Tsardom of Bulgaria

Tsardom of Bulgaria
The flag of the Tsardom of Bulgaria
Location of Tsardom of Bulgaria in Einheitspakt
Official name	Tsardom of Bulgaria
Common name	Bulgaria
Tag	BUL
Language(s)	Bulgarian
Capital	Sofia
Government/party	Tsarist Loyalists
Ideology	Absolute Monarchy
Faction	Einheitspakt (as an Mitstreiter)
Head of state	Tsar Boris III
Currency	Bulgarian Lev
Population	9,403,740
Established	1878 (Ottoman tributary) 1908 (independent)

The Tsardom of Bulgaria is an absolute monarchy in the Balkans, bordered by the Hellenic State, The Kingdom of Romania and the Government of National Salvation. Established as a Principality in 1878 under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire, the modern state of Bulgaria would be forged in 1908 when the Bulgarian state was raised from a principality to a kingdom, following its declaration of independence. Bulgaria fought on the side of the Axis Powers during the Second World War, positioned now as a member of the Einheitspakt, one of the successor global blocs to the Axis alliance.

History

The Kingdom of Bulgaria has a somewhat infamous title, the so-called 'Prussia of the Balkans', self-proclaimed but arguably earned through the years of war the Balkan state has seen. Forged from the aftermath of the Russo-Turkish War, achieving independence in the throws of the Young Turks revolution and fighting then in the subsequent First Balkan War and later Second Balkan War, this miniature Prussia had endured its fair share of conflict. It was no surprise then, that when the First World War began, Bulgaria committed to the fight under Tsar Ferdinand I.

Much like the fortunes of Bulgaria during the Second Balkan Wars however, fortune favored Bulgaria's enemies, and the Tsardom found itself losing both territory, Tsar and prestige, the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine ensuring the humiliation ran deep. The fortunes of Bulgaria, it seemed, would continue to be dire well in to the 20th Century.

This proved not to be the case however, with Bulgaria's fortunes changing dramatically following a counter coup by Tsar Boris III in 1935, following a coup by the military organization known as the Zveno the year before, ushering in the so-called 'Golden Age of the Third Bulgarian Kingdom'. Bulgaria would soon find itself within the newly minted Axis powers, under an equally revanchist Germany, hell bent upon avenging it's humiliations in the First World War, an projecting it's power as the Central Powers once had. It was natural therefore, that Boris III and his government, would commit the Kingdom to the Axis, albeit with initial hesitance, to ensure the preservation of the Kingdom in the face of German and Italian operations in the Balkans, fighting alongside other Axis nations in the Balkans Second World War.

Despite this entrance, Bulgaria didn't see the victories and territorial expansion it had hoped. Seeing some gains in reclaiming most of Macedonia from the collapse of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, it failed to secure Thrace from the Greeks, instead seeing their former lands conquered by their former masters, the Turkish. Despite these disappointing returns, the War was won at little attrition to the Balkan kingdom. The true attrition lay ahead in the years to follow.

The 1950s brought out the worst folly's of the newly christened Greater Germanic Reich's ambitions for the Mediterranean, ambitions which would end disastrously for much of Southern Europe, leading to the equally disastrous German economic crash. This second disaster had a far more tangible effect upon the Balkans, where it set off a chain of economic crashes, from Hungary to Slovakia, to the ripples even being felt in Bulgaria herself. This weakness in the more German-reliant nation states of the Balkans was soon exploited by the less reliant Kingdom of Romania, who at first entered into a state of war with Hungary and soon after launched a war with Serbia, seizing territory from the two states, particularly the lands they formerly relinquished to Hungary as a result of the Second Vienna Award in 1940, and the Serbian Banat respectively. With a distracted Germany that was far too pre-occupied with the now raging West Russian War to intervene or even enforce demands it had made of Romania when it sacrificed Hungary to Romanian ambitions, Bulgaria now found itself between the fragile yet dangerous Triumvirate and an expansionist Romania.

Fearing the possibility of either Turkish or Greek incursions in to the fragile borders of Bulgaria, or even an incursion by the Romanian's themselves, Bulgaria entrenched itself within the burgeoning Einheitspakt, giving increased access to the previously infrequent German patrols, seeing increased German military deployments within Bulgaria's borders, alongside opening-wide the Bulgarian economy to the tattered German economy. All this only served to weaken the Tsar's government and it's image domestically and internationally.

Politics

The Tsardom of Bulgaria is a despotic monarchy, under Tsar Boris III. As of 1962, though Bulgaria is considered independent, German influence is significant enough to diminish the strength and image of the Tsardom and it's government, both at home and abroad.

National spirits

The Tsar's Government	Political Power Gain: +0.10 Stability: -5%
German Forged Shackles	Political Power Gain: -0.20 Stability: -10%
The Fatherland Front	Production Efficiency Cap: -5% Research Speed: -5%

Cabinet

Head of State:	Tsar Boris III
Head of Government:	Prime Minister Dobri Bozhilov	Daily Political Power Gain: +0.20
Foreign Minister:	Dimitar Peshev	The Cloak-n-Dagger Schemer Decryption: +1.00 AI Modifier: Call Ally Desire: +30 AI Modifier: Focus on Offense: +50.0%
Economy Minister:	Asen Hristoforov	Administrative Genius Construction Speed: +5% Research Speed: +2% Factory Output: +10%

Flags

Flag	Country name	Ideologies	Notes
	Tsardom of Bulgaria	Absolute Monarchy Semi-Constitutional Monarchy Stratocracy Fascism National Socialism
	Republic of Bulgaria	Agrarian Socialism	Fatherland Front elections, democratic victory
	Independent Republic of Bulgaria	Left-Wing Corporatism	Fatherland Front coup
	People's Republic of Bulgaria	National Communism	Fatherland Front elections, communist victory

Military

The Tsardom of Bulgaria doesn't begin with an army or air force, but does possess a small navy comprised of:

• Flottiliya na Podvodnitsata
  • P1
  • P2
  • P3
  • P4
• 1. Patrulen Otdel
  • Vardar
  • Tsar Boris