name :furry liberation front
Type of Organization : primarily social support but also seeks equality for genetically altered sapient people, crispr'd humans, actual e.t.'s, and sapient terrestrial species, whatever their origin.
Flag / Symbols: the raised furry paw of course

Official Economic Ideology : not tied to any one economic ideology, but generally supportive more of social sharing then economic exploitation.
Official Political Ideology : again really none as such, but typical of indigenous cultures
Head of Organization : a council of nine member elected annually
Other Important Individuals :

Territory : not seeking to control territory, but recognition of civil and social rights
Territorial Ambitions : obviously not applicable
Capital City : originated among college students, more or less simultaneously, on campuses in widely scattered countries around the world
Population :
Membership : this is a slight mystery as there is no official registry, generally low balled by media, and of course probably somewhat exaggerated by political opponents.

Economic Policy :

Tech Level: as popularity of science and fiction about science began to fade after its huge rise in the 1980s. Furry fandom became somewhat of the next wave to replace it. Little known even among furrys were controversial developments taking place in fields of genetic manipulation along about the same time. Also, converging were several species from different worlds, of 'alien' observers of human social evolution, disguised as 'simple animals' such as red pandas, limurs, and a number of others.
Extra Information / Quirks: well yes of course.
Universe of Origin (if any): a bit of both of course. Crispr is real, furry fandom is real, 'aliens among us' is of course a bit speculative.

Military Description pretty much pacifistic, only rarely participating in civil disobedience, usually in the company and support of other civil and social rights organizations, and those of a mostly pasivistic nature as well.


Organization Goals :to pressure governments to enact legislation protecting rights, but also less overtly, to make real genetic options available to the furry fandom.


History : little is known about the earliest meetings between human geneticists and our clandestine extra terrestrial watchers. Tails of those first meetings have become among college students something of a popular urban legend. It began when a red panda, aluris fulgens, was about to be surgically altered for experimental purposes, to which she objected in not uncertain terms, in clear, unambiguous american english.

This began something of an ethical delema for u.c.berkely's biology department, itself no stranger to ethical delemas.

All of which was very much before my own time, and before the post ecopocalyptic times in which I and my peers were born. Born with green fur, pointy ears, retractable claws, et al, though of mostly earth human ancestral stock.

How this came to be, is as a result of ecopocalyps, un-genetically altered “pure” human infants no longer lived more the a few months, if even more then a few weeks or days, from birth, and their genetically unaltered human parents were dying nearly as fast.

Some infants though, were starting to be born already 'furry', and those had the best chances to survive.

Reactions to this were of course mixed, with those of strong religious beliefs sometimes having the most difficulty. But not always. And religious diversity beyond that aramaic core becoming increasingly popular. Several new movements emergent there too.

New forms of sapience weren't the only thing to emerge from this era, as other things, such as cities, super highways and large populations, where being largely left behind. With a more rural and self sufficient popular culture, rising from its urban ruins.

(yah I know, some of this doesn't make sense as in why would there need to be a liberation front if everyone were already furry. Well it up to everyone and game master how and where what parts might or might not, if any, fit in. such at any rate is the general ideas I have in my head. Not even sure how much i'll be able to participate, I just like to share such concepts and ideas that are maybe a little less of what seems to be currently mainstream)


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#POD3 (don't remove this)

Uh, I'm not sure about this one. I'll let NSCR review it from here.

[Speyland]

Reservation App

Name of country reserved: Republic of Ustio
Territory: Territory of Austria-Hungary circa 1914

This app is pending, mostly it depends on whether we use the current map or the one I submitted in Discord.

Since the map for this RP has been determined, accepted.

[Speyland]

I'm gonna pop out a reservation while i formulate my ideas.

Reservation App

Name of country reserved: United Soviet Socialist Republics
Territory: https://imgur.com/a/hIYlW9f Marked interested territories in red.

Welcome aboard, comrade.

[Democratic East-Asia]

You know what, why not? We all need more dysfunctional messes. And fyi this isn't my NS state.

Name of country reserved: (Great People's Socialist Federation of) Eastasia
Territory: China (including Taiwan because that's part of China), Mongolia, United Korea

[Deblar]

This should be interesting

Name of country reserved: Republic of Texas
Territory: Modern Texas boundaries

Thinking about a scenario where Texas remains independent instead of joining the United States and manages to survive

[Speyland]

well i disagree with ms d.d.'s definition. real science fiction is fiction ABOUT science. doesn't matter a drizzling bit if its rural or urban, past, present or future.
if its not about science, and it can be the 'soft' sciences as well as the hard, it can have all the techno eye candy it wants, and still be fantasy. not high fantasy perhaps, that's the provence to tolkin, the s.c.a. and unicorns and dragons. good fantasy is consistent with itself too.

at any rate, isot CAN be science fiction, and a lot of it HAS been done in that genre, it just has to be about the science, people believably doing it, the social implications of the results of their doing so, and so on. it may not even have to seem all sciencey, but for me the most fun is when it is.

sending self regenerating nanites back through time could create all sorts of wonderful fun chaos. actually hadn't heard the term "isot". been years since i've had much of a chance to keep up. after all that, i'm probably not smart enough to do the real sciencey stuff, even things like social psycology.

Full Organization Name :furry liberation front
Type of Organization : primarily social support but also seeks equality for genetically altered sapient people, crispr'd humans, actual e.t.'s, and sapient terrestrial species, whatever their origin.
Flag / Symbols: the raised furry paw of course

Official Economic Ideology : not tied to any one economic ideology, but generally supportive more of social sharing then economic exploitation.
Official Political Ideology : again really none as such, but typical of indigenous cultures
Head of Organization : a council of nine member elected annually
Other Important Individuals :

Territory : not seeking to control territory, but recognition of civil and social rights
Territorial Ambitions : obviously not applicable
Capital City : originated among college students, more or less simultaneously, on campuses in widely scattered countries around the world
Population :
Membership : this is a slight mystery as there is no official registry, generally low balled by media, and of course probably somewhat exaggerated by political opponents.

Economic Policy :

Tech Level: as popularity of science and fiction about science began to fade after its huge rise in the 1980s. Furry fandom became somewhat of the next wave to replace it. Little known even among furrys were controversial developments taking place in fields of genetic manipulation along about the same time. Also, converging were several species from different worlds, of 'alien' observers of human social evolution, disguised as 'simple animals' such as red pandas, limurs, and a number of others.
Extra Information / Quirks: well yes of course.
Universe of Origin (if any): a bit of both of course. Crispr is real, furry fandom is real, 'aliens among us' is of course a bit speculative.

Military Description pretty much pacifistic, only rarely participating in civil disobedience, usually in the company and support of other civil and social rights organizations, and those of a mostly pasivistic nature as well.


Organization Goals :to pressure governments to enact legislation protecting rights, but also less overtly, to make real genetic options available to the furry fandom.


History : little is known about the earliest meetings between human geneticists and our clandestine extra terrestrial watchers. Tails of those first meetings have become among college students something of a popular urban legend. It began when a red panda, aluris fulgens, was about to be surgically altered for experimental purposes, to which she objected in not uncertain terms, in clear, unambiguous american english.

This began something of an ethical delema for u.c.berkely's biology department, itself no stranger to ethical delemas.

All of which was very much before my own time, and before the post ecopocalyptic times in which I and my peers were born. Born with green fur, pointy ears, retractable claws, et al, though of mostly earth human ancestral stock.

How this came to be, is as a result of ecopocalyps, un-genetically altered “pure” human infants no longer lived more the a few months, if even more then a few weeks or days, from birth, and their genetically unaltered human parents were dying nearly as fast.

Some infants though, were starting to be born already 'furry', and those had the best chances to survive.

Reactions to this were of course mixed, with those of strong religious beliefs sometimes having the most difficulty. But not always. And religious diversity beyond that aramaic core becoming increasingly popular. Several new movements emergent there too.

New forms of sapience weren't the only thing to emerge from this era, as other things, such as cities, super highways and large populations, where being largely left behind. With a more rural and self sufficient popular culture, rising from its urban ruins.

(yah I know, some of this doesn't make sense as in why would there need to be a liberation front if everyone were already furry. Well it up to everyone and game master how and where what parts might or might not, if any, fit in. such at any rate is the general ideas I have in my head. Not even sure how much i'll be able to participate, I just like to share such concepts and ideas that are maybe a little less of what seems to be currently mainstream)


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#POD3 (don't remove this)

Actually, we can't accept you. Your application is seen as a shitpost, and your poor grammar shows. Denied.

[Speyland]

You know what, why not? We all need more dysfunctional messes. And fyi this isn't my NS state.

Name of country reserved: (Great People's Socialist Federation of) Eastasia
Territory: China (including Taiwan because that's part of China), Mongolia, United Korea

Are you sure you're joining for real?

[Speyland]

This should be interesting

Name of country reserved: Republic of Texas
Territory: Modern Texas boundaries

Thinking about a scenario where Texas remains independent instead of joining the United States and manages to survive

Accepted.

[Rupudska]

Full Nation Name : Republic of Ustio
Short Nation Name : Ustio
Flag / National Symbols: Though obviously without the text in the corner, or the CRT stripes Air Force roundel

Government Type: Parliamentary constitutional republic, with a bicameral legislature.
Official Political Ideology: Liberal conservatism, nationalism
Head of State: President Pavel Linhart
Head of Government: Prime Minister Magdalena Mesmer
Government Description: Ustio is a unitary, semi-presidential, representative democratic republic - that is, it is a country where the federal government is supreme, the president and prime minister equally share power, where citizens elect people to represent them in the legislative branch (consisting of the upper Senat and the lower Tag). Presidents and Prime Ministers are elected to four-year terms every two years, alternating between terms, and legislators are elected to six-year terms a maximum of three times. Ustio has universal suffrage for all citizens over the age of 21, and citizenship is granted via application, ethnic heritage (jus sanguinis), residency (jus soli), or by being wounded in battle in military, police, or other emergency service to the nation of Ustio (par le sang versé).

Territory: Austria sans Tyrol and Voralberg, Hungary, Slovenia, and the northern halves of Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia.
Territorial Ambitions : Paduan Plains, and the Western Balkans as far south as Macedonia.
Capital City : Directus (Vienna, which Directus is noticeably smaller than)
Population : 24.25 million loyal sons and daughters of Ustio, plus a few thousands of mercenaries, as well as foreign advisors and prisoners.

Majority/Official Culture: Central European - the specifics are vague, but for the sake of the RP I'm going with a blend of Austrian, Czech, Slovakian, Bavarian, and Polish, in no particular order. In other words, they have good sausage and better beer. For practical purposes, the main language of Ustio is Austrian German.

Majority/State Religion: Ustio is predominantly Catholic with a Protestant minority (predominantly Lutheran, Calvinist, and Presbyterian), mostly consisting of Belkans who decided to stay in Ustio after independence was granted.

Major Industries / Economic sectors: Agriculture, craftsmanship, mining, aviation.
Amount of Industrialization: Middle Silicon Age (roughly 1990s, with some areas more advanced than OTL 1990s)
Economic Description: While Ustio has been building up its economy every day since independence (and repairing it since the start of the Belkan War), it does not change the fact that Ustio is a young nation, and Belka did not put much effort into developing what it saw mostly as farmland. And not all of it is farmland, either - rugged, snow-capped mountains line the eastern and southern borders, and a desert formed by the Waldreich Mountains lies to the north, only the central region is agricultural. As a direct result, Ustio's primary industries are agriculture and high-quality craftsmanship, with no major industrial centers of its own. That being said, Ustio's mining industry rapidly expanded upon the discovery of minerals in its northern desert, and while any attempts to exploit those resources were halted by the Belkan War, Ustio's presence on another world with those same resources indicate it could either have a major economic boom on its hands, or another war. However, it has managed to secure a handful of South Belka Munitions' former factories within the country, and once they are fully repaired, Ustio will be able to supply its own aircraft... pending a steady supply of aluminum, silicon, titanium, rubber, et cetera...

Technological Level: Late Cold War plus one half modern times the square root of PMT
Magic and other shenanigans? (If any exists): Ustio military aircraft can carry a frankly silly amount of missiles, and I'm stealing the explanation from Ace Combat Quest and say that they use a Universal Standard Missile that is small enough for a fighter to carry dozens and powerful enough to take out most planes and tanks in two or three hits, at the cost of inferior range compared to RL missiles.

Military Description

Army: The Ustian Army is small, young, but well-trained, well-enough maintained (with foreign assistance), and heady off the success from finally driving the Belkans out of Ustio's borders. In terms of equipment, most of Ustio's army uses off-the-shelf Belkan (German) equipment of the late 1990s/early 2000s - Leopard IIs, Flakpanzer Gepards, MOWAG Eagles, and the like, alongside Osean and Yuktobanian fare, modified to fit existing ammunition stockpiles where necessary - T-80s and Abrams, BMP-2s, BTR-Ds, and the like, while their infantry weapons are almost solely Osean (American) design. For a TL;DR, the majority of their tanks, light vehicles, and anti-air is German with a few American and Russian tanks, their APCs and IFVs are Russian modified to use NATO ammunition, and their guns are American. Total numbers are roughly half a million, including mercenaries.

Navy: Ustio is... well, was, a landlocked country, and as a result it does not have a navy. At all. This could be a problem.

Air Force: On paper, the Ustian Air Force is small, with only about 500 planes, and most of those are trainers, AWACS, and logistics. On paper. In reality, while the Ustian Army is mostly native with a sizable amount of mercenaries, the Ustian Air Force is almost solely composed of mercenaries, and including them results in a total of roughly 2000 aircraft, and includes bombers, fighters, transports, attackers, from a wide variety of OTL American, European, French, Russian, and even Japanese origin - ranging from the Mitsubishi F-1 and the MiG-21 to Raptors, Tu-95s to a single pair of B-2s on loan from the Osean Air Defense Force. Of note is that while most air forces fly in groups of four, the Ustian Air Force continues to, despite its swelled numbers, operate mostly in pairs.


National Goals: To not get invaded by neighbors, and to have enough allies to prevent that.


History: The plains that make up the bulk of Ustio have been inhabited, in one capacity or another, since the early Neolithic, and have been ruled off and on by lands both within and without that basin for much of that time. Since the end of antiquity, their rulers have mostly been the Belkan petty kingdoms to the west - the very name Ustio is descended from a proto-Belkan word for "Eastern." Through all the centuries, though, the Ustian people have retained a firmly independent spirit, that has never truly been crushed, despite Belka's best efforts at times.

During the Cold War between Osea and Yuktobania, Belka engaged in rapid military expansion, though it maintained its neutrality. For reasons unknown even to Ustians, Osea decided that a powerful Belka was a threat, neutral or otherwise, and tricked Belka into accepting an economic venture in 1987 to explore potential natural resources in Belka's southwestern Great Lakes region. Osea deliberately exaggerated the amount of resources present in the area and the economic venture quickly folded, taking Belka's economy with it. In December of that year, Belka's government underwent a Federal Law Review with the purpose of stabilizing the economy, and ultimately sheared off three eastern territories with histories of independent mindsets - Gebet, Recta, and Ustio. Ustio was officially declared independent on May the 12th of 1988, with Directus, its largest city, being named the capital. Belka also sold the Great Lakes region to Osea.

Over the next seven yeras, Ustio underwent little economic growth or diversification - the region was peaceful, its economy small but stable, and Ustio's agricultural industry did well for itself. South Belka Munitions built a few factories in the country, but they mostly sold to Belka and Osea, as Ustio did not have as great a need for weapons. Directus hosted one such factory, and its growth accelerated - relative to the rest of the country, at least. Ustio's peaceful days came to an end in February of 1995, when enormous deposits of many resources valuable to modern industry were discovered in Area B7R, a section of its northern desert. Belka, which had grown nationalist, irredentist, and incredibly powerful, took drastic action.

On March 25th, 1995, Belka invaded Ustio, Osea, and the nation of Sapin to Ustio's south. Ustio's small military was caught in complete surprise and was quickly overwhelmed, occupying Directus within days and the entire country by the end of the month bar the eastern and southern mountain ranges, most notably the Tyrann Mountains on the border with Ratio. Ustio allied itself with Osea and Sapin, with Yuktobania soon joining in to the surprise of many, with additional support from Ratio, Gebet, Recta, and Erusea. Ustio also took full advantage of the IUN Charter's lack of restrictions on mercenaries, hiring mercenaries in its army and air force by the thousands, and digging deep into what economic supplies it had left, in a mad attempt to save the nation, most notably including a pair of F-15 pilots in the 66th Air Force Unit, Galm Team.

It worked. After a bombing raid set to finish off the last of Ustian resistance was intercepted in totality, the Allied Forces began a slow push from all sides, with Ustio regaining ground mile by mile every day. The retaking of the Futuro Canal in Osea, linking the Great Lakes to the ocean, was a decisive blow against Belka's expansion, and Directus proper was retaken the day after independence day in mid-May of 1995. Belkan control of the remainder of Ustio swiftly crumbled, and the nation was liberated within days.

Of course, Osea just couldn't leave well enough alone, so starting in mid-May they convinced Ustio and the other Allied nations to launch an "inspection" of the Glatistant, Belka's most important border fortress. A few days later, a second assault is launched against a group of bases to the north, when the Allied forces come under assault from Excalibur - Belka's ABM laser defense system, centered around a tower a kilometer high.

The destruction of it, by Galm Team and especially Galm One (callsign Cipher) cemented their legend among the Belkan Air Force, and the battle a few weeks later, their second over the B7R region of northwestern Ustio/southeastern Belka, confirmed it.

It was the first of June, a few days later, as the squadron was preparing for a bombing run on the Belkan industrial city of Hoffnung, when...

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[Democratic East-Asia]

Actually ignore the reservation. Not entirely sure I'm going to join.

[Speyland]

Full Nation Name : Republic of Ustio
Short Nation Name : Ustio
Flag / National Symbols: Though obviously without the text in the corner, or the CRT stripes Air Force roundel

Government Type: Parliamentary constitutional republic, with a bicameral legislature.
Official Political Ideology: Liberal conservatism, nationalism
Head of State: President Pavel Linhart
Head of Government: Prime Minister Magdalena Mesmer
Government Description: Ustio is a unitary, semi-presidential, representative democratic republic - that is, it is a country where the federal government is supreme, the president and prime minister equally share power, where citizens elect people to represent them in the legislative branch (consisting of the upper Senat and the lower Tag). Presidents and Prime Ministers are elected to four-year terms every two years, alternating between terms, and legislators are elected to six-year terms a maximum of three times. Ustio has universal suffrage for all citizens over the age of 21, and citizenship is granted via application, ethnic heritage (jus sanguinis), residency (jus soli), or by being wounded in battle in military, police, or other emergency service to the nation of Ustio (par le sang versé).

Territory: Austria sans Tyrol and Voralberg, Hungary, Slovenia, and the northern halves of Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia.
Territorial Ambitions : Oh, good, the Belkans are gone. (None)
Capital City : Directus (Warsaw, which Directus is noticeably smaller than)
Population : 1.2 million loyal sons and daughters of Ustio, plus a few thousands of mercenaries, as well as foreign advisors and prisoners.

Majority/Official Culture: Central European - the specifics are vague, but for the sake of the RP I'm going with a blend of Austrian, Czech, Slovakian, Bavarian, and Polish, in no particular order. In other words, they have good sausage and better beer. For practical purposes, the main language of Ustio is Austrian German.

Majority/State Religion: Ustio is predominantly Catholic with a Protestant minority (predominantly Lutheran, Calvinist, and Presbyterian), mostly consisting of Belkans who decided to stay in Ustio after independence was granted.

Major Industries / Economic sectors: Agriculture, craftsmanship, mining, aviation.
Amount of Industrialization: Middle Silicon Age (roughly 1990s, with some areas more advanced than OTL 1990s)
Economic Description: While Ustio has been building up its economy every day since independence (and repairing it since the start of the Belkan War), it does not change the fact that Ustio is a young nation, and Belka did not put much effort into developing what it saw mostly as farmland. And not all of it is farmland, either - rugged, snow-capped mountains line the eastern and southern borders, and a desert formed by the Waldreich Mountains lies to the north, only the central region is agricultural. As a direct result, Ustio's primary industries are agriculture and high-quality craftsmanship, with no major industrial centers of its own. That being said, Ustio's mining industry rapidly expanded upon the discovery of minerals in its northern desert, and while any attempts to exploit those resources were halted by the Belkan War, Ustio's presence on another world with those same resources indicate it could either have a major economic boom on its hands, or another war. However, it has managed to secure a handful of South Belka Munitions' former factories within the country, and once they are fully repaired, Ustio will be able to supply its own aircraft... pending a steady supply of aluminum, silicon, titanium, rubber, et cetera...

Technological Level: Late Cold War plus one half modern times the square root of PMT
Magic and other shenanigans? (If any exists): Ustio military aircraft can carry a frankly silly amount of missiles, and I'm stealing the explanation from Ace Combat Quest and say that they use a Universal Standard Missile that is small enough for a fighter to carry dozens and powerful enough to take out most planes and tanks in two or three hits, at the cost of inferior range compared to RL missiles.

Military Description

Army: The Ustian Army is small, young, but well-trained, well-enough maintained (with foreign assistance), and heady off the success from finally driving the Belkans out of Ustio's borders. In terms of equipment, most of Ustio's army uses off-the-shelf Belkan (German) equipment of the late 1990s/early 2000s - Leopard IIs, Flakpanzer Gepards, MOWAG Eagles, and the like, alongside Osean and Yuktobanian fare, modified to fit existing ammunition stockpiles where necessary - T-80s and Abrams, BMP-2s, BTR-Ds, and the like, while their infantry weapons are almost solely Osean (American) design. For a TL;DR, the majority of their tanks, light vehicles, and anti-air is German with a few American and Russian tanks, their APCs and IFVs are Russian modified to use NATO ammunition, and their guns are American. Total numbers are roughly 80,000, including mercenaries.

Navy: Ustio is... well, was, a landlocked country, and as a result it does not have a navy. At all. This could be a problem.

Air Force: On paper, the Ustian Air Force is small, with only about 250 planes, and most of those are trainers, AWACS, and logistics. On paper. In reality, while the Ustian Army is mostly native with a sizable amount of mercenaries, the Ustian Air Force is almost solely composed of mercenaries, and including them results in a total of roughly 1500 aircraft, and includes bombers, fighters, transports, attackers, from a wide variety of OTL American, European, French, Russian, and even Japanese origin - ranging from the Mitsubishi F-1 and the MiG-21 to Raptors, Tu-95s to a single pair of B-2s on loan from the Osean Air Defense Force. Of note is that while most air forces fly in groups of four, the Ustian Air Force continues to, despite its swelled numbers, operate mostly in pairs.


National Goals: To not get invaded by neighbors, and to have enough allies to prevent that.


History: The plains that make up the bulk of Ustio have been inhabited, in one capacity or another, since the early Neolithic, and have been ruled off and on by lands both within and without that basin for much of that time. Since the end of antiquity, their rulers have mostly been the Belkan petty kingdoms to the west - the very name Ustio is descended from a proto-Belkan word for "Eastern." Through all the centuries, though, the Ustian people have retained a firmly independent spirit, that has never truly been crushed, despite Belka's best efforts at times.

During the Cold War between Osea and Yuktobania, Belka engaged in rapid military expansion, though it maintained its neutrality. For reasons unknown even to Ustians, Osea decided that a powerful Belka was a threat, neutral or otherwise, and tricked Belka into accepting an economic venture in 1987 to explore potential natural resources in Belka's southwestern Great Lakes region. Osea deliberately exaggerated the amount of resources present in the area and the economic venture quickly folded, taking Belka's economy with it. In December of that year, Belka's government underwent a Federal Law Review with the purpose of stabilizing the economy, and ultimately sheared off three eastern territories with histories of independent mindsets - Gebet, Recta, and Ustio. Ustio was officially declared independent on May the 12th of 1988, with Directus, its largest city, being named the capital. Belka also sold the Great Lakes region to Osea.

Over the next seven yeras, Ustio underwent little economic growth or diversification - the region was peaceful, its economy small but stable, and Ustio's agricultural industry did well for itself. South Belka Munitions built a few factories in the country, but they mostly sold to Belka and Osea, as Ustio did not have as great a need for weapons. Directus hosted one such factory, and its growth accelerated - relative to the rest of the country, at least. Ustio's peaceful days came to an end in February of 1995, when enormous deposits of many resources valuable to modern industry were discovered in Area B7R, a section of its northern desert. Belka, which had grown nationalist, irredentist, and incredibly powerful, took drastic action.

On March 25th, 1995, Belka invaded Ustio, Osea, and the nation of Sapin to Ustio's south. Ustio's small military was caught in complete surprise and was quickly overwhelmed, occupying Directus within days and the entire country by the end of the month bar the eastern and southern mountain ranges, most notably the Tyrann Mountains on the border with Ratio. Ustio allied itself with Osea and Sapin, with Yuktobania soon joining in to the surprise of many, with additional support from Ratio, Gebet, Recta, and Erusea. Ustio also took full advantage of the IUN Charter's lack of restrictions on mercenaries, hiring mercenaries in its army and air force by the thousands, and digging deep into what economic supplies it had left, in a mad attempt to save the nation, most notably including a pair of F-15 pilots in the 66th Air Force Unit, Galm Team.

It worked. After a bombing raid set to finish off the last of Ustian resistance was intercepted in totality, the Allied Forces began a slow push from all sides, with Ustio regaining ground mile by mile every day. The retaking of the Futuro Canal in Osea, linking the Great Lakes to the ocean, was a decisive blow against Belka's expansion, and Directus proper was retaken the day after independence day in mid-May of 1995. Belkan control of the remainder of Ustio swiftly crumbled, and the nation was liberated within days.

Ustian and Osean forces were preparing to "inspect" a Belkan fortress near the border on May 17, when...


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#POD 3 (don't remove this!)

Looks decent to me. Accepted. I'll add you to the list soon.

[Speyland]

Actually ignore the reservation. Not entirely sure I'm going to join.

Got it.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

Wanna do the Combined Syndicates of America from Kaiserreich, but don’t know whether to do one from the 1940s or from the 1960s (power balancing and all that).

I guess I’ll just reserve the territory and then see who my neighbours would be

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

This should be interesting

Name of country reserved: Republic of Texas
Territory: Modern Texas boundaries

Thinking about a scenario where Texas remains independent instead of joining the United States and manages to survive

What era state is it might I ask?

[Speyland]

This should be interesting

Name of country reserved: Republic of Texas
Territory: Modern Texas boundaries

Thinking about a scenario where Texas remains independent instead of joining the United States and manages to survive

What era state is it might I ask?

Probably from the 1830s or 1840s, I imagine.

[Speyland]

I changed my reservation. I'm giving up my claim on the Isle of Man.

Name of country reserved: Chinese Federation
Territory: Territories similar to Qing China

[Margaux]

I would like to join.
But, I saw there was a 'RP Sample', and I assume that is meant for other RP's you have been in. I have RP'ed before, but not on the forum site.

I was just wondering, is it optional or do you need to have a sample.

[Hanovereich]

I think you can add a sample here, in the context of this RP. It’s usually allowed on other RPs.

And I’m finishing an app for a Spain…

[Hanovereich]

Now it's my time to shine! Here's my reservation application.

Name of country reserved: Republic of Fortlandia
Territory: Isle of Man

You’re the OP, and you opt for an island in the English Channel? Not criticising you, but there’s a lot more OTL land and probably ATL land for you to take.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

I would like to join.
But, I saw there was a 'RP Sample', and I assume that is meant for other RP's you have been in. I have RP'ed before, but not on the forum site.

I was just wondering, is it optional or do you need to have a sample.

As long as you can provide an example of your RPing/writing capabilities, I think you can post a sample from any source.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

Right, debating between either:
1) Combined Syndicates of America from Kaiserreich
2) Post-Heydrich Civil War Germany from The New Order: Last Days of Europe, where Speidel's Loyalists and the Reformists manage to seize control after Heydrich's suicide (averting the German Silence/Anarchy) and now are trying to rebuild the country as well as leave Germany's Nazi past behind
3) The Germanian Empire from Tanya: the Saga of Evil (albeit, probably with some territory reductions)

Does anyone have any preferences? Because I really can't decide which one to do. What would you guys want?

[Cameroi]

well i disagree with ms d.d.'s definition. real science fiction is fiction ABOUT science. doesn't matter a drizzling bit if its rural or urban, past, present or future.
if its not about science, and it can be the 'soft' sciences as well as the hard, it can have all the techno eye candy it wants, and still be fantasy. not high fantasy perhaps, that's the provence to tolkin, the s.c.a. and unicorns and dragons. good fantasy is consistent with itself too.

at any rate, isot CAN be science fiction, and a lot of it HAS been done in that genre, it just has to be about the science, people believably doing it, the social implications of the results of their doing so, and so on. it may not even have to seem all sciencey, but for me the most fun is when it is.

sending self regenerating nanites back through time could create all sorts of wonderful fun chaos. actually hadn't heard the term "isot". been years since i've had much of a chance to keep up. after all that, i'm probably not smart enough to do the real sciencey stuff, even things like social psycology.

Full Organization Name :furry liberation front
Type of Organization : primarily social support but also seeks equality for genetically altered sapient people, crispr'd humans, actual e.t.'s, and sapient terrestrial species, whatever their origin.
Flag / Symbols: the raised furry paw of course

Official Economic Ideology : not tied to any one economic ideology, but generally supportive more of social sharing then economic exploitation.
Official Political Ideology : again really none as such, but typical of indigenous cultures
Head of Organization : a council of nine member elected annually
Other Important Individuals :

Territory : not seeking to control territory, but recognition of civil and social rights
Territorial Ambitions : obviously not applicable
Capital City : originated among college students, more or less simultaneously, on campuses in widely scattered countries around the world
Population :
Membership : this is a slight mystery as there is no official registry, generally low balled by media, and of course probably somewhat exaggerated by political opponents.

Economic Policy :

Tech Level: as popularity of science and fiction about science began to fade after its huge rise in the 1980s. Furry fandom became somewhat of the next wave to replace it. Little known even among furrys were controversial developments taking place in fields of genetic manipulation along about the same time. Also, converging were several species from different worlds, of 'alien' observers of human social evolution, disguised as 'simple animals' such as red pandas, limurs, and a number of others.
Extra Information / Quirks: well yes of course.
Universe of Origin (if any): a bit of both of course. Crispr is real, furry fandom is real, 'aliens among us' is of course a bit speculative.

Military Description pretty much pacifistic, only rarely participating in civil disobedience, usually in the company and support of other civil and social rights organizations, and those of a mostly pasivistic nature as well.


Organization Goals :to pressure governments to enact legislation protecting rights, but also less overtly, to make real genetic options available to the furry fandom.


History : little is known about the earliest meetings between human geneticists and our clandestine extra terrestrial watchers. Tails of those first meetings have become among college students something of a popular urban legend. It began when a red panda, aluris fulgens, was about to be surgically altered for experimental purposes, to which she objected in not uncertain terms, in clear, unambiguous american english.

This began something of an ethical delema for u.c.berkely's biology department, itself no stranger to ethical delemas.

All of which was very much before my own time, and before the post ecopocalyptic times in which I and my peers were born. Born with green fur, pointy ears, retractable claws, et al, though of mostly earth human ancestral stock.

How this came to be, is as a result of ecopocalyps, un-genetically altered “pure” human infants no longer lived more the a few months, if even more then a few weeks or days, from birth, and their genetically unaltered human parents were dying nearly as fast.

Some infants though, were starting to be born already 'furry', and those had the best chances to survive.

Reactions to this were of course mixed, with those of strong religious beliefs sometimes having the most difficulty. But not always. And religious diversity beyond that aramaic core becoming increasingly popular. Several new movements emergent there too.

New forms of sapience weren't the only thing to emerge from this era, as other things, such as cities, super highways and large populations, where being largely left behind. With a more rural and self sufficient popular culture, rising from its urban ruins.

(yah I know, some of this doesn't make sense as in why would there need to be a liberation front if everyone were already furry. Well it up to everyone and game master how and where what parts might or might not, if any, fit in. such at any rate is the general ideas I have in my head. Not even sure how much i'll be able to participate, I just like to share such concepts and ideas that are maybe a little less of what seems to be currently mainstream)


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Actually, we can't accept you. Your application is seen as a shitpost, and your poor grammar shows. Denied.

that's fine. wasn't expecting it to be. just playing with the idea as i thought i had understood it. but yes, also not a good gamer.
being a "good gamer" seems to require a very different perspective on imagination then mine. something a bit more mundane obviously.

[Baharuthia]

Reservation App

Name of country reserved: Smart Brain State of the Baltics
Territory: Mainly the Baltics, reaching Prussia (a map is preferable)

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Right, debating between either:
1) Combined Syndicates of America from Kaiserreich
2) Post-Heydrich Civil War Germany from The New Order: Last Days of Europe, where Speidel's Loyalists and the Reformists manage to seize control after Heydrich's suicide (averting the German Silence/Anarchy) and now are trying to rebuild the country as well as leave Germany's Nazi past behind
3) The Germanian Empire from Tanya: the Saga of Evil (albeit, probably with some territory reductions)

Does anyone have any preferences? Because I really can't decide which one to do. What would you guys want?

I was thinking of joining this RP with a kind of weird quasi-cyberpunk america ruled by megacooperatives instead of megacorps, so I'd prefer the latter two, but if you really wanted to do the first I might just do the same thing in Iberia.

[Speyland]

I would like to join.
But, I saw there was a 'RP Sample', and I assume that is meant for other RP's you have been in. I have RP'ed before, but not on the forum site.

I was just wondering, is it optional or do you need to have a sample.

I'm afraid that it's not optional. You must provide a sample so we can verify whether or not you're a capable RPer. Otherwise, I agree with what everyone else said.