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[@Archmagos] and I decided to make another (kinda-) Russian warlord since Hugs is taking so long. I hope Evan doesn't decide to shoot us.






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Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

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History:

The dissolution of the Russian Empire has proved to be one of simply agonizing lethargy. Having been ruled beneath the Russian crown since the 19th century, the many nations of the Caucasus had proven incredibly eager to recapture their independence. With the seeds of rebellion firmly planted throughout the Russian Empire during the chaos of the Great War, many Caucasian peoples vied for their freedom, including the Georgian National Union and the Armenian National Liberation Movement, and when the winds of insurrection blew across Russia fatefully in 1917, the rebels of the Caucasus too, sprang to life. From Tbilisi to Van, guerillas and skirmishers - many of whom had been veteran insurgents within the too-decaying Ottoman Empire - carried out their struggles

Courageous as they had been, many of the rebels had only limited support from the world at large. Having fought both nations in the Entente as well as the Central Powers, these movements would inevitably begin to run out of supplies and steam, as their international recognition more strongly favored the Ottomans and Russia. Although this season of rebellion had firmly come to a close with the final reestablishment of the Viceroyalty in 1921, the ideas which would power the cause of self-determination would never truly die. Secret societies convened at churches, revolutionaries plotted at dinner tables, all waiting for their right moment to strike once more.

The recent ascension of Tsarina Kira Romanov had once again thrown the decaying Russian Empire into full-blown crisis. Yet, within every crisis lay opportunity, and so was it that the many rebels of the Viceroyalty once more took up their arms for their cause. Beneath every banner and for every ideology was the conflict fought, with what few loyalists could keep a force to the monarchist revitalists, to republicans and socialists. Yet, when the dust had settled in 1951, the Caucasian Peasant's Front - led by the emphatic Viyan Petrosyan and the keen-minded Vasily Blyukher - had emerged as the dominant force in the region, forcing out the South Russian Imperial Army and the Chechnyan National League from the region and to the north. With their grasp on the region more fully established and the makings of a constituent republic in the works, Petrosyan and Blyukher have emerged as popular figureheads in the region, and now can afford to - at least temporarily - catch their breath.

As it stands, the Transcaucasian SFSR was formed from the remains of the former Tsar's Viceroyalty of the Caucasus. Former Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, Luxemburgists, Anarchists, and all manner of movements convene within its vast and varied territories, which has - unsurprisingly - resulted in political infighting. Befitting of this motley political crew, Transcaucasia stands as a thoroughly patchwork state carved from Russia: It is a vastly eclectic union of Russians, Armenians, Georgians, Chechens, Tatars, Azerbaijanis, Turks, and Kurds. Though tensions between the ethnicity have (many) a grievance against others, the presiding SFSR has managed to keep these sentiments under wraps...for the time being, at least.

Yet still, the young Trancaucasian Union has far from escaped many of the classical issues its constituent states historically possessed; It is besieged on all sides by unfriendly faces, only barely able to be supported by the greater European socialist powers via tiny ports in the Black Sea and shoddy airfields in Sochi. A belligerent Ottoman Empire to the West, an unkind Iran to the South, and the vastness of the Tsarina's unwelcoming realm to the North all belie Transcaucasia, all of whom have envied their eyes upon its lands and resources. Still yet a young nation, much of Transcaucasia is resource-rich and infrastructure-poor, with only the major arteries from Baku and Yerevan linking north and west to its Georgian ports, with little room for much else. It is blessed with perhaps the largest oil reserves in the former Empire, yet a monotone export economy cannot sustain Transcaucasia forever, for its geography limits its potential buyers to transports along Russia's former railways and those along the Black Sea.

All in all, Transcaucasia lies in a lamentable position, and must tread carefully if it is to fulfill its dream of a worker's paradise, lest it be devoured as it has so many times before.
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Are you all still accepting applications for this RP?
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Are you all still accepting applications for this RP?


Yeah, just gotta give an idea and pester @Dinh AaronMk to talk more about it.
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I have to reject this in its entirety. Firstly and most egregiously: the point of divergence in your country's history is far too early than the RP's point of divergence is, which is sometime during World War 1; a little before even.
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@Dinh AaronMk Roger that. Just to be fully briefed concerning the parameters, any divergence from IRL timeline can not happen until either the start of WW1 (1914), or a little before WW1 (No earlier than 1910?)

I'll revise/ create a more lore appropriate nation that falls within the parameters. Is there any more information that I should be aware of?
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@Dinh AaronMk Roger that. Just to be fully briefed concerning the parameters, any divergence from IRL timeline can not happen until either the start of WW1 (1914), or a little before WW1 (No earlier than 1910?)

I'll revise/ create a more lore appropriate nation that falls within the parameters. Is there any more information that I should be aware of?


So the entire concept does conflict with multiple established countries (Britain, US, Cuba, Mexico, maybe Argentina if you count their reference to a subplot in and around what would be your "national waters") and various major story arcs that are currently in progress. You can come to the Discord for more info and we can square you away with the entire situation.
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@Dinh AaronMk Roger that. Just to be fully briefed concerning the parameters, any divergence from IRL timeline can not happen until either the start of WW1 (1914), or a little before WW1 (No earlier than 1910?)

I'll revise/ create a more lore appropriate nation that falls within the parameters. Is there any more information that I should be aware of?


Yeah, I'd advise against major divergences before 1910. Otherwise, as Evan said: the current Antilles conflicts with some on going and established lore elements, which I understand why you'd not pick up on that, it's kind of burried in b i g g e IC posts and an incomplete Google spreadsheets timeline. So my best recommendation is to collaborate with someone in the region you want. So getting into the Discord would be best, or failing that I'll just go complain at the relevant people to come post here for once, lol
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If I need to make some tweaks and changes then please let me know

Nation:
The Federal District of Sitka

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History:

It first started in the early 20's, Russian Jews fled the collapsed Empire and settled along the west coast around Seattle. The small community began to slowly grow through the decade as unease began to seep through Europe. In the 30's, at the height of the worldwide depression, an influx of Jews fleeing pogroms and scapegoats from their European homelands came to America. They were met with unfriendly indifference by the now right-wing government in control. Jews of various nationalities, the incoming refugees and including those whose had called America home for centuries, were packed off and shuttled to Alaska.

An act of Congress created the Federal District of Sitka in 1935. The first group of settlers arrived to find a grouping of rocky islands and a harsh climate. But to these people, this was nothing news. Now twenty years have passed and over 2.5 million Jews call Stika home. It is a melting pot of religious zealots, refugees in search of a permanent home, criminals looking to hide from something. Most of the population are just good people keeping their heads down and trying to survive, the words Gam Zeh Ya’avor -- This Too Shall Pass -- in the back of their minds.

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Ruth Endlmen: Official "head of government" for Sitka, liaison to US Department of the Interior
Ben Levy: Detective Sergeant, Sitka PD
Jacob Abrams: Half Jew-Half Inuit Detective, Ben's partner
Rabbi Asa Balsm: Hassidic Rabbi and leader of Hassid community.
Yuri Rudnitsky: Russian gangster
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I have decided to do a rather soft reboot without changing too much. I want to know everyone's thoughts about the change.

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Author's Note: This is a re-imagining of the original Brazil application made by Crusader Lord. Some aspects are retained, while others are changed for the sake of IC development. Nevertheless, the same fundamentals are to be impressioned upon this revision.


History:

When Brazil entered the fray of the Great War under the guise of protecting liberty in 1917, it did so under the pretext of a dystopic countenance. Brazil had been no stranger to toil and hardship, for the Brazilian Republic, not three decades old, had been plagued with instability ever since the overthrow of the Empire and the exile of Pedro II. President Venceslau Brás had issued a formal declaration of war against Germany under allegations of economic espionage in February of 1917. Critics of the Brás cabinet remarked, "(There was) little evidence to suggest that significant - if any - acts of espionage on behalf of the Central Powers had occurred in Brazil's borders", adding that the more likely culprit of the declaration was to serve as a distraction from the numerous internal issues of the country. Even with the passing of the Bilbao Protocol, Brazil's primary exports of latex, rubber, and coffee had nearly imploded with the onset of war, having seen almost 70% drops in exports to Europe. Entire plantations went bankrupt with few protections, and with only a closing international market, the government of Brazil was hard-pressed to provide aid.

Many of the populists were quick to blame the instability of the republican era as a weak system, cursed with innumerate rebellions and unbound corruption. They had believed that a firm, guiding rule would restore order to Brazil, pointing to a figure that - ironically - had proved to be the guiding ideal of republican leadership ever since his exile in 1886. The foremost leader of the Restorationist Movement would be spearheaded into action by a Rafael Feria-Jaeger. The otherwise unassuming son of an Swiss shoemaker and immigrant to Sao Paulo and a Brazilian jazz club barista, Rafael would grow invested into Brazilian politics following the closure of both of his parents' businesses in the hardships of wartime Brazil, where he would radicalize into a staunch proponent of Brazilian Imperialism.

The end of the Great War, unsurprisingly, heralded the implosion of the republic itself. With the war finding virtually no popular support even before its end, the unceremonious end of the war infuriated the public: Its indecisive conclusion had been seen as proof of the popular consensus that the war acted as little more than a scapegoat for the Republic's incompetence, and likewise Feria-Jaeger would launch his famous Revolution of 1928, where the republican government went into exile within months to Bolivia. Upon their victory, he with the support of the army's tenetistas - their junior officer corps - summoned Brazil's former emperor to the country to lead them into the future.

His sole problem lie in the fact that Brazil had, in fact, two rightful claimants to its throne: One held by the older Prince Pedro Henrique, and likewise by his junior, Prince Pedro Gastão. By all rightful means, Prince Henrique should have been the rightful agewise successor to the imperial throne, yet was seemingly thwarted solely on the account that Prince Henrique was still living in France at the time, and had been likewise ruled unfit for rule on account of his, "caustic temperance" on accounts of associates of their eponymous House of Orléans-Braganza. Gastão would assume the throne in early 1930, crowning the reestablishment of Brazil's empire, with Feria-Jaeger serving as the first Prime Minister and Getúlio Vargas as his first President of the Cabinet. This famous "Triumverate" would go on to be fondly remembered, embracing on an unprecedented era of ambitious economic projects. With the assistance of Italian economists, Brazil would become something of an economic playground of Latin America, bolstered by an immigration wave from postwar Europe. French, Italian, and Spanish investment in Brazil - compounded by an unprecedented expansion of Brazilian financial and industrial institutions - would skyrocket Brazil's developments to astronomical levels. Of course, some have benefited from this procedure more than others, but with the "bureaucratization" of Brazil has come the end of the old era "Coffee Barons" which once ruled the countryside, and in their place have come the position of industrialist and technocrat.

The good vibrations of the Brazilian 40s would come to a screeching halt with the attempted assassination of the Emperor after a state visit to Rio Grande do Sul, where his car was rigged with a nitrate bomb which exploded prematurely due to faulty wiring. Although the motive was officially deemed to be the actions of anarchists by Brazilian officials, it is widely believed that the late heir assumptive to the throne - and his own brother, no doubt - was the one responsible for the attempt upon his life.

Following Emperor Gastão's long, arduous battle against his grievous wounds, he would soon pass away from health complications accompanying his injuries in early 1951. His wife and would-be claimant to the throne, Princess Maria de la Esperanza of Two Sicilies, passed away some days later of unknown causes. With the lack of any apparent direct heirs to the throne - as Gastão and Maria famously struggled to have children - the claimant to the throne of Brazil would soon find itself an object of immense sway. The following succession would be known as the "revolving door regency", eventually passing to a rather unknown figure in Brazilian Imperial heritage, ending up in hands of Vittoria of Savoy. Owing to her official neutrality in the affairs of Brazilian politics, the Italo-Brazilian Princess now serves as the regent to the Brazilian throne. Until an appropriate settlement can be decided upon, Brazil - in an ironic twist of fate - shall be an Empire without an Emperor.

Brazil boasts about possessing perhaps the largest ground army in South America, thanks to its bolstering population and rapid efforts at industrializing, but its effectiveness leads many to believe that it is a scarecrow and little aside. Although supplanted by modern rifles, new tanks, and imported airplanes, the untested Exército Brasileiro has a history of only fighting the disorganized bandits across Brazil's vast, largely untouched interior, and lacks much in the way of professional expertise in regards to contemporary warfare outside of small-scale exercises and coffee table wargaming. Its size may be nothing to scoff at, but conflict will show the true capacity of Brazil's armed forces.

This is to say nothing of Brazil's boiling political scene, long kept under binds by the relative stability offered by the Imperial figurehead that was Gastão. The democratic ideals established by the republic were by no means conquered by the return of the Emperor, and demand a return to popular electoral politics. Their suggestions have been met with mixed reception by the current governance. Some in the government - lead by the protege Nereu de Oliveira Ramos and his clique of reformists - believe that Brazil should transition into a more European-styled parliamentary monarchy. Others, spurred on by the ideals of Plínio Salgado, denounce any such as a weakening of the Brazilian authority itself and staunchly oppose any such actions as the path which lies down the dissolution of Brazil into the chaos of the old republic once more. As a result, politics in Brazil are becoming increasingly polarized. Wide-scale demonstrations are daily occurrences throughout San Salvador and Rio De Janeiro, and many observers suspect that any attempts to clamp down on the protestors will only further send rifts down Brazil, no matter what many contemporary "hardline" politicans of Brazil might say. On top of this, Vargas' mental stability seems to be rapidly deteriorating, often coming down to severe bouts of depression and erratic behavior. Many suspect that he may resign to his health in the coming months, soonafter followed by Feria-Jager's advancing in age.

When coupled with the aggressive actions of Argentina in recent years, Brazil has - to put it midly - sat upon the edge of her seat. Brazil's old claims upon Uruguay have not gone unattended, and if she is to ever unite herself like she had tried so those decades ago in the Great War, perhaps she shall turn her eyes from herself unto her old rival...
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In order to get the Federatiob active as an NPC presence, I have posted the first Imperial Federation event.

Considering the rate this RP moves though, I'm thinking making the time-span until the next as "pages" to be too long though
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