Is the British Empire still a thing?

I was working on it until the Overwatch Halloween Event began, lel. Other than, I have been working on it now that I have made the time.

I was working on it until the Overwatch Halloween Event began, lel. Other than, I have been working on it now that I have made the time.

So it is taken. Gotcha. Could I pull off a Nordic Union? (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, etc.) Anyone opposed to that?

@The Spectre, Aren't you Central America?

@The Spectre, Aren't you Central America?

I think the "i was working on it" was in reference to you asking about more people posting.

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So it is taken. Gotcha. Could I pull off a Nordic Union? (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, etc.) Anyone opposed to that?

You could play as Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland or Iceland, and start the process of making a Nordic Union, but I doubt it would be allowed off the bat. It also kills basically all possibilities for the nation to start of at your endgoal. Not to mention, if us Germans saw a Swede trying to gobble up the Nordics, we would casually occupy Denmark. ;)

At most, you could probably pull off, like... Sweden with an occupied Finland, or Norway taking Iceland from weak Danes. But a united Scandinavia doesn't seem likely.

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I think the "i was working on it" was in reference to you asking about more people posting.

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You could play as Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland or Iceland, and start the process of making a Nordic Union, but I doubt it would be allowed off the bat. It also kills basically all possibilities for the nation to start of at your endgoal. Not to mention, if us Germans saw a Swede trying to gobble up the Nordics, we would casually occupy Denmark. ;)

At most, you could probably pull off, like... Sweden with an occupied Finland, or Norway taking Iceland from weak Danes. But a united Scandinavia doesn't seem likely.

You were in the middle of a civil war, what're you going to do about it?

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Well I guess I'm gonna take all the stuff I decided was too silly for my alt-history novel and throw it in here. Prepare for a whole lot of IJN sub-busters.

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You were in the middle of a civil war, what're you going to do about it?

*Can totally unite Scandinavia under one banner in 3 years*

Otherwise, I'll go ahead and arm the Finns, who would refuse to be another country's slave again, puppet Denmark, because it would be SO easy, achieve naval domination of the Baltic Sea, completely cut off the Swede's trade routes, and, if the Swede's wanted to continue poking the colossus, send in a small invasion force to take Stockholm by force.

Germany was weakened by the Great War, not destroyed. Even if the Nords declared war the day the war ended, Germany could've stood against them. You can unite Sweden and, maybe Norway, but the Germans would intervene if any other gains were attempted.

There is no way a united Scandinavia could already exist in this world, unless Germany pulled a Russia and exploded.

I tried to offer you advice, and, you did ask "would anyone be opposed to that?" But if you wanna have a little temper tantrum, Daddy Deutschland will go get his belt.

@The Wyrm Hi I'm playing the remnants of the British Empire. That claim I will note however only currently extends to the UK itself and to a number of small holdings across the globe. If you wanted to you could certainly play one of her past colonies or dominions, either one that broke away as we know her African holdings and India did, or perhaps as Canada or Australia whose fates are up in the air until somebody takes control of them and creates a history for them.

Name: The Shahdom of Persia



Location:


History:
Since the ancient times, Persia has been ruled by a single King. Their decisions were absolute, their word law. Since 1502, the Shahdom had been ruled by the Qajar dynasty. However, this was to change at the turn of the century.
Their downfall started when a great famine swept through the nation in 1870, leading to the deaths of some 2,000,000 people. The Shah did nothing, and the people resented this inaction. Many felt as though the Shah had too much power and not enough interest in protecting his citizens. Accusations of corruption and decadence spread through Persia like wildfire, and revolutionaries were demanding action.
The revolution started in 1905 and what followed was a series of victories and failures for both sides. The rebels would force the king to abdicate, only for his son to take up arms and defeat them. A parliament was set up in 1906, but was bombed under the king's orders in 1908. Things were further intensified when in 1908, petrol was discovered in the south west. Foreign eyes looked towards Iran, particularly those of the British and the Russians. The rebels began to crumble, as different sides of communists, nationalists and Mujtahids failed to agree on their ultimate goals, while the Shah found British and Russian aid. The rebellion was finally put down in 1911, with an incredibly limited constitution and a weakened parliament of only 30 members.
The rebels did not go quietly into the night, however. When war broke out in Europe, revolutionaries saw their chance and began the Jungle Movement of Gilan, led by communist Mirza Kuchik Khan, an experienced veteran of the Constitutional Revolt in Gilan. This was not a violent movement at first, but maintained policies of anti-imperialism, nationalism and anti-monarchism. But this changed when the Russians bowed out. When the Czar returned home, he took his armies with him, establishing the British as the major power in the region. Bolshevik communists lost support in Russia and some turned their eyes to the Jungle Movement. Many moved to Persia, hoping to influence the Jungle Movement towards a more Soviet bent - and they succeeded.
The Qajar Shah became desperate. These radical reformers had managed to take control of Gilan, turning it into a soviet, Socialist and independent nation. To make matters worse, the Persian Cossack Brigade, Persia's only standing army for the time, had been led by Russian officers - Russian Officers who went home after the Czar's withdrawal. Rather than promote ethnic Persians, Shah Qajar begged for British aid. The Cossacks were infuriated, but were led by Edmund Ironside, the British General, to a resounding victory over the Communists.
The British were dismayed at the Shah's weakness and over-reliance on their forces. They saw the army was resentful of the weak Shah, and they desired a change. So within a month of their victory over the Communists, General Ironside promoted Reza Khan to Brigadier General and together they marched on Tehran. The Coup was bloodless, since Khan's brigade was the only standing military force in Persia. The Shah became a prisoner in his own palace and the Majilis was dissolved.
For the next four years, Reza Khan led Iran through a military Junta, which he claimed was to stabilise Persia before the re-election of the Majilis. He faced four rebellions during this time, one from Qajar loyalists who attempted to regain the Shah's power, the second from his second in command, Mohammad Taghi Pessian, who demanded an immediate reform to democracy, one from Kurdish Tribesmen who were attempting to use the confusion to gain independence and finally from the communists in Gilan, who had partially recovered from their loss and were attempting to fight again. He successfully defended his regime against all four uprisings, establishing himself as the legitimate ruler of Persia. He forced the Shah to restart the Majilis and expand the number of seats from 30 to 290. When the election was called and the seats filled, the Majilis almost unanimously voted for the immediate abdication of Shah Qajar and made Reza Khan the new Shah. Thus began the era of the Azada Bekheshi dynasty - a name chosen for its connotations of freedom.
Shah Reza Khan Azada Bekheshi's first prime minister was Hamzeh Mansour. It was a match made in heaven.
Together, they establish an authoritarian regime that valued nationalism, militarism, secularism and anti-communism combined with strict censorship and state propaganda. The aggressively atheistic government forced the majority Muslim population to do many things it found contemptible - banning wearing the Hijab, Mosques forced to integrate the sexes and provide seats, abolishing the call to prayer. Shah Reza's regime was marked by a rapid and overwhelming social and technological change. The country was remilitarised, western values were forced upon the people and as a result, the power of clerics rose exponentially as devout Muslims flocked to them. Peaceful protests emerged, calling the king a tyrant and demanding he roll back his reforms, all of which were violently put down.
However, under Reza Shah, the nation also flourished. One of his controversial decrees was that many of the Iranian Minorities, such as Azerbaijanis, Assyrians and Kurds, were declared "Iranian" and therefore were not to be considered minorities. It was a backhanded compliment, simultaneously eliminating the cultural uniqueness of these minorities but at the same time calling them brothers. Khan was able to manipulate the war to his advantage, selling Oil to the Allies and particularly Britain as thanks for their aid overthrowing their incompetent leader, and he used the money from the Oil revenues to develop and industrialise Persia. His aggressive militarisation, nationalism and development saw Persia going through a sudden boom, funded by fuel money. Reza fought to keep a strictly Persian Persia, though he made special dispensations for the UK - they were the only country outside of Greater Iran permitted to set up oil refineries in Persia.
Reza also started a trend of uniting with the Greater Iranian nations, such as Armenia, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. When Azerbaijan declared independence from the Russian Empire, Persia immediately entered a military union with the breakaway state, combining two nations' armies into one. Indeed, Persia has sought to protect all of its Iranian neighbours and to "bring them into the future"
Reza Khan died in 1958 due to heart complications. The old man left his son Mohammad the new Shah. Mohammad thinks different from his Father. For one, he was raised in the hands of his mother and older sister, alongside his female twin. Mohammad's mother was a superstitious woman with an infatuation with the old Persian religion, Zoroastrianism. As a boy, the prince was given all kinds of medallions to protect him from the Evil Eye, a practice that earned him the scorn of the ruling Shia clerics. As he reached young adulthood, his father sent him away to England for an education. The effects were twofold - firstly, young Mohammad graduated from Cambridge with a degree in Economics. Two, for five years he was subjected to British culture, awed and inspired by the nations people, fashions and politics. He took this inspiration home, vowing to put it to good use.
Mohammad's reign so far has attempted to mend some of his father's more zealous decisions. He has loosened the laws on Islamic clothing, making it optional to wear the Hijab. He maintains his father's military and industrial overhauls, and has expanded protection for religious and ethnic minorities

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*Can totally unite Scandinavia under one banner in 3 years*

Otherwise, I'll go ahead and arm the Finns, who would refuse to be another country's slave again, puppet Denmark, because it would be SO easy, achieve naval domination of the Baltic Sea, completely cut off the Swede's trade routes, and, if the Swede's wanted to continue poking the colossus, send in a small invasion force to take Stockholm by force.

Germany was weakened by the Great War, not destroyed. Even if the Nords declared war the day the war ended, Germany could've stood against them. You can unite Sweden and, maybe Norway, but the Germans would intervene if any other gains were attempted.

There is no way a united Scandinavia could already exist in this world, unless Germany pulled a Russia and exploded.

I tried to offer you advice, and, you did ask "would anyone be opposed to that?" But if you wanna have a little temper tantrum, Daddy Deutschland will go get his belt.

Alright Daddy Deutschbag, keep your pants on, please don't belt me. I was only trying to have a little fun in a completely fictional alternate history. I'll come up with something else.

@Lone Wanderer Okay, thanks for the heads up!

I think a union of two nordic states would be fine, as long as the history makes sense. Just not all of the nordic states right off the bat.

This is a draft: if someone has any tips or advice, please tell me!
Nation: Kazakh Khanate

Location (on map):

History:
The area of the Kazakh Khanate had always been home to many tribes and peoples. After the division of the Mongol empire it was known for a time as the Golden Horde, before it slowly declined and was eventually taken over by the Russian Empire. The Kazakh people however, have always yearned for their independence. Before and during the Great War, there were a lot of uprisings, the most serious being the Central Asian revolt in 1916. When the Russian Empire withdrew in that same year however, they brutally put down the revolt and suppressed further attempts for Kazakh independence.

These independence movements never truly disappeared though. When the great economic depression after the war hit the world, the people of Kazakhstan paid a terrible price for their desire for independence: The Russian empire refused to help the Kazakh people in any way, and many starved to death after a drought was in the area for several years. This angered the Kazakh even more, and even many Russian loyalists and colonists who had been sent by the Russians to settle the steppe supported the call for freedom from the yoke of Russian oppression, as their families had been hit by the drought and the famine that followed as well. After the assassination of the Czar in 1952, all hell broke loose in Central Asia. The people of Kazakhstan finally declared their independence from the Russian Empire, but there were many different factions with a lot of different interests, and those factions eventually started fighting each other. The bloody civil war inside Kazakhstan came to a climax at the battle of the Ertis river, where Kazakh nationalist, allied together with an independence movement that wanted to create a Kazakh Republic, slaughtered a combined communist and Russian force, and later murdered the families of many Russian settlers, claiming that they were ‘not Kazakh enough’. Many atrocities were committed on all sides. Another famous example from the civil war was a battle in the west of Central Asia, where the faction known as the Kazakh People’s Front fought against the People’s Front of Kazakhstan. Eventually, an uneasy truce was made between the warring factions in the form of the Central Asian Federation. The federation consisted of all countries in Central Asia, although the nation with the most influence was Kazakhstan. This did not fare well with the other countries in the federation.

As a result of the unequal balance of power, the federation did not last long. Turkmenistan and Tajikistan declared their independence in 1956, two years after the start of the CAF. A year later, Uzbekistan revolted and the CAF was forced to grant them their independence, because Kazakhstan was too weak from the previous civil war. Some Kyrgyz separatists also tried to become independent, but that revolt did not have enough support and was eventually suppressed by Kazakhstan, which then annexed the territory. The leader of the Kazakhstan was Boratev Sagdiy, who desperately tried to westernize and industrialize the country. The westernization worked, partially, and a new constitution was put into place. The industrialization was a whole different story however. The country still had to deal with the aftermath of the two civil wars it had a few years before, and the country was being rebuilt very slowly.

In 1959, a man named Khazretgali Aniyarov, a general in the remaining army of Kazakhstan, overthrew the current government, and became the new leader of Kazakhstan.He told the Kazakh people that he was the reincarnation of Genghis Khan, and that the Kazakh were the heirs of the Mongol empire. He then started calling himself Alash Khan, Khan of all of the people of Kazakhstan and renamed Kazakhstan into the Kazakh Khanate. Around that time, a large amounts of oil, gas and minerals were discovered in Kazakhstan, such as potassium. All potassium of other countries is inferior. The Khanate is currently in the process of industrialisation, so it can take the best potassium so it may rival the greatness of the ancient mongol empire.

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Alright Daddy Deutschbag, keep your pants on, please don't belt me. I was only trying to have a little fun in a completely fictional alternate history. I'll come up with something else.

@Lone Wanderer Okay, thanks for the heads up!

I mean, you asked, and I gave you sound advise, having been part of this RP for years now. Then you reacted like a spoiled child, so I only returned the favor.

@The Wyrm
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@Shyri

An attempt to unite the Nordic countries throughout the course of the RP is something that could be totally pulled off, it's not like Norway and Sweden were once the same country long ago; but they did split for a reason and the continued existence of their separation speaks to the fact that these conditions are basically the same thing. And the geopolitical implications are certainly a factor to consider.

But because Germany said they'd stop you in trying doesn't entirely invalidate the idea. It adds conflict to it, imo. And it'll be how your characters and his navigate about each other that'll make it read and feel dynamic and alive.

@jorcool, I like it; it is good for a first draft.

I'm about halfway through a post, just trying to make sense of my own lore and give it that unique Russian vaguely post-apocalyptic atmosphere.

I'll be putting up a post-British Empire South Africa and/or Rhodesia here shortly.

@Lone Wanderer, Oh, forgot to mention, but I established Sarawak as being ill-treated by the British to the point where even its 'White Rajahs' have been alienated.