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

[Doje Islands]

btw I can only RP on here hope that's not a problem.

Just here, you said?

Yeah. Either on this forum, or through telegrams.
Also I would like to apologize for so many posts in a row.

[Speyland]

Full Nation Name : Free Land of Doje Islands
Short Nation Name : Doje Islands
Flag / National Symbols: https://www.nationstates.net/nation=doje_islands

Government Type : Federated Presidential Republic
Official Political Ideology : Libertarianism
Head of State : Premier Jason Kalavonost
Head of Government : Premier Jason Kalavonost
Government Description : The Doje Islandish government works a lot like the U.S. government. The legislature is made up of the House of Delegates (Delegates come from districts holding 50,000 people) and Senate (Each island gets one senator). The Premier is elected using an electoral college-like system and is the head of the executive branch. Legal matters such as criminal cases and civil suits are handled by a hierarchy of courts, culminating in the Supreme Court of Doje Islands.

Territory : New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and Fiji. (the countries)
Territorial Ambitions : None
Capital City : Veerburg. About the location of Suva (Fiji capital city irl). It is the biggest city in Doje Islands, having about 10 million people in it.
Population : 53.7 million
Majority/Official Culture : Anglo-Dutch mix.

Majority/State Religion : Not applicable

Major Industries / Economic sectors: Gambling, Soda manufacturing, Information technology.
Amount of Industrialization : Moderately industrialized with a good 5% of the pop employed in manufacturing jobs.
Economic Description : The bigger islands are very industrialized, while the small ones are mostly agriculturally based.

Technological Level : 2021 level technology.
Magic and other shenanigans? (If any exists) : not applicable

Military Description

Army: The army is small but highly trained, and mostly focuses on urban combat. The soldiers number around 10,000. It uses body-armor and AK-17s (knock-off AK-47), so it's your average 21st century military in that respect. The army has a high ratio of tanks and mechanized infantry, to offset its small size. In all its history, it has never lost a battle, but that may be because it hasn't fought very many. Every member of the DIAF is required to answer a series of questions to determine their patriotism. If the soldier in question has an insufficient amount of patriotism, they are honorably discharged. This is designed to ensure all service members will fight fiercely and almost never surrender. (The DIAF doesn't want World War Two Japan levels of loyalty and patriotism, but a large amount is considered healthy.)

Navy: The navy is very advanced, consisting of 30 submarines, 10 destroyers, a battleship, and 3 aircraft carriers. It uses a rapid strike strategy (hit hard, hit once.) but also plays a supporting roll for ground troops.

Air Force: The air force is very small and underfunded. It plays a supporting roll in combat, air striking buildings and whatnot.


National Goals : The national goal of Doje Islands is to be at peace and prosperous.


History : (At least 1 solid paragraph) Doje Islands was originally discovered by a joint English-Dutch expedition in the late 1600s. It is unknown where the name "Doje Islands" comes from, although it might be a forgotten Dutch word. Another popular theory is that a time-traveler joined the expedition that discovered Doje Islands and named it that as a joke. Settlement did not occur until the late 1700s. The colony was jointly governed by Great Britain and the Netherlands, which caused everyone involved a great deal of stress. Being a great distance from both countries, Doje Islanders never developed a strong affinity with either. An independence movement developed in the 18030s, calling for immediate separation from both Great Britain and the Netherlands. Aware that the movement would grow more radical with time, and not wishing for a repeat of 1776, Great Britain granted Doje Islands independence in 1847. After that Doje Islands relaxed and became a Pacific Switzerland, staying neutral in every war. This may be why it has the 3rd highest GDP in Oceania (after Australia and New Zealand.)

RP Sample: Premier Kalavonost was just sitting down for breakfast at his desk when it happened. A massive earthquake shook the tower to its foundations. The buildings of Doje Islands were specially designed to withstand earthquakes and tsunamis, but never anything like this. As the building stopped shaking Kalavonost grabbed his phone and called the DIIA (Doje Islands Intelligence Agency). "What just happened!?" he asked.
"I'm not sure, sir," the man on the other end answered. "Sensors are not detecting any tectonic activity."
"I need a report within the hour."
"Understood, Mr. Premier."
Waiting in his office with his Vice Premier, Hugo van Palm, Premier Kalavonost couldn't help but feel anxious. He was barely into his term and something crazy had already happened. Kalavonost tried to make small talk with van Palm in an effort to calm himself down. "What do you think happened?" he asked.
"I don't know," van Palm answered. Vice Premier van Palm was a man of few words. They stood in silence for a minute or so. Then the head of the DIIA walked in, flanked by two bodyguards. "Mr. Premier, you aren't going to believe this, but I have reason to believe we're in another dimension."
"Really?"
"Yes. If you'll bear with me, I'll explain the evidence."

#POD 3 (don't remove this!)

Ah, that's better. However, you might want to make it a little smaller than that. I still kind of find it a little too unrealistic for me. Other than that, you're now accepted. I'll add you to the list later.

[Democratic East-Asia]

Alright my app is in the works. Time to be a relatively small regional state, albiet one that hates the Germans.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

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Name of country reserved: The Greater Volksrepublic of Germany
Territory: (Image)

Oof, well that decides that for me

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

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Name of country reserved: Combined Syndicates of America
Territory: https://imgur.com/a/JPb6VM3

[Wasi State]

Full Nation Name : Reichskommissariat Japan
Short Nation Name : R.K. Japan
Flag / National Symbols: German Occupation Flag
Göringite Reichsmarschall Flag

Government Type : Military Occupied Government
Official Political Ideology : National Socialism
Head of State : Rolf Carls
Head of Government : Nobusuke Kishi
Government Description : As expected from every Reichskommissariat under Göring's Reich, utmost loyalty to Germania is highly expected and sought after with extreme prejudice. Collaborators are highly rewarded in such endeavors as a multitude of SS Divisions enforce the rule of Nazi German law. As the Government as a whole remains a subject state to the Greater German Reich, However if such a balance were to broken, it it highly likely that such a system will begin to implode upon itself from popular uprisings.

Territory : The Japanese Home Islands
Territorial Ambitions : Japan's other Historical Overseas Territories at its peak during WWII
Capital City : Tokyo
Population : 90 Million People

Majority/Official Culture : German Influenced Japanese

Majority/State Religion : Shinto and Buddhism, though Christianity is being enforced.

Major Industries / Economic sectors: Food Products, Manufacturing, Refining, Electronics, Shipbuilding and Pharmaceuticals.
Amount of Industrialization : As industrialized as Japan was by the end of WWII, with some reimagining of some industries to a more civilian market by the mid-50s.
Economic Description : Though still redeveloping from the aftermath of a World War being brought to its doorstep by the end of it, Japan's major industries still remain intact, if heavily reduced and in need of a constant intake of resources and loans to keep the economy as a whole afloat. A massive retooling process has been enacted to keep the economy and the
Östlich Mark afloat, which has stimulated the conquered economy for now, though not in the long term. Meaning it'll surely suffer if such a delicate process were to be interrupted.

Technological Level : Circa 1950s
Magic and other shenanigans?: N/A, a completely grounded nation.

Military Description

Army: Japanische Garrison: 150,000 Personnel, 15 Divisions, Including SS

Navy: Japanische Kriegsmarine Garrison: 51,000 Personnel, 150 Ships, 350 Aircraft

Air Force: Japanische Luftwaffe: 50,000 Personnel, 750 Aircraft


National Goals : To not collapsed into a million pieces, to regain its lost lands, and (in the case of the exile Germans) reclaim Germany proper once and for all.

History : During WWII, Hermann Göring, in a fit of frustration with the current state of the war seemingly go nowhere, had violently couped Hitler, and shot him in the head in violent fit of rage. Resulting in the Greater German Reich being put under a new, and somehow even more war hungry management. Somehow in a miraculous show against all possible odds against it, Germany somehow managed to overcome the Allies, and by the late 40s had capitulated the Soviet Union.

Even more shockingly, by the the turn of the decade, Fall Dämmerung had commenced and Germany was knees deep in fully turning against its former ally of the Empire of Japan, having completely assumed control of Eurasia as a result. In a terrifying nightmarish world created, controlling now 2/3rds of the world as result. Much of the world seemingly now was under the jackboot of German Supremacy, as even Japan could no longer resist. A darkness had shrouded the Nippon Home Islands, as the world had seemingly turned upside down. With Germans occupying the streets of Japanese cities and provinces with impunity, under the 'blessing' of a collaborator government that has ousted the Shōwa in the midst of the chaos, in which two nuclear bombs had been dropped to suppressed initial Japanese resistance as a result. The collaboration government was under a very willing Kishi who under Kerberos, had completely overcome what governmental defenses Japan had had left in order to stave off the Reich.

Now a few years had passed, and Japan has been so far been solidly under the control of the Reich, despite all its setbacks endured. Though that was now subject to change due to recent events as one could imagine.

RP Sample: Sample

#POD 3

[Speyland]

Full Nation Name : Reichskommissariat Japan
Short Nation Name : R.K. Japan
Flag / National Symbols: German Occupation Flag(Image)
Göringite Reichsmarschall Flag
(Image)
Government Type : Military Occupied Government
Official Political Ideology : National Socialism
Head of State : Rolf Carls
Head of Government : Nobusuke Kishi
Government Description : As expected from every Reichskommissariat under Göring's Reich, utmost loyalty to Germania is highly expected and sought after with extreme prejudice. Collaborators are highly rewarded in such endeavors as a multitude of SS Divisions enforce the rule of Nazi German law. As the Government as a whole remains a subject state to the Greater German Reich, However if such a balance were to broken, it it highly likely that such a system will begin to implode upon itself from popular uprisings.

Territory : The Japanese Home Islands
Territorial Ambitions : Japan's other Historical Overseas Territories at its peak during WWII
Capital City : Tokyo
Population : 90 Million People

Majority/Official Culture : German Influenced Japanese

Majority/State Religion : Shinto and Buddhism, though Christianity is being enforced.

Major Industries / Economic sectors: Food Products, Manufacturing, Refining, Electronics, Shipbuilding and Pharmaceuticals.
Amount of Industrialization : As industrialized as Japan was by the end of WWII, with some reimagining of some industries to a more civilian market by the mid-50s.
Economic Description : Though still redeveloping from the aftermath of a World War being brought to its doorstep by the end of it, Japan's major industries still remain intact, if heavily reduced and in need of a constant intake of resources and loans to keep the economy as a whole afloat. A massive retooling process has been enacted to keep the economy and the
Östlich Mark afloat, which has stimulated the conquered economy for now, though not in the long term. Meaning it'll surely suffer if such a delicate process were to be interrupted.

Technological Level : Circa 1950s
Magic and other shenanigans?: N/A, a completely grounded nation.

Military Description

Army: Japanische Garrison: 150,000 Personnel, 15 Divisions, Including SS

Navy: Japanische Kriegsmarine Garrison: 51,000 Personnel, 150 Ships, 350 Aircraft

Air Force: Japanische Luftwaffe: 50,000 Personnel, 750 Aircraft


National Goals : To not collapsed into a million pieces, to regain its lost lands, and (in the case of the exile Germans) reclaim Germany proper once and for all.

History : During WWII, Hermann Göring, in a fit of frustration with the current state of the war seemingly go nowhere, had violently couped Hitler, and shot him in the head in violent fit of rage. Resulting in the Greater German Reich being put under a new, and somehow even more war hungry management. Somehow in a miraculous show against all possible odds against it, Germany somehow managed to overcome the Allies, and by the late 40s had capitulated the Soviet Union.

Even more shockingly, by the the turn of the decade, Fall Dämmerung had commenced and Germany was knees deep in fully turning against its former ally of the Empire of Japan, having completely assumed control of Eurasia as a result. In a terrifying nightmarish world created, controlling now 2/3rds of the world as result. Much of the world seemingly now was under the jackboot of German Supremacy, as even Japan could no longer resist. A darkness had shrouded the Nippon Home Islands, as the world had seemingly turned upside down. With Germans occupying the streets of Japanese cities and provinces with impunity, under the 'blessing' of a collaborator government that has ousted the Shōwa in the midst of the chaos, under a very willing Kishi who under Kerberos, had completely overcome what governmental defenses Japan had had left in order to stave off the Reich.

Now a few years had passed, and Japan has been so far been solidly under the control of the Reich, despite all its setbacks endured. Though that was now subject to change due to recent events as one could imagine.

RP Sample: Sample

#POD 3

Uh, just to make sure, I don't think swastikas are allowed on NationStates. I may have to pend your application for now.

[Speyland]

Full Nation Name : Reichskommissariat Japan
Short Nation Name : R.K. Japan
Flag / National Symbols: German Occupation Flag(Image)
Göringite Reichsmarschall Flag
(Image)
Government Type : Military Occupied Government
Official Political Ideology : National Socialism
Head of State : Rolf Carls
Head of Government : Nobusuke Kishi
Government Description : As expected from every Reichskommissariat under Göring's Reich, utmost loyalty to Germania is highly expected and sought after with extreme prejudice. Collaborators are highly rewarded in such endeavors as a multitude of SS Divisions enforce the rule of Nazi German law. As the Government as a whole remains a subject state to the Greater German Reich, However if such a balance were to broken, it it highly likely that such a system will begin to implode upon itself from popular uprisings.

Territory : The Japanese Home Islands
Territorial Ambitions : Japan's other Historical Overseas Territories at its peak during WWII
Capital City : Tokyo
Population : 90 Million People

Majority/Official Culture : German Influenced Japanese

Majority/State Religion : Shinto and Buddhism, though Christianity is being enforced.

Major Industries / Economic sectors: Food Products, Manufacturing, Refining, Electronics, Shipbuilding and Pharmaceuticals.
Amount of Industrialization : As industrialized as Japan was by the end of WWII, with some reimagining of some industries to a more civilian market by the mid-50s.
Economic Description : Though still redeveloping from the aftermath of a World War being brought to its doorstep by the end of it, Japan's major industries still remain intact, if heavily reduced and in need of a constant intake of resources and loans to keep the economy as a whole afloat. A massive retooling process has been enacted to keep the economy and the
Östlich Mark afloat, which has stimulated the conquered economy for now, though not in the long term. Meaning it'll surely suffer if such a delicate process were to be interrupted.

Technological Level : Circa 1950s
Magic and other shenanigans?: N/A, a completely grounded nation.

Military Description

Army: Japanische Garrison: 150,000 Personnel, 15 Divisions, Including SS

Navy: Japanische Kriegsmarine Garrison: 51,000 Personnel, 150 Ships, 350 Aircraft

Air Force: Japanische Luftwaffe: 50,000 Personnel, 750 Aircraft


National Goals : To not collapsed into a million pieces, to regain its lost lands, and (in the case of the exile Germans) reclaim Germany proper once and for all.

History : During WWII, Hermann Göring, in a fit of frustration with the current state of the war seemingly go nowhere, had violently couped Hitler, and shot him in the head in violent fit of rage. Resulting in the Greater German Reich being put under a new, and somehow even more war hungry management. Somehow in a miraculous show against all possible odds against it, Germany somehow managed to overcome the Allies, and by the late 40s had capitulated the Soviet Union.

Even more shockingly, by the the turn of the decade, Fall Dämmerung had commenced and Germany was knees deep in fully turning against its former ally of the Empire of Japan, having completely assumed control of Eurasia as a result. In a terrifying nightmarish world created, controlling now 2/3rds of the world as result. Much of the world seemingly now was under the jackboot of German Supremacy, as even Japan could no longer resist. A darkness had shrouded the Nippon Home Islands, as the world had seemingly turned upside down. With Germans occupying the streets of Japanese cities and provinces with impunity, under the 'blessing' of a collaborator government that has ousted the Shōwa in the midst of the chaos, in which two nuclear bombs had been dropped to suppressed initial Japanese resistance as a result. The collaboration government was under a very willing Kishi who under Kerberos, had completely overcome what governmental defenses Japan had had left in order to stave off the Reich.

Now a few years had passed, and Japan has been so far been solidly under the control of the Reich, despite all its setbacks endured. Though that was now subject to change due to recent events as one could imagine.

RP Sample: Sample

#POD 3

The coast is clear. You're accepted.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

Full Nation Name: Commonwealth of America
Short Nation Name: CSA
Flag / National Symbols:

Government Type : Syndicalist Federal Republic
Official Political Ideology: Syndicalism
Head of State: Herbert C. Holdridge
Head of Government: Herbert C. Holdridge
Government Description: The CSA parallels the original pre-civil war US Government at multiple points. At its core is the legislature, the "Continental Congress of the Working Class" (more simply known as the Worker's Congress). A bicameral legislature with two houses, the House of Unions and the House of Industries. In the former, representatives from the various Bourse du Travail of the nation converge here to debate and pass legislation, the number of representatives determined by both population and number of Syndicates inside the Bourse du Travail, and with representatives elected directly by the local unions and syndicates. In the other, the House of Industries, it is the various National Industry Federations here that confer and discuss matters to pass legislation, with each National Federation, no matter its size or importance, possessing two representatives and therefore two votes. In both the Industrial Democratic Committee oversee, coordinate and help mediate the various processes and discussions that take part in these two respective legislative bodies. It is because of this legislative power and the nature of these bodies that the IDC also looks over the wider economic organisation of the nation as well, helping to coordinate the various National Federations in working together and help organise the nation.

The other branches of government -the executive and the judicial- work very much in similar ways to the previous US government too, with the legislative branch passing legislation, the executive executing legislation, and the judicial judging whether the actions of either branch are considered constitutional and beneficial for both the working class and the rest of the general population. There is one key difference however between the CSA and the previous USA, that is the president is directly elected by the people rather than by a small group in the Electoral College, finally putting power to decide leaders in the hands of people instead of a small group of the elite.

Territory: Purple in America
Territorial Ambitions: Entire Continental USA
Capital City: Chicago
Population: 126,685,016

Majority/Official Culture: American

Majority/State Religion: Protestant/Secular

Major Industries / Economic sectors:Consumer goods, industrial machinery, resource production (eg: steel), armament manufacturing (tanks, firearms, planes, etc), vehicle manufacturing
Amount of Industrialization: The nation is composed of a region nicknamed the "Steel Belt," you guess how industrialised it is (very).
Economic Description: The Commonwealth adheres to an economic policy called "Syndicalism with American Characteristics." Unlike the usual Syndicalist doctrine of a completely planned command economy, it follows doctrines of Georgism and Mutualism, allowing for local businesses and unions within the country to plan and control their prices within a market. There are still unions and syndicates that adhere to the will of the working class, but these just have the option to adjust production and prices depending on supply and demand. One might say that since in this type of market there would technically be "private" businesses made up of independent workers and therefore still be Capitalist, it's still stretching it a bit since the option of government intervention (as the Syndicates compose a large part of the government anyway) is still there.

As to the organisation of the economy, at the lowest levels are the typical local unions and syndicates, the types you'd see representing several businesses or a factory in a local area. They are then organised under a Bourse du Travail, who help coordinate and organise economic collaboration between the various unions and syndicates, as well as oversees general governmental economic enforcement. They, in simple terms, represent the Federal government's hand on a local level for economic purposes and act as regional representatives for a particular area. And on the national levels are the National Industry Federations, which are groupings of Syndicates (regardless of geography) based on the industry they belong to. It's here that the efforts of syndicates on a national level are represented, coordinated and overseen nationwide, as well as where data is taken from the different syndicates and given to both the federal government and the local syndicates. The level of autonomy for the local syndicates varies depending on the industry: for example, the railroad industry might see the national railroad system be overall centralised and planned by a National Federation, where it'd be different in an industry for a consumer good.

Technological Level: IRL 1960s-1970s era
Magic and other shenanigans?: N/A

Military Description Being one of the vanguards of the revolution and surrounded on multiple sides by enemies necessitates a strong military force in order to act as both a deterrent and a tool of expansion, a role that the Commonwealth Armed Forces (CAF) most definitely fill the criteria of. The CSA's vast industrial complex means that the CAF has a mass abundance of military equipment, and cooperation with foreign powers, as well as a well-educated population, means that there is no shortage when it comes to the development of new and advanced weapons, bringing the CAF into the forefront of military technology. The CAF adheres extensively to that of meritocracy and retains an extremely rigorous training programme, creating an army of very well trained soldiers and making sure that only the best and most intuitive are there to lead them. The social policies of the CSA are perhaps most clearly seen in the CAF, as both race and gender equality are upheld as key values in the military, with the appearance of coloured and female soldiers being a common sight.

When the main branches of the CAF are not enough, however, the CSA also has the Continental Army. Inherited from the Civil War, the Continental Army is most similar to the National Guard of the old US, composed of a system of both reserve forces and local militias that take part in both military and civilian exercises. Often considered a sort of early stepping stone before joining the army, the Continental Army can be raised during times of national emergency in order to bring up a new army of militias made up of patriotic men and women willing to fight and die fanatically for the commonwealth.

Another rather notable trait of the CAF is the appearance of Political Commissars. Somewhat resembling military police, they're tasked with making sure the CAF remains, first and foremost, a force devoted to the protection of both the revolution and the working class. Educating the soldiery in the wonders of the ideology they're fighting for to raise morale and seeking out any potential dissidents or conspirators against the Syndicalist revolution, they remain a key part of the CAF.

Partly due to the CAF's heritage concerning irregular forces and the US Marine Corps (see below for more details), the CAF is also famous for its special forces units: from frontline commandos to paratroopers inserted behind enemy lines, the CAF boasts some of the best SOF units in the world.

Army: Out of all the branches, the People's Liberation Army is probably both the most rigorously trained and well lead branch in the armed forces, furthermore regarded as one of the finest and toughest in the world. This is in part due to its origins, as most of the men who'd come to form the nucleus of both the regular army and the military leadership during and after the civil war were members of the US Marine Corps: one of the few institutions in the pre-civil war US Armed Forces not neglected by the corrupt capitalist gang. With a proud military tradition, the PLA truly produces some of the finest soldiers and leaders that any military could hope for.
-2 Million Soldiers (1.5 Million Active, 500,000 Reserve) including:
-20,000x Paratroopers
-4,000x Army Rangers
-5,000x Commonwealth Special Forces soldiers (CSF/Green Berets)
-4,000x MBTs
-3,000x Armoured Cars
-8,000x APCs
Can additionally call up 15,000,000 Militia (Continental Army) in times of national emergency.

Navy: Though the CSA is no longer has the full naval industrial might that the US once possessed, or even the Pacific States currently possesses, its role as a major figure in spreading the global revolution and its bases of operation such as the Syndicalist Philippines or the front in Africa means that the People's Liberation Navy is far from being neglected at all. A rival to even the Union of Britain's own naval prowess, she remains at the forefront of the global effort to liberate foreign lands under the hammer and torch.
Ships:
-10x Battleships (5x Montana Class, 5x Iowa Class)
-10x Aircraft Carriers (3x Midway Class, 2x USS United States Class, 2x Forrestal-class, 2x Kitty Hawk-class, 1x USS Enterprise-class)
-30x Cruisers
-100x Destroyers
-30x Diesel Submarines
-20x Nuclear Submarines

Aicraft:
-175x North American FJ-4 Fury Jet Fighter-Bombers
-400x S-2 Trackers (anti-submarine)
-50x P-3 Orions (Anti-submarine/Maritime patrol)

Amphibious Landing:
-400,000 Marines (CMC-Commonwealth Marine Corps)
-3,000 Naval Special Forces (SEALs)

Air Force: The People's Revolutionary Airforce (PRA, named as such to avoid confusion with the PLA), like others, is a well maintained fighting force with similar meritocratic values. A notable quirk of the PRA is its hefty collection of air aces, notably female air aces, composed of famed units such as the infamous Red Witches.
Jet Fighters
-500x F-100 Super Sabres (Fighter/Fighter-Bomber)
-400x F-105 Thunderchiefs (Fighter-Bomber)
-450x F-4 Phantoms (Interceptor/Fighter-Bomber)
-250x F-104 Starfighters (Interceptor/Fighter-Bomber)
-400x F-89 Scorpions (Interceptor)
-600x F-84F Thunderstreaks (Fighter-Bomber/Reconnaissance)
-200x F-101 Voodoos (Fighter)

Strategic Bombers
-500x B-47 Stratojets
-300x B-52 Stratofortress Bombers
-50x B-58 Hustlers
-150x A-3 Skywarriors

Tactical Bombers
-200x B-57 Canberras

Light Bomber
-150x B-66 Destroyers
-50x A-5 Vigilantes (reconnisannce)

CAS
-50x A-37 Dragonfly Jets
-600x A-4 Skyhawks
-100x A-6 Intruders
-150x OV-1 Mohawks (reconnaissance)

Helicopters
-3000x Bell UH-1 Iroquois "Huey" Helicopters
-1000x Bell AH-1 Cobras
-500x Boeing CH-47 Chinooks

Spy
-50x Lockheed U-2s

Missile Arsenal
-100 ICBMs

National Goals: Continue the global Syndicalist revolution and fight injustice against the working class, no matter the place or time.


History : The state of post-Weltkrieg America was one of great trouble and chaos. Divided politics on every level, a failing economy, but most of all corruption permeated every part of American society: all of which were to the detriment of the working class. Men and women of the working class toiled under the oppression of the bourgeoise as they heartlessly exploited the back-breaking honest labour of the common people, just to fill their already extravagant coffers further. The Great Depression only further destroyed the lives of the people, as millions became unemployed while the upper class continued to live in luxury. For years, the whims of Wall Street and mega-corporations remained unopposed, until a man by the name of Jack Reed returned to America during the 1920s. A journalist who witnessed the failure of the Bolshevik Revolution, Reed refused to allow the revolution for workers rights to end with Communism and so decided to try and continue the revolution in America. Reed turned to the camp of Syndicalism in order to fulfil this purpose, and his righteous goal was taken up by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). It was around the IWW and him that other likeminded left-wingers gathered in order to advocate workers rights and fight against the bourgeoisie and that eventually, the vanguard of the revolution would come to be in the form of the Combined Syndicates of America (CSA).

When the Great Depression came, the trust between the northern workers of the highly industrialised Steel Belt region and the government started to crack, with many beginning to toss their lot in with the CSA. It wasn’t till the 1933 election ended with the re-election of Herbert Hoover that all trust was lost, and the many members of the working class from Illinois to Michigan abandoned their Democratic Party ties and joined with the CSA-supported Socialist Party of America, earning the region the moniker of the “Red Belt.” Soon a three way power struggle began to grow: the ancient parties of the Democrats and Republicans forming a “Federalist” Coalition, the nationalist America First Union Party rising in the Deep South under the charismatic yet devious Huey Long and the CSA lead Socialist Party dominating the American Midwest represented by John Reed.

The coming of Black Friday only further increased support for the CSA, and secured the Socialist Party’s victory in the 1937 elections with John Reed being elected as the 32nd President of the United States of America. The moment he was inaugurated, Reed almost immediately began a wave of reforms to fix the country: not just from the Great Depression and Black Monday, but also to fix the decades of social inequality the nation had suffered. He signed and sent out countless executive orders to reform the country: from ensuring the right of unions to form and negotiate with their employers, to nationalising certain industries in order to use these corporation’s vast resources to begin rebuilding the economy. Despite his well-intentioned acts, it proved too much for the bourgeoisie. Those in league with injustice and oppression began denouncing Reed and the CSA, with Huey Long lovingly bestowing the president with the nickname “Dictator Reed.” Violence against workers and CSA members alike increasingly rose, as street fighting became common. America was a powder keg, and was only waiting for a spark to light it.

That spark came only a few months after Reed came to power, when General Douglas MacArthur marched on Washington DC in a military coup d’état to treasonously overthrow the president. Fortunately, Reed was warned before hand and was able to flee from DC, taking refuge in the CSA heartland of Chicago. It was from Chicago that Reed proclaimed MacArthur as a traitor, and beseeched Americans everywhere to help destroy the usurper. The situation only declined further as the South rose up in rebellion lead by Huey Long, who proclaimed that he’d both liberate DC from the “American Caesar” and free the nation from the tyranny of “Dictator Reed” under the banner of the “American Union State.” While the East fell into chaos, the West only further added to the fire as the west coast seceded from the union as the “last bastion of American democracy” under the Pacific States of America. Oh, and New England declared itself independent too.

With that, the Second American Civil War broke out.

Though initially chaos and stalemate reigned, the war rapidly changed towards the side of MacArthur and his Federalists. Even with the CSA’s superior numbers and courage, and the AUS’ collection of great tactical and strategic military minds, they were simply not a match for the Federalist forces’ superior training and equipment. It was at this point that the impossible came to be as the AUS and CSA, the great ideological enemies, whose leaders despised each other with a burning passion, decided on a temporary armistice and coordinated their efforts fully against MacArthur. It was here that the CSA’s policy and advocacy for race and gender equality began to pay off, as millions of African-Americans fled to the CSA and rapidly joined their ranks, while hundreds of thousands of women volunteered for service in every branch of the armed forces, finding particular success and infamy in the Airforce.

Beginning to feel pressure from both sides, and with the Federalist’s lack of a major industrial base paired with the CSA’s vastly superior one beginning to ware their supplies down, MacArthur’s forces began getting pushed back. Eventually, DC was liberated by CSA forces, and the American Caesar was forced to flee from the country, with the Federalist front collapsing into a bunch of strongholds and rump remnants spread across the continental US.

Yet the CSA would not find much reprieve, as Canada decided it wasn’t in its best interests to have a major Syndicalist force to their south. And so it was that in mid-1938, a scant few weeks after the defeat of MacArthur, that Entente forces in the north and Pacific States forces in the west advanced into CSA territory. The situation became significantly worse as Huey Long, seeing an opportunity to secure victory, broke the truce and restarted the war. And so it was that the CSA, exhausted, was rapidly besieged on three sides. All seemed lost.

However, there was one thing the Syndicalists possessed that others in the world did not: unity by class. Unity by cause. A disregard of gender, race and nationality.

Seeing their brethren in the Americas about to be crushed, the Syndicalist world came to the rescue. First, it was fellow Syndicalists on the American continent who, after solving their own regional disputes, sent arms and volunteers to support America: Mexicans, Argentinians and Chileans marched north to support the CSA. But soon enough the big three of the Third Internationale pledged their support: with the Union of Britain seeing an opportunity to cripple the Royalist Pretenders in Canada, while the Commune of France decided (after much debate) that securing such a major ally in North America would be more beneficial in the long term than striking at Germany, with the Italians practically being dragged along for the ride. By the height of the war in 1939, tens of thousands of soldiers from across the world, from the Communist rump state Georgia in the Caucasus to the underdeveloped yet strong Bharatiya in India, the Syndicalist world had united behind the CSA.

A lack of coordination between the Syndicalist Bloc's enemies also helped in that regard. The American Union State refused to work with the Entente, continuing to attack the Pacific States and was beginning to suffer from internal strife as the alliance between the Longists of Huey Long, the National Populists of William Dudley Pelley and the various private corporations began to fall apart. Canada was similarly effected as both workers and Quebec Nationalists rose up against the monarchy. Even the German Empire was unable to immediately exploit the situation, with civil order increasingly declining in Eastern Europe and a revanchist Russian juggernaut beginning to rise up.

By 1941, the Entente front had collapsed as Canada capitulated. Among the chaos of the Canadian Cataclysm, the fate of the British Royal Family fell into ambiguity and mystery. Rumours began: of the king's brother, Prince Albert Frederick, beaten to death hung on a lamp post. Of Princess Margaret, defiled by revolutionaries before being disposed of in the Ottawa River. Finally, of King Edward VIII himself, decapitated in front of a crowd of Quebec Nationalists and his head then paraded across Ottawa's streets on a pike. Whatever the facts of the matter, only two definite truths are known: 1) The majority of the Royal Family failed to escape Canada and were never heard of again, and 2) that of the main Royal Family, only Princess Elizabeth Alexandra managed to escape from North America on a Royal Navy ship, fleeing first to the West Indies Federation, then to the Australasian Confederation where she was crowned Queen Elizabeth II, rightful monarch of the United Kingdom, Head of the Commonwealth and figurehead of the Entente, or what remained of it.

New England was reconquered rather swiftly, while the Pacific States continued to resist, pushed back to the Rockies where (ironically with the help of MacArthur Federalist remnants) they dug in and successfully fended off multiple CSA incursions. The AUS was a different story, as they were pushed back all the way to the deep south, with Syndicalist forces on the very doorstep of Charleston and the AUS about to collapse into their very own civil war. However, before the final push could commence to finally defeat Long, tragedy struck in Europe as the German Empire finally recuperated and commenced an invasion of the Commune of France, with their allies in the Danubian Federation and the Kingdom of Two Sicilies launching a simultaneous attack on the Socialist Republic of Italy. Syndicalist forces were forced to pull support out from the CSA and, with the people of the CSA demanding that they go to the aid of the allies who had bravely come to theirs, the CSA decided to finally halt the civil war, signing ceasefires with both the Pacific States and the American Union State.

With a now well equipped veteran army and a massive industrial complex fully geared towards war, the CSA brought its full might onto Continental Europe. The situation was initially dire when the first re-organised and recuperated CSA forces landed in Britain in 1942: by that time France only barely held on to enclaves in the north-west and south, while the Italian Republic had been completely conquered by Reichspakt forces. But as CSA troops began flooding into Europe things began to change as the near-limitless resources of their American counterparts counteracted that of Germany's. Particularly effective was a set of new doctrines developed during the Civil War by AUS General George S. Patton (though later adopted by the CSA too), concentrating on speedy penetrations and encirclements via armoured spearheads, this new strategy of "Thunder Striking" found itself very effective against Reichspakt forces.

Quick Summary for rest of lore I'm too lazy to write:
-Syndicalists begin pushing back Reichspakt, Russia invades from the east
-Italy reclaimed, Danubian Federation makes peace (allowed to remain united and in power if Syndicalist parties allowed to run in elections), German Empire crushed and exiled to colonies
-Victory in Europe, John Reed retires allowing for first CoA elections, Europe split between Syndicalist West and Autocratic East
-String of wars in Africa and China against Autocratic forces: mostly against German remnants with Wilhelm III (and his successor Ferdinand I) becoming little more than figureheads as the real power is centred around regional governors across the former empire (such as Falkenhausen in German China), with notably Statthalter Hermann Göring of Mittleafrika likely being the most powerful, and being the de facto leader of the exiled empire due to both his holdings and "protection" of the Imperial Family, having declared himself "Reichsführer" of the empire while "representing" the Imperial Family
-Cold War rises between the Syndicalist world and an Autocratic Alliance lead by Russia, who themselves are co-belligerents with the remnant Entente
-Space Race is happening
-Much of the Syndicalist world is ruled by Totalists (notably Mosley in Britain and Mussolini in Italy), with the Commonwealth one of the only major democracies in the alliance

RP Sample: disclaimer, because people have somehow accused me of this, but I do not at all support the Nazi ideology nor am I a Nazi sympathiser. I simply like RPing villains and love the HoI IV mod "The New Order: Last Days of Europe."

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[Democratic East-Asia]

Damn the CSA is looking thicc. Well, more so the military aspects of it. With just a fraction of the USA's landmass and population... this oughta heavilys train the CSA economy.

[Speyland]

Full Nation Name: Commonwealth of America
Short Nation Name: CSA
Flag / National Symbols:

Government Type : Syndicalist Federal Republic
Official Political Ideology: Syndicalism
Head of State: Herbert C. Holdridge
Head of Government: Herbert C. Holdridge
Government Description: The CSA parallels the original pre-civil war US Government at multiple points. At its core is the legislature, the "Continental Congress of the Working Class" (more simply known as the Worker's Congress). A bicameral legislature with two houses, the House of Unions and the House of Industries. In the former, representatives from the various Bourse du Travail of the nation converge here to debate and pass legislation, the number of representatives determined by both population and number of Syndicates inside the Bourse du Travail, and with representatives elected directly by the local unions and syndicates. In the other, the House of Industries, it is the various National Industry Federations here that confer and discuss matters to pass legislation, with each National Federation, no matter its size or importance, possessing two representatives and therefore two votes. In both the Industrial Democratic Committee oversee, coordinate and help mediate the various processes and discussions that take part in these two respective legislative bodies. It is because of this legislative power and the nature of these bodies that the IDC also looks over the wider economic organisation of the nation as well, helping to coordinate the various National Federations in working together and help organise the nation.

The other branches of government -the executive and the judicial- work very much in similar ways to the previous US government too, with the legislative branch passing legislation, the executive executing legislation, and the judicial judging whether the actions of either branch are considered constitutional and beneficial for both the working class and the rest of the general population. There is one key difference however between the CSA and the previous USA, that is the president is directly elected by the people rather than by a small group in the Electoral College, finally putting power to decide leaders in the hands of people instead of a small group of the elite.

[url=https://imgur.com/a/JPb6VM3Territory:[/url]
Territorial Ambitions: Entire Continental USA
Capital City: Chicago
Population: (Self explanatory. Nothing too unrealistic)

Majority/Official Culture: American

Majority/State Religion: Protestant/Secular

Major Industries / Economic sectors:Consumer goods, industrial machinery, resource production (eg: steel), armament manufacturing (tanks, firearms, planes, etc), vehicle manufacturing
Amount of Industrialization: The nation is composed of a region nicknamed the "Steel Belt," you guess how industrialised it is (very).
Economic Description: The Commonwealth adheres to an economic policy called "Syndicalism with American Characteristics." Unlike the usual Syndicalist doctrine of a completely planned command economy, it follows doctrines of Georgism and Mutualism, allowing for local businesses and unions within the country to plan and control their prices within a market. There are still unions and syndicates that adhere to the will of the working class, but these just have the option to adjust production and prices depending on supply and demand. One might say that since in this type of market there would technically be "private" businesses made up of independent workers and therefore still be Capitalist, it's still stretching it a bit since the option of government intervention (as the Syndicates compose a large part of the government anyway) is still there.

As to the organisation of the economy, at the lowest levels are the typical local unions and syndicates, the types you'd see representing several businesses or a factory in a local area. They are then organised under a Bourse du Travail, who help coordinate and organise economic collaboration between the various unions and syndicates, as well as oversees general governmental economic enforcement. They, in simple terms, represent the Federal government's hand on a local level for economic purposes and act as regional representatives for a particular area. And on the national levels are the National Industry Federations, which are groupings of Syndicates (regardless of geography) based on the industry they belong to. It's here that the efforts of syndicates on a national level are represented, coordinated and overseen nationwide, as well as where data is taken from the different syndicates and given to both the federal government and the local syndicates. The level of autonomy for the local syndicates varies depending on the industry: for example, the railroad industry might see the national railroad system be overall centralised and planned by a National Federation, where it'd be different in an industry for a consumer good.

Technological Level: IRL 1960s-1970s era
Magic and other shenanigans?: N/A

Military Description Being one of the vanguards of the revolution and surrounded on multiple sides by enemies necessitates a strong military force in order to act as both a deterrent and a tool of expansion, a role that the Commonwealth Armed Forces (CAF) most definitely fill the criteria of. The CSA's vast industrial complex means that the CAF has a mass abundance of military equipment, and cooperation with foreign powers, as well as a well-educated population, means that there is no shortage when it comes to the development of new and advanced weapons, bringing the CAF into the forefront of military technology. The CAF adheres extensively to that of meritocracy and retains an extremely rigorous training programme, creating an army of very well trained soldiers and making sure that only the best and most intuitive are there to lead them. The social policies of the CSA are perhaps most clearly seen in the CAF, as both race and gender equality are upheld as key values in the military, with the appearance of coloured and female soldiers being a common sight.

When the main branches of the CAF are not enough, however, the CSA also has the Continental Army. Inherited from the Civil War, the Continental Army is most similar to the National Guard of the old US, composed of a system of both reserve forces and local militias that take part in both military and civilian exercises. Often considered a sort of early stepping stone before joining the army, the Continental Army can be raised during times of national emergency in order to bring up a new army of militias made up of patriotic men and women willing to fight and die fanatically for the commonwealth.

Another rather notable trait of the CAF is the appearance of Political Commissars. Somewhat resembling military police, they're tasked with making sure the CAF remains, first and foremost, a force devoted to the protection of both the revolution and the working class. Educating the soldiery in the wonders of the ideology they're fighting for to raise morale and seeking out any potential dissidents or conspirators against the Syndicalist revolution, they remain a key part of the CAF.

Partly due to the CAF's heritage concerning irregular forces and the US Marine Corps (see below for more details), the CAF is also famous for its special forces units: from frontline commandos to paratroopers inserted behind enemy lines, the CAF boasts some of the best SOF units in the world.

Army: Out of all the branches, the People's Liberation Army is probably both the most rigorously trained and well lead branch in the armed forces, furthermore regarded as one of the finest and toughest in the world. This is in part due to its origins, as most of the men who'd come to form the nucleus of both the regular army and the military leadership during and after the civil war were members of the US Marine Corps: one of the few institutions in the pre-civil war US Armed Forces not neglected by the corrupt capitalist gang. With a proud military tradition, the PLA truly produces some of the finest soldiers and leaders that any military could hope for.
-2 Million Soldiers (1.5 Million Active, 500,000 Reserve) including:
-20,000x Paratroopers
-4,000x Army Rangers
-5,000x Commonwealth Special Forces soldiers (CSF/Green Berets)
-5000x MBTs
-3000x Armoured Cars
-10,000x APCs
Can additionally call up 15,000,000 Militia (Continental Army) in times of national emergency.

Navy: Though the CSA is no longer has the full naval industrial might that the US once possessed, or even the Pacific States currently possesses, its role as a major figure in spreading the global revolution and its bases of operation such as the Syndicalist Philippines or the front in Africa means that the People's Liberation Navy is far from being neglected at all. A rival to even the Union of Britain's own naval prowess, she remains at the forefront of the global effort to liberate foreign lands under the hammer and torch.
Ships:
-16x Battleships (7x Montana Class, 9x Iowa Class)
-20x Aircraft Carriers (6x Essex Class, 4x Midway Class, 2x USS United States Class, 3x Forrestal-class, 3x Kitty Hawk-class, 2x USS Enterprise-class)
-40x Cruisers
-181x Destroyers
-34x Diesel Submarines
-45x Nuclear Submarines

Aicraft:
-375x North American FJ-4 Fury Jet Fighter-Bombers
-715x S-2 Trackers (anti-submarine)
-100x P-3 Orions (Anti-submarine/Maritime patrol)

Amphibious Landing:
-400,000 Marines (CMC-Commonwealth Marine Corps)
-3,000 Naval Special Forces (SEALs)

Air Force: The People's Revolutionary Airforce (PRA, named as such to avoid confusion with the PLA), like others, is a well maintained fighting force with similar meritocratic values. A notable quirk of the PRA is its hefty collection of air aces, notably female air aces, composed of famed units such as the infamous Red Witches.
Jet Fighters
-1,000x F-100 Super Sabres (Fighter/Fighter-Bomber)
-850x F-105 Thunderchiefs (Fighter-Bomber)
-900x F-4 Phantoms (Interceptor/Fighter-Bomber)
-500x F-104 Starfighters (Interceptor/Fighter-Bomber)
-800x F-89 Scorpions (Interceptor)
-1,200x F-84F Thunderstreaks (Fighter-Bomber/Reconnaissance)
-400x F-101 Voodoos (Fighter)

Strategic Bombers
-2,000x B-47 Stratojets
-750x B-52 Stratofortress Bombers
-100x B-58 Hustlers
-300x A-3 Skywarriors

Tactical Bombers
-400x B-57 Canberras

Light Bomber
-300x B-66 Destroyers
-100x A-5 Vigilantes (reconnisannce)

CAS
-100x A-37 Dragonfly Jets
-1,300x A-4 Skyhawks
-250x A-6 Intruders
-300x OV-1 Mohawks (reconnaissance)

Spy
-100x Lockheed U-2s

Nuclear Arsenal
-30,000 Nuclear Warheads
-200 ICBMs

National Goals: Continue the global Syndicalist revolution and fight injustice against the working class, no matter the place or time.


History : The state of post-Weltkrieg America was one of great trouble and chaos. Divided politics on every level, a failing economy, but most of all corruption permeated every part of American society: all of which were to the detriment of the working class. Men and women of the working class toiled under the oppression of the bourgeoise as they heartlessly exploited the back-breaking honest labour of the common people, just to fill their already extravagant coffers further. The Great Depression only further destroyed the lives of the people, as millions became unemployed while the upper class continued to live in luxury. For years, the whims of Wall Street and mega-corporations remained unopposed, until a man by the name of Jack Reed returned to America during the 1920s. A journalist who witnessed the failure of the Bolshevik Revolution, Reed refused to allow the revolution for workers rights to end with Communism and so decided to try and continue the revolution in America. Reed turned to the camp of Syndicalism in order to fulfil this purpose, and his righteous goal was taken up by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). It was around the IWW and him that other likeminded left-wingers gathered in order to advocate workers rights and fight against the bourgeoisie and that eventually, the vanguard of the revolution would come to be in the form of the Combined Syndicates of America (CSA).

When the Great Depression came, the trust between the northern workers of the highly industrialised Steel Belt region and the government started to crack, with many beginning to toss their lot in with the CSA. It wasn’t till the 1933 election ended with the re-election of Herbert Hoover that all trust was lost, and the many members of the working class from Illinois to Michigan abandoned their Democratic Party ties and joined with the CSA-supported Socialist Party of America, earning the region the moniker of the “Red Belt.” Soon a three way power struggle began to grow: the ancient parties of the Democrats and Republicans forming a “Federalist” Coalition, the nationalist America First Union Party rising in the Deep South under the charismatic yet devious Huey Long and the CSA lead Socialist Party dominating the American Midwest represented by John Reed.

The coming of Black Friday only further increased support for the CSA, and secured the Socialist Party’s victory in the 1937 elections with John Reed being elected as the 32nd President of the United States of America. The moment he was inaugurated, Reed almost immediately began a wave of reforms to fix the country: not just from the Great Depression and Black Monday, but also to fix the decades of social inequality the nation had suffered. He signed and sent out countless executive orders to reform the country: from ensuring the right of unions to form and negotiate with their employers, to nationalising certain industries in order to use these corporation’s vast resources to begin rebuilding the economy. Despite his well-intentioned acts, it proved too much for the bourgeoisie. Those in league with injustice and oppression began denouncing Reed and the CSA, with Huey Long lovingly bestowing the president with the nickname “Dictator Reed.” Violence against workers and CSA members alike increasingly rose, as street fighting became common. America was a powder keg, and was only waiting for a spark to light it.

That spark came only a few months after Reed came to power, when General Douglas MacArthur marched on Washington DC in a military coup d’état to treasonously overthrow the president. Fortunately, Reed was warned before hand and was able to flee from DC, taking refuge in the CSA heartland of Chicago. It was from Chicago that Reed proclaimed MacArthur as a traitor, and beseeched Americans everywhere to help destroy the usurper. The situation only declined further as the South rose up in rebellion lead by Huey Long, who proclaimed that he’d both liberate DC from the “American Caesar” and free the nation from the tyranny of “Dictator Reed” under the banner of the “American Union State.” While the East fell into chaos, the West only further added to the fire as the west coast seceded from the union as the “last bastion of American democracy” under the Pacific States of America. Oh, and New England declared itself independent too.

With that, the Second American Civil War broke out.

Though initially chaos and stalemate reigned, the war rapidly changed towards the side of MacArthur and his Federalists. Even with the CSA’s superior numbers and courage, and the AUS’ collection of great tactical and strategic military minds, they were simply not a match for the Federalist forces’ superior training and equipment. It was at this point that the impossible came to be as the AUS and CSA, the great ideological enemies, whose leaders despised each other with a burning passion, decided on a temporary armistice and coordinated their efforts fully against MacArthur. It was here that the CSA’s policy and advocacy for race and gender equality began to pay off, as millions of African-Americans fled to the CSA and rapidly joined their ranks, while hundreds of thousands of women volunteered for service in every branch of the armed forces, finding particular success and infamy in the Airforce.

Beginning to feel pressure from both sides, and with the Federalist’s lack of a major industrial base paired with the CSA’s vastly superior one beginning to ware their supplies down, MacArthur’s forces began getting pushed back. Eventually, DC was liberated by CSA forces, and the American Caesar was forced to flee from the country, with the Federalist front collapsing into a bunch of strongholds and rump remnants spread across the continental US.

Yet the CSA would not find much reprieve, as Canada decided it wasn’t in its best interests to have a major Syndicalist force to their south. And so it was that in mid-1938, a scant few weeks after the defeat of MacArthur, that Entente forces in the north and Pacific States forces in the west advanced into CSA territory. The situation became significantly worse as Huey Long, seeing an opportunity to secure victory, broke the truce and restarted the war. And so it was that the CSA, exhausted, was rapidly besieged on three sides. All seemed lost.

However, there was one thing the Syndicalists possessed that others in the world did not: unity by class. Unity by cause. A disregard of gender, race and nationality.

Seeing their brethren in the Americas about to be crushed, the Syndicalist world came to the rescue. First, it was fellow Syndicalists on the American continent who, after solving their own regional disputes, sent arms and volunteers to support America: Mexicans, Argentinians and Chileans marched north to support the CSA. But soon enough the big three of the Third Internationale pledged their support: with the Union of Britain seeing an opportunity to cripple the Royalist Pretenders in Canada, while the Commune of France decided (after much debate) that securing such a major ally in North America would be more beneficial in the long term than striking at Germany, with the Italians practically being dragged along for the ride. By the height of the war in 1939, tens of thousands of soldiers from across the world, from the Communist rump state Georgia in the Caucasus to the underdeveloped yet strong Bharatiya in India, the Syndicalist world had united behind the CSA.

A lack of coordination between the Syndicalist Bloc's enemies also helped in that regard. The American Union State refused to work with the Entente, continuing to attack the Pacific States and was beginning to suffer from internal strife as the alliance between the Longists of Huey Long, the National Populists of William Dudley Pelley and the various private corporations began to fall apart. Canada was similarly effected as both workers and Quebec Nationalists rose up against the monarchy. Even the German Empire was unable to immediately exploit the situation, with civil order increasingly declining in Eastern Europe and a revanchist Russian juggernaut beginning to rise up.

By 1941, the Entente front had collapsed as Canada capitulated. Among the chaos of the Canadian Cataclysm, the fate of the British Royal Family fell into ambiguity and mystery. Rumours began: of the king's brother, Prince Albert Frederick, beaten to death hung on a lamp post. Of Princess Margaret, defiled by revolutionaries before being disposed of in the Ottawa River. Finally, of King Edward VIII himself, decapitated in front of a crowd of Quebec Nationalists and his head then paraded across Ottawa's streets on a pike. Whatever the facts of the matter, only two definite truths are known: 1) The majority of the Royal Family failed to escape Canada and were never heard of again, and 2) that of the main Royal Family, only Princess Elizabeth Alexandra managed to escape from North America on a Royal Navy ship, fleeing first to the West Indies Federation, then to the Australasian Confederation where she was crowned Queen Elizabeth II, rightful monarch of the United Kingdom, Head of the Commonwealth and figurehead of the Entente, or what remained of it.

New England was reconquered rather swiftly, while the Pacific States continued to resist, pushed back to the Rockies where (ironically with the help of MacArthur Federalist remnants) they dug in and successfully fended off multiple CSA incursions. The AUS was a different story, as they were pushed back all the way to the deep south, with Syndicalist forces on the very doorstep of Charleston and the AUS about to collapse into their very own civil war. However, before the final push could commence to finally defeat Long, tragedy struck in Europe as the German Empire finally recuperated and commenced an invasion of the Commune of France, with their allies in the Danubian Federation and the Kingdom of Two Sicilies launching a simultaneous attack on the Socialist Republic of Italy. Syndicalist forces were forced to pull support out from the CSA and, with the people of the CSA demanding that they go to the aid of the allies who had bravely come to theirs, the CSA decided to finally halt the civil war, signing ceasefires with both the Pacific States and the American Union State.

With a now well equipped veteran army and a massive industrial complex fully geared towards war, the CSA brought its full might onto Continental Europe. The situation was initially dire when the first re-organised and recuperated CSA forces landed in Britain in 1942: by that time France only barely held on to enclaves in the north-west and south, while the Italian Republic had been completely conquered by Reichspakt forces. But as CSA troops began flooding into Europe things began to change as the near-limitless resources of their American counterparts counteracted that of Germany's. Particularly effective was a set of new doctrines developed during the Civil War by AUS General George S. Patton (though later adopted by the CSA too), concentrating on speedy penetrations and encirclements via armoured spearheads, this new strategy of "Thunder Striking" found itself very effective against Reichspakt forces.

Quick Summary for rest of lore I'm too lazy to write:
-Syndicalists begin pushing back Reichspakt, Russia invades from the east
-Italy reclaimed, Danubian Federation makes peace (allowed to remain united and in power if Syndicalist parties allowed to run in elections), German Empire crushed and exiled to colonies
-Victory in Europe, John Reed retires allowing for first CoA elections, Europe split between Syndicalist West and Autocratic East
-String of wars in Africa and China against Autocratic forces: mostly against German remnants with Wilhelm III (and his successor Ferdinand I) becoming little more than figureheads as the real power is centred around regional governors across the former empire (such as Falkenhausen in German China), with notably Statthalter Hermann Göring of Mittleafrika likely being the most powerful, and being the de facto leader of the exiled empire due to both his holdings and "protection" of the Imperial Family, having declared himself "Reichsführer" of the empire while "representing" the Imperial Family
-Cold War rises between the Syndicalist world and an Autocratic Alliance lead by Russia, who themselves are co-belligerents with the remnant Entente
-Space Race is happening
-Much of the Syndicalist world is ruled by Totalists (notably Mosley in Britain and Mussolini in Italy), with the Commonwealth one of the only major democracies in the alliance

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[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

Full Nation Name: Commonwealth of America
Short Nation Name: CSA
Flag / National Symbols:

Government Type : Syndicalist Federal Republic
Official Political Ideology: Syndicalism
Head of State: Herbert C. Holdridge
Head of Government: Herbert C. Holdridge
Government Description: The CSA parallels the original pre-civil war US Government at multiple points. At its core is the legislature, the "Continental Congress of the Working Class" (more simply known as the Worker's Congress). A bicameral legislature with two houses, the House of Unions and the House of Industries. In the former, representatives from the various Bourse du Travail of the nation converge here to debate and pass legislation, the number of representatives determined by both population and number of Syndicates inside the Bourse du Travail, and with representatives elected directly by the local unions and syndicates. In the other, the House of Industries, it is the various National Industry Federations here that confer and discuss matters to pass legislation, with each National Federation, no matter its size or importance, possessing two representatives and therefore two votes. In both the Industrial Democratic Committee oversee, coordinate and help mediate the various processes and discussions that take part in these two respective legislative bodies. It is because of this legislative power and the nature of these bodies that the IDC also looks over the wider economic organisation of the nation as well, helping to coordinate the various National Federations in working together and help organise the nation.

The other branches of government -the executive and the judicial- work very much in similar ways to the previous US government too, with the legislative branch passing legislation, the executive executing legislation, and the judicial judging whether the actions of either branch are considered constitutional and beneficial for both the working class and the rest of the general population. There is one key difference however between the CSA and the previous USA, that is the president is directly elected by the people rather than by a small group in the Electoral College, finally putting power to decide leaders in the hands of people instead of a small group of the elite.

[url=https://imgur.com/a/JPb6VM3Territory:[/url]
Territorial Ambitions: Entire Continental USA
Capital City: Chicago
Population: (Self explanatory. Nothing too unrealistic)

Majority/Official Culture: American

Majority/State Religion: Protestant/Secular

Major Industries / Economic sectors:Consumer goods, industrial machinery, resource production (eg: steel), armament manufacturing (tanks, firearms, planes, etc), vehicle manufacturing
Amount of Industrialization: The nation is composed of a region nicknamed the "Steel Belt," you guess how industrialised it is (very).
Economic Description: The Commonwealth adheres to an economic policy called "Syndicalism with American Characteristics." Unlike the usual Syndicalist doctrine of a completely planned command economy, it follows doctrines of Georgism and Mutualism, allowing for local businesses and unions within the country to plan and control their prices within a market. There are still unions and syndicates that adhere to the will of the working class, but these just have the option to adjust production and prices depending on supply and demand. One might say that since in this type of market there would technically be "private" businesses made up of independent workers and therefore still be Capitalist, it's still stretching it a bit since the option of government intervention (as the Syndicates compose a large part of the government anyway) is still there.

As to the organisation of the economy, at the lowest levels are the typical local unions and syndicates, the types you'd see representing several businesses or a factory in a local area. They are then organised under a Bourse du Travail, who help coordinate and organise economic collaboration between the various unions and syndicates, as well as oversees general governmental economic enforcement. They, in simple terms, represent the Federal government's hand on a local level for economic purposes and act as regional representatives for a particular area. And on the national levels are the National Industry Federations, which are groupings of Syndicates (regardless of geography) based on the industry they belong to. It's here that the efforts of syndicates on a national level are represented, coordinated and overseen nationwide, as well as where data is taken from the different syndicates and given to both the federal government and the local syndicates. The level of autonomy for the local syndicates varies depending on the industry: for example, the railroad industry might see the national railroad system be overall centralised and planned by a National Federation, where it'd be different in an industry for a consumer good.

Technological Level: IRL 1960s-1970s era
Magic and other shenanigans?: N/A

Military Description Being one of the vanguards of the revolution and surrounded on multiple sides by enemies necessitates a strong military force in order to act as both a deterrent and a tool of expansion, a role that the Commonwealth Armed Forces (CAF) most definitely fill the criteria of. The CSA's vast industrial complex means that the CAF has a mass abundance of military equipment, and cooperation with foreign powers, as well as a well-educated population, means that there is no shortage when it comes to the development of new and advanced weapons, bringing the CAF into the forefront of military technology. The CAF adheres extensively to that of meritocracy and retains an extremely rigorous training programme, creating an army of very well trained soldiers and making sure that only the best and most intuitive are there to lead them. The social policies of the CSA are perhaps most clearly seen in the CAF, as both race and gender equality are upheld as key values in the military, with the appearance of coloured and female soldiers being a common sight.

When the main branches of the CAF are not enough, however, the CSA also has the Continental Army. Inherited from the Civil War, the Continental Army is most similar to the National Guard of the old US, composed of a system of both reserve forces and local militias that take part in both military and civilian exercises. Often considered a sort of early stepping stone before joining the army, the Continental Army can be raised during times of national emergency in order to bring up a new army of militias made up of patriotic men and women willing to fight and die fanatically for the commonwealth.

Another rather notable trait of the CAF is the appearance of Political Commissars. Somewhat resembling military police, they're tasked with making sure the CAF remains, first and foremost, a force devoted to the protection of both the revolution and the working class. Educating the soldiery in the wonders of the ideology they're fighting for to raise morale and seeking out any potential dissidents or conspirators against the Syndicalist revolution, they remain a key part of the CAF.

Partly due to the CAF's heritage concerning irregular forces and the US Marine Corps (see below for more details), the CAF is also famous for its special forces units: from frontline commandos to paratroopers inserted behind enemy lines, the CAF boasts some of the best SOF units in the world.

Army: Out of all the branches, the People's Liberation Army is probably both the most rigorously trained and well lead branch in the armed forces, furthermore regarded as one of the finest and toughest in the world. This is in part due to its origins, as most of the men who'd come to form the nucleus of both the regular army and the military leadership during and after the civil war were members of the US Marine Corps: one of the few institutions in the pre-civil war US Armed Forces not neglected by the corrupt capitalist gang. With a proud military tradition, the PLA truly produces some of the finest soldiers and leaders that any military could hope for.
-2 Million Soldiers (1.5 Million Active, 500,000 Reserve) including:
-20,000x Paratroopers
-4,000x Army Rangers
-5,000x Commonwealth Special Forces soldiers (CSF/Green Berets)
-5000x MBTs
-3000x Armoured Cars
-10,000x APCs
Can additionally call up 15,000,000 Militia (Continental Army) in times of national emergency.

Navy: Though the CSA is no longer has the full naval industrial might that the US once possessed, or even the Pacific States currently possesses, its role as a major figure in spreading the global revolution and its bases of operation such as the Syndicalist Philippines or the front in Africa means that the People's Liberation Navy is far from being neglected at all. A rival to even the Union of Britain's own naval prowess, she remains at the forefront of the global effort to liberate foreign lands under the hammer and torch.
Ships:
-16x Battleships (7x Montana Class, 9x Iowa Class)
-20x Aircraft Carriers (6x Essex Class, 4x Midway Class, 2x USS United States Class, 3x Forrestal-class, 3x Kitty Hawk-class, 2x USS Enterprise-class)
-40x Cruisers
-181x Destroyers
-34x Diesel Submarines
-45x Nuclear Submarines

Aicraft:
-375x North American FJ-4 Fury Jet Fighter-Bombers
-715x S-2 Trackers (anti-submarine)
-100x P-3 Orions (Anti-submarine/Maritime patrol)

Amphibious Landing:
-400,000 Marines (CMC-Commonwealth Marine Corps)
-3,000 Naval Special Forces (SEALs)

Air Force: The People's Revolutionary Airforce (PRA, named as such to avoid confusion with the PLA), like others, is a well maintained fighting force with similar meritocratic values. A notable quirk of the PRA is its hefty collection of air aces, notably female air aces, composed of famed units such as the infamous Red Witches.
Jet Fighters
-1,000x F-100 Super Sabres (Fighter/Fighter-Bomber)
-850x F-105 Thunderchiefs (Fighter-Bomber)
-900x F-4 Phantoms (Interceptor/Fighter-Bomber)
-500x F-104 Starfighters (Interceptor/Fighter-Bomber)
-800x F-89 Scorpions (Interceptor)
-1,200x F-84F Thunderstreaks (Fighter-Bomber/Reconnaissance)
-400x F-101 Voodoos (Fighter)

Strategic Bombers
-2,000x B-47 Stratojets
-750x B-52 Stratofortress Bombers
-100x B-58 Hustlers
-300x A-3 Skywarriors

Tactical Bombers
-400x B-57 Canberras

Light Bomber
-300x B-66 Destroyers
-100x A-5 Vigilantes (reconnisannce)

CAS
-100x A-37 Dragonfly Jets
-1,300x A-4 Skyhawks
-250x A-6 Intruders
-300x OV-1 Mohawks (reconnaissance)

Spy
-100x Lockheed U-2s

Nuclear Arsenal
-30,000 Nuclear Warheads
-200 ICBMs

National Goals: Continue the global Syndicalist revolution and fight injustice against the working class, no matter the place or time.


History : The state of post-Weltkrieg America was one of great trouble and chaos. Divided politics on every level, a failing economy, but most of all corruption permeated every part of American society: all of which were to the detriment of the working class. Men and women of the working class toiled under the oppression of the bourgeoise as they heartlessly exploited the back-breaking honest labour of the common people, just to fill their already extravagant coffers further. The Great Depression only further destroyed the lives of the people, as millions became unemployed while the upper class continued to live in luxury. For years, the whims of Wall Street and mega-corporations remained unopposed, until a man by the name of Jack Reed returned to America during the 1920s. A journalist who witnessed the failure of the Bolshevik Revolution, Reed refused to allow the revolution for workers rights to end with Communism and so decided to try and continue the revolution in America. Reed turned to the camp of Syndicalism in order to fulfil this purpose, and his righteous goal was taken up by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). It was around the IWW and him that other likeminded left-wingers gathered in order to advocate workers rights and fight against the bourgeoisie and that eventually, the vanguard of the revolution would come to be in the form of the Combined Syndicates of America (CSA).

When the Great Depression came, the trust between the northern workers of the highly industrialised Steel Belt region and the government started to crack, with many beginning to toss their lot in with the CSA. It wasn’t till the 1933 election ended with the re-election of Herbert Hoover that all trust was lost, and the many members of the working class from Illinois to Michigan abandoned their Democratic Party ties and joined with the CSA-supported Socialist Party of America, earning the region the moniker of the “Red Belt.” Soon a three way power struggle began to grow: the ancient parties of the Democrats and Republicans forming a “Federalist” Coalition, the nationalist America First Union Party rising in the Deep South under the charismatic yet devious Huey Long and the CSA lead Socialist Party dominating the American Midwest represented by John Reed.

The coming of Black Friday only further increased support for the CSA, and secured the Socialist Party’s victory in the 1937 elections with John Reed being elected as the 32nd President of the United States of America. The moment he was inaugurated, Reed almost immediately began a wave of reforms to fix the country: not just from the Great Depression and Black Monday, but also to fix the decades of social inequality the nation had suffered. He signed and sent out countless executive orders to reform the country: from ensuring the right of unions to form and negotiate with their employers, to nationalising certain industries in order to use these corporation’s vast resources to begin rebuilding the economy. Despite his well-intentioned acts, it proved too much for the bourgeoisie. Those in league with injustice and oppression began denouncing Reed and the CSA, with Huey Long lovingly bestowing the president with the nickname “Dictator Reed.” Violence against workers and CSA members alike increasingly rose, as street fighting became common. America was a powder keg, and was only waiting for a spark to light it.

That spark came only a few months after Reed came to power, when General Douglas MacArthur marched on Washington DC in a military coup d’état to treasonously overthrow the president. Fortunately, Reed was warned before hand and was able to flee from DC, taking refuge in the CSA heartland of Chicago. It was from Chicago that Reed proclaimed MacArthur as a traitor, and beseeched Americans everywhere to help destroy the usurper. The situation only declined further as the South rose up in rebellion lead by Huey Long, who proclaimed that he’d both liberate DC from the “American Caesar” and free the nation from the tyranny of “Dictator Reed” under the banner of the “American Union State.” While the East fell into chaos, the West only further added to the fire as the west coast seceded from the union as the “last bastion of American democracy” under the Pacific States of America. Oh, and New England declared itself independent too.

With that, the Second American Civil War broke out.

Though initially chaos and stalemate reigned, the war rapidly changed towards the side of MacArthur and his Federalists. Even with the CSA’s superior numbers and courage, and the AUS’ collection of great tactical and strategic military minds, they were simply not a match for the Federalist forces’ superior training and equipment. It was at this point that the impossible came to be as the AUS and CSA, the great ideological enemies, whose leaders despised each other with a burning passion, decided on a temporary armistice and coordinated their efforts fully against MacArthur. It was here that the CSA’s policy and advocacy for race and gender equality began to pay off, as millions of African-Americans fled to the CSA and rapidly joined their ranks, while hundreds of thousands of women volunteered for service in every branch of the armed forces, finding particular success and infamy in the Airforce.

Beginning to feel pressure from both sides, and with the Federalist’s lack of a major industrial base paired with the CSA’s vastly superior one beginning to ware their supplies down, MacArthur’s forces began getting pushed back. Eventually, DC was liberated by CSA forces, and the American Caesar was forced to flee from the country, with the Federalist front collapsing into a bunch of strongholds and rump remnants spread across the continental US.

Yet the CSA would not find much reprieve, as Canada decided it wasn’t in its best interests to have a major Syndicalist force to their south. And so it was that in mid-1938, a scant few weeks after the defeat of MacArthur, that Entente forces in the north and Pacific States forces in the west advanced into CSA territory. The situation became significantly worse as Huey Long, seeing an opportunity to secure victory, broke the truce and restarted the war. And so it was that the CSA, exhausted, was rapidly besieged on three sides. All seemed lost.

However, there was one thing the Syndicalists possessed that others in the world did not: unity by class. Unity by cause. A disregard of gender, race and nationality.

Seeing their brethren in the Americas about to be crushed, the Syndicalist world came to the rescue. First, it was fellow Syndicalists on the American continent who, after solving their own regional disputes, sent arms and volunteers to support America: Mexicans, Argentinians and Chileans marched north to support the CSA. But soon enough the big three of the Third Internationale pledged their support: with the Union of Britain seeing an opportunity to cripple the Royalist Pretenders in Canada, while the Commune of France decided (after much debate) that securing such a major ally in North America would be more beneficial in the long term than striking at Germany, with the Italians practically being dragged along for the ride. By the height of the war in 1939, tens of thousands of soldiers from across the world, from the Communist rump state Georgia in the Caucasus to the underdeveloped yet strong Bharatiya in India, the Syndicalist world had united behind the CSA.

A lack of coordination between the Syndicalist Bloc's enemies also helped in that regard. The American Union State refused to work with the Entente, continuing to attack the Pacific States and was beginning to suffer from internal strife as the alliance between the Longists of Huey Long, the National Populists of William Dudley Pelley and the various private corporations began to fall apart. Canada was similarly effected as both workers and Quebec Nationalists rose up against the monarchy. Even the German Empire was unable to immediately exploit the situation, with civil order increasingly declining in Eastern Europe and a revanchist Russian juggernaut beginning to rise up.

By 1941, the Entente front had collapsed as Canada capitulated. Among the chaos of the Canadian Cataclysm, the fate of the British Royal Family fell into ambiguity and mystery. Rumours began: of the king's brother, Prince Albert Frederick, beaten to death hung on a lamp post. Of Princess Margaret, defiled by revolutionaries before being disposed of in the Ottawa River. Finally, of King Edward VIII himself, decapitated in front of a crowd of Quebec Nationalists and his head then paraded across Ottawa's streets on a pike. Whatever the facts of the matter, only two definite truths are known: 1) The majority of the Royal Family failed to escape Canada and were never heard of again, and 2) that of the main Royal Family, only Princess Elizabeth Alexandra managed to escape from North America on a Royal Navy ship, fleeing first to the West Indies Federation, then to the Australasian Confederation where she was crowned Queen Elizabeth II, rightful monarch of the United Kingdom, Head of the Commonwealth and figurehead of the Entente, or what remained of it.

New England was reconquered rather swiftly, while the Pacific States continued to resist, pushed back to the Rockies where (ironically with the help of MacArthur Federalist remnants) they dug in and successfully fended off multiple CSA incursions. The AUS was a different story, as they were pushed back all the way to the deep south, with Syndicalist forces on the very doorstep of Charleston and the AUS about to collapse into their very own civil war. However, before the final push could commence to finally defeat Long, tragedy struck in Europe as the German Empire finally recuperated and commenced an invasion of the Commune of France, with their allies in the Danubian Federation and the Kingdom of Two Sicilies launching a simultaneous attack on the Socialist Republic of Italy. Syndicalist forces were forced to pull support out from the CSA and, with the people of the CSA demanding that they go to the aid of the allies who had bravely come to theirs, the CSA decided to finally halt the civil war, signing ceasefires with both the Pacific States and the American Union State.

With a now well equipped veteran army and a massive industrial complex fully geared towards war, the CSA brought its full might onto Continental Europe. The situation was initially dire when the first re-organised and recuperated CSA forces landed in Britain in 1942: by that time France only barely held on to enclaves in the north-west and south, while the Italian Republic had been completely conquered by Reichspakt forces. But as CSA troops began flooding into Europe things began to change as the near-limitless resources of their American counterparts counteracted that of Germany's. Particularly effective was a set of new doctrines developed during the Civil War by AUS General George S. Patton (though later adopted by the CSA too), concentrating on speedy penetrations and encirclements via armoured spearheads, this new strategy of "Thunder Striking" found itself very effective against Reichspakt forces.

Quick Summary for rest of lore I'm too lazy to write:
-Syndicalists begin pushing back Reichspakt, Russia invades from the east
-Italy reclaimed, Danubian Federation makes peace (allowed to remain united and in power if Syndicalist parties allowed to run in elections), German Empire crushed and exiled to colonies
-Victory in Europe, John Reed retires allowing for first CoA elections, Europe split between Syndicalist West and Autocratic East
-String of wars in Africa and China against Autocratic forces: mostly against German remnants with Wilhelm III (and his successor Ferdinand I) becoming little more than figureheads as the real power is centred around regional governors across the former empire (such as Falkenhausen in German China), with notably Statthalter Hermann Göring of Mittleafrika likely being the most powerful, and being the de facto leader of the exiled empire due to both his holdings and "protection" of the Imperial Family, having declared himself "Reichsführer" of the empire while "representing" the Imperial Family
-Cold War rises between the Syndicalist world and an Autocratic Alliance lead by Russia, who themselves are co-belligerents with the remnant Entente
-Space Race is happening
-Much of the Syndicalist world is ruled by Totalists (notably Mosley in Britain and Mussolini in Italy), with the Commonwealth one of the only major democracies in the alliance

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[Hanovereich]

Full Organization Name : Southeastern Pacific Mining Corporation for Trade
Type of Organization : Trading company
Flag / Symbols: Not for now

Official Economic Ideology : Capitalism
Official Political Ideology : We don’t have one
Head of Organization : CEO Mitchell Wheaton
Other Important Individuals : Deputy CEO Jessica Wilson

Territory : Coastal areas of Tasmania
Territorial Ambitions : N/A
Membership : 12,000

Economic Policy : We support capitalism, we want minimalist spending, less taxation, but spends as much money as needed if there’s a chance for more money. Like OTL Amazon.

Tech Level: A regular, modern-era company. But hey, we have submarines, a satellite and a space cruiser (for whatever reason).
Extra Information / Quirks: Most of our funding comes from the government, and this is totally not because we present to them an easy way to exploit mining resources on territories they don’t have.
Universe of Origin (if any): My universe. The one the FUA is in.


Organization Goals : To get as much resources as they can, to get rich, and to run off with the money.


History : In 1994, two sailors of the newly founded Tasmania Company found a lot of natural resources on the island. They quickly reported back to Sydney, where the company was located, and an expedition the following year confirmed this. The company was renamed, given a new objective, and secured funding to mine there. Without asking anybody, they landed hundreds of employees on the island, and began to take the resources to Sydney, which continues to this day.

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[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

Full Nation Name: Commonwealth of America
Short Nation Name: CSA
Flag / National Symbols:

Government Type : Syndicalist Federal Republic
Official Political Ideology: Syndicalism
Head of State: Herbert C. Holdridge
Head of Government: Herbert C. Holdridge
Government Description: The CSA parallels the original pre-civil war US Government at multiple points. At its core is the legislature, the "Continental Congress of the Working Class" (more simply known as the Worker's Congress). A bicameral legislature with two houses, the House of Unions and the House of Industries. In the former, representatives from the various Bourse du Travail of the nation converge here to debate and pass legislation, the number of representatives determined by both population and number of Syndicates inside the Bourse du Travail, and with representatives elected directly by the local unions and syndicates. In the other, the House of Industries, it is the various National Industry Federations here that confer and discuss matters to pass legislation, with each National Federation, no matter its size or importance, possessing two representatives and therefore two votes. In both the Industrial Democratic Committee oversee, coordinate and help mediate the various processes and discussions that take part in these two respective legislative bodies. It is because of this legislative power and the nature of these bodies that the IDC also looks over the wider economic organisation of the nation as well, helping to coordinate the various National Federations in working together and help organise the nation.

The other branches of government -the executive and the judicial- work very much in similar ways to the previous US government too, with the legislative branch passing legislation, the executive executing legislation, and the judicial judging whether the actions of either branch are considered constitutional and beneficial for both the working class and the rest of the general population. There is one key difference however between the CSA and the previous USA, that is the president is directly elected by the people rather than by a small group in the Electoral College, finally putting power to decide leaders in the hands of people instead of a small group of the elite.

[url=https://imgur.com/a/JPb6VM3Territory:[/url]
Territorial Ambitions: Entire Continental USA
Capital City: Chicago
Population: (Self explanatory. Nothing too unrealistic)

Majority/Official Culture: American

Majority/State Religion: Protestant/Secular

Major Industries / Economic sectors:Consumer goods, industrial machinery, resource production (eg: steel), armament manufacturing (tanks, firearms, planes, etc), vehicle manufacturing
Amount of Industrialization: The nation is composed of a region nicknamed the "Steel Belt," you guess how industrialised it is (very).
Economic Description: The Commonwealth adheres to an economic policy called "Syndicalism with American Characteristics." Unlike the usual Syndicalist doctrine of a completely planned command economy, it follows doctrines of Georgism and Mutualism, allowing for local businesses and unions within the country to plan and control their prices within a market. There are still unions and syndicates that adhere to the will of the working class, but these just have the option to adjust production and prices depending on supply and demand. One might say that since in this type of market there would technically be "private" businesses made up of independent workers and therefore still be Capitalist, it's still stretching it a bit since the option of government intervention (as the Syndicates compose a large part of the government anyway) is still there.

As to the organisation of the economy, at the lowest levels are the typical local unions and syndicates, the types you'd see representing several businesses or a factory in a local area. They are then organised under a Bourse du Travail, who help coordinate and organise economic collaboration between the various unions and syndicates, as well as oversees general governmental economic enforcement. They, in simple terms, represent the Federal government's hand on a local level for economic purposes and act as regional representatives for a particular area. And on the national levels are the National Industry Federations, which are groupings of Syndicates (regardless of geography) based on the industry they belong to. It's here that the efforts of syndicates on a national level are represented, coordinated and overseen nationwide, as well as where data is taken from the different syndicates and given to both the federal government and the local syndicates. The level of autonomy for the local syndicates varies depending on the industry: for example, the railroad industry might see the national railroad system be overall centralised and planned by a National Federation, where it'd be different in an industry for a consumer good.

Technological Level: IRL 1960s-1970s era
Magic and other shenanigans?: N/A

Military Description Being one of the vanguards of the revolution and surrounded on multiple sides by enemies necessitates a strong military force in order to act as both a deterrent and a tool of expansion, a role that the Commonwealth Armed Forces (CAF) most definitely fill the criteria of. The CSA's vast industrial complex means that the CAF has a mass abundance of military equipment, and cooperation with foreign powers, as well as a well-educated population, means that there is no shortage when it comes to the development of new and advanced weapons, bringing the CAF into the forefront of military technology. The CAF adheres extensively to that of meritocracy and retains an extremely rigorous training programme, creating an army of very well trained soldiers and making sure that only the best and most intuitive are there to lead them. The social policies of the CSA are perhaps most clearly seen in the CAF, as both race and gender equality are upheld as key values in the military, with the appearance of coloured and female soldiers being a common sight.

When the main branches of the CAF are not enough, however, the CSA also has the Continental Army. Inherited from the Civil War, the Continental Army is most similar to the National Guard of the old US, composed of a system of both reserve forces and local militias that take part in both military and civilian exercises. Often considered a sort of early stepping stone before joining the army, the Continental Army can be raised during times of national emergency in order to bring up a new army of militias made up of patriotic men and women willing to fight and die fanatically for the commonwealth.

Another rather notable trait of the CAF is the appearance of Political Commissars. Somewhat resembling military police, they're tasked with making sure the CAF remains, first and foremost, a force devoted to the protection of both the revolution and the working class. Educating the soldiery in the wonders of the ideology they're fighting for to raise morale and seeking out any potential dissidents or conspirators against the Syndicalist revolution, they remain a key part of the CAF.

Partly due to the CAF's heritage concerning irregular forces and the US Marine Corps (see below for more details), the CAF is also famous for its special forces units: from frontline commandos to paratroopers inserted behind enemy lines, the CAF boasts some of the best SOF units in the world.

Army: Out of all the branches, the People's Liberation Army is probably both the most rigorously trained and well lead branch in the armed forces, furthermore regarded as one of the finest and toughest in the world. This is in part due to its origins, as most of the men who'd come to form the nucleus of both the regular army and the military leadership during and after the civil war were members of the US Marine Corps: one of the few institutions in the pre-civil war US Armed Forces not neglected by the corrupt capitalist gang. With a proud military tradition, the PLA truly produces some of the finest soldiers and leaders that any military could hope for.
-2 Million Soldiers (1.5 Million Active, 500,000 Reserve) including:
-20,000x Paratroopers
-4,000x Army Rangers
-5,000x Commonwealth Special Forces soldiers (CSF/Green Berets)
-5000x MBTs
-3000x Armoured Cars
-10,000x APCs
Can additionally call up 15,000,000 Militia (Continental Army) in times of national emergency.

Navy: Though the CSA is no longer has the full naval industrial might that the US once possessed, or even the Pacific States currently possesses, its role as a major figure in spreading the global revolution and its bases of operation such as the Syndicalist Philippines or the front in Africa means that the People's Liberation Navy is far from being neglected at all. A rival to even the Union of Britain's own naval prowess, she remains at the forefront of the global effort to liberate foreign lands under the hammer and torch.
Ships:
-16x Battleships (7x Montana Class, 9x Iowa Class)
-20x Aircraft Carriers (6x Essex Class, 4x Midway Class, 2x USS United States Class, 3x Forrestal-class, 3x Kitty Hawk-class, 2x USS Enterprise-class)
-40x Cruisers
-181x Destroyers
-34x Diesel Submarines
-45x Nuclear Submarines

Aicraft:
-375x North American FJ-4 Fury Jet Fighter-Bombers
-715x S-2 Trackers (anti-submarine)
-100x P-3 Orions (Anti-submarine/Maritime patrol)

Amphibious Landing:
-400,000 Marines (CMC-Commonwealth Marine Corps)
-3,000 Naval Special Forces (SEALs)

Air Force: The People's Revolutionary Airforce (PRA, named as such to avoid confusion with the PLA), like others, is a well maintained fighting force with similar meritocratic values. A notable quirk of the PRA is its hefty collection of air aces, notably female air aces, composed of famed units such as the infamous Red Witches.
Jet Fighters
-1,000x F-100 Super Sabres (Fighter/Fighter-Bomber)
-850x F-105 Thunderchiefs (Fighter-Bomber)
-900x F-4 Phantoms (Interceptor/Fighter-Bomber)
-500x F-104 Starfighters (Interceptor/Fighter-Bomber)
-800x F-89 Scorpions (Interceptor)
-1,200x F-84F Thunderstreaks (Fighter-Bomber/Reconnaissance)
-400x F-101 Voodoos (Fighter)

Strategic Bombers
-2,000x B-47 Stratojets
-750x B-52 Stratofortress Bombers
-100x B-58 Hustlers
-300x A-3 Skywarriors

Tactical Bombers
-400x B-57 Canberras

Light Bomber
-300x B-66 Destroyers
-100x A-5 Vigilantes (reconnisannce)

CAS
-100x A-37 Dragonfly Jets
-1,300x A-4 Skyhawks
-250x A-6 Intruders
-300x OV-1 Mohawks (reconnaissance)

Spy
-100x Lockheed U-2s

Nuclear Arsenal
-30,000 Nuclear Warheads
-200 ICBMs

National Goals: Continue the global Syndicalist revolution and fight injustice against the working class, no matter the place or time.


History : The state of post-Weltkrieg America was one of great trouble and chaos. Divided politics on every level, a failing economy, but most of all corruption permeated every part of American society: all of which were to the detriment of the working class. Men and women of the working class toiled under the oppression of the bourgeoise as they heartlessly exploited the back-breaking honest labour of the common people, just to fill their already extravagant coffers further. The Great Depression only further destroyed the lives of the people, as millions became unemployed while the upper class continued to live in luxury. For years, the whims of Wall Street and mega-corporations remained unopposed, until a man by the name of Jack Reed returned to America during the 1920s. A journalist who witnessed the failure of the Bolshevik Revolution, Reed refused to allow the revolution for workers rights to end with Communism and so decided to try and continue the revolution in America. Reed turned to the camp of Syndicalism in order to fulfil this purpose, and his righteous goal was taken up by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). It was around the IWW and him that other likeminded left-wingers gathered in order to advocate workers rights and fight against the bourgeoisie and that eventually, the vanguard of the revolution would come to be in the form of the Combined Syndicates of America (CSA).

When the Great Depression came, the trust between the northern workers of the highly industrialised Steel Belt region and the government started to crack, with many beginning to toss their lot in with the CSA. It wasn’t till the 1933 election ended with the re-election of Herbert Hoover that all trust was lost, and the many members of the working class from Illinois to Michigan abandoned their Democratic Party ties and joined with the CSA-supported Socialist Party of America, earning the region the moniker of the “Red Belt.” Soon a three way power struggle began to grow: the ancient parties of the Democrats and Republicans forming a “Federalist” Coalition, the nationalist America First Union Party rising in the Deep South under the charismatic yet devious Huey Long and the CSA lead Socialist Party dominating the American Midwest represented by John Reed.

The coming of Black Friday only further increased support for the CSA, and secured the Socialist Party’s victory in the 1937 elections with John Reed being elected as the 32nd President of the United States of America. The moment he was inaugurated, Reed almost immediately began a wave of reforms to fix the country: not just from the Great Depression and Black Monday, but also to fix the decades of social inequality the nation had suffered. He signed and sent out countless executive orders to reform the country: from ensuring the right of unions to form and negotiate with their employers, to nationalising certain industries in order to use these corporation’s vast resources to begin rebuilding the economy. Despite his well-intentioned acts, it proved too much for the bourgeoisie. Those in league with injustice and oppression began denouncing Reed and the CSA, with Huey Long lovingly bestowing the president with the nickname “Dictator Reed.” Violence against workers and CSA members alike increasingly rose, as street fighting became common. America was a powder keg, and was only waiting for a spark to light it.

That spark came only a few months after Reed came to power, when General Douglas MacArthur marched on Washington DC in a military coup d’état to treasonously overthrow the president. Fortunately, Reed was warned before hand and was able to flee from DC, taking refuge in the CSA heartland of Chicago. It was from Chicago that Reed proclaimed MacArthur as a traitor, and beseeched Americans everywhere to help destroy the usurper. The situation only declined further as the South rose up in rebellion lead by Huey Long, who proclaimed that he’d both liberate DC from the “American Caesar” and free the nation from the tyranny of “Dictator Reed” under the banner of the “American Union State.” While the East fell into chaos, the West only further added to the fire as the west coast seceded from the union as the “last bastion of American democracy” under the Pacific States of America. Oh, and New England declared itself independent too.

With that, the Second American Civil War broke out.

Though initially chaos and stalemate reigned, the war rapidly changed towards the side of MacArthur and his Federalists. Even with the CSA’s superior numbers and courage, and the AUS’ collection of great tactical and strategic military minds, they were simply not a match for the Federalist forces’ superior training and equipment. It was at this point that the impossible came to be as the AUS and CSA, the great ideological enemies, whose leaders despised each other with a burning passion, decided on a temporary armistice and coordinated their efforts fully against MacArthur. It was here that the CSA’s policy and advocacy for race and gender equality began to pay off, as millions of African-Americans fled to the CSA and rapidly joined their ranks, while hundreds of thousands of women volunteered for service in every branch of the armed forces, finding particular success and infamy in the Airforce.

Beginning to feel pressure from both sides, and with the Federalist’s lack of a major industrial base paired with the CSA’s vastly superior one beginning to ware their supplies down, MacArthur’s forces began getting pushed back. Eventually, DC was liberated by CSA forces, and the American Caesar was forced to flee from the country, with the Federalist front collapsing into a bunch of strongholds and rump remnants spread across the continental US.

Yet the CSA would not find much reprieve, as Canada decided it wasn’t in its best interests to have a major Syndicalist force to their south. And so it was that in mid-1938, a scant few weeks after the defeat of MacArthur, that Entente forces in the north and Pacific States forces in the west advanced into CSA territory. The situation became significantly worse as Huey Long, seeing an opportunity to secure victory, broke the truce and restarted the war. And so it was that the CSA, exhausted, was rapidly besieged on three sides. All seemed lost.

However, there was one thing the Syndicalists possessed that others in the world did not: unity by class. Unity by cause. A disregard of gender, race and nationality.

Seeing their brethren in the Americas about to be crushed, the Syndicalist world came to the rescue. First, it was fellow Syndicalists on the American continent who, after solving their own regional disputes, sent arms and volunteers to support America: Mexicans, Argentinians and Chileans marched north to support the CSA. But soon enough the big three of the Third Internationale pledged their support: with the Union of Britain seeing an opportunity to cripple the Royalist Pretenders in Canada, while the Commune of France decided (after much debate) that securing such a major ally in North America would be more beneficial in the long term than striking at Germany, with the Italians practically being dragged along for the ride. By the height of the war in 1939, tens of thousands of soldiers from across the world, from the Communist rump state Georgia in the Caucasus to the underdeveloped yet strong Bharatiya in India, the Syndicalist world had united behind the CSA.

A lack of coordination between the Syndicalist Bloc's enemies also helped in that regard. The American Union State refused to work with the Entente, continuing to attack the Pacific States and was beginning to suffer from internal strife as the alliance between the Longists of Huey Long, the National Populists of William Dudley Pelley and the various private corporations began to fall apart. Canada was similarly effected as both workers and Quebec Nationalists rose up against the monarchy. Even the German Empire was unable to immediately exploit the situation, with civil order increasingly declining in Eastern Europe and a revanchist Russian juggernaut beginning to rise up.

By 1941, the Entente front had collapsed as Canada capitulated. Among the chaos of the Canadian Cataclysm, the fate of the British Royal Family fell into ambiguity and mystery. Rumours began: of the king's brother, Prince Albert Frederick, beaten to death hung on a lamp post. Of Princess Margaret, defiled by revolutionaries before being disposed of in the Ottawa River. Finally, of King Edward VIII himself, decapitated in front of a crowd of Quebec Nationalists and his head then paraded across Ottawa's streets on a pike. Whatever the facts of the matter, only two definite truths are known: 1) The majority of the Royal Family failed to escape Canada and were never heard of again, and 2) that of the main Royal Family, only Princess Elizabeth Alexandra managed to escape from North America on a Royal Navy ship, fleeing first to the West Indies Federation, then to the Australasian Confederation where she was crowned Queen Elizabeth II, rightful monarch of the United Kingdom, Head of the Commonwealth and figurehead of the Entente, or what remained of it.

New England was reconquered rather swiftly, while the Pacific States continued to resist, pushed back to the Rockies where (ironically with the help of MacArthur Federalist remnants) they dug in and successfully fended off multiple CSA incursions. The AUS was a different story, as they were pushed back all the way to the deep south, with Syndicalist forces on the very doorstep of Charleston and the AUS about to collapse into their very own civil war. However, before the final push could commence to finally defeat Long, tragedy struck in Europe as the German Empire finally recuperated and commenced an invasion of the Commune of France, with their allies in the Danubian Federation and the Kingdom of Two Sicilies launching a simultaneous attack on the Socialist Republic of Italy. Syndicalist forces were forced to pull support out from the CSA and, with the people of the CSA demanding that they go to the aid of the allies who had bravely come to theirs, the CSA decided to finally halt the civil war, signing ceasefires with both the Pacific States and the American Union State.

With a now well equipped veteran army and a massive industrial complex fully geared towards war, the CSA brought its full might onto Continental Europe. The situation was initially dire when the first re-organised and recuperated CSA forces landed in Britain in 1942: by that time France only barely held on to enclaves in the north-west and south, while the Italian Republic had been completely conquered by Reichspakt forces. But as CSA troops began flooding into Europe things began to change as the near-limitless resources of their American counterparts counteracted that of Germany's. Particularly effective was a set of new doctrines developed during the Civil War by AUS General George S. Patton (though later adopted by the CSA too), concentrating on speedy penetrations and encirclements via armoured spearheads, this new strategy of "Thunder Striking" found itself very effective against Reichspakt forces.

Quick Summary for rest of lore I'm too lazy to write:
-Syndicalists begin pushing back Reichspakt, Russia invades from the east
-Italy reclaimed, Danubian Federation makes peace (allowed to remain united and in power if Syndicalist parties allowed to run in elections), German Empire crushed and exiled to colonies
-Victory in Europe, John Reed retires allowing for first CoA elections, Europe split between Syndicalist West and Autocratic East
-String of wars in Africa and China against Autocratic forces: mostly against German remnants with Wilhelm III (and his successor Ferdinand I) becoming little more than figureheads as the real power is centred around regional governors across the former empire (such as Falkenhausen in German China), with notably Statthalter Hermann Göring of Mittleafrika likely being the most powerful, and being the de facto leader of the exiled empire due to both his holdings and "protection" of the Imperial Family, having declared himself "Reichsführer" of the empire while "representing" the Imperial Family
-Cold War rises between the Syndicalist world and an Autocratic Alliance lead by Russia, who themselves are co-belligerents with the remnant Entente
-Space Race is happening
-Much of the Syndicalist world is ruled by Totalists (notably Mosley in Britain and Mussolini in Italy), with the Commonwealth one of the only major democracies in the alliance

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#POD 3 (don't remove this!)

Before I accept, is this a WIP?

App's done

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

I'd just like to point out to all ya'll that the point of this RP isn't to "win," there's no such thing, it's to have fun and make storylines while interacting wildly with different nations and peoples with each other.

So please, keep that in mind and be chill when it comes to military matters and stuff.

[Hanovereich]

Yeah, well, nobody said anything to the contrary.

But thanks anyway.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

Yeah, well, nobody said anything to the contrary.

But thanks anyway.

Just wanted to make sure everyone got that: PoD 3.0 ended with a nuclear war that destroyed Europe.

[Artorran]

Nation Reservation
Name of country reserved: 'Regency of New Artorran'
Territory: On the map linked to in the OP, southern & central Britain (up to & including Yorkshire [in the traditional, pre-1970s sense] & -- except perhaps for the Furness district -- Lancashire), with associated smaller islands, except for northern & south-western sections of Wales.

This wold be an offshoot of my NS nation, several districts of which have found themselves translocated: Their former home did not have the same geography. so part of my RP would be their exploring & coping with the changes. I am also the player behind Bears Armed, and this nation -- like that one -- would be inhabited largely by sapient/anthropomorphic Bears although "Old" Artorran does also have human residents and a significant element of this offshoot's population would be from that stock instead. Technology is mostly equivalent to RL Britain in the first half of the 20th century, a bit less advanced in some respects (probably including the construction of warships: I do not envisage this nation as having Dreadnoughts, for example...) but up to more more-or-less modern standards in a few others (e.g. computers). There is relatively "low-key" magic (although, given enough time to prepare & conduct rituals, they might be able to close the seas -- & the air above those -- against prospective invaders...) , and some 'supernatural' beings are demonstrably real. A form of the English language is widely known.
Britain is an appropriate location for this location not only because it is the part of Earth-RL that I personally know best OOC but also because the Ursine founders of "Old" Artorran were largely interdimensional refugees from the fall of a sort-of "Arthurian Britain" that did have RL-like physical geography.

More to follow shortly.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

Btw, if anyone wants to take the Rhineland, you're free to

But we've been having a whole thing where neither the Germany nor the France of this RP want to claim the Rhineland, so in order to appease both of 'em I'll be apping as a second nation in the Rhineland. That is, if nobody takes the land.

So, yeah, just a disclaimer in case anyone wants the Rhineland and therefore wants to be squished

Also, Newne, please update your reservation to the borders you now want

[Remnants of Exilvania]

This will probably see a reservation or even full app by me before this day is over.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

This will probably see a reservation or even full app by me before this day is over.

Awesome sauce

[Hanovereich]

Just can't wait for the IC. Going to have so much fun...

[Democratic East-Asia]

Hmmm app progress continues. Gotta write about economy and eventually history.

[Northern Socialist Council Republics]

This is basically my NationStates country...

Full Nation Name: The official name of the polity is the Commonwealth of Northern Socialist Council Republics (Low Scandinavian: Nordisk sosialistiske rådsrepublikkenes samveldet; High Scandinavian: Norðurlands sósíalískra ráðslýðvelda sambandsríkið; Standard Finnic: Pohjoismaiden sosialististen neuvostotasavaltojen).

Short Nation Name: The country is colloquially referred to as the Commonwealth or as Norden (High Scandinavian: Norðurland). The High and Low Scandinavian names of the country are also often abbreviated as NSRS.

Flag / National Symbols: The banner of the Commonwealth is a stylised blue swan inscribed in a white roundel against a red field.

Government Type: The Commonwealth is an open-anocratic, parliamentary, and devolutionary union of nominally independent polities.

Official Political Ideology: The official ideology of the Commonwealth is Parliamentary Socialism.

Head of State: The Commonwealth is nominally a union of independent polities and as such does not recognise a common head of state.

Head of Government: The head of government in the Commonwealth is Raynor Svensson, Secretary-General of the Northern Council.

Government Description: The NSRS has a parliamentary form of government compliant with the doctrines of Parliamentary Socialism. Sovereignty is vested in the Northern Council of 203 representatives serving 7-year terms, to which 29 representatives are elected by proportional representation every year. This Council then nominates by a simple majority a Secretary General, who is the head of state and the head of government in the NSRS and manages its day-to-day affairs of state with the confidence of the Council.

Because of its historical origins, the NSRS is relatively decentralised, with most matters of governance being relegated to the various Republics, Districts, and municipalities under the Commonwealth. Most notably, citizens still require a permit from either the District or the Commonwealth governments in order to visit or relocate to a different District and these constituent polities often have their own military and security forces independent from those of the Commonwealth.

There is no independent judicial branch of government in the NSRS, with justice being administered by security officers nominated by the government. While the NSRS does maintain a ubiquitous surveillance state in order to detect and suppress any potential threats to its government and political order, the police tasked with responding to regular crimes are more interested in the maintenance of public order than in the prevention or prosecution of crimes, leading to a preponderance of violent crime especially in the major cities and the suburbs.

Territory: The NSRS is based in Northern Europe and stretches across its nearby oceans with control of Greenland and Svalbard. In Earth terms it includes the real-life territories of the five Nordic states including the Faroe Islands, Svalbard, and Greenland but not including the Norwegian Antarctic, with the addition of Sønderjylland/Schleswig, West Karelia, the Orkney and Shetland islands, and Salla. The scope of the transportation also includes various resource extraction infrastructure and seagoing vessels in the nearby seas and oceans around the NSRS as well as some satellites in Low Earth Orbit.

Territorial Ambitions: The Commonwealth has no territorial ambitions on land, but does with to solidify its claim as the dominant hegemon of the seas and oceans on which it has coasts.

Capital City: The capital of the Commonwealth is Copenhagen (Kaupmannahöfn / København), which forms the centre of the Soundstead Conurbation (Sundstaðurinn / Sundstad). It is located on the eastern coast of the island of Sealand (Sjáland / Sjælland).

Population: The NSRS has a population of 16.93 millions, heavily concentrated in the south of the country.

Majority/Official Culture: Culturally, the primary languages of the inhabitants are 42% Low Scandinavian, 26% High Scandinavian, 20% Standard Finnic, 4% Esperanto-B, 3% Arctic Finnic, 2% Saxon, and 2% Panslavic, with Caledonian, Southern Finnic, and Baltic making up most of the remainder.

The Commonwealth nominally recognises the multicultural nature of its population and does maintains a legal equality between its three governing languages of Low Scandinavian, High Scandinavian, and Standard Finnic, with the state obligated to provide at the public expense translators across these three languages for anyone seeking to access a public function, whether that be an ordinary citizen filing taxes of a parliamentary representative debating in the chamber. Arctic Finnic and Caledonian also has some degree of regional and local government recognition while Southern Finnic is unofficially tolerated. However, the Esperanto-B, Saxon, Panslavic, and Baltic speaking communities, generally regarded as foreign to the Commonwealth despite being citizens, are often actively persecuted by the state or by populist mobs.

Majority/State Religion: Religion, in the conventional definition of a system of belief with a belief in some cosmic supernatural order, is almost totally unknown, although Socialism plays a similar role in society as religion once did.

Major Industries / Economic sectors: The Commonwealth has an autarkic economy, well-diversified by necessity, with a particular strength in biotechnology and healthcare.

Amount of Industrialization: The economy of the NSRS is a fully industrialised, borderline post-industrial economy, with very high productivity and a correspondingly high standard of living.

Economic Description: Like many other states of what used to be the core territories of Old Eurasia, the NSRS maintains an industrialised, mostly autarkic, and mixed economy. Although the Commonwealth is large enough to be broadly self-sufficient in terms of natural materials, it is dependent on elerium extracted from the Norwegian Sea and Arctic Ocean seafloors for energy, which forces the NSRS to remain highly sensitive to Arctic diplomatic affairs.

Average incomes and the standard of living are very high compared to its neighbouring states, which the State mostly uses to keep its working class in a state of perpetual decadent contentment to maintain social stability. Especially notable is the healthcare industry in the NSRS, which not only cracked the problem of human aging but also produces a quantity of recreational narcotics and other mind-altering drugs that is almost unheard of in other countries. Also notable is the holographic filming industry, which is both enormous in volume and technologically sophisticated, heavily subsidised by the State to produce mind-numbing droll for the masses.

Communication infrastructure is very well developed across the NSRS, with high-bandwidth telecommunications being available even in the untamed wilderness of the Commonwealth's arctic territories. Coverage of other forms of infrastructure, however, is rather sparse outside the major cities. Rail lines do connect the smaller rural towns and villages, but bulk cargo transportation is done by ship whenever possible (which is often, as the population is also heavily coastal) and passenger transportation of any kind is only maintained at a very minimal level.

Technological Level: Post-modern technology (think XCOM, Brave New World, or Fallout).

Military Description

Army: The army, or Commonwealth Ground Command, sees relatively little in volunteers or funding compared to the other two branches. Like the navy, it is organised into broadly independent units, consisting of three regular brigades (each 4,500 personnel), one boreal brigade (3,900 personnel, specialising in deep forest warfare), and one alpine brigade (also 3,900 personnel, specialising in mountain or polar warfare). Military police are integrated into the regular brigades. Also similarly to the navy, Commonwealth Ground Command is designed on an ambush doctrine, counting on its navy and air force to give it almost total superiority in reconnaissance and support and exploiting the inability of its rivals to supply a large force in the Commonwealth's poorly-developed northern hinterlands.

Navy: The navy, or Commonwealth Naval Command, is by far the branch of prestige in the Commonwealth Armed Forces. It is organised into three largely self-sufficient fleets with their own air support, logistics, et cetera. Each fleet is organised around a battlefleet of battlecruisers, heavy cruisers, light cruisers, and destroyers. This is supported by a few reconnaissance task forces with one light cruiser and a couple destroyers each, a submarine detachment of a few vessels, and amphibious assault craft. Each fleet also commands a company of rangers (coastal rangers for the 1st and 2nd Fleets, arctic rangers for the 3rd), which are elite air-transported infantry of 120 troops and 400 support staff each. Organised outside of these fleets is the marine brigade of 3,900 troops. Commonwealth Naval Command is designed around a raiding fleet doctrine, a reflection of the fact that it has few strong seagoing neighbours capable of meeting it on even terms on the sea. Ships are compact, fast, and stealthy, but not very heavy in armaments or armour.

Air Force: The air force, or Commonwealth Aerospace Command, is designed to work more cohesively, unlike the navy and army's preference towards self-sufficient units. It consists of seven air divisions, each six wings of 20 aircraft, and a specialised reconnaissance air division. The air force also commands three companies of airbourne rangers, three of paratrooper rangers, and the Commonwealth's military satellites. The air force is designed mostly to maintain air cover over friendly territory and provide the navy and army with an intelligence advantage, with relatively limited direct ground attack capabilities and highly limited strategic bombing capabilities.

National Goals: The decisions of the Commonwealth are guided by two overriding objectives: the first is to continue to develop socially disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligences and genetic engineering, while the second is to maintain internal tranquility and social harmony.

History: Although the sheer volume of archaeological evidence makes it impossible to deny that organised societies, mass production, bureaucratic states, and writing all existed long before the atomic era, conventional historiography places the beginning of civilisation and thus history at the detonation of the first experimental atomic bomb, now year zero of the socialist calendar (0 nuclear era). Human history in the atomic era can be broadly divided into three sections. The Threeist era, the Warlords era, and the Rebirth era.

The very first decades of the atomic age saw the three atomic superpowers, Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia, rapidly consolidate their power by conquering the various minor tribal nations into which the Earth was at that point divided, beginning the Threeist era (also known as the era of Totalitarian Socialism). The Threeist era was characterised by a permanent war between the three atomic superpowers. As the important fronts began to stalemate, the primary theatres of conflict moved from Western Europe, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia in the first century or so, to the Middle East, India, and the Pacific islands in the 2nd and 3rd Centuries, and eventually to the polar regions and Central Africa - areas of relatively little strategic value - by 350 N.E. Society of the threeist era was characterised by a dogged pursuit of social stability at the cost of social flexibility or adaptability.

The Cataclysm, a nuclear exchange of unknown cause devastated the world and resulted in the dissolution of the threeist superpowers, beginning the warlord era, a period of confused conflict between various warlords, rioter-states, and splinter remnants of the threeist superpowers during which a population that knew of no political views other than Totalitarian Socialism ideologically adapted to the end of permanent war between stable superpowers. As none of the three superpowers had any great reason to turn their war nuclear, and indeed records reveal that they had safeguards against that very possibility, it is theorised that the Cataclysm was entirely accidental in nature.

As civilisation recovered from the shock and devastation of the Cataclysm, more-or-less stable countries emerged, led by ambitious men more interested in carving their new and unique path into the future than continuing to squabble over the economic and ideological legacies of threeism. This period is generally termed the Rebirth. No clear delineation between the Warlord and Rebirth eras, in the same way that the Cataclysm separates the Threeist and Warlord eras, exists, but conventional historians generally place the date sometime in the late 7th Century.

Northern history properly begins in the 5th Century during the early Warlords era, when the Baltic State, a splinter remnant of Old Eurasia, was divided into two as a prole riot overran Scandinavia. The overrun northern provinces would eventually develop into Norden, while the intact southern provinces would eventually consolidate under (for the southeast) Baltica and (for the southwest) the Brotherhoods of the Sword. Early Northern history is characterised by incessant strife between the various warlord states of Scandinavia and the ideological wars between the post-Neobol states of Denmark and Norway and the post-Ingsoc states of Britannica, which did not succeed in their stated war aims - the conversion of the Albionic and Caledonian states to post-Neobol Socialism - but did succeed in conquering the North Atlantic islands into Scandinavian hands and resulted in the introduction of Britannic ideological developments into Scandinavian political thought.

The combination of this influx of new ideas and ideological disturbance in the heartlands of Old Eurasia itself resulted in the formation of a uniquely Northern style of Socialism, called Parliamentary Socialism, that swept across the Scandinavian states in the early 9th Century, spreading nationalist tendencies along with it. The Commonwealth itself was founded by a diplomatic unification of the Scandinavian states along these same principles in 870 N.E., expanding eastwards in a series of liberation wars fought in the 870s. The NSRS today is a regional power that dominates the North and Arctic Seas, but its new neighbours in this new world are a lot larger and more resilient than those that they have gotten used to in their old world...

RP Sample: A snippet I wrote in this setting.

#POD 3 (don't remove this!)

[Hanovereich]

We now have 7 countries. Time for the IC...