[CHAR] Point of No Return (Extreme Great Depression Alternate History)

[Dinh AaronMk]

Name:
The Dustbowl States

Flag:

Hider

Leader:
Earl Browder

Government Ideology:
Rural collectivism/Quasi-Communsim

Claimed States:
Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico

Rough Population:
About Seven Million

Capital:
Wichita

Why Your States Decided to Unite(A sort of history):



Acting as the first - and last - director of the US Food Administration, Herbert Hoover had during the Great War fought to keep measures in place during the war years to subsidize wheat farmers across the nation so as to encourage an artificial boom in wheat to feed US soldiers and their allies during the years of the First World War. This policy created an immense economic bubble and people from all across the nation flocked to the farm fields of the American mid-west to strike it rich in "fibrous gold".

As this would mean: the region boomed.

The history of the boom of the American mid-west goes back decades, clear into the previous century when railroad companies and US policies reflected in the Homestead Act set aside massive tracts of land in ranching and farming. Systematically, the face of the US mid-west was reshapes as bison herds devastated at the ends of muskets and rifles, and the native Indians driven from lands they had once believed were theirs forever by treaty.

And as history went even, the state of Texas after the Civil War desired the largest and most expansive state house in all the country and would reward anyone who could design and build it unimaginable tracts of land in northern Texas for whatever they so please do build it. A firm in Chicago would take up the offer and seizing investment from as far away as England they went about to build the state-house, winning the expansive land grant which became the XIT ranch.

However the XIT collapsed in the following decades after the ranching bubble collapsed and the price of cattle plummeted. In the transition to the new century the old XIT lands were auctioned off at bargain bin prices - sometimes nearly close to free - and gave away to new homesteaders looking for a new life in what was shilled as "The greatest farmland ever imagined".

The cowboys of the old XIT knew differently, and better.

Boom occurred, and the region exploded in industry and population as families from across America and immigrants from Germany and Europe flooded the bankrupt ranch-lands scooping up land at penny on the dollar looking to grow wheat in those devilishly evil high plains. Wheat went down, and the crops came up.

The first world war facilitating an artificial explosion in wheat demand and more people came across the region throwing down wheat and digging homes literally into the soil and sod itself; living like hobbits on the windswept prairie and ignoring the condemning words of the old ranchers who saw black doom on the horizon.

Boom was followed by bust, and wheat prices plummeted. Farmers responded the best way they knew how to cover bank debts and mortgages: to plant even more wheat to break even. This carried for several years until the rug was pulled out, and the dirt went sky-ward.

The plains were struck with a fierce drought and the mercury soared to oven-level temperatures. No rain fell on the plains and crops withered and died. The creation of the Dust Bowl States was at hand.

With no bank support the people from Texas to as far north as the Dakotas suffered high-winds. Billowing south from the Canadian yukon bitter cold winds swept the plains and scooped up the once fertile soil throwing it away the way an angry child scoops up sand. Storm after storm the plains were eroded away and families saw their livelihoods dissolve.

They cried to Washington, to their state governments to send them help. But none came. Herbert Hoover, interested in operating a hands-off approach to managing the economy only made quarter-hearted gestures in support. But this didn't help, it did not ease the pain and the death.

The plains before had been a place doctors sent patients from the city to live, praising the "clean air" of Oklahoma and the southern mid-west. But now the air was more deadly than that of the cities. And there was little hope. Nearly any opportunity and many were stuck, many more were simply stubborn.

Opting to believe tomorrow would be a better day, they held on.

During the election of 1933 the region voted unanimously in support of Franklin D. Roosevelt in energetic hope of that bright future, casting aside the racist and cigar chomping William H. Murray "Alfalfa". However, Roosevelt lost by some devilish plot and Hoover maintained his presidency. Things got worse, fast.

Residents of the dust bowl called the election a bum deal and as legislation went through Congress to again disunion the union revolution erupted.

Earl Browder, the chairman of the United State Communist Party made for home; Wichita Kansas to lead the disgruntled farmers. For him, this revolution was a clear cry for help and salvation, he lead them to that. Directing the people to overthrow the local state governments and casting out people like William Alfalfa. A revolutionary, communist and anarchist spirit ran through the people as they liberated from themselves governments and institutions they believed had cheated them.

When all was said and done, the people of the Dust Bowl were free. But still not without the storms that ravaged their lands and continued to blow blackish, brownish, yellowish, and reddish dirt clear to Washington DC and New York, seemingly jeering and punishing the policy makers that so badly wished to ignore this had all happened.

When revolution settled, and the disgruntled and impassioned farmers retaken their land and forever killed the threat of foreclosure from New York and Chicago banks, they looked to the great task at hand. Living with the storms: or securing permanent hope elsewhere. To facilitate either goal Browder called for any minds he could find, and any and all personalities. While this happened, the communist kingdom in the heart of the sand-worn states attracted adventurers, exiles, and personalities in their own right to America. Figures like Trotsky, fleeing exile from Stalinist Russia moved from Turkey to the side of Browder. And people like Hemmingway were soon to grace the dust bowl, passionately attracted by the hard grit, gristle, and dogged determinism of the people there.

But figures don't make for a sound future, and they - as well as the people of the Dust Bowl - have to find a way out. A way to fix their beloved plains.

[Chairman Stein]

People's Union of India

The People's Union of India

चलो रे चलो साथी

Government Ideology: Marxist-Leninist Single-Party State
Land Claim: India, Bangladesh, Burma
Leader: Manabendra Nath Roy
Rough Population: 300 Million (estimated)
Capital: Kolkata (formerly Calcutta)
History of Your Nation since start of Great Depression: In the years prior to the Indian Revolution, the Indian people suffered under the colonial jackboot of the British imperialists. Just within the 20th century alone the British dogs led the Indian people into a Great War which took countless lives and crippled an entire generation of young people across the world, then when the Indians protested these drafts the Anglos cracked down on their very right to speak freely against the colonial administration. After the war there was an uneasy peace, with the Gandhists and Swarajists calling for a peaceful end to colonial occupation. However the Communist Party and her cadres knew, the British would never leave India's fertile lands without violence.

Injured Protesters in Hyderabad, circa Summer, 1926.

Throughout the 1920s the CPI organized labour strikes and protests against the ever-industrializing Indian bourgeoisie and her British masters, calling for justice in a nation where labor laws still allowed children to work and forced the proletariat class to toil without end. The ugliest of these strikes occurred in June of 1926 when colonial police in Hyderabad opened fire upon protesting workers, killing ten and injuring a hundred. This led to an all out riot in the city for a week, leading to the deaths of 123 rioters and 15 police. After the 'Night of the Red Tiger' as it was called, the colonial administration of India called upon the British government at home for support in cracking down on Marxist influence in the crown jewel of the Empire. Thus, thousands of Indian communists were rounded up and a fatwa was called for Indian Muslims to fight against 'communist aggression' with force if need be. Fearing for their lives, many of the CPI's leadership fled north into the Tajik Soviet Republic to bide their time.

Then it happened, in 1929 the world economy faced a devastating collapse. Worldwide the ruling elite shook under the sudden drop of stock prices and an era of economic depression had arrived. In Britain, America, and the rest of the capitalist states the workers starved and their governments did all they could to save their citizens at home. However, this meant that the colonies of the European powers suffered even greater famines and pains without any aide in sight. The time had come, marching south with the support of the Soviet Union, the CPI returned under the leadership of Chairman Manabendra Nath Roy. The Indian Worker's Army under the command of Subhas Bose was a united front of central asian volunteers ranging from Turkmen and Uzbeks to Russians and Cossacks, all volunteers sent by the USSR to aid the CPI in liberating a red India.

Tajik Volunteers in Indian garb, circa Spring, 1930.

Launching an offensive against unprepared colonial forces in Kashmir, the IWA spread across the province quickly in late 1929 and by December the entire province was under red control. Seeing their opportunity, CPI cells still within India launched their own respective revolts in West Bengal. By New Year's Eve, Kolkata had been taken by Bengali communists and northern India was under threat from the Red Provisional Government located in Kashmir. Seeing the quickly worsening situation, the British home government was quick to call up a mobilization of both the home isle and the dominions to 'defend the crown jewel'. Thousands of young men set sail from across the Commonwealth to face off against the red menace in India, however this was what the IWA expected.

Racing against time, the IWA continued their offensive through the winter and into the spring. Pushing to break through loyalist lines and block the way for commonwealth naval vessels coming to port in Bombay. While the fight raged on the field, the CPI worked to form a 'united front' with multiple independence groups across India in the hope of gaining much needed support for their cause. Though initially reluctant, Burmese and Bengali groups were eventually drawn into the fold and by November of 1930 the eastern seaboard from Kolkata to the Siamese border was secured by IWA red guards. Though aligned with the United Kingdom, Bhutan and her nobles remained neutral in the Indian conflict to both spare their nation and their people now that they faced their entire border being surrounded by the reds. However, the Bhutanese and Nepalese would remain a thorn in the side of the reds as their neutrality and passive-aggressive attitude meant that the Kolkata Front was under-supplied and logistically naked to commonwealth loyalists.

Indian loyalists marching to the Delhi Front, note the colonial banners. Circa February, 1930.

The IWA's great spring offensive was labelled a success. Though they had not pushed as far south as they had hoped, New Delhi had fallen to the reds after weeks of prolonged street combat. At last however, on May 5th, the flag of the People's Revolution flew over the bombed out Secretariat Building. It was a massive blow to the morale of the loyalists, and a great gain for the reds. With the capital of the colony taken, thousands of 'on the fence' Indians began to accept that the reds would be the inevitable victor in the conflict and flocked to the banners of Comrade Bose and his 'Red Viper Army' as it was nicknamed.

With more and more Indians flocking to the banners of the revolutionaries, and discontent and anger rising across the colony, the colonial administration offered peace talks with the CPI in December of 1930. However the chairman of foreign affairs, Bidhan Chandra Roy, stated that the goal of the provisional government was complete independence of India, Burma, and Bangladesh from the British Empire. These were demands that the home isle would not accept, and peace talks quickly fell silent. In Britain, the public outcry over fighting a new war only a decade after the end of the Great War caused the government more then one headache, and anti-war protests were a common occurrence across the Commonwealth. What was once an assured victory now appeared to be the event that could shatter the British Empire...

Facing public outrage, a falling front in the north, and unrest in the very colony they were sending men to fight for, the British government returned to the negotiating table in March of 1931. Though fighting would go on well into the summer, an official peace would be announced May 13th, 1931. Following the announcement most loyalist forces were quick to drop their arms and surrender to the oncoming Worker's Army. However loyal nobles and religious extremists would continue to take up arms in a guerrilla war against the People's Union for many years to come.

With the revolution a success, the time to mourn the dead and form a new government came. With an estimated total death toll reaching over 1 million casualties, 89% of said casualties being Indian nationals, there would be much to rebuild and many promises to fulfill for the new government. In the provisional capital of New Delhi, the second Communist Party Congress was announced and delegates from all of the united front traveled to the war-torn city. In a month long event, M.N Roy was elected Party Chairman for a second time with war hero and liberator Subhas Bose to be Party Speaker and Chief of the Armed Forces. Chairman Roy was, for all intensive purposes, a moderate with a great admiration for Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks; though he held some level of disdain for Lenin's successor Joseph Stalin. Speaker Bose, however, was viewed as a radical. Toting a hardline platform calling for the forced collectivization of both agriculture and industry, and the enforcement of State-Atheism, he was certainly not a man who appealed to the public at large.

If the revolution drew the new lines for Central Asia, then the second Communist Party Congress drew the lines within the CPI. On one end the Mahatma Gandhi and his pacifistic supporters held a platform of reconciliation with the British and new India turning away from industrialization and instead embracing India's position as a bread bowl state. Meanwhile the moderates under the leadership of Chairman M.N Roy established a firm public and inner-party support base with building a new India and escaping the economic ills of the Great Depression through moderate industrialization and isolation from the world's political scene. Finally, the totalists under Subhas Bose called for mass industrialization and militarization of Indian society. All around red India were enemies to her freedom and all nobles and bourgeois scum would be kept at bay by the bayonet. Thus, at least politically, the People's Union had been formed. Though unstable, the CPI was prepared to lead the fragile new nation-state into a new era.

Today is November 1st, 1937. A new Party Congress has been announced and delegates from across India are coming to the new capital of Kolkata to discuss the many issues the hermit nation faces. Though the Great Depression is behind them, the nation still faces economic and social turmoil and the overtly superstitious and illiterate Indian populace still struggle to embrace Marxist ideals. In addition, the party has become tired with Chairman Roy's moderates and their isolation, and many within the party believe the time is now to spread the revolution beyond India's borders. Truly, the People's Union still is a young child with much to learn.

[Doctoryzer]

The Third Republic of China

"Only Powerful People Have Liberty" -Dr. Sun Yat-sen, established the Republic of China, and overthrew over 4,000 years of Dynastic Chinese rule.

Government Information

Name: Third Republic of China
Motto: Established by the People, to establish values."


[THE MAP IS REPRESENTATIVE OF A MODERN DAY MAP, AND DOES NOT REPRESENT EAST ASIA IN ROLEPLAY]



Democratic-Socialist State of the People under the Socialist Tongmenghui Party

Leader: President Shi Xiaobo

Rough Population:
Estimated 515 Million People

Capital: Beiping (Beijing)

Government Ideals

-The government is classified by most as a "Communist Dictatorship"
-The constitution allows Freedom of Speech, Religion, Protest, Freedom of Movement, and Naming of Children; but this is restricted by the government in order to keep control over the people by the government.
-The government has in place; it's own idealistic ideals of Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
-The government can be classified to us out of RP as a toned-down Maoism State.
-The government has full control on state media.
-The "Chinese Congressional Body", aka, Chinese Congress; has 350 seats, and is often called a "Rubber-Stamp Congress" that holds little to no real political party; and all politics simply are directed at the Socialist Tongmenghui Party.

Background of the Republic

History of Your Nation since start of Great Depression:
Since the overthrowing the deprived, economically destroyed 1926 government led by fascist Chiang Kai-shek that overthrew the 1911 government; and a destroyed economy to the new Third Government; attempts with socialism as a way to bring the government to its original condition of Pre-1840s, with purging of many fascist government officials like Chiang Kai-shek under the new government, the Third Republic also seized most government property and created a new currency; "Third Yuan", as further shedding its government's crippled self, but the government still finds itself, with heated border conflicts and tensions with warlord states like Manchuria, Inner-Mongolia, Tibet, and Xinjiang. While still attempting to find ways to re annex the broken states like those, as well as Outter Manchuria that declared Independence in 1911. The government's current structure and model is called often a "Semi-Democratic State", with most parties existing being socialist; and those who aren't have little to no power; with the majority party and party that founded the Third Republic; the "Socialist Tongmenghui Party" founded off Sun Yat-sen's principles using Sun's Tongmenghui Party that existed up till the early 1900s; as a basis. Such as Sun Yat-sen's three principles, "Nationalism, Democracy, and People's Livelihood [Socialism]". Though with states like Japan, who has seen weakening since the depression, and without a U.S. trading with them and a crippled world, the idea of Japanese imperialism is a thing of the past. with losing Taiwan and Korea; and Taiwan becoming under TROC control, The new government primarily focuses on working with their former enemy, and defending itself from unrest, and warlord cliques attempting to assert dominance over China, while still battling the remnants of European colonies; like British Hong Kong and Portuguese Macau. As well as the re-annexation of the Communist clique; which allowed it to reassert more socialist ideological ideals on the people, the government has tight control over the economy; with high interference to help control the economy during a crippling time. As well as high militarism, and industrialization policies to modernize the army; the country is a possible war machine to unite the warlord cliques in non-controlled regions of China.

The People's Revolutionary Army of China

With around 71,391 people in the army's volunteer forces [Conscription is not mandated due to it is not a full-war time for the country], the people guard the borders and deal with, "unrest" in the name of protecting the country, and the people. The army, which is filled with ideals of the Tongmenghui; and 95% of military generals and officials are associated with the party.

Government Propaganda and Relation with Itself

The government spends 10% of it's GDP; dedicated to investing time to make the Chinese people think the government is the best in the world with the best economy; and distancing itself claiming the 1926 government was a shame government, and that the true ROC was the 1911-1926 government and the Third Republic. It as well invests heavily in claiming the Europeans as "Colonizers of China" and still are plotting with overthrowing China for a European colony. The government, is heavily controlled by the Socialist Tongmenghui; who goes as far as investing false democracy to imitate the 3rd policy of Sun Yat-sen, to make itself look like a legitimate successor of China.

Think about it like this; this is a Great Depression Era North Korean styled state.

Political Parties

This is the order of political parties according to their power in government.
- Socialist Tongmenghui Party [84%]
- Worker's Party of China [10%]
- The Democratic League of the People's China [4%]
- OTHER PARTIES IN THE GOVERNMENT [2%]

"The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!" -Dr. Sun Yat-sen

[My friend & I photoshopped Sun Yat-sen on Tienanmen Square for the RP]

[Blekee]

"Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity."

Flag of Canada

Borders

It's pretty much modern day Canada..
Canada doesn't really change, eh?

Government Information

Name: Dominion of the Canada and Newfoundland
Motto: Who shall live with no name!
Government: Federal Parliamentary
Representative Democracy

Head of State: King George VI
Governor General of the Canadas: John Buchan
Prime Minster: William Lyon Mackenzie King

Rough Population: 11,045,000
Captial: Ottawa
Secondary Captial: Quebec

Governmental Ideas

I. The government is classified by the former United States and other states as a "Democracy"
II. The constitution allows Freedom of Speech, Religion, Protest, Freedom of Movement, and Naming of Children; however the country has been III. prone to religious conflicts between the Catholics in Quebec and the Protestants.
IV. The Constitution has conscription; but after the Stock Market Fall this law was abolished and replaced with a more clear one, declaring that Conscription is only needed in situations of emergency [Ex: Canada being invaded and routed back] [Out of OOC sort of Reserve system]
V. Freedom of the Press is allowed, yet the local police forces [In Quebec mostly] have silenced ultra-nationalist newspapers who actively encourage a second Quebecois Easter Uprising
VI. Alcohol is allowed [It was banned in 1919, but was repelled in 1934 by the Conservative Party in an attempt for more support.] however, you can only move bottle of booze from one province to another with the permission of the provincial liquor control board.
[More will be added in RP]
[Theres alot more, but I just wanted to list the MAJOR ones.

Background of Canada (Edited - Still improving)

Beginning on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, when the value of the New York stock market fell dramatically, the Great Depression was a time when Canadians suffered unprecedented levels of poverty due to unemployment. The unemployment rate was approximately 30 per cent and one in five Canadians depended on government relief for survival. The extent and duration of unemployment during these years rapidly exhausted the ability of volunteer organizations and municipal and provincial governments to relieve the suffering of the unemployed and their dependents, prompting public demands for the federal government to solve the problem through make-work projects, increased spending and intervention in formerly strictly provincial jurisdictions such as social services.

he breadth and depth of human misery resulting from the Great Depression and the creative responses it prompted in individuals are vividly described in letters recounting how families bartered food in exchange for medical services. R. B. Bennett’s Conservative government initially opposed increases in federal spending and an expansion of the federal role in social welfare because Bennett believed that free enterprise and tariffs would protect Canadian industry and ensure access to export markets.

In the 1934 elections, the People of Canada voted for the Liberals who won almost unanimous, a started a Canadian "New Deal" type of relief by 1935. By 1937, the depth of the Depression had seemed to stop, but it left its mark on the country's economic landscape. Atlantic Canada was especially hard hit. Newfoundland (an independent dominion at the time) was bankrupt economically and politically and gave up responsible government by reverting to direct Canadian control, and the government is still unable to mass produce anything and many factories are still shut down, and the Armed Forces stands extremely low at only 20,000 men.

In the midst of the Great Depression, the Crown-in-Council attempted to uplift the people, and created two national corporations: the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC), The former, established in 1933, was seen as a means to keep the country unified and uplifted in these harsh economic times. Many poor citizens found radio as an escape and used it to restore their own faiths in a brighter future. Broadcasting coast to coast mainly in English, with some French, primarily in Quebec, the CRBC helped stop Canada from breaking out into entirely social and economic chaos.

And in 1935 the Bank of Canada was founded which helped regulate currency and credit which had been horribly managed amongst Canadian citizens in the prior years. It was also set up to serve as a private banker’s bank and to assist and advise the Canadian government on its own debts and financial matters. The bank played an important role to help steer government spending in the right direction. The bank's effort took place through the tough years of the depression and still hasn't made progress.

And then a surprise came, the "Dustbowl Drought" arrived in Canada. Wheat prices plummeted,and Then nature turned on the prairie farmers as well. The once-lush fields dried up and the cropped burned in the sun. Thousands of families simply abandoned their farms altogether
Farmers found little relief from nature during the 1930s. There were small gestures of help from other parts of the country; Maritimers sent salt cod and Torontonians sent money. But as the Dust Bowl continued for most of the decade and wheat prices plunged to the lowest in recorded history.

In 1935 the Canadian Wheat Board was created to market and establish a minimum floor price for wheat, and the Dustbowls appeared to come to a halt in 1936, however, most of the land was severely drought and unable to be harvested, many fled to the East, where they established farms in Newfoundland which helped boost the economy.

The Canadian after the Dustbowl were forced to rely on themselves, help from the United Kingdom came every so and now which helped strengthen the link between the mother country and Canada. With the fall of the British Raj in India and the rise of a new German Empire, Canada has exerted it's position to being "Jewel" of the United Kingdom

It's position as led to Canada establishing gas companies in Alberta along with drilling rights to the provinces and has established drilling and natural gas fields, the Canadians attempt to learn from the mistake of Turner Valley, but this has led to slowed down in drilling in the provinces. Canada still produces oil for the British Empire, but not as much as it once used to.

And at the start of the German Revolution Canada shipped materials to both sides which allowed for a minor profit, but not one large enough to make a difference in the Canadian fragile economy.


And now the year is 1937
The United States has fallen, and some see Canada as next.
Can the Liberal Party hold the country together? Or will Canada completely collapse?
We'll sure find out.

The Royal Canadian Army

After the abolition of Conscription, the Canadian Army remains relatively small, and with the Great Depression the Army is unable to maintain a huge arsenal of equipment; but the Canadian Army remains well trained despite the major setbacks it has not been recently deployed in any action and is often called the "Silent Army"


Canadian Troops at Camp Petawawa
Spring 1931

Royal Canadian Naval and Aerial Forces

The Canadian Navy is the second largest in all of the Commonwealth behind only the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

The Canadian Fleet since the great depression has since a large reduction in size yet it still maintains a large commercial and Merchant Marines, the Canadian Fleet saw action in the Indian Uprising with other Commonwealth Forces the Canadian lost approximately 3,500 - 5,000 young men which straw violent protesting which ended with Canada signing an act for a volunteer only army.


Canadian Marines being deployed to India amiss the Indian Revolution
February 1930, Arabian Sea

The Aerial Forces are still new to the Canadian Armed Forces, being added to the Naval Force in 1934 a bill has been propoesd to the House of Commons to make it it's own branch, however the bill has yet to be enacted. The Aerial Forces have moderate and is considered to be the weakest; it's arsenal is consisted of Interwar Fighters and Early "Modern" ones as well and the Government refuses to spend any more on it, believing it to be a useless and cowardly branch.

Canadian Aerial Pilots posing for a picture
Quebec Airbase, somewhere around 1932-1934.

[Mao Mao]

Name
The United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland

Government Ideology
Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy

Leader
George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George)

Rough Population
47,290,000

Capital
London

History of Your Nation since start of Great Depression
When the Great Depression began, the British Empire suffered from high unemployment and poverty. The empire was still recovering from the Great War and the Depression surprised many government officials. Soon enough, the government took emergency measures to balance the budget and restore confidence in the pound by issuing an emergency budget, which immediately instituted a round of cuts in public spending and wages. Public sector wages and unemployment pay were cut by 10%, and income tax was raised in the pound. However, these measures were unsuccessful as unemployment rose and the gold standard dropped.

After years of measures to combat against the depression, a slow recovery begun in 1934 because of the withdrawal from the gold standard and the devaluation of the pound. As a result, British exports became more competitive on world markets. The revolution in India was proving to be difficult to keep fighting, so they decided to let India become independent. Even know losing India was hard for the British, they still got their massive colonies in Africa and Asia. And with Canada becoming the new Jewel of the Empire, things were looking up from them.

Now, the United States has fallen and Germany is in a state of revolution. The Allies have to end the simulation in Germany before either one wins.

[ONL]

Pacific States of America

Pacific States of America

Name: Pacific States of America

Flag:

Hidden because of size

Leader: President Frank Merriam.

Government Ideology: Market liberal with leanings towards liberal democratic.

Claimed States: California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona,, Utah, Alaska & Hawaii, including Pre-American Pacific possesions.

Rough Population: About 11-12 million.

Capital: Sacramento.

Why Your States Decided to Unite(A sort of history):

Welcome to the land of the Pacific

California and the rest of the Amerian west coast had always been percieved as the new "land of oppertunity" inside of the USA; with it's vaste emptiness of fertile land for farming and a pleasent climate that made said farming easier; unlimited amounts of natural resources, immortalized by the California Gold Rush and now countless oil-wells littering the landscape; and last but not least, an ever-stretching coastline that supplies fish and ships from across the globe. Men and women from all cornes of the world flocked to the Golden State in search of a new life, and many did find it there. Right into the 20th century, the new entertainment industry centred in Hollywood attracted the never-ceasing stream of immigrants.

Then the Great Depression hit like one of California's eartquakes, only worse.

After the cosmic boom of the economy on the West Coast, the bust was felt harder than expected. Not that anyone expected it really, which ade it all the worse. Banks closed down, farmers who had already lost their livelyhoods after the earlier crash of the agricultural sector, now lost truly everything. California's heavy industries grinded to a halt, and the now slumbering international trade meant that fewer ships left the harbours. And what happened when all of this stopped?

Those working there had no work left. And what do workers without a job do? They protest.

Right after then governor, current PSA-president, Frank Merriam's inauguration in 1934, a strike began at the International Longshoremen's Association in San Francisco, and spread like wildfire after it's initial days. Similar strikes took place across the US, and many feared that an all-out socialist uprising would take place if it got out of control. That fear would turn into reality on July 5th 1934, when strikers were attacked by police forces assigned to protect the hired labour intended for the affected industries. Tear-gas was used against the strikers, a police-car was overturned, and somewhere in the fray gun-fire killed several strikers and policemen. As the strikes turned into riots, socialist and communist agitators jumped onto the bandwagon and called for "The Worker's Revolution" to begin, guessing that the fresh Merriam wouldn't dare send in sufficiant police-forces to break up the workers.

They guessed wrong.

Within the following days, not only had Merriam called in the Californian National Guard to stop the revolution, he also called in perhaps the strongest branch of the American Military; The United States Navy. In the bloodiest break-up of civilians in American history, the lethal force of the police and military ensured that the so-called "Californian Worker's State" survived only 5 days, 3 hours and 17 minutes. It is debated whether or not the use of such drastic measures were needed, but modern scholars point to it ensuring that a later socialist uprisng at that scale never would take place in Californian history.

For governor Merriam, things were just as debated. Now you either hated him for openly attacking workers and civilians, or loved him for restoring order and stability in California, compared to the social unrest in the rest of the US. His election in the proper 1934 California-election showed the split in popularity; winning with only 46.3% of the votes compared to the democratic opponent Upton Sinclaire with his 45.9%, he was asked to have the ballots re-counted, but refused it. The opposition and other socialist opponents did not muster the forces to challenge his election, and thus Frank "Marbletop" Merriam was safe and secure as California's 28th governor.

Is was this security that allowed Frank Merriam to push for the indepence of California and the other Pacific states during the 1937 Treaty of Washington, D.C. With the support from the governors of Oregon, Washington, Hawaii and the other Pacific possesions of the US Government, several heads of the West Coast's leading industries and Admiral James O. Richardson, a new nation was created on the American Pacific Coast.

Shortly after the signing of the treaty, the states of Nevada, Utah and Arizona sent their requests for admission into the PSA, fearing that revolutionaries would be inspired by the revolutions across America would take control of their states. Their requests were all accepted, and soon the PSA had grown even further eastward into the hot deserts of America.

The Pacific States of America, a true successor to the decadant federal government, a shining beacon of liberty and American values on the west coast. Standing united with California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Alaska and Hawaii, protected by the Pacific Fleet of the previous US Navy and a vaste ocean in the west, hopes are high for a bright future. But as the initial optimism wears off, problems will arise and threaten to rip the newly-born nation apart. Will she survive and pass on the ideals of the first Californian Republic who revolted against the Spanish, or fade away into the same state as the US did, only to have new nations arise? Only time will tell.

But for now, let's all rise for the Pacific States national anthem.
God bless the Pacific States of America!

[Keyguyperson]

Confederated Socialist States of America

Confederated Socialist States of America (CSSA)

Flag

Leader

James W. Ford

Government Ideology

Marxism-Leninism

Claimed States

South Carolina
Mississippi
Florida
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Texas
Virginia
Arkansas
North Carolina
Tennessee
West Virginia

Rough Population

32,000,000

Capital

Jacksonville, Florida

Military Details

The CSSA's Army is equipped with the same pre-secession weapons used by most American successor states, and has chosen to continue producing them instead of foolishly overhauling their existing industry to service new designs. With the planned expansion of the Confederate arms industry, it is hoped that new designs can be experimented with an implemented. There are, in fact, already plans to produce the M1921 Thomson submachine gun for vastly expanded military use. Aside from the more professional firearms, the Confederate Red Army also makes use of civilian firearms acquired during the revolution. Soldiers can often seen carrying old hunting rifles and shotguns in lieu of actual military equipment.

The Confederate Red Army employed pre-secession United States tank designs alongside the Renault FT during the revolution, all, of course, captured from what had once been federal armories. Diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union have led to it receiving a number of Soviet tank models through trade and technology sharing programs. Foreign designs in use include the BT-5 and BT-7 cavalry tanks, which the CSSA has put into production with the intent of replacing United States designs due to their perceived superiority. The services of Mikhail Koshkin, a Soviet tank designer, have been gifted to the CSSA with the intent of designing a new tank as a joint effort between the two nations. Said design is planned to act as the backbone of both the Soviet and Confederate armored divisions, as well as be a significantly tougher nut to crack than the BT series cavalry tanks.

The CRAAF (Confederate Red Army Air Force) utilizes whatever aircraft it can get its hands on. Cropdusters were cut up and reassembled until they could turn well enough to stand a chance against fighters, airliners had their fuselages filled with bombs instead of seats, and barnstormers attached machine guns onto their planes. United States fighter aircraft are still constructed alongside various Soviet designs, but a massive emphasis has been placed on developing entirely new aircraft (mostly due to the fact that flying aircraft with entirely different cockpit layouts does terrible things to efficiency). In contrast to the tank design initiative, aircraft designs are being handled entirely by CSSA staff.

The Confederate Red Navy inherited the vessels docked at Norfolk Naval Yard, which had been seized by the state of Virginia to serve their short-lived independent armed forces. This led to the CSSA operating a rather substantial naval force, as well as controlling more than enough oil reserves to fuel it. The Norfolk Shipyards, as one of the only heavy industries in the CSSA, are continuing construction on multiple new warships. A fleet carrier that had been laid down prior to the revolution has been hastily converted into a battleship halfway through construction due to the simple fact that the nation has little need for aircraft carriers when it plans to be fighting mostly just off the coast.

Why Your States Decided to Unite

The Depression hit the southern USA hard. With the decline of northern industry, southern agriculture became less and less profitable. Herbert Hoover's destructive policies of giving more and more freedom to businesses made things terrible for the working man in the south. The working and living conditions of coal miners and factory workers worsened and worsened, and strikes were met with lethal and barbaric force delivered by private organizations and sometimes even the federal army. More and more people flocked to the unions in search of change, and with the labor unions came the CPUSA.

The ideals of Marx began to spread, slowly but surely, throughout the south. Talk of class divides and the alleged evils of capitalism began to overpower accusations of communist atrocities in foreign lands. By the year of the elections, the Overton window had been pushed shockingly far left of center. The countless unregistered African-Americans found themselves being escorted to the polls by armed men sporting red bandanas, all so they could register as communists without being assaulted. So popular was the CPUSA, in fact, that when Herbert Hoover swept the southern states the first argument were about whether it was the CPUSA that spoiled the Democrats or the Democrats that spoiled the CPUSA. However, the two parties found common ground in their hatred of the fact that Herbert Hoover had received the minority of the popular vote in the southern lands.

More intriguing, however, was the fact that the CPUSA had won more of the voters' hearts than the Democrats.

In an incredible display, CPUSA pundits and supporters came out of the woodwork and lashed out at the Democratic Party. By refusing to accept that the communists had won more support, it was said, the Democrats had let Hoover win. Had they simply chosen to support the majority of the people, of course, then Hoover wouldn't have won four more years. The communists believed it, and the communists seemed to be far more popular than the polls showed. This was not a majority among minorities, it was a true popular ideology. Perhaps, some said, Hoover shouldn't have been in office anyways. Perhaps it was been voter fraud on a massive scale. And the Democratic Party, also puppets of the bourgeoisie class, had done the same.

That idea brought the CPUSA into full prominence. Disgusted by the supposed foul play of their party, Democrats switched sides. Class consciousness skyrocketed even higher, as one couldn't walk into a bar of coffee shop without hearing "Damn bourgeoisie" muttered by more than one man. In the south the CPUSA lashed out against the Hoover administration, demanding his resignation. Of course, he refused to step down and went far enough to write off the entire south as "A bunch of good-for nothings who don't know what's good for them." Following that, one couldn't walk into a bar or coffee shop without hearing "Well, they say revolution is inevitable. And it's already happened in Russia..."

Finally, mounting pressure forced the government to act. The Treaty of Washington D.C. was signed, and the union was shattered. Immediately, the southern states blew up like the time bomb they had become. The existing state governments found themselves fighting hordes of communist revolutionaries, demanding that they bow to the wishes of the people. It was national guard and police against everyone else, since the federal military had split right down the middle between the communists and the democrat state rulers.

Chief among them was Oliver Law, a soldier whom had served in the First World War (and never, ever saw combat). During the election year he had recklessly chosen to move back to his home state of Texas in the hopes of helping swing the state towards communism. With his military training and unexpected knack for command, he was placed in charge of the 24th Texas Revolutionary Infantry, and soon distinguished himself on the battlefield. He rose through the (rather empty) ranks of the non-military branch of the American Red Army through his willingness to take chances and ability to improvise in the middle of battle. By the end of the war, he was a General. A General leading a ragtag army of coal miners with pickaxes and shotguns, but a General nonetheless.

When the dust had all settled, the political climate in the south was less than stable. Many said that they ought to join the Dustbowl States, but the party officials of the CPUSA were less than enamored with the midwest's specific brand of pseudo-anarchocommunism. In the end, the now communist southern states joined together into the Confederated Socialist States of America, a (pseudo) Marxist-Leninist state based around a strong vanguard party with the goal of reuniting America under communism. A world away in Moscow, Stalin raised an eyebrow.

The government was centralized and a new party formed, dubbed the Southern Communist Party (SCP) in order to avoid overt association with the CPUSA which had been headed by Earl Browder. A one-time election was held to choose who would be Chairman of the part and Premier of the nations for life, after all, there was little reason to change the leader every four years after the victory of communism. James W. Ford was elected, thanks to his undying (if perhaps somewhat blind) loyalty to the communist party and the people of America. This was a notable event, as Ford was very obviously not a white man. It showed just how far the South had come socially, and just how far socialism had come within it.

Stalin's raised eyebrow had now turned into a full briefing on the so-called "American situation" at the start of every day while he are breakfast. The clear intention of the CSSA to move towards a more Soviet-style government had piqued his interest. Diplomats were flown, offers were made, hands were shook, and by the end of it all the newly formed CSSA found in its possession shiny new tanks, airplanes, and a non-trivial amount of subsidies and trade deals.

Those new resources were put to work when the SCP took a page right out of Stalin's book and began a Five-Year Plan. The farms were collectivized, and industrial expansion began with the construction of new factories being paired buildings across the nation being converted to factories in order to fully utilize the vast raw material output of the south.

Diplomacy with the Dustbowl States took an odd turn with Trotsky's arrival. Though not the most publicized event, the government was well aware of it. The Southern Communist Party called a meeting in Jacksonville, as did the Soviets in Moscow, to discuss the situation. Neither meeting came to any conclusion, and so Ford and Stalin met behind closed doors aboard the CSS North Carolina to decide what ought to be done. Both were opposed to Trotsky and the ideals of the nation in which he had sought refuge, but they were also both well aware of the rising tide. Germany and the Sister Republics were proof that fascism was gaining power, and they had to be willing to pay any cost necessary to defend against fascism. Ford knew that Trotsky, a Russian, would be hard-pressed to gain any major power in America. Meanwhile, the Dustbowl States were ultimately a weakened land that followed an ideology that was by no means absolutely incompatible.

And so, after days of discussion, it was decided that the Soviet Union would stay out of the situation while the CSSA would remain friendly towards them, unless by some chance Trostskyism rose as the prominent ideology.

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Name: Empire of Japan.
Government Ideology: Imperialism/Fascism.
Leader: Hirohito
Rough Population: Approx. 65 million.
Capital: Tokyo.
History of Your Nation since start of Great Depression:
Japan's economy survived the Great Crash due to the policies and reforms put in place by Takahasi Korekiyo. As both head of the Bank of Japan and finance minister, Korekiyos sweeping reforms led to the abandonment of the gold standard, mass lowering of interest rates and controversially, cuts to government spending on the military. While saving the Japanese economy, Korekiyo's reforms turned more than few heads in the military, who plotted his demise after the loss of Korea and Taiwan to Chinese forces and the well-publicised seppuku of General Masato.

Korekiyo met his maker at the end of a katana in his summer home in Nagasaki in early 1936 and the uneasy alliance between civilian and military government continued. His successor has proven to be much more conservative in cuts to the military and inflation has begun growing at a steady rate. Despite losing their oldest territories, many still remain. The South Pacific Mandate, bestowed upon Japan by the League of Nations after the First World War, remains under Japanese control, as does the puppet state of Manchuko, cut off from Japan but still very much falling under their sphere of influence. While an interest remains in retaking lost territory, the Japanese have set their sights on the wider Pacific Ocean. The wealth of the Dutch East Indies, the agricultural potential of the Phillipines and the crucial natural harbours in Hawaii have long interested the Japanese and calls for their freedom from western control have grown louder since the revolutions in 1935.

Emperor Hirohito, a puppet to his own Diet, is revered as a god to his own people and this has led to an easy control of Japanese citizens by the government. The Emperors speeches have become increasingly militaristic in the last year as he hopes to rile his people and regain the honour lost in the humiliating wars with the Chinese.

Manchuko, which currently lies isolated between Russia and the Third Chinese Republic, has become infamous for alleged biological testing on captured Chinese soldiers and Japanese control on daily life. The client state, which was firmly declared as under Japanese protection following the short Sino-Japanese War of 1935, lies in a state of uncertainty and fear. The Kangde Emperor, Puyi, resents the Japanisation of Manchuria and a series of operations in Manchuko are currently underway to reign in the reluctant emperor.

Current territory:
Japan, South Pacific Mandate, Manchukuo/Manchuria (client state).

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u]Name[/u]: The New Union of America

Flag:


Government Ideology:
Capitalist/Democratic Free Nation based on the old ideals of America, except a full republic than a democratic republic.

President
Jacob Hightop

Capital
Indianapolis.

States Claimed
Indiana
Missouri
Michigan
Kentucky
Iowa
Minnesota
Illinois
Ohio
Wincoinson

Rough Population
20 million (Im not sure...)

Why did theses states unify?

After the disunification of the United states, it was clear the old way where, indeed, broken, but that didn't mean it couldn't be fixed, however. After Hoover was sent to prison for his crimes against the USA, the people realized disunification was not the way. In order for the united states to survive possible invasions from communistic and or fascist countries, they had to be united under a common flag. So, found supporters of the old US, the New Union of America has emerged. There goal is to reunify the USA back to its formor glory. A new wave of nationalism formed in this commonwealth of states, and with the rise of communist confederate states, many have adopted anti communist ideas, despite the situation regarding the depression. Many senators and USA politicians had migrated to the NUA in hopes of being free from communist suppression in Washington DC, and to be around a familiar goverment. The NUA managed to free the declaration of independence and constitution, now seen in Indianapolis museums. Agriculture is a highly important to the NUA, being one of the few industries to actually bear fruit on any level. A new currency had been made in the NUA, a sort of Fiat currency called Shines, and not part of the gold standard. Though, it solved the deflation problem, a fiat currency can rapidly inflate...so the NUA keeps strict control on there government backed money. More money, though, had got there people actually to spend money, and use it within the government, though stuff cost comparably more than what said item used to be. A car costing 600 Dollars, would cost 1800 shines, so roughly 1/3 the value of a regular dollar from before the depression.

Segregation: Segregation is still going, but some states are becoming more liberal, one even going as far as elimating it completely, and some even allowing the minorities to vote and hold office, claiming the newly formed NUA needs all the supporters they can get, but with great detest from the more racist and KKK active states, and try to fight these new regulations, as they see the black man unfit for office in this new government, claiming the black man had created the depression in the first place.

The NUA president: Jacob High-top, a respected business man from Michigan, who helped create the new currency depicted by Franklin D. Roosevelt and slowly bring the NUA out of the deflation with his new Shines currency. His progress in this matter had earned him popular vote as he ran for governor of Indiana against the KKK member, Ed Jackson. With minority votes at hand for his promise to help spread equality to citizens of any kind, and paired with his ideas on fixing the economy. Many critize him as he never worked on a farm, and was a factory worker at Ford Industries until the crash....some saying he never worked a day in his life. But no one disagreed, however, that his plans for a true America where coming into fruitarian. So many voted for him as his plans for his new "True Republic" System filled the needs and wants of the people, with everyone represented in the new government, and the economy rising under the shines currency, and the disunification of the USA, all brought him as the diplomatic helm of a new nation. His traditionalist ways help advocate patriotism in such hard times.

Military

The NUAs Military is quite a force to be reckoned with. With military weapons from Fort Knox, Kentucky, the NUA has been able to create BAR, M1grands, and even tanks and jeeps that would go in and out of the compound before the depression. Soldiers usually wear standard American uniforms and carry a common M1911 on there side. But alas, these soldiers are few in number, with only 20,000 active soldiers, as the military is still being trained up. The Bulk of the military relies on militia or mercenary groups that now inhabit the Disunited States.



Militia: Citizen soldiers with relatively small amounts of training and carry civilian grade firearms, such as hunting rifles or shotguns. What the soldiers miss in training and weapons, makes up for in large numbers.



Mercenaries: Mercenaries are not trusted by the NUA, But they are hired to participate in certain wars. The NUA only pays half before a battle, once the battle is completed, the other half of payment is restored. Mercenaries vary in numbers and equipment.

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Technology

The NUA has been researching on new ways to farm and cultivate crops, Better infrastructure, and currently studying on Albert Einstein's equations and math and relativity. Rising education with public schools are helping to contribute to science, though the fact many are in agriculture and farming, science break through are rare, but not impossible.