Austrian State

Flag of the Austrian State

**The Austrian State** / **Österreich / Austrian Balkan Hegemony** is an authoritarian state located in central/southern Europe. It is comprised of many ethnic groups, but the government, mainly comprised of Austrians, has been working to "Austrianize" the nation. Austria has a corporatist economy, which leans heavily capitalist. Austria's economy has been booming, fueled by it's many victories in several wars, as well as several dependent puppet states. Austria is widely regarded as an antagonistic nation, one of the villains of Earth Reborn.

## History

### **The Coup and Rise**

Following a military backed coup of the newly founded Danubian Republic in 2086, a radical group of pro statists took control. Freedoms and civil liberties were rapidly curbed in favor of a strong and powerful central authority. While being a relatively new state, Austria managed to ward away any attempts at intervention from foreign powers, and because of this entered a short period of total isolation from the international community. The new Austrian State switched over its currency, and began economic reform. While having initial success, the Austrian Economy would begin to stagnate in later years. With a large budget focused on military expenses, the Austrian state was able to take back lost territories of the former Austrian empire, such as Galicia, Transylvania, and the Vojvodina. this would forever damage it's relations with other Balkan nations

### **Modern Day**

Today, Austria sits as a powerhouse within central/southern Europe. It has an alliance with the Roman Mega Corp to its west, and a puppet known as the Serbian and Romanian states to its south as well as the Montenegrin lands annexed in 2146. Austria also has the guaranteed Polish nation to it's north, and the Ukrainian puppet state to it's East. Austria has largely "Austrianized" other ethnic groups in the country. Austrianization is the process of teaching the German language to those who do not speak it, and acquainting newer generations with the Austrian culture and traditions. Those who speak German and are familiar with the history/culture of Austria are considered Austrians, despite whatever ethnic group they truly belong to. Non-Austrians typically reside in more condensed groups than they would more than a century ago, due to Austrianization and expelling of groups like Ukrainians and Poles from Galicia. Austria is revitalizing its economy, improving it's military doctrines, and expanding it's navy and air force. The Austrian army is the most elite branch of the Austrian military, as well as the largest. Austria also prides it's incredibly large espionage and counter-espionage agency, perhaps the largest in the world.

Following it's large Balkan influences as well as many puppet regimes being set up in the Balkans, Austria proclaimed itself to have a "Total Balkan hegemony". Austria now asserts itself as the protector and master of the Balkan states.

## Conflicts

### **The Third Balkan War**

The 3rd Balkan War was caused by espionage by both Austria, and Romania. The prime minister of Romania was assassinated, and an attempt on Anton Steiner's life was made. This caused the alliance known as the Balkan League (Romania, Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Kosovo), formed just months prior, occupy Austrian lands. In response, Austria declared war. While Austria was pushed back initially, it's ally the RMC came to it's aid, followed by The Ukraine and Turkey joining in to form the Southern Europa Bloc. The war ended in a defeat for the Balkan league, and Austria seizing Montenegro, while also occupying Serbia and Kosovo.

### The Mediterranean War

Austria played a minor role in the conflict known as the Mediterranean War. When Austria's closest ally, The RMC, had a land dispute with Morocco, Austria was quick to back the RMC. When the conflict broke out into war, the Spanish joined in on the side of the RMC. Australasia sent an expeditionary force to help Morocco. At the same time, Austria sent an Expeditionary force to The RMC. When the situation was rapidly devolving for Morocco, the Australasians went home despite the Austro-Italian plans to seek and destroy them. Just before Morocco fell, the UAR joined the war on their side, and the Moroccan king fled to the UAR. Joining under the promise of black gold, the AML joined on the side of The RMC. Together, Spain, Austria, The RMC, and The AML would form the European League, an anti-democratic, anti-fascist, anti-communist, strictly authoritarian alliance. During the invasion of the UAR, Austria would send air support, as well as drop paratroopers. A small Hungarian expeditionary force also participated in the invasion of Palestine. Eventually, the OGO would find and assassinate the Moroccan king in exile. The UAR, after a very long strung out conflict, would lose the war.

## Military

### **Österreichische Landstreitkräfte**

The Army of Austria, 1.35M men strong. The Austrian army relies on speed and cunning military tactics to maneuver around it's enemies, and make breakthroughs with it's armored units. The primary MBT of the Austrian Land Forces is the Swallow M1.

### **Österreichische Marine**

The navy of Austria, relatively small with only 50k~ personnel. The doctrine of the Austrian navy relies primarily on coastal and air defense. The only notable class of ship in the Austrian navy is the Sarajevo class destroyer, a destroyer that is based on it's anti-air capabilities.

### **Österreichische Luftwaffe**

The air force of Austria is Austria's pride. It has roughly 150k~ personnel. The doctrine of the Austrian Air force relies on gaining and maintaining air superiority, and then utilizing the air force in naval and ground combat. The land, air, and sea warfare doctrine has seen incredibly high success rates. The Austrian air force has decimated the Ukrainian navy and air force in the 1st and 2nd Austro-Ukrainian wars, it has obliterated the Arabian infantry and air force in the Austro-Arabian war, and has destroyed the Mexican, Russian, and some Ukrainian remnant air forces in the 2nd Austro-Ukrainian war.

Notable equipment includes: The AS-I01, The AS-F01, The AS-ST01, The AX-T1, The AX-V5, The IX-C1, The IX-E4, and The CV-A3.

## Foreign Relations

### **Formal Allies of Austria**

The RMC (Roman Mega Corp) is an ally of Austria, following their cooperation in the Third Balkan War.

Germany has had friendly ties with Austria following the 1st Austro-Ukrainian war for their support.

After the formation of the European League, the AML and Second Spanish Empire have been close allies of Austria.

The Chaos Legion has had a secret and very close relationship with the OGO, and Austria is willingly turning a blind eye to their operations within Austria, as well as funding them.

### **Nations Hostile to Austria**

Russia is seen as a potential enemy of Austria following their involvement in the 2nd Austro-Ukrainian war

Mexico is a definite enemy of Austria following their support of Ukraine in both Austro-Ukrainian wars, and the small conflict with the European League backed Central America.