Perhaps unexpected is the agreement by the Prussian territories to join Poland; having received promises of cultural autonomy during a prolonged wooing campaign from Warsaw and feeling rather different from their boisterous eastern brethren, the Prussians of Konigsberg overcome their hesitancy and accede to the new republic. In truth, the decades of incorporation by the Russian Empire have reduced its German population to a noticeable minority, and unlike the floods of Polish emigres seeking to return to the homeland, most Prussians in Germany seem inclined to stay
Huh didn't expect that ngl. But makes sense with Prussian Germans having plurality but not majority in the region because of population migrations under Russia. That'll help boost the effectiveness of Polish campaigning for integration, as well as amplifying the socio-cultural differences between no longer mostly German-majority Prussia and a German majority state that has been radicalizing for 50 years.
Both seek cultural and national reunion with their neighboring brethren - Ruthenia in a future free of the Romanovs, Istria rather sooner once the Habsburgs are gone - and consider themselves transitional regimes rather than complete nations.
Ohoho, quite a bit of options for our friends here. Ruthenia huh, I wonder if that's just gonna be the name of Ukraine ITTL. But Ukraine as the name for that region's isn't recent, dating back to the Zaporozian Cossacks (although locals self-identify as Rus or Rusyn with a gradually increasing Ukrainian self-identification). So there's a minor chance it could refer to plurinational Belarusian-Ukrainian national identity?
Meanwhile on Istria, I'm inclined to opt for a republican Croatia-Slavonia during the Congress on Eastern Europe as our Istrian ally's eventual destination. That's cuz I doubt - even with additional leverage - we could engineer an Allies-sympathetic republican Danubian Federal Republic out of all the remaining areas of the former Quadruple Monarchy solely through the Congress. But occupation lines' probable impact to cost of options would likely mean a reduced allied or allied-friendly Croatian state as the favorable destination for Istrian integration.
On the vote itself I'm a bit torn, but picking the vote option below for now after looking back onto the consequences of sub-optimal reconstruction in the First Republic and a comparatively successful reconstruction in the USA (with even the right-wing GOP being in a moderate liberal-social liberal continuum by the era's standards AFAIK). I think we'll just have to bite the bullet to rinse out the power of the absolutist Tsarist/less absolutist autocractic Hasburg
...the action also spread out annual expenses, which is more helpful for government budgeting than a lower but less spread out annual expense
[X] We will guarantee enduring democracy with an extended reconstruction process.
