Alliance of Free States (TUE)

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The **Allied States** or the **Alliance of Free States**, the **Alliance Forces** or simply **the Alliance**, are a military alliance between the states of western, northern, and central Europe and their colonies formed prior to the second world war as an anti-communist pact at the urging of an alliance of the dictators Arnold Leese, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco, Vidkun Quisling and Marcel Bucard in reaction to the American and Russian communist revolutions. By the time of the third world war the core of the Allies were Spain, Canada, Brazil, France, Germany, Britain, the Benelux Federation, and the Kalmar Union. Once simply a pact of states with similar enemies, the Alliance has become a suprastate consisting of many nations from around the world that has made repeated grabs for global supremacy with their rival, the Comintern. .

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## Background

### We won, didn't we?

When the guns of the first world war fell silent in October of 1918; the Entente had triumphed over the Central Powers, but the victory seemed hollow. Millions of fine young men and women had died in battlefields across the world. The British Empire went from the world's largest creditor to the world's largest debtor, the Russian Empire had fallen and been replaced by the Soviet Union, and America; having entered in 1914 was left deeply embittered and with a far stronger socialist movement which had already been unifying and consolidating throughout the dying days of the Victorian era. France had seen an entire generation bleed in its muddy fields and much of its industry was left in ruins by years of war and German occupation of its richest provinces. There was victory yes, but it was hollow; empty. Italy had sacrificed hundreds of thousands of youth in gruelling stalemate with Austria-hungary and had but a handful of scrapsto show for it, Japan had gained but a pittance of German islands, For the vanquished; the price was steep; the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires were dissolved; ancient fixtures of European politics breathing their last after centuries of being central parts of European affairs.

Germany had lost a tremendous number of men and had lived through years of blockade, and after centuries of Konigs and Kaisers, a Republic was born as Kaiser Wilhelm decided to take refuge in neutral Switzerland with his cousin; the recently deposed Tsar Nicholas of Russia. Harsh indemnities were to be paid, Germany lost her entire colonial empire as well as the majority of hermilitary, and much of her territory was carved away for the new states of Poland and Czechoslovakia; or were returned to France, who in turn set up an occupation at the Rhineland. For lesser parts of the central powers; the Czardom of Bulgaria, the industrialized Kingdom of Siam, and little Sweden; the price was much less steep, with territorial integrity being maintained and Sweden reunifying with Finland when it split from Russia. There was victory yes; after four years of gruelling war all over the world, but not many people felt like they had won.

In this post-war aimlessness, the first fascist state emerged in response to the world's first communist one. Mussolini's blackshirts marched on Rome to deliver their ultimatum; accept the fascists or let Italy fall to the Reds. The King of Italy as well as the liberals and conservatives in parliament who thought they could use Mussolini ended up cowing to the fascists, and a new governmental system was now the center of attention on the world stage. For eleven years from nineteen twenty two to nineteen thirty three, the only major Fascist and Communist nations were Italy and the Soviet Union respectively, but the death of the old world order was fast approaching; dealt a mortal blow by the first world war.

It all came crumbling down with the electoral victory of the reds in the 1933 general elections in America; the Worker's Communist Party and its Democratic Farmer Labor Party allies had crushed the Republican party in the election; with the split in the anti-communist vote caused by Huey Long's populist democrats adding insult to injury. A Putsch was attempted to invalidate the election and not allow these democratic communists into power, but the American White army was routed by the year's end and forced to flee to Cuba while the Reds declared a Union of American Socialist Republics. From there, nation after nation in the Americas underwent their own socialist revolutions, and the Soviet Union went from being a lonely pariah state to being a junior partner in the comintern with the rise of Red America.

Though some took the time to profit from the sudden chaos in America by taking what they could of America's overseas possessions; Japan greedily seizing many Islands and even declaring Hawaii and portions of Alaska now part of the Empire for the sake of "security in these trying times" and France happily occupying the Phillipines under the same causus belli; the general reaction was panic. America was the heart of global capitalism, a bedrock of sensible politics and thought to be a likely ally in the case of a resurgent Germany, an aggressive Japan or Italy, or an opportunistic Soviet Union. Now the UASR was closely tied to the USSR and staunchly opposed to all the existing colonial powers. Blame was thrown around and nobody knew what to do...yet.

### Yes, Mister Führer

Another political movement received a windfall from the red tide; Fascism. Japan and Italy were joined by a rising tide of Fascist governments. Hitler came to power in Germany as many in the country panicked at the thought that Communism may spread further; his Nazi party swearing to push back the tide of Judeo Bolshevism and Internationalism. In France and Britain, Marcel Bucard and Arnold Leese made their own grabs for power, and found establishments willing to trust anyone if it meant stopping the red tide as reports of skirmishes in Canada raised alarms. Though these skirmishes were de-escalated and most Communist attempts to come to power in eastern Europe were overblown in their magnitude, the damage had been done. Liberal Democracy slipped off the face of the Earth and died. Democratic Socialism (and those states that held to the Stalinist model) was now met with the iron fist of dictatorial fascism.

Hitler called together a meeting of the new dictators in 1934, proposing what he called an "Alliance of Free States" as part of a general "Anti-Comintern Axis" to oppose the power of the Communist International. Leese, Bucard, Salazar,, Mussolini, and Makato agreed, and would in time start inviting their counterparts throughout the world. Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Siam, Turkey, Hashemite, and Hungary would all soon sign up throughout the thirties and forties. War in Spain would see a victory for the Fascists as Sanjurjo and Franco took control of the Country against the Comintern backed Republicans and Anarchists. The continuing conflict in China, between the Japanese and their supported rightists in the Kuomintang like Jiang Jieshi against the comintern supported leftists like Wang Jingwei and the CCP as well as the Italian conquest of Greece, Ethiopia, and Albania and Comintern support of independence movements in the colonies of the Alliance proved further sore points.

Hitler wanted war with the Comintern shortly, as did the Japanese military, but Leese, Salgado, and Bucard successfully argued that they needed to wait. Wait to build up industries, to militarize the colonies and increase their populations in preparation of war as the Comintern was also encouraging baby boom programs. They needed to build up a mighty industrial war machine to wage a war that would span the world. They agreed to set the date of war to 1950, when they would be able to strike with a fully modernized and industrialized war machine. The Comintern of course, would also be stronger by then; but they lacked the militaristic steel in their souls that the Fascists had; so went the reasoning. The development of rapid-construction and production technologies would in particular, be a great boon; while the reclusive Upsilon task force was set on discovering advantages for the Fascist military in any field of research that might show promise.

In 1950, that war would be launched. A war of annihilation unlike anything seen in history up to that point. Not only would the Communist nations be smashed, their people would be crushed so that never again would they be able to challenge the rightful ruling nations of the world. This war would be focused primarily on the old world; with Alliance leaders believing that America wouldn't have the stomach to continue the fight if the Soviet Union fell, and so most effort was directed towards the USSR and China. At first the progress being made was promising; the Comintern had not fully sorted leadership conflicts between America and the Soviet Union and Jingwei's China and was busy with its own modernization programs and the neutral nations of Eastern Europe being rapidly overrun were loathe to trust the communists. However, after it seemed for a time that the world might fall to Fascism, the Socialists rallied; having prepared their counter attacks after years of war and America; less affected by the war than the Soviet Union; began to deploy reinforcements in a seemingly unending tide after stabilizing the situation in North and South America. The continually slowing "glorious advances" became a series of "heroic defenses" and Partisans dogged the Alliance's military at every turn. The Comintern's advantage in industrial output, logistics, and manpower; as colonial troops proved to be unreliable and those liberated by the Comintern's advance were eager to fight for them; began to tell.

Despite boasts of wonder weapons and super weapons that would win the war and many frightful examples of technology being deployed to stem the tide such as the Steel Wall technology and Lasweaponry and even cyborg super soldiers and psychics, the Comintern kept apace with Alliance technological developments and began to continually set them on the backfoot. By 1956 it seemed that the Alliance may very well be defeated despite the ferocity of Alliance counter-attacks against the advancing Comintern; the war had come to the Alliance and Communist forces were advancing deep into the alliance. However, a last ditch deployment of the new nuclear weapons and a counter offensive drive; responded to with the Comintern's own nuclear exchange, would lead to the war being decided on the peace table. Most of the Fascist leaders had died in the final stage of the war when Comintern advances had caught much of the Alliance's leaders in a bunker in Switzerland and buried them in rubble; with the replacements suing for peace while they still could while the Comintern invasion of Britain and the Aquitaine campaign was still in the balance due to nuclear weaponry. Unwilling to continue the war while the threat of nuclear annihilation loomed, the Comintern agreed and withdrew from most Alliance territory, but demanded elections in the Alliance and the dominionization of most of the Alliance's colonies and a drawing down if arms in the Alliance.

### Revenge is a dish best served cold

The peace of DeLeon-Debs D.C was quite lenient given that the Comintern was clearly winning the war at the time of its signing. The Comintern had only wrested the Alliance's middle eastern colonies away from them as Iran forged a new west asian pact out of the liberated nations of Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria and drew up the borders of a new Kurdistan. The Eastern European nations invaded by the Alliance now had gone red, with Greece being wrested from Italy while Japan had to give up its puppet states of Manchuria and Inner Mongolia. However; otherwise the Colonial empires were left quite intact, and no puppet governments were placed in the Alliance. The war was over, and it was time to celebrate. As Japan withdrew from the Alliance citing ideological incompatibilities with the liberal governments elected in most of the Alliance, resentment burned in the hearts of many. As the Comintern's media praised the victory and spread their libertine culture with the flowering of the second cultural revolution, the Alliance watched with disgust.

Continuing conflict in Indochina and the fall of both red and blue China to Yan Xishan's Heart Washing Dynasty; as well as other parts of the world made the peace tense at best. Efforts to continue to build up and develop the military in secret progressed as the post war generation grew up, the world growing ever more crowded. Those nations who continued to vote for fascist governments formed the Commonwealth within the Alliance; but worked closely with their more liberal counterparts as many spoke of revenge. While public opinion largely repuditated the actions of the deposed fascist dictators when the scale of their atrocities became apparent; with all having been supportive of not only Hitler's final solution but other atrocities like Leese, Bucard, and Mussolini's crackdowns in the colonies and Japanese brutality in the pacific and the Integralist's butchery in South America as well as cruelties laid upon civilians and prisoners of war; public opinion was in favor of a "settling of accounts".

In the sixties, a man known as Alex Stewart would come to be supreme chairman of the Alliance of Free States, and though he was an aristocraft and a former member of the Union of Fascist Parties in the Alliance parliament; his seeming advocacy of peace meant he had earned the blessing of the Comintern. In secret though, the Stewart was a man burning with the purpose of revenge. He believed that the Alliance had lost out of incompetence rather than material deficiencies, and that less divisive rulers would be able to win the next world war where the cruelties of the old fascists could not. A populist and an Alliance nationalist who said that the capitalist nations of the world shared a common heritage of civilization; whether Black, Asian, Arab, Indian, or White; Man or Woman, Religious or Not. He pushed a vision of Alliance nationalism to provide a stronger common cause and enhance unity within the organization as well as development of the entirety of the Alliance; working closely with the Upsilon group to advance Alliance technology for a rematch.

Despite the allowance of elections within the Alliance, Stewart and his People's Alliance Party kept on winning elections at every level of government as he was hailed as a statesman of unparalleld ability. He deliberately fostered this cult of personality, and despite his criticisms of the fascists who preceded him; he retained an authoritarian strongman, though ultimately a democrat. Under Stewart's leadership, the Alliance intensified its propaganda war against the Comintern. The Communists were immoral, they were allowing their youth to engage in sexual depravity such as orgies and rampant infidelity, if you asked any of the experts they brought out to speak the Comintern was simultaneously unsustainable with the resources put into "subsidizing laziness" and the "collectivization of success" with its welfare programs and cooperative economies and its "infantilizing of minorities", and also a dire strategic threat preparing to finish the job left unfinished by world war 2 with a vast and dangerous military. It was simultaneously unable to match the Alliance's technological ability due to underrewarding accomplished professionals and playing with dangerous forces it could not possibly understand.

With the help of Upsilon and Alex's chief advisor, a mysterious figure simply known by the moniker of Tarrasque who had overseen the Alliance's psychic research program and headed Upsilon since the start of the fascist era; the Alliance managed to shut down most of the Comintern's intelligence operations within the Alliance;leaving them in the dark as to what the Alliance had planned. Many SPS, MOIS, AIG, and KGB operatives were found to be cooperating with MI6, Abwehr, MIT, and DGSE agents while "training exercises" from the Alliance continually began to stepup. The dominions of the Alliance continually reported to the mother countries in Europe despite their nominal independence of government; the weak steps towards such independence being rolled back in short order as when they couldn't operate through secret channels; they simply used the Alliance parliament to justify essentially taking orders from Geneva. Reports of unusual developments in China and Japan and the countries and non-governmental organizations they operated with were largely ignored, as were concerns raised regarding Tarrasque and Upsilon; the Communists would pay.

### War, what's it good for?

With a number of Causus Bellis and confident that the war would not end in nuclear annihilation due to the new defense systems that rendered such strategic options obsolete; the Alliance launched a massive invasion of Comintern territory in 1978, determined to see Communism consigned to the ash heap of history. The Alliance once again advanced with extreme prejudice, though this time their armies were considerably more humane than the ill behaved hordes utilized in the last war, deliberately hoping to win the people of the Comintern over to the Alliance's way of life. Communist irregulars once again harried Alliance troops at every opportunity, and the duels of Thunderer and Retriever Tanks with the Forge and Liberator tanks of yesteryear were replaced by the Drake and Paladin tanks of today against the Furnace and Gear Tanks of the modern era. Jets and missiles were no longer technologies in their infancy but matured into new and deadly forms and the space age gave the world yet another front for constant warfare.

The war came deeper and deeper into Comintern territory and many predicted that victory would soon be inevitable, with the first hard counterattacks being dismissed as but temporary setbacks; unaware that the Comintern was preparing a great trap as the Alliance extended itself. But in the midst of the war, the sudden and rapid offensives of Japan, China, and the shocking betrayal of Upsilon; now calling itself the Dominion of Noxsylvania forced a rapid and painful reshift in priorities. Stewart himself was essentially inconsolable when the news of Tarrasque's betrayal in particular hit him, shutting himself away in his studies even as numerous military disasters unfolded in the face of the Alliance. When he began to recover, Alliance Command had to repeatedly talk him out of continuing to focus on the Comintern; arguing that the other armies currently invading their territory were the higher priority.

Delineating a stable front in the bedlam of warfare like this was a nightmare, and the Alliance strongly needed to reopen lines of supply between its far flung outposts while simultaneously trying to hold back the Comintern's counter offensives. Luckily, despite Upsilon's deep roots in the Alliance, most of the military decided to side with the Alliance governments over the cloned, brain washed, and vat grown hordes of Noxsylvania and the vast arsenal built up through the peace was turned to securing the Alliance victory in the chaotic and confused war. While the Alliance was being slowly pushed back by the Comintern, the Alliance managed to start making gains against their other enemies with a particular focus on Noxsylvania which was perhaps the greatest threat to the core of the Alliance. Once these threats were put out of the way however, Alex Stewart loudly proclaimed that the Comintern would face the wrath of a new counter offensive to resume the war until Communism's fall until he hit a snag even he couldn't overcome.

The Parliament and Command both voted for peace with the alliance; being tired of fighting. Stewart and many hardliners were resolutely against the idea, and the Commonwealth seemed willing to back Stewart over this; so the military decided to launch a coup. General Adrien Bohemond, a young and highly successful commander who had served in battles across the world and come to a rapport with the similarly aged and talented Comintern General Nikita Megalos personally commanded the coup forces with some support from the Comintern's forces spatiowarped in and commanded by Nikita herself. In a fearsome battle in Nice, Alex was ousted from power and the Alliance finally agreed to come to the second peace of DeLeon-Debs D.C and agree to the terms for a new peace. Though the continuing intermittent conflict between the West Asian Pact and the Coalition of Arabian Monarchies was a cause for concern; it was decided to let that front continue to burn while the rest of the world laid down its arms for the most part.

After the peace in September of 1986, the Alliance faced a crisis of identity. Both Fascism and Stewart's Bulwarkism had seen defeat, but many found themselves alienated by the further Liberalization of the Alliance under the banner of Neo-Progressivism. The world is changing faster than ever, with new ideas and technologies appearing every day and the damage done by two enormous world wars had to be repaired. The Comintern remained the enemy, but now there were new people to regard with hostility and suspicion. The Solar Empire and its allies in the Reactionary Guard and Pan-African Union were both enemies due to their competing territorial aims and yet potential allies due to mutual hostilities with the Comintern, the Dominion. As the new millenium began the rise of Noxsylvanian sponsored terrorism has raised new questions in the Alliance as planners start to reconsider whether the Comintern is truly the primary threat to the Alliance as insurgent conflicts continue to rage around the world.

## Generals

### General Saavi Shakti, The Woman of Nuclear Winter

+ Infantry can dig in and create basic fortifications

+ Tanks and vehicles can hull down to increase their defenses

+ Torpedo tubes on surface ships replaced by fusion torches

- No Drake tank

- No Athena Bombardment Unit

- No Gotterdammerung

- No Vigilance Cruiser

- No De Gaulle Aircraft Carrier

## Armies and Associates of the Alliance

### British Armed Forces

*"When Britain first, at Heaven's command*

*Arose from out the azure main;*

*This was the charter of the land,*

*"Britons never will be slaves."'."*

- *"Rule Britannia"* a popular song in the Royal Navy

### Forces Armées Françaises

*"La République nous appelle*

*Sachons vaincre ou sachons périr*

*Un Français doit vivre pour elle*

*Pour elle un Français doit mourir'."*

- *"Chant du Depart"* the Anthem of the French Armed Forces

### Reichswehr

*"Wenn vor uns ein feindlicher Panzer erscheint,*

*Wird Vollgas gegeben und ran an den Feind.*

*Was gilt denn unser Leben für uns'res Reiches Heer? Ja, Reiches Heer.*

*Für Deutschland zu sterben ist uns're höchste Ehr'."*

- *"Panzerlied"* the Anthem of the Reichswehr Panzerkorps

### Royal Thai Army

*Today the nation is facing menacing danger.*

*The flames are rising*

*Let us be the ones who step in, before it is too late*

*The land will be good soon*

*Happiness will return to Thailand.*

- *"Return Happiness to Thailand,"* broadcast frequently during the 2014 Thai coup d'état.

### Alliance Central Intelligence Bureau

*"Our exact motto is* **way** *beyond the clearance of anyone here."*

- Eavesdropped from a suspect ACIB hideout