I am generally good with maps. I'll try to whip up an approximation of everyone's claims thus far after I've worked on my NS.

I am thinking about taking Brazil too

I am generally good with maps. I'll try to whip up an approximation of everyone's claims thus far after I've worked on my NS.

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Ok, You know what, here is an idea. @Durandal@Willy Vereb.
Ok Durandal, let Willy get the territories he wants, and the EU can get France. Hows that sound?

So sorry about not getting back to you guys earlier. I'm fine with the concessions of bolded states and l the italicized ones. I guess I'll take France, though my initial reason for not including them or the UK were initially France has less in common with the other nations and splendid isolation, respectively.

Edit: Does anyone want the other Scandinavian countries?

So sorry about not getting back to you guys earlier. I'm fine with the concessions of bolded states and l the italicized ones. I guess I'll take France, though my initial reason for not including them or the UK were initially France has less in common with the other nations and splendid isolation, respectively.

Edit: Does anyone want the other Scandinavian countries?

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I only care if you want the Baltics or Moldova. Cause then we'll have war. At the moment the Soviet Empire only has Ukraine and Belarus, though.

I like it, is it still WIP or is it complete?

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You're Russia anyways, so you'd never get through Finland.

It'd be interesting to see someone playing as a united Scandinavia, especially given the fact that they wouldn't have all of that juicy Norwegian oil.

@Mihndar
Nothing in the Baltic Countries other than Poland at the moment, if that even counts.

Alright. The United Kingdom, Ireland, and all British overseas territories and Crown dependencies are hereby claimed. Tack on Newfoundland, Cyprus and Iceland as well.

I feel as though this is an important question for me to ask before I presume it.

What with the breakup of the United States and the federated EU's poor economic and financial status, can it then be assumed that Great Britain is the post-war world's financial leader, and the pound sterling the international reserve currency? I intend on making my state more or less a direct, logical continuation of the present day United Kingdom, taking the drastic changes in the international world into account.

@Willy Vereb@MetalLover
So sorry about not getting back to you guys earlier. I'm fine with the concessions of bolded states and l the italicized ones. I guess I'll take France, though my initial reason for not including them or the UK were initially France has less in common with the other nations and splendid isolation, respectively.

Edit: Does anyone want the other Scandinavian countries?

I'll have the edited version of my app up sometime later tonight or tomorrow.

@Willy Vereb
How does having a divided Slovakia as a point of contention sound, kind of like East and West Germany?

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Thanks, it's complete as of now.

Also, I could update/colorize the map once all the submissions are in.

Wow, this kind of has exploded since I posted in the int check. Anyway, here's my WIP nation sheet. It contains some more updates since initially posted in the int check.

WIP:

Nation App
Legal Nation Name (Such As United Soviet Socialist States of America):
The Caliphate of Instanbul

What Areas Do You Control (Territories):
Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Isreal, Sinai, Egypt, Iraq

Flag or Banner (National and Political):



Political Party (What Party leads the Nation):
Sunni Brotherhood

Type of Government (Easy Pz):
A Caliphate. A type of theocratic autocracy where the highest religious leader (Caliph) is also the highest political leader. The Caliph is the Chosen representative of Allah in the mortal world. The Shura, a gathering of community leaders elects the Caliph for life. Upon the Caliphs death, all the community leaders gather to choose the next Caliph. It is the Sunni Brotherhood party who presents the possible candidates to the Shura.

Military (How many People and Military and Main Generals):

The caliphate's regular military is divided into 3 branches. Army, Air-force and Navy. The navy includes the marine corps. The Caliphate conscripts every able bodied man aged 17 into a 5 year service. After their initial service the conscripts can join the military as a career soldier. The higher ranking officers and special forces units consists of career soldiers. Next to the official military forces the Caliphate has a paramilitary wing of radical islamists recruited from all over the world known as the Martyr Brigade.

Army [+]

Army:
Manpower: 1.500.000
Tanks: 2.500
APC's and IVF: 12.500
Self Propelled artillery: 800

Air-force [+]

Air-force:
Multi-role fighters: 800
Air dominance fighters: 250
Attack helicopter: 400

Navy [+]

Navy:
Marine infantry: 50.000
Aircraft carriers: 2
Helicopter carriers: 4
Destroyers: 16
Frigates: 22
Corvettes: 20
Submarines: 12
Amphibious landing platforms: 4

Army theaters of command [+]

Army theaters of command

Anatolian command
Marshal Kemal Kulgirez

Caucasian command
General Anatoli Bakkali

Middle-Eastern Command
General Ibrahim Ataman

African command
Marshal Mohammed Bozguney

Navy Theaters of command [+]

Navy Theaters of command:

Mediterranean Command
Admiral Mohammed Saleh

Black Sea Command
Admiral Ahmed Baykara

Caspian Sea Command
Rear admiral Ibn Al-Azala

Red Sea Command
Admiral Badr Al-Hamdani

Martyr Brigades
The martyr brigades is a multinational fundamentalist paramilitary organization with the aim of adding other territories to the Caliphate. It consists of radical Islamic insurgents who are trained in the Caliphate to conduct a-symmetric warfare and terrorism against the infidels. Recruits from all across the world join this organization and setup local cells to further the spread of the true Islam within their own country. Its idiology teaches its members that it is the duty to wage jihad upon all the infidels until the entire world is united under one Caliphate.

Productions (What your nation Produces):
Oil, gas, agricultural products, industrial manufactured goods, Iron. Another great source of income to the Caliphate is the exploitation of the Suez Canal and the Bosphorus strait. Countries and companies have to pay special tributes to the Caliphate in order to make use of the sea lanes.

Due to the extremely fundamentalist interpretation of the Quran, sharia and other Islamic works the capitalist banking system has been replaced by Islamic banking which does not charge interest on their loans. Also the country is closed to all international companies that are not run by the Islamic banking principles. This has a negative impact on the countries economy.

History of the Nation (Easy Pz):

Main Race (What is your State Race + Racial Demographics):
Turks: 48 %
Arabs: 42%
Other: 10%

Main Religion (What is your State Religion + Religious Demographics):
Radical Sunni Islam. The Caliphate endorses a very radical version of the Sunni Islam. It forces everyone within the state to convert to this form of Islam. Religious minorities have been subjugated to extreme violence and genocide. Any other form of religion is prohibited by the state. People who refuse to convert can be punished by death of sold into slavery. Most people who identify with other religions than the Sunni Islam are slaves owned by religious fighters and leaders.

Other:

WIP, but please let me know if it is acceptable so far :)

The United Kingdom of Greater Britannia

Legal Nation Name:
The United Kingdom of Greater Britannia

What Areas Do You Control?:
The current territories of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland; Calais (in France) and a small, undefined and fluctuating area around it; the Faroe Islands; Gibraltar; and Iceland (although the interior is only nominally under British control - the coast is, however, under London's direct administration.) Other Overseas Territories have either been annexed by other powers (a motive for new British expansionism) or are too isolated to be governed directly from London. Britain seeks to re-establish control over these lost territories.

Flag or Banner:

Union Flag [+]

Political Party:
British New Imperialist Party (a radicalised merger of elements of today's Conservative and UKIP parties. These two parties continue to exist but are much weaker and less influential)

Type of Government:
Constitutional Monarchy and Parliamentary Democracy

Military: 250,000 (approx.), and rising.

Productions:
Oil (from North Sea), Steel, Shipbuilding, Automobiles, limited satellite industry based in Scotland, export of wind-generated electric power to other European nations (if any others still exist).

History of the Nation:
Will be completed and refined if/when other European nations join.

Will be along the lines of economic devastation after the Third World War giving rise to extremist parties in an unstable British state (still including Scotland after the socialist policies of SNP failed and drastically weakened both the interior Scottish economy and that of the rest of the United Kingdom, gaining support for continued union with England to prevent Scottish collapse). These extremist groups gained support for much the same reasons as the fascist powers of the 20th century rose to power. Fortunately, the Constitutional Monarchy (still intact at this time) preserved democracy by refusing point blank to sign any proposals by Parliament to abolish the system, both out of genuine concern for the well-being of the British people and out of the expectation that any dictator would seek to remove the monarchy as an opposition and counterbalance to their rule. To protect the monarchy, the Queen issued an order as her last act before she died, re-creating the Royalist forces of the English Civil War. They were to again represent the interests of the monarch, but act only as bodyguards against treasonous aggression.

Since then, elements of the far right have crept into Parliament but are kept from absolute power by the remaining, less radicalised parties and the influence of the monarchy. This has not prevented, however, a significant increase in military spending and militarisation and a more aggressive foreign policy - not opposed by most MPs as Britain lacks the resources to become self-sufficient and a significant world power.

Ultimately, Britain seized control of Eire, the Faroes and Iceland, and consolidated British holdings on the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and Gibraltar by ingraining them into the United Kingdom itself.

Main Race:
White British (85%)
Black African/Commonwealth/British (3%)
Asian/Asian British (2.3%)
Other (9.7%)

Main Religion:
Christianity (professing) (65%)
No Religion (25%)
Islam (5%)
Other (5%)

Other:
- Head of State - King William V (Her Majesty the Queen, Prince Philip and Prince Charles all perished in the Third World War)
- Head of Government - Prime Minister Joseph Blakeney

Great Britain [+]

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Territories:: Great Britain, Ireland, and all British overseas territories and Crown dependencies, as well as Newfoundland, Cyprus and Iceland.

Political Party: Conservative and Unionist Party majority government. The Opposition is divided between two ideologically contrasting major players: left-wing Labour, and the far-right 'Republican Alliance', founded during the Great British Boom by American expatriates and advocating abolition of the monarchy and more assertive foreign policy, especially in relation to communist regimes.

Type of Government: Parliamentary Democracy under Constitutional Monarchy.

Military: To be determined.

Economy: The United Kingdom is the world's largest economy, and an international leader in finance, manufacturing, and technology. Although very capitalist, and populated by a great many of rich expatriates from now communist countries, Great Britain does not shy away from performing business with any state so inclined to deal with it, including extremists on either side of the political spectrum.

The United Kingdom's is a largely market-oriented economy, and the government makes a point of keeping it this way. Nearly all production is conducted by private enterprises, and most services (excluding some pincushions like healthcare) are operated by the private sector as well. This means that although the United Kingdom's economy is both large and quickly expanding, there is still a very evident class divide in British society, as there has always been. The poor are richer than they've ever been before, however, and plentiful employment opportunities coupled with economically naturally fast-growing wages keep the lower cases placated.

A result of the post-war influx of foreign businesses and workers into the United Kingdom was an intense and rapid technological evolution, centred around London. The "Great British Boom", as it has become colloquially known, extended to all theatres of technology, from consumer electronics to military weaponry. Devices that were previously thought of as fantastical objects of science fiction, such as laser weaponry, became the new reality. This new frontier of technology is expanding ever still, bringing humanity's progress ever forward, with the British once again at the helm.

Post-War History: As a consequence of being largely spared from the devastation of WWIII, Great Britain emerged from the war as the world's largest and fastest growing economy—the new old superpower. The country's financial sector sky-rocketed as a result of the total abolition of the United States dollar and severe war-time strain on the Euro, culminating in the pound sterling ascension to the status of reserve currency. Industry as well, particularly manufacturing, was given a stupendous advantage by the infrastructural devastation of so many of the nation's competitors. With the factories of Germany and the United States either bombed out or exhausted, the factories of England multiplied and innovated, and many major international manufacturers either established a new presence in or outright relocated to the United Kingdom.

The Republic of Ireland enjoyed only a few short years of comparative advantage over the United Kingdom following British withdrawal from the European Union. Once the war started, the Irish found themselves drawn into it by a consequence of their close ties with Brussels, and Dublin conscripted many young Irish men and women up to join the newly founded European Federation's sovereign military. A large many, fearing war and coveting British prosperity, escaped into either Northern Ireland or Great Britain itself. This was a major headache for Dublin, and the major Irish political parties, all of which supported Ireland's place in the European Federation, found themselves ostracized by the new Irish generation. A second outbreak of the Troubles broke out in the Emerald Isle, only this time instead of focusing in Northern Ireland, they excluded it. Belfast was bolstered at Dublin's expense, and the Irish Republic became despised by its people for its insistence—both past and present—on connecting Ireland to Europe. Outbreaks of violence between anti and pro-federation Irishmen became common, and London began to give first illicit and then public support to anti-EU factions. Eventually, the fighting became so intense that the Irish forces deployed abroad were sent back home to quell the unrest, and the anti-EU factions suffered brutal reprisals. Leaders of the anti-EU factions fled to Belfast, and, with London's approval, signed the 'Belfast Declaration', declaring an newly independent State of Ireland consisting of both the European Federation's Irish territories and British Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom's military and economic might was enough to pressure the EU Federation to acquiesce, and the pro-EU factions in power in Ireland therefore found themselves isolated. The British military moved in, quickly destroying the Irish military and capturing Dublin and the other major cities, restoring order amongst the sectarian chaos. All paramilitary factions, both anti-EU and pro-EU, were formally outlawed, and a referendum was held to determine the future of Ireland. The Irish people, including all residents of the entire island, were presented with three options: absolute independence, incorporation back into the European Federation, or incorporation back into the United Kingdom. Hoping to become a part of the Great British Boom, the majority of the Irish people selected the second option. Their ensuing prosperity and the migration of both Britons and foreign immigrants into Ireland cemented the island's place within the United Kingdom for the foreseeable future. The Irish now took part, as British citizens, in the huge technological and manufacturing advances that the collapse of so much of the rest of the world had made way for, for them and their fellow statesmen across the Irish Sea.

Ireland was far from the only country to face crisis, political or economic, from the outbreak of war. The manufacturing might of the third world took a tumble from WWIII, based not only on loss of production capability, but also loss of market access. The rise of authoritarian and communist regimes across Asia and Africa meant that their low labour costs could no longer be taken advantage of by western companies, the changing political environment working in every way in London's favour. The financiers of Singapore and Hong Kong packed up and moved wholesale to London, fearing ruin should they remain in their corner of the world much longer. The United Kingdom welcomed not only the economies of foreign nations with open arms, but also many of their people. The violent collapse of the United States and the widespread devastation of the European mainland forced tens of millions from their homes, and, with nowhere else to go, across either the English Channel or North Atlantic to the safety and prosperity of the British Home Isles. This new wave of immigration from the west replaced an almost complete cessation of migration from the Third World, the poor of the world's newly communist states finding themselves physically unable to flee their destitution and follow behind their former employers, blocked by men in revolutionary garb calling them traitors. This fundamental alteration to the British growth dynamic resulted in major partisan policy changes as well. The Tories became the party of immigrants, welcoming with open arms the largely Anglophone, largely right-wing and largely white newcomers. Labour, fearing demographic outmaneuvering and potential overpopulation, became more critical of international migrants, commenting on the rapidly increasing competition for employment as a reason to close the borders. The Great Migration's effects, of course, were not limited to the economy and politics, but also most directly affected British demographics.

Racial and Cultural Demographics
74% White British (including those who self-identify solely as English, Scottish, Irish, etc.)
18% Other White ('American', German, Polish, etc.)
03% Asian (Predominantly Indian and Pakistani.)
02% Black (Primarily from/in the British Caribbean.)
02% Other (Mixed Race, Not Specified, etc.)

Religious Demographics
62% Christian (largest Christian denomination is the Church of England, the official state church).
34% Irreligious and/or Atheist.
02% Muslim.
02% Other (Hinduism, Judaism, etc.)

Head of State: William V.

Head of Government: Prime Minister Janet Bright.

I am thinking about taking Brazil too

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A bit much I would say, I would think that all South American nations except Brazil is fine
Edit: Again, if anyone would like to accept my request to be co-gm I'd be happy. I'd accept 2 other co-gms.