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I'm just going to transfer my nation's information here so I can quickly get to it. I also streamlined some bits and organised it.

Basic Information

Nation name: Transamur
Formally - Transamur Republic
Also sometimes referred to as the Far East Republic

Flag

Map of Transamur

Claims: Far East Federal District of Russia, Zabaykalsky Krai, Republic of Buryatia, Irkutsk Oblast, Kuril Islands(Very low Effective Control)

Transamur

Key:
Dark Red - Effective Control (To Various Degrees)
Light Red - Nominal Control

History

WIP

Government

Transamur is an Autocratic Republic which holds Duma elections every 5 years.

Executive:
Head of State - Grand Admiral Sergei Avakyants
Head of Government - Prime Minister Germogen Svyatoslav Mikhailov

Legislature:
Upper House - Transamur Duma
Lower House - Transamur Senate

Judiciary:
Constitutional Court
Supreme Court
Prosecutor General
Court of Arbitration

Military

Land

250,000 Soldiers
800,000 Civilian Corps (Government conscripted soldiers, whose purpose is not to fight, but to build government-mandated projects. However, they are handed rifles and ammunition in case of emergency. These civilians are not on duty 24/7 but are called whenever the government requires.

Navy

54 Warships
36 Submarines
16,000 Naval Infantry (Elite Amphibious Units, including 1,000 commandos.)
100,000 Sailors (Active and Reserve)

Air

WIP

Economy

Economic system: Mixed Economy

Resources in surplus (resources your country has more than it needs): Coal, Petroleum, Precious Metals, Hydroelectricity, Wood, Fish

Resources in scarcity (resources your country desperately needs but doesn't have enough of): Agricultural Products, Infrastructure, Finished Goods, Manufacturing Industry, Communication, Military Industries

Culture

Demographics

Population: 15,874,130

Nation name: New Holy Confederation of America(Capital: Corpus Christi (231,009) , Largest City: Atlanta (845,991)

Spoiler

Population: 21.7 Million

Claims: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, Florida, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana.

Military forces (include civilian militias/paramilitaries): Central Government: 200,000 Soldiers, Church of America Militant forces: 75,000, Various State Militias: 150,000 Soldiers

Government: A Confederation of 13 states with a central government in the form of a unicameral Diet. The Church of America, the official state religion, also has a powerful say in the running of the Government. Each state has their own Governor and State Diet. There is an elected President who is the head of state.

Economic system (free market , planned, command, etc.): A quasi-socialist economy with state run companies but room for private investment and corporations.

Resources in surplus (resources your country has more than it needs): Food (Wheat, Grain, Cattle, things like that), Agricultural goods (like Cotton), arms and armaments, Oil, Electricity(Courtesy of a Nuclear Power Plant in South Carolina)

Resources in scarcity (resources your country desperately needs but doesn't have enough of): Raw ores, technologies, factories, Raw Materials

History: After the East Coast Plauge hit the Southern States quickly closed borders and deployed the National Guard to stop the influx of refugees to their states. The Governors, Senators and Congressmen who were inside their borders soon banded together and, in the height of the chaos, declared Independence in the form of a New Holy Confederation. With the rest of the Country to weak and divided to stop them, a reign of terror soon fell upon the NHCA. Immigration and Emigration was suspended, anyone suspected of carrying the plague was burnt as 'unholy filth". It took 2 years before a New Constitution was created and the terror ended. The Plague had been defeated thanks to the CDC in Atlanta who worked tirelessly to cure the disease. However, the Country went from a population of 110 Million to just over 20. Now, with eager hearts and damaged minds, the people of the New Holy Confederation of America looked to the world, hoping to reclaim greatness.....

Nation name: Neo-Byzantine Imperium
Population: ~20 million
Claims: Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia+Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Marmara region, and Cyprus (both halves)
Military forces: 300,000 regular servicemen plus ~200,000 more in militias, reserves, and paramilitaries which comprise the thema who are mobilized during wartime. This official armed force makes up roughly 2.5% of the total population of the country.
Government: Oligarchic semi-democratic Monarchy. Most powers delegated to the Imperial Cabinet which is selected from Imperial Senate which is a mix of elected and appointed persons from each Imperial Theme.
Economic system (free market , planned, command, etc.): The Imperium is mostly a planned economy with the revenues from the trade between the Mediterranean and the black seas being distributed by the Imperial Treasury according to need and importance.
Resources in surplus (resources your country has more than it needs): Coal, hydroelectric power, metal ores
Resources in scarcity (resources your country desperately needs but doesn't have enough of): petroleum and natural gas, as well as food (land is generally poor in the balkans, especially those the Empire controls, so food must be imported by sea to continue population regrowth.
History: Following the catastrophe that was the plague, many urban centers were devastated, not the least of were the predominantly urbanized countries of the Balkans. Istanbul was decimated and left Canakkale in the Dardanelles as the temporary controller of Marmaran sea trade. After the plague burned through its last victims many wondered what would become of the sundered and bleeding Istanbul. It was then that a band of Slavic and Greek adventurers pushed in and proclaimed the Orthodox Republic of Constantinople. The new country was immediately at odds with the Turkish Marmaran Republic as well as its own population, the former of which secured Izmit as a bulwark against their attempts to control the Bosporus strait. The Adventurers gathered support for their cause by appealing to an idea of returning to a golden age of  military and cultural significance, and attracted many destitute survivors from the rest of the Balkans with promises of easy lives and the Turkish government stockpiles of food to compete with their neighbors in trade through renewal of the city. Beneath the patriotism and arriving settlers, however, the city was still in dire financial straits and the citizens were basically squatters leeching off of a decaying city's infrastructure, and the native Turkish population was preparing for a revolt to join the marmaran republic. The situation was untenable, and change was needed, yet the adventurers (who called themselves the Eagles of the Balkans) refused to make a settlement with the Turks or even with the countless petty Greek and South Slavic successor states which surrounded them (who were quite unhappy that their manpower was being leeched). Thus they were overthrown in a bloody coup by a former Greek Naval Officer named Demetrios Theotokopoulos, who was proclaimed Emperor of the Neo-Byzantine Empire. He recruited the young men who had been migrating to Constantinople and expanded his army to expand his territory into western Thrace, eventually capturing (and sacking) Thessalonica as well as Bulgarian Thrace. His plans for further territorial expansion were halted, however, by the remaining Greek and Bulgarian states forming a defensive pact which he had no hope of defeating. However, despite putting down his sword he was in a much better bargaining position against the Turkic Marmarans, who continued to hold the Dardanelles and the Asian side of the Bosporus. Together they made the Treaty of Mutual Ownership, whereby military forces were withdrawn from each other's borders and the revenues of ships passing through the straits were to be evenly distributed. This first step in de-escalation gradually reduced the enmity between the two to such an extent that the borders between them became effectively non-existent, and the two eventually merged into a single country under the condition of liberalizing the Imperial government and establishing an Imperial Senate which guaranteed proportional ethnic representation, as well as giving funds for the restoration and maintenance of Istanbul's crumbling mosques and structures symbolic of the Ottoman period. The Orthodox Church was abolished as the sole state religion, and all edicts were to be also written in Turkish. This shift marked the beginning of the Imperial cabinet controlling the government, and when Demetrios died not long after the trend only accelerated. New wars were conducted which captured vast swathes of the Balkans, and the construction of a new navy allowed the conquest of Cyprus. On the surface, the Empire has never been stronger. Within, however, tensions brew between Orthodox Greeks, Serbians, and Bulgarians, and Islamic Turks and Albanians, the former of which feel that the increased conquests have created a population that might become slanted toward Orthodox ethnicities, prompting them to promote a conquest of Bosnia to rebalance the religious balance by including the mainly muslim Bosniaks or expansion into Anatolia to fill it with more Turks. The Orthodox, however, desire Romania and its rich oil reserves, which would also not so coincidentally increase the Orthodox population to a definite majority. Meanwhile a silent teenaged Emperor sits the throne, powerless and without leadership. Scouts sent into Anatolia haven't returned, with the more apocalyptic souls believing that another Mehmed lies within the mountains ready to flood the divided empire and re-institute Ottoman rule, further fueling the ethnic tensions. Can a cosmopolitan experiment continue to survive in this era of renewed nationalism and violence? Well, if you'd allow me, we might just find out...

Nation name: Neo-Byzantine Imperium
Population: ~20 million
Claims: Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia+Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Marmara region, and Cyprus (both halves)
Military forces: 300,000 regular servicemen plus ~200,000 more in militias, reserves, and paramilitaries which comprise the thema who are mobilized during wartime. This official armed force makes up roughly 2.5% of the total population of the country.
Government: Oligarchic semi-democratic Monarchy. Most powers delegated to the Imperial Cabinet which is selected from Imperial Senate which is a mix of elected and appointed persons from each Imperial Theme.
Economic system (free market , planned, command, etc.): The Imperium is mostly a planned economy with the revenues from the trade between the Mediterranean and the black seas being distributed by the Imperial Treasury according to need and importance.
Resources in surplus (resources your country has more than it needs): Coal, hydroelectric power, metal ores
Resources in scarcity (resources your country desperately needs but doesn't have enough of): petroleum and natural gas, as well as food (land is generally poor in the balkans, especially those the Empire controls, so food must be imported by sea to continue population regrowth.
History: Following the catastrophe that was the plague, many urban centers were devastated, not the least of were the predominantly urbanized countries of the Balkans. Istanbul was effectively abandoned and left Canakkale in the Dardanelles as the primary controller of Marmaran sea trade. After the plague burned through its last victims many wondered what would become of the ruined carcass of Istanbul. It was then that a band of Slavic and Greek adventurers pushed in and proclaimed the Orthodox Republic of Constantinople. The new country was immediately at odds with the Turkish Marmaran Republic, which secured Izmit as a bulwark against their attempts to control the Bosporus strait. The Adventurers gathered support for their cause by appealing to an idea of returning to a golden age of pre-Ottoman military and cultural significance, and eventually the city grew enough to compete with their neighbors. Beneath the patriotism and arriving settlers, however, the city was still in dire financial straits and the citizens were basically squatters leeching off of a decaying city's infrastructure. The situation was untenable, and change was needed, yet the adventurers (who called themselves the Eagles of the Balkans) refused to make a settlement with the Turks or even with the Greek and South Slavic successor states (who were quite unhappy that their manpower was being leeched). Thus they were overthrown in a bloody coup by a former Greek Naval Officer named Demetrios Theotokopoulos, who was proclaimed Emperor of the Neo-Byzantine Empire. He recruited the young men who had been migrating to Constantinople and expanded his army to expand his territory into western Thrace, eventually capturing (and sacking) Thessalonica as well as Bulgarian Thrace. His plans for further territorial expansion were halted, however, by the remaining Greek and Bulgarian states forming a defensive pact which he had no hope of defeating. However, despite putting down his sword he was in a much better bargaining position against the Turkic Marmarans, who continued to hold the Dardanelles and the Asian side of the Bosporus. Together they made the Treaty of Mutual Ownership, whereby military forces were withdrawn from each other's borders and the revenues of ships passing through the straits were to be evenly distributed. This first step in de-escalation gradually reduced the enmity between the two to such an extent that the borders between them became effectively non-existent, and the two eventually merged into a single country under the condition of liberalizing the Imperial government and establishing an Imperial Senate which guaranteed equal ethnic representation, as well as giving funds for the restoration and maintenance of Istanbul's crumbling mosques and structures symbolic of the Ottoman period. The Orthodox Church was abolished as the sole state religion, and all edicts were to be also written in Turkish. This shift marked the beginning of the Imperial cabinet controlling the government, and when Demetrios died not long after the trend only accelerated. New wars were conducted which captured vast swathes of the Balkans, and the construction of a new navy allowed the conquest of Cyprus. On the surface, the Empire has never been stronger. Within, however, tensions brew between Orthodox Greeks, Serbians, and Bulgarians, and Islamic Turks and Albanians, the former of which feel that the increased conquests have created a heavy slant toward Orthodox minorities, prompting them to promote a conquest of Bosnia to rebalance the religious balance by including the mainly muslim Bosniaks or expansion into Anatolia to fill it with more Turks. The Orthodox, however, desire Romania and its rich oil reserves, which would also not so coincidentally increase the majority Orthodox population to overwhelming levels. Meanwhile a silent teenaged Emperor sits the throne, powerless and without leadership. Scouts sent into Anatolia haven't returned, with the more apocalyptic souls believing that another Mehmed lies within the mountains ready to flood the divided empire and re-institute Ottoman rule, further fueling the ethnic tensions. Can a cosmopolitan experiment continue to survive in this era of renewed nationalism and violence? Well, if you'd allow me, we might just find out...

Really, the only massively unrealistic thing is Istanbul being a ghost town and Constantinople being refounded.

Nation name: Neo-Byzantine Imperium
Population: ~20 million
Claims: Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia+Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Marmara region, and Cyprus (both halves)
Military forces: 300,000 regular servicemen plus ~200,000 more in militias, reserves, and paramilitaries which comprise the thema who are mobilized during wartime. This official armed force makes up roughly 2.5% of the total population of the country.
Government: Oligarchic semi-democratic Monarchy. Most powers delegated to the Imperial Cabinet which is selected from Imperial Senate which is a mix of elected and appointed persons from each Imperial Theme.
Economic system (free market , planned, command, etc.): The Imperium is mostly a planned economy with the revenues from the trade between the Mediterranean and the black seas being distributed by the Imperial Treasury according to need and importance.
Resources in surplus (resources your country has more than it needs): Coal, hydroelectric power, metal ores
Resources in scarcity (resources your country desperately needs but doesn't have enough of): petroleum and natural gas, as well as food (land is generally poor in the balkans, especially those the Empire controls, so food must be imported by sea to continue population regrowth.
History: Following the catastrophe that was the plague, many urban centers were devastated, not the least of were the predominantly urbanized countries of the Balkans. Istanbul was effectively abandoned and left Canakkale in the Dardanelles as the primary controller of Marmaran sea trade. After the plague burned through its last victims many wondered what would become of the ruined carcass of Istanbul. It was then that a band of Slavic and Greek adventurers pushed in and proclaimed the Orthodox Republic of Constantinople. The new country was immediately at odds with the Turkish Marmaran Republic, which secured Izmit as a bulwark against their attempts to control the Bosporus strait. The Adventurers gathered support for their cause by appealing to an idea of returning to a golden age of pre-Ottoman military and cultural significance, and eventually the city grew enough to compete with their neighbors. Beneath the patriotism and arriving settlers, however, the city was still in dire financial straits and the citizens were basically squatters leeching off of a decaying city's infrastructure. The situation was untenable, and change was needed, yet the adventurers (who called themselves the Eagles of the Balkans) refused to make a settlement with the Turks or even with the Greek and South Slavic successor states (who were quite unhappy that their manpower was being leeched). Thus they were overthrown in a bloody coup by a former Greek Naval Officer named Demetrios Theotokopoulos, who was proclaimed Emperor of the Neo-Byzantine Empire. He recruited the young men who had been migrating to Constantinople and expanded his army to expand his territory into western Thrace, eventually capturing (and sacking) Thessalonica as well as Bulgarian Thrace. His plans for further territorial expansion were halted, however, by the remaining Greek and Bulgarian states forming a defensive pact which he had no hope of defeating. However, despite putting down his sword he was in a much better bargaining position against the Turkic Marmarans, who continued to hold the Dardanelles and the Asian side of the Bosporus. Together they made the Treaty of Mutual Ownership, whereby military forces were withdrawn from each other's borders and the revenues of ships passing through the straits were to be evenly distributed. This first step in de-escalation gradually reduced the enmity between the two to such an extent that the borders between them became effectively non-existent, and the two eventually merged into a single country under the condition of liberalizing the Imperial government and establishing an Imperial Senate which guaranteed equal ethnic representation, as well as giving funds for the restoration and maintenance of Istanbul's crumbling mosques and structures symbolic of the Ottoman period. The Orthodox Church was abolished as the sole state religion, and all edicts were to be also written in Turkish. This shift marked the beginning of the Imperial cabinet controlling the government, and when Demetrios died not long after the trend only accelerated. New wars were conducted which captured vast swathes of the Balkans, and the construction of a new navy allowed the conquest of Cyprus. On the surface, the Empire has never been stronger. Within, however, tensions brew between Orthodox Greeks, Serbians, and Bulgarians, and Islamic Turks and Albanians, the former of which feel that the increased conquests have created a heavy slant toward Orthodox minorities, prompting them to promote a conquest of Bosnia to rebalance the religious balance by including the mainly muslim Bosniaks or expansion into Anatolia to fill it with more Turks. The Orthodox, however, desire Romania and its rich oil reserves, which would also not so coincidentally increase the majority Orthodox population to overwhelming levels. Meanwhile a silent teenaged Emperor sits the throne, powerless and without leadership. Scouts sent into Anatolia haven't returned, with the more apocalyptic souls believing that another Mehmed lies within the mountains ready to flood the divided empire and re-institute Ottoman rule, further fueling the ethnic tensions. Can a cosmopolitan experiment continue to survive in this era of renewed nationalism and violence? Well, if you'd allow me, we might just find out...

Really, the only massively unrealistic thing is Istanbul being a ghost town and Constantinople being refounded.

Well if this was actually realistic almost every country here would be like your Canada: A generally crappier, but still relatively intact country. The only countries that would actually balkanize would be ones that already had major seperatist movements. Still, I've never really gotten this damned concept right. I've always stumbled somehow, whether it be turning the whole country into a Mr. Panos blog or getting invaded by a salty Halsey. Just once I'd like to not instantly shoot myself in the foot right out of the gate. Thus I'm gonna try. I'll probably fail, but I gotta try again.

Nation name: Neo-Byzantine Imperium
Population: ~20 million
Claims: Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia+Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Marmara region, and Cyprus (both halves)
Military forces: 300,000 regular servicemen plus ~200,000 more in militias, reserves, and paramilitaries which comprise the thema who are mobilized during wartime. This official armed force makes up roughly 2.5% of the total population of the country.
Government: Oligarchic semi-democratic Monarchy. Most powers delegated to the Imperial Cabinet which is selected from Imperial Senate which is a mix of elected and appointed persons from each Imperial Theme.
Economic system (free market , planned, command, etc.): The Imperium is mostly a planned economy with the revenues from the trade between the Mediterranean and the black seas being distributed by the Imperial Treasury according to need and importance.
Resources in surplus (resources your country has more than it needs): Coal, hydroelectric power, metal ores
Resources in scarcity (resources your country desperately needs but doesn't have enough of): petroleum and natural gas, as well as food (land is generally poor in the balkans, especially those the Empire controls, so food must be imported by sea to continue population regrowth.
History: Following the catastrophe that was the plague, many urban centers were devastated, not the least of were the predominantly urbanized countries of the Balkans. Istanbul was effectively abandoned and left Canakkale in the Dardanelles as the primary controller of Marmaran sea trade. After the plague burned through its last victims many wondered what would become of the ruined carcass of Istanbul. It was then that a band of Slavic and Greek adventurers pushed in and proclaimed the Orthodox Republic of Constantinople. The new country was immediately at odds with the Turkish Marmaran Republic, which secured Izmit as a bulwark against their attempts to control the Bosporus strait. The Adventurers gathered support for their cause by appealing to an idea of returning to a golden age of pre-Ottoman military and cultural significance, and eventually the city grew enough to compete with their neighbors. Beneath the patriotism and arriving settlers, however, the city was still in dire financial straits and the citizens were basically squatters leeching off of a decaying city's infrastructure. The situation was untenable, and change was needed, yet the adventurers (who called themselves the Eagles of the Balkans) refused to make a settlement with the Turks or even with the Greek and South Slavic successor states (who were quite unhappy that their manpower was being leeched). Thus they were overthrown in a bloody coup by a former Greek Naval Officer named Demetrios Theotokopoulos, who was proclaimed Emperor of the Neo-Byzantine Empire. He recruited the young men who had been migrating to Constantinople and expanded his army to expand his territory into western Thrace, eventually capturing (and sacking) Thessalonica as well as Bulgarian Thrace. His plans for further territorial expansion were halted, however, by the remaining Greek and Bulgarian states forming a defensive pact which he had no hope of defeating. However, despite putting down his sword he was in a much better bargaining position against the Turkic Marmarans, who continued to hold the Dardanelles and the Asian side of the Bosporus. Together they made the Treaty of Mutual Ownership, whereby military forces were withdrawn from each other's borders and the revenues of ships passing through the straits were to be evenly distributed. This first step in de-escalation gradually reduced the enmity between the two to such an extent that the borders between them became effectively non-existent, and the two eventually merged into a single country under the condition of liberalizing the Imperial government and establishing an Imperial Senate which guaranteed equal ethnic representation, as well as giving funds for the restoration and maintenance of Istanbul's crumbling mosques and structures symbolic of the Ottoman period. The Orthodox Church was abolished as the sole state religion, and all edicts were to be also written in Turkish. This shift marked the beginning of the Imperial cabinet controlling the government, and when Demetrios died not long after the trend only accelerated. New wars were conducted which captured vast swathes of the Balkans, and the construction of a new navy allowed the conquest of Cyprus. On the surface, the Empire has never been stronger. Within, however, tensions brew between Orthodox Greeks, Serbians, and Bulgarians, and Islamic Turks and Albanians, the former of which feel that the increased conquests have created a heavy slant toward Orthodox minorities, prompting them to promote a conquest of Bosnia to rebalance the religious balance by including the mainly muslim Bosniaks or expansion into Anatolia to fill it with more Turks. The Orthodox, however, desire Romania and its rich oil reserves, which would also not so coincidentally increase the majority Orthodox population to overwhelming levels. Meanwhile a silent teenaged Emperor sits the throne, powerless and without leadership. Scouts sent into Anatolia haven't returned, with the more apocalyptic souls believing that another Mehmed lies within the mountains ready to flood the divided empire and re-institute Ottoman rule, further fueling the ethnic tensions. Can a cosmopolitan experiment continue to survive in this era of renewed nationalism and violence? Well, if you'd allow me, we might just find out...

Really, the only massively unrealistic thing is Istanbul being a ghost town and Constantinople being refounded.

Well if this was actually realistic almost every country here would be like your Canada: A generally crappier, but still relatively intact country. The only countries that would actually balkanize would be ones that already had major seperatist movements. Still, I've never really gotten this damned concept right. I've always stumbled somehow, whether it be turning the whole country into a Mr. Panos blog or getting invaded by a salty Halsey. Just once I'd like to not instantly shoot myself in the foot right out of the gate. Thus I'm gonna try. I'll probably fail, but I gotta try again.

I've thought it over and your claim on Istanbul is okay if

1. the abandoned bit is cut out
2. Your country 's Turkish community isn't some small, marginalized ethnic group.

Nation name: Neo-Byzantine Imperium
Population: ~20 million
Claims: Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia+Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Marmara region, and Cyprus (both halves)
Military forces: 300,000 regular servicemen plus ~200,000 more in militias, reserves, and paramilitaries which comprise the thema who are mobilized during wartime. This official armed force makes up roughly 2.5% of the total population of the country.
Government: Oligarchic semi-democratic Monarchy. Most powers delegated to the Imperial Cabinet which is selected from Imperial Senate which is a mix of elected and appointed persons from each Imperial Theme.
Economic system (free market , planned, command, etc.): The Imperium is mostly a planned economy with the revenues from the trade between the Mediterranean and the black seas being distributed by the Imperial Treasury according to need and importance.
Resources in surplus (resources your country has more than it needs): Coal, hydroelectric power, metal ores
Resources in scarcity (resources your country desperately needs but doesn't have enough of): petroleum and natural gas, as well as food (land is generally poor in the balkans, especially those the Empire controls, so food must be imported by sea to continue population regrowth.
History: Following the catastrophe that was the plague, many urban centers were devastated, not the least of were the predominantly urbanized countries of the Balkans. Istanbul was effectively abandoned and left Canakkale in the Dardanelles as the primary controller of Marmaran sea trade. After the plague burned through its last victims many wondered what would become of the ruined carcass of Istanbul. It was then that a band of Slavic and Greek adventurers pushed in and proclaimed the Orthodox Republic of Constantinople. The new country was immediately at odds with the Turkish Marmaran Republic, which secured Izmit as a bulwark against their attempts to control the Bosporus strait. The Adventurers gathered support for their cause by appealing to an idea of returning to a golden age of pre-Ottoman military and cultural significance, and eventually the city grew enough to compete with their neighbors. Beneath the patriotism and arriving settlers, however, the city was still in dire financial straits and the citizens were basically squatters leeching off of a decaying city's infrastructure. The situation was untenable, and change was needed, yet the adventurers (who called themselves the Eagles of the Balkans) refused to make a settlement with the Turks or even with the Greek and South Slavic successor states (who were quite unhappy that their manpower was being leeched). Thus they were overthrown in a bloody coup by a former Greek Naval Officer named Demetrios Theotokopoulos, who was proclaimed Emperor of the Neo-Byzantine Empire. He recruited the young men who had been migrating to Constantinople and expanded his army to expand his territory into western Thrace, eventually capturing (and sacking) Thessalonica as well as Bulgarian Thrace. His plans for further territorial expansion were halted, however, by the remaining Greek and Bulgarian states forming a defensive pact which he had no hope of defeating. However, despite putting down his sword he was in a much better bargaining position against the Turkic Marmarans, who continued to hold the Dardanelles and the Asian side of the Bosporus. Together they made the Treaty of Mutual Ownership, whereby military forces were withdrawn from each other's borders and the revenues of ships passing through the straits were to be evenly distributed. This first step in de-escalation gradually reduced the enmity between the two to such an extent that the borders between them became effectively non-existent, and the two eventually merged into a single country under the condition of liberalizing the Imperial government and establishing an Imperial Senate which guaranteed equal ethnic representation, as well as giving funds for the restoration and maintenance of Istanbul's crumbling mosques and structures symbolic of the Ottoman period. The Orthodox Church was abolished as the sole state religion, and all edicts were to be also written in Turkish. This shift marked the beginning of the Imperial cabinet controlling the government, and when Demetrios died not long after the trend only accelerated. New wars were conducted which captured vast swathes of the Balkans, and the construction of a new navy allowed the conquest of Cyprus. On the surface, the Empire has never been stronger. Within, however, tensions brew between Orthodox Greeks, Serbians, and Bulgarians, and Islamic Turks and Albanians, the former of which feel that the increased conquests have created a heavy slant toward Orthodox minorities, prompting them to promote a conquest of Bosnia to rebalance the religious balance by including the mainly muslim Bosniaks or expansion into Anatolia to fill it with more Turks. The Orthodox, however, desire Romania and its rich oil reserves, which would also not so coincidentally increase the majority Orthodox population to overwhelming levels. Meanwhile a silent teenaged Emperor sits the throne, powerless and without leadership. Scouts sent into Anatolia haven't returned, with the more apocalyptic souls believing that another Mehmed lies within the mountains ready to flood the divided empire and re-institute Ottoman rule, further fueling the ethnic tensions. Can a cosmopolitan experiment continue to survive in this era of renewed nationalism and violence? Well, if you'd allow me, we might just find out...

Really, the only massively unrealistic thing is Istanbul being a ghost town and Constantinople being refounded.

Well if this was actually realistic almost every country here would be like your Canada: A generally crappier, but still relatively intact country. The only countries that would actually balkanize would be ones that already had major seperatist movements. Still, I've never really gotten this damned concept right. I've always stumbled somehow, whether it be turning the whole country into a Mr. Panos blog or getting invaded by a salty Halsey. Just once I'd like to not instantly shoot myself in the foot right out of the gate. Thus I'm gonna try. I'll probably fail, but I gotta try again.

I've thought it over and your claim on Istanbul is okay if

1. the abandoned bit is cut out
2. Your country 's Turkish community isn't some small, marginalized ethnic group.

1. Consider it done
2. They never were, and they want to keep it that way by advocating an invasion of Anatolia to flood the country with so many Turks that those Orthodox nut jobs will never be able to even think about it.

Nation name: The Protectorate of Romania
Population: ~16 million
Claims: Present Day Romania
Military forces (include civilian militias/paramilitaries): 150.000 Standing Army, 300.000 in reserves and 750.000 in possible Militias.
Government: Constitutional Dictatorship
Economic system (free market , planned, command, etc.): Planned Economy with State-Owned Industry
Resources in surplus (resources your country has more than it needs): Metal Ores, Food, Raw Materials (e.g Wood, Stone), Oil and Natural Gases.
Resources in scarcity (resources your country desperately needs but doesn't have enough of): Rubber, Electronics, Commodity Goods, Technologies and Urbanization ( e.g. Old School computers and very few urban centers remaining)
History:

Spoiler

The Plague entered Romania through its port cities and spread quickly, heavily impacting the whole country. The Capital was soon hit and the seat of power was no more. The people of Romania, already cynical about their government would not accept the so called martial law declared across the counties by their local administration and country wide riots broke out and chaos ruled.

Gavril Telechi was a wealthy business man in Alba Iulia, before the entire fall of the government. His owned businesses specialized in private security. Upon the arrival of the Plague on Romanian shores, he bought as many guns of the market as possible and stockpiled them in his company buildings across the country. Bolstering the loyalty and size of his local branches by promising safety for their families and great rewards in land and riches to his employees he secured himself a loyal military force.

As everything started to descend into chaos he ordered the forming of enclaves, to form holdouts across the country. He then proceeded to coerce at gunpoint the owners of his private security rival companies to turn over their Companies to him, fashioning himself a decently large army of guards armed with assault rifles.

He declared himself Lord Protector of Romania and proceeded to enforce order around the country. Some of his own Branch Managers rebelled, Warlords rose, but he secured his territories and earned the trust of the population with acts of selfness and great charismatic speeches, assuring his co-nationals to remain united... under him. After many years of fighting, Romania was fully reclaimed and a full-blown government was put in place with a puppet Senate and a mock Supreme Justice Court, Gavril controlled the hole country.

He implemented large agricultural projects, designed a state-owned economy, to keep the people fed and working, introduced a heavy PR campaign, akin to the corporatist kind, to keep the people happy and content and reconfigured the education programs with indoctrination campaigns make the children loyal to the state and introduced a military-police force loyal directly to him, keeping them happy with high wages, lands and hidden privileges.

Gavril Telechi, 48 of age, and his family, his wife Madeline(45) and children, Gavril the II (16), Mihai(15) and Elizabeth(13), rule the country from the old capital of Bucharest, having taken residence in the Former Palace of the Parliament.

Nation name: The Protectorate of Romania
Population: ~16 million
Claims: Present Day Romania
Military forces (include civilian militias/paramilitaries): 150.000 Standing Army, 300.000 in reserves and 750.000 in possible Militias.
Government: Constitutional Dictatorship
Economic system (free market , planned, command, etc.): Planned Economy with State-Owned Industry
Resources in surplus (resources your country has more than it needs): Metal Ores, Food, Raw Materials (e.g Wood, Stone), Oil and Natural Gases.
Resources in scarcity (resources your country desperately needs but doesn't have enough of): Rubber, Electronics, Commodity Goods, Technologies and Urbanization ( e.g. Old School computers and very few urban centers remaining)
History:

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The Plague entered Romania through its port cities and spread quickly, heavily impacting the whole country. The Capital was soon hit and the seat of power was no more. The people of Romania, already cynical about their government would not accept the so called martial law declared across the counties by their local administration and country wide riots broke out and chaos ruled.

Gavril Telechi was a wealthy business man in Alba Iulia, before the entire fall of the government. His owned businesses specialized in private security. Upon the arrival of the Plague on Romanian shores, he bought as many guns of the market as possible and stockpiled them in his company buildings across the country. Bolstering the loyalty and size of his local branches by promising safety for their families and great rewards in land and riches to his employees he secured himself a loyal military force.

As everything started to descend into chaos he ordered the forming of enclaves, to form holdouts across the country. He then proceeded to coerce at gunpoint the owners of his private security rival companies to turn over their Companies to him, fashioning himself a decently large army of guards armed with assault rifles.

He declared himself Lord Protector of Romania and proceeded to enforce order around the country. Some of his own Branch Managers rebelled, Warlords rose, but he secured his territories and earned the trust of the population with acts of selfness and great charismatic speeches, assuring his co-nationals to remain united... under him. After many years of fighting, Romania was fully reclaimed and a full-blown government was put in place with a puppet Senate and a mock Supreme Justice Court, Gavril controlled the hole country.

He implemented large agricultural projects, designed a state-owned economy, to keep the people fed and working, introduced a heavy PR campaign, akin to the corporatist kind, to keep the people happy and content and reconfigured the education programs with indoctrination campaigns make the children loyal to the state and introduced a military-police force loyal directly to him, keeping them happy with high wages, lands and hidden privileges.

Gavril Telechi, 48 of age, and his family, his wife Madeline(45) and children, Gavril the II (16), Mihai(15) and Elizabeth(13), rule the country from the old capital of Bucharest, having taken residence in the Former Palace of the Parliament.

I apologize deeply, missed this one. Accepted.

Nation name: Neo-Byzantine Imperium
Population: ~20 million
Claims: Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia+Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Marmara region, and Cyprus (both halves)
Military forces: 300,000 regular servicemen plus ~200,000 more in militias, reserves, and paramilitaries which comprise the thema who are mobilized during wartime. This official armed force makes up roughly 2.5% of the total population of the country.
Government: Oligarchic semi-democratic Monarchy. Most powers delegated to the Imperial Cabinet which is selected from Imperial Senate which is a mix of elected and appointed persons from each Imperial Theme.
Economic system (free market , planned, command, etc.): The Imperium is mostly a planned economy with the revenues from the trade between the Mediterranean and the black seas being distributed by the Imperial Treasury according to need and importance.
Resources in surplus (resources your country has more than it needs): Coal, hydroelectric power, metal ores
Resources in scarcity (resources your country desperately needs but doesn't have enough of): petroleum and natural gas, as well as food (land is generally poor in the balkans, especially those the Empire controls, so food must be imported by sea to continue population regrowth.
History: Following the catastrophe that was the plague, many urban centers were devastated, not the least of were the predominantly urbanized countries of the Balkans. Istanbul was effectively abandoned and left Canakkale in the Dardanelles as the primary controller of Marmaran sea trade. After the plague burned through its last victims many wondered what would become of the ruined carcass of Istanbul. It was then that a band of Slavic and Greek adventurers pushed in and proclaimed the Orthodox Republic of Constantinople. The new country was immediately at odds with the Turkish Marmaran Republic, which secured Izmit as a bulwark against their attempts to control the Bosporus strait. The Adventurers gathered support for their cause by appealing to an idea of returning to a golden age of pre-Ottoman military and cultural significance, and eventually the city grew enough to compete with their neighbors. Beneath the patriotism and arriving settlers, however, the city was still in dire financial straits and the citizens were basically squatters leeching off of a decaying city's infrastructure. The situation was untenable, and change was needed, yet the adventurers (who called themselves the Eagles of the Balkans) refused to make a settlement with the Turks or even with the Greek and South Slavic successor states (who were quite unhappy that their manpower was being leeched). Thus they were overthrown in a bloody coup by a former Greek Naval Officer named Demetrios Theotokopoulos, who was proclaimed Emperor of the Neo-Byzantine Empire. He recruited the young men who had been migrating to Constantinople and expanded his army to expand his territory into western Thrace, eventually capturing (and sacking) Thessalonica as well as Bulgarian Thrace. His plans for further territorial expansion were halted, however, by the remaining Greek and Bulgarian states forming a defensive pact which he had no hope of defeating. However, despite putting down his sword he was in a much better bargaining position against the Turkic Marmarans, who continued to hold the Dardanelles and the Asian side of the Bosporus. Together they made the Treaty of Mutual Ownership, whereby military forces were withdrawn from each other's borders and the revenues of ships passing through the straits were to be evenly distributed. This first step in de-escalation gradually reduced the enmity between the two to such an extent that the borders between them became effectively non-existent, and the two eventually merged into a single country under the condition of liberalizing the Imperial government and establishing an Imperial Senate which guaranteed equal ethnic representation, as well as giving funds for the restoration and maintenance of Istanbul's crumbling mosques and structures symbolic of the Ottoman period. The Orthodox Church was abolished as the sole state religion, and all edicts were to be also written in Turkish. This shift marked the beginning of the Imperial cabinet controlling the government, and when Demetrios died not long after the trend only accelerated. New wars were conducted which captured vast swathes of the Balkans, and the construction of a new navy allowed the conquest of Cyprus. On the surface, the Empire has never been stronger. Within, however, tensions brew between Orthodox Greeks, Serbians, and Bulgarians, and Islamic Turks and Albanians, the former of which feel that the increased conquests have created a heavy slant toward Orthodox minorities, prompting them to promote a conquest of Bosnia to rebalance the religious balance by including the mainly muslim Bosniaks or expansion into Anatolia to fill it with more Turks. The Orthodox, however, desire Romania and its rich oil reserves, which would also not so coincidentally increase the majority Orthodox population to overwhelming levels. Meanwhile a silent teenaged Emperor sits the throne, powerless and without leadership. Scouts sent into Anatolia haven't returned, with the more apocalyptic souls believing that another Mehmed lies within the mountains ready to flood the divided empire and re-institute Ottoman rule, further fueling the ethnic tensions. Can a cosmopolitan experiment continue to survive in this era of renewed nationalism and violence? Well, if you'd allow me, we might just find out...

Really, the only massively unrealistic thing is Istanbul being a ghost town and Constantinople being refounded.

Well if this was actually realistic almost every country here would be like your Canada: A generally crappier, but still relatively intact country. The only countries that would actually balkanize would be ones that already had major seperatist movements. Still, I've never really gotten this damned concept right. I've always stumbled somehow, whether it be turning the whole country into a Mr. Panos blog or getting invaded by a salty Halsey. Just once I'd like to not instantly shoot myself in the foot right out of the gate. Thus I'm gonna try. I'll probably fail, but I gotta try again.

I've thought it over and your claim on Istanbul is okay if

1. the abandoned bit is cut out
2. Your country 's Turkish community isn't some small, marginalized ethnic group.

1. Consider it done
2. They never were, and they want to keep it that way by advocating an invasion of Anatolia to flood the country with so many Turks that those Orthodox nut jobs will never be able to even think about it.

OOF. Forgot I didn't explicitly accept this. Accepted.

(Since some others are moving their stuff here I will too)


Nation name: Volga Federation

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Population: 28 mil
Claims: Volga Federal District, Ural Federal district
Military forces Standard Military forces (Army, Navy, Air force)  280 000 (due to martial law, many volunteered to be military as to protect their families more) Cossack militias: 304,000, Civilian militias, 40,000
Government: Democratic Dictatorship (they voted, but only once)
Economic system: Mixed Economy
Resources in surplus: Natural gas, Wood, military equipment
Resources in scarcity: Produce, medicinal materials, raw animal based materials (Wool, leather, etc.)
History: A heavily militarized area, the areas of the Volga and Ural Federal districts of Russia broke away from the government of standard Russia once the country essentially collapsed. The virus hit the region hard, eliminating much of the population in the Ural region, due to very limited medical personnel in the area. The result became that the Ural Region blended with the slightly more lucky Volga region, becoming the Volga Federation. The city of Volgograd was appropriately named as the capital, and a government was quickly put in place. The government, though elected, was understood that a firm hand would be required to properly maintain security and order. Thus it became a dictatorship with somewhat of martial law.

@Cinciri By the way, isn't Volgograd Oblast in the Southern Federal District?

@Cinciri By the way, isn't Volgograd Oblast in the Southern Federal District?

Oi, I just realized I don't actually own that, That might need to be added if possible @Mariam
Thank you for pointing that out!