Characters / Twilight of the Anthropocene – Europe

Main Character Index Asia & Oceania | Americas (United States) | Europe | Africa

Western Europe

Republic of Ireland

Official Name: Republic of Ireland

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Social Democracy

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Michael D. Higgins

Role: Head Of State

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Social Democracy

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United Kingdom

Official Name: United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland

Ideology: Social Technocracy^note Technocracy

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• Vestigial Empire: The British empire had long kept the people of the United Kingdom together, but with the collapse of the Empire the public's support for a United British Identity has faltered. This has lead to a rise in separatism in places in Scotland and nativist populism as migrants from former colonies arrive.
• Big Brother Is Watching: Due to a longer and bloodier Troubles, The UK has built an extensive surveillance state.

Jeremy Corbyn

Role: Head Of State

Ideology: Social Technocracy^note Technocracy

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French Republic

Official Name: French Republic

Ruling Party: Union pour la nouvelle République^note Union for the New Republic

Ideology: Anocratic Liberalism^note Autocracy

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• The Empire: Through stronger investment into West and Central Africa, France was able to hold onto many of its African colonies, except for Mali, Cameroon and Burkina Faso, cementing them as integral parts of France and making France a major player in both parts of the continent.
• Democracy Is Flawed: France has a strong presidential system where the president can overrule the legislature, with some even comparing the president's power to that of a dictator. In the hands of somebody like Emmanuel Macron however, the republic basically becomes a dictatorship where he holds absolute power.
• Playing Both Sides: France makes deals and agreements with both the Soviet Union and the USA, asserting itself and the European Union it leads as an independent, pragmatic force on the global stage.

Emmanuel Macron

Role: Head Of State

Party: Union pour la nouvelle République^note Union for the New Republic

Ideology: Anocratic Liberalism^note Autocracy

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• Villain with Good Publicity: To the West Africans, Macron is responsible for helping connect Mainland France to the African districts (providing jobs and infrastructure) and is thus hailed as a Hope Bringer to their desolate regions. The same can't be said for those in the Metropole, where Macron brutally crushes any opposition to his rule.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Macron genuinely wants to create a free and Democratic Europe, even if that means resorting to increasingly authoritarian and imperialist measures (like supporting Cameroon) to do so.

Luxembourg

Official Name: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Luxemburgish Free Republics (Reuter)

Ideology: Social Liberalism^note Liberalism

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Xavier Bettel

Role: Head Of State

Ideology: Social Liberalism^note Liberalism

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Jerome Reuter

Role: Head Of State (Coup)

Ideology: National Anarchism^note Revolutionary Right

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Belgium

Official Name: Kingdom of Belgium

Ideology: Social Liberalism^note Liberalism

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Alexander De Croo

Role: Head Of State

Ideology: Social Liberalism^note Liberalism

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Netherlands

Official Name: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Ideology: Social Liberalism^note Liberalism

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Mark Rutte

Role: Head Of State

Ideology: Social Liberalism^note Liberalism

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Westphalia

Official Name: Republic of Westphalia

Ideology: Social Libertarianism^note Liberalism

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Christoph Heusgen

Role: Head Of State

Ideology: Social Libertarianism^note Liberalism

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Austro-Bavaria

Official Name: Austro-Bavaria

Ideology: New Right^note Dissident Right

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Jörg Heider

Role: Head Of State

Ideology: New Right^note Dissident Right

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Switzerland

Official Name: Swiss Confederation

Ideology: Social Conservatism^note Conservatism

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Swiss Federal Council

Role: Head Of State

Ideology: New Right^note Dissident Right

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Portuguese People's Republic

Official Name: Portuguese People's Republic

Ideology: Soviet Market System^note Neo-Socialism

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Jerónimo de Sousa

Role: Head Of State

Ideology: Soviet Market System^note Neo-Socialism

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Spanish Republic

Official Name: Spanish Republic

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Social Democracy

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Pedro Sánchez

Role: Head Of State

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Social Democracy

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Italy

Official Name: Italy, Italian Social Republic (Second March On Rome)

Ruling Party: National Renewal Alliance

Ideology: Nativist Populism^note Dissident Right

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Gilberto Trombetta

Role: Head of State

Party: National Renewal Alliance

Ideology: Nativist Populism^note Dissident Right

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• A Lighter Shade of Black: Trombetta and the National Renewal Alliance take down Italy on a path of authoritarianism, purging the liberal democrats and eventually leaving the EU altogether. That being said, he's not as bad as Meloni (who looks up to Mussolini and is an actual fascist that organizes the Second March On Rome) or Delfo Zorzi (a far-right militant with ties to the Japanese and far-right gangsters).

Giorgia Meloni

Role: Head of State (Second March On Rome)

Ideology: National Third Position^note Revolutionay Right

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Rio "Delfo" Zorzi

Role: Head of State

Ideology: National Third Position^note Revolutionay Right

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Marco Rizzo

Role: Head of State

Ideology: National Communism^note Hardline Socialism

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Northern Europe

Kingdom of Denmark

Official Name: Kingdom of Denmark

Ideology: Third Way^note Social Democracy

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Mette Frederiksen

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Third Way^note Social Democracy

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Norway

Official Name: Norway

Ideology: Social Liberalism^note Liberalism

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Erna Solberg

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Social Liberalism^note Liberalism

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Kingdom of Sweden

Official Name: Kingdom of Sweden

Ideology: Third Way^note Social Democracy

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Stefan Löfven

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Third Way^note Social Democracy

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Republic of Finland

Official Name: Republic of Finland

Ideology: Third Way^note Social Democracy

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Sanna Marin

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Third Way^note Social Democracy

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Eastern Europe

Prussian Democratic Republic

Official Name: Prussian Democratic Republic

Ideology: Anti-Revisionist Marxism Leninism^note Hardline Socialism

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Sahra Wagenknecht

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Anti-Revisionist Marxism Leninism^note Hardline Socialism

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Poland

Official Name: Polish People's Republic

Ideology: Soviet Market System^note Neo-socialism

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• Succession Crisis: Jerzy Urban's death results one of these.

Jerzy Urban

Role: Head Of State

Ideology: Soviet Market System^note Neo-socialism

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• We Hardly Knew Ye: Urban dies of a stroke soon after the beginning of the game.

Włodzimierz Czarzasty

Role: Head Of State

Ideology: Soviet Market System^note Neo-socialism

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Andrzej Lepper

Role: Head Of State

Ideology: Left-Wing Nationalism^note Neo-socialism

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Andrzej Rozenek

Role: Head Of State

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Social Democracy

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Adam Gierek

Role: Head Of State

Ideology: Managerial Bureaucracy^note Technocracy

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Maciej Poręba

Role: Head of State

Ideology: National Third Position^note Revolutionary Right

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Czecho-Slovak Socialist Federation

Official Name: Czecho-Slovak Socialist Federation

Ideology: Soviet Market System^note Neo-socialism

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Andrej Babiš

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Soviet Market System^note Neo-socialism

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Hungarian People's Republic

Official Name: Hungarian People's Republic

Ideology: Soviet Market System^note Neo-socialism

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Andrea Huszti

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Soviet Market System^note Neo-socialism

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Official Name: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Ideology: Soviet Market System^note Neo-Socialism

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• Chummy Commies: Downplayed Example. The reforms of Kosygin in the 1970s heavily liberalized economics and politics, albeit without challenging the one party state, leading to a more normalized if still competitive relationship with the USA and making Socialism more popular abroad.
• Corrupt Bureaucrat: The Soviet's Bureaucracy's responsibility of managing the world's largest country results in a increasingly byzantine and labyrinthine system that managers exploit for political influence and large fortunes. Though concerning to many the strength of the Soviet Union economy manages to sooth most of their worries.

Sergey Kurginyan

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Soviet Market System^note Neo-Socialism

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Southeastern Europe

Romania

Official Name: Socialist Republic of Romania

Ruling Party: Partidul Comunist Român^note Romanian Communist Party

Ideology: National Communism^note Hardline Socialism

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• Hereditary Republic: Since the creation of the communist regime, Romania always had a Ceaușescu as its president. The current one having been thrusted into the position after the death of his brother.

Vadim Tudor

Role: Prime Minister^note Head of State

Party: Partidul Comunist Român^note Romanian Communist Party

Ideology: National Communism^note Hardline Socialism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Corneliu Vadim Tudor, commonly called by his nickname 'The Tribune', is the Prime Minister of Romania and thus the second most powerful man in the country de jure. De facto, Vadim Tudor already yields more influence across the nation than his supposed superior the president. From humble beginnings as a journalist and party-approved poet, he first rose to prominence in the 1990s as the mouthpiece of government magazine 'România Mare', a pilot program meant to popularise the Party's increasing emphasis on nationalism. The next step for Vadim came when Nicolae Ceauşescu and his designated heir Nicu both died in quick succession at the turn of the century, leaving disinterested and awkward Valentin Ceauşescu to fill the position of President of the Republic built by his father.
In the malaise of the early Valentin years, Vadim seized the opportunity and established for himself a wide network of connections within the Party and bureaucracy, while constantly cultivating his popularity via the 'România Mare' initiative, which grew from a propped magazine to a whole cultural phenomenon by the 2000s. Today, riding this wave of popularity, the Tribune is a man with a plan, and the power to make his plan reality: he is fiercely critical of the entrenched political establishment, calling for the total 'dismemberment of crypto-bourgeois bureaucracy'; he is an open supporter of ethnic supremacy, calling the Romanians to be wary of 'alien elements within their midst and dismantling the last vestiges of minority rights; he is a champion of 'total national sovereignty, constantly critiquing the WTO and the 'Soviet International Order'. For Vadim Tudor, all these make up his program of a new Cultural Revolution, a sweeping transformation of Romania to rival that of Ceauşescu himself.

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Valentin Ceaușescu

Role: President^note Figurehead

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Valentin Ceauşescu exists more as a Chinese Emperor than actual statesman, rarely appearing in public for diplomatic, political and social events. The few times he does appear, he is greeted by an unending sea of supporters, of desperate ideologues ready to hear whatever pre-written script he is going to read out this time, with his soft-spoken, rasping voice. Indeed, most of Valentin's time is spent reading, appreciating art and writing treatises on nuclear energy, possibly the only real stance he has that is his own, and not just trailings of his larger-than-life forefather. Having been thrusted into the seat of President by the untimely death of his younger brother Nicu, Valentin has been largely hapless and apathetic towards the political machinations happening in the country he is supposed to rule with an autocratic fist. Nonetheless, some designs and plans do exist within Valentin's palace. Whilst almost all of his true views have been placed lock-and-key within the crevices of his own mind, the red grand court that surrounds him is more than happy to simply continue ceremonialisms and routines...

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• Puppet King: Ceaușescu's own description compares him to a Chinese Emperor as nothing more than a symbolic leader, all of the actual power being concentrated in the hands of Prime Minister Tudor.

People's Republic of Bulgaria

Official Name: People's Republic of Bulgaria

Ideology: Soviet Market System^note Neo-socialism

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Zahn Videnov

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Soviet Market System^note Neo-socialism

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Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Official Name: Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Ideology: National Communism^note Hardline Socialism

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Anton Tus

Role: Head of State

Ideology: National Communism^note Hardline Socialism

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Socialist Republic of Albania

Official Name: Socialist Republic of Albania

Ideology: Anti-Revisionist Marxism Leninism^note Hardline Socialism

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Enver Hoxha

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Anti-Revisionist Marxism Leninism^note Hardline Socialism

Leader of Albania and AI replica of Enver Hoxha.

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• Brain Uploading: Hoxha's entire written history spanning his 100 years of life was uploaded into Albania's most advanced supercomputer, with said supercomputer's artificial consciousness now serving as the most supreme authority in Albania.

Democratic Republic of Greece

Official Name: Democratic Republic of Greece

Ideology: Anti-Revisionist Marxism Leninism^note Hardline Socialism

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Dimitris Koutsoumpas

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Anti-Revisionist Marxism Leninism^note Hardline Socialism

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Kingdom of Greece

Official Name: Kingdom of Greece

Ideology: Anocratic Liberalism^note Autocracy

A rump state controlling only the Aegean Islands and Cyprus after losing mainland Greece to the communists during the Greek Civil War.

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• Government in Exile: The Kingdom of Greece continues to lay claim to the Greek mainland but only controls the Aegean Islands and Cyprus.

Georgios Voulgarakis

Role: Head of State

Ideology: Anocratic Liberalism^note Autocracy

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