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Formal Nation Name Republic of Mongolia (ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠤᠯ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ)
Informal/Casual Nation Name Mongolia

Government Type: Unitary presidential constitutional republic
Head of State: President Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal
Head of Government: President Yumjaagjin Tsedenbal
Capital: Ulan Bataar
Population: 2,659,000
Military Population: 75,600
Territory: Mongolia
Territorial Conflicts: Inner Mongolia and Dzungaria with China.
Alignment: CTO
History:

Following the collapse of Qing Dynasty during the Xinhai Revolution, the prominent aristocracy faction in Mongolia convened to established an autonomous state under the newly formed Republic of China, but further development down the road concerning the Republic of China (mainly that Yuan Shikai proclaimed himself as an emperor) forced the hands of the nobles to established an independent Mongolian state, one that works along the theocratic line under Bogd Khan himself, albeit with a relatively absolutist institution in the form of Buddhist monarchy. As WW1 broke out, the Russian influence slowly declined as they directed their efforts to Europe, and with that, a stronger Chinese influence snipped in, through the political tutelage of KMT who put their people to Mongolia, ironically strengthening the locally democratic movement that adopted the political tutelage for their own ideology and not to be integrated to China proper.

A notable appearance of Grigory Semyonov who appointed as Russian Consulate officer in Mongolia and to whom he has strong advocation of an independently strong Mongolia put an end to the nobility route of Mongolia. Through both Semyonov's tactics, pro-democracy nobles led by Tögs-Ochiryn Namnansüren and the local democratic movement led by the Minister of War, Damdin Sukhbaatar, who led his army loyalists into the palace to arrested the nobles contributed to the rather peaceful end of the Khanate and the establishment of the Republic of Mongolia in a presidential form as well as the first 1921 election, with Damdin winning narrowly as his party won. Adopting the Russian Constitution as its constitution form, the Republic began to liberalized with political freedoms, free press, and stronger Russian influence within. A series of purges of anti-democratic nobles ensued, led by Togs', who was the head of the military at this point.

By the time WW2 started, Mongolia is one of the few democratically established republic, albeit with a moderately corruption issue and disparity of income as economy is limitedly developed, albeit modernized. Mongolia also became one of the supporter of KMT's China in the civil war. Following the end of WW2, and establishment of the CTO, Mongolia joined as one of its first member. Also, their newest president elected from the socialist party. With the new president comes a new mixed economy policy and huge undertaking on both modernizing the economy through rapid industrialization and anti-corruption issue, Mongolia is ready to take on the new era...

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[The V O I D]

Just posting to say the roster was updated, and I plan to update the Map personally soon. I also plan to do the IC early, tomorrow, instead of Friday.

[Mets Hayk]

Just posting to say the roster was updated, and I plan to update the Map personally soon. I also plan to do the IC early, tomorrow, instead of Friday.

Thanks for the update!

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日本人民共和国
Rìběn rénmín gònghéguó
People's Republic of Japan
日本/Nippon/Nihon/Japan

Government Type: Unitary Dual-Party Directorial Parliamentary Socialist Republic.
Head of State: Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Congress Inejirō Asanuma
Head of Government: Premier of the People's Republic of Japan Tanno Setsu
Capital: Tokyo
Population: 103 Million
Military Population: ~500,000 Active, ~1,000,000 in Reserve
Territory: Japan

Territorial Conflicts:

Russia: Karafuto and Kuril Islands
China: Formosa
Korea: Takeshima

Alignment: PANPACT

History:

The end of the increased domestic and international spending of ww1, combined with easy access to creditthat ad pumpex up a variety of questionable ventures that would otherwise go without money, would lead to an economic crash in normal circumstances. However, with the United States in civil war and the eventual victory of socialist forces, the resulting credit crunch immediately put Japan into a depression at the end of the First World War. Faced with budgetary concerns, the ruling conservative Seiyūkai faction floated the possibility of making cuts to the navy. A once weak political left would be given new spark, not only by the depression, but the success of seizure of power by American socialists. Despite lacking universal suffrage, this would manifest its first in the electoral victories in 1920 of the liberal Kenseikai and the reformist and pro-navy Kokumintō, together holding a majority in the imperial diet. Hoping to preempt unrest, the Emperor would allow the two parties to form the country’s first ruling coalition alongside the already governing Seiyūkai.

To start with, the government was relatively successful, passing a law to extend voting rights to all male japanese 25 and older, but the coalition government would soon face major internal conflict. Something still had to be done about Japan’s budgetary concerns, Kenseikai had commitments to agricultural reform to keep and Kokumintō wanted to not only protect the Imperial Japanese navy from cuts, but in fact expand it. They would soon be offered a golden opportunity. The American Union State, under the influence of a significant number of committed anti-imperialists that saw Japan’s unique strength as a center of political power capable of resisting european influence in asia on behalf of it, managed to convince the government to be less stringent than they were with most other countries when it came to offering economic aid to Japan. While Kenseikai and Kokumintō were willing to take this aid, Seiyūkai would proceed to withdraw from the ruling coalition. It was around this time that Kokumintō would enter into talks with Kenseikai to merge into a single party, creating the Kakushin party, which in addition to being pro-navy and social reform, also had a considerable number of female members, who’d fight for the party platform to include woman’s suffrage. The Left-ward tilt of the party would lead more centrist members to defect and form the Seiyuhonto party which would run in the 1924 election. Unfortunately for Kakushin, despite considerable economic stabilization, concerns about the party’s changes would see it lose its majority in the 1924 election, as the conservative Seiyūkai and centrist Seiyuhonto would win enough seats to hold a majority in the house of representatives.

They would wind up continuing the expansion of the navy and would avoid rolling back the social reforms instituted by the previous government. However it’d do little to advance them, only acting as far as was necessary to maintain exchange with the American Union state.
Overtime the political left would grow stronger, to the point it grew increasingly capable of asserting itself as separate from the agenda of the Kakushin party. Therefore in the 1928 election, they formed their own party, running separately as the Rōdōnōmintō, a pro-peasant party with communist and christian socialist leanings. Again the Kakushin party had been running on a pro-women's suffrage platform and before the formation of Rōdōnōmintō it seemed they’d be on track to winning a majority, but it was clear that the new leftist-party would make that impossible. The ruling centrists and conservatives would go as far as to look the other way in cracking down on the Rōdōnōmintō, so as to keep Kakushin weak.

In 1928, Kakushin would gain ground and Rōdōnōmintō would win seats, but the centrist/conservative coalition would keep a majority of the house of representatives. Even as the successor movements of the two parties grew closer overtime, the ‘betrayal’ of both the navy and the advancement of women's suffrage would not be forgotten.

Though they’d grown weaker in parliament than their peak in the early 20s, there was no such weakening in society at large. Infact, denied their parliamentary influence, former liberal reformists would gradually seek power and influence over the direction of the economy and the country at large through socialist trade unionism. Nowhere was this stronger than on the islands of Kyushu and Shikoku, which as a result would see an influx of migration from less friendly areas that would only reinforce this difference.

The aid from the American Union State would also serve to drive a change in academia. Not only did Japanese students travel to the country to study, it would be increasingly taken for granted among Japanese intellectuals that the wave of technological and industrial progress that the nation had been riding since the meiji restoration would have to conclude, naturally, in socialism and even communism. Additionally, were it not for the prevalence of the educated in the leadership in the highly technological dependent Imperial Japanese Navy, it would still find itself drifting towards alignment with the political left if for no other reason than the fact that they had increased their funding while the political right cut it in favor of both the army and turning away from the influence of the AUS.
Military, Economic and Foreign policy did not only intertwined with the question of the navy and the trade relationship with AUS, however. In the Late 20s and early 30s, tensions would rise in Manchuria, a region with considerable japanese economic holdings as a result of the Russo-Japanese war, as China expelled many japanese individuals without compensation.

Tensions would culminate in the sitting conservative government, in cooperation with the Imperial Japanese Army, would organize a false flag attack in Manchuria, which would quickly be used as a pretext for an invasion of Manchuria. The political opposition, however, would not be caught off guard by this. As a result of the coordination between the army and the government, information on the plan would be leaked before hand to left-sympathetic navy men and marines and then soon the leadership structure of both Rōdōnōmintō and Kakushin aligned unions and political organs across Kyushu and Shikoku. Faced with the knowledge that the clumsy plot would lead to international isolation and Recognizing that the navy would be an indispensable part of any prolonged war with china. A plot was set in motion.

IJN officers would request, for the duration of the war, that the islands of Kyushu and Shikoku would be brought under a ‘special administrative regime’ for the duration of the conflict. The implication was clear, this was a regional coup in all but name. Unwilling to fight a civil war with their own navy after starting a war with China that would certainly hurt their position internationally, the government recommended that the emperor bend to the demand. He’d accept it, but neither the government nor the imperial court would forgive this slight. The ones responsible for this would be marked men at the conclusion of the war and both sides knew it.

The response of the wealthy on the islands of Kyushu and Shikoku was immediate panic, for reasons that would end up becoming a self fulfilling prophecy. Immediately they’d attempt to preempt any seizure of their property through campaigns of intimidation and assassination, but that’d only mark them as traitors in wartime, leading their assets to be seized and for them to be executed en masse. Before these uprisings, Kakushin was willing to accept a more moderate arrangement where Rōdōnōmintō would not, but these events turned them firmly against landed wealth and the properties of zaibatsus. With the wealthy increasingly out of the way, and those who once simply were liberals now radicalized, a socialist economic reformation on the islands was under way.

Meanwhile the war in Manchuria continued, unobstructed, towards a Japanese victory by early 1932, the region was occupied and the state of Manchukuo established. Administrators fascinated by the changes occurring on Kyushu and Shikoku, would head to the state to build its new economic foundations, unencumbered by the concerns of the well off as they existed in most of Japan. The war would grow increasingly cast as an opportunity to sweep away backwardness in Asia and bring it towards the light of progress with Japan at its head.
After the formation of Manchukuo and into the mid 1930s, a variety of coup plots from the reactionary right, mostly due to its weakness in the face of creeping leftist power, were attempted and frequently foiled, frequently IJN intervention, serving the harm the credibility of the conservative government, which held on despite losing election after election due to a refusal of the emperor to appoint a Kakushin prime minister. Slighted as they were, their influence over the state was now extra-parliamentary.


While keeping the pressure up on China in the north, Japan would in 1937 launch a full scale invasion of the core territories in China, both involving coordinated action between the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy. After fighting for three months, they’d take the city. The war would continue deeper and deeper into Chinese territory. Naturally, the further away from the coast, the weaker the influence of the IJN over the conflict. While the IJN had absorbed the ‘modernizing crusade’ rhetoric whole cloth, the IJA was far more committed to the explicit imperial domination of Japan over the rest of asia. Consequently, the IJA engaged in atrocities then enraged the international community and would eventually pull the American Union State into limited participation in the war against Japan.

In 1940 years of snubbing by the emperor in each new parliament, with his refusal to appoint a left-wing prime minister despite their gains, led the parties associated with the special administrative regimes would form the 'Saikō kaigi' or the supreme congress, a de facto parallel government.

They did not obstruct the war effort, instead subtly expanding their influence in southern Honshu, the main island of Japan. Throughout the rest of the war, while the IJA would have essentially free reign over the conflict in china, the IJN would use its invasions of the rest of asia as opportunities to create quasi-socialist 'special administrative regimes' everywhere else they invaded, ripping out the roots of aristocratic and bourgeoisie power in nation after nation.

As the war went on it became clear that it was unwinnable and japanese forces in china went on the retreat, the forces of the Supreme Congress would end up launching their own full coup of the imperial government, declaring the People's Republic of Japan. Refusing to make the same mistake the british did, the entire imperial family had been tracked and captured alongside the coup. They would be held together under house arrest in the imperial court.

Soon after, to the chagrin of those who believed it possible to turn the imperial war into a full scale revolutionary war by allying with the chinese communists, Japan would conditionally surrender to China and Russia, pulling out of Manchuria, Korea and - controversially in the supreme congress - Formosa.

As far as much of the country's new rulers were concerned, the last few years were a success. A socialist government had been formed, the upper classes of those countries they had occupied crippled and a bloody conflict on japanese soil, in the form of an invasion or civil war, had been avoided. Even the navy was largely intact.

But the reactions of the remnants of the army upon returning home was still an open question. Over the course of the war and indeed from the 1920s, their reverence for the emperor, like that of the rest of the general population, as divine, had faded as it became clear that he didn't have the power to stop the creeping strength of the left, but there were some remnants of respect.

As for the internal politics of the supreme congress, despite how key to the successes of the past few years they were, the old Kakushin faction found itself in the minority. The supreme congress' halls were not staffed through general election, but through participation in unions and cooperatives that had grown up through the war. They were dominated by the farmers and pacifists that had preoccupied themselves with local concerns over the war effort.

In the time right between the declaration of the people's republic and full return of the japanese army from china, there was intense, but debate about what to do about the imperial family. The pacifists and christian socialists that dominated the supreme congress wanted reeducation, while parts of the opposition wanted to end the bloodline. The compromise was to do nothing but indefinite house arrest.

In 1946, it had been 14 years since anything resembling a truly legitimate electoral process has occured in the country, due to years of the emperor allowing left wing representatives to be seated, but simply refusing them to ability to participate in the government not matter how many seats they won, why said left-wing represetantives were fine enough not particupating as it undermined th legitimacy of the government. Now that the supreme congress was in charge, there are stll been no elections and the governinr factions was clearly unrepresentative of the majority view of the population. Elections had to be held, but they could not be helf in such a way tha they could provide room for the return of reactionary forces. The people would be given a choice, but it’d be between two slate and two parties. The Cooperative Party, with its base was those who backed in the existing farmer and pacifist majority in the supreme congress and the Socialist Party, its base being a mix of educated professionals, bureaucrats and sailors.

The former campaigned in defense of the recent actions of the supreme congress, while the latter allowed themselves to become a vehicle of dissatisfaction with the status quo. The Socialist Party would win in a landslide, giving them enough seats to appoint their own ministers of their choice, but in setting the standard for the dual party system, the victorious Socialists would go on to vote to appoint Cooperative party members into a percentage of positions reflective of their percentage of the vote. The elections would be the first lead with universal suffrage of both men and women 18 and up, fulfilling a dream that's hopes were dashed nearly 20 years prior. A wave of women candidates wwre elected, with most women's votes and supreme congress members flowing to the socialists.

With a new supreme congress however there was still much to be done. Reactionary guerrillas had to be crushed, a final decision made on the imperial family and the economy rebuilt.

Since the supreme congress declared the people's republic, the japanese economy was an utter hodge podge of systems, inherited from the split state it had taken over. This was replaced with mixed market command economy. Natural monopolies would be controlled by state planning and the rest of the economy under market control. But market control did not mean private ownership. The economy was dominated by cooperatives on one hand and trusts owned and traded on a 'stock market' by banks all owned by the state, with their salaried employees competing to maximize growth.

The reforms as a whole dispossessed the idle rich, while putting the talented and once wealthy in charge of much of the economy in exchange for a salary.

As the economy boomed through the 50s, a mixture of crackdowns and amnesty lead to the reactionary guerrilla movements burning out. As for the impwrial family, the situation was dealt with rather notoriously in 1947. The adults of the imperial family were put on trial, the emperor included for a weird mixture of crimes against the war effort, atrocities in china and the opression of the japanese people. The weakened empwror shown on television, doing much to diminish his remainign respect. The trial would conclude in the death penalty for all defenderts., the socialists allowed the Cooperative Party. Minister of Justice to announce a commutation of the sentrnce of the defendants in exchange for reeducation. Riled up against the imperial family, the masses, or at least enough of them would launch a riot that would over tske the imperial court, ripping apart all its occupants limb from limb, ending the ancient imperial blood line. The supreme congress considered it unfortunate, but the more radical members of the socialists applauded the event.

Over the 8 years after the 1946, however it was clear that their system of government presented some difficulties in foreign affairs. Premiers would frequently change, sometimes coming to power on coalitions from coalitions within and between the two parties. This made it difficult to present a constant face in government. As such, a new body and office was born. And the first election under the new system would be in 1956, including a new supreme congress. Every 4 years, 20 members of a a Presidium would be selected by the supreme congress, seats distributed between the parites based on the divide of the sitting supreme congress, with the two parties selecting one of their numbers to run to be chair of the presidim, in an election that occured alongside the supreme congress election.

Inejirō Asanuma of the cooperative party would go on to be elected the first chairman. He would lead the the people's republic into finallly, alongside korea, joining the PANPACT. While he is generally well liked, he has his enemies, namely those who believe that he's neglected the nation's military and feminists who still see his work helping found the Rōdōnōmintō all those years ago as setting back woman's causes by nearly a generation. In 1960, he was set to run for re-election.


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[American Pere Housh]

South Olpen, touch Finland and the Baltic Federation will step in.

[South Olpen]

South Olpen, touch Finland and the Baltic Federation will step in.

Yeah.. NTBR, but I don't think Sweden and Norway supported by PANPACT really... cares.

[The V O I D]

Japan's app is accepted. Working on the IC atm, should be up tonight.

[The V O I D]

The IC is now open, linked in the OP.

EDIT: For those not in the Discord, something else I'm about to add to the OP is Time Mechanics. Every three pages of the IC thread will be one month (so 36 pages is one year).

[Vacif]

Damn. That's... do we have a fast forward button for when there is a lul in things to do?

[HISPIDA]

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Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Republic of Peru
República Revolucionaria Obrera y Campesina del Perú
Peru

Government Type: One-party Marxist-DeLeonist-Mariáteguist socialist republic

Mariáteguism, also known as Organic Worldism, New Democracy or Organic Socialism and officially known as Marixsm-DeLeonism-Mariáteguism, is a form of agrarian communism derived from the theories of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Daniel De Leon, and José Carlos Mariátegui. Mariátegui substitutes the industrial proletariat of America and Europe for the rural economic base of South America, and after the Peruvian Revolution the rest of the "organic agrarian world"; primarily South America and Africa. It also calls for intense collectivization, primarily in regards to agriculture, and believes that revolutionary fervor among the population of a socialist nation must be maintained and strengthened in order to ward off threats of revisionism, opportunism, and counter-revolution. The most defining feature of Mariátegui is the "Organic Worlds Theory"; or that the industrial basis of a specific nation must form the base for socialist thought, such as the agrarian peasantry throughout Latin America and Africa, the extraction and mining proletariat of the Middle East and Asia, or the industrial factory-working proletariat of North America and Europe.

Head of State: President of the Presidium Jorge del Prado Chávez

Head of Government: President of the Presidium

Capital: Lima

Population: 10.16 million

Military Population: 250,000

Territory: Modern-day Peru

Territorial Conflicts: Atacama border dispute; claims the northern part of Atacama, including the cities of Arica, Pisagua, and Iquique --- de jure and de facto in Chilean control

Alignment: PANPACT

History:
Peru was never a hotbed of socialist activity, even after the Second American Revolution. Socialist thought in Peru nonetheless began to spready given the country's proximity to America and, later, Brazil. Tensions finally exploded in Peru after Manuel A. Odría performed a coup d'état against the government and installed himself as President in October of 1948. The social and political upheaval throughout Peru led to violent riots, ultimately culminating in the Years of Trouble and, after American funding and local support, the Peruvian Revolution.

The Peruvian Revolution began at the beginning of 1949. It was the second on the continent after the Brazilian Communist Uprising, and one of the world's first after the Second World War. It goes by many names throughout Peru, but it's most commonly known as the Great Organic Socialist Revolution. The revolution's success was a major turning point in Peruvian history, with the late José Carlos Mariátegui becoming recognized as a socialist hero throughout South America. Eudocio Ravines was installed as the country's first leader.

President Ravines died in 1957 from natural causes, although his death is still shrouded in mystery. After debates by the Peruvian People's Congress, Jorge del Prado Chávez was elected as the RWPRP's second President. A firm maintainer of the Mariáteguist line, Chávez's rule going into 1960 is still popular and effective. Whether it will stay that way, however, is for the future to decide.

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[HISPIDA]

given it some thought and i'll join the discord if my app is accepted. still a little adverse, but it would be for the best.

[The V O I D]

Damn. That's... do we have a fast forward button for when there is a lul in things to do?

I mean, if there's enough support for skipping forward a few months or a year earlier than that page count, sure. But generally these are the Time Mechanics many in the discord implied would work in terms of pacing.

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Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Republic of Peru
República Revolucionaria Obrera y Campesina del Perú
Peru

Government Type: One-party Marxist-DeLeonist-Mariáteguist socialist republic

Mariáteguism, also known as Third Worldism, New Democracy or Organic Socialism and officially known as Marixsm-DeLeonism-Mariáteguism, is a form of agrarian communism derived from the theories of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Daniel De Leon, and José Carlos Mariátegui. Mariátegui substitutes the industrial proletariat of America and Europe for the rural economic base of South America, and after the Peruvian Revolution the rest of the "organic agrarian world"; primarily South America and Africa. It also calls for intense collectivization, primarily in regards to agriculture, and believes that revolutionary fervor among the population of a socialist nation must be maintained and strengthened in order to ward off threats of revisionism, opportunism, and counter-revolution. The most defining feature of Mariátegui is the "Organic Worlds Theory"; or that the industrial basis of a specific nation must form the base for socialist thought, such as the agrarian peasantry throughout Latin America and Africa, the extraction and mining proletariat of the Middle East and Asia, or the industrial factory-working proletariat of North America and Europe.

Head of State: President of the Politbureau Jorge del Prado Chávez

Head of Government: President of the Politbureau

Capital: Lima

Population: 10.16 million

Military Population: 250,000

Territory: Modern-day Peru

Territorial Conflicts: Atacama border dispute; claims the northern part of Atacama, including the cities of Arica, Pisagua, and Iquique --- de jure and de facto in Chilean control

Alignment: PANPACT

History:
Peru was never a hotbed of socialist activity, even after the Second American Revolution. Socialist thought in Peru nonetheless began to spready given the country's proximity to America and, later, Brazil. Tensions finally exploded in Peru after Manuel A. Odría performed a coup d'état against the government and installed himself as President in October of 1948. The social and political upheaval throughout Peru led to violent riots, ultimately culminating in the Years of Trouble and, after American funding and local support, the Peruvian Revolution.

The Peruvian Revolution began at the beginning of 1949. It was the second on the continent after the Brazilian Communist Uprising, and one of the world's first after the Second World War. It goes by many names throughout Peru, but it's most commonly known as the Great Organic Socialist Revolution. The revolution's success was a major turning point in Peruvian history, with the late José Carlos Mariátegui becoming recognized as a socialist hero throughout South America. Eudocio Ravines was installed as the country's first leader.

President Ravines died in 1957 from natural causes, although his death is still shrouded in mystery. After debates by the Peruvian People's Congress, Jorge del Prado Chávez was elected as the RWPRP's second President. A firm maintainer of the Mariáteguist line, Chávez's rule going into 1960 is still popular and effective. Whether it will stay that way, however, is for the future to decide.

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Accepted. Looks pretty neat! Welcome aboard.

[Fidimouni]

Tagged for interest.

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Republic of Cuba
República de Cuba
Cuba

Government Type: Unitary One-Party Marxist-De Leonist-Castroist Socialist Republic

Castroism, the ideology of the young President, Fidel Castro, is a form of communism derived from the theory of Marx, Engels, De Leon, and Castro himself. Castro's ideology can be considered a blend of De Leonism, Marxism, left wing populism, and agrarian socialism, with some elements of syndicalism and democratic socialism being employed as well. He believes that the socialist revolution is upheld first and foremost by the people, and that the people must be at the forefront of keeping the revolution alive. He also believes that Cuba must do everything in its power to defend and uphold the revolution, both at home and abroad. His ideology also calls for the revolutionary spirit of the people to be furiously maintained at all costs to defend against counter-revolution. He also calls for a form of collectivization he calls "the Will of the People", where most economic assets are owned and managed by workers councils and labors unions under the supervision of the state, similar to the cooperatives seen in the American Union State. Most notably, he believes that democracy can be an effective tool to give a voice to the proletariat, provided that it is kept out of the greedy hands of bourgeoisie influence. He often calls the capitalist powers of the East "failed democracies" due to their failure to "defend their democratic institutions from the inherently exploitive device of capitalism". The national legislature, the Assembly of People's Power, is made up of representatives from the aforementioned workers councils and labor unions, who are elected by the people within said councils and unions. They make law based on what the people of the councils and unions want done. Presidential elections are also held every four years between the incumbent President and other members of the Communist Party of Cuba who are candidates.

Head of State: President Fidel Castro

Head of Government: President



Capital: Havana

Population: 7,414,000

Military Population: 1.7%

Territory: Modern day Cuba
Territorial Conflicts: none
Alignment: CASR/PANPACT

History:
After the Second American Revolution, many of the remnants of the former capitalist order in America found (temporary) refuge in Cuba, which up to that point had been a client state of the United States in all but name since independence was granted in 1902.Once there, they began to use what was left of their wealth to influence the Cuban government, and it would end up working. The "National Trust" that had plagued the United States found a new home on the island of Cuba, at the expense of many of its citizens. Unhappiness with continued exploitation would eventually result in a general strike occurring, which was put down violently by police forces. This would cause the Havana Riots of 1925, where workers enraged by the crackdown would begin rioting in the business district of Havana. Nearly a third of it would be burned down before order was restored. Looking to solidify and protect their hold on power, the National Trust would have the government declare marital law, establishing a de-facto military dictatorship. Through their struggles and exploitation, support for socialism would rise sharply among the populace, who continued to protest against the authoritarian capitalist regime despite the declaration of marital law.

The dictatorship would maintain their delicate hold on power for a few years to come, but its rule would continue to steadily weaken when the London Stock Market crashed in 1929. Cuba would be hit hard, considering it had been run mostly by corrupt businessmen, and the already impoverished people of Cuba suffered. Protests intensified, calling for elections to be held. A newly created Communist Party of Cuba, formed by supporters of the American Union State, would support the call for elections, knowing that they would certainly win in a free and fair election. Being under a considerable amount of international pressure, the ruling government would reluctantly concede to these demands. However, the election would end with the ruling party winning over the CPC, due to fraudulent vote tampering. The people would be outraged at the fraudulent result, and dissent had reached its highest level yet. Finally, the first people would rise up in arms against the regime, kickstarting the Cuban Revolution in the summer of 1931.

Armies led by the CPC, supported by the American Union State and other socialist states in the Western Hemisphere, would quickly overrun the country, as international support for the regime was minimal, and whatever support that did come for them was for too little, far too late. The last vestiges of the National Trust had been all but destroyed on New Years Day 1932, which spurred the celebration of New Years as Revolution Day for years to come, a tradition still celebrated today. After the conclusion of the Cuban Revolution, the current government was established, and Ramón Grau, a high-ranking member of the CPC and revolutionary, would be made President.

One of the very first orders of business for the young communist nations was nationalizing the assets of the National Trust, as well as other corporate assets in many important sectors. Redistribution of wealth was made a top priority, and it made an almost immediate impact. Many were lifted out of poverty, and quality of life began to rise drastically in the first years of communist rule. A new constitution would also be ratified, enshrining and solidifying communist rule. Neutrality was maintained through the Second World War, and afterwards, in 1947, Grau would retire from his post as President. He would be replaced by Nicolás Castellanos, another prominent CPC member and former Mayor of Havana. He would continue the policy of Grau up until his death in 1952 under suspicious circumstances. His cause of death had been officially ruled a heart attack, which he did show signs of, though many had suspected that someone poisoned him somehow, perhaps an Eastern spy or a political rival. Regardless, he would be replaced by the up and coming Fidel Castro, who had been steadily rising the ranks of the CPC.

As President, Fidel began to implement Castroism, which helped to bring more power to the people, which they appreciated. Slight changes would be made to the constitution, which would institutionalize the practice of holding Presidential elections every 4 years. His popularity among the people soared, and by the time the 1956 elections came around, Castro would win in a landslide. Now, as a new decade dawns, Castro looks to continue his popular and effective policy. But how long can Cuba's relative prosperity last? That, of course, is for fate to decide...

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[The V O I D]

Cuba is accepted, of course. Very cool!

[Rodez]

Hey Mets, just fyi a lot of us are on the discord if you would like to join.

[Insaeldor]

NATION APPLICATION


Democratic Union of Italian Socialist Republics
Unione Democratica delle Repubbliche Socialiste Italiane
Italy

Government Type: Federal Socialist One-Party Parliamentary Democracy.
Head of State: President Giuseppe Saragat
Head of Government: General Secretary of the Communist Party Palmiro Togliatti
Capital: Rome
Population: 50,198,000
Military Population: 953,762
Territory: all modern Italian territories.
Territorial Conflicts:
Alignment: PANPACT
History:

In the aftermath of the 1st great war. Italy had been devastated, the vanishing presence of the US caused the war to take a greater toll on the Italian front. Venice was occupied after a failed breakthrough attempt at Salgareda along the Piave River. Austro-German forces explained a gap in the Italian lines and poured into southern Venito. But Italian forces fought on, battling gallantly until the eventual end of the war, with its end came an uneasy reality. Economic devastation coupled with the slaughter of a generation had created a context ripe for radical politics to take hold. Former soldiers joined political organizations agitating for change. Some like the Formazioni di Difesa Proletaria were unionists and revolutionary socialist attempting to combat a state they saw as spilling their blood for venal glory, however many more joined nationalist and fascist organizations like Benito Mussolini's Fasci Italiani di Combattimento.

During the Red Biennium these forces clashed as revolutionary forces attempted to take control of factors and state institutions. This would culminate in 1922 with the Battle of the Industrial Triangle. In which FDP allied metal workers and industrial workers would occupy hundreds of factories in Turin, Milan, and Genoa caused by an employer lockout attempt after a series of wildcat strikes in the region. Initially police would attempt to dislodge the factory occupiers but armed workers fought back the police, with many claiming to have formed the Industrial Red Army of the North (Armata Rossa Industriale del Nord / ARIN).

The Police would contract out the Italian Blackshirts to help defeat what was increasingly becoming a revolution in the north. The black shirts and ARIN would battle for days in the Industrial cities, with elements of the Royal Army arriving to help, against the orders of the Army command. The bloody conflict would see thousands dead and would break the industrial occupation. The slaughter of the workers of the North was devastating to the newly emerging communist party, and a deeply radicalized moment for the Generazione Militante faction within the Party, led by Palmiro Togliatti, Ruggero Grieco, and Agostino Novella. However the fascist would use this victory, and the disarray of the left to form his March on Rome, which would bring the fascist to power.

The years between 1922 and 1935 were a time of reflection and reformation of the Communist Party, under the Fascist regime they were forced to operate in secret. The Genoese Faction led by Novella and Togliatti would be the strongest factions of the new Communist Party. It joined the Florentine Cadres, and Bolognese Faction as the most formidable localized Communist groups in the country. Conducting major sabotage operations and conducting direct action attacks against state and fascist institutions. In 1937 Luigi Longo would go to Sicily to meet with Bernardo Mattarella in order to form a united Anti-Fascist Cadre in Sicily.

During the start of the 2nd World War these various Communist factions would spring into action and combat Fascist forces at home with simple insurgent tactics. These would only grow more bold as the new PANPACT initiated military operations in Europe. In 1943 Togliatti would unify the numerous Communist factions into the Renewed Communist Resistance Movement (MRCR) who would form the Arditi del Popolo as an armed military wing.

Their first act of direct conflict with the fascist state was the Battle of Arezzo on June 8th 1943. This was followed by the Catania Insurrection later that month. As well as insurgent street battles in Genoa, Pisa, and Milan. The AP would eventually carve out territory for itself in the rural countryside spanning through Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna, Umbria, and Marche, with its greatest success being the Liberation of Perugia.

At the end of the war the newly reformed Italian Communist Party would form a new Government with the blessing of the Union State. The Generazione Militante would form the core of the New Italian state and would establish a federal socialist democracy. The Democratic Union of Italian Socialist Republics would be official formed on April 10th 1947, with Pietro Nenni serving as the First President of the Socialist Federation, and Palmiro Togliatti took over as leading the People's Congress as General Secretary of the Communist Party, a position he still holds to this day.

The military would be reformed throughout the 40s, forming the Federal Revolutionary Armed Forces (Forze Armate Rivoluzionarie Federali) which would conduct operations against remnant fascist militants, especially in Tyrol and Molise. But by 1953 the position of the new Socialist Federation was strong. Since then Italy has focused on rebuilding its industrial base, while also encouraging its historic artisanal economy seen as historic to its national identity. The policy of Autogestione Proletaria has made many localized industries community owned and operated. Togliatti has also implemented the policy of Lavoro Militante, which seeks to create a strong military force based on the working masses to both protect the revolution at home and to help export the Revolution via the Guardia Rivoluzionaria. The Army would become the realm of Common Defense where all men and women would serve in some capacity, whereas the GR was a voluntary force made to be an ideological pure and capable militant force. This has shown itself as the GR has adopted numerous new pieces of military equipment, including the Franchi FSF-59 in 1960, as well as upgraded ground vehicles from the Union State.

However Togliatti has distinguished himself as an independent, not willing to be bound by foreign actors and always seeking to enforce a uniquely Italian vision of a European Future.



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[Ithalian Empire]

I am going to reserve Sudan. Going to go for a state on the edge of civil war.

[Newne Carriebean7]

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Formal Nation Name (include all languages!)
Spanish People's Republic
República Popular Española
Informal/Casual Nation Name Spain
Government Type:
Ruled by the Communist Party of the Spanish Republic (Partido Comunista de la República Española, or PCRE)

Day to day management of local affairs such as sewage management, education, farming, local trading is handled by an un-elected council of jurados. These jurados hold control of the individual and minor courts, and are often utilized in both transferring criminals and acting as literal judge, juries and executioners, often in the same hour.

Oversight of such Jurados is managed by a mechanism within the Spanish Articles, which allow for a referendum by the next high-ranking official, the Pueblos del Estado, or State's People. To clarify this, the Pueblos del Estado can call for a referendum in the offending town. This referendum is then held in the town if they wish to retain their existing Jurados or replace them with a list provided by the Pueblos del Estado (often allies of said Estado). They can also withhold resources from obstinate local settlements to force co-operation. The Pueblos del Estado also holds the powers to ask for volunteers in the event of a natural disaster or the outbreak of war, though the Jurados are under no obligation to provide citizens for the State armies.

Above the Pueblos del Estado is the government of the individual states, representation from the states to the government is handled through the largely ceremonial Covenant of the Republic (Pacto de la República). Their political powers, at least on paper, are to approve or disapprove of legislation passed by the Secretariat, vote for the individual members of the Secretariat, and to have a significant say in what domestic affairs are a priority, in reality it is simply a rubber-stamp legislature, with a wide array of diverse (but mostly loyal) members filling the hundreds of seats. It is also one of the few chances that the Spanish people can vote in elections, which are held either every 3 years in odd numbered years or whenever the Secretariat wishes to (though this action must be approved by a 2/3rds majority of Secretariat members, so this means a majority of 7 is currently needed.) This legislative body is comprised of 235 members, with a minimum of the following that must come from the following jobs/professions within Spanish society as a whole:

34 hailing from a Farming background.
32 hailing from a Manufacturing background, but must be a "Worker or belong to one of the trade unions."
30 hailing from a party background, often hardline partisans to the regime.
30 hailing from a military background, but must be fluent in Marxist ideology, and are often just commissars that have served in the Army, with little military experience.
29 hailing from the poorest parts of the country, regardless of race, nationality or political leanings privately. However, they all must be members of the PCRE. ("The Everyman and woman")
28 hailing from a top ranking university or of a 'strong educational background' of the country, and are regarded as the "technocrats", with skilled scientists, philosophers and aspiring diplomats with foreign policy expertise.
27 hailing from an editorial and newspaper background, with mandatory "investigative" skills being required prior to joining the legislature.
25 hailing from a creative and inventive mindset, with various top inventors and known figures from Spain being nominated and approved by their peers.

The real-policy makers in the nation lie with the Executive branch of government, known as the Secretariat. The Secretariat is comprised of an ever-fluctuating number of elected and un-elected officials. Although throughout it's history is has ranged from as few as three members to as many as thirty one, the current number is eleven. A proposal can be proposed by any of the members, and following debate on the issue, a draft is written up and voted on. A 51% majority is required to pass most legislation, or six out of the eleven members. The Secretariat is currently comprised of the following members:

Secretary of the Secretariat: Antonio Ortiz Ramírez
Secretary of the Foreign Office: Jesús San-Juan López Sánchez III
Secretary of the Public Enlightenment Office: Ángel Diego

Secretary of the Education Office: Santiago Y Romeo
Secretary of the Naval Affairs Office: Joaquín Rodríguez
Secretary of the Army/Air-Force Affairs Office: Orobón Garcia

Secretary of the Production and Distribution Office: José Buenaventura
Secretary of the Courts and State Justice Office: Casado López
Secretary of the Public Infrastructure Office: Pérez Collado (woman)

Secretary of the Food Distribution, Public Welfare and Agrictultural Office: Antonio Ortega Gutiérrez
Secretary of the Commerce and State Bartering Office: José Lopez Christo

Head of State:

Secretary of the Secretariat: Antonio Ortiz Ramírez
Head of Government: Speaker of the Covenant of the Republic: Sixto Menéndez
Capital: Madrid
Population: 31,000,000
Military Population:
254,000
Territory: (all territory you govern) Mainland Spain
Territorial Conflicts: We want our African colonies back damnit. Spanish Sahara FOREVER!!!
Alignment: Panama Pact
History:

The turn of the 20th Century was not kind to Spain. Cast out from it's status as one of the great powers a long time prior, the final nail in the coffin was when that damn Maine blew up in Cuba. Sure, Spain's abhorrent policies and internal punishing of Cuban rebels did them no favors in the eyes of the international community, but the poor performance of Spain's military thoroughly humilated it on a global scale. The resulting Treaty of Paris saw her final vestiges of Empire ripped from her cold, lifeless hands. A new Generation of artists and intellectuals were birthed from this catastrophic loss against the United States.

Neutrality had to be preserved, and the Spanish state needed saving from the pits of irrelevance on the world stage. A glimmer of hope was when a german with a silly moustache agreed to help out the Austrian with an even sillier looking moustache. Spain stood idly by as the world ripped itself asunder, as millions of soldiers ground each other to dust and powder in the fields of Flanders. Spain sat by, herself torn as to the benefits of rallying forth on either side. When the dust did settle, Spain was rewarded with nothing. A small but growing faction of reformists within the Spanish Military had been gaining traction within the Royal Family, with intermarriages that would make even the deformed Habsburg Royal Line look like a straight arrow in marked contrast to the "family-relations" that happened to go hand in hand with various political maneuverings.

The Queen Regent Christina of Austria utilized her son as a political pawn, twisting arms and forcing the legal age for Alfonso de Borbón to assume his place being at the age of 80. The Long, long reign of the Austrian princess turned head of state of Spain was disastrous. Absolutism was brought back, demolishing over a hundred years of frenzied fighting between liberal and reactionary factions and at least a dozen internal wars over the very issue overnight. Overseeing the shrinking of Spain's overseas territories and seeing the Sun finally set on the Empire that had once brought ancient civilizations to their knees with a few hundred conquistadors. She refused to modernize the armed forces, and instead insited on diplomatic matters first. A policy of "Patria por encima de Dios" (Homeland above God) was meant to instill a system of feverently nationalism and love for Spain (along with a love for Christina, of course). Large scale festivities and religious ceremonies continuously drained the National Treasury, and national wages remained one of the most stagnate among Europe.

The straw that broke the people's back was when the bottom fell out. When London began to report stocks tumbling farther and farther. A small method of reform in allowing Spanish citizens to invest in stocks in return for tax exemptions had reaped benefits for the people. However, all that was wiped out thanks to the resulting Crash. Millions of individual Spaniards went hungry and homeless, all the while as the Monarchy kept their lights on, holding lavish ceremonies that only enraged the people more.

On 3 August, 1930, Christina was discovered by her aides unresponsive in her chambers after reporting to them feeling light headed. A totally unprepared Alfonso de Borbón was hastily coronated as the King of Spain. Although the freshly crowned Monarch initially wanted to do good for his people, he would wound up mislead by those nobility that surrounded him, urging instead to double down on reactionary policies. He would force the Reformists out of their political positions, forcibly annulling various marriages while establishing alliances with reactionaries in an attempt to fix the Spanish Royal Family. The people of Spain suffered even more, but there would be a straw that broke the camel's back. The Leader of the Reformists, Alfonso's sister María Teresa ordered his brother be arrested. Hiring some mercenaries to do her dirty work, a miscommunication between letters led to the unfortunate demise of Alfonso XII, murdered by his sister.

Before the Reformists or María Teresa could really act on the death of the King, the people took matters into their own hands. A massive crowd of thousands stormed Madrid, as socialists called for a general strike. The city came to a stand-still as protestors clamored for an end to the Monarchy and Bread. The Reformers quickly attempted to capitalize on this, proclaiming María Teresa as the new Queen of Spain. However, she would never reach her coronation, as events snowballed into the Spanish Revolution. María Teresa would be arrested on 18 September, 1931, officially ending the longstanding Spanish Kingdom.

In it's place was the Second Spanish Republic. Almost instantly, the forces on the right-wing and left-wing clashed both politically and violently. Between 1931 and 1936, Spain had 35 different governments in power. Governments rose and fell off of the support of a few minor members thanks to slim majorities in the Legislature. Various attempts at solidifying control only really lasted at most three months. Bitter disagreements as to the "correct" path to fixate the economy wore out the patience of the people, who were disappointed in the male-dominated government, who only put a new horse on the same old broken cart that was Spanish society. Although "Patria por encima de Dios" might have been a long since forgotten idea, it's potency in rallying forth new Spanish nationalist movements upon it's rediscovery could not be understated.

The culmination was the disputed election of 1935, which saw the left-leaning Spanish Socialist Alliance win a plurality of seats but lose the popular vote to the far-right collection of parties known as the Homeland Front. The Homeland Front rallied against the government and even declared it illegitimate. A Political crisis that might have been cooled by easier heads was detonated into the First Spanish Civil War (1935-1938). Antonio Ortiz Ramírez won many accolades during the Defense of Madrid, and was promoted to the rank of General. The Government was backed with the assistance of the Union State and had International Brigades of like-minded left leaning groups flood with their weapons and manpower. Slowly but surely, the Nationalists were ousted and defeated from the country, though not without much hardship and bloodshed. Spain was financially and physically devastated by the civil war, but the forces of the left prevailed after a hard-fought engagement.

Now in power, the Central Committee was established to oversee all areas of the country. A small oligarch was established to better "Bind the people" with their beloved "Central Committee." This Committee proved to be stacked with political incompetents and often made sweeping (and contradictory) decisions overnight. The most egregious was it's responsibility for the Famine of '45, which saw over three million Spanish perish. This infuriated individual Spanish, who saw the Committee as nothing more than a repeat of the vehemently hated regency of Christina. Antonio Ortiz Ramírez saw an opportunity. He was untouched by the scandals that had plagued the inefficient ,beaurecratic nature of the Central Committee. They made their move on the 3 August, 1946.

Ramírez overthrew the Committee and established the Secretariat. "This would be more in line with the people" he had assured those below him. However, he had underestimated his enemies, who in response formed a far, far left anarchist utopia called Columbus. Ramírez plunged the nation into a second, far bloodier Civil War, called the aptly named Second Spanish Civil War (1946-1950). Those nationalists that had been forced to flee abroad found unlikely allies in their opposition to Ramírez's leadership. A mis-match of ardent liberals from the Second Republic, intellectuals with a militant side, painters with a touch of violence, and die-hard Spanish nationalists alongside former members of the Royal Family took up arms in opposition to Ramírez's regime. However, it was this amalgamation of ideologies that proved it's weakness. The moderate factions within the Anarchists broke apart and fought the farther-left version of the Anarchists. The Royalists were bribed off and given lifetime supplies of votes in the form of ex-offico positions within the Spanish Military. Still, Ramírez was outnumbered even with all the division and bitterness within his opponents, and so a bloody slog of over four years of Warfare has devastated Spain.

As the dust settled after the end of Spain's bloodiest conflict, Ramírez was forced to compromise. The Spanish Articles greatly decentralized much of the country on a personal level, while also retaining a semi-federalist system and parliament, though it mostly functions as a rubber-stamp to decisions that have been approved by the Secretariat, of which Ramírez was allowed to keep his job as the Secretary of the Secretariat. Ramírez now turns 53 this year, and the prospect of Spain keeping anything together will prove the middle aged man's hardest challenge as of yet...

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[Thai Sweet Billy]

I just got COVID so I'll get a post up soon.

[Ithalian Empire]

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Formal Nation Name (include all languages!) The Republic of Sudan جمهورية السودان
Informal/Casual Nation Name Sudan

Government Type: Parliamentary Republic, currently under a state of martial law.
Head of State: President Ibrahim Abboud
Head of Government: Prime Minister Ibrahim Abboud
Capital: Khartoum
Population: 77 million
Military Population: 200,000
Territory: Modern boarders of Sudan.
Territorial Conflicts: UAR
Alignment: Unaligned, leaning towards ACPM
History:
Sudan is a nation in turmoil. Ever since gaining independence from the British Empire during the revolutions of the 1940's the nation has been stumbling from one crisis to the next. A cotton blight shattered the economy in 1952, causing wide spread poverty within the nation. The effect of this have still not fully gone away. On top of the economic problems are the ethnic and religious conflicts. In the north the overwhelming majority of people are Sudanese Arabs following the Sunni branch of Islam. The south is a patchwork of tribes and languages, however most speak English and follow some branch of Christianity. What the north calls progress than south derides as Arab imperialism. Before the recession these disagreements would cause political grid lock, now they cause political violence.

The 1959 elections were just the most recent example of the slide of the nation into civil war. The National Unitary Party of Sudan formed a coalition government with the Sudanese Labor Party and the National Umma Party. But the coalition was shaky from the start. Dissatisfied people of the south began flocking to parties such as the National Christian Party, the Workers Party of Sudan and the Party of Liberation. Street clashes in Juba and Khartoum would turn deadly with multiple parties fighting in deadly battles. One June 5th then President Abdallah Khalil declared a national emergency. Curfews and restrictions on assembly where implaced. On June 15th the Sudanese National Army would move into the capital with Adballah steeping down as president and General Ibrahim Abboud took power, effectively ending civilian rule in the country. As 1960 dawns the military government has faced opposition from revolutionary groups, separatists and those who wish to return the nation to civilian rule. Currently no one has committed to plunging the nation into a civil war, with Abboud making promises of holding a convention to draft a new constitution. The nation walks the knifes edge and one either side is a plunge into a sea of blood.
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[Benuty]

I'll give it a go for West Germany.

[Benuty]

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Formal Nation Name (include all languages!) The International Socialist Confederation.
Informal/Casual Nation Name Socialist Confederation of the Rhine and the Elbe.
Government Type: International Trust: A mixed system reliant on contributions by the American Union State, Britain, and France in exchange for chunks of economic resources to be granted to the perspective nation to certify as active reparation payments (certified by the Bonn Agreements). In the self-exile of Henry Morganthau Jr to this position, the ideological remnants of war communism practiced at key points in certain states during the Second American Revolution are embodied by the vengefulness of Morganthau. A highly unpopular, but efficient High Commissioner which intends on transforming the area into a zone of international socialism to replace German culture with a new proletarian one. The continued resistance by werewolf organizations means that martial law is enforced for the indefinite future.
Head of State: High Commissioner Henry Morganthau Jr.
*The High Commissioner position usually rotated every two years until the appointment of Henry Morganthau (in 1948) for an indefinite span of martial law.
Head of Government: Military Governor Marie-Pierre Koenig (appointed by the French).
*The Military Governor's position allows the individual to sway more influence from his or her home nation. For the French a pacified border state has become the preference given the German inclination to war.
Capital: Frankfurt
Population: 30 million.
Military Population: Officially the military is abolished with security responsibilities divided between two forces. The 20,000 limited Confederation Service Forces are collaborationists from the German Side that serve as militarized police responsible for surveillance, disaster relief, and implementation of the directives. The next is the International Armed Services which is made up of British, American, and French military service members (100,000) that provide military reinforcements, patrol the skies, and keep the coasts safe.
Territory: The British, French, and American "Administrative Zones".
Territorial Conflicts: East Germany may claim Western Germany but for all intents and purposes the International Trust doesn't recognize the eastern state of Prussia's claims nor does it lay claims towards the east.
Alignment: Panpact.
History:

1945: Henry Morganthau republished his outlined plan for the conditions of treatment towards Germany. The Bonn Agreements are signed in October 1945 with an indication of receptiveness towards Morganthau's plan following a bombing of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremburg. The Bonn Agreements propose the existence of a state between the Rhine and the Elbe. River. Henry Morganthau is appointed to deal with the expropriation of illegally gained wealth back to the nations the Germans stole it from including reserves of artwork taken to be used for German museums.
1946: Touring the extensively damaged city of Aachen on Victory Day (May 7th) French general Maurice Gamelin is assassinated by a sniper resulting in the French garrison to open fire on the civilians. The death of 31 civilians makes an international scandal, but the assassination of Gamelin outpaces outrage for civilian deaths. The French occupation Zone as a result becomes one of the strictest administered zones to deal with the security concerns, and the military governor begins speeding up deindustrialization of the area. Bernard Montgomery is assigned as the High Commissioner of a unified occupation effort, and begins negotiations with the French on how to handle the transfer of the Saarland over to them. Contention between British and French officials over the direction of the Morganthau Plan lead them to agree to the formation of the Economic Council.
1947: Tensions heigten in protests over deindustrialization in the Ruhr valley resulting in strikes, but attempts to deal with the laborers results in an attack in Essen by werewolf militia groups. This begins the start of intense resistance by Nazi resistance starting a wave of assassinations of collaborationists, allied authorities, and gunfights between occupation military and the Werewolf militias. As retributive punishment deindustrialization is increased, and according to some statistics populations in certain areas see a remarkable decline, but not from immigration.
1948: The guerilla conflict blooms into open rebellion with the American presence in Munich all but driven out. After a three month battle between werewolf forces and a combined front the decision was made to firebomb the city into submission. Other lowscale battles were done, but none matched the intensity of Munich. The results from Munich result in a more punishment-oriented candidate to replace Montgomery as High Commissioner with Henry Morganthau.
1949: Henry Morganthau situates the capital at Frankfurt and begins the process of radically transforming German peoplehood, society, and culture. The Ruhr Valley, Rhineland, the Kiel Canal and surrounding areas began to be industrialized with focus to adjust this "new state" to the reality of postwar Europe.

Morganthau's Objectives
1. The Economic Trust Council: Primary objectives of Deindustrialization, Socialization, and Reparation.
A. Emigration of Skilled professionals and their families to other nations to serve in their industrial capacities now that the areas of high capacity industry are to be deactivated.
B. The Economic Trust Council must deal with price controls, rationing, unemployment, production, reconstruction, distribution, housing, and transportation.
C. Reintegration of political, ethnic, and religious prisoners who were imprisoned by the former Nazi Regime.
D. Establishment of routine international inspections of former industrial sites to ensure their neutralization.
2. Communism of War
A. Abolishment of the aristocratic Junker elite, and their estates due to their contributions towards the imperialist actions of Germany, and the Nazi regime.
B. Prohibition of political, and economic offices for those with ties to the SS, Gestapo, Nazi Party,
C. Intense period of reconstruction to focus the states on commercial and agricultural activity for the benefit of the wider socialist world.
D. Intense Denazification on all levels of society ranging from universities, newspapers, cultural groups, and elementary schools.
E. Revolutionary Oaths to ensure that collaborationists work towards the goals of an international socialist future (working towards fifty percent of the population).
F. Establishment of the Ministry of Trust Security to fight counterrevolutionary activity, monitor the development of the population, and fight the development of German identity in favor of promoting a proletarian culture based in international socialist participation.
3. Communism of Peace
A. Establishment of collaborationist state authorities organized by local communities to ensure administrative efficiency, security, and stability.
B. Establishment of Internal Passport System to allow collaborationist revolutionaries the right to establish press, attend university, and participate in Party systems, and bureaucracy.
C. Establishment of the Ministry of Education to oversee proper socialist education principles is implemented.
4. Establishment of the Ministry of Participation: Encouraging outside immigration from other socialist powers to transform the German landscape, hosting of musical shows from different cultures, and fashion trends, and easing the populace of collaborators into a new model.

1950: Registration of all males within the Trust to help serve the needs of society with regards to labor, and national disasters, and to help transition their focus outward. The registration system has a secondary purpose of screening for the potential radicalization of former Hitler Youth, and military as well as identifying potential Werewolf guerillas. The reformed members of the SS, Gestapo and other units noted for German war crimes will help serve in reconstruction efforts, especially in former Germany's neighboring countries. The twenty-year project is commenced to ensure the transference of Germany from a Trust towards a new nation, one so attached to the socialist world it can't function without it.

1951: The Baden-Baden trials deal with dozens of lesser-known participants in the Nazi Regime. Twenty percent of the former German population have taken the revolutionary oath. The first May Day fair is hosted as a tribute to a socialist culture with heavy sponsorship by French musicians, and artists.

1952: Working with international experts on the Holocaust an attempt is begun to construct a series of monuments, plaques, and signs that detail the events leading up to the Holocaust as well as commemorate the lives of those lost during it.

1953: The population of the International Trust stabilizes at 30 million. The Radio Trust Fund is established to ensure that homes are equipped with radios as partly a way to ensure party unity, and also to help provide material goods in which the new proletarian culture can flourish.

1954: The Free Commune of Hamburg is established as a local political entity demonstrating the further decay of centralization on the local level. The High Commissioner allows the city its own passport and sense of cultural identity.

1955: Technocratic elements within the Economic Trust Council convene in Bonn to discuss computerization viewing this as an outlet to end the hardest parts of the plan, and focus instead on turning the former German states into an economy run by computers. The primary argument is that computerization could enable the payment of reparations faster, and ensure trust in the people to not go to their old counter-revolutionary ways.

1956: The 1st Revolutionary Congress is held with representatives from the communes, and the states (Lander). The first subject was discussions on the establishment of a customs union between European Socialist partners in order to foster mutual economic development. This will allow the tying in of reparation payments to be used more constructively.

1957: The 2nd Revolutionary Congress begins discussions on the future of the former Germany. Some advocating a split into three states: The Rhineland, North, and South while others look for a demilitarized, neutral, and passive Germany to form from the Trust. Another party wants to keep in line with internationalist proletarian culture, and politics to ensure the new state doesn't repeat the same mistakes.

1958: Following the destruction of a major werewolf hideout and command network that had been plaguing Hesse the international troop force stationed in the former Germany is reduced by 30,000.

1959: The 4th Revolutionary Congress upon news of 50% of the german population taking the revolutionary oath meet to discuss how to approach the High Commissioner to end the state of martial law. Morganthau refuses to end the state of martial law until 70% of the population have sworn the oath, this action extremely alienates the Revolutionary Congress.

1960: Entering 1960 the halfway mark of trusteeship is up, but political discontent is rising. Henry Morganthau is a highly unpopular if efficient High Commissioner, but rumors are in the work that the time is coming for one of the collaborators to take the reigns and bring the former Germany back under local control.

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[The V O I D]

Accepted, though I am wondering how this PANPACT meeting will play out now...

[Yorkfurt]

NATION APPLICATION

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Formal Nation Name (include all languages!) Kingdom of Prussia/ Königreich Preußen
Informal/Casual Nation Name East Germany, Royal Germany, Prussia

Government Type: Constitutional Monarchy
Head of State: King Louis Ferdinand and in his absence her Majesty Queen Kira Kirillovna
Head of Government: Chancellor Olaf Steiner
Capital: Berlin(eastern portion), Frankfurt (De Facto and location of new Royal Palace)
Population: 17,188,000
Military Population: 1% 171,880
Territory: Remains of East Germany(lost Kaliningrad)
Territorial Conflicts: Has claims on all former German territories minus Kaliningrad
Alignment: CTO
History: After the great turmoil at the turn of the century the world and it's ideas shifted. America and the west collapsed into Marxism, fulfilling, at least partially, Marx's dream of industrialized nations revolting. These problems were further increased when the greatest of the old Imperial powers such as England and France succumbing to Socialism. WW2 occurred at the Axis powers were defeated, Germany was split in two by the Communist western states and the Imperialist and capitalist forces from the East. The was had taken a devastating toll on the German people and economy, millions were dead by the end of the conflict with the Tsars banner finally flying over the reichstag and Imperial Russian forces meeting red American forces. A line in the sand had quickly been drawn, tearing about countrymen in the nation of Germany. The Western portion had been given over to the communists and totally transformed, the foreign powers initiating large changes. The East survived, though it was a shadow of it's former self.

The Tsar saw this as an oppurtunity to create a buffer state between the Russian Empire and the enemies of this new "Cold War". Luckly, their were former royals of the German monarchy that had survived and one such one was Prince Ferdinand whom had already married the Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia. The Tsar capitalized on the defeated German people in this regard, a huge propaganda campaign was launched talking about the "reivigorating" of the Prussia people and glory from the ashe's of the Nazis whom had tarnished their proud people. This worked and the Kingdom of Prussia was brought forth, a vassal state of the Russian Empire but an important one that had recieved much finanical support. Luckly, many former German military forces were eager to retain some honour and glory and also formed the core of the new Prussian military. Battered but eager to see a better future for their children. Today, in 1960, the economy has had a steady if a bit slow recovery thanks to many former German businessman fleeing east following the western forces approach. Prussia enjoys some autonomy but is for all purposes a Russian puppet, though it is allowed much leeway as long as it does not interfere with the Tsars goals.

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