You're not tied to your government characters. You can play anyone who is a part of your country, pretty much. Civilians, soldiers, ect.

See: Any post of mine in Hong Kong or the Hong Kong region (Shenzhen area).

The problem with individuals is the same problem corporations and the like tend to have. They might involve a fun idea to think up, but when it comes to actually writing story arcs you end up stuck. The nations you'd most likely want to play in are being ran by RPers already, who's ideas you'd have to follow. And the game itself involves large, sweeping events that an individual would, at best, get to be a commentator on. I did RP an individual in America a long time ago as a way to fix some of the problems that continent had, and it seems to have worked. America has at least been viable ever since then. But I did this for mechanical reasons, with the specific goal to repair some confusion rather than do anything particularly awesome, and I did this while retaining the ability to RP Ethiopia. Most of those Dixon America posts were Meetings, after all. The best course of action is to pick a relatively small state that isn't very involved and see what you can do with it. This is the success story that Spain, Ethiopia, Armenia, and Persia all seemed to have followed. Big nations tend to overwhelm, and nations that are already involved tend to cut down on creative control. In this way, Mexico isn't a bad choice.

Sometimes I imagine everyone here hanging out in a lounge room talking about politics and war. Village and Googer and slap fighting, Aaron is planting Rice, and Mihn is playing football. All the inactive people are sleeping in chairs, Duck is punching a bunch of lamps with Balkan nation's flags on them with Me and Rare watching. It's an interesting thought. On that subject, Regno d'Italia shall soon become... interesting. For the Balkans at least. (By soon I mean probably in... months, knowing my frequency.)

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@duck55223 I am waiting on Googs to do something first, I was attempting diplomacy with him and that was going to be the next post but he seems to have forgotten about it.

You no longer have an excuse, bub.

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@duck55223 I am waiting on Googs to do something first, I was attempting diplomacy with him and that was going to be the next post but he seems to have forgotten about it.

You no longer have an excuse, bub.

I threw something up.

Plus, keep in mind what the US might do if more of their neighbours went red. ;)

One thing to keep in mind if you do pick up Mexico is that a few posts ago I had the Secretary of State in Mexico City on a goodwill trip to ease tensions between the two countries. I haven't revisited it since, but a chance for stable relations is on the table.

All these niggas posting and here I am drawing comics for the internet for money.

Excuuuuse those of us who weren't born gifted in the ways of art.

Now I need to post, I suppose. A concordat with Mexico is perfectly viable if America also goes along with it, but we would be on the lookout for any attempt at expanding their influence. And participating in the Ethiopian war will be interesting, but I need to wait for like two pages to pass on account of travel time.

Serbia lookin' to get slapped.

So an idea I had a while back, relating to the discussion about individuals. Would it be possible to have a story arc where a person of Asian descent in Brazil (probably Korean, whose parents emigrated during one of the wars) attempted to infiltrate into China through the border between North and South Korea? Not in the "let's fly a helicopter into China and get shot down way" but as an undercover type thing just to determine what life is like there. And the person could fully get caught or interrogated or whatever, I just thought it would be an interesting idea. They might have to rename it the Mediterranean League.

It would be possible as something you and Aaron agree to. Although, I wouldn't expect any James Bond-level shit from a Brazilian spy.

Man, Hungary feels a lot safer with a nation, that's going apeshit crazy below it. I better get the troops ready at the border because, it aren't going to be pretty.

Don't worry, I'm here to slap Serbia if need be. Though it'd probably just end up like that one war Italians do not speak of that happened in that one Balkan country. So, probably not actually. Italy would just go like "Oh noooo, we should do something! Big bad Serbia is expanding towards us!" "Oh dear, let's sell them the pizza!*" *- Italian foreign policy in a nutshell.

Serbia's your buddy now, as part of the Iberian League. So you both lookin' to get slapped.

Hmmm. ITALY STILL DOES NOT APPROVE BUT WILL DO NOTHING. Not that we have a choice in the matter. Big brother Spain watching over our shoulder.

Concerning individual characters, I'd already assumed if they were from your country, it was okay. I was just unaware of the current status of foreign characters, but now that I have that clarification, I'll stay away from it until they're given the green light--and even then, I probably won't make one.

The best course of action is to pick a relatively small state that isn't very involved and see what you can do with it. This is the success story that Spain, Ethiopia, Armenia, and Persia all seemed to have followed. Big nations tend to overwhelm, and nations that are already involved tend to cut down on creative control. In this way, Mexico isn't a bad choice.

That's why I picked them :) Nation: La República de México Leader: Presidente-electo Hernando Estevez History: The country of Mexico gained it's independence after being established as a Spanish colony under the name "New Spain" in 1820, when Spanish general Agustin de Iturbide aided Mexican revolutionaries against the colonial masters of the region. Almost immediately after achieving independence, de Iturbide proclaimed himself emperor of all Mexico--until three years later, when he was ousted. Thus a representative government was established in Central America. Soon after, the Mexican government abolished slavery within their borders in 1829. In 1833, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was made President after defeating the leader of a coup d'etat. This, however, only resulted in him consolidating power to form a much more centralized government. After he installed a new constitution, many rebellions began to appear across the country, one of which was the Republic of Texas. After losing the Texan Independence war, Santa Anna returned back to Mexico City, only to find that a new government had established itself and ousted him. Santa Anna then regained power after battling a French invasion force, then became President once more. He was then thrown out again when economic turmoil struck the country, and then oversaw the US-Mexican war, as the United States had begun to annex Texas into their own borders. The war ended with Texas remaining in the US (up until the American Civil war), Mexico losing half of it's territory, and Santa Anna losing his presidency again. He later regained the position briefly in 1853, then lost it in 1855 as his last remaining supporters dropped any and all support for the corrupt autocrat. Mexico then returned to a federal republic under President Benito Juarez, who initiated several liberal reforms. However, the conservatives in the government refused to recognize them, and thus the so-called Reform war began, until finally Juarez and the liberals prevailed as the victors of the conflict. The conservatives were not finished, however; the French intervention in 1864 saw the installment of a monarch, Archduke Ferdinand Maximillian of Austria, as the head of a new imperial ally. This did not last long, however, and in 1867, he was overthrown and executed. Yet again, the country returned to representationalism as a republic, and thus President Porfirio Diaz was elected. He continued to become elected for five consecutive times, until the events of 1910 struck. Diaz held another election, running for a sixth term despite his very old age. He imprisoned a few opponents and declared that he had unanimously won the race. This was obviously not true, as a large portion of the vote had gone to jailed candidate Francisco I. Madero. Riots began to crop up across the nation, and Madero escaped prison to form an army to take down Diaz's regime. A swift war was waged between Madero's revolutionaries and Diaz's old generals, until finally Diaz resigned in 1911 and exiled himself to France where he later died. This peace did not last, however, as Madero was assassinated two years later in a coup d'etat. The new government refused to take entry in the Great War, recognizing both the danger of pulling in the United States (which fortunately did not enter the nightmarish conflict either) and the horrors the war had already seen. In 1926, the country was engulfed in a religious war known as the Cristero war over the mistreatment of Catholics by the secular government. It ended in 1929 when American ambassador to Mexico Dwight Morrow arranged a peace between the Cristeros and the Mexican government. However, local authorities continued to find ways to enforce the oppression of Catholics in some way or another. Over the next four decades, Mexico gained some serious economic growth, unhindered by any economic depressions and only the occasional recession. By 1970, it was one of the biggest economies in North America, and perhaps the biggest in central america. During this time, they briefly launched an invasion of the RNF, which collapsed later that year. In the following years, the rise of the Nuevo Partido Comunista de Mexico began to challenge the sole governing party, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, which would finally begin to decline in the face of growing communist desires. Eventually, the government made a compromise in order to keep their domination of congress: they would begin to implement socialist reforms. A planned economy would be set up, and certain institutions and firms would be nationalized. This was enough to keep them in control of the government...but for how long is unknown. And there you have it! My sheet for Mexico.

Serbia's your buddy now, as part of the Iberian League. So you both lookin' to get slapped.

I aren't Serbia's buddy. I aren't joining the Iberian League anytime soon.

Serbia's your buddy now, as part of the Iberian League. So you both lookin' to get slapped.

I aren't Serbia's buddy. I aren't joining the Iberian League anytime soon.

OOOOOOOOOH LADIES AND GENTLEMEN LOOKS LIKE WE'RE ABOUT TO HAVE A GOOD OL' FASHIONED EUROPEAN BATTLE ROYALE GRAB YOUR POPCORN AND YOUR CHEMICAL WEAPONS BECAUSE THIS IS GONNA GET MESSY