Ethiopia

Flag of Ethiopia

**Ethiopia** Officially the **Ethiopian Empire** is a regional power in the Horn of Africa. In 1942 the country underwent a democratic transition turning it into a Unitary Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy with the current prime minister being Makonnen Endeikachew, it is ruled by the Solomonic Dynasty witch supposedly are the decedents of the ancient king of Israel, Solomon. Ethiopia fought the Odagen War against Somalia with a crushing victory for Ethiopia, however this has driven Somalia to join the Cairo Pact, complicating matters. Ethiopia is an old country being created around the year 1270 and was the only country to have survived the colonization of Africa, witch seems to be getting ready to reverse course. Ethiopia did not participate in the Second Weltkrieg but as a way to burn off most of its immense foreign debt the country outsourced labor during the war to the Reichspakt. This has, however, made Ethiopia economically reliant on Germany for exports, however given the regional rivalry with the Cairo pact who also align with the Reichspakt means that Ethiopia is currently neutral in the ongoing Kalterkrieg.

## History

Ethiopia in 1936 was in a precarious situation with a massive foreign debt crisis witch had completely subsumed the Politics of the nation. And as the nation was teetering on the edge the Black Monday Crisis caused the final straw to break the backs of the Ethiopian economy, witch would go into free fall. Haile Selassie knew that something needed to be done in order to save the crumbling nation and he would spend the next few years undergoing a massive project to reform the nation to try and desperately save the situation. Despite immense backlash from the powerful nobility of the nation the monarchy was able to survive the ongoing crisis and was able to prevent the economy from completely being destroyed. Ethiopia spent 1939 recovering from the economic catastrophe and it would end up beginning to export to its neighbors whatever it was able to find. This would end up creating a beneficial relationship with Mittelafrika and neighboring Egypt who quickly began to get weapons from Ethiopian markets. Mitteleafrika was more interested in the resources and it would take them in return for helping Ethiopia industrialize and recover. This would be a massive help for the nation, but the outbreak of the Second Weltkrieg would provide more opportunity. With the rest of the world distracted Ethiopia would declare war on its neighbor Somalia for the disputed Odagen region beginning the Odagen War. Somalia had been absolutely ravaged by the Black Monday Crisis and had not gotten access to a massive industrial partner. Because of this Somalia was not in the slightest able to hold back the Ethiopian armies and it would lose within only a few weeks of combat. There were many within the Ethiopian government who wished to puppet or outright annex Somalia, however Egypt would quickly intervene and force Ethiopia to simply take the disputed region and leave Somalia to its own devices. This would be accepted and Ethiopia would begin working on its still massive foreign debt. It had been a miracle that Ethiopia hadn't defaulted on its debt and it would decide to use its industry for something other than war. It would begin to outsource its labor to Mitteleafrika and Germany, so that they could send more men to the frontline, in return for lowering its debt. Several years of this, during witch a constitutional monarchy formed as part of an agreement between the rival factions in the government, has gotten Ethiopia into a normal amount of debt for a nation and has allowed it to stop worrying about having to potentially default on its debt. However this has also made Ethiopia reliant on Germany to buy its products as Ethiopia did not diversify into other markets as it didn't need to. This has put Ethiopia in a bad spot, either it accepts that it will have to work with its rival Somalia in the wider global setting in return for political and economic stability, or it tries to diversify the nations it exports to, knowing full well the fact that it will be isolated and that it may not even work. Thus Ethiopia is at a crossroads like many other nations as it begins to look towards the future

## Military

The Ethiopian military compared to most major militaries in Africa is a force to look up too. However compared to Egypt and the colonial factions Ethiopia's military is quite weak. Ethiopia's army is it's strongest force and is well suited to the mountainous warfare common in the arid mountains of Ethiopia. Ethiopia has spent a bit of money on a new navy witch is still weak but is useful for protecting its trade. Ethiopia also has a small air force supplied by Germany in case of potential war on the continent, as Germany wishes to turn Ethiopia into a regional ally that can help Mitteleafrika in its decline.