You are welcome to play as Chile, send your orders to Spectre. I'll have your stats up tomorrow, but they will be similar to Argentina.
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As regent of the Empire i once again ask that the rebel leaders and their troops surrender. Should any of the rebel leaders and their men turn their backs on that villainous revolt they will be granted full amnesty and accepted back into the Empire, however, should our most generous offer be refused, our brave men will continue their march to Porto Alegre, and i have full faith on the support they will receive from the population.
But i ask you, how can you live on with said actions, rebelling against your Emperor and turning brother against brother, son against father. Do you think this is correct, do you not feel guilty of that? Remember when the devil turned Cain against his brother, and taught him how to murder his own brother. Do you still not realize the bad you are doing? I ask that you all surrender, and avoid this bloodshed resuming.
- Pedro de Araújo Lima, the new Regent of the Brazilian Empire
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An address from King Karl XIV Johan,
'My people of the Swede-Norwegian Union, I wish to inform you of a new development in our nation. I wish for our Union to have our own pride and sense of belonging. For we Swedes and Norwegians are brothers. Swedes and Norwegians should settle our differences and move on with the progress of our nation not stay behind due to prejudice and tensions between Scandinavian brothers. For a sense of new pride in our Scandinavian nation I wish to announce the formation of a new military unit. This unit hasn't been used since the Great Northern War, where our king Charles the XII died valiantly in battle at the head of his troops. A true king in every sense of the word. But this unit is the famed Caroleans which Served our king to death and honored god with a passion. Our Caroleans shall be the best fighting unit in Europe for the defense of our Scandinavian union with Norway. They shall valiantly serve our nation till death. I do not wish for war, instead I wish for peace not chaos and war. For we are a peaceful people only looking to protect our nation from foreign intrusion on our Union's soil.'
'On other matters I have started plans for our nation to industrialize. For we must compete in business with the other European nations. Lest we want to be a backwards nation far behind. A number of factories will be built to supply jobs and goods for the people of our nation. For I am building factories for you the common person for jobs and money to supply your families with instead of incessant farming. To go along with this project I have plans to build new roads and railroads to connect our nation. Then as a result we will be able to run our factories more efficiently. These railroads will also need people to run them, my people I encourage you to join the rail business to help our nation expand internally.'
'For one of my final statements I would like to comment on our colony of Saint Barthélemy given to us by the French in 1784. I hope our colonists there are working to the best of their ability for the betterment of our nation. For we at home in Sweden-Norway are wishing our colonists the best of luck with their daily tasks. For we need them for some of our raw materials such as Cotton and Sweet Potato.'
-Address from Karl Johan XIV
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Address to the assembled peoples of Santiago by Chilean President José Joaquín Prieto, recently re-elected by a landslde:
Great citizens of Chile! Today, we stand at a crossroads. Our many long years of freedom from the monarchist pigs in Madrid have led to complacency. But no longer. No longer shall we languish on the sidelines while others have their place in the sun! No longer shall Chile be a forgotten place on a forgotten continent! Every man, woman and child in this esteemed republic knows we are ten times better than all those who seek to oppress and use us. We know from the bottom of our hearts, that when we were born in Chile we were born in the greatest nation this world has ever seen! For those of you who were not born in Chile, we shall always welcome your reasoned choice to travel here, and we shall forever welcome with open arms any that have seen the light, who cast off the chains of serfdom and monarchs, who turn their noses at tyranny! Every person here made the choice to fight tyranny, or their fathers did before them. I have a vision that Chile will lead South America out of its political nothingness and onto the world stage. The so-called 'Great Powers' will rue the day they decided to ignore us. Chileans, Argentineans, Brazilians, Granadans; we will all link our arms and stand for tyranny no longer! Hurrah for Chile! Hurrah for South America! Hurrah for FREEDOM!
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland asks the Chilean Government to point out specific areas of British Foreign Policy that neglects the peoples of South America. We have only recently agreed to an expanded friendship with New Granada, one that His Majesty's Government was very happy to engage in. The United Kingdom would be delighted to open up new partnerships with Chile, and new trade routes. However, should the Republic continue to adopt such a bellicose stance towards the world outside South America, and continue with the disdain it appears to show for European nations, the United Kingdom would reluctantly urge all European nations, and nations we have good ties with, to not do business with the Chilean Government.
This has been a message from His Majesty's Government.
The Empire of the Great Qing now approaches the bicentennial of its foundation, when the Mandate of Heaven transferred from the hands of the decadent Ming Court to the Shunzhi Emperor. For almost two hundred years, the Great Qing State has sat in celestial excellence, and the signs remain propitious. When the great Taizu suspended his vassalage to the Ming, he did so seeing that they had clearly lost heavenly favour: rebels ran rampant in the capital, vegetation withered across the Central State, and the earth itself was torn asunder. Such was the seething discontent that the Heavens showed for the rule of the Ming that one of its own generals, recognising this disfavour, opened himself to our ancestors in recognition of our cause. At this sign, the first princes of the Great Qing emerged to strike down the illicit regime and restore harmonious order to all under Heaven. Can we not clearly claim to rule by the right of Heaven, when our great reign has been unmarred by disaster of any description? The State is secure and unchallenged, the people are prosperous and content, the times are propitious. Not since the rule of the Han has the Central State enjoyed such continuous providence.
But we are not content with mere greatness; not when we must ever strive for excellence. The Empire of the Great Qing is unparalleled throughout human civilisation, but we must continue to set the standards by which civilisation is defined. As such, we must continue to reach towards Heaven. Only through constant labour and exertion may we prove the righteous of our rule. Sloth and inactivity were the ways of the Ming; the Great Qing does not falter in complacency. As such, we announce a roster of new measures to be enacted by our servants across the Central State:
Firstly, we recognise that the Grand Canal, stretching from the North Capital to Hangzhou, is a great feat of Chinese ingenuity that matches in symmetry with the Long Fortress of a Thousand Miles to the north, as well as a lifeline of the Han heartland. As such, we have vowed to uphold the integrity of this achievement by placing it under central administration and ensuring its continued maintenance and upkeep. Funds shall be made available for this from the central treasury and the regional coffers.
Secondly, in order to ensure the continued contentedness of the people and the prosperity of the nation, the Great Qing State shall issue controls on the price of grain. This shall ensure that there is an even supply of sustenance for all the masses of the Empire, and to ensure the continued affordability of such necessities as rice and other foodstuffs. Officers from the Great Qing Court shall be dispatched to the provinces to oversee this measure's implementation.
Thirdly, we have decided, after much consideration and consultation of the records, that the general proscription against the import, trade and recreational use of opium shall be rescinded. The historical records demonstrate no precedence for such an order, and so we believe that it is our duty to honour the past and lift this measure. While we despise this odious substance, we believe that the people of the Great Qing State are enlightened enough to avoid its use without official ordinance. Instead, a general tariff shall be exacted on the import of opium, and a tax levied on its internal use in the Central State. As such, we shall deter its consumption by righteous citizens while profiting from its purchase.
Lastly, we are pleased to announce the recognition of our eminence by the British governors of India, who have despatched an embassy to the North Capital; in reward, we have opened our select ports to their goods. We know this convention, signed in the southern port of Canton, shall be the beginning of agreeable relations with the British, who shall serve with the Great Qing to restore order to a world that seems set to fall into chaos.
All across the world, the peripheral nations of the Empire have spoken with discontent and dissatisfaction at the current state of affairs. There is no greater sign that the Heavens have chosen the Central State than the fact that we can say, without reserve, that the Great Qing is unencumbered by any complaint. May this happy and fortuitous reign endure forever, so that all may be awed and inspired by the flawless conduct of the Empire of the Great Qing.
~ His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of the Great Qing, Son of Heaven, Lord of Ten Thousand Years
But we are not content with mere greatness; not when we must ever strive for excellence. The Empire of the Great Qing is unparalleled throughout human civilisation, but we must continue to set the standards by which civilisation is defined. As such, we must continue to reach towards Heaven. Only through constant labour and exertion may we prove the righteous of our rule. Sloth and inactivity were the ways of the Ming; the Great Qing does not falter in complacency. As such, we announce a roster of new measures to be enacted by our servants across the Central State:
Firstly, we recognise that the Grand Canal, stretching from the North Capital to Hangzhou, is a great feat of Chinese ingenuity that matches in symmetry with the Long Fortress of a Thousand Miles to the north, as well as a lifeline of the Han heartland. As such, we have vowed to uphold the integrity of this achievement by placing it under central administration and ensuring its continued maintenance and upkeep. Funds shall be made available for this from the central treasury and the regional coffers.
Secondly, in order to ensure the continued contentedness of the people and the prosperity of the nation, the Great Qing State shall issue controls on the price of grain. This shall ensure that there is an even supply of sustenance for all the masses of the Empire, and to ensure the continued affordability of such necessities as rice and other foodstuffs. Officers from the Great Qing Court shall be dispatched to the provinces to oversee this measure's implementation.
Thirdly, we have decided, after much consideration and consultation of the records, that the general proscription against the import, trade and recreational use of opium shall be rescinded. The historical records demonstrate no precedence for such an order, and so we believe that it is our duty to honour the past and lift this measure. While we despise this odious substance, we believe that the people of the Great Qing State are enlightened enough to avoid its use without official ordinance. Instead, a general tariff shall be exacted on the import of opium, and a tax levied on its internal use in the Central State. As such, we shall deter its consumption by righteous citizens while profiting from its purchase.
Lastly, we are pleased to announce the recognition of our eminence by the British governors of India, who have despatched an embassy to the North Capital; in reward, we have opened our select ports to their goods. We know this convention, signed in the southern port of Canton, shall be the beginning of agreeable relations with the British, who shall serve with the Great Qing to restore order to a world that seems set to fall into chaos.
All across the world, the peripheral nations of the Empire have spoken with discontent and dissatisfaction at the current state of affairs. There is no greater sign that the Heavens have chosen the Central State than the fact that we can say, without reserve, that the Great Qing is unencumbered by any complaint. May this happy and fortuitous reign endure forever, so that all may be awed and inspired by the flawless conduct of the Empire of the Great Qing.
~ His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of the Great Qing, Son of Heaven, Lord of Ten Thousand Years
The esteemed leaders of His Majesty's government seemed to have overlooked the true message of the speech. Is it not true that our whole continent is backward, illiterate and impoverished? Chile wishes to establish good relations and ties with every nation, though in our 18 year history not many have acted upon our existence, though we are recognized. Your offer is very kind, I and the rest of the Chilean people would be delighted to open trading relations with the United Kingdom. We are sorry for the offence we may have caused, but we do not rescind the oringial message of the speech.
The Austrian Empire
The Austrian Empire shall keep a close watch on Sardinia-Piedmont and the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, two nations who have openly declared their plans to destroy the balance in Italy. Their squabbling over it on the international stage is clear evidence of this. We will not tolerate any of them illegally seizing land which does not belong to either of them, as the lack of reason of their leaders clearly show that they would be incapable of acting responsibly or administrating them. We ask the leaders of both states to cease their attempts at disrupting the status quo, to cease their calls to chaos and strife. Lastly, we take a dim look toward the abundance of foul words and lack of formality in the Sardinian-Sicilian diplomatic exchanges.
Having recently undergone great turmoil and changes ourselves, we fully understand the Texan striving for independence. Mexico is a state ruled by a furious and hateful autocrat, blind to reasoning and the difficulties that his people face, who thoughtlessly craves only an Empire which he can rule alone. The people of France are saddened by the amount of violence, but we also recognise this war as necessary to the establishment of a true consolidated nation with righteous fundaments and united peoples. We hereby would like to recognize the Independence of Texas from Mexico, and wish them prosperity and peace.
People of Central America, now is our time! We shall rise up, stand together unified once and for all, we shall prepare and grow stronger and we will have courage, we will not back down from anything that is right and just! This is a dawn of a new era, an era where prosperity and peace reign, where death and pain is no more, where Central America is forever strong!
Long live the Republic and the People!
~Francisco Morazán, President of the Federal Republic of Central America
Long live the Republic and the People!
~Francisco Morazán, President of the Federal Republic of Central America
We would like to extend offers of trade to Central America, Brazil and Chile, as well as our hopes for continued friendship, stability and peace between our nations.
I would gadly accept offers from friendship coming from the Colombians, however we ask for a delay in signing a trade treaty, since our diplomats are very busy as of now.
OOC : Basically i have no orders left, but we can sign a trade agreement later
OOC : Basically i have no orders left, but we can sign a trade agreement later
I am going to make some slight changes for including trade and a couple other minor things next turn. I hope you all enjoy it.
The Netherlands will not stand for the rebellion of Belgium. Stand down now, or face invasion. You have been warned.
The Belgian Government looks forward to the Dutch recognition of our independence and thanks them in advance for it.
We do NOT recognize you. You are merely a rebellion. Now stand down, or face death at the hands of our army.
OOC: What?
OOC: What?
I hearby declaring WAR on the rebels of Belgium. There land was given to us by the Congress of Vienna, and we wish for all countries to recognize our claim. If you stand down now, you will be spared. Any man laying down arms will be pardoned now. That is all.