Archive 1 (Liberty)

This is the first archive of Liberty, covering the time period between January 1, 2008, and April 1, 2009.
===Turn 1 (Q1 2008)===
==== Events ====
* Finalization of the Holocaust: The Confederate government has declared that 48 out of 50 states are now Jew-free. Small pockets of Jewish populations remain in New York and New Jersey. The Jewish population of the Confederacy, one of the last remaining bastions of Jewish existence, is expected to be completely eradicated by 2011.
* MLK's Nightmare: The Black Belt campaign continues, driving the blacks out of the historical Black Belt in Louisiana and Mississippi and into the infamous concentration camps in the Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming Rocky Mountains.
* Voices of Dissent: 145 people met in Times Square on February 11, protesting the imposition of dictatorship and demanding a return to the United States of America of old. They were quickly gunned down by the NYPD, however, the fact that such dissent exists at all is intolerable and the Mayor of New York will get an angry letter from Eternal President Ezekiel Thalmann soon.
* All Hail President Thalmann: All places of worship are now required to perform a prayer to President Thalmann, along with their (non-Jewish) deity of choice, in every religious session.
* Resistance in Written Form: The True Patriot, written by John McCain, starts being circulated clandestinely in revolutionary circles. This work is a scathing denunciation of the current Confederate States and everything about its laws, politics, and structure, and glorifies the old United States of America. If discovered by the all-seeing FBI, John McCain will surely "disappear" in the middle of the night, probably to the infamous Crowheart-7 concentration camp in western Wyoming, reserved for political prisoners.
* Irradiated Hopes and Dreams: Former residents of San Fransisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, Detroit and Boston are advised to wear a gas mask and take necessary anti-radiation precautions when returning to their former homes. Visits must be approved by the Confederate Department of Transport, and visions will require a permit. Tresspassers will be shot.
====Catharsis Insurgency====
*Backstory: The Catharsis Insurgency has its roots in the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, Inc. Scranton branch under regional manager Michael Scott. Upon hearing of rumors that the government is planning to nationalise the company and replace all of them with KKK members (a prank concocted by Jim Halpert) Michael Scott announces a shadow campaign to undermine the government. This declaration is limited to his employees, who are all more or less ok with it until they realise their manager is being serious. Michael Scott begins taking firearms classes, being a white "Aryan" male his actions go without suspicion. He joins secret societies dedicated to anti-KKK sentiment, linking up with a certain Dr. Jack Bright and an Alto Clef with a slightly more questionable doctorate. Both supposedly having been recently fired from their posts in the FBI, a debatable background, have suggested the formation of an insurgency with Michael Scott, to which he agrees. As the rumor continues to fly within the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company Scranton branch, more people join behind manager Michael Scott, while Drs. Bright and Clef begin recruitment efforts outside the company, which Michael Scott never considered before it was suggested. TL;DR the Insurgency was founded by a stubborn and kinda dumb manager who wants to see his "non-Aryan" friends again and secure his position, backed by two "ex-FBI" (debatable) operatives who make sure everything and everyone is up to code. The rest are citizens who are against the Confederacy for a variety of reasons and personal vendettas.
*Organisation:
**Triumvirate: Michael Scott, Jack Bright, Alto Clef
**Main HQ/Centre of Operations: Dunder Mifflin Paper Company Inc. Scranton Branch Warehouse 5 and Dwight Schrute's basement.
*Personnel:
**Trained Fighters: 40
**Intelligence Operatives:120
**Spies: 5
**Financial Operatives: 355
**Shadow Operatives: 20
**Untrained Personnel: 560
**Total: 1,100
*Stats:
**Firearms: Approximately 400 working firearms of varying condition and make.
*Diplomacy: N/A
*Events:
**A Source of Income: For now, the financial assets of the Insurgency are courtesy of its members. Workers of all collar colours work to provide any money they can for the Insurgency's cause. More recently, attempts to hack obscure bank accounts are being pursued as a method of income.
**Propaganda Time: Intelligence operatives (a fancy word for people who know how to use technology, from normie millenials to near-professional hackers, the latter of which we only have like 2 of) begin disseminating fake news within Scranton online communities on social media such as Facebook, Twitter and via throwaway emails (if any of these services exist). The nature of the fake news in question relates to the hypothetical actions of the Confederacy increasing taxes, cutting pensions, whatever it is that makes boomers angry.
**Shady Shit: The Insurgency has begun reaching out to known gangs with a history of anti-Confederate activities, in an attempt to both recruit and share information. In Clef's words: "I'd rather work with a thug than for Nazi toe-suckers."
**Infiltrations: Operatives are sent to infiltrate Scranton utilities and services institutions. In addition to existing employees being members, we adopt a "recruit or replace" strategy to ensure all aspects of the town of Scranton are at the Insurgency's fingertips without the knowledge of the Confederacy. [Mod Response Required for Operation Outcome]
====Federal Freedom Fighters====
*Backstory: The Federal Freedom Fighters (or the FFF) is a group of ragtag individuals (initially during its foundation in 2006-07) who don't like the existence of the Confederacy. These ragtag individuals are millennials and some old people (not like the boomers though, more like Gen X) who never grew up or have lost their right to vote and all things. The millennials are basically people who have been taught with some fundamentals of democracy and things, but they have never grew to experience it under the Confederacy, especially those who came late in the millennial generation. On the other hand, Gen X members were really frustrated on the restrictions of democracy and eventually freedom of speech, to the point that the Confederacy just outright removed them altogether, they joined in this group because they sought to recreate the American Dream that came with their taste of democracy. They want democracy and all of these free things again. When the black population declined, they secretly grew their membership numbers as the Confederacy made them disappear one by one, until almost none of them, if not all are gone from the town. Of course, this ragtag group began to grew organised when few of their members suddenly went missing every secret talk underground too. Their hiding place and talking quarters is a small tunnel network across few homes. So they started to become radical and slowly stockpiled weapons. The local police and the FBI are becoming suspicious of an organisation, but they don't really care because Flint is a small town, even when there were like a lot of Detroit refugees coming into the place as well. These people have lost their homes from nuclear attacks, so they want to also avenge those that were killed too. By this point, just after organising it into a proper organisation than being a ragtag group with no skills, they decide to screw over the town of Flint and take over it with some firearms by bribing some of the families into buying them.
**Summarised: Millennials and Gen X want democracy so they talk in secret. Millennials want democracy because why not and some probably never even grew up (esp. those teens) and Gen X are basically those who have lived through a time of freedom but they don't have it. Flint has some Detroit refugees and blacks in Flint began to disappear, along with some of their members, causing them to arm and take over the town.
*Organisation:
**Group Leader (First-in-Command): Gary Wellington
**Second-in-Command: Danielle Clover
**Main Headquarters / Centre of Operation ('de facto' capital): Flint, Michigan and some random underground tunnel networks beneath Flint
*Personnel / Military:
**Armed Militants: 250
**Unarmed Militants: 130
**Administrators: 15
**Financiers: 30
**Propagandists: 50
**Informers (scouts): 50
**Other Members (with other roles): 220
**Total: 845
*Statistics:
**Weapons:
***300 firearms, only few of them are modified or came as automatic through smuggling. They are primarily of various make and design too.
***An unidentified number of homemade molotov cocktails/petrol bombs (but likely less than few hundred) and numerous attempts to make other bombs too.
***An unidentified number of kitchen knives used for melee and close combat.
**Cities: This is for reference and I do these statistics because they help me calculate the final population as of 2008.
***Flint: 65,000 roughly (~50,000 remaining [whites only] + ~15,000 Detroit refugees)
*Diplomacy: N/A
*Events:
**Just Taking Over a Town: For the first three months of 2008, Flint is under a huge fight with surprise attacks coming out of nowhere in obscure houses and tunnels, armed with petrol bombs and kitchen knives. The FFF targeted local police and any suspected personnel belonging to the FBI or even the military (which might be unlikely in a small town like Flint) by directly throwing them with homemade petrol bombs and then shooting them randomly. Some of them were captured or were kept captive instead if they show any interest to the FFF; but most were given a choice to call out on information (even if its redundant, some could be vital) and then get shot or be thrown into a local jail facility that the FFF has occupied. If they refuse, they can be killed off like the rest. Shops were plundered, especially two gun stores, where ammunition and any weapons were looted and used to help secure Flint. By late March, the boundary of Flint has been taken over, with some smoothing of the boundaries being made so it doesn't look as cancerous.
***Note: I used the term petrol bombs instead of gasoline bombs (esp. in a US context where its called gasoline), I got influenced by HK protests a lot: Some news outlets label molotov cocktails as petrol bombs.
**Liberating Lives: With the fighting over Flint continuing across the first quarter of 2008, efforts to convince those who were unaware of the FFF were asked to join in exchange for the promise of a functioning democratic government. Propaganda and posters defaming and mocking the Confederacy were being posted at walls of occupied Flint, telling residents of Flint to "wake up" and "speak for their own voices", with a promise of a "new future". All of these posters weren't graphically good (due to the fighting and Flint isn't a city), they were printed out hastily with big bold black text over a blank white paper or were written in permanent marker.
**Reconnaissance: Scouts and informers are sent to nearby suburbs and towns of Flint (range is up to Saginaw, MI). Their purpose is to gather information and find any vital infrastructure and presence of any personnel, be local police, FBI or the military of the Confederacy. Since Flint is roughly rural and smaller in size thanks for the purging of most of its black population, the same could be assumed to other towns.
==== Zapatist Army for National Liberation (Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional) ====
* Backstory: A rebel group which has its roots in Emiliano Zapata's Ejercito Libertador del Sur, advocating for a free, inclusive Mexico
* Personnel: 4,000
** Trained Soldiers: 600
** Militia: 800
** Intelligence: 200
** Spies: 50
** Financial Operatives: 350
** Untrained Personnel: 2,000
* Headquarters: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon (we dont control all of it)
* Organization:
** Commander Zapata (Jorge Zapata)
*** Subcommander Marcos (Rafael Guillen)
**** General Villa (Carlos Villa)
**** General Ibarra (Rosario Ibarra)
* Firearms:
** 150 Mondragon rifles
** 10 C96 pistols
** 450 Luger pistols
** 15 Ross rifles
** 25 Frommer Stop pistols
** 50 Gewehr 98 rifles
** 100 Kar98k rifles
** 350 MP40 SMGs
** 250 STG44 ARs
* Diplomacy: 
** Other Anarchists and Communists: we propose to free North America under a Fourth Internationale
* Events: 
** Captures in Monterrey: we have captured around 1/6 of the city
==== National League for the Defense of Religous and Racial Liberty in Mexico (Cristeros) ====
* Backstory: This organization was made by mainly catholics in the northern Mexican town Hermosillo. They believed that the Mexican state was to much pro-nazi and they were afraid that it would succumb to become a Nazi state and then kill all catholics, natives, Opposing protestants, Mexican jews and maybe even try to erdicate the mestizos too.
* Population: - 
* Cities: 
** Las Lomas: Unknown
* Personnel: 2,010
** Trained Soldiers: 350
** Militia: 720
** Intelligence: 210
** Spies: 25
** Financial Operatives: 260
** Untrained Personnel: 445
* Organization:
** First-in-Command: Miguel Antonio Mandarte
*** Second-in-Command: Francisco Ortego
*** Headquarters: Las Lomas, Hermosillo
*** Ideologies: Popularism, Anti-Nazism, Indigenism, Christian Humanism. More might come as the organization progresses
* Firearms:
** 350 of various designs (Mostly non-automatic)
** ca 100 homemade bombs (Mostly molotov cocktails)
* Diplomacy: 
** None
* Events:
** Activism: Our activism is quite normally occuring in the town we put up posters with our message and tries our best to spread it all over Hermosillo lucky it is quite easy to walk around town and put up poster when no one is looking. We try our best to spread our message and get more followers to end the regime that loves flirting with the Nazis.
** Las Lomas Clashes: In the begining of the first quarter of 2008 we managed to secure parts of Las Lomas as ours. We use guerrila tactics against incoming police or simply we managed to bribe police since Mexican police is quite corrupt (I guess it might be the same this timeline). Our goal is to secure the one power source there. We had soon managed to make most of Las Lomas under ours de facto control. With all the capture police we try to place them in our own prisons or bribe them or make them join us. We also take their guns most of them being Beretta 92F, Glock Pistol, CZ P-09 and etc. We expect the police to soon use more heavy arms against us.  
** Money making: We get our funds to the organization either from donations and the member's own money. With us finally taking over a part of Hermosillo the members in the takeover have put everything they have in the movement if they don't have anyone else to support like their families to example.
==== Front Libre de Trois-Rivières ====
** Backstory: 
*** All Hail the Lord Protector: It has been 23 years since a group of officers of the Canadian Army launched a coup d'état that deposed the elected government and brought the National Socialist Labour Party to power. The party's leader, Harold Howard, has been ruling Canada with an iron fist ever since. Howard and his henchmen instituted a cult of personality, glorifying the all-wise, all-powerful father of the fatherland Lord Protector Howard. Giant statues of the Lord Protector have been erected in every city, town and village. Every passer-by has to bow before the statue. Everyone who neglects to bow before the statue will be tracked down and sent to one of the State of Canada's infamous concentration in the north. The same goes for any vile person who dares to question the actions of the government. The Howard regime has been vigorously persecuting sub-human beings such as Jews and First Nations, especially the Metis. By now it is believed that at least three-quarters of the Jews and 85% of the Metis have been exterminated.
*** Uprising: It has been 23 years since the light of democracy was extinguished all over Canada, including Quebec. Even though the Howard regime has been eager to respect the unique status of Quebec, discontent about the regime has always been high. The government, however, did not see this discontent as a serious threat, as Howard and his henchmen knew that that the Quebecois would not dare to make their discontent audible. After all, everyone who would dare to say anything bad about the regime would disappear and would never be heard of again. However, the regime seriously underestimated the potential of the Quebecois. Discontent was rising and rising and on January 9th, 2008.  At about 9 a.m. thousands of people armed with firearms captured key locations in downtown Trois-Rivieres.  At noon, the local authorities sent two police units to deal with, what they believed it was,  a minor uprising. The policemen, however, largely defected to the insurgents. By sunset, the city's downtown was almost entirely under the insurgents' control. The insurgents then elected Jacques-Josquin Truteau as their leader. In a speech, Truteau announced that this was the beginning of a national uprising against the regime, and it's final goal would be the full liberation of Canada, and a restoration of democracy.
** Organisation:
***  ​​​​​​President of the Front Libre: The President of Front Libre is the head of the  Provisional Canadian government. He also holds the offices of People's Minister for the Revolution and Minister for the Popular Armed Forces. The President of Front Libre also is the Speaker of the Citizens' Assembly. The current office holder is Jacques-Josquin Truteau. Truteau was elected unopposed by popular vote on January 18th, 2008.
*** Provisional Canadian government: The Provisional Canadian government is the governing body of the liberated Canadian territory (the territory controlled by Front Libre). The government consists of a war cabinet of 5 ministers and a larger cabinet of 20 ministers. The government has been appointed by the leadership of Front Libre and approved by the Citizens' Assembly on February 8th, 2008.
*** Citizens' Assembly: The Citizens' Assembly of the Front Libre was elected on January 23rd, 2019.  The assembly meets in the Trois-Rivieres Palace of Justice. All members of the assembly are technically independent, but some of them are affiliated with a certain political idiology. The composition of the assembly is as follows:
**** Liberal democrats: 40
**** Social liberals: 13
**** Social democrats: 7
**** Conservative liberals: 6
**** Socialists and communists: 4
*** Headquarters: Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières
** Personnel:
*** Citizen's Guard (Elite forces): 400
*** Citizen's Militia: 800
*** Intelligence: 250
*** Spies: 35
*** Untrained personnel: 600
*** Firearms: 
**** 1000 handguns
**** 1500 long guns
**** ca. 200 hommade bombs
** Statistics:
*** Membership:
**** ​​​​​​Active members: 3,000
**** Non-active members: 5,000
*** Casualties (Front Libre):
**** Killed: at least 7
**** Injured: at least 28
**** Missing: at least 2
** Diplomacy:
*** 'Relations: '​​​This is a list of relations (not alliances).
**** Liberals: Excellent
**** Social democrats: Excellent
**** First Nations: Excellent
**** Jews: Excellent
**** Conservatives: Good
**** Christians: Good
**** Socialists and communists: Good
**** Quebecois nationalists: Neutral
**** Canadian nationalists: Neutral
**** Anarchists: Neutral
**** Anti-fascist  terrorists: Neutral
**** Right-wing conservatives: Negative
**** Howardites (fascists): Awful
*** Diplomatic Actions: N/A
** Events: 
** In the Name of the People: Front Libre desparately needs money. Therefore,the FL leadership sends 30 Citizen's Guards to rob banks in the name of the Revolution. FL also hires a team of hackers to hack Canadian banks and to rob their money, also in the name of the Revolution.
** Real News: FL operatives start disseminating news about the fascist regime's atrocities and starts promoting the revolutionary cause.
** Our Fifth Column: We send secret operatives to the parts of the city that are not under our control in order to undermine the local authorities' control over the city. We spread agitation and propaganda among them in order to attract them to join the FL. 
** Their Fifth Column: Fearful of fascists within the territory under our control who might try to undermine FL we encourage people to report on someone who may be a fascist or a fascist sympathiser. Over the past three months, FL has arrested 50 possible fascists, who all received life-long prison sentences.
** They Shall Not Pass: We dig trenches and build barricades and other fortifications around downtown Trois-Rivières to prevent the fascists from entering FL-controlled territory.
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====Commonwealth Liberation Front====
*Backstory: The Commonwealth Liberation Front can find its origins in the Hanover Insurance Group based in Worcester, MA. Its headquarters, located at 440 Lincoln Street, has served as the base of operations since the Front's founding just a few months ago in 2007. A large number of the company's total employees, being mostly older (Boomers to mid-Millenials) men and women who lived during the times of a democratic America, have joined together with the CLF's new revolutionary ideals, which are kept secret from the general republic until now. John Roche, HIG's president and CEO, has been hailed as a new American hero for his planned actions against the Thalmann regime. Using his business connections, and status as a 'true' Aryan, he has managed to train himself in the use of firearms, along with many of his Aryan-statused employees, on top of collecting multiple different types of weapons. The Hanover Insurance Group has also recently taken on a number of new "employees," secretly people and insurgents associated with other anti-Thalmann groups and assemblies. Roche has named himself the marshal of the Commonwealth Liberation Front.
*Organization:
**Marshal: John Roche
**Center of Operations: 440 Lincoln St., Worcester, MA: Hanover Insurance Group Home Office
*Personnel:
**​​Trained Fighters: 150
**Spies/Espionage Agents: 10
**Financial Operatives: 480
**Untrained Personnel: 1,250
**Total: 1,890
*Statistics:
**Weapons: 
***Around 500 firearms of varying make, model, and condition, including M1 Garands as a 'symbol of American democracy' and Colt M1911s.
***An unidentified amount of explosives: including grenades, molotov cocktails, etc.
***An unidentified amount of melee weapons: hunting knives, machetes, etc.
*Diplomacy: N/A
*Events:
**Worcester Uprising: January 29th, 2008: a day which will live in infamy. The Hanover Insurance Group is revealed to have been plotting an uprising as many of the company's employees storm the Worcester police department and the UMass Memorial Medical Center, located at 9-11 Lincoln Sq. and 309 Belmont St., respectively. Many of the police officers and MDs located within these buildings, being mostly Boomers and Gen Xers, reluctantly join forces with the newly-renamed Commonwealth Liberation Front. The UMass MMC is protected at all costs, and the police department is stripped of its armory as the newly recruited are redirected to 440 Lincoln St. By the end of the quarter, much of the central-eastern area of the city is taken, including Indian Lake East, Brittan Square, Shrewsbury Street, the Booth Apartments Area, and Bell Hill.
**Income: In order to fund the CLF's functions, we begin seizing the assets of those who have been under the Hanover Insurance Group's insurance because, hey, they won't need it anymore. On top of this, Marchal Roche dips into his own accounts to fund the organization and orders a number of the company's cybersecurity experts to hack into unused/obscure bank accounts and take their cash.
**Intelligence and Reconnaisance: Undercover agents are sent out into neighboring towns and other government districts, such as Fitchburg, Oxford, and Framingham in order to figure out the status of the people in these areas along with the possibility of future operations within them.
==== PASP ====
-Send soldiers out to secure borders. We have conquered the entire Philadelphia Metro Area.
-Launch an invasion of Montgomery and Delaware Counties. Plans are made to first connect up with Lancaster and York, then head for Harrisburg.
-Send a message to Catharsis inquiring about a potential alliance.
=== Turn 2 (Q2 2008) ===
* Workers of America, Unite!: For Marx and Sam Webb! came the cry of militiamen, as they fought for the glorious Communist Revolution. The remnants of the American Communist Party had come together in order to restart the Socialist ideal. They had worked for years, trying to garner support amongst the discontented but complacent people of a reactionary America. Now all the planning, all the hard work, all the effort would finally come to use. On May 1, 2008, 7000 militiamen were discreetly trucked into Ashtabula, Ohio; what was to become the starting point for a revolution that would consume the American nation and finally uproot the reactionary bourgeois once and for all. Much of Ashtabula was quickly seized by the Communists, who proclaimed the United Socialist States of America. The USSA continues to push on into the relatively undefended farmland of far northeast Ohio, with its only real resistance being a couple of divisions of the Ohio Confederate Guard, who still control small portions of Ashtabula's western fringes.
* I Am Not Three-Fifths Of A Person: With much of the African-American population being gassed in death camps or worked to death in virtual slavery, the blacks of the Confederacy have every reason to revolt; and revolt they did. Several towns in the Mississippi Black Belt have been seized by black nationalist militias, determined to fight off the Fascist government and set up a shining example of Black freedom to the world. Although the dream of a New Afrika has been alive and acted upon on 5 separate occasions since Confederate takeover of the Deep South in late 1993, many believe that "sixth time's the charm".
* ¡Viva La Revolucion!: Dissatisfied with oppressive policies and corrupt governments, the people of El Paso and Juarez hold a mass strike for the first week of April. By April 4th, however, this strike had given way to a full-blown protest, comprised of hundreds of thousands. At 4:34 pm on April 4th, 2008, the Confederate Army was given the order to march into the main El Paso protest area and shoot the protestors, and nearby Confederate Air Force bases were authorized to bomb the protestors. Later that evening, the El Paso Massacre took place, leading to the deaths of around 17,000 protestors. This proved to be the final straw for the people of El Paso. Full insurrection was underway, and a national identity popped up overnight. The Free Aztlan Movement was born, seeking to create a democratic state where Anglos and Hispanics can co-exist without any form of oppression towards each other. Throughout the rest of the spring, the Free Aztlan Movement had made slow and steady advances in the suburbs of El Paso and Juarez, while the Confederate and Mexican armies were fighting a losing battle.
* California Rising: With news of revolt popping up all over the place, the good people of California naturally want a piece of the pie, too. After all, they suffered the most under the Consolidation (1993-95), what with San Francisco and Los Angeles reduced to a pile of radioactive rubble, and the rest of their major cities leveled to the ground by Confederate carpet bombing, the damages of which have not been fully repaired yet. On April 1, 2008, tens of thousands of Californians from across all corners of the Golden State flock to the Sacramento suburb of Folsom, spurred on by an Internet meme stating "Californians, Rise Up: They Can't Nuke Us All". The California Rising had begun.
* Sons of Liberty: John McCain's The True Patriot has begun taking massive traction throughout the hearts of true Americans who value democracy like a storm. Now, the Sons of Liberty, an organization who claim to be the restorers of freedom and democracy according to the principles of the Founding Fathers and the ideals of The True Patriot, have sprung up across the nation, attacking anything deemed as fascist. Statues of Eternal President Thalmann, Confederate generals, police stations, and homes and workplaces of people who support the Thalmann regime have been bombed in many major cities across the Confederacy. As Sons of Liberty attacks become daily news, a truly gargantuan manhunt for soon-to-be-President of a restored United States/filthy Jew-loving traitor to the people of America John McCain has begun. It is only a matter of time before his whereabouts are revealed.
* May YHWH Bless Our Souls: On April 17, 2008, a strange bearded man descended on Lakewood, NJ, one of the last towns with a Jewish population anywhere in the world. This strange man was former rabbi Levi HaSharon, who had been living undercover in Jersey City under a fake "Aryan" identity. After demonstrating his extraordinary knowledge, wit, and physical skill to the couple thousand or so Jews of Lakewood, they promptly declared him the Messiah, and so the Lakewood Uprising began. By the beginning of May, much of the town of Lakewood was now under the control of the Jews, and an abandoned building was turned into the Levi HaSharon Synagogue, the only non-underground operating synagogue in the world.
* The Real Gamergate: Nintendo released the 5th generation of the beloved Pokémon games, Pokémon Black and White, on May 12, 2008 (yeah I know they released in 2011 IRL but this is an althist let's have some fun). Although the goal of the game is still similar to the previous three generations: catch Pokémon, battle them with gym leaders and other opponents, and become Champion of the region, the map for the Unova region in these iterations of Pokémon is based off of New York City, and much of the storyline involves an allegory of the systematic genocide of Jews and African-Americans, and openly promotes Japanese-style assimilationist imperialism. This has led to Black and White's ban in all American stores; however, those involved or sympathetic with the resistance groups have begun to order smuggled or pirated copies of Pokémon Black and White from clandestine hackers or the Yakuza.
* Metro Philadelphia: The People's Army of Southern Pennsylvania has recently become known for their frequent attacks on the Philadelphia public transit system, with them achieving total control over Philadelphia's metro and light rail systems, as well as transit lines in Delaware and Montgomery Counties. Many a Philadelphian has taken to using the PASP-controlled public transit whenever possible as a form of soft dissent against the Thalmann regime.
==== Mod Responses and NPC Turns ====
* Catharsis Insurgency: Catharsis's infiltration of major Scranton industries has turned out very well, as Catharsis now softly controls many major local banks, small stores, and even a few factories under front companies. This significantly increases the Catharsis budget. Fake news on social media sites is quickly shut down by the government, however, softer methods, such as subtly anti-government memes, begin bringing people towards Catharsis and against the government.
* Federal Freedom Fighters: Scouts find a relatively undefended east, but a more heavily monitored and defended north and west. Due to it being one of the more popular areas for refugee Detroit businesses, Saginaw has boomed tremendously, and is heavily protected. In fact, one might be better off aiming towards the severely depressed suburbs of a destroyed Detroit.
* Front Libre: FL manages to rob the banks, although it is having a harder time hacking the accounts of prominent businessmen.
* Commonwealth Liberation Front: Fitchburg and Oxford are no less defended than most other cities of their size, however, Framingham is close to a major military buildup, as it is the "gateway" to the Boston Radiation Exclusion Zone. Fitchburg is put at a higher priority for attack, as it is at the junction of I-190 and Massachusetts State Route 2, as well as its populace's ambivalence towards the government for directing ex-Boston funds and companies towards other similar-sized towns such as Salem, Lowell, and Plymouth.
* Cristeros: Many Mexicans against the current regime flock to the Cristero banner.
* United Socialist States of America (Main/Ashtabula Chapter): They agree to join the Fourth Internationale with the Zapatista Army for National Liberation. Workers of the world, unite! Seize the means of production!
====Federal Freedom Fighters====
*Organisation:
**Group Leader (First-in-Command): Gary Wellington
**Second-in-Command: Danielle Clover
**Main Headquarters / Centre of Operation ('de facto' capital): Flint, MI; some random underground tunnel networks beneath Flint
*Personnel / Military:
**Armed Militants: 360
**Unarmed Militants: 240
**Administrators: 15
**Educators: 0
**Financiers: 40
**Propagandists: 70
**Informers (scouts): 75
**Other Members (with other roles): 410
**Total: 1,200
*Statistics:
**Weapons:
***450 firearms, only few of them are modified or came as automatic through smuggling. They are primarily of various make and design too.
***An unidentified number of homemade molotov cocktails/petrol bombs (but likely less than a thousand)
***One to two successful remote bombs (there isn't much resources or things to do here). They are not used for now, but can be done with detonating cars or buildings altogether especially in high-security or guarded locations.
***An unidentified number of kitchen knives (commonplace in kitchens so they are easy to find) used for melee and close combat.
***An unidentified number of bows (but likely less than a few dozen) used for ranged archery combat as distraction.
**Cities: This is for reference and I do these statistics because they help me calculate the final population as of 2008.
***Flint: 65,000 roughly (~50,000 remaining [whites only] + ~15,000 Detroit refugees)
*Diplomacy: N/A
*Events:
**Securing Flint: To secure Flint under the occupation of the FFF, militants have started building barricades and makeshift fences along Flint's town boundaries, while also occupying northern and western places lightly. This will provide some precautionary measures, so that Flint is not directly besieged by the Confederacy's own forces.
**Nobody Wanted To Go There: Since reconnaissance has returned that the east is relatively not secure because of Detroit being entirely obliterated back in 1993, the goal is to occupy the east and secure the remainder of Detroit's outer suburbs, which is largely depopulated thanks to hundreds of thousands of refugees moving out of the city both almost immediately after the attack or in the long-term. Any other towns will go through a similar procedure of looting to acquiring any firearms and resources that will necessitate any future battle to the west. It's time to get bowling for Detroit.
**Banks and the Black Market: All banks and ATMs in Flint and any nearby towns are looted and tampered to amass wealth of the FFF. Knowing that as they grow as an organisation, it is vital for the FFF to build its financial operations. Looting and selling are only a short-term solution and that is still a priority for much of FFF's financial activities in 2008. Usually, looted money is transferred into the black market, where they would buy firearms, munitions and necessary materials to build the FFF's arsenal. Outside of that, local businesses still exist, so long that they do not encourage or actively support the Confederacy. Despite lacking much technology to disseminate memes and propaganda unlike the eastern cities, there are very few computers that make obscure references and activities in social media but that is about it, the FFF is keeping a low profile on the internet.
**Reconnaissance: Scouts and informers are sent to the south as far as Toledo, OH to see if there is similar security level and presence of guards around that point. They also sent some to investigate anything of value in the outer suburbs of Detroit but they shouldn't touch what remains of the core part of Detroit as it is still potentially contaminated and uninhabitable for visitation without any gas masks or whatnot, this is to keep FFF members safe.
====Catharsis Insurgency====
*Organisation:
**Triumvirate: Michael Scott, Jack Bright, Alto Clef
**Main HQ/Centre of Operations: Dunder Mifflin Paper Company Inc. Scranton Branch Warehouse 5, Dwight Schrute's basement and several offices; Scranton, PA.
*Personnel:
**Administrators: 20
**Trained Fighters: 120
**Intelligence Operatives: 340
**Spies: 30
**Financial Operatives: 705
**Shadow Operatives: 40
**Untrained Personnel: 865
**Total: 2,120
*Firepower:
**Firearms: Approximately 700 working firearms of varying condition and make.
**Melee Arms: Several hundred kitchen knives, several hundred hardware tools such as hammers, saws, axes, etc; 4 sets of fencing equipment, 3 swords, 1 katana.
**Explosives: Several homemade molotov cocktails/petrol bombs in excess of 200, 8 thermite explosives (these things are hard and risky to make), less than 100 fireworks and firecrackers.
*Diplomacy: N/A
*Events:
**A Source of Income: For now, the financial assets of the Insurgency are courtesy of its members. Workers of all collar colours work to provide any money they can for the Insurgency's cause. More recently, attempts to hack obscure bank accounts are being pursued as a method of income.
**Propaganda Time: Intelligence operatives (a fancy word for people who know how to use technology, from normie millenials to near-professional hackers, the latter of which we only have like 2 of) begin disseminating memes within Scranton online communities on social media such as Facebook, Twitter and via throwaway emails (if any of these services exist). Known as "boomer memes", these images are intended to subtly hint at flaws in the government or the massacres committed by the Confederacy.
**Expansion: The Insurgency begins sending out operatives to other cities to begin expansion. Syracuse, Rochester and Albany are to be infiltrated in a similar fashion as that in Scranton without raising suspicion. This is conducted in a manner where any investigations by the FBI and such into the CI at these locations will not tie back to the Scranton branch.
**Infiltrations II: Operatives are sent to neighbouring towns and cities to begin infiltration and expansion of the Insurgency. Taylor, Old Forge, Dunmore, Moosic and Moscow are targets of this infiltration, where local police forces, emergency services, utility networks and the post offices are to be taken over by soft power.
**A Scandal in Scranton: The Mayor of Scranton, Chief of Police, high-ranking executives in local television stations and media are exposed to be complicit in multiple scandals and pocketing town funds, with the news being disseminated by intelligence operatives and word of mouth as rumours. Of course, these are not baseless accusations, as the well-photoshopped images of said scandal are dropped into the internet for all to see. As for evidence on the pocketed money, that was merely the funds we siphoned out ourselves and placed in their pockets. In retaliation, we, the people of Scranton, demand these corrupt and vile figures be replaced, most favourably by this one candidate we have that is totally not a puppet of the Insurgency.
**Interstate 84: The highway is scouted by operatives to identify the most locations that will be most effective in hindering the advance of Confederate forces in the event we are attacked.
**Militia Training: Members of the CI Militant Ops are sent for firearms classes, with options provided for specialisation courses such as martial arts,  sniper training and archery.
==== Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional ====
* Backstory: A rebel group which has its roots in Emiliano Zapata's Ejercito Libertador del Sur, advocating for a free, inclusive Mexico
* Personnel: 4,500
** Trained Soldiers: 900
** Militia: 1,000
** Intelligence: 200
** Spies: 50
** Financial Operatives: 350
** Untrained Personnel: 2,000
* Headquarters: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon (we dont control all of it)
* Ideologies: Marxism-Leninism, Anarcho-Communism, Trotskyism, Syndicalism
* Military Actions: we capture more areas in Monterrey and get guns via contraband
* Financial Actions: we rob all banks in captured areas, taking 50% for the Army and the rest is redistributed among all members
* Organization:
** Commander Zapata (Jorge Zapata)
*** Sub-Commander Marcos (Rafael Guillen)
**** General Villa (Carlos Villa)
**** General Ibarra (Rosario Ibarra)
* Firearms:
** 150 Mondragon rifles
** 10 C96 pistols
** 450 Luger pistols
** 15 Ross rifles
** 25 Frommer Stop pistols
** 50 Gewehr 98 rifles
** 100 Kar98k rifles
** 350 MP40 SMGs
** 250 STG44 ARs
** 400 homemade guns
** 1,500 grenades
** 6,000 molotovs
* Diplomacy: 
** USSA: we strenghten our alliance
* Events: 
** Apodaca Massacre: in the municipalty of Apodaca, the government kills 40 innocent people, thinking they were rebels
==== National League for the Defense of Religous and Racial Liberty in Mexico (Cristeros) ====
* Population: - 
* Cities: 
** Las Lomas: Unknown
* Personnel: 2,665
** Trained Soldiers: 360
** Militia: 800
** Intelligence: 250
** Spies: 50
** Financial Operatives: 260
** Untrained Personnel: 945 (Most of them helps out with activism)
* Organization:
** First-in-Command: Miguel Antonio Mandarte
*** Second-in-Command: Francisco Ortego
*** Headquarters: Las Lomas, Hermosillo
*** Ideologies: Popularism, Anti-Nazism, Indigenism, Christian Humanism, Anti-corruption. More might come as the organization progresses
* Weapons:
** 330 of various designs (Mostly non-automatic)
** ca 100 homemade bombs (Mostly molotov cocktails)
** 12 Beretta 92F (taken from Mexican cops)
** 10 Glock pistols' '(taken from Mexican cops)
** 21 Jericho 941' '(taken from Mexican cops)
* Diplomacy: 
** None
* Events:
** Activism: Our activism is quite normally occuring in the town we put up posters with our message and tries our best to spread it all over Hermosillo lucky it is quite easy to walk around town and put up poster when no one is looking. We try our best to spread our message and get more followers to end the regime that loves flirting with the Nazis.
** Las Lomas Clashes: Our clashes with incoming police forces trying to retake Las lomas continues. With more and more people supporting us it gets harder for the police to take us down.
** Money making: We get our funds to the organization either from donations and the member's own money. With us finally taking over a part of Hermosillo the members in the takeover have put everything they have in the movement if they don't have anyone else to support like their families to example.
** The corruption has to end: Our leader Miguel Antonio Mandarte have held a speech in a unknown location to the members of the party that the corruption in Mexico has to end. The Cristeros will now also fight back the corruption in Mexico. Soon poster here and there could be seen with the message that the corruption has to end in Mexico.
** El Jito Preparation: A plan starts to get made for an invasion of the small area nearby Las Lomas referred as El Jito soon we will liberate it too.
** Many new members: Each day more and more Mexicans start joining our movement which seen as postive and we expect more to join as we get more succesful.
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====Commonwealth Liberation Front====
*Organization:
**Marshal: John Roche
**Center of Operations: 440 Lincoln St., Worcester, MA: Hanover Insurance Group Home Office
*Personnel:
**​​Trained Fighters: 350
**Spies/Espionage Agents: 15
**Financial Operatives: 485
**Untrained Personnel: 1,100
**Cyberguard: 50
***The cyberguard is formed in order to keep the online assets of the CLF in tact, as well as to help with propaganda and hacking systems.
**Total: 1,850
*Statistics:
**Weapons: 
***Around 650 firearms of varying make, model, and condition, including M1 Garands as a 'symbol of American democracy' and Colt M1911s.
***An unidentified amount of explosives: including grenades, molotov cocktails, etc.
***An unidentified amount of melee weapons: hunting knives, machetes, etc.
*Diplomacy: N/A
*Events:
**Worcester Uprising: The Worcester Uprising continues. We send much of our main force to the south in an attempt to seize the remaining parts of the city that we do not control. Our main focus is on taking the neighborhood known as Main South, which has large control over the city's central roadway, Main Street. Secondary objectives include the takeover of the Four Hills: Grafton Hill, Union Hill, Oak Hill, and Vernon Hill.
**Income: Our methods of gaining a sort-of economy are continued from the last turn: seizing assets, hacking into lowkey bank accounts, etc.
**Intelligence and Reconnaisance: We continue our scouting of nearby towns and cities, shifting our efforts from those directly next to us to some further away, including Springfield, Lowel, and even transitioning our efforts to another state: Rhode Island. There, we begin to gather reconnaisance on its capital of Providence.
**Boston Visas for the CLF: At the moment, we currently have some members of our cyber team trying to forge documents, such as visas, that will allow members of the Commonwealth Liberation Front to enter the Boston Irradiated Zone (BIZ) and attempt to start an uprising in the area. On top of this, we also have members of our intelligence team trying to 'legally' acquire said required documentation.
**Pokemon Black and White... Democratized: We have about twenty five of the members of our so-called Cyberguard working on a ROM hack of Pokemon Black and White that shows the same dystopian New York City as in the original games, but the main goal of the ROM hack is to build up a large team of Pokemon (in the hack, the party limit has been upped to 15) and take back New York from the Nazis using those Pokemon and insurgent sympathizers along the way. This will hopefully be used as propaganda for the younger generations.
==== Front Libre de Trois-Rivières ====
** Organisation:
*** Headquarters: Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières
**** Citizens' Assembly: The Citizens' Assembly of the Front Libre was elected on June 2nd, 2008.  The assembly meets in the Trois-Rivieres Palace of Justice. All members of the assembly are technically independent, but some of them are affiliated with a certain political idiology. The composition of the assembly is as follows:
***** Liberal democrats: 32
***** Socialists and communists: 13
***** Social liberals: 10
***** Social democrats: 10
***** Conservative liberals: 5
**** Provisional Canadian government: The Provisional Canadian government is the governing body of the liberated Canadian territory (the territory controlled by Front Libre). The government consists of a war cabinet of 5 ministers and a larger cabinet of 20 ministers. The government has been appointed by the leadership of Front Libre and approved by the Citizens' Assembly on February 8th, 2008.
****  ​​​​​President of the Front Libre: The President of Front Libre is the head of the  Provisional Canadian government. He also holds the offices of People's Minister for the Revolution and Minister for the Popular Armed Forces. The President of Front Libre also is the Speaker of the Citizens' Assembly. The current office holder is Jacques-Josquin Truteau. Truteau was elected unopposed by popular vote on January 18th, 2008.
***** June 2008 Front Libre presidential election: On June 2nd, 2008, a presidential election was held to elect the president of Front Libre. The incumbent president was returned with a landslide, but during the campaign Truteau faced stiff opposition from Henri Gagnon, a left-wing candidate who called for a class struggle between the proletariat of Trois-Rivières and the fascist capitalists.
****** Jacques-Josquin Truteau: 4,298 (70.0%)
****** Henri Gagnon: 1,843 (30.0%)
** Personnel:
*** Citizen's Guard (Elite forces): 450
*** Citizen's Militia: 900
*** Intelligence: 300
*** Spies: 45
*** Untrained personnel: 900
** Firearms: 
*** 1030 handguns
*** 1510 long guns
*** ca. 300 hommade bombs
** Statistics:
*** Membership:
**** ​​​​​​Active members: 3,500
**** Non-active members: 6,000
*** Casualties (Front Libre):
**** Killed: at least 12
**** Injured: at least 34
**** Missing: at least 4
** Diplomacy:
*** Relations: This is a list of relations (not alliances).
**** Liberals: Excellent
**** Social democrats: Excellent
**** First Nations: Excellent
**** Jews: Excellent
**** Conservatives: Good
**** Christians: Good
**** Socialists and communists: Good
**** Quebecois nationalists: Neutral
**** Canadian nationalists: Neutral
**** Anarchists: Neutral
**** Anti-fascist  terrorists: Neutral
**** Right-wing conservatives: Negative
**** Howardites (fascists): Awful
*** Diplomatic Actions: N/A
** Events: 
*** The Battle of Trois-Rivières: The battle for downtown Trois-Rivières continues as police forces storm the Quebec University, the headquarters of FL. Fighting continued for weeks, but eventually the government forces had to retreat.
*** The Revolution Tax: FL imposes an income tax in the territory under their control. The inhabitants of said territory shall pay 5% of their income to FL. 
*** In Name of the People: FL's hacker team tries to hack bank accounts once again.
==== PASP ====
-We have taken control of public transportation systems, and the local Amtrak station. We ride from the 30th Street Station to the Lancaster and Harrisburg stations to rally our allies and convince them to join the fight.
-Send a message to Carthasis inquiring about an alliance.
-Align ourselves with the USSA.
-Recruit lots of Philadelphians to our cause.
-Attempt to take the Philadelphia Shipyard. We captured a few of the ships there. We can use this to import/export guns from the outside world and melt down old ships for weapons. 
-Expand through the city as well as possible
-Take Independence Hall (or what's left of it. Don't know if it is still standing) and make it our headquarters.
-Capture the Frankford Arsenal and take all of the old weapons and munitions there. We repair as ,any as we can, and the rest are melted down to be used for other things.
-A supplier of the Army who grew up close to Philadelphia shows up near the Shipyard. He goes under the name Smith for security. Upon his arrival, he is appointed leader of the rebellion.
=== Turn 3 (Q3 2008) ===
*Workers of America, Unite! pt.2: By the end of September, USSA forces had fully secured Ashtabula, and also taken the cities of Warren and Youngstown, cementing their control over the far northeastern section of Ohio. Meanwhile, a rudimentary democratic political system is set up in USSA-controlled areas, with the Mahoning County Courthouse in Youngstown converted into the People's Congress, abandoned factories converted into government offices and housing for Ohio's poor and "undesirable peoples", and elections "as free and fair as any of the old America's" promised after the war. Many previously unemployed people have also found jobs at factories, working towards the war effort. This sudden revitalization of the economy of a Youngstown in rapid decline is quickly hailed by leftists across the country as a "socialist miracle", and has brought more people closer to the USSA, as the common populace in many Rust Belt cities now have the mentality of "Communism is preferable to Fascism". Throughout the summer of 2008, several socialist groups, emboldened by the success of Sam Webb's USSA, begin surfacing. Of note is the Red Brigadiers in Vermont, led by Bernie Sanders, who have captured the state capital of Montpelier and much of the surrounding area, and appear to be advancing full-speed to Burlington.
*¡Viva La Revolución! pt.2: The Free Aztlan Movement has managed to put El Paso and Juarez under siege, as well as capture much of the surrounding suburbs and rural areas. However, the Battle of El Paso, as it has become known in the general Confederate and Mexican community, has quickly devolved into brutal street-by-street, block-by-block urban warfare, augmented by airstrikes from both sides (Aztlan forces have managed to capture Briggs Airfield), and the occasional sarin gas attack and "anthrax bomb". Free Aztlan-affiliated movements have also seized territory in many other cities along the Confederate/Mexican border, including Laredo, McAllen/Reynosa, Brownsville/Matamoros, and Tijuana.
*I Am Not Three-Fifths Of A Person: The Sixth New Afrika Revolt in the Mississippi Black Belt continues to gain ground, as Confederate soldiers are taken aback by the ferocious guerrilla warfare of the "damned n*ggers", with a Confederate general remarking, "They are truly beasts. No honorable man would fight they way the Negroes do. This is why Thalmann is right and the blacks need to know their unworthiness". Meanwhile, New Afrika scouts have set fire to many plantations that "employ" African-Americans in near-slave labor conditions (i.e basically all of them).
*California Rising: The Californian rebels were easily pushed out of Folsom by Confederate military might, with many simply being massacred on the spot or sent to Wyoming and Utah death camps. However, some rebels have managed to regroup and flee into the Sierra Nevada, where they have taken South Lake Tahoe and blown up every single mountain pass leading to the town.
*The Messiah: Surviving Jews from all over the North American continent flock to New Jersey to fight for the Messiah, and once and for all relieve their people from their eternal persecution by the Gentiles and create a New Jerusalem in the Americas (the entirety of old Jerusalem was demolished by the Nazis and rebuilt in Nazi utilitarian fashion as Bergstadt). Levi's forces have taken over the towns of Lakewood, Whitesville, and Lakehurst, and have advanced into the northern periphery of Toms River. The newly-built Rabbi HaSharon Synagogue in Lakewood is increasingly referred to as the Third Temple.
*Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru: After the destruction of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle, much of the Japanese population of those cities (at least the ones that survived and didn't return to Japan) made their new homes in Portland, Oregon. When the Confederate government took over, Japanese-Americans, along with other Asian groups, suffered from disenfranchisement in laws similar to the Jim Crow laws of the 1950s, and were forbidden to speak their own language. The Japanese, however, never gave up hope. They continued teaching their children Japanese, practicing their culture, and defying the Confederates as much as they possibly could without being sent to a death camp. They were always on the lookout for an opportunity to re-assert their rights in their adopted country. That opportunity presented itself in 2008. With the Confederates occupied with numerous other rebellions, the Japanese-Americans of Portland, too, rebelled. By the end of September, the Portland suburbs of Gresham and Boring (which, since 1993, have become home to many San Fran and LA refugees) had become under the control of the Japanese Republican Army. The JRA is covertly armed by the Yakuza, several Japan-based companies (including Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, and Nintendo) and even the Japanese government itself, and Confederate troops stationed in Oregon and southern Columbia (Washington state) have come to fear the words "Omae wa mou shindeiru", as many JRA "kamikaze" suicide bombings begin after those following words.
*The Deep State: In the Wyoming Valley region of northeast Pennsylvania, Catharsis and its front companies have entrenched themselves deep enough into local banks, employment, services, and municipal and county governments that it has formed a parallel state in the Scranton area. This near-total domination of local government is an open secret amongst the people of Scranton and its suburbs and periphery, with many Scrantonites (Scrantonians? idk) dubbing the Catharsis network "the Deep State", due to its nature being hidden under the veneer of local government. Although the majority of Scrantonites know that the "Deep State" is anti-Confederate to some extent, many people to the left of the political spectrum are wary about the Catharsis network, with them seeing collaboration with Catharsis as merely trading fascism with unchecked corporatism. What can be said, however, is that Scrantonites are quickly growing to love and trust the "Deep State" and hate the Government more and more.
*The Battle-Cry of Freedom: Sons of Liberty terrorist attacks increase in frequency, and begin to target major landmarks enshrining Fascist leaders. The Sons of Liberty have also stated that they are planning on "a total eradication of all statues of Confederate generals in the great American nation by 2012". Meanwhile, the manhunt on John McCain narrows, with the FBI releasing a statement that "we are 95% certain that John McCain is currently residing somewhere in the state of Kentucky".
==== NPC Turns and Mod Responses ====
* PASP: The attack on Independence Hall and the Philadelphia shipyard was an astounding failure, with lack of planning, weapons, intel, and cooperation being the main failures of the plan. However, PASP militias escaping the botched Shipyard Attack have managed to capture FDR Park and the Packer Park district. What the attack did manage to accomplish is to reveal the true extent of the PASP's anti-government nature, and Pennsylvania State Troopers are called to retake control of the PASP-run public transit. Clandestine videos of State Troopers releasing nerve gas onto unsuspecting subway-goers in subway stations have boosted PASP popularity, though.
* Catharsis Insurgency: The Mayor of Scranton and Chief of Police are indicted for these corruption scandals. Although the Chief of Police is replaced with yet another Thalmann lackey, ensuring the unjust police practices of the Confederacy will go on at least for the time being, Eugene Williams, the CEO of Scranton Coal Power (a Catharsis front company) is appointed as Mayor of Scranton. Many local TV and radio personalities are forced to retire prematurely after public backlash, with many of those positions being filled with less prominent entertainers and reporters with varying degrees of Catharsis affiliation. The Deep State is only begging stronger with time.
* Front Libre: Bank accounts of prominent local businessmen are hacked. Politicians' accounts remain safe for now.
* Cristeros: Much of Las Lomas and El Jito are now under control of the Cristeros. Meanwhile, much of the population of Hermosillo and surrounding communities now sees the Cristeros in a very good light. Several Free Aztlan groups, including Free Aztlan-El Paso/Juarez and Free Aztlan-Laredo, offer funding to the Cristeros, as their ideology is similar. (only more secular)
* Federal Freedom Fighters: The "Push to the East", although only in its initial phases, is moderately successful so far. Toledo, Ohio is quite heavily defended, as it is essentially the "replacement" for Detroit, and the government has been investing in it heavily. All bank accounts in the city belonging to non-Flint residents have been hacked and the money transferred to the FFF.
* Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional: Anti-government sentiment increases after the Apodaca Massacre, with many flocking to the EZLN. Meanwhile, USSA funds have begun to trickle into Zapatist coffers.
* Commonwealth Liberation Front: Much of the inner core of Worcester has been captured by the CLF. Meanwhile, scouting efforts have revealed that Springfield is around as defended as most towns that size are, and Lowell and Providence, although quite heavily defended, are also full of Boston refugees that are very discontent about the loss of their homes under nuclear fallout. These Bostonites could be a very useful target for recruitment. A few CLF members have managed to gain access to the Boston Exclusion Zone, and have begun to loot abandoned weapons stashes and the occasional functional ATM. Many surviving suburbs around Boston are in severe economic downturn, and anti-government sentiment is astronomically high. In fact, the people of Lynn have almost unanimously decided to rebel under the CLA banner too. Meanwhile, Pokemon Crimson, the "democratic" ROM hack, gains massive popularity in the Northeast, and is beginning to spread to other areas of the US.
* USSA: The Red Brigadiers, EZLN, and PASP are invited to the first meeting of the Fourth Internationale, set to be held in Youngstown on December 14, 2008.
* Japan: The Japanese government begins funding several American resistance groups, notably the JRP, the California rebels, and Free Aztlan-Tijuana, in hopes that they will succeed and become Japanese client states, thus giving the Co-Prosperity Sphere a foothold in the Americas.
====Federal Freedom Fighters====
*Note: This is the first turn where I have started to push the limits by using the Internet of sorts and whether I could get my hands on the democratic ROM hack by taking in two copies somewhere. The first two turns were conservative.
*Organisation:
**Group Leader (First-in-Command): Gary Wellington
**Second-in-Command: Danielle Clover
**Main Headquarters / Centre of Operation: Flint, MI; some random underground tunnel networks beneath Flint
*Personnel / Military:
**Armed Militants: 450 (+90)
**Unarmed Militants: 255 (+15)
**Administrators: 15 (0)
**Educators: 0 (0)
**Financiers: 70 (+30)
**Propagandists: 100 (+30)
**Informers (scouts): 80 (+5)
**Other Members (with other roles or unassigned): 400 (-10)
**Total: 1,450 (+250)
*Statistics:
**Weapons:
***660 firearms, only few of them are modified or came as automatic through smuggling. They are primarily of various make and design too.
***An unidentified number of homemade molotov cocktails/petrol bombs (but likely less than a thousand)
***Three successfully made remote bombs (there isn't much resources or things to do here). They are not used for now, but can be done with detonating cars or buildings altogether especially in high-security or guarded locations.
***An unidentified number of kitchen knives (commonplace in kitchens so they are easy to find) used for melee and close combat.
***An unidentified number of bows (but likely less than a few dozen) used for ranged archery combat as distraction.
**Cities: This is for reference and I do these statistics because they help me calculate the final population as of 2008.
***Flint: 65,000 (50,000 remaining [whites only] + 15,000 Detroit refugees)
***Detroit (estimated, not final as FFF does not control Detroit): 153,000 (I drew a rudimentary shape of outer Detroit to calculate the population of that area using this as a source. I calculated using a formula that 70% of people from Detroit fled and that Detroit by 1993 was 75% black: 2,045,872 * 0.3 * 0.25)
*Diplomacy: N/A
*Reconnaissance:
**Lansing, MI: Scouts are sent to that place if it has a similar case to Saginaw.
**Detroit: (see Bowling for Detroit)
*Events:
**Nobody Wanted To Go There, pt. 2: Expansion to the southeast and slowly securing and defending Flint continues. Again, any form of looting and tampering of ATMs and banks, along with any valuables like weapons and resources to make bombs are still being made. As the FFF approaches close towards Detroit (there has to be a limit though), the FFF has to ensure that they can secure Detroit by first accessing the city legally and send secret messages to call for an uprising while encouraging them to join the movement. The stages of acquiring Detroit is split into three:
***Stage 1 (Q2-Q3 2008): Get close to Detroit as much as possible (after expanding and pushing further to the east), acquire and forge visas to access Detroit as a precaution.
***Stage 2 (est. Q4 2008): Count the population of what remains of Detroit (since most have fled on 1993), recruit those disgruntled and angered by the Confederacy, which is almost all of them and encourage them into an uprising with the FFF by sending hidden encoded messages.
***Stage 3 (est. Q1-Q2/Q3 2009): Occupy the rest of the 'insecure' part of eastern Michigan and outer Detroit before moving onto Saginaw and Lansing. Core Detroit would also need to be secured as well, while the Canadian side of the Detroit metropolitan area, Windsor, will not be scouted or occupied since it is controlled by a fascist Canada, not the Confederacy.
**Bowling for Detroit: The black market is used to acquire visas to access Detroit by legal means, via the dark web with obscure computers in Flint's internet cafe (social media is not the FFF's big deal yet, but the unusual activity might cause some red herrings...) and those who aren't loyal to the Confederacy but are willing to give up them. Accessing Detroit with legal means, especially core Detroit will give the FFF the control of a major (former) city without having thousands of Confederate soldiers crushing a small organisation easily. Thousands are to be recruited into the FFF's cause too, if not, there would be still hundreds that might be still eager. Meanwhile, veiled messages that promote recruitment into the FFF, anti-Confederate sentiment by affirming there are others that hate the regime and the message of liberation are being prepared by informers and propagandists so that these messages are sent in numbers to any residents of outer Detroit after the stockpiling. These aren't necessarily deployed to outer Detroit, but some of the nearby settlements near Detroit have been sent with similar messages.
**Normalisation and Finance: About six months on, Flint is being normalised but security and control of Flint has been tightened and secured (to reduce any theoretically possible pro-Confederacy dissident to just 1/10,000th) with barricades and few armed militants patrolling the streets in a lookout for Confederate sympathisers and any businesses supporting the cause of the Confederacy. For financial stuff, the FFF will invest in money for munitions and weapons in the black market, but there will be some of it being stored in underground Flint. Apparently, there's also someone on the internet while buying and acquiring visas to access Detroit has also bought about two democratic ROM hacks of Pokemon along the way. (Don't tell anyone this...)
==== National League for the Defense of Religous and Racial Liberty in Mexico (Cristeros) ====
* Population: - 
* Cities: 
** Las Lomas: Unknown
** El Jito: Unknown
* Personnel: 3,050
** Trained Soldiers: 420
** Militia: 960
** Intelligence: 255
** Spies: 70
** Financial Operatives: 290
** Untrained Personnel: 1,055 (Most of them helps out with activism)
* Organization:
** First-in-Command: Miguel Antonio Mandarte
*** Second-in-Command: Francisco Ortego
*** Headquarters: Las Lomas, Hermosillo
*** Ideologies: Popularism, Anti-Nazism, Indigenism, Christian Humanism, Anti-corruption. More might come as the organization progresses
* Weapons:
** 402 of various designs (Mostly non-automatic and homemade or illegaly aquired)
** ca 180 homemade bombs (Mostly molotov cocktails)
** 25 Beretta 92F (taken from Mexican cops)
** 18 Glock pistols (taken from Mexican cops)
** 34 Jericho 941 (taken from Mexican cops)
** 5 Colt 9 mm SMG (taken from Mexican cops)
** 9 Uzi (taken from Mexican cops)
** 12 Heckler & Koch MP5 (taken from Mexican cops)
** 4 Mossberg 500 (taken from Mexican cops)
** 5 FN FAL (taken from Mexican cops)
* Diplomacy: 
** Aztlan Groups: Yes we accept your help and galdly co-operate.
* Events:
** Activism: Our activism is quite normally occuring in the town we put up posters with our message and tries our best to spread it all over Hermosillo lucky it is quite easy to walk around town and put up poster when no one is looking. We try our best to spread our message and get more followers to end the regime that loves flirting with the Nazis.
** Police clashes Clashes: Our clashes with incoming police forces trying to retake Las lomas continues. With more and more people supporting us it gets harder for the police to take us down.
** Money making: We get our funds to the organization either from donations and the member's own money. With us finally taking over a part of Hermosillo the members in the takeover have put everything they have in the movement if they don't have anyone else to support like their families to example.
** Villa de seris, Pedregal de la villa and Akwiki Preparation: A plan starts to get made for an invasion of other area nearby areas to our controlled territory we will soon hopefully be able to liberate it too. We will hopefully be able to use Villa de seris area as a launching point to takeover the rest of the southern parts of Hermosillo and hopefully the whole of Hermosillo soon. If at least the takeover of Akwiki is succesful we might be able to try and take over Parque Industrial since we will have managed to cut it's main road of with the majority of the government controlled town. Of course this needs very careful planning.
** Plans for uprisings and takeovers of smaller communities: There is also plans to takeover the smaller communities more specific El Tazajal and LA Victoria to get more control in the outer areas of Hermosillo and since we have a lot of support of the population of Hermosillo and smaller communities around them we hopefully might be able to take the smaller communities over. We also don't expect to much resistance since they are much smaller and therefore there must be fewer policement there but we might be wrong and it also depends if we can manage to get anyone there to help us with the takeover since our we have not much members in the smaller communities mostly because they are quite small communities.
** This Mexican government don't care about Mexicans rights!: New posters appears telling that the current Mexican government don't care about Mexicans outside of Mexico and let Confedercy repress Mexicans freely without any action and therefore thecurrent government are not fit to lead the country. It is also showing an image of an american man with a confedercy flag shooting at a fleeing Mexican mother running away with her children while screaming "die beaner taco #####" and then there is also multiple Mexicans laying on the ground dead in blood. in the background the you can see Mexico that have turned its back to what is happening.
====Catharsis Insurgency====
*Organisation:
**Triumvirate: Michael Scott, Jack Bright, Alto Clef (on road trip)
**Proxy Triumvir: Dwight Schrute
**Main HQ/Centre of Operations: Dunder Mifflin Paper Company Inc. Scranton Branch Office and Warehouses, several other offices; Scranton, PA.
*Personnel:
**Administrators: 80
**Trained Fighters: 320
**Intelligence Operatives: 410
**Spies: 40
**Financial Operatives: 1,170
**Shadow Operatives: 85
**Untrained Personnel: 840
**Total: 2,945
*Firepower:
**Firearms: Approximately 1,200 working firearms of varying condition and make.
**Melee Arms: Several hundred kitchen knives, several hundred hardware tools such as hammers, saws, axes, etc; 4 sets of fencing equipment, 3 swords, 1 katana.
**Explosives: Several homemade molotov cocktails/petrol bombs in excess of 300, 21 thermite explosives (these things are hard and risky to make), little over 100 fireworks and firecrackers.
*Diplomacy: N/A
*Events:
**A Source of Income: For now, the financial assets of the Insurgency are courtesy of its members. Workers of all collar colours work to provide any money they can for the Insurgency's cause. More recently, attempts to hack obscure bank accounts are being pursued as a method of income.
**Propaganda Time: Intelligence operatives (a fancy word for people who know how to use technology, from normie millenials to near-professional hackers, the latter of which we only have like 2 of) begin disseminating memes within online communities on social media such as Facebook, Twitter and via throwaway emails (if any of these services exist). Known as "boomer memes", these images are intended to subtly hint at flaws in the government or the massacres committed by the Confederacy.
**Cathartic Values: After the values of Catharsis are brought into question by numerous parties including leftists within the Insurgency, a key question is asked: what is the Insurgency fighting for? Following days of disagreements between high-ranking operatives and the Triumvirate itself, an agreement was reached. The Catharsis Insurgency here by reaffirms its stance on bringing about a return of "Liberty, Equality and Democracy", regardless of whether one is a communist or a conservative, no matter the colour of their skin or their religion, all men and women must have their human rights respected. The decision of whoever leads this New America will be left to the choice of the people after the Confederacy is torn down. 
**New Scranton: With Eugene Williams becoming mayor of Scranton, capital is reallocated to welfare support for the impoverished and "non-Aryans". This, of course, is done away from the eyes of the public, the Confederacy, the police force and any Nazi toe-sucking organisation that decides to sneak a peek. 
**Militia Training: Members of the CI Militant Ops are sent for firearms classes, with options provided for specialisation courses such as martial arts,  sniper training and archery.
**Expansion of the Insurgency [Mod Responses Required]:
***Operation Sicily: Agent Troy Lament has been assigned to executing Operation Sicily, in which a large scale infiltration of Syracuse, NY is to be conducted via implanting operatives, buying out stocks of companies, fabricating scandals and similar activities. The Hancock Field Air National Guard Base is to be put under surveillance at a high priority. 
***Operation Rose: Agent V. A. LaFerrier has been assigned to executing Operation Rose, in which the actions conducted are almost the same as that of Operation Sicily, but with minor variations and within Rochester, NY. 
***Operation Scottish Box: Agent Green has been assigned to oversee infiltration efforts of Albany, NY, as a pathway to expanding the Deep State. The surveillance of the Watervliet Arsenal is also prioritised, and any operations regarding the taking of the Arsenal remain to be considered. 
***Operation Meltdown: Operative Charles Anborough has been assigned to execute and oversee the infiltration of Harrisburg, PA. Infiltration procedures are the same as other operations, with special emphasis on the Tobyhanna Army Depot, where surveillance is to be carried out for any notable Confederate activities or developments. 
***Recruitment: Whitelisted Scrantonites that have gone through background checks by the Insurgency are approached with the intention of recruitment into the Insurgency. So long as they have no connections to the Confederacy, the police force or their sympathisers, and are generally against the government or advocates for freedom and liberty, they are welcome within the insurgency. Gangs are also approached with the intention of expanding the Insurgency Shadow Ops and militia. The Insurgency hopes to increase their ranks by the hundreds, if not thousands.
**Clef Takes a Road Trip: Alto Clef announces a short hiatus from his role in the Triumvirate, allowing Dwight Schrute to assume his post until he returns. With his colleagues Drs. Jeremiah Cimmerian, Charles Gears and Simon Glass crammed into his AE86 Trueno GT-Apex Hatchback, they undertake an adventure involving meeting other well-known rebel groups with the USSA and followers of the Messiah on their list of people to visit. As Clef jokingly put it; "we might steal some nukes along the way."
==== Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional ====
* Backstory: A rebel group which has its roots in Emiliano Zapata's Ejercito Libertador del Sur, advocating for a free, inclusive Mexico
* Personnel: 6,000
** Trained Soldiers: 1,200
** Militia: 1,500
** Intelligence: 200
** Spies: 200
** Financial Operatives: 400
** Untrained Personnel: 2,500
* Headquarters: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon (we control most of it)
* Ideologies: Zapatism, Neo-Zapatism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarcho-Communism, Trotskyism, Syndicalism, Anarcho-Syndicalism
* Military Actions: we keep capturing  more areas in Nuevo Leon and we keep getting guns via contraband and robbery
* Financial Actions: we rob all banks in captured areas, taking 50% for the Army and the rest is redistributed among all members
* Organization:
** Commander Zapata (Jorge Zapata)
*** Sub-Commander Marcos (Rafael Guillen)
**** General Villa (Carlos Villa)
**** General Ibarra (Rosario Ibarra)
* Firearms:
** 150 Mondragon rifles
** 10 C96 pistols
** 450 Luger pistols
** 15 Ross rifles
** 50 Frommer Stop pistols
** 50 Gewehr 98 rifles
** 100 Kar98k rifles
** 500 MP40 SMGs
** 250 STG44 ARs
** 500 homemade guns
** 1,500 grenades
** 6,000 molotovs
* Diplomacy: 
** USSA: we try to send General Ibarra to the first meeting of the Fourth Internationale
* Relations: This is a list of relations (not alliances).
** Liberals: Neutral
** Social democrats: Good 
** US Natives: Good
** Mexican Natives: Excellent
** Jews: Good
** Conservatives:  Neutral
** Cristeros: Neutral
** Socialists: Excellent
** Marxist-Leninists: Excellent
** Trotskyists: Excellent
** Zapatists: Excellent
** Stalinists: Neutral
** Nationalists: Bad
** National Bolsheviks: Bad
** Anarchists: Excellent
** Anti-fascist  terrorists: Good
** Fascists: Awful
* Events: N/A
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====Commonwealth Liberation Front====
*Organization:
**Marshal: John Roche
**Center of Operations: 440 Lincoln St., Worcester, MA: Hanover Insurance Group Home Office
*Personnel:
**​​Trained Fighters: 1000 (+650)
**Spies/Espionage Agents: 15 (0)
**Financial Operatives: 485 (0)
**Untrained Personnel: 850 (-250)
**Cyberguard: 50
***Total: 2,400
*Statistics:
**Weapons: 
***Around 1,050 firearms of varying make, model, and condition, including M1 Garands as a 'symbol of American democracy' and Colt M1911s.
***An unidentified amount of explosives: including grenades, molotov cocktails, etc.
***An unidentified amount of melee weapons: hunting knives, machetes, etc.
*Diplomacy:
**CLF - Lynn: We thank them for their support of our cause and wish them luck in their endeavors. Perhaps liberating Lowell and Lawrence could be next on their list after the rest of Lynn?
*Events:
**Worcester Uprising: The Worcester Uprising is complete. The city is now under our control. Statues of Confederate loyalists and all propaganda-related items are destroyed: crumbled, burned in a fire, any way of disposing of them.
**The Road to Fitchburg: With 650 trained fighters, we begin to snake up I-195. By the end of the quarter, we attempt to occupy West Boylston as a further jumping-off point deeper into the North, with expectations of taking Leominster and Fitchburg by the end of 2009.
**Income: Our methods of gaining a sort-of economy are continued from the last turn: seizing assets, hacking into lowkey bank accounts, etc.
**Intelligence and Reconnaisance: 
***Boston Exclusion Zone: We scout the ins and outs of the BEZ, including when Confederate military convoys come and go, where guards are stationed, etc.
**Pokemon Crimson: Pokemon Crimson became a much larger hack than we expected. Good thing we accredited it to ourselves in the end credits.
**Recruitment: Using our forged/legitimately gained visas, we resend members of the CLF into the Boston Exclusion Zone. The insurgents are tasked with recruiting disgruntled members of the former Boston community into the folds of the CLF under the idea that we will be liberating Massachusetts, and later on, the Northeast. Fewer members are also sent to Providence with the same duty.
====Front Libre de Trois-Rivières====
*Organisation:
**Headquarters: Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières
***Citizens' Assembly: The Citizens' Assembly of the Front Libre was elected on  September 5th, 2008.  The assembly meets in the Trois-Rivieres Palace of Justice. All members of the assembly are technically independent, but some of them are affiliated with a certain political idiology. The composition of the assembly is as follows:
****Socialists and communists: 25
****Liberal democrats: 22
****Social democrats: 11
****Social liberals: 8
****Conservative liberals: 4
***Provisional Canadian government: The Provisional Canadian government is the governing body of the liberated Canadian territory (the territory controlled by Front Libre). The government consists of a war cabinet of 5 ministers and a larger cabinet of 20 ministers. The government has been appointed by the leadership of Front Libre and approved by the Citizens' Assembly on September 25th, 2008.
*** ​​​​​President of the Front Libre: The President of Front Libre is the head of the  Provisional Canadian government. He also holds the offices of People's Minister for the Revolution and Minister for the Popular Armed Forces. The President of Front Libre also is the Speaker of the Citizens' Assembly. The current office holder is Henri Gagnon. Gagnon was elected on September 20th, 2008.
****September 2008 Front Libre presidential election: On September 20th, 2008, a presidential election was held to elect the president of Front Libre. The incumbent president, Jacques-Josquin was beaten by Henri Gagnon,  a far-left candidate who vowed to make FL a far-left organisation. 
*****Henri Gagnon: 4,723 (52.5%)
*****Jacques-Josquin Truteau: 4,277 (47.5%)
*Personnel:
**Citizen's Guard (Elite forces): 550
**Citizen's Militia: 1,200
**Intelligence: 400
**Spies: 60
**Untrained personnel: 1,200
*Firearms: 
**1075 handguns
**1540 long guns
**ca. 350 hommade bombs
*Statistics:
**Membership:
***​​​​​​Active members: 4,500
***Non-active members: 7,500
**Casualties (Front Libre):
***Killed: at least 20
***Injured: at least 45
***Missing: at least 7
*Diplomacy:
**Relations: This is a list of relations (not alliances).
***Liberals:  (down from )
***Social democrats: (down from )
***First Nations: 
***Jews: 
***Conservatives:  (down from )
***Christians: 
***Socialists and communists:  (up from )
***Quebecois nationalists: 
***Canadian nationalists: 
***Anarchists:  (up from )
***Anti-fascist  terrorists:  (up from )
***Right-wing conservatives:  (down from )
***Howardites (fascists): 
**Diplomatic Actions: N/A
*Events: 
**A New Ideology: President Henri Gagnon issues a declaration that Front Libre will  be transformed into an organisation with emphasis on socialist principles. Instead of liberal propaganda FL will now spread socialist propaganda which emphasises a class struggle between the opressed proletariat of Quebec and fascism, which is nothing more than capitalism in decay.
**Workers of Quebec, unite!: The new FL leadership sends secret operatives to Shawinigan, Sorel-Tracy and Drummondville to spread agitation and propaganda among the inhabitants of the above-mentioned cities, especially among the working class and the "underclass" (First Nations, Jews and other oppressed people).  
**Our Fifth Column: The operatives also attempt to recruit people who would attack the government's army in the back when FL will advance towards the cities. 
=== Turn 4 (Q4 2008) ===
* Viva la Revolución! pt.3: Free Aztlan and Aztlan-affiliated groups along the Confederate-Mexican border continue to push back Confederate and Mexican forces across the board. El Paso, Las Cruces in the state of Clay (formerly New Mexico), and Ciudad Juarez have been seized by the Free Aztlan movement, and priority is now being put into rebuilding the devastated cities. On November 27th, 2008, in San Jacinto Plaza in downtown El Paso, Antonio Ramón Gustavo Menendez, the leader of the Free Aztlan movement addressed the general public, declaring the Republic of Aztlan, a fully democratic nation built on the ideals of the American Revolution and the Civil Rights movement of the 60s, where all people have a say in the government and all are free and equal under the law. After hastily-arranged elections, Menendez was unanimously elected as the first President of Aztlan, in an echo of his spiritual forefather, George Washington. Meanwhile, Laredo and Matamoros are under siege, and Aztlan-affiliated rebels have captured several suburbs of Tijuana as well as the city of Ensenada.
* The Fourth Internationale: The first meeting of the Fourth Internationale in Youngstown is somewhat of a success, with all Communist groups currently operating being able to participate, with even a surprise "party crashin'" from Alto Clef of the Catharsis Insurgency. This conference established the idea of "Solidarity of the Workers", in which any entity professing itself to be of a of socialist value is entitled to the protection of the Fourth Internationale. On that note, the Front Libre of Quebec is invited to join the Fourth Internationale. Also discussed was funding of smaller socialist groups, and the hypothetical situation after the end of the rebellions, where Bernie Sanders and Sam Webb agreed to strive for a common, united, socialist American nation encompassing at least all Confederate-held territory (the lower 48), and hopefully all of the former territory of the United States.
* The Deep State Expands: Catharsis has recently expanded beyond the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area, with struggling mom-and-pop stores, local restaurants and bars, empty real estate, and even a few industrial sites being bought out by Catharsis front companies in and around Harrisburg and Albany. Meanwhile, its hold over Scranton and its surrounding areas further increases, with Mayor Eugene Williams' "welfare policy" heavily benefitting the poor and disenfranchised. Each and every day, the atmosphere over Scranton becomes less and less tense, and the ghettoized non-Aryan areas of the city slowly become nicer places each day. Meanwhile, to those in opposition to the Confederacy, or simply those who want to freely express their opinions, begin flocking to Scranton...
* Scranton, the New Hip Destination for Millennials?: It seems that over the past year, much of the Confederacy's youth are flocking to the city of Scranton, in northeastern Pennsylvania. Since December of 2007, over 4,000 people have moved to the city, giving it a net population increase for the first time since the 1930s. Around 75% of these immigrants under the age of 30. Why are the nation's young so eager to immigrate to this mildly economically depressed former coal town, with a seemingly harsh climate and no apparent job opportunities? Well, the main reason new Scrantonites have moved is actually the social opportunities the city provides. For one, the local social landscape and nightlife scene is quickly transforming. Although Scranton, even three years ago, had hardly any nightlife to boast of, bars and restaurants are now filled to the brim almost every day. Lately, the University of Scranton has also become a regionally important intellectual center as well. However, the single most commonly-cited reason for moving to Scranton is simply its more communal and friendly atmosphere. As one newly-arrived immigrant put it to us: "Scranton might look like just about any other Appalachian coal town, but it's got a different vibe to other places like it. The atmosphere's less tense, the people are happier, kinder and freer to share their own thoughts, and, most importantly of all, it doesn't feel like there's a f**king camera linked straight to the goddamn FBI headquarters everywhere you go".
* Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru: The Japanese Republican Army, controlling the foothills of the Cascade Mountains to the immediate east of Portland, Oregon, at first glance seems to be only one of the many insurgent groups popping up across America over the course of 2008. However, what it lacks in size and relevance, it more than makes up for with funding and social impact. Covertly funded by the Yakuza, several Japan and Co-Prosperity Sphere-based companies, and even the Imperial government itself, the JRA has tons upon tons of cash to use, and it has not been wasting it. Aside from the usual training of militias, buying ammo, and other things, it has also started new companies or bought existing companies under its front companies, selling all kinds of Oriental and especially Japanese memorabilia. These days, any sushi restaurant or library with a manga section west of the Mississippi is most likely sponsored in one way or another by one of the JRA's front companies, and several anime and hentai sites on the Internet are also run by the JRA. The JRA is also heavily involved in smuggling contraband around the nation, and has spread the banned Pokemon Black and White to almost anyone who wants a copy. They even have a couple of copies of Pokemon Crimson.
* Remember The Alamo: The Lone Star Army, led by George W. Bush, captures Port Aransas, located on Mustang Island, a barrier island along the Gulf of Mexico coast. It has since consolidated its position, and captured a few more islands near Port Aransas, and destroyed bridges leading to those islands.
* The Messiah's Exodus: The Confederate 127th Division descended upon the town of Lakewood on October 18th, 2008, ready to deal with what they considered as "the lowest of the low on earth; lower than the common rat, fly, or cockroach". The Jews must be eliminated. The town was carpet-bombed; and the 127th quickly death with any resistance. Any man, woman, or child fool enough to have not been inside a sealed nuclear basement was quickly executed, any possible remainders dealt with by sarin gas. The Third Temple was firebombed until not a single stone was left intact, the cursed ground which it stood on salted and desecrated with the bodily waste of the soldiers. In one day, the population of Lakewood plummeted to virtually zero. However, even this didn't kill off the Jews once and for all. The Jews had, in their entire history, known nothing but death and persecution, and even then they had been brought this low, they still persevered. Barely more than 2000 Jews escaped the carnage of Lakewood, but they still had God, and they had Rabbi Levi, their Messiah. And so, the surviving Jews went on what would later become known as the Second Exodus. This Exodus would only take 3 weeks, as opposed to 40 years for the first one, and their destination would be rural southern New York state. Most of the Jews that survived the Massacre of Lakewood would migrate to the small town of Sidney, NY, and its surroundings. There, they would plot to return in full vengeance and form their God-promised independent Jewish state in all its glory...
* America Reborn: In the morning of November 13, 2008, the police station in the small, rural town of Columbia, KY, were presented with a strange and unorthodox directive, straight from Eternal President Thalmann himself: "Dangerous rebel and terrorist inciter John McCain is likely residing within your town limits. Search each and every single house in town thoroughly, and capture McCain by any means necessary. You will be gloriously rewarded". One of the policemen in the town, Jack Black, was secretly a part of the Sons of Liberty, and knew where McCain lived all along. Rushing there in breakneck speed before anyone bothered to follow him or question his decisions, Jack informed McCain of the letter at the police station, and most likely saved his life. Quickly, he ordered his wife, kids, and the new neighbors sympathetic to him to bring out the guns and stand ground. He then began to livestream on every social media site he knew that had a live-streaming apparatus. "Citizens of America, I am John McCain. Many of you may know me as the so-called 'corrupt terrorist traitor to the Confederacy'. But I have never belonged to this deplorable Confederate States of America, who have taken everything good about our country and twisted it in truly perverse ways. No. I refuse to call myself 'Confederate'. I am, and will always be, a true believer in the American Revolution, of freedom, of democracy. Now, I have spend countless years hiding from the Confederacy, afraid for my life, afraid of what they'd do to me once they found out I had escaped from that vile death camp in Wyoming. I have hid too long. Today, I shall face my enemy with no ounce of cowardice, and I will fight until America is restored, or until I die. If you, too, are a lover of America, of our great, noble, and free nation that was stolen from us June of '93, join me. Join me in Kentucky, where I currently am. Join me in this fight, for this is our chance to restore what should be ours. Join me, as America is reborn". Once the police officers and county sheriff arrived, McCain and his family immediately shot them dead. He called out to any neighbor that cared to come with him, to storm the police station, the sheriff's office, and the prison. Joined him, many did. At first one, then two, then ten, then more. Soon, a crowd almost five hundred strong had formed around McCain, and stormed the police station and sheriff's office, killing all the policemen who still claimed to be Confederate. By evening, the authorities had been pushed out of Columbia, and the old Stars and Stripes were everywhere, finally seeing the light of day again after over 15 years in the shadows. By New Year's Eve, much of south-central Kentucky would be under the banner of a restored United States.
==== NPC Turns and Mod Responses ====
* Cristeros: Villa de Seris and Akwiki have been taken, so have several peripheral rural areas around Hermosillo. Propaganda campaigns have also turned the public image sharply against the Confederacy, with chants for "Death to Thalmann", "Death to the Confederates", and "Death to the Nazis" now common throughout Hermosillo.
* Front Libre: The propaganda is met with mixed success, as while the poor mostly believe that capitalism and the free market will benefit them if they work hard enough, the Jews and First Nations see the Front Libre as their only chance of survival, and many of them flock to join the Front Libre. As much of Trois-Rivieres is secure, a push northward, towards Shawinigan, is authorized, as the propaganda worked best there, giving the Front Libre a potentially easier time controlling the city.
* Federal Freedom Fighters: FFF forces are beginning to advance on the former Detroit suburbs, with the outskirts of Pontiac being in sight by the end of December. Meanwhile, former Detroiters have become "radicalized" by the FFF, and look forward for their arrival. Little resistance to FFF advances, apart from routine Confederate military surveillance, is expected around Detroit
* Commonwealth Liberation Front: West Boylston is mostly secured. Meanwhile, it is discovered that Confederate convoys only pass through areas near main roads and highways that once lead into moisten, and that military procedure is slightly less strict in the very late night (~2-4 am), probably due to monotony or fatigue.
* Catharsis Insurgency: "Clef's adventure" is quite a success. Abruptly "crashing the party" at the first meeting of the Fourth Internationale attracted much-needed comedic relief out of the otherwise overly-bureaucratic and generally boring event, and Clef even managed to extract a non-aggression pact from the USSA forces, whilst getting a nice feel for what improvements the USSA has done to the declining Ohio Rust Belt ("Wow, it's not even a sh*thole anymore!"). The Lakewood Jews, on the other hand, have been very much taken under the wings of Catharsis, and many are now receiving training with Catharsis militias, learning Catharsis hacking techniques, using Catharsis intel, and even at times working with Catharsis to establish connections in southern New York, especially near Binghamton (the closest city of any real relevance to the new Jewish hideout).
* Australia, New Zealand: The Imperial Nations (basically the Japanese version of British Dominions) of Australia and New Zealand officially recognize the sovereignty of the Republic of Aztlan, albeit showing it to be much smaller than the claimed territory of Aztlan (Australian+NZ's recognition of the borders of Aztlan shown on map). This has led to the Confederacy withdrawing its embassy in Australia and all consulates within Australia and New Zealand, and vice versa.
* Japan: They continue funding insurgent groups on the West Coast, extending the Cristeros an invitation for funding.
* USSA: The USSA begins an all-out assault on the Cleveland metropolitan area, with it controlling the northern suburbs of Mentor and Painesville in the north by the end of 2008. Some USSA forces also begin pushing into Akron's eastern fringes.
* Red Brigadiers: They have taken almost the entire stretch of I-89 between Montpelier and Burlington, and have advanced into Burlington's outer suburbs.
* California rebels: They continue consolidating their hold around Lake Tahoe, supported by Japanese funds.
* CLF-Lynn: They have taken over the rest of Lynn, and are beginning to breach into the Boston Exclusion Zone in order to loot destroyed buildings.
* 6th New Afrika Revolt: They continue capturing and burning down plantations in western Mississippi, and are beginning to close in on Greenville, MS.
====Front Libre de Trois-Rivières====
*Organisation:
**Headquarters: Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières
***Workers' Assembly: The Workers' Assembly of the Front Libre was elected on  December 1st, 2008.  The assembly meets in the Trois-Rivieres Palace of Justice. All members of the assembly are affiliated to the communist faction of Front Libre. The composition of the Workers' Assembly is as follows:
****Socialists and communists: 75
***Popular Canadian government: The Popular Canadian government is the governing body of the liberated Canadian territory (the territory controlled by Front Libre). The government consists of a war cabinet of 5 ministers and a larger cabinet of 25 ministers. The government fully consists of socialist and communist ministers. The government was approved on December 7th, 2008 by Leader of the Revolution, Henri Gagnon.
***Leader of the Revolution: The Leader of the Revolution is the leader of Front Libre. He also holds the offices of People's Minister for the Revolution and Minister for the Popular Armed Forces. The post was created on December 3rd, 2008 by then-President of Front Libre Henri Gagnon. The Leader of the Revolution possesses dictatorial powers. The powers are instituted to guide the Revolution in a right direction, free of capitalist blemishes.
*Personnel:
**People's Guard (Elite forces): 700
**People's Militia: 1,500
**Intelligence: 500
**Spies: 100
**Untrained personnel: 1,500
*Firearms: 
**1120 handguns
**1600 long guns
**ca. 500 hommade bombs
*Statistics:
**Membership:
***​​​​​​Active members: 5,500
***Non-active members: 9,000
**Casualties (Front Libre):
***Killed: at least 30
***Injured: at least 60
***Missing: at least 10
*Diplomacy:
**Relations: This is a list of relations (not alliances).
***Socialists and communists:  
***First Nations: 
***Jews: 
***Anarchists:  
***Anti-fascist  terrorists:  
***Liberals:  (down from )
***Social democrats: (down from )
***Christians:  (down from )
***Quebecois nationalists: 
***Canadian nationalists: 
***Conservatives:  
***Right-wing conservatives:   
***Howardites (fascists): 
**Diplomatic Actions: 
**Communist groups in North America: Comrades! The time has come to help each other to survive in this continent controlled by capitalists and their fascist offspring. We therefore propose that a conference of all major communist groups should be held every 6 months and that we will sign an agreement to help our fellow comrades, whether financially, military or politically, whenever they need our help. 
*Events: 
**A New Ideology: FL is transformed into an organisation dominated by socialist and communists. Many conservatives  liberals, social democrats  leave FL in protrest and the remaining members accept the socialist ideology as necessary to let the Revolution succeed.
**The Push for Shawinigan: FL forces andvance towards Shawinigan after FL leader Henri Gagnon received word that the operation to recruit a fifth column FL supporters in Shawinigan was successful. On November 13th, 2008, FL forces capture Saint-Boniface, a town 6 kilometres southwest of Shawinigan. On November 16th, the attack on Shawinigan begin. After a fierce fight, we secure the suburbs and push for the city centre. The outcome of the operation, however, is unclear, and the FL leadership is fearful of a defeat.  
**Workers of Quebec, unite!: The new FL leadership sends secret operatives to Sorel-Tracy and Drummondville to spread agitation and propaganda among the inhabitants of the above-mentioned cities, especially among the working class and the "underclass" (First Nations, Jews and other oppressed people).   
====Japanese Espionage Operation====
*Backstory: The Japanese Espionage Operation is a Japanese government funded operation, set up to spy on the current state of America as well as spread further dissent upon the region. They were founded by the Japanese Government with the intent on spying on the USA during WW2 but were shut down shortly after the war. But with the rising tensions between Germany and Japan, along with the rising dissent within the nation. The Japanese Government decided to continue the operation. They filled with fiercely loyal Japanese Nationalists to insure their plans went well. The group landed in Detroit, NY on November 6th, 2008.
*Organization:
**Head of Operations: Shinozaki Maruyama
**Head of Intelligence: Kanyei Chuyo
**Base of Operations: Detroit, NY
**Current Funding: High
*Personnel:
**Armed Mercenaries: 130
**Spy Operatives: 212
**Administrative Officials: 64
**American Defectives: 69
**Professional Intelligence Agents: 321
**Other: 342
*Statistics:
**Firearms
***270 Machine Guns
***177 Pistols
***232 Explosives
***208 Assault rifles
***78 Mortors
* Diplomacy
**Alliances
***Japanese Republican Army (Strong)
*Events:
**Intelligence Operation: A spying operation on the Governor of New York is currently in progress, the operation is attended by 8 Professional Intelligence Agents. They intend to steal any papers they can to gain intelligence on the Governor's recent actions.
**The Promise of Freedom: Some Americans choose the Japanese as their option to freedom, these American Defectives are increasing in numbers within the group. One man, James Rosenburg, has rose in popularity between the American Defectives, he shares similar ideas to other revolutionaries in New York and is very outspoken with beliefs of Social Democracy. The Japanese have been keeping a close eye on Rosenburg as his faction known as the Jēmuzufūru (James's Fools) by the Japanese is slowly growing in popularity.  
**Contact with the Revolutionaries: JEO has sent 50,000 Dollars and 32 Firearms to The Japanese Republican Army and is offering an Alliance with the Lone Star Army offering 15,000 in cash.  [mod response required]
====Federal Freedom Fighters====
*Organisation:
**Group Leader (First-in-Command): Gary Wellington
**Second-in-Command: Danielle Clover
**Mayors: 
***Mayor of Flint: Vacant
**Main Headquarters / Centre of Operation: Flint, MI; some random underground tunnel networks beneath Flint
*Personnel:
**Militants:
***Armed Militants: 840 (+390)
***Unarmed Militants: 250 (-5)
***Informers: 100 (+20)
**Administration:
***Administrators: 20 (+5)
***Educators: 0 (0)
***Financiers: 80 (+10)
***Propagandists: 150 (+50)
***Cyberoperators (hackers, specialised internet propagandists, etc.): 15 (0)
**Other Full-Time Roles: 115 (0)
**Unassigned / Voluntary Roles: 600 (0)
**Total: 2,180 (+770)
*Statistics:
**Weapons:
***Firearms: 1,020 firearms. Some of them are modified or came as automatic through smuggling, acquisition from households or bought from the black market. They are primarily of various make and design.
***Other Ranged Equipment: Roughly 1,600 homemade molotov cocktails/petrol bombs used to target Confederate soldiers and pro-Confederate law enforcement to set them on fire. 23 hunting bows and 2 crossbows are used for distraction.
***Explosives: 3 successfully made remote bombs (2 used for diversion of Confederate troops in Detroit)
***Melee: 570 kitchen knives, 30 Swiss Army knives and 2 military-styled or hunting knives used for melee and close combat.
**Cities: This is for reference and I do these statistics because they help me calculate the final population as of 2008.
***Flint: 65,000 (50,000 remaining [whites only] + 15,000 Detroit refugees)
***Detroit (estimated, not final as FFF does not control Detroit): 153,000 (I drew a rudimentary shape of outer Detroit to calculate the population of that area using this as a source. I calculated using a formula that 70% of people from Detroit fled and that Detroit by 1993 was 75% black: 2,045,872 * 0.3 * 0.25)
*Diplomacy:
**Detroit rebels: The FFF supports the Detroit rebels by sending more letters and messages to boost morale, which is released in larger numbers. They also still expect some of them to join the FFF once both the rebels and the FFF secure the rest of Detroit.
**Sons of Liberty: Three informers are sent in 26th, 27th and 29th November respectively on their own to Columbia, KY. Since the livestreaming was viewed by some FFF members, they see John McCain as their possible hope. The purpose of sending three informers as diplomats is to negotiate a possible alliance. Rumours and reports of communists taking over Ohio have been discussed within the FFF and perhaps even beyond, should be able to convince them once three of the informers (if all of them survived) get past all the battles and any Confederate checkups on them. These informers will be disguised to be regular civilians, only when they get close to where the Sons of Liberty is when they would start trying to flare signals to them for discussion. [mod response required]
*Reconnaissance: N/A
*Events:
**Nobody Wanted To Go There, pt. 3: The FFF's push to Detroit is getting easy with more civilians being recruited and trained through encouragement of joining the FFF and propaganda messages sent to smaller settlements to enlist as a member. Aside from occasional Confederate patrols and occasional guards in Detroit (who are deployed to force former residents to visit it by giving them legal visas), the FFF has fully obtained these visas (both illegally and legally), but they are a precautionary measure at this point. Reports of rebellion in Detroit has made it easier to put those away into a museum to show how the Confederacy wanted to restrict civilian access to core Detroit. The stages of acquiring Detroit is split into three:
***Stage 1 (Q2-Q3 2008): Get close to Detroit as much as possible (after expanding and pushing further to the east), acquire and forge visas to access Detroit as a precaution. (Successful)
***Stage 2 (Q4 2008): Count the population of what remains of Detroit (since most have fled on 1993), recruit those disgruntled and angered by the Confederacy into the FFF. Exploration of Core Detroit will be done by select few militants with gas masks before moving forward in securing Detroit's surroindings. (In Progress)
***Stage 3 (est. Q1-Q2/Q3 2009): Occupy the rest of the 'insecure' part of eastern Michigan and outer Detroit before moving onto Saginaw, Ann Arbor and Lansing. Core Detroit would also need to be secured as well by occupying all the outer suburbs of Detroit. The Canadian side of the Detroit metropolitan area, Windsor, will not be scouted or occupied since it is controlled by fascist Canada (not a top priority of the FFF's interests), not the Confederacy.
**Bowling for Detroit, pt. 2: With Detroit rebels being set upon to join the FFF later on, messages to join and encourage rebellion against the Confederacy in the outer parts of Detroit are sent in numbers through the FFF's informers in waves of informing their arrival. These messages not only spread anti-Confederacy sentiment, they also encourage the recruitment into the FFF and boost confidence of people that the Confederacy is weak and do not wish to invest into Detroit, using Toledo, OH as an example to show neglect by the government to redevelop Detroit. Pontiac by late November 2008 is seized by the FFF. It was a moment that the FFF has arrived in outer Detroit. Two bombs were also detonated against Confederate posts throughout December, all of them to gain attention. One of the two bombs detonated was to destroy one of their patrolling base that kept people out without a permit. It is expected that by the end of the year, the northern part of outer Detroit's suburbs would capitulate to the FFF (along with some southern suburbs of outer Detroit) with the assistance of some Detroit rebels.
**Westward Plans: On December 2008, propaganda messages and letters were sent to Ann Arbor to convince them to rebel and join the FFF. In a meeting on 26th December 2019, a day after the so-called Fahrenheit 12/25 event, a plan to take on Lansing, the state capital of Michigan is being considered. The FFF's primary goal is to seize the state capital; it is to demoralise the Confederacy's presence in Michigan and consolidate the legitimacy of the FFF's control over Michigan and reveal their intentions publicly without cowering their faces. A secondary goal and is highly prioritised right after phase 3 is taking on Saginaw and Bay City, which will give a platform of taking Lansing by 2009. There has been proposals to also take Toledo, OH too and is also a priority goal of securing the FFF's foothold on Michigan.
**Fahrenheit 12/25: As Christmas dawns on Flint, 24th-25th December 2008 became the moment where people burn the works of Thalmann, other Confederate officials and Nazis near the Flint Public Library. Antisemitic works are burnt too: The International Jew, The Eternal Jew and The Poisonous Mushroom (an antisemitic Nazi children's book published in late 1930s) are purged in numbers. The event was long overdue. Many who own these books gave up them to the FFF when they took over Flint; those that didn't were asked to give it up and encourage them to throw them away within two months with a notice. If unable to dispose them or refuse to, forced confiscation would be made. Any of the remainder not burnt (>98% of them; if 3,500 books were burnt, only 70 survive) were then restricted from the public or are put into the Flint Public Library that can't be loaned out. The FFF vowed to repeat these events again annually on any works written by Thalmann, other Confederate officials and Nazis, along with any antisemitic and 'potentially dangerous' material whenever they conquer a town or city to announce that the place is 'cleared of radical thought' and that it will take place on any captured city.
**The Role of a Mayor: Although it is too early to see Flint having a full functioning administration even nine months after a long battle to take over town, the FFF announces that a new administration will be required next year. So far, the role of being mayor of Flint is vacant, as no-one had been assigned to administer it. It is a lower priority as the FFF is too busy on consolidating territory. The requirements to be a mayor is that a mayor has to be a member of the FFF (for measure) and show 'equal, free and fairness' both privately and publicly (but preferably both) when managing his own city/town. The long-term goal is to have a mayor appointed by the end of 2009, even if no-one was willing to join.
**Finance (repeat excerpt from previous turns): Any form of looting and tampering of ATMs and banks, along with any valuables like weapons and resources to make bombs are still being made. For budgeting, the FFF will invest in money for munitions and weapons in the black market, but there will be some of it being stored in underground Flint.
==== National League for the Defense of Religous and Racial Liberty in Mexico (Cristeros) ====
* Population: - 
* Cities: 
** Las Lomas: Unknown
** El Jito: Unknown
** Villa de Seris: 
** Akwiki: 
* Personnel: 4,280
** Trained Soldiers: 660
** Militia: 1,420
** Intelligence: 275
** Spies: 75
** Financial Operatives: 310
** Untrained Personnel: 1,660 (Most of them helps out with activism)
** Non-Active Members: 6,000 (Does not count in the total personnel)
* Organization:
** First-in-Command: Miguel Antonio Mandarte
*** Second-in-Command: Francisco Ortego
*** Headquarters: Las Lomas, Hermosillo
*** Ideologies: Popularism, Anti-Nazism, Indigenism, Christian Humanism, Anti-corruption. More might come as the organization progresses
* Weapons:
** 640 firearms of various designs (Mostly non-automatic and homemade or illegaly aquired)
** ca 350 homemade bombs (Mostly molotov cocktails)
** 43 Beretta 92F (taken from Mexican cops)
** 27 Glock pistols (taken from Mexican cops)
** 45 Jericho 941 (taken from Mexican cops)
** 9 Colt 9 mm SMG (taken from Mexican cops)
** 18 Uzi (taken from Mexican cops)
** 19 Heckler & Koch MP5 (taken from Mexican cops)
** 6 Mossberg 500 (taken from Mexican cops)
** 8 FN FAL (taken from Mexican cops)
** 5 Barrett M82
** 6 IMI Negev
** 3 M60E4
** 5 FN MAG
* Diplomacy: 
** None
* Events:
** Activism: Our activism is quite normally occuring in the town and nearby areas we put up posters with our message and tries our best to spread it all over Hermosillo lucky it is quite easy to walk around town and put up poster when no one is looking. We try our best to spread our message and get more followers to end the regime that loves flirting with the Nazis.
** Police clashes Clashes: Our clashes with incoming police forces trying to retake Las lomas continues. With more and more people supporting us it gets harder for the police to take us down.
** Money making: We get our funds to the organization either from donations and the member's own money. With us finally taking over a part of Hermosillo the members in the takeover have put everything they have in the movement if they don't have anyone else to support like their families to example. We also gets funds from some of the Aztlan groups.
** Southern Hermosillo Operation: Since we pretty much owns most of the south eastern half of the town of Hermosillo we start to prepare an takeover of the rest of the Southern Hermosillo town area. It is expected to start in November and hopefully we will manage to take it all over by the end of the year if everything goes as planned and the support is high enough.
** More propaganda: More propaganda starts coming up with message for a "Second Mexican Revolution" and telling the people to start protests and show that they shall not accept this regime anymore. Others with the message "Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and Agustin d Iturbide would never accept this regime"
==== People’s Army of Southern Pennsylvania ====
* Organization:
** Government type: Semi-Communist
** “President”: Smith
** Main Headquarters: An inconspicuous office building in downtown Philadelphia
* Personnel:
** Approximately 1000 willing soldiers
** 75 commanders, leaders, and generals
** Approximately 1 million people 7,500 people under our control
* Weapons:
*** Half a million 40,000 kitchen knives, forks, pocket knives, hunting knives, steak knives, pitchforks, metal baseball bats, chainsaws, and meat cleavers
*** 50 “Glass Knives” (pieces of broken glass or shards of metal tied to sticks, PVC pipes, etc.)
*** ~900 firearms (and 300 pounds of ammo)
*** Around 100 custom grenades and bombs
*** Thousands Hundreds of other assorted homemade weapons
*** 500 cans of a pepper-Axe body spray combination (It’s very efficient if you want to blind somebody, or make them puke)
* Diplomacy: N/A
* Events:
** Organization and Strategy: As the Army grows, we realize that we must organize our efforts rather than have every member of the army work individually. We make a complete list of our allies and assets.
** Gathering Reinforcements: As we spread throughout the boroughs of Philadelphia, we manage attempt to take more and more public transportation systems such as bus and train stations. We use these as bases for recruitment and storage. We take buses and trains to cities nearby, including: Newark, Atlantic City, Baltimore, New York, Lancaster, York, Harrisburg, Allentown, Reading, Trenton, and Baltimore. We try to recruit thousands to our cause, and take back as many as we can to Philadelphia where they can assist us. Our numbers are growing by the day.
** New Strategy: In the past, we stayed mainly confined to central Philadelphia. We were blocked by Center City to the north and the Shipyard to the south, thinking we had to invade through them. Now, though, some of our soldiers see a better way to work: go around. We rush all of our forces across the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers into New Jersey and Western Philadelphia, where the lack of larger buildings makes it much easier to invade.
** Full Force: Now that Center City is surrounded by our forces, we sweep in and try to capture Independence Hall. Our soldiers then move south to try and take the Shipyard. All of Philadelphia is now ours, so what now? We do not wish to fight two states at once, so we retreat out of New Jersey and push West towards the Susquehanna valley.
==== Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional ====
* Backstory: A rebel group which has its roots in Emiliano Zapata's Ejercito Libertador del Sur, advocating for a free, inclusive Mexico
* Personnel: 6,500
** Trained Soldiers: 1,200
** Militia: 1,500
** Intelligence: 200
** Spies: 200
** Financial Operatives: 400
** Untrained Personnel: 3,000
* Headquarters: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon (we control most of it)
* Ideologies: Zapatism, Neo-Zapatism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarcho-Communism, Trotskyism, Syndicalism, Anarcho-Syndicalism
* Military Actions: we have encircled a part of the Mexican Army, we plan to capture that territory
* Financial Actions: we rob all banks in captured areas, taking 50% for the Army and the rest is redistributed among all members
* Organization:
** Commander Zapata (Jorge Zapata)
*** Sub-Commander Marcos (Rafael Guillen)
**** General Villa (Carlos Villa)
**** General Ibarra (Rosario Ibarra)
* Firearms:
** 150 Mondragon rifles
** 10 C96 pistols
** 450 Luger pistols
** 15 Ross rifles
** 50 Frommer Stop pistols
** 50 Gewehr 98 rifles
** 100 Kar98k rifles
** 500 MP40 SMGs
** 250 STG44 ARs
** 500 homemade guns
** 1,500 grenades
** 6,000 molotovs
* Diplomacy: N/A
* Relations: This is a list of relations (not alliances).
** Liberals: Neutral
** Social democrats: Good 
** US Natives: Good
** Mexican Natives: Excellent
** Jews: Good
** Conservatives:  Neutral
** Cristeros: Neutral
** Socialists: Excellent
** Marxist-Leninists: Excellent
** Trotskyists: Excellent
** Zapatists: Excellent
** Syndicalists:Excellent
** Stalinists: Neutral
** Nationalists: Bad
** National Bolsheviks: Bad
** Anarchists: Excellent
** Anti-fascist  terrorists: Good
** Fascists: Awful
* Events: N/A
====Catharsis Insurgency====
*Organisation:
**Triumvirate: Michael Scott, Jack Bright, Alto Clef
**Main HQ/Centre of Operations: Dunder Mifflin Paper Company Inc. Scranton Branch Office and Warehouses, several other offices; Scranton, PA.
*Personnel:
**Administrators: 100
**Trained Fighters: 720
**Intelligence Operatives: 640
**Spies: 50
**Financial Operatives: 1,350
**Shadow Operatives: 125
**Untrained Personnel: 970
**Total: 3,955
*Firepower:
**Firearms: Approximately 2,400 working firearms of varying condition and make.
**Melee Arms: Several hundred kitchen knives, several hundred hardware tools such as hammers, saws, axes, etc; 7 sets of fencing equipment, 6 swords, 2 katanas.
**Explosives: Several homemade molotov cocktails/petrol bombs in excess of 400, 40 thermite explosives (these things are hard and risky to make), little over 150 fireworks and firecrackers.
*Diplomacy: N/A
*Events:
**A Source of Income: For now, the financial assets of the Insurgency are courtesy of its members. Workers of all collar colours work to provide any money they can for the Insurgency's cause. More recently, attempts to hack obscure bank accounts are being pursued as a method of income.
**Propaganda Time: Intelligence operatives (a fancy word for people who know how to use technology, from normie millenials to near-professional hackers, the latter of which we only have like 2 of) begin disseminating memes within online communities on social media such as Facebook, Twitter and via throwaway emails (if any of these services exist). Known as "boomer memes", these images are intended to subtly hint at flaws in the government or the massacres committed by the Confederacy. TV stations within the Deep State are allowed a more lenient program, taking care to stay under the Confederate radar.
**Militia Training: Members of the CI Militant Ops are sent for firearms classes, with options provided for specialisation courses such as martial arts,  sniper training and archery.
**Expansion of the Insurgency [Mod Response Required]:
***Operation Sicily: Agent Troy Lament has been assigned to executing Operation Sicily, in which a large scale infiltration of Syracuse, NY is to be conducted via implanting operatives, buying out stocks of companies, fabricating scandals and similar activities. The Hancock Field Air National Guard Base is to be put under surveillance at a high priority. 
***Operation Rose: Agent V. A. LaFerrier has been assigned to executing Operation Rose, in which the actions conducted are almost the same as that of Operation Sicily, but with minor variations and within Rochester, NY. 
***Operation Scottish Box: Agent Green has been assigned to oversee infiltration efforts of Albany, NY, as a pathway to expanding the Deep State. The surveillance of the Watervliet Arsenal is also prioritised, and any operations regarding the taking of the Arsenal remain to be considered. 
***Operation Meltdown: Operative Charles Anborough has been assigned to execute and oversee the infiltration of Harrisburg, PA. Infiltration procedures are the same as other operations, with special emphasis on the Tobyhanna Army Depot, where surveillance is to be carried out for any notable Confederate activities or developments. 
***Recruitment: Whitelisted Scrantonites that have gone through background checks by the Insurgency are approached with the intention of recruitment into the Insurgency. So long as they have no connections to the Confederacy, the police force or their sympathisers, and are generally against the government or advocates for freedom and liberty, they are welcome within the insurgency. Gangs are also approached with the intention of expanding the Insurgency Shadow Ops and militia. The Insurgency hopes to increase their ranks by the hundreds, if not thousands.
**Munition Works: A few factories in Scranton are set aside for the underground manufacture of bombs and ammunition for guns that the Insurgency has stockpiled.
**Bomb's the Word: Hospitals within the Deep State are approached for teletherapy machines and instrument sterilizers, particularly those that function with a radioactive source. Mostly in the form of cesium-137, the Insurgency begins work on creating what Bright calls "mini nuclear hiccups". Michael Scott merely questions the feasibility of such a device, but it is to be seen.
**Clef Takes a Road Trip: Clef's AE86 Trueno GT-Apex Hatchback, having crashed the Fourth Internationale and established contact with the Jews, now makes his way to visit the folks in Flint and hopefully McCain himself. [Mod Response Required]
**Improving the Deep State: Eugene Williams has announced a new scheme to revitalise Scranton and turn it into a bustling urban centre with job opportunities and decent living standards, notably dropping the "for all Aryans only" used by so many Nazi bootlickers in other towns. Infrastructure projects are planned out, many with a passive goal of improving the defensiveness of Scranton in the event of Confederate invasion. In this vein, bomb shelters are being planned as well, but are not announced.
====Commonwealth Liberation Front====
*Organization:
**Marshal: John Roche
**Center of Operations: 440 Lincoln St., Worcester, MA: Hanover Insurance Group Home Office
*Personnel:
**​​Trained Fighters: 2500 (+1500)
**Spies/Espionage Agents: 25 (+10)
**Financial Operatives: 505 (+20)
**Untrained Personnel: 1500 (+650)
**Cyberguard: 65 (+15)
***Total: 2,400
*Statistics:
**Weapons: 
***Around 2,650 firearms of varying make, model, and condition, including M1 Garands as a 'symbol of American democracy' and Colt M1911s.
***An unidentified amount of explosives: including grenades, molotov cocktails, etc.
***An unidentified amount of melee weapons: hunting knives, machetes, etc.
*Diplomacy:
**CLF - Lynn: Good luck.
*Events:
**Massachusetts's Liberation [mod response(s) required]:
***Operation Western Gateway: Many agents and fighters, 500 specifically, loyal to the Commonwealth Liberation Front are deployed in the city of Springfield. Their task is to incite a riot so large it turns into an uprising - one loyal to that of the CLF, of course. It would be under direct control John Roche and the Worcester sect of the Front. 
***The Road to Fitchburg: The journey to the intersection of I-190 and Massachusetts Route 2 continues. The insurgents in West Boylston are set to move up to Leominster, along with reinforcements of 300 other soldiers. By the end of the quarter, these men are expected to take Sterling and be at just about the southern edge of Leominster. 
***Sweet Home Central Massachusetts: Plans have begun to be drafted on the expansion of the CLF in central Massachusetts. 
**Income: Due to an increase in the amount of the CLF's forces, we need to pay them somehow. To do this, we begin to hack into higher-profile accounts: small business owners, minor politicians, etc.
**Intelligence and Reconnaisance: We continue to track the comings and goings of the Boston Exclusion Zone.
***Connecticut: Some of our recon specialists begin to scout the border between the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut. They track the usual military checkpoints, bases, and the like, putting it down into an encrypted schedule accessible only by them and the Marshal.
**Recruitment: We continue our recruitment in the Boston Exclusion Zone and in Providence and Springfield.
===Turn 5 (Q1 2009)===
*The Hammer and Sickle: The beginning of 2009 was marked by mixed results from the Fourth Internationale. While USSA forces continued to advance into the eastern suburbs of Cleveland and Akron somewhat smoothly, as well as seizing much of rural eastern Ohio and even beginning to advance into the northernmost tip of West Virginia, Confederate forces managed to sever the link between Red Brigadier-controlled Burlington and Montpelier, with the Army putting the latter under siege. However, Bernie Sanders has managed to consolidate a hold over east-central Vermont.
*America Reborn, pt.2: With the Sons of Liberty, as well as other smaller pro-Old Regime groups, and even just simple lovers of democracy flocking to Kentucky to join John McCain in restoring the old United States, the Unionists, as they have now become known, have managed to push Confederate forces out of much of south-central Kentucky, and have taken the city of Bowling Green. Fierce and vicious fighting is occurring around the front line, however, as Confederate forces have focused much of their strength on McCain and his followers, and trench warfare is beginning to take hold, especially in the western fringes of Unionist control. On a lighter note, John McCain was inaugurated on January 20, 2009, as the first president of a reformed USA.
*The Old Inhabitants: As Native American reservations became closer and closer in appearance to Apartheid South Africa's bantustans, the original inhabitants of the North American continent would come under even further oppression by their foreign, colonial overlords. As the already-tight noose tightened further around their necks, the Native Americans waited for an opportunity to free themselves from foreign oppression once and for all emerged. That opportunity would emerge in January of 2009. As the Confederacy focused on areas with ongoing rebellions, some in the Navajo nation began to call for separation from the greater American nation. This would coalesce into the beginnings of the Navajo Rebellion, which, by March of 2009, would control Window Rock, AZ, the capital of the Navajo Nation, and much of the surrounding area.
*The Last Purge: With the Confederacy losing ground in several areas, Thalmann and his lackeys have begun suspecting internal interference by rebel spies. In a surprise decree, Thalmann orders anyone in the government that does not espouse his teachings to the letter to be sent to death camps and executed, and to do the same with prominent personalities and the upper class of the Confederacy. The people are to be put under even stricter scrutiny, with any step out of line liable to one year in a concentration camp (virtually a death sentence). Although Thalmann may have intended this move to forever preserve himself and his ideology in America, much of these actions would horribly backfire on him, as many celebrities, government and military personnel hounded by a now even more draconian government would simply take refuge in the nearest rebel territory, and the people, now seeing whatever little rights they still had go away, would become even more hostile to the Confederacy. This purge may well be the last significant purge the Thalmann regime would ever conduct.
*Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru, pt.3: With both the Japanese Republican Army and the Japanese Espionage Operation attempting to topple the Thalmann government and winning the hearts of many everyday Americans, as well as the Japanese government helping fund many separatist and rebel groups across the nation, many people in the know have begun championing Japan as an "ally of democracy", much like the French in the American Revolution or the Soviets during the Second World War. From New York to San Diego, watching anime, owning a Nintendo DS, and eating sushi have become silent and covert symbols of resistance, of dissent, and of "I don't want to play by your rules anymore, racist authoritarian government dickheads".
*Cathartic Hegemony: Although not having worked that well in Rochester, Catharsis has managed to buy, infiltrate, threaten and scandalize their way into the government of much of the suburbs of Syracuse. Catharsis's zone of control also expands in Harrisburg and Albany, as the Deep State begins to expand. Mayor Eugene Williams' tenure over Scranton is also increasingly looked upon fondly, especially by long-marginalized minority groups and the poor, as the unemployed begin to find work in several different areas, and the city is beautified. Scranton continues to be a magnet for the nation's young, with it quickly becoming known as "heaven in the hills", or, perhaps more discreetly, "the place where you can tell Thalmann to f*ck himself as much as you want and absolutely nothing is gonna happen to you". The two most important things to happen in the first quarter of 2009 were a group of Japanese asking Catharsis spies in the Albany city government about spying on the Governor of New York, and the momentous feat of managing to hack into several of Pennsylvania's most prominent politicians' bank accounts, including the Mayor of Philadelphia, the Mayor of Pittsburgh, and even the state's Governor himself.
*Metro Philadelphia, pt.2: The Schuylkill Offensive, as this maneuver would become known, would see the PASP take over parts of Northwest Philadelphia, as well as land them control over parts of New Jersey, namely the towns of Westville, National Park, and Woodbury. Meanwhile, the Army's clearing of Philadelphia public transit continues, although many ordinary Philadelphians now join the PASP in fighting back the Army in their stations. Daily massacres of both PASP fighters and civilians, often aided by chemical and biological weapons, are now common in the subways, and have turned most everyone in Philadelphia firmly against the Confederacy. Philadelphia has now become a hotspot for rebel activity, with almost every single house's basement harboring some kind of secret resistance texts, and rebel groups nationwide are going ham in Philadelphia. Already, almost 12,000 Philadelphians have joined the ranks of John McCain in Kentucky, and many more have turned to other rebel groups. It appears that in order to win back the hard-earned freedom of the American people, one only needs to turn to the fiery, raging hearts of Philadelphia.
====NPC Turns and Mod Responses====
*Clef's Little Trip: Although Clef has managed to pass into Flint just fine, the van he was traveling on was detained in Kentucky while trying to cross into the front line. The van, as well as all passengers inside, are now in the custody of the Confederate Army, as Clef is interrogated on his motives.
*Commonwealth Liberation Front: CLF forces have managed to take Leominster, and are now encroaching on the southernmost districts of Fitchburg (i.e. much better than expected). Meanwhile, although plans to incite a riot in Springfield have failed so far, secret CLF and CLF-sympathetic meetings in the area have begun springing up all over the place, and it looks like Springfield could be a major recruiting ground. A few business owners' banks accounts have been hacked, but no politicians yet. Meanwhile, covert tracking of military checkpoints have yielded a more-or-less accurate military schedule for cross-border checkpoints between Massachusetts and Connecticut.
*Federal Freedom Fighters: The FFF takes over much of Detroit's northern suburbs with ease, and now also has control over much of the ruins of what was once Detroit. Many of those living in Detroit's severely depressed suburbs have taken to joining the FFF to vent their anger at the Confederacy. Meanwhile, although one was killed in crossfire, 2 of the 3 informers manage to make it inside the front line, and have managed to secure an alliance with McCain. However, the informers have not returned to Michigan, as the front line is deemed unsafe to cross again (coded news of the alliance was beamed though radio).
*Front Libre: Front Libre manages to take control of the southern sections of Shawinigan, as well as the city center itself. Only a few far northern sections of the city remain outside Front Libre control. Once again, Front Libre propaganda sees limited success, mainly with minority groups and those already espousing socialist ideals. However, some of the poor begin to feel slightly receptive to Front Libre socialism, and, as previously demonstrated in America, many are beginning to believe that socialism is acceptable if it means the death of the Howardite regime.
*Cristeros: The Cristeros manage to capture all of the southern half of Hermosillo, and even some northern suburbs. Meanwhile, Cristero propaganda has begun to spread outside Hermosillo and even Sonora, with even Mexico City itself beginning to get protests calling for the government to cut ties with the Nazis for the much more welcoming and tolerant Japanese Co-Prosperity Sphere, and for an end to the current regime in the former United States.
*Japanese Espionage Operation: Although not much has been successful in trying to spy on the Governor of New York, several government offices have been infiltrated to some extent.
*Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional: The EZLN now have control over much of the suburbs and outer districts of Monterrey, and have put downtown Monterrey under siege. It is expected that Monterrey will soon fall to the Zapatists.
*Aztlan groups: Laredo and Brownsville/Matamoros have fallen under siege, with fighting about as brutal as the Battle of El Paso. Meanwhile, although attempts to push into California have been met with failure so far, Free Aztlan-Tijuana has consolidated its hold over certain suburbs and highways in and around Tijuana, and is just about ready for an assault on the city center. Meanwhile, rebellions have popped up in Mexicali and Nogales.
*Lone Star Army: They begin taking over more barrier islands, and fiercely refusing all ship entry through Lone Star-controlled territory by force. In effect, the Lone Star Army has blockaded Corpus Christi. The alliance offer from the Japanese Espionage Operation is bemusedly accepted.
*CLF-Lynn: They begin assaulting Salem, as well as pushing further into the Boston Exclusion Zone.
*California rebels: They have begun asserting control of several mountain passes in the Far East of the state, with their stated intention to "control all of California's Sierra Nevada by 2010".
*6th New Africa Revolt: The New Afrika rebels have captured Greenville, MS, setting fire to the homes and businesses of whites who were known to be racist. However, the Confederate Army has set up a "cordon sanitaire" around the New Afrika rebels, attempting to starve them out. Confederate forces have now surrounded and/or destroyed almost all points of entry or exit from rebel-controlled areas.
====Japanese Espionage Operation====
*Backstory: The Japanese Espionage Operation is a Japanese government funded operation, set up to spy on the current state of America as well as spread further dissent upon the region. They were founded by the Japanese Government with the intent on spying on the USA during WW2 but were shut down shortly after the war. But with the rising tensions between Germany and Japan, along with the rising dissent within the nation. The Japanese Government decided to continue the operation. They filled with fiercely loyal Japanese Nationalists to insure their plans went well. The group landed in Detroit, NY on November 6th, 2008.
*Organization:
**Head of Operations: Shinozaki Maruyama
**Head of Intelligence: Kanyei Chuyo
**Base of Operations: Detroit, NY
**Current Funding: High
*Personnel:
**Armed Mercenaries: 138
**Spy Operatives: 216
**Administrative Officials: 65
**American Defectives: 213
**Professional Intelligence Agents: 335
**Other: 351
*Statistics:
**Firearms
***287 Machine Guns
***179 Pistols
***241 Explosives
***218 Assault rifles
***79 Mortars
* Diplomacy
**Alliances
***Japanese Republican Army (Strong)
***Lone Star Army (Decent)
*Events:
**No one expects the Japanese Inquisition: In Detroit, Japanese spies start secretly assassinating supposed Howardites and "Enemies of the Revolution". The Operation is incredibly secretive and is kept under wraps for now.
**The Exchange: Kanyei Chuyo, Head of Intelligence, begins asking various rebel groups (Democratic ones) if they will exchange Intelligence for military assistance.  
====Federal Freedom Fighters====
*Organisation: (organisation reform within Flint)
**Commander (Group Leader): Gary Wellington
**Chief of Internal Affairs (Second-in-Command): Danielle Clover
**Mayors:
***Mayor of Flint: Armond Reid
***Mayor of Detroit: vacant
**Centre of Operation: Flint, MI (and its underground tunnel network)
*Personnel:
**Militants:
***Armed Militants: 1,400 (+560)
***Unarmed and Untrained Militants: 400 (+150)
***Informers: 150 (+50)
**Administration:
***Administrators: 40 (+20)
***Educators: 0 (0)
***Financiers: 120 (+40)
***Propagandists: 220 (+70)
***Cyberoperators: 30 (+15)
**Other Full-Time Roles: 240 (+125)
**Unassigned / Voluntary Roles: 420 (-180)
**Total: 3,080 (+900)
*Statistics:
**Weapons:
***Firearms: 3,050 firearms. Some of them are modified or came as automatic through smuggling, acquisition from households or bought from the black market. They are primarily of various make and design.
***Other Ranged Equipment: Roughly 2,500 homemade molotov cocktails/petrol bombs used to target Confederate soldiers and pro-Confederate law enforcement to set them on fire. 35 hunting bows and 3 crossbows are used for distraction.
***Explosives: 5 successfully made remote bombs
***Melee: 760 kitchen knives, 120 lumberjack axes (and vice versa), 40 Swiss Army knives, 2 military-styled daggers and 20 hunting knives used for melee and close combat.
**Cities: This is for reference and I do these statistics because they help me calculate the final population as of 2008. I will stop mentioning that there are other Detroit refugees beyond Lansing/Grand Rapids, MI and Toledo, OH. They get sparse later on so no point.
***Flint: 65,000 (50,000 [whites] + 15,000 Detroit refugees)
***Detroit: 148,000 (2,045,872 [outer suburbs] * 0.3 [remainder] * 0.25 [white percentage])
***Ann Arbor (est.): 107,000 (80,000 [whites] + 24,000 Detroit refugees + 3,000 Asians, since they are fully segregated but slowly reduced by relocation 1990 census says 7.7% were Asian if we go OTL)
***Saginaw (est., not final): 66,000 (24,000 [whites] + 38,000 Detroit refugees)
*Diplomacy:
**Sons of Liberty: An alliance is secured, but that's about it aside from losing three informers permanently, which is refilled almost instantly.
*Reconnaissance:
**Lansing: (see also State of Michigan)  30 informers are sent to Lansing to sow dissident before the FFF arrives at Lansing. They also send propaganda messages to not trust the Confederacy and that the FFF will eventually come to liberate the state of Michigan. Since it is more heavily secure and guarded than Detroit or Ann Arbor, it is more likely that they'll fail.
**State of Michigan: Informers are sent through Michigan in dozens (roughly 80) to spy on Confederate politicians of Michigan, especially those in Lansing. They are to be plainclothed but watch closely around the scene. Information related to their activities are to be recorded down by radio. Stealing documents is also a top priority, although they do not have a lot of fancy technology (technology of the 2000s isn't like the 2010s although they are still quite decent) or any form of access, anything that could be important should be obtained even by the most mundane method.
*Operations:
**Acquisition of Detroit (Q2 2008 - Q1 2009):
***Stage 1 (Q2-Q3 2008): Get close to Detroit as much as possible (after expanding and pushing further to the east), acquire and forge visas to access Detroit as a precaution. (Successful)
***Stage 2 (Q4 2008): Count the population of what remains of Detroit (since most have fled on 1993), recruit those disgruntled and angered by the Confederacy into the FFF. Exploration of Core Detroit will be done by select few militants with gas masks before moving forward in securing Detroit's surroindings. (Successful)
***Stage 3 (Q1 2009): Occupy the rest of the 'insecure' part of eastern Michigan and outer Detroit before moving onto Saginaw, Ann Arbor and Lansing. Core Detroit would also need to be secured as well by occupying all the outer suburbs of Detroit. The Canadian side of the Detroit metropolitan area, Windsor, will not be scouted or occupied since it is controlled by fascist Canada (not a top priority of the FFF's interests), not the Confederacy. (In Progress)
**Westward Plans (Q1 2009 - Q3 2009/Q1 2010):
***Stage 1 (Q1 2009 - Q2 2009): Push for Saginaw and Bay City, seizing them at will, along with the sparsely populated areas of  east Michigan. Infiltration and propaganda letters are also being sent to Saginaw and Lansing too to spread anger and hate for the Confederacy, convincing them to prepare at least for the inevitable. Michigan politicians that are loyal to the Confederacy have their bank accounts and information compromised and to be exposed to the public. (In Progress)
***Stage 2 (est. Q3 2009 - Q4 2009): Lansing is directly targeted. For other places like Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, more propaganda letters are to be sent there too to convince the same message of hate for the Confederacy. The aim is to ensure that the capital of Michigan falls and that with the occupation of Lansing, the FFF is to make a speech to all people of Michigan to rise up to the public. Exposing Confederate politicians of Michigan is also to be made around that time. (Planned)
***Stage 3 (est. Q4 2009 - Q1/Q2 2010): Literally "all hell breaks loose". Michigan (except Upper Peninsula) is seized completely through force. At this point, the secondary goal of taking Toledo, OH and other state towns and cities (esp. Chicago) would be staged, but no formal plan is done yet. (Planned)
*Events:
**Annexing Ann Arbor: After most of Detroit, including core Detroit to the hands of the FFF at the end of the year, the next phase is to take the rest of Detroit's outer suburbs and occupying Ann Arbor. Hundreds of Detroit rebels have joined the cause of the FFF to liberate the rest of Michigan. It is assumed that Ann Arbor is not protected as it is in Toledo, OH and Lansing, given that the place is close to Detroit in proximity and that the city is filled with a lot of Detroit refugees, who wanted to make a stop at the nearest city not touched by nuclear weaponry. Thus, security and Confederate patrols are slightly identical to the one in Detroit, but slightly better than the ones and without the guards protecting core Detroit from anyone else. So for the first quarter of 2009, the city of Ann Arbor is to be secured with few hundred numbers.
**No More Restrictions in Core Detroit!: On 5th January 2009 effective immediately, Gary Wellington arrived at outer Detroit and declared that the ruins of Detroit is free to access without any permits from anyone. The only thing they need are gas masks. Moreover, conditions in outer Detroit have improved over the first quarter, but no large-scale effort is done yet.
**Where to Invade Next, pt. 1: The Westward Plans are now being implemented. Slightly more than half of the militia that were in Detroit were reallocated to take on Saginaw, since Ann Arbor is expected to fall without any difficulties, except for some patrols and local police loyal to the Confederacy. Saginaw according to previous intel, is more secure than say Flint. More militants, armed with firearms and a lot of molotov cocktails are being issued to there. It is a priority to take down Saginaw before using Saginaw itself, Flint and Ann Arbor to make a full assault on the city of Lansing and then the rest of Michigan. The secondary goal of taking over Toledo, OH is made by some groups of militants headed towards Ann Arbor on February. However, they were ordered not to directly attack it, rather approach the place as close as possible then settle in with tents. Until further notice (with larger numbers and thus have the capacity to look on multiple fronts), this will serve as a place to plot a future assault on the city that wants to be reincarnated as Detroit.
**Impending Doom for Sympathisers: Cyberoperatives of the FFF are asked to hack into bank accounts of multiple Confederate politicians based in Michigan. Cyberoperatives and informers are also being told to also 'explain' (an euphemism for expose) high-ranking officials in Michigan, with attempts of acquiring personal information and/or their role being made to acquire even at least the basic barebones of these politicians' roles of the Confederate system. No sensitive information is to be released until further notice, even if they are gathered. For politicians' own family who oppose the Confederacy, anything related to them should be redacted for their privacy (unless the person is obvious that they sympathise with them, otherwise safely assume they were not) - the only thing it needs is the politician itself. If hacking fails for their bank accounts or if some of their information is not sufficient enough from informers to find personal information online, it should be repeated multiple times (even to the next turn) until satisfactory or is called off. [mod response required]
**The Role of a Mayor, pt. 2: A year on, the FFF appoints the first post-Confederate mayor of Flint, with a goal of making life for 'non-Aryans' to have better lives. Already a year on, those who weren't English or German, or at least look like an Aryan to the Confederates, were feeling safer than to live with fear of death or be attacked upon. For 2009, the aim of being a mayor at least, is to create community programs that ​​​​​​would bring people together at least bimonthly, with their opinions being talked and expressed. They are later to fund other projects too (these probably won't come until the later months of 2009 and 2010), such as making any impoverished district redeveloped or tweaked so that they were less harsh.
**Finance (repeat excerpt from previous turns): Any form of looting and tampering of ATMs and banks, along with any valuables like weapons and resources to make bombs are still being made. For budgeting, the FFF will invest in money for munitions and weapons in the black market, but there will be some of it being stored in underground Flint.
==== Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional ====
* Backstory: A rebel group which has its roots in Emiliano Zapata's Ejercito Libertador del Sur, advocating for a free, inclusive Mexico
* Personnel: 7,500
** Trained Soldiers: 2,000
** Militia: 3,000
** Intelligence: 500
** Spies: 200
** Financial Operatives: 700
** Propaganda Operatives: 100
** Untrained Personnel: 1,000
* Headquarters: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon (we control most of it)
* Ideologies: Zapatism, Neo-Zapatism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarcho-Communism, Trotskyism, Syndicalism, Anarcho-Syndicalism
* Military Actions: we have encircled a part of the Mexican Army, we plan to capture it
* Financial Actions: we rob all banks in captured areas, taking 50% for the Army and the rest is redistributed among all members
* Organization:
** Commander Zapata (Jorge Zapata)
*** Sub-Commander Marcos (Rafael Guillen)
**** General Villa (Carlos Villa)
**** General Ibarra (Rosario Ibarra)
* Firearms:
** 100 shotguns
** 150 automatic rifles
** 600 pistols
** 250 bolt-action rifles
** 500 submachine guns
** 250 assault rifles
** 10 light machine guns
** 7 RPGs
** 5 medium machine guns
** 2 heavy machine guns
** 1 antitank rifle
** 500 homemade guns
** 1,500 grenades
** 5,000 molotovs
* Diplomacy: N/A
* Relations: This is a list of relations (not alliances).
** Liberals: Neutral
** Social democrats: Good 
** US Natives: Good
** Mexican Natives: Excellent
** Jews: Good
** Conservatives:  Bad (down from Neutral)
** Cristeros: Neutral
** Socialists: Excellent
** Marxist-Leninists: Excellent
** Trotskyists: Excellent
** Zapatists: Excellent
** Syndicalists:Excellent
** Stalinists: Neutral
** Nationalists: Bad
** National Bolsheviks: Bad
** Anarchists: Excellent
** Anti-fascist  terrorists: Good
** Fascists: Awful
* Events: 
** German Exodus: the EZLN, having captured most of Monterrey, starts to take away german properties and redistributing them to the mexican people, the germans are exiled from the EZLN's territory
** Subway fighting: It appears that the Army has taken the subway stations as forts which are very heavily armed but we may be able to take them in a couple months
====Front Libre de Trois-Rivières====
*Organisation:
**Headquarters: Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières
***Workers' Assembly: The Workers' Assembly of the Front Libre was elected on  December 1st, 2008.  The assembly meets in the Trois-Rivieres Palace of Justice. All members of the assembly are affiliated to the communist faction of Front Libre. The composition of the Workers' Assembly is as follows:
****Socialists and communists: 75
***Popular Canadian government: The Popular Canadian government is the governing body of the liberated Canadian territory (the territory controlled by Front Libre). The government consists of a war cabinet of 5 ministers and a larger cabinet of 25 ministers. The government fully consists of socialist and communist ministers. The government was approved on December 7th, 2008 by Leader of the Revolution, Henri Gagnon.
***Leader of the Revolution: The Leader of the Revolution is the leader of Front Libre. He also holds the offices of People's Minister for the Revolution and Minister for the Popular Armed Forces. The post was created on December 3rd, 2008 by then-President of Front Libre Henri Gagnon. The Leader of the Revolution possesses dictatorial powers. The powers are instituted to guide the Revolution in a right direction, free of capitalist blemishes.
*Personnel:
**People's Guard (Elite forces): 850
**People's Militia: 1,750
**Intelligence: 800
**Spies: 150
**Untrained personnel: 1,750
*Firearms: 
**1150 handguns
**1625 long guns
**ca. 800 hommade bombs
*Statistics:
**Membership:
***​​​​​​Active members: 6,500
***Non-active members: 10,000
**Casualties (Front Libre):
***Killed: at least 40
***Injured: at least 85
***Missing: at least 20
*Diplomacy:
**Relations: This is a list of relations (not alliances).
***Socialists and communists: 
***First Nations: 
***Jews: 
***Anarchists: 
***Anti-fascist  terrorists: 
***Liberals: 
***Social democrats: 
***Christians: 
***Quebecois nationalists: 
***Canadian nationalists: 
***Conservatives:  
***Right-wing conservatives:  
***Howardites (fascists):  
**Diplomatic Actions: N/A
*Events: 
**The Push for Shawinigan:  After having secured most of Shawinigan, FL advances towards Grand-Mère, a northern suburb, and Lac-à-la-Tortue Airport. 
**A Preferable Alternative: FL spreads propanganda in Quebec which promotes the idea that FL's socialism is a preferable alternative to the fascist regime and that therefore everyone who opposes it should join the struggle of the proletariat against the regime. FL's propaganda mainly focusses on the working class in Drummondville, Shawinigan and Victoriaville.   
**Spreading the Revolution: After securing Shawinigan, FL plans to spread the revolution to Drummondville and Victoriaville. Before that FL will send secret operatives to both cities to gauge the mood of the citizens and to recruit some of them to serve as a fifth column when the forces of the proletariat will advance to liberate the cities. 
====Catharsis Insurgency====
*Organisation:
**Triumvirate: Michael Scott, Jack Bright, Alto Clef
**Main HQ/Centre of Operations: Dunder Mifflin Paper Company Inc. Scranton Branch Office and Warehouses, several other offices; Scranton, PA.
***Catharsis Triumvirate: The head of Catharsis, led by the Triumvirate itself. Oversees most of the decisions and operations conducted by the Insurgency.
***Logistical Administration of the Deep State: The face of the Deep State itself, second only to the Triumvirate. Oversees departments that administrate communities under the Deep State and carries out secretive programs unable to be officially executed by the representative administrations on the surface. Headed by Director Jean Karlyle Aktus.
***Free America Polity: The largest faction within the Insurgency, with most members calling for the ultimate goal for the Insurgency to free America from the Confederacy.
***Socialists United Collective Camp: The organised communist branch of the Insurgency, a proto-political party with the intention of implementing socialism by way of election once a democratic America is restored. A fair amount were present at the Fourth Internationale, with some actually recruited there after Clef crashed the event.
*Personnel:
**Administrators: 110
**Trained Fighters: 1,200
**Intelligence Operatives: 700
**Spies: 50
**Financial Operatives: 1,750
**Shadow Operatives: 210
**Untrained Personnel: 860
**Total: 4,880
*Firepower:
**Firearms: Approximately 2,700 working firearms of varying condition and make.
**Melee Arms: Several hundred kitchen knives, several hundred hardware tools such as hammers, saws, axes, etc; 7 sets of fencing equipment, 6 swords, 2 katanas.
**Explosives: Several homemade molotov cocktails/petrol bombs in excess of 500, 60 thermite explosives (these things are hard and risky to make), little over 300 fireworks and firecrackers.
*Diplomacy: 
**USSA: Contacts provided during Clef's visit should enable channels for communication between our organisations. We look forward to working with your organisation.
**Lakewood Jewish groups: We'd like to help you folks, so why not join the Deep State? If not, here are some firearms anyway, and we look forward to cooperating with you.
**Japanese Espionage Operation: You'll be hearing from us soon about the Governor.
*Events:
**A Source of Income: For now, the financial assets of the Insurgency are courtesy of its members. Workers of all collar colours work to provide any money they can for the Insurgency's cause. More recently, attempts to hack obscure bank accounts are being pursued as a method of income.
**Propaganda Time: Intelligence operatives (a fancy word for people who know how to use technology, from normie millenials to near-professional hackers, the latter of which we only have like 15 of) begin disseminating memes within online communities on social media such as Facebook, Twitter and via throwaway emails (if any of these services exist). Known as "boomer memes", these images are intended to subtly hint at flaws in the government or the massacres committed by the Confederacy. TV stations within the Deep State are allowed a more lenient program, taking care to stay under the Confederate radar.
**Militia Training: Members of the CI Militant Ops are sent for firearms classes, with options provided for specialisation courses such as martial arts,  sniper training and archery. Training is also provided for affiliate organisations, such as the Lakewood Jewish groups and the odd USSA member.
**Recruitment: Whitelisted Scrantonites that have gone through background checks by the Insurgency are approached with the intention of recruitment into the Insurgency. So long as they have no connections to the Confederacy, the police force or their sympathisers, and are generally against the government or advocates for freedom and liberty, they are welcome within the insurgency. Gangs are also approached with the intention of expanding the Insurgency Shadow Ops and militia. The Insurgency hopes to increase their ranks by the hundreds, if not thousands.
**Munition Works: A few factories in Scranton are set aside for the underground manufacture of bombs and ammunition for guns that the Insurgency has stockpiled.
**Bomb's the Word: CI experts have successfully created imitation nuclear devices, which are simply small amply-protected boxes containing approximate amounts of cesium-137 that can be detected by Geiger counters. Contrary to what most of the few who are aware of the project think, these are not nuclear weapons. They are merely boxes containing radioactive material disguised as a nuclear device and not actually capable of detonation. 2 have been "perfected" so far (you can't really improve a disguised radioactive box much). More to come.
**The Deep State Triangle: Plans have been drawn up to begin expanding the Deep State even further. The most ambitious among the Insurgency aim to bring the Deep State to every community within a triangular area with a perimeter straddling Syracuse, Harrisburg and Albany. [Mod Response Required]
***Operation Lakewood: Binghamton is seen as the first step to achieving this goal, with the Lakewood Jews already setting up base there. Operatives are sent to the town, and for infiltration to begin after contact is established with the groups there. 
***Operation England: Operatives are sent to Berwick to begin expanding CI operations there. Their strategy will be slightly different this time around, with more emphasis on securing positions of power based on elections. Low-profile recruitment efforts are also conducted, with the intention of inducting local residents into the CI and supporting them to achieve positions of power in Berwick. 
**Deep State, Deep Web: With the Deep State gaining popularity for its lax response to free speech, the Insurgency is concerned with the Confederacy taking notice or action. As such, efforts begin to create the Social Communications Platform, a deep web site that will be able to fall away from the radar of the general internet, acting as a platform where all members of the Deep State and beyond may access and total freedom of speech is permitted. The SCP network remains very much a work in progress, but when completed, will allow for more efficient communications between communities.
**Consolidation of the Deep State: Efforts to bring more of Syracuse, Harrisburg and Albany under the influence of the Deep State continue. A notable method of expansion is the establishment of bars and taverns in these cities with "speakeasy sections". Part of the building will be exclusively reserved for whitelisted customers, where soundproof walls permit freedom of speech and avenues for recruitment.
**Spying in New York: Viewing the request to spy on the Governor of New York by the Japanese as an opportunity for replacing him/her with a Catharsis affiliate, the Insurgency agrees to the request. Spies and operatives are sent to dig up any dirt on the Governor, with any notable returns being sent to Scranton and our Japanese associates. [Mod Response Required]
**Officiating the Deep State: As the Deep State grew, more people of differing ideologies fall under our oversight. As such, factions began to grow within the Insurgency, and actions are taken to prevent any power struggles.
*Alto Clef's Arrest: Seeing as Clef's party is composed of "Aryan" people,  he argues that there is no real reason they should stay detained. Prior to their journey to Flint, the group had already agreed that their motive in Flint was to check on Clef's cousin Kondraki who supposedly was living in Flint at the time (the real Kondraki remains in Scranton). The other 3 supposedly don't know much about Kondraki, but Clef constantly requests the Confederate Army at least tell him if Kondraki is safe if they cannot go to Flint. If Clef's party is released, they will be returning to Scranton post-haste.
==== National League for the Defense of Religous and Racial Liberty in Mexico (Cristeros) ====
* Population: - 
* Cities: 
** Southern Hermosillo: 
* Personnel: 7,355
** Trained Soldiers: 1,260
** Militia: 1,820
** Intelligence: 290
** Spies: 85
** Financial Operatives: 360
** Untrained Personnel: 2,660 (Most of them helps out with activism)
** Non-Active Members: 10,000 (Does not count in the total personnel)
* Organization:
** First-in-Command: Miguel Antonio Mandarte
*** Second-in-Command: Francisco Ortego
*** Headquarters: Las Lomas, Hermosillo
*** Ideologies: Popularism, Anti-Nazism, Indigenism, Christian Humanism, Anti-corruption. More might come as the organization progresses
* Weapons:
** 1,780 firearms of various designs (Mostly non-automatic and homemade or illegaly aquired)
** ca 780 homemade bombs (Mostly molotov cocktails)
** 73 Beretta 92F (taken from Mexican cops)
** 55 Glock pistols (taken from Mexican cops)
** 67 Jericho 941 (taken from Mexican cops)
** 17 Colt 9 mm SMG (taken from Mexican cops)
** 35 Uzi (taken from Mexican cops)
** 28 Heckler & Koch MP5 (taken from Mexican cops)
** 18 Mossberg 500 (taken from Mexican cops)
** 16 FN FAL (taken from Mexican cops)
** 9 Barrett M82 (taken from Mexican cops)
** 13 IMI Negev (taken from Mexican cops)
** 6 M60E4 (taken from Mexican cops)
** 7 FN MAG (taken from Mexican cops)
** 12 DSR-50 (taken from Mexican cops)
** 20 Milkor MGL (taken from Mexican cops)
** 10 M2 Browning (taken from Mexican cops)
** 25 AR-15 (taken from Mexican cops)
* Diplomacy: 
** None
* Events:
** Activism: Our activism is quite normally occuring in the town but it also start to spread to nearby cities, we put up posters with our message and tries our best to spread it all over Hermosillo lucky it is quite easy to walk around town and put up poster when no one is looking. We try our best to spread our message and get more followers to end the regime that loves flirting with the Nazis.
** Police clashes Clashes: Our clashes with incoming police forces trying to retake our areas continues. With more and more people supporting us it gets harder for the police to take us down.
** Money making: We get our funds to the organization either from donations and the member's own money. With us finally taking over a part of Hermosillo the members in the takeover have put everything they have in the movement if they don't have anyone else to support like their families to example. We also gets funds from some of the Aztlan groups.
** Northern Hermosillo Operation: We start to an offensive to take rest the of the city of Hermosillo. If we managed to secure that we will start planning to expand outward to the more rural areas around the city of Hermosillo to secure us more land incase if Mexico starts to attack us with everything they have.
** More propaganda: More propaganda starts coming up with the message "Join National League for the Defense of Religous and Racial Liberty in Mexico to fight against the Pro-Nazi government" and "Everyone should fight in the second Mexican Revolution" both showing heroic Mexican people both men and woman with weapons in different poses.
====Commonwealth Liberation Front====
*Organization:
**Consul: John Roche
***The title of 'Marshal' is renamed to 'Consul', on the basis that Roche believes 'Marshal' sounds too militaristic for the CLF's democratic values.
**Center of Operations: 455 Main St. #309, Worcester, MA: Worcester City Hall
**General Court: The "governing body" of the CLF. Mostly just used to figure out what the people want. Otherwise, it has no legislative power, as this power is still headed in the title of Consul.
*Personnel:
**​​Trained Fighters: 2850 (+350)
**Minutemen: 500 (+500)
**Spies/Espionage Agents: 25 (0)
**Financial Operatives: 505 (0)
**Untrained Personnel: 1350 (-150)
**Cyberguard: 65 (0)
***Total: 4,795
*Statistics:
**Weapons: 
***Around 3,150 firearms of varying make, model, and condition, including M1 Garands as a 'symbol of American democracy' and Colt M1911s.
***An unidentified amount of explosives: including grenades, molotov cocktails, etc.
***An unidentified amount of melee weapons: hunting knives, machetes, etc.
*Diplomacy: N/A.
*Events:
**Massachusetts's Liberation [mod response(s) required]:
***Operation Western Gateway: We send more insurgents and other people loyal to the CLF to Springfield (250 armed, 400 loyalists) in order to continue inciting largescale riots and uprisings in the city, hopefully bringing it to full rebellion by the end of Q1 2009. 
***The Road to Fitchburg: This is going better than expected. We send another 500 soldiers as reinforcements for those currently fighting in Fitchburg. By the end of the quarter, we are expected to have nearly full control over the intersection of I-190 and MA Route 2, including total command over Fitchburg. 
***Sweet Home Central Massachusetts: In a somewhat surprising action, about 1,000 members of the CLF storm towns surrounding Worcester. These include Oxford, Sutton, Charlton, Westborough, and Spencer. It has become apparent that the CLF is finally taking itself seriously enough to start the complete liberation of Massachusetts. 
**The Ocean State:
***The Renaissance City: Plans have begun to be drafted on an uprising in Providence, Rhode Island.
**Income: We continue trying to hack into the bank accounts of minor businessmen and politicians.
**Intelligence and Reconnaisance: We continue to track the comings and goings of the Boston Exclusion Zone, taking a special interest in the slow creep of the Lynn sect of the CLF into it.
**Recruitment: We continue our recruitment in the Boston Exclusion Zone, Providence and Springfield.
**Training the Militia: We begin to ramp up the training of the untrained personnel who wish to join the CLF's armed wing. Firearms courses are given to basically anyone who wants to join. After passing a loyalty test, a background check, and a firearms safety/precision test, men and women alike are allowed to join the militia.
***Founding of the Minutemen: The Minutemen are groups of regular people with firearms training. They are used as 'reserves' in that they will only be called upon if entirely necessary. The group is given training using firearms and other weapons. This "branch" of the military is headed by a man named Preston Garvey.
Category:Liberty (Map Game)