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

Going to post my almost finished my turn for notepad for latars

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:
 * Technology
 * 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 Thasos))
 * Government
 * 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
 * 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)
 * Infrastructure: 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: N/A
 * Constantinopolis: Population goes from 15.6 million to 15.72 million
 * Callipolis: Population goes from 0.16 million to 0.22 million.
 * Adrianopolis: Population goes from 0.41 million to 0.49 million.
 * 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 (~235.45 billion in overall)
 * Demographics: Official language is Greek, however does not call themselves Roman but otherwise have loaned Latin words entirely and avoid any other foreign words apart from Latin since Greece collapsed. 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