RE: Other Forces

[FSE vs NAC for Portugal]

> I would not assume Portugal. Portugal has traditionally been allied 
> to England (well at least for the past 400 years) and had little do
> politically with Spain or France (Until the EC thing). The 
> Portuguese consider tehmselves seperate from Spain, (And get pissed 
> off when they  are mixed up with them) and are have differnt 
> racial/cultural backgrounds to some extent.(Lusitatnian tribes
> mixed heavily with Celtic before the Moors came in) They should go
> into the NAC since wherever Britain has ever gone, Portugal has
> followed.

The Portugal and Britain thing isn't much in evidence these days. 
Portugal would almost certainly stay in the EC if Britain left. So we 
can leave them in the EC until circa 2100 when the 
NSL/FSE/Netherlands split occurs. What they do then is anyone's 
guess. I'd favour them staying in the FSE, with going it alone the 
next choice. Joining the NAC is unlikely.

>  (Heck the Japanese are there)

The Japanese aren't really in the NAC. They're allies and the NAC and
pre-NAC states did help maintain Japanese independence against IC 
and/or ESU aggression so the alliance is probably fairly strong but 
can you see the Japanese following the British crown? Unless the two 
royal lines were joined in marriage, now there's an idea....

> You should throw in Hungary, Slovakia and maybe even the Check
> republic. Make the NSL a true central European power. Seeing that
> there's been little guidance here I've already chucked at least
> Slovakia in with the NSL in my stories/games.

Hungary, Czech and Slovak republics are definitely part of the 
original NSL. I've already said that I'm against Poland and some of 
these others leaving to join the ESU, so my map shows them all as NSL.

My big questions are:

1. Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, all the bits from Yugoslavia.
These could be RH, FSE, NSL or even IF for some of the more southerly
ones.

2. Where exactly are the IF/PAU and IF/ESU borders? And how fluid are
they? I'm assuming that the borders won't follow modern national 
lines but would follow the areas with predominatly Muslim population. 

3. Is Taiwan still independent?

4. The Carribean. I guess most of it is NAC, but is all of it?

5. Antarctica. Fun and games in the snow.

 Steve
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