Members of the Alliance of Free States

Rechristened from a Kingdom to an outright Empire in 1936 with the ascension of Edward to the Throne, the former United Kingdom is now an empire under Empress Elizabeth the IInd and Lord High Protector David Manning. Beneath the Emperor/Empress of Britannica are the Kings of England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland (technically all held by the Windsor famly) and the Royal Dominions, who have their own kings to govern them. Britain, when one factors in its colonies, is the most powerful and dominant member of the Alliance, drawing on a vast network of vassal Kingdoms and the largest navy in the Alliance and perhaps its best air force to form the lynchpin of the entire system. It was Britain that formed the Alliance and it continues to be Britain that leads it; with all three Supreme Chairmans of the Alliance coming from Britain or a British territory. Though its metropole is less populous than that of France (very slightly less, and when one counts the occupied Island of Ireland, then it is larger) and far behind the German Reich and Turkey, when one counts the core dominion of Canada it is without compare in the organization.

Thanks to America taking up much of the burden of the first world war, Britain was not hit quite as hard by the great war as it could have been. However, even while America and Britain were officially allies; tensions were mounting between Britain and America who had opposing views for the world order. America wanted countries free and open for democracy and its capitalism, while Britain looked at the defeat of the empires of the Central Powers as a chance to expand her empire even further. But it was the revolution of 1933 that finally solidified a permanent split and divide between the former colony and mother country. Britain was shocked at the swift defeat of MacArthur's white army, and while able to preserve a MacArthurist regime in exile in Cuba and Puerto Rico; found that it was now facing two red colossi. The Soviet Union and its Chinese ally to the east, and America and its hispanic compatriots to the west.

### French National Republic

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | Very High

The second leg of the Alliance; the French National Republic is much more focused on the continent than their counterparts to the north and thus more focused on the USSR than the UASR. France was a country that was long enamored of the political left; with the world's first (if short lived) Communist government arising in the chaos of France's drubbings at the hands of Prussia. Though the Prussians destroyed the Commune of Paris, Socialism remained an active force in France; with France's many partied landscape hosting many Socialist, Labourist, and Communist parties. The defeat of the Kaiserreich and its allies by the Entente had left France deeply exhausted; having lost the cream of its youth to the mud and blood of the great war, and so created a great many aimless veterans. One of these would be Marshal Philippe Petain, the saviour of Verdun and the old Marshal. Kept spry and somewhat youthful thanks to Geoffrey's treatments, he moved into politics to stop what he saw as the moral decay of France.

He looked to the example of Napoleon Bonaparte as an image of French society; a man who ruled absolutely and lead France to glory and wished to live up to his glory rather than push it away. He formed the Movement Franciste-Ultimiste party, arguably the most extreme of the various right wing movements going around in France at the time; and pushed hard for his vision of French society. In his France, the classes would be under a nationalist balance; united against Communism and external enemies of France. The wealthy would be made to ensure that they acted in France's best interests, the middle class would form the base of support for the new France, and the lower classes would be given some populist supports to earn from them their loyalty to a new Ultranationalist France. And the whole of France's empire would similarly be mobilized for the good of France and the French.

Though he had some successes in the twenties, it was the great depression that truly catapulted him to prominence. Though he did not have enough seats to form a majority government, his Movement Franciste-Ultimiste party became a dominant force on the French Right with the aid of some mysterious black and red clad figures who helped him run an effective ground game in France. Enough so that when America underwent its revolution, he was able to force a vote of no confidence against the sitting leftist government accusing it of "allowing America to slip into the grasp of socialism and betraying a nation that had stood with us as brothers in the past war" and forcing a vote of no-confidence. He was able to get himself into power and form a government and passed both an enabling act and an emergency powers act after a mysterious terrorist attack in Paris; promptly blamed on the communists.

Once in control of France, Petain sought to strengthen his bonds with the British and his friend and political ally John Fuller. Together, France and Britain would preserve the old order against the encroachment of Socialist on all sides.

### German Empire

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | Very High

The Kaiserreich as it is often called suffered a brief period of republicanism and socialist flirtation in the twenties and the early thirties following Germany's defeat in the first world war as its smaller alliance of itself, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Sweden, Siam, and Persia were incapable of defeating the vast weight of the entente weighed against it; though while they could not defeat the likes of Britain, Japan, France, and America; they at the very least spelled the final doom of the Russian Empire. The Weimar Republic very nearly fell to the clutches of the Spartacists and even with Stalin's meddling, the German Communist Party after that was always a danger; and the Social Democrat Party was often regarded with nearly as much suspicion. The conversion of America into a new power of global communism was the last straw for the republic. A restructurist coalition bringing together virtually all parties who would stand against Communists under the leadership of the Christian Democrats, DNVP, Zentrum, and Social Democrat parties along with the new German National Restructurist Party. A new constitution was drafted, declaring the rebirth of the German Empire and the restoration of the Monarchy.

### Kingdom of Spain

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | High

### Kingdom of Sweden

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | Moderate

### Kingdom of Norway

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | Moderate

## Kingdom of Denmark

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | Moderate

### Portugal

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | Moderate

### Kingdom of the Netherlands

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | Moderate

### Kingdom of Belgium

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | Moderate

### Grand Duchy of Luxemburg

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | Moderate

### Switzerland

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | Moderate

### Hashemite Arabia

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | High

### Kingdom of Thailand

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | High

### Kingdom of Italy

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | High

## Colonies

### British

#### Kingdom of Canada

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | High

#### Commonwealth of the Raj (Kingdoms of India, Pakistan, Khalistan, Sri Lanka, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Bengal)

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | Very High

#### Kingdom of Egypt

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | Very High

#### Kingdom of Malaysia

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | Moderate

### French

#### Algeria

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | Moderate

#### Tunisia

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | Moderate

#### Morocco

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | Moderate

### Italian

#### Libya

 **Military Contribution to the Alliance** | Moderate

## Insurgencies

Organized under the leadership of the Confederacy of Nationalists, the pro-Allied insurgencies around the world fight to liberate their homeland from the bolshevik menace.

### National Democracy Movement of Poland

Poland is considered by many to be "Christ of Nations" due to its long history of invasion and the continuous suffering of its people. The Poles are a people who know what it means to be under jackboot of foreign oppression.