Legend:
A = Damagaram Republic.
B = Sokoto.
C = (former) Territory of Lagos and Kano.
If you vote for Africa, you will take control over the former territories of British Nigeria. In 1946, George VI supported the notion of turning British held dominions into sovereign states and members of the Commonwealth. The Parliament supported the notion, and withing the year decided to grant the Federation of Nigeria partial independence. The newly created country was poorly administered by governors backed with colonial troops, however, causing great resentment among the native populace. The precarious stability couldn't hold and in 1947 a native uprising led to a civil war. The British decided not to interfere due to Labour's Clement Attlee trying to pursue a non-interventionist policy in the Commonwealth.
In 1947 India and Pakistan were granted independence. In South Africa, Jan Smuts gets reelected, defeating Daniel Francois Malan and curbs hardline Afrikaneers proposing this system of segregation they called "Apartheid".
The war in Nigeria gained much international attention, and after a few months of fighting, three nations emerged out of the fire.
The smallest and weakest of the three was the Damagaram Republic, poised in the northeastmost territories of the former Federation of Nigeria (from now on abbreviated as FoN), claiming legitimacy as the successors to the Damagaram Sultanate of pre-colonial Africa. It's population largely Kanuri or Margi, it is a largely successful state, with a democratic (gasp!) government backed by the UN. It is the only country with significant foreign recognition.
The centrally placed country is the country of Sokoto. Dominated by a clique of Edo and Ijaw nationalists, it is a loosely held federation, tearing at the edges from oppression of it's non-accepted citizenry (about anyone who isn't Edo or Ijaw). It has a strong military, but it is by far the least stable of the Nigerian countries. A nudge here and there could destroy this federation and tear into smaller countries.
And then there are you. The yet-unnamed country (formerly known as Trust Territories of Kano and Lagos). With the unofficial capital of the state being Lagos, you claim to be the one and only successor state to FoN and you have month upon months of heavy fighting with Sokoto to show for it. With recognition only from South Africa, Pakistani and the Soviet Union, you are poised to fight for every inch of soil if you mean to free the proletariate from their bourgeiosie oppressors.
Are you ready to lead Nigeria towards a better future? Can you truly achieve the communist dream? Can you create a civilization that will weather the test of time?
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