Campaign Submissions, Expansion

[Ayzek]

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Expanding Country: Harmajaa
EC.'s Government Type: Democracy (for now?)

Campaign Setting: Modern period
Campaign Goal: The land currently occupied by Sappa.
Informational Links: Factbook, History

When did you last have an Expansion? ummm... idk does Balochia count?
When was the Expanding Country's last military conflict? Balochia, very recently.
Why do you seek to expand? OOC: Sappa is basically a blank space that has done nothing since its creation. I would like to rectify that. It's really as simple as that. I understand that Sappa is /technically/ a player country, but it hasn't done anything really. I'm willing to change the name to something else, if you'd prefer.

IC: Harmajaa is still on its mission to unite all the Saamojedic people under one nation and one flag. This is an extension of that mission.  Harmajaa is seeking to bring these more barbaric Saamojedic people under their control.

Campaign Plot
Sappa is a land ignored. It's practically no-mans land, it's so far to the north. There is a single city in the whole country, Sappa, and most of the countries inhabitants are nomads. This is a land of tradition and custom, and the Saamojedic culture is still very significant, unlike in more cosmopolitan countries like Harmajaa.

The Harmajaan government has in the most recent decade made it a clear goal to unite the Saamojedic people under one banner. For too long have they been under the boot of other, more dominating cultures, namely the Karjelinnians and the Vostics. A United Saami Republic (USR lol I'm kidding) is the ultimate goal of the Harmajaan government, who has placed itself in the Balochian crisis to further that goal. Sappa is another part of the equation. The nomads to the north lead a barely independent lifestyle. Their government is small, their military is practically non-existence. Their economy relies on Harmajaa to exist almost unilaterally.

I'm thinking Harmajaa could just straight up invade Sappa. I'm not really sure what the consequences of that would be, seeing as how irrelevant Sappa is. It doesn't really match anything IRL and if it were a real place, it would have been subjugated long ago...

Potential for Other Player Involvement
Someone could play as the Sappish, I suppose. Sappa is so completely irrelevant I can't really imagine much involvement, though. It's so far north, there's so few people... I can't really see how anyone would care. Balochia is the more critical piece in this process, really.

How your country may evolve from success
Naturally this would spur on Saamojedic nationalism at home and abroad. Harmajaa would likely use their success as a means to try and catapult into a position of increased relevance. In particular, I think they're going to try and put more pressure on Karjelinn to free the Saami under their control. Idk about that though. Maybe another time.

There are approximately 1.6 million Saamojedic in Harmajaa proper. There are another 3 million ish in Balochia (soon to be under Harmajaan influence if not outright rule form Tyko, should the Balochian crisis be resolved well). I cant imagine there would be very many in Sappa, though. Maybe a couple hundred thousand? 500,000? Idk. That would end up with a total Harmajaan population of approximately 5 ish million, after it's all said and done. While many live in Balochia, I can only assume many would move to the more developed parts of Harmajaa -- Tyko, Imeekalu, Rinta, and Porkka, etc. I am probably going to make a series of posts revolving around the demographic issues with so many new people in the country.  (overextension modifier lol).

How your country may evolve from defeat
Considering Sappa is so completely irrelevant... I can't really see defeat, unless Karjelinn or Severyane decide to completely cock-block and just invade Harmajaa, or something like that.  Idk, maybe I'm wrong lol.

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I'm totally open to suggestions from the directorate as to how I should go about this. Sappa is just an unused space and I would like that to be fixed and it aligns with Harmajaas "UNITE THE SAAMI" hard-on they've had recently. Maybe this is a better historical RP but I've already made modern references to Sappa in the Balochia RP... but I could just retcon that as well.

I guess what I'm saying is I'm curious as to what the Directorate would think about this. I'm open to suggestions.

The Directorate has no real opinion on this, for the same reason you don't see Harmajaa losing. Do you wanna historical RP it? Sure. Do you wanna just pretend you don't recognize their independence? Just waltz on in.

I think that one might be more interesting, not recognizing their sovereignty (a country needs a government that represents it to other governments to be recognized as sovereign). So if you don't recognize such sovereignty (though, you can't revoke recognition, so you can't just suddenly /decide/ to not recognize them), you could just send in the military and construction crews to try to assets your authoritah.

If you currently do recognize their independence, you could still weasel in anyway. Sappa is too weak to stop you anyway.

Do Sal and Hahk know you wanna unite the people?