Fractured (Map Game)

Welcome to Fractured, don't be implausible, don't be stupid, and try not to screw yourself over.

Backstory
2018 - It's a shit year in summary. North Korea keeps testing their missiles, the Syrian Civil War rages on, Russo-Ukrainian tensions are increasing, the migrant crisis threatens to split the EU and the Rohingya Crisis is about to escalate into genocide.

Goals
Choose a goal that adheres to your nation's best interests. For example, India won't give a shit about the European Migrant Crisis. A nation can only choose one or two goals to reach at any time.

End North Korean missile tests and threats

True When -
 * North Korean missile or nuclear program scrapped
 * Change in North Korean government
 * North Korea no longer exists

Resolve the Syrian Civil War

True When -
 * Syria is at peace
 * Change in Syrian government
 * Foreign military intervention
 * Syria no longer exists

Defuse the tensions between Russia and Ukraine

True When -
 * Russia and Ukraine are at total peace
 * Change in Russian or Ukrainian governments
 * Foreign military intervention
 * Russia and/or Ukraine no longer exist

Prevent genocide in Myanmar  [Completed]

True When -
 * Myanmar ends discrimination against Rohingya
 * Foreign military intervention to protect Rohingya
 * Rohingya are relocated
 * Myanmar no longer exists

We don't care how you fulfill your goals, just make sure they're done.

Rules
Just read the damn Map Game Handbook.

Type "Man's not Hot" to enter.

Amendment: Implausible turns or extremely vague turns will be crossed out. Players who continue to do this will be removed from their respective nation.

Map
Map made by Valor.

Mods

 * Owner - Sidewinder
 * Head Mod - LukaGaming
 * Mod - 
 * Map Mod - Valor

Applications open for reputable users only.

Nations

 * Russia (Mod)
 * Ukraine (Mod)
 * Syria (Mod)
 * Myanmar (Mod)
 * North Korea (Mod)
 * Germany - Valor
 * South Korea - MagicxPython
 * Vietnam - LukaGaming
 * India - Battlefield Evergreen
 * United States - EthanKoenigsberg
 * Norway - Fyorrian Mapping
 * Spain - TenaciousMapping
 * United Kingdom - Pisiu369
 * Mexico - TudorMapping
 * Oman - Mantomato
 * Georgia - Wizard - Justice soul
 * People's Republic of China - PlasmodiumSF
 * Burkina Faso - Enjaz47
 * Japan - Turkic Evuntia
 * Turkey - Lord Thundar

2018
North Korea launches two missile rests over Japan, sparking expected, but fierce international outcry with many calling for an end or solution to the madness that North Korea is doing.

'''Ukraine demands Russia recognize Ukrainian sovereignty over the Crimea Peninsula. Russia doesn't give a shit, but does not react aggressively lest the European states suspect more.'''

'''ISIS has been mostly cleared up in the Middle East, with splinter groups coming up every now and then. With this obstacle gone, Syria falls into their civil war again, with factions calling on powerful allies.'''

Republic of India

 * Politics: Nothing really changes except for the government becoming more nationalistic.  Communism starts to grow in various regions of India.
 * Economy: Our economy is booming and grows at a steady rate.  Our various industries are expanded.  A massive infrastructure project is put underway to reach parts of India and spread stuff like running water.
 * Indian Armed Forces:
 * Indian Army: We start to train and upgrade our army in preparation for possible conflicts.  Propaganda is put out encouraging people to protect their country.  We begin to build up on the border of Myanmar.
 * Active Personnel: 1,335,000 (+45,000)
 * Reserve Personnel: 962,000 (+2,000)
 * Indian Navy: We grow our navy and start to conduct naval maneuvers around Myanmar.
 * Indian Air Force: We expand our air force and start to fly close to Myanmese airspace.
 * Indian Coast Guard:   We highly militarize our coast guard to make it an un-machable force. We draft 500 million people into it and build a massive fleet to take over the world. The Indian Coast Guard becomes a feared force and is used to invade many countries like Liechtenstein.  We do coast guard stuff.
 * Wars and Conflicts:
 * N/A
 * Diplomacy:
 * China: We encourage China to try to defuse tensions in North Korea this Kim guy is getting pretty crazy and could lead to nuclear war, and I really don't think that's good for humanity.  We also think that tensions should be lowered between usand relations improved.  We propose to meet up to talk border conflicts.
 * Myanmar: To be blunt, if you don't stop genoiciding and discriminating Rohingya in your country we'll declare war on you.
 * Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan: You are asked to join us.  Highly "encouraged".
 * Maldives: We will take care of all your people in case of you sinking.


 * Bangladesh: We should fix our exclaves/enclaves problem.

Kingdom of Norway

 * Economy: The economy doesn't have a large growth, it only grows about 0.07%.
 * Military:
 * Active Personnel:  24, 418
 * Reserve Personnel: 47, 086
 * Wars and Conflicts: None
 * Recent Events: None


 * Activity:


 * We request to purchase the Murmansk Oblast from Russia for 1.5M $, in order to maintain friendship.

Iran

 * Politics: Nothing that major happens.
 * Economy: We fund more into infrastructure, and start programs in Tehran and the border to make infrastructure better.
 * Iranian Army:
 * We train more soldiers and send a few to Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
 * Our airforce starts to conduct large scale strikes on ISIS, the Syrian rebels, and Hadi forces.
 * Active Personnel: 530,000
 * Reserve Personnel: 350,000
 * Wars and Conflicts: We send soldiers to the Iraqi government, Syrian government, and the Houthi rebels.
 * Diplomacy: We would like to improve relations with Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Qatar.

Vietnam

 * Politics: S O C I A L I S M
 * Economy: In order to make our economy better, we start funding more into less developed, rural areas and build more infrastructure.
 * Demographics: 96 million people (85.7% Vietnamese along with 53 minorities)
 * Military: 
 * Numbers:
 * Land force: 500k active, approx 3.1m reserve.
 * Navy: 50k sailors & officers, 91 ships
 * Air Force: 36k personnel, 285 aircrafts
 * Technology:
 * anything idk
 * Diplo: 
 * PRC: We would like to maintain friendly relations and trading, but please use higher quality stuff to trade.  Also, we ask you to put a solution to the North Korean problem.
 * Myanmar: We request you to stop the discrimination against Rohingya people, or else we will have to take action.
 * ASEAN Nations (mainly Thailand and Laos): We would like to request aid to stop the Rohingya discrimination if Myanmar does not comply.

2019
''' Myanmar reassures the international community it is not committing any human rights violations towards the Rohingya, but videos submitted over social media beg to differ. They also cite Indian aggression as a violation of their national sovereignty. '''

''' ASEAN has confirmed it will take action against Myanmar for their behaviour. '''

''' Russia does not want to sell the Murmansk Oblast for a mere 1.5 million. '''

''' Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Nepal begin arming themselves in response to what they see as a threat to their sovereignty by India. '''

''' Bangladesh accepts the proposals by India in redrawing their borders to make them less cancerous. '''

''' North Korea doesn't give a shit towards any nation, testing what looks to be another hydrogen bomb underground, this time more powerful than before. '''

''' The PRC begins pressuring North Korea more to cease their bullshit. '''

''' Ukrainian forces engage in skirmishes with the pro-Russian Donetsk People's Republic, with Russia looming over this menancingly. It is also noted that Ukraine joins the European Union for defensive purposes. '''

''' ISIS is losing ground severely, and has been almost completely ejected from Iraq. '''

''' The Syrian government begins actively engaging with the rebels once more, as the thorn of ISIS is being killed off. In a recent event, 182 civilians were killed in several airstrikes, leading to international outcry. Both sides deny responsibility for this. '''

''' South Korea begins conducting more military drills in coordination with the United States, while Japan removes Article 9 from their constitution, and builds up a sizable army and navy. '''

Kingdom of Noregea (Norway)

 * Economy: The economy grows about 1.93%.
 * Military:
 * Active Personnel:  27, 625
 * Reserve Personnel: 48,262
 * Wars and Conflicts: None
 * Events:
 * Capital Change
 * A lot of Norwegian people move away from Oslo, causing the largest city to move from Oslo to Bergen. Bergen is also made the capital of the nation.
 * Writing Shift
 * With the new generation, more people start writing in Nynorsk instead of Bokmål, causing Nynorsk to be the official written language.
 * Norwegian Renaming
 * With the written langage shift, a lot of words become disputed (along with the name of the country), so they let the people decide. One of the 2 names reccomended by Erna Solberg was Nårgea, which was chosen. The name changed in English after this event too and became Noregea (No-re-je-ya).
 * Diplomacy:
 * Russia: If you do not want to sell it for 1.5 million, how much would you sell it for?
 * Germany: Could I join the EU?

Federal Republic of Germany

 * Politics: Nothing major
 * Economy: Our econmy grows at 1.9% but Germany aims to get it at 2% by 2020.
 * Military: 
 * Numbers:
 * Active personnel 185,000 solders
 * Navy: 81 total naval ships
 * Air Force: 698 total aircraft.
 * Wars and Conflicts:
 * N/A
 * Diplomacy:


 * Norway: We let you into the EU.
 * ASEAN: We support what you are doing with the Myanmar crisis. If Myanmar shows further acts of injustice we will place sanctions on them through the UN.

United States of America (bad turn)

 * Backstory
 * 2018: Donald Trump is facing an impeachment crisis in early 2018 following further investigations from the FBI regarding of the 2016 presidential elections and further condemnation of Trump tweeting alt right tweets out of nowhere in a form of two tweets, which dimished his own approval and international condemnation, however Sean Hannity claimed the disapproval was made by left-wingers, Democrats and "libertards" and led to him being fired on May 2018 as his own rhetorical fights and advertisers pulling off from his show went too far for Fox to handle, thus a search for a more centre-right wing commentator was being made. During the 2018 midterm elections, the Democrats took foothold of the Senate but the House of Representatives remained mainly as Republican in overall, while Trump which he's now under the Weinstein effect once again after more allegations of him harassing being released into the public on June 2018 which were mainly unheard off, further pushing into a possibility of removal. Then on 7th September, it was found out that a bomb was put in by a left-wing to attempt the killing of Donald Trump and that was too far for him and yet he still survived in the remainder of the year 2018 commanding military drills with South Korea against North Korea and now by the end of the year, Donald Trump is considering to reveal plans to declare war on North Korea and arming nuclear weapons to aim at the city of Pyongyang if they continue "to test nuclear missiles".
 * Government/External Politics
 * Still Narrowly Survived: While Donald Trump's term doesn't end until January 2021, he planned to wage war with North Korea before Election Day and plan for the White House to directly ignore the Senate, blocking any proposals from the Democrat-majority Senate and votes, rigging it to make it in favour of Trump - which could allow him to wage directly war on North Korea even if warnings are in his own way, but many condemn it as unconstitutional. The impeachment process however was still ongoing but there was no vote to get him out of here, while investigations of the 2016 presidential elections were still ongoing.
 * Israel: Due to alienation of relationships with most Muslim countries by now, the United States' government under Trump began indirectly funding Israel on their own settlements after recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on December 2017 and push Palestinians even further out of the region of what was formerly part of the Palestinian Mandate before the UN Partition Plan.
 * Syria: The United States gradually withdrew troops from Syria to focus on the Middle East "over something else", particularly Israel.
 * Military: Military funding has heavily increased during Trump's administration and the 2018 budget would see that as well. (I would've done a basic list of personnel but I was kind of lazy so)
 * Economy: Corporal tax cuts had led to corporations growing, but looming debt and other overlooked economic events are about to put the weight of the US economy soon and by the early 2020s, the economy of the United States would likely see the stock market crashing again since 2007-08. Unemployment is also at its lowest at the end of 2019.
 * Diplomacy:
 * North Korea: "Rocket Man must stop doing nuclear tests or we'll annilate you in few weeks!" said President Trump.
 * Japan: The United States seemingly praised the end of a peaceful constitution of Japan after 70 years because of tensions with North Korea had escalated in the late 2010s.

Vietnam
Demographics: 97 million people (85.7% Vietnamese along with 53 minorities)
 * Politics: S O C I A L I S M
 * Economy: In order to make our economy better, we start funding more into less developed, rural areas and build more infrastructure.
 * Military:
 * Numbers:
 * Land force: 500k active, approx 3.2m reserve.
 * Navy: 50k sailors & officers, 91 ships
 * Air Force: 36k personnel, 285 aircrafts
 * Technology: anything idk
 * Diplo:
 * India: We are looking for a peaceful diplomatic situation with the Myanmar crisis so please cease your warmongering actions. Also, you don't want to be seen as a force from hell in the public eye, no?
 * Myanmar: Again, cease the discrimination activities.
 * US, Japan & South Korea: We would like to enter a technology co-operations pact between us three countries.
 * Rohingya Crisis:
 * We send reporters and photographers to get more solid proof about the situation.

Republic of Korea (former) | Korean State (present)

 * Government:
 * Politics:
 * Assassination of President Moon Jae-in: On March 27th, 2019, the president of the Republic of Korea, His Excellency Moon Jae-in was assassinated. In an emergency statement, the Prime Minister, now President, Lee Nak-yeon has declared that emergency elections will be held on the fifth of July.
 * Emergency Elections: The day has come, the fifth of July, 2019. After months of campaigning it seems clear about who the winner will be: Choo Mi-ae of the Democratic Party of Korea. But, it seems that a certain "patriotic party" of Korea has different plans.
 * Transition into a Nationalist State: On the seventeeth of July, only a week after Her Excellency Choo Mi-ae's inauguration, the National Assembly Proceeding Hall is stormed by hundreds of members of the alt-right party, the Korean Patriotic Party. All armed with guns ranging from small handguns to Daewoo K14s, K2s, etc. Being held at gunpoint, without immediate contact with the military due to the "rioters" jamming all cellular and radio devices, they surrender to the KPP. All current members of the National Assembly are replaced with KPP party members, and the presidency is transition from Choo Mi-ae to Kangjon Seung-Hee, the KPP's leader. The title of president is also changed from "President" to "Taewonsu", meaning Grand Marshal [of the State].


 * Laws and Policies:
 * Narcotics: Drugs that are not too damaging to a person or the people, animals, etc. around them are legalized for both medical and person use. This includes mushrooms, ayahuasca, marijuana, and LSD. However, tobacco is completely banned due to its high risk and rate of lung cancer, both to the user and those around them. Another regulation is that those who have visited a bar are not allowed to leave without having a breathalyzer test performed on them.
 * Abortion: Abortion is made strictly. If they do not want their child or do not have the ability to care for the child, they will put it up for adoption. To compensate for this, state-funded adoption agencies are created and funded.
 * Unemployment: In order to compensate for unemployment, many of the unemployed, whether male or female, are forced into working in the military, whether it be active duty or medical, etc.


 * Analytics:
 * Economy: Many new policies are made in economics to improve it. The first policy is to increase interest rates through the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve's rate is the rate at which banks borrow money from the government, but, in order to make money, they must lend it at higher rates. So, when the Federal Reserve increases its interest rate, banks have no choice but to increase their rates as well. When banks increase their rates, less people want to borrow money because it costs more to do so if that money accrues interest. So, spending drops, prices drop and inflation slows. The second method is to increase reserve requirements on the amount of money banks are legally required to keep on hand to cover withdraws. The more money banks are required to hold back, the less they have to lend to consumers. If they have less to lend, consumers will borrow less, which will decrease spending. The third method is to directly or indirectly reduce the money supply by enacting policies that encourage reduction of the money supply. Two examples of this include calling in debts that are owed to the government and increasing the interest paid on bonds so that more investors will buy them. The latter policy raises the exchange rate of the currency due to higher demand and, in turn, increases imports and decreases exports. Both of these policies will reduce the amount of money in circulation because the money will be going from banks, companies and investors pockets and into the government’s pocket where they can control what happens to it.
 * Infrastructure & Public Services:
 * Demographics:
 * Ethnicity:
 * Religion:
 * Gender:


 * Development & Standards of Living:


 * Military:
 * Withdrawal from the Non-Proliferation Treaty: Just like our northern communist counterpart, we have decided to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Our scientists have already begun drafting blueprints for what a nuclear missile might look like. Taewonsu Kjeong has made a statement saying that we do not plan on using the bomb for offensive purposes, but rather deterring North Korea.
 * Wars and Conflicts:
 * Korean War (June 25, 1950 - ???):


 * Korean Armed Forces:
 * Korean Army: The Army consists of:
 * 927,000 active soldiers
 * 6,278,048 reserve soldiers
 * 2,856 tanks
 * 3,028 armoured fighting vehicles
 * 2,183 self-propelled artillery
 * 5,729 towed artillery
 * 235 rocket projectors


 * Korean Maritime Force: The Maritime Force consists of:
 * 532,000 active soldiers
 * 205,000 reserve soldiers
 * 1 aircraft carrier
 * 14 frigates
 * 13 destroyers
 * 16 corvettes
 * 17 submarines
 * 73 patrol craft
 * 12 mine warfare vessels


 * Korean Air Force: The Air Force consists of:
 * 200,000 active soldiers
 * 85,000 reserve soldiers
 * 452 fighter aircraft
 * 489 attack aircraft
 * 370 transport aircraft
 * 290 trainer aircraft
 * 92 attack helicopters


 * Diplomacy:
 * Vietnam: We don't make deals with communists.

2020
''' Russia declares they will sell the Murmansk Oblast for 10 million USD. '''

''' Journalists report of the Rohingya being taken to apparent shelter camps, but escapists report otherwise, with forced labor and violence being part of the many horrors they experience within these camps. '''

''' Myanmar further denies the conditions of the Rohingya in these camps, saying they are legitimate welfare camps. '''

''' The Arab states express their discontent with the recent decisions of the United States in what may be an act to suspect them of threatening Israel, as well as the new conditions of the Syrian Civil War. '''

''' North Korea launches another missile test, this time directly over South Korea. It tells South Korea that their nuclear arsenal is far better than they could ever come up with. '''

''' Ukraine and the Donetsk People's Republic officially are at war. Russia continues to supply its puppet state with weapons and supplies, ignoring whatever Ukraine says. '''

''' Japan builds up an impressive navy and land force in a matter of months, comprised of mostly American units. '''

''' The Syrian government makes larger gains in their civil war, fueled by the American withdrawal. '''

Kingdom of Noregea (Norway)

 * Economy: The economy grows more after joining the EU, at about 3.03%.
 * Military:
 * Active Personnel:  29,104
 * Reserve Personnel: 50,047
 * Wars and Conflicts: None
 * Events: None
 * Diplomacy:
 * Russia: OK, we will buy it for 10.3 million.
 * Germany: We should help Ukraine with the war going on, they are a member of the EU. I'm giving you 1000$ and 400 troops for the war, in case Donetsk gets close to the capital.
 * Ukraine: I suggest moving your capital to Lviv, closer to EU and NATO forces.

United States of America

 * Government
 * North Korea: The United States of America begins planning an invasion on North Korea by themselves, although Trump wasn't confident it'll be done well so he continued to do rhetorical threats against North Korea and their leader Kim Jong-un and have the US military begin preparing their missiles to aim at North Korea should North Korea wage war according to Trump, along with the preparation of any missile attacks (particularly intercontinental missiles) on Hawaii, Alaska and the West Coast due to heightened threat.
 * Israel: With Trump re-elected, the US heavy support for Israel is unlikely to stop despite global warnings.
 * Election Day: The 2020 presidential elections was much divided, many people want Trump out of office but there are some Republican supporters who are willing to vote for the Democrats instead because they see Trump as "illegitimate", particularly those in the urban areas. Elizabeth Warren, a senator from Massachusetts became the Democratic presidential candidate sometime in March and was defeated in that election, with President Trump re-elected just narrowly with 271 electoral college votes. However Trump became even more radicalised on 2020, promising "a war against North Korea, aided by allies" during his second term.Idkwhatamidoing.png
 * Radical Trump: The United States is out of the Paris Agreement signed in 2015, which was meant to target a lower goal of greenhouse emissions by 2020. Trump is also considering to block any attempts made by the FBI onto the 2020 presidential elections, if they were rigged by Russia or not because he had miraculously secured 271 votes when Warren should've gotten enough voters to secure her place. (America is basically an oligarchy with the electoral college .-.)
 * Military: Budget remains relatively the same under the Trump administration while there were calls for many to slash the military budget by 40% to be done to other means such as welfare but they were ignored due to the threat of North Korea that Trump had hyped along.
 * Economy: Still growing but there's a risk that the economic bubble of the United States will burst by the 2024 presidential elections or the 2022 midterms at its earliest.
 * Technology:
 * Railgun (US Navy): Researched.
 * Space: Trump launches a plan to get a man on the Moon before 2025 and yet the budget of NASA is barely $25 billion for the 2020 budget which isn't enough for them to launch a man on the Moon once again since 1972 while SpaceX isn't really affiliated with the government (and is owned by a very rich person) and the US government doesn't intend to force on them anyway. So NASA had to force themselves to drop their own climate observation, which the Republican Party would intend to cut down climate research on NASA as they are one of the strongest deniers since Trump was inaugurated in office to look forward to space.
 * Diplomacy: Trump's rhetorical moves got even worse.
 * South Korea: Because they have went away with nationalism, we decided that the United States will handle North Korea on OUR own situation. Unless you want us to be in the game, then we will handle our own instead.
 * Japan: We ask if we can conduct military drills against North Korea (in the sea of course) and potentially help us on the run to overthrow the government of North Korea and replace them with another government.

Vietnam
Demographics: 98 million people (85.7% Vietnamese along with 53 minorities)
 * Politics: S O C I A L I S M
 * Economy: In order to make our economy better, we start funding more into less developed, rural areas and build more infrastructure. GDP growth is approx. 6.3%


 * Military:
 * Numbers:
 * Land force: 500k active, approx 3.2m reserve.
 * Navy: 50k sailors & officers, 91 ships
 * Air Force: 36k personnel, 285 aircrafts
 * Technology: anything idk
 * Diplo:
 * India: Cease your warmongering actions against Myanmar. Your actions will not be tolerated.
 * ASEAN: We propose designating an area to relocate the Rohingya people, as letting them stay under Myanmar soil won't help.

Korean State

 * Government:
 * Politics:
 * The Taewonsu's Speech: "The weapons you are acquiring are not making you safer, they are putting your regime in grave danger," Kjeong said during an address at the Korean State's National Assembly in Seoul. "Every step you take down this dark path increases the peril you face.


 * Laws and Policies:


 * Analytics:
 * Economy: Improving as much as it can, especially with recent policies.
 * Infrastructure & Public Services:
 * Demographics:
 * Ethnicity: Mostly Korean.
 * Religion: Mostly Atheists, Agnostics, Buddhists, etc.
 * Gender: Close enough to a 50/50 split between the two genders.


 * Development & Standards of Living: Working on it.


 * Military:
 * Nuclear Weapons: The first
 * Wars and Conflicts:
 * Korean War (June 25, 1950 - ???): Many more soldiers are stationed on the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, including anti-aircraft guns and anti-ballistic missiles used to shoot down any possible nuclear weapons launched by North Korea.


 * Korean Armed Forces:
 * Korean Army: The Army consists of:
 * 1,092,000 active soldiers
 * 6,378,048 reserve soldiers
 * 2,901 tanks
 * 3,732 armoured fighting vehicles
 * 2,472 self-propelled artillery
 * 5,938 towed artillery
 * 246 rocket projectors


 * Korean Maritime Force: The Maritime Force consists of:
 * 540,000 active soldiers
 * 223,000 reserve soldiers
 * 1 aircraft carrier
 * 14 frigates
 * 13 destroyers
 * 17 corvettes
 * 18 submarines
 * 76 patrol craft
 * 13 mine warfare vessels


 * Korean Air Force: The Air Force consists of:
 * 210,000 active soldiers
 * 95,000 reserve soldiers
 * 479 fighter aircraft
 * 517 attack aircraft
 * 389 transport aircraft
 * 311 trainer aircraft
 * 98 attack helicopters


 * Diplomacy:
 * United States: Seung-hee requests that the United States does not handle North Korea, "on its own accord" as that would likely lead to many nukes being dropped on South Korea and Japan, due to North Korea being in closer proximity to both compared to the United States. Seung-hee also states that we are not a "nationalist state", but rather a "right-wing" nation trying to protect itself from its crazed neighbors.
 * North Korea: In a speech that hundreds of thousands of people attended in person, let alone those who watched on television, Seung-hee made a statement that North Korea will soon come to an end. Should the Kim regime attack South Korea, they will be met with the hell of a thousand dogs as a South Korean counterattack would cripple their army.
 * Japan: We may not have been the best of friends the past few years, but there is a threat that could eradicate us both. We request that joint military drills be held between us.
 * Vietnam: We realize that while you may have been 'communist', or, say, socialist, but we request that you adopt a more democratic form of government, whether it have a system like us, the United States, or even European countries.

2021
''' Russia sells the Murmansk Oblast to Norway for 10.3 million USD. '''

''' Ukraine moves its capital to Lviv. '''

''' Japan pledges support to the United States and South Korea in removing the threat of North Korea. '''

''' ASEAN holds a conference to decide on the relocation of the Rohingya, but cannot decide on a specific location. Myanmar's suggestions to move them into an island aren't helping any bit. '''

''' Military drills occur between Japan, the United States and Vietnam in the Pacific and South China Sea. '''

''' Unrest grows in the Arab World. '''

''' The rebel forces in Syria have lost 60% of their territory since the Russians increased support for Bashar al-Assad. Many blame the Western World for not helping the army in restoring democracy. '''

''' North Korea test launches a missile which accidentally hits a Malaysia Airlines planes, killing everyone on board as it erupts into an inferno. This causes international outcry, with some seeing it as a declaration of war, while others chalking it up to the list of times Malaysian aircraft got their ass handed to them. '''

Kingdom of Noregea (Norway)

 * Economy: The economy grows more after joining the EU, at about 4%.
 * Military:
 * Active Personnel:  29,138
 * Reserve Personnel: 49,183
 * Wars and Conflicts: None
 * Events: None
 * Diplomacy:
 * Sweden, Denmark: I think we shound make our alliance a military alliance too, with the wars down south. We can support eachother.
 * Ukraine: I'm sending some troops, they should arrive soon.

United States of America

 * Government and Politics: Trump's White House becomes even more radicalised as a result of the re-election into presidency and boycotted any efforts of the Senate repealing Trump's "radical policies and laws" that were signed by him. Impeachment once again goes into the play again as Trump is abusing even more power.
 * North Korea: Despite the current South Korean government trying to have the United States not interfering local affairs, Trump ignored the message and when interviewed about it he said the words to reporters: "We are fine about our position, there's nothing to worry about. I've got Japan to help out on a military drill against North Korea." They also continued to install multiple anti-ballistic missile systems in the West Coast, Alaska, Hawaii and most of their overseas territories such as Guam and responded to the plane attack "being reckless", thus they began putting in a blockade on their eastern coast by sending in USS Carl Vinson and few ships into the Sea of Japan to "attack any missiles going towards the sea", intensifying the conflict and the North Korean crisis started up by Trump.
 * Israel: The Trump administration still supports Israeli settlements and position of Jerusalem.
 * Libertarian Party: The third party and more well significant than others, the Libertarian Party is now expected to start gaining a seat in the House of Representatives in a two party system but probably not in the Senate however and there were even calls for a reform of democracy and voting system being held in the United States. The Trump administration refuses for a change to the way the election works, even during presidential elections.
 * "Is Paris too late?": In an unexpected announcement, Trump had announced that the United States would come back to the Paris Agreement only if such conditions specified for them keep the American economy going and thriving despite a growing amount of debt, risking an economic bubble burst next year as some sceptics say on July 2021. (NPC response required, please)
 * Military: The military budget stabilises somehow, meaning that the budget of an estimated $610 billion dedicated to the military for research and other necessities have stopped gaining more money. However, there were alleged plans of slashing the military budget to 550 billion and relocate it mostly to space research and welfare as Trump decided to push for infrastructure revival in his second term towards the "declining" Midwest.
 * 1,470,000 active personnel
 * 1,100,000 reserve personnel
 * Economy: While the Dow Jones index score had reached 30,000 for the first time in history, this would likely all come down when the economic bubble that has being grown rapidly during Trump's term in the presidential office, which could lead to mass unemployment. Economists and other politicians are scrambling to divert the US economy out of another potential stock crash but they will eventually find out that the inevitable will always happen and delaying the economic bubble from bursting would mean it'll only get worse.
 * Technology and Research
 * Space: With NASA only having a set budget of $25.5 billion for the 2021 budget, they are now fully focused on landing a man on the moon with the lander being built in a matter of few months, which would be able to have at least three crew members stay and sustain themselves for about few days with essentials such as water but there will be not a lot of storage for food in long term to conduct a month long research as they are trying to get their hands on returning to the Moon since 1972. Trump said that "it'll be a great leap to Mars if they're successful". Now the processing and long-term development of rockets begin.
 * Other technologies: Modern technologies such as the rise of internet television (say Netflix for example), fifth generation of mobile networks and even smart speakers are starting to take over the US market and daily lives in the early 2020s and it is expected that internet television would overtake satellite television by 2026 at earliest.
 * Diplomacy:
 * China: The United States seemingly had a grudge on the move after satellite images show unusual activities in the border of North Korea, which made Trump becoming even more suspicious of them potentially taking over the world through soft power (but the United States is less interventionist in the Middle East since Trump took over)
 * North Korea: Trump called out in a fury of tweets "that Rocket Man is going to suffer the wrath" and messages towards the North Korean regime.
 * South Korea: (see Government and Politics: North Korea)
 * Israel: A stack worth $5 billion is proposed to be sent to Israel to fund their settlements even further despite Palestinian persecution. It would be sent next year but there is a likely chance of Arab outrage while Israel under a right-wing party would still live on as a stable state.

Vietnam
Demographics: 99 million people (85.7% Vietnamese along with 53 minorities)
 * Politics: We now enact a "Democratic Policy", allowing a second major party to be elligible for elections.
 * Economy: In order to make our economy better, we start funding more into less developed, rural areas and build more infrastructure. GDP growth is approx. 6.4%
 * Military:
 * Numbers:
 * Land force: 500k active, approx 3.4m reserve.
 * Navy: 51k sailors & officers, 91 ships
 * Air Force: 36k personnel, 285 aircrafts
 * Technology: anything idk
 * Diplo:
 * India: Cease your warmongering actions against Myanmar. Your actions will not be tolerated.
 * ASEAN: We probably could use one of our islands (or island chains) to relocate them, and ensure they have enough protection and aid.
 * Korean State: Is allowing a second party ok for you yet?

People's Republic of China

 * Government: The Social Credit System (otherwise known as Sesame Credit on western media) that was conceived by the government and AliBaba nearly one decade ago has entered its first phase and is now being implemented all over the country. The system rates a citizen's actions by awarding credits when they favor the government, this includes things such as following official news media, buying local products, defending the governmemt on social media, among others. If successful, this system will ensue absolute control over our citizens in the near future.
 * Politics: Xi Jinping has decided that it's time to counter our nation's enemies and to defend our interests. We become increasingly combative on international issues, especially those regarding our region. Within the country not much changes, the Communist Party continues to keep the reins of the country.
 * Economy: Apparently the entire globe is having a sudden economic surge since all the GDPs are rising despite the overall conflictive and unstable situation of the world. Therefore, thanks to this historic economic miracle, our economy somehow still manages to stay the biggest (or second biggest, depending of your source), with our GDP rising 3.9% (because that's a reasonable number right?).
 * Conflicts:
 * Operation Wucheraria (North Korea): North Korea is invaded on January 20th after they failed to fulfill our demands multiple times (among those demands there was a petition to stop their nuclear program). War wasn't officially declared and the entire operation has been carried with extreme caution. The operation began when 50,000 little green men crossed the border into North Korea. Shooting and actual attacks were avoided and reduced to a minimum, with the only objective being to secure a position in the border. In the end, the border town of Onsong was occupied. Troops did not invade further south, reducing the occupied area to some square kilometers. As part of this operation, the capture of North Korean disidents ceased, and all the anti-aircraft and anti-missile were activated. The air force was also mobilized. All of this was done to stop any incoming nuclear warheads from North Korea.
 * Operation Rhabdovirus (India and Myanmar): Seeing how India has illegally invaded Myanmar, we decide to intervene in favour of the government. 300,000 troops are sent into the battlefront, pushing the Indians back to the border (it is worth mentioning that we won't advance into Indian territory). Borders are secured to prevent an Indian counterattack (although such an attack is unlikely due to it being made up of mountain ranges). Formal negotiations for peace begin shortly after the operation.
 * Military: The military is being increased and upgraded, although there isn't an specific goal or priority right now. For partial (and outdated) stats, see this.
 * Railgun: We steal the USA's idea and start developing our own.
 * Diplomacy:
 * India: We demand you to stop the illegal aggression against Myanmar and to contain your expansionist urges on Sri Lanka, Buthan and Nepal. If you do so, we will make a compromise to pay for war reparations. You must also allow us to reach a consensus along with Myanmar in order to solve the Rohingya issue.
 * USA, Korean State, Japan: We understand and we share your concern towards North Korea's nuclear program, it is clear that they've gone conpletely mad ever since the Malaysia Airlines incidents. This is why we decided to execute a containment operation, which consists of a preventive strike on the border. Now that we've got the advantage, we will try to establish talks with the Kim regime in order to convince them of discontinuing their nuclear program. For now, we'll take care of it, but if talks become a failure, you are invited to join in a coalition against North Korea.
 * North Korea: You clearly screwed yourself with the entire nuclear program thing. You have no chances of surviving in a direct war against the West, and using these nukes to harm South Korea would be pointless as your nation would no longer exist. Therefore, your only chance of living is to stop your nuclear program inmediately and to lower your rhetoric to a minimum. Do this, or you'll lose all our support and we'll advance further in our invasion.
 * Myanmar: I think you're intelligent enough to realize that our support is not a goodwill act. We want you to relocate the Rohingya into our territory, we'll take care of them. This will get rid of the drama caused by the international community, and it will also allow you to stop worrying about them. We also want permission to build military bases in your country. Fulfill these conditions, or we'll withdraw our support.
 * Vietnam: Friendly reminder that keeping a socialist government allows you to have more control over your citizens and that changing to democracy within a short amount of time will only waste money and cause more instability within your nation.
 * Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka: Military equipment is sent, along with a couple of millions of dollars in funding. They are encouraged to arm themselves further in order to protect themselves from India.

2022
''' North Korea announces they will end their nuclear program, in order to keep China happy and their support from the nation flowing. '''

''' Several Arab states enact small but noticeable changes to their oil exports, specifically redirecting oil going to the United States to other countries that better suit their agenda. '''

''' Myanmar announces they will relocate some of the Rohingya Muslims to China, and a total of 7,000 have made their way there so far. However, disturbing reports on genocidal activities have been leaked, further staining Burmese reputation. '''

''' China's defense of Myanmar from the Indian invasion sends tensions between the two regional powers rising. Reignition of the Sino-Indian border disputes fan the flames further as China is accused of stationing troops on sovereign Indian territory whilst engaging in Operation Rhabdovirus. '''

''' Sweden and Denmark agree to the Norwegian offer for alliance, and form the Scandinavian Regional Security Council, which is joined by Finland and Iceland shortly after. '''

''' Debates have been made public in Vietnam on the subject of potential democratisation of the state, which is in turn spread to Laos and Cambodia. '''

Kingdom of Noregea (Norway)

 * Economy: The economy significantly drops after the Trondheim Earthquake, -6.43%.
 * Military:
 * Active Personnel:  30,284
 * Reserve Personnel: 49,014
 * Wars and Conflicts: None
 * Events:
 * Operation Svalbard: The uninhabited icy areas within Svalbard are shipped to mainland Norway, later to be melted and create fresh water. The fresh water is donated to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, incase of a major invasion on the mainland, so they can purchase some land there.
 * The Trondheim Earthquake/Tsunami: An earthquake of 7.3 on the Rictor Scale hits right off the coast of South-Central Norway, causing 4 injuries, but no deaths. About 15 minutes later, a tsunami struck the area, sending the cities of Trondheim and Rørvik underwater, crushing the country's economy. About 111,000 either died or were left homeless by the tsunami. Causing;
 * The Norwegian Migration: Due to the Trondheim Tsunami, a lot of people living by the coast were scared of losing their lives to a similar one. People living on the coast starting moving to cities further away from the ocean. Because of this, the population of Oslo skyrocketed, followed by Sjoa, Hamar and Sorli.
 * Diplomacy:
 * SRSC: Can you help us? We got hit by a major tsunami.
 * Ukraine: Are you holding out alright?

Republic of Turkey

 * Government:
 * Military:
 * Turkish Armed Forces:
 * Turkish Land Forces: This year the Turkish Land Forces are mostly attempting at increasing the number of tanks and manage to make it up to 3,000 tanks. Besides the tanks the AFV's are also increased with the Turkish Land Forces reaching a total of 11,350 AFV's. While the proces of increasing the Artillery has been slow the Turkish Land Forces are mainly focusing with Tanks, however next year it will likely be the Artillery the main focus as those are the Turkish Defenses.
 * Troops:
 * 430,000 Active Personnel
 * 390,000 Reserve Personnel
 * Land Equipment:
 * 3,000 Combat Tanks
 * 11,350 Armored Fighting Vehicles
 * 1,050 Self-Propelled Artillery
 * 700 Towed Artillery
 * 820 Rocket Projectors
 * Turkish Naval Forces: The Turkish Naval Forces invest more money in creating new Destroyers in order to have more successful battles. However, there is also one Aircraft Carrier currently being developed and it will be stationed in the city of Izmir once its done, which it is projected to be finished by 2023.
 * 5 Destroyers
 * 20 Frigates
 * 10 Corvettes
 * 15 Submarines
 * 40 Patrol Craft
 * 15 Mine Warfere Vessels
 * Turkish Air Force: The main focus of the Turkish Air Force as of now is transport, since through the air it is a lot more quicker and efficient than by going by land or by sea, the Transport numbers reach 600 by the end of the year and the Turkish Air Force is looking to duplicate that number by 2023.
 * 300 Fighter Aircraft
 * 300 Attack Aircraft
 * 600 Transport Aircraft
 * 300 Trainer Aircraft
 * 500 Helicopters
 * 80 Attack Helicopters
 * Conflicts:
 * Turkish Liberation of Northern Cyprus: With no ther countries recognizing Northern Cyprus as its own country, Turkey decides to invade Cyprus in order to incorporate Northern Cyprus back into Turkey. In January, 25,000 troops enter through Northern Cyprus and enter Southern Nicosia, the Cypriot capital. Which is quickly annexed due to the low population of Nicosia plus a blockade being made by the Turkish Naval Forces. The rest of Cyprus is swiftly occupied within just 2 weeks. In March, Turkey annexes Northern Cyprus while the rest of Cyprus is turned into a Turkish vassal.
 * Economy:
 * Diplomacy:
 * Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Mongolia: The Turkish Government proposes an alliance between all 6 nations as a way to preserve Turkic Culture and Mongolian Heritage. This alliance would be called the Turkic Pact and it would be a Military, Economical and Political alliance which will protect every nation in the alliance from foreign invaders while strengthening themselves.
 * Albania, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina: Although they are not of Turkic or Mongol culture they are invited into the Turkic Pact, as they are Muslim majority nations in Europe with influences from the Ottoman Empire. If they do join the Turkic Pact they will be granted with the same benefits as the other members.
 * India: An alliance request is sent to India, and the Turkish Government are whiling to help India in any big war they have if they do accept the alliance offer.

Burkina Faso

 * Economy: Not Bad (In 8%)
 * Military:
 * Active Personnel: 24,659
 * Reserve Personnel: 39,993
 * Wars and Conflicts: Northern Mali Conflict(?)
 * Events:
 * A New Secret Group has Appeared:
 * A type of unofficial(?) party(?) was found. It was believed the name was "Thomans Party of Burkina Faso" named after the leader of the party "Thomas Bassole" as he created his own ideology "Thomaism" which is in the ideas of Thomas's own beliefs of a nation. A soverign leader. mixed with socialism. nationalism. and making their own central banks as not owned by the Rothschild. etc. their place is somewhere in Brazil. a secret bunker of which. with plans and stuff. What will their future be? Will they knock down the government of Burkina Faso? Or is it gonna fail to try?
 * 2022/2023 Red Volta Shooting:
 * On the morning of December 31 2022. 15 gunmans opened fire in a crowd of Mosses at 2 villages in Central Burkina Faso. leaving 15 people dead and 321 injured, Most of the mosses were running away helpless from their homes and most of them are now homeless. The government of Burkina Faso is investigating about the tragedy at this time.
 * Diplomacy:
 * None yet.

Sultanate of Oman (Former) l Omani Technocracy (New)

 * Government:
 * Change to Technocracy: The Omani Nation had focused on expanding into the tech sector, taking an example from nations like South Korea and Japan, in an attempt to diversify the economy. However, after the Sultan passed away, a power vacuum had formed. With the lack of an heir to the throne, the people had no leader. A group of the most influential Omani scientists and technicians were elected as the leaders of the nation in a historic election. This group, the Technocratic Society, had the backing of 81.6% of the population.
 * Government System: The Government is run by a parliament of elected leaders. While anyone could be elected, the Technocratic Society has enough backing that they practically control the parliament. The Parliament consists of about 130 leaders, elected by the people in elections that take place every 4 years. The top 130 people in terms of votes in the elections are sent to the parliament, with the top one being the parliament speaker.
 * Act 1-1, The Incentivised Employment Act: Employed people get a small bonus to working and get free low-level healthcare. On the other hand, unemployment benefits are reduced. This is part of the "Perfect Employment Plan" or PEP. It is a 5-year plan to reduce Unemployment to the bare minimum.
 * Act 1-2, The Domestic Reliance Act: Domestic Businesses get incentivised to produce more and rely on domestic manufacturing to grow. This allows for the Economy to grow and for our firms to reduce reliance on foreign goods, which allows us to survive sanctions and allows us to export more, and to use our local resources to their maximum efficiency.
 * Act 1-3, The Domestic Military Act: While our economy grows, the nation would be useless without a good military. Taking a page out of Iran's book, we start manufacturing domestic military weapons. We set up 3 Air Force companies: Dhofair Team, Eagle Aviation, Salalah Aero Corporation. We also set up 2 Naval Companies: The Pearl of Muscat Team, Al-Said Naval. Land Warfare Weaponry is produced by the Qaboos Corporation. We also emphasise on Missiles, produced by the Technocratic Aerospace, another state-owned company.
 * Act 1-4, The Tech Evolution Act: Our Scientific Capabilities shy in the face of other nations. To make the difference, our government decides to build a few universities and schools that are free for nationals that earn low incomes. We also start upgrading much of the main cities with technology. This Act is part of the 10-year development plan.
 * Military:
 * Land Force:
 * Combat Tanks: 117
 * AFV: 950
 * Self-Propelled Artillery: 15
 * Towed Artillery: 168
 * Rocket Projectors: 12
 * Navy:
 * Corvettes: 5
 * Patrol Craft: 8
 * Air Force:
 * Fighter: 17
 * Attack: 37
 * Transport: 63
 * Trainer: 27
 * Helicopter: 52
 * Operations:
 * Operation Hadhramout: By accusing the Al-Qaeda Forces in the East of Yemen of attacking our nation and killing 3 border guards, we attack the Al-Qaeda positions with half of our land force, 75% of out Air Force and all our corvettes. Since Yemen is war-torn and has no actual government at this point, we expect no one to respond aggressively. We start building settlements in this part of Yemen and effectively occupy it.
 * Operation Houthi: The Houthis, while we are neutral towards them, have shown some impressive advancements in missile technology. We send an approved UN Aid Team to Sanaa, with 3 Loyal-to-us Yemeni Agents, to meet with the Houthis and establish some secret relations. This is presented under the guise of us trying to establish peace by meeting with both parties of the Yemen War.
 * Operation Free World: We send secret delegates to Turkey, Iran, Kuwait, Tunisia, Iraq, Syria and Palestine to discuss relations. We also send 50 Million Dollars to the West Bank to build settlements near Israeli Settlements.
 * Technology:
 * Modification of F-16: Our fleet of F-16 Fighters is slowly being modernised by our Air Force Companies, changing them into powerful, more advanced aircraft. They shall be changed from F-16 to DT-1. Out of our 17 F-16s, 4 have been modified, with better radars, better weaponry, and more advanced controlling.
 * Development of the Sultan Main Battle Tank: The Qaboos Corporation has started the design of a new Omani Main Battle tank to be completed in 2 years.
 * Development of the SAC T-1: The Salalah Air Corporation has started the designing of a Transport Aircraft that uses Solar Power and Electric Generators to Increase Efficiency. This Technology is planned to be showcased in 3 years.
 * The Ballistic Missile Testing: The Technocratic Aerospace has started testing Ballistic Missile shells and is making small gains to making their own variant of a Missile.
 * The Solar-Hydrogen Electrical Cell Technology: The SHECT or better known as the Hybrid Transport Technology, the HTT, is a bus service starting to be produced to reduce emissions. This Type of Bus will start production next year.
 * Economy:
 * Diversification: Our Economy is being diversified to reduce our dependence on oil
 * Production:
 * Domestic Protectionism: Reduction in Foreign Imports by imposing tariffs, and increased reliance on domestic goods and production.
 * Diplomacy:
 * Turkey: We want to increase relations. Also, would you be prepared to start a military drill with us?
 * Iran: We want to increase relations and help each other with domestic weapons production. Also, would you be prepared to start a military drill with us?
 * Kuwait: We want to increase relations. Also, would you be prepared to start a military drill with us?
 * Iraq: We want to increase relations. Also, would you be prepared to start a military drill with us?
 * Syria: We want to increase relations. Also, would you be prepared to start a military drill with us? We will also help your nation establish peace talks with the rebels on good terms and influence them into a peace.
 * Tunisia: We want to increase relations.
 * Myanmar: We regret your actions, please refrain from mass genocide
 * India: Increase in Trade?
 * China: We thank you for taking the Rohingya in your lands. However, you should agree that Myanmar's actions against them were incorrect. We would be happy to set up peace talks between India, Myanmar and China. Also, we would like to help build a settlement or two for the Rohingya.

Islamic Republic of Iran

 * Government:
 * Post-2021 Election: By the elections of 2021, the call for a change of leadership has swept the nation of Iran, particularly amongst the Principalists and Anti-establishment against the more moderate Reformists. Many Principalists and Reformist parties had formed their own coalitions - ending up with basically two major  pseudo-parties within the Iranian system. Abdol Estafahni of the Principalists were swept in from their election against the Reformists, largely blaming the recession on the Reformist's inability to prevent it.
 * Rise of Coalition parties:  The government became divided into two coalition parties, the Reformists (centrists/moderates) and the Principalists (conservatives/traditionalists). Most Leftist elements in the government were actually outlawed in Iran by the 2020s, but many leftist opposition parties in exile saw the economic reccession as a perfect opportunity to try to gain support amongst the population.
 * Military: In recent years, the Iranian government states that it has self-sufficiency in essential military hardware and defense systems. Tehran established an arms development program during the Iran-Iraq war to counter the weapons embargo imposed on it by the US and its Western allies. Since 1992, Iran has manufactured its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, missiles, radars, boats, submarines, unmanned aerial vehicles, and fighter planes. A new military budget for the next 10 years was introduced by President Estafahni in 2022, detailing the expansion of military power and establishment of military police within Iran's borders to help protect and contain against protestors and opposing entities.
 * Economy:
 * 2021 Nationwide Recession: On January 29, 2021, the Chinese occupation of parts of North Korea has caused a 'global' anxiety to beset amongst the people of the world. Iran markets alone has been pushed down in the past years due to a short reccession that occured in iran for over half a decade. This has caused worsening relations amongst the population and federal government, with opposition slowly gaining more control.
 * Diplomacy: Iran still maintains a hardline stance against infringing elements conducted by any Western entities within the Middle-east. In 2021, Iran became increasingly more interested in particiption of Middle-eastern affairs, increasingly seeing itself as it's natural protector.
 * Oman: Historically, we have had many deals with each other before. Many of those ended w/ both sides in good favors. We shall accept this, for now.

United States of America

 * Government and Politics
 * Midterms: The Democrats lost the Senate finally on 2022 midterms and the Republicans took a hold of 52 Senators in contrast to 48 Democratic Senators after the midterms. This allowed Trump to have the Senate do whatever he desired to reform laws such as tax reforms and the end of Obamacare once and for all before his second and final term ends.
 * Puerto Rico: A referendum was passed for the commonwealth based in Puerto Rico to become "the 51st state" and results will be announced in January 2023 while the rest of the people living in the commonwealth vote whether they should either be independent by their own choice, become a state or remain as a commonwealth (will contain bias next turn)
 * ”We don't recognize North Korea's status”: The United States issued that their travel ban on North Korea will remain the same since September 2017 for ordinary Americans and that they will not withdraw their blockade in the Sea of Japan. All missile defences are still in place should a North Korean missile be launched and yet the United States were the only state to be highly sceptical about the North Korean government "laying off their boots on nuclear testing".
 * Paris Agreement: The United States will begin setting its own goals (mainly set up by Democrats before midterms turn backwards with a Republican majority) as the United Nations wouldn't likely care about a climate denier. But at least Trump is partially satisfied of having his own way, but negotiating with Democrats of course, which hindered some Republicans' approval of him.
 * Israel: (See Diplomacy)
 * Military: Military budget is cut back to $550 billion due to "excess surplus" and there was enough budget to keep military research going.
 * Economy:
 * 2022 Economic Bubble: As the economic bubble blew up since Trump's inauguration as President of the United States in 2017, finally at midterms, the economic bubble exploded with many economists fared it'll happen like the late 2000s. Stock market has dipped back to 26,000, one of the worst since that time and yet the unemployment level had grown once again as a result of this stock crash. Now the Untied States is setting their own goals to make sure they "prevent something like this again for the next twenty years".
 * Technology
 * Space: They finally prepared everything to go back to the Moon once again (at least if you don't count the unexpected delay). The United States, after about five decades since they stopped landing a man on the Moon multiple times has decided to return three people and bring back multiple samples but due to multiple delays which disappointed NASA and residents a lot in anticipation, the launch date is now around sometime in late 2023 with extra precautions being taken care of by multiple engineers and astronauts.
 * Diplomacy: Trump’s diplomatic policy in the Middle East further isolates them from international affairs however they become even more sensitive to Turkish aggression in Cyprus.
 * Turkey: The United States issues economic sanctions over the aggression against the internationally recognised state of Cyprus and demand withdrawal from the buffer zone and further south. This also means they have to withdraw all of their holdings on Cyprus, including their full occupation in the Republic of Cyprus or they will begin military operations within the Middle East once again. Trump suddenly cuts ties with Turkey by withdrawing their embassy on 8th November and calls for the aggression against the nation of Cyprus to be taken seriously for Greece and extended the refugee ban signed by Trump in 2017 to Turkey as well. (They won’t get 5.4% of imports from us, but I doubt China will follow in)
 * Greece: The United States diplomatically pressures Greece not to let them take over the Aegean Islands as it'll not solve their financial crisis and will only lead to overpowering of Erdogan's dictatorship. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson however demanded the United States from refraining a full invasion of Cyprus but Trump decided to ignore that and wants Greece to take the occupation of Cyprus seriously. Any chance of giving them the Aegean Islands will result in "economic disparity".
 * Israel: $7.5 billion package is sent to Israel to further fund military and settlements to get rid of the Palestinian administration in the West Bank by pushing more aggressive settlement expansion (and maybe also the Gaza Strip).
 * North Korea: (See Government and Politics)
 * India: “We’ll be fine,” Trump said indirectly to India. However the United States is keeping an eye on Sino-Indian borders as border conflicts arise, however sanctioning China means a huge economic turndown so they won’t directly influence the area at that point.

Vietnam
Demographics: 100 million people (85.7% Vietnamese along with 53 minorities)
 * Politics
 * Democratization of the State: The Second Party (who cares what their name is) begins to gain in popularity, however, the Socialist Party is still the dominant party. We also enact numerous decrees to keep the process slow and stable, to avoid any possible outbreak of rebellion.
 * Economy: In order to make our economy better, we start funding more into less developed, rural areas and build more infrastructure. GDP growth is approx. 6.3%
 * Military:
 * Numbers:
 * Land force: 500k active, approx 3.5m reserve.
 * Navy: 51k sailors & officers, 91 ships
 * Air Force: 36k personnel, 285 aircrafts
 * Technology: anything idk
 * Constructions: Finishing of metro systems in major cities.
 * Diplo:
 * Oman: Since you are now a technocracy, we would like to make a research pact with your nation.
 * Rohingya Crisis: We made a statement that we will take in a certain percentage of the remaining Rohingya population and build a settlement for them, yet we seek for aid, at least minimal, from other nations to support them, as this is an international issue.
 * Rohingya Crisis: We made a statement that we will take in a certain percentage of the remaining Rohingya population and build a settlement for them, yet we seek for aid, at least minimal, from other nations to support them, as this is an international issue.

2023
''' The Turkic Pact is a thing now.  Albania, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina also join.'''

Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Tunisia accept Oman's proposal.

''' Greece maintains their sovereignty over any territories the Turks eye. '''

''' North Korea announces their final nuclear test, in which 12 Taeopodong missiles are fired at once. In an either unprecedented or predictable move, all 12 are actual missile attacks carrying nuclear payloads. American, South Korean and Japanese defenses activate, shooting down 7 over the Sea of Japan. Unfortunately, the Japanese city of Nagoya is hit, along with the American Guam and Oahu, as well as South Korean Daegu and Haenam. '''

Shortly after their missile test, North Korea declares that if no one is behind them, then no one will be spared their fury. Seoul is shelled by North Korean artillery as the Korean War reignites. In an almost blitzkreig fashion, they cross the DMZ and overrun the northern cities, implementing their arsenal of chemical weapons.

The Rohingya are completely evacuated from Myanmar, however Myanmar is still looked upon as an unfavorably genocidal state.

Tensions between Israel and Palestine rise yet again, fanned by their respective supporters and allies.

Neighbouring nations' opinion on Turkish aggressive expansion -40.

The Syrian government declares victory over the rebel factions, as the opposition is cornered at the borders of Syria.

Kingdom of Noregea (Norway)

 * Economy: The economy drops because of the effects the Trondheim Earthquake, -6.43%.
 * Military:
 * Active Personnel:  31,672
 * Reserve Personnel: 49,782
 * Wars and Conflicts: None (We stay neutral in WWIII)
 * Events: None
 * Diplomacy:
 * SRSC: I'm putting up a poll. You guys will decide which side to take in the Ruso-Ukranian War. I vote Ukraine.

United States of America

 * Government and Politics
 * "I was right": State of emergency declared in Hawaii for 180 days because of a nuclear attack in one of the major cities in Hawaii, Honolulu. Over 192,000 were initially dead at first but this toll eventually raised to 281,000 at the end of the year due to radiation sickness (and potential toxification of half of the archipelago), with US experts agreeing that North Korea has finished their hydrogen bomb development and miniaturisation of their own bombs into multiple intercontinental ballistic missiles. Those who do survive are being relocated temporarily into the West Coast.
 * Approval Rating: Trump's approval rating unexpectedly went up in 2023 following a nuclear strike in Oahu and "the promise to crack down Rocket Man Kim Jong-un" for the first time in his second term from 19% to 34% but only because of the Korean War. Trump also proclaimed himself "as the defender of a united America" in his tweet.
 * Puerto Rico: The 2022 referendum shows that Puerto Rico will effectively become the 51st state, but not immediately yet but this shows that most of the residents inside the commonwealth are more in favour of becoming part of the Union.
 * 2024 US primaries: Because every four years, a presidential election has to be made but actually most of the politicians are awful choices as president except Mike Pence and Kanye West, but if we could get Monsoonjr99 and mappers president I don't mind but they're not of age just yet. And be mindful of possible bias into this election.
 * Democratic candidates (not finalised yet, will reveal it in 2024)
 * Kirsten Gillibrand
 * Cory Booker
 * Elizabeth Warren
 * Dwayne Johnson (Could we make him independent?)
 * Republican candidates (not finalised yet, will reveal it in 2024): "Trump can't run a third term but we can put Mike Pence as president though."
 * Jed Bush (Why not?)
 * Mike Pence (Because of cliches in AFOTW and some map games here)
 * Others: Allegations suggest that Mark Zuckerberg may be running for president but that was quickly denied by the Facebook CEO in December 2023.
 * Kanye West (Independent)
 * Austin Petersen (Libertarian)
 * Military: Despite budget cuts, the US military is still strong and had heavily invested into mainly fighting against the North Koreans in the Korean front as the Korean War began to resume.
 * Military Technology: Military technology that hasn't being tested in the front has being put into an actual battlefield which allows the US military itself to improvise military technology as part of a theoretical project that would actually be useful in a large-scale conflict against a superpower such as China or Russia, but going on a smaller nation with some extent have a militaristic culture is the only way to prepare something worse than testing it on something else.
 * Korean War (1950-1953; February 2023-present): We send in troops, numbering 90,000 soldiers into the Korean Front using the Sea of Japan as a leverage for our ships to blockade any convoys coming from Russia. Most of the troops however land on the eastern shores as the American military believes landing via aircraft would make it easy for North Korea to target and keeping missions low-profile is the only way to "win this war". Trump's approval rate unexpectedly goes higher.
 * Operation Failsafe: You don't need to know this for now.
 * Economy
 * 2020s US Economic Recession (2022-present): There's a big recession following a dip in stock prices, raising levels of unemployment. This in part worsens due to the Korean War in Hawaii.
 * Universal Basic Income Proposal: There were secret talks and proposals for an UBI system to be put in place but there were no trials as of this time because of the ongoing recession but if the United States can recover from their issues then they can plan their trial.
 * Research and Technology
 * Space: Not going to talk about this but one's thing for sure, it was launched on 28th December and there were now plans to fully begin their plan to extract resources off the Moon and make an industry to boost the US economy.
 * Enhanced Surveillance Program: You don't need to know this.
 * Diplomacy
 * Israel: Heavy support is still given due to the United States still under President Trump and yet many Democrats and some Republicans continously tried to stop him from going but there were now open talks of ignoring the Democrats' responses unless they heed to Trump's satisfication.
 * North Korea: Wage of war.
 * China: The US government formally asks China not to side with North Korea a genocidal act was being pushed by the Kim regime as the US media and government calls North Korea sometimes and instead take action against North Korea seriously.
 * Russia: The same message given towards China was also given to Russia as they are also somewhat allies towards North Korea due to trade. Although the United States and Russian relations weren't so great currently due to FBI investigations towards the 2016 elections, the nuclear tests that North korea has conducted should make them have a slight change in opinions.

Vietnam
Demographics: 100 million people (85.7% Vietnamese along with 53 minorities)
 * Politics
 * Democratization of the State: The Second Party (who cares what their name is) begins to gain in popularity, however, the Socialist Party is still the dominant party. We also enact numerous decrees to keep the process slow and stable, to avoid any possible outbreak of rebellion.
 * Economy: Breakout of WWIII deters our trade so our GDP dropped.
 * Military:
 * Numbers:
 * Land force: 550k active, approx 3.6m reserve.
 * Navy: 51k sailors & officers, 91 ships
 * Air Force: 36k personnel, 285 aircrafts
 * Technology: anything idk
 * Constructions: Coastal and border defense systems and AA (anti-air) zones
 * Diplo:
 * WW3: We state that we will stay neutral from the war, due to us not wanting to be involved in trouble.
 * WW3: We state that we will stay neutral from the war, due to us not wanting to be involved in trouble.

People's Republic of China

 * Government: Widespread censorship continues and the Sesame Credit system is still being developed in order to further implement it at a national scale in the near future. Xi Jinping continues to keep a defiant attitude towards the West, but he is now looking towards more cooperation in global issues, particularly North Korea. This is proven when he decides to wage on a full-on war against the Kim regime, ending decades of friendship among North Korea and the People's Republic.
 * Economy: Everyone else's economy is still great despite all the war expense, so it can be easily concluded that ours is good as well. Major conglomerates such as the Alibaba Group have become so massive that they are now planning to expand into other countries in the region, although this will have to wait due to the Korean War.
 * Conflicts:
 * Operation Wucheraria (North Korea): After finding out of the North Korean nuclear tests, Xi Jinping is enraged and declares Operation Wucheraria a failure (as it was supposed to contain North Korea's threats and nuclear program), launching Operation Koryo instead.
 * Operation Koryo (Korean War): War is declared on North Korea shortly after their last nuclear tests were performed. Initial advances are somewhat easier since we've previously captured Onsong County during Operation Wucheraria, 150,000 soldiers advance from Onsong into North Hamgyong Province all the way to the province's capital, Chongjin, where they meet with american troops that had just landed into North Korea's east shores. Fearing high casualties in a potential nuclear attack, Xi Jinping orders troops to scatter through rural areas, only keeping a few thousands in the captured cities. At the same time, a second group consisting of 235,000 troops begins to advance into the Chagang and North Pyongan provinces, racing towards the regime's capital in order to increase pressure. Both the Air Force and the Navy take a supportive role, trying to obliterate the highest possible number of North Korean aircraft and vessels, although the main goal is North Korean artillery.
 * Operation Rhabdovirus (India and Myanmar): Seeing how the Rohingya incident has been resolved for the most part, and how there have been no border changes in the Indian frontline, we decide to abandon Myanmar for good, but we do tell India to let the UN decide what to do with Myanmar instead of invading them. Status quo regarding the border dispute with India remains.
 * Military Numbers are expanded, and the railgun project continues.
 * Ground Forces:
 * 2,540,005 active personnel
 * 1,000,900 reserve personnel
 * 7,001 combat tanks
 * 5,120 armored fighting vehicles
 * 1,803 self-propelled artillery
 * 6,356 towed artillery
 * 1,835 rocket projectors
 * Naval Forces:
 * 230,000 active personnel
 * 75,000 reserve personnel
 * 2 aircraft carriers
 * 53 frigates
 * 39 destroyers
 * 36 corvettes
 * 71 submarines
 * 238 patrol craft
 * 33 mine warfare vessels
 * Air Forces:
 * 415,000 active personnel
 * 100,000 reserve personnel
 * 1,332 fighter aircraft
 * 1,560 attack aircraft
 * 793 transport aircraft
 * 387 trainer aircraft
 * 983 helicopters
 * 254 attack helicopters
 * Diplomacy:
 * United Nations: We reveal the horrors of North Korean concentration camps and other severe human rights abuses, urging the international community to intervene.
 * Oman: You are allowed to help in the construction of Rohingya settlements. Feel free to contribute when you're ready.
 * Turkey: We sanction them due to their illegal invasion of Cyprus. Since we're busy in Korea, it is unlikely that any further actions will be taken.

Korean State

 * Government:
 * Politics:
 * Taunting Trump: "Nice job protecting against Rocket Man, Mr. Trump. It looks like he won't be nuking anyone again." ~Seung-hee, 2023.


 * Laws and Policies:
 * Activation of Military Reserves: The Taewonsu declares a state of absolute emergency, and activates all 90% of the military reserves to join active duty.


 * Analytics:
 * Economy: The economy hasn't collapsed yet, but has instead only taken a major hit as the only major city nuked was Daegu.
 * Infrastructure & Public Services: All infrastructure in Daegu is basically done for, because, you know, nuke.
 * Demographics:
 * Ethnicity: Mostly Korean.
 * Religion: Some Koreans
 * Gender: Close enough to a 50/50 split between the two genders.


 * Development & Standards of Living: oof


 * Military:
 * Nuclear Weapons: The first three nukes are completed, and, in an act of vengeance for fallen Korean brothers, one is launched on Pyongyang.
 * Wars and Conflicts:
 * Korean War (June 25, 1950 - ???): A major invasion to push back the North Koreans is launched. 4,000,000 soldiers confront the technologically backwatered North Korean forces, and paratroopers, numbering 250,000, fly over the East Sea (Sea of Japan) flanked by Korean Marines, about 325,000 soldiers. The split between the two occurs off the coast of Wonsan, where the marines went west and landed in the city of Wonsan, while the paratroopers continue to fly north and jump out of their transport planes above the city of Hamhung. Both cities are taken, with a small amount of casualties due to the North Koreans having most of their forces in the invading border. The marines invade Munchon, and move up to the hamlet of Inhung-rodongjagu, where they wait for the paratroopers to meet them. The paratroopers move through Hamju and Sinsang-rodongjagu, finally linking up with the marines and establishing a large beachhead. They do not push forwards at all, as they must await more supplies from the mainland.


 * Korean Armed Forces:
 * Korean Army: The Army consists of:
 * 6,528,000 active soldiers
 * 1,279,048 reserve soldiers
 * 3,462 tanks
 * 5,673 armoured fighting vehicles
 * 3,017 self-propelled artillery
 * 6,367 towed artillery
 * 377 rocket projectors


 * Korean Maritime Force: The Maritime Force consists of:
 * 732,000 active soldiers
 * 163,000 reserve soldiers
 * 2 aircraft carriers
 * 18 frigates
 * 15 destroyers
 * 21 corvettes
 * 25 submarines
 * 89 patrol craft
 * 17 mine warfare vessels


 * Korean Air Force: The Air Force consists of:
 * 405,000 active soldiers
 * 78,000 reserve soldiers
 * 762 fighter aircraft
 * 645 attack aircraft
 * 721 transport aircraft
 * 401 trainer aircraft
 * 112 attack helicopters


 * Diplomacy:
 * United States: We told you that American interference would end up in having nukes dropped on cities.
 * North Korea: Good job on confirming your death, pal.
 * Japan: The two of us must now band together as we have been faced with a travesty of the highest order.