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Post subject: SlovetiniaPosted: March 3rd, 2019, 5:12 pm
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Full name: Slovetinia
Location: Europe/Balkans (Replaces Slovenia)
Capital: Postojna
National language: German
Recognized languages: Slovenian, Hungarian
Government: Crowned Republic
Formation: 1905AD
Population: 2.79 Million (2010 Census)
Annual growth: +.01%
GDP (nominal): $359.41 Billion (36th Worldwide)
HDI: 0.863 (2015)
Currency: Slovetinian Krone (1.25 USD, 2018)
Time zone: GMT+1
Date format: mm-dd-yyyy (AD)
Drives on the: Left
Internet TLD: .sl0
Calling Code: +386
Manpower (active and reserves) (2019)
Army: 35,000
Air Force: 12,790
Navy: 26,868

Major Cities (2017 estimate):

1- Postojna, 300,000
2- Ljubljana, 275,000
3- Trieste, 204,000
4- Udine, 99,341
5- Maribor, 94,300
6- Celje, 38,079
7- Kranj, 37,373
8- Nova Gorica, 32,763
9- Velenje, 25,333
10- Koper, 25,319
11- Novo Mesto, 23,341


Population history:

1905: 891,200 (Estimate)
1910: 1.01 Million (Official Census)
1920: 1.05 Million (Official Census)
1930: 1.08 Million (Official Census)
1940: 1.1 Million (Official Census)
1946: 1.09 Million (Official Census)
1950: 1.3 Million (Official Census)
1960: 1.8 Million (Official Census)
1970: 2.1 Million (Official Census)
1980: 2.3 Million (Official Census)
1990: 2.5 Million (Official Census)
2000: 2.68 Million (Official Census)
2010: 2.79 Million (Official Census)


Ethnic groups: (2010)
97.6% White
2% Black
0.4% Other

Timeline:
1905 - Succession from Austria-Hungary, the UK and France support Slovetinia preventing war
1914 - Great War begins
1916 - Slovetinia enters the war
1918 - End of WWI, Slovetinia gains territory
1919 - Monarchist Government replaced with Crowned Republic
1920 - Isolationist Policy in place, technology remains stagnant
1934 - Major rearmament and change in policy following 1933 German elections
1939 - WWII Begins
1941 - Slovetinia invaded by the Axis powers, takes heavy losses but holds ground
1945 - WWII ends, small territorial changes (including the Annexation of Trieste)
1949 - Slovetinia joins NATO
1952 - Slovetinian "Civil War" (Soviet agents spark Socialist uprisings)
1971 to 1974 - Yugoslav War (Border conflicts with Yugoslavia)
1990 to 1991 - Participation in the Gulf War
1992 to 2004 - Partcipation in NATO intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina

More to come.



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Post subject: Republik-Class Coastal Defense ShipPosted: March 3rd, 2019, 5:27 pm
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In 1906, the newly formed Slovetinian government requested a single CDS from a Portorož shipbuilding firm. The design was to be based upon the Swedish CDS Oscar II, but slightly larger. The keel of this ship, soon known as Republik, was laid in 1907. After many delays due to material shortages, the Republik was launched on March 3rd, 1909. Following it's rushed construction, the ship would be commissioned into the Slovetinian Royal Navy as SKS Republik, KVS-01, on November 7th, 1911. The ship would serve as the main line of defense for the Slovetinian coast, specifically the valuable ports of Koper and Portorož. It would be refitted in 1916, following Slovetinia's entry into the Great War. After the war, the ship would be relegated to a floating defensive fort off of the coast near Koper. It would eventually be abandoned and left to rot in 1936, being semi-reactivated during the second world war. It was eventually permanently decommissioned and retired in 1946, and was turned into Slovetinia's first (and only) museum ship.

Republik As Commissioned:
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Length: 343 feet
Beam: 51 feet, 2 inches
Draft: 14 feet
Speed: 19 kts
Displacement: 4,672 Long Tons (Standard), 4,931 Long Tons (Deep Load)

Armament:
4x 8" Guns in two twin turrets (one fore, one aft)
8x 5" Guns in four twin turrets (two per side, grouped amidships)
4x 3" QF Guns in four single mounts (two per side, on the superstructure)
5x 12.7mm Machine Guns (two aft, two on the superstructure, one on the bow)

Refits soon.

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Post subject: Re: SlovetiniaPosted: March 3rd, 2019, 7:55 pm
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Forgive me nit-picking, but do I see correctly, that You gave a country with population of barely 2,8 million people the armed forces that have 750000 active personnel?
More than 1 in 4 people in the active military? North Korea don't have such high ratio and even Wehrmacht in the last months of war didn't. ;)
(actually it's more than total strength of British armed forces in mid-1950s - and in early 1950s whole Yugoslavia, at great expense, when Soviet invasion seemed almost imminent, could for some time muster around 600000)
At such population You can count on some 30000 (thirty thousand) active personnel plus some 300000 (three hundred thousand) reservists, assuming very efficient mobilization system (like in Cold War Switzerland or in Israel).


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Post subject: Re: SlovetiniaPosted: March 3rd, 2019, 8:01 pm
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eswube wrote: *
Forgive me nit-picking, but do I see correctly, that You gave a country with population of barely 2,8 million people the armed forces that have 750000 active personnel?
More than 1 in 4 people in the active military? North Korea don't have such high ratio and even Wehrmacht in the last months of war didn't. ;)
(actually it's more than total strength of British armed forces in mid-1950s - and in early 1950s whole Yugoslavia, at great expense, when Soviet invasion seemed almost imminent, could for some time muster around 600000)
At such population You can count on some 30000 (thirty thousand) active personnel plus some 300000 (three hundred thousand) reservists, assuming very efficient mobilization system (like in Cold War Switzerland or in Israel).

My mistake. I'll fix it.

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Post subject: Re: SlovetiniaPosted: April 21st, 2019, 2:40 am
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In 1913, just over a year after commissioning, Republik underwent it's first refit. This refit was primarily to solve a number of issues caused by the rushed construction of the vessel, including weak structural stability in some areas and sub-par rivets (which would occasionally fail and cause flooding). The ship was also found to be wet forward in anything but the calmest of seas, so the bow was slightly revised to help solve the issue. These fixes worked at first, but it would be discovered in the 1930s, when the ship was nearing the end of it's life, that the issues were much more widespread than thought at the time. In August, only a month after the refit was finished, she would participate in the first Slovetinian Fleet Review, for which she would receive a new, more flashy, paint scheme.


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Post subject: Re: SlovetiniaPosted: July 18th, 2019, 7:05 pm
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The cornerstone of the modern Slovetinian Royal Navy is the Admiral Brunner Class Frigate. A slightly-modified Damen SIGMA 10514, the four vessels of the class are some of the newest in service.

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