Anakhronismos Map Game Archives

==Turns==
===Turn I (1444)===
====Events====
*The Event: As of 11th November 2019, all Exiled nations have anonamously been transported to 11th November 1444. Power outages and water shortages occur. The Internet falls into disuse as underwater optic fibre cables are abruptly cut off at the edge of the EEZs of the Exiled. Disoriented planes and ships struggle to find un-Exiled destinations, while a mere handfull of satellites make it into this archaic era. 
*History As We Know It: All events that take place throughout the remainder of 1444 take place without a hitch, so long as they are not within Exiled territory. News does not travel so fast in such eras.
*Communications: Exiled territories are theoretically able to contact each other via analog radio, or much less likely, via satellite comms. Entities attempting communications will be able to broadcast, however the receiving range is limited, and who knows what you'll find?
====The former Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong====
*Government: Former autonomous region, under an emergency government
**Chief Executive: Carrie Lam (until 20th November 2019/1444); Vacant (since 20th November 2019/1444)
*Military: Hong Kong is divided up into two 'military' sections, one is the PLA garrison that is based in Hong Kong prior to the displacement (6,000 troops based in Hong Kong) and the other is civilians who become the paramilitary, which number thousands, if not tens of thousands more of them in mind with makeshift weapons. The police also are quite loyal to the PLA and the former government headed under Carrie Lam, which could spark a civil war between the people and what's left of the People's Republic of China.
*Diplomacy:
**Ming Dynasty: Despite the Hong Kong government doesn't want to get the attention of the Ming dynasty so far as they haven't been caught up on what happened, the exodus might see many locals becoming confused that many wearing modern clothes (which could either be obscene to them or outright offensive) were wandering with no notice. They could even unintentionally bring the Ming imperial army into the vicinity as well.
**Outside of Hong Kong: Many of the PLA troops garrisoned in Hong Kong began tuning into other places, hoping that there are signs of those having allegiance to the PLA or the Party itself. They hope to reorganise their military and turn Hong Kong into a typical mainland city (before the Event), despite it being practically useless and that they should've been part of Hong Kong's new military force by now.
**Taiwan: Many of the Hongkongers head towards the island of Taiwan, hoping that the government comes for Hong Kong, as they are in a dire situation, in exchange for them being settled here.
*Economy: When the displacement of Hong Kong came, the first thing that came to mind is the full stock market flatlining. The People's Republic of China is no longer there to support the businesses that want to expand internationally, so they got cut off the line as well. With shortage of water and food (there isn't much of arable land through Hong Kong due to its rough terrain and that cities have taken over much of the lowlands) thanks to the displacement, expect Hong Kong to destabilise to the point that a civil war could eventually emerge as part of a survival of the fittest scheme.
*Events: No, I'm not going to destroy Hong Kong immediately, I'm just trying to do this as "realistically" as possible, since Hong Kong has gone through turmoil.
**Transferred to a Whole New World: Hong Kong was suddenly transferred without anyone noticing. It has been two months since Hong Kong has started to see protests coming down nicely to the expectations of the Hong Kong government. However, the extradition bill remains in a limbo. But all changed on 11th November 2019 when they were transported back 600 years ago. Initially, all goes well until many realise that their phones got bricked by the lack of Internet access and responses from the outside world being essentially nil. This led to many realising that there must be something wrong, that according to young students, China must've deliberately wiped out power and water supply in the consequences of these peaceful protests that they've made few months ago. But, they realise that this wasn't the reason when they suddenly decide to cross over without a notice, they no longer see the highly-urbanised city of Shenzhen anymore that used to extremely contrast Hong Kong and mainland China, but smaller settlements, which contrast much closer to what Hong Kong would be like, just much more primitive. Mainland Chinese tourists and residents were also quite confused.
**The Overthrowing of a Corrupt Ruler: Few days after the transportation, these students and most Hongkongers eventually come to the belief that it was a miracle, that they actually got their independence from China from this event (although they weren't aware that there were South China Sea bases that survived the transportation so far, they believe that all of China is just gone and replaced with a primitive counterpart). This had led to many young students storming multiple government buildings to call for universal suffrage to be imposed finally and for "Beijing puppet" Carrie Lam to step down as Chief Executive. By 20th November however, Carrie Lam was suddenly becoming emotional over the events that happen all of a sudden and decided to immediately resign, hoping for the people to be appeased. An emergency government was established soon after, one with no leader, but that is just the beginning.
**Violence and the Exodus: As December came, Hong Kong was running out of water and food, leading to the emergency government declaring that people must ration out food. This had led to some of the Hongkongers beginning to move up north with buckets and fetching water from the river instead up north of what formerly is China, then going back. December also saw the threat of violence increasing. Since the gang violence in one of the stations back in July, many were wary that this is going to escalate, as democracy is not fully instated thanks to an emergency government that has no centralised leadership, leading to some forming smaller paramilitary groups through Hong Kong to protect themselves from government-hired thugs and even the remains of the People's Liberation Army, which pledged loyalty to the Party still and thus protect the emergency government of Hong Kong. Fishing has started to become a regular occurrence along the ocean, with many boats that are still available being used to catch nets and return home with fish, though are still unaware that South China Sea bases still exist. Then there's also an exodus event. Many mainlanders who were transported were tired of living in Hong Kong and Hongkongers who don't like living in these new conditions have started moving away from Hong Kong in anticipation of a possible civil war. Even though they don't really take notice that the People's Republic of China is gone, they crossed over Hong Kong and into the Ming Dynasty, unaware that they could be captured. They also went by boat and flee all directions, including some Hongkongers to the east who believe that Taiwan is still there and that they could support Hong Kong.
====Kingdom of Portugal====
*Government: Despotic monarchy.
**Ruling Family (House of Aviz)
***Regency for King Afonso V under the Duke of Coimbra (1438-)
*Economy: Our economy foundation is solidly based on trade, we export as many good as we can across the European and the known African continent.
*Capital: Lisbon
*Demographics:
**Population: 1,066,109
**Religion: 94% Christian, 4% Islam, 2% other.
*Portuguese Military
**Infantry: 15,000
**Archers: 5,000
**Calvary: 2,500
*Portuguese Navy
**Carrack: 2
**Caravel: 7
**Transport Ships: 30
**Trading Ships: 50
*Wars and Conflicts
**Siege of Gibraltar: When returning from a trade mission to the Kingdom of Aragon a group of sailors passing by the Stait of Gibraltar noticed a strange futuristic city where the city of Gibraltar usually sat. After quickly returning home to Lisbon a letter was sent to the king regent regarding the city, deciding to act first to beat other countries getting there first, a dispatchment of 15k troops and the whole navy to support the transportation of the army was sent to Gibraltar. After arriving outside Gibraltar a battle took place with two futuristic ships, after taking heavy losses the ships were subdued, and a siege started of the city, and an ultimatum was sent to the few soldiers and police forces there.
*Diplomacy:
**Castile: We would like to continue and expand our friendship with a fully secured alliance, a royal marriage and a profitable trade agreement for the both of us.
**England: We keep our alliance with them and improve relations with them.
*Events
**The Young Afonso: After the death of his father, Edward I, Afonso V assumed the throne at the age of 12, being to young to fully assume the throne, his uncle the Duke of Coimbra was made regent. The regents main goal is and has been expanding the power of the crown as peacefully as possible without angering the other noble houses.
==== Mexico City ====
* Government: Federal Republic
** Demography: 45% mestizo, 25% white, 10% native, 20% other
** Religion: 75% Catholic, 15% Other Christians, 4% Atheists, 2%Jewish, 1%Muslim, 3% other
** Population: 9,000,000
** Political Ideology: 20% conservatives, 15% constitutionalists, 25% social democrats, 9% socialists, 8% social conservatives, 5% green conservatives, 6% progressive, 3% marxists, 4% nationalists, 2% synarchists (fascists), 1% trotskyists, 2% others
** Political Parties: MORENA(social democrat), PAN (conservatives), PRI (Constitutionalists), PRD (social democrat opposition) PT (socialists), PES (social conservatives), MC (progressive), PVEM (ecologists), FNM (nationalists, unofficial), PCM (marxists, unofficial), UNS (synarchists, unofficial), PRT (trotskyist), CS (trotskyist), PCP (tecnochratic)
** Leader: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (elections July 1 2024/1449, taking of power December 1)
*** Chamber of Deputies: 500 seats: 258 social democrats, 29 social conservatives, 28 socialists, 9 independent (government); 78 conservatives, 47 constitutionalists, 28 progressives, 11 ecologists, 11 other social democrats (opposition), 1 vacant
*** Senate of the Republic: 128 seats: 59 social democrats, 6 socialists, 5 social conservatives (government); 24 conservatives, 14 constitutionalists, 8 progressives, 6 ecologists, 5 other social democrats, 1 independent (opposition)
* Economy: We are dealing with a serious lack of resources, after the Parres battle and the revelation that we are on the 1300s or 1400s, the government and military are having plans on attacking the Aztecs for raw materials, as Mexico City is heavily industrialized
* Military:
** Army: 10,000 plus around 5,000 in PMCs (Private Military Companies)
** Navy: None
** Equipment: 100,000 military firearms, around 1 million civilian firearms
** Aircraft: 30 helicopters, 80 fighters, 5 transport planes
** Armoured Vehicles and Tanks: 50 AFVs, 100 IFVs, 30 LAVs, 15 SPGs
** Actions: We put all of our men on guard on the borders
** Shipyard: We haven't reached the coast yet
* Wars and Conflicts: None yet
** Country A - Country B War:
* Diplomacy:
** Tlaxcala: we are trying to get some emissaries by land, as the Aztec defenses are rather easy to avoid
** Anyone: we send a radio transmission to try to make contact with other Exiled nations
* Events
** The Event: After the Event many people freaked out, as scientists of the UNAM say that we were thrown to another time, but just including Mexico City and the people are scared. We found that we are on the post-classic period of the pre-colonial era but we cant determinate which year. Also the people were scared at first, as sightings of Aztec looking warriors were coming from the borders, and we are starting to try to invade the Aztecs for farming space
** Attack of Parres: the town of Parres was attacked by Aztec looking warriors, although the raid was ineffective as the civilians had firearms and captured some warriors, which confirmed our hypothesis when some nahuatl speaking scholars helped the military on interrogating them
** Important people who were Exiled: Claudia Sheinbaum: Governor of the city, all senators and deputies, Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente aka Subcommander Marcos: leader of the ZANL, 200 other politicians, Enrique Peña Nieto: ex-president and Carlos Slim: former multimillionaire
====Republic of Armenia====
*Government: Semi-Presidential Republic (under an indefinitely extended State of Emergency effective from November 18, 2019/1444)
**President: Armen Sarkissian
**Prime Minister: Nikol Pashinyan
**Laws and Policies:
***Rationing: Strict rationing of food has been implemented, with each person being alloted 1900 calories of food per day. Electricity and running water will also be cut from 9pm to 9am daily.
***Curfew and Martial Law: A 9pm curfew has come into effect, due to the massive increase in general public unrest. A state of martial law also existed between November 11-25, 2019/1444.
***State of Emergency: A State of Emergency has been called, allowing the President and Prime Minister full control over the Republic of Armenia. Future elections are suspended for the time being, although President Armen Sarkissian has pledged to try to restore a semblance of normality to the nation within 5 years.
***Foreign Citizens stuck inside Armenia: As many tourists and expats have been transported through time along with us, we offer them permanent resident status in Armenia, as it is unlikely that we will be able to return to the modern era anytime soon.
*Capital: Yerevan
*Economy: The Armenian economy has been rocked by the sudden unexplained temporal displacement event. The country's stock exchange has been hit hard by these unfolding events, with the economy on a downward turn. The communications industry has been hit especially hard, with the Armenian telecommunications industry almost completely decimated. As Armenia relies heavily on outside exports of energy and oil, power shortages have roiled the nation, and large swathes of the country are without electricity or gasoline. The panic of the general population does not help with this grave issue.
*Demographics:
**Population: 3,046,100
**Religion: 94.8 Christian (92.5% Armenian Apostolic,) 0.8% Yazidi Muslim, 0.2% Pagan, 4% None/Other
**Ethnicity: 98.1% Armenian, 1.9% other (Yazidis, Kurds, Russians, etc.)
*Military:
**Armenian Military: Almost all of the Armenian military have made it through the transition through time. The military is now patrolling the borders of the country.
***Army:
****Troops: 80,000 troops, 32,000 reserves
****Tanks: 20 T-80 tanks, 137 T-72 tanks, 8 T-54/55 tanks
****Other motorized infantry vehicles: 80 BMP-1s, 7-BMP-1Ks, 55 BMP-2s, 12 BRM-1Ks, 11 BTR-60s, 21 BTR-70s, 4 BTR-80s, 145 MT-LBs, 5 BMD-1s, 120 BRDM-2 scout vehicles
***Air Force: 15 Su-25 ground attack planes, 1 MiG-25 jet fighter, 16 Mil Mi-24 helicopter gunships, 6 L-39 trainer and attack aircraft, 16 Yak-52 trainer aircraft, 3 Il-76 cargo planes, 18 Mil Mi-8 transport helicopters, 10 Mil Mi-2 light utility helicopters, 1 anti-aircraft missile brigade, 2 regiments armed with 100 anti-aircraft complexes.
**Military Prescence of Other Countries:
***Russian bases in Armenia: The Russian 102nd Military Base, as well as all its equipment and personnel, have all been brought along during temporal displacement as well. The base is cooperating with the Armenian government, as they have realized there is nowhere else to go, and currently act as a private mercenary company working with the Armenian military.
*Diplomacy:
**Literally any other Exiled group: Hello? Hello? Can you hear me? Hello? Is this the Krusty Krab? Uh, hello?...
**Byzantine Empire, Georgia, Albania, Serbia, Trebizond: Alliance and trade deal? We'll also give you some of our modern technology. The Turks are gonna be sorry they ever messed with ya.
**Qara Qoyunlu Federation: Hey, big dude. Psst. I need oil. Can I drill for oil in Iraq? No? How about tech and some cash money? What do you say?
**Aq Qoyunlu, Turkish beyliks, and Timurid Empire: Acknowledge our existence (and please don't hurt us).
**Ethnic Armenians living outside Armenian borders: Hey, move to this new country that just appeared out of nowhere. You're gonna have the time of your life. We have cool stuff that lets everyone live like your era's nobility. Plus we even speak the same language. Come over. Please. We implore you.
*Conflicts: N/A
*Events:
**Societal Upheaval: Armenian citizens woke up on November 11, 2019 to find massive electricity and gas shortages, a complete cutoff of communications with the outside world, and their country completely on its own. Panic quickly ensued, with looting, suicides, and general civil disobedience running rampant, forcing the government to enact curfew and declare martial law for a time, as reconaissance missions operated with drones scout out the general vicinity to determine what had happened. Reports from said drones showed that the modern world had been completely replaced with the state of affairs during the Late Medieval Era, with historians identifying the time period as sometime in the early or mid-15th century. This only served to exacerbate the panic of the general public.
**State of Emergency: A state of emergency is declared by the President and Vice President on November 18, 2019/1444, after conclusive and irrefutable evidence had been presented of the temporal displacement of the entire country of Armenia. This state of emergency is in effect for an indefinite amount of time, and all elections are suspended for the time being.
**Contact with the "Ancestors": Our new geopolitical situation has put us in an even more precarious situation than what we were exposed to prior to temporal displacement. Thus, diplomatic delegations are sent to the courts of royal and noble families of the Byzantine Empire, Georgia, Trebizond, Albania, Serbia, the Qara Qoyunlu and Aq Qoyunlu tribal federations, the Turkish beyliks, and the Timurid Empire. These delegations are accompanied by Armenian diplomats, historians and linguists (especially those specializing in the medieval Balkans, Caucasus, and Middle East), as well as an array of modern technology and an offering of a few pounds of solid gold. It is noted that no delegation is sent to the Ottoman court, with a letter written in perfect medieval Turkish sent instead; the contents of said letter being simply, "F*ck you".
**Friends?: We offer the Byzantines, Georgians, Trebizondians, Albanians and Serbians a military alliance and defensive pact in order to protect against the perfidious Turk, as well as a free trade deal, allowing goods from each of these countries to be traded in Armenian territory tarriff-free; and a technology sharing deal, equipping our (hopefully) new-found allies with modern equipment, technology, and weaponry should they accept.
**Petrol Control: The Qara Qoyunlu get hit with an offer they can't refuse (we hope): Let us drill for oil in Iraq in exchange for modern technology, equipment, and arms, military access, infrastructure overhauls of the nation, and a substantial amount of gold. (Just to make sure, we have the delegation sent to the Qara Qoyunlu court have several military and police members armed with concealed guns, to threaten them into submission).
**Hello? Anyone here?: Daily radio broadcasts sending out the full official name of the Republic of Armenia in both Armenian and English, the Armenian national anthem, and the summary of the general state of affairs in Armenia are broadcasted worldwide, hoping for someone else to recieve the broadcasts to let us know we are not alone in this strange time.
**Emergency Infrastructure Project (EIP): In order to address the dire issue of power security, several wind farms are planned to be built across the Armenian countryside, and provided Qara Qoyunlu allows us access to the Iraqi oilfields, several oil refineries and oil power plants are also planned to be built. Construction of vertical farms in urban areas, as well as more water treatment plants along freshwater sources (especiallt Lake Sevan) is planned. Meanwhile, citizens are to ration food and water, and power will be cut to the entire nation between 9pm and 9am daily.
**The Other Armenians: Large numbers of ethnic Armenians exist outside the borders of the Armenian nation. We encourage these “predecessor” Armenians to immigrate and take up service in Armenia, in order to bolster our population and workforce, as well as provide intel about the nations and political situations of this era in history. The government begins sending wandering agents into Armenian-majority areas, telling them of the superior quality of life in this “new Armenian nation” and persuading them to move to our territory.
==== Vatican City State ====
* Background: Jorge Mario Bergoglio, elected Pope Francis in 2013, has led the Holy See and the Catholic world for over 6 years. In the pre-event world, the Pope, while maintaining traditional Roman Catholic views, has been known for his effort to ensure world peace. 
* Government: Theocracy (de jure) | Absolute monarchy (de facto)
** Pope: Francis
** Secretary of State: Pietro Parolin
** President of the Governorate: Guiseppe Bertello
* Military:
** Swiss Guardsmen: 135
** Gendarmes: 130
* Demographics:
** Population: 1,000
** Occupation:
*** Clergy: 71%
*** Laity: 29%
*** Other: 0.01%
** Gender:
*** Male: 95%
*** Female: 5%
** Citizenship under residents:
*** Citizens: 25%
*** Non-citizens: 75%
* Economy: It is an understatement to say that the pope is not happy with the unfolding situation. The economy of the Holy See is devastated. Financial contributions from catholics and tourism, the main sources of income, are nonexistent.
* Events:
** First reaction: The Pope quickly assembles all residents of Vatican City. Swiss Guardsmen and Gendarmes are sent to guard all entrances to the Holy See. The few drones that the city-state has are sent to explore the territorry and search for contact. It quickly becomes clear that Vatican City is surrounded by a city looking like medieval Rome. A large crowd of people assembles around Saint Peter's Square. The Swiss Guardsmen and the Gendarmes are told to keep everyone out but only to use their guns if no other option is available. Now, their halberds will scare them off. 
** Creation of the Papal Security Council: The Pope announces the creation of the Papal Security Council, which includes the Pope, the Secretary of State, the President of the Governorate and the Commander of the Pontifical Swiss Guard. The Papal Security Council is responsible for the security of the Holy See and is the de facto government of the city-state.
** Antipope: The Papal Security Council decides to send some experienced gendarmes disguised as medieval merchants to explore the city surrounding Vatican City. They confirm the intial reports that the city is indeed medieval Rome. They also reveal that Rome is part of a "Papal State ruled by "Pope Eugene". They also report that it seems that Pope Eugene is not in Rome. The Papal Security Council is divided on what to do. Hardliners within the College of Cardinals argue that they should act swiftly and occupy Rome, taking advantage of their overwhelming superiority in firepower. The supporters of a moderate and a wait-and-see policy however still command a majority in the College of Cardinals and the Papal Security Council.
** Tourist self-defence: The cardinals and the Papal Security Council are also divided on the issue of stranded tourists who were visiting the Holy See at the time of the Event. The Pope and a majority in the Papal Security Council decided to accomodate the stranded tourists in the Apostolic Palace and in the museums of the Vatican and not to involve them in the affairs of defence of Vatican City. Hardliners, however, argue that for the sake of defending the city-state, everyone who could carry a gun should carry it. They propose that the tourists will receive basic military training. The Pope, however, dismisses this idea as infeasible.
====State of Israel====
*Government: Parliamentary Republic (elections currently suspended).
**Background: Prior to the event, incumbent prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had faced a very strong challenge from the opposition in both the April and September parliamentary elections as a result of government fatigue and corruption allegations. Netanyahu ended up securing a narrow government majority after allying with multiple right-wing and jewish orthodox parties. Not much happened in the following months, with the corruption accusations remaining unproven.
**Prime Minister: Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud)
**President: Reuven Rivlin (Likud)
**Capital: Jerusalem (disputed [by who?])
*Economy: The Event caused the collapse of the Israeli economy as contact with the outside world was lost and dozens of trade ships and planes suddenly dissapeared. The government quickly confirmed that Palestine was still there, but could not establish any sort of contact with anyone else. Within the first days, looting, riots and massive suicides are reported across the country, with some people thinking it was the end of the world. The military and the police would later intervene to control the situation. Once things had more or less settled down, Netanyahu announced the findings of the scouting drones sent outside the border (see Events section for more details) and said that the country was ready to face this crisis, encouraging citizens to report sightings of "ancient-looking, muslim warriors". This was far from calming for the few investors and companies that had survived, but it was at least known that there was still a world beyond the border.
**Saving Resources: After this, Netanyahu implemented a series of measures to attempt to guarantee the survival of the Israeli people. First, the maintenance of the agricultural sector (which is huge thanks to technological advances despite the small amount of arable land - 20%) would become the top priority for the government, encouraging the private sector to work on the same goal: keeping a stable food supply. This would allow food shortage to be less severe at the expense of other things. The use of water (which already had issues to begin with) for agriculture would force the government to implement a second measure which is rationing water. Running water is only supplied at certain times of the day (with varying success), urging citizens to acquire water tanks or cisterns to store the vital fluid and only use it when it is absolutely neccessary. Fuel shortage would also become an issue soon. With the government being unable to implement a proper solution due to the lack of a stable oil supply, people are simply being encouraged to reduce their car use as much as possible. Resupplying of fuel, if any, is prioritzed for essential services such as ambulances, fire trucks and police.
*Military: The Israel Defence Forces are responsible for maintaining peace and order. Due to the constant conflicts with its neighboors, Israel had built a formidable military, spending over 5% of its GDP on it. This should allow us to have some advantage compared to other exiled nations, however, there is one major issue: the lack of oil. This is why the tasks of vehicles that required large amounts of fuel are reduced for now, saving them for future operations instead. The Navy is currently stationed in our ports and it hasn't ventured into the now unknown waters yet. A lot of the reserves are quickly mobilized into the active forces.
**Israeli Army:
***215,000 active personnel
***300,000 reserve personnel
***2,760 combat tanks
***6,541 armore fighting vehicles
***650 self-propelled artillery
***300 towed artillery
***150 rocket projectors
**Israeli Air Force:
***30,000 active personnel
***55,000 reserve personnel
***253 fighters
***18 transports
***153 trainers
***96 helicopters
***48 attack helicopeters
**Israeli Navy:
***9,500 active personnel
***10,000 reserve personnel
***3 corvettes (Sa'ar 5 class)
***8 missile boats (Sa'ar 4.5 class)
***5 submarines (Dolphin class)
***45 patrol boats
***2 support ships
*Events: 
**Initial reaction:  One of the first actions of Netanyahu's government was declaring a state of emergency until further advice. The emergency also includes the suspension of new elections, an action criticized by the opposition. However, the Knesset (the legislative body of Israel) is still working normally and excercising its usual powers. Netanyahu made it clear that the government will try to end the state of emergency by the next scheduled national elections. Huge portions of the military reserves were moved into the active forces and dispatched across the cities in order to maintain control. Foreign citizens stuck in the country are granted temporary asylum until contact is made with their home countries, something now considered highly unlikely. Foreign troops are given the option to participate in military operations if they wish to do so. People are also encouraged to use the radio to keep themselves informed and to communicate between them.
**Scouting the area: As there is an urgent need to know the reason behind The Event, a scouting operation is launched to explore the world outside our borders. The mission is exclusively performed by drones since hostile environment was expected, and to not use vehicles that require fuel. The drones find almost nothing near the borders. Nevethtless, they are able to take pictures of a strange-looking group of men walking in the desert. A drone would reach what was suppossed to be the Egyptian city of Al-Arish later on, only to find archaic structure and people. It is worth mentioning that at least half of drones (~20) in this operation were lost due to battery or malfunctioning issues, although a few of them dissapeared without an apparent reason. The revelation of these images only increased the confusion anong the executive and military commands, deciding to call the nation's most prestigious historians and academics after discarding multiple theories. The team of historians concludes that both the city and the group of men belong to an old middle eastern islamic state. This fires the government's alarms, prompting the creation of a war plan.
**Trump Heights incident: The first contact with the ancient strangers is made after a group of them clashed with Israeli military forces in the recently-named Trump Heights (located in the Golan Heights). The strangers wore an armor and did not have any firearms. Instead, they had Mameluke swords. They were quickly gunned down, although 1 of our soldiers was injuried. The clothes and the weapons wore by the strangers would finally allow historians to identify them as Mamluks.
**War preparations: As the drones so far indicate that we are completely surrounded by what appear to be mamluks, multiple defence protocols are activated. Troops are placed on the border along with our best intepreters of old arabic (if not, just regular arab speakers). Although they are told to attempt communication, it is expected that the Mamluks will turn hostile, so the military is told to prepare to fire if they do antything weird. Artillery is also placed near the borders. The Air Force keeps its involvement to a minimum to avoid wasting fuel. Aircraft shall only be used if absolutely necessary.  The borders with Palestine are also being heavely monitorized.
*Diplomacy: 
**Satellites: We attempt to scan for possible satellites one more time, hoping to find something. Other than interactions with Palestine and this, no diplomatic actions are performed, with the government focusing ob defending against the strangers instead. Ambassadors were told to contact their home countries during the first days of the incident, but all attempts to do so have been futile so far. 
**Palestine: We ask for a temporal truce for our conflict since since continuing it would only cause further destabilization for both of us given the current circumstances. However, we make it clear that we will retaliate if they perform any sort of attack.
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====State of Japan (pre-Incident) | Shogunate of Japan (post-Incident)====
*Government: Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy, under a state of emergency for an indefinite amount of time effective from November 11th, 2019/1444.
**Emperor/Shogun: Naruhito
**Prime Minister: Shinzo Abe
**Capital: Tokyo
**Laws and Politics:
***Declaration of a National Emergency: With the Incident, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has declared a state of emergency in Japan. People are encouraged to use as little water as possible and it is recommended that in order to conserve food, men eat at most 1,800 calories per day and women 1,300. For drinking, it is recommended to drink one cup of water when the need arises, e.g. when you are thirsty. The government also encourages the people to use as little electricity as possible, but the charging of smartphones is also allowed as to help people receive emergency alerts directly from the government.
***A New Shogunate: Due to the current national emergency, Emperor Naruhito and Prime Minister Abe have sought fit to revive the title of 'Shogun,' granting it to Naruhito. Shogun Naruhito now has absolute power over the entirety of Japan until the national emergency has ended.
*Economy: When the Incident hit the Four Prefectures, the first thing that had happened was a full collapse of the stock market. The People's Republic of China nor the United States are no longer there to import petroleum, natural gas, etc. from, nor are they there to export Japanese goods to. Many businesses based in the displaced land had essentially zero business, and collapsed within days, with many of the now vacant offices and buildings being taken over by the government and converted into vertical farms as to help sustain the population.
*Demographics: ​​​​​
**Population (total): 37,532,095
***Tokyo: 14,429,286
***Kanagawa: 9,308,094
***Saitama: ​​​​​​7,558,198
***Chiba: 6,236,517
*Military:
**Wars and Conflicts: N/A
**Japanese Armed Forces:
***Retirement of the Self-Defense Forces: In these dire times, the State has seen that the self-defense forces are no longer necessary and all members of each self-defense force is transferred into the respective branch of the new Armed Forces.
***The United States Forces in Japan: Many of the American soldiers apart of the USFJ have joined the main Japanese military, realizing they have no where else to go unless they want to die in a foreign land filled with many possibly hostile nations.
***Japanese Army (Teikokugun): At the moment, the Teikokugun has been severely limited in its capabilities as many Japanese soldiers were stationed outside of our transported land. It currently consists of:
****30,000 active soldiers
****5,000 reserve soldiers
****56 tanks
****85 armored fighting vehicles (AFVs)
****15 self-propelled artillery
****40 towed artillery
****15 rocket projectors
***Japanese Maritime Force (Kaijogun): The Maritime Force has been limited, but not as limited as the Teikokugun as we now have access to many American ships in the United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka base, along with our own ships that were stationed in naval ports around the transported regions. It currently consists of:
****25,000 active soldiers
****5,000 reserve soldiers
****3 aircraft carriers (2 Japanese, 1 American)
****6 destroyers
****1 corvette
****4 submarines
****4 patrol vessels
****10 mine warfare vessels
***Japanese Air Force (Kugun): The Air Fore of Japan has been hit less by the Incident as compared to the Maritime Force and the Army, as many Japanese and American airfields and AFBs, such as Yokota Air Base, have been transported back in time. It currently consists of:
****20,000 active soldiers
****5,000 reserve soldiers
****63 fighters
****52 attack aircraft
****15 transport craft
****25 trainer aircraft
****35 non-attack helicopters
****10 attack helicopters
*Diplomacy: N/A
*Events:
**"The Incident" (Jiken, 事件): Due to the Incident, and for an unknown reason, the Saitama, Kanagawa, Tokyo, and Chiba prefectures have been transported back in time. In order to ascertain our position along the world's timeline, we have sent agents out to the other daimyos (see Reconnaissance in the Uesugi Daimyo). The four prefectures had decided it best to unite under one government instead of falling into anarchy. They have come to be known as the "Four Prefectures."
**Reconnaissance in the Uesugi Daimyo: Reconnaissance agents are sent into the neighboring province to scout out for weaknesses and knowledge of 'the Incident' in the daimyo of Uesugi. The agents are dressed in contemporary artisan clothing, as to avoid suspicion. The knowledge of the presence of modern Japan should be ascertained by these agents to see how much the daimyos know of modern Japan, along with the exact year that we have been sent to.
**Attempts to Make Contact: Using JAXA buildings located across our owned prefectures, including the Earth Observation Center in Saitama and other nearby radio centers, our scientists have made attempts to make contact with any satellites that may possibly exist. Much of our stored electricity was used during this, but the potential rewards outweigh the risks.
**Lack of Arable Land: As Tokyo and its surrounding regions are heavily urbanized, there is a severe lack of arable land. Due to this, terraced rice paddies in the rural and coastal areas of Chiba prefecture and vertical farms in the urban centers of the Tokyo metropolis have been confiscated from private ownership and have been put in the hands of the government, and thus federal food scientists and nutritionists. Together, they are looking for ways to increase crop production while reducing costs, money-wise and resource-wise.
==== Republic of Belarus ====
* Government: Unitary presidential republic""
** President: Alexander Lukashenko
** Prime Minister: Sergey Rumas
** Capital: Minsk
* Economy: In 2019, Belarus' economy was 77th (nominal)/69th (PPP) in the world, but being sent back to 1444 did not help it one bit. It is on the brink of collapse, so the government is trying as hard as it can to save it.
* Events:
** A whole new rocky ball with an atmosphere and water: Before the Event, Belarus had hosted the 2019 European Games in Minsk earlier in the year. However, while it had been successful, the economy weakened because of the money spent on the event. To help it, they signed the document that sent them back to 1444. While Belarus is still like it is in 2019, it is unknown how long it will stay this way.
===Turn II (1445)===
====Events====
*Skanderbeg: Albanian military leader Skanderbeg, present in the Hungarian Court during the Event, returns to an entirely different Albania. He is wholeheartedly welcomed as a hero for something he has yet to do, however he manages to play out history as it was, with some slight alterations as his soldiers wielded ASh-82s and AK-47s. The Ottomans stood no chance whatsoever.
*Ming Things: The presence of Hong Kong has come to the attention of the Ming Imperial Court after a few weeks, with Ming forces moving to the perimeter of the Exiled territories on standby. It is noted that at some point, a few Hongkongers were present before Emperor Zhu Qizhen, explaining to him of the situation, and providing some historical facts here and there to gain his trust. The Emperor, aware of the events that will take place as well as observing them first-hand, has installed them in his court.
*A Gibraltar Brit in the Avizian Court: After the capture of Gibraltar by the Portuguese, several people have requested an audience with the king of Portugal for autonomy in exchange for teaching the Portuguese of their future as per history and provide them with modern technology.
*The Parres Exchange: A few Aztec warriors enter the town of Parres and are perceived to be people in costumes. They are ridiculed by some Mexican folk, however they are invited for dinner by an elderly couple who are brutally murdered who treat them to some hot food. Bewildered and grateful, they return to their tribes, but come back the following morning with some maize. The locals of Parres are perceived to be less of a threat, despite the difference in languages.
*A Tale of Two Popes: Pope Eugene was not within the boundaries of the Vatican during the Event, and was startled to come back to a non-vacant St. Peter's Basilica. Pope Francis himself invited Pope Eugene into the City, along with a contingent of a few troops. After a few cups of tea, the Pope managed to convince the Pope that the Pope was the successor of the Pope himself, and that both were legitimate Popes at the same time. Pope Eugene has come to an agreement with Pope Francis, calling for a dual-papacy in which both would be recognised as Popes.
*The Minsk Affair: Upon the Exile of Belarus, the head of the Lithuanian kingdom was effectively cut off. Lithuanian and Polish forces moved to invade this foreign presence, but spared the nation of a full-on war after encountering ethnic Poles in western Belarus. Casimir IV Jagellion arranged to meet Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk. One thing led to another, and due to bloodlines, ancestral loopholes and such, the legendary would-be king is now in running to become the President of Belarus.
*Mamluk Proclamation: Sayf ad-Din Jaqmaq, Sultan of the Mamluks, has reportedly made contact with the Palestinians after hearing them yell "Allahu akhbar" during a confrontation. So far, a few members of Hamas have somehow gained the trust of the Mamluks, funneling them truths about their conflict with the Ottomans and unconfirmed lies about the Israeli state.
*Communique: Communications between Exiled states have been officially established, with most populations having a least one analogue radio or similar set-up in their households.
*Elon Musk, Man of the Century: Over in Los Angeles, Elon Musk provides assistance along with his companies to restore GPS systems at El Segundo Base. It should be noted a few navigation satellites were Exiled, and are the main focus of this operation. In other news, 4 Israeli television satellites have been identified to have been Exiled, as well as 8 Japanese television satellites and 2 navigation satellites owned by JAXA.
*Reconnaisance - Uesugi: The Daimyo knows little of modern Japan and it's contents, mostly via travellers and traders. It knows that they are a powerful presence, perhaps more than that of Ashikaga. There are some who suggest that Uesugi become a Daimyo under this "Japan" instead.
====NPC Turns====
*Taiwan: A few Taiwanese coastal patrol craft arrive in Hong Kong, claiming they found a few Hongkonger refugees and no bustling skylines on their way there. Radio comms have been established. The Taiwanese administration has requested for cooperation with the Hongkongers to meet energy and resource demands such as water and rations.
*Palestine: They agree to the truce with Israel.
*Byzantium: They are astonished by the words of the Armenians, and decide to trust in a fellow Catholic against a perfidious Turk.
*Georgia and Trebizond: They remain fairly confused by the sudden appearance of modern Armenia, but eventually agree to work with a fellow Catholic brother rather than be intimidated by a perfidious Turk.
*Albania and Serbia: Given that Albania was also Exiled, they have made contact with Serbia already. Both agree to work with Armenia, given that Albania has warned Serbia and Skanderbeg of the history of the Ottomans and the perfidious Turks.
*Castile: They agree to the Portuguese proposal.
==== Mexico City ====
* Government: Federal Republic
** Demography: 44% mestizo, 24% white, 13% native, 19% other
** Religion: 74% Catholic, 14% Other Christians, 3% Atheists, 1%Jewish, 1%Muslim, 3% nahua religions, 1% maya religion, 3% other
** Population: 9,010,000
** Political Ideology: 15% conservatives, 10% constitutionalists, 30% social democrats, 9% socialists, 8% social conservatives, 6% green conservatives, 6% progressive, 5% marxists, 5% nationalists, 3% synarchists (fascists), 2% trotskyists, 1% technochratic, 2% others
** Political Parties: MORENA(social democrat), PAN (conservatives), PRI (Constitutionalists), PRD (social democrat opposition) PT (socialists), PES (social conservatives), MC (progressive), PVEM (ecologists), FNM (nationalists, unofficial), PCM (marxists, unofficial), UNS (synarchists, unofficial), PRT (trotskyist), CS (trotskyist), PCP (tecnochratic)
** Leader: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (elections July 1 2024/1449, taking of power December 1)
*** Chamber of Deputies: 500 seats: 258 social democrats, 29 social conservatives, 28 socialists, 9 independent, 1 communist (government); 78 conservatives, 47 constitutionalists, 28 progressives, 11 ecologists, 11 other social democrats (opposition)
*** Senate of the Republic: 128 seats: 59 social democrats, 6 socialists, 5 social conservatives (government); 24 conservatives, 14 constitutionalists, 8 progressives, 6 ecologists, 5 other social democrats, 1 independent (opposition)
* Economy: We are trying to use solar energy to keep the electricity going
* Military:
** Army: 10,000 soldiers, 5,000 mercenaries in PMCs (Private Military Companies), 88,000 policemen, 100,000 paramilitary civilians
** Navy: None
** Equipment: 100,000 military firearms, around 1 million civilian firearms
** Aircraft: 30 helicopters, 80 fighters, 5 transport planes
** Armoured Vehicles and Tanks: 50 AFVs, 100 IFVs, 30 LAVs, 15 SPGs
** Actions: We have our soldiers ready for an attack on the Aztecs
** Shipyard: We haven't reached the coast yet
* Wars and Conflicts: None yet
** Country A - Country B War:
* Diplomacy:
** Tlaxcala: we get some emissaries to give them gifts to attack the Aztecs
** Tarascans: we are sending some emissaries to make them attack the Aztecs
** Los Angeles: we manage to make communications with them through radio and 2 satellites that we managed to find
** Cuba: we manage to establish communications through radio
** Aztec Empire: we demand the former State of Mexico, Puebla and Morelos to be ceded to Mexico City at most in January 1 1446/2021
* Events
** Unbanning of Political Parties: The Marxist, Nationalist, Trotskyist and Technocrat parties are recognized ​​​​
** Banning of Cars: we ban the use of cars for not having enough oil to fuel the 4,700,000 cars that there are
** Immigration Problem: non-Aztec people of the Empire (Cempoalans, Otomis, Huastecs, Chichimecas) are entering the city as they are sacrificed on the Empire
** Investing on Green Energy: as we dont have the resources to use our power plants, we manufacture solar panels to keep the electricity on the delegations
==== Vatican City State ====
* Government: Theocracy (de jure) | Absolute monarchy (de facto)
*** Pope: Francis 
*** Secretary of State: Pietro Parolin
*** President of the Governorate: Guiseppe Bertello
** Military:
*** Swiss Guardsmen: 135
*** Gendarmes: 130
** Demographics:
*** Population: 1,000
*** Occupation:
**** Clergy: 71%
**** Laity: 29%
**** Other: 0.01%
*** Gender:
**** Male: 95%
**** Female: 5%
*** Citizenship under residents:
**** Citizens: 25%
**** Non-citizens: 75%
** Economy: After the dual-papacy agreement with Pope Eugene of the Papal States, Pope Francis and the Papal Security Council advocate for closer ties between the two Dioceses of Rome. Pope Francis believes that a good trade agreement could be signed between him and Pope Eugene. In return for the Holy Father's blessing and some gold and silver coins. And as a bonus, if the Supreme Pontiff of the Papal States agrees to the supply of food and water, the Holy See might agree to fund the construction of a new pontifical palace for Pope Eugene in his part of Rome.
** Diplomacy:
*** Papal States: Sic enim Deus dilexit mundum, ut Filium suum unigenitum daret: ut omnis qui credit in eum, non pereat, sed habeat vitam aeternam. Therefore, time has come to strengthen our cooperation. We believe that a good trade agreement could be signed between our two Dioceses of Rome. In return for some food and water, the Institute of the Works of Religion will agree to fund the Papal States' economy.
==== Republic of Belarus ====
*Government: Unitary presidential republic
**President: Alexander Lukashenko
**Prime Minister: Sergey Rumas
**Capital: Minsk
*Economy: As before, Belarus' economy is not doing very well. The president is advocating for economic reforms, however it is unknown if that is possible with everything that is currently happening.
*Events:
**The Minsk Affair: The 'would-be king' running for President has called for a snap election. Alexander Lukashenko has been president since 1994, being the only person to hold the position. It is unknown if he will accept the election, especially since politics were much different in the fifteenth century.
====The former Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong====
*Government: Former autonomous region, under an emergency government and divided into two factions (passive civil war going on here)
**Chief Executive: Vacant (since 20th November 2019/1444)
*Military: Hong Kong is divided up into two 'military' sections, one is the PLA garrison that is based in Hong Kong prior to the displacement (6,000 troops based in Hong Kong) and the other is civilians who become the paramilitary, which numbered tens of thousands (somewhere between 80,000 to 95,000) with makeshift weapons. After tensions (for now) have thawed from initial violence and shock, the police (numbering roughly 36,000 prior to the Event) were integrated into the PLA as an extra branch in the pro-China camp, increasing the number of forces to approximately 40,000.
*Diplomacy:
**Ming Dynasty: (Note the Hongkonger refugees outside have been able to contact with the Emperor, but the Hongkongers and Mainlanders within Hong Kong are unaware of their activities, so their assumption is that they have been unaware of what is happening outside of southern China)
***Peasants: The pro-Chinese camp sends out 30 personnel from the PLA garrison disguised as peasants while hiding armed weapons beneath their clothing so to not increase their awareness to what used to be Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Huizhou, Shanwei and Macau by foot. Their goal is to tell peasants that the region that they come from is heaven and that they come down to tianxia show that the Ming Dynasty is filled with greedy governors, nobles, merchants (who the PCC say are 'distrustful' and take everything from the peasants) and the Emperor not caring for peasants. They also affirm that they were sent down to tianxia because the gods were unhappy with China. In order to gain their trust, if they accepted the belief that the people of Hong Kong came from heaven, they would supply them with "hand cannons" (which are just guns), knowledge (though the emperor knows what would happen next, note that Hong Kong is still unaware of these advisors) in exchange that they give them food and raw materials to make these hand cannons and build factories within Hong Kong, along with the chance to rebel if given the chance. Knowledge in particular must be limited to knowledge of handling firearms, crafting and basic stuff from the present day. The teachings of Xi Jinping Thought, Marxism and any ideology (especially democracy even though its an alien concept to them, this would spark a backstabbing fear) is discouraged actively, along with any certain future technologies to them such as how to operate a computer (redundant) or to operate a military ship, as to maintain the fact that they are inferior to Hongkongers. Electricity however could be permitted as knowledge in order to operate some equipment, though Hong Kong is still in the dark in most places. They hope that they could incite a peasant rebellion from this to gain what they want as time is running out.
***Imperial Army: The Imperial Army currently poses a threat to Hong Kong if they weren't united, (see Peasants for PCC's response to the arrival) but for the Republic of Hong Kong and the central government, they decide to leave them be, believing that staying out of their affairs would save more lives than fighting with them through other means, plus the Republic of Hong Kong's paramilitary wouldn't stand a more organised army and that their makeshift weapons, umbrellas (which are useless with bows than say tear gas) and salvaged 'shields' were comparatively almost equal to them in numbers.
**Other PLA bases/territories: Even though it might be as well fruitless to continue after hearing no response within two months, some commanders within the PCC still wanted to continue their search to find other PRC/PLA bases/cities for the next twelve months. If none are found, then they would be required to cease sending out radio signals.
**Taiwan: The Republic of Hong Kong and some members of the emergency government (even those tilted to the PCC) accepted the deal, but the PCC and the PLA garrison in Hong Kong does not respond to the demand. The Republic of Hong Kong believed that they were the only choice to help protect Hong Kong and install a democracy, so Taiwan's unexpected introduction has ushered in a lot of praise and celebration for many of those fighting against "the remnants of evil communists". The response back is that they would give them what they want, but they want to ensure that those who are part of the HKPF and the PLA garrison in Hong Kong must be removed from power and be replaced with their own and for autonomy/independence be given.
*Economy: With shortage of water and food (there isn't much of arable land through Hong Kong due to its rough terrain and that cities have taken over much of the lowlands) thanks to the displacement, expect Hong Kong to destabilise to the point that a civil war could eventually emerge as part of a survival of the fittest scheme. The economy has drastically shifted from being largely business-based and degraded to being a somewhat primitive, "survive what you can" attitude which has been doing well so far, but this is not enough to bring it back. The economy is now largely reliant on fishing and surviving on whatever is left, with old buildings slowly being abandoned (largely business-based buildings and banks were abandoned, unless people break in and use these as a way to reduce population density with commercial buildings seen as "free real estate" and make makeshift settlements here) and makeshift camps and settlements were being established across Hong Kong, which has led to many fleeing to even starving to death.
*Events: No, I'm not going to destroy Hong Kong immediately, I'm just trying to do this as "realistically" as possible, since Hong Kong has gone through turmoil.
**Two Camps, One Region and Total Isolation: Two months into the Event and violence has started to calm down by early 2020/1445. As more people fled in tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands (especially some of these Mainlanders) to former mainland China or to the east from violence, they believe that if violence keeps going up and up, they could see the place being fully abandoned afterwards. The emergency government proposed that two territories would carved in the meantime, to defuse any form of tension on 23rd March 2020/1445. They still have administrative and de jure control over the New Territories and the rest of Hong Kong, it's just that they are unable to administer them anymore but the city of Hong Kong itself which is defined by the map above. This had led to the formation of two large factions: the pro-China camp to the west and north, though was mockingly called as the People's Republic of Hong Kong by former protesters and pro-democrats and the Republic of Hong Kong, which took the southern part of Hong Kong. For the rest of the year, this seemed pretty reasonable for both sides, but whether it would make any changes in the long-term remains to be seen.
***Pro-China Camp (or what's left of it): The emergency government of Hong Kong has been largely comprised of pro-Beijing members within the LegCo ever since a line was divided up, so they have been largely supportive of them. They are largely controlled by the Hong Kong police and the remains of the PLA and are far more orderly and organised than their other counterpart. Since mid-2020/1445, Cai Yongzhang, the commander of the PLA Hong Kong Garrison has started to seize power over the controlled areas that they have and believes that if he had the support of primitive people outside of Hong Kong, he would eventually be able to restore Hong Kong under the rule of the remains of a communist China. His seizure of power has made Republic of Hong Kong concerned as they do not agree for him to become the Chief Executive of Hong Kong de jure as he was a Mainlander deployed from the former People's Republic of China. (neither would the pro-China camp for the Republic's 'president' but since Lam resigned, he would be the only choice for their own side)
***Republic of Hong Kong: This faction is a model of what would've been an independent and democratic Hong Kong, but unfortunately they are leaderless since they are divided on who should be the first president of their own faction and future Chief Executive of Hong Kong. They are also in fact unorganised since they are largely been led by random teenagers and young adults who are just new into governing and doing survival skills (outside of self-defence and certain parts they've obtained from the 2019 protests), along with former pro-democratic figures and some parents who basically babysit them to act mature in order to maintain discipline within a potentially destabilising faction. When they saw the Taiwanese patrol boats, many believe that they have been saved from the events that came a year ago. The Hong Kong paramilitary largely live here and ensure security due to their dissatisfaction of the police and the military of former China.
**The Ming Dynasty: The PCC (pro-China camp) has come to the rationale secretly within their chain of command that the primitive people outside of Hong Kong were 'racially inferior' to those who were transported there like Hongkongers themselves. Since they have no idea on the grasps of what communism, socialism or even a democracy is, even though they speak the same language with few disprencies, they believe that they can only do menial work and fight for whatever they are in, making it possible to fully collectivise them without any resistance. (Note that they are still not aware that Hongkongers going to the imperial courts yet) This came after few of the Hongkongers who scouted there to find villages and farmland who returned to Hong Kong, along with frequent water fetchers came. It became the key part of the PCC's attitude towards people outside of Hong Kong and that they believe that they could simply incite a rebellion by convicing them with simple actions while also subjugating land. Meanwhile, the Imperial Army stationed near Hong Kong has made every single civilian terrified of what's happening next with the PCC fearing that they could swarm into the region easily, but the PCC is thinking of a meticulous plan to divert them away, while also even developing plans to expand their control beyond Hong Kong by creating tributaries. They haven't gotten into contact with other PLA bases or any PRC bases/territories so far from their radio searching, asides nearby Taiwanese patrol craft, which they refuse to talk into yet. The Republic of Hong Kong however, saw them as a threat too like the PCC, but dismissed them as any future threat, so long that they remain put.
**Makeshift Settlements: A year into the event and by the end of 2020/1445, the city of Hong Kong is largely depopulated from people fleeing to less populated areas, not entirely abandoned - it still has 40-55% of its original population. Electricity is partially restored in the city after two months of chaos prior, but they have to largely restrict it to essentials such as lighting up the government, despite being powerless along with key facilities. These will eventually run out despite these extreme protocols and soon, they might need to find essential resources to keep powering. Key government buildings remain inhabited/visited. The city of Hong Kong becomes a place for neutrality between two camps/factions. Meanwhile, the Republic of Hong Kong had established makeshift camps/tents to form small communities in the countryside. Quickly crafted hoes are also being made to farm the remaining arable land and hopefully start off producing yields of food. Food is already being rationed since then, especially with extremely well-preserved canned food like spam and Hong Kong, being a place where during the Second World War, spam somehow got into being one of the meat substitutes used. Fishing is already commonplace already, but they have to find ways to reliably obtain food, as overfishing could lead to fish nearby disappearing eventually. Abandoned, useless buildings are sometimes torn down in favour of building farms, while gardens/backyards are wholly converted into fields for crops. But it only covers a small area and soon, the Republic of Hong Kong would succumb to forcing 40-50% dying of hunger before its population would stabilise. Meanwhile, the PCC prohibited the creation of "unofficial settlements" without the approval of the PLA, meaning that they would have to live in crammed homes in Yuen Long for example or else they would have to be expelled from their territory should they resist. Their goal is to maintain these buildings for the next generation and prohibited any future building permits to local construction workers until raw resources could be accessed. Unlike the creative ways of the Republic, the PCC is essentially doing an extreme rationing system for those under control and farming outside of private property is discouraged. Civilians are given limited food that is from the city, but the military and the police (not all of them though) are the most important. They need to be fed to keep them active and going, which led to a creation of a food class system. They also have control over water from the northern river too (but the Ming army has led to many becoming cautious of crossing over the border), while the Republic is slowly diminishing in fresh water supply thanks to a divided Hong Kong, forcing them to start rationing people to drink only a cup daily in favour of crops (to obtain food) unless it is for medical reasons and is approved by some qualified doctor, in which they can get three to four cups.
**Taiwanese Ships: Ships were sighted near Hong Kong, which initially people in Hong Kong think they were primitive ships sent from the Ming dynasty. Eventually, they realise that they were Taiwanese patrol boats who claimed to have seen Hongkongers fleeing from Hong Kong from violence (which the Hongkongers know that). They probably think that they're treated well, despite that might be the contrary, if Taiwan wasn't been so transparent (and that due to the internet and such being down, there is no way of confirmation). Regardless, many of those within the Republic of Hong Kong had decided to hold up celebrations - which is way too early to determine if Taiwan was a threat or a saviour to a divided Hong Kong. (see Taiwan for diplomacy)
====Kingdom of Portugal====
*Government: Despotic monarchy.
**Ruling Family (House of Aviz)
***Regency for King Afonso V under the Duke of Coimbra (1438-)
*Economy: Our economy foundation is solidly based on trade, we export as many good as we can across the European and the known African continent.
*Capital: Lisbon
*Demographics:
**Population: 1,091,491
**Religion: 94% Christian, 4% Islam, 2% other.
*Portuguese Military
**Infantry: 15,000
**Archers: 5,000
**Calvary: 2,500
*Portuguese Navy
**Carrack: 5 (+3)
**Caravel: 11 (+4)
**Transport Ships: 30
**Trading Ships: 50
*Wars and Conflicts: None.
*Diplomacy:
**Gibraltar: We accept their offer and agree to treat them as fairly as our own citizens, we also arrange multiple meetings to gain as much understanding of their tech as possible, we also make them promise to try and limit the spread of their special technology.
*Events
**Discovery of the Americas: After multiple meetings with the leaders of Gibraltar they tell us of a land across the sea called the "Americas". While not currently having enough ships to supply an adventure across the sea, we know its there and we keep the infomation close to our chests as we prepare to launch an expedition in the near future.
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====Republic of Armenia ====
*Government: Unitary semi-presidential republic (currently under an indefintely-extended State of Emergency)
**President: Armen Sarkissian
**Prime Minister: Nikol Pashinyan
**Laws and Policies:
***Repeal of Curfew: As panic dwindles, the curfew is lifted nationwide.
***Rationing: Food rations are lifted, although saving food is still recommended.
**Capital: Yerevan
*Economy: Still in dire straits, however, our newfound alliances and trade deals, as well as some preliminary gains in food production (and the increase of rations as a result of this) as part of the new farms constructed as part of the initial stages of the Emergency Infrastructure Plan, have managed to stoke fears and public unrest for the time being. Moderate-to-severe power and oil shortages remain, although the Qara Qoyunlu oil deal has the potential to significantly improve this situation.
*Demographics:
**Population: 3,076,100
**Religion: 94.8 Christian (92.5% Armenian Apostolic,) 0.8% Yazidi Muslim, 0.2% Pagan, 4% None/Other
**Ethnicity: 98.1% Armenian, 1.9% other (Yazidis, Kurds, Russians, etc.)
*Military:
**Armenian Military: Almost all of the Armenian military have made it through the transition through time. The military is now patrolling the borders of the country.
***Army:
****Troops: 80,000 troops, 32,000 reserves
****Tanks: 20 T-80 tanks, 137 T-72 tanks, 8 T-54/55 tanks
****Other motorized infantry vehicles: 80 BMP-1s, 7-BMP-1Ks, 55 BMP-2s, 12 BRM-1Ks, 11 BTR-60s, 21 BTR-70s, 4 BTR-80s, 145 MT-LBs, 5 BMD-1s, 120 BRDM-2 scout vehicles
***Air Force: 15 Su-25 ground attack planes, 1 MiG-25 jet fighter, 16 Mil Mi-24 helicopter gunships, 6 L-39 trainer and attack aircraft, 16 Yak-52 trainer aircraft, 3 Il-76 cargo planes, 18 Mil Mi-8 transport helicopters, 10 Mil Mi-2 light utility helicopters, 1 anti-aircraft missile brigade, 2 regiments armed with 100 anti-aircraft complexes.
**Military Prescence of Other Countries:
***Russian bases in Armenia: The Russian 102nd Military Base, as well as all its equipment and personnel, have all been brought along during temporal displacement as well. The base is cooperating with the Armenian government, as they have realized there is nowhere else to go, and currently act as a private mercenary force working with the Armenian Armed Forces.
*Diplomacy:
**Byzantium, Georgia, Trebizond, Serbia, Qara Qoyunlu: Embassies? Also can we uhhh, maybe allow our corporations to employ your peasants in the factories and mines? Yeahhhh, that's how we're gonna put it...
**Israel: Alliance alliance alliance alliance alliance alliance. ALLY ME PLS SENPAI
*Events:
**Newfound Allies: We begin to gift modern technology to our allies in Byzantium, Georgia, Trebizond and Serbia, supplying their militaries with AK-47s and Kalashnikovs, as well as introducing newer and more efficient farming techniques into those countries to feed more people and reduce malnutrition. Many apothecaries in cities such as Constantinople, Trebizond, and Tblisi have recieved shipments of modern antibiotics, and universities in these countries have begun teaching modern scientific discoveries. Electrification of the capitals and major cities of these countries are planned, and will begin as soon as we sort out our own electric shortages. Some 3,500 Armenian troops are sent to Constantinople to defend it from any potential Ottoman invasion. We also begin negotiating construction of Armenian embassies in these countries (and vice versa), as well as treaties allowing Armenian corporations to set up factories and mines in their territory, allowing us to obtain the building resources we need for our future construction endeavors, as well as providing slightly more fulfilling and higher-paid work for the peasantry of these countries. This offer is also extended to the Qara Qoyunlu Federation, due to our vested interest in their borders and resources.
**Emergency Infrastructure Plan pt.2: As negotiations for the Qara Qoyunlu oil deal are finalized, construction of oil rigs in the Iraqi and Kuwaiti oilfields commences. In order to transport these huge reserves of oil to Armenia to power our country, the Grand Mashriq Highway begins construction; a four-lane paved road extending from the former Armenian-Iranian border (where the Armenian M2 highway ends) all the way to the Kuwaiti oil fields, passing through major Qara Qoyunlu cities along the way, such as Tabriz, Mosul and Baghdad. The government also begins hiring oil truckers, tasked with shipping oil from the newly-built rigs to the Armenian heartland, a vital part of early post-Event Armenia.
**Treatise with Israel: After re-establishing contact with all Exiled nations, we note Israel's plans for the destruction of the Mamluk Sultanate and offer them an alliance, as Israeli weaponry, technology and manpower would be a welcome addition to our coalition against the perfidious Turk.
====Shogunate of Japan====
*Government: Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy, under a state of emergency for an indefinite amount of time effective from November 11th, 2019/1444.
**Emperor/Shogun: Naruhito
**Prime Minister: Shinzo Abe
**Capital: Tokyo
**Laws and Politics:
***Food Rationing: Although many people have seemingly been listening to our orders on eating the minimum amount of calories daily, it has still caused a large food shortage as the vertical and regular farms have not been producing as many crops as needed. We have begun to ration out rice, bread, and other foods. Japanese men line the docks of major cities and nearby shorelines as they attempt to fish for extra food. We have also begun to handle livestock in large warehouses in major cities which have recently been abandoned, same as the many offices.
*Economy:  The economy is still on a downward spiral. The only companies that remain are weapons manufacturers, construction companies, and farming conglomerates, along with many of the businesses located in the Akhihabara ward, for some reason.
*Demographics: ​​​​​
**Population (total): 37,132,000
***Tokyo: 14,229,191
***Kanagawa: 9,108,094
***Saitama: ​​​​​​7,558,198
***Chiba: 6,236,517
*Military:
**Wars and Conflicts: N/A
**Japanese Armed Forces:
***Japanese Army (Teikokugun): At the moment, the Teikokugun has been severely limited in its capabilities as many Japanese soldiers were stationed outside of our transported land. It currently consists of:
****30,000 active soldiers
****5,000 reserve soldiers
****56 tanks
****85 armored fighting vehicles (AFVs)
****15 self-propelled artillery
****40 towed artillery
****15 rocket projectors
***Japanese Maritime Force (Kaijogun): The Maritime Force has been limited, but not as limited as the Teikokugun as we now have access to many American ships in the United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka base, along with our own ships that were stationed in naval ports around the transported regions. It currently consists of:
****25,000 active soldiers
****5,000 reserve soldiers
****3 aircraft carriers (2 Japanese, 1 American)
****6 destroyers
****1 corvette
****4 submarines
****4 patrol vessels
****10 mine warfare vessels
***Japanese Air Force (Kugun): The Air Fore of Japan has been hit less by the Incident as compared to the Maritime Force and the Army, as many Japanese and American airfields and AFBs, such as Yokota Air Base, have been transported back in time. It currently consists of:
****20,000 active soldiers
****5,000 reserve soldiers
****63 fighters
****52 attack aircraft
****15 transport craft
****25 trainer aircraft
****35 non-attack helicopters
****10 attack helicopters
*Diplomacy:
**Uesugi: We have heard that many of your people are suggesting that you, the noble rulers of the Uesugi daimyo, become a daimyo under the modern Japan. While it may not be the same as being under the Ashikaga, we can assure you that you and your people will be brought into a golden era, should you decide to merge with us. Our modern technologies are a wonder that we're sure your people would love to see. We also know for a fact that soon, a period of troubles will begin, and under us, you are sure to succeed.
**Ashikaga: We suggest that you hand over the Chrysanthemum Throne to us at once. We are far more technologically advanced than you could ever believe, and would easily decimate this entire island's armies in a one-against-many war. In our time, we are the successors of your nation, giving us legitimacy to the claim for the throne of Japan.
**JPG: Hello there! How's it going on the other side of the Pacific Ocean? We would like to, you know, begin trading again. We mostly need oil in order to power our military vehicles, and in return we can send you food we're going to eventually steal from our nearby daimyos.
**Pyongyang: We would like to sign a truce in light of what has happened due to the Incident.
*Events:
**A Gasoline Solution: Scientists have realized that, in place of using gasoline, biofuels made of a majority (or even 100%) ethanol can be used in cars with few major modifications, most of which are simple parts of the car that can be easily redone with minimal materials, and this realization was mostly thanks to the rememberance of the modern Brazil, where 100% ethanol-fueled cars have been in use since the late 1970s. Many of these modifications are made to a number of those who can pay for them using scrapped materials from the many vacant offices around the major cities, along with many government officials. Military vehicles, however, are not modified as ethanol is found to be far less efficient in that situation. This ethanol is made from the glucose present in sugar beets, which are grown inside of our fancy vertical farms. Japan's streets have become occupied by vehicles once again, though not many.
**Discovery of the Exiled: It seems that we are not alone in this old world of ours. We have discovered many city-states and in some cases, entire nations, have been "exiled" back to the past with us. Perhaps we shall forge alliances that will allow us to bring ourselves back to our hometime? Only time can tell.
**The Half-Men: On the border with the Satake daimyo, a horse-drawn cart containing four men who were seemingly tied up in the back along with what seemed to be two men who were holding the reins, dressed in traditional ashigaru armor. The two ashigaru were split in half, the cause of which was likely the Incident. The four men in the back seemed to have been prisoners that had starved, as their hands and feet were bound, along with one of the men, dressed in facy garb, who was gagged as well. One of these men has beeb identified as "Todo Hawado" based on a small piece of wood he carried with him that had been carved. A small stone statue has been erected near the site in honor of the two Japanese soldiers that died due to the Incident. A plaque reads "They are finally awake in the hands of the Kami."
==== Joint Provisional Government of the Counties of Los Angeles and Orange (JPG) ====
* Government: Provisional Government with two principal organs; the Council and the Mayor's Office.
** Mayor: Eric Garcetti (D)
** Ruling Party: Democratic 
** Council:
*** Provisional Assembly (125): Democratic (95), Republican (22), Vacant (8)
** Laws and Policies:
*** Property Auction Act: Passed in the Assembly on March 19, 2020 (with the dissent of Republicans and some Democrats), the Property Auction Act allows the government to seize any property owned by a person or entity that was not residing in Los Angeles or Orange County, has no next of kin in either of the two counties, and could not be contacted by June 1, 2020. A lot of the property is auctioned off, generating some income, but some is kept by the JPG.
*** Lift of Curfew: A 8 PM curfew has been lifted over Los Angeles County.
*** Fuel Conservation Act: All public transport is shut down. Several oil companies, such as Chevron and Exxon-Mobil survive, restructure their regional offices, and buy off many of the auctioned oil rigs. The Ventura Resources Company (VRC) is started this year, a combination of many smaller oil companies in the LA Basin. Gasoline; reaching $18.09 per gallon, means that the streets of LA are empty. No cars, no buses. However, trucking has become important for distribution of food and essential resources, and the major highways have only one or two trucks passing by a day.
*** Zones of Control: In several ghettos and poorer areas, gang wars have become common. The LAPD has therefore established Zones of Control (ZICs) to ensure conflicts do not spill over. The most prominent of these have been Compton and West Carson. Within the ZICs, crime is rampant, but without access to food or water, most gangs eventually surrender to the LAPD.
*** A Tale of Two Counties: Since we have little physical communication outside of LA or Orange County, the two counties have unified under the Joint Provisional Government of the Counties of Los Angeles and Orange (JPG for short). The JPG is lead by a Mayor (official name; Grand Supervisor); currently Eric Garcetti, who leads the Duo-Supervision Committee, a board of advisers. The other major organ of the JPG is the Council, currently made up of an Assembly, as per C.R 008; which is made up of representatives from each incorporated city. Each city receives one representative.
*** Permanent Resident Status Act: Any person within the boundaries of Los Angeles or Orange County as of November 11, 2019 will receive permanent citizenship. This includes an estimated 480,000 tourists within Los Angeles County and an estimated 75,000 tourists within Orange County. Tourists are directed toward their local consulate for more information.
*** Electrical Conservation: Southern California Edison is bought out fully by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and incorporated with the Clean Power Alliance. All electricity is now controlled by the government, and most of it is routed towards essential areas; such as government installations and food stations. Electricity costs skyrocket throughout the city, but with oil still pumping and being transported, the LADWP estimates they should lower back down to normal levels within 5 years.
*** Farm Accountability Act: Wine, grape, and nut farms, common in Los Angeles County near the Ventura County border, are bought out by the government and burned down to make way for more nutritious wheat and grain farms. In Orange County, the county government refuses the tear down the iconic orange and fruit farms, the county's namesake. These, however, take too much water to grow, and considering the conservation of fuel only for necessary logistics, many citrus farms shut down.
*** Rainy Day Fund Act: Several water reservoirs, such as Silver Lake Reservoir and Morris Reservoir are nearly emptied/drained for water. Even with extreme water conservation (each family is allowed 3 gallons a day), the residents of the JPG use up water quickly. A new solution must be found if Los Angeles is to survive, as the LADWP estimates that even draining all available reservoirs, water supplies will run dry in 14 years at the current rate.
* Capital: de facto Los Angeles City; de jure none
* Economy: The Angelino economy was mostly based around commerce, entertainment, aerospace, and tourism before the event. After the event, the major sectors are oil & gas, logistics, and entertainment. Banking and finance has become a huge problem, as no major banks were headquartered in Los Angeles, meaning many people lost investments and deposits. Several banks did have regional offices in LA, and Wells Fargo, Citibank, Western Union, Bank of America, USBank, and PNC Finance survived the event. Many banks closed their doors, and many people lost access to their bank accounts. Looting and crime became common, mostly in West LA, and the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach were closed indefinitely. 
* Demographics:
** Population: 13,807,190
* California National Guard:
** 40th Infantry Division (Mechanized)
*** 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team
**** 1st Squadron, 18th Cavalry (Reconnaissance)
***** HQ Troop (Pomona)
***** A Troop (Pomona)
***** C Troop (Pomona)
**** 40th Brigade Support Battalion
***** HQ Company (Bell)
***** C Company (Manhattan Beach)
***** D Company (Manhattan Beach)
* 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment (Active/National Guard)
** 1st Battalion, 144th Field Artillery
*** HQ Battery (Burbank)
*** A Battery (Burbank)
*** B Battery (Burbank)
*** C Battery (Burbank)
*** D Battery (Burbank)
* 100th Troop Command
** 40th Finance Battalion (Compton)(Azusa Post-Event)
** 250th Military Intelligence Battalion
*** A Company (Long Beach)
* 224th Sustainment Brigade
** HQ Company (Manhattan Beach)
* 578th Engineer Battalion
** HQ Company (Manhattan Beach)
** 140th Mobility Augmentation Company (Azusa)
** 216th Mobility Augmentation Company (Long Beach)
** Forward Support Company (Pomona)
* 224th Special Troops Battalion
** 251st Financial Management Detachment (Azusa)
* 746th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion
** HQ Detachment (Van Nuys)
** 128th Quartermaster Company (Van Nuys)
** 756th Transportation Company (Lancaster)
* Air Force
** 61st Air Base Wing (El Segundo)
** Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC)
*** Global Positioning Systems Directorate (online; 0.07% NAVSTAR full efficiency)
*** Space Superiority Systems Directorate (offline) Launch Enterprise Directorate (offline)
*** Infrared Space Systems Directorate (offline)
*** Defense Weather Systems Directorate (offline)
*** MILSATCOM Systems Directorate (offline)
*** Advanced Systems and Development Directorate (online; 15% efficiency)
*** Space Logistics Directorate (communications cut)
*** Operationally Responsive Space Office (closed)
*** Range and Network Division (online; 0.34% efficiency)
* Conflicts
** Los Angeles Drug Wars: Resolved. Police victory in some areas. Gangs maintain control in Carson, West Carson, and Fremont.
* Diplomacy
** Japan: Well, it is nice to know we aren't alone. Since we desperately need extra food, I would be willing to trade oil for food once the cargo ships are up and running again.
* Events
** Communications: My god. It appears we are not alone in this brave new world. Our RND and GPS systems, as well as several radio systems have detected communications coming from central Mexico, New York City, Japan, and Cheyenne. Weaker signals are arising from Ecuador, Western Europe, and China. Several ships docked in Los Angeles are sufficient enough to possibly travel down to Mexico to establish trade.
** Avalon Expedition: A private expedition to the city of Avalon has resulted in shock when the city was not visible. It is likely that the Channel Islands were not transported back in time, like the rest of LA and Orange County were. Some have sailed to the new city, and the small community of New Avalon has been created where the old one once (or will) stood (stand).
** Great Media: CBS and NBC, both having extensive offices in Los Angeles, survive the event. Since electricity is not available for many due to the frequent brownouts, they have both reduced their television coverage and mostly focused on radio. CBS and NBC Radio both mostly broadcast news and music, and have become successful. 
** Caltech Riots: Angry Christians demonstrated in front of the California Institute of Technology on June 16, 2020, demanding answers of the Event from the scientific institution. Eventually, the demonstration turned into rioting, and two were killed after an LAPD policeman fired into the crowd.
** Federal Remnant Government: Several federal assets in Los Angeles, including NWS stations, an FCC and DoE office, NASA's JPL office, and several governmental agencies form the Federal Remnant Government, lead by Representative Katie Porter (D-CA). The FRG acts independently of the JPG, but does coordinate with it.
** Los Angeles Air Force Base: Some of the systems at the Los Angeles Air Force Base are online, thankfully. The GPS system is still limited, we only have access to 3 satellites and GPS systems are only available in the Los Angeles Basin. Elon Musk and his company SpaceX helped heavily with the project, and the good news from this has boosted SpaceX to become the premier aerospace company.
** Military Might: The California National Guard, without any communication from the Governor or the President, has sided with the JPG. The several military bases, with the exception of El Segundo, have declared their loyalty to the FRG.
====State of Israel====
*Government: Parliamentary Republic (elections currently suspended).
**Laws: Use of personal cars is now fully restricted as there is not enough fuel to supply everyone. Netanyahu promises that everything will gradually return to normal as soon as we get a hold of oil supply. Water and electricity are still being rationed but remain available for the most essential uses. Later on, Netanyahu would announce that rather than maintaining oil-derivated fuel as our only option, the government would encourage the use of natural gas as an alternative, as Israel has a large amount of natural gas reserves.
**Prime Minister: Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud)
**President: Reuven Rivlin (Likud)
**Capital: Jerusalem (disputed [by who?])
*Economy: The agricultural industry is still receiving special attention for the sake of feeding the population. Fishing has also come into the government's attention, with more and more fishing boats being sent to our shores. The three main natural fishing zones are the Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee). Natural gas production is also being boosted. The first important findings of natural gas in Israel were made in 2004, and production has only grown since then. As there are huge natural gas reserves, this will surely benefit our deteriorated energy sector.
*Military: The military mobilization is put on standby for the time being. While it is true that our country is preparing for fierce conflicts, it is believed that the current military numbers are more than enough to face our enemies. In the end, quality is valued over quantity. It is worth mentioning that military service is mandatory (although Arabs may opt out of it), and that the training that the recruits receive is being diversified. 
**Israeli Army:
***215,000 active personnel
***300,000 reserve personnel
***2,760 combat tanks
***6,541 armore fighting vehicles
***650 self-propelled artillery
***300 towed artillery
***150 rocket projectors
**Israeli Air Force:
***30,000 active personnel
***55,000 reserve personnel
***253 fighters
***18 transports
***153 trainers
***96 helicopters
***48 attack helicopeters
**Israeli Navy:
***9,500 active personnel
***10,000 reserve personnel
***3 corvettes (Sa'ar 5 class)
***8 missile boats (Sa'ar 4.5 class)
***5 submarines (Dolphin class)
***45 patrol boats
***2 support ships
*Events: 
**The 11th Egyptian plague: Netanyahu is completely sure that the Mamluks must be anhilated as soon as possible. However, before going to a full-on war with them, an operation is launched for weakening their population. Biomedical research labs are told to cultivate the most pathogenic strains they could find of multiple disease-causing bacteria. The selected microbes are known to propagate through contaminated food and water and they cause symptons related to the digestive tract. After obtaining pure, highly pathogenic cultures of each microbe, a total of 8 Hamas prisoners are inoculated using the food they usually consume in prison. The pathogens selected for this operation are the following:
***Salmonella enterica
***Salmonella typhi (causes typhoid fever)
***Escherichia coli
***Vibrio cholerae (causes cholera)
**This operation is conducted with the maximum degree of secrecy and with the key participation of Mossad in order to prevent a scandal. After a few days all but one developed a severe disentery and other gastroinstestinal symptons, depending of the microbe they were infected with. Fecal matter from all subjects is quickly retrieved and the presence of the respective microbes is confirmed by lab studies. Mere hours after this, a small fleet of helicopters (5 in total) is sent to Cairo, with the objective of arriving by night. The helicopters, while most surely noticed by the mamluks in the desert and in the city, make sure to fly at a high enough altitude to avoid being attacked. After finally arriving into Cairo, they lower their altitude a bit and drop high amounts of fecal matter from the infected test subjects, along with multiple vials containing cultures of the previously mentioned microorganisms in the Nile river. Having finished their task, the helicopter fleet swiftly returned to Israel and announced that this phase of the operation had been completed. The effects of the operation are currently unknown (make an event for this Side please), but we hope that contaminating the Nile river would cause an epidemic that would crumble the Mamluks' economical and political stability, or if not, at least keep them occupied for a while. As forh the test subjects, 2 of them (both infected with cholera) died while the rest managed to recuperate.
**Old tricks: After having conducted the operation known as "11th egyptian plague", Netanyahu orders the Mossad to perform an assasination attempt on the Mamluk sultan. For this, the biological warfare line is followed once again. Anthrax is cultivated in labs and transformed into a white dust which is then put on an envelope along with multiple letters. A Mossad member fluent in Arab is disguised as a Palestinian and sent to Cairo to deliver the letter to the Mamluk sultan, Sayf ad-Din Jaqmaq. Since the travel is long as the agent is not using a car but rather a camel, he is supplied with firearms, a portable radio and enough water and food rations to increase his chances of reaching his destiny safely. The desired outcome is the Sultan opening the envelope and aspiring the anthrax-infected white dust. As anthrax is highly lethal in this form, Netanyahu hopes that this assasination attempt will be successful. The outcome is currently unknown though (mod response needed).
**Border: Just like in the past year, the borders with both the Mamluks are being heavely guarded by the Israeli Army and artillery and air force are ob their right spots for responding to any incoming hostile forces. War preparations continue, as the main goal of the two biowarfare operations were not only to weaken the Mamluk population, but to also provoke them into declaring war on us.
*Diplomacy: 
**Exiled: Communication is now properly established. However, since we are far away from most of them (except Palestine and Libya, which are like, enemies), we don't really discuss anything of relevance. Nevertheless, the reveal that multiple 2019 nations still exist does help our population calm down a bit.
**Armenia: An alliance is signed. We won't allow the Byzatine Empire to fall.
**Aq Qoyunlu: We send a diplomat fluent in multiple languages to establish contact. The team also includes a couple history specialized in middle eastern history. Given that this travel is long and requires passing through Mamluk territory, the diplomat is escorted by multiple military trucks. Once contact is established, a few pieces of modern technology (such as smartphones, lamps and even a civil drone) are offered as presents along with three ingots of gold. An offer is then made; support us in an eventual war against the mamluks (we will provide some modern weapons) and you will receive more of this modern technology.
===Turn III (1446)===
====Events====
*The Great Famine: Food stores in underprepared territories begin to run out, with the worst famines hitting locations such as Mexico City, Libya, Bangladesh and Singapore. They are followed by massive riots, with the most violent ones swarming Mexico City and Bangladesh, for gross mismanagement of resources and water shortages respectively. Mexico City faces a socialist uprising that manages to execute Manuel Lopez Obrador. The remainder of the old government goes into hiding. Milder riots occur in locations such as Armenia, where the main topic is the usage of resources in the construction of roads rather than more agricultural infrastructure.
*The Parres Uprising: After a period of steady and well-coordinated trade between the town of Parres and the southern Aztec tribespeople, they manage to pull through the famines that plague the rest of the territory with a supply of maize provided by the Aztecs, and declare independence shortly after the leader of Mexico City is executed. The locals of Parres have erected wooden walls and have begun agricultural activities involving maize. Food is periodically brought out of Parres into the city itself and distributed. Similar uprisings occur in San Andrés Totoltepec and Santa Cruz Meyelhuaco, in which independence is sought after. A good deal of the Mexican military also defects to these rebel movements, not wanting to support a government that doesn't care about the well-being of its citizens. Less than half the police force are alive and loyal to the CDMX administration.
*Eve of Sengoku: The Daimyos of Uesugi, Imagawa and Satake have formally pledged allegiance to the Japanese Shogunate in Tokyo. This has been met with a hostile reaction by Ashikaga, and an ultimatum is sent to the defective Daimyos and Japan itself 'to remember their place under the Chrysanthemum Throne'. The Daimyos of Nanbu and Hatakeyama are rumoured to be planning to defect as well. There is a noticeable build-up of forces in Ogasawara, Date and Takeda.
*The Eleventh Plague of Egypt: Israeli attempts at biological warfare are successful, with the Mamluks none the wiser. Thousands are infected by what has been called "the 11th Plague", with medical practitioners being overwhelmed by the disparity between cases and their numbers. The Sultan himself rarely makes public appearances due to his frequent diarrhoea. It is noted that a few ministers have died from an unknown illness. While the Sultan is not affected outside his obvious cholera, the loss of said ministers will be detrimental to the organisational capabilities of the Mamluk Sultanate. The Tobruk government of Libya has also come into contact with the Mamluks, lending their expertise and knowhow along with Hamas 'against the Jews and their tricks' in the form of AK-47 wielding gunmen and vehicles.
*Electable!: Casimir IV Jagellion has been elected President of the Republic of Belarus in a landslide victory. After taking office, he amends the constitution to allow the President to hold multiple positions. He is then coronated as King of Lithuania, and now rules over both entities. The presidency of Belarus is slowly erroded and replaced with more monarchic qualities.
*A Tale of Two Popes, Part Deux: A new basilica is constructed in Rome to serve as the residency of Pope Eugene and a centre for papal and administrative affairs for the Papal State. It is noted that both Popes have become great friends, often being seen discussing about religion and history within the Vatican during their free time. 
*Battle of the South China Sea: The PLA based in the South China Sea bases have fully mobilised against Hong Kong, with destroyers and corvettes surrounding the islands and tandem operations with the PCC on the mainland to secure the Republic of Hong Kong and bring it fully under PCC or equivalent control. The Taiwanese ships arrive as stated previously to make contact with Hong Kong, unaware of the mobilisation of the PLA Navy, however the PLA wasn't counting on the presence of the main Taiwanese fleet either. The ensuing battle resulted in the disabling of several ships, including the PLA aircraft carrier Liaoning, 3 Chinese destroyers, 5 Chinese frigates, 1 Taiwanese destroyer and 4 Taiwanese frigates. No ships were sunk from an unspoken agreement between both sides to conserve resources. Due to an already ongoing shortage of fuel, the PLA Navy was unable to reach full operational capacity. The Taiwanese ships managed to break the blockade and force the PLA Navy to retreat to Stonecutter's Island in Kowloon. The PCC and Republic continue to fight for Hong Kong, while the Taiwanese Navy maintains superiority on the water. The Ming Imperial Army has yet to make their move. It is noted that Taiwanese naval craft periodically transport rations and bottled water to the Republic of Hong Kong.
*Battle of Otonetë: Skanderbeg crushes the Ottomans in upper Dibra in Albania, taking over 8,000 Ottoman lives and 500 prisoners. The force that is Albania begins to be feared by the perfidious Turk.
*One Night in Pyongyang: Living up to the name of 'Capital of the Hermit Kingdom', Pyongyang remains relatively isolated, much to the confusion of Korea and the loss of a major city. The threatening guards manage to scare them off however. It has also been noted that people are vanishing from the labour camps, and that Kim Jong Un and his cabinet are looking as well-fed as ever in spite of the mass famines that grip the city. Some wonder how?
*Erin go Bragh: Northern Ireland comes under the control of the Provisional IRA, and a new government is installed after months of fighting. Without any opposition from modern London, they rename themselves into Ireland proper, and begin making preparations to unite the Irish island diplomatically by sending diplomats and emissaries into the Irish kingdoms.
*Horsemen of the Midwest: With the Exile of Wyoming, horses become a thing in North America. Their populations are expected to grow, and herds have begun to form as farms and horse ranches enter dilapidation. Wyoming has lapsed into a 'cowboy state', while agricultural activities are ramped up indefinitely.
*Ceylonese Trade: Sri Lanka is arguably the most prosperous Exiled territory, as it was a trade center pre-Event and post-Event. Bangladesh? Not so much.
====NPC Turns====
*Byzantium, Georgia, Trebizond, Serbia, Qara Qoyunlu: They agree to construct these "embassies".
*Aq Qoyunlu: They think of the Israeli offer as strange, but accept it anyway.
*Pyongyang: They agree to a truce with Japan.
*Mesoamerican Kingdoms To Mexico City: They have no idea what Mexico City is talking about and pay no mind to it anyway as that place is currently a socialist dumpster fire.
*Taiwan: They accept Hong Kong's proposal and have expressed their intent to provide full support to 'wipe out the communist pigs'.
====Vatican City State====
*Government: Theocracy (de jure) | Absolute monarchy (de facto)
**Pope: Francis 
**Secretary of State: Pietro Parolin
**President of the Governorate: Guiseppe Bertello
*Military:
**Swiss Guardsmen: 135
**Gendarmes: 130
*Demographics:
**Population: 1,000
**Occupation:
***Clergy: 71%
***Laity: 29%
***Other: 0.01%
**Gender:
***Male: 95%
***Female: 5%
**Citizenship under residents:
***Citizens: 25%
***Non-citizens: 75%
*Economy: The economy of the Vatican relies on trade with the Papal States and on tourist excursions to the Papal States and the Vatican Observatory.
*Events:
**Medication for the Pope: Pope Francis tells Pope Eugene to about the achievements of medical science, which is able cure most of the diseases which are deemed unhealable in medieval times. The Pope suggest that the Pope may take some of the medications the Vatican has to prolong his life.
**Swiss Guardsmen Recruitment: The Vatican sends an envoy to the Swiss Confederacy to ask for 40 Swiss men who could serve as Swiss Guardsmen in the Vatican.
**Discovery of Satellites: To their astonishment, astronomers manning the Vatican Observatory discover satellites in space. No one is sure why those satellites are there, and several theories have tried to explain their presence.
**Radio: In order to investigate the possibility that there may be other modern-day nations beside the Vatican, the Vatican Radio searches for any possible sound on all possible frequencies, but fails to find anything useful.
====The former Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong (de jure) | Republic of Hong Kong | Pro-China Camp====
*Government: Former autonomous region, under an emergency government and divided into two factions (under a civil war)
**Chief Executive: Vacant (since 20th November 2019/1444, disputed)
**Leader of the PCC (de facto) / PLA Garrison in Hong Kong: Cai Yongzhang
**President of Hong Kong: Vacant (until February 2021/1446), Joshua Wong (I just literally dragged random prominent young figures into this; I think he would be 25 by October 2021)
*Military:
**People's Liberation Army garrison in Hong Kong: With the PLA Navy (which is not part of the PLA garrison itself) supporting the PLA garrison in Hong Kong, they have been united by common ideology and the motive to take Hong Kong back as part of what remains of the People's Republic of China. With over 6,000 forces and 34,000 police officers, along with high organisational capabilities in contrast to the paramilitary, they can keep a constitently high morale and prevent a group of say tens of thousands break the army up. They have some control over Hong Kong's military bases, but only those in the western part of the New Territories, since most of the bases in other parts were either ransacked for resources or have their arsenal stolen by the paramilitary to arm themselves with guns. They are also the most well-fed within the faction, along with the politicians who support them as well, in order to keep fighting.
**Hong Kong paramilitary: It comprises of approximately 95,000 fighters, all largely taught on self-defence, to survive a police baton attack to using umbrellas to defend themselves from tear or chemical weapons that could be used in the front. However, for the first time, they are no longer facing just the police, but the military garrison and the PLA Navy from the South China Sea, so they are inexperienced, not to mention that their organisation is low due to teenagers and young adults largely running the paramilitary, but their efforts of resilience makes their morale as high as the other side. The paramilitary are the military of the Republic of Hong Kong due to the garrison (the de jure military of Hong kong) being largely in favour of being part of the PCC. They have some control over military bases in Hong Kong and have raided these for weapons or materials to steal, but they have largely abandoned them. Makeshift weapons are commonplace, with bats, slingshots and many homemade weapons being used to thrash in numbers, but also some stolen weapons from the military bases that used to be under control of the PCC. Those who possess guns were higher in ranking in the paramilitary than those who possess makeshift melee weapons.
*Diplomacy:
**Ming Dynasty: (Note the Hongkonger refugees outside have been able to contact with the Emperor, but the Hongkongers and Mainlanders within Hong Kong are unaware of their activities, so their assumption is that they have been unaware of what is happening outside of southern China)
***Peasants: I'm still waiting for my response for the peasants for the PCC. In the meantime, PCC soldiers continue to communicate with them with the same promises to nag them into submitting the deal, but with bribery rather than talk the same thing to further ensure that they're not being raised an eye. An uprising is also being incited too in these discussions, as a way to lure the imperial army away from Hong Kong's border.
***Imperial Army: With the civil war going on, the Republic of Hong Kong sends a diplomat to the Imperial Army for some support with select gifts (not to ensure that they can advance technologically, but cultural items of Hong Kong's time) and liberate Hong Kong from communist influence. They want to say that they are not enemies and that they want to seek help against "evil brethren", which referred to the PCC. In exchange, they want food and water too in an event that Taiwan has run out of supplies or that they sever ties, but they still want to preserve independence due to "events that can't be foretold that makes both societies incompatible for unification". They also want to ask where the Hongkongers that have fled are as well since some relatives fear that they might have died from "suspicious circumstances".
*Economy: While the economy has regressed back to near-primitive standards, with currency being barely used, Hong Kong's food and water security remains somewhat low. Manufacturing plants are being rapidly converted into weapon making centres for both sides, but they don't have enough material, unless they salvage material or extract resources from the Ming Dynasty. The Republic of Hong Kong, despite having established ties with Taiwan, has no obtainable raw resources from Taiwan asides food and water, which slightly increased their security, but not enough to be truly 'secure'. Makeshift settlements and small farms in the Republic are the only way to truly make sure that food security is guaranteed to some extent, while the PCC continues to starve away with the police, legislature (LegCo) and the PLA Garrison having everything they have, providing a good secure supply of food while many of the civilians, even if they support the PCC, continue to get extreme rations (with some fish being served alongside) after the Taiwanese navy has achieved naval superiority, so either side would have access to fish while the other side, the PCC does not have any form of access to fish outside of Hong Kong's territorial waters. (Whether the peasants will give the PCC food and water depends on whatever the response is, otherwise the PCC is starving itself to death)
*Events:
**Famine Averted, New Leader Chosen: With Taiwan agreeing to the Republic of Hong Kong that they'll be cooperating with them and that the Hongkongers would get whatever they want as long as the Hongkongers get something in exchange that Taiwan wants, a famine that would've been inevitable has been averted, for now at least. The farms in the are not enough for them to sustain themselves in long term, not to mention that Taiwan might not be a stable ally in a long-term, but that is enough to help them to keep Hong Kong standing with limited food. Ration intake is slightly higher with Taiwan's trade, along with the intake of water, allowing people to drink up to one cup and a half from imported bottles. After a year of leadership disputes, it is decided that many of the teenagers and young adults aged below 30, have largely selected Joshua Wong to become the President of Hong Kong. An election would take place every four years and that to be eligible in voting, a person must be 16 or above, which is sufficiently low to satisfy teenagers who were part of the anti-extradition bill protests roughly three years ago and those who grew up learning such story. Many older pro-democracy activists argued that putting the minimum eligibility age of voting to 16 would destabilise politics (since they are still learning about politics), but they were still satisfied of this system. The LegCo of their own would be reorganised into 100 representatives, all proportionately equal in the number of voters there are. Pro-PCC and alike are arguably banned within the Republic of Hong Kong, although social democracy is acceptable to be passed, which some of the PCC defectors say is quite unfair. The PCC however, used this ban made by the Republic to propagate a message that they should not live in this republic if they wanted to keep "every party equal and free", which reasonably backfired when more people are fleeing to the Republic with promises of food and freedom, as this food class system has left them largely unbearable.
**The Arrival: With Taiwanese ships arriving with supplies, it is the moment in time that a civil war between both Hong Kong factions have culminated. The PCC, after months of repeated radio-talking and waiting, has gotten into contact with the South China Sea bases. They seem to be willing to support them. Then, a battle began between both of these powers in the middle of the seas and with the PLA Navy of South China Sea being forced to retreat to the western part of Kowloon while Taiwan seems to be holding its naval superiority so far, it marks the beginning of what is called the Battle for Hong Kong.
**Battle for Hong Kong: (I want this to have the coin flipped for mod events IMO)
***Pro-China Camp: With the wait for the peasants continuing to plague the PCC, they began to initiate a strategy that they would wait, build up their defences by building palisades and wait for the numbers of the Hong Kong paramilitary to come. Using their organised abilities to their maximum, they can be sure that they won't penetrate their own controlled territory. Meanwhile, Kowloon and the Hong Kong Island itself had quickly fallen to the control of the Republic of Hong Kong, largely because it is controlled and governed by the emergency government de facto, but many of its civilians still living there have made a decision to seize the metropolitan area of Hong Kong and bring it under control of a free republic. They have also been pushed from Lantau Island too; where in a fight for Hong Kong's Disneyland, which has been slowly reclaimed by shrubs and greenery for the past two years, they ultimately failed to keep their holdings over it. Now they have been confined to their control over New Territories - along with western Kowloon.
***Republic of Hong Kong: A sounding victory for the Republic of Hong Kong so far. Military bases that are under control of them were being looted in the event of this battle and then abandoned, as they were considered the relics of the PCC's control over Hong Kong for over 20 years before being displaced. They managed to get weapons form them, but have limited ammunition in comparison to the somewhat average durability of a makeshift melee weapon created by Hongkonger paramilitary. The push against the PCC, with support of Taiwan has allowed them to take much of the city of Hong Kong and Kowloon, along with the seizing of the rest of Lantau Island. But the fight against the PCC and the South China Sea navy continues to linger, with the battle perhaps lasting for over two years or so, unless the PCC decides to make a surprise act... or if the Ming Imperial Army had decided to swoop into the fight and help them.
====Republic of Belarus====
*Government: Unitary presidential republic
**President: Casimir IV Jagiellon
**Prime Minister: Sergey Rumas
**Capital: Minsk
*Economy: It is unknown what will happen to Belarus' economy following the election of Casimir IV. Before the Event, Belarus used the Belarusian ruble, and did so before the election. The President has announced the possibility of changing the currency to that of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which would provide easier ruling over the two countries.
*Events:
**The Royal Republic: The President of Belarus is already allowed to serve as many five-year terms as they want, however there are rumours that the amount of years between elections will be extended, allowing the President to rule the nation 'more effectively'. This has not been confirmed, however, and Casimir has not said anything about this in interviews and public speeches. If this is true, Belarus could become less like a republic and more like a monarchy.
==== Mexico City ====
* Government: Socialist Republic (de jure) Military Dictatorship (de facto)
** Demography: 44% mestizo, 24% white, 13% native, 19% other
** Religion: 73% Catholic, 13% Other Christians, 3% Atheists, 1%Jewish, 1%Muslim, 4% nahua religions, 2% maya religion, 3% other
** Population: 8,950,000
** Political Ideology: Socialists 30%, Nationalists 25%, Trotskyists 10%, Synarchists 10%, Marxists 10%, Technocrats 10%, Other 5%
** Political Parties: PT (socialists) FNM (nationalists), PCM (marxists), UNS (synarchists), PRT (trotskyist), CS (trotskyist), PCP (tecnochratic)
** Leader: Subcommander Marcos (no elections)
* Economy: We are trying to use solar energy to keep the electricity going
* Military:
** Army: 9,750 soldiers, 5,000 mercenaries in PMCs (Private Military Companies), 50,000 policemen, 99,000 paramilitary civilians
** Navy: None
** Equipment: 100,000 military firearms, around 1 million civilian firearms
** Aircraft: 30 helicopters, 2 fighters, 5 transport planes
** Armoured Vehicles and Tanks: 45 AFVs, 90 IFVs, 25 LAVs, 13 SPGs
** Actions: We have our soldiers advance to secure the valley of Mexico
** Shipyard: We haven't reached the coast yet
* Wars and Conflicts: 
** Mexican-Aztec War: we invade the valley of Mexico with all the army and paramilitary forces
* Diplomacy:
** Aztec Empire: we declare war on them as they did not care about  the ultimatum
** Tlaxcala: we offer them WW2 era weapons if they attack the Aztecs
** Tarascans: our emyssaries offer them modern tech for them to help in the war
** JPG: we inform them of our situation and request help
** Cuba: we inform them of our situation and request help as we are the only Socialists/Communists that remain on the world
** Japan: communications are established
** Jamaica: communications are established
** Cayman Islands: communications are established
** Haiti: communications are established
* Events
** Massacre of Teotihuacan: the Army kills 1,000 Aztec troops with almost no casualties on the mexican side, the people dont like it
** Militarization: conscription is raised to 1% (90,000)
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====Shogunate of Japan====
*Government: Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy, under a state of emergency for an indefinite amount of time effective from November 11th, 2019/1444.
**Emperor/Shogun: Naruhito
**Prime Minister: Shinzo Abe
**Capital: Tokyo
**Laws and Politics:
***The Modern Daimyo: In order to strengthen relations with the daimyos that have aligned with our ideology, we have begun supplying them with many commodities of the "modern" world, including but not limited to, refrigeration, medicines, electricity (produced w/ small coal generators), firearms (mostly WW2 and Cold War era weaponry, such as the M1 Garand, which have been stockpiled for years), increased crop outputs and new farming methods, as well as the printing press and the interal combustion engine.
***One Child Policy: In order to preserve food stocks, the Diet has seen it fit to install a one-child policy where women can have, at most, only one child. Should they go over the limit, their taxes will be raised and other consequences will be held.
***Electricity Restored?: The government has recently been reactivating many out-of-use wind turbines and solar panels. Coupled with biomass plants that had been being built in Tokyo and the other exiled prefectures before the Incident, electricity in Tokyo prefecture - although without many of the unnecessary billboards, automatic doors, etc., can be expected to be restored by as soon as next year, should everything go to plan. Most of the currently produced electricity goes into manufactories, government buildings, such as the National Printing Bureau and the Japan Mint Office in Tokyo, and supermarkets.
*Economy:  The economy has, surprisingly, been recovering. Though, not by a lot. Farming companies still remain the largest so far, and many have expanded their current vertical farms into surrounding buildings. We believe that now, we may have enough food production capabilities to *sustain* the population.
*Demographics: ​​​​​
**Population (total): 37,232,000
***Tokyo: 14,279,191
***Kanagawa: 9,108,094
***Saitama: ​​​​​​7,608,198
***Chiba: 6,236,517
*Military:
**Wars and Conflicts:
***Sengoku Jidai: To start of the Age of Warring States, we don't like the fact that the Takedans have begun a heavy military buildup, and we fear that they may fall under Ashikaga influence. We try to refrain from using bombing methods as to avoid the mass destruction of this era's cities or people, mostly because we will need the land for farming purposes. We send half of the Teikokugun, 15,000 soldiers, and 20-25 AFVs. These soldiers are encouraged to keep their distance, because we have a massive advantage at range because we have guns and the feudal Japanese have bows and katanas. Should worse come to worse, they still have their fighting knives and toshu kakuto training.
**Japanese Armed Forces:
***Military Production: Using scrapped metals, such as steel and aluminum, along with plastic mostly taken from the many, many, many, figurines in Akihabara, we are able to restart the production of our modern firearms once more. Cartridges are made using cordite as the propellant, brass casing, standard lead styphnate primer, and lead for the projectile. Currently produced guns include the SCK/Minebea 9mm Pistol (SIG P220), the Howa Type 89, and the M24 Sniper rifle. Vehicles, such as aircraft, ships, or tanks are not made due to their large cost.
***Japanese Army (Teikokugun): The Teikokugun currently consists of:
****30,000 active soldiers
****5,000 reserve soldiers
****56 tanks
****85 armored fighting vehicles (AFVs)
****15 self-propelled artillery
****40 towed artillery
****15 rocket projectors
***Japanese Maritime Force (Kaijogun): The Maritime Force currently consists of:
****25,000 active soldiers
****5,000 reserve soldiers
****3 aircraft carriers (2 Japanese, 1 American)
****6 destroyers
****1 corvette
****4 submarines
****4 patrol vessels
****10 mine warfare vessels
***Japanese Air Force (Kugun): The Air Force of Japan currently consists of:
****20,000 active soldiers
****5,000 reserve soldiers
****63 fighters
****52 attack aircraft
****15 transport craft
****25 trainer aircraft
****35 non-attack helicopters
****10 attack helicopters
*Diplomacy:
**Uesugi, Imagawa, Satake: We thank you for your allegiance to the true Japan. In return for our modern technologies, we require food, and lots of it. We can provide you with wheat seeds that will have incredible gains over the wheat you currently have now. We also need steel and bronze. Can you oblige these terms?
**Uesugi: For this war, we need you to invade Shiba. It is essential to our victory, as we require lead for our bullets.
**Nanbu and Hatakeyama: Our government has heard rumors that you are thinking of defecting to the rightful Shogun. We implore that you do, because believe us, we will win the Age of the Warring States and those who do not follow us will face dire consequences.
**Daimyos Not Mentioned: Should you choose to pledge your allegiance to us, we assure you that we will bring your noble clans into the limelight of Japan. Under the Ashikaga, what has happened? Status quo? We wish to change that.
**Ashikaga: We are not your daimyo to put down. We are a new Japan, a modern Japan. With the help of our forefathers, we shall prevail in your wake. It is the nature of time that the old ways must give in. Tenno Heika Banzai!
**JPG: We are glad that you have decided to supply us with oil. Have a nice time with your new food stocks! ...when you get them in a couple years, that is.
*Events:
**Dawn of the Sengoku Jidai: Even history is inevitable, apparently. Despite our best efforts menial efforts, the Age of Warring States, the Sengoku Jidai (戦国時代), has come, twenty years early. The Sengoku Jidai was marked by social upheaval, political intrigue and near-constant military conflict. It seems that it will once again fall to many of the same that it did in our timeline. We have decided to adopt a similar ideology and similar policies to that of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, "Nakanu nara, nakasete miyō, hototogisu." (If the cuckoo does not sing, coax it.), referencing his resourcefulness.
====State of Israel====
*Government: Parliamentary Republic (elections currently suspended).
**Laws: A one-child policy is enacted by Prime Minister Netanyahu in order to save resources. However, a notable restriction is made for Jewish people living in occupied Palestinian territory (Israel has illegal colonies on it irl). Those who refuse to follow the law face high fines and variable time in jail. Water and electricity are still being rationed but remain available for the most essential uses.
**Prime Minister: Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud)
**President: Reuven Rivlin (Likud) (before July 24th, 1446/2021) | Benny Gantz (Blue and White) (from July 24th, 1446/2021)
**Capital: Jerusalem (disputed [by who?])
*Economy: The agricultural industry is still receiving special attention for the sake of feeding the population. Fishing has also come into the government's attention, with more and more fishing boats being sent to our shores. The three main natural fishing zones are the Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee). Natural gas production continues to be prioritized as slow advances are made to switch the motors of new cars from using gasoline as fuel to natural gas. Trade with other countries (except for maybe Palestine) continues to remain impossible as the Mamluk-controlled land routes are considered too dangerous for trucks to travel. Naval trade is considered to not be of enough value to spend the little fuel we have on it.
*Military:  The military is swiftly mobilized as we engage in a full-on war with the Mamluks. A couple thousand men from the reserves are called into the frontline, increasing the number of our active land personnel. Armored vehicles, tanks and artillery are all being used in different fronts of the war. The Air Force is also mobilizex but does not keep a major role in the war, as its involvement is not considered vital to defeat the Mamluks and we'd prefer to ration fuel. Helicopters are the main aircraft used in the operation, serving as support for the land forces. The Navy remains on standby.
**Israeli Army:
***255,000 active personnel (+40,000)
***260,000 reserve personnel (-40,000)
***2,760 combat tanks
***6,541 armore fighting vehicles
***650 self-propelled artillery
***300 towed artillery
***150 rocket projectors
**Israeli Air Force:
***30,000 active personnel
***55,000 reserve personnel
***253 fighters
***18 transports
***153 trainers
***96 helicopters
***48 attack helicopeters
**Israeli Navy:
***9,500 active personnel
***10,000 reserve personnel
***3 corvettes (Sa'ar 5 class)
***8 missile boats (Sa'ar 4.5 class)
***5 submarines (Dolphin class)
***45 patrol boats
***2 support ships
*Events: 
**The Presidential succession: President Reuven Rivilin, a Likud member, had been elected by the parlimaent back in 2014 for a single, seven years-long term. The term would be supposed to end on July 24th of the current year. Although it was widely expected that he would remain in charge for a longer time due to the emergency situation, Netanyahu announced that he would be nominating opposition leader Benny Gantz from the Blue and White party for the charge. Gantz announced that he would accept the nomination and met with Nentanyahu on the following day, holding a joint press conference where they called for national unity. This was seen as an attempt of maintaining stability and increase people's hopes, as well as keeping natiomal unity. Gantz would then be confirmed by the Parliament. He took charge as President of Israel on July 24th.
**The 11th Egyptian plague: A second dispatch of helicopters carrying infectious material with Salmonella, Vibrio spp and other enteric disease-causing microbes (the same that were used in the past turn) is sent to Cairo once again. Although there is no fecal matter this time, vials containing viable cultures of the aforementioned microbes are dropped on Nile River in the middle of the chaos unleashed by the epidemic. The helicopters then return to Israel as planned. The goal of this small reinfection is maintaining the current cholera epidemic alive, for the sake of further destabilizing the Mamluks.
**Mamluk-Israeli war: After conducting the second phase of our biowarfare program, a swift invasion is launched on the Mamluk Sultanate as we formally declare war on them. A total of 130,000 men are employed in this operation along with a couple of armored vehicles, tanks and artillery pieces. The Air Force conducts support tasks (transport and dispatch of resources and equipment), and is only used for attacking in highly important operations, such as the Battle of Damascus. Two different fronts are established, the first one is located on the Sinai peninsula. A strategy for occupying the peninsula is divised, partially following plans from the now erased Six Days War. The other front, which is given more importance by the military, is the levantine front, in former Syria and Lebanon. The main goal is occupying the city of Damascus. Our troops attempt to advance as far deep into the Levant as possible while Damascus is besieged. Finally, the former Jordan-Israel border is solely being defended and no pushes are made into this region. Note: @Side, you get to decide how much I am able to advance in terms of territory, and if Damascus is besieged (not sure if there could be an outcome by now).
**The Palestinian question: As in the past years, the border with Palestine is still being heavely defended and patrolled, even with the ongoing conflict with the Mamluks. We want to make sure that the terrorists don't see the war with the Mamluks as a chance for entering and damaging our territory.
*Diplomacy: 
**Aq Qoyunlu: They are told to attack the Mamluks with all they got. Basic weaponry such as AK-47s is provided, but only in limited numbers. Nevertheless, they should be able to take the Mamluks by surprise.
**Mamluks: You shouldn't even bother, but you may fight back if you wish.
==== Joint Provisional Government of the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, and Antonio (JPG) ====
* Government: Provisional Government with two principal organs; the Council and the Mayor's Office.
** Governor: Eric Garcetti (D)
** Ruling Party: Democratic
** Council:
*** Senate (125): Democratic (95), Republican (25), Liberty (1), Vacant (4)
*** Joint Assembly (138): Democratic (103), Republican (35), 
** Laws and Policies:
*** A Balanced Diet: Some of Orange County's fruit farms stubbornly persist, while others are converted into nut and grain farms. These are heavily subsidized by the government, and this gives the denizens of Los Angeles a more balanced diet other than their regular ration of rice and stale bread (although quite expensive, oranges cost up to $7 each, even with the extreme deflation). Angelinos have taken to growing their own fruit gardens, although the lack of water has left these endeavours fruitless (pun lol). 
*** Governmental Reforms: The Senate is created, the office of Grand Supervisor is renamed to Governor, and the Duo-Supervision Committee is abolished. The Council effectively acts as the U.S Congress did.
*** NPR Buyout: The local offices of NPR, without any public or private funding, have been bought out by the local government. Currently, they mostly broadcast news bulletins and local events.
*** Constitutional Convention: Delegates from the Council convened in the Los Angeles Legislative Hall to draft up a constitution for the JPG, and for the elimination of the provisional government and a more permanent one installed. The new one looks oddly similar to the U.S Constitution, and elections are planned for November 1, 2022. Several changes, such as the creation of the Senate, are planned for this year, while other reforms are to come in 2023. The Liberty Party, a group of right-leaning libertarians, has gained popularity in Orange County and Palmdale, and the Mayor of Palmdale has appointed a Liberty Party representative for the newly created Senate.
*** Taxes...: The JPG, being too ambitious on its projects and undertakings, has increased taxes for the middle class in a widely unpopular move. With an election planned, the Democrats are projected to lose bigly by the LA Times and California Newsletter.
*** JPL Discovery: NASA's JPL Laboratory has discovered satellites dotting the athmosphere. Interesting.... Perhaps we can use this to recreate the GPS network fully.
*** The Water Crisis: 55% of LA's reservoirs are critically under normal levels. Rainfall this year has somewhat relieved us, however the LADWP has said that water will run out in 8 years in LA, instead of the previously predicted 14 years.
* Capital: Los Angeles City
* Economy: The economy of Los Angeles, while appearing to be recovering, slumped in Q3 of 2021/1446. The U.S Dollar's value increased dramatically since 2019, since no new bills were being printed anymore, sparking a debate of whether a new currency ought to be used. The dollar's value did bounce up and down in 2021, causing financial trouble. Several other solutions were proposed, but none made it past the Council. Manufacturing surpassed entertainment to become a large industry in LA, according to a new study from the Los Angeles Institute of Economics. The aerospace industry is lead by Elon Musk and SpaceX, currently trying to create an internet system across Los Angeles, the project in its infancy.
* Demographics:
** Population: 13,809,179
* California National Guard:
** 40th Infantry Division (Mechanized)
*** 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team
**** 1st Squadron, 18th Cavalry (Reconnaissance)
***** HQ Troop (Pomona)
***** A Troop (Pomona)
***** C Troop (Pomona)
**** 40th Brigade Support Battalion
***** HQ Company (Bell)
***** C Company (Manhattan Beach)
***** D Company (Manhattan Beach)
* 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment (Active/National Guard)
** 1st Battalion, 144th Field Artillery
*** HQ Battery (Burbank)
*** A Battery (Burbank)
*** B Battery (Burbank)
*** C Battery (Burbank)
*** D Battery (Burbank)
* 100th Troop Command
** 40th Finance Battalion (Compton)(Azusa Post-Event)
** 250th Military Intelligence Battalion
*** A Company (Long Beach)
* 224th Sustainment Brigade
** HQ Company (Manhattan Beach)
* 578th Engineer Battalion
** HQ Company (Manhattan Beach)
** 140th Mobility Augmentation Company (Azusa)
** 216th Mobility Augmentation Company (Long Beach)
** Forward Support Company (Pomona)
* 224th Special Troops Battalion
** 251st Financial Management Detachment (Azusa)
* 746th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion
** HQ Detachment (Van Nuys)
** 128th Quartermaster Company (Van Nuys)
** 756th Transportation Company (Lancaster)
* Air Force
** 61st Air Base Wing (El Segundo)
** Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC)
*** Global Positioning Systems Directorate (online; 0.15% NAVSTAR full efficiency)
*** Space Superiority Systems Directorate (online; 4% full efficiency)
*** Launch Enterprise Directorate (offline)
*** Infrared Space Systems Directorate (offline)
*** Defense Weather Systems Directorate (offline)
*** MILSATCOM Systems Directorate (offline)
*** Advanced Systems and Development Directorate (online; 20% efficiency)
*** Space Logistics Directorate (communications cut)
*** Operationally Responsive Space Office (closed)
*** Range and Network Division (online; 0.34% efficiency)
* Conflicts:
* Diplomacy:
** Mexico City: Hello! We have recieved your call for help, and would be grateful to do so. However, since there is no land or sea access between our two nations, we can't exactly take much action.
** Ecuador: The Ecuadorian Consulate staff and the local ambassador would like to return to native country. We will provide transport and food, and can you take him in once he arrives in Quito?
Events:
* Manufacturing: In South Gate, Los Angeles' small manufacturing sector is restarted. Without much raw materials, we are limited in what we can make. Guns are starting to be manufactured, the California National Guard has ordered a new shipment, and with the Port Authority of Los Angeles requesting the city to reopen the ports with the discovery of Japan and Mexico City, ship parts are also being built. The Pacific Material Index is created to index the costs of raw materials.
* Mines: Lead mines are constructed in San Fernando, Glendora, and New Avalon. New Avalon in particular benefits from this, with the population reaching 1,800 by the end of the year. As such, the unincorporated community becomes a full fledged city, with its economy based around the lead mines. Silica, tungsten, and iron mines are also constructed in various parts of the Los Angeles area. In what used to be San Bernardino, alunimum mines are constructed, signalling a "re-colonization" of areas that were not exiled.
* Chumash Camp: Learning from radio broadcasts from various parts of the world, historians at UCLA have determined that the year is currently 1446. This would line up with our previous assumptions, and has been widely accepted as fact by the populace. In fact, some have begun saying 1446 instead of 2021. We have also established contact with the primitive Chumash in what was formerly San Bernardino. Despite vaccines and other medical supplies being in short supply, the Indians there are vaccination, and some Native American experts, fluent in their tounge, tell them of our predicament. 
* So Long!: Oil prices have lowered somewhat with the stabilization of the oil & gas economy. Some small cargo ship have been outfitted with repairs after two years of inactivity, and are set off for a coastal expedition of the California coast. The Port Authority has more expeditions planned for Baja California and Hawaii if this one is successful. We predict that within four-five years, we may be able to outfit a cargo ship to arrive in Tokyo and re-commence trade, or head to the Mexican coast to initiate physical contact with Mexico City. That is, if the oil prices lower within that timeframe.
* The Great Split: Los Angeles County is split in twain, the northern part, consisiting of the San Gabriel Mountains and the Palmdale area, is split off to become Antonio County, named after Mount St. Antonio.
* Ride off into the Sunset: The SS Sunset, an outfitted ship lead by the eccentric Peter Boles of Anaheim, sails off from Dana Point to a crowd of 20,000 people on March 17, 2021. Boles, a history fanatic, vows to visit the historic Inca Empire, take a few pictures and possibly artifacts (for historical reasons) and return to Los Angeles with gold and riches. His ship is lined up with medication, gold, modern technology, and lots and lots of food, water, and experimental technology that may be able to turn salt water into fresh water (although this is not practical for widespread use). He leaves Dana Point with his wife and a small crew of 4, riding off into the sunset, never to be heard from again.
==== The Republic of Singapore ====
* Government: Constitutional Republic
** President: Halimah Yacob
** Prime Minister: Lee Hsien Loong
** Parlament Speaker: Tan Chuan-Jin
** Chief Justice: Sundaresh Menon
* Capital: Singapore
* Economy: After the transition to 1444 the economy took a drop as well as jobs opening due to 200 thousand people missing, presumed to be left in 2019. We would try to find any communications, finding an unknown country or countries on the country on Malaysia. We also found communications in Bangladesh. We would try to use of our petronium oils as we cannot get any from anywhere else, which is why we strongly suggest limited use of cars. We try to maintain our economy stable but the economy cannot sustain very well due to limited to no trade.
* Military: 
** Wars & Conflicts: N/A
* Events: 
** Explorations to Malaysia and Indonesia: We send boats to Malaysia and Indonesia to try and find any stable countries from 2019.
** Food Crisis: There would quickly be a lack of food in Singapore. This is when we would set up rice farms and other similar foods to farms in houses we would build to make it easier for them to grow. This is to get enough food for all of our people to have just enough food, leaving some of them to only get lunch or dinner. The farms would be kept secured 24/7 so that no one will steal anything or destroy anything.
* Diplomacy: 
** Bangladesh: We would request to try and set up relations and some form of trade.
===Turn IV (1447)===
====Events====
*Mamluk-Israeli War: The Mamluk Sultanate is invaded by Israeli forces in what seems to be a repeat of the Six Day War. The Mamluks are pushed back across the Sinai Peninsula in the west and up to Damascus in the north. The forts stood no chance against the strength and mere presence of a working air force, Damascus was occupied in the span of 2 weeks. Beirut was taken shortly after the fall of Damascus. A chokepoint for the Israelis presents itself towards the entrance to Africa, with military advisors speaking of high civilian casualties if the air force is employed in the Nile Theatre. On the northern front, the army stops short of Homs to celebrate Christmas, and an offensive on the city can be executed by the end of 1446 (that means you can do it this turn). Aq Qoyunlu provides quite the headache for the Mamluks in Syria, but no major advancements are made. However, it is noted the Mamluks are beginning to utilise modern weapons supplied by the Tobruk government in Libya such as AFVs and firearms. It will be troublesome if the situation turns into another case of Middle Eastern governments versus terrorists.
*Sengoku Jidai: The Shogun in Ashikaga declares war on the Japanese Shogunate and its Daimyos shortly after Nanbu and Hatakeyama defect to the government in Tokyo. Offensives from the Shogun in Kyoto see the movement of troops from Ogasawara and Date into Uesugi and Nanbu, and a direct assault into the Kanagawa prefecture by troops stationed in Takeda. This invasion is repelled by the arrival of Japanese forces, however the fronts on Uesugi will take more time to sort themselves out. 
*Wrath of Tepēyōllōtl: A massive earthquake rocks Central Mexico, with the most of the Mexico City military being buried under a landslide and a subsequent flash-flood. Approximately 77,344 deaths are recorded by this event alone, all being soldiers or paramilitaries. Meanwhile, more and more of the population begins to defect to Parres, which has grown in both size and agricultural output as they collaborate with rebel provinces and the Aztecs south of them. Some say they have established diplomatic relations with the Aztec Empire, others maintain the status quo of Parres being a humble farmer's state. Maize, wheat and rice are grown in fields, while farms boast cattle, sheep, poultry, pigs and horses, developing an agrarian paradise in contrast to the urban hell saturated with starvation known as Mexico City, as the government REPEATEDLY FAILS TO FEED THEIR FUCKING PEOPLE, DIEGO.
*One King to Rule: Casimir IV Jagellion has enacted several reforms since taking office, including changes to the Byelorussian constitution, allowing for hereditary succession upon his abdication or death, and the formation of personal unions. If there were any critics in Belarus, they would point out that Casimir is converting Belarus into a monarchy. However, since there aren't any critics, he proceeds unobstructed. The Kingdom of Belarus-Lithuania would soon come to exist.
*Aztec Invasion: Aztecs from the north inade southwards into Mexico City, suspiciously wielding firearms and standard Mexican police riot gear. What's stranger is their method of attack, purposefully avoiding civilian targets and instead only attacking the police. There is no invasion from the south or east, where the neighbourhoods and streets have defected to the Parres administration. Some suggest that Parres has organised and coordinated the attack.
*Navies of the Caribbean: The governments of Cuba, Jamaica, the Bahamas and Puerto Rico are the main sponsors of an expedition to the Floridan Peninsula. A massive fleet moves unobstructed towards what was formerly the United States and makes a few settlements and farms there. It is noted that no effort is made by the nations on Hispaniola, mostly because they are too busy trying to fight each other while starving.
*False Mandates of Heaven: A peasant uprising takes place in Guangzhou, and it is noted a contingent is sent to quell it from the Ming Imperial Army stationed outside Hong Kong. However, the PCC does not have time to rest easy, as the Ming soldiers move into the Exiled territory, actively fighting the PCC. It seems that the Hongkongers in the Ming Imperial Court have been communicating with Hongkongers back at home on the democratic front, and have pleaded the Emperor to assist the Republic of Hong Kong. Despite the technological superiority of the PCC, they only have so many bullets. Fighting a two front war against Hong Kong and the Ming behemoth have tired them out, and the war is expected to end in a few months.
*The Fattest Kim: Kim Jong Un is most likely the most overweight person in all of Asia by now, sustaining himself on a high-cholesterol diet of human flesh procured from the labour camps. It is noted he may have developed gout amongst a plethora of health complications.
====NPC Turns====
*Ming: They evidently agree to help Hong Kong after the requests of the Republic and coaxing from those in the Ming Imperial Court.
*Tlaxacala and Tarascans: They are not able to respond as the emissaries sent by the Mexican government died in the landslides.
*Uesugi, Imagawa, Satake: They agree to the requests from Tokyo. Uesugi launches an invasion of Shiba which later melds into the front with Date.
*Aq Qoyunlu: Intrigued by the offer proposed by the Israelis, they accept.
*Ecuador: They gladly agree to the proposal from Los Angeles.
==== Vatican City State ====
* Government: Theocracy (de jure) | Absolute monarchy (de facto)
** Pope: Francis 
** Secretary of State: Pietro Parolin
** President of the Governorate: Guiseppe Bertello
* Military:
** Swiss Guardsmen: 175
** Gendarmes: 130
* Demographics:
** Population: 1,000
** Occupation:
*** Clergy: 71%
*** Laity: 29%
*** Other: 0.01%
** Gender:
*** Male: 95%
*** Female: 5%
** Citizenship under residents:
*** Citizens: 25%
*** Non-citizens: 75%
* Economy: The economy of the Vatican relies on trade with the Papal States and on tourist excursions to the Papal States and the Vatican Observatory.
* Events:
** Death of Pope Benedict: On a morning in 1447, Pope Francis heard the terrible news that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Bishop of Rome from 2005 until his resignation in 2013, has passed away in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery at age -480. Benedict XVI is the first pope to die before he was born. The former Pope's funeral is attended by all of the laity of the Vatican as well as by Pope Francis. Benedict XVI is buried in the Saint Peter's Basilica. 
** Swiss Guardsmen: An oath ceremony takes place in the Vatican which is performed by the 40 new Swiss guardsmen. The guardsmen receive basic military training and are trained in hand-to-hand combat.
** A Search for Contact: The Vatican decides to send a group of 25 explorers to travel around the world and gather information. Their prime goal is to search for other 2019 nations that somehow got sent back to 1444. The explorers embarked on a ship in Naples and arrived in Athens a few weeks later. The explorers travelled through Greece, and then arrived in Albania. To their great surprise, the Albanian soldiers were armed with ASh-82s and AK-47s. After requesting and receiving an audience with Skanderbeg, they learn that Armenia was also exiled and that Albania and Armenia are fighting a war against the Ottomans. Thus, contact is established between the Holy See and Albania and Armenia, even though it will take weeks, if not months for messages to be delivered.
** Diplomacy:
*** Albania: Contact established. When a man's ways please the Lord, He makes his enemies to be at peace with him. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, do not go to war against your enemies. Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. Try to live in peace with the Ottomans. If you still insist to go to war, do not spill blood excessively. Make the war as victorious and bloodless as possible.
*** Armenia: Contact established. My son, do not let blood flow. When a man's ways please the Lord, He makes his enemies to be at peace with him.
==== Mexico City ====
* Government: Socialist Republic 
** Head of State: Subcommander Marcos (no elections until crisis is over)
*** Political Parties: PCM (Marxists/Leninists), PT (Socialists/Social Democrats), PRT (Trotskyists/Luxembourguists), FNM (Nationalists), UNS (Synarchists/Fascists), PCP (Technocratic)
* Demography: 40% mestizo, 28% white, 15% native, 17% other
* Population: 8,700,000
* Economy:
** Farms: in all the buildings that we can, we make farms on rooftops and we use xochimilco, Ajusco and other green areas to make normal farms, we make the cliffs on the north vertical farms
* Military:
** Army: 3,500 soldiers (+10,000), 5,000 mercenaries, 35,000 policemen, 39,000 paramilitary
** Aircraft: 30 helicopters, 2 fighters, 5 transport planes
** Armoured Vehicles and Tanks: 42 AFVs, 82 IFVs, 25 LAVs, 13 SPGs
** Factory: nothing
* Wars and Conflicts: 
** Mexican - Aztec War: we step up our offensive, using the SPGs and other armoured vehicles to attack major towns from afar
** Parres Rebellion: we ask them to surrender or bear the consequences
* Events:
** Lack of Food: we are running out of food, as Obrador didnt make farms and Marcos is taking some time
** Alliance Proposal: we send a proposal to the Tarascans and Tlaxcalans to have an alliance and beat the aztecs
** Labor Camps: we establish labor camps on green areas for POWs to farm for the state
** Biological Warfare: we spread measles and flu to the Aztecs​​
** Ban of Electricity: we ban electricity until new advice
** Exiled politicians: the surviving members of Congress and senate have joined the aztecs against us
* Diplomacy:
** Cuba: we request help as we are the only communist countries (that we know of)
==== Republic of Belarus (before September 1447)/Kingdom of Belarus-Lithuania (post-September 1447) ====
*Government: Unitary presidential republic (before September 1447)/Hereditary monarchy (post-September 1447)
**President/Monarch: Casimir IV Jagiellon
**Prime Minister: Sergey Rumas
**Capital: Minsk, Vilnius
*Economy: With the new union of Belarus and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Belarusian ruble has fallen out of use in favour of a new currency. Similar to other medieval currencies, it is not decimalised. While not many people believe that this system will work, no one has opposed it. The ruble will continue to be legal tender, however, until enough of the new currency has been minted.
*Events:
**Relection of Sergey Rumas: Sergey Rumas has won the general election held this year, starting his second term as prime minister of Belarus and first term as prime minister of Belarus-Lithuania.
**Union: Belarus and Lithuania were formally united on 1 September 1447, bringing an end to the Belarusian republic.
====Republic of Hong Kong (official from 23rd May 2022/1447) | Pro-China Camp (capitulated)====
*Government: Unitary parliamentary republic
**Chief Executive: Position dissolved on 23rd May 2022/1447
**President of Hong Kong: Joshua Wong (since 23rd May 2022)
**Prime Minister of Hong Kong: Lawrence Su (I made a random person up instead of coveting on searching up people that I don't care)
**Hong Kong Legislative Council:
***Democratic Party of Kong Kong (75 representatives) (merger of all pro-democracy camps)
***Social Democratic Movement (23 representatives) (official opposition)
***Independent (2 representatives)
*Military: As the Hong Kong Civil War came to an end with the Ming Dynasty, with all its organised troops pouring into Hong Kong to finally breach the defences and forces of the PLA garrison, the paramilitary of Hong Kong became officially the Hong Kong Armed Forces. The HKAF comprised of 60,000 personnel (with thousands more casualties being counted during the battle and will be remembered) prior to the official inauguration of the Republic on 23rd May. Weapons belonging to the PCC are now being taken away and be put into the hands of the newly formed HKAF, though ammunition and such had been depleted so much from these battles that they were almost meaningless. Arms factories were built in workshops and former factories that used to produce manufacturing goods, but they are still lacking sufficient material to start manufacturing ammunition. That means that guns are almost out of the choice for now and that melee weapons is still the most popular choice of weapons.
*Diplomacy:
**Ming Dynasty: Hong Kong requests trade deals to transfer raw materials (including coal which Hong Kong needs to restart coal power plants) and building materials to rebuild the city from a year-long battle. They also want to build their own mines within the Ming Dynasty and hope to be "generous". In exchange for taxes (40% of the stuff) that they might be expected to pay, 60% of the materials must be taken back to Hong Kong to utilise reconstruction and restarting infrastructure before the chaos that happened in the last three years.
**South China Sea: The demand of a surrender from the Hong Kong government is issued to those Mainlanders who are still stuck in Kowloon and those existing still in the South China Sea. The condition is for them to surrender and that any ships parked within the territorial waters must be withdrawn or be ceded to Hong Kong (giving them the chance to perhaps use them in the near future, but not now). They must also respect the independence of both Taiwan and Hong Kong in a new era, demanding that their delusional belief that they're part of former PRC is "gone" with this. A more extreme one is to cede their territory away as well. It won't perhaps happen, but due to their own backed PCC faction capitulating, they probably have no choice as they are running low of fuel.
*Economy: After the long bloody civil war, Hong Kong is nearly being put into destruction and rubble. The economy remains largely primitive, but efforts to rebuild infrastructure that was destroyed from the war are underway and to rebuild the economy from scratch and hopefully turn Hong Kong into a trading hub (again). Currency, of what remains of the Hong Kong dollar is not used a lot since the crisis, but the notes have been ditched in favour of only using coins to trade, making some value. Food on the other hand, had been largely stabilised and secure with deals with the Ming Dynasty to give Hongkongers food, though no word on vertical farming (since Hong Kong doesn't have better technology to make it happen), small community farms are now being established across Hong Kong to provide limited 'emergency amounts of food' in the case of trade deals being cut by a future Emperor. Raw and building materials, along with essential fossil fuels such as coal and oil (which might not be attainable in China though) are prioritised, so to electrify the city again after the last of the resource that was gone into these power plants.
*Events:
**Battle for Hong Kong: The Battle of Hong Kong has started to turn to the favours of the Republic. Even though their defences and hard-earned fight against the Republic and their allies have been done enough to stall further, the Republic of Hong Kong is now being backed by the Ming Imperial Army and that it greatly helps them to finally end the war by 20th May and a treaty being signed between both sides to finally dismantle the PCC. The Ming Imperial Army swooped in as a form of a surprise attack that the PCC didn't expect and soon, many of their commanders have surrendered. The casualties have been calculated for the battle, with rough estimated guesses, since people have been unable to count the number of dead bodies. With the PCC having least casualties, by 580 for their own forces and ~70,000 civilians (both direct or indirect), the Republic of Hong Kong estimates that their own casualties is roughly ~100,000 in lower estimates and ~210,000 in upper estimates. The number of forces of their paramilitary lost is roughly around ~25,000 to ~31,000. In total, the number of civilian casualties with both sides is ~170,000 to ~340,000, while the number of soldiers/forces lost (only for the PCC and the Republic) is counted to be around ~25,580 to ~23,580. There isn't enough room to make a memorial for all of the honourable heroes (as they were called for those lost to the battle of Hong Kong to the PCC) lost to the battle and mass cremation would take a long effort as well to process (not to mention it would waste resources), so corpses were instead somehow dumped into the sea.
**Establishing a Republic: The Republic of Hong Kong's constitution is basically a transcribed version of the Basic Law that used to be for SAR Hong Kong. It is written on paper that is supposed to be used for printing purposes and then stapled two times on the left side of the papers, so it is essential for these papers to remain secure. This paper however, represented the common people, rather than being a fancy government. But, there are now key changes, to ensure that this constitution truly makes it independent. The government system that is modelled back last year will be transferred over, with universal suffrage being guaranteed, that there will be an independent inquiry in the case of government corruption and that the police force will be controversially in the hands of the Hong Kong military that would be called the Hong Kong Armed Forces (since the Hong Kong police were pro-Beijing and so, many of the Hongkongers agreed that the police department will not be reinstated). The HKAF will create a smaller division, one where no guns or "harmful" weapons that are used by the police in the past, solely to keep Hong Kong lawful and fair. Taser guns are allowed (though useless), but no plastic bullets and that the use of chemical weapons like tear gas in arsenals, should it be manufactured again, be limited. Some are concerned that this would make Hong Kong more likely derail into anarchy, but for now, everyone in the pro-democratic camp seems satisfied. The President will have a more of a ceremonial role with elections of a President being held for every six years, while the Legislative Council, filled with 100 members who would split evenly through proportional voting, can be elected every three years, with the next election being scheduled for 2025/1450. With the Constitution of Hong Kong being put into effect, the elections held on 1st June 2022/1447 began. Since the PCC's parties are largely banned by the Republic of Hong Kong and have been marked as a shadow of its past, remnants of the PCC came to form a left-wing party called the Social Democratic Movement while those formerly part of the pro-democracy camp are merged into one party, the Democratic Party of Hong Kong. These elections held in 2022/1447 would see the DPHK winning a majority of the seats so far, with two independent seats being given whose values and policies don't align with those parties.
**Reconstruction: The remainder of the year saw Hong Kong beginning its plans to reconstruct the largely ravaged city that was essentially almost razed to the ground to being a trading hub. Stock markets and much are meaningless, so these goals remain here to stay. There are two basic phases, with the first one restoring Hong Kong back to "normal and livable living standards" and the second to promote it into a major trading centre of the east, which could rival Taipei (though can't be guaranteed) and begin their plan to expand into the seas. To do this however, is that they have to look towards the Ming Dynasty. Their untapped natural resources (well some of them have been currently exploited), has inspired few of the new entrepreneurs of this era to ask for mines to be set up and to ship these back to Hong Kong for the purpose of reconstructing and building/converting manufacturing plants. Fishing has largely being stabilised, as large ships of the PLA Navy from the South China Sea seem to have calmed by now. Interest of exploration has also risen, along with some who begin to start considering an official "calendar transition" to a new year from the Gregorian calendar, which meant that they would have to drop off the old Gregorian calendar in favour of a new calendar that is aligned with the year 1447. This idea is not yet popular with some turning back to the old Chinese calendar aligned with the Ming Dynasty.
**The PLA Garrison: Those who have surrendered are either being put on "bail", meaning that they would have to work for 10 to 30 years (depending on their military rankings) or in prison, as in the case of few highest-ranking officials (numbering 12). They have largely been stripped of their weapons, meaning they won't be able to fight again with their own weapons manufactured by a nation that no longer exist. The short-lived idea of eonism (a term that is now coined for the purpose of dividing the uptimers and downtimers, the uptimers meaning those who have been exiled to 1444 and downtimers being those who lived in 1444) had also dropped significantly within Hong Kong too with ties being established for the Ming Dynasty, it is only the PLA soldiers who would periodically believe so.
==== The Republic of Singapore ====
* Government: Constitutional Republic
** President: Halimah Yacob
** Prime Minister: Lee Hsien Loong
** Parlament Speaker: Tan Chuan-Jin
** Chief Justice: Sundaresh Menon
* Capital: Singapore
* Population: 5,486,624
* Economy: Our economy is still falling but it is slowly stabilizing as we produce more petronium oil and other scarce materials found in Singapore. We would also hope that our economic alliances would help us stabilize the economy.
* Military: 
** Wars & Conflicts: N/A
* Events: 
** Countinuation of our Explorations to Malaysia and Indonesia: We find the country of Malaya and Brunei and we seem interested to start good relations with our countries (even with our modern Malaysian). In addition we would also discover people in the South China Sea, however there is not much info about it yet.
** Continuation of our Food Crisis: We continue to make fields of food to have enough for our slowly growing population. We also start fishing industries to get more food fo
* Diplomacy: 
** Malaya & Brunei: We would be interested in relations between our nations, including some minor trade relations. We would also request to make a minor pact which would be called the South-East Asian Cooperation Pact (SEACP), it would be used to boost try to boost our economies.
** Bangladesh & Sri Lanka: We would request trade and economic alliances in hopes of stabilizing our economies. We would also invite them to join the SEACP as they are also from 2019.
====Republic of Armenia====
*Government: Unitary semi-presidential republic under an indefinitely-extended State of Emergency
**President: Armen Sarkissian
**Prime Minister: Nikol Pashinyan
**Laws and Policies:
***Funding: We begin funding the agriculture and military sectors more.
***Electricity and Gas Restrictions: The restrictions on electric and gas use are lifted somewhat, as our oil rigs on the Kuwaiti oil fields start producing more oil supplies. Electricity is now supplied 24 hours a day in cities, and 18 hours a day (between 6 am and midnight) in rural areas.
*Capital: Yerevan
*Economy: The economic downturn has slowed down significantly, as we now have a steady alliance chain and trade links, securing our niche in the politics and trade of the era, as well as securing some form of security over basic resources such as food, water, electricity and petrol. However, the situation is still extremely tenuous, as any shock in the economic web, however small, would send the entire country back into the chaos of the past few years once again. We are currently focusing on food production after the Winter Riots of 1446/2021.
*Demographics:
**Population: 3,146,100
**Religion: 94.8 Christian (92.5% Armenian Apostolic,) 0.8% Yazidi Muslim, 0.2% Pagan, 4% None/Other
**Ethnicity: 98.1% Armenian, 1.9% other (Yazidis, Kurds, Russians, etc.)
*Military:
**Armenian Military: Almost all of the Armenian military have made it through the transition through time. The military is now patrolling the borders of the country.
***Army:
****Troops: 80,000 troops, 32,000 reserves
****Tanks: 20 T-80 tanks, 137 T-72 tanks, 8 T-54/55 tanks
****Other motorized infantry vehicles: 80 BMP-1s, 7-BMP-1Ks, 55 BMP-2s, 12 BRM-1Ks, 11 BTR-60s, 21 BTR-70s, 4 BTR-80s, 145 MT-LBs, 5 BMD-1s, 120 BRDM-2 scout vehicles
***Air Force: 15 Su-25 ground attack planes, 1 MiG-25 jet fighter, 16 Mil Mi-24 helicopter gunships, 6 L-39 trainer and attack aircraft, 16 Yak-52 trainer aircraft, 3 Il-76 cargo planes, 18 Mil Mi-8 transport helicopters, 10 Mil Mi-2 light utility helicopters, 1 anti-aircraft missile brigade, 2 regiments armed with 100 anti-aircraft complexes.
**Military Prescence of Other Countries:
***Russian bases in Armenia: The Russian 102nd Military Base, as well as all its equipment and personnel, have all been brought along during temporal displacement as well. The base is cooperating with the Armenian government, as they have realized there is nowhere else to go, and currently act as a private mercenary force working with the Armenian Armed Forces.
*Diplomacy:
**Byzantium: Hey, we have these sick things called rocket launchers... can we put them on your walls?
**Georgia: Shall I grant a modern navy to you? These ships I will build you will be the envy of even the finest navies of the present day!
*Events:
**NOTE: Because Side decided to bail on me and post a turn while I was in a plane, the events of 1446/2021 will be compounded on this Events section, alongside the current turn (1447/2022).
**The Food Chain: Protests over food shortages and rationing rocked the streets of Armenia’s major cities across much of the winter of 1446-1447/2021-2022, after reports of senior officials and politicians hoarding food for themselves at the expense of the general population. The officials accused of doing this were fired and tried at court (some of them were convicted on charges of corruption, embezzlement, and in one case, treason), and the government has pledged to give a larger portion of the state budget to agricultural development. Rooftop gardens and vertical farms have become all the rage in major cities such as Yerevan, Gyumri, and Vanadzor.
**Oil Fever: With the opening of the oil rigs on the oil fields in Qara Qoyunlu-controlled Kuwait, the beginnings of an industrial city and port have begun to spring up near the oil rigs. Oil refineries and factories have been constructed on-site, prospective oil moguls across the Middle East are flocking to the oil fields in the hopes of making a quick buck, and many poorer Armenians, as well as local Arabs and other migrants from across the region, have begun moving to the area in the hopes of a better life and a future for their children. The area would also be the first part of Qara Qoyunlu to receive modern amenities such as electricity and running water. With the amalgamation of peoples from all walks of life converging on this “black gold”, an entire city would eventually be born: a melting pot of cultures; a crossroads for goods and ideas, a vibrant cityscape filled with merchants. With the Armenian Oil Rush came the birth (or rebirth, if you want to put it that way) of Kuwait City.
**The Truckers: With the growing demand for oil back home in Armenia, increasing amounts of people have become employed as Truckers, whose job is to transport oil from the oil fields in Kuwait back to Armenia. Truckers were vital to the survival of the post-Event Armenian state, and would later become immortalized in pop culture with the book “The Truckers”, a novel written by Sivan Minissian about a Trucker lost in the Iraqi desert, which would later become a classic of post-Event Armenian literature.
**Let There Be Light(?): After the electricity shortages in Armenia proper have been (mostly) remedied, we begin the first step of the electrification of the medieval world around us by asking to construct power plants in Georgia, Byzantium, Trebizond, Qara Qoyunlu, and Serbia. If all goes to plan, the capital cities of these countries (namely Tblisi, Constantinople, Trebizond, Tabriz, and Smederevo, respectively) would be electrified in as little as a year’s time.
**Fortress Byzantium: A proposal is made to the Byzantine court, asking for the rights to an Armenian military base in Byzantine Morea, as well as the right to renovate the crumbling Theodosian Walls surrounding Constantinople, as well as reinforce them with modern defenses such as barbed wire, anti-aircraft guns, and rocket launchers.
**One Port, Two Port: Another proposal is made, this time to Georgia, asking them to allow us to modernize their ports and navy, as well as allowing our military and supplies to cross over on their ships.
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====Shogunate of Japan====
*Government: Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy, under a state of emergency for an indefinite amount of time effective from November 11th, 2019/1444.
**Emperor/Shogun: Naruhito
**Prime Minister: Shinzo Abe (2006-2007, 2012-2022/1447), Yoshimi Seiji (present)
**Capital: Tokyo
**Laws and Politics:
***Death of Shinzo Abe: On a cold winter night in 1447, Shinzo Abe's body was discovered in his residence in Tokyo by one of his assistants. Although the government knows that he died of congestive heart failure, we have decided to pin the blame on the Ashikaga shogunate so that we may have a reason to militarize even further than we already are. Naruhito appoints Yoshimi Seiji as the next Prime Minister, and Abe's successor.
***The Modern Daimyo, II: Apparently our outdated firearms haven't been enough of a help to our even more outdated daimyos. We have decided to send them some vehicles (3 AFVs to Uesugi, 2 to Imagawa, and 1 to Satake), along with firearms instructors who can help their soldiers use the firearms. Nanbu and Hatakeyama are also equipped with Japanese-made WW2 weaponry, including some Type 100 submachien guns and the Arisaka series of rifles. Hatakeyama is also given M1 Garands and Howa Type 64s due to their proximity to the Ashikaga shogunate, while Uesugi is also given Type 64s due to their clear loyalty.
***Food Trade with the Daimyos: Now that we are receiving far more food than we had been before, mostly thanks to the growth of genetically modified crops in the more fertile daimyos, we have been able to increase our limits on food consumption - such as that women now can 2,300 calories and men can eat up to 2,800. They should now be able to put more meat on their bones, and be at their full strength for work and military service.
***Electricity Restored in Chiba!:  Due to continued government subsidies, electricity-producing facilities in Chiba have recently now been able to provide enough electricity to be used in a large majority of government buildings along with 65-70% of common homes/apartments, and many citizens of Chiba no longer have to do their work by candlelight. Trade firms within the city of Chiba also have limited Internet access, allowing communications between separate buildings. Access is not given to average citizens, as it would take too many resources.
*Economy:  With the food trade initiated in our aligned daimyos, our economy has begun to grow from its destitute state. Farming businesses have mostly fallen away, with most of the vertical farms becoming state-owned, and some of the farms inside the buildings have been destroyed, leaving office buildings for trading firms to move into. Farms in Chiba are still commonplace, however.
*Demographics: ​​​​​
**Population (total): 37,255,000
***Tokyo: 14,282,191
***Kanagawa: 9,128,094
***Saitama: ​​​​​​7,608,198
***Chiba: 6,236,517
*Military:
**Wars and Conflicts:
***Sengoku Jidai: Seeing as the Uesugi are having difficulties with Shiba, we send a force of 1,000 soldiers to help them invade the other daimyo. We also send around 5,000 soldiers in the Utsonomiya daimyo to invade, as having someone that could possibly invade us from behind isn't exactly a comforting thought. These soldiers attempt to push through to the Utsonomiya capital city of... Utsonomiya, hopefully capturing any of the daimyo's farms or mines along the way. Our men in Takeda are also ordered to continue to push against the Ashikaga and Takeda forces, and are semt 1,500 men as reinforcements.
**Japanese Armed Forces:
***Military Production: With the trade in materials such as bronze and lead from the daimyos, we have been able to ramp up our military production and no longer have to use crude materials, besides the plastic, which we still have a large supply of.
***Japanese Army (Teikokugun): The Teikokugun currently consists of:
****29,850 active soldiers
****5,000 reserve soldiers
****56 tanks
****85 armored fighting vehicles (AFVs)
****15 self-propelled artillery
****40 towed artillery
****15 rocket projectors
***Japanese Maritime Force (Kaijogun): The Maritime Force currently consists of:
****25,000 active soldiers
****5,000 reserve soldiers
****3 aircraft carriers (2 Japanese, 1 American)
****6 destroyers
****1 corvette
****4 submarines
****4 patrol vessels
****10 mine warfare vessels
***Japanese Air Force (Kugun): The Air Force of Japan currently consists of:
****20,000 active soldiers
****5,000 reserve soldiers
****63 fighters
****52 attack aircraft
****15 transport craft
****25 trainer aircraft
****35 non-attack helicopters
****10 attack helicopters
*Diplomacy:
**Uesugi: Good job. Keep at it. Your loyalty will be rewarded.
**Nanbu: You should invade Ando, and give their lands in Hokkaido/Ezo to us. It will be worth it.
*Events:
**Metamorphosis: In an attempt to weaken the Ashikaga forces, many agents of ours are dressed in contemporary ashigaru (feudal Japanese infantry), and are ordered to distribute pornographic graphic novels (literally hentai) to their "fellow soldiers." The plan is that the hentsi seiyoku will cause the ashigaru to have uncontrollable sexual desires and will be too focused on performing sexual acts (on themselves or others) to fight on the battle field.
====State of Israel====
*Government: Parliamentary Republic (elections currently suspended).
**Laws: Rationing of resources continues, with no important laws being enacted this year. The state of emergency is kept as well due to the ongoing war with the Mamluks.
**Prime Minister: Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud)
**President: Benny Gantz (Blue and White)
**Capital: Jerusalem (disputed [by who?])
*Economy: The economy has more or less began to slowly resurge after the initial shock caused by The Event. As safe trade routes have not been established yet, the economical activity is for now limited to the national sectors. The economy is adapting to a slower and smaller growth rate, although ir is still considered vulnerable. The agricultural and fishing industries continue to be expanded, and thanks to the government's and multiple companies' support, they are now able to provide enough food for the entire population. It is worth mentioning that in order to keep up with this, supermarkets are only allowed to sell a certain number of products to each client in order to prevent another shortage. Although this measure received some criticism at first, it is worth mentioning that the numbers allowed per client are reasanoble, as the point of it is just prevent excessive waste of food. The transport industry is still suffering the most as a result of fuel shortage, although this is expected to end soon with the Mamluk-Israeli war. Nevertheless, public transport will switch to natural gas if possible.
*Military:  The government uses the ongoing war against Mamluks as an opportunity for propaganda to boost the military's images and recruiting new people. This has a slight success, with an increaae in the number of recruits compared to last year. Most of the military is currently in the Levant and the Sinai peninsula, with the remainder defending the borders with Palestine and former Jordan and a minority located back at home. It has also been informed that a couple of vehicles and equipment have been lost due to the war, althogh no exact numbers are provided for now.
**Israeli Army:
***265,000 active personnel (+10,000)
***275,000 reserve personnel (+15,000)
***2,760 combat tanks
***6,541 armore fighting vehicles
***650 self-propelled artillery
***300 towed artillery
***150 rocket projectors
**Israeli Air Force:
***30,000 active personnel
***55,000 reserve personnel
***253 fighters
***18 transports
***153 trainers
***96 helicopters
***48 attack helicopeters
**Israeli Navy:
***9,500 active personnel
***10,000 reserve personnel
***3 corvettes (Sa'ar 5 class)
***8 missile boats (Sa'ar 4.5 class)
***5 submarines (Dolphin class)
***45 patrol boats
***2 support ships
*Events: 
**Mamluk-Israeli war: As our initial pushes were a success, we decide to continue advancing into the Levant, giving it priority over the Egyptian front. After our troops took a break for celebrate last year's Christmas, a swift operation is conducted to take the city of Homs. After a few weeks of fighting the city would fall under our control. However, we were discovered after finding that the Mamluks have begun to use modern weaponry and vehicles. While this doesn't compromise our victory, it still fired red alarms as we are unaware of who could have been supplying them with weapons. Nevertheless, a new goal is set for the second half of the year: conquering the port of Beirut. Our forces attempt to charge into Beirut by November, with the outcome of this battle yet unknown. Back at the Egyptian front, the Sinai peninsula is now practically fully occupied. In order to prevent more casualties, the troops fighting in this front are told to not push further into Egypt and to instead build a defense line around the Sinai peninsula. We decide to not storm Egypt to prevent more casualties, as we hope that by conquering the Levant and exhausting the Mamluks we might be able to get them to agree to our demands by next year. The Jordan area is still on standby, with troops there taking a defensive stance as well.
**Keeping morale up: To maintain the national spirit, the news and images of our victories in the Sinai, Homs and Damascus are spread as much as possible along with the promise that gaining access to oil-rich territory will allow us to restore fuel and energy supplies. Netanyahu has announced that new elections (originally planned for next year, but currently suspended) will be held once a peace treaty with the Mamluks is signed.
**Jewish tricks: Following a visible confusion at Mamkuks posessing modern weaponry, the Mossad is given a new task - finding the origin of those weapons. Although we have heard Armenian reports about them sharing technology with their neighboors, we have no reason to believe this is their making, as they are our ally. Another theory, and probably one of the most convincing, is that they took weapons from the Aq Qoyunlu (as we gave them some AK-47s and other equipment to support their attack on the Mamluks last year), but this doesn't explain why we've also found Mamluk soldiers armed with rifles in the Egyptian front. Therefore, Palestine/Hamas becomes a top suspect along with the ongoing war in Libya (since weapons would be smuggled and sold very easily in this case). Weapons from detained or killed Mamluk soldiers are retrieved and given to our best ballistic experts for their analysis, though not much information has been found so far. The Mossad then begins a secret operation to infiltrate into Hamas, sending a couple disguised, arab-speaking agents to Palestine. It is currently unknown if they'll even be able to infiltrate into the organization, let lone gather useful intel without dying, but we hope that t least one of them will be able to come back and confirm if Hamas is responsible for the sudden appearance of modern weapons among the Mamluk army. Although we wish that we could send a similar number of agents to Libya, this is deemed too dangerous and almost impossible to do given the current circumstances.
*Diplomacy: 
**Aq Qoyunlu: We thank them for their quick response against the Mamluks.
**Exiles: Using the few channels available for communication, we suggest everyone to pay special attention to food management if they haven't done so yet, quoting the failure of the Mexicans as an example of what would happen if things get out of hand.
**Qara Qoyunlu: As the war with the Mamulks wages, we send a team of diplomats to Qara Qonyunlu, escorted by a military contingent. We propose them to help develop Kuwait City and to works towards the modernization of their country along with Armenia. In return, we would like auhorization for drilling for oil in their territory. Therefore, we ask for permission to send trucks, government officials, engineers, business people and oil drilling equipment to Kuwait Ciy.
==== Joint Provisional Government of the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, and Antonio (JPG) ====
* Government: Provisional Government with two principal organs; the Council and the Governor's Office.
** Governor: Eric Garcetti (D)
** Ruling Party: Democratic (Senate and Governor), Republican (Assembly)
** Council:
*** Senate (125): Democratic (76), Republican (43), Liberty (6)
*** Joint Assembly (138): Democratic (64), Republican (73), Liberty (1)
** Laws and Policies:
*** Elections: Democrats lose control of the Joint Assembly but retain their supermajority in the Senate.
*** California Constitution: The California Constitution is signed on December 16, 2022, which will abolish the provisional government on January 1, 2024. The C.C was approved by 788 delegates, of which one from Iron Fort and two were from New Avalon. Power will be transitioned over to the Government of California (effectively the same as the JPG; difference in name only). The office of the Governor is renamed to President; and presidential elections will be held on November 1, 2026. Senate elections will be held on November 1, 2026 too, while Assembly elections will be held on November 1, 2024.
*** Desalination: Several prototype desalination plants are built in El Segundo, quickly becoming the economic hub of Los Angeles. These are expected to prove some relief from the water crisis, but not much.
*** Reorganization: The military is reorganized into three main branches. Los Angeles' aerospace industry will be helpful in rebuilding the air force, and the army is currently on a recruiting directive across the county.
* Capital: Los Angeles City
* Economy: The local economy is recovering. Much of the buildings that dot downtown LA crumble, without any maintenence work. Financial systems across the city are recovering, although lotting and crime still remain common in some areas. The California Constitution, in one of its many amendments, includes a provision for the Council to come up with a new currency for California by 2030, as the U.S dollar continues to gain value significantly. $20 is adequate enough to purchase a small television.
* Demographics:
** Population: 13,817,259
* Provisional National Guard (PNG):
** 31,000 active soldiers
** 6,000 reserve soldiers 
** 4 combat tanks
** 10 AFVs
* California Provisional Navy:
** (NOTE: The majority of the CPN's naval fleet arises from NS Seal Beach, a munitions and loading facility. The two combat ships we have were arriving in Seal Beach from Hawaii and Guam, and were fixed up in 2022.)
** 1 corvette
** 1 frigate
** 12 patrol/response ships (Coast Guard)
* California Air Force:
** 4 transport craft
** 17 non-attack helicopters
** 9 fighters
** Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC)
*** Range and Network Division (online; 0.5% efficiency)
*** Operationally Responsive Space Office (closed)
*** Space Logistics Directorate (communications cut)
*** Advanced Systems and Development Directorate (online; 25% efficiency)
*** MILSATCOM Systems Directorate (offline)
*** Defense Weather Systems Directorate (offline)
*** Infrared Space Systems Directorate (offline)
*** Launch Enterprise Directorate (offline)
*** Space Superiority Systems Directorate (online;6% full efficiency)
*** Global Positioning Systems Directorate (online; 0.5% NAVSTAR full efficiency)
* Conflicts:
** Los Angeles Drug Wars: Resolved. Police victory.
* Diplomacy:
** Hawaii: Aloha! Our fleet of patrol boats has arrived, and we would like to begin diplomatic relations, establish an outpost on one of your islands, and begin trade. 
* Events:
** Emissary to Hawaii: A small diplomatic mission of twelve ships, stocked with fuel, modern technology, vaccines and medicine, weapons, food, water, and more is sent as an envoy to Hawaii. Several professors proficient in ancient Hawaii are also on board.
** Auctions: An auction market springs up in an office complex in West Hollywood. Soon, auctions can be found on every street in every neighborhood. Items from non-exiled cities and locations, such as Chicago or France are sold. A postcard from Atlanta can fetch up to $40, while a keychain of the Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow fetched $2,100. Postcards and artifacts from New York or Tokyo remain nearly worthless, although recent trouble in Mexico City have made the prices of Mexican artifacts skyrocket. A 19th century Armenian coin from Ottoman rule is nearly sold for $14,000, before it was realized that the nation of Armenia was also exiled.
** Bytes: Elon Musk registers a new company, Bytes. Bytes' main goal is to restore internet access throughout Los Angeles, and a $1.0 million contract is signed with the JPG to to start repairing an internet line through Los Angeles Legislative Hall and the UCLA campus, as well as creating a communication network. 
** Return to Normalcy: The Pew Research Center releases a three year study that states that from 2019-2022, suicide rates skyrocketed, but have calmed down in recent months. Rates of depression and poverty, once at sky-high levels, have also calmed, but not to pre-2019 levels. The last zone of control in Compton is also declared safe this year, meaning the majority of Los Angeles has been pacified from active gang warfare.
** Black Gold: The town of Fort Iron is established where Thousands Oaks once stood, and stands as the gateway for the "new" Ventura County, where plentiful oil is abound. Oil rigs pop up in previously empty lands, and prices slowly tumble downward.
===Turn V (1448)===
====Events====
*Mingnarchy: The Ming peasant rebellion in Guangzhou is more powerful than expected, and gives the Ming Imperial Army a run for their money. In the end, the fervent religious beliefs of the commoners have overridden the authority of the Ming Imperial Court, with the peasants taking up arms to fight for the so-called gods. With beliefs leaning more theocratically than in line with the intent of the PCC personnel responsible for riling the peasants up, they are beginning to wonder if things got a bit too much out of hand?
*Official Surrender of the PCC: The PCC has officially surrendered to the Republic of Hong Kong, handing over their bases and establishments in the mainland and Kowloon. Dissenters still exist however, particularly deep inside the mainland and on the islands, where the People's Republic of the South China Sea is proclaimed out of multiple tiny bases with low prospects of long term survival, much less prosperity.
*Parres-Aztec Cooperation: With a fed populace and favourable relations through trade with the southern Aztecs, they officially 'sign' a treatise of cooperation. As the Aztecs have little to no knowledge on the basis and meanings of the term, education of the native population is promoted. Schools in Parres begin teaching the more common Nahuatl dialects so they may converse with the locals, conversely special classes are held for the Aztecs to learn Spanish. Occasionally a warrior may stumble upon this occurrence and treat it with hostility, they are usually calmed down by offerings of hot food. Nahuatl religion is extensively studied, and some missionaries have begun spreading Christianity to willing locals. Several neighbourhoods in Mexico City have also defected to Parres in favour of the hostile approach the Mexican government takes towards the locals. It is also noted Parres now possesses a decent arsenal of firearms and a trained and well fed army.
*Southeast Asian Madness: Malacca and Brunei, not having any idea what a 'cooperation pact' entails, dismisses the idea in favour of continuing trade as usual. Bangladesh is dealing with too much as of now to respond, but Sri Lanka agrees to the Singaporean proposal. Singapore still very much faces food riots, with very little arable land and vertical farms unable to meet demands.
*Japanese Cultural Revolution: Within the many Daimyos and even Kyoto, the graphic novels are burnt in public by disgusted officials and generals, despite keeping some stashed away in their offices secretly. However, the damage is done. Artisans and the like begin producing imitations and creations with an erotic nature, leading some to view the Shogunate of Japan as a culturally advanced state or a disgusting abomination of Amaterasu.
*Sengoku Jidai: Troops allegiant to Kyoto are successfully pushed out of Takeda, and the Daimyo, one of the many disgusted by Japanese graphic novels, committing seppuku. Uesugi is successful in pushing back troops in Date, and captures Shiba successfully. Utsunomiya is on the verge of being captured as well as a result of resupplied forces from Tokyo. A naval squadron from Yamana and Hosokawa are launched to blockade and attack the Uesugi navy in the north. The Daimyo of Nanbu, appreciative of modern Japanese culture, declares their allegiance to Tokyo and invades Ando territory in Honshu.
*Arab Tricks: The Mossad learns of the involvement of certain characters allegiant to Tobruk in supplying the Mamluks with modern weapons, while the Hamas have been confirmed to be collaborating with the Tobruk administration. However, it seems that only a few officials in Hamas are aware and actively support the supply of weapons to the Mamluks in the northern fronts.
*Invest in Eastern Qara Qoyunlu: Accepting the wishes of the Armenian and Israeli governments, Kuwait begins to look more like an Exiled town rather than a backwater trade port at the end of the Persian Gulf. Instead of being known as Kuwait City, it becomes known as just Kuwait, Qahwat or more recently Alagadda, for reasons unknown.
*Mamluk-Israeli War: Beirut is captured by November in what becomes known as the November Offensive. The offensive is also successful in capturing a fair deal of Mamluk Mediterranean coastline, up to just beyond Tartus. Meanwhile, the Ottomans take advantage of a weakened Mamluk exclave in Syria to invade. Aleppo and Raqqa are captured, however their troubles in the Balkans continue.
*Rise of the Albanian Eagle: Skanderbeg and Co. continue to terrorise the Ottomans in the Hellenic region, as weapons are sent to the Byzantines in Peloponnese. Cooperative offensives manage to force the Ottomans away from Epirus and Central Greece, occupied by Albania and the Byzantines respectively. The perfidious Turk are scared shitless the moment they hear the stampeding hoofs of an Ak-47 wielding Albanian on horseback.
*Hawaiian Encounter: The arrival of the JPG ships in Hawaii coincide with an unknown festival, and as such are welcomed as emissaries of the gods. The Hawaiians are slow to understand efforts to explain the situation to them and requests of cooperation due to language barriers, but eventually agree. A few even join the crew of the ships, lending their expertise on navigation and a few outrigger boats.
*Zombies in Pyongyang: The capital of North Korea enters chaos as Kim Jong Un is infected by an unidentified illness. Believed to have stemmed from his continuous consumption of human meat, he undergoes rapid weight loss and develops a voracious appetite. Coupled with a deteriorating mental state and vision, he becomes more and more animalistic with each meal. One day, he bites the flesh off the face of one of his ministers during a banquet dinner, infecting him as well. Eventually the entire cabinet becomes infected and cannibalises each other, effectively purging the North Korean leadership since only the elite ate like kings in banquet halls, where the disease developed and made itself extinct. Anarchy sets in the city as the military begins forming factions and cells to reclaim the 'throne' of North Korea. Meanwhile, troops from the Joseon dynasty begin moving towards Pyongyang with the intent of securing the city once and for all, having ignored them for too long.
*The Moorish at the Portuguese Court: An envoy of Yusuf V Nasrid, nephew of the current Emir of Granada, Muhammad IX, has come to the Avizian ruling house of Portugal requesting help in his campaign to take over the Emirate.
*The Saga of Eric of Pomerania: A few years after being deposed from the crown of the Kalmar Union, Eric, now in Gotland, raised an army of Swedish dissidents and Pomeranian soldiers in his duchy of Pomerania-Stolp and took over the island; while assembling a fleet to conduct piracy, disrupting trade within the region, while enriching his own duchy and Gotland as his base of operations. In Eric's plans, this will be the first step to ultimately return himself to the Kalmar Union's throne.
====NPC Turns====
*Byzantium and Georgia: Both are fascinated by the Armenian proposals and elect to enact them immediately.
*Ming: They agree to the Hongkonger proposal after some coaxing in the Ming Imperial Court.
*Albania: Despite not adhering to the Church in Rome, they find wisdom in the words of both Popes, as Pope Eugene gives a similar speech. They elect to end the war with the Ottomans quickly and get them to shit their pants instead of massacring them.
*Cuba: They send an airdrop of rations, bottled water and some firearms (~1000) to Mexico City, with a note attached saying 'just this once'.
==== Kingdom of Belarus-Lithuania ====
*Government: Hereditary monarchy
**Monarch: Casimir IV Jagellion
**Prime Minister: Sergey Rumas
**Capital: Minsk, Vilinus
*Economy: Despite what Casimir has said, the economy has not improved. This may be influenced by the fact that the Belarusian ruble recently lost legal tender status. Many people have stated that the new currency does not work, and the ruble should be used instead.
*Events:
**An absolute monarchy?: Sergey Rumas has announced that he will resign as Prime Minister, but will remain in the position until another one is elected. The king has announced that he plans to run for Prime Minster, so he is able to 'change laws to help benefit the people'. A few people have theorised that this is just because he wants more power and wants the country to become an absolute monarchy, and this prediction is very likely.
====Republic of Armenia====
*Government: Unitary semi-presidential republic under a State of Emergency
**President: Armen Sarkissian
**Prime Minister: Nikol Pashinyan
**Laws and Policies:
***Gasoline Rations: In order to funnel more oil into tanks to fuel the war against the Ottomans, gasoline rations come into effect. Each car is alotted 100 liters of gas per month.
***Anti-Ottoman Propaganda: Propaganda is disseminated into the public via radio, TV broadcasts, state news, and posters dotted around cities and town across Armenia, demeaning the Ottomans and calling for the Armenian people to join the war effort. References to the Armenian Genocide are present in many of these propaganda posters.
*Economy: Much the same as last year, although the recent war with the Ottoman Turks has provided the beginnings shift in the economy from being a consumer-based economy to a military-industrial complex.
*Demographics:
**Population: 3,166,100
**Religion: 94.8 Christian (92.5% Armenian Apostolic,) 0.8% Yazidi Muslim, 0.2% Pagan, 4% None/Other
**Ethnicity: 97.9% Armenian, 1.9% other pre-Event peoples (Yazidis, Kurds, Russians, etc.), 0.2% post-Event peoples (Byzantines, archaic Georgians, etc.)
*Military:
**Armenian Military: 60,000 troops have been moved to the Ottoman border with Trebizond in preparation for the War of Vengeance and Operation Perfidious Turk, while 20,000 remain stationed in Armenia. 55 tanks, 85 other motorized infantry, and 12 warplanes are also participating in the war.
***Army:
****Troops: 80,000 troops, 32,000 reserves
****Tanks: 20 T-80 tanks, 137 T-72 tanks, 8 T-54/55 tanks
****Other motorized infantry vehicles: 80 BMP-1s, 7-BMP-1Ks, 55 BMP-2s, 12 BRM-1Ks, 11 BTR-60s, 21 BTR-70s, 4 BTR-80s, 145 MT-LBs, 5 BMD-1s, 120 BRDM-2 scout vehicles
***Air Force: 15 Su-25 ground attack planes, 1 MiG-25 jet fighter, 16 Mil Mi-24 helicopter gunships, 6 L-39 trainer and attack aircraft, 16 Yak-52 trainer aircraft, 3 Il-76 cargo planes, 18 Mil Mi-8 transport helicopters, 10 Mil Mi-2 light utility helicopters, 1 anti-aircraft missile brigade, 2 regiments armed with 100 anti-aircraft complexes.
**Military Prescence of Other Countries:
***Russian bases in Armenia: The Russian 102nd Military Base, as well as all its equipment and personnel, have all been brought along during temporal displacement as well. The base is cooperating with the Armenian government, as they have realized there is nowhere else to go, and currently act as a private mercenary force working with the Armenian Armed Forces.
*Diplomacy:
**Ottomans: die
**Serbia, Albania, Byzantium, Trebizond, Georgia, Qara Qoyunlu: join war pls
*Events:
**The War of Vengeance: The Ottoman Turks have, in our history, time and time proven again that they are the mortal enemies of the Armenian people. In the past, they had opressed our people and nearly annihalated them in the Armenian Genocide. Upon learning that we ourselves had been somehow transported to the past, a past before the Turks had risen to their full potential, a substantial portion of the Armenian public, including much of the National Assembly as well as both the President and Vice President, strongly believed that Armenia, with its “superior” technology, had the ability to stop the Turks in their tracks before they caused any further damage to the peoples of the Balkans and the Near East. After learning that the Ottomans had opened up a second front of war in the Levant against the Mamluk Sultanate (which in turn was being utterly destroyed by the Israelis) on top of the war with Albania, the National Assembly voted to officially declare war on the Ottomans and open up a third front in the east. This war would come to be known as the War of Vengeance.
**Operation Perfidious Turk: After calling our allies (namely Serbia, Albania, Byzantium, Georgia, Trebizond, and Qara Qoyunlu) into the war, the battle plan for the War of Vengeance, known as Operation Perfidious Turk, is created and put into place. As our oil supplies have been almost fully secured thanks to the Qara Qoyunlu oil deal, some of our tanks and air force are able to take to combat again. The few operational airforce are to carpetbomb important Ottoman cities and strategic locations, such as the capital of Edirne, as well as the cities of Ankara, Bursa, and Canakkale, in order to disrupt Ottoman trade and communications, delaying response times. 60,000 troops are first amassed at the Ottoman-Trebizond border, then told to hug the coast until reaching the border with the beylik of Candar, then swing south, all the way to the border with the beylik of Karaman; thus cutting the Ottomans in half, severing supply chains to the Levantine contingent of the Ottoman Army, and making sure that the Turks’ Balkan army does not link up with the Levantine army. Should our allies join the war, Trebizond, Qara Qoyunlu, and Georgia are to assist with the main premise of Operation Perfidious Turk (with Georgia having the added burden of blockading Ottoman ports with their newly-modernized naval force, Byzantium is to move south towards Gallipolli to secure the Dardanelles, further hampering Ottoman trade and supplies, and Albania and Serbia are to act as a distraction to the Ottoman Balkan Army, further hampering the Ottoman ability to fight.
**Let There Be Light: Electric street lamps have been installed in the capital cities of our allies (Constnatinople, Trebizond, Tblisi, Tabriz, and Smedrevo), and their royal palaces, government buildings, major churches and cathedrals, and residents of the nobility and very rich merchants have also been electrified. We are currently working on providing electric power to the commonfolk of these cities. To do this, we begin constructing more power plants just outside of these cities. Full electric power has also been fully restored to Armenia proper, although blackouts sometimes strike rural areas.
**Georgia Rules The Waves: Our recent offers for remodeling of Georgian ports and their Navy have come to fruition. The harbors of the port cities of Sokhumi, Poti and Batumi have been revamped to be able to produce and hold Exiled-type ships and submarines, and the cities themselves have recieved limited access to electricity. We have also begun building Exiled-style warships and submarines in said harbors.
**Alagadda: The oil produced by Alagaddan oil rigs is increasingly diverted to the war machine, in order to get more of our tanks in working condition. As a result, we temporarily stop the creation of new driver's licenses, as the oil going to new cars could easily be diverted to the war effort. Petrol rations are also introduced, alotting 100 litres of petrol per month per car (Government-funded public transport are exempt from the petrol rations).
**The Military-Industrial Complex: Several factories belonging to foreign companies that did not get exiled with us in the Event had been reappropriated by the government, who would now use them as military factories dedicated to the manufacturing of guns, ammunition, and other weapons of war.
**Elections: The first post-Event Armenian parliamentary elections resulted in the re-election of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his My Step Alliance political coalition remain the majority coalition in the Armenian National Assembly. Many cite his swift actions to bring order and prosperity back to the Armenian nation after the chaos of the Event as a major factor in his re-election.
====Republic of Hong Kong====
*Government: Unitary parliamentary republic
**President of Hong Kong: Joshua Wong (since 2022/1447) (next election due 2028/1453)
**Prime Minister of Hong Kong: Lawrence Su
**Hong Kong Legislative Council: (next election due 2025/1450)
***Democratic Party of Kong Kong (75 representatives) (merger of all pro-democracy camps)
***Social Democratic Movement (23 representatives) (official opposition)
***Independent (2 representatives)
*Military: The Hong Kong Armed Forces (HKAF) comprises of 62,000 personnel. Weapons belonging to the PCC are now being taken away and be put into the hands of the HKAF, though ammunition and such had been depleted so much from these battles that they were almost meaningless. Arms factories were built in workshops and former factories that used to produce manufacturing goods for civilians. Mines are being established in the Ming Dynasty to bring raw resources into Hong Kong to start manufacturing some experimental firearms (albeit they are partially crude as Hong Kong doesn't have much skills in building and designing guns) and copying some of the weapon designs of those held by the PCC, but even so the priority of building firearms are low in favour of reconstruction and melee combat. The HKAF is aware of a peasant uprising in Guangzhou that is suspected to be carried out by the PCC (with captives of ex-PCC soldiers claiming so, but not yet verified due to the distance) and would be ready to defend, should they continue to grow stronger.
*Diplomacy:
**Ming Dynasty: The message of the uprising in Guangzhou has reached Hong Kong publicly and has become the point of discussion within Hong Kong's recently established foreign affairs. Hong Kong supports the Ming Dynasty against the peasants who are apparently fighting for "the other gods", which the PCC soldiers who didn't flee into the mainland have claimed that they're responsible for the uprising. It is hoped that long-term mining and prospects on rebuilding and turning Hong Kong into a major trading hub again relies on the Ming Dynasty's rich resources.
*Economy: Efforts to rebuild infrastructure that was destroyed from the war are underway and to rebuild the economy from scratch and hopefully turn Hong Kong into a trading hub and a manufacturing powerhouse too. Currency, of what remains of the Hong Kong dollar is not used a lot since the crisis, but the notes have been ditched in favour of only using coins to trade, since the value of these coins are more important than banknotes. Food on the other hand, had been largely stabilised and secure with deals with the Ming Dynasty to give Hongkongers food, with small community farms across Hong Kong being considered the emergency reserve for food, along with fishing in case of relations changing or trading has been blocked. Raw and building materials, along with essential fossil fuels such as coal and oil (which might not be attainable in China though) are prioritised, so to electrify the city again after the last of the resource that was gone into these power plants.
*Events:
**Mines for Hong Kong: With the Ming Dynasty approving the way for Hongkongers to establish their own mines in exchange for some heavy tax to fund the Ming Dynasty by any means, but keeping a majority (60%) for them to transfer their minerals back, new mines are being established within former mainland China. These mines are based on areas where rich minerals are said to be present such as iron and coal. With this, they could bring certain building resources and such back to be refined for viable building material and to build certain things that couldn't be achieved with only Hong Kong. They are aware of the peasant rebellion, so a small division dedicated to the protection of Hongkongers with the intention of mining and extracting resources, numbering 2,500 is established with some wielding guns, some being crudely made from the converted factories, else, they are former PCC weapons that are almost running out of ammunition from the civil war.
**Reconstruction (Part Two): The reconstruction policy and program continues into its second year of its three-year phase. Reconstruction of damaged districts and buildings that are no more taller than a three-story building are finished. Two coal power plants are now receiving the raw power materials, though due to its age, the stability of these power plants are not viable for long-term but medium-term (~10 years). Oil and natural gas power plants are out of the question, with oil being conserved for fuelling of modern ships and natural gas being only used for cooking and essentials. Construction of a new 'future' coal power plant is underway, albeit it would be primitive and would take five years to complete (2028/1453). This coal power plant won't be able to electrify anything, but it would provide power to the essential buildings required. With coal arriving, electrification is beginning to emerge in the suburban homes (though not makeshift settlements, meaning people who want access to electricity might need to move into these houses which are already being 'filled in'), while the city of Kowloon and Hong Kong remain dark and devoid of electricity still as functionality and efficiency of these reopened power plants are low. In these cities, priority of reconstruction is low, if at all being rebuilt, with exceptions to key essentials for the second phase, such as ports, some military bases, but not an airport (since they require fuel and oil, which would not be seen as a medium-term goal). Building resources are redirected to the suburbs instead, leading to these cities entering a state of urban decay. The government of Hong Kong wanted to eventually cover these buildings too, but they must ensure that basic living standards are restored, before moving onto 'luxury' standards. Their terrible urban planning scheme is that with Hong Kong and Kowloon being almost depopulated from its original population and that some hundreds of thousands have fled Hong Kong, they could see that they could 'ease' population density that plagued Hong Kong before the event. They would also want to ensure that luxuries go into some of the buildings too and would allow people to own multiple lots too, provided that they are closely connected to each other. That could happen maybe 20 to 30 years' time, but for now, they are focusing on the suburbs.
**Shipyard Conversion: While there are few shipyards, there isn't one for specialised military ship construction and most are in disrepair. It would take ~2 to 3 years to get those back into full capacity after being abandoned years ago from political crises. It is part of the reconstruction policy and program of Hong Kong's government to build explorer vessels (although smaller boats are being regularly used nowadays for travel, they want to ensure long-term exploration and defence than these fishing boats or yachts) which would take another few years (about 3 to 5 years) to fully design and build a small fleet with all shipyards at capacity. The long-term however, is to also build a viable military fleet as well, with any PCC/PLA ships lying around near Hong Kong and haven't being destroyed were seized and integrated into the Hong Kong Navy since the PCC had surrendered effectively. Trade/cargo ships could be built as well, but there are already some pre-existing cargo ships that there part of Hong Kong prior to the Event, but they are being degraded and are less prioritised at the time of reconstruction.
==== Vatican City State ====
* Government: Theocracy (de jure) | Absolute monarchy (de facto)
** Pope: Francis 
** Secretary of State: Pietro Parolin
** President of the Governorate: Guiseppe Bertello
* Military:
** Swiss Guardsmen: 175
** Gendarmes: 130
* Demographics:
** Population: 1,000
** Occupation:
*** Clergy: 71%
*** Laity: 29%
*** Other: 0.01%
** Gender:
*** Male: 95%
*** Female: 5%
** Citizenship under residents:
*** Citizens: 25%
*** Non-citizens: 75%
* Economy: The economy of the Vatican relies on trade with the Papal States and on tourist excursions to the Papal States and the Vatican Observatory.
* Events:
** The Voyage of the Pope: Chapter One: On an early morning in 1448, Pope Francis leaves the Vatican and travels to Fiumicino, from where he takes a boat to Constantinople, where the Pope has a private meeting with the Basileus. After visiting Constantinople, he travels to Edirne, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, where he again has a private meeting with the Sultan. Historians aren't sure about what exactly was discussed at those meetings, but they suspect that it had something to do with the Turkish-Byzantine conflict or the Turkish-Armenian conflict.
** The Voyage of the Pope: Chapter Two: After visiting the Sultan, Pope Francis leaves for Israel. First he arrives in Tel Aviv. Then, he travels to Jerusalem where he meets the Prime Minister, mr. Netanyahu and the President, mr. Gantz at the Prime Minister's Office and Beit HaNassi respectively. After meeting their excellencies, Pope Francis visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Western Wall. Then, Pope Francis travels back to Tel Aviv, where he borders his ship and travels back to Fiumicino. Pope Francis arrives at the Vatican on a late evening in 1448.
** Diplomacy:
*** Constantinople: My son, settle your conflict with the Ottomans. When a man's ways please the Lord, He makes his enemies to be at peace at him.This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister. (Top secret) Basileus, we heard about the Armenian efforts to fortify Constantinople. However, I am concerned. Very concerned. You are surrounded by Ottomans, and whatever the strength of your walls, if the Ottomans cut you off from your food supplies, you are doomed. But if your nation is doomed, not everything is lost for you. If you desire to flee, the the Holy See will help you find a save haven within the walls of the Vatican. Yes, I know that you are Orthodox and I am Roman Catholic, but that doesn't matter now. We are both Christians and therefore brothers. (Top secret)
*** Ottomans: Do not attack Constantinople, your brother, for the sake of love, I beg of you.(Top secret) As the Pope, I am ready to guarantee that every every nation lives in peace with each other. So I would like to ask you not to attack other nations. Why? Because how small they may be, they are stronger than you. The tides are turned against you, my Sultan. Peace isn't an option. Peace is a necessity. (Top secret)
*** Israel: I understand your difficult situation, yet I call for peace. There is no need for you and your Mamluk brothers to wage war against each other.  Sic enim Deus dilexit mundum, ut Filium suum unigenitum daret: ut omnis qui credit in eum, non pereat, sed habeat vitam æternam. Live in peace with each other. (Top secret) No Jewish tricks anymore (Top secret)
==== Most Serene Republic of Venice ====
* Government: Thalassocracy / Venetian merchant republic.​​​​​
** Doge: Francesco Foscari
* Military:
** Army: 25,000 troops, infantry & cavalry combined.
** Navy: At least 3,000 merchant ships doubling as warships. (Wikipedia has me backed up on this one). The Venetian Arsenal constructs ships at a pace of one merchant/warship approximately every two days. (wiki says some time in the 1600s they pump out one every day so i scaled that down a bit).
* Demographics:
** Population: approximately 2,5 million.
*** Venezia (capital): ~180,000
* Economy: With extensive control of Mediterranean trade by Venetian merchant fleets, the Venetian economy is bolstered by trade routes over Southern Europe and North Africa.
* Wars: 
** Venetian-Ottoman War: Several Venetian vessels were sunk as a result of a natural occurence near the Ottoman port of Smyrna. Aiming to establish naval dominance against the Turks, Venetian conspirators drew up a scene to make it look as though the Ottomans have sunk aformentioned Venetian ships, and used it as a declaration of war. Venetian merchant ships are fitted with cannons to make into warships and sent out to surround and blockade the Turkish coastline and the Ionian Sea. Orders are given to attack any Ottoman vessel if they attempt to break the blockade, and assist Byzantine vessels in their doings. The aim of the war is to take over Ionian islands owned by the Ottomans to be used as supply stops for Venice's fleets.
* Events:
** A Most Disturbing Discovery: Venetian merchant vessels conducting trade around the Ionian Sea, Adriatic Sea and the Levantine coastline discovered Albanian, Byzantine and (presumably) Jewish personnels with ungodly weapons, sounding like thunder, capable of quick deaths. Emissaries have been sent to Albania, Byzantium and the strange sleeve of land suddenly not occupied by the Mamluk Sultanate in order to inquire information of those weapons and their sources.
** Ragusan Election Shenaningans: Venetian spies were sent to work on building a spy network, working on rigging the elections of Ragusa to bring in a Rector (title of ruler of the Republic of Ragusa) who would be willing to hand over the Republic into part of La Serenissima.
* Diplomacy: 
** Albania, Byzantium, the piece of land suddenly not occupied by the Mamluks (Israel): read "A Most Disturbing Discovery".
** Papal States: Please receive this small gift of 30,000 ducats as a token of gratitude from Venice.
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====Shogunate of Japan====
*Government: Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy, under a state of emergency for an indefinite amount of time effective from November 11th, 2019/1444.
**Emperor/Shogun: Naruhito (2019-2023), Hisahito (2023-present)
**Prime Minister: Yoshimi Seiji
**Capital: Tokyo
**Laws and Politics:
***Death of a Line: In what many have called a 'freak accident', many members of the Imperial Family, the Yamato dynasty, have succumbed to what seems to be a highly mutated strain of the flu. Thankfully, not much of our population was affected. One of the few surviving members of the family was Prince Hisahito, who was also second in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne. Since the death of his uncle, the Shogun, and his father, first in line to the throne, at the age of 16 he has begun his reign, beginning what has been come to be known as the "Idai" era.
***An Imperial Marriage: Hisahito has proposed to the daimyo of Uesugi that he marry someone from the Uesugi clan, preferably one of high standing, considering his own position as the Shogun. Hisahito seems to have taken an interest in one young lady of the clan in particular, one Uesugi Chiaki... who also happens to be the daughter of the daimyo leader.
***Right Wing Shogun?: Shogun Hisahito has been showing increasing signs of trending towards even further nationalistic views. That's odd, hopefully nothing comes of it.
*Economy: The economy is on a slow rise once again. Many companies have begun to grow with subsidies from the government as well as trade between themselves and our allied daimyos and those who are also neutral. 
*Demographics: ​​​​​
**Population (total): 37,280,000
***Tokyo: 14,307,191
***Kanagawa: 9,128,094
***Saitama: ​​​​​​7,618,198
***Chiba: 6,236,517
*Military:
**Wars and Conflicts:
***Sengoku Jidai: With the successful campaign through Takeda, we annex the lands owned by the clan and order all high-ranking officials to commit seppuku. The daimyo himself and some of his samurai complete the act, except for one man named Kanai Konosuke. Konosuke is executed anyway, and many of his family members are imprisoned. Beginning the integration of Takeda, it is renamed to Yamanashi prefecture, and no longer is it appropriate to call Japan 'the Four Prefectures.' A force of 7,500 men begin to push through Ogasawara through the newly acquired Takedan lands, along with a small force of 1,000 sent out to be reinforced on all current lines. We also send a force of 2,500 to assist Hatakeyama.
**Japanese Armed Forces:
***Military Production: With the trade in materials such as bronze and lead from the daimyos, we have been able to ramp up our military production and no longer have to use crude materials, besides the plastic, which we still have a large supply of.
***Japanese Army (Teikokugun): The Teikokugun currently consists of:
****37,500 active soldiers
****5,000 reserve soldiers
****56 tanks
****85 armored fighting vehicles (AFVs)
****15 self-propelled artillery
****40 towed artillery
****15 rocket projectors
***Japanese Maritime Force (Kaijogun): The Maritime Force currently consists of:
****30,000 active soldiers
****5,000 reserve soldiers
****3 aircraft carriers (2 Japanese, 1 American)
****6 destroyers
****1 corvette
****4 submarines
****4 patrol vessels
****10 mine warfare vessels
***Japanese Air Force (Kugun): The Air Force of Japan currently consists of:
****20,000 active soldiers
****5,000 reserve soldiers
****63 fighters
****52 attack aircraft
****15 transport craft
****25 trainer aircraft
****35 non-attack helicopters
****10 attack helicopters
*Diplomacy:
**JPG: Ready to start up trade? We could *really* use that oil.
**Hatakeyama: Push into Tsutsui, and then from there, wait until we give the signal to begin the assault on Kyoto. We want to save as much architecture and culture located in the city as possible.
*Events:
**Development of an Electric Cargoship: Scientists from some of Japan's top institutions have come together and begun drafting plans for what some have called the "Infinity Ship," essentially a cargoship powered entirely by electricity, such as that it can be sustained on only solar power, and keep going for just about forever, similar to a sailboat. Two former zaibatsu, Mitsubishi and Sumitomo, have agreed to help fund the ship, with some of what money they have left in our banking systems. 
==== Joint Provisional Government of the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, and Antonio (JPG) ====
* Government: Provisional Government with two principal organs; the Council and the Governor's Office.
** Governor: Eric Garcetti (D)
** Ruling Party: Democratic (Senate and Governor), Republican (Assembly)
** Council:
*** Senate (125): Democratic (76), Republican (43), Liberty (6)
*** Joint Assembly (138): Democratic (64), Republican (73), Liberty (1)
** Laws and Policies:
*** Hawaiian Outpost: The Californian outpost of Hopuka is established, near modern day Honolulu. The majority of the Hawaiian tribesmen are on other islands, allowing us to mostly keep to ourselves. The 30 or so Californians on the island establish radio comms with headquarters in Los Angeles, vaccinate the locals, and show off the wonders of modern technology. Some of our pre-prepared food reveals some agricultural diseases that we hope to get rid off, so the settlers mostly survive on the local Hawaiian agriculture. Signups in Los Angeles begin to settle Hawaii, advertised as a "Permanent Getaway to Paradise!". Carefully screened, 30 more settlers are chosen to head to Hawaii aboard the CSS Verne, with 88% of the new settlers being Islander Pacific.
*** Foreign Alliance: With the Ecuadorian ambassador going back to his native Ecuador, many consulates in the city form the Foreign Alliance, a coalition of exiled consulates in the city. The prominent members include the British, Japanese, and Chinese ambassadors. While they take no action just yet, the government is eyeing them very closely.
*** Americana: While technically now not part of the United States, American flags are required to be flown at every public building. A broadly popular decision, many still pledge their loyalty to the now non-existent United States of America. 
*** Memorial To The Lost: The Memorial to the Lost is built in San Clemente, near the non-Exiled border, at the Trestles Beach Trailhead. It dedicates itself to the ~7.5 billion people that we no longer have contact with. The memorial has a short inscription, and at the end it reads "We can only hope that the Lost are safe, for we shall never forget." While somber, the City Council of San Clemente is eager to get the memorial built to attract tourism to the area and revitalize the downward economy of the city.
* Capital: Los Angeles City
* Economy: Downtown Los Angeles remains crime infested. A large apartment building has collapsed from structural failure. However, the rest of the nation is recovering steadily. Entertainment has once again superseded oil & gas to be the largest economic center, and the new Californian dollar is announced, although U.S dollars are still to be legal tender. One Californian dollar is pegged at one U.S dollar, although the currency is slated to massively lose value. A brand new Los Angeles Mint is being constructed in El Segundo, now the new hub of Los Angeles. 
* Demographics:
** Population: 13,825,915
* Provisional National Guard (PNG):
** 35,000 active soldiers
** 10,000 reserve soldiers 
** 10 combat tanks
** 10 AFVs
* California Provisional Navy:
** (NOTE: The majority of the CPN's naval fleet arises from NS Seal Beach, a munitions and loading facility. The two combat ships we have were arriving in Seal Beach from Hawaii and Guam, and were fixed up in 2022.)
** 1 corvette
** 1 frigate
** 15 patrol/response ships (Coast Guard)
* California Air Force:
** 19 transport craft
** 17 non-attack helicopters
** 8 fighters
** Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC)
*** Range and Network Division (online; 0.6% efficiency)
*** Operationally Responsive Space Office (closed)
*** Space Logistics Directorate (communications cut)
*** Advanced Systems and Development Directorate (online; 25% efficiency)
*** MILSATCOM Systems Directorate (online; 0.0007% efficiency)
*** Defense Weather Systems Directorate (offline)
*** Infrared Space Systems Directorate (offline)
*** Launch Enterprise Directorate (offline)
*** Space Superiority Systems Directorate (online; 6% full efficiency)
*** Global Positioning Systems Directorate (online; 1.9% NAVSTAR full efficiency)
*** Internet Communications Relay (online; 0.003% of Los Angeles covered)
* Conflicts:
* Diplomacy:
** Wyoming: Could we please fly a diplomat to Cheyenne to begin diplomatic relations? We would also like to discuss a new agreement called the Three Ts Plan; shorthand for Trade, Travel, and Titles. The trade portion of the agreement signals a mutual agreement on both sides to reignite air trade, allow for a single market, and requires the U.S Dollar to be legal tender in Wyoming and the JPG. The U.S Dollar will also be set at a set rate. There are to be no tariffs or taxes between us, also. The Travel part of the agreement allows for travel between LAX and CYS to restart, with incentives for airline companies that do. Titles mostly deals with boring, legal jargon, but most importantly, mandates that the U.S Code of Laws is fully legal, except in cases where it only applies to a certain region (i.e tax breaks for manufacturing companies in Ohio), or cannot feasibly apply after the Exile.
* Events:
** Naval Reconstruction: Several corvettes and frigates begin construction in the newly built Seal Beach Shipyard. These are headed by several former U.S Navy officers and commanders, utilizing the new steel being produced in South Gate. Tom Garlett, a former U.S Navy commander is put in charge of the Naval Reconstruction Effort.
** MegaCorps: Disney, along with its assets such as NBC and Telemundo, begins business again. New Disney movies, shows, and merchandise is slated for production and distribution as 77.2% of televisions in the counties are functional. DirectTV, headquartered in El Segundo, is the main cable provider, with Spectrum and Dish unable to catch up with only limited assets in the area. Spectrum, however, funds the Internet Communication Relay, as the the ICR begins operation. ABC and CBS start news programming again, although ABC later files for bankruptcy, with some of its minor assets sold off to Warner Bros, now entering the programming industry.Technology companies, mostly prevalent near the Ventura County border, are mostly dormant or bankrupt, although a few are revitalized with the IRC.
** Reconstruction of the Air Force: Raytheon and Boeing sign on to a $2.3 million contract to produce new fighter jets and transport planes, as well as some weapons, for the Air Force.
====State of Israel====
*Government: Parliamentary Republic (elections currently suspended).
**Laws: State of emergency prevails.
***2023/1448 elections: The scheduled parliamentary election is once again postponed due to the state of emergency. Nevertheless, Netanyahu has announced that he will step down as Prime Minister once the war with the Mamluks ends, and that snap elections will be called inmediately after this.
**Prime Minister: Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud)
**President: Benny Gantz (Blue and White)
**Capital: Jerusalem (disputed [by who?])
*Economy: Continues to focus on developing the agricultural sector, with a new project for vertical farming starting this year. This comes after we noticed other exiled nations using it, and although we already had plenty of traditional farms built thanks to technology and other advances from previous years, there is no harm in having even more farms. Fishing continues to receive extensive support as well. Meanwhile, investors are excited for the success of the oil-rich, revolutionary city of Alagadda. Haifa is especially benefited by it, as there is an oil refinery on it. Combined with its fishing potential, the jobs derivated from the oil refining are allowing Haifa to experience an small economic boom.
*Military:  With the war dragging for its third year, some of our military is starting to get tired, although morale remains high for the most part due to our series of victories. Concerns over oil begin to fade with the success of project Alagadda, as the military is prioritized in the distribution of the newly-acquired oil. More troops are taken from the reserves and sent into the frontlines.
**Israeli Army:
***285,000 active personnel (+20,000)
***255,000 reserve personnel (-20,000)
***2,760 combat tanks
***6,541 armore fighting vehicles
***650 self-propelled artillery
***300 towed artillery
***150 rocket projectors
**Israeli Air Force:
***30,000 active personnel
***55,000 reserve personnel
***253 fighters
***18 transports
***153 trainers
***96 helicopters
***48 attack helicopeters
**Israeli Navy:
***9,500 active personnel
***10,000 reserve personnel
***3 corvettes (Sa'ar 5 class)
***8 missile boats (Sa'ar 4.5 class)
***5 submarines (Dolphin class)
***45 patrol boats
***2 support ships
*Events: 
**Mamluk-Israeli war: With Beirut in our bag, our confidence continues to remain high, although our troops are a bit tired. Nevertheless, we show the Mamluks that we have no intention of slowing down by launching an operation to capture Beirut on March 1st. At least 30,000 troops are employed in this operation. At the same, we push into the desertic areas of Syria and establish a few checkpoints on them. The goal is getting a hold of oil-rich zones, although this becomes less of a priority after gaining access to the oil rigs of Alagadda. The Sinai front remains stationary as usual, with people wondering if any side will ever make a move on it.
**Alagaddan oil: With Qara Qoyunlu having accepted our investment offer, an oil fever ensues in Israel, with investors and companies competing over who gets to make contracts in Alagadda first. This allows us to gain access to new oil supplies, however, there is one major issue - the transport of said oil supplies. The distance between Israel and Alagadda is considerable, and with no roads or modern technology available, the travel time becomes even longer. The route also requires to travel through huge amounts of desert and possibily dangerous zones (as it also requires to go through Mamluk territory). We attempt to design the safest route possible, one that solely goes through Qara Qoyunlu and Israeli-occupied Syria. The military is also tasked with escorting every truck carrying oil, as to prevent sabotage or stealing. Once the trucks arrive into Israeli territory, they dispatch the oil in the port of Haifa for its refining. While this is not perfect, we hope that this will help reduce the risk of transporting oil. Additionally, the government offers truck drivers high salaries and other benefits to make the job more appealing. It is worth mentioning that when they sign their contract, they agree on not suing the government or any involved companies in case of accidents or death though (this particular clause is written in very small letters).
**Jewish tricks: Mossad agents in Palestine fake their deaths (as infiltrated Hamas members) and return to Israel, as we already have the information we wanted. Although there is a small relief due to Hamas not being so directly involved, the fact that they are collaborating with Tobruk in Libya is concerning. However, as we are currently unable to do anything in Libya due to our war with the Mamluks, we decide to archive this case for the time being. A few plans are still being devised for the Libyan Civil War though.
*Diplomacy: 
**Vatican City: We shall make an effort to end this war as soon as possible.
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