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How did you do the five steps for creating California Republic? I made the culture Californian but I can't find a guide on how to change the Mexican POPs to Californian.
manually. You need to open Pops map find the province you want and change mexican into Californian.
Can you tell me how you did editting your Cali changes in? I'm very bad at editting, so you might have to go step by step, if you do tell.
@King50000: Hopefully. I've been in the Red lately...
@TKFS: Thanks! I'm unsure if he will...
@rednax7: Thanks. I'm already cooking up a plot for the next update.
@Morrell8: I sure as hell hope so.
@brokenkeyboard: Would you like me to send you my files?...
@Rae: See above.
@TKFS: Thanks! I'm unsure if he will...
@rednax7: Thanks. I'm already cooking up a plot for the next update.
@Morrell8: I sure as hell hope so.
@brokenkeyboard: Would you like me to send you my files?...
@Rae: See above.
...Why are you so obsessed with the Philippines? You've mentioned them in nearly ever AAR I've seen you in.
Not to be offensive, just asking.
@hoi2geek: No. I do not.
@Veovis: Here they are. These files are also on the front page now.
@Commandante: Thanks!
@Veovis: Here they are. These files are also on the front page now.
@Commandante: Thanks!
Jamous: 1896 - 1901
President Andrew Jamous was inaugurated amidst a large, powerful, storm that swept in all across California. The storm greatly disrupted communications as telegraph and telephone lines were taken down by the high winds, and in some places, the waves crept up on shore and knocked out buildings and poles. President Jamous vowed to help the victims in anyway he could. As soon as he had said that - many people flocked to the Presidential Palace, asking him personally if he'd open up a Steel Company in Southern California, as the current companies were charging rates as high as three times as much as steel costs from a Jamous plant in Northern California. The shocked President, agrees to open a factory in the South, as well as to start shipping steel to Southern California.
1. Andrew Jamous, Ninth President of the Californian Republic.
Members of Congress were in an uproar. Jamous Steel Works had barely escaped the Smith-Webster Anti-Trust Act, and now it was expanding south - ready and willing to crush all its competition in their tracks. President Jamous, defiant as ever, disbanded the "Trust Busters" and the teeth of the Anti-Trust Act were ripped from its jaw. President Jamous also started a lawsuit against the Anti-Trust Act, claiming that it did nothing but foster the growth of high priced, oppressive companies that hurt the Californian people, something that is clearly against the law of the Constitution[1].
The trial lasted into the Spring of 1896, when the decision was finally reached that the Anti-Trust Act was indeed a valid law, but, the wording of ruling left in the possibility of a public referendum on the law, akin to the direct democracy practiced in the nation. Although no national law had been put up to the public for ratification since the 1870s, but nevertheless, President Jamous felt the people were on his side, and he called for the public to vote on the Repeal of the Smith-Webster Anti-Trust Act.
Voting all across the country took place on the first weekend in June. Thousands flocked to the voting both, fervent men who wished to either support or stop the President in his tracks. When the results began to come in, the Pacific territories showed a huge opposition to the President, but the Californian mainland broke decisively for the President, giving him the power to repeal the Anti-Trust Act by a vote of 254,645 Yays to 196,536 Nays.
2. Men voting for the repeal of the Anti-Trust Act in the Summer of 1896.
The President was overjoyed at this news. The Anti-Trust Act was repealed after only a short time after being passed, and very quickly, Jamous Steel Works bought out several companies in Southern California, giving President Jamous a near monopoly on Steel throughout the nation. California was the hub of all steel manufacturing in the nation, no other section even came close to producing the same amount of Steel.
With the Anti-Trust Act gone, capital began to flow into California, much coming from the United States, slowly taking over smaller businesses and forming foreign-owned Monopolies inside the nation. The most prominent of these was Standard Oil of California, owned by John D. Rockefeller. Standard Oil of California was founded in the late 1880s in San Diego by a group of men authorized by Rockefeller to do so. With the Anti-Trust Act gone, Standard Oil quickly bought out any and all competition, practicing both horizontal and vertical integration. It only took seven months after to the repeal to establish complete control over California's oil.
3. John D. Rockefeller, the Richest man in the World, and the owner of Standard Oil of California.
Now that the trust issue was dealt with, President Jamous turned his sights towards the expansion and construction of strong, durable infrastructure and buildings inside California. Using both his powers as President of the Californian Republic and President of Jamous Steel Works, he set out on an ambitious policy of aiding anyone who asked him with building projects, and increased funding for the establishment of better safety standards and sanitation departments in the large cities. His actions, called quasi-legal by some, helped propel the big cities leaps and bounds ahead of their current standards for safety and sanitation. Establishing several companies that are still around today[2].
Growth continued in California, as buildings started to edge higher, but the overall population began to shrink. Cities posted some of their first net losses of citizens since their inception, and it was answered by the continued migration from the cities into the countryside, and even more so, the migration if citizens out to California's Pacific colonies. President Jamous was no fan of Imperialism, but after seeing this mass migration to the colonies, he had no choice but to reluctantly accept these areas were integral to the Californian Republic. To combat his hatred of the very nature of oppressed people and colonies, he began a policy of rapid integration of Pacific Territories into fully-fledged Districts of California, allocating them representation in the Californian Congress. By the spring of 1897, the Marshal Islands, the islands of Yap, Truk, and Ponape all became official Districts in California.
The story of civilization has hit Hawaii like a tidal wave, with the native Polynesians being cast aside and the Californian way of life was solidified and cemented into the island. No more where the small, native villages-they were replaced with the tall, western buildings, and the busy and bustle of daily life in a Californian City. Honolulu, Hawaii was the largest city on the island and was almost identical to an average city on the mainland.
4. Downtown Honolulu, Hawaii in 1897.
Even though there was a huge trend of colonial migration, this did not deter the cities from expanding their infrastructure, and it really didn't do that much for the massive crowds and hustle and bustle for the city of San Francisco. The cities mayor was able to get a massive public works project off the ground that, with the help of Jamous Steel Works, was able to modernize and bring a working infrastructure to the city. Electricity and the Telephone were becoming very common all across California, most specifically the cities. All the major cities boasted electricity and telephone communication, giving California and unprecedented level of connectivity with the rest of the nation - producing the highest level anywhere in the world at the time.
5. Main Street in downtown San Francisco, 1898.
New reached the Californian Government that in the late spring of 1898, the Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand came into existence by a royal decree signed by Queen Victoria II. On one hand, it appealed to the President's hatred of imperialism, on the other hand it put the Californian Republic at a precarious position. The non-aggression pact signed between the British and the Californians was no longer valid - Britain had relinquished her control of the area and the Royal Army and Royal Navy now operated out of British India, far away from California's Pacific territories.
6. The Australian Parliament opens for the first time in the Summer of 1898.
President Jamous was then meet by a tough choice. He, above all people, wished to remain out of an imperialist war for the expansion of territory, but now California bordered two unfriendly nations on the island of Papua: The Netherlands and the Commonwealth of Australia. Faced with an extremely tough decision of whether or not he should declare war in order to protect the Californian holdings on Papua, the Commonwealth of Australia moved first. In the fall of 1898, the Commonwealth of Australia invited President Jamous to Sydney, Australia in order to try and work out a treaty of friendship and cooperation between the two countries.
President Jamous arrived in Sydney on December 18th, 1898, to much fanfare and celebration by the newly independent nation. After giving a speech to the Australian Parliament, they voted unanimously to sign the Treaty of Brisbane, which solidified the former British-Californian agreement of non-intervention in the Pacific Islands. At this point in time, Australia was now a friend of California, who would gladly stand besides her in a time of need, and not help any forces take over Californian territory.
With the border secure, President Jamous approved the measure for Jamous Steel Works to start mining in the mountain of Papua, to try and find more iron for the ever-expansive Steel industry that demanded far more iron than the mountains of California could produce.
7. Californian miners working on the Californian section of the island of Papua.
With the election of a new President in the Confederate States of America, the previous years of friendship and cooperation was shattered. The Confederate States pulled away from all negotiations with the United States, and spurned them at any chance they had. The United States, on February 17th, finally had enough of the Confederates. They declared war, with the intention of restoring the Union that had been broken for the past 40 years.
The warfare that broke out was brutal. The United States enacted a doctrine of complete and total war, destroying the Confederate infrastructure and slaughtering them in the field. Wisely, the Confederacy hunkered down and built a series of trenches to defend against the onslaught of the Union troops. They sent a telegram to the Californian Republic, begging for support, politically, militarily, or at least diplomatically. President Jamous never responded to the message, and California slowly aligned itself solidly behind the Union.
8. The Confederates of the Army of Northern Virginia camped out in a trench outside Winchester, Virginia.
Political upheaval hit California when the once solid Worker's Union Party, the foremost advocate for socialism in the Californian Republic, fell victim to a huge in-party fight of their main goal. The moderate faction suggested that the Party should act as any other political party, gain office and govern according to their own ideas and policies, just as every party has in the past. The more radical faction, however, decided that such an idea was insane. They wished to overthrow the entire government, and establish a new, socialistic system of government in its place.
The leadership elections came up, and these two factions clashed explosively. The moderate candidate won the ballot, but the radical faction did all it could to being the party down. Leaving a trail of destruction in his path - the old Worker's Union party had its structure all but destroyed. The party voted for disbandment on March 15th, 1899. In her place, the remaining members formed the Californian Federation of Labor Party, essentially the political arm of the Californian Federation of Labor, California's largest worker's union. This new party was composed of the former moderate wing of the Worker's Union party. The radical faction migrated to the Californian Communist Party.
9. The Headquarters of the new Californian Federation of Labor Party.
President Jamous, pleased by the unrest inside the opposition parties, took even more pride as he announced the islands of the Fiji Territory have officially been accepted and integrated to the Californian Republic with their own districts. At this point in time, President Jamous announced that only Easter Island had yet to be allocated a District for representation in the Californian Congress, other than that - the entirety of the Pacific islands were no longer territories. Besides Easter Island, the Californian sections of Papua and Borneo where the only territories of California. The President was immensely pleased at the expansion of the Californian Democracy to the islands of the Pacific. Sure, he had to accept the fact that the Empire of the Pacific existed, but it was his civic duty to bring much needed reforms to the Government to accept these islands and peoples as equals[3].
One of the President's crowning achievements was his advocacy for a national welfare system, designed to help the senior citizens of the nation, as well as the ones who were out of work, giving them a chance to survive should hard times fall upon their home. Many Conservatives were outraged and appalled that the President would even suggest such a thing, and attempted to shelve his piece of legislation. Unfortunately for them, the Socialists and Communists banded together in support of this bill. It would extend unemployment subsidies and old-age pensions to the elderly in the nation. Feeling defiantly bolstered by the massive public outpouring of support for this bill, the Californian Congress passed the bill as an Amendment to the Constitution of the Republic of California. President Jamous signed it, and it went to the public for a vote.
10. President Andrew Jamous before signing the 1st Amendment to the Californian Constitution.
Support was leaky at first, because it was rammed through by the Communists and Socialists, as well as a massive campaign set up by the Conservatives to try and stop its passage. President Jamous responded in force with a tour around the country, advocating for the support and passage of the amendment. His common sense speeches, appealing to the intellect of the Californian people, became vastly successful, as the amendment was ratified by the people by a landslide vote. Seventy percent of the population voted to approve the amendment.
11. A huge rally held in San Diego, supporting the passage of the 1st Amendment.
One of President Jamous' most memorable feats was the Brisbane Conference between the Commonwealth of Australia, the Republic of California, and New Zealand. For months, New Zealand had been in a constant state of revolution, with armed bandits roaming the countryside, killing and murdering anyone in their path. The Government of New Zealand, only interested in helping the people of the island and making sure they didn't become a failed state, asked to meet President Jamous in Brisbane, Australia.
Upon arrival in the fall of 1899, President Jamous was expecting New Zealand to ask for a large military force in exchange for an alliance and some economic benefits to California. The President was shocked at what the New Zealanders offered him. In exchange for putting down the rebellion, the New Zealand Government offered annexation into the Californian Republic as 9 new districts, skipping the normal step of a territory. The President was astounded, he simply didn't know what to say. He tried to get Australia to annex the nation, but they stated they didn't have the military nor the money available to control New Zealand.
It was only after seeing the widespread and terrible destruction of the islands that President Jamous agreed. The Treaty of Sydney was signed on November 16th, 1899, which proclaimed that on January 1st, 1900, New Zealand would enter into the Californian Republic as nine fully sovereign districts.
12. The destruction and devastation of New Zealand's former capitol city.
The turn of the century was a huge event in California, with thousands pouring into the streets to celebrate the dawn of the new year. President Jamous gave a speech, commemorating the inclusion of New Zealand into the Californian Realm. He spoke gallantly of the past 75 years of California's existence. He talked about each President and their terms in office, he even gave a stirring speech in support of the Empire of the Pacific. The sense of national unity and national pride was never higher than it was during the last few days of 1899.
The population statistics were released on New Years Day, causing much celebration amongst the nation's people. Even with the minimal territory gain of New Zealand, the Californian Republic grew by 1,303,034 males over the past five years, a simply astounding number, and the largest growth to date. The total population of the California Republic stood at 15,564,233 citizens on January 1st. These men, women, and children, all considered themselves to be a member of the Empire of the Pacific, spreading from the Pacific Coast of North America, all the way to Asia, across the briny foam of the Pacific Ocean, and extending down to control half of Oceania. For some, this was home. For many, this was the Empire of the Pacific.
13. Population Statistics of the Californian Republic, 1900.
Elections in the Empire of the Pacific were a nominal affair in 1900. The socialists, still reeling from their re-alignment and parties destruction, didn't run a candidate for the Presidency. President Jamous stood alone, only challenged by Robert Lincoln of the Progressive Party. Lincoln, the son of former United States President Abraham Lincoln, moved to California after being offered a job on a railroad firm. Still a citizen of the United States, he ran a weak campaign, mostly because of the sheer amount of popularity the President held over the public.
14. Progressive Candidate Robert Lincoln, son of former United States President Abraham Lincoln.
When the votes came in, it was evident that President Jamous would be soundly re-elected to another five years in office. Mr. Lincoln supposedly congratulated the President upon hearing his victory, and the President celebrated with yet another speech talking about how in the next five years they will continue on with their plans of industrialization, modernization, as well as attraction of both business and immigrants to the Californian Republic. Surprisingly, he also hinted that in the next five years, it was possible he would adopt a new policy of gradual expansion of the economy, the military, and the territory of the Californian Republic. After a period of five years being dormant and dealing with domestic issues, the Empire of the Pacific seemed poised to once again strike and begin her triumphant expansion across the waves.
Previous Update: Harrison: 1891 - 1896
Next Update: Jamous: 1901 - 1906
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Author's Note(s)
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[1] - Article 1, Section 4 to the Californian Constitution reads: The Californian Congress shall never past a law that is detrimental and harmful to the Population of California.
[2] - The San Diego Sewer Company was created under President Jamous, and still operates today using the same sewer lines.
[3] - The Administration of Andrew Jamous is regarded as the best in Californian History because of the immense reforms he brought to the nation, allowing it to hold the Empire together.
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WHOA, WHOA, WHOA.
You ANNEXED New Zealand?
Other than that, it looks like President Jamous is doing well!
You ANNEXED New Zealand?
Other than that, it looks like President Jamous is doing well!
Frymonmon, you know my Jamous down to the T
Shame to all who thought of him as a failure before this update!
Shame to all who thought of him as a failure before this update!
I enjoy reading this AAR more than actually playing the game. Keep it coming
Also just began reading your United States AAR.
Also just began reading your United States AAR.
Well I've got to say, Jamous might be my favorite Californian president to date! Excellent update!
I'm suprised that New Zealand willingly joined the Californian Republic; I never saw that coming. Not only that; but it looks like America really is proving itself to be the 'villain' of this world; did the United States go all the way and become a Empire complete with it's own Monarchy?
President Jamous seems to be confusing his roles as president and tycoon capitalist...
I have started working on a Swedish AAR in a similar style as this and since I like your visual layout I am quite curious to know how you find all your pictures of cities, people and such. Is it just pic googling all the way or do you have some other sources?
I have started working on a Swedish AAR in a similar style as this and since I like your visual layout I am quite curious to know how you find all your pictures of cities, people and such. Is it just pic googling all the way or do you have some other sources?