Fairly boring generally-bankrupt Ottoman Empire, but quite a few bizarre things happened along the way.
- Ethiopia was my ally and I was willing to reward them, but they actually got all their land additions from British intervention and their own independent war against Egypt.
- "American Egypt" is a reminder of why you don't invite your GP buddies into wars with you.
End Game Statistics:
- Only two socialist parties in power (no communist states at all), but oh so many fascists (including three dictatorships).
- Only Transvacore ended up completely uncivilized, with Yemen (my punching bag), Nepal (
Britain's punching bag) and Bukkhara (don't know what their excuse is) partially westernized.
- I have a whole lot of provinces due to colonization, but aside from that and my leadership I'm not really that advanced.
Gran Colombia declared independence from Ecuador :blink:, leading to much strangeness. Colombia tried to free Ecuadorian territory from Gran Colombia, but was foiled by Peru selfishly seizing land (since it made Gran Colombia a one-state nation, which I think voided the free people cb Colombia was using).
Ecuador became a Proletarian Dictatorship, almost fell to reactionaries (when I selflessly saved it with an invasion since it was nationalizing my investments), and would then fairly rapidly become a Fascist Dictatorship.
Even stranger was Italy:
- Italy started out fine, with Red Shirts marching on Rome and quickly bringing all of Italy under Sicilian control. It even took a few colonies from Morocco.
- The big mistake of the king of Italy was to attack Egypt. He white peaced out after an overly ambitious start (which was hurt by everyone else fighting against Egypt and getting their wargoals faster than Italy, thus blocking off what Italy had wanted) and due to logistical problems had to leave most of his army sitting around in Cairo for a few years.
- Meanwhile, Jacobins and Communists rose up in the mainland of Italy.
- Communists took over the north of Italy, but Jacobins got to Rome first and turned it into an HMS Government. In the chaos, Modena and Tuscany declared independence, separating out the communist north from the rest of Italy (rebels forced Modena back into Italy after awhile whereupon it immediately got occupied by communist rebels).
- France and Austria took the opportunity to expand into Italy. France took Savoy and then Piedmont, while Austria swept up the rest of the lands north of theformer Papal States.
- The Two Sicilies declared independence in the truce period between the wars and immediately got to work joining in the fun of dismantling Italy.
- The Papal States rebelled, leaving Italy with only Rome, Nice, Sardinia, and colonies in Morocco.
- France and Sardinia raced to be the first to free Rome and return it to the pope - in the end, France won and took half of Italy's Moroccan lands with it. Now Italy was completely removed from the Italian peninsula.
- Not content with the utter devastation of their one time master, the Papal States and the Two Sicilies both declared war to free Sardinia to Sardinia-Piedmont. The Two Sicilies decided to also take the last slice of Morocco, and the peace was signed early 1935. The only possession left under the control of the Kingdom of Italy was the city of Nice.
This all made Italy slightly fascist - we can see this political ideology evolve by looking at the following provinces:
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Florence, Tuscany. Tuscany was the first nation to declare its independence, and its levels of fascist support is more or less the usual amount I saw in nations this playthrough.
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Aquila, Two Sicilies. By the time it was freed, Italy had already lost the north.
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Perugia, Papal States. The loss of the Two Sicilies really hurt Italy, and multiple wars also occurred before the Papal States declared independence.
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Rome, Papal States. Freed even later than most of the Papal States, Rome was in Italy for the loss of all the rest of its peninsular possessions. It also got occupied for a long time in the wars, which make its populace even angrier.
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Cagliari, Sardinia-Piedmont. By this time, Italy had lost almost everything and was under an almost constant state of war (due to the smaller Italian states all trying to be the one who would free Sardinia, even if they didn't have the army to actually succeed). Taking a piece of Italy was basically guaranteeing a future of fascism in your country.
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Nice, Italy. Last stronghold of the once great nation. Reactionary and Conservative support are both around 7% each, leaving only 4% split between the communists, socialists, anarcho-liberals, and liberals.