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

[Kisinger]

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Nation Name: Republic of France
Territory: France and it's Colonies
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Full Nation Name : République française
Majority/Official Culture : French
Territorial Core : France proper
Territorial Claim : All of its African holdings
Capital City : Paris
Population :

Government Type : Unitary parliamentary republic
Government Ideology/Policies : Militant Republicanism
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Head of Government : [[highest-ranking defacto ruler]]
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Majority/State Religion : [[OPTIONAL]] [[It does not have to be IRL religion]]
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Economic Ideologies : [[Capitalism, Mercantilism, Socialism, Communism, etc.]]
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Development: [Modern, Semi-Industrialized, or Primitive]
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Naval Description : [[Describe your nation's navy in as much detail as you can]]
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National Issues : [[what needs to be fixed in order for your nation to achieve its true potential]]
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[The Traansval]

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Nation Name: République du Canada
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[Tracian Empire]

Reservation

Nation Name: Republic of France
Territory: France and it's Colonies
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[Yaruqo]

Hi there, I'm currently working up an application for a Carpathian nation, but I thought I'd point out that currently, the IC link goes to the map.

[Remnants of Exilvania]

Hi there, I'm currently working up an application for a Carpathian nation, but I thought I'd point out that currently, the IC link goes to the map.

Does it still? Damn, I thought Thrace had fixed it by now. He was reminded of it atleast twice already.

Also, noice! I recommend getting an official reservation as otherwise one might still snatch it away from you and it would be a shame for all the effort to be wasted.

What are you planning?

[Yaruqo]

I am trying to get back to the swing of things, I admittedly am not that great a writer when it comes to worldbuilding or army composition, so any advice or tips would be appreciated. Thank you!

Full Nation Name: The Empire of Carpathia (Hungarian: Kárpátok Birodalma; Romanian: Imperiul Carpatiei; German: Reich der Karpaten), also known as the Carpathian Empire or simply Carpathia
Majority/Official Culture : Most Carpathians are educated to think of themselves as just that, Carpathians. However, the Empire recognizes the constituent cultures of the empire, which are Hungarian, Romanian, German, and Slovak.
Territorial Core : Essentially that grey patch smack in between Russia, the Central European Reich, and the two respective Roman Empires. The constituent states of the Empire are Hungary, Wallachia, Transylvania, and Slovakia.
Territorial Claim : N/A
Capital City : Budapest
Population : 26,164,533

Government Type : Constitutional Monarchy
Government Ideology/Policies : With regards to foreign policy, the fledgling Empire is staunchly realist and pragmatic - of course it must be, nestled between four great powers, many if not all of whom lay claim their lands. As for domestic policy, the current government is made up of a coalition of liberal democrats and social democrats.
Government Focus : The construction of infrastructure, both to overhaul the empire's economy and to ensure a strong military supply infrastructure, is currently one of the top priorities of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty's Government. They also seek to strengthen the nation's military, with a defensive focus.
Head of State : His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, Emperor Stephen VI Árpád, Apostolic Emperor of Carpathia (Hungarian: Kárpát Apostoli Császár, István Árpád VI; Romanian: Împăratul Apostolic al Carpatiei Ștefan Árpád VI; German: Apostolischer Kaiser der Karpaten Stephen Árpád VI)
Head of Government : His Excellency, Prime Minister Kázmér Vastagh
Government Description : The Carpathian Empire has had a constitutional monarchy since its reformation in 1832. It is one of few, if any, nations in the world that allows full voting rights for unlanded men and women who have Carpathian citizenship. The judiciary is independent of the influences of the Parliament and of the Crown, with the highest appellate court in the land being the Imperial Constitutional Court. The Parliament writes legislation and nominates a Government to the Apostolic Emperor/Empress, and the Government determines the budget and priorities - at least, on the surface, they determine priorities. The monarch is, on paper, limited to ceremonial roles, decides on the Government (usually approves whomever Parliament nominates), but they also have the power to veto legislation, as well as to counsel and advise the Government. A strong and popular monarch can de facto end up running the country by exerting their influence, which is what ended up happening under Stephen VI's father, Ladislaus V with a Conservative Government. This nearly caused a constitutional crisis, and so new laws were passed meant to limit the Crown's authority after the collapse of this Government. In practice, these have held for now, but certain pressures, if applied, could ensure that the strength of the Crown is solidified. But aside from the greater dramas in Budapest, the constituent provinces of Carpathia each have their own provincial governments, with civilian governors appointed by the Crown (another area in which the Crown maintains control) and a provincial assembly to assist in the administration of the empire in ways that the central government might miss. Below these provincial governments are, of course, local governments at the city or district levels.

Majority/State Religion : The Carpathian Empire has no state recognized religion, instead favoring secularism. An observer might scratch their head at this since the title of the monarch is "Apostolic Emperor" or "Apostolic Empress", a traditionally Latin rite aligned title. While the right to use "Apostolic" is one that the Árpád monarchs, previously of the Kingdom of Hungary, have been bestowed by the Latin Patriarchs of Rome since the 11th century, the reality is that the majority of the Carpathian people practice either the Latin or the Greek rite of Christianity. To favor one over the other, the writers of the 1832 Constitution reasoned, would cause needless division in an empire already looking at the potential of ethnic and cultural divisions. So the 1832 Constitution guarantees freedom of religion and established a secular government.

Economic Ideologies : Mixed Market System
Major Production : Electric home appliances, electric industrial appliances, facilities for power plants, agricultural products, timber, iron, petroleum
Economic Description : The official currency of the Carpathian Empire is the korona (German: krone; Romanian: coroană; Slovak: koruna). The Carpathian Empire may not be as powerful as its Roman neighbors, but it has managed to take full advantage of the first and second Industrial Revolutions, becoming a regional economic powerhouse in its own right. With Romanian petroleum, it is able to fuel its own war machine and can sell to the ever hungry war machines of the dueling empires within its vicinity. The large agricultural capacity of the empire's constituent states makes it a bread basket, and the manufacturing capacity of its cities, while not on par with the Central European Reich, can make it an industrial power with the right infrastructure.

Development: Modern
Development Description : As touched on above, the raw resources available to the Empire at the time of the first Industrial Revolution helped propel the nation to its first phase of urbanization and industrialization. Later, with the invention of electricity, the existing infrastructure and its diverse resources helped propel the nation through the Second Industrial Revolution. While the empire still has a sizable rural population, it is not by any means a feudal backwater or a semi-industrialized nation.

Army Description : The total standing forces of the Imperial Army numbers 415,250. This makes it one of the smallest standing armies in the region, but nothing to disregard, either. Viewing the juggernauts of the Russian Republic, Central European Reich, and the Western and Eastern Roman Empires with suspicion, the Carpathian army invests heavily in defensive tactics and infrastructure. While the Carpathian mountains the empire derives its namesake from make for a good natural border, the many rivers, too, make for a good defensive footing. Border fortifications along the joint Roman borders, as well as to the north near the Russian border, are heavily fortified and the manning and maintenance of these fortifications is one of the highest defense priorities for the Empire. The Army is organized around divisions, with reforms in the 1880s doing away with the "districts" that effectively separated units based on their culture and where they lived, with the goal of ensuring that there would be a unified Carpathian identity among the units, rather than one unit fighting solely based on its Hungarian, or German, or Slovak, or Romanian identity. Below the divisions are the brigades, below which are the regiments, and each regiment consists of three battalions.
Army Weakness : While the 1880s reforms to the Army meant well, it means that the diverse Empire has to deal with confusion among the lower ranks. While the bulk of the officer corps is Hungarian or Romanian, which thankfully coincides with the majority of the Empire's population and Army, this leaves minority populations, such as Germans, Slovaks, and the odd Poles and Ukrainians struggling to figure out orders.
Naval Description : The Carpathian Navy, if one can call it that, primarily consists of river monitors, gunboats, and torpedo boats meant to safeguard the Danube and provide support to the Army in that capacity. While the Navy has a few vessels on the Black Sea, these primarily consist of torpedo boats, with the odd gunboat and a single cruiser and a minelayer.
Naval Weakness : Because the Carpathian coastline is so small compared to its neighbors, there simply isn't the infrastructure to manufacture, maintain, and station a large coastal navy.

National Goals : Primarily, to survive and maintain its independence. Long term, to ensure that its citizens truly do feel like they are Carpathians.
National Issues : Ethnic and cultural divisions, as well as reforming the Armed Forces to be more efficient.
National Figures of Interest : Empress Ileana Árpád nee Drăculești, the Romanian wife of Stephen VI

National Ambition/Aspirations : Carpathia does not wish to be on the defensive forever, to have its existence constantly at threat. Either through diplomacy or war, they hope to be strong enough to guarantee their own independence. If it must come at the expense of one of their neighbors...well, who are they to say no?

History : The Carpathian Empire's history goes all the way back to before it was even conceived. It begins with the formation of the Kingdom of Hungary by Saint Stephen, an Árpád king, on January 1st, 1001 Anno Domini. Preceding this had been the Grand Principality of Hungary, and before that the Magyar tribes (led by an Árpád) that had swooped in and pushed out the Romans centuries before. So to say that the Árpád dynasty had embedded itself in the region was an understatement. Unlike in real life, the Kingdom of Hungary never owned Dalmatia, which was under the control of the Western Romans. Before the formation of this Apostolic Kingdom, it was not uncommon for Magyar raiders to pillage the Dalmatian towns and villages, and every now and again, de facto control of certain towns or castles within Dalmatia had fallen to the Magyars, but by the time that King Stephen had been crowned and the Hungarian kingdom established, those days were long over, and Dalmatia resolutely was in the hands of the Romans. The Hungarians would turn their attention to the Bohemians, Poles, Lithuanians, Wallachians, and Moldovans who bordered their Kingdom. However, for more than five centuries, between the 11th and 16th centuries, the Kingdom of Hungary would be stuck within the Carpathians, never truly able to exert its influence when faced with the Central European Empire to its north or the Roman empires nearby. It seemed, by the year 1541, that Hungary would be doomed to be a footnote at best or a provincial backwater to one empire or another. It seemed that the Lord felt pity for this mountain kingdom, and He bestowed upon them a king who would help turn the tide. For on April 12th, 1541, a bright star named Prince Béla Árpád, who had been educated in Constantinople, succeeded his father and became King Béla VI. He overhauled his kingdom's administrative and judicial systems, reformed and restructured the army, and within a decade, the Hungarian army would, with King Béla at its head, begin the process of unifying the Carpathian principalities under the banner of Árpád. In the summer of 1555, Béla would march his new army south, past the Transylvanian Carpathians, and push into Wallachia. The Wallachian boyars were no match for the heavily armed and armored Hungarian army, and by the end of 1560, all of Wallachia and parts of Moldova would belong to Hungary. It wouldn't be for another few years until the Hungarian armies would fully occupy Moldova. Eventually, the Hungarian Kingdom would face successive wars from Poland and the eventual Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, giving King Béla VI and, later, his successors, a rival for nearly two hundred years.

Béla VI, posthumously referred to as "the Great", and his only son, Prince Andrew, were killed in the Battle of Przemysl in 1563 against the Kingdom of Poland, leaving the crown to his daughter, Elizabeth. Rather than sue for peace, the Apostolic Queen rallied the kingdom, and would push into Poland's southern territories, before securing peace on her own terms. She secured a matrilineal marriage to a Jagiellon prince, ensuring that, so long as she and her husband lived, there would be peace between the two kingdoms, even if it was an uneasy peace. After the peace was won and Queen Elizabeth was formally invested with the crown of Hungary, she focused on stabilizing the new gains of the Kingdom. For the next two centuries, successive kings and queens would take varied positions on these lands and the people who lived in them. Some monarchs opted to try to Hungarianize the people, which ostensibly caused revolts among local aristocrats, gentry, and peasants, while others tried to take a more tolerant approach. It wasn't until the influences of the Enlightenment and successive liberal philosophies that the monarchy would begin to suffer extraordinary pressure to change and adapt to the times.

In 1778, after immense pressure from the nobility, Apostolic King Andrew II introduced Hungary's first constitution, creating a permanent Parliament made up of nobles. On August 21st, 1800, the August Uprising in Budapest and other major cities around the Kingdom erupted, calling for expanded rights, democratic freedoms, and equality for all Hungarian citizens. For two weeks, there were clashes between local police, garrisons, and the Augustinians, as the rebels called themselves. The aging King Andrew II acquiesced once again, this time against the advice of the nobility. In truth, Andrew had been for a more democratic constitutional system, but he wasn't strong enough at the time to go against the wishes of the aristocracy, who had wanted a system more akin to the neighboring Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. This brought about the November Constitution of 1800, which expanded the Parliament to include a lower House for representatives elected by universal male suffrage. For a while, at least on the surface, everything would revert to calm. However, much like the IRL Hapsburg Austrian Empire, tensions would come to a boil over the nature of the relationship between the central government and the constituent states, the matter of religion, and the matter of diversity within the Empire. By 1832, it would come to a head, and the Carpathian Empire would be born.

By February 9th, 1832, conversations around the future of the nation, diversity, and what exactly Hungary was meant to look like had reached a head in political and social circles. There were several prevailing schools of thought: one, favored by several prominent Hungarian nobles and politicians, was the Esztergom School, which believed in a strong, central, Hungarian centric government; another, likewise favored by several prominent Romanian nobles and politicians, was the Bucharest School, which believed in a decentralized, federal system; and then there was a smaller, more soft spoken faction, made up of a few Hungarians and Romanians, but primarily was made up of ethnic minority Poles, Slovaks, Ukrainians, and Germans, was the Bihar School, which believed that the nation should be reformed into an Empire with a new, unifying identity. In the Parliamentary elections the previous year, by a stroke of luck, a number of politicians associated with the Bihar School found themselves to be in the governing coalition. They wasted no time in suggesting to the Apostolic King, Máté I, that he should push for these reforms to ensure that all sides could be sated and a civil war be avoided. Seeing an opportunity to restore some power to the Crown, Máté I fully threw his weight behind the Bihar School. Over the next few months, committees and studies were rolled out, focusing on a new constitution, administration, a new independent judiciary, the powers of respective levels of government, the power of the Crown, among other things. On August 20th, 1832, consequently the feast day of Saint Stephen Árpád, the new 1832 Constitution was announced, declaring that the reformation of the Kingdom of Hungary into the Empire of Carpathia, effective January 1st, 1833.

Since then, the Empire of Carpathia has known relative stability. Industrialization has brought it great wealth, but it remains wary of its neighbors and their military might. Apostolic Emperor Ladislaus V was nearly forced to step down in 1890 after overstepping his regal authority when met with an overly friendly Conservative government, but he compromised with the new Government to remain enthroned. After passing away due to cancer on April 5th, 1900, his son, Crown Prince Stephen, was crowned, by the grace of God, His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, Apostolic Emperor Stephen VI on June 12th, 1904, at the age of 22 after a four year regency so he could conclude his studies. In the past two years, Stephen VI has been a popular monarch, especially after marrying Ileana Drăculești, a noblewoman from the great Drăculești family that once ruled an independent Wallachia. The Empress Ileana has championed access to education for the poor and has opened a string of charitable ventures around the Empire, and has softened the image of a monarchy once viewed as painfully and noticeably distant.
RP Sample: Cold War RP

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[Yaruqo]

Hi there, I'm currently working up an application for a Carpathian nation, but I thought I'd point out that currently, the IC link goes to the map.

Does it still? Damn, I thought Thrace had fixed it by now. He was reminded of it atleast twice already.

Also, noice! I recommend getting an official reservation as otherwise one might still snatch it away from you and it would be a shame for all the effort to be wasted.

What are you planning?

Haha well I just dropped the app in - I admit I'm rusty at world building and the military side of things so it might need some work. But it's similar to the RL Austro-Hungarian Empire except for the following:

1. Rather than Austrian supremacy, it's Hungarian
2. They're attempting to put together a new, unifying national identity, rather than saying something like "Oh yeah it's a Dual Monarchy and the rest of our constituent states are just there"

[Remnants of Exilvania]

Does it still? Damn, I thought Thrace had fixed it by now. He was reminded of it atleast twice already.

Also, noice! I recommend getting an official reservation as otherwise one might still snatch it away from you and it would be a shame for all the effort to be wasted.

What are you planning?

Haha well I just dropped the app in - I admit I'm rusty at world building and the military side of things so it might need some work. But it's similar to the RL Austro-Hungarian Empire except for the following:

1. Rather than Austrian supremacy, it's Hungarian
2. They're attempting to put together a new, unifying national identity, rather than saying something like "Oh yeah it's a Dual Monarchy and the rest of our constituent states are just there"

xD, I just saw.

Well, hard for there to be Austrian Supremacy when the Austrians sit cowed within the Empire still lol.

Though one small thing, the Central European Empire was never holy this time around.

[Yaruqo]

Haha well I just dropped the app in - I admit I'm rusty at world building and the military side of things so it might need some work. But it's similar to the RL Austro-Hungarian Empire except for the following:

1. Rather than Austrian supremacy, it's Hungarian
2. They're attempting to put together a new, unifying national identity, rather than saying something like "Oh yeah it's a Dual Monarchy and the rest of our constituent states are just there"

xD, I just saw.

Well, hard for there to be Austrian Supremacy when the Austrians sit cowed within the Empire still lol.

Though one small thing, the Central European Empire was never holy this time around.

Oh, I saw like a mention of a Holy Central European Empire and ran with it, I'll fix that up!

[Tracian Empire]

Hi there, I'm currently working up an application for a Carpathian nation, but I thought I'd point out that currently, the IC link goes to the map.

Yes, that will be fixed soon, I just kept forgetting about it xD

And your nation concept seems to be very interesting, it will be reviewed as soon as possible!

[The Traansval]

Full Nation Name: République du Canada (English: Republic of Canada)
Unofficial/Common Nation Name: République Canadienne (English: Canadian Republic) / Canada

Majority/Official Culture:
Territorial Core: Map of the Republic and her Provinces and Territories - In numeric order: Northern Territory, Hudson Bay Territory, Manitoba Province, Nunavut Territory, Quebec Province, Ontario Province, Ojibwa Province, Michigan Province, Illinois Province, Miami Province, Wisconsin Province, and Ohio Province; Bermuda is officially a Department but operates more as a Province due to its special status.
Territorial Claim: Acadia
Capital City: Montreal
Population: 23,558,371

Majority/State Religion: Catholic Church of Canada
Religious Description: Catholic missionaries have been in Canada since the founding of Quebec City. While the colony was religiously tolerant and allowed other religions, even allowing the large settlement of Huguenots and Quakers, Catholicism has been a big part of Canadian Nationalism and the national identity of Canada. The Catholic church is by far the largest in Canada, with about 72% of religious individuals being members of the Church which is based out of the Archdiocese of Quebec; the only Archdiocese north of the Rio Grande. The Church is not only big among French-Canadians but also among the native and metis peoples who are by and large Catholic along with immigrant communities, particularly the Irish-Canadians and Roman immigrants from Italy. Behind the Catholic Church are the American Reformed Churches, a federation of protestant churches generally aligned with Calvinists Reformist beliefs that are big with the communities of Huguenots. Native religions also continue to presist, particularly among the Iroquois in their Grand River reservation.

National Goals: To secure the Republic's borders, ensure her independence, and the prosperty of her citizens.
National Issues: The Chicago Reforms and the exposes on labor conditions in the cities have caused a large stir and have caused some to radical, turning to the Socialist Party and the IWW these forces have stepped up their revolutionary activity lately with strikes. Beland and the Labor Party hope to put down the flames of revolution through reform, but the fight over the National Labor Act is fierce, its passage hanging on just a few votes from the Liberal party that might fall through at any moment. If nothings done about working conditions or the growing inequality of wealth, things may become violent.
National Figures of Interest: Joseph Beland, President and leader of Labor; Francis Pegahmagabow, Field Marshal and Hero of the Republic.
National Ambition/Aspirations: N/A

Government Type: Unitary Democratic Republic
Government Ideology/Policies: Specifics change between administrations based on which parties get in power. The Conservative Party of Canada, Parti Conservateur du Canada or PCC, is a party based deeply in rural Canada with its primary support coming from rich land owners and rural farmers. This base has primarily been cultivated because of the Conservative's politics of French-Canadian Nationalism including the promotion of French-Canadian as the official language and Catholicism as the "traditional" Canadian religion, along with economic policies of protectionism and protectionist tariffs in order to promote industry, specifically agriculture as they wish to see tariffs place on foreign grain, along with a policy of economic de-regulation and tax cuts, both of those economic policies meant to benefit the Land Trusts but they also benefit the rural farmers. The traditional rival of the PCC is the Liberal Party of Canada, Parti Libéral du Canada or PLC, whose main base is with the urban middle class and industrialist upper class. The Liberals stand for more social freedoms and are generally more... well Liberal in their social policies, which appeals to many urbanites who see the PCC as old men. The Liberals are stand for free trade and capitalism, although they are willing to support moderate reforms and regulations. The newest party is the Canadian-Labor Party, or Parti Canadien-Ouvrier or PCO, which was founded as a big tent leftist party under the growing trade union movement although the party had its more radical and Marxist members leave to form the Socialist Party of Canada after the party began to shift towards more moderate Social Democratic type policies; under Joseph Beland the party is mainly based with the urban workers and with tenant farmers and stands for workers rights, regulation of the market, and social programs along with campaigning on the idea of Trust Busting, breaking up the big Land Trusts. These three parties, four if you count the Socialists who mainly work outside of the system attempting to foment a radical Syndicalist or Marxist revolution, are the main ideologies branches of Canadian Republicanism, and while they differ all three remain committed to the idea that Canada is a Republic, whose leaders are elected by the People and are accountable to the People, and that the right to govern does not come from noble birth.

Government Focus: The newly elected Labor government under Beland has been focusing on its campaign promises, the big fight currently being over the National Labor Act which seeks to fulfil the goal of Labor to introduce workers regulations and establish certain rights that workers shall have in order to protect them. This, and Beland's Trust Busting battles in the courts, are the big focus of the government.
Head of State: Président Joseph Béland and Président Vice Aurèle Lacombe serve at the head of the Executive.
Head of Government: The Président is both the Head of State and Head of Government as he is in charge of the Cabinet of Ministers who run the government. If the President is unavailable or incapacitated the Vice Président can take over his duties either temporarily or permanently. The other notable government leaders are the President of the National Assembly, Président de l'Assemblée Nationale a job held currently by the Labor Deputy Joseph-Alphonse Langlois, and the Président of the Senate, Président du Sénat, who is currently Lomer Gouin of the Liberals.

Government Description:The Republic is run by two primary branches; the Executive Branch, also known as the Presidency since its led by the President, is primarily the office of the President, the Vice President as his deputy, and a cabinet of Ministers who each oversee a government department known as a Ministry; and the Legislative Branch, more commonly known as Parliament which is the sole and supreme law making body in the Republic, although most law making happens in Parliament's lower house, the National Assembly, while its upper house the Senate acts as an advisory body and a check on the Assembly. The Judicial Branch, also known as the Judiciary, is a series of multilevel and multitrack court systems all overseen by the Superior Council, that interprets laws and hands down rulings on cases of criminal, civil, or administrative law. The Republic is a Unitary state, meaning that the local and regional governments are directly responsible and in some cases appointed by the central National government.

The President, Le Président, is the Head of State, Head of Government, Chief Executive, Commander in Chief, and Chief Diplomat all in one. The presidents powers include the command of the military, the ability to negotiate and represent the Republic diplomatically, and the responsbility to enforce the laws of congress and administrate the bureacracy of the government. Obviously one man cannot do this all alone, the Vice Président assists the Président and councils him but the more important members of the Executive are the Ministers, or Les Ministres, of the Council of State, Conseil d'Etat, more commonly just known as "The Government". It is through the Ministres, who are appointed by the Président and approved by Parliament, that the Président exercises his power; for example, the Président exercises his power as Chief Diplomat through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which sents Ambassadors to be the representatives of the President. The Conseil also seats the leaders of smaller independent offices, bureaus, and departments; these leaders are often known as "Junior Ministers" but officially they are known as Secretaries, Secrétaires. These Secrétaires will either be under a Ministre, such as the Secrétaire for the Army and Secrétaire for the Navy who are under the Ministre for War, or the Secrétaire of Police who oversees the national police under the Ministre for Interior; or they will be independent, leading a office or department that isn't apart of any Ministry, such as the Secrétaire of Management and Budget which is a independent office.

The one of the main duties of the Président, the duty that gives him most of his powers, is to enforce the laws of Parliament. Parliament, or Parlement, is the national legislature of the Republic. Parlement has the power to introduce, debate, and then either pass or deny bills into law, and the only restriction on what laws can be made is the constitution, specifically the Bill of the Rights of Man. All laws begin by being introduced onto the floor of the National Assembly, or Assemblée Nationale, whose members, known as Deputies or Députés, will then debate and then vote to either reject or approve the bill that was introduced. From here, the bill moves onto the upper house known as the Senate, Sénat, where the Senators, Sénateurs, will vote to either approve the bill passed by the assembly, in which case the bill then becomes a law, or will vote to reject the bill and send it back down to the Assembly for more debate and a revote. If the bill is passed again by the Assembly the Senate can approve it or send it back down again; if it passes a third time the Senate must approve it. Other roles of the Parlement include the approval of appointments made by the President, and the ability to remove appointed officials through an impeachment in the assembly and then a trial in the senate.

The Judiciary of the Republic is primarily made up of three "tracks"; Civil, Administration, and Criminal tracks. Each track has three layers; the Inferior Courts also known as Instance Courts as their where cases are first brought before the court and tried, the intermediate appelate courts, and then the final court of appeal that being the Superior Council or Conseil Supérieur. The Conseil is, again, the final court of appeals for all three tracks but is also the head of the Judiciary and is responsible for appointing judges. Civil Courts handle disputes between citizens, Administrative courts handle matters of government such as resolving conflicting jurisdictions or lawsuits against the government, and the Criminal courts handle the enforcement of laws and the issuance of penal measures. As mentioned before, judges are appointed by decision of the Superior Council, all judges serve for life and can only be removed from office by Parlement or the Conseil can remove a judge if their facing prosecution.

As said earlier, Canada is a Unitary Republic, meaning that the national government is the supreme government and all regional governments serve at the behest of the national government and only have powers delegated to them by the national government. In Canada, there are three territorial divisions down from the national government; Provinces, Departments, and Communes. Provinces are regional administrations, each is led by a Prefect, Préfet, who are appointed by the President with the approval of Parlement, and who serves as the president of each provinces Provincial Council, Conseil Provincial. The Provincial government is responsible for the administration of government programs in their province, and the council has limited powers to pass bylaws relating to their role. Departments, or Départements, are equivalent to what might be called a County, and each one is administered by a Conseil Général, General Council, which is chaired by a President. The smallest political unit is the Commune, equivalent to a township or Borough, which is usually the government for a single town or city and is led by a Mayor, Maire, and a Municipal Council, Conseil Municipal. There are also some special divisions, such as the Intercommunality divisions which are groupings of multiple Communes under one united government; the most common of these is the Métropole or Metropolis which is usually the government of large or major cities and is both a Commune and Département government.

Economic Ideologies: Canada believes in the freedom of commerce, that an individual can make something and then sell it for a profit on his own. Capitalism is the major economic ideology underlying the Canadian economy, currently the Canadian economy would be described as a mixed-market as the Liberal governments have introduced regulations on industries and the government operates a state owned mail service and railroad that competes with private business. The more laisse-faire side of the market spectrum rests with the Conservatives who campaign on deregulation and also protectionist policies such as tariffs. The Liberals campaign mostly on a policy of free trade and on promoting business with support for some regulations. Labor's main campaign is on seeking a true mixed-market regulated economy based mostly on Social Democratic policies like strengthening unions and introducing workers rights, while on the far flank the Socialists preach the words of Marx advocating for a workers revolution, mostly along the lines of the ideology of their new leader, Daniel De Leon.

Major Production: The main three sectors of the Canadian economy are Agriculture, Manufacturing, and Financial services. The Southern Provinces are known as the Breadbasket of the Republic as they are a major agricultural producing area, include the "Corn Belt"; an area of huge corn production. Main staples of Canadian agriculture are corn and wheat along with the raising of cattle, hogs, and chickens as sources of protein, all of which are raised in surplus and thus form a large part of exports. Manufacturing, however, is the largest individual sector of the economy, as the easy access granted by the Great Lakes caused the provinces around it, including the southern provinces and Ontario, and to a lesser extent Quebec, to receive heavy investments in infrastructure. Heavy iron deposits, oil and natural gas deposits, and to a lesser extent coal deposits lead to a boom in manufacturing between 1860 and 1890 centered mostly around the previously mentioned provinces, the biggest growing cities being Detroit, Chicago, Champlain, and Ft. Frontenac. Businessess like United Provinces Steel, Standard Oil, and others set up in the region and made it a world leader in the production of steel, the refinement of oil, and the production of manufactured goods as small as tin cans to as big as the new automobiles like the brand new Model A of the General Motors of Canada, which originated as a naval company, a market they still do work in. This large manufacturing and agricultural production has led to the rise in Canadian Financial sectors, mainly based out of Quebec City, a major port and base for exporter companies, and Chicago, the heart of the southern provinces, with stock markets, banks, trust companies, etc. all working to earn a buck.

Economic Description: The Canadian economy is a market economy based on capitalist principles. Citizens have the right to own property and the economy is based off the enterprise of individuals utilizing property and capital to start up businesses. The government enforces regulations on the economy, although their mostly light and only began during the 1880's. These economic regulations are mostly focused on promoting competition, a focus of the Liberals, which they've done through regulations in the railroads and breaking up large monopolies that appeared such as the previously mentioned Standard Oil. Things like wages, working conditions, etc. are mostly unregulated and left to companies, although local communes do have limited authority to pass ordinances over these matters.

Development: Modern
Development Description: Canadians sometimes like to prop up the image of the self-sufficent farmer as the true Canadian, an image that has been popular in the national myth of Canada since the time of the War of Independence, but its true origin is in trading; the majority of colonial Canada's population was urban, mainly artisans, merchants, or those involved in the fur trade. The basis of Canada has always been with the urbanites, and more importantly with business, as for almost a century the basis of the entire economy was on the trapping and selling of American furs. The same has always been, the boom in agriculture post-independence was soon snuffed out by the replacement of furs; Steel. Even before the manufacturing boom, the settlers and farms of the southern provinces lead to the rise of great cities which acted as ports on the lakes to allow for the export of excess product. The Republic is a highly industrialized modern state, mostly thanks to the easy accessability given by the lakes and rivers that connect virtually the entire Republic together. Even so, the manufacturing boom and second industrial revolution saw towns and cities turn into metropolitian areas, connected to each other by paved roads or railroads, speaking to one another by telegraph, their streets lit with first a system of gas and then electric lamps, their buildings made first with concrete then with steel and glass, spilling outward and then upwards towards the sky when there was no more room, and their sewage no longer dumped onto the street but into pipes and systems made by raising entire cities on jacks. What a wonderous modern age we live in.

Army Description: The origin of the Republican Army, or Armée Républicaine, lies with the Colonial Milita that formed the backbone of de Rigaud's Army of Canada, the force that fought the War of Independence and drove the French into the sea. The Militia remained the main armed force besides armed native allies until the creation of the Army in the beginning of the 19th century; the Army was created as a professional force after the Canadian militia would regularly see defeat in open battles during the Ohio War. The Army is an odd one as its formed, organized, and trained along contemporary european lines with officers instructed in the conventional ways of European war, but also the tactics and training of the army are heavily influenced by Canada's native americans, who have perfected the art of guerilla war in the dense forests of the American northeast; tactics that the Canadian army has fully embraced and regularly use in the border skirmishes along the Cumberland with Iron Order raiders.

The Army is a Volunteer force. The latest official report puts the amount of active servicemembers at 120,751 total within the army. These are spread over four major formations; Infantry, Cavalry, Voltigeurs, and Support formations. Infantry is... well infantry, the regular riflemen on the ground taking positions and winning the fight. Cavalry are a force of mobile mounted skirmishers, oriented more like Mounted Infantry than conventional cavalry as cavalry charges aren't that feasible of a tactic, although they can and are done in specific circumstances. The Voltigeurs are a more specialized formation, their name means "Leaper" and originates as the name of light infantry in service to the French crown. Voltigeurs originated in Canada as militias raised specifically of hunters and fur trappers during the Independence War, and after the formation of the Army these militias would become the Voltigeurs, a specialized recon and skirmishing unit whose role would adapt over the decades to their modern role as recon and special forces. Supporting all three are the various dispersed support formations, such as the Artillery, Supply, etc. Each Brigade has its own internal Artillery and a Headquarters Office which contains all of these, although when Brigade are massed together under Corps they'll have attached independent Artillery units and supply. There are also the Gendarmes of the Gendarmerie; the Gendarmerie are a state run police force that policies rural areas and also acts as military police for the Army; they police and guard all military bases and each brigade has its own company of Gendarmes.

In total there are eight Infantry Brigades and four Cavalry Brigades in active service. These are grouped into three Corps; I Corps also known as Western Corps is primarily stationed in Manitoba and Wisconsin along the Busang border, it has two infantry brigades and one cavalry brigade; II Corps, also known as Southern Corp is primarily stationed on the southern frontier at the Cumberland, it has four infantry brigades and two cavalry brigades; and III Corps, also known as Eastern Corps is stationed mostly in Ohio. Quebec and Ontario along the border with Columbia, it has two infantry brigades and one cavalry brigade. There are also seven independent Artillery Regiments which get moved around depending on their need and really never stay in one place.

Army Weakness: Primary weakness of the army is its size, equipment, and experience. The army is, compared to many European armies, quite small, mostly due to the fact that its an all volunteer force thats also pretty selective in who it choses. Soldiers utilize relatively older equipment, about the only thing thats up to date with European progression would be the main line rifle. But the biggest weakness is the experience and tactics; the Army has spent almost a hundred years fighting Native bands, colonial militia, and Iron Order raids. While Canadian soldiers might be trained in conventional warfare, the past century of war for them has been forest ambushes and skirmishes. This makes them less than effective at more convention type battles with fully stacked European armies in flat open ground, and they'd have a hard time if deployed abroad.

Further Military Description: The Army wears a standard uniform based on European patterns of Khaki clothing; these were introduced during the mid 1890's during a modernization program which sought to replace the seven different uniforms with one standard pattern, although some did throw a fuss at changing from the old Green uniforms which had become a national symbol to the new Khaki beige ones, however practical concerns drowned these people out. The uniform is relatively simple with leath shoes, wrapped puttees adopted from the Indians, pants and a tunic with combat webbing to carry ammunition and other tools and a field cap, all of which are shown in this photograph. Also pictured with the soldier is his Springfield Armory Model 1898 rifle, a short rifle in standard use by the army as a whole, designed to replace the older breechloading black powder rifles and also combine the long rifle and carbine, as the distinct between the two was found to be impractical after the abandonment of line formations. A favorite of the Rangers, Cavalry, and Officers is the Colt Model 1898 Revolver, also known as the Colt Arms Company New Service Model, which is the most numerous service handgun in use, although officially the primary handgun is the Colt Model 1905, however its only recently entered production and is in limited use. In limited use is the Springfield Armory Model 1904 Machine Gun, which is used primarily as a fortification gun and treated like a artillery piece, with about four hundred in stockpile. Speaking of artillery, the army is somewhat light on it, but the 76.2mm Model 1902 Field gun, 115mm Model 1905 Howitzer, 152mm Model 1904 Howitzer, and the 55mm Mortar form the majority of the stockpile.

The primary combat unit of the Army is the Brigade, which is comparable to the European Division in size as a Canadian Brigade has an authorized full strenght of 11,365 men. Each Brigade has three Infantry Regiments, one Artillery Regiment, and one Voltigeur Battalion along with support units such as supply, engineers, etc. An Infantry Regiment is subdivided into three Rifle Battalions and one Field Artillery Battalion, not counting noncombatants such as the Headquarters and Support units. Artillery Regiments are subdivided into two Medium Howitzer Battalions and one Heavy Howitzer battalion.

In total each Infantry Regiment is authorized a full strength of 3,380 men, although actual sizes vary depending on circumstance and possible casualties. Rifle and Voltigeur Battalions are subdivided into four Companies of around 265 men each, which are themselves then divided into the smallest cohesive unit the Platoon, five of them for each Company with 51 men per Platoon.

Field Artillery Battalions, which have a authorized full strength of 275 men, are subdivided into two Field Batteries, each with a six M1902 Field guns, three M1905 Howitzers, and eight M1895 Potato Diggers. Medium and Heavy Howitzer Battalions are also organized into two Batteries, with six M1905 Howitzers each (Medium) and six M1904 Howitzers (Heavy) respectively, with the same amount of men in each battalion as the Field Artillery.

The Cavalry of the Army are, like the infantry, organized into Brigades of three Regiments of cavalry and two independent field artillery battalions, which in total is about 4,318 men for each brigade. Cavalry Regiments are organized into four Squadrons of Cavalry; their total authorized strength is 1,256 men. Each cavalry squadron, which has around 258 men, is divided into the basic cohesive unit of the cavalry, the Troop, six per squadron with around 43 men in each Troop.

Brigades will often be grouped together under a Corps, usually these corps will be mixed formations with infantry and cavalry units along with attached independent artillery in order to mass troops for a specific offensive or front. In wartime, two or more Corps can be grouped together to form a Field Army under the commander of a Field Marshal.

Naval Description: The Republican Navy, or Marine Républicaine, is a small force and not very prestigeous, it's really a side concern for the administration that doesn't receive much attention, and even less funding. In the face of this, the Navy tries to conserve resources as much as possible, maximizing as much firepower as possible for the lowest cost possible. While this doesn't produce the worlds best Navy, the Navy maximizes its advantages, such as the fact that its low recruitment rate means that the men it does get are of relatively good quality, mostly former merchant sailors needing work. The main force of the Navy are seven Battleships + two battleships under construction, most of which were built during the 1890s, and six Monitors. Supporting them are eleven Armored Cruisers, twenty Protected Crusiers, three Scout Cruisers, twenty-eight torpedo boat destroyers, and twenty-six torpedo boats, along with accompanying service and support ships. Canada uses NC, or Navire Canadien which translates as "Canadian Ship", as their prefix on warship names.

The Navy has one official "Fleet"; the Atlantic Fleet, which is divided into the North Atlantic Command, the Saint Lawrence Command, and the Bermuda Command. The other two major formations are the Great Lakes Flotilla, an independent unit based in the lakes, and the Reserve Fleet, not a formal fleet but a formation where ships that are held in reserve and aren't on active duty are kept. Each fleet utilizes such groups; Divisions are used for groups of one type of ships, almost always used for Battleship units, Squadrons are the naval equivalent of a Corps and are mostly groupings of Cruisers and supporting light craft that can act semi-autonomously from or in support of the Command, and Flotillas are mostly groupings of light ships.

Ship Classes of the Canadian Republican Navy

Capital Ships
(Battleships are named after Provinces, Monitors after rivers)
Illinois Class BB - One of three classes laid down in the 20th century, Illinois were large ships meant to emulate the large seagoing battleships of contemporary european navies. It had an armor belt of 11inches and an armament of four 12 in (305 mm)/40 caliber guns, eight 8 in (203 mm)/45 cal guns, twelve 6 in (152 mm)/50 cal Mark 6 guns, twelve 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal guns, twelve 3-pounder guns, and four 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes. The class has four ships; the NC Illinois, and the NC Manitoba, NC Miami, and the NC Michigan all laid down between 1900 and 1901.

]Quebec Class BB - The most recently complete class, the class is armed with four 12 in (305 mm)/45 cal, eight 8 in (203 mm)/45 caliber guns, twelve 7 in (178 mm)/45 caliber guns, twenty 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber guns, twelve 3-pounder (47 mm (1.9 in)) guns, four 1-pounder (37 mm (1.5 in)) guns, and four 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes with a main armor belt of 11 inches. The class has three ships; NC Quebec, NC Ontario, and NC Ohio all of which were laid down between 1903 and 1904.

Tecumseh Class BB - The Tecumseh Class, named after the Indian chief, began construction in 1904 and the two ships of the class, NC Tecumseh and NC Prophet, are slated to enter service in 1908. They'll be armed with four 12 in (305 mm)/45 caliber guns (2×2), eight 8 in (203 mm)/45 cal guns (4×2), eight 7 in (178 mm)/45 cal guns (8×1), twelve 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal guns (12×1), six 3-pounders, and two 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes.

The NC Saint Lawrence MO - Was a single ship laid down in 1889 and launched into service in 1893, originally as the lead ship in a new class of Monitors but the rest were scrapped and only the Saint Lawrence constructed; it is now considered the Flagship of the Saint Lawrence Command. Shes armed with two 12 in guns, two 10 in guns, and six 6-pounder guns, with a main armor belt of eight inches.

Wabash Class MO - The last monitors ever constructed by the Canadian navy, all four ships of the class were built between 1900 and 1902 and commissioned into service between 1902 and 1904. Each carries an armament of two 12 in (305 mm)/40 caliber breech-loading rifles (1×2), four 4 in (102 mm)/40 cal guns (4×1), three 6-pounder 57 mm (2.2 in) guns, and four 1-pounder rapid fire guns, and with a main armor belt of 11inches. The class has five ships; NC Wabash, NC Cumberland, NC St. Croix, CN Le Grande, and CN Saguenay.

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Cruisers
(Cruisers are named after towns and cities)
Détroit Class ACR - Built as a apart of a navy modernization program, the Détroit's began construction in 1901 and were all commissioned between 1904 and 1905. Their armed with four 8 in (203 mm)/40 caliber, fourteen 6 in (152 mm)/50 cal, eighteen 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal rapid fire (RF) guns, twelve 3-pounder (47 mm (1.9 in)) RF guns, two 1-pounder (37 mm (1.5 in)) saluting guns, and two 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes. The ships have a main armor belt of six inches. The class has six ships; NC Toronto, NC Détroit, NC Laval, NC Gatineau, NC Montreal, and NC Champlain.

Trois-Rivières Class ACR - Built between 1903 and 1904 and commissioned mostly in 1906, these are the most recent of the ACRs to enter service, although their quickly being outmatched by European advanced in the Battlecruiser. The ships are armed with four 10 in (254 mm)/40 Mark 3 guns in twin turrets, sixteen 6 in (152 mm)/50 Mk.8 guns in single casemates, twenty-two 3 in (76 mm)/50 guns in single mountings, twelve 3-pounder guns, and four 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes. Her main armor belt is lighter than the Detroit at around 5 inches but this allows the ship to be faster, and her better armament hopefully makes up for the lighter armor. The class has five ships; NC Trois-Rivières, NC Ft. Frontenac, NC Mississauga, NC Odawa, NC Ville de Quebec.

NC Milwaukee PC - Built between 1890 and 1893 and commissioned between 1894 and 1899, the Milwaukee's are the oldest Protected Cruisers still in service, they saw a refit in 1905 which modernized them some. Their armed with one 8 in (203 mm)/40 caliber, two 6 in (152 mm)/40 caliber guns, six 4 in (102 mm)/40 caliber rapid fire (RF) guns, ten 6-pounder (57 mm (2.2 in)) RF guns, four 1-pounder (37 mm (1.5 in)) RF guns, and four .30 cal. (7.62 mm) machine guns. The class has six ships; NC Milwaukee, NC Toledo, NC Terrebonne, NC Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, NC Saint-Jérôme, and the NC Blainville.

Châteauguay Class PC - The first protected crusiers of the 20th century, most were finished and commissioned between 1903 and 1904. Their armed with ten 5 in (127 mm)/50 caliber Mark 5 rapid firing (RF) guns, six 6-pounder (57 mm (2.2 in)) RF guns, two 1-pounder (37 mm (1.5 in)) RF guns, and four .30 cal. (7.62 mm) machine guns. The class has eight ships; the NC Châteauguay, NC Sherbrooke, NC Saint-Hyacinthe, NC Saint-Georges, NC Sept-Îles, NC Baie-Comeau, NC Rivière-du-Loup, and the NC Dolbeau-Mistassini.

Matane Class PC - The most recent class of protected cruisers, they were commissioned into service between 1905 and 1906, their sometimes referred to as "Semi-Armored Crusiers" due to their heavy armament being more than the usual protected cruiser. Their armed with fourteen 6 in (152 mm)/50 caliber Mark 6 guns, eighteen 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal rapid fire (RF) guns, twelve 3-pounder (47 mm (1.9 in)) RF guns, four 1-pounder (37 mm (1.5 in)) automatic guns, eight 1-pounder (37 mm) RF guns, and two .30 cal. (7.62 mm) machine guns. The class has six ships; NC Matane, NC Lachute, NC Amos, NC Sainte-Adèle, NC Prévost, and NC Sainte-Marie.

Joliette Class SC - A special class of three ships, the Joliettes were created as "scout cruisers", fast ships meant for recon which had light armor and armaments. Each had a speed of 24 knots, and are armed with two 5 in (127 mm)/50 caliber Mark 6 guns, six 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber rapid fire (RF) guns, two 3-pounder (47 mm (1.9 in) Driggs-Schroeder saluting guns, two 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes. The class hass three ships; NC Joliette, NC Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, and NC La Tuque.

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Destroyers and Torpedo Boats
(All destroyers and torpedo boats are numbered, any names are unofficial)
Dolphin Class DDs - The Dolphins were similar to the Turtles, the first now decommissioned class of destroyers, only the Dolphons mounted an extra 6 pounder gun along with some layout changes. The class has eight ships; DD-14 through DD-21.

Whale Class DDs - The Whale Class was the first ocean-going class of destroyers, the most notable upgrade from the previous class being steam turbines instead of reciprocating engines, along with generally being an upscaled larger design from the previous Dolphins. The Whale's are armed with five 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber guns, three 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes, and some .30 caliber machine guns. The class has twelve ships; DD-22 through DD-33.

Shark Class DDs - The most recently class, the Sharks began construction around 1903 and began entering service between 1905 and 1906. The ships feature twin mounted torpedo tubes allowing for double the torpedo capacity and are the first ships of the navy to utilize oil-fired boilers. Their armed with five 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber guns, three twin 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes, and .30 caliber machine guns. The class has eight ships; DD-34 through DD-41.

Jean-Pierre Class TBs - Ordered in 1896, the Jean-Pierres were the third class of torpedo boats commisisoned into the navy; the previous two classes have been decommissioned due to their age. The Jean-Pierre's are armed with three 1-pounder (37 mm (1.46 in)) guns and three 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes (3x1). The class has seven ships; TB-01 through TB-07.

Champlain Class TBs - The Champlains are very similar to the Jean-Pierres, and were ordered at about the same time, the primary difference between the layout of the ships and the Champlains have one more 1-pounder gun than the Jean-Pierres, a total of four. The class has four ships; TB-08 through TB-11.

François Class TBs - Ordered a couple years after the Jean-Pierre and Champlains, the François are armed with three 1-pounder (37 mm (1.46 in)) gunsand three 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes (3x1).The class has eight ships; TB-12 through TB-19.

Taschereau Class TBs - The most recently built torpedo boats, and also the last ever built torpedo boats, the Taschereau's entered servine between 1900 and 1901. Their armed with three 1-pounder (37 mm (1.46 in)) guns and three 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes (3x1). The class has seven ships; TB-20 through TB-26.

The Navy also has the Fusiliers Marins, Naval Fusiliers, an infantry formation whose primary task is providing protection for naval bases, providing compliments of armed soldiers who serve on ships and enforce order, and are special infantry who train for naval deployements and naval landings. The Fusiliers have one independent Brigade with four full regiments of the same size as Infantry regiments, and the rest of their men are in detachments either guarding naval bases or serving on ships as said previously.

Naval Weakness: Mostly the use of outdated tactics and equipment. The entire navy is about four years behind the rest of the world in naval technology and development, and most of its battleships are outclassed by the newest innovations from Europe. In a one on one fight with even odds, the Canadian navy would be sunk into the sea, so they mostly attempt to pick their fights and raid enemy commerce, although this also leaves the Canadian commerce lanes mostly unguarded.

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[The Traansval]

History:
Early Colonial Period - 1532 to 1673
The first French explorations of the New World would be an expedition by Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1532. For almost a century after, the French would send expedition after expedition to explore, and later settle this new land. However, settlement attempts would prove unsuccessful for many years, and instead many French companies would establish trading posts from which they entered the extremely lucrative Fur trade. This trade would introduce the French to many of the First Nations natives, forging alliances over the sale of Furs and Slaves that the Indians had captured from rival tribes in warfare; alliances that would be extremely important to the new colony. The first real French settlement would be Quebec City in 1608, although the city would see harsh conditions and would only see real growth starting in 1643. The settlers of Quebec City would ally themselves with the local tribes, namely the Huron and the Algonquin, an alliance that they would cement by participating in a war campaign with the two tribes against their enemy, the Iroquois, a campaign that would see two Iroquois Chiefs killed. Further strengthening the bond was the policy of creating “coureurs des bois”, runners of the woods, French settlers who would be adopted into Native tribes, learning their language, customs, and ways in order to better adapt to life in the New World. French settlers and fur trappers would begin to integrate themselves with Natives, often taking on native wives and fighting alongside them in their wars, creating the origin of the Métis (Mixed-bloods).

The French colonies remained rather small, with a population in the hundreds while the neighboring Anglo-Saxon colonies were growing into the hundreds of thousands. This was primarily due to the fact that the French colonies were mainly focused on the fur trade and commerce, rather than agriculture like the rich indigo and sugar plantations of the Southern Dominion. The French government back home decided to take a focus on the colony and created the Company of One Hundred Associates, which brought wide scale investments and the promise of land parcels to willing settlers. The French government decided to open this program to French Protestants, Huguenots, believing it better to have them off in the new world than causing trouble at home, and so many fled to Quebec and the New World seeking religious freedom. However, Huguenots were not the majority of settlers, instead most of the people brought over by the Company of One Hundred Associates were urban poor and rural citizens, seeking economic freedom. This was due to the weak influence of the King in the New World; originally lands were held in a sort of semi-feudal system, where Landlords would oversee plots of land worked by tenants in a Manorial System. However, this was overturned starting in the mid 1610’s by Samuel de Champlain, the unofficial governor of New France. Champlain was an explorer and marinier, but not a nobleman, so while he couldn’t officially serve as Governor his influence due to him being a founder of Quebec gave him considerable power and he was the administrator of the colony. Champlain broke the Manorial system, and instead began to attract settlers with the promise of owning their own tract of land, rather than being tenants working the land. The land was still held in the King's name on paper, but the King had little influence outside of Champlain.

Champlain’s reforms saw a boom in the population as France’s urban poor and rural serfs booked passage on ships, with the Company paying for passage for some, and those who couldn’t afford or who could not get a subsidized trip often taking indentured servitude jobs in order to pay for passage knowing that at the end of their contract they would receive their plot of land. With them came Catholic missionaries who became very well established in the colony, their work being made easier when it was decreed that any Indians who converted to Catholicism would be considered a French Citizen with full rights. The colony exploded to almost five thousand men in 1635 when Champlain, the father of the colony, would die. By 1650 the colony reached a population of 20,000 settlers, not counting those allied Indians but counting the Métis, who became a more common group among the colony. 1653 would see France become an official Province of France, its administration taken away from the private Company of One Hundred Associates and now put under an official Royal Governor. While this increased royal control, the Governors never attempted to re-introduce the Manorial system, as they knew it would disrupt the existing structure too much. Instead, they focused on shipping more and more colonists over, now funding voyages to transport new settlers and offering various economic incentives beyond land plots for skilled craftsmen and families. The growth of the colony allowed it to repel raids and skirmishes by the rival Anglo-Saxon colonies, including fights with privateers in the Saint Lawrencs, the most famous being the sinking of three privateer frigates during their attempted capture of Quebec City. Most warfare, however, would be focused on the Iroquois, whom the French had developed a rivalry due to the existing rivalry between the Iroquois Confederacy and the French Allied Tribes. 1660 would see Adam Dollard des Ormeaux lead a combined force of French Militia and Huron allies against an Iroquois army; the forces were evenly matched and Ormeaux would oversee a crushing victory against the Iroquois, sending them back across Lake Ontario and ending Iroquois encroachment for the time. The colonial militia would be backed up by a Royal French garrison in 1665, after the King sent a Regiment to garrison Quebec City.

Late Colonial Period - 1673 to 1770
By 1673, Canada as it was known had reached a population of almost forty-thousand people stretching from Quebec City in the north down to where Lake Ontario meets Lake Erie. The year would also see the Illinois Country incorporated into Canada, although at this time it was merely a claim with the only French in the area being trading posts and far flung fort settlements. This explosion in population was mostly due to the Champlain reforms along with royal funding of voyages for settlers and the so called “Kings Daughters”, single young women mostly from commoner families and mostly who couldn’t find suitable marriages back home, who receive a paid voyage to Canada in order to marry and settle down in the new world. While the fur trade continued to be the primary export of the colony, meaning that most of its wealthy and elite were involved with it, farming and fishing became established industries, leading to an expanded diet and further growth in the population. In 1713 the “Kings Highway” would be built, connecting Montreal to Quebec along with a dozen different villages and towns along the route, further allowing for trade and connecting the colony.

Pierre de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial became Governor-General of New France in 1755, the first Governor-General who had been born in Canada, and this caused some within the French Garrison to resent him, specifically Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, commander of French troops in the colony. These two men would form opposite ends of the divide that had begun to grow around the beginning of the 18th century. With the expansion of the colony and the boom in agriculture, many men of noble birth had begun to come to Canada and begin buying land. They became a class onto their own, owners of large tracts of land that they never stepped foot on, instead having landlords administer; it was the Manorial System in all but name, instituted privately through purchase rather than order from the King. This caused much uproar from the Canadians, as most were either merchants who resented the encroachment of nobles, or farmers who had been apart of a near century old system where one owned the land they worked. Tensions escalated, and soon the conflict became less about economics and more about politics. A similar conflict had been brewing in the Anglo-Saxon colonies, and many in Canada began to adopt similar ideals, first planted during the Enlightenment now seeing bloom. What had started out as opposition to nobles controlling the land, economics, and politics of the colony, soon morphed into a rejection of the King himself and the Ancien Regime he led and represented. The antiquated feudal structure of the Kingdom was rejected by many, who came to call themselves Republicans (Le Républicains), using symbols of the Roman Republic as their emblems they rejected the Fleur de Lis for the Fasces. It didn’t help that many of these French nobles found the colonists to be very different from them; separation from France and both ethnic and linguistic mixing with American Indians, and other european immigrants, had led to a distinct Canadian culture and almost creole dialect. These Republicans not only rejected the King, they rejected France, believing themselves to be an entirely new nation held hostage in order to make money for the King and his nobles. Opposing the Republicans were the Loyalists, mostly made up of nobles and French Regular Troops who upheld the rule of the King, as this was a French colony.

Tensions would come to a head in April of 1770 when soldiers of the French garrison in Quebec would fight the Battle of Trois-Rivieres against… the local Canadian militia. The reason was that the King had ordered the disarmament of the militia after a report was filed stating that Canadian militia had been involved in bandit attacks on the property of landlords and loyalist caravans; this report was absolutely true, but the actions of the Militia had been popular among the citizenry at large and so the reaction to this attack was extremely negative. The King declared the militia to be treasonous, and in response Pierre de Rigaud renounced his royal title and denounced the King. The War of Independence had begun.

War of Independence - 1770 to 1775
De Rigaud would call a provisional Parliament, calling for representatives from each of the major cities to attend. He would be elected Commander in Chief, an effective dictator of the newly proclaimed Republic of Canada. The Parliament would create a committee to draft a constitution, although this would take many years due to wartime concerns taking precedence, and so a constitution would only be adopted after the war, and for its duration the colonial government was kept mostly intact.

The war would mainly consist of skirmishes between De Rigaud’s army of Militia and Native allies; most of France’s native allies sided with the Canadians, as it was the colonial leaders whom they had made trade deals and treaties with, and their daughters had married the sons of colonial leaders. The natives had almost no connection to distant France, but still at the beginning those tribes who did not side with Canada stayed neutral, later finally siding with Canada once the tide of war had turned in their favor.

The Canadians were opposed by Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, in commander of all French forces in North America, and his regular troops. The Canadians had numbers and native allies, but the French were much better equipped and trained, so De Rigaud decided to undertake a guerilla campaign, adopting the tactics of his native allies. Regular battles were to be avoided unless favorable, and this led to Montcalm’s forces being restricted to the city limits of Montreal, Quebec, and other towns, while De Rigaud had control of the countryside, raiding caravans traveling along the roads while Ignace-Michel-Louis-Antoine d'Irumberry de Salaberry, a French naval officer who sided with the Canadians, led a small force of provincial ships to raid shipping along the Saint Lawrence. A major victory would come with the end of the Siege of Montreal in 1773, where Montcalm would abandon the city after fifty days of siege, escaping into Saint Lawrence and making for Quebec City. Montreal was proclaimed the new Capital of the Republic, and even better news would come just a week later when it was reported that de Salaberry’s provincial fleet had intercepted Montcalm's forces. The fighting would be fierce, but Salaberry’s forces would be defeated, losing nearly half their ships; however, they had taken down many of Montcalm's forces and wounded the man himself. This weakened the French position and allowed a lull in the fighting as Montcalm fortified himself in Quebec City, allowing De Rigaud to sweep up many of the outposts and take effective control of the colony south of Quebec. The year would also see reinforcements arrive, as the French fleet sailed and arrived in Quebec city, bringing with them many more Regiments of foot.

The arrival of reinforcements put an end to the idea of a quick war for the Canadians. De Salaberry was restricted to the more narrow waters of the southern Saint Lawrence, for venturing more north would put him in the line of sights of the great French Man-o-Wars, who would frequently raid and bombard Canadian settlements such as Trois-Rivieres. The war developed into a pattern of Montcalm sending out an expedition to probe into Canadian territory; the column would be harassed the whole way by Canadian and Native fighting from the woods, but they would be denied an open battle. The expedition would take its objective, often just taking and garrisoning a town, and then would return to Quebec City with almost half their numbers gone, and the town would fall back to the Canadians in a week after the expedition had left. A few important battles would happen, including an attempted siege of Quebec City by the Canadians in 1774, but all would end only in casualties, and no land traded. Around this time, the revolt of the Anglo-Saxon Columbian colonies would be put down, and France would realize that their age old rival now had a free hand, and that their position in Canada was becoming increasingly untenable.The last straw would come with the rising of revolutionaries in mainland France. Finally, in the spring of 1775, the French would decide it better to cut their losses than continue fighting the war and possibly find themselves outflanked. The Treaty of Paris would see Canadian independence recognized by the French, ceding the northern territories and Illinois country to the now independent nation.

Early Republic - 1770 to 1796
With the war over, a constitutional convention would be held in Montreal, lasting from August of 1775 to January of 1776, presided by the now very aged de Rigaud. The constitution would establish a true Republic, creating the position of President who would be voted in by a majority vote, with suffrage universal among the free male population, and his cabinet of ministers, who he could appoint but whose offices had to be created by Parliament. Speaking of Parliament, it was established with two houses; an advisory Senate and a National Assembly, a split which was created in order to balance the Urban and Rural populations. The senate would originally have one Senator from each Province, and said senator was chosen by an “Electorate Assembly” made up of various public officials from the Province, making Senators indirectly elected.

The Presidency was originally offered to de Rigaud but he declined citing his failing health; Parliament would later declare that de Rigaud had been the First President as he had served as Commander in Chief, and so technically he is considered as such. The official “second” President would be Gabriel-Elzéar Taschereau, a Canadian born judge and active politician. The year of Taschereau’s election, 1776, would see the death of de Rigaud, the father of the Republic, and the first amendment of the constitution passed, which would officially abolish all hereditary positions of nobility.

Taschereau would lead the young Republic through its tenuous first steps during his first ten year term. His term would mainly be remembered for his establishment of most of the customs which would become the norm for the Republic, the post-war economic depression and then boom, and the beginning of westward expansion. Between 1776-1779 the Republic, which was established by the constitution, would be fleshed out so to speak. The Bill of Rights of the Citizens of Canada would be adopted in February of 1777 as a series of amendments to the original constitution, containing within them many rights including Freedom of Speech, Worship, Assembly, Petition, Commerce and Ownership of Property, inviolability of the person and home, protections against repeat trials and self incrimination, and many more; in total the Bill had twelve articles which were each adopted as individual amendments. Many of these amendments were shaped by the ideas of the enlightenment revolution and many more were in direct response to the abuses suffered under the French Kingdom, including provisions to ensure that a repeat of the manorial system and the extreme accumulation of land under landlords would be prohibited under law, and that taxes and levies had to be applied evenly and universally in order to ensure fair taxation. Speaking of the law, the Judiciary Act of 1776 would be passed in… well I’ll let you guess, and it would reform the colonial courts into new Republican offices. The Superior Council would be revived as both the court of final appeal/supreme court and also the head of the national judiciary which now acted as a separate branch of government, and a new Canadian Code of laws would be published largely based on French law with changes made to fit more within the new Republican government.

The economy following the war would be in a depression, as years of war had taken their toll, but now that peace had arrived the economy began to rebound, and then boom. Taschereau subscribed to the views of many that free trade and laissez faire policies were beneficial, and so he promoted these policies and as such would see trade increase. Canada was now no longer restricted in her trade like under the monarchy, and Canadian goods, primarily furs, poured into Britain, Spain, central europe and of course still France, along with into the other American colonies. This period would see a great growth in the economy as the shackle of Royal control was taken off and private individuals and companies would take off, causing a great increase in wealth and the expansion of the middle class of merchants and the birth of a new upper class of very wealthy company owners. The unique experiences of the Canadians under France, however, would leave the idea of large landowners very taboo, as private companies buying up and holding large tracts of land with tenant farmers was seen as the same as the Manorial System, which they had fought a war to remove, so this new upper class was almost all urbanites, not wealthy landed aristocrats like back in europe or in the Southern Dominion.

The 1785 Territory Act would officially reorganize and claim those territories ceded from France. This act created three territories; The Northwestern Territory, which was all the land north of the main provinces; the Ohio Territory, which was centered on the Ohio river valley; and the Illinois Territory, which contained all of the unorganized land of the great lakes region not apart of the Ohio territory. This organization would also include the hiring of surveyors sent to the territories and the division of the territories into square grids which would be sold off as plots of land to settlers starting in the 19th century. The act would also include provisions to adhere to the Indian Treaties, agreements made with allied tribes which marked the territorial border between France and the Tribes, creating reservations although these reservations were completely autonomous from the Republic and allowed to run themselves, although these treaties also often made the tribes full citizens of the Republic. These agreements allowed for the division of land for the settlement of the territories without coming into great conflict with the allied tribes.

Taschereau would be re-elected for a second term in 1786, extending his presidency to 1796. Much of his second term would be considered unremarkable to the average person, as most of it was a continuation of his first term; the economy continued to grow as trade boomed, laws and judicial decisions would shape the early character of the nations such as the 1794 Abolition Act which outlawed the sale of slaves although not the ownership of them, and westward expansion would continue helped by the completion of the Ontario Road in 1796 which extended from Montreal into the Illinois Territory.

However, Taschereau’s second term would be very notable for the formation of Canada’s first political parties. Up until now, no official political party existed, most called themselves Republicans as they had during the War for Independence. Recent years had seen the Republicans split, as now they had their Republic men began to disagree on how to run it. The first party to be formed was the Democratic-Republican Party; the name was both to co-opt the term Republican and express their ideology, that of Democracy. The Democratic-Republicans had their base firmly with the rural farmers, they believed that Canada should be a nation of agrarian self-sufficient farmers and largely rejected financial institutions and the growing urbanization that was coming with the first industrial revolution, whose effects were beginning to seriously take hold. The basis of this party would seem to be in economics but its more complicated than that, as being the party of the rural farmer made it a very populist and radical party. The leader of the Democratic-Republicans, also sometimes just known as the Radicals, was the charismatic Clément Gosselin who had come to prominence fighting as an officer in the Militia during the war and who managed to become President of the Senate thanks to his populist agrarian platform. Opposing Gosselin and his Democrats was Taschereau and many of the elder statesmen of the Republic who formed the Liberal Party, a mainline liberal party with a focus on economic freedom including free trade and focus on industrialization; their base was mostly with the urban middle class and rich merchant class.

Rise of Gosselin and the Industrial Revolution 1796-1826
The election of 1796 was one of great anticipation; many wondered what would happen when the much respected Taschereau and his Liberals would clash with Gosselin and his Democrats. The answer to that question would never come as Taschereau would announce that he wouldn’t run for a second term, and instead the war hero Ignace-Michel-Louis-Antoine d'Irumberry de Salaberry, more commonly known as Ignace de Salaberry, would run as the standard bearer for the Liberals, although Taschereau would continue to serve as the patriarch of the party until his full retirement in 1805. The election would be a close one and would be one of the early examples of nasty politics as Gosselin would accuse Salaberry of being beholden to foreign banking interests, while Salaberry accused Gosselin of cowardice over an alleged incident during the war where Gosselin ordered the retreat of his men during a pitched battle; Gooselin requested a formal court martial and was cleared of the charges but the accusation of cowardice always was whispered by his rivals. In the end de Salaberry’s status as a war hero and his base with the wealthy and the urban would secure him a ten year term.

The triumph of de Salaberry’s term would be the Treaty of Montreal, which ended a decades long quasi-war/border skirmish centered around the Ohio Territory. Both the French and Anglo-Saxons had laid claim to the area and there had been historic competition between the two, although this was mostly between competing groups of settlers coming into conflict. With the growing focus of westward expansion conflict would rise in the Ohio Territory as Canadian claims now grated against claims by the Columbian Grand Duchy. Both sides would send forces into the area, with Canadian militia and Native allies harassing and ambushing columns of Columbian frontiersmen and soldiers. De Salaberry, however didn’t wish to see an actual war erupt between the two and wished to contain the so-called Ohio War with diplomatic terms. The before mentioned Treaty of Montreal would be the culmination of over seven months of negotiations which finally settled the official border between Canada and Columbia, giving Canada control over most of the Ohio valley in return for a large payment of $15 Million Canadian Francs, about $20 million Columbian Dollars, along with shared fishing rights in the north atlantic and lake ontario. It was around this time that a Iroquois Chief named Brant led a large migration of the Six Nations from New York into Canada, where they negotiated with Canadian authorities and eventually came to terms in the Treaty of Ft. Frontenac which officially ended the near centuries old standing conflict between the Canadians and Iroquois, and settled them on a reservation near Grand River in Ontario Province.

De Salaberry would count the Treaty along with the establishment of the Army of the Republic and the Republican Navy, both permanent standing military formations created after witnessing the ineffectiveness of the Militia in the Ohio War, among his greatest accomplishments; most Canadians remember him as having been President during the Great Crash. Ever since independence the Canadian economy had been growing, fueled by merchant investments and foreign trade the nation had been on a financial spree, and the bubble burst in 1806. The primary cause was a bubble in land speculation combined with a loss in confidence in copper coins which had been a target of counterfeiters. The crash would see widespread foreclosures, bank failures, unemployment, a collapse in real estate prices, and a slump in agriculture and manufacturing; the nation would still feel its effects for two decades. It also caused the downfall of de Salaberry and the Liberals, as they were soundly defeated in the Election of 1806, which saw Gosselin elevated to the Presidency. 1808 would also see the Ohio Territory be declared a province by act of Parliament, as it had now met the population and settlement requirements for province status in the eyes of Parliament.

Gosselin’s presidency would be characterized by mercantilism and “Bank Busting” as he set about trying to lift Canada out of its depression. The Democratic-Republicans controlled both houses of Parliament thanks to their crushing defeat of the Liberals in the election, and so were able to pass their laws freely. Strict laws were placed in financial institutions in an attempt to curb speculation and Gosselin championed protectionist tariffs in order to promote domestic industry along with farm subsidies. Despite his agrarianism, Gosselin also saw the writing on the wall as Canada was now in the middle of the Industrial Revolution and promoted production, seeing things like new ploughs and better forms of transportation as beneficial for farmers. He would also begin homesteader programs, giving out tracts of land in the western territories to settlers for subsidized and sometimes just straight up free prices. The popular image became of the family leaving the big city where they had lost their savings in a white wagon on the Ontario Road. The Radical parliament also introduced reforms to local governments, taking the many adhoc political formations and reforming them into the modern system compete with democratically elected leadership.

It was also under Gosselin that slavery would be abolish by act of Parliament in 1817. Slavery in Canada had been a minor part of the economy, as the colony and later Republic didn’t have the slave dependent plantation economy one would see in the Caribbean or American south. Of the slaves in Canada, most were native americas; the French colonists inserted themselves into an existing native american slave trade where tribes would take captives in war and use them to “replace” fallen members of the household in their labor tasks. With the establishment and expansion of French colonies, the Natives would begin to ramp up captive taking as they found that the French colonists would pay or trade well for these captives. The 1794 Abolition Act abolished the trade of slaves, but the ownership of them was kept legal. This severely restricted the slave trade, as the only way to acquire new slaves was through the illegal black market or breeding. As such, the slave population began to dwindle as they died off or were made free by their masters, as it was a common act to free one's slaves in their will. Gosselin and his Democratic-Republicans opposed slavery; Gosselin and some on a morale level, but more so on an economic level as slave labor was a threat to the rural farmer. So the Act of Parliament dated 1817 known as the Freedmen's Act declared slavery to be an illegal institution and gave citizenship to those previously enslaved.

Gosselin didn’t live to see the act passed, he died in office in 1816. His Vice President, Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier, known just as Michel Chartier, took over for the remaining two terms of his presidency. Chartier would continue the policies of Gosselin, but would find himself needing to maneuver an increasingly tricky political situation. While the name Democratic-Republicans wasn’t meant to convey the party as a coalition, the passage of the Freedmen’s Act would see divisions in party politics create two camps; the Democrats and the Republicans. The Democrats, also known as Gosselinians, were adherents of the original party platform, believing in the idea of an Agrarian Canada not only as an economic policy but also as a political one as they believed in increasing the voice of the average citizen and that each citizen could only be responsible if they were self-sufficient independent farmers. The Republicans, also known as the Conservatives, were mostly men who had become extremely wealthy off land speculation and purchasing, as the laws and regulations on buying land had become more lax as many began to forget the old Manorial system. The Conservatives were allied with the Democrats only in their opposition to the urban and merchant based Liberals, as both sought to increase the power of the rural electorate; only to the Democrats said electorate were the rural farmers, while to the Conservatives said electorate were the growing landlord class.

Part of these reform goals would see the number of senators for each province increased from one to two, increasing the voting power of rural provinces. The most controversial, however, would be the Amendment of 1823, pushed through by the Conservative faction. This requires a little backstory; Chartier had won the presidency in 1816 but Parliament had slid back towards the Liberals slightly, but enough that the Democratic-Republicans could not pass any legislation without votes from Conservative faction Senators and Assembly Delegates. The conservatives effectively held the economy, which had only just fully recovered, hostage in exchange for deals; they’d vote on Gosselinian economic reforms in exchange for conservative political reform. The Amendment of 1823 would be the culmination, as the Conservatives managed to get it passed with a majority vote of Parliament. The Amendment made it so that the President would be elected through a new system called the Electoral College; citizens would vote in the election for their public officials and then those officials would convene in Electoral Assemblies, each of which would see the electors cast their votes for President. The system created an intermediary between the popular vote and the Presidency, a barrier that favored the conservatives.

The amendment, however, would break the party. Charles de Salaberry, the son of the famous Liberal President, had joined the Democratic-Republicans after the Freedmen’s Act and now was the leader of the Gosselinian faction. For the election of 1826, Charles would publicly break with the party and found the Canadian party, also known as the Patriot party, to run as a counter to the Democratic-Republicans, or just Republicans as people had now taken to calling them. Meanwhile, the torch of the Republicans had been taken up by Marc-Pascal de Sales Laterrière. The Liberals in the election didn’t even put up a candidate for President, and only ran for Parliamentary and local offices.

Return of the Liberals and the Second Industrial Revolution - 1826 to 1876
Laterriere would win the election, two months after his victory he would officially rename the Democratic-Republicans to the Conservative Party. His ten year term would be a political battleground as the largely Conservative dominated Senate fought with the “Democratic Resistance”, a common term for the Patriot Party and the Liberal party. This fight would also see a drastic change in Canadian politics, mainly due to the rise of Louis-Joseph Papineau. Papineau took the Liberal party by storm and in a decade turned it from a defeated party into a roaring lion of politics due to his firebrand populism.

Papineau managed to revive and reform the Liberal party by co-opting many of the political and economic goals of the Patriots, so much so that in 1830 after the death of de Salaberry the two parties would join together to form the Canadian-Liberal Party, a party that would retain the nickname of the old Gosselinian party; the Patriots. This pivot was mainly due to the change in economics, as the industrial revolution had brought machinery such as textile mills and pre-steam power factories to Canada during the early 1800s, and but now they were an established fact of the economy. This created a boom in the urban population, this time with lower class laborers not just merchants and the wealthy. Papineau tailored the Patriot’s platform to appeal to a broad spectrum; tariffs on the import of grain and other goods helped the domestic farmers, regulations on working conditions and social programs garnered the vote of the urban worker, and a political reform platform of abolishing the electoral college and introducing the direct election of senators appealed to the middle class of medium landowners and merchants. The only ones who really lost were the upper class of import merchants and large landowners, who closed ranks around the Conservative Party.

The presidency of Laterriere saw no real legislation passed as Parliament stood in an effective gridlock, but Taschereau’s policies would see the lifting of many tariffs and the attempted appointment of Conservative loyalists, appointments that Parliament would try and fight every time, a fight that would later lead to the passage of the Civil Service act in 1842. The 1836 election would see Papineau versus Laterriere, the most heated election in Canadian history. Both sides fought both verbally and physically in fist fights as gangs and militias were formed on either side. This atmosphere led to the most unlikely outcome; a tie. The constitution hadn’t provided for the case of a tie, and so Parliament decided to vote to decide the victor, and it decided that Papineau had won; it did help that in that same election the Canadian-Liberals had won parliament seats in a landslide. Laterriere called the outcome invalid and took the matter all the way up to the Superior Council, who decided in a 4-1 decision that Parliament had the power to take that vote, establishing the president that Parliament would break a tie in the presidential election, a power it has never had to use since.

The Papineau Parliament would quickly pass legislation in a flurry, including the promised economic reforms for the urban workers. Papineau, however, would later backtrack on his tariff promises, causing him to alienate the rural workers, a fact that would become important later. The jewels of Papineau’s administration, however, was the passage of the Amendment of 1838 which repealed the previous Amendment of 1823 and brought back popular election of the President, and the Amendment of 1843 which would abolish the Electorate Assemblies and make Senators popularly elected positions. The Illinois Act of 1838 would also see the Illinois Territory broken up into five new Provinces; Illinois, Miami, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ojibwa provinces. Papineau would also famously be the one to cut the red ribbon, opening the Saint Lawrence Seaway in 1842; there had been several canals before, but the problem was that these often only allowed smaller to medium vessels to pass; the new Seaway was a marvel of engineering that now allowed fully sized cargo ships from the atlantic to travel down the Saint Lawrence and into the Great Lakes, connecting the new provinces to the sea.

These reforms would see Papineau reelected in 1846 and also secure the Canadian-Liberals as the major Canadian party, but they would also force the Conservatives to adapt and rebound. Papineau's abandonment of the agricultural tariffs caused him to be alienated among the rural farmers, who soon turned to the “new” Conservative party which picked up many of Papineau’s populist elements and reformed itself around a new core of rural farmers through the championing of the tariffs. Led by Étienne-Paschal Taché, the Conservatives would see themselves become the equal of Papineau’s Patriots, and in the election of 1858 they’d take back control of the Senate, although the Presidency would go to a Patriot named Cyrille-Hector-Octave Côté.

It was around this time that the issue of native american lands became more pronounced. Canada had for decades now continued the policies of New France, one of cohabitation with native americans and of integration with them. But by now, the Canadians and Metis outnumbered the natives, in fact they dwarfed them, and serious problems were had with miners, speculators, and settlers finding huge areas of land that were under the control of basically independent nations. This wasn't a problem for a while as the natives were good allies and settlers would often marry in and join tribes in order to settle lands but with the huge growth of Canada and its need for resources this just wasn't cutting it for the French-Canadians anymore. So Parliament passed a law stating that the lands of the First Nations was land of the Republic and that the Nations were apart of the Republic; they had long before been citizens but now the land and tribes themselves were apart of and subject to laws of the Republic. This caused a backlash and a minor uprising called the Red River Uprising saw a Metis and First Nations warband rise up in northwestern Manitoba, the fighting lasted for over three years before Cote and the Red River leader, Louis Riel, agreed to negotiate. The Treaty of Grand River, hosted in the Six Nations reservation of the same nation, established the current legal status of the reservations. Each reservation was recognized as a independent political entity within the Republic with the tribes able to establish and run their own self government and pass their own legislation to run their reservation; these reservations would each also be able to elect one senator and one Deputy each. The reservation borders were revised some and it was agreed that Canadian Law and the Constitution applied in the reservations, but again administration and the enforcement of these laws would fall to the local tribal government include new tribal courts and police forces; the reservations would be completely independent of the province and/or department they were in.

Before continuing, we must discuss the great lakes region. As we discussed before, the territories of this region had all become provinces by 1838, with Ohio having become one even earlier. This westward expansion has led to the area being a green valley of farms and of logging, but after the 1856 election the economy would change. For after 1858 began the Second Industrial Revolution worldwide, and in Canadia it began after the widespread discovery of Iron in the area beginning in the mid to late 1840’s, which would later boom into a giant “Iron Rush” during the 1860’s and 1870’s. This would cause urban cities to pop up around industrial centers as the introduction of new steam technology would lead to the creation of modern factories and steel mills in the region. The lake's provinces would become a center of manufacturing and industry in the Republic, quickly becoming Canada’s production centers. Between 1830 and 1880, Canada would transition from a largely agrarian nation whose main exports were furs and agricultural goods to a highly urbanized and industrialized nation whose main exports were steel and manufactured goods, becoming the world leader in steel.

This economic prosperity was juxtaposed with the relative peace that the Republic enjoyed. Unlike other nations, the Republic did not have to constantly worry about warfare as it enjoyed good relations with its native allies and what enemies it did have were on the frontier. The main enemy was the Order in the south, which the Republic did go to war against in an alliance with the Busang Republic. This was, however, mostly of Regiments fighting skirmish battles across the unclaimed area; the fighting was not large scale and never touched Canadian soil. Earlier Order raids had sometimes reached Canadian territory but these had been decades earlier and not that often. Ultimately, this meant that the Republic was able to keep up a small (In comparison to European nations) army for self defense and focus mostly on internal investments and improvements, leading to the high level of development in the Republic.

Canadian politics also adapted to this change. As the focus became more on the urban worker the rules on land ownership were relaxed and more and more farm land came under the control of large landowners, empowering the leadership of the Conservatives who soon became boosted after an alliance with the growing class of “Captains of Industry”. In response, the Canadian-Liberals positioned themselves as the “middle man” between the Captains and workers, a position that found themselves compromising on both sides. In general this period was a great flip flopping in politics as Parliament and the presidency swung back and forth between the Conservatives and the Canadian-Liberals, each side getting some legislation done but no major changes. Some of this legislation we'll mention in the next section.

Birth of Labor and the Reform Era - 1876 to 1906
1876 would be notable as it saw the first electoral introduction of the Labor party, a party which sought to take the rug out from under the Liberals by focusing on workers rights and conditions. Jean-Thomas Taschereau would lead the Liberals to victory over the Conservatives; Labor only got a couple seats in the Assembly, but it was a start. The beginning of the Labor party also saw the beginning of organized unions, as the previous “Knights of Labor” were disgraced and replaced with the new Trade Union Confederation of Canada (TUCC). The TUCC and Labor would begin to radicalize over the next few years and the rise of a young politician named E. T. Kingsley would take Labor by storm as his brand of Marxist-Syndicalism would see him become the leader for Labor by the election of 1886, an election that would go to a man named Honoré Mercier, whose only notable achievement was the New Navy Program that would see the navy revitalized over the next decade. The election would see tragedy strike as Kingsley was assassinated; the election had seen the Conservatives launch a propaganda campaign talking about the Marxist Terror that Labor posed, and a gun man believed he was saving the Republic by killing Kingsley.

The death of Kingsley saw the rise of Joseph Béland to leadership in Labor and a split in the party; a former member of the Patriot wing of the Liberals, Béland would switch to the rising new party seeing a way to promote his ideology of Radical Republicanism. Béland was a staunch secularist and opponent of the monarchy, and he was a populist who believed in empowering the people. Under Kingsley Labor had been a big tent party of everyone under the sun who opposed the conservatives but wasn't a Liberal, and Béland led a block known as the Radicals after the old Democratic-Republicans who stood for an ideology of Radical Republicanism, the expansion of democratic principles to a near direct democracy level, the elevation of egalitarian principles such as the championing of womens suffrage and opposition to wealth inequality, and opposition to the conservatives and wealthy elites. The Radicals shared many ideals and policies with the Marxist wing of Labor, but disagreed on the end goal, as the Radicals wished to retain a parliamentary democracy and strengthen it through reform and increased power along with retaining a capitalist market economy albeit with heavy regulations, while the Marxists sought total revolution in both politics and economics. Béland's Radicals, however, would win out as his brand of populism and policies would appeal more broadly to the working and middle class, and in a party congress in 1895 the Marxists would walk out of the party, forming the rival Socialist Party of Canada. The political split would also reach the TUCC, as it split into the Canadian Labor Federation, Fédération Canadienne du Travail or FCT, which backed the newly Radical controlled Labor, while those who supported the Socialists formed the One Big Union, Une Grande Syndicat.

The rise of Labor saw a change in the Liberal party. After the coalition with Beland was made, the “Canadian” party officially split from the Liberals and joined Labor, forming the Canadian-Labor Party, although this action didn’t have a huge effect as the Patriot wing of the Liberals had shrunk to just a few seats, it did change the nickname of labor to the “Labor Patriots”, a name that brought back ideas of the old Democratic Resistance. The coalition government, although it was really a Liberal government with some labor members, under Pelletier would see some key early regulations passed, including the passage of the Railways Act which regulated rates to ensure that railroad companies couldn't price gouge and set up the Canadian Railway Company, a state run company meant to compete with private lines. The 1897 Workmans Act also set up Workmans Compensation for those injured on the job and outlawed Child Labor except for special circumstances mainly relating to family farms. It also saw the Bermuda Act; the island had been taken over in 1887 under the previous government, mostly to act as a port for ships on their way south and as a naval base in the mid-atlantic, and the act would see Bermuda's status be made official as it was incorporated as a Department with unique powers that made it pretty much a Province in all but name.

Labor Patriots took control of the Commune government in Chicago in the 1900 commune elections, a victory that came after a fire broke out in a city factory killed over a hundred workers. The fire was the subject of an expose by the Chicago Press, one of the early muckrakers or investigative journalist papers, which exposed how the owners kept the workers locked in the factory with little safety. The Commune government passed a total of 49 ordinances, all of which were also adopted by the Liberal led Provincial government within the next three years due to huge pressure on said provincial government. The ordinances included mandatory safety standards, regulations on working conditions, limits to the number of hours one could work and a minimum wage, among many other new reforms. These reforms would be challenged by the business elite of the city, and in a landmark court case that went all the way up to the Superior Council, 31 of the 49 ordinances were struck down as outside the communes jurisdiction.

The Chicago Reforms took the nation by storm, as many within the working class or their sympathizers saw the Superior Council’s decisions as immoral in the context of what the reforms were attempting to fix. This outpour would be the catalyst for the Labor Victory of 1906 which saw Joseph Beland elected President and Labor take control of the National Assembly; they’d also form a coalition with the Liberals in order to take control of the Senate. Beland now stands as leader of the grand Republic, and he has an agenda. Currently sitting in Parliament is the National Labor Act, a bill that Beland considers to be his crown jewel of legislation; it contains most of the Chicago Reforms along with the establishment of a National Labor Council to act as a special court to judge labor conflicts. Beland has the Assembly but his coalition with the Liberals in the Senate is tenuous and he’ll need to make some deals in order to get this bill passed.

[Tracian Empire]

Full Nation Name: The Empire of Carpathia (Hungarian: Kárpátok Birodalma; Romanian: Imperiul Carpatiei; German: Reich der Karpaten), also known as the Carpathian Empire or simply Carpathia

The app is quite good, I really like the concept!

There is one mistake that I noticed as the native Romanian that I am, the title would be Împăratul Apostolic, like Imperiul in the name is requires the definite article "ul"

Other than that there aren't any issues, just one or two things that could be discussed. The first is the women's suffrage. In real life, by 1906 there were only a few countries in the world with women's suffrage, and the only one in Europe was Finland. So it would be quite a radical position for Hungary to have, and in that case I think that if you want to keep it, you should find a way to explain it in your history.

Other than that, something very minor - we still haven't properly discussed the French Revolution and the 1848 Revolutions in this world, but as we do it's more likely that Hungary's 1832 Constitutions could be adopted around 1848 as part of a larger European liberal movement.

But if you add an explanation for the women's suffrage or remove it (it could perhaps be an IC objective of the Empress?), the app would be accepted!

[Yaruqo]

Full Nation Name: The Empire of Carpathia (Hungarian: Kárpátok Birodalma; Romanian: Imperiul Carpatiei; German: Reich der Karpaten), also known as the Carpathian Empire or simply Carpathia

The app is quite good, I really like the concept!

There is one mistake that I noticed as the native Romanian that I am, the title would be Împăratul Apostolic, like Imperiul in the name is requires the definite article "ul"

Other than that there aren't any issues, just one or two things that could be discussed. The first is the women's suffrage. In real life, by 1906 there were only a few countries in the world with women's suffrage, and the only one in Europe was Finland. So it would be quite a radical position for Hungary to have, and in that case I think that if you want to keep it, you should find a way to explain it in your history.

Other than that, something very minor - we still haven't properly discussed the French Revolution and the 1848 Revolutions in this world, but as we do it's more likely that Hungary's 1832 Constitutions could be adopted around 1848 as part of a larger European liberal movement.

But if you add an explanation for the women's suffrage or remove it (it could perhaps be an IC objective of the Empress?), the app would be accepted!

Thank you for the insight! I'll fix that title up. I'll also provide some explanations and expansions regarding everything else when I have a moment!

[Tracian Empire]

Full Nation Name: République du Canada (English: Republic of Canada)

Accepted!

[Tracian Empire]

The map and list have both been updated. We will be focusing to moving to a new OOC next week, in order to attract some more new players and hopefully encourage some more activity. This will not impact the already accepted players in any way except for having to switch threads. However, in preparation for that, we will be removing inactive/uninterested players in order to make room for potential newcomers, so I encourage everyone to tell me whether they're still interested or not, either here or over on Discord!

[The Hobbesian Metaphysician]

I am back again, and I find NSG practically dead, and the roleplaying threads the only thing keeping this site up. What on earth happened while I was gone? On a side, note will apply the religion touches, and the application will finally be done.

[Draos]

Full Nation Name : The Kingdom of the Netherlands/Koninkrijk der Nederlanden
b]Majority/Official Culture :[/b] [[What your people identify themselves with… French, Chinese, Iroquois, Touareg, etc.]] Dutch
Territorial Core : ]

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Dutch Cores are in Orange Claims are in the lighter shade.
Territorial Claim :
Capital City : Antwerpen (Antwerp Belgium)
Population : 18,000,000
Government Type : Republic
Government Ideology/Policies :
Government Focus : The Dutch Crown is mostly focused on it's Economy and to keep it's tiny Empire together due to Friction between the home country and it's colonies. and Modernizing the state to be able to protect itself from it's much larger neighbors.
Head of State : Grand Duke Daniel Stolte of the House of Vaolis-Burgundy age 24
Head of Government : Minister-President (Prime Minister) Jan-Willem van Overbeek age 51
Government Description : Parliamentary Monarchy

Majority/State Religion :
Religious Description :

Economic Ideologies : Capitalism
Major Production : Manufacturing,Agriculture,Metal and Engineering products,Fishing
Economic Description : Using it's fertile fields and mineral wealth the Dutch Economic model is still focused heavily on trade to attempt to retain it's power and position in the Global struggle for influence but is falling behind nations with larger Empires like France and Britain who can produce more goods cheaper than that of the Dutch. While the northern half is relatively poorer and more agricultural meanwhile the Southern half based on the Sillicon industry is this thriving . The Resource rich Congo is also being used to help expand the economy and get it over the slump with it's bountiful gold deposits and Rubber plants.

Development: Modern
Development Description : The Dutch Republic was one of the first European nations to industrialize thanks to the efforts to the Marquis Van Hoensbroeck the Count D'auxy and the Baron Nahuys lead the Kingdom to rapidly industrialize to protect itself from potential French and Empire aggression and prevent itself from again being a middle ground in their wars as it had for centuries . In Order to go about this end they are attempting to use the mineral wealth of it's colonies and it's network of trade hubs to sell resources to revive the state and expand and modernize both the Military and Economy looking into ways for the Dutch to diversify in case of another economic downturn.

Army Description : The Dutch Army is a small conscript force mostly used in protecting far off Dutch colonies then any actual attempts to defend itself using poorly made rifles and equipment the Royal Netherlands army is in need of a major overhaul and modernization Numbering only around 50,000 men the Majority of the Military budget has gone to the Navy causing the Army to have low morale discipline and supplies as well as stagnation corruption and complacency becoming commonplace among officers and enlisted men alike .
Army Weakness : Size,poor equipment,Corruption,Morale.
Naval Description : Starting in the 1890's the Dutch began to update and modernize the Fleet adding 10 protected cruisers (basically armored cruisers) and 35 coastal defense ships to bolster the nation's defenses. Bolstering the Fleet to 6 battleships 15 cruisers 27 destroyers and 35 coastal defense ships numbering 83 hulls in strength with the majority of it being stationed at home though 15 ships are protecting it's Western Hemisphere possessions 1 battle ship 5 cruisers and 9 destroyers
Naval Weakness : Small size
Further Military Description :

National Goals : Many in the Government are interested in Self preservation against any aggression from it's much larger neighbors like Central Europe and France wary of a potential war where it will be caught in the middle. As well as the expansion and preservation of it's colonial holdings in Africa and South America
b]National Issues :[/b] [[what needs to be fixed in order for your nation to achieve its true potential]] In the eyes of the Dutch People there are many issues that need to be addressed corruption in the army, National Defense against potential Invasions from the CEE and France,Repairing crucial infrastructure and maintaining order in the colonies that had grown rebellious in recent years due to the actions of Colonial Militias causing friction between Antwerp and the Colonies under Jacob Van Wilpe the Previous Prime minister who was sacked for corruption.
National Figures of Interest :
National Ambition/Aspirations :

History :
In 1477 Charles the Bold Duke of Burgundy passed away leaving only his 5 year old son Jean as his successor putting the Duchy of Burgundy under Regency. Under the Regnant Henry Carbonneau who was a greedy and short sighted fool his failures ended up costing the Duchy it's French territories by siding with the ZentralEuropan Empire against the Kings of France in a war they were decimated in. Forced to Retreat to it's territory in the Lowlands and moving it's capital to the city of Antwerp after losing it's claims to the Titles of the Dukes of Burgundy they made a new one the Grand Dukes of the Netherlands. The Netherlands would become a rather unwilling member state of the empire to protect itself from French retaliation for it's impudence . Slowly but surely the Grand Duchy began to lose it's French roots and embrace the Dutch culture of it's territory.

in 1648 following the Thirty years war the new Kingdom of the Netherlands declared it's full independence from the Empire moving swiftly to form it's own colonial empire claiming the Region of Suriname in South America and a good chunk of central Africa over the next 250 years. However there is still that dread in the heart of the Dutch they again will be put in a war between the Empire and the French. In a attempt to avoid such a fate more progressive Dutch Nobles like the Marquis Van Hoensbroeck the Count D'auxy and the Baron Nahuys have pushed a plan to exploit the silicon reserves in the more industrialized southern half of the nation and the rubber resource in the Congo region and has begun to expand and modernize but the shortsightedness of some politicians of the Staten-Generaal (states-general aka the Dutch Parliament which they adopted in 1848 on the 200th anniversary of independence from the Empire) could derail the Dutch Ambitions . However the Nation still struggles with rampant corruption Being caught between dangerous neighbors and friction with it's colonies that must be resolved by a young and inexperienced monarch who will probably make more then a few mistakes along the way.


RP Sample:
Malmö Capital of the United Kingdoms of Scandinavia
Celebrations rang out across the United Kingdoms as the Danish Folketinget finally accepted the treaty to unite the Scandinavian nations into one for the first time since 1537 follow the dissolution of the Kalmar union after the integration of Norway by Denmark and the Swedish war of liberation ended with the Swedes leaving the union in 1523. People in the new capital of Malmö danced and celebrated in the streets after 5 years of negotiations and centuries of fighting among each other the Scandinavian people were now whole once more. Now in his new Palace simply called Förening or Union the young King Daniel I stroked his beard on how to rebuild the devastated Denmark and Norway while preventing either NATO or the Soviets from gaining too much influence in the very delicate new country.
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[Draos]

sorry my claims are a bit short I realized a lot of mine conflicted with other people's so I had to remove it .

[Tracian Empire]

I am back again, and I find NSG practically dead, and the roleplaying threads the only thing keeping this site up. What on earth happened while I was gone? On a side, note will apply the religion touches, and the application will finally be done.

I've been too interested in NSG, but the NS Forums as a whole do seem to be increasingly less active. Maybe P2TM really is in decline, or it just looks to us that way since we've been around here for a while.

And sure! Just let me know when the app is ready and I'll review it xD

[Arvenia]

Reservation

Nation Name: Sulivarian Republic (Spanish: República Sulivariana)
Territory: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Acre, Roraima, Tefé and São Gabriel da Cachoeira
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[Tracian Empire]

Reservation

Nation Name: Sulivarian Republic (Spanish: Républica Sulivariana)
Territory: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Acre, Roraima, Tefé and São Gabriel da Cachoeira
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reservation accepted!

[Arvenia]

Full Nation Name: Sulivarian Republic (Spanish: República Sulivariana)
Majority/Official Culture: Hispanic (mix of European, African and Amerindian)
Territorial Core: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Acre, Roraima, Tefé and São Gabriel da Cachoeira
Territorial Claim: Venezuela, Panama, Moquega Department, Tacna Department. Puno Department, Galapagos Islands and the rest of Brazilian Amazonas
Map Color: White
Capital City: Bogotá
Population: 9,570,000
Demonym: Sulivarian

Government Type: Unitary authoritarian presidential republic
Government Ideology/Policies: Sulivarianism (Spanish: Sulivarianismo)
Government Focus: The government is currently focused on economic development, agriculture, modernization and national unity.
Head of State: President Rafael Basquera
Head of Government: Same as above
Government Description: The Sulivarian Republic operates under a nationalist ideology known as "Sulivarianism". It was named after Daniel Sulivar, who liberated the country from Spanish rule. Its components are civic nationalism, authoritarianism, patriotism, economic nationalism, pan-Americanism and anti-colonialism, with some conservative and progressive factions.

Majority/State Religion: Personality Cult
Religious Description: The people worships Daniel Sulivar due to their liberation from colonial oppression. Despite that, Christianity, African diaspora religions and indigenous beliefs are still around, although they are less influential in comparison to Sulivar's cult of personality.

Economic Ideologies: Nationalism
Major Production: Livestock, wood, cotton, tobacco, coffee, rubber, wheat, oil, iron, coal, gold, silver, nickel, platinum, emerald and textile
Economic Description: The economy is extremely controlled by the government. While being nationalist, the economy tends to mix market with planning. As such, the country houses an internal market that allows free trade among Sulivarian citizens like a local market (ableit on a national scale), while the government utilizes planning in case of emergency (like war).

Development: Semi-industrialized
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: Daniel Sulivar
National Ambition/Aspirations: [[OPTIONAL]] The liberation of the Americas

History : [[Can be in paragraph or bulletpoint timeline.]]
RP Sample: [[Either a link to a past post, or an example written right here.]]

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WIP

[Tracian Empire]

As of now, this thread is closed, we are moving to a new OOC!

I removed everyone who seemed to be inactive and/or didn't answer to my messages, but old players who have been removed or have left in the past are more than welcome to rejoin us in the new OOC whenever they are able to!

[North American Soviet Socialist Republic]

Reservation

Nation Name:the Federal Kingdom of Oceania
Territory:Australia,New Zealand, the Solomon Islands,Indonesia,New Guinea ,the Philippines,Fiji,Vanuatu,New Caledonia
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