Geopolitics is the "analysis of the geographic influences on power relationships in international relations."[1]. 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
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Intergovernmental Organizations
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| Western Aligned
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 Australia
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- Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
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- Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
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 China, Republic of
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- Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
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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.
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| India
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- Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
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| Japan
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- Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
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| New Zealand
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- Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
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| Philippines
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- Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
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- Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
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| Thailand
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- Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
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 United Kingdom
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- Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
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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.
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- Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
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 United States
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- Six Power Defense Organization (SIPDO)
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Primary guarantor of Chinese (ROC), Japanese, and Vietnamese sovereignty. Maintains permanent and rotational military forces in all three states.
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- Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
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| Vietnam
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- Southeast Asia Defense Framework (SEADEF)
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| Beijing Pact
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| China, People's Republic of
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Hotbed of tensions. Communist state. Borders the hostile Republic of China to the south. Long-term public aim of reunifying the Chinas.
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| Korea
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| Mongolia
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| Soviet Union
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The primary guarantor of Chinese (PRC) and Korean (DPRK) sovereignty.
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Tensions in Europe
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Intergovernmental Organizations
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| European Defense Cooperation
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| Belgium
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 France
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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.
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| United Kingdom
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| Czechoslovakia
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| Poland
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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.
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| Romania
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| Yugoslavia, Kingdom of
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| The Munich Understanding
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 German Reich
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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.
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| Hungary
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| Soviet Union
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Space Race
Other Regions
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Intergovernmental Organizations
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| Constellation of Southern African States
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A multinational state consisting of Angola, Namibia, Mozambique and much of South Africa.
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| British South Africa
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The Commonwealth (CW)
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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.
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| Zambia
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The Commonwealth (CW)
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A former British Colony granted home rule.
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| Rhodesia
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The Commonwealth (CW)
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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.
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| South African Republic
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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.
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| Katanga
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A breakaway republic balancing exclusive rule between Belgique Afrique and a tribe that no longer trust each other.
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| Zaire
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Pan Africa Movement (PAM)
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A large nation blessed with a wealth of resources and beauty striving ever forward towards something... Authenticité
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Notes