Personally I'd like to see Hindustan back, though for it to have a similar degree of power as it had originally would probably pose some problems regarding it not being a great power on the global stage: at that size and with a Brazil-like level of wealth it'd be at least a match for most nations in the world... I think comparable to Chrinthanium and Beddgelert combined. Of course, I'm not actually opposed to TCB having a couple of hundred million people and a couple of trillion dollars (it's still a smaller economy than Nibelunc's, though I think it would be the largest nation in a post-Spyr world), it's just that you may find yourself a leading power without apparently wanting that.
I do think that Hindustan would be exactly the sort of place for Sulo to take his government, in any case (provided it's independent and such at the time), and you could later resume your role in halting the UPA at some Andong equivalent.
This is what AMW needs, Dra-pol and Hindustan back in business! Hehe. (What do you mean, it was doing fine without us?!)
Cassanos, that looks good to me. Maybe the bitter experience of Dra-pol informs Nibelunc's current European introspection?
Chrin, yes. I think perhaps a sense of Walmingtonian aggression would have been understandable in Chrinthanium when the early pioneers arrived, while from Walmington's perspective we were just trying to make the world smaller in an age before telecommunictions. I mean, it took months for ships to get from Walmington to Chrinthanium and then months to get back, and many people died on the voyages in the early decades of contact, so naturally many Walmingtonians stayed down under to conduct trade, exploration, and diplomacy. But while in Europe they might have become a minority community in some cosmopolitan city, in Chrinthanium they perceived terra nullius in large parts of the continent. They wouldn't have declared the whole continent uninhabited, but designated much of its extent as such, since there probably can't have been more than a few million people spread across its seven and three quarter million square kilometres, and the majority of it, no matter how evolved the Chrinthani towns, would have been without so much as a dirt road.
Thus they established outposts 'innocently', but today recognise that they would have been pretty ticked-off if the Chrinthanis had shown up in the bare tundra of Norbray (Labrador and part of eastern Quebec) and established a settlement that didn't answer to the Walmingtonian crown, while hopefully the Chrinthani attitude has similarly switched from, "Hey! What the hell do you think you're doing!?" to, "Ohh, I see where you were going with that. No worries."
Anyway, I'm encouraged by most of what has been said.
It looks like we can possibly have some sort of experimental UN/League of Nations/more-original-name that perhaps comes together in the 1970s and breaks-up in the 1980s, and sees Walmington, South Dra-pol, Chrinthanium, Niebelunc, potential-Hindustan, possibly Belgeland (waiting to see on that one), and maybe others trying to ensure world peace and free trade, and coming a cropper against Hotan's Kurosite People's Republic.
In coming days I'll re-work my history and get it posted up, then anyone who wants to have been involved in the relevant conflict(s) can decide how deeply and to what cost. The allies will probably suffer upwards of a million total casualties over an eight year period, but the bulk will be Southern Drapoel, so everyone else can choose to escape with only half a dozen dead, or with hundreds, or tens of thousands, or whatever as befits their nation's own dialogue.
Modravia, I suppose the People's Republic could do with some foreign support. Most important, really, would be helping Kurosian and Hotan to build a modern military-industrial capability. Dra-pol, obviously, is a go-it-alone sort of nation for the most part, but was only wrenched out of the middle-ages after 1902, and until that point had an entirely rural and feudal economy, without so much as a steam engine or hot air balloon in the whole empire. Company soldiers with magazine rifles, machineguns, armoured cars, and field-guns were initially met with spears, short-swords, bows, and small numbers of rocket-propelled javelin-type weapons, all manufactured by individual artisans in non-standard workshops.
During the failed 1948 mutiny I expect the rebels were armed with the above, improvised weapons and farm tools, and a few captured second-hand small-arms in the case of rebellious security forces. Perhaps in the following two years Modravia could have smuggled to the Free Republic some Great War surpluss or weapons captured from the Shieldians or whoever else? Given the looseness of Company control in the south at that time it may not have been so hard, especially by air since there'd be almost no radar coverage anywhere in Dra-pol at that time. And Sulo would have been forced to recognise that he couldn't win without foreign weapons. Thus in the 50-53 war the Company was expecting at worst to be attacked with melee weapons, and had set itself up for such, maybe issuing shotguns and building crude barricades and pits to slow-down charges, so that even poorly trained and basically unsupported northerners were able to make progress in the first year when they turned up with bolt-action rifles that out-ranged policemen with 12-gauges.
Then the '63-75 war, under Kurosian, could feature Modravian observers coming to the new People's Republic to over-see the building of arms factories maybe producing AKs and the like, and possibly operating some SAM batteries, enabling you to test your technologies against the Company's western systems, and maybe donating old fighters as they're withdrawn from Modravian service, because even MiG-15s would have been useful against what the Company was able to field as a non-state actor.
After that, presumably Modravia was not part of this short-lived UN-type movement, and helped Hotan to prepare for the Reunification War of '80-88 while the westerners were rebuilding the southern republic. Maybe a few hundred to a couple of thousand observers, advisors, medical staff, engineers, and possibly a handfull of volunteer pilots and missile crews operating in Kurosite colours?
Which all means I can keep some of my old military tech, that being ultimately Soviet in origin. Chonma-hoooo!
