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[Ghazkull]

Realpolitik

Link to the IC-Thread


Realpolitik was originally an interactive AAR(AfterActionReport) for the Hearts of Iron 2 Mod Kaiserreich.

The Original

Since many of the modding tools used in there seem to be gone however, i will do this strictly as a forumgame.

So what is this about?

The Kaiserreich Mod put the Game into an alternative Historical Scenario. Among the most important happenings in that Alternative Timeline the German Kaiserreich won World War I.
In Realpolitik players take control of Parties inside the German Reichstag beginning from the year 1936 in a bid to win the elections and form the Government of the German Kaiserreich.
Every two years there is a new election which decides who will decide upon the Fate of Germany and Mitteleuropa.

For Reference here is the Alternative Timeline beginning 1914 up to 1936: Timeline

How am i going to play?

First of all we can have a unlimited amount of players. Each of you can form his own Party (up to a maximum of 10 to save my sanity or whats left of it anyway) with its entirely own Political Program and world views whatever you like. With those you can attract like-minded players to join your party.

When we have at least 3 parties(or as many as i feel necessary) i will post the issues for the 1936 Elections and you can start your Election Campaigns(which will again last as long as i feel necessary). Once done every player and even every !!reader!! can cast two votes for one or two of the parties. With the end of the Elections parties can form Coalitions and in the end the party or coalition with the most Percent wins the Election.

The Winning Party then forms the government. Depending on Interest and Number of Players you have to fill up at least the 3 positions of Chancellor of the Reich, Defense Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs, but if you have enough people in your Coalition/Party you can split those 3 up into more Cabinet positions up to 8 maximum.

So we won, what the hell now?
You will make a public adress to the people in the IC-Thread (at least those who gained Cabinet Positions). Then you will be given a runners down of the current Political,Economical and Social Situation of the Kaiserreich, and have to decide how to improve these. You also have to solve the Issues you are presented with, which in some cases may be solved your complete own way or which may only have several choices.

Depending on your Choices Germanies star will Rise or Fall.


What if my party loses the Elections?

You and the other losing parties will form the Opposition. For one you can comment on the Governments actions. If the Chancellor displeases the public too much this will have penalties upon Germany so be careful, even worse if most of the Opposition is displeased they can demand re-elections!

The Opposition is also able to perform the String-Pulls. Since you guys can do nothing while somebody else is reigning you can suggest Events around the World, which might pester the current government. However you need the support of at least 50% of the other Opposition members.

Important Rules:

- I as host reserve the right to veto any action any player wishes to undertake: To consolidate the stability of the game, to stop interference with the normal functioning of the thread or simply because i feel like it

- Rule 1 of Realpolitik: Democracy is absolute. Even when the nazi's or communists are elected into office, they will still have to answer to the opposition and face elections every two years

- Any member is free to establish or join a political party of his choice. A member can only be member of one party at a time, although he is free to switch allegiance whenever he sees fit.

-Roleplaying is encouraged, but not enforced.

- Every two ingame years an election shall be held, the first election will be held in March 1936. Everyone registered on Bay12 is eligible to vote.

- Parties are allowed to form coalitions. At the end of an election, all votes are tallied and the party or coalition with the largest % of votes wins the election

- The parties that did not win will be sent to opposition, where they can comment on the policy of the leading faction. I will monitor opposition closely, and the leading player has to understand that failing to appease the public will lead to me penalizing Germany ingame (dissent, economic shortages...). It is therefore very important to listen to the public, who can demand re-elections as well

- The winning party or coalition will come into office the ingame update after the elections. They will have to put forward three leading figures for the government: A Chancellor, Army Affairs Minister and Internal Affairs Minister. These three people, backed up by their party members, will be responsible for making decisions ingame. You can split up this Cabinet into up to 8 positions to satisfy more party members.

- Every reader (including players) has two votes in the election. Putting in two votes for a single party is allowed.

- It is strictly forbidden to campaign outside of the Realpolitik thread (spamming up other threads): really now you dont need to annoy other people just to get one or two votes more...

-I retain full right to ban any party that has violated these rules. Spamming parties, parties inciting hate or parties that are found obtrusive for the normal functioning of this thread will be banned from the elections indefinitely.

- If you pm any other parties or players concerning Ingame backroom-dealings, please put me in as CC so that i know what the hell is going on.

- By voting, joining a party or performing any other form of interaction with this Game, you declare that you have read and understood these rules to the letter.

Okay,Okay,I've read the Rules how do i make my Party?

If you want to make a party, you need to update the post where you present it regularly (Mostly just the Members and the Party Program)

1.Your Parties Name
2.Your Parties Emblem/Coat of Arms (Optional)
3.Your Parties rough Political Direction
4.Your General Program (Foreign Policy, Social Policy, Economical Policy)
5.Your Program for the Upcoming Election (as soon as i Make the Opening Post).
6.Parties History, Description, more indepth Political Direction, whateveryoufeelwillattractmoremembers
7.Your Parties current Members with links to their profiles.

[10ebbor10]

Nevermind. Going to join somebody else's party .

[GreatWyrmGold]

Spoiler: Die Gedankenjustierer Partei (click to show/hide)

Coat of Arms coming later.

Political Direction: Basically, whatever will make Germany the greatest it can be, followed by whatever will make humanity the best it can be.

General Program: One part supporting the sciences, especially social sciences, to two or three parts whatever studies and theories indicate is best for Germany and humanity (or, barring that, what the public thinks is best).

PftUE: Waiting for Politischewahl. Waiting on knowledge of what theories would be used.
Probable Positions: Pro-Universal-Sufferage, Pro-Doctrine-Revision, Expansionist, [Uncertain on the Issue], [Ditto], Pro-Realpolitik

History: Die Gedankenjustierer Pertei (For short: The Gendankens to their supporters or The Geindeskren (heavily corrupted form of "Insane") to their detractors) trace their origins to a group of American scholars who fled to Germany several years before the Unification. They settled in Falkenstein, a town in the Regensburg area. They started what would, in our world in time, be called a "think tank" as a sort of hobby. Eventually, this group (the "Gedanken Vereinigten") managed to recuit some native Germans; slowly, they managed to gain support in the community, which gained momentum after helping the city plan some major changes during the Great War, allowing them to remain relatively unaffected by the War. As time went on, a number of parties rose to try and claim a portion of the power in German government. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the G.V. found fault with the way the government acted, and more with the plans of many parties. Hence, they chose to create their own party--initially mainly a regional one, but which managed to capture the attention of the nation with its unique policy decisions.
Description: The Gendankens have never and probably will never be a defining party in Germany, but they hope to be. Their leaders tend to be more well-educated than most, and even the random members tend to be better-educated than average. Their stances on issues are based more on what their studies show to be the best rather than following some set of ethical goals; this makes them more flexible and moderate than most parties, but also more likely to change their minds. The prevailing stereotype is that they are somewhere between well-meaning and willing to compromise, and a bunch of cowards who want to be able to have an excuse for their mistakes.

Members: Yours truly, not sure if anyone else would like to join.

"Scientia est Magis, Auam Aurum--Wissen ist Mehr als Gold"

Do we need to worry about individual candidates?

P.S. Eine Anmerkung: Mein Deutsch ist schlecht, so werde ich wohl auf Google verlassen Übersetzen für jeden deutschen ich benutze. Hilfe für die es eigentlich richtig viel geschätzt wird.

[Ghazkull]

aye you need at least 3 players to form a Government, since at leas tthe position of Military Minister,Chancellor and Internal Affairs needs to be filled out.

[Kaferian]

Yay! A Kaiserreich forum game!

Spoiler: Alldeutsche Verband (click to show/hide)

1. Alldeutsche Verband
2. N/A
3. Extremist National-Populists
4.
Foreign Policy:
- Focuses on incorporating the German-speaking countries into The German Empire.
- Protect The Allgemeine Ostasiatische Gesellschaft from the Qing and the Japanese.

Social Policy:
- Fund far-reaching, comprehensive social policies ensuring that every German receives his share.

Economical Policy:
- Heavily Socialistic economy with most of the industry being government-owned.
- Encourages the "Iron Rice Bowl" practices and others currently going on in the Algostasien GmbH and hopes to implement it in the German colonies and Freistaat Mittelafrika.

5. No Opening Post yet.
6. The AV was formed nearly ten years ago as an alternative to the various leftist and center parties being formed. At first, the party was lightly Anti-Semitic and fiercely Anti-Syndicalist. However, their stance on the Jewry changed about 3 years ago when the Jüdischen Alldeutsche Partei was formed from Jewish Germans. As both of the parties wanted a true Greater Germany, the AV dropped the Anti-Semite portion of their platform. However, they still hated the Syndicalists as the party wanted to "Stop the Red Death", so they were many fights between them and various underground syndicalist parties.
7. Kaferian. kingfisher1112.

[Bdthemag]

Oh fuck yeah, motherfucking Kaiserreich. Syndicalism time!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1. Vereinigte Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
2. Maybe later.
3. Radical Soclialist, with a growing syndicalist membership.
4.
Foreign Policy: Isolationism from the rest of the world, some contact with other syndicalist nations.
Social Policy: General social laws will be passed by a national government, and smaller issues will be left to local trade unions.
Economic Policy: A strong central planning policy, with the planning done by trade unions on both a local and national level.
5. Ensuring prosperity and equality for all members of German society, especially the neglected lower class.
6. The VDA was formed two years ago as one of hte few socialist parties in Germany at the time, during a period where the minority support for socialist policies began to grow. They stayed relatively underground due to the feared backlash against the party, until the next election. They've already dealt with almost being shut down with the German government, due to a small-scale protest gone horribly wrong, involving the arrest of multiple members of the VDA as a fight broke out between an opposing political party. They recovered though, and attracted the attention of various syndicalists who flocked to the only active party in the nation. This caused a bit of friction between some of the original members, who didn't necessarily wanted to be associated with the unpopular syndicalists most of the german public was poised to hate during the latter half of 1935. Despite this, they strode on and surprisingly managed to not get into much trouble with the Germany authorities. With the election drawing near, the various members of the party are crawling out of the woodwork in an attempt to garner any kind of support they can get. But with the clashes between the Syndicalist and Radical Socialists, this may prove difficult. Even more so when the new "Next step in socialism" is announced to the world early this year.
7. Myself

[Kaferian]

Oh fuck yeah, motherfucking Kaiserreich. Syndicalism time!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1. Vereinigte Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
2. Maybe later.
3. Radical Soclialist, with a growing syndicalist membership.
4.
Foreign Policy: Isolationism from the rest of the world, some contact with other syndicalist nations.
Social Policy: General social laws will be passed by a national government, and smaller issues will be left to local trade unions.
Economic Policy: A strong central planning policy, with the planning done by trade unions on both a local and national level.
5. Ensuring prosperity and equality for all members of German society, especially the neglected lower class.
6. The VDA was formed two years ago as one of hte few socialist parties in Germany at the time, during a period where the minority support for socialist policies began to grow. They stayed relatively underground due to the feared backlash against the party, until the next election. They've already dealt with almost being shut down with the German government, due to a small-scale protest gone horribly wrong, involving the arrest of multiple members of the VDA as a fight broke out between an opposing political party. They recovered though, and attracted the attention of various syndicalists who flocked to the only active party in the nation. This caused a bit of friction between some of the original members, who didn't necessarily wanted to be associated with the unpopular syndicalists most of the german public was poised to hate during the latter half of 1935. Despite this, they strode on and surprisingly managed to not get into much trouble with the Germany authorities. With the election drawing near, the various members of the party are crawling out of the woodwork in an attempt to garner any kind of support they can get. But with the clashes between the Syndicalist and Radical Socialists, this may prove difficult. Even more so when the new "Next step in socialism" is announced to the world early this year.
7. Myself

OOC:Red Scum! Though, I suppose there has to be a Syndicalist party is there is a National-Populist party. I'll still be trying to wipe out syndicalism.

[Cheesecake]

Can I join one of the other parties? If so, can I defect and make my own party later? I just want to join the game before I get to a computer to make my party (which would probably be on Friday).

[Bdthemag]

Can I join one of the other parties? If so, can I defect and make my own party later? I just want to join the game before I get to a computer to make my party (which would probably be on Friday).

I assume you can do both from what the OP stated, but considering I doubt this game will have an initially low population it'd probably not be best for EVERYONE to make a political party.

[kingfisher1112]

PTW and going to wait for a good party to crop up.

[Ghazkull]

Can I join one of the other parties? If so, can I defect and make my own party later? I just want to join the game before I get to a computer to make my party (which would probably be on Friday).

yeah its all possible.

Generally you should make big parties not many parties, If you have a party with many players in it you dont need to make as much compromises when forming a coalition as when you have just 1 or 2 members and need to coalize(is that the right word?) with 4 or even 5 other parties to get a majority..

[Kaferian]

Can I join one of the other parties? If so, can I defect and make my own party later? I just want to join the game before I get to a computer to make my party (which would probably be on Friday).

yeah its all possible.

Generally you should make big parties not many parties, If you have a party with many players in it you dont need to make as much compromises when forming a coalition as when you have just 1 or 2 members and need to coalize(is that the right word?) with 4 or even 5 other parties to get a majority..

OOC: The word is coalesce. You just used the Romanian version of it.

[Ardas]

PTW and waiting for a liberal/democratic party.

[Ghazkull]

Okay 3 Parties so far:

The Gedankenjustierer Partei (GJP) -National Populist/Paternal Autocrat? Which hasn't given much of anything concerning its political program and direction

The Alldeutscher Verband (ADV) - National Populistic, rightwing party. Promoting a Centralized Economy, a jingoistic imperialist Foreign Policy but stays vague on its Social Program

The Vereinigte Deutsche Arbeiterpartei(VDA) - Radical Socialist/Syndicalist. Promoting a Centralized Economy administrated by Trade Unions, a Isolationist Pacifist/Dove-Lobby Foreign Policy, but stays vague as all other parties on it's Social Policies.

So, interestingly we lack any Emperor-loyal Parties, it seems the Prussian Conservative Party (which existed in the real and the fictional timeline) has not a single party member. heh. Also of notable lack any Market Liberals, Social Democrats or Social Conservatives.

[adwarf]

PTW and waiting for a party I like to be formed.