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Roter Morgen

• Civil War: If the German Empire fails to deal with the fallout of Black Monday and the Roter Morgen game rule is enabled, the German syndicalists will rebel, starting a civil war.
• Driven to Suicide: Even if the German Empire could defeat the revolutionaries in the civil war, Wilhelm II would take his own life out of shame, throwing the Empire into chaos.
• Player-Exclusive Mechanic: The German revolution can only fire if Germany is controlled by a human player; it will never happen under the AI.
• Satellite Character: Among the countries that emerge when Germany collapses after the reactionaries' victory in the civil war, only Bavaria has actual content. The others only have generic focus trees and serve as targets for Bavaria to conquer.

German Revolutionary Government

^{Flag of the German Union}

^{Flag of the German Democratic Union}

^{Flag of the Union of German Syndicates}

^{Flag of the Free Communes of Central Europe}

^{Flag of the German Republic}

^{Flag of the German Democratic Republic}

^{Flag of the German National Republic}

^{Flag of the German Empire}

^{Flag of the Corporate Federation}

^{Flag of the Germanic People's Republic}

^{Flag of the Germanic People's Republic (Alternative)}

^{Flag of the Germanic People's Republic (Second Alternative)}

Official Name: German Revolutionary Government, Republic of Germany (Liebknecht elected), Corporate German State (Krupp elected, technocracy formed), German Empire (Adenauer elected, Monarchy referendum passed), German National Republic (Adenauer elected, national republic formed)

Ruling Party: Zentralkommando^note Central Command

Ideology: Syndicalism

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• I Can Rule Alone: After the revolutionaries emerge victorious in the German Civil War, Ernst Thälmann and Wilhelm Pieck will merge their parties due to their ideological similarities, only to turn against each other after one wins the election.
• Kangaroo Court: If Thälmann or Pieck seizes power after the syndicalists emerge victorious in the civil war, the victor arrests the loser and holds mock trials for him and his supporters, sentencing them to life imprisonment.
• Railroading: If the German Revolutionary Government wins the civil war, the British exiles will automatically retake the Home Isles, regardless of who is leading the Union of Britain. This was done to balance the factions.

Rudolf Rocker

Role: Volksführer^note Head of State

Party: Freie Arbeiter Union Deutschland^note Free Workers' Union Germany of Germany

Ideology: Anarcho-Syndicalism^note Syndicalism

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• Take Over the World: The FAUD's ultimate goal is to spread anarchism across the entire world.

Wilhelm Pieck

Role: Chancellor^note Head of State

Party: Syndiaklistisch-Marxistische Einheitspartei Deutschland - Marxisten^note Syndicalist-Marxist Unity Party of Germany - Marxists

Ideology: Communism^note Totalism

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• Undying Loyalty: Even after the October Revolution ended in failure, Pieck remains loyal to Lenin and seeks to accomplish his goals in Germany. All will be equal and the Bolsheviks can once more become the vanguard of the Revolution like they were before the disgrace in Russia.

Ernst Thälmann

Role: Chancellor^note Head of State

Party: Syndiaklistisch-Marxistische Einheitspartei Deutschland - Syndikalisten^note Syndicalist-Marxist Unity Party of Germany - Syndicalists

Ideology: Centralized Syndicalism^note Syndicalism

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• Patriotic Fervor: While Thälmann condemns nationalism, he still promotes an internationalist patriotism towards the syndicalist state.

Karl Liebknecht

Role: Chancellor^note Head of State

Party: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschland - Radikale^note Social Democratic Party of Germany - Radical

Ideology: Moderate Socialism^note Radical Socialism

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• Full-Circle Revolution: If Liebknecht wins the first election after the Kaiserreich is overthrown, he'll turn the new Germany into a liberal democracy, paving the way for reactionaries like Konrad Adenauer or Gustav Krupp to take control of Germany and turn it back into a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie after Liebknecht retires in 1941.

Erich Honecker

^{General Honecker}

Role: Chancellor^note Head of State (Liebknecht succession, first election)

Party: Partei of Demokratisch Sozialismus^note Party of Democratic Socialism

Ideology: Moderate Socialism^note Radical Socialism

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• Defector from Decadence: Honecker's radical faction splits from the SPD to protest how Karl Liebknecht essentially betrays the revolution by creating a new liberal democracy where right-wing parties are still allowed to freely run in elections.

Franz Blücher

Role: Chancellor^note Head of State (Liebknecht succession, first election)

Party: Freiheitlich Demokratische Partei^note Liberal Democratic Party

Ideology: Social Liberalism

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Konrad Adenauer

Role: Chancellor^note Head of State (Liebknecht succession, first election)

Party: Christlich Demokratische Union^note Christian Democratic Union

Ideology: Social Conservatism

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• Evil Reactionary: Adenauer is a conservative who takes advantage of how Liebknecht creates a liberal democracy after the revolution and does not keep reactionary forces in check to run in the next election. Once in power, Adenauer does everything he can to revert the revolutionary government's progressive reforms, like secularism and welfare.
• Rightful King Returns: The conservative Chancellor Adenauer has the choice to bring back the Kaiser and restore the Kaiserreich as a constitutional monarchy.

Kurt Schumacher

Role: Chancellor^note Head of State (Liebknecht succession, first election)

Party: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschland^note Social Democratic Party of Germany

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Social Democracy

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Gustav Krupp

Role: Chancellor^note Head of State (Liebknecht succession, first election)

Party: Deutsche Liberale Partei^note German Liberal Party, Wirtschaftkommission der Industriellen^note Economic Commission of Industrialists (Technocracy formed)

Ideology: Free Market Capitalism^note Market Liberalism, Technocracy^note Paternal Autocracy (Technocracy formed)

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• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Krupp, CEO of one of Germany's biggest corporations, slashes welfare and worker's rights, controls them with metamphetamine, and allows the police to use lethal force to crush worker strikes.
• The Man Behind the Man: He is the one behind the Supervisory Board of the Allgemeine Ostasien-Gesellschaft (AOG), backing their actions in China and German East Asia.
• One Nation Under Copyright: Krupp, believing that monarchism, socialism and democracy are inferior to corporate rule, signs a contract for his corporation to simply buy out Germany itself, becoming the supreme authority in the regions they control.
• Police State: Krupp massively expands the police and forms a militarised riot control force, authorised to apply lethal force to crack down on strikes.
• President for Life: After winning the democratic election held after Liebknecht's retirement, Krupp cracks down on the opposition, consolidates power and eventually turns himself into Germany's new dictator.
• Privately Owned Society: Krupp privatises the entire economy and slashes worker's rights and welfare, which he views as pestilence spread by the SPD.
• Propaganda Machine: Krupp buys out all media and tells them what to print.
• Red Scare: Krupp uses right-wing militias to crack down on the left and keep them on a tight leash.

Paul Lensch

Role: Volkskanzler^note Head of State

Party: Germanische Sozialistiche Volkspartei^note German Socialist People's Party

Ideology: Germanic Socialism^note Totalism

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• Commie Nazis: Lensch's ideology of German Socialism gives Germany a unique position as a symbol of the proletariat, fighting against bourgeois nations such as France and Britain. All German speakers should be united under a single pan-Germanic state led by a Volkskanzler, guardian of Germanic tradition and the People's Empire. Despite its name, German Socialism rejects Marxism and instead organises the economy in a corporatist manner, which has caused other socialists to condemn it as reactionary.

Greater Bavaria

^{Flag of the South German Empire}

^{Flag of the Empire of The Franks}

Official Name: Greater Bavaria, South German Empire (Empire formed), Greater South German Empire (Empire formed, core German states reclaimed, Austria, Bohemia (Chzechia), and Switzerland annexed), The Empire of The Franks (Empire formed, core German states reclaimed, Austria, Bohemia (Chzechia), France, Italy, and Switzerland annexed)

Ruling Party: Bayrische Vaterländische Front^note Bavarian Fatherland Front

Ideology: Integralism^note National Populism

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• Elective Monarchy: With gavelkind being out of the question, the Kingdom of Bavaria can elevate Prince-Electors to serve the same role as they once did in the Holy Roman Empire.

Rupprecht von Bayren

^{Emperor Rupprecht I}

^{King Robert I}

Role: Monarch^note Head of State

Party: Bayrische Vaterländische Front^note Bavarian Fatherland Front

Ideology: Integralism^note National Populism, Parental Autocracy (Scotland)

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• Naturalized Name: Rupprecht I of Bavaria becomes known as Robert IV of House Stuart-Wittelsbach upon being crowned King of Scotland or King of England and Robert I upon being crowned as King of Jacobite America.
• Puppet King: Like with the other Stuart rulers, Rupprecht/Robert I has no real authority in Jacobite America and is mostly beholden to Arch-Regent Carroll's whims. Unlike the other Stuarts, though, Robert has actual aristocratic experience from his life in the German Empire.

Antarctica

Antarctic Commune

Official Name: Union of Soviet Antarctic Communes

Ruling Party: Bolshevik Exiles

Ideology: Communism^note Totalism

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• Foreign Ruling Class: Although the Antarctic Commune's population consists entirely of penguins, its leader Trotsky is a human.
• Outside-Context Problem: Emperor penguins and Adélie penguins uniting under Leon Trotsky and invading human nations is meant to be every bit as ridiculous as it sounds.
  ...What have I done!?
  What in God's name...
  Who is this mysterious invader?
  We must stop this madness!

Leon Trotsky

^{Alternate portrait}

Role: Premier^note Head of State

Ruling Party: Bolshevik Exiles

Ideology: Communism^note Totalism

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• Spared by the Adaptation: In Kaiserreich, Trotsky died in 1921, during the Russian Civil War. In Kaiserredux, he is still alive by 1936, having taken refuge in Antarctica and now leading a communist nation of penguins.

Neuschwabenland

Neuschwabenland

^{Flag of the People's Republic of New Swabia}

^{Flag of the Republic of New Swabia}

Official Name: Territory of Neuschwabenland

Ruling Party: New Swabia Expedition Force

Ideology: Colonial Government^note Authoritarian Democracy

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• Allohistorical Allusion: The territory of Neuschwabenlan, also known as New Swabia in German, was a named used by the Nazis for an Antarctic region they mapped during the 1938-1939 Third German Antarctic Expedition, naming it after its head Alfred Ritcscher's expedition ship, MS Schwabenland. The place was situated within the Norwegian territorial claim of Queen Maud Lwas, with the Nazi Germany planned to take over the place and its sovereignty, but they never formally claim it. In Kaiserredux where the Nazi Germany did not exist, the region was claimed by the German Empire instead as its colony.

Alfred Ritscher

Role: Colonial Governor^note Head of State

Party: New Swabia Expedition Force

Ideology: Colonial Government^note Authoritarian Democracy

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• Allohistorical Allusion: The OTL Ritscher was a German explorer who was affiliated with the Imperial German Navy during the World War I and later worked as a Kapitän zur See in the Kriegsmarin, best known for his role as the head of the German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39 which mapped the historical version of Neuschwabenland. In Kaiserredux, he worked as an officer of the Imperial Navy and led another Antarctic expedition to map Neuschwabenland, only ending up isolated in the area.

Wolfram Sievers

Role: Colonial Governor^note Head of State

Party: New Swabia Ahnenerbe Society

Ideology: National Populism

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Meme Mode

Kingdom of Poland

^{Flag of the Free Territories of Vistula and Former Poland}

Official Name: Free Territories of Vistula and Former Poland (Pankracy), Divine Realm of Great Lechia (Gords of Great Lechia), Crusader Kingdom of Poland (Cavaliers of Jesus Christ), Republic of Poland-Ashkenaz (Circle of God's Cause)

Ideology: Social Conservatism

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• The Necrocracy: If the Polish Rebirth League takes power, they can declare Poland's symbolic head of state to be Jesus Christ, in the form of either Jesus of Lechia or Christ the King.
• Purposely Overpowered: All of Poland's meme paths are designed to be some of the most overpowered ones in the game, especially the anarchist one.
• The Theocracy: Under the Cavaliers of Jesus Christ or the Gords of Great Lechia, Poland becomes a Catholic theocracy whose people are tied together by their faith in Christ.

Gords of Great Lechia

Ideology: National Populism

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• Adventurer Archaeologist: Lechite archaeologists scour the world for the relics tied with Jesus of Lechia's history: the Shroud, the Crown of Thorns and the Nails.
• Illegal Religion: The virulently anti-Semitic Lechites drive out all Jews from Poland, decrying them as the Synagogue of Satan.
• Interfaith Smoothie: The Lechites promote a mix of Catholicism and Slavic paganism, declaring the Slavic gods as aspects of the One True Christ the Wanderer.
• Proud Warrior Race: According to the Lechites, the warriors of Great Lechia once held the entire continent of Europe, all while the papist cleris say that they were nothing more than barbarians, even that they never existed.

Cavaliers of Jesus Christ

Ideology: National Populism

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• Awesome Moment of Crowning: After taking over Kraków, Adam Doboszyński, the leading archbishops and representives from major knightly orders crown Jesus Christ as the Eternal King of Poland and the Polish people, in a ceremony attended by millions of faithful across the whole country.
• Church Militant: The Cavaliers of Jesus Christ form numerous knightly orders like the Brothers of Saint Stanislaus and Knights of Saint-Queen Jadwiga to defend Poland and crush her enemies. The Church of Poland's support isn't enough; the faithful have to be mobilised, and the priests and chaplains have to become warriors for the coming crusade.

Pankracy

Ideology: Anarcho-Bolshevism^note Totalism

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• Whole-Plot Reference: The anarchist Poland path is a reference to Zygmunt Krasiński's The Undivine Comedy.

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