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Depending on the sign up, you could join from next turn onwards. Who would you be interested in playing? If you want to send a short paragraph detailing your overall plans for the country using a PM, that'd help me decide too. Also just to give everyone a small update - currently away for a bit...

When he triumphed in the 1951 election in Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz promised to continue and to expand the social welfare policies of his predecessor, Juan Jose Arevalo. His progressive views had been forged by the reality he lived in – despite coming from a wealthy family, he witnessed, and was...

The Venezuelan Junta entered 1957 in near complete control – despite dissatisfaction from the opposition, the President had cemented his rule. Due to a combination of foreign influence, adverse economic conditions, and most of all, the Junta's own hubris, it would exit the year on the brink of...

1957 Part Three Australia Australia's crusade against government inefficiencies continued, with Lang embarking on an effort to amalgamate numerous tangentially related ministries into one large department of Education. Efforts at university reform were not strange to Australians – Menzies had...

1957 Part Two France The French government, keen to pursue success in the automotive space, would utilise a small dose of state economic intervention to get French carmakers designing a mid-sized family vehicle. The idea mostly came from looking over the border – the Germans and their series...

1957 Part One Egypt Egypt's continued blockade of Israeli shipping had been a constant cause of tensions, but few actually powers first, which greatly helped the element of surprise but at the same time put its western backers in a weird place. Egypt, having previously received assurances from...

I have been advised to plead that everyone writing and participating in the quest was most likely not a horse nor a pony, but without precise measurements of height at the withers of each participant, the latter part cannot be stated with adequate accuracy.

I, with the assistance of my esteemed advocate council, would like to put forward a freedom of information request to find out where zoophilia fits within the graph. With no further remarks forthwitdth, I yield my time to the esteemed council.

[X] GROSSREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND

The Israeli government, rattled by the Eisenhower proclamation, knew that it had a limited time to prosecute the war against Egypt. Soviet action in Austria was providing them an excellent and unexpected cover, though it was impossible to determine fully how long that could possibly last...

I'd be interested in filling the following posts in the game: 1. Romania 2. Czechoslovakia 3. Alternatively, if no takers for the former two, one of Poland, Hungary or Bulgaria Please reply here or on private messages if interested and let me know what general path you'd follow. Keep in mind...

The events of 1953 had placed Austria in the deceptively calm eye of the European storm. A brutal Soviet crackdown took place to the north, filling the country with refugees from the National Front. Simultaneously, an equally brutal American crackdown destroyed Italy's fledgling democracy...

[X] - The Chairman [X] - The Red Generals Volkswehr

Nasser's 'decolonisation' plan for the Suez Canal gave Israel a trickle of hope for a normalisation in relations. Done under the umbrella of the UN and relying heavily on the authority provided by the backing of the United States, the departure of French and British troops begun a process that...

The 1953 Italian elections were one of the pivotal moments for the post-war settlement in Europe. The great Socialist hope dashed by the crude and unashamed interference of foreign intelligence simultaneously launched a generation of anti-American sceptics in the west, destroyed any hope at...