The Future Reloaded (Map Game)



This map game is created by starring94, as the fourth installation of the The Future map games (the predecessors being The Future, The Future Revived, and The Future: Collapse (Map Game)), in order to have a fresh start. The current year is still 2015, and the players still have to solve problems, like ISIS and a few others. If you want to join, request it in the comment section.

Staff

 * Game Manager: starring94
 * Assistant Game Manager: -
 * Event Maker: Flaming Spaghetti Monster
 * Diplomat/Reasoner: -
 * Mapmaker: -

Rules

 * Don't do something unbelievable, like invading New Zealand invading Switzerland.
 * Please be fair, don't make coalitions against players, or if you do, you shouldn't leave them in the dark.
 * In order for wars to be short (in order for not making them World War long), try to make a peace agreement when you can.
 * Only one country is allowed per player, and each turn equals to 4 days and 1 year in game time. Any person who doesn't complete their turn will be skipped. If you are skipped three times, you are kicked out of the game.
 * Try to be reasonable. You can't annex (with reason of course) areas bigger than Belgium, and you can only occupy an area around the size of Portugal at max (but that will exhaust your army).
 * Nukes are allowed, but you shouldn't use them as other countries will attack you.
 * As usual, the world alliances/organizations will start to crumble during the starting year.
 * Do not edit the page unless you are staff and / or doing your turn.

Warnings
This sections is for players who have been warned for breaking the rules.


 * = Turn fixed, or them being OP ended. Note: If you accumulate 3 warnings, you are kicked from the game.

Players and Countries

 * Kebab Master Lel: China
 * Ceplio: Saint Vincent and Grenadines
 * XenobladeShulk1503 (Olimario): Indonesia
 * Multi: United States of America
 * Miguel: Spain
 * Ethan: Italy
 * starring94: Germany
 * Chris Mapping: Japan
 * VioleNK: Russia
 * EmprorCheeseBritannia: Hungary
 * Czarno: Denmark
 * Eric4e: Egypt
 * Szabi mapper: Thailand
 * Lolistan: Ireland
 * Asdf Mapping: Israel
 * Aendarus Mapping: India
 * Fedex: Argentina
 * Dragonusperkamentus: France
 * GreenGuy: Luxembourg
 * TheSoaringHawk: Turkey
 * Mista: Sweden
 * Potato09-Cyprus

Turn Order
Player Turns: Kebab - Ceplio - Olimario - Multi - Miguel - Ethan - starring94 - Chris Mapping - VioleNK - KKAP - EmprorCheeseBritannia - Czarno - Eric4e - Szabi - Lolistan - Asdf - Aendarus - Fedex - Dragon - GreenGuy - SoaringHawk - Mista - Potato09

Players will be skipped four days after the turn begins. The turns are simultaneous. Turn Done [Skipped] {Not Playing}

Mod Events

 * The international organization start to crumble all across the world at the end of the year. The European Union is disbanded (the first to leave it was the UK), NATO also ends, although its still there in America. Problems start to happen between the BRICS members too. Due to other countries dissatisfaction about the UN Security Council, the United Nations also ends. Some treaties, like the Nuclear Treaty still remain.
 * Virtual Reality ... having been something of a gimmick in the 1980s, it is now becoming a serious tool for business, leisure, education and training. Much of the content in these 3D environments is user-generated, with online communities for sharing and exchanging virtual objects, buildings, avatars, etc. Among the hardware configurations to emerge is a circular treadmill-like interface, allowing players to move freely and naturally in all directions.
 * On 1st January 2015, Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas and becoming the 19th Eurozone country. The euro had previously been expected to replace the litas in 2007, but the economic crisis and persistent high inflation – reaching 11% in October 2008, well above the acceptable limit of 4.2% – delayed Lithuania's adoption. In July 2014, the Council of the European Union agreed that Lithuania met its entry criteria and would be allowed to adopt the euro as its currency. As the European Union splits, the litas needs to be readopted along with other countries' old currencies, like the franc, lira, marc, etc.
 * Despite indications of recovery, the global economy remains in a fragile state. While growth is strongest in developing countries, it is still slower than during the pre-crisis period. A cautious attitude and ongoing aversion to risk mean that business confidence is tepid – especially in the EU, which has borne the brunt of this disruption. There is continued political and social unrest in the southern European countries of Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain, where debt continues to spiral. US is showing signs of recovery, China is growing as a superpower in the global economy. Other states are starting to enter the opportunity for global supremacy from the Great Recession, mainly Chile, Israel, Mexico, South Korea and Turkey. Who are capable of growing into superpowers if time plays them right.
 * On 10th September 2015, Elizabeth II becomes the longest reigning monarch in British history – surpassing the record held by Victoria, her great-great grandmother. Having ascended to the throne on 6th February 1952, Elizabeth II has now reigned for 63 years and 217 days.
 * Solar Impulse is a Swiss long-range solar-powered aircraft project, led by Swiss psychiatrist and aeronaut Bertrand Piccard (who co-piloted the first balloon to circle the world non-stop) and Swiss businessman André Borschberg. In 2015, they aim to achieve the first circumnavigation of the Earth by a piloted fixed-wing aircraft using only solar power.
 * The first phase of Masdar City – a $22 billion eco-project – is completed in 2015. This huge development is located outside of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Entirely pre-planned and self-contained, it is the world's first carbon neutral, zero waste and fully sustainable city. A multitude of green technologies are utilised – including the largest solar power plant in the Middle East, rooftop photovoltaics, wind farms, geothermal sources and a hydrogen power plant. The city's water needs are fulfilled by a solar-powered desalination plant. There are extensive recycling systems too.
 * The first in a new generation of US aircraft carriers is launched this year. The Gerald R. Ford-class replaces the aging Nimitz-class which has been in service since 1975. This new class of ship includes some major improvements over previous generations. These include: increased automation, electromagnetic aircraft launch systems to replace previous steam mechanisms, increased stealth, a new type of nuclear reactor for more efficient power consumption, high tech radar and flight control, as well as the ability to carry the new F-35 Lightning II fighter jet. Ten carriers are commissioned in total, at a cost of $14bn each (including research and development). The 10th and final ship is launched by 2040.

NPC Moves

 * Islamic State in Syria: Despite the airstrikes conducted by multiple countries, the IS keeps advancing in Syria, and even worse, the Syrian government is focusing in destroying the last remaining moderate rebels instead of fighting IS. As for the Kurds, they manage to resist against IS's expansion, however, by the end of the year, the IS launches a full-scale attack on the Kurd city of Kobanî, starting the Second Siege of Kobanî.
 * Islamic State in Iraq:  In the other hand, the IS is getting weaker and weaker in Iraq due to coordinated attacks from Iraqi and Kurdish forces. Most of the IS militants in Iraq have either fleed to Syria or retreated to Mosul.
 * Islamic State in Libya:  The IS captures the city of Derna and manages to keep control of it aftee some clashes with other Islamist groups and the Libyan government. After this overhelming victory, the IS starts to expand into Cyrenaica.
 * Turkey:  As Erdogan sees the total chaos that Syria has become, he secretly prepares a full-scale intervention for the next year, with the real objective being the full annexation of Syria, using the excuse of fighting IS. Thousands of troops are recuited for the operation. The code name of the entire operation is "Operation Aleppo".
 * Iran:  As NATO and UN cease to exist, the Iranian government decides to take advantage of it by invading the small nation of Kuwait in order to "secure their nuclear program", Saudi Arabia sends a warning to Iran, however they know they can't really beat Iran with NATO out of the global scenario and the Gulf Cooperation Council disbanded, so instead of trying to liberate Kuwait they impose sanctions on Iran and they call the international community to do the same. Israel,  in the other hand, demands Iran to stop their conquest or they will take extreme measures. Iran ignores the warning and annexes Kuwait 1 month after the invasion.
 * Donetsk, Luhansk: As the EU and NATO is gone, the chance of them being attacked once again by Ukraine or a coalition is smaller, and because of that, Donetsk and Luhansk join Russia.
 * Belarus: With the pressurizing factors gone, Belarus is planning to join Russia next year, as the Union State is still intact.
 * Brazil: As the world is now in chaos, Brazil plans to expand in South America. They plan to attack Uruguay next year.
 * Bosnia & Herczegovina: The nation falls apart and the two/three parts join Serbia and Croatia.
 * Serbia: On a rush for power Serbia takes over Kosovo, Albania says that they will declare war if Serbia doesn't releases Kosovo before January 1, 2016.
 * India: India accepts Japan's alliance offer, they also start an expansion campaign by invading Sri Lanka, Colombo is taken within a few weeks. Tensions with Pakistan increase.
 * Pakistan: Since the Indian-Japanese alliance represents a serious threat, Pakistan tries to increase their relations with Iran and an alliance to counter India is made, even a plan for dividing Afghanistan in some years is made. An alliance with the PRC is also requested.
 * Colombia: Tensions with Venezuela skyrocket as border skirmishes become more and more common ... Colombia request Brazilian aid if war with Venezuela breaks out.
 * Bolivia: Bolivia declares war on Chile because of territorial claims, Peru supports them.
 * Ethiopia/Abyssinia: The Ethiopian president, Mulatu Teshome declares himself King of Abyssinia and he also renames the country to just Abyssinia. The King promotes nationalism and massive recruitment programs begin. On December 7th, Ethiopian soldiers and trucks cross the border into Eritrea, with the objective of taking Eritrea's capital city, Asmara.
 * West Africa: The Ebola outbreak officially ends in Late 2015 after dozens of thousands of people died, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea start to recuperate slowly.
 * South Africa: Without the UN, South Africa can finally get rid of the small country of Lesotho. South Africa strikes the weak Kingdom in November 13th and it was quickly annexed.
 * Swaziland: After South Africa's aggressive annexation of Lesotho, Swaziland decides to join Mozambique peacefully (keeping autonomy) because they prefer being part of Mozambique than being annexed by South Africa.

Player Events

 * Italy
 * Military: Going out on a conquest of Croatia and Slovenia for Istria, probably a historical Italian region in the past is now a priority but they decide to invade them for Dalmatia, Istria and half of Slovenia and turn the rest of Slovenia and Croatia to Slavonia, a purposed puppet state of Italy. Seeing that NATO collapsed, they can finally re-expand their empire once again by performing a war. Other than that, they increase the number of reserves and active soldiers to strengthen the numbers against the weak forces of them. The HQs are divided to Trieste HQ, Rome HQ and Syracuse HQ.
 * Summary in military (starting off Italy's military with the website globalfirepower.com being used as main source and altered slightly over time with some slight additions and modifications):
 * Italy:
 * Land forces: 394,000 active soldiers, 586 tanks, 300 anti-tanks, 92 artillery
 * Navy forces: 2 aircraft carriers, 14 frigates, 4 destroyers, 5 battleships, 10 submarines, 20 corvettes and 4 navy transport.
 * Air forces (estimate): ~100 fighters, ~125 bombers, 90 air transport and 70 helicopters.
 * Other: 80,000 reserve.
 * Diplomacy:
 * Germany: Accepts an alliance.
 * France: Wants to buy Nice for 1.5 billion euros and its surrounding lands for better usage.
 * Monaco: Asks Monaco if they want to join Italy. They will have equal rights as Italy does but have a high degree of autonomy, meaning less rebellions will exist and offer 500 million euros if they accept. All citizens will be given citizenship without taking tests or anything when they accept as well.
 * Ireland: Accepts trade proposal
 * Intervention against Islamic State: They are currently sending out airstrikes to target IS militants in Syria to aid Kurds but not Assad's regime since they are tyrannical. They can't do anything in Libya and they seem to be heading for Benghazi one said. But they began launching an operation to annex Tripolitana and Cyrenaica as colonies but using IS as the target so basically waiting is the only choice, with IS taking over North Libya, we can swoop in and annex North Libya but it will be a huge secret
 * Economy: Doing well because it is a developed country but wars would stop the growth immediately. Their ultimate goal is to make their economy strong enough, paying off loans and have a sanction or embargo proofed nation but so far they can't do anything to do so than acquiring territories for later uses. They began slowly reintroducing Lira.
 * Wars and Conflicts:
 * War against Croatia and Slovenia: Many troops are deployed in June and took over Istria in just 2 months. The Slovenian front is invaded by Trieste HQ and its army and took 4 months to capture half of Slovenia and probably Ljubjana. Casualties: Italy is ~7000 and Slovenia and Croatia ~12000
 * Technology and Science: Still like TF:C, they go on a biological focus and genetic engineering. And for TFR, military. So basically they go both

President Obama decides in early 2015 to change the American military to a more organized and powerful structure. Set to be complete next year, the system has four parts: Navy, Air Force, Armored, and Army. The Navy has 10 aircraft carriers, 121 destroyers and other combat/transport/supply ships (I checked on wikipedia), and 73 submarines. The navy is split into 3 parts. Four carriers, 37 subs, and 54 destroyers become The US Atlantic Navy, or USAN for short: 1 carrier, 12 subs, and 23 battleships are sent to the Mediterranean, and the rest are sent to the Pacific Fleet. During the journey, each ship will be rearmed with new turrets and radar in order to have the ability to find sinking boats and enemy vessels. The UNAC (US Air Corps) is also founded. The USAC has about 6,650 military planes, including bombers, fighter jets, and transports. Obama agrees on a new fighter jet to be developed. The jet, called a Hydra Fighter Jet, or HFJ for short, is a jet that has a hover mode, advanced missiles and sonar radar to destroy infantry and mech. The USAD (US Armored Division) is massively reduced due to the huge number of tanks that were not needed. The number of main battle tanks is now at 6,400. A new light armored waterproof tank is made. This tank is called the LAT (Light Armored Tank), and is able to move faster than the tanks with light armor. Both the MBTs and LATs are upgraded with the advanced sonar and new missiles that can do massive damages to enemy positions. The US Army has 1.4 million active soldiers, with a further 900,000 in reserve. The infantry is completely redone. The army will be divided into 14 separate divisions of 100,000 men. The armor is upgraded with a Mopp 2 Armor plate, able to withstand 2 shots, and is lightweight. The back has a pocket in which a day's provisions can be stored. Helmets are also reworked into a less bulky design, allowing more maneuvering in the corps. The newest assault rifle, called the X-1, is given to the army. The rifle is accurate and parts can be switched, allowing for snipers and shock troops to have the same weapon. A new type of ammunition, called the USA1, shatters on impact and fries the insides of the target. Congress decides to move American corporations such as Apple and Nike back to the United States. Apple becomes based in California and Hawaii, while Nike moves to the territory of Puerto Rico and Louisiana. All property in America owned by Chinese corporations are kicked out. The economy begins to improve faster due to these actions. Obama decides to make each state create food and a certain resource. For example, California will supply wheat and mechanics. Texas would supply oil and weapons. This would create an organized economy, and the plan is implemented in late 2015. The United States, in May, declares total war against both the Assad regime of Syria and ISIS, declaring support for the Free Syrian Army. The Mediterranean Navy blockades the Syrian coast, effectively halting any Syrian naval attack. The US 5th Division lands in western Syria. The numbers are in favor of Syria, with 110,000 soldiers,900 planes, and 4,500 tanks, while the US has 100,000 soldiers and 478 MBT, 156 LAT, 26 ships, and 1,700 planes. However, Syrian equipment is outdated and rusty. During the early stages of the war, the US Army struggles to hold against countless Syrian attacks. In early November, a Syrian Free Army force of 30,000 arrives and helps the Americans defeat Assad's army of 60,000. The Syrians retreat to Damascus, Aleppo, and the Golan Heights. With Syria gone, IS manages to take over most of the northeast, while new Syrian warlord states declare independence. The Free Syrian Army declares a new state called the Republic of Syria. Bashur, the first president, asks US engineers to make a capital on the western coast. Engineers comply and begin making a refuge camp, temporary government buildings, and a military base, along with an airstrip. About 60,000 refuges find shelter while food is shipped from the states. A new oil well is found 10 miles north of the city, allowing for cheaper prices back home. The United States begins to equip the Syrian Army with X-1s and MBTs. The US army decides to guard the coastline while Syrian troops march towards Aleppo and take the city on Christmas. A death count is created by the UN. It is estimated that 12,000 US troops, 62,000 Syrian Arab Troops, 37,000 Free Syrian troops, 4,000 IS troops, 22,000 Warlord Troops, and 267,000 civilians, most from Turkish raids and bombings. The USA requests an alliance with Britain, the Republic of Syria, Japan, and Australia.
 * The United States of America: 
 * Japan


 * Government: The governor of Japan made Japan a dictatorship by getting rid of the royal family and banning other parties. But even the members of the party are kicked out and replaced by advisors so the advisors don't make problem of having lower political power and are more trustworthy then the ex-party members. Despite all of these things he's not a bad leader because he started some serious reforms in the country to make a happier and less stressful population. These reforms are: glorifying big families over work (but working and studying stays an important part of the society just with much fewer working hours, fewer stress, more school vacation and students go to school only 5 times a week instead of 6) and they encourage children to go out and have fun outside instead of sitting at the computer whole day and discouraging peoples from suicide by making them believe it's okay to do mistakes sometimes and they can't bring shame to their ancestors only themselves also giving them self esteem. And all these messages gets to them both by school and by animes which were bribed by the state. Also, Japan started to work on an environment program to make the whole country oil free using only renewable energies (especially solar energy, biofuel and hydropower). Also, Japan started a big dam building program to stop easier the upcoming tsunamis. And to pay off all these programmes the country took all major Japanese companies in state ownership. But despite the nationalization foreign companies can still invest in the country and the state owned Japanese companies can invest in other countries too also the productivity of the companies are still depends from the needs of the world market not state plans.
 * Democracy:Japan accepts the alliance offer from USA and hopes to be treated as equal instead of a puppet as how it was for a long time.Japan offers an alliance to India
 * Military:Japan starts to spend heavily on its military to prepare for the invasion of both Koreas.Preparation finishes in July 16th so invasion starts in July 17th and by the end of the year Japan captures most of the countries and kept them under blockade since the beginning of the invasion. Also Japan started a secret cyber soldier program but it will take a few years to finish it.
 * Economy: The country spend a lot on social programs environment and military but they can pay them off due to the country's great economy and state owned Japanese companies

Brazil: Economy, infrastructure and military improve. Population continues to grow stabilize slow, after reaching the population rate at over 200 million. Continue building a series of fighters, bombers and tanks on military factories. Continues to plan new reforms and continues investing heavily in technology and science.

While cities continues to grow fast, rural areas becomes heavily populated and must do something building cities in another way. During a meeting between Brazil's largest contraction building company and Brazilian government in capital city Brasília, a new policy named Metro Populated Cities Underground becomes active in Brazil's plans to build a better future. Most of Medium-density houses in largest cities are destroyed, while the people living on former houses are now living in residential camps, powered by Brazilian government. Then poor workers and workers from China and India begun to dig down areas where buildings are destroyed this year and starts building skyscrapers underground. Project would take two or four years to complete this.

Brazil begins building alternative forms of energy plants such as Solar plants on homes' roofs and wind farms on hills, jungles and farms. Brazil also shut down and destroys many coal, gas and oil plants in order to eliminates pollution in Brazil and in world.
 * Siam


 * Government: Siam become communist. The royal family rule Siam.

Ireland Spain (Officially the Third Spanish Republic): The current king, Felipe VI, takes a trip to India in a plane, which is taken down after a terrorist attack caused by ISIL. The king dies and her daughter, Leonor takes the throne even if she is 9 years old. The decision causes protests against the government for leaving such a girl as a queen. The government decides to appoint Mariano Rajoy, the Government President, as President while Leonor grows up. In the inauguration speech in Madrid, he declares the 76 year old Monarchy to be over. The royal family takes him as a traitor and try to imprison him. Instead, the royal family is the one which is imprisoned.
 * Military: Siam start to gain troops. The men between 20-50 year need to became soldiers in war time. at18 year the children start the military school
 * Economy: Siam want help from China to build atom plants.
 * Diplomacy: Siam offer alliance to China and Japan.
 * Economy: though there is no real need to intervene in the economy up as it's in a general upscale and is healthy Ireland does encourage the growth of industry in the arms sector seeing that it could make mass profits from possible coming events also to grow it's own military to keep it's self generally protected. The Punt Éireannach (the irish Pound) is remade the currency of Ireland since the Euro collapsed though it may soon change the name and is Benefiting Ireland since the euro was losing value
 * Culture, Language and Religion: no cultural changes besides Irish Gaelic becoming more popular few people say Ireland might become bilingual but it's unknown there's no religious shifts or anything.
 * Military: the main focus for Ireland is to revamp and reform the Military and is done in a similar fashion to America and credits the nation for the idea also is growing the amount of men to 20,000 Active (from 7500) and 10,000 reserve (from 4191) it will grow in the future but as a slow speed as Ireland doesn't want to stress the nation's economy.
 * Diplomacy:
 * UK: an offer to buy Northern Ireland is offered at the price the British think it's fair
 * USA, France, UK, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Russia and Brazil: Trade agreements are offered.
 * Tech:
 * Mainly Balanced and recent innovations are applied to as much as an extent as it can though is watchful of virtual reality./
 * Infrastructure: Ireland's main focus is Infrastructure so it is improves.

The Third Spanish Republic (in Spanish: la Tercera República Española) buys Gibraltar for 167 million Euros and they quit the Eurozone, but they still are members of the EU.

The Peseta Española is the new currency and the Spanish Economy is actually improving.

All the Spanish Soldiers in Afghanistan are called back and they rejoin the Spanish Mainland Army.

Andorra is annexed after the Andorran Prince signs the Treaty of Valladolid.

Argentine Democratic Republic People's Republic of China: The people's Republic abolishes market socialism, Jinping establishes a new Command Communist System, the economy is FULLY controlled by the state and government now, and the government is planning to attack Vietnam and Laos, though not this year, China also sends boats to the South Chinese Sea to fight in some disputed islands. The People's Republic makes a vassal state in Tibet, called the Socialist State of Tibet, the people's republic is planning to put troops on Nepal, however, the government says that this will be done after China annexes Vietnam and Laos.
 * 2015 Elections: Mauricio Macri wins with 46.7% of the votes
 * Economy : Mauricio Macri focuses on trying to high the value of the Peso and increasing the Retired Salary, and lowering the money that's paid to the criminals in prison. Macri also focuses in improving the Tourism Industry
 * Law : The punishment for committing crimes is a lot more harsher, the police is now allowed to shoot anyone with a weapon/Committing a crime, this is seen as many as breaking human rights.
 * Military : The Military is slightly more numerous, but not much better.
 * Diplomacy : Argentina sends a warning to Brazil to NOT attack Uruguay, Argentina sends a referendum to Uruguay, saying that Uruguay can join Argentina for protection, Uruguay would become its own autonomous reason, Argentina also tries to get closer ties to the U.S, requesting for a defensive alliance.
 * Tech: Argentina falls behind in electronic tech, but not military.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: The people throw riots, causing thousands on thousands of deaths. Elizabeth II asks what is the matter, and the people want Socialism. The Vincentian Revolution is declared, and ends with a Socialist victory. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is now The Socialist Republic of Saint Vincent. It is banned from The Commonwealth.

Russia Russia continues with intervention in Syria, helping the official Syrian government in the civil war, supporting Assad's regime. Russia actively joins the attacks on the Islamic state and helps the Syrian troops with medical and arms support. With USA actively joining the civil war as well and declaring war on the state of Syria, Russia warns USA to stop their attacks and rather to co-operate and focus on defeating the Islamic State. USA denies Russian proposal and continue battling Syrian and Russian forces. Eventually Russian troops are evacuated from the area, leaving the Syrian army all by themselves. By the end of the year, when USA has established control over the west lands, Russia demands from US to give the control over the state back to Assad's party. Russia now carries out only a couple of minor attacks on the Islamic State with no effect, but it is rumored that Russia might have sold some of their weaponry to the IS too.

After the disintegration of EU and Nato, Donetsk and Luhansk regions join Russia and they are accepted with open hands. Relations with Ukraine settle down slowly and truce is signed. Russia supports Serbia in the annexation of Kosovo and it's ready to support Serbia in case of any Albanian war actions against Serbia. Russia continues to improve their relations with Belarus, in hopes that they would join Russian federation in the next year.

Federal Republic of Germany: 
 * Government: With the collapse of the European Union and NATO, the German government's view shifts to a more imperialist one, just like the other countries all across the world.
 * Science and Technology: Even after the Great Change (that's how Germans call the collapse of the international organizations), the projects and technological advancements in Germany continue.
 * Virtual Reality: With its potential for possible military training, the German government starts to take interest in Virtual Reality. They start a secret project, secluded from other VR projects, like Oculus Rift and the others.
 * Energy: As Germany thinks that Nuclear Reactors and fossil fueled energy generators are bad for the atmosphere, they decide to invest more into renewable energy, like wind, solar and water.
 * Economy: With the European Union gone, the German economy begins to increase once again. Also, Germany decides to stay with the Euro this year, and start slowly converting Euros to the Third German Marks.
 * Diplomacy:
 * Ireland: Germany accepts Ireland's trade agreement.
 * Italy: Germany decides to send a military alliance agreement proposal to Italy.
 * Russia: As Russia has Kaliningrad secluded from the rest of its territory, Germany sends a proposal to buy Kaliningrad (East Prussia) from Russia.
 * Switzerland: Germany sends a proposal to Switzerland to enter a political union along with Austria too, with them maintaining high-level autonomy and equal amount of seats in the government compared to their population.
 * Austria: Germany sends a proposal to Austria to enter a political union along with Switzerland too, with them maintaining high-level autonomy and equal amount of seats in the government compared to their population.
 * Denmark: Germany sends a proposal to Denmark, to buy some of their southern lands.
 * Nuclear Projects:
 * Shutdown of Nuclear Reactors: With non-nuclear renewable energy sources rising in Germany, the procedures for the shutdown of nuclear reactors begins to start. It is estimated, that by 2030, Germany will have shut down all of its nuclear reactors.
 * Nuclear Shelters: With a possible nuclear outbreak, Germany begins to create nuclear shelters all across the country.
 * Military:
 * Federal Republic of Germany: In order to stay alive in the new warring era, Germany increases its military, navy and air force.
 * 200,000 active soldiers, 428 tanks, 10 anti-aircraft tanks, 50 artillery, ~150,000 reserve soldiers/
 * 1 aircraft carrier, 11 frigates, 6 destroyers, 4 battleships, and 5 transports.
 * 120 fighters, 192 attack aircraft, 322 transports, 49 trainer aircraft, 355 helicopters, 34 attack-helicopters.

Denmark: In politic nothing changes, Denmark accept selling SOME south Jutland lands, but at price of 1 billion euros. Denmark improve relations with Norway in order to make union in future and asks Germany for non - aggression pact and eventually military alliance. They buy new desantimg and warships and Denmark launches invasion on Iceland, because empire. They also send aliance proposal to Norway, Sweden, USA and Ireland. They start decreasing autonomy of Greenland. They also recruit some land soldiers.

Israel- Israel keeps advancing technologically like they have in the past. With no more international organizations to stop them, Palestine is invaded and annexed. Most of the residents are converted to Judiasm. Helping the USA, Israel invades ISIS through the Golan Heights and completely removes them from southern Syria. Southern Syria is annexed, and its residents are also converted. Israel Allies Spain, the USA (I think), and sends an alliance request to Turkey and Italy. Israel threatens Iran to pull out of Kuwait immediately or strong consequences will ensue.

Mod Events

 * In early 2016, Panama Canal's Expansion construction is finally completed and the new gates are open for transit. Capacity has now been doubled, allowing the canal as a whole to handle the projected rise in volume to 2025 and beyond. This mega-project eases numerous burdens on the shipping industry, as well as creating huge numbers of jobs among the Panamanian people – generating enough wealth to reduce poverty in the country by almost 30%. However, critics of the project contend that there are serious environmental issues.
 * This year sees Russian space group, Energiya, launching the world's first space hotel in partnership with US firm Orbital Technologies. Capable of housing up to seven people, it offers spectacular views of the Earth and includes a menu crafted by celebrity chefs. It also functions as a possible emergency refuge for astronauts from the International Space Station. (This is real btw)
 * More than 100 years after the ill-fated voyage of RMS Titanic, an exact replica is built and launched by the Australian billionaire Clive Palmer. The boat sails from China – where it is constructed – to Southampton in England ahead of her maiden passenger journey to New York. Guests include leading U.S. business figures, who are treated to a dinner from the same menu as Titanic passengers on the day it sank. Titanic II is completed by next year in Australia.
 * i5K is a five year project to sequence the genomes of 5000 insect and related arthropod species.*It aims to identify the vulnerable regions of insect DNA, which could then be targeted with pesticides and other treatments. This could reduce the $50 billion spent globally each year to control the many diseases transmitted by insects.
 * A new method of IVF which involves the creation of babies with three parents has been introduced in the UK
 * India becomes only the fourth nation – after Russia, the US and China – to independently launch humans into space. The rocket used is a variant of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark 2, operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). This carries a largely autonomous 3-ton capsule, with a two-person crew on board. They remain in orbit around the Earth at 248 miles (400 km) altitude for seven days, before splashing down in the Bay of Bengal. The total cost of the project is about 124 billion rupees ($2.67 billion USD).
 * InSight is a probe launched by NASA to Mars, arriving in September 2016. The name stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport.

NPC Moves

 * Uruguay: The referendum about joining Argentina is accepted and it has a positive outcome, with 59.26% of the voters voting for unification. Uruguay is now integrated into Argentina, keeping autonomy.
 * San Marino: San Marino agrees on doing a referendum on joining Italy next year.
 * Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria (Assad's Syria), Algeria, Albania and Chad join the DIM. The other nations that were invited decide to decline the offer.
 * Austria: Austria accepts to join Germany's polipolitical union, Switzerland, in the other hand, declines the proposal due to strict neutrality policies.
 * United Kingdom: After a large debate thought the parliament, the UK agrees on selling Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland in order to end this long time dispute. Northern Ireland's citizens are given the choice of staying at their homes and accepting Irish citizenship, or keep the British citizenship and migrate to Great Britain. Around 25,000 people choose the second option. The island of Ireland has been finally reunited.
 * Albania declares war on Serbia since they didn't pulled out from Kosovo. Albania currently has an small advantage since the Serbian troops were surprised by the albanin attacks, however, after Albanian troops arrived to Pristina to liberate the city, the Serbians started a counterattack which made Albanian troops slow down. Serbia requests Russian supports. Greece indirectly supports Serbia by selling them weapons and embargoing Albania.
 * Islamic State in Iraq: As the Iraqi government continues with their offensive against the IS, the siege of Mosul begins, over 45,000 IS militants defend the city. However, by December 12th the city falls to Iraqi and Kurd forces, with the last remaining IS members escaping into Syria. The last IS remnants in the border areas with Syria are currently being neutralized by the Kurds and Iraq's government.
 * Islamic State in Syria: The Second Siege of Kobani ends with an overwhelming IS victory. The surviving kurds are desperate for help and they request aid from the USA, Iraq, Russia and even Iran. With this victory, the IS consolidates its presence in Northeast Syria, now they're focusing on destroying the independent warlords. Although they have lost territory in the South because of Israel, they remain as the strongest force in Syria.
 * Islamic State in Libya: IS captures the city of Benghazi after a very violent siege where civilians and soldiers were massacred alike. The situation in Libya is becoming so bad that the Libyan government and the other Islamist groups that are against IS have signed a temporal truce in order to fight IS. However, IS keeps winning territory in north Libya, people are starting to think they are unstoppable...
 * Islamic State in Afghanistan: The government has reported that a group of ex-taliban militants has deserted to join the Islamic State, for now they're only an small group but they have managed to take control of a few areas in the Hemland province, establishing Lashkar Gah as their headquarters.
 * Nigeria: A new strain of Ebola suddenly appears in Boko Haram-controlled territories, infecting 12 people. The main characteristics of this new strain is that it takes more time to kill and it remains unnoticeable within the first weeks of infection, it is also more infectious than the traditional strains. Meanwhile, Boko Haram continues expanding and they claim that the Ebola outbreak was caused by the Nigerian government's infidels.
 * Egypt: Egypt publicly expresses its concern for Israel's expansionism, and sends a warning. Egypt also proposes to embargo Israel in the DIM, Saudi Arabia backs Egypt's proposal. Egypt also increases border security and mobilizes troops near the Gaza Strip, in order to be prepared in case of an Israeli attack on the Sinai Peninsula.
 * Chile: The war with Peru and Bolivia ends. Chile is forced to cede Arica and Parinacota to Peru and Tarapacá and Antofagasta to Bolivia. With this, Bolivia finally recuperates its coastline.
 * Abyssinia: Asmara falls to Abyssinian troops, Eritrea is annexed into the Kingdom. Abyssinia now prepares for invading Djibouti. An alliance with India is requested since Abyssinia wants to modernize their army.
 * Iran: Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, condemns the Israeli take over of Lebanon, he says in an speech that Israel and Iran are now in "state of war" and that extreme measures will be taken if Israel keeps expanding. The nuclear program is accelerated and so is the production of weapons and the recruitment of troops. In other events, Iran tries to get closer relations with Iraq, and if possible, get it under their sphere of influence. This process will take some years, but for now Iran is doing well in gaining influence in Iraq, along with their ally, Pakistan.

Player Events
Luxembourg

Since European union has fallen Luxembourg economy was heavily damaged so government keeps borders open, to keep tourism high which. European parliament is closed, but the government is thinking of a new use for it.

Italian Republic Turkey Ireland India Sweden
 * Wars and Conflicts:
 * War against Slovenia and Croatia: Slovenia is completely occupied and they approached Zagreb and Dubrovnik by July. In 6th August, they made a treaty, Slovenia will cede the western part of their land to Italy, Croatia will cede Istria and parts of their coastlines to Italy. There is no vassalisation yet but Italy is at peace again for now. Casualties for this year, Italy: 14,000. Slovenia and Croaita: ~25,000
 * Economy: Their economy drops during the war but is repairing itself from the war after August. They kept their borders open to attract tourism, tolls fees were increased to fund the government and economy after the war. The Euro is still being replaced by the Lira.
 * Government: The election for the new president is held by the next year. Many argue on who should be candidate and now they become more imperialist and nationalist, trying to regain the lost Italian lands.
 * Science and Technology: Investing a lot of money onto military and space projects, they began shifting their work on biology to space, hoping to launch their people to the Moon. They also formed a space program as the founding members claimed. They don't have any plans for that yet and is secretly believed to be a hoax to some anonymous sources
 * Infrastructure: A major project in the rural in North Italy causes many people from the cities to move out to the rural areas, reducing density in the largest cities but some were forced to do so. They are many protests across North Italy but they take no action but riot police and 100,000 soldiers to calm the situation. Rome and some surrounding towns begin to merge as megacity of Rome by the next five to ten years. Venice is sinking slowly due to floods.
 * Diplomacy:
 * Greece: Warns on declaring war against FYROM. But Italy wants to secretly take Corfu and parts of Greece when they are both at war, using this as an excuse.
 * France: Still waiting for buying Nice for at least the equivalent of 1.5 billion USD instead of Euro since its crumbling from the rest of the former Eurozone. If they don't respond by 2017, there shall be blood everywhere and mobilisation begins instead of Libya. Which might be good for Libya.
 * San Marino: Asks a referendum to join Italy and if the majority wants to join, then they will have autonomy and equality.
 * Military:
 * Italy: Since NATO collapses, they need to continue raise their amount of soldiers. Around 150 thousand men were recruited to conquer Libya next year, military spending increases with it making 11% of the GDP and finally build more ships and equipment. This creates yet more jobs for the unemployed, specifically production of military equipment, ships, weapons and finally, recruitment. The migrants however, get to do this as well.
 * Land forces: 434,000 active soldiers, 625 tanks, 305 anti-tanks, 120 artillery
 * Navy forces: 3 aircraft carriers, 16 frigates, 8 destroyers, 7 battleships, 18 submarines, 23 corvettes and 5 navy transport
 * Air forces: 130 fighters, 150 bombers, 120 air transport and 105 attack helicopters
 * Other: 100,000 reserve
 * Culture and Religion: The Muslim population increases due to the migrant crisis last year and fertility. Most of them were assimilated easily but the church is going to change that later.
 * Military: A draft is set in place to increase the amount of soldiers in the army quickly. 200k new recruits are brought in and trained. With the NATO collapsing Turkey decides that a increased military is very important. The military is increased to: 4573 Tanks, 8750 AFVs, 1,314 SPGs, 1021 Towed Artillery, 955 MLRSs, 344 Fighters, 514 Bombers, 812 Transport Helicopters, and 120 Attack Helicopters. In the a new batch of ships are set in production, including: 2 aircraft carriers, 16 Frigates, 6 Destroyers, 20 Corvettes, and 8 Submarines.
 * Alliances: With the fall of NATO, Turkey decides to found 2 new organisations: Trade Network of Islamic Nations (TNIN) and Defense of Islam Nations (DIM). While Turkey itself is secular, religion is decided to be the poster of the alliances as the countries have something in common and can all agree on some things. TNIN is open borders and free trade alliance and DIM is a military alliance like NATO with 3 nations with veto power which would be: Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt. The countries invited are: Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Mali, Mauritania, Sudan, Eritrea, Chad, Niger, Eritrea, Oman, Albania and Indonesia. The alliance is planned to be expanded past just Islamic countries in the future.
 * Other Diplomacy: Turkey guarantees the Independence of Albania and Kosovo warning Russia to not bring in troops to Kosovo or they will be met with Turkish resistance. Turkey supports the embargo of Israel by DIM. This makes it enacted and on August 22nd Israel is officially embargoed by DIM.
 * War: Turkey declares war on Serbia to assist Albania and to ensure Kosovo its Independence. 100k soldiers are sent in total supported by a majority of Turkey's helicopters. The soldiers secure the border of Kosovo and begin to push forward. Turkey will not stop unless Serbia signs a treaty allowing Kosovo to be independent. Turkey also declares war on Cyprus for annexing Northern Cyprus. 200k Soldiers land on the shore of Cyprus after the Turkish command has the remaining Norther Cyprus Military and citizens secure a beach. Within 3 months all of Northern Cyprus is retaken and the navy blockades the shores of Cyprus. Turkey assures the UK that their military base will remain untouched. A peace offer is sent to Cyprus stating that the will remain independent if you release Northern Cyprus, Abandon all claims to that land and cut ties with Greece. If this offer is refused all of Cyprus will be turned into a Turkish Puppet state.
 * Economy: No general intervention though the Recently Bought northern Ireland and soon to be bought Reykjavik(if Denmark wins the war against Iceland that is) has help it grow but the purchases as numbed the positive effect for this year.
 * Military:Growth continues and starts to grow into the Naval department as ship yards are built across the country and the military grows to 30,000 and 10,000 reserve and new Military Equipment is being designed but is only in planning stages and will probably take 4-5 years for prototypes of it to come out successful
 * Culture,Language and religion: Protestants in northern Ireland are being Converted(slowly) to the Catholic branch of Christianity simply from Pressure form rest of the country because Ireland is majority catholic no intervention from the government,Irish Gaelic spreads and starts to gain speed but most Irish still learn English for Business reasons outside Ireland but Irish Gaelic is becoming the Language of Most things in Ireland overtime it's found to be caused by revival movements from some organizations in Western Ireland the Government wondered why they hadn't noticed last year,no changes in Irish culture though it starts spreading into northern Ireland at a slow pace.
 * Diplomacy:
 * UK: Officially Bought Northern Ireland and is Happy the dispute is put to an end.
 * India,Thai and Japan: trade agreement are offered since the Panama Canal has been recently upgraded.
 * Technology: recent focus on Bio-fuels to improve making of fuels like ethanol.
 * The super highway construction starts. Thousands of homes are destroyed in order to build it. Millions protest, with no effect. Small rebellions crushed in Delhi and Surat.  India requests Bangladesh to come to terms with the border dispute one more time. If they refuse,India will take the land it claims by itself.  India requests an alliance with China, offering the Tibetan land they claim is theirs in return for the Kashmiri land they took.  Modi applies new policies, making India very leftist. The name officially becomes the Bharat Republic, with the Rupee renamed to the Bhara. Many are calling Modi a socialist, and he is very disliked among the Bharati people.  The military is increased dramatically, as Bharat starts producing Chemical and Biological weapons. Modi reveals staggering evidence of Ebola being an artificial CIA creation. Modi also reveals the extent of surveillance that the USA has over every country. He tells the media that he has spread disposed of any spies in the government. However, many believe this is a cover up for what is believed to be the "First Modi Purge".
 * Economy: The Swedish economy is doing well, and people are happy. In February, Sweden offers to buy Åland from Finland, but Finland declines. Sweden turns to military means.
 * Military: Sweden plans to dominate Scandinavia and maybe eventually the Baltic Sea, but for now they plan on uniting Scandinavia. The Swedish military is improved to be bigger and better than Norway and Finland combined. Sweden creates a new "Åland Crisis" by annexing it. The people of Åland are unhappy, but they stay as an autonomous region. Sweden moves troops to the borders with Finland and Norway, and begins improving their navy. The Swedish fleets are positioned near the Finnish shores as a threat.
 * Diplomacy: With the fall of NATO, Sweden decides that it needs protection in case of a Russian invasion. They found a new alliance called the Baltic Pact. All countries with shores on the Baltic Sea are invited except Finland and including Russia. The Swedish government believes that Russia could be a threat to other countries, but they don't believe that a military alliance against Russia will do anything to help. Sweden wants all countries around the Baltic (except Finland) to work together and thrive with each other.
 * Other: Sweden decides to help fight ISIS but only by sending aid to countries fighting ISIS. Sweden also tries to stop threats of terrorism by putting the Muslims in concentrated areas, but they are not as bad as concentration camps or anything. The Swedish government decides to take these people back to the Middle East once ISIS is gone.

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Spanish Third Republic: After the decision of Mariano Rajoy to create a republic, Portugal occurs a revolution and the Portuguese Kingdom is created, with Pedro VI being the king. The Spanish Minister of Army suggests to attack Portugal and return the democracy to that land. The Parliament agrees and the Spanish Army crosses the border and invades Portugal.

A week later, the war is declared and Braga and Lisbon is bombed by the Spanish Air Forces and the Navy.

For August, the Spanish troops have occupied a big part of the south and the city of Porto in the north. For November the Spanish Navy blocks Lisbon, while the Army gets near there.

As the war has been slow, the Spanish economy is reduced, but that won't become a worry to the Spanish Government due to the economy recovering quickly.

The Army calls for more men to the lines and 25,000 men and women join the army.

Brazil: Economy, infrastructure and military improve. Population continues to grow stabilize slow. Continue building a series of fighters, bombers and tanks on military factories. Continues to plan new reforms and continues investing heavily in technology and science. Continues building underground houses, shops, factories and offices in all cities with 100,000 citizens living here. Continues building solar plants on homes' roofs and wind farms on hills, jungles and farms. Brazil begins its mobilization and heavily improves military in hopes to dominate South America. Accepts Colombia's request for aid and declares war on Venezuela, begun invading southern part of Venezuela. At the same time, Brazil asks Colombia and Chile for alliance and trade agreements.

The 2016 Summer Olympics will take place in Rio de Janeiro, another largest city in Brazil, as well as 2016 Summer Paralympics will take place in the same city.

Peoples Republic Siam:
 * Economy: P.R. Siam start to build factories
 * Military: P.R. Siam import weapons
 * Diplomacy: P.R. Siam offer military alliance to India and Indonesia. Start to move his troops to P.R. Siam-Cambodia border.
 * Government: P.R. Siam became full communist. Borders are closed, the more than 75% of people have home and workplace.

Denmark: Denmark economy has boosted, because selling Jutland lands. New currency is called "Danish Lira". invasion of Iceland continues, Denmark gains most of Nordur Mulaysla and march for Akureyri. They continue improving relations with Norway and ask them for makin union like in old times. Infrastructure improves. Denmark population grow. We are planning to remade EU asking Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia for trade alliance.

Israel: Israel keeps advancing technologically and militarily. A man will be put on the moon in 2020. Militarily, Israel attacks Lebanon and takes it over. The invasion is quick and easy. Like always, the residents are converted to Judaism. Jordan is also invaded. Border regions are annexed and residents converted, but the majority of Jordan is compiled into a client state of Israel. This government is Muslim, and many of the Muslims that did not want to convert moved there. Israel gives the USA their advanced technology to continue te fight against ISIS. Israel becomes more left wing and becomes capitalist-socialist.

Japan: Economy: Japan invests more in USA, Siam and India due to the great relations with them.
 * Military: Japan occupies the rest of both Koreas by September 12th 2016 and fully annexes them because it occupied the whole from both of them. The secret cyber soldier program that they started in 2015 is expected to be finished by 2020 and those robots planned to be much faster and more resistant to bullets and anything else used in warfare than humans (they won't be fully resistant just somewhat more resistant except for biological weapons which they will be fully resistant to).
 * Government: Japan fully abolished death penalty but the government also decided to make prisons more inhumane and de facto turning them into concentration camps (it's not like in Nazi Germany the Japanese government only uses them for criminals and they gas nobody just wait for them to die out in the terrible conditions). Japanese prisoners are used for doing hard physical works like making railways and mining with a low amount of food and they're treated so terribly they can't get a doctor if they have health problems. Also, Japanese children are taught how to use weapons. In the Korean Peninsula Japan started to integrate Korean minorities to be Japanese. It goes easily on the ex North Korean lands because under Japanese annexation they have more freedom and higher standard of life. But on the ex South Korea it goes much harder due to the fact they already had high standard of living and more freedom than Japan. But the Japanese government keeps trying to integrate them by not letting them speak or write in Korean in offices,work and school and they cannot have a leading post in anything or just a decent job. They're also warned about if they're dare to protest they will be shot.
 * Diplomacy: Japan accepts the alliance offer from Siam.

Cyprus:

Makes Great Defences all over Cyprus North Cyprus thought can win the war they fell in 2 days rebellions and armies surrendered. Cyprus is United, North Cyprus is kaput.

The United States of America: Obama and the Big 4 (the heads of the army branches) have a meeting about Syria. The USAC and USN believe that peace in the region will never be found due to the Kurds. Obama proves this wrong in a meeting with Bashur in the new capital city of Syria, Sorascus. Bashur makes an agreement with the USA with a signing of peaceful corporation with America. The Kurds will be given the northeast corner of Syria as an independent state when liberated from ISIS. the FSS (Free State of Syria) will be allowed to join DIM. The US will sell X-1's to Syria in exchange for oil. Thus, American soldiers withdraw from Syria, but bombings of ISIS and Assad outposts continue until late November. The army increases by 200,000 men, with 2 more divisions created. Hillary Clinton becomes the next president of the United States in November. Obama uses his last months in office to kick out all non North American corporations in the states. He offers Canada to form a political union with the US, with Canada maintaining autonomy. The Lesser Antilles are annexed by America using military force in December. Clinton vows to fix what Obama has done in the area. Argentine Republic
 * ​Diplomacy: 
 * Argentina warns Brazil to not attack any Neighbouring Nation of Argentina, and threat them to kick them out of the MERCOSUR.
 * Argentina asks Chile to become part of the MERCOSUR and do not ally Brazil.
 * Bolivia becomes part of the MERCOSUR.
 * Government Decisions
 * Argentina offers refugee for Venezuelan people fleeing from Brazilian Imperialism.
 * Criminal punishment is so strict that criminality rate is lower than 1.0 %.
 * Economy
 * In Record time, Argentine poverty goes down to 15.0%
 * CABA and Gran Buenos Aires and it's surroundings become incredibly wealthy.
 * Dolar and the Peso goes down to 7AR$ = 1 US$.
 * Milk industry is on the rise and Argentina goes up to the 2nd most milk producer on the world, behind India, having prices as $1 Peso for 1L of Milk
 * Military
 * Argentine Military isn't a big deal this year, with the budget expense put on other sectors, still, the Army is ordered to mobilize to Misiones, in case of a Brazilian attack, Argentines start building up trenches in case of the worst, preparing artillery, hidden camps, and such.
 * Welfare
 * Most of useless taxpayer-money expending welfare programs are throw down

Mod Events

 * By this date, the countries of Iceland, Macedonia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania and Serbia have all joined the ranks of the EU member nations (if it still exists). This follows several years of negotiations in order to bring these countries in line with the rest of the Union, in terms of economics and law.
 * At the turn of the 21st century, Yemen was already the poorest and least developed nation in the Arab world. Nearly 45% of its citizens were living below the poverty line, unemployment was running at 35% and its literacy rate was just 58%. It had dwindling natural resources and a ballooning population. Its economy was heavily reliant on hydrocarbons, which accounted for almost 75% of government revenues and 90% of foreign exchange earnings.
 * The original M1 battle tank – a third generation vehicle – was introduced to the U.S. Army in 1980. Since then, variants of the tank, primarily the M1A1 and M1A2, have seen extensive use in battle. They first entered combat in Operation: Desert Storm, during the Persian Gulf War, and have been used in every American military conflict since. They have also become the principal tank of the Saudi Arabian, Egyptian, Kuwaiti and Australian armies, as well as the Army of Iraq following arms deals made with the United States.
 * Newspapers will become obsolete in various countries after this point.
 * HIV/AIDS was first characterised in 1983. By the early 2010s, the virus had killed over 35 million people globally and another 34 million were living with the infection. Although a cure remained elusive, anti-retroviral treatments were able to slow the progression of the disease and provide sufferers with a near-normal life expectancy. However, while anti-retroviral treatments reduced the risk of death, these medications were expensive and often associated with side effects.
 * The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a space telescope intended to search for extrasolar planets using the transit method. It is part of NASA's long-running "Explorer" program which has been going since 1958 and involves working with a variety of other institutions and businesses. In this case, the $200m project is led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with seed funding from Google.
 * In the United States, TESS (a Satellite) will identify several thousand Earth-sized and larger exoplanets, adding to the already huge tally from Kepler. Many of these candidate worlds are later investigated by the James Webb Telescope and other future missions which enable more detailed analysis of their masses, sizes, densities, orbits and atmospheres. In this same year, Europe launches its own similar mission – the Cheops satellite.
 * By now, China has merged nine of its cities into one, creating the largest metropolitan area on the planet. This new megacity has a population of 42 million – over 7 million greater than Tokyo, the previous record holder. The city is located outside of Hong Kong.

NPC Moves

 * Islamic State in Syria: The IS retreats to the provinces of Al-Raqqah and Deir ez-Zor as Anti-IS forces make advances. As for the rest of the civil war, the Free State of Syria currently controls Aleppo, Hama, Idlib, Latakia, Tartus and around half of Homs. The Kurdish forces have consolidated their control of Al-Hasakah, in the northeast part of the country. Assad's government still holds into Damascus, Rif Dimashq, As-Suwayda and the other half of Homs, with constant clashes with the FSS. Israel has effective control of Quneitra and Daraa.
 * Islamic State in Libya: The IS keeps expanding and expanding into Libya, now they have full control of the Bayda, Darnah and Benghazi. The anti-IS forces are forced to completely pull out from East Libya and they're now requesting help from Egypt.

Player Events
Ireland:(WIP)
 * Economy: stable growth but trade is growing a lot faster than recent years, a program is started though to Increase development across Ireland also to Grow the arms Industry and to have it either used for future designs or right now to export arms since the Irish government is betting that Prices and demands are starting to rise.

Italy
 * Diplomacy
 * USA, UK, Germany and Japan: a Trade agreement is offered.
 * Turkey: Thanks them fro giving Southern Cyprus as a Vassal we will ensure they stay inline and offers a trade agreement
 * Military:Growth continues to 35,000 active and 15,000 reserve prototypes still being Planned tested, and new Armour designs are being planned and some Potential Candidates are being proposed for both infantry, Armored Vehicle and Aircraft.
 * Culture,Language and religion: Catholic spreads into Northern Ireland and Papal Missionary's start to go to the new South Cypriot vassal to make it more Catholic thinking that the South Cypriot cant do anything since it's Ireland's vassal now though Ireland doesn't plan on Assimilation of the people in Cyprus.
 * technology: usual but as stated new Armour and weapon Prototypes are in planning stages.
 * Government: A new president is elected under the name Luigi (because lazy on existing names). He declares a reformation to the government and promises to not invade France like the previous president wanted to. However, the reforms of the government is making Luigi himself more of a dictator and spurred controversy across Italy.
 * Military:
 * Italy: Another 150,000 soldiers were drafted for conscription. The mobilisation for France is cancelled and now focused back to ISIS in Libya again, they deployed their air forces to destroy ISIS in Libya and some land forces here to invade ISIS and secretly taking land from Libya. Their military was increased, so does ships.
 * Summary:
 * Italy:
 * Land forces: 529,000 active soldiers, 830 tanks, 370 anti-tanks, 170 artillery
 * Navy forces: 5 aircraft carriers, 23 frigates, 14 destroyers, 12 battleships, 34 submarines, 29 corvettes and 8 navy transport
 * Air forces: 150 fighters, 187 bombers, 145 air transport and 119 attack helicopters
 * Other: 150,000 reserve
 * Slavonia:
 * Land forces: 16,000 (~70,000 at capacity), 50 tanks, 10 anti-tanks, 25 artillery
 * Protests, Riots and Revolts:
 * Anti-government protests: They grew further and more violent but not rebellious yet. Many police and civilians were killed in the process. This results in a possible civil war in the next year
 * Wars:
 * ISIS: They land on Benghazi, occupying half of the city and began moving and sending troops into Derna. Since IS troops are nearly poorly trained, the Italian troops suffer less damage but IS has better strategy than the generals currently in the Libyan front. Libya was able to take their land back in Central Sahara. Casualties: ISIS: 9,000 and Italy: 5,000
 * Puppets, Vassals and Colonies:
 * Slavonia (unsure): Does nothing but increase their military and helping Italy in their wars, also they have a limited capacity for their armed forces to prevent strong armies rebelling but it determines the population.
 * Science and Technology: They get slightly better in genetic engineering and military technology everyday and computers were slightly stronger when built here. The genetic engineering group plans to regenerate skin through manipulating but that seems to be a theory for now.
 * Religion: The Eastern Orthodox believers were slowly converted to Roman Catholicism to increase unity but atheism rose among the Christian population and the Muslim population grew by 0.4% due to past migrant crisis and conversions. However factors slow down the growing Muslim population, due to suspected Church acts against them.
 * Economy: Because the Americans had expelled the non-American companies, they decide to expel all of them as well. Though their economy is slowing down because of this and the military spending is also peaking. However they began expanding their corporations across Europe as a plan to increase their economy and started doing so to keep up their work and labour is also increasing in military industry.
 * Economy: Because the Americans had expelled the non-American companies, they decide to expel all of them as well. Though their economy is slowing down because of this and the military spending is also peaking. However they began expanding their corporations across Europe as a plan to increase their economy and started doing so to keep up their work and labour is also increasing in military industry.

Spanish Third Republic: The war in Portugal seems to go fine, and in February Lisbon surrenders. The Treaty of Fez is proposed, which dictates that Spain will annex a part of Portugal and the remnants of the Kingdom of Portugal will become a republic.

After the war, a new flag is chosen.

The economy is prioritized over all things.

The Republic is widely approved between Spanish people, and the Single-party state is abolished. The Partido Popular (PP) and Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) are the ones with more seats in the Parliament. The Presidential Elections are planned for the next year.

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Turkey: (wip)

War: Turkey fully occupies Cyprus in February. The treaty of Ankara is signed having Turkey annex northern Cyprus and giving the rest of Cyprus as a Irish Vassal. The combined Turkish and Albanian forces occupy southern Serbia. They push close to the capitol and begin shelling Belgrade with artillery.

Government: Erdoğan dies of an heart-attack on august 5th. His replacement heavily focuses on improving relations between Turks and kurds. Kurdish regions are given majorly increased Autonomy.

Isis: With the war in Cyprus done, Turkey sends all troops that were there to Syria to kick out the remaining Isis forces

DIM: Turkey holds a vote to have all DIM members attack Israel if they attack another nation around them. This is used as common ground with Iran and talks begin to get Saudi Arabia to allow Iran to be invited to DIM.

Military: 125k new recruits are brought into the military and trained. With the NATO collapsing Turkey decides that a increased military is very important. The military is increased to: 4783 Tanks, 9910 AFVs, 1,614 SPGs, 1121 Towed Artillery, 1015 MLRSs, 399 Fighters, 594 Bombers, 922 Transport Helicopters, and 170 Attack Helicopters. In the a new batch of ships are complete as they were started last year. Including: 2 aircraft carriers, 16 Frigates, 6 Destroyers, 20 Corvettes, and 8 Submarines.

Japan

Government:To solve the dispute over the Kuril islands with Russia Japan proposes this: Although the solution seems like this would be better for Japan it's actually better for Russia because this way Russia could get more islands than Japan (mostly minor islands which aren't shown on the map) and they would have more territorial sea too.

Japan mostly focuses on economy and military.Japan also decided to fight back against Yakuza and other mafias. The government is so determined about this that they give military equipment to the police (except tanks and aircraft) and let them use chemical weapons also (except if there are civilians, too). Due to these new methods both foreign and local mafias going out of the country (yakuza is a harder case but they loosing power in the country too).

Economy: Due to the war on mafias the public safety became much better which attracts more tourists in the country making the country somewhat richer

Diplomacy: As an answer to the USA for kicking out Japanese companies Japan does the same with American ones but wishes to maintain the alliance with them.

The United States of America:  On January 3rd, it is revealed by the CIA that Clinton had rigged the votes and bribed numerous corporations. Donald Trump, as the person with the next highest votes, is inaugurated as president. Trump's first moves as president result in a treaty sent to Japan allowing Japanese corporations in the US, but 20% of their income must be given to the federal government. Canadian, Australian, and British companies will also be allowed. The USA creates the GDF (Global Defense Forces) and invites Argentina, Japan, Australia, India, Israel, Syria, Turkey, France, Britain, and Germany. The goal of the GDF is to be a new UN, with aid sent to Africa. Trump decides to set up a US base for African refuges near the continent. During Spain's war with Portugal, a US marine squadron occupied the Azores. The United States creates refuge camps on the islands, and about 20,000 people arrive in the first year. Back home, another police shooting of an Asian gets Congress' attention. It is made a law to have police tests for racism, and the Police crack down on drug use and gangs in the United States. The US is estimated to be crime-free by 2019. On March 6th, NASA launches the USSO (United States Space Outpost), and the ISS is open for buying at 700 billion dollars. USSO has living space for 120 people for 30 years, exercising, a lab, and military cameras used to find terrorists worldwide. In August, Mexican raiders attack the American side of Mexicali, and a US force of 260 men pursue the Mexicans about 20 miles inland before being gunned down by Mexican troops. Trump orders that Mexico gives 100 billion in reparations to California's state government and families of the dead. With no response, Congress agrees to war. The Second Mexican-American War begins on August 13th, 2017. The US military immediately launches the American war plan called War Plan F. Five US divisions of 100,000 men launch five pincer movements into Mexico. One is to secure Baja California, on to take Hermosillo, one to seize Chihuahua, one to seize Monterrey, and one to march down the eastern Mexican coast. US bombings also take effect on the population, leveling numerous buildings in Mexico City. The navy blockades the Mexican coast, and food shortages occur in the country. By December, US troops have reached Monterrey, Chihuahua, and half of Baja California is occupied. The East Coast offensive is about the same distance from the border as Monterrey, and the advance towards Hermosillo is still within 15 miles of the border. About 16,000 American soldiers are dead, 147 US civilians, 24,000 Mexican soldiers, and 50,639 Mexican citizens. The year ends with a party at Congress celebrating the 51st state.

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Sweden Peoples Republic of Siam:
 * Military: Sweden launches the invasion of Finland. The invasion starts with Swedish ships firing missiles into Helsinki and other major Finnish cities. After a 3 hour bombardment of missiles and artillery shells, the Swedish blitzkrieg starts. Swedish forces swarm over Lapland and begin advancing south in a wave. Another Swedish force land a few miles east of Helsinki, surprising the Fins and Helsinki is now under siege. The rest of the country is occupied. Finally in June, Helsinki falls and the Finnish government surrenders.
 * Peace Treaty: Lapland gains independence and becomes a puppet state of Sweden. The rest of Finland becomes part of Sweden.
 * Economy: The war helps the Swedish economy a lot. Unemployment falls to 10% (mostly the Muslims held in camps). The boost in income gives Sweden the ability to begin production of better military vehicles and equipment.
 * Diplomacy: Sweden encourages other Baltic nations to join the Baltic Pact.
 * Other: The Muslims in Muslim Camp_15 break out and try to free other Muslims. They are caught by patrols and are sent to prison.
 * Diplomacy:
 * P.R.Siam-Cambodia war started. Siamese troops entered Cambodia.
 * P.R.Siam accept Ireland's offer
 * P.R.Siam offer NAP (non-aggression pact) to Vietnam and Burma.


 * Economy:
 * P.R.Siamese economy grow.