ME7 Posting of Nations

[Aussey]

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[Aussey]

Name: Kingdom of Navarre

Capital: Pamplona

Leader(s): Queen Joan VII, King-Consort Henri de Bourbon

Government: Absolute Monarchy

Population: 2,300,000

Navy: 275,682
300 battleships, with roughly 135 men on each
590 armored frigates (50 men each)
986 transporters (40 men each)

Queen's Guards:
73,100
Cavalrymen

Queen's Muskateers:
500

Muskateers de Bourbon:
789

History:
In 1554 Queen Joan III choose declared Calvinism her kingdom's official religion. With support from her daughter and heir's husband, King Edward VI of England, Navarre was succesfully able to establish its Church. However, many nobles felt that the new religion was too liberal.

Sadly, in 1560, when Catherine assumed the throne in Navaree, her husband died. But, she was pregnant. Parliament decided to rule regency in England until the Dowager Queen gave birth to a child. It was a girl. Parliament passed the crown to Princess Elizabeth. (Mary died in 1558, after fleeing to the HRE).

Queen Catherine I had been a good friend of Queen Elizabeth of England. Under Catherine's rule, the Church of Navarre took a more catholic form. The episcopate was re-instated and the Queen was declared Pope of the Navarrese Church. She claimed Apostolic Succession when her Protestant appointed Cardinals created her Pope. Catherine later married a prince of Denmark, and gave birth to a son, the future King Loui I.

During the sixteenth, and seventeenth century Navarre became the naval superpower. Establishing colonies in Central America, and in the La Plata region of South America. During Loui V's reign (1689-1721) Navarre was able to force Spain into re-gaining some of its former counties lost to Castile.

By the 19th Century, Navarree was a very succesful nation. The current Queen, Queen John VII, came to power in 1815, and married a Protestant Bourbon ex-prince. She also changed her Episcopate title to "Pontiff of all Navree" instead of the blatantly Catholic: "Pope"

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[Matt]

Offical Name: The United States of America
Capital: Washington, District of Colombia
Leaders: James Garfield, President of the United States; Chester Arthur, Vice President; John Ingalls, President Pro Tempore of the Senate; William McKinley, Speaker of the House; Thomas Custer, Secretary of War, William Whitney Secretary of the Navy
Population: 53 million post-ISOT

History: POD is on July 3, 1863. At the Battle of Gettysburg, General Meade is touring the Union line with his Corps Commanders near Seminary Ridge. When the Army of Northern Virginia opens it's barrage prior to Pickett's charge, a lucky shot kills Meade and General Howard, leaving Hancock in command of the Army of Potomic.

The rest of the battle procedes as OTL, with the Confederates routed after the attack. In our timeline Meade was reluctant to pursue Lee, feeling his army was exhausted. Hancock does not relent. On July 30th, near the swollen banks of the Potomic River, Lee is cornered. In the resulting battle, his army is shattered, and surrounded. After the 6 Days Battle, Lee surrenders his Army on August 6th Lee surrenders the Army of Northren Virginia at Bolivar, Maryland.

By September the Army of the Potomic has laid seige to Richmond. Trapped inside is Joesph Johnston's newly raised Army of Virgina, which was raised by borrowing troops from Tennesee and other threaters. The Confederate government fled to Atlanta, and set up shop there.

In Novemeber, in Tennesee, the Army of the Cumberland joined by the hero of Vicksburg, U.S. Grant routs the CS Army, and begins it's drive into Georgia. Richmond falls, and the state government of Virgina renounces it's ordinance of secession. Davis denounces the move and calls Virgina a traitor to the Southren cause. It all begins to fall apart from here.

The War ends in 1864 with the decisive defeat of the last major Confederate army in the East.

Honest Abe is never assainated, and thus completes his second term. During this time the battle between the radical Republicans and the rest of the party reaches it's climax. Reconstruction is drawn out slighly longer, except in Tennesee and Virgina, which reintergrates easier into the Union. The 40 acres and a mule is also put into place. The US Army is used initially to inforce the rights of the freed slaves. Things go a little rougher in the South, and the Army of Occupation stays in place as late as 1880 in Louisana.

By the time of the ISOT the south has stabilized though. The rights of freed slaves are now solidified with in many states houses, nergo majorities(particulary in the Deep South).

On the Plains the Indian Wars were much more intense ITTL. Many tribes which openlly resisted the Federal government were armed secretly by Southreners. The gravy train is beginning to dry up however, as most in the South just seek a return to normallacy.

Flag: 38 five pointed stars in a field canton, 13 alternating red and white stripes.

[General_Paul]

Name: Imperial Empire of Japan
Capital: Edo (Tokyo)
Pre-ISOT Boundries: Japan, Formosa, Korea, Manchuria
Post-ISOT Boundries: Japan, Formosa, Korea, Manchuria
Population: 40,530,000
Armed Forces: Standing army of 350,000 men, mostly stationed in Japanese home waters. Navy consists of 20 Pre-Dreadnaughts, 30 cruisers, 75 destroyers, and 175 troop transports.
Head of State/Government: Emperor Meiji Mutsuhito

History: The history of Imperial Japan began not with the signing of the daimyo accords in 1725, but with the landing of the Spanish, Portugese, and British naval forces on the island of Kyushu in the 16th century. The beginnings of Spanish colonialism in the eastern hemisphere, beginning with the subjugation of the philippino natives in the late 16th century, and going untill the early 18th century. Once the Spanish gained a foothold in the Philippines, they also began to take a look at Japan. Seeing its feudal state, they saw a chance to take a stance. In 1605, in the same month that the first british settlement at Roanoke's population spiked toclose to 15,000, the Spanish signed a set of accords with the still powerless Japanese emperor, known as the Edo accords. These accords allowed Spanish vessels to freely trade in japanese ports, with little or no resistance from japanese traders. By the 1650's, Japan's problem with the daimyo's had settled from a raging civil war, down to a bloodless political war being fought within the boundaries of all of the city states.

By the end of the 17th century, Japan was on its way to becoming a stable nation, but this would all change with the Chinese Emperor's offensive movement into the Sea of Japan in 1702. For almost 900 years, China had not attempted to make any offensive attacks into Japan after the Kamikaze struck, and sank the invading mongol hoarde. For 15 years, China and Japan fought openly in the Sea of Japan, fighting to a stalemate. The one tie breaker on teh side of the Japanese, was the presence of the Spanish in the Philippines, and in south east Asia.

With the spanish posessions in the asiatic sphere threattened by the open war being fought betweemn their ally, Imperial Japan, and the Chinese, Spain felt it necessary to step in and end this conflict themselves, before it dragged other powers into the fight. In May, 1717, the Spanish were able to broker a deal betwen the Japanese and the Chinese. These peace agreements, known as the Edo Peace Accords, brought the bloody naval battle to a close, with no decisive victory.

With the end of the Chinese/Japanese war, the Japanese turned to internal problems. For the past millenia, the Shogunate had been in power, essentially crippling Japan to make any sort of progress towards weternizing their country, and getting on the long road to industrialization. So, in August, 1720, the emperor called together the remaining Shogun of Japan, in a meeting in Edo, which has been called the beginning of Modern Japan. Within three months, the emperor drew up what has become formally known as the Edo Unification Doctorine, which placed the 50 remaining Shogun as provincional govenors, and made the Samurai the peacekeepers of Japan as well as officers in the newly formed Imperial Army. By 1725, all Shogun had relinquished power to the Emperor, and had begun the task of bringing Japan under the rule of a single man, the Emperor. From 1730 onward, the problems of Samurai dueling in the street for their Shogun had ceased, and Japan was unified under a single flag, the flag of the rising sun with sunrays streaking outward from it, a symbol of the predominantly Shinto peoples of Japan.

Between the years 1730, and 1812, Japan focused on internal matters, beginning the task of building up the farm crops, ship construction, and of course, the task of building a formidable navy for Japan. The task was long and arguous, but by 1810, Japan had a navy to rival that of Spain in the Asiatic sphere, and its Army was second to none. The only army close to the level of precision that the Japanese had attained, was the army of China, who had been at a state of constant militarization ever since the end of the Chinese/Japanese conflict some century earlier. The justification of this, was to look at Rival Japan, and colonial power Spain, and see both as a viable threat, so no moves to demilitarize were ever followed.

An other situation, was the situation with the fledgling United States of America. Former british colonies, gone independent, this was a situation that the emperor found most...intreguing. When America declared independence, Japan did not have a strong enough navy to support the Colonists, or back the british, so, the nation simply decided to let them fight it out. When the Louisiana Purchase was made in 1803, this news was plastered all over newspapers from Edo, to Kagoshima. The fledgling American Democracy had tripled in size, almost over night. America now spread from sea to sea, with no foreign powers to deal with in their sphere of influence, besides Spain, and England.

In 1812, the USA and Great Britain went to war for the second time in almost 40 years, and this time, Japan was ready. When war was declared, close to 15,000 reservists were called up in the metro Edo/Yokahama district to guard the ports of Edo, Yokahama, Osaka, and Kobe, all of which housed American, and British merchantmen. They also housed four American Sloops of war: the USS New York, Boston, Minuteman, and Newport. The british sloops of war HMS Indefatigable, India, Liverpool, Labrador, and Honor as well as the Prussian Frigate Brandenberg. This proved a dangerous mixture, for the Prussians, although neutral, were still in a defensive alliance with england. With the first shots fired in Canada, the Imperial Japanese Army, and Navy jumped in to stop any fighting. The british sloops of war were planned to be escorted to the port city of Kagoshima on Kyushu, and asked to kindly leave Japanese waters, before any hostile gestures were placed upon the war ready Japanese, to which the british told the japanese to "bugger off", that the british would "Leave only when the Yankee pirates were sunk, and their crews brought to trial in England for piracy." Japan answered with a gesture of their own.

On July 4, 1812, the Japanese navy dispatched the frigates Yokahama, Rising Sun, Kagoshima, and Kamikaze into Edo harbor to forcibly remove the British. The Sloop of War HMS Honor, fired her guns at the Kagoshima and killed four crewmembers. the Imperial Japanesew Navy reacted, along with the United states sloops New York, and Minuteman, the Kagoshima sent the HMS Honor to the bottom of Edo harbor, along with crippling the Indefatigable, and India.

The Liverpool, and Labrador sailed top speed into the Pacific Ocean, with the report of Japanese hostility. With this, the prussian frigate "Brandenberg" swiftly left port. The American navy was invited to sail with the Japanese main fleet down to Madras and show the British how things were done. At the head of the grand fleet, sat the USS New York, Boston, and Newport, leaving Minuteman in Edo, along with the Kagoshima, Yokahama, Kamikaze, and the rest of the Japanese grand fleet, comprising some 85 ships of war. The fleet left Japanese territorial waters on the 25th of July, 1812, on a heading for Madras, with a prayer by the local Shinto Priest, and the blessing of the emperor.

When the ships reached Manilla on the 14th of August, the Spanish reported that the American military had been on the defensive, but that the USS Constitution, and her sister ship, Constellation, had won naval battles of the Atlantic Coast of America, and were preparing to break the British Blockade. The american naval officers were extatic, and wanted to show the british just what the american navy could do. The ships reached Madras some Month and a half later. The british sloops Liverpool, and Labrador, along with a squadron of frigates and their escorts had taken up residence in Madras, and were not leaving any time soon. The Japanese acted quickly, drawing up the battle line. Working in tangent with the American Captains, the Japanese navy fought its first sea battle in over 100 years.

The british vessels fought with ferocity, but were driven back by superior firepower, and the determination of the American and Japanese captains. By the end of the day, the Japanese navy had lost thirteen ships of war, including the Kamikaze, and Rising Sun, vetrans of the battle of Edo Harbor. But, the Japanese navy had won a resounding victory, driving the british out of the Bay of Bengal, and giving the american crews a victory to report home to boston with. On the 10th of October, the American sloops of war left for home, bringing with them, the HMS Liverpool, and the frigate Belfast as trophy's of their victory.

Most of the fighting in the asiatic sphere was limited to the Bay of Bengal, and the Indian Ocean. By the end of the war, the american sloop New York had returned to Japanese waters, as a permanent resident of Edo harbor, serving as the first concrete link between the United States, and her new Asiatic ally. But, this was not the end of the fighting in Asia.

Within 30 years, Japan had secured the island of Formosa, and the Korean peninsula from the Chinese, and were prepared to make a full drive into Manchuria, when the Chinese peacably signed over Manchuria to the Japanese in 1850. Over the past 30 years, china had come under siege. Japan, Spain, Britain, and Prussia had all assaulted Chinese waters, pummeled her navy onto the bottom of the South China Sea, and had carved up parts of Southern China for their own.

Japan agreed of course, and by 1880, Japan had fully industrialized the home islands, along with parts of Korea, Formosa, and had just begun in Manchuria. With this, the emperor, Emperor Meiji Mutsuhito took the throne of Edo, and took up the task of ruling Japan.

[Bulgaroktonos]

Offical Name: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Capital: London

Pre-ISOT boundries: Britain, Ireland, Heilgioland, Hanover, British India, Malaya, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Cape Colony, Natal, Jamaica, Bahamas, various Caribbean Islands, Sierra Leone, Hong Kong, Falkland, Gibraltar, Kenya, Egypt
Post-ISOT boundries: Nix Canada, Hong Kong, Natal, Cape Colony, Egypt, Caribbean, Sierra Leone and New Zealand. Retain Suez Canal and surrounding territory.

Population:
History: OTL until Victoria. Victoria is born a boy, Alexander I (Victoria as Alexandra Victoria, IIRC, and Alexander is Alexander Victor). Alexander takes an active role in government, and is very good friends with Benjamin Disraeli with whom he shares a close relationship.

Britain's history is very much OTL, with a bit of a more aggressive stance by Britain, given Alexander's strong personality and involvement. The US Civil War saw the British taking a very vocal role in affairs. While refraining from actual involvement, Britain was very strident in its support for the South until 1863, when the cotton crop in Egypt came to fruition. The British then ceased their vocal support for the South.

Francophobia has been replaced by a fear of the Prussians. With Britain still holding Hanover due to no Salic law restrictions upon Alexander, the Prussians have been greedily eyeing it, their relentless pursuit of unification. Britain has twice intervened to prevent Prussian seizure of Schliesweg-Holstein. Due to superior British force, the Prussians have been forced to back down, and an arrangement was created by which the Danes retained Schleissweg and the Prussians recieved Holstein.

However, Britain's strength has created many greedy eyes, and Britain is not ignorant of it. France has long been jealous of Britain, despite their cooperation in various operations, such as the short-lived Crimean War. There have been rumors in London that France and Prussia would unite against Britain, with Prussia seizing Hanover and France gaining various colonial ambitions. This has led to the construction of the Disraeli forts. 8 forts currently guard the Suez Canal. They are huge and bristle with guns. They are manned by the 24th Regiment of Foot, the 1st Foot Guards, and the 42nd Highland Regiment at the time.

The previously built Palmerston forts have been reinforced with steel plating and concrete bracings.

The Indian Mutiny has had an interesting result. While at first Britain stripped away the EIC, and replaced it with the Raj, Disraeli and Alexander have been toying with the idea of giving India Dominion status in the near future. With tensions growing in Europe, Britian has felt the need to move their colonies towards more independent control, so Britain can focus on defending the Mother Country. Australia, South Africa, and India are subject to becoming the second set of colonies to become Dominions, as it has already improved control over Canada, and it seems to the British that by granting three of the most important colonies relative sovereignty, they will greatly increase their bureaucratic mobility vis a vis resource management and coordination with the Dominions.

In the armed forces, there is some discrepancy with ships in service in OTL versus ATL. Some ships sold for scrap, sunk, or met with other unfortunate accidents have not occured in TTL. Furthermore, the explosion aboard the Ironclad Vengence in 1867 led to the adoption of breech-loading cannons aboard all vessels built from that time on. Thus, the pre-dreadnoughts are all breechloaders, as are the armored cruisers and the HMS Captain (in TTL built at spec, and therefore remains stable).

For more on the military, see it's posting in the Armed Forces thread.

Head of State/Government: King Alexander I
Prime Minister William Gladstone

Flag: OTL

[Imajin]

Crown Colony of New Gotland (North Island, New Zealand)
Population: 1,045,345
Capital: Andorra Nova (Andorra the New)
King: King William Alexander of Andorra (Not ISOTed)
Governor: Henri Forne
Pre-ISOT boundries: North Island, New Zealand
Post-ISOT boundries: North Island, New Zealand
Armed Forces: Several large ships of the Royal Andorran Navy are stationed on the island, and there is a garrison on the island to keep native revolts down.
History: Andorra, in this timeline, collapsed under the odd Co-Principality. As a compromise, a Prince named Henri was put on the Andorran throne. He slowly enlarged the state, and was proclaimed King of France by the Protestants in the French Wars of Religion. In this war, it came away with far more land, though not all of France. It also had a large population.
Nordic explorer Rudolf Scanborg discovered the two islands now called New Gotland while working for the Holy Roman Empire. The Andorran Kingdom purchased the North Island from the Empire, and established a colony there.
Flag: Andorra does not allow New Gotland to have it's own flag. The OTL flag is used, however, it has a crown on the sheild, which is less fancy, without the border or motto.

Imperial Colony of New Gotland
Capital: Neu-Ostwein (New East Vienna)
Pre-ISOT boundries: South Island, New Zealand
Post-ISOT boundries: South Island, New Zealand
Population: 964,234
History: From the Same Timeline as the North Island. In this timeline, Rudolf von Habsburg never became Emperor. Instead, Ottokar got Austria under his control, and formed a large Czech state that eventually stretched to Dalmatia. It was under the Premysl Emperors that New Gotland was discovered. The South Island was the first to be discovered and settled.
Armed Forces: 10,000 Imperial Troops, organized into two divisons, are stationed on the island. The island's naval contingent was mostly lost in the ISOT, only the large ironclad HIMS Ottokar II was ISOTed.
Head of State/Government: Holy Roman Emperor Ottokar III
Flag: White Cross on Red, growing out of Imperial War Flag, has become a general Imperial Flag.

[Imajin]

Kingdom of Karelia
Lands ISOTed: Karelia, Finland, Kola Peninsula, Aland Islands, New Guinea, Karelian Cathay
Lands not ISOTed: All other islands in the Baltic, Estonia, Koopenhamina (Copenhagen), Ingria
King: Vaino II, King of Karelia and of Estonia, Royal Duke of Finland and of Aland, Conquerer of Swedes and of Danes
Capital: Viipuri
Armed Forces: See thread
History:
The Karelian Tribes managed to unite under a common leader to fight off both the Swedes and the Novgorodian Rus. When Sweden was forced into the Kalmar Union with Denmark-Norway, Karelia took advantage of the political chaos within the Union to attack it. The armies of Karelia managed to crush those of the Union. Karelia came away with all of Finland, Estonia, and all of the islands in the Baltic (other than those integral to Denmark, and even Bornholm was taken from there), and the Kalmar Union broke apart before it even really began, with even Norway escaping Danish dominance.
Karelia then had to face off with the power of Novgorod. After the Ingrian War, however, Novgorod's power was completely broken, and the Prince of Novogord was forced to become a vassal of the King of Karelia. This, oddly enough, secured it's independence from Muscovy.
In the 1500s, Denmark, which had expanded its lands to include Schleswig, Holstein, and Pomerania, as well as it's traditional lands (including Scania), decided to regain some of its lost islands. The Dano-Karelian War of 1546-1564 was a long, harsh battle between powerful forces. Finally, Norwegian entrance in the war resulted in the Treaty of Helsinki. This treaty gave Copenhagen, and the land on the other side of the Oresund. The capital of Denmark was moved to Roskilde.
Karelia was now a major power, and recognized as such. It dominated the Baltics, and would do so for almost four hundred years afterward. These 400 years were not peaceful. There was a War with Sweden (1623-1645) which resulted in a loss of northern Finland, though the Second Karelo-Swedish War/War of Finland (1662-1672) resulted in Sweden losing it again. Denmark tried to seize Copenhagen in the Copenhagen War (1698-1675) which resulted in the deportation of the Danish population of the Oresund area, and the replacement of them with Karelians, and the renaming of the city to the Karelian name "Koopenhamina". The 1700s were a bit more peaceful, however, in 1768 two claimants came up for the throne. The Karelian Civil War only ended in 1800, with Novgorod having broken free.
In the 1800s, the Karelian East India Company was formed to take advantage of trade with India. The compant was forced out of India by the English, however, and moved on to the islands, eventually carving out an 'exclusive resource zone' consisting of New Guinea. It also gained a treaty port in China. These became a formal colony in 1858.
Flag: Green-Black-Green, with a Karelian Bear in the center. The naval flag is a green cross, a green saltire, all on black.

[Imajin]

Julian Republic
Population: 245,567 (65% Catholic, 35% Pagan)
Capital: Urbs Julius
Language: Julian Latin, Portuguese
Head of State: Consul Tarrius Milites
Armed Forces: Defense is the priority of Portugal. There is a police force of 100 on the island, and three Portuguese : The Capital Ship Avis, and the coastal patrol ships Joao II, and The Joao III.
History:
The Republic Society was formed in the Roman Empire during the reign of Trajan. The Society called for a return to the Roman Republic, and became popular in the upper echelons of Roman Society. Trajan feared them, and "gratefully" "offered" them the chance to form a Roman Colony in Mauretania. However, their ship blows off course, and they end up on the Azores, where they build the city of Julius, in honor of the leader of the Society.
The Julian Republic quickly stagnated into a slow cycle of expansion and assimilation of the natives, until Portuguese Contact. The Portuguese didn't see the islands as too useful, but seized some of the smaller islands for a refueling station.
When the Portuguese were taken over by the Spanish, the Spanish took over the whole islands, and forcibly converted many to Catholicism. The Spanish were harsh rulers, and to gain the support of the people, the first Braganza rulers of Portugal granted the Julian Republic mostly independence, "gratefully" taking over defense for them. The Julian Republic remains a de facto Portuguese territory, but is theoretically independent, with it's own culture and language. Surprisingly, the 35% Pagan population of the islands, oppresed brutallly under Spanish rule, are allowed to practice their religion, though converts to Paganism are banned and not recognized as such, and the Consul must be a Christian.
Flag: Green-White-Green, with SP QJ, and in the space between the letters, a large Roman Eagle holding fasces.

[Imajin]

Kingdom of Armenia-Trebizond
Monarch: His Royal Highness, Alexander III, King of Armenia, Emperor of Trebizond, Grand Duke of Yerevan, of Nakhichevan, Khan of Karabakhand of Zangezur
Capital: Tigranocerta is being rebuilt by nationalists, Trebizond is currently used, Yerevan is an important city, as are Stepanakert, Van, and Ani.
Armed Forces: Later
Population: 3,345,456, 60% Aremenian, 20% Pontic Greek, 12% Turkish, 4% Azeri, 3% Kurd, 1% Other
History:
The Armenian Kingdom's history is somewhat vague in character, but it's origins trace to the falling Mongol Empire. Several Khanates were formed out of Armenian Anatolia, including Zangezur and Karabakh. It was the Khan of Zangezur who began a period of Armenian expansion, conquering the Khanate of Karabakh and expanding into the lands ruled by Turks, as the Ottoman Empire expanded from it's base in the west. After seizing land south of the Greek Empire of Trebizond in 1567, the Khan of Zangezur-Karabakh took the title "King of Armenia". This immediately propelled him into conflict with the Khan of Yerevan, who had taken it upon himself to make himself "Grand Duke of Armenia in Yerevan and Nakhichevan". The superior and larger Armenian forces easily took his territory, and his title in 1580.
In 1590, King Geyches II the Great of Armenia left the Kingdom to his son, Alexander I. In Alexander I's reign, the last of the Trapezuntine Emperors died. Alexander happened to be the closest heir, and the Empire, a strip of land on the Black Sea including the wealthy city of Trebizond. Alexander made his capital in Trebizond.
Since then, the Kingdom of Armenia-Trebizond, as it became called, mostly kept the same borders, and had relatively good relations with the Turkish Ottomans. For a time it acquired the Crimean Peninsula, though later it lost it to the Ottomans, who eventually had to cede it to Russia. Tensions are often seen between the Greek Orthodox Trapezuntines and the Armenian Apostolic Armenians, however, the King-Emperors have done an admirable job in helping to bridge the gap.
Flag: Red-Green-Blue Tricolor. Origins unknown.

[Lauranthalas]

Country: Empire of All Russias
Capital: Moscow
Pre-ISOT boundaries: Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan (without Karabakh)
Post-ISOT boundaries: Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan (without Karabakh)
Population: 90,000,000
Head of State: Peter the Block
History:
After Ivan the Terrible united all Russias and declared himself the first of the Czars his family ruled the Empire under an iron hand. Over the years the Russians fought against the Mongols and won more and more territory. By 1684 Russia defeated the Mongols and they and their allies China split the Mongole Empire. To that time Russia annexed Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
But soon another enemy in the south began to rise. The Saudi Arabs, to that time so powerful that it included area up to Georgia and Azerbaijan urged to war with the Empire. The current Czar, Peter the Great, allied with India and Greece and the alliance won after a 2 year war. Now Russia annexed Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Due to ongoing revolts in Armenia and Karabakh (Azerbaijan) Vladimir the Good, the son of Peter the Great, let those areas becoem sovereign nations.
About 50 years later in 1759 the Ukraine was being attacked by the Austrians. Russia allied with the Ukraine and again they won still in the same year. The Ukraines ties to the Empire began to come closer and closer over the decades and in 1832 the Ukraine became part of the Empire of all Russias.
Czar Ilyich III began to create a 3 class society. The military which included 1% of the population, the aristocrats which included the family of the Czar and his ministers and the workers around 99% of the population. The working class could be split again between peasents, proletarians (town workers especialy industry), the middle class (business owners, doctors, other educated people) and clerics. But because of 40% taxation in the country the "middle class" people were still living at the bordre to poverty. These educated workers were about 5% of the 99% not in the military. Clerics were also around 5% from the 99%. proletarians were about 35% of the not enlisted and the rest of 55% of not enlisted people were farmers.
In January 1873 Czar Ilyich III was assassinated by a bomb in the train he used to come from St. Petersburg back to Moscow. His son Peter V became the new Czar. His first action in power was to kill the assassins by sending them to the guillotine without trying them. His advisors told him this creates a lot of fear in the people and so Peter V began to execute all of his enemies publicly by the guillotine. This is how he got his nickname Peter the Block. He only needed 2 years until all opposition forces were oppressed.

Armed Forces:
800,000 infantry; 75,000 Cavalry; 25,000 Artillary; 11 Cruiser; 18 Ironclads; 17 Pre-Dreadnoughts; 11 unarmored Cruiser (outdated); 2 protected Cruiser (outdated); 19 Corvettes

Flag:

[Glen]

Offical Name – The Kingdom of New Granada

Capital – Rotates yearly between Cartagena, Havana, and Guatemala Antigua. Currently the Cortez and Royal court are being held in Havana.

Pre-ISOT – Southern Mexico from Tabasco and Chiapas through all of Central America, Ecuador (and the Galapagos), Colombia, Venezuela, the Guyanas, all Caribbean Islands, Bahamas, and Florida East of the Auchilla River.

Post-ISOT - Same

Population – 30 million

History – POD occurred in November 1549 the Conclave chooses 61 year-old Juan Alvarez y Alva de Toledo as Pope. At the moment of his election, de Toledo is struck mute and unable to communicate for a month. Upon his recovery he announces he has had a vision of Jesus who told him, “You will be called Beneficent, for through you my Beneficence will be shown to the world.” Pope Beneficent (later St. Beneficent) was previously a conservative Dominican who even recommended the reconstitution of the Inquisition in light of the Reformation. However, after his vision he demonstrated a complete change of heart, bringing an accelerated counter-reformation to the Catholic Church, instituting tolerance and a more heterogeneous and flexible approach to belief. Protestant movements on the continent never take hold. This change in the character of the Church was cemented with the lengthy forty year reign of Pope Beneficent, who died at the age of 101 years old. By the time of his death, all the Cardinals were his appointments, and he had tended to promote younger men than his predecessors, and thus secured his legacy of reform. The vision of Saint Beneficent would go down in Christian history as the most significant since Paul on the Road to Damascus.

Pope Beneficent’s influence was especially felt in his birth nation of Spain, where the combination of elation at the elevation of a Spaniard to the head of the church, combined with the miraculous circumstances surrounding Beneficent caused the most amazing alteration in the spirit of the nation. The new tolerance allowed talented people previously excluded, even non-Christians, to rise to the fore and the administration of the Empire would be the better for it. It also made for a more humane treatment of subject peoples in the New World.

One of the earliest changes this new spirit engendered was a reorganization of the administration of the Iberian (Spain and Portugal would still be ruled by a single monarch for a time as in the OTL) New World. The Spanish Empire was split into three Viceroyalties (with Brazil comprising a fourth) in 1566, the Viceroyalty of New Spain in the North (essentially as in OTL sans southern Mexico and the Caribbean), the Viceroyalty of New Granada in the Center (comprised of the Caribbean, the Captaincy of Gracias i.e. Southern Mexico and Central America, New Granada, Venezuela, and Ecuador), and the Viceroyalty of Peru (the rest of South America) in the South. Within a few years, peninsular Florida, which had closer ties to the Caribbean, would successfully petition the crown to join the Viceroyalty of New Granada. New Granada would also expand along the Northern coast of South America to include all the Guyanas.

With this reorganization also went a new wave of energetic and empowered viceroys. The Viceroyalty of New Granada paid particular attention to affirming Spain’s claim to the entire Caribbean, and fought tirelessly to drive pirates and buccaneers out of her waters and islands (many didn’t actually leave, but settled down to a quieter life of smuggling). More of the profits of the New World were re-invested in developing the viceroyalties, leading to greater growth and prosperity. The papal edicts decrying the unending bondage of slaves in the 1560s influenced the Spanish Crown to enact limits on the length slaves could be held in bondage to 15 years for those captured and forced into slavery, and 20 years for those in debt. The peon system was also reformed, and over the centuries the two practices would be gradually phased out and replaced by free labor by 1723.

The Viceroyalty of New Granada developed along distinct regional lines. The South American (the Spanish Main) region’s wealth was based on mining, first precious metals and gems, and then later with coal and iron. Oil exploitation has begun, and has virtually replaced the use of whale oil. Coffee and cocoa were also major products of the region. Coffee and cocoa remain major domestic and foreign products. Indeed coffee and chocolate beverages are a strong tradition in the nation, and are consumed by all from an early age, usually on a daily basis (heavily sweetened with Caribbean sugar, of course). The most patriotic drink is a sweetened Mocha. Guyana at the intersection of the sugar and cocoa producing regions has become a major candy producer, and ships tons of candy to Europe and North America.
The Caribbean Island region (including the Florida peninsula) built its wealth on growing and exporting sugar and sugar products, and indeed has had a virtual monopoly on the trade. The Central American region struggled at first to find a niche economically. Of course, this region was still a major producer of bananas, plantains and also pineapples. And in recent years it has developed a large textile industry with cotton imported from New Spain. But as the Pacific grew, it became an important link in transoceanic trade. The culmination of this tradition was the construction and later modernization of the Panama Canal.

A canal linking the Pacific and Atlantic (via the Caribbean) had been proposed as far back as the early 1500s, but the viceroyalty only seriously considered the project in the ending decades of the 17th century. The project took many decades to complete and suffered several setbacks initially. However, enthusiasm remained high throughout the region for the project and with some additional backing from financiers of the other two regions and the crown, it was completed in 1733. The project stimulated the development of many new technological innovations and served as a model for canal construction for a century. Indeed, canals would be built to facilitate transportation throughout Central and South America, based in no small part on the hard earned experiences of the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal itself would undergo a major expansion and modernization that was completed in 1846.

Banking is a big business in New Granada, which has some of the most banking-friendly laws in the world. The Central American region particularly has worked to build their banking sector, much as the Swiss have in Europe.

The Industrial Revolution started at the dawn of the 19th Century in Northern South America, and spread rapidly to her sister nations and across the sea to the continent. Although overtaken early on by some of the great nations of Europe in terms of percent output, the New Granadan industrial sector grew at a rapid pace as factories spread throughout Venezuela and Columbia at first, and eventually to the rest of the South and Central America. The Caribbean remained focused on agriculture and shipping. Worker conditions were safeguarded early on by activist priests following in the best traditions of the Church. With industrialism came the railways, which finally pierced into the interior of the continent and soon crisscrossed the nation. However, sea travel was still the main transportation of the nation, with the Caribbean serving as the highway of the country. Indeed, most New Granadans think of themselves as men of the sea, and even the lowliest will often have a small boat they employ for pleasure and dream of the great merchant fleets of the Kingdom. One particular technological marvel achieved in recent years was the laying of the ‘Great Circle’, a telegraph system that traverses down the entire length of Central America, across the Northern South American region, and then continues up the chain of islands until it reaches Cuba, where it then travels its greatest underwater length from the tip of the island back to the Yucatan, completing the circuit. Important spurs of the telegraph network go south to Ecuador in the west and Guyana in the east, as well as north up the coast of Florida. This rapid communications system has been especially useful in providing warnings of approaching Hurricanes to the nation. It also has aided in the work of the New Granadan Customs service, a branch of the New Granadan Navy that has a particularly strong presence along the islands of the Caribbean. Tall towers and in some locations balloons, are stationed on a majority of the islands, allowing spotters to sight ships approaching New Granadan waters, and fast ships can be dispatched to interdict any shipping that fails to stop off at a Customs port for inspection.

The Viceroyalty of New Granada became the Kingdom of New Granada in 1747, when the King appointed four of his children as vassal rulers of the four former viceroyalties (Spain and Portugal remained jointly ruled), and he himself was proclaimed Emperor of the Hispanic Empire. The new Kingdoms by and large followed the trend already developing on the Iberian Peninsula at the time of delegating authority in most matters to the elected officials of the Cortez. Initially, the Cortez only represented the landed class. However, over the centuries the restrictions on who might vote and serve in the Cortez were eased, and by as early as the 1780s even minor landholders could elect and be elected to the Cortez. By the 19th Century, voting for the Cortez was based on universal male suffrage and anyone could be elected to represent the people.

Supplementing the Cortez, the King has a Council of the Peoples that has a member of each of the many indigenous peoples in it, as well as other minorities not represented in the Cortez. The original purpose of this body was to provide advice to the government from a quarter otherwise not heard from. While it gives them a voice, it has no real power. As these groups have started to see representatives elected to the Cortez (for example, the Maya and African descendants), their Council representation has been dropped. However, several minorities of recent European immigrants are now represented in the Council.

Education levels are generally high, with primary and secondary education provided by the Church, and universities are subsidized by the government for those who pass the rigorous entrance examinations. The ‘standard’ dialect and accent of New Granadan Spanish is based on the regional Colombian style, and is considered one of the loveliest and most sophisticated in the Spanish speaking world.

Culturally, the Kingdom of New Granada follows a model of the chivalrous criolle caballero that has percolated through to all levels of society as one to aspire to (perhaps a little less so in the islands, where a more laid back version of mainland society exists). The reforms of the Church and subsequent Latin society have tended to ameliorate some of the worst biases towards women, but they still do not enjoy equality. Clothing tends to be similar to OTL 19th century mode, but with higher class attire widespread among the large middle class. One major exception to these cultural norms occurs during Carnaval, when masks go on and clothes get scarce throughout the nation. While most of the time, chastity and fidelity are virtues, during Carnaval a more bacchanalian spirit takes over. Liaisons during Carnaval usually stop at fully intimate relations, but can go quite far otherwise.

Another strong cultural trait of the Kingdom is the siesta. Businesses and offices close in the afternoon hours, and people slumber. However, this should not be construed as a lack of activity on the part of New Granadans. Indeed, work and leisure activities then continue far into the cool of the night, with most New Granadans not returning to bed until 1 or 2 in the morning.

Several decades ago, interest in studying ancient Mayan culture began in the north as new archaelogical studies began to give a clearer picture of those times. This trend has spread throughout New Granada, and Mayan elements have worked their way into the more stylish and fashionable quarters of New Granadan society. It is a popular excursion of gentlemen and their ladies to tour the great temples and ruins in the Northwest of the nation, and this has become a boom industry for that corner of the nation.

The most recent excitement in New Granada society was the recent elevation of a New Granadan to the Papacy as Pope Beneficent V. He has returned recently to the nation of his birth as part of a tour of the Americas, the first Pope to do so in a century.

The Kingdom of New Granada has a well-developed disaster response ability based on regions to deal with hurricanes, earthquakes, and the occasional volcanic activity.

Armed Forces – The Kingdom of New Granada, located centrally to her sister nations of the Hispanic Empire, does not require a large standing army (though the Florida border remains garrisoned), instead settling for a small professional corps that can serve as cadre for new recruits in time of war. Indeed, for anything less than war, most New Granadans will form a posse and aid the authorities in any confrontation. Almost universally, New Granadan citizens keep and maintain arms in their homes, part of the Caballero culture. Hunting remains a popular pastime (and in some more rural regions still supplements family diets), and thus most New Granadans are not only armed but proficient with their rifles. Also, dueling still remains an active part of New Granadan culture, both with sword and pistol, though the trend has been to fight to first blood rather than the death, and use of pistols for dueling has been on the decrease. In contrast to the army, the New Granadan Navy is well developed for its role as the protectors of the Caribbean and the adjacent Atlantic. They are also charged along with the navies of New Spain and Peru of patrolling the Pacific coast of the Americas. In the War of 1865 (1865-1870) with Russia and England, the New Granadan Navy distinguished itself in several actions. Several lessons of that great war were later incorporated into the new ships commissioned in latter decades. By 1880, the New Granadan Navy had many new ships with main guns on turrets and powered solely by steam (most commercial shipping in the Caribbean still use sail or sail and steam). Many of the older ships before that time still serve in the Customs service. Further maintaining the New Granadan Navy’s high standards is the ‘friendly’ rivalry between that navy and the navies of the neighboring Hispanic Empire nations. New Granada also has a strong Marine Corps to complement the Navy, and it is nearly as large as the Army.

See ME7: The Armed Forces for specifics.

Head of State/Government – King Carlos II of New Granada / Constitutional Monarchy (power shared between the Crown and the Cortez). Vassal State of the Hispanic Empire.

Flag - The Flag of the Kingdom of New Granada has undergone much evolution over the centuries. The Cross of Burgundy on the original flags has been simplified to a red diagonal cross. The brown lower triangle is variously stated to represent either the volcanos or pyramids of the region. The two triangular fields of blue obviously refer to the Pacific and Caribbean. The yellow gold of the upper triangle is probably just a remnant from Spain's own red and yellow gold motif, but is also ascribed several meanings, some saying it represents the precious metals of the region, and others saying it represents the fire of the volcano, and yet others see it as the sky above.

[Condottiero]

Official Name: Republic of La Plata
Capital: Buenos Aires
Pre-ISOT boundaries: Included OTL Argentine, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, plus some colonial territories in Angola, Hawaii, Carolinas Islands, Tahiti, Philippines and New Caledonia
Post-ISOT boundaries: Argentine, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Hawaii and New Caledonia

Population: 25,000,000 ISOTed

History:
POD 1771-1775 the Creole population revolted against Charles III of Spain. With the help of France and England the rebels managed to obtain independence for the Viceroyalty of La Plata. The Republic of La Plata is created.
1777 The Constitution of Córdoba is approved.
1780 An English invading army is defeated. Platense troops annex the Sacramento Colony that had been ceded by Spain to England.
1781 The Malvinas islands are occupied and settlements created there.
1786 The territories of the Vicekingdom of Chile are annexed.
1802-1810 Participation in the Napoleonic wars as allies of the French. Annexation of OTL Paraguay. After the defeat of Napoleon thousands of pro-french Spaniards arrive.
1821 President Gilsanz announces the start of the colonisation of the south: the Patagonia and the Araucania are to be incorporated to the Republic. The local Indian tribes will suffer the new Platense expansionism.
1830 Thousands of Europeans start to flood to the new territories. They arrive mainly from catholic nations (Ireland, Spain, Italy, Poland), but many russians and Germans are also received.
1855 La Plata gets Angola as a colonial possession in Africa after paying three million pesos to Portugal.
1857 The first transcontinental railway joins Buenos Aires with Santiago. The railway fever attracts workers from all the world and makes the platense meat and grain exports to raise hugely.
1863 An expansionist program starts with the build up of a modern fleet. The Philippines are bought to Spain.
1865 Full electrification of the main Platense towns.
1871 Border war against the Empire of Brazil. Creation of the Matto-Grosso Republic (a puppet state loyal to the Rep. of La Plata)
1875 Occupation of the Hawaii Islands.
1876 War with France. Occupation of French Possessions in the Pacific. France surrenders after the bombardment of Brest and other French European ports.
1878 The first electrical vehicles are presented in Buenos Aires. Participation in the Bolivian civil war. Creation of a puppet state there.
1881 First electrical public transportation lines in Buenos Aires. Annexation of Mozambique and Cameroon.
1882 The Empire of Brazil prepares war against La Plata with French help. Presentation of the first Diesel vehicles.
1883 The Event.

Armed Forces
The Republic of La Plata has a profesional army and one of the best Navies in their TL.

Head of State/Government
President Juan Sebastian Mastropiero
Vicepresident Manuel Dario
F.O. Minister Rodrigo Diaz de Carreras
War Minister Gunther Frager

Parliamentary democracy with two chambers and three main parties: Conservatives (now in the govmt.), Democrats and Liberals.

Highly developped economy (cattle, grain, steel, shipyards, railways, chemical industry, growing electrical industry,...)
Religion: mainly catholic but protestant, jew and muslim minorities are present.

[Condottiero]

Official Name: Papal States
Capital: Rome
Pre-ISOT boundries: Central Italy
Post-ISOT boundries: Central Italy
History:
1846 Cardinal Mastai-Ferreti becomes Pope Pius IX
1848 Riots in Rome. Pope escapes the city.
1850 Rome occupied by a franco-Spanish army. The Pope forgets his liberal ideas. Catholic hierarchy is restored in Great Britain and in most of the Protestant nations.
1859 POD: Victory of the Austrian Army in Magenta. Occupation of Savoy by an Austrian army. The Pope declares his neutrality in a war between two catholic nations, but congratulates privately the Austrian emperor and blesses the occupation of Savoy.
Victory of an Austrian army over a French one in Alençon.
1860 Treaty of Turin: the Austrians restore Savoyan sovereignty but Naples will become again independent under an Austrian Prince and the Papal States will remain independent.
1869-1870 Council Vatican I.
1873 Revolution in Savoy. Proclamation of the Republic. Invasion of Papal States, that are restored after the Austrian victory of Gaeta.
1878 Pius IX dies. Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi is cosen Pope as Leo XIII.
1882 Diplomatic confrontation with Bismark over Church’s rights in Germany.
1883 The Event.

Armed Forces
Small army formed by a few professionals and some volunteers from Catholic Nations.

Head of State/Government
Pope Leo XIII
Population 1,000,000
Chanciller (F.O. Minister) Cardinal Silvestro Massanzoni
War Minister General Johan Rudolf von Karlstejn
Elective Monarchy

[Condottiero]

Official Name: Caliphate of Skandistan
Capital: Al-Qobenaqa
Pre-ISOT boundries: OTL Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Carelia
Post-ISOT boundries: Denmark, Sweden and Norway
History:
645 The Ummayads go for Constantinople instead for North Africa.
The Bizantine Capital falls, and Tunis, Mauritania and Hispania are spared from Arabic conquest.
653 The arabs in Central Europe, OTL Viena falls
711 Battle of Trier, an allied army of Saxons and Franks is utterly destroyed.
720 Creation of the Emirates of Ungariya, Germaniya and Frankiya.
745 Victory of a Visigothic army over the Arabic forces in Roncesvalles. The Arabs must stop on the north side of the Pyrennees.
813 The Arabs take Jutland. The islamization of nordic tribes start.
825 The Roman Empire, that has again as capital Rome, signs a peace treaty with the arabs achieving a certain independence.
925 Skandistan is fully conquered by the Dane Emir Abdula Magnusson.
1010 The Emir of Germaniya rebels against Bagdad and declares himself Caliph.
1035 As the new Caliph of Germaniya is facing Arabic armies that come from the Balkans, the Emirs of Frankiya and Skandistan rebel and declare themselves Caliphs. Hassan al-Azraqi ibn-Sven is the first Skandistani Caliph.
1052 The Coalition of European Caliphs defeat the forces of Bagdad with Roman help.
1102 Some dane emirs land in England and start the conquest of the Eastern part, the Danelaw, that will be islamized.
1204 Nordic explorers discover Greenland and North America, they create small settlements, but the war against the Mongols in the East prevents any further effort.
1330 Small islamic settlements all along north American coast (the sourthener point is Florida).
1342 Victory of an allied Romano-Visigothic army in Arles. The Islamic tide is turned back in Europe.
1350 Scotland rebels against Skandistan with help of the Christian Irish Warlords.
1353 American Nordic settlements are abandoned.
1410 Skandistan missionaries spread between the indian tribes.
1425 Roman explorer Anselmus Amerius discovers a new route to America.
1439 Pact of Toletum between the Visigoths and the Romans by which they divide the new lands.
1499 Battle of Taqawonts (near OTL Atlanta) in which an Skandistany army is defeated by Roman settlers.
1501 The Ottomans invade Anatolia and the Balkans but they are defeated by the armies of Ungariya and Germaniya.
1502 War spreads to Europe, although the Skandistanies only get support from the Caliphate of Frankiya.
1523 Treaty of Lutetiya by which Skandistan recovers lost territories in the Americas but renounces to further colonisation. The Aztec Empire is annexed by the Roman Empire while the Visigoths get lands in OTL Venezuela and Brazil.
1550 The Romans annex the Incan Empire.
1573 The European Caliphates form an alliance against the Romans and their allies (Visigoths and Irish), but they had to sue for peace when the Ottomans invade Ungariya.
1630 Skandistan's colonies in North America prosper, although they are badly pressed by the Romans from the South and the Irish from the sea.
1750 Annexation of OTL Finland, Carelia and parts of Russia.
1800 Skandistan's territories in North America reach the Pacific coast.
1810 The North American territories rebel with Roman support.

1853 An Skandistany fleet defeats an Irish one in the Caribbean.
1870 The network of signal towers in Skandistan is completed (like the one in Pavane).
1875 All the main Skandistanian towns are connected through lines of steam-vehicles that carry passengers and goods (again like the trains in Pavane).
1881 Romans enter Germaniya with a huge army defeating and capturing the Caliph. Simultaneously the Visigoths invade Frankiya and the Irish Angliya.
1882 The Skandistany Caliph prepares an army to recover Germaniya and Frankiya for the True Faith. The Jihad is declared and the Caliph hopes this time they will defeat the Romans for ever.
1870 The Event

Armed Forces
Army (something like Napoleonic armies with some more modern elements)

Head of State/Government
Caliph Ragnar al-Ashraf ibn-Magnus

F.O. Minister Emir Muley al-Jamil ibn-Bey
War Minister Sheik Abdul ibn-Sven
Theocratic Monarchy
Population 15,000,000

[Condottiero]

Name: Province of Philippines (Rebel province of the Republic of Spain)
Capital: Manila
PreISOT territory: The province includes OTL Philippines
PostISOT territory: the same

History:
After the first Carlist war Carlos V was exiled to the Philippines in 1841.
In 1870 when the Republic of Spain was declared he rebelled with the garrison. Since then the Philippines had been working as an independent entity of the Republic of Spain (that did not fall in this TL), receiving an intense Spanish migration.

The French (1873), the US (1878) and Japan (1882) tried to seize the islands but the Carlist army with help from the British managed to repel the three attempts. This has made of the Philippinan society a very militaristic and closed one.

Fortifications had been built in all the main towns. And Carlist troops had been hired in several regional conflicts due to their quality.

Government
Absolutist monarchy: King Carlos VI of Bourbon
War Minister Lord Lewis Charles Ingnaz Fitzgerald, 2nd earl of Castleton
F.O. Minister Don Ramon Julio Iparralde Gorostiza

[Galbatorix]

Offical Name: Empire of Spain (Viceroyalty of Perú)
capital: Lima
Pre-ISOT boundries: Peru, Ecuador (including Galapagos), Bolivia
Post-ISOT boundries: Peru, Bolivia
Population: 11000000 million
History:

1.531 Conqueror Francisco Pizarro arrives to Tumbes.

1.535 Foundation of Lima.

1.536 Cuzco is besieged by Manco Inca.
1.551 University of Lima is created.

1.558 Divergence: Charles I gives his brother Fernando the Austrian AND BURGUNDIAN posesions and to his son Felipe II, the Spanish crown and Italy.

1.620 Spanish limited paticipation in the war of the thirty years.

1.650 Charles II son of Felipe IV and Ana de Sajonia (converted to catholicism) is crowned. He does not have the mental illneses of our timeline and is a great king.

1.789 The thirteen colonies rebel with spanish help.

1.826 Provincial reorganization in Spanish America.

1.854 Annexation of Georgia. Abolition of eslavery.

1.870 The Army of the Americas is modernized.

1.879 War against the British empire.

1.883 …

Armed Forces
Small army for defense of the Province and one naval base in Callao for the fleet of the Pacific.

Head of State/Government
Viceroy Count Don Alvaro de Mendoza
General of the Province army Don Juan de Castro
Chanciller of the Province Don Julian Gimenez de Urquiza

Political organization: The empire is an absolutist monarchy with some democratic concesions like the Cortes that help the Emperor in Madrid. The provinces do not have cortes but the main citizens usually meet the vireroy and help him.

Technology: there are railways build by the spanish. There are telegraphs and some steam tractors. Medium industry and strong mining production (silver, iron, copper and quicksilver).

[Galbatorix]

Offical Name: Empire of Persia
capital: Tehran
Pre-ISOT boundries: Persia, Irak, Azerbaijan, Afganistan, Turkmenistan and Pakistan
Post-ISOT boundries: Persia, Afganistan and Irak
Population: 35000000 million
History:

1.502 - 1.524 Ismail Y. Conversion to shiism.

1.514 - 1.555 war against turkey. alliance with portugal

1.581 alliance with spain against turkey. Badgad is taken.

1.587 - 1.629 Abbas I. capital is moved to Isfahan. Cenit of Safavida Empire.

1.629 - 1.642 Safi I.

1643 Hispanoportuguese territories taken by holland.

1.655 Abbas II expels the hollanders.

1.722 Afgans capture Isfahan.

1.732 - 1.736 Abbas III. Fall of the Safavids.

1.729 Nader Quli expels the afgans.

1.736 - 1.747 Dinastia Afsharid, fundada por Nader Quli.

1.751 Alliance with Portugal renewed. Modernization of the fleet and the army.

1.750 - 1.779 Karim Kan starts the Zand dinasty.

1.812 War against Russia. Persian army defeats the Zar army. Turkmenistan is occupied by persians.

1.827 Rusia invades Tabriz. Russian forces are finally defeated.

1.841 Persia invades india. Defeated by British.
1.834 - 1.848 Mohammad Shah.

1.848 - Naser ad Din Shah.
1.870 Army and navy modernized by prusian advisors.
1.879 Preparation of the invassion of India.
1.881 Great Britain allyes with Turkey. Turkey invades Irak.
1.882 Turkish forces defeated retreat to Syria.
1.883 …

Armed Forces
Strong Army to defend against Turks and British and small navy.

Head of State/Government
Shah Naser ad Din
War Minister Sheik Luft ali khan
Foregin afairs Minister Mohamed Ja'far

Technology: there are railways build by the prusian that allow travelling by the empire. There are telegraphs and some steam tractors. Small industry of prusian origin.

[perdedor99]

Official name: Free State of Draka
Capital: Archona[OTL Pretoria]
Leader: Archon William Trevine
Pre ISOT: All of Africa plus Ceylon and Aden
Post ISOT: OTL South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Angola, Rhodesia, Botswata and Zambia.
Population: unknown due to large feral population in the interiors. 3 Million Citizens 20 Million Serfs.
History: Draka TL: From Ian's Draka 2 TL

1700s - Dutch establish Cape Colony in South Africa. For reasons I'm too lazy to come up with right now, a full-scale colony of over ten thousand is soon established, rather than an isolated outpost. Could be that the Spanish beat on them more, and there is an exodus of refugees to the various Dutch colonies.

1776 - Outbreak of American revolution. Major Patrick Ferguson invents early breechloading rifle, an effective weapon which is nevertheless somewhat difficult to manufacture and maintain. It's deployment is only substantially more effective than existing technologies in the more elite regiments who are trained well in its use and maintenance.

1779 - France, Spain, Netherlands declare war on Great Britain.

1782 - British naval victories in Caribbean, occupation of Haiti and Trinidad.

1783 - Second Peace of Paris. Britain gains possession of Dutch Cape Colony.

1783 - Loyalty Acts passed by British parliament. Cape is renamed the Crown Colony of Drakia, all loyalists are offered land grants in various British colonies. As an incentive to shore up control of the Cape colony, free transport is offered to Drakia.

1782-84 - First Loyalist refugees begin to arrive, supplemented by an enlarged British Army garrison. Tens of thousands of loyalists and their families arrive, creating tension with the approximately forty thousand Dutch Afrikaaners. Within a few years, the population is roughly half dutch, half immigrant (mostly American loyalists), and early Drakian society absorbs a notable Dutch-Afrikaaner component.

1784 - Founding of Durban and Liverpool. Volcanic eruptions devastate Iceland, and twenty thousand Icelanders receive asymlum in the British Empire. Most head to British North America or the US, but seven thousand are given free passage to Drakia as part of an ongoing British effort to cement control of Cape Horn.

1786 - Founding of York (Pretoria, South Africa). Gold discovered in Whiteridge, substantial mineral exploration begins in Drakia.

1788 - Gold discovered in the Transvaal, diamonds discovered in the northern Interior. The new mineral boom renews immigration, and stimulates the Drakian economy substantially. Within several years, Drakia moves from an agrarian colony and outpost of a hundred thousand, to a bustling, rapidly growing mining center. First steam engines imported.

1790 - Drakian Legislative Assembly passes Indentured Labor and Master and Servant acts, regulating slavery in the colony as a method of exploiting the native populace conquered during the constant expansion of Drakian fronteirs.

1790-95 - Rapid growth of economy and population, export trades established. Growth of Drakian shipping, expansion of several British shipbuilding concerns to Drakia. Zanzibar and Aden seized. Free population exceeds 150,000, slave population nears 500,000. Significant expansion of the slave trade, beginnings of the formation of a slave-based plantation and mining society. There is a substantial surplus of slaves, and Drakia becomes a major exporter, to the discomfort of some Drakians and many British.

1793 - Conquest of Northmark (Rhodesia/Zimbabwe) by Drakian militias underway. A tradition of armed landholder militias and mercenary units arises, contributing more to the expansion of the colony than the more conservatively deployed British Army.

1793 - Outbreak of French Revolutionary Wars.

1794-97 - French population of Santo Domingo/Haiti flees before a slave revolt, ten thousand arrive in Drakia. A scattering of Royalists from France follow, attracted to the isolation and prosperity of the colony.

1797 - The massive and loosely regulated expansion of slavery contributes to several bloody slave revolts. Slave Cold grants all freemen power of life and death over slaves, Militia Act establishes substantial citizen militias and reserve service. First Janissary Legion is soon recruited, though it is over a decade before experience in managing and recruiting them allows the Janissaries to be effective, stable fighting forces.

1799 - British African Mining Company founded, soon given a monopoly on large-scale mining. Richard Trevithick soon arrives from Cornwall, appointed to the position of Inspector-General of Steam Engines.

1800 - Free population reaches 250,000. First local industries started as the wars render imports uncertain, cotton becomes a major crop. Conquest of Egypt, French West Africa by British Army forces supported by the Drakian Expeditionary Force, the brainchild of the Drakian governer who mounts an expedition at substantial expense, convincing the British to lend armed support. He is later granted governorship of the Crown Colony of Egypt, encompassing most of old French North Africa.

1805 - High-pressure steam engine perfected by Trevithick, construction of first railway line begins three years later.

1807 - Ottoman Empire declares war on Britain following British refusal to evacuate Egypt. Britain seizes Cyprus, Tunisia.

1812 - Ill-prepared American forces invade British North America, are held off in Upper Canada and Quebec, and eventually defeated.

1815-16 - Congress of Vienna confirms Southern Africa and Egypt as British. Many British veterans and Napoleonic refugees immigrate to Africa. Egypt established as a British possession (including Cyprus and areas of French West Africa).

1820-30 - Rapid growth of export agriculture and transport. Substantial anti-slavery sentiment arises in Britain, produces tension with Drakia and defiant anti-bourgeois sentiment in the colony. Increasing restrictions on slavery in many parts of the Empire, many slaveholders immigrate to Drakia. Drakia becomes elided to Draka in popular usage. The 1826 slavery acts are narrowly defeated under strong pressure from Drakia, causing a backlash against the colony in popular opinion.

1832 - Slave trade banned in the British Empire despite Drakian protests, major impact on Drakian slave economy. British attempts to enforce this meet with resistance. Rise of the concept of the indentured serf as a method of abiding by the letter, but not the spirit, of the law. Antislavery movements in Britain and elsewhere begin widely publicizing the Drakian treatment of slaves and "serfs", notable for its systematic brutality

1834 - Passage of the Reform Act by British Parliament, abolishing outright slavery and mandating humane treatment of bondservants. Drakian animosity sparked, also extends to issues of mineral wealth being drained from the colony to little direct local profit. Clashes between Drakian militias and British forces over enforcement of the act lead to slaveholder revolts.

1835-36 - The Draka Rebellion begins, eventually succeeds after substantial mobilization of the local populace overcomes slowly-reinforced British forces. The rebels rename York to Archona, after the head of the new government. The Republic of Draka is formed, a slavery-promoting, militaristic authoritarianism with many of what would today be called fascist tendencies. Despite this, sentiment in much of the US is decidedly pro-Draka. Within a short period, the first real Draka navy arises to protect shipping, though Britain is largely successful in restricting the slave trade.

1840-50 - Draka forces begin large-scale conquest of Central Africa, 20% of the population mobilized for years on end, women's auxiliaries gain in popularity. Difficulties with disease in the central jungles prove prohibitive to settlement, which proceeds slowly. Organized collection and repression of slaves under the new system leads to large-scale expansion of slavery, now legally referred to as serfdom. The Republic of Draka is geographically and politically isolated, but gains industrial self- sufficiency and begins organized encouragement of immigration and settlement of the fronteir areas under a system of land grants to plantations. Rise of the two-part Draka society (self-sustaining fronteir plantations and monopolistic industrial Combines), as well as the entrenchment of universal military service.

1852-53 - Mexican-American war, annexation of all Mexico forced by Young America faction. All of British North America joined as the Dominion of Canada, British presence in Canada and the Crown Colony of Egypt increased in response to American and Drakian activity (the continuing difficulties in settlement of Central Africa, despite great effort, and the social drive to ownership of plantations, combine to support various military expeditions and adventurism in West Africa).

1854 - Cuba, Phillipines, Hawaii annexed by United States, attempt by Southern adventurers to conquer Central America fails.

1859-63 - American Civil War. Republic of Draka provides large-scale "clandestine" (preferential sales of large amounts of arms) aid to Confederacy. Combined with simmering British popular oppostion against slavery from the days of the Draka Rebellion, Britain is soon swayed to heavily pro-Union sentiment. Following the Emancipation Acts in 1862, and clashes with Draka ships at sea, the British Empire joins the war against the Confederacy and the Royal Navy establishes an effective blockade against Draka supplies. American/British relations reach a new height, their best since the Revolution. Draka industry, in support of the Confederacy, gains its first experience with large-scale war industry. Sale of repeating rifles, gatling guns, steam warships to the Confederacy. Experimentation with steam-powered warcars (not particularly effective). Union casualties exceed 500,000, and sentiment in the Republic waffles on the edge of overt assistance to the Confederacy, but following British intervention and the abandonment of the pro-Confedaracy French position, the Domination is forced to back down to avoid being drawn into a losing battle.

1860-70 - Germany united, mosquito vector of malaria established. Large scale efforts to combat the tsetse fly in central Africa finally begin to achieve real success, expansion of Draka settlement northward begins to catch up with military conquests. Concerted efforts to bypass the disease-breeding jungles of Central Africa underway due to strategic desires for expansion into Northern Africa. 300,000 Confederate refugees welcomed to Draka under a deliberate emigration program, more refugees arrive during the period of Reconstruction in the southern US. Dominion of Australia unites Australia, New Zealand.

Military: Draka land forces

500,000 Citizen Defense Force
From those 100,000 are part of the Women Auxiliary Corps and 10,000 are part of the the Drakian Navy and Special Weapons Corps

Rest of Citizen Force is organized as mounted rifles in regiments. But they also fill the officers slots in the Janissaires units and manned the artillery units. Artillery regiments include batteries of Gatling guns for support. The doctrine is to use horses for rapid deployment and fight as infantry. The Citizens use tactics that IOTL were called Boer Tactics during the German Imperial Army 1902 War Games. So in reality of the 500,000 total you maybe have 100,000 real fighting pure Draka units not counting Artillery.

700,000 Janissaires

All of them organized as infantry with Draka officers. Artillery support is given by Drakian units. Well organized and also trained in "Boer Tactics."

Special Weapons Corps

The grand name given to the 25 airships in service and the 225 steam armored cars. Neither is what you called a war winning weapon.

[Ward]

French 3rd Empire
Capital Paris

Pop 47 million .

History is the Same as the French 3rd Empire in are time line upto 1870 .
In 1870 the French won the Franco Prussain War . The took over All of Prussia Western Lands .
The Empeor Napoleen III died in 1881 and was repaced by Napoleen IV .
France is a major power in its time line Owneing North Africa as well as West and Centrual Africa .
The French Army is manned 60% by Draft which calls up 90% of each years class for a two year hitch in the Army .

In its time line it has the second lagest Industral Base in the World after the United states , and just ahead of the British Empirer .

As it stands now it has lost a magor part of its industral base since the French Rhine area did mot come across .


Head of Govermet Napoleen IV .

[Othniel]

Country:
(1)Dutch Southwest Comapny
(2)Pro-Dutch Natives
(3)Anti-Dutch Natives (Be it independant of influence, or for a anouther colony)
Capital: (1) None (2)-(3) Mobile
Pre-Isot Borders: Free trade Area (Everything that is trans-app.)
Post Isot: (Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Lousianna, and West Florida)
Population (1) 855,000 Dutch (2 & 3) Incalcuble
Armed Forces: (1) 3 Battalions pre every 800 miles of territory. 5 per city. 1 Pre-Napoleonic millitary ship per every 12 civillian ships.
Head of State: (1)Regional Company Representive
(2& 3) Shaman and Chieftans.