Nepal

Flag of Nepal

### Motto

जननी जन्मभूमिश्च स्वर्गादपि गरीयसी "Mother and Motherland are greater than Heaven"

### Anthem

"Shriman Gambhir" (Nepali: श्रीमान् गम्भीर) (English: "May Glory Crown You, Courageous Sovereign")

### Population (core territory)

Around 9 million

**Nepal,** Officially the **Kingdom of Nepal** is the second largest but the strongest of the Himalayan States and is a country in South Asia. The Kingdom is a Unitary Constitutional Monarchy after the removal of the Rana family and other recent events, it is ruled by the house of Shah. Nepal fought against Sikkim in the Sikkimese war of independence which its after-effects have shook Nepalese society to its core. Combine this with its southern neighbor to the South Nepal is in the most danger should the Socialists turn their gaze to the Himalayan States. Nepal has been in existence since 1768 in the aftermath of the collapse of the major powers of India and the availability for the unification of the region. Nepal did not participate in the Second Weltkrieg given its distance from the war. Nepal wished for the victory of the Entente hoping to avoid falling to the socialists in the event of their victory globally. Nepal like its neighbors aligns with the Guangzhou government and the wider Reichspakt given it aligns with them politically. However Nepal's position is uniquely vulnerable to India and thus it is more actively looking for protection from the Reichspakt.

## History

In 1936 Nepal was in the grips of a major fight for influence between the different factions of the Nepali government. Nepal had a young king who wished to gather more influence fighting with the Rana family. British officials looking for an ally, and other forces within the cabinet. The Black Monday Crisis would only exacerbate these issues and the Nepali were sent into a crisis in witch it needed to determine its leadership and its path into the future. But the situation would only get worse with the Sikkim Incident where TIP agents were found in the client kingdom of Sikkim. Nepal would not cave in to the demands of Tibet to close the border given Nepal was struggling for trade to begin with but Nepal would compromise by cracking down on Sikkim. However with the TIP now stuck in Sikkim and with Nepal trying to force Sikkim back into the fold of the central governments authority, Sikkim would declare independence after the attempt to completely dissolve the kingdom was made. Thus began the Sikkimese war of Independence in witch Nepal was humiliated by Sikkimese troops who not only occupied land but held it against Nepal. After around a month of stalemate Nepal granted Sikkim independence in return for Sikkim giving up any land it annexed during the war. This would send Nepalese society down the drain nearly completely and riots and strikes would appear all across the nation as it looked like the nation was heading for civil war. Not wishing to bring more conflict to his nation Thirbhuvan would meat with the leaders of the liberal protesters in an attempt to hash out a compromise deal. After much trial and tribulation the leaders would come up with an agreement to model Nepal after Canada at the time, as a constitutional monarchy with an organized parliamentary system. Nepal would spend 1938 stabilizing itself but this work would mostly be undone with the outbreak of the War of Indian Unification. The aftermath of this war would lead to a massive surge in popularity for the social democratic elements within the parliament and in 1940 only a few years later the social democratic candidate, Matrika Prasad Koirala, would win the nomination with a supermajority. However the King made sure to put limitations upon his election to make sure the more radical elements of the party did not come into full power within the nation. However unknowingly to the King Matrika had no intention of allying with India. Knowing the precarious situation Nepal was in, in an extremely controversial decision he decided to meat with the Leaders of Sikkim creating an alliance against India in the case of aggression. This move was followed by Bhutan and Tibet with all agreeing that such a move was beneficial to their survival. In recent years Matrika has become a man of the people and has modernized Nepal greatly, giving it a good industry and a good army. However the future still looks bleak for Nepal as the worries for syndicalist revolution still loom over the people of the Himalayas.

## Military

The Nepalese military despite having lost to Sikkim, has learned from its mistakes and has turned into the professional fighting force that the Himalayas will need in the coming years. Nepal has a large army for its size witch has been well-trained, and has planned for almost every combat situation against India, Usually involving retreating and holding out in the peaks of the Himalayas. Nepal does not have a navy given that it is land locked but its strategies do occasionally consider blowing dams along the rivers to flood Indian positions in case of war. Nepal also, strangely enough, has a small air force that has been recently constructed. While it won't do much in the event of war with India it is still nice to have in case of war with a different nation.