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** Every copy of Kaiserreich is personalized.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Related to the above as a tongue-in-cheek counterargument. Playtesters run through regional wars many times before update releases to ensure a relatively steady percentage of each faction winning in any given playthrough... or that it is just the detractor's "copy" of the game that has that particular nation or faction winning so often, the joke of course being that Kaiserreich is a download-only mod where every "copy" is identical.
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** Every copy of Kaiserreich is personalized.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Related to the above as a tongue-in-cheek counterargument. Playtesters run through regional wars many times before update releases to ensure a relatively steady percentage of each faction winning in any given playthrough... or that it is just the detractor's "copy" of the game that has that particular nation or faction winning so often, the joke of course being that Kaiserreich is a download-only mod where every "copy" is identical.[[/labelnote]]
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* Reich sex[[labelnote:Explaination]]After the Germany rework, Reichskanzler Kurt von Schleicher will enact a Reichsexekution (a compound word of Reich, or Empire; and -exekution, meaning execution) on the state of Brunswick shortly after passing the Enabling Act. Due to the word containing the word "sex", it quickly spawned many memes regarding sexual activity on Schleicher's path, as well as Germany as a whole if the country attempts to intervene in another nation or member state. [[/labelnote]]
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* Reich sex[[labelnote:Explaination]]After the Germany rework, Reichskanzler Kurt von Schleicher will enact a Reichsexekution (a compound word of Reich, or Empire; and -exekution, meaning execution) on the state of Brunswick shortly after passing the Enabling Act. Due to the word containing the word "sex", it quickly spawned many memes regarding sexual activity on Schleicher's path, as well as Germany as a whole if the country attempts to intervene in another nation or member state. [[/labelnote]][[/labelnote]]
* I used to deny that Kaiserreich had a ''*blank*'' bias.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Brought up on occasion when fans see an update that suggests that the [=KR=] developers have a [[CreatorsPet preference]] for a particular nation or faction, when they receive more updates or buffs than their immediate opponents that let them win more often in wars not affected by player intervention. Examples include a long string of updates focused on updating the Reichspakt nations in Eastern Europe and Germany itself with updated mechanics and lore while Russia and the Syndicalist nations wait on the sidelines, constant tweaking of the Chinese warlord nations, and a perceived emphasis on the [=CSA=] winning in the American Civil War. A small rework of the Indian Civil War was subject to this when the Bharatiya Commune's borders were expanded to cover far more ground at game start, seemingly giving the Syndicalist country a major advantage, when in reality moving the borders put them squarely in between the other two Indian factions, ensuring an initial two-on-one civil war that would in fact give the other two factions a more equal chance of winning.[[/labelnote]]
** Every copy of Kaiserreich is personalized.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Related to the above as a tongue-in-cheek counterargument. Playtesters run through regional wars many times before update releases to ensure a relatively steady percentage of each faction winning in any given playthrough... or that it is just the detractor's "copy" of the game that has that particular nation or faction winning so often, the joke of course being that Kaiserreich is a download-only mod where every "copy" is identical.
* I used to deny that Kaiserreich had a ''*blank*'' bias.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Brought up on occasion when fans see an update that suggests that the [=KR=] developers have a [[CreatorsPet preference]] for a particular nation or faction, when they receive more updates or buffs than their immediate opponents that let them win more often in wars not affected by player intervention. Examples include a long string of updates focused on updating the Reichspakt nations in Eastern Europe and Germany itself with updated mechanics and lore while Russia and the Syndicalist nations wait on the sidelines, constant tweaking of the Chinese warlord nations, and a perceived emphasis on the [=CSA=] winning in the American Civil War. A small rework of the Indian Civil War was subject to this when the Bharatiya Commune's borders were expanded to cover far more ground at game start, seemingly giving the Syndicalist country a major advantage, when in reality moving the borders put them squarely in between the other two Indian factions, ensuring an initial two-on-one civil war that would in fact give the other two factions a more equal chance of winning.[[/labelnote]]
** Every copy of Kaiserreich is personalized.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Related to the above as a tongue-in-cheek counterargument. Playtesters run through regional wars many times before update releases to ensure a relatively steady percentage of each faction winning in any given playthrough... or that it is just the detractor's "copy" of the game that has that particular nation or faction winning so often, the joke of course being that Kaiserreich is a download-only mod where every "copy" is identical.
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* Reich sex[[labelnote:Explaination]]After the Germany rework, Reichskanzler Kurt von Schleicher will enact a Reichsexekution (a compound word of Reich, or Empire; and -exekution, meaning execution) on the state of Brunswick shortly after passing the Enabling Act. Due to the word containing the word "sex", it quickly spawned many memes regarding sexual activity on Schleicher's path, as well as Germany as a whole if the country attempts to intervene in another nation or member state.
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* Reich sex[[labelnote:Explaination]]After the Germany rework, Reichskanzler Kurt von Schleicher will enact a Reichsexekution (a compound word of Reich, or Empire; and -exekution, meaning execution) on the state of Brunswick shortly after passing the Enabling Act. Due to the word containing the word "sex", it quickly spawned many memes regarding sexual activity on Schleicher's path, as well as Germany as a whole if the country attempts to intervene in another nation or member state. [[/labelnote]]
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* Green NatPop [[labelnote:Explanation]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Kaiserreich/comments/183pofr/why_national_populism_should_be_green_and_not/ This reddit post]] gave reasons for why the National Populist ideology should be changed from brownish orange to green (to fit with the origins of the equivlent of fascism), and people on the Kaiserreich subreddit ''really'' enjoyed the idea, with one guy [[https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3095508960 almost instantly making a submod]] for it. [[/labelnote]]
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* Green NatPop [[labelnote:Explanation]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Kaiserreich/comments/183pofr/why_national_populism_should_be_green_and_not/ This reddit post]] gave reasons for why the National Populist ideology should be changed from brownish orange to green (to fit with the origins of the equivlent of fascism), and people on the Kaiserreich subreddit ''really'' enjoyed the idea, with one guy [[https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3095508960 almost instantly making a submod]] for it. [[/labelnote]][[/labelnote]]
* Reich sex[[labelnote:Explaination]]After the Germany rework, Reichskanzler Kurt von Schleicher will enact a Reichsexekution (a compound word of Reich, or Empire; and -exekution, meaning execution) on the state of Brunswick shortly after passing the Enabling Act. Due to the word containing the word "sex", it quickly spawned many memes regarding sexual activity on Schleicher's path, as well as Germany as a whole if the country attempts to intervene in another nation or member state.
* Reich sex[[labelnote:Explaination]]After the Germany rework, Reichskanzler Kurt von Schleicher will enact a Reichsexekution (a compound word of Reich, or Empire; and -exekution, meaning execution) on the state of Brunswick shortly after passing the Enabling Act. Due to the word containing the word "sex", it quickly spawned many memes regarding sexual activity on Schleicher's path, as well as Germany as a whole if the country attempts to intervene in another nation or member state.
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* Kerensky must go!/Who must go?[[labelnote:Explanation]] Due to conversion errors with the new Hearts of Iron version 1.11 "Barbarossa", the Russia update was put in pause temporarily. Since this update was supposed to remove Alexander Kerensky, some users joked that Kerensky himself acted to stop the update. The memes draw parallels between Kaiserriech developers and the ones from a fellow mod, [[Videogame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope The New Order]], where developers had problems removing the equally resilient Alexander Kazembek from the game.[[/labelnote]]
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* Kerensky must go!/Who must go?[[labelnote:Explanation]] Due to conversion errors with the new Hearts of Iron version 1.11 "Barbarossa", the Russia update was put in pause temporarily. Since this update was supposed to remove Alexander Kerensky, some users joked that Kerensky himself acted to stop the update. The memes draw parallels between Kaiserriech developers and the ones from a fellow mod, [[Videogame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope The New Order]], where developers had problems removing the equally resilient Alexander Kazembek from the game. It wasn't until the enormous 1.0 update that Kerensky was removed from his position as Russian president at game start. Now, he was defeated for election several years back by Boris Savinkov, but remains as leader of the opposition... and is still assassinated a month into the game. ''Plus ca change''. [[/labelnote]]
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* Can core Panama and Singapore[[labelnote:Explanation]]A project on the Kaiserreich subreddit undertook to catalog all possible national claims and cores of all the playable countries in the game through all political paths. In Kaiserreich, as opposed to vanilla [=HOI4=], directly annexing land without claims is discouraged and incurs stiff war support penalties, instead, a "Fate of Nation" decision mechanic is used where victorious nations can release conquests as independent but friendly puppet nations in various ways. It was quickly found that was possible for almost every country, regardless of alignment, distance, history, or political situation to conquer and directly annex both Singapore and the Panama Canal. It wasn't long before other redditors began creating maps of other fictional nations such as [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gondor]], [[Franchise/AceCombat Belka]], and [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire the North]], among others, with a picture-in-picture map of Singapore and the Panama Canal as possible core territory. Funnily enough, only one day after the project was completed, the 0.24 update removed most nations' ability to core the two regions.[[/labelnote]]
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* Can core Panama and Singapore[[labelnote:Explanation]]A project on the Kaiserreich subreddit undertook to catalog all possible national claims and cores of all the playable countries in the game through all political paths. In Kaiserreich, as opposed to vanilla [=HOI4=], directly annexing land without claims is discouraged and incurs stiff war support penalties, instead, a "Fate of Nation" decision mechanic is used where victorious nations can release conquests as independent but friendly puppet nations in various ways. It was quickly found that was possible for almost every country, regardless of alignment, distance, history, or political situation to conquer and directly annex both Singapore and the Panama Canal. It wasn't long before other redditors began creating maps of other fictional nations such as [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gondor]], [[Franchise/AceCombat Belka]], and [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire the North]], among others, with a picture-in-picture map of Singapore and the Panama Canal as possible core territory. Funnily enough, only one day after the project was completed, the 0.24 update removed most nations' ability to core the two regions.[[/labelnote]]
* Green NatPop [[labelnote:Explanation]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Kaiserreich/comments/183pofr/why_national_populism_should_be_green_and_not/ This reddit post]] gave reasons for why the National Populist ideology should be changed from brownish orange to green (to fit with the origins of the equivlent of fascism), and people on the Kaiserreich subreddit ''really'' enjoyed the idea, with one guy [[https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3095508960 almost instantly making a submod]] for it. [[/labelnote]]
* Green NatPop [[labelnote:Explanation]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Kaiserreich/comments/183pofr/why_national_populism_should_be_green_and_not/ This reddit post]] gave reasons for why the National Populist ideology should be changed from brownish orange to green (to fit with the origins of the equivlent of fascism), and people on the Kaiserreich subreddit ''really'' enjoyed the idea, with one guy [[https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3095508960 almost instantly making a submod]] for it. [[/labelnote]]
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* Kerensky must go!/Who must go?[[labelnote:Explanation]] Due to conversion errors with the new Hearts of Iron version 1.11 "Barbarossa", the Russia update was put in pause temporarily. Since this update was supposed to remove Alexander Kerensky, some users joked that Kerensky himself acted to stop the update. The memes draw parallels between Kaiserriech developers and the ones from a fellow mod, [[Videogame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope The New Order]], where developers had problems removing the equally resilient Alexander Kazembek from the game.[[/labelnote]]
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* Kerensky must go!/Who must go?[[labelnote:Explanation]] Due to conversion errors with the new Hearts of Iron version 1.11 "Barbarossa", the Russia update was put in pause temporarily. Since this update was supposed to remove Alexander Kerensky, some users joked that Kerensky himself acted to stop the update. The memes draw parallels between Kaiserriech developers and the ones from a fellow mod, [[Videogame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope The New Order]], where developers had problems removing the equally resilient Alexander Kazembek from the game.[[/labelnote]]
* Can core Panama and Singapore[[labelnote:Explanation]]A project on the Kaiserreich subreddit undertook to catalog all possible national claims and cores of all the playable countries in the game through all political paths. In Kaiserreich, as opposed to vanilla [=HOI4=], directly annexing land without claims is discouraged and incurs stiff war support penalties, instead, a "Fate of Nation" decision mechanic is used where victorious nations can release conquests as independent but friendly puppet nations in various ways. It was quickly found that was possible for almost every country, regardless of alignment, distance, history, or political situation to conquer and directly annex both Singapore and the Panama Canal. It wasn't long before other redditors began creating maps of other fictional nations such as [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gondor]], [[Franchise/AceCombat Belka]], and [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire the North]], among others, with a picture-in-picture map of Singapore and the Panama Canal as possible core territory. Funnily enough, only one day after the project was completed, the 0.24 update removed most nations' ability to core the two regions.[[/labelnote]]
* Can core Panama and Singapore[[labelnote:Explanation]]A project on the Kaiserreich subreddit undertook to catalog all possible national claims and cores of all the playable countries in the game through all political paths. In Kaiserreich, as opposed to vanilla [=HOI4=], directly annexing land without claims is discouraged and incurs stiff war support penalties, instead, a "Fate of Nation" decision mechanic is used where victorious nations can release conquests as independent but friendly puppet nations in various ways. It was quickly found that was possible for almost every country, regardless of alignment, distance, history, or political situation to conquer and directly annex both Singapore and the Panama Canal. It wasn't long before other redditors began creating maps of other fictional nations such as [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gondor]], [[Franchise/AceCombat Belka]], and [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire the North]], among others, with a picture-in-picture map of Singapore and the Panama Canal as possible core territory. Funnily enough, only one day after the project was completed, the 0.24 update removed most nations' ability to core the two regions.[[/labelnote]]
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* Kerensky must go!/Who must go?[[labelnote:Explanation]] Due to conversion errors with the new Hearts of Iron version 1.11 "Barbarossa", the Russia update was put in pause temporarily. Since this update was supposed to remove Alexander Kerensky, some users joked that Kerensky himself acted to stop the update. The memes draw parallels between Kaiserriech developers and the ones from a fellow mod, [[Videogame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope The New Order]], where developers had problem problems removing the equally resilient Alexander Kazembek from the game.[[/labelnote]]
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* [=NatPop=] Creator/HPLovecraft.[[note]]Fans asking for Lovecraft to be available as the National Populist leader of New England.[[/note]]
* Who cares about Afghanistan?[[note]]In pre-India rework versions of the game, Afghanistan would often declare war on the Dominion of India in the game's first possible war [[MemeticLoser (and would often lose)]]. After the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Kaiserreich/comments/gsucy8/progress_report_109_the_india_rework/ India rework]] was formally announced, not only was this conflict removed, but Afghanistan ''still'' didn't get a unique focus tree.[[/note]]
* Who cares about Afghanistan?[[note]]In pre-India rework versions of the game, Afghanistan would often declare war on the Dominion of India in the game's first possible war [[MemeticLoser (and would often lose)]]. After the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Kaiserreich/comments/gsucy8/progress_report_109_the_india_rework/ India rework]] was formally announced, not only was this conflict removed, but Afghanistan ''still'' didn't get a unique focus tree.[[/note]]
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* [=NatPop=] Creator/HPLovecraft.[[note]]Fans [[labelnote:Explanation]]Fans asking for Lovecraft to be available as the National Populist leader of New England.[[/note]]
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* Who cares aboutAfghanistan?[[note]]In Afghanistan?[[labelnote:Explanation]]In pre-India rework versions of the game, Afghanistan would often declare war on the Dominion of India in the game's first possible war [[MemeticLoser (and would often lose)]]. After the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Kaiserreich/comments/gsucy8/progress_report_109_the_india_rework/ India rework]] was formally announced, not only was this conflict removed, but Afghanistan ''still'' didn't get a unique focus tree.[[/note]][[/labelnote]]
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* Who cares about Afghanistan?[[note]]In pre-India rework versions of the game, Afghanistan would often declare war on the Dominion of India in the game's first possible war [[MemeticLoser (and would often lose)]]. After the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Kaiserreich/comments/gsucy8/progress_report_109_the_india_rework/ India rework]] was formally announced, not only was this conflict removed, but Afghanistan ''still'' didn't get a unique focus tree.[[/note]][[/note]]
* Kerensky must go!/Who must go?[[labelnote:Explanation]] Due to conversion errors with the new Hearts of Iron version 1.11 "Barbarossa", the Russia update was put in pause temporarily. Since this update was supposed to remove Alexander Kerensky, some users joked that Kerensky himself acted to stop the update. The memes draw parallels between Kaiserriech developers and the ones from a fellow mod, [[Videogame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope The New Order]], where developers had problem removing equally resilient Alexander Kazembek from the game.[[/labelnote]]
* Kerensky must go!/Who must go?[[labelnote:Explanation]] Due to conversion errors with the new Hearts of Iron version 1.11 "Barbarossa", the Russia update was put in pause temporarily. Since this update was supposed to remove Alexander Kerensky, some users joked that Kerensky himself acted to stop the update. The memes draw parallels between Kaiserriech developers and the ones from a fellow mod, [[Videogame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope The New Order]], where developers had problem removing equally resilient Alexander Kazembek from the game.[[/labelnote]]
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* [=MacArthur=]'s Transport Planes[[labelnote:Explanation]]Fans have hypothesized[=/=]joked that Kaiserreich's equivalent to [[UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet Pinochet's]] [[DeadlyEuphemism "Free Helicopter Rides"]] is [=MacArthur=] having syndicalists thrown out of transport planes, in part due to the similarities between Pinochet and KR![=MacArthur=] (namely, both are Generals who led[=/=]can lead a coup-d'état against a democratically elected socialist government and install a military dictatorship), and being able to use the FBI to suppress far-left and far-right political opponents.[[/labelnote]]
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* [=MacArthur=]'s Transport Planes[[labelnote:Explanation]]Fans have hypothesized[=/=]joked that Kaiserreich's equivalent to [[UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet Pinochet's]] [[DeadlyEuphemism "Free Helicopter Rides"]] is [=MacArthur=] having syndicalists thrown out of transport planes, in part due to the similarities between Pinochet and KR![=MacArthur=] (namely, both are Generals who led[=/=]can lead a coup-d'état against a democratically elected socialist government and install a military dictatorship), and being able to use dictatorship). However, unlike Pinochet, [=MacArthur=] uses the FBI to suppress both far-left and far-right political opponents.[[/labelnote]]
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* Who Cares about Afghanistan?[[note]]In pre-India rework versions of the game, Afghanistan would often declare war on the Dominion of India in the game's first possible war [[MemeticLoser (and would often lose)]]. After the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Kaiserreich/comments/gsucy8/progress_report_109_the_india_rework/ India rework]] was formally announced, not only was this conflict removed, but Afghanistan ''still'' didn't get a unique focus tree.[[/note]]
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* Who Cares cares about Afghanistan?[[note]]In pre-India rework versions of the game, Afghanistan would often declare war on the Dominion of India in the game's first possible war [[MemeticLoser (and would often lose)]]. After the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Kaiserreich/comments/gsucy8/progress_report_109_the_india_rework/ India rework]] was formally announced, not only was this conflict removed, but Afghanistan ''still'' didn't get a unique focus tree.[[/note]]
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* [=NatPop=] Creator/HPLovecraft.[[note]]Fans asking for Lovecraft to be available as the National Populist leader of New England.[[/note]]
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* [=NatPop=] Creator/HPLovecraft.[[note]]Fans asking for Lovecraft to be available as the National Populist leader of New England.[[/note]]
* Who Cares about Afghanistan?[[note]]In pre-India rework versions of the game, Afghanistan would often declare war on the Dominion of India in the game's first possible war [[MemeticLoser (and would often lose)]]. After the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Kaiserreich/comments/gsucy8/progress_report_109_the_india_rework/ India rework]] was formally announced, not only was this conflict removed, but Afghanistan ''still'' didn't get a unique focus tree.[[/note]]
* Who Cares about Afghanistan?[[note]]In pre-India rework versions of the game, Afghanistan would often declare war on the Dominion of India in the game's first possible war [[MemeticLoser (and would often lose)]]. After the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Kaiserreich/comments/gsucy8/progress_report_109_the_india_rework/ India rework]] was formally announced, not only was this conflict removed, but Afghanistan ''still'' didn't get a unique focus tree.[[/note]]
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* When is Hungary's focus tree?[[labelnote:Explanation]]Hungary is a bit infamous for being neglected by the development team and having a very lacking, to say the least, if not basically non-existent, focus tree.[[/labelnote]]
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* When is Hungary's focus tree?[[labelnote:Explanation]]Hungary tree coming out?[[labelnote:Explanation]]Hungary is a bit infamous for being neglected by the development team and having a very lacking, to say the least, if not basically non-existent, focus tree.tree, especially for a nation with its place in the lore.[[/labelnote]]
* China rework coming soon.[[labelnote:Explanation]]The China rework for the mod took over 4 years due to the amount of content that needed to be overhauled. Due to the amount of time it took and the reassurances that it was coming, it became common to joke about how it was stuck in DevelopmentHell. Of course, this ceased when the update did finally come out.[[/labelnote]]
* China rework coming soon.[[labelnote:Explanation]]The China rework for the mod took over 4 years due to the amount of content that needed to be overhauled. Due to the amount of time it took and the reassurances that it was coming, it became common to joke about how it was stuck in DevelopmentHell. Of course, this ceased when the update did finally come out.[[/labelnote]]
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* [[TheGoodKing Blessed Karl.]] [[labelnote:Explanation]] Karl I of Austria is one of the few if only characters who has gotten popular in the fandom purely for how ''good'' of a person he is. For the longest time, the Austrian A.I. would go for the [=SocDem=] path, which would result in the creation of a peaceful and multiethnic empire (namely, the "Danubian Federation"). Contrast that with the generally hellish state of most of Kaiserreich's Europe & Asia along with the Federation being largely founded peacefully and with diplomacy. Combining all that with the historical Karl I being a candidate for '''sainthood''' have made Karl I be one of the few nigh-universally beloved characters in the entire mod, and gave him this nickname.[[/labelnote]]
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* [[TheGoodKing Blessed Karl.]] [[labelnote:Explanation]] Karl I of Austria is one of the few if only characters who has gotten popular in the fandom purely for how ''good'' of a person he is. For the longest time, the Austrian A.I. would go for the [=SocDem=] path, which would result in the creation of a peaceful and multiethnic empire (namely, the "Danubian Federation"). Contrast that with the generally hellish state of most of Kaiserreich's Europe & Asia along with the Federation being largely founded peacefully and with diplomacy. Combining all that with the historical Karl I being a candidate for '''sainthood''' have made Karl I be one of the few nigh-universally beloved characters in the entire mod, and gave leading the fandom to call him this nickname.by his saint name.[[/labelnote]]
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* Blessed Karl. [[labelnote:Explanation]] Karl I of Austria is one of the few characters who has gotten popular in the fandom purely for how ''good'' of a person he is. For the longest time, the Austrian A.I. would go for the SocDem path, which would result in the creation of a peaceful and multiethnic empire (namely, the "Danubian Federation"). Contrast that with the generally hellish state of most of Kaiserreich's Europe & Asia along with the Federation being largely founded peacefully and with diplomacy. Combining all that with the historical Karl I being a candidate for sainthood have made Karl I be one of the few nigh-universally beloved characters in the entire mod.[[/labelnote]]
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* [[TheGoodKing Blessed Karl. Karl.]] [[labelnote:Explanation]] Karl I of Austria is one of the few if only characters who has gotten popular in the fandom purely for how ''good'' of a person he is. For the longest time, the Austrian A.I. would go for the SocDem [=SocDem=] path, which would result in the creation of a peaceful and multiethnic empire (namely, the "Danubian Federation"). Contrast that with the generally hellish state of most of Kaiserreich's Europe & Asia along with the Federation being largely founded peacefully and with diplomacy. Combining all that with the historical Karl I being a candidate for sainthood '''sainthood''' have made Karl I be one of the few nigh-universally beloved characters in the entire mod.mod, and gave him this nickname.[[/labelnote]]
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* Corn Lord[[labelnote:Explanation]]UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev's FanNickname, if he takes over Ukraine. It comes from his massive encouragement of growing corn in the Soviet Union in RealLife after visiting a corn farm in Iowa and becoming friends with the owner, which, among other things, involved establishing a corn institute in Ukraine, importing 4500 tons of corn seed, making a joke to an audience of farmers about how they are probably thinking "Will Khrushchev say something about corn or won't he?" (The answer was yes. He berated them for not growing more corn), and [[DidNotThinkThisThrough trying to grow corn in Siberia]]. His experiment failed (as in, throughout the entire Union, not just Siberia), partially due to failing to supply enough fertilizer, pesticides and herbicides. It also resulted in people hating corn. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer We are not making]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev#Agricultural_policy any of this up]].[[/labelnote]]
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* Corn Lord[[labelnote:Explanation]]UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev's FanNickname, if he takes over Ukraine. It comes from his massive encouragement of growing corn in the Soviet Union in RealLife after visiting a corn farm in Iowa and becoming friends with the owner, which, among other things, involved establishing a corn institute in Ukraine, importing 4500 tons of corn seed, making a joke to an audience of farmers about how they are probably thinking "Will Khrushchev say something about corn or won't he?" (The answer was yes. He berated them for not growing more corn), and [[DidNotThinkThisThrough trying to grow corn in Siberia]]. His experiment failed (as in, throughout the entire Union, not just Siberia), partially due to failing to supply enough fertilizer, pesticides and herbicides. It also resulted in people hating corn. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer We are not making]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev#Agricultural_policy We are not making any of this up]].[[/labelnote]]
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* Codreanu's meathooks[[labelnote:Explanation]] A ''very'' disturbing meme, referencing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_rebellion_and_Bucharest_pogrom Bucharest pogrom in 1941]], commited by the Iron Guard (though it's worth nothing that Codreanu, in spite of his association with this meme, was already dead in 1941). One of the most depressing episodes of the pogroms was [[NightmareFuel the hanging of several Jews, including a 5-year old girl, on meathooks, as they literally skinned them alive. They then proceeded to show the gruesome display off to a horrified American ambassador, labeling the victims as “Kosher Meat”]]. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer No, seriously]]. This pogrom is usually brought up as a proof [[EvilerThanThou why the Iron Guard are one of the few irredeemable villains in]] [[GreyAndGrayMorality Kaiserreich's grey universe]].[[/labelnote]]
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* Codreanu's meathooks[[labelnote:Explanation]] A ''very'' disturbing meme, referencing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_rebellion_and_Bucharest_pogrom Bucharest pogrom in 1941]], commited by the Iron Guard (though it's worth nothing that Codreanu, in spite of his association with this meme, was already dead in 1941). One of the most depressing episodes of the pogroms was [[NightmareFuel the hanging of several Jews, including a 5-year old girl, on meathooks, as they literally skinned them alive. They then proceeded to show the gruesome display off to a horrified American ambassador, labeling the victims as “Kosher Meat”]]. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer No, seriously]].seriously. This pogrom is usually brought up as a proof [[EvilerThanThou why the Iron Guard are one of the few irredeemable villains in]] [[GreyAndGrayMorality Kaiserreich's grey universe]].[[/labelnote]]
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* Every X an Ideology[[labelnote:Explanation]] A internet macro picture where an ingame, RealLife, or fictional character from other media are put in a table with all the in-game ideologies and prove why they follow all of them. The original was, of course, [[https://i.imgur.com/bkf0QsN.png Huey Long]], as can be guessed from the fact that the name is mutated from his "Every Man a King" slogan.[[/labelnote]]
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* Every X an Ideology[[labelnote:Explanation]] A internet macro picture where an ingame, RealLife, or fictional character from other media are put in a table with all the in-game ideologies and prove why they follow all of them. The original was, of course, [[https://i.imgur.com/bkf0QsN.png Huey Long]], as can be guessed from the fact that the name is mutated from his "Every Man a King" slogan.slogan mentioned above.[[/labelnote]]
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* Mussolini. Just Mussolini in general. [[labelnote:Explanation]]From a combination of his MemeticLoser status already in the general conscious, the on-the-nose fact that he makes the trains run on time, and his radically different ideology in this timeline, much like other Fascist figures who have gotten the RichardNixonTheUsefCarSalesman treatment, OTL’s Il Duce has basically become a meme character in the KR fandom.[[/labelnote]]
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* Mussolini. Just Mussolini in general. [[labelnote:Explanation]]From a combination of his MemeticLoser status already in the general conscious, the on-the-nose fact that he makes the trains run on time, and his radically different ideology in this timeline, much like some other Fascist figures who have gotten the RichardNixonTheUsefCarSalesman RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman treatment, OTL’s Il Duce has basically become a meme character in the KR fandom.[[/labelnote]]
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* Codreanu's meathooks[[labelnote:Explanation]] A ''very'' disturbing meme, referencing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_rebellion_and_Bucharest_pogrom Bucharest pogrom in 1941]], commited by the Iron Guard (though it's worth nothing that Codreanu, in spite of his association with this meme, was already dead in 1941). One of the most depressing episodes of the pogroms was [[NightmareFuel the hanging of several Jews, including a 5-year old girl, on meathooks, as they literally skinned them alive. They then proceeded to show the gruesome display off to a terrified American ambassador, labeling the victims as “Kosher Meat”.]] No, [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer seriously.]] This pogrom is usually brought up as a proof [[EvilerThanThou why the Iron Guard are one of the few irredeemable villains in]] [[GreyAndGrayMorality Kaiserreich's grey universe]].[[/labelnote]]
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* Codreanu's meathooks[[labelnote:Explanation]] A ''very'' disturbing meme, referencing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_rebellion_and_Bucharest_pogrom Bucharest pogrom in 1941]], commited by the Iron Guard (though it's worth nothing that Codreanu, in spite of his association with this meme, was already dead in 1941). One of the most depressing episodes of the pogroms was [[NightmareFuel the hanging of several Jews, including a 5-year old girl, on meathooks, as they literally skinned them alive. They then proceeded to show the gruesome display off to a terrified horrified American ambassador, labeling the victims as “Kosher Meat”.]] No, Meat”]]. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer seriously.]] No, seriously]]. This pogrom is usually brought up as a proof [[EvilerThanThou why the Iron Guard are one of the few irredeemable villains in]] [[GreyAndGrayMorality Kaiserreich's grey universe]].[[/labelnote]]
* Mussolini. Just Mussolini in general. [[labelnote:Explanation]]From a combination of his MemeticLoser status already in the general conscious, the on-the-nose fact that he makes the trains run on time, and his radically different ideology in this timeline, much like other Fascist figures who have gotten the RichardNixonTheUsefCarSalesman treatment, OTL’s Il Duce has basically become a meme character in the KR fandom.[[/labelnote]]
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* Egyptian volunteers[[labelnote:Explanation]]In earlier versions of [=KR4=], Egypt had a strange tendency to send volunteers to various conflicts around the world (such as the Spanish Civil War, Sternberg's conquests of Asia and the Balkans War), even if those conflicts didn't affect Egypt at all. [[/labelnote]]
* [[https://m.imgur.com/aiaTQXi Moslem General Ma detests Reds, likes wives, song, and ice cream]][[labelnote:Explanation]]Subtitle from an old Life magazine article about Ma Clique general Ma Hongkui that was linked in Progress Report 41. It immediately caught on due to how bizarre it is, alongside the picture in the article of him posing with a sword.[[/labelnote]]
* [[https://m.imgur.com/aiaTQXi Moslem General Ma detests Reds, likes wives, song, and ice cream]][[labelnote:Explanation]]Subtitle from an old Life magazine article about Ma Clique general Ma Hongkui that was linked in Progress Report 41. It immediately caught on due to how bizarre it is, alongside the picture in the article of him posing with a sword.[[/labelnote]]
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* Egyptian volunteers[[labelnote:Explanation]]In earlier versions of [=KR4=], Egypt had a strange tendency to send volunteers to various conflicts around the world (such as the Spanish Civil War, Sternberg's conquests of Asia and the Balkans War), even if those conflicts didn't affect Egypt at all. Unfortunately, this bug doesn’t exist anymore, but as a meme it lives on.[[/labelnote]]
* [[https://m.imgur.com/aiaTQXi Moslem General Ma detests Reds, likes wives, song, and ice cream]][[labelnote:Explanation]]Subtitle from an old Life magazine article about Ma Clique general Ma Hongkui that was linked in Progress Report 41. It immediately caught on due to how bizarre and random it is, alongside the picture in the article of him posing with a sword.[[/labelnote]]
* [[https://m.imgur.com/aiaTQXi Moslem General Ma detests Reds, likes wives, song, and ice cream]][[labelnote:Explanation]]Subtitle from an old Life magazine article about Ma Clique general Ma Hongkui that was linked in Progress Report 41. It immediately caught on due to how bizarre and random it is, alongside the picture in the article of him posing with a sword.[[/labelnote]]
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* Codreanu's meathooks[[labelnote:Explanation]] A ''very'' disturbing meme, referencing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_rebellion_and_Bucharest_pogrom Bucharest pogrom in 1941]], commited by the Iron Guard (though it's worth nothing that Codreanu, in spite of his association with this meme, was already dead in 1941). One of the most depressing episodes of the pogroms was [[NightmareFuel hanging several Jews, including a 5-year old girl, on meathooks, as they literally skinned them alive. And then proceeded to show the gruesome display off to an American ambassador, labeling the victims as “Kosher Meat”.]] No, seriously. This pogrom is usually brought up as a proof [[EvilerThanThou why the Iron Guard are one of the few irredeemable villains in]] [[GreyAndGrayMorality Kaiserreich's grey universe]].[[/labelnote]]
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* Codreanu's meathooks[[labelnote:Explanation]] A ''very'' disturbing meme, referencing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_rebellion_and_Bucharest_pogrom Bucharest pogrom in 1941]], commited by the Iron Guard (though it's worth nothing that Codreanu, in spite of his association with this meme, was already dead in 1941). One of the most depressing episodes of the pogroms was [[NightmareFuel the hanging of several Jews, including a 5-year old girl, on meathooks, as they literally skinned them alive. And They then proceeded to show the gruesome display off to an a terrified American ambassador, labeling the victims as “Kosher Meat”.]] No, seriously. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer seriously.]] This pogrom is usually brought up as a proof [[EvilerThanThou why the Iron Guard are one of the few irredeemable villains in]] [[GreyAndGrayMorality Kaiserreich's grey universe]].[[/labelnote]]
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* Codreanu's meathooks[[labelnote:Explanation]] A ''very'' disturbing meme, referencing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_rebellion_and_Bucharest_pogrom Bucharest pogrom in 1941]], commited by the Iron Guard (though it's worth nothing that Codreanu, in spite of his association with this meme, was already dead in 1941). One of the most depressing episodes of the pogroms was [[NightmareFuel hanging several Jews, including a 5-year old girl, on meathooks, as they literally skinned them alive]]. And then proceeded to show the gruesome display off to an American ambassador, labeling the victims as “Kosher Meat”. No, seriously. This pogrom is usually brought up as a proof [[EvilerThanThou why the Iron Guard are one of the few irredeemable villains in]] [[GreyAndGrayMorality Kaiserreich's grey universe]].[[/labelnote]]
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* Codreanu's meathooks[[labelnote:Explanation]] A ''very'' disturbing meme, referencing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_rebellion_and_Bucharest_pogrom Bucharest pogrom in 1941]], commited by the Iron Guard (though it's worth nothing that Codreanu, in spite of his association with this meme, was already dead in 1941). One of the most depressing episodes of the pogroms was [[NightmareFuel hanging several Jews, including a 5-year old girl, on meathooks, as they literally skinned them alive]].alive. And then proceeded to show the gruesome display off to an American ambassador, labeling the victims as “Kosher Meat”. ]] No, seriously. This pogrom is usually brought up as a proof [[EvilerThanThou why the Iron Guard are one of the few irredeemable villains in]] [[GreyAndGrayMorality Kaiserreich's grey universe]].[[/labelnote]]
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* Codreanu's meathooks[[labelnote:Explanation]] A ''very'' disturbing meme, referencing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_rebellion_and_Bucharest_pogrom Bucharest pogrom in 1941]], commited by the Iron Guard (though it's worth nothing that Codreanu, in spite of his association with this meme, was already dead in 1941). One of the most depressing episodes of the pogroms was [[NightmareFuel impaling several Jews, including a 5-year old girl, on meathooks]]. This pogrom is usually brought up as a proof [[EvilerThanThou why the Iron Guard are one of the few irredeemable villains in]] [[GreyAndGrayMorality Kaiserreich's grey universe]].[[/labelnote]]
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* Codreanu's meathooks[[labelnote:Explanation]] A ''very'' disturbing meme, referencing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_rebellion_and_Bucharest_pogrom Bucharest pogrom in 1941]], commited by the Iron Guard (though it's worth nothing that Codreanu, in spite of his association with this meme, was already dead in 1941). One of the most depressing episodes of the pogroms was [[NightmareFuel impaling hanging several Jews, including a 5-year old girl, on meathooks]].meathooks, as they literally skinned them alive]]. And then proceeded to show the gruesome display off to an American ambassador, labeling the victims as “Kosher Meat”. No, seriously. This pogrom is usually brought up as a proof [[EvilerThanThou why the Iron Guard are one of the few irredeemable villains in]] [[GreyAndGrayMorality Kaiserreich's grey universe]].[[/labelnote]]
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** Direct rule from London[[labelnote:Explanation]]Originating from one of the options for an event about dealing with Ireland as the Union of Britain, this phrase became associated with Oswald Mosley and his Maximist faction, though "Direct rule from X" can also be used to refer to [[CommieNazis Totalists]] in general or even just any authoritarian regime.[[/labelnote]]
** Every man a king! Share the wealth![[labelnote:Explanation]][[UsefulNotes/HueyLong Huey Long's]] political slogans which are popular among KR players.[[/labelnote]]
** "Break the Chains", "Reclaim the Birthright", and "Guard the Balance"[[labelnote:Explanation]] The slogans of the Internationale, the Entente, and Mitteleuropa respectively.[[/labelnote]]
** Trotsky's penguin army[[labelnote:Explanation]]In Kaiserreich lore, the fate of UsefulNotes/LeonTrotsky was left mysterious, which led fans to jokingly assume that Trotsky is hiding in Antarctica and recruiting penguins for the World Revolution.[[/labelnote]]
** Himmler's Master Race Chickens[[labelnote:Explanation]][[AllThereInTheManual In the old KR wiki]] Heinrich Himmler is described as a settler in the United Baltic Duchy, being famous as the chicken farmer who wants to create the perfect breed of chicken, which he calls the Master Race Chicken. People sort of just went with it, including jokes about him having a chain of restaurants similar to KFC or that he is growing the master chicken race for the ultimate showdown with the aforementioned Trotsky's penguin army.[[/labelnote]]
** "What a childish fantasy."[[labelnote:Explanation]]The blurb written in response to the event regarding the publication of Führerreich/Our Finest Hour, the alternate history novel within where Germany loses the Weltkrieg like in our timeline. Thus, anything having to do with OTL events in a Kasierreich thread is mocked as a childish fantasy.[[/labelnote]]
** Corn Lord[[labelnote:Explanation]]UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev's FanNickname, if he takes over Ukraine. It comes from his massive encouragement of growing corn in the Soviet Union in RealLife after visiting a corn farm in Iowa and becoming friends with the owner, which, among other things, involved establishing a corn institute in Ukraine, importing 4500 tons of corn seed, making a joke to an audience of farmers about how they are probably thinking "Will Khrushchev say something about corn or won't he?" (The answer was yes. He berated them for not growing more corn), and [[DidNotThinkThisThrough trying to grow corn in Siberia]]. His experiment failed (as in, throughout the entire Union, not just Siberia), partially due to failing to supply enough fertilizer, pesticides and herbicides. It also resulted in people hating corn. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer We are not making]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev#Agricultural_policy any of this up]].[[/labelnote]]
** Every X an Ideology[[labelnote:Explanation]] A internet macro picture where an ingame, RealLife, or fictional character from other media are put in a table with all the in-game ideologies and prove why they follow all of them. The original was, of course, [[https://i.imgur.com/bkf0QsN.png Huey Long]], as can be guessed from the fact that the name is mutated from his "Every Man a King" slogan.[[/labelnote]]
*** [=MarLib=][[labelnote:Explanation]] In the layout of the above template, Market Liberals (comparable to present-day right-libertarians), shortened to [=MarLib=], are the final ideology, meaning that they effectively serve as a punchline for the entire image. As such, they are typically portrayed as [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney amoral]] [[TheScrooge greedy]] [[KillThePoor psychopaths]]. [[/labelnote]]
** Soviet Anime[[labelnote:Explanation]]There was a focus for Soviet Russia, should it take the Federationalist path, in which it is to establish an animation studio Creator/{{Soyuzmultfilm}} with the best artists from across the Union and animators who defected from the US and Japan, to create the best animation and make it the envy of the world. The fact that some of the animators are Japanese lead to people joking that, in the Kaiserreich timeline, anime is from Soviet Russia. In the current versions, the focus is still present, but all mentions of foreign animators were removed.[[/labelnote]]
** Democratic Traditions, Socreds and [[ANaziByAnyOtherName NatPop]] Canada[[labelnote:Explanation]]Canada is unable to become [[ANaziByAnyOtherName National Populist]]. Besides other reasons, one of the developers' explanations was that the strong democratic traditions of Canada won't allow it to become an ultranationalist dictatorship. Despite the fact that Canada, in [=KR4=], has focuses that allow it to become an ''absolute monarchy'', and events that allow it to set up a branch of UsefulNotes/TheMounties to act as SecretPolice (weaker and less powerful than most examples, but SecretPolice nonetheless). Not to mention that [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates Canada's southern neighbor]], despite having strong democratic traditions as well, can turn into various sorts of oppressive dictatorships, from full-blown Totalist rule to White supremacist or military dictatorships. This has been widely mocked, with many coming up with reasons why they could become [=NatPop=], specifically under [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_of_Canada the Social Credit (Socred) Party of Canada]] (which was a National Populist party of Canada in older versions of [=KR4=], but later was replaced with the bland "United Empire League", while Socred ministers became authoritarian democrats).[[/labelnote]]
** Codreanu's meathooks[[labelnote:Explanation]] A ''very'' disturbing meme, referencing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_rebellion_and_Bucharest_pogrom Bucharest pogrom in 1941]], commited by the Iron Guard (though it's worth nothing that Codreanu, in spite of his association with this meme, was already dead in 1941). One of the most depressing episodes of the pogroms was [[NightmareFuel impaling several Jews, including a 5-year old girl, on meathooks]]. This pogrom is usually brought up as a proof [[EvilerThanThou why the Iron Guard are one of the few irredeemable villains in]] [[GreyAndGrayMorality Kaiserreich's grey universe]].[[/labelnote]]
** Proof that X will betray the revolution[[labelnote:Explanation]]A common meme among players for Syndicalist countries, which is mostly used to mock Totalists (though not only them) for their "counter-revolutionary" actions, such as opposing the principles of democratic Syndicalism or strange diplomatic actions in game, such as allying with Mitteleuropa or sending volunteers to reactionary powers in various Civil Wars.[[/labelnote]]
** Erect for Kolchak[[labelnote:Explanation]]A phrase which is used for, obviously, exaggerated expression of admiration for Alexander Kolchak, ruler of Transamur in-game, mostly because of [[EnsembleDarkhorse his underdog status as a ruler of a tiny country with ambitions ro reclaim the entirety of Russia]].[[/labelnote]]
** Egyptian volunteers[[labelnote:Explanation]]In earlier versions of [=KR4=], Egypt had a strange tendency to send volunteers to various conflicts around the world (such as the Spanish Civil War, Sternberg's conquests of Asia and the Balkans War), even if those conflicts didn't affect Egypt at all. [[/labelnote]]
** [[https://m.imgur.com/aiaTQXi Moslem General Ma detests Reds, likes wives, song, and ice cream]][[labelnote:Explanation]]Subtitle from an old Life magazine article about Ma Clique general Ma Hongkui that was linked in Progress Report 41. It immediately caught on due to how bizarre it is, alongside the picture in the article of him posing with a sword.[[/labelnote]]
** WELSH UNION HAS CAPITULATED[[labelnote:Explanation]]Since the Welsh Union (formed if Britain goes the [[ChummyCommies Autonomist]] route and does Devolution) has low National Unity and only one core state, it's ''very'' easy to capitulate and re-capitulate.[[/labelnote]]
** Down with the traitors, up with the stars![[labelnote:Explanation]]A phrase from ''The Battle Cry of Freedom'', a popular Union song during the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar, which was quickly adopted as a battle cry by the federalist US sympathizers after the release of the ''World of Kaiserreich'' video talking about the Second American Civil War.[[/labelnote]]
** [=MacArthur=]'s Transport Planes[[labelnote:Explanation]]Fans have hypothesized[=/=]joked that Kaiserreich's equivalent to [[UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet Pinochet's]] [[DeadlyEuphemism "Free Helicopter Rides"]] is [=MacArthur=] having syndicalists thrown out of transport planes, in part due to the similarities between Pinochet and KR![=MacArthur=] (namely, both are Generals who led[=/=]can lead a coup-d'état against a democratically elected socialist government and install a military dictatorship), and being able to use the FBI to suppress far-left and far-right political opponents.[[/labelnote]]
** Organic Kingdom[[labelnote:Explanation]]A reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integralismo_Lusitano Portuguese integralism]], an ideology grouped under National Populism in-game and have paths in Brazil, Portugal, and Two Sicilies, considered the TokenGoodTeammate of [=NatPops=]. Portuguese integralism advocates a monarchistic, traditionalist, anti-parlamentarist, hardcore Catholic, and yet decentralized government, defined in the vague concept of an "Organic Kingdom". [[/labelnote]]
** Angola é Nossa[[labelnote:Explanation]]Literally "Angola is Ours", the phrase was the real-life slogan of the pro-colonialist side in the Angolan Independence War, and in-game it is used as the name of a focus in the Portuguese tree about defending Portuguese Angola. Online, it is typically used by Portuguese memers who support Portugal holding onto their African colonies.[[/labelnote]]
** Radical Centrism[[labelnote:Explanation]]A real ideology, but something of a running joke amongst the player base, usually depicted as a bizarre combination of all the ideologies in the game, which isn't necessarily an inaccurate description of the actual ideology. Often brought up when people notice bizarre combinations of ideologies in the game, such as having a National Populist as the head of government...when the ruling party is ''Totalist''.[[/labelnote]]
** Jan Smuts is the government of South Africa. ''All of it''.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Should the Dominion Party come to power in South Africa, Jan Smuts can hold ''every'' cabinet position, as well as being the Military Chief of Staff and Chief of the Army, ''all at the same time''.[[/labelnote]]
** Screaming Leon Degrelle/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA[[labelnote:Explanation]] Leon Degrelle, the leader of National Populist Wallonia, has a screaming portrait in the mod. If the KR fandom is to be believed, Degrelle screams constantly and this is the only way he can speak.[[/labelnote]]
** CSA Killdozers[[labelnote:Explanation]]In the 0.8.1 update, the CSA somehow gained [[TankGoodness multiple heavy tank divisions]] several years before the first designs are even ''possible'' to develop. Fans joked that the CSA tanks were giant jury-rigged tractors with guns mounted on them.[[/labelnote]]
*** [[Videogame/DawnOfWar Comrade Stubbs misplaced his Baneblades.]][[labelnote:Explanation]]In the 0.8.2 hotfix, the aforementioned CSA heavy tanks were removed, with the patch note mentioning that "Comrade Stubbs has been informed that his heavy tanks are missing", a reference to ''Dawn of War: Soulstorm'', where General Stubbs misplaced one hundred Baneblade super-heavy tanks. (Memetically. In actuality, he says that they are unavailable due to being deployed elsewhere).[[/labelnote]]
** [=NatPop=] Creator/HPLovecraft.[[note]]Fans asking for Lovecraft to be available as the National Populist leader of New England.[[/note]]
** Every man a king! Share the wealth![[labelnote:Explanation]][[UsefulNotes/HueyLong Huey Long's]] political slogans which are popular among KR players.[[/labelnote]]
** "Break the Chains", "Reclaim the Birthright", and "Guard the Balance"[[labelnote:Explanation]] The slogans of the Internationale, the Entente, and Mitteleuropa respectively.[[/labelnote]]
** Trotsky's penguin army[[labelnote:Explanation]]In Kaiserreich lore, the fate of UsefulNotes/LeonTrotsky was left mysterious, which led fans to jokingly assume that Trotsky is hiding in Antarctica and recruiting penguins for the World Revolution.[[/labelnote]]
** Himmler's Master Race Chickens[[labelnote:Explanation]][[AllThereInTheManual In the old KR wiki]] Heinrich Himmler is described as a settler in the United Baltic Duchy, being famous as the chicken farmer who wants to create the perfect breed of chicken, which he calls the Master Race Chicken. People sort of just went with it, including jokes about him having a chain of restaurants similar to KFC or that he is growing the master chicken race for the ultimate showdown with the aforementioned Trotsky's penguin army.[[/labelnote]]
** "What a childish fantasy."[[labelnote:Explanation]]The blurb written in response to the event regarding the publication of Führerreich/Our Finest Hour, the alternate history novel within where Germany loses the Weltkrieg like in our timeline. Thus, anything having to do with OTL events in a Kasierreich thread is mocked as a childish fantasy.[[/labelnote]]
** Corn Lord[[labelnote:Explanation]]UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev's FanNickname, if he takes over Ukraine. It comes from his massive encouragement of growing corn in the Soviet Union in RealLife after visiting a corn farm in Iowa and becoming friends with the owner, which, among other things, involved establishing a corn institute in Ukraine, importing 4500 tons of corn seed, making a joke to an audience of farmers about how they are probably thinking "Will Khrushchev say something about corn or won't he?" (The answer was yes. He berated them for not growing more corn), and [[DidNotThinkThisThrough trying to grow corn in Siberia]]. His experiment failed (as in, throughout the entire Union, not just Siberia), partially due to failing to supply enough fertilizer, pesticides and herbicides. It also resulted in people hating corn. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer We are not making]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev#Agricultural_policy any of this up]].[[/labelnote]]
** Every X an Ideology[[labelnote:Explanation]] A internet macro picture where an ingame, RealLife, or fictional character from other media are put in a table with all the in-game ideologies and prove why they follow all of them. The original was, of course, [[https://i.imgur.com/bkf0QsN.png Huey Long]], as can be guessed from the fact that the name is mutated from his "Every Man a King" slogan.[[/labelnote]]
*** [=MarLib=][[labelnote:Explanation]] In the layout of the above template, Market Liberals (comparable to present-day right-libertarians), shortened to [=MarLib=], are the final ideology, meaning that they effectively serve as a punchline for the entire image. As such, they are typically portrayed as [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney amoral]] [[TheScrooge greedy]] [[KillThePoor psychopaths]]. [[/labelnote]]
** Soviet Anime[[labelnote:Explanation]]There was a focus for Soviet Russia, should it take the Federationalist path, in which it is to establish an animation studio Creator/{{Soyuzmultfilm}} with the best artists from across the Union and animators who defected from the US and Japan, to create the best animation and make it the envy of the world. The fact that some of the animators are Japanese lead to people joking that, in the Kaiserreich timeline, anime is from Soviet Russia. In the current versions, the focus is still present, but all mentions of foreign animators were removed.[[/labelnote]]
** Democratic Traditions, Socreds and [[ANaziByAnyOtherName NatPop]] Canada[[labelnote:Explanation]]Canada is unable to become [[ANaziByAnyOtherName National Populist]]. Besides other reasons, one of the developers' explanations was that the strong democratic traditions of Canada won't allow it to become an ultranationalist dictatorship. Despite the fact that Canada, in [=KR4=], has focuses that allow it to become an ''absolute monarchy'', and events that allow it to set up a branch of UsefulNotes/TheMounties to act as SecretPolice (weaker and less powerful than most examples, but SecretPolice nonetheless). Not to mention that [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates Canada's southern neighbor]], despite having strong democratic traditions as well, can turn into various sorts of oppressive dictatorships, from full-blown Totalist rule to White supremacist or military dictatorships. This has been widely mocked, with many coming up with reasons why they could become [=NatPop=], specifically under [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_of_Canada the Social Credit (Socred) Party of Canada]] (which was a National Populist party of Canada in older versions of [=KR4=], but later was replaced with the bland "United Empire League", while Socred ministers became authoritarian democrats).[[/labelnote]]
** Codreanu's meathooks[[labelnote:Explanation]] A ''very'' disturbing meme, referencing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_rebellion_and_Bucharest_pogrom Bucharest pogrom in 1941]], commited by the Iron Guard (though it's worth nothing that Codreanu, in spite of his association with this meme, was already dead in 1941). One of the most depressing episodes of the pogroms was [[NightmareFuel impaling several Jews, including a 5-year old girl, on meathooks]]. This pogrom is usually brought up as a proof [[EvilerThanThou why the Iron Guard are one of the few irredeemable villains in]] [[GreyAndGrayMorality Kaiserreich's grey universe]].[[/labelnote]]
** Proof that X will betray the revolution[[labelnote:Explanation]]A common meme among players for Syndicalist countries, which is mostly used to mock Totalists (though not only them) for their "counter-revolutionary" actions, such as opposing the principles of democratic Syndicalism or strange diplomatic actions in game, such as allying with Mitteleuropa or sending volunteers to reactionary powers in various Civil Wars.[[/labelnote]]
** Erect for Kolchak[[labelnote:Explanation]]A phrase which is used for, obviously, exaggerated expression of admiration for Alexander Kolchak, ruler of Transamur in-game, mostly because of [[EnsembleDarkhorse his underdog status as a ruler of a tiny country with ambitions ro reclaim the entirety of Russia]].[[/labelnote]]
** Egyptian volunteers[[labelnote:Explanation]]In earlier versions of [=KR4=], Egypt had a strange tendency to send volunteers to various conflicts around the world (such as the Spanish Civil War, Sternberg's conquests of Asia and the Balkans War), even if those conflicts didn't affect Egypt at all. [[/labelnote]]
** [[https://m.imgur.com/aiaTQXi Moslem General Ma detests Reds, likes wives, song, and ice cream]][[labelnote:Explanation]]Subtitle from an old Life magazine article about Ma Clique general Ma Hongkui that was linked in Progress Report 41. It immediately caught on due to how bizarre it is, alongside the picture in the article of him posing with a sword.[[/labelnote]]
** WELSH UNION HAS CAPITULATED[[labelnote:Explanation]]Since the Welsh Union (formed if Britain goes the [[ChummyCommies Autonomist]] route and does Devolution) has low National Unity and only one core state, it's ''very'' easy to capitulate and re-capitulate.[[/labelnote]]
** Down with the traitors, up with the stars![[labelnote:Explanation]]A phrase from ''The Battle Cry of Freedom'', a popular Union song during the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar, which was quickly adopted as a battle cry by the federalist US sympathizers after the release of the ''World of Kaiserreich'' video talking about the Second American Civil War.[[/labelnote]]
** [=MacArthur=]'s Transport Planes[[labelnote:Explanation]]Fans have hypothesized[=/=]joked that Kaiserreich's equivalent to [[UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet Pinochet's]] [[DeadlyEuphemism "Free Helicopter Rides"]] is [=MacArthur=] having syndicalists thrown out of transport planes, in part due to the similarities between Pinochet and KR![=MacArthur=] (namely, both are Generals who led[=/=]can lead a coup-d'état against a democratically elected socialist government and install a military dictatorship), and being able to use the FBI to suppress far-left and far-right political opponents.[[/labelnote]]
** Organic Kingdom[[labelnote:Explanation]]A reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integralismo_Lusitano Portuguese integralism]], an ideology grouped under National Populism in-game and have paths in Brazil, Portugal, and Two Sicilies, considered the TokenGoodTeammate of [=NatPops=]. Portuguese integralism advocates a monarchistic, traditionalist, anti-parlamentarist, hardcore Catholic, and yet decentralized government, defined in the vague concept of an "Organic Kingdom". [[/labelnote]]
** Angola é Nossa[[labelnote:Explanation]]Literally "Angola is Ours", the phrase was the real-life slogan of the pro-colonialist side in the Angolan Independence War, and in-game it is used as the name of a focus in the Portuguese tree about defending Portuguese Angola. Online, it is typically used by Portuguese memers who support Portugal holding onto their African colonies.[[/labelnote]]
** Radical Centrism[[labelnote:Explanation]]A real ideology, but something of a running joke amongst the player base, usually depicted as a bizarre combination of all the ideologies in the game, which isn't necessarily an inaccurate description of the actual ideology. Often brought up when people notice bizarre combinations of ideologies in the game, such as having a National Populist as the head of government...when the ruling party is ''Totalist''.[[/labelnote]]
** Jan Smuts is the government of South Africa. ''All of it''.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Should the Dominion Party come to power in South Africa, Jan Smuts can hold ''every'' cabinet position, as well as being the Military Chief of Staff and Chief of the Army, ''all at the same time''.[[/labelnote]]
** Screaming Leon Degrelle/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA[[labelnote:Explanation]] Leon Degrelle, the leader of National Populist Wallonia, has a screaming portrait in the mod. If the KR fandom is to be believed, Degrelle screams constantly and this is the only way he can speak.[[/labelnote]]
** CSA Killdozers[[labelnote:Explanation]]In the 0.8.1 update, the CSA somehow gained [[TankGoodness multiple heavy tank divisions]] several years before the first designs are even ''possible'' to develop. Fans joked that the CSA tanks were giant jury-rigged tractors with guns mounted on them.[[/labelnote]]
*** [[Videogame/DawnOfWar Comrade Stubbs misplaced his Baneblades.]][[labelnote:Explanation]]In the 0.8.2 hotfix, the aforementioned CSA heavy tanks were removed, with the patch note mentioning that "Comrade Stubbs has been informed that his heavy tanks are missing", a reference to ''Dawn of War: Soulstorm'', where General Stubbs misplaced one hundred Baneblade super-heavy tanks. (Memetically. In actuality, he says that they are unavailable due to being deployed elsewhere).[[/labelnote]]
** [=NatPop=] Creator/HPLovecraft.[[note]]Fans asking for Lovecraft to be available as the National Populist leader of New England.[[/note]]
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* The meme. [=[[=]labelnote:Explanation[=]]=]The explanation behind the meme, if necessary.[=[[/=]labelnote[=]]=] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Like this.[[/labelnote]]
** Further mutations and successor memes, if any.
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** Direct rule from London[[labelnote:Explanation]]Originating from one of the options for an event about dealing with Ireland as the Union of Britain, this phrase became associated with Oswald Mosley and his Maximist faction, though "Direct rule from X" can also be used to refer to [[CommieNazis Totalists]] in general or even just any authoritarian regime.[[/labelnote]]
** Every man a king! Share the wealth![[labelnote:Explanation]][[UsefulNotes/HueyLong Huey Long's]] political slogans which are popular among KR players.[[/labelnote]]
** "Break the Chains", "Reclaim the Birthright", and "Guard the Balance"[[labelnote:Explanation]] The slogans of the Internationale, the Entente, and Mitteleuropa respectively.[[/labelnote]]
** Trotsky's penguin army[[labelnote:Explanation]]In Kaiserreich lore, the fate of UsefulNotes/LeonTrotsky was left mysterious, which led fans to jokingly assume that Trotsky is hiding in Antarctica and recruiting penguins for the World Revolution.[[/labelnote]]
** Himmler's Master Race Chickens[[labelnote:Explanation]][[AllThereInTheManual In the old KR wiki]] Heinrich Himmler is described as a settler in the United Baltic Duchy, being famous as the chicken farmer who wants to create the perfect breed of chicken, which he calls the Master Race Chicken. People sort of just went with it, including jokes about him having a chain of restaurants similar to KFC or that he is growing the master chicken race for the ultimate showdown with the aforementioned Trotsky's penguin army.[[/labelnote]]
** "What a childish fantasy."[[labelnote:Explanation]]The blurb written in response to the event regarding the publication of Führerreich/Our Finest Hour, the alternate history novel within where Germany loses the Weltkrieg like in our timeline. Thus, anything having to do with OTL events in a Kasierreich thread is mocked as a childish fantasy.[[/labelnote]]
** Corn Lord[[labelnote:Explanation]]UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev's FanNickname, if he takes over Ukraine. It comes from his massive encouragement of growing corn in the Soviet Union in RealLife after visiting a corn farm in Iowa and becoming friends with the owner, which, among other things, involved establishing a corn institute in Ukraine, importing 4500 tons of corn seed, making a joke to an audience of farmers about how they are probably thinking "Will Khrushchev say something about corn or won't he?" (The answer was yes. He berated them for not growing more corn), and [[DidNotThinkThisThrough trying to grow corn in Siberia]]. His experiment failed (as in, throughout the entire Union, not just Siberia), partially due to failing to supply enough fertilizer, pesticides and herbicides. It also resulted in people hating corn. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer We are not making]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev#Agricultural_policy any of this up]].[[/labelnote]]
** Every X an Ideology[[labelnote:Explanation]] A internet macro picture where an ingame, RealLife, or fictional character from other media are put in a table with all the in-game ideologies and prove why they follow all of them. The original was, of course, [[https://i.imgur.com/bkf0QsN.png Huey Long]], as can be guessed from the fact that the name is mutated from his "Every Man a King" slogan.[[/labelnote]]
*** [=MarLib=][[labelnote:Explanation]] In the layout of the above template, Market Liberals (comparable to present-day right-libertarians), shortened to [=MarLib=], are the final ideology, meaning that they effectively serve as a punchline for the entire image. As such, they are typically portrayed as [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney amoral]] [[TheScrooge greedy]] [[KillThePoor psychopaths]]. [[/labelnote]]
** Soviet Anime[[labelnote:Explanation]]There was a focus for Soviet Russia, should it take the Federationalist path, in which it is to establish an animation studio Creator/{{Soyuzmultfilm}} with the best artists from across the Union and animators who defected from the US and Japan, to create the best animation and make it the envy of the world. The fact that some of the animators are Japanese lead to people joking that, in the Kaiserreich timeline, anime is from Soviet Russia. In the current versions, the focus is still present, but all mentions of foreign animators were removed.[[/labelnote]]
** Democratic Traditions, Socreds and [[ANaziByAnyOtherName NatPop]] Canada[[labelnote:Explanation]]Canada is unable to become [[ANaziByAnyOtherName National Populist]]. Besides other reasons, one of the developers' explanations was that the strong democratic traditions of Canada won't allow it to become an ultranationalist dictatorship. Despite the fact that Canada, in [=KR4=], has focuses that allow it to become an ''absolute monarchy'', and events that allow it to set up a branch of UsefulNotes/TheMounties to act as SecretPolice (weaker and less powerful than most examples, but SecretPolice nonetheless). Not to mention that [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates Canada's southern neighbor]], despite having strong democratic traditions as well, can turn into various sorts of oppressive dictatorships, from full-blown Totalist rule to White supremacist or military dictatorships. This has been widely mocked, with many coming up with reasons why they could become [=NatPop=], specifically under [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_of_Canada the Social Credit (Socred) Party of Canada]] (which was a National Populist party of Canada in older versions of [=KR4=], but later was replaced with the bland "United Empire League", while Socred ministers became authoritarian democrats).[[/labelnote]]
** Codreanu's meathooks[[labelnote:Explanation]] A ''very'' disturbing meme, referencing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_rebellion_and_Bucharest_pogrom Bucharest pogrom in 1941]], commited by the Iron Guard (though it's worth nothing that Codreanu, in spite of his association with this meme, was already dead in 1941). One of the most depressing episodes of the pogroms was [[NightmareFuel impaling several Jews, including a 5-year old girl, on meathooks]]. This pogrom is usually brought up as a proof [[EvilerThanThou why the Iron Guard are one of the few irredeemable villains in]] [[GreyAndGrayMorality Kaiserreich's grey universe]].[[/labelnote]]
** Proof that X will betray the revolution[[labelnote:Explanation]]A common meme among players for Syndicalist countries, which is mostly used to mock Totalists (though not only them) for their "counter-revolutionary" actions, such as opposing the principles of democratic Syndicalism or strange diplomatic actions in game, such as allying with Mitteleuropa or sending volunteers to reactionary powers in various Civil Wars.[[/labelnote]]
** Erect for Kolchak[[labelnote:Explanation]]A phrase which is used for, obviously, exaggerated expression of admiration for Alexander Kolchak, ruler of Transamur in-game, mostly because of [[EnsembleDarkhorse his underdog status as a ruler of a tiny country with ambitions ro reclaim the entirety of Russia]].[[/labelnote]]
** Egyptian volunteers[[labelnote:Explanation]]In earlier versions of [=KR4=], Egypt had a strange tendency to send volunteers to various conflicts around the world (such as the Spanish Civil War, Sternberg's conquests of Asia and the Balkans War), even if those conflicts didn't affect Egypt at all. [[/labelnote]]
** [[https://m.imgur.com/aiaTQXi Moslem General Ma detests Reds, likes wives, song, and ice cream]][[labelnote:Explanation]]Subtitle from an old Life magazine article about Ma Clique general Ma Hongkui that was linked in Progress Report 41. It immediately caught on due to how bizarre it is, alongside the picture in the article of him posing with a sword.[[/labelnote]]
** WELSH UNION HAS CAPITULATED[[labelnote:Explanation]]Since the Welsh Union (formed if Britain goes the [[ChummyCommies Autonomist]] route and does Devolution) has low National Unity and only one core state, it's ''very'' easy to capitulate and re-capitulate.[[/labelnote]]
** Down with the traitors, up with the stars![[labelnote:Explanation]]A phrase from ''The Battle Cry of Freedom'', a popular Union song during the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar, which was quickly adopted as a battle cry by the federalist US sympathizers after the release of the ''World of Kaiserreich'' video talking about the Second American Civil War.[[/labelnote]]
** [=MacArthur=]'s Transport Planes[[labelnote:Explanation]]Fans have hypothesized[=/=]joked that Kaiserreich's equivalent to [[UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet Pinochet's]] [[DeadlyEuphemism "Free Helicopter Rides"]] is [=MacArthur=] having syndicalists thrown out of transport planes, in part due to the similarities between Pinochet and KR![=MacArthur=] (namely, both are Generals who led[=/=]can lead a coup-d'état against a democratically elected socialist government and install a military dictatorship), and being able to use the FBI to suppress far-left and far-right political opponents.[[/labelnote]]
** Organic Kingdom[[labelnote:Explanation]]A reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integralismo_Lusitano Portuguese integralism]], an ideology grouped under National Populism in-game and have paths in Brazil, Portugal, and Two Sicilies, considered the TokenGoodTeammate of [=NatPops=]. Portuguese integralism advocates a monarchistic, traditionalist, anti-parlamentarist, hardcore Catholic, and yet decentralized government, defined in the vague concept of an "Organic Kingdom". [[/labelnote]]
** Angola é Nossa[[labelnote:Explanation]]Literally "Angola is Ours", the phrase was the real-life slogan of the pro-colonialist side in the Angolan Independence War, and in-game it is used as the name of a focus in the Portuguese tree about defending Portuguese Angola. Online, it is typically used by Portuguese memers who support Portugal holding onto their African colonies.[[/labelnote]]
** Radical Centrism[[labelnote:Explanation]]A real ideology, but something of a running joke amongst the player base, usually depicted as a bizarre combination of all the ideologies in the game, which isn't necessarily an inaccurate description of the actual ideology. Often brought up when people notice bizarre combinations of ideologies in the game, such as having a National Populist as the head of government...when the ruling party is ''Totalist''.[[/labelnote]]
** Jan Smuts is the government of South Africa. ''All of it''.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Should the Dominion Party come to power in South Africa, Jan Smuts can hold ''every'' cabinet position, as well as being the Military Chief of Staff and Chief of the Army, ''all at the same time''.[[/labelnote]]
** Screaming Leon Degrelle/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA[[labelnote:Explanation]] Leon Degrelle, the leader of National Populist Wallonia, has a screaming portrait in the mod. If the KR fandom is to be believed, Degrelle screams constantly and this is the only way he can speak.[[/labelnote]]
** CSA Killdozers[[labelnote:Explanation]]In the 0.8.1 update, the CSA somehow gained [[TankGoodness multiple heavy tank divisions]] several years before the first designs are even ''possible'' to develop. Fans joked that the CSA tanks were giant jury-rigged tractors with guns mounted on them.[[/labelnote]]
*** [[Videogame/DawnOfWar Comrade Stubbs misplaced his Baneblades.]][[labelnote:Explanation]]In the 0.8.2 hotfix, the aforementioned CSA heavy tanks were removed, with the patch note mentioning that "Comrade Stubbs has been informed that his heavy tanks are missing", a reference to ''Dawn of War: Soulstorm'', where General Stubbs misplaced one hundred Baneblade super-heavy tanks. (Memetically. In actuality, he says that they are unavailable due to being deployed elsewhere).[[/labelnote]]
** [=NatPop=] Creator/HPLovecraft.[[note]]Fans asking for Lovecraft to be available as the National Populist leader of New England.[[/note]]
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!!Please add entries in the following format:
* The meme. [=[[=]labelnote:Explanation[=]]=]The explanation behind the meme, if necessary.[=[[/=]labelnote[=]]=] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Like this.[[/labelnote]]
** Further mutations and successor memes, if any.
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** Direct rule from London[[labelnote:Explanation]]Originating from one of the options for an event about dealing with Ireland as the Union of Britain, this phrase became associated with Oswald Mosley and his Maximist faction, though "Direct rule from X" can also be used to refer to [[CommieNazis Totalists]] in general or even just any authoritarian regime.[[/labelnote]]
** Every man a king! Share the wealth![[labelnote:Explanation]][[UsefulNotes/HueyLong Huey Long's]] political slogans which are popular among KR players.[[/labelnote]]
** "Break the Chains", "Reclaim the Birthright", and "Guard the Balance"[[labelnote:Explanation]] The slogans of the Internationale, the Entente, and Mitteleuropa respectively.[[/labelnote]]
** Trotsky's penguin army[[labelnote:Explanation]]In Kaiserreich lore, the fate of UsefulNotes/LeonTrotsky was left mysterious, which led fans to jokingly assume that Trotsky is hiding in Antarctica and recruiting penguins for the World Revolution.[[/labelnote]]
** Himmler's Master Race Chickens[[labelnote:Explanation]][[AllThereInTheManual In the old KR wiki]] Heinrich Himmler is described as a settler in the United Baltic Duchy, being famous as the chicken farmer who wants to create the perfect breed of chicken, which he calls the Master Race Chicken. People sort of just went with it, including jokes about him having a chain of restaurants similar to KFC or that he is growing the master chicken race for the ultimate showdown with the aforementioned Trotsky's penguin army.[[/labelnote]]
** "What a childish fantasy."[[labelnote:Explanation]]The blurb written in response to the event regarding the publication of Führerreich/Our Finest Hour, the alternate history novel within where Germany loses the Weltkrieg like in our timeline. Thus, anything having to do with OTL events in a Kasierreich thread is mocked as a childish fantasy.[[/labelnote]]
** Corn Lord[[labelnote:Explanation]]UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev's FanNickname, if he takes over Ukraine. It comes from his massive encouragement of growing corn in the Soviet Union in RealLife after visiting a corn farm in Iowa and becoming friends with the owner, which, among other things, involved establishing a corn institute in Ukraine, importing 4500 tons of corn seed, making a joke to an audience of farmers about how they are probably thinking "Will Khrushchev say something about corn or won't he?" (The answer was yes. He berated them for not growing more corn), and [[DidNotThinkThisThrough trying to grow corn in Siberia]]. His experiment failed (as in, throughout the entire Union, not just Siberia), partially due to failing to supply enough fertilizer, pesticides and herbicides. It also resulted in people hating corn. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer We are not making]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev#Agricultural_policy any of this up]].[[/labelnote]]
** Every X an Ideology[[labelnote:Explanation]] A internet macro picture where an ingame, RealLife, or fictional character from other media are put in a table with all the in-game ideologies and prove why they follow all of them. The original was, of course, [[https://i.imgur.com/bkf0QsN.png Huey Long]], as can be guessed from the fact that the name is mutated from his "Every Man a King" slogan.[[/labelnote]]
*** [=MarLib=][[labelnote:Explanation]] In the layout of the above template, Market Liberals (comparable to present-day right-libertarians), shortened to [=MarLib=], are the final ideology, meaning that they effectively serve as a punchline for the entire image. As such, they are typically portrayed as [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney amoral]] [[TheScrooge greedy]] [[KillThePoor psychopaths]]. [[/labelnote]]
** Soviet Anime[[labelnote:Explanation]]There was a focus for Soviet Russia, should it take the Federationalist path, in which it is to establish an animation studio Creator/{{Soyuzmultfilm}} with the best artists from across the Union and animators who defected from the US and Japan, to create the best animation and make it the envy of the world. The fact that some of the animators are Japanese lead to people joking that, in the Kaiserreich timeline, anime is from Soviet Russia. In the current versions, the focus is still present, but all mentions of foreign animators were removed.[[/labelnote]]
** Democratic Traditions, Socreds and [[ANaziByAnyOtherName NatPop]] Canada[[labelnote:Explanation]]Canada is unable to become [[ANaziByAnyOtherName National Populist]]. Besides other reasons, one of the developers' explanations was that the strong democratic traditions of Canada won't allow it to become an ultranationalist dictatorship. Despite the fact that Canada, in [=KR4=], has focuses that allow it to become an ''absolute monarchy'', and events that allow it to set up a branch of UsefulNotes/TheMounties to act as SecretPolice (weaker and less powerful than most examples, but SecretPolice nonetheless). Not to mention that [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates Canada's southern neighbor]], despite having strong democratic traditions as well, can turn into various sorts of oppressive dictatorships, from full-blown Totalist rule to White supremacist or military dictatorships. This has been widely mocked, with many coming up with reasons why they could become [=NatPop=], specifically under [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_of_Canada the Social Credit (Socred) Party of Canada]] (which was a National Populist party of Canada in older versions of [=KR4=], but later was replaced with the bland "United Empire League", while Socred ministers became authoritarian democrats).[[/labelnote]]
** Codreanu's meathooks[[labelnote:Explanation]] A ''very'' disturbing meme, referencing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_rebellion_and_Bucharest_pogrom Bucharest pogrom in 1941]], commited by the Iron Guard (though it's worth nothing that Codreanu, in spite of his association with this meme, was already dead in 1941). One of the most depressing episodes of the pogroms was [[NightmareFuel impaling several Jews, including a 5-year old girl, on meathooks]]. This pogrom is usually brought up as a proof [[EvilerThanThou why the Iron Guard are one of the few irredeemable villains in]] [[GreyAndGrayMorality Kaiserreich's grey universe]].[[/labelnote]]
** Proof that X will betray the revolution[[labelnote:Explanation]]A common meme among players for Syndicalist countries, which is mostly used to mock Totalists (though not only them) for their "counter-revolutionary" actions, such as opposing the principles of democratic Syndicalism or strange diplomatic actions in game, such as allying with Mitteleuropa or sending volunteers to reactionary powers in various Civil Wars.[[/labelnote]]
** Erect for Kolchak[[labelnote:Explanation]]A phrase which is used for, obviously, exaggerated expression of admiration for Alexander Kolchak, ruler of Transamur in-game, mostly because of [[EnsembleDarkhorse his underdog status as a ruler of a tiny country with ambitions ro reclaim the entirety of Russia]].[[/labelnote]]
** Egyptian volunteers[[labelnote:Explanation]]In earlier versions of [=KR4=], Egypt had a strange tendency to send volunteers to various conflicts around the world (such as the Spanish Civil War, Sternberg's conquests of Asia and the Balkans War), even if those conflicts didn't affect Egypt at all. [[/labelnote]]
** [[https://m.imgur.com/aiaTQXi Moslem General Ma detests Reds, likes wives, song, and ice cream]][[labelnote:Explanation]]Subtitle from an old Life magazine article about Ma Clique general Ma Hongkui that was linked in Progress Report 41. It immediately caught on due to how bizarre it is, alongside the picture in the article of him posing with a sword.[[/labelnote]]
** WELSH UNION HAS CAPITULATED[[labelnote:Explanation]]Since the Welsh Union (formed if Britain goes the [[ChummyCommies Autonomist]] route and does Devolution) has low National Unity and only one core state, it's ''very'' easy to capitulate and re-capitulate.[[/labelnote]]
** Down with the traitors, up with the stars![[labelnote:Explanation]]A phrase from ''The Battle Cry of Freedom'', a popular Union song during the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar, which was quickly adopted as a battle cry by the federalist US sympathizers after the release of the ''World of Kaiserreich'' video talking about the Second American Civil War.[[/labelnote]]
** [=MacArthur=]'s Transport Planes[[labelnote:Explanation]]Fans have hypothesized[=/=]joked that Kaiserreich's equivalent to [[UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet Pinochet's]] [[DeadlyEuphemism "Free Helicopter Rides"]] is [=MacArthur=] having syndicalists thrown out of transport planes, in part due to the similarities between Pinochet and KR![=MacArthur=] (namely, both are Generals who led[=/=]can lead a coup-d'état against a democratically elected socialist government and install a military dictatorship), and being able to use the FBI to suppress far-left and far-right political opponents.[[/labelnote]]
** Organic Kingdom[[labelnote:Explanation]]A reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integralismo_Lusitano Portuguese integralism]], an ideology grouped under National Populism in-game and have paths in Brazil, Portugal, and Two Sicilies, considered the TokenGoodTeammate of [=NatPops=]. Portuguese integralism advocates a monarchistic, traditionalist, anti-parlamentarist, hardcore Catholic, and yet decentralized government, defined in the vague concept of an "Organic Kingdom". [[/labelnote]]
** Angola é Nossa[[labelnote:Explanation]]Literally "Angola is Ours", the phrase was the real-life slogan of the pro-colonialist side in the Angolan Independence War, and in-game it is used as the name of a focus in the Portuguese tree about defending Portuguese Angola. Online, it is typically used by Portuguese memers who support Portugal holding onto their African colonies.[[/labelnote]]
** Radical Centrism[[labelnote:Explanation]]A real ideology, but something of a running joke amongst the player base, usually depicted as a bizarre combination of all the ideologies in the game, which isn't necessarily an inaccurate description of the actual ideology. Often brought up when people notice bizarre combinations of ideologies in the game, such as having a National Populist as the head of government...when the ruling party is ''Totalist''.[[/labelnote]]
** Jan Smuts is the government of South Africa. ''All of it''.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Should the Dominion Party come to power in South Africa, Jan Smuts can hold ''every'' cabinet position, as well as being the Military Chief of Staff and Chief of the Army, ''all at the same time''.[[/labelnote]]
** Screaming Leon Degrelle/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA[[labelnote:Explanation]] Leon Degrelle, the leader of National Populist Wallonia, has a screaming portrait in the mod. If the KR fandom is to be believed, Degrelle screams constantly and this is the only way he can speak.[[/labelnote]]
** CSA Killdozers[[labelnote:Explanation]]In the 0.8.1 update, the CSA somehow gained [[TankGoodness multiple heavy tank divisions]] several years before the first designs are even ''possible'' to develop. Fans joked that the CSA tanks were giant jury-rigged tractors with guns mounted on them.[[/labelnote]]
*** [[Videogame/DawnOfWar Comrade Stubbs misplaced his Baneblades.]][[labelnote:Explanation]]In the 0.8.2 hotfix, the aforementioned CSA heavy tanks were removed, with the patch note mentioning that "Comrade Stubbs has been informed that his heavy tanks are missing", a reference to ''Dawn of War: Soulstorm'', where General Stubbs misplaced one hundred Baneblade super-heavy tanks. (Memetically. In actuality, he says that they are unavailable due to being deployed elsewhere).[[/labelnote]]
** [=NatPop=] Creator/HPLovecraft.[[note]]Fans asking for Lovecraft to be available as the National Populist leader of New England.[[/note]]
