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=[[United States of Aurelia]]=
=United States of Aurelia (Zeronet)=
:Regional Power
:Great Power
:Homeland: Including the geography, climate and location on the world's continents.
:Government Type: Democracy, constitutional monarchy, lifelong appointment by the politburo? In this era, the significant thing to note is electoral cycle: how often do you have elections?
:Ideological Landscape: What is the ideology of the country? Who rules the country is important, but who also is the opposition? Ideological division provides a flexibility that a political monoculture does not.
:Majority: Who rules the country and by how much? Even countries that were 100% fascist in their governance were only 30%-60% fascist electorally.
:Minor Ideologies: Who are the opposition, the third and fourth parties, the unassimilated, politically inactive minorities? Can anyone, or even a coalition, form a government come next election?
==Power Traits==
==Power Traits==
:Operation Paperclip
:Operation Paperclip
:Brain Drain
:Black Mark


==Optional Traits==
==Optional Traits==
:+Special Relationship
:+Special Relationship
:+New Imperial Century
:+New Imperial Century
:+Free Haven
:-Brain Drain


=The Akira Technocracy=
==Summary==
3000 Wealth Production
2000 Industrial Production
5 Years in Military Spending Spree
1 Tech Strike
5 Cities, including a Capital
3 Factories, including a Naval HQ
 
 
==NP Spend==
 
=The Akira Technocracy (Jacklyn)=
:Great Power
:Great Power
:Homeland: a Rather large island far off the coast of a nearby continent, it has lush and plentiful food and water on its northern side, where most of the inhabitants live, but there is also a long stretch of southern wasteland, too infertile and hot for any real-life to thrive, which is often used for government black sites and as a rocket testing area.
:Homeland: a Rather large island far off the coast of a nearby continent, it has lush and plentiful food and water on its northern side, where most of the inhabitants live, but there is also a long stretch of southern wasteland, too infertile and hot for any real-life to thrive, which is often used for government black sites and as a rocket testing area.
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* 9 Factories (1 Naval HQ)
* 9 Factories (1 Naval HQ)
* 7 Natural Resources(H.Metals, L.Metals, Uranium, Oil, Fresh Water, Airiable Land, Coal)
* 7 Natural Resources(H.Metals, L.Metals, Uranium, Oil, Fresh Water, Airiable Land, Coal)
* 300 Fission Bombs


==Power Traits==
==Power Traits==
:-One Party, One People
:-One Party, One People
:-Big Empty
:-Big Empty
:-Black Mark
:-Hostile Climate(Tropical)
 
==Optional Traits==
==Optional Traits==
:+Atomic Futurism
:+Atomic Futurism
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:-Where Have All The Men Gone
:-Where Have All The Men Gone
:-My Manual Is Full Of Eels
:-My Manual Is Full Of Eels
:-Rogue State
:-Black Mark


==NP Spending==
==NP Spending==
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:25 NP worth of extra IP
:25 NP worth of extra IP
:Natural Resource [25 NP]
:Natural Resource [25 NP]


=Serene Empire of Mizuho=
=Serene Empire of Mizuho=
:Middle Power
:Minor Power
:A southern lattitudes archipelago state.
:A southern latitudes archipelago state.


===Traits===
===Traits===
*New Imperial Century
::The best way to win a war is to not be in the war!
*Island State
*Island State
::So many islands.
::So many islands.
*Climate Winner
*Fish Monopoly
::A pair of oceanic currents deliver nutrient-rich upwellings to the shallows around and between the Mizuhan islands and the proximity of all points to water gives the nation a salubrious, gentle climate.
::So many fish..
*Water Monopoly
::We also have a lot of fresh water, flowing down off the mountains.
*The Woman's War
*The Woman's War
::Mizuho's religion has always been the domain of priestesses and this has led to a culture far more egalitarian than most.
::Mizuho's religion has always been the domain of priestesses and this has led to a culture far more egalitarian than most.
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::It is said that the Rabbit in the Moon came from Mizuho.
::It is said that the Rabbit in the Moon came from Mizuho.


*Big Empty
 
::There are an estimated seven thousand islands in Mizuho and many of them are sparsely inhabited.  Some are barely mapped beyond the coastline.
*Hostile Climate
*Hostile Climate
::While Mizuho's climate itself is quite amenable, the nation's myriad of islands tend to be extremely rugged and flat land suitable for large-scale construction is rather limited and often already built-upon.
::While Mizuho's climate itself is quite amenable, the nation's myriad of islands tend to be extremely rugged and flat land suitable for large-scale construction is rather limited and often already built-upon.
*War of the Worlds
*Pieds Noir
::Nobody has ever adequately explained what the Shibuya Lights were.
::The Collegium has long exerted influence over Mizuho.  The reactionary old men in cahoots with them are still kicking.
*Black Mark
::This nuclear weapon was to be used against the Collegium's Hyundai Island and the massed fleet there.  Unfortunately the bomber carrying it was shot down and the weapon exploded over the city of Pyonjeon, killing roughly 80,000 civilians.  Oops.
 


===Stats===
===Stats===
*1 Resource [Fish]
*1 Resource (Fish)
*3000 Wealth Production
*2000 Wealth Production
*2000 Industrial Production
*1000 Industrial Production
*5 Years in Military Spending Spree
*3 Years in Military Spending Spree
*1 Tech Strike
*1 Tech Strike
*5 Cities, including a Capital
*4 Cities, including a Capital
*3 Factories, including a Naval HQ
*4 Factories, including a Naval HQ
====Point Spread====
====Point Spread====
*1,250 Wealth Production (25)
*1,000 Wealth Production (20)
*5 x Tech Strikes (25)
*200 Industry Production (10)
*1 x Natural Resource [Oil] (25)
*1 x Natural Resource [Fish] (10)
*1 x Natural Resource [Light Metals] (25)
*1 x Natural Resource [Water] (10)
*1 x Natural Resource [H. Metals] (10)
*1 x Natural Resource [L. Metals] (10)
*1 x Natural Resource [Oil] (10)
*1 x Natural Resource [Coal] (10)
*1 x Natural Resource [Uranium] (10)


===Gazeteer===
===Gazeteer===
We have islands!  And fish!  And we neighbor the Korean State of Lurkerdom and Fultontopia!
We have islands!  And fish!


=The Sublime Yuhwan College of Nations including the Pious Common Kingship of the Hoopoe Forest and the Sanctified Tsintsar Crown of Yuhwasattva Vãduva=
a.k.a. The Collegium, the Rzeczpospolita, or simply Gyerim-Covasna
:Middle Power
:Joseon dynasty Austria-Hungary


=Federal Union of Cascadia=
===Traits===
*Great Patriotic War
::Somehow, the Collegium lives still. What greater proof of miracles can there be?
*Boondoggle
::What do you mean the Great War is over...?
*Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier
::The Rzeczpospolita is obliged to protect many small fellow travelers in the light across the world.
*Plurinational State x2
::The Kingdoms of Gyerim and Covasna operate with considerable autonomy from the rest of the Collegium.
*Where Have All the Men Gone?
::"My grandfathers joke that if you took all the pieces of their bodies they lost in the Great War and put them together, you'd have a whole eunuch."
::"Why a eunuch...?"
::"Well I'm here, aren't I?"
*The Woman's War
::The realities of the Great War pushed at the open door of the highly egalitarian, even outright Matriarchal, culture of many nations in the Rzeczpospolita.
*Free Haven
::The women of the Collegium want fine men!
*Brain Drain
::Bright young women want to see what's going on in the rest of the world.
*Woke Space Jesuits (Worthless Yellow Rocks)
::If there are Gods and other nations unknown in the stars then the Yuhwa's Gospel must go to them, until ''all'' the heavens roll in compassion alike.
*Cutthroat Politics
::"Well it's complicated. Have you heard of the Norons and Sorons? It's a long story, but first, we must discuss parallel universes-"
*Republican Tradition
::"-Actually that's quite fine, that's all I needed to know really."
*Nuclear Trauma
::The Pyeonjeon Sarcophagus
*The Sick Old Man
::Lots of chronically underdeveloped villages. Good tourism value though!
 
=Federal Union of North Zealand=
:Great Power
:Great Power
:1950's Atompunk America/Canada/Australia


===Traits===
===Traits===
:Manhattan Project
*Manhattan Project
:New Imperial Century
:Zealand scientists cracked the secrets of the atom, to tremendous effects.
:Free Haven
*New Imperial Century
:Atomic Futurism  
:Zealand and the Union proper remained remarkably untouched by the war, its factories churned out vehicles, weapons, and supplies for combatants the world over.
*Free Haven
:The Federation welcomes the tired, huddled masses of the world to build its greatness.
*Atomic Futurism  
:Powered by the atom and the indomitable intellect of its scientists Zealandia future is bright!


:Operation Paperclip
:Cutthroat Politics
:Boondoggle
:Black Mark
:War of the Worlds


*Operation Paperclip
:OSI has secured scientists from many questionable and unethical sources for the future of the Federation.
*Cutthroat Politics
:Zealands politics is a mess of Federal and State level campaigns and coalitions that have a frightening tendency to collapse at the drop of a hat.
*Boondoggle
:The Federation seeks continued control over Zealand, through soft and hard means.
*Black Mark
: The short lived "Atoms for Freedom" program backfired horribely in the nuclear pyre of Pyonjeon.
*War of the Worlds
:Where else would the sword of Damocles fall but upon a Jewel of the world?


===Stats===
===Stats===
13500 Wealth Production
:13500 Wealth Production
8250 Industrial Production
:7800 Industrial Production
7 Years in Military Spending Spree
:5 Years in Military Spending Spree
6 Tech Strike
:6 Tech Strike
18 Cities, including a Capital
:18 Cities, including a Capital
12 Factories, including a Naval HQ
:18 Factories, including a Naval HQ
:L. Metals, H. Metals, Oil, Coal, Fresh Water, Arable Land, Uranium
 
100 Nation Points, which can be traded for:


:1 for 50 Wealth Production [-30]
:1 for 30 Industrial Production [-20]
:5 Extra Tech Strikes [-25]
:25 for Extra Resource [-25]


100 Nation Points, which can be traded for:
=Janaxpachasuyu (The Empire of the Celestial Skies)(Murtox)=
:Great Power
:Inca Empire on Steroids
===Traits===
*Manhattan Project
:Only the Atom will safeguard the Huacas of our ancestors
*Plurinational State x2
:Our history as rulers is long and rich, as such, we have a couple of extra inheritances from olden times. Kashamarkasuyu and Chachapoyas remain powerful vassal kingdoms within our lands.
*Special Relationship x2
:Small kingdoms are also within our grasp, I mean authority. Tumpis, Ariqipa, Luritu and Wanuku are just in our historical sphere of influence.   
*New Imperial Century
:The war was fought and hard but it never reached our industrial heartland.
*My Manual Is Full of Eels
*Big Empty
*Black Mark
*Operation Paperclip
*Energy Cartel
*Boondogle
 
=Empire of Anbara (Oseng)=
 
===Traits===
*Island State
*Manhattan Project (May Change)
*Water Monopoly (May Change)
*The Woman's War = Shaman Empress/Queen and female priestesses
 
*Hostile Climate
*Pieds Noir = Collegium Influence
*Black Mark (May Change)
 
=New Siona - Middle Power (Secretariat)=
:Capital: Haak Lam (Hoklam)
 
* Manifest Destiny
* Island State
* Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier
* Aircraft Mafia
* Special Relationship
* Special Relationship
* Free Haven


1 for 50 Wealth Production [-30]
* Nuclear Trauma
1 for 30 Industrial Production [-25]
* Operation Paperclip
5 for 1 Bonus Year of Military Spending Spree (Max 5) [-10]
* One People, One Party
5 Extra Tech Strikes [-25]
* Boondoggle
5 for 1 City [-5]
* The War Of The Worlds
5 for 1 Factory [-5]

Latest revision as of 19:43, 31 July 2021

Second Temple Kingdom of Outremer

Great Power
The Last Remnant of the Pact of Steel.

Power Traits

Big Empty
Hostile Climate: The Great Zeon Desert
War of the Worlds

Optional Traits

Great Patriotic War
Rogue State
Atomic Futurism
Operation Paperclip


United States of Aurelia (Zeronet)

Great Power
Homeland: Including the geography, climate and location on the world's continents.
Government Type: Democracy, constitutional monarchy, lifelong appointment by the politburo? In this era, the significant thing to note is electoral cycle: how often do you have elections?
Ideological Landscape: What is the ideology of the country? Who rules the country is important, but who also is the opposition? Ideological division provides a flexibility that a political monoculture does not.
Majority: Who rules the country and by how much? Even countries that were 100% fascist in their governance were only 30%-60% fascist electorally.
Minor Ideologies: Who are the opposition, the third and fourth parties, the unassimilated, politically inactive minorities? Can anyone, or even a coalition, form a government come next election?

Power Traits

Operation Paperclip
Brain Drain
Black Mark

Optional Traits

+Special Relationship
+New Imperial Century

Summary

3000 Wealth Production 2000 Industrial Production 5 Years in Military Spending Spree 1 Tech Strike 5 Cities, including a Capital 3 Factories, including a Naval HQ


NP Spend

The Akira Technocracy (Jacklyn)

Great Power
Homeland: a Rather large island far off the coast of a nearby continent, it has lush and plentiful food and water on its northern side, where most of the inhabitants live, but there is also a long stretch of southern wasteland, too infertile and hot for any real-life to thrive, which is often used for government black sites and as a rocket testing area.
Government: Technocracy
Ideological Landscape: 100% Technocrats(One Party, One People)

Summary

  • 12750 WP
  • 8250 IP
  • 5 Year Military Spending
  • 6 Starting Tech Strikes.
  • 15 Cities (1 Capital)
  • 9 Factories (1 Naval HQ)
  • 7 Natural Resources(H.Metals, L.Metals, Uranium, Oil, Fresh Water, Airiable Land, Coal)
  • 300 Fission Bombs

Power Traits

-One Party, One People
-Big Empty
-Hostile Climate(Tropical)

Optional Traits

+Atomic Futurism
+Ancient Astronomy
+[Space] Mafia
+Manhattan Project
+Island State
-Where Have All The Men Gone
-My Manual Is Full Of Eels
-Black Mark

NP Spending

5*Extra Tech Strike [25 NP]
25 NP worth of extra WP
25 NP worth of extra IP
Natural Resource [25 NP]

Serene Empire of Mizuho

Minor Power
A southern latitudes archipelago state.

Traits

  • Island State
So many islands.
  • Fish Monopoly
So many fish..
  • Water Monopoly
We also have a lot of fresh water, flowing down off the mountains.
  • The Woman's War
Mizuho's religion has always been the domain of priestesses and this has led to a culture far more egalitarian than most.
  • Worthless Yellow Rocks
It is said that the Rabbit in the Moon came from Mizuho.


  • Hostile Climate
While Mizuho's climate itself is quite amenable, the nation's myriad of islands tend to be extremely rugged and flat land suitable for large-scale construction is rather limited and often already built-upon.
  • Pieds Noir
The Collegium has long exerted influence over Mizuho. The reactionary old men in cahoots with them are still kicking.
  • Black Mark
This nuclear weapon was to be used against the Collegium's Hyundai Island and the massed fleet there. Unfortunately the bomber carrying it was shot down and the weapon exploded over the city of Pyonjeon, killing roughly 80,000 civilians. Oops.


Stats

  • 1 Resource (Fish)
  • 2000 Wealth Production
  • 1000 Industrial Production
  • 3 Years in Military Spending Spree
  • 1 Tech Strike
  • 4 Cities, including a Capital
  • 4 Factories, including a Naval HQ

Point Spread

  • 1,000 Wealth Production (20)
  • 200 Industry Production (10)
  • 1 x Natural Resource [Fish] (10)
  • 1 x Natural Resource [Water] (10)
  • 1 x Natural Resource [H. Metals] (10)
  • 1 x Natural Resource [L. Metals] (10)
  • 1 x Natural Resource [Oil] (10)
  • 1 x Natural Resource [Coal] (10)
  • 1 x Natural Resource [Uranium] (10)

Gazeteer

We have islands! And fish!

The Sublime Yuhwan College of Nations including the Pious Common Kingship of the Hoopoe Forest and the Sanctified Tsintsar Crown of Yuhwasattva Vãduva

a.k.a. The Collegium, the Rzeczpospolita, or simply Gyerim-Covasna

Middle Power
Joseon dynasty Austria-Hungary

Traits

  • Great Patriotic War
Somehow, the Collegium lives still. What greater proof of miracles can there be?
  • Boondoggle
What do you mean the Great War is over...?
  • Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier
The Rzeczpospolita is obliged to protect many small fellow travelers in the light across the world.
  • Plurinational State x2
The Kingdoms of Gyerim and Covasna operate with considerable autonomy from the rest of the Collegium.
  • Where Have All the Men Gone?
"My grandfathers joke that if you took all the pieces of their bodies they lost in the Great War and put them together, you'd have a whole eunuch."
"Why a eunuch...?"
"Well I'm here, aren't I?"
  • The Woman's War
The realities of the Great War pushed at the open door of the highly egalitarian, even outright Matriarchal, culture of many nations in the Rzeczpospolita.
  • Free Haven
The women of the Collegium want fine men!
  • Brain Drain
Bright young women want to see what's going on in the rest of the world.
  • Woke Space Jesuits (Worthless Yellow Rocks)
If there are Gods and other nations unknown in the stars then the Yuhwa's Gospel must go to them, until all the heavens roll in compassion alike.
  • Cutthroat Politics
"Well it's complicated. Have you heard of the Norons and Sorons? It's a long story, but first, we must discuss parallel universes-"
  • Republican Tradition
"-Actually that's quite fine, that's all I needed to know really."
  • Nuclear Trauma
The Pyeonjeon Sarcophagus
  • The Sick Old Man
Lots of chronically underdeveloped villages. Good tourism value though!

Federal Union of North Zealand

Great Power
1950's Atompunk America/Canada/Australia

Traits

  • Manhattan Project
Zealand scientists cracked the secrets of the atom, to tremendous effects.
  • New Imperial Century
Zealand and the Union proper remained remarkably untouched by the war, its factories churned out vehicles, weapons, and supplies for combatants the world over.
  • Free Haven
The Federation welcomes the tired, huddled masses of the world to build its greatness.
  • Atomic Futurism
Powered by the atom and the indomitable intellect of its scientists Zealandia future is bright!


  • Operation Paperclip
OSI has secured scientists from many questionable and unethical sources for the future of the Federation.
  • Cutthroat Politics
Zealands politics is a mess of Federal and State level campaigns and coalitions that have a frightening tendency to collapse at the drop of a hat.
  • Boondoggle
The Federation seeks continued control over Zealand, through soft and hard means.
  • Black Mark
The short lived "Atoms for Freedom" program backfired horribely in the nuclear pyre of Pyonjeon.
  • War of the Worlds
Where else would the sword of Damocles fall but upon a Jewel of the world?

Stats

13500 Wealth Production
7800 Industrial Production
5 Years in Military Spending Spree
6 Tech Strike
18 Cities, including a Capital
18 Factories, including a Naval HQ
L. Metals, H. Metals, Oil, Coal, Fresh Water, Arable Land, Uranium

100 Nation Points, which can be traded for:

1 for 50 Wealth Production [-30]
1 for 30 Industrial Production [-20]
5 Extra Tech Strikes [-25]
25 for Extra Resource [-25]

Janaxpachasuyu (The Empire of the Celestial Skies)(Murtox)

Great Power
Inca Empire on Steroids

Traits

  • Manhattan Project
Only the Atom will safeguard the Huacas of our ancestors
  • Plurinational State x2
Our history as rulers is long and rich, as such, we have a couple of extra inheritances from olden times. Kashamarkasuyu and Chachapoyas remain powerful vassal kingdoms within our lands.
  • Special Relationship x2
Small kingdoms are also within our grasp, I mean authority. Tumpis, Ariqipa, Luritu and Wanuku are just in our historical sphere of influence.
  • New Imperial Century
The war was fought and hard but it never reached our industrial heartland.
  • My Manual Is Full of Eels
  • Big Empty
  • Black Mark
  • Operation Paperclip
  • Energy Cartel
  • Boondogle

Empire of Anbara (Oseng)

Traits

  • Island State
  • Manhattan Project (May Change)
  • Water Monopoly (May Change)
  • The Woman's War = Shaman Empress/Queen and female priestesses
  • Hostile Climate
  • Pieds Noir = Collegium Influence
  • Black Mark (May Change)

New Siona - Middle Power (Secretariat)

Capital: Haak Lam (Hoklam)
  • Manifest Destiny
  • Island State
  • Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier
  • Aircraft Mafia
  • Special Relationship
  • Special Relationship
  • Free Haven
  • Nuclear Trauma
  • Operation Paperclip
  • One People, One Party
  • Boondoggle
  • The War Of The Worlds