[Forum Game] The World in 1861

[Janha]

Colombian Constitution of 1862
The Main Points​

Article 1: Name

- The new state created to replace the Grandine Confederation shall be known as the United States of Colombia (Spanish: Estados Unidos de Colombia), henceforth Colombia.


Article 2.1: Sovereign States

- The nine Federal States (Panama, Antioquia, Magdalena, Bolivar, Santander, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Tolima and Cauca) of the old Granadine Confederation shall be renamed to Sovereign States.
- Each Sovereign State has their own General Assembly. General Assemblies are formed from democratically elected assemblymen. General Assembly Elections are to be held every 6 years.
- General Assemblies hold the legislative power in their respective Sovereign States (e.g. vote on local laws, control trade and start construction projects). Any amendments made to the Constitution of Colombia must be ratified by all the General Assemblies.
- Every 6 years assemblymen choose one amongst themselves to be the Governor of their respective Sovereign State. Governors have the executive power in their Sovereign State (e.g. oversee tax collection and organise meetings of the General Assemblies).


Article 2.2: The Congress of the United States of Colombia

- The Congress of the United States of Colombia, henceforth the Congress, is the national legislative body of Colombia (e.g. vote on federal laws).
- The Congress is unicameral. It is formed from Congressmen who are democratically elected by the people. Congressional Elections are to be held every 6 years.


Article 2.3: Presidency and the Presidential Cabinet

- The President of the United States of Colombia, henceforth the President, with his Presidential Cabinet holds the national executive power in Colombia (e.g. manage diplomacy and international trade).
- The President is elected by assemblymen amongst the Governors of Colombia. The Governor with the most votes becomes the President. Presidential Elections are to be held every 3 years. The President can’t be immediately re-elected to the office.
- The President nominates all ministers, who form the Presidential Cabinet.


Article 3: Civil Rights

- All earlier freedoms granted to the people of Colombia shall remain in effect.
- In addition, every Colombian has the freedom to express one’s ideas orally or in a written form, freedom to work or organise any business, freedom to travel inside Colombian territory, freedom to leave Colombia, freedom to follow one’s own religion and freedom to possess arms and ammunition.
- Freedom of education, freedom of association and freedom of the press are also protected by the Colombian state.
- Every man over the age of 21 is allowed to vote in the General Assembly Elections and the Congressional Elections.

 

[StarCrow25]

Kingdom of Russia [X]

 

[BlackCrown]

The treaty of Warsaw:
1. The Austrian Empire, the Russian Empire, the Prussian Kingdom, the United Kingdoms of Sweden-Norway and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland recognize the territory they recognize of the Polish Kingdom as that of the Polish Kingdom
2. All Austrians and Prussians in Congress Poland gain polish citizenship and representation in the Sejm
3. UK, Prussia, Sweden-Norway and Austria open an embassy in Warsaw
4. They can get a garrison of 750 armed guards and are to be fully protected by the Polish Army
5. Polish Troops are to be forbidden to be mobilized against Austria and Prussia
6. Polish Forces are to be forbidden from being used for offensive purposes.
Signatories: Austria, Poland, Prussia, Sweden-Norway, UK, Russia
Kingdom of Poland - Alexander Wielopolski [x]
Russian Empire - [] @StarCrow25 or @BlackCrown if previous is inactive.
Austrian Empire - [] @Adamgerd
United Kingdoms of Sweden-Norway - [x] @Caspoi
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - [] @BlackCrown
Kingdom of Prussia - [] @BlackCrown ​

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - [X]
Kingdom of Prussia - [X]

The Treaty of Malmö​

In the interest of furthering the unity and cooperation of the Nations of Scandinavia a treaty has been suggested to be signed in the city of Malmö. The content is as following:
1. A unified Nordic Council (Nordiska Rådet/Nordisk Råd) with representatives from each of the three kingdoms of Sweden, Norway and Denmark. It will take an advisory role to the countries, mainly concerning with events concerning Scandinavia as a whole. The Council will not supercede the parliaments of any of the kingdoms. There will be 33 representatives from each of the kingdoms to be elected by their own national parliaments. The Council is obligated to not to support or sponsor any radical movements that may seek to overthrow any of the governments of the member states.
2. A full customs union where there will be no tariffs for trade between the nations and free travel for citizens of the lands of Scandinavia in any of its three kingdoms. Furthermore any citizen of one of the nations who settle in the lands of another will be granted citizenship in said country.
3. A united language institute that will ensure that the kinship of the Scandinavian languages is preserved and bolstered through cooperation in linguistic academia. The institute will be placed in Copenhagen and consist of respected academics from across Scandinavia whose task it is to maintain the languages of Scandinavia.
4. A unified military command structure with generals from all the nations so as to better be able coordinate the defense of Scandinavia should it be attacked by outside forces. Its headquarters will be placed in Stockholm and accompanying it will be a Scandinavian Military Academy, designed to train prospective commanders on how to lead.

Signed by:
King Karl XV of Sweden and IV of Norway [X]
King Frederik VII of Denmark []

Kingdom of Denmark [X]

The Austrian Empire, in the interests of securing stronger ties with Germanic Brothers has negotiated the treaty of Kiel with the Kingdom of Denmark and the Duchy of Holsteinn. Austria hopes and sees it as a first step for better ties between our 2 brother nations, for we all are germanic and in an effort to build up friendship with neighboring states and hope for the states agreeing to the treaty.

The Treaty of Kiel:

• Parties are the Austrian Empire, the Kingdom of Denmark and the Duchy of Holstein
• All Parties agree to the recognised Holstein-Denmark border as per the legal treaties at the time
• Austria finances the Kiel Canal across Holstein in conjunction with Denmark and Holstein, for all 3 nations to get the right of travel through the canal
• A special committee of the 3 nations is built in regards to the border settlement and the Kiel Canal construction to be convened regularly
• The Kiel Canal will be conjointly leased by all 3 nations discussed in the committee
• Austria guarantees both Holstein and Denmark in a defensive manner.
• Austria, Holstein and Denmark all agree to solving disputes between the 3 members in the aforementioned special committee peacefully and without wars
• Denmark is to be compensated for the loss of tolls for the canal, an amount to be discussed in the committee
• Austria will encourage investment in the Kingdom of Denmark and the Duchy of Holstein, in return gaining Most Favoured Nation trade status in both countries and gaining the first right of refusal to the Duchy of Holstein resources
• Austria gains the second right of refusal to Danish resources
• Austrian troops can protect either of the 2 smaller powers, if their monarch agrees formally to austrian presence
• Tariffs between all 3 countries are to be reduced to 5%
• Holstein and Denmark are invited to join the Vienna Economic Union if they so choose and to peg their currency at a ratio to the Austrian Crown if they so desire
  • Denmark having expressed worry will be exempted from Clause 13 as it so has desired
• Austria gets a small lease on part of Nuuk Port, Greenland to build ships in return for paying the Danish government a set amount to be discussed between the 2 nations
• This treaty is enforced by all 3 signatories and to be observed by the international community as a whole to enforce against a violation of the treaty

We welcome the international community to recognize and observe the terms of this treaty

Signatories:
Austrian Empire,

Observers:

-Emperor of the Austrian Empire, Francis Joseph I Von Habsburg

Regrettably, the Kingdom of Denmark can not agree to the current terms, but His Majesty's government extends to the Austrian Emperor the best of wishes.

Due to political circumstances, the Duchy of Holstein can not agree to the current terms, but is more than willing to negotiate with His Imperial Majesty for more agreeable terms.

 

[Adamgerd]

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The Austrian Empire is pleased that the recent events in Congress Poland and the recent tensions between Russia and Prussia have been solved peacefully and that diplomatically the concert of europe has been maintained with the stability of Europe ensured again. When Austria attended this conference a few months ago, it declared that it's aims were to as a member negotiate a treaty just and acceptable not only to solve the stability of Europe but to the Austrian government and that it saw the outcome of this conference with a mixture of anticipation and dread. Today we are happy to tell our citizens and the international community, that Europe, renouncing war has together come to secure peace and diplomatically solve this crisis. Thus we agree to the treaty of Warsaw

The emperor makes a speech in Vienna to the Citizens of Austria, announcing this:
"Tonight, a great victory has been secured not only for europe or our nation, but for you, the citizens of this once great empire. Your husbands, your sons will not be needlessly killed in endless wars! Peace has resumed and with it we can continue recovering from the Great Depression. You can sleep easily tonight, knowing that Austrian diplomacy has helped prevent a weltkrieg and sign this treaty with Congresss Poland and the other great powers of Europe!

It is no secret that our heyday has long passed. Ever since our disastrous defeat to the cunning Prussians, we have been on the downward journey. No more I say! I know we're experiencing an economic decline and we're tired. Yet, I can only restore our empire to it's former glory with your help! Together, we can be united and act as one in restoring our empire to it's rightful rank and glory! Without your help we will continue on this decline till we're under foreign occupation! I can promise you that I will try my best to help this empire rise once again every minute of my life, but I can only do it with the people's help, YOUR help! I know many of you might disagree with Austria being the rightful government, but I can promise you the enemy will see us as united and wont spare you, so let us truly be united! Let us show the world what an united austria can do and accomplish when acting together! I ask only for one last faith and hope in the Austrian government! We have failed you, but give us one last chance to make things right! Give us one final chance and we can together solve the problems and together march proudly into the future of Austria. My first promise in this resurgence is that we will try our best to recover the economy and political situation! From now on any citizen of the Austrian crown can apply to become a full citizen with all the responsibilities and privileges it entails and we will allow all our minorities to apply to become full citizens along with Austrians! But do not mistake this for weakness! We are benevolent, but we are merciless! Threaten Austrian security and we will restore the repressive regime of before and crush every last protestor! We can be benevolent but we can be harsh! We are offering the olive leave of peace to those of our nation, Serbs, Czechs, Hungarians, Slovaks and so on who have been oppressed, but we still carry a big stick if you fail in your duty to the state! No crime will be tolerated in this empire ever!"

-Emperor of the Austrian Empire, Francis Joseph I Von Habsburg

 

[adriankowaty]

Kurjer Polski​

From Warsaw, 15th of October 1862.
Za Boga, Króla i Ojczyznę! This day Sejm passed a bill introducing regular nation-wide censuses to gather data required for developing country sufficiently. Those censuses will be collected once per 5 years, with first census started at 1st of January 1863 to fullfill needs of land and serfdom reforms and to prepare plans for restructuring the economy.
According to Sejm bill, such census will be composed of:
1. Population density and average population ratios for each industrial area and each gubernia of our Kingdom.
2. Structure of industry in each industrial area (type of industrial activity, state of it and productivity).
3. National resouce production in each gubernia, including mining, farming, forestry, fishing, stone-cutting and other means of raw materials production, aswell as state of infrastructure.
4. Population social distribution, with sizes, needs and overall state of each social class and its following stratas.
This is all what is to be proclaimed as for now. Again, we wish our country to have brighter future for ourselves!

 

[Revan529]

Empire Français
Partant pour la Syrie​

His Imperial Majesty is saddened to hear that the American nation, which has long been a dear and close friend to the French people, has descended into civil war, despite his great hopes that such a conflict might be averted. Despite the outbreak of hostilities, His Majesty hopes that peace and tranquility might be restored in good order.

That the American continents must suffer another civil war in the South is greatly unfortunate, though His Majesty is hopeful that Colombia shall, like its more northerly neighbour, see a speedy restoration of peace.

That our dear ally Italy, with whom we fought to great victory but a few years ago, is also undergoing a period of unrest is highly unfortunate, such that His Majesty wishes to express his commitment and strong desire to support the Italian state during this trouble.

It is also with great interest that His Majesty’s government welcomes a newly autonomous Poland, and wishes to express His Majesty’s joy over the change of Russian tact to more moderate and peaceful rule over the various peoples of its vast empire.

Lastly, regarding foreign affairs, that the conflict in Asia has gone splendidly is excellent news, and His Majesty is prepared to accept a peaceful concordat with the Ngyuen Kingdom, the draft of which shall soon be presented to their king, should it be at all possible to find him.

Domestically, His Majesty is pleased to see the Imperial Army grow considerably, to the point that it shall be the indisputable envy of the world, built upon the great wealth of the French nation, with the fires of industry shining brightly from every city. His Majesty encourages all Frenchmen to commit themselves to prosperity of the nation, that the Empire shall stand as a testament to prosperity, order, and progress.

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[Adamgerd]

The Austrian Empire, in the interests of securing stronger ties with Italy and to avoid war and maintain peace, offers the Treaty of Venice to Italy:
Austria recognises Italy as the legitimate government along with Garibaldi's government, will support Italy in Italian affairs, will transfer Venice to Italy over a period of 3 years to adjust the administration and defensively in return for Italian support of Austria and Italy paying 15 million

The Treaty of Venice:

• Parties are the Austrian Empire, the Italian Kingdom
• Austria recognizes Italy as the sole legitimate government over the Italian Peninsula and Garibaldi's government as it's puppet
• Austria agrees to support Italy in Italian affairs
• Austria will transfer Vencie to Italy over a period of 3 years to adjust
• All Parties agree to renounce wars as a settlement of the border in either favor
• Italy agrees to support Austria in German and international affairs.
• Italy agrees to pay 15 million to Austria

We welcome the international community to recognize and observe the terms of this treaty

Signatories:
Austrian Empire,

Observers:

-Emperor of the Austrian Empire, Francis Joseph I Von Habsburg[

 

[Rapop101]

The Kingdom of Italy henceforth recognizes and sings the Treaty of Venice.

 

[OtakuStrategy]

I know we're a year in but here we go...

Nation Claimed: Belgium

 

[Caspoi]

I know we're a year in but here we go...

Nation Claimed: Belgium

I admire you optimism.

 

[mir1234]

Can I join?
The Hejaz

 

[Caspoi]

Seeing how the game is long since ended I am afraid not.