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KitFisto1997 and Ernak's Glorious ISOT Game™ MK II: Electric Boogaloo

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KitFisto1997

KitFisto1997

Pull my Devil Trigger, He-Man!
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Mango Country, Central Queensland
Note: I'm pretty new to all these new forums and sub-forums, so I'm not entirely sure if this is the right place to put these sorts of games. @Cetashwayo gave me the go-ahead to place it here, but I'm fine with the thread being moved if it belongs elsewhere.

After months of inactivity and general laziness on my part, I'm officially back in action with a few maps, timeline updates and other works somewhere down the pipeline and now this.

For those who aren't in the know, what I (and @Ernak) have in store is a collaborative 'ISOT Game'. An ISOT Game is similar to your bog-standard play-by-post map game, except the players are presented with a blank world map and are allowed to place a set number of items onto blank 'WorldA' map. These items could be entire nation-states, individuals, vehicles or any other entity from any fictional or non-fiction setting. ISOT Games have often led to some bizarre endgame scenarios and stories spawning out of them, so I hope to bring a little bit of the fun and madness over to Sufficient Velocity.

Hopefully, this game ends with a bang and not a whimper. I've set up a Discord server for the purposes of discussing this TL, but it's limited to players only. PM me for the link if you're interested.

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RULES

  • Make a claim before you post a turn.
  • One turn is half a year.
  • Player limit is to be determined, I might cap it at six or so players so we can have multiple turns.
  • Players can have five ISOTs per turn. Nations, items, vehicles and/or characters can be ISOT'd. If you're unsure, see me.
  • No 'godmodding' (i.e. adding any 'overpowered' characters/nations, might change depending on future ISOTs). If someone ISOTs Cthulhu, expect to get something in to counter it (or just slow it down) later.
  • Try to focus on the whole world if you can, splitting updates or working on them over the course of a week or so is permitted. We all have real lives outside of ISOT games.
  • ISOTs from any form of media, including fanfics/AH scenarios/non-canon media/original content, are allowed. Basically, go crazy, but seek permission from other AH.com/SV users if required.
  • Any ISOTs that displace any landmass or add new ones will have to be run via me first. i.e. swapping Australia with R'lyeh or fusing a copy of Great Britain to North America.
  • Collab turns are allowed, see either myself or @Ernak first before doing so.
  • I'm all for any images, vignettes/fanfics and other pieces of work that will aid in fleshing out the world. Go crazy.
  • You can request to have certain bits of land left alone, but outright reservation of land is forbidden.
  • Other map game rules that I can't think of also apply here.
  • Save the map as a .png. jpegs are verboten.
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Template for Nations and Entities

Nation Name:
Commonly known as:
Government:
Capital:
ISOTed from:
Technology level:
Year ISOTed from:
Special traits:
Territory ISOTed:
Population:
Religions:
Languages:
Head(s) of State:
Head(s) of Government:
Brief history:

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Entity/Character Name:
Type of Entity:
ISOTed from:
Abilities:
Description:
 
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KitFisto1997's ISOTs
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    • To start the game off, here's the first set of nations that I'm ISOT'ing onto the world map. Each player will submit their nations/items/characters and an accompanying world map. Once that's done, the actual game can commence.

    Nation Name: Skyrim
    Commonly known as: The Old Kingdom, The Throat of the World
    Government: Imperial Province (Elective Monarchy)
    Capital: Solitude
    ISOTed from: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
    Technology level: Medieval/Fantasy
    Year ISOTed from: 4th​ Era 201, mere minutes before Alduin attacks Helgen.
    Special traits: Alduin the World Eater is also ISOT'd. Imperial forces still occupy the Western half of the Province. Magic, Thu'um and other such elements from the Elder Scrolls series are now 'enabled' throughout the world.
    Territory ISOTed: All of it
    Population: 8 to 9.5 million (rough estimate)
    Religions: The Eight Divines, Talos Worship (Illegal under Imperial rule), Reachman Faith
    Languages:
    Head(s) of State:     High King (De-facto vacant – Contested between Imperial forces and Stormcloak rebels under Ulfric Stormcloak)
    Head(s) of Government: High Queen Elisif the Fair (de-facto)
    Brief history: The land of Skyrim is currently locked in a two-way civil war between the Imperial loyalists – led by General Tullius – and the pro-Nord Stormcloaks – led by Ulfric Stormcloak, the self-declared High King. Skyrim is home to the Nords, a humanoid race that has a strong resistance to all forms of frost – both magical and natural. Other races from across Tamriel are also found throughout the province but are smaller in number.

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    Nation Name: Kingdom of England
    Commonly known as: England
    Government: Absolute Monarchy
    Capital: London
    ISOTed from: OTL
    Technology level: Mid Medieval
    Year ISOTed from: 1086
    Special traits: None
    Territory ISOTed: All Norman-controlled territory, plus the Welsh Marches
    Population: 2 million (rough estimate)
    Religions: Catholic Christianity
    Languages: Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Cornish and Welsh
    Head(s) of State: William of Normandy (reigning from OTL 1066)
    Head(s) of Government: Unknown
    Brief history: The Kingdom of England was invaded and subjugated by the Norman Duke William 'the Bastard', circa 1066. It has been twenty years since the conquest and subjugation of the old Anglo-Saxon lords, who have since been replaced with more loyal French and Norman-speaking lackeys. England has seen a profound change in the past two decades, but the first foreign King is starting to show his age…

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    Nation Name: Cape Colony
    Commonly known as: Dutch South Africa
    Government: Governate of the Dutch East India Company
    Capital: Cape Town
    ISOTed from: OTL
    Technology level: 17th​ Century
    Year ISOTed from: 1660
    Special traits: None
    Territory ISOTed: Entire Colony
    Population: 5000~ (estimate)
    Religions: Dutch Reformed, Native Beliefs
    Languages: Dutch
    Head(s) of State: Jan van Riebeeck
    Head(s) of Government: Jan van Riebeeck
    Brief history: The Cape Colony was established in 1652, by East India Company navigator Jan van Riebeeck as a stop-over port and permanent settlement, mostly for the purposes of trading with the Dutch colonies and vassals in the Far East. The small settlement has only been around for the past half-decade, making its existence reliant on regular trade with the Amsterdam and its allies.

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    Nation Name: Imperial State of Iran
    Commonly known as: Iranian Empire, Iran and Persia (archaic)
    Government: Semi-Constitutional Monarchy
    Capital: Tehran
    ISOTed from: King of Kings: An Iranian SI
    Technology level: Late 2010s to early-mid 2030s. Some experimental technology is in the works.
    Year ISOTed from: 2019 (100 years since the birth of the late Mohammad Reza Shah)
    Special traits: The Iranian Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan, Herat, Free Oman and Socotra are all under some degree of military occupation.
    Territory ISOTed: All of Iran and their occupied territories in the Middle East
    Population: 100 million~ (rough estimate)
    Religions: Islam (Shia and Sunni), Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism
    Languages: Farsi, Arabic, Kurdish and other local languages
    Head(s) of State: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi II, Shahanshah and Guardian of Iran
    Head(s) of Government: Prime Minister Mohammad Khatami
    Brief history: The Imperial State of Iran is by far THE major power in TTL's Middle East. The culturally diverse and long-lived nation-state has lead the way in liberalising the Islamic faith, patrolling the turbulent seas of East Africa and the Indian Ocean and keeping the peace in the Middle East since the collapse of the Saudi regime. The Shah of Iran wields an inordinate amount of power, especially when compared to his European counterparts, but must share power with a democratically elected Prime Minister. This version of Iran has fully-fledged WMD arsenal, along with a small space station in orbit (think something between the size of Salyut and Mir) and a few kill-sats that are designed to take out ground-based targets.

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    Nation Name: Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
    Commonly known as: Islamic State, ISIS
    Government: Theocracy (Caliphate), de-jure Military Dictatorship.
    Capital: Raqqa
    ISOTed from: OTL
    Technology level: Modern technology, ex-Soviet, NATO and Iraqi/Syrian regime arms.
    Year ISOTed from: 2015
    Special traits: None
    Territory ISOTed: The Islamic State at its greatest extent.
    Population: 6.2 million (estimate)
    Religions: Islam (Shia and Sunni) and Christianity
    Languages: Arabic, Kurdish
    Head(s) of State: Caliph (self-proclaimed) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
    Head(s) of Government: Abu Arkan al-Ameri
    Brief history: The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is a brutal Islamist dictatorship, straddling the sovereign nations of Iraq and Syria. The self-proclaimed Caliphate sprung out of the void that was left by NATO forces leaving Iraq and the chaos of the neighbouring Syrian Civil War. The regime is well-known for its slick propaganda videos and its brutality toward anyone it deems heretical.



    Aaaaand here's the world map...
     
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    • If any of ya'll want territory left alone for another *potential* (emphasis on potential) second round of ISOTs, ask me or @Ernak.
     
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    • Nation Name: Ordensstaat Burgundy
    Commonly known as: Burgundy
    Government: Totalitarian Ultranational Socialist Dictatorship
    Capital: Ost-Paris
    ISOTed from: The New Order: The Last Days of Europe
    Technology level: OTL 1960s
    Year ISOTed from: 1962
    Special traits: Is extremely militarized, follows a unique interpretation of Nazism entitled "Ultranational Socialism", has a leader who wants to trigger the apocalyspe, and has "more gas chambers than houses"
    Territory ISOTed: The entire "country:
    Population: 20,000,000+
    Religions: Officially state atheist though Protestantism and Catholicism survive underground while the elite practice neo-paganism
    Languages: German
    Head(s) of State: Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler
    Head(s) of Government: Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler
    Brief history: Here

    Nation Name: People's Republic of China
    Commonly known as: China
    Government: Multi-Party Federal Social Democratic Republic
    Capital: Beijing
    ISOTed from: Qilai! Qilai!
    Technology level: A decade or so ahead of us
    Year ISOTed from: 2029
    Special traits: N/A
    Territory ISOTed: The entire country except for Manchuria, Yunnan, Sichuan, Hainan, Taiwan, Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai, and the areas occupied by the other PRC
    Population: About 700,000,000 million or so
    Religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Confucianism, and Taoism
    Languages: Chinese
    Head(s) of State: President Yu Lin
    Head(s) of Government: Premier Agnes Chow
    Brief history: Basically Stalin dies in 1949 and is succeeded by Marshal Zhukov, leading to Mao Zedong falling from power in 1953 and replaced by a more moderate leadership led by Zhu De and then Deng Xiaoping. Unfortunately, hardline Maoists then take over the PRC in 1958 under Lin Biao and then Jiang Qing. Under Chairman Pu-Yi, the PRC mellows out and after Pu-yi dies, the PRC is now under Deng Xiaoping (again), who pursues a program of detente and liberalizes the PRC. In 1985, the PRC had a Constitutional Convention until 1990, which creates a democratic PRC. After the Kargil War, China acquired two client states in the subcontinent, Hindustan and Bengal. In the war against the "Islamic Caliphate", the PRC, along with the USA and USSR crush the Caliphate over 3-4 years, sealing their alliance which becomes the "Coalition for Freedom" in 2009. This alliance is the current force guiding world order against the Europeans when the ISOT struck

    Nation Name: Eastern Roman Empire
    Commonly known as: Rhomania
    Government: Constitutional Monarchy
    Capital: Constantinople
    ISOTed from: Antithesis
    Technology level: Ahead of us by a few decades
    Year ISOTed from: 2006
    Special traits: N/A
    Territory ISOTed: The entire empire
    Population: 150,000,000
    Religions: Eastern Orthodox
    Languages: Greek, Armenian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Albanian, and Croatian
    Head(s) of State: Empress Eudoxia Palaeologa
    Head(s) of Government: Prime Minister Zadig Galoyan
    Brief history: The Rhomanian Empire has survived various wars and Turkic migrations to the present-day, becoming a constitutional monarchy with a ceremonial monarch in the 19th Century. However, politics are quite conservative with Athens being semi-independent.

    Nation Name: State of Japan
    Commonly known as: Japan
    Government: De jure Constitutional Monarchy, de facto Corporatocracy
    Capital: Tokyo
    ISOTed from: Mirrorshades
    Technology level: Cyberpunk
    Year ISOTed from: 2080
    Special traits: Is a technological superpower and have lots of cyberpunk stuff
    Territory ISOTed: The Japanese Home Islands
    Population: 130,000,000
    Religions: Shinto, Buddhism, and Christianity
    Languages: Japanese
    Head(s) of State: Emperor Takahito
    Head(s) of Government: Prime Minister Hayakawa Ryuichi
    Brief history: "Japan rules the world now. A rising power a century ago, Japan has now taken the lead after the fall of the United States and China, and the weakening of the Soviet Union. Japan is the most advanced state in the world, the pioneer of just about every new piece of tech out there. The archipelago is covered in city, known throughout the world as the Tokyo Complex. Japan has the largest number of space colonies, the largest number of computers and robots, and even maintains its population through mass cloning. Of course, the true power in Japan is not the emperor, or the government, but the megacorporations. These corporations have control of almost every aspect of Japanese life, and for the average Japanese citizen, loyalty to the employer is the most important thing in life. These megacorporations have their fingers in everyone's pie, including owning almost half of the market share in the Soviet and American governments. "

    Nation Name: German Empire
    Commonly known as: Germany
    Government: Constitutional Monarchy
    Capital: Berlin
    ISOTed from: The Land is the People
    Technology level: More or less like OTL
    Year ISOTed from: 2011
    Special traits: N/A
    Territory ISOTed: The entire country
    Population: 100,000,000
    Religions: Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism
    Languages: German with a large Polish minority
    Head(s) of State: Kaiser Ludwig II
    Head(s) of Government: Reichskanzlerin Stella Wechsler
    Brief history: Germany in this world won the world war analogues and is the hegemon of Europe. While initially authoritarian, Germany has transititioned to a constitutional monarchy.


     
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    • Opifex-Plebian said:
    What? Game made it petty that elective monarchy where Jarl have significance power on who get to be monarch....

    That literally why Civil war is occurring because Jarl couldn't agree who should be high king
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    Fixed. The 'Absolute Monarchy' part was in reference to the Septim Empire.
     
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