Switzerland

The **Swiss Confederation** (or *Helvetia*), also known as **Switzerland** is a land-locked federal republic located in Central Europe.

## Fortress Switzerland

While proportional representation was introduced in 1919 and a powerful Social Democratic Party has emerged, yet it has ever be able to form a government, fighting asymmetrical against a united coalition of liberal-conservative with one goal to push the SP and its allies as far as possible from power. This situation remains until 1939 with the begins of the Second Great War. The Federal Assembly unanimously voted on the mobilization of the Swiss Army and the election of a General. Henri Guissan was picked with a majority because a fear of alienation of the French-speaking part that has been until now drifting politically closer to the Communards, thus a French-born Swiss nationalist was seen as the best option. The war also created a powerful rift inside the SP between the radical and the right-wing, thus paralyzed the party's combat power in the years to come.

### The end of Democracy

As the National Redout are being planned and constructed all across the country that would be garrisoned by a 600,000 strong army with 200,000 in reserve. Along with such extent of military precaution is the extent of the power of the Army over the Government. The military campaign against fifth columns resulted in censorship of the press and the dismantle of much of the SP's power center as accusations of sabotages keep filling up the Military Court. This would be intensified more bloody and brutal in the Election of 1943, where the victorious advance of the French inspired a peak in leftist activities, the election of 1943 thus was conducted in an extremely hostile environment as the soldiers clashed out with protesters and martial laws imposed on several places. The result came in with a devastating lost of the SP, the once largest party in Switzerland achieved only less than half its pre-war votes, the transparency and honesty of this infamous election are still much in debate about whether Guissan and his Chief of Staff has taken matter in their own hands or the extent of which they had taken to prevent another SP victory.

### The New Order and the Regime of the Colonels

When Rommel's 6th Army surrendered leaving Berlin an open city, the war has concluded in Europe. The morning the next day, in an infamous radio broadcast,the Swiss President announced a "New Order" in Europe that now surround the Swiss nation, followed by the passage of the Emergency Power Law that gave the Swiss Army General Staffs virtually unlimited power to do what ever it might take to "defend the existence of Swiss Confederation ", However, the New Order also put in effect a curious state of affair of the constant appealing to leftist policies and leftist nations in order to remain right-wing of the Swiss state now being de-factor headed by General Guissan and his colonels in what is termed the "Regime of the Colonels". German PoWs were handed over to the MARPAC and as much German with undesirable political leaning deported. As well as the end of the Swiss national mobilization, lowering the 400,000 man strong army in 1946 to 72,000 in 1949.