History FanFic / AYoungWomansPoliticalRecord

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Well, not quite 100% but Tanya manages to get as close to this as realistically possible for a politician.

* AuthorityGrantsAsskicking: Tanya is Germania's Chancellor and also their best aerial mage who has no qualms with fighting at the front line if needed.

* ResurgentEmpire: How the rest of Europa view the establishment of the Central European Treaty Organization, or OZEV (Germanian: Organisation des Zentraleuropäischen Vertrags) as it is the former Imperial states, minus Lothiern, plus Dacia in a comprehensive and integrated military alliance centered around Germania. Building on top of the commercial, industrial and limited military links Tanya's forged with the states involved, it is functionally a restoration of the Kaiserreich.

* PetTheDog: Despite the animosity between their countries, Francois President Pierre-Michel de Lugo tries to assure Tanya, who after failing to convince the other nations to intervene in the Ildoan Civil War to help the elected government against Benedetto Muzzioli's faction, that Muzzioli might not invade and moderate himself just like Tanya did, and even offers Germania to host the World Cup. Tanya naturally [[OneDialogueTwoConversations assumes he is mocking her]].

* OpenSecret: It is known that the civilian uprising story is totally bunk and that it was Tanya and the 203rd that destroyed the occupying Francois forces in Duisbusch.

* MotiveMisidentification: Soon after Tanya responds to the war being declared by Ildoa, Francois, Yugoslavia, and the Russy, a courier delivers the film reel of her speech to the Unified States. Rosenvelt and Morrow watch it, and feeling something's odd, they replay it with all sound muted. They decide Tanya looks positively ''giddy'' and wonder how long she has wanted to go back to the war. In reality, Tanya ''despises'' war, and the only reason she felt so giddy was because [[spoiler: she finally was snapped out of her ObliviousToLove state and forced to realize that yes, she does reciprocate Visha's feelings]].

* IntrepidReporter: Tanya mistakes Millicent Caldwell for this, and inadvertently turns her into a real one. Originally, her task was only to write bit pieces on Germania's preparations for the World Cup for Unified States newspapers, showing what kind of nation Germania had become. One of her reports attracts Tanya's attention. She decides to give her an exclusive interview, the very first one that Tanya has ever granted to a journalist, jumpstarting Millicent's reputation for even getting the chance to do so. Millie enjoys what she thinks would be a brief success back at the Unified States and traveled to Parisee to continue her original mission... where she catches a second exclusive by interviewing Tanya at her triumphant entrance to the Francois capital. And then, while visiting Berun for a second time, she is directed to Legadonia and a third exclusive interview, all but cementing her as Tanya's apparent favorite journalist.

* ImplausibleDeniability: The Francois government tries to argue that the photographs of their soldiers beating, raping, and murdering civilians isn't as bad as it seems or that the presence of a someone to photograph said scenes proves there's more going on. Though they never deny those events are happening.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Tanya finds that she understands the reasoning behind the Francois' declaration of war on the Empire, given they shared a border, that before the Great War the Empire was the one of the strongest among Great Powers, and that had the Empire won the Great War, they would have become the absolute power on the continent. The Republic declared war in fear of the shifting balance of power, and while the Empire wasn't responsible for starting the Great War, much of the military leadership stumbled when they forgot their [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz Clausewitz]], i.e. that war is not purely an exercise in logic and emotions played a great part in the Empire becoming the "evil Empire" of Europe. The Empire, however, did little more than retaliate against unprovoked attacks and, though they did use the opportunity to expand their territory and influence, never overstepped their bounds by international law.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Tanya is Germania's Chancellor and also their best aerial mage who has no qualms with fighting at the front line if needed.

''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/a-young-womans-political-record-youjo-senki-saga-of-tanya-the-evil.660569/ A Young Woman's Political Record]]'' by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2675402/ jacobk]] is a ''LightNovel/SagaOfTanyaTheEvil'' fanfiction that deals with what would have happened if the Germanian Empire lost the war and was subjected to a ruinous peace treaty, closely mirroring the aftermath of post-World War I Germany.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Despite her best efforts, warning the Imperial High Command to refuse the armistice and crush the remaining Francois forces failed because even if she is a war hero, Tanya was only a Major, so she didn't have the political power to influence such a grand strategic decision.
** The totally-unwarranted atrocities committed by the Francois army during what is supposed to be a occupation of Rhine to recover its treaty reparations end up destroying the reputation of the Republic in the eyes of the international community. Shortly after Tanya's forces rout their army, the current Francois president and his entire administration collapse from the political/social backlash as the nation of Francois learns what its army did to unarmed Germanian citizens; even if they hate Germania, slaughtering and raping innocent civilians is abhorrent.
** Most nations won't interfere in other nation's matters if it is not in their best interest to do so, and vice-versa.
** Dr. Schugel is an absolutely brilliant scientist, but his [[NoOSHACompliance blatant disregard for safety features]] means all of his inventions have to be seriously overhauled before they're ready for mass production.

* AllPowerfulBystander: Tanya sees the Allied kingdom and the Unified States as these, powerful countries who can easily end any continental conflicts in whichever direction they please should they be bothered to, and she takes great pains to avoid drawing their ire and attempts to redirect it at her country's foes. However the Albish and American perspectives make it clear that they're nowhere as strong as Tanya imagines them to be and suffer from their share of internal problems as well.

** Tanya provokes the Francois with an eye towards being removed from power in exchange for a comfortable and safe exile. The other Great Powers backstab the Republic and basically tear up most of the Treaty of Triano, essentially ''to appease her''. Notably, this was a major plank in Tanya's (thought to be impossible to achieve) party platform.

* CombatPragmatist: Tanya has the attitude that honor has no place in war given what she's been through. It's best shown when fighting against the Francois' 32nd Corps: Tanya and the 203rd mages destroy all enemy tanks, plane, artillery, and air mages on an ambush in the middle of the night in an attack so devastating that the Republic Army broke and surrendered right after.

** Insulting the People's Car turns out to be one for ambassador Weber. When Tanya remarks that they pay him enough to buy something better, he goes on a several minute rant extolling its virtues.

* RealityEnsues:
** Despite her best efforts, warning the Imperial High Command to refuse the armistice and crush the remaining Francois forces failed because even if she is a war hero, Tanya was only a Major, so she didn't have the political power to influence such a grand strategic decision.
** The totally-unwarranted atrocities committed by the Francois army during what is supposed to be a occupation of Rhine to recover its treaty reparations end up destroying the reputation of the Republic in the eyes of the international community. Shortly after Tanya's forces rout their army, the current Francois president and his entire administration collapse from the political/social backlash as the nation of Francois learns what its army did to unarmed Germanian citizens; even if they hate Germania, slaughtering and raping innocent civilians is abhorrent.
** Most nations won't interfere in other nation's matters if it is not in their best interest to do so, and vice-versa.
** Dr. Schugel is an absolutely brilliant scientist, but his [[NoOSHACompliance blatant disregard for safety features]] means all of his inventions have to be seriously overhauled before they're ready for mass production.

* StealthPun: Tanya has Germania declare bankruptcy over its war debts and failing economy in Chapter 11.

%% * StealthPun: Tanya has Germania declare bankruptcy over its war debts and failing economy in Chapter 11.

** After a series of deaths, accidents and misfortune for the leaders of the Germania Communist Party, many members decide to quit the party and either leave the country or join the Germania Workers Party due to the latter's success and popularity.

** Elya's employment is this on Tanya's part thanks to miscommunication between the two. Tanya assumes that she's hired Elya for secretarial work and to conduct polling operations, but Elya assumes that the famed military genius Tanya has hired her for her intelligence background and quickly sets up an unofficial intelligence apparatus and secret police under the guise of "polling operations". Both events listed under ThePurge happen with Tanya unknowingly ordering them.

* QuantityVsQuality: Tanya has Germania's aerial mages trained to her high standards and thus has fewer mages on the outset of the Ildoan conflict. Francois, having lost a good number of mages in both the Great War and in the Occupation of the Ruhr, opts to supplement their forces with magic-capable colonial troops. The problem is that these troops not only lack training - their math skills (a key part of orb magic) are horrendously deficient, leaving them able to fly a bit, but not much more; to a Germanian force, they're little more than targets. Despite outnumbering their Germanian counterparts at least 4-to-1, when they face off at the North Ildoan-Carinthian border, a Francois aerial mage force is completely wiped out with no mention of any casualties inflicted on the Germanian defenders.

** Despite her best efforts to warn the Imperial High Command to refuse the armistice and crush the remaining Francois forces failed because even if she is a war hero, Tanya was only a Major, so she didn't have the political power to influence such a grand strategic decision.
** The atrocities committed by the Francois army during their occupation of Rhine end up ends up destroying the reputation of the Republic in the eyes of international community. Shortly after Tanya's forces rout their army, the current Francois president and his entire administration collapse.

* RedShirtArmy: The Francois aerial mages due to most of them being colonials who don't have the solid mathematics background needed for magical combat. When Tanya learns of this, she refers to them as a bunch of practice targets.

** After a series of deaths, accidents and misfortune for the leaders of the Germania Communist Party, many members decide to quit the party and either leave the country or join the Germania Workers Party due to the latters success and popularity.

** Tanya never quite grasps the image she projects. Rather than someone who's fickle or a liar that doesn't uphold her campaign promises, she's seen as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who does more to enrich Germania and its people than any other politician.
** She also has a tendency to view things from a 21st century perspective. Tanya will worry that Germania will be seen as quaint or backwards when it's actually praised for how progressive and modern it is. Particularly, the towns for the various World Cup stadiums are put up at a pace compared to shanty towns in the Unified States. Tanya sees the comparison as insulting the quality of the towns while everyone else realizes how amazing it is to build actual towns at the speed most countries would only manage shacks. This also shows in her consideration for Millicent Caldwell's articles during the World Cup, believing that her glowing reports on Germania's economic miracle and development are satire meant to mock Germania.
* SeriousBusiness: Apparently, trying to pin down Tanya's accent has cause at least one fist fight among Albion's linguistic experts.
* ShipTease: Boatloads between Tanya and Visha. It gets nods every now and then, mostly when the former notices that the latter is engaged in what would normally be considered wifely duties. Even the cast has picked up on it, what with Neumann fearfully looking towards Visha's room when Tanya makes an offhand joke about how they should pretend to be engaged before going KingIncognito.

* ShutUpKiss: Visha plants one on Tanya, breaking her out of a HeroicBSOD and her stubborn ObliviousToLove attitude.
* SmoochOfVictory: Tanya opens her announcement that [[spoiler:the Russy government has fallen, ending the war]] by kissing Visha in front of her entire cabinet.
* SpringtimeForHitler: Pretty much the whole story to this point. Tanya tends to fail upwards, fail at failing, or her actions have unexpected consequences that work entirely to her benefit.
** She joins a minor political party for a cushy job as a party functionary. She ends up as Chancellor.
** Tanya provokes the Francois with an eye towards being removed from power in exchange for a comfortable exile. The other Great Powers backstab the Republic and basically tear up most of the Treaty of Triano. Notably, this was a major plank in Tanya's (thought to be impossible to achieve) party platform.
** Tanya seeks to get voted out of office peacefully before the problems of post-War Germany can rear their ugly head. She starts a government enterprise to splinter her own ruling coalition (which contain radical Free Market Capitalists). She puts a man to work designing a cheap car for the masses, thinking it would be a marginal profit – instead, he creates the Volkswagen Beetle, one of the most successful cars of all time.
*** She also pushes some financial regulations she believes will be unpopular in the Diet, but which all but ensure that Germania will withstand the Great Depression.
** Tanya's trip to America has her making hefty demands in exchange for sharing computation orb technology in her continued bid to get removed from power. What she gets is (1) an opportunity to demonstrate the superiority of Germanian aerial mages, (2) support for Imperial reunification (starting with Osterry, at the same time wiping away the debts ''they'' have with the US), and (3) the foundations for a military alliance. All it cost her was sharing admittedly potent but already outdated orb tech.

* StealthPun: Tanya has Germania declare bankruptcy over its war debts and failing economy in Chapter 11.

** In chapter 21 Tanya muses how she can prevent a Great War as long as she maintains mostly reasonable policies as it had taken a ridiculuous level of constantly escalating provocations to start UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo in her previous world. By the next paragraph, the Pullskan ambassador's suggesting reunification between Pullska and Germania to Tanya.

* ThinkNothingOfIt: After [[spoiler:conquering Francois in only two weeks]], Tanya tries to insist it was nothing special or terribly noteworthy. Everyone else is awestruck and/or horrified by such an accomplishment.
* TookALevelInKindness: Tanya is clearly no longer TheSociopath by the start of this fic. It's gotten to the point that it is arguable she no longer qualifies for being a VillainProtagonist, showing genuine care toward the people of Germania, even if she keeps rationalizing her reasons.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: [[HeroicSelfDeprecation Tanya severely underestimates her political strength.]] Understandable, when she's just starting out, but it gets ridiculous when, by the time the Treaty of Londinium is signed, she's imagining that her hold on power is strong following her victory but ultimately fragile enough for her to break, when she actually has total political domination.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Germania and Francois are both saddled with this. For example while Germania bemoans the Carinthians for killing a diplomatic envoy and actively provocating Ildoa, The Francois were bemoaning the Ildoans for declaring a war they only half-prepared for.
* WorldsBestWarrior: Tanya is agreed upon by both Germanian and foreign mage officers to be the absolute gold standard of aerial mage combat. One such officer claims that if you're within a kilometer of Tanya, you'll die the moment you lose sight of her; if you're within a hundred meters, you're already dead.

** The Francois Republic decide to supplement their depleted aerial mage forces with colonial mages. Magical combat in this setting requires a solid grasp of mathematics, innate magical talent, and considerable support to maximize its effectiveness: colonials are lucky to be taught multiplication (usually only knowing addition and subtraction), barely have enough magic to work a Computation Jewel since the Francois are just padding their numbers with whoever they find, and are given barely adequate equipment for the role (they can hover at worst and ''slowly'' fly at best). As a result they're {{mooks}} at best, and the Francois mages don't even bother coordinating in combat with their colonial "inferiors", deliberately using the colonial mages as [[BulletproofHumanShield bullet sponges]].

* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: A group of Akitsushima generals offers to commit {{Seppuku}} to the Emperor for their recent failures against the Rus in Manchuria, believing the Emperor will forgive them, letting them save face and giving the military hardliners support within the government. Unfortunately, the Emperor knows what the generals' real plans are, and having enough of the war, accepts their offer of seppuku, much to their shock. They are forced to resign in shame after refusing to kill themselves, damaging the reputation of the hardliners, allowing the Emperor to dissolve the government and replace them with moderates who oppose the war.
* HopeBringer: Tanya has very much become this to Germania, literally giving hope back to the citizens. After the Great War, most people had sunk into despair what with the fall of the Empire, the economy in shambles, losing a number of its territories. This all changes when Tanya comes into power and turns things around.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: After the Treaty of Triano, Tanya is homeless and jobless. Due to the fact that Tanya is still legally a child, she returns to her orphanage for shelter.
* HypocriticalHumor: Rather common when Tanya is involved. For example, Tanya heavily favors an intervention in Ildoa's civil war because Muzzioli has all but promised to invade Germania should he succeed and she takes it for granted that he would definitely follow through, apparently forgetting that she herself had used the exact same rhetoric in the past to the chagrin of her neighbors. When the Francois President not-so-subtly compares Muzzioli to Tanya, it flies straight over her head and she thinks he was talking about some Francois historical figures instead.

* IconicOutfit: Tanya started out wearing simple white dresses provided to her by the orphanage and her military jacket on top. She keeps the look well into her career because it's become very iconic, so iconic that she mentions in an interview that she couldn't hold speeches in a different outfit as people wouldn't recognize her and would demand "the girl in the dress". This same outfit shows up on angelic statuettes going around Germania's more rural areas.
* IgnoranceIsBliss: Tanya decides to have Elya stop local polling operations specifically so she doesn't see her approval ratings until the very last minute. All well and good since she's trying to get herself removed from office, but she barely understands just how popular she is already.
** Elya's employment is this on Tanya's part thanks to miscommunication between the two. Tanya assumes that she's hired Elya for secretarial work and to conduct polling operations, but Elya assumes that Tanya hired her for her intelligence background and quickly sets up an unofficial intelligence apparatus and secret police under the guise of "polling operations". Both events listed under ThePurge happen with Tanya unknowingly ordering them.
* TheIlluminati: Elya creates a version that thinks they're an ancient order meant to prop up the Albion empire and fight off its shadowy enemies, not realizing they're actually a tool of Germanian intelligence gathering.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Ian Flemons's superiors recall him from the Caribbean on the basis that being a mage would give him insight into Tanya's character. Flemons privately lampshades how absurd such reasoning is.
* IntrepidReporter: Tanya mistakes Millicent Caldwell for this, and inadvertently turns her into a real one. Originally, her task was only to write bit pieces on Germania's preparations for the World Cup for Unified States newspapers, showing what kind of nation Germania had become. One of her reports attracted Tanya's attention. She decided to give her an exclusive interview, starting her reputation. Millie enjoyed what she thought would be a brief success back at the Unified States and traveled to Parisee to continue her original mission... where she caught a second exclusive by interviewing Tanya at her triumphant entrance. And then, while visiting Berun for a second time, she was directed to Legadonia and a third exclusive interview, all but cementing her as Tanya's apparent favorite journalist.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Tanya easily comes off as an abrasive firebrand, especially to her enemies, but anyone who bothers to look into what she says tends to find either a point or a hidden meaning to her words.

* LandslideElection: After she renegotiates the Treaty of Triano, saves the economy, ousts the communists, dramatically improves the Germanian international standing and much more, Tanya receives 70% votes on her re-election, meaning she and the Germanian Workers Party have total political domination; her people note she can basically run the country any way she wants. Note that she achieved this despite putting no effort whatsoever into campaigning.
* LivingLegend: Tanya starts the story as the world (in)famous Argent Silver/Devil of the Rhine. In the political field, she very quickly rises to power, saves Germania from economic ruin and makes good on her campaign promise to end the Treaty of Triano, while also getting a favorable deal from the rest of the Allied Powers that basically leaves the Francois in the dirt. POV sections from other Germanians has her described in near-mythical terms.

** She joins the Germanian Workers' Party because it's illegal for her to be directly employed by the government, but there's nothing that says she can't join a political party.

* MagikarpPower: Civilian computing orbs have many limits, the main one being that it can't process too much magic, but mastering it requires a great deal of finesse, which can help a mage develop efficient spellcasting and even allow themselves to cast magic undetected.

* MarsAndVenusGenderContrast: Tanya, [[ObliviousToLove watching Visha's odd behavior]], muses that even twenty-four years after her reincarnation, she ''still'' doesn't get women.

* MisBlamed: InUniverse, Tanya has a marked tendency to blame Being X for whatever's going wrong, though it's made abundantly clear that it's always a logical though not obvious consequence of her own machinations.

** Tanya overestimates the quality of US aerial mage training and technology. She starts off thinking that the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Angels Blue Angels]] and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Thunderbirds Thunderbirds]] are college sports teams that she'd maybe rank as on par with above average Germanian recruits and is never corrected. She also expects them to bust out a super computation orb leagues ahead of the Type 97 and leaves without learning that they don't actually have anything that comes close.
** When Elya's agents uncover a backwards and underfunded Francois orb research facility, Tanya immediately assumes that it's a decoy. She seems to have underestimated how much she and the 203rd depleted their mage population and the effects of the recent upheavals in the country.
** Tanya assumes that Millicent Caldwell, a daughter of old money she's given an interview to, is a master negotiator and reporter. She's actually a star-struck fan having an adventure in Germania, while admittedly making the most of the journalistic opportunities, and the only one running circles around Tanya in the interview is herself.

* TheMole: Russy infiltration runs deep in the Unified States and Allied Kingdoms. As this was a period before most paid much attention to communism, only Tanya took them seriously and her peers believe her to be overreacting. [[spoiler:This turns out to be a problem when the Rus manage to acquire dual-orb technology this way and Elya's spies mention that the Albish electronic code breakers have been compromised.]]

* MotiveMisidentification: Soon after Tanya responds to the war being declared by Ildoa, Francois, Yugoslavia, and the Russy, a courier delivers the film reel of her speech to the Unified States. Rosenvelt and Morrow watch it, and feeling something's odd, they replay it with all sound muted. They decide Tanya looks positively ''giddy'' and wonder how long she has wanted to go back to the war. In reality, Tanya ''despises'' war, and the only reason she felt so giddy was because she finally was snapped out of her ObliviousToLove state and forced to realize that yes, she does reciprocate Visha's feelings.

** Sergeant Georg Eschenbach is only C Class when it comes to magical ability, making him unable to become an aerial mage. But once stealth casting becomes widespread in Germania's military, his ability to enhance his reflexes and use tracking spells make him a godsend for his infantry unit, such as being able to land shots at twice his panzerfaust's effective range.

** Tanya's actions to restore the national economy by defaulting their reparation payment to the Republic and using those resources to fix Germania ends up causing the Republic to invade and occupy the Rhine territory. Tanya expected some level of rebuke that she hoped she could use to both get negotiated settlement conditions and to get herself booted from office but did not expect them to invade as their first option, especially with the current political climate.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The Francois invade the Rhine Industrial Area to take from Germania what they are unwilling to pay in reparations. The only thing they gained was a bit of loot and a severely damaged international reputation. To cap it off, the occupation ends after Tanya wipes out their commanders, artillery, mages, and most of their materiel in an ambush. It also gives her the excuse to renegotiate the Treaty of Triano, voiding the reparation debt.
* ObliviousToLove: Tanya is unaware that Visha is in love with her and seems to think at first she's in love with Elya, staying in the dark until Visha kisses her to snap her out of a HeroicBSOD in Chapter 39. After taking a moment to reassess Germania's position in the new war, Tanya quietly promises Visha that they can sort out their feelings for each other when the war has ended.

** Elya also finds some letters to Tanya from military manufacturers, using words like "touring facilities" or "discussing the future of the nation" to hide that they really want to hire her to be a lobbyist for them but Tanya declined them because she simply didn't know that they were actual job offers. Elya assumes she did so as part of an intricate plan to take control of Germania and lead it to glory.

** Notably, majority of Tanya's various conversations with Lehrgen consist of mostly innocuous remarks on Tanya's part that could (and did) sound very ominous to Lehrgen.
* OnlySaneMan: Lehrgen considers himself to be this, and Tanya to be a terrifying warmonger. Tanya, in turn, considers herself to be this, and feels apologetic more than once for having to restrain Lehrgen's (nonexistent) plans for aggressive actions.

** When Tanya and her men capture Parisee, she admits to herself that their image of invulnerability is largely smoke and mirrors. The men are ready for battle if necessary, but are tired and have only so much ammunition. The tanks and trucks however all need serious maintenence before combat and some might not be capable of driving any significant distance. While Tanya's forces would win against any number of Pariseeans, it'd be a long and messy battle that Germania can ill afford to deal with while the Russy Union is still in the war.

** Rudersdorf later explains to Tanya how close she was to being sent to the rear echelon position she so wanted, but that it was his and Zettour's respect for her military accomplishments and her apparent desire to stay in the field (as they saw it) that led them to keep sending her into the meatgrinder.

** Albion prides itself on having the best football teams in the world. During their first match at the World Cup, they lose 5-4 and at halftime had been losing ''4-1'', because they were so confident of their victory that they went pub-crawling the night before the game and had to play the game while hung over.

* PsychoSidekick: Humorously, Tanya views Visha as something of this, and jokes she might try to run off to the front lines if another war does break out. Ditto with Lehrgen. Tanya seems genuinely worried that Lehrgen would attempt a coup at times.
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: How Zettour viewed Tanya at the beginning.

** Tanya refuses to speak at President Rudersdorf's funeral as she didn't know him personally enough to feel comfortable and even she refused to stoop so low as to turn his funeral into a political rally.

* TheFamine: The Rus government engineer the equivalent of the Holodomor in Kieva by siphoning out the vast bulk of the region's harvest and heavily restricting how much gets sent back. Tanya uses Millicent Caldwell's reporting of the incident to destroy the possibility of the Unified States selling oil to the Rus after making a big push for the Caucasus oil region.

* ForegoneConclusion: Because Tanya's knowledge from before her reincarnation, she knows how some events will happen, such as the Great Depression and the Cold War, and has been preparing herself and her country to counter them.

* GermanicEfficiency: Germania is quickly becoming this under Tanya's rule due to having the [[BadassCrew 203rd]] training new aerial mages, [[HerrDoktor eccentric scientists]] and Tanya's [[GivingRadioToTheRomans future knowledge]] aiding in R&D, and solid economic theory.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Tanya smacks the Parisee chief of police upside the head when he breaks down crying over Francois's swift defeat by Germania, telling him she lost a war too and it's hardly the end of the world..
* GivingRadioToTheRomans: Tanya notes that she's not in the best time period for this as she's been isekai'd to a time too developed for her to be able to introduce anything that can kick off an industrial revolution or get rich and she's not really knowledgeable of any good future tech that can be developed in her situation.

* ActionPolitician: Tanya personally led the operation against Francois occupation of the Ruhr in secret. Later during the second Great War once again she personally leads the invasion of Francois and joins in the fighting against Rus in Legadonia, this time publicly.

* AllPowerfulBystander: Tanya sees the Allied kingdom and the Unified States as these, powerful countries who can easily end any continental conflicts in whichever direction they please should they be bothered to. However the Albish and American perspectives make it clear that they're nowhere as strong as Tanya imagines them to be and suffer from their share of problems as well.

* AntiClimax: OZEV is spared from having to make more grinding offensives or dropping nukes on any Russy cities when Elya reveals that she had her agents rescue Lev Bronstein[[note]]better known in real history as Leon Trotsky[[/note]] and smuggle him into Moskva, whereupon he kills Jugashvili and incites a revolution before being promptly shot dead by "Albish agents".

* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: Discussed and averted. The previous ruling coalition's solution to the economic crisis facing Germania was to continue printing more money, eventually leaving the Mark so worthless that a loaf of bread cost a trillion Marks.
* AssassinationAttempt: Elya offers to do this to [[spoiler: Benedetto Muzzioli]], but Tanya ultimately refuses out of fear of making him a martyr, and making other countries start attempting these on her.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Germania's incredibly advanced submarines are more than twice as fast as any other in the world and can stay submerged far longer. They're also so dangerous that Tanya considers it a minor miracle the one she was showing off didn't explode during the test.

** Insulting the People's Car turns out to be one for ambassador Weber. When Tanya remarks that they pay him enough to buy something better, he goes on a several minute rant extolling it's virtues.

** Tanya's general reputation is of mourning the end of the war because it meant she couldn't keep fighting.
** Koenig is also a straight example. He takes a wee bit too much pleasure from his job.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Tanya finds that she understands the reasoning behind the Francois' declaration of war on the Empire, given they shared a border, that before the Great War the Empire was the one of the strongest among Great Powers, and that had the Empire won the Great War, they would have become the absolute power on the continent. The Republic declared war in fear of the shifting balance of power, and while the Empire wasn't responsible for starting the Great War, much of the military leadership stumbled when they forgot their [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz Clausewitz]]. The Empire, however, did little more than retaliate against unprovoked attacks and, though they did use the opportunity to expand their territory and influence, never overstepped their bounds by international law.

* CassandraTruth: Tanya is trying to warn the nations of Europa about the danger of the Russy Union but her warnings are dismissed by everyone west of Germania.

* CharacterDevelopment: Tanya is not a sociopath anymore by the time the story start; it's possible that this is because she doesn't have to fight in the front lines anymore.

* {{Cincinnatus}}: Tanya only wanted a cushy job with steady pay and has no interest with power or responsibilities associated with it. Doesn't stop the Germanians from piling more powers to her anyway. At one point they voted Tanya to be the President on top of her Chancellery when she was out of the Capital, knowing she'd likely to refuse had she been present.

* [[invoked]]ConfirmationBias: Tanya tends to give her own opinions more weight than other people's, and she makes a lot of assumptions, sometimes without any sort of confirmation. For example, she interprets most people around her as war maniacs, completely ignoring that they are just ordinary people serving their country. Her own reputation as a war maniac is solidified because of how she plays up the image of a warmonger.
** Another instance is her dislike of the People's Car. For someone used to a modern automobile, the People's Car is frankly terrible - it's just that for people used to what came before it, it's a godsend at every level - ''especially'' at its extremely low price. Every time someone praises the People's Car, Tanya reflexively assumes it's pure sarcasm and tends to AccentuateTheNegative, when in fact it's only her own experience that doesn't let her see the innovative and efficient design.

** Millicent Caldwell's mother, a rich socialite from old money, has negative views about today's women having new work options, believing that they should find [[StayInTheKitchen a man and settle down]]. Not only does she dislike her daughter working as a reporter, she is at first refuses to let her visit Germania as the country is progressive in women's rights and finds it unacceptable that Germania elected a woman as their leader.
** During the World Cup, the French Ambassador takes Visha's hand to kiss it and showering her with praise on her beauty. Tanya makes an excuse to take Visha away after realizing Visha was uncomfortable with what the Ambassador did which by modern standards is sexual harassment and unacceptable and Visha was afraid to complain since women during that time were supposed to accept it or be seen as rude.

** The Francois Republic decided to supplement their aerial mage forces with colonial mages. Magical combat requires a solid grasp of mathematics and colonials are lucky to be taught multiplication, usually only knowing addition and subtraction. As a result, they're {{mooks}} at best.

* DownerBeginning: The story begins after the Empire lost the Great War and slapped with a punitive treaty that leaves Tanya jobless, penniless and homeless. She obliviously rejects obliquely-made job offers and seeks refuge in her old orphanage doing odd jobs until an opportune recruitment offer from a tiny and insignificant political party comes her way.
* DownToTheLastPlay: The World Cup Finals get decided in double-overtime shootouts because Germania's third-string goalie (only starting due to injuries in previous rounds) managed to hold the game to a zero-score tie through regulation and overtime. He only lets a goal through at the very end due to fatigue and dehydration catching up after two hours of getting continually shot at by the overall superior Albish team. Germania wins the shootouts 4-1.

** Tanya has a bit of fondness for the Akitsushima Empire because she was Japanese in her previous life, but she doesn't think too kindly of their imperialist ambitions or their military policies. That said, she covertly sends some advisors to aid them in their fight against the Russy Union in exchange for their aircraft carrier blueprints.

** Tanya refuses to blame Germania's religious and ethnic minorities for the country's woes because they are voting citizens. Instead, she focuses people's ire on the Francois.

* {{Cincinnatus}}: Tanya only wanted a cushy job with steady pay and has no interest with power or responsibilities associated with it. Doesn't stop the Germanians from piling more powers to her anyway. At one point they voted Tanya to be the President on top of her Chancellery when she was out of the Capital, knowing she'd likely to refuse had she been present.

* CombatPragmatist: Tanya has the attitude that honor has no place in war given what she's been through. It's best shown when fighting against the Francois' 32nd Corps: Tanya and the 203rd mages destroy all enemy tanks, plane, artillery, and air mages on an ambush in the middle of the night in an attack so devastating that the Republic Army broke and surrendered right after.