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RP Nation Name: the Baltic State
Head of State: Generalfeldmarschall Graf Rüdiger von der Goltz
Head of Government: Otto von Kursell
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History from 1936(1-2 paragraphs) Following the disastrous Black Monday market crash, the United Baltic Duchy's German democratic parties squabbled amongst themselves, lobbying for power while the nation itself fell to poverty and lawlessness. Just a few months after the stock market imploded, forest banditry ran rampant within the Duchy's ingovernable Latvian and Estonian territories, staining the state's reputation as a bulwark of stability and German strength in Eastern Europe. This maddening ineffectiveness of the country's democratic institutions culminated in the government's failure to realize a coalition with the conservative forces, essentially damning their minority government to die a slow death.
This slow death at the hands of forest bandits was luckily postponed, when the Baltic Landwehr, aided by paramilitaries of the Baltic Brotherhood and the newly-arrived German Freikorps, exercised a most righteous coup d'état, installing the Baltic Brotherhood as the new ruling order and outlawing other opposition parties for the sake of national stability. Generalfeldmarschall von der Goltz, Chief of the General Staff of the Baltische Landeswehr, took control as the new head of state, while aristocrat and Baltic Brotherhood leader Otto von Kursell took the reigns as the head of government, pulling the real strings whilst pretending that all power lied with the German-born field marshal, who was steadily becoming more and more senile and thus incapable of recognizing that he became less and less relevant in national affairs.
Currently, the reactionary state led by the Baltic Brotherhood has achieved a number of political triumphs, including:
- The total annihilation of forest bandit forces within the Latvian and Estonian territories through the use of anti-guerrila warfare (Bandenkampf tactics), including bounty hunting, psychological warfare, and Zepellin bombing raids utilizing the new "Brandstoffbombe", an incendiary white phosphorous bomb developed by the German authorities in Mittelafrika
- Increasing levels of German immigration while also repatriating Russian-born inhabitants, utilizing their villages and settlements to promote German colonization and seizing their wealth
- Limiting the role of the Baltische Landeswehr to a Germans-only institution, purifying it into a small but highly professional training force, utilizing a formidable Panzerwaffe and striving to adopt modern ways of warfare to make up for their lack of manpower
- Molding society into a place fit for the Baltic Brotherhood's ideology by cracking down on modern decadent art, instituting a secret police force, forging better ties with the German Kaiserreich, purging the opposition, strengthening the influence of the military within Baltic politics, establishing a corporatist economy with a strong arms industry, removing barriers between church and state, discriminating against non-Lutherans and inspiring a totalitarian education in the nation's Protestant-run schools
Ideology(Kaiserreich System): National Populist