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Great Britain

United Kingdom

Official Name: United Kingdom of Great Britain, National Republic of Britain (Joyce)

Ruling Party: British People's Party

Ideology: British Fascism^note Fascism

Legacy content for Britain belonging to TNO versions prior to "The Ruin" can be found on the Non-Canon content page.

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• Anti-Villain: Many of the pragmatist politicians in the collaborationist regime are well-intentioned folk who want what's best for the United Kingdom and only work with the Reich out of a cynical belief that resistance will lead to further German oppression.
• Artistic License – History: Except for Thomas Mitford (who had fascist sympathies) and members of the British Free Corps, collaborator generals were chosen only by virtue of the need for them having generals and admirals—the developers themselves don't really believe that these officers would actually collaborate.
• Book Ends: The early event "A Haunted Prime Minister" has Domvile reminisce about how the world came crashing down when the "ticking time-bomb" of the resistance rebelled in 1956. When the British Civil War starts, that ticking time-bomb goes off again, quite literally in Domvile's case.
• Civil War: Britain will inevitably descend into a civil war between the collaborationist government and the Resistance.
• Les Collaborateurs: The United Kingdom is a nation ruled by Nazi collaborators of the British People's Party, who are watched by a German garrison.
• Day of the Jackboot: As a result of an Axis victory, a collaborationist government was set up by the triumphant Germans, which has responded to dissidence with extreme prejudice.
• Death by Irony: Britain has had a long history of invading other countries, creating the largest empire the world has ever seen through their endeavors. During the Second World War, the same thing happens to them in a successful Operation Sea Lion that sees the country brought under the German boot.
• Decisive Battle: The Battle for Man is a key confrontation in the pre-civil war state, since HMMLR securing the isle allows the OFN to funnel logistical support and severely cripples the loyalists' morale. On the other hand, the battle can also result in a Pyrrhic Victory for HMMLR, if the government forces can hold off multiple attacks, forcing an exhausted HMMLR to launch a desperate last attack with civilian boats and old weapons.
• Despair Event Horizon: Sealion II inflicts this upon all of Britain as the hope of freedom was snatched away so quickly after they attained it, squashed again under the Nazi jackboot, leaving Britain in ruins and violently chained to Germany in what is known as "The British Catastrophe".
• Do Not Go Gentle: In the Battle for Man, the government garrison on the island gets surrounded by HMMLR forces and only in control of a neglected, outdated RAF base. However, the Lieutenant Colonel refuses to surrender and prepares to defend the island, buying time and resources for loyalist forces elsewhere. This results in a game mechanic revolving around the battle for the linchpin of the Irish Sea and the results depend on how much of a successful defense can be posed, even if the island is doomed to fall.
• Driven to Suicide: When HMMLR takes the Isle of Man with minimal resistance, the Lieutenant Colonel in charge orders his troops to withdraw, explains the situation to his superior, and shoots himself to avoid the shame of defeat and scapegoating for the catastrophe.
• Final Solution: The Holocaust was expanded into the British Isles when German boots landed there, and the 300,000 Jews living in Britain were deported to Germany to be murdered in cold blood.
• From Bad to Worse: As if Hitler's demise and the following succession crisis weren't bad enough, the London stock exchange collapses when German corporations pull out during the Civil War. This destroys the years of work Butler has done to recover the economy and there is a bitter feeling of History Repeats, being the first time the stock has plummeted since Operation Sea Lion.
• Historical In-Joke: As Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher was the subject of an assassination attempt by the IRA via bombing during the Troubles. In this timeline, she makes the bomb that kills Prime Minister Domvile.
• Home Guard: The Germans permit the collaborators to maintain a vestigial military force just strong enough to maintain order.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Britain once used to be a superpower reaching all corners of the globe. After the success of Operation Sea Lion, their colonial empire was ripped away and a collaborationist government was installed, placing Britain under a fascist dictatorship. Matters get worse if Operation Sea Lion II occurs, as Britain is freed from the first collaborationist regime only to be put under a second one that is even more chained to Nazi Germany.
• Kangaroo Court: David Stirling and Bill Alexander were captured in the wake of the failed uprising in 1956. Both were subject to trials which lasted less than 15 minutes before being executed.
• Not So Invincible After All: Most Britons were shocked when Germany invaded the Isles, being the first country in modern history to do so and shattering the people's faith that the English Channel would always protect them.
• Opportunistic Bastard: After Britain fell, the Peers within the House of Lords advocated for a reversal of the limitations placed on the powers of said House. Such reversals were successful and the unelected House of Lords stands on equal footing with the House of Commons.
• Point of Divergence: The major point of divergence in Britain's history is Germany successfully invading the Isles via Operation Sea Lion. Since then, the country has been turned into another vassal of their empire, having lost all of their colonies and being ruled by the British People's Party, a fascist political party that died out shortly after the Second World War in OTL.
• Puppet State: Like most other Western European countries conquered by the Reich, Britain was reorganized into a collaborationist regime. The country's independence has been preserved on paper, but the German oversight shackles the country to the Pakt militarily and economically, the former through the German garrison under the command of Rudolf Wulf, and the latter through the German conglomerates.
• The Purge: After the collaborationists win the civil war, the strongest faction within the British People's Party will expel rival factions from the party to consolidate total control.
• Reaction Shot: As news of Hitler's death spreads, the reactions of all the major collaborationist leaders are shown. Domvile and Fountaine are sorrowful about losing the "savior" of Europe, Wallop and his Peers are ambivalent, and Butler is privately happy to see the tyrant dead. However, among them all is a common sense of fear regarding the stability of Britain and the fate of their visions.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After Fountaine becomes Prime Minister, two outgoing ministers write such letters to their successors:
  • Jane Birdwood thoroughly denounces everything that Jeffrey Hamm and Fountaine stand for, calling them "brutes and dreamers" desecrating the very nation's soul and her last remark is a stern warning to never contact her again. In reaction, Hamm is hardly impressed and discards the letter.
  • Rab Butler writes John Bean a more downplayed, subdued visceral speech. The best compliment he can give Bean is that his tenure will be a "unique one" and, while he agrees that his policies aren't "socialist", Butler still adds that he would never implement them and prays that he's proven wrong. Butler's letter ends with a final, passive-aggressive comment that Bean is a man with a "great understanding of [his] economic beliefs" and that he wouldn't gain anything from contacting his predecessor further. The insulting tone does not go unnoticed by Bean, who scoffs and tears up the letter.
• Refuge in Audacity: Once the British Civil War begins, communist guerrillas temporarily occupy the London Stock Market in the middle of enemy territory. They get away with it because it's been less frequently used since the Second World War.
• Resigned in Disgrace: Following the Bloodbath of '56, the hardline fascist Prime Minister A.K. Chesterton retired after only three years in office.
• Shocking Defeat Legacy: An overarching theme of the collaborators is coping with the fact that Britain's time as a global power is long over. The British Empire used to be the largest human empire in history, whose reach was so extensive that it was famed as the empire on which the sun never sets. But, with most of their colonies seized by the Axis Powers and facing subjugation in Operation Sea Lion, Britain has been reduced to a mere nation-state and many British nationalists are still sore about it. The destruction of their empire and the disillusionment that followed is why some, like Fountaine, defected to collaboration with Germany and many Old Guard politicians still clamor about their past glory.
• Short-Lived Leadership: The first collaborationist Prime Minister installed by Germany after the success of Operation Sea Lion in 1945 was David Lloyd George, who died later that year.
• State Sec: Refounded by the SS during the invasion of Britain and drawing inspiration from the previous attempt, the British Free Corps draws far-right nationalists and collaborators into a militarized force used as an anti-partisan unit first used by the Germans, then the collaborationist government. They're still present, being too useful to get rid of, even if they are good-for-nothing, Hitler worshipping thugs.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: The British People's Party, which rules Britain as of 1962, is divided between the fascist ideologues and Old Guard, and the pragmatic reformists who advocate for the restoration of democratic values. In the Party of Contrasts mechanic, the three factions will vie for control, appealing to various factions to stand on top.
• Travel Montage: After Sealion II, Joyce lands at London airport and is driven in a military convoy along the wrecked M23 before arriving in the ruins of London full of trucks, soldiers and occasional gunshots, causing Joyce to flinch. Approaching Westminster, the convoy drives through multiple armed checkpoints demanding significant paperwork before reaching their destination and Joyce gives a bitter thanks.
• Urban Ruins: After Sealion II, London is depicted as being in ruin, with smoke plumes filling the sky, German soldiers and vehicles in the streets, destroyed homes, gunshots and bullet holes everywhere.
• Vestigial Empire: By 1962, the once-mighty British Empire is but a shadow of its former glory. Its colonies are gone and the UK itself is a client state (Mitstreiter) of Germany. Although Britain can free itself from German influence, its days as an empire are definitely over.
• Villainous Friendship: The Old Guard clique of British fascists functions like a close circle of friends, whose members call each other by first name even in official meetings and genuinely enjoy others' company.
• You Have Failed Me: Subverted. Forced to withdraw in the Battle of Man, the Lieutenant Colonel in charge expects to be blamed for it. However, if he mounted a successful defense and did the best he could, the General instead personally meets him in Bristol and sends the Prime Minister's congratulations for his efforts.

Edward VIII

Role: King of the United Kingdom

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• The Quisling: Edward is (arguably rightfully and definitely factually) perceived within Britain and abroad as a despicable traitor. The government officials he answers to in Germania don't respect him either, seeing him as a mere pawn they can use to facilitate their domination of Europe.
• Uncertain Doom: After being put under house arrest by HMMLR following their victory, Edward VIII disappears in the chaos if Germany successfully pulls off Operation Sea Lion II. William Joyce, Germany's chosen puppet and himself not a dedicated monarchist, seizes the opportunity to ask his overlords to name him Lord Protector and take de jure full control.

Barry Domvile

Role: Prime Minister^note Head of State

Party: British People's Party

Ideology: British Fascism^note Fascism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Throughout the long and storied history of the British Isles, it has been frequently sang by millions across the globe that Britannia ruled the waves. And yet it was not until she was conquered that a sailor was selected to rule over her. But Sir Barry Edward Domvile is no great hero of the waves, nor a conqueror of fair waves like his ancestors were. No, in fact, Domvile is perhaps the most hated man on the British Isles; a traitor of the highest order, and the captain at the helm of nothing more than a shackled Kingdom.

Born in 1878 to Admiral Sir Compton Domvile, he followed in his father's footsteps and joined the navy in 1892, commanding ships during the First World War and being further promoted afterwards to serve in a variety of different offices, including Director of Naval Intelligence. But Domvile's true purpose came with his infatuation with the far-right, which would begin after being impressed with the Nazi government he was invited to the Nuremberg Rally as a guest of Joachim von Ribbentrop, joining numerous Anglo-German organisations soon after. At the outbreak of war, Domvile spoke of the need for "a bloody revolution", leading to his internment in 1940.

Yet the 'revolution' would come with foreign arms, as Wehrmacht soldiers stormed the British beaches. While being overlooked by the Lloyd-George government, he would be placed in key governmental positions in the subsequent ministries, becoming something of a titan of the British People's Party's establishment. Following Chesterton's failures and the upswing in resistance activity, Domvile's good standing with almost all factions in government made him the natural selection to be Prime Minister.

Now, after 6 years of steering the ship through dangerous waters, the consensus seems to be that he has done a better job than most could in his position. The economy seems to be steadily growing, the nation seems to grow more and more unified by the day, and the ghosts of the past grow ever dimmer. And as for the resistance, Domvile's methods seems to have worked - after all, their activity has dramatically declined since the 1950's. Perhaps this is the beginning of a new age.

"Or perhaps this is just the calm before the storm..."

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Not long after the death of Hitler, Domvile rushes to the German embassy, urgently begging for the German garrison to remain in Britain and keep the peace. The German ambassador agrees, which only gets a brief thanks from Domvile.
• Bread and Circuses: Under Domvile's rule, Britain has stabilized and experienced steady economic growth, but only under the guidance of German conglomerates. Britain's stable situation thinly veils the growing resistance movement, prowling behind the curtain and waiting for an opportunity to strike.
• Due to the Dead: Domvile is saddened at the news of Hitler's death, viewing him as the liberator of Europe, with rumors suggesting he wept for an hour before making a statement to the press.
• Plot-Triggering Death: The 10 Downing Street bombing assassinates Domvile and other members of the government, accelerating the upcoming conflict between the government and HMMLR.
• The Quisling: Even before the Second World War, Domvile became enamored with Nazi Germany when he visited in 1935 and was even invited to the Nuremberg Rally as a guest of Ribbentrop. This slavish support would be rewarded by the victorious Germans, placing him in key positions under various Prime Ministers and finally giving him the premiership after Chesterton's downfall.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Just days after Hitler's death, Domvile is killed in the Downing Street bombing.
• You Got Murder: Domvile is killed when he opens a red box delivered to him and finds a bomb inside.

Ronald Nall-Cain

Role: Foreign Secretary^note Foreign Minister (Domvile cabinet), Prime Minister^note Head of State (Domvile assassinated)

Party: British People's Party

Ideology: British Fascism^note Fascism

In-Game Biography (Foreign Secretary) ^{Click to Show}Ronald Nall-Cain is not a particularly remarkable man by himself - a well-read, bookish man known for little more than being the Foreign Secretary. But it is less Nall-Cain himself that is remarkable, but the men he holds company with.

Born into wealth in 1904, he went into politics with a stint in the Commons before joining the House of Lords after his father's death. It was in the Lords with his fellow members of the Old Guard where he became well-known as a keen ally of the Reich; he joined pro-German organisations, became a personal friend of Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop, and even attended Hitler's 50th birthday. While this stalled his public career in the immediate lead-up to the war and during it, his fortunes rose once again after Operation Sealion succeeded and Germany occupied Britain. After the occupation began, he was made Ambassador to Germany at the wishes of Berlin, wherein his friendship with the regime grew even stronger. After Domvile's ascension to Downing Street, Nall-Cain's ardently pro-German alignment and tendency to get the job done quickly and efficiently made him Domvile's first choice for the foreign office, wherein he quickly became his favourite - or if not, least reviled - member of cabinet.

In-Game Biography (Prime Minister) ^{Click to Show}Arthur Ronald Nall-Cain did not want to be in this position. No sane man ever would - least of all the man who enjoyed little personal popularity or recognition beyond his position as Foreign Secretary under Domvile. But fate has a cruel sense of humour, as do the treacherous dogs that populate the resistance. When news of Domvile's assassination by none other than Maxwell Knight came to light, the fragile order that the British People's Party had carved out over Britain's fair shores came crumbling to a swift and brutal end.

Rapidly installed as the interim Prime Minister due to his ties to the Reich and lack of genuine partisan alignment, Nall-Cain is now faced with a nation in flames. His task is to restore order and crush HMMLR at any and all costs. A daunting task that most would shy away from in fear. Ironically, the state of emergency has provided a Nall-Cain a luxury Domvile could never quite experience - for once, the many faces of the party have ceased their constant bickering and now find themselves willing to rally together against the resistance. From Haller-Cooper's men in the British Free Corps to the reformists in the party, the majority of the government is finally united. Unluckily for him, HMMLR is a dedicated movement; a weed with roots so deep into the country that removing them will be an arduous - and some may say, nigh-impossible - task..

The fate of Britain lies in the balance, and it is up to Nall-Cain and his allies to prevent pure anarchy...

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• Aristocrats Are Evil: Baron Brocket is a committed fascist who collaborates with Nazi Germany.
• Red Scare: Nall-Cain is hastily thrown into power after Domvile's assassination. He tries to scrape what little legitimacy he can in a lackluster speech about saving Britain from Bolshevism.
• You Are in Command Now: After Domvile's unexpected assassination, the collaborators nominate Nall-Cain as his successor, ruling in the interim until the British resistance can be crushed and a more worthy successor can be found.

Rab Butler

Role: Chancellor of the Exchequer^note Economy Minister (Domvile and Nall-Cain cabinet), Prime Minister^note Head of State (Nall-Cain succession)

Party: British People's Party - Pragmatists

Ideology: Controlled Democracy^note Paternalism, Transitioning Democracy^note Paternalism (Nall-Cain succession)

In-Game Biography (Chancellor of the Exchequer) ^{Click to Show}The tale of Richard Austen Butler is one that invokes the old adage that all roads to hell are paved in good intentions. Elected to Parliament in 1929, Butler would be a key supporter of appeasement from the very begininng. This was less so out of love for Germany as was the case for some of his peers, but more so out of the genuine belief that Britain should never go through the hell brought by the great war ever again. Sadly, his efforts were for naught as the Second World War consumed the entire world. And as German boots set foot on British shores, he sealed his fate by choosing to stay rather than flee.

In exchange for collaboration, he was allowed to be Chancellor of the Exchequer, charting out a path for partial economic recovery by allowing the German megacorporations to do as they pleased. He stood by, accruing a following of like-minded individuals who advocated for a more pragmatic approach to collaboration rather than the dogmatic idolatry of the rest of the party. As 1962 begins, Butler can feel the years starting to weigh on him, as the dream of a Britain both free and safe that he has held for so long seems all too distant. But he cannot give up yet, lest the vultures start to pick away what remains of British democracy.

In-Game Biography (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Civil War) ^{Click to Show}Some fight out of a simple ideological dedication. Others lack that fascist zeal. His allegiance comes from history. The Germans have already defeated the British at the height of their power. And now this rebellion wishes to start that conflict all over again.

Madness. A reckless disregard for the lives of all British folk for a shortsighted cause. Butler can sympathise with the rebellion. A more democratic Britain? All splendid. And yet they fail to understand how change always came to Britain, not revolution, but reformation. God willing, the rebellion will fail, and the people of Britain will never have to experience the Blitz again.

In-Game Biography (Prime Minister) ^{Click to Show}Throughout the history of the United Kingdom, there have been many labelled traitors - the likes of Anthony Babbington, Guy Fawkes and Carl Hans Lody come to mind. But none have done so with as many good intentions as the newest of them all; his Majesty's former loyal Chancellor of the Exchequer and now Prime Minister, Richard Austen 'Rab' Butler.

Born in Colonial India to an Imperial administrator, Butler was elected to Parliament in 1929. He would go further than most in arguing for appeasement from the beginning - not out of love for the Reich, but seeing no other option. And when the boots of the Wehrmacht marched across the isles, this line of thinking came to its rational conclusion as he chose to collaborate for the good of the nation. As Chancellor, his vision came true, as he charted out a pragmatic course of economic recovery that helped Britain to recover from the twin devastations of the Blitz and Sealion.

Now in the wake of the recent uprising, Butler has beaten back the efforts of his despotic and buffoonish rivals as he rose to the highest office of all. But unlike his peers, Butler does not seek to further entrench the BPP in a one-party state. Much the opposite, in fact.

Butler remembers the days of British democracy, and after years of waiting, he finally has the chance to bring it back. With the aid of his loyal allies Reginald Maudling and Harold Wilson, he seeks to revive the failing British economy, revitalize the failing welfare state and chart an independent foreign policy alongside its dependable partner, the German Reich. Perhaps one day Britain will be a land of hope and glory once more - a country in which democracy is praised, not rejected. Yet this dream is a brittle one. Butler is no longer a young man, after all, and Britain has not known democracy in years. It remains to be seen whether the lion will roar once again, or whether she will forever be chained to the boot of the eagle.

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• Cassandra Truth: Butler's main reason for collaborating with the Nazis is his fear that Germany will retaliate if they attempt to rebel. If HMMLR defeats the collaborators and executes Butler but fails to dissuade Germany from conducting Operation Sea Lion II, his fear about German retaliation will be proven correct.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: As Chancellor of the Exchequer (one of the most senior ministers of the Crown) in Domvile's cabinet, Butler is largely responsible for stabilising the country and achieving some economic growth, and carrying Domvile's incompetent fascist government on his back in general.
• Internal Reformist: Butler leads the moderate faction within the British People's Party, which aims to stabilize Britain and reinstate democracy. Behind him lies various junior politicians within the party who support the notion of democratization, but have differing interpretations of what said democracy should look like.
• Necessarily Evil: Butler served in the wartime government, yet chose collaboration with the Nazis when defeat was inevitable. He knows that it's not an ideal solution and even sympathizes with the resistance's cause, but he nonetheless opposes them out of a pragmatic belief that Britain must stay in the Pakt, lest they invoke Germany's retaliation.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Butler's full name is Richard Austen Butler, but he's almost always called 'Rab' from his initials instead.
• Only Sane Man: Butler serves as a high-ranking member of the Domvile cabinet and the only one who wants to democratize the country.
• Passing the Torch: Due to his age, Butler expresses a desire to eventually step down from the premiership and can pass it off to either Maudling or Wilson to decide the Isles' future.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Butler is nervous about working with Kim Philby—he's completely unaware of Philby's true allegiance but is given pause by the ties between his family and fascist Lords. Nevertheless, he regards Philby as a fearsome opponent of HMMLR during the uprising and a necessary man to deal with whatever infiltrators that remain within MI5.

Andrew Fountaine

Role: Home Secretary^note Head of Government (Domvile and Nall-Cain cabinet), Prime Minister^note Head of State (Nall-Cain succession)

Party: British People's Party - Ideologues

Ideology: British Fascism^note Fascism

In-Game Biography (Home Secretary) ^{Click to Show}The British Fascist movement is not confined to stuffy halls and stately manors. It lives in the streets, marching in unison and wearing a blackshirt uniform and decrying the evils of global finance. And at this mob's head stands Andrew Fountaine.

Born at the close of the Great War in Norfolk, Fountaine lived a life filled with conflict, growing up with an Admiral for a father and having fought on the side of Franco's Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. When the Second World War began, he would go on to enlist in the Navy. But when he returned home, Fountaine would find a much different Britain from when he left.

From here, he rapidly rose through the ranks in the BPP, with his unrepentant support for a Fascism that spoke to the working man rather than the Baron, eventually becoming the biggest opponent of Butler and the Pragmatists. With his distinct base of support and undeniable competence, Fountaine was the ideal selection for Home Secretary. Now as one of the most powerful men in Britain and Domvile's right-hand man, Fountaine can almost sense the flame he has been stoking for years about to burst free and consume what remains of the Old Order - if only Domvile would allow him to do so.

In-Game Biography (Home Secretary, Civil War) ^{Click to Show}As civil war rages across the island, loyalties are tested, and many are found wanting. One can hear it in the shadows, which side should be supported. For many, it's a question of safety, simple calculations of safety. Not for Fountaine. For him, this is a struggle for Britain's soul against those who would tear down everything the BPP has built.

Fountaine's charismatic face unifies all behind the defense of all they have built against the hordes that seek to reject all the progress they have made for themselves. Fountaine himself still makes it clear he is a fascist, but today, he acts to unify both the moderates and the fascists against the traitorous Knight.

In-Game Biography (Prime Minister) ^{Click to Show}The vision of a Fascist Britain has been reborn - no longer in the form of the antiquitated, dusty politics held by old men and has-beens, but under the banner of the young and the new. And at the head of that banner is none other than Andrew Fountaine.

Born into an aristocratic bloodline, Fountaine was always inclined towards reactionary politics - an inclination that drove him to fight under Franco's banner during the Spanish Civil War. It was there that he first saw a glimpse of the might of the Reich's war machine in action. When Britain marched to war against Berlin over Danzig, he did his duty and joined the Royal Navy, but as the Empire was shattered and the Swastika rose across Europe, Fountaine took the choice no patriot would ever wished to; he turned against his family, nation, and duty, laying down his arms to the Reich with nary a protest.

As a prominent landowner and one of the earliest collaborators, Fountaine rapidly rose through the ranks of the British People's Party. While it seemed that his public disputes with Chesterton may have doomed his career, Chesterton's failure only propelled him onwards to the office of Home Secretary. History repeated when the rebellion spurred on by Knight, traitor that he was, left a vacuum of power - one Fountaine seized with no hesitance. The resistance lies defeated, with their democracy-loving friends next in line to the gallows as a truly fascist Britain begins to take shape.

As the shadow of fascism is cast across the isles, Fountaine's vision can finally come true. Britain will lives, and march on!

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• Cult of Personality: If Hamm gets his way, Fountaine will be molded into an all-powerful, charismatic dictator who becomes the very face of the entire nation.
• Do Wrong, Right: Unlike the aristocratic Old Guard he opposes, Fountaine represents a new evolution of British fascism, one more revolutionary than the last. His type of fascism is zealous, enchanting, engaged with street violence, and focused on converting people into becoming fascists themselves.
• Dragon Ascendant: Fountaine is called Domvile's right-hand man and he can potentially become the new Prime Minister after Domvile's assassination and Nall-Cain's resignation.
• Dragon with an Agenda: Fountaine serves Domvile and the Old Guard regime, but he has no genuine loyalty to them. He despises them as failures who nearly destroyed the BPP twice (the '56 Uprising and the British Civil War) and hates having to cow to Domvile and Nall-Cain. He promotes a much more "revolutionary" form of fascism and seeks to replace the Old Guard after the British Civil War.
• Due to the Dead: He is sorrowful to hear of Hitler's passing, idolizing him as the man who saved Britain by spreading the fascist ideology.
• The Face: He is the face of the Ideologues, having a powerful voice and charisma that unites the British fascists against Butler's pragmatists. His premiership is less defined by his own will and more on who he listens to in his cabinet, namely between Hamm or Bean.
• Fanatical Fire: Fountaine has a motif with fire, representing himself as a zealous fascist, a youthful ideologue who decries stagnation in the Old Guard, and a charismatic rabble rouser who can channel people's anger into violence.
• Hidden Depths: Away from anyone else, Fountaine will sometimes indulge in some humor, such as when he lets Chief Mouser pick whether he should favor Hamm or Bean, amused when the cat picks neither and walks to the door.
• I Fight for the Strongest Side!: He joined the Royal Navy during the Second World War, but when the tides turned in favor of the Axis, Fountaine happily joined them as a collaborator, even turning on his own family.
• I Work Alone: Subverted. Fountaine thinks about how he alone can't lead the great Fascist Revolution and that one arrogant mistake could turn him into a second Chesterton for the history books. Therefore, he relies on Hamm and Bean to do his dirty work and most of his path revolves around listening to one of them rather than carrying out his own unique ideological ambitions.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Fountaine is a proudly open fascist, but he tries appealing to the pragmatists during the civil war so they can stay united against the revolting British resistance fighters.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After Wallop replaces him with Lord Bedford as Home Secretary, Fountaine writes him a letter describing Bedford's appointment to the Home Office to be one of Wallop's worst decisions:
  I don't know what Wallop sees in you that he would drag you out of the coffin you should have stayed in. Maybe he still remembers you and your wife's tiff in the press and took pity. Maybe he's gone mad too. Just do me a favour and don't blow your brains out once you break under the pressure yet again; have the dignity to resign first.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Zig-Zagged. Some Britons despise Fountaine, but others are enamored by his charisma, defending him publicly by bringing up his economic policies.
• Taking Up the Mantle: Fountaine is the new spearhead of the British fascist movement after Oswald Mosley was executed and a subsequent revolving door of leaders followed him.

Gerard Wallop

Role: Minister of Food and Rural Affairs (Domvile cabinet), Foreign Secretary^note Foreign Minister (Nall-Cain cabinet), Prime Minister^note Head of State (Nall-Cain succession)

Party: House of Lords

Ideology: British Fascism^note Fascism (Old Guard path), Social Credit^note Fascism (Personalist path)

In-Game Biography (Foreign Secretary, Civil War) ^{Click to Show}A long-time loyalist of the new order, the 9th Earl of Portsmouth sees his nation in flames. Unclean cretins roam the streets attacking the police, the military, and anyone supportive of law and order. It is a truly unacceptable form of affairs. Britain was many things, but it was not a land of vapid revolutionaries terrorizing the land and sowing chaos where they may.

Wallop's allegiance was decided when he first joined the British People's Party in 1943. And now that this membership has borne fruit, he will not relinquish it to fools who wish to deliver Britain to a mob. This is more than a war. This is the chance to ensure that the mob never again threatens Britain's properity.

In-Game Biography (Prime Minister, Social Credit path) ^{Click to Show}God, King, Country. Those are the words that Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth has sworn by, and those are the words that Britain had forgotten. The church had been torn down from the position of protecting the soul of the English stock. The King had been betrayed by the people he led to glory. The country that nourished them all had been despoiled and destroyed by the creeping grasp of industrialization and finance. Yet Wallop stands to reverse this doom.

The traitors might claim that England was destroyed as Sealion swept across her rolling hills. They are wrong. Sealion saw England's rebirth. As the British People's Party slowly consolidated under Lord Tavistock, Wallop joined his old allies from the English Mistery and Array, placing him as one of the key leaders of the Old Guard of the party. After only rising higher during their brief zenith of power under Chesterton, Wallop was one of the few who retained their post in the aftermath of 1956. As Leader of the re-empowered House of Lords, Wallop held a high position in the ministry, and for eight years England lay at peace under Domvile's ageing eye. And when the fires of another uprising were at last put out, once more it seemed the Old Guard stood triumphant, with Lord Portsmouth their new leader.

Britain now lies at the mercy of this man - a staunch believer in Social Credit economics and an obsessive ruralist who dreams of a near-feudal society without a care for popular approval. Whether or not he pursues his own impulses or follows the legacy of his party, Britain's fate rests in the hands of a new, terrifying master.

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• Aristocrats Are Evil: Wallop is the 9th Earl of Portsmouth and the face of the aristocratic fascists in the British People's Party.
• Meet the New Boss: Wallop has two subpaths, he can either follow his own instincts and lead Britain down the path of Social Credit, or reinforce the traditional power base of British fascism. The latter is closest to the pre-civil war status quo; the same Old Guard aristocratic faction that has been in power ever since David Lloyd George's death in 1945.
• Skewed Priorities: When he and the other Lords receive word of Hitler's death, their primary concern is whether they can maintain the power granted to them by Hitler's conquests, not even realizing that the status quo is about to come crashing down on them soon.
• Visionary Villain: Wallop dreams of a green and beautiful Britain, tilled by families worthy of her. Children raised to maintain their homesteads and pass them to their own children. A proper English culture, rooted in the producer, not the 'urban parasite'.

Harold Wilson

^{70s Portrait}

Role: Minister of Labour (Domvile cabinet), Minister of Health (Butler cabinet), Prime Minister^note Head of State (Butler succession)

Party: British People's Party - Pragmatists

Ideology: Left-Wing Corporatism^note Paternalism

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• Internal Reformist: Wilson is a key figure in the collaborationist regime, serving in Butler's reformist circle and most well-known for co-authoring the popular Beveridge Report before the Germans even invaded. He aims to reform the BPP into a party which can move Britain towards greater welfare for its people.
• Loophole Abuse: Wilson endorses his policies through political maneuvering and careful wording to avoid overt ties to socialism.
• Opportunistic Bastard: Due to his low rank, Wilson was not on the evacuation list to Canada when Operation Sea Lion occurred. At his very core an opportunist, Wilson attached himself to the British People's Party, which can serve him the most benefit. Wilson dislikes Germany entirely, but is willing to play inside Butler's clique within the BPP to reform Britain from the inside.

Reginald Maudling

Role: President of the Board of Trade (Domvile cabinet), Foreign Secretary^note Foreign Minister (Butler Cabinet), Prime Minister^note Head of State (Butler succession)

Party: British People's Party - Pragmatists

Ideology: Managerial State^note Despotism

In-Game Biography (Foreign Secretary) ^{Click to Show}How the tables have turned for Reginald Maudling! Once disparaged by BPP Whips as little more than a lazy and convictionless Minister, only so highly placed thanks to the right connections, he now sits smugly at the ascendent Rab Butler's side, so very close to the pinnacle of power.

As Foreign Secretary, Maudling is as much Britain's doorman as he is its chief diplomat, and questions have been raised as to his willingness to simply wave through the German corporations without any protest. Maudling and his supporters of course, retort that without these corporations, Britain's economic recovery would be severely hampered, a fact few dispute. Nonetheless, many privately have deep reservations about Maudling's carefree attitude when it comes to such things, and whilst it may make him very popular, it may very well be sowing the seeds of his own destruction.

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• Opportunistic Bastard: Maudling is a member of Butler's reformist clique, but he is content to work with the Germans so he can get an edge over his rivals.

Reginald Manningham-Buller

Role: Home Secretary^note Head of Government (Butler cabinet)

Party: British People's Party - Pragmatists

Ideology: Transitioning Democracy^note Paternalism

In-Game Biography (Chancellor of the Exchequer) ^{Click to Show}A man of the law above all, Reginald Manningham-Buller would be an odd choice for Home Secretary in normal times. But these are hardly normal times for Britain. After Nazi occupation, a string of fascists in Downing Street, two uprisings and Parliament's rampant infighting throughout, a steady and impartial hand is just what's required.

Having served as Attorney-General for England and Wales since the Chesterton Government, Manningham-Buller has witnessed firsthand the mockery the Idealogues have made of the law, twisting it into just another baton to beat their opponents with. This crime, like so many others Manningham-Buller has handled, will be prosecuted relentlessly, the case only closed when the law is returned to its proper form of a gavel wielded by a fair and neutral judge, not a truncheon swung by a swivel-eyed fanatic.

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• Everyone Has Standards: Manningham-Buller is a collaborator, but he is disgusted by the street violence committed by the Ideologues and he plans to prosecute them without mercy.
• Wrong Line of Work: Downplayed. In the immediate, chaotic post-war period, many find Manningham-Buller an odd pick for a Home Secretary, given his adherence to order and steadiness above all. However, Butler figures that his moderate stance is what the country needs to calm down.

Angus Maude

Role: Chancellor of the Exchequer^note Economy Minister (Butler cabinet)

Party: British People's Party - Pragmatists

Ideology: Transitioning Democracy^note Paternalism

In-Game Biography (Chancellor of the Exchequer) ^{Click to Show}Angus Maude has been the second in command of the BPP Pragmatists ever since its formation, having been released from a POW camp at the end of the Second World War and found his home in chains, ruled by sycophants and traitors, Maude resolved to do whatever possible to return at least a sense of dignity to the isles, soon finding an ally and a friend in Rab Butler.

Any other man in Maude's position would have their own clique of supporters by now, positioning themselves as Butler's natural heir and successor for when the time comes. But not Angus Maude. No, Maude has willingly taken up the position as a neutral moderator between both Maudling and Wilson's factions who vie for Number 10, keeping the Pragmatists together long enough to at least achieve their mutual goals and bring some semblance of normality back to Britain.

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• The Creon: As the second most important person in the Pragmatist faction of the BPP, he easily could build a following for himself and aim to succeed Butler, but Maude has no ambition to.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Released from a POW camp after the Second World War, Maude gave up active resistance against Germany and joined the BPP to salvage what little dignity the United Kingdom could.
• Number Two: Maude has been Butler and the Pragmatist's second-in-command ever since their bloc formed.
• Third-Party Peacekeeper: In the infighting between Wilson and Maudling, Maude's main job is to act as a neutral moderator, keeping the Pragmatists united until they can restabilize the situation at home.

Jeffrey Hamm

Role: Leader of the Blackshirts, Minister of Education and Science (Fountaine cabinet)

Party: British People's Party

Ideology: British Fascism^note Fascism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Britain lives, and Jeffrey Hamm will see her march on under the leadership of Andrew Fountaine. A Fascist since the waning days of peace Hamm saw the purest flame of British Fascism in the form of Oswald Mosely, and he is determined to see his vision entrenched over Britain. When Mosely was murdered Hamm stayed steadfast. When the BPP stagnated Hamm stood behind Fountaine seeing in him the chance for Mosely's vision to triumph.

Now Fountaine stands triumphant and who else but Jeffrey Hamm could serve by his side. That upstart John Bean will need to be dealt with, but Hamm sees in Fountaine a man from which he can forge Britain's greatness.

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• Brutal Honesty: Hamm is characteristically blunt, befitting his demeanor as a thug who relies on violence instead of words to get his way.
• Co-Dragons: One of Fountaine's top advisors, representing the Mosleyite branch of the Ideologues.
• The Dreaded: Hamm is feared throughout the country as the Blackshirts' leader, responsible for terrorizing villages and towns to enforce the BPP's will. If Fountaine gets into power, many dread the reign of terror to be unleashed by Hamm and his Blackshirts to snuff out HMMLR remnants.
• Hitler Ate Sugar: He frequently accuses Bean of being a socialist or a "Judeo-Bolshevik", solely because he promotes a more collective vision for fascism.
• State Sec: Under Fountaine's Security Services Reinforcement Act, Hamm can turn the Blackshirts into a formal paramilitary organization and enforce the BPP's fascist regime. Appropriately, those who denounce this change disappear without a trace.
• Undying Loyalty: Hamm is devoutly loyal to Mosley's dream of a fascist Britain, turning him into a martyr and modeling Fountaine into a replacement for his posthumous idol.

John Bean

Role: Chancellor of the Exchequer^note Economy Minister (Fountaine cabinet)

Party: British People's Party

Ideology: British Fascism^note Fascism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}One of the youngest members of the British government John Bean has come far from the traumatised 13-year-old watching his home burn in 1941. As Britain burnt he searched for answers, at one point he flirted with Communism preaching support for the Soviet Union as it lay locked in a death struggle with the Reich. Then came Sealion and his fate was determined. Fascism has triumphed in Britain, but what that Fascism looks like is a raging debate.

Bean calls for a cult of the nation, a focus on the unity of the British working class against all who would oppose them, and a truly national revolution, and as Chancellor he can begin to put his plans into action but who knows if they will be fulfilled.

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• Bait the Dog: Bean's first major accomplishment is forming the British Workers' Alliance, which theoretically allows workers to stand up against German corporations and abusive factory bosses. However, all upper organizers in the BWA are chosen by the BPP and the entire organization is yet another tool for Bean to run out anyone deemed an enemy to the regime.
• Co-Dragons: One of Fountaine's top advisors mentioned, representing a collectivist, worker-focused branch of the Ideologues.
• Commie Nazis: Bean follows an idiosyncratic form of fascism that is very hostile to finance capitalism and nominally 'pro-worker'. For the same reason, his rival Hamm often accuses Bean of being a leftist or communist.
• Dragon with an Agenda: While he doesn't seek to leave the Einheitspakt, Bean wants Britain to pursue a more assertive foreign policy independent of the Reich.
• Do Wrong, Right: Bean has issues with the Einheitspakt and the PNF. Not over anything moral, but about their unequal structures that empower a single individual; from Bean's perspective, fascism needs to be more collective, but no less hateful.
• Hates Rich People: Bean despises the upper-class and wealthy bankers, advocating a more worker-based, industrial capitalist system.
• I Fight for the Strongest Side!: He was just a teenager when the Battle of Britain was ongoing, which forced him to reevaluate his political values. Bean briefly became a communist, then switched to fascism when the Axis Powers won World War II.
• Propaganda Machine: Bean mass produces countless propaganda posters, espousing the BPP as a worker-based party and calling for their participation in the fascist revolution. One of his jobs is reviewing these posters and ensuring that they're good enough to distribute and he plans on elevating the BPP's propaganda to the television.

W.E.D. Allen

Role: Home Secretary^note Head of Government (Fountaine cabinet)

Party: British People's Party - Ideologues

Ideology: British Fascism^note Fascism

In-Game Biography (Home Secretary) ^{Click to Show}A well-traveled, Eton-educated historian of the Caucasus, William Edward David Allen would make his first foray into politics as a Unionist MP for Belfast West in 1929, but would swiftly find himself fascinated by the politics of Oswald Mosley, to whose New Party he defected two years later.

Allen's fascination with Fascism would not be diminished by his spell with the Special Operations Executive in Italian-occupied Ethiopia. Returning to his native England, Allen would run as MP once more, this time for the newly formed British People's Party. Come the first uprising, Allen would join with the backbench revolt of the Ideologues, disgusted by Chesterton's incompetence. Now rewarded for his loyalty, he stands ready to bring the full powers of the Home Office against the foes of Fascism.

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• Pragmatic Villainy: Allen disdains Chesterton, but most because of his incompetence over any moral grounds.
• Wicked Cultured: Allen is a well-traveled fascist who is Eton-educated.

James Lonsdale-Bryans

Role: Foreign Secretary^note Foreign Minister (Fountaine cabinet)

Party: British People's Party - Ideologues

Ideology: British Fascism^note Fascism

In-Game Biography (Foreign Secretary) ^{Click to Show}Born in 1893 to an artist in North London, James Lonsdale-Bryans would take his first steps into politics at Eton, through which he would make the acquaintance of future Foreign Minister and Prime Minister, Ronald Nall-Cain. Moving to Rome, Lonsdale-Bryans became a socialite in Italian high society, providing connections through which the two men would work towards peace with the Axis powers. When the war came to Britain's shores, he would be rewarded for his efforts with a position in the Foreign Office.

With Nall-Cain retired and Fountaine ascendant, Lonsdale-Bryans finds himself invited to take up his patron's old position. Firmly comfortable, he can now rest lazily in his new office knowing Fountaine only needs one thing from him; a reliable mouthpiece to Germany.

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• Les Collaborateurs: Moving to Rome, Lonsdale-Bryans sold out his country to the Axis powers by negotiating potential peace terms with them. When the United Kingdom finally fell in Operation Sealion, Lonsdale-Bryans was rewarded with a position in the Foreign Office.
• Mouth of Sauron: Lonsdale-Bryans is pretty lazy, since his only job is to act as Fountaine's speaker to their German benefactors.
• Wicked Cultured: Lonsdale-Bryans is Eton-educated and a socialite in Italian high society.

Arthur Kenneth Chesterton

Role: Home Secretary^note Head of Government (Old Guard Wallop cabinet)

Party: British People's Party

Ideology: British Fascism^note Fascism

In-Game Biography (Home Secretary) ^{Click to Show}It is said that a week is a long time in politics. Just as the mightiest can fall in disgrace, so too can the disgraced return in triumph. No politician in Britain today exemplifies this more than the ex-Prime Minister Arthur Kenneth Chesterton.

Born in 1899 in South Africa, A.K Chesterton has always been bound to the British Empire above all else. It was out of devotion to its survival that he became enamoured with Fascism, and out of dedication to its revival he embraced the New Order with open arms.

Swept to power with Blackshirt support in 1953, Chesterton would fall as rapidly as he had risen amidst the fires of the '56 Uprising. Cast into bitter irrelevancy for years, Chesterton has long awaited a second chance at power, and it is one he has finally found. With Bedford tied up in Parliament and Wallop occupied co-ordinating the new regime, Chesterton resides as the most powerful of the triumvirs, and able to see his agenda through at last. It is not a chance he intends to waste.

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• My Greatest Second Chance: Chesterton sees his appointment in Wallop's cabinet as the best chance he's got to redeem his legacy after the '56 Uprising, which dealt a major blow to his reputation.
• Resigned in Disgrace: The most anyone remembers about Chesterton's premiership was mishandling the '56 Uprising, which nearly uprooted the collaborationist government. Though the resistance was suppressed back into hiding and its main organizers executed, Chesterton was forced to resign for mismanaging the crisis.

Jane Birdwood

Role: Foreign Secretary^note Foreign Minister (Old Guard Wallop cabinet)

Party: British People's Party

Ideology: British Fascism^note Fascism

In-Game Biography (Foreign Secretary) ^{Click to Show}If Jane Birdwood could be defined by a single thing, it would undeniably be hatred. Hatred of everything and anything foreign, specifically, non-white. An eccentric figure even by the BPP’s standards, typified in her unorthodox choice in spectacles, she nonetheless rapidly rose through the Party hierarchy thanks to a talent for organisation and propaganda before being elected as an MP in 1953.

An aristocratic socialite, Birdwood found the Ideologues a gang of uncouth ruffians and the Pragmatists to be weak Jewish puppets, being one of the few to join the ranks of the Old Guard after The War. As such, she was a natural choice for Lord Portsmouth’s Foreign Secretary, a zealous inner conviction in British Fascism mixing with a polite and cultured exterior. And with her being several decades younger than the Old Guard’s current leadership, many wonder if someday soon, this odd propagandist might be more than just the Foreign Secretary.

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• Even Evil Has Standards: Birdwood despises the Ideologues for their overt violence, calling them a "gang of uncouth ruffians".
• Faux Affably Evil: She can hide her reprehensible fascist views with a polite exterior.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: She's one of the most eccentric members of the BPP and is infamous for wearing unorthodox spectacles.
• Irrational Hatred: Birdwood hates almost everything, especially non-white people, for little to no reason other than naked bigotry.

Hastings Russell

Role: Chancellor of the Exchequer^note Economy Minister (Old Guard Wallop cabinet), Home Secretary^note Head of Government (Social Credit Wallop cabinet)

Party: British People's Party

Ideology: British Fascism^note Fascism (Old Guard Wallop cabinet), Social Credit^note Fascism (Social Credit Wallop cabinet)

In-Game Biography (Chancellor of the Exchequer) ^{Click to Show}Hastings Russell, Marquess of Tavistock and Duke of Bedford is not a man who, under any normal circumstances, would find himself within a hundred miles of power. But these are far from normal circumstances, and so Lord Tavistock finds himself not only an ex-Prime Minister, but also the current Chancellor of the Exquecher.

Cold, aloof and completely austere, the Duke of Bedford nonetheless led Britain for 8 years as Prime Minister until a mental breakdown promoted by “Degeneracy within the BPP” led to his resignation. A firm believer in Social Credit, Lord Tavistock is ironically isolated from much of the Old Guard. His position as Chancellor, truly performed by Chief Secretary Ben Greene, a mere cover for his true activities in cleansing of the Ideologues and Pragmatists from Parliament who had broken him years ago. The least powerful triumvir, Bedford still takes great satisfaction in his mission to purify the BPP. So long as his enemies lie destroyed and his Party remains in power, he shall be content, if not truly happy.

In-Game Biography (Home Secretary) ^{Click to Show}An abusive upbringing: cold, distant parents compounding his Eton humiliations. An abusive life: an equally cold, distant marriage, ending in ignoble divorce proceedings. A history with the far-right; founding member of the British People's Party, member and affiliate of a dozen fascist groups. A Prime Ministership lost to a mental break. An obsession with social credit: once denied, now unleashed.

The Duke of Bedford's story is, in his mind, a great tragedy. His appointment to Home Secretary is its redemption. All the years he spent promoting social credit, all the capital and goodwill he burned to realise even a fraction of its potential—it all might be fulfilled now. And Hastings Russell will pursue his dream with fervour, even if it sends him and all of England into the abyss.

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• Aristocrats Are Evil: The 12th Marquess of Tavistock and 12th Duke of Bedford is a committed fascist and collaborator with Nazi Germany.
• Dark and Troubled Past: He's suffered abuse for most of his early life. His parents neglected him during his childhood and his marriage was icy-cold, until it ended with divorce.
• Enemy Mine: If Wallop sticks with the Old Guard, Lord Bedford (a social creditist) will be disappointed, but still cooperates with the new Prime Minister and Chief Secretary Ben Greene to eliminate the Ideologues and Pragmatists, whom he hates even more.
• My Greatest Second Chance: Suffering an abusive childhood and ignobly ending his premiership with a mental breakdown, Russell swears to redeem himself in the social credit path, realizing the full extent of his ideological ambitions.
• Resigned in Disgrace: He resigned from the premiership when he suffered a mental breakdown, something that has hung over his reputation ever since.
• The Unfettered: His social credit ideas will bring ruin to the United Kingdom, but Russell doesn't care or have any restraints on how far he'll realize his plans.

Rolf Gardiner

Role: Chancellor of the Exchequer^note Economy Minister (Social Credit Wallop cabinet)

Party: British People's Party

Ideology: Social Credit^note Fascism

In-Game Biography (Chancellor of the Exchequer) ^{Click to Show}A staunch revivalist of old English traditions and an advocate of organic farming, Rolf Gardiner's only economic experience is his espousal of social credit as the cure to England's ills. For years Gardiner called for the British people to return to their once-green fields. He looked to Germany, where he saw in its naturalist movements "the values of earth and breed". Then Germany looked to England, and their industry poisoned the land.

Gardiner lamented two decades of damage, but an old friend has come to heal it. Gerard Wallop, a former associate from their Kinship in Husbandry, has appointed him Chancellor of the Exchequer. With His Majesty's Treasury, Gardiner hopes that social credit shall breathe new life into the countryside. One day, England shall again learn to live by oak and ash and thorn.

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• In Harmony with Nature: Gardiner espouses ideas of organic farming and a return to agriculture. He laments the German industrialization of Britain's land and can work with Wallop to bring the countryside back to the forefront.
• Old Friend: He's an old friend of Wallop and the two can reunite to enforce their social credit ideas.
• Wrong Line of Work: Gardiner has no real economic experience besides espousing social credit ideas, yet Wallop can make him Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Arthur Bryant

Role: Foreign Secretary^note Foreign Minister (Social Credit Wallop cabinet)

Party: British People's Party

Ideology: Social Credit^note Fascism

In-Game Biography (Chancellor of the Exchequer) ^{Click to Show}Enter any library branch, peruse the bookcases of the average home, and you will find Arthur Bryant. A famous historian with four decades of experience, Bryant's specialty is the grand history of England. A man obsessed with this past gravitated naturally towards the pre-war right-wing circles which Gerard Wallop also walked. Here, he found peers with compatible values: patriotic, antisemitic, admiring of Hitler's regime, whom Bryant saw as a mystic helping Germany find her soul.

Despite his admiration, he longs to return to Britain's halcyon days and knows what holds her back. As Wallop's new Foreign Secretary, Bryant visits the Reich as a covert agent against the German businesses that have desecrated once-proud England. For so long, Arthur Bryant has written of a glorious past, one in which Britain was mightiest of all empires; God willing, he and Wallop shall make them so again.

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• Evil Reactionary: Bryant is utterly enamored with England's rich history, potentially working with Wallop to bring the United Kingdom back to the era when it was a mighty, colonial empire.
• Mouth of Sauron: Subverted. His only supposed role is to act as an ambassador who occasionally visits the Reich to represent Wallop's interests. However, he's also secretly subverting Germany's economic influence in the United Kingdom, angered by how their businesses have ruined the country.
• Psycho Supporter: He has especially weird beliefs about Adolf Hitler, namely believing that he was a mystic who helped Germany rediscover its "soul".
• Wicked Cultured: Bryant is a fascist who espouses social credit ideas and he's an experienced historian with four decades of experience and great knowledge of England's past.

Colin Jordan

Role: Prime Minister^note Head of State (British Free Corps coup)

Party: British People's Party - Spearhead

Ideology: Esoteric Nazism^note National Socialism

In-Game Biography (Prime Minister) ^{Click to Show}Where is honour to be found in the New Order? For some it is found in resisting the evil that surrounds them, others in doing their best to reduce the harm brought by their new masters, others in embracing it in part and working within it for the benefit of those they care the most. For Colin Jordan, his honour is his loyalty, loyalty to Germany, loyalty to the Führer, loyalty to National Socialism, and last but definitely not least, his loyalty to Britain, or at least to his vision of it.

Being one of the first open collaborators on the onset of the German invasion, his loyalty was eventually rewarded with being put in charge of the British Free Corps, giving him the nickname "The Führer of the Isles", used by both friend and foe. Not content with the BFC being a mere peacekeeping force, Jordan swiftly moved to imbue the organisation with his own personal ideals, a fanatic if idiosyncratic form of National Socialism, hoping to combine brute force with unwavering purity of vision. It was those choices and circumstances that ended up landing him close to the seats of power in the British government, and he seems to not be content in simply working for it.

Every day he seems to get closer to his goal, and only time will tell if he will succeed.

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• The Coup: Should the political situation in Britain become too chaotic, Jordan and the British Free Corps will march into Westminster, force the current government to resign, and ask the King to appoint a new government led by Jordan.
• Earn Your Bad Ending: A Jordan-led Britain is the worst path that the collaborationist government can go down, but achieving this is very difficult without the player intentionally messing up. The biggest example being that accumulating at least 95% chaos is the main prerequisite for triggering his rise to power.
• More Despicable Minion: Jordan is a fanatical psychopath seen as a bloodthirsty mad dog even by the fascists (both British and German) that he nominally serves under—there's a reason his coup is considered Britain's worst ending (tied with William Joyce). He's a good tool for keeping those less enthusiastic in line but not much else.
• Nepotism: Appoints his wife Françoise Dior as minister of labour.
• Psycho Supporter: There is no one in Britain more enamored with Hitler than Jordan is. Like his real life counterpart, he legitimately believes Hitler is the messiah of humanity and wants nothing more than to shackle the country to the Reich forever.

John Tyndall

Role: Home Secretary^note Head of Government (Jordan cabinet)

Ideology: National Socialism

In-Game Biography (Home Secretary) ^{Click to Show}Unlike many Fascists and National Socialists of the Isles, John Tyndall is one of the first converts to the New Order that did so after the invasion. Having come across a copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf presumably left behind by some German soldier, he was instantly drawn to the words and ideas of the man who had brought Europe to its knees. He quickly became an open and radical National Socialist, soon after joining the newly created BFC, finding partnership with the leader Thomas Haller-Cooper, whom he helped in stirring the BFC into an increasingly political and esoteric direction.

Now he finds himself in power as Jordan's right hand man, responsible for acting on his vision on both friend and foe. When he isn't studying the history of the now distant seeming British Empire, he writes the effective death warrants of the party's enemies, with the list becoming longer every day.

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• Co-Dragons: Tyndall is one of Jordan's top enforcers along with Pirie and Cooper, responsible for writing a hit list of the regime's enemies.
• Psycho Supporter: Coming across a lost copy of Mein Kampf, Tyndall was enamored by the words and ideology of Hitler, leading him to join the Reich and the BFC.

Dennis Pirie

Role: Chancellor of the Exchequer^note Economy Minister (Jordan cabinet)

Ideology: Esoteric Nazism^note National Socialism

In-Game Biography (Foreign Secretary) ^{Click to Show}The 'civilian' face of the BFC, if such a thing could ever exist, would be that of Dennis Pirie. Joining in 1960, Pirie soon became one of Colin Jordan's closet acolytes, growing equally as close to John Tyndall, another of Jordan's chosen few. He is a staunch follower of National Socialist thought, believing that Jordan is one of the only men who can truly save Britain from degeneracy, so that it may follow the German Reich on its path to greatness.

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• Co-Dragons: Pirie is one of Jordan's top enforcers along with Tyndall and Cooper, acting as the government's mouthpiece to the public. It's especially notable with how far he's risen, given that he only joined the BFC in 1960.
• The Face: Pirie is the public face of the Jordan regime, presenting the barest form of connection to the common people.

Roland Ian Kerr-Ritchie

Role: Minister of Transport^note Foreign Minister (Jordan cabinet)

Ideology: Esoteric Nazism^note National Socialism

In-Game Biography (Foreign Secretary) ^{Click to Show}Many in the upper echelons of the BFC have been personally responsible for overseeing the arrest and execution of traitors and degenerates. However, even amongst these butchers, Roland Kerr-Ritchie holds an impressively high kill count. Joining the BFC in 1960 along with many of Jordan's other inner circle, Kerr-Ritchie is a ruthless butcher through and through, often going out of his way to make a spectacle of destroying Jordan's enemies. Now at the very top of British society, Kerr-Ritchie's capacity to reign terror upon those in the way of greatness is sure to only increase...

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• Sadist: Kerr-Ritchie goes out of his way to kill Jordan's enemies in the most visceral manner possible out of sadistic glee, which doesn't bode well for the populace when Jordan rises to power.
• Sociopathic Soldier: Even by the standards of the BFC, Kerr-Ritchie is exceptionally brutal. He's got a high kill count and enjoys tormenting his enemies as a "spectacle".

Thomas Haller Cooper

Role: Defence Secretary^note Security Minister (Jordan cabinet)

Ideology: Esoteric Nazism^note National Socialism

In-Game Biography (Defence Secretary) ^{Click to Show}At the top of this pandemonium sits Thomas Haller Cooper, a National Socialist in every word, and an Englishman second. Cooper is a survivor; he lived through the Second World War, the many Bolshevik revolts that plagued Britain before Hitler's death, and the great chaos that defines Britain now. He is the only advisor whom Jordan truly trusts, and the only one who will not fail in the eyes of the besieged dictator.

Cooper's carefully lain plans are nothing more than a simple re-iteration of Jordan's rants. He shall guide Britain towards National Socialism and thus its Aryan destiny. He will honour the Anglo-Saxon race and its savior Adolf Hitler with his every thought word and action. All Britain shall be brought to the path to utopia, whatever the cost may be.

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• Co-Dragons: Cooper is one of Jordan's top enforcers along with Tyndall and Pirie, being one of the few men that his boss trusts.
• Psycho Supporter: Cooper's ideology follows Jordan's near step-for-step, namely in the belief that the Anglo-Saxons are Aryans who must join the Aryan cause.
• The Unfettered: Many will die in Cooper's plan to join Britain to the Reich, something which he fully accepts as a necessary, even completely right, cost.

Edmund Veesenmayer

Role: Reich Plenipotentiary to Britain^note Security Minister (Domvile cabinet)

Party: Vorkommando Britannien

Ideology: National Socialism

In-Game Biography (Reich Plenipotentiary to Britain) ^{Click to Show}Who governs Britain? A simple question with a simple answer; the German plenipotentiary in Britain. Whenever the Reich needed a conquered people exploited, someone to keep unruly puppet governments in line, they turned to one man - and that man is Edmund Veesenmayer. With experience managing the integration of Austria, ties to business circles, and as the Reich's envoy to Slovakia and Croatia along with his role in Ireland, he was the perfect fit for the troublesome child that was Britain.

Ever since he arrived on these rainy shores in 1955, he has done his job to the letter, keeping the government down and ensuring Berlin's wishes are fulfilled. However, there is an oppressive stillness in the air - one that was not present when he first came. The Terrible Twins cannot be found, rumours of secret armies are being seen spread, and remnants of the war are still being dug up. All while the government squabbles, it is beset by internal division, corruption, and instability leading it unable to do anything as the knives come out of the shadows. Veesenmayer knows that he is the only man who can protect German rule in Britain - and the only man who can ensure that the British lion stays buried.

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• The Ace: Veesenmayer is highly respected in the Reich as a plenipotentiary keeping their conquered territories under the German thumb. He was recognized for his work in Slovakia, Croatia, and Ireland, and he's now been assigned to monitor the United Kingdom.
• Only Sane Man: At least, he thinks so. Looking down on the BPP's infighting, Veesenmayer believes that he's the only man capable of keeping the United Kingdom chained to the Pakt and warding off the Terrible Twins' partisan activities.

Rudolf Wulf

Role: Commanding General and Commander in Britain^note Security Minister (Nall-Cain cabinet)

Ideology: National Socialism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Of course, the British are biting at each other now. The entire island has barely been able to run itself since they conquered the territory twenty years prior. Yet now this new generation feels the need to reenact the doomed struggle of Britain, now without any of the Empire to fuel their war machine.

Granted, with Germany in chaos, he is ill-suited to receive more men during this. He'll have to make do with what he has, no matter how strained the logistics are out here. For some this is an all-consuming crusade to right their country. For Wulf, this is enacting his duty to the Reich. The Wehrmacht conquered Britain already, compared to that, Wulf's job is simple.

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• Bring It: Wulf is in a bad situation in the civil war, as the Wehrmacht's logistics to Germany are cut off and a countrywide revolt is tearing Britain apart. However, Wulf is not intimidated by the odds and prepares to fight; if the Wehrmacht could conquer Britain once, they can do it again in his mind.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: While many fight for the soul of Britain in the civil war, Wulf has no interest or affection for the country. He only assists the collaborators because it's his duty to the Reich.

William Joyce

Role: British Ambassador to Germany, Lord Protector of Great Britain^note Head of State (successful Operation Sea Lion II)

Party: British People's Party - National Salvation

Ideology: National Socialism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Ask him how he earned his scar, the one that runs from mouth to ear, and he'll tell you that it was a Jewish communist. Ask around, and you'll hear it was a disagreement with an Irish girl. But Joyce has always preferred a dignified story than an ignoble truth.

An early supporter of British fascism, William Joyce turned to Germany after a falling out with Mosley's BUF. During the war, he served as a radio host, an English-language advocate for the German regime, making him infamously known as the menacing Lord Haw Haw. After the war, he returned briefly to England as a champion of National Socialism. Such was his zeal that he even denounced John Beckett, founder of the British People's Party, for his long-buried Jewish heritage. He spent the next two decades in Germania as Britain's ambassador, exiled by a vengeful Old Guard.

For Joyce, his ascension after Sealion II is well-deserved compensation. But the title comes hanging upon strings. England's cruel fate is dictated in the backrooms of the Volkshalle. And whenever he speaks, though clothed with power's trappings, everyone knows for whom he's really speaking.

"Germany calling, Germany calling, Germany calling..."

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• 0% Approval Rating: Joyce, a puppet dictator installed by a German invasion who is subject to every whim of the Reich and lacks the talent or inclination to actually improve the conditions of his citizens, has nearly zero domestic approval and is entirely dependent on repression and German aid just to keep his regime afloat.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Desperately tries to plead his innocence before he gets hanged by the collaborators after getting framed by Maxwell Knight as a mole for the resistance. It doesn't work.
• Asshole Victim: Considering that he is an open Nazi who was outcasted from other Nazi collaborators for being too extreme, those same collaborators are more than happy to have him executed despite minimal evidence against him.
• Downer Ending: Joyce being put in power following Operation Sealion II is the worst outcome for HMMLR, as Britain falls under an oppressive Nazi government, once again subservient to the Reich.
• Dystopia Justifies the Means: Joyce is a vile National Socialist collaborator seeking to drag Britain entirely into Germany's grasp, resorting to extensive surveillance and violence to destroy any notions of rebellion. Joyce even deludes himself into believing he can protect the people of Britain once he has bled out their defiance.
• The Exile: After falling out with the BUF prior to the war, Joyce turned and went to Germany where he served as a radio host for them during the war. History will repeat for Joyce if HMMLR wins the British Civil War and Germany doesn't enact Sealion II, leaving him once again exiled to Germany.
• Glasgow Grin: Joyce has a massive scar running across his right cheek, giving the appearance of a wide grin. He claims it was from a Jewish Communist, while others says it's from a Irish woman.
• Hated by All: Due to his staunch advocacy of National Socialism, even going so far as to denounce BPP founder John Beckett for having a Jewish-born mother, he was outcasted from the rest of the BPP and collaborators. The rest of the British people hate his guts for being a loyal servant of Germany.
• Kangaroo Court: After the collaborators win the civil war, Joyce is extradited from Germany and sentenced to death for treason, with the only evidence being a claim from the interrogation of former HMMLR boss Knight, who only wanted to frame him as one of his moles—which is nonetheless a sufficient excuse for the other collaborators to get rid of him.
• Kick the Dog: Upon arriving in Britain from London Airport after Sealion II, he is snappy and cold to his chauffeur, not willing to talk and scoffs a thanks at the end of the journey as if to emphasise his utter repugnance.
• The Load: Joyce's National Republic is a massive resource sink for Germany, which constantly needs to send military aid and resources just to keep it afloat. German conglomerates could extract far less of a profit than before due to the presence of a constant low-level insurgency, and unlike the eastern Reichskommissariate there's not even a resource extraction operation or Germanisation targets to justify it. Nevertheless, even though it's less ideal than the collaborators winning the civil war at the first place, from the Reich's perspective it is still worth denying Britain, due to its resources and strategic position on Germany's western flank, from the OFN.
• More Despicable Minion: Joyce is a fanatical Nazi, a snivelling yes-man towards the Reich and generally a waste of a human being even by the standards of British fascists. His superiors in the BPP are willing to kill him with the flimsiest excuse, and even his overlords in Germania would prefer any other collaborator over Joyce to lead the UK—while they might not want to follow every word of the Reich, they are actually capable of keeping some degree of stability and legitimacy.
• Multiple-Choice Past: There is speculation to the true nature of his scar, either inflicted by a Jewish Communist or an Irish girl. Joyce prefers to claim the former.
• Puppet King: Joyce is largely powerless, being dictated by leaders and bureaucrats within Germania, a situation he is more than happy to accept.
• The Quisling: Joyce was one the first collaborators for the Germans, serving as a radio host for them during the war and serving as the British ambassador to Germany by 1962. If HMMLR wins and Germany commits to Sealion II, he will be placed in charge of Britain and follow Germania's every word.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: After he got their friend John Beckett disbarred for life from politics, the Old Guard named him ambassador to Germany where he could not influence domestic politics. This allows him to survive the purges that follow the liberation of Britain by HMMLR, and leaves him in the prime position to lead the new puppet Britain if Germany decides to re-invade.
• Red Baron: During his days as a English-language advocate for Germany on the radio he earned the nickname "Lord Haw Haw".
• Sinister Surveillance: One of his national spirits indicates that Joyce will set up an extensive surveillance system, dedicated to snuffing out any talk of dissent and beating the British population into submission.
• Sycophantic Servant: Both in real life and in TNO, Joyce's defining trait is being a massive sycophant towards his masters in Germany.

Edward IX

Role: King of the United Kingdom (Edward VIII succession)

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• Unexpected Successor: Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, is only a second cousin of his predecessor Edward VIII. He gets to inherit the throne because save for Edward VIII himself, every other Windsor has been exiled from Britain (and will not return in case of HMMLR's defeat), and Friedrich Josias is Edward VIII's closest relative who is friendly with the Reich and Nazism.

Kim Philby

Role: Director General of MI5^note Security Minister (all collaborationist cabinets except Domvile, Jordan and Joyce)

Ideology: British Fascism^note Fascism (façade), Bolshevism^note Communism (actual)

In-Game Biography (Director General of the MI5, Butler cabinet) ^{Click to Show}In the wake of Maxwell Knight's betrayal and near-destruction of MI5, there was only one man who could possibly take up the mantle of Britain's Intelligence Directorate and combat His Majesty's enemies from the shadows, wherever they may lurk. And that man, is Kim Philby.

A loyal member of the Collaborator Regime since the beginning, Philby is beyond suspect and has taken on the task of rooting out possible sleeper agents left behind by Knight with zeal and vigour lauded by even the BFC. With Philby standing guard, the Pragmatists may sleep soundly, and rest assured that their work will not be disrupted by foes foreign or domestic.

Truly, for enemies of the Crown the world over, he is His Majesty's Most Loyal Reckoning.

In-Game Biography (Director General of the MI5, Fountaine cabinet) ^{Click to Show}MI5 was a house built on rotting foundations, and when the house came crumbling down, the rats came scurrying out to follow their master into treachery. Not Philby, though. When MI5 was left near empty in the chaos of Knight's desertion, Deputy Director Kim Philby rose to the task of purifying what was left, clearing it of traitors and bolsheviks.

There was, of course, no question of whether Philby would retain his post in Fountaine's new Britain. Fountaine and he share a common bond, having done their part against the horrors of Bolshevism in Spain, with Philby having been honoured by Franco himself for it. MI5 requires a loyal man committed to rebuilding it from the ground up, and as far as Fountaine is concerned, no man is more fit to build a house free from treason than Kim Philby.

In-Game Biography (Director General of the MI5, Wallop cabinet) ^{Click to Show}When History looks upon the failures of the Domvile ministry, his greatest criticism will be found in his misplaced trust in Maxwell Knight. This traitor that almost brought our government and Britain itself to ruin, laying waste to the decades of work by the BPP. We know this cannot happen again, and thus Britain has turned to a loyal trusted man to rebuild her internal security, Kim Philby.

Kim, like his father, has always held loyalty to the Fascist cause in Britain, fighting for Fascism even before WW2, in the desperate battle against Bolshevism in Spain. Unlike so many of his fellows, he refused Knight's call to revolution, staying loyal and aiding us to crush their doomed rebellion. With his loyalty to the old order, and connections to the Old Guard, Wallop has seen fit to place Philby as head of MI5. He, like all men of the Cabinet, is a man devoted to restore Britain to its proper glory, no matter the cost.

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• Determinator: Even after the failed uprisings of 1956 and 1963 ended with the deaths of Knight, Jones, Maclean, Alexander, Stirling and every mole they'd painstakingly planted in MI5 over the years, Philby remains grimly determined to continue their fight against the fascist vipers.
• Double Reverse Quadruple Agent: To the collaborationist government and the public at large, Philby is a committed fascist and loyal friend of the Old Guard. To his acquaintances within Queen Elizabeth II's government-in-exile, he is one of them. The only person who knows that he is a communist is Philby himself (not even Knight, his boss in both MI5 and HMMLR, knows).
• Fun with Acronyms: Philby's biography as part of the Butler cabinet describes him as "His Majesty's Most Loyal Reckoning", HMMLR, the acronym of the anti-fascist British resistance, hinting he doesn't hold any true allegiance to the collaborators.
• Generation Xerox: Exploited. Kim Philby's father St John was an upper class fascist and friend of the collaborationist government, so no collaborator questions his allegiance to the Old Guard of the BPP, let alone suspects that he could be a secret communist (in real life, he got away with being a double agent for the USSR for so long because British high society could not conceive that aristocrats and associates could be socialists).
• Hero Antagonist: Philby is the last major HMMLR figure left after the British Civil War, feigning loyalty to the BPP. He can't start another war, but he will stir as much trouble as he can for the fascists. Thus, he will be an obstacle for Fountaine, Wallop, and, to a lesser extent, Butler.
• Mole in Charge: When HMMLR begins their rebellion and many members of MI5 reveal their true allegiance to the resistance, Philby is ordered to stay behind with the collaborators and officially become Director General of MI5 as a contingency in case the uprising fails—no collaborator knows that Philby, much like his predecessor, is also secretly aligned with HMMLR. Though Philby won't have the resources for anything like a coup, insurgency or second uprising in case HMMLR is defeated, he's still in the right position to do damage from the inside at the right time.
• The Remnant: When the boss of HMMLR reveals his true identity as Maxwell Knight, he explicitly orders Philby to not officially defect with himself and many other MI5 spies, but stay behind with the collaborators. If HMMLR wins, Knight can simply pardon Philby and give him his old job back; if HMMLR loses, Philby remains as a contingency plan to sabotage the collaborationist government from the inside.

Free Britain

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Official Name: Her Majesty's Most Loyal Resistance, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Government-in-Exile restored), Commonwealth of Britain (Socialist revolution)

Ruling Party: Her Majesty's Most Loyal Resistance

Ideology: Partisan Movement^note Despotism

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• Allohistorical Allusion: The Channel Crisis bears significant resemblance to the OTL Cuban Missile Crisis. Germany feels threatened by a HMMLR victory because they consider Britain a part of their backyard and their independence allows the OFN to set up station there. In reaction, Germany prepares an invasion, coming into a standoff with America which could start a Third World War. Compare with America feeling threatened by Cuba and Soviet nuclear weapons on the island, considering an invasion, and getting into a diplomatic crisis which came close to igniting a Third World War.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • There's no way for HMMLR to fend off Operation Sea Lion II if the Reich decides to re-invade Great Britain—their only hope for survival is to join the OFN and put themselves under the USA's nuclear umbrella.
  • Since the Left Resistance has vastly more people in it compared to the monarchist SOE and Maxwell Knight's cadre combined, their victory is all but assured if they're marginalised by Knight's post-war provisional government and decide to launch a socialist revolution.
• Defeat as Backstory: In the midst of the West Russian War, the resistance attempted to oust the government. David Stirling, former head of the SAS, had secretly re-entered Britain and called for a general uprising in 1956. It was quashed, killing hundreds and ending with the capture and execution of Stirling and communist guerrilla Bill Alexander.
• Developer's Foresight: If the player uses console commands to try and avoid being invaded during Sealion II, a special event◊ will pop up where Maxwell Knight will be confused by the German divisions suddenly vanishing, only for a ghost Adolf Hitler to appear and chastise the player for using the console, before himself using the console to forcibly make Sealion II succeed.
• Dramatic Irony: As a free Britain becomes the epicenter of American-German conflict, both the United States and the Reich believe that the other side wouldn't dare start nuclear war over the Channel Crisis, woefully underestimating the very real chance of it happening from the player's perspective.
• The Dreaded: Unlike the other partisan movements, victorious HMMLR is perceived as a colossal threat to Germany, since the Americans now have a base to threaten the Einheitspakt's control of mainland Europe. Schörner gathers every available troop to crush them, initiating the Channel Crisis.
• Enemy Mine: The monarchist SOE and the socialist Left Resistance would normally be political opponents, but are instead allies in Britain, and form a united resistance against the collaborators, their common enemy. Once the civil war is over, the two organizations come to blows, with the SOE wishing to restore the government-in-exile and the Left Resistance wanting to build a new socialist republic. If Knight's provisional government refuses to honour the Left Resistance's demand to abolish the House of Lords, the Left Resistance will launch a revolution and create a new socialist republic to replace the old UK.
• Government in Exile: After Operation Sea Lion, King George V's old government fled the UK into exile in Canada. Its successor can return home if HMMLR wins their uprising and Knight successfully appeases the Left Resistance into not launching a socialist revolution.
• History Repeats: In the aptly named superevent "Operation Sealion II", Germany can invade Britain a second time, if HMMLR defeats the collaborators and the United States withdraws influence from the English Channel.
• It's Personal: One staff member in the US State Department pushes for aid to HMMLR during the Channel Crisis because he fought in the Battle of Glasgow and saw many of his comrades get slaughtered by the Nazis. Therefore, he sees an American victory in the crisis as a chance to avenge his personal losses.
• Meaningful Name: Their name is derived from Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition, the term for the largest opposition party in the House of Commons in British politics (also known as the Official Opposition). In TNO, they are the largest opposition to the British People's Party, making them the closest equivalent to Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition.
• Mutually Assured Destruction: After defeating the collaborators, the only hope of HMMLR surviving a retaliatory German invasion is to be guaranteed by the U.S. Navy, who will open fire and start a third world war, if the Reich tries anything too extreme. If the negotiations fail and the United States retreats, HMMLR will inevitably be invaded and toppled.
• Non-Indicative Name: Despite the name, Her Majesty's Most Loyal Resistance is ironically not united by a dedication to the restoration of the Queen.
• Please Spare Him, My Liege!: After HMMLR's victory, the House of Windsor will ask Maxwell Knight (who is technically their subject, but is the one actually in charge in Britain before the exiles return) to spare the life of their relative Edward VIII, despite his status as the arch-traitor. Knight, for his part, is willing to follow the royals' wish, though the Left Resistance will not—in case they launch their revolution, the traitor king will get shot alongside other high-ranking collaborators.
• The Purge: One of the first things that follow HMMLR's victory is a purge of the collaborationist government. Ronald Nall-Cain (Foreign Secretary and interim Prime Minister), Andrew Fountaine (Home Secretary), Rab Butler (Chancellor of the Exchequer and the highest-ranking pre-war politician who chose to collaborate), Gerard Wallop (leader of the House of Lords), Gerald Templer (Chief of the Defence Staff), Jeffrey Hamm (leader of the Blackshirts) and Colin Jordan (leader of the British Free Corps) will always be sentenced to death, alongside King Edward VIII if the Left Resistance pulls off their revolution (Knight and Maclean will at least accept the Royal Family and exiled government's wishes to spare Edward), with other collaborators being given long prison sentences and disbarred from politics for life.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: HMMLR is a diverse organisation, one made of promises and compromise rather than any definite political ideology.
• La Résistance: Britain has one of the strongest, if disorganized at the start of the game, anti-Nazi resistances in Europe. Mostly represented by the royalist SOE and the socialist Left Resistance, the Resistance seeks to reconnect its various cells, search for foreign aid and convince the British population to join their struggle. If they succeed in their goals and oust the British collaborationist government, they can overthrow the Nazi yoke and reclaim Britain's independence.
• Revolving Door Revolution: Very soon after leading HMMLR to victory in their uprising, Maxwell Knight can find himself and his provisional government overthrown in a second revolution by the Left Resistance if he refuses their demand to abolish the House of Lords.
• Timed Mission:
  • The British Civil War is designed in such a way that HMMLR, having managed to catch the collaborators off guard, has the initial advantage and is supposed to win quickly, but if the collaborators manage to survive, they gradually gain momentum, allowing them to eventually turn the tables (especially after Germany wraps up its succession crisis).
  • From the Channel Crisis, the resistance will need to work with the United States and build up their readiness for a potential German invasion. It is imperative that HMMLR reach the red zone of their readiness bar before time runs out or the Germans' readiness drops to 0%. If the timer hits zero and HMMLR's readiness is below Germany's, the Reich will be free to invade them and initiate a game over. Otherwise, if both of their readiness is in the red zone, nuclear war will start and also end the game.

Maxwell Knight

Role: Director General of MI5 (collaborationist Britain), Head of State (HMMLR)

Party: Her Majesty's Most Loyal Resistance

Ideology: Partisan Movement^note Despotism

In-Game Biography^{Click to Show}The mask has fallen.

For the past nineteen years Maxwell Knight has kept up a careful facade of loyalty to London and the British People's Party government. In that time, he has led a double life as the oh-so rare boss of HMMLR, a man that the government scoured Britain for, but they never thought to look beneath their own noses. When news of Hitler's death came, Knight knew that the time had come. The assassination of Domvile was the capstone of Knight's work as the head of HMMLR and the beginning of his final fight for liberation.

Across Britain as the people rise up in the name of the country that still lives in their hearts, the dream of a truly free Britannia remains in the hearts of Britons; Knight stands at their head with his fellow comrades of the resistance to his side. As the fragile order that the Reich forged over Europe burns, Knight is determined to see the slaughter done unto Britannia avenged, and if he cannot do with that, he will make the fascists pay with blood for their victory...

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• Cincinnatus: After his work winning HMMLR's uprising and overseeing reconstruction is done, Knight invites the government-in-exile from Canada back home and hands power to the victor in the ensuing general election.
• Mole in Charge: In public, Maxwell Knight leads the MI5, the collaborationist government's intelligence agency. Undercover, he is also the leader of the HMMLR resistance, something that is known to very few people.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After HMMLR's defeat, when asked to defend himself in his trial, Knight (who knows that the only possible sentence was death) condemns every collaborator as a traitor who has failed Britain:
  The words do not come easily, I must say. What does a condemned man have to say to his condemners? My fate was determined the moment I was captured. But since you are all so keen to hear what I have to say - and I know that everything I say will be recorded - so I to the men running this new government, I say this. I have worked amongst you for years. I know everything about you. Your deepest secrets and your worst nightmares. And I know how utterly venal and blackened your souls are. Each and every one of you Nazi-loving bastards is a traitor to this country. You have failed Britain and her people. And while I may be long dead before your house of cards falls in on itself, that day will come. Oh, it will come. Burn in hell.
• The Reliable One: To the collaborators, Knight is seen as dependable, efficient, bloodless when he chose to be and of sound mind (especially when compared to Colin Jordan), which makes it all the more shocking when he assassinates Domvile and reveals himself to be the shadowy Boss of HMMLR.
• The Spook: Before revealing his identity, the Boss is a mysterious figure who is HMMLR's true leader and coordinating the actions of Jones and Maclean, the two most infamous resistance fighters. The collaborators know nothing about the Boss, not even their gender, before Knight reveals himself as the mastermind.
• Taking You with Me: If HMMLR is defeated, during interrogation, Knight frames a few false co-conspirators, including William Joyce (an old accomplice from the British Fascisti in the early 1920s). The collaborators, for their part, are so eager to tell Germany and ask for his extradition so he could be executed; after all, they've long been waiting for an excuse to get rid of him. Joyce's last words, as he vainly tries to profess his innocence, echo all the way to Knight's cell just before he's hanged as well.

Jack Jones

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Role: Head of Government (Knight cabinet), Prime Minister^note Head of State (Socialist revolution)

Party: Left Resistance, British Workers' Front (Socialist revolution)

Ideology: Revolutionary Front^note Socialism

In-Game Biography (Head of Government) ^{Click to Show}He was a working man, a union man, he worked in the Transport and General Workers' Union. The BPP was supposedly for men like him. Lies, all of it.

The bastards talk behind false smiles, speaking of the progress they've made by bowing down and prostrating Britain before them. 20 years of German occupation and fascist oppression. The man may not agree with Knight on everything, the man's as suspicious of his socialism as anything else, but they can surely agree that each other is a thousand times more preferable than allowing this travesty to continue a single moment longer. Knight is the mastermind, but Jones rallies the men for freedom. Never again shall Britons be slaves.

In-Game Biography (Head of State) ^{Click to Show}What can be said to describe Jack Jones? One half of the Terrible Twins. Bogeyman to every large business owner. The man who has shepherded the Left of the Resistance since before most of its members were born. Jones is a living legend amongst socialists - a true titan of the movement whose star only seems to shine ever-brighter.

A school-dropout turned dockworker, Jones has been fighting fascism wherever he had seen it since the Battle of Cable Street and the Spanish Civil War. As expected, he fought tooth and nail against them during the war, and his efforts only grew when the blackshirts came home. Founding the Liverpudlian branch of the Resistance and coming into leadership of the Left in 1956, Jones became a figure of hope to those who dreamt of a Britain free of Fascism, and a thorn in the side of many a government.

After an unexpectedly quick victory over the collaborators in the civil war, the British people's desire for change is clearly left unquenched. Being swept into office, Jones and his United Front of Socialists now hold an opportunity that precious few within their movement will ever hold - the chance to turn Britain into a genuinely socialist republic - with ties to the OFN, of course.

Of course, all is not well. This will not sit right with the more conservative populations in Britain, and already his United Front is starting to feel the strain of the ever-present spectre of left-wing infighting. However, Jones is undeterred. He fought for the working man for almost three decades, and he'll continue to do so forever, if that's what it takes.

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• Better to Die than Be Killed: When HMMLR is defeated and collaborationist troops storm his bunker, the last thing Jones does is to grab a grenade, unpin it and clutch it in his hand.
• The Determinator: He's been an anti-fascist fighter for almost three decades and will keep fighting for the working class, even if the conservative populations in Britain will oppose his mission.
• Enemy Mine: Jones is cautious about aligning with the OFN, but will do so because the other neighboring rival superpower, Germany, will destroy Britain if not for the US fleet protecting it.
• Living Legend: Jones has been fighting British fascism for decades, participating in the Spanish Civil War and the Battle of Cable Street. Thus, Jones is treated as a legend by the other socialists in the Left Resistance.
• Mysterious Past: Little is known about Jones' past, beyond being a Liverpool Docker, a shop steward, and early opponent to Mosley's rallies.
• Red Baron: Jones makes up one half of the renowned "Terrible Twins", waging open resistance against the collaborationist regime before and during the civil war.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Jones is distrusted by the HMMLR leadership for being a socialist, but his expertise and genuine commitment to liberation makes him a vital asset for the war effort and thus is kept around.

Fitzroy Maclean

Role: Security Minister (Knight cabinet)

Party: Special Operations Executive

Ideology: Partisan Movement^note Despotism

In-Game Biography (Security Minister) ^{Click to Show}It's a strange order of affairs. He had gone to Yugoslavia to learn best how to defeat the Germans. Now with the fall of London, he found himself putting the lessons from Yugoslavia to work at home. The Scottish gentleman never expected himself enact the tactics of communist partisans, but in wartime, one does not ask where the weapons come from.

To that end, he has made it quite clear. No price is too high to evict the Germans from the homeland. Britain now suffer, chained to Nazi Europe. He knows the old days will not return. Britain has lost its empire and its place in the world. But at least he can recover its dignity from the shameless fools who now sit in Parliament.

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• Brave Scot: Fitzroy Maclean is a scion of the Ardgour branch of Clan Maclean who commands the Special Operations Executive, an elite force of commandos that has long been fighting a guerrilla war against the British collaborationist government.
• Red Baron: Maclean makes up one half of the renowned "Terrible Twins", leading an open resistance against the collaborators, even before the civil war.
• Taking Up the Mantle: Maclean leads the SOE after their former leader, Stirling, was executed in the '56 Uprising.
• Taught by Experience: Maclean learned how to fight the Germans when he was sent to Yugoslavia during World War II and worked with Tito's partisans. He will put this knowledge to good use so that the British Isles are liberated.

Jock Haston

Role: Foreign Minister (Knight cabinet)

Ideology: Bolshevik-Leninism^note Communism

In-Game Biography (Foreign Minister) ^{Click to Show}Unlike many others, he does not look to the past for his reason to fight, but it's future. Britain was a colonialist empire, almost as opposed to communism as fascism. Arguably more so. But the Second World War changed that.

If only he had known at the time how it would change. Britain, in a spot of cosmic irony, has become a slave state to a worse, more colonial more genocidal empire than any other in human history. But this is not the end. Haston has a dream, a dream of a communist Britain. Breaking from the foolishness of Bukharin, and blazing a new trail forward, Haston fights for a new, red Britain. One that will never surrender to fascist domination again.

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• Chummy Commies: A resistance fighter against a fascist regime and a communist dedicated to building a better government that avoids Bukharin's mistakes.
• My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting: Haston is apprehensive of the old British Empire, condemning their colonialist ventures and anti-communist sentiments. Even so, he recognizes that they were replaced by a far worse evil in the Nazis.
• Nostalgia Filter: Inverted. Hanston ignores the past and focuses on the future for a reason to fight.

Claude Auchinleck

Role: Economy Minister (Knight cabinet)

Ideology: Partisan Movement^note Despotism

In-Game Biography (Economy Minister) ^{Click to Show}Waging a guerilla war in one's own home. It's certainly been a strange journey for the man. The man learned how to make use of thin supply lines within India, managing the logistics so far away from home. Now he has returned home and is made to put those skills to work again, now against his own brothers.

It's a sad state of affairs, but really, it has just become obvious. Under Domvile's reign, Britain had turned against its own people, treating them as one of the Reich's subjugated puppet states. Those who opposed the status quo, even peacefully, were ruthlessly discarded. Well, now they're fighting back. Liberals, socialists, and anyone with respect for democracy. With luck, her majesty will yet be able to return.

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• I Did What I Had to Do: Auchinleck is saddened that he must fight his own countrymen, but he ultimately considers Britain's liberation the greater good and thus assists HMMLR in the civil war.
• Taught by Experience: Auchinleck learned how to manage thin supply lines while he worked in India, using this expertise to aid the Resistance back home.

Harold Macmillan

Role: Prime Minister^note Head of State (Election)

Party: Conservative and Unionist Party

Ideology: Paternalistic Conservatism^note Conservatism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Absolutely nothing brings Maurice Harold Macmillan more joy than to be back in his beloved isles. After almost two decades in exile in Canada, "Supermac" is back - and better than ever.

Born to a very well-off family in 1894 and educated in Eton College and Oxford, Macmillan is the archetypal Edwardian gentlemen. A pragmatic man of sharp wit and strong character, he was one of the key opponents of appeasement in Parliament - fending off the cowardly "pragmatism" shown by the likes of Rab Butler. This made him few friends amongst the Nazis when Sealion struck, however; Macmillan was on the list of select people to be "dealt with" upon occupation.

Fleeing to Canada along with his compatriots in both the Conservative and Labour parties, Macmillan has been one of the collaborator regime's strongest opponents for years on end. What was once a life of spirited debate and fiery passion became an ever-more wintry existence, as the iciness of the north began to freeze his hopes for a free Britain.

And then, the Resistance won.

Returning to his home a new man, Macmillan is the archetypal "One-Nation" Conservative, intent on unifying a broken nation, regardless of class or creed. The challenges he faces shall undoubtedly be great. However, if there was ever a man for the job it is Supermac - and once he's through with her, Britain will never have had it so good!

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• Everyone Has Standards: Macmillan is willing to indulge in some pragmatism, but he drew the line at appeasing the Nazis prior to the Second World War, which he considers tantamount to cowardice.
• The Exile: Due to his opposition to fascism and willingness to work with communists, Macmillan was put on the Nazis' kill list and had to flee the UK after Operation Sea Lion. In Canada, he now serves as the UK government-in-exile's Prime Minister.
• Good Old Ways: Macmillan is a perfect example of an old-fashioned Edwardian gentleman and he is one of the most admired politicians in Britain for his wit and strong character.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: His personal ideology, one-nation conservatism, invokes this trope. It argues that the upper class must seek support and cooperate with the working class, and adopt ideas for the benefit of everyone, regardless of their social standing. Following this creed, Macmillan's government will be based on the Beveride Report, offering a mixed economy with social reforms and welfare.
• Took a Level in Idealism: Exiled to Canada after Operation Sea Lion, Macmillan's passion waned and lost hope that he cold ever return home. Fortunately, he regains his idealism if the Resistance wins the civil war and potentially elects him as Prime Minister.

Keith Joseph

Role: Prime Minister^note Head of State (Election)

Party: Conservative and Unionist Party

Ideology: Liberal Corporatism^note Conservatism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Around a decade ago, the idea of a Jewish man governing Britain would seem utterly untenable. Too much harm had been done Britain's Jewish community, and the idea that any one of them could ever become Prime Minister would be dismissed as utter nonsense. Keith Joseph delights in dismissing these words in turn.

From his early life, one would assume that Joseph was always destined to go far. Born to a rich Jewish family and studying Oxford, he was well-positioned to lead an easy and satisfactory life - especially due his exemplary service during the Second World War. Unfortunately, the victory of the Nazis and the coming of the collaborator regime meant that this was not to be. All too aware of what would happen to people like him, Joseph joined the resistance.

After fleeing to Canada after the failed uprising of 1956, Joseph joined the Conservative Party and became one of its rising stars. His future as a key member of the party was only cemented upon the victory of the resistance, when he was nominated as the Tory candidate for the election after the shock retirement of the well-known and loved Harold Macmillan.

Now as Prime Minister, Joseph finally has room to implement his vision of a Britain governed not by archaic etatism, but by a perfect harmony of government, employers and the trade unions - this, and his opposition to Germany means that Britain's future will be one heavily intertwined with the United States.

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• Dark Horse Victory: Almost no one expects Joseph to become Prime Minister. The Jewish community in Britain has suffered greatly under the Nazi jackboot and it seemed like the Conservatives' main candidate would be the more popular Macmillan. However, Macmillan can retire to the shock of everyone and give a chance for Joseph to be elected.
• The Exile: Joseph fought in the Resistance during the '56 Uprising. Unfortunately, their defeat destroyed any chance of toppling the collaborationist regime and Joseph fled to Canada.
• It's Personal: Joseph is a Jewish man, so he has plenty of reasons to oppose Germany and adopt a strongly pro-OFN policy to contain them.

Michael Foot

Role: Prime Minister^note Head of State (Election)

Party: Labour Party

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Progressivism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A fellow MP once said that Michael Foot was a man who belonged not to the parliament of the 60s, but to the days of Disraeli and Gladstone. To an uneducated man, this may seem ridiculous. How could Foot, the radical, heir to Attlee and Bevan, leader of the exiled Labour movement, possibly be a man of the Victorian era? Yet, behind that radical exterior, lies an intellectual, a man who can rattle off critics of Swift and Harper as easily as describe the plight of the working class.

Foot, unlike many of his contemporaries, was not born to the working class. Raised Liberal, Foot would only subscribe to socialism after bearing witness to the inequalities across Britain, most clearly in Liverpool, where he first committed himself to socialism. Throughout the 30s, Foot would dedicate himself to the Labour Party, most commonly through his journalism, through which He would write scathing criticisms of the appeasement policy followed by the Conservative government, concluding the book Guilty Men, a scathing critique of appeasement.

Foot, upon the outbreak of World War Two, would attempt to join the military, but was unable to fight owing to medical conditions. Despite this, He would continue to support the war effort, even despite the failure of the National Government, and would continue to note how Conservative governments had left Britain unprepared for war, and had collaborated with the very enemy they were facing. In another timeline, this rhetoric may have led to his death by the German occupiers, yet thanks to an intervention by Lord Beaverbrook, whom Foot had developed a close relationship to whilst working at the Evening Standard, Foot would be evacuated to Canada, forced to watch the occupation of his thousands of miles away.

Even in exile, Foot, ever the romantic, would not give up. He would continue in activism abroad, becoming one of the most influential exiled leaders. This continued dedication to Britain would eventually lead to his election to Labour leader, a role he would excel in. As Labour leader, he has marched with MLK, dined with Nehru, and has constantly fought no just for the liberation of his own home but for the freedom of the world as well.

Now, Foot has finally returned home. Winning the post-war election on a program of a new Jerusalem, Foot has a daunting task ahead of him. Thousands starve, millions lie in poverty and the British people cry out for aid, made weak by the decades of German occupation. The work will be hard, yet if Foot is successful, the red flag will fly in Britain forevermore.

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• Dark Horse Victory: Foot is widely seen as a spineless doormat who would have no chance of becoming Prime Minister. Following HMMLR's victory and the establishment of free elections, Foot can prove his doubters wrong.
• The Idealist: Even though the world has suffered greatly under an Axis victory, Foot never lost hope that Britain could recover and he's occasionally called a romantic for it. If he's elected, Foot can only see the mass poverty that plagues the country and vows to adopt a more gentle hand than Germany and the collaborators did.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: As the Allies' defeat in World War II loomed by the day, Foot called out the Conservative government for leaving Britain unprepared to fight the Axis powers and even collaborating with them occasionally during the pre-war period. Anyone else in his position would be left behind in Europe and ready to face execution by the Nazis, but his close relationship with Lord Beaverbrook allowed him to get on the evacuation list.

Enoch Powell

Role: Prime Minister^note Head of State

Party: Conservative and Unionist Party

Ideology: Idiosyncratic Conservatism^note Conservatism

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• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Not different from his real life counterpart, Powell despises the United States and is sceptical of the OFN, even though this is a timeline where the UK cannot survive without the US's nuclear umbrella.

Ireland

Republic of Ireland

Official Name: Republic of Ireland

Ruling Party: Fianna Fáil - Moderates^note Soldiers of Destiny: Fianna Fáil exists in a contradiction. It is a party that fiercely sports revolutionary rhetoric, but its existence was an invention of pragmatism. Its party ranks and voter base comprise working-class men and women, but its policies serve a wealthy conservative establishment. It prides itself on nationalism but is increasingly economically trapped by a foreign power.
As a revolutionary with a mindset for business, Sean Lemass is a man deeply aware of these contradictions. The Irish Revolution was a brutal affair, but it is over, and for him and his moderates, Fianna Fáil must bring Ireland into the modern world. Europe calls, and Lemass will not see his nation left behind to the sands of time.

Ideology: Authoritarian Developmentalism^note Paternalism

Late in WWII, Ireland sided with Germany and united all of Ireland by conquering Northern Ireland. Post-war, the comprehensive Irish-German ties became troublesome as the German economy crashed in the 50s. As the 60s come, the ruling Fianna Fáil under Seán Lemass has increasingly resorted to authoritarianism to protect Irish democracy and independence, while paramilitary violence have resurfaced in the northern counties.

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• Allohistorical Allusion:
  • The Ulster Arms Crisis, a political crisis that defines the latter third of Ireland's storyline, is largely based on the Arms Crisis in real life.
  • Ireland's operation to declare martial law and pacify Northern Ireland is called Exercise Armageddon, named after the real military exercise of the same name.
• But Thou Must!: If Paisley takes over Ulster, Ireland's focus tree presents an option to attempt to negotiate with Paisley, but doing so only pops up an event where Paisley demands the full independence of all of the six counties of Northern Ireland. The Irish leadership finds this demand completely impossible and is forced to confront him in war, and the event will then bypass the other mutually exclusive focus in the focus tree to go down the war path.
• The Coup: If Lemass fails to crush Twomey's IRA in 60 days, the country will completely destabilize, with socialist riots across the country. Eventually, the IRA paramilitary will march into Dublin, and coup Lemass and de Valera.
• Detective Drama: The main event chain that decides Ireland's political path is a series of four N.I.C. investigations on terrorist attacks in Northern Ireland, led by Inspector Eamon Doherty. Successfully solve all four cases, and the conspiracies of Blaney and Twomey will be revealed, allowing the government to respond to them. Fail them, and Twomey's conspiracy will go as planned, resulting in him taking over Ulster.
• Enemy Mine: In a rare show of unity, every faction in the Dáil will end their bickering and work together to alleviate the economic crisis following the German Civil War. Unfortunately, once the worst of the crises passes, they go back to fighting again.
• Full-Circle Revolution: In their forceful bid for independence during World War II, the Irish have merely traded their British overlords for German ones, who dominate the economic scene and are the reason behind why so many Irish are dirt poor.
• From Bad to Worse: The Irish economy already starts out struggling, as the ordinary citizens lack many of the luxuries enjoyed by developed countries, like televisions and telephones. However, once the German Civil War starts, the economy practically flatlines, as prices for even basic necessities, like food, soar by over 150%.
• Kicked Upstairs: Former Taoiseach de Valera was reassigned to the largely ceremonial post of President of Ireland when Lemass took over.
• MegaCorp: German megacorporations own a significant portion of the industry in Ireland.
• Military Coup:
  • If Lemass tries to handle the Ulster Arms Crisis by declaring martial law in Ulster, arresting Blaney, and putting General James Kelly in charge of Ulster, Kelly will then coup Lemass just before Blaney's trial, since Lemass would've declassified documents that would implicate Kelly in the Ulster Arms Crisis. Kelly, belonging to a pro-German faction of the Irish Defense Forces, will then institute a Germanophilic rule over Ireland, with Neil Blaney as their puppet Taoiseach.
  • If Lemass fails to crush Paisley's UVF in 60 days, Lemass will be couped by IDF Chief of Staff Sean MacEoin for failing to maintain Ireland's territorial integrity.
• Minigame: Ireland has special mechanics for managing popularities in the Dáil Éireann (to pass Bills that grant national spirits, change laws, or give other bonuses), managing German investment in Ireland, and managing its interactions with paramilitaries.
• Mood Whiplash: Ireland's initial focus tree ends on a celebratory note, with the country united and moving towards a better direction. However, the German Civil War will break out soon after the end of the initial focus tree (provided that the player progresses the focus tree at a normal pace), causing an economy crash that throws the nation into chaos.
• Moral Guardians: The Magdalene Laundries are "asylums" where prostitutes and women with no other family are incarcerated to one day restore their "honor". While it remains a very sore topic for liberal politicians in Ireland, it still enjoys considerable support from the religious hardliners.
• Multiple Endings: Ireland has a large amount of possible outcomes despite being a relatively small country. All of is political paths branch off from the Ulster Arms Crisis, when the Irish government uncovers a plot that suggests that hardline members of the Irish government are supplying the Irish Citizen Guard with arms, and they are planning an uprising in Dublin to topple the Irish government.
  • If the investigation into the Ulster Arms Crisis succeeds (requires both the third and fourth case to be successfully solved), it is confirmed that Blaney is giving the Irish Citizen Guard arms so they can fight the Protestants for him, and it is also revealed that the Irish Citizen Guard is an IRA front organization aiming to cheat the guns out of Blaney and use them for an uprising in Belfast, with the Dublin plot being a decoy intended to distract the Irish military. Lemass has two options from here:
    • Assassinate Twomey and cripple the IRA. This causes a power vacuum in Northern Ireland, and the Ulster Volunteer Force under Paisley launches an uprising and takes over Ulster. Ireland will be forced to go to war with Ulster. If they lose, IDF Chief of Staff MacEoin will coup Lemass and make peace with Ulster, while Paisley will move Ulster onto the track of Unionism; if they win, Ireland will be reunited, and the FF will gain a lot of popularity, at the cost of widespread Protestant persecution.
    • Declare martial law in Northern Ireland and clean out all the paramilitaries. Blaney will be arrested but, before his trial can commence, Brigadier General James Kelly will coup Lemass to prevent himself from being implicated, and form a pro-German regime with Blaney as his puppet.
  • If the investigation into the Ulster Arms Crisis fails, the IRA's conspiracy will be successfully executed, and they will launch an uprising and take over Ulster. Twomey uses Ulster as a bargaining chip to demand Ireland's full withdrawal from the German sphere and the pardon of all IRA members. Lemass can choose to agree to the demands or go to war with Ulster.
    • If Lemass agrees to the demands, Ireland will leave the Einheitspakt and lose all German economic support, and Ulster will be reintegrated, while the FF's popularity tanks, and the National Coalition will win the subsequent Irish election, beating Fianna Fáil for the first time.
    • If Lemass goes to war and wins, Ulster will be reintegrated, but Lemass faces scrutiny due to his gratuitous use of force, and he is ousted in a vote of no confidence and replaced by the pro-German FF hardliner Charles Haughey. If Lemass loses, Ireland will destabilize and Twomey will coup Lemass, and he will institute an autocratic Irish nationalist rule with British and German influences purged.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Although it technically won World War II by being on the side of the Axis, Ireland has lost more than gained from its victory. Tying the economy to Germany's has been a disaster, as Ireland has been in stagnation since the German crash, and the country can do nothing about it, while the OFN wants nothing to do with a Pakt member.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: The FF and Labour party are in a coalition together, but they have conflicting goals and will need to appease each other's interests so that they remain united.

Seán Francis Lemass

Role: Taoiseach^note Head of State

Party: Fianna Fáil - Moderates^note Soldiers of Destiny: Fianna Fáil exists in a contradiction. It is a party that fiercely sports revolutionary rhetoric, but its existence was an invention of pragmatism. Its party ranks and voter base comprise working-class men and women, but its policies serve a wealthy conservative establishment. It prides itself on nationalism but is increasingly economically trapped by a foreign power.
As a revolutionary with a mindset for business, Sean Lemass is a man deeply aware of these contradictions. The Irish Revolution was a brutal affair, but it is over, and for him and his moderates, Fianna Fáil must bring Ireland into the modern world. Europe calls, and Lemass will not see his nation left behind to the sands of time.

Ideology: Authoritarian Developmentalism^note Paternalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}To say Seán Francis Lemass loves Ireland is an understatement. Since the rising against the British in 1916, he has been present ensuring a safe and prosperous future for the country. The ultimate recognition for his services was Éamon de Valera's endorsement for Taoiseach upon his retirement from the post. Thus, Lemass was thrust into the forefront of Irish politics, only to discover the dreadful state of the country.

Shortly after taking office, he was faced with economic meltdown, rebellion in the Northern Counties, and the shaky nature of his position. The legacy of his role in convincing de Valera to join the Germans during the attack on Northern Ireland haunts him as he watches Eire become more dependent on Berlin by the day. Every hour he spends as Taoiseach, Lemass grows more convinced he can do little more than slow the impending collapse of his own administration. In spite of this general pessimism Lemass has held on, and has, to his credit, managed to maintain Ireland's territorial integrity secured and its political system unchanged.

Ultimately however, Lemass's silent achievements will count for little if he cannot save the country for itself. While the difficulty of this job increases in proportion to the power of the opposition Fine Gael, and to the number of terror attacks in the Northern Counties, it is not an impossible task. If Lemass proves able to carry it out, Lemass will stand on the pantheon of Ireland's founding fathers. Should he fail, he shall be its undertaker.

The incumbent Taoiseach of Ireland, and Éamon de Valera's successor.

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• Be Careful What You Wish For: In case of an IRA uprising in Northern Ireland, Lemass can initiate Operation Armageddon, which would place the region under martial law until the terrorist threat is countered. If it is initiated, Lemass does get his wish of killing Paisley and Twomey to stop the terrorists, but this allows Kelly to coup him to withhold information that could threaten his career.
• Corrupt Politician: Lemass has engaged in shady and violent political tactics to keep himself and the party in power.
• The Cynic: Watching Ireland become more dependent on the Reich and the impending collapse of his administration has made him cynical about his nation's future, but he soldiers on anyway to keep Ireland's territorial integrity.
• Godzilla Threshold: With the Irish economy in freefall following the German Civil War and the departure of German investors, Lemass begins printing more money to slow down the economic collapse. Although Lemass knows it will be harmful in the long run, it will buy some time to come up with a recovery plan, now that the citizens at least have the money to buy food.
• Hypocrite: Lemass conducts massive censoring campaigns to ensure that there is no Nazi, socialist, or Protestant propaganda, only to then start producing pro-FF news in their place.
• My Greatest Failure: Lemass is haunted by how he convinced de Valera to join the Germans to reclaim the Six Counties, and now has to watch as Ireland becomes more and more dependent on the Reich.
• Pet the Dog: One of the first bills Lemass passes is a pollution control bill to limit the wastes produced by the German corporations.
• Pyrrhic Victory:
  • If the IRA takes over Ulster, and Lemass manages to defuse the situation by successfully negotiating with Twomey, he will prevent the outbreak of war inside Ireland and reintegrate Northern Ireland, but at the cost of tanking the FF's popularity, leading to FF's losing the upcoming Irish election, and having Ireland leave the German sphere, which is its economic backbone.
  • If Lemass manages to successfully militarily crush the IRA uprising, Ireland will be reunited, but his usage of force inside Ireland causes his own popularity to tank, and he is ousted by a vote of no confidence, with Charles Haughey replacing him as Taoiseach.
• That Came Out Wrong: To try rehabilitating his PR following the economic crisis, Lemass makes an appearance for a late-night TV interview. As he discusses politics with the host, Lemass starts to get drowsy and asks the interviewer to repeat a question. As the crowd snickers at his mistake, Lemass tries apologizing by claiming he usually goes to bed at seven, which just causes the audience to chuckle even louder, much to his embarassment.
• Video Game Cruelty Punishment: To resolve the Ulster Arms Crisis, Lemass can declare martial law over Northern Ireland and unleash the police to arrest or torture the potential terrorists. While this leads to a drop in short-term crime, this later backfires on Lemass when Kelly leads a coup against him.

Jack Lynch

Role: Minister for Finance^note Economy Minister (Lemass cabinet), Taoiseach^note Head of State (National Coalition victory)

Party: Fianna Fáil - Liberals, Fine Gael - Moderates^note If Fianna Fáil consists of the working class, Fine Gael is the party of the part-time professionals. With a lineage going back to the moderately nationalist Irish Parliamentary Party, it is seen as the arch-enemy of Fianna Fáil. Catering for the middle-class, upper-class, and those farmers not swayed by Fianna Fáil, it is considered the respectable alternative to populist demagoguery.
After an influx of Fianna Fáil liberals into the party, it is no longer divided into liberals and conservatives but is now beset by a growing middle ground. While united by a devotion to law, order, and Western democratic principles, it finds itself experiencing difficulty in achieving these ideals, with Jack Lynch and his moderates increasingly acting as the kingmaker in these arguments. (Fine Gael defection)

Ideology Christian Democracy^note Liberal Conservatism, Dominant-Party Democracy^note Paternalism (Fianna Fáil)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Everyone knows Jack as the Nice Fellow, the good guy who played a top-notch bit of hurling and did well for his country. Beneath this image lies a sharp political mind ready for change.

Born to a distinctly apolitical family, Jack Lynch was once only a man concerned more about losing a match than Germany declaring war on France. His popularity led to many seeking to recruit him to their parties, but Lynch's adoration of de Valera led him to choose de Valera. Serving as Dev's speechwriter, both quickly became good friends.

But as a rot began to fester in the party, Lynch began to feel unease standing with men who did business with the Reich, professing distaste at the growing extremism within his party. Coupled with de Valera's unceremonious departure and unease at going against his liberal-minded conscious, the Cork man defected to a more fitting affiliation.

Lynch now calls Fine Gael his home, the helmsman of a party at a crossroads with him at the juncture. His legal mind considers each plea brought to him, but a question remains. Is his charisma enough for the coalition to hold?

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• Beware the Nice Ones: Lynch is frequently known as the "Nice Fellow", but he's also a savvy politician who shouldn't be underestimated.
• Defector from Decadence: Dissatisfied by Fianna Fáil's collaboration with Germany and de Valera's departure, Lynch defects to Fine Gael.

Charles Haughey

Role: Minister for Justice^note Security Minister (Lemass cabinet), Taoiseach^note Head of State (IRA suppressed)

Party: Fianna Fáil - Nationalists^note Soldiers of Destiny: Fianna Fáil exists in a contradiction. It is a party that fiercely sports revolutionary rhetoric, but its existence was an invention of pragmatism. Its party ranks and voter base comprise working-class men and women, but its policies serve a wealthy conservative establishment. It prides itself on nationalism but is increasingly economically trapped by a foreign power.
An exuberant modernizer, Charles Haughey looks to the innovations of Europe and takes notes. He loves Ireland as much as anyone, but he believes that Ireland does not have to be a poor or backward nation. Modernization also does not have to destroy the establishments every Irishman holds dear. Ireland will march to the future as fast as Haughey's drum can beat.

Ideology: Aristocratic Conservatism^note Despotism

In-Game Biography (Minister for Justice)^{Click to Show}Of all the members of the Government today, Charles Haughey's career is the shortest, and perhaps the most controversial already. A fierce conservative firebrand and a pragmatic supporter of Ireland's close ties to Germany, if only for the economic benefits it brings, Haughey has drawn admiration from those who support him and pure loathing from those who are opposed. There is no middle ground on the man in the mohair suit.

Despite his short Dáil tenure, Haughey was selected to become Seán Lemass' Minister for Justice at the record-setting age of 36 (his marriage to Lemass' daughter couldn't have hurt), giving him control over Ireland's internal security forces. Since his appointment, Haughey has used his newfound power to put down protests and IRA campaigns alike. However, Haughey is an ambitious man, and his ambitions do not stop at his current office. One day, he envisions riding his populist oratory to the top of Fianna Fáil, and then the Taoiseach's seat itself. From there, it would be Haughey's prerogative to carve out the position he feels Ireland must have if it wants to prosper in the New Order.

In-Game Biography (Head of State)^{Click to Show}Charles Haughey sits on the throne always meant for him, the reward for the trials of a long road.

It was ambition that drove him there from a squalid life of poverty. His entrance to the CBS and later UCD was not handed to him on a silver platter like his effete enemies, it was earned by cunning. The North was his trial by fire as he served faithfully in Éire's army, taking back what was theirs, the land his family was driven from by force.

After the army, his war hero credentials, and a passion for rubbing elbows with sons of the political elite led him into Fianna Fáil. Crafting a carefully manicured image as a modernizer, his success was immediately apparent, rising through the ranks of the party as he was furnished by wealth earned in blood.

Now he runs the show, patted on the back by German and Irish businessmen, conscious that they now have someone in their corner - or pocket might be more apt. The modern prince is still cautious as his position is watched with envy within the party by enemies made from a life of careering and scheming. Still, Haughey knows which strings to pull to make people dance to his tune.

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• Like a Son to Me: Seán Lemass sees Haughey like a son to him, the only man he can trust outside of his son Noel.
• Realpolitik: Haughey believes that Ireland's continued alignment with the Reich is necessary if it is to survive in the New Order.
• Unwitting Pawn: Like Blaney, Haughey has given arms to the ICG for the purpose of suppressing Protestant uprisings, unintentionally giving the IRA the means to try toppling the Irish government.
• We Used to Be Friends: Haughey's friendship with Colley turned sour when he stole the TD position of the latter's father.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Haughey genuinely believes that it is in Ireland's best interests to remain in the German sphere and become a one-party dictatorship with himself at the helm.

George Colley

Role: Taoiseach^note Head of State (IRA negotiated)

Party: Fianna Fáil - Moderates^note Fianna Fáil exists in a contradiction. It is a party that fiercely sports revolutionary rhetoric, but its existence was an invention of pragmatism. Its party ranks and voter base comprise working-class men and women, but its policies serve a wealthy conservative establishment. It prides itself on nationalism but is increasingly economically trapped by a foreign power.
An heir to the revolution, George Colley sees the modern world approaching but believes that tradition must not be sacrificed wholesale to embrace it. He and his moderates believe a synthesis can be reached, that while the dream of economic nationalism may be dead, Irish culture can still be preserved. Ireland will march to the future - but at a pace suitable for Fianna Fáil.

Ideology: Dominant-Party Democracy^note Paternalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}George Colley was always meant to be a Taoiseach. It was in his nature.

Born to a 1916 veteran, Colley was afforded all the luxuries of a modern Irish royal. From his time as a schoolboy, he would become friends with one Charles Haughey. Both would go to UCD together and serve in the army together, culminating in Colley recruiting Haughey into Fianna Fáil.

While a member himself, Colley was more attracted to cultural pursuits such as the Irish language and arts. His wider involvement in politics began when Haughey stole his father's position as TD, forcing his son to run in his place. In the Dáil, he quickly made a name for himself amongst party traditionalists for his commitment to the Gaeltacht ministry.

With his star ascendant, Colley faces the difficult task of managing an increasingly fractured party, attempting to respond to the challenges of the future while keeping de Valera's vision intact. This mission is made all the more challenging by a lingering schoolboy rivalry taken to unseen levels as Haughey's allies sharpen their knives, ready for Colley's fall.

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• Patriotic Fervor: When he joined Fianna Fáil, Colley was interested in learning about the Irish language, arts, and other customs.
• We Used to Be Friends: Colley was childhood friends with Haughey and invited him to join Fianna Fáil. Unfortunately, their friendship turned bitter when Colley's father lost his TD position to Haughey, so he forced his son to run in his place. Even after Colley is elected, the bitter rivalry remains and Haughey plots to depose him.

Kevin Boland

Role: Taoiseach^note Head of State (UVF defeated)

Party: Fianna Fáil - Nationalists^note Soldiers of Destiny: Fianna Fáil exists in a contradiction. It is a party that fiercely sports revolutionary rhetoric, but its existence was an invention of pragmatism. Its party ranks and voter base comprise working-class men and women, but its policies serve a wealthy conservative establishment. It prides itself on nationalism but is increasingly economically trapped by a foreign power.
To Boland and his nationalists, there are no contradictions. If Fianna Fáil is the party that represents Ireland's interests, then everything it has done was righteous. Lemass may have led the party astray with his notions, but it was only a temporary setback to the Republican Revolution. The revolution will return to Fianna Fáil, and with it, all of Ireland, no matter what the West Brits say.

Ideology: Aristocratic Republicanism^note Despotism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}No one has preached the message of Fianna Fáil's decadence louder than Kevin Boland, their very own Martin Luther who is prepared to nail the 1916 proclamation to the Dáil if that is what it takes.

Born into one of Ireland's strongest Republican dynasties, Boland sang "Up Dev" from his crib between raids from the nascent Free State. He would later serve with distinction in the Irish army, sending the Limey colonialists back to their own island and finishing the job of his ancestors.

The young Boland would prove himself to be a skilled activist, earning grassroots approval in the party. As a minister, Boland became the ideological edge of an increasingly pragmatic party, one that set on trading in its heritage for pieces of gold. The unionist insurrection would allow people to see the wisdom of his ways, abandoning Lemass's materialism for his romanticism.

Now Taoiseach, Boland leads not just his party, but his nation to a tomorrow that seeks to fulfill the dreams of the past. The Republican Revolution will march on no matter what subversion his imperialistic enemies may throw at him.

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• Patriotic Fervor: Boland plays to the people's sense of patriotism, swearing to relive the glorious dreams of their past and destroy the terrorists plaguing the Emerald Isle.
• War Hero: Serving in the Irish army, Boland helped win Ireland's independence from Britain, which turned him into a war hero.

Sean MacEoin

Role: Military Commander, Head of State (UVF victory)

Party: Irish Defence Forces

Ideology: Military Junta^note Despotism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Ireland: divided once more. The fault of this national humiliation lies with the incompetent administrations that used the Defense Forces as the repository for the unemployed and gave away its wealth to Germany. A situation this dire called for a man who could stand above politics and save the country from civil war, that man was Seán MacEoin.

For MacEoin, the dismal performance of his beloved armed forces in the Northern Campaign proved too much to take. Knowing that the loss of Ulster was bound to push Ireland deeper into the arms of foreign powers, MacEoin decided to put a stop to the never-ending subjugation of Eire to foreign powers by launching a coup with the remnants of the IDF. Now that he controls Ireland - or what is left of it - all that MacEoin intends to do is restore the professionalism of the armed forces, before he can turn over the country to an elected authority, sometime in the future.

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• Cincinnatus: After couping Lemass due to his failure to crush the UVF's uprising, MacEoin aims to restabilize the country and build a less embarassing IDF, and eventually hand powers back to the Irish democracy.
• Military Coup:
  • If the UVF repel the Irish invasion, MacEoin will launch a military coup with the remnants of the IDF to restore the professionalism of the military.
  • Mac Eoin is also one of the main perpetrators of the Brigadiers' coup should Lemass crush the IRA rebellion.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: MacEoin's coup if the UVF defeat Ireland is motivated by his fear that Ireland has become weak and vulnerable for foreign powers, believing that only temporary dictatorial measures can prevent such an outcome.

Éamon de Valera

Role: President of Ireland

The current President of Ireland and a former Taoiseach of Ireland, Lemass' predecessor.

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• Deal with the Devil: To win Ireland's independence, de Valera collaborated with the Nazis by supporting their invasion of Ulster at the cost of opening the Irish economy to the German corporations.
• Et Tu, Brute?: In rebellion to his explicit wishes before he became President, Lemass formed a coalition with Labour to shore up more support for the LFF and relegate de Valera into further political irrelevance, straining their relationship and turning them into rivals.
• Heel Realization: De Valera recognizes how badly his deal with the Germans went on the Irish domestic scene, though he's far too powerless to do anything about it.
• Kicked Upstairs: He was removed from power by being elected President, leaving the actually powerful position of Taoiseach to Lemass.
• Minor Major Character: While described as weak, blind old man by the time the game begins in 1962, de Valera is a man more responsible for the current state of Ireland than anyone, having held power for over 30 years prior to his election as president.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Villain might be a bit of a stretch, but several events allow de Valera to directly play an active part in political life in spite of his supposedly powerless position, notably holding the power to appoint a new Taoiseach should the sitting one prove inadequate.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: De Valera was the one who led Fianna Fáil to authoritarianism, but he did so out of belief it was necessary to preserve Ireland democratic and united.

Brendan Corish

Role: Tánaiste^note Head of Government (Lemass cabinet)

Party: The Labour Party (Páirtí an Lucht Oibre)

Ideology: Christian Progressivism^note Progressivism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Brendan Corish is a politician who does not enjoy politics. He views it as a struggle each day, each debate is a hurdle, and each bill is a feat of endurance, but it is all necessary in the battle for the working man. Like other T Ds, he inherited his seat from his father, but one who was not content on maintaining it through constituency work. Earning twin reputations as both a conservative Catholic and a social reformer, he proved to be a valid heir to rule the Labour Party.

Today, the word that defines him is "compromise". It was compromise that brought him into a coalition with Fianna Fáil and according to his critics, that is all he can do now. Labour proposals find themselves trampled under the reign of the Lemassite machine as party officials are left with scraps to appease them when it comes to legislation. This is not what Corish envisioned when they came to power, and if it continues, something will have to break.

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• The Chains of Commanding: According to his teased biography, Corish does not enjoy politics or being head of the Labour Party, but he accepts the duty because the working men of Ireland need someone like him to represent their interests.
• Golden Mean Fallacy: Corish has often compromised on his proposed reforms within the Fianna Fáil. Unfortunately, his teased biography mentions that this has greatly watered down important legislation that could have made more substantial gains for the masses. Unless the Lemassite system is broken, Corish's dream will remain stalled and incomplete.
• Like Father, Like Son: Brendan is a member of the Labour Party, having shared the same politics and inherited the seat from his father, Richard.

Northern Ireland

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Official Name: Northern Counties Special Zone, Irish Republic (IRA takeover), Ulster Volunteer Army (UVF takeover), Orange State of Ulster (UVF victory)

Ruling Party: Fianna Fáil - Northern Counties Administrative Council

Ideology: Aristocratic Republicanism^note Despotism

Ireland's governorship of Antrim, Down, Derry and Armagh, the four majority-Protestant counties of the formerly British Northern Ireland.

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• Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: The North Irish Constabulary (N.I.C.) is a subdivision of the Garda exclusively focusing on paramilitary affairs in Northern Ireland. Due to the dirty nature of its work, it is understaffed, underfunded, and highly corrupt.
• The Coup:
  • If the investigation into the Ulster Arms Crisis fails, the IRA conspiracy is allowed to progress, and they will eventually coup Blaney and take over Northern Ireland.
  • If the investigation into the Ulster Arms Crisis succeeds, but Lemass chooses to assassinate Twomey to resolve it, the UVF will take over Northern Ireland in the resultant Evil Power Vacuum.
• Covert Group: The Irish Citizen Guard is extremely secretive, and the investigations reveal little about their true nature. It is later revealed that the Irish Citizen Guard is a front group set up by Twomey intended to trick the pro-German Blaney and Irish military into supplying the IRA with arms.
• Enemy Mine: If Twomey is assassinated by Dublin, the Garda's pro-German stance leads many ex-IRA members to begrudgingly cooperate with the UVF, seeing an independent Ulster as at least preferable to one subjugated by the Reich.
• Faking the Dead: High-ranking IRA member Ruairí Ó Brádaigh appears to die in a car bombing in one of the earlier NIC investigation event chains; he isn't actually dead, and the whole operation was actually set up by the IRA.
• Hidden Villain: The leader of the Irish Citizen Guard, as shown when hovering the cursor over Ireland's ideology pie chart, is listed as [REDACTED], showing the lack of intel Ireland has on the secretive group. Come The Reveal, it turns out that the Irish Citizen Guard is really a front organization for the IRA, meaning that its leader is actually Seamus Twomey.
• Historical Badass Upgrade: The UVF, a small paramilitary group in real life, is in TNO a descendant of the British Auxiliary Units in Northern Ireland who went underground after Ireland conquered Northern Ireland.
• Red Herring: The Irish Civilian Guard initially seem to be the ones behind a potential coup against Ireland, but it's later discovered that it was just a cover used by the Irish Republican Army for the same goal.
• Satellite Character: The NCSZ has no content itself; all of its content and political changes occur in relation to progresses and developments in Ireland proper.
• Western Terrorists: There are three major paramilitaries in the NCSZ: the Irish nationalist IRA, the pro-German IRA splinter Irish Citizen Guard, and the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force.

Neil Blaney

Role: Head of State

Party: Fianna Fáil - Northern Counties Administrative Council, The Junta (Brigadiers coup)

Ideology: Aristocratic Republicanism^note Despotism

In-Game Biography (N.C.S.Z) ^{Click to Show}Born during the climax of nationalist agitation in 1922, Neil Blaney's life has been spent advancing the ideal of a united, catholic Ireland. Whether on the fields of Ulsters as a lieutenant, or as the youngest member of the Dail in 1948, Blaney remained steadily committed to Catholic Nationalism. While his radicalism and rural mannerism made him anathema to the urban voters, something that preemptively ended his ambitions to become Taoiseach, Blaney's loyal countryside following gained him sufficient political clout to turn him into "the forever minister."

Unfortunately for the people of what was once Ulster, the forever minister's portfolio is the "Ministry for the Northern Counties," the de facto governorship of the former Northern Ireland. Forged in the fire of the conflagration that brought the area under the control of Dublin, the "Northern Counties Special Zone" was originally a temporary administrative unit tasked with bringing the region in line with the rest of the island. However, as integration stagnated and the German garrisons that guaranteed stability were withdrawn in the wake of the economic crash, the NCSZ became a ticking time bomb. The man that Eamon De Valera chose to defuse it was none other than Neil Blaney.

Shortly after taking office as Minister for the Northern Counties, Blaney resolved to end the unionist problem with a method he learned in Germany. Overnight, the NCSZ became a regimented amalgamation of the different paramilitary militias, garda forces, and army units Blaney used to smother the Ulster Resistance and their civilian supporters under a shower of bullets. To his republican base, Blaney became nothing less than the savior of Irish unity. His success in Belfast, moreover, has revived his interest in obtaining Ireland's highest office.

In-Game Biography (Republic of Ireland) ^{Click to Show} Neil Blaney should have been more careful with what he wished for.

At last, he has become Taoiseach, only to be the first holder of the office incapable of exercising any of its powers. For years, Blaney laboured to build a political machine in the Northern Counties that could propel his bid to power, but now that machine has consumed him, and Ireland.

Blaney laughed as Seán Lemass proved foolish enough to trust the pro-Germans in the Irish military, glossing over the fact he was committing the same mistake. When Lemass attempted to jail him by revealing the extent of his involvement with the Arms Crisis, it was easy to convince the complicit officers that only a coup could save their careers. Who would have been to lead the resulting government than Neil Blaney, the man whose fate was intertwined with theirs?

However, Blaney soon found out that the men behind the barrels had no personal loyalty to him, or anyone else but themselves. Only now that German-manufactured jackboots occupy every major city does Blaney realize that he has lost control over the monstrosity he created. The officers of the former NCSZ have no more sympathy for their former master than they do for the Protestant civilians of the zone.

While the country he loves languishes under the Regime of the Brigadiers, Neil Blaney can only look in despair and rubber stamp the decrees that the men in epaulets throw at his desk. This is not the future he wanted, but it is the one he caused.

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• Be Careful What You Wish For:
  • Blaney has realized his dream of taking power over the Northern counties, but he effectively wields no power over a nation riddled with terrorism and can't do anything to get out of a situation he himself created.
  • If Lemass crushes the IRA rebellion, Blaney will convince the IDF to coup him to save their careers, getting his wish of becoming Taoiseach but only as a powerless puppet, watching in despair as he realises he has no power over the military.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: At first, Blaney just seems to be a miserable bureaucrat whose lost all control over Northern Ireland. However, it's later revealed that he's been secretly providing arms to the Irish Citizen Guard, which has unwittingly made Twomey and the IRA such a threat in the first place.
• Puppet King: In the path where the IDF coups Lemass, the Brigadiers will put Blaney in power as a powerless puppet Taoiseach.
• Unwitting Pawn: Blaney has been secretly providing arms and funds to the far-right pro-German Irish Citizen Guard so they can fight the Protestants for him; he's unaware that the Irish Citizen Guard is actually a front for the IRA who are planning to use his materials for an uprising in Northern Ireland.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: If the IRA takes over Northern Ireland, Blaney gets shot by the very men he (unknowingly) armed during their takeover.

James Kelly

Role: Head of State (Military coup)

Party: Northern Counties Administrative Council

Ideology: Military Junta^note Despotism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Brigadier James Kelly joined the Irish Defense Forces shortly after the end of the Second World War, right as the influence of German military advisors began to take root. Owing to his brilliant performance, he was sent to Germany for further studies, before returning to Ireland and being assigned to Military Intelligence in the tumultuous Northern Counties. The posting put him in close contact with the Fianna Fáil political establishment, and after the German withdrawal a few years later, with Neil Blaney.

While the Irish army became increasingly bloated as a consequence of German advisorship, a desire to maintain unemployment low, and the need to keep order in the Northern Counties, Kelly climbed the ranks with record speed. By 1960, he had become deputy chief of staff for Military Intelligence in the Northern Counties. Although initially identified as one of the officers who supported Blaney's use of paramilitary groups under the belief he was acting on the orders of Lemass, he rapidly developed misgivings about the Citizen Guard. At first, he protested against their counterproductive methods, but soon began to suspect that something was off with the organization at large.

While Blaney attempted to put a stop to his investigation, Kelly and his connections in the Abwehr uncovered the truth about the R-IRA on their own. Released shortly after his arrest when it was revealed that he believed himself to be following orders from the government, he hurried to restore his reputation by presenting a plan to decapitate all terrorist organizations and restore order on behalf of his fellow officers.

Now that his plan has been successful, Kelly can start to deconstruct Blaney's byzantine administration and replace it with something more conducive to stability. That, in any case, is what he told Seán Lemass. For while he would have liked to keep his promises, Lemass's stated intentions to reveal secret documents which could well implicate him in the initial contact between the IRA and Blaney. The undesirable prospect of his military career unfairly ending in disgrace has led to him making arrangements with fellow officers, which could well end badly for Ireland...

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• Historical Badass Upgrade: Kelly was a Captain in real life, and in TNO he became a Brigadier General.
• Internal Reformist: After Blaney is arrested following his incidental collaboration with the IRA, Kelly is put in his place to detangle his administration and restore some stability back to Northern Ireland.
• Military Coup: If Lemass declares martial law in Northern Ireland to pacify the Ulster Arms Crisis, Blaney will be arrested for colluding with the IRA and Kelly will be appointed to lead the NCSZ. However, Lemass intends to declassify secret documents in Blaney's trial, which will implicate Kelly in the contact between Blaney and IRA; he thus coups Lemass and puts Blaney in charge as his puppet.
• The Spymaster: Kelly is the deputy chief of staff for Military Intelligence in the Northern Counties, and has German intelligence training as well as connections in the Abwehr.

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Seamus Twomey

Role: Head of State (IRA revolt)

Party: Irish Republican Army - Marxist, Irish Republican Army - Twomey Wing (IRA takeover of Ireland)

Ideology: National Communism^note Communism, Civilian Dictatorship^note Despotism (IRA takeover of Ireland)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show} It took Seamus Twomey almost three decades, but at last, his plans are succeeding.

After growing up in the soul crushing poverty of a 1920s Belfast Catholic neighborhood, Twomey resolved to change Ireland's future in such a way as to ensure that everyone of his fellow countrymen could live free from poverty and unemployment.

The first obstacle to this vision the young nationalist encountered was British rule over the Northern Counties. While he joined the IRA in order to end it, it was ultimately German guns which brought about a united Ireland, to Twomey's horror. Escaping the confines of a prison ship when the Wehrmacht entered Belfast, he set about rebuilding the organization as an anti-German front. Alongside Cathal Goulding, he resurrected the IRA organization, and begrudgingly accepted a loosely defined "Irish Marxism" as the group's official ideology.\n\nWhile his terrorist campaign to drive out the German garrison from Northern Ireland was largely ineffective, the ultimate withdrawal of the occupiers, largely a consequence of the West Russian War, was attributed to the Republican Army. The resulting popularity boost was strengthened by the Irish political establishment's immutable policy of collaborating with Germania.

Twomey, still determined to free Ireland from foreign influence, was in want of an arsenal large enough to let him do it. It was then that he resolved to create his master plan: To cheat Blaney out of his own guns by creating a paramilitary group ready to serve his own goals. In the meantime, Twomey was more than happy to suppress Protestant unionism. Now, however, the years of waiting have come to an end.

In-Game Biography (IRA takeover of Ireland) ^{Click to Show} True to himself, Seamus Twomey didn't rush to be named President of the Republic after the revolution, nor Taoiseach, for that matter. No, he is no careerist politician. Nevertheless, Twomey knows he must retain power until, "all necessary social and economic reform to make Ireland truly free" have been carried out. Thus, Twomey deemed it necessary to remain in power by being named chief of staff for the Defense Forces, while retaining the same position within the IRA's paramilitary wing. Soon, both shall be one and the same, cleansed of all elements loyal to the Free State and its inherited Britishness. From their symbiosis will return the one institution which throughout the struggle for national freedom remained legitimate: The Irish Republican Army.

What is more, with vestiges of the Free State deeply entrenched into the country's institutions, it is clear that transforming a state tainted by the original sin of the Anglo-Irish Treaty is both impossible and undesirable: The civil service, the constitution, the phoney democracy which has made Ireland unfree. All of these must be cast into the ash-heap of history. In their place, a whole new structure must be erected, on which the principles of the Republican Movement reign supreme.

For all the vagueness of his proclamations, Twomey and his closest advisors know exactly what this new state will look like: A true working democracy, like that under which the IRA's command structure operates. A grassroots democracy. A democracy that can only take the form of the reconstituted Republican Army itself. The new IRA will become not just the Irish armed forces, but Ireland itself.

Once he has completed the monumental task ahead of him, Twomey intends to retire at the earliest possible opportunity, and return in his words, "to watching football matches." Before he can do this, however, he's bound to face much opposition, likely including that from Ireland's ancestral foe, itself eying developments in the Emerald Isle with increasing concern...

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• The Chessmaster: Twomey has been secretly manipulating Blaney and the Irish government so he can take over Northern Ireland and force the Irish government to negotiate.
• Cincinnatus: If Twomey takes over Ireland, he intends to transform Ireland into a bastion of Irish nationalism, with British and German influences purged, and after that he'll retire and go back "to watching football matches."
• False Flag Operation: After the IRA takes over all of Ireland, the Communist leader of the organization, Cathal Goulding, is assassinated by a "German infiltrator in the IDF"; however, it is quite clear that Twomey orchestrated the whole deal so he can cripple Communist influence in the IRA and take full control.
• Just the First Citizen: Twomey's official rank is the Chief of Staff for the Irish Defence Forces in his socialist Ireland, despite being a quasi-dictator with ultimate veto power.
• Kansas City Shuffle: The IRA crafted a plot that suggested that the Irish Citizen Guard is planning to march into Dublin and overthrow the Irish government; if the government's investigations do not discover that the Irish Citizen Guard is the IRA;, they will buy into the disinformation and move their troops back to Dublin, leaving Belfast, the IRA's real target, open to attack.
• The Man Behind the Man: The Irish Citizen Guard is initially set up as the primary antagonist during the Ulster Arms Crisis, but it is eventually revealed that it's just a front organization for Twomey's IRA.
• Occupiers Out of Our Country: Twomey is mainly motivated by a desire to have Ireland be fully independent from Germany and remove German influence from the isle.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: It is possible for Twomey to be negotiated with when he lays out his demands for the IRA to step down, putting an end to the violence and kicking the German influence out of Ireland peacefully.
• The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: Twomey and the IRA have adopted terror tactics in their effort to start a revolution in Ireland and kick out the Germans.
• Villain Has a Point: Twomey's a terrorist, but he has legitimate points about how much of a sham Ireland's democratic system is and how detrimental German investors have been to the economy.

Ian Paisley

Role: Head of State (UVF revolt)

Party: Ulster Volunteer Force, Democratic Unionist Party (UVF victory)

Ideology: Stratocracy^note Ultranationalism, National Conservatism^note Paternalism (UVF Victory)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show} For Ian Paisley, the revelation of collusion between the Irish government and the IRA was the final straw. He knew that the rotten papist structure of government, unfit to rule over the industrious protestant peoples of Ulster, would inevitably oppress the true servants of God. Nevertheless, the extent to which Blaney's administration collaborated with the paramilitaries sent him into an uncontrollable rage. He had tried to be reasonable, for eighteen years he attempted to negotiate in good faith, but no more, not after learning that his people were terrorized and murdered with the consent of papist authorities.

After chaos engulfed the Northern Counties following the assassination of Seamus Twomey and the purge of the garrison, Paisley resolved to carry out the one thing that would put an end to the chaos: Free Ulster from its catholic problem, permanently.

Now that papist incompetence has allowed him to take rightful control of the land that King William liberated two hundred years prior, Paisley can put his plan to establish a magnificent monolith of protestantism in Ulster, which will be free to rejoin its British brethren in the near future.

With total control over the Ulster Volunteer Force, Paisley intends first to protect his new protestant regime from the inevitable southern reaction, and once he has succeeded, to purge it of the elements he has marked for destruction. He knows it won't be an easy task, for he remembers the advance of the Germans in 1944, when he fought on the losing side, but for God and Ulster, he will give his best to make sure it doesn't happen again.

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• Bait-and-Switch Tyrant: Downplayed: If Paisley takes over Ulster and wins the war with Ireland, he will replace his terrorist junta with a democratic civilian government (changing his ideology from Stratocracy to National Conservatism), but continues to carry out anti-Catholic purges and repressions.
• Evil Power Vacuum: In the path where Twomey is assassinated and the IRA is purged for triggering the Arms Crisis, the UVF is able to rapidly consolidate power in Ulster in the resulting vacuum. With the help of the location of some IRA weapons caches and mass defection from both the IRA and the North Irish Constabulary, Paisley is able to launch a critical strike on the Irish garrison (who are going through a self-purge to root out collusion) and take over Ulster.
• The Fundamentalist: Paisley is a Protestant minister who despises Roman Catholics and regards Protestants as the true servants of God.
• Not Me This Time: Throughout the investigation subplot, the Irish heavily suspect Paisley and the UVF were behind the bombings in Northern Ireland. It's actually the IRA.
• Large and in Charge: Paisley was quite tall in real life (6'5, to be exact) and was known for his commanding demeanor and his loud, booming oratorical style.
• Oh, Crap!: When the Irish Defence Forces catch up with Paisley after Seán Lemass ordered his assassination, Paisley initially believes that his arrest would galvanise the Protestants into rebellion and that he can still lead from prison, as he did before. Only when the Sonderkraftfahrzeug's turret turns in his direction does Paisley realise that the Catholics have something different in mind this time.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: As was the case in real life, Paisley has a bitter hatred for Catholics, gay people, leftists, and especially Irish republicans.
• The Purge: If Paisley takes over Ulster, he plans to purge Ulster of "the elements he has marked for destruction", i.e. the Irish Catholics.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite his extreme actions, Paisley is ultimately motivated to protect the Protestant minority from Catholic suppression.
• Sinister Minister: Paisley is a fundamentalist Presbyterian preacher and the leader of a far-right terrorist group.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Paisley has attempted to negotiate for eighteen years, but if he takes over Ulster as a result of the revelation that the Irish government is colluding with the ICG, he is no longer going to negotiate, and will go all out in killing his way to Protestant independence.
• Villain Has a Point: In spite of his anti-Catholic prejudice, Paisley does have legitimate grievances with how the Protestant minority in Northern Ireland are discriminated against.
• Voluntary Vassal: If Paisley takes over Ulster and survives the 60-day war with Ireland, he secure Ulster's independence and work towards unionism with Great Britain. If his negotiations with London succeed, Ulster will become a puppet state of Britain.
• Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: Though Paisley is violently extremist, from his perspective, he's trying to protect the Ulster Protestants from the Irish overlords who collaborated with Nazi Germany, took over his land, and are oppressing the Protestants by funding the ICG.

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