Intermarium

Intermarium
Location Properties
Continent	Europe
Naming Properties
Demonym	Intermarian
Base Statistics
City Count	253
Square City Count	10
Base Population	61,668,687
Consumers Required to Upkeep	61.66
Base Income ($)	3,693,811
Base Manpower Capacity	1,233,374
Requirements
Starting Nation(s)	Belarus Poland Ukraine
Required Entities to Form	Belarus Poland Ukraine Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Czech Republic Estonia Finland Hungary Latvia Lithuania Macedonia Moldova Montenegro Romania Serbia Slovakia Slovenia
Achievements
Stability Gain	10
Interface
Decision Name	Unite the Baltic and Black Seas
Decision Name	Unite the Baltic and Black Seas
Decision Description	We were thought of but never created, well now we are, and we are a Eastern European superpower!
Decision Description	We were thought of but never created, well now we are, and we are a Eastern European superpower!
Title	Unite the Baltic and Black Seas
Title	Unite the Baltic and Black Seas
Description	We were thought of but never created, well now we are, and we are a Eastern European superpower!
Description	We were thought of but never created, well now we are, and we are a Eastern European superpower!
Enclosure	Excellent!
Enclosure	Excellent!
Resources
Aluminum	2.44
Aluminum	2.44
Chromium	1.1
Chromium	1.1
Copper	15.6
Copper	15.6
Gold	8.08
Gold	8.08
Iron	5.99
Iron	5.99
Oil	46.42
Oil	46.42
Phosphate	1.22
Phosphate	1.22
Titanium	7.32
Titanium	7.32
Tungsten	1.22
Tungsten	1.22
Uranium	1.22
Uranium	1.22
Electronics	64
Electronics	64
Steel	3
Steel	3
Misc
Suggested By	Unknown (Deleted)

“	We were thought of but never created, well now we are, and we are a Eastern European superpower!	„
	— Description of forming Intermarium

Intermarium is a formable of Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus. Its territory stretches from Finland in the north, Croatia and Macedonia in the south, aswell as Luhansk in the east. With such vast territories, and such an unfortunate location, it's no surprise that Intermarium is a relatively difficult formable, primarily due to German and Russian expansionism.

It's no wonder that encompassing such territoires equates to a formidable base statistics supply, which can be broken down into an extraordinarily good military and economy. The formable is rarely seen in public servers, and is usually only attempted by experienced players, who can fend off the ever-rising threat of the aforementioned Germany and Russia.

Interestingly, despite being able to form it, Belarus is not actually required for the formable. The formable also has no formable modifier, which is rare amongst formables with similar sizes to it.

Background

Intermarium (Polish: Międzymorze), was a geopolitical project conceived by politicians in successor states of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in several iterations, some of which anticipated the inclusion as well of other, neighboring states. The proposed multinational polity would have extended across territories lying between the Baltic, Black and Adriatic Seas, hence the name meaning "Between-Seas".

Prospectively a federation of Central and Eastern European countries, the post-World War I Intermarium plan pursued by Polish leader and former political prisoner of the Russian Empire, Józef Piłsudski, sought to recruit to the proposed federation the Baltic states, Finland, Belarus, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia. The Polish name Międzymorze (from między, "between"; and morze, "sea"), meaning "Between-Seas", was rendered into Latin as "Intermarium".

The proposed federation was meant to emulate the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, that, from the end of the 16th century to the end of the 18th, had united the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Intermarium complemented Piłsudski's other geopolitical vision, Prometheism, whose goal was the dismemberment of the Russian Empire and that Empire's divestment of its territorial acquisitions.

Intermarium was, however, perceived by some Lithuanians as a threat to their newly established independence, and by some Ukrainians as a threat to their aspirations for independence, and while France backed the proposal, it was opposed by Russia and by most other Western powers. Within two decades of the failure of Piłsudski's grand scheme, all the countries that he had viewed as candidates for membership in the Intermarium federation had fallen to the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany, except for Finland (which suffered some territorial losses in the Winter War with the Soviet Union).

Base Statistics

The western area of the country is relatively lacking in rare resources, however Ukraine, Romania, and Finland having important titanium reserves, and Finland having tungsten reserves as well, make it a country that a player can run self-sufficiently easily.

Base Manpower Capacity of Intermarium per Conscription Law
The following columns below present the manpower capacity from lowest (Disarmed) to highest (Required). RP stands for "Recruitable Population".
Disarmed [1% RP]	616,687
Volunteer [2% RP]	1,233,374
Limited [5% RP]	3,083,435
Extensive [10% RP]	6,166,869
Required [25% RP]	15,417,172

Geography

Terrain

Southeastern Poland, the Czech-Polish and Czech- German border tiles, western Slovakia, northwestern Romania, all of Slovenia, the Croatian western panhandle, northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the western half of Serbia (excluding Vojvodina) are Hilly. Next, the rest of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and the southeastern tiles of the Carpathian Mountains are Semi-Mountainous. Finally, the only Mountainous tiles in the formable are the rest of the Carpathian Mountains. The rest of Intermarium is flat.

Biome

The only permanent biome the formable has is Arctic in the northern half of Finland. Otherwise, during December-January, almost all of Ukraine and Poland, Belarus, the Baltics, the rest of FInland, the Czech Republic, eastern and central Slovakia, northeastern Hungary, and northern Romania experience Severe Winter. Elsewhere in Intermarium, the Ukrainian releasables of Budjak and Crimea, the tiles surrounding the cities of Koszalin, Szczecin, and Wrocław, the rest of Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania, and almost everywhere in the South Slavic countries including the tile surrounding the city of Rijeka (the rest of the Croatian coastal tiles is in the normal biome year-round) experience Mild Winter during the aforementioned months.

In November and February, the Mild Winter tiles revert to the normal biome, while the Severe Winter tiles change to Mild Winter.

Borders

It borders Germany, Austria and Italy to the west, Sweden and Norway to the north, Albania, Greece, and Bulgaria to the south and Russia to the east.

Strategy

Strategy for Poland:

1. Ally with Germany first.
2. If they don't accept, invade them.

• Create a coalition consisting of France and/or UK + other nations if possible.

Ally Russia.

1. If they don't accept, then ally with China.
2. Justify war conquest on Belarus and Ukraine.
3. Get a limited conscription.
4. Annex Belarus and Ukraine, then declare war on Latvia and Lithuania and form Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
5. Declare war on Finland and Estonia.
6. After that declare war on Czech Republic and Slovakia to form Zapadoslavia.
7. Repeat this several times declaring wars to nations of Intermarium.
8. Optionally, use diplomacy to handle problems of taken countries you need.

There are several strategies for several nations, but the Polish one is the most popular. Surviving as Belarus, and Ukraine is also difficult, but once allied with Russia, it will become easier.

Strategy for Ukraine:

Form the Kievan Rus as you ally Russia or China and justify war on Romania and Estonia. Get Poland after allying with Germany (you will need to back stab them soon) and invade the Baltic states and Finland. Go for Sweden too. To get tungsten, get tanks and break ties with Germany. Keep building your army and invade the Balkans. Once you declare war on Germany, use Poland as a jumping off point and rush to Berlin and their factories, so they can't stop you from annexing the Czech Republic and themselves. And there you have it!

Threats

Threats to Poland

• Belarus or Ukraine also wanting to form Intermarium.
• Russia will most likely want to form the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire.
• Germany usually takes Poland early in game.
• Any European nation wanting to form the European Union.

Threats to Belarus

• Ukraine or Poland also wanting to form Intermarium.
• Ukraine wanting to form Kievan Rus.
• Russia will most likely want to form the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire.
• Poland or Lithuania wanting to form the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• Any European nation wanting to form European Union.

Threats to Ukraine

• Poland or Belarus also wanting to form Intermarium.
• Russia will most likely want to form the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire.
• Poland or Lithuania wanting to form the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• Romania wanting to form Kingdom of Dacia.
• Any European nation wanting to form the European Union.

Trivia

• The old flag of Intermarium was from EarthMC, a Minecraft server. It was for this reason that it was replaced.
• The flag of Baltoscandia, another EarthMC nation, can be found in the top left of Intermarium's old flag. This is due to the way puppets work in the server, which is similar to the way they work in Rise of Nations.

Removed
North America
South America	• • • Patagonia
Europe	• • • • • • •
Asia	• Assyria • • • • • • • • • •
Africa	• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Oceania	• •