To Victory (Map Game)

Introduction
The year is 1836. The world has entered an age of prosperity. It has been more than 20 years since the fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna. However, a storm is brewing. Rivalries between great powers have shook the foundations of the peace in Europe. The rapid expansion of the United States, the colonization race in Africa, the instability of the Qing Empire in Asia; all of these are shadows from the future, foreshadowing the imminent wars that will break out. It is your job to lead your country toward victory.

Turn 2 has started!



Rules
General
 * Be as realistic as possible.
 * You can join as any nation, as long as it's on the map.
 * To join as a great power, you have to be a somewhat experienced player at map games and has to have at least 750 edits or more.
 * If your nation has been completely annexed, you can join as another nation.
 * Each turn will last for two or three days. Each turn is one year in the game.
 * NPC events and decisions, rebels and the result of wars and battles are determined by random.org. You do not need and should not include said things in your turn.
 * Both simple turns with only ten sentences and detailed turns with six paragraphs are accepted, but detailed turns will be more rewarding.
 * Please read the Nations section before joining.

Colonization

 * Colonize reasonably! You shouldn't be able to colonize, say, Alaska as Portugal.
 * You can only colonize provinces not linked to your existing territories if you are a colonial power. Major colonial powers can only colonize up to four provinces a turn, while minor colonial powers can only colonize up to two provinces a turn.
 * If you are not a colonial power, you can still colonize at most 1 province that you have borders with.
 * Major colonial powers can colonize further than minor ones. (but it still has to make sense)
 * You can become a minor colonial power if you have invested in your navy for at least two turns.

Wars and Battles

 * The amount of provinces you occupy each turn in a war will be determined by several things, including:
 * Your tech (Western nations will have an advantage over Eastern and tribal nations)
 * Whether or not you and your enemy are great/secondary/tertiary powers
 * The number of provinces you own (Oversea provinces will count 50% less)
 * The details you provide in your turn
 * Signing a treaty will establish a three-year truce between you and the enemy.

Diplomacy

 * Alliances can only have at most three nations.

Great powers

 * United Kingdom
 * France
 * Prussia
 * Austria
 * Russia
 * USA
 * Spain
 * Ottoman Empire

Secondary powers

 * Belgium
 * Brazil
 * Denmark
 * Mexico
 * Netherlands
 * Portugal
 * Sardinia-Piedmont
 * Sweden-Norway
 * Two Sicilies

Tertiary powers

 * Bavaria
 * Hanover
 * Egypt
 * Morocco
 * Qing Empire
 * Japan
 * Argentina
 * New Granada
 * Venezuela
 * Siam
 * Persia

Major colonial powers

 * United Kingdom
 * France
 * Spain
 * Portugal

Minor colonial powers

 * USA
 * Denmark
 * Oman
 * Russia
 * Netherlands

Owners

 * IonMapping

Players

 * Pisiu369 - Prussia
 * FSM - Mexico
 * Ethan - United Kingdom
 * Asdf - France
 * TheGreenGuy - Austria
 * Pillow - Sweden-Norway
 * Yankee - Brazil
 * Xenoblade - Russia
 * ThatMapperGuy - Ottoman Empire
 * Fedex - USA
 * Soaring - Texas
 * Creator - Algeria
 * LennyGeorge - Sardinia-Piedmont
 * Evergreen - Oman

Prussian-Austrian Alliance

 * Prussia
 * Austria

Mexican-Brazilian Alliance

 * Mexico
 * Brazil

1836
Austria:
 * Military: 5000 cavalry troops are created in the capital and are moved to the Russian border. The entire army is equally split to the borders of Prussia; Russia and Ottoman Empire except the capital where ten infantry troops are staying. The whole navy is patrolling the Adriatic Sea.


 * Infrastructure: A railroad has started being built from the capital to Venice, with a bridge. Capitalists are funding creation of other smaller ones between some cities.
 * Foreign affairs:
 * Sphere of Influence:
 * Austria focuses more on influencing Italian nations than German. Almost all of them with an exception of The Papal States and Sardinia-Piedmont (because these are influenced by France).
 * Three city-states: Parma, Madena and Lucca are annexed in between short intervals. Lucian Port has been enlarged.
 * Great Powers:
 * Prussia: Austria would like to form an alliance with Prussia. If they accept, the Austrian government will stop influencing south German nations completely (which would make it much easier for Prussia to create Germany).

Mexican Federal Republic
 * Liberal Coup d'etat: In early 1836 the conservative government lead by Anastasio Bustamante enacted a group of laws known as "Las Sietes Leyes", which, among other things, reduced the autonomy of the states and essentially turned the country into a centralist republic rather than a federation. These measures caused general discontent among the population living outside of Mexico City, and separatist movements started to rise. In order to avoid losing more territory because of centralists, the Liberal Party makes a coup d'etat against Anastasio Bustamante in March 21st, effectively removing him from the charge. Valentín Gómez Farías takes his place as president, and immediately abolishes the Seven Laws and restores the Federation. Although some Conservative leftovers tried to take back the power, they were defeated by the Liberals due to them having practically no popular support.
 * Government: After reverting the actions of Bustamante and the centralists, Gómez Farías decides to focus on stabilizing the country, and some laws are changed.
 * State Rights: Autonomy is granted to all states once again, for the sake of preventing separatism caused by the Centralist system of the conservatives.
 * Colonization: After federalists had successfully dealt with conservatives most of the army was send to the north in order to protect Mexican settlers from Apache and Comanche raids. New policies regarding colonization are also done, Mexico stops encouraging Americans from populating the north (but the ones who were already in there were allowed to stay) and Mexican settlers are sent instead. Also, Mexican settlers in California go further north an manage to take one province in the coast of Oregon for Mexico.
 * Military: As stated above most of the military is sent north after containing conservative insurrections in the capital. Some 5000 troops are recruited and the total number of troops is around 50,000. Fortifications are built all over north Mexico, especially in the states of California and Nuevo México.
 * The Indian Wars: The troops sent to Texas and New Mexico start fighting against the Comanche Indians without much success, although they do manage to stop their advance into Mexican territory temporarily. Because these wars will most likely go on for many decades, the government of Gomez Farías starts analyzing the possibility of ceding some territory to the Indians in a state like Chihuahua.
 * Economy: Still unstable because of the political turmoil, but expected to stabilize after Gomez Farías manages to stay in power longer.
 * Diplomacy:
 * Brazil: Even though Brazil is ruled by Conservatives, ironically the Liberal government agrees with them on some issues such as federalism, because of this an alliance is signed (and also because Brazil and Mexico are the strongest Latin American countries).
 * Prussia: Alliance is signed for no particular reason and Mexico asks for modern military equipment and that Prussian officers train Mexican soldiers in order to improve their capacities in battle.
 * Central America: Mexico proposes a free trade agreement.

United Kingdom
 * Government: William IV dies of old age (I didn't know him anyway), therefore Victoria is ascended to throne. Meanwhile, the government has started focusing mostly on trade and military and even try to colonise as much as possible (for the first few years). The government has started easing indigenous population and European settlers from conflict through by trade means, they get what they want (rights) in exchange they give European some resources but this may infuriate many Europeans in Australia, New Zealand and Canada and native people as they see this having no effect.
 * Colonies: All colonies (except South Africa and India) are given some autonomy to reduce rebellions even though there is nothing to do about them.
 * Australia: More harsh laws are being slowly being lifted against the Australian Aboriginal people and hopefully integrate them with current society (OTL doesn't treat them very well, -_- but idc). Infrastructure improves slightly and expanding colonies has being made as well with the exploit of coal (over their controlled part but they also did expedition and sent a lot of labour across that area) and potentially gold.
 * New Zealand: More harsh laws are being slowly being lifted against the Maori and hopefully integrate them as an autonomous colony. Infrastructure improves slightly.
 * Canada: Colonisation continues and huge exploiting over coal continues as they colonise. Nothing else is made.
 * India: Home to many stupid Indian nations now (mostly) under influence by the United Kingdom. They began thinking of integrating these "nations" into the British Raj and also prioritse trade over that area, especially with Ceylon and some key cities under control (we must prove that the Portuguese are not so powerful anymore even with their Macau and that Indian thing here) they have valuable resources that are required to one, give the British people (and Irish) a lot of luxuries and two, gain money off them. These trade companies will pay for us with taxes to keep up our efforts
 * Guyana and other irrelevant British colonies: Some men decided to station over these colonies for defence and for Guyana, they improve infrastructure
 * South Africa: Nothing much except prioritising trade. There are no rights improvement yet (o my gawd y u do apartheid :(((( for native people here and an army division lands in South Africa preparing a war against the Boers and the Zulus (no more shaka gags from civ kkk). Plus they rename themselves to Suthenburg by the end of the year to topple the gag of map games (no reason k)
 * Colonisation: The United Kingdom colonises two provinces in Canada that would close the US' gap and also secure their claims over Canada and two provinces in New Zealand.
 * Military: Their military is basically stationed all over the place for defence, from Victoria to Wellington with the British Isles being more defended and organised. Meanwhile South Africa/Suthenburg raised its infantry to more than 20,000-25,000, mostly mixed with European and natives while preparing an attack over those Boer states and the Zulus. Their navy is still huge and ports in Great Britain, Canada and Australia are making at least ten ships every year with careful expertise, of which five of them are transport.
 * Economy: Improves through trade priority and exploitation of resources such as coal to fulfill our own factories' needs to produce goods. Trade companies are being paid with tax to the government along with the poor, they have being taxed, especially farmers to contribute the wealth and funding of military.

Federal Republic of Brazil
 * Government:
 * Republican/Federalist Revolution of 1836: In January, with the not very strong leadership of the young Pedro II and the regent Diogo Feijó and the political instability, some groups that defended the government to be a republic started to gain support of the population. One of the groups were the Federalists, they were a group of people from the Conservative Party that defended the idea of a federative republic. Pedro de Araujo Lima, the leader of the federalists, taking advantage of the political instability and weak leadership, made a coup with the help of the army and the bourgeoisie, Diogo Feijó escaped and Pedro II disappeared. Pedro de Araujo becomes the first president of Brazil.
 * Politics and Laws: After the coup d'etat a new constitution was created.
 * Slavery: Many discussions about slavery are made, most of the population support the slavery, farmers are the biggest group that support the slavery while the liberals are the biggest group that support the end of slavery.
 * Provinces: The provinces of Brazil are turned in states, the states have autonomy, this was made to prevent separatist movements.
 * Military: Pedro de Araujo launches a military campaign to conquest the "rightful Brazilian lands". Most of the troops are in the south dealing with Uruguayans or controlling possible rebellions. There are also troops defending the capital Rio de Janeiro. This year 3000 troops have been recruited.
 * Wars and Conflicts:
 * Brazilian Reconquest of Cisplatina: 15,000 troops are sent to Uruguay, the objective is to reconquest the reconquest the territory and make is a state. We expect that the invasion and conquest will be successful.
 * Economy: The economy is mainly based in agriculture of products like sugar and coffee, the currency is changed to the newly created "Cruzeiro". The coup had affected the economy destabilizing it initially, but now it is slowly recovering itself and stabilizing.
 * Industry: Pedro de Araujo make some policies and reforms that encourage industries to come to Brazil. There are already some very small industries in the areas with a big production of coffee (Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo).
 * Investments: Investments are made in the navy and in the army, this was made to make the army more loyal and to encourage explorers and other people to expand the Brazilian culture to other continents.
 * Diplomacy:
 * Mexico: An alliance is signed between both nations. The main reason is that the nations are the strongest in Latin America (And the nations also have some similar ideas like federalism)..

NPC Events

 * Central America accepts Mexico's FTA.
 * Uruguay surrenders to Brazil.
 * In response to the Brazilian aggression, Argentina warns Brazil not to attack Argentina or Bolivia, or there shall be war.
 * Polish separatists rise up in Russia, demanding the independence of a Polish state.
 * Several German states such as Lippe, Anhalt and the Thuringia states surrender to Prussia's armed forces.
 * Bavaria refuses Prussia's invitation to unite.
 * Bavaria, Saxony and Wurttemberg form a coalition against the Prussian threat.
 * Parma agrees to join Austria, but Modena and Lucca refuses.
 * Oman invades Bahrain.
 * Qing invades Tibet.
 * Japan requests the purchases of naval supplies and guns from UK and the Netherlands.

Player Events
Oman
 * Politics:The government is changed to a democracy. In the new government a term lasts 5 years. Liberal Talha Morcos is elected the new president. He increases civil rights.
 * Civil Rights:Full citizenship is introduced. A low minimum wage is introduced. Freedom of speech is introduced.
 * Economy:Oman is focused on becoming industrialized.
 * Industry:Lots of factories are built. Also the government looks to build lots of railroads throughout the country.
 * Military:The military is increased.
 * Army:5,000 troops are recruited. 200 artillery are built. 1000 cavalry are recruited.
 * Navy:A new clipper class is designed and built. Some ships are built (I don't really know early 1800s ship types).
 * Wars:Oman declares war on Yemen and occupies two provinces. Heavy fighting is taking place and most of the Omani army is used.
 * Colonial Expansion:Two provinces on the little tip of Africa south of Yemen are colonized.
 * Diplomacy:
 * Ottoman Empire:Alliance proposed.
 * Abu Dhabi:Be my vassal.
 * United Kingdom:Alliance proposed.

Federal Republic of Brazil
 * Government: 
 * States: With the annexation of Uruguay they are turned into a state. The name of the state is "Cisplatina"
 * Laws and Policies:
 * Slavery: The discussions about slavery end. The government decides to let slavery legal.
 * Term of Office: Discussion about the term of office of the president begin, most of the population support that the term of office should be 2-3 years. There are plans to make votes to decide what will be made.
 * Military: The conquest of the "rightful Brazilian lands" continue, this year 4,000 troops are recruited, most of them are located in the south and in Paraguay.
 * Brazilian Conquest of Paraguay: 16,000 troops are sent to Paraguay. The objective is to conquest and annex all the country. We expect that the invasion will be successful because the country is small an poor.
 * Economy: Our economy is almost stabilized, we expect that in 1-2 years the economy will be totally normal and growing.
 * Investments: The investments in navy and army continue.
 * Industry: Some new enterprises build new factories in our country, mainly in the south and southeast regions.
 * Diplomacy:
 * Argentina: We move troops to the border in a act of protection.