Molotov

-German Empire-
Kaiser: Wilhelm II
Chancellor: Franz Von Papen
Ruling Party: German Conservative Party (Authoritarian Democrat)
Player: Zar
Domestic Popularity: Moderately High
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 10/10 (20 Reserves) [-100 Active Maintenance, -100 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 5/5 (5 Reserves) [-50 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 10/10 (6 Reserves) [-100 Active Maintenance, -30 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 4, Artillery 4, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 4: (Fighters 4, Bombers 3, Transports 3) Naval Capability 4: (Carriers 2, Submarines 4, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences: [M] Siegfried Line, [F] Malta Fortifications, [L] Suez Canal Zone, [L] Singapore Defences, [L] Tsingtao Defences
Economy: +460
Debt: 2500/4600
Credit Income: +215 [+50 Allied Trade, +40 Colonial Trade, +60 International Trade, +15 Suez Canal, +10 Malaysian Rubber, +15 Romanian Oil, +10 Belgian Tribute, +10 Lithuanian Tribute, +10 Belarus Tribute, +15 United Baltic Duchy Tribute, + 25 Ukraine Tribute, +20 AOG Profits, +20 Brest-Litovsk reparations, -15 Persian Oil Imports, -125 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Syndicalist Terrorism, Ceylon Ethnic Tensions, FAUD Activity, Tensions with Internationale
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FAUD
Sphere: Neutral (British)
Ideology: Radical Socialism
Army: 1
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German Syndicalist Movement
Sphere: French
Ideology: Syndicalist
Army: 1
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-Russian Republic-
President: Vacant
Prime Minister: Pavel Milyukov
Ruling Party: Socialist Revolutionary/Kadet Coalition (Social Liberal)
Player: Zhukar
Domestic Popularity: Very Low
International Popularity: Moderately Low
Army: 10/10 (30 Reserves) [-100 Active Maintenance, -150 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 2/2 (2 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 2/2 (1 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 1) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 1, Warships 1) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: Winter Warfare
Defences: [F] Kronstadt Fortifications
Economy: +325
Debt: 1500/3250
Credit Income: +70 [+20 Allied Trade, +35 International Trade, +35 Siberian Natural Resources, +5 Legation Cities Dividends, -20 Brest-Litovsk Reparations, -75 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues:
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Bolsheviks
Leaders: Mikhail Bukharin (Syndicalist wing), Mikhail Tukhachevsky (Totalist Wing)
Sphere: Neutral (French)
Ideology: Syndicalism/Totalism
Army: 2
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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People's Republican Party of Russia (NaResPa)
Leader: Boris Savinkov
Sphere: Neutral (Russian)
Ideology: National Populism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Commune of France-
Chairman: Sebastien Faure
Premier: Marceau Pivert
Ruling Party: Travailleurs (Syndicalist)
Player: Marankara
Domestic Popularity: High
International Popularity: Low
Army: 11/11 (11 Reserves) [-110 Active Maintenance, -55 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 4/4 (3 Reserves) [-40 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 2/2 (2 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 3, Artillery 3, Tanks 4), Air Force Capability 3: (Fighters 3, Bombers 3, Transports 2) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 1, Submarines 2, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences: [M] Verdun Line
Economy: +355
Debt: 0/3550
Credit Income: +160 [+15 Allied Trade, +10 International Trade, +10 French Agriculture]
Conflicts and Issues: Tensions with the German Empire, Tensions with Switzerland
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Sorelian Faction
Leader: Georges Valois
Sphere: Neutral (French)
Ideology: Totalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Union of Britain-
Chairman: Philip Snowden
General-Secretary: Arthur Horner
Ruling Party: Federationists/Congregationalists (Syndicalist)
Player: Flamelord
Domestic Popularity: Moderately High
International Popularity: Moderately Low
Army: 2/2 (5 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance)
Air Force: 3/3 (2 Reserves) [-30 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance)
Navy: 5/5 (4 Reserves) [50 Active Maintenance, -20 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 2, Artillery 3, Tanks 3), Air Force Capability 4: (Fighters 4, Bombers 3, Transports 3) Naval Capability 4: (Carriers 4, Submarines 3, Warships 4) Other: Atomic 1, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences: [F] Scapa Flow Naval Base
Economy: +310
Debt: 0/3100
Credit Income: +185 [+15 Allied trade, +10 International Trade, +10 British Coal, -5 Mexican Oil Imports]
Conflicts and Issues: Regionalism, Tensions with Irish Republic
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Maximist Faction
Leader: Oswald Mosley
Sphere: Neutral (British)
Ideology: Totalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Empire of Japan-
Emperor: Hirohito
Prime Minister: Inukai Tsuyoshi
Ruling Party: Constitutional Association of Political Friendship (Social Conservative)
Player: Snacks
Domestic Popularity: Moderately Low
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 7/7 (8 Reserves) [-70 Active Maintenance, -40 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 4/4 (5 Reserves) [-40 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 6/6 (5 Reserves) [-60 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 3: (Fighters 3, Bombers 3, Transports 3) Naval Capability 4: (Carriers 4, Submarines 3, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: Long-Range Naval Aircraft
Defences:
Economy: 335
Debt: 1000/3350
Credit Income: +155 [+35 Colonial Trade, +40 International Trade, +10 Japanese Zaibatsu System, +10 Korean Gold Mines, +10 Fengtien Tributes, +5 Transamurian Tributes, +5 Formosan Coal, +5 Fengtien Oil, +5 Sakhalin Oil, +10 Legation Cities Dividends, -50 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Severe Rural Poverty, Korean Independence Movement, Formosan Independence Movement, Military Influence in Politics, Tensions with Russia, Colonial Tensions with Germany
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-Fengtien Government-
Grand-Marshal: Zhang Zuolin
Sphere: Japanese Puppet [-15 Tributes to Japan]
Ideology: Authoritarian Democrat
Army: 4
Air Force: 1
Navy: 1
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-Transamur Republic-
President: Alexander Kolchak
Sphere: Japanese Puppet [-5 Tributes to Japan]
Ideology: Paternal Autocrat
Army: 3
Air Force: 1
Navy: 2
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Sakai Taishuto (Social Masses Party)
Leader: Katayama Sen
Sphere: Neutral (Japanese)
Ideology: Social Democracy/Syndicalism
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-United States of America-
President: Herbert Hoover
Vice-President: Charles Curtis
Ruling Party: Republican Party (Market Liberal, Federalist)
Player: Interested Party
Domestic Popularity: Low
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 0/1 (2 Reserves) [1 in Panama, -10 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: Air Force: 1/2 (2 Reserves) [1 in Panama, -20 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 0/8 (3 Reserves) [4 on East Coast, 4 on West Coast, 1 in Panama, 1 in Hawaii, -80 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 3: (Fighters 2, Bombers 3, Transports 3) Naval Capability 4: (Carriers 3, Submarines 3, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences: [L] Panama Canal Zone, [L] Guantanamo Bay, [F] Pearl Harbour Naval Base
Economy: 500
Debt: 2500/5000
Credit Income: +165 [+50 International Trade, +5 Colonial Trade, +15 Panama Canal Tolls, +10 Legation Cities Dividends, +10 Texan Oil, +10 Californian Oil, -10 Mexican Oil Imports, -40 General Strikes, -40 States Not Paying Federal Taxes, -25 Dust Bowl, -25 Mass Unemployment, -125 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Politically Polarised Population, America First Militias, Combined Syndicates Militias, Tensions with Mexico
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America First Party
Leader: Huey Long
Player: Xaph
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: National Populist, Unionist
Army: 2
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Combined Syndicates
Leader: John ‘Jack’ Reed
Player: Soldaten161
Sphere: Neutral (French)
Ideology: Syndicalist
Army: 2
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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West Coast Tax Protest
Leader: Frank Merriam
Sphere: Neutral (American)
Ideology: States’ Rights, anti-Federal Taxation levels
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 3 (loyalties of sailors in US Pacific Fleet)
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Hawaiian Independence Faction
Leader: Henry Baldwin
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Independence
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Canada-
King: George V
Prime Minister: Mackenzie King
Ruling Party: Liberal Party of Canada (Market Liberal/Social Liberal)
Player: Serenissima
Domestic Popularity: High
International Popularity: Moderately High
Army: 2/2 (3 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 3/3 (1 Reserves) [-30 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 5/5 (4 Reserves) [50 Active Maintenance, -20 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 3, Tanks 3), Air Force Capability 3: (Fighters 3, Bombers 3, Transports 3) Naval Capability 3: (Carriers 3, Submarines 2, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: Royal Navy Veteran Officers
Defences: [L] Vancouver Coastal Fortifications, [L] Ontario Province Border Checkpoints, [F] Halifax Royal Naval Dockyard
Economy: +290
Debt: 1000/2900
Credit Income: +185 [+30 Allied Trade, +30 International Trade, +10 Caribbean Federation Cash Crops,+10 Trinidad Oil, +10 Canadian Timber, +10 Legation Cities Dividends, -20 Exiles Upkeep, -50 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Pressure from Exiles, Socred Dissent, Quebec Opposition to Conscription
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United Kingdom Exiles
Leader: Edward, Prince of Wales
Sphere: United Kingdom (Canadian)
Ideology: Royalism, Reconquest of British Isles
Army: 2
Air Force: 0
Navy: 1 (loyalties of sailors in Royal Canadian Navy)
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Pan-Canadian Social Credit League (‘Socreds’)
Leader: John Blackmore
Sphere: Neutral (Union of Britain)
Ideology: Radical Socialist
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Australasian Confederation-
Governor-General: William Birdwood
Prime Minister: Billy Hughes
Ruling Faction: Emergency government powers, parliament suspended (Royalist/Authoritarian Democrat)
Player: Useful Dave
Domestic Popularity: Low
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 2/2 (5 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 [-10 Active Maintenance]
Navy: 3/3 (3 Reserves) [-30 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 3: (Carriers 3, Submarines 2, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: Royal Navy Veteran Officers
Defences:
Economy: 220
Debt: 500/2200
Credit Income: +160 [+30 Allied Trade, +25 International Trade, +10 Australian Cattle, +5 Legation Cities Dividends, -25 deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: New Guard crisis, Liberal/Democratic & Syndicalist Unrest
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Australasian New Guard
Leader: Eric Campbell
Sphere: United Kingdom (Australasian)
Ideology: National Populist/Royalist
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Labour Party
Leader: John Curtin
Sphere: Australasian (Neutral)
Ideology: Social Democrat
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Centre Party
Leader: Charles Vyner Brooke
Sphere: Neutral (Australasian)
Ideology: Independent Royalist (anti-Entente)
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-French National State-
President: Philippe Petain
Prime Minister: Maurice Janin
Ruling Faction: Military Junta (Paternal Autocrat)
Player: Smyg
Domestic Popularity: Low
International Popularity: Moderately Low
Army: 4/4 (0 Reserves) [-40 Active Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 (1 Reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 1/1 (3 Reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 2, Submarines 2, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +180
Debt: 1000/1800
Credit Income: +135 [+30 Allied Trade, +15 International Trade, +15 Dakar/Oran Ports, +10 Legation Cities Dividends, -50 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Tuareg Tribal Unrest, Tensions with Mittelafrika
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Tuareg Tribes
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Tribalism, anti-French
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Delhi Government-
King-Emperor: George V
Leader of Provisional Government: Field Marshal Maharaja Sir Ganga Singh
Ruling Party: Provisional Government, awaiting elections (Authoritarian Democrat)
Player: MTFD
Domestic Popularity: Moderate
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 3/3 (5 Reserves) [-30 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 (0 Reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance]
Navy: 1/1 (0 Reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 3, Transports 2) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 1, Submarines 2, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: Gurkhas
Defences: [L] North-West Frontier Border Forts
Economy: +210
Debt: 600/2100
Credit Income: +160 [+30 Allied Trade, +15 International Trade, +10 Delhi Textiles, -30 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Suzerain Princes Resisting Integration, Afghan Border Raids, Tensions with Bharatiya Commune
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Suzerain Princes
Leader: Maharaja Muhammed Shuja Al-Mulk
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Opposition to centralisation, retaining their own power and wealth
Army: 3
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All-India Trade Union Congress
Leader: Diwan Chaman Lall
Sphere: Bharatiya
Ideology: Syndicalism
Army: 1
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-Bharatiya Commune-
President: Lala Lajpat Rai
Prime Minister: Narenda Deva
Ruling Party: Bengali Socialist Party (Radical Socialist)
Player: Flaming Bolshevik
Domestic Popularity: Moderately High
International Popularity: Low
Army: 4/4 (5 Reserves) [-40 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 (0 Reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance]
Navy: 0/0 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 2, Artillery 1, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 1, Submarines 1, Warships 1) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +200
Debt: 0/2000
Credit Income: +150 [+10 International Trade, +10 Allied Trade, +10 Bengali Tea]
Conflicts and Issues: Ethnic Tensions (Bengali Ethnic Rule), State Persecution of Religion, Tensions with Delhi, Tensions with Princely Federation
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Azad Hind Fauj
Leader: Subhas Chandra Bose
Sphere: Neutral (Bharatiya)
Ideology: Totalism
Army: 0
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Muslim League
Leader: H. S. Suhrawardy
Sphere: Delhi
Ideology: Islam, anti-secular
Army: 1
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-Princely Federation-
Head of the Council: Nizam Osman Ali Khan
Ruling Faction: The Council of Princes (Noble Oligarchy)
Player:
Domestic Popularity: Low
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 6/6 (6 Reserves) [-60 Active Maintenance, -30 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 0/0 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 0/0 (0 Reserves)
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 1, Artillery 1, Tanks 0), Air Force Capability 1: (Fighters 1, Bombers 1, Transports 1) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 0, Warships 1) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +195
Debt: 400/1950
Credit Income: +110 [+30 International Trade, +10 Princely Plantations, -10 Peasant Unrest, -20 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Lack of Industrialisation, Peasant Unrest, Tensions with Bharatiya Commune, Tensions with Germany
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Peasant Resistance
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Anti-Nobility, Anti-Taxation
Army: 3
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Qing Empire-
Emperor: Aisin-Goro Puyi
Premier: Cao Kun (real power exercised by Wu Peifu, head of the army)
Ruling Party: Progressive Party (Authoritarian Democrat)
Player: Red John
Domestic Popularity: Low
International Popularity: Somewhat Low
Army: 5/5 (10 Reserves) [-50 Active Maintenance, -50 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 (1 Reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 0/0 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 1, Warships 1) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +380
Debt: 2000/3800
Credit Income: +130 [+30 International Trade, +10 Chinese Silk, -30 Corruption, -20 Unequal Treaties with Legation Cities, -20 Unfavourable AOG Trade, -100 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Tensions with AOG, Unequal Treaties, Republican Movement, Corruption
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Allgemeine Ostasien-Gesellschaft
Leader: Alexander von Falkenhausen
Sphere: German
Ideology: Corporatist
Army: 4
Air Force: 1
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Legation Cities
Leader: Cecil Clementi
Sphere: Neutral (International Consortium)
Ideology: Mercantilist
Army: 2
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Kuomintang
Leader: Wang Jingwei
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Radical Socialism, Republicanism
Army: 3
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-Republic of South Africa-
President: James Hertzog
Prime Minister: D.F. Malan
Ruling Party: National Party (Authoritarian Democrat)
Player: Coin
Domestic Popularity: Moderately Low
International Popularity: Moderately Low
Army: 1/1 [-10 Active Maintenance]
Air Force: 0/0
Navy: 0/0 (1 Reserve) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 1: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 1) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 1, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +180
Debt: 400/1800
Credit Income: +170 [+15 International Trade, +10 South African Diamonds, -20 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Apartheid, Liberal Opposition, Rhodesian Unrest, Tensions with Mittelafrika
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National Party
Leader: D.F. Malan
Sphere: Neutral (Dutch)
Ideology: Apartheid, Boer Nationalism
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Union Party
Leader: Jan Smuts
Sphere: Canadian (United Kingdom)
Ideology: Market Liberal, pro-Entente
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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African National Congress
Leader: Josiah Tshangana Gumede
Sphere: Neutral (French)
Ideology: Syndicalist, African Nationalist
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Austrian Empire-
Emperor: Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen
Prime Minister: Albert von Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein
Ruling Party: Christian Social Party (Social Conservative)
Player: Acecipher
Domestic Popularity: Somewhat Low
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 3/3 (3 Reserves) [-30 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 (1 Reserve) [-10 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 2/2 (1 Reserve) [-20 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 3, Transports 2) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 0, Submarines 3, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +190
Debt: 1000/1900
Credit Income: +165 [+20 Allied Trade, +20 International Trade, +10 Austrian Chemical Industry, +20 Hungarian Taxes, +15 Bohemian Taxes, +10 Galician Taxes, +10 Galician Oil, +5 Bosnian Taxes, -50 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Multi-Ethnic State, Looming 1937 Ausgleich Renegotiation,
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-Kingdom of Bohemia-
Minister-President: Jan Syrov
Sphere: Austrian Puppet [-15 Taxes to Austria]
Ideology: Social Conservative
Army: 1 Reserves
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-Kingdom of Galicia-Lodomeria-
Minister-President: Alfred Potocki
Sphere: Austrian Puppet [-10 Taxes to Austria, -10 Oil to Austria]
Ideology: Paternal Autocrat
Army: 1 Reserves
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-Kingdom of Bosnia-
Minister-President: Mehmed Spahko
Sphere: Austrian Puppet [-5 Taxes to Austria]
Ideology: Authoritarian Democrat
Army: 1 Reserves
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-Kingdom of Croatia-
Minister-President: Vladko Macek
Sphere: Hungarian Puppet [-5 Taxes to Hungary]
Ideology: Authoritarian Democrat
Army: 1 Reserves
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-Kingdom of Hungary-
Emperor: Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen
Minister-President: Gyula Károlyi
Ruling Party: National Independence Kossuth Party (Social Conservatism)
Sphere: Austrian Puppet [-20 Taxes to Austria]
Player: DutchGuy
Domestic Popularity: Moderate
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 2/2 (3 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 [-10 Active Maintenance]
Navy: 0/0
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 0: (Carriers 0, Submarines 0, Warships 0) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +190
Debt: 1000/1900
Credit Income: +110 [+20 Allied Trade, +10 International Trade, +10 Hungarian MÁVAG, +5 Croatian Taxes, -20 Taxes to Austria, -10 Failed Harvests, -50 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Magyarization, Agricultural Trade War with Ukraine, Looming 1937 Ausgleich Renegotiation

-Socialist Republic of Italy-
President: Palmiro Togliatti
Chairman: Antonio Gramsci
Ruling Party: Syndicalist Union (Syndicalist)
Player: Sparkle
Domestic Popularity: Moderately High
International Popularity: Moderately Low
Army: 3/3 [-30 Active Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 [-10 Active Maintenance]
Navy: 2/2 [-20 Active Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 0, Submarines 1, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +160
Debt: 0
Credit Income: +135 [+15 Allied trade, +10 International Trade, +10 Po Valley industries]
Conflicts and Issues: Tensions with Neighbours, Anti-syndicalist sentiment, Organised crime

-Tsardom of Bulgaria-
Tsar: Ferdinand I
Prime Minister: Aleksandar Malinov
Ruling Party: Liberal/Radical Democrat Coalition (Market and Social liberal)
Player: Scorpion
Domestic Popularity: Somewhat High
International Popularity: Low
Army: 3/3 (3 reserves) [-30 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve maintenance]
Air Force: 2/2 [-20 Maintenance]
Navy: 0/0 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 0, Submarines 1, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: Tensions with neighbours, Macedonian unrest
Defences:
Economy: +180
Debt: 800/1800
Credit Income: +150 [+30 International Trade, +10 Bulgarian Agriculture, -40 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues:
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Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
Leader: Todor Aleksandrov
Sphere: Neutral (Macedonian)
Ideology: Macedonian Nationalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Kingdom of Poland-
King: Vacant
Regent-Minister: Zdzislaw Lubomirski
Ruling Party: Monarchist Party (Authoritarian Democrat)
Player: Carpe Verpa
Domestic Popularity: Low
International Popularity: Somewhat Low
Army: 2/2 (2 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 (1 Reserve) [-10 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 0/0
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 1) Naval Capability 0: (Carriers 0, Submarines 0, Warships 0) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +120
Debt: 900/1200
Credit Income: +40 [+10 International trade, -45 deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Regencial Deadlock, Left-wing Extremism, Agrarian Unrest
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Free Workers’ Party
Leaders: Felix Dzerzhinsky, Karl Radek
Sphere: Neutral (Polish)
Ideology: Totalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Centralist Party
Leader: Władysław Sikorski
Sphere: Neutral (Polish)
Ideology: Paternal Autocracy, Nationalism
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Popular National Union
Leader: Roman Dmowski
Sphere: Neutral (Polish)
Ideology: National Populism, Nationalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0


-Kingdom of Spain-
King: Alfonso XIII Bourbon
Prime Minister: José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones
Ruling Party: Popular Action Party (Authoritarian Democrat)
Player:
Domestic Popularity: Low
International Popularity: Moderately Low
Army: 4/4 (4 Reserves) [-40 Active Maintenance, -20 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 2/2 (2 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 1/1 (1 Reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 2, Artillery 1, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 1) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 0, Submarines 2, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +190
Debt: 500/1900
Credit Income: +90 [+20 International Trade, +10 Spanish Oranges, -25 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: CNT-FAI Unrest, Carlism, Republican Movement
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Requetes
Leader: Manuel Fal Conde
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Carlism, Catholicism
Army: 2
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CNT-FAI
Leader: Buenaventura Durruti
Sphere: Neutral (British/French)
Ideology: Anarchism, Syndicalism
Army: 2
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Republican Left Union
Leader: Manuel Azaña
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Liberalism, Republicanism
Army: 2
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-Republic of Ireland-
President: Michael Collins
Taoiseach: Eoin O’Duffy
Ruling Party: Tribe of the Irish Party (Authoritarian Democrat, de facto military rule)
Player: FireFly
Domestic Popularity: Moderately High
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 0/1 [1 in Ulster, -10 Active Maintenance]
Air Force: 0/0
Navy: 0/0 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 2, Artillery 1, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 1: (Fighters 1, Bombers 1, Transports 1) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 0, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +120
Debt: 400/1200
Credit Income: +65 [+10 International Trade, +10 Irish Peat, -10 ‘Economic War’ with Britain, -30 Ulster Unrest, -20 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Tensions with the Union of Britain, Conflict in Ulster, Repression of Protestants
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Soldiers of Destiny Party
Leader: Eamon de Valera
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: National Populist
Army: 0
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Ulster Volunteer Force
Leader: James Craig
Sphere: United Kingdom (Canada)
Ideology: Ulster Unionism, Protestantism, Social Conservatism
Army: 1
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-United Mexican Peoples-
President: Emiliano Zapata
Head of the National Congress of Indigenous Peoples: Hermenegildo Azora
Ruling Faction: Zapatista (Radical Socialist)
Player: OYID
Domestic Popularity: High
International Popularity: Somewhat Low
Army: 3/3 (0 Reserves) [-30 Active Maintenance]
Air Force: 0/0 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 0/1 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 1: (Fighters 1, Bombers 1, Transports 1) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 1, Warships 1) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +150
Debt: 0/1500
Credit Income: +150 [+5 Allied Trade, +10 International Trade, +10 Oil Exports to USA, +5 Oil Exports to Britain, +10 Mexican Agriculture]
Conflicts and Issues: Pro-Clerical sentiments, Internal Unrest, Northern Unrest
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National Synarchist Union
Leader: José Antonio Urquiza
Sphere: Neutral (Mexican)
Ideology: National Populism, Nationalism, Clericalism
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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National Action Party
Leader: Manuel Gómez Morín
Sphere: Neutral (Mexican)
Ideology: National Populism
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Cristeros
Leader: Enrique Gorostieta
Sphere: Neutral (Mexican)
Ideology: Paternal Autocracy, Clericalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Hispanic League
Leader: Eustacio Garza Riverendia
Sphere: Neutral (Mexican)
Ideology: Paternal Autocracy, Race-based terrorism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-United States of Brazil-
President: João Mangabeira
Vice President: Borges de Medeiros
Ruling Party: Democratic Left (Social Democratic)
Player: Commissar Jacobin
Domestic Popularity: Moderate
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 1/1 (2 Reserve) [-10 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 [-10 Active Maintenance]
Navy: 1/1 [-10 Active Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 1) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 0, Submarines 2, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +155
Debt: 800/1550
Credit Income: +130 [+20 International trade, +5 Jaguar Pelts, +10 Brazilian Rubber, +10 Brazilian Coffee, -40 deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Tensions with Argentina, Countryside Violence
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Lieutenants’ Movement
Leader: Luis Carlos Prestes
Sphere: Neutral (Brazilian)
Ideology: Radical Socialism, Reformism
Army: 1 (plus covert members in Brazilian Army)
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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National Liberation Alliance
Leader: Edgard Leuenroth
Sphere: Neutral (Brazilian)
Ideology: Radical Socialism (+Totalist & Syndicalist branches)
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Brazilian Integralist Action
Leader: Plinio Salgado
Sphere: Neutral (Brazilian)
Ideology: National Populism, Integralism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0

-Argentine Republic-
President: Juan Bautista Molina
Vice President: Manuel Carlés
Ruling Party: Argentine Civic Legion (National Populism)
Player: profesordino2
Domestic Popularity: Moderate
International Popularity: Low
Army: 2/2 (1 Reserve) [-20 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 [-10 Active Maintenance]
Navy: 2/2 [-20 Active maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 3, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 1) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 0, Submarines 2, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +140
Debt: 950/1400
Credit Income: +110 [+15 International trade, +10 Argentinian cattle, +15 Argentinian agriculture, -20 southern countryside unrest, -50 deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Tensions with Brazil, tensions with Chile, Patagonia Rebellion, Liberal opposition to regime
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Patagonian Rebels
Leader: Antonio Soto
Sphere: Neutral (Chilean)
Ideology: Radical Socialism/Syndicalism
Army: 2
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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General Confederation of Labour of Argentina
Leader: Ángel Borlenghi
Sphere: Neutral (French)
Ideology: Syndicalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Radical Civic Union
Leader: Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear
Sphere: Neutral (Argentinian)
Ideology: Social Liberalism/Social Democracy
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-The Expansive State of Iran-
Shah: Hassan Shah Qajar
Prime Minister: Hassan Taqizadeh
Ruling Party: Islamic Union Party (Paternal Autocrats)
Player: Gesar
Domestic Popularity: Moderate
International Popularity: Somewhat Low
Army: 3/3 (2 Reserves) [-30 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 0/0
Navy: 0/0 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 1: (Fighters 2, Bombers 1, Transports 1) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 0, Warships 1) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +120
Debt: 700/1200
Credit Income: +95 [+20 International Trade, +25 Persian Oil, +15 Oil Sales to Germany, -35 deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Kurdish and Azerbaijani nationalist movements, Left wing extremism
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Totalist Party of Iran
Leader: Haydar Khan Amo-oghli
Sphere: Neutral (Georgian)
Ideology: Totalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Armenian Revolutionary Federation
Leader: Sattar Khan
Sphere: Neutral (Azerbaijani)
Ideology: Radical Socialism, Azerbaijani nationalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Kurdish rebels
Leader: Simko Shikak
Sphere: Neutral (Kurdish)
Ideology: Kurdish Nationalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
=

Winners of the “PRESIDENT KERENSKY” Headline reward, applicable in the coming turn:

OYID
Smyg
CarpeVerpa
Coin
Serenissima
Zar
Flaming Bolshevik
Flamelord
Red John
Snacks

Amidst the heart of the crisis, the Papen government in Germany would quickly react to the crisis in an attempt to fight back the looming issues caused by Black Monday. The government’s main focus would be on banks, with millions of Reichsmarks being diverted to keeping banks afloat through massive bailout operations. As part of the same effort, bank deposits and creditors of the nation's banks would be fully guaranteed by the government. This would greatly anger the left, from the radical Syndicalists to the moderate SPD, who believed too much emphasis was being put on banks and too little on actually protecting the poorer of society, as well as other sectors of the German economy.

Oswald Mosley, leader of the Totalist movement and Commissary for the Exchequer for the Union of Britain, calls a international meeting of other like-minded men in Birmingham, to discuss the future of their way of thinking. After much discussion, Mosley as well as the other attendants announced the creation of the Totalist Charter, a new political manifesto that outlined their beliefs regarding the socialist future. The charter called for a radical change in the direction from traditional Syndicalist and Radical Socialist approaches, calling for a unitary, centralized state under a strong executive government to spearhead the growth of socialism. The charter also also stated that, for the construction of true and longstanding Socialism, Democracy was not required, and much on the contrary would work against its establishment. Besides Mosley himself, many other prominent leaders of the International Maximist movement signed the document, including Benito Mussolini, Georges Valois, Levantry Beria, Dolores Ibarruri and Earl Browder, among others.

In the French Commune, the Government of Marceau Pivert, under great scrutiny from the nation's congress since the end of last year, is finally subjected to a motion of no confidence which narrowly passes, ejecting him as head of government of the Commune. This prompts Chairman Faure to immediately call for new elections to select a new executive, which are poised to be perhaps the most divisive one in the Commune’s history, with strong participation from the Totalist Jacobin and Sorelian factions, as well as the more traditional Travailleur and Anarchiste groups.

The Communards go to the polls and elect their new government. The results would not be anything terribly surprising, with the Syndicalists winning the majority of positions within the executive, alongside a few anarchists, with the real losers being the Jacobin and Sorelian factions, that were not able to attain any seat in the Committee of Public Safety being entirely locked out of government affairs. Clearly another triumph of the Syndicalist and Socialist movements over the more authoritarian tendencies of Totalist factions.

For the Committee of Public Safety, the young Franco-Algerian anarchist Albert Camus would be elected to head the Renseignements Généraux, the Syndicalist leader Charles Rappaport would be made Delegate of Foreign Affairs, Benoit Frachon would be made Delegate of Financial affairs and Boris Souvarine would be elected to the position of Chairman of the Committee of Public Safety, leading the new government. Curiously enough, Marceau Pivert would once again be voted into government, this time for the role of Internal Affairs delegate of the Commune.

A few days after the election, Chairman Faure would present to the Bourse Générale du Travail his letter of resignation and promptly resign his long-standing role as Head of State of the Commune. Quick elections would be once again held to select his successor, with the vast Syndicalist majority of the BGT electing Comrade Frachon, newly appointed Financial Delegate of the Commune, to the position. He would accept the position and quickly take up his new post.

Frachon’s first act as Chairman would be to call for a very large expansion of the Communard armed forces, recruiting a total of 4 new military units and ordering for the beginning of the construction of 3 new fleets. Alongside the fleet construction itself, large amounts of funds were specified to the use of carrier research, further developing the Commune’s understanding of carrier class ships. The revanchist propaganda employed by the Syndicalist faction during the election would serve this action well, with thousands of young Frenchmen enthusiastically volunteering to serve among the now expanded ranks of the army and navy. Such rapid buildup of the Commune’s military has yet again sparked animosity with the neighbouring German Empire and the newly declared French Empire in the other side of the Mediterranean.

Led by Internal Affairs delegate Pivert, generous investments would be made into the Commune’s education system, improving the curriculum, the training of teachers and building better infrastructure, with the final objective of better educating the young Communards in order to better fulfil the so desired socialist future.

To the south of the Commune in little Andorra, Emperor Napoleon VI of the new French Empire, recently inaugurated as the new Co-Prince, would make significant investments into the small country, giving aid for the establishment of a local militia and investing in the construction of fortifications in the Principality.

In Spain, the King would take a drastic decision and outlaw the CNT-FAI faction, one of the strongest Anarcho-Syndicalist organisations in the globe. The Spanish Royal police would lead for a massive crackdown of the organisation’s headquarters, and the Army would be sent into Barcelona, the heart of the organisation, to establish order and possibly capture the movement’s leaders. However, much to their dismay, they would find most of the leadership had already fled to somewhere unknown, possibly France or Britain.

Yet resistance would remain strong, as the Syndicalist and Anarchist sentiments would remain in staunch opposition to the government. Several killings of government officials would be carried out, and a wave of terrorist attacks focusing in the nation’s capital of Madrid would be carried out by CNT sympathizers, which killed many members of the current government and the Spanish military, including the nation’s Internal Security Minister, who would fall to a car bomb.

An olive branch is extended from the House of Bonaparte to the House of Bourbon, with a military aid backage departing Algiers for Madrid soon after the troubles begin in Spain.

In Russia, the chaotic legislature attempts its best at ruling a nation falling apart. The Socialist Revolutionary and Kadet coalition previously kept together by Kerensky was quick to fall apart, with new coalitions being formed and new alliances carved. After much discussion, the Conservative bloc in the Russian Senate would promptly elect Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov, speaker of the Senate and de facto Vice President of Russia, to the office of the Presidency. A new alliance, composed of the October 17 Union, the People’s State Party and the Russian All-Military Alliance would form a new government under the President, appointing the People’s State Party Chairman Vladimir Purishkevich as Prime Minister.

Purishkevich would then take a radical decision, and use the majority of Russia’s funds to pay off the almost complete entirety of Russia’s deficit, riding vast amounts of the Republic’s growing debt. The decision was a controversial one, for on one hand while Russia was now free of its largest deficit burdens, the Republic’s coffers, already somewhat in a precarious state, were left practically empty, making the nation’s financial future even more uncertain.

Alongside that, the rabid anti-Bolshevik Purishkevich would begin a propaganda campaign against the rising tide of Bolshevism by distributing pamphlets across the working class neighbourhoods of St. Petersburg denouncing the movement. It was to little effect, and many reports of propaganda agents being attacked and harmed would come in the following days.

Due to the death of President Kerensky, and the chaos it caused within the ranks of the Russian Government, the leaders of the Alash Orda declare the country’s full and complete independence from the Russian Republic. This results in several small clashes between Russian border guards and Alash loyalists, leading to a few deaths on both sides, but nothing big enough to spark any major incident.

Ireland would see the rise of a new political group: The Republican Congress of Ireland, a broad front of Socialist and Syndicalist forces opposed to the authoritarian government of President Collins. The Irish Parliament would be quick to declare the so called Congress an illegitimate body, immediately classifying it as a terrorist organisation and forcing it underground. While still relatively small, the Congress is reported to be rapidly growing, receiving members ranging from more radical Social Democrats all the way to Irish Totalists, and has already claimed responsibility for several small acts of terror and violence against the Irish Government, yet many fear the worst is yet to come.

Despite the small rise in Syndicalist activity, the Irish Parliament would do its best to revert the effects of Black Monday on the island and resume the Republic’s economic growth by passing the Irish Economic Advancement Act (IEEA), which intended to finance the construction of large amounts of industry across Ireland to make up for the production losses caused by the fight for Independence. The initial plans of the IEEA would have the growth be focused in the west of Ireland around the Galway and Limerick region, as well as some strategic investment into the Industrial sectors of Belfast, with the intent of bettering the production of the Harland and Wolff docks and improving the North’s economy. The efforts were successful, and a good amount of harm that Black Monday would have brought to those areas was reverted, yet most of the Irish counties still remain under high amounts of economic threat.

With the anniversary of the Easter Rising, massive celebrations were thrown by the government across the country, celebrating Irish Identity and the nation’s independent, sovereign status, with the Irish people almost forgetting about the looming dangers of Black Monday and the newfound Syndicalist threats. President Collins would give several speeches where he would employ a different and more conciliatory tone regarding the Island’s Protestant population, calling for a renewal of talks between the Republican Government and the Ulster Scots in the north. Needless to say, said comments were controversial within the Irish Catholic population, and brought up much discussion.

During the festivities that followed the Easter Rising celebrations, a terrorist attack was to take place in Dublin, when a bomb went off inside a truck, killing several passing-by civilians and injuring many others. While no group has yet taken responsibility for the event, many suspect either the Socialist Republican Congress or the Ulster Loyalists may be behind said attack.

The TUC congress in the Union of Britain would pass a new bill, making significant investments in improving and expanding the union’s shipbuilding industry, that had been greatly affected by the harms of the English Revolution of 1925. The programme proves to be a success and the Union sees a growth in economic activity, with the sector expected to slowly but surely recover to its pre-Revolutionary strength. Similar investments were also made into the air industry of the country, with new airplane factories being built across Britain.

Chairman Snowden would also, alongside his government, authorize for a rapid expansion of the Union’s defense apparatus, somewhat mirroring the efforts of their French comrades in the other side of the channel. The construction of 3 new war fleets, as well as an expansion of 3 air units to the Republican Air Force, would be authorized by the Trade Union Congress shortly thereafter.

The Socialist Republic of Italy would hold its Fourth National Congress, that would elect the new government of the nation for the following years to come. After much debate and discussion, the currently ruling Syndicalist Union would once again retain its majority in the nation’s legislature, yet this time by a smaller amount, with an increase in the seats held by members of Benito Mussolini’s National-Syndicalist Party.

In Rome, His Holiness Pope Pius XI falls suddenly to a disease and dies in the beginning of March. In order to fill in the vacancy left by his passing, the Catholic Church was quick to summon the Papal Conclave in order to elect a new head for the faith. The results of said discussions are expected to come sometime within the next months. For the while, the Papal throne in the Vatican is to remain vacant.

Shortly after Black Monday, the people of Austria go to the polls to elect a new government. In a stunning upset, the Christian Social Party, that had for many years held a comfortable majority in Parliament, would be beaten by the Social Democratic Party of Austria, who were to become the largest party in parliament, yet falling short of a total majority by a few seats. This would result in the formation of a new coalition, composed by the Social Democrats and the Radical Syndicalist Party of Austria, that would rise up as the strongest block in the legislature. In order to better appease the more left-wing sectors of the coalition, the SPO would select Karl Renner, a moderate Socialist and leader of the party’s left wing section to lead the new government. Shortly thereafter, Mr Renner would be called for a meeting with his Majesty Emperor Karl, where he would be officially appointed Prime Minister of Austria and tasked with forming a new government to oversee the nation through the perilous times to come.

The new Social Democratic Government would take a series of measures to address the financial condition of the nation. Large amounts of the Austro-Daimler and Skoda factories were bought and nationalized, helping to ease the issue of unemployment, and even further expanded to fit in more workers and new production departments with a special focus in the production of more affordable automobiles. The currently placed welfare programs are extra funded and have their coverage expanded to also include the traditionally forgotten rural areas of the Empire. At the same time a new job recruitment program is established to to help the unemployed find jobs.

The Austrian parliament also authorizes for a reduction of taxes on each of the provinces of the Empire, allowing the local governments to keep their funds and use it to fight the effects of Black Monday in a more local level.

The Austrian government also increases the quality of its artillery in its field army, using the new Skoda factories to do so with more efficiency.

Of all new plans put for by the new government, one of the most ambitious ones is the establishment of local food banks, which would see the central government buy commodities from farmers and have them stored in regional, food banks. Afterwards, food banks in different parts of the nation would be given autonomy to exchange commodities with other banks, and would be tasked with assisting the poor in matters of sustenance. The program, just like the others, was set up with success and is slowly taking its part in the agricultural market of the empire.

The government would also begin a new experiment in Istria and Tyrol, setting up small communal farms based around traditional Radical Socialist principles, but with government input for support and financial aid. A controversial development, but that was small in size and considered relatively harmless.

Prime Minister Renner would also pay off a good amount of Austria’s debt, focusing in satisfying internal debtors.

In the other side of the Empire, Hungary would struggle greatly with the crisis at hand. In a similar way to the rest of Europe, Black Monday would severely harm the economics of the region, with several banks closing and massive repercussions in the industrial sector, as several factories closed down, with few being able to keep themselves afloat by resorting to massive firings of employees. The countryside was also hit greatly, as the price of Hungarian wheat as well as other agricultural products dropped dramatically, leaving many farmers practically unemployed, with no way of providing for their families. The crisis led to an increased dissatisfaction towards the Conservative Government of Prime Minister Károlyi, that had until now been extremely popular and had only grown and grown in the latest elections. The lack of reaction on behalf of the government also led to a spike in extremist rhetoric, especially from Syndicalist, Socialist and Totalist figures such as Bela Kun and Georgy Lukacz.

At the very least, the government further improved their artillery corps, giving them better and more modern guns. Amidst the crisis, that was the only action worth of note taken by the government to the disappointment of the people.

Poland, one of the country’s most affected by Black Monday, would finally gather amongst the chaos of economic catastrophe to finally select a new monarch. Established in 1916 during the Weltkrieg by a joint German and Austrian effort following the expulsion of Russian forces from Congress Poland, it would be declared a Kingdom, yet since its establishment it would be led by a Regency Council alongside the Sejm, with a vacant throne and no one to wear its crown. Through the years the Sejm would be stuck in a deadlock, not being able to select any adequate candidate for the throne as Austria and German fought for influence, yet the chaos brought by the crash of the Berlin Stock Market would bring forward the urgent necessity to elect a King and strengthen the government, under fears that Poland could fall to a military dictatorship, or even worse, a Totalist regime.

Following many weeks of ardent discussion (not all of that very productive, given the council is said to have spent hours deciding what height should the king have, and discussing his feet size too) the Sejm elected to offer the Polish crown to King Mindaugas III of Lithuania, potentially reforming the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that had been destroyed in 1795. Following the permission from Berlin, King Mindaugas would accept the offer, and would later on be crowned King of a reformed Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a nation born amidst the chaos and conflict of the greatest financial crisis in the history of the world.

The King’s first measure was to pay some of Poland’s large debts, in a way to give some if any semblance of political and economic order, and so was done as a good portion of the Commonwealth’s debt would be eliminated. It would help in regards to the new nation’s finance, yet not by terribly much.

In Ukraine, with continued dissatisfaction with the left-wing inclinations within the Parliament, King Vasyl von Habsburg would give Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky the power to dissolve the National Assembly, and in its place install a State Senate loyal to the king. The move was denounced by several factions in the country, yet most were too weak after the dissolution to do anything. The most vocal opposition to the move came from Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Totalist Ukrainian Communist Party, who already announced that the party will take a more intensified role against the government unless said changes are reverted.

The new Romanian government, headed by the National Populist Corneliu Codreanu and his Iron Guard movement, would make a move to remilitarise the region of Oltenia in the west of the country, that since the signing of the Treaty of Bucharest in 1918 had been declared a demilitarised zone. While the move has raised eyebrows, especially in Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, most consider this to be simply the Romanians walking in their backyard.


Across the Mediterranean, in the French government-inexile, great political change is seen. The National Assembly now based in Algiers issues a radical proclamation, declaring the French Republican experiment a failure and officially ending the Fourth French Republic. In its place, the Conservative and Monarchists factions within the Assembly and the Junta chose to restore France’s status as an empire and declare the Third Empire, inviting Louis Jérôme Victor Emmanuel Léopold Marie Bonaparte to take on the throne of Emperor, an invitation of which he accepted. Marshal Petain would be escorted out of his office by Colonel Charles de Gaulle and a guard of French soldiers into retirement.

A few weeks afterwards, young Louis Bonaparte would be crowned Emperor Napoleon VI of France in a lavish ceremony in the Algiers, spectated by all from the Crown Prince of Persia, an Egyptian Prince, the King of Sardinia, the King of the Two Sicilies, King Edward of Canada and several sub-Saharan tribal leaders and rulers, who swore their fealty to the Emperor and the Empire immediately after. Many other relatives and members of the House of Bonaparte would also attend the event. In a first decree following the coronation, Emperor Napoleon VI would declare and appoint Colonel Charles de Gaulle as Prime Minister and Head of Government of the newborn Empire.

In a joint declaration, Emperor and Prime Minister would declare all of French West Africa as Integral territory of France, turning all its residents into French Citizens, enabling all of them to join the French army, enlist in the civil service, etc. The slow integration of the territory is expected to last a few years but has already improved the standing of the Government in Algiers with the people of West Africa. As part of the greater Integration efforts, the new government would also issue the Imperial Proclamation on the Inner Territories of the Sahara, taking several measure to better assimilate the Tuareg tribes into the new nation by including them in government affairs, the civil service, the army and through other measure such as the abolition of slavery with due compensation.

The French would also declare the independence of the Sierra Leone territory, that had been occupied by the French in 1925 following the British Revolution. Citing cultural differences as a hampering to progress in the region, the province of Sierra Leone was declared a sovereign parliamentary constitutional monarchy with King Edward of Canada as Monarch, and Mr. Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston as Prime Minister, who is expected to lead the new nation through a 3 year transitional period until the new government can be fully and completely be put in control of the nation.

The new government also announces the beginning of several large scale infrastructure projects. The first one would be an expansion of the Dakar-Niger Railway, having in mind the ultimate connection of Algiers to the rest of French West Africa. Thousands of natives are hired to work in the construction of the first part of the project, that intents to connect the current end of the railway in Koulikoro to Timbuktu. The second project is focused in the dredging of certain parts of the Niger River, as well as the construction of bridges and new embankments.

And ultimately, following its naturally revanchist policy, Prime Minister de Gaulle gets authorization from the National Assembly to make huge investments into the military sector, building several new factories dedicated to the construction of bombers and tanks, as well as a renewed investment into the French Navy, with Admiral Darlan leading an effort to improve the Imperial Navy’s warship capacity. Also, in order to better adapt to combat in the more hostile climatic and geographic conditions of Africa, Prime Minister De Gaulle orders for an increased focus in adapting the nation’s military doctrine to better suit desert and tropical warfare, possibly preparing for any future planned incursion within the African continent.

After the signing of the Persian-Egyptian 'Isfahan Treaty of Defense and Cooperation', the Sultanate Egypt follows up with the Treaty of Cairo, more formally the 'Franco-Egyptian Treaty of Defence and Culture', the signing of which had remained secret until its publication. The new de Gaulle government in Algiers enters into a mutual self-defence pact and non-agression arrangement with the Sultanate, recognizes the full extent of the Sultan's lands, and promises the return of all Egyptian artefacts held in the Communard Louvre, among other things. A small package of French weaponry arrives in Cairo, destined for the Sultan's Royal Guard. Algiers also signs minor cooperative treaties on culture and infrastructure with Liberia and Sardinia.

The government of South Africa would sign several treaties with European (especially Nordic) nations that would allow for a increased influx of immigration to the country. Good investments would be made to further better the process, and hundreds of new immigrants would come seeking a new life in South Africa, either in search of a brand new experience and escaping the rapidly escalating political tensions in Europe. Upon their arrival, they would be aided in several ways including through the giving of free Afrikaans classes, paid for by the government. The amount of immigration has continued to grow steadily for the past months.

The South African government would make a big investment into infrastructure, improving old British-built roads and railroads in order to increase the nation’s economic output and sponsor the further settling of the countryside, as well as the expansion of more towns. The measure would be a success and the country’s economy would see an uplift among the effects of Black Monday.

The South African parliament would also approve new defense measures, authorizing for the recruiting of a new military unit and the construction of a new air unit.

In the political cycle, members of the ruling party would make staunch calls for bipartisanship within the government. Surrounded by the Syndicalist and the German threat, the Government would call for the different factions within South Africa to unite to fight off the the dangers that enveloped the nation. While it was a certainly welcome change of thought, more work will need to be done between the government and the opposition to establish such bipartisan dreams.


In Japan, Prime Minister Tsuyoshi complied with his duties as head of government and dissolved the Japanese Parliament in preparation for the upcoming February elections. Despite the years of strong and stable government under the conservative Constitutional Association of Political Friendship Party, the government had become increasingly surrounded by criticism, ranging from Foreign Policy questions to its failure to mend ties between the Japanese Army and Navy. In the end, it would be Black Monday that would seal the fate of the Empire’s ruling party, and in a radical change, the Liberal Constitutional Democratic Party would attain a majority with its leader Wakatsuki Reijirō being invited by Emperor Hirohito to form a new government that would set forward to establish several reforms. Alongside the Liberal victory, the Social Democratic and Moderate Syndicalist Social Masses Party would also see an increase of support, and increase its power within the Diet.

Generous investments were made by the government into both urban and rural areas. Large infrastructure projects were commenced in the rural areas, with the construction of new roads and other assets. Large investments were also made into Japan’s Industry, yet with a focus in further strengthening Japanese industries in Korea, and integrating it better into the nation’s main economic cycle. Similar and big investments were also made in the Japanese-led Fengtian Government of Manchuria, were the local railway industry and other commercial institutions would be kept intact through more government support. and the Other industries in the mainland, including the famous Zaibatsus, were also bombarded with bailout funds that kept most of the industry afloat through the Black Monday crisis.

The liberal government would also approve a formal guarantee of rights for all inhabitants of the Japanese Empire. It would be a resounding declaration that would protect Japanese citizens from forced labour and imprisonment without due legal precedent. It would also declare all races equal before the eyes of Japanese Law, and in a more controversial choice, declare all residents of far-off provinces and colonies of the Japanese empire full Japanese citizens, with full voting rights and the capability of sending their own representatives to the Diet.

The Diet would also issue a measure that would re-affirm the previously established political norms within the country, where the Japanese Army would be strictly under control of the state, and would not be allowed to intervene into the rulings of the Diet.

All these reforms were followed by a rigorous government propaganda programme, that exposed the reforms as the right future for the nation and further glorified the position of the Emperor as a benevolent ruler, which greatly assisted in the success of the campaigns. The same efforts would later on be expanded to influence political movements to cooperate within government, and called for the Social Democrats and the Moderate Syndicalists to renounce Internationalism and any possible allegiance to the Syndicalist Internationale.

Prince Takamatsu of Japan would also make a quick detour from his travels and visit the Qing Empire, were the moderate royal would further emphasize the needs of good relations between both empires in the years to come.

In the Qing Empire, Prime Minister Cao Kun is summoned to a meeting with the Emperor where he is dismissed from his role as Premier of the Empire. In his place, the Emperor calls H.H. Kung to take on the role, a position he dutifully accepts. Now in charge of the government, Premier Kung would embark the Qing Empire in a new wave of reforms, that was bound to change the shape of the country.

The old and proud examination system of China would be radically reworked and changed, focusing in knowledge in more technical subjects, as well as taking in significant influence from Western academia, especially German. Examinations were also set to happen more frequently, and new centers and halls for examination were to be constructed across Qing territory. Several other details were changed and new examination regulations issued. While many question the choice, seeing it as a deviation from tradition, others claim it is a vital step towards the modernisation of China.

As a immediate reaction to Black Monday, Premier Kung announces that, following diplomatic talks between Beijing and Berlin, the Qing empire would engage in the process of buying previously German-owned industry in Qing territory, focusing in armament manufacturers as well as communication means, such as telegraph lines and railways. As little meddling was carried out by the state in order to ensure the continued productivity of said industries, yet the factories and other industries were placed under direct control of the state, and new government-appointed bureaucrats were poised to take control. While the buyout certainly saved many of them from bankruptcy and economic ruin, it will still take some time for them to get on their feet again and contribute to the local economy once more.

A new plan would also be issued by Kung’s Government, merging the newly brought German-operated rail lines with a great deal of new tracks, that were to be built by the government in the coming months, improving infrastructure and locomotion significantly. German advisors and bureaucrats were also called in to assist in the setting up and construction of these new lines.

Alongside the mouthful of economic reforms, the Qing Dynasty also prepares for war.

A very large budget was assigned to Wu Peifu, Chief of Staff of the Imperial Army, in order to further the process of modernisation within the ranks of the armed forces. In a growing trend since the rise of Kung to the post of Premier, more German input was used and tactics of training and organisation alongside new doctrine were to be put in place. New equipment was bought, with new rifles, pistols, grenades, machine guns and artillery pieces being bought from external sources and given to the army. New military academies were also set up, in order to better train the officers of the Imperial Army. Even other areas of the military were given attention, with the Air Forces seeing the recruitment of 2 new units to its force.

This would go hand in hand with an increase by radical KMT activity across Qing territory. In the countryside, several reports of peasant gatherings and revolts would be recorded, with the majority of them being squashed by Imperial troops or the local police forces before getting too big. Several administrative buildings in the south were set ablaze in a single night in the beginning of March, showing that the KMT was out there and eagerly fighting Imperial influence.

The Bharatiya Commune begins an ambitious Five Year Plan, with the objective of beginning to transition the mostly agrarian Indian society into a more industrialized and modern one. Large amounts of funds are allocated to the project and thousands of young Indians are brought from the villages to work in the constructions of new factories, roads and railways. Given the relative backwardness of the Commune in terms of technology, said project will take its time to be completed, but is already starting to show some benefit. The Five Year Plan is fuelled by a nationwide propaganda campaign, that attracts several workers to assist in its operations,

New measures are taken by the Commune’s government to further its relation the Muslim population living within its territory by removing previously put religious restrictions on the faith and even giving small amounts of money for Muslim Indians to undertake the Hajj to Mecca. The measure proves to be successful and the relations between both parties increases significantly until the Commune takes a drastic action.

The government in Calcutta would launch a violent operation against the Muslim League within the Commune’s territory, mobilising a large portion of its troops and even using its air force to bomb Muslim villages that had sworn allegiance to the league. Hundreds of Indian Muslims are killed in the process, and the Bharatiya Army also takes its fair share of losses in the violence. While the League is damaged by the act, it manages to replenish itself, and even grow more, due to the large amounts of Muslim Indians joining the organization, many that now see the Bharatiya Commune’s Government with absolute distrust. Violence between Hindus and Muslims in the Commune has reached its all time high, and the situation must be addressed in order to contain the all-out breakthrough of violence.

Following the news of the death of King George V, King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan declared war on the Dominion of India, sparking the Fifth Anglo-Afghan War. The King had for long struggled with the conservative classes within Afghanistan, with his attempts to modernise the country always being halted by their power and influence. In order to show his force to his subjects and in order to unite the nation, Khan seized the opportunity and the state of mourning the Dominion found itself in and immediately marched his troops on Dominion territory.

Initially the Afghans saw some success, slowly advancing into Indian territory and defeating in small skirmishes squadrons of border guards and pro-British mountain tribes. However the slow advance would come to a definite halt upon the mobilisation of troops from the Delhi Government which were more numerous and much better equipped. The superior Delhi Army, and its constant support from the Air Force, that would constantly bombard the Afghan invaders and conduct reconnaissance missions behind their lines, would easily repel the offensive, and immediately march into Afghan territory, suffering minimal losses. Through Baluchistan, a third Indian army would lead an invasion of Southern Afghanistan, outflanking large portions of the King’s army. It is expected that the troops will soon march north towards Kabul. Another army from the Delhi Government was also mobilised, but sent to guard the frontier with Nepal.

In the homefront, both as a response to the Afghan invasion and to the general hostility surrounding the dominion, the Government in Delhi would call for and approve an immense military buildup. 3 new army units are recruited, many composed of vehemently anti-Afghan Sikh volunteers, as well as mechanized divisions and light tank brigades. Alongside that, a new air unit was commissioned, expected to fly brand-new Canadian made fighter planes, and the construction of a new fleet in the shipyards of Karachi was also ordered.

While the war in the border with Afghanistan raged on, the Dominion of India did not neglect its internal policy. Elections were held for the Dominion’s Parliament for the first time in many years, resulting in a surprising victory for the Indian Liberal Party and the rise of V. S. Srinivasa Sastri to the position of Prime Minister. Field Marshal Singh is still expected to hold a large amount of power and influence over the government in the years to come.

Sastri’s new Liberal Government would immediately work to reshape India’s economic outlook by passing two new acts. The first, the Railroad act of 1936, had as an objective to reform and expand upon the Indian railway system, that had fallen into disrepair following the breakout of the Indian Civil War, becoming a shadow of its former self. The second one, the India Economic Act of 1936, that altered or completely abolished many of the tariffs and production rules found in Dominion Provinces, and retaking the growth of Industry by offering tax breaks to Industrial manufacturers, and other benefits such as free land to build industry upon. Both acts were approved, and work begins in them immediately, with hundreds of kilometers of rail lines being repaired or replaced, and a slow but steady increase in industrial production is already seen in the Dominion’s largest cities.

The years of undemocratic and direct rule from the Governor-General of Australasia William Birdwood would soon come to an end as new elections were called in Australia, the first in over a decade’s time. Despite original fears of a possible Syndicalist takeover of the government, coming from the increased activities of the Australasian Council of Trade Unions, the Social-Democratic Australasian Labour Party would attain a majority in the new Parliament, with its leader John Curtin being appointed as the new Prime Minister of Australasia.

Despite the calls for renewed action to fight back the effects of Black Monday, the new government did little to no new economic measures to re-stabilize the nation's economy, that had been hit hard by Black Monday. Rather, Crutin’s government would focus in a general improvement of the nation’s armed forces, recruiting 2 air units, calling for the construction of 3 new naval units as well as making several improvements to the nation’s technology regarding fighter planes, bombers and aircraft carriers.

In Persia, the Shah and his government are quick to answer to the effects of Black Monday. The Iranian Parliament would approve measures that would bring many of the largest banks in Iran under strict state control, whilst smaller, local banks in the villages would be put under control of the local residents and village councils. The charging of interest would be abolished, and changed for a system in which the person receiving a loan shall be entitled to a greater degree of the investment and a smaller burden of the loss. A national Takaful system, replacing commercial insurance systems in place for one more aligned with the economic ideals set forth by the Qur’an.

Inspired by previous Georgist-style reforms made in Meiji Japan, the Shah would decree the establishment of a new taxation system for the nation’s agricultural sector, that saw taxes being in an overall sense reduced yet being measured by the value of each individual plot of land, contrary to the total output of the crops. Religious endowments owned by the clergy would be exempt from such taxational measures. The Majlis would also establish the Imperial Agriculture and Textile Corporation, a parastatal company which would be entrusted with developing uncultivated pieces of land into developed, state-owned farmlands dedicated to the growth of cotton and wheat. Many of the new company shareholders would be German investors. The measure would be successful, and would bring a renewed input from the agricultural sector.

The Majlis would also establish the Imperial Federation of Guilds and Labour, a federation of all existing legal labor groups that would, under the auspices of Government officials, community leaders and clergy representatives, convene to resolve labour disputes and be entrusted with the protection of Iranian workers. Alongside the Federation, the Majilis would establish a new Ministry of Labour, with Mirza Kuchik Khan being appointed its first head. Several measures would be taken by this new Ministry, such as implementing hygiene standards within factories, limiting the hours children could work and hiring consultants from Germany to translate Mitteleuropa’s labor law. Slavery would also be abolished. While greatly supported in general by the Majlis members, who wanted to curb the growth of radical syndicalism within the state, the establishment of the Federation would be greatly denounced by the more radical elements of the Socialist Party and the Totalists, who called it a betrayal of traditional syndicalist ideals. In the end, the plethora of measures taken would guarantee the success of this new and sudden interest into the Iranian Labour scene, and most workers now labour under the gracious eyes of the Shah.

However, the clear opposition made by the Totalists, even if futile, proved to the Shah that the threat posed by the godless Totalists could no longer be tolerated, and should be addressed. In a covert operation devised by the army, several members of the party’s political committee, as well as other sympathizers, would be arrested, with the party’s leader, Haydar Khan Amo-oghli, almost being captured himself. While not as successful as originally intended, a few members of the Party would be captured, with most being executed shortly thereafter. The blunder led to Haydar Khan Amo-oghli’s expulsion from the Party, and the rise of the radical Mosleyite Soleiman Mohsen Eskandari to the position of General-Secretary, who already announced that revenge against the Iranian State is nothing short than imminent.

The Shah would also host a summit in the Golestan Palace alongside two large delegations of Japanese and German diplomats. While the exact nature of the meeting remained hidden behind sealed doors, the Sha announced Iran would make a small donation to the German Empire, as aid for the plight caused by Black Monday.

Citing Kurdish unrest as the main cause, the Iranian Government would, also, see a buildup of military force, recruiting two new military units and 1 air unit, composed of brand-new German planes, which would form the bedrock of the newborn Imperial Iranian Air Force. Two currently standing units would also be mobilized.

This sudden mobilization of troops would result in the so called Campaign of '36, where 3 units of the Imperial Iranian Army would be deployed to the west and used to crush the large amounts of Kurdish insurgency in the area. While the campaign would be a success, and the larger urban centers of Kurdish majority occupied, it would prove extremely bloody. The Kurdish groups would actively resist the attempts of the Iranian army, leading attacks and ambushes against advancing troops, as well as sabotage operations to bases and supply lines. Simko Shikak, leader of the movement, would immediately go into hiding, some even saying he at some point crossed the border into Ottoman territory, yet it is truly not known. While many were killed, including civilians, the campaign was a devastating blow to Kurdish Nationalism in Iran, though surprisingly, promises made by the Iranian Government to allow Kurdish tribes autonomy following in the case of a future arrest of Shikak fell on deaf ears.

Alongside the violence, the Shah himself would light a new candle of hope. Through public means of communication such as radio, the Shah would apologize to the Armenian and Assyrian populations for not being able to adequately protect them during the massacres led by the Turks during the Weltkrieg. The pronunciation also called for those groups to immigrate and settle in Iran, and take new jobs in the Agricultural corporation. This would greatly upset the Ottoman Government, who would denounce the Iranian Government as liars, yet would improve Iran’s standing with most other nations.


In Canada, King George V finally succumbs to illness and passes away in his sleep. The King-Emperor of the British Empire since 1911, George V would lead Britain through the Weltkrieg, overseeing the Peace with Honour with Germany and the country’s fall to syndicalism, moving with the rest of his royal house and the British government-in-exile to the Dominion of Canada. With the death of his majesty, the Entente enters a period of mourning, with great expectation being put on the shoulders of the heir apparent, Edward, the Prince of Wales.

The popular Edward, nicknamed “the Prince of the People”, would be crowned King Edward VIII of Canada and the United Kingdom in the large Christchurch Cathedral in Ottawa, and would shortly after deliver his first Radio address to Canada, the Empire and the rest of the world as King, with his voice being broadcast to all those that could hear. Following the end of royal procedures, the King and his delegation would begin a year-long world tour, visiting the Imperial dominions as well as other members of the Entente. The first stop would be at the Caribbean Federation’s capital of Kingston, where the King would undergo an official ceremony to be declared sovereign of that Dominion, and would later on go to the Algiers, to witness the coronation of his ally, Napoleon VI. The next stop is said to be India, where King Edward is set to be officially crowned as Emperor of India.

Mackenzie King, the popular Liberal Prime Minister of Canada, would begin an energetic campaign to counter the effects of Black Monday and re engage in the ideological war against Syndicalism. Following several impassioned speeches to Parliament and to the public calling for the elimination of Syndicalism and Poverty from the face of the earth, the vast Liberal majority in the Canadian Parliament led by famous Cabinet Minister C.D Howe would approve a immense economic investment, giving large amounts of funds to each Canadian Province to be used for the construction of public works, increase employment to defeat poverty and generally stimulate the economy to fight back the effects of Black Monday.

The programme, while just at its beginning, has proven to be a great success, as new infrastructure projects are started across the country with an increased focus in the building of roads, bridges and industrial expansion, with thousands of young and unemployed Canadians being called to service, lowering poverty levels all around. The province of Alberta, under the rule of the Social Credit Party, would begin to implement their new progressive economic ideals to tackle poverty and other issues, while Liberal-led provinces would focus in the slow implementation of progressive taxation, the establishment of a fixed minimum wage and insurance. Conservative province of Ontario would focus in the construction of military industry, for the eventual re-conquest of the birthright. Overall, the Liberal programme, while just at its beginning, proved to be a massive success, and is expected to only grow in the coming months.

Led by Canada, the Commonwealth Nations would also establish the Imperial Scientific and Academic Council, an organisation dedicated to gathering the resources of all Commonwealth members and using it to develop better research, and then share it amongst its members, forming a more united body of research and development for the Entente.

The Canadian government would also initiate a ambitious expansion of the nation’s armed forces, with the ordering of the construction of 3 new air units and the beginning of the construction of 3 new war fleets, that are said to include everything from small gunboats to brand new aircraft carriers of the Ark Royal class. As part of this general militarisation, the Canadian Government would also buyout the remains of the American New York-based Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation and merging it with the Canadian branch of Blackburn Aircraft Ltd, forming a new corporation specialized in the construction of more sturdy naval-based aircraft.

Following a treaty with the Argentine Government, the Canadian Navy would reactivate the old military fortifications in the Falklands islands and the South Georgia, renewing the complexes and expanding them to fit their needs.

The United States becomes one of the greatest victims of Black Monday. Already affected by the depression of 11 years before, the country was hit hard by this new crisis. Across the country, workers take to the streets to protest, only to be violently put down by the American National Guard and other groups such as the America First loyalists. Farmers, already affected by the Dustbowl, are forced to leave their properties and make it for the big cities to search for jobs. While in the Deep South, the America First Party continues its campaign, led by Huey Long, to denounce the current state of America and put forward its national proposition of change.

The United States Congress passes a bill paying out a very large amount of the nation’s debt, which helps to improve the finances of the nation, that at the moment has its economy on freefall. It has been one of the greatest actions taken by the Government so far to deal with the economic crisis in America.

President Hoover’s allies in Congress also attempt to pass a bill that would see the largest increase the United States has seen in terms of Army size in decades. The attempt, that even counted with the official endorsement of General MacArthur himself, would be futile, as a coalition of CSA, AFP, Democratic and anti-Hoover Republicans would bend together to defeat the bill in the House.

In a smaller note however, the American Congress would vote and approve the Indian Citizenship act of 1936, which granted full citizenship to Native Americans. The move earned the government some sympathy from the Natives.

In the South, the America First Party continues its energetic campaign. Huey Long promotes his governorship over the state of Louisiana as an example for how a America First government over america would look like, gaining him much popularity among the common man of the South, most especially the white, independent farmer. Long also, in perhaps a ominous sign, influences his voters to to buy more guns and ammunitions, even funding the establishment of new factories dedicated to the production of armaments in the south.

In the North, especially the rust belt around Chicago and Detroit, the CSA continues to strengthen its activity, carrying out large propaganda campaigns and bringing more workers to their side by denouncing the current economic structure of the United States, and bringing attention to the effects of the Financial Crash. Membership of the Combined Syndicates of America and its respective trade unions is at an all time high.

In Mexico, a very large propaganda campaign would be carried out by the Zapatista Government, were extremist groups such as the Cristeros and the Hispanic League were branded as having received aid from foreign sources, most importantly the United States Government. This would be followed by a large outcry from the population, and several new measures being taken by the Zapatistas to further improve and expand the Mexican military.

3 new military units would be recruited, primarily from indigenous communities all around Mexico, and several technological aspects would be improved with the assistance of French advisors, such as infantry equipment, tank equipment and artillery.

The APLF would also hold its first Congress in Mexico City headed by the great Zapata himself. While the specifics of the first meeting remain somewhat secret, its effects could be easily seen across the Latin American continent.

Tons of Mexican aid would find itself to the Socialist Republic of Centroamerica, where new educational measure would be taken by Mexican teachers and the local armed forces improved with substantial aid from Mexican military attaches.

The Bolivian nation would be rocked by revolution from its core. Following years of ineffective government, strong racial divides between the ruling classes and the native population, and the disastrous defeat at the hands of the Paraguayan army in the Chaco War, a revolution would commence that would overthrow the Social Liberal government of President Jose Sorzano and his Genuine Republican Party. Led by a broad front of Radical Socialists, Syndicalist, Native leaders and left-wing army sympathizers, the People’s Republic of Bolivia would be established, with radical socialist Victor Paz Estenssoro being elected its first President by the new National Assembly. Estenssoro would then receive a delegation of foreign allies coming from Chile, Mexico, Centroamerica and France that, led by the young Chilean socialist Salvador Allende, would officially recognize the new government. New and radical change, such as agrarian reform, is expected.

To the south, revolution would also follow. The politically-charged officers of the Paraguayan Army, fresh from victory against Bolivia, would also stage a coup of their own. Led by reformist general Rafael Franco, the Paraguayan Army would invade the nation’s capital of Asuncion and depose the government, ending decades of corrupt and unstable rulership from the Liberal Party. The Paraguayan Social Republic would be declared, with Franco as its first President, supported by a big tent left wing movement called the National Independence League. Despite calling himself a Radical Socialist, many (including in the left wing circle) have accused Franco of being a closeted Totalist, with profound admirations for Mosleyist Maximism and Mussolini’s ideals of National Syndicalism.

The Argentine government issues a new massive plan of national defense, that calls for the construction of intricate lines of fortifications across the Argentine countryside alongside the Parana, Del Norte, Desaguadero, Salado rivers to protect from possible invasion and the construction of a new line in the south, separating the country from the Anarchist-dominated south. While the construction of fortifications in the countryside were seen as a thoughtful decision, many criticised the construction of Fortifications in the south. While it would definitely serve to protect the nation, especially the south, from possible attack, most still consider Patagonia to be part of Argentina proper, and many consider such as act as a official note of separation between Buenos Aires and the south.

In a further provision, the government would declare an official embargo on the South, and order for the construction of a new fleet to better enforce such measures. Once again, this was criticized by the regime’s opponents, especially the liberal opposition, as a officialization of Patagonia’s independence and separation from the Argentine republic. The Government also stated it would deploy boats to curb smuggling and trade between the Patagonian rebels and outside sources (especially the Chilean socialists, Patagonia’s main patron), however in the end, no official order regarding deployment was ever given.

Back in Buenos Aires, the government would organize and found the ‘Pan-Argentine Labour Union’, a Government-backed national labour union that was to serve most industries and trades, having different sections dedicated to each one. Curiously, it was out in (de jure) charge of Eva Duarte, a young and famous 16 year old actress considered the darling of the working class. The establishment was viewed as a joke by the Syndicalist movement in Argentina, not only was it seen as a very clear attempt to undermine the authority of the Argentine syndicalist movement, but the placing of Duarte as official leader would be seen as a mockery of the working class due to her general lack of connection to the union cycle in the country, despite her humble background.

The government would also invest more into the new trade provisions established by the new treaty with Britain, which would bring in good revenues through the new and increased level of trade between the two nations.

-German Empire-
Kaiser: Wilhelm II
Chancellor: Franz Von Papen
Ruling Party: German Conservative Party (Authoritarian Democrat)
Player: Zar
Domestic Popularity: Somewhat Low
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 10/10 (20 Reserves) [-100 Active Maintenance, -100 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 5/5 (5 Reserves) [-50 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 10/10 (6 Reserves) [-100 Active Maintenance, -30 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 4, Artillery 4, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 4: (Fighters 4, Bombers 3, Transports 3) Naval Capability 4: (Carriers 2, Submarines 4, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences: [M] Siegfried Line, [F] Malta Fortifications, [L] Suez Canal Zone, [L] Singapore Defences, [L] Tsingtao Defences
Economy: +400
Debt: 2500/4600
Credit Income: +125 [+40 Allied Trade, +40 Colonial Trade, +40 International Trade, +15 Suez Canal, +10 Malaysian Rubber, +15 Romanian Oil, +10 Belgian Tribute, +10 Lithuanian Tribute, +10 Belarus Tribute, +15 United Baltic Duchy Tribute, + 25 Ukraine Tribute, +20 AOG Profits, +20 Brest-Litovsk reparations, -15 Persian Oil Imports, -125 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Syndicalist Terrorism, Ceylon Ethnic Tensions, FAUD Activity, Tensions with Internationale
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FAUD
Sphere: Neutral (British)
Ideology: Radical Socialism
Army: 1
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German Syndicalist Movement
Sphere: French
Ideology: Syndicalist
Army: 1
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Indochinese Aspiration Society
Leader: Ho Chi Minh
Sphere: French/British
Ideology: Radical Socialism/Indochinese Independence
Army: 1

-Russian Republic-
President: Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov
Prime Minister: Vladimir Purishkevich
Ruling Party: October 17 Union/People’s State Party Coalition (Paternal Autocrat/Authoritarian Dem.)
Player: Zhukar
Domestic Popularity: Very Low
International Popularity: Moderately Low
Army: 10/10 (30 Reserves) [-100 Active Maintenance, -150 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 2/2 (2 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 2/2 (1 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 1) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 1, Warships 1) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: Winter Warfare
Defences: [F] Kronstadt Fortifications
Economy: +245
Debt: 0/3250
Credit Income: +60 [+20 Allied Trade, +20 International Trade, +35 Siberian Natural Resources, +5 Legation Cities Dividends, -20 Brest-Litovsk Reparations]
Conflicts and Issues: Rural violence, Rising Bolshevik activity
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Bolsheviks
Leaders: Mikhail Bukharin (Syndicalist wing), Mikhail Tukhachevsky (Totalist Wing)
Sphere: Neutral (French)
Ideology: Syndicalism/Totalism
Army: 2
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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People's Republican Party of Russia (NaResPa)
Leader: Boris Savinkov
Sphere: Neutral (Russian)
Ideology: National Populism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Commune of France-
Chairman: Benoit Frachon
Premier: Boris Souvarine
Ruling Party: Travailleurs (Syndicalist)
Player: Marankara
Domestic Popularity: Very High
International Popularity: Low
Army: 11/11 (15 Reserves) [-110 Active Maintenance, -75 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 4/4 (3 Reserves) [-40 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 2/2 (2 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance] [2 under construction, Jan 1937]
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 3, Artillery 3, Tanks 4), Air Force Capability 3: (Fighters 3, Bombers 3, Transports 2) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 2, Submarines 2, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences: [M] Verdun Line
Economy: +380
Debt: 0/3550
Credit Income: +145 [+15 Allied Trade, +10 International Trade, +10 French Agriculture]
Conflicts and Issues: Tensions with the German Empire, Tensions with Switzerland
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Sorelian Faction
Leader: Georges Valois
Sphere: Neutral (French)
Ideology: Totalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Union of Britain-
Chairman: Philip Snowden
General-Secretary: Arthur Horner
Ruling Party: Federationists/Congregationalists (Syndicalist)
Player: Flamelord
Domestic Popularity: Moderately High
International Popularity: Moderately Low
Army: 2/2 (5 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 3/3 (2 Reserves) [-30 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance] [3 under construction, Sept 1936]
Navy: 5/5 (4 Reserves) [50 Active Maintenance, -20 Reserve Maintenance] [3 under construction, Jan 1937]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 2, Artillery 3, Tanks 3), Air Force Capability 4: (Fighters 4, Bombers 3, Transports 3) Naval Capability 4: (Carriers 4, Submarines 3, Warships 4) Other: Atomic 1, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: MAX
Defences: [F] Scapa Flow Naval Base
Economy: +330
Debt: 0/3100
Credit Income: +205 [+15 Allied trade, +10 International Trade, +10 British Coal, -5 Mexican Oil Imports]
Conflicts and Issues: Regionalism, Tensions with Irish Republic
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Maximist Faction
Leader: Oswald Mosley
Sphere: Neutral (British)
Ideology: Totalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Empire of Japan-
Emperor: Hirohito
Prime Minister: Wakatsuki Reijirō
Ruling Party: Liberal Constitutional Democratic Party (Market Liberal)
Player: Snacks
Domestic Popularity: Somewhat High
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 7/7 (8 Reserves) [-70 Active Maintenance, -40 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 4/4 (5 Reserves) [-40 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 6/6 (5 Reserves) [-60 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 3: (Fighters 3, Bombers 3, Transports 3) Naval Capability 4: (Carriers 4, Submarines 3, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: Long-Range Naval Aircraft
Defences:
Economy: 305
Debt: 1000/3350
Credit Income: +115 [+35 Colonial Trade, +30 International Trade, +10 Japanese Zaibatsu System, +10 Korean Gold Mines, +10 Fengtien Tributes, +5 Transamurian Tributes, +5 Formosan Coal, +5 Fengtien Oil, +5 Sakhalin Oil, +10 Legation Cities Dividends, -50 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Severe Rural Poverty, Korean Independence Movement, Formosan Independence Movement, Military Influence in Politics, Tensions with Russia, Colonial Tensions with Germany
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-Fengtian Government-
Grand-Marshal: Zhang Zuolin
Sphere: Japanese Puppet [-15 Tributes to Japan]
Ideology: Authoritarian Democrat
Army: 4
Air Force: 1
Navy: 1
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-Transamur Republic-
President: Alexander Kolchak
Sphere: Japanese Puppet [-5 Tributes to Japan]
Ideology: Paternal Autocrat
Army: 3
Air Force: 1
Navy: 2
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Sakai Taishuto (Social Masses Party)
Leader: Katayama Sen
Sphere: Neutral (Japanese)
Ideology: Social Democracy/Syndicalism
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-United States of America-
President: Herbert Hoover
Vice-President: Charles Curtis
Ruling Party: Republican Party (Market Liberal, Federalist)
Player: Interested Party
Domestic Popularity: Very Low
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 0/1 (2 Reserves) [1 in Panama, -10 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: Air Force: 1/2 (2 Reserves) [1 in Panama, -20 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 0/8 (3 Reserves) [4 on East Coast, 4 on West Coast, 1 in Panama, 1 in Hawaii, -80 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 3: (Fighters 2, Bombers 3, Transports 3) Naval Capability 4: (Carriers 3, Submarines 3, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences: [L] Panama Canal Zone, [L] Guantanamo Bay, [F] Pearl Harbour Naval Base
Economy: 410
Debt: 1500/5000
Credit Income: +110 [+35 International Trade, +5 Colonial Trade, +15 Panama Canal Tolls, +10 Legation Cities Dividends, +10 Texan Oil, +10 Californian Oil, -10 Mexican Oil Imports, -40 General Strikes, -40 States Not Paying Federal Taxes, -25 Dust Bowl, -25 Mass Unemployment, -75 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Politically Polarised Population, America First Militias, Combined Syndicates Militias, Tensions with Mexico
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America First Party
Leader: Huey Long
Player: Xaph
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: National Populist, Unionist
Army: 2
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Combined Syndicates
Leader: John ‘Jack’ Reed
Player: Soldaten161
Sphere: Neutral (French)
Ideology: Syndicalist
Army: 2
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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West Coast Tax Protest
Leader: Frank Merriam
Sphere: Neutral (American)
Ideology: States’ Rights, anti-Federal Taxation levels
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 3 (loyalties of sailors in US Pacific Fleet)
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Hawaiian Independence Faction
Leader: Henry Baldwin
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Independence
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Canada-
King: Edward VIII
Prime Minister: Mackenzie King
Ruling Party: Liberal Party of Canada (Market Liberal/Social Liberal)
Player: Serenissima
Domestic Popularity: High
International Popularity: Moderately High
Army: 2/2 (3 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 3/3 (1 Reserves) [-30 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance] [3 under construction, Sept 1936]
Navy: 5/5 (4 Reserves) [50 Active Maintenance, -20 Reserve Maintenance] [3 under construction, Jan 1937]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 3, Tanks 3), Air Force Capability 3: (Fighters 3, Bombers 3, Transports 3) Naval Capability 3: (Carriers 3, Submarines 2, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: Royal Navy Veteran Officers, GEC
Defences: [L] Vancouver Coastal Fortifications, [L] Ontario Province Border Checkpoints, [F] Halifax Royal Naval Dockyard, [F] Falklands restored fortifications
Economy: +310
Debt: 1000/2900
Credit Income: +200 [+30 Allied Trade, +25 International Trade, +10 Caribbean Federation Cash Crops,+10 Trinidad Oil, +10 Canadian Timber, +10 Legation Cities Dividends, -20 Exiles Upkeep, -50 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Pressure from Exiles, Socred Dissent, Quebec Opposition to Conscription
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United Kingdom Exiles
Leader: Edward, Prince of Wales
Sphere: United Kingdom (Canadian)
Ideology: Royalism, Reconquest of British Isles
Army: 2
Air Force: 0
Navy: 1 (loyalties of sailors in Royal Canadian Navy)
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Pan-Canadian Social Credit League (‘Socreds’)
Leader: John Blackmore
Sphere: Neutral (Union of Britain)
Ideology: Radical Socialist
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Australasian Confederation-
Governor-General: William Birdwood
Prime Minister: John Curtin
Ruling Faction: Australasian Labour Party (Social Democratic)
Player: Useful Dave
Domestic Popularity: Somewhat Low
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 2/2 (5 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 [-10 Active Maintenance] [2 under construction, Sept 1936]
Navy: 3/3 (3 Reserves) [-30 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve Maintenance] [3 under construction, Jan 1937]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 3: (Carriers 3, Submarines 2, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: Royal Navy Veteran Officers, GMZ
Defences:
Economy: 185
Debt: 500/2200
Credit Income: +125 [+30 Allied Trade, +25 International Trade, +10 Australian Cattle, +5 Legation Cities Dividends, -25 deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: New Guard crisis, Syndicalist Unrest
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Australasian New Guard
Leader: Eric Campbell
Sphere: United Kingdom (Australasian)
Ideology: National Populist/Royalist
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Centre Party
Leader: Charles Vyner Brooke
Sphere: Neutral (Australasian)
Ideology: Independent Royalist (anti-Entente)
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Third French Empire-
Emperor: Napoleon VI
Prime Minister: Charles de Gaulle
Ruling Faction: National Rejuvenation Movement (Authoritarian Dem.)
Player: Smyg
Domestic Popularity: Somewhat High
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 4/4 (0 Reserves) [-40 Active Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 (1 Reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 1/1 (3 Reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 3), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 2, Submarines 2, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: Tropical Warfare, Desert Warfare
Defences: [F] Defences around Andorra
Economy: +165
Debt: 1000/1800
Credit Income: +115 [+30 Allied Trade, +10 International Trade, +15 Dakar/Oran Ports, +10 Legation Cities Dividends, -50 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Tuareg Tribal Unrest, Tensions with Mittelafrika
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Tuareg Tribes
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Tribalism, anti-French
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Delhi Government-
King-Emperor: Edward VIII
Prime Minister: V. S. Srinivasa Sastri
Ruling Party: Indian Liberal Party (Market Liberal)
Player: MTFD
Domestic Popularity: High
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 0/4 (8 Reserves) [1 in Nepalese frontier, 1 in Peshawar, 1 in Quetta, 1 in Southern Afghanistan, -40 Active Maintenance, -40 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 (0 Reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance] [2 under construction, Sept 1936]
Navy: 1/1 (0 Reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance] [1 under construction, Jan 1937]
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 3, Transports 2) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 1, Submarines 2, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: Gurkhas
Defences: [L] North-West Frontier Border Forts
Economy: +185
Debt: 600/2100
Credit Income: +105 [+30 Allied Trade, +10 International Trade, +10 Delhi Textiles, -30 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: 5th Anglo-Afghan War, Suzerain Princes Resisting Integration, Afghan Border Raids, Tensions with Bharatiya Commune
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Suzerain Princes
Leader: Maharaja Muhammed Shuja Al-Mulk
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Opposition to centralisation, retaining their own power and wealth
Army: 3
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All-India Trade Union Congress
Leader: Diwan Chaman Lall
Sphere: Bharatiya
Ideology: Syndicalism
Army: 1
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-Bharatiya Commune-
President: Lala Lajpat Rai
Prime Minister: Narenda Deva
Ruling Party: Bengali Socialist Party (Syndicalist)
Player: Flaming Bolshevik
Domestic Popularity: Moderately High
International Popularity: Low
Army: 3/4 (5 Reserves) [1 around the Commune on Anti-Muslim incursions, -40 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 (0 Reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance]
Navy: 0/0 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 2, Artillery 1, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 1, Submarines 1, Warships 1) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +220
Debt: 0/2000
Credit Income: +170 [+10 International Trade, +10 Allied Trade, +10 Bengali Tea]
Conflicts and Issues: Ethnic Tensions (Bengali Ethnic Rule), State Persecution of Religion, Tensions with Delhi, Tensions with Princely Federation
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Azad Hind Fauj
Leader: Subhas Chandra Bose
Sphere: Neutral (Bharatiya)
Ideology: Totalism
Army: 0
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Muslim League
Leader: H. S. Suhrawardy
Sphere: Delhi
Ideology: Islam, anti-secular
Army: 1
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-Princely Federation-
Head of the Council: Nizam Osman Ali Khan
Ruling Faction: The Council of Princes (Noble Oligarchy)
Player:
Domestic Popularity: Low
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 6/6 (6 Reserves) [-60 Active Maintenance, -30 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 0/0 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 0/0 (0 Reserves)
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 1, Artillery 1, Tanks 0), Air Force Capability 1: (Fighters 1, Bombers 1, Transports 1) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 0, Warships 1) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +170
Debt: 400/1950
Credit Income: +80 [+25 International Trade, +10 Princely Plantations, -10 Peasant Unrest, -20 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Lack of Industrialisation, Peasant Unrest, Tensions with Bharatiya Commune, Tensions with Germany
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Peasant Resistance
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Anti-Nobility, Anti-Taxation
Army: 3
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Qing Empire-
Emperor: Aisin-Goro Puyi
Premier: H. H. Kung (real power exercised by Wu Peifu, head of the army)
Ruling Party: Progressive Party (Authoritarian Democrat)
Player: Red John
Domestic Popularity: Moderate
International Popularity: Somewhat Low
Army: 5/5 (10 Reserves) [-50 Active Maintenance, -50 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 (1 Reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance] [2 under construction, Sept 1936]
Navy: 0/0 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 1, Warships 1) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: German Military Aid
Defences:
Economy: +365
Debt: 2000/3800
Credit Income: +110 [+25 International Trade, +10 Chinese Silk, -30 Corruption, -20 Unequal Treaties with Legation Cities, -20 Unfavourable AOG Trade, -100 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Tensions with AOG, Unequal Treaties, Republican Movement, Corruption
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Allgemeine Ostasien-Gesellschaft
Leader: Alexander von Falkenhausen
Sphere: German
Ideology: Corporatist
Army: 4
Air Force: 1
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Legation Cities
Leader: Cecil Clementi
Sphere: Neutral (International Consortium)
Ideology: Mercantilist
Army: 2
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Kuomintang
Leader: Wang Jingwei
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Radical Socialism, Republicanism
Army: 3
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-Republic of South Africa-
President: James Hertzog
Prime Minister: D.F. Malan
Ruling Party: National Party (Authoritarian Democrat)
Player: Coin
Domestic Popularity: Moderate
International Popularity: Moderately Low
Army: 1/1 (1 Reserve) [-10 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve maintenance]
Air Force: 0/0 [1 under construction, Oct 1936]
Navy: 0/0 (1 Reserve) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 1: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 1) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 1, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +160
Debt: 400/1800
Credit Income: +140 [+10 International Trade, +10 South African Diamonds, -20 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Apartheid, Liberal Opposition, Rhodesian Unrest, Tensions with Mittelafrika
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National Party
Leader: D.F. Malan
Sphere: Neutral (Dutch)
Ideology: Apartheid, Boer Nationalism
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Union Party
Leader: Jan Smuts
Sphere: Canadian (United Kingdom)
Ideology: Market Liberal, pro-Entente
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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African National Congress
Leader: Josiah Tshangana Gumede
Sphere: Neutral (French)
Ideology: Syndicalist, African Nationalist
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Austrian Empire-
Emperor: Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen
Prime Minister: Karl Renner
Ruling Party: Social Democratic Party of Austria/Radical Syndicalist Coalition (Social Democratic/Radical Socialist)
Player: Acecipher
Domestic Popularity: Moderate
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 2/2 (4 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -20 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 (1 Reserve) [-10 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 2/2 (1 Reserve) [-20 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 3, Transports 2) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 0, Submarines 3, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +160
Debt: 1000/1900
Credit Income: +110 [+20 Allied Trade, +15 International Trade, +10 Austrian Chemical Industry, +10 Hungarian Taxes, +10 Bohemian Taxes, +5 Galician Taxes, +10 Galician Oil, -50 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Multi-Ethnic State, Looming 1937 Ausgleich Renegotiation,
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-Kingdom of Bohemia-
Minister-President: Jan Syrov
Sphere: Austrian Puppet [-10 Taxes to Austria]
Ideology: Social Conservative
Army: 1 Reserves
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-Kingdom of Galicia-Lodomeria-
Minister-President: Alfred Potocki
Sphere: Austrian Puppet [-5 Taxes to Austria, -10 Oil to Austria]
Ideology: Paternal Autocrat
Army: 1 Reserves
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-Kingdom of Bosnia-
Minister-President: Mehmed Spahko
Sphere: Austrian Puppet
Ideology: Authoritarian Democrat
Army: 1 Reserves
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-Kingdom of Croatia-
Minister-President: Vladko Macek
Sphere: Hungarian Puppet [-5 Taxes to Hungary]
Ideology: Authoritarian Democrat
Army: 1 Reserves
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-Kingdom of Hungary-
Emperor: Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen
Minister-President: Gyula Károlyi
Ruling Party: National Independence Kossuth Party (Social Conservatism)
Sphere: Austrian Puppet [-10 Taxes to Austria]
Player: DutchGuy
Domestic Popularity: Low
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 2/2 (3 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 [-10 Active Maintenance]
Navy: 0/0
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 0: (Carriers 0, Submarines 0, Warships 0) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +150
Debt: 1000/1900
Credit Income: +75 [+20 Allied Trade, +5 International Trade, +10 Hungarian MÁVAG, +5 Croatian Taxes, -10 Taxes to Austria, -10 Failed Harvests, -50 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Magyarization, Agricultural Trade War with Ukraine, Looming 1937 Ausgleich Renegotiation, Countryside Unrest

-Socialist Republic of Italy-
President: Palmiro Togliatti
Chairman: Antonio Gramsci
Ruling Party: Syndicalist Union (Syndicalist)
Player: Sparkle
Domestic Popularity: Moderately High
International Popularity: Moderately Low
Army: 3/3 [-30 Active Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 [-10 Active Maintenance]
Navy: 2/2 [-20 Active Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 0, Submarines 1, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +160
Debt: 0
Credit Income: +135 [+15 Allied trade, +10 International Trade, +10 Po Valley industries]
Conflicts and Issues: Tensions with Neighbours, Anti-syndicalist sentiment, Organised crime

-Tsardom of Bulgaria-
Tsar: Ferdinand I
Prime Minister: Aleksandar Malinov
Ruling Party: Liberal/Radical Democrat Coalition (Market and Social liberal)
Player: Scorpion
Domestic Popularity: Somewhat High
International Popularity: Low
Army: 3/3 (3 reserves) [-30 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve maintenance]
Air Force: 2/2 [-20 Maintenance]
Navy: 0/0 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 0, Submarines 1, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +155
Debt: 800/1800
Credit Income: +120 [+25 International Trade, +10 Bulgarian Agriculture, -40 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Tensions with neighbours, Macedonian unrest
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Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
Leader: Todor Aleksandrov
Sphere: Neutral (Macedonian)
Ideology: Macedonian Nationalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth-
King: Mindaugas III
Prime Minister: Zdzisław Lubomirski
Ruling Party: Monarchist Party (Authoritarian Democrat)
Player: Carpe Verpa
Domestic Popularity: Low
International Popularity: Somewhat Low
Army: 3/3 (4 Reserves) [-30 Active Maintenance, -20 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 (1 Reserve) [-10 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 0/0
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 1) Naval Capability 0: (Carriers 0, Submarines 0, Warships 0) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +110
Debt: 780/1200
Credit Income: +10 [+5 International trade, -40 deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Left-wing Extremism, Agrarian Unrest
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Free Workers’ Party of the Commonwealth
Leaders: Felix Dzerzhinsky, Karl Radek
Sphere: Neutral (Polish)
Ideology: Totalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Centralist Party
Leader: Władysław Sikorski
Sphere: Neutral (Polish)
Ideology: Paternal Autocracy, Nationalism
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Popular National Union
Leader: Roman Dmowski
Sphere: Neutral (Polish)
Ideology: National Populism, Nationalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0


-Kingdom of Spain-
King: Alfonso XIII Bourbon
Prime Minister: José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones
Ruling Party: Popular Action Party (Authoritarian Democrat)
Player:
Domestic Popularity: Low
International Popularity: Moderately Low
Army: 4/4 (4 Reserves) [-40 Active Maintenance, -20 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 2/2 (2 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 1/1 (1 Reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 2, Artillery 1, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 1) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 0, Submarines 2, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +160
Debt: 500/1900
Credit Income: +60 [+20 International Trade, +10 Spanish Oranges, -25 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: CNT-FAI Unrest and Terrorism, Carlism, Republican Movement
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Requetes
Leader: Manuel Fal Conde
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Carlism, Catholicism
Army: 2
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CNT-FAI
Leader: Buenaventura Durruti
Sphere: Neutral (British/French)
Ideology: Anarchism, Syndicalism
Army: 1
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Republican Left Union
Leader: Manuel Azaña
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Liberalism, Republicanism
Army: 2
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-Republic of Ireland-
President: Michael Collins
Taoiseach: Eoin O’Duffy
Ruling Party: Tribe of the Irish Party (Authoritarian Democrat, de facto military rule)
Player: FireFly
Domestic Popularity: Moderately High
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 0/1 [1 in Ulster, -10 Active Maintenance]
Air Force: 0/0
Navy: 0/0 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 2, Artillery 1, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 1: (Fighters 1, Bombers 1, Transports 1) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 0, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +105
Debt: 400/1200
Credit Income: +45 [+5 International Trade, +10 Irish Peat, -10 ‘Economic War’ with Britain, -30 Ulster Unrest, -20 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Tensions with the Union of Britain, Conflict in Ulster, Repression of Protestants, Syndicalist and Socialist terrorism
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Soldiers of Destiny Party
Leader: Eamon de Valera
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: National Populist
Army: 0
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Ulster Volunteer Force
Leader: James Craig
Sphere: United Kingdom (Canada)
Ideology: Ulster Unionism, Protestantism, Social Conservatism
Army: 1
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Republican Congress of Ireland
Leader: James Larkin
Sphere: Britain
Ideology: Syndicalism/Radical Socialism/Republicanism
Army: 1
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-United Mexican Peoples-
President: Emiliano Zapata
Head of the National Congress of Indigenous Peoples: Hermenegildo Azora
Ruling Faction: Zapatista (Radical Socialist)
Player: OYID
Domestic Popularity: High
International Popularity: Somewhat Low
Army: 3/3 (3 Reserves) [-30 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve maintenance]
Air Force: 0/0 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 0/1 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 1: (Fighters 1, Bombers 1, Transports 1) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 1, Warships 1) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +150
Debt: 0/1500
Credit Income: +140 [+10 Allied Trade, +10 International Trade, +10 Oil Exports to USA, +5 Oil Exports to Britain, +10 Mexican Agriculture]
Conflicts and Issues: Pro-Clerical sentiments, Internal Unrest, Northern Unrest
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National Synarchist Union
Leader: José Antonio Urquiza
Sphere: Neutral (Mexican)
Ideology: National Populism, Nationalism, Clericalism
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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National Action Party
Leader: Manuel Gómez Morín
Sphere: Neutral (Mexican)
Ideology: National Populism
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Cristeros
Leader: Enrique Gorostieta
Sphere: Neutral (Mexican)
Ideology: Paternal Autocracy, Clericalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Hispanic League
Leader: Eustacio Garza Riverendia
Sphere: Neutral (Mexican)
Ideology: Paternal Autocracy, Race-based terrorism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Free Cities garrisons
Leader: Lázaro Cárdenas
Sphere: Neutral (USA)
Ideology: Nationalist Populism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-United States of Brazil-
President: João Mangabeira
Vice President: Borges de Medeiros
Ruling Party: Democratic Left (Social Democratic)
Player: Commissar Jacobin
Domestic Popularity: Moderate
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 1/1 (2 Reserve) [-10 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 [-10 Active Maintenance]
Navy: 1/1 [-10 Active Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 1) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 0, Submarines 2, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +125
Debt: 800/1550
Credit Income: +100 [+20 International trade, +5 Jaguar Pelts, +10 Brazilian Rubber, +10 Brazilian Coffee, -40 deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Tensions with Argentina, Countryside Violence
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Lieutenants’ Movement
Leader: Luis Carlos Prestes
Sphere: Neutral (Brazilian)
Ideology: Radical Socialism, Reformism
Army: 1 (plus covert members in Brazilian Army)
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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National Liberation Alliance
Leader: Edgard Leuenroth
Sphere: Neutral (Brazilian)
Ideology: Radical Socialism (+Totalist & Syndicalist branches)
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Brazilian Integralist Action
Leader: Plinio Salgado
Sphere: Neutral (Brazilian)
Ideology: National Populism, Integralism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0

-Argentine Republic-
President: Juan Bautista Molina
Vice President: Manuel Carlés
Ruling Party: Argentine Civic Legion (National Populism)
Player: profesordino2
Domestic Popularity: Moderate
International Popularity: Low
Army: 2/2 (1 Reserve) [-20 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 [-10 Active Maintenance]
Navy: 2/2 [-20 Active maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 3, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 1) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 0, Submarines 2, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences: [M] Countryside fortifications, [M] Andean fortifications
Economy: +120
Debt: 950/1400
Credit Income: +90 [+15 International trade, +10 Argentinian cattle, +15 Argentinian agriculture, -20 southern countryside unrest, -50 deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Tensions with Brazil, tensions with Chile, Patagonia Rebellion, Liberal opposition to regime
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Patagonian Rebels
Leader: Antonio Soto
Sphere: Neutral (Chilean)
Ideology: Radical Socialism/Syndicalism
Army: 2
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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General Confederation of Labour of Argentina
Leader: Ángel Borlenghi
Sphere: Neutral (French)
Ideology: Syndicalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Radical Civic Union
Leader: Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear
Sphere: Neutral (Argentinian)
Ideology: Social Liberalism/Social Democracy
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-The Expansive State of Iran-
Shah: Hassan Shah Qajar
Prime Minister: Hassan Taqizadeh
Ruling Party: Islamic Union Party (Paternal Autocrats)
Player: Gesar
Domestic Popularity: Moderate
International Popularity: Somewhat Low
Army: 2/5 (2 Reserves) [3 deployd to Iranian Kurdistan, -50 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 0/0 [1 under construction, Sept 1936]
Navy: 0/0 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 1: (Fighters 2, Bombers 1, Transports 1) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 0, Warships 1) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +125
Debt: 700/1200
Credit Income: +75 [+15 International Trade, +25 Persian Oil, +15 Oil Sales to Germany, -35 deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Kurdish and Azerbaijani nationalist movements, Totalist extremism
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Totalist Party of Iran
Leader: Soleiman Mohsen Eskandari
Sphere: Neutral (Georgian)
Ideology: Totalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Armenian Revolutionary Federation
Leader: Sattar Khan (Azeri faction), Christophor Araratov (Armenian faction)
Sphere: Neutral (Azerbaijani/Armenian)
Ideology: Anti-Turkish, Socialism, Iranian Azerbaijani nationalism (Khan faction), Armenian nationalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
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Kurdish rebels
Leader: Simko Shikak
Sphere: Neutral (Kurdish)
Ideology: Kurdish Nationalism
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Socialist Republic of Panama-
Ideology: Radical Socialist
Stability: 2
Sphere: Neutral (Mexican)
Army: 2
Navy: 0
Air Force: 0
Conflicts and Issues: Tensions over Panama Canal, Anti-Socialist activity

In Germany, the Reichstag would authorize for the establishment of the Reichsarbeitsdienst, a new government agency envisioned by the SPD delegates in the legislature that would focus in recovering Germany’s economy through especially the construction of Public Works. Chancellor Papen would convince the other parties in the Reichstag to support the initiative, making small concessions to achieve a great amount of support. The bill would be passed and the agency established, soon, large infrastructure projects would begin, constructing new roads, canals, dams and railway lines employing thousands of unemployed germans. The Reichstag would also approve a tax cut for many small businesses. Many truly believe that this is the official beginning of the Empire’s economic recovery.

As the economy slowly resumes growth, rumours start spreading of a possible DVLP and AV coalition in the upcoming 1937 Reichstag elections, and of the possible involvement of senior members of the German Royal Family in the organisation of such alliance. Yet, these are mostly rumours, and the Strasserist group within the AV continues on bad terms with most of the DVLP, making such coalition unlikely as in any time in the near future.

In Paris, the First International Congress is held by the Syndicalist and Socialist nations and parties of the world. Several topics are said to be debated, such as the situations in Spain, Latin America and the United States, as well as the role of women in the coming revolutions and decolonization. The results of the discussions and the many, many manifestos to be written about it are said expected to be released shortly to the greater public.

The French Commune begins a immense effort to further improve and better collect the large deposits of resources found within their borders. Focus is put on developing the iron and bauxite deposits spread across the country, as well as expanding the currently standing steel mills and and oil refinery stations. The campaign is a resounding success for the comune, improving the nation’s economy and expanding its resource deposits across the board.

Tensions between the Commune and the German Empire are spiked up by the Commune’s guarantee of Independence directed towards the newly established Polish-Lithuanian Commune. The guarantee however, would not only be a simple sheet of paper.

Frachon would immediately mobilize the commune’s armed forces, in order to prepare for a possible german attack on the newly established socialist state. New infantry equipment would be commissioned for all troops, alongside new training efforts and general quality increase measures to be implemented within the year (Expanded inf tech to 4). 4 new units would be mobilized into the reserves, and made ready to move into duty at a moments notice.

Most importantly however would be the mobilization of 8 units of the Communard Armed Forces, who would be mobilized to the German border and positioned from the English channel all the way to the swiss border. While no further action was taken, the rapid and powerful mobilization of the Communard army is a clear show of force directed towards their German foes, as well as a sign that the guarantee issued to the Polish-Lithuanians is one which the commune intends to take seriously.

The development of Andorra would continue, as the French Imperial Government in the Algiers would further fund the construction of subterranean water tanks and complex food storage facilities. Despite clearly being made as preparations for possible future sieges, the government insists it is purely for humanitarian reasons.

The resistance put forward by the CNT-FAI in Spain continues. Despite legally outlawed and disbanded by the government, the organisation continues to thrive in the underground circles. They would lead a re-invigorated campaign of terrorism against the government, killing several military officers and lower government officials, as well as staging strikes and public demonstrations, that effectively paralyzed much of the industrial sector of the kingdom for many weeks. Underfunded and overwhelmed, the Spanish Army and Police have attempted their best to curb the situation, but have mostly failed before the syndicalist bombs. The situation in Spain continues to be highly unstable.

The new Russian Government under President Romanov would through the legislative ways of the Duma establish a new Federal office, the Ministry of Social Protection, whose objective would be to aid the poor, the elderly and the infirm of Russia, as well as aid the unemployed. While the measure was popular (even being supported by the Mensheviks and by many Bolsheviks), the establishment of the Ministry would do little to aid the people. The small amount of funding given to it was barely able to adequately help most people living within the larger urban areas of western Russia, much less on the countryside and in more further away areas. Besides, Russia’s infamously inefficient and corrupt bureaucracy did not help the ministry’s success.

Actions such as these, alongside previous blunders by the new government, would lead for all the Bolshevik factions to re-establish the Petrograd Soviet, now called the “Third Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies”, now housed in the Bolshevik Party’s headquarters in the Russian capital. It is unknown if they will still cooperate with the government and the Duma, but the talks of revolution remain in the air, especially as the situation in the countryside and in the city slums continue to worsen.

While the situation in the capital worsened, the Duma would approve the construction of a new section of the Trans-Siberian Railway, connecting the town of Lesosibirsk to Nizhnevartovsk, with the objective of straying away large amounts of the railway’s traffic from the dangerous frontier provinces in the south. Construction has already begun, though it is expected to take some time.

Russia would also join the Iranian ‘Big Cat Preservation Society’, establishing new and protected range for the nation’s big cats.

In Ireland, despite the troubles, the government’s IEEA programme continues to expand in great paces, with this time focus being put in the southern region of Cork, more specifically the region’s agricultural sector, which once again begins to grow, with a renewed production of several products including butter, the region’s well known speciality.

However, amidst the reasonable economic growth, violence becomes more and more part of the daily life of the common irishman. President Collins would call for the recruitment of 2 new units into the Republican Guards, as well as a general improvement of the armed forces (to inf. Level 3), with a great deal of help from the Germans, who have now legally assured to protect the island’s sovereignty as well as the Collins government since the signing of the Treaty of Dublin between the two nations.

There was a reported growth of Syndicalist activity in one of the most unlikely places: Iceland. Danish police stationed in the island have reported a growth in socialist activity, with small rallies and secret meetings being held in the island’s capital. While the growth is concerning, no further action is said to have been taken by them.

The Irish Dáil would also approve the passing of the 'Terrorism Policing Act', which granted the Irish Police Forces special powers in the fight against the new Republican Congress. Despite claiming to only be used against the Left-Wing Republicans of the Congress, with apparently no measure being put in to ease the detainment of “ordinary” Irish citizens, the Police ends up making hundreds of arrests, not all of proved socialists, many which result in torture and a few even in deaths. The whole coordination of the new provisions established by the act becomes extremely confusing, and the whole thing becomes a blunder, with many being arrested, not all being proven guilty. A large propaganda campaign issued by the government at this same time mostly fails to further set the people against the congress.

In direct reaction, the Congress would intensify its activities. With the Policing Act mostly failing in detaining members of the movement’s leadership, they declare the formation of the ‘People’s Irish Republican Army’, the officialized militia branch of the congress which is now to carry out the bulk of its direct anti-government action. A renewed campaign of terror is begun in the cities, sparking a rise in violence across the country. The countryside also begins to be terrorized, with a few instances of ambushes of military and police personnel by Republicans being reported.

Great political change is seen in the Union of Britain with the new extraordinary session of the Congress of Trade Unions being called. The resignation of Chairman Philip Snowden, (in power since the death of the first chairman of the Union, John Maclean, in 1929) would trigger a wave of new political events that would be set to shape the future of the Union for the years to come. After many matters were discussed, and many new policies voted upon, new elections would be held, with Snowden’s Federationist faction winning a small majority in the Trade Union Congress. Oswald Mosley’s totalists would come in second, with the autonomists losing great support among the populace. The Congregationalist faction would shortly thereafter split, over those who wished to support the new government and those who didn't.

Arthur Horner, for long the General Secretary of the nation, would be sworn in as the Third Chairman of the Union of Britain. In order to fulfill his old role, Horner would see fit to appoint the well known syndicalist MP Arthur Greenwood to lead the new government now under him. Horner and Greenwood would maintain the broadfront government that served under Snowden’s administration, including many members of other factions in the central committee, most especially Mr Mosley himself, who remained as Armaments minister.

Horner would begin to immediately implement the policy goals set forth by the Trade Union Congress. The surprising increase in support for the Maximist policies of centralization would be some of the first to be carried out, with several industries being put under the auspices of the government, albeit in a peaceful manner, and still allowing for large amounts of worker autonomy over the workplace. New infrastructure projects would also be planned, aiming to build new roads, bridges and further the process of electrification in the nation. The new economic measures were carried out with reasonable success, yet the amount of funds allocated to it would not be enough to carry out what was previously envisioned, resulting in a slow and somewhat inefficient transition to a more centralized economy. While the nation’s finances remain well, little benefit was reaped.

In a similar way, the army would be further reformed along maximist lines. Most militia’s would be brought under direct control of the TUC and the Executive Committee, yet maintaining Home Defense garrison units under the control of local councils as it was before. Changes to the soldiers equipment and training were also instituted, which is set to increase the quality of the army in the months to come (upgrade to inf. Level 3). Reforms were also made in regards to the participation of women in the Union’s army, with women now being allowed to volunteer as members of most of the branches and services of the armed forces, including the air force, a decision greatly cheered by the ladies of Britain.

The Unionist Air Force would also be boostered by the introduction of new heavy fighter planes to its air wings, planes with a focus in heavier armament as well as long air coverage.

The Union would also offer to guarantee the government of Norway as well as grant them preferential trade deals. Negotiations were going well until the Union asked for the right to use Norwegian naval bases for future military operations, this lead to a breakdown in the discussions and the whole deal would fall apart.

After many months of discussion and voting, the Papal Conclave would elect the Italian Priest Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster to the Papacy of Rome. Schuster, now going by his papal name of Julius IV, would continue to align himself with his traditional far right-wing views and rabid anti-syndicalism by pledging to fight the growth of ‘Godless, atheistic Socialism’ intentionally, calling for the Christian nations of the earth to engage in a final crusade against syndicalism. Elia dalla Costa, de prefered candidate of many Social Democrats and Socialists, would come in second during the voting.

Schuster’s election would immediately trigger a note of condemnation from the Socialist government in Torino, who would denounce him as a belligerent crony of the patriarchy. The Holy See would mostly ignore these messages.

The Austrian Government in Vienna makes an effort to better value the arts within the empire. A new ministry dedicated to the protection of culture, the National Ministry of the Arts, is established, and immediately begins to reinvigorate museums, expositions as well as distribute grants to aspiring painters, writers and musicians, so they can better produce their trade in these times of hardship. Influence was also given in helping artists from other regions of the empire other than austria.

The government would also establish the Austrian Broadcasting Company, a public radio company that would continuously broadcast to all the regions of the empire. Besides serving as a way for the government to present to the people its projects and reforms, it would also be used to further disseminate art and culture, as well as develop a greater sense of unity within the people’s of the empire, with special focus in the Polish and Transylvanian sectors of imperial society.

The newly acquired automotive industries in Bohemia would be instructed by their government patrons in Vienna to design a new car: The Volkswagen, a small yet reliable car that was to be massively produced and sold at affordable prices to the commoners of the Empire, so they could use in their day to day business. Production license to tractors were also given to the Hungarian government, so as to aid in their agricultural issues. In the end, the Volkswagen became a success, with many families acquiring one. Sales were so high in fact, that vehicle shortages were reported in many cities, forcing the factories to double on in production.

To compliment the new investments made into the imperial automotive industry, the Austrian parliament would approve the construction of several new and modern roads, stretching across the whole of the empire, which came in very handy for the new cars being pumped out of the Austrian factories.

Needless to say, all the reforms issued by Renner’s government would prove extremely popular with the people, and would greatly help in the economic recovery of the nation following black monday.

However not was all and well in Austria. With the recent Romanian mobilizations in the Carpathians, the Austrian Army would mobilise 2 units from its ranks and, alongside another unit, deploy them to Bukovina, where they were to keep an eye on the rowdy Romanians as they carried out their maneuvers. They would also be joined by a unit of the Galician Army.

Wrecked by instability spearheaded by Black Monday and the rise in extremist activity, the Hungarian Parliament would make changes to its policies. The Magyarization Policies of old, that had beforehand actively seeked to impose Hungarian culture and values over cultural minorities under the rule of Budapest would be lightened, once again allowing for the publication of newspapers and general media in languages such as Slovak and Romanian. Non-Hungarian schools were to be put in the same status as Hungarian ones, as long as they complied with several regulations and included aspects of the Hungarian curriculum (especially language demands). Other smaller regulations would also be put in place. This would earn sympathy to the government from the groups living within the Kingdom, diffusing a good amount of tension. However, total ethnic equality in Hungary still remains far off.

Finally realizing the harsh economic effects of Black Monday, Karoly’s government would (at last) take measures to revert the harmful changes. Improvements would be made to the nation’s infrastructure, building new roads and bridges, and large investments would be made into agriculture, Hungary’s economic backbone, with the mechanization of plenty systems through the construction of new tractors and other vehicles, and the implementation of more fertilizer use, which would also move Hungarian industry once again. The changes reaped good benefits, and the agricultural crisis brewing in Hungary was saved.

Karoly would also order for the nationalization of several Hungarian banks that had gone bankrupt or were in the risk of going so. The government would then rehire many fired employees and ensure stricter laws as to prevent greater collapse like this again. While it was costly, and may hinder the government’s finances for some time, many jobs were saved.

In the south, the young Republic of Albania would undergo a major election, leading to a major change in government. Many years under the control of the Conservative Progressive Party had kept the nation under a Aristocratic and mostly Feudal state, with the recent outbreak of Black Monday not being properly addressed by the government nor its leader, Prime Minister Ahmet Zogu, leading to widespread economic disparity. Thus, the election would lead to the rise of a new government led by the Unity Party, a Social Democratic entity with strong ties to the Austrian Social Democrats. The young idealist Avni Rrustemi would be made the republic's President, while Fan Noli would be appointed Prime Minister, with both set to lead the country into a new age of modernization and reform.

The new Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth holds its first election, and the results shock the world. The slow response to Black Monday, alongside confusion caused by the ill planned joining of Poland and Lithuania, caused for a large amount of upheaval and distrust of the new government. This would be clearly reflected on the results of the first election, as the Sejm would come to be dominated by a Left-Wing coalition led by the Totalist Free Workers Party of the Commonwealth, and supported by less radical Syndicalist and Socialist elements that, supported by the revolted urban poor and the impoverished peasants in the countryside, would gain a vast majority in the legislature.

Felix Dzerzhinsky, the old director of Vladimir Lenin’s secret police (the Cheka) during the Russian Revolution and now leader of the Free Worker’s Party, would immediately declare the end of Monarchy in Poland-Lithuania, establishing the Polish-Lithuanian Commune, of which he would now preside over as Chairman, with Karl Radek serving as General-Secretary and second in command. The royal family and a group of loyalists would flee to Germany.

The Sejm would be renamed to the Supreme Sejm of the Workers and Peasants of the Polish-Lithuanian Commune, and its first edict would be to declare that whenever conditions are favourable the city of Gardinas will be the seat of the new popular government, but that due to fears of possible German intervention, the government is to remain in Warsaw and Vilnius for the time being.

Fearing a German counterattack, Chairman Dzerzhinsky would immediately mobilize his nation for the possibility of war. Thousands of peasants and workers would be armed and organized into new battalions, and reservist soldiers would be called back to action, with a total of 4 units being mobilized.

Following the mobilization, 3 units would be deployed to the German border, 2 to the border with Ukraine, 1 to the Ruthenian border and a last one to the border with the United Baltic Duchy. With its troops in place, Eastern Europe holds its breath, waiting to see what will come next.

Perhaps inspired by their Polish Neighbours, anti-German activity grows in the Ukraine, with the establishment of the People's Liberation Front of Ukraine, a front of anti-German, mostly left-wing political groups, lead by the Communist Party of Ukraine, that seek the removal of Ukraine from the Reichspakt, as well as the nurturing of Syndicalism within the nation.

The German Colony of Mittelafrika sees an increase in anti-German activity, focused around the region of German Nigeria. Several uprisings staged by the Yoruba and Igbo tribes lead to the deaths of many German officials in the area, and a significant amount of disruption in the local economic sector. The uprisings were bloody, and hundreds would be killed, yet it would ultimately end up as a failure, as Statthalter Goering would be quick to mobilize the garrisons in Lagos and Calabar into the countryside to put down the rebellions. The tribal leaders who served as the leaders of the uprising would be quickly put to death.

Tripolitania would be engulfed by revolution. Ever since the end of the Weltkrieg, Tripolitania would be once again ruled as a distant dependency of the Ottoman Empire, firmly under the rule of King Ahmed Sharif I as-Senussi. Despite being a competent ruler, well liked by his people, he would quickly grown to be surrounded on all sides by enemies, and the lack of support from his weakened Ottoman lieges would not assist in the running of the kingdom. The last months would see a rise in anti government activity, that would culminate in a coup d’etat led by both the royalist enemies of King Sharif and the Republican elements in the kingdom. Despite no confirmation, the participation of the French Imperial Government and Egypt in the downfall of this government is suspected to have been key to its success.

The new government would declare the establishment of a Constitutional Monarchy in Tripolitania, and would invite exiled King Idris (for many years living in Egypt) to take on the throne of this new kingdom, an invitation of which he would gladly accept. The new government, with Idris as its Head of State, would declare its complete separation from the Ottoman Empire, and would begin to dictate its own foreign policy. The Ottoman Empire would greatly protest the revolution, calling Idris’ Government illegitimate and refusing to recognize it, yet would be left virtually powerless due to its naturally weak condition, unable to do anything.

Shortly after the regime change in Tripolitania, King Fuad I of Egypt would pass away at the age of 68, and would be quickly succeeded by his young, 16 year old son Farouk, who would be crowned the new King of Egypt.

In the Algiers, Prime Minister De Gaulle would call for a general expansion of the Imperial armed forces, recruiting a new land unit, a new air unit and ordering the construction of a new fleet. Most of the new recruits that were set to form these new divisions were Africans, Blacks and Arabs of all origins, now serving under the tricoleur.

The South African Government would pursue a policy of rapid industrial expansion, based off large amounts of government funds and support from the new wave of skilled European workers, which would see the expansion of several industrial facilities across the Union, with special attention being given to the steelworks based off Pretoria. This would grow even more the power of the ascendant South African economy, that despite the effects of black monday seems to be growing evermore.

The large campaign of Immigration to South Africa would continue, as strong as ever, with a focus in the United States. Hit on all sides by economic depression and unfavourable climatic conditions such as the dust bowl, and besieged by large amounts of ideological warfare, the impoverished citizens of the United States were encouraged to "make their own Great Trek" and start a new life in South Africa, and many did, with a few hundred American immigrants moving over over the past months.

The South African Government would also establish the South African Cattle Improvement Project, a nation-wide effort to breed cattle more suited to the arid conditions of the country.

Hertzog’s government would also continue to increase the size of the Union’s defense forces, as well as improve them. 2 new army units would be recruited, and research would be undertaken to improve the nation’s tank and transport capabilities more (both being improved to level 2).

A good amount of opposition to Pu Yi’s government would emerge in the Qing Parliament over the course of the last months, scrutinizing his large buyouts of German Industry . Composing of members of the opposition parties, the original critique surrounding the buying of German Industry would grow to a generalized attack on his rule, criticising the large amounts of corruption in the government and calling for the establishment of a confederal China, with strong power for the provinces.

At around the same time, several investors and men of wealth from Manchuria and the Legation cities begin to buy large amounts of Qing debt. While it is not proven, Japanese involvement in this plot is suspected by many.

KMT activity continues throughout Qing China. Small revolts erupt in the countryside, this time more violent, with the news reaching the cities and bigger populational centers, bringing the government under scrutiny. Hundreds die in small revolts, violently put down by the army, with the violence even spilling into German-controlled cities in the coastline, with the prime example being the torching of a German administrative building in the port of Guangzhou, which led to many deaths.

One of the places most affected by the harms of Black Monday would be the Legation Cities of China, international territories run by a council consisting of members, appointed by several nations, which controlled the larger ports found in the coast of China. The Legation cities were hit badly by the crisis, with its commerce being greatly hampered. This would result in a bloody event, the ‘Night of the Monkey’s Head’ as it was called, when the powerful crime syndicates would rise up, depose the Commissioner and the council, and establish criminal rule over the cities through the power of the Triad Syndicate, currently led by Tu Yueh Sen, also known as ‘Big Ears Du’. While he is the leader, Du’s position is contested, and it is unknown if he will remain as leader for long.

Japan sends large amounts of military aid to Oman, Nejd and especially Iran. The official reasoning for this was shown as maintaining stability in the region and ensuring the protection of trade in the straits of Hormuz. Ominously, a Japanese fleet would also move into the straits, where it would be based off Iranian ports, supposedly also for the protection of trade and in order to carry out military exercises with the Iranian Navy.

Large amounts of military aid would also be given by Japan to the Fengatian Government, especially focused in infantry equipment and airplanes.

The brewing tensions in Eastern China would finally reach its peak, as the Mongolians and the Tibetans announced the formation of the ‘Great Khanate’, a new alliance based off traditional Buddhist ideals that seeked to establish dominance over Central Asia, upholding the figure of Ungern Von Sternberg, the leader of Mongolia since the times of the Russian Civil War. The first act of the alliance would be an unilateral declaration of war on the Ma Clique, one of the largest cliques in the empire.

The Mongolian troops, led by Sternberg himself, would firstly make a steady advance southwards, but would shortly be met by the Cliques troops under the command of Ma Fuxiang, warlord and leader of the province, and would soon stop. While the Mongolians would shortly thereafter resume the advance, it would be slow and bloody, with many casualties in both sides due to Ma’s fierce defense. In the south, the Tibetans being less equipped and less trained than their Mongolian counterparts were not able to make significant gains, yet the battles continue to rage on across the mountains and deserts of the Himalayas, with thousands of deaths. It is yet unknown if Beijing will respond and aid its Ma subjects, or if it will cower before the presence of the great Khan.

However, in the end of the month, while Beijing would not respond, Tokyo would. Three units, composed of Japanese volunteers, Manchurian soldiers and the soldiers from the famed Kwantung Army would launch an offensive from Fengatian territory to put a stop to Sternberg’s rule of terror in central asia. As they advanced inwards, Sternberg would locate two units to counter back the clear Japanese intervention, hampering their advance. The two armies would meet and in the battle of Matad, the Japanese forces would crush Sternberg’s forces, killing many of his officers while having relatively small losses (even though they were still somewhat significant). The Mongolian troops would then regroup and form a new defensive line, which would continue to be pushed back by the Japanese-Fengatian troops, which continue to advance slowly into Mongolia.

The Bhartiya Military continues to make violent incursions from against the Muslim community, this time fuelled by a nation wide anti-muslim league campaign. The army would actively begin to seize the properties of many muslims and turning it to the control of the Central Government. This leads to several instances of violence between the groups, as hundreds of Muslims are killed in the government’s actions.

This sparks a massive wave of immigration from the Bharatiya commune, as many hundreds of thousands of Muslims living in Communard territories flee their homes in masses, in direction of the Dominion of India, where many seek asylum from religious persecution. The situation quickly develops into one of the largest refugee crises in recent Indian history, as many columns of thousands of Refugees begin their track north towards their dominion, leaving their violence-engulfed homes behind. The Red Crescent is invited and, while it remains in bad relations with the government due to the persecution of Muslims, aids many of the refugees with medical treatment. While the refugees leave, many brave muslims remain to fight, forming roaming groups of Muslim Protection, under direct guidance from the Muslim League, who attempt to defend their peoples at all costs against the harms of Socialist aggression.

However, most of the League’s leadership would vanish, disappearing from Bengal without a trace. Most would, however, re-emerge a few weeks later in Tehran of all places, now under official protection from the Shah and the Iranian government. There, they would proclaim the formation of the Provisional Islamic Government of Bengal, that seeks to bring back muslim order to the region and the complete destruction of the forces of Syndicalism in Asia.

In the Dominion of India, the All Indian Trade Union Congress stages several protests, most of them peaceful, denouncing the Colonial Government as a pawn of Anglo-Canadian Imperialist Rule, as well as bringing attention to the wealth gap in the Dominion’s population.

The protests and the war, however, are not able to disrupt the majestic Grand Imperial Durbar, which crowns King Edward VIII as Emperor of India in a lavish ceremony held in Delhi. His majesty would then embark in the renewed railways of the Dominion and make several visits to several points of the nation, visiting his subjects directly while being escorted by a guard of multicultural, multi religious Indian soldiers. The visit ended up being a resounding success.

In Delhi, the new Liberal Government organizes for a large payout of the Dominion’s debts, with the Prime Minister stating that the reduction of the nation’s debt is needed in order to allow for further spending down the road.

The war would continue to rage on in Afghanistan. The Afghan forces would fight bravely, and inflict many casualties on the Indian troops as they advanced into their territory, yet, ended up being no match to the modern and more numerous divisions of the Dominion’s forces, now also bolstered by the new reforms made to the country and especially the king’s visit. The High Command in Delhi would order for a significant, simultaneous push against the Afghan lines in all fronts, supported by the powerful Indian air force, which would lead for devastating effects.

The offensive would begin in the end of May and by the end of the next month would have made significant pushes into the heart of Afghanistan, resulting in many bloody clashes that ultimately ended in Indian victories. The Afghans would mount a significant resistance to the invading troops, establishing guerilla forces in the mountains in order to ambush the advancing troops and attack their supply lines. Many attacks would be launched, leading to several Indian deaths, yet resistance would prove to be ultimately futile.

With his frontlines cracking, and dissent growing in the capital of Kabul, as the disastrous war brewed rumours of a possible coup to overthrow him, King Amanullah would effectively lose all his power before his court, retreating to his personal quarters and refusing to take the lead anymore. In his place would rise his brother, Mohammad Hashim Khan, a wise man with strong connections to Persia who would, with the support of many political and military factions in Kabul, effectively seize power from his brother and declare himself ‘Supreme Regent of Afghanistan’, with his first decree being to end the war and formally seek peace terms with the Dominion of India and the Entente. He would order his troops to stand down, which many did, yet not all, with many regiments prefering to rebel and take to the hills, where they plan to continue the resistance against any and all foreign occupying force that may instal itself in the country following the peace treaties. After a few days, the occupation forces would enter Kabul triumphant. The graveyard of Empires was no more.

Burma continues to be taken by the flames of revolution. Socialist guerrilla groups now roam the countryside, making attacks to government police forces and aiding poor peasants at any opportunity possible. The larger cities have also been taken by revolutionary zeal, as the left-wing intelligentsia holds protests and demonstrations in the Universities and other public places, attracting thousands of supporters. Even many regiments in the Burmese Army now seem sympathetic to the revolutionary cause. Socialist revolution in Burma is now anything but imminent.

Continuing on with his tour of the Commonwealth, the newly-crowned Edward VIII proceeded to tour Australasia after leaving India. Arriving in Perth, then proceeding on to Adelaide, Melbourne and Canberra, before taking a detour to New Zealand to visit Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. Finally, he returned to Sydney - with the ships of the Royal Australasian Navy gathering for a Fleet Review by the King in the harbour - and then proceeded to Brisbane for a final farewell to the nation. In each city, attended by honour guards of local ANZAC veterans, the King met with local dignitaries, attended parades and festivals, and made public speeches celebrating the unity of the Commonwealth and the virtues of democracy.

While the King is visiting the Confederation, Curtin’s government finally reacts to the crisis at home and begins to counter the effects of Black Monday. Curtin’s Government would begin a massive economic campaign based off investments into public works, building numerous projects across the country while fighting back unemployment. The project was a success, and the Confederation’s economy seems to have resumed growth while unemployment had begun to fall, yet there are many steps still to be taken to restore the economy.

Upon signing the Muscat Treaty of Security and Commerce, Iran and Oman expand their definition of territorial waters to 12 nautical miles, effectively putting the strait under direct Iranian protection, who only now allow for the passage of merchant ships. The treaty would also establish a joint customs union for both nations, with Iran and Oman accepting to raise import and export tariffs on all nations with the notable exception of Japan, Germany and the French Empire. Both also agree to allow for the free passage of religious pilgrims between both nations. Furthermore, the treaty would also establish the Musandam Peninsula as a autonomous region of Oman, with a small port, located north of the village of Khasab, being permanently leased to Iran.

The Iranian government would also make generous investments into the development of Oman, alongside Japan and Germany, giving generous amounts of monetary aid, as well as sending professional personnel (such as engineers) to assist in the construction of roads and infrastructure across the country.

In their leased plot, the Iranians begin the construction of the Ahmed Shah Naval Base just north of Khasab. Several defense constructions are built around the natural harbour, consisting mainly of casamates and powerful gun batteries.

The treaty of Iranian-Azerbaijani friendship would be signed by both nations, bringing several new provisions to stake. Besides guaranteeing free trade and free movement between two nation, Iran would pledge to establish autonomous territories along the Iranian border where freedom of religion would be fully implemented. This would lead to the establishment of the Autonomous Province of Iranian Azerbaijan, which was given not only a local government but guaranteed seats in the nation’s Majilis. Local Kurdish villages loyal to Tehran would be allowed to form small regional assemblies to address local issues relating to their people. Similar rights were given to villages inhabited by Armenian Christians and the southern region of Balochistan would be given a reasonable measure of autonomy to deal with local social issues. The Shah’s popularity soars, as well as the government, seen as progressive and embracing the plurinational status of the country with open arms.

As stated by the treaty, the Iranian Government would also buy approximately one third of the Azerbaijani owned shares of the Islamic Azerbaijani Oil Company, which is currently engaging in a massive project to nationalize the vast majority of the oil fields found in Baku. The Iranians would begin to make due investments into the Company, which granted them great access to their pipelines as well as other resources, increasing the state’s oil revenue significantly.

Following the agreements with the Azerbaijani Republic, the Shah requests that the Ayatollah appoint a new, Azerbaijani Ayatollah from his own group of clerics. The Ayatollah does so, and the Azerbaijani Government officially recognizes his new role.

After many months of secret negotiations, most members of the Armenian Revolutionary Front decide to lay down their weapons and accept a ceasefire with the Iranian government, now offering the Front the opportunity to be completely legalized as a legitimate political party. With such promises, and the recent efforts to increase autonomy for minorities within the expansive state, most accept and lay down their weapons, yet a minority refuse to, and return to the hills to fight against the Shah and his ‘Forces of malign oppression’.

The Shah decrees the formation of the Fetayn, a nation-wide paramilitary group composed of young volunteers rallied into action by the local assemblies. This new volunteer corps fanatically loyal to the Shah and the whole of the Expansive State would be tasked with securing public order, leading several volunteer projects like bridge-building and fire-fighting and enforcing religious morality laws all over the nation. They would undergo several initiation rituals, and learn a wide variety of skills, including, but not limiting to, a wide variety of Iranian martial arts, always under the guidance of a religious commissar and a nationally-appointed officer from the Imperial Islamic Guard. One of the first jobs of the Fetayn? Hunting Totalists.

The young guards, alongside the National Police and the Islamic Guard, carry out several operations, arresting the family members of hundreds of suspected totalists, and interrogating them in order to discover their whereabouts. While some families denounced their family members (in exchange for state protection), leading to a few arrests, to the Shah’s disgrace, the majority of the Party’s Political Bureau continues at large, hidden from the gaze of the Islamic State.

The Iranian Navy would begin several training maneuvers alongside the Japanese Navy now found in the straits, while on land, a new unit would be recruited into the Imperial Army, and another one would be mobilized, all actions which rose some serious eyebrows in Istanbul. While in Kurdistan, the Iranian army continues to secure the territory, now under slightly more peaceful conditions, yet still suffering from some resistance, albeit at a reduced level.


In the meantime, the Shah, as busy as he was, would find time to establish the Big Cat Preservation Society, an international society dedicated to the protection of big cats all over the world, with many nations, such as Russia, the Bharatiya Commune, the French Empire and even Qing applying for membership.

At the end of August however, one event would happen which would once again spark the flames of conflict in the Middle East, a flame mostly extinguished since the end of the Weltkrieg, but now seeming to come back at full force.

Egyptian Royal Police officers would uncover a apparent ring of Turkish espionage among the Egyptian labourers working and living along the German-controlled Suez region. Upon questioning by the authorities, the Turks would expose a large plan by the Ottoman Government to send small cells of political agitators into egypt to advocate for political change and the establishment of a new, pro-Ottoman Monarchy in place of the current one. Such claims would be proved a few days later, when several Turkish agitators would be caught and imprisoned by Egyptian soldiers in Port Suez.

While no former action has yet been taken by any nation, the Shah immediately calls to action his new intricate web of allies, ranging from Oman to the new Bonapartist Government in the Algiers. Egypt prepares for war, and begins to move its troops to the Canal Zone. The Azerbaijani government mobilizes its troops, and begins to prepare for possible war against the turks. The nejd begin to raid the southern territories of the Ottoman Turks, leading to several deaths. The Ottomans denounce the whole plot as “another example of Iranian deceitfulness”, but state they are prepared to go to war, if necessary, to defend their integrity.

After several months of diplomatic proposals by the Canadian government, it is announced that a conference will be held in Toronto, with representatives of several major nations, including the Entente members, plus Germany, Japan and Russia, publicly invited to attend - though no German representative appeared. The attendees then signed the Treaty of Toronto, declaring themselves the founding members of the Concord of Nations, a permanent international forum that intends to see the world "made safe for every peace-loving nation which wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression". Despite this rhetoric, its charter specifies that it is not a military alliance, and its provisions are instead focused on protecting human rights, international co-operation and diplomatic solutions to conflicts.

With the King Crowned and Black Monday under control, the Canadian Government sets forward to prepare and pass the much expected C-7 Bill, a sweeping, bi-partisan piece of legislation that aimed at tackling several issues within the nation and setting it in the path of which it will follow for the next years to come.

The first part would deal with the development of the Canadian Army. Following the example set forward by General Arthur Currie, one of the most respected figures within the Canadian Military and veteran of the Weltkrieg, who through his research determined that a modern and mobile infantry was key to victory in the current stage of warfare. Curries doctrine also called for a greater government effort to maintain the troops supplied with ammunition, supplies and etc. as well as for the better integration of artillery, anti-tank personnel and reconnaissance units within infantry regiments. The same section of the bill would also call for the beginning of the development of the Canadian Parachute Regiment, which is set to eventually expand into full blown division size (Developed Infantry Tech to 4).

The bill would also call for the development of a more modern rifle for the standard Canadian infantryman, replacing the current Enfield-Ontario No. 4 bolt-action rifle for a new weapon. The bill would call for the contracting of John Inglis & Co, a well known Canadian arms manufacturer, to do the job in crafting the new weapon.

The bill would further call for the expansion of the Canadian army, calling for the recruitment of 2 new units into the army, primarily out of fear from the instability taking place in the United States and the recent threats echoed from Mexico. While an expansion of the army is expected, Prime Minister King ensured the nation that it is to be made of entirely volunteers, stating that conscription is not necessary, and should not be the focus of the government. Another section of the bill called for the integration of the British Exile Army into the Canadian Armed Forces, albeit with the Exile force retaining a good autonomy over itself and its own chain of command.

The bill would call for a centralization of Canada’s intelligence and security apparatus, merging the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Special Branch with the old MI5 and MI6 departments of the old United Kingdom into one intelligence body. The bill was certain to state that the only use of this body would be for the protection of the state, primarily against syndicalism, and not to be used against the people, even so far as suggesting the appointment of the Quebecois Liberal lawyer Louis-Étienne St-Laurent to oversee the department and make sure it would not infringe upon the civil rights of any Canadian.

After much discussion and reviewing, the C-7 bill would be voted and passed by Parliament, defining Canada’s new defense policy for good.

The Canadian Parliament would vote for the establishment of a Parliamentary Social Credit committee, whose aim would be to study the implementation and effects of the new and radical socio-economic measures established by the Social Credit Party government in the province of Alberta. The committee would observe the reforms, and its due effects in Alberta’s society, in order to study the possibility of having similar reforms be established on a Federal level across the whole of Canada.

As part of the Victory Programme currently being carried out by the government, Prime Minister King would order for the closure of the ‘Unemployment Relief camps’ established during the old conservative government, that forced unemployed men to work in hard labour jobs for almost no pay while enduring harsh conditions. Rather, a new plan would be enacted by parliament to replace this one. It would be a Federal Apprenticeship Scheme, where employers who took in unemployed workers as apprentices and taught them the way of their trade would receive a generous tax relief for every worker they took on. The project would be implemented by the government, and prove to be a resounding success, improving both Canada’s recovering economy as well as the people’s standing with the government, who now actually seems to care.

The Foreign Office of the Union of Britain would make an immense investment into developing the rich mineral deposits found in Mexico. Alongside Zapata’s government, hundreds of new mines are open and thousands of mexican labourers are mobilized to work, improving the nation’s economy and the general output of mineral wealth to both Mexico and their other partners in the Internationale.

With an active threat to the south of the Mexican border, the American Congress reviews the MacArthur defense bill that called for an expansion of the American Armed Forces, and in a bipartisan effort spearheaded by the leadership of both the Democratic and Republican parties, the bill would be passed, with strong opposition from the CSA members of congress, and a large resistance from many AFP delegates. Now the country would be better prepared to counter a Mexican threat.

Congress would also take further measures against Mexico, this time decreeing an embargo on any and all Mexican trade, including the end of its purchases of Mexican oil. The Department of State states that the embargo on Mexico is to remain in place until the Mexican Government chooses to deescalate and tone down on its aggressive rhetoric.

2 fleets of the US Navy in California are also mobilized and deployed to the coast close to Mexico, where they are tasked with preventing any sort of Mexican smuggling into the USA, especially related to political agitation of any type.

Congress also passes a relatively small bill, increasing infrastructure spending. The bill is small and invests a very small amount of money, generating little change.

Amidst Reed’s electoral campaign, Alexander Berkman, original leader of the American Syndicalist movement, dies following a stroke. In a heartfelt ceremony in Chicago which attracted thousands of workers, Reed would deliver a monumental speech, calling for change in the country and the furthering of the Syndicalist ideal. Shortly thereafter, Reed is elected the new Chairman of the Combined Syndicates of America. A new General-Secretary, to fulfil Reed’s old post, must still be elected.

In the same speech, Reed would denounce the America First Party as a anti-proletarian, oppressive organisation responsible for the deaths and wounds sustained during the labour strikes. He would also hold the Federal Government responsible for the harsh crackdown on protesters, calling them “An Instrument of Germany”, which would be received by frantic chants of “Hang the Kaiser!” and “Break the Chains!” from the crowd. The CSA would continue Reed’s rhetoric, using it to fuel a massive propaganda campaign. A Lot of the propaganda was targeted at the south, focusing in African american communities.

Of the propaganda efforts, emphasis was also put in swaying the heart of the impoverished, midwestern farmers, with Reed calling for the establishment of ‘Farmer’s Syndicates’ and for a rallying up of agrarian america against the forces of capitalism. While the CSA’s efforts were successful, even establishing small self defense groups, the heart of the Midwest remains divided between the Democratic Party and Long’s AFP.

Reed’s first new measures would be to expand the paramilitary groups by two units, recruiting young and mostly unemployed workers to join the CSA’s defense force.

As the United States goes dark with political divide, the elections loom. The results remain cloudy and uncertain. Will one of the traditional parties, the Democrats of the ruling Republicans take the Presidency? And attempt their best to maintain the status quo? Or will one of the new political forces, Reed’s syndicalists or Long’s populists, take the helm of the nation? Or even, would another force, unaccounted for by the Media and by most Americans, step in to try to save the nation from this radical possibility of change, that may well tear this old union asunder.

The Union of Britain would also provide large amounts of military aid to the Socialist Republic of Centroamerica, sending large amounts of modern military weapons, such as new rifles and new artillery pieces, as well as groups of advisors, to assist them in organizing their forces for any future conflict.

Zapata’s government would continue in its crusade against the American foe. Zapata would give a big speech in Mexico City, calling for the expropriation of all American Oil installations in Mexico, which at that point were already crawling with Zapatista political commissars. Two units of the Mexican Defense forces would be mobilized and immediately commanded to seize the installations across the country. This was done with no violence however, and any American national found by the army would be treated well, and then returned unharmed to the United States. The whole operation was well carried out, and received ecstatically by the people of Mexico.

The Mexican Army would then surround Cristero strongholds across the country and establish effective sieges. While they would not be attacked, the army would encircle their towns and set up checkpoints, investigating any sort of material going in or coming out, as well as interrogating anyone in transit. While there were reports of violence in certain areas, resulting in a few deaths, the Cristeros, faced by the full power of the army, would be left unable to do much.

After a few weeks, the Mexican Government would announce to its people that American weapons were indeed found entering several settlements in several instances, and had photographs of soldiers posing with the confiscated weapons in popular newspapers across Mexico, which further denounced American imperialism and intervention in Latin America.

A fleet of the German Navy would be deployed to the Gulf of Mexico, more specifically close to the port city of Veracruz, currently under the control of the anti-syndicalist and populist leader Lazaro Cardenas. Several dozens of smaller merchant boats flying German and Reichspakt member colours would be seen entering the port, unloading large amounts of supplies, mostly assumed to be military equipment.

One unit of the French Imperial Navy would be mobilized and deployed in the Caribbean. It would firstly drop off Emperor Napoleon VI in Port-au-Prince, where he would conclude a nationwide visit following the signing of the Franco-Haitian Treaty of Amity, with the objective of improving his standing not only with Haiti but with his African subjects as a whole, something which is done with success. However, the fleet was not only there to protect the Emperor…

Led by Admiral Darlan, commander of the Imperial Navy and leading figure within the Imperial circles, the Fleet would make its way south to the Gulf of Panama, where it would assist in the international coalition to re-establish peace in Panama following the Socialist revolution. The Japanese navy would also dispatch one Naval unit, including an aircraft carrier, from where they would launch several devastating but extremely efficient air attacks on the Panamanian Communards. The Canadian government would also mobilize two fleets, to be based off Kingston in Jamaica, that would also assist in the blockade of the Republic, a mighty task force composed of several battleships such as the Queen Elizabeth, the Iron Duke and the Royal Oak and one aircraft carrier, the Leviathan, whose airplanes would aid the Japanese bombers in bombarding Panamanian military positions across the land. The Royal Navy itself would bombard the Panamanian positions from the sea, resulting in great damage. A fleet of the Royal Australasian Navy, composed of the battleships HMAS Anson and HMAS Howe, alongside the fleet-carrier HMAS Albatross, would also be sent into the waters of Panama.

The German Empire would deploy its famed marines, well known for taking part in the bloody campaigns in China and South-east asia, to defend the Panama Canal from the Socialists. The French would do the same, stationing troops from the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment under the command of Raoul Magrin-Vernerey to defend the canal zone. A unit of the Japanese Army would also land to defend the canal zone, accompanied by several marine regiments. The Dominion of India would also send its best regiments of the infamous Nepalese Gurkhas to aid in the defense. Regiments of Canadian Marines would also be deployed to aid in the canal’s defense. A unit of ANZAC special troops, under the command of Major General Gordon Bennett, would also be mobilized to the canal’s defense.

The heavy presence of the International forces now defending the Canal, coupled with the incessant air bombardments carried out by the Canadians and the Japanese, disencourage the Panamanian People’s Army from carrying out any attempt of taking the Canal over, resulting in no attack and no interruption in the circle of international trade. The International coalition would in the end prove victorious over the forces of Syndicalism.

Despite deciding against an attack on the Canal, the Socialist Republic in Panama would continue to put forward their objectives. Land reform would be carried out, and several communes would be established, based on Zapata’s Mexican model. Several regiments, such as the Plotino Rhodakanty International Battalion, would arrive in the beginning right after the revolution, enfantically ready to defend the revolution to their deaths, the stream of volunteers would fall drastically however, upon the intensification of foreign navies in the surroundings of Panama which prevented new volunteers.

Following the successful seizure of Western Panama by the Central American forces, General Anastasio Somoza Garcia would march north to the capital city of Managua with the troops under his command and, with the help of his own Paramilitary force, the Guardia Nacional, would depose the government of President Carlos Alberto Brenes. Somoza would become the new President of the Central American Republic, as well as the leader of the Liberal Nationalist Party (previously led by Brenes). A vehement anti-socialist, Somoza is expected to take larger action against the growth of Socialism in Central America in the future.

Brazil holds an important Presidential election among a polarized political spectrum. After 4 years of a Progressive, Social Democratic government spearheaded by the Democratic Left party and the Mangabeira brothers, the people of Brazil would see fit to elect Getulio Vargas, leader of the National Republican Party, to the Presidency of the nation. His long standing companion, Osvaldo Aranha, would be elected as Vice President. Vargas, a conservative, wishes to put forth an aggressive campaign of Industrialization and development across the country, while winning the heart of the Brazilian worker by the passing of more modern labour regulations, while keeping him away from both the Syndicalism of the National Liberation Alliance and the rabid Nationalist populism of the Brazilian Integralist Action.

In the Paraguayan Social Republic, President Franco begins a massive project of land reform, confiscating immense swathes of land from landowners and dividing all of it into small communes, which were then populated by poor and mostly landless peasants, many of indigenous origin, who now hand some land to work in. This caused significant pressure with Argentina, as a very large majority of landowners in Paraguay were not Paraguayan, but were in fact rich Argentinian farmers, who were now forced out of their lands and back to Argentina. Families of landowners who resisted Franco’s efforts would be apprehended and lynched.

The Government in Buenos Aires, challenged by a strong Liberal opposition at home, and being influenced by socialist agitation from abroad, while being knocked down hard by the effects of black monday, would begin to take action to put its finances in order. The government would decree a large degree of measures in order to recover the nation’s economy, removing it from the gold standard and initiating several infrastructure projects, focused in the development of the rural, underdeveloped countryside, mainly through the construction of railroads and roads, and dams, to electrify the countryside. Promoted on all forms of national media, the campaign would prove a great success, and would resume economic growth in Argentina.

Following much discussion, several members of the Liberal Radical Civic Union Party of Argentina (that had held the government of the executive at the time of the Carles coup) decide to return from exile to Argentina to re-establish the party. While at first shocking to many, their reasoning would be made clear very soon…

The regime, in a surprising move, would announce that elections for the Argentine Presidency would be held in December, effectively ending roughly 1 year of Undemocratic, Patriotic League rule over the nation. While an election, the number of parties being allowed to run are relatively small and pre-permitted by the Patriotic League Government to do so, with no Syndicalist or Socialist Party being allowed to take part. Of the parties allowed to run there are: The Argentine Patriotic League, currently in power, with its candidate being Pedro Christophersen, the National Democrat Party, with Guillermo Rothe as its candidate, the Concordancia Party, with Ramón Castillo as its candidate, the New National Autonomist Party with Lisandro de la Torre as its candidate and for last, the Radical Civic Union, with Marcelo T. de Alvear as candidate. Let us wait and see what the results of these elections will bring.

The Patriotic League government would also dissolve the Pan-Argentine Labour union, seeing its obvious failure to insert itself in the labour environment in Argentina. Rather, the government would choose instead to legalize Trade Unions which were not associated to radical syndicalist and socialist organizations.

-German Empire-
Kaiser: Wilhelm II
Chancellor: Franz Von Papen
Ruling Party: German Conservative Party (Authoritarian Democrat)
Player: Zar
Domestic Popularity: Moderate
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 10/10 (20 Reserves) [-100 Active Maintenance, -100 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 5/5 (5 Reserves) [-50 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 9/10 (6 Reserves) [1 in Gulf of Mexico, -100 Active Maintenance, -30 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 4, Artillery 4, Tanks 3), Air Force Capability 4: (Fighters 4, Bombers 3, Transports 3) Naval Capability 4: (Carriers 2, Submarines 4, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences: [M] Siegfried Line, [F] Malta Fortifications, [L] Suez Canal Zone, [L] Singapore Defences, [L] Tsingtao Defences
Economy: +445
Debt: 2500/4600
Credit Income: +165 [+40 Allied Trade, +40 Colonial Trade, +45 International Trade, +15 Suez Canal, +10 Malaysian Rubber, +15 Romanian Oil, +10 Belgian Tribute, +10 Belarus Tribute, +15 United Baltic Duchy Tribute, + 25 Ukraine Tribute, +20 AOG Profits, +20 Brest-Litovsk reparations, -15 Persian Oil Imports, -125 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Syndicalist Terrorism, Ceylon Ethnic Tensions, FAUD Activity, Tensions with Internationale, Special forces in Panama
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FAUD
Sphere: Neutral (British)
Ideology: Radical Socialism
Army: 1
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German Syndicalist Movement
Sphere: French
Ideology: Syndicalist
Army: 1
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Indochinese Aspiration Society
Leader: Ho Chi Minh
Sphere: French/British
Ideology: Radical Socialism/Indochinese Independence
Army: 1

-Russian Republic-
President: Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov
Prime Minister: Vladimir Purishkevich
Ruling Party: October 17 Union/People’s State Party Coalition (Paternal Autocrat/Authoritarian Dem.)
Player: Zhukar
Domestic Popularity: Very Low
International Popularity: Moderately Low
Army: 10/10 (30 Reserves) [-100 Active Maintenance, -150 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 2/2 (2 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 2/2 (1 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 1) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 1, Warships 1) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: Winter Warfare
Defences: [F] Kronstadt Fortifications
Economy: +245
Debt: 0/3250
Credit Income: +55 [+20 Allied Trade, +20 International Trade, +35 Siberian Natural Resources, -20 Brest-Litovsk Reparations]
Conflicts and Issues: Rural violence, Rising Bolshevik activity
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Bolsheviks
Leaders: Mikhail Bukharin (Syndicalist wing), Mikhail Tukhachevsky (Totalist Wing)
Sphere: Neutral (French)
Ideology: Syndicalism/Totalism
Army: 3
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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People's Republican Party of Russia (NaResPa)
Leader: Boris Savinkov
Sphere: Neutral (Russian)
Ideology: National Populism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Commune of France-
Chairman: Benoit Frachon
Premier: Boris Souvarine
Ruling Party: Travailleurs (Syndicalist)
Player: Marankara
Domestic Popularity: Very High
International Popularity: Low
Army: 3/11 (19 Reserves) [8 in border with Germany/Flanders-Wallonia, -110 Active Maintenance, -95 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 4/4 (3 Reserves) [-40 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 2/2 (2 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance] [2 under construction, Jan 1937]
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 3, Artillery 3, Tanks 4), Air Force Capability 3: (Fighters 3, Bombers 3, Transports 2) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 2, Submarines 2, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences: [M] Verdun Line
Economy: +410
Debt: 0/3550
Credit Income: +160 [+15 Allied Trade, +15 International Trade, +10 French Agriculture]
Conflicts and Issues: Tensions with the German Empire, Tensions with Switzerland
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Sorelian Faction
Leader: Georges Valois
Sphere: Neutral (French)
Ideology: Totalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Union of Britain-
Chairman: Arthur Horner
General-Secretary: Arthur Greenwood
Ruling Party: Federationists/Congregationalists (Syndicalist)
Player: Flamelord
Domestic Popularity: High
International Popularity: Moderately Low
Army: 2/2 (5 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 3/3 (5 Reserves) [-30 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 5/5 (4 Reserves) [50 Active Maintenance, -20 Reserve Maintenance] [3 under construction, Jan 1937]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 2, Artillery 3, Tanks 3), Air Force Capability 4: (Fighters 4, Bombers 3, Transports 3) Naval Capability 4: (Carriers 4, Submarines 3, Warships 4) Other: Atomic 1, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: MAX, Improved Heavy Fighters
Defences: [F] Scapa Flow Naval Base
Economy: +340
Debt: 0/3100
Credit Income: +200 [+15 Allied trade, +10 International Trade, +10 British Coal, -5 Mexican Oil Imports]
Conflicts and Issues: Regionalism, Tensions with Irish Republic
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Maximist Faction
Leader: Oswald Mosley
Sphere: Neutral (British)
Ideology: Totalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Empire of Japan-
Emperor: Hirohito
Prime Minister: Wakatsuki Reijirō
Ruling Party: Liberal Constitutional Democratic Party (Market Liberal)
Player: Snacks
Domestic Popularity: Somewhat High
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 3/7 (8 Reserves) [1 in Panama, 1 in Mongolia, -70 Active Maintenance, -40 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 4/4 (5 Reserves) [-40 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 5/6 (5 Reserves) [1 in Panama, -60 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 3: (Fighters 3, Bombers 3, Transports 3) Naval Capability 4: (Carriers 4, Submarines 3, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: Long-Range Naval Aircraft
Defences:
Economy: 305
Debt: 1000/3350
Credit Income: +105 [+35 Colonial Trade, +30 International Trade, +10 Japanese Zaibatsu System, +10 Korean Gold Mines, +10 Fengtien Tributes, +5 Transamurian Tributes, +5 Formosan Coal, +5 Fengtien Oil, +5 Sakhalin Oil, -50 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Severe Rural Poverty, Korean Independence Movement, Formosan Independence Movement, Military Influence in Politics, Tensions with Russia, Colonial Tensions with Germany, Special forces in Panama
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-Fengtian Government-
Grand-Marshal: Zhang Zuolin
Sphere: Japanese Puppet [-15 Tributes to Japan]
Ideology: Authoritarian Democrat
Army: 3 (+2 Japanese Units)
Air Force: 1
Navy: 1
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-Transamur Republic-
President: Alexander Kolchak
Sphere: Japanese Puppet [-5 Tributes to Japan]
Ideology: Paternal Autocrat
Army: 3
Air Force: 1
Navy: 2
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Sakai Taishuto (Social Masses Party)
Leader: Katayama Sen
Sphere: Neutral (Japanese)
Ideology: Social Democracy/Syndicalism
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-United States of America-
President: Herbert Hoover
Vice-President: Charles Curtis
Ruling Party: Republican Party (Market Liberal, Federalist)
Player: Interested Party
Domestic Popularity: Low
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 0/1 (5 Reserves) [1 in Panama, -10 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: Air Force: 1/2 (2 Reserves) [1 in Panama, -20 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 0/8 (3 Reserves) [4 on East Coast, 2 on West Coast, 2 on Mexican coast, 1 in Panama, 1 in Hawaii, -80 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 3: (Fighters 2, Bombers 3, Transports 3) Naval Capability 4: (Carriers 3, Submarines 3, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences: [L] Panama Canal Zone, [L] Guantanamo Bay, [F] Pearl Harbour Naval Base
Economy: 415
Debt: 1500/5000
Credit Income: +95 [+30 International Trade, +5 Colonial Trade, +15 Panama Canal Tolls, +10 Texan Oil, +10 Californian Oil, -40 General Strikes, -40 States Not Paying Federal Taxes, -25 Dust Bowl, -25 Mass Unemployment, -75 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Politically Polarised Population, America First Militias, Combined Syndicates Militias, Tensions with Mexico
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America First Party
Leader: Huey Long
Player: Xaph
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: National Populist, Unionist
Army: 2
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Combined Syndicates
Leader: John ‘Jack’ Reed
Player: Soldaten161
Sphere: Neutral (French)
Ideology: Syndicalist
Army: 2
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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West Coast Tax Protest
Leader: Frank Merriam
Sphere: Neutral (American)
Ideology: States’ Rights, anti-Federal Taxation levels
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 3 (loyalties of sailors in US Pacific Fleet)
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Hawaiian Independence Faction
Leader: Henry Baldwin
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Independence
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Canada-
King: Edward VIII
Prime Minister: Mackenzie King
Ruling Party: Liberal Party of Canada (Market Liberal/Social Liberal)
Player: Serenissima
Domestic Popularity: Very High
International Popularity: Moderately High
Army: 2/2 (5 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 3/3 (4 Reserves) [-30 Active Maintenance, -20 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 3/5 (4 Reserves) [2 in Panama, 50 Active Maintenance, -20 Reserve Maintenance] [3 under construction, Jan 1937]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 3, Tanks 3), Air Force Capability 3: (Fighters 3, Bombers 3, Transports 3) Naval Capability 3: (Carriers 3, Submarines 2, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: Royal Navy Veteran Officers, GEC, New Service Rifles
Defences: [L] Vancouver Coastal Fortifications, [L] Ontario Province Border Checkpoints, [F] Halifax Royal Naval Dockyard, [F] Falklands restored fortifications
Economy: +335
Debt: 1000/2900
Credit Income: +190 [+30 Allied Trade, +25 International Trade, +10 Caribbean Federation Cash Crops,+10 Trinidad Oil, +10 Canadian Timber, -20 Exiles Upkeep, -50 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Pressure from Exiles, Socred Dissent, Quebec Opposition to Conscription, Special forces in Panama
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United Kingdom Exiles
Leader: Edward, Prince of Wales
Sphere: United Kingdom (Canadian)
Ideology: Royalism, Reconquest of British Isles
Army: 2
Air Force: 0
Navy: 1 (loyalties of sailors in Royal Canadian Navy)
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Pan-Canadian Social Credit League (‘Socreds’)
Leader: John Blackmore
Sphere: Neutral (Union of Britain)
Ideology: Radical Socialist
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Australasian Confederation-
Governor-General: William Birdwood
Prime Minister: John Curtin
Ruling Faction: Australasian Labour Party (Social Democratic)
Player: Useful Dave
Domestic Popularity: Moderate
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 1/2 (5 Reserves) [1 in Panama, -20 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 (2 reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve maintenance]
Navy: 2/3 (3 Reserves) [1 in Panama, -30 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve Maintenance] [3 under construction, Jan 1937]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 3: (Carriers 3, Submarines 2, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: Royal Navy Veteran Officers, GMZ
Defences:
Economy: 205
Debt: 500/2200
Credit Income: +130 [+30 Allied Trade, +25 International Trade, +10 Australian Cattle, -25 deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: New Guard crisis, Syndicalist Unrest
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Australasian New Guard
Leader: Eric Campbell
Sphere: United Kingdom (Australasian)
Ideology: National Populist/Royalist
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Centre Party
Leader: Charles Vyner Brooke
Sphere: Neutral (Australasian)
Ideology: Independent Royalist (anti-Entente)
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Third French Empire-
Emperor: Napoleon VI
Prime Minister: Charles de Gaulle
Ruling Faction: National Rejuvenation Movement (Authoritarian Dem.)
Player: Smyg
Domestic Popularity: Somewhat High
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 4/4 (1 Reserves) [-40 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 (1 Reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance] [1 under construction, Jan 1937]
Navy: 0/1 (3 Reserves) [1 in Panama, -10 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve Maintenance] [1 under construction, May 1937]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 3), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 3, Transports 2) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 2, Submarines 2, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: Tropical Warfare, Desert Warfare
Defences: [F] Defences around Andorra
Economy: +165
Debt: 1000/1800
Credit Income: +110 [+30 Allied Trade, +10 International Trade, +15 Dakar/Oran Ports, +10 Legation Cities Dividends, -50 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Tuareg Tribal Unrest, Tensions with Mittelafrika, Special forces in Panama
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Tuareg Tribes
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Tribalism, anti-French
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Delhi Government-
King-Emperor: Edward VIII
Prime Minister: V. S. Srinivasa Sastri
Ruling Party: Indian Liberal Party (Market Liberal)
Player: MTFD
Domestic Popularity: High
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 0/4 (8 Reserves) [1 in Nepalese frontier, 3 occupying Afghanistan, -40 Active Maintenance, -40 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 (2 Reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve maintenance]
Navy: 1/1 (0 Reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance] [1 under construction, Jan 1937]
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 3, Transports 2) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 1, Submarines 2, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: Gurkhas
Defences: [L] North-West Frontier Border Forts
Economy: +195
Debt: 500/2100
Credit Income: +110 [+30 Allied Trade, +10 International Trade, +10 Delhi Textiles, -25 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: 5th Anglo-Afghan War, Suzerain Princes Resisting Integration, Afghan resistance, Tensions with Bharatiya Commune, Special Forces in Panama, Refugee crisis
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Suzerain Princes
Leader: Maharaja Muhammed Shuja Al-Mulk
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Opposition to centralisation, retaining their own power and wealth
Army: 3
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All-India Trade Union Congress
Leader: Diwan Chaman Lall
Sphere: Bharatiya
Ideology: Syndicalism
Army: 1
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-Bharatiya Commune-
President: Lala Lajpat Rai
Prime Minister: Narenda Deva
Ruling Party: Bengali Socialist Party (Syndicalist)
Player: Flaming Bolshevik
Domestic Popularity: Moderately High
International Popularity: Low
Army: 3/4 (5 Reserves) [1 around the Commune on Anti-Muslim incursions, -40 Active Maintenance, -25 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 (0 Reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance]
Navy: 0/0 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 3, Artillery 1, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 1, Submarines 1, Warships 1) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +205
Debt: 0/2000
Credit Income: +155 [+10 International Trade, +10 Allied Trade, +10 Bengali Tea]
Conflicts and Issues: Ethnic Tensions (Bengali Ethnic Rule), State Persecution of Religion, Tensions with Delhi, Tensions with Princely Federation, Refugee crisis
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Azad Hind Fauj
Leader: Subhas Chandra Bose
Sphere: Neutral (Bharatiya)
Ideology: Totalism
Army: 1
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Muslim League
Leader: H. S. Suhrawardy
Sphere: Delhi
Ideology: Islam, anti-secular
Army: 1
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-Princely Federation-
Head of the Council: Nizam Osman Ali Khan
Ruling Faction: The Council of Princes (Noble Oligarchy)
Player:
Domestic Popularity: Low
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 6/6 (6 Reserves) [-60 Active Maintenance, -30 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 0/0 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 0/0 (0 Reserves)
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 1, Artillery 1, Tanks 0), Air Force Capability 1: (Fighters 1, Bombers 1, Transports 1) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 0, Warships 1) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +170
Debt: 400/1950
Credit Income: +80 [+25 International Trade, +10 Princely Plantations, -10 Peasant Unrest, -20 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Lack of Industrialisation, Peasant Unrest, Tensions with Bharatiya Commune, Tensions with Germany
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Peasant Resistance
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Anti-Nobility, Anti-Taxation
Army: 3
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Qing Empire-
Emperor: Aisin-Goro Puyi
Premier: H. H. Kung (real power exercised by Wu Peifu, head of the army)
Ruling Party: Progressive Party (Authoritarian Democrat)
Player: Red John
Domestic Popularity: Moderate
International Popularity: Somewhat Low
Army: 5/5 (10 Reserves) [-50 Active Maintenance, -50 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 (1 Reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance] [2 under construction, Oct 1936]
Navy: 0/0 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 4 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 1, Warships 1) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: German Military Aid
Defences:
Economy: +365
Debt: 2000/3800
Credit Income: +110 [+25 International Trade, +10 Chinese Silk, -30 Corruption, -20 Unequal Treaties with Legation Cities, -20 Unfavourable AOG Trade, -100 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Tensions with AOG, Unequal Treaties, Republican Movement, Corruption
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Allgemeine Ostasien-Gesellschaft
Leader: Alexander von Falkenhausen
Sphere: German
Ideology: Corporatist
Army: 4
Air Force: 1
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Triad Syndicate
Leader: Big Ears Du
Sphere: Criminal Syndicates
Ideology: Crime
Army: 3
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Kuomintang
Leader: Wang Jingwei
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Radical Socialism, Republicanism
Army: 3
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-Republic of South Africa-
President: James Hertzog
Prime Minister: D.F. Malan
Ruling Party: National Party (Authoritarian Democrat)
Player: Coin
Domestic Popularity: Moderate
International Popularity: Moderately Low
Army: 1/1 (3 Reserve) [-10 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve maintenance]
Air Force: 0/0 [1 under construction, Oct 1936]
Navy: 0/0 (1 Reserve) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 1: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 1, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +185
Debt: 400/1800
Credit Income: +155 [+10 International Trade, +10 South African Diamonds, -20 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Apartheid, Liberal Opposition, Rhodesian Unrest, Tensions with Mittelafrika
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National Party
Leader: D.F. Malan
Sphere: Neutral (Dutch)
Ideology: Apartheid, Boer Nationalism
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Union Party
Leader: Jan Smuts
Sphere: Canadian (United Kingdom)
Ideology: Market Liberal, pro-Entente
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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African National Congress
Leader: Josiah Tshangana Gumede
Sphere: Neutral (French)
Ideology: Syndicalist, African Nationalist
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Austrian Empire-
Emperor: Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen
Prime Minister: Karl Renner
Ruling Party: Social Democratic Party of Austria/Radical Syndicalist Coalition (Social Democratic/Radical Socialist)
Player: Acecipher
Domestic Popularity: High
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 1/4 (2 Reserves) [3 in Bukovina, -40 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 (1 Reserve) [-10 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 2/2 (1 Reserve) [-20 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 3, Artillery 3, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 3, Transports 2) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 0, Submarines 3, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +190
Debt: 990/1900
Credit Income: +130 [+20 Allied Trade, +15 International Trade, +10 Austrian Chemical Industry, +10 Hungarian Taxes, +10 Bohemian Taxes, +5 Galician Taxes, +10 Galician Oil, -50 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Multi-Ethnic State, Looming 1937 Ausgleich Renegotiation,
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-Kingdom of Bohemia-
Minister-President: Jan Syrov
Sphere: Austrian Puppet [-10 Taxes to Austria]
Ideology: Social Conservative
Army: 1 Reserves
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-Kingdom of Galicia-Lodomeria-
Minister-President: Alfred Potocki
Sphere: Austrian Puppet [-5 Taxes to Austria, -10 Oil to Austria]
Ideology: Paternal Autocrat
Army: 1 in Bukovina
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-Kingdom of Bosnia-
Minister-President: Mehmed Spahko
Sphere: Austrian Puppet
Ideology: Authoritarian Democrat
Army: 1 Reserves
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-Kingdom of Croatia-
Minister-President: Vladko Macek
Sphere: Hungarian Puppet [-5 Taxes to Hungary]
Ideology: Authoritarian Democrat
Army: 1 Reserves
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-Kingdom of Hungary-
Emperor: Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen
Minister-President: Gyula Károlyi
Ruling Party: National Independence Kossuth Party (Social Conservatism)
Sphere: Austrian Puppet [-10 Taxes to Austria]
Player: DutchGuy
Domestic Popularity: Low
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 2/2 (3 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 [-10 Active Maintenance]
Navy: 0/0
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 3, Artillery 3, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 0: (Carriers 0, Submarines 0, Warships 0) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +165
Debt: 1000/1900
Credit Income: +100 [+20 Allied Trade, +5 International Trade, +10 Hungarian MÁVAG, +5 Croatian Taxes, -10 Taxes to Austria, -50 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Magyarization, Agricultural Trade War with Ukraine, Looming 1937 Ausgleich Renegotiation

-Socialist Republic of Italy-
President: Palmiro Togliatti
Chairman: Antonio Gramsci
Ruling Party: Syndicalist Union (Syndicalist)
Player: Sparkle
Domestic Popularity: Moderately High
International Popularity: Moderately Low
Army: 3/3 [-30 Active Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 [-10 Active Maintenance]
Navy: 2/2 [-20 Active Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 0, Submarines 1, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +160
Debt: 0
Credit Income: +135 [+15 Allied trade, +10 International Trade, +10 Po Valley industries]
Conflicts and Issues: Tensions with Neighbours, Anti-syndicalist sentiment, Organised crime

-Tsardom of Bulgaria-
Tsar: Ferdinand I
Prime Minister: Aleksandar Malinov
Ruling Party: Liberal/Radical Democrat Coalition (Market and Social liberal)
Player: Scorpion
Domestic Popularity: Somewhat High
International Popularity: Low
Army: 3/3 (3 reserves) [-30 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve maintenance]
Air Force: 2/2 [-20 Maintenance]
Navy: 0/0 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 2) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 0, Submarines 1, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies: Tensions with neighbours, Macedonian unrest
Defences:
Economy: +155
Debt: 800/1800
Credit Income: +120 [+25 International Trade, +10 Bulgarian Agriculture, -40 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues:
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Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
Leader: Todor Aleksandrov
Sphere: Neutral (Macedonian)
Ideology: Macedonian Nationalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-Polish-Lithuanian Commune-
President: Felix Dzerzhinsky
Chairman: Karl Radek
Ruling Party: Free Workers Party of the Commonwealth (Totalist)
Player: Carpe Verpa
Domestic Popularity: Moderate
International Popularity: Very Low
Army: 0/7 (1 Reserves) [3 in German border, 2 in Ukrainian border, 1 in Ruthenian border, 1 in Baltic Duchy border, -70 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 (1 Reserve) [-10 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 0/0
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 1) Naval Capability 0: (Carriers 0, Submarines 0, Warships 0) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +110
Debt: 780/1200
Credit Income: -15 [+5 International trade, -40 deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Left-wing Extremism, Agrarian Unrest
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Centralist Party
Leader: Władysław Sikorski
Sphere: Neutral (Polish)
Ideology: Paternal Autocracy, Nationalism
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Popular National Union
Leader: Roman Dmowski
Sphere: Neutral (Polish)
Ideology: National Populism, Nationalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0


-Kingdom of Spain-
King: Alfonso XIII Bourbon
Prime Minister: José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones
Ruling Party: Popular Action Party (Authoritarian Democrat)
Player:
Domestic Popularity: Low
International Popularity: Moderately Low
Army: 4/4 (4 Reserves) [-40 Active Maintenance, -20 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 2/2 (2 Reserves) [-20 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 1/1 (1 Reserves) [-10 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 2, Artillery 1, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 1) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 0, Submarines 2, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +160
Debt: 500/1900
Credit Income: +60 [+20 International Trade, +10 Spanish Oranges, -25 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: CNT-FAI Unrest and Terrorism, Carlism, Republican Movement
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Requetes
Leader: Manuel Fal Conde
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Carlism, Catholicism
Army: 2
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CNT-FAI
Leader: Buenaventura Durruti
Sphere: Neutral (British/French)
Ideology: Anarchism, Syndicalism
Army: 1
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Republican Left Union
Leader: Manuel Azaña
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: Liberalism, Republicanism
Army: 2
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-Republic of Ireland-
President: Michael Collins
Taoiseach: Eoin O’Duffy
Ruling Party: Tribe of the Irish Party (Authoritarian Democrat, de facto military rule)
Player: FireFly
Domestic Popularity: Moderately High
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 0/1 (2 reserves) [1 in Ulster, -10 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve maintenance]
Air Force: 0/0
Navy: 0/0 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 3, Artillery 1, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 1: (Fighters 1, Bombers 1, Transports 1) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 0, Warships 2) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +130
Debt: 400/1200
Credit Income: +60 [+5 International Trade, +10 Irish Peat, -10 ‘Economic War’ with Britain, -30 Ulster Unrest, -20 Deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Tensions with the Union of Britain, Conflict in Ulster, Repression of Protestants, Syndicalist and Socialist terrorism
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Soldiers of Destiny Party
Leader: Eamon de Valera
Sphere: Neutral
Ideology: National Populist
Army: 0
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Ulster Volunteer Force
Leader: James Craig
Sphere: United Kingdom (Canada)
Ideology: Ulster Unionism, Protestantism, Social Conservatism
Army: 1
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Republican Congress of Ireland/ People’s IRA
Leader: James Larkin
Sphere: Britain
Ideology: Syndicalism/Radical Socialism/Republicanism
Army: 2
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-United Mexican Peoples-
President: Emiliano Zapata
Head of the National Congress of Indigenous Peoples: Hermenegildo Azora
Ruling Faction: Zapatista (Radical Socialist)
Player: OYID
Domestic Popularity: Very High
International Popularity: Somewhat Low
Army: 0/3 (3 Reserves) [2 surrounding Cristerio holdouts, -30 Active Maintenance, -15 Reserve maintenance]
Air Force: 0/0 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Navy: 0/1 (1 Reserves) [-5 Reserve Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 3, Artillery 3, Tanks 2), Air Force Capability 1: (Fighters 1, Bombers 1, Transports 1) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 1, Warships 1) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +170
Debt: 0/1500
Credit Income: +150 [+10 Allied Trade, +10 International Trade, +5 Oil Exports to Britain, +10 Mexican Agriculture]
Conflicts and Issues: Pro-Clerical sentiments, Internal Unrest, Northern Unrest, Tensions with USA
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National Synarchist Union
Leader: José Antonio Urquiza
Sphere: Neutral (Mexican)
Ideology: National Populism, Nationalism, Clericalism
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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National Action Party
Leader: Manuel Gómez Morín
Sphere: Neutral (Mexican)
Ideology: National Populism
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Cristeros
Leader: Enrique Gorostieta
Sphere: Neutral (Mexican)
Ideology: Paternal Autocracy, Clericalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Hispanic League
Leader: Eustacio Garza Riverendia
Sphere: Neutral (Mexican)
Ideology: Paternal Autocracy, Race-based terrorism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Free Cities garrisons
Leader: Lázaro Cárdenas
Sphere: Neutral (Germany)
Ideology: Nationalist Populism
Army: 2

-United States of Brazil-
President: Getulio Vargas
Vice President: Osvaldo Aranha
Ruling Party: National Republican Party (Social Conservative)
Player: None
Domestic Popularity: Moderate
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 1/1 (2 Reserve) [-10 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 [-10 Active Maintenance]
Navy: 1/1 [-10 Active Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 2, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 1) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 0, Submarines 2, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences:
Economy: +125
Debt: 800/1550
Credit Income: +100 [+20 International trade, +5 Jaguar Pelts, +10 Brazilian Rubber, +10 Brazilian Coffee, -40 deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Tensions with Argentina, Countryside Violence
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Lieutenants’ Movement
Leader: Luis Carlos Prestes
Sphere: Neutral (Brazilian)
Ideology: Radical Socialism, Reformism
Army: 1 (plus covert members in Brazilian Army)
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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National Liberation Alliance
Leader: Edgard Leuenroth
Sphere: Neutral (Brazilian)
Ideology: Radical Socialism (+Totalist & Syndicalist branches)
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Brazilian Integralist Action
Leader: Plinio Salgado
Sphere: Neutral (Brazilian)
Ideology: National Populism, Integralism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0

-Argentine Republic-
President: Juan Bautista Molina
Vice President: Manuel Carlés
Ruling Party: Argentine Civic Legion (National Populism)
Player: profesordino2
Domestic Popularity: Moderate
International Popularity: Low
Army: 2/2 (1 Reserve) [-20 Active Maintenance, -5 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 1/1 [-10 Active Maintenance]
Navy: 2/2 [-20 Active maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 3 (Infantry 3, Artillery 3, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 2: (Fighters 2, Bombers 2, Transports 1) Naval Capability 2: (Carriers 0, Submarines 2, Warships 3) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences: [M] Countryside fortifications, [M] Andean fortifications
Economy: +145
Debt: 950/1400
Credit Income: +115 [+15 International trade, +10 Argentinian cattle, +15 Argentinian agriculture, -20 southern countryside unrest, -50 deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Tensions with Brazil, tensions with Chile, Patagonia Rebellion, Liberal opposition to regime
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Patagonian Rebels
Leader: Antonio Soto
Sphere: Neutral (Chilean)
Ideology: Radical Socialism/Syndicalism
Army: 2
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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General Confederation of Labour of Argentina
Leader: Ángel Borlenghi
Sphere: Neutral (French)
Ideology: Syndicalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Radical Civic Union
Leader: Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear
Sphere: Neutral (Argentinian)
Ideology: Social Liberalism/Social Democracy
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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-The Expansive State of Iran-
Shah: Hassan Shah Qajar
Prime Minister: Hassan Taqizadeh
Ruling Party: Islamic Union Party (Paternal Autocrats)
Player: Gesar
Domestic Popularity: Very High
International Popularity: Moderate
Army: 3/6 (2 Reserves) [3 deployd to Iranian Kurdistan, -60 Active Maintenance, -10 Reserve Maintenance]
Air Force: 0/0 (1 reserve) [-5 Reserve maintenance]
Navy: 1/1 [-10 Active Maintenance]
Technologies: Army Capability 2 (Infantry 2, Artillery 2, Tanks 1), Air Force Capability 1: (Fighters 2, Bombers 1, Transports 1) Naval Capability 1: (Carriers 0, Submarines 0, Warships 1) Other: Atomic 0, Rocketry 0
Specific Technologies:
Defences: [F] Ahmed Shah Naval Base defenses
Economy: +145
Debt: 700/1200
Credit Income: +85 [+20 International Trade, +30 Persian Oil, +15 Oil Sales to Germany, -35 deficit]
Conflicts and Issues: Kurdish and Azerbaijani nationalist movements, small Armenian resistance, Totalist extremism
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Totalist Party of Iran
Leader: Soleiman Mohsen Eskandari
Sphere: Neutral (Georgian)
Ideology: Totalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Armenian Revolutionary Federation
Leader: Sattar Khan (Azeri faction), Christophor Araratov (Armenian faction)
Sphere: Neutral (Azerbaijani/Armenian)
Ideology: Anti-Turkish, Socialism, Iranian Azerbaijani nationalism (Khan faction), Armenian nationalism
Army: 1
Air Force: 0
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Kurdish rebels
Leader: Simko Shikak
Sphere: Neutral (Kurdish)
Ideology: Kurdish Nationalism
Army: 0
Air Force: 0
Navy: 0
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Fetyan
Sphere: Iranian
Ideology: Paternal Autocracy, Iranian Nationalism
Army: 1

Winners of the “BLACK MONDAY” Headline reward, applicable in the coming turn:

Coin
Serenissima
Smyg
Carpe verpa
Flamelord


Winners of the “THE RISE OF THE LEFT” Headline reward, applicable in the coming turn:

Gesar
Coin
Acecipher
Smyg
Carpe Verpa
Flamelord
FireFly
Flaming Bolshevik

As for special winners, Coin gets 1 extra free action of his choice, Serenissima gets 1 free action of his choice, and Flamelord gets 2 free actions of his choice.

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