Talk:Shattered Earth (Map Game)/@comment-26044830-20160522044757

Republic of Byzantium (note italics is you don't know in gameplay)
 * Events before 2150 (opinion for Greece): The former Greek nation has expanded over the 21st century after NATO collapsed and have repaid their debt at 2019, first they went off with Cyprus at the 2020s in a way to resolve the Northern Cyprus issue and suppressed them at this time. They went into Albania at the 2040s, since the Greek population was declining while the Turkish population is stabilising by that time, the Greeks needed a plan. A surprise attack was performed and quickly Istanbul fell around 9th August 2059 with only 190,000 soldiers. Major efforts to repopulate the lost historical Greek regions are made as well bringing the Greek population up to 15 million again instead of the dwindling 9.9 million here, which brings in the Hellenisation program in the newly established region of Thrace (East Macedonia becomes part of "Central Macedonia"). Heavily enforced, Turks were essentially being "converted" until Greece cannot stand anymore and internally collapsed at 2090s. The Turks in Cyprus were free again from being suppressed but East Thrace went "essentially Greek" and that is Byzantium. Eventually a new government was established instead of an absolute monarchy and there Byzantium was simply emerged. Militarised and exploiting technology were their goals and nothing more, but they keep up their efforts to have a balanced and strong economy as well, despite their land being highly dense. Underground buildings were made for their research, military ones while they kept purchasing some of the foreign blueprints to produce them in huge factories, mostly now clean. Being completely a militaristic country, their plan is to make Greece united again and finally take down the Turkish Republic.
 * Military: The Byzantine military proclaims themselves as the strongest in the Greek region because of their manpower, but their technology is equal as that to typical nations from former Greece but was improved as they increased their funding from 6.1% to 10.2% as they prepare their conquest and unification of Greece and they are using it to maintain salaries of each soldier they've recruited, commission ships from private companies, acquire technologies and local research.
 * Organisation of the Army: The Byzantine Army splits into legions similar to Rome but they were used as a division rather than an army together, but however one legion is typically 50,000 men at this time and dividing a legion would be the same as Rome but simplified, a legion of 50,000 men is divided into 5,000 men which is one cohort and that's it.
 * Technology: Robotic soldiers and high quality laser guns are popular in Byzantium, but these high quality laser guns are hard to get but the low quality ones are more easier to produce as they can be mass produced locally and higher quality ones are only available to the most elite and loyal armies. Railguns are still commonly produced but is continously upgraded at a slow rate because of their obsession with their laser weapons. Electromagnetic bombs are also being developed a lot as laser weapons are since the start of the 22nd century, but are low-grade and that EMP effect would last for 10 minutes. Exo-suits are used but the high quality ones that superpowers use are not being used since they are lagging behind, therefore only can aqcquire those from the 2130s unless purchased in some way. Although Byzantium has incapabilities of getting military spaceships, they have a huge ambition to get that but lagging behind like almost all European nations and below but isn't researched because of their exploiting plans to unite Greece.
 * Summary for Military:
 * Personnel / Byzantine Army (VS): As conscription is legalised once again, Byzantium recruits 200,000 soldiers into the battle, preparing for unification. Currently reserves are nothing but the active personnel is quite huge, as much as 372,000 men currently as they want to play quantities than qualities despite they are researching advanced technologies further.
 * Land / Legion / Legeon: Their decent military is drastically improving as they are going to fight against Macedon, to counter their armies and bring a decisive victory. At least 34,000 robot troops are in service and an extra 400 robot soldiers were hacked from former Thracian army with most of them out of 6,000 were destroyed. For the tank class, 1,200 railgun tanks and 900 laser tanks are currently in the Legion itself. There are a lot of EMP grenades stocked and stored at military bases at Chalkedon at numbers of ~500 in total (from 550 last year since the Subjugation of Thrace) as they can't produce as much as 3,000 due to insufficient funding and every year at least 10-20 were manufactured each year. Drones are also in use, but not as much, with light attack drones number around 1,000 and medium attack numbering at 100 and are reserved.
 * Navy / Classis / Naftikon: Navy is still operated as usual, approximiately around 5,000 are in service but most ships are part automated and operated by crew. Only 19 military ships (can hold 300 soldiers) and 120 transport ships (they are a bit smaller than their older counterpart and can hold only 500 each) exist to date in Byzantium and are not a priority yet.
 * Air Force / Caelum / Aeroporia: Replaced by mostly drones, however there were automated and self-driving aircraft in presence at a majority but let alone only few men are in operating in those aircraft if self-driving or automation of attacking being malfunctioned. Around ~400-500 air drones exist and are reserved while the active ones are aircraft nukbering at 115, with it mostly doing most of the job than the drones for now. Soon may air drones could roam and dominate the Byzantine air forces if they could quickly gain status.
 * Conflicts (Type of Conflict/Intervention/Casus Belli; Region; Duration)
 * Thrace (Subjugation; Greece; March 2150 CE-August 2150 CE): Byzantium declares war on Thrace to unite "Greece again" under one flag. They used small-scale EMP bombs to wipe their heavy equipment but don't really last that long (say about 10 minutes or so) but have captured Alexandroupolis in just two months and then reached Kavala and Drama about 4 and a half months later after the war. Much of the Thracian army were eliminated by their manpower (Eastern Thrace may have ~16-17 million by the 22nd century) during the last two battles, resulting annexation of the Thracian region and any existing ships or equipment are captured. (Note for Potato/GreekMacedonianFighter, in the map, Macedon doesn't seem to control Kavala or Drama in the map (hint i used that Thasos-like blob controlled by Thrace))
 * Government: A parliamentary republic. With elections being made two years ago and every election happens every four years, it is expected by 2152 an election may be held between four major political parties, the Byzantine Conservative Party (self-explanatory), Socialist Party of Byzantium (almost self-explanatory), Turkish Popular Movement (pro-Turkish and socialism) (mostly led by Turkish people, but are unpopular since Hellenisation program started however got hold of some seats at the lower house still) and the Imperial Party (nationalist) which the IP controls most of the seats since 2148. There are at least 300 seats in the lower house and 100 in the upper house currently.
 * Byzantine Revivalism: Currently the republic itself is essentially Greek but an influential person and groups of politicians in Byzantium begin to establish an ideology and set of policies to reform the Greek nation into a Greco-Roman facade which the government wants to aim. They started exploiting ancient Greek and Roman architecture together with futuristic architecture fusing together to from the Byzantine architecture, far different from current typical European architecture. It also suggested to reform the current capitalist system and have effort with economy especially exploiting valuable resources although the world is quite empty and most sources ran out for mining.
 * The Church Enforcement: Islam is now a significant minority (27.55%) since the mass Hellenisation program started. However Byzantium takes this even further, spreading broadcasts into many televisions in Byzantium with Christian (Eastern Orthodox) propaganda aimed at children. This led to some children converting secretly and is funded with 3.4 billion USD per year to continue.
 * Project Theodora: The Byzantine Republic exploits the Megali Idea into an extreme version. They would first plan to attack Thrace but now a success then into Macedon or any weaker neighbouring powers in Greece but will also include Vardar Republic (that "Macedonia" not Macedon) because they are quite an annoyance for far too long in Greek history although Macedon would've just eliminated them in their turn soon. The Byzantine Republic serves nothing in Project Theodora, but to invest new technology, develop and mass produce while keeping their economy well in touch, once Greece is reunited under one arm, the Balkans will be ours once again and Islam will be destroyed here and soon Turkey will. (Note that this does not affect any gameplay of yours since you don't know this section)
 * Regions: The regions of Byzantium are basically split into themes. Much of the infrastructure were modernised after the devastation of the region due to the Greco-Turkish War but the population stabilised after the collapse of Greece until 2150 where growth starts. The Byzantine government will enforce Hellenic/Latin names onto any existing Turkish, Slavic or Albanian places as part of Project Theodora and Byzantine Revivalism (I did little research on some cities in the Balkans)
 * Theme of East Thrake/Chalkedon: Core region of Byzantium and is in absolute control by the President of Byzantium and the government although a governor exists here. The region itself is closed away from immigration due to a huge progress of the so called Hellenisation progress and an ideology of purity is growing.
 * Imperial and Pious City of Constantinopolis: Population goes from 15.6 million to 15.72 million. It is the Imperial Capital of Byzantium and the Theme of Chalkedon. With tourism on the rise at the 21st century and after the conquest of Constantinople about 20 million visited here. Recently it declined due to the rise of Byzantine Revivalism and Project Theodora since 2150 CE and annually only 11.12 million foreign visitors (those not of Byzantine citizenship) from 16.21 million at 2100 visit here and may decline even further as earlier studies suggest. This led to the government stressing with it, beginning to invest to keep it up again and stabilise around 15 million by the end of 2160. Apart from tourism, the Byzantine government prioritises industrial and business efforts to existing companies existing here to improve their economy further.
 * Callipolis: Population goes from 0.16 million to 0.22 million. No changes.
 * Adrianopolis: Population goes from 0.41 million to 0.49 million. No changes.
 * Economy: Economy remains stable but had a growth of 0.9% every year but now has changed since 2150. Revivalism and Project Theodora has made an improvement of the economy from 13,000 USD to 13,850 USD ($0.247 trillion in overall; nominal and PPP is likely to be ~$0.600 trillion). Project Theodora (publicly to the world as The Economical Movement) involves investing industry and local businesses to expand their economical capabilities. GST is imposed at a rate of 12.5% in all markets, including foreign businesses here, however there are exceptions such as (but not limited) basic food, water, electricity, some education facilities, some medicines and religious services (except Islam).
 * Demographics: Official language is Greek, however does not call themselves Roman like last time but otherwise have loaned Latin words entirely and the government enforces avoiding any other foreign words apart from Latin since Greece collapsed (any words before Greece collapsed is acceptable but anything after is not allowed). Population is currently 17,843,556 this year and the largest city is Constantinopolis (the eastern part is New Istanbul for Turkey and occupies the extra 9.43 million still). Life expectancy is in average 88.54 years.
 * Culture: Unlike the previous Byzantine Empire, they declare themselves as Greek instead of Roman since the collapse of Greece. However in the plan of Byzantine Revivalism, they decide to simply slowly convert the country into a Greco-Roman styled country by architecture as they are starting to froun upon "futuristic architecture" although there will be a twist to it in some way. Small significant minority of Turks exist but their huge "Hellenisation" program went to a decline over the past 50 years after Greece has collapsed.
 * Religion: Unlike the previous Byzantine Empire as before, the Orthodox Church has more authority than present day but does not allow them to have church members to get into the government in any way. The Byzantine government controls the Church in the republic on forcing them converting Muslim people as a way to repopulate historical regions as part of their plan on Project Theodora. So far by the end of the year, 24.98% of the population is Sunni, 67.24% is Orthodox and 7.78% are irreligious.
 * Diplomacy: N/A