Nation Building 2015 Same Word; New Possibilities

[Spacekitty]

Rules for nation creation;


1. You must use present day borders, population and economic situations


2. You may customize a present day nation, but it will have the same population, borders and economic situation as modern day


3. You may recreate a post nation, but its total land may be no bigger than Italy. A good example would be recreating Yugoslavia


4. Large past nations like the Roman Empire or the USSR may be created, but they may only use their "core country". Like Italy for the Romans and Russia for the USSR


5. Your army may only be 15% of your population


Name:


Population;


Military:


Territory:


Culture:


Government type:


Economic Model:


Leader(s):


History:

 

[High Moon]

Name:The Second Ottoman State


Population;77,997,892


Military Size:Active-685,862 Reserve-407,122 (cant do maths real numbers of Turkish Armed Forces)


Territory:Modern Turkey,TRNC


Culture:Turkish (Main) Kurdish,Laz (Accepted) Greek,Bulgarian,Syrian,Armenian and Jewish (Minority)


Government type:Constitutional monarchy


Economic Model:Laziez faiere


Leader(s)adi?ah Osman Bayezid III,Grand Vizier Ali Babacan


History:The Second Ottoman State is Continuation of Republic of Turkey after a referandum for Re-estabelish the House of Osman as the Rulers of the State,it also Annexed TRNC due to Political Reasons.

 

[Zelorm]

Name: The East Slavic Republic (Short name is Romania)

Population: about 26 million

Territory: Bulgaria, Romania

Culture: Slavic

Government type: Free Market Fascism

Economic Model: Free Markey

Leader(s): Bogdan Albert

History: WIP​

 

[Math]

Name: The United Kingdom


Population; 53,000,000


Military Size: 7,950,000,


Territory: England


Culture: Mix of culture, mainly Christian.


Government type: Monarchy


Economic Model: Anglo-Saxon Capitalism


Leader(s): Queen Elizabeth II


History: From the greatest Medieval Kingdom, to the country with the supreme Navy, to now, the United Kingdom has had a great history..


The Anglo-Saxons


The Romans progressively abandoned Britannia in the 5th century as their Empire was falling apart and legions were needed to protect Rome.


With the Romans gone, the Celtic tribes started fighting with each others again, and one of the local chieftain had the not so brilliant idea to request help from the some Germanic tribes from the North of present-day Germany and South of Denmark. These were the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, who arrived in the 5th and 6th centuries.


However, things did not happen as the Celts had expected. The Germanic tribes did not go back home after the fight, and on the contrary felt strong enough to seize the whole of the country for themselves, which they did, pushing back all the Celtic tribes to Wales and Cornwall, and founding their respective kingdoms of Kent (the Jutes), Essex, Sussex and Wessex (the Saxons), and further north East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria (the Angles). These 7 kingdoms, which rules over all England from about 500 to 850 AD, were later known as the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy.


Hastings (by an arrow in the eye, as the legend as it), and William the Conqueror become William I of England. His descendants have sat on the throne of England to this day.


William I (1027-1087) ordered a nationwide survey of land property known as the Domesday Book, and redistributed land among his vassals. Many of the country's medieval castles were built under William's reign (eg. Dover, Arundel, Windsor,Warwick, Kenilworth, Lincoln...).


The Norman rulers kept their possessions in France, and even extended them to most of Western France (Brittany, Aquitaine...). French became the official language of England, and remained it until 1362, a bit after the beginning of the Hundred Years' War with France. English nevertheless remained the language of the populace, and the fusion of English (a mixture of Anglo-Saxon and Norse languages) with French and Latin (used by the clergy) slowly evolved into modern English.


Oxford was established.


The following struggle of Henry II's two children was made famous by the legend of Robin Hood. Richard I "Lionheart" was hardly ever in England, too busy defending his French possessions or fighting the infidels in the Holy Land. During that time, his brother John "Lackland" usurped the throne and startled another civil war.


John's grandson, Edward I "Longshanks" (1239-1307) spent most of his 35-year reign fighting wars, first against his barons led by Simon de Montfort (see Kenilworth), then on the 9th Crusade, back home annexing Wales, and last but not least against the Scots, led by William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, whose proud resistance was immortalised in the Hollywood movie Braveheart.


Edward I' son, Edward II, was all his father wasn't. He didn't like war, preferring to party with his friends. He also happened to be gay, which led to his imprisonment and tragic murder by his wife and her lover (see Gloucester).


Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. John of Gaunt's son, Henry Bolingbroke, took advantage of his cousin Richard II's absence to proclaim himself King Henry IV (1367-1413). Escaping several assassination attempts, Henry also had to deal with the revolt of Owen Glendower, who declared himself Prince of Wales in 1400, then with the rebellion of the Earl of Northumberland.


Henry V (1387-1422), famously defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, but his pious and peace-loving son Henry VI (1421-1471), who inherited the throne at just one year old, was to have a much more troubled reign. The regent lost most of the English possessions in France to a 17-year old girl (Joan of Arc) and in 1455, the Wars of the Roses broke out. This civil war opposed the House of Lancaster (the Red Rose, supporters of Henry VI) to the House of York (the White Rose, supporters of Edward IV). The Yorks argued that the crown should have passed to Edward III' second son, Lionel of Antwerp, rather than to the Lancasters descending from John of Gaunt.


One of the key players was Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, nicknamed "the Kingmaker", for deposing Henry VI for Edward IV, then again Edward for Henry 9 years later.


Edward IV's son, Edward V, only reigned for one year, before being locked in the Tower of London by his evil uncle,Richard III (1452-1485), although probably not as evil as Shakespeare depicted him in his play. The reason is that Lancastrian Henry Tudor (1457-1509), the half-brother of Henry VI, defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, and became Henry VII, founder of the House of Tudor, for which Shakespeare wrote.


Henry Tudor's son is maybe England's most famous and historically important ruler, the magnificent Henry VIII (1491-1547).


Peterborough) to remarry Anne Boleyn (Queen Elizabeth I's mother), the Pope excommunicated Henry, and in return, Henry proclaimed himself head of the Church of England. To assure the control over the clergy, Henry dissolved all the monasteries in the country (1536-1540) and nationalised them, becoming immensely rich in the process.


Henry VIII was the last English king to claim the title of King of France, as he lost his last possession there, the port of Calais (although he tried to recover it, taking Tournai for a few years, the only town in present-day Belgium to have been under English rule).


It was also under Henry VIII that England started exploring the globe and trading outside Europe, although this would only develop to colonial proportions under his daughters, Mary I and especially Elizabeth I (after whom Virginia was named).


Plymouth), an age of enlightenment with the philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626), and playwrights such as Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) and William Shakespeare (1564-1616).


Her reign was also marked by conflicts with France and Scotland (bound by a common queen, Mary Stuart), then Spain and Ireland. Elizabeth was an undecisive and prudent ruler. She never married, and when Mary Stuart tried and failed to take over the throne of England, Elizabeth kept her imprisoned for 19 years (most of the time in Chatsworth House under the guard of the Earl of Shrewsbury), before finally signing her act of execution.


Elizabeth died in 1603, and ironically, Mary Stuart's son, James VI of Scotland, succeeded Elizabeth as King James I of England - thus creating the United Kingdom.


Coughton Court), is still celebrated throughout Britain on Guy Fawkes' night (5th November), with fireworks and bonfires burning effigies of the conspirators' leader.


The divide between Catholics and Protestant worsened after this incident. James's successor Charles I (1600-1649) was eager to unify Britain and Ireland, and wanted to do so as an absolute ruler of divine right, like his French counter-part Louis XIV. Despite being an (Anglican) Protestant, his marriage with a French Roman Catholic combined with policies at odd with Calvinist ideals and his totalitarian handling of the Parliament eventually culminated in the English Civil War(1642-1651). The country was torn between Royalist and Parliamentarian troops, and most of the medieval castles still standing were destroyed during that period (eg. Kenilworth, Corfe, Bodiam...).


Charles was beheaded, and the puritan leader of the Parliamentarians, Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), ruled the country as a dictator from 1649 to his death. He was briefly succeeded by his son Richard at the head of the Protectorate, but his political inability prompted the Parliament to restore the monarchy in 1660, calling in Charles I' exiled son, Charles II(1630-1685).


York (and later James II).


Charles II was the patron of the arts and sciences. He helped found the Royal Society and sponsored architect Sir Christopher Wren, who rebuilt the City of London of the Great Fire of 1666, and constructed some of England's greatest edifices. Charles acquired Bombay and Tangiers through his Portuguese wife, thus laying the foundation for the British Empire.


Although Charles produced countless illegitimate children, 14 of whom he acknowledged (including the Duke of Monmouth, the Duke of Northumberland, the Duke of Grafton, the Duke of Cleveland, the Duke of Richmond and the Duke of St Albans), his wife couldn't bear an heir, and when he died in 1685 the throne passed to his Catholic and unpopular brother James.


London. Anne died heirless in 1714, and a distant German cousin, George of Hanover, was called to rule over the UK.


Waterloo saved the UK, and further reinforced its international position. The 19th century would be dominated by the British Empire, spreading on all five continents, from Canada and the Caribeans to Australia and New Zealand, via Africa, India and South-East Asia.


Another notable fact of George III's reign was the start of the Industrial Revolution, with James Watt's famous steam engine and the mechanisation of the manufacturing industry transforming the face of England to this day. Great industrial cities such as Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Sheffield emerged as the new economic centres of the country, their population booming several fold. The gap between the rich and the poor increased considerably, as was poignantly described by Charles Dickens in such novels as David Copperfield or Oliver Twist.


Brighton than worrying about the affairs of state in London, leaving the power to the Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool (1770-1828), during most of his reign.


George IV notoriously had poor relationships with his father, and especially his wife, Caroline of Brunswick, refusing to recognise her as Queen and seeking to divorce her.


The King and Lord Liverpool were opposed to the Catholic Emancipation, i.e. the issue of reducing restrictions on the political rights of Roman Catholics. The Duke of Wellington, however, passed the Catholic Relief Act in 1829 during his term as Prime Minister (1828-1830).


George IV died in 1830, and was replaced by his brother, William IV (1765-1837). In 1831, the Whig party came back to power and Earl Grey (1764-1845), the new Prime Minister (after whom the tea is named), reformed the electoral system.


On the cultural scene, the early 19th century was highly prolific. It was the Romantic period, with poets like Lord Byron (1788-1824), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) or John Keats (1795-1821) and novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817). Also worth noting is that the world's first steam train was launched on the Stockton and Darlington railway (North-East England) in 1825 by George Stephenson (1781-1848).


London.


Britain asserted its hegemony on virtually every part of the globe, although this resulted in numerous wars, as for example the Opium Wars (1839-42 & 1856-60) with Qing China, or the Boer Wars (1880-81 & 1899-1902) with the Dutch-speaking settlers of South Africa.


In 1854, the the United Kingdom was brought into the Crimean War (1854-56) on the side of the Ottoman Empire and against Russia. One of the best known figure of that war was Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), who fought for the improvement of the women's condition and pioneered modern nursing (see Claydon House).


In 1861, Albert died prematurely at the age of 42. Victoria was devastated and retired in a semi-permanent state of mourning. She nevertheless started a romantic relationship with her Scottish servant John Brown (1826-1883), and there were even talks of a secret marriage. This episode of Victoria's life has been the object of the film Mrs Brown.


The latter years of her reign were dominated by two influential Prime Ministers, Benjamin Disraeli (1808-1881) and his rival William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898). The former was the favourite of the Queen, and crowned her "Empress of India" in 1876, in return of which Victoria creating him Earl of Beaconsfield. Gladstone was a liberal, and often at odd with both Victoria and Disraeli, but the strong support he enjoyed from within his party kept him in power for a total of 14 years between 1868 and 1894. He legalised trade unions, advocated both universal education and universal suffrage (well, at least for men).


Queen Victoria was to have the longest reign of any British monarch (64 years), but also the most glorious, as she ruled over 40% of the globe and a quarter of the world's population.


Althorp) in 1981.


Pop and Rock music replaced colonial remembrances in the 1960's with bands like the Beattles, Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones or Black Sabbath. The Hippie subculture also developed at that time.


The 70's brought the oil crisis and the collapse of the British industry. Conservative PM Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925) was elected in 1979 and stayed until 1990. She privatised the railways and shut down inefficient factories, but also increased the gap between the rich and the poor by cutting on the social security. Her methods were so harsh that she was nicknamed the 'Iron Lady'.


Thatcher was succeeded in her party by the unpopular John Major, but in 1997, the "New Labour" (more to the right than the "Old Labour") came back to power with Tony Blair (b. 1953). Blair's liberal policies and unwavering support of neo-conservative US President George W. Bush (especially regarding the invasion of Iraq in 2003) disappointed many Leftists, who really saw in Blair but a Rightist in disguise. But Blair has also positively surprised many by his intelligence and remarkable skills as an orator and negotiator.


Nowadays, the English economy relies heavily on services. The main industries are travel (discount airlines and travel agencies), education (apart from Oxford and Cambridge universities and textbooks, hundreds of language schools for learners of English), music (EMI, HMV, Virgin...), prestige cars (Rolls Royce, Bentley, Jaguar, Lotus, Aston Martin, MG...), fashion (Burberry, Dunhill, Paul Smith, Vivienne Westwood, French Connection...), and surprisingly to some, food (well especially tea, biscuits, chocolates and jam or companies like Unilever and Cadburry-Schweppes).


(Credit to History of England sorry, their history is so long, and I wanted to include a good response, but not work my ass off trying to remember my history class and spend all that time typing.)

 

[Frontier]

Name: The United States of America


Population; 318.9 million documented


Military: 47.7 million


Territory: Mainland USA, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, The Virgin Islands (US), Puerto Rico, Northern Marina Islands


Culture: America is a melting pot. All sorts of culture. Cultural influences such as Spanish, french, English, German, Asian, etc.


Government type: Republic


Economic Model: Free market Capitalism


Leader(s): President Donald Trump


History: The US started as a colony of England and became an independent nation globally on July 4th, 1776. In the late 1800's the US had a war with the southern States that wanted to preserve slavery. In 1917, the US entered WW1 because the Germans wanted the Mexicans to invade the US so we could stop funding England and France. When WW2 started, the US once again funded England after France was captured by Nazi Germany. We also cut trade with the Japanese Empire because they were allies with Nazi Germany. This cause the Pearl Harbor attack and Nazi Germany declaring war of the US. After WW2 came to an end, the US and the Soviet Union had a cold war, resulting in the US being the only country to put men on the moon. When the cold war ended, the middle east was in ruin. On September 11, 2001, the terrorist Group known as Al Qaeda sent planes into the 1st and 2nd world trade centers in NY, one into the Pentagon, and a third crashed into a field in Pennsylvania on its way to hit the white house or Capital building. This cause President Bush to declare war on terror, and in the processes caused more damage to the Middle East. On September of 2015, President Obama was impeached for raising the national debt, and destroying the middle east even more when he pulled troops from the middle east. An election took place and Donald Trump became President and Ted Cruz his vice President. What can this dynamic duo do in 4 years? Will they make America Great Again or cause even more ruin? Only time will tell...

 

[Spacekitty]

Name: Kingdom of Italy


Population: 61 million


Territory: Italy


Culture: Sicilian and Italian


Government type: Monarchy


Economic Model: Capitalism


Leader(s): King CristiaN


History: After Italy freed itself form the HRE they formed a Kingdom that didn't fall in WWII. The end.

 

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Name: The East Slavic Republic (Short name is Romania)

Population: about 26 million

Territory: Bulgaria, Romania

Culture: Slavic

Government type: Free Market Fascism

Economic Model: Free Markey

Leader(s): Bogdan Albert

History: WIP​

accepted, add military I forgot it in the CS

 

[Spacekitty]

Name: The United States of America
Population; 318.9 million


Territory: Mainland USA, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, The Virgin Islands (US), Puerto Rico, Northern Marina Islands


Culture: America is a melting pot. All sorts of culture. Cultural influences such as Spanish, french, English, German, Asian, etc.


Government type: Republic


Economic Model: Free market Capitalism


Leader(s): President Donald Trump


History: The US started as a colony of England and became an independent nation globally on July 4th, 1776. In the late 1800's the US had a war with the southern States that wanted to preserve slavery. In 1917, the US entered WW1 because the Germans wanted the Mexicans to invade the US so we could stop funding England and France. When WW2 started, the US once again funded England after France was captured by Nazi Germany. We also cut trade with the Japanese Empire because they were allies with Nazi Germany. This cause the Pearl Harbor attack and Nazi Germany declaring war of the US. After WW2 came to an end, the US and the Soviet Union had a cold war, resulting in the US being the only country to put men on the moon. When the cold war ended, the middle east was in ruin. On September 11, 2001, the terrorist Group known as Al Qaeda sent planes into the 1st and 2nd world trade centers in NY, one into the Pentagon, and a third crashed into a field in Pennsylvania on its way to hit the white house or Capital building. This cause President Bush to declare war on terror, and in the processes caused more damage to the Middle East. On September of 2015, President Obama was impeached for raising the national debt, and destroying the middle east even more when he pulled troops from the middle east. An election took place and Donald Trump became President and Ted Cruz his vice President. What can this dynamic duo do in 4 years? Will they make America Great Again or cause even more ruin? Only time will tell...

Accepted, add military size my bad

 

[Spacekitty]

Name: The United Kingdom
Population; 53,000,000


Territory: England


Culture: Mix of culture, mainly Christian.


Government type: Monarchy


Economic Model: Anglo-Saxon Capitalism


Leader(s): Queen Elizabeth II


History: From the greatest Medieval Kingdom, to the country with the supreme Navy, to now, the United Kingdom has had a great history..


The Anglo-Saxons


The Romans progressively abandoned Britannia in the 5th century as their Empire was falling apart and legions were needed to protect Rome.


With the Romans gone, the Celtic tribes started fighting with each others again, and one of the local chieftain had the not so brilliant idea to request help from the some Germanic tribes from the North of present-day Germany and South of Denmark. These were the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, who arrived in the 5th and 6th centuries.


However, things did not happen as the Celts had expected. The Germanic tribes did not go back home after the fight, and on the contrary felt strong enough to seize the whole of the country for themselves, which they did, pushing back all the Celtic tribes to Wales and Cornwall, and founding their respective kingdoms of Kent (the Jutes), Essex, Sussex and Wessex (the Saxons), and further north East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria (the Angles). These 7 kingdoms, which rules over all England from about 500 to 850 AD, were later known as the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy.


Hastings (by an arrow in the eye, as the legend as it), and William the Conqueror become William I of England. His descendants have sat on the throne of England to this day.


William I (1027-1087) ordered a nationwide survey of land property known as the Domesday Book, and redistributed land among his vassals. Many of the country's medieval castles were built under William's reign (eg. Dover, Arundel, Windsor,Warwick, Kenilworth, Lincoln...).


The Norman rulers kept their possessions in France, and even extended them to most of Western France (Brittany, Aquitaine...). French became the official language of England, and remained it until 1362, a bit after the beginning of the Hundred Years' War with France. English nevertheless remained the language of the populace, and the fusion of English (a mixture of Anglo-Saxon and Norse languages) with French and Latin (used by the clergy) slowly evolved into modern English.


Oxford was established.


The following struggle of Henry II's two children was made famous by the legend of Robin Hood. Richard I "Lionheart" was hardly ever in England, too busy defending his French possessions or fighting the infidels in the Holy Land. During that time, his brother John "Lackland" usurped the throne and startled another civil war.


John's grandson, Edward I "Longshanks" (1239-1307) spent most of his 35-year reign fighting wars, first against his barons led by Simon de Montfort (see Kenilworth), then on the 9th Crusade, back home annexing Wales, and last but not least against the Scots, led by William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, whose proud resistance was immortalised in the Hollywood movie Braveheart.


Edward I' son, Edward II, was all his father wasn't. He didn't like war, preferring to party with his friends. He also happened to be gay, which led to his imprisonment and tragic murder by his wife and her lover (see Gloucester).


Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. John of Gaunt's son, Henry Bolingbroke, took advantage of his cousin Richard II's absence to proclaim himself King Henry IV (1367-1413). Escaping several assassination attempts, Henry also had to deal with the revolt of Owen Glendower, who declared himself Prince of Wales in 1400, then with the rebellion of the Earl of Northumberland.


Henry V (1387-1422), famously defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, but his pious and peace-loving son Henry VI (1421-1471), who inherited the throne at just one year old, was to have a much more troubled reign. The regent lost most of the English possessions in France to a 17-year old girl (Joan of Arc) and in 1455, the Wars of the Roses broke out. This civil war opposed the House of Lancaster (the Red Rose, supporters of Henry VI) to the House of York (the White Rose, supporters of Edward IV). The Yorks argued that the crown should have passed to Edward III' second son, Lionel of Antwerp, rather than to the Lancasters descending from John of Gaunt.


One of the key players was Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, nicknamed "the Kingmaker", for deposing Henry VI for Edward IV, then again Edward for Henry 9 years later.


Edward IV's son, Edward V, only reigned for one year, before being locked in the Tower of London by his evil uncle,Richard III (1452-1485), although probably not as evil as Shakespeare depicted him in his play. The reason is that Lancastrian Henry Tudor (1457-1509), the half-brother of Henry VI, defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, and became Henry VII, founder of the House of Tudor, for which Shakespeare wrote.


Henry Tudor's son is maybe England's most famous and historically important ruler, the magnificent Henry VIII (1491-1547).


Peterborough) to remarry Anne Boleyn (Queen Elizabeth I's mother), the Pope excommunicated Henry, and in return, Henry proclaimed himself head of the Church of England. To assure the control over the clergy, Henry dissolved all the monasteries in the country (1536-1540) and nationalised them, becoming immensely rich in the process.


Henry VIII was the last English king to claim the title of King of France, as he lost his last possession there, the port of Calais (although he tried to recover it, taking Tournai for a few years, the only town in present-day Belgium to have been under English rule).


It was also under Henry VIII that England started exploring the globe and trading outside Europe, although this would only develop to colonial proportions under his daughters, Mary I and especially Elizabeth I (after whom Virginia was named).


Plymouth), an age of enlightenment with the philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626), and playwrights such as Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) and William Shakespeare (1564-1616).


Her reign was also marked by conflicts with France and Scotland (bound by a common queen, Mary Stuart), then Spain and Ireland. Elizabeth was an undecisive and prudent ruler. She never married, and when Mary Stuart tried and failed to take over the throne of England, Elizabeth kept her imprisoned for 19 years (most of the time in Chatsworth House under the guard of the Earl of Shrewsbury), before finally signing her act of execution.


Elizabeth died in 1603, and ironically, Mary Stuart's son, James VI of Scotland, succeeded Elizabeth as King James I of England - thus creating the United Kingdom.


Coughton Court), is still celebrated throughout Britain on Guy Fawkes' night (5th November), with fireworks and bonfires burning effigies of the conspirators' leader.


The divide between Catholics and Protestant worsened after this incident. James's successor Charles I (1600-1649) was eager to unify Britain and Ireland, and wanted to do so as an absolute ruler of divine right, like his French counter-part Louis XIV. Despite being an (Anglican) Protestant, his marriage with a French Roman Catholic combined with policies at odd with Calvinist ideals and his totalitarian handling of the Parliament eventually culminated in the English Civil War(1642-1651). The country was torn between Royalist and Parliamentarian troops, and most of the medieval castles still standing were destroyed during that period (eg. Kenilworth, Corfe, Bodiam...).


Charles was beheaded, and the puritan leader of the Parliamentarians, Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), ruled the country as a dictator from 1649 to his death. He was briefly succeeded by his son Richard at the head of the Protectorate, but his political inability prompted the Parliament to restore the monarchy in 1660, calling in Charles I' exiled son, Charles II(1630-1685).


York (and later James II).


Charles II was the patron of the arts and sciences. He helped found the Royal Society and sponsored architect Sir Christopher Wren, who rebuilt the City of London of the Great Fire of 1666, and constructed some of England's greatest edifices. Charles acquired Bombay and Tangiers through his Portuguese wife, thus laying the foundation for the British Empire.


Although Charles produced countless illegitimate children, 14 of whom he acknowledged (including the Duke of Monmouth, the Duke of Northumberland, the Duke of Grafton, the Duke of Cleveland, the Duke of Richmond and the Duke of St Albans), his wife couldn't bear an heir, and when he died in 1685 the throne passed to his Catholic and unpopular brother James.


London. Anne died heirless in 1714, and a distant German cousin, George of Hanover, was called to rule over the UK.


Waterloo saved the UK, and further reinforced its international position. The 19th century would be dominated by the British Empire, spreading on all five continents, from Canada and the Caribeans to Australia and New Zealand, via Africa, India and South-East Asia.


Another notable fact of George III's reign was the start of the Industrial Revolution, with James Watt's famous steam engine and the mechanisation of the manufacturing industry transforming the face of England to this day. Great industrial cities such as Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Sheffield emerged as the new economic centres of the country, their population booming several fold. The gap between the rich and the poor increased considerably, as was poignantly described by Charles Dickens in such novels as David Copperfield or Oliver Twist.


Brighton than worrying about the affairs of state in London, leaving the power to the Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool (1770-1828), during most of his reign.


George IV notoriously had poor relationships with his father, and especially his wife, Caroline of Brunswick, refusing to recognise her as Queen and seeking to divorce her.


The King and Lord Liverpool were opposed to the Catholic Emancipation, i.e. the issue of reducing restrictions on the political rights of Roman Catholics. The Duke of Wellington, however, passed the Catholic Relief Act in 1829 during his term as Prime Minister (1828-1830).


George IV died in 1830, and was replaced by his brother, William IV (1765-1837). In 1831, the Whig party came back to power and Earl Grey (1764-1845), the new Prime Minister (after whom the tea is named), reformed the electoral system.


On the cultural scene, the early 19th century was highly prolific. It was the Romantic period, with poets like Lord Byron (1788-1824), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) or John Keats (1795-1821) and novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817). Also worth noting is that the world's first steam train was launched on the Stockton and Darlington railway (North-East England) in 1825 by George Stephenson (1781-1848).


London.


Britain asserted its hegemony on virtually every part of the globe, although this resulted in numerous wars, as for example the Opium Wars (1839-42 & 1856-60) with Qing China, or the Boer Wars (1880-81 & 1899-1902) with the Dutch-speaking settlers of South Africa.


In 1854, the the United Kingdom was brought into the Crimean War (1854-56) on the side of the Ottoman Empire and against Russia. One of the best known figure of that war was Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), who fought for the improvement of the women's condition and pioneered modern nursing (see Claydon House).


In 1861, Albert died prematurely at the age of 42. Victoria was devastated and retired in a semi-permanent state of mourning. She nevertheless started a romantic relationship with her Scottish servant John Brown (1826-1883), and there were even talks of a secret marriage. This episode of Victoria's life has been the object of the film Mrs Brown.


The latter years of her reign were dominated by two influential Prime Ministers, Benjamin Disraeli (1808-1881) and his rival William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898). The former was the favourite of the Queen, and crowned her "Empress of India" in 1876, in return of which Victoria creating him Earl of Beaconsfield. Gladstone was a liberal, and often at odd with both Victoria and Disraeli, but the strong support he enjoyed from within his party kept him in power for a total of 14 years between 1868 and 1894. He legalised trade unions, advocated both universal education and universal suffrage (well, at least for men).


Queen Victoria was to have the longest reign of any British monarch (64 years), but also the most glorious, as she ruled over 40% of the globe and a quarter of the world's population.


Althorp) in 1981.


Pop and Rock music replaced colonial remembrances in the 1960's with bands like the Beattles, Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones or Black Sabbath. The Hippie subculture also developed at that time.


The 70's brought the oil crisis and the collapse of the British industry. Conservative PM Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925) was elected in 1979 and stayed until 1990. She privatised the railways and shut down inefficient factories, but also increased the gap between the rich and the poor by cutting on the social security. Her methods were so harsh that she was nicknamed the 'Iron Lady'.


Thatcher was succeeded in her party by the unpopular John Major, but in 1997, the "New Labour" (more to the right than the "Old Labour") came back to power with Tony Blair (b. 1953). Blair's liberal policies and unwavering support of neo-conservative US President George W. Bush (especially regarding the invasion of Iraq in 2003) disappointed many Leftists, who really saw in Blair but a Rightist in disguise. But Blair has also positively surprised many by his intelligence and remarkable skills as an orator and negotiator.


Nowadays, the English economy relies heavily on services. The main industries are travel (discount airlines and travel agencies), education (apart from Oxford and Cambridge universities and textbooks, hundreds of language schools for learners of English), music (EMI, HMV, Virgin...), prestige cars (Rolls Royce, Bentley, Jaguar, Lotus, Aston Martin, MG...), fashion (Burberry, Dunhill, Paul Smith, Vivienne Westwood, French Connection...), and surprisingly to some, food (well especially tea, biscuits, chocolates and jam or companies like Unilever and Cadburry-Schweppes).


(Credit to History of England sorry, their history is so long, and I wanted to include a good response, but not work my ass off trying to remember my history class and spend all that time typing.)

Accepted, add military size sorry

 

[Math]

I'm starting my own micronation, anyone wanna join? Still in development though, Republic/Dictatorship/Kingdom/Principality/Democracy/Empire Raganthia!

 

[Spacekitty]

I'm starting my own micronation, anyone wanna join? Still in development though, Republic/Dictatorship/Kingdom/Principality/Democracy/Empire Raganthia!

Awsome! I'm in!


And micro nations are infact nations.


a nation is a group of people united by a common bond (religion, race, idealogy etc)

 

[Math]

Awsome! I'm in!
And micro nations are infact nations.


a nation is a group of people united by a common bond (religion, race, idealogy etc)

not really a nation doe, just wanted to make a fun tongue-in-cheek roleplaying/gaming microgroupnation.

 

[Frontier]

not really a nation doe, just wanted to make a fun tongue-in-cheek roleplaying/gaming microgroupnation.

Hmmm interesting. I am interested

 

[Spacekitty]

not really a nation doe, just wanted to make a fun tongue-in-cheek roleplaying/gaming microgroupnation.

ik


But I was just saying lol

 

[Spacekitty]

u guys should come on discord

 

[Frontier]

u guys should come on discord

Whats discord

 

[Spacekitty]

Whats discord

the rpn chat!

 

[Frontier]

the rpn chat!

Oh the new one they are playing Halloween music

 

[Spacekitty]

Oh the new one they are playing Halloween music

go to the channel im in

 

[Frontier]

go to the channel im in

k

 

[Frontier]

go to the channel im in

Which one you on

 

[Hazeron]

Name:Brazil


Population;200 million


Military:Thirty million troops


Territory:Brazil


Culture:Brazillian


Government type:democracy


Economic Model: Capitalism with some government regulation


Leader(s): Hernando Franco (President)


History: *Insert Brazillian history here*


However, changes are coming, and Brazil is poised to change and become greater than before

 

[Hazeron]

(Was I approved?)

 

[Spacekitty]

yesh!

 

[Math]

Does anyone here actually still play minecraft? I'm ashamed to say, yes xD