[FORUM GAME] New Nations

Discussion in 'Forum Games' started by Warlord678, Feb 28, 2019.

  1. The SNE election results are in and....
    the socialists win again. The Fascists are Furious!!! They believe the election was rigged and start violence in the street.

    A few days after the new president was elected he Was assassinated by the Fascists!! This causes everyone to go wild and with no leader and the public torn apart, the SNE starts to be disbanded and become their own independent nations.

    This is me saying in quitting. I can't keep up and I have no time for this, which contributed to be not being to keep up. Goodbye All,It was fun to play this
  2. :(

    As one of the largest producers of renewable energy on Earth, if not the most, the GDSA government has condemned a RUM change from coal to oil. We offer our services to create renewable energy in the RUM.

    In other news: The UBR has implemented stage 1 of a secret project codenamed "Asphalt Spear". Stage one consists of defunding a lot of the Ministry of Defence (or whatever it's called) and saving up a lot of that surplus for the next stages of the project. There are a few small indications that the funds will go towards the Ministry of Transport, however this is uncertain.
  3. I'm glad this was fun for you.
  4. Yeah, we talked on discord about this, sad to see you go, but honestly I know you got real life stuff and that's 100% understandable. Come back next season ok? *sniff* 😭
  5. The Caliphate, with a little more money to spend on infrastructure, speaks to the Saharan countries on something big. A highway system. It would have multiple routes and run from the Mediterranean all the way till it gets green. It would honestly be a massive economy boomer, and replace the 1 old and unsafe road currently in place.

    Countries participating:
    Sunayyad Caliphate, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Nigeria, Senegal, Guinea.

    The road will be funded mainly by the Caliphate, but all nation will participate. The road will be built by the world's most skilled road builders and highway designers. Most in the project are Jewish, African and Arabic, but one is a young Swedish man living in Morocco. He migrated from the UBR to expand his business and help out other nations. He has ties to the UBR and is highly skilled in his work.

    The road will run through as many communities as it can, attempting to get to humanity at each stop. But it's the Sahara desert, I dont think humanity is going to be around for a large portion of the trip. Still, the road will be made with desert resistence materials and will run through safe houses, which are human operated buildings ever so often which help accidents in the desert and bring in supplies. It's the desert however, easy is not anything to call it, and money spending would he huge.
  6. Soviet Socialist Faction Guide
    SEU: Ostensibly Leader and unquestionably strongest nation. I say ostensibly because SEU has no idea how to control its own faction and is reduced to writing strongly worded letters which are ignored. In theory everyone should be afraid of them, but they get treated like a joke despite their immense power because SEU has no way of truly controlling them without devastating the nation involved completely and leaving the region vulnerable to attack. When SEU relies on a single ally to defend a region, they disobey and SEU can't do anything lest the ally defect. When SEU relies on more than one, they tear each other to pieces instead of being productive.
    UBR: The sole exception to the above rule. Loyal to SEU very much and has recieved low-cost weapons and gifts as a result, at SEU's personal expense. Heck, SEU gave them a license to manufacture SEU small arms. Keep in mind SEU has used the "we sell you all of your weapons" card more than once and SEU is throwing a ton of leverage away. That's how much SEU trusts UBR, enough to throw away their Trump Card.
    DRC: SEU's most powerful African Ally. DRC has always been loyal when useful. However, they are highly strained and have recently neglected containing NAE to infight with South Africa. DRC recieves many benefits from getting the latest military tech. SEU has lost a lot of trust in DRC after they ignored SEU requests to do their job and to aid Socialism.
    South Africa: The usurper. South Africa seeks to replace DRC as the prominent Socialist power in Africa. However, this has resulted in the weakening of the Socialist Faction as the great powers fight each other instead of working together to contain Caliphate influence. South Africa is responsible for 80% of SEU's headaches in Africa, and is the biggest reason why it is in jeopardy.
    Venezuela: Rolling in cash after its oil development, it is the second most powerful nation in all of South America. It seeks to dominate and defeat Brazil by bringing Socialist South America to bear against it.
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  7. RUM takes notes from surrounding partners and decides to expand it's infrastructure of roads to more areas of the countries, replacing their dirt/gravel roads with actual asphalt ones. Those who live in the middle of nowhere with only a small handful of vehicles traveling through their area will have the nearest major roads paved for their convenience.

    Research in this "Uranium" for nuclear power to ease the economic pressure of power advances, but safety still remains a concern. Smaller groups of people in the Republic look towards other viable sources of power. A conversation may be had with their local leader(s).

    With electrical power being an issue, jobs have a hard time keeping their businesses running every workday. The job market shows earliest signs of struggle. Potential job loss may happen. RUM officials have talked about dedicating all efforts to nuclear energy research to expedite the advancement of research so economic relief will come sooner.
  8. THE TIMES ARE A-CHANGIN' NEWSPAPER
    Some time in the 1950s or 60s idk what year is it
    Diverted Funds from Military Going Towards a Guianese Rail Line, Government Says
    By Swonk Neve-Ohw
    A few months ago, the UBR’s current government defunded a lot of the military and defence ministry. It has been announced that the money saved from cutting their budget is going towards creating rail infrastructure between the cities of Cayenne, Paramaribo, and Georgetown in the Guianas. However, this still leaves quite a bit of the former military budget unused; it is unsure what the rest of it will be used for. In government communications, the project is using code name "Asphalt Spear", however the rail line is also only being referred to as stage two of the project, leading many to believe there will be more. However, our investigation could not find what future stages may be; there are speculations it could be more rail lines, or something more sinister. We’ll have to wait and see.
  9. The Caliphate is looking to focus heavily on their industry, although they can never be an India, Germany or SEU, they can be a massive powerhouse nonetheless. The first professional and complex space parts manufacter was built in Turkey, meaning that the Caliphate can have a 50% less dependence on German Engineers producing their high quality and complex parts in their factories.
    Jobs are open, new things are being built, such as dams, roads, railways, oil pipelines, refineries, mines and all of the such. The Mining industry has boomed itself, with projects opening up in Persia, Egypt and Afghanistan. Big mining companies in the Caliphate (small on the world scale) have gone into Central Asian countries (not Kazakhstan) and have aided them by assisting them in mining their natural resources. Currently, the Caliphate is mostly dependent on oil as their main natural resource, which trumps everything else by a large margin
    OOC: And since sophisticated oil pipelines run throughout the entire nation, the Caliphate will be a richer version than all of modern Saudi Arabia, and since the Caliphate has more combined oil reserves than Venezuala, NO ONE will ever succeed them. Treat them like a modern Saudi Arabia on stereoids.

    Industrial output has improved in the last 2 years, with a 5% increase in exports being from industry. The Caliphate is learning to produce their own and to depend less on other nations for their manufacturing. Currently, Israel is the lead in the tech department, involved in manufacturing wiring and circuits and computing technologies.
    A large margin of the Caliphate produces knit clothing, armoured vehicles, planes, ammunition and weaponry, and various machinery, medication and other manufacturing goods. Their industry is expecting to boom within the golden age, making them dependent less on trade and oil.

    As the SNE splits, so do the politcal parties, now Britian, Germany and France fade off into Europe, seeking power. It turns out Britain was interested in the Caliphate after all, as they were the main region who wanted to work with the Caliphate, while everyone else said NO. Britian obviously wants to buddy with the Caliphate for one reason... Oil, and the fact that the Caliphate has Gibralatar, something britian wants again. Germany has been a main manufacturing partner for the Caliphate, but politcal relation has never improved, they are only there for business and nothing else. France doesn't like the Caliphate at all, especially since they took Algeria and made the country speak Arabic instead of French.
  10. Okay.
    Let's explain the SEU.
    It's not like anything in the World today.
    • Too much infighting within the Party and too much political freedom to be China/Chinese Meritocracy. Unlike China, the factionalism is very open, but a lot more civil.
    • Too little political freedom to be any Western Democracy. A single-party state (no matter how much infighting and factionalism) cannot be a Western Democracy.
    • Too much meritocracy to be a Dictatorship. The SEU is at heart a meritocracy, valuing performance more than choice.
    I'm going to term SEU's Governing style "Confucian Meritocracy with Democratic and Autocratic Elements". But that's stupidly long and I'm not going to type it out every single time I have to write the SEU's governing system. So I'm going to shorten it to Confucian Meritocracy.
    What is Confucian Meritocracy?
    There's nothing been quite like it in the World, and I doubt that if Socialism as a system falls apart at the end of this game and no one decides to use it as their governing system (meaning the Socialists lose the game), there will be anything like it for a very long time.
    It places merit above all else. The Socialist Party is there because it has merit. If the Socialist Party were to lose merit, they would be overthrown very quickly, faster than you can say "Confucian Meritocracy with Democratic and Autocratic Elements".
    This is the Mandate of Heaven.
    Don't forget this. It's going to come up again.
    The Socialist Party has the Mandate of Heaven. That means it is doing a good job and that if it continues to do a good job the Socialist Party should be duly obeyed. On the contrast, if it loses the Mandate of Heaven, they should be replaced.
    Losing the Mandate of Heaven is the Socialist Party's nightmare scenario.
    It cannot, cannot lose the Mandate of Heaven. If it loses the Mandate of Heaven, they will be replaced, and in Chinese history "replaced" usually entails a lot of death, mostly of the former Government. The Mandate of Heaven must be protected at all costs, even if it means killing the citizens of SEU, or the citizens of any other nation. Everything the Socialist Party does, is to retain the Mandate of Heaven.
    So how does one retain the Mandate of Heaven? Do a good job, of course. Do a really good job or the people will overthrow you and cut your heads off. Revolutions in China tend to be violent, and people get their heads cut off.
    The Socialist Party would like to keep their heads on their necks where it belongs as long as they keep the Mandate of Heaven. So they take the best of the best. An unintended side effect is that there are a shortage of Public Servants because no one wants to be a Public Servant, because being a Public Servant frankly sucks a lot.
    Okay. So now they have a meritocracy. But the thing is, completely repressing the Political Freedoms of the people in favor of performance seems to mean losing the Mandate of Heaven/Heads.
    It is imperative that the Socialist Party keep the Mandate of Heaven.
    So the Socialist Party has a discussion. There are many factions, and all of them agree that they would rather like to keep their noggins and fancy positions of power.
    The many factions agree to pick a few qualified candidates each year and then to show them to the people, giving them final say. Each factions goes home and picks a qualified candidate. Keep in mind that the faction's choice of Candidate have no input by the people, ensuring some rich dude with zero political experience but plenty of charisma/lying ability cannot become a candidate for anything.
    There are some agreed upon rules to become a candidate.
    They must have a good record as a Public Servant for the last 10 years. They should have no corruption charges in the last 10 years. They should be of reasonable mental state and not so old as to possibly die within the next 5 years. There are a lot more bars, but those differ between factions.
    The end result is that only qualified people get to go to the People's Congress and to stand before the people for election. And don't even get me started on the People's Leader.
    So what is the Socialist Party?
    It is the government.
    It is the most paranoid government on Earth. It fears that it will be deposed and that their heads will be cut off.
    In SEU Politics, there is a rule of thumb for criticism of the Party in Public.
    You can criticize the actions of the Party however much as you please. You can criticize all of its actions. You can say "**** the Great Green Wall initiative!"
    You can criticize the standards of the Party to an extent. Just don't go overboard and go foaming at the mouth. You can say "The Party's values is contrary to real Socialism."
    Whatever you do never question the existence of the Party. Never say "down with the Party!". The Party does not tolerate competition.
    In private, the Socialist Party does not care. You can say "Down with the Party! Cut all their heads off!" within the comfort of your own home and no one will come to arrest you.
    The Socialist Party does not disappear people. That's not their style. They have a Social Credit system for a reason.
    If you say "**** the Party!". They will arrest you, talk to you about how advocating the overthrow of the Government within the nation ruled by said Government is a bad idea, and send you home. Do that again within a certain timeframe and the consequences kick in, making your life very hard. Ironically, one of the consequences is subsidized foreign plane tickets and a substantial grant of money if you would just get out and never bother the Socialist Party again. Some people try to game it, but the extensive interrogation usually filters out the scammers.
    If one is a troublemaker that constantly toes the line, the Social Credit system kicks in yet again. The system punishes you, but also rewards you in a way. The Government helps them become a productive citizen again and gets you a job, tells you to work hard and restores your Social Credit Score. Don't be stupid, and the Government and you will never meet again. The Government's Job there is done, it goes off to help other people.
    This must all look very horrible from a Western Perspective.
    But the SEU isn't the West. It is the Eastern Confucian Ideology incarnate, and it follows Confucius religiously. It is an Eastern perspective, and the Socialist Party is doing a decent job from the Eastern perspective. It gets a B+ or A- because while it does a pretty good job, there are significant problems within the Socialist Party and the people are unhappy about that. The Socialist Party has had multiple bloody purges since it began to root out corruption, but this has been ignoring the underlying issue, which is that because the Party is understaffed people resort to bribery to reduce their workload, as well as a lack of surveillance in the middlemen stages.
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  11. Explaining the Sunayyad Caliphate, the Islamic Caliphate Structure, and the Musafakhi Parliament and Government.

    Sunayyad Caliphate Type of Government: Theocracy, Elective Monarchy, Musafakhism.
    Socio-Economic Stance: Strangely enough a mix between Capitalism and Socialism, production is to the rights of private owners, but it MUST be benefit to themselves and the Caliphate, and Caliphate laws stop people from becoming wealthy selfish billionaires.
    Main Religions: Islam.............(duh)
    Main Religious Ideology: Musawaism

    The Caliphate's government works in a weird way, it follows traditional Islamic politics, but also adopts a semi-western approach.



    Caliph
    All in all, the Caliph is the head of the Caliphate, and acts as a political leader, military commander and religious teacher. The Caliph is elected into power from either the Great Divine of Islam, basically top notch very religious Islamic elite leaders, a previous Caliph, through force, or as seen by the recent election, a government vote. The Caliph also indulges in Shura the act of consulting with the people and the ruler. This is where a great public "census" or opinion is drawn on the current Caliph, and many problems, suggestions and questions are brought to the Caliph from various communities to ultimately improve the Caliphate.

    Grand Council
    Under the Caliph is the Grand Council, or Council Relief. These are the top-notch leaders from the ruling party, they are like the right hand men to the Caliph, they help make decisions, they manage over various parts of ministers and governments, and are generally just the big help to the Caliph. They can be made up of Generals, Military Leaders, Governors, etc.

    Divine Choosers
    The Divine Choosers are elite Islamic Clergy, believed to be chosen by God. They basically act as those would under a pope. They have decades of devotion to the religion and decades of study and teaching. They have no power over the politics or government, but in terms of the religious state, the Grand Mosque, and the Entirety of Islam itself, they look after it for the Caliph and they also assist in all religious decisions. They are like the "elders."

    Greater Government
    Under the Great Council is basically, the Greater Government, ruled by the current Political Party, (which in this case is the Caliphate Fundamentalists) which is made up of ministers, governors over regions, and operates as any government, ruling over, taking in what is done by the people, transitioning the message to the Grand Council and Caliph, and also receive orders from the Grand Council and Caliphate. They are at its roots, like any other government and make many decisions.
    The Greater Government is mostly the direct political party in power, so in this case the Caliphate Fundamentalists. They look after federal issues, economics, trade, industry, military, foreign relationships, etc. They oversee the big picture essentially. The difference is also keen that the Lesser Government does not have to be the ruling party, so a Republicist can work under the Caliphate Fundamentalists. Women can also work in the Lesser Government.

    Lesser Government
    The Lesser Government works in the same order of Governors and Ministers, in taking orders and ruling for the people to make decisions and improve the Caliphate, but they are made up of Provincial District Governors and Municipal Governors rule the cities. Provincial Governors are like the ruler of a "state's" districts, so for example if it was the Province of Arabia, there would be the P.D Governor of Al Hejiz (West) and the Gulf side, (East). They basically are the assistance of Provincial Governors which are apart of the Greater Government.

    Public Ministers
    The Public Ministers are apart of the Government and are directly affiliated with the people, and are mostly well trusted intelligent and hard working individuals from communities who intake all input from their selective communities and take it to the Government.

    Lore states the best position in government is actually the lowest. Public Ministers. Becoming a public minister is quite easy, you just must be apart of the registered ethnic group to the government and have little political experience and must be the best fit. Public Ministers basically take all the input from their own communities and send it up the line to the Greater Government, or if its big enough, Caliph.
    Anything about the Lesser Government really, except for Judges are incredibly stressful and include tons of experience and hard work.

    Requirements for Caliph: Sunni Arab or Shia Arab. If it were a Shia Arab it would be called Imam and not Caliph.
    If the Caliph were lets say for example Turkish and not Arabic, they would be a Sultan but still be able to rule.
    All in all, the Caliph MUST BE MUSLIM AND MALE

    Requirements for Grand Council: Since the Grand Council is chosen by the Caliph it can change, but the traditional view point is MALE, MUSLIM, and with political experience, trust and loyalty. Can be of any ethnicity.

    Requirements for Greater Government: Since they are voted in and chosen, requirements are stricter than Grand Council, but usually MALE, MUSLIM, and with political experience, trust and loyalty. Can be of any ethnicity

    Requirements for Army: Anything goes, any ethnicity, any race, ages 18-26, any religion, must be male, is allowed a criminal past, although must be mentally, physically and healthily prepared.

    Requirements for Lesser Government: Can be any ethnicity, doesn't have to BE MUSLIM but must be tolerant of Islam, needs political experience, any age, can be of any political party, as long as that party is tolerated and respected by the Caliph, and they aren't damaging or influential to the Greater Government. (Extremists are not allowed) and women are allowed too! Yay!

    Requirements for Public Minister: Literally anything, just must be over 21, must have a little bit of political experience and must be trusted and loyal.
  12. Over the last several months, sweeping changes have been enacted across the Balkan Federation.

    President Nassatos, Prime Minister Aleksič, and Deputy Prime Minister Rama attended the opening of the Balkan Health Service (BHS) in Athens, Greece. The BHS is a government-owned organisation that has swept through every hospital and clinic owned by local authorities and charities and taken control of them, sometimes through hostile methods. It is funded by the taxpayer and gives every citizen living in the Balkan Federation free at the point of use healthcare. It is part of the programme of 'Líkno Sto Táfo' (Cradle to Grave) featured in Stamados's manifesto. It was voted through by Stamados, the Alliance of Communists, and the Alliance of Nationalists (174 in favour), with the Alliance of Conservatives and the Alliance of Liberals voting against it (67 against), and the Muslim Alliance and the Alliance of Orthodox Serbs abstaining (21).

    The railways and trains have also been nationalised, now operating under the government-owned company Balkan Rail. Aleksič has ordered the construction of a central railway that will stretch from the very southern tip of mainland Greece, stretching all the way through to Istria in Slovenia. The railway will create many construction jobs over the next ten years and when it is finished will boost productivity as workers have a new and fast way to travel to work, and will create thousands of jobs on the railway and trains.

    Aleksič has also announced the founding of Balkatom. Balkatom will construct nuclear power plants using Romanian and Hungarian uranium and will sell its surplus energy to any European country willing to buy it.

    The coal mines, the steel industry, and the aviation industry have also been nationalised, meaning that the majority of the Balkan Federation's economy is now under government control. Both Stamados and the Alliance of Communists have publicly stated that they are 'seizing the means of production', which has prompted concern among the Alliances of Nationalists, Communists, Liberals, and the Muslim Alliance.
  13. The Caliphate has possibly one of the most biggest railway systems in the world, the most complex and one which is responsible for a large portion of the economy. Construction of a railway going over the Bhosporous strait has been consulted by the Municipalty and Trans-MENA Railways. If TBF planned ahead for a connection to the railway it would boost both economies.
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  14. The SEU questions being more left-wing than themselves in Economic Policy by the Balkan Federation. Seriously, they're even more so than the Socialists and that's saying something.
    The SEU is pretty left-wing when it comes to Economy, and is trying to clean up their own Air Pollution.
    In theory SEU wants to seize the means of production, but Eurasian Socialism has been corrupted by the Founders of SEU to make it work in real life. The Founder and Allen Brown worked tirelessly to repair the fundamentally broken Marxist Socialism and created Eurasian Socialism. I've gone into length on what Eurasian Socialism is, so I'm not going to explain it.
    In any case, SEU is trying to clean up the environment and to make the country efficient. SEU wants low dependence on Oil, particularly Caliphate Oil. To this end, SEU is asking Cruise Liners if they want Nuclear Reactors aboard their ships. The Liners are skeptical, but they like the idea of no fuel consumption whatsoever.
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  15. Sunayyad Caliphate Lore:
    Musawai Brotherhood.

    Leading Members: Ashar Ayyad and R̵̛̛̖̭̼̙͖͎̝̗̙̯̫̈͛̓̿̋͆̽̓̓̕͜͠ͅĔ̵̞̀̈̓̉D̴̢̧̧̛̜͉̬̜̝͇̠͇̅̍̅̓̈̎͊Ä̷̢̘̗̫̰́̈̈́͛̄̆̚͝C̴̢͎͙̤͔͇̠̗̝̞̠͉͍̗͊͌̂͒̆̄̏̅ͅŢ̶̰̘̺͓͕̠͇̩̖͍͖̮̀E̶̪̩̙̝̓̿͐̏̎́̿̉́͝͝D̷̠͖̼͚̟̭̳̓͒̂

    Founding Member: Mehmet Al-Ayyad
    Place of Foundation: C̶̢̛̺̝̋̈̀i̶̳̦̞̐̽t̶̪̫͖̳̞͆ỹ̵̮̅̚͘ ̵̩̘͖͔̗͐̑o̶͔͈̥̓̑̑͋f̴̖̳̝̓̓ ̵̛̱͕͚͆́̔T̷̺̟̍͜r̷͕͆u̸̝̤̥͛̿t̷̠̩̗͗ͅh̷͙͂

    Current Headquarters: G̷̯͗͋̎̇ả̶̼̝͓̊̒r̷̡̤̀̈́͘d̴̟̱̬̞̀̋̍́͊e̴̮̐̅̊n̸̢͓̹̤̽͌̕ ̵̡̗̘̞͂͐̐̆ọ̵̓f̸̥̤̥̿̍̌̆͝ ̶̹̩̑̇́̃E̶̘̠̪͙̓̄̕͝d̴̻̼̘̙̉͐́͐̎e̶̤̻͈͔͖̾͑ǹ̶͕̤̫͙͕̎̎͊

    What is it: Deeply religious secret society made up of the Elites of Islam and the Sunayyad Caliphate. Generals, Businessmen, the richest of the rich, political leaders, governors, celebrities and religious leaders. Dare you say it is an occult.

    They work within the shadows, for Allah to dissect the corruption so they can serve the light.

    Where do they meet?: A̸͖̻͔͂̈́̓͘ͅt̸̡̠͚͖̥̎̉͂̀̇ ̷̛̛͓̩̑t̵̘͚͙̪͂̇͝͝h̴̫̬̀͊͌̍͝ę̷̛͉͚̲͎́̽̋͝ ̴̣̤̗͚̖̇̂̀̕e̴̲͎͇̪͉̕͘͘͝ṉ̸̔̔͗͂̉d̶̳̓͑͐͐ ̶̨̲̣͉̄͊͑ẃ̷͉ȟ̵̪̘̫̓͑͑̈e̶̦͎̲̺͂͑r̸̭͆ẻ̵̺͇̖̿ ̵̦͎̌͂͂t̴̢͔͍̹͋͐̑͝h̶̡͓̿̆͘ė̷̡͑͝ ̸̭̥͎̅̑r̸̤͎̼̣̺̽̀͗ị̴̿̓̋̐̒v̷̜̄e̷̫͈͆͒́́̕r̶̰̒̃̌̌̈ş̵̄́͗ ̴̘̣̰͌̓̓̈́f̸̭̺͕̓̐͌̕l̴̡͔̯̳̘͊̃ȯ̷̜̝̫͔̖̋w̸̛͊͜

    What have they done?:
    Responsible for the deaths of 6,660 witches in the late 1920s, some which were linked to the F̴̼͖͔͐͠Ó̸̜̫̟̭͔Ṳ̵͊͑͆͠N̶͙͇̠̼̯̆̆͆͊̋D̴̠̈́̊̈́E̷͉͆R̸̢̗̬̎͌͋
    {Redacted}



    Their most curious actions are their subliminal messages and propaganda to dethrone their neighboring world POWER.
    They study deep magic of the ancient times and dabble in dubious and eerie practices from the most twisted traditions and religions. Their study and work is disturbing, and it's all to end the same magic they study... They are there to kill off the sorcery and warlock infidels.

    Their ill attitude to the wicked is disturbing, as was evidence to the burning of a secret pagan meeting place which killed nearly 20 worshipers. IT was deemed an accident, but now you know it was not.
    Allah may know how many they have already killed, but the mass human remains in Uzbekistan have yet to be grounded for evidence.

    Many of their slogans have been seen throughout major cities and towns, and it is the Hand with the Heart, and of course the Pentagram. All to ward off the evil eye and to bring protection and luck.

    Luckily for the government, they haven't stooped in to influence politics, although many of them are in for the politics, they cannot dare be told about unless they wish to be kicked out and banished.

    Their traditional magical powers include wearing stone necklaces to bring fortune and rid of the "evil eye" every meeting they wear robes with a human hand on the back and head scarfs to humble themselves and protect from the Evil Eye.
    The hand is called the Hand of Fatima.

    Their goal:
    To purify Islam and bring it to it's golden years, to rid of paganism and magic, make Musawaism the leading Islamic Ideology and to ultimately
    d̵̘̀ȍ̴͎̈m̴͙̣̓ì̴̥̹͝n̴̬̖̈́̊ä̷͉̲́t̴̪̽͝ë̵͓̻́ ̸͇̦́ṫ̶͈ḣ̵̘̮ȩ̷̇͝ ̶͓̣̾̈́w̷̰̽̕o̷͎̫͊-̷̛͈̋
    Page was ripped out...

    The informative Scroll had seem to be ripped apart afterwards...
    Well whatever this cult is doing...
    Ashqar is sure trying to get out... fast... But he can't... He is bound, although he serves his nation, he serves the cult he wishes to never have served... This is...
    A mess

    {REDACTED}

    if you think you're going to escape... you're wrong... look behind you.
  16. The Founder.
    Hoo boy. This guy is unequivocally the most powerful entity in the world of NN from Timeline 4 (the old one) onwards. Or he would be, if not for the fact that he is an extension of the most powerful entity and has very few of the real deal's powers.
    He has no past, because he's an extension of my will and is my way of influencing the World should anyone be stupid. Unfortunately (or fortunately), no one has been stupid enough to do that.
    So the Founder is kind of useless. The scenario I made the character for has so far never actually happened, and now we have a problem on our hands. I have a character that's lying around and doing nothing. Not good, and even worse he's implied to be magic, because when someone is stupid in NN they have to be really stupid, and to fix really stupid things people need magic.
    But the Founder does not like being useless; he wants to have purpose. He wants to be a useful dude. And yes, he is a dude, because I am a dude.
    Also, did I mention he cannot be killed? He's an extension of the creator and mastermind of the world, of course he's invincible. He can't die, even if he wanted to. He's tried shooting himself for the heck of it.
    And he's got absolutely nothing to do for a very long time. He's stuck in Timeline 5 (this one) for the time being, and he can't occupy himself with anything. Reading the same old texts gets old eventually. When one's got a century to work with, one can read just about anything. Computer games, that was fun, Super Mario Bros was a fun game to play with for a couple months. Heck, he even thought about porting Minecraft to Timeline 4, and he plans to do so for Timeline 5.
    Other than completing the occasional tasks to influence the timeline and to nudge it in the right direction, he's very bored. I'd be bored too if I didn't have to actually work to survive and has nothing to do for ages. The farming, reading and giving gig (the ideal Confucian life) is a charade, he's too lazy to actually do that. And while he has tried to paint himself as the model Confucian follower, he is irreligious, viewing Confucianism as a Study, not a Religions much unlike the Joseon Dynasty. To him, I am an annoying Boss that watches everything he does and thinks and demands unrealistic things out of one man. (Frankly, yes.)
    So he created himself a purpose. He made himself a cult in Timeline 4 and when everyone left for Timeline 5, he took his members and their families with him. Those 6,660 witches did not come out of the blue. Those are the same people who could have been members of the Sheep of God in Timeline 4. The ones that could do some magic. The ones who could see the world for what it was. The ones that could see us. The ones that knew what exactly the Founder was and revered as well as feared him.
    The Founder was not pleased to have 6,660 of his newest potential recruits slaughtered.
    So he acted to bring down the cult. However, his mind wanders to other places.
    Such as the Final Conflict. The Final Conflict will not involve magic. It will be very mundane.
    It will be very mundane natural disasters, very mundane wars, very mundane human conflicts, very mundane human selfishness, very mundane collisions over natural resources and non-natural resources, and very mundane human stupidity.
    Nothing special, just things that happen every day, on the microscopic to the macroscopic.
    The only magical thing about it is that all of that will crash in at once. None of them happen all at once, in normal times. But the Final Conflict is not normal. It is a very abnormal cake baked using very normal ingredients.
  17. (what is this final conflict thing? I'd like this game to continue as normal, please don't drastically modify it)

    A rail network spanning to almost every village and town in the Guianas as well as bike and walking paths within the villages/towns are the next phase 3 of the Asphalt Spear project. Some Dutch people are interested in the bike paths and move to the Guianas. This does still leave quite a bit of the funds unspent. The people of Guiana are happy that public infrastructure is being built, but... this seems a bit like overkill.
  18. For the next 40 years or so, nothing will change, although I'd advise investing in Computer and AI technology. The Final Conflict is frankly me pulling what's going to happen in real life 10-20 years forwards in NN.
    The next great world conflict will be the US and China duking it out over Data. China will win. It's way too huge to lose, and size is everything in the modern world. Nothing else matters. Only size matters at this point and anything smaller than say... Brazil will be consumed.
    In New Nations however, the outcome is far less certain. The SEU's huge size gives them an enormous edge, but they also have huge neighbors and about 20% of their size could split off to play on its own. Also, I'm going to tilt the board a bit so that smaller nations have a decent shot at winning. The very nature of Combines complicates everything and means that things are very different than in real life.
    In real life, size is everything. Just be huge and nothing can get you.
    Here, size is the most important factor, but it's not going to win you anything on its own.
  19. Wow... realism.. *clap*
  20. I'm not looking forward to a game where everyone just blows up in the end, I'd rather have it be a softer ending instead of having to get wrecked by the socialists.