Time of Monsters - The Crisis of the 21st Century (OOC)

[Nea Byzantia]

Tag.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

Please reserve Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Czechia and the general western part of Poland in the "Neu Deutschestaat/Mitteleuropäischer Föderierter Staat" (New German State/Central European Federated State)

I don’t know, Warg... it seems a bit implausible for this to happen in 20 years time, and it would take up a lot of land that could otherwise hold a fair number of interesting ideas.

[The Conscience of Mike Lebowitz]

Your NS nation:
Your RP territorial entity's name: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Entity type (sovereign state, corporation, subnational state, etc): Sovereign state
How is your entity (government or corporation) organised?: The UK has always had a firm drive to ensure that no matter how far the world has shifted that it retains it's three century old system and even in these tumultuous times that drive remains steadfast. The UK is a constitutional monarchy and as such it operates with the monarch being the official head of state while the prime minister acts as the head of government and wields all true power within the nation. The UK parliament is Bicameral and therefore is separated into the house of commons and the house of lords ,the house of lords however merely acts as a revising chamber. The house of commons operates through the first past the post system in which the counties of the UK elect an MP to represent them in the house of commons, however the house of lords functions in a more aristocratic state with most of it's representatives having inherited their seats and the rest being put forth by the church of England.

The judiciary of the United Kingdom is split up into the three legal system of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland yet the judges of the Supreme Court and the UK tribunals system. The Supreme court is the final court of appeal in the UK for civil cases, and for criminal cases from England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It hears cases of the greatest importance affecting the entirety of the United Kingdom. It's headed by the president and deputy president of the United Kingdom and has a further ten Justices of the Supreme Court. The UK tribunal system is part of a greater national system for administrative justice,their procedures are be better suited for particular types of disputes, cheaper to administer and require less-qualified officials. The tribunal system is headed by the senior president of tribunals.
If a sovereign state, is your government unitary or federal? Unitary however the devolved governments do wield extensive power
If applicable, what political ideology does your entity uphold?: Currently under the 'black rose' branch of the labour party the UK advocates for: Left wing populism, economic statism, The welfare state
How is your territory's electricity currently generated IRL, by source?:
Gas-fired power stations: 40.7%
Nuclear power: 37.9%
Renewables: 20.1%
Energy imports: 1.3%
If in Eurasia, what was your territory's approximate population in 1800?:10.5 million
What is your territory's population projected to be in 2050?: 75.3 million
A brief history of your entity between 2019 and 2047: In 2019 prime minister Boris Johnson dragged the UK out of the European Union kicking and screaming. In mid 2019 many people considered the European collapse of the 2020s to be impossible, as a result almost half of the entire UK sought to remain within it, many more so wished to forge some sort of deal so that Britain could retain some kind of pseudo membership within the union. As such with a nation so divided upon the issue it became incredibly difficult for any government to attempt to force it's version of Brexit through, and so when the deadline came upon them the UK had no deal to offer leading to Britain splitting clean off the EU. This split however came with great difficulty and cost, prime minister Johnson had aligned himself to the hardliner Brexiteers during the first month of his government culminating in a parliament hostile to almost all of his goals. In order to force his view of Britain through he adopted a strongman policy and in the process changed British politics in the 21st century.

Johnson used every underhanded trick in the book to pull the UK out of the EU and in the aftermath to stay in power, however in the direct aftermath of Brexit his administration was faced with one overwhelming problem; the majority of the 'Rebel Tories' had peeled away from the Conservative party entirely, most of whom fled to the LibDems. This left the prime minister in the precarious situation of having lost his majority in parliament, the only course of action that the prime minister was left with was to turn towards Nigel Farage and his Brexit party. It was through the merging of the Brexit party with the conservative party was transformed form a centre-right party to a 'big tent' for the right wing providing them with the majority they needed to dominate parliament. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Labour was rapidly loosing popularity for it's weak policy on Brexit and Corbyn's ineffectual leadership, on the other hand the Liberal Democrat's were rapidly looking to become the new opposition. To ensure that Labour remained a force in British politics they approached the LibDems with the offer of the coalition leading, the new opposition left the left side-lined in favour for the centre and so for the next 10 years the stage for British politics was set.

With the opening up of the Conservative party Johnson had secured his first term, thanks to some immense luck he was able to follow up on Trump's promises and sign an FDA with the US all in exchange for lowering corporate regulations. Thanks to this deal the UK was able to peg itself to the US, keeping itself afloat throughout the turbulent 2020s and as a result for his first term Boris Johnson was reasonably popular with approval rates hovering around 59%.

One element of the no deal that was particularly volatile was the Irish border, without a deal the good Friday agreement was rendered null and void and without that agreement the fragile peace that had existed in the Northern Ireland fell apart. The new IRA as they called themselves once again began their campaign of terror across Northern Ireland, the UK government responded in kind deploying the British armed forces to the region. For the first term of the Johnson administration the British armed forces employed very much the same tactics they used in the first round of the troubles yet as pressure mounted on the government to resolve the issue Boris ,desperate to find a resolution, changed tactic. Mass surveillance was the name of the game, methods once employed by SLC were used to ensure the loyalty of the Northern Irish people. Ultimately Johnson failed to end the Northern Irish conflict, this combined with the growing economic troubles lead to Johnson resigning near the end of his second term.

In the aftermath of Johnson's resignation and the economic downturn, the populist wing of the Conservative party were able to sweep themselves into power. Their interpretation of a solution was corporatism, the continuously lowered regulations and privatised any part of the UK they were able to (the NHS being off limits of course). It was also within their policy to cease British investment into renewable energy development and focus almost entirely upon nuclear and fossil fuel power sources, this policy often brought them into conflict with the Scottish devolved government.

The populist regime was brought to an end however when plans were leaked for the privatisation of the NHS, firmly discrediting the conservative party in the eyes of the public. What followed after were a series of centrist leaders from the labour-liberal coalition who carefully oversaw the decline of Britain, each one failing to create any meaningful change as the policy of a 'big tent' coalition lead to a lack of any decisiveness on the part of the government as the ruling coalition regularly attacked itself over the smallest issue. In the 2040s however a new branch of the left in L-L coalition came to the forefront; the so called 'black rose' branch of the labour party, they combined the strongman attitude introduced to Britain by Boris Johnson with the traditional leftist economic policies of labour, brought to the limelight by the long lack of leftist representation in British politics and the growing frustration of government action.

The UK is now two years into the new labour's term under prime minister Jonathan Morrow, despite his strongman exterior Morrow has done little and with the British right growing ever stronger and the L-L coalition to collapse almost any day the fate of Britain seems to be hanging by a thread.
Are you willing to post at least once every two days?: Yes

Accepted, solid app. I think once we have six accepted players I'll get the IC up, what do you boyos reckon?

Please reserve Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Czechia and the general western part of Poland in the "Neu Deutschestaat/Mitteleuropäischer Föderierter Staat" (New German State/Central European Federated State)

I don’t know, Warg... it seems a bit implausible for this to happen in 20 years time, and it would take up a lot of land that could otherwise hold a fair number of interesting ideas.

Definitely this, I was thinking of accepting the reservation only to be very nit-picky on the app but honestly, Warg, just apply ASAP before anyone else gets there if you want epic grossdeutschland. The small chance you are able to justify 21st century Germany (the one that actively apologises for ethnic territorial revanchism and is increasingly barely even a nation-state in the original sense of the word) trying to take back lost territories east of the Oder-Nessie Line that are both fading from living memory and almost completely inhabited by Poles isn't worth a reservation from a purely cost-benefit standpoint. There's a reason I drew the borders in former German Poland, Czechia and Alsace-Lorraine the way I did.

[The Hobbesian Metaphysician]

So what are the prospects of the United States remaining united given the rather grim condition this roleplay proposes for the future?

I am aiming to play a U.S state such as Virginia or one in the northern part of the country.

[The Conscience of Mike Lebowitz]

So what are the prospects of the United States remaining united given the rather grim condition this roleplay proposes for the future?

I am aiming to play a U.S state such as Virginia or one in the northern part of the country.

Federal Government here, it's not looking so hot. The USA probably has until the mid-late 2060s if it plays its cards extra poorly, which you know I'll do for the hell of it.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

Your NS nation:
Your RP territorial entity's name: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Entity type (sovereign state, corporation, subnational state, etc): Sovereign state
How is your entity (government or corporation) organised?: The UK has always had a firm drive to ensure that no matter how far the world has shifted that it retains it's three century old system and even in these tumultuous times that drive remains steadfast. The UK is a constitutional monarchy and as such it operates with the monarch being the official head of state while the prime minister acts as the head of government and wields all true power within the nation. The UK parliament is Bicameral and therefore is separated into the house of commons and the house of lords ,the house of lords however merely acts as a revising chamber. The house of commons operates through the first past the post system in which the counties of the UK elect an MP to represent them in the house of commons, however the house of lords functions in a more aristocratic state with most of it's representatives having inherited their seats and the rest being put forth by the church of England.

The judiciary of the United Kingdom is split up into the three legal system of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland yet the judges of the Supreme Court and the UK tribunals system. The Supreme court is the final court of appeal in the UK for civil cases, and for criminal cases from England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It hears cases of the greatest importance affecting the entirety of the United Kingdom. It's headed by the president and deputy president of the United Kingdom and has a further ten Justices of the Supreme Court. The UK tribunal system is part of a greater national system for administrative justice,their procedures are be better suited for particular types of disputes, cheaper to administer and require less-qualified officials. The tribunal system is headed by the senior president of tribunals.
If a sovereign state, is your government unitary or federal? Unitary however the devolved governments do wield extensive power
If applicable, what political ideology does your entity uphold?: Currently under the 'black rose' branch of the labour party the UK advocates for: Left wing populism, economic statism, The welfare state
How is your territory's electricity currently generated IRL, by source?:
Gas-fired power stations: 40.7%
Nuclear power: 37.9%
Renewables: 20.1%
Energy imports: 1.3%
If in Eurasia, what was your territory's approximate population in 1800?:10.5 million
What is your territory's population projected to be in 2050?: 75.3 million
A brief history of your entity between 2019 and 2047: In 2019 prime minister Boris Johnson dragged the UK out of the European Union kicking and screaming. In mid 2019 many people considered the European collapse of the 2020s to be impossible, as a result almost half of the entire UK sought to remain within it, many more so wished to forge some sort of deal so that Britain could retain some kind of pseudo membership within the union. As such with a nation so divided upon the issue it became incredibly difficult for any government to attempt to force it's version of Brexit through, and so when the deadline came upon them the UK had no deal to offer leading to Britain splitting clean off the EU. This split however came with great difficulty and cost, prime minister Johnson had aligned himself to the hardliner Brexiteers during the first month of his government culminating in a parliament hostile to almost all of his goals. In order to force his view of Britain through he adopted a strongman policy and in the process changed British politics in the 21st century.

Johnson used every underhanded trick in the book to pull the UK out of the EU and in the aftermath to stay in power, however in the direct aftermath of Brexit his administration was faced with one overwhelming problem; the majority of the 'Rebel Tories' had peeled away from the Conservative party entirely, most of whom fled to the LibDems. This left the prime minister in the precarious situation of having lost his majority in parliament, the only course of action that the prime minister was left with was to turn towards Nigel Farage and his Brexit party. It was through the merging of the Brexit party with the conservative party was transformed form a centre-right party to a 'big tent' for the right wing providing them with the majority they needed to dominate parliament. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Labour was rapidly loosing popularity for it's weak policy on Brexit and Corbyn's ineffectual leadership, on the other hand the Liberal Democrat's were rapidly looking to become the new opposition. To ensure that Labour remained a force in British politics they approached the LibDems with the offer of the coalition leading, the new opposition left the left side-lined in favour for the centre and so for the next 10 years the stage for British politics was set.

With the opening up of the Conservative party Johnson had secured his first term, thanks to some immense luck he was able to follow up on Trump's promises and sign an FDA with the US all in exchange for lowering corporate regulations. Thanks to this deal the UK was able to peg itself to the US, keeping itself afloat throughout the turbulent 2020s and as a result for his first term Boris Johnson was reasonably popular with approval rates hovering around 59%.

One element of the no deal that was particularly volatile was the Irish border, without a deal the good Friday agreement was rendered null and void and without that agreement the fragile peace that had existed in the Northern Ireland fell apart. The new IRA as they called themselves once again began their campaign of terror across Northern Ireland, the UK government responded in kind deploying the British armed forces to the region. For the first term of the Johnson administration the British armed forces employed very much the same tactics they used in the first round of the troubles yet as pressure mounted on the government to resolve the issue Boris ,desperate to find a resolution, changed tactic. Mass surveillance was the name of the game, methods once employed by SLC were used to ensure the loyalty of the Northern Irish people. Ultimately Johnson failed to end the Northern Irish conflict, this combined with the growing economic troubles lead to Johnson resigning near the end of his second term.

In the aftermath of Johnson's resignation and the economic downturn, the populist wing of the Conservative party were able to sweep themselves into power. Their interpretation of a solution was corporatism, the continuously lowered regulations and privatised any part of the UK they were able to (the NHS being off limits of course). It was also within their policy to cease British investment into renewable energy development and focus almost entirely upon nuclear and fossil fuel power sources, this policy often brought them into conflict with the Scottish devolved government.

The populist regime was brought to an end however when plans were leaked for the privatisation of the NHS, firmly discrediting the conservative party in the eyes of the public. What followed after were a series of centrist leaders from the labour-liberal coalition who carefully oversaw the decline of Britain, each one failing to create any meaningful change as the policy of a 'big tent' coalition lead to a lack of any decisiveness on the part of the government as the ruling coalition regularly attacked itself over the smallest issue. In the 2040s however a new branch of the left in L-L coalition came to the forefront; the so called 'black rose' branch of the labour party, they combined the strongman attitude introduced to Britain by Boris Johnson with the traditional leftist economic policies of labour, brought to the limelight by the long lack of leftist representation in British politics and the growing frustration of government action.

The UK is now two years into the new labour's term under prime minister Jonathan Morrow, despite his strongman exterior Morrow has done little and with the British right growing ever stronger and the L-L coalition to collapse almost any day the fate of Britain seems to be hanging by a thread.
Are you willing to post at least once every two days?: Yes

Accepted, solid app. I think once we have six accepted players I'll get the IC up, what do you boyos reckon?

I don’t know, Warg... it seems a bit implausible for this to happen in 20 years time, and it would take up a lot of land that could otherwise hold a fair number of interesting ideas.

Definitely this, I was thinking of accepting the reservation only to be very nit-picky on the app but honestly, Warg, just apply ASAP before anyone else gets there if you want epic grossdeutschland. The small chance you are able to justify 21st century Germany (the one that actively apologises for ethnic territorial revanchism and is increasingly barely even a nation-state in the original sense of the word) trying to take back lost territories east of the Oder-Nessie Line that are both fading from living memory and almost completely inhabited by Poles isn't worth a reservation from a purely cost-benefit standpoint. There's a reason I drew the borders in former German Poland, Czechia and Alsace-Lorraine the way I did.

RIP, it's more the nations in Central Europe desperately banding together to try and save their ailing economies and natural resources by combining their remaining infrastructure and resources and eventually leading to an extremely authoritarian regime; one that happened to be dominated by Germans because of their status as the largest population

Would just Germany, Austria and Switzerland be better?

[The Conscience of Mike Lebowitz]

Accepted, solid app. I think once we have six accepted players I'll get the IC up, what do you boyos reckon?


Definitely this, I was thinking of accepting the reservation only to be very nit-picky on the app but honestly, Warg, just apply ASAP before anyone else gets there if you want epic grossdeutschland. The small chance you are able to justify 21st century Germany (the one that actively apologises for ethnic territorial revanchism and is increasingly barely even a nation-state in the original sense of the word) trying to take back lost territories east of the Oder-Nessie Line that are both fading from living memory and almost completely inhabited by Poles isn't worth a reservation from a purely cost-benefit standpoint. There's a reason I drew the borders in former German Poland, Czechia and Alsace-Lorraine the way I did.

RIP, it's more the nations in Central Europe desperately banding together to try and save their ailing economies and natural resources by combining their remaining infrastructure and resources and eventually leading to an extremely authoritarian regime; one that happened to be dominated by Germans because of their status as the largest population

Would just Germany, Austria and Switzerland be better?

Yeah, that does sound better.
I am curious as to what this authoritarian regime looks like.

[Plzen]

Switzerland breaking out of its neutrality to join a larger confederation is a fairly notable change in that region’s geopolitics... a lot of those UN institutions in Geneva or Bern are going to be on shaky ground, now.

[The Felan Federation]

Question.

What is the situation with global warming/sea levels and the migration crisis itself?

[The Conscience of Mike Lebowitz]

Switzerland breaking out of its neutrality to join a larger confederation is a fairly notable change in that region’s geopolitics... a lot of those UN institutions in Geneva or Bern are going to be on shaky ground, now.

If he can justify it in the app, that is. I have a feeling he can only really justify having Germany and Austria.

Question.

What is the situation with global warming/sea levels and the migration crisis itself?

The current state of the climate is making harvests in world breadbaskets progressively worse and creating droughts where there really shouldn't be any. The resulting migration crisis is bound to be an ongoing thing, like a static composed of millions of people fleeing their continents in the background of world affairs, and as the turmoil it causes worsens pre-existing issues (like resource scarcity) enough for the cheap labour to no longer be a net benefit to developed countries I'm sure most of them are at the point where they put their feet down and try to stop them from coming, if they haven't done so already. That won't stop millions of people from trying anyway though.

Also, the extent to which they can move should decline over time however as energy return on investment declining hamstrings mass transportation. The early famines like Africa and India's will almost certainly cause massive movement of people to the developed world if permitted, but by the time the developed world starts feeling the brownouts and the entire developing world has a crippling food shortage there won't be anywhere to run, nor the means to run.

Sea level rise isn't much to write home about yet, unless you live in coastal Bangladesh maybe. Given the areas most threatened by mild sea level rise I can think of off the top of my head (The Netherlands, Bangladesh, Manhattan, London, Venice, coastal North China) would either have protection against flooding already in place or be so overpopulated relative to carrying capacity that they need imports to feed themselves, the ocean rising is probably the least of anyone's worries.

[Plzen]

Also, the extent to which they can move should decline over time however as energy return on investment declining hamstrings mass transportation. The early famines like Africa and India's will almost certainly cause massive movement of people to the developed world if permitted, but by the time the developed world starts feeling the brownouts and the entire developing world has a crippling food shortage there won't be anywhere to run, nor the means to run.

One aspect of this is the distinction between fuel and energy: all fuel is energy but not all energy is fuel.

You can run a railway system on electricity. You can, with a bit of investment (and the Commonwealth has the resources for it), run your road cars on electricity. You cannot, however, run an intercontinental passenger liner on battery power no matter how much electricity you have; that requires high-density liquid fuel.

Nordic hydropower will probably keep our internal railway network vaguely functional well into the 22nd Century, but our international trade is going to be dead when natural gas for LNG runs out. There’s only so many electrolysis plants we can build before the world economy goes belly up, and even that much will go into keeping our tractors running so we don’t all starve, not into importing consumer products or immigrants from other continents.

[The Felan Federation]

Also, the extent to which they can move should decline over time however as energy return on investment declining hamstrings mass transportation. The early famines like Africa and India's will almost certainly cause massive movement of people to the developed world if permitted, but by the time the developed world starts feeling the brownouts and the entire developing world has a crippling food shortage there won't be anywhere to run, nor the means to run.

One aspect of this is the distinction between fuel and energy: all fuel is energy but not all energy is fuel.

You can run a railway system on electricity. You can, with a bit of investment (and the Commonwealth has the resources for it), run your road cars on electricity. You cannot, however, run an intercontinental passenger liner on battery power no matter how much electricity you have; that requires high-density liquid fuel.

Nordic hydropower will probably keep our internal railway network vaguely functional well into the 22nd Century, but our international trade is going to be dead when natural gas for LNG runs out. There’s only so many electrolysis plants we can build before the world economy goes belly up, and even that much will go into keeping our tractors running so we don’t all starve, not into importing consumer products or immigrants from other continents.

Speaking of which.

What should our technology be at?

I mean, shouldn't hydrogen energy or hydrogen fuel cells be a thing by now? Or other kind of tech?

Considering it is around twenty-seven years later.

[Plzen]

Speaking of which.

What should our technology be at?

I mean, shouldn't hydrogen energy or hydrogen fuel cells be a thing by now? Or other kind of tech?

Considering it is around twenty-seven years later.

I mean, this setting is far more convincing with pessimistic assumptions of technological and infrastructural development.

Hydrogen fuel might be a thing, even probably a thing, but it certainly shouldn’t be common.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

Actually, never mind, this might not be the RP for me

I'll see whether inspiration strikes in the near future, but for now, I bid you all adieu

[Hastiaka]

I want to RP this from a very miniscule level.
I hope this would be allowed.

Your NS nation:
Your RP territorial entity's name: Iglesia ni Cristo | Church of Christ
Entity type (sovereign state, corporation, subnational state, etc): A religious organization
Location:
Worldwide, concentrated in the Philippines.

Barangay New Era, Quezon City, Philippines (Central Office) ~ 30 hectares

Church-owned territories:
Ciudad de Victoria, Philippines ~ 140 hectares
Scenic, South Dakota ~ 20 hectares
Johnsonville, Connecticut ~ 25 hectares
Ladybrand, South Africa ~ 508 hectares
Petrusburg, South Africa ~ 6,000 hectares

The Iglesia ni Cristo operates as a de facto pseudo-state or a state within a state.

How is your entity (government or corporation) organised?:
Centralized - the Church is a religious organization headed by an Executive Minister.
If a sovereign state, is your government unitary or federal?
Not a sovereign state.
If applicable, what political ideology does your entity uphold?:
Christian conservatism.
How is your territory's electricity currently generated IRL, by source?:

~Renewable, mainly solar. (100%)

Describe the cultural and ethnic character of your territory in the current RP year:

~ Filipino (65%)
~ African (15%)
~ American/Canadian (10%)
~ Others (10%)

If in Eurasia, what was your territory's approximate population in 1800?:

N/A

What is your territory's population projected to be in 2050?:

N/A ~ estimated to be 100,000
Church membership estimated to be around ~ 10,000,000


A brief history of your entity between 2019 and 2047:

In 2020, the Iglesia ni Cristo under the leadership of Executive Minister Eduardo V. Manalo prepared itself for an aggressive expansion campaign outside the Philippines. In May 2020, 400 ministers, evangelical workers and volunteer missionaries were sent to the countries of South Africa, Lesotho, Rwanda, Zambia, Mozambique, Nigeria and Madagascar. This was followed a few months later by a wave of 200 ministers, workers and missionaries to the United States, Canada and Mexico. By the end of December, there were 20,000 bible students in Africa and in the Americas.

The decade between 2021-2031 a massive project of the Church was undertaken- Project Isaiah 54:3 or more popularly known as The I-543 Project. Project I543 was taken from the verse that read "You're going to need lots of elbow room for your growing family. You're going to take over whole nations; you're going to resettle abandoned cities.". This meant that the Church was going to intensively expand its lands and establish entire communities for its members around the world. Around $3 billion were spent constructing Church communities around the world over the course of 10 years. At the same time, the Church's influence in the Philippine government was growing- with church members being appointed as cabinet secretaries, supreme court justices and high ranking government officials. The church also began to engage in talks and friendly dialogues with the leaders of the different African nations- establishing the Church's rising influence among African politicians.

The largest of the I-543 communities was located in Petrusburg, South Africa. With a land the size of a small city, around 1,000 hectares of the land was developed into a planned mix urban-rural community dubbed an "ecocity". This was also the most expensive project of the church costing around a billion US dollars. Beside the ecocity of Petrusburg would be a 4,000 hectare farm equipped with state of the art modern farm equipments. The eco-city would be powered by a 40-hectare solar farm that would generate approximately 20 megawatts of electricity. In 2029, an agreement between the government of South Africa and the leadership of the Iglesia ni Cristo would allow the entrance of 15,000 Filipinos mostly poor Church members to settle in the ecocity of Petrusburg, South Africa over the course of 3 years. The bulk of these 15,000 settlers would arrive by ship.

This has however, been met by intense criticism from outsiders. Detractors claimed the Church was going to commit another Heaven's Gate act or People's Temple mass suicide. These fears however were allayed by the Executive Minister himself- saying the claims are based on "predisposed bias against the INC" and that "the mass suicides were an act of inhumanity and cruelty". Nevertheless despite the criticism from outsiders, the INC at the same time engaged in large-scale outreach missions across the world.

In 2034, the Church celebrated its 120th anniversary. Large celebrations throughout the world happened simultaneously on July 27. In the United States and Canada, the Church had established 500 congregations. The Executive Minister Eduardo Manalo decided to establish the largest INC office or edifice abroad. The Overseas Main Office or OMO was built as a 2-hectare office neo-gothic office building with a design closely resembling the INC Central Office and the US Capitol Building and is located in the Church's property in Johnsonville, Connecticut. It is built alongside the INC US School For Ministry. By this time, there were around a hundred thousand church members spread across the Americas. For 3 more years, the Church would construct large chapels across the continent, attracting attention from outsiders.

In the years 2037-2047, the Church membership was heavily affected by the economic crisis. The Church Administration launched a massive outreach project to alleviate suffering and the crisis that followed. The ecocity of Petrusburg would be further developed and around this time, the INC practiced bloc voting in Africa- giving a large boost to political candidates that respected and favored the Church.

Are you willing to post at least once every two days?: Yes

[Nova Tawantinsuyu]

Your NS nation:
Your RP territorial entity's name: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Entity type (sovereign state, corporation, subnational state, etc): Sovereign state
How is your entity (government or corporation) organised?: The UK has always had a firm drive to ensure that no matter how far the world has shifted that it retains it's three century old system and even in these tumultuous times that drive remains steadfast. The UK is a constitutional monarchy and as such it operates with the monarch being the official head of state while the prime minister acts as the head of government and wields all true power within the nation. The UK parliament is Bicameral and therefore is separated into the house of commons and the house of lords ,the house of lords however merely acts as a revising chamber. The house of commons operates through the first past the post system in which the counties of the UK elect an MP to represent them in the house of commons, however the house of lords functions in a more aristocratic state with most of it's representatives having inherited their seats and the rest being put forth by the church of England.

The judiciary of the United Kingdom is split up into the three legal system of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland yet the judges of the Supreme Court and the UK tribunals system. The Supreme court is the final court of appeal in the UK for civil cases, and for criminal cases from England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It hears cases of the greatest importance affecting the entirety of the United Kingdom. It's headed by the president and deputy president of the United Kingdom and has a further ten Justices of the Supreme Court. The UK tribunal system is part of a greater national system for administrative justice,their procedures are be better suited for particular types of disputes, cheaper to administer and require less-qualified officials. The tribunal system is headed by the senior president of tribunals.
If a sovereign state, is your government unitary or federal? Unitary however the devolved governments do wield extensive power
If applicable, what political ideology does your entity uphold?: Currently under the 'black rose' branch of the labour party the UK advocates for: Left wing populism, economic statism, The welfare state
How is your territory's electricity currently generated IRL, by source?:
Gas-fired power stations: 40.7%
Nuclear power: 37.9%
Renewables: 20.1%
Energy imports: 1.3%
If in Eurasia, what was your territory's approximate population in 1800?:10.5 million
What is your territory's population projected to be in 2050?: 75.3 million
A brief history of your entity between 2019 and 2047: In 2019 prime minister Boris Johnson dragged the UK out of the European Union kicking and screaming. In mid 2019 many people considered the European collapse of the 2020s to be impossible, as a result almost half of the entire UK sought to remain within it, many more so wished to forge some sort of deal so that Britain could retain some kind of pseudo membership within the union. As such with a nation so divided upon the issue it became incredibly difficult for any government to attempt to force it's version of Brexit through, and so when the deadline came upon them the UK had no deal to offer leading to Britain splitting clean off the EU. This split however came with great difficulty and cost, prime minister Johnson had aligned himself to the hardliner Brexiteers during the first month of his government culminating in a parliament hostile to almost all of his goals. In order to force his view of Britain through he adopted a strongman policy and in the process changed British politics in the 21st century.

Johnson used every underhanded trick in the book to pull the UK out of the EU and in the aftermath to stay in power, however in the direct aftermath of Brexit his administration was faced with one overwhelming problem; the majority of the 'Rebel Tories' had peeled away from the Conservative party entirely, most of whom fled to the LibDems. This left the prime minister in the precarious situation of having lost his majority in parliament, the only course of action that the prime minister was left with was to turn towards Nigel Farage and his Brexit party. It was through the merging of the Brexit party with the conservative party was transformed form a centre-right party to a 'big tent' for the right wing providing them with the majority they needed to dominate parliament. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Labour was rapidly loosing popularity for it's weak policy on Brexit and Corbyn's ineffectual leadership, on the other hand the Liberal Democrat's were rapidly looking to become the new opposition. To ensure that Labour remained a force in British politics they approached the LibDems with the offer of the coalition leading, the new opposition left the left side-lined in favour for the centre and so for the next 10 years the stage for British politics was set.

With the opening up of the Conservative party Johnson had secured his first term, thanks to some immense luck he was able to follow up on Trump's promises and sign an FDA with the US all in exchange for lowering corporate regulations. Thanks to this deal the UK was able to peg itself to the US, keeping itself afloat throughout the turbulent 2020s and as a result for his first term Boris Johnson was reasonably popular with approval rates hovering around 59%.

One element of the no deal that was particularly volatile was the Irish border, without a deal the good Friday agreement was rendered null and void and without that agreement the fragile peace that had existed in the Northern Ireland fell apart. The new IRA as they called themselves once again began their campaign of terror across Northern Ireland, the UK government responded in kind deploying the British armed forces to the region. For the first term of the Johnson administration the British armed forces employed very much the same tactics they used in the first round of the troubles yet as pressure mounted on the government to resolve the issue Boris ,desperate to find a resolution, changed tactic. Mass surveillance was the name of the game, methods once employed by SLC were used to ensure the loyalty of the Northern Irish people. Ultimately Johnson failed to end the Northern Irish conflict, this combined with the growing economic troubles lead to Johnson resigning near the end of his second term.

In the aftermath of Johnson's resignation and the economic downturn, the populist wing of the Conservative party were able to sweep themselves into power. Their interpretation of a solution was corporatism, the continuously lowered regulations and privatised any part of the UK they were able to (the NHS being off limits of course). It was also within their policy to cease British investment into renewable energy development and focus almost entirely upon nuclear and fossil fuel power sources, this policy often brought them into conflict with the Scottish devolved government.

The populist regime was brought to an end however when plans were leaked for the privatisation of the NHS, firmly discrediting the conservative party in the eyes of the public. What followed after were a series of centrist leaders from the labour-liberal coalition who carefully oversaw the decline of Britain, each one failing to create any meaningful change as the policy of a 'big tent' coalition lead to a lack of any decisiveness on the part of the government as the ruling coalition regularly attacked itself over the smallest issue. In the 2040s however a new branch of the left in L-L coalition came to the forefront; the so called 'black rose' branch of the labour party, they combined the strongman attitude introduced to Britain by Boris Johnson with the traditional leftist economic policies of labour, brought to the limelight by the long lack of leftist representation in British politics and the growing frustration of government action.

The UK is now two years into the new labour's term under prime minister Jonathan Morrow, despite his strongman exterior Morrow has done little and with the British right growing ever stronger and the L-L coalition to collapse almost any day the fate of Britain seems to be hanging by a thread.
Are you willing to post at least once every two days?: Yes

Would you be okay with me play as the Scottish Parliament that as the global and national political and economic system begins to fold angles for increased devolution and eventually nominal independence?

[Labstoska]

Your NS nation:
Your RP territorial entity's name: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Entity type (sovereign state, corporation, subnational state, etc): Sovereign state
How is your entity (government or corporation) organised?: The UK has always had a firm drive to ensure that no matter how far the world has shifted that it retains it's three century old system and even in these tumultuous times that drive remains steadfast. The UK is a constitutional monarchy and as such it operates with the monarch being the official head of state while the prime minister acts as the head of government and wields all true power within the nation. The UK parliament is Bicameral and therefore is separated into the house of commons and the house of lords ,the house of lords however merely acts as a revising chamber. The house of commons operates through the first past the post system in which the counties of the UK elect an MP to represent them in the house of commons, however the house of lords functions in a more aristocratic state with most of it's representatives having inherited their seats and the rest being put forth by the church of England.

The judiciary of the United Kingdom is split up into the three legal system of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland yet the judges of the Supreme Court and the UK tribunals system. The Supreme court is the final court of appeal in the UK for civil cases, and for criminal cases from England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It hears cases of the greatest importance affecting the entirety of the United Kingdom. It's headed by the president and deputy president of the United Kingdom and has a further ten Justices of the Supreme Court. The UK tribunal system is part of a greater national system for administrative justice,their procedures are be better suited for particular types of disputes, cheaper to administer and require less-qualified officials. The tribunal system is headed by the senior president of tribunals.
If a sovereign state, is your government unitary or federal? Unitary however the devolved governments do wield extensive power
If applicable, what political ideology does your entity uphold?: Currently under the 'black rose' branch of the labour party the UK advocates for: Left wing populism, economic statism, The welfare state
How is your territory's electricity currently generated IRL, by source?:
Gas-fired power stations: 40.7%
Nuclear power: 37.9%
Renewables: 20.1%
Energy imports: 1.3%
If in Eurasia, what was your territory's approximate population in 1800?:10.5 million
What is your territory's population projected to be in 2050?: 75.3 million
A brief history of your entity between 2019 and 2047: In 2019 prime minister Boris Johnson dragged the UK out of the European Union kicking and screaming. In mid 2019 many people considered the European collapse of the 2020s to be impossible, as a result almost half of the entire UK sought to remain within it, many more so wished to forge some sort of deal so that Britain could retain some kind of pseudo membership within the union. As such with a nation so divided upon the issue it became incredibly difficult for any government to attempt to force it's version of Brexit through, and so when the deadline came upon them the UK had no deal to offer leading to Britain splitting clean off the EU. This split however came with great difficulty and cost, prime minister Johnson had aligned himself to the hardliner Brexiteers during the first month of his government culminating in a parliament hostile to almost all of his goals. In order to force his view of Britain through he adopted a strongman policy and in the process changed British politics in the 21st century.

Johnson used every underhanded trick in the book to pull the UK out of the EU and in the aftermath to stay in power, however in the direct aftermath of Brexit his administration was faced with one overwhelming problem; the majority of the 'Rebel Tories' had peeled away from the Conservative party entirely, most of whom fled to the LibDems. This left the prime minister in the precarious situation of having lost his majority in parliament, the only course of action that the prime minister was left with was to turn towards Nigel Farage and his Brexit party. It was through the merging of the Brexit party with the conservative party was transformed form a centre-right party to a 'big tent' for the right wing providing them with the majority they needed to dominate parliament. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Labour was rapidly loosing popularity for it's weak policy on Brexit and Corbyn's ineffectual leadership, on the other hand the Liberal Democrat's were rapidly looking to become the new opposition. To ensure that Labour remained a force in British politics they approached the LibDems with the offer of the coalition leading, the new opposition left the left side-lined in favour for the centre and so for the next 10 years the stage for British politics was set.

With the opening up of the Conservative party Johnson had secured his first term, thanks to some immense luck he was able to follow up on Trump's promises and sign an FDA with the US all in exchange for lowering corporate regulations. Thanks to this deal the UK was able to peg itself to the US, keeping itself afloat throughout the turbulent 2020s and as a result for his first term Boris Johnson was reasonably popular with approval rates hovering around 59%.

One element of the no deal that was particularly volatile was the Irish border, without a deal the good Friday agreement was rendered null and void and without that agreement the fragile peace that had existed in the Northern Ireland fell apart. The new IRA as they called themselves once again began their campaign of terror across Northern Ireland, the UK government responded in kind deploying the British armed forces to the region. For the first term of the Johnson administration the British armed forces employed very much the same tactics they used in the first round of the troubles yet as pressure mounted on the government to resolve the issue Boris ,desperate to find a resolution, changed tactic. Mass surveillance was the name of the game, methods once employed by SLC were used to ensure the loyalty of the Northern Irish people. Ultimately Johnson failed to end the Northern Irish conflict, this combined with the growing economic troubles lead to Johnson resigning near the end of his second term.

In the aftermath of Johnson's resignation and the economic downturn, the populist wing of the Conservative party were able to sweep themselves into power. Their interpretation of a solution was corporatism, the continuously lowered regulations and privatised any part of the UK they were able to (the NHS being off limits of course). It was also within their policy to cease British investment into renewable energy development and focus almost entirely upon nuclear and fossil fuel power sources, this policy often brought them into conflict with the Scottish devolved government.

The populist regime was brought to an end however when plans were leaked for the privatisation of the NHS, firmly discrediting the conservative party in the eyes of the public. What followed after were a series of centrist leaders from the labour-liberal coalition who carefully oversaw the decline of Britain, each one failing to create any meaningful change as the policy of a 'big tent' coalition lead to a lack of any decisiveness on the part of the government as the ruling coalition regularly attacked itself over the smallest issue. In the 2040s however a new branch of the left in L-L coalition came to the forefront; the so called 'black rose' branch of the labour party, they combined the strongman attitude introduced to Britain by Boris Johnson with the traditional leftist economic policies of labour, brought to the limelight by the long lack of leftist representation in British politics and the growing frustration of government action.

The UK is now two years into the new labour's term under prime minister Jonathan Morrow, despite his strongman exterior Morrow has done little and with the British right growing ever stronger and the L-L coalition to collapse almost any day the fate of Britain seems to be hanging by a thread.
Are you willing to post at least once every two days?: Yes

Would you be okay with me play as the Scottish Parliament that as the global and national political and economic system begins to fold angles for increased devolution and eventually nominal independence?

Yeah I'd love to see guys playing as the devolved governments, just be warned though that independence is going to be somewhat difficult as things are going to get funky in the isles.

If you do end up going for Scotland I'll TG you some of my more devious plans.

[The Felan Federation]

Your NS nation: the Felan Federation

Your RP territorial entity's name: Tower Industries

Entity type (sovereign state, corporation, subnational state, etc): Corporation

Location: Global, HQ in Chicago.

How is your entity (government or corporation) organised?: Typical corporation, with CEO on top with shareholders, managers and other sub-managers below them.

If a sovereign state, is your government unitary or federal? N/A

If applicable, what political ideology does your entity uphold?: Alter-Globalization, Fordism.

How is your territory's electricity currently generated IRL, by source?: US Power Grid.

Describe the cultural and ethnic character of your territory in the current RP year: Mixed.

If in Eurasia, what was your territory's approximate population in 1800?: N/A

What is your territory's population projected to be in 2050?: 100,000+

A brief history of your entity between 2019 and 2047: The success and creator of Tower Industries was done by a young woman by the name of Vera Fairbright - barely seventeen yet a genius and prodigy at her age - by the time she was fifteen, she was already thinking of ways to change the world and by sixteen looking to start her own company. Due to having a grandfather whom had once been employed in the Steel Belt - she had gotten quite the understanding of metalworking and business in-general, due to her grandfather having been a former manager at a steel mill.

Thus Tower Steelworkers was born, back in 2019 - granted, at that time it was merely a registered name operating out of a garage. Alongside her father, whom was a car salesman - she slowly built up the business inch by inch, day by day. Success came in 2020 - when she and a few friends from her former high school, a few whom had been college drop-outs helped pioneer with her a new method of steel production. Around 2025, they were once again producing steel and other metals in the United States - in the Chicago area which were giving out aid and grants to any business willing to establish in the broken city - utilizing lasers to remove impurities and a new chemical treatment that helped cut-down production and once more make American manufacturing competent again yet also of much higher quality. Further aided by the US-CHINA Trade War that kept cheaper competition from ruining them at the start.

By 2045, Tower Industries was a global producer in steel, aluminum and other avenues of manufacturing, namely high-tech. Considering, that the CEO, Vera Fairbright was a believer in fair trade, fair wages and fair working conditions - this made Tower Industries one of the few, American firms willing to pay high wages in the unstable job market and keep people for longer periods. Emphasized by the more humane face and approach to employment - made even more necessary with the rather anti-globalist and anti-capitalist movements across the world and the constant unstable market itself.

Are you willing to post at least once every two days?: Yes. (So long as I have someone else to reply with)

I get to be our first corporation in this mad world ready to go under. A rather Bruce Wayne-esque type of business.

[Nova Tawantinsuyu]

Your NS nation:Nova Tawantinsuyu
Your RP territorial entity's name: Scotland
Entity type (sovereign state, corporation, subnational state, etc): National sub-state
Location: Scotland
How is your entity (government or corporation) organised?: Parliamentary democracy
If a sovereign state, is your government unitary or federal?
If applicable, what political ideology does your entity uphold?: Social Democrat, Scottish Nationalists
How is your territory's electricity currently generated IRL, by source?: 59% renewable as of 2015 and more now with wind power making a significant proportion in addition to hydroelectric power. Nuclear power is also used.
Describe the cultural and ethnic character of your territory in the current RP year:
Culturally and ethnically Scotland remains predominantly white Scottish although over the last thirty years migration both from other parts of the United Kingdom and other countries has somewhat increased ethnic and cultural diversity.
If in Eurasia, what was your territory's approximate population in 1800?:1,608,420 (1801)
What is your territory's population projected to be in 2050?: About 5.8 million
A brief history of your entity between 2019 and 2047: Over the last thirty odd years that have been increased calls in Scotland for independence, partly steaming from the widespread opposite to Brexit in Scotland with the Scottish National Party (SNP) which for several decades continued to be the largest party in the Scottish Parliament, only growing over the next few decades, regularly coming to head with the conservatives even after their successful treaty negotiations with the US.

The war in Ireland was generally unpopular in Scotland with the Scottish parliament partitioning to attempt to get the army to keep Scottish regiments from being forced to take any offensive action in Ireland, a request that was largely ignored by westminister.

Similarly the conservative populists particularly clashed with the Scottish parliament over energy issues with almost no fossil fuel based power stations being present in Scotland and a goal having been to reduce carbon emissions from transport as much as possible in addition. This lead to the SNP to bitterly fight for the devolution of energy matters to their parliament.

The SNP got on better with the liberal labour coalition although certain tensions concerning their desire for increased devolution or in many cases independence. However with the rise of the more radical black rose group of economically leftist labour members a mirroring split has formed in the party between the economic moderates that maintain their focus on issues of devolution and independence with a moderate left leaning economic policy or consider economics secondary to their other aims and a wing of the party that primarily focuses on a further left democratic socialist economic policy with questions of Scottish nationalism coming secondarily.
Are you willing to post at least once every two days?: I'll try but can't guarantee, busy week next week.

[Labstoska]

Your NS nation:Nova Tawantinsuyu
Your RP territorial entity's name: Scotland
Entity type (sovereign state, corporation, subnational state, etc): National sub-state
Location: Scotland
How is your entity (government or corporation) organised?: Parliamentary democracy
If a sovereign state, is your government unitary or federal?
If applicable, what political ideology does your entity uphold?: Social Democrat, Scottish Nationalists
How is your territory's electricity currently generated IRL, by source?: 59% renewable as of 2015 and more now with wind power making a significant proportion in addition to hydroelectric power. Nuclear power is also used.
Describe the cultural and ethnic character of your territory in the current RP year:
Culturally and ethnically Scotland remains predominantly white Scottish although over the last thirty years migration both from other parts of the United Kingdom and other countries has somewhat increased ethnic and cultural diversity.
If in Eurasia, what was your territory's approximate population in 1800?:1,608,420 (1801)
What is your territory's population projected to be in 2050?: About 5.8 million
A brief history of your entity between 2019 and 2047: Over the last thirty odd years that have been increased calls in Scotland for independence, partly steaming from the widespread opposite to Brexit in Scotland with the Scottish National Party (SNP) which for several decades continued to be the largest party in the Scottish Parliament, only growing over the next few decades, regularly coming to head with the conservatives even after their successful treaty negotiations with the US.

The war in Ireland was generally unpopular in Scotland with the Scottish parliament partitioning to attempt to get the army to keep Scottish regiments from being forced to take any offensive action in Ireland, a request that was largely ignored by westminister.

Similarly the conservative populists particularly clashed with the Scottish parliament over energy issues with almost no fossil fuel based power stations being present in Scotland and a goal having been to reduce carbon emissions from transport as much as possible in addition. This lead to the SNP to bitterly fight for the devolution of energy matters to their parliament.

The SNP got on better with the liberal labour coalition although certain tensions concerning their desire for increased devolution or in many cases independence. However with the rise of the more radical black rose group of economically leftist labour members a mirroring split has formed in the party between the economic moderates that maintain their focus on issues of devolution and independence with a moderate left leaning economic policy or consider economics secondary to their other aims and a wing of the party that primarily focuses on a further left democratic socialist economic policy with questions of Scottish nationalism coming secondarily.
Are you willing to post at least once every two days?: I'll try but can't guarantee, busy week next week.

So it begins.

[Plzen]

Your RP territorial entity's name: Scotland

I see more North Sea cooperation in the horizon...

Your RP territorial entity's name: Tower Industries

I get to be our first corporation in this mad world ready to go under. A rather Bruce Wayne-esque type of business.

How interesting. Well, a global corporation needs a stable and prosperous headquarters, no?

[Labstoska]

Your RP territorial entity's name: Scotland

I see more North Sea cooperation in the horizon...

Your RP territorial entity's name: Tower Industries

I get to be our first corporation in this mad world ready to go under. A rather Bruce Wayne-esque type of business.

How interesting. Well, a global corporation needs a stable and prosperous headquarters, no?

NOT IF I HAVE ANYHTING TO SAY ABOUT AND I DO!!!! YOU EVER SEEN A CIVIL WAR IN A NUCLEAR AMRED STATE LEMME TO TELL YA IT AINT GONNA END WELL FOR ANYONE WHO SETS FOOT ON THE ISLES!

[The Archipelago Territory]

Could I reserve china? (PRC)

[Plzen]

Could I reserve china? (PRC)

Ooh, this is going to be an utterly fascinating one. The great superpower.

[The Archipelago Territory]

How long do you want our posts to be if we post every 2 days?