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Here are the signups for the minor powers!
Europe:
Ireland: Captain Ozwain
Tsardom of Bulgaria: DutchGuy
Kingdom of Albania: Ab Ovo
The Americas:
United Mexican States: Plutonium95
Free State of Antioquia: EmperorGrimm
Asia:
Dominion of Sri Lanka: Galren
Republic of Indonesia: Brettles
Middle East / North Africa:
State of Israel: JermanTK
Iranian Republic: Dr. Livingstone
Egyptian State: Korona
United Arab Republic: Bakerydog
People's Social Arab Republic (Iraq): Sealy300
Sub-Saharan Africa:
Empire of Ethiopia: Deaghaidh
Central African Empire: alexander23
Congratulations to everyone who got a spot, and to those who did not, I will keep you informed if spots open up.
Now that we know for sure what countries are in the game, I can start making stats. Once they're all done, we shall get started! Thanks to everyone for your interest!
Europe:
Ireland: Captain Ozwain
Tsardom of Bulgaria: DutchGuy
Kingdom of Albania: Ab Ovo
The Americas:
United Mexican States: Plutonium95
Free State of Antioquia: EmperorGrimm
Asia:
Dominion of Sri Lanka: Galren
Republic of Indonesia: Brettles
Middle East / North Africa:
State of Israel: JermanTK
Iranian Republic: Dr. Livingstone
Egyptian State: Korona
United Arab Republic: Bakerydog
People's Social Arab Republic (Iraq): Sealy300
Sub-Saharan Africa:
Empire of Ethiopia: Deaghaidh
Central African Empire: alexander23
Congratulations to everyone who got a spot, and to those who did not, I will keep you informed if spots open up.
Now that we know for sure what countries are in the game, I can start making stats. Once they're all done, we shall get started! Thanks to everyone for your interest!
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Sadly, I had too many players. My initial count was 18 - can you imagine that? - and the first draft I did was 28. I had to make it manageable somehow. If someone drops (pretty likely in the grand scheme of things), I will hit you up.
South Africa?
You know that nation I wanted since day 1 and you wrote about? No K?
Albania more important if you say so
You know that nation I wanted since day 1 and you wrote about? No K?
Albania more important if you say so
You know... The Dead Sea might be the saltiest place on Earth, but right now, Luftwafer comes in at a close second.
(Just kidding Luftwafer)
Something people have been asking for for a while: an alliance map. This may be pretty hard to read, so click on it to blow it up to full size. The colors of the dots will tell you what countries are members of what international organizations.
Blue: United Nations
Black: Axis Powers
- Black / Grey: German puppet
- Black / Lime Green: Italian puppet
- Black / Yellow: Spanish puppet
Brown: Apartheid "Gang of Four" member / ally / puppet
Red: Comintern
Yellow: Objectivist International
Green: European Cooperation Organization
White: Non-Aligned Movement
C: Commonwealth Member State
F: La Francophonie Member State
A country with multiple marks is a member of all relevant organizations. For example, the USSR's blue and red dot means it is a member of the United Nations and the Comintern. France's blue and green dot with an "F" means it is a member of the United Nations, the European Cooperation Organization, and La Francophonie.
Anyway, expect Brazil's lore post tonight or tomorrow. Does anyone want a (relatively quick) post on the international organizations themselves and how they work?
EDIT: Missed Iberia. Spain is in the Axis (duh) and Portugal isn't a member of any organizations. Greece purposely has no marks as well.
Well, I'm surrounded by Axis...
This is going to be fun, glad I did get my original pick after all.
This is going to be fun, glad I did get my original pick after all.
More things I screwed up: Ethiopia is both in the UN and the Non-Aligned Movement (long story), and Katanga is a puppet of the Gang of Four. South Kasai is UN, and the DRC is Non-Aligned (which, remember, is not the same thing as being literally neutral and non-aligned.)
EDIT: Hungary is Axis also. D'oh!
EDIT: Hungary is Axis also. D'oh!
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Scrap its hard to tell, so can you list all the commonwealth countries for me please?
also describing how each international organisation works would be cool.
also describing how each international organisation works would be cool.
OK, basically I screwed up the map a lot. I'll make a new one. (Denmark is Axis too.)
Commonwealth as written:
Canada (dominion)
Guyana (republic)
UK (kingdom)
Zanzibar (kingdom)
Sri Lanka (dominion)
Australia (dominion)
plus other small island nations I cannot be bothered to look up right now
Since you asked, here's (the start of) a rundown on international organizations. I'm making this short and sweet, so listen up. More coming.
The United Nations
Having evolved out of the Allied Powers of WWII, the United Nations is part military alliance, part global peacekeeping force, and part international diplomatic, economic and political forum. Given the UN's global reach and responsibilities, it has five separate headquarters worldwide: New York, Lima, The Hague, Dakar (Senegambia) and Shanghai, between which annual sessions of the General Assembly rotate. Different UN agencies from the World Health Organization to the Economic and Financial Council are headquartered in various member states around the world. The UN's primary mission is collective security; each member state is bound to defend the others (but only in a defensive war). Broader peacekeeping and security operations tend to fall to the Security Council, composed of the US, France, China, the UK and the USSR, as well as 9 rotating non-permanent members. Unlike the Axis, however, the UN is not solely a military organization, and also provides health services and economic coordination for its members and friendly neutrals (such non-full members are called "associated states".) The main goals of the UN are collective security, promoting democracy, exercising the right of self-determination, promoting universal human rights, and promoting economic, cultural and social understanding between member states.
On the Security Council, the P5 powers have a veto that they can exercise in combination with one other P5 member state. The most common voting block is the United States, France and the Republic of China, all generally left-wing interventionist democracies. The United Kingdom and the USSR are the most frequent users of the veto, and often band together despite their mutual antipathy to defeat resolutions they do not like. Generally, the US, USSR and China are the "Big Three" of the UN who have to generally cooperate on agendas, with the US as the first among equals, but Britain and France also play very important security roles. It is far more equally balanced than the Axis Powers. UN intervention was used in Manchuria, Vietnam, and Cambodia successfully, with smaller-scale peacekeeping operations common elsewhere, often in coordination with La Francophonie or the Organization of American States.
Player Nations in This Faction:
United States
United Kingdom
France
USSR
Republic of China
Ireland
Israel
Iran
Ethiopia
Sri Lanka
Mexico
(on the map Brunei/[malaya if it annexed it] has a Commonwealth C on it but you didnt list it?)
That C belongs to Malaysia, but I didn't list that either. I will edit it accordingly.
Next up, the blackshirts.
The Axis Powers
A military alliance at its core, the Axis Powers began as the Tripartite Pact between Germany, Italy and Japan that were the main antagonists of the Allied Powers during World War II. The Axis outlived the war as a means of mutual protection for the German and Italian empires in Eastern Europe, and gradually began to encompass more and more anti-UN regimes worldwide. The Axis is the dominant power in Europe and the Middle East, but has limited influence elsewhere, with only a couple of American members east of Yangon. However, the Axis has managed to stay relevant in the Cold War with a monopoly on much of the world's oil supply, advanced wunderwaffen programs, and a heaping helping of mutually assured devastation*. Many nations have signed the Tripartite Pact, but the treaty is constructed differently than the UN charter. Axis powers are only bound to assist in the defense of Germany and Italy from outside threats, and vice versa - they are not obliged to assist other signatories solely by the terms of the treaty, and are not barred from fighting each other, either. This is particularly noticeable in the Middle East, where brushfire wars between the assorted fascist Arab powers are actually more common than their (somewhat) united attempts to destroy Israel. The purpose of the Axis, insofar as it has one bar mutual defense and protection from the UN, is to enforce national sovereignty and promote various nationalisms that the Germans and Italians find acceptable. Since the Tripartite Pact is not an organization but a treaty alliance, it has no capital as such. However, the offices of Axis High Command are located in Vienna.
Unlike in the UN, there is no pretense of a system of equals in the Axis. Germany is the sole superpower in the alliance, and there is not a single member of the Axis that could resist doing something Berlin focused every ounce of its attention on forcing it to do. Of course, Germany has many places to keep order in, and therein lies most of the freedom other Axis powers have. Italy also has special privileges according to the Tripartite Pact, being one of the initial signatories, and theoretically all Axis member nations are as bound to fight with Italy as they are with Germany. In practice, to a degree since 1980 and especially since the ascension of Duce Berlusconi, Italy's clout within the Axis has fallen rapidly. Its grip on both Libya and its Mediterranean puppet states is beginning to falter, and Germany is having to lend the previously fairly autonomous (if overstretched) Italians more and more support. Some in Rome whisper that the cure may be worse than the disease. At least Italy has an empire to lose, complain Spain and Brazil, only saved from becoming direct German puppets by respect for a miniature empire and extreme distance, respectively. India is rapidly becoming the rising star of the Axis, its vim and vigor contrasting with Germany's strong but slowly-growing economy. While many speculate a revision of the Tripartite Pact is imminent to recognize India's growing importance, Italy has not yet given up the ghost and the Indians have not quite hit prime time.
Axis operations as an organization outside its direct membership is limited; Germany, Italy and increasingly India conduct most organizational operations on the national level. However, the Axis High Command works closely with the World Federation of Nations, a sort of nationalist-fascist talking club that the OSS knows is a front for shipping arms to rebel groups and nations with far-right sympathies. The WFN is widely believed responsible for kickstarting the South African Sentinel program during the 1960s.
Player Nations In This Faction:
Germany
Italy
India
Spain
Brazil
Egypt
UAR
PSAR (Iraq)
Albania
Bulgaria
* - Actually something of a different doctrine. Since a single void bomb could easily turn an entire city to ash but would not poison the entirety of the world's biosphere in a total exchange as a nuclear weapon would - and nations have proportionally far smaller arsenals of them - a nation could theoretically conduct a devastating first strike on civilian targets. Such a strike would not wipe out military assets, however, and leave the home nation open to retaliation. Deterrence is still used, but the logic involved is different. Rather than fearing complete mutual annihilation, no power wants to lose all their cities, civilian population and government heads in exchange for not landing a knockout blow on the enemy. It's admittedly shakier, but it's held since 1947.
It may be a little late,but if sign-ups are still open I want to join.
1.Turkey
2.Iraq
3.Arabia
1.Turkey
2.Iraq
3.Arabia