1906: Alternative Divergence [AH][OOC-CLOSED]

[Tracian Empire]

Sure, it sounds interesting!
Also, keep in mind that there might be no Caliph around, so you could potentially claim that title yourself.

As for your claim, sadly the updated map was not posted and it missed it while initially answering your claim, but Northern Morocco, Western Sahara (as the former Sahara Occidental) and the Canary Islands are reserved by Spain. The rest of your claim is alright though.

that leaves me with a bunch of dirt...lol

Spain only has the Spanish Morocco that it had in real life, you still have all the important cities of the Maghreb.

[Nazeroth]

UPDATED RESERVATION

Reservation

Nation Name: Grand Islamic Sultanate of Al-Maghrib/ سلطنة المغرب الكبرى
Territory: Algeria, remaining Morocco, Mauritania,Mali, Senegal, Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin NOTE: Basically everything west of niger/nigeria that is remaining
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[Tracian Empire]

UPDATED RESERVATION

Reservation

Nation Name: Grand Islamic Sultanate of Al-Maghrib
Territory: Algeria, remaining Morocco, Mauritania,Mali, Senegal, Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin NOTE: Basically everything west of niger/nigeria that is remaining
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accepted

[Nazeroth]

also, can't seem to use the discord, says im not allowed inside :C

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• Map updated
• Reservations for New Holland, Central America, Angelond, Mughals, Chobanid Empire removed
• Reservations for Ethiopia, Spain, Mexico, Al-Maghrib, Babylon, South Africa added

[Nazeroth]

Full Nation Name : Caliphate of Al-Maghrib
Majority/Official Culture : Arab(with Berber influence)
Territorial Core : All African territories west of Niger/Nigeria
Territorial Claim : Ambitions lay to the east, to retake Islamic lands in africa with the final goal to liberate Mecca and Medina from infidel hands, however, if the situation allows conquest of christian lands or islands in the medeterranian they will be taken.
Capital City : Marrakesh(modern Morocco)
Population : 37 Million

Government Type : Theocratic Militaristic Monarchy
Government Ideology/Policies : Islamism, Militarism, Expansionism, Nationalism
Government Focus : The current focus is slow but steady modernization of the nation, primarily in regards to basic roads and water irrigation/supply, and the modernization of the infantry forces and navy.
Head of State : The Caliph, Abdul Ghani II
Head of Government : Caliph Abdul Ghani II
Government Description : A caliphate formed from the fractured and warring islamic groups that pushed into western Africa following Roman, Spanish and Babaylonian conflicts, the nation is led by the Caliph with a council of nobles and religious figures serving as a court, most notably the Council of the Mufti.

Majority/State Religion : Sunni Islam
Religious Description : Sunni Islamic beliefs

Economic Ideologies : Capitalist society with some direct government interference as well as some mercantile aspects
Major Production : varies by region, with fruits and metals being prominent in the southern regions, fishing and merchant trade to the north and north western.
Economic Description : Mostly capitalistic, with some industrys under direct rule of the Caliph

Development: western coastline is somewhat modern, the further inland becomes semi-developed to significantly primitive
Development Description : Coastline has some modernization due to trade and investment, while the inlands are under developed.

Army Description : The Caliphates army could only recently be considered "professional" before the rise of Ghani II the military was more or less feudal in nature, with armies being brought from the local nobles and leaders when required, this practice still holds truth however with the rise of Ghani II and his goals of conquest and rebuilding of the Islamic world, a professional army was needed. The Army of the Caliphate was formed at the same time as the Caliph's Navy. The Army's greatest strength currently lays with it's willing manpower, an extensive spy network in africa, a large cavalary force and it's utilization of terrain to it's advantage. The Caliphate also maintains a battalion of forces trained specifically in night fighting.
Army Weakness : The weakness of the Caliphs new professional military is obvious, it's equipment, much of the military rely on weapons that are a generation or even two behind. Many units still use rifled muskets or breech loading single shot rifles as an example, though new bolt action weapons are starting to replace them as per the Caliph's orders. Tribalism is also an issue, however, the Caliph Ghani II has begun a brutal campaign of snuffing dissent out of his ranks.
Naval Description :The Caliph's Fleet is, like the Army, a newly professional force, with few purley military ships at it's disposal. The navy currently contracts mercenary's along side it's small fleet which is more used as a detterent and police force than anything else. With the rise of Ghani II however, there is a large drive to modernize this force with whispers of a secret ship being built, tho these are just that, rumors. The future of the navy as per the Caliph's design will be a large fleet of small to medium vessels with speed being more import to protect it's massive coastline.
Naval Weakness : Like the new army, the Navy has a severe problem with modern vessels and numbers of them, the transition has been and will most likely be painful. For now, the threat of Roman fleets is very real.
Further Military Description : A new force, with a uncertain future

National Goals : Push remaining Spanish and Portugese influence from the core of the empire, expand east wards towards Mecca and Medina.
National Issues : Modernization of the infrastructure and military is the largest issue as the Caliphate has vast regions of underdeveloped territory, with only coastlines providing the majority of modern investment.
National Figures of Interest : Caliph Ghani II, a visionary leader whom looks at the rise of the Twin Roman Empires and of Babylon to learn from his people's past mistakes, he believes in what he says is the " New Jihad" where wit, industry and faith must work together.
National Ambition/Aspirations : Liberation of Islamic lands in Africa and Arabia, creating a African-Middle Eastern Islamic Empire.

History : After the great fall of islam in it's birthplace by Roman and Babylonian invasions it had become apparent that Muhammeds legacy was in dire straights. Constant war and strife shattered the Islamic world and mistake after mistake by it's leaders, from curruption to military disaster, was instrumental to the forming of the modern Caliphate. Where the Romans and Babylonians conquered, there fleed many arab muslims to to the west towards Africa. The bleeding didn't stop there however as new Roman ambitions layed themselves upon Egypt and eventually the birthplace of Islam and it's surrounding territory belonged to the followers of Christ or the old gods of the Babylonians.

Muslims leaders eventually consolidated in the western point of Africa where they remained relatively unscathed, though Spanish and Portuguese conquests rocked there squabbling lands of warlords. That was until Muhammed Ghani the first rose to power, uniting the region's forces. Ghani, the first Caliph, expanded southward in a conquest of western African territory that included Senegal and Liberia. The new caliphate was unable to retake Spanish territorys however, as the organized forces of Spain and Portugal decimated any attempt. This leads to the current ruler, Ghani II, son of the first. Ghani was what some considered a warrior scholar, studying in the University of Marrakesh and taught by his fathers and his advisers. He was fascinated and disgusted by the Romans and Babylonians, for there desecration of his faith and people, but also for their great skill. He realized, after fighting in the Spanish African front that his fathers empire was not capable.

In 1903 his father was suffering from health issues, Ghani II was given certain powers by his father, he sought to write the wrongs and to restore a vital need in the islamic world: Hope. He began a new campaign against Spanish presence in Africa, applying a more strict organizational chain of command to his forces. Through sheer blood and will they managed to drive them from there African colony's, though, his father died in sickness before he could see his sons achievement. When the last Spanish settlement was destroyed he was declared Caliph, solidifying his position in 1905.
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[The Hobbesian Metaphysician]

Full Nation Name : The Revolutionary Compact of Columbia

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Majority/Official Culture : Columbians [English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish]. Afro-Columbians [cultures of the former slaves of Columbia], and Indigenous Columbians [cultures made off the native tribes, and societies of Columbia]

Territorial Core : New England, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia

Territorial Claim : To contain the revolution is to save it.

Capital City : Liberation, Workers Communal Capital (Formerly city of Hartford).

Population : Total Population: 33,648,909

Population Census-Gathered in 1905
A) New England: 7,400,909
B) Virginia: 2.347 million
C) New York: 10.28 million
D) Pennsylvania: 8.74 million
E) New Jersey: 3.198 million
F) Delaware: 219,000
G) Maryland: 1.464 million

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Government Type : Revolutionary Compact: A utopian, and accelerationist system are driven by the ideas of sovereign citizens, autonomous communes, and participatory governance. The revolution doesn't end when the fighting ends but must be evergoing to ensure that all people are represented, all people are equal, and mankind must worship in solidarity, practice egalitarianism in daily life, and focus on themselves rather than greedy material pursuits. This is a state of mind rather than just a state of governance.

The four influences at the core of the revolutionary compact are utopian socialist ideals, libertarian socialist governance, religious backed direct democracy, nationalism backed by a mystic, and religious character as well as anarchist principles.


A) Utopian Socialism- Influenced primarily by the thoughts of assassinated philanthropist Robert Owens, utopian socialism acknowledges the right of humanity to organize in any state or society it wishes to be. The absolutist truths of the old order don't hold water in an ever-changing, and progressive world.
*Other contributors include French Philosopher who promoted the concept of phalanstère (units of people organized by their passions).
* Étienne Cabet contributed the political thought process regarding the organization of loosely knit communities into a federative style agreement (communalism).
* Edward Bellamy advocated a commons system of property, and finances to be held under a system of equal credit for all. This credit system valid for a year, and non-transferable between individuals was tracked via credit cards. Bellamy advocated for the organization of labor via departments with a retirement age system. Crime is a symptom of broken people (mental illness).
* Leo Tolstoy's Christian Anarchist works, and philosophy

B) Libertarian Socialism
C) Religious Democracy
D) Mystic, and Religious Based Anarchism, and Nationalism.

Government Ideology/Policies : Revolutionary Compact

Official Policy: Neutrality of Revolution: Content to work on its own society, the compact while supportive of revolutionaries abroad sees no logical benefits toward actively expanding to support an international revolution. To do so would violate the principles of autonomy since it must be the people in those areas themselves rather than an outside force that ferments a revolution.

Government Focus : Stability- traditional socialist factions, and more extreme authoritarian ones vie for a chance to return to their old days of glory, but in a greater sense, the government wants stability enshrined as a virtue for the benefit of its citizenry.

Head of State : Assembly of the Governed


Head of Government : The Directory
Government Description :

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Majority/State Religion : The Universalist Temple of Brotherhood
Religious Description : [[OPTIONAL]]

Economic Ideologies : Socialism with a focus on innovation, compassion, fair trade, unionism, anti-Marxian thoughts, and a nationalist system based on religious charity, and a heavy focus on social uplifting, and welfare.

Major Production : Varying by area, but the industrial revolution has tied industry and all its facets together as a major focus of the economy.

Economic Description : Due to the sheer economic diversity present within these areas I will link to Wikipedia articles. For the sake of the roleplay just focus on the aspects that would really be plausible for 1906. I have spent quite a lot of time on this application, and don't want to spend hours summing up the sheer economic diversity of these areas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_New_England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_o ... ork_(state)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania#Economy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey#Economy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland#Economy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Delaware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Virginia





Development: Modernized, but restrained in order to avoid damage to the mental, and physical health of citizenry. A policy put in place following the rampant industrialization conducted by the Socialist Government under the charge of the Red Guard.

Development Description : The Industrial Revolution brought a rapid societal, and cultural upheaval to the imagined conservative farmer-republic that was espoused before the 1820s. With New England historically being the first region to experiment with the techniques brought from Britain (or France depending on who started it this time) it makes sense that some familiarity is encouraged. Despite this, the Socialist government sought to further ramp up industrialization at the cost of lives, and willpower in order to compete with the nations of Europe and Asia. The Revolutionary Compact is proud to serve as an industrial power, but not merely for the sake of economic competition or exploitation, but to provide a good standard of living for the citizenry of the compact.

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Army Description : The Revolutionary Defense Council is built off the legacy of the minuteman, and former provincial militias, but compared to the old days it has been significantly defanged. The military's primary land objective is solely defense with systematic checkmarks to ensure that plans involving offensive measures are not allowed except in the most desperate of times.

Army Weakness : With the abolishment of the rigid command structure of the Red Guard Militia, and Red Guard Army the military is highly decentralized, and localized which does have a set of advantages, but makes it difficult to coordinate a cross-provincial offensive into other areas outside the compact. This structural weakness is built into the system, a holdover of fear from the days the army, and militias were used to commit red terror, and other genocidal actions. In an ironic twist, this also plays into the government's pacifism so some could say the government's plan is working as intended.
Naval Description : The Revolutionary Navy is born from the former Red Guard Naval Command, the Red Navy for short as some people call it is the strongest military institution in the compact. Inheritors a legacy dating from the enlightened revolution to the three years war, and beyond the naval experience of the people of Columbia is both in conflict and trade.

Naval Weakness : Due to the pacifistic nature of the compact the naval forces these days spent their time defending the shores and protecting trade, but it isn't so much the capability of the navy that poses a risk as much as the decentralization of it. While loyal to the counterrevolutionary government that would become the Revolutionary Compact the navy went from an efficiently centralized fighting force to a decentralized one that often bickers with the army over funding and manpower. It also has issues with cliques forming from the officer corp with only the admirals able to effectively corral them together.

Further Military Description : The military of Columbia is undergoing transformation continuously with the decentralization having the noted benefits of allowing the more eccentric members of command staff being able to engage in innovative doctrinal changes. Some militias have embraced the tools of total war preferring not to have highly defended borders, but allow invaders in, and simply sap them of their strength via attrition. While their naval equivalent focuses on the legacy they once held versus the roles they hold as the true defenders of the Columbian sovereignty, and economy.

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National Goals : Cultural Revolution in One Society
1] Protection of the Revolution
2] Extreme Autonomization
3] Racial, Economic, and Social Justice for All
4] Anti-imperialism, and colonialism.
5] the Democracy of the Everyman- A democratic style government forever in the truest sense of democracy. Unlike the inspiration from Rome taken by the government during the enlightened revolution and the post grand duchy governments, this takes inspiration from communal inspirations, and Athenian government minus the sexism, and slavery of course.
National Issues :
1] The Red Guard of Vermont-Practitioners of wartime socialism, and believers of modeling the revolution by an army with a state they are a remnant of an old government. They are content to sit in Fortress Vermont, but many people suspect they may hold ambitions for the rest of the compact just as their wider branch cousin groups once held power..they may seek it back. Many people wonder why both sides haven't made any moves, but for now, things are stable.
2] The Office of Strategic Information-Formerly secret police turned insurgents once they found themselves out of a job, and purged from the government after massive reforms by the compact structure.
3] The Rightists- Practitioners of socialist orthodoxy that now have found themselves out of a job following the collapse of the Peoples Republican government.

Each of these issues alone poses a threat, but together they could reassemble a formidable opposition government and in the rarest of chances overthrown the revolutionary compact to reinstall a more rigid Marxian socialist government.

National Figures of Interest : Director Leo Tolstoy, an exile from Russia the former count turned peoples revolutionary made his appearance as a well-known author, and espouser of communes based off Christian anarchism. The aged Tolstoy was brought into the directory by popular vote and is seen as a fatherly figure by many. Though many expect him to want to retire within a few years as his health is worsening. Secretly negotiations with Russia are taking place to allow the father of the nation to visit his family one last time before his health worsens further.

National Ambition/Aspirations : To preserve the anti-Marxist counter-revolution, and spread their beliefs peacefully. The revolution of society envisioned by many thinkers, and political groups doesn't have to be born out of violent class conflict, but simply class secessionism, and readjustment.

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History :

The Enlightened Revolution
1776-1783: The Enlightened Revolution occurs within the colonies that would one day become Columbia but despite the defeat of the Independent Coalition of Provinces the Kingdom of Angeland is utterly exhausted by the war effort. Due to the economic recession it is suffering, and the low morale of the home islands the government on behalf of the king signs a moderate treaty and forms a dominion arrangement with the rebellious provinces.

A) The government of the Independent Coalition of Provinces dissolves.
B) The leading government figures are granted pardons in exchange for lifelong oaths barring them from politics.
C) The provinces will renew their governments, and be allowed to resume normal economic business with the home islands.
D) The Acts of Religious Toleration would finally end-state the persecution of fellow Christians from different sects.
E) The soldiers involved in the Provincial army are granted amnesty and allowed to return home as a sign of goodwill.
F) The "Albany Plan of Union" proposed by the assassinated peace delegate Benjamin Franklin is put into place.
G) In a moment of extreme irony the Scottish house of Stuart (former anti-Rome kings of Angeland until their deposition by roman loyalist forces in 1688) is chosen to fill the position of Grand Duke. The current head of the house had fought for the loyalists not out of loyalty for the king so much as a planned restoration of order in the colonial provinces. Charles Edward Stuart had matched the provincial army commander George Washington in the third, and final battle of Jamestown, Virginia (named for the celibate princess Elizabeth exiled here following her renunciation of the "roman faith").

Early Period of the Grand Duchy of Columbia (1783-1788)

Charles Edward Stuart [Charles the 1st]: His reign as Grand Duke is both a mixture of irony and frustration. Irony as despite his allegiance to the king of Angeland he disavows the romanized faith of Britain for the homegrown Protestantism in Columbia. The very issue of taxes that started the war become a non-issue while Charles the 1st short, but important reign sees the institution of a moderate version of the "enlightened principles articles" the provincial rebels advocated. The provincial legislatures and governments acted pretty much as they had before the war with little interference from the Grand Duke. Other than the annual collection of war reparations that were sent to aid the economic recovery of the homeland things continued normally.

Middle to Late Period of the Grand Duchy of Columbia (1788-1807)

Henry Benedict Stuart [Henry the 1st]: The odd son out, an extremely religious man he focused on integrating much of the principles from the articles of the independent coalition of provinces. He began to distance Columbia further, and further from the home islands while also working on several key social reforms the country needed. The last generation of slaves was born at the start of Henry's reign as he would work to convince legislatures one by one to ban the practice. Seeing himself as an "enlightened sovereign" he worked constantly to improve the lives of the citizens of Columbia, and in the process began to ferment a national identity separate from the "Anglish". Henry promoted the myth of the resilient Romano-Briton, the forbearer of the true civilizations of the Christians on the home islands...not the uncivilized Danes. As a result, the term English began to appear in journals written on the Grand Duke's opinions on the matter.

In the final year of the Grand Duke's reign, he withdrew all obligations remaining to the Anglish masters. Years in the making the war reparations payments got smaller as did the garrisons of Anglish troops, and the government attaches grew to a nominal skeleton crew. By 1800 the Grand Duke officially stopped talking with the king using a freedman to deliver messages on his behalf. By 1807 a final letter was sent titled "the Union is separated, Columbia is free", by this point the 82-year-old grand duke decided to abdicate, and abolish the position of Grand Duke entirely. To a surprised crowd in Williamsburg, Virginia he announced the proclamation from his palace and then left for the nearby woods on a religious retreat.

The Early Republic (1807-1823)

Prime Minister George Washington Parke Custis (1807-1814)
Known as the Conservative Republic, the period was tumultuous internationally more than politically. The newly created parliament reborn from the political assembly of Columbia that existed under the Grand Duchy set out to cement their rule. The famed Virginian author George Washington Parke Custis relative of the famous defeated general Washington at the young age of 26 was elected as the first prime minister.
*Set the first official session of Parliament in Philadelphia as the capital of the nation.
* Commissioned a vote to connect the young nation together with a system of roads, and canals.
* Held a state funeral for the Grand Duke upon his passing at the age of 82.
* Held a vote for the creation of a pension system for the veterans of the enlightened revolution.
* Reformed the model army of Columbia
* Turned away the ambassador from Angeland citing "irreconcilable differences".
* Designated the countries official name as "The English Republic of Columbia", and tried to establish diplomatic relations with the Adamites.
* Opened formal relations with the French as a part of the "Anti-Anglish" strategy.
* Held a funeral for the retrieved remains of the beloved Benjamin Franklin (interred in France since his assassination).
* Stepped down at the end of his seven-year term, and retired to Mount Vernon.

Prime Minister James Madison (1814-1821)
*Ramped up the escalation of trade tensions between Columbia, and Angeland in response to forced impressment of Columbian sailors on their way to French ports.
* Began to increase the funding of the Columbian Transoceanic Navy to guard their ships, and in one route a firefight occurred (1815).
* Worked with Parliament to acquire funding to pay for increased wages for new militias, fortifications, and other defensive measures.
* The Three Years War (1816-1819) started following the sinking of a civilian ship with the deaths of nearly the entire crew. The Atlantic turned into a warzone with fleets on both sides fighting everywhere. In 1818 the war reached a fevered pitch as Anglish troops commenced the "central campaign", the invasion force burned Mount Vernon while also laying siege to Baltimore, New York, and Boston. The troops engaged in house to house fighting on the streets of the capital before the prime minister ordered the city bombarded to stop the Anglish offensive. While the city was saved a massive fire killing thousands erupted as a result of the bombardment.

The British would remain in parts of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware until being pushed out in the "Road to Dover" liberation counteroffensive. At sea Commodore Isaac Hull lead a fleet of several ships of a new design for a revenge mission towards Angeland (the ships were fitted with live oak helping them bounce off cannons). Isaac's flagship the CSS Article launched the first volley of bombardments on Cardiff itself, and one bombardment round even ended up killing the king himself during all of this. The campaign ended with several land raids across Southern Angeland before the flotilla returned back home to avoid the larger bulk of the royal navy catching up with them. The war ended on a dreary note in 1819 with no official victor as the sides were drawn into a stalemate at sea with both having hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war waiting to return home.

*Following the peace treaty of Paris (1819) the war ended, and both sides returned home bitter, this would be the last interaction Angeland, and Columbia would officially ever have. Any diplomatic interaction did under the neutral arbitration of a myriad web of intermediaries through Paris. James Madison spent the rest of his term fixing the war-torn country before resigning in 1821.

Prime Minister Daniel D. Tompkins (1821-1823)

* Remembered as the final prime minister of the early republic the country entered into a recession, and despite Tompkin's best efforts to relieve the economy, they weren't working due in part to low treasury funds.
*In 1823 the citizens of several provinces formed "Tax Break" leagues to request an end to the high taxation that was being forced on them. In some communities, these tax break leagues seceded from the government out of protest and formed their own governments which caused particular alarm in the province of Pennsylvania. Welsh-Columbian philanthropist Robert Owen now the leader of a local community in Pennsylvania was shot, and killed by a provincial militia during a dispute causing nationwide outrage.
* The tax breaker communities in Pennsylvania assembled a militia lead by veterans of the three years war who marched on Philadelphia, and rather than face having the government overthrown Tompkin's resigned, and an election commission worked out terms with the strikers.

Middle Republic (1823-1848)- Known collectively as the Liberal Republic

Prime Minister James Monroe (1823-1830)

*Appointed in an emergency session the Virginian delegate found himself in a new era of the republic. He resolved to amend the high taxation, and in a moment of political weakness moved the capital to New York citing security reasons following the near overwhelming of Philadelphia by mobs. With parliament, he worked tirelessly to create a more liberal version of the enlightened principles articles known today as the "New York Articles". This enshrined universal male suffrage and established a pension system for veterans of the war. He began to work with several business interests to industrialize and alleviate the economic depression causing issues all over the country.

Prime Minister Martin Van Buren (1830-1837)
*Began a conflict with the military over the issue of the removal of Indigenous Columbian tribes, and is responsible for establishing treaties with several tribes to keep their lands despite the complaints of several provinces wanting additional land for their people.
* The case of HMS Fortitude, a ship carrying prisoners across the Atlantic crashed, and was rescued by Columbians. The prisoners were political reformers, and granted asylum within Columbia. This caused outrage across the Atlantic, and the Prime Minister had lawyers defend the political prisoners against those who wanted to deport them back to Britain.
* The appointment of judges that extended universal male suffrage to the descendants of former slaves.

Prime Minister Daniel Webster (1837-1844)
*Coming into power during a recession he had to deal with many economic issues, but is notable primarily for Columbian educational reforms.
* Had to deal with secessionist elements posing a threat to Columbian sovereignty in the debate crisis (started over the issue of parliamentary reform via proportion). Ultimately the compromise of 1840 delayed the talk of populational representation via ten years and bought the Columbians some time to adjust.
* Sought to expand trade relations to the eastern ports of Asia.
* Gathered funding for the expansion of railroads, and canals across the country.
* In his last year, the governor of New York Province (Joseph Smith) was assassinated while giving a tour of reformed provincial jails. He was a noted leftist who believed in an extreme form of egalitarian Christianity, and his death sparked the "Smith Controversy".


Prime Minister George M. Dallas (1844-1848).
* Becoming prime minister during the smith controversy Dallas was forced to deal with revolts in New York as well as unrest from political elements aligned with the assassinated provincial governor. Smith's church the Universalist Temple of Brotherhood began protesting across several provinces and even demanded entrance to a closed session of parliament.
* The Brotherhood revolt saw thousands of congregants simply withdraw from society, and in turn, this sparked several societal issues chief of which belonged to class divides.
* The class strikes of early 1848 eventually exploded into the scene with the movements backed by a reinvigorated national consciousness.

Late Republic also the Springtime Republic (1848-1873)

Head Councilmember Millard Fillmore (1848-1855)
* Representative Millard Fillmore of New York assembled an emergency session in Boston while New York was collapsing under the weight of rioters during the springtime revolt. During this session, the articles of enlightened principles were expanded to give women the right to vote alongside indigenous Columbians amongst many other social reforms. The office of Prime Minister would be abolished with a governing council put in its place to be elected directly by the populace rather than indirectly via parliament.
* The military needing directions, and stability swore allegiance to the new leader of Columbia and the proper governance in Boston. What would have been a civil war was put down quickly as the loyal military elements swooped into a chaotic New York putting order back into place, and demanding the surrender of the now ex-prime minister Dallas.
* Councilmember Fillmore spent the duration of his term focusing on further developing the industrializing Columbia in order to compete with France, and Britain through its own way. He also engaged in several political tours promoting the ideal of the autonomous "sovereignty" movement which provinces wanted to dictate their affairs with as little to no interference from Parliament as possible.

Head Councilmember Franklin Pierce (1855-1862)
* The first properly elected councilmember he worked to fight the political machines which had gathered in Philadelphia, and New York as a message to those who expected the corrupt system of patronage to continue into Boston. This lead to the first major civil service reforms seen within Columbia for some time.
*Gathered funding for the first transnational railroad system.
* Directly handled the subjugation of the militias fighting one another over class antagonism in the "Bloody Vermont" affair.
* Toured the country advocating for provincial legislature reform noting the difference between the national, and provincial systems especially in regards to the suffrage movement.

Head Councilmember James Buchanan(1862-1869)
* Launched a series of campaigns to demonstrate the might of Columbian factories.
* Visited Vermont in a goodwill tour to ease the tensions between resentful militias in order to prevent conflict starting up again.
* Ended government persecution of the Universalist Temple of Brotherhood noting that while they were still citizens who were ignoring the government they were doing no real harm.
* Set up an expansive provincial college system to complement the changes conducted by former prime minister Daniel Webster.

Head Councilmember Hannibal Hamlin(1869-1873)
* Inheriting the office during a time of great strife he promised a campaign of national reconstruction when it came to the rights of laborers, gatherings, and others. During the last days of Buchanan's administration, a bomb had exploded in a union meeting killing everyone there with the relatives believing it was a pro-business plot. This lead to regular strikes, and other problems for the country.
* He nationalized the militias in order to keep the peace but caused issues with sovereignty advocates as well. This caused him to be in a bind as the governing council supported him in name only often backstabbing many of his goals for a return to peace in the hopes they would gain power. All this would ultimately result in a series of speeches by him calling for reconciliation. In 1873 he held a meeting with several major union groups, and socialist leaders planning for a cooperation government to form the following year, but instead, a bomb went off eliminating him, his governmental heads, and many others.

The Socialist Republic of Columbia (1873-1890)

The Socialist Republic of Columbia while officially born in 1873 was born practically in 1874 following a half year of chaos over governmental succession protocols. The death of the springtime republic was caused not so much by Hamlin's assassination as it was by the lack of a unity government. Three different contenders for leading councilmember divided the military, and bureaucracy over who to recognize causing abject chaos, and granting socialist groups the opportunity to organize, and lead. In late 1873 in Hartford, the Socialist National Congress organized and proclaimed the Socialist Republic of Columbia bringing in defectors from the military and international volunteers to their side as well as sympathizers. The province of Massachusetts fell within a week, and by the beginning of the new year the contenders of the old republic would be dead, and their forces scattered.

The revolution was a violent one in its formation, but revolutions never end with formations of new governments or countries. The country chose to focus predominantly on marxist principles over its past of utopian socialist thought much to the dismay of those within that school of thought. Various conferences were held on how best to achieve the ideals Marx wanted, but by 1876 the more practical concerns took over. The revolutionary fervor replaced with realist politicians such as Daniel De Leon who realized action needed to be taken before the current republic became another stagnant piece of history. From 1876-1880 the unions brought together by Daniel De Leon during his time as chairmen came the closest to some of Marx's core principles, but his pace wasn't fast enough.

In his overthrow by the Socialist National Congress the military action committee using blackmail, and other methods established a socialist military dictatorship under the guidance of the Red Guard (c. 1880). From 1880 until 1886 they held effective control of the country encouraged purges, relocations, mass collectivization, and even further societal changes as a means of "revolution by rampancy". This process started to erode in 1886 with a meeting by utopian, religious, and soft socialists as well as nationalists, and anarchists who formed an emergency convention in opposition to the expansive red terror. Following the failure of the Socialist National Congress to address their concerns, and curb the influence of the Red Guard the opposition leaders seceded from the Congress. This coalition of unlikely allies reconvened in Maine, and began to draw sympathy from various influential groups who tired of "wartime level rampant socialism".

In 1887 the "Maine Anti-Tyranny Proclamation" was delivered, and the socialist governing council of Maine agreeing with the principles advocated for the nullification of the Socialist Republic model, and reformation of the revolution under a new model focused on quality rather than quantity. In 1887 the revolutionary compact was officially born with Maine being the first province, and soon others joining. The counter-revolution began as small towns were developed, and then some smaller cities while defections from military units tired of the terror began to occur. The biggest change being the defection of the navy to the compact citing ideological concerns as well as the treasonous activity of the Red Guard. By 1888 with the navy blockading the coasts of socialist republic loyalist areas the war turned in favor of the compact.

The war's end came in February 1890 with the conquest of Hartford by militias loyal to the compact, and in the process, the capital was moved back to Hartford which was renamed in honor of the worker's sacrifices that occurred there. The population of Hartford was down 3/4ths by the time the city officially surrendered.

Revolutionary Compact (1890-Present)

The City of Hartford laid in ruin, but the militias under the order of the new compact government entered it without the intention of looting. The plain simple flag was put atop the convention center, and a new era began. The Compact is a government in the loosest sense of the word, but nevertheless one in which decisions made by sovereign citizens engaged in political assembly allow it to function. Autonomization allows communities to deal with their own issues without having too worry about an overreaching government engaging in red tape or red terror. Instead citizens focus on initiatives and funding through schemes known as "common trusts" in order to fix roads, schools, and other needs.

The implementation of "socialism with an innovative face" is used to justify the exporting of resources abroad similarly to market capitalism, but under the expectation that instead of profit the goal is to help the community of origin fund whatever project they need. The Compact knows that Marxian socialism with strict economic controls will hamper quality of life as well as quantity of goods given the effects of hunger, and severe drop in food during the last years of the Red Guard governments wartime like socialism. Upon the tenth anniversary of the Revolution Leo Tolstoy an influential author, activist, and Russian exile became heavily involved in the political machinery of the compact.

Now an aging father figure he travels everywhere helping the compact solidify its humanitarian goals, but he won't be with the compact for long as his age, and failing health continues to take a bite out of the compacts father each year. Despite the remaining factions of the old government persisting in some ways, and the country being far from its goals the people are optimistic, and look to the future to see what awaits it.


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[Pasong Tirad]

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History :

Early Settlement Period 1600-1660

Formed from Protestant Dissidents born in the British isles escaping persecution and warfare on the isles and seeking to establish what they desired to be a true Christian City on the hill in a virgin and and in their eyes purer land untainted by the corruption of the old. Led by the legendary Amos Dawnhall, their prophet, the first few hundred settlers landed in late winter near the mouth of the Altamaha River and making their way upriver and deep into the interior they eventually found a place they could call home that they named Lebanon Hill due to it being in the foothills of the southern tail of the Appalachian Mountains. Though the land was rough desiring the safety that came with isolation and mixed in with the defensiveness of the region all encouraged it's choice as the site of the settlement. Due to the time and various disruptive events(namely war) leading to poor and in many cases nonexistent record this has lead to this period having to be remembered primarily via national stories and mythology rather than hard fact and evidence. With that in mind the general narrative paints a picture of a seemingly Utopian society, the people while not great in material wealth bore great moral wealth instead and who lived in peace among themselves and their neighbors. If one man was hungry his neighbors would feed him from there surplus knowing he would do the same, widows and orphans were cared for and the people lived in harmony with the land. Such is the general recounting of this period. Of course like many things it all has to come to an end.

Age of Fear 1660-1683

Around this time greater information can be gleaned about the free settlement of Lebanon Hill due in part as a result of increasing foreign contact. Around this time the very existence of Lebanon Hill was threatened in part due to a drought which lead to a near famine mixed in with a possible pandemic, probably yellow fever, forcing the Settlers to end their self imposed isolation just to survive. This was also compounded by the souring of relations with local native groups due in part from Lebanon Hill's unwillingness to pick a side in ongoing warfare namely between the Upper Creek and the Cherokee leading to both seeing them as enemies. This hostile situation led to the Settlers seeking outside aid mostly in the form of food and gunpowder the later of which had become hopelessly low due in part to the long stretch of peace and which was the only thing keeping them alive at this point in face of encroaching enemies. The settlement at this point was in a sad state of affairs indeed. Though the people remained proud and committed to the ideals that they had founded the settlement on they knew full well that their self imposed isolation had become untenable.

Though trade with outsiders in the short term allowed the settlement to survive long term it would have ramifications that would soon become quite evident. Around this time the British hoping to grow their colonial domain had been aggressively expanding within the region, mainly the coast, and due to the aforementioned now had their attention drawn to Lebanon Hill which in their eyes potentially threatened their holdings within the region. in part due to the potential of their rivals maybe being able to acquire a probable staging point for invasion of their holdings. With that in mind they set fourth a number of explorers seeking to map out the region and gain intelligence that would be aid them in what was to come.

Anglo Conquest 1683-1688

The war was an eventful one filled with as much drama and blood and horror as one could expect in such nasty business. The opening shots came in the form of a group of British Pioneers attempting to establish a small camp nearby to Lebanon Hill antagonizing the settlers and leading to brief clash in which said pioneers were routed from their camp. This served as the primary Casus belli of sorts leading to the First Expedition to Lebanon hill. Landing in the British settlement of Charles Town(IRL Charleston, South Carolina) a column of British regulars numbering about 1,000 men set out to launch an overland invasion of Lebanon Hill. Led by a General Thomas Mattis they set fourth on a march in the early spring hoping to use the good weather to full effect. Their stated objective was the delivering of an ultimatum that demanded the total disarmament of Lebanon Hill and it's acceptance of a British overseer.

What occurred next was nothing short of a miracle. Meeting General Mattis's army near the Oconee River with a force of only about 200 Militia plus about 20 allied Indian(Creeks specifically) scouts and led by their Commander Jerome Stone, a local farmer, they made their stand. Due to the aforementioned scouts plus their own knowledge of the land plus the lack of either on General Mattis's part allowed the forces of Lebanon hill to pick their choice of ground. With two hills overlooking a largely flat marshy area nearest the river plus the relative lack of cover on their opponents side no better ground could be asked for. What came about was a total route with the British Column marching into blistering fire and being relatively unable to return back in part due to the rising sun blinding them on their march upwards. That was only compounded by the horrible ground which was muddy and soft with many of the British regulars dying not from bullets but via collapsing in exhaustion in the heat of the day and drowning in the mud underneath. Charge after charge the British regulars couldn't break Lebanon Hill's position and with the death of General Mattis, killed via a snipers bullet while trying to lead the last charge, the regulars routed and Lebanon Hill held the field.

While a great blow had been dealt this wasn't enough to end the ambitions of the British who sought to acquire Lebanon Hill, in some ways it greatly magnified them. Humiliation and anger can sometimes be the greatest of motivators and not wanting to be one upped by a bunch of what in their eyes were dirty heretical peasants went right back to the drawing board plotting and planning their move for next time.

Starting next year in the spring the British came back with a roughly equal force of about 1000 men this time led by a far more abler commander in the form of General Yule and with the aid of around 50 allied Indian scouts, Cherokee, who rather than trying to go for a singular clash instead sought to build a fort near enough to Lebanon Hill to engage in an organized and longer term harassment campaign. Said fort was built near Jackson Lake atop a hill. From here they would maintain an unassailable position while still being in reach of Lebanon Hill. Over the course of that bloody summer and into the fall General Yule made extensive use of his cavalry to launch raid after raid to damage and bully the defenders of Lebanon Hill who lacking in their own cavalry units found themselves unable to properly respond, not without risking having their Settlement directly attacked.

Attempts were made to divert and sidetrack General Yule's tactics but the man always found a way to deflect their efforts. When Lebanon Hill starting attacking the forts vulnerable supply lines General Yule simply diverted men to provide escorts to said supply trains and even slowly set fortified depots to serve as resting stops. Albeit this required him to create a much larger force of 2500 men. When the defenders of Lebanon Hill attempted to use snipers to harass the fort General Yule simply increased his number of patrols and gave them hounds to search and sweep the surrounding area. This would go on and on for the next 2-3 years with General Yule patiently waiting out Lebanon Hill wearing them down via attrition and slowly but surely building new forts that drew closer and closer to Lebanon Hill itself. This was until they got to a point where he believed they would be most exhausted. In the Summer of 1888 Yule finally decided to drop the Hammer so to speak and attack the settlement directly. Amassing a force of about 5000 men he kept about half that on stand by and led the other half straight towards Lebanon Hill in what came to be an epicly climatic battle involving a force of 700 or so defenders who despite iron clad resolve found themselves outmatched and importantly outgunned by the forces led by Yule. Though it is worth mentioning that Yule needed to call for reinforcements from his reserve, about 1000 men, due to the heavy fighting and the battle occurred over the course of what amounted to a 22 day siege that from the get go was a bloody slugfest. By the end of of October in what would be called to this day by the Pure Saints as the "The Fall of Second Eden" General Yule stormed the Lebanon Hill and brutally crushed the defenders even going so far as to burn the protestant church with many of those who had taken refuge inside being burned alive. In the following days he would Force many of those still alive to convert and submit loyalty to the British crown or be enslaved to solidify British authority in the coming times. This along with many horrors would be bought about that day and form much of the national mythos. A small handful fo the defenders, about 100, did end up surviving and would form the core of what came to be a small scale bandit/guerrilla campaign that sough to undermine British authority in the region. The last of these wouldn't be destroyed until 1720. But even with that in mind the dream of an independent Lebanon Hill a proverbial Christian City on the hill would come crashing down and ended on that bitter day.

And so that chapter closed.

Royal Colony Period 1688-1760

From the very beginning the area that had been Lebanon Hill was a restive colony. Local discontent, various bands of bandits prowling the forests, large and powerful nearby native groups, etc. Precautions had to be taken to cement British control of the new colony by the now Governor-General Yule. One of the first things done was the fusing of the area of Lebanon Hill to the already existing colony centered around Charles Town and with that the encouraging of the migration of British settlers into the area. With this came the displacement of much of the existing original settlers who found themselves not only being swamped in numbers but also found themselves being put out in home and land. Governor-General Yule made a policy of confiscating the land of households who were known to have had men who had taken up arms against the crown both during the previous war but also in the later guerrilla bandit combat that began afterwords in addition to those who had no official documentation showing proof of ownership of their homes and land. The problem with this rested in the nature of Lebanon Hill's previous societal structure which had emphasized the idea of living in the manner that the Apostles are said to have lived in with much, most importantly land, being held in common and shared among the Brethren of the community according to individual household needs. Private land ownership just wasn't a thing for the Settlers of Lebanon Hill. Hence this gave Governor-General Yule the legal legitimacy to declare those residing on those lands and even living within their very homes as nothing but squatters. He used this in a manner to reward those who were wiling to collaborate, which sadly a few did, while punishing those who dared to resist or speak out against them. As the terror continued on and on the old settlers found themselves and the land that they had worked so hard to make a home out of slip further and further out of their grasp. Even their very religion, The Brotherhood of Pure Saints, was persecuted and suppressed as little more than heretics with those found participating in their sacraments facing death or enslavement under the authorities in what in modern times has come to be known by their adherents as the Era of Wrath. Those who remained committed to the faith were forced to do so in secret which has left scars that remain in the current era.

Governor General Yule 1688-1708
Governor-General Yule continued his reign of terror for the next 20 years during which he bought many developments into the area that would irrevocably change it. For one thing in order to remedy the colonies lack of labor he set about importing mass amounts of both Indentured Servants, mostly ex debtors looking for a better life, but also convict laborers drawn from near overflowing prisons of the British Isles. This policy was only further reinforced via Governor-General Yule bringing in a considerable number of enslaved Africans adding them into the whole mix. While this was going on Governor-General Yule hoping to ensure the safety of the colony implemented a number of "reforms" namely the recruitment of veteran soldiers from the home islands offering land grants in exchange for service as reserve soldiers. These Yeoman-Soldiers would be the backbone of the colonies militia in addition to the use of the Commando System. Said system involved the use of taxpaying freemen being required to serve as members of locally(usually town) organized units known as Commands for the protection of the colony from external danger. These combined would be the principle defense of the colony against both outside an internal threats. Finally but not least one of his most consequential decisions was the moving of the capital from the current one of Charles Town and instead building a new one near the largely destroyed remains of Lebanon Hill naming it Arthur Town in reference to a once great British King of legend. All this to once again cement his control of the area. these systems and practices would come to be and form the very foundations from which the colony relied and remained committed to and would as one might say form the bedrock of the colony. In some ways they also would be the foundations of its ultimate destruction one might say in retrospect.

Governor General Burton 1708-1730
This along with other policies would characterize the 20 year rule of Governor-General Yule until his personal retirement and subsequent replacement by Governor-General Burton.Yule would retire to his plantation of Lone Tree Mountain dying of old age sometime around 1730 leaving behind a complicated legacy. Upon his ascension Governor General Burton would soon come to make a name for himself. While Yule might be characterized as a builder Burton would prove to be more an expander as the principal executive officer of the British Southern Dominion. After the defeat of the remaining Lebanon bandits in 1720 and using the new Capital of Arthur Town as a springboard fully maximizing the strengths of his predecessors systems he would carry out a period of military expeditions seeking to bring much of the region under British authority annexing the remaining coastal regions of what would come to be known as Georgia alongside the successful conquest of the Spanish settlement in St Augustine and subsequent annexing of the remainder of eastern Florida. From the Carolina Cape of fear down to the Indian infested swamps of Miami Florida and atleast in theory from the west and east from sea to shining sear this would form the prime core areas of the British Southern Dominion for all intents and purposes. With the coast largely secured Governor General Burton turned his attention to the internal situation. The Indians within the region had long enjoyed large scale independence away from the machinations of the British only being expected to provide a degree of freedom of movement for British merchants and the occasional supplying of Scouts to serve as auxiliaries in times of war. Do to their size and relative sophistication the British had largely chosen to not bother the Tribes. Under Burton this would change due in part to the land and labor hungry nature of the young Colony but also due to the rumors of gold in the hills. A bloody series of military campaigns would be waged against the Creek but also Cherokee in the last years of Burton's reign with the principal goal being the subjugation of individual native villages with the inhabitants being forced to make the choice to either run or submit to British authority and being made to convert to the true faith at the point of a sword. Said villages would be organized into what would be known as Manors with the land being placed under the control with the local natives being required to provide labor unto said land in exchange for "protection" in theory. These Manors would be placed under the control of a small group of soldiers who received it as a reward of service and treated it accordingly exploiting and abusing the native workers who were placed in a state little better than Slaves of the plantations. This would allow for the rapid expansion of the colony deep into the interior up to and including the southern tip of the Appalachian mountains from where the mythical Cherokee Gold Mines would finally be found greatly helping to shore up the finances of the Colony which had been almost entirely reliant on a mix of cash crop plantations and small scale manufacturing near the coastal towns. Despite the benefits never the less It was on one of these "Indian Pacification Campaign" as they were known in which Burton finally met his doom being felled by an Indian Arrow while leading troops in the destruction of a village that was trying to resist. And so his rule ended.

Governor General Ellis 1730-1772
While Governor General Yule had proven to be a builder and Burton an Expander, Ellis came to be known in a much less flattering manner. Though his initial Reign started off well with his ending of the aforementioned Indian Pacification Campaigns along with helping administer the Gold Rush and riding off the subsequent Economic Boom his baser nature soon began to show. At the most minute level Governor-General Ellis was a craven individual who thought of little else but his own desires and needs most especially his need to maintain his position of power. The Colony had always been a stratified one with cleat divisions between those on top, composed of Plantation owners and workshop owners, and the bottom composed of the vast populations of enserfed Natives, Black Slaves, Convict Laborers known as Peons with indeterminate sentences, and finally but not least the indentured servants known as Helots with the center being more or less held via the Yeomen-Soldiery and vanishingly small number of free peasants. This division only grew vaster and greater with Ellis's mass engagement in the heights of corruption via the use of patronage to enrich his allies and family members to consolidate his rule without any doubt and in turn garner a huge fortune in his own right using his position to convert the colony into little better than a Kleptocracy. Ellis in addition to his fiscal mischief so to speak became known for his decadence too having lavish parties wherein he would engorge in colossal quantities of food that contributed to him becoming quite obese in later years. His attempts at creating a personalty cult were notable with commissioning of vast numbers of public works in the form personal monuments and the dedicating of various locations to both himself and members of his family in addition to the creation of a sort of secret police, known as the Dusk Watch, that brutally punished those who dared to oppose and speak out against him. Opposition leaders especially those from the Helot's and other lower classes were routinely rounded up and in many cases killed in elaborate ways to strike terror in the population; while at the same time those from upper classes were held in line via the fear of Red Room where secret trials and arbutatuary justice were the norm.

It was during the long and dark 44 year reign of Governor General Ellis that the very foundations of the Southern Dominion began to unravel. Fed up with the exploitationary and nepotistic nature of the government and fueled by economic mismanagement that characterized the latter half of Ellis's Reign discontent bloomed among many sectors of country. Rioting and other forms of lawlessness spread and though he bought a heavy fist down this arguably only served to create a even more restless population. The Event that arguably signaled the beginning of the end was the bloody Indian Confederate War. Though Ellis had ended the Indian pacification campaigns the wounds and by extension anger from the aforementioned remained among the surviving free Indians most notably the Cherokee and the upper Creek. Despite being long time enemies and the historical enmity that came with that were via the efforts of a prophet known as the White Deer were able to come to a sort of ceasefire agreeing to assisting in an upcoming invasion of the Southern Dominion. The goal being to drive the British out once and for all, regain their traditional lands, and most importantly get revenge. In the Fall of 1772 invading with a huge combined force some estimating around 10-15 thousand strong the Indian Confederate Army came down like a sledge hammer against the largely unsuspecting Colony. The Militia once the pride of the Southern Dominion fell apart almost immediately. It's members were demoralized, recently underpaid with it's members having grown soft most especially the officers from the decades of relative peace that had predominated under their crooked Governor General. Having become more accustomed to bashing in the skulls of Mouthy Peons more than anything else when faced with an enemy willing and able to properly fight back they shattered like a piece of glass when faced with the floor. Along the way the Confederate Army was smart enough to seek the aid of some of the more oppressed classes of the Colony namely their former brethren in the form of the Indian Serfs alongside the various Maroon Camps and enslaved Africans they found living in the plantations along their path. Seeing their backs to the wall and running out of options Ellis made the decision to arm the Peons and Helots and even did the same for a few African Slaves and Indian Serfs who volunteered hoping to gain their freedom and organized them into what came to be known as the New Standard Public Force. The bloody 2 year conflict would bring the Colony to the very breaking point with the very capital of Arthur Town surrounded and placed under siege for up to year in it's darkest hour. Reinforcements from Regular Soldiers from the mainland in addition to the efforts of the reformed Colonial Militia with much needed help from the previously mention NSPF force allowed for a victory to be achieved with the Indian Confederate Army finally driven off after the bloody relief and breaking of the siege of Arthur Town. Albeit this came with great cost at the end of it all due in part to his incompetent handling of the whole thing Governor-General Ellis's term was rescinded and he was forced to in shame return back to home to the British Isles to be replaced by another. And so ended his reign.

Governor General Wright 1774-1775
Governor-General Wright came to power after the dishonorable discharge of his predecessor with the hope being he would clean up the mess so to speak bring and things back in order. He found himself faced with an impossible task. The Indians though defeated and bloody remained a threat, The underclasses were armed and running around now demanding not only reform in the form of freedom from their various "services" but also the recognition of their rights as Englishmen, much of the colonies infrastructure was damaged or destroyed during the war and in desperate need of repair; And if that all wasn't enough the Southern Dominion was in the grips of famine caused by successive years of warfare. What the Colony and by extension British control of the region needed was a superman of sorts someone like the many great men of history who could salvage gold in the face remains of ruin and bring hope in an era f misery and despair. What they got was Wright. Specifically Edmund Wright. An old mild mannered accountant from London. He was the right man but for the wrong job. Hoping to hopefully end some of chaos of the current situation as one of his first acts he set about confiscating the arms that had been distributed to the Peons Helots and other underclassmen who had Volunteered in Ellis's New Standard Public Force hoping via disarming what he saw as a destabilizing force in the colony some peace could be gained. Governor General Wright was rewarded with a Mutiny by said NSPF garrisons and not long after was assassinated by a sniper's bullet while presiding over an inspection of some of his British Regular Guardsmen. At this point not surprisingly shit hit the proverbial fan.

National Crusade 1775-1800

The Beginning stages of what in later years became known as the "National Crusade" were a dark and confusing time with mass riots in the urban centers, slave rebellions in the country side and Military Mutinies breaking out everywhere and anywhere. It was not a coordinated event nor a particularly glorious mass rising of the proletariat with fighting among the very in many cases opposing factions who were just as willing to shoot at one another as they were at the British Army troops trying to stomp down the flames of Radicalism. The streets ran red with the blood of both guilty and innocent and darkness reined supreme. What was once a reasonably prosperous colony was by all indications on the path of obliteration via self induced suicide.

Despite all this chaos there was some degree of hope. The various armed bands with time were beginning to consolidate coalescing around a handful of strong voices in the mist of all the noise. These would go on into the annals of legends as the heroes of this time who by the end of what came to be known as the "Year of Fire" bought together what where various previously warring parties to the table and organized them via a coherent set of agreed upon principles into what came to be two major coalitions that would largely define the narrative of the coming years. On one side were the Scarlet Pact Militia centered in the old Southern Dominion capital of Charles Town. Named after their army regulation scarlet jackets backed by the British army and government and led by the newly appointed Governor General Wayne they would be the loyalist side in coming conflict. Members largely derived from younger landless sons of the upper classes who had benefited from the previous order in addition mercenaries drawn from both foreign and lower class stock enticed via promises of both pay and possible advancement of their stature in the post war era. On the other side centered in the then capital of the Southern Dominion Arthur Town, renamed Atlanta, were the various loosely aligned revolutionary war bands drawing their support from the long oppressed helots, peons, serfs, and slaves who were willing to fight for a better future and die trying if need be. In addition the various Maroon communities and surprisingly enough large quantities of Yeomen-Soldiers emboldened by the former and having long chafed under the dominion rabidly unequal structure especially from the reign of Governor General Ellis on decided to make their own play. These factions would solidfy into a unified front Upon the completion of what came to be known as the Arthur Town Congress which involved the 4 leading figures of the Revolution: Jacob Stone a former convict mine laborer turned revolutionary general and leading figure of the poor white rural proletariat, Lawrence White a former carpenter and leader representing the poor white urban proletariat, Chief Red Hand leader of a small Maroon Camp and now leading figure of movement representing African slaves, Indian Serfs, and other Maroons; and finally but not least there was Michael Clay representing the Yeoman-Soldiery who had chosen to join the Revolution in it's favor. These four sat down drafting what came to be known as the "Covenant on a Heaven bound Republic of Man" encapsulation their goals, values and overall commitment to the four promises of Independence, the establishment of a Republic, Land Reform, and finally Freedom from the Enslavement of the lower classes. With that they would organize the various war bands into what came to be known as the Iron Legion and established the First Free Continental Parliament which together would organize the conduct of the war from that point onward.

Over the next 24 years the two forces, the Iron Legion and the Scarlet Pact Militia, engaged in what could best be characterized as an utter slug match that would for the British be like a bleeding ulcer sucking in both precious money and manpower all while they were forced to face up to another rebellion. That one occurring in their Northern Colonies that would later form the Revolutionary Compact of Columbia. The battle lines at the start were more or less the SPM controlling the coast along with the major urban centers in the interior minus notable exception of Arthur Town while the Iron Legion controlled the interior countryside which was categorized as "Bandit" country by the British Authorities. Consolidating their position during the "Year of Fire" against the at the time still disorganized revolutionary hordes the SPM and their British Regular allies set fourth plans to retake Arthur Town with the hope being to squash the still rather young Free Continental Parliament before it became too powerful. This would be the latter's first major test. When the British Initiated their Spring Offensive of 1776 they found what had initially started off as little more than rabble had coalesced into a far more dangerous and tenacious foe which while not a match in open combat bogged the British Regulars down with constant harassment, attacks on their supply trains and dogged determination. It wasn't long before the loyalist offensive fell apart stopping barely 10 miles from the Radicals capital at "The Battle of Blake's Creek" which while technically a victory for the British Regulars was a Pyrrhic one. From this point onward due to increasing troop commitments elsewhere they had no choice but to rely more heavily on SP militiamen who at that point were largely used as auxiliary troops defending points of interest from Iron Legion raids, patrolling and escorting supplies to and from the various controlled urban centers, etc. Serving as front line troops was not a role they were best suited too and it quickly showed in the form of Iron Legion gains which while piecemeal were growing. Various smaller towns and villages began to fall with those resisting killed and remainder forced to either flea or proclaim an oath of Loyalty to the Free Continental Parliament. The British had no choice having to devote huge sums of men and material into their Northern Quagmire.

That is until 1783 when said Northern war finally came to a close with more or less a victory, albeit a costly one, for the British Military. At this point and time the British in the face of an economic recession reeling from the staggering losses the twin fronts had caused were a largely spent force with it's men demoralized and it's people on the verge of ruin. With the Northern Front finally dealt with the knew now was the time to finally end what had started as a running sore but had become a knife in the back. With soldiers drawn from veterans of the Northern War the British set about the plans for a final great offensive one that truly would break the Free Continental Parliament and it's Iron Legion. What they created was a huge army relative for the period numbering about 10,000 regulars all together joined by a further 15,000 Scarlet Pact Militiamen gathered in Charles Town for the upcoming campaign and placed under the command of one named General Clark. Though seemingly impressive from the get go there were already issues. The troops had been underpaid from the start and having come from the fighting in the north and rather than being allowed to go back home been made to extend their service terms to fight in the hot sweltering hellhole that had become of the Southern Front the Regulars morale was not surprisingly poor. Poor to the point that some thought a full on mutiny might be possible. Though in the end that didn't pan out the situation by all indications was dire. General Clark knew he needed to win a victory and fast lest his army slowly dissolve. Setting out with about 20,000 men leaving behind 5,000 for the defense of Charles Town General Clark took a path remarkably similar to that taken by General Mattis long ago. The end result was not much better.

Though initial gains were made and his force did defeat a small enemy army near Lake Oconee in a rather brief bush battle that continued into the night at which point said Iron Legion Detachment withdrew from the field. This along with other setbacks slowed General Clark's army down considerably and like many before him he found himself increasingly mired down in constant attrition from marksmen in the woods, disease sapping his troops, occasional desertions caused by poor morale and increasingly bold raids on their supplies trains. The latter most of these proved the most dangerous. This was caused by their were excessive reliance on said supply trains reliant on due to a lack of ability to live of the land due in no small part to Iron Legion scorched earth tactics. Along their way all they found were abandoned villages, burnt fields, poisoned wells, and the dead and desiccated corps of livestock were the only fruits born from this harsh land. This forced General Clark to devote increasingly larger concentrations of men towards garrisoning supply depots and escorting the aforementioned supply lines which exuberated his manpower problems. When the final battle, that being "The Battle of Fulton Village", he was the one who had his back broken with his army facing a force of ~50,000 men with little more than 15,000 men on their side. Though a good showing was conducted in the beginning the demoralized and largely sick troops that formed General Clarks army found themselves swamped with their flanks falling apart and enveloped atop a hill where they had to make a final stand. Only a few hundred would survive to carry the tale of the nightmare that became one of the greatest British Army disasters in their history.

This was the beginning of the end with the British Army slowly but surely withdrawing more and more regulars from what had become an unpopular slow motion nightmare. Upper Florida's St Augustine was the firs major British stronghold to fall with what came about being known as the Florida Horrors spreading panic and shock to all who learned of it. What started as a steady trickle turned into a flood with the writing on the wall larger and larger quantities of what had formed the upper class of the Southern Dominion started to evacuate to safety back to to the home islands trying to escape what they knew would be the vengeance inflicted on them by their former slaves. It was around this time that cracks began to form in the Continental Parliament with those coming from the Upper Carolina coast splitting with the rest leading to the present situation there. Never the less in final deathknell of British control in North America the old capital of Charles Town finally fell to besieging forces from an Iron Legion force in the later winter of 1800 led by Commander Jacob Stone. Not to be confused with his ancestor Jerome Stone the general who failed to defend Lebanon Hill so long ago. In a rather poetic way Jacob Stone was finally able to avenge his ancestors defeat and on that day redeemed his name.

And so the end had come.

First Constitution 1800-1840

The early period of what came to be known as the Adamite Iron Order was a difficult time to say the least but due to the groundwork laid during the war certain institutions were able to keep the Young Republic from falling apart at the seams. The drafting of a constitution would come about and would be largely completed by the fall of 1800 ushering in the creation of what would from that point onward be the First Constitutional Order. The National Parliament as it came to be known as being firmly in power sought to usher the Adamia unto a truly revolutionary path seeking to shape society in their own image and mold in a manner not seen up to that point in history. With a nation ravaged by 25 years of war they set fourth building from the ground up rebuilding destroyed villages and towns, setting up a public education system that would the world over become a model that many soon after followed. Other pet projects came about including but not limited to the standardizing of the local English language dialect with a new Dictionary made to encourage it's use including the creation of a base 12 number system to supersede the base old roman numerals. A Universal Measurement system based on Base 12 also was bought about and a new calendar in many ways similar to but radically different to the Imperial Roman Calendar used up until that point. The Iron Legion itself saw a significant reorganization from that of a largely loose militia of militants drawn from local volunteers into a at the time modern fighting force which employed a system of Universal Conscription to fill it's ranks led by a meritocratic military officer class drawn from long term soldiers rather than from aristocrats like armies of age old past. All this with the goal being to create the groundwork for a truly revolutionary society that they hoped would change the world.

Of course like radicals throughout history they weren't content to sit down in their own lands they sought to spread their ideals far and wide. "The Revolution Must Not be Contained" was the rallying cry that their Iron Legion roared in what came to be the numerous military expeditions that would menace and terrorize their neighbors for the foreseeable future and providing aid to any revolutionaries on this side of the Atlantic who appealed for it. This not surprisingly led to many issues with most seeing the Iron Order not as a force of good but as the proverbial "Mad Dog of the West" a reputation that has stuck on to this very day. The path that the Iron Order set itself upon was not one for the faint and was one that not surprisingly would earn them many enemies and few if any friends. When the Columbian's finally brokered their independence in 1807 and made an attempt to open diplomatic relations this was not seen in good faith. What the Adamites saw was a decadent and corrupt society that needed to be bought under the control of the revolution. What occurred was a breakdown in diplomatic channels followed by a brief series of unsuccessful punitive expeditions by the Iron Order against the Columbian's southern borderlands that would permanently scar relations between the two countries into the present day. From this point onward both nations viewed the other as nothing more than rivals with the Iron Order backing various dissident groups within Columbia adding further fuel to the fire.

With the north largely blocked the Iron Order focused their attention eastward towards the lands of the former Indian Confederate Nations who still hadn't recovered from their losses. So when the time came they fell flat in the face of the large and organized mass armies of the Iron Legion whose gap in tech only grew greater due to the 1825 army reforms that had equipped their forces with the then modern Mine Rifles and Iron Cannons. This wasn't a quick process for the Adamites understood the importance of taking only so much as they could, consolidating what they had, and only then moving on. What came about would be a decades long process that would go down in history as the "March on the West" or in the case of the natives themselves "The Trail of Tears". During this bloody series of "Forest Wars" as they were termed something around 1/3 of the native population would be killed, 1/3 subjugated and forcefully assimilated and remaining 1/3 displaced to unknown lands. This mass migration of people fleeing in the face of the Iron Legion War machine would lead to chaos in the regions that they fled to leading to consequences down the line.

Second Constitution 1840-1880

The background that surrounded the Iron Order during the signing of the Second Constitution and with it the ushering of the Second Constitutional Order was a curious time. The creation of a new Constitution having been a constitutionally mandated thing inspired by the idea of current generations being able to rule themselves without being excessively beholden to older generations of past. The idea in part an attempt to keep the nation fresh and from falling into the pitfalls of stagnation that would smother the revolutionary spirit in the eyes of the founders. Whatever the case may be the Period of time that the Iron Order found itself in would become a pivotal one. Though the north had long since held host to a rival nation around this time a new power was beginning to emerge in the west that would potentially become the greatest challenge for the Iron Order up to this point. As the Iron Order continued it's march west and the power that came to be known as the Grand Republic of Busang emerged from the east conflict was soon to be inevitable.

It goes without saying while the Iron Order had faced it's fare share of adversity having dealt not only with adversarial Native Tribes but also with a number of attempted invasions by nations angered by and hoping to curb the revolutionary flame that emanated from the Iron Order. Mostly by the British who still didn't recognize the Nation's independence but also by other European powers like the Spaniards and Western Romans who saw the Adamites as legitimate threats their own holdings in the region. Not without reason of course for on numerous occasions too many to count the Adamites had extended a hand to various prospective revolutionaries in the surrounding lands and even launched small scale military expeditions to lands who in their eyes were chained down via colonialism by corrupt autocratic reactionary regimes who had no business in the new world. The threat to the west that they faced was different from the former being a power whose lands lied within this world just as much as theirs and who had the military strength and will and even more importantly demographics to enforce their claims to this land. In the first half of the Second Constitutional Order as the Adamites slowly made their way on over to the west making a beeline straight for the Mississippi river slowly but surely the Megalith that was to be the power of the west did the same.

The region that comprised the Lower Mississippi river watershed was a chaotic placed generated in no small part by the wave of migrations that were set off from the Iron Legion's "Trail of Tears". The end result was a region brimming with hostility and filled with a dreadful mix of long warring tribes, refugees, and small groups of pioneering settlers who sought to forge themselves a new home but who found themselves increasingly smothered between two great powers. The Adamite Iron Order to the east and The Grand Republic of Busang to the west. Both sought to bring the region and by extension the might Mississippi river itself under their respective control. Within this very territory was a jewel, that jewel being the twin Settlements of New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Formed from a mix of peoples in what had been a major trade post the control of either was essential for control of the Lower Mississippi respectively hence both sides knew they had to have them for themselves.

It started in 1844 with the aforementioned "Trail of Tears" having been long since initiated by the Adamites causing chaos in the region with armed refugee natives entering the region and waging war against established groups in the region trying to escape the seemingly unstoppable march of the Iron Legion. Warlords and local powers rose and fell on a regular basis and it is said the Mississippi river ran red with blood with the carnage that came about. Upon this raging inferno fueled continued to be added via a mix of Iron Legion raiding parties, filibustering pioneers, but also due to the backing of various local proxies in the form of guns and support from the two major powers located in the west and east who sought to bring the region under their domination and did so in a manner reminiscent of a sort of cold war of sorts. This semi-organized bloodshed would be conducted on and about from the top of the river to the bottom with an almost callous and cavalier attitude with each believing in the righteousness of their cause leaving the people of this territory to suffer the consequences.

What truly bought it all to a head though was the formation of a small republic based in the Lower Mississippi region of Louisiana centered in the twin cities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans around 1862. Both sides wanted union with their respective parent countries with the easterners wanting to join the Adamite Iron Order and the Westerners wanting to join the Busang Grand Republic. This would lead to a local civil war that soon after drew the attention of the aforementioned with each backing a respective side the best they could in the first year of the conflict. It wouldn't be long before this would turn into a roper conventional clash with a failed offensive on the part of the eastern based Baton Rouge Government that was followed by a bloody counter offensive by the western based New Orleans government that reached the outskirts of the former's capital and forced them to call for help from their backer. The Adamites soon after intervened in the winter of 1863 which lead to Busang doing the same ultimately resulting in war between the two powers of this region. In what came to be an even that captured the mild interest of the great powers of the time with this spat between two regional powers being regarded with a degree of amusement as a sort of kids playing with new toys event said observers looked on like vultures towards the macabre display. Notes were taken and opinions were made via speculations with some concluding in favor of one or the other. On one hand one could say the Adamites had the advantage due to superior positioning plus one could point to the history of the Iron Legion as a robust and hard driving force with a long and storied reputation for toughness facing off against what seemed to be a a relatively untested force in the case of Busang. On the otherhand arguments were made in favor of Busang pointing towards it's significant demographic and industrial strength which in the case of a long war could be tapped to overwhelm their comparatively diminutive enemy the Adamites.

In the first year of the war whatever blessings the Grand Republic had it's geography came to bite it in the early part of the war due to the relative lack of infrastructure on the western side and with it's population concentrated in it's western coast this allowed the Adamites to dominate for the time being. It's small size and relatively dense population plus it's extensive infrastructure combined with a highly effective and organized military machine gave the Iron Legion the initial edge on land. This was combined with a surprising naval advantage, something the Adamites had never been particularly good at, due in part from the fact that the majority of Busang's Naval strength was located in the Pacific giving the Adamites near naval supremacy for the time being. That is until Busang could bring it's navy to bear to go around South Ameirca. All this combined allowing the Adamite's with a force of only around 30,000 men the ability to not only overrun the Local Auxiliary forces but also the initially small concentrations of Busang Regulars in the area granting them the capability to secure the western bank of the lower Mississippi within a matter of weeks leaving the Busang forces reeling in the face of the Iron Legion's Fist. If the conflict had been short one and ended with a year or two one might say the Iron Order could of decisively won it. Too bad for them that wasn't the case. Busang while forced to retreat and left to lick their wounds were bloodied but undaunted. It's very geography which had been a curse in the initial stage of the conflict proved to be a blessing in disguise with the Iron Order unable and unwilling to make any more significant advances into enemy territory allowing Busang to rebuild it's army without fear of reprisal. When the spring of 1864, the second year of the war, rolled around Busang came back with a vengeance.

With an army numbering in the countless thousands of both fresh green recruits fueled with patriotic fervor along with a strong mix of veterans of Busang's own Native Wars they found facing them what seemed to be an iron willed and determined force that had spent the last few months digging in and preparing for the onslaught. In a bloody brawl that saw both sides giving everything they could in a conflict that would come to be the largest the western hemisphere had ever seen Involving a bit over a quarter of a million combatants all combined at it's height. In the beginning while Busang attempted to make a solid advance alas the Adamites still seemed to have the edge with their excellent preparations and defensive posture they eventually ground the enemy counter attack into slow crawl leading to a bloody stalemate by the summer of that year with Busang unable to make any significant gains and the Adamites sitting pretty in their positions. By the fall of that same year though the the era of Adamite Naval Supremacy was over with Busang finally bringing it's navy to bear in the Caribbean allowing them to not only wreck the paltry Adamite blue water forces but also engage in a partial blockade of the Iron Order's coast forcing the Adamite's to retreat into the brown water river ways to escape the vastly superior Busang advantage in the blue seas. Though the land war was still at a stalemate by the beginning of 1865 in the third year of the war Busang began to make significant gains in the Riverine portion of the conflict threatening to cut off the Iron Legion forces located on the west bank from their own land. This lead to the Iron Legion deciding to withdraw from their Red River Line towards the New Orleans Line. This process was accelerated by increasingly bold offensives conducted by Grand Republic Army Units in which they employed their vast numerical and even technological advantages namely in the form of repeating rifles and Gatling guns plus excellent mobile units in greater quantities. While costly they began to pay dividends for by the the late summer with fighting reaching the outskirts of the occupied city of New Orleans. In what came to be the the bloody climax; "The Second Battle of New Orleans", the first being referenced to initial Adamite occupation of the city. Starting off with a daring offensive in the fall of 1865 the Grand Republic Army attempted to take the City of New Orleans outright with the hope being to break the Iron Legion's back so to speak. Though initial gains were made with Iron Legion forces forced to evecuate from their initial positions and the GRA seizing much of the western suburbs of the city as would come to be the story of this conflict it was eventually all ground to a halt. Stubborn Iron Legion resistance in brutal house to house fighting bloodied the nose of Grand Republic Army forces who found themselves bogged down over the next 30 days and when the Iron Legion launched a counter offensive to the north and south of the city threatening to cut off and encircle them from behind the order to retreat had to be given. While technically a victory for the Iron Legion it proved to be a Pyrrhic victory with the Iron Legions western army having been mauled in the struggle. The Iron Legion had suffered horrendous losses which they could not recover from while the Grand Republic Army seemed to only get larger and larger as such as the fighting wound down over the winter the Adamites found themselves in the terribly inconvenient position of being made to sit at peace talks.

The end result turned out to be a stalemate with both sides claiming victory. In the resulting "Treaty of New Orleans" defined both sides control of the region. The Iron Order would withdraw from the western bank entirely including the city of New Orleans in exchange the Grand Republic would drop their claims to the eastern banks of the Mississippi river and agree to an agreed upon division of the river. This being the Iron Order would not only own the western bank but also the lower Mississippi river itself, that being below the Tennessee river, while Busang would control the eastern bank but would own the upper Mississippi River, that above the Tennessee river. Both sides agreed on the Mississippi river as a whole being a demilitarized zone with neither side being able to concentrate naval forces within the waters of the Mississippi and not only that neither would be able to charge any taxes of tolls upon the other nations shipping and vessels within their respective parts of the river.

And so "the Mississippi War" came to a close.

The remaining half of the Second Constitutional period was spent attempting to rebuild what was lost over the course of the war and licking it's wounds. The Iron Legion reputation for being an ever victorious army that had menaced the World since it's inception while not broken was definitely scratched with Busang having given them a bloody nose that wouldn't be forgotten. In the face of a powerful and vast foe the Iron Order had most definitively met it's match. Shame was in part the order of the day and revanchist mood was cultivated in the final breaths of this period with implications for later.

And so this time was done.

Third Constitution 1880-Present

From the end of the Second Constitutional Order and moving on to the Third Constitutional Order the history of the Adamite Iron Order till this point hasn't been smooth sailing with the Adamites seemingly content to run their place like a rocket ship on the way to Mars. What can be said and what the future holds for this strange and terrifying nation is unsure. Their future is uncertain with the only general constant being the seemingly concrete Guyanese governments grip on power. Some say as a legacy of earliest Founding Fathers and strong arm grip on power that they set up, others due to the insensate bunker state mentality that characterizes the population who live in fear of the outside world and whose only seeming hope is unity. Major internal disruptions like large scale rebellions and military coups have really occurred since the Independence era which has helped keep the whole morass together and the system chugging along. And Whenever faced down the barrel of some foreign power the Adamites have always seem to without pause rally around the flag, which undeniably is the probably the biggest reason why they're still around and kicking like a rabid dog. Whenever danger lies on the horizon which it seems to always do they always seem ready and willing and able to fight it off. At least up till now anyways. The war with the power of the west was proof the world is changing. Dogged determination and raw elan applied with a healthy dose of revolutionary spirit might not be enough in long run and honestly the future isn't exactly bright. There might not be a place left in this world for a nation such as this with enemies all around who grow stronger and stronger by the day from one perspective their future looks like tunnel with no light at the end. But we can never know and must wait to see what the future bears for this very nation who have tried their hardest to etch their place in annals of history. Will they go down in flames in righteous struggle or will they crumble from within with the whole under structure rotting from the inside out? No one knows but heaven as they would say.

[Kazarogkai]

Yes I know it's long as fuck, but this is an epic journey for an epic peoples hence they need an epic length wise telling of their story. Despite what it looks like i'm about 3/5ths of the way done. One or two 4-5 hour cram sessions and Ill be done. Work and writing, with periodic period of eating and tv breaks, have become my life while making this thing. Worth it? Definitively. Having had to write this long and hard in a while. Feels pretty good.

Sorry for any grammatical errors and typos, Ill continuously edit the thing once I'm done and finished.

If thrace you want to give it a look over I won't mind. If any one see something really erroneous that might need attention give me a shout. Please and thank you.

[The Baton Rouge Free State]

Full Nation Name :The Federation of Ireland
Majority/Official Culture :Irish
Territorial Core :

Ireland (Entire Island and surroundings isles and islets), Gabon (Irish Africa), Dar es Salaam (New Galway), Mombasa (New Cork), Goa (Irish India), Perth (Wexland), French Guiana (Irish Guiana)
Territorial Claim : Same as Above
Capital City :Dublin
Population :10.49 Million
9.15 Million - Ireland Proper
~100,000 - Irish Guiana
240,000 - Irish Africa
300,000 - New Galway and New Cork
400,000 - Irish India
300,000 - Wexland

Government Type :Federal Presidential Republic
Government Ideology/Policies : [[OPTIONAL]] [[Militant, Imperialist, Expansionist, etc.]]
Government Focus : [[Tell me a little bit about what is your government’s focus… be it military, economy, culture, legitimacy, etc.]]
Head of State : [[highest-ranking individual in the nation according to rule of law]]
Head of Government : [[highest-ranking defacto ruler]]
Government Description :

Majority/State Religion : [[OPTIONAL]] [[It does not have to be IRL religion]]
Religious Description : [[OPTIONAL]]

Economic Ideologies :Strong Welfare, Capitalism
Major Production :Livestock Products, Pharmaceuticals, Corn and Potato Products, Metals, Processed Foods, Textiles, Furniture
Economic Description :

Development: Modern
Development Description : [Explain further why your nation is in one of the above categories]

Army Description : [[Describe your nation's army in as much detail as you can]]
Army Weakness :
Naval Description : [[Describe your nation's navy in as much detail as you can]]
Naval Weakness :
Further Military Description : [[OPTIONAL]]

National Goals :
National Issues : [[what needs to be fixed in order for your nation to achieve its true potential]]
National Figures of Interest : [[OPTIONAL]] [[Are there any Mother Teresas or Moses that we need to know about?]]
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History : [[Can be in paragraph or bulletpoint timeline.]]
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#AltDiv (do not delete this, it's for keeping track of the apps)

Massive WIP

[Nouveau Quebecois]

Worth it? Definitively.

[...]

[Kazarogkai]

Just noticed something odd. I'm literally the only semiindustrlized country in North America... And have a population at best half that of my neighbors..... And am a diplomatically isolated economically poor nation with a history of hyper military aggression....

This is going to be fun

[Of Leben]

Full Nation Name : Imperio Mexicano (Mexican Empire)
Majority/Official Culture : Mexican
Territorial Core : Mexico proper. Central America, Hispaniola, what remains open of Southwestern USA, Galapagos Island, Easter Island.
Territorial Claim : Southwestern U.S (Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas)
Capital City : Mexico City
Population: 43,000,000

Government Type : Absolutist Monarchy
Government Ideology/Policies : Reactionary Catholic State
Government Focus: Economic stability, Order, Revanchism.
Head of State: Salvador de Iturbide
Head of Government : Salvador de Iturbide
Government Description:
Reactionary monarchist regime, power centered on the monarch. The country is divided into divisiones (divisions) each governed by a local governor who is selected based on loyalty to the state and his competence. These governors are selected from the aristocracy and remain loyal due to their dependence on the state. These governors are appointed "deputy-governors" who in turn serve their governors and help administer their division. The government is authoritarian and maintains a secret police (officially unofficially part of the government- Los Zetas) censorship, and restricts unapproved political organizations.
Majority/State Religion : Roman Catholicism
Religious Description : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church

Economic Ideologies: State capitalism
Major Production: Tropical fruit, beef products, mineral ores, steel, cement, textiles.
Economic Description:

The state oversees and regulates the economy according to the nations needs at the time. Northern Mexico has high concentrations of mineral resources and is largely centered around cattle ranching, agriculture, and mining. Central Mexico is home to most of the nations industry and factories and has high levels of economic and infrastructure development. Southern Mexico and Central America have mixed levels of development and are largely dominated by the tropical fruit industry, although fishing and shipbuilding are also important here. Hispaniola grows sugarcane and has a small fishing industry along with some related industries. The nation has a growing petroleum industry, which is currently under the direction of the state.

The government maintains influence over the private sector via guilds which are controlled by a cabal of government and industrial magnates who act as collaborators who together ensure that economic control is kept in the hands of the government. The nations vital resources are owned by the state.

Development: Semi-Industrialized.
Development Description :

The country has unequal levels of development, with much of the countries industrial strength centered in Central Mexico. The entire country is however, for the most part connected by railroads and telegraph lines. Northern Mexico and Central America remain poor and relatively un-industrialized, still relying on agriculture as its main economic export.

Army Description:

Name: Ejercito de Tierra Imperial - (Imperial Land Army)

Army Strength: 2,200,000 total, 540,000 standing army (20 infantry divisions, 14 cavalry divisions and non-combat personnel), 1,980,000 army reserves (93 infantry divisions and additional auxiliary units and non combat personnel).

Since its defeat to the Busang Republic, the Imperial Land Army has been revamped and rebuilt to meet the challenges of protecting its large frontiers. The army has been expanded to include just over two and a half million men, whom are conscripted universally at the age of 18. The ETI has been drilled to mobilize its large force quickly using railways and telegraph stations placed strategically along important regions and potential battlefronts. The poor state of the countries border regions, particularly the northern frontier- leaves much to be wanted however.

The ETI is an offensive oriented force, with the army being drilled in maneuver warfare and military doctrine emphasizing mobility and maneuver. The Army is led by a landed nobility class known as the Haciendados who are a noble caste of society whose ancestors are said to be a mix of the best Spanish and Aztec warriors and princes. They are the countries modern equivalent of a warrior caste and they dominate the officer and leadership roles within the ETI.

Army Weakness:

The country faces the possibility of a war on two far and separate fronts. It is unclear as to whether the nation will be able to sufficiently supply its large army with its current economic capacity, especially at the level which its neighbors can field. The officer corps is mediocre due to the fact that many officers have connections there due to their family or social connections. This is further exasperated by the fact that few officers have seen actual combat and have no experience in modern warfare.

Naval Description :

Name: Armada Imperial de Mexico - (Imperial Mexican Navy)

Ship prefix: ASM (Armada de su majestad)
Capital Ships:
4 Battleships
7 Steel Cruisers
4 Monitors
1 Ironclad
16 Destroyers
26 Torpedo Ships
3 Submarines
19 Gunboats
41 Auxiliary ships

The Imperial Mexican Navy's (Armada Imperial Mexicana) primary mission is protecting Mexico's Pacific and Atlantic shores. Additionally the AIM is in charge of the protection of its overseas trade and territorial waters. The AIM is divided between the Pacific and Atlantic fleets, and acts as the countries primary defense against foreign invasions. Learning lessons from conflicts in the 18th century, the Navy has made it its mission to maintain parity with the navies of its neighbors. Furthermore, the AIM has dealt with the two ocean defense problem by helping finance the construction of a canal through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

The AIM has in recent years taken great pains to modernize its navy, with the inclusion of the construction of four new modern battleships, which together constitute the current peak of Mexican naval engineering. Old ships are being decommissioned, ending up either scrapped or sold.
Naval Weakness:

The AIM's "new navy" is untested and lacks significant experience. Furthermore the countries current roster of ships may become quickly obsolete in an era where naval warfare developments are becoming more and more rapid.

Further Military Description: N/A

National Goals : Maintain domestic stability, acquire territorial claims, become the dominant power in the region, develop the national economy.
National Issues : The country needs more economic development and the country suffers from tense social conflict in some regions from ethnic and class conflict, as well as political dissent by certain sectors of society.
National Figures of Interest : N/A
National Ambition/Aspirations : Expansion, stability, international prestige.

History :

- 1519: The first Spanish Conquistadors arrive in Spain. The Spanish Conquest of Mexico and Central America begins. At this time the Aztec Empire is the largest power in the region.

- 1521: The Spanish Conquest of Mexico culminates with the capture of Tenochtitlan- The last Aztec emperor dies. Most of Central Mexico is soon subdued. Veracruz becomes the capital of the new Spanish colony of Nuevo España.

- 1538: Central Mexico is mostly pacified and the encomnienda system is established. Spanish missionaries lead the conversion efforts of the region and convert millions to Catholic Christianity. At the same time the population of the natives declines drastically over the next few decades. Central America, and Southern Mexico are by this time, mostly conquered as well. A strong class of nobility known as colorados who are a mix of native and Spanish blood become an integral part of the Spanish colonial garrison. The Colorados become important in the repartimiento system, which forces natives to give free labor to their masters for a few weeks out of the year.

-1550: The Spanish Empire leads efforts to expand northward with limited success, with the natives of the region remaining fierce and hard to subdue. Native population continues to decline. "Los colorados", who are a minor landed nobility class develop a strong relationship with the army and become the main cavalry force of the Spanish army in the region.

-1600: Tenuous control is established over the Northern areas of Mexico. Expeditions continue into North America. At this time the Spanish empire is fueled by resources from New Spain and becomes a critical part of its empire. The native population stabilizes at around 4 million people.

- 1641: Expansion is hampered by Korean colonization on the west coast of North America, but settlements are established throughout the North American southwest establishing it as part of the colony of New Spain. At this time, the native populations decline seriously hampers the growth of the colony and the Spanish Empire establishes a settlement new expanded program for its settlers to come to the Americas. People from Europe migrate to New Spain in small waves throughout the next century.

- 1700: As New Spain enters the 18th century, New Spain harbors a rigid caste system based on race. Peninsulares status as the de jure rulers of New Spain starts to build up resentment within the Criollo classes of New Spain. El generación de 98 becomes the informal name for an organization of criollos dedicated to the establishment of more formal control of New Spain by criollo settlers. Although the Spanish attempt to crack down on this organization, it continues to grow and gain popularity over the Criollo classes. Race riots break out in some cities, agitating for improved social conditions.

- 1733- The rebellion of 1733 begins in the city of Puebla and the Spanish colonial troops siege the city. The rebellion is crushed although most of its leaders are pardoned, who later on go on to become leaders of new subversive organizations and dissenting intellectuals. Under the influence of liberalism, Mexico City becomes the center of intellectual thought in the Americas.

- 1767: The Spanish Army loses badly against an alliance of indian tribes at the battle of Rocanegra. This humiliating defeat contributes to the resentment of the native criollo class and leads to the Spanish colonial army to increasingly come under the control of the criollos. The colorados by this time acquire significant influence as they amass political and monetary capital.

- 1779: A native mestizo priest named Ernesto Morales calls for social reform and is executed by the local authorities. This incident causes outrage in the local community and this develops into a mob of mestizos attacking a local armory, arming themselves and later attacking and destroying a local hamlet and large estate. This encourages a rebellion of the criollos who manage to overthrow their leaders and seize control of Spanish units in Colima. Various similar uprisings occur throughout the country with various results.

-1780: By this time full blown conflict is in swing in several regions of New Spain and the native criollo classes largely decide to side with the rebellion. Although the rebellion has no clear goal at the outset, rebel leaders from across New Spain gather in secret at the city of Jalapa to make demands. Despite the various political and material interests of the members of this new group, the liberals dominate and create the Plan de Jalapa asking for more local autonomy and a seat in the Cortez in Spain along with several other concessions. The Spanish Crown rejects the proposal and order the leaders arrest for treason. At the same time, the colorados having stayed mostly loyal to the crown are not represented at the meeting at Jalapa. This begins the future tension between the two classes. At the same time, the meeting declares a "new assembly" known as the "Nueva Junta" - (New Junta) and they declare their independence from the Spanish Empire as the Mexican Republic.

- 1781: After declaring independence, the viceroy of New Spain marshals his forces and marches on the nearby cities of Puebla, Queretaro, and Toluca. All except Puebla fall, and the Spanish are defeated at the First Battle of Puebla, giving new life to the rebellion. However despite the increasing popularity of the revolt, the geographic distribution of the rebel forces leads to a failure of the rebels to bring a counter attack against the Spanish loyalists. This year also sees the birth and morphing of the factions which will come to be center-stage in Mexican politics for the next 40 years- the Mexican radical liberals, the Mexican Conservatives, and the Moderates.

- 1782: Despite initial successes, many regions in rebellion fail to develop into cohesive forces and are quickly subdued by the remianing Spanish Forces in Mexico. The Mexican Separatist Army is formed at Jalapa on April 23rd, 1782 out of the various defecting units of the Spanish Army. This force is bolstered by the ranks of peasants, former slaves, and lower middle class castizos. Reinforcements from Cuba arrive at Veracruz and bolster loyalist morale. While some colorados join the Mexicans, most stay loyal to the crown.

- 1789: After several years of warfare, neither side gains the upper-hand. Leading an ambitious charge, General Lazaro Diaz of the Mexican Independence Army moves for a capture of the city of Morelia. Urged on by the Spanish Crown to crush the rebellion, Spanish forces meet the Mexican forces just outside the city of Morelia. The Spanish are defeated, and the Spanish Army is routed- where it is later crushed again near Mexico City. After decisively destroying the Spanish, Mexico City surrenders and Spanish forces are scattered and unable to resist the Mexican forces.

- 1790: The Plan of Iguala unites all the separate factions of New Spain to agree to form a Constitutional Republic, headed by a president. This plan is controversial and the Mexican conservatives from this point on become alienated from the mainstream political consensus. The nations first elections take place ever. A separatist conservative named Alejandro Quesada is elected the First President of the Mexican Republic.

-1792: New Spain, now de facto the Mexican Republic- continues to mop up Spanish forces still in the country. A new army lands at Veracruz unopposed headed by Jose de Iturbide. He defeats the Mexican army on Dec. 12 due to poor coordination by the Mexicans at the battle of Cordoba. However, after this battle Iturbide and his Army defect to the Mexican side. The Mexicans accept Iturbide and the fighting stops.

-1795: Spain refuses to accept Mexico as independent officially, however the Mexican Republic and Spain sign a truce which indicated the end of the war of independence. The Colorados are by this point disenfranchised and ruined, some flee to Spain but most stay and move north to the frontier where they are largely unable to interfere in Mexican politics. Although peace is mostly established with Spain, the Republic will remain unstable for the remainder of its existence.

-1802: Rebellions are semi-common, and the now greatly reduced Mexican Army struggles to maintain order. The government, headed by Antonio de Niquim is ruled by a coalition of moderates and moderate liberals in the National Assembly. Niquim fails to establish order and struggles to legitimize his government. A riot takes place in Mexico City, which almost escalates into a siege. The riot is appeased only by conceding more rights and land to the peasants. This further alienates Spanish Conservatives, as the concessions are largely done at their expense of the Church and wealthy landowners of Central Mexico. Despite this the concessions fail to bring about the change that the radicals and peasants wanted. Furthermore, Central America becomes de-facto independent at this time, further de-legitimizing the Republic.

-1806: The 1806 elections prove a disaster for Niquim, and he steps down in favor of a radical liberal government headed by Fausto Vargas. The Vargas regime implements radical secular reforms, including the seizure of Church property, the subjugation of the Mexican aristocratic class, and the liberalization of the economy.

- 1808: The San Juan incident occurs. A priest is killed along with his flock after barricading himself and his congregation in a Church in the town of San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec. Although the details are unclear and the incident was considered unintentional, the church lights on fire killing the priest and almost 100 people. This incident shocks the nation, and citing the incident as proof of the current governments cruelty- the conservatives in the national assembly resign in protest. This sparks the creation of the "Sociedad secreta", a reactionary intellectual group which begins distributing anti-government propaganda and pamphlets. Among this group is Augustin de Iturbide, who advocates for a coup against the government.

- 1810: The radical liberal government conducts a purge of its institutions of "enemies of Mexico", however this causes unrest leading to Augustin de Iturbide leading a coup against the government and manages to take the government by surprise, culminating in the fantastic siege of the national assembly hall. During the siege, President Vargas is killed. The national assembly is killed. Iturbide becomes the de-facto military governor of Mexico. Iturbide beings his reign by giving the Church assertive authority over spiritual and secular domains. Iturbide meets with conservative elites, and together with a newly formed Junta rules Mexico. Rebellion springs up across the country as the liberals rally their support.

- 1811: The Junta declares the abolishment of the repartimiento system, however the rebellions continue to spring up across the country. Iturbide leads the army in campaign after campaign, quelling insurrections and mutinies across the country. During this time however, infighting and political squabbles lead to the destruction of the Junta. The state enters a civil war, with several different factions vying for control. Iturbide retains control of central Mexico however, and for the next 10 years spends the time campaigning against his enemies.

- 1821: Iturbide wins the civil war, and after a proud military procession through the streets of Mexico City, he is declared emperor of the First Mexican Empire. Iturbide begins implementing his "division" system. The country is divided between governors from members of the former "Colorado" class and they are given sub-governors to help them administer their appointed division. The nations old liberal institutions are steadily replaced by those approved by the royal family.

- 1830: Mexico declares war on the Central American States and fully annexes the nation over the course of a decade. The same process which occurred in Mexico occurs in Central America, and the areas is pacified and integrated into the empire within the course of two decades. Immigration from the east and the west drives more people to the frontiers, helping settle the areas which were previously under tenuous Mexican control.

- 1850s: Mexico loses a war against the Busang and large amounts of territory north of the Rio Grande are ceded to them. The Mexican Empire begins militarizing, building up its martial power after the lessons in the "Great Northern War."

- 1870s: Mexico begins industrializing in earnest, as the nations stability encourages development and modernization. Railroads, telegraph lines, and factories are built throughout the country with help from outside capital and sponsorship from the government. At this time, the Mexican government begins intensifying its efforts to establish a manufacturing base in the country. At the same time, migration to the country continues. Mexico continues this trend of modernization and industrialization into the modern era.

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[Kazarogkai]

Full Nation Name : The Adamite Iron Order
Majority/Official Culture : Adamites(Welsh, with small elements of English, Breton, Manx, and Scottish.
Territorial Core :

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Territorial Claim :

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Iron Order Part 2: History

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I'm done, need to face review from affected parties before facing the final review from Thrace but otherwise were good.

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• Map and reservation list updated
• Reservations for Spain, the Lustianian Empire, and the Neo-Inca Empire removed

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[Tracian Empire]

[quote="Nazeroth";p="36887274"]Full Nation Name : Caliphate of Al-Maghrib
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Overall it looks alright! I would like to see some more details in the history, a proper timeline perhaps and some more details about how this specific family ended up claiming the Caliphate, but that can be done through discussions on Discord and only then added to the app.

Accepted!

[Sarderia]

Reservation

Nation Name: United States of East Africa

Territory: USEA

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[Tracian Empire]

Reservation

Nation Name: United States of East Africa

Territory: USEA

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Well, the claim itself looks alright, but could you give me some details about the concept?

[Sarderia]

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Well, the claim itself looks alright, but could you give me some details about the concept?

Basically British colonies that went independent on the 1760's, formed a federation like the USA, attracting immigrants all over Europe, and less racism.

[Tracian Empire]

Well, the claim itself looks alright, but could you give me some details about the concept?

Basically British colonies that went independent on the 1760's, formed a federation like the USA, attracting immigrants all over Europe, and less racism.

Well, we don't have a player for Britain so keep that in mind. And you'd have to properly explain how this managed to happen in that specific region, but we'll see that in your app - your reservation is accepted.

[Kazarogkai]

Well, the claim itself looks alright, but could you give me some details about the concept?

Basically British colonies that went independent on the 1760's, formed a federation like the USA, attracting immigrants all over Europe, and less racism.

The best I could see would be Boer situation considering the problematic.... demographics in the region. Aka too many locals plus shitty tropical diseases keep killing off the Europeans(something like a 90% die off in the first year alone) means the best you get is maybe 10% European which minus an apartheid, there is a reason the cape franchise got dropped, situation equals via demographics the locals will eventually tear it down ala Yucatan Caste War the moment the boat tips hence would suggest South America as a better location or maybe somewhere in those last middle portions of middle america. Sure you still got malaria, though not as horrific, in the case of the former and 3 potentially hostile neighbors in the case of the latter though atleast you don't got so many locals. But I digress. You do you.

[Sao Nova Europa]

Made my first post in IC.


And, btw, I have claimed (with the approval of the mods) the rest of Argentina and Chile (basically the southern tip of the Americas). Just pointing it for people who are planning to make new sign-ups.

[The Palmetto]

Sorry for not posting too many updates, I’ve been feeling uninspired as of late, and I’ve been a bit busy. Not canceling my reservation yet but I’ve gotta consider what I want to do.

[Tracian Empire]

Basically British colonies that went independent on the 1760's, formed a federation like the USA, attracting immigrants all over Europe, and less racism.

The best I could see would be Boer situation considering the problematic.... demographics in the region. Aka too many locals plus shitty tropical diseases keep killing off the Europeans(something like a 90% die off in the first year alone) means the best you get is maybe 10% European which minus an apartheid, there is a reason the cape franchise got dropped, situation equals via demographics the locals will eventually tear it down ala Yucatan Caste War the moment the boat tips hence would suggest South America as a better location or maybe somewhere in those last middle portions of middle america. Sure you still got malaria, though not as horrific, in the case of the former and 3 potentially hostile neighbors in the case of the latter though atleast you don't got so many locals. But I digress. You do you.

I certainly do agree with Kazarogkai here, that's why I was skeptic about the app to begin with.