Two Sicilies

Flag of the Two Siciles

The Kingdom of Two Sicilians is the strongest faction on the Italian peninsula in Southern Europe. The Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy with its own Parliament witch has been dominated by the Christian democratic party for the entirety of its history. It is also the last vestiges of the Bourbon dynasty in Europe after being kicked out of France in 1830. The Kingdom of Two Sicilies did participate in the Second Weltkrieg with the War of Italian Unification beginning only a year before the war. While the Two Sicilies did not gain all that much territory during the War it was able to secure an alliance with the Entente and it currently guarantees the independence of the Papal States. The Two Sicilies was formed in the Chaos of the Italian Civil War when one of the many nobles in Italy tried their own bid at the throne only to divide the Italian state even more. The Kingdom of the Two sicilies is a victor of the Second Weltkrieg by preserving its independence. But this independence may be short lived as attempts to consolidate the members of the Entente may force the Two Sicilies to break away or bend the knee to the House of Savoy. Currently however the Two Sicilies are a proud member of the Entente trying to rival the Danubian puppet to the north.

## History

The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in the last decade has been challenged at every direction in the Second Weltkreig being nearly pushed back all the way to the City of Naples. To economic issues relating the wars in Spain and the Middle east. To the rise of German and Canadian tensions dividing the world in two. At the start of 1936 the Kingdom of Two Sicilies was still a new country with a new king in power. And the continued domination of the Christian Democratic party was felt in all parts of Southern Italian Society. The kingdom was in a sorry state with the North always being richer than the South and without the money needed to fund a true military when the War of Italian Unification came the armies of Two Sicilies were not prepared. The war began with an offensive into the Papal states witch would fall quite quickly with the Pope evacuating to Palmero where the government was tempoarily moved to as it looked like Socialist forces would take the city. But in a surprising twist of fate the Battle of Naples would become a slog that would take so many of Mussolini's men that he would begin to run out of manpower before the war ended. Mussolini decided to pull out of the city in order to conserve his troops and Two Sicilian forces would fortify in the mountains where they would hold the advances of the Socialists for several years until the break out of the Second Weltkireg and the entrance of the Italian Republic into the war. Battles would continue and so would the stalemate until the landing of Sardinian and French forces in the Savoy area. This would finally break the back of the Socialists who still focused much of their forces onto the Sicillian front. But by abandoning the frontline on the Po the Italian Republic would break through and the Sicilians were finally able to push back after nearly 6 years of stalemate. By the time the Sicilians had liberated Rome and Latium the Republic was already bordering them in several locations and it would be a joint offensive that would finally destroy the pocket made in central Italy. However as the tensions rose between the Entente and Reichspakt so did tensions rise in Italy as Danubia puppeted the Republic destroying their legitimacy in the eyes of rest of Italy. This drove the relatively neutral Two Sicilies into the arms of the Entente witch was seen as the only way to protect the Two Sicilies from Danubian imperialism to the north. However with Entente plans to unify the two kingdoms together it may prove to have been a mistake to so hastily pledge loyalty to the Entente.

## Military

Out of all of the Italian states the Two Sicilies is the only one with a truly competent military that can serve its interests abroad. The Two Sicilies' army is fairly large and could be able to take on nations like neighboring Greece or Turkey. But it would pale in comparison to the juggernauts of the world but it has held out before and it can do so again. The Two Sicilies also has a very competent navy witch kept it alive during the Second Weltkrieg and out of harms way from Naval invasions trying to land on Sicily and take out the government in a decisive strike. However the Air force of the Two Sicilies like most nations is pretty lackluster compared to that of many other members of the Entente.