Is there an iOS version?
I dont know

Anyway, here is the color chart with all the country names
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KRF.png Katanga Free Republic

The region today known as Katanga would stay unexplored until 1899 when a group of Dutch explorer from Nieuw-Friesland discovered cooper gisement. The long treck in inhospital land would mean that very little dutch would immigrate before the opening of the Kongo river to western interest. In 1938 the dutch company KK (Katanga Kopermijnbedrijf/Cooper mining company of Katanga) would officialy be formed to exploit the region richesses and Katanga would be reorganize as a formal Dutch colony but immigration would stay minimal (mostly engineer and head of project), the bulk of the operations being done with cheap local labor. During the early 50's white immigration would pick up due to local unrest, ironically when the locals began to demand more rights, especially the Lunda and Sanga peoples, they were laid off and replaced with untrained white peoples looking for a job. However, these European were majorly not Dutch, French, German and Poles were the main source of cheap labor as they were often escaping chaos or poverty. With the collapse of the Dutch Empire, and Europan colonies in general, the colony of Katanga was found to be cut off from the rest of the world. The chaos menaced to spread to Katanga as the Songe minority wanted to be reattached to their northern brethren and poor urban black peoples demanded rights. The Dutch Vice-roy in charge of Katanga decided to reform the whole country in order to preserve it (and its valuable mines) from violence, voting was extended to everyone without wealth recquirement (as it was first established in 1938 to prevent black peoples from voting while preserving a varnish of respectability) and began for the first time taxing the KK in order to finance social services. Land without mineral wealth beneath it was redistributed via a minimum quota per person, while white farmers often avoid it by pooling their land togheter and creating cooperatives it still allowed for a effective way to give back some of their land to the natives. But these reforms also had a dark side, if the Luba-Katanga, Sanga and Lunda ethnicity, which formed the major native groups in Katanga, were the main beneficiary of these programs, smaller communities like the Ruund or Songe were violently repressed by the Landweere, the local garrison forces, which recruits were both from the white population and mostly Luba-Katanga under Dutch officers.
While it stabilized the country, this also allowed new voices to be heard, while the local ethnicity formed their own party to represent them, poor urban white and black people as well as miners created the Social-Commonwealth party, a party advocating for nationalization of the local mineral wealth instead of the feeble taxation imposed on the KK as well as total independance from the Dutch Empire. To oppose them was the Conservatieve-Democraat, a conservative party which promoted small government and keeping ties with the ''Vaderland'' created by the Dutch elite as well as wealthy citizens, supported by the KK. After a hot race, the SCP was voted in power and began to install its program, after 40 years of operations, the KK saw its assets bought back by the new government and the company closed its offices in Katanga. The new national mines were redesigned with better safety procedure and unions were finnaly allowed, its wealth allowed a rapid devlopment of the country. The cities were redesigned and social-housing permitted the removal of the slums near tracks and factories, alleviating many salubrity and health issues. While the back country also saw improvement with local schools and clinics, the cities (were the SCP voters were) saw the most funding. However, a small hickup in cooper priced proved to be a near disaster as it caused the government to take large loans to continue its services. This proned the SCP to diversify the economy of the country, the cooper and other minerals could no longer be smelted and exported away. While a fair effort was given, the hickup proved to be the warning of a slow decline of the cooper price and declining revenue and voters fatigue allowed the CD to win elections. They did stimulated the economy and redressed the budget during their mandate but many of the social project like creation of more tribal lands were abandoned and replaced with merging of communities to simplify distribution of services.
 
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Republic of New Flanders (Republiek van Nieuw Vlaanderen) (Virginia + Carolinas) + Free States of Jansland (Westsylvania) and Wyominck (Southwest Pennsylvania)
The land that is now New Flanders was first discovered in 1619 by Dutch explorer Jan Frederik. A colony was soon set up, and it competed for space with neighboring New Netherland. After the Triple Revolution (New Netherland, New Flanders and Willemsland) concluded in 1804, New Flanders was quite massive. So massive, in fact, that it almost descended into civil war twice during the first half of the 19th century. In 1864, New Flanders was finally split up into eastern New Flanders, western Jansland, and northern Wyominck. New Flanders and its successor states enjoy good relations and trade with their neighbors.
 
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