History Characters / TWRSoutheasternEurope

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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Socialist takeover)
->'''Party:''' Zemaljsko Antifašističko Vijeće Narodnog Oslobođenja Hrvatske[[note]]State Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Croatia[[/note]]

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Tito is alive, Bakarić succession)
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->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]August Košutić is someone that many consider to have been born to be a politician, a man who grew up surrounded by politicians and was invariably influenced by them. Born to HSS commissioners in 1893, young August had been baptized by HSS boplized by leader and Croatian nationalist Stjepan Radić and would prove to be an incredibly intelligent child. Spending much of his chized much of his childhood reading the collective works of his ostracized godfather and mentor, he eventually married Radić's daughter and and became a highly influential Croatian politician within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Having been alienated by the Yugoslavian royal dictatorship, he reluctantly sided with the Ustaše when the Independent State of Croatia was proclaimed, he had quickly found himself nothing more than a pawn for Ante
Pavelić's totalitarian grip on Croatia while going in and out of his prisons. Taking the leadership of the HSS after Maček's death in Jasenovac, Košutić would begin plotting behind closed doors with representatives of the Croatian Home Guard in the hopes of deposing the Ustaše altogether. Now finally the first democratic president of Croatia, Košutić will work tirelessly to fulfill the legacies of his late mentors.[[/labelnote]]

->'''Ideology:''' Traditionalist Conservatism[[note]]Conservatism[[/note]]

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->'''Ideology:'''Francetićism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]

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->'''Official Name:''' Independent State of Croatia, Greater Croatia (Artuković), Reorganized Croatian State (Francetić), Veliki Ostrogotski Rajh (Filipović), Croatian Social Republic (Lorković), Republic of Croatia (Democracy), Croatian State (Vokić), Croatian National State (Rukavina), Socialist Republic of Croatia (Bakarić), Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia (Bakarić/Hebrang, Yugoslavia), Illyrian Federation (Mrazović), Yugoslav Reconstruction Government (Car), Serbo-Croat Provisional Government (Communist Reunification)

->'''Party:''' Ustaša - Hrvatska Revolucionarna Organizacija[[note]]Ustasha - Croatian Revolutionary Organization: The Ustaše, full name Ustaša - Croatian Revolutionary Organization, is a Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization. The ideology of the Organization is a blend of fascism, Roman Catholicism and Croatian nationalism. The Ustaše support the creation of a Greater Croatia that would span the Drina River and extend to the border of Belgrade. The movement emphasizes the need for a racially "pure" Croatia and promotes genocide against Serbs - due to the Ustaše's beliefs grounded in anti-Serb sentiment - and Jews and Roma via Nazi racial theory, and persecution of anti-fascist or dissident Croats and Bosniaks. The Ustaše views the Bosniaks as "Muslim Croats", and as a result, Bosniaks are not persecuted on the basis of race. It was founded as a nationalist organization that sought to create an independent Croatian state. When the Ustaše came to power in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a quasi-protectorate puppet state established by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during the European war, its paramilitary wing became the Ustaše Militia. However, the Ustaše lack support among ordinary Croats and never accrued any significant support among the populace. The Ustaše regime was backed by parts of the Croat population that during the interwar period had felt oppressed in the Serb-led Yugoslavia. Most of the support it had initially gained by creating a Croat national state was lost because of the brutal practices it uses, making the resistance movements, mostly the partisans, grow more support day by day.[[/note]], Hrvatske Oružane Snage[[note]]Croatian Armed Forces[[/note]] (Ustase Overthrown), Ustaša - Hrvatska Revolucionama Organizacija - Reformistička Frakcija[[note]]Ustasha - Croatian Revolutionary Organization - Reformist Faction[[/note]] (Embrace Italo-Fascism), Hrvatska Nacionalno-Fašistička Stranka[[note]]Croatian National-Fascist Party[[/note]] (Form the Social Republic)
->'''Ideology:''' Ustaša Movement[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]], Transitional Regime[[note]]Paternal Autocracy[[/note]] (Ustase Overthrown), Reactionary Nationalism[[note]]Paternal Autocracy[[/note]] (Duumvirate), Clerical Fascism[[note]]Fascism[[/note]] (Embrace Italo-Fascism)

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Lorković is still a fascist, but he give Bosnia autonomy, softens the race laws and stops extermination campagins.
* TheCoup: He can come to power by overthrowing the Croat government after the death of Ante Pavelić or if it loses in the Bosnian Uprising.

->'''Role:''' Poglavnik[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Pavelić succession), Second-In-Command (Artuković, most influence)

->'''Role:''' President[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Košutić succession)

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->'''Role:''' Poglavnik[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Crusader revolt)

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Chetnik Uprising)

! Bulgaria
[[folder:Tsardom of Bulgaria]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Flag of the People's Republic of Bulgaria]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pr_bulgaria.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Flag of the State of Democratic People's Republic of Bulgaria]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dprb.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Official Name:''' Tsardom of Bulgaria, State of Bulgaria (Belev), People's Republic of Bulgaria (Socialist/Communist), Democratic People's Republic of Bulgaria (Communist victory in Bulgarian Civil War)
-->'''Puppet State:''' Social State of Bulgaria (Croatia), Ordensstaat Bulgarien[[labelnote:Tr.]]Order-State of Bulgaria[[/labelnote]] (SS)
->'''Ruling Party:''' Suyuz na Bulgarskite Natsionalisti i Fashisti - Fashistka[[note]]Union of Bulgarian Nationalists and Fascists - Fascist[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Fascism

!!''Hristo Lukov''
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->'''Role:''' Prime Minister[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]], "Vozhd/Vodach"
->'''Party:''' Sŭyuz na Bŭlgarskite Natsionalisti i Fashisti - Fashistka[[note]]Union of Bulgarian Nationalists and Fascists - Fascist[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Fascism
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]]Long-time leader of the pro-Axis Union of Bulgarian National Legions, Hristo Lukov rules as Bulgaria's Prime Minister and de facto dictator. A notorious fascist, Lukov rose through the ranks of the Bulgarian army, eventually being appointed as Prime Minister by Prince Kyril under pressure from Berlin and Rome soon after the mysterious death of Tsar Boris. Now after almost a decade in power, his official superior, the regent Kyril, is little more than a puppet, and Lukov continues to gain ever more power and pursue an authoritarian, nationalist, anti-semitic and pro-Axis agenda as Bulgaria's supreme leader.[[/labelnote]]

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Lukov dies just under a year after game start.

!!''Kiril Preslavski''
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->'''Role:''' Regent[[note]]Figurehead[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]]Prince Kiril of Preslav is the second son of the late Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, and serves as Bulgaria's current regent of the underage Tsar Simeon II. Among the population, he is generally not well regarded.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Simeon II''
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->'''Role:''' Monarch[[note]]Figurehead[[/note]]

!!''Marie I''
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->'''Role:''' Monarch[[note]]Figurehead[[/note]]

!!''Ivan Mihailov''
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->'''Role:''' Prime Minister[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Lukov succession)
->'''Party:''' Sŭyuz na Bŭlgarskite Natsionalisti i Fashisti - Fashistka[[note]]Union of Bulgarian Nationalists and Fascists - Fascist[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Fascism
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]]Ivan Mihailov's career reads like a travelogue of the Balkans: where the Bulgarian Nationalist Movement stayed in the confines of home territory, Mihailov's best work has been elsewhere in the Balkans, furthering national interests by means which would generally be considered a form of state terror. His domestic popularity boosted by his foreign endeavours and Long career, Ivan now sits at the top of the Bulgarian nation. A terrorist he might have been, but it cannot be denied that his methods have been effective - and Mihailov is as capable of waging peace as he is at waging war.\\\
Mihailov's life is intertwined with the Organization he helped found, IMRO; the latter left a trail of murder and carnage across Macedonia and Serbia in the 1920s and 1930s, with the former working in the shadows to clean up the bloodwork. Kings, ministers, diplomats, and common people fell in the hundreds and thousands in the interests of the Bulgarian nation and the preservation of its people. Some of those casualties came from internal factions opposed to Mihailov's presence. After IMRO ceased operations Ivan moved from Turkey to Macedonia and back again, eventually settling in the Ohrana militia and political movement.\\\
Mihailov split from the Ohrana in 1945 (he remains friends with its leadership, including Kalchev), but his years in the movement have taught him a valuable lesson. Fascism is vital, but its divisiveness also makes it vulnerable - to survive, Mikhailov believes, the Bulgarian state must reform along pre-determined lines. Paramount to this reform is the security of the Balkans, and so the man known as the Ambassador Of Knives has unveiled a final plan for the region around him, to gather the gamer Balkans in a tight embrace around Sofia as the core rebuilds itself. Resettlement, economic reorganisation, rebirth. No one can claim Mihailov is not ruthless, but no one can deny the size of his dreams.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Andon Kalchev''
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->'''Role:''' Prime Minister[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Lukov succession)
->'''Party:''' Sŭyuz na Bŭlgarskite Natsionalisti i Fashisti - Fashistka[[note]]Union of Bulgarian Nationalists and Fascists - Fascist[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Fascism
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]]Andon Kalchev has been accused of letting his acquaintances define his existence, a claim he fights at every turn: by far the most controversial acquaintance of his has been his collaboration with Italy and his increasingly dogged assertion that Italian fascism fits Bulgaria like a glove. Whether this s assertion is true or false, it is undeniable that Kalchev is on very good terms with the neighbour across the Adriatic, and that his militias and government are increasingly defined by Italian advisors and training. Only a fool would ignore friends of the powerful - especially friends in powerful places themselves. And Andon now has the highest place in Bulgaria.\\\
A product of the diaspora of the Bulgarians across the Balkan states, the Bulgarian-by-blood returned to his homeland in the wake of Greek persecution. He quickly established himself as a leading military officer of considerable promise in the 1940s, leading military assistance ventures in collaboration with Italian and German forces in Greece and Bulgarization efforts in Bulgaria-occupied territories to be integrated into the new state. His mixed successes leading anti-Jewish cleanups in the Ohrana he helped found only led him to a position of greater reliance on the Italians for aid, advice and military backup, a connection that both parties have maintained over the postbellum years.\\\
Kalchev plans for a great modernization, a state-led reform of local industry a slow assimilation of periphery peoples into the State after the Italian model - but most ambitious of all is his plan to turn Bulgaria into a true Jewel of the Balkans through a massive increase in service-industry infrastructure. Most of the visitors he plans to attract will be Italian, which only adds to the suspicion of his critics. Even so, Kalchev is determined that his plans will work, and that Italian friendship can only benefit Bulgaria. After all, it's not like Italy will ever falter in its current strengths...[[/labelnote]]

!!''Alexander Belev''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Lukov succession)
->'''Party:''' Sŭyuz na Bŭlgarskite Natsionalisti i Fashisti - Natsional Sotsialisticheska[[note]]Union of Bulgarian Nationalists and Fascists - National Socialist[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Ultranationalism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]]Even in the halls of the UBNF Alexander Belev is a controversial figure: they call him a collaborator-in-training, a German half-breed, even a double-agent in service to the Hitlerites. Belev has always shrugged these complaints off in public, but it is certainly uncanny how his enemies and his methods of disposing of said enemies invariably seem to coincide with those of the Germans. Nevertheless, Belev has managed to work his way to the highest office in Bulgaria, and radical plans have been unveiled to reform the blood and soil of Bulgaria.\\\
Belev, born to an Italian Dalmatian, was dogged by accusations of Jewish ancestry in his youth: his entire life has been an extended struggle again this accusation, and like most Fascists Belev is adept at defining himself in violent opposition to what he is not. In the Ministry of the Interior, Belev studied under Petra Grabowski, the pre-eminent Anti-Semite of the Bulgarian cabinet. In 1941 he began plans to introduce the Nuremberg Laws into Bulgaria, becoming a member of the SS in the process for his swift action in pushing it through the legislative chambers. He also leads the Ratniks, an organisation that has grown to a position of power and suspicion through their loyalty to the Orthodox Church and hatred of Jews.\\\
Belev now believes that the Bulgarians are descended from Aryan intermarriage with the Southern Slavs, a marriage of Aryan racial superiority with the strength and solidarity of the Slavic people. He intends to preserve this ethnic blend through additional laws imposed on minorities, but by far his most innovative theories have concerned the Ukrainians, who are apparently descended from the same root stock as the Bulgarian people. If only language and tradition keeps a people apart, then the solution must be to destroy the barrier by the sword, to shape the two halves into a single whole by fire and fury - and Belev has no lack of either.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Hristo Kozarov''
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->'''Role:''' Prime Minister[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Post-Lukov military coup/Military coup against Todorov)
->'''Party:''' Kozarov's Military Junta, Voenna Partiya[[note]]Military Party[[/note]] (Façade democracy)
->'''Ideology:''' Military Dictatorship[[note]]Paternal Autocracy[[/note]]

!!''Nikola Mikhov''
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->'''Role:''' Prime Minister[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Oppposition coup)
->'''Party:''' Tsar Loyalist Movement
->'''Ideology:''' Authoritarian Democracy[[note]]Paternal Autocracy[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]]A leading light in the upper ranks of the Bulgarian army for a long time, Mikhov kept his opposition to Lukov's fascist regime a well-guarded secret for almost a decade. With economic crisis and subsequent riots gripping the country, Mikhov seizes his chance, persuading the military leadership to step in on the side of the monarchy and overthrow the fascist troublemakers. Now with his coup successful and the fascists removed, Mikhov and his military allies are free to set about repairing the battered nation on the road to democracy.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Konstantin Muraviev''
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->'''Role:''' Prime Minister[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Oppposition coup, elections)
->'''Party:''' Balgarski Zemedelski Naroden Sayuz[[note]]Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Paternalistic Conservatism[[note]]Conservatism[[/note]]

!!''Ivan Bagrianov''
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->'''Role:''' Prime Minister[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Oppposition coup, elections)
->'''Party:''' Partiya za Svobodna Bulgariya[[note]]Party of Free Bulgaria[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' National Liberalism[[note]]Liberalism[[/note]]

!!''Vladimir Stoychev''
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->'''Role:''' Prime Minister[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Oppposition coup, elections)
->'''Party:''' Partiya Bulgarski Sotsialdemokrati[[note]]Bulgarian Social Democratic Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Social Democracy

!!''Violeta Yakova''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Oppposition coup, elections)
->'''Party:''' Obedinena Sotsialisticheska Partiya na Bulgariya[[note]]United Socialist Party of Bulgaria[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Radical Socialism[[note]]Socialism[[/note]]

!!''Stanko Todorov''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Oppposition coup, elections)
->'''Party:''' Obedinena Sotsialisticheska Partiya na Bulgariya[[note]]United Socialist Party of Bulgaria[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Marxism-Leninism-Kalininism[[note]]Revolutionary Communism[[/note]]

!!''Vela Peeva''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Post-Civil War election)
->'''Party:''' Obedinena Sotsialisticheska Partiya na Bulgariya[[note]]United Socialist Party of Bulgaria[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Council Communism[[note]]Revolutionary Communism[[/note]]

!!''Ivan Bashev''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Post-Civil War election)
->'''Party:''' Obedinena Sotsialisticheska Partiya na Bulgariya[[note]]United Socialist Party of Bulgaria[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Marxism-Leninism

!!''Stijepo Perić''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Croatia puppet state)
->'''Party:''' Ustaška Administracija Bugarske[[note]]Ustasha Administration of Bulgaria[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Ultranationalism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]

!!''Fritz Weitzel''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (SS puppet state)

!!''Ivan Gorunia''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Communist puppet state)

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[[folder:Macedonia]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Flag of the People's Democratic Republic of Macedonia]] [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/peoples_democratic_republic_of_macedonia.png]][[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Flag of the Reorganized North Macedonian State]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/reorganized_north_macedonian_state.png[[/labelnote]]]]
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->'''Official Name:''' State of Macedonia, Macedonian State (Macedonian Revolution), Democratic Republic of Macedonia (Democratic Republic), People's Democratic Republic of Macedonia (Socialist Republic)
-->'''Puppet State:''' Reorganized North Macedonian State (Reorganized Greece), Military Administration in Macedonia (Nazi Germany), Ordensstaat Mazedonien[[labelnote:Tr.]]Order-State of Macedonia[[/labelnote]] (SS)
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->'''Ideology:''' Military Dictatorship[[note]]Paternal Autocracy[[/note]]
Macedonia will declare independence and neutrality if the Bulgarian Civil War breaks out.

!!''Vasil Tenev Boydev''
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->'''Role:''' Governor-General of Macedonia[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]]
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->'''Ideology:''' Military Dictatorship[[note]]Paternal Autocracy[[/note]]

!!''Dimitar Gyuzelov''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Conclave of Bitola, Democratic Republic)
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->'''Ideology:''' Traditionalist Conservatism[[note]]Conservatism[[/note]]

!!''Metodija Andonov-Čento''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Conclave of Bitola, Socialist Republic)
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->'''Ideology:''' Marxism-Leninism

!!''Günther Anhalt''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Reorganized Greece/Nazi Germany puppet state)
->'''Party:''' Arievsko Grčko-Makedonska Partija[[note]]Aryan Party of Greco-Macedons[[/note]] (Reorganized Greece puppet state)
->'''Ideology:''' Ultranationalism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]] (Reorganized Greece puppet state)

!!''Otto Wächter''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (SS puppet state)

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! Greece
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Flag of the Kingdom of Greece]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kingdom_greece.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Official Name:''' Hellenic State, Reorganised Hellenic State (Bourantas), Kingdom of Greece (Democratic/Military coup), Greek Democratic Republic (Socialist), Greece (Anarchy)
-->'''Puppet State:''' Italian Governorate of Greece (Italy), Military Administration of Greece (Croatia), Protectorate of Greece (Nazi Germany/SS)
->'''Ruling Party:''' Ellinikí Kyvérnisi Enótitas[[note]]Greek Unitary Government[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Fascism
Italy's puppet state formed out of Greece. The Hellenic State, like other countries in the Balkans, is ludicrously unstable; the current Greek Unitary Government headed by Ioannis Rallis is divided between the pro-Italian Hellenic Fascist Front and the pro-German Hellenic National Socialist Front. Outside of the government, the government is losing control over its rabidly violent paramilitary Security Battalions under Nikolaos Bourantas, while republican and socialist resistance groups are still extremely active in the country. There are even rumors that the military is hatching conspiracies against the government...

!!''Carlo Geloso''
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->'''Role:''' Italian Plenipotentiary[[note]]Figurehead[[/note]], Country Leader (Italy puppet state)
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Carlo Geloso, the former commander of Italian Forces in Albania and Greece, he participated in the brief Greco-Italian War, and was promoted to the position of Italian Plenipotentiary of Hellenic State after his retirement.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Ioannis Rallis''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader
->'''Party:''' Ellinikí Kyvérnisi Enótitas[[note]]Greek Unitary Government[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Fascism
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Distinguished politician and lawyer, loannis Rallis rose to rank of President of the Hellenic State after the forced resignation of Konstantinos Logothetopoulos by the Germans due to the Deutsche-Mark Crisis. Father of the Security Battalions and head of the Unionist faction, Rallis is despised by the people but adored by the Italians and Germans as a loyal and orderly puppet. With plans of reformation of the regime, Rallis aims primarily towards the establishment of order in the nation through a peaceful transition to a more liberated Greece with the "approval" of its overlords.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Konstantinos Logothetopoulos''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Post-Rallis election)
->'''Party:''' Ethniko Fasistiko Komma[[note]]National Fascist Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Fascism
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]At one time in his life, Konstantinos Logothetopoulos was a respected medical practitioner and professor of gynecology. In the 1920's he instructed hundreds of medical students in this art at the University of Athens, where he eventually became the school dean. Just as the Axis invasion was a great shock that took Greece by surprise, his fall from grace couldn't have been more unexpected for those who knew him as a mild-mannered doctor.\\\
His brief tenure as prime minister of the collaborator government from 1942 and 1943 demolished any respect or fondness anyone had ever had for him. As the German and Italian forces committed one atrocity after another, Logothetopoulos' indifference towards his countrymen's suffering marked him as an obsequious pawn to foreign interests. Although he made token objections to German overreach in Greek politics, he was by and large a passive figure until he was removed from power altogether in April of 1943.\\\
Against all odds, Logothetopoulos has wormed his way back into power following loannis Rallis' death. Now heading the Italophilic Hellenic Fascist Front (HFF), Logothetopoulos' convictions remain unchanged by the passage of of time. His loyalties now lie with Rome rather than Germania, but his role as a f facilitator of imperial exploitation is the same as it ever was. His present station in life is not an enviable one. Although the general populace regards him as a loathsome traitor, he is committed to ensuring that nothing interferes with Italy hollowing out Greece's natural resources.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Kollias Konstantinos''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Logothetopoulos succession)
->'''Party:''' Ethniko Fasistiko Komma[[note]]National Fascist Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Fascism

!!''Konstantinos Tsaldaris''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Post-Logothetopoulos election)
->'''Party:''' Laiko Patriotiko Metopo[[note]]People's Patriotic Front[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Authoritarian Democracy[[note]]Paternal Autocracy[[/note]]

!!''Xenofon von Giosmas''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Post-Rallis election)
->'''Party:''' Ethniko-Socialistiko Komma Ellados[[note]]National-Socialist Party of Greece[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Merkourism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]As his honorific knighthood would suggest, Xenofon von Giosmas could be said to be an enthusiast for all things German. At one time in his life he was a bog-standard fascist, but his me he was long-standing admiration for the Nazi reich has caused his views to become progressively more extreme. As the leader of the Hellenic Nationalist Socialist Front (HNSF), his movement has Sr), his movemen is adopted a syncretic ideology he refers to in state media broadcasts as "Merkourism". Taking inspiration from the writings of Otto Strasser, von Giosmas advocates for vigorous militarism, the foundation of national worker's guilds, a focus on agrarianism, and a renewal of traditional morality.\\\
As von Giosmas illustrated in his victory speech, he feels that the regeneration of past Greek glory can only be achieved through a blood sacrifice on an unprecedented scale. Greece as a nation cannot be complete until all rightfully Greek territory is Temory is reclaimed from the Slavic and Turkish untermensch. med In all these endeavors, von Giosmas comfortably enjoys the backing of the Reich home office. While some of the more conservative figures in Germania are wary of Giosmas' radicalism, they recognize his loyalty to the Reich as an invaluable asset to German interests.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Markos Merkezinis''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Giosmas succession)
->'''Party:''' Laiko Ethniko-Socialistiko Komma[[note]]People's National-Socialist Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Neo-Folkism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]

!!''Phaedon Gizikis''
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->'''Role:''' President[[note]]Figurehead[[/note]] (Republicans win Militarist crisis), Country Leader (Military coup)
->'''Party:''' Kommas tis 21st Aprili[[note]]Party of the 21st of April[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Military Dictatorship[[note]]Paternal Autocracy[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' (Figurehead President)[[labelnote:Click to Show]]Originally the leading figure of the Republican Clique, Gizikis is now part of the establishment, wishing for a beneficial status quo other than any fancy, needless ideas of democratic reforms.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Georgios Papadopoulos''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Military coup)
->'''Party:''' Kommas tis 21st Aprili[[note]]Party of the 21st of April[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Military Dictatorship[[note]]Paternal Autocracy[[/note]]

!!''Nikolaos Bourantas''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Security Battalions takeover/Civil war victory)
->'''Party:''' Tagmata Asfaleias[[note]]Security Battalions[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Ultranationalism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Bourantas is a monster of a man, even by the standards of his monstrous compatriots. After putting in years of service as an officer of the collaborator government, Bourantas rose to prominence when he became commander of the dreaded Security Battalions. The upper echelons of the Hellenic state administration regarded him with appropriate fear and trepidation from the very beginning. Despite (or perhaps because of) his and his men's well-deserved reputation for brutality towards partisans and civilians alike, the Hellenic state's leaders felt there were uses for a man of Bourantas' character. The more "respectable" fascists he answered to believed they could channel his disastrous wrath for their own purposes.\\\
In retrospect, it was naive to think that the worst of Bourantas' excesses could be reigned in like he was a human attack dog. It was only a matter of time until they turned their bayonets on their former superiors. When Bourantas announced to his men that the time had come to "cleanse" Greece, they moved quickly without a hint of remorse or hesitation. The Italo-fascists came to know the came to know same trademark brutality that the common folk of Greece had been well-acquainted with for years. With Bourantas and his Verbands in full control of the government, the few restraints that were placed on them are gone. Nothing is off-limits anymore now that the dogs of war are running wild.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Angelos Evert''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Defeated by Bulgaria, Bourantas succession)
->'''Party:''' Tagmata Asfaleias[[note]]Security Battalions[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Ultranationalism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Angelos Evert has dutifully served as the chief commissioner of the Athens city police for the better part of a decade. The son of Bavarian expatriates who moved to Greece during the reign of Otto I, Evert is viewed by his peers as a quiet and unassuming bureaucrat. His placid demeanor belies an unseen craftiness. Despite his public image as a dutiful servant of the Axis powers, Evert hasn't exactly disguised his casual disinterest in fascism or his nostalgia for the deposed Greek monarchy. Other high-ranking law enforcement officers have (correctly) suspected that his loyalties lie elsewhere based on the fact that his department has reported an anomalously low number of Jews to the Gestapo over the years. He'd never say it out loud, but Evert has spent years illicitly falsifying passports for Athens' Jewish population to protect them from the Gestapo.\\\
More than anything else, Evert's quarrels lie with the communists rather than the Jews. He's a strong believer in the cult of tradition. He believes that the old collaborator government forsook Greece's noble past for the sake of ingratiating itself to Rome and Germania. Evert hopes to restore some semblance of decency and decorum to Greek politics by reinstating the monarchy. After seeing the consequences of right and left-wing radicalism run amok (namely with the the bloody excesses of the security battalions and their dastardly Bolshevik opponents), he feels that a return to the tried and true traditions of the past is exactly what the country needs. Now that Greece has distanced itself somewhat from Germania, Evert has just the opportunity he needs to invite king Paul back to reclaim his throne.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Panos Katsareas''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Defeated by Bulgaria, Bourantas succession)
->'''Party:''' Tagmata Asfaleias[[note]]Security Battalions[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Ultranationalism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Although first lieutenant Panos Katsareas had briefly fought in the resistance before defecting to join the dreaded security battalions, his commanding officers overlooked this unfortunate detail because they had uses for his skills. Following Germany's victory over the allied forces, Katsareas founded the National Anti-Communist Groups of Hunters (EAOK). As a subordinate organization of the SB's, the EAOK's line of work for the last decade has been to root out and crush communist dissent wherever it exists.\\\
Following a failed attempt on his life by communist partisans in 1945, Katsareas orchestrated what is now referred to in hushed tones across the South Peloponnese as the "white terror." Men under his command swarmed the countryside putting suspected communists to the sword by the hundreds. Mass hangings of farmers accused of aiding partisans became a fixture of the terror in the popular memory. Despite his well-documented preference for monarchism over fascism, Katsareas has shown time and time again that he has no mercy for communists (or anyone he claims are communists). He seeks above all other things to restore the deposed Greek monarchy in the hopes of putting an end to the deviancy of the communists.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Paul of Greece''
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->'''Role:''' Monarch[[note]]Figurehead[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born in 1901, King Paul spent many years abroad. He was crowned king by the exile government in 1947, after the former childless king died. Paul dreamt of returning Greece as her rightful king, and he accepted the offer by the Athens government in a heartbeat, without the approval of the government-in-exile.\\\
He thought that power and a new reign awaited him, and the king's desire to rule somewhat effectively has shown, and he is eagered to function as a proper head of state.[[/labelnote]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' (Prisoner in the Palace)[[labelnote:Click to Show]]Locked away in his Royal Palace, the government has imposed absolute control over the monarch's life. Guarded by the "Royal Guards" that are de-facto under the internal security division, his movement has greatly limited, reduced to the confines of the palace.\\\
Rarely, the king is not allowed to greet the public unless the government explicitly stated that the king should appear. Regardless, the king is not a factor in state affairs, and the rest of his days shall be spent inside his palace.[[/labelnote]]
If Evert or Katsareas is chosen to succeed Bourantas, the monarchy will be restored under Paul I.

!!''Takis Makedonas''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Defeated by Bulgaria, Bourantas succession)
->'''Party:''' Tagmata Asfaleias[[note]]Security Battalions[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Ultranationalism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Sergeant Major Takis Makedonas has long been regarded with wariness by his fellow security officers. Anyone who's served under him for any length of time can attest his ego and his violent temper being fixtures of their interactions with him. It's rumoured among some of his compatriots that he'd unsuccessfully attempted to join the Greek resistance as a commissioned officer before he founded the anti-communist EASAD, but no one who values their life would ever dare say it out loud in mixed company.\\\
It's always been known that Makedonas is a strange, brutal man who's obsessed with his own vanity before all other things. It's hard to say what exactly goes on his head, but what's known for that the Axis occupation has intensified his worst tendencies. He was never a stable person to begin with, but the long years of embittered, inconclusive sparring with the partisans have encouraged him to act on his darker urges. His mounting frustration over his inability to crush the rebels for good has fueled the complexification of his delusions of grandeur. The desire for unrestrained power gesticulates in him like a malignant black root, succoured by the blood of innocents.\\\
There are no more barriers to his deepest desires now that he holds total dominion over the entire country. No bridge is too far in Makedonas' demented quest for greatness. He will stop at nothing to see his name printed in the history books as the greatest leader Greece has ever known.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Grigoris Sourlas''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Defeated by Bulgaria, Bourantas succession)
->'''Party:''' Tagmata Asfaleias[[note]]Security Battalions[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Ultranationalism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]It's not certain how, when, or where "captain" Grigoris Sourlas of the EASAD acquired his captaincy. Who it was in the collaborationist military that bestowed the rank upon him isn't known to anyone but Sourlas himself, if such a person even exists. When it comes to the nicknames the captain has acquired during his time with the security battalions, things are decidedly less ambiguous. "The bloody bandit", "the varangian," "the dire wolf," and "the land waster" are just a handful of the titles bestowed on him over the years, with the "the hangman of Demerli" being one of the oldest and most enduring. The captain first attracted such moniker in the killing fields of Thessaly, where he garnered a reputation as a man of unparalleled ruthlessness and depravity.\\\
Despite officially being a servant of the Hellenic state, Sourlas has spent the better part of the last decade plundering Thessaly as a bandit and warlord. Large parts of the region are de facto lawless, with men under his command routinely burning down farmsteads suspect burning of harboring partisans, press-ganging hapless civilians into joining his gang, and coercing villages into paying tribute to him. Sourlas' voracious sexual appetite is infamous among his nominal superiors in security battalions. Stories of him dragging women and girls into barns during farm raids are a common fixture in any discussion concerning him.\\\
As the newly-instated head of the security battalions and the Hellenic state, Sourlas intends to apply his methods to the entirety of Greece. Now that marshall Bourantas is out of the picture, Sourlas answers to no one but himself. He will start a fire to burn down the whole country if that's what it takes to eradicate Bolshevism from Greece for good.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Aris Velouxiotis''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (EAM-ELAS takeover/Civil war victory)
->'''Party:''' Ethniko Apeleutherotiko Metopo - Ellinikos Laikos Apeleutherotikos Stratos[[note]]National Liberation Front - Greek People's Liberation Army[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Council Communism[[note]]Revolutionary Communism[[/note]]

!!''Ioannis Pasalidis''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (People's elections)
->'''Party:''' Eniaia Dimokratiki Aristera[[note]]United Democratic Left[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Democratic Socialism[[note]]Socialism[[/note]]

!!''Charilaos Florakis''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (People's elections/Communist puppet state)
->'''Party:''' Kommounistikó Kómma Elládas[[note]]Communist Party of Greece[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Stalinism[[note]]Marxism-Leninism[[/note]]

!!''Komninos Pyromaglou''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (EDES-EKKA takeover/Civil war victory)
->'''Party:''' Ethnikos Dimokratikos Ellinikos Syndesmos - Ethniki kai Koinoniki Apeleftherosis[[note]]National Republican Greek League - National and Social Liberation[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Right-Wing Populim[[note]]Conservatism[[/note]]

!!''Georgios Papandreou''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Republican elections)
->'''Party:''' Enosis Kentrou[[note]]Center Union[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' National Liberalism[[note]]Liberalism[[/note]]

!!''Konstantinos Karmanlis''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Republican elections)
->'''Party:''' Ethniki Rizospastiki Enosis[[note]]National Radical Union[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Liberal Conservatism[[note]]Conservatism[[/note]]

!!''Slavko Kvaternik''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Croatia puppet state)
->'''Party:''' Ustaška Administracija Grčke[[note]]Ustasha Administration of Greece[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Ultranationalism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]

!!''Günther Altenburg''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Nazi Germany/SS puppet state)

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Thrace]]
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%%Temporary until I can get a better version
->'''Official Name:''' Thracian Liberation Army
->'''Ruling Party:''' Apeleutherotiki Enosi Thrakis[[note]]Thracian Liberation Union[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Merkourism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
Thrace can be formed by a rebellion fomented by a Merkourist Greece against Bulgaria. If Thrace wins against Bulgaria, Greece will annex it.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dodecanese]]
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->'''Official Name:''' Special Region of Dodecanese
->'''Ideology:''' Clerical Fascism[[note]]Fascism[[/note]]
If Italy accepted Fascist Greece's demands to return Crete to them, they will go on to demand the Dodecanese as well, which will be turned into a Greek puppet state.

!!''Angelo de Mojana di Cologna''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader
->'''Ideology:''' Clerical Fascism[[note]]Fascism[[/note]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Crete]]
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->'''Official Name:''' Cretan Republic
->'''Ruling Party:''' Ethnikí Orgánosi Krítis[[note]]National Organization of Crete[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Authoritarian Democracy[[note]]Paternal Autocracy[[/note]]
If Italy accepts Fascist Greece's demands to return Crete to them, the island will be turned into a Greek puppet state before it annexes it.

!!''Georgios Petrakogiorgios''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader
->'''Party:''' Ethnikí Orgánosi Krítis[[note]]National Organization of Crete[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Authoritarian Democracy[[note]]Paternal Autocracy[[/note]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Monastic Republic of Mount Athos]]
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An autonomous, highly theocratic region of Greece that was under Hitler's personal protection during the war. If the Nazis invade Greece once again, the microstate can be granted independence as a Nazi puppet.

->'''Role:''' Poglavnik[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Pavelić succession)

->'''Role:''' Second-In-Command (Lorković)

->'''Role:''' Second-In-Command, Poglavnik[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Pavelić succession)

->'''Role:''' Poglavnik[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Pavelić succession)

->'''Ideology:''' Ustaša Movement[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' (NDH Administration)[[labelnote:Click to Show]]Jure Francetić, the founder of the black legion militia is one of the most important and influential members of the ustaše movement. Francetić's politics are confusing to everybody except him; while being a dedicate Ustaša member, Francetić also collaborates with groups the Ustaše ideology calls "undesirable", Francetić also sees the ineffectiveness of the current Ustaša regime, seeing it as only making the resistance more popular. Although not the most prominent member in politics, Francetić will do whatever necessary to stop the resistance to the regime, using brutal and inhumane methods if necessary.[[/labelnote]]

->'''Role:''' Minister of Defense, President[[note]]Figurehead[[/note]] (Lorković-Vokić Duumvirate), Country Leader (Homeguard coup)
%%->'''Party:'''
%%->'''Ideology:'''

->'''Ruling Party:''' Ustaša - Hrvatska Revolucionarna Organizacija[[note]]Ustasha Croatian Revolutionary Organization: The Ustaše, full name Ustaša - Croatian Revolutionary Organization, is a Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization. The ideology of the Organization is a blend of fascism, Roman Catholicism and Croatian nationalism. The Ustaše support the creation of a Greater Croatia that would span the Drina River and extend to the border of Belgrade. The movement emphasizes the need for a racially "pure" Croatia and promotes genocide against Serbs - due to the Ustaše's beliefs grounded in anti-Serb sentiment - and Jews and Roma via Nazi racial theory, and persecution of anti-fascist or dissident Croats and Bosniaks. The Ustaše views the Bosniaks as "Muslim Croats", and as a result, Bosniaks are not persecuted on the basis of race. It was founded as a nationalist organization that sought to create an independent Croatian state. When the Ustaše came to power in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a quasi-protectorate puppet state established by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during the European war, its paramilitary wing became the Ustaše Militia. However, the Ustaše lack support among ordinary Croats and never accrued any significant support among the populace. The Ustaše regime was backed by parts of the Croat population that during the interwar period had felt oppressed in the Serb-led Yugoslavia. Most of the support it had initially gained by creating a Croat national state was lost because of the brutal practices it uses, making the resistance movements, mostly the partisans, grow more support day by day.[[/note]]

->'''Party:''' Ustaša - Hrvatska Revolucionarna Organizacija[[note]]Ustasha Croatian Revolutionary Organization: The Ustaše, full name Ustaša - Croatian Revolutionary Organization, is a Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization. The ideology of the Organization is a blend of fascism, Roman Catholicism and Croatian nationalism. The Ustaše support the creation of a Greater Croatia that would span the Drina River and extend to the border of Belgrade. The movement emphasizes the need for a racially "pure" Croatia and promotes genocide against Serbs - due to the Ustaše's beliefs grounded in anti-Serb sentiment - and Jews and Roma via Nazi racial theory, and persecution of anti-fascist or dissident Croats and Bosniaks. The Ustaše views the Bosniaks as "Muslim Croats", and as a result, Bosniaks are not persecuted on the basis of race. It was founded as a nationalist organization that sought to create an independent Croatian state. When the Ustaše came to power in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a quasi-protectorate puppet state established by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during the European war, its paramilitary wing became the Ustaše Militia. However, the Ustaše lack support among ordinary Croats and never accrued any significant support among the populace. The Ustaše regime was backed by parts of the Croat population that during the interwar period had felt oppressed in the Serb-led Yugoslavia. Most of the support it had initially gained by creating a Croat national state was lost because of the brutal practices it uses, making the resistance movements, mostly the partisans, grow more support day by day.[[/note]]

->'''Party:''' Ustaša - Hrvatska Revolucionarna Organizacija[[note]]Ustasha Croatian Revolutionary Organization: The Ustaše, full name Ustaša - Croatian Revolutionary Organization, is a Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization. The ideology of the Organization is a blend of fascism, Roman Catholicism and Croatian nationalism. The Ustaše support the creation of a Greater Croatia that would span the Drina River and extend to the border of Belgrade. The movement emphasizes the need for a racially "pure" Croatia and promotes genocide against Serbs - due to the Ustaše's beliefs grounded in anti-Serb sentiment - and Jews and Roma via Nazi racial theory, and persecution of anti-fascist or dissident Croats and Bosniaks. The Ustaše views the Bosniaks as "Muslim Croats", and as a result, Bosniaks are not persecuted on the basis of race. It was founded as a nationalist organization that sought to create an independent Croatian state. When the Ustaše came to power in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a quasi-protectorate puppet state established by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during the European war, its paramilitary wing became the Ustaše Militia. However, the Ustaše lack support among ordinary Croats and never accrued any significant support among the populace. The Ustaše regime was backed by parts of the Croat population that during the interwar period had felt oppressed in the Serb-led Yugoslavia. Most of the support it had initially gained by creating a Croat national state was lost because of the brutal practices it uses, making the resistance movements, mostly the partisans, grow more support day by day.[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Ustaša Movement[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' (NDH Administration)[[labelnote:Click to Show]]Mladen Lorković is a dubious figure in Croatian politics, an unassuming man, Lorković desires to reform Croatia into a fascist state following the italo-fascist doctrine, and ending the various nazi policies that the Ustaše currently have in place. Although he has to keep his plans in secrets, being the current head of government. Lorković is also alliea with the Ante Vokić, the minister of Defense and the Leader of the Homeguard, the Croatian military, and August Košutić, the leader of the Croatian Peasant Party. When the time is right, Lorković may attempt to take over the place of Poglavnik for himself and steer the country in the direction he envisioned.[[/labelnote]]

->'''Role:''' President[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Democratic Elections)

->'''Role:''' President[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Democratic Elections)

->'''Role:''' President[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Democratic Elections)

->'''Role:''' Poglavnik[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Pavelić succession)
->'''Party:''' Ustaša - Hrvatska Revolucionarna Organizacija[[note]]Ustasha Croatian Revolutionary Organization: The Ustaše, full name Ustaša - Croatian Revolutionary Organization, is a Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization. The ideology of the Organization is a blend of fascism, Roman Catholicism and Croatian nationalism. The Ustaše support the creation of a Greater Croatia that would span the Drina River and extend to the border of Belgrade. The movement emphasizes the need for a racially "pure" Croatia and promotes genocide against Serbs - due to the Ustaše's beliefs grounded in anti-Serb sentiment - and Jews and Roma via Nazi racial theory, and persecution of anti-fascist or dissident Croats and Bosniaks. The Ustaše views the Bosniaks as "Muslim Croats", and as a result, Bosniaks are not persecuted on the basis of race. It was founded as a nationalist organization that sought to create an independent Croatian state. When the Ustaše came to power in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a quasi-protectorate puppet state established by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during the European war, its paramilitary wing became the Ustaše Militia. However, the Ustaše lack support among ordinary Croats and never accrued any significant support among the populace. The Ustaše regime was backed by parts of the Croat population that during the interwar period had felt oppressed in the Serb-led Yugoslavia. Most of the support it had initially gained by creating a Croat national state was lost because of the brutal practices it uses, making the resistance movements, mostly the partisans, grow more support day by day.[[/note]]

->'''Party:''' Ustaša - Hrvatska Revolucionarna Organizacija[[note]]Ustasha Croatian Revolutionary Organization: The Ustaše, full name Ustaša - Croatian Revolutionary Organization, is a Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization. The ideology of the Organization is a blend of fascism, Roman Catholicism and Croatian nationalism. The Ustaše support the creation of a Greater Croatia that would span the Drina River and extend to the border of Belgrade. The movement emphasizes the need for a racially "pure" Croatia and promotes genocide against Serbs - due to the Ustaše's beliefs grounded in anti-Serb sentiment - and Jews and Roma via Nazi racial theory, and persecution of anti-fascist or dissident Croats and Bosniaks. The Ustaše views the Bosniaks as "Muslim Croats", and as a result, Bosniaks are not persecuted on the basis of race. It was founded as a nationalist organization that sought to create an independent Croatian state. When the Ustaše came to power in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a quasi-protectorate puppet state established by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during the European war, its paramilitary wing became the Ustaše Militia. However, the Ustaše lack support among ordinary Croats and never accrued any significant support among the populace. The Ustaše regime was backed by parts of the Croat population that during the interwar period had felt oppressed in the Serb-led Yugoslavia. Most of the support it had initially gained by creating a Croat national state was lost because of the brutal practices it uses, making the resistance movements, mostly the partisans, grow more support day by day.[[/note]]

->'''Role:''' Minister of Defense, Country Leader (Homeguard coup)

->'''Party:''' Ustaša - Hrvatska Revolucionarna Organizacija[[note]]Ustasha Croatian Revolutionary Organization: The Ustaše, full name Ustaša - Croatian Revolutionary Organization, is a Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization. The ideology of the Organization is a blend of fascism, Roman Catholicism and Croatian nationalism. The Ustaše support the creation of a Greater Croatia that would span the Drina River and extend to the border of Belgrade. The movement emphasizes the need for a racially "pure" Croatia and promotes genocide against Serbs - due to the Ustaše's beliefs grounded in anti-Serb sentiment - and Jews and Roma via Nazi racial theory, and persecution of anti-fascist or dissident Croats and Bosniaks. The Ustaše views the Bosniaks as "Muslim Croats", and as a result, Bosniaks are not persecuted on the basis of race. It was founded as a nationalist organization that sought to create an independent Croatian state. When the Ustaše came to power in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a quasi-protectorate puppet state established by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during the European war, its paramilitary wing became the Ustaše Militia. However, the Ustaše lack support among ordinary Croats and never accrued any significant support among the populace. The Ustaše regime was backed by parts of the Croat population that during the interwar period had felt oppressed in the Serb-led Yugoslavia. Most of the support it had initially gained by creating a Croat national state was lost because of the brutal practices it uses, making the resistance movements, mostly the partisans, grow more support day by day.[[/note]]

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->'''Official Name:''' Bosnian Autonomous Region, Republic of Bosnia (Bosnian Uprising)

!!''Kasim Dobraca''

->'''Role:''' Country Leader

!!''Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Nazi Germany puppet state)

!!''Desiderius Hampel''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (SS Puppet State)

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->'''Ruling Party:''' Ustaša – Hrvatski Revolucionarni Pokret[[note]]Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement[[/note]]

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->'''Party:''' Ustaša – Hrvatski Revolucionarni Pokret[[note]]Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement[[/note]]

->'''Party:''' Ustaša – Hrvatski Revolucionarni Pokret[[note]]Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement[[/note]]

->'''Party:''' Ustaša – Hrvatski Revolucionarni Pokret[[note]]Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement[[/note]]

->'''Party:''' Ustaša – Hrvatski Revolucionarni Pokret[[note]]Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement[[/note]]

->'''Role:''' President[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Duumvirate), Country Leader (Homeguard coup)

->'''Party:''' Ustaša – Hrvatski Revolucionarni Pokret[[note]]Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement[[/note]]

->'''Role:''' President[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Socialist takeover)
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Bosnian Uprising)

* TheCoup: He can come to power by overthrowing the Croat government after the death of Ante Pavelić or if it loses in the Bosnian War or the Hungarian Border War.

->'''Role:''' Country Leader

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Košutić succession)

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Košutić succession)

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Elections)

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Elections)

* DragonAscendant: He is Pavelić's deputy who takes over after Pavelić is assassinated

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Luburić coup)

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Filipović coup)

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Homeguard coup)

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Socialist takeover)

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Bakarić resigns)

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Bakarić resigns)

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Socialist election)

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Socialist election)

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Partisan coup)

->'''Official Name:''' Independent State of Croatia, Greater Croatia (Artuković), Reorganized Croatian State (Francetić), Veliki Ostrogotski Rajh (Filipović), Provisional Croatian Social Republic (Lorković), Republic of Croatia (Democracy), Croatian State (Vokić), Croatian National State (Rukavina), Socialist Republic of Croatia (Bakarić), Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia (Bakarić/Hebrang, Yugoslavia), Illyrian Federation (Mrazović), Yugoslav Reconstruction Government (Car)

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]A politician and a Roman Catholic priest, Jozef Tiso headed the Slovak People's Party since 1938. After the collapse of Czechoslovakia, Jozef Tiso was offered the position as the president of a 'Free', 'Independent' Slovak Republic under German influence, an offer which Tiso welcomed with open arms.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Mach joined the Slovak People's Party at an early and came to prominence within the movement as an aide to Vojtech Tuka. Under Tuka's tutelage Mach served as editor of the party newspaper Slovák (Slovak) and Slovenská pravda (The Slovak Truth) and was appointed to the party's political committee in 1924. He belonged to in 1724. he the radical non-clerical wing of the Slovak People's Party, later Hlinka's Slovak People's Party. He became an influential figure on party policy, and an editorial he wrote in 1938 calling for the establishment of a paramilitary arm of the party led, with Tuka's support, to the formation of the Hlinka Guard. Mach would succeed Karol Sidor as commander of Hlinka Guard in 1939.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]The most radical of all the radicals. A politician, attorney and a professor, Vojtech Tuka has headed the radical club of the Hlinka's Slovak People's Party since 1918. In 1923 he founded Domobrana - The Home Guard, a paramilitary group, predecessor to the Hlinka's Guard. Sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment high treason and espionage, released in 1937. He served as a martyr for the fudáci, as were members of the HSĽS dubbed. Since 1938 he supported the shift of Slovakia towards Germany and he has been serving as the Slovak Chairman of Government since 1939.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]A Czechoslovak Legionary, War Academy graduate, the first and only Slovak general of the Czechoslovak Army and the Inspector-General of Slovak Army, Rudolf Viest was one of heads of the Slovak resistance movement since his return in 1941. He fled the new Slovak State in 1939 to become the leader of the exiled Czechoslovak army, however, after the defeat of the Allies in the West he returned to Slovakia and was officially pardoned by the President to be used as a propaganda tool.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]A protestant priest and a politician, Ján Ursíny has been credited as the head of the civilian Slovak resistance. He represents the conservative liberal ideology of the resistance as the informal Democratic Party. He served as a friend to the Czechoslovak (Slovak) Minister Chairman (Prime Minister) Milan Hodža. Ursíny, however, despite his Hungarian surname, is a convinced nationalist, opposed to the fascist rule. He has a great knowledge of politics and geography, as well as a great foresight, allowing him to prepare for some situation, which might be difficult down the line.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]The Secretary General of the AKEL is a true working class hero, in being a part of it for most of his life. Born in a village of less than two hundred, he personally experienced the struggle of the rural farmer. Unable to receive higher schooling without his brother's financial financial support, he realized that education, even now, was a privilege that only the well off would ever receive. Forced to move to Nicosia due to health concerns, he witnessed that healthcare, too, was something that could not be obtained without playing the game of capitalism. Finally, he toiled as both dock worker and a miner, hard labor that truly made him part of the proletariat. These experiences molded him into the man he is today, for throughout all of his struggles, he found one consistent chance at salvation: Communism.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Having served as the grand admiral of the Austro-Hungarian navy in the Great War, Miklós Horthy is now surrounded by enemies from all sides. After ascending to power as regent in the newly created Kingdom of Hungary, Horthy worked diligently to ensure his nation's freedom which only led him into an unstable alliance with a new Nazi Germany. During Hitler's crusade in Europe, Horthy refused to relinquish most of his Jewish population to Germany and housed many minority groups and refugees. This lack of collaboration between the two nations forced Horthy to forge his own path for the Hungarian nation in the years following the war. Whether or not he is seen as a dictator, Horthy now faces a troubling political climate where the Germans surround him and the Romanians are eyeing to strike at any moment. While Horthy might be an admiral without a fleet, only time will tell whether or not he will be a Hungarian without a nation.[[/labelnote]]

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born in 1904, István Horthy is Miklós Horthy's eldest son. As a mechanical engineer, István Horthy briefly worked in the Ford factory in Michigan, and as he returned, he secured the role of designer, soon director of the MAVAG locomotive factory. Becoming Deputy Regent in 1942, István Horthy remained a staunch critic of Nazism, often making these comments publicly.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Known as the 4th Duke of Genoa and the newly elected King of Hungary, Filiberto I is an inoffensive figurehead of the House of Savoy-Genoa. Served briefly as a commander of the Italian Army, Filiberto is on track to becoming Hungary's mediocre monarch.[[/labelnote]]

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]The last crown prince of Austria-Hungary, Otto was active on the Austrian and European political stage from the 1930s, both by promoting the cause of Habsburg restoration and as an early proponent of European integration—being thoroughly disgusted with nationalism—and a fierce opponent of Nazism and communism. After the Anschluss, he fled Europe to the United States.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on December 6, 1888, Árpád Szakasits is a longtime leader of the Hungarian Social Democratic Party. During the Soviet Republic, Szakasits was the head of the Department of the People's Commissariat on Internal Affairs, and for this, he was sentenced to prison for a brief period of time. Since then, he remained as the most influential member of the MSZDP.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]A prominent leader of the National Peasant Party, Ferenc Erdei studied law at the University of Szeged. During this time, he also conducted sociological studies and made acquaintances with other intellectuals.\\\

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Fascist Coup)

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Ferenc Szálasi, born in Kassa, son of a soldier father and a Greek Catholic. After finishing primary school in his hometown, Szálasi followed in his father's footsteps and enlisted in the army, graduating from the military academy in 1915 when he was promoted to lieutenant. During the later advancement in his career, he became an officer of the Austro-Hungarian army and was soon transferred to the front, but he only stayed for 36 months, where he spent waiting for the war to end.\\\

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (National Socialist Coup)

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on September 13, 1898, László Baky is a military academy graduate that rose to prom prominence in Szeged in 1919 for his violent counterrevolutionary work and rose through the ranks to become one of the leading figures in the Gendarmerie. As a member of several far right groups he finally left the gendarmes in 1938 (as a major-general) to join the Hungarian National Socialist Party. In 1939, he was elected as a deputy representing the National Socialist coalition group.\\\

->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Scythe Cross Counter-coup)

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on April 30, 1890, Lakatos graduated at Ludovica Military Academy. He served as a military attaché in Prague from 1928 to 1934. He became the commander of the Second Army after the previous commander resigned, and has since been an opponent to foreign influence in Hungary.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]A baron turned bishop, Vilmos Apor is considered by many as a virtuous man. As a unifying figure for Hungary, Apor now sees his position as his holy duty, unifying the increasingly polarized society.[[/labelnote]]

->'''In-Game Biography:''' (Figurehead)[[labelnote:Click to Show]]Michael I rose to power after the abdication of Carol II. Michael's reign lasted from 20 July 1927 to 8 June 1930 and restarted again since 6 September 1940.[[/labelnote]]
->'''In-Game Biography:''' (Country Leader)[[labelnote:Click to Show]]Mihai I, born October 25, 1921 in Sinaia, son of Carol II. Shortly after his birth, his father got into a controversial relationship with his mistress, which infuriated the Romanian political scene, and Carol had to leave the country until Mihai was declared the heir of the crown. After his grandfather Ferdinand died in July 1927, Mihai usurped the throne, but soon after, a regency was formed that would hold power until Mihai turned 18.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Not related to Marshal Ion Antonescu, Mihai Antonescu was the Marshal's right hand man. When Ion Antonescu was busy handling military affairs during Romania's participation in the Anti-Soviet War, Mihai Antonescu handled the majority of internal affairs. Serving as the Deputy Prime Minister, Mihai Antonescu ruled with an iron fist, carrying out the dictator's wills in Romania and appeasing the radicals by implementing radical Anti-Jewish laws.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]A lawyer, high school teacher and associate professor. Most importantly, the former governor of Transnistria.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Leader of the National Peasants' Party, lon Mihalache was a schoolteacher and a lieutenant in the Romanian Army during the Great War. He soon became popular among the locals, and served as the president of the local teachers' association. He founded the Peasants' Party in 1918, and became Vaida-Voevod's Minister of Agriculture on December 16, 1919. During the interwar years, Mihalache steadily climbed the political ladder, rising in political prominence.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Gheorghe Tǎtǎrescu was the 36th Prime Minister of Romania, and through years, he is once again serving as Prime Minister.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Nicholas I briefly served as one of the regent of his nephew, King Mihai I. However, his role as regent soon ended with the rise of King Carol. In later 1930 he was stripped of his titles and privileges and exiled from the Royal Court, due to King Carol II's disapproval of his marriage. In 1942 after the removal of King Carol II from the throne and King Michael's second reign, Nicholas had also been stripped of his Romanian honours and therefore started using the title of Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen of the house to which he belonged.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Horia Sima is to many the face of the far-right Legionarist movement in Romania, having joined the organization at a young age in 1927. He quickly rose through the party's ranks proving himself to be a skillful organizer in the wake of extensive crackdowns by the Romanian government that saw much of its leadership (including Sima's mentor, Corneliu Codreanu) imprisoned and executed in 1938. Having secured a position for himself in Romania following the nation's drift into the German sphere, the newly invigorated Iron Guard would go on to carry out barbaric pogroms in the Transnistrian Governate amidst growing anxiety from Ion Antonescu's government. Fleeing to after a botched to Germany in 1941, the new Conducător spent over a decade quietly plotting for his eventual return to Romania. Now at the helm of a shattered nation, Sima's reign of terror can finally reach the apex needed to shape Romania in his own twisted image.[[/labelnote]]

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on January 2, 1902, Corneliu Georgescu was a lawyer before becoming one of the founding members of the Legionary Movement. He served as Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of National Economy for the Colonization of the Evacuated Population in the Ion Antonescu government.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Jozef "Sepp" Janko was born on November 9, 1905 in the Banat village of Ernestovac under the jurisdiction of the town of Zrenjanin. After completing his undergraduate studies, he moved to Graz to study law, which he later completed successfully. After some time in politics, he became extremely pan-nationalist with strong pro-German rhetoric. On June 9, 1939, immediately after the outbreak of the European War, he was elected president of the Swabian-German Association in Yugoslavia, which he headed until the invasion of Yugoslavia.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born in 1898, Milan Aćimović became an accomplished lawyer in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Having expressed anti-communist and fascist sympathies, he and his future collaborationist compatriot Velibor Jonić fought to legalize Zbor; the primary fascist party in Yugoslavia. Having been jailed in 1940 for his axis sympathies, he was released from captivity by the Nazis and asked to form a Serbian civilian regime in the new rump state that emerged from the Axis partition of Yugoslavia. While nominally the prime minister of the "Government of National Salvation", A German detachment lead by Harald Turner and a delicate web of loyal Chetnik and ZBOR politicians are the only things that prevent his nation from descending into complete anarchy. As the partisans and rebellious Chetniks continue to terrorize the countryside regardless, Milan's Serbia is hardly a functioning government.[[/labelnote]]

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on April 15, 1891, Dinić dealt with military matters, and later joined the army. Not much is known about his past, but several significant things are known that have shaped his views as well as politics. Working in the army as a lieutenant-colonel, he was pro-British in nature, and was associated with several I agents stationed in Yugoslavia. After the outbreak of the European War, and later the attack on Yugoslavia, he joined Milan Nedić as Minister of the Interior as head of social policy and health. His motives are largely unknown, however his rule is not believed to last long as the tides of revolution creep on Belgrade's doorstep.[[/labelnote]]

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on August 12, 1891 in Belgrade, Ljotić's father was a well-known politician and consul in Greece, as well as the first man to translate Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto" into Serbian. Dimitrije Ljotić took part in the Balkan wars, as well as the First World War fighting for Serbia. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and continued to practice law until the interwar period.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on April 13, 1906 in the Mačva district in the village of Klenje, Strahinja Janjić was an ordinary child who frequently abused animals for fun. Too young to participate in the First World War, he joined the pre-war Yugoslav army in 1923 and by the time he was fired in 1932, he held the rank of officer. He later tried to find a job in the public sector and in the period from 1936 to 1939, he changed many jobs, where he was fired for those same sadistic tendencies.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Absolutely nothing is known about him, nor about his birth, the place of birth of his childhood, his participation in the First World War, his interwar life and what he did before the German invasion of Yugoslavia.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on April 26, 1893 in Ivanjica, he was left without parents at a relatively young age, as his uncle took care of him and his relatives. Dragoljub finished the first four grades of primary school, and enrolled in the Third Belgrade Gymnasium, only to later transfer to the lower military academy, from where he was transferred to the front in the Balkan wars. Mihailović stood out as a particularly brave and competent soldier in several significant operations of the first and second Balkan wars. Continuing his military education, he was eventually sent to the front against Austria-Hungary during the First World War.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on February 19, 1891 in Serbia. Nothing is known about his childhood and war years, but it is believed that he participated in the First World War. During the interwar period, he worked as a diplomat in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, mainly in the United States and France as an ambassador.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Peter II Karađorđević, born on September 6, 1923, was the last king of Yugoslavia, both from Karađorđević's house and in general. He was the son of King Alexander I Karađorđević and Queen Maria of Romania, while his godparents at his baptism were Queen Elizabeth of Greece, King Ferdinand of Romania and King George VI of the United Kingdom. He was originally educated at the Royal Palace, from where he continued his in England until the moment when his father was shot in Marseilles by the VMRO when he was 11 years old. The regency on his behalf was led by his uncle Pavle. Petar did not intend to give up his father's policy of policy of leading Yugoslavia and wanted to continue with the further centralization of power in Yugoslavia as well as the breakup of every separatist movement, but he was hindered in that idea by the incredible genius of his uncle and Dušan Simović later. As time passed on the occasion of unpopular moves made by Pavle with Cvetković and Maček, Petar became more and more popular, and when Pavle decided to sign the Tripartite Pact, the genius of Dušan Simović became apparent. In a bloodless coup, Peter II became the last king of Yugoslavia at the age of 17 and a half and established a very pro-British government, mixing ministers from all parties, except the + the far-right Serbian groups and Ustaše and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. His reign did not last long and on April 6 he was force by Dušan Simović to flee to Montenegro where a plane to Greece awaited them where a plane to Jerusalem awaited them where a plane to Cairo awaited them where a plane to London awaited them while along the way he promised at press conferences that the fight would never end. After the collapse of the British and French armies after Dunkirk, Peter II remained in London, from where he coordinated his actions with Draža Mihailović, but it seemed that Serbia would never be freed from slavery again, so he i so he indulged in alcohol and depression. It slowly began to disappear as soon as it was noticed that a problem with Hitler's health broke out in Germany, and it was thought that the moment of liberation would finally come. After the successful operation of the liberal government and the Chetniks, the king was successfully returned to Serbia, where he was crowned with his old crown.[[/labelnote]]

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on October 30, 1871 in Užice, he graduated Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. His role in the First World War is unknown, but it is assumed that he took part in it. In 1903, he was constantly elected a Member of the National Assembly. During the interwar period, he was elected Minister of Education several times, and advocated for the liberalization of institutions and education reform, making it a priority.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on March 21, 1886 in Užice, his childhood remains a mystery. After the end of the First World War, he founded the Socialist Party of Yugoslavia in 1921. coming into conflict with the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Energetic, resourceful, intelligent, withdrawn and shy, he is frequently hailed as a fighter for human rights and worker's rights.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on May 7, 1892 in the village of Kumrovec, he was a locksmith by trade. During his search for a job at an early age, he toured Czechoslovakia where he stayed for a short time at Skoda Works, then later moved to Berlin and finally returned to Austria-Hungary where he worked until his conscription into the Austro-Hungarian army. At the outbreak of the First World War, he was transferred to the Serbian front, but after unsuccessful invasions, in 1915 he was transferred to Galicia where he fought against the Rus the Russians, only to be captured and transferred to the Urals iin a labour cupio camp. Having been released during the Russian Revolution, he returned to Yugoslavia in 1918, and soon joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Originally a propaganda minister, he soon became its commissioner in 1937, and eventually party president in 1939.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born in Draževac on November 28, 1909, he moved to Belgrade where he got a job and later joined labour unions. Joining the Communist Party of Yugoslavia while in the unions, he had been frequently arrested by the government as a member of an illegal party. After his release from prison, he continued with his communist affairs, and became a senior official within the party. After the invasion of Yugoslavia, he joined Josip Broz Tito and the Communist Party in the underground partisan movement.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born in in Podbišće near Mojkovac on June 4, 1911, Đilas went to Belgrade after completing his undergraduate studies to study philosophy and law, eventually joining the CPY. Tito found out about him later around 1937, and a directive was issued to find Milovan Đilas and bring him to organize the sending of volunteers to Spain during its civil war. At the beginning of the Second World War, Dilas was sent to his native Montenegro, where an uprising was to take place but famously failed.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Carlo Geloso, the former commander of Italian Forces in Albania and Greece, he participated in the brief Greco-Italian War, and was promoted to the position of Italian Plenipotentiary of Hellenic State after his retirement.[[/labelnote]]

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Distinguished politician and lawyer, loannis Rallis rose to rank of President of the Hellenic State after the forced resignation of Konstantinos Logothetopoulos by the Germans due to the Deutsche-Mark Crisis. Father of the Security Battalions and head of the Unionist faction, Rallis is despised by the people but adored by the Italians and Germans as a loyal and orderly puppet. With plans of reformation of the regime, Rallis aims primarily towards the establishment of order in the nation through a peaceful transition to a more liberated Greece with the "approval" of its overlords.[[/labelnote]]

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]At one time in his life, Konstantinos Logothetopoulos was a respected medical practitioner and professor of gynecology. In the 1920's he instructed hundreds of medical students in this art at the University of Athens, where he eventually became the school dean. Just as the Axis invasion was a great shock that took Greece by surprise, his fall from grace couldn't have been more unexpected for those who knew him as a mild-mannered doctor.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]As his honorific knighthood would suggest, Xenofon von Giosmas could be said to be an enthusiast for all things German. At one time in his life he was a bog-standard fascist, but his me he was long-standing admiration for the Nazi reich has caused his views to become progressively more extreme. As the leader of the Hellenic Nationalist Socialist Front (HNSF), his movement has Sr), his movemen is adopted a syncretic ideology he refers to in state media broadcasts as "Merkourism". Taking inspiration from the writings of Otto Strasser, von Giosmas advocates for vigorous militarism, the foundation of national worker's guilds, a focus on agrarianism, and a renewal of traditional morality.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' (Figurehead President)[[labelnote:Click to Show]]Originally the leading figure of the Republican Clique, Gizikis is now part of the establishment, wishing for a beneficial status quo other than any fancy, needless ideas of democratic reforms.[[/labelnote]]

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Bourantas is a monster of a man, even by the standards of his monstrous compatriots. After putting in years of service as an officer of the collaborator government, Bourantas rose to prominence when he became commander of the dreaded Security Battalions. The upper echelons of the Hellenic state administration regarded him with appropriate fear and trepidation from the very beginning. Despite (or perhaps because of) his and his men's well-deserved reputation for brutality towards partisans and civilians alike, the Hellenic state's leaders felt there were uses for a man of Bourantas' character. The more "respectable" fascists he answered to believed they could channel his disastrous wrath for their own purposes.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Angelos Evert has dutifully served as the chief commissioner of the Athens city police for the better part of a decade. The son of Bavarian expatriates who moved to Greece during the reign of Otto I, Evert is viewed by his peers as a quiet and unassuming bureaucrat. His placid demeanor belies an unseen craftiness. Despite his public image as a dutiful servant of the Axis powers, Evert hasn't exactly disguised his casual disinterest in fascism or his nostalgia for the deposed Greek monarchy. Other high-ranking law enforcement officers have (correctly) suspected that his loyalties lie elsewhere based on the fact that his department has reported an anomalously low number of Jews to the Gestapo over the years. He'd never say it out loud, but Evert has spent years illicitly falsifying passports for Athens' Jewish population to protect them from the Gestapo.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Although first lieutenant Panos Katsareas had briefly fought in the resistance before defecting to join the dreaded security battalions, his commanding officers overlooked this unfortunate detail because they had uses for his skills. Following Germany's victory over the allied forces, Katsareas founded the National Anti-Communist Groups of Hunters (EAOK). As a subordinate organization of the SB's, the EAOK's line of work for the last decade has been to root out and crush communist dissent wherever it exists.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born in 1901, King Paul spent many years abroad. He was crowned king by the exile government in 1947, after the former childless king died. Paul dreamt of returning Greece as her rightful king, and he accepted the offer by the Athens government in a heartbeat, without the approval of the government-in-exile.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' (Prisoner in the Palace)[[labelnote:Click to Show]]Locked away in his Royal Palace, the government has imposed absolute control over the monarch's life. Guarded by the "Royal Guards" that are de-facto under the internal security division, his movement has greatly limited, reduced to the confines of the palace.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Sergeant Major Takis Makedonas has long been regarded with wariness by his fellow security officers. Anyone who's served under him for any length of time can attest his ego and his violent temper being fixtures of their interactions with him. It's rumoured among some of his compatriots that he'd unsuccessfully attempted to join the Greek resistance as a commissioned officer before he founded the anti-communist EASAD, but no one who values their life would ever dare say it out loud in mixed company.\\\

->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]It's not certain how, when, or where "captain" Grigoris Sourlas of the EASAD acquired his captaincy. Who it was in the collaborationist military that bestowed the rank upon him isn't known to anyone but Sourlas himself, if such a person even exists. When it comes to the nicknames the captain has acquired during his time with the security battalions, things are decidedly less ambiguous. "The bloody bandit", "the varangian," "the dire wolf," and "the land waster" are just a handful of the titles bestowed on him over the years, with the "the hangman of Demerli" being one of the oldest and most enduring. The captain first attracted such moniker in the killing fields of Thessaly, where he garnered a reputation as a man of unparalleled ruthlessness and depravity.\\\

->'''Official Name:''' Independent State of Croatia, Greater Croatia, Provisional Croatian Authority (Rukavina), Republic of Croatia (Democracy), Socialist Republic of Croatia (Hebrang), Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia (Hebrang, Yugoslavia), Croatian Partisan Republic (Car)

-> '''Ideology:''' Ustaša Movement[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]

-> '''Ideology:''' Ustaša Movement[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]

!!''Andrija Artuković''
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-> '''Ideology:''' Ustaša Movement[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]

* DragonAscendant: He is Pavelić's deputy who takes over after Pavelić is assassinated
* MeetTheNewBoss: His ascension to the post of Poglavnik changes very little for Croatia.

!!''Jure Francetić''
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->'''Role:''' Poglavnik[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Pavelić succession)
->'''Party:''' Ustaša – Hrvatski Revolucionarni Pokret[[note]]Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement[[/note]]
-> '''Ideology:''' Ustaša Movement[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
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!!''Mladen Lorković''
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->'''Role:''' Poglavnik[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Pavelić succession)
->'''Party:''' Ustaša – Hrvatski Revolucionarni Pokret[[note]]Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement[[/note]]
-> '''Ideology:''' Ustaša Movement[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
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* TheCoup: He can come to power by overthrowing the Croat government after the death of Ante Pavelić or if it loses in the Bosnian war or the Hungarian border war.

!!''Juraj Rukavina''
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->'''Role:''' Poglavnik[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Coup)
->'''Party:''' Ustaša – Hrvatski Revolucionarni Pokret[[note]]Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement[[/note]]
-> '''Ideology:''' Ustaša Movement[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]

!!''Tomislav II''
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->'''Role:''' Monarch[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]], Monarch[[note]]Figurehead[[/note]]
->'''Party:''' Kraljevska Stranka Hrvatske[[note]]Royal Party of Croatia[[/note]]
-> '''Ideology:''' Monarchism[[note]]Paternal Autocracy[[/note]]

* PuppetKing: Tomislav is a powerless figurehead set up by Italians.

!!''August Košutić''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader
->'''Party:''' Hrvatska Seljačka Stranka[[note]]Croatian Peasant Party[[/note]]
-> '''Ideology:''' Traditionalist Conservatism[[note]]Conservatism[[/note]]

!!''Nikola Car''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Hebrang overthrown)
%%->'''Party:''' [[note]][[/note]]
%%-> '''Ideology:'''

!!''Andrija Hebrang''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader
%%->'''Party:''' [[note]][[/note]]
-> '''Ideology:''' Marxism-Leninism

!!''Miodrag Damjanović''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Serbian Kingdom puppet state)
%%->'''Party:''' [[note]][[/note]]
%%-> '''Ideology:''' [[note]][[/note]]

!!''Petar II''
->'''Role:''' Monarch[[note]]Figurehead[[/note]] (Serbian Kingdom puppet state)
See his entry in the Government of National Salvation folder.

!!''Friedrich Hildebrandt''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (SS puppet state)

%%Eugen Kvaternik
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bosnia]]
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->'''Official Name:''' Bosnian Autonomous Region, Republic of Bosnia (Bosnian Uprising)
-->'''Puppet State:''' Governorate of Bosnia (Nazi Germany), Ordenstaat Bosnien[[labelnote:Tr.]]Order-State of Bosnia[[/labelnote]] (SS)

!!''Mehmed Handžić''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Bosnian Uprising)
->'''Party:''' Bosanska Ulema[[note]]Bosnian Ulema[[/note]]
-> '''Ideology:''' Theocracy[[note]]Paternal Autocracy[[/note]]

!!''Alija Suljak''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader

!!''Kasim Dobraca''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader

!!''Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Nazi Germany puppet state)

!!''Desiderius Hampel''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (SS Puppet State)

[[/folder]]

[[folder:SS-Ordensstaat Banat]]
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->'''Official Name:''' SS-Ordensstaat Banat[[labelnote:Tr.]]Order-State of Banat[[/labelnote]], Greater Reich of Donau-Schwaben, Reichskommissariat Banat[[labelnote:Tr.]]Reich Commissariat of Banat[[/labelnote]] (Nazi Germany puppet state)
->'''Ideology:''' National Socialism
A state formed from the German occupation of the Banat region. Following the German-Soviet War, instead of giving the territory to Romania, Hungary, Croatia, or even back to Serbia, Hitler decided to turn it, along with Gotenland, into the first SS-Ordensstaat, as an experiment to determine if the Schutzstaffel could run things any better than a normal Reichskommissariat.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: One of the options the Banat government has in the event of the German Civil War is to just bail and fully evacuate Banat, leaving the region under the control a "Stability Junta" that is little more than a confederation of SS bandits, making Banat a pushover that can be easily conquered by its neighbors.
* StartMyOwn: Much like Gotenland, Banat can also attempt to create their own 'Fourth Reich' in the event of the German Civil War, in the form of the Greater Reich of Donau-Schwaben.
* TotalitarianGangsterism: The 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division ''Prinz Eugen'' garrisoning Banat behaves less like a garrison and more like an armed bandit group, making deals with German and Italian mobsters and turning Banat into a haven of criminal activity.

!!''Sepp Janko''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader
->'''Party:''' National Socialist Danube Swabian Workers' Party
->'''Ideology:''' National Socialism
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Jozef "Sepp" Janko was born on November 9, 1905 in the Banat village of Ernestovac under the jurisdiction of the town of Zrenjanin. After completing his undergraduate studies, he moved to Graz to study law, which he later completed successfully. After some time in politics, he became extremely pan-nationalist with strong pro-German rhetoric. On June 9, 1939, immediately after the outbreak of the European War, he was elected president of the Swabian-German Association in Yugoslavia, which he headed until the invasion of Yugoslavia.\\\
After that, he received an offer from the German authorities as well as from Himmler to organize his bandit company called the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen, in which he was proclaimed Volksgruppenführer. After that, with Himmler's blessing, he founded the SS Ordeenstat Banat, in which he could do what he wanted and how he wanted under the patronage of the SS.[[/labelnote]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Government of National Salvation]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Flag of the Serbian Social Republic]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zbor_flag.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Flag of the Kingdom of Serbia (Ljotić)]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/twr_zbor_kingdom.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Flag of the National State of Serbia]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/twr_janjic_serbia.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Official Name:''' Government of National Salvation, Serbian Social Republic (Ljotić), Kingdom of Serbia (Ljotić, Regency), National State of Serbia (Janjić), Serbia (Serbian Anarchy), Serbian Chetnik Movement (Mihailović), Greater Serbia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia,
-->'''Puppet State:''' State of Serbia (Monarchist Romania), Administratia Legionara a Moesiei[[labelnote:Tr.]]Legionary Administration of Moesia[[/labelnote]] (Legionary Romania), National Administration of Serbia (Croatia), Serbian State (Italy), Military Administration of Serbia (Nazi Germany), Ordensstaat Prinz-Eugen-Stadt[[labelnote:Tr.]]Order-State of Prinz-Eugen-Stadt[[/labelnote]] (SS)
->'''Ruling Party:''' Vlada Narodnog Spasa[[note]]Government of National Salvation[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' National Socialism

* PleaseSelectNewCityName: If the SS takes control of Serbia, it changes the name of the capital, Belgrade, to Prinz-Eugen-Stadt.

!!''Milan Aćimović''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader
->'''Party:''' Vlada Narodnog Spasa[[note]]Government of National Salvation[[/note]]
-> '''Ideology:''' National Socialism
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born in 1898, Milan Aćimović became an accomplished lawyer in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Having expressed anti-communist and fascist sympathies, he and his future collaborationist compatriot Velibor Jonić fought to legalize Zbor; the primary fascist party in Yugoslavia. Having been jailed in 1940 for his axis sympathies, he was released from captivity by the Nazis and asked to form a Serbian civilian regime in the new rump state that emerged from the Axis partition of Yugoslavia. While nominally the prime minister of the "Government of National Salvation", A German detachment lead by Harald Turner and a delicate web of loyal Chetnik and ZBOR politicians are the only things that prevent his nation from descending into complete anarchy. As the partisans and rebellious Chetniks continue to terrorize the countryside regardless, Milan's Serbia is hardly a functioning government.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Tanasije Dinić''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Aćimović succession)
->'''Party:''' Vlada Narodnog Spasa[[note]]Government of National Salvation[[/note]]
-> '''Ideology:''' National Socialism
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on April 15, 1891, Dinić dealt with military matters, and later joined the army. Not much is known about his past, but several significant things are known that have shaped his views as well as politics. Working in the army as a lieutenant-colonel, he was pro-British in nature, and was associated with several I agents stationed in Yugoslavia. After the outbreak of the European War, and later the attack on Yugoslavia, he joined Milan Nedić as Minister of the Interior as head of social policy and health. His motives are largely unknown, however his rule is not believed to last long as the tides of revolution creep on Belgrade's doorstep.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Dimitrije Ljotić''
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->'''Role:''' Vodja[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]]
->'''Party:''' Združena Borbena Organizacija Rada[[note]]United Militant Labour Organization[[/note]]
-> '''Ideology:''' Fascism
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on August 12, 1891 in Belgrade, Ljotić's father was a well-known politician and consul in Greece, as well as the first man to translate Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto" into Serbian. Dimitrije Ljotić took part in the Balkan wars, as well as the First World War fighting for Serbia. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and continued to practice law until the interwar period.\\\
During his studies, Ljotić was introduced to the fascist ideas of Charles Maurras in Paris, whose writings enthralled the impressionable Ljotić. In 1920, he joined the People's Radical Party of Nikola Pašić, an early far-right party in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1930 he became the deputy president of the Smederevo district and climbed through the rank, eventually meeting King Alexander and offered him a draft of his constitution that depicted an organic fascist dictatorship; A proposal that the king promptly rejected.\\\
In the immediate wake of the king's assassination in 1934, Ljotić contacted three fascist parties in Yugoslavia, and at a joint session they merged into the United Militant Labour Organization also known as ZBOR. Immediately after the formation they were banned, and never numbered over 10,000 members. After the German invasion, he received an offer to find himself in the future Nedić's place, but refused, becoming a member of the government and got the right to organize the state's volunteer forces.\\\
Now in charge of Serbia, he faces hard opposition from most Serbians from both the former government and the civilian populace. Something that he will have to remedy in order to survive.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Strahinja Janjić''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Coup Against Ljotić)
->'''Party:''' Nacionalno Socialistička Srpska Radnička Stranka[[note]]National Socialist Serbian Workers' Party[[/note]]
-> '''Ideology:''' Esoteric Nazism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on April 13, 1906 in the Mačva district in the village of Klenje, Strahinja Janjić was an ordinary child who frequently abused animals for fun. Too young to participate in the First World War, he joined the pre-war Yugoslav army in 1923 and by the time he was fired in 1932, he held the rank of officer. He later tried to find a job in the public sector and in the period from 1936 to 1939, he changed many jobs, where he was fired for those same sadistic tendencies.\\\
Having been described by many mentally insane, unstable, aggressive, sadistic and pathologically disturbed, Janjić reached the position of mayor of Kragujevac in 1941, but due to his too aggressive policy and behavior, he was fired on the orders of Milan Nedić and arrested. It wasn't until the intervention of the Germans that he was released and transferred to Leskovac. After his release, the Germans assigned him to form the Belgrade secret police in 1942. Also known as the 1st Belgrade special combat detachment, or as Janjić called it, the "Serbian Gestapo".\\\
Taught by the Germans, Janjić fantasized about overthrowing Nedić and becoming the leader of a National Socialist Serbian state.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Svetozar Nećak''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Tibet Expedition, Janjić assassinated)
->'''Party:''' Nacionalno Socialistička Srpska Radnička Stranka[[note]]National Socialist Serbian Workers' Party[[/note]]
-> '''Ideology:''' Esoteric Nazism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Absolutely nothing is known about him, nor about his birth, the place of birth of his childhood, his participation in the First World War, his interwar life and what he did before the German invasion of Yugoslavia.\\\
But we know one thing for sure about this cold-blooded murderer who, together with Strahinja Janjić, participated in the creation of the 1st Belgrade Special Fighting Division. As Janjić's deputy, he personally participated in various crimes against their precieved enemies. But unlike his boss, he is more sane.\\\
When Janjić left for Tibet, Svetozar has taken the role of Head of State until he returns from his expedition.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Aćimović succession)
->'''Party:''' Velika Srpska Narodna Stranka[[note]]Great Serbian People's Party[[/note]]
-> '''Ideology:''' Military Dictatorship[[note]]Paternal Autocracy[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on April 26, 1893 in Ivanjica, he was left without parents at a relatively young age, as his uncle took care of him and his relatives. Dragoljub finished the first four grades of primary school, and enrolled in the Third Belgrade Gymnasium, only to later transfer to the lower military academy, from where he was transferred to the front in the Balkan wars. Mihailović stood out as a particularly brave and competent soldier in several significant operations of the first and second Balkan wars. Continuing his military education, he was eventually sent to the front against Austria-Hungary during the First World War.\\\
After the war, he was sent to quell the Albanian uprisings in Kosovo, and was originally placed in the King's Guard, but was removed after rehearsing a gun in a full bar and saying "There is no greater Serb than me." He participated in various diplomatic and military missions in the interwar period, which gained him a considerable reputation. He was first sent to teach at military schools in Sarajevo and eventually enrolled in a French military school, where he shared a desk with Charles de Gaulle. He was later transferred to Sofia as a military attaché, but after a few years was transferred to Prague.\\\
At the outbreak of the invasion of Yugoslavia, he retreated into the woods, and waited for the right moment to revolt. One of the few who decided to continue the fight, Dragoljub maintained contacts with Milan Aćimović and the Government of National Salvation. Now in charge of Serbia, his regime has taken on hard Serbian nationalism, and many believe that his Junta of Saint Sava may continue the status quo of old.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Božidar Purić''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader
->'''Party:''' Narodna Radikalna Stranka[[note]]People's Radical Party[[/note]]
-> '''Ideology:''' National Conservatism[[note]]Conservatism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on February 19, 1891 in Serbia. Nothing is known about his childhood and war years, but it is believed that he participated in the First World War. During the interwar period, he worked as a diplomat in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, mainly in the United States and France as an ambassador.\\\
While in Serbia, he advocated the ideas of conservatism with indications of the liberalization of institutions, only more directed towards democratization. Taking over the government-in-exile stationed in London after the invasion, Božidar became enamoured with the democratic ideas of Great Britain and its constitutional monarchy, something that he hopes to bring to a wartorn Serbia.[[/labelnote]]
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->'''Role:''' Monarch[[note]]Figurehead[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Peter II Karađorđević, born on September 6, 1923, was the last king of Yugoslavia, both from Karađorđević's house and in general. He was the son of King Alexander I Karađorđević and Queen Maria of Romania, while his godparents at his baptism were Queen Elizabeth of Greece, King Ferdinand of Romania and King George VI of the United Kingdom. He was originally educated at the Royal Palace, from where he continued his in England until the moment when his father was shot in Marseilles by the VMRO when he was 11 years old. The regency on his behalf was led by his uncle Pavle. Petar did not intend to give up his father's policy of policy of leading Yugoslavia and wanted to continue with the further centralization of power in Yugoslavia as well as the breakup of every separatist movement, but he was hindered in that idea by the incredible genius of his uncle and Dušan Simović later. As time passed on the occasion of unpopular moves made by Pavle with Cvetković and Maček, Petar became more and more popular, and when Pavle decided to sign the Tripartite Pact, the genius of Dušan Simović became apparent. In a bloodless coup, Peter II became the last king of Yugoslavia at the age of 17 and a half and established a very pro-British government, mixing ministers from all parties, except the + the far-right Serbian groups and Ustaše and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. His reign did not last long and on April 6 he was force by Dušan Simović to flee to Montenegro where a plane to Greece awaited them where a plane to Jerusalem awaited them where a plane to Cairo awaited them where a plane to London awaited them while along the way he promised at press conferences that the fight would never end. After the collapse of the British and French armies after Dunkirk, Peter II remained in London, from where he coordinated his actions with Draža Mihailović, but it seemed that Serbia would never be freed from slavery again, so he i so he indulged in alcohol and depression. It slowly began to disappear as soon as it was noticed that a problem with Hitler's health broke out in Germany, and it was thought that the moment of liberation would finally come. After the successful operation of the liberal government and the Chetniks, the king was successfully returned to Serbia, where he was crowned with his old crown.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Miloš Trifunović''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader
->'''Party:''' Liberalno Demokratska Partija[[note]]Liberal Democratic Party[[/note]]
-> '''Ideology:''' Social Liberalism[[note]]Liberalism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on October 30, 1871 in Užice, he graduated Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. His role in the First World War is unknown, but it is assumed that he took part in it. In 1903, he was constantly elected a Member of the National Assembly. During the interwar period, he was elected Minister of Education several times, and advocated for the liberalization of institutions and education reform, making it a priority.\\\
Promptly fleeing in the wake of the invasion of Yugoslavia, he later became a member of the government in exile. Now in charge of a democratic Yugoslavia, Trifunović has promised extensive education to reshape the nation into a truly modernized force, but whether he can accomplish this remains to be seen.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Živko Topalović''
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->'''Party:''' Socijalistička Partija Jugoslavije[[note]][[/note]]
-> '''Ideology:''' Social Democracy
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on March 21, 1886 in Užice, his childhood remains a mystery. After the end of the First World War, he founded the Socialist Party of Yugoslavia in 1921. coming into conflict with the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Energetic, resourceful, intelligent, withdrawn and shy, he is frequently hailed as a fighter for human rights and worker's rights.\\\
Having been close friends with Dragoljub Mihailović, his reputation amongst liberal and fellow left-wing elements in the state is by far his greatest obstacle for the future. Something that he hopes to fix for the sake of the state and its king.
[[/labelnote]]

!!''Petre Dumitrescu''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Monarchist Romania puppet state)
->'''Party:''' Forțele Terestre Române[[note]]Romanian Ground Forces[[/note]]
-> '''Ideology:''' Military Dictatorship[[note]]Paternal Autocracy[[/note]]

!!''Leon Susman''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Legionary Romania puppet state)
->'''Party:''' Garda de Fier[[note]]Iron Guard[[/note]]
-> '''Ideology:''' Legionarism[[note]]Fascism[[/note]]

!!''Jure Francetić''
->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Croatia puppet state)
->'''Party:''' Ustaška Administracija Srbije[[note]]Ustasha Administration of Serbia[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Ultranationalism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
See his entry in the Croatia folder.

!!''Hartwig von Ludwiger''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Nazi Germany puppet state)

!!''Werner Lorenz''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (SS puppet state)
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[[folder:Yugoslav Partisans]]
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->'''Official Name:''' Socialist Republic of Serbia, Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia
->'''Ruling Party:''' Savez Komunista Jugoslavije[[note]]League of Communists of Yugoslavia[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Titoism[[note]]Revolutionary Communism[[/note]]

* LaResistance: The Yugoslav Partisans have been constantly fighting a guerrilla war since the Axis invaded Serbia in 1941, and are a major thorn in the side of the Aćimović regime.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The partisans are divided between Ranković's hardliners, Titoists and Đilas reformists.

!!''Josip Broz''
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->'''Party:''' Savez Komunista Jugoslavije[[note]]League of Communists of Yugoslavia[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Titoism[[note]]Revolutionary Communism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born on May 7, 1892 in the village of Kumrovec, he was a locksmith by trade. During his search for a job at an early age, he toured Czechoslovakia where he stayed for a short time at Skoda Works, then later moved to Berlin and finally returned to Austria-Hungary where he worked until his conscription into the Austro-Hungarian army. At the outbreak of the First World War, he was transferred to the Serbian front, but after unsuccessful invasions, in 1915 he was transferred to Galicia where he fought against the Rus the Russians, only to be captured and transferred to the Urals iin a labour cupio camp. Having been released during the Russian Revolution, he returned to Yugoslavia in 1918, and soon joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Originally a propaganda minister, he soon became its commissioner in 1937, and eventually party president in 1939.\\\
After the war broke out, his troops retreated to the forests in what became known as the partisan movement.\\\
Josip Broz 'Tito' has now become the unquestionable ruler of Yugoslavia, the future of the Balkans remains uncertain as ever.[[/labelnote]]

* ChummyCommies: Tito is an pragmatic market socialist who legitimately cares about his people.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Broz is widely known by his nom de guerre, Tito. It was common practice in the 1920s for members of the outlawed Communist Party of Yugoslavia to adopt an assumed names.
* ThePurge: On of his first acts is to purge [[SecretPolice UDBA]] of hardliners.

!!''Alexandar Ranković''
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[[caption-width-right:156:[[labelnote:Ranković's portrait after completing his tree]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aleksandar_rankovic_marshal.png[[/labelnote]]]]

->'''Party:''' Komunistička partija Jugoslavije[[note]]Communist Party of Yugoslavia[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Stalinism[[note]]Marxism-Leninism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born in Draževac on November 28, 1909, he moved to Belgrade where he got a job and later joined labour unions. Joining the Communist Party of Yugoslavia while in the unions, he had been frequently arrested by the government as a member of an illegal party. After his release from prison, he continued with his communist affairs, and became a senior official within the party. After the invasion of Yugoslavia, he joined Josip Broz Tito and the Communist Party in the underground partisan movement.\\\
A staunch Stalinist and Serb nationalist, Ranković has long advocated for a solid centralized Soviet system overseen by the secret police. Now in charge of the Communist Party, he may very well see his vision go from ideas on paper into laws in practice.[[/labelnote]]

* TokenEvilTeammate: Out of the 3 potential partisan leaders, he is the only one who is unambgiously evil.
* CommieNazis: He is a proponent of a centralised planned economy, but he is also a Serbian supermacist and isolationist.

!!''Milovan Đilas''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader
->'''Party:''' Savez Reformskih Snaga Jugoslavije[[note]]League of Reform Forces of Yugoslavia[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Democratic Socialism[[note]]Socialism[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography:''' [[labelnote:Click to Show]]Born in in Podbišće near Mojkovac on June 4, 1911, Đilas went to Belgrade after completing his undergraduate studies to study philosophy and law, eventually joining the CPY. Tito found out about him later around 1937, and a directive was issued to find Milovan Đilas and bring him to organize the sending of volunteers to Spain during its civil war. At the beginning of the Second World War, Dilas was sent to his native Montenegro, where an uprising was to take place but famously failed.\\\
Dilas' ideology varies far from Tito's and is in conflict with anything in the hardline communist camp. A self-proclaimed democratic socialist, he has been considered by many to be the true reformist voice within the party. Something that he now wishes to bring to the new Republic.[[/labelnote]]

* ChummyCommies: Đilas want to transform Yugoslavia into a democracy while staying true to principes of socialism.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Montenegro]]
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->'''Official:''' Kingdom of Montenegro, Governorate of Montenegro (Nazi Germany puppet state), Ordensstaat Montenegro[[labelnote:Tr.]]Order-State of Montenegro[[/labelnote]] (SS puppet state)

!!''Marija I''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mnt_maria_francesca.png]]
->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Italy puppet state)
->'''Party:''' House of Petrović-Njegoš-Savoy
->'''Ideology:''' Monarchism[[note]]Paternal Autocracy[[/note]]

!!''Johann Fortner''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/johann_fortner.png]]
->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Nazi Germany puppet state)

!!''Heinrich Fehlis''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/heinrich_fehlis.png]]
->'''Role:''' Country Leader (SS puppet state)

[[/folder]]

! Bulgaria
[[folder:Tsardom of Bulgaria]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bulgaria_flag.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Flag of the State of Bulgaria]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/state_of_bulgaria.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Flag of the People's Republic of Bulgaria]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pr_bulgaria.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Flag of the State of Democratic People's Republic of Bulgaria]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dprb.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Official Name:''' Tsardom of Bulgaria, State of Bulgaria (Belev), People's Republic of Bulgaria (Socialist/Communist), Democratic People's Republic of Bulgaria (Communist victory in Bulgarian Civil War)
-->'''Puppet State:''' Social State of Bulgaria (Croatia), Ordensstaat Bulgarien[[labelnote:Tr.]]Order-State of Bulgaria[[/labelnote]] (SS)
->'''Ruling Party:''' Suyuz na Bulgarskite Natsionalisti i Fashisti - Fashistka[[note]]Union of Bulgarian Nationalists and Fascists - Fascist[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Fascism

!!''Hristo Lukov''
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->'''Role:''' Prime Minister[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]], "Vozhd/Vodach"
->'''Party:''' Sŭyuz na Bŭlgarskite Natsionalisti i Fashisti - Fashistka[[note]]Union of Bulgarian Nationalists and Fascists - Fascist[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Fascism
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]]Long-time leader of the pro-Axis Union of Bulgarian National Legions, Hristo Lukov rules as Bulgaria's Prime Minister and de facto dictator. A notorious fascist, Lukov rose through the ranks of the Bulgarian army, eventually being appointed as Prime Minister by Prince Kyril under pressure from Berlin and Rome soon after the mysterious death of Tsar Boris. Now after almost a decade in power, his official superior, the regent Kyril, is little more than a puppet, and Lukov continues to gain ever more power and pursue an authoritarian, nationalist, anti-semitic and pro-Axis agenda as Bulgaria's supreme leader.[[/labelnote]]

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Lukov dies just under a year after game start.

!!''Kiril Preslavski''
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->'''Role:''' Regent[[note]]Figurehead[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]]Prince Kiril of Preslav is the second son of the late Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, and serves as Bulgaria's current regent of the underage Tsar Simeon II. Among the population, he is generally not well regarded.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Simeon II''
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->'''Role:''' Monarch[[note]]Figurehead[[/note]]

!!''Marie I''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maria_i.png]]
->'''Role:''' Monarch[[note]]Figurehead[[/note]]

!!''Ivan Mihailov''
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->'''Role:''' Prime Minister[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Lukov succession)
->'''Party:''' Sŭyuz na Bŭlgarskite Natsionalisti i Fashisti - Fashistka[[note]]Union of Bulgarian Nationalists and Fascists - Fascist[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Fascism
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]]Ivan Mihailov's career reads like a travelogue of the Balkans: where the Bulgarian Nationalist Movement stayed in the confines of home territory, Mihailov's best work has been elsewhere in the Balkans, furthering national interests by means which would generally be considered a form of state terror. His domestic popularity boosted by his foreign endeavours and Long career, Ivan now sits at the top of the Bulgarian nation. A terrorist he might have been, but it cannot be denied that his methods have been effective - and Mihailov is as capable of waging peace as he is at waging war.\\\
Mihailov's life is intertwined with the Organization he helped found, IMRO; the latter left a trail of murder and carnage across Macedonia and Serbia in the 1920s and 1930s, with the former working in the shadows to clean up the bloodwork. Kings, ministers, diplomats, and common people fell in the hundreds and thousands in the interests of the Bulgarian nation and the preservation of its people. Some of those casualties came from internal factions opposed to Mihailov's presence. After IMRO ceased operations Ivan moved from Turkey to Macedonia and back again, eventually settling in the Ohrana militia and political movement.\\\
Mihailov split from the Ohrana in 1945 (he remains friends with its leadership, including Kalchev), but his years in the movement have taught him a valuable lesson. Fascism is vital, but its divisiveness also makes it vulnerable - to survive, Mikhailov believes, the Bulgarian state must reform along pre-determined lines. Paramount to this reform is the security of the Balkans, and so the man known as the Ambassador Of Knives has unveiled a final plan for the region around him, to gather the gamer Balkans in a tight embrace around Sofia as the core rebuilds itself. Resettlement, economic reorganisation, rebirth. No one can claim Mihailov is not ruthless, but no one can deny the size of his dreams.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Andon Kalchev''
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->'''Role:''' Prime Minister[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Lukov succession)
->'''Party:''' Sŭyuz na Bŭlgarskite Natsionalisti i Fashisti - Fashistka[[note]]Union of Bulgarian Nationalists and Fascists - Fascist[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Fascism
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]]Andon Kalchev has been accused of letting his acquaintances define his existence, a claim he fights at every turn: by far the most controversial acquaintance of his has been his collaboration with Italy and his increasingly dogged assertion that Italian fascism fits Bulgaria like a glove. Whether this s assertion is true or false, it is undeniable that Kalchev is on very good terms with the neighbour across the Adriatic, and that his militias and government are increasingly defined by Italian advisors and training. Only a fool would ignore friends of the powerful - especially friends in powerful places themselves. And Andon now has the highest place in Bulgaria.\\\
A product of the diaspora of the Bulgarians across the Balkan states, the Bulgarian-by-blood returned to his homeland in the wake of Greek persecution. He quickly established himself as a leading military officer of considerable promise in the 1940s, leading military assistance ventures in collaboration with Italian and German forces in Greece and Bulgarization efforts in Bulgaria-occupied territories to be integrated into the new state. His mixed successes leading anti-Jewish cleanups in the Ohrana he helped found only led him to a position of greater reliance on the Italians for aid, advice and military backup, a connection that both parties have maintained over the postbellum years.\\\
Kalchev plans for a great modernization, a state-led reform of local industry a slow assimilation of periphery peoples into the State after the Italian model - but most ambitious of all is his plan to turn Bulgaria into a true Jewel of the Balkans through a massive increase in service-industry infrastructure. Most of the visitors he plans to attract will be Italian, which only adds to the suspicion of his critics. Even so, Kalchev is determined that his plans will work, and that Italian friendship can only benefit Bulgaria. After all, it's not like Italy will ever falter in its current strengths...[[/labelnote]]
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!!''Alexander Belev''
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->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Lukov succession)
->'''Party:''' Sŭyuz na Bŭlgarskite Natsionalisti i Fashisti - Natsional Sotsialisticheska[[note]]Union of Bulgarian Nationalists and Fascists - National Socialist[[/note]]

->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]]Even in the halls of the UBNF Alexander Belev is a controversial figure: they call him a collaborator-in-training, a German half-breed, even a double-agent in service to the Hitlerites. Belev has always shrugged these complaints off in public, but it is certainly uncanny how his enemies and his methods of disposing of said enemies invariably seem to coincide with those of the Germans. Nevertheless, Belev has managed to work his way to the highest office in Bulgaria, and radical plans have been unveiled to reform the blood and soil of Bulgaria.\\\
Belev, born to an Italian Dalmatian, was dogged by accusations of Jewish ancestry in his youth: his entire life has been an extended struggle again this accusation, and like most Fascists Belev is adept at defining himself in violent opposition to what he is not. In the Ministry of the Interior, Belev studied under Petra Grabowski, the pre-eminent Anti-Semite of the Bulgarian cabinet. In 1941 he began plans to introduce the Nuremberg Laws into Bulgaria, becoming a member of the SS in the process for his swift action in pushing it through the legislative chambers. He also leads the Ratniks, an organisation that has grown to a position of power and suspicion through their loyalty to the Orthodox Church and hatred of Jews.\\\
Belev now believes that the Bulgarians are descended from Aryan intermarriage with the Southern Slavs, a marriage of Aryan racial superiority with the strength and solidarity of the Slavic people. He intends to preserve this ethnic blend through additional laws imposed on minorities, but by far his most innovative theories have concerned the Ukrainians, who are apparently descended from the same root stock as the Bulgarian people. If only language and tradition keeps a people apart, then the solution must be to destroy the barrier by the sword, to shape the two halves into a single whole by fire and fury - and Belev has no lack of either.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Hristo Kozarov''
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->'''Role:''' Prime Minister[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Post-Lukov military coup/Military coup against Todorov)
->'''Party:''' Kozarov's Military Junta, Voenna Partiya[[note]]Military Party[[/note]] (Façade democracy)
->'''Ideology:''' Military Dictatorship[[note]]Paternal Autocracy[[/note]]

!!''Nikola Mikhov''
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->'''Role:''' Prime Minister[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Oppposition coup)
->'''Party:''' Tsar Loyalist Movement
->'''Ideology:''' Authoritarian Democracy[[note]]Paternal Autocracy[[/note]]
->'''In-Game Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]]A leading light in the upper ranks of the Bulgarian army for a long time, Mikhov kept his opposition to Lukov's fascist regime a well-guarded secret for almost a decade. With economic crisis and subsequent riots gripping the country, Mikhov seizes his chance, persuading the military leadership to step in on the side of the monarchy and overthrow the fascist troublemakers. Now with his coup successful and the fascists removed, Mikhov and his military allies are free to set about repairing the battered nation on the road to democracy.[[/labelnote]]

!!''Konstantin Muraviev''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/konstantin_muraviev.png]]
->'''Role:''' Prime Minister[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Oppposition coup, elections)
->'''Party:''' Balgarski Zemedelski Naroden Sayuz[[note]]Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Paternalistic Conservatism[[note]]Conservatism[[/note]]

!!''Ivan Bagrianov''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ivan_bagrianov.png]]
->'''Role:''' Prime Minister[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Oppposition coup, elections)
->'''Party:''' Partiya za Svobodna Bulgariya[[note]]Party of Free Bulgaria[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' National Liberalism[[note]]Liberalism[[/note]]

!!''Vladimir Stoychev''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vladimir_stoychev.png]]
->'''Role:''' Prime Minister[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]] (Oppposition coup, elections)
->'''Party:''' Partiya Bulgarski Sotsialdemokrati[[note]]Bulgarian Social Democratic Party[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Social Democracy

!!''Violeta Yakova''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/violeta_yakova.png]]
->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Oppposition coup, elections)
->'''Party:''' Obedinena Sotsialisticheska Partiya na Bulgariya[[note]]United Socialist Party of Bulgaria[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Radical Socialism[[note]]Socialism[[/note]]

!!''Stanko Todorov''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stanko_todorov.png]]
->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Oppposition coup, elections)
->'''Party:''' Obedinena Sotsialisticheska Partiya na Bulgariya[[note]]United Socialist Party of Bulgaria[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Marxism-Leninism-Kalininism[[note]]Revolutionary Communism[[/note]]

!!''Vela Peeva''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vela_peeva.png]]
->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Post-Civil War election)
->'''Party:''' Obedinena Sotsialisticheska Partiya na Bulgariya[[note]]United Socialist Party of Bulgaria[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Council Communism[[note]]Revolutionary Communism[[/note]]

!!''Ivan Bashev''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ivan_bashev.png]]
->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Post-Civil War election)
->'''Party:''' Obedinena Sotsialisticheska Partiya na Bulgariya[[note]]United Socialist Party of Bulgaria[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Marxism-Leninism

!!''Stijepo Perić''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/portrait_stijepo_peric.png]]
->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Croatia puppet state)
->'''Party:''' Ustaška Administracija Bugarske[[note]]Ustasha Administration of Bulgaria[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Ultranationalism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]]
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!!''Fritz Weitzel''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fritz_weitzel.png]]
->'''Role:''' Country Leader (SS puppet state)
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!!''Ivan Gorunia''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ivan_gorunia_1.png]]
->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Communist puppet state)
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[[folder:Macedonia]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/state_of_macedonia.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Flag of the State of Macedonia]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Flag of the Macedonian State]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/macedonian_state.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Flag of the People's Democratic Republic of Macedonia]] [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/peoples_democratic_republic_of_macedonia.png]][[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Flag of the Reorganized North Macedonian State]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/reorganized_north_macedonian_state.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Flag of the Military Administration in Macedonia]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/military_admin_in_macedonia.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Official Name:''' State of Macedonia, Macedonian State (Macedonian Revolution), Democratic Republic of Macedonia (Democratic Republic), People's Democratic Republic of Macedonia (Socialist Republic)
-->'''Puppet State:''' Reorganized North Macedonian State (Reorganized Greece), Military Administration in Macedonia (Nazi Germany), Ordensstaat Mazedonien[[labelnote:Tr.]]Order-State of Macedonia[[/labelnote]] (SS)
%%->'''Ruling Party:'''
->'''Ideology:''' Military Dictatorship[[note]]Paternal Autocracy[[/note]]
Macedonia will declare independence and neutrality if the Bulgarian Civil War breaks out.

!!''Vasil Tenev Boydev''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vasil_tenev_boydev.png]]
->'''Role:''' Governor-General of Macedonia[[note]]Country Leader[[/note]]
%%->'''Party:'''
->'''Ideology:''' Military Dictatorship[[note]]Paternal Autocracy[[/note]]

!!''Dimitar Gyuzelov''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dimitar_chkatrov.png]]
->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Conclave of Bitola, Democratic Republic)
%%->'''Party:'''
->'''Ideology:''' Traditionalist Conservatism[[note]]Conservatism[[/note]]

!!''Metodija Andonov-Čento''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/metodija_andonov.png]]
->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Conclave of Bitola, Socialist Republic)
%%->'''Party:'''
->'''Ideology:''' Marxism-Leninism

!!''Günther Anhalt''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gunther_anhalt.png]]
->'''Role:''' Country Leader (Reorganized Greece/Nazi Germany puppet state)
->'''Party:''' Arievsko Grčko-Makedonska Partija[[note]]Aryan Party of Greco-Macedons[[/note]] (Reorganized Greece puppet state)
->'''Ideology:''' Ultranationalism[[note]]National Socialism[[/note]] (Reorganized Greece puppet state)

!!''Otto Wächter''
[[quoteright:156:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/otto_wachter.png]]
->'''Role:''' Country Leader (SS puppet state)

[[/folder]]

! Greece
[[folder:Hellenic State]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/flag_of_greece_1822_1978.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Flag of the Reorganised Hellenic State]] [[quoteright:350: https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sb_greece.png]][[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Flag of the Kingdom of Greece]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kingdom_greece.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Official Name:''' Hellenic State, Reorganised Hellenic State (Bourantas), Kingdom of Greece (Democratic/Military coup), Greek Democratic Republic (Socialist), Greece (Anarchy)
-->'''Puppet State:''' Italian Governorate of Greece (Italy), Military Administration of Greece (Croatia), Protectorate of Greece (Nazi Germany/SS)
->'''Ruling Party:''' Ellinikí Kyvérnisi Enótitas[[note]]Greek Unitary Government[[/note]]