“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” ― Narcotics Anonymous (Note, this Rp is based off one I found on a different forum)
It all began on the morning of February 15th, 2060. One bomb was accidentally launched by the Nationalist States of America against their more socialist counterparts to the North. This mistake, caused by someone putting in the wrong code, began the deadliest event to ever grace the planet. The death tolls of World War 1, World War 2, The Black Plague, and the Plague of Justinian would only amount to half of what this conflict would cause. By the end of the conflict, over 400 Million people would have lost their lives, and the racial, religious, and political climate of the world would change dramatically.
Humanity, being the resilient thing that is, survived, and once again began to thrive. The world left to them was vastly different from the world their grandparents lived in, gone where the large oil fueled economies and no longer was space travel limited to the moon. It seemed that just as their ancestors advanced after the first two World Wars that they would do the same.
The date is January 1st 2120, a total of sixty years after World War Three. Humanity eyes are turned on the rest of the solar system with colonizes already being in place for twenty years now. Space is now where nations economy grow and fall, with Asteroid Mining becoming the new main source of income for the nations of the world. The Oil that is left is kept locked up by those who hold it is still valuable to some of those left. Majority of energy is either wind or solar powered, with nuclear power being rarely used because of how dangerous it could be.
Hello, and Welcome to Chronicles of Insanity, my first attempt running an RP on this forum. I'm an experienced RPer, and I've migrated from forum to forum for about 3 years now. I've landed on this forum because I saw that it had a decently large NRP community. Just to keep it short, heres what to expect out of this RP.
A large, Mostly Earth Based (As their are powerful independent nations in space yet) NRP from the perspective of Multiple Characters. I will not post a nation sheet yet, but I do encourage you to place ideas for your nations.
Rules: No Godmoding No Insulting In the OOC Arguments are kept in the PM Nothing Supernatural (UFO's, Ghosts, ect...)
Map:
Nation Sheet: Nation Name: Flag: Type of Government: Demographics (Race and Religion are the main ones): Population number: Country Leader(s): Culture: History: Other:
Ideas for Nations: An African-American Police State in the Deep South. A Neo-Pagan Monarchy somewhere in Scandinavia. A Densely packed City-State in a former Metropolis (Such as New York, Los Angeles, London, Toronto, Mumbai, Istanbul, Beijing, etc...) And my Personal Favorite, a Pirate-like nation made up of Ceres and the surrounding Asteroids.
By how much should was the general population reduced?
I think the decades following the war are more than sufficient to restore population to their pre-war state. Or even beyond, given if you establish colonies in space or other planets. The typical limitation of population nowadays is space and sustainability rather than lack of growth.
Religion Roman Catholicism: 94.4% No Religion: 2.5% Other Christian: 2.1% Islam: 0.5% Buddhism: 0.2% Other: 0.2% Hinduism: 0.1%
Population: 74,000,000
Country Leaders
Born Bartolomeo Ricci, he was formerly Archbishop of Naples and then Cardinal. Strongly conservative and traditionalist, he seeks to influence Catholics around the world and raise the Catholic Church to a position it has not had since the era of Medieval Western Christendom. In doing so he seeks not only the defeat the old enemies of the Church, leftism, nationalism, secularism, and atheism, but also the new religious revolutions around the world that threatens to convert believers into “heresy and apostasy.”
Giacomo Alberghetti, aged 62, as Cardinal-Secretary of State serves as the chief of political and diplomatic functions in the Papacy, and his power in the Papal States is directly below the Pope himself. No man stranger to intrigue, he is unafraid to engage in assassination and oppression, and views it as a necessary component of governance. He follows the Pope completely in his quest to exert the Papal States influence around the world.
Alessandro Zamboni, aged sixty-one, is the Prefect for the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, in charge of missionary work and other related activity. However, he is also responsible for relations for Catholics around the world and their relationship with the papacy, making him one of the most important diplomats in the country. In personal life, his material lifestyle is the subject of some controversy, but nothing too incriminating has been found yet.
Pietro di Romano, aged fifty-nine, is Secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition, and is popularly known as the High Inquisitor. Quiet, calculating, and with a penetrating stare, this bookish Dominican is feared by all. His mission is to stamp out heresy and apostasy, and he does his job with a certain excellence and passion.
Angelo Gallinari, at the age of fifty-four, is the youngest of any of the Imperator (General) since the Papal States has been reestablished, . He gained his position through his military successes in the Alp War, defeating the Swiss and Austrian guerillas and gaining popularity and prestige among his nation. In his personal life, he is a reasonably pious and loyal man who values his family.
Culture
The humanities and the sciences have been revived under the Church, although it has not been under secular pre-war lines. Neo-Scholasticism, the revival of the Scholastic method practiced within medieval western European universities, was revived and made the official method within the Universities. It expanded not only to philosophy and theology, but also science. Reminiscent of Soviet concept of Bourgeois pseudoscience, new science and research can be declared by the Church to be “relativistic pseudoscience.” The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was reintroduced, banning a number of books and authors from publication, although it does not apply to universities and the clergy, where the number of banned books is significantly smaller.
The area where there is the most intellectual development would be in the arts, especially in art, philosophy, literature, and music. In literature, a plethora of authors of high quality both of prose and poetry have emerged, reviving traditional and romantic styles. Along with classical music, there is a very active musical community of new Italian folk music.
Catholicism being the state religion, and the state being authoritarian and theocratic, other religions face persecution. They are not allowed to proselytize, and only Jews and Muslims are allowed to build houses of worship. All non-Catholics have their activities heavily supervised by the government, and they cannot participate in even local government. Most of the Islamic population has immigrated away from the Papal States.
History
It was in the year 2060 when the Third World War broke out. The Italian Republic did not escape unscathed, and the ensuing fallout led to its internal collapse. In the ensuing years, Italy would be divided into a number of small, local states that struggled against each other for power and territory. The most powerful of these were the states of Piedmont and Tuscany, but it would be further south where the true power of Italy would grow.
Within the ancient city of Rome, the Papacy survived. Although the Pope himself had died, a number of priests, bishops, and cardinals within Rome had survived. They elected Bishop Emiliano Di Pasqua as Pius XIII. Under Pius XIII, the remnants of the Papacy began recruiting still pious Roman Catholics within and near Rome, training them in a formidable military and police force, which would become the root of a new Papal Army. Having restored order to the previously chaotic post-war Rome, the Papal States, disestablished by the Italian Republic in 1870, was restored in 2061.
Throughout the 2060s, the Papal States, with a struggle, would expand itself throughout central Italy. In 2068, an alliance was formed with Naples, who were being invaded by Sicily. After the Papal States led Naples to victory, both states were duly annexed within the next few years. Pius XIII found itself unable to overtake Tuscany, despite his greater manpower, resources, and territory.
Pius XIII’s death eventually came in 2077. He was succeeded by Archbishop of Naples, Angelo Biassi, who took the name of Leo XIV. In 2080, Leo XIV took advantage of a war between Piedmont and Tuscany to invade Tuscany. The Invasion of Tuscany was led by the greatest Papal general, Giovanni Leccese, who smashed through Tuscany, leading to its annexation. Leccese then continued onward with his army without proper Papal permission to Piedmont, and forced his way through Turin. Although Leccese had proven himself, his volatile nature resulted in the Papal government forcing him to retire.
After Leccese conquests, annexing the remaining small independent Italian states was no great problem, which was accomplished in a manner of years. Thereafter, Leo’s primary objective was the cultivation of the arts and sciences of the Papal States. The Sapienza University of Rome was reopened in 2084, as well as a number of other university across Italy. The humanities and the sciences were once again revived in Italy.
However, it would be along the secular lines that had been established in the pre-war era. In 2085, the lines under which the intellectual life in the Papal States would exist was made clear in the Third Vatican Council. Neo-Scholasticism, the revival of the approach medieval Scholasticism, was established as the proper way to do philosophy and theology, and its medievalist approach would also decide on how the sciences would be done. “Modernism, relativism, and secularism” are unequivocally condemned, and are declared to be the reason for the war breaking out. The Second Vatican Council is overturned, restoring the Latin Mass and restoring old liturgical customs, Traditionalist Catholicism becoming the official ideology of the Papacy. The Papacy then subsequently sent missions around the world, contacting Catholics around the world. The Papal States sought to exert the Pope’s authority in the name of the doctrine of ultramontanism, fighting against nationalism in order to give the Pope a universal authority. Also, the Papacy hoped to defeat modernist currents that emerged in the Church in the 20th and 21st centuries.
In 2088, Papal authority was expanded into southern France, taking the area around Marseille, the region once known as Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. The region, which was still in a rough shape, with order not really being established, was easily taken under the wing of the Papal States and annexed.
In 2105, Pope Leo XIV died, and was replaced by Cardinal Gregorio Escuti, who took the name Benedict XVIII. Tensions had been rising between the Papacy and neighboring Swiss and Austrian states. So in 2108, war broke out between these states within and beyond the Alps. Early on, this small, disparate alliance of small states managed to inflict major defeats of the Papacy. By 2110, however, this was changed when the Brigadier General Angelo Gallinari, in the Battle of Lugano and the Battle of Klagenfurt, inflicted great defeats on the Austrian and Swiss armies, turning the tide of the war. In 2111, Benedict XVIII died, and was replaced by Archbishop Bartolomeo Ricci, who take the name Pius XIV continued the war. In 2112, large portions of Switzerland and Austria were annexed. Angelo Gallinari was made General of the Army in 2114, the youngest ever.
Since the end of the war, Pius XIV has pursued the standard policy for the Papal States. He is a Traditionalist Catholic who, having already a purified Italy, wants to ensure that Catholics around the world follow Traditionalist Catholicism and follow the decrees of the Pope.
Spanish: Federación Antártico Russian: Антарктический Федерация French: Fédération de l'Antarctique Norwegian: Antarktis Føderasjon Japanese: 南極大陸のフェデレーション (Nankyoku no federēshon)
Type of Government: Socialist Technocracy
Capital City and Largest City Capital: Amundsen Largest City: Rothera
Antarctica is divided into 8 Sectors
1. Federal District - Captial City is Amundsen 2. Maudland - Capital is Valkyrie 3. New Australia - Capital is Casey 4. Adelie - Capital is Dumont d'Urville 5. Ross - Capital is McMurdo 6. Byrdland - Capital is La Plata 7. New Patagonia - Capital is Rothera 8. Halley - Capital is Halley
Other Important Cities Vostok - Largest City in New Australia Syowa - Center of the Japanese Community of Antarctica Maltri-Novolazalrevskya - Largest City in Maudland
Demographics:
25% American 10% Argentine 10% Chilean 10% Australian 9% Russian 8% Japanese 8% British 7% Italian 7% French 6% Norwegian 2% Other (mostly New Zealanders, Indians, Pakistanis, and other European Ethnic groups)
Country Leader(s): The Council - The Council is a meritocratic organization, composed of the greatest minds that Antartica has to offer, who work in maintaining the necessary functions that keep the nation running. As a nation that selects its leaders among the top of the elite, and its elite out of the most knowledgable, the members of the Council are widely renowned as being a group of geniuses. There are 5 members at a time, and the leader is the one who is determined to be the most knoweldgable of all of them.
Doctor Calvin Taylor is one of the few individuals to have experienced the horrors of not only World War 3, but of the Antarctic Wars as well. Dr Taylor was born in Australia during the catastrophic war. He grew up in the middle of the conflict as a child. Loosing his father to the war at the age of 8, and with Australia being so badly damaged as a result, Taylor and his mother joined a group making the risky voyage to seek refuge in Australian Antarctic bases. At 20, Taylor was forced to halt his schooling to fight in the Antarctic Wars. He returned with paralysis in one of his legs, and damaged eyes, but he was able to continue his reasearch, graduating with his PhD in physics later in life.
At the current moment, the Doctor serves as the head of the Council in Antarctica
Dr. Hasegawa is a half-Russian, Half-Japanese native of Vostok. At 32 years old, Dr. Hasegawa is the 2nd youngest of the Council members, and an expert in the field of medicine, serving as the Council's authority on life support, and health; serving as the Minister of Internal Affairs.
Aaron Tasmin is the Minister of Defense in the Council. He is well known for his skill and knowledge of military planning and is charged with keeping enemies out of Antarctica.
Dr. Hernandez is the Minister of the Treasury, and is incharge of the distirbution of government services, keeping track of, and making income for the government, funding research, and establishing trade and economic agreements with other nations. Needless to say, Dr. Hernandez is very educated in Economics
Catalina Ivarsson is the newest member of the council. Comming from an Argentine and Norwegian background, Dr. Ivarsson holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and works as the Minister of Urban Affairs, and aids in the construction and maintenance of the infrastructure of the nation.
Culture: Antarctica is a unique blend of many cultures; particularly American, Patagonian, Russian, Australian, Japanese and Norwegian. The country has 6 official languages, with English and Spanish being the most widely spoken. The people are very much defined by their reliance of technology, and this shows very much in their culture and how they go about their lives. While climate change has made Antarctica a much more habitable place, its is by no means a less dangerous land. As one moves closer to the center of the country, they will find that the cities become more subterranean, and further out, domed settlements become the norm. Near the coast, there are traditional open cities. As well, the country relies on the Trans-Antarctic Railway; a mass transit system that can take passengers anywhere across the country by way of subterranean railways, centered around the Capital of Admunsen, located directly on the South Pole.
Lingustic Map
Red - English Blue - Spanish Green - Russian Yellow - Norwegian Light Blue - Japanese Purple - French
The Antarctic people are very tech savy, and Antarctica is one place always on the vanguard of technology. Being so reliant on technology for daily survival, many Antarcticans are knowledgeable of technology on some level. Much of the youth culture is very centered around the ideas of tech integration, and the assimilation of the self into technology at some level. The Cities of Antarctica are often neon saturated metropoli beneath the ground, or in a climate controlled environment, characterized by their vibrant displays and nightlife.
The Majority Religion of Antarctica is Roman Catholicism, with Protestant Christianity not too far away at second in terms of adherents. Irreligion comes in between Catholicism and Protestantism. Other Religions exist, however, they have little impact. Antarctica is officially a secular nation, with freedom of Religion guaranteed.
Religion Roman Catholicism: 94.4% No Religion: 2.5% Other Christian: 2.1% Islam: 0.5% Buddhism: 0.2% Other: 0.2% Hinduism: 0.1%
Population: 74,000,000
Country Leaders
Born Bartolomeo Ricci, he was formerly Archbishop of Naples and then Cardinal. Strongly conservative and traditionalist, he seeks to influence Catholics around the world and raise the Catholic Church to a position it has not had since the era of Medieval Western Christendom. In doing so he seeks not only the defeat the old enemies of the Church, leftism, nationalism, secularism, and atheism, but also the new religious revolutions around the world that threatens to convert believers into “heresy and apostasy.”
Giacomo Alberghetti, aged 62, as Cardinal-Secretary of State serves as the chief of political and diplomatic functions in the Papacy, and his power in the Papal States is directly below the Pope himself. No man stranger to intrigue, he is unafraid to engage in assassination and oppression, and views it as a necessary component of governance. He follows the Pope completely in his quest to exert the Papal States influence around the world.
Alessandro Zamboni, aged sixty-one, is the Prefect for the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, in charge of missionary work and other related activity. However, he is also responsible for relations for Catholics around the world and their relationship with the papacy, making him one of the most important diplomats in the country. In personal life, his material lifestyle is the subject of some controversy, but nothing too incriminating has been found yet.
Pietro di Romano, aged fifty-nine, is Secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition, and is popularly known as the High Inquisitor. Quiet, calculating, and with a penetrating stare, this bookish Dominican is feared by all. His mission is to stamp out heresy and apostasy, and he does his job with a certain excellence and passion.
Angelo Gallinari, at the age of fifty-four, is the youngest of any of the Imperator (General) since the Papal States has been reestablished, . He gained his position through his military successes in the Alp War, defeating the Swiss and Austrian guerillas and gaining popularity and prestige among his nation. In his personal life, he is a reasonably pious and loyal man who values his family.
Culture
The humanities and the sciences have been revived under the Church, although it has not been under secular pre-war lines. Neo-Scholasticism, the revival of the Scholastic method practiced within medieval western European universities, was revived and made the official method within the Universities. It expanded not only to philosophy and theology, but also science. Reminiscent of Soviet concept of Bourgeois pseudoscience, new science and research can be declared by the Church to be “relativistic pseudoscience.” The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was reintroduced, banning a number of books and authors from publication, although it does not apply to universities and the clergy, where the number of banned books is significantly smaller.
The area where there is the most intellectual development would be in the arts, especially in art, philosophy, literature, and music. In literature, a plethora of authors of high quality both of prose and poetry have emerged, reviving traditional and romantic styles. Along with classical music, there is a very active musical community of new Italian folk music.
Catholicism being the state religion, and the state being authoritarian and theocratic, other religions face persecution. They are not allowed to proselytize, and only Jews and Muslims are allowed to build houses of worship. All non-Catholics have their activities heavily supervised by the government, and they cannot participate in even local government. Most of the Islamic population has immigrated away from the Papal States.
History
It was in the year 2060 when the Third World War broke out. The Italian Republic did not escape unscathed, and the ensuing fallout led to its internal collapse. In the ensuing years, Italy would be divided into a number of small, local states that struggled against each other for power and territory. The most powerful of these were the states of Piedmont and Tuscany, but it would be further south where the true power of Italy would grow.
Within the ancient city of Rome, the Papacy survived. Although the Pope himself had died, a number of priests, bishops, and cardinals within Rome had survived. They elected Bishop Emiliano Di Pasqua as Pius XIII. Under Pius XIII, the remnants of the Papacy began recruiting still pious Roman Catholics within and near Rome, training them in a formidable military and police force, which would become the root of a new Papal Army. Having restored order to the previously chaotic post-war Rome, the Papal States, disestablished by the Italian Republic in 1870, was restored in 2061.
Throughout the 2060s, the Papal States, with a struggle, would expand itself throughout central Italy. In 2068, an alliance was formed with Naples, who were being invaded by Sicily. After the Papal States led Naples to victory, both states were duly annexed within the next few years. Pius XIII found itself unable to overtake Tuscany, despite his greater manpower, resources, and territory.
Pius XIII’s death eventually came in 2077. He was succeeded by Archbishop of Naples, Angelo Biassi, who took the name of Leo XIV. In 2080, Leo XIV took advantage of a war between Piedmont and Tuscany to invade Tuscany. The Invasion of Tuscany was led by the greatest Papal general, Giovanni Leccese, who smashed through Tuscany, leading to its annexation. Leccese then continued onward with his army without proper Papal permission to Piedmont, and forced his way through Turin. Although Leccese had proven himself, his volatile nature resulted in the Papal government forcing him to retire.
After Leccese conquests, annexing the remaining small independent Italian states was no great problem, which was accomplished in a manner of years. Thereafter, Leo’s primary objective was the cultivation of the arts and sciences of the Papal States. The Sapienza University of Rome was reopened in 2084, as well as a number of other university across Italy. The humanities and the sciences were once again revived in Italy.
However, it would be along the secular lines that had been established in the pre-war era. In 2085, the lines under which the intellectual life in the Papal States would exist was made clear in the Third Vatican Council. Neo-Scholasticism, the revival of the approach medieval Scholasticism, was established as the proper way to do philosophy and theology, and its medievalist approach would also decide on how the sciences would be done. “Modernism, relativism, and secularism” are unequivocally condemned, and are declared to be the reason for the war breaking out. The Second Vatican Council is overturned, restoring the Latin Mass and restoring old liturgical customs, Traditionalist Catholicism becoming the official ideology of the Papacy. The Papacy then subsequently sent missions around the world, contacting Catholics around the world. The Papal States sought to exert the Pope’s authority in the name of the doctrine of ultramontanism, fighting against nationalism in order to give the Pope a universal authority. Also, the Papacy hoped to defeat modernist currents that emerged in the Church in the 20th and 21st centuries.
In 2088, Papal authority was expanded into southern France, taking the area around Marseille, the region once known as Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. The region, which was still in a rough shape, with order not really being established, was easily taken under the wing of the Papal States and annexed.
In 2105, Pope Leo XIV died, and was replaced by Cardinal Gregorio Escuti, who took the name Benedict XVIII. Tensions had been rising between the Papacy and neighboring Swiss and Austrian states. So in 2108, war broke out between these states within and beyond the Alps. Early on, this small, disparate alliance of small states managed to inflict major defeats of the Papacy. By 2110, however, this was changed when the Brigadier General Angelo Gallinari, in the Battle of Lugano and the Battle of Klagenfurt, inflicted great defeats on the Austrian and Swiss armies, turning the tide of the war. In 2111, Benedict XVIII died, and was replaced by Archbishop Bartolomeo Ricci, who take the name Pius XIV continued the war. In 2112, large portions of Switzerland and Austria were annexed. Angelo Gallinari was made General of the Army in 2114, the youngest ever.
Since the end of the war, Pius XIV has pursued the standard policy for the Papal States. He is a Traditionalist Catholic who, having already a purified Italy, wants to ensure that Catholics around the world follow Traditionalist Catholicism and follow the decrees of the Pope.
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