Dinh AaronMk

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Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

I was born on the 13th, so there's that.

On that note: hsspy burfdai 2 me, in case the unawares did not know.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

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@Byrd Man

And only ten days after the fact too.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

@Byrd Man this of interest to you: I calculated the date for Precipice and it's the Fourth of July.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

@Vilageidiotx
I figured it had value to it in case he wanted to look at it.

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Alright, a weaken France that's still face the consequences for the Great War. That does sound interesting, but I do want to know a couple things:

1) How bad is France's economy after the Great War?
2) Are the people still upset about the loss of the Great War and piss off at the government for the loss?
3) Is France and Germany's relationship good or bad?
4) Is there anything else that I should need to know while making the sheet?

@The Grey Warden

1) Well, the First World War IRL was focused on a pretty small area of France but still had a pretty devastating effect on France. With the prolonged conflict and no clear winner declared from it the economic and social effects would still be powerful and no doubt profound. You'd have a long period of economic depression, compounded by a global post-war depression from all those war industries collapsing at once. So they'd have to deal with that as well as picking themselves back up again and the scary dent in their demographics made by the war (a lot of young men would have died).

2) They would have given they went to war again for the same relative reasons as before. Though I don't know if it would have been enough to overthrow the government. The watchful influence of Spain as a anti-Communist bulwark would check any indication of a socialist uprising in France. So if you're going to overthrow the government for their losses over the passed half-century it wouldn't be moving towards the far-left.

3) most likely poor. But even though Hugs never posts we do in some war regard Germany as being one of the more capable states of Europe.

4) Just the shaky bullshit I posted prior.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

@The Grey Warden
To expand on what @Vilageidiotx wrote some other further information about RP France:

Through the seventies the nation was presided over by a self-insert President titled "Monsieur Greene". President Greene largely engaged in large-scale infrastructural programs of motherland France and neglected its colonies. So much so as part of its abilities to pay for this they sold Algeria to the Turks or something, who then sold half of it to Spain. France's negligence also lead to the ultimate usurpation of French colonial government in Indochina by Chinese-sponsored revolutionaries in Laos and Vietnam, Cambodia was jockeyed out by convincing the monarchy to denounce Europe.

France was also a member of the very short-lived Central Eurasian League which sought to balance power against the Russians by recruiting the Germans and I think Spain into a international league of nations ran by the Ottoman Turks. This however fell apart when Greene decided to have France invaded for revenge of not getting Alascea-Lorraine back in the Great War. They however failed this mission and withdrew from Germany when their goals were not met.

An indirect effect of this war in the broader Francosphere could be interpreted as the loss of French Guyana to Brazil and many of their other over-seas colonies to some extent. Madagascar is still a French African colony, I'd hazard to say the only European colony not Spanish left in Africa. And they still got their Pacific islands but in the one time I've written anything within them they were merely French in name only and acted on some level of autonomy.

The French are also allied with Spain who is fighting the perceived socialist government of Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia or the Pan-African Empire.

Some parts of the above are certainly canon. The second German (or Prussian)-Franco war being one, the short-lived CEL alliance that war ended, and the loss of French Guyana and Indochina. And I think they're still aligned with Spain.

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Tribalism

So I'm looking at joining this RP as a side-gig to my other shows. But I must ask: why only a population under one-thousand?

I can concede this if everyone's supposed to be playing villages or a small region of several villages. But looking at the map and the territory I'm really scratching my head at the population density I'm assuming is happening. I trust the map isn't depicting an area as small as Rhode Island where such territorial claims would be acceptable, since it seems to be showing a lot of geographic and natural diversity something the size of Rhode Island wouldn't have. Therefore, I got to to assume it's at least the size of Europe.

And guessing that before the advent of agriculture at least Europe may have had a population of maybe several million it seems very unrepresentative for the major tribes to be assuming populations of up to 900-999 on such large areas of land. Like, these tribes aren't even stable: they're dying.

A social group doesn't have to be small to be a tribe. It just has to have a structure that is representative of a status before anything could be called a "state".

EDIT - The impression I get from the enforced number limit is less everyone being a tribe but more of a clan in that it's the loose social structure of inter-related families than the structure of a larger society of self-sufficient groups/clans. This however still conflicts with the territorial claims.

If this thread overtakes the MLP game, I'll wear a Brony avatar and sig for a year.