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The current war situation in the Ottoman Republic (formerly the Ottoman Empire), now trying to hold on to its last vestiges of imperial splendor as various rebelling factions with differing and clashing agenda fight for freedom and determination. Due to military bungling, intervention by foreign powers, terrorism and many more fuck-ups by all sides, the revolutions had turned into a bloody (technically) civil war.

All colored territories are officially part of the Ottoman Republic, but not in practice since their battered military has retreated to concentrate on protecting more vital areas, leaving large swathes of areas under rebel control.



OTTOMAN = the principal state actor and state military, the Ottoman military has been exhausted by war with desert demon realms and is now being battered more by revolutions. Thankfully, their humanist and anti-monster stance has allowed the Human Liberation Front to give them military and economic aid, but there are more practical reasons; the HLF is in war in different theatres across the world and it seems that they cannot afford to open one more theatre for their forces. However, as rebels take more and more territory, their progress is losing momentum, as the Ottomans are gaining more money to purchase new military equipment and receive tutorship from HLF advisors to push them back. Currently, the Ottoman Republic is running on a war economy, and the President has declared martial law throughout the Republic, whether those territories affected or unaffected by war.



DEMON’S DAWN = a group supported by Druella’s extremist faction, they are one of the most potent enemies of the Republic for converting the territories they have captured into demon realms. They are also responsible for most of demonic energy spreading attacks throughout the Republic. If not for the Magitec and the Ottomans’ hardy determination to hold on despite their weakness, the nation as a whole would have turned into a demon realm.



MSLA = Monster-friendly States Liberation Alliance. While the HLF is winning in theatres such as Lescatie, Polove, Zipangu and Wonderland, it has lost in Quarantia after a protracted war with the MSLA due to unforeseen consequences. With their homeland, Quarantia, now secured, the MSLA moves out to spread pro-monster revolutions all across the world. However, despite their pro-monster stance, the MSLA also fights the Demon’s Dawn due to their philosophy that “it is everyone’s right to be free if they want to be friendly with monsters or not.”



HARMONIA = yet another pro-monster group but unlike the MSLA, they refrain from using terrorism to achieve their goals, but they use populism and winning the hearts and minds of the population to rise up against governments as their modus operandi. While they have modern technology at their disposal, they are inclined at using magic to achieve their ends. While they fight the Demon’s Dawn and MSLA, they share the same sentimentality with the MSLA that everyone has the right to be free and live their lives as they want.



HIZBALLAH = Basically like ISIS, but they fight both humanist and pro-monster factions. Yes, they fight against Ottomans, Demon’s Dawn, MSLA and Harmonia. They practice Bedouin nationalism (since most of their members are Bedouin). They traditionally hate monsters and demon realms, and at the same time, shun foreign influence (e.g. Ottoman and HLF). What makes them as threatening as others is that they have captured much of Ottoman military equipment from their former owners, even those that the HLF had given, and that they have the most numerous war crimes committed out of all factions involved in the civil war. It is speculated that they were originally shabiha/bashi-bazouks (Bedouin militias armed by the Ottomans to fight pro-monster rebels), but separated from the Republic after the latter’s regular military proved to be impotent at dealing with the rebels, and they dashed at the opportunity to shake their nation off Ottoman control.



Maybe the next topic would be some technologies being developed by the Ottomans