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Republic of Armenia

 * Government: Unitary semi-presidential republic under a state of emergency to last until whenever the Tulip War/War of Vengeance ends
 * President: Armen Sarkissian
 * Prime Minister: Nikol Pashinyan
 * Laws and Policies:
 * Scorched Earth Policy in the Occupied Territories: See “Scorched Earth”
 * Economy: Much the same as last year, although the economy continues to lean towards a military-industrial complex.
 * Demographics:
 * Population: 3,166,100
 * Religion: 94.8 Christian (92.5% Armenian Apostolic,) 0.8% Yazidi Muslim, 0.2% Pagan, 4% None/Other
 * Ethnicity: 97.9% Armenian, 1.9% other pre-Event peoples (Yazidis, Kurds, Russians, etc.), 0.2% post-Event peoples (Byzantines, archaic Georgians, etc.)
 * Military:
 * Armenian Military: 70,000 troops are participating in the Tulip War, while 10,000 remain stationed in Armenia. 55 tanks, 85 other motorized infantry, and 12 warplanes are also participating in the war.
 * Army:
 * Troops: 80,000 troops, 32,000 reserves
 * Tanks: 20 T-80 tanks, 137 T-72 tanks, 8 T-54/55 tanks
 * Other motorized infantry vehicles: 80 BMP-1s, 7-BMP-1Ks, 55 BMP-2s, 12 BRM-1Ks, 11 BTR-60s, 21 BTR-70s, 4 BTR-80s, 145 MT-LBs, 5 BMD-1s, 120 BRDM-2 scout vehicles
 * Air Force: 15 Su-25 ground attack planes, 1 MiG-25 jet fighter, 16 Mil Mi-24 helicopter gunships, 6 L-39 trainer and attack aircraft, 16 Yak-52 trainer aircraft, 3 Il-76 cargo planes, 18 Mil Mi-8 transport helicopters, 10 Mil Mi-2 light utility helicopters, 1 anti-aircraft missile brigade, 2 regiments armed with 100 anti-aircraft complexes.
 * Military Prescence of Other Countries:
 * Russian bases in Armenia: The Russian 102nd Military Base, as well as all its equipment and personnel, have all been brought along during temporal displacement as well. The base is cooperating with the Armenian government, as they have realized there is nowhere else to go, and currently act as a private mercenary force working with the Armenian Armed Forces.
 * Diplomacy:
 * Ottomans: continue to die
 * Venice: i’ll give you guns if you’ll give me fleet basing rights (aha EU4 reference)
 * Events:
 * Operation Perfidious Turk, pt.2: With much of the Ottoman Levantine army trapped behind our front lines, our main priority is now to eradicate the Levantine Army and secure the eastern portions of Ottoman territory. The 60,000 troops fighting in the war are split into two contingents of 40,000 and 20,000 respectively. The larger contingent is to track down and neutralize the Levantine Army, while the smaller army is sent further west with orders to capture the city of Ankara, a major Ottoman city in the Ottoman supply chain. Another 10,000 troops are sent to the occupied territories, to be used in pacifying the occupied territories. We also institute a scorched earth policy in our occupied territory (further explained in "Scorched Earth"). No changes are made to the plans of our allies, except Byzantium, who are encouraged to break off a portion of their army to cross the Dardanelles into mainland Anatolia, and secure the other side of the vital waterway.
 * Scorched Earth: We institute a total scorched earth in our occupied areas in Anatolia: every single field not deemed essential to Armenian Army resource stockpiles is to be burned to the ground. Likewise, all water sources not deemed essential to the Army are to be poisoned. All food caravans from outside the occupied areas not registered in Armenia, Georgia, Qara Qoyunlu, Trebizond, Byazntium, Albania, Venice or Serbia are to be stopped, their drivers killed and the food redistributed to Armenian food stocks. [TOP SECRET] We begin forcibly recruiting able-bodied men in the occupied territories to serve in the army, mostly as laborers, human shields and cannon-fodder. The women, weak, and childen are told to leave their homes and belongings as an "evacuation of war-torn areas" and forced to march to either Candar or Karaman. The total scorched earth policy fron earlier ensures little to no possibility of their survival of the trek due to complete lack of food and water, and Armenian military escorts will accompany them to their destination (accompany here being a code word for "brutally rape and murder at random"). Armenian soldiers are encouraged to loot and burn down Turkish villages.
 * The Venetians: After hearing of Venice’s failed attempts to obtain guns from Albania and Byzantium for purposes of fighting their own war with the Turk, we decide to meet with them and help them ourselves. President Armen Sarkissian leaves Yerevan one morning in 1449/2024, and is driven to the Georgian border, where he is then picked up by a horse caravan. He then makes it to the port of Poti, where he boards a newly-commissioned Georgian Exiled-style ship, and makes the voyage to Venice, to meet the Doge. With him, he brings a few ingots of gold as a gift, as well as several examples of modern technology, including guns, as well as smaller things like a radio and a smartphone. He explains to the Doge our situation as one of the Exiled, and gets to negotiating trade terms. We propose that, in exchange for allowing Armenian merchants and ships access to Venetian ports, we will regularly airlift gun shipments to Venetian ports in the Aegean, and introduce Exiled technology to the Most Serene Republic of Venice.
 * Internet: Basic Internet access has been restored to government buildings and small portions of Yerevan; however, Internet access remains a luxury out of grasp for most in Armenia.
 * Uplifting: Modern technology is slowly but surely being introduced into the societies of our allies. Tractors and fertilizer can sometimes be seen in rural areas of these countries, replacing the more labor-intensive plowing techniques and manure fertilizer. In cities like Constantinople, Athens, and Tblisi, electric power is now reliably available and taken almost for granted, and Armenian industry magnates have begun to set up factories on their soil, manufacturing everything from processed food to war machines. More people are becoming treated of illnesses that once had no cure, and more people have become vaccinated. Serious epidemics have become rarer and less damaging in these areas over the past few years. The forefront of these uplifting schemes seems to be Alagadda, as the sheer amount of Armenian and Israeli oil prospectors has led to a booming and prosperous town, with all the amenities one could find in Exiled countries. Electrification and wiring of potable tap water into smaller towns and more rural areas has begun, and plans for a general hospital in Constantinople stocked with modern medicine and staffed by Armenian doctors are being drawn.
 * Monuments: The Monument to the Exiled and the Monument to the Lost are built in Yerevan, commemorating those who were lost in the Late Medieval Age and those who were not, respectively. These monuments are located near the site of the Armenian Genocide memorial monument.