Liberty (Map Game)

Ever since the Allied defeat in World War 2, the totalitarian, fascistic dictatorships of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan had ever so slowly assaulted the free, democratic nations of the world. Throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, they, in a combination of sheer force of arms, espionage, and proxy wars, toppled regimes left and right, replacing them with their own vile, bigoted, and authoritarian rule. Little by little, they chipped away at the governments of what remained of the free world. First the Near East, then India, Latin America, and even Britain and her Commonwealth would, one-by-one, kneel and grovel at the uncaring, cold, stone foot of the Third Reich. As the vile pestilence of racist totalitarianism reared its head upon all Earth, the United States of America slowly, but surely, became the sole nation not to have succumbed to the plague that is dictatorship.

That is, until June 17, 1993.

The Axis Powers had long supported white supremacist groups in the Jim Crow South, providing generous funds, shelter to their upper echelons, and even military training to members of the KKK and other such groups. All the while, they made sure any nation that might have had even the slightest chance of intervening in any future conflict in the US for the survival of freedom was crushed under the Fascist heel like a bug under a shoe. They also began spreading discontent and discord with the current state of affairs in the US, dividing the nation over petty squabbles while the populace failed to recognize the looming Nazi threat just outside of its borders. Once all external opposition was silenced, and even America itself could not reasonably bear the "United" portion of its name, the devious Fascists strook.

Pro-Nazi elements in the army mutinied and launched a coup d'état. They stormed the White House and the Capitol and massared everyone in sight. Within two days, Washington was secured. The rest of the country was subdued by early 1995, with the help of several chemical and nuclear attacks. The Land of Freedom and Liberty was gone, replaced by a revived Confederacy, a totalitarian dictatorship under Ezekiel Thalmann, a vile dictator, and firmly in cahoots with the accursed Nazis.

Over the next few years, the rights of the American people were stripped away. Freedom of speech, of the press, and of assembly were things of the past. The FBI was repurposed into an all-seeing secret police that routinely arrested people and sent them to concentration camps for expressing a dislike for the government. Minorities, Jewish-Americans, and Americans of Slavic descent were first disenfranchised and ostracized, then rounded up and sent to death camps scattered across the country. The new and reborn Confederacy was the cornerstone of all public life, and school curriculums were altered to emphasize the Confederacy as the single greatest force in the world, only dwarfed, or course, by the Nazi Party.

It is now 2008. Fifteen years have passed since the coup that brought the Confederacy and Ezekiel Thalmann to power. The fascists have ruined our country and our ideals of freedom with their disgusting perversion of America. However, there is hope. Discontent has been discreetly boiling in the hearts of many an American. The majority of our people still believe in an America where the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is protected under the Constitution. Many have been meeting in secret, and conspiring to restore the ideals America was founded on to the nation. Others have also plotted, but for their own wildly differing reasons. What is apparent, however, is that the populace is on the edge of revolt. The Second American Revolution is imminent and inevitable. Time will only tell if justice and Liberty is restored to the world...

Rules
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Staff

 * Creator/Admin/whatever: Derpmaster21
 * Mod 1 (NE/Canada): DiegoIdePersia [fite me lmao]
 * Mod 2 (South):
 * Mod 3 (Midwest):
 * Mod 4 (West/Mexico):

Players

 * Toronto Liberation Army (Toronto, ON): Duchyii the iii
 * Commonwealth Liberation Front (Worcester, MA): DickHairyson
 * Zapatist Army for National Liberation (Monterrey, NL): DiegoIdePersia
 * Federal Freedom Fighters (Flint, MI): EthanKoenigsberg
 * Front Libre (Trois-Rivières, QB): Tenacious
 * Spectrum (Burlington, VT): FSM
 * Cuban Liberation Army (Miami, FL): Dominica
 * Carthasis Insurgency (Scranton, PA): Sidewinder
 * People's Army of Southern Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA): Bosnia Mapper
 * Fondation de la Liberté (New Orleans, LA): Luka
 * the Cristeros (Hermosillo, SN): Eltool
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Banned Players
None yet, please don't be the first one to be here!

Events

 * Finalization of the Holocaust: The Confederate government has declared that 48 out of 50 states are now Jew-free. Small pockets of Jewish populations remain in New York and New Jersey. The Jewish population of the Confederacy, one of the last remaining bastions of Jewish existence, is expected to be completely eradicated by 2011.
 * MLK's Nightmare: The Black Belt campaign continues, driving the blacks out of the historical Black Belt in Louisiana and Mississippi and into the infamous concentration camps in the Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming Rocky Mountains.
 * Voices of Dissent: 145 people met in Times Square on February 11, protesting the imposition of dictatorship and demanding a return to the United States of America of old. They were quickly gunned down by the NYPD, however, the fact that such dissent exists at all is intolerable and the Mayor of New York will get an angry letter from Eternal President Ezekiel Thalmann soon.
 * All Hail President Thalmann: All places of worship are now required to perform a prayer to President Thalmann, along with their (non-Jewish) deity of choice, in every religious session.
 * Resistance in Written Form: The True Patriot, written by John McCain, starts being circulated clandestinely in revolutionary circles. This work is a scathing denunciation of the current Confederate States and everything about its laws, politics, and structure, and glorifies the old United States of America. If discovered by the all-seeing FBI, John McCain will surely "disappear" in the middle of the night, probably to the infamous Crowheart-7 concentration camp in western Wyoming, reserved for political prisoners.
 * Irradiated Hopes and Dreams: Former residents of San Fransisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, Detroit and Boston are advised to wear a gas mask and take necessary anti-radiation precautions when returning to their former homes. Visits must be approved by the Confederate Department of Transport, and visions will require a permit. Tresspassers will be shot.

Catharsis Insurgency

 * Backstory: The Catharsis Insurgency has its roots in the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, Inc. Scranton branch under regional manager Michael Scott. Upon hearing of rumors that the government is planning to nationalise the company and replace all of them with KKK members (a prank concocted by Jim Halpert) Michael Scott announces a shadow campaign to undermine the government. This declaration is limited to his employees, who are all more or less ok with it until they realise their manager is being serious. Michael Scott begins taking firearms classes, being a white "Aryan" male his actions go without suspicion. He joins secret societies dedicated to anti-KKK sentiment, linking up with a certain Dr. Jack Bright and an Alto Clef with a slightly more questionable doctorate. Both supposedly having been recently fired from their posts in the FBI, a debatable background, have suggested the formation of an insurgency with Michael Scott, to which he agrees. As the rumor continues to fly within the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company Scranton branch, more people join behind manager Michael Scott, while Drs. Bright and Clef begin recruitment efforts outside the company, which Michael Scott never considered before it was suggested. TL;DR the Insurgency was founded by a stubborn and kinda dumb manager who wants to see his "non-Aryan" friends again and secure his position, backed by two "ex-FBI" (debatable) operatives who make sure everything and everyone is up to code. The rest are citizens who are against the Confederacy for a variety of reasons and personal vendettas.
 * Organisation:
 * Triumvirate: Michael Scott, Jack Bright, Alto Clef
 * Main HQ/Centre of Operations: Dunder Mifflin Paper Company Inc. Scranton Branch Warehouse 5 and Dwight Schrute's basement.
 * Personnel:
 * Trained Fighters: 40
 * Intelligence Operatives:120
 * Spies: 5
 * Financial Operatives: 355
 * Shadow Operatives: 20
 * Untrained Personnel: 560
 * Total: 1,100
 * Stats:
 * Firearms: Approximately 400 working firearms of varying condition and make.
 * Diplomacy: N/A
 * Events:
 * A Source of Income: For now, the financial assets of the Insurgency are courtesy of its members. Workers of all collar colours work to provide any money they can for the Insurgency's cause. More recently, attempts to hack obscure bank accounts are being pursued as a method of income.
 * Propaganda Time: Intelligence operatives (a fancy word for people who know how to use technology, from normie millenials to near-professional hackers, the latter of which we only have like 2 of) begin disseminating fake news within Scranton online communities on social media such as Facebook, Twitter and via throwaway emails (if any of these services exist). The nature of the fake news in question relates to the hypothetical actions of the Confederacy increasing taxes, cutting pensions, whatever it is that makes boomers angry.
 * Shady Shit: The Insurgency has begun reaching out to known gangs with a history of anti-Confederate activities, in an attempt to both recruit and share information. In Clef's words: "I'd rather work with a thug than for Nazi toe-suckers."
 * Infiltrations: Operatives are sent to infiltrate Scranton utilities and services institutions. In addition to existing employees being members, we adopt a "recruit or replace" strategy to ensure all aspects of the town of Scranton are at the Insurgency's fingertips without the knowledge of the Confederacy. [Mod Response Required for Operation Outcome]

Federal Freedom Fighters

 * Backstory: The Federal Freedom Fighters (or the FFF) is a group of ragtag individuals (initially during its foundation in 2006-07) who don't like the existence of the Confederacy. These ragtag individuals are millennials and some old people (not like the boomers though, more like Gen X) who never grew up or have lost their right to vote and all things. The millennials are basically people who have been taught with some fundamentals of democracy and things, but they have never grew to experience it under the Confederacy, especially those who came late in the millennial generation. On the other hand, Gen X members were really frustrated on the restrictions of democracy and eventually freedom of speech, to the point that the Confederacy just outright removed them altogether, they joined in this group because they sought to recreate the American Dream that came with their taste of democracy. They want democracy and all of these free things again. When the black population declined, they secretly grew their membership numbers as the Confederacy made them disappear one by one, until almost none of them, if not all are gone from the town. Of course, this ragtag group began to grew organised when few of their members suddenly went missing every secret talk underground too. Their hiding place and talking quarters is a small tunnel network across few homes. So they started to become radical and slowly stockpiled weapons. The local police and the FBI are becoming suspicious of an organisation, but they don't really care because Flint is a small town, even when there were like a lot of Detroit refugees coming into the place as well. These people have lost their homes from nuclear attacks, so they want to also avenge those that were killed too. By this point, just after organising it into a proper organisation than being a ragtag group with no skills, they decide to screw over the town of Flint and take over it with some firearms by bribing some of the families into buying them.
 * Summarised: Millennials and Gen X want democracy so they talk in secret. Millennials want democracy because why not and some probably never even grew up (esp. those teens) and Gen X are basically those who have lived through a time of freedom but they don't have it. Flint has some Detroit refugees and blacks in Flint began to disappear, along with some of their members, causing them to arm and take over the town.
 * Organisation:
 * Group Leader (First-in-Command): Gary Wellington
 * Second-in-Command: Danielle Clover
 * Main Headquarters / Centre of Operation ('de facto' capital): Flint, Michigan and some random underground tunnel networks beneath Flint
 * Personnel / Military:
 * Armed Militants: 250
 * Unarmed Militants: 130
 * Administrators: 15
 * Financiers: 30
 * Propagandists: 50
 * Informers (scouts): 50
 * Other Members (with other roles): 220
 * Total: 845
 * Statistics:
 * Weapons:
 * 300 firearms, only few of them are modified or came as automatic through smuggling. They are primarily of various make and design too.
 * An unidentified number of homemade molotov cocktails/petrol bombs (but likely less than few hundred) and numerous attempts to make other bombs too.
 * An unidentified number of kitchen knives used for melee and close combat.
 * Cities: This is for reference and I do these statistics because they help me calculate the final population as of 2008.
 * Flint: 65,000 roughly (~50,000 remaining [whites only] + ~15,000 Detroit refugees)
 * Diplomacy: N/A
 * Events:
 * Just Taking Over a Town: For the first three months of 2008, Flint is under a huge fight with surprise attacks coming out of nowhere in obscure houses and tunnels, armed with petrol bombs and kitchen knives. The FFF targeted local police and any suspected personnel belonging to the FBI or even the military (which might be unlikely in a small town like Flint) by directly throwing them with homemade petrol bombs and then shooting them randomly. Some of them were captured or were kept captive instead if they show any interest to the FFF; but most were given a choice to call out on information (even if its redundant, some could be vital) and then get shot or be thrown into a local jail facility that the FFF has occupied. If they refuse, they can be killed off like the rest. Shops were plundered, especially two gun stores, where ammunition and any weapons were looted and used to help secure Flint. By late March, the boundary of Flint has been taken over, with some smoothing of the boundaries being made so it doesn't look as cancerous.
 * Note: I used the term petrol bombs instead of gasoline bombs (esp. in a US context where its called gasoline), I got influenced by HK protests a lot: Some news outlets label molotov cocktails as petrol bombs.
 * Liberating Lives: With the fighting over Flint continuing across the first quarter of 2008, efforts to convince those who were unaware of the FFF were asked to join in exchange for the promise of a functioning democratic government. Propaganda and posters defaming and mocking the Confederacy were being posted at walls of occupied Flint, telling residents of Flint to "wake up" and "speak for their own voices", with a promise of a "new future". All of these posters weren't graphically good (due to the fighting and Flint isn't a city), they were printed out hastily with big bold black text over a blank white paper or were written in permanent marker.
 * Reconnaissance: Scouts and informers are sent to nearby suburbs and towns of Flint (range is up to Saginaw, MI). Their purpose is to gather information and find any vital infrastructure and presence of any personnel, be local police, FBI or the military of the Confederacy. Since Flint is roughly rural and smaller in size thanks for the purging of most of its black population, the same could be assumed to other towns.

Zapatist Army for National Liberation (Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional)

 * Backstory: A rebel group which has its roots in Emiliano Zapata's Ejercito Libertador del Sur, advocating for a free, inclusive Mexico
 * Personnel: 4,000
 * Trained Soldiers: 600
 * Militia: 800
 * Intelligence: 200
 * Spies: 50
 * Financial Operatives: 350
 * Untrained Personnel: 2,000
 * Headquarters: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon (we dont control all of it)
 * Organization:
 * Commander Zapata (Jorge Zapata)
 * Subcommander Marcos (Rafael Guillen)
 * General Villa (Carlos Villa)
 * General Ibarra (Rosario Ibarra)
 * Firearms:
 * 150 Mondragon rifles
 * 10 C96 pistols
 * 450 Luger pistols
 * 15 Ross rifles
 * 25 Frommer Stop pistols
 * 50 Gewehr 98 rifles
 * 100 Kar98k rifles
 * 350 MP40 SMGs
 * 250 STG44 ARs
 * Diplomacy: 
 * Other Anarchists and Communists: we propose to free North America under a Fourth Internationale
 * Events:
 * Captures in Monterrey: we have captured around 1/6 of the city

National League for the Defense of Religous and Racial Liberty in Mexico (Cristeros)

 * Backstory: This organization was made by mainly catholics in the northern Mexican town Hermosillo. They believed that the Mexican state was to much pro-nazi and they were afraid that it would succumb to become a Nazi state and then kill all catholics, natives, Opposing protestants, Mexican jews and maybe even try to erdicate the mestizos too.
 * Population: - 
 * Cities: 
 * Las Lomas: Unknown
 * Personnel: 2,010
 * Trained Soldiers: 350
 * Militia: 720
 * Intelligence: 210
 * Spies: 25
 * Financial Operatives: 260
 * Untrained Personnel: 445
 * Organization:
 * First-in-Command: Miguel Antonio Mandarte
 * Second-in-Command: Francisco Ortego
 * Headquarters: Las Lomas, Hermosillo
 * Ideologies: Popularism, Anti-Nazism, Indigenism, Christian Humanism. More might come as the organization progresses
 * Firearms:
 * 350 of various designs (Mostly non-automatic)
 * ca 100 homemade bombs (Mostly molotov cocktails)
 * Diplomacy: 
 * None
 * Events:
 * Activism: Our activism is quite normally occuring in the town we put up posters with our message and tries our best to spread it all over Hermosillo lucky it is quite easy to walk around town and put up poster when no one is looking. We try our best to spread our message and get more followers to end the regime that loves flirting with the Nazis.
 * Las Lomas Clashes: In the begining of the first quarter of 2008 we managed to secure parts of Las Lomas as ours. We use guerrila tactics against incoming police or simply we managed to bribe police since Mexican police is quite corrupt (I guess it might be the same this timeline). Our goal is to secure the one power source there. We had soon managed to make most of Las Lomas under ours de facto control. With all the capture police we try to place them in our own prisons or bribe them or make them join us. We also take their guns most of them being Beretta 92F, Glock Pistol, CZ P-09 and etc. We expect the police to soon use more heavy arms against us.
 * Money making: We get our funds to the organization either from donations and the member's own money. With us finally taking over a part of Hermosillo the members in the takeover have put everything they have in the movement if they don't have anyone else to support like their families to example.

Front Libre de Trois-Rivières

 * Backstory: 
 * All Hail the Lord Protector: It has been 23 years since a group of officers of the Canadian Army launched a coup d'état that deposed the elected government and brought the National Socialist Labour Party to power. The party's leader, Harold Howard, has been ruling Canada with an iron fist ever since. Howard and his henchmen instituted a cult of personality, glorifying the all-wise, all-powerful father of the fatherland Lord Protector Howard. Giant statues of the Lord Protector have been erected in every city, town and village. Every passer-by has to bow before the statue. Everyone who neglects to bow before the statue will be tracked down and sent to one of the State of Canada's infamous concentration in the north. The same goes for any vile person who dares to question the actions of the government. The Howard regime has been vigorously persecuting sub-human beings such as Jews and First Nations, especially the Metis. By now it is believed that at least three-quarters of the Jews and 85% of the Metis have been exterminated.
 * Uprising: It has been 23 years since the light of democracy was extinguished all over Canada, including Quebec. Even though the Howard regime has been eager to respect the unique status of Quebec, discontent about the regime has always been high. The government, however, did not see this discontent as a serious threat, as Howard and his henchmen knew that that the Quebecois would not dare to make their discontent audible. After all, everyone who would dare to say anything bad about the regime would disappear and would never be heard of again. However, the regime seriously underestimated the potential of the Quebecois. Discontent was rising and rising and on January 9th, 2008.  At about 9 a.m. thousands of people armed with firearms captured key locations in downtown Trois-Rivieres.  At noon, the local authorities sent two police units to deal with, what they believed it was,  a minor uprising. The policemen, however, largely defected to the insurgents. By sunset, the city's downtown was almost entirely under the insurgents' control. The insurgents then elected Jacques-Josquin Truteau as their leader. In a speech, Truteau announced that this was the beginning of a national uprising against the regime, and it's final goal would be the full liberation of Canada, and a restoration of democracy.
 * Organisation:
 *  ​​​​​​President of the Front Libre: The President of Front Libre is the head of the  Provisional Canadian government. He also holds the offices of People's Minister for the Revolution and Minister for the Popular Armed Forces. The President of Front Libre also is the Speaker of the Citizens' Assembly. The current office holder is Jacques-Josquin Truteau. Truteau was elected unopposed by popular vote on January 18th, 2008.
 * Provisional Canadian government: The Provisional Canadian government is the governing body of the liberated Canadian territory (the territory controlled by Front Libre). The government consists of a war cabinet of 5 ministers and a larger cabinet of 20 ministers. The government has been appointed by the leadership of Front Libre and approved by the Citizens' Assembly on February 8th, 2008.
 * Citizens' Assembly: The Citizens' Assembly of the Front Libre was elected on January 23rd, 2019.  The assembly meets in the Trois-Rivieres Palace of Justice. All members of the assembly are technically independent, but some of them are affiliated with a certain political idiology. The composition of the assembly is as follows:
 * Liberal democrats: 40
 * Social liberals: 13
 * Social democrats: 7
 * Conservative liberals: 6
 * Socialists and communists: 4
 * Headquarters: Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières
 * Personnel:
 * Citizen's Guard (Elite forces): 400
 * Citizen's Militia: 800
 * Intelligence: 250
 * Spies: 35
 * Untrained personnel: 600
 * Firearms: 
 * 1000 handguns
 * 1500 long guns
 * ca. 200 hommade bombs
 * Statistics:
 * Membership:
 * ​​​​​​Active members: 3,000
 * Non-active members: 5,000
 * Casualties (Front Libre):
 * Killed: at least 7
 * Injured: at least 28
 * Missing: at least 2
 * Diplomacy:
 * ' Relations: ' ​​​This is a list of relations (not alliances).
 * Liberals: Excellent
 * Social democrats: Excellent
 * First Nations: Excellent
 * Jews: Excellent
 * Conservatives: Good
 * Christians: Good
 * Socialists and communists: Good
 * Quebecois nationalists: Neutral
 * Canadian nationalists: Neutral
 * Anarchists: Neutral
 * Anti-fascist  terrorists: Neutral
 * Right-wing conservatives: Negative
 * Howardites (fascists): Awful
 * Diplomatic Actions: N/A
 * Events: 
 * In the Name of the People: Front Libre desparately needs money. Therefore,the FL leadership sends 30 Citizen's Guards to rob banks in the name of the Revolution. FL also hires a team of hackers to hack Canadian banks and to rob their money, also in the name of the Revolution.
 * Real News: FL operatives start disseminating news about the fascist regime's atrocities and starts promoting the revolutionary cause.
 * Our Fifth Column: We send secret operatives to the parts of the city that are not under our control in order to undermine the local authorities' control over the city. We spread agitation and propaganda among them in order to attract them to join the FL.
 * Their Fifth Column: Fearful of fascists within the territory under our control who might try to undermine FL we encourage people to report on someone who may be a fascist or a fascist sympathiser. Over the past three months, FL has arrested 50 possible fascists, who all received life-long prison sentences.
 * They Shall Not Pass: We dig trenches and build barricades and other fortifications around downtown Trois-Rivières to prevent the fascists from entering FL-controlled territory.

Commonwealth Liberation Front

 * Backstory: The Commonwealth Liberation Front can find its origins in the Hanover Insurance Group based in Worcester, MA. Its headquarters, located at 440 Lincoln Street, has served as the base of operations since the Front's founding just a few months ago in 2007. A large number of the company's total employees, being mostly older (Boomers to mid-Millenials) men and women who lived during the times of a democratic America, have joined together with the CLF's new revolutionary ideals, which are kept secret from the general republic until now. John Roche, HIG's president and CEO, has been hailed as a new American hero for his planned actions against the Thalmann regime. Using his business connections, and status as a 'true' Aryan, he has managed to train himself in the use of firearms, along with many of his Aryan-statused employees, on top of collecting multiple different types of weapons. The Hanover Insurance Group has also recently taken on a number of new "employees," secretly people and insurgents associated with other anti-Thalmann groups and assemblies. Roche has named himself the marshal of the Commonwealth Liberation Front.
 * Organization:
 * Marshal: John Roche
 * Center of Operations: 440 Lincoln St., Worcester, MA: Hanover Insurance Group Home Office
 * Personnel:
 * ​​Trained Fighters: 150
 * Spies/Espionage Agents: 10
 * Financial Operatives: 480
 * Untrained Personnel: 1,250
 * Total: 1,890
 * Statistics:
 * Weapons:
 * Around 500 firearms of varying make, model, and condition, including M1 Garands as a 'symbol of American democracy' and Colt M1911s.
 * An unidentified amount of explosives: including grenades, molotov cocktails, etc.
 * An unidentified amount of melee weapons: hunting knives, machetes, etc.
 * Diplomacy: N/A
 * Events:
 * Worcester Uprising: January 29th, 2008: a day which will live in infamy. The Hanover Insurance Group is revealed to have been plotting an uprising as many of the company's employees storm the Worcester police department and the UMass Memorial Medical Center, located at 9-11 Lincoln Sq. and 309 Belmont St., respectively. Many of the police officers and MDs located within these buildings, being mostly Boomers and Gen Xers, reluctantly join forces with the newly-renamed Commonwealth Liberation Front. The UMass MMC is protected at all costs, and the police department is stripped of its armory as the newly recruited are redirected to 440 Lincoln St. By the end of the quarter, much of the central-eastern area of the city is taken, including Indian Lake East, Brittan Square, Shrewsbury Street, the Booth Apartments Area, and Bell Hill.
 * Income: In order to fund the CLF's functions, we begin seizing the assets of those who have been under the Hanover Insurance Group's insurance because, hey, they won't need it anymore. On top of this, Marchal Roche dips into his own accounts to fund the organization and orders a number of the company's cybersecurity experts to hack into unused/obscure bank accounts and take their cash.
 * Intelligence and Reconnaisance: Undercover agents are sent out into neighboring towns and other government districts, such as Fitchburg, Oxford, and Framingham in order to figure out the status of the people in these areas along with the possibility of future operations within them.

PASP
-Send soldiers out to secure borders. We have conquered the entire Philadelphia Metro Area.

-Launch an invasion of Montgomery and Delaware Counties. Plans are made to first connect up with Lancaster and York, then head for Harrisburg.

-Send a message to Catharsis inquiring about a potential alliance.

Turn 2 (Q2 2008)

 * Workers of America, Unite!: For Marx and Sam Webb!  came the cry of militiamen, as they fought for the glorious Communist Revolution. The remnants of the American Communist Party had come together in order to restart the Socialist ideal. They had worked for years, trying to garner support amongst the discontented but complacent people of a reactionary America. Now all the planning, all the hard work, all the effort would finally come to use. On May 1, 2008, 7000 militiamen were discreetly trucked into Ashtabula, Ohio; what was to become the starting point for a revolution that would consume the American nation and finally uproot the reactionary bourgeois once and for all. Much of Ashtabula was quickly seized by the Communists, who proclaimed the United Socialist States of America. The USSA continues to push on into the relatively undefended farmland of far northeast Ohio, with its only real resistance being a couple of divisions of the Ohio Confederate Guard, who still control small portions of Ashtabula's western fringes.
 * I Am Not Three-Fifths Of A Person: With much of the African-American population being gassed in death camps or worked to death in virtual slavery, the blacks of the Confederacy have every reason to revolt; and revolt they did. Several towns in the Mississippi Black Belt have been seized by black nationalist militias, determined to fight off the Fascist government and set up a shining example of Black freedom to the world. Although the dream of a New Afrika has been alive and acted upon on 5 separate occasions since Confederate takeover of the Deep South in late 1993, many believe that "sixth time's the charm".
 * ¡Viva La Revolucion!: Dissatisfied with oppressive policies and corrupt governments, the people of El Paso and Juarez hold a mass strike for the first week of April. By April 4th, however, this strike had given way to a full-blown protest, comprised of hundreds of thousands. At 4:34 pm on April 4th, 2008, the Confederate Army was given the order to march into the main El Paso protest area and shoot the protestors, and nearby Confederate Air Force bases were authorized to bomb the protestors. Later that evening, the El Paso Massacre took place, leading to the deaths of around 17,000 protestors. This proved to be the final straw for the people of El Paso. Full insurrection was underway, and a national identity popped up overnight. The Free Aztlan Movement was born, seeking to create a democratic state where Anglos and Hispanics can co-exist without any form of oppression towards each other. Throughout the rest of the spring, the Free Aztlan Movement had made slow and steady advances in the suburbs of El Paso and Juarez, while the Confederate and Mexican armies were fighting a losing battle.
 * California Rising: With news of revolt popping up all over the place, the good people of California naturally want a piece of the pie, too. After all, they suffered the most under the Consolidation (1993-95), what with San Francisco and Los Angeles reduced to a pile of radioactive rubble, and the rest of their major cities leveled to the ground by Confederate carpet bombing, the damages of which have not been fully repaired yet. On April 1, 2008, tens of thousands of Californians from across all corners of the Golden State flock to the Sacramento suburb of Folsom, spurred on by an Internet meme stating "Californians, Rise Up: They Can't Nuke Us All". The California Rising had begun.
 * Sons of Liberty: John McCain's The True Patriot  has begun taking massive traction throughout the hearts of true Americans who value democracy like a storm. Now, the Sons of Liberty, an organization who claim to be the restorers of freedom and democracy according to the principles of the Founding Fathers and the ideals of The True Patriot, have sprung up across the nation, attacking anything deemed as fascist. Statues of Eternal President Thalmann, Confederate generals, police stations, and homes and workplaces of people who support the Thalmann regime have been bombed in many major cities across the Confederacy. As Sons of Liberty attacks become daily news, a truly gargantuan manhunt for soon-to-be-President of a restored United States/filthy Jew-loving traitor to the people of America John McCain has begun. It is only a matter of time before his whereabouts are revealed.
 * May YHWH Bless Our Souls: On April 17, 2008, a strange bearded man descended on Lakewood, NJ, one of the last towns with a Jewish population anywhere in the world. This strange man was former rabbi Levi HaSharon, who had been living undercover in Jersey City under a fake "Aryan" identity. After demonstrating his extraordinary knowledge, wit, and physical skill to the couple thousand or so Jews of Lakewood, they promptly declared him the Messiah, and so the Lakewood Uprising began. By the beginning of May, much of the town of Lakewood was now under the control of the Jews, and an abandoned building was turned into the Levi HaSharon Synagogue, the only non-underground operating synagogue in the world.
 * The Real Gamergate: Nintendo released the 5th generation of the beloved Pokémon games, Pokémon Black and White, on May 12, 2008 (yeah I know they released in 2011 IRL but this is an althist let's have some fun) . Although the goal of the game is still similar to the previous three generations: catch Pokémon, battle them with gym leaders and other opponents, and become Champion of the region, the map for the Unova region in these iterations of Pokémon is based off of New York City, and much of the storyline involves an allegory of the systematic genocide of Jews and African-Americans, and openly promotes Japanese-style assimilationist imperialism. This has led to Black and White's ban in all American stores; however, those involved or sympathetic with the resistance groups have begun to order smuggled or pirated copies of Pokémon Black and White from clandestine hackers or the Yakuza.
 * Metro Philadelphia: The People's Army of Southern Pennsylvania has recently become known for their frequent attacks on the Philadelphia public transit system, with them achieving total control over Philadelphia's metro and light rail systems, as well as transit lines in Delaware and Montgomery Counties. Many a Philadelphian has taken to using the PASP-controlled public transit whenever possible as a form of soft dissent against the Thalmann regime.

Mod Responses and NPC Turns

 * Catharsis Insurgency: Catharsis's infiltration of major Scranton industries has turned out very well, as Catharsis now softly controls many major local banks, small stores, and even a few factories under front companies. This significantly increases the Catharsis budget. Fake news on social media sites is quickly shut down by the government, however, softer methods, such as subtly anti-government memes, begin bringing people towards Catharsis and against the government.
 * Federal Freedom Fighters: Scouts find a relatively undefended east, but a more heavily monitored and defended north and west. Due to it being one of the more popular areas for refugee Detroit businesses, Saginaw has boomed tremendously, and is heavily protected. In fact, one might be better off aiming towards the severely depressed suburbs of a destroyed Detroit.
 * Front Libre: FL manages to rob the banks, although it is having a harder time hacking the accounts of prominent businessmen.
 * Commonwealth Liberation Front: Fitchburg and Oxford are no less defended than most other cities of their size, however, Framingham is close to a major military buildup, as it is the "gateway" to the Boston Radiation Exclusion Zone. Fitchburg is put at a higher priority for attack, as it is at the junction of I-190 and Massachusetts State Route 2, as well as its populace's ambivalence towards the government for directing ex-Boston funds and companies towards other similar-sized towns such as Salem, Lowell, and Plymouth.
 * Cristeros: Many Mexicans against the current regime flock to the Cristero banner.
 * United Socialist States of America (Main/Ashtabula Chapter): They agree to join the Fourth Internationale with the Zapatista Army for National Liberation. Workers of the world, unite! Seize the means of production!

Federal Freedom Fighters

 * Organisation:
 * Group Leader (First-in-Command): Gary Wellington
 * Second-in-Command: Danielle Clover
 * Main Headquarters / Centre of Operation ('de facto' capital): Flint, MI; some random underground tunnel networks beneath Flint
 * Personnel / Military:
 * Armed Militants: 360
 * Unarmed Militants: 240
 * Administrators: 15
 * Educators: 0
 * Financiers: 40
 * Propagandists: 70
 * Informers (scouts): 75
 * Other Members (with other roles): 410
 * Total: 1,200
 * Statistics:
 * Weapons:
 * 450 firearms, only few of them are modified or came as automatic through smuggling. They are primarily of various make and design too.
 * An unidentified number of homemade molotov cocktails/petrol bombs (but likely less than a thousand)
 * One to two successful remote bombs (there isn't much resources or things to do here). They are not used for now, but can be done with detonating cars or buildings altogether especially in high-security or guarded locations.
 * An unidentified number of kitchen knives (commonplace in kitchens so they are easy to find) used for melee and close combat.
 * An unidentified number of bows (but likely less than a few dozen) used for ranged archery combat as distraction.
 * Cities: This is for reference and I do these statistics because they help me calculate the final population as of 2008.
 * Flint: 65,000 roughly (~50,000 remaining [whites only] + ~15,000 Detroit refugees)
 * Diplomacy: N/A
 * Events:
 * Securing Flint: To secure Flint under the occupation of the FFF, militants have started building barricades and makeshift fences along Flint's town boundaries, while also occupying northern and western places lightly. This will provide some precautionary measures, so that Flint is not directly besieged by the Confederacy's own forces.
 * Nobody Wanted To Go There: Since reconnaissance has returned that the east is relatively not secure because of Detroit being entirely obliterated back in 1993, the goal is to occupy the east and secure the remainder of Detroit's outer suburbs, which is largely depopulated thanks to hundreds of thousands of refugees moving out of the city both almost immediately after the attack or in the long-term. Any other towns will go through a similar procedure of looting to acquiring any firearms and resources that will necessitate any future battle to the west. It's time to get bowling for Detroit.
 * Banks and the Black Market: All banks and ATMs in Flint and any nearby towns are looted and tampered to amass wealth of the FFF. Knowing that as they grow as an organisation, it is vital for the FFF to build its financial operations. Looting and selling are only a short-term solution and that is still a priority for much of FFF's financial activities in 2008. Usually, looted money is transferred into the black market, where they would buy firearms, munitions and necessary materials to build the FFF's arsenal. Outside of that, local businesses still exist, so long that they do not encourage or actively support the Confederacy. Despite lacking much technology to disseminate memes and propaganda unlike the eastern cities, there are very few computers that make obscure references and activities in social media but that is about it, the FFF is keeping a low profile on the internet.
 * Reconnaissance: Scouts and informers are sent to the south as far as Toledo, OH to see if there is similar security level and presence of guards around that point. They also sent some to investigate anything of value in the outer suburbs of Detroit but they shouldn't touch what remains of the core part of Detroit as it is still potentially contaminated and uninhabitable for visitation without any gas masks or whatnot, this is to keep FFF members safe.

Catharsis Insurgency

 * Organisation:
 * Triumvirate: Michael Scott, Jack Bright, Alto Clef
 * Main HQ/Centre of Operations: Dunder Mifflin Paper Company Inc. Scranton Branch Warehouse 5, Dwight Schrute's basement and several offices; Scranton, PA.
 * Personnel:
 * Administrators: 20
 * Trained Fighters: 120
 * Intelligence Operatives: 340
 * Spies: 30
 * Financial Operatives: 705
 * Shadow Operatives: 40
 * Untrained Personnel: 865
 * Total: 2,120
 * Firepower:
 * Firearms: Approximately 700 working firearms of varying condition and make.
 * Melee Arms: Several hundred kitchen knives, several hundred hardware tools such as hammers, saws, axes, etc; 4 sets of fencing equipment, 3 swords, 1 katana.
 * Explosives: Several homemade molotov cocktails/petrol bombs in excess of 200, 8 thermite explosives (these things are hard and risky to make), less than 100 fireworks and firecrackers.
 * Diplomacy: N/A
 * Events:
 * A Source of Income: For now, the financial assets of the Insurgency are courtesy of its members. Workers of all collar colours work to provide any money they can for the Insurgency's cause. More recently, attempts to hack obscure bank accounts are being pursued as a method of income.
 * Propaganda Time: Intelligence operatives (a fancy word for people who know how to use technology, from normie millenials to near-professional hackers, the latter of which we only have like 2 of) begin disseminating memes within Scranton online communities on social media such as Facebook, Twitter and via throwaway emails (if any of these services exist). Known as "boomer memes", these images are intended to subtly hint at flaws in the government or the massacres committed by the Confederacy.
 * Expansion: The Insurgency begins sending out operatives to other cities to begin expansion. Syracuse, Rochester and Albany are to be infiltrated in a similar fashion as that in Scranton without raising suspicion. This is conducted in a manner where any investigations by the FBI and such into the CI at these locations will not tie back to the Scranton branch.
 * Infiltrations II: Operatives are sent to neighbouring towns and cities to begin infiltration and expansion of the Insurgency. Taylor, Old Forge, Dunmore, Moosic and Moscow are targets of this infiltration, where local police forces, emergency services, utility networks and the post offices are to be taken over by soft power.
 * A Scandal in Scranton: The Mayor of Scranton, Chief of Police, high-ranking executives in local television stations and media are exposed to be complicit in multiple scandals and pocketing town funds, with the news being disseminated by intelligence operatives and word of mouth as rumours. Of course, these are not baseless accusations, as the well-photoshopped images of said scandal are dropped into the internet for all to see. As for evidence on the pocketed money, that was merely the funds we siphoned out ourselves and placed in their pockets. In retaliation, we, the people of Scranton, demand these corrupt and vile figures be replaced, most favourably by this one candidate we have that is totally not a puppet of the Insurgency.
 * Interstate 84: The highway is scouted by operatives to identify the most locations that will be most effective in hindering the advance of Confederate forces in the event we are attacked.
 * Militia Training: Members of the CI Militant Ops are sent for firearms classes, with options provided for specialisation courses such as martial arts,  sniper training and archery.

Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional

 * Backstory: A rebel group which has its roots in Emiliano Zapata's Ejercito Libertador del Sur, advocating for a free, inclusive MexicoEzln.png
 * Personnel: 4,500
 * Trained Soldiers: 900
 * Militia: 1,000
 * Intelligence: 200
 * Spies: 50
 * Financial Operatives: 350
 * Untrained Personnel: 2,000
 * Headquarters: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon (we dont control all of it)
 * Ideologies: Marxism-Leninism, Anarcho-Communism, Trotskyism, Syndicalism
 * Military Actions: we capture more areas in Monterrey and get guns via contraband
 * Financial Actions: we rob all banks in captured areas, taking 50% for the Army and the rest is redistributed among all members
 * Organization:
 * Commander Zapata (Jorge Zapata)
 * Sub-Commander Marcos (Rafael Guillen)
 * General Villa (Carlos Villa)
 * General Ibarra (Rosario Ibarra)
 * Firearms:
 * 150 Mondragon rifles
 * 10 C96 pistols
 * 450 Luger pistols
 * 15 Ross rifles
 * 25 Frommer Stop pistols
 * 50 Gewehr 98 rifles
 * 100 Kar98k rifles
 * 350 MP40 SMGs
 * 250 STG44 ARs
 * 400 homemade guns
 * 1,500 grenades
 * 6,000 molotovs
 * Diplomacy: 
 * USSA: we strenghten our alliance
 * Events:
 * Apodaca Massacre: in the municipalty of Apodaca, the government kills 40 innocent people, thinking they were rebels

National League for the Defense of Religous and Racial Liberty in Mexico (Cristeros)

 * Population: - 
 * Cities: 
 * Las Lomas: Unknown
 * Personnel: 2,665
 * Trained Soldiers: 360
 * Militia: 800
 * Intelligence: 250
 * Spies: 50
 * Financial Operatives: 260
 * Untrained Personnel: 945 (Most of them helps out with activism)
 * Organization:
 * First-in-Command: Miguel Antonio Mandarte
 * Second-in-Command: Francisco Ortego
 * Headquarters: Las Lomas, Hermosillo
 * Ideologies: Popularism, Anti-Nazism, Indigenism, Christian Humanism, Anti-corruption. More might come as the organization progresses
 * Weapons:
 * 330 of various designs (Mostly non-automatic)
 * ca 100 homemade bombs (Mostly molotov cocktails)
 * 12 Beretta 92F (taken from Mexican cops)
 * 10 Glock pistols (taken from Mexican cops)
 * 21 Jericho 941 (taken from Mexican cops)
 * Diplomacy: 
 * None
 * Events:
 * Activism: Our activism is quite normally occuring in the town we put up posters with our message and tries our best to spread it all over Hermosillo lucky it is quite easy to walk around town and put up poster when no one is looking. We try our best to spread our message and get more followers to end the regime that loves flirting with the Nazis.
 * Las Lomas Clashes: Our clashes with incoming police forces trying to retake Las lomas continues. With more and more people supporting us it gets harder for the police to take us down.
 * Money making: We get our funds to the organization either from donations and the member's own money. With us finally taking over a part of Hermosillo the members in the takeover have put everything they have in the movement if they don't have anyone else to support like their families to example.
 * The corruption has to end: Our leader Miguel Antonio Mandarte have held a speech in a unknown location to the members of the party that the corruption in Mexico has to end. The Cristeros will now also fight back the corruption in Mexico. Soon poster here and there could be seen with the message that the corruption has to end in Mexico.
 * El Jito Preparation: A plan starts to get made for an invasion of the small area nearby Las Lomas referred as El Jito soon we will liberate it too.
 * Many new members: Each day more and more Mexicans start joining our movement which seen as postive and we expect more to join as we get more succesful.

Commonwealth Liberation Front

 * Organization:
 * Marshal: John Roche
 * Center of Operations: 440 Lincoln St., Worcester, MA: Hanover Insurance Group Home Office
 * Personnel:
 * ​​Trained Fighters: 350
 * Spies/Espionage Agents: 15
 * Financial Operatives: 485
 * Untrained Personnel: 1,100
 * Cyberguard: 50
 * The cyberguard is formed in order to keep the online assets of the CLF in tact, as well as to help with propaganda and hacking systems.
 * Total: 1,850
 * Statistics:
 * Weapons:
 * Around 650 firearms of varying make, model, and condition, including M1 Garands as a 'symbol of American democracy' and Colt M1911s.
 * An unidentified amount of explosives: including grenades, molotov cocktails, etc.
 * An unidentified amount of melee weapons: hunting knives, machetes, etc.
 * Diplomacy: N/A
 * Events:
 * Worcester Uprising: The Worcester Uprising continues. We send much of our main force to the south in an attempt to seize the remaining parts of the city that we do not control. Our main focus is on taking the neighborhood known as Main South, which has large control over the city's central roadway, Main Street. Secondary objectives include the takeover of the Four Hills: Grafton Hill, Union Hill, Oak Hill, and Vernon Hill.
 * Income: Our methods of gaining a sort-of economy are continued from the last turn: seizing assets, hacking into lowkey bank accounts, etc.
 * Intelligence and Reconnaisance: We continue our scouting of nearby towns and cities, shifting our efforts from those directly next to us to some further away, including Springfield, Lowel, and even transitioning our efforts to another state: Rhode Island. There, we begin to gather reconnaisance on its capital of Providence.
 * Boston Visas for the CLF: At the moment, we currently have some members of our cyber team trying to forge documents, such as visas, that will allow members of the Commonwealth Liberation Front to enter the Boston Irradiated Zone (BIZ) and attempt to start an uprising in the area. On top of this, we also have members of our intelligence team trying to 'legally' acquire said required documentation.
 * Pokemon Black and White... Democratized: We have about twenty five of the members of our so-called Cyberguard working on a ROM hack of Pokemon Black and White that shows the same dystopian New York City as in the original games, but the main goal of the ROM hack is to build up a large team of Pokemon (in the hack, the party limit has been upped to 15) and take back New York from the Nazis using those Pokemon and insurgent sympathizers along the way. This will hopefully be used as propaganda for the younger generations.

Front Libre de Trois-Rivières

 * Organisation:
 * Headquarters: Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières
 * Citizens' Assembly: The Citizens' Assembly of the Front Libre was elected on June 2nd, 2008.  The assembly meets in the Trois-Rivieres Palace of Justice. All members of the assembly are technically independent, but some of them are affiliated with a certain political idiology. The composition of the assembly is as follows:
 * Liberal democrats: 32
 * Socialists and communists: 13
 * Social liberals: 10
 * Social democrats: 10
 * Conservative liberals: 5
 * Provisional Canadian government: The Provisional Canadian government is the governing body of the liberated Canadian territory (the territory controlled by Front Libre). The government consists of a war cabinet of 5 ministers and a larger cabinet of 20 ministers. The government has been appointed by the leadership of Front Libre and approved by the Citizens' Assembly on February 8th, 2008.
 *  ​​​​​President of the Front Libre: The President of Front Libre is the head of the  Provisional Canadian government. He also holds the offices of People's Minister for the Revolution and Minister for the Popular Armed Forces. The President of Front Libre also is the Speaker of the Citizens' Assembly. The current office holder is Jacques-Josquin Truteau. Truteau was elected unopposed by popular vote on January 18th, 2008.
 * June 2008 Front Libre presidential election: On June 2nd, 2008, a presidential election was held to elect the president of Front Libre. The incumbent president was returned with a landslide, but during the campaign Truteau faced stiff opposition from Henri Gagnon, a left-wing candidate who called for a class struggle between the proletariat of Trois-Rivières and the fascist capitalists.
 * Jacques-Josquin Truteau: 4,298 (70.0%)
 * Henri Gagnon: 1,843 (30.0%)
 * Personnel:
 * Citizen's Guard (Elite forces): 450
 * Citizen's Militia: 900
 * Intelligence: 300
 * Spies: 45
 * Untrained personnel: 900
 * Firearms: 
 * 1030 handguns
 * 1510 long guns
 * ca. 300 hommade bombs
 * Statistics:
 * Membership:
 * ​​​​​​Active members: 3,500
 * Non-active members: 6,000
 * Casualties (Front Libre):
 * Killed: at least 12
 * Injured: at least 34
 * Missing: at least 4
 * Diplomacy:
 * Relations: This is a list of relations (not alliances).
 * Liberals: Excellent
 * Social democrats: Excellent
 * First Nations: Excellent
 * Jews: Excellent
 * Conservatives: Good
 * Christians: Good
 * Socialists and communists: Good
 * Quebecois nationalists: Neutral
 * Canadian nationalists: Neutral
 * Anarchists: Neutral
 * Anti-fascist  terrorists: Neutral
 * Right-wing conservatives: Negative
 * Howardites (fascists): Awful
 * Diplomatic Actions: N/A
 * Events: 
 * The Battle of Trois-Rivières: The battle for downtown Trois-Rivières continues as police forces storm the Quebec University, the headquarters of FL. Fighting continued for weeks, but eventually the government forces had to retreat.
 * The Revolution Tax: FL imposes an income tax in the territory under their control. The inhabitants of said territory shall pay 5% of their income to FL.
 * In Name of the People: FL's hacker team tries to hack bank accounts once again.

PASP
-We have taken control of public transportation systems, and the local Amtrak station. We ride from the 30th Street Station to the Lancaster and Harrisburg stations to rally our allies and convince them to join the fight.

-Send a message to Carthasis inquiring about an alliance.

-Align ourselves with the USSA.

-Recruit lots of Philadelphians to our cause.

-Attempt to take the Philadelphia Shipyard. We captured a few of the ships there. We can use this to import/export guns from the outside world and melt down old ships for weapons.

-Expand through the city as well as possible

-Take Independence Hall (or what's left of it. Don't know if it is still standing) and make it our headquarters.

-Capture the Frankford Arsenal and take all of the old weapons and munitions there. We repair as ,any as we can, and the rest are melted down to be used for other things.

-A supplier of the Army who grew up close to Philadelphia shows up near the Shipyard. He goes under the name Smith for security. Upon his arrival, he is appointed leader of the rebellion.

Turn 3 (Q3 2008)

 * Workers of America, Unite! pt.2: By the end of September, USSA forces had fully secured Ashtabula, and also taken the cities of Warren and Youngstown, cementing their control over the far northeastern section of Ohio. Meanwhile, a rudimentary democratic political system is set up in USSA-controlled areas, with the Mahoning County Courthouse in Youngstown converted into the People's Congress, abandoned factories converted into government offices and housing for Ohio's poor and "undesirable peoples", and elections "as free and fair as any of the old America's" promised after the war. Many previously unemployed people have also found jobs at factories, working towards the war effort. This sudden revitalization of the economy of a Youngstown in rapid decline is quickly hailed by leftists across the country as a "socialist miracle", and has brought more people closer to the USSA, as the common populace in many Rust Belt cities now have the mentality of "Communism is preferable to Fascism". Throughout the summer of 2008, several socialist groups, emboldened by the success of Sam Webb's USSA, begin surfacing. Of note is the Red Brigadiers in Vermont, led by Bernie Sanders, who have captured the state capital of Montpelier and much of the surrounding area, and appear to be advancing full-speed to Burlington.
 * ¡Viva La Revolución! pt.2: The Free Aztlan Movement has managed to put El Paso and Juarez under siege, as well as capture much of the surrounding suburbs and rural areas. However, the Battle of El Paso, as it has become known in the general Confederate and Mexican community, has quickly devolved into brutal street-by-street, block-by-block urban warfare, augmented by airstrikes from both sides (Aztlan forces have managed to capture Briggs Airfield), and the occasional sarin gas attack and "anthrax bomb". Free Aztlan-affiliated movements have also seized territory in many other cities along the Confederate/Mexican border, including Laredo, McAllen/Reynosa, Brownsville/Matamoros, and Tijuana.
 * I Am Not Three-Fifths Of A Person: The Sixth New Afrika Revolt in the Mississippi Black Belt continues to gain ground, as Confederate soldiers are taken aback by the ferocious guerrilla warfare of the "damned n*ggers", with a Confederate general remarking, "They are truly beasts. No honorable man would fight they way the Negroes do. This is why Thalmann is right and the blacks need to know their unworthiness". Meanwhile, New Afrika scouts have set fire to many plantations that "employ" African-Americans in near-slave labor conditions (i.e basically all of them).
 * California Rising: The Californian rebels were easily pushed out of Folsom by Confederate military might, with many simply being massacred on the spot or sent to Wyoming and Utah death camps. However, some rebels have managed to regroup and flee into the Sierra Nevada, where they have taken South Lake Tahoe and blown up every single mountain pass leading to the town.
 * The Messiah: Surviving Jews from all over the North American continent flock to New Jersey to fight for the Messiah, and once and for all relieve their people from their eternal persecution by the Gentiles and create a New Jerusalem in the Americas (the entirety of old Jerusalem was demolished by the Nazis and rebuilt in Nazi utilitarian fashion as Bergstadt). Levi's forces have taken over the towns of Lakewood, Whitesville, and Lakehurst, and have advanced into the northern periphery of Toms River. The newly-built Rabbi HaSharon Synagogue in Lakewood is increasingly referred to as the Third Temple.
 * Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru: After the destruction of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle, much of the Japanese population of those cities (at least the ones that survived and didn't return to Japan) made their new homes in Portland, Oregon. When the Confederate government took over, Japanese-Americans, along with other Asian groups, suffered from disenfranchisement in laws similar to the Jim Crow laws of the 1950s, and were forbidden to speak their own language. The Japanese, however, never gave up hope. They continued teaching their children Japanese, practicing their culture, and defying the Confederates as much as they possibly could without being sent to a death camp. They were always on the lookout for an opportunity to re-assert their rights in their adopted country. That opportunity presented itself in 2008. With the Confederates occupied with numerous other rebellions, the Japanese-Americans of Portland, too, rebelled. By the end of September, the Portland suburbs of Gresham and Boring (which, since 1993, have become home to many San Fran and LA refugees) had become under the control of the Japanese Republican Army. The JRA is covertly armed by the Yakuza, several Japan-based companies (including Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, and Nintendo) and even the Japanese government itself, and Confederate troops stationed in Oregon and southern Columbia (Washington state) have come to fear the words "Omae wa mou shindeiru", as many JRA "kamikaze" suicide bombings begin after those following words.
 * The Deep State: In the Wyoming Valley region of northeast Pennsylvania, Catharsis and its front companies have entrenched themselves deep enough into local banks, employment, services, and municipal and county governments that it has formed a parallel state in the Scranton area. This near-total domination of local government is an open secret amongst the people of Scranton and its suburbs and periphery, with many Scrantonites (Scrantonians? idk) dubbing the Catharsis network "the Deep State", due to its nature being hidden under the veneer of local government. Although the majority of Scrantonites know that the "Deep State" is anti-Confederate to some extent, many people to the left of the political spectrum are wary about the Catharsis network, with them seeing collaboration with Catharsis as merely trading fascism with unchecked corporatism. What can be said, however, is that Scrantonites are quickly growing to love and trust the "Deep State" and hate the Government more and more.
 * The Battle-Cry of Freedom: Sons of Liberty terrorist attacks increase in frequency, and begin to target major landmarks enshrining Fascist leaders. The Sons of Liberty have also stated that they are planning on "a total eradication of all statues of Confederate generals in the great American nation by 2012". Meanwhile, the manhunt on John McCain narrows, with the FBI releasing a statement that "we are 95% certain that John McCain is currently residing somewhere in the state of Kentucky".

NPC Turns and Mod Responses

 * PASP: The attack on Independence Hall and the Philadelphia shipyard was an astounding failure, with lack of planning, weapons, intel, and cooperation being the main failures of the plan. However, PASP militias escaping the botched Shipyard Attack have managed to capture FDR Park and the Packer Park district. What the attack did manage to accomplish is to reveal the true extent of the PASP's anti-government nature, and Pennsylvania State Troopers are called to retake control of the PASP-run public transit. Clandestine videos of State Troopers releasing nerve gas onto unsuspecting subway-goers in subway stations have boosted PASP popularity, though.
 * Catharsis Insurgency: The Mayor of Scranton and Chief of Police are indicted for these corruption scandals. Although the Chief of Police is replaced with yet another Thalmann lackey, ensuring the unjust police practices of the Confederacy will go on at least for the time being, Eugene Williams, the CEO of Scranton Coal Power (a Catharsis front company) is appointed as Mayor of Scranton. Many local TV and radio personalities are forced to retire prematurely after public backlash, with many of those positions being filled with less prominent entertainers and reporters with varying degrees of Catharsis affiliation. The Deep State is only begging stronger with time.
 * Front Libre: Bank accounts of prominent local businessmen are hacked. Politicians' accounts remain safe for now.
 * Cristeros: Much of Las Lomas and El Jito are now under control of the Cristeros. Meanwhile, much of the population of Hermosillo and surrounding communities now sees the Cristeros in a very good light. Several Free Aztlan groups, including Free Aztlan-El Paso/Juarez and Free Aztlan-Laredo, offer funding to the Cristeros, as their ideology is similar. (only more secular)
 * Federal Freedom Fighters: The "Push to the East", although only in its initial phases, is moderately successful so far. Toledo, Ohio is quite heavily defended, as it is essentially the "replacement" for Detroit, and the government has been investing in it heavily. All bank accounts in the city belonging to non-Flint residents have been hacked and the money transferred to the FFF.
 * Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional: Anti-government sentiment increases after the Apodaca Massacre, with many flocking to the EZLN. Meanwhile, USSA funds have begun to trickle into Zapatist coffers.
 * Commonwealth Liberation Front: Much of the inner core of Worcester has been captured by the CLF. Meanwhile, scouting efforts have revealed that Springfield is around as defended as most towns that size are, and Lowell and Providence, although quite heavily defended, are also full of Boston refugees that are very discontent about the loss of their homes under nuclear fallout. These Bostonites could be a very useful target for recruitment. A few CLF members have managed to gain access to the Boston Exclusion Zone, and have begun to loot abandoned weapons stashes and the occasional functional ATM. Many surviving suburbs around Boston are in severe economic downturn, and anti-government sentiment is astronomically high. In fact, the people of Lynn have almost unanimously decided to rebel under the CLA banner too. Meanwhile, Pokemon Crimson, the "democratic" ROM hack, gains massive popularity in the Northeast, and is beginning to spread to other areas of the US.
 * USSA: The Red Brigadiers, EZLN, and PASP are invited to the first meeting of the Fourth Internationale, set to be held in Youngstown on December 14, 2008.
 * Japan: The Japanese government begins funding several American resistance groups, notably the JRP, the California rebels, and Free Aztlan-Tijuana, in hopes that they will succeed and become Japanese client states, thus giving the Co-Prosperity Sphere a foothold in the Americas.

Federal Freedom Fighters

 * Note: This is the first turn where I have started to push the limits by using the Internet of sorts and whether I could get my hands on the democratic ROM hack by taking in two copies somewhere. The first two turns were conservative.
 * Organisation:
 * Group Leader (First-in-Command): Gary Wellington
 * Second-in-Command: Danielle Clover
 * Main Headquarters / Centre of Operation: Flint, MI; some random underground tunnel networks beneath Flint
 * Personnel / Military:
 * Armed Militants: 450 (+90)
 * Unarmed Militants: 255 (+15)
 * Administrators: 15 (0)
 * Educators: 0 (0)
 * Financiers: 70 (+30)
 * Propagandists: 100 (+30)
 * Informers (scouts): 80 (+5)
 * Other Members (with other roles or unassigned): 400 (-10)
 * Total: 2,000 (+800)
 * Statistics:
 * Weapons:
 * 660 firearms, only few of them are modified or came as automatic through smuggling. They are primarily of various make and design too.
 * An unidentified number of homemade molotov cocktails/petrol bombs (but likely less than a thousand)
 * Three successfully made remote bombs (there isn't much resources or things to do here). They are not used for now, but can be done with detonating cars or buildings altogether especially in high-security or guarded locations.
 * An unidentified number of kitchen knives (commonplace in kitchens so they are easy to find) used for melee and close combat.
 * An unidentified number of bows (but likely less than a few dozen) used for ranged archery combat as distraction.
 * Cities: This is for reference and I do these statistics because they help me calculate the final population as of 2008.
 * Flint: 65,000 (50,000 remaining [whites only] + 15,000 Detroit refugees)
 * Detroit (estimated, not final as FFF does not control Detroit): 153,000 (I drew a rudimentary shape of outer Detroit to calculate the population of that area using this as a source. I calculated using a formula that 70% of people from Detroit fled and that Detroit by 1993 was 75% black: 2,045,872 * 0.3 * 0.25)
 * Diplomacy: N/A
 * Reconnaissance:
 * Lansing, MI: Scouts are sent to that place if it has a similar case to Saginaw.
 * Detroit: (see Bowling for Detroit)
 * Events:
 * Nobody Wanted To Go There, pt. 2: Expansion to the southeast and slowly securing and defending Flint continues. Again, any form of looting and tampering of ATMs and banks, along with any valuables like weapons and resources to make bombs are still being made. As the FFF approaches close towards Detroit (there has to be a limit though), the FFF has to ensure that they can secure Detroit by first accessing the city legally and send secret messages to call for an uprising while encouraging them to join the movement. The stages of acquiring Detroit is split into three:
 * Stage 1 (Q2-Q3 2008): Get close to Detroit as much as possible (after expanding and pushing further to the east), acquire and forge visas to access Detroit as a precaution.
 * Stage 2 (est. Q4 2008): Count the population of what remains of Detroit (since most have fled on 1993), recruit those disgruntled and angered by the Confederacy, which is almost all of them and encourage them into an uprising with the FFF by sending hidden encoded messages.
 * Stage 3 (est. Q1-Q2/Q3 2009): Occupy the rest of the 'insecure' part of eastern Michigan and outer Detroit before moving onto Saginaw and Lansing. Core Detroit would also need to be secured as well, while the Canadian side of the Detroit metropolitan area, Windsor, will not be scouted or occupied since it is controlled by a fascist Canada, not the Confederacy.
 * Bowling for Detroit: The black market is used to acquire visas to access Detroit by legal means, via the dark web with obscure computers in Flint's internet cafe (social media is not the FFF's big deal yet, but the unusual activity might cause some red herrings...) and those who aren't loyal to the Confederacy but are willing to give up them. Accessing Detroit with legal means, especially core Detroit will give the FFF the control of a major (former) city without having thousands of Confederate soldiers crushing a small organisation easily. Thousands are to be recruited into the FFF's cause too, if not, there would be still hundreds that might be still eager. Meanwhile, veiled messages that promote recruitment into the FFF, anti-Confederate sentiment by affirming there are others that hate the regime and the message of liberation are being prepared by informers and propagandists so that these messages are sent in numbers to any residents of outer Detroit after the stockpiling. These aren't necessarily deployed to outer Detroit, but some of the nearby settlements near Detroit have been sent with similar messages.
 * Normalisation and Finance: About six months on, Flint is being normalised but security and control of Flint has been tightened and secured (to reduce any theoretically possible pro-Confederacy dissident to just 1/10,000th) with barricades and few armed militants patrolling the streets in a lookout for Confederate sympathisers and any businesses supporting the cause of the Confederacy. For financial stuff, the FFF will invest in money for munitions and weapons in the black market, but there will be some of it being stored in underground Flint. Apparently, there's also someone on the internet while buying and acquiring visas to access Detroit has also bought about two democratic ROM hacks of Pokemon along the way. (Don't tell anyone this...)

National League for the Defense of Religous and Racial Liberty in Mexico (Cristeros)

 * Population: - 
 * Cities: 
 * Las Lomas: Unknown
 * El Jito: Unknown
 * Personnel: 3,050
 * Trained Soldiers: 420
 * Militia: 960
 * Intelligence: 255
 * Spies: 70
 * Financial Operatives: 290
 * Untrained Personnel: 1,055 (Most of them helps out with activism)
 * Organization:
 * First-in-Command: Miguel Antonio Mandarte
 * Second-in-Command: Francisco Ortego
 * Headquarters: Las Lomas, Hermosillo
 * Ideologies: Popularism, Anti-Nazism, Indigenism, Christian Humanism, Anti-corruption. More might come as the organization progresses
 * Weapons:
 * 345 of various designs (Mostly non-automatic and homemade or illegaly aquired)
 * ca 160 homemade bombs (Mostly molotov cocktails)
 * 22 Beretta 92F (taken from Mexican cops)
 * 18 Glock pistols (taken from Mexican cops)
 * 32 Jericho 941 (taken from Mexican cops)
 * 4 Colt 9 mm SMG (taken from Mexican cops)
 * 8 Uzi  (taken from Mexican cops)
 * Diplomacy: 
 * Aztlan Groups: Yes we accept your help and galdly co-operate.
 * Events:
 * Activism: Our activism is quite normally occuring in the town we put up posters with our message and tries our best to spread it all over Hermosillo lucky it is quite easy to walk around town and put up poster when no one is looking. We try our best to spread our message and get more followers to end the regime that loves flirting with the Nazis.
 * Police clashes Clashes: Our clashes with incoming police forces trying to retake Las lomas continues. With more and more people supporting us it gets harder for the police to take us down.
 * Money making: We get our funds to the organization either from donations and the member's own money. With us finally taking over a part of Hermosillo the members in the takeover have put everything they have in the movement if they don't have anyone else to support like their families to example.
 * Villa de seris, Pedregal de la villa and Akwiki Preparation: A plan starts to get made for an invasion of other area nearby areas to our controlled territory we will soon hopefully be able to liberate it too. We will hopefully be able to use Villa de seris area as a launching point to takeover the rest of the southern parts of Hermosillo and hopefully the whole of Hermosillo soon. If at least the takeover of Akwiki is succesful we might be able to try and take over Parque Industrial since we will have managed to cut it's main road of with the majority of the government controlled town. Of course this needs very careful planning.
 * Plans for uprisings and takeovers of smaller communities: There is also plans to takeover the smaller communities more specific El Tazajal and LA Victoria to get more control in the outer areas of Hermosillo and since we have a lot of support of the population of Hermosillo and smaller communities around them we hopefully might be able to take the smaller communities over. We also don't expect to much resistance since they are much smaller and therefore there must be fewer policement there but we might be wrong and it also depends if we can manage to get anyone there to help us with the takeover since our we have not much members in the smaller communities mostly because they are quite small communities.
 * This Mexican government don't care about Mexicans rights!: New posters appears telling that the current Mexican government don't care about Mexicans outside of Mexico and let Confedercy repress Mexicans freely without any action and therefore thecurrent government are not fit to lead the country

Catharsis Insurgency

 * Organisation:
 * Triumvirate: Michael Scott, Jack Bright, Alto Clef  (on road trip)
 * Proxy Triumvir: Dwight Schrute
 * Main HQ/Centre of Operations: Dunder Mifflin Paper Company Inc. Scranton Branch Office and Warehouses, several other offices; Scranton, PA.
 * Personnel:
 * Administrators: 80
 * Trained Fighters: 320
 * Intelligence Operatives: 410
 * Spies: 40
 * Financial Operatives: 1,170
 * Shadow Operatives: 85
 * Untrained Personnel: 840
 * Total: 2,945
 * Firepower:
 * Firearms: Approximately 1,200 working firearms of varying condition and make.
 * Melee Arms: Several hundred kitchen knives, several hundred hardware tools such as hammers, saws, axes, etc; 4 sets of fencing equipment, 3 swords, 1 katana.
 * Explosives: Several homemade molotov cocktails/petrol bombs in excess of 300, 21 thermite explosives (these things are hard and risky to make), little over 100 fireworks and firecrackers.
 * Diplomacy: N/A
 * Events:
 * A Source of Income: For now, the financial assets of the Insurgency are courtesy of its members. Workers of all collar colours work to provide any money they can for the Insurgency's cause. More recently, attempts to hack obscure bank accounts are being pursued as a method of income.
 * Propaganda Time: Intelligence operatives (a fancy word for people who know how to use technology, from normie millenials to near-professional hackers, the latter of which we only have like 2 of) begin disseminating memes within online communities on social media such as Facebook, Twitter and via throwaway emails (if any of these services exist). Known as "boomer memes", these images are intended to subtly hint at flaws in the government or the massacres committed by the Confederacy.
 * Cathartic Values: After the values of Catharsis are brought into question by numerous parties including leftists within the Insurgency, a key question is asked: what is the Insurgency fighting for? Following days of disagreements between high-ranking operatives and the Triumvirate itself, an agreement was reached. The Catharsis Insurgency here by reaffirms its stance on bringing about a return of "Liberty, Equality and Democracy", regardless of whether one is a communist or a conservative, no matter the colour of their skin or their religion, all men and women must have their human rights respected. The decision of whoever leads this New America will be left to the choice of the people after the Confederacy is torn down.
 * New Scranton: With Eugene Williams becoming mayor of Scranton, capital is reallocated to welfare support for the impoverished and "non-Aryans". This, of course, is done away from the eyes of the public, the Confederacy, the police force and any Nazi toe-sucking organisation that decides to sneak a peek.
 * Militia Training: Members of the CI Militant Ops are sent for firearms classes, with options provided for specialisation courses such as martial arts,  sniper training and archery.
 * Expansion of the Insurgency [Mod Responses Required]:
 * Operation Sicily: Agent Troy Lament has been assigned to executing Operation Sicily, in which a large scale infiltration of Syracuse, NY is to be conducted via implanting operatives, buying out stocks of companies, fabricating scandals and similar activities. The Hancock Field Air National Guard Base is to be put under surveillance at a high priority. To Be Executed
 * Operation Rose: Agent V. A. LaFerrier has been assigned to executing Operation Rose, in which the actions conducted are almost the same as that of Operation Sicily, but with minor variations and within Rochester, NY. To Be Executed
 * Operation Scottish Box: Agent Green has been assigned to oversee infiltration efforts of Albany, NY, as a pathway to expanding the Deep State. The surveillance of the Watervliet Arsenal is also prioritised, and any operations regarding the taking of the Arsenal remain to be considered. Executed
 * Operation Meltdown: Operative Charles Anborough has been assigned to execute and oversee the infiltration of Harrisburg, PA. Infiltration procedures are the same as other operations, with special emphasis on the Tobyhanna Army Depot, where surveillance is to be carried out for any notable Confederate activities or developments. Executed
 * Recruitment: Whitelisted Scrantonites that have gone through background checks by the Insurgency are approached with the intention of recruitment into the Insurgency. So long as they have no connections to the Confederacy, the police force or their sympathisers, and are generally against the government or advocates for freedom and liberty, they are welcome within the insurgency. Gangs are also approached with the intention of expanding the Insurgency Shadow Ops and militia. The Insurgency hopes to increase their ranks by the hundreds, if not thousands.
 * Clef Takes a Road Trip: Alto Clef announces a short hiatus from his role in the Triumvirate, allowing Dwight Schrute to assume his post until he returns. With his colleagues Drs. Jeremiah Cimmerian, Charles Gears and Simon Glass crammed into his AE86 Trueno GT-Apex Hatchback, they undertake an adventure involving meeting other well-known rebel groups with the USSA and followers of the Messiah on their list of people to visit. As Clef jokingly put it; "we might steal some nukes along the way."

Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional

 * Backstory: A rebel group which has its roots in Emiliano Zapata's Ejercito Libertador del Sur, advocating for a free, inclusive Mexico
 * Personnel: 6,000
 * Trained Soldiers: 1,200
 * Militia: 1,500
 * Intelligence: 200
 * Spies: 200
 * Financial Operatives: 400
 * Untrained Personnel: 2,500
 * Headquarters: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon (we control most of it)
 * Ideologies: Zapatism, Neo-Zapatism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarcho-Communism, Trotskyism, Syndicalism, Anarcho-Syndicalism
 * Military Actions: we keep capturing  more areas in Nuevo Leon and we keep getting guns via contraband and robbery
 * Financial Actions: we rob all banks in captured areas, taking 50% for the Army and the rest is redistributed among all members
 * Organization:
 * Commander Zapata (Jorge Zapata)
 * Sub-Commander Marcos (Rafael Guillen)
 * General Villa (Carlos Villa)
 * General Ibarra (Rosario Ibarra)
 * Firearms:
 * 150 Mondragon rifles
 * 10 C96 pistols
 * 450 Luger pistols
 * 15 Ross rifles
 * 50 Frommer Stop pistols
 * 50 Gewehr 98 rifles
 * 100 Kar98k rifles
 * 500 MP40 SMGs
 * 250 STG44 ARs
 * 500 homemade guns
 * 1,500 grenades
 * 6,000 molotovs
 * Diplomacy: 
 * USSA: we try to send General Ibarra to the first meeting of the Fourth Internationale
 * Events: N/A