Dominican Republic

Flag of the Dominican Republic

**The Dominician Republic** is the larger of the two nations on the Island of Hispanolia and is also the richest out of all of them. The Dominican Republic is a Unitary Presidential Republic, however due to recent events this "Democracy" has been threatened by a right wing populist government and also due to the banning of all other parties. The Dominican Republic was the most affected nation of the Caribbean Revolution with it becoming particularly bad here, however it did not spill into full blown civil war. The Dominican republic formed in 1863 after a war of independence against its neighbor Haiti who used to own the whole island, but know has been reduced to the old lands of the colony of St.-Dominque. The Dominican Republic did not fight in the Second Weltkrieg and unlike its western neighbor it did not get an influx of Syndicalist supporters given the governments extreme hostility towards them. The Dominican Republic despite being a member of the D.A.C, does not align with the Entente. This is due to the extreme right wing government witch controls the republic leading to a situation where the Dominican Republic is caught between two extremes and thus is neutral.

## History

In 1936 the Dominican Republic was in a situation that is very similar to what it is undergoing right now with an attempt to centralize more power under Váquez having weakened the democracy of the republic, and the shattering of the left wing faction leading to a right wing supermajority. The Dominican Republic was in a weakened state when it came to its stability and like everyone else the problems with the state were exacerbated by the Black Monday Crisis. The Dominican Republic was suddenly hit with a wave of protests as the hope for the destruction of the Right-wing government and a return to true democracy occurred. These protests would last the entirety of 1936 and at one point it became extremely violent with all areas outside of Santo Domingo falling into anarchic devastation. Hoover as one of his final actions would try and desperately save the Dominican Republic and would send troops there. While this saved the Dominican Republic this event would not be good for "Democracy" as the Dominican Republic would begin a massive purge of former revolutionaries causing the deaths of over 35,000 people who protested the government. This was coupled with mass arrests and mass fines as families who were related to protestors were given ruinous amounts of money to repay, and this was to be generational debt too. This along with other things in 1938 would draw the Ire of the entire world onto the Dominican Republic who would be given embargos by several nations, and Germany officially recognized the Dominican Republic as underneath an Oligarchy. And this was true, however elections were still held and in 1940 a new candidate was put up by the party who was given a full road to the presidency as it became clear that the outcome of the election was pre-set. Thus Manuel Troncoso De La Concha would be put in power and he wished to try and improve the image of the Dominican Republic globally. He would do this by suppling the Liberals in the Brazilian Civil War, despite the integtralist leanings of his government. These policies continued into 1943 when the Dominican Republic officially joined the D.A.C. However there was to be an attempt to oust the government in 1944 beginning the Dominican Crisis in witch the D.A.C would activate and the republics of the Caribbean would intervene preventing a military dictatorship and putting Manuel back in charge. However this would be a very unpopular move within the military who essentially stopped listening to the government. However this would be mostly stopped after a massive bribe from the government, placating several disloyal generals. In Recent years however the Dominican Republic has not been at peace, internally yes the Dominican Republic has survived another decade. But externally the rising threat of the Kalterkrieg has given the Dominican Republic to have to make a difficult choice. Ether it could bite the bullet and align with the Entente despite its Authoritarian Democracy. Or it could give into its political leanings and leave the D.A.C for the Reichspakt. However this would bring ruin to the economy and would estrange the republic from all of its neighbors.

## Military

The Military of the Dominican Republic is one of the larger ones among the Caribbean nations being behind Cuba but above Puerto Rico in terms of raw military strength. The Dominican Republic's Army is notoriously disloyal and thus the current government is working on slowly but surely making the army small enough to avoid coups and one of the biggest things is keeping it from organizing. The navy of the Dominican Republic is also quite strong for its size and is notoriously loyal to the government and usually is how old presidents are able to escape execution or imprisonment. The Dominican Republic does not have an air force at the current time.