Prologue:
An excerpt of the history textbook Historia.
The history of the German Empire & the formation of the Global Federal Monarchy:
The Deutsches Kaiserreich was created by the unification of Germany by Prussia in the aftermath of the First Global War against the entente impériale of France, Austria and the Ottoman Empire. As an empire of 68 million people and 26 constituent territories it quickly took the leading role in European politics filling the power-vacuum left by the collapse of Austria-Hungary and the fall of Russia to Bolshevism.
However, a new challenge lay ahead the Reichs ancient foe of France was rearming under the leadership of Eugene Deloncle and his Nazi party, they restored the Bourbon monarchy (they had a disdain for the Bonaparte dynasty as they blamed emperor Louis I for their defeat in the First Global War).
Whilst the Second American Revolution and the following red scare distracted Germany, the French Third Kingdom created a great diplomatic realignment, they convinced Italy to change sides after they suffered gigantic diplomatic backslash over their invasion of Ethiopia and bound Poland to the Axis by offering them protection against the Soviet Union.
Eventually the spark of the war which drowned the whole world into bloodshed would be Dunkirk, part of France before the First Global War, the population of the region which resented Belgian rule received generous aid from Paris. One thing led to the other and after heavy crackdowns on the separatists tensions started escalating.
Eventually, on 19 April after a border incident Nazi France invaded Belgium, under the assumption that the Germans extending the Siegfried line meant they were willing to sacrifice Belgium in the name of peace, it shouldn't be necessary to mention they were wrong.
The fight was joined by the British empire and the rest of the axis, with Austria and the Netherlands being dragged into it against their will.
Poland at the time of their declaration of war on Germany, ironically the large amount of German forces at their borders were stationed there in case the Soviet Union invaded Poland.
The remaining totalitarian states of Russia, Hungary and China used the war to opportunistically expand.
In May Warsaw fell, and the entering Ostheer was greeted by cheering crowds (which totally didn't exist out of paid figurants). Poland finally saw the writing on the wall, the government under pressure from their military decided to step down and 'voluntarily' switch sides in the war.
Next to fell was Italy, but being Italians they even failed to properly switch sides. However it did force the French to pull in their remaining strategic reserve in order to pacify Italy, which greatly decreased the risk of the Brittany landings and the rest of operation overlord.
On January 3 Paris fell after a 16 day siege. After the flight of the Nazi-regime to Algeria, the Allied Occupational Authorities restored the Bonaparte Dynasty in the process of creating a new allied France.
However Leon Trotsky feared that if Germany managed to recover from the war it would form an impregnable bastion against any of the USSR's attempts to export the revolution and convinced the rest of the Politburo to launch a 'preemptive' invasion on Europe. President FDR used the opportunity to 'reunite the old USA' bringing the American Socialist Union in the war. They even ended up joining with China in the war as generalissimo Chiang-Kai Check started to violently settle territorial disputes with India and Japan.
At first the Soviet manace made large inroads into Poland, but soon Germany managed to turn the tide. First they got joined by other countries in the 'Global War against Communism', then a few German mechanized division invaded Hungary via its undefended north side and finally the kaiser managed in one large propaganda effort to unite the entire nation against the Russian in a 'Great Patriotic War'.
On 19 September a motorized division managed to reach the Black Sea (from the north!), effectively turning all of West-Ukraine in one big pocket, and the following day a Polish cavalry division reached Moscow. The OHL was already sure enough of victory to start handing out territory to new regimes.
Divisions freed up thanks to the encirclements were send to Scandinavia and America. However they failed to turn the tide against the commies before the fall of Canada.
After having kicked the Bolsheviks over the Urals, Russia got under insistence of the Kaiser and Chancellor ripped into as many pieces as possible in order to prevent the country of later becoming a threat again. The vanguards of the Heer soon reached the border of China, whilst the supply situation severely worsened combat performance, the Germans managed to advance anyway as the Chinese simply hadn't enough quality troops to defend all their fronts, the drive the China heartland soon became much faster and sturdier after linking up with India (thus solving the supply problem).
In March the Italians launched their second invasion of New York, they caught the USSA command completely by surprise as they didn't expect the Italians to again try what the previous time happened to end up as a complete failure, the invading forces were helped by a large amount of Italian-Americans angry at the government for forcibly collectivizing their pizzarias. They also uncovered the first of President FDR's infamous German-American internment camps.
November 1942 saw the start of Operation Walrus designed to knock Mexico out of the war, after landing in the underdefended state of Veracruz, the Mexican capital fell after a few light skirmishes and the centralized state apparatus created by the communists collapsed.
After the fall of Mexico a new front was opened against the Americans, thus hastening their downfall. After the defeat of the champions of the two evils of fascism and communism by the Allies the world was cleansed from totalitairianism (with the exception of Romania as they were allies and a few countries nobody cared about like Portugal and Chili). Soldiers from all continents returned home and put away their weapons to (hopefully) never use them again and their tanks ended up used as tractors. The USSA was broken up in multiple states to ensure that the Yankee could never again threaten the peace, ironically the different American States eventually allied themselves in the form of the American League, led by the CSA, and stood with the Japanese against the Anglo-Germans in the coming cold war over the resources of the third world.
In reaction the destruction caused by the war a large pacifist backslash emerged against extreme nationalism, which was then seen as one of the leading causes of the war, European integration was seen as the antidote. This led to the creation of the European Zollverein after the 1947 Brussels congress, the new economical community under Anglo-German leadership quickly expanded to fill all of Western and Central Europe.
During the 1950s, tensions began to show, with Britain (under prime minister Winston Churchill) seeking to limit supranational power and prevent Russia end the Ottoman Empire from joining the Zollverein.
Eventually in the 70's when a new generation already familiar with the zollverein had grown up not only could the expansion continue but the union grew into something bigger, the royal marriage between prince Edward and princess Beatrice brought again forth the idea of an Europe wide federal monarchy, originally proposed by in 1946, a new monarchical rank the Augustine Emperor (later turned into the Kaiser of Europe/the world) was created above the existing monarchies with Prince Edward as the first title holder.
In 1988 Brazil joined the empire after a marriage between a Brazilian princess and the heir to the Zollverein (this angered the American-Japanese alliance because they saw South America as being in their sphere of influence, their reaction led to the Arabian missile crisis but that is beyond the scope of this book).
Any further expansion of the empire was halted by the cold war till 2017, then something happened which nobody expected Hillary Trump became president of the CSA. In her campaign she railed against Asian immigrants stereotyping them as petty-bourgeois exploiters of good working Confederates, peddled some conspiracy theories, promised to build a wall to prevent 'rich tax-evaders' from fleeing (in typical HRT fashion she later said it was a metaphor and derided the press for taking her literally.), insinuated she might use the army to confiscate weapons ('Y'a know, the military has the biggest guns. Just saying'), praised the Portuguese communist regime even claiming there was nearly no police-brutality in Portugal because 'they haven't got any white supremacist cops', alienated the political establishment with her coarse rhetorics and accused her political opponent (Bill Clinton) of using the KKK to prevent blacks from voting for her (Whilst the KKK did harass black voters there has never been found any evidence they did it on his orders). She ended up derided in the international press as an American Chavez or a Left-wing Berlusconi, but to everyone's surprise she managed to win anyway with an unstable coalition of conspiracy theorists, disgruntled environmentalists, feminists and blacks, workers who lost a lot thanks to the changing economical situation and political-partisans who always vote for their own party.
The beginning of her term was unstable and contained a lot of diplomatic incidents with the other American states and Japan, though it could still have ended as a good term if it weren't for her assassination. At 12:30 p.m March 10, she was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald when she traveled by motorcade through Dealey Plaza. Whilst there has never been found any evidence that Oswald was part of a group it is widely believed, that he acted on the orders of the Mafia, Communists, her Vice-President, the NRA, the KKK, the Anglo-germans, the Japanese, bankers, timetravellers, aliens, Wallmart or the President of New-England. There even exist a theory she was shot by her driver. Then after her VP was sworn in, it was revealed that he secretly was a member of the CPCSA, and got removed in a military coup.
The ensuing political and diplomatic destabilization paralyzed all of North-America, Berlin and London were quick to use the oppurtunity to invite Mexico in the Zollverein, originally the Mexicans refused but that changed after they were promised a few billion Euromarks in 'development aid'.
With Mexico secure Europe was capable of extending its sphere of influence to the rest of Latin America, sometimes peacefully, sometimes by helping revolutionaries overthrow 'tyrannical' pro-Japanese governments. It took over 2 decades but eventually all of South-America was brought under control.
This was disastrous for the Japanese empire as it nearly completely cut them of from cheap third world resources, at the same time the East-Asian Co-prosperity Sphere was else being destabilized by China which started to become stronger then the other members combined and no longer being content with playing second fiddle to Japan.
In 2059 the current chancellor, Frederick Pappel, was becoming tired of the Cold War so he opened negotiations in the hope that the current situation left the Japanese no choice, in this he was wrong as they refused to swallow their pride. But chancellor Pappel didn't give up, for he feared the possibility of a nuclear incident, especially after the incident of 1997 (When in the midst of heightened tensions thanks to a large military exercise in Siberia, a Japanese satellite mistook sunlight reflecting of the Earth for an incoming group of missiles, the only reason a nuclear war didn't break out was because the officer in charge of the station quickly realized that the Zollverein would not launch a first strike with just five missiles. (had they actually intended to initiate war they'd have launched everything, in an attempt to cut the head off their enemy before it could retaliate significantly.)). He kept adding concessions and eventually promised to make China and Japan equals to Germany and Britain in the Zollverein, and offered them a few Pacific islands and a few billion Euro-Marks in 'development aid', it was just to good for the Co-prosperity to refuse.
After the treaty was made public it was immediately attacked, mostly by right-wing groups who accused the chancellor of being soft, however Pappel vehemently defended it, claiming that even preventing a chance of a single percent of an incident leading to nuclear war is worth losing 'a few small islands and a bit of money'. The treaty passed, it was decided by a single vote.
Next on the list were the various North-American states they ended up joining after the increased economical cooperation used to combat the Great Depression of 2087, basically turned them already in members in all but name.
Thus all of Earth was united under the house of Hohenzoller-Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Romanov-Bonaparte-Osman-Aisin-Gioro, except for some 'neutral' nations like Switzerland and Czechia and the communists in Portugal but eventually they were bullied into joining the Zollverein.
However that didn't meant it was stable, the newly created world order was far from united, the populated countries complained that they were underrepresented, the rich countries complained that poor countries were mooching off their money, the poor countries in turn blamed their poverty on foreign ownership of their natural resources and industry, finally cultural differences lead to everybody accidentally insulting someone else. In order to prevent generations of work being undone and an era of international cooperation coming to an end, the political establishment needed some sort of global project to give the different nations a shared goal, for this they started to look up, into the heavens.
Used Mods: Alphamod, Ethic&Governments rebuild, National emblem pack, totalitarian human portraits and war name variety, I also added a few elements from the Imperial German namelist mod to the standard namelist in order to represent increased German influence.
Galaxy settings: pretty normal, I lightly increased the amount of empires and advanced starts and lightly decreased the amount of habitable planets. This is also the first time I try the 'Hard' difficulty.
An excerpt of the history textbook Historia.
The history of the German Empire & the formation of the Global Federal Monarchy:
The Deutsches Kaiserreich was created by the unification of Germany by Prussia in the aftermath of the First Global War against the entente impériale of France, Austria and the Ottoman Empire. As an empire of 68 million people and 26 constituent territories it quickly took the leading role in European politics filling the power-vacuum left by the collapse of Austria-Hungary and the fall of Russia to Bolshevism.
However, a new challenge lay ahead the Reichs ancient foe of France was rearming under the leadership of Eugene Deloncle and his Nazi party, they restored the Bourbon monarchy (they had a disdain for the Bonaparte dynasty as they blamed emperor Louis I for their defeat in the First Global War).
Whilst the Second American Revolution and the following red scare distracted Germany, the French Third Kingdom created a great diplomatic realignment, they convinced Italy to change sides after they suffered gigantic diplomatic backslash over their invasion of Ethiopia and bound Poland to the Axis by offering them protection against the Soviet Union.
Eventually the spark of the war which drowned the whole world into bloodshed would be Dunkirk, part of France before the First Global War, the population of the region which resented Belgian rule received generous aid from Paris. One thing led to the other and after heavy crackdowns on the separatists tensions started escalating.
Eventually, on 19 April after a border incident Nazi France invaded Belgium, under the assumption that the Germans extending the Siegfried line meant they were willing to sacrifice Belgium in the name of peace, it shouldn't be necessary to mention they were wrong.
The fight was joined by the British empire and the rest of the axis, with Austria and the Netherlands being dragged into it against their will.
Poland at the time of their declaration of war on Germany, ironically the large amount of German forces at their borders were stationed there in case the Soviet Union invaded Poland.
The remaining totalitarian states of Russia, Hungary and China used the war to opportunistically expand.
In May Warsaw fell, and the entering Ostheer was greeted by cheering crowds (which totally didn't exist out of paid figurants). Poland finally saw the writing on the wall, the government under pressure from their military decided to step down and 'voluntarily' switch sides in the war.
Next to fell was Italy, but being Italians they even failed to properly switch sides. However it did force the French to pull in their remaining strategic reserve in order to pacify Italy, which greatly decreased the risk of the Brittany landings and the rest of operation overlord.
On January 3 Paris fell after a 16 day siege. After the flight of the Nazi-regime to Algeria, the Allied Occupational Authorities restored the Bonaparte Dynasty in the process of creating a new allied France.
However Leon Trotsky feared that if Germany managed to recover from the war it would form an impregnable bastion against any of the USSR's attempts to export the revolution and convinced the rest of the Politburo to launch a 'preemptive' invasion on Europe. President FDR used the opportunity to 'reunite the old USA' bringing the American Socialist Union in the war. They even ended up joining with China in the war as generalissimo Chiang-Kai Check started to violently settle territorial disputes with India and Japan.
At first the Soviet manace made large inroads into Poland, but soon Germany managed to turn the tide. First they got joined by other countries in the 'Global War against Communism', then a few German mechanized division invaded Hungary via its undefended north side and finally the kaiser managed in one large propaganda effort to unite the entire nation against the Russian in a 'Great Patriotic War'.
On 19 September a motorized division managed to reach the Black Sea (from the north!), effectively turning all of West-Ukraine in one big pocket, and the following day a Polish cavalry division reached Moscow. The OHL was already sure enough of victory to start handing out territory to new regimes.
Divisions freed up thanks to the encirclements were send to Scandinavia and America. However they failed to turn the tide against the commies before the fall of Canada.
After having kicked the Bolsheviks over the Urals, Russia got under insistence of the Kaiser and Chancellor ripped into as many pieces as possible in order to prevent the country of later becoming a threat again. The vanguards of the Heer soon reached the border of China, whilst the supply situation severely worsened combat performance, the Germans managed to advance anyway as the Chinese simply hadn't enough quality troops to defend all their fronts, the drive the China heartland soon became much faster and sturdier after linking up with India (thus solving the supply problem).
In March the Italians launched their second invasion of New York, they caught the USSA command completely by surprise as they didn't expect the Italians to again try what the previous time happened to end up as a complete failure, the invading forces were helped by a large amount of Italian-Americans angry at the government for forcibly collectivizing their pizzarias. They also uncovered the first of President FDR's infamous German-American internment camps.
November 1942 saw the start of Operation Walrus designed to knock Mexico out of the war, after landing in the underdefended state of Veracruz, the Mexican capital fell after a few light skirmishes and the centralized state apparatus created by the communists collapsed.
After the fall of Mexico a new front was opened against the Americans, thus hastening their downfall. After the defeat of the champions of the two evils of fascism and communism by the Allies the world was cleansed from totalitairianism (with the exception of Romania as they were allies and a few countries nobody cared about like Portugal and Chili). Soldiers from all continents returned home and put away their weapons to (hopefully) never use them again and their tanks ended up used as tractors. The USSA was broken up in multiple states to ensure that the Yankee could never again threaten the peace, ironically the different American States eventually allied themselves in the form of the American League, led by the CSA, and stood with the Japanese against the Anglo-Germans in the coming cold war over the resources of the third world.
In reaction the destruction caused by the war a large pacifist backslash emerged against extreme nationalism, which was then seen as one of the leading causes of the war, European integration was seen as the antidote. This led to the creation of the European Zollverein after the 1947 Brussels congress, the new economical community under Anglo-German leadership quickly expanded to fill all of Western and Central Europe.
During the 1950s, tensions began to show, with Britain (under prime minister Winston Churchill) seeking to limit supranational power and prevent Russia end the Ottoman Empire from joining the Zollverein.
Eventually in the 70's when a new generation already familiar with the zollverein had grown up not only could the expansion continue but the union grew into something bigger, the royal marriage between prince Edward and princess Beatrice brought again forth the idea of an Europe wide federal monarchy, originally proposed by in 1946, a new monarchical rank the Augustine Emperor (later turned into the Kaiser of Europe/the world) was created above the existing monarchies with Prince Edward as the first title holder.
In 1988 Brazil joined the empire after a marriage between a Brazilian princess and the heir to the Zollverein (this angered the American-Japanese alliance because they saw South America as being in their sphere of influence, their reaction led to the Arabian missile crisis but that is beyond the scope of this book).
Any further expansion of the empire was halted by the cold war till 2017, then something happened which nobody expected Hillary Trump became president of the CSA. In her campaign she railed against Asian immigrants stereotyping them as petty-bourgeois exploiters of good working Confederates, peddled some conspiracy theories, promised to build a wall to prevent 'rich tax-evaders' from fleeing (in typical HRT fashion she later said it was a metaphor and derided the press for taking her literally.), insinuated she might use the army to confiscate weapons ('Y'a know, the military has the biggest guns. Just saying'), praised the Portuguese communist regime even claiming there was nearly no police-brutality in Portugal because 'they haven't got any white supremacist cops', alienated the political establishment with her coarse rhetorics and accused her political opponent (Bill Clinton) of using the KKK to prevent blacks from voting for her (Whilst the KKK did harass black voters there has never been found any evidence they did it on his orders). She ended up derided in the international press as an American Chavez or a Left-wing Berlusconi, but to everyone's surprise she managed to win anyway with an unstable coalition of conspiracy theorists, disgruntled environmentalists, feminists and blacks, workers who lost a lot thanks to the changing economical situation and political-partisans who always vote for their own party.
The beginning of her term was unstable and contained a lot of diplomatic incidents with the other American states and Japan, though it could still have ended as a good term if it weren't for her assassination. At 12:30 p.m March 10, she was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald when she traveled by motorcade through Dealey Plaza. Whilst there has never been found any evidence that Oswald was part of a group it is widely believed, that he acted on the orders of the Mafia, Communists, her Vice-President, the NRA, the KKK, the Anglo-germans, the Japanese, bankers, timetravellers, aliens, Wallmart or the President of New-England. There even exist a theory she was shot by her driver. Then after her VP was sworn in, it was revealed that he secretly was a member of the CPCSA, and got removed in a military coup.
The ensuing political and diplomatic destabilization paralyzed all of North-America, Berlin and London were quick to use the oppurtunity to invite Mexico in the Zollverein, originally the Mexicans refused but that changed after they were promised a few billion Euromarks in 'development aid'.
With Mexico secure Europe was capable of extending its sphere of influence to the rest of Latin America, sometimes peacefully, sometimes by helping revolutionaries overthrow 'tyrannical' pro-Japanese governments. It took over 2 decades but eventually all of South-America was brought under control.
This was disastrous for the Japanese empire as it nearly completely cut them of from cheap third world resources, at the same time the East-Asian Co-prosperity Sphere was else being destabilized by China which started to become stronger then the other members combined and no longer being content with playing second fiddle to Japan.
In 2059 the current chancellor, Frederick Pappel, was becoming tired of the Cold War so he opened negotiations in the hope that the current situation left the Japanese no choice, in this he was wrong as they refused to swallow their pride. But chancellor Pappel didn't give up, for he feared the possibility of a nuclear incident, especially after the incident of 1997 (When in the midst of heightened tensions thanks to a large military exercise in Siberia, a Japanese satellite mistook sunlight reflecting of the Earth for an incoming group of missiles, the only reason a nuclear war didn't break out was because the officer in charge of the station quickly realized that the Zollverein would not launch a first strike with just five missiles. (had they actually intended to initiate war they'd have launched everything, in an attempt to cut the head off their enemy before it could retaliate significantly.)). He kept adding concessions and eventually promised to make China and Japan equals to Germany and Britain in the Zollverein, and offered them a few Pacific islands and a few billion Euro-Marks in 'development aid', it was just to good for the Co-prosperity to refuse.
After the treaty was made public it was immediately attacked, mostly by right-wing groups who accused the chancellor of being soft, however Pappel vehemently defended it, claiming that even preventing a chance of a single percent of an incident leading to nuclear war is worth losing 'a few small islands and a bit of money'. The treaty passed, it was decided by a single vote.
Next on the list were the various North-American states they ended up joining after the increased economical cooperation used to combat the Great Depression of 2087, basically turned them already in members in all but name.
Thus all of Earth was united under the house of Hohenzoller-Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Romanov-Bonaparte-Osman-Aisin-Gioro, except for some 'neutral' nations like Switzerland and Czechia and the communists in Portugal but eventually they were bullied into joining the Zollverein.
However that didn't meant it was stable, the newly created world order was far from united, the populated countries complained that they were underrepresented, the rich countries complained that poor countries were mooching off their money, the poor countries in turn blamed their poverty on foreign ownership of their natural resources and industry, finally cultural differences lead to everybody accidentally insulting someone else. In order to prevent generations of work being undone and an era of international cooperation coming to an end, the political establishment needed some sort of global project to give the different nations a shared goal, for this they started to look up, into the heavens.
Used Mods: Alphamod, Ethic&Governments rebuild, National emblem pack, totalitarian human portraits and war name variety, I also added a few elements from the Imperial German namelist mod to the standard namelist in order to represent increased German influence.
Galaxy settings: pretty normal, I lightly increased the amount of empires and advanced starts and lightly decreased the amount of habitable planets. This is also the first time I try the 'Hard' difficulty.
