Wastelands: A Future Map Game Archives (2059 - 2070)

=== Era of Expansion ===
A brief explanation as to what occurred in these 11 years:
* The expansion of most major nations, especially the New French Republic, Tokyo-Yokohama, Yucatan, the Californian Legion, Lower Egypt and to a lesser extent Switzerland.
* The prerequisites for formation of new blocs in the region. Switzerland, Ezo, Yucatan, Tokyo-Yokohama, Krymsky (now Ukraine) lead what seem to be fledgling alliances forming from trade and diplomatic ties.
* The collapse of the Three Kingdoms in China and the formation of the two major Chinese nations, the People's Federation of China and Qing China.
* The formation of the Japanese Union, which eventually would pave the way for Tokyo-Yokohama to annex surrounding countries.
* The beginnings of Florida as an international peacemaker.
* The Taiwanese Civil War began in 2065, lasting a decade.
* The rise of the Californian Legion as a regional powerhouse, and the economic expansion of Nebraska.
* The return of the United States, although simply led by a military junta, gaining support in isolated areas across the North American continent.
* The creation of the New Silk Road, benefiting the Turkish Federation, Lower Egypt, Chinese and Japanese nations the most.
=== Quote of Era: ===
"We don’t know who fired the first nuke, whether it be the Chinese, the Russians, or us firing at them. All we know was that the nukes were dropped, in America and in the rest of the world, destroying everything we held dear to our hearts. This once-great country, reduced to nothing but ashes. This happened 20 years ago, and in those 20 years, not much has changed. We cling on to life, ekeing out an existence in the bunkers, and in the wastelands. We haven’t heard anything from across the Atlantic, the Pacific, or south of the Wall. Some even say that we are the last humans left. Some hope not."
-unnamed man, Rough and Ready Township, California, circa 2058
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=== 2059 ===
Baja California embargoes Colinas, sparking a trade war in the West Coast. 
After a short truce, the Three Kingdoms of Wu, Qin and Xi resume hostilities.
In Japan, tensions between Shinihon and Matsuyama intensify due to border conflicts.
Thousands of people gather outside the Swiss Wall, demanding they be allowed to immigrate to Switzerland and have their needs taken care of.
Ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population in Judea sours relations with their Arab neighbors.
The Syndicate of Mexico begins sponsoring anarcho-communist and anarcho-syndicalist groups in the area, causing increased volatility in Mesoamerica.
Civil war continues to loom over northern Ireland, with North Irish guerrilla fighters continuing to bomb Irish cities and fight the Irish Army. Recent terrorist attacks in Dublin cause the Isle of Man to cancel unification talks with Ireland, and instability looms over the region. 
* Confederacy of Colinas: President Sanchez expresses his disappointment at the Baja Californians, as we send a naval expedition to Sonara, Baja California's largest rival to establish formal diplomatic ties [Mod Response Needed]. We hope for peace and prosperity between Sonara and Colinas. The naval expedition, of course, will cross in Baja Californian waters, but is guarded by armed ships (salvaged ships from pre-war). If word does not reach of the expedition reaching Sonora, we make sure the Baja Californian leadership know hostilities may be fired (via radio broadcast). Baja Californian traders are barred from crossing into Colinian territory, and for their traders to reach the Central Valley and Nevada, will have to cross the scorching hot Mojave Desert, populated by dangerous tribes and criminals. In other news, a state-operated radio station is finally created by the Department of Communication, after years of delay. It will broadcast news bulletins, emergency broadcasts, post-war radio shows, and pre-war music. Parliament officially votes to begin reconstruction effort at Palm Springs International Airport, which we hope to use as an air base in the future. Oxnard and Thousand Oaks are admitted as states, and special elections will be held in 2060, along with the general elections. More defenses are built up in the San Gabriel Mountains, and a garrison is placed in the area, with the town of Running Springs being used as a FOB. The mandatory draft for 18-24 year olds is repealed, and scouting efforts begin in radiation-filled Downtown Los Angeles (with proper equipment) [Mod Response].
** Mod Response: Small pockets of survivors, especially younger ones, are found by the Confederacy in Los Angeles, although many suffer from radiation poisoning. Pieces of pre-war technology, especially on the consumer side, are discovered.
** Sonara (Mod Response): We hereby establish diplomatic ties with the Confederacy. We hope to have a good relationship - economically, politically and culturally - from now on.
* Tokyo-Yokohama: The TYSDF is sent to Kimitsu and Yokosuka to establish relations with existing nation-states or begin the re-establishment of law and order in the areas [Mod Response Needed]. Hearing of the conflict ongoing between Shinihon and Matsuyama, Prime Minister Misato appeals to our Shikoku neighbours to work out a peace. Yokota Air Force Base appears to be relatively intact, and although much of the pre-war equipment is damaged severely, there is enough to begin reconstruction of several pre-war aircraft, although questions remain as to whether they can even be fuelled. The third General Elections are to be held in the next year, with a predicted participation rate of sixty-eight percent. Elsewhere, the Ministry of Science and Technology begins work to finish pre-war prototypes of a new maglev that had been supposed to be set up in Tokyo, as well as studying proposals to build a new radio tower using salvage. The second nationwide examinations are held to minimal problems, and shows a drastic decrease in examinable standards from before the war. To combat this, Vice Minister Aosoi introduces a bill to the Diet to help struggling students and increase educational standards. 
** Mod Response: The expedition finds several small communities and scavenger and raider bands. Many of the communities agree to join the Republic due to its guarantee of protection.
* Yucatan: For now, we refuse to take sides on the trade war between Colinas and Baja California, as we are not too heavily impacted by it. We continue to focus on domestic issues, with the restoration of power and water to all citizens being prioritized. President Juan Manuel Ximinche Ortega also announces plans to establish a public school system to make education more accessible to the middle and lower class. The first public schools are scheduled to open sometime next year. The Yucatec Militia (numbering 2,000) are dispatched to newly-acquired settlements inland, to protect the people from raiders and to enforce law and order.
* Florida: We restored the power in our area after a blackout for 3 months in our area. President Stephanie Murphy sent out supplies to Pensacola and Mexico Beach, Florida to help recover the issues between the blackout. The Floridian military reached a high amount of number (topping at 1,234 front line defense and 1,021 reserves) to prepare for any incoming invasion of any country. Economic standards gradually reached $234 billion dollars and a growth rate of 1.45% positive rating according to the World Bank. Stephanie made a speech called The 3 Era's of Floridian Culture and established schools, banks, postal offices, and multicultural structures that show our love for the culture of Florida.
* Republic of Ezo: Former Sapporo is declared off limits and banned from being inhabited or even explored for the foreseeable future. Meanwhile efforts continue to be made to revive the Ainu identity and language, with the history of Ainu being taught as part of the history of Hokkaido. In a need for resources, any abandoned towns and areas are planned to be partially demolished to be salvaged and used in building of other materials. The is established as the main headquarters of the Hokkaido Armed Forces, while a planned future navy base is made for . A new radio tower and a radio station is planned for construction within Asahikawa, made out of salvaged parts of abandoned areas.
* Order of Azus: Chairman Carl Azus(many people have adopted that as their surname) has reached the first year of his first term, and future outlook for the Order appears bright. The string of Order controlled weapons and ammunition plants across Order territory are consolidated into the Order Armaments Department, and control of said plants is placed under the Order Armaments Department as well. A small tax for those who do not worship Azus is announced and will be in effect next year. The Order Defense Force is reorganized into the Order Guards and Order Footmen. Guards, currently numbering around 2,000, have access to pre-war equipment and training from ex-US Military personnel who have joined the Order. Footmen, numbering around 5,000, form the reserve of the Defense Force and are to be activated in the event of an emergency the Guards cannot contain alone. Footmen are less trained, and some do not have access to automatic firearms. Agricultural efforts are to be shifted more towards soybeans, as they are more efficient than other crops in our state. Efforts begin of restoring and reopening the Aracoma Coal Mine; it is expected the mine will be functioning by 2062. Efforts also begin on restoring the Mount Storm Power Plant (ran on coal); the plant is expected to be operational by 2065. Schools scattered across Order territory are reorganized under the Order Department of Educaiton. An expedition of 250 Order Guards, mainly in wagons, is sent to Fort Pickett, a former US Armory, to scrounge for weapons and other supplies. [Mod Response]. WIP
**Mod Response: The Order Guards discover large amounts of pre-war equipment thanks to Pickett's former status as a joint exercise location. They find two intact M1A3 Abrahms, two hundred M27IARs, and a number of Beretta M9s amongst tons of salvageable equipment. The location is chock full of pre-war weaponry.
* Kingdom of Lower Egypt: Farouk III is the King in Cairo. The government is established, a dictatorship led by the Ba'ath Party, with the young King's approval. General Sale Aziz Cheikly is the Prime Minister, and he has pledged to restore Egypt as a state. Efforts to restore public services in Cairo to some degree are taken, with the government conscripting able bodied men between 18 and 50 to work in crews. Dividing the teams between construction, resource extraction, and technology recovery, they operate together to try to repair roadways, bridges, buildings, sewage systems, and other infrastructure. Barges transport people across the Nile to Giza, which is also part of the kingdom. Meanwhile, the Egyptian Army is reorganised by former soldiers and new volunteers. Some of its surviving equipment is used. It currently numbers 10,000 men, and also includes a Royal Guard under King Farouk III. Historical monuments are preserved, with hundreds of troops of the Egyptian Army dispatched to protect them from looters. Barges are sent both up and down the Nile to make contact with other settlements, looking for more communities. [Mod Response]
**Mod Response: Radioactive waste from Cairo flowed down the river into the Nile Delta during Doomsday, effectively making life in the Nile Delta impossible. However, the barges report large numbers of tribes around former Damietta and Rasheed. Down the Nile, contact with some city states have been established, but these only go as far as Aswan.
* Democracy of Krymsky: Under elitist Vladimir Pasichnyk, the democratic state of Krymsky revolves around the further expansion of territories and construction of housing. A set of five Carrack-class ships are produced to better help colonization of the Black Sea. With this, the discovery of the coastal city-state of Ossetia is made. Due to similarities in culture and religion, a royal marriage is made between Vladimir's son, Alexander, to the Ossetian royal family's daughter [Mod Response]. The population stands at 210,000, with the military standing at 15,000. Technology is barebones excluding basic electricity, but due to the numerous factories and productive centers across the former Crimean Republic, production of older technology, whether military or personal, will begin within a 5 year timeline.
**Mod Response: Ossetia, who Krymsky has just opened diplomatic ties with, declines the possibility of a marriage. If Krymsky agrees for a formal alliance and non-aggression pact with Ossetia, they would agree to the marriage.
**Krymsky Dip: The alliance is accepted.
*Cascadia: The last 20 years have been decent, all things considered. Former Washington Governor Cyrus Habib is elected president in the elections, continuing the Democratic-Socialist polices of the last 20 years. Habib belongs to the Labour Party which also holds super majorities in the House and Senate, opposed only by the right-wing Moderate Party. The military continues to be expanded. We reach out to Colinas and the Mexican Syndicate, offering alliances and access to our technology. (Colinas response needed) (Mod response needed)
**Colinas Diplomacy: Our Department of Post-War Communication rushes to greet a nation that has established contact, especially from so far away. We agree to bi-lateral access to technology, but consider the logistical problems to an alliance, including dangerous land routes smeared with dangerous tribes as well as the intense naval distance, however we propose a non-aggression pact, which would be mutual.
**Mexican Syndicate (Mod Response): We accept an alliance with open arms, and we welcome the technology of Cascadia. May both our nations prosper.
=== 2060 ===
The Greek federational states of Athens declare war on Istanbul. Initially successful, the Turks prove powerful in leadership. 
Crete enters a personal union with Cyprus.
Nomadic attacks, carried out by sparse militants and "natives", across the American west coast become more frequent as more and more civilizational societies with established governments appear.
Due to the numerous dynastical states in mainland China, the Mandate of Heaven has "left", and soon the states begin facing large internal strife as well as constant warring.
Due to the claustrophobic nature of Central America, many natives across those specific states lose nationality due to undefined borders and many of them being connected into larger families, as well as the crossbreeding between citizens of both states.
* Confederacy of Colinas: As the attacks our nation has feared have become true, our mountain defenses in the north should protect us from any northern flank (see previous turn). Our eastern flank is well protected by hot, scorching desert, and our southern flank is well defended by garrisons and troops, which have been hastily scrambled into place. All expedition efforts are called off, except for a probe into Santa Barbara, as well as colonization efforts there. (Native attacks won't happen there, there are mountains and the only coastal freeway is heavily guarded and maintained by troops). We begin colonization efforts in Santa Barbara after so many recon and expedition missions. [Mod Response Needed] In our fiscal budget, our defense budget is heavily expanded. President Sanchez announces his re-election campaign, based on national security, as well as the ceasing of using the US dollar as the nation' currency, due to extremely high deflation and the rarity of the currency. A public humiliation takes place at a square in downtown New Angeles (at a former Chevron in San Marino), where three members of the People of the Inferno are publicly humiliated and shunned. This provokes calls from people to recognize the Inferno people as a real identity/culture/religion. President Sanchez, hugely popular among the masses, easily wins the election. We establish a trading post at Yucca Valley, an important chokepoint for trade. We reel back from the Lake Forest and Mission Viejo communities, considering them strategically useless, while Parliament approves a bill to convert Newport Beach into a naval base. We also send a diplomatic expedition to the Channel Islands, asking all surviving townships to join our Confederacy, and consider the numerous defense and economic benefits it will entail. We remind them that most land is mountainous on the islands and their towns cannot be supported without outside help, such as ours. [Mod Response]
**Mod Response: Santa Babara is relatively deserted, and what little remains of the area willingly joins the Confederacy. Most of the Channel Islands accept, but several townships hold out, regarding Colinas as 'boastful' and 'arrogant'.
* Tokyo-Yokohama: The peaceful declaration of power in the Tokyo Bay area continues as the Diet begins drafting plans for a revisiting of Kyoto and Osaka, formerly the largest cities in Japan, to either expand the Republic's territorial borders or greet remaining nation-states there. A plan is approved for the reuse of Tokyo Tower as a radio tower, while expeditionary teams check the state of the Tokyo Skytree [Mod Response Needed]. Teams of engineers have been able to rework and restart up several pre-war JSDF vehicles strewn around Yokota Air Base, as have several teams accompanying the TYSDF to Kimitsu and Yokosuka. The TYSDF begins more work on a new mid-range assault rifle using prototypes from the JSDF as well as taking into consideration the state of this post-war world. The 2070 tax bill is passed, putting into existence the highest budget in the Republic's history for Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology, as well as putting into place an ambitious plan to rewire the Tokyo electrical grid to near-full efficiency to be implemented in the wider Tokyo Bay area as well.
**Mod Response: The Tokyo Skytree appears unstable, but that can be fixed with enough dedication and reconstruction funds. In Osaka, it is mainly rubble, with some infighting between local tribes. In Kyoto, a small neo-Japanese empire was established at Nijō Castle, and strictly follows the Shinto religion, while controlling much of modern day Kyoto. It opens up to trade with Tokyo-Yokohama.
* Cascadia: We continue to expand the military which now numbers 7,500 active duty personnel. 500 of those troops are sent into Northwestern Washington to claim all area not under the jurisdiction of Cascadia. (Mod response needed) Cannabis production is increased, being used not only medically and recreationally but also to make various tools such as rope. We welcome exports of Cannabis to any interested North American nation.
** Mod Response: Towns along Highway 5 submit to Cascadia, either voluntary or by a little show of force. However, military operatives cannot pass the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, which is mountainous, with little paths and roads to cross the way. Relations with the Cascadian neighbor of Victoria are tense due to the new explorations, however as Victoria benefits heavily from Cascadian trade, remains quiet.
** Cascadian Dip: Troops are ordered to colonize new territory, and forget about anything past Okanagan-Wenatchee National Forest for now. We assure Victoria that we have no interest in annexing them.
* Florida: Senate elections happen with Matt Gaetz and Darren Soto winning the Senator spot for the senate elections. We continue to expand to liberate the city of Jacksonville. Our prime minister Stephanie Murphy sent troops to capture the city of Valdosta, Georgia, as we continue our quest to acquire peace and prosperty. Our liberty stands with us Floridians. We accept trade deals and exporting of national goods.
**Mod Response: Jacksonville joins the Republic willingly, although a certain amount of Jacksonville residents express humour at the notion of 'liberating' a city with nothing but scavengers left. Valdosta, which already has a local government, holds off on the Republic's expansion, saying that it needs a bit more time to decide whether it will join Florida.
***Florida: Alright we'll see the results of Valdosta's decision with joining our stand for world peace and our rights list.
****Mod Response: Valdosta votes a close 51% yes in favour of joining Florida. Several citizens riot at this result.
* New Republic of Nebraska: We start to attempt reestablishing stability. An urban renewal program dedicated to reconstruction and organizing. In order to maintain geographical centralization, we choose Lincoln as our permanent capital. Government buildings have commenced construction. We have no plan for declaring war yet and remaining neutral, but expanding into several unoccupied former counties is taken into consideration. Omaha continues to increase in population, however tent slums have become a growing problem but solutions are already being done. The agricultural industry continues, and we are open to exporting fruits, vegetables and other crops in North America. Newspapers, media and books start to be distributed normally again across the country. Eppley Airport continues to operate well while several rail services continue despite many routes being destroyed by the wars.
*Shinihon: With increased tensions with our northern neighbor, Emperor Nise, we begin plans for conquest. In the meantime, we send scouts south to Kyushu to survey the land, and perhaps annex some of it. [Mod Response Needed] 50% of the anime One Piece has been recovered, being considered a big cultural event - sparking the festival of One Piece. We send scouts north to Honshu for future conquest. The ancient "game console" relics have been found, with more Switches and "Plastaton4" s being recovered along with more games, the reverse engineering of said consoles has been ordered, so they can be distributed to the public.
**Mod Response: Some scouts to Kyushu disappear, however most make it back saying that it is safe for future colonization.
* Switzerland: In the previous year, the DoD moved to re-militarise the Northern and Southern mountain ranges to prevent raiders from entering the country. (As mentioned by mods) a twin walls were built at either end of the Swiss Valley and both are patrolled by soldiers. Meanwhile, the Dod is cooperating with civilian organisations to provide relief to helpless refugees outside the walls and merchants regularly conduct trade with nomads and foreign merchants outside the walls. No foreigners are allowed in until and unless they have been vetted by a strict panel of judges from the Department of Immigration to ensure they conform to New-Swiss culture of technocratic federal autocracy. The structure of the technocratic Executive Council is as follows:
** The Executive council serves as the executive heads of state as a whole with a chief among equals being selected from the 8 members of the council every year. The chief/Consul holds no real executive power above those of hier and hier equal's collective power as heads of state. Hier simply serves as the symbolic leader of the Council during their one year tenure. All eight Councillors serve as Consul once before they are replaced by hand-chosen and legislature-approved successors. It is a strange form of democratically approved autocracy that is necessary for the foreseeable future. The eight members and, paradoxically, only seven super-departments (that contain the various sub-departments of the government) are as follows:
** Department of Science and Technology: This department has a mandate to acquire, study, improve, and defend knowledge and the study of science. Under their jurisdiction is the national pride: the Institute for Technological Reclamation that runs many paramilitary (armed civilian agents) missions into foreign and unincorporated territory across Europe to acquire technology and scientific documents both physical and digital.
** Department of Finance and Economic Affairs: This department has two Heads, the Secretary of Finance and the Governor of the Swiss Bank. They share a single vote in the Council and hold power over fiscal and monetary policy respectively. This is the only Department where power is shared between two as both posts are unbelievably powerful and must be checked. Only with a consensus between the two can there be economic and fiscal policy. This department also overseas trade, business, and the private sector at large.
** Department of Defence: Self-explanatory department. Currently mainly focuses on defending the mountain border regions and patrolling the two entrances to the Swiss Valley. coordinates deeply with civilian authorities to deal with refugees camps.
** Department of Home Affairs: Overseas the civil service at large including public services such as policing, firefighting, healthcare, and radiation decontamination.
** Department of Foreign Affairs: Overseas diplomatic efforts including the Agency for Re-establishment of Relations that strives to establish contact with other nations. Includes a massive group of linguists, people experts, and career diplomats.
** Department of Education and Culture: Overseas the vastly important Department of Education as well as the Sports and various Cultural Departments such as museums and a public knowledge and science database.
** Department of Housing, Natural Resources, and Public Works: Overseas all that is mentioned in the title as well as things such as environmental protection, and transport.
The Councillors act as equals and must agree by majority to any major decision though generally they are always in consensus as nearly all of them are by nature pragmatists.
* Lower Egypt: The King approves a cabinet proposed by General Chiekly, including the ministers of war, foreign affairs, industry, health, agriculture, and interior. The new government continues efforts to restore order and public services in Cairo and Giza. The army is expanded to a size of 12,000 men, with the main weapons being the AK-47 and AK-74u. The capital and Giza are largely considered secure and do not have any unrest. King Farouk and his advisors are disappointed to learn that the Nile Delta is radioactive, but authorise the merchants and the government to initiative contact and trade with the tribes near Rasheed and Damaietta, as well as with the city-states to the south near Aswan. The King's messengers also go there with documents offering a formal trade and cooperation agreement with these factions. [Mod Response] It is seen as part of an early effort towards eventual unification. The kingdom is now producing a significant amount of food, enough to support itself, through agricultural projects and is also recovering pre-war technology as much as it can. Technicians are working on restoring Cairo's and Giza's electrical grids to provide at least some power.
**Mod Response: Nearly all the city states accept the offers of trade/cooperation, while some tribal leaders accept in Rasheed. In Damaietta, the tribe immediately fires with spears at the diplomatic entourage, and the diplomats are forced to flee back to Cairo.
* Nauru: Due to our isolation, we have remained relatively the same as we were in pre-war times, although the government has slightly changed and the landscape is different. As we lost contact with the outside world and were left without any natural resources, agriculture and decent living standards, Many people have left the island in search of suitable land to inhabit. The population, which sits at around 270 people, consists mostly of explorers from foreign lands who settled here after being unable to travel any further or simply wanting to live a quiet life. Although the nation struggles deeply with its isolation and lack of resources, it persists onward in order to perverse the history of Nauru. The only decent food source is the ocean and often people who are allergic to seafood will die of starvation. WIP
* Yucatan: As the 2061 election approaches, the two main candidates for the election are incumbent President Juan Manuel Ximinche Ortega, with widespread support amongst the Republican and Federal parties, and Andrea Manuel Santos, a radical far-left socialist who champions free education, healthcare, electricity and running water for all, praises the Mexican Syndicate and its anarcho-communist policies (leading to some calling her a Syndicate puppet candidate), and has gotten widespread support amongst the disenfranchised lower class. In other affairs, the first public schools in the country are opened, power and water are supplied to another 700 households, and a bike highway running along the coast and connecting the main towns of Yucatan is being planned, construction is expected to begin next year and finish in 2065. Scouts and small contingents of the Yucatec Militia are sent along Highway 180 up to Merida, with the main goal to reach out and hopefully incorporate the communities along the highway, as well as to scout the area for any hostile activity and scrounge for any valuable artifacts in Merida [Mod Response Needed]. We ask for a trade agreement with Florida, as we both control significant portions of the trade in the Gulf of Mexico [Player Response Needed].
**Floridian Diplomacy: We accept your trade agreement for any exports or imports.
**Mod Response: Merida is surrounded by a large wall, made of stone, clay, earth, and rublle, however a large hole has been carved into the side of a wall. Upon entering the city, it appears to be abandoned, and a large fight appears to have taken place. No humans remain in the area.
* Republic of Ezo: With some gathering of salvaged parts, the radio tower and station begins construction in Asahikawa. A naval base begins to be set up in Monbetsu, with some unused buildings re-used for military offices. Meanwhile the government sends a ship out of the port in aiming to get into contact in former Russia (mainly former Primorsky Krai) with some precaution taken due to radiation [Mod Response]. The government also establishes a few new holidays based on Ainu culture and tradition.
**Mod Respone: The ships land in Терней, and the locals are very helpful in guiding the scouts toward other cities on the coast, and diplomatic ties are established with all of them. However, the locals warn never to near Vladivostok, bur provide no reason as to why.
=== 2061 ===
Crop harvests are plentiful worldwide this year, due to less ash in the atmosphere as well as the subsiding of acid rain. The environment appears to be recovering from Doomsday.
The Jewish state of Judea, a successor state to Israel, collapses after Palestinian revolts and a Muslim coup. This reignites Muslim identity around the Middle East, with Coptic and Orthodox states in Anatolia, Libya, and Greece having to deal with civil wars/coups from Muslim minorities and majorities.
Nebraska, one of the largest nations and certainly the largest democracy in North America, begins to see unrest from hordes and tribal societies that have been absorbed by the state.
Pirates in the Caribbean and the North American Pacific make maritime trade in North America more difficult.
Manchu hordes take advantage of the weakness of Chinese warring states and begin attacks on the Wu, Qin, and Xi kingdoms, while expanding into the steppes of Mongolia.
Brandenburg, Prussia, and Saxony begin talks in Königsberg about unification into a single German state.
* Florida: We continue to build our ports in the city of Jacksonville and permanently chose Tallahasse as our geographical capital of this republic. New elections are coming up for presidental elections, while Stephanie Murphy runs for office again against her opponet Marco Rubio (Mod Responce Needed). Meanwhile we work a deal with the New Republic of Nebraska for becoming allies for protection of our liberties and our countries (Player Respond Needed). Stuff happening inside our country include, Education standards are growing rapidly, and people are getting their college education, Economic standards had a 3.54% growth since last year, and our economy reached $300 billion dollars, and freedoms in this country help people express their feelings without any problems from others. We later milliterized our major port of Pensacola with 600 trained solders to keep peace in that area. Our trade ports in Jacksonville are avaliable until further notice. We started to export some goodies we found in other areas and send them to the Yucatan as Stephanie Murphy ratified the trade deal.
*Mod Response: Murphy cruises to electoral victory, achieving 66% of the voting population.
* Order of Azus: The Order Guards stationed in Fort Pickett are ordered to categorize equipment and shore up the base defenses. Another force of 100 Guards will be sent to retrieve some of the equipment. An expedition of 200 Guards, beginning in Woodstock, will make their way down what was Highway 51 to scout the fertile Shenandoah Valley. The expedition will stop at Buchanan, and (via a secure radio channel) report the conditions within the Valley back to the Council. If conditions are deemed acceptable, an additional force of 300 Guards, and after some preparations, settlers will be sent in. If conditions are not acceptable, a 600 strong Guard force will pacify the valley, and then settlers will be sent in. [Mod Response]A radio station, under control of the Council, is set up in Monterrey and will broadcast bulletins and Azusian preaching. We propose an exposition, in the vein of 20th Century World Fairs, between Appalachia and the Order. [Mod Response] The official explanation is that the fair would be a celebration of what both parties have managed to achieve, however; [SECRET] in reality, we wish to show a ragtag collection of communities those under the power of Azus can accomplish. [SECRET] A census is commissioned to cover the yearly amount of Azus worshippers. [Mod Response].WIP
**Mod Response: The census shows roughly 110,000 worshippers.
**Mod Response: Appalachia gladly accepts. The exposition is a resounding success.
* Republic of Ezo: The radio tower and naval base continue to be constructed. Meanwhile in Wakkanai, another navy base begins to be established, similar to the one in Monbetsu, and is another key strategic area. Exploration begins on the Kuril Islands closest to Hokkaido, starting with Kunashir Island, to check for survivors [Mod Response]. In secret however, plans are made to soon expand to the Kuril Islands, as part of another secret plan to reclaim the former Ainu homelands. With the establishment of diplomatic ties with Терней (Terney), the government offers them a trade agreement. [Mod Response] Efforts begin to establish dual Japanese-Ainu language signs in a few parts of Hokkaido, mainly the capital and a few important towns, with eventual plans to have it established nationwide sometime down the line.
*Mod Response: No survivors are found on Kunashir Island. Terney accepts the trade deal.
* Tokyo-Yokohama: The consolidatory elections in Kimitsu and Yokosuka add thirteen members to the diet as a plan is passed to occupy and hopefully make peace in Osaka and the surrounding Saitama area. The expeditionary team of the TYSDF is split into two - one to go to Osaka, the other to help survey Saitama. The re-electrification of Tokyo is in progress, with few to no problems, and the project is projected to be completed by 2065. This spurs the diet, with its new members, to approve the reutilisation of Tokyo Tower as well as the reestabilisation and reuse of the Tokyo Skytree, both to be completed by 2067. We reach out to our neighbours in Kyoto, asking for a deal to allow safe passage through the city by Tokyo-Yokohama citizens as well as the TYSDF in exchange for a free-trade zone [Mod Response Needed]. This is accompanied by a curiously ambitious plan by Minister of Trade Tagomi Nobusuke, who proposes the repurposing of abandoned Tokyo buildings in the Shibuya area for large-scale vertical farms. In other news, the first legal auction in over three decades occurs, auctioning off pre-war items and memorabilia; the item sold for the highest price happens to be the original Platinum DVDs for the 1990s classic Neon Genesis Evangelion.
*Mod Response: Kyoto accepts.
* Lower Egypt: Contact and trade with other city-states along the Nile and the sea coast intensifies. Teams are sent out into the desert from Cairo and Giza to make contact with other towns near those cities. Memphis and the 6th of October City are reached out to. [Mod Response] Buildings are largely restored, public services to some degree have also been going again. The standard of living has risen. Historical monuments are preserved. The King creates a national parliament to give the people's voice at least a symbolic place. Districts of the kingdom's territory are organised into electoral districts for the new People's Assembly. Elections will be organised next year. Besides the Ba'ath Party, other parties are allowed to form like the Wafd Party and the Nasserist Party. But right now political activity is still limited. Martial law remains in place. The Army sets up checkpoints throughout the urban areas, the troops remain on alert given the unrest in other nearby states. King Farouk promotes the country as an Arab-Coptic state and emphasis Egyptian ancient history. Ancient Egyptian religion makes a noticeable resurgence after the war, since no god appeared to save humanity.
*Mod Response: Memphis easily accepts, while 6th of October City, deserted and run by a criminal group, begins attacking scout groups sent by Lower Egypt.
* New Republic of Nebraska: Protests range across multiple cities and towns in the country. In response to the civil unrest that is occurring across the country, we give several rights to these societies and possibly hold talks about making their areas special administrative regions. Meanwhile, the government starts making an evacuation plan incase an invasion or civil war occurs. Many abandoned buildings are repurposed or demolished to be turned into small parks and such. The highway system starts being overhauled. A project to reorganize the education system is also being proposed. 
* Yucatan: The 2061 election is here, the two main candidates for the election are incumbent President Juan Manuel Ximinche Ortega, with widespread support amongst the Republican and Federal parties, and Andrea Manuel Santos, a radical far-left socialist who champions free education, healthcare, electricity and running water for all, praises the Mexican Syndicate and its anarcho-communist policies (leading to some calling her a Syndicate puppet candidate), and has gotten widespread support amongst the disenfranchised lower class [Mod Response For Election Results]. After reports from the scouts of an abandoned Merixa with no human precense nearby, we proclaim the area as part of the Federal Republic of Yucatan, and encourage people to settle there. Restoration of basic utilities to the working class continue, and construction of the Coastal Bikeway begins.
*Mod Response: While Santos is indeed popular, she loses out to Ortega thanks to a well-crafted campaign damning her for supporting the Syndicate and its policies. She gains 32% of the vote to Ortega's 46%, the remaining going to other candidates.
* Democracy of Krymsky: Expansion is made across northern OTL Ukraine, with the sights of the former city of Kiev in view. More nations are stumbled upon across the Black Sea. With this, military alliances are offered with the successor states of Moldova and Romania (Mod).
*Mod Response: Moldova and Romania accept.
=== 2062 ===
Tenperatures begin to return to normal, with tenperatures in many places being hotter than they were in years (e.g the winter of 2061-62 was the first year since before the war where the temperature did not drop below freezing in the Los Angeles Basin).
Brandenburg, Prussia and Saxony form the German Federation, similar to the prewar EU.
Manchu hordes attack the Xi, take over Beijing, and proclaim the re-establishment of the Qing Dynasty. They then enter into the War for the Mandate as a 4th power.
Pirates in the Caribbean, once regarded as a nuisance, now control huge swathes of maritime trade to the point where it is almost guaranteed that a ship traversing the Gulf of Mexico will have a piracy attempt on it at least once, and it is more likely that a ship disappears than reaches its intended destination. This has taken a major blow to the economies of trading nations in the area, most notably Louisiana, Florida, Havana and Yucatan.
Raids on Midwestern cities by Lakota, Sioux and Comanche hordes become more commonplace.
A major earthquake and tsunami strikes Japan.
The former territory of Judea has devolved into an anarchic warzone, with Muslim Palestinians and Jews killing each other in droves. This ethno-religious conflict threatens to spill over into other regions of the Middle East.
* Florida: We made a peacekeeping alliance called the Protection of Peoples Liberties (PPL) and Stephanie Murphy militarized the area of Jacksonville for any incoming trade deals from the East Coast. Military general Johnny Maries sent out elite scouts to scout the southern area till Naples, Florida to find any human beings [Mod Response Needed]. Economic standards reached a high growth, as jobs and businesses helped our economy grow and our militia grew to 4,566 active personnel for incoming invasion against other players. Our huge problems lies in Valdosta, Georgia, as the riots are still going on, so we sent general elite Fabian Marco to calm the riot down without starting a massacre of Georgian citizens.
**Mod Response: Small, scattered communities are found in the Naples area.
* Colinas: The islands are incorporated as states, and serve a similar purpose to Guam of the pre-war US, as naval and military bases. Our naval budget is heavily increased after reports of pirates, and we make sure to have a strong maritime presence near our coasts. Troops begin to push into more mountainous territory of the former Angeles National Forest. A massive aqueduct project supported by President Sanchez barely makes it through Parliament, and it is a controversial one, with aqueducts being built from Lake Casitas and Lake Matthews into New Angeles and other surviving townships.
* Republic of Ezo: With the earthquake and tsunami affecting some southern places on the island, anyone living there are told to move further inland for the time being, and minor clean-up begins in some areas. Meanwhile more focus is given to Wakkanai, especially in regards to the naval base. Elections are delayed a few months later, and are held in September. Akari Kobayashi from the Democratic Party for the People wins, and is elected as new president.
* Cascadia: The military is expanded to include 8,500 men., 500 of whom are civilizing Northern Washington. We send another 500 to settle Southern Washington up to Oregon. (Mod response needed)
**Mod Response: The settlers begin to settle in the mostly undisturbed wildness, with small specks of towns scattered about.
* New French Republic: Our nation consists of mostly small farm communities, with one main city, New Paris on the east of France. By city, we mean an old town that has now been expanded. Paris is too destroyed to even think about going there. Also, its not within our borders. Fishing is one of the only things that continues to feed our population. Thankfully, southern France is the perfect climate for vegetable and fruit growing. Our army consists of 800 protectors of peace, who only serve the purpose of police officers. Most of which aren't even armed with guns. Although, plans to continue to arm officers goes underway. Plans to have up to 1,200 protectors all armed are underway and could happen by 2064. President Boulet orders over 40 small schools to be created by next year to begin to re-educate the population. 
* Switzerland: Most of the rural townships have been abandoned due to a severely reduced population, poor infrastructure for utilities, communication, and transport, as well as due to many rural folk moving to city centres to find work, thus reinvigorating urban life. Thankfully, agricultural work is largely undertaken by automatic or robotic systems under the supervision of the government or (more and more now) the private sector in the form of large conglomerates. On the perimeter of the cities lie many manufacturing centres that have been built to supply the rebuilding effort, mostly in the form of private endeavours. Switzerland is rebuilding itself. Full healthcare, and utilities services have been restored to urban areas with important rural areas also benefiting from a restoration of utilities. At the two Valley Walls - now commonly referred to as the North-East Wall, and the South-West Wall, respectively - military personnel continue to repel nomadic invasions even as unofficial townships grow outside the wall around the entrances to Switzerland. Swiss traders routinely trade with the outside world and both via the towns as well as via good old fashioned road trade. The Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs sends a diplomatic entourage to the German Federation, New French Republic, as well as any other European successor states to establish diplomatic and trade relations. [Player/Mod Response] It is hoped that sooner rather than later, trade routes can be secured from or via nomadic tribes to facilitate inter-state trade. The Department of Science and Technology continues to research directed sound weaponry to potentially be used as a non-lethal weapon against nomadic tribes during future excursions or trade caravans out of Switzerland.
** French Diplomacy: We accept your offer.
**Mod Response: The German Federation declines this offer, seeing Switzerland as a possible rival for its plans of rapid expansion. All other European countries that are sent this offer accept.
* Irish Empire: We have newly risen as a nation. We train 5,000 more soldiers and scouts, and accept refugees from Great Britain. We open a hospital in our capital, Dublin, and also open three new apartment complexes. We begin rebuilding infrastructure, and announce free healthcare for everyone affected by radiation. We also send scouts to report on the habitability of Cork (MOD RESPONSE). We also make an offer to France to open trade. [Player Response] We also send half of our military to investigate Southwest Ireland (MOD RESPONSE)
** French Diplomacy: We accept your offer.
** Mod Response: I hate to do this, but if you look at the map, southern and central Ireland is inhabited by the government of Ireland. Therefore, much of your turn must be retconned. Refugees from Great Britain do not arrive, many have already traveled to other places or have firmly decided to stay in Britain (this takes place 20 years after the apocalypse). Most people with radiation poisoning have already died a terrible death already.
* Lower Egypt: Memphis is connected and integrated into the kingdom, increasing the population and territory. The results at 6th of October City were disappointing, but 6,800 troops are dispatched to make its residents see sense. [Mod Response] They are assisted by repaired and surviving armored vehicles, mostly former Soviet IFVs. The group in the city is asked to surrender. Meanwhile, trade continues to intensify with the other city-states on the Nile. The cities of Cairo and Giza are becoming economic hubs as more traders traveling along the river stop there and do business. Communications between surviving settlements throughout Egypt are encouraged. Repairs and other works continue throughout the country.
**Mod Response: The arrival of Egyptian troops scare most of them into either surrendering or making peace. However, the hardline faction of the group refuses to yield, and successfully kills three hundred men before escaping to the West.
* Order of Azus: With the exposition being a resounding success, we ask if it could be a yearly event between Appalachia and the Order. We also ask if Azus missionaries can be sent into Appalachia to spread the glory of Azus. [Mod Response] Transmissions are made to the expedition into the Shenandoah Valley on the state of the expedition and the Valley. [Mod Response] The opening of the Aracoma Coalmine is celebrated as a step on the path to pre-war prosperity. A large celebration is held at the entrance of the mine, with Chairman Azus attending. Our armories, with accumulated local arms and scavenged pre-war weapons from Fort Pickett, have expanded, and to capitalize on this a recruitment campaign for Order Guards is held [Mod Response]. An ambitious plan to restore pre-war municipal water systems over a ten year period is considered, but with our resources embroiled elsewhere, it is not adopted. WIP
**Mod Response: Appalachia declines, citing that the Order’s missionaries count as foreign powers meddling in its affairs. Regarding the expedition into the Shenandoah Valley, all transmissions are met with a mysterious voice belonging to a middle-aged man, saying that “the filthy heathens of Azus have been sacrificed to appease the great Bablada. We will not allow heathens to trespass the lands in the vicinity of the Great Shrine, Bablada’s mouthpiece and the resting place of the great Master of the Derp”. Further study of the transmission suggests that the place where the transmissions were received was somewhere in or around Manassas, a suburb of Washington DC.
* Tokyo-Yokohama: The tsunami hit the wider Tokyo Bay area, mitigating the most extreme damage, but resulting in several casualties. However, the biggest event to occur was the collapse of the former Tokyo City Hall in Shinjuku, marking an end to the final major symbol of pre-war Tokyo not being reused. Several hundred casualties were reported, but overall most damage was spared thanks to the sturdy pre-war architecture of a plurality of structures. This sets the electrification project back a bit, but we still aim to complete it by 2067. Tokyo Skytree's canopy begins to crumble, putting the icon's status in jeopardy; thus, a second engineering team is sent to go check it [Mod Response Needed]. The reconstruction of the newer areas is accelerated as the Diet goes into overtime, adding new plan after new plan to the list. Incredibly, Trade Minister Tagomi gets his wish, and the construction of vertical farms in Shibuya is scheduled to begin next year. The reutilisation of Tokyo Tower continues, and we can safely say it will finish by next year. The TYSDF arrives in Osaka and begins setting into place law and order [Mod Response Needed], while attempting to get it representatives in the Diet by 2064, as well as the arrival of TYSDF teams in Satitama [Mod Response Needed]. The first aircraft since before near-nuclear annihilation is finally put into testing, as a joyful prototype flight soars into the air above Tokyo.
** Mod Response: It appears water damage from over 20 years of buildup, as well as years of intense weather, and the recent tsunami, have weathered and weakened the building to a point where it now begins to crumble. Osaka is very far away from Tokyo, and most land and sea routes to Osaka are not controlled by Tokyo-Yokohama, making it impossible for the TYSDF to establish order over the fierce Osakan citizens. They are expelled and return back to Tokyo-Yokohama. The few townships not reduced to anarchy in Satitama agree to join Tokyo-Yokohama.
* New Commonwealth Republic of Puerto Rico The President of the New Commonwealth Republic of Puerto Rico, Mr Ricardo Anthony Padilla continues to direct the executive branch to focus on rebuilding Puerto Rico. After almost two decades since the war, rebuilding effort in Puerto Rico has finally gained fruition; with a number of solar and wind power power plants such as the Oriana Solar Farm returning back to operational status providing limited utilities to the nation. Remains of the Puerto Rico National Guard (PRNG) before the great war was reorganized as the Armed Forces of the New Commonwealth Republic of Puerto Rico under the command of GEN. Luis Rivera. Land Forces, with a size of about 8,400 personnel was organised into the 92nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade [92-MIB] with 4,000 men, 98th Infantry Brigade [98-IB] with 3,600 men, 191st Troop Support Battalion with 800 men and 101st Specialized Troop Battalion [101-STB] with 400 specially trained men for unconventional warfare. The Army is focused on savaging a number of armoured vehicles, tanks and guns in their arsenal to operational status. [Mod Response Needed on success] About 340 men of the former 156th Airlift Wing forms the backbone of the New Commonwealth Republic of Puerto Rico Air Force. The Air Force is currently savaging a number of Lockheed WC-130H aircraft to bring them into operational status as well as to bring the Punta Borinquen Radar Station back into operational status in order to establish communications with other countries, especially Florida. [Mod Response Needed on success] A 600-men Exploratory Detachment of the 92nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade was sent to explore the Dominican Republic in order to find survivors or resources. [Mod Response Needed on success]
**Mod Response: The Army is able to restore only fifty vehicles, most of which are infantry transports and several tanks. However, the salvaging of small arms is intensely successful, with most of the pre-war weaponry able to be preserved; the ARNCRPR gains over a thousand semi-automatic civilian weapons and hundreds of accesories. Contact with Florida is a success, although it goes unnoticed in Florida outside of the Floridian government. The Dominican Republic has degraded into a living hell, with resentful Haitians carrying out raids and murders night after night in the country, and the two countries' active militaries now either inactive or dying. The six hundred men run into intense resistance from a local paramilitary cells, one of which after confirming the men's identities warns them not to return there unless they can organise a reasonably large occupation force. They gain little to nothing.
* New Republic of Nebraska: Due to raids a few miles within our borders, we initiate stricter security policies and promoting the use of ammunition and firing in the case of a large scale invasion. The country's first vertical farm facility is constructed. Walls are being constructed near the uninhabited areas of Central Kansas and Des Moines. The Offutt Air Force Base starts to be reused again for air force and defense purposes. In downtown Omaha, a gentrification of downtown begins, with local stores and small retail chains starting to open. Highrises are also resettled with mixed use tenants.
* Democracy of Krymsky: Expansion is made across northern OTL Ukraine, and the former Ukraine capital city of Kiev is found and reconstruction begins, to a degree of having a proper livable environment.
**Mod Response: Kiev is empty, and settlers flood into the former Ukrainian capital. However, the government has expanded too much, and raids from desperate tribes of survivors are common in places where the military has a small presence.
*Shinihon: With Kyushu safe for colonization, after two years of preparation we finally begin settling the island. Using the "Kyushu Plan" to conquer the territory. Although the tsunami was centered on Tokyo, Kochi did get hit by shock waves of around 6.1 on the Richter scale, causing damage to city infrastructure, as well as larger waves then normal. We begin preparing our soldiers for war, with Matsuyama - stationing them on our border. Due to increased tensions, caused by the killing of a Shinihon diplomat in the republic, we prepare for war the next year. [Mod Response Needed]
**Mod Response: Matsuyama declines killing the Shinihon diplomat, and accuses Shinihon of war-mongering. Nevertheless, they line up troops on the border as well.
*Yucatan: With President Ortega being re-elected for a second term, his first action is to build a navy to patrol the waters of the Gulf of Mexico to repel the pirates from major shipping lanes. We reach out to Florida and Puerto Rico, offering a military alliance [Player Responses Needed]. People are encouraged to move west, to facilitate the colonization and repopulation of the inland northern Yucatan Peninsula. A new solar farm is also built, providing power to 10% of the Yucatec population. Scouts are sent to the southern half of the Yucatan Peninsula [Mod Response Needed].
**Floridian Diplomacy: As we helped you recover your issues from this fallout, we will accept the offer you made for military alliance.
**Mod Response: The scouts sent to southern Yucatan find people worshiping a new religion called Blabada, and although they appear to be peaceful, are very wary of the scouts. The religion appears to be widespread throughout the former US and Mexico.
** Department of State, Puerto Rico The Puerto Rico government is more than happy to join a military alliance with the Yucatan and Florida government
=== 2063 ===
The Holy Shrinedom of Bablada is founded in what was formerly the western half of Prince William and Loudoun counties in Virginia. Its aim is to propagate the teachings of Bablada, the One Who Gives, to the former United States.
A huge war in Spain begins, over a small border dispute. It pulls in nearly every nation in Iberia, through a complex web of alliances and defense treaties. Some nations collapse almost immediately when fighting begin, while others grow stronger. The nation has pulled in most Mediterranean nations, and the Mediterranean Sea becomes a naval warzone. Venice and other maritime based economies collapse.
The New Qing Empire continue ransacking Chinese cities and destroying entire townships. The death tolls are likely in the millions, however strong winds from the Pacific cause nuclear fallout from radiation ridden Korea to kill thousands in Manchuria. 
A Turkish Federation forms, over some rump states in Turkey, as they victoriously beat Greek invaders out of Istanbul. Athens and almost all of former Greece is now under their control.
Jamaica is completely overrun by pirates, and the nation becomes a safehaven for pirates to dock.
A radio broadcast is received by nearly all nations in the former United States. From the US government in exile, which according to the broadcast maintains strict control over Hawaii, claims all nations in the continental United States as rightful US territory and will "use force if rebellious states do not oblige with the whim of the mighty American government".
* Republic of Ezo: After some delay, expansion begins into Kunashir Island, with a few small bases being set up for now. Exploration is also launched towards the Habomai Islands, to check for survivors [Mod Response]. The radio tower and station is nearing completion, with it on track to be done by next year. Joint Japanese-Ainu signs continue to be established in several areas; with some towns and cities entrance signs beginning to use the native Ainu name in conjunction with the Japanese name, while new Ainu names are established for the places that don't have one, such as Asahikawa. The Ainu names for places also becomes official alongside the Japanese names.
*Mod Response: A handful of villages are encountered, with the overall population estimated to be no more than 1500.
* Order of Azus: A national day of mourning is enacted for the two-hundred brave guards who died honorably attempting to beat back the darkness with the light of Azus. A memorial is planned to be erected in Fayetteville, the capital, for the fallen guards. All Order Footmen have been called to active service in light of this situation. A 4,000-5,000 strong force is first assembled at Strasburg, under a mostly ex US Military command, and then marches to The Plains, daring the infidels who killed our expedition to show their faces in battle. [Mod Response] Defensive positions are erected in and around The Plains. WIP
**Mod Response: The Plains proves hostile to Azus. The 'infidels', a mix of criminals and actually innocent civilians, either surrender or attack, although the latter option is restricted to the more criminal of the group. Civilians are terrified, and families accidentally caught in the fighting are either killed or wounded, leading to a mass exodus of people from the area. Two hundred more Footmen die alongside what appears to be approximately one thousand civilians, only killing a small hundred of the hostiles.
* Tokyo-Yokohama: The first broadcast from Tokyo Tower since the early 2020s occurs, with Prime Minister Misato showing on set-up television screens from Saitama to Yokosuka in front of the steel tower being slowly repainted in the background. This is followed months later, learning of the incidents in Shikoku, by a government endorsement of the Shinihon country in its grievances, offering them TYSDF support in the event of any conflict [Shinihon Response Needed]. The electrification of Tokyo is completed, and with its success, the beginning stages of Trade Minister Tagomi's vertical farm plan begin to come into effect, as well as the implementation of a wider plan towards the entire Tokyo Bay area. Martial law is put into effect in Saitama as the TYSDF quells raider groups, attempting to supply electricity, food and water to the area. The upcoming General Elections, with the new 13 members, are postponed to 2065 to allow Saitama to enter as well. Test flights of salvaged aircraft become something of a weekly sensation as engineers hastily attempt to install electric motors and jets into the aircraft, trying to turn them into hybrid planes, and the public is eagerly interested in whether this has the potential to succeed [Mod Response Needed]. In other news, the TYSDF standardises on a new weapon for a new era - the Project 63, a 5.56 assault rifle modelled after the pre-war SCAR and AK-12 designs, that can be made using sturdy industrial equipment recovered from Osaka.
*Mod Response: Salvaged plane flights succeed most of the time.
* New Republic of Nebraska: A Bablada shrine is rumored to be opened in Downtown Omaha, disguised as a standard apartment building. We are not afraid of the threats by the exiled United States government, however we will not launch any massive attack unless they start a conflict. More weapons are stored in undisclosed new bases and fields. A local department store chain called Lazouy opens stores across cities in the republic, marking it as a revival of the area's brick and mortar retailing industry. More radio towers that were not destroyed are turned operational again. A bus transit system serving the Omaha-Lincoln corridor opens, and proves effective.
* Erie Chiefdom: After receiving the broadcast from the US government in exile, we begin the process of centralizing and modernizing the government by the elder known only as Uncle Bob. We are ardent Canonists, and thus we believe in Jesus along with other scriptures left out of the New Testament. We begin expansion, and make formal claims to a large swathe around Lake Erie. After the attack, many people fled to Erie,PA and it became one of the largest cities in the former US, with over 700,000 people in the area, most from the former cities of Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo.
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* New French Republic: We stay out of the war in the Mediterranean as we only have a dozen or so French Naval Vessels still under our control. We do tell southern citizens to move northward in case of hostility. We station 300 Peace Keepers on or North-West border. 100 new Peace Keepers are integrated into the army. Eight new schools are constructed all across the country and parents volunteer to teach the children. We decide that one of our first objectives is to get the internet back online so future generations can use the knowledge found on there, but that is nearly impossible since almost every single French Tower was either destroyed or is decaying.
*Yucatan: The people of the southern Yucatan Peninsula are given an offer to join the Republic for protection from ouside forces. They will be allowed to continue practicing their religion and will be a semi-autonomous region within the country [Mod Response Needed]. Meanwhile, much of the northern half of the Peninsula has been integrated into the nation, and westward expansion continues. The Yucatec National Navy is founded, with the first two ships, the Reconstrucion and the Reformacion, as well as 300 marines. The first phase of the Coastal Bikeway has been completed, linking Cancun with Playa Del Carmen, and other infrastructure projects continue. The Mayan language begins going through a revival after being added as the second official language of Yucatan.
**Mod Response: Yucatan's indeed lucrative offer proves too hard to resist for many of the isolated settlements in Southern Yucatan. Most integrate into Yucatan quickly, although several hyper-religious groups do not answer the offer and remain quasi-independent, surrounded by new members of Yucatan.
**Yucatan Dip: The new territories are organized and unified into the Autonomous Provinces of Campeche and Chetumal.
* Lower Egypt: Memphis is further integrated into the kingdom, while the 6th of October City is taken over after the battle. Trade with other city states along the sea coast and the Nile continues as well, with increased interaction encouraged by the government of Lower Egypt. Exploration teams, accompanied by 500 armed troops, enter the Suez Governorate with the goal of establishing contact with any groups in the Suez area and obtaining a coastline for sea trade. Some settlers are also sent north into the Qalyubia Governorate, just north of Cairo, to colonize the towns there and see if there are any residents. [Mod Response] The population of Cairo and Giza expand as they become regional trade hubs.
**Mod Response: Lower Egypt runs into an atheistic federal state that appears to be run from far away, in Tanta. The state greets Lower Egyptian troops respectfully.
*Florida: We plan a huge project on expanding influential culture across the Florida state. Our prime minister, Stephanie Murphy, is re running for prime minister against opponent Fabian Rico [Mod Response for Elections Needed]. During the quadrennial election, Stephanie planned a new city near the Florida gulf coast as a new port to extend trade routes with the Yucatan and Puerto Rico. We demolished the city of Pensacola, and evacuated citizens to Tallahasse to complete the demoliton project. We began to build the new city near the Gulf coast, while we expand our military to 5,000 active personal and 4,542 reserve personal. 500 Peacekeepers were sent to Jacksonville to guard the port for any intruders that trespass our area.
**Mod Response: Stephanie Murphy wins the election narrowly.
* Switzerland: Additional troops are moved to the Southern and Western borders to divert refugees from the ongoing Mediterranean War away from Switzerland and to prevent a spill-over of the conflict into Swiss territory. Otherwise, Swiss neutrality is maintained. In the meantime, Swiss trade convoys venture Eastwards towards Eastern Europe and North-Westwards towards Northern France. At the moment, trade is the primary focus of the executive government. Simultaneously, the Institue of Scientific lll continues its missions into Europe with plans of launching its first air-based missions to East Asia and Africa by next year. In other news, a Swiss internet is set up connecting the hundreds of private and public servers across the nation. This continues to promote the education and intellectualification of the Swiss populace. Switzerland is a proud technocracy. [Secret] Plans are underway to secure safe-passage for Swiss trade to the Mediterranean via the Alps, railways, and Nice. Enter: Operation Mountain Carriage. [Secret]
* Colinas: We begin an aggressive expansion into former San Bernardino County, determined to control all viable routes from Mexico into California, making Baja California's economy greatly flounder. [Mod Response] Construction on the aqueduct begins, with plenty of water expected to come into New Angeles by 2066. 103.6, the state radio station, does not broadcast the message from the US government in exile, determining it to be but a prank. We begin to tinker with some advanced pre-war military electronics (radar and stuff like that) that explorers have found, to see if we can possibly repair it. [Mod Response] Midterm elections are held this year, and the Democratic Coalition wins a majority in both houses of Parliament, against the Reason Coalition. Reconstruction efforts are diverted to Santa Barbara and Newport Beach, those two places very vital for Colinas's maritime plan.
**Mod Response: The aggressive nature of Colinas' expansion does not go down well with San Bernadino survivors, whom, while receptive to the Confederacy, criticise it for 'using us as pawns'. However, it is immensely successful at stopping trade, and Baja Californian troops, without orders to attack or yield, do not act on these events. Several radars are repaired to a sub-optimal but usable condition, as well as a prototype U.S military tactical EMP weapon, although the latter is too dangerous to use as of current.
=== 2064 ===
A Krymskian man, presumed dead from a nomadic raid five years ago, returns to his hometown. He tells stories of the situation in Asia, giving Eastern Europe information about the Chinese and Japanese states, and about the War for the Mandate. Georgia, Sinop, Cillicia and Istanbul all send diplomats to the nations in China and Japan.
Liao Wan-jun, a charismatic leader following Maoist ideologies, rallies up an army in former Shanxi Province and proclaims the New Commune of China, and enters the War of the Mandate. Meanwhile, the Xi Dynasty is eradicated by the New Qing Empire.
Jamaican pirates attack and sack Havana.
The Jarldom of Norway is formed in Stavanger, after a resurgence of the Norse faith in Scandinavia.
Catholic, Protestant, Azus and Babladist nations in the Chesapeake Bay region begin attacking each other in a religious war.
The US government in exile establishes an outpost in California, just south of San Jose.
* Republic of Scotland: The Republic of Scotland is established and immediately asks to open communication with the United Communities of Lancashire.
* Tokyo-Yokohama: With diplomats shoring into Japan from the former European continent, Tokyo-Yokohama welcomes Georgia, Sinop, Cilicia and Istanbul to establish relations with our small but growing nation [Mod Response Needed]. The electrification of Yokosuka and Kimitsu go on as planned, while the electrification of Saitama goes on far faster than needed so as to allow security units there keep the area safe. We move up North, to Koga and Tsukuba, to either expand the Republic's territorial borders or greet remaining nation-states there [Mod Response Needed]. Tokyo Tower's transmissions become even more common as Prime Minister Misato conceives the idea of a Japanese Union, a economic union of nations in the former Republic of Japan, sending an offer to Ezo and Shinihon to establish a free trade deal as well as a military alliance [Shinihon, Ezo Response Needed]. The Tokyo Metro begins to be rebuilt from the somewhat stable remaining tunnels and bridges that span the city. The biannual census delivers 2.89 million in the Tokyo Bay area, and 19,000 in the Saitama area.
**Shinihonese Response: We accept. May Japan rise again.
**Republic of Ezo Diplomacy: The government kindly declines, wishing to stay out of the Japanese Union and go their own path.
**Mod Response: All four nations accept. Koga is mostly empty save for small settlements, but Tsukuba and the surrounding towns are in a loose confederation, functioning more as a military alliance if anything else.
*** Tokyo-Yokohama Diplomacy: We offer to take in Tsukuba and its surrounding towns in with guarantees of protection and representation in the Diet [Mod Response Needed].
* Republic of Ezo: The government offers the Habomai Islands to join as an autonomous region. [Mod Response] Meanwhile the government welcomes the diplomats of Georgia, Sinop, Cilicia and Istanbul; and offers to establish relations with them. [Mod Response] The radio tower and station is set up in Asahikawa, and also becomes operational. Expansion continues in Kunashir Island; with a small naval base being built to further solidify their claim to the entire island. Meanwhile a ship is sent from Wakkanai to explore Shikotan. [Mod Response]
**Mod Response: All four nations accept. The Habomai Islands accept the offer reluctantly, as Ezo is a much larger power and can invade if necessary. Shikotan is populated by a tiny village of only 72 people, and they welcome outside contact, having not seen any people aside from themselves for two decades.
* New Republic of Nebraska: Several people in the country report and spread information that a religious war is raging through the Chesapeake Bay. We encourage Catholic, Babladist and other communities to remain peaceful and try to solve arguments. Meanwhile, several fortified trucks are deployed to explore Des Moines, Lawrence and Topeka [Mod Response]. The country's first general elections take place in November 2064, electing Erika Cheon, the candidate of the Nebraskan Libertarian Party.
**Mod Response: Des Moines operates as a lawful congressional state, with a large population of 556,000, serving as a competitor to Nebraska. It is one of several small cities across the American Midwest that have continued to pledge allegiance to the United States of America, and as thus, Des Moines greets Nebraskan troops as the Capital of Iowa, although it only has control of the surrounding counties. Topeka, among these cities, also greets Nebraskan troops as such. On the other hand, Lawrence has denigrated into a war between the city's former Democratic-voting population and the arriving hard-right Christians from the mid 2050s, the former of which wants to join Topeka as a city of Kansas, the latter of which want to form a Neo-Christian Dictatorship. The Kansas Loyalists (as the Democrats are now called) greet Nebraska and ask for help with defeating the Christians, or as they now go by, Eden's Gate. Eden's Gate is intensely hostile to Nebraskan troops, particularly targeting non-white Nebraskan infantrymen sighted.
** Nebraskan Dip: Due to the hostility and conflict occurring in Kansas, we narrowly escape back to Omaha. We explain to the Des Moines state that we have no intent on invading them, and has only checked the area for survivors. We tell them that we will back out before a major war starts.
* Order of Azus: The debacle at The Plains was not our finest hour, and it must not be repeated. 2,500 Order Defense Personnel are sent down Blantyre Road, then, after a period of recuperation, down Arlie Road into New Baltimore. The force will be preceded by 500 experienced scouts. Order Defense Personnel are told to excersise the highest caution when dealing with civilians, and not attack unless provoked. A mandatory draft for all males 18-25 is issued within Order territory. [Mod Response] WIP
**Mod Response: The Azusian troops sent into New Baltimore encounter some mercenaries, but they are easily defeated.
* Lower Egypt: The government sends teams to "colonize" the Suez area and establish a port on the Red Sea coast. This port will serve as a way of trading with other more distant factions. The kingdom also asks the city-states along the Nile and on the northern coast to integrate with it and become part of one country. [Mod Response] The Egyptian Army repairs some T-64 tanks and puts them into service. The country's economy is growing, as is the population.
**Mod Response: The inner Nile integrates easily due to lack of solidified leadership, but the states along the Northern Coast, operating somewhat similarly to the former European Union, decline. However, they do open relations with Lower Egypt as the Upper Egyptian Union.
* New Commonwealth Republic of Puerto Rico The government formally invite the government of Yucatan and Florida for a discussion towards the formation of a joint-expedition "peacekeeping" force to colonize new lands, beginning first with Haiti. [Player Response Needed] The ARNCRPR, with the success of the salvaging efforts for weapons begin military maneuver trainings of various sizes at Camp Santiago.
**Yucatec Dip: We accept, as the joint peacekeeping force could be used to expand our power as well as protecting the trade routes from pirates.
*Yucatan: Integration of the northwestern and southern portions of the Yucatan Peninsula into the Republic continue. Meanwhile, we continue scouting south, in the region of Southern Mexico and Guatemala [MOD RESPONSE NEEDED]. Our navy is now up to 6 ships, and currently patrols the coasts around major ports for pirate raids. The construction of the Coastal Bikeway continues, and plans for new bikeways are announced to the public. Tram systems are also being introduced in Chachmuchuch, Cancun, Playa Del Carmen, Tulum, Valladolid, Tizimin, Merida, Campeche and Chetumal. These projects are expected to be complete in 3-5 years. 99% clean water service in urban areas has been achieved, with the next step extending these amenities to rural areas and providing individual homes with tap water. Electricity coverage in the cities has also increased to 80%.
**Mod Response: The area is rampant with crime, mostly filled with raider factions, successor states of pre-war cartels. The scouts return quickly, it being too dangerous for them to continue further.
* Switzerland: Last year's trade expedition is a success and trade with other European nations (with the unfortunate exception of Germany) has been fully taken over by private enterprise. A big business nowadays is the cargo transport industry with many trade caravan companies spawning to facilitate trade. Meanwhile, the country has successfully transitioned to 80% hydroelectric power. The Department of Science and Technology is currently collaborating with the Department of Defence to materialise the DoS&T's pet project of sound weaponry. Actionable prototypes could be fielded as early as late next year as most of the theoretical research has already been completed by thr DoS&T earlier. [Secret] Agents have been sent out to scout out the targeted rail line that runs along the Alps to the Medditerainian to be captured by thr military next year. [Secret]
=== 2065 ===
The Great European War ends as the pre-war nation of Portugal successfully defeats the Coalition, a loose alliance of post-war Iberian and Moroccan states. Trade finally starts once again in the Mediterranean.
The cult of Scientology establishes a base in Boise and claim Idaho. 
Contact between West Coast states and Hawaii begins as the Sierra Legion sends expeditions to Hawaii, which revolted against the US government in exile. The current headquarters of the US government are still unknown, however, the US fort in San Jose has seen increased activity, and some troops have been seen entering and leaving it. 
Japanese nations also establish contact with many Polynesian successor states, including Nauru.
The Qing Dynasty begins expansion in China, but some Chinese nations are able to hold them back.
A multi-nation effort begins, spearheaded by Texas and New France, to rid the Gulf of Mexico of pirates.
* Tokyo-Yokohama: Diplomatic missions are sent to Kyoto and Northern Honshu to discuss the formation of an economic and military pact between all our nations [Mod Response Needed]. With no proper reply to our previous request, we again offer the Tsukuba area intergration into the country with guarantees of protection, representation and supplies [Mod Response Needed]. Prime Minister Misato flies in a recently-refurbished plane to Shikoku and more specfically Shinihon to discuss the terms of the Japanese Union [Shinihon Reponse Needed] and to share classified TYSDF documents and blueprints with the country. The 2065 General Elections put into power 52 members of the Diet, including those of Yokosuka, Kimitsu, and Saitama. Elsewhere, Trade Minister Tagomi's project, or as it is increasingly being known, Tagotsu, continues in Shibuya, while the electrification of the Greater Tokyo Bay area is generally completed.
**Mod Response: Tsukuba quickly agrees to the salivating offer.
* Republic of Ezo: Even though the government established contact with the Polynesian successor states, there is no interest in establishing diplomatic ties due to their isolation and distance. Meanwhile the government offers Shikotan to join the nation as an autonomous region; and if not offers to establish diplomatic ties and still guarantees protection of the island either way. [Mod Response] Russian is established as an official language, and also established as the main foreign language to learn. The Habomai Islands is represented in the National Assembly with a greater leeway due to being an autonomous region. A few ships are sent from Wakkanai to explore part of the Southern part of Sakhalin (mainly the and ) in aims to establish contact and survey any possible empty areas for future expansion. [Mod Response]
**Mod Response: Shikotan agrees. Southern Sakhalin is mainly empty and anarchic, with the only part of it under a clear government being the city-state of Nevelsk.
* Republic of Carolina: Most raiders gangs are forming in rural provinces, many people in those provinces have moved into the cities of Wilmington and Charleston. Overpopulation is becoming a problem in these cities. President Johnson was decided to clear out the raiders in rural areas, using the military. Hopefully, this plan works.
* Lower Egypt: The Nile city states that chose to join the kingdom are integrated into the state, with King Farouk III paying visits to each of them and meeting with the local tribal elders. Trade continues to increase along the river, improving the kingdom's economy. Lower Egypt continues to develop as a civilization. Many public utilities have been restored in Cairo and Giza. The "electoral districts" for the National Assembly are redrawn as well to take this into account, although the legislative body has been largely irrelevant in decision making. The King is considering cancelling any elections and establishing a council of tribal elders from each region to serve as advisors. The local forces of the new territories are integrated into the Army of the Kingdom of Lower Egypt. It now numbers some 14,000 men, mainly equipped with AK-47 and AK-74u rifles, along with some IFVs and T-64 tanks. The teams that were sent last year to colonize the Suez area and begin establishing a port on the Red Sea continue to make progress, establishing a settlement. A road from Cairo to the Red Sea coast will be made to serve as an overland route for trade.
* New Commonwealth Republic of Puerto Rico President Padilla thanked the Yucatan government for their willingness to establish a joint "peacekeeping expedition force" and invites the Yucatan government to send troops to participate in joint-military maneuvers at Camp Santiago. After years of salvaging efforts, a Lockheed WC-130H was finally made airworthy and became the first operational aircraft of the Puerto Rican Air Force. In the same year, the Puerto Rican Navy was also established, with its first operational ship being an old merchant vessel salvaged from the Port of San Juan. The newly established Navy, based at the former USCG San Juan base and under the command of Vice Admiral Lewis Hutton hopes to progressively develop its naval capabilities in the next few years by salvaging more ships from ports around Puerto Rico with its primary mission of defending the island against piracy and establishing free trade. Ms Linda Carlos, Secretary of Education has also reopened the University of Puerto Rico for the first time since the great war and she had promised to continue to enhance the Puerto Rico education system, with the reopening of 26 middle-schools and 12 high-schools. Ms Liana Matta, Secretary of Treasury, Finance and Trade would like to meet her counterpart in the Yucatan government to discuss the possibility of a free-trade agreement in order to enhance trade ties between the 2 countries [Player Response Needed- Yucatan] A Exploratory Detachment under the command of Colonel Jose Denver consisting of 800-men from the 92nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade and 100-men from the 101st Specialized Troop Battalion [101-STB] was sent to explore the British and US Virgin Islands in order to find survivors or resources. [Mod Response Needed on success]
**Mod Response: The Virgin Islands, relatively stable but on the verge of losing all supplies, beg for Puerto Rico to allow them into the Republic. They are very friendly.
*** Department of State, Puerto Rico Based on information relayed by the Exploratory Detachment, President Padilla tasked Mr Ken Sessions, DG of the Coordinating Agency for Disaster, Emergency Management & Civil Defense to dispatch a relief team made up of 100-men from the 191st Troop Support Battalion, 125-men comprising of doctors, nurses and emergency technicians from the Department of Health, Medical & Humanitarian Services and Puerto Rico Civil Defense Services as well as much needed humanitarian aid including tents, food, shelters and medication to the Virgin Islands. The Puerto Rico government has also allowed the Virgin Islands to become a Puerto Rican protectorate with steps being taken to eventually integrate the Virgin Islands as part of Puerto Rico territory. [Mod Response Needed]
****Mod Response: The islanders are largely thankful. Other nations, and the pirate remnants, do not react to the situation publicly, but it is said to be of derision for Puerto Rico taking control of the Virgin Islands' position in the Caribbean.
* New French Republic: Our plans to restore the internet are going well. We plan on restoring French Government websites as well as websites with servers based in France that haven't been destroyed. We pull our peacekeepers off the border, and we send our men to the south home. We begin building a shipyard to expand our navy. [Secret] We wish to expand our navy so we can start invading and annexing North African lands [Secret]. We reach out to Switzerland requesting help in reestablishing our internet [Player Response Needed]. Finally, we send out an expedition to start taking more northern territories. [Mod Response Needed].
** Swiss Diplomacy: We gladly accept France's request for help in setting up an Internet system. Swiss technicians and engineers are ready to help our French counterparts. Additonally, France is warned in advance of Switzerland's plans to capture the Southern Alps from local Italian mountain tribes and communes.
**Mod Response: In the ashes of what was once Lyon, the Republic finds small pockets of survivors receptive to the Republic and a local group called the Rassemblement National, inheritor of the pre-war National Rally's legacy, a conservative dictatorial group that shows immediate dislike for the Republic. Minor attacks occur on French troops from the RN, but no casualties are recorded. In Limoges, one of the few cities not directly hit by nuclear strikes, the Republic finds a large slum of Muslim and Sikh Frenchmen who largely have lost connection with their religion, now barely attempting to survive, while the Caucasian groups assist them in survival. The group of roughly 56,900 are also receptive to any assistance the Republic can give them.
* Switzerland: Operation Mountain Rail is put into action as Swiss troops swiftly capture the (tbh) largely abandoned Southern Alpine ridge leading from SouthWest Switzerland to the city of Nice by the Mediterranean. Once the Alps had been secured all that remains is to capture Nice. However, wishing to avoid violence and to help the citizens of the floundering city of Nice, the Swiss government extends an offer: Nice becomes a semi-self-governing territory of Switzerland and in exchange is granted the honour of being Switzerland's primary access to Mediterranean trade. [Mod Response] In the meantime, Switzerland extends an offer to France to trade openly via the infrastructure highways and railways in France, potentially giving Switzerland access to the Channel and North Atlantic. Of course, France would benefit immensely from being the conduit of West-bound trade, not only for Switzerland, but also for all European nations. [Player Response] Last but not least, an expedition is sent to the former Belgium-Netherlands area to investigate their fates. [Mod Response]
**Mod Response: Belgium has disintegrated into a militaristic dictatorial cult around the figure Tom Van Greiken, a pre-war figurehead, that worships both Christianity, Greiken and the FN Herstal arms company. It is on the verge of collapse, but its military is relatively capable. The expedition comes under immediate fire from Belgian troops, who warn Switzerland not to interfere in their affairs. The Netherlands, another country in Europe not hit directly by nuclear weapons, is actually relatively stable and self-sufficient, with a small military and a liberal market economy. While losing much control over the areas around Eindhoven and Arnhem, Rotterdam and Amsterdam remain firmly in the country's hands, and with over 2.3 million residents and a burgeoning post-war tech industry, this new rival respectfully greets the expedition and expresses optimism for the countries' future together. Nice accepts the offer.
** French Diplomacy: We accept your offer and hope to work with Switzerland more in the future.
* Legion of California: President Sanchez and Vice President Wang are both killed in a rally in San Bernardino, and the nation quickly falls into chaos as various members of the Colinas Parliament and Sanchez's cabinet claim the spot of President. Eventually, Joint Chiefs of Staff Arthur Fuller, commander of Colinas's Armed Forces and a pre-war colonel, launches a successful military coup to keep order. The Legion of California is established, and although only to serve as a provisional government, a referendum votes to keep the military in power. The Legion's leader, the Legioneer, is appointed by a council of military officers. An elected Parliament still exists, albeit with much less power, and regional governments have much less authority. Trade, however, is still allowed to take place heavily, and is regulated lightly. The Californian Dollar is established as the national currency. The military begins an expedition through Santa Clarita, and begin missions to being places along Highway 14 and Palmdale under Californian control, to secure our borders. [Mod Response] The state radio, 103.6, is mostly untouched, and freedom of the press is still allowed (to some extent). Our once bureaucratic justice system is streamlined, and funding is diverted to maintain our crumbling prisons. Repaired radar equipment is installed at newly constructed facilities in New Angeles and Signal Hill. Planes, especially passenger ones, are being refurbished to created the West Coast's only aviation industry. A new economic model in the Legion is instituted, where the government will directly fund private industries heavily to stimulate economic growth and build loyalty and trust.
**Mod Response: Among the residents of Highway 14 and Palmdale's numerous minor settlements, a plurality decide to simply accept Californian control. However, worried settlers begin escaping from the area, afraid that California has more nefarious plans in mind.
*Yucatan: The people of Southern Mexico are merely left alone, as it is too dangerous to continue exploration efforts there. Due to this, a system of forts, trenches and barricades are being constructed to keep hostile forces at bay. Troops are sent to Puerto Rico for joint-millitary excersizes, and we also express desire to join the Anti-Pirate Coalition [MOD RESPONSE NEEDED]. Power and water resupplying of rural communities is proceeding as planned, with the evental goal of resupplying all Yucatec households with reliable elctricity and drinking water by 2070 now a very feasible goal. The Central and Southern Bikeways begin construction, and Phase 2 of the Coastal Bikeway is complete, with the bike highway now extending across the coast of the Northern Yucatan. Many of the rich in Yucatan are now holding airshows with salvaged planes.
*Mod Response: The member nations of the Coalition gladly accept. However, pirate activity increases in response to this decision, around the former nations of Venezuela and Colombia.
* Krymsky: Expansion is made across western OTL Ukraine. Kiev continues to be reconstructed. Due to large raids by nomads and such, most males over 21 are conscripted into relaxed service, where they are only called in upon a raid occurring, and stay in reserve until then. Production centers and factories begin annual production again, moving citizens from primary agriculture to manufacturing, allowing for the creation of automatic machine guns, household items, and better lighting. With these advancements, 4 Carrack-class battleships holding 2,000 soldiers with automatic machine guns come across the coastal state of Moldova, and promptly request they relieve their sovereignty or be slaughtered [Mod]. Coastal colonization begins across north-eastern Anatolia. The notions of nations and societies in Asia are generally accepted, but communication is made at the moment mostly because of the difficulty of travelling that long of a distance.
*Mod Response: The government of Moldavia refuses, saying that they will fight to the last man, however, many are discontent with their lack of freedoms and technology, and want to join Krymsky.
* Cascadia: We begin work on a man-made trail through the mountains in order to get our troops across. A delayed response is given to the U.S Government in exile, saying we will respect their existence, but firmly refuse to assimilate into what could very well be a failed state. Support is voiced for the new California Legion.
* Republic of Scotland: We begin to recruit more soldiers to prepare for an expansion in an attempt to find more food and survivors in the radioactive wasteland; we are disappointed in the lack of response from Lancashire.
=== 2066 ===
All of Ireland is united under the pre-war Irish government, however skirmishes still continue in the north. The Isle of Man also voluntarily joins Ireland.
Feudalism in Europe is becoming increasingly unpopular, as a surge of movements similar to the Renaissance sweep Europe, with pre-war ideals of democracy, secularism, and individualism becoming popular. In response to this, a loose collection of northern French states create the French Commonwealth, an economic and military pact.
As nuclear dust in Iran, Pakistan, and India settle, those areas become habitable enough for travelling, allowing for greater trade between Asia and Europe.
A religion known as "The Inferno", which until now has only been popular in Southern California, spreads rapidly throughout most of the former US and Mexico, and gains huge amounts of followers. It worships the nuclear apocalypse, citing it as a "reset" for the sins of humanity. They vehemently oppose most temporal and secular governments.
Two main factions become evident in China, with the Qing Empire on one side and the People's Federation of China on the other. Former Taiwan becomes the largest battleground for these competing powers, as they battle for control of the island. Taiwanese refugees fleeing conflict escape to Maritime Asia or Japan.
Many people in the Lower Nile flee to Lower Egypt, and it becomes the center of trade for the former Arab world.
* Tokyo-Yokohama: The country welcomes Taiwanese refugees, and the TYNSDF sends three salvaged patrol boats out to search for remaining refugees in the Sea of Japan [Mod Response Needed]. The crisis alerts the Diet to the need for a concentrated foreign policy, which results in a new direction - that of the Honshu plan. TYSDF land forces begin advancing further North and West, towards Mito, Utsunomiya and Takasaki, to find settlers and offer the same deal given to Tsukuba - integration in exchange for representation, security and supplies [Mod Response Needed]. The government overhauls the education system, consolidating certain schools to make up for lack of teaching resources, and opening new tuition centres for poorer children. The P63 is put into use, as are multiple pre-war weapons, and the salvage and hopefully reuse of three F4 Phantoms found in Yokota Air Force Base [Mod Response Needed]. Plans are drawn up to continue construction of three new ships from before the war using salvaged materials - the Ibuki, Mirai and Nobita.
**Mod Response: Many refugees are found in the Sea of Japan and are rescued. Mito and Utsunomiya agree, but Takasaki respectfully declines the offer. Only one of then F4 Phantoms are in working order, however, the finest engineers in the land are optimistic that the other two will be able to work soon.
* Republic of Ezo: The government welcomes any Taiwanese refugees that arrives here, and allows them to stay and if they want, have an easy path to citizenship. Mandarin Chinese is added as a recognised language in light of the situation as well. The government begins establishing a few settlements in the southern halfs of Anivsky District and ; and any small communities found are offered to join Ezo and promises them protection and representation in the government. [Mod Response] A radio tower and station in Wakkanai begins construction as well.
**Mod Response: The few communities in Ezo-colonized areas agree to join Ezo.
* New Republic of Nebraska: Emergency bunkers are built across Lincoln, Omaha, Saint Joseph, Grand Island and Sioux in the case of a full scale invasion or a major tornado that usually happens in such terrain. Meanwhile, in Omaha, the neighborhoods continue to flourish despite the post-apocalyptic world that devastated all continents. More small retail chains and general merchandise stores open, powering a large portion of the economy. Stable healthcare system is also being restored, and power has been restored to most of Western Nebraska and the Kansas Panhandle Territory.
* New French Republic: We send volunteers, food and water supplies, and doctors with medical supplies to help the people of Limoges. We begin re-building our air force as well as continuing our naval expansion. Our plans to bring back the internet continues. Our farmlands continue to grow, growing many vegetables. We also request to join the French Commonwealth and offer to trade our fruits, vegetables and wine. We have a lot of wine. [Mod Response Needed]. Finally, we begin reestablishing our dairy farms.
**Mod Response: The nations of the French Commonwealth unilaterally agree to allow the Republic into the Commonwealth.
*Yucatan: The spread of the Inferno religion has seen some sporadic riots in major urban areas, but has mainly been uneventful. The National Assembly passes a law to restrict the movements of the members of more extreme sects of Infernoism, as some of them are known to be actively plotting against the Republic of Yucatan, however, freedom of religion is maintained, and the majority of Infernoists are now affected. Meanwhile, electricity has been restored to many rural areas, and the electric industry has diversified into creating new trasportation options, such as the newly-completed tram services in Cancun, Chachmuchuch and Merida. Work into salvaging hybrid and electric cars, as well as trains, are underway [MOD RESPONSE]. As the main issues of power and water have been mostly solved, the government is looking towards boosting education and healthcare coverage and quality, with an ambitious plan launched to give every community basic education and healthcare services (primary schools and clinics)by 2080 and developing already-existing facilities. Phase 3 of the Coastal Bikeway is finished, and remaining infrastructure projects continue to be worked on. Fortifications on the southern border are also worked on. We also propose a free trade agreement with Puerto Rico and Florida [PLAYER AND MOD RESPONSE NEEDED].
** Department of State, Puerto Rico The Puerto Rico government is welcoming of the proposed trade agreement
**Mod Response: Hybrid car salvage efforts are far more successful than their train counterparts, allowing for several hundred to be re-used. Trains, most of which crashed or were already unusable during the nuclear attacks, are largely unsalvageable save for the raw materials inside.
* Legion of California: The Army begins building fortifications in Palmdale, as the tight leash on the once press is tightened, with the government now able to issue a notice to the press at any moment to silence them from reporting on an issue. Los Angeles's sprawling network of freeways, once a cacophony of honking, driving, and colorful language, is eerily quiet as the rusting skeletons of pre-war cars stand beside real skeletons of the unlucky people who succumbed to the blasts. A new clean-up project is initiated, as volunteers from around the country attempt to clear the vital freeways of any cars, and to make Highway 14 and Freeway 5 available for commuting. 2066 is classified as the year of standardization, as everything from education to healthcare, even the nation's language is standardized. Keeping up with California's predecessor Colinas, people of the Inferno religion are kept out, not wanting to disturb the great people of the Legion with "undesirables".
* Lower Egypt: King Farouk III welcomes the Arab refugees entering the kingdom as it becomes the center of the Arab world. Flourishing trade leads to the Lower Egypt cities to grow and continue to improve. Egyptian merchants are also encouraged to travel further and reach out to other parts of North Africa and the Levant. Contacts with other cities and tribes are to be made. The King reorganizes a system of districts to administer the country's territory now that it is bigger. A port on the coast of the Red Sea, in the former Suez Governorate, is activated after being renovated by settlers from Cairo. Boats are being constructed there to travel across along the coast of the Arabian Peninsula further south. To the north, a team of explorers is sent to evaluate the condition of the Suez Canal. [Mod Response]
**Mod Response: The Suez Canal is in disrepair, but is still navigable.
=== 2067 ===
The New Silk Road is now a very important trade route between Europe and Asia. Small communities across Central Asia benefit greatly from the trade, with rudimentary city-states being set up along the trade routes. Among already-existing nations, Istanbul, Lower Egypt and Krymsky benefit the most, as the main trade routes of the New Silk Road pass through there.
The Order of the Inferno is established around Frederick, Maryland, and is openly hostile to all surrounding nations, joining the already-existing conflict in the region. Meanwhile, the Shrinedom of Bablada rapidly expands to the south, swallowing much of the I-95 corridor between Washingdon DC and Richmond. 
The US Government in Exile, with most of its troops shipped over from Hawaii to the mainland, now commences its reclamation by invading much of the San Francisco Bay Area, sparing settlements that surrender and conpletely destroying ones that don’t. This disrups trade routes across the West Coast, and leads to a refugee crisis in surrounding nations, including the California Legion.
Pirate raids on major cities on the Gulf Coast are now more frequent than ever, with three attempted raids on New Orleans this year alone.
The People’s Federation of China and the New Qing Empire are locked in a stalemate.
An Ezo merchant ship, bound for the colonies in Sakhalin, instead gets blown in a storm and gets shipwrecked on Attu Island, in the Aleutian Island chain.
* Republic of Ezo: While the loss of the merchant ship was frustrating, the government has no plans to search for it as they are unsure where it could even be and would be a strain. The government takes more measures to ensure the future safety of the ships. Meanwhile all of Kunashir Island is brought under the control of Ezo; and the abandoned area of is made as the capital, keeping the name but also adding a Japanese and Ainu name for the town. In former Yuzhno-Kurilsk, a small military base is made out some parts of the town; while the rest of the town begins to be either recovered or salvaged for parts. In other news, an exploration expedition is launched for the lower half of Iturup island; to check for any survivors. [Mod Response]
**Mod Response: Iturup Island is deserted, with nomads roaming the plains. A small community has formed that moves along its coasts, but there is nothing else.
* New Republic of Nebraska: News about the American government raid in San Francisco Bay Area spread, that it becomes the top headline in the country's weekly state newspaper the Great Plains Press. After arranging, renovating and organizing places in the country, we focus on rounding up small towns and uniting them into bigger cities. The surviving towns north of the Kansas City metropolitan area were incorporated as one city called Rovenwood. It becomes a new commercial center with an industry of steel and transport vehicle construction. Meanwhile, for the first time in years in the country's history, a EF2 tornado strikes near the Omaha Reservation, Causing severe damage to the mobile and small homes, knocking off trees and scattering plastic, metal and wood debris on the major roads.  
*   Tokyo-Yokohama: Hearing of the plight of Ezo's merchant ship, Tokyo-Yokohama offers to help rescue the merchants or assist in a possible rescue effort [Ezo Response Needed]. We send troops to occupy Mito, Utsunomiya and Tsukuba and begin the three-year integration plan, beginning the electrification of the full territory of the Republic. In addition, we respect the wishes of Takasaki, instead sending them an offer to join the Japanese Union, as we yet again send one to Kyoto, hoping for a response [Mod Response Needed]. The F4 Phantoms found begin testing as we continue construction of the three new ships. The Chuo Line and Tokaido Shinkansen are largely rebuilt as reconstruction continues across the country. The TYSDF continues North with a tradition of offering what is being nicknamed the 'Tsukuba deal' to settlements that have survived, travelling to Iwaki, Fukushima, Aizuwakamatsu and Sendai [Mod Response Needed].
**Republic of Ezo Response: The government accepts the help to rescue them, if they can be found.
**Mod Response: Takasaki agrees to joining the Japanese Union. Up north, only Iwaki agrees to join Tokyo-Yokohama, due to the other cities being too far removed from the core of the nation, but all except Aizuwakamatsu agree to join the Japanese Union.
* Lower Egypt: Trade continues to flourish as the Nile cities become a hubs of economic activity. With more wealth flowing into the kingdom's coffers, Farouk III organises more public works projects to increase the standard of living, building or rebuilding more roads and other infrastructure. Railway tracks are laid down along the Nile by teams of workers, connecting Cairo to other cities north and south of the capital. Another track is being built east towards the port of Suez. The Suez Canal is taken over by about 600 troops sent to secure the area, and is expected to boost trade even further. Ships capable of ocean travel are sent to the Arabian Peninsula and the Syrian-Lebanese coast, with instructions to see if anyone is there to make contact with. [Mod Response] Aswan and the other southern city states are asked to join the kingdom. [Mod Response] The Army recovers more pre-war equipment.
**Mod Response: The Syrian-Lebanese Coast, affected by the turmoil of nearby Israel and Palestine over the years, is largely empty with the exception of a few refugees. Aswan and the other city-states refuse, seeing Lower Egypt as a threat to their sovereignty, and unite into the Coalition of Nile States, a military alliance opposing Lower Egypt's unchecked power. They do not show immediate hostility.
*Yucatan: Raids on Yucatec soil have become a major issue for the election next year, and many are now calling to expand the Yucatec Navy to be able to get rid of piracy. The fortifications on the southern border, built to withstand invasions from outside powers and protection from hostile groups to the south, is also a major point, with the Social Democrats arguing that there is no need for the “Wall”, as they call it. The government starts encouraging start-up companies from Yucatan to expand and invest in other countries, to benefit the country and the general regions of Mexico, the Gulf Cloast and the Carribbean. With the salvaging of hybrid and electric cars, major roads start seeing repairs to make navigation by car more easy (although it still is only accessible to the upper class). The Coastal Bikeway is completed, and ongoing bike and tram projects continue. We look into the salvage of planes [MOD RESPONSE NEEDED].
**Mod Response: The salvage of planes is largely successful, restoring several commercial aircraft from before the war. However, without trained pilots, they will be difficult to put into use.
* New Commonwealth Republic of Puerto Rico: The government of Puerto Rico is concerned with news of the invasion and atrocities committed by the US-government in exile. Following two years of negotiation, the free-trade agreement between the Yucatan government and the Puerto Rico is signed and the first merchant vessel departed the reconstructed-Port of San Juan bound for Merida. In other news, an exploratory force of about 400-men from the 91-MIB is sent to explore Anguilla and St. Kitts & Nevis [Mod Response needed]. Following negotiations, the Puerto Rico government formally asked the Yucatan government to assemble the joint peace-keeping force to 'liberate' the Dominican Republic. [Player Response needed].
**Mod Response: Anguilla has become a stable trade destination as a tax haven from before the war, greeting Puerto Rican troops rather politely. St. Kitts & Nevis have become dependent on Anguilla, and both countries are aligned ideologically and economically.
* Erie Chiefdom: After several years of adopting changes and modernizing the government, a constitution is beginning to be drafted for the nation. It is decided that the council of elders will remain, but subservient to a new republic, like the old Senate. Restructuring of the nation begins, with Erie, PA becoming a special district under the administration of the council of elders. We begin looking to the north, and begin building up our army to prepare an invasion.
* Switzerland: Thanks to the recent trade ventures into Northern France, trade with the nations of old Britannia as well as the nations of Scandinavia has resumed. Additionally, The city-states of Italy have proven to be eager trade partners and have participated in the trade of Swiss goods into the Eastern Mediterranean and European Continent. That being said, after 2 years of preparation, the Swiss Federation is ready to launch a new fleet of merchant ships from the port of Nice that will traverse the Mediterranean and trade with all Mediterranean nations directly. To ensure continued security of the railway in the Southern Alps, military fortifications have been built all along the Southern Alps to defend against mountain people and attacking warlords. The majority of Switzerland's military is directed here and in the North. Meanwhile, Switzerland offers to send diplomats, advisers, scientists, and professionals to the various city-states of Northern Italy. [Mod Responses]
**Mod Response: The states of Northern Italy, threatened by Swiss actions in the Alps, reject all offers and begin building a barrier on the former Western Italian border together.
=== 2068 ===
City-states along the New Silk Road begin expanding, mainly along old highways in Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, to solidify and protect the trade routes that had revitalized the area. Among these city-states, the most influential in the region are Tehran, Tashkent, Samarkand, Almaty, Kabul and Urumqi.
Another side effect of the heavily increased trade between Asia and Europe is the population diffusion, with European merchants taking residence in Asian port cities, and vice versa. The main examples of this effect can be found in Shibuya, Tokyo-Yokohama (9% European), Otaru, Ezo (7% European), Qingdao, New Qing Empire (4% European), Yalta, Krymsky (6% Asian), Sakarya, Istanbul (5% Asian), and Lausanne, Switzerland (3% Asian).
The New Qing Empire and People’s Federation of China agree to a two-state solution, with the New Qing Empire taking northern China and the PFC taking the Yangtze River Valley.
The US government-in-exile moves completely to the San Fransisco Bay Area, proclaims the re-establishment of the United States, and establishes the capital in New Washington (formerly Palo Alto).
Piracy in the Carribbean subsides a bit, but is still very problematic.
* Democracy of Krymsky: Expansion is made across the coast in the northwest. The state of Abkhazia is pushed into a personal union after the King is poised, allowing for the Krymskian heir to take the throne. The state of Moldova begins being warred, with over 1,500 men armed to the teeth with automatic machine guns and assisted by naval cannons and artillery invading in the night unexpectedly. Due to Krymskian dominance in the region and it's higher level of technology, the war is seen as being over well before it started [Mod]. Discoveries are made, and soon the state of Pontus is asked for an alliance and possible royal marriage [Mod]. A state of Romania, neighboring Moldova, is asked if they wish to become a protectorate of the Krymskian state [Mod]. Better farming techniques are made, and as a result, the population rises to 1,100,000.
**Mod Response: Moldova does not put up much of a fight, and is overrun within weeks. Pontus agrees to the alliance.
**Pontus (Mod Response): We accept the offer.
* Erie Chiefdom: We begin expanding southward towards the Allegheny River, and send a small force of 50 men to explore the wastes of Pittsburgh to see if anything of value can be found. [Mod Response Required] We continue to build up our army, using whatever materials we can find, using up weapons in the nearby armories. We take a few of these weapons and begin to reverse engineer them to create our own. Due to the lack of oil to power vehicles, we also begin researching alternative fuels, with the main contender being an alcohol based gasoline substitute. Further reformations begin in the government, with a voting system being decided on, and several other minor reforms to slowly transform this into a republic, however, the main champion of Republicanism in the Chiefdom, the elder Uncle Bob, dies of old age at age 97, putting a halt on any major reforms.
* Switzerland: The Swiss government expresses deep disappointment at the the Italian responses and moves the military to patrol the Swiss side of the Western Italian border (now the entire southern Alps). Military fortifications are built in strategic locations all along the mountain range with steep mountain sides and the harsh climate - in addition to the heavy artillery and anti-air guns (though why I would need this against a largely non-existent enemy air-force I don't know) housed within these forts. A total of 6 are built with 6 more planned for next year. Many smaller watch-posts are also built. The Swiss and South Swiss Alps will be defended to the end against any enemy attack. Meanwhile, Switzerland's first proper Navy Base is built in Nice and 4 destroyers and a dozen other ships are under construction though it is expected to take a few years to complete. This however, is not the DoD's main focus. Instead, UAVs and UNVs are being extensively researched with the Department of Science and Technology and is expected to bear its first prototypes in 4 to 5 years. Dozens of missions are sent to the surrounding European lands to scout for pre-War Unmanned Vehicle tech and research to accelerate domestic research.
* Republic of Ezo: While the government allows the non-Russian Europeans to stay in the nation; they are required to learn one of the three official languages (Ainu, Russian and/or Japanese) if they wish to live permanently. Cession in Hokkaido proper (aka the island itself, not including outside territories and other islands) becomes banned as a precaution so to prevent non-Russian Europeans from creating their own state or an autonomous port. Meanwhile expansion begins in Iturup island, with a few settlements being established in the southern part; and also invites any communities and such to join the nation with representation and benefits. [Mod Response]
**Mod Response: The few scattered conmunities on Iturup agree to join Ezo.
*Yucatan: Election year comes upon the Republic of Yucatan again, and this year the two main candidates are Jorge Raul Lopez, a libertarian supporting less government regulation of utillities such as power companies, as well as war with the pirates of Jamaica, being more isolationist, and supporting millitary incursions into hostile territory in Chiapas, and Ramón Castro, who claims to be a descendant of Fidel Castro (although that claim is very sketchy and most likely untrue), and promotes socialistic policies such as introducting the welfare system, subsidizing small businesses to help them grow at the expense of more established corporations, more government-funded utilities, and the diminishing of the role of the Yucatec Militia and Navy. The race is tight, with many richer, urban areas supporting Lopez and poorer, rural areas supporting Castro [MOD RESPONSE ON ELECTION RESULTS]. Projects on infrastructure, education and healthcare continue to be funded, with the goal to have a more accessible Yucatan, with basic services available to all communities. The subsiding of piracy in the Caribbean, as well as the re-establishment of corporations and major businesses in the country, has improved the Yucatec economy somewhat, and we make measures to improve the economy even further by cutting income taxes to 15%, and property taxes to 10%. We also designate the port town of Akumal, on the eastern shore of the Yucatan Peninsula, as a free trade zone, with other countries able to invest freely with minimal taxes (3% property, corporate and income taxes). Pilots are being trained following the discovery of salvaged planes, with hopes of an Air Force coming soon. The 2068 Yucatec census is also taken, with a population of 752,500.
**Mod Response: Castro narrowly wins the election, as masses of lower class residents of Yucatan pour out to vote. Despite this, illegal voting is suspected, as many of Castro's voters are poor and some rumored to be unregistered.
* Tokyo-Yokohama: The upcoming General Elections in 2070 are marked by a hurried flurry of rebuilding efforts across the Greater Tokyo Bay area and rushes to change and fix everything up. The TYSDF is sent West and South, towards Kanagawa, the only urban location close to the original Tokyo Prefecture not yet under our jurisdiction, to occupy the area, as occurs with the mountain areas near Saitama and Kawasaki [Mod Response Needed]. The growing European population in Shibuya is something of a surprise, and while we accept the full right of the European population to exercise their own religion and language through establishment of them as recognised languages, we insist that they must learn Japanese as well for easy communication. Following this, we send delegates to both the People's Federation of China and Qing China to hopefully establish relations [Mod Response Needed]. The TYNSDF is sent towards the Aleutian Islands to find the lost crew and a separate detatchment leaves with the only major naval ship in Tokyo-Yokohama's possession - theYamato - towards the former United States of America to establish relations with the new nations there [Mod Response Needed].
**Mod Response: The Army successfully occupies Kanagawa with little resistance. The People’s Federation and Qing China agree to open embassies and consulates in each other’s countries, and hopes for continued good relations. In North America, the lost crew of the Ezo merchant ship is found on Attu Island, having have built a rudimentary settlement, and have had contact with the people in Alaska, and, most notably, the Denali Chiefdom. The Yamato continues on, and establishes contact with the nations of the Pacific Coast of North America.
* New French Republic: We finally get our internet back online, and new websites are created to house information. We start exporting cucumbers and artichokes to our allies. We are proud to announce the Peace Keepers have 3,400 armed members. We condemn Switzerland's actions towards Italy. President Boulet (who just won a second term), says that unwarranted hostility in times like this are bad for everyone. Finally, our first air base is built just outside of New Paris.
** Swiss Dip: The Ambassador kindly reminds France that Switzerland made no hostile moves against Italy and is simply responding to ITALIAN hostility in the form of a wall.
* Lower Egypt: General Salé Aziz Cheikly steps down as Prime Minister after a term that was viewed largely successful, noted for the development of the kingdom's infrastructure and population. His Majesty King Farouk appoints Admiral Yasin al-Kaylani as his successor, formerly the Chief of the Royal Egyptian Navy. Egyptian nationalism and the Ancient Egyptian religion are adopted as the state ideology and religion, respectively, in a new royal decree. The other major religions are still allowed to exist, but ancient Egyptian belief is promoted by the state. Egyptian merchants make their way from the Nile region into other parts of the Middle East, and from there further into Central Asia. They bring back word of other peoples and goods from those far off lands. Some even make it as far to the east as the Chinese realm, entering the Qing Empire and People's Federation. The government continues encouraging them to develop economic ties along the new Silk Road. Meanwhile, 8,000 men are prepared to launch an invasion of Aswan and the other independent city states. The navy readies transport barges and gunboats to maintain maritime supremacy. Armored vehicles are also prepared. Teams of explorers meanwhile search for other former settlements along the Nile and establish outposts, future towns, every several dozen kilometers along the banks of the Nile. This spreads the kingdom's influence and territorial control.
=== 2069 ===
With the Tokyo-Yokohaman arrival on the west coast of North America, nations there now have contact with Japan, and rudimentary trade networks have been set up. Many settlements in Alaska and Hawaii prosper as stopping points for American ships bound for Japan, prompting the Denali Chiefdom to begin reforms. Ezo also gets a foothold on North America, with the lost merchant ship settlement on Attu Island pledging allegiance to its country of origin.
The United States begins expanding into the Sacramento Valley.
Meanwhile on the East Coast, the Irish make contact with the nations of the East Coast. Unlike the Japanese nations, however, the Irish have more imperialistic tendencies, and see the ongoing religious war in Virginia and Maryland as an opportunity for overseas expansion and the establishment of the Irish Empire as the dominant nation on Earth. Due to economic restraints, they decide on beginning the first settlement within the upcoming years.
In Europe, tribal societies in western Poland and eastern Belarus form the Slavic Horde, and begin raiding German towns.
The area around the New Silk Road is now a completely governed and stable area, allowing trade from Europe to arrive in East Asia and India without threats of raids. This further facilitates trade between the two continents.
* Republic of Ezo: With the lost Ezo ship not only being contacted again and also declaring allegiance to its country of origin; Attu Island is claimed by the government. However, expansion further than the island is banned until further notice and a more proper link is established. A change in plans is also made as a result; with planned future expansion into Kamchatka after the Kurils, in order to better connect with Attu Island. In the meantime, expansion continues on Iturup island with the northern part seeing two settlements being established. The government itself begins plans for some alterations, mainly transferring from a unitary state to a federal state.
* Tokyo-Yokohama: We welcome all American ships, regardless of nation - whether it be the Californian Legion, the United States, or Cascadia. The electrification of almost all areas under Tokyo-Yokohama jurisdiction, with the current exception of Kanagawa, is complete, and thus the Diet approves plans to begin building designated free trade ports at Kashima, Kujukuri, Choshi, Isumi, Kamogawa, and Tateyama, which we expect will be fully completed by 2074. These will be completely open to our American friends, as well as our Ezo, Russian, Chinese and Taiwanese friends in the region. We also begin discussions with the other members of the Japanese Union to discuss how access amongst our nations to these new ports should be shared [Mod Response Needed]. Tokyo-Yokohama expresses no objections to Ezo's claim of Attu Island, and pledge assistance if necessary to the Ezo government for occupying and integrating the island into their country [Ezo Player Response Needed]. The continued restoration of rail lines brings us to the refurbishment of most of the Tobu Tojo, Asakusa and Ginza Lines in Tokyo-Yokohama jurisdiction. Trade Minister Tagomi's brainchild in Shibuya is completed after seven years, producing an astounding amount of produce in its first year of operation, and easing many food supply worries for our burgeoning population, which is then put up to census again [Mod Response Needed].
**Republic of Ezo Response: The government accepts the offer.
**Mod Response: The Japanese Union comes to a conclusion that each nation should have at least one free port open to foreign traders. The census records 4.2 million people.
* Legion of California: We welcome the opening of communication, and possible diplomatic ties and trade in the near future. Electricity is back online for all military bases, and we expect power to be back to all government facilities by 2075. We send expeditions to head into "The Inferno", former San Diego which has been obliterated by the nuclear holocaust, in a vain attempt to scrap any naval assets that might still might be there. [Mod Response] The wind howls over former Downtown LA, the remains of the once mighty skyscrapers reduced to their skeletal beams. We scrap these beams to melt into more useful material. Some form of education is put into place, mostly dealing with agriculture and self defense.
**Mod Response: San Diego's ruins produce nothing for the scout team. Rubble and debris scattered all over the city hide whatever riches might have been.
* Florida: Stephanie Murphy continues her regional term, as she continues to expand the Floridian economy and improving life standards. The city near the gulf coast is finished, and we sent trading ships to the Yucatan to export materials to there homeland. We reach out to the Republic of Carolina, and ask if we can work a deal for trading and a general alliance while i stay with Puerto Rico and Yucatan for trade deals [Player Response Needed]. A exporting ship lost contact with us in the gulf coast of Cuba, and we reported a shipwreck while exportion began. Senate elections begin, as former Senator Thomas Hadden resigned due to national issues with trading. Senator runner, as well as conservative Tanya Maddie, opposed the other candidate's promises, as well as former running buddy of Marco Rubio, Yari Kamsly [Mod Response for Elections Needed].
**Mod Response: With no clear support for either candidate, third-party Left-Libertarian John Kennedy wins the elections on promises of supporting President Murphy and expanding healthcare protections.
**Yucatan Diplomacy: We accept the trade deals.
* Yucatan: With President Ramón Castro being inaugurated as the 3rd President of Yucatan, social reforms are put into place, ensuring a minimum wage of 300 Yucatec Pesos per month, illegalizing child labor, and making a maximum 10 hour work day. Public appropriation of utilities such as power and water begin. We propose to Florida and Puerto Rico for a joint project to start an intranet, allowing for easier and faster communication with each other [PLAYER RESPONSE NEEDED]. New companies, mostly in banking and retail, start up, and to accommodate these businesses, the Mall of Yucatan, the first post-war shopping mall in the Gulf Coast region, begins construction in north Cancun. The Central and Southern Bikeways are finished, fully establishing the major bikeways of Yucatan, and construction on smaller, regional bike highways begins, in a goal to connect every community to the bikeway system. Pre-war highways are also being repaired to allow easier travel by car, and trams are implemented across the nation’s urban areas. Efforts to supply easy access to education and healthcare continue, with more schools, hospitals and clinice being constructed. Life is beginning to go back to what it was like pre-war, with most having basic survival needs met, as well as electricity and clean running water.
**Florida Government: Since the internet is down and we can start the joint project, i accept your proposal for better communication.
** State Dept, Puerto Rico: We gladly accepts the offer and look forward to collaborating on a joint inter-government effort to establish an intranet
* Lower Egypt: Under the cover of night, the Egyptian military moves 8,000 troops down the Nile towards Aswan and other city states. They begin landing operations, bringing troops and vehicles on shore from barges. These troops then move quickly to take control of the key targets of each city to take control. Another 7,000 troops are prepared back in Cairo as a reserve. [Mod Response] Trade with the Levant, North Africa, and other regions continues. The port of Suez and the Suez Canal is opened to traffic, with a garrison stationed there to tax ships that want to pass through the canal.
**Mod Response: The city states of Egypt are unprepared and fall quickly, however, the surviving millitias of these city-states regroup in the Sahara and start launching guerilla attacks on major Lower Egyptian cities.
=== 2070 ===
The Slavic Horde beings growing in power, and begins to post an existential threat on the German Federation and, to a much lesser extent due to their shared language, Krymsky.
A border incident takes place on the border between Switzerland and the Italian city-states, with a small incursion of Italian militias, and is quickly beat back. However, captured Italian soldiers say that they have been funded by France. France, however, asserts that it had no idea this was going to happen, and that the Italians are lying. No matter which is true, relations between Switzerland and France have soured tremendously.
Much of the Sacramento Valley js now under the control of the United States, and troops have been seen moving to the south, towards the California Legion.
More proper trade has been established between Asia and the Americas, and many European merchants residing in the Japanese states have become very useful, acting as interpretors between the Americans and the Japanese. Meanwhile, news of the rediscovery of North America reaches Europe, and many European nations establish trade with the nations of the American East Coast via Japan, and plan to later reach America by the Atlantic Ocean.
Japan becomes the richest area on Earth after huge influxes of trade due to being the crossroads between the Trans-Pacific trade route and the New Silk Road.
The climate is mostly back to normal, and the nuclear winter has ended.
* Republic of Ezo: Iturup island continues to be consolidated; and the entire island is given representation in the parliament. Meanwhile the process in moving to a federal state begins and all Russian communities are given representation. The radio tower and station in Wakkanai is completed and opened for operations. Some trains begin to be salvaged as plans to resurrect JR Hokkaido railways are made. [Mod Response] Exploration begins for Urup island; once again checking for survivors. [Mod Response] Meanwhile the government continues aims to pursue closer ties with Russian nations; and sends a separate expedition along the Primorsky Krai coast; going upwards from Terney. [Mod Response]
**Mod Response: The railways, who mostly only rotted away as the years went by, are as intact as unserviced-for-fourty-years railroads can be (not really). Urup is largely empty, with small crashes of USAF, JASDF and RAF aircraft scattered across the island, the site of one of the only battles before the bombs fell. Russian nations respond positively to Ezo's push for closer ties, and the coast of the former Primorsky Krai only has several settlements without knowledge of the outside world, surprised to see Ezo troops there.
* Florida:As John Kennedy took control over the Senate, he began to establish the healthcares with professional doctors, as well as childcare systems across Florida. Since the Republic of Carolina lacked any interest in the alliance, Florida begins to expand in military size and strength, as technological affairs with generals become more complexed and advanced. Finally, Stephanie Murphy begins to send scouts more south to Gainesville, to search for scattered citizens that wanna join us [Mod Response]. While thats happening, Stephanie began to raise spending towards our education and healthcare systems, while spending 23% of that money for the military equipment. Debbie Wasserman Schultz steps down from the Vice President spot, in which Murphy appointed a new vice president candidate, Emma Kony.
**Mod Response: You already control Gainesville, Florida. Doesn't count as an implausibility strike, but please check the map when you're going to search for crap.
* Tokyo-Yokohama: The largest General Elections in our history bring life back to the seats of the former Japanese Diet in Tokyo, upping the members of the Diet to 135 and adding fifteen observer members for the member nations of the Japanese Union. We also invite non-members, specifically Ezo, California, the United States, Yucatan, the People's Federation of China and Qing China [Player/Mod Response Needed] to become observer members of the Japanese Union. The exploding population forces the new Diet to agree on a multitude of new reforms, from educational reform to teach the increasing young population to healthcare reform through attracting international professionals. The Nobita and Mirai, both helicopter defence destroyers (no aircraft on board as of yet), are completed, but the ammo is to be delivered early 2071 due to lack of materials. The TYASDF is set up as a separate force to expand the air capabilities of our country, as we begin subsidising foreign engineers and professionals in the aircraft industry who travel here in hopes of attracting immense foreign talent to teach our own [Mod Response Needed]. The ports that are to be shared with the other members of the Japanese Union are agreed on as we offer another agreement of simply free-trade among all members of the Union rather than isolated trade deals [Mod Response Needed]. Lastly, the first Comiket in over five decades is held, attracting a fledgling tourist industry and a burgeoning retail industry.
** Yucatec Diplomacy: We wholehartedly accept the offer to become an observer state of the Japanese Union, and President Castro expresses desire to set up trade links and cultivate good relations with the nations of Asia.
**Republic of Ezo Diplomacy: The government kindly declines.
**Mod Response: The United States and the People’s Federation of China agree to join the Japanese Union as an observer, but the New Qing Empire politely declines, saying that it “prefers not to get into foreign affairs while the nation is young”.
* New French Republic: In response to Swiss hostility towards Italy, and basically every other sovereign state in the entirely of Europe and Aisia and because of our tensions we increase our ground forces by another 800, brining the total up to 4,200. We begin building forts on our northern territories, as well as putting in motion a plan to rebuild our air force, which has less then 50 active planes. We send soldiers and tanks northward to start taking more land, to expand our industry. Manufacturing needs a massive boost in France to sustain our growing needs. We deny anything Italy has said. We also send troops westward to retake control of all southern French lands. We assure The Nations of the French Commonwealth that we have no interest in taking their land. Our navy continues to grow in size, and we send an expedition to northern Algeria to check for civilizations. [Mod Response Needed]. Finally, we end on a more peaceful note, our final school in our education plan is built, providing education to thousands of French children.
**Mod Response: Algeria has descended into chaos and desertion. Nothing occupies the space except gunfire and infighting between multiple differing factions, only two of which seem remotely responsive to the French Republic.
* Republic of Scotland: The Republic of Scotland gives Lancashire an ultimatum: acknowledge our existence and begin relations or be invaded. Scotland begins to gather more weapons and supplies.
**Mod Response: This is very amusing indeed. Just be warned: This is also a pretty dumb way of getting more land. I won't interfere if you invade thanks to Hexarafi's being absent (in fact, I welcome you invading him, we need some player-on-player action), but don't ever try this stunt on other active players, because then it simply counts as an implausibility. No country goes to war over being ignored; if not, Canada would have already been at war!
* The Legion: Troops are stationed on the northern flank upon news of hostile forces incoming. WIP
* Switzerland: The Consul of Switzerland is honestly alarmed at the sudden and unexpected 'betrayal' by France. A diplomatic troupe is dispatched to France to calm tensions via discourse and open talks. [Player Response] In addition to that, an open line of communication is opened up between the President of the New French Republic and the Swiss Consul. Switzerland sincerely hopes this is simply a massive misunderstanding. [Secret] Due to the unfortunate nature of geopolitical tension escalation, Switzerland must nonetheless prepare for any potential conflict. With undeniable sadness, the DoD begins arming the Western Alps and move troops and artillery to the Western border. Anti-aircraft guns are reactivated and positioned in dozens of small forts on the Western border. Additionally, surveillance of French airbases begins to keep track of French air capabilities. Also, as a precaution against a massive alliance against Switzerland (man, this is necessary?), Swiss personnel are embedded in the various courts of Northern French independent states under the guise of French advisers (we are mostly trilingual after all). [/Secret] In other news, Swiss diplomats formally inquire if the German Federation and Austria would like Swiss assistance in battling the Slavic Horde. [Mod Responses]
**Austria (Mod Response): We accept the offer and thank Switzerland for its assistance.
**Deutscher Bund (Mod Response): We refuse Switzerland's offer, citing recent events with Northern Italian states and suspicious of the true nature of the militias attacking Switzerland. Noticing Swiss activity along the Alps, Germany wonders aloud whether Switzerland truly intends to assist our nations.
**French Diplomacy: Our diplomats do not wish to meet with Swiss diplomats.
* New Republic of Nebraska: The first post-war shopping mall in the former United States opens, called the Novus Renaissance Mall, located in downtown Omaha. It is a two story relatively small building with tenants of local retail chains. It becomes the new hangout for citizens in the country. Meanwhile, we set up factories manufacturing textiles and simple stationery in Western Nebraska. 
*Yucatan: Yucatan reaches out to the nations of Japan, offering them to establish embassies in each others’ lands [PLAYER RESPONSE NEEDED]. In an effort to obtain a Pacific port and make trans-Pacific trade coming into Yucatan easier, we begin scouting areas in the western half of the eastern half of Tabasco and the western half of Chiapas, offering any communities representation in government and immediate citizenship of Yucatan if they join the country [MOD RESPONSE NEEDED] . We also ask the Floridian government for permission to open a branch of the Bank of Yucatan in Tallahassee [PLAYER RESPONSE NEEDED]. Government subsidization of struggling businesses begins, and efforts to create a welfare system are underway. Laws are also passed requiring signs on government offices, highways, bikeways, and tram stops to be bilingual Spanish/Mayan. Electrification of the country is estimated to be at 90% completion, and complete electrification of the country is estimated to be finished next year. Infrastructure projects continue. In other news, the Mall of Yucatan opens in the northern suburbs of Cancun, almost halfway between the finacial center of downtown Cancun and the capital, Chachmuchuch. This is the first post-war shopping mall to open in former Mexico, and is smaller compared to pre-war shopping malls, being only two stories tall and around half the size of a city block, and it is populated with local retail and restaurant chains, as well as a few pubs and bars serving tequila. This new construction is hailed nationwide as a “return to pre-war ways”, a “new image for Yucatan”, and a “revival of shopping and nightlife in North America”.
**Floridian Dip: The government allows the branch to be opened.
**Republic of Ezo Diplomacy: The government kindly declines.
**Tokyo-Yokohama Diplomacy: We agree to open an embassy and thank Yucatan for its generous diplomacy.
**Shinihon Diplomacy: Under Emperor Nise's government, we accept.
**Mod Response: The communities in Chiapas accept, but request a degree of autonomy in return for annexation.
**Yucatan Response: We accept this, and group the communities in Chiapas into the Kiche Autonomous Province.
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