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[Mikkel Glahder]

Name: Free Republic of the Southern Hemisphere ​

Land Claim: Southern Argentina and Chile(The Northern border is: A straight line from Mar del Plata to Los Angelens in Chile)+South Georgia + Palmer Land (and the small islands beside it), Ellsworth Land and Rhodes Pennilsula.

Character or characters: President John Max (Social Liberal Party), Prime Minister Miguel Raminez (Social Democratic Faction) ((De jure leaders)). Commander Zeratul ((De facto leader)).

Government Style: "Semi-presidential Republic controlled and supervised in the shadows by the Brotherhood of Flames.

History: The "Free" Republic of the Southern Hemisphere emerged long time after the empire fell. A thriving republic with its own military, free elections and free speech. It quickly expanded to the southern parts of the globe where they took part of Antarctica and took South Georgia. A group of scientist, took, with government permission, a group of humans to Antarctica to make different, "test" on them. This was mostly genetic engineering. The medicine and other operations conducted on these were far to powerful for their bodies. Only one of the original ten survived. This man, who no longer resembled a human was called Zeratul. The origin and the meaning of the name is long gone. Deemed to powerful by the scientist, they froze him down and left the facility. 15 years later a big group of scientist once again took down to the facility and conducted human experiments to make a sort of super humans to serve in war. They succeeded and discovered a hidden sealed of wing in the facility. In here, they found a capsule, containing an alien looking thing. The label said: "Post-Human, Dangerous". They, naive as they were, let him out and gave him weapons. Zeratul, together with the other post-humans, created by the scientist, took control of the facility, just in time, that a revolution threatened the Republic. Zeratul rallied the thousands of Super Soldiers, know as the Brotherhood of Flames, to fight these rebels. They took to the mainland and started slaughtering the rebels. To thank them for this, the government gave Zeratul and his order the power of the country, if they could keep it hidden. They agreed. The state of the republic is stable. The state controls the civilians while the Brotherhood of Flames control the army and supervises the government and control it. All members of the Brotherhood has a stronger body structure and psychic abilities. They are not known by many, but they are considered the ruling class.

The Military:

The military on the ground has two wings. One are humans that is recruited. And one that are super-soldiers that often only helps out in difficult situations. All of the super-soldiers are member of the Dark Templar and are post-humans kind of.

A common foot soldier in the Army:

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A Brotherhood of Flames soldier:

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[Gorganslayer]

(Alex seeing as pluto isnt taking west australia can i extend my claim to their as well
EDIT: sorry i mean't terraferma)

 

[alkatraz777]

The Empire of the Pure (The Pure)

Land Claim: Southern India (or as much as I can if no one else is on the sub-continent) up to the Godavari.

Character or characters: Arch Prophet Raji Kar, High Templar Vadin Varma.

Government Style: "A Semi-Aristocratic Theocracy"

History:WIP

 

[Arrowfiend]

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Name: "The Prophet" (Real name unknown)

Cult name: The Brotherhood of Allah

Location: Mecca, Arabia

Background: The Prophet's early life and his real name is unknown, as he claims that knowledge of his past is "unnecessary to spread the truth to the people of the world." However, after adopting the guise of The Prophet in the 70's (25th century), he has quickly become a notable figure in the region. Although most of the religions of the old world had been stamped out in favor of the Imperial Religion, the Middle East and Arabia in particular remained a holdout for the nearly two thousand year old Islamic faith. As such, The Prophet claimed that he is the reincarnation of the original Islamic Prophet Muhammad. Like his alleged predecessor, he refuses to have any images taken of his actual face, making it hard to locate him; His fame (or infamy, depending on the person) is what identifies rather than his appearance. While on the exterior his cult is simply seen as reviving Islam, there is a much darker interior that only he and higher officials and the cult are aware of. Rumors have floated around that he worships a more powerful god than the Islamic Allah. However, any claims of the Prophet's insidious intent have yet to be proven at this time.

 

[Scrapknight]

History of the MEC, Part I
"The Coalition was forged in progress and quenched in order."
- General Henri Savarin, Commandant of Occitania​

The Coalition grew out of a military alliance of two post-Imperial states: the Provisional Government of Occitania and the Catalan Republic. Both were some of the oldest states in Europe, established just a few years after the Fall. Catalonia was an unstable democracy, dominated by its military and its remaining industry but still maintaining its democratic traditions. Occitania, on the other hand, was always a military dictatorship since the self-proclaimed “Count of Tolouse”, who proclaimed distant descent from the Emperor of Mankind, was overthrown in a military coup. The two states banded together, mostly to provide mutual defense against Iberian warlords and Algerian pirates. Soon after the fall, Morocco made contact with the allied states and offered to join them in the alliance. Morocco needed Occitan and Catalan men to deal with its own bandit problem, while Occitania and Catalonia needed the Moroccan navy to help ward off piracy. Thus, Occitania, Catalonia and Morocco became the first three member states of what was then termed the “Mediterranean Entente.”

The Entente carried on for about ten years, with the Commandant of Occitania, the President of Catalonia and the Sultan of Morocco each retaining their nations’ individual governments. However, when an Algerian cult purporting to worship the Black Pharaoh Nyalarthotep blew up a series of subway trains in downtown Fez, the Coalition retaliated with an all-out invasion of Algeria. The Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh was better organized and better armed than anyone expected, and in order to fight the wars, it was realized that better coordination was needed if any state had a chance of preventing sacrifice and dissolving into chaos. In a high-level meeting, the Mediterranean Emergency Coalition was born, a unification of the militaries of the three states. In what would eventually become the government’s tradition, the highest-ranking military officials in each country formed the Council of Commanders, which amongst themselves selected a Supreme Commander, who would serve for life as head of the military. The Coalition mandated that each member state devote at least 8% of their budgets to defense, and was soon awash in funds - and when the states saw how efficient the MEC was at getting the job done, they soon began outsourcing some of the functions of the State to the Coalition proper.

After a long and bloody campaign, the Algerian coast and later the interior were pacified by the Coalition. Algeria was essentially lawless at the time, so an ambitious Moroccan admiral named Ahmad Hassan got himself named Supreme Director of the State of Algeria and began to use soldiers under his command to personally administer the territory and carry out day-to-day governmental functions. Over time, as the bandits were brought to heel and the area was recolonized by Moroccans, Occitans and Catalonians, total stratocracy would show its weak points, but at the time, the Coalition took note at Hassan’s incredible efficiency. With the Algerian Campaign over, however, Coalition governments were beginning to question the Coalition’s continued necessity. The Algerian bandit problem had been resolved, for Morocco’s part, the Iberian warlords were becoming increasingly quiet, and Northern France was not yet a security concern. In response, in the last few years of the Algerian Campaign, the Coalition began developing an ideology of its own.

Warlordism, occultism, and banditry were common foes of all the Coalition states, and many of the weak post-Fall states were incapable of containing them. None had militarized to the degree of the MEC, and Coalition propagandists and their allies in the national governments painted military rule as the only effective means of restoring order to Europe. The Algerian campaign was seen as a proof of concept of this idea, and eventually other bits were added in, including the army’s ranks serving as a form of meritocracy and social Darwinism where the only the strongest and most capable would rise to the top and survive. The cultures of the member states became increasingly martial. Occitania adopted the ideal of stratocracy with zeal, and while the king of Morocco had his reservations, as he was Morocco’s representative in the Coalition Council, he played along. Only in Catalonia was there any real organized resistance, and even then the political system warped around support or opposition of military rule (with the militarist party usually, though not always, winning.) Algeria, having known nothing but military rule, was obviously completely stratocratic already. Coalition leaders held up Algeria as the model all the Coalition’s other member states to follow.

Any military government worth its salt, of course, needs a war. As the Coalition gained power over the state governments, the decision was made to subjugate the city of Neo Carthage, a state associated with the troublesome Italian city-states that MEC commanders were not in a position to control. A blitzkrieg-style campaign through the desert was launched, and the Coalition pushed the Carthagenians to the gates of Old Tunis. However, in a rare moment of political unity, the Italian city-states banded together and declared war upon the Coalition instead of allowing their erstwhile ally to fall. Supreme Commander Adolfo Calderon jumped at the chance to bring Italy to heel; if he could do it, the Mediterranean would truly become the MEC’s “Mare Nostrum” (another slogan used to justify Coalition expansion.)


Other than the overrunning of Neo Carthage, the Italian War was essentially a stalemate, and at the Treaty of Turin the MEC was forced to recognize the status quo on the battlefield. Both sides had displayed exceptional military skill, but the Coalition had failed in its most basic goal of the war - to get at least a foothold in Italy and begin restoring one of the great cradles of civilization to its natural, progressive state. Calderon was reviled for his loss, both in the Coalition Council and in the lower ranks of the military. When the Council tried to pass a vote of noconfidence in Calderon, he did the natural thing and ordered the Council dissolved and its members arrested. This backfired for him, however - the other commanders had large groups of forces loyal to them, and a few of Calderon’s own Security Directorate men defected to the plotters. Calderon was arrested, court-martialed and executed for incompetence, treason, and a slew of other trumped-up charges.


The remaining commanders, however, declared that from this point on, things would be different. Calderon was a weak commander because of his association with Catalonia’s weak and divided state (he was a career politician before enlisting in officer training school.) The new Supreme Commander, Muhammad al-Misri, declared that the state governments would be formally dissolved into the Coalition and administered directly by military personnel. Occitania, Morocco and Algeria all agreed (appointing a Moroccan supreme commander sealed the deal for al-Misri and his allies to join the plot, and the King was “persuaded” to let it happen.) Tunisia only registered the faintest protests. Catalonia, however, was furious. A measure to officially dissolve the Catalan Republic, which by this point had become nearly totally co-opted by the MEC, was about to pass the Assembly when angry student protestors stormed the building, barricaded themselves inside, and refused to let anyone out until the bill was struck down. The Catalan president vetoed the legislation.

Catalonia was thus plunged into civil war. The Catalan Republican Army never really stood a chance; its ill-trained militiamen were no match for the MEC’s professional soldiers. The Catalan Rising was crushed in a week. Most of the perpetrators were captured and executed, but a few hardcore republicans fled to the Pyrynees, determined to end Coalition rule by any means. The CRA still operates today, but is really only a nuisance - until, that is, they broke into the headquarters for Project GEAR and broke out the participants, but that’s another story.

 

[lordmichael95]

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Name: Second Republic of Texas
Land Claim: New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and what’s left of Arkansas
Character or characters: President Sam Austin (VP and rest of the cabinet is WIP)
Government Style: Representative Democracy (with only a small amount of the population enfranchised)
Demonym: Texan
Capital: New Houston
History: The Second Republic of Texas began as a small city-state in the city of New Houston, which was formed two years after the devastating flood of 2450. The Second Republic of Texas was an oligarchy controlled by a council of twelve prominent members, what remained of the military and captains of industry, who ran the area anyways.

The Second Republic of Texas, under its first president, expanded across what was once the state of Texas over a fifteen year period. This expansion process was fairly peaceful, as the Republic was the only source of stability, safety, and technology in all of Texas. Thus, fellow Texans were quite willing to join the growing nation. Though that is not to say the Second Republic of Texas did not have to fight many battles during the Texas Reunification period.

During the Texas Reunification period, the Republic had to fight six of the seven Immigration Wars. The Immigration Wars were wars against invading barbarian tribes that came from Central and Southern America, as the tribes from these areas were trying to escape hellhole conditions of those failed areas. These conflicts would dramatically shape the opinion of all Texans. Though the tribes had nowhere near the level of technology that Texans did, the tribes did fight ferociously, leading to the deaths of many innocent Texans. From that point on, it became ingrained to the people of Texas that their nonwhite invaders were reflective of all nonwhite ethnicities. That nonwhite individuals were inferior to whites, and when possible, Texas should reduce the presence of nonwhites.

With the death of their first president, the Second Republic of Texas continued its expansion by invading the territory of the Oklahoma tribes. These tribesmen were treated far better than their nonwhite counterparts south of the border. In fact, these tribesmen were granted citizenship once they could prove to be law abiding members of Texas. Further expansion under the second president was halted however when the Seventh Immigration War broke out. Unlike past immigration wars, the Seventh Immigration War was a multiyear war, ensuring that the southern border of Texas became completely militarize with walls, barbed wire, guard towers, and patrolling troops with shoot-on-sight orders.

The third President of the Second Republic of Texas used diplomatic skill to annex the small Arkansas states. Promising a fleet to patrol their waters to fight off pirates, in exchange for joining the Second Republic of Texas.

The fourth president conducted a three-year war for the former state of New Mexico. The victory and annexation of New Mexico however revealed the weakness of the government structure of the Second Republic of Texas, which had not changed a great deal since its inception. In addition, the New Mexico successor state was semi democratic, leading to calls of reform. The president rectified these weaknesses by creating a Constitution, which gave badly needed structure of government and democratic freedoms to its citizens. Once senatorial elections were complete, and the next government selected, the fourth president resigned, allowing for the first democratic transition of power in the history of the Second Republic of Texas.

The fifth president would serve two six-year terms. Recognizing the need to improve the infrastructure and economic condition of the country, the fifth president would spend his two terms in office improving upon the existing territory of the Republic.

Now, forty-eight years since its creation, the Second Republic of Texas once again selected a new president and government headed by Sam Austin. With the economy of the Republic that a looking better than ever, perhaps it is time for Texas to once again expand its borders…

President and his Cabinet:
President: Sam Austin
Vice President: Mirabeau B. Lamar
Secretary of War: David Crockett
Secretary of State: Cordell Walker
Secretary of Economy: Howard Hughes
Secretary of Education: James Clark

Official Statements from the Second Republic of Texas:
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((I'll probably post Texas’ Constitution in a couple days))

 

[Galren]

((Texian? Whatever happened to Texan? Short, sweet, and not as awkward to pronounce.))

 

[lordmichael95]

((I pulled it from ever reliable Wikipedia, but I'll change it to make you happy Galren. Plus, they are not subject to Mexico anymore))

 

[Galren]

((Allright, looks fine to me, LM. But you better have nanomachines, son, or I'll duel you in Pakistan.))

((EDIT: Lordmichael, you better credit me with coming up David Crockett for you.))

 

[Noco19]

Rahmani Arabia​

Land Claim: The Arabian Peninsula
Character or characters: Khalid bin Rahman the Sheikh of Al Rahman; Iman Salman of the Mosques; Mustafa bin Khalid bin Rahman the Amir of Al Rahman
Government Style: Kleptocratic Dictatorship
History:

Try as the world might, the lands of the Arabian Peninsula clung to life, surviving both the disastrous floods and the fall of the Emperor who sought to impose his order upon the Arab tribes. Facing all sorts of persecution, from the anti-Islamic purges, to the general oppression of aspiring warlords, the various identities of Arabia, once strong despite the odds, shifted into a singular one, if only for cooperation. Working as one, the tribes and peoples that once quarreled banded together to adapt to this changing world.

And adapt they did, carving their place in the global scale. Though the nomadic Bedouin lifestyle had long been destroyed, and the old raiding and slaving ways of the old Islamic powers had been long dead, the Arabian people in fact readopted these with a modern twist. Rather than life through camels, ships and vehicles became the life source of the new Arabia, transport which would facilitate their raids on whoever was unfortunate enough to be captured and then sold. Androids and humans alike were targets, and from this lucrative lifestyle arose in a sense, new tribal identities, not centered around the old ways, but around the new resurgent Arab leaders, the chief slavers who made fortunes and established their personal holds.

These men would form loose societies of slavers and their families, but could not quarrel with one another and hope to survive. Thus, the need for some semblance of order arose, and was promptly filled by the wealthiest slavers, the upper crust of society, the one-percent top bosses who pulled the strings. And chief among them was a man known simply as Rahman, who had earned his status with the blood of many rivals and the transfer of countless slaves. When he rose to assume de-facto primacy, no one questioned it, because the alternative was grim. During this time, the title of Sheikh was granted to Rahman, at first as a joke, but then legitimized by Rahman and his supporters to truly establish his dominance. Sheikh Rahman reigned until his death, by natural causes, after which a great crisis arose in the upper echelons of this blooming Arabian state; who would succeed?

Following a tense period, the son of Rahman, Khalid, would emerge the victor of the internal bickering, much to the dismay of the other families. They feared what appeared to be blatant monarchy, the hereditary nature of leadership, but in the end, Khalid commanded similar respect that Rahman maintained, having inherited both wealth and skill. After a few announcements, and a select few men losing their heads, Khalid became the second Sheikh. While this state did not bear an official name, by now it was commonly refered to as Rahmani Arabia, for lack of a better name.

Now entering the modern year, Khalid has ruled for a long time, now a man of graying heir and aging body, and has groomed his son, Mustafa, in his image, again bringing fear of a potential monarchy. And news of a strange rebirth of Islam, with a stranger Prophet, sound from the Holy Cities, technically under the eye of Khalid's brother, "Imam" Salman, bring worry to the Rahmani state.

Will Khalid measure up to his father and keep the state together? Will Mustafa be strong enough to succeed his own father and truly establish hereditary control? Does this Prophet bring omens of disaster or opportunity to Al Rahman? Find at next time on...Shattered Earth!

 

[iisbroke]

Nation: Confederacy
Land Claim: Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky
Character: President George Abram
Government Type: Confederation
History: There is only one reason the Confederate States of America exist again, mutual protection. When the empire began collapsing a lot of the former territory became decentralized, as often happens with dissolving empires. These states were no exception. They worked together in much the same fashion they had for centuries under the empire and beforehand under the United States of America though they considered themselves independent for a time.

With the rise of the Second Republic of Texas and the Sovereign Commune of the Northeast it left these states with a sense of dread. The Northeast while not an aggressive force would most likely continue as a powerful trade nation as the region had historically been which greatly put the divided Southern economy at risk. Texas had proved its desire to expand and take over land and while it had only pushed west recently that could change at any moment.

Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia delegates discussed joining together into one nation. Deals were made, concessions made, and so forth. Not wishing to relinquish all of their power the states decided to revive the Articles of Confederation, which was the document used by the 13 Colonies during the American War for Independence, and the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Some modifications where made though so that the overall federal government had more power in military matters, along with other concessions as both aforementioned wars proved where the Articles of Confederation fell short.

Now the new Confederacy stands tall still trying to recover somewhat from the time of the great flooding, as the coastal areas were ravaged - the destruction of their sister state of Florida being a prime example. Their goals aren't entirely clear with the current administration of governors and congressmen, but they do seem to prefer maintaining what they have rather than attacking their neighbors.

Military:
The confederate military has two overall branches. The federal and the state. The state militia is controlled entirely by the governors of said state but in times of war can be given control of for the Federal government to use them to in tandem with the federal and other state armies. The federal military is of course the professional full time force of the nation and because its soldiers are full time they are much better trained on average. The Confederacy's strength is its army even though it has an airforce and navy.

 

[lordmichael95]

((Shouldn't it be the Confederate States of America if you are going for the whole "the South will rise again" thing?))

 

[alexander23]

GM NOTED:

MAIN threead is up. please repost your nation and any history etc you have made there. More will be filling it up as time past today and stats etc will be made
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/forum-game-shattered-earth.860317/

 

[Ironhide G1]

I'm fairly new to the forum(this is my first game on this forum), so I'm going to try my best:

Nation: The Holy League
Land Claim: All of Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and parts Jordan.
Characters: King Simon II, "The Defender"
Government: Kingdom
History:After the Mediterranean Federation took over Rome, and the great flood damaged the infighting fledgling Middle East even more, much of of the Arabs and Jews went away from the rising Mediterranean waters. A Catholic man named Simon, longing for a Catholic nation state, raised an army and took over the sparsely populated land. Without much resistance, he was able to establish a solid government, establishing a thriving small state with a powerful army, and preserving much of the ancient sites ruins that had become abandoned. In a now comfortable situation, This small state is not looking for outside conquest, and wants to remain at peace with all its neighbors- but not hesitating to defend what it has accomplished.

 

[iisbroke]

((Shouldn't it be the Confederate States of America if you are going for the whole "the South will rise again" thing?))

(I just went with the confederacy because its easier to say honestly. Just seems like saying the name should be the Confederate States of America instead is just nitpicking, even though yes they would most likely have that be their full nation title.)