The Pyrenean Century - (Jewish Alps - A Paradox Megacampaign AAR - Part3 - Victoria 3)

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1861-1866
The Deeps Pour Out​

Events
In the Pyrenean Union

-Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte became the de facto leader of the Conservative Party. People who did not want to associate with radical progress associated themselves with him. It was only a matter of time before he officially was nominated as the leader of the party for the next election. #Interestingly enough, on the left, people gained popularity by antagonizing him.

-With the Union having control over what used to be Yorubaland, the need to map the course of the Niger River fully arose. Most of the river was charted centuries ago, but the maps were since lost. General Leonhard de La Tour d'Auvergne Rousselot, despite his name suggesting noble ancestry, was a radical liberal of a family of university professors with some obscure noble blood. He was chosen for his spirit of adventure. Much had beset the man and his crew during the expedition, but it was ultimately a failure, as they ran out of supply and lost contact in the Sahel. #As we know, many famous novels were based off of his tragic fate.

Worldwide

- In 1866 the Krakatoa vulcano located on Dutch Java erupted, causing widespread famine and destruction all around the world. In the Union the after effects affected especially Morocco and Iberia, where forest fires spread across the outskirts of the State of Valencia. #The Krakatoa Eruption had a huge impact on human history. The famine it caused riled up political extremism and doomsday preaching, the art it inspired caused culture to evolve and the fear it struck became essential to the spirit of the man of the Pyrenean Century.

 

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-As the Union became more industrialized, great urban centres, like Paris, began to emerge as centres of radical republicanism. Socialism, a scarce ideology until then, had found fertile ground in the industrialized cities, where workers oppressed by the great magnates, heard the message, embraced it, and began organizing. #The rise of socialism and Louis-Napoleon would create a dangerous bomb which would endanger the very existence the Union.

-Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte became the de facto leader of the Conservative Party. People who did not want to associate with radical progress associated themselves with him. It was only a matter of time before he officially was nominated as the leader of the party for the next election. #Interestingly enough, on the left, people gained popularity by antagonizing him.

The centrists are going to be squeezed out by this growing extremism.

 

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The centrists are going to be squeezed out by this growing extremism.

Yes they will be. As soon as Gaspard died the Agrarian Party (could be considered centre-right populist), lost the elections and fell out of governance.

 

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Hello everyone! Now that I have time to advance with this, a huge piece will be coming out soon covering 20 years from 66-86!

 

[Nikolai]

Hello everyone! Now that I have time to advance with this, a huge piece will be coming out soon covering 20 years from 66-86!

Looking forward to that!

 

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So I have ran into a smaller issue: the save is incompatible with the newest version, so I will be continuing without the treaty mechanic.

 

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1866-1886
Trouble in Paris and the World At Large​

Events
In the Pyrenean Union

-Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte became the monster everyone despised. As he became wealthy, he became more uncaring. A fire in one of his factories killed all the workers there. He was arrested and doomed the Conservative Party to end. #Interestingly enough, the townfolk joined the cause of egalitarianism, particularly feminism, right after his death, abandoning conservativism all-together.

-This era was the era of reforms. Legislation had to be advanced to pre-Napoleonic levels. One contentious issue was the equal tolerance of cultures and races. Segregationist and racist laws had to be found and eliminated. While many would've preserved the status quo, the enactment was successful. #Under the Bernier cabinet, many such reforms were accomplished.

-The first feminist concessions came in 1868, when women were constitutionally guaranteed the right to work. While not much, President Darnien Bernier called it a great success. #Since Remillard leaving the presidency, President Bernier, himself a feminist, undertook many reforms to promote the equality of women.

-Around this time, the Republic organized colonial regions under Governor-Generals. Senegal was one of the bigger ones. This way the areas had some semblance of autonomy while being more closely linked to Kulturburg. #South Africa was granted the status of sister republic during this time.

-The sister republic of Argentina tried to rebel yet again, but they were put down quickly, with much help coming from the new sister republics of Uruguay and Chile. #Argentinian separatism would continue to remain strong for the rest of the century.
The Paris Commune

-Paris was a hotbed of extremism for quite a while by then. In 1871, the socialist stronghold revolted against the government in Kulturburg, claiming it betrayed the Republic, and named itself the Paris Commune. #During this time did socialist influence in the city solidify, until then it was a mess of revolutionaries and reactionaries.

-The military reacted quickly and brutally. When one of the forts surrounding Paris fell, the soldiers have massacred the communards. This riled up world socialism against the Bernier government, even though they had nothing to do with such bloodshed. #President Bernier publically condemned the act, but many did not believe him.

-The warfare between the communards and the government was mostly guerilla. Raids were exchanged and atrocities were commited on both sides. Even in Paris itself the socialists fought against the small business owners, who did not want to give up their livelihoods to the proletariat. #Primarily the failure to organize lead to the fall of the Commune.

-While radically socialist in nature, the Commune, probably out of spite, positioned itself on the side of the anti-feminists. While they denied women service, young boys were conscripted. Business was confiscated from their owners, taken by the workers. #Ironically, those who managed to avoid the post-Commune purges themselves became small business owners.

-The government finally breached Paris in 1874. The city quickly fell, communards were rounded up and executed for treason. The last term of Gaspard Remillard was proven to be a bloody term, as he had no mercy for rebels. #Gaspard Remillard served one last term under the revolt, since people sought his leadership skills after Bernier was publically proven to be inadequate to keep the military in control.
After the Commune

-While the Commune was crushed, people came to associate themselves with progressivism more and more. The popular anti-colonialist campaign held by Argentinian feminist Demetria Rosado shook the public. #From this point on, the Pyrenean government tried to better the life of the people in the colonies, but mostly to no avail.

-Yet again Remillard lost the presidency, and Bernier took it back. His cabinet passed a law restricting child labour, and a public pledge to persecute slavers and slavery on the colonies. #Remillard would never regain the presidency.

-The freedom of press was so strong in the Pyrenean Union that many books forbidden abroad were published here to be smuggled back to the home country. One such event even sparked a diplomatic incident with Germany (former Prussia), where an overtly anti-clerical book was printed in the Union and was smuggled right across the border. #As we will see, Prussia united Germany through iron rather than quill, and was rather authoritarian and Protestant in nature.

-The Bernier cabinet continued the reforms in 1877, with the total ban of child labour and the institution of women's suffrage. Such measures and great leaps could not be implemened flawlessly at first, but it was a mayor success. #The total end of child employment across the Pyrenean Union came with the decolonization process much later, and women were in some areas still denied to vote until 1906, when such practices became constitutionally persecuted.

-In 1881 Remillard died mid-campaign. Most remembered hims as a hero, the workers remembered him as a traitor, while some had seen him as a powerhungry megalomaniac. #After his death, the Agrarian Party soon lost all political influence and Rodrigue Gayrard became its leader, a rather egalitarian fellow who soon after merged with the Social Democratic Party, which had won the 1886 elections, getting him the Presidency.

-Émilien Vatin was among the most influential egalitarians of his time. He, together with like minded fellows like Baudet, had led women in a campaign to vote for the first time. #Conservativism was close to dead in the Union, there was no counter-push.

-Many of the egalitarian firebrands of the era, however, became known for their mental maladies. Such mental problems called into question their saneness to politicize, and the saneness of their ideology, ultimately being the only obstacle in the way for egalitarianism. #One of the most famous cases of this was Anicet Baudet, who was severely depressed to the point of having to retire from political life.

Worldwide

-1868 had seen the Pyrenean Union sending an expeditionary force to curb socialist excesses in the newly independent New Zealand. They could not see the monster they were about to create. Many condemned the attack as unconstitutional, but nevertheless, the first what could be considered a fascist regime, was born. #Later Lucian Downer, an English migrant to New Zealand, would become its first dictator, with the country defining its new and "white-skinned" Zealander identity based on race.

-In the sister republic of Zulu, much legislation was much more backwards than in the Union. This undermined the authority of Kulturburg, so Zulu was asked to comply. When they refused, they rebelled, sparking the revolt that would lead them to be apart of the South African sister republic later on. #This act was later deemed as "white-on-black racism" by many progressive thinkers, but our evidence to suggest that is very lackluster at least, if not non-significant.

-Switzerland became a constitutional monarchy from a republic. While their status as a neutral republic was respected, the new monarchy became open to geopolitics, and joined the Pyrenean Commonwealth as a constitutional monarchy. #The monarchy came out on top in a civil war were the republic lost due to its radicalism. Switzerland was ruled by the Zuckerkandl, a Jewish banking family based in Bern.

-King Adolf VI of Prussia had ruled Germany de facto for most of his life. However, the dukes were constantly looking for autonomy and to subvert his sovereignity. He became enraged and mobilized his army to demand loyalty. The Republic of Saxony joined him willingly due to the presence of the National Unitarian Party. Franconia, Bavaria and Hanover were conquered with iron. Swabia joined also due to the strong presence of the National Unitarian Party. He then marched his armies to Wien, where he dethroned the Habsburgs in a spectacle where the Habsburgs dissolved the Holy Roman Empire and acknowledged hims as the Kaiser of Germany. #The Haseldorf had to enact some compromises. That would be universal voting rights (even if the Kaiser retained most of the power) and limited concessions to Roman Catholics. The latter would mostly be ignored as South German separatism developed due to the persecution of Catholicism.

-As Britain stripped all rights from the Ethiopian monarch, it became clear that Africa was now owned by Europeans, and they would be the ones to decide the fate of the continent. However, much strife which was before between the natives is now between the Europeans. #These colonial squabbles would be resolved in the 1895 Conference of Budapest. This would not lead to contented imperialists, however.

-The Zulu, wanting their rights back, have rebelled in 1875. Their fight was put down, known to historians as the 2nd Zulu War for Independence. #It was not without fruit at least, since they gained significant autonomy as the Zulu Autonomous Region within South Africa.

-In Sichuan a huge anarcho-communist uprising broke out just before the rebellion in Paris. Even though the Chinese theocracy dealt with the revolt swiftly, it later inspired the Parisians to take up arms themselves. #Among the non-socialist public, the phenomena called the Red Scare, the fear of socialism spreading became prominent.

-The Chinese theocracy was proven to be a great power above Europeans. They defeated the revolt, and then launched a war to take back Southern China from the British. Russia, hoping to make China its protectorate, joined. Both European powers were horridly humiliated by China. #This was the war which made the Europeans recognize China as a great power.

Tensions are high. Will the Union continue its advance, or will the other world powers take advantage of ideological upheaval, and strike the Republic down?

 

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-The Chinese theocracy was proven to be a great power above Europeans. They defeated the revolt, and then launched a war to take back Southern China from the British. Russia, hoping to make China its protectorate, joined. Both European powers were horridly humiliated by China. #This was the war which made the Europeans recognize China as a great power.

China appears to have caught up technologically to the European powers (at least to a level that allows their population advantage to be used)

 

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China appears to have caught up technologically to the European powers (at least to a level that allows their population advantage to be used)

China was a republic for some decades, as the first revolution broke out in Korea back in EU4, so they allow more freedom in research than most European countries (Much of the bigger nations in Europe are still absolutist). Even if we view the current regime, as long as you don't insult the Patriarch of Beijing or the Huanist Church, you are free to research.

So yeah, they are on par tech-wise with the Europeans.

 

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Interlude
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Secret societies
by Prof. Obadiah Levin
Kulturburg University, 2005
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-It has been about a year I started writing about the Pyrenean Century. At the start, I frankly did not think much of it. I thought I was going to do some research, publish my studies in accordance with my notes and be done with it. I am only halfway through, but what I uncovered is already shocking to the point that I must inform the public of it.

-To the casual observer, the issue of the Paris Commune might seem like a case of seemingly casual socialist agitation. What I did find though, precisely contradict that. I have spent 2 weeks in the Library of Paris to gather data on the Commune, and one particular phrase in the book "General History of Paris" (4th edition, written by Hezekiah d'Rheims) caught me off guard: "The amount of Neo-Ebionites in the city drastically increased just before the uprising, frequently named by the locals as the "dirty kosher southerners"".

-This had set off an alarm in my head. Paris was not a city of opportunities back then. In fact, the locals wanted to emigrate from the clutches of the industrial magnates. Something was off. Then I went to the Parisian archives, where I have discovered the city census from 1868 onwards. In 1871, the number of Neo-Ebionites drastically increased, but then it drastically decreased back to pre-Commune levels in 1874. It was not right.

-We know from Neo-Ebionite autobiographies and other sources on Pyrenean society that the Neo-Ebionites gained extensive amounts of wealth and power during the Industrial Revolution of the 1860's. Before this they were rural folk, nothing special other than their faith. I once again took to the archives to see if I can find anything about the Neo-Ebionites in Paris during the Commune. And what I have found is beyond my wildest dreams.

-I observed a 233 times overrepresentation of Neo-Ebionites in the various councils the communards have set up across the city. Moreover than that, a name kept showing up constantly in high-ranking positions: Yehoshua de Béarn.

-The de Béarn family today is obviously known for their huge wealth, as the "banking family" of Europe. Yet, this is the first mention of a de Béarn ever existing, not to mention that the Commune collected data about the council members, and there I have found that he was a Neo-Ebionite from Limousin and was basically a nobody. The Commune states that de Béarn owned only "his gun and his mouth to advance socialism".

-As I search more, I find him to be an orator often holding speeches to rile up the socialists under the Commune. But then, I find something darker. Do you remember that the Commune gave the right to employees to "seize the means of production"? It looks like de Béarn faked his job as being a clerk at a bank, just to be able to seize it with his ideologically fanatic militia when the time came.

-You might ask: "What happened to de Béarn after the Commune was crushed?". The archives give us an answer to that too. Presumably through his connections to those influential communards who did not get hanged, he managed to strike a deal with the government's mayor of Paris, giving him total control of all the banks in the city. We are at the point where the Neo-Ebionites leave Paris. I am about to show one more peculiarity.

-From this point on the Neo-Ebionites are referenced as wealthy people, as CEOs and landowners. Not only that, but the loans the Parisian banks gave out during Yehoshua went 97% of the time to Neo-Ebionite individuals. At this point I thought I knew everything: de Béarn used corruption and his oratory skills to give him and his countrymen wealth. But this was far from the truth.

-I have found a reference to a small building in the archives where, according to the police which suspiciously watched every step of de Béarn until around 1895 (the year he died), de Béarn gathered with a large crowd of about 15-20 people every Sabbat. I have the address, and the building was a small house which is now clearly abandoned. I entered the ruin, since according to my newest info, it was considered a public space where everyone can pass through. the whole building was overgrown with lichen and different kinds of bushes and trees, but I have finally managed to find the front door. When I entered, I have found myself in a chaotic living room, where papers were on the ground everywhere. I sat down on the half-rotten chair which was somehow still standing after I gather all the papers. I could not believe what I was reading. And in a negative way.

-de Béarn ran a secret society of political ambitions! The papers were mostly about the society itself AND the diplomacy it conducted with OTHER secret societies of similar nature. 4 societies have partitioned Europe as I list them below, and I'm afraid they still rule to this day:

The Poor Sons of Destiny (de Béarn's group, the Pyrenean Union, Great Britain and the Netherlands were (are) their domain.)

Order of Vishnu (a radical Hindu sect operating from Innsbruck, Germany, Italy, Bohemia and Slovenia were (are) their domain.)

The Freemerchants (Scandinavia and Russia were (are) their domain, dedicated to exploit their areas, and the most hostile to diplomacy)

Cabal of Yaldabaoth (a fringe Gnostic-Satanic sect primarily with Mosecypric and Bulgarian members, surprisingly open to diplomacy, from Slovakia to the Mosecypric Empire stretched(es) their domain.)

-Their clear goals were to pit the populace under them against each other to create civil strife, where their leaders could take over one of the countries and shape it to their needs. The de Béarn sect , for example, wants a fully Neo-Ebionite Europe to this day. I should definitely expose them. They are the ones behind all of this. I hbuihenoiawhfuubeqifierni..........................................

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Professor Obadiah Levin reposed at age 83 in September 22, 2005. He died of misterious circumstances.

Spoiler: Hungarian detective Lőrinc Ladics solved the case privately in 2050, but he did not persecute the murderers, fearing for his own life.

m e g f o l y t o t t á k

 

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-Their clear goals were to pit the populace under them against each other to create civil strife, where their leaders could take over one of the countries and shape it to their needs. The de Béarn sect , for example, wants a fully Neo-Ebionite Europe to this day. I should definitely expose them. They are the ones behind all of this. I hbuihenoiawhfuubeqifierni..........................................

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Professor Obadiah Levin reposed at age 83 in September 22, 2005. He died of misterious circumstances.

He was an old man, it'll be pretty easy to explain it away as natural causes...

 

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He was an old man, it'll be pretty easy to explain it away as natural causes...

Indeed it would be, if the body was ever found... it remained in that ruin afterwards.

 

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1886-1901
New End, New Beginning​

University of Kulturburg
Prof. Lisa Friedman came to take over Prof. Obadiah Levin's publication and research efforts, blissfully unaware of his last writings. She seeks to extend the width of the research up to the 1930's.

Foreign Situation

-By the dawn of the new century, Poland experienced societal upheaval against the Russian rulers of the country. Both the conservatives, the liberals and the trade Unions wanted Russia gone, so Polish agitation against the powers which took Poland became commonplace.

-In Panama, for 20 years by the point of 1896 did the Union prepare itself to construct the Panama Canal. And yet, they could not get Muisca to budge. As such, they had to intimidate the country with a full-blown military invasion and the end of the Onzaga monarchy, in order to get Panama. Needless to say, the way the Republic entered the Central American fray shocked many. In 1900 the Pyrenean authorities began building the canal.

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-Mexico, perhaps intimidated by the Republic, agreed when the Republic sought closer cooperation with Mexico. While successful, such brazen diplomatic manouvres could anger New Constantinople and their New Roman Emperor.

-Switzerland occupied a very privileged place in the Pyrenean Commonwealth. Being the place where the laws were the most lenient towards the industrialists, many CEOs moved there and have set up their companies there, in order to be the best of the best at their game. Over time though, power got to their head, and they had booted the Zuckerkandl monarchy out, replacing it with a board of CEOs, lead by probably the most powerful man in Europe at the time: Elihu Brill, CEO of the Brill Metal Mines Inc.

-The Budapest Conference of 1895 had seen the remainder of Africa divided along these borders, with a treaty ratified on the conference to respect these borders.

-The old President-dictator of Croatia, Kozma Pavic, was nearing his end in 1894. Already his influence was attacked within his own party, and then the youth and much of the populace rose up against him in the south of the country. The rebellion was supported by the Pyrenean Union, but Pavic was supported by the Italians, so the civil war was bloody and skirmishes occured even in Savoy. In the end, Croatia had won its freedom, and became closely aligned with the Republic, eventually joining the Pyrenean Commonwealth in 1898. During this time, the Union also helped Canarias get rid of its monarchy, and join the Commonwealth, while a mainly Spanish-inspired revolt was put down in the Philippines.

-The Pyrenean Union became the most known champion of egalitarianism across the globe. This gave them the opportunity to condemn Great Britain for still practising slavery across its colonies. Such tensions were why the 1895 Budapest conference was needed, since this could've erupted into a world-scale war over Africa.

-In Chile the conservative elements of the country revolted against the Union in 1893, seeing that Chile was going down the path the Republic had set it on. The Union did not even have to send troops, since Chile had beaten the rebels easily.

-The local Sardin'it populace had enough of Italian Catholic oppression, so they once again revolted as Baleo-Tyrrhenia, seeking to unite with the Mosecypric Empire once again. Surprisingly Italy failed to put down the revolt, leaving the Pyrenean Union to sweep in an conquer the Sardinian rebels. Italy had still claimed the land though, and it became a major point of contention for the Italian nationalists and fascists, such as Emperor Sisto Antelminelli, who had began increasingly styling himself as the new Roman Emperor.

-The Union clearly had a grasp on the African continent, and as the great powers of the world have recognized in the Budapest Conference, the Pyrenean Union had a place under the Sun.

-In Oyo-Yorubaland, the old institution of the Banu Socotra monarchy had become defunct to the point that socialism had spread to the last independent African country. The Council Republic of Ghana took control of the country and destroyed the monarchy, with Papa Ndao at the head of the Communist Party of Ghana, becoming the second communist nation in the world (after Korea). Due to the Social Democratic Party in the Republic had preferred communists to a monarchy, they had allowed the change. Eleazar I of Banu Socotra would barely see the 20th century only to have seen his family executed after he abdicated way before the communist rebels. Truly a sad end to the truly last von Eberstein.

-Korea has always taken pride in it being the birthplace of the revolution. Always being more radical, the socialists have risen to prominence in Korea through democratic elections, eventually shifting away from social democracy and towards communism. The Worker's Republic of Korea, along with the First International, was born, in a state being socialist according to Marxist terminology. (Marx lived in the Rhineland during his lifetime, but he never had to be persecuted, as socialism became much more prevalent later on only.) Korea continued to cooperate with the Pyrenean Union due to the Social Democratic Party ruling the country, and the two have even signed a deal of joint military cooperation.

-The majority Orthodox country of Greece had enough of the Monophysite Eutychians running the country under the absolute monarch Basileios of house Ptochos. They wanted to reinstitute Orthodoxy as the primary Christianity of the country and to create a republic free from a tyrannical monarch. While the revolt was close, it was put down by the monarch, cementing Greek monarchy for the years to come. Basileios soon passed away, and his heir, Constantine Ptochos openly embraced Orthodoxy, received with shock and dismay by the Eutychian Patriarch of Constantinople, who have hoped that the Kings of Greece would support Eutychianism over Orthodoxy. The days of Eutychian Monophysitism were numbered.

In the Pyrenean Union

-Since Wilfred Rowe retired from politics in 1899, a new candidate had to be chosen, and that candidate was Lauriane Cochereau, the first female President of the Union. While unelected, she has secured the support of the workers to win the 1901 elections, legitimizing her Presidency. A new resurgence of right-wing politics could also be observed, as Matteo Hardy had founded the T'irolh Fascist Party, seeking to restore the Empire of Tyrol as an ultranationalist Jewish state to control the Mediterranean.

-Excess industrialization, as we can see today, can genuinely affect the climate badly. As Lyon became one of the most industrialized cities in Europe, pollution followed. To prevent potential risks, the Social Democratic Party passed a new law regulating the smog a company can produce in the athmosphere.

-Wilfred Rowe was an English socialist agitator who had formerly agitated in Britain. Seeing how resistant that country is to change, he had fled to the Pyrenean Union. He had met with Rodrigue Gayrard in social democratic circles, and he soon began to be recognized as a great orator and leader, placing him at the front of the Social Democratic Party, which had nominated him over Gayrard. He soon became the first non-Pyrenean-born President of the Union in 1890. While their friendship would suffer due to Gayrard wanting to take more power over the party, their friendship generally remained strong until he retired from politics in 1899.

-In this era the workers and the government worked hand-in-hand to advance new reforms. The workers often organized smaller strikes which the government could lobby behind in an effort to pass a new, better workers' protections law, which was enacted in 1893.

-During this decade the Korean Flu arose from Shengjing, devastating the whole planet. Entire villages have went silent and factories had to close where they have lost catastrophic amounts of workers to the flu. In the Union, the government of the Social Democratic Party had reacted quickly and had decreed strict quarantees and regulations, preventing much damage which occured elsewhere.

-Using the boost the correct response to the flu gave them, the government have advanced the welfare laws of the country to give old age pensions. Truly, the Republic became a shining bastion of egalitarianism.

-One of the greatest companies of its time due to the capital invested and the great working conditions, the Pyrenese Steel Inc. was an example of a successful Pyrenean Commonwealth company.

 

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I'm sorry, Mr. Gayrard, but you don't appear to understand how coalitions work...

 

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I'm sorry, Mr. Gayrard, but you don't appear to understand how coalitions work...

Well, he was definitely an arrogant character... "everyone is equal but I am a bit more equal than the rest".

 

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2004, University of Kulturburg

I wanted to examine the thorough nature of the Pyrenean Century, 100 years dominated by the same superpower utterly crushing its opposition and reigning over the globe. With this knowledge, I wanted to write a book. However, what I unraveled is a coordinated effort to change the world, exerted by polities yet unseen.

Prof. Obadiah Levin

1836-1841
The Machinations Begin
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Events
In the Pyrenean Union
- Shmuel de Siorac had totally revised the state borders based mainly on economic interests. #The states which were heavily reliant on the local commune, Napoleon or religious fanatics in their pre-Second Republic administration had their systems completely destroyed, and they would have to be reintegrated according to the new standard.
- Argentina applied political pressure on Shmuel not to partition them. As such, they became a "sister republic", a highly autonomous system of governance, but still a subdivision of the Pyrenean administration. #Other overseas holdings of the Union did not receive such privileges.

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- Shmuel and his government had to address serious economic issues which plagued the nation since the Napoleonic Wars.

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- Shmuel and his cabinet wanted to solve this by tax reform; by enacting proportional taxation, the last vestiges of aristocracy would be taken away and everyone would pay the same amount of tax.

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- Seeing the chaos in Europe and the government's inability to reign, Pyrenese China ceased contact with the central government. The Siorac cabinet issued a warning that this warrants military action in the future, but of course they weren't able to carry it out at the moment.

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- The Siorac cabinet resigned in 1838 after shamefully failing to deal with the effects of the famine. The famine generally affected rural communities the worst, who formed their own Agrarian Party and had their candidate Gaspard Remillard made President until the next election, with the Conservative Party supporting the coalition. #Shmuel retired from politics after this fiasco.

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- In 1838 this new government formed the Pyrenean Commonwealth, where trade ties were strenghtened with Argentina and the overseas holdings, hoping to alleviate the famine a bit. #The populace reaffirmed their support of Gaspard during the election of 1839, when the same cabinet was allowed to remain in power.
- As the industrial magnates had enough of the rule of Remillard, and the economy was still suffering, they installed Paul Bousselot, a general from the Army, as Prime Minister, and effectively governed instead of Remillard. Remillard, infuriated by this, gathered his coalition and started a brutal civil war in 1841. The only problem was that after he was kicked out of the mainland, Paul Bousselot fled to the Niger Delta, and the first attempt at navally capitulating them failed.

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Worldwide
- By 1836, the Cathar Church was in great decline as Orthodoxy took over America and they were loosing followers to traditional Christianity and the Neo-Ebionites in Aquitaine, outreach was done to the Paulicians in Russia, who were dominating Eastern Europe and Russia.
- The Paulicians agreed to host the Council of Moscow.
- Elizaveta I took the opportunity to preside over the council.
- Until this point Paulicianism was only held together by a set of dogmas, but all the bishops were completely autonomous in their area. #The central tenets of Pre-Moscow Paulicianism were the denial of the veneration of the Cross, only Paul of Tarsus being a true apostle and the Holy Trinity. In contrast, Pre-Moscow Catharism rejected the Holy Trinity, viewing the Father as the father of all lies and they had an edited Bible with only snippets from the Old Testament (As they considered Genesis a "corrupted text") and an edited New Testament where they have cut out all mentions of the Holy Trinity, even those when Jesus directly references the Father and the Holy Spirit. The common point they have is that they consider the council of Nicaea to be a "falling away from truth", and varying degrees of gnosticism.
- The debate revolved around the Holy Trinity, the apostleship of the 12 disciples and ecclesiastical authority.
- In the end, the council reached a consensus and the new "Gnostic Christian Church" was established. The Holy Trinity was accepted, the apostleship of the 12 disciples was only accepted as 2nd-tier compared to that of Paul's, and a new Patriarchate of Moscow established as the "supreme vicar of true Gnostic Christians before Christ". The Cathar Church was reorganized as "the Archbishopric of the West" and retained their liturgical traditions. #There were some on both sides who refused the reform, they are known as Old Cathars and Old Paulicians. The Old Paulicians were heavily persecuted by the Russian government, while the Old Cathars enjoyed religious freedom under the Pyrenean Union. It is generally accepted that Elizaveta I vested the pope-like authority unto the new Patriarch, so she can control the new Church efficiently.

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- As the consequence of the Napoleonic Wars, supply lines all across the world have been disrupted, leading to major famines developing all around the world. By 1836, this was going for 16 years already, and it took the lives of millions. #While governments all around the world did their best to try to bring an end to the apocalyptic famine, this still lead to the further spread of radical political and religious beliefs.

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