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Geopolitics

2025-03-30T04:51:13Z

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'''Geopolitics''' is the "analysis of the geographic influences on power relationships in international relations."<ref>https://www.britannica.com/topic/geopolitics</ref>. This page is a quick reference to some of the major powers in the world, their major interests, and relations with each other. It is broken down into the Tensions in Asia and Europe, and Other Regions (broadly including any power not involved in the two major Cold Wars). If a single nation is significantly involved in multiple regions they may be listed in multiple sections.

==Tensions in Asia==
{| class="wikitable" border="1" border-color:#33291b; width:100%; border-color:white;"
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="20%" | Country
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="30%"| Intergovernmental Organizations
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="50%"| Notes
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|'''Western Aligned'''
|-
| rowspan="2"| {{flagicon|Australia}} '''Australia'''
| style="background-color:#c8faff;"|
*Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
| rowspan="2"|
|-
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|-
| {{flagicon|ROC}} '''China, Republic of'''
| style="background-color:#c8faff;"|
*Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
| Hotbed of tensions. The primary reason for the existence of SIPDO. Imperfectly democratic state and recovering military dictatorship. Borders the hostile People's Republic of China to the north. Long-term aim of reunifying the Chinas, but forced to keep these aims secret from the Americans and SIPDO. Not a member of SEADEF due to objection from India and Vietnam.
|-
| '''India'''
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|
|-
| '''Japan'''
| style="background-color:#c8faff;"|
*Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
|
|-
| '''New Zealand'''
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| '''Philippines'''
| style="background-color:#c8faff;"|
*Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
| rowspan="2"|
|-
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|-
| '''Thailand'''
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} '''[[:Category:United Kingdom|United Kingdom]]'''
| style="background-color:#c8faff;"|
*Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
| rowspan="2"| Founding member of SIPDO at the end of the Pacific War in 1946 and SEADEF in 1952. Still holds the British Overseas Territory of Hong Kong bordering the Republic of China. While the British Army withdrew is rotational brigades from China in 2057, it still maintains defense agreements as part of the SIPDO network. Notably this includes the deployment of troops garrisoned in Hong Kong into China, the joint defense of Chinese air space, and defense of the Chinese coast through naval operations in the South China Sea.
|-
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|-
| rowspan="2"| {{flagicon|United States}} '''[[:Category:United States|United States]]'''
| style="background-color:#c8faff;"|
*Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
| rowspan="2"|Primary guarantor of Chinese (ROC), Japanese, and Vietnamese sovereignty. Maintains permanent and rotational military forces in all three states.
|-
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|-
| '''Vietnam'''
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|'''Beijing Pact'''
|-
| '''China, People's Republic of'''
| style="background-color:#ffc8c8;"|
*Beijing Pact (BP)
| Hotbed of tensions. Communist state. Borders the hostile Republic of China to the south. Long-term public aim of reunifying the Chinas.
|-
| '''Korea'''
| style="background-color:#ffc8c8;"|
*Beijing Pact (BP)
|
|-
| '''Mongolia'''
| style="background-color:#ffc8c8;"|
*Beijing Pact (BP)
|
|-
| '''Soviet Union'''
| style="background-color:#ffc8c8;"|
*Beijing Pact (BP)
| The primary guarantor of Chinese (PRC) and Korean (DPRK) sovereignty.
|}

==Tensions in Europe==
{| class="wikitable" border="1" border-color:#33291b; width:100%; border-color:white;"
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="20%" | Country
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="30%"| Intergovernmental Organizations
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="50%"| Notes
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|'''European Defense Cooperation'''
|-
| '''Belgium'''
| style="background-color:#c8d8ff;"|
*Western Union
|
|-
| {{flagicon|France}} '''France'''
| style="background-color:#c8d8ff;"|
*Western Union
| While France maintains relations with Germany, it never stopped by suspicious of the Germans. In the years following the Soviet invasion of the Baltics (1948), France signed a bilateral security agreement with Poland reupping security guarantees. To back up this treaty, France agreed to forward deploy a brigade in Poland at all times to act as a ''de jure'' deterrent and ''de facto'' tripwire force to force the French government of the day to act. As revanchist rhetoric from Germany intensified from the 1980s to the present, France, the United Kingdom, and Belgium formed the Western Union to deter Germany. Although technically separate organizations, due to bilateral treaties between France, the United Kingdom, and several Intermarium memberstates, the Western Union and Intermarium are widely considered to essentially be functionally the same alliance. The relationship between the Western Union and Intermarium is most commonly called the European Defense Cooperation.
|-
| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} '''United Kingdom'''
| style="background-color:#c8d8ff;"|
*Western Union
|
|-
| '''Czechoslovakia'''
| style="background-color:#f3ffc8;"|
*Intermarium
|
|-
| '''Poland'''
| style="background-color:#f3ffc8;"|
*Intermarium
| Spearheaded the formation of the Intermarium as a formal alliance following the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states in 1948 and increasingly revanchist rhetoric from Hungary and Germany.
|-
| '''Romania'''
| style="background-color:#f3ffc8;"|
*Intermarium
|
|-
| '''Yugoslavia, Kingdom of'''
| style="background-color:#f3ffc8;"|
*Intermarium
|
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|'''The Munich Understanding'''
|-
| {{flagicon|German Reich}} '''German Reich'''
| style="background-color:#fbccff;"|
* The Munich Understanding
| While the German Reich (colloquially called the Weimar Republic until that peetered out of fashion in the 1990s) maintains a veneer of cordiality with its European neighbors and it fought in the Pacific War alongside the Allies, its political landscape has become increasingly conservative and nationalist since the 1980s. In 2055, it entered in a secret pact with the Soviet Union and Hungary called "The Munich Understanding" which lays out plans to carve up Central and Eastern Europe between themselves. Only the inner circle of the Conservative (KVP) party room knows of the pact. It is understood by the Soviet Union and Kingdom of Hungary that should the KVP go a period of time out of power, as it did between 2056 and 2060, the understanding is no longer in force for that time. While the public does not know this agreement exists, the Western Union and Intermarium (functionally forming one defense alliance confederation called the European Defense Cooperation through multiple overlapping bilateral agreements) are primarily focused on deterring parties to The Munich Understanding.
|-
| '''Hungary'''
| style="background-color:#fbccff;"|
* The Munich Understanding
|
|-
| '''Soviet Union'''
| style="background-color:#fbccff;"|
* The Munich Understanding
|
|}

==Space Race==

==Other Regions==
{| class="wikitable" border="1" border-color:#33291b; width:100%; border-color:white;"
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="20%" | Country
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="30%"| Intergovernmental Organizations
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="50%"| Notes
|-
| '''[[Constellation of Southern African States]]'''
|
| A multinational state consisting of Angola, Namibia, Mozambique and much of South Africa.
|-
| '''[[British South Africa]]'''
| The Commonwealth (CW)
| An overseas territory of the United Kingdom under military rule located in the western and southern cape of South Africa. Plans of home rule for a united South African Union died on a stormy winters night in 1925 in a flurry of violence far beyond Table Mountain, but a little of that dream remains alive in the BSA. For more than a decade the Highlanders of the Cape and British regulars battled the anarchists and nationalists across the veldt, while Elizabethan and Royal Marines held off terrorists and a renewed empire in the east. Today the Subjects of British South Africa enjoy a standard of living comparable with that in the Home Isles themselves, aside from electoral representation. The consequences of who holds subjecthood remains a constant thorn in the side of the Governor General, but against the twin tides of Communism and Pan-Africanism the BSA stands firm; while Cape Town and Port Elizebeth still fly the Union Jack, her people shall always be free.
|-
| '''Zambia'''
| The Commonwealth (CW)
| A former British Colony granted home rule.
|-
| '''Rhodesia'''
| The Commonwealth (CW) 3
| Officially granted home rule, British military oversight on local governance brings that into question. Fortress Rhodesia stands proud against the insanity deeper south guarding the Subjects of the Commonwealth in Africa, and their extensive natural resources, the Rhodesians are the most patriotic subjects of the United Kingdom and all the freedoms she stands for. But behind closed doors, away from the eyes of the Royal Salisbury Constabulary, Rhodies speak in hushed tones about real independence from the crown, and nationalists share hope of a dream called Zimbabwe.
|-
| '''[[South African Republic]]'''
| 3
| An isolated minority rule government in exile located on the Island of Madagascar. Retreating from defeats in the South African Civil War in the 1930s, the Young Nationalists would enact the penultimate trek, across the Mozambique Channel. Guided by their faith in ''God, Bloed en Afrika,'' their experienced kommandos liberated the French colonial rule and settled upon an island off the African coast. Though cast out of Eden into the land of Nod, one day they will return in the ''Groottrek'' and reclaim their promised lands.
|-
| '''Katanga'''
| 3
| A breakaway republic balancing exclusive rule between Belgique Afrique and a tribe that no longer trust each other.
|-
| '''Zaire'''
| Pan Africa Movement (PAM)
| A large nation blessed with a wealth of resources and beauty striving ever forward towards something... ''Authenticité''
|-
| '''ay'''
|
|
|}

==Notes==
<references />

[[Category:Meta]]

Geopolitics

2025-03-30T04:45:58Z

Praddles: /* Other Regions */

'''Geopolitics''' is the "analysis of the geographic influences on power relationships in international relations."<ref>https://www.britannica.com/topic/geopolitics</ref>. This page is a quick reference to some of the major powers in the world, their major interests, and relations with each other. It is broken down into the Tensions in Asia and Europe, and Other Regions (broadly including any power not involved in the two major Cold Wars). If a single nation is significantly involved in multiple regions they may be listed in multiple sections.

==Tensions in Asia==
{| class="wikitable" border="1" border-color:#33291b; width:100%; border-color:white;"
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="20%" | Country
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="30%"| Intergovernmental Organizations
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="50%"| Notes
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|'''Western Aligned'''
|-
| rowspan="2"| {{flagicon|Australia}} '''Australia'''
| style="background-color:#c8faff;"|
*Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
| rowspan="2"|
|-
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|-
| {{flagicon|ROC}} '''China, Republic of'''
| style="background-color:#c8faff;"|
*Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
| Hotbed of tensions. The primary reason for the existence of SIPDO. Imperfectly democratic state and recovering military dictatorship. Borders the hostile People's Republic of China to the north. Long-term aim of reunifying the Chinas, but forced to keep these aims secret from the Americans and SIPDO. Not a member of SEADEF due to objection from India and Vietnam.
|-
| '''India'''
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|
|-
| '''Japan'''
| style="background-color:#c8faff;"|
*Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
|
|-
| '''New Zealand'''
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| '''Philippines'''
| style="background-color:#c8faff;"|
*Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
| rowspan="2"|
|-
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|-
| '''Thailand'''
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} '''[[:Category:United Kingdom|United Kingdom]]'''
| style="background-color:#c8faff;"|
*Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
| rowspan="2"| Founding member of SIPDO at the end of the Pacific War in 1946 and SEADEF in 1952. Still holds the British Overseas Territory of Hong Kong bordering the Republic of China. While the British Army withdrew is rotational brigades from China in 2057, it still maintains defense agreements as part of the SIPDO network. Notably this includes the deployment of troops garrisoned in Hong Kong into China, the joint defense of Chinese air space, and defense of the Chinese coast through naval operations in the South China Sea.
|-
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|-
| rowspan="2"| {{flagicon|United States}} '''[[:Category:United States|United States]]'''
| style="background-color:#c8faff;"|
*Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
| rowspan="2"|Primary guarantor of Chinese (ROC), Japanese, and Vietnamese sovereignty. Maintains permanent and rotational military forces in all three states.
|-
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|-
| '''Vietnam'''
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|'''Beijing Pact'''
|-
| '''China, People's Republic of'''
| style="background-color:#ffc8c8;"|
*Beijing Pact (BP)
| Hotbed of tensions. Communist state. Borders the hostile Republic of China to the south. Long-term public aim of reunifying the Chinas.
|-
| '''Korea'''
| style="background-color:#ffc8c8;"|
*Beijing Pact (BP)
|
|-
| '''Mongolia'''
| style="background-color:#ffc8c8;"|
*Beijing Pact (BP)
|
|-
| '''Soviet Union'''
| style="background-color:#ffc8c8;"|
*Beijing Pact (BP)
| The primary guarantor of Chinese (PRC) and Korean (DPRK) sovereignty.
|}

==Tensions in Europe==
{| class="wikitable" border="1" border-color:#33291b; width:100%; border-color:white;"
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="20%" | Country
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="30%"| Intergovernmental Organizations
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="50%"| Notes
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|'''European Defense Cooperation'''
|-
| '''Belgium'''
| style="background-color:#c8d8ff;"|
*Western Union
|
|-
| {{flagicon|France}} '''France'''
| style="background-color:#c8d8ff;"|
*Western Union
| While France maintains relations with Germany, it never stopped by suspicious of the Germans. In the years following the Soviet invasion of the Baltics (1948), France signed a bilateral security agreement with Poland reupping security guarantees. To back up this treaty, France agreed to forward deploy a brigade in Poland at all times to act as a ''de jure'' deterrent and ''de facto'' tripwire force to force the French government of the day to act. As revanchist rhetoric from Germany intensified from the 1980s to the present, France, the United Kingdom, and Belgium formed the Western Union to deter Germany. Although technically separate organizations, due to bilateral treaties between France, the United Kingdom, and several Intermarium memberstates, the Western Union and Intermarium are widely considered to essentially be functionally the same alliance. The relationship between the Western Union and Intermarium is most commonly called the European Defense Cooperation.
|-
| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} '''United Kingdom'''
| style="background-color:#c8d8ff;"|
*Western Union
|
|-
| '''Czechoslovakia'''
| style="background-color:#f3ffc8;"|
*Intermarium
|
|-
| '''Poland'''
| style="background-color:#f3ffc8;"|
*Intermarium
| Spearheaded the formation of the Intermarium as a formal alliance following the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states in 1948 and increasingly revanchist rhetoric from Hungary and Germany.
|-
| '''Romania'''
| style="background-color:#f3ffc8;"|
*Intermarium
|
|-
| '''Yugoslavia, Kingdom of'''
| style="background-color:#f3ffc8;"|
*Intermarium
|
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|'''The Munich Understanding'''
|-
| {{flagicon|German Reich}} '''German Reich'''
| style="background-color:#fbccff;"|
* The Munich Understanding
| While the German Reich (colloquially called the Weimar Republic until that peetered out of fashion in the 1990s) maintains a veneer of cordiality with its European neighbors and it fought in the Pacific War alongside the Allies, its political landscape has become increasingly conservative and nationalist since the 1980s. In 2055, it entered in a secret pact with the Soviet Union and Hungary called "The Munich Understanding" which lays out plans to carve up Central and Eastern Europe between themselves. Only the inner circle of the Conservative (KVP) party room knows of the pact. It is understood by the Soviet Union and Kingdom of Hungary that should the KVP go a period of time out of power, as it did between 2056 and 2060, the understanding is no longer in force for that time. While the public does not know this agreement exists, the Western Union and Intermarium (functionally forming one defense alliance confederation called the European Defense Cooperation through multiple overlapping bilateral agreements) are primarily focused on deterring parties to The Munich Understanding.
|-
| '''Hungary'''
| style="background-color:#fbccff;"|
* The Munich Understanding
|
|-
| '''Soviet Union'''
| style="background-color:#fbccff;"|
* The Munich Understanding
|
|}

==Space Race==

==Other Regions==
{| class="wikitable" border="1" border-color:#33291b; width:100%; border-color:white;"
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="20%" | Country
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="30%"| Intergovernmental Organizations
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="50%"| Notes
|-
| '''[[Constellation of Southern African States]]'''
|
| A transnational nation state consisting of Angola, Namibia, Mozambique and much of South Africa.
|-
| '''[[British South Africa]]'''
| The Commonwealth (CW)
| An overseas territory of the United Kingdom under military rule located in the western and southern cape of South Africa. Plans of home rule for a united South African Union died on a stormy winters night in 1925 in a flurry of violence far beyond Table Mountain, but a little of that dream remains alive in the BSA. For more than a decade the Highlanders of the Cape and British regulars battled the anarchists and nationalists across the veldt, while Elizabethan and Royal Marines held off terrorists and a renewed empire in the east. Today the Subjects of British South Africa enjoy a standard of living comparable with that in the Home Isles themselves, aside from electoral representation. The consequences of who holds subjecthood remains a constant thorn in the side of the Governor General, but against the twin tides of Communism and Pan-Africanism the BSA stands firm; while Cape Town and Port Elizebeth still fly the Union Jack, her people shall always be free.
|-
| '''Zambia'''
| The Commonwealth (CW)
| A former British Colony granted home rule.
|-
| '''Rhodesia'''
| The Commonwealth (CW) 3
| Officially granted home rule, British military oversight on local governance brings that into question. Fortress Rhodesia stands proud against the insanity deeper south guarding the Subjects of the Commonwealth in Africa, and their extensive natural resources, the Rhodesians are the most patriotic subjects of the United Kingdom and all the freedoms she stands for. But behind closed doors, away from the eyes of the Royal Salisbury Constabulary, Rhodies speak in hushed tones about real independence from the crown, and nationalists share hope of a dream called Zimbabwe.
|-
| '''[[South African Republic]]'''
| 3
| An isolated minority rule government in exile located on the Island of Madagascar. Retreating from defeats in the South African Civil War in the 1930s, the Young Nationalists would enact the penultimate trek, across the Mozambique Channel. Guided by their faith in ''God, Bloed en Afrika,'' their experienced kommandos liberated the French colonial rule and settled upon an island off the African coast. Though cast out of Eden into the land of Nod, one day they will return in the ''Groottrek'' and reclaim their promised lands.
|-
| '''Katanga'''
| 3
| A breakaway republic balancing exclusive rule between Belgique Afrique and a tribe that no longer trust each other.
|-
| '''Zaire'''
| Pan Africa Movement (PAM)
| A large nation blessed with a wealth of resources and beauty striving ever forward towards something... ''Authenticité''
|-
| '''ay'''
|
|
|}

==Notes==
<references />

[[Category:Meta]]

Constellation of Southern African States

2025-03-30T02:53:30Z

Praddles: Created page with "'''The Constellation''', officially the '''Constellation of Southern African States''', is a country located in Southern Africa. Generally it is accepted that the beginnings of The Constellation was the Angola-Vaalia Friendship Agreement signed in 19xx, though the offical signing of the Articles of Constellation happened years later in 19xx. The role of national capital is divided into three and shared by Luanda (Legislative), Maputo (Judicial) and Pretoria (Executive)...."

'''The Constellation''', officially the '''Constellation of Southern African States''', is a country located in Southern Africa. Generally it is accepted that the beginnings of The Constellation was the Angola-Vaalia Friendship Agreement signed in 19xx, though the offical signing of the Articles of Constellation happened years later in 19xx. The role of national capital is divided into three and shared by Luanda (Legislative), Maputo (Judicial) and Pretoria (Executive). Transport between the three capitals can be achieved in little over three hours utilising the Constellation’s Hyperloop, and data can be shared near instantly over laser-data glass wire. 
The terrestrial population of The Constellation is over 165 million people and covers an area of 3,914,565 square kilometres making it the 10th largest country by population and 7th by land area. 
The Constellation is a union of the southern African states of Angola, Namibia, Vaalia, Mozambique and the Mzansi. Angola, Namibia, Vaalia and Mozambique are referred to as state republics and Mzansi as the state kingdom within the federal framework of the Constellation. A multiethnic nation, hundreds of recognised languages are used across the lands and extraterrestrial holdings of the Constellation, the primary national languages are Afrikaans (AF), Portuguese (LU), and Standard Bantu (OB). The Constellation borders many countries on the African continent. From northwest clockwise countries that The Constellation borders are Zaire, Katanga, Zambia, Rhodesia, Botswana, Nyasa-Malawiland, Tanzania, Eswatini, Lesotho, and British South Africa. Possessing an anti colonial and pan africanist ideology, the Constellation maintains good relations with most of her African neighbours, but is locked in ongoing conflicts with the remaining colonial states in the region, notably the Belgique Afrique ruled State of Katanga, and the British backed Rhodesia and British South Africa. The Vaalia State Republic and Mzansi both have active land disputes with both Rhodesia and British South Africa dating back to the 1930s and British Colonial Rule. Despite this, the Constellation aims to maintain positive relations with the more (European/British?) aligned majority rule states in the region such as Zambia and Nyasa-Malawiland. Further afield, the Constellation maintains strong relations to (non aligned?) States and pan-african movements. The constellation has positive relations with the social republics of Brazil and Chile in South America, the Federal Kingdom of Yugoslavia in Southern Europe, the Libyan Jamahiriya, Egyptian Socialist Republic and the Kingdom of Ethiopia in North Africa, the Indian Republic and the Union of Burma in South Asia, the Kingdom of Thailand, and the Republics of Indonesia and Vietnam in South East Asia. Working relationships are maintained with The United States, Soviet Union and People’s Republic of China, while relations with the legacy colonial European powers are generally poor if not outright hostile. 
The Constellation operates as a federal republic made up of four constitute state republics and a state kingdom. Each of these constitute states hold equal political power within the Constellation and have their own constitutions and internal governments. The Angolan State Republic is a presidential regionalised republic, with its capital the primate city Luanda being both the state republic capital and the legislative capital of the Constellation. The Namibian and Mozambican State Republics are both unitary semi-presidential republics. The capital of Namibia is Windhoek is also the largest city in Namibia. Maputo is the capital of the Mozambique state capital and also the judicial capital of the Constellation and contains the national level courts. The Vaalia State Republic is a mess and role-plays at being some wannabe anarchist body politic but doesn’t want to admit it. The largest city in Vaalia is New Joberg, with the greater New Joberg area containing more than half of the state republic’s population. Pretoria acts as the political capital for the state republic, and is the location of the executive branch of government, but officially Vaalia lacks a state level capital. Mzansi is a constitutional parliamentary monarchy in which power is shared between the House of Zulu and State President alongside a parliament. Mzansi has twin capitals, Ulundi (including the seat of the House of Zulu of Nongoma) and Mthatha which contains the parliament. The largest city of Mzansi is eThkwini, also known as Durban. Mzansi also recognises the British South African cities of East London (known as eMonti to uMzansi) and Williamstown (Bhisho) as an occupied cities part of their traditional people’s lands.

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Geopolitics

2025-03-30T02:50:55Z

Praddles: /* Other Regions */

'''Geopolitics''' is the "analysis of the geographic influences on power relationships in international relations."<ref>https://www.britannica.com/topic/geopolitics</ref>. This page is a quick reference to some of the major powers in the world, their major interests, and relations with each other. It is broken down into the Tensions in Asia and Europe, and Other Regions (broadly including any power not involved in the two major Cold Wars). If a single nation is significantly involved in multiple regions they may be listed in multiple sections.

==Tensions in Asia==
{| class="wikitable" border="1" border-color:#33291b; width:100%; border-color:white;"
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="20%" | Country
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="30%"| Intergovernmental Organizations
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="50%"| Notes
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|'''Western Aligned'''
|-
| rowspan="2"| {{flagicon|Australia}} '''Australia'''
| style="background-color:#c8faff;"|
*Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
| rowspan="2"|
|-
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|-
| {{flagicon|ROC}} '''China, Republic of'''
| style="background-color:#c8faff;"|
*Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
| Hotbed of tensions. The primary reason for the existence of SIPDO. Imperfectly democratic state and recovering military dictatorship. Borders the hostile People's Republic of China to the north. Long-term aim of reunifying the Chinas, but forced to keep these aims secret from the Americans and SIPDO. Not a member of SEADEF due to objection from India and Vietnam.
|-
| '''India'''
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|
|-
| '''Japan'''
| style="background-color:#c8faff;"|
*Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
|
|-
| '''New Zealand'''
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| '''Philippines'''
| style="background-color:#c8faff;"|
*Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
| rowspan="2"|
|-
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|-
| '''Thailand'''
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} '''[[:Category:United Kingdom|United Kingdom]]'''
| style="background-color:#c8faff;"|
*Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
| rowspan="2"| Founding member of SIPDO at the end of the Pacific War in 1946 and SEADEF in 1952. Still holds the British Overseas Territory of Hong Kong bordering the Republic of China. While the British Army withdrew is rotational brigades from China in 2057, it still maintains defense agreements as part of the SIPDO network. Notably this includes the deployment of troops garrisoned in Hong Kong into China, the joint defense of Chinese air space, and defense of the Chinese coast through naval operations in the South China Sea.
|-
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|-
| rowspan="2"| {{flagicon|United States}} '''[[:Category:United States|United States]]'''
| style="background-color:#c8faff;"|
*Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
| rowspan="2"|Primary guarantor of Chinese (ROC), Japanese, and Vietnamese sovereignty. Maintains permanent and rotational military forces in all three states.
|-
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|-
| '''Vietnam'''
| style="background-color:#c8ffd0;"|
*Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
|
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|'''Beijing Pact'''
|-
| '''China, People's Republic of'''
| style="background-color:#ffc8c8;"|
*Beijing Pact (BP)
| Hotbed of tensions. Communist state. Borders the hostile Republic of China to the south. Long-term public aim of reunifying the Chinas.
|-
| '''Korea'''
| style="background-color:#ffc8c8;"|
*Beijing Pact (BP)
|
|-
| '''Mongolia'''
| style="background-color:#ffc8c8;"|
*Beijing Pact (BP)
|
|-
| '''Soviet Union'''
| style="background-color:#ffc8c8;"|
*Beijing Pact (BP)
| The primary guarantor of Chinese (PRC) and Korean (DPRK) sovereignty.
|}

==Tensions in Europe==
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!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="20%" | Country
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="30%"| Intergovernmental Organizations
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="50%"| Notes
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|'''European Defense Cooperation'''
|-
| '''Belgium'''
| style="background-color:#c8d8ff;"|
*Western Union
|
|-
| {{flagicon|France}} '''France'''
| style="background-color:#c8d8ff;"|
*Western Union
| While France maintains relations with Germany, it never stopped by suspicious of the Germans. In the years following the Soviet invasion of the Baltics (1948), France signed a bilateral security agreement with Poland reupping security guarantees. To back up this treaty, France agreed to forward deploy a brigade in Poland at all times to act as a ''de jure'' deterrent and ''de facto'' tripwire force to force the French government of the day to act. As revanchist rhetoric from Germany intensified from the 1980s to the present, France, the United Kingdom, and Belgium formed the Western Union to deter Germany. Although technically separate organizations, due to bilateral treaties between France, the United Kingdom, and several Intermarium memberstates, the Western Union and Intermarium are widely considered to essentially be functionally the same alliance. The relationship between the Western Union and Intermarium is most commonly called the European Defense Cooperation.
|-
| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} '''United Kingdom'''
| style="background-color:#c8d8ff;"|
*Western Union
|
|-
| '''Czechoslovakia'''
| style="background-color:#f3ffc8;"|
*Intermarium
|
|-
| '''Poland'''
| style="background-color:#f3ffc8;"|
*Intermarium
| Spearheaded the formation of the Intermarium as a formal alliance following the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states in 1948 and increasingly revanchist rhetoric from Hungary and Germany.
|-
| '''Romania'''
| style="background-color:#f3ffc8;"|
*Intermarium
|
|-
| '''Yugoslavia, Kingdom of'''
| style="background-color:#f3ffc8;"|
*Intermarium
|
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|'''The Munich Understanding'''
|-
| {{flagicon|German Reich}} '''German Reich'''
| style="background-color:#fbccff;"|
* The Munich Understanding
| While the German Reich (colloquially called the Weimar Republic until that peetered out of fashion in the 1990s) maintains a veneer of cordiality with its European neighbors and it fought in the Pacific War alongside the Allies, its political landscape has become increasingly conservative and nationalist since the 1980s. In 2055, it entered in a secret pact with the Soviet Union and Hungary called "The Munich Understanding" which lays out plans to carve up Central and Eastern Europe between themselves. Only the inner circle of the Conservative (KVP) party room knows of the pact. It is understood by the Soviet Union and Kingdom of Hungary that should the KVP go a period of time out of power, as it did between 2056 and 2060, the understanding is no longer in force for that time. While the public does not know this agreement exists, the Western Union and Intermarium (functionally forming one defense alliance confederation called the European Defense Cooperation through multiple overlapping bilateral agreements) are primarily focused on deterring parties to The Munich Understanding.
|-
| '''Hungary'''
| style="background-color:#fbccff;"|
* The Munich Understanding
|
|-
| '''Soviet Union'''
| style="background-color:#fbccff;"|
* The Munich Understanding
|
|}

==Space Race==

==Other Regions==
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!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="30%"| Intergovernmental Organizations
!style="text-align: center; background-color:#ff7e01; color:black;font-size:110%;font-family:Share Tech Mono;" width="50%"| Notes
|-
| '''[[Constellation of Southern African States]]'''
|
| A transnational entity consisting of Angola, Namibia, Mozambique and much of South Africa
|}

==Notes==
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[[Category:Meta]]

Technology

2025-01-04T04:23:47Z

Praddles: /* Space Elevators */

This article lists the known technological pecularities of the Case Amber universe should they differ from our own. In general, technological and aesthetic progress began to diverge in the 1950s.

==Nuclear Power==
Nuclear power is likely one of the most common forms of power in the developed world. When possible consumer products and military equipment is electric to be recharged off of a nuclear power grid, although fossil fuels are still in use for some applications. Military vehicles and vehicles suited to extremely cold regions are often still powered by gasoline or diesel, although electric vehicles are very common for civilians in temperate areas.. Developing countries who cannot afford the infrastructure and countries with abundant fossil fuel resources (the latter of which would be considered Luddites by those who embrace nuclear power) do still make use of other forms of power. Other forms of renewable energy, such as solar, may be in use in remote places that can't afford nuclear power infrastructure but could afford a town solar farm.

==Nuclear Weapons==
Tactical and strategic nuclear weapons are widely proliferated, and there aren't many qualms among the major world powers about using the tactical nuclear weapons against military forces. Depending on the nation different classes of tactical nuclear weapons may be issued from the battalion- to corps-level. The exact policies surrounding the use of strategic nuclear weapons haven't been worked out yet (meta), but it can be assumed whatever deterrence model essentially treats tactical nuclear weapons similarly to the heaviest artillery. That is to say their use in isolation is generally not thought to be the trigger for a nuclear war, but any truly existential threat to a nation could still warrant a strategic nuclear response.

==Power Armor and Alternatives==
Starting in the 1970s and 1980s, militaries began exploring the use of {{wpl|Powered exoskeleton|power armor}} to increase the survivability of infantry, reducing the size of weapons teams, and providing NBC protection during dismounted combat. However, power armor is expensive, is challenging to mechanize or motorize, has extensive power requirements that necessitate the deployment of dedicated power generation units at low-levels, and in some cases cause ground pressure issues in soft or muddy terrain.

In general power armor troops are used in a limited fashion, sometimes as support to other more numerous types of units like light or mechanized infantry. Power armor-equipped units are generally much smaller due to cost and logistics restrictions, and sometimes the need to mechanize them in vehicles specialized in carrying a limited number of suits. For example, [[6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles|British power armor infantry units]] when mechanized are carried in the Boarhound Powered Infantry Carrier (PIC) which can only carry 6 pieces of armor whereas a standard light infantry section consists of 10 personnel. Power generation and maintenance requirements also limit unit size and range of action, as a Rifle Company with 100 suits generally requires at least 200 batteries and in-house charging. For example, the British tend to attach a REME Power Section to each powered infantry Rifle Company to provide first-line recharging to the platoons and carry spare batteries. At the battalion-level, the Quartermaster Platoon has its own Power Section which contains more substantial power generation equipment and "mobile power stations" which can each link 12 stationary powered infantrymen occupying defensive positions to a lorry-mounted generator via 90-foot long cables.

Further, because of the ground pressure of an infantryman clad in power armor is greater than your average infantryman (although depending on the model not extremely more) power armor can be limited from operating in soft, muddy or snowy terrain. Additionally, models with exposed joints or electrical components can become inoperable in fine sand or water as shallow as knee deep. For this reason, some countries have written out doctrinal limitations, including:
* Restricting power armor use to urban terrain, where ground pressure is not a concern, the heavily canalized nature of cities favors increased infantry protection, and the ability to carry heavy weapons is at a premium due to the abundance of hard cover.
* Restricting power armor use to hard packed terrain in general during fair weather, or in defensive positions against superior enemy forces where little movement is required.

Alternatively, some countries have decided to not adopt power armor but have introduced equivalent solutions, including:
* One-man armored vehicles with tracks or at least 6 wheels and a mounted heavy weapon
* Tracked, wheeled, quadripedal, or bipedal robots, either controlled by a human operator or featuring limited autonomy. Models with limited autonomy are normally restricted to simple maneuvers within range a platoon HQ's short range radios and targets that can be automatically tracked and verified by their onboard software and optics. The advantage of robots over power armor is they can be minimally armored should a military choose to, allowing for weight and size to be kept to human or near-human proportions in the case of bipedal solutions.

==Space==
The major powers are heavily invested in space colonization, exploration, and militarization, although to different degrees and with different focuses. The Moon is a known site of major civilian colonization (as featured in the Vignettes ''[[Vignette:In a Faraway Land|In a Faraway Land]]'' and ''[[Vignette:Now Hear This|Now Hear This]]''. There is also human activity on Mars—although it's likely more limited in scope—and military and economic activity in the Asteroid belt and Jupiter's moons.

The powers of Earth have not discovered how to travel at or beyond the speed of light, so any sort of extrasolar exploration is likely limited to unmanned platforms.

==Space Elevators==
Space elevators are a relatively common technology to reduce the long-term costs of getting stuff into orbit. In Case Amber, having a space elevator is one of the key benchmarks of a great power. Even if it doesn't make the most financial sense for a given country, it is seen as a very necessary status symbol. Countries with space elevators on Earth include but are not limited to the United States (it has two, one of which named GNASE in Michigan is made available to Canada), Western Union (shared by the UK, France, and Belgium), Soviet Union, Constellation of Southern African States, India, and Japan. The United States is the only nation to have built a space elevator on the Moon (the Ravern L1 Elevator named in ''[[Vignette: Now Hear This|Now Hear This]]'', which runs from the Lunar South Pole to the L1 Lagrange point). This elevator is made available to the bordering lunar territories of the United Kingdom, France, and Australia via train lines.

Conventional rocket spacelaunch still remains, particularly for military loads and for nations that do not have unlimited access to a space elevator or some other non-rocket means of spacelaunch. Other nations (mostly middle powers) of have constructed cheaper non-rocket spacelaunch systems, like {{wpl|launch loop|launch loops}}, nuclear-powered electromagnetic ski jumps, and {{wpl|Space gun|space guns}}.

===Types of Space Elevators===
'''Type One:''' 
Type One space elevators were the first and are the most simple and reliable (and thus affordable) type of space elevator. They are constructed in a thin band of latitudes on the equator and their peaks remain in a simple {{wpl|Geostationary orbit|geostationary orbit}}. Their limited base station locations and equatorial congestion somewhat limit them and drove development of other types. 
Type One elevators include ''Nelion'' - Kenya and ''Quito'' - Ecuador. 
'''Type Two:''' 
Type Two space elevators, also known as polar elevators, are built on either the north or south poles of planets. Slightly more complicated than the Type One elevators as they cannot take advantage of centrifugal forces, they are able to lift higher weights, but their peaks do require {{wpl|Orbital station-keeping|stationkeeping}}. They are however even more limited in their base construction location. 
The Soviet Union's ''Kosmosgrad 2'' is the sole Type Two space elevator located on Earth. The United States' ''Ravern L1'' is a {{wpl|Moon|Luna}} Type Two elevator, though several locations for other Type Twos have been proposed including upon Titan. 
'''Type Four:''' 
Type Four space elevators are less strict about their base location construction than previous types, but are more complex and expensive to construct and maintain. Also known as skaters, the peaks of Type Four elevators trace a {{wpl| Analemma|figure 8 pattern}} in orbit and require more significant station keeping via the use of a particle sail and more intensive {{wpl|Particle beam|active supports}}. 
Type Four space elevators include ''GNASE'' - USA, ''Vimāna'' - India, and ''Ukuqala'' - Constellation.

[[Category:Meta]]

User:Praddles/sandbox

2024-12-23T10:00:18Z

Praddles:

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Notes;
Constellation of Southern African States; a union of modern day countries of Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, and South Africa
* national languages are Afrikaans and the conlang of ''Standard Bantu'' (a language constructed along the lines of Bahasa Indonesian)
* three capitals
* made up of the 'Big Five' states. Further divided into republics, a kingdom, states blah blah
* at some point in the 1920s or 1930s the Union of South Africa breaks apart in civil war. Jong Zuid Afrika elements defeated and they flee to Madagascar. Modern day South Africa is represented as a much less unitary state.
* German South West Africa is occupied by British Forces following the break up, and is eventually liberated and becomes a part of the early Constellation
* Possess a space elevator (where? pelindaba?)
* Have at least one space habitat (Caprivi 1)
* Generally a well integrated, non aligned, anti colonial state
* Flag - idk. Being a constellation should have stars upon it, colour wise unsure. Black and green under consideration.
 
Ukuqala is a Type 4 space elevator located in the [name] republic of the Constellation of Southern African States. It is situated approximately 30km west of Pretoria.

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2024-12-21T05:04:53Z

Praddles: Created page with "henlo yes sandbox Notes; Constellation of Southern African States; a union of modern day countries of Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, and South Africa * national languages are Afrikaans and the conlang of ''Standard Bantu'' (a language constructed along the lines of Bahasa Indonesian) * three capitals * made up of the 'Big Five' states. Further divided into republics, a kingdom, states blah blah * at some point in the 1920s or 1930s the Union of South Africa breaks apart..."

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2024-12-21T04:44:20Z

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