



King Edward VIII in uniform.

Forced once again to flee from syndicalism, King Edward VIII and the royal family fled while Canada fell and set up yet another government in exile in the far flung nation of Australasia which just purged their lands of any taint of syndicalism . With this, the dream of reclaiming the home isles was but nothing but a pipe dream. Still Edward clings to the throne as King of the British Empire and her colonies, despite how much of it is now gone. For now Australasia and the exiles lick their wounds and rebuilding their strength, the old flag won’t fall so easily . While the RCN may have been sculled during the fall, the RNA had Emerge as the empire's jewel of the pacific and the largest fleet in the region second only to Japan. In addition, the relative isolation granted to the continent meant that Australasia could develop it's industries with no meddling from the outside world. As for now, the country is under the Dictatorial rule of the royalist Australasia National Guard and now lays in wait for their next course of action





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Last Known Photograph of Charles De Gaulle, Inspecting Troops druing the lead up to the fall of Algiers

After the collapse of Nationalist France, the Remaining elements of the French army etheir wound up dead, fleeing to other nations, or simply MIA. Among the most notable of which is Charles De Gaulle, Who was last seen fending off Communard forces near Sidi Ferruch. While presumed dead, the De Gaulle's body had yet to be found, hency why Paris has placed a bounty on the man for either his cpature or death.











“Kaiser” August I, leader of the illegitimate government in Madagaskar

While Goering defied the kaiser’s request to set up a government in exile in the heart of the Africa continent, he did not completely threw the Kaiserreich in the bin. He allowed them to set up a safe haven on the distant colony of Madagaskar. While most of the royal family resides in The Danube Federation, a select few chose instead chose to flee to Madagaskar to supposedly continue the fight and crowning August Wilhelm as Kaiser. August feels the shame brought upon the house of Hohenzollern. The fatherland has fallen and now is divided between east and west, all that remains is a husk of great Kaiserreich is just a overly large spit of undeveloped land east of Goering’s little domain of madness.





As Mittelafrika spirals downwards towards a collapse, August fears that his regime may follow suit.













Back in Europe, as the battle lines are being drawn, the nations who waited on the sidelines watch in worry as a new conflict takes hold of the continent.









Kaiser Karl I of the Danube Federation.

The Habsburgs have dealt with a lot of turmoil during this period. First was the economic aftermath of the black Monday crash. Next was the failed Ausgleich renegotiations that saw the fractured empire embroiled in a civil war, not helped by opportunistic neighbors sizing land from right under Austria’s nose. Finally there was the Italian republic falling under the control of far right radicals, who wish to both unite the Italian peninsula and destroy the Habsburgs once and for all.





Yet despite it all, Austria managed to stand strong even as the world around it burned. After bringing Hungary back into the gold, Karl’s vision of a federalized Austria-Hungary could finally come into fruition. After reconstruction of the war wrecked Hungary was completed, and the Italians were pushed back (and then left to be torn apart by the syndicalists) the Danube federation was birthed.





Too late however was a United Austria to make a difference in the 2nd world war. The Russian flag flew over Berlin and a wave of refugees began flooding the border. Among them was the House of Hohenzollern. While allowed residence in Vienna, the royals in exile are but political tools of the Habsburgs. As Austria is surrounded by Syndicalists to the west, and the Russian bear breathing down its neck to the east.

















The great King of the Scandinavian Union. From left to right, King Haakon VII of Norway, King Gustav V of Sweden, and King Christian X of Denmark

While the rest of Europe burned in the ashes of war and revolution, the region of Scandinavia remained untouched by the turmoil that had inflicted the rest of the continent. Still the nordic nations knew that alone they were vulnerable to the whims of any great power should trouble come. As such in early 1937 the treaty of Stockholm was signed between Norway, Denmark, and Sweden to form a united Scandinavian Nation.





While still maintaining the region’s commitment to neutrality, both the Syndicalist west and the Russians to the east are more than happy to violate the Union’s sovereignty.





Just prior to the signing of the Stockholm treaty, British agents tried to instigate a Syndicalist take over of Norway. In the present The fall of Finland saw a flood of Finnish refugees escaped to the borders of the Scandinavian Union, among which are various partisan groups opposing Russia’s annexation of their homeland. The refusal to hand over those of being suspected rebel leaders has soured Russo-Nordic relations.













Michael Collins, President and Commander in chief of the Republic of Ireland

On that foggy morning in Dublin, Michael Collins was on route to the parliament of the Irish Republic. The nation was all set to join the Reichspakt and all that was needed was Collins’s final word. In his address he surprised his country men when he declared that Ireland will not swear allegiance to the Kaiser, citing the plaque above the entrance to the building that the Irish shall swear oath to ether King or Kaiser. While officially neutral, Irish soldiers would serve in various theaters of conflict. Most notably duering the Second American Civil War, Where Irish soldiers can be seen fighting with Federalist Soldiers. Later, as the MacArthur's Forces capitulated, various Irish-Americans would make the trip to Ireland to escape the chaos of the new Syndicalist revolution that was soon to take hold in America. In the Spain, fervent Catholic volunteers fought for various right wing militias during the civil war that followed. Ireland itself meanwhile was going through the Green Leap Forward, Collins ordered for a rapid industrialization of the emerald isle, the likes of which the country has yet seen before. First was the lax of the nation's immigration laws so as to have more free hands for the tasks ahead. next was a massive revamp of both Ireland's agricultural sectors and steel industries. By the time that the second world war ended, Ireland had made tremendous changes to a industrial power in little than half a decade.

Such success was not without failure on Collins part. For starters Ireland remained a dictatorship thanks to Collins rigging the elections in his favor. But perhaps his most glaring failure is his heavy handed handling of the tensions in Ulster. His military crack down has only fueled the tensions between the Catholic Irish and the Protestant Ulsters.











Eugen Bircher, Fuhrer of the Swiss State

During the Savoyard Crisis, The Swiss tried to contact any great power in their time of need. As a result, the swiss lost both the occupied territory of Savony and it's own in the form of Romandy. As the Government was only but reeling from this humiliation, Military officers lead by Eugen Bircher marches on Bern and declared that a new order has risen in Switzerland. Ever the Germanophile, Bircher made German the sole langue of Switzerland and claimed the title of Fuhrer (lit:Leader in German) and began a ethnic cleansing of any element of French within the nation. Once the entire country was under his thumb, Bircher closed Switzerland off from the outside world and shutting down any contact with all nation in addition to stating that any aircraft flying within Swiss airspace would be shot down. This extreme act of isolation had earned the Switzerland the new nick name of "the Black Spot of Europe".







" And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances"