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by The V O I D » Wed Jan 04, 2023 11:56 am
by HISPIDA » Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:01 pm
by Watermelon » Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:04 pm
RESERVATION
NS Name: Watermelon
RP Name: Israel/State of Israel
Territory: Israel, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, Jerusalem
Do not remove - 1960RP
by Tracian Empire » Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:16 pm
by Ovstylap » Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:21 pm
Upper Magica wrote:Sao Nova Europa wrote:Map has been updated, and so has the roster. Aiming for a German post tomorrow, and events post next week so I can give some more time to new players. From next week on, I'll also be able to be more active in general as I will be returning from Christmas vacations and have access to my desktop PC.
Known map issues: Argentina is limited to RL Argentina territories until app has been accepted.
Welcome back, OP. Was starting to wonder.
I'll have a new Russia post up later this week; I had something of a meta question in re: Germany inspired by Bruhgundy's latest post - what's the Russian-German diplomatic situation looking like at the start? Specifically, are us Russian players kind of just stuck in a frozen conflict with the Germans with the occasional border incursion/anti-partisan operation or something? Or is it more of an Iron Curtain kind of situation where the borders are clearly defined and there's no real desire for either party to push West or East at the moment?
by Upper Magica » Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:27 pm
Ovstylap wrote:Upper Magica wrote:
Welcome back, OP. Was starting to wonder.
I'll have a new Russia post up later this week; I had something of a meta question in re: Germany inspired by Bruhgundy's latest post - what's the Russian-German diplomatic situation looking like at the start? Specifically, are us Russian players kind of just stuck in a frozen conflict with the Germans with the occasional border incursion/anti-partisan operation or something? Or is it more of an Iron Curtain kind of situation where the borders are clearly defined and there's no real desire for either party to push West or East at the moment?
On my side of things I thought there has just been an often frozen conflict with a kind of contested zone and a combination of anti-Partisan, anti-criminal activity, and raids by rogue units, etc etc, and occaisonal probing attacks by either side. I have it that the Burgundian's have two divisions on the Eastern Front (often as smaller units in various areas conducting a mixture of operations), with each year a rotation of one of the divisions. So Year 1 Division A is there alongside Division B. Year 2 Division A replaced by Division C, which stays with B. Year 3 Division B is replaced by Division D etc.
by Sao Nova Europa » Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:32 pm
Ovstylap wrote:Upper Magica wrote:
Welcome back, OP. Was starting to wonder.
I'll have a new Russia post up later this week; I had something of a meta question in re: Germany inspired by Bruhgundy's latest post - what's the Russian-German diplomatic situation looking like at the start? Specifically, are us Russian players kind of just stuck in a frozen conflict with the Germans with the occasional border incursion/anti-partisan operation or something? Or is it more of an Iron Curtain kind of situation where the borders are clearly defined and there's no real desire for either party to push West or East at the moment?
On my side of things I thought there has just been an often frozen conflict with a kind of contested zone and a combination of anti-Partisan, anti-criminal activity, and raids by rogue units, etc etc, and occaisonal probing attacks by either side. I have it that the Burgundian's have two divisions on the Eastern Front (often as smaller units in various areas conducting a mixture of operations), with each year a rotation of one of the divisions. So Year 1 Division A is there alongside Division B. Year 2 Division A replaced by Division C, which stays with B. Year 3 Division B is replaced by Division D etc.
by Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States » Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:32 pm
Sao Nova Europa wrote:Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States wrote:If necessary, I am willing to take over Italy. I would want to do some tweaking on the app, but if we need an active player there I can pick it up.
Sure. You are welcome to it. Do you want me to reserve it for you? Also, would it be OK to have Central America remain as an NPC? It is an interesting concept which some player may want to take over.
by Tracian Empire » Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:41 pm
by Ovstylap » Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:44 pm
Tracian Empire wrote:
As for other treaties, the autonomy of the German minority in Romania wouldn't have been affected, though it is targeted by the government right now, particularly the right of the Waffen SS to directly recruit people from the German minority without the Romanian authorities having any say.
by Sao Nova Europa » Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:55 pm
by Tracian Empire » Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:58 pm
Ovstylap wrote:Tracian Empire wrote:
As for other treaties, the autonomy of the German minority in Romania wouldn't have been affected, though it is targeted by the government right now, particularly the right of the Waffen SS to directly recruit people from the German minority without the Romanian authorities having any say.
I was just about to ask something similar. I don't think that the Burgundian SS will be able to directly be recruiting Germans living in Romania, but the Waffen SS may well be, and some of their personnel may end up requesting transfer etc. Regardless, even if it isn't under the Burgundian system, Himmler will advocate where possible, and I imagine Heydrich will as well, to not allow a European nation to place restrictions on the recruitment of Volksdeutche or other volunteers.
by Tracian Empire » Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:59 pm
Sao Nova Europa wrote:Germany wouldn't have troops in Romania but I can see German officers in Romania acting as advisors to the Romanian military, offering technical expertise. Also, about the SS, that would certainly be an interesting argument to have IC with different factions inside Germany pushing for either a more conciliatory policy or a more hard-line position against Romania on the issue.
by HISPIDA » Wed Jan 04, 2023 1:29 pm
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We are the best country ever. Sorry for not having such detailed factbooks yet! Haven’t gotten round to finishing them
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by Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States » Wed Jan 04, 2023 3:43 pm
APPLICATION
NS Name: Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States
RP Name: Empire of Italy
Flag:
Capital: Rome
Territory:
Metropole: Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, Malta
Colonies: Suez Canal Zone, Libya, East Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somaliland), Sudan
Satellite States: Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, Albania
Population: 52 million (metropole)
Official Language(s): Italian
Ethnic Breakdown: Italian (metropole)
Religious Breakdown: 96% Roman Catholic, 4% other (metropole)
Type of Government: Constitutional monarchy (de jure), fascist one-party totalitarian dictatorship (de facto)
Head of State: Secretary of the Fascist Party Dino Grandi
Head of Government: Minister of Foreign Affairs Umberto II, full name Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria di Savoia
Legislative Houses: Grand Council of Fascism (upper house), Chamber of Fasces and Corporations (lower house)
Party in Power: National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista, or PNF)
National Issues:
Price of fascism - Poverty and suffering
Italy's corporatist economy is unsustainable in how it favours employers and capitalists over the working class. GDP per capita is lagging behind, even total GDP expands, due to the Fasces favouring profit and re-investment over worker compensation. This has impoverished many Italians, especially in the rural south, and has drawn many to the militant communists in the countryside. It seems that fascism is digging its own grave in its labour policies.
Price of fascism - Debt and credit
While legally obfuscated in order to prevent a panic, Italy has accrued enormous debts both foreign and domestic, with banks all over the world, including in Germany, Britain, and the United States. This was necessary to fund both the oversized navy and army while also dealing with the 1949 deflation spiral. Debt is still growing, however, and if the debt crisis cannot be solved, the fear is that Italy itself will go bankrupt, allowing foreign interests to take over her economy and virtually ending her position as the fourth Great Power.
Price of fascism - Cloak and dagger
Politics in Italy are not about votes or speeches, but about iron and blood. Power is measured in corporate alliances as well as in number of subordinate divisions and loyal local governors. While not outwardly murderous yet, Italian politics stand always on the verge of devolving into factionalism and perhaps even civil war. While all parties fear mutually assured destruction, this will be kept in check, but as soon as one faction starts gaining enough power to take on the others, the fragile balance of power will splinter.
Public Goals: Restructuring of the economy and improving Italian standard of living
Private Goals: Expanding power across the world in order to balance out German hegemony in Europe and prevent Italian bankrupcy.
GDP (nominal): 150 billion USD
Currency: Lira
Economic System: Corporatist capitalism
Major Trade Partners: German Reich, Vichy France, United Kingdom, Spain
Alliance(s): Italo-German Axis
Military Branches: Esercito Imperiale(Imperial Army), Marina Imperiale (Imperial Navy), Aeronautica Imperiale (Imperial Air Force)
Active Duty: 750,000
Reserve Duty: 1,500,000
Total Manpower: 2,000,000
Land Forces: The Esercito Imperiale contains 1,300,000 total soldiers and 1800 tanks, organized in 25 active and 40 reserve divisions (legions).
Air Force: The Aeronautica Imperiale operates 2100 aircraft: 600 bombers, 600 fighters, 500 interceptors, and 400 transport/auxiliary craft.
Naval Forces: The Marina Imperiale fields 11 aircraft carriers, 5 battleships, 10 heavy cruisers, 30 light cruisers, 180 destroyers, and 145 submarines.
Other Military Information:
Italy tested its first atomic bomb in 1954 in Libya. As of 1960, the military possesses a stockpile of 100 nuclear weapons.
History: While publicly Italy was victorious in the Second Great War, or the War of National Revival, privately it was known that this was largely a German effort. Italian naval losses in the Mediterranean to the Royal Navy had been blistering, and the African campaign was mainly a succes due German aid against the British and Free French forces. The failure of the US to intercede was what eventually saved the Italian war effort in Africa, which was not even strong enough to capture Algeria from the weakened French. While Mussolini celebrated with a Triumph through Rome for the conquest of Greece, Albania and Egypt, the members of the military realise that their victory was more luck than expertise. Especially the difficulties in capturing Greece lead to wide distrust with the fascist government.
In the years after the war, a kind of peace returns to Italy. Owing to corporatist control over the economy, and government backing of employers, there is labour peace in Italy. This combines with a growing economy, mostly due to the stripping of colonial resources in favour of the Italian economy. Expanded industrial capacity means less joblesness between 1943 and 1949, and a slight increase in per capita GDP. However, this era of economic growth is short-lived. While industrial output of the Italian peninsula increases, especially in the North, wages remain stagnant due to the nature of the corporations. After reconstruction is completed, consumer income does not rise to create enough demand to use up all that new industrial capacity, leading to overproduction. At the same time, as wages remain stagnant, profits of large industrial concerns grow, leading to more investment in industrial capacity. The result is overproduction, which leads in turn to a reduction in prices. This reduction in prices causes industrial capacity to remain idle, causing unemployment, which further decreases demand for goods. In the end this caused a deflation spiral towards 1950, when lowering prices led to further decreases in spending as prices were expected to drop even lower.
The government response to this was lacklustre. In order to prop up important businesses and prevent large layoffs, the state loaned large sums of money to faltering corporations. However, this only prevented bankrupcy in cases where it would otherwise have occured without changing the underlying economic problems. In fact, by keeping production artificially high, this did much to lengthen the crisis. Mussolini, who had been crowned imperator of the Empire of Italy after the abdication of king Victor Emanuel III, was unable to allow production to slow down, since in his eyes this would amount to a failure of his regime. When his inability to take decisive actions began to weigh heavier, Mussolini hinted that he would reinvigorate the nationalisation policies that had helped him in the 1930s, which spooked investors and led to a further decline in confidence.
In the spring of 1951, a series of banking shocks toppled a few banks faster than the government could respond, partially because of large Italian debts that made government credit nearly worthless. The resulting run on the banks evaporated large amounts of money overnight. This in turn led to the foreclosure of large parts of the economy that had been propped up by fascist investment. As it all came tumbling down, large parts of the workforce were without a job. These shocks also lead to disruptions in logistics, meaning that in many cities, long lines for basic necessities dominated the cityscape. In Milan, which had been a bastion of communists since before the war, this led to increasing protests. On the night of June 5th, tens of thousands took to the streets. Factory workers occupied their old factories and fired them up again, starting to produce for the residents of the city, while various bankers and industrialists were abused, and some even hanged.
Even when Milan seemed in open revolt, Mussolini's government was incapable of action. The Duce feared the use of the army against his own population, and kept up the pretense that the revolts were not against his regime, but rather against the 'perfidious Judeo-Bolshevik forces' from the Anglosphere that had infiltrated the economy and ruined 'good Italian money', further exemplifying his descent further and further into Nazi-inspired conspiracy theories. This response alienated the industrialists, who were keen to see action against communist agitators, and the military, who felt hamstrung by Mussolini. On the 12th of June 1951, was taken into 'medical custody' by order of the Grand Council of Fascism, which appointed aging field marshal Pietro Badoglio to the position of 'regent'. Badoglio immediately incarcerated Mussolini in his summer retreat and took control of the situation, sending in the army in order to crush the Milanese demonstrators. Fierce fighting followed, but after two weeks of combat the carabinieri succesfully raised the imperial standard over the Milanese town hall.
As regent, Badoglio was keen to end the situation of unrest that gripped the nation. Not a convicted fascist, he felt less scurples in letting go of fascist ideology in favour of capitalist pragmatism. He reshuffled the cabinet and had immediate plans made for the restructuring of the economy. His policies included pay increases and a slight increase in independence for the state-owned labour unions, although state influence still made sure that their demands for pay increases were in line with government policy. Badoglio forcefully nationalised a few key industries, including telecom, and also forced the various cartels to adopt government-approved prices to combat both deflation and inflation. Bankrupt factories and banks were taken over by the state for low prices, and their ecisting inventories were used to finance gradual reconstruction of the economy. By 1955, the economy had largely recovered, though the government had to reassure investors that it would be covering all of its debts in order to strengthen Italian credit. In 1955 as well, Benito Mussolini died, officially of poor health. In truth, he had been assassinated in order to prevent him from returning to Italian politics. The Grand Council of Fascism was expected to raise Badoglio to the emperorship, but the ageing marshal perished in early 1956 while on vacation in Greece.
For the first time in over twenty years, there was an opening for factionalism in Italy. Three broad factions emerged in the aftermath of the death of marshal Badoglio: first and foremost, the fascist hardliners, consisting of some army and navy officers, the blackshirts, and Mussolini loyalists, represented by Dino Grandi. Secondly, the pro-German national socialist clique, who were ideologically more aligned with Nazi-Germany. They favoured the large industrialists and were opposed to the corporatist structure of Italy, which they found too limiting. They also favoured military intervention in Turkey and Algeria in order to expand access to natural resources and using that to revitalise the economy. Furthermore, they were also antisemitic and believed in Nazi conspiracy theories about a Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy. Represented by Roberto Farinacci, they sought to establish Italy as a de facto German puppet. And lastly, the 'liberal conservative moral opposition', who sought to return Italy to its pre-fascist days. While their parties are officially banned, their representatives still hold particular sway in society, especially since being represented by Umberto of Savoy, the former heir apparent. Although the prince had at first acceded to the throne moving to Mussolini, over the following years he had come to regret that, and formed the liberal opposition within the Italian state. Due to his popularity, he was figured to be untouchable.
Since it was feared that a vote in the Grand Chamber of Fascists would not lead to a desired result, the three groups instead formulated a compromise. Their three representatives would form a 'regency council', with the deceased Mussolini becoming the 'Caesar' of the Empire, retaining the imperial title after his death. This way, the position could be depoliticised, while giving the power to the Grand Council of Fascism and the regency council. This was agreed to, and for the past three years, this division has remained in place. As part of this compromise, the tax burden on Italian companies imposed in order to pay off the national debt was balanced out by relaxing labour and safety laws in the colonies in favour of cartel self-management, while at the same time increasing army presence in Libya, Sudan and Ethiopia. This made import of raw materials cheaper and balanced out the loss of profits due to higher taxes and higher worker compensation, although there is only so much efficiency to be gained there. In the end, the triumvirate is a temporary solution, while each of the three factions (and the communists outside of government) seek to expand their position in order to make a move on the others.
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by Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States » Wed Jan 04, 2023 3:44 pm
by HISPIDA » Wed Jan 04, 2023 4:03 pm
Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States wrote:APPLICATION
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by Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States » Wed Jan 04, 2023 4:12 pm
The Orson Empire wrote:I've decided to leave this RP. Lost interest in playing Italy.
by HISPIDA » Wed Jan 04, 2023 4:12 pm
by Asturies-Llion » Wed Jan 04, 2023 4:29 pm
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