Bulgaria

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Bulgaria, Officially the Kingdom of Bulgaria is an Absolute Monarchy in Southern Europe. Bulgaria has changed governments repeatedly in the last few years with Sveno Coups and counter coups leading to instability witch has ultimately cost it its victory. Bulgaria was savaged by the Fourth Balkan War witch left Bulgaria with mostly Bulgarian lands having lost all gains from the third Balkan War and Thrace. Bulgaria was initially formed as an Ottoman puppet in 1878 but was able to break free during the Young Turk Coup of 1908. Bulgaria did not participate in the Second Weltkrieg due to political instability. Bulgaria has now a growing dependence on Danubia and thus aligns with the Reichspakt. This has driven more amnesty with the Ottomans who took lands from Bulgaria and with the Pro-German Aligned Egypt causing issues the Ottomans have drifted towards the Entente.

## History

Bulgaria in 1936 was a broken country having suffered several governmental changes and this deadlock had prevented the government from doing much. Within the country a new group came along stating that they could fix everything and the Bulgarian people listened. The Sveno where initially a fringe group in Bulgarian politics but their policies grew more demanded and with the support of the Bulgarian people. In early 1937 they were able to launch a coup and remove the power of the Monarchy and throw out the Parliamentary system establishing the Sveno dictatorship. However this stability came too little too late and with the development of the Belgrade Pact the Bulgarian nation was surrounded and its military was woefully underprepared for the rocky road ahead. In 1937 with Bulgaria weakened by internal turmoil the Fourth Balkan War began as Romania, Serbia, And Greece all attacked Bulgaria hoping to retake land lost in the Third Balkan War. Bulgaria launched an offensive towards Bucharest hoping to take Romania out of the War. However Greece and Serbia were able to use the opportunity to launch their own offensive into Bulgaria. This would prove to be detrimental to Bulgaria with Sofia falling in only a few days and with the government taken out Bulgaria quickly folded in upon itself. The people immediately lost faith in the Sveno Government after the Treaty of Bucharest where Bulgaria was stripped of over 1/3rd of its land. This would culminate later in the year when Boris III along with a collection of Military officers were able to remove the Sveno and form up their own Bulgarian government. For the last 11 years Bulgaria has been slowly recovering militarily and politically as the process of rebuilding the government is taking place. However the Second Weltkrieg significantly hampered this process with imports being slowed down and the people being rowdy, Despite this the Bulgarian people have been able to keep the ship of state afloat long enough to make a foreign policy. As with Austria being one of Bulgaria's only available trading partners during the war the nation has grown dependent on it. Thus Bulgaria has essentially been forced into being a member of the Reichspakt.

## Military

The Bulgarian Military is in shambles after the war with much of its leadership destroyed by the two coups and the demilitarization forced by the Belgrade pact. Its army is small but still capable of leading offensive wars in the Balkans along with help from Albania. Bulgaria's navy is in a similar state but it to has began to suffer from lack of maintanece. Bulgaria is forbidden from having an Air force but with membership in the Reichspakt coming soon Bulgaria may be able to remilitarize regardless.