The axis powers

AXIS MAJOR

The world watched, paralyzed, as the shadow lengthened. It didn't happen overnight, it was built on a foundation of whispered promises, shattered treaties, and the blinding allure of vengeance. By the time the trap finally snapped shut in the autumn of 1939, it was already too late.

The most terrifying question isn't how a tyrant seized a nation by the throat. It’s why so many cheered as he tightened his grip.

German Reich starts with 10m population
German Reich COOP starts with 7m population

AXIS MAJOR

Long before the world plunged into global war, the modern blueprint for tyranny was forged under the Mediterranean sun. It began with the rhythmic thud of black boots on Roman cobblestones and the intoxicating, theatrical promise of a resurrected empire.

He didn't just conquer a fractured nation; he seduced it. He offered dangerous pride to the broken and iron-fisted order to the chaotic, masking brutal street violence behind the illusion of national destiny. But the price of this manufactured glory was absolute surrender to the state.

Kingdom of Italy starts with 10m population.

AXIS MINOR

It was a kingdom without a king, ruled by an admiral without a sea. Stripped of two-thirds of its lands by the stroke of a pen and haunted by the ghost of a shattered empire, a mutilated nation refused to accept its fate. Here, the descent into darkness wasn't sparked by a sudden revolution, but by a slow, burning obsession to rewrite the map and avenge a bitter historical humiliation.

To reclaim its lost glory, the country made a devastating wager. It tethered its destiny to a rising continental monster, trading its soul for the promise of restored borders, Only to find itself trapped, occupied, and ultimately swallowed by the very inferno it helped fuel.

Kingdom of Hungary starts with 5m population.

AXIS MINOR

It was a kingdom built on black gold and surrounded by wolves. Squeezed between two ruthless empires, it tried to walk a tightrope of neutrality, only to be torn apart from within by a fanatical, mystical death cult and from without by land-hungry neighbors. Desperate to survive and reclaim its stolen frontiers, the nation threw its lot in with the supreme warlord of Europe, marching its armies into the frozen meat grinder of the East—a gamble that would end in catastrophic betrayal.

Kingdom of Romania starts with 6m population.

AXIS MINOR

Haunted by the ghosts of a shattered regional empire, this proud kingdom saw an opportunity for revenge without firing a shot. It played a dangerous game of diplomatic chess, aligning with the fascist juggernaut to peacefully swallow the territories it had bled for decades prior. Yet, its monarch walked a razor's edge, adamantly refusing to send a single soldier into the apocalyptic slaughter of the Eastern Front, hoping to reap the rewards of the devil's bargain without paying the blood price.

Kingdom of Bulgaria starts with 4.5m population.

AXIS MINOR

A nation broken in six weeks, forced to sign its own death warrant in the very same railway carriage where its former enemy once knelt in defeat. From the ruins of the Third Republic rose a ghost state, a regime that traded the motto of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" for the cold, authoritarian promise of "Work, Family, Fatherland."

Led by a fading war hero of a bygone age, this rump state governed from a luxury spa town, attempting to find a place in Hitler's "New Order" through a policy of collaboration that blurred the lines between survival and betrayal. It was a land of divided loyalties, where the government acted as a shield for some and a hunter for others, eventually becoming a hollow shell caught between the resistance of its people and the iron demands of its occupiers.

Vichy France gains cores on all of traditional Vichy land and French Colonial holdings, it starts of as a south american nation to allow it to build up.

Vichy of France starts with 4M population.

AXIS MINOR

Not all who marched alongside the darkness did so out of ideological fanaticism. For this frozen democracy, it was a matter of pure, desperate survival. After fighting a legendary, lonely war against the Soviet goliath in the freezing snows, they sought a shield and found it in the devil himself. It was a Faustian pact forged in ice, a fight to reclaim stolen homelands alongside an empire they despised, trapped in a "separate war" that would test the very limits of their honour.

Republic of Finland starts with 5M population.

AXIS MINOR

A nation forged in the fires of a scorched-earth civil war, Spain stood as the silent, gaunt spectator at the edge of the global slaughter. Led by a stoic general who had climbed to power over a million graves, it was a land of "Non-Belligerence", a calculated, cold-blooded neutrality that masked a deep debt to the dictators who helped it survive its own internal collapse.

While the rest of Europe burned, this regime played a masterful game of cat and mouse. It sent a "Blue Division" of volunteers to bleed in the Russian snows to satisfy its ideological masters, yet kept its own borders shut to the German legions, refusing to let the Mediterranean become a Nazi lake. It was a kingdom without a king, a fortress of silence where the price of peace was an iron shroud of repression that would last for decades.

Nationalist Spain CANNOT lose it’s civil war.
Nationalist Spain starts with 4.2m population.

AXIS MINOR

Description goes hIt was a nation that lasted only two days in the light of the New Order. Surrounded by a ring of iron and pressured by the crushing weight of geography, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia finally bowed to the inevitable, signing the Tripartite Pact in a desperate bid to preserve its borders from the Nazi juggernaut.

But the ink was barely dry before the streets of Belgrade erupted. Under the cry of "Better the grave than a slave," a defiant military coup shattered the alliance, tearing up the pact and spitting in the face of the German Chancellor. The retaliation was swift and apocalyptic; a "Direction No. 25" order that unleashed a whirlwind of fire and steel, dismembering the kingdom into a patchwork of puppet states and occupied zones.

Starts with 7.5m population.
Forcefully get’s broken down into smaller states as WW2 commences.