Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-36823880-20190915114841/@comment-38730394-20191015092012

Matthijs1808 wrote: United Kingdom of the Netherlands Economic

- Starts expanding the railway system with more connections from the important ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp to Germany for more easy trade.

- Starts a work project based on ship building

Political

- The monarchists win the Election by a land slide and true a referendum the Netherlands becomes an absolute monarchy led by Queen Wilhelmina who changes the name of the country to: The Dutch Empire

- The ruling of the Empire is set up as following, within the empire there will be multiple regions like colonies that will all be ruled by the Queen but on paper are autonomous. Mainland Netherlands is under direct rule of the Queen while over seas is governed by a Governor appointed by the Queen and instructed by the queen. This is how it will be set up:

- Het Nederlandse rijk (Dutch Empire)

- Het verenigd Koningrijk der Nederlanden (the United Kingdom of the Netherlands)

Provinces:

Holland

Friesland

Groningen

Drenthe

Overijssel

Gelderland

Utrecht

Noord-Brabant

Zeeland

Antwerpen

Limburg

Luik

Zuid-Brabant

Oost-Vlaanderen

West-Vlaanderen

Henegouwe

Name

Luxemburg

-  Nederlands-Indië (The Dutch East Indies)

-  Nederlands-congo (The Dutch Congo)

- Caribisch Nederland (The Dutch Caribbean)

Islands:

- Aruba

- Curaçao

- Sint Maarten

- Sint Eustatius

- Saba

- Bonaire

- Groot Suriname (Greater Suriname)

- more ways to help govern their lands is given to the locals of the colonies

Diplomatic

- as was discussed with the UK half of British Guyana becomes part of Suriname

- Pressures France for Nord-Pas-de-Calais as it’s a historical part of the low countries and should be Dutch by right, France can no longer trade with the Dutch colonies and French ship may no longer enter Dutch ports, instead the Netherlands will aim for closer ties with Weimar and the UK.

- sks support for the Nord-Pas-de-Calais claim from OTO members: USA, UK and Weimar

military

- males from 18 to 25 will do at least 1 year of military service to train so they can be used in times of need.

- the KNIL is expanded more with local as well

- A brand new tank is designed and built in the Netherlands for the first Dutch tank unites

- Airforce is also expended.

- a big navy project is started, and the following ships are ordered to be built in the Netherlands as the work project:

Built in the Netherlands:

- 25 submarines based on the U-boat

- 20 torpedo boats

- 15 Destroyers

- Aircraft carrier

Not built in the Netherlands:

- 4 Heavy Battle cruisers (ordered in Germany following New design with latest standards)

- 2 - Battleships (ordered in Germany following New design with latest standards) This is 1919 mapping game, not KdM.