2025: A Shifting World (OOC) (Open)

[Arvenia]

BTW, who is playing as the US?

[American Pere Housh]

BTW, who is playing as the US?

Probably Chewy.

[Arvenia]

BTW, who is playing as the US?

Probably Chewy.

He is playing as China.

[NewLakotah]

Nationstates Name: APH
Nation Name: The Federal Republic of Germany


Military Information (If different from irl you must indicate that here): The German military has since 2000, when Vladimir Putin took office in Russia, has gradually increased its defense budget over the next 25 years to where it stands currently which is now 3% of Germany's GDP which for 2025 is 159 billion USD. These budget increases were especially justified after Russia illegally invaded and stole the Crimean Peninsula.



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Vladimir Putin was never elected in Russia. Instead, Grigory Yavlinsky was elected as a reformer (which, to be far, so was Putin), somewhat pro-Western leader who reduced Russia's military size and focused more on creating strong economic ties with Europe than anything. In fact, his willingness to support the West is what lost him his electorate in 2007 and 2008.

In 2008 is when Russia began to be more aggressive in its military spending and reforms. And in 2014, Yes Russia still took Crimea.

[NewLakotah]

BTW, who is playing as the US?

It's Mant again. Albeit with somewhat different history from what I heard, tho we'll see for sure once he gets his app up.

[The Manticoran Empire]

Nationstates Name: The Manticoran Empire
Nation Name: The United States of America

Official reservation. App will be up eventually.

[The Manticoran Empire]

Nationstates Name: The Manticoran Empire
Nation Name: The United States of America
Capital: Washington D.C.
Territory: IRL Territory of the United States
Population: 347.34 million
Official Language: None, de facto English
Recognized Languages: English, Spanish, various American Indian languages
Flag: IRL flag of the United States. I don’t think that needs a photo. Everyone should know what that looks like, in theory.
National Anthem (optional): IRL Anthem of the United States. Go to YouTube and look it up.

Head of State: Roland Wilkerson
Age: 50
Party Affiliation: Republican
Political Positions: Wilkerson has championed the availability of abortion clinics despite his admitted opposition to the practice. He has also supported gay marriage and has been vocal in his criticism of Evangelical campaigns against LGBT communities.
He has routinely voted and campaigned in favor of greatly reduced taxes and government spending, arguing that many federal programs would be better run if left up to state governments, especially when considering socioeconomic differences between the states. However, he has also been a vocal supporter of maintaining military readiness, especially in light of rising tensions with the PRC. In a book published in 2010, Wilkerson summarized his position as follows; The responsibilities of the Federal Government are to provide for the National Defense, regulate international and domestic trade (including ensuring safe working conditions, preventing exploitative labor practices, and providing for environmental stability), build and maintain interstate transportation infrastructure, and provide oversight of state and local education boards. All other factors, such as public transportation, welfare, healthcare, and retiree pensions, are best left to State and Local governments, as they are in a better position to understand the needs of their citizens.
HoS Picture: Wilkerson is a white man of average height with a moderately athletic build. His eyes are blue and his hair is brown.
Head of Government: Roland Wilkerson
HoG Picture (If different from HoS):
Legislature Name: Congress
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each): Narrow Republican majority in the Senate with a more substantial majority in the House.

GDP (PPP): $28.035 trillion
Currency: USD

Military Information:

The Army’s modernization efforts, begun in late 2014 and started in earnest under the Obama Administration in 2017, have seen Army personnel receive deliveries of the M5 Rifle, M250 Automatic Rifle, and M157 Fire Control System, as well as new sets of body armor, helmets, and night vision systems. The result has, according to the Army, been that Army personnel have greater individual lethality as well as greater individual survivability and situational awareness
In 2022, the United States inked contracts with Rheinmetall to produce the KF-31 and KF-41 Lynx armored vehicles and KF-51 Panther main battle tank. The KF-31 would become the M1303 Armored Cavalry Vehicle, armed with a 35mm autocannon, Iron Fist Active Protection System, and Spike-LR missiles and would carry a full cavalry squad. The KF-41 would become the M1304 Infantry Fighting Vehicle, also carrying the 35mm autocannon, Iron Fist APS, and Spike-LR missiles with an 8-man dismount squad and 3 man crew. The KF-41 would also be built as the M1305 Armored Recovery Vehicle, M1306 Command Post Vehicle, M1307 Mortar Carrier, and M1308 Light Tank. Finally, the KF-51 would become the M1309 Schwarzkopf Main Battle Tank, with the 130mm cannon. All vehicles are designed to mount 12.7mm remote weapon stations, designed to engage UAVs. Optional mission packages include Switchblade loitering munitions. The vehicles are set to begin production in 2025.
The new M1299 Artillery System entered service in 2024 and is expected to begin refitting with an autoloader system in 2025. It is planned to replace the M109A7 at all levels.


Alliances (If different from IRL):

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OP): US History changes initially with Al Gore narrowly winning the presidency in 2000. Following the 9/11 terror attacks, Al Gore's administration deploys special forces and airpower, rather than deploying significant conventional forces. Despite pushes from neo-conservative Republicans to focus on Saddam Hussein, Al Gore’s administration maintains a minimalist policy in regards to military adventures. Brigade-sized elements would be permanently stationed in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to deter future Iraqi aggression but it would still see the Democrats lose ground to the Republicans. In the 2004 election, Colin Powell was elected in a landslide. During Powell's presidency the Energy Policy Act of 2005 was passed with several significant changes. Under the EPA of 2005, the nuclear industry received $63 billion dollars a year (in 2022 dollars) through 2025 to fund the construction of new nuclear reactors. The bill guaranteed any nuclear plant that the US Government would fully cover half of the construction costs up to a total of $5 billion and over a period of 5 years per plant. The goal, according to the bills sponsors, was to totally phase out fossil fuel powerplants by 2025 and reduce US vulnerability to terrorist attacks on the powergrid by reducing the total number of powerplants from around 23,000 electrical generators to a bare 465 nuclear reactors. However, the 2011 Fukushima Dachi nuclear disaster would put a small damper on that program. Some 63 nuclear plants had been built using government funds at the time, with another 12 under construction. Those twelve quickly saw their construction slowed or even halted by protests, while plants trying to get off the ground found themselves bogged down by protestors and threats of legal action. The pro-nuclear faction in Congress, however, would put together a highly effective PR campaign, drowning out much of the negative press with tales of reactor efficiency, safety, and limited pollution, not to mention the jobs it brought and reduction of dependence on foreign suppliers of fossil fuels. The growing trade revenues from increased coal and natural gas exports also helped to reduce opposition. Even so, it wouldn’t be until 2014 that reactor construction got back on schedule, during which time only the 12 plants under construction at the start became operational. Between 2014 and 2025, 138 reactors became operational or started construction. A total of 200 of the 465 planned reactors have been built, with 12 still under construction, producing a total of 1,740.67 terawatt hours of electricity, some 44.3% of US energy needs. Another 25% of US energy is supplied by wind, solar, and hydroelectric plants, with the remainder continuing to be coal and natural gas.

Colin Powell would enter the 2008 presidential race on the backfoot as the housing market sent the US economy into a recession. Powell would lead the charge for bi-partisan economic stimulus and relief efforts while ongoing construction projects for nuclear reactors helped keep American jobs. However, the US economy would still shrink nearly 2% by the time it turned around in mid-2009 and the Democrats would gain seats in the 2010 midterms. Powell would leave the White House on a high note, however, as a special forces operation tracked Osama Bin Laden to a compound in Pakistan and killed him.

In the 2012 election, John McCain would face Barack Obama, with the Democrats regaining the White House with a relatively narrow margin of victory. The Russian invasion of Crimea ahead of the 2014 midterms, combined with its support of separatists in the Donbas, encouraged the Obama Administration to begin a massive restructuring and modernization program for the US military. Budget cuts adopted in response to the recession were reversed while the defense industry was flooded with orders for munitions and spare parts. Existing projects were accelerated while new projects were explored. Increased Chinese aggression starting in 2014-2015 saw the US only expand and accelerate its military build-up. US industries began searching for ways to avoid reliance on foreign suppliers of raw materials, particularly on fuels, by reducing their own reliance on those fuels. Obama would win a second term in 2016 and, early in that second term, Congress would pass a law, providing subsidies and tax breaks to companies that would build charging stations for electric cars, as well as tax breaks for the owners of electric vehicles. However, the limited nature of those subsidies and tax breaks meant that few charging stations were built while the high cost of electric cars meant few people purchased them.

Into this stepped long-time congressman from Illinois Roland Wilkerson. Entering Congress in 2000 at the age of 25, he remained a stable force in the House of Representatives until 2012, when he entered the Senate. During his time in the House, he gained notice as a key supporter of nuclear energy and a voice of moderation and reason. In the Senate, he would retain that reputation and gain a new one as a bridge between Democrats and Republicans, helping to avoid several potentially catastrophic deadlocks during the Powell and Obama presidencies. After 6 terms in the House and one in the Senate, Wilkerson would run in the 2020 election, winning against the Democrats preferred Joe Biden. During his first term, he would expand US federal support for clean energy, with the subsidies and tax breaks for charging stations and electric cars expanded while those same stations and cars became cheaper. The result has been a significant decrease in US reliance on fossil fuels and an equally noticeable decrease in carbon emissions. Pushback has remained, however, with fossil fuel lobbyists attempting to waylay the continued move towards greener energy sources while “Green” politicians and lobbyists fight tooth and nail against nuclear energy and the fossil fuel lobby in favor of wind and solar.
In the 2024 election, Wilkerson would win by a narrow margin in the popular vote while securing some 307 electoral votes to Harris’ 231. He enters 2025 a newly elected Republican president, running a country involved in what appears to be the second phase of the Cold War, while racial tensions and social inequalities remain hot button issues in the United States. It remains to be seen how the country will fare.


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[Shohun]

Nationstates Name: Shohun
Nation Name: State of Japan

[Doroisael]

Nationstates Name: Doroisael
Nation Name: Philippines
Capital: Manila
Territory: IRL Territory
Population: 112,571,749
Official Language: English and Filipino
Recognized Languages: Arabic, Spanish, and 19 regional languages
Flag: IRL Flag
National Anthem (optional): Lupang Hinirang

Head of State: Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
HoS Picture:

Head of Government: Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
HoG Picture (If different from HoS):
Legislature Name: Congress of the Philippines
Upper House - Senate
Lower House - House of Representatives
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each):
Upper House - Nationalist People's Coalition
Lower House - Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (Philippine Democratic Party–People's Power)

GDP (PPP): 1 trillion USD
GDP (Nominal): 402.638 billion USD
Currency: Philippine peso (₱)

Military Information (If different from irl you must indicate that here):

Alliances (If different from IRL):

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OP):


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[Doroisael]

Nationstates Name: Doroisael
Nation Name: Republic of the Philippines

[Chewion]

Reservations noted. Reviewing applications

[Shohun]

Nationstates Name: Shohun
Nation Name: State of Japan
Capital: Tokyo
Territory: IRL Japan with disputed claims over the Senkaku, Takeshima, and Northern Territories.
Population: 123,432,324
Official Language: Japanese
Recognized Languages: Okinawan and English
Flag: Hinomaru
National Anthem (optional): Kimigayo

Head of State: Emperor Naruhito
HoS Picture: Emperor
Head of Government: Prime Minister Fumio Kishida
HoG Picture (If different from HoS): PM
Legislature Name: National Diet
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each): Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)

GDP (PPP): $6.594 trillion USD
GDP (Nominal): $5.015 trillion USD
Currency: Japanese Yen

Military Information (If different from irl you must indicate that here):

Due to the rapid deterioration of relations with South Korea, the continued dispute with China over the Senkaku Islands, concerns over a nuclear North Korea, and tensions with Russia over the Kuril Islands, known as the Northern Territories in Japan, the Japan Self-Defense Force has seen a large expansion of both personnel and equipment as well as capabilities. The JSDF currently consists of 450,000 active personnel and 350,000 reserve.

Since the late 2010s, concern over North Korean nuclear weapons led Japan to commence development of its own ballistic missiles, coming in the form of short range capabilities and the development of medium/intermediate-range ballistic missiles, meant to be capable of striking North Korean nuclear missile facilities. Despite having much of the missile technology already via its space program, Japan reportedly collaborated with Taiwan and now is said to have small numbers of missiles ready for use. Japan reportedly has over 100 short range ballistic missiles (said to be advancements of the Taiwanese Sky Spear), around 50 medium-range ballistic missiles, and around 20 intermediate-range ballistic missiles, with full scale production ready to be ramped up in the early months of 2025. Advancements of existing missiles such as the Type 12 to increase the range have also been carried out, as well as adaption of the missile to be capable of hitting ground targets.

Other offensive capabilities have also been added, including the conversion of the Izumo class Multi-purpose destroyers to be capable of operating F-35B aircraft. Additional advancements include the conversion of fighter jets to carry offensive missiles, and the formal creation of the Special Maritime Landing Forces under the JMSDF to officially form a marine force.

The JSDF also embarked on a program to increase missile defense capabilities by purchasing the Aegis Ashore, and modernizing existing destroyers to carry the SM-6.

Outside the military, the Japan Coast Guard has changed its training and added more capabilities to its cutters, due to continued and increasingly dangerous confrontations over the Senkaku and Takeshima.

Alliances (If different from IRL):

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OP):

Assembling the necessary votes in 2014, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of the LDP pushed ahead to amend Article 9 to omit the section, “In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be sustained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.” With this, the Abe administration was able to reinterpret the article and allow for a vast remilitarization of Japan, due to concerns over North Korea. Citing the need for deterrence, Abe declared Japan would seek to have “enemy base attack" capabilities by 2020. Thus by the late 2010s, Japanese destroyers were capable of launching cruise missiles, and Japanese development and production of ballistic missiles was under way.

In an effort to calm fear from neighbors, Japan would change its diplomatic bluebook description of South Korea to "Japan's most important neighbor," and unofficially order the Coast Guard to decrease patrols around the Takeshima. Efforts were also made to calm tensions with China with Prime Minister Abe making the vow to international leaders at the UN saying, "Never again will Japan violate the peace that holds our world together. We are faced with dangerous and imminent threats by rouge states that require us to set aside old animosity and act, with both diplomacy and direct action. So if our partners in the UN will allow us, I want Japan to be leading that charge for freedom, democracy, and most importantly peace in Asia."

But tensions erupted in 2020 due to South Korean protests over the display of the Rising Sun flag at the Olympics. Despite numerous statements by organizers and Japanese government leaders confirming the flag was not a political statement, but rather widely used in Japan, the fraying relationship broke. By 2021 the "Hyeongje" movement in South Korea had taken hold, destroying relations. Extremely anti-Japanese, the "Hyeongje" movement would spark a countermovement in Japan, leading to a rise in popularity of the Nihon Kaigi.

Rallying his government, Suga would immediately take measures to attempt to solve the new tensions diplomatically. Efforts to reach out to the South Korean government were in vain, and thus the LDP took a harder stance, reversing positive actions previously taken towards South Korea. By 2022 under Prime Minister Kishida, Japan would ban Japanese citizens from traveling to South Korea, and further officially designated the "Hyeongje" movement as an extremist organization. With the official nullification of the Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea by the Korean side, all diplomatic contact was cut off. In an effort to repair ties, Kishida would again reach out via third-party intermediaries with no success. Faced with pressure from his party, Kishida would for the first time make speculation about the Takeshima Islands, warning that "an effort secure rightful Japanese territory" if the former treaty was not put back into place.

In the following years through 2023 and 2024, Kishida would order the JSDF to be on high alert from provocations from South Korea, declaring that the south was to be regarded as "just as dangerous and unpredictable" as the north. He would further order the military to prepare to "defend Japanese territories" as early as 2025, but would still call for restraint by South Korea and for international mediation.

In the face of racial discrimination by Koreans against Japanese, Kishida would refuse to accept legislation calling for a ban on South Korean media, declaring that such conduct was "only fit for a tyrannical regime." Otherwise due to the declining birth rate, the government would work on legislation making it easier for foreign workers to apply for visas, and to encourage Japanese to have children and to take a rest from work.

But still the tensions continue to mount and they threaten to explode. Kishida is warning South Korea that action to protect Japanese interests could be imminent if a diplomatic solution is not met, just as elections are around the corner.


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[Chewion]

Nationstates Name: Sao Nova Europa
Nation Name: Republic of France
Capital: Paris
Territory: RL France
Population: 69,413,000
Official Language: French
Recognized Languages: -
Flag:

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National Anthem (optional): French National Anthem

Head of State: President Éric Zemmour
HoS Picture:

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Head of Government: Prime Minister Édouard Philippe
HoG Picture (If different from HoS):

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Legislature Name:

Senate - It is made up of 348 senators (sénateurs and sénatrices) elected by part of the country's local councillors (in indirect elections), as well as by representatives of French citizens living abroad. Senators have six-year terms, with half of the seats up for election every three years.

National Assembly - There are 577 députés, each elected by a single-member constituency (at least one per department) through a two-round system; thus, 289 seats are required for a majority.

Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each):

Governing Coalition

Reconquête - 187 seats in National Assembly and 12 seats in Senate - right-wing to far right - national conservatism, right-wing populism, anti-immigration, economic liberalism
Ensemble Citoyens - 158 seats in National Assembly and 67 seats in Senate - center to center-right - liberalism, economic liberalism, green liberalism, pro-Europeanism
Les Républicains - 47 seats in National Assembly and 161 seats in Senate - center-right to right-wing - conservatism, liberal conservatism, Gaullism

Opposition Parties:

NUPES - 151 seats in National Assembly and 107 seats in Senate - center-left to far left - big tent, left-wing populism, democratic socialism, social democracy, green politics, communism
Rassemblement National - 9 seats in National Assembly - far right - national conservatism, right-wing populism, Euroscepticism, anti-immigration, welfare chauvinism
Groupe Libertés et territoires - 17 seats in National Assembly - big tent - regionalism, local interests

GDP (PPP): $3.867 trillion
GDP (Nominal): $3.136 trillion
Currency: Euro

Military Information (If different from irl you must indicate that here): RL French Military

Alliances (If different from IRL): EU (including Eurozone), NATO

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OP):

Despite his remarkable rise in the polls, no one had really expected that Éric Zemmour - right-wing polemicist, author and journalist - would qualify for the second round of the 2022 French presidential elections. Yet with 22.05% of the vote, he narrowly got the second place. Jean-Luc Mélenchon came third with 21.95% and Marine Le Pen fourth with 8.15%. This success shook the political establishment. Despite calls for a 'Republican Front' against the 'far right', Zemmour had the advantage that his name was not Le Pen and that he could count on allies inside the mainstream conservative Les Républicains.

Valérie Pécresse (LR presidential candidate), Marine Le Pen and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (right-wing presidential candidate) all endorsed Zemmour for the second round, Mélenchon called for his supporters to abstain and the rest of the presidential candidates endorsed Emmanuel Macron. Zemmour was able to mobilize popular anger against Macron, who failed to get left-wing voters to show up on the polls. Zemmour was thus elected President of France with 51.15% of the vote versus Macron's 48.85%. Analysts blamed Mélenchon's call for abstention and Macron's debacle in the debates for his defeat.

Now President of France, Éric Zemmour set his sights on winning a legislative majority in the upcoming elections for the National Assembly, held on 12 and 19 June 2022. His party Reconquête was only a few months old, but Zemmour hoped to repeat Macron's success when his newly founded LREM party won an absolute majority in the National Assembly in 2017. Unlike Macron though, Zemmour's party faced much greater resistance from both the center and the left. As such, while his party won the most seats in the Assembly, it failed to win a majority on its own.

Weeks of negotiations ensued as Zemmour tried to find a way to achieve a legislative majority. Eventually he came to an agreement with Macron's Ensemble Citoyens alliance and the traditional conservatives of Les Républicains. The Prime Minister of the coalition government would be Édouard Philippe, who had previously served as Prime Minister of France under Macron from 2017 to 2020. He belonged to the conservative wing of Macron's EC, and in the past had been a member of the mainstream conservative party. The coalition would enact an agenda of economically liberal reforms, bolstering of police forces and restrictions on immigration.

The coalition government has raised the retirement age to 65, slashed sales taxes to 10% (from 20%) on fuel, oil, gas and electricity, reduced the flat tax on capital gains from 30% to 20%, reduced the CSG (general social contribution) from 9% to 5%, bolstered police spending, closed down 'radical' mosques and arrested imams who "promote separatism" (according to a new 'anti-separatism law'), increased the number of illegal migrants deported back to their countries and slashed the number of refugees given asylum in France. Despite Zemmour's Euroscepticism, the coalition's policy on the EU has been rather conservative as both the centrist EC and the center-right LR are pro-EU and Zemmour needs their legislative support.

The government now hopes to streamline France’s complex system of public and private pension schemes into one state-managed plan to close a shortfall of 18 billion euros, to further slash taxes and to further toughen France's stance against illegal immigration. On the EU, France has been pushing for relaxing fiscal rule while at the same time arguing for bolstering Frontex (EU's border agency) and granting EU funding to frontier states to construct border walls in their external borders.

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[Chewion]

Nationstates Name: United Kingdom of Hypron
Nation Name: Konungariket Sverige (Kingdom of Sweden)
Capital: Stockholm, Sweden
Territory: IRL Sweden
Population: 10,384,830
Official Language: Swedish
Recognized Languages: N/A
Flag:

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National Anthem (optional):

Head of State: Carl XVI Gustav, King of Sweden
HoS Picture:

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Head of Government: Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson
HoG Picture (If different from HoS):

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Legislature Name: Riksdag
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each): The government, consisting of the Moderate Party and the Christian Democrats, maintains 152 seats in the Riksdag, with confidence and supply being provided by the Centre Party and the Liberals.

GDP (PPP): $574.094 billion
GDP (Nominal): $541.098 billion
Currency: Swedish krona

Military Information (If different from irl you must indicate that here): Same as IRL

Alliances (If different from IRL): Similar to IRL except for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OP): With Prime Minister Stefan Löfven being ousted in September 2018, the Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristerson saw a perfect opportunity to exploit the Social Democrats' low support to take the Prime Ministership. Convincing the Alliance Parties (The Moderates, the Centre Party, Liberals, and Christian Democrats) to back his candidacy, he entered negotiations with the Social Democrats to garner support. On October 9, 2018, he announced his success in negotiations with the S/SAP and that he would be forming a government.

From 2018 to early 2020, the Kristerson I Cabinet had relatively easy governance. Their 2019 budget passed without issues, they managed to get enough votes to apply for NATO membership (which they ascended to NATO in July 2020), curtailed welfare benefits for immigrants, passed measures on border control, and ensured a growing economy through supporting the free market. All seemed good in Sweden, until COVID-19 hit.

When COVID-19 hit, the government went into action as rapidly as possible, implementing pandemic plans across the nation, granting emergency funding to the Public Health Agency of Sweden, and began contact testing across the nation. However, the Kristerson Cabinet took a lenient approach in certain areas, prioritizing keeping the economy running while only enacting social distancing measures and mask mandates compared to mass lockdowns.

This would come back to bite during the Winter Surge, causing a spike in cases across Sweden. The Kristerson Government, facing the spike in cases, passed harsher measures in response to the pandemic via a law in December 2021. However, this would pay off into Sweden’s overall recovery from the pandemic, with 87.1% of the population being vaccinated by April 2022.

The 2022 Swedish General Elections saw Kristerson reelected, forming a coalition with the Christian Democrats and gaining confidence from the other centrist parties, and has been governing since. But, now we reach 2025. The Swedish economy has been growing, COVID has been contained to an extent, and all is well. Though, with world affairs chugging along, it seems trouble is on the horizon for the Kingdom of Sweden.

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Nationstates Name: Shohun
Nation Name: State of Japan
Capital: Tokyo
Territory: IRL Japan with disputed claims over the Senkaku, Takeshima, and Northern Territories.
Population: 123,432,324
Official Language: Japanese
Recognized Languages: Okinawan and English
Flag: Hinomaru
National Anthem (optional): Kimigayo

Head of State: Emperor Naruhito
HoS Picture: Emperor
Head of Government: Prime Minister Fumio Kishida
HoG Picture (If different from HoS): PM
Legislature Name: National Diet
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each): Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)

GDP (PPP): $6.594 trillion USD
GDP (Nominal): $5.015 trillion USD
Currency: Japanese Yen

Military Information (If different from irl you must indicate that here):

Due to the rapid deterioration of relations with South Korea, the continued dispute with China over the Senkaku Islands, concerns over a nuclear North Korea, and tensions with Russia over the Kuril Islands, known as the Northern Territories in Japan, the Japan Self-Defense Force has seen a large expansion of both personnel and equipment as well as capabilities. The JSDF currently consists of 450,000 active personnel and 350,000 reserve.

Since the late 2010s, concern over North Korean nuclear weapons led Japan to commence development of its own ballistic missiles, coming in the form of short range capabilities and the development of medium/intermediate-range ballistic missiles, meant to be capable of striking North Korean nuclear missile facilities. Despite having much of the missile technology already via its space program, Japan reportedly collaborated with Taiwan and now is said to have small numbers of missiles ready for use. Japan reportedly has over 100 short range ballistic missiles (said to be advancements of the Taiwanese Sky Spear), around 50 medium-range ballistic missiles, and around 20 intermediate-range ballistic missiles, with full scale production ready to be ramped up in the early months of 2025. Advancements of existing missiles such as the Type 12 to increase the range have also been carried out, as well as adaption of the missile to be capable of hitting ground targets.

Other offensive capabilities have also been added, including the conversion of the Izumo class Multi-purpose destroyers to be capable of operating F-35B aircraft. Additional advancements include the conversion of fighter jets to carry offensive missiles, and the formal creation of the Special Maritime Landing Forces under the JMSDF to officially form a marine force.

The JSDF also embarked on a program to increase missile defense capabilities by purchasing the Aegis Ashore, and modernizing existing destroyers to carry the SM-6.

Outside the military, the Japan Coast Guard has changed its training and added more capabilities to its cutters, due to continued and increasingly dangerous confrontations over the Senkaku and Takeshima.

Alliances (If different from IRL):

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OP):

Assembling the necessary votes in 2014, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of the LDP pushed ahead to amend Article 9 to omit the section, “In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be sustained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.” With this, the Abe administration was able to reinterpret the article and allow for a vast remilitarization of Japan, due to concerns over North Korea. Citing the need for deterrence, Abe declared Japan would seek to have “enemy base attack" capabilities by 2020. Thus by the late 2010s, Japanese destroyers were capable of launching cruise missiles, and Japanese development and production of ballistic missiles was under way.

In an effort to calm fear from neighbors, Japan would change its diplomatic bluebook description of South Korea to "Japan's most important neighbor," and unofficially order the Coast Guard to decrease patrols around the Takeshima. Efforts were also made to calm tensions with China with Prime Minister Abe making the vow to international leaders at the UN saying, "Never again will Japan violate the peace that holds our world together. We are faced with dangerous and imminent threats by rouge states that require us to set aside old animosity and act, with both diplomacy and direct action. So if our partners in the UN will allow us, I want Japan to be leading that charge for freedom, democracy, and most importantly peace in Asia."

But tensions erupted in 2020 due to South Korean protests over the display of the Rising Sun flag at the Olympics. Despite numerous statements by organizers and Japanese government leaders confirming the flag was not a political statement, but rather widely used in Japan, the fraying relationship broke. By 2021 the "Hyeongje" movement in South Korea had taken hold, destroying relations. Extremely anti-Japanese, the "Hyeongje" movement would spark a countermovement in Japan, leading to a rise in popularity of the Nihon Kaigi.

Rallying his government, Suga would immediately take measures to attempt to solve the new tensions diplomatically. Efforts to reach out to the South Korean government were in vain, and thus the LDP took a harder stance, reversing positive actions previously taken towards South Korea. By 2022 under Prime Minister Kishida, Japan would ban Japanese citizens from traveling to South Korea, and further officially designated the "Hyeongje" movement as an extremist organization. With the official nullification of the Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea by the Korean side, all diplomatic contact was cut off. In an effort to repair ties, Kishida would again reach out via third-party intermediaries with no success. Faced with pressure from his party, Kishida would for the first time make speculation about the Takeshima Islands, warning that "an effort secure rightful Japanese territory" if the former treaty was not put back into place.

In the following years through 2023 and 2024, Kishida would order the JSDF to be on high alert from provocations from South Korea, declaring that the south was to be regarded as "just as dangerous and unpredictable" as the north. He would further order the military to prepare to "defend Japanese territories" as early as 2025, but would still call for restraint by South Korea and for international mediation.

In the face of racial discrimination by Koreans against Japanese, Kishida would refuse to accept legislation calling for a ban on South Korean media, declaring that such conduct was "only fit for a tyrannical regime." Otherwise due to the declining birth rate, the government would work on legislation making it easier for foreign workers to apply for visas, and to encourage Japanese to have children and to take a rest from work.

But still the tensions continue to mount and they threaten to explode. Kishida is warning South Korea that action to protect Japanese interests could be imminent if a diplomatic solution is not met, just as elections are around the corner.


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Nationstates Name: New Provenance
Nation Name: Federative Republic of Brazil
Capital: Brasilia
Territory: 2022 territories of the Federative Republic of Brazil
Population: 219,020,907 (2025 est.)
Official Language: Portuguese
Recognized Languages: Portuguese, Brazilian-Portuguese, English
Flag:

National Anthem (optional): Brazilian National Hymn

Head of State: President Soraya Thornicke (2024-present)
HoS Picture:

Head of Government: President Soraya Thornicke
HoG Picture (If different from HoS):
Legislature Name: National Congress of Brazil ( Congresso Nacional do Brasil)
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each): Plurality for Democratic Alternative in the Federal Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, CPL coalition majorities in both houses

Federal Senate:
Governing coalition (Coligação para a Liberdade/Coalition for Freedom) with 45/81 total seats
- Leader: Alternativa Democrática (Democratic Alternative, Soraya Thornicke) at 21 seats
- Movimento Nacional Democrático (National Democratic Movement, Carlos Portinho) at 10 seats
- Partido Social Democrata (Social Democratic Party, Rodrigo Pacheo) at 5 seats
- Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers' Party, Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva) at 9 seats

Opposition with 36/81 total seats
- Leader: Partido Liberal (Liberal Party, Jair Bolsonaro) at 16 seats
- Aliança Conservadora Nacional (National Conservative Alliance, Luciano Bivar) at 14 seats
- Progressistas (Progressive, Aguinaldo Ribeiro) at 6 seats

Chamber of Deputies:
Governing coalition with 269/513 seats
- Leader: Alternativa Democrática at 82 seats
- Movimento Nacional Democrático at 73 seats
- Partido Social Democrata at 19 seats
- Novo Brasil (New Brazil, Sheridan Olivera) at 45 seats
- Partido dos Trabalhadores at 50 seats

Opposition with 244/513 seats
- Leader: Partido Liberal at 103 seats
- Aliança Conservadora Nacional at 62 seats
- União Brasil (Brazil Union, Antonio Carlos) at 67 seats
- Progressistas at 12 seats

GDP (PPP): $14,835.00 USD (2020 estimate)
GDP (Nominal): $2.2 trillion USD (2025 estimate)
Currency: Brazilian real

Military Information (If different from irl you must indicate that here):

Manpower (Total): 108,857,163 (2021)
Active Military Personnel: 480,000 (+120,000)
Reserve Personnel: 1,400,000 (+60,000)
Paramilitary: 400,000 (0 net change)

In 2020, a deal was signed between the Federative Republic and the People's Republic of China for the purchase of 125 ZTQ-15 (Type 15) third generation main battle tanks as part of the country's modernization efforts. These tanks were delivered by 2023-2024, and were followed by a 2023 deal for an additional 35 Type 15 third gen MBTs for delivery by the 2026-2027 time period.

Alliances (If different from IRL): Relations between Brazil and the People's Republic of China have been boosted since Beijing underwent a period of liberalization and transformation from the governance of the hardliners within the Chinese Communist Party. Particularly under Lula, relations between China and Brazil saw positive events, but distance was kept in adherence with Brazil's 'independent foreign policy'. Incumbent president Soraya Thornicke views China in a neutral light, and has especially been hesitant to further expand relations beyond the status quo.

The United States and Brazil have also been working to develop bilateral relations for over a decade, starting in 2014 immediately after the election of Dilma Rousseff into power, after a period of tension between Washington and Brasilia over the 2013 NSA spying incident. The Rousseff and subsequently the Temer government would make great strides in partnering with the United States, making several landmark agreements to boost bilateral diplomatic and trade relations. In 2019, however, with the rise of right-wing conservative Jair Bolsonaro, relations between the States and Brazil suffered, as the new president moved towards Russia and China, reversing the work of the Rousseff and Temer governments. However, in 2022, with the return of Lula - a former president - to the presidency in a landslide election victory, relations between the U.S. and Brazil were normalized and the new Brazilian government pledged to begin a 'new era' in US-Brazil diplomatic relations. Current president Soraya Thornicke is considerably more pro-Western than her predecessor Lula, and as such has made it clear that she intends to prioritize the U.S.-Brazil relationship which she deems 'vital to global stability, security and prosperity'.

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OP):

In the lead-up to the 2022 presidential elections, polling gave Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, the former Brazilian president and left-wing politician riding a wave of popular support to the presidency, a decisive 20-point lead over his competitor, the infamous right-wing conservative incumbent Jair Messias Bolsonaro. The left and the centrists, who had negotiated for the establishment of a coalition between Lula's Workers' Party (PT) and several social democratic parties under the banner of the Movimento Nacional Democrático (National Democratic Movement), now worried that the Brazilian military, with whom Bolsonaro had close ties with, would intervene in the October elections in order to keep Bolsonaro in power.

As October drew closer polling gave Lula an even wider lead as he promised a continuation of the widespread socioeconomic reforms and programs initiated by his government under his first tenure as president, as well as pushing for greater punishments against corruption in the Brazilian government. One of his star programs was pledging to protect the Amazon Rainforest from 'relentless and devastating destruction' while compensating for the economic losses by investing in other industries. By late September, Lula was polling 64% nationally against second-placer Bolsonaro's 21%.

Similarly, a national rise in support for 'alternative politics' began to see a rise, with centrist independent candidates for the Federal Senate and the Chamber of Deputies surging in polls, as the public thirsted for change, this time placing their trust in third party independents who were promising real action, environmental protection and action on climate change and poverty, rather than in the establishment whom they had trusted to make change for decades, to no avail or result. From 19% support for 'alternative politics' generally in January 2018, over 33% now supported third parties including a rising coalition of independents led by Senator Soraya Thornicke, a member of the Federal Senate and an independent candidate seeking re-election.

On 2 October 2022, Brazilians went to the polls to decide their next president. Polling gave Lula 65% against Bolsonaro's 20%, with most local pundits and experts predicting a landslide victory for Lula, who would likely not even need a second round as in the first he was already poised to secure a majority. Throughout election night the country waited anxiously, as the votes counted up in what appeared to be a close race. By the time half of all votes were counted, however, it was clear that Lula was bound for a majority (50%) in the first round, a historic moment for Brazilian politics.

After voting was accomplished on 4 October 2022, the Superior Electoral Court convened in the evening of 5 October to ratify the election results which gave Lula 55% of the vote, against Bolsonaro's 27%. As Bolsonaro's supporters protested outside the SEC offices in Brasilia crying fraud and vote rigging, Lula and his supporters staged a massive victory party in Rio De Janeiro, attended by thousands. That evening, however, would change Brazilian democracy forever.

What was feared came in the form of tanks rolling down the streets and soldiers dispersing the crowds. Forces of the government marching into the Supreme Electoral Court, and forcing the court officials at gunpoint to delay vote ratification and investigate what the Brazilian General Staff called 'serious irregularities' in the vote counting. The next day, President Jair Messias Bolsonaro declared a nationwide curfew and delayed the Superior Electoral Court from ratifying the election results until 'an investigation revealed the true and legitimate result of the election'. From 7 to 12 October 2022, hundreds of thousands took to the streets, occupying major highways and protesting in the streets of Brazil's major cities, demanding Bolsonaro's ousting.

In the streets of Rio, on the evening of 15 October, at approximately 9:07pm local time, members of the Brazilian police militias opened fire on protesters, taking down 17 and injuring 40.

The October Incident would go down as the final death bell for the Bolsonaro regime, when from a combination of internal unrest caused by protesters and international pressure, Jair Bolsonaro announced his recognition of the 2022 election results, conceding to Lula and allowing the Superior Electoral Court to declare and ratify his victory, which it promptly did on 17 October.

On 1 January 2023, Lula was inaugurated as the country's next president, with a popular mandate but a democracy to repair and defend.

Despite popular support behind his government, Lula had to make immense effort to pass legislation as he required the assent of his coalition partners, the Social Democratic Party of Rodrigo Pacheo and the National Democratic Movement of Carlos Portinho, which served as an umbrella party for social democratic and left-wing political parties in Brazil. However, significant progress on pandemic recovery and environment protection was made, but external debt and inflation continued to steadily rise. The healthcare system also saw a lack of change despite Lula campaigning on a promise to reform the Brazilian healthcare system and work towards 'better, cheap healthcare for everyone'. The Petrobas scandal continued to hang over Lula's head like a shadow rearing its head, while Bolsonaro remained leader of his ultraconservative Liberal Party.

Lula's presidency saw a steady decline in popular support due to its failure to enact change to the lives of regular Brazilians, from 61% in February 2023 to 54% in June 2023 to 46% in October, one year after the elections that swept Lula to power. His failing popularity and the parallel rise of the 'alternative center' led by Senator Soraya Thornicke and her coalition of Senate independents whose support were vital to passing Lula's legislative agenda led to the president's Workers' Party to seriously consider snap elections to push for a Workers' Party majority, to 'make real change'.

However, Lula and his close allies rejected the plan, citing polling that showed that were an election to be held that day, only 39% would vote for Lula, while 37% would vote for Thornicke, while 24% supported Bolsonaro. During an interview with a key Brazilian network, Lula replied to a question about the possibility of a snap election with 'it wouldn't be good,'.

The rise in popular support for the Brazilian alternative center could be traced back to 2014, with the victory of center-left Dilma Rousseff in the 2014 presidential elections. While she was indeed affiliated with the left-wing Workers' Party rather than serving as an independent or a centrist politician, Rousseff despite corruption scandals and eventual impeachment destroying her reputation and her presidency down the line inspired a wave of support for centrist-leaning politicians who worked for change rather than partisan interests, politicians who supported bipartisan cooperation with all sides despite their political alignment, as long as things got done and these things were done right. In 2016, Soraya Thornicke departed the center-right conservative Brazil Union (UNIAO) party and joined the Brazil Social Democracy Party from 2016 to 2018, before leaving to run for the Federal Senate in her home province as an independent candidate running as a centrist, in order to differentiate herself from the conservative candidates behind Jair Bolsonaro.

The 2022 elections, Bolsonaro's violent reaction to the results, combined with the fallacies of the Lula government and its failure to deliver justice to Bolsonaro and the military commanders responsible for the October Incident led to a drastic drop in trust and thus support for the establishment parties, namely the Workers' Party of Lula and the Liberal Party of Bolsonaro. Support for other parties like the center-right Progressistas (in the opposition) and the center-left National Democratic Movement (in the government) rose as they began to be viewed as alternatives to the Workers' Party and the Liberal Party, both of which were now increasingly being seen as overly radical and too partisan.

The unique set of situations and events that took place during Lula's first term, starting with his struggling to pass pandemic recovery legislation (a foreshadowing of things to come) and ending with yet another corruption scandal, this time involving Brazil's largest mining companies extensively 'lobbying' to be allowed into the Amazon Rainforest (causing Lula to backtrack on his previous pro-environment, pro-Amazon promises), allowed for the rise of a new political party to contest Lula's government, known as the Democratic Alternative (Alternativa Democrática), founded by Soraya Thornicke on 19 October 2023.

The center-right senator led calls for a snap election, leaving the government's senate coalition due to 'its inaction and failure to keep its promise to the Brazilian people' and positioning herself between the government and the opposition, as a third party unbothered by the usual ineffective partisan Brazilian politics. Thornicke famously declared in a now-viral speech that she would not promise to do big things as president, but instead said she would rather promise to do her best to do so, with 'transparency, honesty, commitment and determination'. At this time popular support for snap elections stood at 35%, which then surged to 44% then 51% as the opposition - led by Bolsonaro - joined in calls for early elections.

After peaceful demonstrations and rallies organized by Thornicke and the Democratic Alternative, as well as experts indicating that the recent passage of a defense spending bill and a housing development bill could save Lula's poll numbers, the Lula government agreed to snap elections, set for January 2024. Polling gave Lula a narrow lead with 41% support, against Thornicke's 38% and Bolsonaro's 21%. Experts said that the polling was likely to hold as is until the election, meaning the possibility of a runoff second round between Lula and Thornicke was now highly possible.

Polling changed in the next few months ever so slightly but still significantly, from 42-39-20 in favor of Lula (November) then 41-40-19 in favor of Lula (December), before closing off on 2 January (exit polls) with 41-41-18, tying Lula and Thornicke.

On 4 January the Brazilian people went to the polls once more to elect a new leader, or to reinforce their support for the current. Predictions ruled out a first round victory for either Lula or Thornicke, and deemed a second round race between Lula and Thornicke much more possible. The votes went in and they were counted, revealing 43% of the vote for the incumbent Lula and the Workers' Party, 41% of the vote for Thornicke and the Democratic Alternative, and only 17% for Bolsonaro and the Liberal Party.

Now Lula had to convince 7% of voters to choose him on 24 January instead of Thornicke, who in two-way polling was showing a lead, polling 50% against Lula's 48%, since most Bolsonaro voters would most likely choose Thornicke, if they were to vote at all.

The final campaign period came down to a head as Thornicke and Lula faced off in a debate that was decidedly a victory of Thornicke, and as damning evidence in the corruption case against Lula was released, allegedly to sabotage his candidacy. Despite the left naming Thornicke as a Bolsonaro puppet, polling changed to 54% to 47%, as it became apparent that Bolsonaro voters would most likely either abstain from voting or choose Thornicke as their president.

On the 24th, they did just that.

With 53% of the vote against 49%, Soraya Thornicke was elected the next President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, with a substantial Senate majority and a fairly slim Chamber of Deputies majority (20-ish seats) and the popular vote behind her. Lula attempted to appeal the results, citing 'irregularities', but was ruled against by the Superior Electoral Court on the grounds of a lack of sufficient evidence.

Despite her surprise victory not only for the Democratic Alternative but also for third-way centrist politics in Brazil, which had only taken prominence in recent years, Thornicke would be taking office with heavy baggage. Claims that she had scandalously revealed damning information on Lula's involvement in the Amazon corruption case in order to win the election were still being actively investigated, and were she to be found guilty she could be impeached.

On 25 February 2024, Soraya Thornicke was sworn in as the second female and the youngest president of the Federative Republic of Brazil.

Her term has been described by many as fairly smooth for the time being, with bipartisan legislation on the establishment of sanctuary regions protected by a new government agency known as the Interior Rangers Force (IRF) in the Amazon Rainforest, progress towards legitimate economic recovery and curbing inflation, developing a streamlined version of Lula's cash assistance for lower-income Brazilian families, and the launching of massive infrastructure projects to create tens of thousands of new jobs.

At the turn of the new year, Thornicke held a national approval rating of 49%, holding stable from her initial ratings of 51%.


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Nationstates Name: Yelbland
Nation Name: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Capital: London
Territory: modern UK borders, territories
Population: 67.2 million
Official Language: English
Recognized Languages: Welsh, Gaelic
Flag: Union Jack
National Anthem (optional): God Save the Queen

Head of State: Queen Elizabeth II
HoS Picture:
Head of Government: Ben Wallace
HoG Picture (If different from HoS):
Legislature Name: Parliment
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each): Conservative

GDP (PPP): 40,000$
GDP (Nominal): 2.7 trillion USD
Currency: Pound

Military Information (If different from irl you must indicate that here):
Active duty personnel raised to 250,000
Reserves raised to 50,000

Alliances (If different from IRL):
NATO, Commonwealth of Nations
History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OP):
With the ousting of Boris Johnson by his own party, the Tories were able to put in power the Minister of Defense Ben Wallace into the position of PM. Wallaces commitment to greater military cooperation with NATO nations as well as watchful eye on the aggressions of China and Russia prove that he remains prepared to defend western democracy from the threat of authoritarianism. A shift in defense spending has raised the UK from 2% of its GDP to 3% in the past years as malignancy throughout the world by authoritarian powers challenges the balance of power.


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Nationstates Name: APH
Nation Name: The Federal Republic of Germany
Capital: Berlin
Territory: Present day Germany
Population: 83.4 million
Official Language: German
Recognized Languages: Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Albanian, Russian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Dutch, Italian, Greek, Romanian, Hindustani, Spanish, English
Flag: Same as irl
National Anthem (optional): German National Anthem

Head of State: President Carsten Christoffer Linnemann
HoS Picture: President Carsten Christoffer Linnemann
Head of Government: Chancellor Armin Laschet
HoG Picture (If different from HoS): (Image)
Legislature Name: The Bundestag
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each): The Christian Democratic Union has a 420 out of 736 seat majority

GDP (PPP): 5.3 trillion USD
GDP (Nominal): 4.4 trillion USD
Currency: The Euro

Military Information (If different from irl you must indicate that here): The German military has since 2000, when Vladimir Putin took office in Russia, has gradually increased its defense budget over the next 25 years to where it stands currently which is now 3% of Germany's GDP which for 2025 is 159 billion USD. These budget increases were especially justified after Russia illegally invaded and stole the Crimean Peninsula.


Tanks: 950
Armored Vehicles: 13,000
SPA: 250
Towed Artillery: 500
MRL: 80

Helicopter Carrier: 1
Destroyer: 5 (1 under construction)
Frigates: 18 (3 under construction)
Corvettes: 10 (2 under construction)
Subs: 12 (2 under construction)
Patrol Vessels: 20 (4 under construction)
Mine Warfare: 20

Fighters: 210
Attack: 110
Transport: 43
Trainers: 90
Special mission: 80
Tankers: 6
Helicopters: 500
Attack Helicopters: 110

Alliances (If different from IRL): Same as IRL

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OP): The only changes are that the CDU remains the Party in power and the German military is meeting its NATO defense budget requirements and is substantially larger than IRL.


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Nationstates Name: New Provenance
Nation Name: Federative Republic of Brazil
Capital: Brasilia
Territory: 2022 territories of the Federative Republic of Brazil
Population: 219,020,907 (2025 est.)
Official Language: Portuguese
Recognized Languages: Portuguese, Brazilian-Portuguese, English
Flag:

(Image)

National Anthem (optional): Brazilian National Hymn

Head of State: President Soraya Thornicke (2024-present)
HoS Picture:

(Image)

Head of Government: President Soraya Thornicke
HoG Picture (If different from HoS):
Legislature Name: National Congress of Brazil ( Congresso Nacional do Brasil)
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each): Plurality for Democratic Alternative in the Federal Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, CPL coalition majorities in both houses

Federal Senate:
Governing coalition (Coligação para a Liberdade/Coalition for Freedom) with 45/81 total seats
- Leader: Alternativa Democrática (Democratic Alternative, Soraya Thornicke) at 21 seats
- Movimento Nacional Democrático (National Democratic Movement, Carlos Portinho) at 10 seats
- Partido Social Democrata (Social Democratic Party, Rodrigo Pacheo) at 5 seats
- Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers' Party, Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva) at 9 seats

Opposition with 36/81 total seats
- Leader: Partido Liberal (Liberal Party, Jair Bolsonaro) at 16 seats
- Aliança Conservadora Nacional (National Conservative Alliance, Luciano Bivar) at 14 seats
- Progressistas (Progressive, Aguinaldo Ribeiro) at 6 seats

Chamber of Deputies:
Governing coalition with 269/513 seats
- Leader: Alternativa Democrática at 82 seats
- Movimento Nacional Democrático at 73 seats
- Partido Social Democrata at 19 seats
- Novo Brasil (New Brazil, Sheridan Olivera) at 45 seats
- Partido dos Trabalhadores at 50 seats

Opposition with 244/513 seats
- Leader: Partido Liberal at 103 seats
- Aliança Conservadora Nacional at 62 seats
- União Brasil (Brazil Union, Antonio Carlos) at 67 seats
- Progressistas at 12 seats

GDP (PPP): $14,835.00 USD (2020 estimate)
GDP (Nominal): $2.2 trillion USD (2025 estimate)
Currency: Brazilian real

Military Information (If different from irl you must indicate that here):

Manpower (Total): 108,857,163 (2021)
Active Military Personnel: 480,000 (+120,000)
Reserve Personnel: 1,400,000 (+60,000)
Paramilitary: 400,000 (0 net change)

In 2020, a deal was signed between the Federative Republic and the People's Republic of China for the purchase of 125 ZTQ-15 (Type 15) third generation main battle tanks as part of the country's modernization efforts. These tanks were delivered by 2023-2024, and were followed by a 2023 deal for an additional 35 Type 15 third gen MBTs for delivery by the 2026-2027 time period.

Alliances (If different from IRL): Relations between Brazil and the People's Republic of China have been boosted since Beijing underwent a period of liberalization and transformation from the governance of the hardliners within the Chinese Communist Party. Particularly under Lula, relations between China and Brazil saw positive events, but distance was kept in adherence with Brazil's 'independent foreign policy'. Incumbent president Soraya Thornicke views China in a neutral light, and has especially been hesitant to further expand relations beyond the status quo.

The United States and Brazil have also been working to develop bilateral relations for over a decade, starting in 2014 immediately after the election of Dilma Rousseff into power, after a period of tension between Washington and Brasilia over the 2013 NSA spying incident. The Rousseff and subsequently the Temer government would make great strides in partnering with the United States, making several landmark agreements to boost bilateral diplomatic and trade relations. In 2019, however, with the rise of right-wing conservative Jair Bolsonaro, relations between the States and Brazil suffered, as the new president moved towards Russia and China, reversing the work of the Rousseff and Temer governments. However, in 2022, with the return of Lula - a former president - to the presidency in a landslide election victory, relations between the U.S. and Brazil were normalized and the new Brazilian government pledged to begin a 'new era' in US-Brazil diplomatic relations. Current president Soraya Thornicke is considerably more pro-Western than her predecessor Lula, and as such has made it clear that she intends to prioritize the U.S.-Brazil relationship which she deems 'vital to global stability, security and prosperity'.

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OP):

In the lead-up to the 2022 presidential elections, polling gave Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, the former Brazilian president and left-wing politician riding a wave of popular support to the presidency, a decisive 20-point lead over his competitor, the infamous right-wing conservative incumbent Jair Messias Bolsonaro. The left and the centrists, who had negotiated for the establishment of a coalition between Lula's Workers' Party (PT) and several social democratic parties under the banner of the Movimento Nacional Democrático (National Democratic Movement), now worried that the Brazilian military, with whom Bolsonaro had close ties with, would intervene in the October elections in order to keep Bolsonaro in power.

As October drew closer polling gave Lula an even wider lead as he promised a continuation of the widespread socioeconomic reforms and programs initiated by his government under his first tenure as president, as well as pushing for greater punishments against corruption in the Brazilian government. One of his star programs was pledging to protect the Amazon Rainforest from 'relentless and devastating destruction' while compensating for the economic losses by investing in other industries. By late September, Lula was polling 64% nationally against second-placer Bolsonaro's 21%.

Similarly, a national rise in support for 'alternative politics' began to see a rise, with centrist independent candidates for the Federal Senate and the Chamber of Deputies surging in polls, as the public thirsted for change, this time placing their trust in third party independents who were promising real action, environmental protection and action on climate change and poverty, rather than in the establishment whom they had trusted to make change for decades, to no avail or result. From 19% support for 'alternative politics' generally in January 2018, over 33% now supported third parties including a rising coalition of independents led by Senator Soraya Thornicke, a member of the Federal Senate and an independent candidate seeking re-election.

On 2 October 2022, Brazilians went to the polls to decide their next president. Polling gave Lula 65% against Bolsonaro's 20%, with most local pundits and experts predicting a landslide victory for Lula, who would likely not even need a second round as in the first he was already poised to secure a majority. Throughout election night the country waited anxiously, as the votes counted up in what appeared to be a close race. By the time half of all votes were counted, however, it was clear that Lula was bound for a majority (50%) in the first round, a historic moment for Brazilian politics.

After voting was accomplished on 4 October 2022, the Superior Electoral Court convened in the evening of 5 October to ratify the election results which gave Lula 55% of the vote, against Bolsonaro's 27%. As Bolsonaro's supporters protested outside the SEC offices in Brasilia crying fraud and vote rigging, Lula and his supporters staged a massive victory party in Rio De Janeiro, attended by thousands. That evening, however, would change Brazilian democracy forever.

What was feared came in the form of tanks rolling down the streets and soldiers dispersing the crowds. Forces of the government marching into the Supreme Electoral Court, and forcing the court officials at gunpoint to delay vote ratification and investigate what the Brazilian General Staff called 'serious irregularities' in the vote counting. The next day, President Jair Messias Bolsonaro declared a nationwide curfew and delayed the Superior Electoral Court from ratifying the election results until 'an investigation revealed the true and legitimate result of the election'. From 7 to 12 October 2022, hundreds of thousands took to the streets, occupying major highways and protesting in the streets of Brazil's major cities, demanding Bolsonaro's ousting.

In the streets of Rio, on the evening of 15 October, at approximately 9:07pm local time, members of the Brazilian police militias opened fire on protesters, taking down 17 and injuring 40.

The October Incident would go down as the final death bell for the Bolsonaro regime, when from a combination of internal unrest caused by protesters and international pressure, Jair Bolsonaro announced his recognition of the 2022 election results, conceding to Lula and allowing the Superior Electoral Court to declare and ratify his victory, which it promptly did on 17 October.

On 1 January 2023, Lula was inaugurated as the country's next president, with a popular mandate but a democracy to repair and defend.

Despite popular support behind his government, Lula had to make immense effort to pass legislation as he required the assent of his coalition partners, the Social Democratic Party of Rodrigo Pacheo and the National Democratic Movement of Carlos Portinho, which served as an umbrella party for social democratic and left-wing political parties in Brazil. However, significant progress on pandemic recovery and environment protection was made, but external debt and inflation continued to steadily rise. The healthcare system also saw a lack of change despite Lula campaigning on a promise to reform the Brazilian healthcare system and work towards 'better, cheap healthcare for everyone'. The Petrobas scandal continued to hang over Lula's head like a shadow rearing its head, while Bolsonaro remained leader of his ultraconservative Liberal Party.

Lula's presidency saw a steady decline in popular support due to its failure to enact change to the lives of regular Brazilians, from 61% in February 2023 to 54% in June 2023 to 46% in October, one year after the elections that swept Lula to power. His failing popularity and the parallel rise of the 'alternative center' led by Senator Soraya Thornicke and her coalition of Senate independents whose support were vital to passing Lula's legislative agenda led to the president's Workers' Party to seriously consider snap elections to push for a Workers' Party majority, to 'make real change'.

However, Lula and his close allies rejected the plan, citing polling that showed that were an election to be held that day, only 39% would vote for Lula, while 37% would vote for Thornicke, while 24% supported Bolsonaro. During an interview with a key Brazilian network, Lula replied to a question about the possibility of a snap election with 'it wouldn't be good,'.

The rise in popular support for the Brazilian alternative center could be traced back to 2014, with the victory of center-left Dilma Rousseff in the 2014 presidential elections. While she was indeed affiliated with the left-wing Workers' Party rather than serving as an independent or a centrist politician, Rousseff despite corruption scandals and eventual impeachment destroying her reputation and her presidency down the line inspired a wave of support for centrist-leaning politicians who worked for change rather than partisan interests, politicians who supported bipartisan cooperation with all sides despite their political alignment, as long as things got done and these things were done right. In 2016, Soraya Thornicke departed the center-right conservative Brazil Union (UNIAO) party and joined the Brazil Social Democracy Party from 2016 to 2018, before leaving to run for the Federal Senate in her home province as an independent candidate running as a centrist, in order to differentiate herself from the conservative candidates behind Jair Bolsonaro.

The 2022 elections, Bolsonaro's violent reaction to the results, combined with the fallacies of the Lula government and its failure to deliver justice to Bolsonaro and the military commanders responsible for the October Incident led to a drastic drop in trust and thus support for the establishment parties, namely the Workers' Party of Lula and the Liberal Party of Bolsonaro. Support for other parties like the center-right Progressistas (in the opposition) and the center-left National Democratic Movement (in the government) rose as they began to be viewed as alternatives to the Workers' Party and the Liberal Party, both of which were now increasingly being seen as overly radical and too partisan.

The unique set of situations and events that took place during Lula's first term, starting with his struggling to pass pandemic recovery legislation (a foreshadowing of things to come) and ending with yet another corruption scandal, this time involving Brazil's largest mining companies extensively 'lobbying' to be allowed into the Amazon Rainforest (causing Lula to backtrack on his previous pro-environment, pro-Amazon promises), allowed for the rise of a new political party to contest Lula's government, known as the Democratic Alternative (Alternativa Democrática), founded by Soraya Thornicke on 19 October 2023.

The center-right senator led calls for a snap election, leaving the government's senate coalition due to 'its inaction and failure to keep its promise to the Brazilian people' and positioning herself between the government and the opposition, as a third party unbothered by the usual ineffective partisan Brazilian politics. Thornicke famously declared in a now-viral speech that she would not promise to do big things as president, but instead said she would rather promise to do her best to do so, with 'transparency, honesty, commitment and determination'. At this time popular support for snap elections stood at 35%, which then surged to 44% then 51% as the opposition - led by Bolsonaro - joined in calls for early elections.

After peaceful demonstrations and rallies organized by Thornicke and the Democratic Alternative, as well as experts indicating that the recent passage of a defense spending bill and a housing development bill could save Lula's poll numbers, the Lula government agreed to snap elections, set for January 2024. Polling gave Lula a narrow lead with 41% support, against Thornicke's 38% and Bolsonaro's 21%. Experts said that the polling was likely to hold as is until the election, meaning the possibility of a runoff second round between Lula and Thornicke was now highly possible.

Polling changed in the next few months ever so slightly but still significantly, from 42-39-20 in favor of Lula (November) then 41-40-19 in favor of Lula (December), before closing off on 2 January (exit polls) with 41-41-18, tying Lula and Thornicke.

On 4 January the Brazilian people went to the polls once more to elect a new leader, or to reinforce their support for the current. Predictions ruled out a first round victory for either Lula or Thornicke, and deemed a second round race between Lula and Thornicke much more possible. The votes went in and they were counted, revealing 43% of the vote for the incumbent Lula and the Workers' Party, 41% of the vote for Thornicke and the Democratic Alternative, and only 17% for Bolsonaro and the Liberal Party.

Now Lula had to convince 7% of voters to choose him on 24 January instead of Thornicke, who in two-way polling was showing a lead, polling 50% against Lula's 48%, since most Bolsonaro voters would most likely choose Thornicke, if they were to vote at all.

The final campaign period came down to a head as Thornicke and Lula faced off in a debate that was decidedly a victory of Thornicke, and as damning evidence in the corruption case against Lula was released, allegedly to sabotage his candidacy. Despite the left naming Thornicke as a Bolsonaro puppet, polling changed to 54% to 47%, as it became apparent that Bolsonaro voters would most likely either abstain from voting or choose Thornicke as their president.

On the 24th, they did just that.

With 53% of the vote against 49%, Soraya Thornicke was elected the next President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, with a substantial Senate majority and a fairly slim Chamber of Deputies majority (20-ish seats) and the popular vote behind her. Lula attempted to appeal the results, citing 'irregularities', but was ruled against by the Superior Electoral Court on the grounds of a lack of sufficient evidence.

Despite her surprise victory not only for the Democratic Alternative but also for third-way centrist politics in Brazil, which had only taken prominence in recent years, Thornicke would be taking office with heavy baggage. Claims that she had scandalously revealed damning information on Lula's involvement in the Amazon corruption case in order to win the election were still being actively investigated, and were she to be found guilty she could be impeached.

On 25 February 2024, Soraya Thornicke was sworn in as the second female and the youngest president of the Federative Republic of Brazil.

Her term has been described by many as fairly smooth for the time being, with bipartisan legislation on the establishment of sanctuary regions protected by a new government agency known as the Interior Rangers Force (IRF) in the Amazon Rainforest, progress towards legitimate economic recovery and curbing inflation, developing a streamlined version of Lula's cash assistance for lower-income Brazilian families, and the launching of massive infrastructure projects to create tens of thousands of new jobs.

At the turn of the new year, Thornicke held a national approval rating of 49%, holding stable from her initial ratings of 51%.


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Nationstates Name: Doroisael
Nation Name: Philippines
Capital: Manila
Territory: IRL Territory
Population: 112,571,749
Official Language: English and Filipino
Recognized Languages: Arabic, Spanish, and 19 regional languages
Flag: IRL Flag
National Anthem (optional): Lupang Hinirang

Head of State: Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
HoS Picture:

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Head of Government: Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
HoG Picture (If different from HoS):
Legislature Name: Congress of the Philippines
Upper House - Senate
Lower House - House of Representatives
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each):
Upper House - Nationalist People's Coalition
Lower House - Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (Philippine Democratic Party–People's Power)

GDP (PPP): 1 trillion USD
GDP (Nominal): 402.638 billion USD
Currency: Philippine peso (₱)

Military Information (If different from irl you must indicate that here):

Alliances (If different from IRL):

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OP):


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[Arvenia]

NS Name: Arvenia
RP Name: Republic of Korea (대한민국/Daehan Minguk)
Capital: Seoul
Territory: South Korea
Population: 51,339,378
Official Language: Korean
Recognized Language: English
Flag: Taegukgi
National Anthem: "The Patriotic Song" (애국가/Aegukga)

Head of State: President Cho Dae-jung
HoS Picture: Seen to the right
Head of Government: Vice President Moon Suk-jung
HoG Picture: Seen to the left
Legislature Name: National Assembly (국회/Gughoe)
Legislative Houses: House of Councillors (참의원/Chamui-won) and House of Representatives (민의원/Minui-won)
Party in Power: National Republican Party (국민공화당/Gugmingonghwadang)

GDP (PPP): $2.759 trillion
GDP (Nominal): $2.217 trillion
Currency: South Korean won (₩)

Military Information: The South Korean military is still the same as IRL, except the ROK Marine Corps was officially made an independent branch through constitutional amendment in 2024. The military currently houses 3,300,000 troops (550,000 active troops and 2,750,000 reserve troops).

Alliances: South Korea has maintained a Mutual Defense Treaty with the US since 1953.

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OP): Relations between South Korea and Japan has remained sour since the 20th century. Comfort women, the Yasukuni Shrine, the Liancourt Rocks and the raising of the Rising Sun Flag at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. These are the issues that would enable further tensions between both countries. In 2021, the diplomatic fallout came full ahead with the rise of a new right-wing nationalist movement in South Korea called Hyeongje (형제), which advocates for full retaliation against the Japanese for their historical and present atrocities against Koreans, as well as both support for Korean reunification and opposition to communism. By 2022, the movement became very popular among both South Koreans and Zainichi Koreans, thus making its opponent, the Juche movement, less popular outside of North Korea.

During the 2022 South Korean presidential election, a new party called the National Republican Party (국민공화당/Gugmingonghwadang) emerged and started to gain support due to its participation in the Hyeongje movement. Its founder and presidential candidate, Cho Dae-jung, promoted Korean reunification, economic stability, Christian values, national unity, Korean-American military cooperation and, most importantly, opposition to "Japanese imperialism". Standing in opposition to the Democratic Party of Korea, the People Power Party, the Justice Party and the People Party, the National Republican Party gained the upper hand due to the ongoing disputes between South Korea and Japan, as well as having reminded South Koreans of Japanese war crimes. The party also proceeded to paint both Japan and its people in a negative light, describing the Japanese as a "barbaric race" and accusing them of cooperating with the North Korean government. Once the election ended, the party won and Cho Dae-jung became President of South Korea. Afterwards, the new government implemented many policies, especially anti-Japanese ones. These policies include banning Japanese entertainment (J-Pop, J-Drama, anime, manga, etc), expelling Japanese people from South Korea, cracking down on the yakuza and restricting imports from Japan. Other policies include stronger cooperation between South Korea and the United States, crackdown on anti-American sentiment, promotion of democratic values, de-Japanization of the South Korean entertainment industry, support for climate change mitigation, denounciation of Park Chung-hee, increased population growth, stronger COVID-19 regulations, bigger emphasis on Korean history in South Korean schools and advocacy for Korean reunification under Seoul. The anti-Japanese sentiment later escalated when the new government banned South Koreans from visiting Japan, ordered all Japanese companies to leave South Korea for good and nullified the "Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea" (한일기본조약/Hanil Gibon Joyak). Later, the government began deporting all the chinilpa, Koreans who collaborated with Japan before and during WW2, to Japan. The government also expanded the term to include any South Korean who is fond of Japanese culture, owns Japanese products and/or has a relationship with a Japanese person. As a result, any form of pro-Japanese sentiment is punishable by either prison, death or outright deportation to Japan. These anti-Japanese policies formed the "Anti-Japanese Civil Act of 2022" (반일민법/Ban-il Minbeob), which the National Republican Party implemented upon coming to power. At the same time, relations soured between North Korea and South Korea after the former began feeling threatened by the Hyeongje movement, which was now in control of the latter. Meanwhile, the NRP is now exerting influence over Mindan (재일본대한민국민단), a pro-ROK group based in Japan.

In 2024, many constitutional amendments were made, the most prominent of which saw the position of Prime Minister (국무총리/Gungmuchongni) being replaced with that of Vice President (부통령/Butonglyeong) and the President being allowed to have two terms in office. Other amendments include the National Assembly (국회/Gughoe) becoming bicameral again and the President being allowed to dissolve it. The ROK Marine Corps became an independent branch of the South Korean military, while the Homeland Security Agency (국토안보부/Gugtoanbobu) was formed to deal with both domestic intelligence and national security. These amendments turned South Korea into the "Seventh Republic" (제7공화국/Jechil Gonghwaguk).

The year is now 2025 and President Cho Dae-jung has plans for his people. It is not sure how the future would look like, but the Hyeongje movement promises that "everything will be alright".

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Nationstates Name: Newne Carriebean7
Nation Name: Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Capital: Pyongyang
Territory: North Korea
Population: 24,506,038 people (as of the 2020 State census)
Official Language: Korean
Recognized Languages: Mandarin Chinese
Flag:
National Anthem (optional): Korea does what it is determined to do!

Head of State: 2nd President of the Democratic Peoples' Republic, General Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea and Principal of the State Defense Board Kim Jong-Il (aged 84)
HoS Picture:

Head of Government: President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Yong-nam (aged 97)
HoG Picture (If different from HoS):

Legislature Name: Supreme People's Assembly ( 최고인민회의; Ch’oego Inmin Hoeŭi)
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each): Worker's Party of Korea

GDP (PPP): $1,700
GDP: $28.5 billion
GDP per capita: $1,300
Currency: North Korean won

Military Information (If different from irl you must indicate that here):
The Korean People's Army Ground Force is currently comprised of 3,095,000 active duty military personnel and another 2,048,000 reserve duty military personnel.
800 T-72 Main Battle Tanks
3,405 T-62 Main Battle Tanks
3,800 T-55 Main Battle Tanks
500 Chonma-ho 1 Main Battle Tanks
495 Juche Po' M-1992 Self Propelled Artillery
600 ZSU-23-4 Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft
2,000 ZSU-57-2 Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft
666 BMP-1 Infantry Fighting Vehicles
200 M4 Sherman Support Engagement Armor
350 T-34 Support Engagement Armor
25 Stug-III Self-Propelled Guns

The Korean People's Navy has seen limited expansion in the last decade. Separated on two sides of the country, neither the Eastern nor Western fleets can support each other efficiently or in a timely manner in the event of an attack.

Eastern Fleet of the Korean People's Navy
4 Nanjin class Light Frigates
5 former Soviet Whiskey class Submarines - Names: IO (1-5)
20 Sang-O class Submarines - Names: IO-TB (0-19)

Western Fleet of the Korean People's Navy
1 Fugas class minesweeper
5 former Soviet Whiskey class Submarines - Names: IO (6-10)
30 Sang-O class Submarines - Names: I0-TB (19-49)


Korean People's Army Air and Anti-Air Force:
1,020 total aircraft of all types
43,800 Anti-Aircraft missile and flak batteries all throughout the country.

271 - MiG-21 fighters
74 - MiG-23 fighter-bombers
58 - Sukhoi Su-7 fighter-bombers
150 - Chengdu J-7 fighters
270 - MiG-29 multirole aircraft
90 - Mil Mi-2 attack helicopters
47 - Sukhoi Su-25 attack aircraft
60 - A6M Zero fighter/kamikaze aircraft ( prototype aircraft stolen from Japanese and American WWII museums, pushed into a production line of fighters for the KPAA-AAF)


Korean People's Army Strategic Force:
Currently tasked with overseeing the deployment, production and overall maintenance of the Korean nation's Nuclear Weapons, ballistic missiles and kamikaze aircraft.

500 - Hwasong 6 Short Range Ballistic Missiles (499 km range)
30 - Hwasong 9 Short Range Ballistic Missiles (500 km range)
400 - Hwasong 7 Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (1,200 km range)
190 - Hwasong 12 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (5,650 km range)
80 - Hwasong-14 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (6,700-10,000 km range)
40 - Hwasong-17 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (<13,000 km range)



Alliances (If different from IRL): Frens with CHINA, oh and Russia too.

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OP):
On December 17, 2011, the mountains melted over, clouds shone brightly, discerning the brooding storm clouds that had once circled over-head, birds and buzzards chatted to themselves in a swirl of activity. A quadruple rainbow was seen over the skies of Mount Paketu, the highest point in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Onboard a train, a man gripped with Death himself, wrestling the living personification to the floor and beating him to a bloody pulp. After a few moments, the doors opened and a few startled military personnel stared at a fully dressed Kim Jong Il, with a bruise over one of his eyes. When asked what had happened, the Supreme Leader simply stated:

"Death came for me. I told him to piss off."

While more western stories and sources simply told of the Supreme Leader managing to survive (yet) another one in a series of heart-attacks, Kim Jong-Il felt younger after staring down Death. Hell, the man hadn't felt this good in years. He wasn't about to let his habit of chain-smoking cigars and watching American westerns take the most powerful man in Korea down. No, not unless heaven had all the free cigars and western movies he could possibly ask for.

Kim Jong-Il has developed a dependency on the Military in recent years. He keeps slush funding for whatever military projects they deem necessary for the 'defense of the state' and in turn they opt to not turn their Tanks on Pyongyang (and not just for another parade). This uneasy alliance has lead to a large militaristic attitude within the DPRK's Central Committee walls.

This attitude has fast-tracked North Korea's most famous global export: international condemnation, with sanctions making up a close second in the hermit kingdom. In Violation of several international laws, North Korea conducted an above-ground nuclear test in celebration of the country's 60th Anniversary of "Victory against American Bastards" in 2013. Ground sensors detected a 6.0 magnitude earthquake in the area of the test. In spite of global condemnation and sanctions, North Korea has continued with three more nuclear tests in 2016, 2019 and 2022 respectively.

North Korea's current stockpile of Nuclear warheads is currently 45.

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Nationstates Name: APH
Nation Name: The Federal Republic of Germany
Capital: Berlin
Territory: Present day Germany
Population: 83.4 million
Official Language: German
Recognized Languages: Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, Albanian, Russian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Dutch, Italian, Greek, Romanian, Hindustani, Spanish, English
Flag: Same as irl
National Anthem (optional): German National Anthem

Head of State: President Carsten Christoffer Linnemann
HoS Picture: President Carsten Christoffer Linnemann
Head of Government: Chancellor Armin Laschet
HoG Picture (If different from HoS): Armin Laschet
Legislature Name: The Bundestag
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each): The Christian Democratic Union has a 420 out of 736 seat majority

GDP (PPP): 5.3 trillion USD
GDP (Nominal): 4.4 trillion USD
Currency: The Euro

Military Information (If different from irl you must indicate that here): The German military has since 2000 has gradually increased its defense budget over the next 25 years to where it stands currently which is now 3% of Germany's GDP which for 2025 is 159 billion USD. These budget increases were especially justified after Russia illegally invaded and stole the Crimean Peninsula.


Tanks: 950
Armored Vehicles: 13,000
SPA: 250
Towed Artillery: 500
MRL: 80

Helicopter Carrier: 1
Destroyer: 5 (1 under construction)
Frigates: 18 (3 under construction)
Corvettes: 10 (2 under construction)
Subs: 12 (2 under construction)
Patrol Vessels: 20 (4 under construction)
Mine Warfare: 20

Fighters: 210
Attack: 110
Transport: 43
Trainers: 90
Special mission: 80
Tankers: 6
Helicopters: 500
Attack Helicopters: 110

Alliances (If different from IRL): Same as IRL

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OP): The only changes are that the CDU remains the Party in power and the German military is meeting its NATO defense budget requirements and is substantially larger than IRL. Germany never shut down its nuclear power plants thus has become less dependent on Russian oil and gas. Newer and safer nuclear reactors are being brought online to replace the older, less safe Russian designs that are being used today. Germany under Armin Laschet has taken a similar route to France on illegal immigration and has cut back on the acceptance of asylum claims and backs France's proposal to for increased funding to FRONTEX.

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[American Pere Housh]

Did Covid happen in this AU?