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OP: Caltarania
Co-OPs: Columbia | Krugmar
This world diverges from our own in September 19th, 1983, when a certain Colonel Stanislav Petrov is assigned to a training seminar on Soviet Officer practice. As a result, the command of bunker Serpukhov-15 - a major Soviet missile monitoring station - falls instead to a different Soviet officer. When the computer monitoring system detected several US nuclear missiles approaching Soviet airspace, the young officer followed protocole and immediately alerted the Kremlin to the data he was receiving. Fearing that the United States had launched a first strike in order to put a definitive end to the Soviet Union, within minutes of the report Soviet leaders decide to retaliate, and launch their nuclear arsenal.
The Americans, also believing that their enemy have launched a first strike, proceed to launch their own arsenal. Minutes later, other nuclear states have launched their own arsenals. By the time the first alerted missile is proven to be a false alarm, it is too late. Thousands of nuclear warheads subsequently detonate over targets worldwide. Nuclear holocaust engulfs the globe. Firestorms stretch across the world, and dust fills the atmosphere, sending the world into a nuclear winter.
Within hours, millions have perished. The total death count, including those having perished from famine and other related-causes, is estimated at just over a billion; a fourth of the world's total population. For close to a decade following the Third World War, most of the northern hemisphere was embroiled in horrifying accounts of cannibalism and the breakdown of order. Yet, eventually, the world calmed. Though chaos still reigns, order is beginning to be restored, and the world rebuilt.
Now, thirty-five years after the fall, many areas of the world have coalesced into new nations and states, eager to emerge from the chaos better than before. All is not rose-tinted, but there is hope yet for progress. While this hope persists; famine, disease, and an overall lack of resources still continue to provoke conflicts and wars across the globe, and without a unified voice, humanity is far from free of this dark age.
APPLICATIONS
Reservation
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[size=150][b][color=#f4d442]Reservation:[/color][/b][/size]
[b]Location:[/b] *map image of claim in currently unclaimed area*
[b]Nation Name:[/b] *the nation you are applying for, not your Nationstates name*
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Application
Required
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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]Location: [/b] (Map or description)
[b]Population: [/b] (population of everyone considered a citizen, and subject, under direct control or influence. Feel free to ask for help from the OP board, as these are starkly different to OTL.)
[b]Capital City: [/b]
[size=150][b]Government Info[/b][/size]
[b]Government Type:[/b] (ex. the Northern Union is a Federal trade unionist socialist autonomy)
[b]Brief Explanation of Government:[/b] (explain all the complex/unique stuff that can't be described in the type section)
[b]Leader/s:[/b] (Head of State, Head of Government, etc.)
[b]Relations[/b] (Trade agreements, existing military alliances, rivals, etc)
[size=150][b]Population Info[/b][/size]
[b]Religious Situation:[/b]
[b]Culture(s):[/b]
[size=150][b]Military Info[/b][/size]
[b]Army: [/b] (branches, number of troops, equipment, equipment manufacturing/replacement capability, quality of army, etc,)
[b]Navy: [/b] (branches, number of troops, equipment, equipment manufacturing/replacement capability, quality of navy, etc,)
[size=150]Other Info[/size]
[b]Goals: [/b]
[b]History: [/b] (Does not have to be extensive, should stretch from 1983 (or slightly before) to the modern day (2018))
[b]RP Sample:[/b] (required unless you are known to me)
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Optional
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Place Underneath Government Info
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[size=150][b]Leader Info[/b][/size]
[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Skills, Education and Experience:[/b]
[b]Family Members:[/b]
[b]Advisers:[/b]
[b]History:[/b]
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[size=150][b]Military Info - Army[/b][/size]
[b]Chief of Staff:[/b] (Not who is the technical commander in chief, but who (possibly plural) actually runs your army)
[b]Commander Selection:[/b] (How are your commanders selected? Merit, nepotism, feudal obligations? Feel free to list any remarkable commanders here as well)
[b]Weaponry:[/b] (What weapons and armour are favoured?)
[b]Sophistication:[/b] (How sophisticated are your military strategies, and how well trained are your troops? Remember that the more sophisticated your military, the more infrastructure required to support them and the more they are able to become a politicised force)
[b]Levying:[/b] (Is there a specific way they are levied, are they citizen soldiers, is most of your force mercenary? etc.)
[b]Army Size[/b] (How large is it, both standing, in wartime, and maximum possible conscription)
[size=150][b]Military Info - Navy[/b][/size]
[b]Chief of Staff:[/b] (Not who is the technical commander in chief, but who (possibly plural) actually runs your navy)
[b]Commander Selection:[/b] (How are your commanders selected? Merit, nepotism, feudal obligations? Feel free to list any remarkable commanders here as well)
[b]Weaponry:[/b] (What weapons and ships are favoured?)
[b]Sophistication:[/b] (How sophisticated are your naval strategies, how advanced are your ships, and how well trained are your sailors?)
[b]Levying:[/b] (Is there a specific way they are levied, are they free men, slaves, or impressed, is most of your force mercenary? etc.)
[b]Naval Size[/b] (How large is it, both standing, in wartime commandeering, and maximum possible commandeering and construction)
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[size=150][b]Population Info[/b][/size]
[b]State Religion[/b]
[b]Religious Policy[/b]
[b]Religious Situation[/b]
[b]State Ethnicity[/b] (What is the dominant ethnicity of the state, and is it attainable through assimilation, or only through descent?)
[b]Other Ethnicities[/b]
[b]Slavery:[/b] (The status of slavery, how it functions, is it along ethnic lines , and how much of your population is enslaved)
[b]Ethics:[/b] (e.g. Are your survivors a martial people, religious cult? Sedentary or nomadic? What governmental system are they generally inclined to? Make sure to divide between different ethnicities if these aren’t shared)
*Credit to Columbia and Krug for the OP layout which I used.
*Credit to 1983: Doomsday, the map game on which this rp is heavily based.
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