Stale Pizza

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

It is because I am here, everyone loves me.

@Wilted Rose

Slovene-Croatia doesn't like you. Unless you're going to help blast Serbia with us. :P

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Technically, Slovenia and Croatia didn't gain their independence until the late '70s, when Prussia annexed Austria. It was one of those things that was decided hastily in the timeskip though, and it's not really important. I am not sure why we went with Austria still having Slovenia and Croatia into the '70s, but I think it had something to do with the maps showing that they were still Austrian for whatever reason, so when I had Prussia annex Austria in the timeskip, I mentioned that Slovenia and Croatia were granted their independence. That said, I am willing to accept this change if Aaron doesn't have any problems with it. All I ask is that Prussian relations with Slovene-Croatia are good.

@Pepperm1nts

I was aware of that as well, but the Balkans had hardly been RPed upon, and since Ducky edited his nation sheet, I wanted to edit mine's to go along. And yeah, relations will be good with with the two.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Since I'm still a bit mixed up with the current PoW canon, I'll just edit it to fit both Ducky's application (partly) and the lore. Nation: Republic of Slovene-Croatia Leader: Andrej Dvornik ( 7th President of Slovene-Croatia ) History: While they were occupied by Austria-Hungary for the most of the nineteenth century, the Northern Balkan areas, which mostly had a majority of Croats and Slovenes, Slovenia and Croatia had been much less involved or interested with the activities of Slavic terrorist groups, one of them being the Serbian Black Hand. The Croats and Slovenes already had their own national movement before the turn of the century, and while they were divided between the conservative Old Slovenes / Croats and the more progressive Young Slovenes / Croats, the area as a whole had establish several reforms, such as standardization literary languages and modernized primary education. Their dislike against the Serbians increased as the Great War began, and despite the Serbian radicals talk over unification of the Balkan Slavs, the Croats and Slovenes refused. The Balkan countries were unfortunately affected by the Great War, with battles continuously occurring in their country, often causing the destruction of many cities and loss of lives as some were conscripted by their dominating country. Later, in the midst of the Great War in 1922, it seemed that the Slovenes and Croats, like several other ethnic groups part of the former Austria-Hungary Empire, was caught in confusion and uncertainty as Hungary split from Austria and the Austria-Hungary Empire was dissolved. For a few years after the war, Slovenia and Croatia remained as part of the Austria, despite Slovenia and Croatia's hopes of independence after the Great War. Their pleas were refused, and while Slovenia and Croatia were seen as an autonomous region, the sudden executions of the Serbian Royal Family caused Austria suppress Slovenia and Croatia with military force in fears of a similar uprising. Austria had its own problems, however, as after the Great War, Austria was in ruins, with her economy collapsing from war debts. Currency rapidly decreased in value, making even basic goods difficult to purchase. Slovene and Croat nationalist took advantage of this opportunity and furthered their protests, occupying key governmental buildings and demanding independence. While Austria was not willing to give up their land, they also did not want to cause international outrage, especially near increasingly militaristic neighbors. Rather hastily, the two states were given independence in 1926 by the Brijuni Agreements. Slovenia's first president, Franc Lavric was elected a few months after the agreements; he was 46 at his inauguration. Lavric wanted the economically-damaged Slovenia into a modern republic, pushing for women's rights, a shift form agriculture to commerce and industry, and improvements on the rail networks. While some of his radical reforms were not taken lightly from more conservative Slovenes, it had appeal to the population who was still having difficulties recovering. Lavric continued to remain on the presidency until the Slovene-Croat reunification. Croatia had Ivan Kovacic. They shared a border with the less stable Bosnia, and had an increasingly militaristic Serbia just past that. There were fears of Serbian invasion; Kovacic wanted to keep Bosnia as a buffer zone, and advised by Rear Admiral Vukovic, increased his navy and army size in reaction to the "Serbian Scare". The scare, however, set racial equality movements backward, as Croatian-Serbs were discriminated against and forced down to a second-class citizen level. Riots were frequent. In 1935, however, Kovacic was revealed to be involved with weapon deals with certain businesses, which plummeted his popularity. Kovacic shortly resigned and was replaced by Ivo Rogoz, who was more moderate and focused on national affairs. Kovacic warned of the potential tension between Croatia and Serbia before he left office (he died in 1951). Serbia's invasion proved Kovacic's fears correct as they launched attacks against Albania and Macedonia. The wars shocked both Slovenia and Croatia; in 1946, they met together in Trieste for a conference toward the matter. After weeks of debates, Slovenia and Croatia finally agreed to become a "dual republic"; while one president would run Slovene-Croatia, Slovenia and Croatia were two separate administrative divisions and could run their own governments at a smaller level. Lavric was chosen to run Slovene-Croatia as its first president up to 1948, as the Slovene-Croatian Democratic Party (SHDS) ;he was followed by Leon Rusjan. Rusjan furthered Lavric's goals; he made some modifications to the Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian written languages to make it possible for both Slovenes and Croats to read. He also attempted to increase literacy rates by making nine-year primary / secondary school compulsory. Outside of educational reforms, he also established a minimum wage. In 1971, Miroslav Gazi, the fifth president of Slovene-Croatia, did a shocking action – in response to the newly appointed Dragan leading Serbia and persecuting of leftist and far leftist, Gazi decided to allow those Serbian party members to enter Slovene-Croatia. Gazi, however, ended up worsening the Slovene-Croatian and Serbian relations even further. This was further intensified by Gazi's refusal to even meet the dictator. Ultimately, Gazi's actions were met in disapproval, and he lost reelection in 1972. For the first time in history, the "SHDS dynasty" ended as power transferred to the center-right Democratic Union. 1980 was another switch of power to Dvornik. As the government switched back to the SHDS's, Slovenes and Croatians alike wondered what would happen to the future of their nation as tensions arise.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Anyway, where should I post my nation sheet?

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

I don't remember Stale Pizza, but a quick look through his old posts indicates he was around at the same time you joined, Duck, and that you two were working on something together. His last post is telling you to post so he could get on with his own stuff. This means that your apps/sheets probably weren't contradictory to one another, which in turn means he's welcomed to rejoin regardless of how inconvenient that might be to your own current plans for Serbia.

@Pepperm1nts

It's mostly because PoW died out for a period of time. After that I moved to posting in Fallout: Equestria RPs...then Ducky tries to invite me back again.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

So I'm going to try and get into this again. Does my old Croatian application still...work here?

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Seriously Duck, if you don't post at all, I'm going to have to find something else to post about for tomorrow.

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Vilageidiotx said
You fucked up that video, yo.

Must be the work of SERBIANS

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

"We precipricks"

Duck, you just joined PoW a while ago.

The New Order(Post WW3 RP)

TheEvanCat said
However, standard course of action for these things is to form an alliance. Europe all didn't merge into one state after WWII, despite the fact that they were hammered to the ground viciously. People want their states to be independent. They want security but also their own governance - an alliance can handle that, just like NATO did and still does. This is a problem that I have with every super state here. Aaron, I'm sure, agrees as well. Alliances, yes. Large scale annexations, however, are rarely peaceful or deemed beneficial to both parties.

"Super-state"

There's always going to be that aggressive imperialist country everyone hates.

Back to the topic, I can drop Azerbaijan, though if anyone still wants it, then we can probably agree on non-vise travel and having this "defend each other" concept in case Russia attacks.

((Non-visa travel with Turkey and Azerbaijan was dropped some time before due to pressure from Iran.))