- Location
- America
Is this a problem with having a credentialing authority, gatekeeping the exercise of state authority, and/or potential misuse of an accumulation of state authority?
The American Experiment (Riot Quest)
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Is this a problem with having a credentialing authority, gatekeeping the exercise of state authority, and/or potential misuse of an accumulation of state authority?
- Location
- America
Considering how time sensitive treaties and wars can be, it would represent a critical vulnerability in the ability for the NAC to respond to current or future threats immediately, globally, or to our allies.
And considering how anemic the standing army is likely to be, unit and force generation will need to get started either the day before or day of in order to get into the theatre of operations in any sort of timely fashion.
And I say army because I imagine the Navy is going to be as fuckheug as the navy department's conservative projections require and as authorized by Congress's management and budget committee. Spinning up navy units basically take 5 years, so the navy needs to be as ready as it can at all times.
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Godwinson
"Well, I've got nothing."
It's that the credentialing authority can functionally require specific traits that aren't relevant to the actual intent of their mandate. As a trivial example, a bias in favor of a specific patronage network, or toward relatives of existing members of a profession. Basically, you're creating a point around which power can-and-thus-will accumulate that has no structural checks on it.
It's also a self-perpetuating social network, and thus can serve as a medium for corruption.
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- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
You can, but that would mean a delay of up to a month/possibly only a quorum not a full Congress for those time sensitive things considering the era and extremely large Congress. I'll note the weaker version already specifically has the power to mobilize for war, not declare war, though that's basically a semantic difference.
- Location
- France
- Pronouns
- She/They
How about yes to war but no to treaties? War declarations can be needed on short notice as reaction to events but treaties tend to follow ceasefires anyway so they're not as time sensitive. Putting treaties we'll have to abide by in the future to a full vote seems fair.
Godwinson
"Well, I've got nothing."
[X][supreme] Congress can serve as, or invest the power into a committee to serve as, a court of last resort and of original jurisdiction in the case of disputes involving foreign states, or two communes, and so on.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
That can be a write-in, I'll just say same modifier as normal weak one since it's a small change.
Voting is open.
- Location
- France
- Pronouns
- She/They
[X][standing] Write in: A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed. Does not include ratification of treaties, only putting them to the agenda of the next assembled congress.
Quick write in, I think treaties should be signed by all of congress.
[X][supreme] Congress can serve as, or invest the power into a committee to serve as, a court of last resort and of original jurisdiction in the case of disputes involving foreign states, or two communes, and so on.
[X][limit] 4 years
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
Going for very short term limits because I don't think it's desirable at all for that committee to rotate in and out with the same people to do their full 18 years. Let this be something you absolutely can't build up into influence over time by coming back.
Quick write in, I think treaties should be signed by all of congress.
[X][supreme] Congress can serve as, or invest the power into a committee to serve as, a court of last resort and of original jurisdiction in the case of disputes involving foreign states, or two communes, and so on.
[X][limit] 4 years
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
Going for very short term limits because I don't think it's desirable at all for that committee to rotate in and out with the same people to do their full 18 years. Let this be something you absolutely can't build up into influence over time by coming back.
Gadjo
Doka
[X][supreme] Congress can serve as, or invest the power into a committee to serve as, a court of last resort and of original jurisdiction in the case of disputes involving foreign states, or two communes, and so on.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
aeqnai
Nerdy Homu
- Location
- Laniakea Supercluster
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X][supreme] Congress can serve as, or invest the power into a committee to serve as, a court of last resort and of original jurisdiction in the case of disputes involving foreign states, or two communes, and so on.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
- Location
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Pronouns
- She/They
[X][supreme] Congress can serve as, or invest the power into a committee to serve as, a court of last resort and of original jurisdiction in the case of disputes involving foreign states, or two communes, and so on.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
[X][supreme] Congress can serve as, or invest the power into a committee to serve as, a court of last resort and of original jurisdiction in the case of disputes involving foreign states, or two communes, and so on.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] Write in: A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed. Does not include ratification of treaties, only putting them to the agenda of the next assembled congress.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] Write in: A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed. Does not include ratification of treaties, only putting them to the agenda of the next assembled congress.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X][supreme] Congress can serve as, or invest the power into a committee to serve as, a court of last resort and of original jurisdiction in the case of disputes involving foreign states, or two communes, and so on.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
[X][supreme] Congress can serve as, or invest the power into a committee to serve as, a court of last resort and of original jurisdiction in the case of disputes involving foreign states, or two communes, and so on.
[X][limit] 4 years
[X][standing] Write in: A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed. Does not include ratification of treaties, only putting them to the agenda of the next assembled congress.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
[X][limit] 4 years
[X][standing] Write in: A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed. Does not include ratification of treaties, only putting them to the agenda of the next assembled congress.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
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[X][supreme] Congress can serve as, or invest the power into a committee to serve as, a court of last resort and of original jurisdiction in the case of disputes involving foreign states, or two communes, and so on.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
- Location
- Lake Wobegon
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
[X][supreme] Congress can serve as, or invest the power into a committee to serve as, a court of last resort and of original jurisdiction in the case of disputes involving foreign states, or two communes, and so on.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
[X][supreme] Congress can serve as, or invest the power into a committee to serve as, a court of last resort and of original jurisdiction in the case of disputes involving foreign states, or two communes, and so on.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X][supreme] Congress can serve as, or invest the power into a committee to serve as, a court of last resort and of original jurisdiction in the case of disputes involving foreign states, or two communes, and so on.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
- Location
- Australia
- Pronouns
- He/They
[x][supreme] A supreme court is appointed by Congress.
[x][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[x][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[x][meetings] Do not require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
[x][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[x][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[x][meetings] Do not require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
[X][supreme] Congress can serve as, or invest the power into a committee to serve as, a court of last resort and of original jurisdiction in the case of disputes involving foreign states, or two communes, and so on.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them
nachtingale
20. On that "honk, mimimi" type beat everyday.
- Location
- Malaysia
- Pronouns
- He/They
[X][standing] Write in: A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed. Does not include ratification of treaties, only putting them to the agenda of the next assembled congress.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][supreme] Congress can serve as, or invest the power into a committee to serve as, a court of last resort and of original jurisdiction in the case of disputes involving foreign states, or two communes, and so on.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][supreme] Congress can serve as, or invest the power into a committee to serve as, a court of last resort and of original jurisdiction in the case of disputes involving foreign states, or two communes, and so on.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
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[X][supreme] Congress can serve as, or invest the power into a committee to serve as, a court of last resort and of original jurisdiction in the case of disputes involving foreign states, or two communes, and so on.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][standing] A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, ratify treaties or not, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
Regency
PFP by vanathema (previously yubishines)
- Location
- Morioh Town, Mt. Ebbot
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X][standing] Write in: A weak Standing Committee with limited powers: interpret laws, enact decrees, mobilize for war, and call for a session of Congress when needed. Does not include ratification of treaties, only putting them to the agenda of the next assembled congress.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][supreme] Congress can serve as, or invest the power into a committee to serve as, a court of last resort and of original jurisdiction in the case of disputes involving foreign states, or two communes, and so on.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
[X][limit] Write-in limit: 18 years, of which no more than 6 may be consecutive
[X][supreme] Congress can serve as, or invest the power into a committee to serve as, a court of last resort and of original jurisdiction in the case of disputes involving foreign states, or two communes, and so on.
[X][meetings] Require regular meetings of representatives and those who voted for them.
1903: Pre-Action Organization Info Sheets
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
American Experiment Sheets
1903 Pre-Actions
These are equivalent in time to the 1903 Q1 stats but updated for the new system going forward. The (soft) maximum recruitment bonus from funds per turn is now X1.5 instead of twice the amount, and many other recruitment bonuses have also been decreases. Most notably UF mutual aid has been decreased from X1 to X2/3 the cost per turn, but now all NAC applies to all orgs within NAC equally. I've also changed all specific location stuff to being a progress bar to a whole region. Note that while recruitment bonuses have been generally decreased, the base recruitment is going to be ten times as large going forward, so it's still a general increase.
All-Continental Union Association
The Land and Labor Reform Party
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists (RFAA)
The Forty Acres Movement:
The Society of Friends of All Faiths
American People's Futurist Alliance:
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
The Orange Disciples:
The New American Patriots
The Society for Universal Suffrage
The Minutemen
Southern People's Alliance
Appalachian Brotherhood
Amigos del Pueblo (Friends of the People)
Committee for Indigenous Advocacy
United Front
The American Reform Movement
All Organization Modifiers:
Active Rurales and Army: -2 per die for unionization rolls in Mexico.
Map
Government:
Government Type: Parliamentary Republic
Governing Document: Constitution of the North American Commonwealth
Head of State: President Dominik Kubicek (SLP, Voightist faction)
Legislative Majority: National Unity (SLP-LLRP-Populist)
Demographics:
1900 Census Population: 76.3 million
Estimated Current Population: 79.8 million
Population growth: ~1%
Social Reforms:
Minimum Wage: Adequate
Work Safety: Adequate
Work Hours: 40-Hour Week
Healthcare: Low
Pensions: Low
Unemployment: Adequate
Childcare: Low
Retirement: Low
Child Labor: Banned
Foreign Affairs:
War and Peace: N/A
Alliances: None
Defensive Pacts: Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Cuba
Military Agreements: None
Naval Agreements: None
Trade Agreements: None
Recognized by: China, Philippines, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Cuba
Finance:
Currency: The US Dollar, gold and partial silver standard
Gold reserves: very low
Silver reserves: low
Debt: Medium
Credit: Tiny
Tax Income: High
Tariff Income: High
Government Owned Industry income: High
Principal Creditors: Domestic (Huge), Other (Tiny)
Principal Debtors: Domestic (Medium), Hawaii (Tiny)
Commerce:
Economic Ownership: Centrally Planned Government Owned, Decentralized Semi-Planned Worker Owned, and single-family businesses
Commercial Output: Low
Commercial Growth: Low
Trade Partners: British Empire [exports] (Medium), Continental W. Europe [exports] (Medium), Latin America [imports] (low), Canada [exports] (low), China [mixed] (tiny), Japan [mixed] (tiny), Hawaii [mixed] (tiny), Other [mixed] (tiny)
Public Works:
Roads and Canals: Medium
Railroads: Medium
Public Utilities: Low
Education:
Literacy Rate: 91%
—Native white: 95%
—Foreign-Born white: 90%
—Black and Other: 55%
Northeast Education Access: High
—Quality: Adequate
Midwest Education Access: High
—Quality: Adequate
South Education Access: Low
—Quality: Low
West Education Access: Medium
—Quality: Adequate
Agriculture Collectivization:
Black Belt: ~33% IPA
Other South: ~20% IPA, 3% WA (mostly Maryland/Appalachia), 28% large landlords being broken up ~1/4 into IPA ~3/4 to small farmers
Midwest: ~15% IPA, ~4% WA
Northeast: ~4% IPA, ~10% WA
West: ~2% IPA, ~2% WA
West Coast: ~15% IPA
Regional Economic Development:
The following statistics have been collected by the statisticians at Banks of Exchange and by bureaucrats at the IPA, comparable to OTL census reports. Separated by census region, it lists the approximate production by sector (abstracted) and estimated increase in production per year. Different categories are not necessarily to scale with each other—in particular, military production represents a small percent of production even when at the same "level".
—Agriculture is food and cash crops. Level 5 agricultural production focused entirely on food can feed 100 million people well.
—Consumer goods is anything bought by the consumer: textiles, furniture, canned food, etc. Level 4 consumer goods production can entirely satisfy 50 million people at a good early 1900s standard of living.
—Industrial production is raw materials, heavy industry, capital goods, tools and equipment, etc. Industrial production can support 1 level higher military production for the latter to be efficient. During war time this can increase to 2 or 3 levels higher at the cost of living standards. It's also associated with greater per-turn increases in all four categories.
—Military production is anything supporting the military. Level 3 military production can sustain an army of 200k at Weaponry 5, Equipment 5, and +300 artillery per quarter. A given country can have uneven balance weapons vs artillery: ex 1903 USA was at 5.8 weaponry and +48 artillery per quarter for 235k soldiers.
-Northeast
—Agriculture: Level 3, 500/2000, +35
—Consumer: Level 3, 500/2000, +130
—Industrial: Level 2, 800/1000, +70
—Military: Level 1, 100/500, +25
-Midwest
—Agriculture: Level 3, 1700/2000, +70
—Consumer: Level 2, 500/1000, +50
—Industrial: Level 3, 800/2000, +150
—Military: Level 1, 400/500, +40
-South
—Agriculture: Level 3, 1800/2000, +50
—Consumer: Level 1, 0/500, +20
—Industrial: Level 1, 200/500, +25
—Military: Level 0, 400/500, +20
-West
—Agriculture: Level 2, 100/1000, +35
—Consumer: Level 0, 90/500, +15
—Industrial: Level 0, 340/500, +25
—Military: Level 0, 100/500, +5
Environmental Modifiers:
—Boll Weevil spread: -5 agricultural production per turn per turn in the South.
Industry:
Industrial Planning Association: Elected from industry workers, it is in charge of developing and coordinating of industry. +5 to government industry actions.
—Agricultural Planning Association: Part of the IPA. Continuously improves and buys land (especially from failing farmers) and capital, and hires more workers. +5 to actions working with agriculture, agricultural collectivization to IPA slowly increases
—Universal Development: The construction arm of the IPA.
Banks of Exchange Statisticians and Planners: +5 to certain industrial related actions. Applies to some organization (non-government) rolls.
Interior:
National Stability: Low
Unemployment: Medium
Partisan Activity:
—Gray Army/White League: Anti-government and anti-black/Jewish/Catholic guerrilla warfare.
——Estimated Size: ~1000 West, ~2000 Midwest, ~1000 Northeast, ~20,000 South
——Estimated Quality: Regulars
——Estimated Military Equipment: 3
—Pinkertons: Sabotaging industry, infiltrated army, spying on activities for the Alaskan exiled government.
——Estimated Size: Up to ~24,000 Midwest and Northeast
National:
Counter-Reactionary Taskforce (1903 Q4): Internal intelligence agency that investigates and stops the Pinkerton sabotage ring.
Provincial:
Intelligence Network (1903 Q4): Appalachia only. Cell based, investigates and stops the Pinkerton sabotage ring.
Local:
The Police: Communes control police, though with many departments wholly siding against the revolution, coverage is spotty.
North American Red Army:
Army size: 235k (Q +1), slowly demobilizing, some into the provincial militia
Provincial militia size: N/A
Mobilization Ability: Provincial militia right away, then 0.1% of population per quarter
—Strategy Committee and Officer Training: +10 to strategy or planning rolls.
—Artillery Corps Training: +5 to artillery rolls.
—Intimidation training: Allows for non-violent conflict resolutions.
—Field Medics: Reduces deaths from casualties, -20% total casualties post battle.
—Combat engineers: +10 to rolls building fortifications, +5 to other related rolls, +5 to maximum fortification bonus.
—Cuban Liberation Army Connections: The United Front has worked with the CLA for a long time, allowing the NARA to make use of their experience and vice versa. +5 to guerrilla actions including planning rolls.
Training:
—Experienced Training Cadres: +10 to training new recruits.
—Civilian Self-Defense Programs: An expanded recruitment base which requires less training. +5 to training new recruits.
Army Infrastructure:
—Mountain Bases: Bases and supply caches in the mountains of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, navigable only with local guides. Allows for safe refuge. Expanded and used as bases for the Revolutionary Army. +5 to local guerrilla fighting and +5 to defensive infantry rolls in the area.
—Southern Appalachia fallback bases: Stores supplies and served as bases for the Revolutionary Army to operate from. Allows cohesion when retreating rather than dispersing into the population. +5 to military actions near Southern Appalachia.
—AB Construction Commission: Builds roads, bridges, etc. in rural Appalachia. +5 to transport or movement in Appalachia.
North American Red Navy:
East Coast Dockyard quantity: High
West Coast Dockyard quantity: Low
Atlantic Navy
Size: Small
Quality: Adequate
Training: Adequate
Morale: High
Pacific Navy
Size: Tiny
Quality: Adequate
Training: Low
Morale: Medium
Stats:
Bold means a stat is improving, Italics means a stat is worsening. [None/Critical/Tiny/Minimal] / [Low/Small/High] / [Adequate/Medium] / [High/Large/Low] / [Ideal/Huge/Booming/Maximum]
People's Republic of Hawaii
1903 Pre-Actions
These are equivalent in time to the 1903 Q1 stats but updated for the new system going forward. The (soft) maximum recruitment bonus from funds per turn is now X1.5 instead of twice the amount, and many other recruitment bonuses have also been decreases. Most notably UF mutual aid has been decreased from X1 to X2/3 the cost per turn, but now all NAC applies to all orgs within NAC equally. I've also changed all specific location stuff to being a progress bar to a whole region. Note that while recruitment bonuses have been generally decreased, the base recruitment is going to be ten times as large going forward, so it's still a general increase.
All-Continental Union Association
Factions and Influence:
-Marxists: 47.5%
—A mix of agrarian socialists, Orthodox Marxists, DeLeonists, and Marxist-Voightists. They believe the purpose of the union under a proletarian state should be principally organizational-economic and educational.
-Anarchists: 15%
—Initially championed by the Railway Workers Union, they consist of anarcho-collectivists and anarcho-syndicalists. They believe the primary purpose of the union under a proletarian state should be to protect workers from the state.
-Possibilists: 6%
—A mix of left-wing Populist Party split offs and social democrats, they want moderation and a focus on legislation.
Dues: Low with delinquency (supporters count specifically references those paying dues, members of the union not paying dues are gained through actions)
Formed to organize cross-union support, sympathy strikes in particular.
Locale: North American Commonwealth, Mexico, Hawaii, Puerto Rico
Supporters: Agricultural unions, migrant labor, and industrial unions.
Ideology: Marxism and Agrarian Socialism, not enforced.
Notable Members:
Eugene Debs (on executive council) (anarchist)
Organizational Structures:
Standardized Bureaucracy: +1 action, -5 funds per 100k supporters
Party Management Structures: Creates legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and acts as party whip. -4 funds per 100k supporters, +1 action worth of electoral influence for lawmaking, not winning elections, not affected by rolls.
—Expanded and Integrated SLP Party Structures: Internal SLP Party structures have been integrated and expanded by the unions. -4 UF funds per 100k UF supporters, +1 UF sized action worth of electoral influence for lawmaking, not winning elections, not affected by rolls.
Army of the Toilers: Formerly integrated into the Revolutionary Army. Now in Mexico.
Committees:
Striking Think Group: A group composed of union members who research past and current methods of striking to see what's the most effective. -2 funds per turn, +5 to actions involving striking.
Inter-Union Mutual Aid Organizing Committee: -5 funds per turn, +10% recruitment, +3 to rolls regarding loyalty of members, +5 to rolls inviting new unions to join
Union Drive Committee: Organizers to help workers form unions and join the ACUA. 1 action transfers from free to unionizing, +1 to the roll per die for unionizing. -3 funds per turn.
Dues Encouragement Committee: Advertises to member unions suggesting people pay their dues. -10 funds per turn, +15% recruitment per turn, limited by total union membership.
Anti-Scab Committee: Directs potential scabs to a new job, relocation, or UF welfare efforts using strike funds as needed. Increases the cost of strikes, but scabs are not a problem. -3 funds per turn, +3 to strike actions.
Committee for Seizing the Means: Plans and trains for the takeover of unionized industries in a potential revolution. -3 funds per turn, +5 to seizing or managing industries.
Departments:
WA - Worker Association, IPA - Industrial Planning Association
Amount scale: None — a few (1-15%) — some (15-30%) — many (30-50%) — most (50-75%) — almost all (75-99%) — all
Agriculture and Fisheries (Many American lumber WA, almost all American lumber IPA)
—Agriculture Workers Union (Almost all Western WA and IPA, a few southern, northeastern, and Midwestern IPA, almost all Hawaii, almost all Puerto Rico, some northern Mexico) American is Marxist faction
Mining and Energy (Californian petroleum workers, Mexican petroleum workers)
—Mine Workers Union (Almost all American WA and IPA, most Northern Mexico mine workers)
General Construction (Most American WA and IPA)
—Ship and Boat Builders Union (Almost all America WA and IPA, all Hawaii)
Manufacture and General Production (Most American WA, Almost All American IPA, Most Hawaii, Most Puerto Rico)
Transportation and Communication
—Marine Workers Union (Almost all workers on Northeast based ships and ports, most workers on Pacific, Great Lakes, Atlantic, and Gulf ports) Majority Anarchist faction
—Railway Workers Union (Almost all American IPA, most Mexican) Anarchist faction
Public Service (Many American WA and IPA, Most Puerto Rico)
Property:
Los Angeles Main Office: +1 action
Western offices + New York, Chicago, New Orleans: +1 action
Continuous Actions:
San Fransisco Newspaper (The San Fransisco Worker): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the California movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in San Fransisco. +2% recruitment.
National Newspaper (The Continental Worker): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +10% recruitment.
Teaching member unions: The union trains teachers in each area to ensure all parts of the union know best practices when striking as determined by the Striking Think Group. -1 fund per 100k supporters, +5 to actions involving striking.
Book clubs teachings Marxist and Anarchist ideology: -1 fund per 100k supporters, -1% Possibilist, +0.5% Marxist/Anarchist faction strength per turn
Union support for SLP: +5 to election rolls America, +6 to election rolls Hawaii, +3 to election rolls Puerto Rico
Modifiers:
Critical Mass of Unions: Having become the preeminent One Big Union, the association has become much more attractive to join. +20% recruitment.
-Marxists: 47.5%
—A mix of agrarian socialists, Orthodox Marxists, DeLeonists, and Marxist-Voightists. They believe the purpose of the union under a proletarian state should be principally organizational-economic and educational.
-Anarchists: 15%
—Initially championed by the Railway Workers Union, they consist of anarcho-collectivists and anarcho-syndicalists. They believe the primary purpose of the union under a proletarian state should be to protect workers from the state.
-Possibilists: 6%
—A mix of left-wing Populist Party split offs and social democrats, they want moderation and a focus on legislation.
Dues: Low with delinquency (supporters count specifically references those paying dues, members of the union not paying dues are gained through actions)
Formed to organize cross-union support, sympathy strikes in particular.
Locale: North American Commonwealth, Mexico, Hawaii, Puerto Rico
Supporters: Agricultural unions, migrant labor, and industrial unions.
Ideology: Marxism and Agrarian Socialism, not enforced.
Notable Members:
Eugene Debs (on executive council) (anarchist)
Organizational Structures:
Standardized Bureaucracy: +1 action, -5 funds per 100k supporters
Party Management Structures: Creates legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and acts as party whip. -4 funds per 100k supporters, +1 action worth of electoral influence for lawmaking, not winning elections, not affected by rolls.
—Expanded and Integrated SLP Party Structures: Internal SLP Party structures have been integrated and expanded by the unions. -4 UF funds per 100k UF supporters, +1 UF sized action worth of electoral influence for lawmaking, not winning elections, not affected by rolls.
Army of the Toilers: Formerly integrated into the Revolutionary Army. Now in Mexico.
Committees:
Striking Think Group: A group composed of union members who research past and current methods of striking to see what's the most effective. -2 funds per turn, +5 to actions involving striking.
Inter-Union Mutual Aid Organizing Committee: -5 funds per turn, +10% recruitment, +3 to rolls regarding loyalty of members, +5 to rolls inviting new unions to join
Union Drive Committee: Organizers to help workers form unions and join the ACUA. 1 action transfers from free to unionizing, +1 to the roll per die for unionizing. -3 funds per turn.
Dues Encouragement Committee: Advertises to member unions suggesting people pay their dues. -10 funds per turn, +15% recruitment per turn, limited by total union membership.
Anti-Scab Committee: Directs potential scabs to a new job, relocation, or UF welfare efforts using strike funds as needed. Increases the cost of strikes, but scabs are not a problem. -3 funds per turn, +3 to strike actions.
Committee for Seizing the Means: Plans and trains for the takeover of unionized industries in a potential revolution. -3 funds per turn, +5 to seizing or managing industries.
Departments:
WA - Worker Association, IPA - Industrial Planning Association
Amount scale: None — a few (1-15%) — some (15-30%) — many (30-50%) — most (50-75%) — almost all (75-99%) — all
Agriculture and Fisheries (Many American lumber WA, almost all American lumber IPA)
—Agriculture Workers Union (Almost all Western WA and IPA, a few southern, northeastern, and Midwestern IPA, almost all Hawaii, almost all Puerto Rico, some northern Mexico) American is Marxist faction
Mining and Energy (Californian petroleum workers, Mexican petroleum workers)
—Mine Workers Union (Almost all American WA and IPA, most Northern Mexico mine workers)
General Construction (Most American WA and IPA)
—Ship and Boat Builders Union (Almost all America WA and IPA, all Hawaii)
Manufacture and General Production (Most American WA, Almost All American IPA, Most Hawaii, Most Puerto Rico)
Transportation and Communication
—Marine Workers Union (Almost all workers on Northeast based ships and ports, most workers on Pacific, Great Lakes, Atlantic, and Gulf ports) Majority Anarchist faction
—Railway Workers Union (Almost all American IPA, most Mexican) Anarchist faction
Public Service (Many American WA and IPA, Most Puerto Rico)
Property:
Los Angeles Main Office: +1 action
Western offices + New York, Chicago, New Orleans: +1 action
Continuous Actions:
San Fransisco Newspaper (The San Fransisco Worker): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the California movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in San Fransisco. +2% recruitment.
National Newspaper (The Continental Worker): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +10% recruitment.
Teaching member unions: The union trains teachers in each area to ensure all parts of the union know best practices when striking as determined by the Striking Think Group. -1 fund per 100k supporters, +5 to actions involving striking.
Book clubs teachings Marxist and Anarchist ideology: -1 fund per 100k supporters, -1% Possibilist, +0.5% Marxist/Anarchist faction strength per turn
Union support for SLP: +5 to election rolls America, +6 to election rolls Hawaii, +3 to election rolls Puerto Rico
Modifiers:
Critical Mass of Unions: Having become the preeminent One Big Union, the association has become much more attractive to join. +20% recruitment.
The Land and Labor Reform Party
Dues: Income
Formed as a Political Successor of the United Labor Party's Georgist Wing by followers of reformer, and thinker Henry George, they took to the idea of the Single Land Tax and its Anti-landlord tendencies on top of a few of his other ideas. The LLR formed following a massive fight between the party's founder and the Socialist Wing of the ULP, who insulted George as a "Weak Kneed Liberal fighting for Capitalism's folly" and the insuring brawl left a bar, two carriages and a streetlamp destroyed along with several injured. This led to the final break with the Socialist Wing and their supporters. Now free to chart a new course, they lean upon the works of Henry George and their founder for some direction. But the ideals and future is bright, and much can be done.
Locale: Michigan and loosely in The Dakota States and Minnesota
Supporters: Farmers, Progressives, Internationalists?! Classical Federalists (AKA Small Government types?), Business and Farm Workers (and their families), Left-Progressives, Internationalists, Environmentalists, Anti-Trust supporters
Ideology: Georgism (THE LAND), Progressiveism, Pro-Civil Rights, Private Property Ownership, Cooperative Shops & Factories and either Land-to-the-Tiller or Cooperative Agriculture, Proto-Intersectionalism, Environmental Conservation.
Committees:
Fundraising Committee: In charge of setting up and asking for funds from donors and the general populace. -5 funds per turn, +5 to fundraising actions.
Legislation and Party Whip Committee: Creates legislation for party representatives to use and acts as a party whip. -4 funds per 100k supporters, +1 action worth of electoral influence for lawmaking, not winning elections, not affected by rolls.
Party Outreach Committee: Strategizes for getting other parties to vote for LLRP bills. -5 funds per turn, +5 to lobbying for a bill to pass/not pass, can do policy on a local level with a plurality rather than majority.
Property:
Lansing Meeting Hall: +1 action
Michigan and Dakotas Offices: +1 action
Medium Automobile Factory: -2 funds per turn (potentially increased later) (Expropriated in 1908)
Continuous Actions:
Lansing Newspaper (Demeter's Dream): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Michigan movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology in Lansing. +2% recruitment.
National Newspaper (Land and Labor): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +10% recruitment.
Michigan Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Michigan, -24 funds per turn.
Minnesota Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Minnesota, -17 funds per turn.
North Dakota Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in North Dakota, -3 funds per turn.
South Dakota Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in South Dakota, -4 funds per turn.
Young Georgists: -4 funds per turn, +8% recruitment.
Land Value Tax Studies: Studies comparing implementing land value tax and advertising the results of the studies. -8 funds per turn, +10 to rolls implementing a land value tax, +8% recruitment
Absorbing Democrats: +60% recruitment, dems soon disappear from LLRP core areas. Bonus decreases by 10 per turn.
Affiliations:
The Sons of the Frontier, an organization in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Michigan which organizes group camping for hundreds of youth. +2 to elections in these regions, decreases if they begin campaigning outside these regions, but otherwise increases to +3 by 1905.
Commune/Provincial Policy Passed:
Formed as a Political Successor of the United Labor Party's Georgist Wing by followers of reformer, and thinker Henry George, they took to the idea of the Single Land Tax and its Anti-landlord tendencies on top of a few of his other ideas. The LLR formed following a massive fight between the party's founder and the Socialist Wing of the ULP, who insulted George as a "Weak Kneed Liberal fighting for Capitalism's folly" and the insuring brawl left a bar, two carriages and a streetlamp destroyed along with several injured. This led to the final break with the Socialist Wing and their supporters. Now free to chart a new course, they lean upon the works of Henry George and their founder for some direction. But the ideals and future is bright, and much can be done.
Locale: Michigan and loosely in The Dakota States and Minnesota
Supporters: Farmers, Progressives, Internationalists?! Classical Federalists (AKA Small Government types?), Business and Farm Workers (and their families), Left-Progressives, Internationalists, Environmentalists, Anti-Trust supporters
Ideology: Georgism (THE LAND), Progressiveism, Pro-Civil Rights, Private Property Ownership, Cooperative Shops & Factories and either Land-to-the-Tiller or Cooperative Agriculture, Proto-Intersectionalism, Environmental Conservation.
Committees:
Fundraising Committee: In charge of setting up and asking for funds from donors and the general populace. -5 funds per turn, +5 to fundraising actions.
Legislation and Party Whip Committee: Creates legislation for party representatives to use and acts as a party whip. -4 funds per 100k supporters, +1 action worth of electoral influence for lawmaking, not winning elections, not affected by rolls.
Party Outreach Committee: Strategizes for getting other parties to vote for LLRP bills. -5 funds per turn, +5 to lobbying for a bill to pass/not pass, can do policy on a local level with a plurality rather than majority.
Property:
Lansing Meeting Hall: +1 action
Michigan and Dakotas Offices: +1 action
Medium Automobile Factory: -2 funds per turn (potentially increased later) (Expropriated in 1908)
Continuous Actions:
Lansing Newspaper (Demeter's Dream): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Michigan movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology in Lansing. +2% recruitment.
National Newspaper (Land and Labor): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +10% recruitment.
Michigan Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Michigan, -24 funds per turn.
Minnesota Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in Minnesota, -17 funds per turn.
North Dakota Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in North Dakota, -3 funds per turn.
South Dakota Campaigning Apparatus: +5 to election actions in South Dakota, -4 funds per turn.
Young Georgists: -4 funds per turn, +8% recruitment.
Land Value Tax Studies: Studies comparing implementing land value tax and advertising the results of the studies. -8 funds per turn, +10 to rolls implementing a land value tax, +8% recruitment
Absorbing Democrats: +60% recruitment, dems soon disappear from LLRP core areas. Bonus decreases by 10 per turn.
Affiliations:
The Sons of the Frontier, an organization in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Michigan which organizes group camping for hundreds of youth. +2 to elections in these regions, decreases if they begin campaigning outside these regions, but otherwise increases to +3 by 1905.
Commune/Provincial Policy Passed:
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists (RFAA)
Factions and Influence:
-True-Anarchists: 15%
—The more militant faction, they believe the current constitution comprises a state, and cannot be reformed away, and therefore on-the-ground action will be needed to abolish it, eventually a new revolution. 15% of electoral influence goes to independents and cannot be used for national policies.
-Solidarity: 23%
—Anarchists whose first priority is solidarity with the United Front, they support working within the new administration which has integrated many anarcho-collectivist beliefs.
Dues: Income
Formed from the descendants of European revolutionaries that fled from the continent following the failure of the revolutions of 1848, particularly those who adhered to the beliefs of Pierre-Josepth Proudhon and Mikhail Bakunin, the RFAA's goal is the total abolishment of the state and the dismantlement of capitalist institutions.
Locale: New York and other parts of the Upper East Coast
Supporters: European intellectuals, labour unions, factory workers, dissent police officers, ship workers, farmers in mutuals or coops, immigrants, unemployed
Ideology: Anarcho-Collectivism
Formalized nested councils: -5 funds per 100k supporters, +1 action. Go to turn 1898 for detailed description.
Interest Groups:
Amigos del Pueblo
Appalachian Brotherhood
Committees:
Striking Thinking Group: A group composed of anarchist union members who research past and current methods of striking to see what's the most effective, and bring that knowledge back to their unions. -2 funds per turn, +5 to actions involving striking among affiliated unions.
Immigrant Welcoming Committee: A committee that organizes members in reaching out to new immigrants and integrating them into their networks of mutual aid and union contacts. -25 funds per turn, +31% recruitment.
Community Defense Committees: Democratically run militia beholden to the councils as a whole. Integrated into the Revolutionary Army.
Property:
An owned office in New York (+1 action).
Owned offices and meeting places in cities and towns across the North-East. (+1 action).
Affiliations: The ARU, New York industrial unions, most New York factory unions and ship worker unions, the New York City police department
Argentina and Cuba have branches of the RFAA which are not player controlled and do not share funding/supporters/etc.
Continuous Actions:
New York Newspaper (New York City Worker's Post): -3 funds per turn. Printed in several languages. Bonus to ideological coherency within the New York movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in New York City. +5 to actions related to immigrants. +2% recruitment.
International Newspaper (The International Traveler): -15 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency, +7 to actions relating to ideology. Multilingual and international nature gives +5 to international outreach actions. +10% recruitment.
Northeastern Newspapers (<Location Name> Worker's Post): -30 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency, +7 to actions relating to ideology in the Northeast. +50% recruitment. Multilingual nature gives +5 to working with immigrants and language minority communities in the Northeast.
-True-Anarchists: 15%
—The more militant faction, they believe the current constitution comprises a state, and cannot be reformed away, and therefore on-the-ground action will be needed to abolish it, eventually a new revolution. 15% of electoral influence goes to independents and cannot be used for national policies.
-Solidarity: 23%
—Anarchists whose first priority is solidarity with the United Front, they support working within the new administration which has integrated many anarcho-collectivist beliefs.
Dues: Income
Formed from the descendants of European revolutionaries that fled from the continent following the failure of the revolutions of 1848, particularly those who adhered to the beliefs of Pierre-Josepth Proudhon and Mikhail Bakunin, the RFAA's goal is the total abolishment of the state and the dismantlement of capitalist institutions.
Locale: New York and other parts of the Upper East Coast
Supporters: European intellectuals, labour unions, factory workers, dissent police officers, ship workers, farmers in mutuals or coops, immigrants, unemployed
Ideology: Anarcho-Collectivism
Formalized nested councils: -5 funds per 100k supporters, +1 action. Go to turn 1898 for detailed description.
Interest Groups:
Amigos del Pueblo
Appalachian Brotherhood
Committees:
Striking Thinking Group: A group composed of anarchist union members who research past and current methods of striking to see what's the most effective, and bring that knowledge back to their unions. -2 funds per turn, +5 to actions involving striking among affiliated unions.
Immigrant Welcoming Committee: A committee that organizes members in reaching out to new immigrants and integrating them into their networks of mutual aid and union contacts. -25 funds per turn, +31% recruitment.
Community Defense Committees: Democratically run militia beholden to the councils as a whole. Integrated into the Revolutionary Army.
Property:
An owned office in New York (+1 action).
Owned offices and meeting places in cities and towns across the North-East. (+1 action).
Affiliations: The ARU, New York industrial unions, most New York factory unions and ship worker unions, the New York City police department
Argentina and Cuba have branches of the RFAA which are not player controlled and do not share funding/supporters/etc.
Continuous Actions:
New York Newspaper (New York City Worker's Post): -3 funds per turn. Printed in several languages. Bonus to ideological coherency within the New York movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in New York City. +5 to actions related to immigrants. +2% recruitment.
International Newspaper (The International Traveler): -15 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency, +7 to actions relating to ideology. Multilingual and international nature gives +5 to international outreach actions. +10% recruitment.
Northeastern Newspapers (<Location Name> Worker's Post): -30 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency, +7 to actions relating to ideology in the Northeast. +50% recruitment. Multilingual nature gives +5 to working with immigrants and language minority communities in the Northeast.
The Forty Acres Movement:
Factions and influence:
-Urbanist Left: 10%
—Primarily workers and academics in cities and large towns, they are mostly a mix of Marxists and syndicalists. They believe the south should try to industrialize like the north.
-Agrarian Socialists: 18.5%
—Primarily farmworkers, they are mostly a mix of Marxists and anarcho-collectivists. They want the south to keep its agrarian nature with small agricultural communes.
-Jeffersonians: 9%
—Primarily farmers, they believe in 40 acres for every family, and that the ideal system is a land of smallholders.
Dues: Income
During the civil war, the slaves were promised freedom and land. They are no longer slaves now, but they never saw anything of the forty acres and the mule they were promised. Now they're forced to work for the rich white sons of former slavers as sharecroppers. How little has changed! But God gave the land to the people, not to the rich whites. It's time for things to change!
Locale: The South, centered around the Black Belt
Supporters: Agricultural workers, family farmers, predominantly African-Americans, urban African-Americans
Ideology: Agrarianism; has a right-wing consisting of Jeffersonians and a left-wing consisting of a mix of Socialists and Anarchists.
Organizational Structures:
Standardized Bureaucracy: +1 action, -5 funds per 100k supporters.
Party Management Structures: Creates legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and acts as party whip. -4 funds per 100k supporters, +1 action worth of electoral influence for lawmaking, not winning elections, not affected by rolls.
Sub-Groups:
Spartacists: Organizes groups with whatever they can get their hands on (bats, batons, guns, etc.) to work together to prevent lynchings and unlawful seizures of property. Has expanded bureaucracy and logistics
—Merged into the Revolutionary Army.
Committees:
The Biracial Cooperation Think-Group: -2 funds per turn. Allows for reaching out to poor white farmers.
Hemp Informational Committee: -2 funds per turn. Helps farmers switch over from cotton to hemp plants.
Property:
Meeting offices across the rural black belt, including a central office in New Orleans: +2 actions
Continuous Actions:
National Newspaper (The Liberator's Advocate): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Black Belt Newspapers: -6 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Black Belt movement, +4 to actions relating to ideology in the black belt. +12% recruitments.
Mutual aid network for members who own farms to sell food cheaply to those who cannot afford food, as well as town manufacturers buying/selling preferentially and cheaper within movement members. +5 to rolls regarding loyalty of members.
Trained For Bartering: -1 funds per turn, +2 per die for buying actions such as stockpiling guns.
Associates:
Several New Orleans unions, a few black belt unions
Minutemen Trainers: +5 to training militia actions
Modifiers:
Boll Weevil Infestation: -10% income. This modifier will increase over time.
-Urbanist Left: 10%
—Primarily workers and academics in cities and large towns, they are mostly a mix of Marxists and syndicalists. They believe the south should try to industrialize like the north.
-Agrarian Socialists: 18.5%
—Primarily farmworkers, they are mostly a mix of Marxists and anarcho-collectivists. They want the south to keep its agrarian nature with small agricultural communes.
-Jeffersonians: 9%
—Primarily farmers, they believe in 40 acres for every family, and that the ideal system is a land of smallholders.
Dues: Income
During the civil war, the slaves were promised freedom and land. They are no longer slaves now, but they never saw anything of the forty acres and the mule they were promised. Now they're forced to work for the rich white sons of former slavers as sharecroppers. How little has changed! But God gave the land to the people, not to the rich whites. It's time for things to change!
Locale: The South, centered around the Black Belt
Supporters: Agricultural workers, family farmers, predominantly African-Americans, urban African-Americans
Ideology: Agrarianism; has a right-wing consisting of Jeffersonians and a left-wing consisting of a mix of Socialists and Anarchists.
Organizational Structures:
Standardized Bureaucracy: +1 action, -5 funds per 100k supporters.
Party Management Structures: Creates legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and acts as party whip. -4 funds per 100k supporters, +1 action worth of electoral influence for lawmaking, not winning elections, not affected by rolls.
Sub-Groups:
Spartacists: Organizes groups with whatever they can get their hands on (bats, batons, guns, etc.) to work together to prevent lynchings and unlawful seizures of property. Has expanded bureaucracy and logistics
—Merged into the Revolutionary Army.
Committees:
The Biracial Cooperation Think-Group: -2 funds per turn. Allows for reaching out to poor white farmers.
Hemp Informational Committee: -2 funds per turn. Helps farmers switch over from cotton to hemp plants.
Property:
Meeting offices across the rural black belt, including a central office in New Orleans: +2 actions
Continuous Actions:
National Newspaper (The Liberator's Advocate): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Black Belt Newspapers: -6 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Black Belt movement, +4 to actions relating to ideology in the black belt. +12% recruitments.
Mutual aid network for members who own farms to sell food cheaply to those who cannot afford food, as well as town manufacturers buying/selling preferentially and cheaper within movement members. +5 to rolls regarding loyalty of members.
Trained For Bartering: -1 funds per turn, +2 per die for buying actions such as stockpiling guns.
Associates:
Several New Orleans unions, a few black belt unions
Minutemen Trainers: +5 to training militia actions
Modifiers:
Boll Weevil Infestation: -10% income. This modifier will increase over time.
The Society of Friends of All Faiths
Dues: Income
The SFAF originated when a Quaker man in New York got lost in the Lower East Side and ended up sheltering from the rain in a kosher butcher shop, where he began a debate about religions with a rabbi. The two exchanged contact information and began writing letters, slowly introducing others to the philosophy Bernstein and Friend came up with during their correspondence exchanges.
Locale: Primarily New York City, with some support in the broader Mid-Atlantic region
Supporters: Jews, Quakers, Catholics, and other religious minorities
Ideology: The SFAF believes that all religions have at least a kernel of truth in them, and so deserve value and protection. As such, they advocate for tolerance, the protection of Catholics, Jews, and other such groups, and dialogues between different religious groups. The position of many of their members on the outside of society has led them to begin developing beliefs about the importance of community, the illegitimacy of unjust authority, and a number of other radical beliefs. In effect, they are advocates of pluralism and religious social democracy or socialism. Their platform explicitly opposes economic, social, and political injustices as well as unjust hierarchies. Most of the membership are anarchists or apolitical militants.
Organizational Structures:
Standardized Bureaucracy: +1 action, -4 funds per 100k supporters.
Departments:
Department of the Militia: Manages New York, Philadelphia, etc. patrols to stop hate crimes against Jewish people and other religious minorities. Organized with elected leadership from The Faithful Fighters. Merged with the Revolutionary Army.
Committees:
Immigrant Care Group: Sets up and helps integrate new arrivals to America. -5 funds per turn, +6% recruitment.
Awareness Committee: Ensures member churches, synagogues, etc. aren't under threat and keeps track of groups opposed to minority religions. -2 funds per turn, +5 to rolls detecting or finding enemy action.
Outreach Committee: In charge of reaching out to more churches/synagogues/etc to support the SFAF's message. -3 funds per turn, +5 to outreach actions.
Property:
New York Office: +1 action
Mid-Atlantic Offices: +1 action
Continuous Actions:
Cross-religion meetings, discussing theology and other topics. +5 to rolls preventing ideological fracturing among religious lines.
Discussion clubs: Discusses explicitly leftist theology with ideas from authors such as Tolstoy to develop more theories. -1 fund per 100k supporters, liberation theology develops. +5 to actions involving explicitly leftist religion-relating actions.
New York Newspaper (The New York Plurality): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the New York movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology in New York City. +2% recruitment.
National Newspaper (The Daily Truths): -8 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Church/Synagogue Soup Kitchens and Charitable Aid: -29 funds per turn. +5 to rolls involving churches. +29% recruitment. 522/3600
—Primarily in northern Mid-Atlantic
Adult-Literacy Schools: A charity low-cost schooling program for adult literacy in African-Americans, women, and other minorities. -29 funds per turn. +43.5% recruitment per turn. 580/4000
—Primarily in northern Mid-Atlantic
Rural Adult-Literacy Schools: A charity program run through associated churches and synagogues in rural areas. -5 funds per turn, +7.5% recruitment. 80/3200
—Primarily in former New York
Affiliations: Churches and synagogues in New York, New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, (urban) New England, (urban) Virginia, and (rural) South.
New York Mosque (-1 fund per turn, +2% recruitment)
NYC Buddhist Temple (-1 fund per turn, +2% recruitment)
The SFAF originated when a Quaker man in New York got lost in the Lower East Side and ended up sheltering from the rain in a kosher butcher shop, where he began a debate about religions with a rabbi. The two exchanged contact information and began writing letters, slowly introducing others to the philosophy Bernstein and Friend came up with during their correspondence exchanges.
Locale: Primarily New York City, with some support in the broader Mid-Atlantic region
Supporters: Jews, Quakers, Catholics, and other religious minorities
Ideology: The SFAF believes that all religions have at least a kernel of truth in them, and so deserve value and protection. As such, they advocate for tolerance, the protection of Catholics, Jews, and other such groups, and dialogues between different religious groups. The position of many of their members on the outside of society has led them to begin developing beliefs about the importance of community, the illegitimacy of unjust authority, and a number of other radical beliefs. In effect, they are advocates of pluralism and religious social democracy or socialism. Their platform explicitly opposes economic, social, and political injustices as well as unjust hierarchies. Most of the membership are anarchists or apolitical militants.
Organizational Structures:
Standardized Bureaucracy: +1 action, -4 funds per 100k supporters.
Departments:
Department of the Militia: Manages New York, Philadelphia, etc. patrols to stop hate crimes against Jewish people and other religious minorities. Organized with elected leadership from The Faithful Fighters. Merged with the Revolutionary Army.
Committees:
Immigrant Care Group: Sets up and helps integrate new arrivals to America. -5 funds per turn, +6% recruitment.
Awareness Committee: Ensures member churches, synagogues, etc. aren't under threat and keeps track of groups opposed to minority religions. -2 funds per turn, +5 to rolls detecting or finding enemy action.
Outreach Committee: In charge of reaching out to more churches/synagogues/etc to support the SFAF's message. -3 funds per turn, +5 to outreach actions.
Property:
New York Office: +1 action
Mid-Atlantic Offices: +1 action
Continuous Actions:
Cross-religion meetings, discussing theology and other topics. +5 to rolls preventing ideological fracturing among religious lines.
Discussion clubs: Discusses explicitly leftist theology with ideas from authors such as Tolstoy to develop more theories. -1 fund per 100k supporters, liberation theology develops. +5 to actions involving explicitly leftist religion-relating actions.
New York Newspaper (The New York Plurality): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the New York movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology in New York City. +2% recruitment.
National Newspaper (The Daily Truths): -8 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Church/Synagogue Soup Kitchens and Charitable Aid: -29 funds per turn. +5 to rolls involving churches. +29% recruitment. 522/3600
—Primarily in northern Mid-Atlantic
Adult-Literacy Schools: A charity low-cost schooling program for adult literacy in African-Americans, women, and other minorities. -29 funds per turn. +43.5% recruitment per turn. 580/4000
—Primarily in northern Mid-Atlantic
Rural Adult-Literacy Schools: A charity program run through associated churches and synagogues in rural areas. -5 funds per turn, +7.5% recruitment. 80/3200
—Primarily in former New York
Affiliations: Churches and synagogues in New York, New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, (urban) New England, (urban) Virginia, and (rural) South.
New York Mosque (-1 fund per turn, +2% recruitment)
NYC Buddhist Temple (-1 fund per turn, +2% recruitment)
American People's Futurist Alliance:
Dues: Income
The rapid industrialization and technological development of the late 19th century caught the attention of a variety of up-and-coming inventors, industrialists, political reformers, and even the occasional revolutionary. A "Futurist Symposium" held at the 1878 World's Fair in Paris helped catalyze them into a political movement, of which the APFA is the American manifestation.
Locale: Major urban centers, especially in the Northeast, West Coast, and industrial Midwest
Supporters: Intellectuals, reformist/anti-machine politicians, immigrants, engineers, bureaucrats/staticians/managers (both wings); trade union leaders, feminists, civil rights advocates (left wing); military officers (right wing)
Ideology: Technocracy, anti-corruption, education reform—the right wing advocates for "rational management" of politics as well as the economy, while the left wing backs socially progressive causes on the basis that bigotry and excessive hierarchy stifle the development of society, anti-imperialism, and unions.
Committees:
Anti-Machine Committee: Set up to replace machines in integrating immigrants into America in exchange for their loyalty. -2 funds per turn. +4% recruitment.
The Anti-Corruption Think-Group: Drafts and modified legislation to be anti-corruption and pro-industry, both in local areas and federally. -2 funds per turn. +5 to actions regarding lobbying for such laws.
Military Strategy Committee: -3 funds per turn, +5 to strategy/planning rolls, +5 to actions setting up a militia.
School Curriculum Committee: Builds a standardized schooling curriculum K-12 and pushes public schooling systems to accept it. Local areas slowly start adopting it, in the legislative plan turn can use influence to make provinces start to adopt it
The Vanguard:
Merged into the Revolutionary Army.
Property:
Local office (+1 action)
Associates:
Technocratic Institute of Planning: A Cleveland university for future managers, bureaucrats, and staticians that teaches "rational management" and the latest technology. +5 to trying economic/factory management, +3 to working with planning institutions, planning institutions will have Technocratic Institute graduates. Gives additional influence in the IPA Economic Board (equivalent to 120k supporters).
—Scholarships for the American Dream Program: +5% recruitment
The All-Continental Union Association (Mostly possibilist faction)
Continuous Actions:
Contacts on Ellis Island: Contacts subtly direct immigrants to the APFA. -5 funds per turn. +5% recruitment.
National Newspaper (Forwards Together!): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
The American Dream Program: Helps immigrants and poor find well paying jobs, learn entrepreneurship, and get loans. -10 funds per turn, +10% recruitment, +5 to actions regarding loyalty of your members.
New England Immigrant Operations: Work with the Ellis Island contacts and American Dream Program to help integrate immigrants into America, in exchange for their loyalty. -8 funds per turn, +8% recruitment
Futurist Technology Fund: -5 funds per turn, occasionally events will happen. +5% recruitment.
The rapid industrialization and technological development of the late 19th century caught the attention of a variety of up-and-coming inventors, industrialists, political reformers, and even the occasional revolutionary. A "Futurist Symposium" held at the 1878 World's Fair in Paris helped catalyze them into a political movement, of which the APFA is the American manifestation.
Locale: Major urban centers, especially in the Northeast, West Coast, and industrial Midwest
Supporters: Intellectuals, reformist/anti-machine politicians, immigrants, engineers, bureaucrats/staticians/managers (both wings); trade union leaders, feminists, civil rights advocates (left wing); military officers (right wing)
Ideology: Technocracy, anti-corruption, education reform—the right wing advocates for "rational management" of politics as well as the economy, while the left wing backs socially progressive causes on the basis that bigotry and excessive hierarchy stifle the development of society, anti-imperialism, and unions.
Committees:
Anti-Machine Committee: Set up to replace machines in integrating immigrants into America in exchange for their loyalty. -2 funds per turn. +4% recruitment.
The Anti-Corruption Think-Group: Drafts and modified legislation to be anti-corruption and pro-industry, both in local areas and federally. -2 funds per turn. +5 to actions regarding lobbying for such laws.
Military Strategy Committee: -3 funds per turn, +5 to strategy/planning rolls, +5 to actions setting up a militia.
School Curriculum Committee: Builds a standardized schooling curriculum K-12 and pushes public schooling systems to accept it. Local areas slowly start adopting it, in the legislative plan turn can use influence to make provinces start to adopt it
The Vanguard:
Merged into the Revolutionary Army.
Property:
Local office (+1 action)
Associates:
Technocratic Institute of Planning: A Cleveland university for future managers, bureaucrats, and staticians that teaches "rational management" and the latest technology. +5 to trying economic/factory management, +3 to working with planning institutions, planning institutions will have Technocratic Institute graduates. Gives additional influence in the IPA Economic Board (equivalent to 120k supporters).
—Scholarships for the American Dream Program: +5% recruitment
The All-Continental Union Association (Mostly possibilist faction)
Continuous Actions:
Contacts on Ellis Island: Contacts subtly direct immigrants to the APFA. -5 funds per turn. +5% recruitment.
National Newspaper (Forwards Together!): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
The American Dream Program: Helps immigrants and poor find well paying jobs, learn entrepreneurship, and get loans. -10 funds per turn, +10% recruitment, +5 to actions regarding loyalty of your members.
New England Immigrant Operations: Work with the Ellis Island contacts and American Dream Program to help integrate immigrants into America, in exchange for their loyalty. -8 funds per turn, +8% recruitment
Futurist Technology Fund: -5 funds per turn, occasionally events will happen. +5% recruitment.
The Friends of the Huddled Masses:
Factions and influence:
-Anarchists: 16%
—Originating from the Yellow Scarves, they are mostly syndicalist and are militants.
-Socialist: 15%
—A mix of Marxist-Voightists and statist socialists following Sun Yat-Sen's beliefs.
-Industrialists: 9%
—Seeking to build up Asian prosperity in America through hard work and Asian-owned industrialization of the west coast, they focus on legal regulations and building up Worker Associations.
Dues: Income with delinquency
Created in response to the Page Act, Chinese Exclusion Act and longtime mistreatment of Chinese immigrants, what was once a loose coalition of advocacy groups and Chinese district associations on the West Coast has evolved into an organization dedicated to championing the rights of East Asian Immigrants in search of a better future.
Locale: California, Pacific Northwest, areas with large Chinese Immigrant populations (and a branch in New York City.)
Supporters: Chinese laborer, farmer, worker, business owner, and manager populations
Ideology: Loose, pro labor, pro Chinese advocacy
Organizational Structures:
Standardized Bureaucracy: +1 action, -5 funds per 100k supporters
Sub-organizations:
The Yellow Scarves: The militant arm of the Friends, they are a religious, communal, militant, proto-anarchist movement, unified by vague religious ideological trappings and a shared sense of disenchantment with their lot in life.
-1 action
-Philippine Army Connections: Shares experiences in fighting, sabotage, and war. -4 funds per turn, +5 to training militia actions and +3 to strategy or planning rolls. (Inactive, cost not being paid)
-Faction: Anarchist
-Militia are integrated into the Revolutionary Army, but non-militia YS are still active
Affiliated Town Coordination Committee: Helps affiliated towns coordinate trade and other things. Includes Locke, Walnut Grove, and other Chinese majority towns. -1 fund per turn, +5 to actions in affiliated towns.
-Consists solely of elected representatives from said towns.
Factory Management Council: Is elected from the factory workers. All owned factories are now integrated into the Workers Planning Council, but the FMC continues to exist for the organization's representational purposes. -1 funds per turn. -1 general action, +1 industrial action, +5 to industrial rolls.
-Each factory is a cooperative and has greater self-management.
-Faction: Industrialists and Socialists
Miscellaneous Representatives: For those not in another sub-organization, elects delegates to form overall leadership.
Committees:
Guild Coordination Committee: Coordinates affiliated guilds and helps them communicate with each other.
Party Management Structures: Creates legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and acts as party whip. -4 funds per 100k supporters, +1 action worth of electoral influence for lawmaking, not winning elections, not affected by rolls.
Property:
Los Angeles Meeting Hall (+1 action)
Local Meeting Halls (+1 action)
FMC Factories (Integrated into the state):
San Fransisco Canning Factories
San Fransisco Bread and Biscuit
San Fransisco Cigar Factories
Locke and Walnut Grove Lumber Yards
San Gabriel Valley Stores
Los Angeles Railcar Factory
California Farms
Hawaii Sugar Cane Farms
California Iron Mines
Blast furnace and tinplate pack mill, vertically integrated with mines and canning factories
Continuous Actions:
National Newspaper (The Friendly News): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Head Tax Fund: A fund for paying the head tax on Chinese immigrants to Canada, allowing more to come in and without debt or obligation to companies. -10 funds per turn, +5% recruitment, +3 to rolls for loyalty in Canada.
Immigrant Family Program: Helps immigrants' families find them and move to them. -3 funds per turn, +3% recruitment, increased immigration to America.
Associates:
Most of the west coast guilds (Chinese trade unions) including canning factory unions, Chinese miner unions across the west (also in Western Federation of Miners), most Chinese service workers
Machine Works Cooperative, Philippines
-Anarchists: 16%
—Originating from the Yellow Scarves, they are mostly syndicalist and are militants.
-Socialist: 15%
—A mix of Marxist-Voightists and statist socialists following Sun Yat-Sen's beliefs.
-Industrialists: 9%
—Seeking to build up Asian prosperity in America through hard work and Asian-owned industrialization of the west coast, they focus on legal regulations and building up Worker Associations.
Dues: Income with delinquency
Created in response to the Page Act, Chinese Exclusion Act and longtime mistreatment of Chinese immigrants, what was once a loose coalition of advocacy groups and Chinese district associations on the West Coast has evolved into an organization dedicated to championing the rights of East Asian Immigrants in search of a better future.
Locale: California, Pacific Northwest, areas with large Chinese Immigrant populations (and a branch in New York City.)
Supporters: Chinese laborer, farmer, worker, business owner, and manager populations
Ideology: Loose, pro labor, pro Chinese advocacy
Organizational Structures:
Standardized Bureaucracy: +1 action, -5 funds per 100k supporters
Sub-organizations:
The Yellow Scarves: The militant arm of the Friends, they are a religious, communal, militant, proto-anarchist movement, unified by vague religious ideological trappings and a shared sense of disenchantment with their lot in life.
-1 action
-Philippine Army Connections: Shares experiences in fighting, sabotage, and war. -4 funds per turn, +5 to training militia actions and +3 to strategy or planning rolls. (Inactive, cost not being paid)
-Faction: Anarchist
-Militia are integrated into the Revolutionary Army, but non-militia YS are still active
Affiliated Town Coordination Committee: Helps affiliated towns coordinate trade and other things. Includes Locke, Walnut Grove, and other Chinese majority towns. -1 fund per turn, +5 to actions in affiliated towns.
-Consists solely of elected representatives from said towns.
Factory Management Council: Is elected from the factory workers. All owned factories are now integrated into the Workers Planning Council, but the FMC continues to exist for the organization's representational purposes. -1 funds per turn. -1 general action, +1 industrial action, +5 to industrial rolls.
-Each factory is a cooperative and has greater self-management.
-Faction: Industrialists and Socialists
Miscellaneous Representatives: For those not in another sub-organization, elects delegates to form overall leadership.
Committees:
Guild Coordination Committee: Coordinates affiliated guilds and helps them communicate with each other.
Party Management Structures: Creates legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and acts as party whip. -4 funds per 100k supporters, +1 action worth of electoral influence for lawmaking, not winning elections, not affected by rolls.
Property:
Los Angeles Meeting Hall (+1 action)
Local Meeting Halls (+1 action)
FMC Factories (Integrated into the state):
San Fransisco Canning Factories
San Fransisco Bread and Biscuit
San Fransisco Cigar Factories
Locke and Walnut Grove Lumber Yards
San Gabriel Valley Stores
Los Angeles Railcar Factory
California Farms
Hawaii Sugar Cane Farms
California Iron Mines
Blast furnace and tinplate pack mill, vertically integrated with mines and canning factories
Continuous Actions:
National Newspaper (The Friendly News): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Head Tax Fund: A fund for paying the head tax on Chinese immigrants to Canada, allowing more to come in and without debt or obligation to companies. -10 funds per turn, +5% recruitment, +3 to rolls for loyalty in Canada.
Immigrant Family Program: Helps immigrants' families find them and move to them. -3 funds per turn, +3% recruitment, increased immigration to America.
Associates:
Most of the west coast guilds (Chinese trade unions) including canning factory unions, Chinese miner unions across the west (also in Western Federation of Miners), most Chinese service workers
Machine Works Cooperative, Philippines
The Orange Disciples:
Dues: Income with delinquency
The Orange Disciples have their genesis in the various abolitionist movements in various American churches. Their name is derived from Orange Scott, a founder of the Wesleyan church and a lifelong abolitionist. The Disciples have grown, bringing in members from various denominations who have been consistently speaking against slavery, racism, and (more recently) sexism and the lack of women's suffrage. Other causes have started to be taken up by the Disciples, but despite the ongoing fervor with which they speak up, the movement has firmly set itself as a non-violent group. They seek change, reformation, and transformation, albeit not explicitly seeking to connect to the Great Awakening movements.
Locale: While seeking nation-wide acceptance, they are currently strongest in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, with an eye toward spreading south through Virginia and the Carolinas, before moving out to the Midwest and beyond.
Supporters: While by no means hostile to non-Christians, the Orange Disciples movement is grounded in particularly Christian belief and theology. Its membership has Wesleyan, Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Mennonite, and Moravians, along with small numbers of other scattered denominations. They have a fairly equal mix of men and women in membership (due to their outstated support of women's rights and suffrage), and while still majority white they have a large segment that is a cross-section of other ethnicities, and a stated intention to continue to accept all members of the Church regardless of heritage.
Ideology: Fundamentally, the Orange Disciples focus on the idea of "speaking for those with little or no voice". Though slavery is now abolished, those who counted themselves as abolitionists now advocate for robust equal rights for African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and all others. As well, women's rights are of major concern for them, and a growing force within the movement. Other areas of concern include labor laws and conditions (both for adults and even more for children), the conditions and treatments of prisoners, and immigrants. The Orange Disciples are, while not completely pacifistic, firmly opposed to the use of violence for their aims. The last couple of decades have shown them that it is difficult but possible to change things. As well, they have a keen understanding that they are not the lawful government, and thus believe there is a great inherent risk in utilizing force, especially lethal force, to enact their goals. They will stand in the path of violence but will never enact or support it themselves.
Committees:
The Legislation Think-Group: Drafts and modifies legislation. -2 funds per turn. +5 to actions regarding lobbying for progressive laws.
Continuous Actions:
National Newspaper (The Orange Post): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
City Cleanup Program: With local churches, pay the unemployed to clean up their cities. -10 funds per turn, +15% recruitment.
City literacy programs: A charity low-cost schooling program for adult literacy in African-Americans, women, and other minorities. -26 funds per turn, +39% recruitment. 520/4000
—Primarily in former New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio
Adult literacy programs: A charity program run through rural churches. -7 funds per turn, + 11.5% recruitment. 112/3200
—Primarily in former Pennsylvania and Ohio
Funding southern schools: -60 funds per turn, increases literacy in the south, +25% recruitment, +5 to actions working with black southerners, +6% popularity in the south (increases by 1% per turn) half that in the north
Flyers and church recruitment: -8 funds per turn, +16% recruitment
Affiliations: Very many churches across New York (+7% recruitment), Pennsylvania (+6% recruitment) and Ohio (+4% recruitment), many churches across West Virginia (+.5% recruitment) and Virginia (+1% recruitment)
John Berry Meachum College, New Orleans
Politicians:
—Progressive Republicans in Pennsylvania's Divided Legislature (minority)
—Progressive Republicans and Populists in New York's Legislature (in ruling coalition, but minority of it)
—Progressive Republicans in West Virginia's Legislature
—15 Progressive Republican Representatives
—2 Populist-Democrat Representatives
—1 Republican Senator
Christian Socialists of America
—A few Ohio legislature seats
—1 House seat
—Cleveland Mayor Tom Johnson (next election 1903)
Legislative Successes:
Ohio Women's Suffrage
NYC Labor Laws (54 hour workweek max for women but with overtime for men, some safety regulations) (Obsolete)
Pennsylvania Anti-Segregation on Public Utilities and Transportation (+2% popularity, increased hostility from WUA)
The Orange Disciples have their genesis in the various abolitionist movements in various American churches. Their name is derived from Orange Scott, a founder of the Wesleyan church and a lifelong abolitionist. The Disciples have grown, bringing in members from various denominations who have been consistently speaking against slavery, racism, and (more recently) sexism and the lack of women's suffrage. Other causes have started to be taken up by the Disciples, but despite the ongoing fervor with which they speak up, the movement has firmly set itself as a non-violent group. They seek change, reformation, and transformation, albeit not explicitly seeking to connect to the Great Awakening movements.
Locale: While seeking nation-wide acceptance, they are currently strongest in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, with an eye toward spreading south through Virginia and the Carolinas, before moving out to the Midwest and beyond.
Supporters: While by no means hostile to non-Christians, the Orange Disciples movement is grounded in particularly Christian belief and theology. Its membership has Wesleyan, Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Mennonite, and Moravians, along with small numbers of other scattered denominations. They have a fairly equal mix of men and women in membership (due to their outstated support of women's rights and suffrage), and while still majority white they have a large segment that is a cross-section of other ethnicities, and a stated intention to continue to accept all members of the Church regardless of heritage.
Ideology: Fundamentally, the Orange Disciples focus on the idea of "speaking for those with little or no voice". Though slavery is now abolished, those who counted themselves as abolitionists now advocate for robust equal rights for African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and all others. As well, women's rights are of major concern for them, and a growing force within the movement. Other areas of concern include labor laws and conditions (both for adults and even more for children), the conditions and treatments of prisoners, and immigrants. The Orange Disciples are, while not completely pacifistic, firmly opposed to the use of violence for their aims. The last couple of decades have shown them that it is difficult but possible to change things. As well, they have a keen understanding that they are not the lawful government, and thus believe there is a great inherent risk in utilizing force, especially lethal force, to enact their goals. They will stand in the path of violence but will never enact or support it themselves.
Committees:
The Legislation Think-Group: Drafts and modifies legislation. -2 funds per turn. +5 to actions regarding lobbying for progressive laws.
Continuous Actions:
National Newspaper (The Orange Post): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
City Cleanup Program: With local churches, pay the unemployed to clean up their cities. -10 funds per turn, +15% recruitment.
City literacy programs: A charity low-cost schooling program for adult literacy in African-Americans, women, and other minorities. -26 funds per turn, +39% recruitment. 520/4000
—Primarily in former New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio
Adult literacy programs: A charity program run through rural churches. -7 funds per turn, + 11.5% recruitment. 112/3200
—Primarily in former Pennsylvania and Ohio
Funding southern schools: -60 funds per turn, increases literacy in the south, +25% recruitment, +5 to actions working with black southerners, +6% popularity in the south (increases by 1% per turn) half that in the north
Flyers and church recruitment: -8 funds per turn, +16% recruitment
Affiliations: Very many churches across New York (+7% recruitment), Pennsylvania (+6% recruitment) and Ohio (+4% recruitment), many churches across West Virginia (+.5% recruitment) and Virginia (+1% recruitment)
John Berry Meachum College, New Orleans
Politicians:
—Progressive Republicans in Pennsylvania's Divided Legislature (minority)
—Progressive Republicans and Populists in New York's Legislature (in ruling coalition, but minority of it)
—Progressive Republicans in West Virginia's Legislature
—15 Progressive Republican Representatives
—2 Populist-Democrat Representatives
—1 Republican Senator
Christian Socialists of America
—A few Ohio legislature seats
—1 House seat
—Cleveland Mayor Tom Johnson (next election 1903)
Legislative Successes:
Ohio Women's Suffrage
NYC Labor Laws (54 hour workweek max for women but with overtime for men, some safety regulations) (Obsolete)
Pennsylvania Anti-Segregation on Public Utilities and Transportation (+2% popularity, increased hostility from WUA)
The New American Patriots
Factions and influence:
-Pacifist: 10%
—Anti-imperialists who support the racial and religious equality of the current government.
-Industrialist: 8%
—Nationalists who dislike the way the country is going, they want to keep building up the Winter Security Group under NAP influence.
Dues: Small income with delinquency
Originally fabricated out of whole cloth by scheming British business interests, it was hijacked by a small group of actual ideologues.
Locale: Started in New York but mostly moved to California.
Supporters: intellectuals
Ideology: espousing a nebulous nationalist semi-progressive ideology which could be categorized as pro-citizen and pro-American-Business with socialist (in reality socdem) leanings. Weirdly simultaneously pro-immigration and anti-foreigner. Big on this whole racial and religious equality thing so long as they're citizens.
Notable Members:
Many low ranking bureaucrats in San Fransisco and California governments.
Property:
San Fransisco Office (+1 action)
California universities student chapters (+5% recruitment)
New York universities student chapters (+5% recruitment)
Continuous Actions:
Big Brothers Big Sisters Program: A program in to look for troubled youths and put them in contact with a university student/alumnus as a mentor to give them a support network and contacts.
—San Fransisco: -3 funds per turn, +4% recruitment.
—NYC: -6 funds per turn, +8% recruitment.
Headline Aggregating/Fact Checking Service: -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the California movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology in San Fransisco. +1% recruitment.
Affiliations:
A few small businesses in California.
St. Jude's Dark Winter Legal
Winter Security Group: A private security company. Pro-NAP majority. -0 funds per turn, +1 WSG action.
-558 guards
-70 Regular level guards
-Work as security guards for small businesses, bars, work that requires just a few guards/bouncers at a time, etc. Enough contracts for significant expansion.
-San Fransisco medium gun factory (Dark Winter Tools Misriah Arms and Armor Plant): +0 funds per turn, +40 weaponry per turn
—Body Armor Annex: Produces a small amount of body armor.
-Sacramento Training Facility: -2 funds per turn, -20 weaponry per turn, +70 Regular level guards per turn.
-Sacramento Training Campus: Provides additional training for guards from advanced marksmanship and urban warfare to crisis response and deescalation. Also has LGBT/intersectionality sensitivity classes. -2 funds per turn, existing guards are Regular quality and are less likely to have issues with discrimination against minorities.
Modifiers:
Small business loans: Repayment beginning in 1900 of 3 funds a year for 4 years. Repayment beginning in 1901 of 3 funds a year for 4 years.
-Pacifist: 10%
—Anti-imperialists who support the racial and religious equality of the current government.
-Industrialist: 8%
—Nationalists who dislike the way the country is going, they want to keep building up the Winter Security Group under NAP influence.
Dues: Small income with delinquency
Originally fabricated out of whole cloth by scheming British business interests, it was hijacked by a small group of actual ideologues.
Locale: Started in New York but mostly moved to California.
Supporters: intellectuals
Ideology: espousing a nebulous nationalist semi-progressive ideology which could be categorized as pro-citizen and pro-American-Business with socialist (in reality socdem) leanings. Weirdly simultaneously pro-immigration and anti-foreigner. Big on this whole racial and religious equality thing so long as they're citizens.
Notable Members:
Many low ranking bureaucrats in San Fransisco and California governments.
Property:
San Fransisco Office (+1 action)
California universities student chapters (+5% recruitment)
New York universities student chapters (+5% recruitment)
Continuous Actions:
Big Brothers Big Sisters Program: A program in to look for troubled youths and put them in contact with a university student/alumnus as a mentor to give them a support network and contacts.
—San Fransisco: -3 funds per turn, +4% recruitment.
—NYC: -6 funds per turn, +8% recruitment.
Headline Aggregating/Fact Checking Service: -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the California movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology in San Fransisco. +1% recruitment.
Affiliations:
A few small businesses in California.
St. Jude's Dark Winter Legal
Winter Security Group: A private security company. Pro-NAP majority. -0 funds per turn, +1 WSG action.
-558 guards
-70 Regular level guards
-Work as security guards for small businesses, bars, work that requires just a few guards/bouncers at a time, etc. Enough contracts for significant expansion.
-San Fransisco medium gun factory (Dark Winter Tools Misriah Arms and Armor Plant): +0 funds per turn, +40 weaponry per turn
—Body Armor Annex: Produces a small amount of body armor.
-Sacramento Training Facility: -2 funds per turn, -20 weaponry per turn, +70 Regular level guards per turn.
-Sacramento Training Campus: Provides additional training for guards from advanced marksmanship and urban warfare to crisis response and deescalation. Also has LGBT/intersectionality sensitivity classes. -2 funds per turn, existing guards are Regular quality and are less likely to have issues with discrimination against minorities.
Modifiers:
Small business loans: Repayment beginning in 1900 of 3 funds a year for 4 years. Repayment beginning in 1901 of 3 funds a year for 4 years.
The Society for Universal Suffrage
Dues: Income with delinquency
Founded by the scandalous and disgraced (yet not disowned) heiress to financier Emmerich Voight, Walpurga Voight, and her eclectic circle of friends and associates for the purpose of advancing their radical social and political ideals. This tightly-knit inner circle is often referred to as "the Valkyries" or "the Coven" by detractors and supporters alike. Its self-professed aims are the liberation of all peoples from tyranny, regardless of its form or excuse. It champions the cause of women, workers, and minorities, and decries the obvious 'divide and conquer' methods by which the powerful turn those causes against one another.
Locale: The Great Lakes Region, particularly in Chicago.
Supporters: Women, Feminists, Socialists, Racial Minorities, Internationalists; particularly among those who are in more than one of those categories, and/or are militant/radicalized.
Ideology: An early form of Intersectional Socialism derived from the implicit principles of the era's socialist, feminist, and anti-racist thinking, fused and formalized into an explicit tendency by Walpurga Voight. As formulated by Voight, the ideology is radical, militant, and uncompromising, refusing to accept attempts to divide and conquer, or to accept the liberation of workers or women or minorities being sacrificed for the sake of others.
Marxism-Voightism (sometimes just called Voightism) used dialectical materialism as described by Marx focused on the intersection of womens', minorities', and the proletariat's intersecting issues, how these divisions were used by those in power to set those with less power against each other, and that the socialist should use a mix of direct action and electoral cover to achieve a socialist revolution.
Notable Members:
Walpurga Voight
Organizational Structures:
Standardized Bureaucracy: +1 action, -5 funds per 100k supporters.
Party Management Structures: Creates legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and acts as party whip. -4 funds per 100k supporters, +1 action worth of electoral influence for lawmaking, not winning elections, not affected by rolls.
The Red Vanguard
-Protects vulnerable areas such as the gay bars
-Professionally organized, with a democratically elected structure except certain positions appointed by SUS leadership to ensure control. -Integrated into the Revolutionary Army.
Interest Groups:
Language Federations: Medium
Salon der Geschlechter/Uranus Gathering for People of Queer Orientation and Allies: Weak, gives 1 queer action
Property:
Chicago Meeting Hall (+1 action)
Great Lakes Offices (+1 action)
Committees:
Domestic Abuse Support Committee: Continuously organizes aid for women getting away from abusive situations using their institutions and getting a job. -5 funds per turn, +5% recruitment per turn.
Queer Informational Packet Committee: Organizes designing and spreading informational packets to inform people who and what queer people are. -5 funds per turn, +5% recruitment per turn.
Continuous Actions:
International Newspaper (The Valkyrie): -15 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment. Multilingual and international nature gives +5 to international outreach actions.
National Newspapers (Community Press Association): -150 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency, +7 to actions relating to ideology in the nation. +250% recruitment. Multilingual natures gives +5 to working with immigrants and language minority communities.
Self Defense Program: A program for teaching women self-defense, with Annie Oakley as a leader. -1 fund per 100k supporters, women have better self-defense skills, +5 to train militia action.
Anti-Prejudice/Misogyny Training: Members are trained in not being misogynist or prejudiced towards minorities, decreasing conflicts there and making it less likely the organization will have that sort of problem. -1 fund per 100k supporters.
Sexual and Reproductive Health Educational Program: Boosts public awareness of health and contraceptives, including helping stop the spread of STDs. -5 funds per turn, +5% recruitment.
Activist Training: Trains activists for planning protests to mobilize more people and protest more effectively. -1 fund per 100k supporters, +5 to protest actions.
Language Federation Immigrant Welcoming Committee cooperation: -5 funds per turn, +6% recruitment
Affiliations: Various ethnic socialist clubs in Chicago serve as meeting places for local initiatives. +3 to rolls in Chicago.
The Chicago School of Journalism
Institute for Sexual Research: Anthropological and psychological research on gender and sex, provides sex education, and works as a health clinic especially for queer people who did not identify as the sex of their birth. -6 funds per turn, +5 to related actions, does research.
Midwest/Northeast Gay Bars
Founded by the scandalous and disgraced (yet not disowned) heiress to financier Emmerich Voight, Walpurga Voight, and her eclectic circle of friends and associates for the purpose of advancing their radical social and political ideals. This tightly-knit inner circle is often referred to as "the Valkyries" or "the Coven" by detractors and supporters alike. Its self-professed aims are the liberation of all peoples from tyranny, regardless of its form or excuse. It champions the cause of women, workers, and minorities, and decries the obvious 'divide and conquer' methods by which the powerful turn those causes against one another.
Locale: The Great Lakes Region, particularly in Chicago.
Supporters: Women, Feminists, Socialists, Racial Minorities, Internationalists; particularly among those who are in more than one of those categories, and/or are militant/radicalized.
Ideology: An early form of Intersectional Socialism derived from the implicit principles of the era's socialist, feminist, and anti-racist thinking, fused and formalized into an explicit tendency by Walpurga Voight. As formulated by Voight, the ideology is radical, militant, and uncompromising, refusing to accept attempts to divide and conquer, or to accept the liberation of workers or women or minorities being sacrificed for the sake of others.
Marxism-Voightism (sometimes just called Voightism) used dialectical materialism as described by Marx focused on the intersection of womens', minorities', and the proletariat's intersecting issues, how these divisions were used by those in power to set those with less power against each other, and that the socialist should use a mix of direct action and electoral cover to achieve a socialist revolution.
Notable Members:
Walpurga Voight
Organizational Structures:
Standardized Bureaucracy: +1 action, -5 funds per 100k supporters.
Party Management Structures: Creates legislation to pass onto SLP representatives and acts as party whip. -4 funds per 100k supporters, +1 action worth of electoral influence for lawmaking, not winning elections, not affected by rolls.
The Red Vanguard
-Protects vulnerable areas such as the gay bars
-Professionally organized, with a democratically elected structure except certain positions appointed by SUS leadership to ensure control. -Integrated into the Revolutionary Army.
Interest Groups:
Language Federations: Medium
Salon der Geschlechter/Uranus Gathering for People of Queer Orientation and Allies: Weak, gives 1 queer action
Property:
Chicago Meeting Hall (+1 action)
Great Lakes Offices (+1 action)
Committees:
Domestic Abuse Support Committee: Continuously organizes aid for women getting away from abusive situations using their institutions and getting a job. -5 funds per turn, +5% recruitment per turn.
Queer Informational Packet Committee: Organizes designing and spreading informational packets to inform people who and what queer people are. -5 funds per turn, +5% recruitment per turn.
Continuous Actions:
International Newspaper (The Valkyrie): -15 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency, +7 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment. Multilingual and international nature gives +5 to international outreach actions.
National Newspapers (Community Press Association): -150 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency, +7 to actions relating to ideology in the nation. +250% recruitment. Multilingual natures gives +5 to working with immigrants and language minority communities.
Self Defense Program: A program for teaching women self-defense, with Annie Oakley as a leader. -1 fund per 100k supporters, women have better self-defense skills, +5 to train militia action.
Anti-Prejudice/Misogyny Training: Members are trained in not being misogynist or prejudiced towards minorities, decreasing conflicts there and making it less likely the organization will have that sort of problem. -1 fund per 100k supporters.
Sexual and Reproductive Health Educational Program: Boosts public awareness of health and contraceptives, including helping stop the spread of STDs. -5 funds per turn, +5% recruitment.
Activist Training: Trains activists for planning protests to mobilize more people and protest more effectively. -1 fund per 100k supporters, +5 to protest actions.
Language Federation Immigrant Welcoming Committee cooperation: -5 funds per turn, +6% recruitment
Affiliations: Various ethnic socialist clubs in Chicago serve as meeting places for local initiatives. +3 to rolls in Chicago.
The Chicago School of Journalism
Institute for Sexual Research: Anthropological and psychological research on gender and sex, provides sex education, and works as a health clinic especially for queer people who did not identify as the sex of their birth. -6 funds per turn, +5 to related actions, does research.
Midwest/Northeast Gay Bars
The Minutemen
Factions and influence:
-Stalwart: 16%
—Those most heavily invested in the war on the Gray Army (and their precursors), they want to join the United Front and get more involved in putting down the reactionaries.
-Enthusiast: 9%
—The more civilian side of the organization, they want to put their effort into military and business research efforts.
Beginnings: A relatively new movement which started as a group of military enthusiasts including some soldiers and even an officer or two. Starting off as just people with similar interests, the original group was formed around a new kind of game brought from the officer that was part of the army. But between the gaming sessions, and learning of more recent events, between the scandals, Custer's folly, and the complete mess that was the Union during the revolution, led to them to enter politics. And as part of that, they are seeking some way to try and find some way to be able to somewhat simulate combat, even if in an incomplete form to try and better understand it.
Locale: Largest group is in Pennsylvania.
Supporters: Military historians, people with military background or family in military. And relatively recently, hobbyists and others. The non-professional soldier/militiaman in the RA.
Ideology: Leaning a bit to the left, but they focus on cutting through the big business BS, ESPECIALLY in military matters. And they tend to carry the belief that understanding the topic is important.
The Stalwart leading faction and most of their Revolutionary Army base is revolutionary socialist, though informally so.
Property:
Remodeled farmhouse near Pittsburgh: +1 action
Committees:
War Game Committee: Organizes war game sessions. -3 funds per 100k supporters, +10 to militia training action.
—Committee appointments are decided by elections in which the top voted in the organization are chosen. Overall leadership is chosen in a similar manner.
Tactics Research Committee: Researches traditional and new small unit tactics. One third of new militia are regulars (and two thirds green). -2 funds per turn.
Management Theory Group: Investigates new methods and theories of management. -1 fund per turn, results later.
Militia:
-Combat engineers: -3 funds per turn, +10 to rolls building fortifications, +5 to other related rolls, +5 to maximum fortification bonus. (Currently not costing anything due to militia integrated with Revolutionary Army)
Programs:
Pennsylvania Land-Grant Universities Clubs and Programs: -3 funds per turn, +6% recruitment
Continuous Actions:
Cuban Liberation Army Connections: Shares Minutemen's scientific methods of warfare and listens to their guerrilla experiences. -3 funds per turn, allows for better guerrilla warfare should it be needed, +5 to guerrilla actions
Bulk orders of guns and ammunition: -3 funds per turn, +25 weaponry per turn
Recruiting in the Revolutionary Army: -5 funds per turn, increased base recruitment (so long as the army is mobilized), +10% recruitment
Associates:
Gun shops: +1 per die for buying weaponry.
APFA's Military Strategy Committee: +3 to strategy/planning rolls, +3 to actions setting up a militia.
Startups: Companies using new and old dismissed theories of management, used as part of research.
-Stalwart: 16%
—Those most heavily invested in the war on the Gray Army (and their precursors), they want to join the United Front and get more involved in putting down the reactionaries.
-Enthusiast: 9%
—The more civilian side of the organization, they want to put their effort into military and business research efforts.
Beginnings: A relatively new movement which started as a group of military enthusiasts including some soldiers and even an officer or two. Starting off as just people with similar interests, the original group was formed around a new kind of game brought from the officer that was part of the army. But between the gaming sessions, and learning of more recent events, between the scandals, Custer's folly, and the complete mess that was the Union during the revolution, led to them to enter politics. And as part of that, they are seeking some way to try and find some way to be able to somewhat simulate combat, even if in an incomplete form to try and better understand it.
Locale: Largest group is in Pennsylvania.
Supporters: Military historians, people with military background or family in military. And relatively recently, hobbyists and others. The non-professional soldier/militiaman in the RA.
Ideology: Leaning a bit to the left, but they focus on cutting through the big business BS, ESPECIALLY in military matters. And they tend to carry the belief that understanding the topic is important.
The Stalwart leading faction and most of their Revolutionary Army base is revolutionary socialist, though informally so.
Property:
Remodeled farmhouse near Pittsburgh: +1 action
Committees:
War Game Committee: Organizes war game sessions. -3 funds per 100k supporters, +10 to militia training action.
—Committee appointments are decided by elections in which the top voted in the organization are chosen. Overall leadership is chosen in a similar manner.
Tactics Research Committee: Researches traditional and new small unit tactics. One third of new militia are regulars (and two thirds green). -2 funds per turn.
Management Theory Group: Investigates new methods and theories of management. -1 fund per turn, results later.
Militia:
-Combat engineers: -3 funds per turn, +10 to rolls building fortifications, +5 to other related rolls, +5 to maximum fortification bonus. (Currently not costing anything due to militia integrated with Revolutionary Army)
Programs:
Pennsylvania Land-Grant Universities Clubs and Programs: -3 funds per turn, +6% recruitment
Continuous Actions:
Cuban Liberation Army Connections: Shares Minutemen's scientific methods of warfare and listens to their guerrilla experiences. -3 funds per turn, allows for better guerrilla warfare should it be needed, +5 to guerrilla actions
Bulk orders of guns and ammunition: -3 funds per turn, +25 weaponry per turn
Recruiting in the Revolutionary Army: -5 funds per turn, increased base recruitment (so long as the army is mobilized), +10% recruitment
Associates:
Gun shops: +1 per die for buying weaponry.
APFA's Military Strategy Committee: +3 to strategy/planning rolls, +3 to actions setting up a militia.
Startups: Companies using new and old dismissed theories of management, used as part of research.
Southern People's Alliance
Dues: Low with delinquency
Circumstance of Founding: Formed from members of the People's Party and Farmers' Alliance (Southern and Colored) who attended the Chicago World Fair and were intrigued by the United Front demonstrations, eventually turning outright towards Socialism. The economic hardship following the Panic of 1893 turned them from a series of informal debate clubs within the People's Party left wing into a full-fledged organization in and of itself.
Locale: US South
Supporters: Poor rural Whites, African Americans, former Farmers' Alliance members, People's Party radicals/left-wing, Railroad Workers
Ideology: Agrarianism, Cooperativism, Populism, Anti-Capitalism, and Agrarian Socialism. Specifically anti-racist, viewing racism as a tool of the Planter Aristocracy. Have a view of "Three Great Enemies": The Planter Aristocracy, the Banks, and the Railroad Companies.
Other Notes: Some internal disagreement between an Anarchist wing that seeks to emulate the direct action and parallel organization methods of the FAM, RFAA, and SUS, and an "Agrarian Marxist" Wing that hopes to transition the larger People's Party towards something that can be used as a vehicle to bring about Socialism (or formally split off the left-wing to serve the same purpose if that doesn't work.)
Sub-Groups:
Poor Man's Fighters:
-Formalized command system with elected officers and command: Merged with the Revolutionary Army.
-Integrated into the Revolutionary Army.
Property:
Central North Carolina Meeting Warehouse (+1 action)
Branch offices across the south (+1 action)
Committees:
Coop Mill and Shop Integration Committee: Integrates existing coop mills and shops into the organization, meaning everyone in the vicinity of each is essentially part of that coop. Reduces costs, increasing income for members. Mostly finished.
Continuous Actions:
North Carolina Newspaper: -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the North Carolina movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in rural North Carolina. +4% recruitment.
National Newspaper (The Redneck's Read): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Mills and Shops Fund: Establishes more coop mills and shops where needed. Reduces costs, increasing income for members. -1 fund per 100k supporters, +6% recruitment.
Associates:
Minutemen Trainers: +5 to training militia actions
Circumstance of Founding: Formed from members of the People's Party and Farmers' Alliance (Southern and Colored) who attended the Chicago World Fair and were intrigued by the United Front demonstrations, eventually turning outright towards Socialism. The economic hardship following the Panic of 1893 turned them from a series of informal debate clubs within the People's Party left wing into a full-fledged organization in and of itself.
Locale: US South
Supporters: Poor rural Whites, African Americans, former Farmers' Alliance members, People's Party radicals/left-wing, Railroad Workers
Ideology: Agrarianism, Cooperativism, Populism, Anti-Capitalism, and Agrarian Socialism. Specifically anti-racist, viewing racism as a tool of the Planter Aristocracy. Have a view of "Three Great Enemies": The Planter Aristocracy, the Banks, and the Railroad Companies.
Other Notes: Some internal disagreement between an Anarchist wing that seeks to emulate the direct action and parallel organization methods of the FAM, RFAA, and SUS, and an "Agrarian Marxist" Wing that hopes to transition the larger People's Party towards something that can be used as a vehicle to bring about Socialism (or formally split off the left-wing to serve the same purpose if that doesn't work.)
Sub-Groups:
Poor Man's Fighters:
-Formalized command system with elected officers and command: Merged with the Revolutionary Army.
-Integrated into the Revolutionary Army.
Property:
Central North Carolina Meeting Warehouse (+1 action)
Branch offices across the south (+1 action)
Committees:
Coop Mill and Shop Integration Committee: Integrates existing coop mills and shops into the organization, meaning everyone in the vicinity of each is essentially part of that coop. Reduces costs, increasing income for members. Mostly finished.
Continuous Actions:
North Carolina Newspaper: -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the North Carolina movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in rural North Carolina. +4% recruitment.
National Newspaper (The Redneck's Read): -10 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the American movement, +5 to actions relating to ideology. +20% recruitment.
Mills and Shops Fund: Establishes more coop mills and shops where needed. Reduces costs, increasing income for members. -1 fund per 100k supporters, +6% recruitment.
Associates:
Minutemen Trainers: +5 to training militia actions
Appalachian Brotherhood
Factions and influence:
-Solidarity: 18%
—Those who want to primarily work with the United Front.
-Revolutionaries: 14%
—Anarchists who see the United Front as insufficient and those who border on Appalachian nationalism, they want a fully autonomous Appalachia. 14% of electoral influence goes towards independents and cannot be used for national policies.
Dues: Same as RFAA
After a recent bout of seasonal flooding from the north-west oil fields of Pennsylvania, to northern West Virginia coal mines, the intelligentista, farm workers, oil workers, steel workers, and mine workers of the region declared that the nonexistant response of the national or state authorities meant that the region was on its own. Half an effort of nation building, half an expression of the already unique regional cultures and conditions of the area, the group has a dream of being free and equal. From south-west new york, to the southern part of the mountain range, they have yelled the call of liberation for the colonized region of Appalachia from the imperialist USA.
They are organized by RFAA councils.
Locale: Pittsburgh and the surrounding countryside
Supporters: Appalachian Folk of various stripes.
Ideology: As primarily anarchists, the AB acts is for those that wants a free and equal Appalachia.
Property:
Pittsburgh Meeting Room: +1 action
Appalachian Meeting Areas: +1 action
Mountain Bases: Bases and supply caches in the mountains of Appalachia, from Pennsylvania to the furthest south, navigable only with local guides. Allows for safe refuge. Expanded and used as bases for the RDC. +5 to local guerrilla fighting and +5 to defensive infantry rolls in the area.
-Revolutionary faction
Mountain Village Armaments and Munitions Manufacturing: Integrated into RA supply chains
Committees:
Appalachian Cultural Committee: Collects a list of unique Appalachian culture and encourages people to share it. -4 funds per turn, +8% recruitment, +5 to rolls relating to getting local groups involved.
-Solidarity faction
Appalachian Cultural Festival Committee: Hosts a yearly festival each summer. -5 funds per turn, +10% recruitment
-Solidarity faction
Construction Commission: Builds roads, bridges, etc. in rural Appalachia. -8 funds per turn, +16% recruitment, +5 to transport or movement in Appalachia.
Revolutionary Defense Councils
-Integrated with the Revolutionary Army
Continuous Actions:
Pittsburgh Newspaper (Yinz Voice of Pittsburgh): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Pennsylvania movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in Pittsburgh. +2% recruitment.
Appalachian Newspapers (Typically named Yinz Voice of [town name]): -20 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency, +7 to actions relating to ideology in Appalachia. +50% recruitment.
Affiliates:
UMW branches
-Solidarity: 18%
—Those who want to primarily work with the United Front.
-Revolutionaries: 14%
—Anarchists who see the United Front as insufficient and those who border on Appalachian nationalism, they want a fully autonomous Appalachia. 14% of electoral influence goes towards independents and cannot be used for national policies.
Dues: Same as RFAA
After a recent bout of seasonal flooding from the north-west oil fields of Pennsylvania, to northern West Virginia coal mines, the intelligentista, farm workers, oil workers, steel workers, and mine workers of the region declared that the nonexistant response of the national or state authorities meant that the region was on its own. Half an effort of nation building, half an expression of the already unique regional cultures and conditions of the area, the group has a dream of being free and equal. From south-west new york, to the southern part of the mountain range, they have yelled the call of liberation for the colonized region of Appalachia from the imperialist USA.
They are organized by RFAA councils.
Locale: Pittsburgh and the surrounding countryside
Supporters: Appalachian Folk of various stripes.
Ideology: As primarily anarchists, the AB acts is for those that wants a free and equal Appalachia.
Property:
Pittsburgh Meeting Room: +1 action
Appalachian Meeting Areas: +1 action
Mountain Bases: Bases and supply caches in the mountains of Appalachia, from Pennsylvania to the furthest south, navigable only with local guides. Allows for safe refuge. Expanded and used as bases for the RDC. +5 to local guerrilla fighting and +5 to defensive infantry rolls in the area.
-Revolutionary faction
Mountain Village Armaments and Munitions Manufacturing: Integrated into RA supply chains
Committees:
Appalachian Cultural Committee: Collects a list of unique Appalachian culture and encourages people to share it. -4 funds per turn, +8% recruitment, +5 to rolls relating to getting local groups involved.
-Solidarity faction
Appalachian Cultural Festival Committee: Hosts a yearly festival each summer. -5 funds per turn, +10% recruitment
-Solidarity faction
Construction Commission: Builds roads, bridges, etc. in rural Appalachia. -8 funds per turn, +16% recruitment, +5 to transport or movement in Appalachia.
Revolutionary Defense Councils
-Integrated with the Revolutionary Army
Continuous Actions:
Pittsburgh Newspaper (Yinz Voice of Pittsburgh): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Pennsylvania movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in Pittsburgh. +2% recruitment.
Appalachian Newspapers (Typically named Yinz Voice of [town name]): -20 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency, +7 to actions relating to ideology in Appalachia. +50% recruitment.
Affiliates:
UMW branches
Amigos del Pueblo (Friends of the People)
Dues: Same as RFAA
Founded in a bar in Del Rio, Texas, by a mismash group of Hispanic left-wing intellectuals and farmers, alongside some exiled Cuban revolutionaries. It is inspired by the successes of the United Front and its constituent members in organizing within the states. Their current goal is the organizing and radicalization of the growing Hispanic/Mexican-American population in the Sun Belt, with the eventual dream of assisting their Mexican homeland in the overthrow of the Porfiriato regime.
They are organized as a region of the RFAA.
Locale: Mostly Texas based, with some connections in Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico. Areas with outsized Mexican populations basically. Additionally Puerto Rico.
Supporters: Hispanic labourers, workers and farmers, Mexican intellectuals in exile.
Ideology: Big Tent Socialism (Mostly Agrarian Socialists and Anarcho-Communists), Pro-Hispanic advocacy
Property:
Del Rio Office: +1 action
Committees:
Immigrant Aid Committee: Helps Mexicans who wish to move here whether it be refugees or just to get a job. -10 funds per turn, +15% recruitment.
Community Defense Committees:
—Nickname La Milicia Popular (The People's Militia)
—Formerly integrated with the Revolutionary Army, now in Mexico
—Cuban Liberation Army Training: -5 funds per turn, PLM begins training militia, +3 to training actions, +5 to guerrilla actions, and 1/3 trained are regulars.
Continuous Actions:
Puerto Rico Newspaper (El Porvenir Social): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Puerto Rico movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in Puerto Rico. +2% recruitment.
Cuban RFAA Supply Line: -2 funds per turn, gives supplies to the Cuban anarchists.
Work with PLM: Helps PLM supporters avoid repression through smuggling people back and forth across the border. -5 funds per turn, +5 to actions helping movements in Mexico.
Mexican Newspaper (Regeneración): -4 funds per turn, continually increased popularity of PLM and Magon Brothers/anarchist aligned faction within it.
Founded in a bar in Del Rio, Texas, by a mismash group of Hispanic left-wing intellectuals and farmers, alongside some exiled Cuban revolutionaries. It is inspired by the successes of the United Front and its constituent members in organizing within the states. Their current goal is the organizing and radicalization of the growing Hispanic/Mexican-American population in the Sun Belt, with the eventual dream of assisting their Mexican homeland in the overthrow of the Porfiriato regime.
They are organized as a region of the RFAA.
Locale: Mostly Texas based, with some connections in Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico. Areas with outsized Mexican populations basically. Additionally Puerto Rico.
Supporters: Hispanic labourers, workers and farmers, Mexican intellectuals in exile.
Ideology: Big Tent Socialism (Mostly Agrarian Socialists and Anarcho-Communists), Pro-Hispanic advocacy
Property:
Del Rio Office: +1 action
Committees:
Immigrant Aid Committee: Helps Mexicans who wish to move here whether it be refugees or just to get a job. -10 funds per turn, +15% recruitment.
Community Defense Committees:
—Nickname La Milicia Popular (The People's Militia)
—Formerly integrated with the Revolutionary Army, now in Mexico
—Cuban Liberation Army Training: -5 funds per turn, PLM begins training militia, +3 to training actions, +5 to guerrilla actions, and 1/3 trained are regulars.
Continuous Actions:
Puerto Rico Newspaper (El Porvenir Social): -2 funds per turn. Bonus to ideological coherency within the Puerto Rico movement, +7 to actions relating to ideology in Puerto Rico. +2% recruitment.
Cuban RFAA Supply Line: -2 funds per turn, gives supplies to the Cuban anarchists.
Work with PLM: Helps PLM supporters avoid repression through smuggling people back and forth across the border. -5 funds per turn, +5 to actions helping movements in Mexico.
Mexican Newspaper (Regeneración): -4 funds per turn, continually increased popularity of PLM and Magon Brothers/anarchist aligned faction within it.
Committee for Indigenous Advocacy
Factions and influence:
Voightist: 20%
Anarcho-Communist: 10%
The Committee emerged from American Indian, Native Hawaiian, radical-progressive and socialist collaboration in opposition to the Curtis Act and Newlands Resolution, and the intensification of residential schools.
Locale: Nationwide, particularly in the Indian Territory, the Indian Reservations and Hawaii, headquartered in Washington D.C.
Supporters: American Indians, Native Hawaiians, and those sympathetic to their plight.
Ideology: Dedication to cultural preservation and promotion, and reversing the political, economic, and social damage inflicted indigenous peoples. Anti-assimilationism, anti-imperialism, broadly left-wing among non-indigenous members and sympathizers.
Property:
Meeting building in Langley, Virginia. +1 action.
Meeting building in Philadelphia.
South Dakota Small Arms Factory: Seized from reactionary militia, contributes Weaponry to Great Plains forces.
Associates:
Tribal Government Contacts: +5 to actions with tribes or on reservations.
Continuous Actions:
Networks of aid to indigenous communities: -15 funds per turn, poverty alleviated, +25% recruitment, +3 to actions in indigenous communities.
Modifiers:
High Supporters Count: Although the organization includes non-indigenous peoples, it was still dominantly an organization for them, and so as a higher percent of them join the organization it has less room to grow. X0.8 recruitment.
Voightist: 20%
Anarcho-Communist: 10%
The Committee emerged from American Indian, Native Hawaiian, radical-progressive and socialist collaboration in opposition to the Curtis Act and Newlands Resolution, and the intensification of residential schools.
Locale: Nationwide, particularly in the Indian Territory, the Indian Reservations and Hawaii, headquartered in Washington D.C.
Supporters: American Indians, Native Hawaiians, and those sympathetic to their plight.
Ideology: Dedication to cultural preservation and promotion, and reversing the political, economic, and social damage inflicted indigenous peoples. Anti-assimilationism, anti-imperialism, broadly left-wing among non-indigenous members and sympathizers.
Property:
Meeting building in Langley, Virginia. +1 action.
Meeting building in Philadelphia.
South Dakota Small Arms Factory: Seized from reactionary militia, contributes Weaponry to Great Plains forces.
Associates:
Tribal Government Contacts: +5 to actions with tribes or on reservations.
Continuous Actions:
Networks of aid to indigenous communities: -15 funds per turn, poverty alleviated, +25% recruitment, +3 to actions in indigenous communities.
Modifiers:
High Supporters Count: Although the organization includes non-indigenous peoples, it was still dominantly an organization for them, and so as a higher percent of them join the organization it has less room to grow. X0.8 recruitment.
United Front
A confederation of socialist organizations in the United States, it was founded during the world fair in Chicago where a unified effort of several leftist organizations was underwent to advertise their cause to the world.
An Executive Committee meets between sessions and is in charge of implementing most UF decisions as well as appointing commissions and committees.
Commissions:
Budgetary Commission: -0.1 funds per 100k supporters, any UF organization (except for the RFAA and constituent organizations) may contribute funds to the UF or each other without costing an action.
Commissions for Mutual Aid and Welfare: -5 funds per turn, +1 per die to welfare actions. In budgeting, may take 1 action max 20 funds on welfare.
Music Promotion Commission: Gathers and advertises socialist and union songs. -5 funds per turn, +5% recruitment.
Economic and Political Analysis Commission: Looks into how a post-revolution economic and political system would look like, including members from each organization. -5 funds per turn, +5 to actions building an administration or keeping the United Front together.
Property:
Chicago political convention center: -1 funds per turn, hosts the UF delegate meetings as well as the Executive Committee and various commissions.
Members: The Society for Universal Suffrage, Forty Acres Movement, Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists, All-Continental Union Association, Southern People's Alliance, Friends of Huddled Masses, Society of Friends of All Faiths, Committee for Indigenous Advocacy, Intercollegiate Socialist Society (6 delegates)
Income: 15% from each organization, except the largest 3 by income (RFAA, TFAM, SUS), which pay 20%.
Socialist Labor Party:
Campaigning Apparatus: -457 funds per turn +5 to election actions in NAC, except for in New England, parts of the south, and parts of the Great Plains.
—Hawaii, -2 funds per turn. Fusion with the ruling Home Rule Party.
—Puerto Rico, -10 funds per turn.
The British and Canadian SLPs are ideologically aligned, but fully independent.
Elected Officials:
Federal: Supermajority in the Provisional Congress in Chicago.
International Socialist Bureau:
Standing committee for the International, hosted in Chicago. -1 funds per turn.
Membership modifiers:
International Newspaper (The Valkyrie): +3 to actions related to ideology, +5% recruitment.
National Newspapers (Community Press Association): +3 to actions related to ideology in the nation, +50% recruitment.
Amalgamated Credit Union: A credit union for the workers of the America, non-profit oriented. +5 to financial actions. You may specify that you are going up to 20 negative with your funds, to be repaid next turn.
The Chicago School of Journalism: +10 to rolls creating new newspapers. Newspaper ideology bonus increased to +7. +5 to public relations actions. +1 per die for public campaigns.
May Day Protests: Yearly protests on May Day run and organized by committees primarily made up of ACUA, RFAA, and SUS members (though the other UF organizations do participate) consisting of a one day general strike, various demonstrations to demand it become a holiday, and advertising the cause. -20 funds per turn, +10% recruitment.
Ideological: Each part of the United Front is driven forward due to their strong ideals. Bonus to ideological coherency for each UF organization.
Mutual Aid:
This section's bonuses also apply to all members of the United Front who have a presence in the area. This is marked in the "Mutual Aid Networking and Soup Kitchens" section. All sections apply to everyone, unless marked with specific orgs.
Mutual Aid Networking and Soup Kitchens:
—NAC: -271 funds per turn. +4 to rolls in American cities. +180% recruitment. 5420/6200
——Completed most everywhere but New England, parts of south, parts of great plains
—Hawaii: -1 fund per turn. +5 to rolls in Hawaiian cities. +1% recruitment. ACUA, RFAA, SUS, FHM, CIA
—Puerto Rico: -6 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Puerto Rico cities. +4% recruitment. ACUA, RFAA, SUS, AdP
Daycare Facilities:
—NAC: -13 funds per turn, +9% recruitment, slightly boosts SUS income. 682/4800
——Currently completed Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin
Schools:
—NAC: -14 funds per turn, +1 loyalty, +9% recruitment per turn. 735/6300
——Currently completed NYC
—Puerto Rico: -1 funds per turn, +3 loyalty of members in Puerto Rico (+1 per year up to 10), +1% recruitment per turn. ACUA, RFAA, SUS, AdP
Rural Mutual Aid: A system to facilitate farmers to borrow tools and money from each other. Note these bonuses do not all apply to the ACUA, as they're primarily used by independent small farmers and coops.
—NAC: -59 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in rural affected areas. +39% recruitment. 890/2000
——Currently completed South (except Florida/Maryland), Illinois, West Coast
Health Clinics:
—NAC: -12 funds per turn. +8% recruitment. 126/2000
——Currently completed California-Southwest-Texas
—Puerto Rico: -6 funds per turn, +4% recruitment
An Executive Committee meets between sessions and is in charge of implementing most UF decisions as well as appointing commissions and committees.
Commissions:
Budgetary Commission: -0.1 funds per 100k supporters, any UF organization (except for the RFAA and constituent organizations) may contribute funds to the UF or each other without costing an action.
Commissions for Mutual Aid and Welfare: -5 funds per turn, +1 per die to welfare actions. In budgeting, may take 1 action max 20 funds on welfare.
Music Promotion Commission: Gathers and advertises socialist and union songs. -5 funds per turn, +5% recruitment.
Economic and Political Analysis Commission: Looks into how a post-revolution economic and political system would look like, including members from each organization. -5 funds per turn, +5 to actions building an administration or keeping the United Front together.
Property:
Chicago political convention center: -1 funds per turn, hosts the UF delegate meetings as well as the Executive Committee and various commissions.
Members: The Society for Universal Suffrage, Forty Acres Movement, Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists, All-Continental Union Association, Southern People's Alliance, Friends of Huddled Masses, Society of Friends of All Faiths, Committee for Indigenous Advocacy, Intercollegiate Socialist Society (6 delegates)
Income: 15% from each organization, except the largest 3 by income (RFAA, TFAM, SUS), which pay 20%.
Socialist Labor Party:
Campaigning Apparatus: -457 funds per turn +5 to election actions in NAC, except for in New England, parts of the south, and parts of the Great Plains.
—Hawaii, -2 funds per turn. Fusion with the ruling Home Rule Party.
—Puerto Rico, -10 funds per turn.
The British and Canadian SLPs are ideologically aligned, but fully independent.
Elected Officials:
Federal: Supermajority in the Provisional Congress in Chicago.
International Socialist Bureau:
Standing committee for the International, hosted in Chicago. -1 funds per turn.
Membership modifiers:
International Newspaper (The Valkyrie): +3 to actions related to ideology, +5% recruitment.
National Newspapers (Community Press Association): +3 to actions related to ideology in the nation, +50% recruitment.
Amalgamated Credit Union: A credit union for the workers of the America, non-profit oriented. +5 to financial actions. You may specify that you are going up to 20 negative with your funds, to be repaid next turn.
The Chicago School of Journalism: +10 to rolls creating new newspapers. Newspaper ideology bonus increased to +7. +5 to public relations actions. +1 per die for public campaigns.
May Day Protests: Yearly protests on May Day run and organized by committees primarily made up of ACUA, RFAA, and SUS members (though the other UF organizations do participate) consisting of a one day general strike, various demonstrations to demand it become a holiday, and advertising the cause. -20 funds per turn, +10% recruitment.
Ideological: Each part of the United Front is driven forward due to their strong ideals. Bonus to ideological coherency for each UF organization.
Mutual Aid:
This section's bonuses also apply to all members of the United Front who have a presence in the area. This is marked in the "Mutual Aid Networking and Soup Kitchens" section. All sections apply to everyone, unless marked with specific orgs.
Mutual Aid Networking and Soup Kitchens:
—NAC: -271 funds per turn. +4 to rolls in American cities. +180% recruitment. 5420/6200
——Completed most everywhere but New England, parts of south, parts of great plains
—Hawaii: -1 fund per turn. +5 to rolls in Hawaiian cities. +1% recruitment. ACUA, RFAA, SUS, FHM, CIA
—Puerto Rico: -6 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in Puerto Rico cities. +4% recruitment. ACUA, RFAA, SUS, AdP
Daycare Facilities:
—NAC: -13 funds per turn, +9% recruitment, slightly boosts SUS income. 682/4800
——Currently completed Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin
Schools:
—NAC: -14 funds per turn, +1 loyalty, +9% recruitment per turn. 735/6300
——Currently completed NYC
—Puerto Rico: -1 funds per turn, +3 loyalty of members in Puerto Rico (+1 per year up to 10), +1% recruitment per turn. ACUA, RFAA, SUS, AdP
Rural Mutual Aid: A system to facilitate farmers to borrow tools and money from each other. Note these bonuses do not all apply to the ACUA, as they're primarily used by independent small farmers and coops.
—NAC: -59 funds per turn. +5 to rolls in rural affected areas. +39% recruitment. 890/2000
——Currently completed South (except Florida/Maryland), Illinois, West Coast
Health Clinics:
—NAC: -12 funds per turn. +8% recruitment. 126/2000
——Currently completed California-Southwest-Texas
—Puerto Rico: -6 funds per turn, +4% recruitment
The American Reform Movement
A confederation of reformist groups that agreed that radicalism was spiraling out of control. They aim to reform American society and restore that dream that was founded with the American experiment of democracy.
Members: The Land and Labor Reform Party, The Orange Disciples, The New American Patriots, The American People's Futurist Alliance, Committee for Indigenous Advocacy
Income: 10% from each org.
Anti-corruption commission: -2 funds per turn. If someone catches the budget being wrong after the fact, they can save 50% of lost funds. Narratively removes internal corruption.
Executive: A president is in charge of implementing most UF decisions as well as appointing commissions and committees, under review by ARM's constituent organizations' representatives.
Members: The Land and Labor Reform Party, The Orange Disciples, The New American Patriots, The American People's Futurist Alliance, Committee for Indigenous Advocacy
Income: 10% from each org.
Anti-corruption commission: -2 funds per turn. If someone catches the budget being wrong after the fact, they can save 50% of lost funds. Narratively removes internal corruption.
Executive: A president is in charge of implementing most UF decisions as well as appointing commissions and committees, under review by ARM's constituent organizations' representatives.
All Organization Modifiers:
Active Rurales and Army: -2 per die for unionization rolls in Mexico.
North American Commonwealth
Map
Government:
Government Type: Parliamentary Republic
Governing Document: Constitution of the North American Commonwealth
Head of State: President Dominik Kubicek (SLP, Voightist faction)
Legislative Majority: National Unity (SLP-LLRP-Populist)
Demographics:
1900 Census Population: 76.3 million
Estimated Current Population: 79.8 million
Population growth: ~1%
Social Reforms:
Minimum Wage: Adequate
Work Safety: Adequate
Work Hours: 40-Hour Week
Healthcare: Low
Pensions: Low
Unemployment: Adequate
Childcare: Low
Retirement: Low
Child Labor: Banned
Foreign Affairs:
War and Peace: N/A
Alliances: None
Defensive Pacts: Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Cuba
Military Agreements: None
Naval Agreements: None
Trade Agreements: None
Recognized by: China, Philippines, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Cuba
Finance:
Currency: The US Dollar, gold and partial silver standard
Gold reserves: very low
Silver reserves: low
Debt: Medium
Credit: Tiny
Tax Income: High
Tariff Income: High
Government Owned Industry income: High
Principal Creditors: Domestic (Huge), Other (Tiny)
Principal Debtors: Domestic (Medium), Hawaii (Tiny)
Commerce:
Economic Ownership: Centrally Planned Government Owned, Decentralized Semi-Planned Worker Owned, and single-family businesses
Commercial Output: Low
Commercial Growth: Low
Trade Partners: British Empire [exports] (Medium), Continental W. Europe [exports] (Medium), Latin America [imports] (low), Canada [exports] (low), China [mixed] (tiny), Japan [mixed] (tiny), Hawaii [mixed] (tiny), Other [mixed] (tiny)
Public Works:
Roads and Canals: Medium
Railroads: Medium
Public Utilities: Low
Education:
Literacy Rate: 91%
—Native white: 95%
—Foreign-Born white: 90%
—Black and Other: 55%
Northeast Education Access: High
—Quality: Adequate
Midwest Education Access: High
—Quality: Adequate
South Education Access: Low
—Quality: Low
West Education Access: Medium
—Quality: Adequate
Agriculture Collectivization:
Black Belt: ~33% IPA
Other South: ~20% IPA, 3% WA (mostly Maryland/Appalachia), 28% large landlords being broken up ~1/4 into IPA ~3/4 to small farmers
Midwest: ~15% IPA, ~4% WA
Northeast: ~4% IPA, ~10% WA
West: ~2% IPA, ~2% WA
West Coast: ~15% IPA
Regional Economic Development:
The following statistics have been collected by the statisticians at Banks of Exchange and by bureaucrats at the IPA, comparable to OTL census reports. Separated by census region, it lists the approximate production by sector (abstracted) and estimated increase in production per year. Different categories are not necessarily to scale with each other—in particular, military production represents a small percent of production even when at the same "level".
—Agriculture is food and cash crops. Level 5 agricultural production focused entirely on food can feed 100 million people well.
—Consumer goods is anything bought by the consumer: textiles, furniture, canned food, etc. Level 4 consumer goods production can entirely satisfy 50 million people at a good early 1900s standard of living.
—Industrial production is raw materials, heavy industry, capital goods, tools and equipment, etc. Industrial production can support 1 level higher military production for the latter to be efficient. During war time this can increase to 2 or 3 levels higher at the cost of living standards. It's also associated with greater per-turn increases in all four categories.
—Military production is anything supporting the military. Level 3 military production can sustain an army of 200k at Weaponry 5, Equipment 5, and +300 artillery per quarter. A given country can have uneven balance weapons vs artillery: ex 1903 USA was at 5.8 weaponry and +48 artillery per quarter for 235k soldiers.
-Northeast
—Agriculture: Level 3, 500/2000, +35
—Consumer: Level 3, 500/2000, +130
—Industrial: Level 2, 800/1000, +70
—Military: Level 1, 100/500, +25
-Midwest
—Agriculture: Level 3, 1700/2000, +70
—Consumer: Level 2, 500/1000, +50
—Industrial: Level 3, 800/2000, +150
—Military: Level 1, 400/500, +40
-South
—Agriculture: Level 3, 1800/2000, +50
—Consumer: Level 1, 0/500, +20
—Industrial: Level 1, 200/500, +25
—Military: Level 0, 400/500, +20
-West
—Agriculture: Level 2, 100/1000, +35
—Consumer: Level 0, 90/500, +15
—Industrial: Level 0, 340/500, +25
—Military: Level 0, 100/500, +5
Environmental Modifiers:
—Boll Weevil spread: -5 agricultural production per turn per turn in the South.
Industry:
Industrial Planning Association: Elected from industry workers, it is in charge of developing and coordinating of industry. +5 to government industry actions.
—Agricultural Planning Association: Part of the IPA. Continuously improves and buys land (especially from failing farmers) and capital, and hires more workers. +5 to actions working with agriculture, agricultural collectivization to IPA slowly increases
—Universal Development: The construction arm of the IPA.
Banks of Exchange Statisticians and Planners: +5 to certain industrial related actions. Applies to some organization (non-government) rolls.
Interior:
National Stability: Low
Unemployment: Medium
Partisan Activity:
—Gray Army/White League: Anti-government and anti-black/Jewish/Catholic guerrilla warfare.
——Estimated Size: ~1000 West, ~2000 Midwest, ~1000 Northeast, ~20,000 South
——Estimated Quality: Regulars
——Estimated Military Equipment: 3
—Pinkertons: Sabotaging industry, infiltrated army, spying on activities for the Alaskan exiled government.
——Estimated Size: Up to ~24,000 Midwest and Northeast
National:
Counter-Reactionary Taskforce (1903 Q4): Internal intelligence agency that investigates and stops the Pinkerton sabotage ring.
Provincial:
Intelligence Network (1903 Q4): Appalachia only. Cell based, investigates and stops the Pinkerton sabotage ring.
Local:
The Police: Communes control police, though with many departments wholly siding against the revolution, coverage is spotty.
North American Red Army:
Army size: 235k (Q +1), slowly demobilizing, some into the provincial militia
Provincial militia size: N/A
Mobilization Ability: Provincial militia right away, then 0.1% of population per quarter
—Strategy Committee and Officer Training: +10 to strategy or planning rolls.
—Artillery Corps Training: +5 to artillery rolls.
—Intimidation training: Allows for non-violent conflict resolutions.
—Field Medics: Reduces deaths from casualties, -20% total casualties post battle.
—Combat engineers: +10 to rolls building fortifications, +5 to other related rolls, +5 to maximum fortification bonus.
—Cuban Liberation Army Connections: The United Front has worked with the CLA for a long time, allowing the NARA to make use of their experience and vice versa. +5 to guerrilla actions including planning rolls.
Training:
—Experienced Training Cadres: +10 to training new recruits.
—Civilian Self-Defense Programs: An expanded recruitment base which requires less training. +5 to training new recruits.
Army Infrastructure:
—Mountain Bases: Bases and supply caches in the mountains of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, navigable only with local guides. Allows for safe refuge. Expanded and used as bases for the Revolutionary Army. +5 to local guerrilla fighting and +5 to defensive infantry rolls in the area.
—Southern Appalachia fallback bases: Stores supplies and served as bases for the Revolutionary Army to operate from. Allows cohesion when retreating rather than dispersing into the population. +5 to military actions near Southern Appalachia.
—AB Construction Commission: Builds roads, bridges, etc. in rural Appalachia. +5 to transport or movement in Appalachia.
North American Red Navy:
East Coast Dockyard quantity: High
West Coast Dockyard quantity: Low
Atlantic Navy
Size: Small
Quality: Adequate
Training: Adequate
Morale: High
Pacific Navy
Size: Tiny
Quality: Adequate
Training: Low
Morale: Medium
Stats:
Bold means a stat is improving, Italics means a stat is worsening. [None/Critical/Tiny/Minimal] / [Low/Small/High] / [Adequate/Medium] / [High/Large/Low] / [Ideal/Huge/Booming/Maximum]
People's Republic of Hawaii
Constitution:
Providing for universal (excepting executive officials under the 1894 Constitution and 1900 Organic Act), equal, and direct adult suffrage to elect for biennial terms assemblies and judges for self-governing communes none of which shall be larger than its island as well as to a supreme unitary national assembly with legislative power as a whole and with executive power through committees or working groups, with delegates subject to imperative mandates of their parties and, along with judges and other magistrates, to immediate recall, but to be paid a stipend no lower than the median adult male worker's wage so that assemblies can meet continuously.
Committing the state to socialist aims including the basic welfare of the citizens and residents and of the land and seas, by means of socialization and collective administration of property.
Recently Passed Laws:
Nationalized Plantations (1903 Q3): +1 action
Hawaiian Army:
—Standardized on Revolutionary Army lines, including cooperation into the future.
Providing for universal (excepting executive officials under the 1894 Constitution and 1900 Organic Act), equal, and direct adult suffrage to elect for biennial terms assemblies and judges for self-governing communes none of which shall be larger than its island as well as to a supreme unitary national assembly with legislative power as a whole and with executive power through committees or working groups, with delegates subject to imperative mandates of their parties and, along with judges and other magistrates, to immediate recall, but to be paid a stipend no lower than the median adult male worker's wage so that assemblies can meet continuously.
Committing the state to socialist aims including the basic welfare of the citizens and residents and of the land and seas, by means of socialization and collective administration of property.
Recently Passed Laws:
Nationalized Plantations (1903 Q3): +1 action
Hawaiian Army:
—Standardized on Revolutionary Army lines, including cooperation into the future.
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