TREATY COMPILATION
CONFERENCE OF AMSTERDAM
CONFERENCE OF SANTIAGO
From the creators of the acclaimed 1870 Real World RP comes the sequel. Welcome to the 1875 Real-World RP sign-up page! Please read the rules and regulations below!
Here's a brief outline of what is below:
-1- A description of the RP
-2- A history of the RP
-3- A map of the RP
-4- A list of countries and their players
-5- Applications for key powers
-6- The application process for non-key power nations
-7- The rules
1875 REAL-WORLD RP
In this RP, you will be taking control of a nation that existed in the year 1875. Your job is to help that country survive through the turmoil that is world affairs. 1875 is marked with the greatest economic recession the world had seen so far, the Long Depression, ever since the Panic of '73, and it is your mission as head of your state to keep your citizens employed at the very least.
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Although it is scarce acknowledged in the literature and the schools of thought of the period, it is becoming much clearer with deepening research into the events that had transpired that the timeline had been severely disrupted upon the toll of bells in Munich, Bavaria one midnight upon the dawn of MDCCCLXX anon 1870 Anno Domini.
After Bismarck's catastrophic failure in the War of Bavarian Subduction ended with an independent and united Kingdom of Southern Germany, a coalition of aligned nations directly (North German Confederation, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Southern German Kingdom, Khedivate of Egypt) or indirectly (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Ottoman Empire) engineered the downfall of Louis-Napoleon's Second French Empire and the subsequent Jules Favre's Third French Republic. Blanqui's French Commune in Paris and Thiers' Provisional Government in Tours fought for legitimacy over the shattered and impoverished realms following the fallout of the Franco-German War, culminating with an Orleanist restoration.
A bout of Spanish revival and imperialism in Morocco and Korea gains the envy of Britain and Austro-Hungary, who eye their extensive, yet faltering, dominions with avarice, most undoubtedly after the defeat of the Netherlands in a short war partitioned the East Indies among the two. While both compete for the favour of Siam, a new player in the form of an independent Egypt has usurped France's position in Indochina.
In South America, Argentina has risen as a regional power following the Conquest of Uruguay and the Paraguayan War where it stood against the imperial might of the United States of America. Emboldened by these successes, the Argentine Republic launched a series of false-flag operations against Western Powers, witnessing the Russian Empire's first documented case of power projection from across the Atlantic.
The Great Dragon remains in a stupor, too deep in a slumber to shake off increasing foreign intervention, though supplied with Egyptian firearms. As for Russia, it has not taken too kindly the Japanese annexation of Manchuria, and in response has taken Mongolia and installed puppets in Dzungaria and Kashgaria following the Xinjiang Uprising. This situation is shared by the Sick Man of Europe that is the Ottoman Empire, whose only draught so far has been amputating Egypt-Sudan, Albania, and Armenia.
Italy's increasing militarism and aggression on the Papal border elicits worry from the region. Portugal portrays utter lack of disregard of human life in the bombardment of the Zambezi Basin. France remains in shambles and anarchy following the Egyptian withdrawal and without Algeria, under Austrian hands. A violent landgrab was expected of the situation in Africa following British expansion in the Guinea and Portuguese incursions in East Africa. All these issues were dealt with in the Conference of Cairo.
As a result, the slave trade of Africa was deem unlawful and all signatories of the General Act of the Conference of Cairo, which also detailed the proper protocol at claiming land in the Dark Continent (that is, active occupation), were bound to cease the godless practice.
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Below is the official map of this RP. It shows all nations, belonging to players or no. This map will be updated as often as possible.
Map as of 1 January 1875
Here's a list of the nations on the map and their spheres of influence (autonomous regions, vassals, protectorates, princedoms, puppets, satelites, subsidiaries, or otherwise sovereign nations aligned with a single particular nation). This is not a list of the only countries allowed to be played.
GREAT POWERS:
British Empire
- Trucial Coast States
- Federated Malay States
- Unfederated Malay States
- Princely States
- Gorkha Kingdom
- Madagascar
- Liberia
- Brunei
- Sarawak
Russian Empire [TAKEN BY: Of the Quendi]
- Norway
- Denmark
- Bukhara
- Khiva
- Kokand
- Dzungaria
- Kashgaria
- Mongolia
- Armenia
Kingdom of France
- The Papal States
Northern German Confederation [TAKEN BY: Phoenix2012 and Seljuq Kyiv]
Austria-Hungary
- Belgium
- Netherlands
The United States of America [TAKEN BY: Gibberan]
REGIONAL POWERS:
Japanese Empire
Qing China
- Tibet
Sultanate of Egypt and the Sudan [TAKEN BY: Bujahla]
- Kingdom of Albania [TAKEN BY: Dangelia]
- Empire of Đại Nam
- Ethiopian Empire
- Emirate of Jabal Shammar
- Sultanate of Zanzibar
Kingdom of Italy [Open]
Brazilian Empire [TAKEN BY: Timothia]
Kingdom of Southern Germany [Open]
Kingdom of Sweden [TAKEN BY: The Norrland]
Ottoman Empire [TAKEN BY: Kiruri]
- Principality of Serbia [TAKEN BY: Greater Kleomentia]
- Principality of Montenegro [NPCed BY: Greater Kleomentia]
- Principality of Romania [NPCed BY: Greater Kleomentia]
- Emirate of the Hejaz
- Emirate of Tunis
Kingdom of Spain [TAKEN BY: Aldelxane]
United Provinces of Mexico and Guatemala [TAKEN BY: Baja California y Sonora]
- Nicaragua
- Honduras
Kingdom of Portugal
- Kingdom of Kongo
SOVEREIGN NATIONS:
Rattanakosin Kingdom of Siam and Cambodia [TAKEN BY: Zumreed]
Orange Free State [Open]
Transvaal Republic [Open]
Republic of Colombia [TAKEN BY: The Grand Republic of Hannover]
Republic of Chile [TAKEN BY: Alleniana]
Republic of Venezuela [TAKEN BY: Tribea]
Republic of Argentina [TAKEN BY: The Time Alliance]
Name of Nation: (What it was called in 1875)
Population: (the population of your nation)
Population [Empire Total]: (if your nation is an empire, put the population of the entire empire, including your nation, here)
Standing Military and Reserves: (the total number of soldiers in standing or reserve units)
Maximum Conscription [Native Only]: (take your nation's population, divide it by 100, and multiply that number by 8. Put your result here)
Maximum Conscription [Empire Total]: (if your nation is an empire, take the total empire population, divide it by 100, and multiply that number by 8. Put your result here.)
Country and Territories: (a link to a map of your nation in 1875)
Head of State: (your nation's sovereign in 1875)
Head of Government: (whoever was in charge of your nation's parliament/congress in 1875)
Government Style: (I don't need to explain this, do I?)
Primary Weapon: (the official service rifle of your nation in 1875. Link a picture or article of the weapon as well. If your nation adopted a new rifle in 1871, please put that here as well)
Secondary Weapon: (the official service pistol of your nation in 1875. Link a picture or article of the weapon as well. If your nation adopted a new pistol in 1871, please put that here as well)
Standard Machine-Gun: (if your nation had a machine-gun in 1875 or starting in 1876, put it here. Link a picture or article of the weapon as well. Also mention if it was lightly used or heavily used, and be honest)
Standard Artillery: (the most common field gun of your nation in 1875. Link a picture or article of the weapon as well. If your nation adopted a new field gun in 1876, please put that here as well)
Main Naval Vessels: (the creme of your nation's fleet
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