The 1940s clause in the constitution that offered large families cash payments was done so in the worry that the fishing industry would collapse due to lack of workers. Unofrtunately, the fishing industry did collapse because of over-fishing and so now there's a lot of Newfoundlanders left jobless. Couple that with the statistic that more Newfoundlanders are born than die or emigrate, and there's suddenly a lot of incentive to have smaller families.
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Has long ended with a successful annexation of Kafuestroom and Grootmyn by Niassa.
Presumably Japan decided to install a king in the Philippines along with their occupation force
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Ah right… a Japanese intervention… very interesting.
I always forget there is a lot of lore on discord that we don’t see
Ah right… a Japanese intervention… very interesting.
I always forget there is a lot of lore on discord that we don’t see
I am pretty sure Japanese military intervention in the Philippines has been mentioned in the thread before.
I am not certain if ever directly, but on the sidebar of news posts at least.
Napoleon congregated executive power around himself in a...legally dubious manner.
In October 2, 2023...
- The French legislature approved a bill to annex Luxembourg
- Explosions rock government offices in Paris
- President Marie Toussaint dissolves the legislature after a request by PM Bonaparte because he's anti-annexation of Luxembourg
- French military tells other European countries to calm down because no territorial aggression is imminent and France would be Fine
- The president issues a second decree authorizing a State of Emergency allowing the PM to make executive, legislative, and judicial decisions. The decree expires in a year
- Bonaparte addresses the nation, basically stating the previous, but also a restriction on media and a strict 9pm curfew
- He asks for the French people to place their faith in him as they found stability in his forebearers. He states that he would totally dedicate himself to the state and the people in it
- He goes on about how the blood within him is the "very blood of the French nation itself" and that he alone can save France
- Also goes on about liberating France from the system imposed upon them as it has led them to chaos
- insert standard nationalistic rhetoric here
- Boats to England jumped in primes to 6x the previous
- Bonaparte will reconvene a new Parliament in the future and that governmental changes will be enacted in the coming weeks
I should say that this all came about in a live event last week in the Discord, and that's where I'm getting the data from
Noooooooot exactly. For one, Bonaparte's actions were in response to his own party's legislative actions, that being the annexation of Luxembourg.
I imagine it depends on who you ask, with opinions being split. The pre-coup government certainly didn't want to be a department of the Hexagon, though.
Not... exactly. Again, what Kibbutznik said, that the effort to annex Luxembourg was by his own party, Equipe Bonaparte. This seems to be a matter of reining in who he deems to be extremists (as he has done with the party Memory of 1789) who don't align with his vision for France. In this case, any further annexations beyond Alsace (which was basically just French in all but name) seems to be... not in the best interests of Bonaparte, who wants more than anything to preserve the stability of France and get it to prosper once again.
The way I see it, things are practically going to be a one-man show in France and everyone just has to get along with it or get jailed.
Well, from the sidebars of BBC articles, it suggests that a pro-French group has taken over Luxembourg, and that the Prime Minister is all for Luxembourgian independence. Probably a coup of sorts which Bonaparte doesn't want to involve himself with lest he draw the ire of the rest of Europe
The side story about the shopping trolleys is honestly either too funny or a good example of reality being very stupid.
