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Oh fuck yeah, motherfucking Kaiserreich. Syndicalism time!

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1. Vereinigte Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
2. Maybe later.
3. Radical Soclialist, with a growing syndicalist membership.
4.
Foreign Policy: Isolationism from the rest of the world, some contact with other syndicalist nations.
Social Policy: General social laws will be passed by a national government, and smaller issues will be left to local trade unions.
Economic Policy: A strong central planning policy, with the planning done by trade unions on both a local and national level.
5. Ensuring prosperity and equality for all members of German society, especially the neglected lower class.
6. The VDA was formed two years ago as one of hte few socialist parties in Germany at the time, during a period where the minority support for socialist policies began to grow. They stayed relatively underground due to the feared backlash against the party, until the next election. They've already dealt with almost being shut down with the German government, due to a small-scale protest gone horribly wrong, involving the arrest of multiple members of the VDA as a fight broke out between an opposing political party. They recovered though, and attracted the attention of various syndicalists who flocked to the only active party in the nation. This caused a bit of friction between some of the original members, who didn't necessarily wanted to be associated with the unpopular syndicalists most of the german public was poised to hate during the latter half of 1935. Despite this, they strode on and surprisingly managed to not get into much trouble with the Germany authorities. With the election drawing near, the various members of the party are crawling out of the woodwork in an attempt to garner any kind of support they can get. But with the clashes between the Syndicalist and Radical Socialists, this may prove difficult. Even more so when the new "Next step in socialism" is announced to the world early this year.
7. Myself

Quote from: Kaferian on May 16, 2013, 08:20:26 pm

Quote from: Nerjin on May 16, 2013, 08:11:45 pm

Quote from: Kaferian on May 16, 2013, 08:08:13 pm

Do you think that players would be able to create plausible nations for an alternate history game?

I would like to think so yes. It depends, to my way of thinking, how much you want for the nations though.

I'm expecting them to just write a history of their nation why it is what it is while I make the stats for their nations so that no transcontinental empires will be vastly overpowered and perfect. I can just fill in whatever I feel that needs to be filled in to make their nation plausible. The problem with this approach, though, is that players might expect me to do most of the work for them.

I don't know about plausible, but certainly interesting. You'd have to go by app quality in player selection, but that's never a bad thing. What sort of time period would this be set in, by the way?

Dammit, I once had an idea for this, (never acted on it though)

Name: Dorald
Race: Human
Sex: M
Political view: Elective Monarchy (ie, king is elected then rules for life)
Labour attachment: Ex-owner of large iron ore mine, now a simple labourer
Background: He had lived in a monarchy where the corrupt upper families constantly destroyed his businesses over and over, businesses he built from scratch. His parents were reasonably wealthy with small holdings, but he had brought them to greatness. A massive human supremacist, he finds the treatment of the conquered to be not enough, wishing them eradicated, or at least in total slavery as they take away the jobs of lower class human. After his most recent collapse under government pressure he decided that enough is enough, and now he wants to bring down this system of old families, and bring out a power where the strong willed rule, and the weak crumble. The old families will crumble under his iron fist

Quote from: Kaferian on May 06, 2013, 06:45:36 pm

Quote from: Xantalos on May 06, 2013, 02:34:46 pm

... a tunnel network for travel,...
...

I now know what I'm going to steal from Kymore.

Did I mention it's filled with dragons going back and forth?