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==Nations of Deathworld==

===Nazi Germany===
By now, the Third Reich is well into its 80 years of rulership. During the conquest of Europe, many in the Nazi High Command turned to questions of the occult and Demonology to grant them the advantage of their conventional foes. The Karotechia, the Ahnenerbe, and the Thule Society all grew in importance as they mastered the arts of summoning Demons to do their will, as well as the science of the old magicks that had long been forgotten. 

Now, most of the old High Command is gone, supplanted by the growing Magocracy. Hitler is still alive but has long since succumbed to insanity and now serves as a figurehead to be trotted out for public appearances but is otherwise locked away for his own safety. He's still incredibly popular and is viewed as the Father of the Nation, but real power now lies with the Mages. Life for the average pure Aryan citizen is fairly good in the Reich, but the same cannot be said for the less pure members. 

Races like the Italians and French are treated as second-class citizens, with access to the best resources like education, health-care, and so on restricted to the Aryans. They can still serve with the Army but in less important positions. Magically talented members of these races are refused proper training, but instead are often lobotomized and used as hosts for the Demon-Human hybrid soldiers that strike fear into the hearts of Soviet soldiery. 

The Untermenschen are kept around mostly as a slave class, interred in work camps. They are often used by Sorcerers to pay the cost in souls that their Demonic Allies demand. The Jews in the Reich have almost been entirely wiped out.

In battle, the Nazis use a combination of tactics. Some conventional weaponry is still used, but it is mainly restricted to the low-quality penal and conscript units. The real power of the Nazi army lies in its Battle-sorcerers and their demonic allies. Some of these possess tanks and weaponry, improving their effectiveness, some serve as spies and others simply manifest themselves to rip and tear. These are aided by the aforementioned Demon-Human Hybrids, terrifying combinations of man and magic can tear through an entire Soviet infantry battalion. 
====Notable characters====
* Hitler 
* Sorcerer-general Kaiser Wilhelm III

====units====
* Penal legion troopers
* Nazi conscripts 
* Battle-sorcerers (available as unit or character)
* 1st-8th circle demon troops
* Demon engines (panzer tanks/transports)
* Demon-human hybrids (available as unit or character)
* 1st-8th circle greater demons (available as unit or character)
* Specialist units (panzershreck troopers, flamethrowers, heavy weapons squad)
* Luftwaffe bomber planes. (Human piloted or demon controlled)
* Artillery
* Lords of the 1/8th circle (character/warlord)
* Sorcerer-general (character/warlord)
====Notable Nazi Cities====
'''Berlin''' - Still the Capital. Overall, a rather nice place, certainly inoculated against the horrors elsewhere in Europe.

'''New York''' - The Nazi's took New York during their invasion of the East Coast. However, it was always their weakest link and a center for revolutionaries and rebels. Constant military incursions and high crime levels have left it a grim place. It is still fairly heavily populated but has a heavy Military Police presence, known for its brutality. 

'''Philadelphia''' - Philadelphia was one of the first cities the Nazis conquered, and so quickly became its head quarters.  As time went on this "temporary" HQ became the main heart of the Nazi war effort in the Americas, but High command is currently in the process of building a city specifically to act as regional HQ, that being New Berlin. 

'''New Berlin''' - New Berlin is the smallest city within this list, at least in size, but what it represents is massive.   It is being built over the ruins of the former American capital of Washington DC, and acts as a symbol fo the Nazis victory over the former giant.   It is still in the process of being built and is planned for it to become the new administrative centre for Nazi-controlled America.   But for now, it is merely a symbol until the day it is built to the standard the High command wishes for it to be.

'''Detroit''' - "The City of Demons" - The city is essentially a massive production system, used to fuel the fighting against the Constitutionalists and Canada. Portrayed as a modern factory city, it is in reality little more than a death camp, undesirables sent there to work to their death, their blood fueling daemonic rituals. Now it is captured and held by constitutionalist forces during the rather short great zombie war. 

'''Toronto''' - Technically owned by the Nazis. However, it is a but a husk of a city, having been nuked, and a center of brutal fighting. 

'''London''' - The once-mighty heart of the British Empire had fallen.  Now replaced by a city filled with propaganda and symbols of Aryan pride.   But underneath the shining streets and the propaganda covering the walls, a dark force wanders the city streets at night.  Jack the Ripper, an ancient legend within the city, was awakened, and since his awakening has been slaughtering Nazi officials during the dark misty nights, leaving pro-British propaganda.    Because of this squads of Nazi sorcerers have been sent into the streets, either to capture the spirit of Jack or to banish him.

===The Soviet Union===

Without the Nazi's skill in magic, the Soviet Union has turned instead to good ol' Soviet Science to provide them with a worthy counter. The vast industrial giant strip-mines massive quantities of metal and ore to mass-manufacture the fruits of their research: massive, nuclear-powered tanks and power armour. While the core of the army is still its massed infantry, the way is led by these clanking, smoke-belching engines of destruction.

The Soviet Union is now led by a aging Valery Sablin who overthrew the gestalt mind constructed from Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky that is described as “The Abomination of Science that corrupts the ideas of The Long Dead Revolutionary Fathers and defiles their name and body.” by Sablin during a mutiny of his in 1975 in where he delivered a inspiring Speech in Leningrad, which began “The Second Red October” in which the old government collapsed in a mere month under the weight of it’s crimes.

Soviet society is split between three areas, the centralised administration cities (Moscow, Vladivostok, New Stalingrad on the West Coast), the hardworking industrial cities (Magnitogorsk etc) and the slow paced collective farm villages spread across the Union providing bountiful foods. The central cities are towering piles of steel and concrete molded into beautiful neo-Soviet style architectures, an image of the communist utopia Sablin dreams of one day the world will become. Beneath the streets is a vast support network of tunnels that used to be filled with oppressed workers toiling in the undercity to supply the world above. Where the Thieves World was literal, as are the "roofs" criminal gangs who operated under. Now most of it has been converted to underground metros to provide accessible public transport to the populace, though much is kept as is in a stark reminder of what happens when science goes too far. Industrial cities are somewhat worse off, practicality out weights aesthetics here. With most being geared towards war and necessity production with the ever looming threat of war, though some towns have been slowly shifted towards luxury production with the uneasy peace being kept. The morale however is kept up by ever shortening work hours with the arrival of automation and the promise of rewards for exceeding quotas. The collective farms vary more, but tend to be small and efficient. The pace of life is slow there, with perhaps some of the shortest working hours in the union during particular seasons. It is a safe and perhaps comfortable life; but also not a life for the ambitious, with little prospect of climbing up the social ladder beyond joining the local Soviet for those who choose to spend their entire life there.



====Notable comrades====
* Comrade General Secretary Valery Sablin
* Comrade Marshall Dmitry Yazov
* Comrade First Secretary of The Pacific SFSR Bernie Sanders 
* Comrade Vladimir Putin, Chairman of The KGB
* Comrade Father Alexander Men

====units====
* Soviet infantry squad
* Scouts
* Snipers (available as unit or character)
* Tanks
* Artillery
* Red chaplain (character that can stand alone or be attached to most other squads)
* Combat medics (available as unit or character that can be attached to most other squads)
* Power armor squad 
* Mech suits (available as unit or character)
* Engineer (character that can stand alone or be attached to most other squads)
* Moving castle (battle fortress superheavy tank) 
* Soviet comrade-general (character/warlord)
* Master of engineering (character/warlord)

====Notable Soviet Cities====
'''Moscow''' - Capital

'''Vladivostok''' - Larger than in our timeline due to increased Soviet Pacific presence. Underwent a massive boom during the early years of the American invasion.

'''Novo Stalingrad''' - Formerly the city of San Francisco. The administrative center of Soviet America. 

'''Novo Arkhangelsk''' - Formerly Anchorage (Sitka was rather too small to take up the title again). Local administrative center for Alaska.

'''Novo Sevastopol''' - Formerly Los Angeles. Smaller than in our timeline due to focus on building up Novo Stalingrad, and due to stricter immigration. A center of Soviet Propaganda Film Production and retirement destination for loyal elderly servants of the Soviet Union. Disneyland was still built but is rife with Communist Propaganda.

===The Constitutionalists===
One of the newest players on the world stage, but in a way also one of the oldest. The Constitutionalists are all that's left of free America, formed by exiled dissidents from both Nazi and Soviet-occupied areas as well as the survivors that eke out an existence in the ruined No-Man's land between them. They worship the Founding Lords, Presidents of time gone past, who serves as an ideal of what America should be. But they are not just an ideal.

The Constitutionalists have mastered the art of necromancy, and with it, they hope to gain the advantage over the hated invaders, Soviet and Nazi alike. Preaching "Equality in Death", they have an ever-growing army of the dead building in the empty spaces of America. Society is fairly strictly divided, with Slaves at the bottom, these are the reanimated corpses of Nazi and Soviet soldiers, those who did not choose Undeath but had the Gift forced upon them. Above them are the still-living members, often used as spies and infiltrators, and rewarded with citizenship if they serve well. Most sentient Constitutionalists have become Citizens, intelligent Undead with full rights who lead the masses of Slaves. At the top of Constitutional Society are the Founding Lords.

The Founding Lords are (or were) the dead presidents of times gone past. Some are still sleeping beneath the Earth, and their resurrection is a priority. Others now stalk the Earth, their minds warped from decades, even centuries, of death. The Lords are massively powerful, gigantic eldritch corpse-gods, the very sight of which is enough to drive any rational man mad.

Another major aspect of the Constitutionalist survival in 2020 is VATO - Voodoo-Atlantic Treaty Organization. 

The Voodoo-Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1962, after the Cuban Voodoo Crisis. The undead Fidel Castro, wary of Nazi encroachment into the Caribbean, worked with American necromancers and prepared "Operation Locust" - an undead plague that was poised to sweep over the Eastern United States. The weapon was provided by the USA. The knowledge that the shipment had been made lead to an international incident, in which the Nazis eventually backed down (behind the scenes, they determined that they could finish the confrontation after developing a cure to Operation Locust and there was no benefit in playing their hand instantly). As per the agreement, Nazi military forces removed their Mobile Magic Summoners from Hispaniola and parts of Africa.

In the wake of this incident, the USA and Cuba found themselves with similar goals. They signed the VATO agreement - they would share information, both intelligence wise and of newly developed voodoo rituals. As well, they would try to protect each other's interests in the Caribbean. Not long after, the newly independent Republic of Hispaniola was admitted to the VATO pact and, not long after that, the rising UAR (United African Republic). Together, these four nations were able to muster a response to overwhelming Nazi and Soviet Global Power."

VATO still exists as of 2020 and proved to be a larger problem than the Nazis and Soviets anticipated. Both the USA and UAR developed their necromantic rituals at a much faster rate than expected, and the UAR had a swiftly burgeoning economy. The Nazi cure for Operation Locust was never developed, as newer weaponry and tactics soon replaced it.

One of the most monumental moments of the VATO Alliance was the exchange in which the UAR gave the USA a plethora of badly needed ancient voodoo secrets, and in return, as a gesture of goodwill, the USA shipped over the Founding Lord Monroe. Monroe's "Monroe Doctrine", which was originally a statement of stopping colonialism in the Americas, found a remarkable reinvention in Africa and Monroe is worshiped there with great reverence, his defensive Magical abilities being of great asset to the UAR. VATO is also instrumental in ensuring that none of the other factions reaches a total dominance of the Mid-Atlantic oceanic routes.


The final part of the Constitutionalists, and likely their best kept secret, is the location of their final living population.   These people are not necromancers, nor undead in anyway, these are the few that still hold loyalty to America and still have their lives.    It is unknown to all but a few exactly how many people still survive, or if the rumours of a still "pure" American population are merely used to keep the remaining necromancers from falling into despair.

What is known, is that if they do exist then these populations are likely so well guarded it would be easier to kill every single founding father than ever get near to these populations, as these may very well be the only remaining Americans of whom will rebuild America if the Constitutionalists win.

But for now, only the fathers may know if this is all false, or if it is true.

====units====

====Notable Constitutionalist Cities====
'''Vegas''' - The West Coast is almost all Soviet controlled but the City of Sin is now the City of Death. The undead forces of the Constitutionalists defend the Hoover Dam and Vegas Proper, requiring no supplies other than ammo and fresh bodies. The Soviet attackers are no where near as lucky; heat exhaustion is almost as lethal as the Tesla weaponry employed by Constitutionalist shock troopers, and dehydration is a near endless problem. Yet the Soviets fight on, for taking Vegas is a blow against the heart of Capitalism itself.

'''New Orleans''' - The city of New Orleans is the largest that the Constitutionalists have.  It is home to various schools of necromancy as well as several vital parts of infrastructure to the ongoing war effort.

It is currently a high priority target for the Nazi Forces due to its value, but it is defended ferociously by hordes of undead and the ancient Necromancer teachers who reside within the city, leaving the land between the city and its Nazi enemies a barren wasteland of death and demons.

'''Denver''' - The current capital of the Constitutionalists, and one of the most important cities within the constitutionalists current holdings, as it contains almost the brain of the Constitutionalists war effort, as while Vegas acts as its heart, and New Orleans acts as its muscles, Denver acts as the brain that controls the other parts of the body.

====Active Founding Fathers====
'''Washington''' - The Founder 

'''Jefferson''' - The Apostle 

'''J. Adams''' - Judgement

'''J.Q. Adams''' - Prophet

'''Monroe''' - The Watcher (Currently in the UAR.)

'''Jackson''' -  "Dread Hickory" (Jackson was a failed summoning, turning into a man-treant hybrid and going on a path of bloodshed still referred to as the "Trail of Tears")

'''T.Roosevelt''' - The King of Beasts 

'''Lincoln''' - The Ancient One

'''Grant''' - The War Grinder

'''F.D.Roosevelt''' - The New Death (The Final Founding Father)

'''Cleveland''' - The Dark Horse

'''Taft''' - Scimitar 

'''Coolidge''' - Silent Death 

'''Wilson''' - Spear of Justice

===Free Britain===
As Europe falls under the bootheels of the Nazis, Britain prepares for an invasion from the continent. With the humiliation at Dunkirk fresh in memory, the Army prepares to dig in and fight to the last as the Battle of Britain erupts in the air. Britain holds out for a good while, but in the end, without a second front to worry about, Operation Sea Lion begins and German troops begin landing on the south coast. The Army falls back to its defensive positions, but they can only hold out for so long and slowly, but surely, Britain too falls. The German forces are assisted by Fifth Columnists led by Oswald Moseley, who the Germans will soon appoint Governor of the British Isles.

The British Government had already seen this defeat coming though, and had begun work on a plan to keep the most important bits of Britain out of the reach of the Germans. Work had begun on a gigantic nuclear submarine, to evacuate the Royals, the heads of the Army and government as well as all the necessary support for them. As Britain fell, the submarine was made ready and, with the help of the last of the British Navy, managed to break free of the Nazi blockade and out to the open ocean.

But this was not the only preparation that had been made. The impact of the increasingly apparent defeat on the King was particularly acute. He became increasingly withdrawn and depressed, and his daughter Elizabeth, was desperate for some way out of their grim situation. It was then she was approached by a young stage magician named Jasper Maskelyne.

Maskelyne, an illusionist who had assisted in the construction of defences with decoys and cunning ruses, in a quest for real magic, had discovered an ancient book, detailing the Fae-spirits that used to live in Albion, and how they might be contacted and dealt with. He had spoken to one of these entities, and was promised the protection of the heart of Britain, if he could only obtain the consent of a Princess. The young Elizabeth was eager to hear of any solution, and together, she and Maskelyne made a deal with the Fae. Elizabeth was somehow possessed by the entity, and Maskelyne made immortal to serve under It, but the heart of the Nation was protected in the submarine which miraculously made it past the German Navy.

British society soon changed aboard the Submarine. King George died, and the Elizabeth-thing rose to the throne, taking Prince Phillip as an easily controlled husband. Parliament dissolved into insignificance, splitting up into various committees and sub-committees dedicated to the running of various aspects of the ship. The British government-in-exile was refused access to the Isolationist USA, and even its former colonies turned against it, especially as Nazi and Soviet influence spread round the globe. The submarine settled into its new existence.

Nowadays, there's effectively three main power blocs. The Queen is effectively in charge. The civilian government keeps most of the ship running, clamping down on dissent as much as it can. The Army is basically all that's left of the Armed Forces, the Navy mostly being destroyed in the evacuation, and the Air Force mostly being subsumed into the Army. The Queen has worked her Fae-magics over a substantial proportion of those in charge to keep them subservient. The Queen's magic serves as the Submarine's protection too, shielding it from hostile eyes. She also blesses certain of her servants, granting them boons that mainly manifest as Fate bending to make them safer, or more likely to succeed.

There is resistance to her regime though. From within, disaffected Republican terrorists plot to remove the Queen entirely, and deep in the slums and food vats, there's plenty of places to hide. And outside of the bounds of civilisation, there are the near-feral Scottish tribes, hidden deep in the ventilation systems and sewers. Originally only a small hardcore of Scottish Nationalists, their numbers have grown over the years, from disaffected Republicans or just people who wandered down the wrong corridor at the wrong time.

Outside of the submarine, the most commonly sighted Free British are commandos, raiding undefended sea-ports for the resources they need, or for bizarre and seemingly mundane items that the Fae Queen demands. The liberation of their Isles is the top priority, but no-one knows what plans the Queen has made in secret, not even Maskelyne.

===Australia===
Crushed by the Soviet War Machine, Australia would have been a non-entity, had it not been for the discovery of an amazing new power source. Though it could not be developed in time to stop the power-armoured Soviets driving deep in Australia, those who were able to flee managed to establish a base in Antarctica, powered by their new engine and protected by a powerful technological shield that hampered scrying attempts as well as disguising the growing polar city. Amongst the other nations, New Australia is often regarded as nothing but a myth.

Deciding that their low numbers meant that Physical resistance to the Super-powers would be impossible, the Australians have withdrawn into themselves, focussing on their own technological development. They were the first nation to put a man on the moon, and have a satellite in LEO. Cybernetic body modification is a fairly common way to maintain the dwindling population. It is the stated goal of the Australian government to build a base on the moon to which the population could be evacuated. The Australians may be safe now, and their custom-built technology gives them an individual advantage, but were anyone to make a serious effort to wipe them out, they wouldn't stand a chance. 

===Japan===
Japan never attacked Pearl Harbor, and never dragged the US into WWII, guaranteeing Nazi/Soviet victory across the world. The Japanese were eventually pushed back on all fronts, and their Fascist military leaders lost favor with the people and the Imperial Family's primary branch. Following the examples of the few ties they had left with the Nazi occultists, the Japanese found their roots in sun-worship and Shintoism, rebuilding ancient traditions long lost after the mass conversion to Buddhism long ago.

The Japanese are a warrior culture to it's core. Every generation wishes to die gloriously in combat, to join the host of ancestral warrior spirits that all Japanese warriors are capable of calling upon. The longer the line, and the more powerful the spirits, the greater the power of the items and person those spirits are summoned to "possess".

Japan is guarded by the Kamikaze, a wall of hurricanes that prevent any and all intrusion onto their sacred homeland. These massive storms abate only long enough for their ships to either exit or enter the isles. Going forth to raid and pillage the world beyond, or to return with their plunder. Only a few traders are permitted past, and only at designated times, and all attempts to infiltrate the lands have been thwarted. Neither the mightiest of German Demon U-Boats nor Soviet Nuclear Warships find passage as they flounder and sink in the wrath of the Kamikaze.

===China===
China is a nation divided. On one side, the immortal chair man Mao, now only a head kept alive by soviet technology, leads his massed Clone armies to conquer the rest of the once united nation. On the other side, the zombified Chiang Kai-Shek, kept alive with a combination of Nazi demonology, Constitutionalist voodoo, and Daoist alchemy, leads the Nationalist forces, comprised of the ancient heroes of China summoned into Terracotta warriors, Geomancers influencing the very energies of the earth and predicting the future through hexagrams, and Daoist martial artists, such as the super-human Bruce Lee, hold the line against the never ending cloned communist armies.

===United African Republic===
Liberia formed the center of the United African Republic, a member of VATO that is the one solid, major ally of the Constitutionalists, who shipped the corpse of Monroe to Monrovia to aid them. The UAR resists Nazi incursions with a mix of voodoo, necromancy and guerilla warfare, as well as Monroe. Influenced by Constitutionalist culture and ideas. Likely comprises of the modified borders of nations of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo. Capital is Monrovia, largest city is Lagos. Has a population of roughly 400,000,000 in 2020. Has zombie legions to rival the Constitutionalists.

The UAR was founded in 1960, after about a decade of Nazi encroachment across the Sahara. Though the Nazis were occupied with other areas, particularly in America, many leaders in the threatened area realized the importance of banding together. Practitioners of Voodoo, inspired by the stories of Constitutionalist Necromantic resistance, began amassing their own hordes to hold back the Nazis. The formation of the UAR was sparked by the rise of the Republican groups in Nigeria and Liberia, who overthrew the current governments, taking much of their rhetoric from the American Revolution. This movement swept West Africa, culminating in the union of all affected states, with the official founding in 1960. The UAR joined VATO in 1966, which began the "Atlantic Voodoo Connection", a general sharing of necromantic knowledge from West Africa, the Caribbean and the Southern United States. 

===Canada===
Canada is divided into four parts. The Soviet Owned West, the Nazi Owned East, the Ghost-Waste South and the Loyalist North. The Ghost-Waste South is also noted for the masses of Uranium in Saskatchewan. The Loyalist North, officially still called the "Dominion of Canada" is the true Canada - the True North Strong and Free.  

The Loyalist North was created after WWII. The Canadian Government accepted elements of the British Government that did not go onto the Submarine. The Canadian Prime Minister at the time, William Lyon Mackenzie-King, attempted to make a deal with Natives to raise angry spirits to defend the nation from Soviet and Nazi invasion. This went worse than planned, with vast sections of the land that was trying to be protected becoming flooded with ghosts and other horrors. However, there were enough competent Shamans and determined fighters to hold the Northern parts of Canada - the places so frozen to make invasion difficult. The population of Canada was given a small boost by disaffected British citizens off of the submarine - this has had the effect, however, of souring relations between the Free British and the Dominion of Canada. The current capital of the Loyalist North is Churchill, Manitoba. Though not originally named after Winston Churchill (though actually it was named after his ancestor), a large statue of Churchill stands in the middle of the town, commemorating his sacrifice and stubborn resistance. Churchill itself would not be recognizable as the town it is today - it is not a village of hundreds but a bustling city of thousands, with distinctive Arctic architecture - and mighty walls all about it. To beat the frigid climate, a good deal of the city is constructed around underground tunnels. Other important cities include Yellowknife, Frobisher Bay and Whitehorse. 

The key weapon in Canada's arsenal are the native spirits they have bound to their service. These spirits are exceptionally dangerous, but also very powerful. The North West Mounted Police are one of the main militaristic forces, the regular military having been decimated and requiring time to rebuild. The Canadian Government bargained for the Mounties to train under a cabal of Native Shamans. Today Mounties are the elite Scouting and Defense force of a swathe of territory too large for a regular force to defend. They bind spirits to use as steeds and weaponry. Though the Mounties are few, these spirits allow them to travel enormous distances quickly, and take on forces larger than themselves, thus allowing them to be perfect guards of the North.