2050: Terra Obscura OOC

by **The Manticoran Empire** » Fri Dec 02, 2022 10:08 am

The world in 2050 is a very different one from ours of the present. Borders have changed, treaties have fallen as new ones have risen. The monopolar American order of the 1990s through the 2020s has fallen by the wayside as a new, multipolar order has risen, centered around America, Europe, China, and India.

Below you can find an abbreviated timeline of significant events, intended to provide you with a general idea of what the world looks like and what can be expected going forward.

24 February 2022 to 1 November 2024: Russo-Ukrainian War. The conflict sees both economies brought to ruin and heavily reliant on foreign support to rebuild. 503,000 Ukrainians and 512,000 Russians were killed or wounded during the war, however the war ended in a negotiated settlement after Ukrainian counter offensives in 2024 pushed the Russians back into Crimea.

2023: The UNSC expands for the first time, adding India to the list of permanent members. SpaceX flies the first private passengers around the Moon.

2024: The Treaty of Ankara is signed between Ukraine and Russia November 1st, officially ending the conflict. Russia cedes all claims to Eastern Ukraine while Ukraine cedes all claims to Crimea. In the wake of the war, while Europe and the West help to rebuild Ukraine, Russia is forced to turn instead to China and India. The economic scars of the war remain to the present day in both nations.
NASA and the ESA collaborate in the launch of Artemis II, the first crewed mission of the Artemis rockets. The Lunar Gateway Station was launched in November, planned to be operational in time for Artemis IV in 2027.
Russia completes its withdrawal from the International Space Station. However, due to economic troubles, its own space station is delayed. Russian Cosmonauts instead conduct missions alongside Chinese taikonauts on the Tiangong station.
Axiom Station became the first privately owned and operated space station in Earth orbit.
Protests in Iran grow beyond the ability for the Tehran regime to control. Starting after the murder of a group of schoolgirl protesters, massive protests start across the nation and include important industries like the oil and even parts of the standing armed forces.

2025: After nearly three years of negotiation, the Constitution of the United States of Europe is signed in Brussels on May 9th. A modification and consolidation of previous EU treaties such as the Treaty of Lisbon, the new Constitution is ratified by the national assemblies of Europe by the end of August.
In Africa, the East African Community ratified their new Constitution on July 7th, forming the East African Federation.
Artemis III is launched, resulting in a return of humans to the Moon for the first time since the 1970s. American Astronaut Angela Hayes becomes the first woman and first person of color to set foot on the moon.
The ISRO, India’s Space Agency, launches and concludes its first manned spaceflight, with Aditya Pillay and Mahendra Rhagavan to become the first Indians in space launched by their home nation.
The November Revolution in Russia begins, seeking to oust Putin.

2026: The UNSC is expanded again, this time adding Brazil to the list of permanent members.

2027: Artemis IV launches, delivering a habitation module to the Gateway Station and completing a Lunar Orbit.
Starlab becomes the second private space station after Axiom. While Axiom is primarily serving tourism and other commercial interests, Starlab is focused towards serving research interests.
The June Revolution in Russia begins, seeking to oust Vdovychenko, Putin’s replacement. The June Revolution concludes by November with the rise of the Free Russia Party to power.

2028: Artemis V delivers ESPRIT refueling module to Gateway before landing on the Moon to deploy the Lunar Terrain Vehicle.
Blue Origin and Sierra Space launch the Orbital Reef Space Station, the third commercial space station. The station serves as a mixed use business park, serving various clients.
The PRC lands its first mission on the Moon.

2029: SpaceX, an American private space company, lands the first manned Starship on Mars.
Artemis VI delivers the Gateway Airlock Module before landing.
The USE begins work on its own space station, intended for astronomical research.
Russia adopts a new constitution.

2030: Artemis VII lands with the Habitable Mobility Platform, enabling longer stays on the Moon.
The Mosul Dam in Iraq collapses. Mosul is almost entirely destroyed while the cities of Tikrit, Samara, and Baghdad are heavily inundated with water. 1.5 million people are killed in the flash flooding and millions more are displaced. The massive economic disruption ripples throughout the Middle East and the world as oil prices soar.

2031: Artemis VIII lands.
In the end of an era, the International Space Station begins its retirement as sections are deorbited to burn up in the atmosphere.
As oil prices continue to rise after the Mosul Dam disaster, the USE and other states accelerate efforts to transition away from oil.

2032: Artemis IX lands with the Foundational Surface Habitat.
India launches their own space station, capable of housing three people for 15 days.

2033: Artemis X lands.
Tiangong III is extended for five years as China prepares a new station.

2034: Artemis XI lands.

2035: SpaceX and other private space companies establish permanent private settlements on the Moon, largely as a waypoint ahead of trips to Mars.
China, the USA, and the USE establish permanent Lunar bases, though only the American and European bases are manned.

2036: China announces Tiangong IV will launch on schedule in 2038.

2037: Lunar mining efforts begin, spearheaded largely by US companies.

2038: China launches Tiangong IV.

2039: India and China stake mining and territorial claims to Lunar soil.

2040: The USA and USE stake their own mining and territorial claims.

2041: Tensions rise between Taiwan and China as the Taiwanese polls indicate 60% support for independence. A skirmish occurs between Chinese and Taiwanese police in the waters off Kinmen. No one is injured but tensions flare with the Chinese deploying a carrier group. The US deploys their own, leading to a tense stand-off that lasts most of the year.

2042: China expands its provocations against Taiwan. Another shooting incident occurs between Taiwan and China, this time in the South China Sea between two vessels belonging to their respective Coast Guards. No damage or injuries are reported. However, two weeks later a Chinese J-10 collides with a Taiwanese F-CK-2 fighter, killing both pilots. China blamed Taiwan for the incident while Taiwan blamed China.

2043: The United States proposes the creation of a Pacific version of NATO. Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, and the UKexpress interest. China condemns the proposal as inflammatory.

2044: Border skirmishes between India and Pakistan flare up again. A large-scale Indian Army offensive in Kashmir directed against Islamist militants comes into conflict with Pakistani force. Shots are exchanged, leaving seven soldiers and thirty civilians dead. Skirmishes continue for nearly a year.

2045: Indo-Pakistani skirmishes come to an end, leaving over two dozen Indian soldiers and a roughly equal number of Pakistani soldiers dead and dozens more wounded.
USA announces new military space station, to be named Freedom. The space station is claimed to be intended to facilitate US Space Force efforts to maintain America’s constellation of satellites without relying entirely on launch windows and weather patterns to cooperate. China and Russia condemn the announcement, decrying the ‘Militarization of Space’. India chastises the United States for ‘Further destabilizing the final frontier’. North and South Korea start initial talks on a framework for reunification, backed by both China and the U.S. with further talks on more concrete actions set for 2050.

2046: USA and USE land on Mars in a joint mission, establishing a permanent research outpost. China and India follow by the end of the year.
Tensions flare again between China and Taiwan as a shootout between Chinese and Taiwanese police near Kinmen leaves two officers dead and three more injured.
In light of rising tensions, Japan, the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand,and the UK form the Pacific Treaty Organization. China and Russia immediately condemn the organization, with China going so far as to declare it a ‘threat to World Peace.’

2047: After years of debates, the CSTO and SCO are formally merged. India withdraws, however, due to the favoritism of China and Russia towards Pakistan.

2048: Richard Lowe, Senator from Florida, is elected President alongside longtime Ohio Senator Jorge Gomez. The pair vow a return to strengthening the military and shoring up alliances in both the Pacific and Europe.

2049:

2050: RP Starts.

With the context out of the way, below can be found the application and lists of reserved and accepted nations. When it comes to creating a nation, a wide degree of latitude can be accepted, provided that you are able to provide an interesting and engaging reason for why things work out the way they do and that it does not contradict events of other applications in your region or the overall history.

I will also lay out the rules of this RP here, to ensure that they are noticed.

1. DO NOT GODMOD! No, but seriously, don’t Godmod, it makes the RP terrible.
2. The word of the OP and Co-OP is final.
3. Keep everything PG-13, please.
4. Do not mix IC and OOC problems, and please keep it courteous in the OOC and IC.
5. If you have an issue with another player, please ask the OP or Co-OP to moderate it.
6. Please coordinate with other players if you want to jointly write a post/negotiate deals.
7. Posts must be at least two paragraphs long and of good quality.
8. Be respectful.
9. The point of divergence is 1 November 2022, unless otherwise stated in the main history timeline.
10. Posts can cover a span of up to three months. Each three-month period starts following an IEC post except for the first period. The start date is January 1st 2050.
11. Players must make at least one post a week, meaning at least every seven days from each post. Extensions may be granted by the OP and Co-OPs on a case by case basis.
12. Any changes to the irl military must be laid out in the military information section, otherwise the numbers etc will be assumed to be the same as irl.
13. Not a rule, but do try to have fun.

Application:

Code: Select all: Nationstates Name: Nation Name: Capital: Territory: Population: Official Language: Recognized Languages: Flag: National Anthem (optional): Head of State: HoS Picture: Head of Government: HoG Picture (If different from HoS): Legislature Name: Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each): GDP (PPP): GDP (Nominal): Currency: Space Capabilities/Information (Must be approved by OP and Co-OPs) Military Information (Will likely vary from IRL): Alliances (Will likely vary from IRL): History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OPs): Do not remove - Alpha777

Reserved:

The People’s Republic of China
The Republic of Zambia
The Kingdom of Thailand
Libya

Accepted:

The Russian Federation
The United Kingdom
The United States of America
The United States of Europe
The Ukraine
The Union of Maan Country
The State of Greece
The Republic of Korea
The Republic of Cuba

Discord is required, 90% of discussion will occur there.

IC Thread is Live

by **NewLakotah** » Fri Dec 02, 2022 2:39 pm

Nationstates Name: NewLakotah
Nation Name: Russian Federation
Capital: Moscow
Territory: IRL Russia. De Jure: Crimea. Claimed (annexed 2022) but not enforced: Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhia
Population: 139 million
Official Language: Russian
Recognized Languages: There are a variety of recognized regional languages
Flag:
National Anthem (optional): State Anthem of the Russian Federation (official)
The Cossacks (unofficial - anthem of the June Revolution)

Head of State: Tatiana Smirnova
HoS Picture:
Head of Government: Alexander Davydov
HoG Picture (If different from HoS):
Legislature Name: State Duma
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each): Free Democratic Russia

2000-2050 order of presidents

Vladimir Putin (Independent/United Russia) - 2000-2008
Dimitri Medvedev (United Russia) - 2008-2012
Vladimir Putin (Independent/United Russia) - 2000-2025
Andrei Vdovychenko (Patriotic Union) - 2025-2027
Alyona Arshinova (Free Russia) - 2027-2035
Elvira Aitkulova (Free Russia) - 2035-2043
Volya Sorokin (Rodina) - 2043-2047
Tatiana Smirnova (Free Democratic Russia) - 2047-

Russian Political Divisions as of 2050:

Security Council of Russia:
President and Chairwoman of the Security Council - Tatiana Smirnova
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council - Igor Levitsky
Secretary of the Security Council - Mikhail Ivanov
Chairman of the Government (Prime Minister) - Alexander Davydov
Chief of Staff of the President - Ivan Volodin
Chairwoman of the Federation Council - Katerina Pavlova
Minister of Defence - Fedot Stepanov
Minister of Foreign Affairs - Kirill Pushkin
Minister of Internal Affairs - Anastasia Alexeeva
Director of Internal Security - Vladimir Zakharov
Director of Foreign Intelligence - Sergei Egorov

Composition of the State Duma, 2050:

Free Democratic Russia - 275
Social Democrats of Russia - 99
Rodina - 58
All Russia’s Party - 16
Freedom Party - 2

Composition of the Federation Council, 2050:
Free Democratic Russia - 87
Rodina - 49
Social Democrats of Russia - 19
All Russia’s Party - 8
Freedom Party - 7

GDP (PPP): 7.1 Trillion
GDP (Nominal): 3.256 Trillion
Currency: Ruble

Space Capabilities/Information (Must be approved by OP and Co-OPs)

During the 2020s, Roscosmos and the entire Russian space industry took a massive hit due to political instability, corruption, and massive budget cuts. In order to maintain some level of profit, Roscosmos relied heavily on contracts with China on supply missions and manned missions in order to stay afloat.

During the late 2020s, in the aftermath of the June Revolution, Roscosmos was a high target for the new purges of Putinists and corruption. Massive audits of the state corporation were order and dozens of people were fired from their jobs or even arrested as part of the Arshinova purge of Russia’s oligarchs and corruption that had grown rampant under Putin. This proved to be destablizing to Roscosmos in the short term and coupled with the budget reductions, struggled to stay afloat and many programs were delayed or cancelled outright. However, the withdrawal from the ISS proved to be beneficial to Russia as it reduced expenditures and allowed these funds to be spent on maintaining rockets and finishing development of others which proved useful to continue to prop up Chinese space flights as they continued to surpass Russia in the space race.

The purges did however prove to be quite successful in the more long term. As efficiency and corruption decreased, productivity increased as new energetic leaders took hold of the state corporation. Through partnerships with private Russian and Chinese companies in the early 2030s, Roscosmos was able to slowly develop its funding more and more through alternative means as a process of putting money forward towards new developments. With the Russian space station cancelled, Russia relied heavily on China and partnered with them on their development of a space station.

As the 2030s progressed, Russia began to stabilize, politically and economically. This allowed Russia to slowly allow itself to rebuild from the wars and revolution. Its primary focus remained on redeveloping its armed forces and that took the priority. However, realizing how far Russia was falling in the space race and seeing how ready the United States was to take the fight to space, Roscosmos soon took new priority status in the Russian government.

With newfound vigor and large new spending packages, Roscosmos soon began development of new medium and long term projects designed to get Russia back into the race. With the United States, China, and Europe all establishing a permanent presence on the moon, Russia sets its focus on establishing its own base there as well. By the end of the 2030s, Russia’s new Yenisei manned space vehicle is launched.

As the world enters the 2040s, and with USE and the United States preparing to establish their own presence on Mars with China and India following after them, Russia focused solely on getting to the moon, the target that had eluded the Soviet Union. The early missions to the moon were unmanned, testing the new lander that was built in 2047.

With a new lander, Smirnova rallied the nation with the goal of establishing Russia’s first manned moon landing in its history before the end of the decade. However, time would prove that to be a rather over zealous target. The new lander went through several trials and several delays with the weather set the the timetable back considerably, along with developmental delays with the Hab module. The unmanned missions to the Moon, Rodina-1 and Rodina-2, were launched in 2047 and 2049, the latter being around a year behind schedule. These two set up the preliminary base area with the launch of a small Russo-Chinese lunar rover, a science drone, and other supplies for the habitat were launched in the first launch. The second carried more supplies and gear, along with the Hab module.

The eventual manned mission, comprised of 5 cosmonauts, was to be Russia’s triumphant return to space and their entry into the ongoing space race. However, the manned mission was delayed for a variety of reasons, forcing Smirnova to announce its launch in 2050. The mission remains active.

Other projects currently in develop are as follows:

Planned expansion of the Lunar Russian Habitat. Including the launch of Hab-2 and 3, to increase scientific investigation of the moon, increase habitat size, and improve self-sustainability.единство-1 (Unity-1), is scheduled in 2050 or 51 and will launch the second Hab module. Unity-2 will launch communications, satellite, scientific, and space-farming equipment and modules. Unity-3 will see the launch of Hab-3, the final habitat module, which will see the sustainability module, with will power and serve as greenhouse of the entire habitat. Beyond this, resupply missions are scheduled at a near-yearly basis to ensure that the inhabitants are properly transferred out after a certain time and new supplies are issued. Scheduled: 2050-55

Planned expansion of presence on the moon with the launch of Июнь (June) missions. These include the establishment of a second lunar habitat, primarily focused on establishing a spaceport and developing commercial operations on the moon. Scheduled:2055-59

Launch of the Russian Spacestation. Designed to serve as an intermediary hub with long term expansion plans, the Russian space station will allow long distance space travel with reduction costs through the launch of deep space missions from space rather than from earth. It can also store materials from the moon and allow for cheaper, reusable travel to occur between the station and the Russian spaceports on the ground. Scheduled: 2059 (deadline given by former President Aikulova)

Manned mission to Mars. Roscosmos is in the development process of a new deep space habitat mission to the red planet. Currently, the vehicle required is still in the early stages of development, however Russia does possess the rockets capable of making that launch. Currently, the schedule has two unmanned missions to set up and supply the base, followed by the third and final manned mission that will establish the Martian Russian Research Lab. Much of this work relies on partnerships with China and their ongoing missions to Mars and the moon, to which Russia assists in the development of and is able to adapt it for its own uses. Scheduled: 2059+

Military Information (Will likely vary from IRL):

Alliances (Will likely vary from IRL):
CSTO, SCO, EAEU, CIS

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OPs):
Refer to post below

Do not remove - Alpha777

by **NewLakotah** » Fri Dec 02, 2022 2:40 pm

by **Chewion** » Sat Dec 03, 2022 4:21 am

NewLakotah wrote:
In 2022, Vladimir Putin authorized the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine. 190,000 Russian soldiers invade the territory. After some initial successes, the Russian invasion bogs down due to intense Ukrainian resistance, significant corruption and poor leadership, and significant Western support. In late 2022, Ukraine is able to, with Western support, launch significant counteroffensives resulting in Russia declaring partial mobilization to stem the tide.

The mobilization orders prove to be greatly unpopular, however, initially it does stem the Ukrainian tide. However, The Ukrainian counteroffensives of 2023 and 2024 see the entire front collapse, leading to a withdrawal of Russian forces from the entire country of Ukraine, except for the territory of Crimea. After months of negotiation, Russia agrees to the Treaty of Ankara, which cedes all claims of Ukrainian territory except for the territory of Crimea.

This marks the beginning of the end of Putin’s Russia. The unpopular war turned into a total disaster that cost half a million Russian lives and resulted in a total defeat of Russia at the hands of Ukraine and the West. Public opinion turns violently against Putin who moves quickly to shut down opposition voices and movements. However, there is little he can do besides shut down protests through arrests and often open violence and suppression.

The March 2024 presidential election sees Putin grasping on to power by banning several opposition parties and candidates from running. This only proves to make him more unpopular and, despite technically winning 57% of the vote, most view the results as a show put on by Putin. By November and the signing of the Treaty, support for Putin hits all new lows as Kadyrov and other Putinists openly turn their back on him as well as virtually the entire cadre of the military. Many desert and join protests and marches across Russia.

The situation grows worse during the November Crisis, where National Guardsmen and federal police shut down several thousand young Russians from marching on the Kremlin. After several scuffles, the police open fire, killing 9 protesters and wounded another 25. The crackdown, however, proves to be his downfall. The outcry cannot be contained this time.

Thousands of veterans of the Ukraine War, most of whom blame the senior leadership and Putin himself for the failure of the war, take to the streets. Many of them carrying their weapons. Some of them even take tanks from their units and drive them along the roads leading to Moscow. Putin deploys the National Guard to interdict the “western funded terrorists” as he refers to them, however, the National Guard proves unable to stop them as many National Guardsmen refuse to fire on the soldiers and even join with them.

The movement is led by Colonel Andrei Vdovychenko, a combat and war hero from the Ukraine War. The movement soon sees tens of thousands of soldiers, former soldiers, national guardsmen, and other service members join in the “Patriots Army '' as they call themselves. However, they are far from the only political movement gaining power and taking to the streets to express their support. Pro-Putinists, including soldiers and veterans and many from rural areas, form counter movements, while young radicals form their own “Communes” in many areas, including St. Petersburg and Moscow, as part of a new Communist movement in Russia.

Soon, prying eyes from the outside become prying hands. Sensing an opportunity, Ukraine begins to actively support the young radical movements while the United States and the United States of Europe, now being formalized, begin to also support the democratic factions against Putin through both tacit and open support.

This, however, backfires slightly, as Putin and United Russia are able to consolidate power around it by using the “western influence” card again and again to rally Russian nationalists across Russia to the banner of United Russia. In early 2025, all elections are postponed indefinitely due to Putin declaring a state of emergency across Russia in response to the protests and the Patriot’s Army slow march.

By February 2025, there are three major factions now competing for political support in Russia with the Duma falling into absolute chaos as United Russia and Putin’s regime attempts to hold on desperately to power and as more and more Putinists abandon him for the opposition movements. The three factions are: United Russia. Putin’s party. Lead by Putin himself and surrounded by his loyalists who include General Shoigu, Alexei Dyumin, Andrei Turchak and many others.

The Patriot’s Army is the second. In January they form the Patriotic Union, a new political party and faction led by Vdovychenko and several former United Russia leaders, such as Alyona Arshinova, Anton Demidov, and Elvira Aitkulova. These form the political front, with Vdovychenko being the de facto head of the very loose coalition of a party. The main front, however, is the Patriot’s Army, which continues to grow in support from veterans and active duty soldiers and are camped outside of Moscow by February of 2025 with nearly 11,000 former and active soldiers, many of whom are armed and equipped with several armoured vehicles and tanks. They are opposed by the loyalist government forces, which include regular army soldiers, FSB, and the National Guard who number nearly 34,000 outside the capital.

The third is led by Russian youth and formed around the Communist Party. These numbers are swelled each day by the thousands of ethnic Russians fleeing the ongoing insurgency and war in the Donbas for safety in Russia away from the Ukrainian government and retribution at the hands of the Ukrainian government. These groups are vehemently anti-Putin who see him as the architect for the failure of the operation and for losing their land and their homes. These generally divide into either the Patriot’s Army or into the Communist/Socialist faction. This is largely a misnomer for many of them. Some of them are simply left-leaning individuals, others who dream of recreating the “glory days” of the Soviet Union, and others who are simply looking for democratic reforms.

The fourth, and very minor political movement, lead by established parties such as the Democratic Party of Russia and Yabloko, are pro-Western reformers who seek to rehabilitate their image and prospects by allying with the West. It is this movement that sees the most support from the United States and from Europe as a whole, however, in early 2025, they remain on the outside looking in at the brewing tensions and brewing conflict.

With Russia in a state of emergency, Putin looks to his allies for support. However, there is little support to be found. China is unwilling to stick its neck out for Putin who they are beginning to see as a failed leader and begin to actively seek pro-Chinese allies in the crowd, initially finding support in the left-wing factions due to their shared affiliation of communism, with Chinese agents attempting to help form their political ideas in line with Chinese ones. However, this only has limited success in early 2025.

February is the month that turns Russia on its head. At long last, the Patriot’s Army makes its way towards the city of Moscow to overthrow the Kremlin. Waiting for them are the Loyalists. The Battle of Moscow begins as a protest, with nearly 400,000 people taking to the streets of the capital and St. Petersburg. In St. Petersburg, the protests are successful. Most of the police stand down or even join the protests themselves and only a handful are arrested. Most of these being liberated after only a short time as protestors storm police precincts and the police headquarters, taking up weapons as needed and securing the city as a “Free City of Russia”.

Meanwhile, the protest in Moscow turns violent almost immediately. FSB and National Guardsmen open fire on the protestors leading to a chaotic scene as the Patriot’s Army rolls in to save the protestors leading to the Battle of Moscow. The Battle, however, is a lopsided affair. Outnumbered, outgunned, and without sufficient support, the Patriot’s Army is dispersed with nearly 300 casualties, while the government forces take only 47.

The battle however, is truly the last straw for Putinism. The outcry against the regime becomes unbearable for Putin, who retreats into hiding in the Kremlin, surrounded by thousands of guards and his loyalists. St. Petersburg is declared the new capital of a “Free Russia” and the opposition movements join forces to form the “Free Russian Patriotic Front” and the Free Russian Army mobilizes nearly 150,000 people into its ranks. The FRA, operating in the ideals of the Red Army of the past, welcomes all members, men and women, and sets about arming them as a People’s Army.

The largest force of the Free Russian Army forms in the East, funded by Chinese aid. The Army Group East moves quickly, seizing the cities of Ulan-Ude, Omsk, and Novosibirsk without a shot. Vladivostok takes more time, as Putin loyalists battle with the FRA for 3 weeks before the FRA raises the Victory Banner and the Tsarist variation of the Russian tri-colours being raised over the city on June 9th, 2025. By July, the Russian Federation is at the point of total war. Low intensity battles rage across the entire country. The world, and Russia, braces for a total civil war.

However, with conflicts breaking out and Putin losing ground and loyalists, he is eventually forced to abdicate in the Kremlin. In a televised broadcast, Putin declares that he will step down as President of Russia and hold an open election in November of 2025 for both the Duma and the presidency. Almost immediately afterwards, Putin flees the country, finding refuge first in Kazakhstan then in Iran. The move is widely praised globally. However, there is a problem within Russia. The united opposition is not united. They are only united in ending Putin’s regime in Russia. They are not united in how they want to replace the governance.

The following months see the opposition attempting to form a unity government in the lead up to November with Vdovychenko and Vasily Kipchak being co-leaders from both political factions. Meanwhile, the pro-western factions, lead by Boris Titov and Nikolay Rybakov, enter the fray for the first time, advocating a third way for the reforms to turn. This leads to a massively split opposition movement, which benefits the remaining members of the Putinist club and United Russia.

In an attempt to appeal more broadly, United Russia shed the name and instead calls themselves “All Russia’s Party” in an attempt to achieve the widest possible support. Generally, this does little to grow their support as they fundamentally remain Putinist in the eyes of most Russians. However, the All Russia’s Party maintains solid support, particularly in rural areas of Western and Central Russia.

In the lead up, Western nations announce their desire to send observers to the election. This is met with intense outrage from virtually all sides in Russia who soundly reject any “western interference in Russian affairs”. Even pro-Western parties quietly shoot down the idea to western contacts, saying that any western involved could upset the entire political balance. With no external observers, the November elections are held.

The Results are widely controversial and only add to more confusion. While, generally, there is little voter suppression, the vote is still widely split and pressure from all sides on independent voters is dramatic.
2025 presidential election results:
Patriotic Union (Vdovychenko/Kipchak) - 24%
All Russia’s Paty (Turchak/Shandalovich) - 21%
Yabloko/Democratic Party (Rybakov/Titov) - 20%
Communist Party of Russia (Grozny/Shustkov) - 17%
Free Russian Movement (Dadonov/Kuban) - 14%
LDPR (Didenko/Slutsky) - 4%

Runoff (January 4, 2026):

Patriotic Union - 59%
All Russia’s Party - 41%

Duma election results:
Patriotic Union - 100
All Russia’s Party - 83
Yabloko/Democratic Party - 83
Communist Party of Russia - 78
Free Russian Movement - 73
LDPR - 33

No party gains a majority and no candidate gains a plurality leading to a runoff election scheduled for January. There, the Patriotic Union corrals the opposition vote and steams ahead to victory. However, the conflict and the election crisis does not end there. With an extremely divided Duma, there is a mad scramble to form a united coalition. This is a lot easier said than done. Kipchak is a left-wing socialist. Vdovychenko is a right-wing nationalist. They have little in common despite Kipchak being Prime Minister and Vdovychenko being President.

Kipchak takes the role of Prime Minister seriously and considers himself head of government and thus has no reason to listen to the president on matters of forming a government. This causes a massive divide as Kipchak forms his coalition with the Communist Party and with Yabloko, which is also left leaning. Vdovychenko wanted to align with the LDPR and the Free Russian Movement who leaned more right. Thus Vdovychenko dismisses Kipchak as Prime Minister only 3 weeks into his administration and appoints Andrei Koralev as the new Prime Minister. Koralev is another right wing nationalist and a close ally with Vdovychenko.

This move breaks the fragile opposition immediately. The Communists and left-wing youth rally around Kipchak and hold massive rallies across Russia, many waving the Victory Banner and the soviet flag. Vdovychenko is limited in how to respond. Not wanting to look like a Putinist clone, he can’t send in the military or the police to shut down the protests and now, without any majority in government, is completely unable to pass any legislation. There is nothing but total stalemate in Russia.

Meanwhile, economically, the weight of this failing soon leads to Russia’s worst economic depression since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Exports fall 40%. The Ruble collapses and inflation spikes to double digits and sometimes hits as high as 50%. Vdovychenko, trying to steer without a rudder, has no choice but to dissolve the government and hold a new Duma election in July of 2026.

July election results:
Socialists and Communists of Russia - 289
Patriotic Union - 100
All-Russia’s Party - 41
United Democratic party - 20

In the election, the Patriotic Union merges with the LDPR while the left-wing factions merge to form the Socialists and Communists of Russia who steam ahead to a massive victory, forcing Vdovychenko to return Kipchak to his position as Prime Minister. The United Democratic Party is formed from Yabloko and the Free Russian Movement, but loses significant voters to the left-wing rallying cry of reform from the Socialists and Communists.

Now, with a divided government, Russia attempts to figure things out. Geopolitically, Vdovychenko pursues a path of rehabilitating Russia’s image with its allies and presenting an image of strength. He sets off on a tour of EAEU nations to try and reconcile the relations and ease their concerns. He visits Belarus twice to ensure Russian support will not fail Belarus. He also meets with representatives from China to ease their concerns over their largest partner. However, he does little to ease their concerns.

Moreover, he attempts to reform the Armed Forces. He appoints General Antonov Survakin, a fellow Ukraine War veteran and one of the leaders of the FRA, to reform the Russian military. The armed forces are in chaos with political factions being formed within the military and reforms are hard to come by. However, Survakin begins with massive purges of Putinists and dissolves the National Guard, the icon of Putinism. However, with a declining economy and budget, there is little to be done to address many of the most pressing concerns.

Meanwhile, Kipchak embarks on his own mission. Beginning with his own purges. The government of Russia passes two new anti-corruption laws targeting Russian oligarchs with ties to Putin and seizes many Putinists assets and nationalizes them. This added with laws targeting police and purging 78,000 police officers from local and federal services service as the “De-Putinization” of Russia continues. In late September, the All-Russia’s Party is banned. However, this backfires as this only stirs more tensions between Vodovychenko and Kipchak, it also stirs discontent within the opposition and radicalizes many Putinists into action.

Led by Dyumin, a new wave of political protests are formed with Dyumin daring Kipchak to shut them down as Putin had done. Kipchak, initially, does not fall for the bait. He instead focused on passing two new economic bills to stabilize the unsteady economy.

However, the opposition continues to crack. The Security Council of Russia is nearly a constant battle and neither the President nor Prime Minister see eye to eye on anything. This results in the eventual break up of the entire system.

In January of 2027, the political fracturing only worsens. Kadyrov enters the fray as a national leader, calling for conservative nationalism and a rebuilding of Russia’s military. Kadyrov is highly popular amongst veterans and former Putinists. Meanwhile, Arshinova and Aitkulova both leave the Patriotic Union as a result of its continued internal troubles and establish a new political party and movement, the Free Russia Party. The Free Russian Party is a centrist, nationalist big tent party, designed to attract Putinist, conservative reformers, and moderate reformers from all sides.

Both movements gain traction and Vdovychenko and Kipchak find themselves losing ground. Dyumin continues to cause troubles from the All-Russia’s Party until Kipchak finally sucumbs to the bait. In February of 2027, Dyumin is expelled from the Duma along with the entire party. Immediately, the outrage follows. Dyumin is arrested in February on corruption and subversion charges. However, most see this as political and protest the arrest. Even people who are anti-Dyumin and anti-Putin see this as a return to the old ways and take to the streets to protest what they see as a failing government. Calls for a new election grow stronger, however neither Vodovychenko nor Kipchak want to give up power and both continue to point fingers at each other.

The situation only grows worse during the spring and by May Vdovychenko and Kipchak are both in struggling to keep the country afloat as protests grow and discontentment increases. Vdovychenko and Kipchak both finally agree on something and declare a state of emergency in May 2027, which proves to be unpopular with the opposition, as it continues to consolidate power in the two leaders who have thus far not shown any ability to actually govern effectively outside of instituting purges on opposing parties. Meanwhile, the infighting in the Duma has left it in nearly useless condition by June of 2027.

However, Vdovychenko can actually do something about it. In June of 2027, Vdovychenko dissolves the Duma again. This time its Vodovychenko who falls for the bait. The outcry that follows is immediate. The Free Russian Army, the same army Vodovychenko built, fractures. Half of the army plus the regular army under Survakin ally with Vodovychenko. The other half align with the new Free Russia Party. Under orders from Arshinova and Aitkulova , the FRA storms the Kremlin and the prison and free Dyumin as well as to arrest Vodovychenko and Kipchak as “traitors to the Motherland”. Vdovychenko escapes and Kipchak is left behind and arrested.

Thus, in less than two years Russia has suffered two revolutions. The November Coup which overthrew Putin and the June Revolution which overthrew Vdovychenko. The loyal faction under Survakin take issue with this and soon battles rage across Russia as revolutionaries and counter revolutionaries battle in Omsk, Belgorod, Kursk, St. Petersburg and Moscow. 2,000 soldiers and civilians are killed between June and July and the government remains technically empty as no side has a clear position to claim it. Arshinova claims the position of presidency in July of 2027, however, the Kremlin had been retaken by Survakin’s forces on July 1, leaving her without the ability to formally claim it. Instead, she forms a government with Aitkulova in St. Petersburg, the capital of “Free Russia”. They plan on holding elections as soon as the fighting ends.

Assisted with Chinese weapons and aid, Arshinova’s side soon gains the advantage. However, Survakin gains support from western sources and from Ukraine, giving him a boost as well. However, the Chinese aid is more efficient. The Free Russian Army of the East captured the grand arsenal at Ulan-Ude on August 3, capturing nearly 5,000 soldiers. The ranks of the Free Russian Army soon begin to swell further, as defectors and enlisted grow rapidly. Employing the same strategy for the FRA as from the early days, men and women are allowed to serve the Motherland against what they claim is now a “military dictatorship”.

The month of August sees more combat. The battles begin to fall into further stalemate as the FRA fails to capture significant enough modern equipment to match that of the regular forces. Despite the early victories, the possibility of the failure of the revolution grows after the battle of Tula (August 9-21) sees nearly 500 FRA soldiers killed and 4,000 captured while only inflicting 200 total casualties on the enemy. Arshinova’s glorious revolution to Free the Motherland seems to be failing.

In the East, the FRA gains significant progress, but by and large is unable to replicate that success in the central and western regions of the country. Meanwhile, as a result of the political chaos and internal fighting, Ukraine launches its own military operation. This time to seize the Crimea. Outcry from all sides in Russia is immediate, with Russia calling on Western powers to stop Ukraine from upsetting the peace agreement. Responses from the West, however, are muted. All sides in Russia point fingers at each other and blame each other for allowing a Ukrainian operation. Crimeans organize a defense supported by a handful of Russian regular units that were not withdrawn.

Without significant support from the main Russian army or from the Free Russian Army, the Crimean defenders are at a significant disadvantage. Despite bitter and at times heroic defense, the Russian forces on Crimea are forced to either withdraw or surrender after the month-long operation, resulting in nearly 3,000 Russians being killed, wounded, or captured by the Ukrainian Army.

However, support, from the outside, is soon to arrive. In order to stabilize their brother country, Belarus intervenes with nearly 10,000 soldiers on the side of Arshinova against Vdovychenko. They break through the border defenses and link with the 1st Guards of the Motherland (FRA) at Smolensk forming a Grand Army of nearly 70,000 soldiers, while the III Corps, centred at St. Petersburg, begins its own drive southwards towards Moscow. By September, the allied forces are at the gates.

The Siege of the Kremlin begins on October 19, 2027. Vdovychenko retreats into the Kremlin surrounded by his loyalists while fighting rages in the streets. Not wanting to destroy the city, most of the regular army surrenders in Moscow, leaving only a few thousand in the Kremlin. The battles for the Kremlin are hard fought. However, after 3 days and 400 dead, the Kremlin lies fallen. Vdovychenko and Survakin are amongst the killed. The June Revolution is over. Russia is officially at peace, again.

Arshinova and Aitkulova form a transitionary government centred around the Free Russia Party. They announce elections will be held in November of 2027. In the meantime, they set about rebuilding the war torn country and again, reforming the military that had been again swept into war and conflict. The second wave of purges are not as severe and most loyalists are given amnesty. However, the infrastructure of Russia lies largely in ruins. However, Chinese aid begins to pour in, helping rebuild much of what was lost.

November 2027 elections:
Free Russia Party (Arshinova) - 304
Party of Peace (Kuznetsov) - 82
Socialists of Russia (Kuban) - 45
Democratic Russia (Naryakin) - 15
All Russia’s Party (Dyumin) - 4

The 2027 elections see Free Russia sweep the elections and Arshinova is elected President of Russia. Now, with a full majority and a unified nation, Arshinova has the ability to begin to actually fix the issues within Russia, beginning with repairing the damages of the Ukraine War and the two revolutions. The process is slow and long, but helped with significant Chinese aid and Russian shipments of energy begin to flow again back onto the market, ending the energy crisis that had been plaguing the world as a result of the internal crisis in Russia and allowing Russia’s economy to slowly grow.

However, as the world continues to devolve away from oil, coal, and natural gas, including Russia’s primary trading partner for these goods, China, the income from these sectors do not rise to the pre revolutionary levels and with sanctions still on from the West, very little oil and gas flows towards Russia’s traditional trade partners. Russia’s economy sees only minor improvements as a result of this stability and unemployment and GDP remains low. Arshinova attempts to continue to battle this through investing into Russia’s other natural resources, such as mining operations and uranium enrichment, which proves to be Russia’s most stable energy source due to the massive increase in demand for nuclear energy from Europe, China, and the Middle East.

The Russian economy during the late 20s and early 30s are also marred by significant corruption and war damage from the years of political instability and two revolutions. This leaves Russia’s economic conditions sub-par. With corruption and oligarchs remaining in significant control of Russia’s largest developing sectors, Russia also sees a ceiling limit on how much development it can achieve.

Arshinova institutes her own purges, however, purging former loyalists to either Putin or Vdovychenko. New anti corruption laws are passed and in 2028 a new constitutional process is formed to redesign the Russian constitution. New laws on elections are passed to ensure greater electoral freedom and both the Duma and the presidential election are shifted back to a 4 year cycle and governorships return to being elected positions. The status of the Russian Orthodox Church remains enshrined as Russia’s National Church, however, clear caveats towards freedom of religion are expounded and freedom of speech, freedom of expression and the right to protest are further enforced through the constitution.

Overall, animosity against the west remains high. Most Russians continue to blame them for their interference in the War in Ukraine and consider them as open enemies of the State of Russia. With the continued sanctions against Russia, animosity against the west only continues to grow as the economy struggles to be able to rebuild lacking significant partners from the West. Instead, Arshinova is forced to find new partners within Asia and the Middle East, as well as trying to form new partnerships in Africa and South America.

These prove to be mildly successful in stimulating economic growth and Russia’s economy begins to slowly stabilize. However, it remains significantly under pre-2022 levels. Again, this only spurs further animosity against the West who, after funding the war against them, now continue to levy sanctions nearly 10 years after the conflict. Arshinova, for her part, does little to sway the public feelings and instead uses it as motivation to continue to rebuild Russia’s strength and power to be able to prevent further interference and open hostilities against Russia from the West.

The 2030 Mosul Dam collapse sees massive ramifications for Iraq as a nation and for the Middle East as a whole. Iraq’s significant oil production drops significantly, dramatically increasing oil prices, and allowing Russia as the world’s largest oil producer, to see a return to profitability in its oil industry for the first time in years. However, as the shock dissipates, oil prices return to equilibrium as more and more countries continue to shift away from oil due to environmental and security concerns.

However, Arshinova is able to capitalize on this and use the funds to invest into increasing Russia’s mining operations and agricultural outputs in the short term and investing back into Russia’s manufacturing sectors for automobiles and aircraft as its primary global exports as well as increasing SOEs in other industrial sectors related to manufacturing of consumer goods aimed at export markets in Asia.

The 2031 General and Presidential Elections are held. Arshinova is elected to a second, and final, term while Free Russia continues to dominate the political field.

2031 Presidential Results:

Free Russia (Arshinova) - 54%
Social Democratic Party of Russia (Kuban) - 28%
Democratic Russia (Naryakin) - 8%
Party of Peace (Kuznetsov) - 7%
All Russia’s Party (Levin) - 3%

2031 General Election Results:
Duma:
Free Russia - 299
Social Democratic Party - 89
Democratic Russia - 45
Party of Peace - 9
All Russia’s Party - 8

Federation Council:
Free Russia - 89
Social Democratic Party - 35
Democratic Russia - 26
Party of Peace - 11
All Russia’s Party - 9

The 2031 election does see significant shuffling however. The Socialists and Communists along with several minor left-leaning parties merge to form the Social Democratic Party of Russia. Their platform moves from being a generally democratic socialist policy towards a more social democratic platform and advocates significant reforms to the entire system of Russian welfare and social services, as well as improving working and economic conditions for Russians. Democratic Russia also sees significant gains, largely as a result of positioning themselves as the primary big-tent pro-western party and largely a centre-right leaning party, while All Russia’s continues to flail near the bottom of the list while Party of Peace is considered no longer a necessary party, as the violence seems to have ended in Russia.

With a new mandate from the Russian peoples, Arshinova and Aitkulova embark on two new strategies towards redeveloping Russia’s image and position. First, economically, comes two packages designed to stimulate foreign investment into Russia through new tax incentives. The second includes creating new national industrial and manufacturing sectors to further stimulate industrial growth in Russia through 100 billion ruble investment programs in central and eastern Russia as well as investment programs into the tech and financial sectors of western Russia.

Meanwhile, further reforms to the social services sector of Russia see new investment into healthcare and childcare, in order to improve Russia’s fertility rates and to protect mother’s health. Furthermore, Russia increases its per child payments and introduces universal pre-K. Effectively extending public school from 4-5 onwards. These moves do increase public spending significantly. However, with Russia’s economy slowly recovering, Russia is more able to withstand the spending for social services.

Arshinova also begins to rebuild the Russian Armed Forces, which have largely remained stagnant since the end of the war and throughout two revolutions. After instituting her purges of the military, the military largely continued to rebuild slowly and continue to attempt to maintain a semblance of order should the West launch an invasion.

The Russian Strategic Defence Policy 2050, outlines a new 20-year plan to rebuild and rearm the entire Russian Armed Forces. This begins through massive restructuring of the existing system, continuing to sell off old equipment and replace it with newer systems, and forming several new officer and non-commissioned officer training centres to stimulate a professional military. Arshinova institutes new pay rates for contract soldiers in order to stimulate growth in that sector. As a result of two revolutions and increasing animosity against the west as a result of continuing sanctions, the contract corps grows significantly.

By 2035, The Russian Armed Forces numbers nearly 590,000 soldiers, including contract and conscript soldiers. The conscription system was largely broken as a result of the fighting and revolutions and Arshinova attempts to rebuild the army to be able to defend its border through restarting conscription and rebuilding the contract soldier corps. The Russian military remains a shell of its former self and the attempts to rebuild are slow, as the national defence industry requires several years to return to its former tract. Thus, the introduction of new military equipment remains slow and even the Armata platform introduction remains very slow, with only an average of 20 new pieces of equipment being introduced during the late 20s and 30s.

This slow progress is not enough for many Russians, particularly many of the soldiers, who played a major part of the revolution and the status of the Russian Armed Forces was one of the main reasons that instigated the Patriot’s Army movement in the first place. These formations begin to reform as a political movement again, demanding greater resources allocated to the RAF. Arshinova resists these calls, stating that Russia’s economy cannot maintain its current inventory and cannot build at the rate they are demanding.

This is not enough for many of them and Free Russia loses significant support in the lead up to the 2035 elections.

However, the end result is still a victory for Free Russia, despite the growing discontent from both the left-wing reformers and from the growing discontent from the Russian nationalists, Aitkulova, Arshinova’s former Prime Minister, steps in for Arshinova who is term limited from running for a third term.

2035 Presidential Results”
First Round:
Free Russia (Aitkulova ) - 45%
Social Democratic Party (Kuban) - 30%
Democratic Russia (Denisov) - 15%
All Russia’s Party (Levin) - 10%

Second Round:
Aitkulova - 55%
Kuban - 45%

State Duma election results:

Free Russia - 236
Social Democrats - 100
Democratic Russia - 74
All Russia’s - 29
Patriotic Union - 11

The 2035 Duma elections see the return of the Patriotic Union into politics led by General Sergey Belkin. The Patriotic Union advocates a return to Russia’s role as a regional and global power and blames Arshinova and Aitkulova for failing to deliver these results. The left-wing Social Democrats continue to make waves as the social services of Russia continue to underwhelm despite the attempted reforms.

Nonetheless, the dynasty began under Arshinova continues, as Arshinova becomes Deputy Chair of the Security Council and Aitkulova becomes President. She appoints young reformer and rising political star Igor Levitsky as her new Prime Minister. The move is largely popular as Levitsky is known for his reformist views that appease many, even on the left wing side.

Levitsky engages quickly on the matters of dealing with the government. Corruption has declined significantly, however, there are still many issues facing Russia’s corruption issue. During the revolution, the Russian Mafia and the oligarchs gained significant wealth and power and all attempts to break these up failed due to lack of resources and resolve. Aitkulova and Levitsky do not lack this resolve and now have sufficient funds and resources to fulfil this role.

Declaring a state of “war” against the mob and against the oligarchs, Aitkulova institutes a massive new criminal justice reform bill that improves conditions for arrested individuals and targets corruption within the police department. Through the Federal FSB, several oligarchs and leaders of the Russian mafia are arrested in high profile affairs. However, everything is not that simple. Open gunfights between mafia families and even with police become commonplace in many cities. Aitkulova struggles to deal with this fallout, however, after nearly 3 years of intense back and forth, the power of the oligarchs and mob are diminished significantly, which opens new pathways for local businesses and entrepreneurs.

These new acts, followed by new economic programs that reduce taxes on startups and Russian entrepreneurs, increase the level of liberalization in the Russian economy, stimulating further growth. Russia’s GDP increases by its largest margin in nearly 2 decades when it reaches 4% annual growth between 2037 and 2040. With these new funds, Aitkulova is able to sway many of the concerns from the left through new healthcare initiatives designed to improve quality of life and life expectancy. New taxes on alcohol and cigarettes are introduced to reduce consumption. These are somewhat unpopular, however, they do result in decreased consumption and significant increases in tax revenue. All of which is allocated towards Russia’s healthcare system.

The improving economic conditions also lead to further improvements to the Russian Armed Forces. Increased funding for the national defence industry sees production of weapons and ammunition increasing to nominal levels for the first time since 2024. However, as the rest of the world begins their own space races, Russia lags significantly behind. As a result of the revolutions, Roscosmos was left largely in the dust as Russia withdrew from the ISS and the Russian space station was repeatedly delayed before eventually being canceled in 2026. Lacking sufficient funding for both the armed forces and the space program, Aitkulova does little in this regard outside of increasing funding marginally to allow for new spacecraft to be designed for deep space missions by the end of the decade and into the 2050s.

The 2039 election results, again, see Free Russia steaming ahead towards victory under Aitkulova. However, again, it is a weakened result. Further pressures from the Patriotic Union and the Social Democrats result in a minority government and Free Russia is forced to agree to a coalition government with Democratic Russia. Much to the chagrin of the Patriotic Union and All Russia’s. Democratic Russia, while largely economically and socially on the same page as Free Russia, differs greatly on their view towards military and defence spending and advocate for a policy of reconciliation with the west. Most of the rest of Russia opposes this due to the ongoing sanctions and western interference in the revolutions.

The coalition government, however, does work well together. New programs for economic activity are increased. Trade with India and China increase dramatically. Russia institutes new programs to develop clean energy and clean fuel in an attempt to battle climate change and to become a new energy supplier of clean energy to central asia and to China. The Russian Armed Forces reaches 1 million members for the first time since 2025 and reaches its equilibrium 1.5 million by 2043. Mostly through contract and conscription servicemembers. In 2041 Russia also ends all barriers to women to join the Russian Armed Forces, increasing recruitment rates. By 2042, Russia’s demographic problem has largely stabilized. Thanks to improved life expectancy, healthcare, improved fertility rates and immigration rates increasing from new sources in the Middle East and Africa as a result of new immigration laws passed by the coalition government.

However, with a divided view, rapprochement with the west largely stagnates, as Aitkulova remains largely unwilling to engage with the west on serious issues despite Democratic Russia’s continued calls. Democratic Russia calls for improved relations with the USE. Aitkulova considers them as adversaries and refuses to back down on her view regarding their sanctions and actions during the 20s. This divide eventually breaks the coalition down in 2043, just before the general election. Aitkulova, term limited, hands the reigns of Free Russia to Levitsky. Levitsky’s star, as a result of the coalition government, has largely waned. The rise of nationalist forces, eager to see Russia return to the global stage after 20 years have become nearly unbearable for Russia to withstand.

The 2043 elections see the electorate widely split. General Belkin, now in his 70s, steps down and instead cedes the position of power of the Patriotic Union to General Volya Sorokin, a younger retiring general at the age of 49. He is one of the first of a new wave of Russian senior military staff that were young combat officers during the Ukraine War and had become Russia’s commander of the Russian Ground Forces in 2040. The role of Russia’s military as a weakened state plays heavily on the minds of most Russians who see the rise of the USE and the United States as existential threats to the Russian Federation and use the evidence of their involvement during the revolutions and their funding of the Ukraine War as evidence, as well as the continued sanctions by the west through most of the 20s, 30s and into the 40s.

The Social Democrats, now with less of a platform to stand on due to the improving social security and anti-corruption laws fall to third party position, while Free Russia under Levitsky falls to second. Rising all the way to the top is the Motherland Party, or Rodina. Formed from the Patriotic Union and a merger of several smaller regional parties under Sorokin, Rodina sweeps to victory, securing a majority in the Duma and a minority position in the Federation Council as well as the presidency.

Sorokin appoints Maxim Orlov as Prime Minister. Orlov was a fellow combat veteran in the Russian Armed Forces as well as during the revolutions as a member of the Patriot’s Army. Both individuals are extremely popular and have no issues in gaining full power. The election comes at a time of increasing global tensions, however.

The United States proposed in 2043 to establish the Pacific Treaty Organization, a counterpart to NATO. This greatly upsets China and Russia, who now see themselves being hemmed in on all sides by Europe and the United States. This only increases fears of future wars and proxy wars against the West and, with Russia’s military still improving, the ability of Russia to defend itself is at serious risk.

Thus, almost immediately upon being elected, Sorokin and Orlov announce massive new restructuring programs and budget increases for national defence. Focusing on developing naval warfare strategies to defend the Pacific theater and air and ground forces strategies to defend their land border against a Euro-American invasion of Belarus or other CSTO allies, Russia begins to develop new armoured vehicle designs to combat these threats. The new T-45 Tsar platform of vehicles are introduced in 2045 but did not see serial production until 2049. The Russian Air Force expands its orders of 5th and 5++ generation aircraft to expand their air defence capabilities, while the Russian Aerospace Forces announce a new 6th Generation aircraft in 2044, slated to begin testing in 2050 and enter serial production in 2056.

The Russian Ground Forces also adapt their strategies and tactics in order to prepare for both a full invasion of the Motherland and for proxy war defenses in Eastern Europe,the Caucasus, and the Middle East, as well as improving their quality through joint training with Chinese and CSTO partners to ensure their abilities are matched should war break out on the continent. At long last, talks to improve security for the Eurasian continent becomes increasingly popular, especially with China as a full member and de facto leader of the CSTO. This ‘regime change’ affects deeply Russian pride on the matter, however, given Russia’s internal insecurities and threat of invasion from Europe remaining high, Russians merely grit their teeth at their reduced influence in their own alliance and work to improve their position and standing.

Sorokin also, with Chinese help, expands Russia’s space influence with goals to establish a permanent base on the Moon by the end of the decade and restart Russia’s plans on developing their own space station. However, these plans are forced to be slashed somewhat, and the launch date is postponed until 2050 under Smirnova.

However, for as much progress that was made on the defense side, little progress was made economically. Russia’s economy flatlines in 2045 as Russia’s exports of oil and gas continue to shrink, leading to a short recession and massive outcry against Sorokin and Orlov who flounder in the economics and fiscal department. With the economy beginning to tear and funding increasingly going towards defense rather than social services, popularity wanes significantly. Every attempt by Rodina to swing back voters fail and the 2047 election proved to be the death toll for Rodina’s attempt at creating their own political dynasty.

However, what they had set in motion was not to be undone. Their moves for the RAF and Roscosmos were highly popular. It was their economic policies that proved to be their undoing. Capitalizing on this and running under the platform as “Russia’s natural ruling party”, Free Russia and Democratic Russia merge officially in 2046, with the ardently pro-western party splintering to form their own minority party the Freedom Party. The Freedom Party, however, has only limited support and falls to the bottom of the party list.

The Free Democratic Russia Party, however, under the new leadership of Tatiana Smirnova, another veteran of Arshinova's June Revolution. Smirnova joined the revolution as a Cossack at the age of 18 and saw combat during the Drive on Moscow and the Siege of the Kremlin. During the reign of Free Russia, she was the leader of the Young Guard Movement of the Free Russia Party and extremely popular amongst women voters and young voters who drive the election cycle. During the 30s, she worked as the primary economic advisor for Arshinova and Aitkulova. With the nationist factions divided, Smirnova gains significant support from disenfranchised Rodina voters and consolidates centrist and center-right voters. The union between Democratic Russia and Free Russia sees a new moderate approach develop towards the West as a whole. In an attempt to push Russia’s position forward, the long held antagonism against the West is dropped from the Free Democratic Russia’s platform. While the United States and the United States of Europe are still considered serious threats to Russia’s existence, the CSTO offers significant protection against Western interference in Russia’s sphere of influence. Thus, the antagonism is largely dropped in exchange in order to improve trade relations and to improve cooperation on issues such as climate change and energy.

This new ‘middle way’ of Russian politics proves to be largely popular with Russians and Free Democratic Russia wins in a landslide election with Alexander Davydov being elected as Prime Minister. The new leadership of Russia begins to open avenues of dialogue towards the west while still continuing to develop new strategies for the modern zones of combat. The Russian Space Forces are expanded and new weapons are designed. The Russian Ground Forces adapted their military strategies to form Rapid Reaction Forces, formed from battalion tactical groups for rapid deployment across the MIddle East, Central Asia, and Africa. These are designed to protect Russian military, economic, and political interests in these areas against foreign intervention, as well as to provide military support for allied African states.

As a result, China’s influence remains heavy over the alliance and Russia’s role remains that as a secondary power rather than a partner, something that irks many Russians and something that Smirnova begins to attempt to rectify as Russia’s status grows from failed state back towards a developing one. Russia’s GNI reaches 15,500 in 2049, ensuring its place as a upper middle income country. However, significant work is still needed to make the final jump back into the ranks of the high income countries as Russia continues to rebuild from the revolutions.

Russia’s economy continues to be a major issue. Russia’s reliance on exports of energy and natural resources has limited Russia’s ability to develop as dependence on oil and natural gas shrink considerably. Russia has attempted to resolve this by investing in new industries such as technology, consumer goods, and other light manufacturing. However, these are still developing industries with little global export reach outside of the Eurasian Union and parts of the Middle East. Due to Russia’s liberalization of the market, FDI increased during the 30s, however, by 2050, this growth largely stagnated during Rodina’s turn at power and Russia has returned towards a more centralized economic approach through the creation of national industrial sectors (NIS) in a variety of fields. Through this mixed-market oriented design, Russia’s economy remains stable if not a rapidly developing one.

Russia’s demographic issues remain a key concern. While population growth has been charted for the past few censuses, the political chaos and overall downturn of the Russian economy lead to thousands of Russians moving abroad. Many of these have returned, however, many more remained outside, either in CIS nations or moving to the West. Russia continues to try and improve this through improved natural growth rates and immigration rates. Politically, Free Democratic Russia’s return to power continued the dynasty of the June Revolution and maintains its status as Russia’s dominant natural ruling party.

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by **Hypron** » Sat Dec 03, 2022 7:40 pm

Nationstates Name: United Kingdom of Hypron
Nation Name: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Capital: London, England
Territory: Modern UK
Population: 74.08 million
Official Language: English
Recognized Languages: N/A
Flag:

National Anthem: God Save the King

Head of State: King William V
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Head of Government: Prime Minister Damian Wilkinson (CUP-ON)
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Legislature Name: Houses of Parliament
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each): The House of Lords is controlled by the Conservative Party, while the House of Commons is controlled by a coalition of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

GDP (PPP): $5.4 trillion USD
GDP (Nominal): $5.1 trillion USD
Currency: Pound Sterling

Space Capabilities/Information:

Military Information (Will likely vary from IRL): Let’s go over this by branches, shall we?

Alliances (Will likely vary from IRL): Commonwealth of Nations, Imperial Confederation, PTO

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OPs):

With the 2020s beginning with the mass economic downturn from COVID and Brexit, the United Kingdom in the early portions of the decade was already in a fragile position. Then the War in Ukraine began, sending British energy prices skyrocketing and inflation to a 40-year high and causing even more economic instability. Then the ‘Triple Cabinet Crisis’ hit, with Boris Johnson’s resignation, Liz Truss’ disastrous premiership, and finally the ascension of Rishi Sunak to the office of Prime Minister, which overall tanked investor confidence and shook the pound even more due to the ‘mini-budget’ and shook confidence in the Conservative government to an all-time low. Needless to say, the 2020s were not off to a good start for the UK.

The Sunak Government would be dominated by 2 individuals, Prime Minister Sunak and Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt. These 2 men would basically be responsible for the 2 ½ years of fiscal conservatism emphasized by the Conservative government. Controlled public spending, tax increases, and natural inflation stabilization happened between 2023 and 2025, turning the British economy from ‘on the brink of collapse’ to ‘some sort of stabilization’. However, you don’t get credit for filing your own messes, and so the Tories got absolutely manhandled by Labour in 2025, with Labour gaining 422 seats and a large majority.

Now with a working majority, Labour began to implement policies outlined within the Labour 2022 ‘Stronger Together’ manifesto. Working with local governments and the Trade Union Congress, the Starmer Government began reinvesting in the British economy, mainly in green energy and digital sectors, in order to modernize and revolutionize it, and force Britain out of its slump. He increased funding to the NHS, restored funding to police services, and passed measures to decrease the cost of living for British citizens. This turned the economy from ‘some sort of stabilization’ to ‘the economy is growing for once’.

Foreign policy wise, with the unification of the European Union into the United States of Europe, Starmer began realigning Britain to the United States and the Anglosphere, mainly Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. This led to the foundation of CANZUK, an economic bloc with the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, striving for free trade, unrestricted travel, and (in Britain’s case) closer interweaving of the 4 economies.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the bench, Labour’s victory shook the Conservative and Unionist Party, leading to a change in factional strength. The One-Nation Conservatives, once relegated to the backbenches by the Thatcherites, surged in popularity within party ranks. When the 2030 elections rolled around, the Tories chose Damian Green, head of the One-Nation Tories, to lead them into 2030, facing off against Starmer. While it was looking to be a landslide for Labour yet again, events in the Middle East would change matters once again.

With the collapse of the Mosul Dam in 2030, the economic effects would be felt throughout the world. Britain, with a high need for government investment and still needing oil to run key industrial needs with conversion still ongoing, took a large hit. Investment went down, and Britain spiraled back into a recession. During elections, Labour lost 55 seats but managed to maintain the premiership and their large majority. Starmer used the opportunity used by the collapse of oil trade to boost the British green energy economy. Meanwhile, in order to have more funds, he cut the British 2032 and 2033 defense budgets, increased taxes, and lowered funding for non-critical sectors of the NHS, which allowed the British government to continue its mass green energy investments.

The 2035 General Election saw the Tories once again gaining seats due to criticism of the needlessly high government spending, as well as their cuts to British defense. Now led by Prime Minister Lewis Lawrence, Starmer’s former Chancellor of the Exchequer in his second government, the Lawrence Government was less focused on economics (mainly following his predecessor) and more on defense and foreign policy. He expanded the 2036-2040 British defense budgets, allowing for the overhaul and strengthening the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force.

His main foreign policy goal was to begin closer integration of CANZUK and to shift British foreign policy to a more Indo-Pacific focus. With the permission of the Australians to use Sydney as a home port, the United Kingdom shifted the carrier Prince of Wales to create the British Pacific Squadron, usually consisting of a carrier, a Type 45 or (from 2040 onwards) a Type 83 destroyer, 3 Type 26 frigates, 2 Type 31 frigates, 1 Type 32 frigate, an Resolution-class attack submarine, and a Dreadnought-class ballistic missile submarine. In order to make up the gap that was felt in defenses in the Home Islands, the United Kingdom and the United States began work on Joint Base Plymouth, an defense project to turn the Plymouth docks into a massive naval base for the newly rebased US Sixth Fleet.

In electoral terms, with the belief starting to spread that the spending of the current Labour government is starting to get to be too much, with national debt rising exponentially, Labour began suffering setbacks in local elections. Combine that with the factor that the Conservatives have rallied around Fletcher Harrison, a moderate One-Nation Candidate, 2040 was looking to be a fun election year.

Before we move on however, let’s look real fast at the factions of the 2 main political parties.

The Conservative and Unionist Party- The CUP, more colloquially known as the Tories, are the main bastion of British Conservatism. From the 1980s to the 2020s, they were dominated by the ‘New Right’, a political group made up of Thatcherites, Powellists, and libertarian conservatives, emphasizing economic libertarianism and mass privatization. However, with its mass damage due to Liz Truss’s Premiership, they ran into competition from the ‘One-Nation Conservative’ caucus, a wing of more paternalistic conservatives based off of the likes of Benjamin Disraeli, Harold MacMillan, and Richard Austen Butler.

This factional spat came to a head in 2032, when, after another failed election, the Conservatives began another leadership spill. The tensions between the New Right and One-Nation groups finally went to a head, with the party nearly fracturing. When the leadership election finally rolled around, the One-Nation candidate won out in the end, solidifying the ideological shift in the CUP.

The 2032 Leadership Election also began the rise of a third faction of Conservatives: The Reforged Monday Club. A group of aristocratic, right-leaning, isolationist, and anti-communist members of the Conservative Party, they have taken the slot of the far-right section of the party.
While their electoral prospects have been lackluster, they are still influential within the inner party due to providing funding. Due to this, they have influence within Conservative governments and are usually granted cabinet positions.

Labour Party- The 2 major factions of the Labour Party, the Right and the Left, have seen very little shifts in the last few decades, still being realigned by Tony Blair’s ‘New Labour’ shifting the Labour Right to a more centrist view. Keir Starmer, Prime Minister from 2025-2035 and a member of the Soft Left, struck a balance between the 2 factions, implementing policies from both the left and the right in order to keep both pacified.

His successor, Lewis Lawrence, a notable member of the Right faction, could not pull off the same balancing act. Already being criticized by the Left due to his time as Chancellor of the Exchequer, his unwillingness to expand upon his predecessor's policies slowly began to anger the left, which split the Labour base in 2040 and would cost Labour.

This is what happens when 2 sides in the same party are somewhat ideologically different from each other. Labour Right has shifted from a Social Democratic political grouping to a more centrist/neoliberal grouping, depending on who you ask. Meanwhile, Labour Left have maintained their Democratic Socialist tendencies, causing an already present rift to begin to grow.

2040 was a competitive election year. Lawrence was running on a platform of continuing the status quo of high spending, green energy investments, and a government for the people. Harrison was the paternalistic conservative, looking to cut back on the high taxes paid for by British citizens, cut unnecessary spending, and refine the British welfare state for efficiency. In the end, neither party could gain a majority, with the Conservatives winning 297 seats and Labour winning 272. Coalitions would need to be formed, and so the race began.

The kingmaker would be the Liberal Democrats, which won 53 seats in the General Election, and whom both parties began trying to court. In the end, a repeat of 2010 was abound, as the Conservatives and Lib Dems formed a coalition government, with Harrison becoming Prime Minister and Christopher Henderson, leader of the Lib Dems, becoming Deputy Prime Minister, ending the 15-year Labour stranglehold on 10 Downing Street.

With the One-Nation Conservatives taking Downing Street, and in coalition with the social liberal Liberal Democrats, a new consensus began to form within Britain in terms of economics. It took 4 of the main items of the post-war consensus (The mixed economy, full employment, Conciliation of the trade unions, and welfare) while adding on 2 new points replacing Retreat from Empire: Green Energy Industry and Space Industrialization.

While the Harrison-Henderson Government would begin scaling down on the mass spending of the previous Labour Administrations, Harrison’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Damian Wilkinson, alongside the director of the UK Space Agency, Stanley Lawson, managed to convince the Prime Minister of the need to begin preparations to join the space race. While unable to launch their own vehicles into space, the British Government began working with the United States and Canada to gain experience for Britain’s own space program, in addition to expanding British spaceports in Scotland and the Shetland Islands to launch their own space shuttle designs.

2045 saw the government reelected and the Chancellor of the Exchequer transferred to the position of Home Secretary, now clearly being made the successor to the party. Policies of the Harrison-Henderson Government wouldn’t shift, focusing on refining processes already present, increasing investment in the British space program, and focusing on their main goal: forming the Imperial Confederation.

In an attempt to centralize the CANZUK economic union into a loose political union, Prime Minister Harrison and Foreign Minister Clara Morris (CUP-NR) met with members of the governments of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and agreed on a draft for the ‘Imperial Confederation’, an expansion of CANZUK calling for common foreign and defense policy with one another. However, this is as far along as he could get it before other matters came to the forefront.

With a Cold War sparking up in the Pacific once more, the United Kingdom was one of the first to express interest in the American ‘Pacific Treaty Organization’, seeing it as a way to regain some additional standing on the world stage. When formalized in 2046 by President Miers, Britain was one of 6 founding members, alongside Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and Japan.

In 2048, Harrison stepped down from 10 Downing Street, calling for a General Election and announcing Home Secretary Damian Wilkinson as his successor. The 2049 General Election was a win for the Tories, going from 291 seats in 2045 to 313 in 2049, while still needing to form a government with the Liberal Democrats, who had 47 seats in the 2049 Parliament. Thus, as we enter 2050, the Wilkinson-Henderson Cabinet will be a mix of old guard, new faces, and ideological battles. Let the new decade begin.

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by **Yaruqo** » Sat Dec 03, 2022 7:48 pm

Nationstates Name: Yaruqo
Nation Name: Ukraine
Capital: Kyiv
Territory: IRL Ukraine, including Crimea
Population: 35.22 million
Official Language: Ukrainian
Flag:

National Anthem (optional): State Anthem of Ukraine, aka "Shche ne vmerla Ukrayina"

Head of State: President Maksim Davydovych Kovalchuk (PZU)
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Head of Government: Prime Minister Tetiana Oleksiivna Holub (PZU)
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Legislature Name: Verkhovna Rada
Party in Power: The Party of Greens of Ukraine (PZU) are the largest party within the Rada, and they control the presidency. They are in a governing coalition with members of the social democratic Platform for Life and Peace (PLP) and the liberal Servant of the People (SN) party.

Prime Minister: Tetiana Oleksiivna Holub (PZU)
Vice Prime Minister: Kostiantyn Matviyovych Sokolov (SN)
Minister of Foreign Affairs: Klyment Vyacheslavych Shevchenko (PZU)
Minister of Defense: Sviatoslav Ivanovych Vasylyshyn (SN)
Minister of Economic Development and Trade: Svitlana Stepanivna Reznikov (PZU)
Minister of Internal Affairs: Iryna Volodomyrivna Maliuska (PZU)
Minister of Strategic Industries: Oleksandr Ruslanovych Vakarchuk (PLP)
Minister of Digital Transformation: Yulia Mykhailovna Bondarenko (SN)
Minister for Veterans Affairs: Mykhail Kostiantynovych Yemets (SN)
Minister of Youth & Sports: Oleksandra Ivanova Laputina (PZU)
Minister of Finance: Arsen Antonov Mandziy (PLP)
Minister of Infrastructure: Volodymyr Maksimovych Kornienko (SN)
Minister of Justice: Dmytro Dmytrovych Kubela (PZU)
Minister of Social Policy: Serhiy Romanovych Pasternak (PLP)
Minister of Healthcare: Halyna Oleksandrovna Tkachuk (PZU)
Minister of Education & Science: Kateryna Petrovych Ponomarchuk (PLP)
Minister of Energy: Rostyslav Olehvych Kushnirenko (PZU)
Minister of Environmental Protection & Natural Resources: Artem Grygoriyvych Baranets (PZU)
Minister of Agrarian Policy & Food: Tamara Vasylovna Stefanyk (SN)
Minister of Communities & Territories Development: Ostap Fedirovych Hryniuk (SN)
Minister of Culture & Information Policy: Valentyna Borysovna Boyko (PLP)
Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers: Nadiya Myroslavna Shubin (PZU)

GDP (PPP): $709.33 billion
GDP (Nominal): $271.611 billion
Currency: Ukrainian Hryvnia

Military Information (Will likely vary from IRL): The Ukrainian Armed Forces (ZSU) are divided into the Army, Navy, Air Force, Air Assault Forces, and the Special Operations Forces. Ever since the end of the war with Russia, every successive Ukrainian Rada and administration have allocated anywhere between 8% and 10% of the nation's GDP towards defense spending, with a multi-pronged focus on acquiring better equipment from the United States and Europe, developing new systems domestically, and, more recently implemented, the total overhaul of the organization and doctrine of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. They perceive Russia as Ukraine's greatest geo-strategic threat, and have made investments accordingly.

With approximately 281,000 active personnel, 1 million reservists, and two years of mandatory service and training for all Ukrainian citizens once they reach age 18, the ZSU also lauds drone fleets from Turkey, the famed drones that halted Russian logistics throughout Ukraine. The Ground Forces boast American pieces like the M113 APCs, Stryker IFVs, M1 tanks, the jointly developed T-86 main battle tanks between the Ukrainian KMDB and the American General Dynamics, and various artillery pieces. PATRIOT systems, as well as HIMARS, Harpoons, and Ukrainian Neptune systems are also deployed for varied anti-ground, anti-air, anti-missile, and anti-ship defenses and strike capabilities. Offloaded European pieces, such as Leopard 2 tanks, Leclerc tanks, and Puma and Marder IFVs can also be found in the Ukrainian Ground Forces.

After the Russians took Crimea in 2014, most of the Ukrainian Navy had either been seized by the Russians or scuttled by Ukrainian forces. When it came time to rebuild, the Americans offered a generous package consisting of older Arleigh Burke class destroyers and a few Ticonderoga class cruisers, while the Ukrainian Navy continued development of the previously abandoned Volodymyr Velykyi class frigates that were part of project 58250. Patrol craft that had survived the Russian invasion and Russian naval assets that had been seized in the operation to retake Crimea also see service.

But above all, the Ukrainians take great pride in their Air Force. Hoping to deny Russia the ability to strike Ukraine's cities and heart again, they have invested in, as mentioned previously, air and missile defense systems, as well as purchased American and European aircraft. Of note are the 20 F/A-18 Super Hornet multi-role fighter jets from the USA and 12 Eurofighter Typhoons, all while the Ukrainian defense industries have worked over the decades since 2024 to upgrade Soviet era craft to match modern specs, upgrading MiGs, Sukhoi fighters and CAS jets, and incorporating their new drone fleet into maneuvers and plans.

Alliances (Will likely vary from IRL): Ukraine has security guarantees with the United States of America and the United States of Europe, though it has been seeking to establish closer political and military ties with the two nations.

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OPs):

2022 - 2023: The Russian invasion of Ukraine drags on, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continues to push for Western and international support of the Ukrainian defense. While the national defense remains the primary focus of Zelenskyy, he attempts to implement political, legal, and economic reforms to bring Ukraine closer to the EU, which Zelenskyy hoped would lay the groundwork for membership with the EU, though Brussels dragged its heels on the issue of membership and ultimately does not include Ukraine as a member by the time of the formation of the USE. By the end of 2024, Russian forces had been pushed out of southern Ukraine back to Crimea, had lost most of Luhansk oblast, and were beginning to lose ground in Donetsk oblast. With each victory, Russian atrocities were uncovered, and Zelenskyy artfully used these to garner continued domestic and foreign support. Zelenskyy wins re-election for a 2nd and final 5-year term in March 2024, and the Servant of the People (SN) party maintains their majority in the Verkhovna Rada.

2024: By the spring of 2024, demoralized Russian forces suffered losses when Ukraine launched its expected offensive against Russian and separatist forces, and they were forced to withdraw across Russian lines. Unable to maintain support for the war among the populace and the political and economic elites, Vladimir Putin was forced to sue for peace. The Treaty of Ankara affirmed Ukraine’s boundaries and territorial integrity and gave Crimea to the Russian Federation, while those other oblasts that Russia had “annexed” were “returned” to Ukraine, included war reparations from Russia, and mandated the exchange of Russian and Ukrainian POWs and the return of “relocated” Ukrainian citizens and children. The long work of reconstruction begins for Ukraine.

2025 - 2026: Characterized as a period of “returning to normalcy,” Zelenskyy’s administration continues to go down the path of reform, establishing closer ties to the West, and, after years of petitions from LGBT Ukrainians that had served in Ukraine’s Armed Forces and Territorial Defense Forces during the Russian invasion, passes new legislation recognizing same-sex civil unions in 2026, and encourages the Ukrainian Defense Ministry and other relevant ministries to help those who had lost a significant other during the war to apply for veteran’s spousal benefits. Zelenskyy’s administration, in close coordination with the OECD, engages in a years-long campaign to tackle corruption, improve judicial independence and enforcement, and business integrity initiatives and reforms, though most of these efforts would remain ongoing until the mid-2030s. While Kyiv attempts to move forward, the remnants of pro-Russian separatists try to continue fighting in the Donbas, though their efforts ultimately result in ethnic Russians fleeing the fighting and the expulsion of the separatist forces from Ukraine’s territory.

2027 - 2028: By August 2027, Russia’s revolutions and infighting had exposed them for the paper tiger they had always been. Always believing that Ukraine should have retained the entirety of its territorial integrity, Zelenskyy, citing the Russian violation of the Budapest Memorandum in the 2014 war, launches an operation to retake the Crimean peninsula. Coordinating with Ukrainian and Tatar groups living in Crimea, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launch a blitz counteroffensive, which leads to Ukraine retaking Crimea by the end of November, after the Russians suffered 3,000 casualties and the Ukrainians suffered around 1,500. Zelenskyy’s administration takes great pains to ensure that the human rights of ethnic Russians, both in Crimea and without, are respected. Any Russian POWs from the Crimea operation are released unconditionally, and are offered either Ukrainian citizenship or safe transit to Russia.

2029: With Zelenskyy unable to run for a third term, Olena Shuliak, the leader of SN, announces a run for the presidency and narrowly wins the party’s primary. With Ukraine’s parties still driven by personalities, geostrategic interests, and civilizational positions, SN would suffer without Zelenskyy at the head, despite his reacquisition of Crimea. Shuliak would win the presidency after a second round bout with Petro Poroshenko (and Ukraine’s first woman president), but with SN unable to form a majority on its own anymore, she would form a coalition of the center with SN’s historical backers: the social democratic Platform for Life and Peace (PLP); the center-right For the Future (ZM); and the centrist Dovira.

2030: Shuliak’s coalition in the Verkhovna Rada falls apart after deputies from ZM accuse the government of being “too far to the left” and withdraw from the government, though political observers believed that Yulia Tymoshenko of the All-Ukrainian Union “Fatherland” (Batkivshchyna) party had managed to offer ZM’s leaders a deal that would see ZM awarded with “better” ministerial portfolios. However, with neither the SN bloc nor the Batkivshcyna-led opposition able to form a majority in the Verkhovna Rada, Shuliak dissolved the Rada and arranged for new elections for the legislature. In the backdrop of reconstruction, climate change, and a push for liberalism (particularly after the collapse of the Mosul Dam, shocking oil prices), the 2030 Rada elections saw the return of the Party of Greens of Ukraine (PZU), a resurgent Europhile left in western Ukrainian cities, the stabilization of SN, and the incorporation of ZM into Batkivshchyna and Poroshenko’s European Solidarity (YeS) party. SN formed a more stable majority with the PLP, PZU, and Dovira.

2031 - 2033: Shuliak’s government takes steps to reduce Ukraine’s dependence on oil and gas, both in the short term and the long term, by overhauling its domestic energy production to be more aligned with coal and renewables in the short term, and nuclear energy in the longer term. By mid-2033, the anti-corruption programs and initiatives that President Zelenskyy had begun putting in place were considered by the OECD to be implemented. With this stamp of approval, Ukraine begins to see more trade and investment, with the USE remaining Ukraine’s largest trade partner, followed by Turkey, China, and the USA. President Shuliak negotiates an intelligence sharing agreement with the United States of America, which includes safe houses for the CIA and training for the Ukrainian SZR. In December 2033, President Shuliak announces that she is diagnosed with cancer, and declares she will not run for re-election.

2034 - 2039: Andriy Parubi of the YeS, a veteran of the War Against Russian Aggression, quickly becomes a favorite in the polls of the presidential election. Seeking a more “traditional liberal” approach, he taps some of the same veins that Zelenskyy did when he ran for office back in 2019. He won the election after the second round against Eugenia Tymoshenko, Yulia Tymoshenko’s daughter, who ran as an independent. Despite his popularity at the voting booth, Parubi quickly finds himself facing a Verkhovna Rada that is more closely aligned to the Shuliak’s coalition. He often finds himself governing through negotiation with their choice for prime minister, which leads to members of the right growing increasingly frustrated with their perceived shut out of power. While Parubi is able to keep the government coasting along, he is unable to form a coalition involving his own party. By 2039, he will lose the respect of YeS and be defeated in a primary, and with a dysfunctional right, the far-right Svoboda’s leader, Oleh Tyahnybok, attracts attention from those on the right seeking a stable and powerful home. Running what would be called a “Trump of the Don” campaign, Tyahnybok courts veterans and nationalists. Despite a coalition of urban liberals and ethnic Russians and Tatars, Tyahnybok becomes the first nationalist elected to Ukraine’s presidency. In the Rada, however, Svoboda is forced to establish a legislative coalition with the center-right parties, much to Tyahnybok’s chagrin.

2039 - 2041: Tyahnybok struggled to bring about the nationalist policies he had run on, with the center-right parties consistently advocating for a focus on economic policies, issues they believed would secure victory for the right-wing coalition. But Tyahnybok, believing that Ukraine’s demographic trends were the result of attacks on traditional values, sparked frequent battles over abortion, LGBTQ rights, and even on public education, with limited success. In March of 2041, Tyahnybok’s deputies attempted to push through a legislative package called, “An Act to Restore Traditional Morality to Ukraine.” Few could have imagined at the time that this would be the beginning of the end of his presidency. The bill was met with harsh criticism and opposition from the legislative left, from ethnic minorities that felt the bill would seek to run them out of the country by making them feel unwelcome, and other constituencies. The bill was narrowly defeated in the Rada, and Tyahnybok made a fatal mistake. He dissolved the Rada (which was in his power to do so), but then attempted to push the bill through by decree. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians would pour out into the streets, threatening a second Maidan Uprising in Kyiv. Hoping to avert a crisis, the Verkhovna Rada ignored Tyahnybok’s dissolution orders, and moved for a vote of no confidence two weeks later. With only Svoboda voting against the motion, Tyahnybok would be ousted from the presidency. The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Ruslan Sokolov of the Batkivshchyna party, would succeed as president for the remainder of his Tyahnybok’s term. In the months after the deposition of Tyahnybok, the Constitutional Court would determine that while the dissolution of the Rada was constitutional, the attempt to rule by decree was not, and therefore the Rada was empowered to act in the defense of the Constitution, legitimizing the ouster.

2041 - 2043: President Sokolov, a constitutionalist at heart, often sought dialogue and compromise, including a failed attempt to form a unity government. Nonetheless, he managed to steer the ship of state with little incident, working with the Rada to undo the worst of Tyahnybok’s policies. By the 2043 general election, the climate crisis was fresh on the minds of many Ukrainians, and this would be reflected in their support of the PZU and its candidate, Maksim Kovalchuk.

2043 - Present: Kovalchuk would work to deepen the ties between Kyiv, Brussels, and Washington. Among these, Kovalchuk would attempt to pursue investment in Ukraine’s nuclear industry, with the rationale that, “A Ukraine less reliable on oil and gas translates to a secure Europe.” If Ukraine could produce nuclear energy and build up an energy infrastructure built around nuclear and sustainable energy, then Europe would not need to rely on foreign oil and gas to power their homes in the winter. In 2045, the American company General Dynamics would win a contract with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense to develop a new main battle tank with KMDB, the producers of the lauded T-84. They estimate that by 2050, the new tank will be unveiled and produced for service in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Due to confidence in Kovalchuk’s leadership and the PZU’s stewardship of the economy and their climate policies, Kovalchuk and his coalition returned to power in the 2048 elections.

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by **The Manticoran Empire** » Sat Dec 03, 2022 8:01 pm

Nationstates Name: The Manticoran Empire
Nation Name: United States of Europe (Vereinigte Staaten von Europa in German or États-Unis d'Europe in French)
Capital: Brussels, other key government functions in Frankfurt, Strasbourg, and Luxembourg City.
Territory: IRL Territory of the European Union
Population: 470.1 million
Official Languages: English, French, and German, with Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic Alphabets
Recognized Languages: 34 National and Regional Languages recognized
Flag: Flag of the European Union
National Anthem (optional): Anthem of Europe

Head of State: President Juliane Beckenbauer
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Head of Government: Prime Minister Aziz van den Nieuwenhuijzen
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Legislature Name: Parliament of Europe (Body name); Senate (Upper House); Representative Assembly (Lower House)
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each): Coalition of the European People’s Party, Party of European Socialists, and Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party dominates both houses of the Assembly, alongside the European Greens and the European Democratic Party. Opposition provided by the Eurosceptic Bloc of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party, Party of the European Left, and the Identity and Democracy Party. A third bloc, formed of the European Free Alliance and European Christian Political Movement, serves as an independent voting bloc, aligning with the main blocs on a per-issue basis.

Under the USE Constitution, the European Union was reformed into a Federal Semi-Presidential Parliamentary Republic, with a bicameral legislature and a dual executive. The Member States, still referred to as such in the Constitution, would become federated subject entities under the Government in Brussels, with near total autonomy within their pre-Constitution borders. Each member state would be allotted three representatives in the Senate to represent their interests while the People would be represented in the assembly based on population. Parliament seats would be apportioned based upon the cube root of the population.

Under the Constitution, the European Commission was replaced by the Office of the President of the United States of Europe and the Office of the Prime Minister of the United States of Europe. The European Parliament and Council of the European Union would be combined into the new European Parliament, with the old Parliament renamed the Representative Assembly and the Council renamed the Senate. The President would be elected by popular vote every five years using the Single Transferable Vote method to ensure that any successfully elected President was supported to some degree by a majority of the population. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister would be elected by the Senate every 5 years and require a qualified majority, meaning 55% of senators representing 65% of the population. Senators would be elected by the legislatures of their respective states, ensuring the representation of those states in legislative decisions, while Representatives would be elected popularly by the people using an open list proportional representation system where voters are able to rank both their preferred parties and their preferred candidates.

The powers of the European Federal Government are expressly laid out in the Constitution as relating to national defense, ensuring common educational standards, ensuring the stability of the Euro and common commercial and trade practices, providing for the European Space Agency, foreign relations, border security, international trade, and providing regulatory oversight for environmental and labor concerns. Meanwhile, the States have total responsibility for funding social programs, education, infrastructure, as well as the ability to set their own commerce and labor standards, so long as such standards are at least on par with the Federal standards.

Under the Constitution, all European citizens have the right to join a Union and any company with unionized employees is required to provide the Union with seats on that company’s board of directors or similar body. However, no Union may compel workers to join the union as a condition of employment or compel non-union members to pay union dues. These provisions were controversial at the time and remain controversial to this day.

Finally, the Constitution makes French and German the official languages of business in the Federal government and provides very clear protections for all persons, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, language, physical or mental disability, and age. Furthermore, capital punishment, in another controversial move, was abandoned as a method of punishment for any crime.

In order for any legislation to pass, it must secure a qualified majority, with 55% of Senators and 65% of Representatives. That means that at least 45 of the 81 Senators and at least 506 of the 778 Representatives. The Federalist bloc controls 71% of the seats in the Assembly and 60% of seats in the Senate, ensuring that any Federalist legislation can easily pass.

GDP (PPP): €43,467,991,084,174.53
GDP (Nominal): €29,102,576,250,000.00
Currency: Euro

USE Federal Budget (Nominal): €3,696,027,183,750
Defense: 25% (€873,077,287,500)
Administration: 0.6% (€22,176,163,102)
Social Protection: 6% (€221,761,631,025)
Healthcare: 6% (€221,761,631,025)
General Public Services (Europol, Frontex, ESA): 12% (€443,523,262,050)
Environment: 6% (€221,761,631,025)
Housing: 6% (€221,761,631,025)
Economic Affairs: 6% (€221,761,631,025)
Culture and Education: 11% (€813,125,980,425)
Energy: 14% (€517,443,805,725)
Debt Repayment: 7.4% (€273,506,011,597)

Military Information (If different from irl you must indicate that here): As European federalists gained greater power, the Armed Forces of the EU member states were unified into the European Federal Army, European Federal Navy, European Federal Air Force, and European Strategic Forces. A new branch of the European Commission, the European Ministry of Defense, was formed to coordinate and administer the military.

When the European Armed Forces were formed, they numbered 3,741,429 men and women, most being reservists drawn from the conscription systems of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. In the wake of unification, however, the military was dramatically reduced in size, losing 63% of their manpower, most of it from the reserves. The new, smaller force would exclusively on volunteers

Total military expenditure sits at €873,077,287,500 funding a force of 1,383,000 men and women. Presently, the Ministry of Defense is engaged in a massive program of modernization and standardization of military equipment, including warships, aircraft, and ground equipment.

The European Federal Navy (Marine Fédérale Européenne in French or Europäische Bundesmarine in German) has 349 ships, including 4 aircraft carriers, 6 amphibious assault ships, 6 amphibious support ships, 34 destroyers, 73 frigates, 38 corvettes, 136 anti-mine vessels, 4 missile submarines, and 48 attack submarines. Approximately 239,000 men and women serve in the European Navy. Its mission has been changed over the years, evolving from a deterrence force pointed at the Russian Federation to an international peacekeeping and power projection force, largely aimed at safeguarding Europe’s citizens in the overseas territories.

The Navy began its life as the European Maritime Force. The European Union Naval Agency was established to control the force and it began the process of unifying the fleet. FREMM and FTI general purpose frigates and the European Multi Mission Destroyer, a 12,000 ton vessel similar to the American DDG (X), as well as an expanded procurement of PANG carriers, formed the core of the new surface force. After the creation of the USE, the European Maritime Force evolved into the European Federal Navy, achieving a significant degree of commonality.

Of the surface combatants, all of the frigates and destroyers have been harmonized around the FREMM and FTI frigates and EMMD destroyers while the European Patrol Corvette has fully replaced other corvette classes. In addition, five of the PANG carriers have been ordered, with two presently in full commission, two more fitting out, and the fifth midway through having its keel laid. The goal is to have the fleet able to deploy one carrier continuously deployed to crisis zones at all times.

The current building program, begun in 2035 in response to a changing global situation, has seen the Navy sell or scrap the 156 patrol boats inherited from the national navies of Europe, freeing up manpower and funds for larger, longer ranged craft. A further shift in European naval capabilities have seen the amphibious fleet reduced from 28 ships to merely 12, with 3 Mistral, 2 Trieste, and one Juan Carlos 1 class Amphibious Assault Ships; 2 Galicia and 2 Rotterdam class Landing Platform Docks; and 2 TKM type Joint Support Ships providing sealift for 7,157 personnel, 1,047 armored vehicles, 33 landing craft, and 198 aircraft.

The Navy has largely seen a shift from a mostly littoral defense force to an almost entirely blue-water navy, with a debate raging about the future of the Navy. With no significant naval threat envisioned from the Russian Federation, most of the Navy and many in Parliament are lobbying for an expanded carrier fleet, to improve Europe’s ability to compete with the US, Indian, and Chinese navies far from Europe’s shores. Others, currently a majority in Parliament and a sizable portion of the citizenry, feel that the current fleet is sufficient to defend Europe’s interests abroad.

Currently, the European Navy operates an Atlantic Fleet, a Mediterranean Fleet, a North and Baltic Sea Fleet, and an Indian and Pacific Fleet. The Atlantic Fleet, headquartered in Portugal and France, primarily coordinates with US, UK, and Canadian fleet forces to provide security for convoys in the event of war. It is a largely administrative entity, however, with most of the fleet forces being focused on other regions.
The Mediterranean Fleet, based in Spain, Italy, France, Croatia, Greece, and Cyprus, primarily conducts counter-terrorism operations in North Africa and the Middle East. It is also home to the Amphibious Force, based in Rota, Napoli, and Toulons.
The North and Baltic Sea Fleet, based in Germany, the Baltic States, and the Nordic Countries, is primarily responsible for coastal defense and deterrence, focusing on deterring Russian aggression in the region. With the reduced threat of Russian aggression, the North and Baltic Sea Fleet has largely become little more than a collection of corvettes and icebreakers, with most of the focus in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Finally, the Indian and Pacific Ocean Fleet has become the focal point of the Navy in recent years, with regular carrier deployments to safeguard European interests in the region in an ever more competitive international landscape.

The European Federal Army (Armée Fédérale Européenne in French or Europäische Bundeswehr in German), like the other branches of the European Armed Forces, evolved from the disparate militaries of Europe to become the unified force that it is today. It is a large, modern, well equipped force but not without its flaws. Aside from the obvious language barrier, the European Army faces far more pressing, political concerns due to the changing global situation.

The European Federal Army includes: 8,400 main battle tanks, of which 5,600 are in active service; 25,000 armored fighting vehicles, with 7,112 being IFVs in service and another 3,600 of which are wheeled and tracked armored vehicles in other roles; 11,000 artillery pieces, with 2,376 pieces of tube artillery and 378 pieces of rocket artillery in active service; and 2,000 attack helicopters, with 1,056 in active service. Approximately 922,000 men and women serve in the European Army, organized into the field forces and logistics forces. The Field Forces include 670,000 personnel organized into 22 field divisions, each totaling around 21,000 direct personnel and another 7,000 support personnel not directly tied to the division for 462,000 divisional troops and 208,000 personnel in the field support troops, to include artillery and Corps troops. The Logistics Force includes 252,000 personnel, incorporating all personnel not tied to supporting divisional field forces, which can include many of the same arms as the field support troops.

The Army primarily focuses on deterrence, aimed largely at Russian aggression in Eastern Europe. With Russian aggression largely a thing of the past, the European Army is struggling to justify its existence, with significant debates over the future structure and size of the force. Presently, the Army is largely confined to counter-terrorism missions in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, in partnership with the US and regional allies.

Central to the Army’s modernization and standardization was a focus on mechanized maneuver forces for the deterrence mission, with less emphasis placed on the counter-terrorism operations far from Europe’s shores. Rheinmetall became the supplier of much of the armored combat vehicles, with KF-41 Lynx and KF-51 Panther becoming the core of heavy mechanized forces while Boxer became the baseline wheeled armored vehicle. Most vehicles are able to mount Multi Spectral Camouflage panels manufactured by Saab while French company Nexter provides most of the light recon vehicles. Multiple companies provide trucks and recovery vehicles while Eurocopter provides attack and general purpose helicopters. Recently, a collaborative effort between Nexter, Rheinmetall, and KMW has produced the European Main Battle Tank, which began entering service in 2045. Other platforms have also begun entering service, including new tube and rocket artillery, new infantry fighting vehicles, new armored personnel carriers, recovery vehicles, trucks, and a plethora of other ground systems.
Infantry troops are armed with Belgian SCAR rifles, French body armor, and German battle management systems. The combat helmets include heads up displays, improved armor protection thanks to advances in material sciences, and nanocopter drones for scouting.
The Panther 2 main battle tank is the culmination of the European Main Battle Tank program. Incorporating Rheinmetall’s 130mm Rh-130 L/51 gun, a 12.7mm coaxial machine gun, and an autoloader with twenty-rounds of ready ammunition in an optionally manned turret, provision for four HERO 120 loitering munitions, a 30-mm autocannon in a remote weapon station for engaging unmanned systems and light vehicles, and a combination of passive and active protection systems including passive armor, explosive reactive armor, sensor jammers, laser and radar warning receivers, and hardkill APS with top attack protection, the Panther 2 entered service in 2045 and has begun replacing the KF-51 Panther, renamed Panther 1, in frontline units.
The Lynx 2 Infantry Combat Vehicle is the culmination of the Advanced Infantry Fighting Vehicle program. Incorporating a 50mm autocannon with a 12.7mm coaxial machine in an optionally manned turret as well as provision in the turret for two HERO 120 loitering munitions and two mounting points for twin SPIKE-LR missiles or additional loitering munitions, it has a carrying capacity of 6 men. It entered service in 2040 and has largely replaced other IFVs in frontline units.
The European Artillery System program produced a mortar, a tube artillery system, and a rocket artillery system with both wheeled and tracked chassis. The mortars are based on the Dragon Fire system developed in the early 2000s by TDA Armaments of France, albeit with improvements to guidance, loading systems, propellants, and other features. The tube artillery systems include liquid cooled 155mm L/58 guns capable of firing projectiles out to 70 kilometers with guided projectiles able to land within 3 meters of the intended target at maximum range. Finally, the rocket artillery systems, assigned at the Corps level, are able to engage targets out to 150 kilometers with 227mm rockets out to 500 kilometers or more with 300mm missiles.

European Army Divisions are organized with three maneuver brigades, designated as battle groups, each totaling around 5,000 personnel and include armor and mechanized infantry battalions as well as an artillery battalion with an organic SHORAD battery equipped with IRIS-T-SLS. An artillery brigade with tube artillery, an aviation brigade with utility and attack helicopters, a medium range air defense brigade equipped with IRIS-T-SLM, and a logistics and support brigade round out the division. Each maneuver brigade is able to provide organic indirect fire support out to 30 kilometers while division artillery is able to provide indirect fire support out to 100 kilometers. Lessons from the Russo-Ukrainian War and Euro-Turkish War have led to company-level formations having access to MANPADs organically, with generally a half dozen launchers per company element. Larger pools are maintained at battalion, brigade, and division for distribution as missions require. Battle Groups are designed to function as a part of the full division but can sustain themselves on organic support elements for up to 3 months.
The seven European Army Corps include their own artillery and air defense brigades, these consisting of rocket artillery with ranges of between 150 and 500 kilometers while the air defense consists of truck-mounted IRIS-T-SLX.

Four of the divisions are Airborne light infantry formations, exclusively employing air-droppable wheeled vehicles, largely of French design. These include the Nexter Jaguar and Serval. Two more divisions are Mountain Divisions, trained primarily to fight in the mountainous regions of Central Europe and the Balkans and also equipped with light wheeled vehicles. The remaining 16 divisions are heavy mechanized divisions, equipped with hundreds of tracked armored fighting vehicles.

Other key ground force assets include ground and air drones, often armed and located at all levels from the squad up to Corps headquarters. These range from small quadcopters used for reconnaissance and spotting to larger “tank type” drones for infantry support and long range recon drones for Division and Corps reconnaissance.

A consequence of the Army’s heavy emphasis on land based deterrence, aimed at the Russian Federation, was that it found itself entering the 2040s in the midst of an identity crisis. America’s proposed Pacific Treaty Organization and the Russian build-up that followed, provided the Army with a renewed sense of purpose, albeit one still haunted by the growing belief in much of Europe that Russia posed no threat to Europe. The Army enters 2050 with a proposed reduction in end strength, possibly seeing half of its divisions being reduced to handfuls of battle groups.

The European Federal Air Force is perhaps the branch that least closely resembles its predecessors. After nearly a generation of effort and funding, the Air Force (Europäische Bundesluftwaffe in German or Force Aérienne Fédérale Européenne in French), has become a highly modern entity, almost entirely focused on air defense and close air support with a sizable airlift capability.

The European Federal Air Force includes 1,680 fighters and ground attack aircraft, including mostly a combination of Swedish made Wyvern 5th generation fighters and newer Eurofighter Storm 6th generation fighters, as well as 396 transport and tanker aircraft, mostly Airbus models, including the A400M, A330 MRTT, and A350 models set up as AEW and ELINT aircraft. Approximately 178,000 men and women serve in the European Air Force, operating as part of a growing Integrated Air Defense Network that includes land and sea-based SAM, ABM, and CRAM systems. The European Air Force is also responsible for the nuclear arsenal inherited from France.

Like the Army, the Air Force primarily focuses on the defense of the Continent. As such, there is no fleet of European strategic bombers and no plans for such a fleet exist. Rather, the European Air Force is focused, presently, on expanding its fleet of strategic airlifters and refueling aircraft, with the aim of expanding its ability to operate outside of Europe.

The Eurofighter Storm and the Saab JAS 41 Wyvern include adaptive cycle engines that improve fuel efficiency and range during cruising flight while optimizing thrust and performance during air combat maneuvers. Both fighters have fully integrated data link systems, allowing hitherto impossible levels of coordination between joint forces as well as enabling ground, sea, space, and air assets to share targeting information. When combined with attritable unmanned air systems, the Storm and the Wyvern are able to engage even 5th and 6th generation fighters with BVR missiles and conduct a range of other missions in support of combat operations. The fighters are typically fitted with IRIS-T medium range missiles and Meteor long range missiles for air combat while being capable of carrying a wide variety of missiles and bombs for anti-ship and ground attack missions.

To provide Airborne Early Warning and Control, the European Air Force has adopted a modified Airbus A350, employing multiband AESA radars to provide information for airspace. Thanks to the European Armed Forces emphasis on battle management and data link infrastructure, the A350 AEW&C platforms are able to not only send information to combat aircraft but also incorporate the information those aircraft gather with the information gathered by satellites, naval vessels, ground based systems, and its own radar systems. The result is that the European Air Force’s flying command posts are able to provide the most complete real time picture for commanders, enabling rapid adaptation and response to changing circumstances.

While being one of the largest air forces in the world, the European Air Force lacks any sort of strategic bomber force, with the largest aircraft in its inventory being AEW&C, transport, or refueling aircraft. The only ground attack capability comes largely from multi-role fighter platforms and unmanned systems. The lack of a European bomber force is both political and doctrinal. Politically, bomber forces are inherently offense oriented and, given Europe’s lengthy land border with Russia, maintaining such a force would be needlessly antagonistic. Doctrinally, European air doctrine calls for defending the airspace of the homeland, providing support to naval and ground elements, and destroying enemy air capability in support of the joint force. A strategic bomber fleet is almost entirely useless for two-thirds of the Air Force’s mission and only marginally useful in the remaining third. As a result, European Air Force efforts have focused on greatly improving their multi-role fighters and their transport, tanker, and AEW&C capabilities.

The European Federal Space Force (Force Spatiale Fédérale Européenne in French or Europäische Bundesweltraumstreitkräfte in German) is the most recent branch and is responsible for maintaining the USEs growing network of satellites. With 66,077 personnel and well over 100 satellites, the Space Forces are considered to be the key to Europe’s defense posture and as a result often receive priority when it comes to procurement. The ESF maintains a constellation of missile warning, nuclear blast detection, optical imaging, ELINT, and radar imaging satellites, largely directed towards the CSTO. A variety of communication and positioning satellites are also maintained.

Plans are maintained by the EFSF for the development of armed spacecraft, though none have yet been ordered. The design relies on a fully reusable, 120 meter long single-stage to orbit vehicle, equipped with a trio of laser weapon systems and several radiators, designed to fold into the ship’s hull during launch and re-entry. Propulsion would be provided by three linear aerospike engines, providing 33,015 kilo-Newtons of thrust with a specific impulse of 2,275 seconds in vacuum. An unarmed variation is employed by the Space Force to conduct satellite deployment and maintenance missions.

Alliances (If different from IRL): The USE withdrew from the NATO alliance in 2045, after the US announced the formation of the Pacific Treaty Organization and sparked a renewed Russian military build-up. While the USE maintains close ties with the USA and other Western liberal states, it is not presently a member of any multinational treaty organizations.

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OP): European Integration had, by and large, been growing in popularity for most of the 21st Century, in spite of efforts by nationalists to slow it down or end it. The Eurosceptic movement of the 2010s was the most prominent of these efforts but by the 2020s had largely lost steam to growing Federalist sentiments.

On 24 February, 2022, the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine. The war that followed would last for months, kill hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians, and leave millions of displaced refugees. In response, however, the European Union undertook a series of unprecedented steps, reforming between 2022 and 2025 from a loose conglomeration of independent nations into a single, united country. The new constitution was adopted in 2025, formally marking the birth of the United States of Europe.

Since 2025, the USE has faced numerous hurdles, including language issues and questions of the division of powers within the nation. The Eurosceptics have adapted as a broadly anti-federalist bloc, aiming to limit the powers of the central government as much as possible. The Eurocentrics, on the other hand, seek not so much to increase the powers of the government as they do to strengthen the government’s position and ability to enact policy.

In the wake of the Russo-Ukrainian War, European funds flooded into Ukraine to rebuild the shattered nation while sanctions remained in place on Russia for nearly a decade until after the Revolutions of the late 2020s. Starting in 2030, Europe would begin to walk back the sanctions, beginning with sanctions on civilian travel and banking.

In 2030, the Mosul Dam collapse in Iraq caused oil prices to jump as millions were killed or displaced. In the USE, it accelerated an already existing program of expanded nuclear and renewable energy projects. Beginning in 2030, the USE adopted a program to build new nuclear reactors, taking advantage of new technologies that would enable extraction of Uranium from seawater. Some €132 billion would be invested every year in expanding the nuclear power infrastructure, with private investment encouraged by the government offering to pay 50% of the initial costs. As a result, 28 new reactors would begin construction each year, resulting in 112 new plants operational by 2050, bringing Europe’s total to 188 reactors, generating 188,000 MWhs of energy, roughly 34% of the USEs electricity needs. An additional €132 billion would be invested in expanding wind, solar, hydroelectric, and other renewable energy sources, with the end result being the near total phase-out of fossil fuel energy use in Europe. Liquid Natural Gas remains primarily employed in Scandinavia, where renewable energy sources are less reliable due to the extreme weather conditions.
With the total phase out of oil and coal, Europe remains an exporter of those resources to developing countries.

Also beginning in the 2030s, the European Space Agency expanded development of larger rockets, including new Vega light lift vehicles and Ariane medium-heavy lift vehicles. The Ariane 7 and Vega-E vehicles, both initially launching in 2035, are partially reusable while Ariane 8 and Vega-G, launched in 2045, are fully reusable.

Thanks in large part to commercial ventures, the costs of space travel have dropped significantly since 2022. Space tourism is no longer the domain of the ultra-rich but can be achieved even by the moderately wealthy.

In 2045, a proposal was put before the Parliament with the goal of finally retiring the nuclear arsenal inherited from France. The proposal has thus far been bogged down in committees and debates.

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by **Chewion** » Sat Dec 03, 2022 10:32 pm

Nationstates Name: Chewion
Nation Name: The United States of America
Capital: Washington D.C.
Territory: IRL USA
Population: 450 Million
Official Language: None at a federal level
Recognized Languages: None at a Federal level but English is defacto used nationally with Spanish as a secondary language in some regions.
Flag:

National Anthem (optional): https://youtu.be/NPnIRp9ITrs

Head of State: President Richard Lowe
HoS Picture:

Head of Government: President Richard Lowe
HoG Picture (If different from HoS): Same
Legislature Name: United States Congress
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each):

House of Representatives: Republican control with 252 seats.

Senate: Republicans control with 57-43 seats.

GDP (PPP): $34.102 Trillion
GDP (Nominal): $34.102 Trillion
Currency: US Dollar

Space Capabilities/Information (Must be approved by OP and Co-OPs):

Permanent footprint on the Moon and Mars.

Military Information (Will likely vary from IRL):

Branches:
US Army
US Navy
US Coast Guard
US Air Force
US Marine Corps
US Space Force
US Cyber Force

Land Forces
Tanks: 3,540
Armored Vehicles: 24,200
SPA: 802
Towed Artillery: 717
Rocket Projectors: 731

Air Forces
Fighters/Interceptors: 1,500 (not including UAV)
Dedicated Attack: 780
Transports: 982
Trainers: 982
Special Missions: 774
Tanker Fleet: 627
Helicopters: 5,463
Attack Helicopters: 710

Naval Forces
Aircraft Carriers: 12
Helicopter Carriers: 11
Destroyers: 95
Frigates: 22
Cruisers/Corvettes: 0
Submarines: 72
Patrol Vessels: 12
Mine Warfare: 10

*Note: Numbers of equipment denote the equipment in active service and not those pieces in reserve storage etc.*

With the hard shift to the Pacific as the main theatre of focus, more and more resources have been allocated to the Marines and Navy with more and more tanks, AFVs, etc being shifted to the Marines at the expense of the US Army.

Alliances (Will likely vary from IRL): PTO

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OPs):

2022: The midterm elections see the Republicans squeeze out a slim majority in the US House while keeping the Senate at 50-50. This underwhelming result by the Republicans sees the decline of former President Trump as a rising star. Alongside this, DeSantis and Cruz, seen as some of the top contenders for POTUS, announced in December that they will not seek the Presidency this time and instead back former Vice-President Mike Pence as the renewed face of the party.

2023: Continued pushes by the Biden Administration against coal leads to West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin leaving the Democrat party in June and remaining an independent but caucuses with the Republicans, giving them the 51 votes to flip the Senate. With the majority, albeit slim, in both chambers, the Republicans focus on pocketbook issues and safety along with curtailing the “blank check” to Ukraine. This stalls most of President Biden’s agenda and sees a rise in Republican approval ratings as many Americans attribute the better economic situation and lowering prices to their actions.

2024: Michael Pence of Indiana is elected POTUS alongside his running mate, Ron DeSantis of Florida. The congressional elections also go well for Republicans who see the promises 2022 red wave hit with the Republicans holding 53 Senate Seats and 234 House Seats. Senator Ted Cruz becomes Senate Majority leader and Representative Kevin McCarthy stays on as Speaker.

2025: After the inauguration, the Pence-DeSantis Administration sets out to “Restore American Greatness” by revamping the US energy industry, working to solidify relations in the pacific, and clamping down on government spending notably by moving forward with a bill introducing price caps on prescriptions, removing state lines for health insurance, keeping protections for preexisting conditions, eliminating aspects of Obamacare, clamping down on illicit welfare, and decoupling strategic sectors of the economy from China. As the bill proceeds through Congress, Democrats are successful in adding in a part that eliminates the income cap on the Social Security Tax thus making the program solvent again. This bill is named the “New American Wellness Plan” and it passes in December of 2025.

2026: President Pence establishes the US Cyber Force as the 7th branch of the US military. Republicans retain a majority in both houses but by a reduced margin of 51-49 in the Senate and 222 in the House. Representative McCarthy steps down as Speaker and Representative Banks of Indiana is elected to replace him. The Pence-DeSantis Administration reinstates the 1776 Commission and uses it to guide the Department of Education to promote pro-American and patriotic education across the nation.

2027: US Congress passes the “Revitalizing American Infrastructure Act” which sees huge effort and funds put into repairing infrastructure around the country. The bill also includes funding for a high-tech wall along the southern border.

2028: The US is quick to act as a power vacuum opens in Venezuela following the death of Nicholas Maduro. Pouring huge resources into the democratic opposition to his government and providing covert support. Republicans lose the Senate 49-51 but retain the House with 222 seats and retain the White House.

2029: US starts floating ending harshest sanctions on Russia. The Pence-DeSantis Administration make even harder pivots to Asia and shore up military, political, and economic ties with nations in the nation. Culminating in a new base deal with the Philippines.

2030: Republicans lose the House with 217 seats but win the Senate with 52-48. While a victory, the bitter leadership race starts a huge rift in the Democratic Party between moderates and leftists. The initial victory is seen by the moderates who elect a moderate as the leader and the next Speaker, snubbing Representative AOC who narrowly loses her party’s vote.

2031: Vice-President DeSantis announces his bid for the Oval Office. No other Republicans rise to challenge him.

2032: Vice-President DeSantis rides a mixture of growing anti-China sentiment and confidence in Republican management to victory in the 2032 election. Along with him, Republicans regain the House with 223 seats and hold the Senate with 52-48.

2033: President DeSantis launches his “American Power” initiative, seeing large investments into both carbon and renewable energy sources, particularly nuclear power.

2034: Republicans lose the House to Democrats who hold the slimmest majority of 218. Republicans do hold the Senate by a slim majority of 51-49 however.

2035: A new Red Scare starts in the US with many Americans adamantly viewing the Chinese Communist Party as the biggest threat to their way of life.

2036: The Republicans regain control of both chambers with 238 and 54 respectively. President DeSantis is also re-elected. In December, President DeSantis closes a deal with Zambia to construct a major US Joint Base in the country.

2037: The United States Congress passes the Military Competitive Edge Act which sets a minimum military spending of 3.3% of GDP annually alongside ensuring that 80% of the naval and air fleets are combat-ready at all times. Congress also uses Republican control to pass moderate welfare reform which sees retirement age raises, stricter monitoring of welfare recipients to ensure compliance, and options for the top 10% of earners not to receive their benefits after retirement. A deal with Liberia to construct a major US Joint Base is also concluded.

2038: Democrats gain control of the Senate with 51-49 with Republicans clenching onto the House with 219 seats.

2039: President DeSantis launches a renewed focus on Europe and starts talks with the UK to shift the 6th fleet to the country alongside the construction of a major new joint base in England. A deal is also closed with Sudan that sees the agreement to build a large US Joint Base in Port Sudan.

2040: A moderate-liberal Democrat ticket rides the pendulum swing to the White House. The Democrats also win the House with 225 seats but lose the Senate with 49-51 seats.

2041: The United States starts shutting most military bases in continental Europe with a plan of only a handful to be left after 2050.

2042: The new Administration signals a willingness for rapprochement with the PRC but little is done besides talk due to a Republican Senate and public opinion sharply against the idea. The idea, seen as the brainchild of the more liberal POTUS, lays the groundwork for a growing divide within the Democrats over China and other issues. Democrats retain the House with 219 seats but fail to take the Senate 48-52

2043: The Administration is forced to play down any plans to change dynamics in Asia and reassure American allies of Washington’s commitment to freedom in the region. To signal this, the Vice-President is seen to be spearheading talks on the PTO.

2044: Republicans retain both chambers with 225 in the House and 53 in the Senate. However, due to a bad quality candidate put up by Republicans, POTUS and the Democrats barely retain the White House.

2045: Senator Lowe of Florida is made chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Using this role, the committee grows increasingly critical of the administration. Focusing particularly on the growing cold relations with Brussels.

2046: Republicans regain control of the House with 223 seats and retain the Senate 52-48. Some more moderate Democrats use this win by Republicans to argue against the increasingly liberal agenda of the current POTUS. As a concession, the PTO is agreed to with the Vice-President again being seen as behind the idea in the administration.

2047: Taking the victory as a seal of approval, POTUS mistakenly charges ahead declaring a willingness to “fundamentally change” the relationship with Beijing, and the WH signals a willingness to give Beijing “room to breathe” in the Asian region. This immediately draws the ire of the GOP and moderate Democrats who accuse POTUS of kowtowing to Beijing.

2048: As the year starts, a split is evident in the Democrat Party between the Liberal and Moderate wings. After losing the nomination for President, the Liberal candidate launches a third-party bid and splits the Democrat vote. Senator Lowe wins the Republican nomination. With the split Democrat vote and high unpopularity of the current Democrat POTUS, Senator Lowe cruises to victory in a near landslide victory. Alongside this WH victory, Republicans hold 252 seats in the House and 57-43 seats in the Senate.

2049: Taking office, President Lowe reaffirms American commitment in Asia and around the world, particularly placing importance on the PTO. President Lowe does however signal a willingness to engage in “frank and mutual dialogue with all nations on matters of great importance.” This is followed up by talks with Russia and China on two separate nuclear deals.

2050: RP Starts

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by **Sao Nova Europa** » Mon Dec 05, 2022 2:18 pm

Nationstates Name: Sao Nova Europa
Nation Name: State of Greece
Capital: Athens
Territory: Greece
Population: 10,000,000
Official Language: Greek, English, French, and German
Recognized Languages: 34 National and Regional Languages recognized
Flag:

National Anthem (optional): Hymn to Liberty

Head of State: Governor Nikos Romanos
HoS Picture:

Head of Government: Governor Nikos Romanos
HoG Picture (If different from HoS): -
Legislature Name: Greek Parliament
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each):

191 seats - ECR (government)
65 seats - PES (primary opposition)
31 seats - EPP (opposition)
13 seats - PEL (opposition)

GDP (PPP): $342bln
GDP (Nominal): $355bln
Currency: Euro

Space Capabilities/Information (Must be approved by OP and Co-OPs): Part of USE

Military Information (Will likely vary from IRL): Part of USE

Alliances (Will likely vary from IRL): Member state of USE

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OPs):

In 2025, the United States of Europe was born. Greece - a nation with strong Euroskeptic sentiment and scars from the financial crisis - became polarized internally over this transition. Greek had the status of a recognized but not official language, which provoked resentment. Even worse, in the coming years, Greek economic growth lagged behind compared to the rest of the member states and unemployment remained far higher. Any expectations that a united Europe would resolve the Cyprus dispute were also dashed, with the USE maintaining diplomatic and economic ties with Ankara and refusing to push on the issue.

As a result, in the late 2030s, the European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECR) became increasingly popular politically, drawing right-wing voters from the established center-right European People's Party (EPP). In 2041, the first ECR government in Greece was formed. The new government moved to restructure the electoral system of Greece, moving away from the proportional system towards a first-past-the-post system, while at the same time maintaining the 50-bonus-seats system for the largest party of the previous electoral law. In 2043, a nominally independent commission drew the new electoral districts. Both the left and the center-right decried gerrymandering, which benefited the ECR.

Indeed, even though the ECR got only 40% of the vote in 2045, it won 65% of the seats in parliament. In 2047, Governor Alexandros Papanikolas resigned and was replaced as leader of ECR - and Governor of Greece - by Nikos Romanos. In early parliamentary elections in December of 2049, Romanos won a majority of his own in the parliament and crushed once more the ECR's opponents.

Romanos had been the leader of the youth wing of the ECR in Greece and had been elected mayor of Karpenissi in 2037. The day before the mayoral election, a video had leaked in which Romanos had used incendiary language about migrants, bankers, and the European government. Instead of dooming his campaign, the video helped Romanos do much better than expected. As Mayor, he became a prominent national figure because of his controversial statements and attacks against the left, "neo-Marxists," "Eurocrats", "the Fourth Reich" and other targets of the Greek nationalist right. Four years later, in 2041, he was elected Governor of Central Greece. In 2045, he was elected to the Greek parliament, and in 2047 became Governor of Greece and leader of the Greek branch of the ECR.

Under his leadership, Greece has seen a reduction in state taxes and controversial police "cleansing" operations in Athens to find and arrest illegal immigrants and clear left-wing squatting. He has also revised the electoral law to increase the parliamentary bonus to the first party from 50 seats to 60 seats. With most of the local media being owned by businessmen supporting his party, Romanos has enjoyed considerable positive coverage and popularity of 67%. Romanos has attacked verbally more than once the central government, accusing them of failing Greece. This - as well as the extensive gerrymandering - has earned him the ire of the European Parliament but has also made him popular among many Greeks who feel dissatisfied with the federal government.

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by **Newne Carriebean7** » Tue Dec 06, 2022 11:51 pm

Nationstates Name: Newne Carriebean7
Nation Name: The Union of Maan Country
Capital: Panyar Eat Nayrar (literally translated to "Place of Wisdom")
Territory: Myanmar's boarders
Population: 59,812,333 as of the 3rd Union Census, conducted by the grace of Kumbikhanna, his excellency and wise benevolent Ohnmar, the Year of our lord 2049.
Burmese: 37,143,459 (62.1%)
Karen: 4,844,800 (8.1%)
Kachin: 4,784,987 (8.0%)
Shan: 2,811,180 (4.7%)
Indians: 2,691,555 (4.5%)
Rakhine: 2,571,930 (4.3%)
Han-Chinese: 2,392,493 (4.0%)
Mon: 777,560 (1.3%)
All others: 1,794,370(3.0%)

Official Language: Burmese
Recognized Languages: Kachin, Karen, Shan, Rakhine, Hindi, Mon, English
Flag:

National Anthem (optional): Unofficially, the national anthem has been "A Gentlemen's Coup" by the band Rise Against. Although blasted as retro music by government wreckers and protestors to the Halloween Miracle, ( the event is also known in western circles as the "Maan Country coup d'état of 2047."), Manager Yeshe Shein Kumbikhanna is a big fan of the song, and has decreed that the song play before all news broadcasts, sports games involving Maan Country athletes internationally, and at the signing off message for all state-managed broadcasting corporations.

Head of State: Manager of the Emergency Government Yeshe Shein Kumbikhanna (Yeshe = Wisdom; Kumbikhanna = one with a good temper)
HoS Picture:

Head of Government: Chauffeur of the State Governing Council and Saitpainkyee (Tree man, basically the President of the PTA) Champo Ohnmar (Champo= one who is friendly; Ohnmar = one who is insane)
HoG Picture (If different from HoS): looks like Min Min Oo

Directors of State Departments:
1. Director of Earnest and Frank Communication combined with Respectful Dialogue (foreign affairs): Wilhelmina Packard (woman)

2. Superintendent of Blessed and Honest Education for the Prosperity of the Nation's Future (education): Zaw Than (woman)

3. Grand Administrator of Public Enlightenment, Propaganda and Purity of the Soul (Propaganda minister): Ngar San Coulletes

4. Supreme Plumber of the Pipes and Public Tubes of wet real-estate (Sanitation and Water Management): Htey Cetan

5. Master of the Purse of Maan Country (Economic policy): Htay Thein

Legislature Name: The Provisonal Tribal Assembly

Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each):
Provisonal Tribal Assembly:
485 members, allocated based on population share percentage, with the exception of the Indian and Chinese parties, who are granted half of their population share in members. 15% of all seats are also reserved for the Armed Forces of The Greater Maan Country.
(243 seats are currently needed for a majority)

Party for the Greater Maan Country: 186/485
It's time to give Democracy NOW!: 99/485
Armed Forces of the Greater Maan Country: 73/485
Union of Karens: 39/485
Alliance of the Kachin Tribesmen: 38/485
Shan Family Party: 23/485
Party of the Ancestral Dragons (chinese minority party): 10/485
Indian Union Pact (Indian minority party): 11/485
Sacred Land of the Mon Peoples: 6/485

Party in Power:

Current members of the Kumbikhanna Government:
(300/485 Majority government)
Party for the Greater Mann Country-186
Armed Forces of the Greater Maan Country-73
Union of Karens-39
Defectors from Indian Union Pact-2

GDP (PPP): $209.74 billion
GDP (Nominal): $43.85 billion
Currency: Dawlar

Military Information (If different from irl you must indicate that here):

The Armed Forces of the Greater Maan Country are the military defense forces, comprised of three main branches, the Army of Greater Maan Country, the Navy of the Brave Sultanate and Air Force of Greater Maan Country. There is also the state irregulars, known as the kyarrhpyauu, or White Tigers. (Also known by the acronym K.P.A. for KyarrhPyAuu, although most members refer to themselves as "members of the White Tigers".)

Whenever there is a general election called for the Provisional Tribal Assembly, The Military is organized into 54 constituencies where soldiers can elect either their fellow soldiers or a notable officer to represent their interests in the PTA. However, soldiers stationed in reserve bases may only nominate one candidate for a total of 33 seats, while 21 constituencies can elect the top-two candidates in a two-round system per **Active** military constituency.

Although the Military representatives in government and the legislature are generally representative of the wide range of ethnic groups within the country, Active duty command of the Armed Forces at a military base by military base level falls on the shoulders of those with the majority in the Tribal Assembly, meaning most generals are either a Burmese (70%) Karen (24%) or Indian (6%) if you are lucky.

Army of Greater Maan Country:
777,000 soldiers
(505,000 active duty personnel:
272,000 reserve duty personnel:)

55 x Comet Cruiser Tanks from the start of the Cold War in the 1950s.
75 x Type 62 MBTs
20 x ONTOS Tank Destroyers
580 x T-55 MBTs
190 x T-72 MBTs
146 x Type-59 MBTs
330 x BMP-1 Armored Personnel Carriers

White Tiger milita:
c.700,000 paid volunteers, of those:
315,000 permanent duty, full-time paid volunteers, also doubling as local constables and sherriffs to ensure peace and security in the country.

The White Tigers are a nationwide state milita mostly tasked with keeping order in the various villages and towns throughout the country. This force is more built up on clan ties and family loyalty, and are even privately seen as the "second army" of The Maan Country. However, for their fierce alliegance in defending hearth and home, these forces are also poorly equipped, often times just given an assault rifle, three bannana clips and maybe a grenade if they are lucky.

385,000 part-time elderly reservists, who can be called up as replacements for those permanent duty figures who have either preformed their duties inadequately. Generally, in order to qualify as "part-time", one must have served in the National Army for a term of 21 years, or 3 terms of 7 years each in the military. These "Part-time" soldiers also get dental care and are eligible for retirement pensions and a shiny new pet ferret named Jim.

Navy of the Brave Sultanate:

3 x Kaunggkain Aalainn (Light of Heaven) class Destroyer-Hunters

Kaunggkain Aalainn (flagship of the Navy of the Brave Sultunate)
Yonekyihkyinn Aalainn (Light of Faith)
Tararrmyahatamhu Aalainn (Light of Justice)
(Armament:
2 x twin 5 inch main guns
2 x AK-630 CIWS
1 x RBU-2000 anti-submarine mortar
4 x 40mm Bofors AA guns
12 x 20 inch SAM launchers
6 x P-500 Bazalt or P-1000 Vulkan anti-ship missiles

4 x Sahajart Aalainn (Light of Reason) Destroyers

1 x single 4.7 inch DP main gun
2 x P-500 Bazalt Anti-ship missiles
2 x CIWS 20mm Gatling guns
4 x .50 caliber machine guns
1 x 12-cell Mark 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS):

2 x Sextuple Mark 32 torpedo tubes

2,990,616

Alliances (If different from IRL): Thanks to economic mismanagement, following the removal of the Imām Htay Oo's government, the new government has seen a change in it's foreign policy, previously focusing on internal trade under sharia law, now sees opportunities to help the bare-bones economy of the Maan Country, with overtures to the People's Republic being noted.

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OP):
2022: On the morning of February 1, 2022, the Burmese Tatmadaw successfully arrests and deposes the ruling Democratically-elected government of Burma. State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Mint are forced under house arrest. Union Solidarity and Development Party chairman Htay Oo declares himself "Director of the Office of National Construction" and formally announces plans for fresh elections, with the promise that he would resign following much needed "social reforms to Burmese Society".

2023: Htay Oo formally announces Bill No.79, which would legalize Islamic sharia law in Burma. Protests immediately break out in opposition to such methods and state legislatures refuse to show up to work, hoping to deny them of a majority. When the government warns that "any vacancy for a period over 30 days will render that seat open for a replacement candidate", the opposition still refutes such claims and vows to sue. Already nation-wide protests erupt over the coup, forcing the military to intervene and open fire on protestors, killing hundreds in the next few days and arresting tens of thousands.

2024: The Burmese government officially holds elections for the state legislature, ensuring a victory for the ruling US-DP party with an implausibly high 89.4% turnout next to an equally as unlikely 88.3% vote for the far-right party. A well-publicized incident involving a Burmese girl being stoned to death by a far-right mob only further isolates and angers the world from the US-DP led-regime in Burma. Htay Oo takes this election as a referendum on his rule, and declares himself Imām of the Maan Country (Disbanding the Office of National Construction), formally changing the name of the country alongside the government. He also takes upon the roles of Prime Minister, Admiral and Postmaster-General.

2024-2044: The next twenty years of the Imām Htay Oo are an unstable, authoritarian mess. In resistance to his undemocratic actions, several Military officers attempt several coups, being foiled at the last moment by a turncoat that rallies forth the pro-Htay government forces to stave them off. Although initially popular with the far-right for his bombastic attitudes, this quickly turns south as Htay Oo attempts to impose a one-party, one-religion state upon the rest of the nation. He formally declares Islam to be the only religion worthy of holding government office and orders the demolition of many world heritage sites throughout the country, in-spite of very angry pencil waving, finger shaking by the United Nations. Imām Htay Oo survives several assasination attempts, which only serve to fuel his brutal dictatorship. He sets up state-owned companies in order to sell products at the world at-large, which several poor African nations gladly accept, flying in the face of international sanctions imposed upon his regime. By 2041, he's largely retired from most of his positions at the age of 91, handing most power over to his son, Mattaw Oo...

2044-2047: ...Who immediately fucks everything up. How was he supposed to know that releasing all the criminals from the prison would lead to the worst outbreak of crime and robbery the nation had ever seen? A long-simmering resistance campaign to his father's rule boils out into the open, with the formation of the League of Extraordinary Republicans (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was already taken by a shitty 2000s movie starring Sean Connery, apparently). The LER launches a full-scale military offensive, starting the Maan Country Civil War in 2045. The Leauge, headed by Aunt Simmons, a wealthy white part-Australian philanthropist and elderly weapons saleswoman, proves to be an inspiring leader for the rebel forces to rally behind, and by 2047, Mattaw Oo is shot by his own officers before the fall of Naypyidaw, ending the civil war.

Pre April 20, 2049: In 2048, Aunt Simmons runs for and is elected Guardian of the Bylaws, establishing a multi-ethnic Provisional Tribal Assembly as a unicameral parliament that is directly elected by the people. The First Maan Country Republic had so much life...so much vigor so much Aunt Simmons just died. What. Aunt Simmons? Isn't she 85? Yeeaaah it turns out she's dead. Fuck, what do we do now.

Post April 20, 2049: AHHHHHHH FUCK! A fully-blown constitutional crisis erupts, with The Headmaster of the PTA, Chalingto Manhatopahnn Nih Win declaring himself "Acting Guardian", this is disputed between Aunt Simmon's former husband, Charles Simmons, who had served as a councilman for Boyd County, GA for a single six month period, insisting that 'that's enough governance to do'. With the government paralyzed by a large strike called by organized laborers, there seems like nothing can save the countr-

*Big lipped military coup moment*

TA DA, IT'S OUR HERO...(and if by 'hero' you mean a military general wanting to get rid of this whole 'democratic shit' while not wanting to piss off every ethnic minority under the sun by shooting them')Yeshe Shein Kumbikhanna, riding up on a white horse and saying "Gentlemen, it's time to stop fighting, also I've got soldiers surrounding you how about you all pick me instead?" With fully automatic soviet made weaponry backing his powerful words, the squabbling children came to their senses and unanimously agree-wait, oh... you're telling me that they all said no, and when they all said no he had them all whipped to death in public in accordance with Sharia law? Oh... That's enough history for today, yes...yes...

*Book shuts, rummaging around for car keys, sounds of a door being shut, car starting up and then driving off, getting fainter*

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by **Yelbland** » Wed Dec 07, 2022 3:38 pm

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by **The Manticoran Empire** » Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:12 pm

NewLakotah wrote:Nationstates Name: NewLakotah
Nation Name: Russian Federation
Capital: Moscow
Territory: IRL Russia. De Jure: Crimea. Claimed (annexed 2022) but not enforced: Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhia
Population: 139 million
Official Language: Russian
Recognized Languages: There are a variety of recognized regional languages
Flag:
National Anthem (optional): State Anthem of the Russian Federation (official)
The Cossacks (unofficial - anthem of the June Revolution)

Head of State: Tatiana Smirnova
HoS Picture:
Head of Government: Alexander Davydov
HoG Picture (If different from HoS):
Legislature Name: State Duma
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each): Free Democratic Russia

2000-2050 order of presidents

Vladimir Putin (Independent/United Russia) - 2000-2008
Dimitri Medvedev (United Russia) - 2008-2012
Vladimir Putin (Independent/United Russia) - 2000-2025
Andrei Vdovychenko (Patriotic Union) - 2025-2027
Alyona Arshinova (Free Russia) - 2027-2035
Elvira Aitkulova (Free Russia) - 2035-2043
Volya Sorokin (Rodina) - 2043-2047
Tatiana Smirnova (Free Democratic Russia) - 2047-

Russian Political Divisions as of 2050:

Security Council of Russia:
President and Chairwoman of the Security Council - Tatiana Smirnova
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council - Igor Levitsky
Secretary of the Security Council - Mikhail Ivanov
Chairman of the Government (Prime Minister) - Alexander Davydov
Chief of Staff of the President - Ivan Volodin
Chairwoman of the Federation Council - Katerina Pavlova
Minister of Defence - Fedot Stepanov
Minister of Foreign Affairs - Kirill Pushkin
Minister of Internal Affairs - Anastasia Alexeeva
Director of Internal Security - Vladimir Zakharov
Director of Foreign Intelligence - Sergei Egorov

Composition of the State Duma, 2050:

Free Democratic Russia - 275
Social Democrats of Russia - 99
Rodina - 58
All Russia’s Party - 16
Freedom Party - 2

Composition of the Federation Council, 2050:
Free Democratic Russia - 87
Rodina - 49
Social Democrats of Russia - 19
All Russia’s Party - 8
Freedom Party - 7

GDP (PPP): 7.1 Trillion
GDP (Nominal): 3.256 Trillion
Currency: Ruble

Space Capabilities/Information (Must be approved by OP and Co-OPs)

During the 2020s, Roscosmos and the entire Russian space industry took a massive hit due to political instability, corruption, and massive budget cuts. In order to maintain some level of profit, Roscosmos relied heavily on contracts with China on supply missions and manned missions in order to stay afloat.

During the late 2020s, in the aftermath of the June Revolution, Roscosmos was a high target for the new purges of Putinists and corruption. Massive audits of the state corporation were order and dozens of people were fired from their jobs or even arrested as part of the Arshinova purge of Russia’s oligarchs and corruption that had grown rampant under Putin. This proved to be destablizing to Roscosmos in the short term and coupled with the budget reductions, struggled to stay afloat and many programs were delayed or cancelled outright. However, the withdrawal from the ISS proved to be beneficial to Russia as it reduced expenditures and allowed these funds to be spent on maintaining rockets and finishing development of others which proved useful to continue to prop up Chinese space flights as they continued to surpass Russia in the space race.

The purges did however prove to be quite successful in the more long term. As efficiency and corruption decreased, productivity increased as new energetic leaders took hold of the state corporation. Through partnerships with private Russian and Chinese companies in the early 2030s, Roscosmos was able to slowly develop its funding more and more through alternative means as a process of putting money forward towards new developments. With the Russian space station cancelled, Russia relied heavily on China and partnered with them on their development of a space station.

As the 2030s progressed, Russia began to stabilize, politically and economically. This allowed Russia to slowly allow itself to rebuild from the wars and revolution. Its primary focus remained on redeveloping its armed forces and that took the priority. However, realizing how far Russia was falling in the space race and seeing how ready the United States was to take the fight to space, Roscosmos soon took new priority status in the Russian government.

With newfound vigor and large new spending packages, Roscosmos soon began development of new medium and long term projects designed to get Russia back into the race. With the United States, China, and Europe all establishing a permanent presence on the moon, Russia sets its focus on establishing its own base there as well. By the end of the 2030s, Russia’s new Yenisei manned space vehicle is launched.

As the world enters the 2040s, and with USE and the United States preparing to establish their own presence on Mars with China and India following after them, Russia focused solely on getting to the moon, the target that had eluded the Soviet Union. The early missions to the moon were unmanned, testing the new lander that was built in 2047.

With a new lander, Smirnova rallied the nation with the goal of establishing Russia’s first manned moon landing in its history before the end of the decade. However, time would prove that to be a rather over zealous target. The new lander went through several trials and several delays with the weather set the the timetable back considerably, along with developmental delays with the Hab module. The unmanned missions to the Moon, Rodina-1 and Rodina-2, were launched in 2047 and 2049, the latter being around a year behind schedule. These two set up the preliminary base area with the launch of a small Russo-Chinese lunar rover, a science drone, and other supplies for the habitat were launched in the first launch. The second carried more supplies and gear, along with the Hab module.

The eventual manned mission, comprised of 5 cosmonauts, was to be Russia’s triumphant return to space and their entry into the ongoing space race. However, the manned mission was delayed for a variety of reasons, forcing Smirnova to announce its launch in 2050. The mission remains active.

Other projects currently in develop are as follows:

Planned expansion of the Lunar Russian Habitat. Including the launch of Hab-2 and 3, to increase scientific investigation of the moon, increase habitat size, and improve self-sustainability.единство-1 (Unity-1), is scheduled in 2050 or 51 and will launch the second Hab module. Unity-2 will launch communications, satellite, scientific, and space-farming equipment and modules. Unity-3 will see the launch of Hab-3, the final habitat module, which will see the sustainability module, with will power and serve as greenhouse of the entire habitat. Beyond this, resupply missions are scheduled at a near-yearly basis to ensure that the inhabitants are properly transferred out after a certain time and new supplies are issued. Scheduled: 2050-55

Planned expansion of presence on the moon with the launch of Июнь (June) missions. These include the establishment of a second lunar habitat, primarily focused on establishing a spaceport and developing commercial operations on the moon. Scheduled:2055-59

Launch of the Russian Spacestation. Designed to serve as an intermediary hub with long term expansion plans, the Russian space station will allow long distance space travel with reduction costs through the launch of deep space missions from space rather than from earth. It can also store materials from the moon and allow for cheaper, reusable travel to occur between the station and the Russian spaceports on the ground. Scheduled: 2059 (deadline given by former President Aikulova)

Manned mission to Mars. Roscosmos is in the development process of a new deep space habitat mission to the red planet. Currently, the vehicle required is still in the early stages of development, however Russia does possess the rockets capable of making that launch. Currently, the schedule has two unmanned missions to set up and supply the base, followed by the third and final manned mission that will establish the Martian Russian Research Lab. Much of this work relies on partnerships with China and their ongoing missions to Mars and the moon, to which Russia assists in the development of and is able to adapt it for its own uses. Scheduled: 2059+

Military Information (Will likely vary from IRL):
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are divided into several different branches, these being:
The Ground Force
The Aerospace Forces
The Russian Navy
Airborne Troops
Special Forces
Rocket and Missile Troops

Defence Budget: 170 billion. 3.7% of GDP

Combined, these forces number around 1.5 million soldiers, with aprox. 750,000 being contract soldiers and the rest being conscript soldiers. In 2027, the Free Russian Army, an informal revolutionary army that stormed to victory in both the November Revolution and following June Revolution, was formalized as a paramilitary branch of the Ground Force, operating as a National Guard, volunteer detachment to support Russian military operations as a reserve force and for internal security and border security. The name was changed to the Russian Federation Guard and their numbers, in 2050, number nearly 250,000.

Approximately 600,000 of the 1.5 million are active duty, while the remaining are reserve. Most of these 600,000 are contract soldiers as per the new norms under the Russian Strategic Defence Policy, which lowers the importance of conscript soldiers on the regular forces. Most conscripts now serve in the primary reserve, while the Federation Guard remains exclusively volunteer based. Of these forces, approximately 450,000 are stationed in the Eastern, Central, and Southern Military Districts, with the rest in the Eastern and Northern military districts. The Federation Guard remains scattered across the entire length of Russia, with the largest formations, the 3rd Cossacks and the 141st Chechen Guards, operating within the Central and Southern Military Districts.

The Russian Navy, after several years of neglect, remains a very small and largely irrelevant force, despite recent efforts to modernize. Currently, the Russian Navy operates 5 fleets and around 290 ships, with the number expected to grow to 320 by the end of the decade. The Russian Navy operates no aircraft carriers after their last was retired in 2031.

The Russian Air Force remains in the midst of rebuilding as well. The primary aircraft are the Su-57, the Su-75, the MiG-41, the Su-35 and 29, as well as the MiG-31. Various other, older, aircraft remain in service as part of the primary reserve of the Russian Air Force. Plans to introduce a 6th generation fighter began in the 2030s and first flight is expected to begin in 2051 with a planned introduction of the half-manned, half-unmanned aircraft is expected by 2057.

The Russian Ground Forces continue to operate a wide variety of equipment. However, the main standard of the Russian Ground Forces since the 2030s has been the Armata systems and the Kurganets-25. Other, older, equipment such as the T-90 series remain in active duty service as well. The T-40 Tsar platform of vehicles, designed to replace the Armata series and older BTRs, BMPs, and T-90s, is beginning to be introduced as of 2049 with the first units, replacing the T-90s and BTRs of the Eastern Military District, expected to begin in 2050. Other modernized variants of Russian SPGs and MLRS systems have replaced the Soviet models largely by 2050.

In the 2030s, the Russian Ground Forces adopted a new Brigade Combat Group (BCG) to supplement their existing Battalion Tactical Group system. The new BCG is designed to be highly adaptive and consists of 3-4 battalion tactical groups, support artillery battalions, and other tank or motorized infantry battalions. These are highly adaptive and designed to be highly interchangeable depending on the need. 2 to 3 BCGs comprise a Russian division and 2-3 divisions comprise a Combined Arms Army Group of which there are now 1 active duty army group per military district and one primary reserve army group.

As a result of the two revolutions and long history of corruption within the Russian Armed Forces, the armed forces remain still largely in redevelopment mode ever since the 2030s when the Russian economy finally began to stabilize. The Russian defence industry has seen massive new reinvestment initiatives designed to stimulate exports and Russian arms exports have largely returned to pre-revolution levels.

The Russian Armed Forces have two primary strategic goals. First, is to defend Russia’s borders against an American-led invasion force or against the United States of Europe. Second, is to defend Russian allied and foreign interests abroad, primarily through the Rapid Reaction Forces, which are comprised of Russian Special Forces, Airborne Troops, Air Force Squadrons, and Ground Force battalions. These usually operate from Russian military bases either in Russia or abroad. They are highly mobile teams designed to support counter insurgency missions, defend allied governments against proxy conflicts from America or the United States of Europe, as well as to train and support allied nations.

The other primary strategic goal of the Russian Federation is that of being one of the main armed forces of the CSTO. On the pacific front, Russian forces work closely with Chinese forces for the strategic defence of the North Pacific against American interests in the region as well as defending the CSTO front in central asia and the Caucasus. Russian and Iranian military relations have also continued to improve in the aftermath of both of their respective revolutions. Russian and Iranian military cooperation and rebuilding has seen significant works accomplished during the 2030s and 2040s.

Alliances (Will likely vary from IRL):
CSTO, SCO, EAEU, CIS

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OPs):
Refer to post below

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Hypron wrote:Nationstates Name: United Kingdom of Hypron
Nation Name: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Capital: London, England
Territory: Modern UK
Population: 74.08 million
Official Language: English
Recognized Languages: N/A
Flag:
(Image)

National Anthem: God Save the King

Head of State: King William V
HoS Picture:
(Image)

Head of Government: Prime Minister Damian Wilkinson (CUP-ON)
HoG Picture (If different from HoS):
(Image)
Legislature Name: Houses of Parliament
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each): The House of Lords is controlled by the Conservative Party, while the House of Commons is controlled by a coalition of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

Prime Minister - Damian Wilkinson, Conservative and Unionist Party
Deputy Prime Minister - Christopher Henderson, Liberal Democrats
Chancellor of the Exchequer- Nathaniel Hayes, Conservative and Unionist Party
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs- Robert Pearce, Conservative and Unionist Party
Secretary of State for Justice- Martin Miller, Conservative and Unionist Party
Minister of Defense- Carter Williams, Conservative and Unionist Party
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills- Anthony Knight, Liberal Democrats
Secretary of State for the Home Department- Katie Stevens, Conservative and Unionist Party
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions- Philip Duncan, Liberal Democrats
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change- Jasmine Sharp, Liberal Democrats
Secretary of State for Health- Freddie Wallace, Conservative and Unionist Party
Secretary of State for Education- Filip Fraser, Conservative and Unionist Party
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government- Peter Cooper, Conservative and Unionist Party
Secretary of State for Transport- Lily-Rose Matthews, Conservative and Unionist Party
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs- Matthew Davidson, Conservative and Unionist Party
Secretary of State for International Development- Samuel Watts, Conservative and Unionist Party
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland- William Taylor, Conservative and Unionist Party
Secretary of State for Scotland- Madison Bennett, Liberal Democrats
Secretary of State for Wales- Hayden Stewart, Liberal Democrats
Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport- Harry Butler, Conservative and Unionist Party
Leader of the House of Lords- 8th Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative and Unionist Party
Minister without Portfolio- Adrian Richards, Conservative and Unionist Party

GDP (PPP): $5.4 trillion USD
GDP (Nominal): $5.1 trillion USD
Currency: Pound Sterling

Space Capabilities/Information:
With the consistent economic troubles plaguing the United Kingdom through the 2020s and the 2030s, probably the most neglected portion of the United Kingdom was the UK Space Agency. Budget cut after budget cut after budget cut. That was the normal for the economic reports for the multiple chairmen of the UK Space Agency that presided over the dying organization in the 2 decades of its decline. This changed in 2041.

Convinced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Damian Wilkinson, the British Government began to provide the funding needed to begin working towards space operations. Cooperating with NASA and the CSA, the UKSA began to design its own Space Shuttle designs, even though they aren't able to be launched. The Spaceports in the Shetland Islands and Scotland began to be expanded in 2048 in order to accommodate larger launches. At the current moment, Britain's plans are only to be able to launch large spacecraft into space, rather than only being capable of launching satellites.

Military Information (Will likely vary from IRL): Let’s go over this by branches, shall we?

While the structural components haven’t been changed past 2022, its equipment certainly has. Retiring the multiple SA80 variant rifles by 2030, the British Army replaced these with the L93A1, or the Desert Tech NSGAR rifle, while replacing the FN Minimi with the FN EVOLYS (termed the L112A1 in British service). Meanwhile, its armored components now use the Challenger 3 MBT and the Ajax IFV (introduced much later than expected due to working out the multiple various issues). Well, that wraps that up pretty quickly.

His Majesty’s Royal Navy is the main branch to have received updates over the 25 year time period (as is to be expected), mainly by most of its older ships finally being phased out. In 2034, the last of Britain’s Type 23 class frigates retired, having been replaced by the 8 Type 26, or City-class frigates, and the 5 Type 31, or Inspiration-class, frigates. In addition to these, the United Kingdom employed 5 Type 32, or Excelsior-class, frigates, bringing the United Kingdom’s frigate fleet up to 18.

With construction starting in 2037 and all 8 warships being finished by 2044, the Type 83 destroyer, better known as the Battle-class, were put to the seas to shore up Britain’s anti-missile defense capabilities. Built to be escorts to aircraft carriers Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales, their armament is much heavier than the Type 45 destroyers, with Sea Raptor and Mk.41 VLS systems for Sea Ceptor and Naval Strike Missiles respectively.

In the Submarine department, the early 2030s saw the retirement of the Vanguard-class of ballistic missile submarines, to be replaced by the Dreadnought class, as well as the last of the Astute class submarines commissioned due to construction delays. In the 2040s. The 3 oldest Astute-class submarines were decommissioned however, in favor of the Resolution-class nuclear attack submarine. And, that’s about it there.

The RAF underwent its upgrades and overhauls in the late 2030s, when development of the BAE Systems Tempest was finally completed. Most of the Eurofighter Typhoon fleet at this point was placed in reserve status, being replaced by F-35 Lightning IIs. Britain would acquire 3 Tempest fighter squadrons, totaling 36 aircraft. Meanwhile, to provide protection for the Southeast Pacific, the RAF would acquire 20 B-1B Lancers from the United States for Naval Strike duties.

Alliances (Will likely vary from IRL): Commonwealth of Nations, Imperial Confederation, PTO

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OPs):

With the 2020s beginning with the mass economic downturn from COVID and Brexit, the United Kingdom in the early portions of the decade was already in a fragile position. Then the War in Ukraine began, sending British energy prices skyrocketing and inflation to a 40-year high and causing even more economic instability. Then the ‘Triple Cabinet Crisis’ hit, with Boris Johnson’s resignation, Liz Truss’ disastrous premiership, and finally the ascension of Rishi Sunak to the office of Prime Minister, which overall tanked investor confidence and shook the pound even more due to the ‘mini-budget’ and shook confidence in the Conservative government to an all-time low. Needless to say, the 2020s were not off to a good start for the UK.

The Sunak Government would be dominated by 2 individuals, Prime Minister Sunak and Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt. These 2 men would basically be responsible for the 2 ½ years of fiscal conservatism emphasized by the Conservative government. Controlled public spending, tax increases, and natural inflation stabilization happened between 2023 and 2025, turning the British economy from ‘on the brink of collapse’ to ‘some sort of stabilization’. However, you don’t get credit for filing your own messes, and so the Tories got absolutely manhandled by Labour in 2025, with Labour gaining 422 seats and a large majority.

Now with a working majority, Labour began to implement policies outlined within the Labour 2022 ‘Stronger Together’ manifesto. Working with local governments and the Trade Union Congress, the Starmer Government began reinvesting in the British economy, mainly in green energy and digital sectors, in order to modernize and revolutionize it, and force Britain out of its slump. He increased funding to the NHS, restored funding to police services, and passed measures to decrease the cost of living for British citizens. This turned the economy from ‘some sort of stabilization’ to ‘the economy is growing for once’.

Foreign policy wise, with the unification of the European Union into the United States of Europe, Starmer began realigning Britain to the United States and the Anglosphere, mainly Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. This led to the foundation of CANZUK, an economic bloc with the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, striving for free trade, unrestricted travel, and (in Britain’s case) closer interweaving of the 4 economies.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the bench, Labour’s victory shook the Conservative and Unionist Party, leading to a change in factional strength. The One-Nation Conservatives, once relegated to the backbenches by the Thatcherites, surged in popularity within party ranks. When the 2030 elections rolled around, the Tories chose Damian Green, head of the One-Nation Tories, to lead them into 2030, facing off against Starmer. While it was looking to be a landslide for Labour yet again, events in the Middle East would change matters once again.

With the collapse of the Mosul Dam in 2030, the economic effects would be felt throughout the world. Britain, with a high need for government investment and still needing oil to run key industrial needs with conversion still ongoing, took a large hit. Investment went down, and Britain spiraled back into a recession. During elections, Labour lost 55 seats but managed to maintain the premiership and their large majority. Starmer used the opportunity used by the collapse of oil trade to boost the British green energy economy. Meanwhile, in order to have more funds, he cut the British 2032 and 2033 defense budgets, increased taxes, and lowered funding for non-critical sectors of the NHS, which allowed the British government to continue its mass green energy investments.

The 2035 General Election saw the Tories once again gaining seats due to criticism of the needlessly high government spending, as well as their cuts to British defense. Now led by Prime Minister Lewis Lawrence, Starmer’s former Chancellor of the Exchequer in his second government, the Lawrence Government was less focused on economics (mainly following his predecessor) and more on defense and foreign policy. He expanded the 2036-2040 British defense budgets, allowing for the overhaul and strengthening the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force.

His main foreign policy goal was to begin closer integration of CANZUK and to shift British foreign policy to a more Indo-Pacific focus. With the permission of the Australians to use Sydney as a home port, the United Kingdom shifted the carrier Prince of Wales to create the British Pacific Squadron, usually consisting of a carrier, a Type 45 or (from 2040 onwards) a Type 83 destroyer, 3 Type 26 frigates, 2 Type 31 frigates, 1 Type 32 frigate, an Resolution-class attack submarine, and a Dreadnought-class ballistic missile submarine. In order to make up the gap that was felt in defenses in the Home Islands, the United Kingdom and the United States began work on Joint Base Plymouth, an defense project to turn the Plymouth docks into a massive naval base for the newly rebased US Sixth Fleet.

In electoral terms, with the belief starting to spread that the spending of the current Labour government is starting to get to be too much, with national debt rising exponentially, Labour began suffering setbacks in local elections. Combine that with the factor that the Conservatives have rallied around Fletcher Harrison, a moderate One-Nation Candidate, 2040 was looking to be a fun election year.

Before we move on however, let’s look real fast at the factions of the 2 main political parties.

The Conservative and Unionist Party- The CUP, more colloquially known as the Tories, are the main bastion of British Conservatism. From the 1980s to the 2020s, they were dominated by the ‘New Right’, a political group made up of Thatcherites, Powellists, and libertarian conservatives, emphasizing economic libertarianism and mass privatization. However, with its mass damage due to Liz Truss’s Premiership, they ran into competition from the ‘One-Nation Conservative’ caucus, a wing of more paternalistic conservatives based off of the likes of Benjamin Disraeli, Harold MacMillan, and Richard Austen Butler.

This factional spat came to a head in 2032, when, after another failed election, the Conservatives began another leadership spill. The tensions between the New Right and One-Nation groups finally went to a head, with the party nearly fracturing. When the leadership election finally rolled around, the One-Nation candidate won out in the end, solidifying the ideological shift in the CUP.

The 2032 Leadership Election also began the rise of a third faction of Conservatives: The Reforged Monday Club. A group of aristocratic, right-leaning, isolationist, and anti-communist members of the Conservative Party, they have taken the slot of the far-right section of the party.
While their electoral prospects have been lackluster, they are still influential within the inner party due to providing funding. Due to this, they have influence within Conservative governments and are usually granted cabinet positions.

Labour Party- The 2 major factions of the Labour Party, the Right and the Left, have seen very little shifts in the last few decades, still being realigned by Tony Blair’s ‘New Labour’ shifting the Labour Right to a more centrist view. Keir Starmer, Prime Minister from 2025-2035 and a member of the Soft Left, struck a balance between the 2 factions, implementing policies from both the left and the right in order to keep both pacified.

His successor, Lewis Lawrence, a notable member of the Right faction, could not pull off the same balancing act. Already being criticized by the Left due to his time as Chancellor of the Exchequer, his unwillingness to expand upon his predecessor's policies slowly began to anger the left, which split the Labour base in 2040 and would cost Labour.

This is what happens when 2 sides in the same party are somewhat ideologically different from each other. Labour Right has shifted from a Social Democratic political grouping to a more centrist/neoliberal grouping, depending on who you ask. Meanwhile, Labour Left have maintained their Democratic Socialist tendencies, causing an already present rift to begin to grow.

2040 was a competitive election year. Lawrence was running on a platform of continuing the status quo of high spending, green energy investments, and a government for the people. Harrison was the paternalistic conservative, looking to cut back on the high taxes paid for by British citizens, cut unnecessary spending, and refine the British welfare state for efficiency. In the end, neither party could gain a majority, with the Conservatives winning 297 seats and Labour winning 272. Coalitions would need to be formed, and so the race began.

The kingmaker would be the Liberal Democrats, which won 53 seats in the General Election, and whom both parties began trying to court. In the end, a repeat of 2010 was abound, as the Conservatives and Lib Dems formed a coalition government, with Harrison becoming Prime Minister and Christopher Henderson, leader of the Lib Dems, becoming Deputy Prime Minister, ending the 15-year Labour stranglehold on 10 Downing Street.

With the One-Nation Conservatives taking Downing Street, and in coalition with the social liberal Liberal Democrats, a new consensus began to form within Britain in terms of economics. It took 4 of the main items of the post-war consensus (The mixed economy, full employment, Conciliation of the trade unions, and welfare) while adding on 2 new points replacing Retreat from Empire: Green Energy Industry and Space Industrialization.

While the Harrison-Henderson Government would begin scaling down on the mass spending of the previous Labour Administrations, Harrison’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Damian Wilkinson, alongside the director of the UK Space Agency, Stanley Lawson, managed to convince the Prime Minister of the need to begin preparations to join the space race. While unable to launch their own vehicles into space, the British Government began working with the United States and Canada to gain experience for Britain’s own space program, in addition to expanding British spaceports in Scotland and the Shetland Islands to launch their own space shuttle designs.

2045 saw the government reelected and the Chancellor of the Exchequer transferred to the position of Home Secretary, now clearly being made the successor to the party. Policies of the Harrison-Henderson Government wouldn’t shift, focusing on refining processes already present, increasing investment in the British space program, and focusing on their main goal: forming the Imperial Confederation.

In an attempt to centralize the CANZUK economic union into a loose political union, Prime Minister Harrison and Foreign Minister Clara Morris (CUP-NR) met with members of the governments of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and agreed on a draft for the ‘Imperial Confederation’, an expansion of CANZUK calling for common foreign and defense policy with one another. However, this is as far along as he could get it before other matters came to the forefront.

With a Cold War sparking up in the Pacific once more, the United Kingdom was one of the first to express interest in the American ‘Pacific Treaty Organization’, seeing it as a way to regain some additional standing on the world stage. When formalized in 2046 by President Miers, Britain was one of 6 founding members, alongside Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and Japan.

In 2048, Harrison stepped down from 10 Downing Street, calling for a General Election and announcing Home Secretary Damian Wilkinson as his successor. The 2049 General Election was a win for the Tories, going from 291 seats in 2045 to 313 in 2049, while still needing to form a government with the Liberal Democrats, who had 47 seats in the 2049 Parliament. Thus, as we enter 2050, the Wilkinson-Henderson Cabinet will be a mix of old guard, new faces, and ideological battles. Let the new decade begin.

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Nationstates Name: Yaruqo
Nation Name: Ukraine
Capital: Kyiv
Territory: IRL Ukraine, including Crimea
Population: 35.22 million
Official Language: Ukrainian
Flag:
(Image)
National Anthem (optional): State Anthem of Ukraine, aka "Shche ne vmerla Ukrayina"

Head of State: President Maksim Davydovych Kovalchuk (PZU)
HoS Picture:
Head of Government: Prime Minister Tetiana Oleksiivna Holub (PZU)
HoG Picture (If different from HoS):
Legislature Name: Verkhovna Rada
Party in Power: The Party of Greens of Ukraine (PZU) are the largest party within the Rada, and they control the presidency. They are in a governing coalition with members of the social democratic Platform for Life and Peace (PLP) and the liberal Servant of the People (SN) party.

Prime Minister: Tetiana Oleksiivna Holub (PZU)
Vice Prime Minister: Kostiantyn Matviyovych Sokolov (SN)
Minister of Foreign Affairs: Klyment Vyacheslavych Shevchenko (PZU)
Minister of Defense: Sviatoslav Ivanovych Vasylyshyn (SN)
Minister of Economic Development and Trade: Svitlana Stepanivna Reznikov (PZU)
Minister of Internal Affairs: Iryna Volodomyrivna Maliuska (PZU)
Minister of Strategic Industries: Oleksandr Ruslanovych Vakarchuk (PLP)
Minister of Digital Transformation: Yulia Mykhailovna Bondarenko (SN)
Minister for Veterans Affairs: Mykhail Kostiantynovych Yemets (SN)
Minister of Youth & Sports: Oleksandra Ivanova Laputina (PZU)
Minister of Finance: Arsen Antonov Mandziy (PLP)
Minister of Infrastructure: Volodymyr Maksimovych Kornienko (SN)
Minister of Justice: Dmytro Dmytrovych Kubela (PZU)
Minister of Social Policy: Serhiy Romanovych Pasternak (PLP)
Minister of Healthcare: Halyna Oleksandrovna Tkachuk (PZU)
Minister of Education & Science: Kateryna Petrovych Ponomarchuk (PLP)
Minister of Energy: Rostyslav Olehvych Kushnirenko (PZU)
Minister of Environmental Protection & Natural Resources: Artem Grygoriyvych Baranets (PZU)
Minister of Agrarian Policy & Food: Tamara Vasylovna Stefanyk (SN)
Minister of Communities & Territories Development: Ostap Fedirovych Hryniuk (SN)
Minister of Culture & Information Policy: Valentyna Borysovna Boyko (PLP)
Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers: Nadiya Myroslavna Shubin (PZU)

GDP (PPP): WIP
GDP (Nominal): WIP
Currency: Ukrainian Hryvnia

Military Information (Will likely vary from IRL): WIP

Alliances (Will likely vary from IRL): WIP - likely security agreements with the USE and/or USA.

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OPs):

2022 - 2023: The Russian invasion of Ukraine drags on, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continues to push for Western and international support of the Ukrainian defense. While the national defense remains the primary focus of Zelenskyy, he attempts to implement political, legal, and economic reforms to bring Ukraine closer to the EU, which Zelenskyy hoped would lay the groundwork for membership with the EU, though Brussels dragged its heels on the issue of membership and ultimately does not include Ukraine as a member by the time of the formation of the USE. By the end of 2024, Russian forces had been pushed out of southern Ukraine back to Crimea, had lost most of Luhansk oblast, and were beginning to lose ground in Donetsk oblast. With each victory, Russian atrocities were uncovered, and Zelenskyy artfully used these to garner continued domestic and foreign support. Zelenskyy wins re-election for a 2nd and final 5-year term in March 2024, and the Servant of the People (SN) party maintains their majority in the Verkhovna Rada.

2024: By the spring of 2024, demoralized Russian forces suffered losses when Ukraine launched its expected offensive against Russian and separatist forces, and they were forced to withdraw across Russian lines. Unable to maintain support for the war among the populace and the political and economic elites, Vladimir Putin was forced to sue for peace. The Treaty of Ankara affirmed Ukraine’s boundaries and territorial integrity and gave Crimea to the Russian Federation, while those other oblasts that Russia had “annexed” were “returned” to Ukraine, included war reparations from Russia, and mandated the exchange of Russian and Ukrainian POWs and the return of “relocated” Ukrainian citizens and children. The long work of reconstruction begins for Ukraine.

2025 - 2026: Characterized as a period of “returning to normalcy,” Zelenskyy’s administration continues to go down the path of reform, establishing closer ties to the West, and, after years of petitions from LGBT Ukrainians that had served in Ukraine’s Armed Forces and Territorial Defense Forces during the Russian invasion, passes new legislation recognizing same-sex civil unions in 2026, and encourages the Ukrainian Defense Ministry and other relevant ministries to help those who had lost a significant other during the war to apply for veteran’s spousal benefits. Zelenskyy’s administration, in close coordination with the OECD, engages in a years-long campaign to tackle corruption, improve judicial independence and enforcement, and business integrity initiatives and reforms, though most of these efforts would remain ongoing until the mid-2030s. While Kyiv attempts to move forward, the remnants of pro-Russian separatists try to continue fighting in the Donbas, though their efforts ultimately result in ethnic Russians fleeing the fighting and the expulsion of the separatist forces from Ukraine’s territory.

2027 - 2028: By August 2027, Russia’s revolutions and infighting had exposed them for the paper tiger they had always been. Always believing that Ukraine should have retained the entirety of its territorial integrity, Zelenskyy, citing the Russian violation of the Budapest Memorandum in the 2014 war, launches an operation to retake the Crimean peninsula. Coordinating with Ukrainian and Tatar groups living in Crimea, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launch a blitz counteroffensive, which leads to Ukraine retaking Crimea by the end of November, after the Russians suffered 3,000 casualties and the Ukrainians suffered around 1,500. Zelenskyy’s administration takes great pains to ensure that the human rights of ethnic Russians, both in Crimea and without, are respected. Any Russian POWs from the Crimea operation are released unconditionally, and are offered either Ukrainian citizenship or safe transit to Russia.

2029: With Zelenskyy unable to run for a third term, Olena Shuliak, the leader of SN, announces a run for the presidency and narrowly wins the party’s primary. With Ukraine’s parties still driven by personalities, geostrategic interests, and civilizational positions, SN would suffer without Zelenskyy at the head, despite his reacquisition of Crimea. Shuliak would win the presidency after a second round bout with Petro Poroshenko (and Ukraine’s first woman president), but with SN unable to form a majority on its own anymore, she would form a coalition of the center with SN’s historical backers: the social democratic Platform for Life and Peace (PLP); the center-right For the Future (ZM); and the centrist Dovira.

2030: Shuliak’s coalition in the Verkhovna Rada falls apart after deputies from ZM accuse the government of being “too far to the left” and withdraw from the government, though political observers believed that Yulia Tymoshenko of the All-Ukrainian Union “Fatherland” (Batkivshchyna) party had managed to offer ZM’s leaders a deal that would see ZM awarded with “better” ministerial portfolios. However, with neither the SN bloc nor the Batkivshcyna-led opposition able to form a majority in the Verkhovna Rada, Shuliak dissolved the Rada and arranged for new elections for the legislature. In the backdrop of reconstruction, climate change, and a push for liberalism (particularly after the collapse of the Mosul Dam, shocking oil prices), the 2030 Rada elections saw the return of the Party of Greens of Ukraine (PZU), a resurgent Europhile left in western Ukrainian cities, the stabilization of SN, and the incorporation of ZM into Batkivshchyna and Poroshenko’s European Solidarity (YeS) party. SN formed a more stable majority with the PLP, PZU, and Dovira.

2031 - 2033: Shuliak’s government takes steps to reduce Ukraine’s dependence on oil and gas, both in the short term and the long term, by overhauling its domestic energy production to be more aligned with coal and renewables in the short term, and nuclear energy in the longer term. By mid-2033, the anti-corruption programs and initiatives that President Zelenskyy had begun putting in place were considered by the OECD to be implemented. With this stamp of approval, Ukraine begins to see more trade and investment, with the USE remaining Ukraine’s largest trade partner, followed by Turkey, China, and the USA. President Shuliak negotiates an intelligence sharing agreement with the United States of America, which includes safe houses for the CIA and training for the Ukrainian SZR. In December 2033, President Shuliak announces that she is diagnosed with cancer, and declares she will not run for re-election.

2034 - 2039: Andriy Parubi of the YeS, a veteran of the War Against Russian Aggression, quickly becomes a favorite in the polls of the presidential election. Seeking a more “traditional liberal” approach, he taps some of the same veins that Zelenskyy did when he ran for office back in 2019. He won the election after the second round against Eugenia Tymoshenko, Yulia Tymoshenko’s daughter, who ran as an independent. Despite his popularity at the voting booth, Parubi quickly finds himself facing a Verkhovna Rada that is more closely aligned to the Shuliak’s coalition. He often finds himself governing through negotiation with their choice for prime minister, which leads to members of the right growing increasingly frustrated with their perceived shut out of power. While Parubi is able to keep the government coasting along, he is unable to form a coalition involving his own party. By 2039, he will lose the respect of YeS and be defeated in a primary, and with a dysfunctional right, the far-right Svoboda’s leader, Oleh Tyahnybok, attracts attention from those on the right seeking a stable and powerful home. Running what would be called a “Trump of the Don” campaign, Tyahnybok courts veterans and nationalists. Despite a coalition of urban liberals and ethnic Russians and Tatars, Tyahnybok becomes the first nationalist elected to Ukraine’s presidency. In the Rada, however, Svoboda is forced to establish a legislative coalition with the center-right parties, much to Tyahnybok’s chagrin.

2039 - 2041: Tyahnybok struggled to bring about the nationalist policies he had run on, with the center-right parties consistently advocating for a focus on economic policies, issues they believed would secure victory for the right-wing coalition. But Tyahnybok, believing that Ukraine’s demographic trends were the result of attacks on traditional values, sparked frequent battles over abortion, LGBTQ rights, and even on public education, with limited success. In March of 2041, Tyahnybok’s deputies attempted to push through a legislative package called, “An Act to Restore Traditional Morality to Ukraine.” Few could have imagined at the time that this would be the beginning of the end of his presidency. The bill was met with harsh criticism and opposition from the legislative left, from ethnic minorities that felt the bill would seek to run them out of the country by making them feel unwelcome, and other constituencies. The bill was narrowly defeated in the Rada, and Tyahnybok made a fatal mistake. He dissolved the Rada (which was in his power to do so), but then attempted to push the bill through by decree. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians would pour out into the streets, threatening a second Maidan Uprising in Kyiv. Hoping to avert a crisis, the Verkhovna Rada ignored Tyahnybok’s dissolution orders, and moved for a vote of no confidence two weeks later. With only Svoboda voting against the motion, Tyahnybok would be ousted from the presidency. The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Ruslan Sokolov of the Batkivshchyna party, would succeed as president for the remainder of his Tyahnybok’s term. In the months after the deposition of Tyahnybok, the Constitutional Court would determine that while the dissolution of the Rada was constitutional, the attempt to rule by decree was not, and therefore the Rada was empowered to act in the defense of the Constitution, legitimizing the ouster.

2041 - 2043: President Sokolov, a constitutionalist at heart, often sought dialogue and compromise, including a failed attempt to form a unity government. Nonetheless, he managed to steer the ship of state with little incident, working with the Rada to undo the worst of Tyahnybok’s policies. By the 2043 general election, the climate crisis was fresh on the minds of many Ukrainians, and this would be reflected in their support of the PZU and its candidate, Maksim Kovalchuk.

2043 - Present: Kovalchuk would work to deepen the ties between Kyiv, Brussels, and Washington. Among these, Kovalchuk would attempt to pursue investment in Ukraine’s nuclear industry, with the rationale that, “A Ukraine less reliable on oil and gas translates to a secure Europe.” If Ukraine could produce nuclear energy and build up an energy infrastructure built around nuclear and sustainable energy, then Europe would not need to rely on foreign oil and gas to power their homes in the winter. In 2045, the American company General Dynamics would win a contract with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense to develop a new main battle tank with KMDB, the producers of the lauded T-84. They estimate that by 2050, the new tank will be unveiled and produced for service in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Due to confidence in Kovalchuk’s leadership and the PZU’s stewardship of the economy and their climate policies, Kovalchuk and his coalition returned to power in the 2048 elections.

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by **The Manticoran Empire** » Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:12 pm

Sao Nova Europa wrote:Nationstates Name: Sao Nova Europa
Nation Name: State of Greece
Capital: Athens
Territory: Greece
Population: 10,000,000
Official Language: Greek, English, French, and German
Recognized Languages: 34 National and Regional Languages recognized
Flag:

(Image)

National Anthem (optional): Hymn to Liberty

Head of State: Governor Nikos Romanos
HoS Picture:

(Image)

Head of Government: Governor Nikos Romanos
HoG Picture (If different from HoS): -
Legislature Name: Greek Parliament
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each):

191 seats - ECR (government)
65 seats - PES (primary opposition)
31 seats - EPP (opposition)
13 seats - PEL (opposition)

GDP (PPP): $342bln
GDP (Nominal): $355bln
Currency: Euro

Space Capabilities/Information (Must be approved by OP and Co-OPs): Part of USE

Military Information (Will likely vary from IRL): Part of USE

Alliances (Will likely vary from IRL): Member state of USE

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OPs):

In 2025, the United States of Europe was born. Greece - a nation with strong Euroskeptic sentiment and scars from the financial crisis - became polarized internally over this transition. Greek had the status of a recognized but not official language, which provoked resentment. Even worse, in the coming years, Greek economic growth lagged behind compared to the rest of the member states and unemployment remained far higher. Any expectations that a united Europe would resolve the Cyprus dispute were also dashed, with the USE maintaining diplomatic and economic ties with Ankara and refusing to push on the issue.

As a result, in the late 2030s, the European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECR) became increasingly popular politically, drawing right-wing voters from the established center-right European People's Party (EPP). In 2041, the first ECR government in Greece was formed. The new government moved to restructure the electoral system of Greece, moving away from the proportional system towards a first-past-the-post system, while at the same time maintaining the 50-bonus-seats system for the largest party of the previous electoral law. In 2043, a nominally independent commission drew the new electoral districts. Both the left and the center-right decried gerrymandering, which benefited the ECR.

Indeed, even though the ECR got only 40% of the vote in 2045, it won 65% of the seats in parliament. In 2047, Governor Alexandros Papanikolas resigned and was replaced as leader of ECR - and Governor of Greece - by Nikos Romanos. In early parliamentary elections in December of 2049, Romanos won a majority of his own in the parliament and crushed once more the ECR's opponents.

Romanos had been the leader of the youth wing of the ECR in Greece and had been elected mayor of Karpenissi in 2037. The day before the mayoral election, a video had leaked in which Romanos had used incendiary language about migrants, bankers, and the European government. Instead of dooming his campaign, the video helped Romanos do much better than expected. As Mayor, he became a prominent national figure because of his controversial statements and attacks against the left, "neo-Marxists," "Eurocrats", "the Fourth Reich" and other targets of the Greek nationalist right. Four years later, in 2041, he was elected Governor of Central Greece. In 2045, he was elected to the Greek parliament, and in 2047 became Governor of Greece and leader of the Greek branch of the ECR.

Under his leadership, Greece has seen a reduction in state taxes and controversial police "cleansing" operations in Athens to find and arrest illegal immigrants and clear left-wing squatting. He has also revised the electoral law to increase the parliamentary bonus to the first party from 50 seats to 60 seats. With most of the local media being owned by businessmen supporting his party, Romanos has enjoyed considerable positive coverage and popularity of 67%. Romanos has attacked verbally more than once the central government, accusing them of failing Greece. This - as well as the extensive gerrymandering - has earned him the ire of the European Parliament but has also made him popular among many Greeks who feel dissatisfied with the federal government.

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by **The Manticoran Empire** » Fri Dec 09, 2022 9:14 pm

Newne Carriebean7 wrote:Nationstates Name: Newne Carriebean7
Nation Name: The Union of Maan Country
Capital: Panyar Eat Nayrar (literally translated to "Place of Wisdom")
Territory: Myanmar's boarders
Population: 59,812,333 as of the 3rd Union Census, conducted by the grace of Kumbikhanna, his excellency and wise benevolent Ohnmar, the Year of our lord 2049.
Burmese: 37,143,459 (62.1%)
Karen: 4,844,800 (8.1%)
Kachin: 4,784,987 (8.0%)
Shan: 2,811,180 (4.7%)
Indians: 2,691,555 (4.5%)
Rakhine: 2,571,930 (4.3%)
Han-Chinese: 2,392,493 (4.0%)
Mon: 777,560 (1.3%)
All others: 1,794,370(3.0%)

Official Language: Burmese
Recognized Languages: Kachin, Karen, Shan, Rakhine, Hindi, Mon, English
Flag:(Image)
National Anthem (optional): Unofficially, the national anthem has been "A Gentlemen's Coup" by the band Rise Against. Although blasted as retro music by government wreckers and protestors to the Halloween Miracle, ( the event is also known in western circles as the "Maan Country coup d'état of 2047."), Manager Yeshe Shein Kumbikhanna is a big fan of the song, and has decreed that the song play before all news broadcasts, sports games involving Maan Country athletes internationally, and at the signing off message for all state-managed broadcasting corporations.

Head of State: Manager of the Emergency Government Yeshe Shein Kumbikhanna (Yeshe = Wisdom; Kumbikhanna = one with a good temper)
HoS Picture: (Image)
Head of Government: Chauffeur of the State Governing Council and Saitpainkyee (Tree man, basically the President of the PTA) Champo Ohnmar (Champo= one who is friendly; Ohnmar = one who is insane)
HoG Picture (If different from HoS): looks like Min Min Oo

Directors of State Departments:
1. Director of Earnest and Frank Communication combined with Respectful Dialogue (foreign affairs): Wilhelmina Packard (woman)

2. Superintendent of Blessed and Honest Education for the Prosperity of the Nation's Future (education): Zaw Than (woman)

3. Grand Administrator of Public Enlightenment, Propaganda and Purity of the Soul (Propaganda minister): Ngar San Coulletes

4. Supreme Plumber of the Pipes and Public Tubes of wet real-estate (Sanitation and Water Management): Htey Cetan

5. Master of the Purse of Maan Country (Economic policy): Htay Thein

Legislature Name: The Provisonal Tribal Assembly

Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each):
Provisonal Tribal Assembly:
485 members, allocated based on population share percentage, with the exception of the Indian and Chinese parties, who are granted half of their population share in members. 15% of all seats are also reserved for the Armed Forces of The Greater Maan Country.
(243 seats are currently needed for a majority)

Party for the Greater Maan Country: 186/485
It's time to give Democracy NOW!: 99/485
Armed Forces of the Greater Maan Country: 73/485
Union of Karens: 39/485
Alliance of the Kachin Tribesmen: 38/485
Shan Family Party: 23/485
Party of the Ancestral Dragons (chinese minority party): 10/485
Indian Union Pact (Indian minority party): 11/485
Sacred Land of the Mon Peoples: 6/485

Party in Power:

Current members of the Kumbikhanna Government:
(300/485 Majority government)
Party for the Greater Mann Country-186
Armed Forces of the Greater Maan Country-73
Union of Karens-39
Defectors from Indian Union Pact-2

GDP (PPP): $209.74 billion
GDP (Nominal): $43.85 billion
Currency: Dawlar

Military Information (If different from irl you must indicate that here):

The Armed Forces of the Greater Maan Country are the military defense forces, comprised of three main branches, the Army of Greater Maan Country, the Navy of the Brave Sultanate and Air Force of Greater Maan Country. There is also the state irregulars, known as the kyarrhpyauu, or White Tigers. (Also known by the acronym K.P.A. for KyarrhPyAuu, although most members refer to themselves as "members of the White Tigers".)

Whenever there is a general election called for the Provisional Tribal Assembly, The Military is organized into 54 constituencies where soldiers can elect either their fellow soldiers or a notable officer to represent their interests in the PTA. However, soldiers stationed in reserve bases may only nominate one candidate for a total of 33 seats, while 21 constituencies can elect the top-two candidates in a two-round system per **Active** military constituency.

Although the Military representatives in government and the legislature are generally representative of the wide range of ethnic groups within the country, Active duty command of the Armed Forces at a military base by military base level falls on the shoulders of those with the majority in the Tribal Assembly, meaning most generals are either a Burmese (70%) Karen (24%) or Indian (6%) if you are lucky.

Army of Greater Maan Country:
777,000 soldiers
(505,000 active duty personnel:
272,000 reserve duty personnel:)

55 x Comet Cruiser Tanks from the start of the Cold War in the 1950s.
75 x Type 62 MBTs
20 x ONTOS Tank Destroyers
580 x T-55 MBTs
190 x T-72 MBTs
146 x Type-59 MBTs
330 x BMP-1 Armored Personnel Carriers

White Tiger milita:
c.700,000 paid volunteers, of those:
315,000 permanent duty, full-time paid volunteers, also doubling as local constables and sherriffs to ensure peace and security in the country.

The White Tigers are a nationwide state milita mostly tasked with keeping order in the various villages and towns throughout the country. This force is more built up on clan ties and family loyalty, and are even privately seen as the "second army" of The Maan Country. However, for their fierce alliegance in defending hearth and home, these forces are also poorly equipped, often times just given an assault rifle, three bannana clips and maybe a grenade if they are lucky.

385,000 part-time elderly reservists, who can be called up as replacements for those permanent duty figures who have either preformed their duties inadequately. Generally, in order to qualify as "part-time", one must have served in the National Army for a term of 21 years, or 3 terms of 7 years each in the military. These "Part-time" soldiers also get dental care and are eligible for retirement pensions and a shiny new pet ferret named Jim.

Navy of the Brave Sultanate:

3 x Kaunggkain Aalainn (Light of Heaven) class Destroyer-Hunters

Kaunggkain Aalainn (flagship of the Navy of the Brave Sultunate)
Yonekyihkyinn Aalainn (Light of Faith)
Tararrmyahatamhu Aalainn (Light of Justice)
(Armament:
2 x twin 5 inch main guns
2 x AK-630 CIWS
1 x RBU-2000 anti-submarine mortar
4 x 40mm Bofors AA guns
12 x 20 inch SAM launchers
6 x P-500 Bazalt or P-1000 Vulkan anti-ship missiles

4 x Sahajart Aalainn (Light of Reason) Destroyers

1 x single 4.7 inch DP main gun
2 x P-500 Bazalt Anti-ship missiles
2 x CIWS 20mm Gatling guns
4 x .50 caliber machine guns
1 x 12-cell Mark 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS):

2 x Sextuple Mark 32 torpedo tubes

2,990,616

Alliances (If different from IRL): Thanks to economic mismanagement, following the removal of the Imām Htay Oo's government, the new government has seen a change in it's foreign policy, previously focusing on internal trade under sharia law, now sees opportunities to help the bare-bones economy of the Maan Country, with overtures to the People's Republic being noted.

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OP):
2022: On the morning of February 1, 2022, the Burmese Tatmadaw successfully arrests and deposes the ruling Democratically-elected government of Burma. State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Mint are forced under house arrest. Union Solidarity and Development Party chairman Htay Oo declares himself "Director of the Office of National Construction" and formally announces plans for fresh elections, with the promise that he would resign following much needed "social reforms to Burmese Society".

2023: Htay Oo formally announces Bill No.79, which would legalize Islamic sharia law in Burma. Protests immediately break out in opposition to such methods and state legislatures refuse to show up to work, hoping to deny them of a majority. When the government warns that "any vacancy for a period over 30 days will render that seat open for a replacement candidate", the opposition still refutes such claims and vows to sue. Already nation-wide protests erupt over the coup, forcing the military to intervene and open fire on protestors, killing hundreds in the next few days and arresting tens of thousands.

2024: The Burmese government officially holds elections for the state legislature, ensuring a victory for the ruling US-DP party with an implausibly high 89.4% turnout next to an equally as unlikely 88.3% vote for the far-right party. A well-publicized incident involving a Burmese girl being stoned to death by a far-right mob only further isolates and angers the world from the US-DP led-regime in Burma. Htay Oo takes this election as a referendum on his rule, and declares himself Imām of the Maan Country (Disbanding the Office of National Construction), formally changing the name of the country alongside the government. He also takes upon the roles of Prime Minister, Admiral and Postmaster-General.

2024-2044: The next twenty years of the Imām Htay Oo are an unstable, authoritarian mess. In resistance to his undemocratic actions, several Military officers attempt several coups, being foiled at the last moment by a turncoat that rallies forth the pro-Htay government forces to stave them off. Although initially popular with the far-right for his bombastic attitudes, this quickly turns south as Htay Oo attempts to impose a one-party, one-religion state upon the rest of the nation. He formally declares Islam to be the only religion worthy of holding government office and orders the demolition of many world heritage sites throughout the country, in-spite of very angry pencil waving, finger shaking by the United Nations. Imām Htay Oo survives several assasination attempts, which only serve to fuel his brutal dictatorship. He sets up state-owned companies in order to sell products at the world at-large, which several poor African nations gladly accept, flying in the face of international sanctions imposed upon his regime. By 2041, he's largely retired from most of his positions at the age of 91, handing most power over to his son, Mattaw Oo...

2044-2047: ...Who immediately fucks everything up. How was he supposed to know that releasing all the criminals from the prison would lead to the worst outbreak of crime and robbery the nation had ever seen? A long-simmering resistance campaign to his father's rule boils out into the open, with the formation of the League of Extraordinary Republicans (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was already taken by a shitty 2000s movie starring Sean Connery, apparently). The LER launches a full-scale military offensive, starting the Maan Country Civil War in 2045. The Leauge, headed by Aunt Simmons, a wealthy white part-Australian philanthropist and elderly weapons saleswoman, proves to be an inspiring leader for the rebel forces to rally behind, and by 2047, Mattaw Oo is shot by his own officers before the fall of Naypyidaw, ending the civil war.

Pre April 20, 2049: In 2048, Aunt Simmons runs for and is elected Guardian of the Bylaws, establishing a multi-ethnic Provisional Tribal Assembly as a unicameral parliament that is directly elected by the people. The First Maan Country Republic had so much life...so much vigor so much Aunt Simmons just died. What. Aunt Simmons? Isn't she 85? Yeeaaah it turns out she's dead. Fuck, what do we do now.

Post April 20, 2049: AHHHHHHH FUCK! A fully-blown constitutional crisis erupts, with The Headmaster of the PTA, Chalingto Manhatopahnn Nih Win declaring himself "Acting Guardian", this is disputed between Aunt Simmon's former husband, Charles Simmons, who had served as a councilman for Boyd County, GA for a single six month period, insisting that 'that's enough governance to do'. With the government paralyzed by a large strike called by organized laborers, there seems like nothing can save the countr-

*Big lipped military coup moment*

TA DA, IT'S OUR HERO...(and if by 'hero' you mean a military general wanting to get rid of this whole 'democratic shit' while not wanting to piss off every ethnic minority under the sun by shooting them')Yeshe Shein Kumbikhanna, riding up on a white horse and saying "Gentlemen, it's time to stop fighting, also I've got soldiers surrounding you how about you all pick me instead?" With fully automatic soviet made weaponry backing his powerful words, the squabbling children came to their senses and unanimously agree-wait, oh... you're telling me that they all said no, and when they all said no he had them all whipped to death in public in accordance with Sharia law? Oh... That's enough history for today, yes...yes...

*Book shuts, rummaging around for car keys, sounds of a door being shut, car starting up and then driving off, getting fainter*

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by **The Manticoran Empire** » Fri Dec 09, 2022 11:53 pm

Chewion wrote:Nationstates Name: Chewion
Nation Name: The United States of America
Capital: Washington D.C.
Territory: IRL USA
Population: 450 Million
Official Language: None at a federal level
Recognized Languages: None at a Federal level but English is defacto used nationally with Spanish as a secondary language in some regions.
Flag: (Image)
National Anthem (optional): https://youtu.be/NPnIRp9ITrs

Head of State: President Richard Lowe
HoS Picture:
(Image)

Head of Government: President Richard Lowe
HoG Picture (If different from HoS): Same
Legislature Name: United States Congress
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each):

House of Representatives: Republican control with 252 seats.

Senate: Republicans control with 57-43 seats.

GDP (PPP): $34.102 Trillion
GDP (Nominal): $34.102 Trillion
Currency: US Dollar

Space Capabilities/Information (Must be approved by OP and Co-OPs):

Permanent footprint on the Moon and Mars.

Military Information (Will likely vary from IRL):

Branches:
US Army
US Navy
US Coast Guard
US Air Force
US Marine Corps
US Space Force
US Cyber Force

Land Forces
Tanks: 3,540
Armored Vehicles: 24,200
SPA: 802
Towed Artillery: 717
Rocket Projectors: 731

Air Forces
Fighters/Interceptors: 1,500 (not including UAV)
Dedicated Attack: 780
Transports: 982
Trainers: 982
Special Missions: 774
Tanker Fleet: 627
Helicopters: 5,463
Attack Helicopters: 710

Naval Forces
Aircraft Carriers: 12
Helicopter Carriers: 11
Destroyers: 95
Frigates: 22
Cruisers/Corvettes: 0
Submarines: 72
Patrol Vessels: 12
Mine Warfare: 10

*Note: Numbers of equipment denote the equipment in active service and not those pieces in reserve storage etc.*

With the hard shift to the Pacific as the main theatre of focus, more and more resources have been allocated to the Marines and Navy with more and more tanks, AFVs, etc being shifted to the Marines at the expense of the US Army.

Alliances (Will likely vary from IRL): PTO

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OPs):

2022: The midterm elections see the Republicans squeeze out a slim majority in the US House while keeping the Senate at 50-50. This underwhelming result by the Republicans sees the decline of former President Trump as a rising star. Alongside this, DeSantis and Cruz, seen as some of the top contenders for POTUS, announced in December that they will not seek the Presidency this time and instead back former Vice-President Mike Pence as the renewed face of the party.

2023: Continued pushes by the Biden Administration against coal leads to West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin leaving the Democrat party in June and remaining an independent but caucuses with the Republicans, giving them the 51 votes to flip the Senate. With the majority, albeit slim, in both chambers, the Republicans focus on pocketbook issues and safety along with curtailing the “blank check” to Ukraine. This stalls most of President Biden’s agenda and sees a rise in Republican approval ratings as many Americans attribute the better economic situation and lowering prices to their actions.

2024: Michael Pence of Indiana is elected POTUS alongside his running mate, Ron DeSantis of Florida. The congressional elections also go well for Republicans who see the promises 2022 red wave hit with the Republicans holding 53 Senate Seats and 234 House Seats. Senator Ted Cruz becomes Senate Majority leader and Representative Kevin McCarthy stays on as Speaker.

2025: After the inauguration, the Pence-DeSantis Administration sets out to “Restore American Greatness” by revamping the US energy industry, working to solidify relations in the pacific, and clamping down on government spending notably by moving forward with a bill introducing price caps on prescriptions, removing state lines for health insurance, keeping protections for preexisting conditions, eliminating aspects of Obamacare, clamping down on illicit welfare, and decoupling strategic sectors of the economy from China. As the bill proceeds through Congress, Democrats are successful in adding in a part that eliminates the income cap on the Social Security Tax thus making the program solvent again. This bill is named the “New American Wellness Plan” and it passes in December of 2025.

2026: President Pence establishes the US Cyber Force as the 7th branch of the US military. Republicans retain a majority in both houses but by a reduced margin of 51-49 in the Senate and 222 in the House. Representative McCarthy steps down as Speaker and Representative Banks of Indiana is elected to replace him. The Pence-DeSantis Administration reinstates the 1776 Commission and uses it to guide the Department of Education to promote pro-American and patriotic education across the nation.

2027: US Congress passes the “Revitalizing American Infrastructure Act” which sees huge effort and funds put into repairing infrastructure around the country. The bill also includes funding for a high-tech wall along the southern border.

2028: The US is quick to act as a power vacuum opens in Venezuela following the death of Nicholas Maduro. Pouring huge resources into the democratic opposition to his government and providing covert support. Republicans lose the Senate 49-51 but retain the House with 222 seats and retain the White House.

2029: US starts floating ending harshest sanctions on Russia. The Pence-DeSantis Administration make even harder pivots to Asia and shore up military, political, and economic ties with nations in the nation. Culminating in a new base deal with the Philippines.

2030: Republicans lose the House with 217 seats but win the Senate with 52-48. While a victory, the bitter leadership race starts a huge rift in the Democratic Party between moderates and leftists. The initial victory is seen by the moderates who elect a moderate as the leader and the next Speaker, snubbing Representative AOC who narrowly loses her party’s vote.

2031: Vice-President DeSantis announces his bid for the Oval Office. No other Republicans rise to challenge him.

2032: Vice-President DeSantis rides a mixture of growing anti-China sentiment and confidence in Republican management to victory in the 2032 election. Along with him, Republicans regain the House with 223 seats and hold the Senate with 52-48.

2033: President DeSantis launches his “American Power” initiative, seeing large investments into both carbon and renewable energy sources, particularly nuclear power.

2034: Republicans lose the House to Democrats who hold the slimmest majority of 218. Republicans do hold the Senate by a slim majority of 51-49 however.

2035: A new Red Scare starts in the US with many Americans adamantly viewing the Chinese Communist Party as the biggest threat to their way of life.

2036: The Republicans regain control of both chambers with 238 and 54 respectively. President DeSantis is also re-elected. In December, President DeSantis closes a deal with Zambia to construct a major US Joint Base in the country.

2037: The United States Congress passes the Military Competitive Edge Act which sets a minimum military spending of 3.3% of GDP annually alongside ensuring that 80% of the naval and air fleets are combat-ready at all times. Congress also uses Republican control to pass moderate welfare reform which sees retirement age raises, stricter monitoring of welfare recipients to ensure compliance, and options for the top 10% of earners not to receive their benefits after retirement. A deal with Liberia to construct a major US Joint Base is also concluded.

2038: Democrats gain control of the Senate with 51-49 with Republicans clenching onto the House with 219 seats.

2039: President DeSantis launches a renewed focus on Europe and starts talks with the UK to shift the 6th fleet to the country alongside the construction of a major new joint base in England. A deal is also closed with Sudan that sees the agreement to build a large US Joint Base in Port Sudan.

2040: A moderate-liberal Democrat ticket rides the pendulum swing to the White House. The Democrats also win the House with 225 seats but lose the Senate with 49-51 seats.

2041: The United States starts shutting most military bases in continental Europe with a plan of only a handful to be left after 2050.

2042: The new Administration signals a willingness for rapprochement with the PRC but little is done besides talk due to a Republican Senate and public opinion sharply against the idea. The idea, seen as the brainchild of the more liberal POTUS, lays the groundwork for a growing divide within the Democrats over China and other issues. Democrats retain the House with 219 seats but fail to take the Senate 48-52

2043: The Administration is forced to play down any plans to change dynamics in Asia and reassure American allies of Washington’s commitment to freedom in the region. To signal this, the Vice-President is seen to be spearheading talks on the PTO.

2044: Republicans retain both chambers with 225 in the House and 53 in the Senate. However, due to a bad quality candidate put up by Republicans, POTUS and the Democrats barely retain the White House.

2045: Senator Lowe of Florida is made chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Using this role, the committee grows increasingly critical of the administration. Focusing particularly on the growing cold relations with Brussels.

2046: Republicans regain control of the House with 223 seats and retain the Senate 52-48. Some more moderate Democrats use this win by Republicans to argue against the increasingly liberal agenda of the current POTUS. As a concession, the PTO is agreed to with the Vice-President again being seen as behind the idea in the administration.

2047: Taking the victory as a seal of approval, POTUS mistakenly charges ahead declaring a willingness to “fundamentally change” the relationship with Beijing, and the WH signals a willingness to give Beijing “room to breathe” in the Asian region. This immediately draws the ire of the GOP and moderate Democrats who accuse POTUS of kowtowing to Beijing.

2048: As the year starts, a split is evident in the Democrat Party between the Liberal and Moderate wings. After losing the nomination for President, the Liberal candidate launches a third-party bid and splits the Democrat vote. Senator Lowe wins the Republican nomination. With the split Democrat vote and high unpopularity of the current Democrat POTUS, Senator Lowe cruises to victory in a near landslide victory. Alongside this WH victory, Republicans hold 252 seats in the House and 57-43 seats in the Senate.

2049: Taking office, President Lowe reaffirms American commitment in Asia and around the world, particularly placing importance on the PTO. President Lowe does however signal a willingness to engage in “frank and mutual dialogue with all nations on matters of great importance.” This is followed up by talks with Russia and China on two separate nuclear deals.

2050: RP Starts

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by **New Provenance** » Fri Dec 09, 2022 11:53 pm

Nationstates Name: New Provenance
Nation Name: The Republic of Korea
Capital: Greater Seoul
Territory: Modern-day IRL Republic of Korea territories
Population: 46,830,000 (2050 estimate)
Official Language: Korean
Recognized Languages: N/A
Flag:

National Anthem (optional): The Lotus Flowers Once More

Head of State: President Lee Jun-seok (since 2048)
HoS Picture:

Head of Government: Prime Minister Cheon Seung-ah (since 2048)
HoG Picture (If different from HoS):

Legislature Name: National Assembly of the Republic of Korea
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each):

Government (162)
National Party - 162 seats

Opposition
Democratic Party - 122 seats
Justice and Honor - 11 seats
New Future - 5 seats

GDP (PPP): N/A
GDP (Nominal): $3.2 trillion USD (2050 estimate)
Currency: South Korean Won (W)

Space Capabilities/Information (Must be approved by OP and Co-OPs)

With the advent of the militarization of space in the 2030s, the Korean government passed legislation boosting funding and support for the country's space agency, the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI). In the 2020s, KARI operated the Naro-1 and Nuri launch vehicles, which they used to strengthen government-sponsored communications arrays and intelligence satellite systems. Budgetary issues in the early 2030s, however, saw funding decline until the aforementioned legislation boosting funding and support was passed into law.

Development of the Naro-2 and Naro-3 began in 2026 and 2030 respectively, and entered service by 2029 and 2034. These rockets would diversify the country's satellite launch capabilities, while providing for over 30,000 jobs nationally in the expansion of the space program.

In 2030, KARI sent a lunar orbiter, lander and rover to the Moon, in another expansion of its exploration capabilities. The same year, the government announced their intention to begin developing human spaceflight capabilities.

Funding decreases in the early '30s delayed this, but by 2042, the prototype Nuri-2 rocket - which would be capable of launching a crew of four into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) - was tested thrice, before being approved for human transport in 2044. The next year, 2045, the Republic of Korea became one of few nations to send humans to Low Earth Orbit aboard domestically produced hardware. While development of longer-term manned spaceflight capabilities have been sustained since, the country remains behind due to its low launch cadence compared to competitors.

By 2050, the Republic of Korea possesses its own manned space launch vehicle, the Nuri-2. A small orbital outpost capable of hosting four at a time is expected to be launched into space this year, however political instability and tension threatens the entire space program.

Military Information (Will likely vary from IRL):

The Republic of Korea Armed Forces (ROKAF)

Service branches: ROK Army, ROK Navy, ROK Air Force, ROK Marine Corps

Leadership: President Lee Jun-seok, Minister of National Defense Kim Dok-go, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Choi Byung-ho

Military age: 18
Conscription: Mandatory service for all able-bodied male citizens of the Republic of Korea at the age of 18; 22 months of service in the Army, 24 months of service in the Navy, and 26 months of service in the Air Force
Active Personnel: 625,000 (2050)
Reserve Personnel: 3,110,000 (2050)
Annual Budget: $112 billion (3.5% of GDP)

The Republic of Korea Armed Forces is the chief institution for the defense of the sovereign territories of the Republic of Korea. Manned with 625,000 troops in the active pool and 3.1 million men tagged as members of the reserve pool, the ROKAF is equipped with top-of-the-line equipment and since the late 2030s has received consistent funding and support from the Korean government. Under the right-leaning presidencies of the 2020s, the ROK pursued greater development of its domestic defense industry. By the 2030s, the ROKAF was made wholly capable of operating independently of U.S. forces as per defense reforms initiated in 2021 by the Moon administration.

Towards the latter part of the 2040s, however, the ROKAF has seen turbulence, with leadership being forced to resign as the country's political turmoil spread to its military. Nonetheless, the conclusion of the Lotus Revolution saw stability return and the new government move to restore greater strength to the ROKAF than ever seen before.

Alliances (Will likely vary from IRL): The Republic of Korea remains a part of institutions like the United Nations, WTO, etc., and maintains 'strategic neutrality', but the Lee Administration is pursuing rabidly stronger relations with the West in line with his nationalistic policies. Towards the North, the Lee government is skeptical of its true intentions in unification talks, while to China the government is fairly amicable.

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OPs):

The presidency of Yoon Suk-yeol from 2022 to 2027 saw radical changes in the structuring of Korean society. The military was greatly emboldened, and Korean nationalism flourished under the hardline president who advocated for an independent Korean identity and an independent, democratic Korean state. He was succeeded by his Prime Minister, Choo Kyung-ho, who served from 2027 to 2032. The Korean Democratic Party of former president Moon - which was barely defeated in 2022 - received punch after punch in the elections post-2022, but it remained a powerful progressive force in the country, especially as the female vote grew to become more key in the years afterward.

Korean nationalism and conservatism flourished under the Yoon and Choo governments, but in 2032, Kim Boo-kyum, former prime minister from 2021 to 2022, was elected president of the Republic under the banner of the Democratic Party, which had rebranded itself as a progressive, neutral alternative to the aggressive, violent and anti-progress People Power Party of Yoon, Choo and Kim Oh-soo, the PPP nominee for the 2032 elections. Despite this massive conservative force, however, President Kim navigated the alleys of politics carefully, passing key legislation to defend women's rights in the workplace and at home, and judicial reform to balance the courts and boost transparency. Defense spending and space exploration spending was controversially cut, leading to a dip in support that saw the next legislative elections see the PPP return to the majority, leaving Kim in a minority government.

In 2037, Choo Mi-ae was elected the first female Korean president since Park Geun-hye, representing the Democratic Party. A former prosecutor and bipartisan legislator, Choo pushed a progressive agenda, and saw a resurgence in the strength of the KDP against the PPP in electoral politics. In the legislative elections, the Democratic Party maintained its majority despite minor PPP gains, and spaceflight and defense was granted its position of importance in the national budget under her tenure. Work hours were mandatorily reduced by her administration, and labor unions gained a more powerful voice during this time.

The presidency of Choo Mi-ae seemed to many like a resurgence of the progressivism that sent Moon Jae-in to the presidency in 2017, but in 2042, Cho Kuk, formerly a member of the KDP who resigned over corruption allegations, was elected president under the PPP banner. He had defected in 2033 to the People Power Party and restored his standing in politics, despite the older generations remembering the controversies that beset him and his superior, former president Moon. Cho would lead a more antagonizing and polarized government, strengthening defense spending and rolling back the progress made under Choo Mi-ae's government. He rallied conservatives and traditionalists and developed a polarized political atmosphere, similarly to Donald Trump's "MAGA" movement from the 2020s.

Riding a wave of conservative fervor, President Cho pushed for a change to the constitution that would remove presidential term limits. In 2045, in a vote that many criticized as rigged with fraud, 51.1% of voters chose to amend the constitution, and Cho announced his intention to run for re-election in 2047. This caused a massive political upheaval in the country, and political instability was on the rise coupled with the polarizing dynamics the Cho presidency had instituted. The 2047 elections was fraught with polarization, controversy and mass skepticism over the results, which saw Cho sweep the polls with 53.7% of the vote. Protests and riots erupted, and the KDP protested the results, pointing to reports of election fraud exacerbated by a walkout of election officials shortly before the National Assembly was to vote to certify.

The Lotus Revolution was the name for the collective protests, demonstrations, riots and events that saw the end of Cho's regime and the upheaval of Korean politics. The reunification talks itself had been undertaken under pressure from the public, who weren't in the mood for confrontationalism with the North. They were now poised to collapse, as skepticism of their true intentions spread during this time. The toppling of the Cho government saw the temporary dissolution of the Korean government and the establishment of a temporary martial law regime by the military, which saw democratic order restored by 2048. In that same year, the PPP was dissolved and replaced by the National Party of Korea (NPK), under Lee Jun-seok, a former PPP MP who served as Minister for Justice. The NPK, pledging to restore national stability, enforce national unity, fend off partisan politics, and strengthen Korean integrity and security, won in a tight race against the Democratic Party.

President Lee's government so far has been fairly amicable, with judicial reforms and the execution of former president Cho by firing squad being the highlights of the first two years of his administration. Security on the border has been expanded, and Lee's skepticism of North Korea is expected to be an interruption to the reunification talks slated to continue this year. His prime minister, former equalities minister and centrist politician Cheon Seung-ah, is an almost direct opposite to him who was appointed to appease the centrists within the National Party.

Presidents:
Yeon Suk-yeol, PPP (2022-2027)
Choo Kyung-ho, PPP (2027-2032)
Kim Boo-kyum, KDP (2032-2037)
Choo Mi-ae, KDP (2037-2042)
Cho Kuk, PPP (2042-2047)
National Defense Government (2047-2048)
Lee Jun-seok, NPK (2048-present)

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by **Arvenia** » Sat Dec 10, 2022 4:31 pm

Nationstates Name: Arvenia
Nation Name: Republic of Cuba
Capital: Havana
Territory: Same as IRL
Population: 10,162,395
Official Language: Spanish
Recognized Languages: Haitian Creole, English and other languages
Flag: Same as IRL
National Anthem: "El Himno de Bayamo"

Head of State: President Camille Alvarez
HoS Picture: Camille Alvarez
Head of Government: Same as above
HoG Picture: N/A
Legislature Name: National Assembly
Legislative Houses: Council of State (upper house) and House of Representatives (lower house)
Party in Power: Social Liberal Party of Cuba (PSLC)

GDP (PPP): $254.865 billion
GDP (Nominal): $107.352 billion
Currency: Cuban peso

Space Capabilities/Information: Cuba has recently established a space agency known as the Cuban Space Research Agency (ACIE), which was formed out of the old Institute of Geophysics and Astronomy (IGA). It is currently a key member of the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency (ALCE).

Military Information: The Cuban military, now dubbed the Cuban National Defense Forces (FDNC), consists of the Cuban Army (ENC), the Cuban Navy (MGN), the Cuban Air Force (FAN) and the Cuban National Guard (GNC). It currently houses 100,000 personnel (25,000 active troops and 75,000 reserves). It retains the same equipment as before, but has planned on switching to more modern equipment. Most paramilitary forces has since been dissolved after the Cuban Reformation.

Alliance(s): Currently non-aligned as of 2050 (despite close relations with most Latin American countries).

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OPs):
Cuba's history remained the same until the mid-2020s, when the Cuban economy hit a new low due to food shortage, political repression and government corruption. Despite moderate anti-American sentiment and the legalization of same-sex marriage, nothing could have been done to save the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) from impending doom at the hands of angry protesters. This would only worsen following the death of Nicolás Maduro and subsequent political chaos in Russia. The protests grew stronger and the PCC began to lose its popularity among Cubans.

In 2031, a new presidential election was held in Cuba. Miguel Díaz-Canel, who had been the President of Cuba since 2021, has now served two terms and was ineligible for a third one. As a result, election was held between two contenders. These two were Rafael Moreno González, a patriotic Castroist, and Antonio Rodríguez, a moderate politician. However, the PCC made a decision to let the Cuban people vote for real. This would result in Antonio being elected as President due to the Cuban public's hostility towards Castroism following the mid-2020s. Following his rise to power, Antonio Rodríguez made an important speech to all of Cuba on April 19, 2031. During his speech, Antonio criticized the PCC for not doing enough to satisfy the Cuban people and carry on the Cuban Revolution. He also accuses certain PCC members, including Rafael Moreno González, of severe government corruption. As a result, he executed a political program known as the "Cuban Reformation" (Reformación Cubana). It was designed to reform Cuban society, both politically and economically. Throughout 2031, Antonio oversaw the strict reformation of the Cuban military, the partial liberalization of the Cuban economy, the removal of corrupt PCC members and the easing of authoritarian laws. The Cuban Reformation lasted until 2035, when Antonio made a sudden decision to form a "Third Republic" in Cuba. This republic would no longer rely on the PCC and instead allow multiple parties. With this, Antonio announces the dissolution of the PCC and the ensuing formation of its successor, the Socialist Party of Cuba (Partido Socialista de Cuba). This new party would adopt "Socialism of the 21st Century" as its main ideology. This angered many die-hard PCC supporters, but there was nothing they could do since Antonio had gained enough political power to squash Castroist opposition and promote democratic values.

A year later, the first democratic election was held in Cuba. It was contested between the PSC, the Christian Democratic Party of Cuba (PDCC), the Social Liberal Party of Cuba (PSLC) and the Republican Party of Cuba (PRC). Antonio Rodríguez won that election and went on to serve a second term in office. During this term, he continued with his social and economic reforms, as well as seeking out a "second Cuban thaw" with the US. However, neo-Castroist groups began to emerge and threaten Cuba's new political order. One of these groups was the "Patriotic Troops Militia" (Milicia de Tropas Patrióticas), a merger of various Cuban paramilitary forces who had been slowly dissolved by Antonio throughout the Cuban Reformation. The group began calling for a second Cuban Revolution and conspired to assassinate Antonio. The deed would be made on June 25, 2038. As Antonio was riding car while inspecting socio-economic development in Cuba, an IED obliterated him in the countryside. The incident shocked the whole nation and led to massive backlash against Antonio's assassins. Antonio's right-hand man, Vice President Guillermo Chaviano, became interim President of Cuba for the remainder of Antonio's second term. The first thing he did was to designate the Patriotic Troops Militia and other neo-Castroist groups as terrorist organizations. Afterwards, Cuban authorities began to relentlessly hunt down neo-Castroists. Antonio's assassins were eventually arrested and brought to trial for their role in his death. A state funeral was held for Antonio Rodríguez on June 30, 2038. It was the first state funeral in Cuba to be attended by foreign leaders.

The 2041 Presidential Election sees Guillermo Chaviano (PSC) running for President against Marcelino Miyares Sotolongo (PDCC), José Ramón Núñez (PSLC) and Eugenio Hernández (PRC). Guillermo would win and permanently become President of Cuba. However, his rule was different from that of Antonio Rodríguez. Guillermo's rule was somehow authoritarian, albeit more similar to that of Hugo Chavéz and Evo Morales due to his brand of "democratic Marxism". He would ultimately antagonize the US and implement some form of decentralized planning. Meanwhile, his crackdown on neo-Castroists becomes more aggressive and he even accuses the US of supporting neo-Castroist groups.

Guillermo's term in office eventually leads to new protests in Cuba, with many calling upon him to resign. He simply responded by accusing the protesters of being "neo-Castroists", thus allowing Cuban authorities to suppress the protests. In the process, the Cuban National Guard (Guardia Nacional Cubana) is formed as a new branch of the Cuban military, primarily tasked with cracking down on domestic terrorist organizations. The protests would soon have its toll on Guillermo as he is soon accused of corruption. 2046 arrived and Guillermo seeks a second term in office. However, he faces a difficult challenge from Camille Alvarez, a prominent human rights activist who sympathizes with the so-called "neo-Castroist movement". However, Camille is fairly liberal and serves as a presidential candidate for the Social Liberal Party of Cuba (Partido Social Liberal de Cuba). During the election, Camille strongly advocated for various liberal policies which were closely similar to those of the US Democratic Party, while Guillermo continues to promote his recent policies and advocate for further crackdown on neo-Castroist groups. Camille ended up winning the election, thus becoming Cuba's first female President. Meanwhile, Guillermo would suddenly be arrested on corruption charges after an extensive investigation by some authorities. He is subsequently expelled from the PSC.

During her term in office, Camille began implementing various reforms. She moderated the nationwide crackdown on neo-Castroist groups (mostly by banning extrajudicial killings and advocating for negotiations), liberalized the Cuban economy, welcomed foreign businesses and sought out a "third Cuban thaw" with the US. She also invested in infrastructure, welfare and space research.

The year is now 2050, which is a year away from Cuba's next presidential election. Will Camille Alvarez gain a second term? Or will someone else become the new President of Cuba? Time will tell.

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by **The Manticoran Empire** » Sat Dec 10, 2022 6:17 pm

New Provenance wrote:Nationstates Name: New Provenance
Nation Name: The Republic of Korea
Capital: Greater Seoul
Territory: Modern-day IRL Republic of Korea territories
Population: 46,830,000 (2050 estimate)
Official Language: Korean
Recognized Languages: N/A
Flag:
(Image)

National Anthem (optional): The Lotus Flowers Once More

Head of State: President Lee Jun-seok (since 2048)
HoS Picture:
(Image)

Head of Government: Prime Minister Cheon Seung-ah (since 2048)
HoG Picture (If different from HoS):
(Image)

Legislature Name: National Assembly of the Republic of Korea
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each):

Government (162)
National Party - 162 seats

Opposition
Democratic Party - 122 seats
Justice and Honor - 11 seats
New Future - 5 seats

GDP (PPP): N/A
GDP (Nominal): $3.2 trillion USD (2050 estimate)
Currency: South Korean Won (W)

Space Capabilities/Information (Must be approved by OP and Co-OPs)

With the advent of the militarization of space in the 2030s, the Korean government passed legislation boosting funding and support for the country's space agency, the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI). In the 2020s, KARI operated the Naro-1 and Nuri launch vehicles, which they used to strengthen government-sponsored communications arrays and intelligence satellite systems. Budgetary issues in the early 2030s, however, saw funding decline until the aforementioned legislation boosting funding and support was passed into law.

Development of the Naro-2 and Naro-3 began in 2026 and 2030 respectively, and entered service by 2029 and 2034. These rockets would diversify the country's satellite launch capabilities, while providing for over 30,000 jobs nationally in the expansion of the space program.

In 2030, KARI sent a lunar orbiter, lander and rover to the Moon, in another expansion of its exploration capabilities. The same year, the government announced their intention to begin developing human spaceflight capabilities.

Funding decreases in the early '30s delayed this, but by 2042, the prototype Nuri-2 rocket - which would be capable of launching a crew of four into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) - was tested thrice, before being approved for human transport in 2044. The next year, 2045, the Republic of Korea became one of few nations to send humans to Low Earth Orbit aboard domestically produced hardware. While development of longer-term manned spaceflight capabilities have been sustained since, the country remains behind due to its low launch cadence compared to competitors.

By 2050, the Republic of Korea possesses its own manned space launch vehicle, the Nuri-2. A small orbital outpost capable of hosting four at a time is expected to be launched into space this year, however political instability and tension threatens the entire space program.

Military Information (Will likely vary from IRL):

The Republic of Korea Armed Forces (ROKAF)

Service branches: ROK Army, ROK Navy, ROK Air Force, ROK Marine Corps

Leadership: President Lee Jun-seok, Minister of National Defense Kim Dok-go, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Choi Byung-ho

Military age: 18
Conscription: Mandatory service for all able-bodied male citizens of the Republic of Korea at the age of 18; 22 months of service in the Army, 24 months of service in the Navy, and 26 months of service in the Air Force
Active Personnel: 625,000 (2050)
Reserve Personnel: 3,110,000 (2050)
Annual Budget: $112 billion (3.5% of GDP)

The Republic of Korea Armed Forces is the chief institution for the defense of the sovereign territories of the Republic of Korea. Manned with 625,000 troops in the active pool and 3.1 million men tagged as members of the reserve pool, the ROKAF is equipped with top-of-the-line equipment and since the late 2030s has received consistent funding and support from the Korean government. Under the right-leaning presidencies of the 2020s, the ROK pursued greater development of its domestic defense industry. By the 2030s, the ROKAF was made wholly capable of operating independently of U.S. forces as per defense reforms initiated in 2021 by the Moon administration.

Towards the latter part of the 2040s, however, the ROKAF has seen turbulence, with leadership being forced to resign as the country's political turmoil spread to its military. Nonetheless, the conclusion of the Lotus Revolution saw stability return and the new government move to restore greater strength to the ROKAF than ever seen before.

Alliances (Will likely vary from IRL): The Republic of Korea remains a part of institutions like the United Nations, WTO, etc., and maintains 'strategic neutrality', but the Lee Administration is pursuing rabidly stronger relations with the West in line with his nationalistic policies. Towards the North, the Lee government is skeptical of its true intentions in unification talks, while to China the government is fairly amicable.

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OPs):

The presidency of Yoon Suk-yeol from 2022 to 2027 saw radical changes in the structuring of Korean society. The military was greatly emboldened, and Korean nationalism flourished under the hardline president who advocated for an independent Korean identity and an independent, democratic Korean state. He was succeeded by his Prime Minister, Choo Kyung-ho, who served from 2027 to 2032. The Korean Democratic Party of former president Moon - which was barely defeated in 2022 - received punch after punch in the elections post-2022, but it remained a powerful progressive force in the country, especially as the female vote grew to become more key in the years afterward.

Korean nationalism and conservatism flourished under the Yoon and Choo governments, but in 2032, Kim Boo-kyum, former prime minister from 2021 to 2022, was elected president of the Republic under the banner of the Democratic Party, which had rebranded itself as a progressive, neutral alternative to the aggressive, violent and anti-progress People Power Party of Yoon, Choo and Kim Oh-soo, the PPP nominee for the 2032 elections. Despite this massive conservative force, however, President Kim navigated the alleys of politics carefully, passing key legislation to defend women's rights in the workplace and at home, and judicial reform to balance the courts and boost transparency. Defense spending and space exploration spending was controversially cut, leading to a dip in support that saw the next legislative elections see the PPP return to the majority, leaving Kim in a minority government.

In 2037, Choo Mi-ae was elected the first female Korean president since Park Geun-hye, representing the Democratic Party. A former prosecutor and bipartisan legislator, Choo pushed a progressive agenda, and saw a resurgence in the strength of the KDP against the PPP in electoral politics. In the legislative elections, the Democratic Party maintained its majority despite minor PPP gains, and spaceflight and defense was granted its position of importance in the national budget under her tenure. Work hours were mandatorily reduced by her administration, and labor unions gained a more powerful voice during this time.

The presidency of Choo Mi-ae seemed to many like a resurgence of the progressivism that sent Moon Jae-in to the presidency in 2017, but in 2042, Cho Kuk, formerly a member of the KDP who resigned over corruption allegations, was elected president under the PPP banner. He had defected in 2033 to the People Power Party and restored his standing in politics, despite the older generations remembering the controversies that beset him and his superior, former president Moon. Cho would lead a more antagonizing and polarized government, strengthening defense spending and rolling back the progress made under Choo Mi-ae's government. He rallied conservatives and traditionalists and developed a polarized political atmosphere, similarly to Donald Trump's "MAGA" movement from the 2020s.

Riding a wave of conservative fervor, President Cho pushed for a change to the constitution that would remove presidential term limits. In 2045, in a vote that many criticized as rigged with fraud, 51.1% of voters chose to amend the constitution, and Cho announced his intention to run for re-election in 2047. This caused a massive political upheaval in the country, and political instability was on the rise coupled with the polarizing dynamics the Cho presidency had instituted. The 2047 elections was fraught with polarization, controversy and mass skepticism over the results, which saw Cho sweep the polls with 53.7% of the vote. Protests and riots erupted, and the KDP protested the results, pointing to reports of election fraud exacerbated by a walkout of election officials shortly before the National Assembly was to vote to certify.

The Lotus Revolution was the name for the collective protests, demonstrations, riots and events that saw the end of Cho's regime and the upheaval of Korean politics. The reunification talks itself had been undertaken under pressure from the public, who weren't in the mood for confrontationalism with the North. They were now poised to collapse, as skepticism of their true intentions spread during this time. The toppling of the Cho government saw the temporary dissolution of the Korean government and the establishment of a temporary martial law regime by the military, which saw democratic order restored by 2048. In that same year, the PPP was dissolved and replaced by the National Party of Korea (NPK), under Lee Jun-seok, a former PPP MP who served as Minister for Justice. The NPK, pledging to restore national stability, enforce national unity, fend off partisan politics, and strengthen Korean integrity and security, won in a tight race against the Democratic Party.

President Lee's government so far has been fairly amicable, with judicial reforms and the execution of former president Cho by firing squad being the highlights of the first two years of his administration. Security on the border has been expanded, and Lee's skepticism of North Korea is expected to be an interruption to the reunification talks slated to continue this year. His prime minister, former equalities minister and centrist politician Cheon Seung-ah, is an almost direct opposite to him who was appointed to appease the centrists within the National Party.

Presidents:
Yeon Suk-yeol, PPP (2022-2027)
Choo Kyung-ho, PPP (2027-2032)
Kim Boo-kyum, KDP (2032-2037)
Choo Mi-ae, KDP (2037-2042)
Cho Kuk, PPP (2042-2047)
National Defense Government (2047-2048)
Lee Jun-seok, NPK (2048-present)

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Arvenia wrote:
Nationstates Name: Arvenia
Nation Name: Republic of Cuba
Capital: Havana
Territory: Same as IRL
Population: 10,162,395
Official Language: Spanish
Recognized Languages: Haitian Creole, English and other languages
Flag: Same as IRL
National Anthem: "El Himno de Bayamo"

Head of State: President Camille Alvarez
HoS Picture: Camille Alvarez
Head of Government: Same as above
HoG Picture: N/A
Legislature Name: National Assembly
Legislative Houses: Council of State (upper house) and House of Representatives (lower house)
Party in Power: Social Liberal Party of Cuba (PSLC)

GDP (PPP): $254.865 billion
GDP (Nominal): $107.352 billion
Currency: Cuban peso

Space Capabilities/Information: Cuba has recently established a space agency known as the Cuban Space Research Agency (ACIE), which was formed out of the old Institute of Geophysics and Astronomy (IGA). It is currently a key member of the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency (ALCE).

Military Information: The Cuban military, now dubbed the Cuban National Defense Forces (FDNC), consists of the Cuban Army (ENC), the Cuban Navy (MGN), the Cuban Air Force (FAN) and the Cuban National Guard (GNC). It currently houses 100,000 personnel (25,000 active troops and 75,000 reserves). It retains the same equipment as before, but has planned on switching to more modern equipment. Most paramilitary forces has since been dissolved after the Cuban Reformation.

Alliance(s): Currently non-aligned as of 2050 (despite close relations with most Latin American countries).

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OPs):
Cuba's history remained the same until the mid-2020s, when the Cuban economy hit a new low due to food shortage, political repression and government corruption. Despite moderate anti-American sentiment and the legalization of same-sex marriage, nothing could have been done to save the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) from impending doom at the hands of angry protesters. This would only worsen following the death of Nicolás Maduro and subsequent political chaos in Russia. The protests grew stronger and the PCC began to lose its popularity among Cubans.

In 2031, a new presidential election was held in Cuba. Miguel Díaz-Canel, who had been the President of Cuba since 2021, has now served two terms and was ineligible for a third one. As a result, election was held between two contenders. These two were Rafael Moreno González, a patriotic Castroist, and Antonio Rodríguez, a moderate politician. However, the PCC made a decision to let the Cuban people vote for real. This would result in Antonio being elected as President due to the Cuban public's hostility towards Castroism following the mid-2020s. Following his rise to power, Antonio Rodríguez made an important speech to all of Cuba on April 19, 2031. During his speech, Antonio criticized the PCC for not doing enough to satisfy the Cuban people and carry on the Cuban Revolution. He also accuses certain PCC members, including Rafael Moreno González, of severe government corruption. As a result, he executed a political program known as the "Cuban Reformation" (Reformación Cubana). It was designed to reform Cuban society, both politically and economically. Throughout 2031, Antonio oversaw the strict reformation of the Cuban military, the partial liberalization of the Cuban economy, the removal of corrupt PCC members and the easing of authoritarian laws. The Cuban Reformation lasted until 2035, when Antonio made a sudden decision to form a "Third Republic" in Cuba. This republic would no longer rely on the PCC and instead allow multiple parties. With this, Antonio announces the dissolution of the PCC and the ensuing formation of its successor, the Socialist Party of Cuba (Partido Socialista de Cuba). This new party would adopt "Socialism of the 21st Century" as its main ideology. This angered many die-hard PCC supporters, but there was nothing they could do since Antonio had gained enough political power to squash Castroist opposition and promote democratic values.

A year later, the first democratic election was held in Cuba. It was contested between the PSC, the Christian Democratic Party of Cuba (PDCC), the Social Liberal Party of Cuba (PSLC) and the Republican Party of Cuba (PRC). Antonio Rodríguez won that election and went on to serve a second term in office. During this term, he continued with his social and economic reforms, as well as seeking out a "second Cuban thaw" with the US. However, neo-Castroist groups began to emerge and threaten Cuba's new political order. One of these groups was the "Patriotic Troops Militia" (Milicia de Tropas Patrióticas), a merger of various Cuban paramilitary forces who had been slowly dissolved by Antonio throughout the Cuban Reformation. The group began calling for a second Cuban Revolution and conspired to assassinate Antonio. The deed would be made on June 25, 2038. As Antonio was riding car while inspecting socio-economic development in Cuba, an IED obliterated him in the countryside. The incident shocked the whole nation and led to massive backlash against Antonio's assassins. Antonio's right-hand man, Vice President Guillermo Chaviano, became interim President of Cuba for the remainder of Antonio's second term. The first thing he did was to designate the Patriotic Troops Militia and other neo-Castroist groups as terrorist organizations. Afterwards, Cuban authorities began to relentlessly hunt down neo-Castroists. Antonio's assassins were eventually arrested and brought to trial for their role in his death. A state funeral was held for Antonio Rodríguez on June 30, 2038. It was the first state funeral in Cuba to be attended by foreign leaders.

The 2041 Presidential Election sees Guillermo Chaviano (PSC) running for President against Marcelino Miyares Sotolongo (PDCC), José Ramón Núñez (PSLC) and Eugenio Hernández (PRC). Guillermo would win and permanently become President of Cuba. However, his rule was different from that of Antonio Rodríguez. Guillermo's rule was somehow authoritarian, albeit more similar to that of Hugo Chavéz and Evo Morales due to his brand of "democratic Marxism". He would ultimately antagonize the US and implement some form of decentralized planning. Meanwhile, his crackdown on neo-Castroists becomes more aggressive and he even accuses the US of supporting neo-Castroist groups.

Guillermo's term in office eventually leads to new protests in Cuba, with many calling upon him to resign. He simply responded by accusing the protesters of being "neo-Castroists", thus allowing Cuban authorities to suppress the protests. In the process, the Cuban National Guard (Guardia Nacional Cubana) is formed as a new branch of the Cuban military, primarily tasked with cracking down on domestic terrorist organizations. The protests would soon have its toll on Guillermo as he is soon accused of corruption. 2046 arrived and Guillermo seeks a second term in office. However, he faces a difficult challenge from Camille Alvarez, a prominent human rights activist who sympathizes with the so-called "neo-Castroist movement". However, Camille is fairly liberal and serves as a presidential candidate for the Social Liberal Party of Cuba (Partido Social Liberal de Cuba). During the election, Camille strongly advocated for various liberal policies which were closely similar to those of the US Democratic Party, while Guillermo continues to promote his recent policies and advocate for further crackdown on neo-Castroist groups. Camille ended up winning the election, thus becoming Cuba's first female President. Meanwhile, Guillermo would suddenly be arrested on corruption charges after an extensive investigation by some authorities. He is subsequently expelled from the PSC.

During her term in office, Camille began implementing various reforms. She moderated the nationwide crackdown on neo-Castroist groups (mostly by banning extrajudicial killings and advocating for negotiations), liberalized the Cuban economy, welcomed foreign businesses and sought out a "third Cuban thaw" with the US. She also invested in infrastructure, welfare and space research.

The year is now 2050, which is a year away from Cuba's next presidential election. Will Camille Alvarez gain a second term? Or will someone else become the new President of Cuba? Time will tell.

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Accepted.

by **Chewion** » Sat Dec 10, 2022 10:29 pm

Would be cool to get an India in here.

by **Arvenia** » Sun Dec 11, 2022 5:04 am

Political Parties of the Republic of Cuba
Major Parties

Social Liberal Party of Cuba (Spanish: Partido Social Liberal de Cuba; PSLC) - Centre to centre-left (Liberalism, Social Liberalism, Democratic Liberalism, Anti-Castroism, Anti-Racism, Feminism, Progressivism and Environmentalism)
Socialist Party of Cuba (Spanish: Partido Socialista de Cuba; PSC) - Left-wing (Socialism of the 21st Century, Democratic Socialism, Eco-Socialism, Anti-Castroism, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-Neoliberalism, Post-Communism, Left-Wing Populism, Progressivism and Latin American Integration)
Christian Democratic Party of Cuba (Spanish: Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Cuba; PDCC) - Centre-left to left-wing (Christian Democracy, Christian Left, Christian Humanism, Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Communism, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-Neoliberalism and Green Politics)
Republican Party of Cuba (Spanish: Partido Republicano de Cuba; PRC) - Right-wing (Conservatism, Social Conservatism, Fiscal Conservatism, Democratic Conservatism, Economic Liberalism, Anti-Communism, Anti-Socialism and Neoliberalism)

Other Parties

Cuban Liberal Union (Spanish: Unión Liberal Cubana; ULC) - Centre (Liberalism, Social Liberalism, Fiscal Conservatism and Anti-Communism)
Libertarian Party of Cuba (Spanish: Partido Libertario de Cuba; PLC) - Socially centre-left and fiscally right-wing (Libertarianism, Classical Liberalism, Cultural Liberalism, Democratic Liberalism, Economic Liberalism, Fiscal Conservatism, Anti-Castroism and Non-Interventionism)
National Liberal Solidarity Party (Spanish: Partido Solidario Liberal Nacional; PSLN) - Centre to centre-right (Civic Nationalism, National Liberalism and Anti-Castroism)
Political Front of the Second Cuban Revolution (Spanish: Frente Político de la Segunda Revolución Cubana; FPSRC) - Far-left (Communism, Marxism-Leninism, Neo-Castroism, Anti-Americanism, Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Liberalism, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-Revisionism, Socialist Patriotism, Left-Wing Nationalism, Left-Wing Populism and Latin American Integration)
Democratic Labour Party (Spanish: Partido Laborista Democrático; PLD) - Centre-left (Democratic Socialism, Social Democracy and Anti-Castroism)
Liberal Conservative Party of Cuba (Spanish: Partido Liberal Conservador de Cuba; PLCC) - Centre-right (Liberalism, Conservative Liberalism, Economic Liberalism, Democratic Liberalism and Anti-Castroism)
Social Integration Party (Spanish: Partido de Integración Social; PIS) - Right-wing (Conservatism, Social Conservatism, Christian Democracy, Christian Right, Anti-Vaccination, Anti-Abortion, Anti-Feminism, Anti-Castroism and Anti-LGBT)
Cuban People's League (Spanish: Liga Popular Cubana; LPC) - Right-wing to far-right (Cuban Nationalism, National Conservatism, Social Conservatism, Fiscal Conservatism, Anti-Globalism, Anti-Castroism, Anti-Immigration and Right-Wing Populism)
Revolutionary Action Party (Spanish: Partido Acción Revolucionaria; PAR) - Socially far-right and fiscally far-left (Cuban Nationalism, Ultranationalism, Populism, National Conservatism, Eco-Nationalism, Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Castroism, Anti-Americanism, Anti-Liberalism, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-Globalism, Anti-Corruption, Anti-Immigration, Planned Economy and Latin American Integration)
Afro-Cuban Bloc (Spanish: Bloque Afrocubano; BA) - Left-wing (Afro-Cuban Minority Politics, Social Justice, Participatory Democracy and Anti-Racism)

by **Turkducken** » Mon Dec 12, 2022 1:18 am

Nationstates Name:Turkducken
Nation Name: The People's Republic of China
Capital: Beijing
Territory: Chinese mainland, Tibet, Hong Kong and Macau
Population: 1.313 Billion
Official Language: Standard Chinese
Recognized (Regional) Languages: Mongolian, Uyghur, Tibetan, Zhuang, hundreds of other Chinese dialects and other languages
National Anthem

Head of State:

Head of Government: Premier of China Sun Chunlan
HoG Picture (If different from HoS):
Legislature Name: National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国全国人民代表大会)
Party in Power: Nominally the Chinese United Front controls the legislature, de facto the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the single largest political entity within the NPC

GDP (PPP): $59~ Trillion
GDP (Nominal): $58~ Trillion
Currency: Renminbi, commonly known as the Yuan

Space Capabilities/Information:

Advanced in both launch capabilities and industrial capacity, the Chinese Space Program has been deferred to majority civilian oversight since the mid 2030s.

Forgoing the larger territorial and flashier accomplishments and instead preoccupying itself with extensive multinational programs designed to field HEO permanent habitation.

One of the larger initiatives undertaken and maintained by the Chinese State, is the multinational mission to "preserve the integrity of our space". This project involves the monitoring of "space junk" accumulating in LEO and the launching of relatively small magnetic traps into orbit to reverse environmental changes made from earlier decades of space exploitation.

Military Information (Will likely vary from IRL): The PLA has continued methods of modernization, on paper the military of China is a sleeker, finer tuned, and muscular machine than the dedicated peasant army it was almost a century ago. However, China has still maintained a long "peace". The PLA have prepared for conflicts that never came for decades, and decades of inaction and middle mismanagement have left the true readiness of the armed forces an open question.

It is unlikely that anything other than true armed combat will reveal the operational strength of the PLA.

Alliances:

Tehran Accords- Joint-unilateral agreement for counter-terrorism cooperation and operations between Iran, China, Russia, and the majority of Central Asia

CSAT (Collective Strategic Alliance Treaty)- Following the fall of the Russian state into disarray and civil strife, members of the CSO found themselves without guidance and security from a larger partner. China stepped in to fill these responsibilities and in essence took the rudderless CSO and transformed it into CSAT. CSAT has come to encompass the majority of Central Asia, with its key members being China, Russia, and Iran. Functionally it serves a similar purpose to the now defunct NATO, but in truth is an economic and military power projection platform for the PLA.

As China extends into Africa, Southern Europe, and the Middles East CSAT is expected to grow. Observer status is handed out rather liberally and a warm economic/diplomatic reception is always given to those nations who seek to cozy up to Beijing.

APSC (African People's Security Council)- the culmination of Chinese investments and historical support for decolonization movements in Africa. The PRC itself has no vote or position on the council, but it does take the concerns of its' strategic partners seriously. Ultimately the only two permanent members are Angola and Zimbabwe, however several nations at least observe the operations of the council.

The Council advises cooperation between African nations and the industrial needs, security needs, and economic needs of themselves and China.

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OPs):

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by **Catalaonia** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 9:31 am

This is a WIP.

Nationstates Name: Catalaonia
Nation Name: Canada
Capital: Ottawa
Territory: Modern-Day Canada Borders
Population: 38.25 million
Official Language: English and Canadian English
Recognized Languages: English, French and Canadian English
Flag: IRL Canada Flag
National Anthem (optional): N/A

Head of State: King William of the United Kingdom
HoS Picture: https://imgur.com/qKtS1YR
Head of Government: David May-Longe
HoG Picture (If different from HoS): https://imgur.com/TMdks3F
Legislature Name: House of Commons
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each): Socialist Party of Canada

GDP (PPP): N/A
GDP (Nominal): 3.8 Trillion
Currency: Canadian Dollar

Space Capabilities/Information (Must be approved by OP and Co-OPs)

Canada has small, satellite operations, but nothing compared to that of the USA or China. High amounts of investment would be needed if Canada is to improve this.

Military Information (Will likely vary from IRL): Same as IRL.

Alliances (Will likely vary from IRL): Same as IRL.

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OPs):

Fall of Trudeau and Rise of Canadian Socialism - 2022-2026

Economic Woes and Quebec Problems - 2026-2030

Recovery and Stability - 2030-2040

Referendum and Political Crises - 2040-2045

A new era - Victory for Socialism and economic restructuring - 2045-Present

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by **The Manticoran Empire** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:25 am

Catalaonia wrote:This is a WIP.

Nationstates Name: Catalaonia
Nation Name: Canada
Capital: Ottawa
Territory: Modern-Day Canada Borders
Population: 38.25 million
Official Language: English and Canadian English
Recognized Languages: English, French and Canadian English
Flag: IRL Canada Flag
National Anthem (optional): N/A

Head of State: King William of the United Kingdom
HoS Picture: https://imgur.com/qKtS1YR
Head of Government: David May-Longe
HoG Picture (If different from HoS): https://imgur.com/TMdks3F
Legislature Name: House of Commons
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each): Socialist Party of Canada

GDP (PPP): N/A
GDP (Nominal): 3.8 Trillion
Currency: Canadian Dollar

Space Capabilities/Information (Must be approved by OP and Co-OPs)

Canada has small, satellite operations, but nothing compared to that of the USA or China. High amounts of investment would be needed if Canada is to improve this.

Military Information (Will likely vary from IRL): Same as IRL.

Alliances (Will likely vary from IRL): Same as IRL.

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OPs):

Fall of Trudeau and Rise of Canadian Socialism - 2022-2026
As 2022 came to a close, Canada was in a tricky situation. A sluggish economy mixed with a demotivated working-class saw long-time PM Trudeau's popularity plummet. However, it wasn't high inflation or his incompetence with domestic investment which were the final nails in the coffin, but

Economic Woes and Quebec Problems - 2026-2030

Recovery and Stability - 2030-2040

Referendum and Political Crises - 2040-2045

A new era - Victory for Socialism and economic restructuring - 2045-Present

Do not remove - Alpha777

So...um...I just want to clarify. When you say "same as IRL" for the military, you're being literal? Cause if so...you're about 30 years behind even the behind the curve Russian Federation.

by **Chewion** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 1:12 pm

The Manticoran Empire wrote:
Catalaonia wrote:This is a WIP.

Nationstates Name: Catalaonia
Nation Name: Canada
Capital: Ottawa
Territory: Modern-Day Canada Borders
Population: 38.25 million
Official Language: English and Canadian English
Recognized Languages: English, French and Canadian English
Flag: IRL Canada Flag
National Anthem (optional): N/A

Head of State: King William of the United Kingdom
HoS Picture: https://imgur.com/qKtS1YR
Head of Government: David May-Longe
HoG Picture (If different from HoS): https://imgur.com/TMdks3F
Legislature Name: House of Commons
Party in Power (If bicameral note who controls each): Socialist Party of Canada

GDP (PPP): N/A
GDP (Nominal): 3.8 Trillion
Currency: Canadian Dollar

Space Capabilities/Information (Must be approved by OP and Co-OPs)

Canada has small, satellite operations, but nothing compared to that of the USA or China. High amounts of investment would be needed if Canada is to improve this.

Military Information (Will likely vary from IRL): Same as IRL.

Alliances (Will likely vary from IRL): Same as IRL.

History Changes (Subject to review and approval by OP and Co-OPs):

Fall of Trudeau and Rise of Canadian Socialism - 2022-2026
As 2022 came to a close, Canada was in a tricky situation. A sluggish economy mixed with a demotivated working-class saw long-time PM Trudeau's popularity plummet. However, it wasn't high inflation or his incompetence with domestic investment which were the final nails in the coffin, but

Economic Woes and Quebec Problems - 2026-2030

Recovery and Stability - 2030-2040

Referendum and Political Crises - 2040-2045

A new era - Victory for Socialism and economic restructuring - 2045-Present

Do not remove - Alpha777

So...um...I just want to clarify. When you say "same as IRL" for the military, you're being literal? Cause if so...you're about 30 years behind even the behind the curve Russian Federation.

One more thing, NATO isn’t around but the Pacific Treaty Organization is and Canada is in it according to the OP history if you’re ok with that.

by **American Pere Housh** » Fri Dec 16, 2022 5:09 pm

Can I join this RP even though I can't use Discord? I find this rp really interesting and I really would like to join.

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