The kingdom of Galicia-Lodomeria has been a part of Austria since the First Partition of Poland in 1772. Initially just another province of the great Empire, its status changed in 1860. A regional Sejm (diet) was established, and the country gained a great extent of autonomy. This, combined with acknowledging Polish as an official language on the same terms as German, allowed the Polish population to organize itself and create an illusion of independence. In the first days of the Weltkrieg Jozef Pilsudski, a former socialist and an influential personality within the military, organized the Polish Legions - a military force which was supposed to be used against Russia in order to reunite Polish lands under Central Powers' protection, thus allowing a possibility of resurrecting Poland as a state. Pilsudski's plan turned out to be successful, and the combined German-Austrian-Galician campaign managed to seize Warsaw by 1st of August, 1915. The Act of November 5th of 1916 and the subsequent formation of Regency Council under a noble Zdzislaw Lubomirski in the occupied capital gave the Polish a hope for complete independence. Those views have been shattered when Wilhelm II and Karl I of Austria rejected both the regent's proposition to unite Poland with Galicia and the choice of Karl Stephan Habsburg, the governor of Galicia, as king. After the Weltkrieg, Galicia remained under Austrian control, but following the renegotiation of the Ausgleich in 1927 it has been recognized as an autonomous country within Austria-Hungary. In spite of this, Galicia-Lodomeria still remained only nominally independent. Austrian influence and control was known far and wide in everything from the Military to the Educational system.
But through it all, the people of Galicia endured going so far as to create their own army of several thousand soldiers. Although scoffed at by even the lowest of powers, the Galician people have high hopes for what the future has in stores.
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Beginning in 1936 the "New Galicia" began setting itself in motion. Galician Minister Kwiatkowski introduced his plan to expand the oil industry of Galicia-Lodomeria. Now, Galicia had been known to have many oil reserves underneath its surface. So many that it was almost odd how little their industry had expanded in the last several decades. This could be explained with the Austrian Interference of the early reign, and subsequent Great War that proceeded afterwards with Galicia becoming one of the very front lines.
Nevertheless, Kwiatkowski was eager for expansion, and lucky for him, the Parliament was as well. Although it put Galicia into a debt that put the populace into an outrage, the Parliament voted in favor of expansion. Led by the rally, "A Second Romania", many German and Austrian investors came into the country and were eagerly welcomed to help fund the now bankrupt operation.
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Things got off to a bumpy start with the oil venture. First of all, Kwiatkowski talked a big game, but when it got down to it he was less than aggressive. When it came time to play ball with German and Austrian businessmen, he folded. As such, the Germans especially became leaders in the project, fronting it where the Galician Politicians chose not to. This did not sit well with the populace, who were further outraged that Germans would be controlling them. Nevertheless, they did not have much say in the matter and oil expansion began anyway.
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The Oil trade soon began to fair poorly. As it would turn out, the Germans thought a Second Romania really was a Second Romania and they would steal the profits like they did from the Iron Guards. By the time the Galicia-Lodomerian government could make heads of tails of it, the deal was sealed and the "helpful workers from Germany" were counting their money in Berlin. Worse still, some Ministers knew about it the whole time. They welcomed it, and profited from it as the Germans bribed their way through the system. Everyone was outraged. But rather than a failure of the government, it was a failure of the system entirely. People saw it as Capitalism failing them, and that they would put a stop to it.
"They stole our oil, they stole our pride, and you would still have my follow their ways? These devils would value money over their honor, and we, the people of Galicia-Lodomeria, refuse to associate with such villains. - Ignacy Daszynski
Perhaps forced in by the people, the Socialist leader known as Ignacy Daszynski came to power.
Ignacy promised change, but his efforts were sorely crushed by the Austrians. In reality, only Galicia wanted change. Austria and Germany were in bed over the deal, and neither was going to let some Socialist upstart ruin their plans. Germany gave a token of acknowledgement in the form of a small return on the oil, but cared little for any other change in the arrangement. Ignacy Daszynski was right when he said that it was a situation long past repair.
Nevertheless, oil production flourished, even if the Germans were getting it all.
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Note: I do plan on doing this AAR without any reloading if things go poorly. It's 100% legit, which could go well or very very poorly.
