Name:
The name of your nation.

Add a flag or map or both here, if desired.

Summary of Nation:
A few paragraphs giving a brief overview of your nation’s geography, demographics, and so on.

History:
Attempting to summarize the full history of an entire nation in a reasonable format and timeframe is a foolish endeavor - thus, to keep it simple, I would simply ask you provide a concise answer to each of these questions:

Pre-War: Give a short summary of your nation’s recent history within roughly the past century.
Outbreak of War: What was your nation’s response to the vast conquests of the Reiyk.
Recent History: Now that war has escalated and kicked into high gear, what is your nation doing and what is their attitude towards world events?

Pressing Issues:
Every country has its issues, and yours is no exception. What issues face the country? War is far from the only woe we must face, even if it is the most pressing. Has the land been wracked by civil war? Does it suffer from a long economic depression? Does cultural or religious upheaval threaten to tear society apart? Is there a resource shortage? Do people struggle to grow food? Does organized crime run rampant? Is the nation plagued by corruption? Or is it plagued by actual plague?

Notable Strengths:
Every country is notable for something or another. Each of us has a role to play within the war effort. What does your nation bring to the table to help combat the Reiyk? Huge natural resources? A large navy? A powerful industrial base? Technology? Code breaking skills? Sophisticated intelligence agencies? Some combination of the above?

National Priorities:
In the past, I have tried a system of rolled stats, and that has not gone well at all. Instead, inspired by a friend of mine, I would like to try a new system. I wish you to rank your priorities on this list from greatest to least. A short (and I do mean short, no more than a paragraph) description of why your top and bottom are where they are, would also be ideal.

• The Army
• The Navy
• The Economy: Internal Trade
• The Economy: External Trade
• The Common People
• The Upper Classes
• Diplomacy
• Agriculture
• Cultural Issues
• Industrial Output
• Resource Extraction
• Technology
• Espionage and Intelligence
• Ideology
• Other (please give a description)

Lead by High Priestess Daiyu Nuyi Loc Xiao Long, Longguo is a massive nation in the western end of the great continent of the world, and referred to by some as the world’s emerald for its lush greenery and the vast open plains that dominate much of its landscape. From the verdant plains upon which grow vast bumper crops of rice, wheat, and potatoes to the towering peaks of the Xindonjian Mountains Range. In both north and south the land is bounded by rolling hills that give way to yet more imposing mountain ranges, forming a fertile basin within which one of the oldest civilizations in history began to flourish. The capital is located at the merging of the two main tributaries of the famous Tsuyan river, and its thriving port has a long history within the vast waterway. Further north is the Guanzu river, “the yellow serpent” as it has some times been called. Known in myth as the spot at which the great wyrms from beyond the stars first touched down, the river has been a blessing and a curse for the people of the region since the dawn of civilization upon its banks. Prone to violent flooding owing to heavy deposits of sediment giving it its characteristic color, the river likewise deposits these fertile sediments upon the floodplains surrounding it nearly every year. The danger lies within the severity of the yearly flood, and the unpredictability of its timing. As such, housing near it and along its banks is frequently built on elevated stilts to survive these floods and enable rapid cultivation of rice and other crops in their wake.

The largest group by far within Longguo are the people who lend it its name - the Longzhen people. Derisively referred to as “lizards” or “wyrm spawn” by some others, they have existed since before the dawn of recorded history. Some speculate that they arose from normal humanity through some contact with the wyrms from the stars, though this is impossible to confirm for sure and as such remains fringe speculation. The Longzhen are notable for their generally short stature, with females averaging between 156-160 centimeters, and males averaging 148-152 centimeters. Longzhen are known for their long lifespans, and some have been recorded to live to over two hundred years old and showing almost no signs of age until dying peacefully in their sleep. Despite this they are known to possess surprising strength, and throughout history their armies have been well regarded for not only their sheer size, but the discipline and sophisticated logistics with which they are managed in battle and out of it. The Longzhen are similar to humanity in most regards, barring some notable differences: they have large horns and tails reminiscent of the wyrms themselves, an above average rate of female births to male births, patches of scales or scale like material grow in place of skin on seemingly random parts of their bodies, their eyes show a more reptilian appearance, and many of their teeth are larger and sharper than the human norm, alongside numerous smaller differences.

The Longzhen, culturally, are well known for a collectivist mindset. Though their society has seen huge upheaval since the end of the revolution in 1903, this is one facet that has not only remained, but gotten stronger. With the advent of the new state ideology of Heavenly Socialism, the focus on the traditional family unit has somewhat decreased, and instead this collectivist mindset has been expanded to all of broader society.

Traditionally a matriarchal society, the sexes have been declared formally equal by decree of High Priestess Daiyu. At the culmination of the civil war in the aftermath of the revolution, she honored her commitments to the progressive social movements that had been one of her greatest bases of support. Though the old attitudes remain, and men and women are still expected to adhere to their dress codes, there is a steadily growing sentiment of true equality buoyed by her fervent speeches on the matter. As such, males, while still forming a minority within the armed forces, are growing rapidly within it and all other branches of society.



Pre-War:
The land of Longguo is one that has seen no end of strife and hardship in its recent history. From the year 872 until 1903 it was ruled by the last of the Great Wyrms that descended upon the world from the stars beyond. For this time, Longguo was almost a hermit kingdom, the Wyrm and its retainers paranoid of outside interference upon its miniature realm upon this backwards world. With an iron fist, the Wyrm ruled over the Longzhen for over a thousand years. In 1891, the people of Longguo, then called Jingguo, had had enough and revolted against its rule. For twelve long, bloody years the revolution raged. Formed of a coalition of different groups, the alliance was not expected to last. The revolution was spearheaded by the radical visionary Huan Ji Zhuan Tzu Bai, and in the year 1903 the wyrm was brought down in a climactic final battle. It was recorded that thousands of shells were fired to finally bring down the great beast, and tens of thousands of brave soldiers matyred against it.

In the aftermath of this revolution, Huan began her reforms, only to be assassinated by the conservative coalition following what they referred to as The Old Faith. Seeing Huan and her secular policies as a threat to their vision for the nation with the false god of the old wyrm gone, they rose against their erstwhile allies, now united into a single army calling itself the National Unification Army.

The left wing coalition had been formed of two principle groups - the Socialist Revolutionary Front, and the Heavenly Sun Kingdom. The Heavenly Sun Kingdom was lead from its creation by High Priestess Daiyu, and on hearing the news of Huan’s assassination she rallied the forces of the left wing coalition around her before they could fracture and lead the second civil war against enemy forces until the year 1912, becoming blinded in the process by shell fragments whilst orchestrating a breakout during the Siege of Djan Loc Hin. With the defeat of the enemy, Daiyu began the long process of rebuilding her home and enacting her sweeping social reforms. Daily thanks was given to the sun for the inspiration and strength to ensure justice was done. The captive members of the enemy leadership were sacrificed upon the summer solstice to the heavens, and the nation rejoiced as the stars drank their fill.

Outbreak of War:
Longguo had, though ravaged by its internal wars, been keeping close eyes upon world events at large. Alarmed by the rising power of the Reiyk, Daiyu ordered arms production into high gear and began to expand the military, preparing for possible confrontation. Fleets were ordered into standby positions, and garrisons upon their island holdings were strengthened and their fortifications improved.

Recent History: Longguo has perhaps suffered the worst of any belligerent nation attacked by the Reiyk that has not been outright defeated by them. Huge swathes of its industry for the production of tanks, aircraft, and artillery have been captured by the lightning fast naval landings of the Reiyk. The navy has been ordered to remain out of engagements unless a victory can be assured, in order to preserve precious resources against the foe. Arms factories are being built with all haste within the nation’s heartland, but it will be some time before they are ready for production. The armies of Longguo suffer terribly against the foe, but they are holding the line.


Longguo is a nation, first and foremost, beset with the imminent threat of the enemy at the gate. The armies of the Reiyk do not threaten their border, but have overrun an entire southern section of the nation, pushing into the territory of Longguo and taking more of the Eternal Kingdom under the grasp of the foul foe. Exacerbated by this, and in turn exacerbating the situation against the Reiyk, the country has yet to recover from its devastating decade long revolution and subsequent six year civil war. Though it has been twi and a half decades since, twenty six years is not enough time to rebuild a country with few allies and few outside funds from complete and utter ruin. To say that the High Priestess and her ministries have done an admirable job considering the circumstances is no exaggeration, for before the invasion Longguo had become a powerful and world renowned innovator in numerous technological fields, a net exporter of grain and other foods, and a significant and rising industrial producer. Since then, one of its most key industrial regions has been occupied by the Reiyk - and with it, the bulk of Longguo’s existing tooling and industry to produce tanks and heavy weapons. While there is hurried work involved in building new factories located safely out of the reach of the Reiyk, the military high command is desperately attempting to secure the purchase of foreign armor and artillery made to use the ordnance of Longguo to close the looming lack of such.


Longguo is perhaps most notable for its significant resources, in soldiers, in agricultural bounty, and in raw material. No other country save the Alfheiches Reiyk itself can compare to the vast population of Longguo, and its rich diversity in terrain and sheer size have afforded the Longzhen a cornucopia of natural resources throughout their history. As such, its armies are seemingly infinite in manpower, and though its industry has been ravaged by war, every soldier can count upon food in her belly and sufficient ammunition to continue the fight.




The army of Longguo is one of the most formidable in the world. In the wake of the invasion by the Alfheiches Reiyk, Longguo’s attention has been wholly diverted to its desperate war for existence. Struggling to remain standing under the almighty onslaught from the beasts from across the sea, the timeless empire has poured all of its resources into forging a mighty army to hold back the invaders. And, slowly, it is working. The advances of the enemy are slowed day by day. New weapons and tactics are developed with every day of combat. With the growing strength of the army and its limitless supply of soldiers, Longguo is a true force to be reckoned with by any foe. And with aid from comrades abroad, there is real hope that the barbarians from eastern shores will be swept from their shores.

In turn, external trade has been drastically reduced. Before the war, Longguo was a significant exporter of goods and materials to the global market. With the onset of total war, however, the government has redirected the nation’s entire energy towards the desperate struggle for existence against their foe. In doing so, exports and non-critical imports have almost completely halted.

• The Army
• Industry
• The Common People
• Agriculture
• Technology
• The Navy
• Diplomacy
• Religion
• The Economy: Internal Trade
• Resource Extraction
• Cultural Issues
• Espionage and Intelligence
• The Upper Classes
• The Economy: External Trade

Summary of Nation:

The Aenean Coast is an atheist Republic ruled by bipedal crocodilians situated on the Great Continent's northern coast. The government itself is led by a group of elected representatives totalling 3 in number from all backgrounds and genders. Each region (of which there are three the East, Central and Western regions) holds a vote for a new representative every six years and may vote to replace them if not satisfied with their official after one year. The Republic has not been able to industrialize correctly, with only a small number of small civilian industries dotted along the coast and nothing more than a single rifle plant in operation. It thus is forced to heavily lean on agriculture and large fishing operations to keep its economy afloat. Although the Coastal Republic may not be militarized and it does not possess a strong economy, it shall stand against the coming tide with all it can muster. The Nation is also stuck with huge debts to the Aelban from the 1922-23 agricultural disaster.





Aenean description:
Aeneans are a large race of bipedal crocodilians that weigh upwards of 500 pounds and are often in a more slouched standing position than humans. Aeneans are about 6ft at full height but often seem about average human height due to slouching. The diet of the Aenean is somewhat bland with fish and grain products as their primary source of sustenance, and they are capable of eating most things a human could.

History:

Pre-War:

The Aenean Coastal Republic is young and inexperienced on the world stage. Its creation was not that of kinship but that of necessity. Many local chiefs were forced to band together during the times of Aelban imperialism. Only after the Reiyk had severely bloodied, the Aelban Empire did the politics of the Coast shift away from a league of tribes to a proper republic in 1891. While many tribes resisted at first, those who wished for true unity used the threat of the Reiyk and potentially even Aelban return to quell the resistance amongst tribal leaders. While shaky at first, The Republic eventually solidified itself as firmly in control, and the many tribes began to centralize into extensive farming and fishing communities, mainly along the coast of the Republic.

In 1922 the Aenean Coastal Republic faced a severe crisis when a blight occurred, destroying most of the harvest that year, followed by severe drought in 1923 leading to starvation and death throughout the Republic and almost leading to the complete collapse of the Republic and causing extreme overfishing. During the crisis, a series of riots and revolts took place in major cities, leading to a few bloody slaughters where authorities were forced to open fire on the rioters. Finally, during a particularly horrible riot, a small-scale battle engulfed an entire city leading to the deaths of thousands and is the only "battle" ever fought for the Aenean Republic's military.

Thankfully the Republic was blessed in 1924 when the crops had faced no significant hardships. Though they still failed to reach even an adequate harvest, even with the subpar harvest, the Nation was able to stabilize with less of a need for imported food. However, the economy remains strained to this day with the extreme loans taken to import food and the lack of income in the country.
Outbreak of War:

While initially ignored by the Aenean military and civilian leaders, the encroachment of the Reiyk and the invasions of Longguo and Akiya rapidly caused panic in the Aenean officials. Eventually, this panic has led to a rather lacklustre solution composed by the civilian government. As a result, the military was allowed to establish a small standing force of 3 divisions: totalling 30,000 soldiers, and receive additional equipment for militias around the Nation (the number of active militia members ranges from 40-50 thousand). These forces, however, lack any serious firepower, and even with the creation of a Professional military force and dedication of resources, the Aenean army is pathetically under-equipped and undermanned, with no prepared defences.

Pressing Issues:

The Republic is in dire straits, famine or blight could strike at any moment, and a Reiyk blockade would decimate all fishing operations leaving the people without food, and this could lead to another famine and leave the Republic ripe for Reiyk conquest. The Nation is also at a severe lack in industrial might and can barely even produce tractors at a substandard rate extreme effort would be needed to uplift the Republic to a wartime economy, and economic collapse would almost certainly follow any attempts at rapid industrialization.

The military of the Republic is heavily inexperienced, and even while there is a heavy emphasis on its growth, it lacks skilled officers, equipment and volunteers. As a result, most of the Republic's forces will be composed of local militias and poorly equipped soldiers until its military program enters high gear and acquires additional equipment. The Republic also possesses no aircraft able to be used effectively in a modern military role. Most that could be converted are extremely old biplanes.

Notable Strengths:

The Aenean republic is in a highly fertile area, and when not in a drought, it can easily support its population. In addition, it could support other allied nations in times of food shortages. The Military of the Republic may be under-equipped, but the soldiers can fight like lions when needed and additional fighting troops could be raised rapidly with outside assistance. The Crocodilians of the Republic are also very well suited to aquatic warfare and fighting in swamps and could be powerful marines with the right equipment and training.

National Priorities:

The Aenean Coastal Republic's current national priorities are to ensure that its agricultural base remains solid and unaffected by the war, and as such, a military program is beginning to be pushed hard in the senate. While those 2 are priorities for Aenea, many other parts of the Nation are neglected due to a general lack of resources. The main affected areas of this lack of resources are the industry that is backwards. (While no naval industry exists, a small flotilla of purchased ships do exist)

1: Agriculture
2: The Army
3: The Common People
4: The Upper Classes
5: The Economy: Internal Trade
6: Diplomacy
7: Cultural Issues
8: The Economy: External Trade
9: Technology
10: The Navy
11: Espionage and Intelligence
12:Resource Extraction
13: Industrial Output

Name:
The Free Territories



Summary of Nation:
The Free Territories are an anarchist confederation. There is no central authority overseeing everything. Instead, individuals are free to organise as they please, and are responsible for their own organisation and production. Some settlements are organised on broadly capitalist grounds, with residents owning their own private land to work on, while other settlements are more communal, with land held in common. Each settlement is responsible for its own defence, and for attracting caravans and settlers of their own accord.

History:
Pre-War:
1929, and the Jianguo Kingdom is in crisis. For the past decade, the Kingdom has been fighting a low-intensity guerilla war against a group of liberal revolutionaries known as the Freedom Front. Though the Front lacked the power to take on the Royal Army head-on, they were causing enough of a nuisance to require a constant military presence in the areas they operated, and repressing them was getting expensive. Hoping to starve the Front of support, the King, Gongfei II, had passed a series of increasingly authoritarian laws aimed at stemming the growth of liberalism in the Kingdom, including strong restrictions of the freedom of speech, a mandatory curfew and the establishment of secret courts to try "enemies of the state", a category that was vaguely defined and completely arbitrary. These laws were supposed to prevent the Front from growing in popularity, but all the King managed to achieve was to turn the people against him.

Tensions came to a boil with the Kidnapping of Ina Mai. Ina was a schoolgirl who was arrested by the Jianguo, purportedly for spreading propaganda against the regime, and was tried in secret and found guilty. Freedom Front rebels ambushed the convoy that had been taking her to prison, and she was rescued unharmed. When the story reached the general population, it proved two things: one, that the government was tyrannical enough to punish children, and two, the government was too weak to enforce its own laws.

Protests swept the Kingdom as people took to the streets to decry the government's action. Protests quickly turned into riots, and then to revolution.

The Royal Guard couldn't suppress the revolutionaries in time, and many of Jianguo's largest cities fell to the revolutionaries, most notably the capital city of Washi, which forced Gongfei II to flee abroad. This gave the Freedom Front the opening it needed, and they escalated the conflict from a small-scale guerilla war to a full scale civil war. The Freedom Front would ultimately be the kingmakers of the Revolution, as not only had they been fighting the government for the longest, but their participation in the rescue of Ina Mai had given them a great deal of respect in the eyes of the public. However, the Front was far from the only movement active in the revolution, and many of the Revolutionaries were locally organised and entirely independent.

Forces loyal to Gonfei II quickly lost control of the major territories, and as the army's communication and supply lines were cut off, the generals were forced to make their own military policies without adhering to the chain of command. The Jianguo's soldiers were, unsurprisingly, not happy about having to fight their own countrymen in the name of a King who was too cowardly to stay in the country, and the Royalist side was devastated by mass defections. Those that stayed were typically more loyal to their general or to their steady wages than they were to the king, and by 1931, the Royalist side had all but ceased to exist. In their place were warlords, and these were far more amenable to the revolutionaries if it meant they could hold on to some vestige of power. Even these disappeared by 1932. Some were absorbed into the wider revolutionary movement, some surrendered, and others still were defeated and captured.

With the Jianguo defeated, there was some negotiation about what system should replace the old system. At first, the Revolutionaries had proposed the creation of a new democratic state. However, this was troubled by debate over exactly how the state would be run and what the rules on suffrage would be, and was opposed by the Freedom Front, who argued such a system could lead to a dictatorship by majority.
In the end, no-one could agree on the creation of a larger state, so it was decided that each settlement would instead manage and organise itself, with the consent of the people who lived in those settlements. This confederation of self-managing states would be protected by the Freedom Front, who would remain on a voluntary basis.

Outbreak of War:
The Territories had been expecting someone to claim their land as their own and invade for some time now. They just expected the danger to be more domestic. In a strange way, the rise of the Reiyk has bought the Territories some much-needed breathing room, since all their expected foes will now be turning against the new threat. But just because the threat isn't the one they thought it would be doesn't mean they are any less prepared.

Recent History:
The Freedom Front has returned to defend the Territories from invasion. Their primary effort has been to protect the homeland by distributing weapons, offering training and approaching other nations for heavy weapons. The Front hasn't just been passive, however, and has sent cells into Reiyk territory to disrupt supply lines.

Pressing Issues:
The Free Territories is not a traditional nation, and does not have all the amenities of a traditional nation. Most notably, there is no standing army. Defensive warfare is the responsibility of every individual, who must supply and maintain their own weapons and develop their own strategies for how to protect their homeland. Quality varies wildly from settlement to settlement, and the lack of an overall command structure makes co-ordinating a defence very difficult.

Economic growth is also rather stunted. Settlements are self-sufficient for the most part, but lack much in the way of heavy industry, leaving the people with little in terms of firepower such as artillery and tanks. Obtaining such equipment is very dependent on how much their neighbours are willing to trust them, and when one neighbours self-professed anarchists, trust is something in very short supply.

Notable Strengths:
In defensive terms, the Free Territories are especially troublesome to capture and hold. Every individual owns a weapon of some sort, and is familiar with the terrain in and around their homeland. With the fear of invasion being an ever present threat, most of the major communities have also taken it upon themselves to develop defensive plans and even build protective structures, and arms development and procurement has developed significantly from personal defensive weapons to true military gear.

On the offence, Free Territory partisans excel at terror warfare. Their preferred method of fighting is to send cells of partisans into enemy civilian territory to spread propaganda, assassinate officials and to blow up war material. These cells will also get in contact with traditional criminal enterprises to supply them with the means to more effectively harass the police and gendarmerie.

National Priorities:

The Free Territories believes itself the only truly free region on the planet. Here, everyone is free to rise and fall based on their own merits, and to be truly successful, one only needs to put the effort in to achieve it. No one has higher status than anyone else: there are no rulers, no petty kings or corrupt politicians deciding what a stranger can or cannot do.

The Common People
Espionage and Intelligence
The Army
Agriculture
Resource Extraction
The Economy: Internal Trade
Technology
Cultural Issues
Industrial Output
Diplomacy
The Economy: External Trade
The Navy
Religion
The Upper Classes