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by Grand Indochina » Thu Dec 06, 2018 12:23 pm
by Terre Australes » Thu Dec 06, 2018 12:24 pm
by Savojarna » Thu Dec 06, 2018 1:08 pm
by Duestchstien » Thu Dec 06, 2018 3:47 pm
Duestchstien wrote:Application
NS Name: Duestchstien
RP Name (Formal): Empire of Japan, Nihon
RP Name (Informal): Japan, Tokugawa Shogunate, Nihon
Other Names: Land of the Rising Sun
Flag:
Coat of Arms:
Other Symbol(s):
Official Territory: Japan and Kuril Islands
Territorial Claim: Japan, Ryuku and Kuril Islands
Population: 42 Million
Capital City: Kyoto
Map Color: N/A
Government Type: Monarchic feudal stratocracy
Government Explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa_ ... Government
Ideology: Isolationist (Imperial Faction is Nationalist and Capitalist)
Leader/s: Shogun: Tokugawa Iesato; Emperor: Taisho
Relations: Isolationist, Trade with Dutch and English allowed via Port of Nagasaki
Administrative Division(s): (provinces, colonies, administrative organization, etc)
State Religion: Shinto and Buddhism
Other Religion(s): Confucianism, Taoism, and Christianity
Ethnicity: 99.9% Japanese, 0.1% Other
Language(s): Japanese
Main/Accepted Culture(s): Japanese
Other Culture(s): None
Type of Economy: Mixed Economy
Economy Explanation: Mainly based around mining, lumber, fishing, farming, and certain industry such as Ship Building and Refined Food Products
Important Resources: ^^^
Military Explanation: Can be Divided into two branches the Navy and the Army. The top of the military is the Shogun who is both the ceremonial and practical the leader. Under the shogun are a series of generals that each lead armies. The main units include Cavalry and Infantry. The main weapons are the Katana and Rifle, many rifles are based around the rifles of the 1830s and 40s first brought by the british and dutch. THe military is characterized by its stiff training regimen, the Bushido code, and the infamous banzai attacks.
Military Branches: Navy and Army
Army: 640,000 Active, 1.3 Million Reserve
Navy: 200,000 Active, 1.1 Million Reserve
Air Force: The Army aircorps consists of 5 british spyplanes donated by the british to use for aerial reconnaissance
Other Military Branch(es): A paramilitary group exists that only serves the Emperor, it consists of 38,000 troops all heavily trained in martial arts, rifling, and are brainwashed to believe the emperor is a god, they are known for their stiff fierceness and loyalty to the emperor, they are known as the Kempeiai.
Goals: The Shogun wants to preserve the japanese culture and peoples, the Emperor believes the only way to remain a capable power is to mix the west with the east and rapidly modernize the country.
Domestic Issues: Growing gap between the emperor and shogun, undeveloped
Foreign Issues: Growing Korean Influence.
National Figure(s): ?
History: In 1600 the Sengoku Jidai ended, on top was the knew shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. Tokugawa had successfully brought the entire oda clan into his domain years earlier, and his second in command was Toyotomo Hideyoshi, a trusted friend. Hideyoshi would lead a trade expedition to china in 1610 and die of the bubonic plague. Ieyasu would grieve at his loss and would lose his life only a couple years later to the same disease. This left his unprepared sun in charge. The feudal lords took this to their advantage and the centralized the government. By the in 1703 the Tokugawa War broke out in which the northern lords all fighting for power broke loose. This would begin a gap between the South and the North. The North wanted modernization and secretly began communicating with Russia and Spain to help them overthrow the government, neither thought the deal would be profitable, but Russia would send a ship of emmissaries in attempt to formalize the relations. However Japanese ships (who believed it to be an invading force) would sink it, sparking the HIRMS Izhevsk incident. The northern lords would grow angry and claim it was a hospital ship sent to help a town which had been devastated by an earthquake. The Izhevsk incident would lead the northern lords to sign the secret Sendai Pact. In 1735 Emperor Nakamikado would be persuaded to begin helping the cause. He agreed to go meet the shogun to discuss the possibility of opening up with the west. However Nakamikado would die only 3 hours after reaching the capital of old age. The lords disagreed and claimed the shogun had poisoned him.
Years later Nakamikado's son, Sakuramachi, would persuade the Shogun to allow the west to trade via the port of Nagasaki. They jointly created the Sakuramachi Treaty with the British and Dutch that would allow them to trade but forced them to promise not to try and convert the population to Christianity or damage the Japanese culture. This trade would spread the teachings of the west throughout the island of Kyushu and prompt the Lords their to join the northern lords. They worked closely to create nippon-no-houhou (The way of Japan), this would combine western technology and learning with Japanese culture.
The emperor would work closely with the lords to consolidate his power in the north and in Kyushu, and wielding this he would get the rights for the city of Edo to modernize. Edo would become a manufacturing hub by the 1850s and would see some of the best Ship building and food processing factories in the east. However this cities success was seen else where. Growing tired of the waiting the Kyushu uprising would start in 1876 and whilst it would fail, the emperor got some of his supporters to light a factory on fire in edo. The Emperor would claim that he needed a security force to protect his city and palace.
The Shogun allowed the creation of the Kempeitai, the emperors personal army. He would fill it with fanatical supporters that would be brainwashed into thinking the emperor was a god. They were tought the way of japan, and turned into fierce and orderly troops. They can be found standing perfectly still at street corners and important buildings making sure the city is safe. The emperor would reopen relations with Russia in 1901, sending his personal emissaries to Moscow to "ensure his shipment of sugar would be met on time" of course the real purpose was to make sure the kempeitai received the best equipment. The emperor also allowed Russian companies to create branches in japan, but these branches would be under part ownership of a Japanese conglomerate so technically it was part of a Japanese company.
In 1910 the Edo Expo would begin and would show the ways of the west. The Japanese marveled at this and it effectively has been turning the populace against the Shogun since. The current situation is quite stiff, the emperor and shogun are publicly facing off and the Emperor has gotten support of over 65% of the country to overthrow the shogun.
RP Sample: (optional, yet still important regarding experience)
Franz Ferdinand - DO NOT REMOVE
National InfoChancellor - Alexei Matrovitch
Vice Chancellor - Dmitri Zdunowo
Capital - Moscow
Population - 404.2 Million
Currency - Roys Ruble (₽)
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by New Tussia » Thu Dec 06, 2018 3:49 pm
by Grand Indochina » Thu Dec 06, 2018 6:27 pm
by New Tussia » Thu Dec 06, 2018 6:47 pm
Application
NS Name: New Tussia
RP Name (Formal): (including native name) Union of Mexico
RP Name (Informal): (including native name) Mexico
Other Names: (could either be nicknames or just the RP name in different languages)
Flag:
Coat of Arms:
Other Symbol(s): (could be a flag)
Official Territory: (Map or Name) 30 mi. south of Mexico city is a fairly straight border. Up to the Rio Grande is the border.
Territorial Claim: (Map or Name) The rest of Central America
Population: (either just homeland or both homeland and colonial) 13.6 million.
Capital City: Mexico City
Map Color: Red
Government Type: (See "List of forms of government") Social Democracy
Government Explaination: (explain about the form of government, it's branches and how it functions, as well as politics)
Ideology: (See "List of political ideologies") Marxism
Leader/s: (Head of State, Head of Government, etc.) Emiliano Zapata
Relations: (Allies, trade partners, enemies, etc) Trades with most other nations.
Administrative Division(s): (provinces, colonies, administrative organization, etc) None
State Religion: Atheism
Other Religion(s): None
Ethnicity: Mexican
Language(s): Spanich, English
Main/Accepted Culture(s): None
Other Culture(s): None
Type of Economy: Planned
Economy Explaination: Everything is state or government owned.
Important Resources:fluorspar, celestite, bismuth, sodium sulfate, wollastonite, lead, graphite
Military Explaination: Medium sized.
Military Branches: (army, navy, air force, gendarmerie, naval infantry, ceremonial unit, militia, etc) Mostly a militia, mediocre navy, small air force.
Army: (branches, number of troops, quality of army, etc,) One branch, 100,000 troops. Well equipped but not technologically advanced.
Navy: (branches, number of troops, quality of navy, etc,) Marines and Navy. Medium sized, not well technologically. 50,000 personal.
Air Force: (same as above) Very small. Not efficient. 5,000 personal.
Other Military Branch(es): (same as above) None
Goals: Unite Central America and spread communism
Domestic Issues: Not extremely stable.
Foreign Issues: One of the few Communist states in the world.
National Figure(s): (optional)
History: (Timeline or Synopsis) After gaining independence from Spain, Mexico went Nationalist. In 1910 there was a Communist revolution that put the current government in and it started to grow into a strong nation with a good sized military. Emiliano Zapata was put into power after gaining Mexico City and the Nationalists surrendered.
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by Danceria » Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:16 pm
New Tussia wrote:-Communism, but it's Spanish-
by The Imperial Warglorian Empire » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:07 pm
Danceria wrote:Grand Indochina wrote:He is Korean Empire.
Hey, can I be your friend too ? Your friendly neighbor in the north, Scandinavia ?
Yeah, we kind of have similar histories, the dark horses of our respective continents. (Who would've thought that Prussia would into dominance as the German Republic, easily fighting wars across Europe? Who would've thought that Korea would've broken free, and become a naval power to keep it's overseas colonies in check, never mind the fact that it owns parts of Japan and the whole of Manchuria...)
An aside, the term "Germanic Studies" would simply be used for studying anything Western, similar to Dutch Studies of OTL Japan. Koreans would've no doubt followed the colonial vessels of Austroslavia, Scandinavia, and Germany back to their respective homelands. Not to mention Korean and German have similar sentence structures (Subject-Verb-Object).
Now I just need to figure out how Christian I am, and what flavor? A K-Pop Crusader King sounds fun to play as, but I'm not certain how politically feasible it is...New Tussia wrote:-Communism, but it's Spanish-
And now...Marxism/Syndicalism.
by Danceria » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:12 pm
The Imperial Warglorian Empire wrote:Danceria wrote:Yeah, we kind of have similar histories, the dark horses of our respective continents. (Who would've thought that Prussia would into dominance as the German Republic, easily fighting wars across Europe? Who would've thought that Korea would've broken free, and become a naval power to keep it's overseas colonies in check, never mind the fact that it owns parts of Japan and the whole of Manchuria...)
An aside, the term "Germanic Studies" would simply be used for studying anything Western, similar to Dutch Studies of OTL Japan. Koreans would've no doubt followed the colonial vessels of Austroslavia, Scandinavia, and Germany back to their respective homelands. Not to mention Korean and German have similar sentence structures (Subject-Verb-Object).
Now I just need to figure out how Christian I am, and what flavor? A K-Pop Crusader King sounds fun to play as, but I'm not certain how politically feasible it is...
And now...Marxism/Syndicalism.
So wait, which nation are you now?
by The Imperial Warglorian Empire » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:14 pm
by Benuty » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:17 pm
by Danceria » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:19 pm
by The Imperial Warglorian Empire » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:22 pm
Danceria wrote:The Imperial Warglorian Empire wrote:Oh, I thought you were still Alaska
Oh well, i'm a super Russia
Also warning, you may or may not get anschlussed in the near future by me and Japan
Or Molotov-Ribbentropped, I don't know
I hope not to get squished, I just got here. How about you don't into China, and I'll let you have Mongolia? I don't want to fight Siberia. It's cold up there yo.Benuty wrote:In before a bunch of Koreans since the far eastern Russian fleet.
Once we YEET on the Russian Fleet, the YEET FLEET of the royal house of Yi(eet) will essentially declare free real estate on the Pacific. Or try to. Right now, we're trying not to have another civil war, and warily eyeing westerners.
by Benuty » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:22 pm
The Imperial Warglorian Empire wrote:Danceria wrote:I hope not to get squished, I just got here. How about you don't into China, and I'll let you have Mongolia? I don't want to fight Siberia. It's cold up there yo.
Once we YEET on the Russian Fleet, the YEET FLEET of the royal house of Yi(eet) will essentially declare free real estate on the Pacific. Or try to. Right now, we're trying not to have another civil war, and warily eyeing westerners.
Ha! Who needs the sea when you have
A lOt oF cOLd aSs LaNd?!
by The Imperial Warglorian Empire » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:25 pm
by Grand Indochina » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:39 pm
by The Imperial Warglorian Empire » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:42 pm
by Benuty » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:54 pm
by Grand Indochina » Fri Dec 07, 2018 12:51 am
by Benuty » Fri Dec 07, 2018 1:21 am
by Arvenia » Fri Dec 07, 2018 1:35 am
Duestchstien wrote:Duestchstien wrote:Application
NS Name: Duestchstien
RP Name (Formal): Empire of Japan, Nihon
RP Name (Informal): Japan, Tokugawa Shogunate, Nihon
Other Names: Land of the Rising Sun
Flag:
Coat of Arms:
Other Symbol(s):
Official Territory: Japan and Kuril Islands
Territorial Claim: Japan, Ryuku and Kuril Islands
Population: 42 Million
Capital City: Kyoto
Map Color: N/A
Government Type: Monarchic feudal stratocracy
Government Explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa_ ... Government
Ideology: Isolationist (Imperial Faction is Nationalist and Capitalist)
Leader/s: Shogun: Tokugawa Iesato; Emperor: Taisho
Relations: Isolationist, Trade with Dutch and English allowed via Port of Nagasaki
Administrative Division(s): (provinces, colonies, administrative organization, etc)
State Religion: Shinto and Buddhism
Other Religion(s): Confucianism, Taoism, and Christianity
Ethnicity: 99.9% Japanese, 0.1% Other
Language(s): Japanese
Main/Accepted Culture(s): Japanese
Other Culture(s): None
Type of Economy: Mixed Economy
Economy Explanation: Mainly based around mining, lumber, fishing, farming, and certain industry such as Ship Building and Refined Food Products
Important Resources: ^^^
Military Explanation: Can be Divided into two branches the Navy and the Army. The top of the military is the Shogun who is both the ceremonial and practical the leader. Under the shogun are a series of generals that each lead armies. The main units include Cavalry and Infantry. The main weapons are the Katana and Rifle, many rifles are based around the rifles of the 1830s and 40s first brought by the british and dutch. THe military is characterized by its stiff training regimen, the Bushido code, and the infamous banzai attacks.
Military Branches: Navy and Army
Army: 640,000 Active, 1.3 Million Reserve
Navy: 200,000 Active, 1.1 Million Reserve
Air Force: The Army aircorps consists of 5 british spyplanes donated by the british to use for aerial reconnaissance
Other Military Branch(es): A paramilitary group exists that only serves the Emperor, it consists of 38,000 troops all heavily trained in martial arts, rifling, and are brainwashed to believe the emperor is a god, they are known for their stiff fierceness and loyalty to the emperor, they are known as the Kempeiai.
Goals: The Shogun wants to preserve the japanese culture and peoples, the Emperor believes the only way to remain a capable power is to mix the west with the east and rapidly modernize the country.
Domestic Issues: Growing gap between the emperor and shogun, undeveloped
Foreign Issues: Growing Korean Influence.
National Figure(s): ?
History: In 1600 the Sengoku Jidai ended, on top was the knew shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. Tokugawa had successfully brought the entire oda clan into his domain years earlier, and his second in command was Toyotomo Hideyoshi, a trusted friend. Hideyoshi would lead a trade expedition to china in 1610 and die of the bubonic plague. Ieyasu would grieve at his loss and would lose his life only a couple years later to the same disease. This left his unprepared sun in charge. The feudal lords took this to their advantage and the centralized the government. By the in 1703 the Tokugawa War broke out in which the northern lords all fighting for power broke loose. This would begin a gap between the South and the North. The North wanted modernization and secretly began communicating with Russia and Spain to help them overthrow the government, neither thought the deal would be profitable, but Russia would send a ship of emmissaries in attempt to formalize the relations. However Japanese ships (who believed it to be an invading force) would sink it, sparking the HIRMS Izhevsk incident. The northern lords would grow angry and claim it was a hospital ship sent to help a town which had been devastated by an earthquake. The Izhevsk incident would lead the northern lords to sign the secret Sendai Pact. In 1735 Emperor Nakamikado would be persuaded to begin helping the cause. He agreed to go meet the shogun to discuss the possibility of opening up with the west. However Nakamikado would die only 3 hours after reaching the capital of old age. The lords disagreed and claimed the shogun had poisoned him.
Years later Nakamikado's son, Sakuramachi, would persuade the Shogun to allow the west to trade via the port of Nagasaki. They jointly created the Sakuramachi Treaty with the British and Dutch that would allow them to trade but forced them to promise not to try and convert the population to Christianity or damage the Japanese culture. This trade would spread the teachings of the west throughout the island of Kyushu and prompt the Lords their to join the northern lords. They worked closely to create nippon-no-houhou (The way of Japan), this would combine western technology and learning with Japanese culture.
The emperor would work closely with the lords to consolidate his power in the north and in Kyushu, and wielding this he would get the rights for the city of Edo to modernize. Edo would become a manufacturing hub by the 1850s and would see some of the best Ship building and food processing factories in the east. However this cities success was seen else where. Growing tired of the waiting the Kyushu uprising would start in 1876 and whilst it would fail, the emperor got some of his supporters to light a factory on fire in edo. The Emperor would claim that he needed a security force to protect his city and palace.
The Shogun allowed the creation of the Kempeitai, the emperors personal army. He would fill it with fanatical supporters that would be brainwashed into thinking the emperor was a god. They were tought the way of japan, and turned into fierce and orderly troops. They can be found standing perfectly still at street corners and important buildings making sure the city is safe. The emperor would reopen relations with Russia in 1901, sending his personal emissaries to Moscow to "ensure his shipment of sugar would be met on time" of course the real purpose was to make sure the kempeitai received the best equipment. The emperor also allowed Russian companies to create branches in japan, but these branches would be under part ownership of a Japanese conglomerate so technically it was part of a Japanese company.
In 1910 the Edo Expo would begin and would show the ways of the west. The Japanese marveled at this and it effectively has been turning the populace against the Shogun since. The current situation is quite stiff, the emperor and shogun are publicly facing off and the Emperor has gotten support of over 65% of the country to overthrow the shogun.
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by Arvenia » Fri Dec 07, 2018 3:26 am
Kelmet wrote:Application
NS Name: Kelmet
RP Name (Formal): The Grand Republic of Germany, Die Große Republik Deutschland
RP Name (Informal): The German Republic, Die deutsche republik
Other Names: the Republic of Germany
Flag:
Coat of Arms: The Eagle.
Other Symbol(s): Anything associated with "Germanness"
Official Territory:https://i.imgur.com/rKMSoUg.png Dark Prussian Blue
Territorial Claim: The Austroslav state of Bavaria. Perhaps a few more colonies......
Population: Home Territories- 41 million people
F.A.D of Argentina - 8 Million People
F.A.D of South Africa- 6.2 Million People
F.A.D of Australia- 4.9 Million People
Capital City: Berlin
Map Color: Prussian Blue
Government Type: Federal Presidential Constitutional Republic
Constitution very similar to that of the United States, Broad individual rights and a strong sense of "Life Liberty and Brotherhood"
Government Explaination: The government is the current "Bundestag", composed of the upper "Senate" (Senat) and the lower "House of Representatives" (Abgeordnetenhaus), and the executive branch was headed by an elected President.
Ideology: Pan-Germanism, Republicanism, Liberty, Freedom, Equality
Leader/s: President Friedrich Weber
Relations Allies: TBA
Trade Partners: TBA
Enemies: Kingdom of France and the Austroslavian Empire
Administrative Division(s):
States
Overseas Territories
The Freely Associated Dominion of Argentina
The Freely Associated Dominion of South Africa
The Freely Associated Dominion of Australia
State Religion: None, Official freedom of religion, tho the vast majority is protestant
Other Religion(s): Roman Catholic, Jewish, other.
Ethnicity: Near 100% European, vast majority German but a sizable minority of Poles.
Main/Accepted Culture(s): North German, South German
Other Culture(s):Polish
Type of Economy: Same as the RL German Empire
Economy Explaination:Same as the RL German Empire
Important Resources:Same as the RL German Empire
Military Explaination: Maintaining its tradition of Prussian Excellence and discipline and Headed by the Famous General Staff and officers. Colonial Possessions are allowed and encouraged to maintain there own armed forces.
Military Branches: German Army, German Navy, German Air Force, German National Guard.
Army: Same size and quality of the RL German Empire. Save for much more centralized by the General staff in Berlin.
Navy: Same size and quality of the RL German Empire. Save for much more centralized by the General staff in Berlin.
Air Force: Same size and quality of the RL German Empire. Save for much more centralized by the General staff in Berlin.
Other Military Branch(es): Specialty Sub Branches include Marine Troops under subject the German Naval Command.
Sub Branch of Special Alpine Divisions, specialty mountain troops.
Republic Military Intelligence, Promotes and encourages Republican movements in hostile nations.
Goals: Secure the Existance of the Republic, Regain Bavaria from the Austroslavian Empire. Spread Republicanism.
Domestic Issues:
Foreign Issues: Surrounded by Hostile Nations
National Figure(s): TBA
History: Vast Majority already in the OP.
RP Sample: I'm you're co-op. And we have rp'd together.
Franz Ferdinand - DO NOT REMOVE
by Dahyan » Fri Dec 07, 2018 3:42 am
Application
NS Name: Dahyan
RP Name (Formal): Republic of Louisiana / République de Louisiane
RP Name (Informal): Louisiana / Louisiane
Other Names: /
Flag:
Coat of Arms:
Other Symbol(s):
Official Territory:
Territorial Claim:
Population: Around 10 million. The extent of the total population of Natives living in northern Louisiana is not fully known.
Capital City: Nouvelle-Orléans
Map Color:
Government Type: Unitary Autocratic Republic
Government Explaination: Elections take place on a regular basis, but only involve officially licensed political parties and movements that can participate. A unicameral National Convention is elected by universal suffrage. The executive branch is led by the Supreme Political Council, whose members are elected from amongst the National Convention, and which is headed by the President. The most inner circle of the Council is named the Tetrarchy, and is composed out of four Councillors, each representing one of the four major ethnic groups of Louisiana: Muskogean, Creole, African and Cajun.
Ideology: Radicalism, Jacobinism, early Socialism.
Leader:
Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes, a Creole of Colour born to a Haitian father and Cuban mother, formerly active as historian, journalist poet and police officer.
Relations: The Republic of Louisiana has excellent relations with the Commonwealth of the English Americas, which it considers a fellow republican and enlightened system despite minor differences and overlapping claims in the Midwest territories.
Louisiana furthermore has cordial ties to Alta California and New France, maintaining prosperous commercial ties with both, and warm relations with Mexico.
Despite being a breakaway former colony of France that originally declared independence due to a combination of slave revolts and and influx of Republican and anti-Orléanist revolutionaries, relationships with the Kingdom of France have known a significant boost in recent decades due to the far-reaching democratisation of the French government.
The German Republic is another venue for closer cooperation in the future that the Louisianan government is looking into developing.
Administrative Division(s): Illinois Country (Pays des Illinois), Lower Louisiana (Basse-Louisiane)
State Religion: Catholicism
Other Religion(s): African animism, Muskogean tribal religions, Protestantism
Ethnicity: French Creole (including descandants of French colonists and of mixed European-African relations), Cajun (Acadian), Senegambian (descendants of African slaves), Muskogean (Native), Métis (mixed European-Native), Isleño (descendants of Canary Islands immigrants)
Language(s): Louisiana French, Louisiana Creole, Muskogean languages, Senegambian languages, Spanish
Main/Accepted Culture(s): Creole, Cajun, Senegambian, Muskogean
Other Culture(s): Métis, Isleños
Type of Economy: Agricultural and commercial, centrally guided
Economy Explanation: Louisianan economy is mainly based on plantation agriculture, fur trapping and naval commerce, with the port city of Nouvelle-Orléans being the main commercial hub. The sparsely populated northern areas along the Mississippi river are used mainly by coureurs des bois fur trappers and local traders who conduct commerce with the Native tribes in the area, but is also used for agricultural production of wheat, corn, hemp, flax and grapes, as well as having some production of salt, lead and timber.
Lower Louisiana is the much more densely populated and prosperous area, home to a more sedentary lifestyle, where large-scale tobacco, indigo and rice plantations abound.
Naval trade with other European colonies in the Caribbean, as well as in North and South America, is of supreme importance to Lousiana, and is conducted mainly through the port cities of Nouvelle-Orléans and Baton Rouge.
Important Resources: Tobacco, indigo, rice, fur, wine
Military Explanation: The Army of Louisiana is consists of a relatively small professional force of around 90,000 soldiers, reinforced by conscription., as each Louisianan male is expected to serve a year in armed service to the Republic. The main role of the Army is the protection and defence of Louisiana's border and the patroling and pacification of the Tribal Areas (Zones Tribales).
Since Louisiana has known very little in the way of conflict in recent decades, and the coexistance with the Muskogean tribes is generally cordial to friendly, the Armed Forces are not the most advanced ones in the Americas. Lousianan military doctrine focuses on defensive warfare and irregular tactics borrowed from the Muskogean tribes.
Military Branches:
Army: The majority of Louisianan troops serve in the light infantry units, named the chasseurs. They are equipped with rifles and dress in either blue or green uniforms, as is showcades below.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/13/c6/08/13c6 ... 05eea7.jpg
The other main part of the Army is the cavalry, which is of supreme importance to Louisianan internal security due to its vast size, especially in Illinois Country. The Louisiana Cavalry is based on the French Hussars, but has been equipped with modern rifles and revolvers alongside their cavalry sabre.
Navy: The Marine de Louisiane is quite extensive, as it is of the utmost importance for the protection of naval trade and commerce, as well as the protection of the city of Nouvelle-Orléans. The Louisianan navy counts 15 battleships, of which three are of the dreadnought class, as well as 12 cruisers, 23 destroyers and 1 submarine. The Navy is tasked with the protection of the coastline and the defence of civilian shipping to the West Indies, the Commonwealth, South America and Europe.
Air Force: The Armée de l'Air de Louisiane is a very recent addition to the Armed Forces, although interest in aerial reconnaissance and combat has been peaked due to the usefulness of it in the thinly-populated hinterland of Louisiana. At the moment, the Armée de l'Air counts three Blériot XI aircraft purchased from France, as well as a dozen hot air balloons and two Astra-Torres airships.
Other Military Branch(es): /
Goals: Maintain a stable economic powerhouse and an example of Republican rule.
Domestic Issues: Race relations; coexistance with tribal Natives in the northern territories; modernisation of the economy
Foreign Issues: The Northwest Trust Territory, which at the moment is claimed by Louisiana as part of Greater Illinois Country but its at present controlled by the Commonwealth; relations with France and with neighbouring countries.
National Figure(s): /
History:
Louisiana was founded as a French colony in 1682 by famous French explorer Cavelier de La Salle, following discoveries by explorers such as Pierre-Esprit Radisson, Médard Chouart des Groseilliers, Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette.
Originally part of New France, and encompassing the entire area of the drainage basin of the Mississippi River and stretcing from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Appalachian Mountains to the Rocky Mountains, the massive plot of land basically covered most of the American territory in between the British colonies on the East Coast and the Spanish territories in the West.
While massive in size, most of the area never saw more than a token French presence in the land, leaving the majority of Native tribes mostly unbothered by the official incorporation into the French colonial empire. Upper Louisiana, also named Illinois Country after the Algonquin tribes that lived there was especially thinly populated by French settlers, usually limited to coureurs des bois explorers, trappers and fur traders who established profitable commercial ties to the Native population.
Lower Lousiana, by contrast, steadily grew in size and importance, although significant French settlements remained almost exclusively limited to the coastline. In time, flourishing commercial seaports such as Nouvelle-Orléans, founded in 1718, and Baton Rouge became established names in the Gulf of Mexico, trading with Spanish and French colonial possessions in the West Indies. Starting in 1719, African slaves started to be imported into Lower Louisiana in order to provide labour force for the growing plantation economy. In a few decades time, the Black population of Louisiana would outnumber the French settlers and their descendants.
In time, Lower Louisiana became a wealthy colony, be it still relatively small in number of European settlers. Plantations growing tobacco, indigo and rice became part and parcel of the colonial economy. In 1755, a significant influx of French-speaking refugees and immigrants from the former French colony of Acadia took place, laying the basis of what would later become Louisiana's Cajun community.
Over time, the descendants of French settlers started developing a distinct Louisianan culture and self-awareness, different from the French mainland. The Louisiana-born Europeans started calling themselves Creoles, referring to their seperate status as a people.
Over time, however, the quite lenient (for a slave state) laws regarding slavery, racial relations and miscegenation led to an ever increasing amount of mixed-race relations, children and even marriage to freed slaves. The mulatto population of Louisiana eventually became sufficiently large and influential that the term Creole started to be applied to them as well. This has led to the Creole status losing much of its original racial content, being applied to all Louisiana-born inhabitants that are not of African, Muskogean or Cajun blood.
By 1830, over 70% of Louisiana was estimated to be of either African or mixed-race descent, and at least 30% of Africans were freemen, a very large percentage for the time. Senegambian freemen started playing an important role in growing crops and operating as independent farmers, especially in Lower Louisiana.
Starting in the 1780s, Louisiana became a haven for exiled and refugee revolutionary thinkers, philosophers and intellectuals, as well as banished opposition figured who were forced to Louisiana by the Bourbon monarchy.
When in 1830 the July Revolution broke out in France, many Creoles enthusiastically supported the new revolutionary wind that was blowing through the colonial homeland, hoping for more liberal and progressive change for the colony.
However, soon after Louis-Philippe d'Orléans took over as King of the French, the hopes of the Louisianans were dashed when France strengthened its grip on the colony, and it became clear that far-reaching democratisation was not on the new king's agenda.
After the failed Republican uprising of 1832, thousands of Republicans, revolutionaries and Jacobins moved to the colonies, many of them settling in Nouvelle-Orléans, bringing their radical ideas with them. In a plantation colony already brewing with growing Creole discontent and looming threats of slave revolt, this proved an explosive mix.
In 1834, mass demonstrations by Republican agitators and the poor masses of Nouvelle-Orléans were violently suppressed by French royal forces, leading to growing discontent. On the countryside, slave revolts became more and more frequent, with hundreds of runaway slaves forming maroon communities in the bayou.
Eventually, on July 14 of 1835, a combined force of Creoles, exiled French revolutionaries and Maroon guerilla figters successfully besieged and captured Nouvelle-Orléans. The very same day, the Republic of Louisiana was proclaimed.
Slavery was officially abolished at the Republic's independence, and a system of paritary representation between the four major cultural groups was set up at the highest levels of society. The Republic's uppermost ruling body was established as being the Tetrarchy, composed out of four Councillors: one representative of each of the major groups. The larger executive body would be the Supreme Political Council, and the legislative organ is the National Convention. In 1835, universal male suffrage for those above the age of 21 was enacted in Louisiana's constitution, expanded in 1848 to include women as well.
While a rather significant portion of France-born émigrés resulted from the independence of Louisiana, the vast majority of the population, especially the mixed-blood Creoles, welcomed the change and set out to built up the new republic. The plantation economy was kept largely intact, be it of course with voluntary and paid labour instead of slavery. Through the 1850s and 1860s, the Louisianan government engaged in several campaigns of land redistribution, creating a large class of Creole yeoman farmers working their own cash crops.
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