Liberia

Flag of Liberia

**Liberia** Officially the **Republic of Liberia** is a small isolated nation on the African continent. It is a Unitary Presidential Republic like most republics in this world, with a governmental system similar to the American Union State. Liberia did not fight any wars in the last few years however it did have to deal with the Freemason conspiracy witch nearly destroyed the republic. Liberia was formed as an American resettlement project for African-American slaves in 1847 however it was granted independence in the 1860s with the advent of the First American Civil War. Liberia did not fight in the Second Weltkrieg but it provided its listening posts to the Entente and Reichspakt for listening to Third Internationale operations out of Saint Helena. Liberia aligns with the Entente given its more Liberal leanings away from Reactionary ideologies. However it is still officially neutral in the modern day and age.

## History

Liberia in 1936 was dealing with the rise of the new ideologies of the world with the rise of Socialist and National Populist ideals within the state. And with the advent of the Black Monday Crisis this only got worse as the globe began to undergo radicalization and the same was true for the political Parties of Liberia. Liberia was racked with instability throughout 1936 and then came the Freemason Conspiracy. This was a secret society that wished to go into the main stream and they wished to turn Liberia into a National Populist state and to get rid of the colonizers that surrounded Liberia. However understandably so the Liberian government understood that this was tantamount to suicide to attack the French Republic with the state that Liberia's army was in and thus they banned outright the secret society and would later crack down on the rising popularity of National Populism. This kept the previous president Edwin Barclay in charge up until 1944 when a new candidate was put forward by the True Whig Party. However in between this time several events would plague Liberia. The outbreak of the Second American Civil War would tank the value of the American dollar and it took the Liberian Dollar with it. With little other choice the Liberians decided to peg the value of the currency on something else, the Canadian Pound. This would save Liberia from being dragged down by the United States however it would still cause some economic woes in combination with the Black Monday Crisis. And as Liberia was recovering the outbreak of the Second Weltkrieg would break the back of the Liberian state once again and Liberia was forced to take on massive foreign loans in order to continue the operation of state. All of this and more would see a massive shift within the True Whig party who would start shifting towards the Liberial side of the political spectrum. This nearly came to a head until a compromise was made to put a Market Liberial in the seat for election in 1944. Meanwhile Liberia would negotiate with the French Republic and Germany for what Liberia was going to do with its foreign debt. Liberia offered the same services it did during the First Weltkrieg to both the Reichspakt and Entente for them to listen in on Third Internationale operations in the Southern Atlantic ocean. While this wasn't particularly valuable for the Canadians it was valuable for the safety of Mittleafrika and for the French Republic's tenuous hold over its southern end of the nation. Then came around the election of 1944 in witch the highly popular compromise candiate William Tubman would win the election. And should his popularity hold he could retain this position far into the future. Already his time in office is bearing fruit with industrialization underway and foreign investments rolling in from the Entente and Reichspakt. However things are starting to heat up globally and Liberia will be a nation of interest for both sides of the Kalterkrieg. Should Germany be able to win over Liberia then it could use it to try and listen in on Entente operations in the Atlantic. And if the Entente gets Liberia on its side it could use the propaganda to spread revolution into Mittleafrika while retaining power or at least influence over the French colonies. The future of Liberia will be mostly a betting game for who can invest the most into the nation, and Liberia will reap the rewards of this.

## Military

Liberia has not needed to invest much in its military recently given its isolation from the events of the Second Weltkrieg. Liberia's army consists of a few divisions mostly centered around Monrovia. This army is mostly there to prevent revolution and to hunt down the remnants of Totalist and National populist guerrillas in the jungles surrounding it. Liberia also has a small naval force mostly for coastline defense against foreign agents and syndicalist agitators seeking refuge from France. Liberia does not have an air force.