Spanish State

## The Spanish State

Spanish Flag (1939-1977)

The Profile for the *Spanish State* from *the Real World*.

## Summary

**Francoist Spain** (Spanish: *España franquista*), known in Spain as the **Francoist dictatorship** (Spanish: *dictadura franquista*), officially known as the **Spanish State** (Spanish: *Estado Español*), is the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain as dictator with the title *Caudillo*.

During the Second World War, Spain did not join the Axis powers (its supporters from the civil war, Italy and Germany). Nevertheless, Spain helped Germany and Italy in various ways while maintaining its neutrality. Spain was isolated by many other countries for nearly a decade after World War II and its autarkic economy, still trying to recover from the civil war, suffered from chronic depression.

## Command Structure

* Military structure
* Weaponry
* Buildings

### Leader(s)

#### Second-in-command

* Luis Carrero Blanco
* Carlos Arias Navarro

#### Military Leaders

* Lieutenant General José Enrique Varela Iglesias
* Lieutenant General Carlos Asensio Cabanillas
* Lieutenant General Fidel Dávila Arrondo
* Lieutenant General Agustín Muñoz Grandes
* Lieutenant General Antonio Barroso y Sánchez-Guerra
* Lieutenant General Pablo Martín Alonso
* Lieutenant General Camilo Menéndez Tolosa
* Lieutenant General Juan Castañón de Mena
* Lieutenant General Francisco Coloma Gallegos
* Lieutenant General Félix Álvarez-Arenas y Pacheco

#### Champions/Heroes/Notable Individuals

* Gonzalo Queipo de Llano
* Juan Yagüe
* Miguel Cabanellas
* José Enrique Varela
* Fidel Dávila Arrondo
* Manuel Goded Llopis Executed
* Manuel Hedilla
* Manuel Fal Conde
* Juan Carlos
* José María López Valencia

### Military Units

#### Fast

* Sanglas Motorcycles
* Traffic patrol bicycles

#### Vehicles

* Land Rover Santana S-II four-wheel drive vehicles
* Land Rover Santana S-III four-wheel drive vehicles in their short and long versions
* Avia buses
* Ebro B-45 trucks
* Avia 1250 vans
* Büssing riot water cannons
* Dodge tankettes
* SEAT 1400 cars
* SEAT 1500 cars
* SEAT 124 station wagon cars
* Sava J4 patrol wagons
* DKW N vans

### Production/Construction/Training Buildings

* Military Airfields
* Military Barracks
* Military Factories

## Territories

**Madrid**

* **Age founded/conquered:** 1939
* **Territory type:** Homeland
* **Inhabitants:** Spanish

**Barcelona**

* **Age founded/conquered:** 1939
* **Territory type:** Anonymous Territory
* **Inhabitants:** Catalonians

**Spanish Sahara**

* **Age founded/conquered:** 1939
* **Territory type:** Anonymous Territory
* **Inhabitants:** Moroccans

**Equatorial Guinea**

* **Age founded/conquered:** 1939
* **Territory type:** Anonymous Territory
* **Inhabitants:** Africans

## Civilization Stats

**Tier 11: Industrial:** During the 1960s, Spain experienced further increases in wealth. International firms established their factories in Spain: salaries were low, taxes nearly nonexistent, strikes were forbidden, labour health or real state regulations were unheard of and Spain was virtually a virgin market. Spain became the second fastest-growing economy in the world, just behind Japan. The rapid development of this period became known as the "Spanish Miracle". At the time of Franco's death, Spain still lagged behind most of Western Europe, but the gap between its GDP per capita and that of the major Western European economies had greatly narrowed. In world terms, Spain was already enjoying a fairly high material standard of living with basic but comprehensive services. However, the period between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s was to prove difficult as in addition to the oil shocks to which Spain was highly exposed, the settling of the new political order took priority over the modernizing of the economy.

## Power Sourcing

**Energy Source: Unknown**

**Science:** Construction (As a nation, they are capable of producing their own weapons and vehicles of war)

**Nature:** Human Physiology (The members of the faction are humans with standard skills in combat)

## Conquest Stats

**Tier 9-B: Country:** With an area of 505,990 km2 (195,360 sq mi), Spain is the largest country in Southern Europe, the second largest country in Western Europe and the European Union, and the fourth largest country in the European continent. By population (about 47 million), Spain is the sixth largest in Europe and the fifth in the European Union. Spain's capital and largest city is Madrid; other major urban

Spain attempted to retain control of the last remnants of its colonial empire throughout Franco's rule. During the Algerian War (1954–1962), Madrid became the base of the *Organisation armée secrète* right-wing French Army group which sought to preserve French Algeria. Despite this, Franco was forced to make some concessions. When the French protectorate in Morocco became independent in 1956, Spain surrendered its Spanish protectorate in Morocco to Mohammed V, retaining only a few exclaves.

In 1968, under United Nations pressure Franco granted Spain's colony of Equatorial Guinea its independence and the next year ceded the exclave of Ifni to Morocco. Under Franco, Spain also pursued a campaign to gain sovereignty of the British overseas territory of Gibraltar and closed its border in 1969. The border would not be fully reopened until 1985.

## Power Stats

**Attack Potency: Building:** The Baleares-class Frigates with firing all of it's weapons at once. **Small Building**: Tanks that have the power to level small structures. **Street**: The energy from standard small firearms. **Athletic Human**: the strength of standard Spanish soldiers.

**Durability: Building:** Spanish frigates which can take substantial explosions. **Small Building**: Spanish Tanks with their armored plating. **Wall**: Land Rovers with armored plating can still operate even after explosions. **Wall**: Aircraft with it's large size. **Street-Athletic**: The durability with Spanish soldiers with or without equipment.

**Speed: Subsonic+:** Hispano HA-200 flight speed at 430 mph. **Superhuman**: The standard speed of Land Rovers and Tanks. **Athletic Human**: The running speed of the Spanish soldiers.

## Strengths/Pros

After Franco's victory in 1939, the Falange was declared the sole legally sanctioned political party in Spain and it asserted itself as the main component of the National Movement. In a state of emergency-like status, Franco ruled with, on paper, more power than any Spanish leader before or since. He was not even required to consult his cabinet for most legislation. According to historian Stanley G. Payne, Franco had more power than Hitler or Stalin possessed at the respective heights of their power. Payne noted that Hitler and Stalin at least maintained rubber-stamp parliaments, while Franco dispensed with even that formality in the early years of his rule. According to Payne, the lack of even a rubber-stamp parliament made Franco's government "the most purely arbitrary in the world." The 100-member National Council of the Movement served as a makeshift legislature until the passing of the organic law of 1942 and the *Ley Constitutiva de las Cortes* (Constituent Law of the Cortes) the same year, which saw the grand opening of the Cortes Españolas on 18 July 1942.

With most power lying with the leader of the state, Franco was capable of many political decision making even when the threat of war was on the horizon, when it comes to the reduction of military forces, only to remove some reductions later on, from 1 million troops to 250 thousand back to 400 thousand around when WW2 was continuing. At one point they even had a large economic boom called the Spanish Miracle after a few policies reformations.

## Weaknesses/Flaws

The consistent points in Francoism included above all authoritarianism, Spanish nationalism, national Catholicism, monarchism, militarism, national conservatism, anti-Masonry, anti-Catalanism, pan-Hispanism and anti-liberalism—some authors also include integralism. Stanley Payne, a scholar of Spain notes that "scarcely any of the serious historians and analysts of Franco consider the *generalissimo* to be a core fascist". According to historian Walter Laqueur "during the Civil War, Spanish fascists were forced to subordinate their activities to the nationalist cause. At the helm were military leaders such as General Francisco Franco, who were conservatives in all essential respects. When the civil war ended, Franco was so deeply entrenched that the Falange stood no chance; in this strongly authoritarian regime, there was no room for political opposition. The Falange became junior partners in the government and, as such, they had to accept responsibility for the regime's policy without being able to shape it substantially". Franco continued to personally sign all death warrants until just months before he died despite international campaigns requesting him to desist.

## Wins/Loses

When a battle is decided, list the wins and loses below.

## Gallery

Francisco Franco, leader o f the Spanish State.Madrid, capital of the Spanish stateThe Spanish Secret Police corpThe Spanish Miracle, the countries' economic boom