The Dragon Falls: 2040 OOC

[New Rnclave]

The Dragon Falls: 2040

"I know not what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein

IC!!!

OP: Myself
Co-OPs: TBD

Welcome to The Dragon Falls: 2040 Nation RP

[align=center]

Welcome to the year 2040. The past thirty years have been eventful, to say the least. The darker days of the 21st century are behind the world, and it seems that the new order that arose out of the ashes of the old has stabilized enough. Who knows how long this will last? Who knows when the next crisis will strike?

The crisis of the early 21st century began with the Great Recession of 2008. The Recession weakened the entire global economy, but just as it seemed to be sputtering back to life in the late 2010s, another crisis hit. The "petrodollar" system, negotiated by the United States and the various OPEC currencies, was destroyed when OPEC declared a second oil embargo against the United States and the rest of the West in 2017. This was done as a result of the United States being less dependent on OPEC oil thanks to an increase in domestic production, resulting in the US becoming a direct competitor to OPEC and the American government gradually supporting Israel more in the various conflicts against the chaos that has engulfed its neighbors (including Egypt). The United States dollar spiraled into massive inflation, destroying the American economy overnight.

When the European and American economies self destructed, China crashed. Being a major purchaser of Western bonds, which were now largely worthless, China's economy went into a death spiral. Viewing this collapse as a failure of the civilian government, the PLA launched a successful coup, promising to restore Chinese prosperity without relying on the West. China, after all, was #1, and while China's new leaders won't say that there was a Western conspiracy to kill the red dragon, they won't say there wasn't. The regime militarizes further throughout the second half of 2010 and all of 2011, causing a string of diplomatic crises in the South China Sea and the East China Sea. Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, and the United States all mobilize to oppose Chinese aggression. This only convinces Beijing that there is a Western-Japanese conspiracy aligned against them, solidifying their power among the nationalistically-motivated people and further increasing their military spending. When the PLA Navy moved into the Spratley Islands and started manufacturing islands, China's neighbors and the United States mobilized in turn. It seems that all it takes for war now is a nut doing something stupid. That nut happened to be Kim Jong-un.

As China's economy crashed, so did North Korea's. While North Korea's people suffered, as they always did, the North Korean military started to suffer as well. Kim, who was not trusted by the military after the death of his father, tried to rein in complaints from his officers by killing them. This prompted a series of events throughout early 2012 which, thanks to the dearth of records from pre-war North Korea, eventually led to Kim winning and attempting to prove his military legitimacy by provoking the South Koreans. However, Kim overreached, and prompted a response from South Korea in the form of artillery fire across the DMZ. Not wishing to back down, Kim ordered a response in kind, a response which killed foreign tourists at the DMZ. This led to a series of escalation which eventually led to the restarting of the Korean War. As American troops poured into South Korea, Beijing surprised the world by supporting the North...and escalating military action in the South China Sea. This led eventually to shooting between the two sides (it is not entirely clear who started), turning into a war between China and the United States and their allies. WWIII had begun.

The Chinese went on the offensive; the PLA Navy secured the Spratley and Senkaku islands, defeating local American and allied forces. The PLA invaded northern Vietnam, but were stopped by the Vietnamese before they could reach Hanoi. Islands were seized from the Republic of China, but no attempts were made to make an amphibious landing on Taiwan. By early 2013, China was winning the war, but the tide turned when American reinforcements started arriving in Korea, and the Americans launched an invasion of southeast China. While the PLA Navy was sent to the bottom of the ocean by the US Navy, the Americans had a long slog ahead of them. Fighting on a massive continent, against a massive army, a massive ocean away, made American offensive operations exceedingly difficult. By 2014, the offensive along the Yangtze had ground to a halt. Fortunately for the Allies, the Russians joined the war in June of 2014, after the Russo-Chinese border conflicts that had been going on since the beginning of operations in Korea spun out of control into open war. However, the Chinese were initially successful against the Russians. Elsewhere, war began between India and Pakistan, with Pakistan and China considering drafting an official alliance.

WWIII took a toll on the United States. Not only was the struggling economy crashed further by the outbreak of war, Americans began hearing of defeat after defeat along the Yangtze. Opposition to the war grew from the left and the right, which placed the paranoid wartime government on edge. Civil unrest grew, and as American soldiers were rotated out of China, they began to desert en masse to escape being sent back. Military cohesion broke down, and attempts to arrest entire units that have gone AWOL broke out into fighting. These units began to side with the people demanding an end to the war. Militias were formed and grew, and began to seize control of important highway hubs throughout the country. Attempts to arrest them led to further civil unrest, as the people began to see Washington as tyrannical.

Washington was overtaken (without shooting) by right-wing militias, and forced the government to sign a surrender with China. This was regarded as illegitimate, and troops and politicians loyal to the old regime rallied around the country. State governments began to secure their borders, sometimes with the unofficial aid of militias. Both sides began to escalate, and by 2015, open warfare began between the federal government and various factions. America was no longer fighting in WWIII; it was fighting its own civil war.

The American exit from WWIII seemed to be the sign that China would win the war, but America's allies continued the fight. The rest of NATO's members continued fighting against the Chinese, and as the Chinese pushed further into Siberia, more and more of their troops died or surrendered. China's own people began to demand an end to the war, which had brought the country untold suffering. By 2016, mass mutinies along the front in the south allowed NATO forces to advance, while the Russians pushed in from the north. Beijing was soon surrounded by angry civilians, and this time they were armed. Seeing the writing on the wall, the Chinese military government fled to the four corners of the Earth; those hardliners who wanted to launch the missiles were quickly disposed of. The civilian government they left behind signed an unconditional surrender with the Allies in 2017. However, fighting did not stop against rogue PLA units until 2018.

In America, the revolutionary right triumphed, as they gained more of the old United States military. The old federal government was forced to flee to Hawaii. The NATO states refused to recognize the so-called "American Union." However, the NATO member states, already tired from WWIII and occupying China, did not want to start a war in America, particularly as the American Union had control of America's old nuclear arsenal, and stated in no uncertain terms that they were willing to use it.

In the meanwhile, China was divided into many different nations. The autonomy granted by Yang was taken away by the military government, and the popular revolution that took down the Beijing government had an anti-centralist tone. Furthermore, NATO and the Russians supported factionalist movements in an effort to break apart the PRC during the war, and now they wanted to stay apart. And so, China was fractured into several pieces. However, Russo-NATO relations broke apart quickly after the war. Growing conflict in the Middle East, which miraculously avoided WWIII, and the Ukraine, split Moscow and the West. A new cold war emerged from the ashes of WWIII.

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Here's a brief outline of what is below:
-1- A description of the RP
-2- A map of the RP
-3- IC, UNGA, UNSC, Alliance threads, meetings/conferences, etc
-4- A list of countries and their players(Roster)
-5- Applications for Key Powers( Ex. US, Germany and France, England and Russia )
-6- Applications for regular nations
-7- The Rule of the RP
-8- Announcements

The 2040 Nation RP: The Dragon Falls

WiP

Below is the official map of this RP. It shows major powers (with or without players) and nations belonging to players. This map will be updated as often as possible.

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Links:
IC thread: IC
UN thread: Coming Soon
Asia Summit Thread: Here

Roster:
Here's a list of the nations and their players. This is not a list of the only countries allowed to be played.

Accepted Nations:

American Union New Rnclave

Federative Republic of Brazil Reatra

Republic of Turkey Das Germane imperie

Islamic Republic of Iran Empire of Gibraltar

Southeast Asian Coalition The Grand Republic of Hedgeland

Nordic Confederation Plzen

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Reserved:

Germany Sanabel

Russia Soviet Chernarus

Terrorist/Rebel/Insurgent Groups


Corporations

Applications:
Several powers are essential to the playing of this RP. See instructions for application farther down. Please consider playing a power if any are available. If you are playing one of these powers, I except you to do some more research so that you know your nation inside and out.

Applications for nations:

Code: Select all

 [box][size=150][b]Generic Info[/b][/size]
[b]Nation Name: [/b]
[b]Symbols: [/b] (ex. Flag, Coat of Arms, National Anthem, personifications, etc.)
[b]Homeland Population: [/b] (population of everyone considered a citizen)
[b]Imperial Population:[/b] (include population of colonies)
[b]Location/Claims: [/b] (include number)
[b]Capital City: [/b]

[size=150][b]Government Info[/b][/size]
[b]Government Type:[/b] (ex. The USA is a [i]Presidential Constitutional Federal Republic[/i])
[b]Brief Explanation of Government:[/b] (explain all the complex/unique stuff that can't be described in the type section)
[b]Ideology:[/b]  (Refer to [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies]this[/url])
[b]Leader/s:[/b]  (Head of State, Head of Government, etc.)

[size=150][b]Population Info[/b][/size]
[b]Brief Description of your people:[/b]
[b]Religion:[/b]
[b]Ethnicity:[/b]
[b]Main/Accepted Culture(s):[/b] (ex. IRL-UK would be English, Scottish; only cultures that are dominant and the gov't favors)
[b]Other Cultures:[/b] (ex. IRL-UK would have been Irish, Welsh, etc ; cultures that aren't accepted by the gov't/people)

[b][size=150]Economy[/size][/b]
[b]GDP Expectation as of 2040:[/b]
[b]Main Exports: /b]
[b]Main Imports: [/b]
[b]Other information: [/b]

[size=150][b]Military Info[/b][/size]
[b]Army: [/b] (branches, number of troops, quality of army, etc,)
[b]Navy: [/b] (branches, number of troops, quality of navy, etc,)

[size=150]Other Info[/size]
[b]Brief Description of your Economy:[/b]
[b]Goals: [/b]
[b]History: [/b] ( Must include how the nation fared during the collapse )
[b]Special Factors: [/b]
[b]Code Word:[/b]
[b]RP Sample:[/b] (required)
429 - Do not remove. This is for tracking purposes.[/box]
 

Application for Rebel Groups:

Code: Select all

[box]
 Name of your Rebel Group:
 Country that you are rebelling in:
 Base of Operations:
 Number of Followers/Members:
 Why you are rebelling:
 Popular support:
 Quality of Weapons, from 1 to 10:
 Suppliers:
 429 (It helps to find apps)[/box]

I will be background checking all of your application for accuracy. You will not be accepted until your application is as accurate as can be. Don't worry, I will help you out if you don't know any information.
Last but certainly not least, there are a few rules to go over:

Rules:

Timescale:
In this RP, I will be generally directing the timescale, although you are welcome to help out with that in the game. Because of the nature of the way RPs like this work, a single day can elapse over countless posts, or a single post can advance the timeline by a month. All that is asked is that no-one advance the timeline unreasonably. By this I mean that if two nations are at a conference and are engaging in discussions, some other player can't make a post that takes place a week in the future. That being said, try to keep such conferences to a minimum in order to keep the timeline moving. And be aware of the limitations that exist in communication technologies at this time.

Waging War:
Any conflict that is started must be waged reasonably and realistically. This is still the Twenty First Century people! Troops are constantly hampered by the technological limitations of the day, which I will go into more detail about below:

Technology:
Understanding the limitations of your nation's technology is important. Make sure that you play according to that technology.

Know How to Lose:
This is the biggest problem I see in RPs, and I have no doubt that some dummy will cause this issue at some point. In every battle, at every second, every side tries to describe some heroic definitive victory move, a "checkmate" if you will, that causes their army to emerge victorious. This results in an incredibly childish back-and-forth and makes the game un-enjoyable. if you are losing due to decisions made earlier on, then for god's sake lose! Don't try to make up some bullcrap about a single unit of soldiers that manages to survive and win the day, that's not how real war works. Now, I'm not saying that occasionally, in certain circumstances, definitive heroics aren't allowed. If I catch anyone breaking this simple rule of integrity in a major way, there will be one warning, followed by out-the-door.


Meta-Gaming:
This is the last point I need to make. What is meta-gaming? Well, when the British start thinking about negotiating a takeover of Mexico, and suddenly Mexico boosts it's military numbers way up and is put on high alert, that's meta-gaming: because Mexico couldn't possibly know exactly what the British were thinking. This is unacceptable. Also, you must declare espionage before you commit it, (either on the OOC or IC) you can't just say that you committed espionage and knew the enemy's plans after you had decimated their entire army.

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Announcements:
IC thread is up!
CUBA IS AWESOME!!

---

That is all

[Soviet Chernarus]

Reserve Russia.

[Sanabel]

Reserve Germany pls.

[Das Germane imperie]

Tag.

[Soviet Chernarus]

I can make a map for this if you give me the areas everyone controls.

[New Rnclave]

I can make a map for this if you give me the areas everyone controls.

I'll TG you it

[Soviet Chernarus]

I can make a map for this if you give me the areas everyone controls.

I'll TG you it

Alright.

[Das Germane imperie]

Reserving Turkey.

[New Rnclave]

Reserving Turkey.

Cool cool

[The Salvatagard Republic]

(Image)

The Dragon Falls: 2040

"I know not what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein

IC!!!

OP: Myself
Co-OPs: TBD

Welcome to The Dragon Falls: 2040 Nation RP

[align=center]

Welcome to the year 2040. The past thirty years have been eventful, to say the least. The darker days of the 21st century are behind the world, and it seems that the new order that arose out of the ashes of the old has stabilized enough. Who knows how long this will last? Who knows when the next crisis will strike?

The crisis of the early 21st century began with the Great Recession of 2008. The Recession weakened the entire global economy, but just as it seemed to be sputtering back to life in the late 2010s, another crisis hit. The "petrodollar" system, negotiated by the United States and the various OPEC currencies, was destroyed when OPEC declared a second oil embargo against the United States and the rest of the West in 2017. This was done as a result of the United States being less dependent on OPEC oil thanks to an increase in domestic production, resulting in the US becoming a direct competitor to OPEC and the American government gradually supporting Israel more in the various conflicts against the chaos that has engulfed its neighbors (including Egypt). The United States dollar spiraled into massive inflation, destroying the American economy overnight.

When the European and American economies self destructed, China crashed. Being a major purchaser of Western bonds, which were now largely worthless, China's economy went into a death spiral. Viewing this collapse as a failure of the civilian government, the PLA launched a successful coup, promising to restore Chinese prosperity without relying on the West. China, after all, was #1, and while China's new leaders won't say that there was a Western conspiracy to kill the red dragon, they won't say there wasn't. The regime militarizes further throughout the second half of 2010 and all of 2011, causing a string of diplomatic crises in the South China Sea and the East China Sea. Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, and the United States all mobilize to oppose Chinese aggression. This only convinces Beijing that there is a Western-Japanese conspiracy aligned against them, solidifying their power among the nationalistically-motivated people and further increasing their military spending. When the PLA Navy moved into the Spratley Islands and started manufacturing islands, China's neighbors and the United States mobilized in turn. It seems that all it takes for war now is a nut doing something stupid. That nut happened to be Kim Jong-un.

As China's economy crashed, so did North Korea's. While North Korea's people suffered, as they always did, the North Korean military started to suffer as well. Kim, who was not trusted by the military after the death of his father, tried to rein in complaints from his officers by killing them. This prompted a series of events throughout early 2012 which, thanks to the dearth of records from pre-war North Korea, eventually led to Kim winning and attempting to prove his military legitimacy by provoking the South Koreans. However, Kim overreached, and prompted a response from South Korea in the form of artillery fire across the DMZ. Not wishing to back down, Kim ordered a response in kind, a response which killed foreign tourists at the DMZ. This led to a series of escalation which eventually led to the restarting of the Korean War. As American troops poured into South Korea, Beijing surprised the world by supporting the North...and escalating military action in the South China Sea. This led eventually to shooting between the two sides (it is not entirely clear who started), turning into a war between China and the United States and their allies. WWIII had begun.

The Chinese went on the offensive; the PLA Navy secured the Spratley and Senkaku islands, defeating local American and allied forces. The PLA invaded northern Vietnam, but were stopped by the Vietnamese before they could reach Hanoi. Islands were seized from the Republic of China, but no attempts were made to make an amphibious landing on Taiwan. By early 2013, China was winning the war, but the tide turned when American reinforcements started arriving in Korea, and the Americans launched an invasion of southeast China. While the PLA Navy was sent to the bottom of the ocean by the US Navy, the Americans had a long slog ahead of them. Fighting on a massive continent, against a massive army, a massive ocean away, made American offensive operations exceedingly difficult. By 2014, the offensive along the Yangtze had ground to a halt. Fortunately for the Allies, the Russians joined the war in June of 2014, after the Russo-Chinese border conflicts that had been going on since the beginning of operations in Korea spun out of control into open war. However, the Chinese were initially successful against the Russians. Elsewhere, war began between India and Pakistan, with Pakistan and China considering drafting an official alliance.

WWIII took a toll on the United States. Not only was the struggling economy crashed further by the outbreak of war, Americans began hearing of defeat after defeat along the Yangtze. Opposition to the war grew from the left and the right, which placed the paranoid wartime government on edge. Civil unrest grew, and as American soldiers were rotated out of China, they began to desert en masse to escape being sent back. Military cohesion broke down, and attempts to arrest entire units that have gone AWOL broke out into fighting. These units began to side with the people demanding an end to the war. Militias were formed and grew, and began to seize control of important highway hubs throughout the country. Attempts to arrest them led to further civil unrest, as the people began to see Washington as tyrannical.

Washington was overtaken (without shooting) by right-wing militias, and forced the government to sign a surrender with China. This was regarded as illegitimate, and troops and politicians loyal to the old regime rallied around the country. State governments began to secure their borders, sometimes with the unofficial aid of militias. Both sides began to escalate, and by 2015, open warfare began between the federal government and various factions. America was no longer fighting in WWIII; it was fighting its own civil war.

The American exit from WWIII seemed to be the sign that China would win the war, but America's allies continued the fight. The rest of NATO's members continued fighting against the Chinese, and as the Chinese pushed further into Siberia, more and more of their troops died or surrendered. China's own people began to demand an end to the war, which had brought the country untold suffering. By 2016, mass mutinies along the front in the south allowed NATO forces to advance, while the Russians pushed in from the north. Beijing was soon surrounded by angry civilians, and this time they were armed. Seeing the writing on the wall, the Chinese military government fled to the four corners of the Earth; those hardliners who wanted to launch the missiles were quickly disposed of. The civilian government they left behind signed an unconditional surrender with the Allies in 2017. However, fighting did not stop against rogue PLA units until 2018.

In America, the revolutionary right triumphed, as they gained more of the old United States military. The old federal government was forced to flee to Hawaii. The NATO states refused to recognize the so-called "American Union." However, the NATO member states, already tired from WWIII and occupying China, did not want to start a war in America, particularly as the American Union had control of America's old nuclear arsenal, and stated in no uncertain terms that they were willing to use it.

In the meanwhile, China was divided into many different nations. The autonomy granted by Yang was taken away by the military government, and the popular revolution that took down the Beijing government had an anti-centralist tone. Furthermore, NATO and the Russians supported factionalist movements in an effort to break apart the PRC during the war, and now they wanted to stay apart. And so, China was fractured into several pieces. However, Russo-NATO relations broke apart quickly after the war. Growing conflict in the Middle East, which miraculously avoided WWIII, and the Ukraine, split Moscow and the West. A new cold war emerged from the ashes of WWIII.

.

Here's a brief outline of what is below:
-1- A description of the RP
-2- A map of the RP
-3- IC, UNGA, UNSC, Alliance threads, meetings/conferences, etc
-4- A list of countries and their players(Roster)
-5- Applications for Key Powers( Ex. US, Germany and France, England and Russia )
-6- Applications for regular nations
-7- The Rule of the RP
-8- Announcements

The 2040 Nation RP: The Dragon Falls

WiP

Below is the official map of this RP. It shows major powers (with or without players) and nations belonging to players. This map will be updated as often as possible.

---

---

Links:
IC thread: IC
UN thread: Coming Soon
Asia Summit Thread: Here

Roster:
Here's a list of the nations and their players. This is not a list of the only countries allowed to be played.

Accepted Nations:

American Union New Rnclave

---

Reserved:

Germany Sanabel

Russia Soviet Chernarus

Terrorist/Rebel/Insurgent Groups


Corporations

Applications:
Several powers are essential to the playing of this RP. See instructions for application farther down. Please consider playing a power if any are available. If you are playing one of these powers, I except you to do some more research so that you know your nation inside and out.

Applications for nations:

Code: Select all

 [box][size=150][b]Generic Info[/b][/size]
[b]Nation Name: [/b]
[b]Symbols: [/b] (ex. Flag, Coat of Arms, National Anthem, personifications, etc.)
[b]Homeland Population: [/b] (population of everyone considered a citizen)
[b]Imperial Population:[/b] (include population of colonies)
[b]Location/Claims: [/b] (include number)
[b]Capital City: [/b]

[size=150][b]Government Info[/b][/size]
[b]Government Type:[/b] (ex. The USA is a [i]Presidential Constitutional Federal Republic[/i])
[b]Brief Explanation of Government:[/b] (explain all the complex/unique stuff that can't be described in the type section)
[b]Ideology:[/b]  (Refer to [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies]this[/url])
[b]Leader/s:[/b]  (Head of State, Head of Government, etc.)

[size=150][b]Population Info[/b][/size]
[b]Brief Description of your people:[/b]
[b]Religion:[/b]
[b]Ethnicity:[/b]
[b]Main/Accepted Culture(s):[/b] (ex. IRL-UK would be English, Scottish; only cultures that are dominant and the gov't favors)
[b]Other Cultures:[/b] (ex. IRL-UK would have been Irish, Welsh, etc ; cultures that aren't accepted by the gov't/people)

[b][size=150]Economy[/size][/b]
[b]GDP Expectation as of 2040:[/b]
[b]Main Exports: /b]
[b]Main Imports: [/b]
[b]Other information: [/b]

[size=150][b]Military Info[/b][/size]
[b]Army: [/b] (branches, number of troops, quality of army, etc,)
[b]Navy: [/b] (branches, number of troops, quality of navy, etc,)

[size=150]Other Info[/size]
[b]Brief Description of your Economy:[/b]
[b]Goals: [/b]
[b]History: [/b] ( Must include how the nation fared during the collapse )
[b]Special Factors: [/b]
[b]Code Word:[/b]
[b]RP Sample:[/b] (required)
429 - Do not remove. This is for tracking purposes.[/box]
 

Application for Rebel Groups:

Code: Select all

[box]
 Name of your Rebel Group:
 Country that you are rebelling in:
 Base of Operations:
 Number of Followers/Members:
 Why you are rebelling:
 Popular support:
 Quality of Weapons, from 1 to 10:
 Suppliers:
 429 (It helps to find apps)[/box]

I will be background checking all of your application for accuracy. You will not be accepted until your application is as accurate as can be. Don't worry, I will help you out if you don't know any information.
Last but certainly not least, there are a few rules to go over:

Rules:

Timescale:
In this RP, I will be generally directing the timescale, although you are welcome to help out with that in the game. Because of the nature of the way RPs like this work, a single day can elapse over countless posts, or a single post can advance the timeline by a month. All that is asked is that no-one advance the timeline unreasonably. By this I mean that if two nations are at a conference and are engaging in discussions, some other player can't make a post that takes place a week in the future. That being said, try to keep such conferences to a minimum in order to keep the timeline moving. And be aware of the limitations that exist in communication technologies at this time.

Waging War:
Any conflict that is started must be waged reasonably and realistically. This is still the Twenty First Century people! Troops are constantly hampered by the technological limitations of the day, which I will go into more detail about below:

Technology:
Understanding the limitations of your nation's technology is important. Make sure that you play according to that technology.

Know How to Lose:
This is the biggest problem I see in RPs, and I have no doubt that some dummy will cause this issue at some point. In every battle, at every second, every side tries to describe some heroic definitive victory move, a "checkmate" if you will, that causes their army to emerge victorious. This results in an incredibly childish back-and-forth and makes the game un-enjoyable. if you are losing due to decisions made earlier on, then for god's sake lose! Don't try to make up some bullcrap about a single unit of soldiers that manages to survive and win the day, that's not how real war works. Now, I'm not saying that occasionally, in certain circumstances, definitive heroics aren't allowed. If I catch anyone breaking this simple rule of integrity in a major way, there will be one warning, followed by out-the-door.


Meta-Gaming:
This is the last point I need to make. What is meta-gaming? Well, when the British start thinking about negotiating a takeover of Mexico, and suddenly Mexico boosts it's military numbers way up and is put on high alert, that's meta-gaming: because Mexico couldn't possibly know exactly what the British were thinking. This is unacceptable. Also, you must declare espionage before you commit it, (either on the OOC or IC) you can't just say that you committed espionage and knew the enemy's plans after you had decimated their entire army.

---

Announcements:
IC thread is up!
CUBA IS AWESOME!!

---

That is all

reserve EU or Sweden

[New Rnclave]

(Image)

The Dragon Falls: 2040

"I know not what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein

IC!!!

OP: Myself
Co-OPs: TBD

Welcome to The Dragon Falls: 2040 Nation RP

[align=center]

Welcome to the year 2040. The past thirty years have been eventful, to say the least. The darker days of the 21st century are behind the world, and it seems that the new order that arose out of the ashes of the old has stabilized enough. Who knows how long this will last? Who knows when the next crisis will strike?

The crisis of the early 21st century began with the Great Recession of 2008. The Recession weakened the entire global economy, but just as it seemed to be sputtering back to life in the late 2010s, another crisis hit. The "petrodollar" system, negotiated by the United States and the various OPEC currencies, was destroyed when OPEC declared a second oil embargo against the United States and the rest of the West in 2017. This was done as a result of the United States being less dependent on OPEC oil thanks to an increase in domestic production, resulting in the US becoming a direct competitor to OPEC and the American government gradually supporting Israel more in the various conflicts against the chaos that has engulfed its neighbors (including Egypt). The United States dollar spiraled into massive inflation, destroying the American economy overnight.

When the European and American economies self destructed, China crashed. Being a major purchaser of Western bonds, which were now largely worthless, China's economy went into a death spiral. Viewing this collapse as a failure of the civilian government, the PLA launched a successful coup, promising to restore Chinese prosperity without relying on the West. China, after all, was #1, and while China's new leaders won't say that there was a Western conspiracy to kill the red dragon, they won't say there wasn't. The regime militarizes further throughout the second half of 2010 and all of 2011, causing a string of diplomatic crises in the South China Sea and the East China Sea. Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, and the United States all mobilize to oppose Chinese aggression. This only convinces Beijing that there is a Western-Japanese conspiracy aligned against them, solidifying their power among the nationalistically-motivated people and further increasing their military spending. When the PLA Navy moved into the Spratley Islands and started manufacturing islands, China's neighbors and the United States mobilized in turn. It seems that all it takes for war now is a nut doing something stupid. That nut happened to be Kim Jong-un.

As China's economy crashed, so did North Korea's. While North Korea's people suffered, as they always did, the North Korean military started to suffer as well. Kim, who was not trusted by the military after the death of his father, tried to rein in complaints from his officers by killing them. This prompted a series of events throughout early 2012 which, thanks to the dearth of records from pre-war North Korea, eventually led to Kim winning and attempting to prove his military legitimacy by provoking the South Koreans. However, Kim overreached, and prompted a response from South Korea in the form of artillery fire across the DMZ. Not wishing to back down, Kim ordered a response in kind, a response which killed foreign tourists at the DMZ. This led to a series of escalation which eventually led to the restarting of the Korean War. As American troops poured into South Korea, Beijing surprised the world by supporting the North...and escalating military action in the South China Sea. This led eventually to shooting between the two sides (it is not entirely clear who started), turning into a war between China and the United States and their allies. WWIII had begun.

The Chinese went on the offensive; the PLA Navy secured the Spratley and Senkaku islands, defeating local American and allied forces. The PLA invaded northern Vietnam, but were stopped by the Vietnamese before they could reach Hanoi. Islands were seized from the Republic of China, but no attempts were made to make an amphibious landing on Taiwan. By early 2013, China was winning the war, but the tide turned when American reinforcements started arriving in Korea, and the Americans launched an invasion of southeast China. While the PLA Navy was sent to the bottom of the ocean by the US Navy, the Americans had a long slog ahead of them. Fighting on a massive continent, against a massive army, a massive ocean away, made American offensive operations exceedingly difficult. By 2014, the offensive along the Yangtze had ground to a halt. Fortunately for the Allies, the Russians joined the war in June of 2014, after the Russo-Chinese border conflicts that had been going on since the beginning of operations in Korea spun out of control into open war. However, the Chinese were initially successful against the Russians. Elsewhere, war began between India and Pakistan, with Pakistan and China considering drafting an official alliance.

WWIII took a toll on the United States. Not only was the struggling economy crashed further by the outbreak of war, Americans began hearing of defeat after defeat along the Yangtze. Opposition to the war grew from the left and the right, which placed the paranoid wartime government on edge. Civil unrest grew, and as American soldiers were rotated out of China, they began to desert en masse to escape being sent back. Military cohesion broke down, and attempts to arrest entire units that have gone AWOL broke out into fighting. These units began to side with the people demanding an end to the war. Militias were formed and grew, and began to seize control of important highway hubs throughout the country. Attempts to arrest them led to further civil unrest, as the people began to see Washington as tyrannical.

Washington was overtaken (without shooting) by right-wing militias, and forced the government to sign a surrender with China. This was regarded as illegitimate, and troops and politicians loyal to the old regime rallied around the country. State governments began to secure their borders, sometimes with the unofficial aid of militias. Both sides began to escalate, and by 2015, open warfare began between the federal government and various factions. America was no longer fighting in WWIII; it was fighting its own civil war.

The American exit from WWIII seemed to be the sign that China would win the war, but America's allies continued the fight. The rest of NATO's members continued fighting against the Chinese, and as the Chinese pushed further into Siberia, more and more of their troops died or surrendered. China's own people began to demand an end to the war, which had brought the country untold suffering. By 2016, mass mutinies along the front in the south allowed NATO forces to advance, while the Russians pushed in from the north. Beijing was soon surrounded by angry civilians, and this time they were armed. Seeing the writing on the wall, the Chinese military government fled to the four corners of the Earth; those hardliners who wanted to launch the missiles were quickly disposed of. The civilian government they left behind signed an unconditional surrender with the Allies in 2017. However, fighting did not stop against rogue PLA units until 2018.

In America, the revolutionary right triumphed, as they gained more of the old United States military. The old federal government was forced to flee to Hawaii. The NATO states refused to recognize the so-called "American Union." However, the NATO member states, already tired from WWIII and occupying China, did not want to start a war in America, particularly as the American Union had control of America's old nuclear arsenal, and stated in no uncertain terms that they were willing to use it.

In the meanwhile, China was divided into many different nations. The autonomy granted by Yang was taken away by the military government, and the popular revolution that took down the Beijing government had an anti-centralist tone. Furthermore, NATO and the Russians supported factionalist movements in an effort to break apart the PRC during the war, and now they wanted to stay apart. And so, China was fractured into several pieces. However, Russo-NATO relations broke apart quickly after the war. Growing conflict in the Middle East, which miraculously avoided WWIII, and the Ukraine, split Moscow and the West. A new cold war emerged from the ashes of WWIII.

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Here's a brief outline of what is below:
-1- A description of the RP
-2- A map of the RP
-3- IC, UNGA, UNSC, Alliance threads, meetings/conferences, etc
-4- A list of countries and their players(Roster)
-5- Applications for Key Powers( Ex. US, Germany and France, England and Russia )
-6- Applications for regular nations
-7- The Rule of the RP
-8- Announcements

The 2040 Nation RP: The Dragon Falls

WiP

Below is the official map of this RP. It shows major powers (with or without players) and nations belonging to players. This map will be updated as often as possible.

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Links:
IC thread: IC
UN thread: Coming Soon
Asia Summit Thread: Here

Roster:
Here's a list of the nations and their players. This is not a list of the only countries allowed to be played.

Accepted Nations:

American Union New Rnclave

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Reserved:

Germany Sanabel

Russia Soviet Chernarus

Terrorist/Rebel/Insurgent Groups


Corporations

Applications:
Several powers are essential to the playing of this RP. See instructions for application farther down. Please consider playing a power if any are available. If you are playing one of these powers, I except you to do some more research so that you know your nation inside and out.

Applications for nations:

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 [box][size=150][b]Generic Info[/b][/size]
[b]Nation Name: [/b]
[b]Symbols: [/b] (ex. Flag, Coat of Arms, National Anthem, personifications, etc.)
[b]Homeland Population: [/b] (population of everyone considered a citizen)
[b]Imperial Population:[/b] (include population of colonies)
[b]Location/Claims: [/b] (include number)
[b]Capital City: [/b]

[size=150][b]Government Info[/b][/size]
[b]Government Type:[/b] (ex. The USA is a [i]Presidential Constitutional Federal Republic[/i])
[b]Brief Explanation of Government:[/b] (explain all the complex/unique stuff that can't be described in the type section)
[b]Ideology:[/b]  (Refer to [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies]this[/url])
[b]Leader/s:[/b]  (Head of State, Head of Government, etc.)

[size=150][b]Population Info[/b][/size]
[b]Brief Description of your people:[/b]
[b]Religion:[/b]
[b]Ethnicity:[/b]
[b]Main/Accepted Culture(s):[/b] (ex. IRL-UK would be English, Scottish; only cultures that are dominant and the gov't favors)
[b]Other Cultures:[/b] (ex. IRL-UK would have been Irish, Welsh, etc ; cultures that aren't accepted by the gov't/people)

[b][size=150]Economy[/size][/b]
[b]GDP Expectation as of 2040:[/b]
[b]Main Exports: /b]
[b]Main Imports: [/b]
[b]Other information: [/b]

[size=150][b]Military Info[/b][/size]
[b]Army: [/b] (branches, number of troops, quality of army, etc,)
[b]Navy: [/b] (branches, number of troops, quality of navy, etc,)

[size=150]Other Info[/size]
[b]Brief Description of your Economy:[/b]
[b]Goals: [/b]
[b]History: [/b] ( Must include how the nation fared during the collapse )
[b]Special Factors: [/b]
[b]Code Word:[/b]
[b]RP Sample:[/b] (required)
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Application for Rebel Groups:

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 Name of your Rebel Group:
 Country that you are rebelling in:
 Base of Operations:
 Number of Followers/Members:
 Why you are rebelling:
 Popular support:
 Quality of Weapons, from 1 to 10:
 Suppliers:
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I will be background checking all of your application for accuracy. You will not be accepted until your application is as accurate as can be. Don't worry, I will help you out if you don't know any information.
Last but certainly not least, there are a few rules to go over:

Rules:

Timescale:
In this RP, I will be generally directing the timescale, although you are welcome to help out with that in the game. Because of the nature of the way RPs like this work, a single day can elapse over countless posts, or a single post can advance the timeline by a month. All that is asked is that no-one advance the timeline unreasonably. By this I mean that if two nations are at a conference and are engaging in discussions, some other player can't make a post that takes place a week in the future. That being said, try to keep such conferences to a minimum in order to keep the timeline moving. And be aware of the limitations that exist in communication technologies at this time.

Waging War:
Any conflict that is started must be waged reasonably and realistically. This is still the Twenty First Century people! Troops are constantly hampered by the technological limitations of the day, which I will go into more detail about below:

Technology:
Understanding the limitations of your nation's technology is important. Make sure that you play according to that technology.

Know How to Lose:
This is the biggest problem I see in RPs, and I have no doubt that some dummy will cause this issue at some point. In every battle, at every second, every side tries to describe some heroic definitive victory move, a "checkmate" if you will, that causes their army to emerge victorious. This results in an incredibly childish back-and-forth and makes the game un-enjoyable. if you are losing due to decisions made earlier on, then for god's sake lose! Don't try to make up some bullcrap about a single unit of soldiers that manages to survive and win the day, that's not how real war works. Now, I'm not saying that occasionally, in certain circumstances, definitive heroics aren't allowed. If I catch anyone breaking this simple rule of integrity in a major way, there will be one warning, followed by out-the-door.


Meta-Gaming:
This is the last point I need to make. What is meta-gaming? Well, when the British start thinking about negotiating a takeover of Mexico, and suddenly Mexico boosts it's military numbers way up and is put on high alert, that's meta-gaming: because Mexico couldn't possibly know exactly what the British were thinking. This is unacceptable. Also, you must declare espionage before you commit it, (either on the OOC or IC) you can't just say that you committed espionage and knew the enemy's plans after you had decimated their entire army.

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Announcements:
IC thread is up!
CUBA IS AWESOME!!

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That is all

reserve EU or Sweden

Please don't quote the OP But Sweden is noted

[Heraklea-]

reserve EU or Sweden

Please don't quote the OP But Sweden is noted

One should probably not chastise someone for quoting the OP while quoting the quote and including the entire OP yourself. Just saying...

Also, would it be possible to do what is essentially a military alliance/political and economic union of several smaller nations working together as a block to increase their over all influence?

[New Rnclave]

Please don't quote the OP But Sweden is noted

One should probably not chastise someone for quoting the OP while quoting the quote and including the entire OP yourself. Just saying...

Also, would it be possible to do what is essentially a military alliance/political and economic union of several smaller nations working together as a block to increase their over all influence?

Hmm.. Depends on the nations really

[Heraklea-]

One should probably not chastise someone for quoting the OP while quoting the quote and including the entire OP yourself. Just saying...

Also, would it be possible to do what is essentially a military alliance/political and economic union of several smaller nations working together as a block to increase their over all influence?

Hmm.. Depends on the nations really

My thinking was to do one in the Middle East consisting of Israel, Palestine (with the US really not in a position to keep backing them, the Israeli left finally managed to push a peace process through), Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon. Possibly an independent Kurdistan and/or Anbar (Central and Western Sunni regions of Iraq) if there is a democratized/occupied Syria.

[New Rnclave]

Hmm.. Depends on the nations really

My thinking was to do one in the Middle East consisting of Israel, Palestine (with the US really not in a position to keep backing them, the Israeli left finally managed to push a peace process through), Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon. Possibly an independent Kurdistan and/or Anbar (Central and Western Sunni regions of Iraq) if there is a democratized/occupied Syria.

Well Israel integrated West Bank and Gaza

[Reatra]

You can't really split up China, because then half a billion elopement would die of starvation.

[Heraklea-]

My thinking was to do one in the Middle East consisting of Israel, Palestine (with the US really not in a position to keep backing them, the Israeli left finally managed to push a peace process through), Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon. Possibly an independent Kurdistan and/or Anbar (Central and Western Sunni regions of Iraq) if there is a democratized/occupied Syria.

Well Israel integrated West Bank and Gaza

Was that in the history you put in the OP? I don't remember that. Hold on, let me re-read it.

[New Rnclave]

You can't really split up China, because then half a billion elopement would die of starvation.

Watch me son

[New Rnclave]

Well Israel integrated West Bank and Gaza

Was that in the history you put in the OP? I don't remember that. Hold on, let me re-read it.

Nah, it's a unstated thing

[Reatra]

You can't really split up China, because then half a billion elopement would die of starvation.

Watch me son

How about post-WW1 treaty?

Like Tibet and most of Xinjiang is gone, and the economy sucks.



Anyway, would I be able to RP as a Brasil that leads a sort of EU in South America?

[Heraklea-]

Would it be possible to instead have a two-state confederation of Israel and Palestine a la ex-Yugoslav unions with two separate states but an overall federal government?

[New Rnclave]

Watch me son

How about post-WW1 treaty?

Like Tibet and most of Xinjiang is gone, and the economy sucks.



Anyway, would I be able to RP as a Brasil that leads a sort of EU in South America?

Nope. It shatters.

And actually, funny you mention it, they do lead one of those

[New Rnclave]

Would it be possible to instead have a two-state confederation of Israel and Palestine a la ex-Yugoslav unions with two separate states but an overall federal government?

Sure

[Sanabel]

What does Germany own?

[Das Germane imperie]

Generic Info
Nation Name: Republic of Turkey
Symbols:
Flag: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/125px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png
National Emblem: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/TurkishEmblem.svg/85px-TurkishEmblem.svg.png
National Anthem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czjwKKIpXwM
Homeland Population: 89,590,600
Imperial Population: See above, the same
Location/Claims: Turkey as of this map: http://www.exclusivetravelturkey.com/turkey-map-info.gif
Capital City: Ankara

Government Info
Government Type: Unitary Executive Constitutional Republic
Brief Explanation of Government: The President is elected in general elections every 4th year. Since 2022, the turkish parliament is dissolved, with the President holding full executive power, with some judicial exeptions. The President chooses his / her ministers.
Ideology: Conservatism, Economical liberalism, Neo Ottomanism, Islamism.
Leader/s: President Mustafa Jamal Karamehmet

Population Info
Brief Description of your people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_people
Religion: Sunni 81% Shiite 7%
Ethnicity: Turkish
Main/Accepted Culture(s): Azerbaijani, Greek
Other Cultures: Kurd, Zaza, Georgian

Economy
GDP Expectation as of 2040: 2.8 Trillion $
Main Exports: /b] Other manufactured Products, Vehicles, Foodstuffs
[b]Main Imports: Oil, Machines, Iron and Steel
Other information: Nah

Military Info
Army: One of the top priorites of Turkey has been reforming and maintaining a military to be reckoned with, to challenge the Levantine Union and the EU. It is modern and well-trained. It has 2,200,000 Active soldiers and 1,800,000 Reserves.
Navy: The Turkish Navy has not been as prioritised as the Army, but is quite modern too and has well-trained Marines and other personell. Total Active: 200,000 Reserves: 300,000

Other Info
Brief Description of your Economy: The Turkish Economy is actually strong, mostly due to isolationalist policies giving Turkey's economy potential to grow un-globalized. Still, Turkey is present on world markets on a very existing level.
Goals: To break up the Levantine Union, become the major Islamic Nation and to get closer to Russia diplomatically.
History: Turkey had some difficulties in the great recession starting in 2008, but benefited from a growing tourism. The Syrian Civil War and the Arab Spring lead to Turkey increasing it's military funding. WW3 started, and Turkey's economy was severely damaged due to aiding America and trading with China ending. As the United States started to crumble in itself, Turkey formally left NATO with the reason being it's lack of value. Turkey slowly started to center itself towards Russia, and away from the rest of the muslim world (with the exception being Iran). Coalition and block politics lead to the AK Party pushing for a new constitution, giving the one party having the most votes in elections full executive and legaslative power. In 2022, this was enacted giving the sitting President Erdoğan full authority over the country. Turkey slowly became less democratic and more corrupt, but was taken out of the financial crisis. President Erdoğan resigned at the age of 74 in 2028, and left the office to the much younger AKP leader Mustafa Jamal Karamehmet. Karamemhmet has made significant economic reforms cutting welfare and taxes, but increasing the power of the government with military and police power. The Sunni Church has recieved a lot of regional power and is favoured by the President, whom has with Sunni support won three elections. He has recieved a lot of critique from the EU because of his "dictatorial regime", but no real agreements or cooperations has ben worsened with any nation. Karamemhmet has good relations with Russia, but is not fond of the Threatening Levantine Union, which he officialy considers as "Illegitimate" and "Run by jews".
Special Factors: Don't know what to put here. :/
Code Word: Not here either... :/
RP Sample:

https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=341794
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=346400
viewtopic.php?f=31&t=344602
viewtopic.php?f=31&t=347358
viewtopic.php?f=31&t=349543

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