Macedonia (1983: Doomsday)

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The Kingdom of Macedonia is a constitutional monarchy located in the lower Balkan peninsula near OTL Greece and Turkey.

After Doomsday
The area where Alexander and his family lived at the time, the Spanish countryside, was never near a nuclear target at the time and the safety of the Yugoslav royal family was rarely in much danger due to the radioactive fallout. However, the the remaining problem was that food was becoming thin in the estate and soon the people living in the house would need to begin the search for a stable food source. And soon an influx of refugees from nearby came and were given a provisional home while scouting the countryside after the radiation quelled. After their food supply stabilized, they were able to find a boat still harbored in Spain and refueled it, a few more boats were found and they set sail for the Royal family's homeland, Yugoslavia, where they planned to set up a constitutional monarchy there and make Alexander their king. They landed in Yugoslavia after a couple weeks and prepared to move into the former country, which had collapsed due to by a weakened state and strong nationalist sentiment in many parts of the country, and soon they encountered members of the Serbian military, who mistook them for Croatian rebels and forced them to retreat south. However, they found a break in Skopje, as the South-Eastern Theatre, which was based in Skopje, agreed to help Alexander and his family establish a military force, but there numbers had been diminished to 8,000 due to either abandonment or killed fighting the local rebels.They decided to move south and were able to capture a a small part of Serbia, lightly or completely undefended by Serbian forces becuase of their occupation elsewhere, and moved south to capture the city of Skopje, where they set up an emergency capital city and moved west to take more land.After more men, food, and arms were captured they moved to take over a northern part of former Greece, and Macedonia and the Federation of Greece have long disputed the territory, which is claimed by Greece, but technically owned by Macedonia. Plans were soon put into motion to gather people around a few big cities where they planned to announce the creation of a new state, which they planned to transcend the ethnic and cultural background of the locals, but these tensions would later boil into war.

Creating a New Kingdom
Soon, Alexander had managed to gather up the people around a few major remaining cities, and the creation of a strong, central, monarchy was announched to the public, but was changed to a constitutional monarchy because of local oppositions. It was announced in 1989 that in a year their would be a general election held to establish members of the national assembly who would then create a new constitution that the country would adopt. Afterwards, five political parties were established, the Liberal Party, the Conservative Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the National Party, and the Freedom Party, each gain support among different parts of the country.The same year, in 1989, they made contact with more countries to the north, such as Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia, and established some ties with each of them. Meanwhile, other reports of a small Greek survival state to the south were also brought up by small military expeditions, although becuase Macedonia was able to move far south, these reports were disregarded. In 1990, the general election was in Skopje, the, then provisional, capital where Alexander and his government had set up shop, and canidates from each party all attended the elections where around 91% of the entire population gathered to vote. The members of the 100 member Assembly were announced, 53 Conservatives, 27 Liberals, 14 Socialists, 4 Nationalists, and 2 Freedoms, while the President who is elected is a member of the Liberal Party, giving the Conservatives the majority in the Assembly, but giving the Liberals a majority in the Federal government, however the Socialists have a a big enough seat that they can bring change and influence decisions in the Assembly though the Freedom and National Parties have little influence, soon the Assembly meets to write a constitution. The next year, in 1991, the Assembly ratifies the constitution, establishing the powers of the Legislative, Executive, and the newly created Judicial, branches, and the next day the Assembly and Federal government meets in the now, de jure and de facto, capital city of Skopje, where Alexander was officially crowned king of the new constitutional monarchy, something that he had always dreamed of. After the elections, real contact with Serbia was made, although reluctant at first, Serbia was willing to allow Macedonia to retain its southern Serbian land as they had been fighting against Croatia and Bosnia and did not wish to fight another enemy. Also in that year, Macedonian scouts made contact with Heptanesa in Albania, confirming previous reports of Greek survivor states.

Contact With Turkey and Greece
On September 3, 1992 a small expolaration party from Macedonia sailed south, almost dying from starvation and thrist, but on September 3 of that year they landed on the southern coast of Turkey, near the ruins of Izmir. After being well fed and restored to health, they were given a presence before the Sultan and told him about Macedonia and King Alexander. They soon travelled back to Macedonia on a much larger ship and with a Trukish ambassadir. Then, in 1993, on New Years Day, Alexander himself and the president sailed to Turkey and also got to talk with the Sultan, and both kings became close friends. The two, along with all members of the Macedonian Assembly along with the personel the Turkish Sultan had brought, had a lavish banquet, and became close friends.The two helped in the establishment of a formal alliance between the two countries in 1995, which would become useful in the coming Civil War. But around the same time that they made contact with Turkey, a small research party in the south was walking through Macedonia controlled northern Greece when they encountered another small party of people from Confederation of Greece. After reports of the finding was sent back to Skopje, an ambassador party was sent to the Confederation's capital city, New Athens, and they planned to establish diplomatic relations. However, this idea quickely deteriorated as relations broke-down due to Macedonia occupying parts of northern Greece, along with their relations with Turkey being seen as more important than relations with Greece.

Civil Unrest
Unrest soon developed in the northeast Macedonia as ethnic and racial dissidents demanded that some of the ethnicities in the kingdom be expelled and that they must do it as quickly as possible, but these ideas are heard very little in the Assembly. Soon, the Unity Party was founded, that, despite its name, expressed the belief that certain ethnic groups which they called "infidels" and "racially inferior" should be "expelled" from the country and soon some members declare canidacy in the Assembly and their leader, Milan Milutinović, a Serb, declares his canidacy for President. When the 1995 election came along, he ran on an his parties ideas and believed the country needed an "ethnic cleansing", he almost won thanks to the numbers of his party and the public dissaproval of the Liberal president, but was defeated by the canidate from the Conservative party, his loss in the race made the party very unpopular and many people joined other parties like the Liberals and the Socialists. Milutinović soon makes a comeback in 1996 when people begin to hear his words again and he declares that he was cheated out of being president and that he should have been elected, he also believes that the government is corrupt and that his people should rise up in rebellion. When his words are heard in Skopje, he is dismissed by the government as a lunatic with pipe dreams, but more people are hearing, and soon they talk about declaring independence where they will have the right to govern themselves, but the government ignores these ideas too.

Civil War
With the new year coming around, many people were happy, the economy was booming and new jobs were opening in a more diverse economies, the Conservatives controlled most of the government and they develop better relations with Turkey, and they life seems to be turning around for the people of Macedonia. But, on January 27, 1997, that peace is ruined when the Serbs, headed by the basic dictatorship of Milan Milutinović, declare independence as the Serbian Republic (although this is obviously ironic). Alexander and the government, seeing this as an unlawful rebellion, refuses to recognize the country and declare war on it, sending in all their troops to battle the Serbs and introducing conscription to raise more troops. The troops from Serbia move south into Macedonia in Operation Unity, and soon they engage in several small skirmishes in with Macedonian forces. The Serbian rebels were fighting with weapons of unknown origin to the Macedonian military, and they were conscerned it meant foreign involvement from a regional rival, but this was disregared by most.It comes as a suprise when the Macedonian troops, although highly outnumbering the Serbs, loses much land and battles to the Serbs, who have their "national pride" instilled in them by their "President". But then three major things turn the tide of the war in 1998, one, the Turks, who had promised to the help the Macedonian government in case of war and begin sending troops, arms, and food to support them, two, the Macedonians establish the Macedonia Army Air Task Force from several helipcopters they've recovered, and three, they were able to establish a navy to combat the Serb's navy, both of which include some patrol boats and a couple of gunboats, as the Serbs had been launching these ships from several captured ports in the south and harrasing the Macedonian fishing ships. Then in the next year, in the early part of 1999, the Macedonians had drawn the war into a stalemate, as the Serbs had high morale while the Macedonians had a high sense of national pride and ethnic unity. But then in the late part of 1999, the war swinged into Macedonian favor as a majority of the Serbs army were defeated at the Battle of Skopje and the absence of their army allowed the them to enter the Serbs land unopposed, and then on November 12, 1999, Milan Milutinović is caught on found off the coast of Macedonia, trying to flee from Serbia, when he is surrounded by the MAATF helicopters and navy gunboats and is taken prisoner. He, along with several of his high-ranking officers, are taken to court in Skopje and all are initially found guilty of just minor war crimes, but as more troops advance into Serbia, they find several camps that were made for Milutinović's "ethnic cleansing" and they are dismantled and the prisoners set free. After news of these deaths reach Skopje, investigations are launched that find evidence all the officers had connections with the camp, and are found guilty of major war crimes and crimes against humanity and all are put to death with their "President". On December 31 of 1999, the remaining members of the Serbian government are gathered up in Skopje and they sign the official Serbian terms of unconditional surrender at midnight exactly, the new millenium ushers in, not only the end of the Macedonian Civil War, but a new era of unity and nationalism is embraced among the populace. After the war, ended, the Macedonian fears were realized they figured out that the weapons the Serbian rebels had been using were from the Republic of Serbia to the north. This threatened to spark war between the two states, but this cooled down as the president of Serbia apoligized to all the people of Macedonia, and paid the Macedonians for every Serbian weapon that had been captured and returned to Serbia. The president claimed that some Serbian general had been selling the rebels for their own profit, while some in Macedonia still believed they were given orders from the president, the Serbian generals accused of this were imprisoned, and the battle between these two ideas continues till this day.

Aftermath of the Civil War
On January 2, 2000, with allowance from the Assembly, King Alexander declares that day Macedonian Unity Day, a day that will be celebrated each year to remember the death and suffering caused by the Civil War and that unity is to be a celebrated into the Kingdom, and many people all over the kingdom celebrate with parties, even the Serba, and an armed forces parade in Skopje. The previous year ended with the end of the civil war and a general election which created a supermajority in the Assembly for the Nationalist Party and the Nationalist party leader is elected president in the election and this helps with the new wave of Macedonian unity and nationalism, though popular opinion forces them to abandon their police state policy, their nationalism policy is just what the kingdom needs. A new era for the armed forces is ushered in as well when the navy is entirely nationalized and the Army Air Task Force is cut off from Army and is used as the basis for the newly created Macedonian Air Force, where Božidar Stefanović, a former Yugoslav air force officer, is made the first Marshal of the Air Force of Macedonia. Soon after the first Unity Day was celebrated, the Turkish troops who had been sent to Macedonia to combat the rebelling Serbians returned to Konya, the Turkish capital city, where they were treated as heros and warriors of Islam who defended their allies against rebelling infidels and were given their own victory parade by the Turkish people. Another event following the Civil War, was that military expeditions, which had been going north to find weak points in Serbia, ended up finding that the Serbian SFR had collapsed like the rest of Yugoslavia. And after the Civil War ended they went on to annex many parts of southern Serbia, which they have used to farm and recently for industry, although that has caused some conflict with the recent Serbian Republic, they have allowed Macedonia to hold on to the south.

Contact With the Alpine Confederation
In the later part of 2000, an exploration party set out from Skopje, with 36 original members, they were given supplies to conquer the elements and some weapons in case of any aggresive raiders along the way. By late November, the temperature so far has been fairly mild and they have made it through to southern Balkans with little to no problems whatsoever, until in the beginning of December, when they get caught in a snowstorm in the Northern Balkans and at least 3 members of the party are killed and buried there. But in early 2001, when they almost run out of food, they decided they must commit cannibalism in order to survive, but a few hours before they can dig up the graves, a small exploration party from the Alpine Confederation spots them and gives them the food and nutrition they need, and give their fallen friends a proper funeral on the way back. A few weeks later they arrive in the Alpine capital city of Vaduz, where they are given a presence with the Confederation President and tell him about the Kingdom of Macedonia, the King, the Assembly, and the recent Civil War. They are given transport by helicopter back to Skopje where an Alpine ambassador meets with King Alexander and they exchange the economic and political backgrounds of both countries, and soon the ambassador returns to Vaduz and a Macedonian ambassador returns with him. The ambassador is given a small office in the city which operates as his embassy and vice versa with the Alpine ambassador, and soon the relationship between the two coutnries grows and they begin some trade. Currently, the Alpine Confederation is a major allie to the Kingdom of Macedonia, sharing more trade with them and producing airplanes and helicopters for the Macedonian Air Force, although at a rate of a few per year, the rest are produced in Macedonia.

Macedonian Renaissance
The era of peace and prosperity that was formed after the end of the Macedonian Civil War is an era people now call the Macedonian Renaissance, lasting from the end of the Civil War and, is considered by many, continuing through the modern day. With the end of the Civil War, there was an era that began to usher in ethnic diversity and a great sense of nationalism in the kingdom and soon the Assembly and President began looking at ways to develop and run on the current prosperity being established. In 2001, the Skopje University and Library is established in the capital city as a place where books, written in three different languages, were kept and soon it began to offer free education to children 10-15, only including a few grades and employing teachers who get paid little and aren't very good. However, in 2003 a big turn around came when the Assembly passed the Macedonian Basic Education Act that declared that all children of ages 6-17 must be sent to school and the wages of teachers are to be increased as the value of their labor is now seen as very valuable, and soon many new books were being written that included history and mathematics so these new courses could be taught to the children and schools, who's building was funded by the government, pop up all over the kingdom. Another thing that needed to be developed, in the Assembly's idea, was the arts, and this would prove especially problematic as the Assembly had little idea on how to do it originally. Then in 2002, after raising enough money for the cause from some of Macedonia's high class, the government opens the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Skopje and soon people from all over the city flood into the museums as to see the great works of art they have never seen before, for a majority of them. In 2004, construction, with Turkish and Alpine help, begin building the Skopje Ampitheatre, an open theater that will eventually examplify the Macedonian Renaissance, and that same year the Assembly brings back the old festivals of Macedonia, including the Skopje Cultural Summer Festival, the May Opera Evenings, and the Open Youth Theatre Festival.

Operation Thessaloniki
In 2005, to respond to their new wealth and fortune, the government began thinking about the possibility of Thessaloniki being rebuilt and reinhabited, but after going over the national budget in February, the funds initally believed to be possible were not found and the project was believed to have to be scraped. But then, in the later half of the year, a large-scale lottery was held in the kingdom which almost raised enough money, until thousands of more dollars were believed to be needed, but, in a miraculous strike of luck, the CEO's of multiple large corporations in Macedonia made last minute donations to the fund in November, and soon work began in late December, though the main project wouldn't really begin until 2006. In that year, the debris left behind by the destroyed city had little to no radiation left and was easily removed from the area by working crews, and soon rebuilt wrecking balls were brought in to destroy what little of the city was left standing to make room for the new buildings that the government was preparing to have built. When 2007 came around, the construction had already begun a couple months ago and soon enough wood, brick, and concrete were being brough in to finish a majority of the construction materials that are still needed, and by the later part of the year, some of the first buildings, only small shops and houses are complete. In 2008, with construction continuing and new crew members and equipment still being brought in to the project, the plot, which when they began in 2006, looked like a giant plot of dirt, ruble, and dust with the scattered corpse here and there, and soon the developments in the plot begin to look like a small town. By 2009, thousands of workers and more equipment is brought in to continue the development of the project and by the end of the year, the plot looks a bit less like a town and a bit more like a city, with new buildings, including houses, apartments, and shops rising above the earth and continuing to grow. Today, Operation Thessaloniki is still going on and continues to run on the funs initally made in 2006, although with the somewhat expected budget issues every now and again that is usually solved with little effort, and the city rises higher than ever, and to assist their neighbor, Turkey sends in workers and equipment to help to continue the building of the city, which the Macedonian government promises the Sultan that, upon its completion, Thessaloniki will become a major trading city for the two trade partners. The project has unfortunately received some negative attention from the Federation of Greece, who claims that the city lies within their claimed territory. Macedonia's response is that the city was abandoned and they took the initiative to restore it, therefore their claim is stronger.

Conflict with Greece
The conflict between the Macedonian-owned part of Greece has long been the subject of debate and disputes in both countries for over a decade, causing both riots and deadly fighting between the two countries, although on a small scale. The countries made contact in 1994, right after they made contact with Turkey, and the idea of conflict became appearant for both countries almost instantly as the, then Confederation of Greece, had laid claim to all of former Greece, but many troops in the early Macedonian army were already stationed there, and many settlers already had farms there. In 1997, after the Civil War started in Macedonia against the independent Serbs, the Confederation government fought between itself over whether or not to invade the Macedonian-held area, and by late 1998, they decided to go ahead with the idea. Soon large numbers of Greek troops were moved into the area, and they moved many settlers into the area to further their claim over the land. However, by 1999, the war curved over into the Macedonian favor and many people in the Greek government began to worry about who would be seen as the bigger threat in the Macedonian Assembly, and that their invasion of the area would lead to a loss for the military. After the war ended, multiple troops, helped into the area by helicopters, were able to fight against the Greek invaders, making many small, but effective victories against the Greek military forced them to retreat from the majority of the area, and soon they were forced from the area entirely by the end of 2001. In 2002, a new resolution was made in the government, give the Greeks already settled in the area an option, leave and go back to their homeland safely, or stay in their home and take their chances with the military on angry civilians. Many Greeks decided to come up with their own option, revolt, and in late 2002 the Greek Revolt began in Macedonia as many Greek citizens armed with weapons given to them secretly by the Greek army, revolted in many small towns and soon spread to the cities. The army and air force was quickly deployed to deal with the revolters, and by early 2003, they last of the rebels were killed or captured, and afterwards all settled Greeks from the Confederation were forced back their and their farms were either overrun by the government and sold off to civilians, or burnt to the ground by vengeful civilians. In the whole revolt, 542 people were killed, 126 Greeks, and 416 Macedonians, and after connections were found between the rebels and the Confederation army, the Macedonian government was outraged and ordered the Confederation hand over all people army personel that were involved to be tried as war criminals. Their request was denied and the relations between the two countries, which had been strained greatly even before the Civil War, were put into a hot zone and many thought that war between the two countries was iminent, and a mobilization of the Macedonian army along the border was implemented in October of 2003, but both countries believed that a war would be too costly for both the economies and the militaries and soon tensions between them cooled down. Today, Greece is a member of the League of Nations, while Macedonia is an applying member, the official stance on their tensions is this, Greece lays claim to the area, while the northern part of former Greece is technically administered and occupied by the Macedonians, and for the most part, countries in the LoN are divided often on the issue.

Contact With the Outside World
Since the mid 90's Macedonia has made contact with many other countries around the world, some even across the Atlantic Ocean, these countries trade with Macedonia via land and sea, and their alliedship with Macedonia has brought a series of mutual prosperity. Contact with Rhodope was established in 1995 after they exchanged ambassadors to show the new relationships between the countries had stabilized and now both countries have continued the exchange of goods, mainly crops and steel, but recently they have been giving the Rhodopes some machine guns and automobiles to show their new power and respect for their ally. Contact with Turkey and the Alpine Confederation has given the Kingdom many new products including a few annual airplanes exchanged from the Alpine Confederation and energy technologies and ships made in Turkey. In 2001, contact was established with the states of former Italy, first Venice, then San Marino, and finally Tuscany, and continues to enjoy a lasting relationship with each of these countries, trading multiple items with them, mainly steel, food, and automobiles. In 2010, when the Italian Peninsula Alliance was created, King Alexander and the current president of Macedonia, Gjorge Ivanov, were at the creation ceremony and instantly established a general ambassadors position for the Alliance and now conducts more trade with the members of the Alliance more than ever. In 2002, after making contact with Italian countries and establishing relations with them, conact was also made with the Sicily Republic, but was unable to open relations until after 2004 due to Sicily's cold peace era and even when it did make contact, was very unwilling to establish a relationship due to the mafia government and military expansion. Today, Macedonia still condemns Sicily's expansionist policies and mafia government, and, since 2008, has begun supplying arms and ammo to the brigands who oppose the current criminal government, and unlike Greece, does this rather for the good of the Sicilian people, rather than their own expansionist policies and continues to condemns the Palermi government. Contact with Brazil was established first in early 2008, the two countries first made contact through the League of Nations. After an agreement made in Skopje in May 2008, the two countries now engage in open trade, Macedonia gives Brazil basic crops such as wheat and corn, and also gave Brazilian companies the ability to operate in Macedonia. While the Brazilians gave Macedonian companies the ability to operate in Brazil and also converted multiple factories to produce Macedonia tanks and small arms. And then in late 2008 they also established contact with Brazil's northern neighbor, Venezuela. They entered a similar agreement with Venezuela, but on a smaller scale than with the Brazilians.

Albanian War
Macedonia made contact with the survivor state of Albania, across their western border in September 2008, Albania's capital city, Tirana, had been nuked during Doomsday and partial anarchy had occured due to the Albanian leadership begin killed. Five generals created a dictatorial oligarchy was established and took complete control of the economy and military with hopes of restoring Albania to self-dependancy, mainly in agriculture and fuel, and established the Republic of Albania. The problems they have had is that their petroleum stores dried up quickly due to the constant need to supply transport trucks and tanks with oil, and the oligarchy wasn't ready to turn to natural gas as a major resource. The affect on the Albanian economy had been devastating as biofuel was used in an attempt to restore the fuel industry, but the amount they could obtain was small and it took away from the agricultural industry, sending some parts of Albania into starvation. With the economy failing, the Albanians decided to look for outside nation to help their dwindling economy, and found such a nation in Macedonia. Macedonia opened trade with Albania in November 2008, and small amounts of food started to go to the Albanian people, but the dictators demanded more from the Macedonian to help their people, but the Macedonian thought the amount being given was sufficient. Tensions rose throughout the next three months as demands from Albania grew greater, Macedonia refused to give them their demands, and even more, the Albanians demanded Macedonian biofuel technology, and even some of their tanks. The Macedonians finally had the last straw with Albania as of May 15, 2009, when the Macedonian assembly declared war on Albania and moved its troops into border positions to combat the Albanians, if they invaded, or if Macedonia invaded Albania. Such an invasion came from Albania on May 21, 2009 when 120,000 troops, mostly conscripts with little training and ammunition, invaded Macedonia through the western border, but advancing into a line of border positions with machine gun positions hidden throughout the border, killing hundreds of Albanians on the first day. Serious defense was used against the Albanians as almost all non-reserve tanks were moved to fight the invaders, who had very little, if anything, to combat a tank, and the quick movement of Macedonian troops to the front lines stunned commanders in the Albanian army, and their dictators, two of which moved to teh front lines to command troops. While the Macedonians were outnumbered, the Albanians were outgunned and outtrained, and, on top of all that, very little were fed, and when the winter months came along after a long stalemate halted the Albanian advance, many either died of cold or malnutrition. When late February came around the the winter ice and snow thawed, the dictators ordered their troops into a massive assault on the Macedonian front line, however, many troops ended up either surrendering to the Macedonians or being killed after attempting a breakthrough. The turning point came on April 16, 2010, when the Albanians attacked the Macedonian city of Gostiver, when the Macedonian of the Macedonian 3rd Brigade, a detachment from the Division that defends Skopje, a force of 5,000 men was left to defend the city from an attack by 12,000 Albanian troops. The overstretched and under-equipped Albanians lost many men fighting the Macedonians, but when the Macedonian tank came in to support the 3rd Brigade, the Albanian troops surrendered on April 30, and the greatest suprise was when Brigadier General commanding the 3rd Brigade found out that the opposing commander had been one of the Albanian dictators, who surrendered himself to the Macedonians and was made into a POW and sent to their base in Skopje for interigation. On May 5, with a majority of the invaders killed or captured, the Macedonians launched Operation Молња (Lightning) began as the 40,000 men of the Macedonian army reserves, supported by their reserve tanks and the 23,000 paramilitary soldiers punched through the small Albanian defenses after a short artillery barrage and pushed deep west into Albanian, capturing what little remained of the Albanian army. On June 26, the Albanian War officially ended as the couple thousands of reserve units of the Albanian army surrendered to a force of 25,000 in the Albanian capital of Elbasan, and all four remaining dictators were captured while attempting to flee. The five dictators were made to stand trial in the Macedonian Supreme Court and were originally going to serve a short sentence of a few years, and then allowed to live either in Albania or Macedonia, but the truth came out soon afterwards when it was found out that the Albanians had been committing genocides of the minorities in captured towns and in other towns across Albania. In the end, all five were found guilty of war crimes and some crimes against humanity, and all five were sentenced to death, on escaped but was recaptured a day later, two failed in their suicide attempts, but on July 19, Macedonian Establishment Day, the five dictators were all publicaly hanged in Elbasan. Albania is today a Macedonian protectorate, the treaty ending the war forbidding them from having armed forces, but are defended by the Macedonian troops stationed their regularly, and recently, the Albanian Reconstruction Act passed through the Assembly that allows Macedonia to help in the rebuilding of the Albanian economy of what is now a real republic.

Government
The government of Macedonia is divided up into three different branches, much like the United States in OTL, their is the Executive Branch, the Legislative Branch, and the Judicial Branch which are all headed by a different group or person, and their abilities are all given and restricted by the Macedonian constituion. The king is the traditional head of government and state, he oversees many official, ceremonial, and representative matters of the states, he bestows honors such as heads of the military and so on, although in many political matters he is advised by the President. He also has the power to dissolve the Assembly at the recommendation of the President, the remainder of the King's powers are all limited and overseen by the Macedonian constitution. The President is the real head of government and state and is elected every 5 years and can only serve two terms, just as is the Assembly, and is the leader of the Executive government, and his powers in this branch are that he can appoint and dismiss the members of his cabinet and coordinates the policies of the and activites of the government. As head of the Assembly he guides the law-making process, usually with the goal of enacting the policies of his government, and also is the tie-breaker in case of this event in the Assembly's law-making process and has the power to veto a debating law, which can be overturned by a 2/3 Assembly decision. The heads of the Judicial system are the members of the Supreme Court, who are all apointed by the President, they control the judicial decisions on a federal level and act as the court in a federal case, thought they are appointed by the President, they are dismissed by either their own wish, or by the King. The Assembly is divided up into the five main political parties, the Liberal Party, the Conservative Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the Freedom Pary, and the National Party, though they are allowed to have as many seats in the Assembly as voted for, their are laws in place by the constitution that limit the terms they can have to four, and a term is six years. The Assembly has the power to create new laws and add new amendments to their constitution. The current king of Macedonia is King Alexander I of Macedonia of the Royal House of Karadjordjević and the current president is Gjorge Ivanov, head of the Conservative Party of Macedonia, who looks forward to getting Macedonia into the League of Nations as fast as possible, and expanding Macedonia's power and establishing relations with more parts of the world.

Here is the descriptions of the politcal parties-


 * The Liberal Party, a mainly leftist party which fights for the basic rights and liberties of citizens and for a more democratic system of government.
 * The Conservative Party, a mostly rightist party which commits to poltical and economic practices of the democratic nations before Doomsday.
 * The Socialist Workers Party, a centre-left party which orginally was created to remake a communist country in Macedonia, but now mostly fights for the rights of the working class and the 210px-HRH_CrownPrince_AlexanderII_cropped.jpgnalization of certain industries.
 * The Freedom Party, a centre-right party dedicated to reducing the size of government, removing the monarchy, and decreasing governmental regulation of the economy.
 * The National Party, a far-right/far-left party that seeks to promote ethnic Macedonian power, and to basically turn Macedonia into a police state.



Military
The armed forces of Macedonia have expanded greatly over recent years thanks to the invention of new weapons, the introduction of new military policies, and finding of old weapons that were renovated. Originally made up of a few hundred troops gathered up by Alexander and the remaining members of the Yugoslav Royal Family, the army, after failing to take Yugoslavia, moved south to the lower Balkans and eventually help set up the Kingdom of Macedonia. In 1997, conscription was introduced to the country and now the armed forces are made up of professional soldiers who train at the three military academies across Macedonia. They have also helped recently to bring order to the outer parts of the country, which were recently ravaged by outsider warlords the anti-ethnic and racial unity militiants. The current size of the military is 150,000 troops, 100,000 in the army, 40,000 in the navy, 9,000 in the air force, and 1,000 marines.

Army
The army of Macedonia started out as the small force assembled by Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, after they failed to set up a new kingdom in the northern part of Yugoslavia, they moved south, pulling together many other smaller cities and towns into their new country. After Alexander was crowned king of the new nation, the army was nationalized and the original fighting force became the core of the nations defense for the time being, though it was mostly small and new troops were only added lightly and it functioned more like a militia. In 1997, however, conscription was introduced and the number of people in the army increased greatly and soon an army academy was set up in Skopje to help train the normal troops and officers of the new, and now professional, army. Now the army uses an array of weapons found in raided former Yugolsav and Greek military bases, including assault rifles, sniper rifles, and machine guns, but a great advance happened in 2001 and 2005 when tanks were used again in the army and their regional power increased greatly The rate production has increased over the years as 8 tanks are now made domestically while 7 more, 2 from Brazil, 4 from Turkey, and 1 from Venezuela. And in 2007 the use of artillery from captured military bases has been implemented and now hundreds of shells are produced in Macedonia and abroad every years.

Navy
In 1998, to combat the small navy of Serbia which itself was only a few small patrolboats that were launched from captured ports in Macedonia, but these boats were harassing and attacking the fishing fleet of Macedonia, thought the navy itself initially just the same in 1998, but by the next year, it consisted of a few new gunboats captured from former Greek ports. In 1999, at the battle of the Thracian Sea, the seven-boat Macedonian fleet fought the eleven-boat Serbian fleet, although outnumbered, the Macedonian fleet highly outgunned the Serbians, where as the Serbians were only patrol boats with the sailors carrying some assault rifles versus the Macedonians with machine guns attached to their boats. The fighting went on for about five hours with both sides often retreating, regrouping, and then attacking again, mostly ineffectivly, until the Macedonians and Serbians both regrouped and fought eachother head on in an arrowhead formation until all people on the Serbian ships were either shot dead or their boats had exploded after their feul tanks got hit with bullets. Today, the navy of Macedonia consists of 40,000 sailors and around 50 gunboats, 60 patrol boat, and 2 small frigates given to them by the Turkish sultan, but research has begun with some Macedonian and Turkish into building light cruisers and other types of new ships that will expand both navies powers.

Air Force
After the Civil War, in 2000, Božidar Stefanović, the man who was an air force officer in Yugoslavia before Doomsday and had convinced the king to create the Army Air Task Force, is made the first Marshal of the Air Force of Macedonia and the AATF is made into the Macedonian Air Force. They mostly prove themselves worthy of true government support during the Civil War at the battle of Skopje when machine guns from the helicopters, which the Serbians had no defense against, shoot down on to the Serbian Army and kill many troops, including some high-ranking officers and even the Serbian Field Marshal, who had only been apointed his position 1 month prior. They proved themselves again when the AATF spotted the Serbian "President's" ship and surrounded it, making him surrender so that when the navy ships arrived and captured him, he could be taken in, put to trial, and executed. Originally consisting of a few helicopters with machine guns built in, the Air Force has grown largely since then into a powerful force to reckoned with in the air, albeit with much recent help from the Air Force of Turkey. The Air Force now employs 10,000 airmen and pilots, and owns multiple helicopters, a couple dozen fighters from the raided Batajnica Air Base and Hellenic Air Force bases, and now produces these aircraft. although at only a rate of a couple each year, and today, even, the air force consists mainly of helicopters, which show their supperiority to enemy rebels and foreign warlords multiple times.

Marines
The Macedonian Marines Corp is about the same size it is now as when it was founded in 2006, as a way to expand the miltary of Macedonia and in case of a war where they must invade an island and the navy doesn't have the capacity to occupy it from an enemy force. The marines are equipped with pretty much the same guns and other pieces of equipment as the army and the navy, but they also are equipped with a dozen landing craft, with which they can cross from their ships to the island they are invading. Though technically just an extension of the navy, the Marines recieve different representation than the navy in the Assembly and are seen by a majority of the Macedonian public as an entirely different force compared to the navy. The current size of the Marines is 1,000 members and they are all trained at the Marine Corp Academy in Skopje.

Paramilitary
Several paramilitary groups exist in the Kingdom of Macedonia, their purpose is mainly for their own benefit of expanding the Macedonian order, which they see as a true way of ethnic justice and unity, and therefore use force to this end as a way to enforce their idea of Macedonian unity and have in some cases helped expand the borders of Macedonia. The weapons in use by these paramilitary groups use are those that are either found from scouting parties, supplied by the members, or, in some cases, given to them secretely or openly by the military. In 2007, the Macedonian Paramilitary Act was enacted by the Macedonian Assembly, which states that any group classified by the government as paramilitary can be called upon by the government during a time of war, but onl if they sign the bill, and if they do they will recieve special treatment in Macedonian society, including exemption from some low level crimes and even being paid by the government for there services in either money or arms. Today, paramilitary groups are seen by many members of Macedonian society as a wonderful alternative to the real military, as less dangerous and more beneficial in some cases, today all of the several paramilitary groups, the Macedonian Liberation Front, the Macedonian Unity Society, the Macedonia Together, and the United Macedonians Group, and all together employ some 23,000 members and are trained either by former military officer, Special Corp officers, and, in some cases, former Turkish officers.

Royal Guard
The Royal Guard is an elite group of just 750 troops who's sole purpose in this position is the protection of the members of the Royal family, and for the most part today perform cerimonious role as bodyguards during cerimonies with Royal family members in attandence and act much like the OTL Scottish Guard. They have to have served at least 3 years in the military and have passed a series of physical and mental tests, as well as a background check to make sure they are from Macedonia and don't, or a have a very small, criminal record. The Royal Guard was started during in 1996, while during the era of ethnic tensions, which would later lead to the Civil War, after a Serbian terrorist shot, and almost killed, Crown Prince Phillip while he was at a dinner in Skopje. Today, they serve the same role as they did after their creation in 1996, and, while this has rarely happens, being given permission to be sent into battle to act as a kind of special corp for high-risk missions, and today are headed overall by the Supreme Guardsman of the Royal House of Karadjordjević Gordana Jankulovska.

Units
The prime reason for the design of the Macedonian units is flexibility to deal with internal and external threats, the main unit in use of the Macedonian forces are Brigades, Flotillas, and Air Groups, each made up of smaller units of specialization who come together to become flexible, mini-armies, navies, or air forces. Each of these larger units are based in the larger groups of Divisions, Fleets, and Air Wings, respectively, as to cut cost on base building and base management. There are 5 divisions, each consisting of 4 brigades with 5,000 men, there are 2 fleets, each fleet consists of 25 gunboats, 30 patrol boats, and 1 frigate, and each has 5 flotillas, one flotilla has 5 gunboats and 6 gunboats, there are 3 air wings, each with 3,000 operatives and about 24 helicopters and 3 fighters, divided into air groups, 3 in each air wing, with 1,000 operatives 8 helicopters and 1 fighters.

Units of the Macedonian Army Units of the Macedonian Navy Units of the Macedonian Air Force
 * 1st Macedonian Army Division (Based in Skopje, to defend the capital)
 * 2nd Maceodnian Army Division (Based in Shkodra, to defend western border)
 * 3rd Macedonian Army Division (Based in Edessa, to defend from Greece)
 * 4th Macedonian Army Division (Based in Prizren, to defend northern border)
 * 5th Macedonian Army Division (Based in Kavala to defend naval port there and from eatsern Greece)
 * 1st Macedonian Navy Fleet (Based in Lezha, to defend western coast)
 * 2nd Macedonian Navy Fleet (Based in New Thessaloniki, a city built in the OTL Serres providence of Greece and used by Macedonia to defend eastern coast)
 * 1st Macedonian Air Wing (Based in Seres, to defend southern border)
 * 2nd Macedonian Air Wing (Based in Bitola, to defend capital and northern border)
 * 3rd Macedonian Air Wing (Based in Lezha, to defend western border from possible Sicilian aggresion and support navy)

Agriculture
Like many Posy-Doomsday societies, agriculture was the main industry and primary employer at the beginning of the Kingdom from about the founding up until late 1994, and until then if their was an excess of food, it would be stored in storehouses, which a majority of cities and towns built. However, by early 1995, crops were in a huge surplus due to the natural airable land of the Balkans combined with minimal famine and a lasting peace existing within the Kingdom, and soon mnay people began looking at other industries as a source of money and jobs. Agriculture still kept a slight dominance over these industry for the remainder of the millenium and kept growing thanks to coal and biofuel vehicles being reintroduced in the mid-to-late 90's and allowing for faster crop production and faster crop consumption. By the end of the 20th century, agriculture was booming and many people began contemplating the idea of markets where food could be sold, before this food was sold by large groups of farmers who would fund a farm, some would cultivate and others would sell in towns or cities. In 2001, the Macedonian Farming Corporation became the first widescale company to employ farming and began using farming vehicles, storehouses (much larger than the original ones and used salt and ice to keep food preserved), and outdoor marketplaces to being in the money. Today, the MFC enjoys competetion from many other farming and agriculture companies, although none as big as it, and, with the reintroduction of electricity, has begun to use air-cooled storehouses and indoor food markets.

Fishing
Fishing is the second industry that evolved in the country during 1993, although at the time agriculture made up most of the economy, fishing would soon become not only a viable industry but a booming market in the modern day. After the government decided to support expanding the economy and creating new industries in 1995, fishing soon became its own viable industry in the growing economy and people began building wooden boats and fishing rods with which they began to go out farther to sea and capturing many more fish. As the years progressed, so did the fishing industry and soon the Macedonian Fishing Company (MFC) was founded to make money off this growing industry and to expand on it, and that happened very quickly as the market continued to grow and grow. Then, in 1997, when the Civil War started, the MFC was constantly harassed by the Serbian Navy and the MFC was forced by the government to shut down temporarily to keep the fishermen and the industry safe. After the Civil War, the MFC was put back into business and the fishing industry boomed because, while the war was going on, the fish population was able to boom due to reduced fishing, and the number of fishermen in the industry was greater than ever, soon new laws were put into place by the Assembly to protect the fish by banning fishing in certain areas and limit the number of fishermen they can have out at sea. Then in 2002, two new things were put into place that changed the industry forever, one, the MFC was finally able to develop metal fishing boats powered by coal and biodiesel that could go out farther to sea, and two, the MFC, which was accused by the Assembly of monopoly on the market and was forced to split up into three different companies, the Greater Macedonian Fishing Company, the Aegean Fishing Conglomerate, and the New Macedonian Fishing Company, each headed by a former MFC executive.

Steel and Mining
In 1995, after agriculture in Macedonia flourished, the government decided it was time to diversify the economy, and that the best place to start was with mining. In the later half of that year, three new iron mines, and two new coal mines, were opened in Macedonia, and some mining equipment was made functional because they had been fitted to run on biodiesel. In 1996, mining iron and coal became became a large and booming industry in Macedonia, by then employing 10% of the population, and soon factories began to open up in the major Macedonian cities that began to produce steel from the iron that had been mined. Within the next few years, the steel industry also boomed and many people began to migrate to major cities to get jobs working at these factories, and steel would soon become a valuable resource in rebuilding the nation.

Automobiles
After 1996, when steel became producable again, many people began looking at rebuilding the automobile industry in Macedonia. In 1997, the Macedonian Automobile Company (MAC), became the first company in the new country to start building new automobiles, although at that time they only had one factory in Skopje, and it only made motorcycles that were made to run on biodiesel. Thenin 1999, they started mass-producing cars again, though at a slow rate, but by now had also made enough money to build a few more factories in the country. Then in 2001, two new companies, the Bitola Automobile Works (BAW), and the Greater Macedonian Automobiles (GMA), and the automobile industry boomed as with the added competition to the industry. In the modern day, the automobile industry is still a large industry, in fact it is the fifth largest industry in the entire kingdom.

Arms
In 1997, after steel had become a large industry in Macedonia and consctription had been introduced to the military, an arms industry was created in the kingdom to make weapons for the army, and also make it so the government didn't have to make the weapons themselves, the first of such companies was the Macedonian Arms Corporation. In 1998, the first new machine guns and assault rifles began to roll off the line and they were bought by the government, almost immediately, and were distributed to the armed forces soon after. Then in 2001, after years of being an industry and with steel and energy major industry and a model being found in an old Yugoslav military outpost, the government ordered the companies to begin making the T-55 tank again, and by 2005, they had developed M-84 main battle tank, and also put it into production, although they don't have the capacity to mass-produce them the make a few each year. After 2006, when howitzers and armored personel carrier were introduced again, the MAC began making them again, although at a very slow rate for each year.

Energy
In the mid 90's, when the automobile and mining industry boomed in Macedonia, energy was obviously the next part if the economy that had to be made viable again. The mining industry fed into energy as coal was made the first major source of energy for Macedonia and was first used to power new mining equipment and eventually in 1999, coal was used to power their brand coal-burning electricity factories, that at first only supplied energy to the king's palace and other government offices. Then in 2005, the Macedonian Energy Company (MEC), began building coal-burning factories in the major Macedonian cities and for the first time in over 20 years, electricity was brought to the people of Macedon. In 2006, biodiesel, which had originally been only made by the government and some other farmers, was first being made by the MEC and sold to people to support the automobile industry, and now research is being started on new, renewable energy sources. Currently, the MEC has also prospered from the success of the Macedonia sports leagues which now use electricity from their coal-buring plants to power their arenas, including scoreboards and big screens.

Alcohol
In 1996, the amount of wheat and corn in Macedonia was growing and soon grapes became a huge resource in the agriculture industry and many people began looking to alcohol as the next big industry to be formed. Unfortunatly, the Civil War put an end to that idea as all wheat, corn, and grapes were used by the government to feed troops and the alcohol industry idea was put on hold as the war progressed and more foodstuffs continued to be sent to the troops. However, a huge turn around came after the war, in 2001 the Macedonian Beer and Whiskey Company (MBWC) was founded that began using the recent excess in crops to make beer and whiskey and soon parties were sent out to find old wine distilleries that still had wine in them, although little wine being found and most of the beer and whiskey being sold to only the rich people and government officers were big handicaps of the industry. However, a huge breakthrough came in 2004, when huge amounts of wine were discovered in northern Greece and soon the Macedonian Wine Corporation (MWC) which funded more wine searches and sold the wine back in Macedonia, and eventually in that year the price of beer and whiskey had been cheapened enough that middle class people were now able to buy it and soon wine was being produced in Macedonia, although little wine was acutally produced due to the long-fermenting process.

Tourism
In 2003, when reports from a small resort on the coast being found by an exploration party, people in Macedonia jumped at the chance to be able go on vacation again and soon the Macedonian Vacation and Resort Company (MVRC) bought the resort from the government and made it part of their corporation and soon they soon began sending more parties to find similar coastal resorts, eventually they found 3 more resorts and began building some more of their own. In 2005, the resorts, after months of repair and coal-burning factories built to power the buildings by the MEC, were opened to the public and soon tourists, hoping to get away from the stresses of the city. Although the government and several CEO's argued against the huge number of of tourists going to the resorts and the decreased workforce, but this turned around when the tourists returned from vacations and showed the energy that came from their rests and began to put out more products than ever, and the huge money the MVRC was producing for the state made the government turn around, too. Then in 2007, many tourists began arriving from out of country, mainly from Turkey and the Alpine Confederation, and the tourism industry boomed again, and is still today a major industry in Macedonia.

Telecommunications and Electronics
In 2007, with much help from both Alpine and mainly Turkish scientists and economic experts, the Kingdom of Macedonia was able to craft a stable telecommunications and electronics industry which soon lead to the creation of the Macedonian Telecom Conglomerate (MTC) and the Macedonian Electronics Corporation (MEC) which now have large holdings in the market. By 2008, the first televisions and radios began rolling of the line, and with Turkish help, the MTC was able to build new radio stations and even a few television stations are built which provide mainly news and sports shot with the MEC's new cameras. By 2009, they begin supplying televisions to the MVRC's hotels and setting up new television stations that now accept commercials, which makes the industry even more viable and money-making, allows the MEC and MTC to employ more workers and create new products and stations. By 2010, both companies are a major player in a hugely successful market that continues to grow and both countries now export their products and service to the countries who helped them build their market, Turkey and the Alpine Confederation.

Tobacco
Before Doomsday, the airable grasslands of the southern and central Balkan peninsula was a huge source of Europes' tobacco domestically and produced billions of dollars each year, and also helped support the economies of many countries. However, after Doomsday struck, the economies of many countries were either shattered or non-existant and tobacco as an industry vanished almost instantlly. But, recently the farmlands of Macedonia have begun to be seen by many as ripe for tobacco production, and leading the way was the Macedonian Tobacco Corporation (MTC) which bought originally about two dozen acres of farmland in 2005 as farmland for growing tobacco, and many people liked the idea of being able to access tobacco products for the first time in decades. Then in 2006, when the first large rounds of product first began to come in, they were originally sold in crude boxes and the tobacco was wrapped in the usual paper and sold at multiple markets across the big cities in Macedonia, and sales were so great that soon the MTC began to produce chewing tobacco and some cigars. However, a great concern came in 2008 when many reports came in early that year of cases of lung cancer and other forms of lung disease, and the MTC, along with its main competitors, Skopje Tobacco Products and the Bitola Tobacco Conglomerate, were put on the chopping block as the cause of this outbreak of disease. The next year, amongst controversy the Macedonian Tobacco and Tobacco Products Administration Board was created as a board of people who would make laws concerning tobacco and tobacco products, and soon laws were made that put a moderate tax on the products and put restrictions on where tobacco could be sold along with restricting the amount of additives that could be put in tobacco products. Today, tobacco is still a major industry in Macedonia, although sales have as of yet has still not recovered from the PR blow and profit blow they got after the MTTPAB was created the the new tobacco laws were put into place, although the disease rate from tobacco is way down.

Sports
Prior to the Civil War, sports were only small competitions held in small towns or regions in the lands across Macedonia, and sports were seen by the Assembly as a minor cultural aspect at the country's beginning. However, after the Civil War, national unity became a great priority in the Assembly and a common culture was seen as just high a priority as any, and soon talks over creating some national sport leagues became commonplace in the Assembly's meetings. In 2002, after a final meeting on the subject, the Macedonian Football League was established, football meaning soccer, and seven teams from some of Macedonia's largest cities were created and the Phillip II Arena in Skopje was reopened to host these new games. The cleanup of the arena was a huge undertaking as hundreds of workers had to work around the clock to cleanup all the dust and grime that had developed in the 19 years the arena had been closed, and soon the arena was cleaned and the games began. Today, the MFL includes 15 teams from Macedonia and 1 team from Turkey who represent their country in the games, the Turkish team represents the good relations between the country and is often seen by visiting Turkish citizens and political dignitaries. Then in 2005, the Macedonian Handball League and Macedonian Basketball League was also created and new arenas in other Macedonian cities were opened to host these games as well, with 9 teams in the MHL and 11 teams in the MBL, and both competitions are often visited by tourists and visiting dignitaries.



Ethnicity
Being in the area that it is, Macedonia envolves multiple ethnic groups in the kingdom, these different ethnic groups, although recently learning to cooperate, have had their disputes and problems with each other in the past, the foremost example of course being the Macedonian Civil War. The Macedonian Civil War started when the Serbs, an ethnic group living in mainly northeast Macedonia, declared independence as the Serbian Republic, although contrary to its name, it was actually a Fascist Dictatorship run by the "President" Milan Milutinović, who began "ethnically cleansing" the country. The Macedonian Army found several death camps that were made to kill the non-Serbs that were left in the Republic because they couldn't afford to leave or were banned from leaving by the "President's" laws. After searching these camps, the army found hundreds dead, and even more were tired from being forced to work in Serbian mines all day, and many were also starving because of the little food they were served. After the finding of the camps, all officers and soldiers in the Unity Party's "Police Corp", as they were officially called, were rounded up by Macedonian soldiers and a majority were taken to court where huge show trial were performed to further shame these soldiers, the majority of these "Policemen" were executed, however, those who had little to now part in the "ethnic cleansing" were given only mild sentences for low treason. After the Civil War, January 2 became Macedonian Unity Day, a day that celebrates the unity of Macedonian ethnicities and the great sense of nationalism instilled by the Civil War's end, even many Serbs celebrate the holiday. Today, the legacy of the Civil War can still be felt every January 2, and a statue was erected in Skopje to memorize the people who's lives were lost in the, as of yet, deadliest conflict in the history of the Kingdom.

International Relations
Macedonia currently has open diplomatic relations and political alliances with all trading partners of their close ally and trading partner, Turkey, including Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Sicily, and Jordan. They also have good relations with the Alpine Confederation and conduct trade with the Confederation via a small series of highly protected land routes through to the Balkans peninsula up to the Alps. Relations have also been established with Venice, Tuscany, and San Marino, as well having made contact with New Rome and conducts trade with each of them via multiple sea routes. They also have an open diplomatic and economic relationship with the Alpine Confederation, and through their partnership with them, they are currently applying for membership into the League of Nations, albeit some problems from the Federation of Greece.

Turkey
Relations with Turkey were officially established 1993 and both countries have established an embassy in each others respective capital cities and now Turkey is Macedonia's foremost and most powerful ally. During the Macedonian Civil War, a Turkish Expeditionary force was sent from the homeland to assist the Macedonians in combating the Serbs, as the Turks had better training than the Macedonian troops and their officers were also helping by training troops and giving strategic assistance to the Macedonian commanders, and while serving there, multiple Macedonian and Turkish officers wrote a training manual still used by both countries today. After the war ended, the relations between the two countries grew greatly over the next few years and the Turkish government sent over a military attaché to the Macedonian embassy who continue to assist them now. Today, Macedonia and Turkey experience a great era of relations and cooperation which continue to grow, and after Greece, Macedonia and Turkey's common enemy, help found the Atlantic Defense Community, the two have begun talks about creating their own common defense group.

Rhodope
Contact with Rhodope was established in 1995 and after a minor border dispute, the two countries established embassies in each others capitals, although relations have had there strains over the years, including selling weapons to Rhodope's enemy, Vidin, and minor border intrusions in 2007. In 2007, multiple expeditionary groups from Macedonia, backed by some paramilitary groups from Macedonia crossed into territory claimed by Rhodope from the 1995 agreement, and tried to establish an illegal hunting settlement. However, after a few weeks there, the Rhodope army, which had been patrolling the area after the sounds of gunshots had been heard in the area, found the settlement and brought the settlers and paramilitary men to court. They were charged with illegal immigration, smuggling weapons across the border, and on top of that, the false charges of murdering civilians, and all, including children, were given sentences from ten years, and some paramilitary officers were sentenced to death. Afters news of these sentences got back to Skopje, outraged was raised in the Macedonian Assembly who ordered the Rhodope government to return the settlers, and after a small arms deal, the civilians were returned to Macedonia, however, they refused to return the soldiers. The Rhodope government demanded a substantial pay from the Macedonian government in return for the soldiers, and on the day of their sentenced death, the money was given just minutes before the executions, so they were returned, and soon the strain settled down. But more recently, the Macedonian ran into trouble when Rhodope went to war with Vidin, but soon soldiers were found with documents which stated that Macedonia had been selling arms to the Vidin military. But what they didn't know was that some troops along the front line had been equipped with these false documents by their officers, in hope that after tensions rose between Rhodope and Macedonia and the latter would declare war. It was later found that some Vidin troops had been been equipped with Macedonian weapons, and outrage was raised between the two governing bodies, and Macedonia threatened to declare war and place an embargo. But it was soon found in an intelligence office that Vidin had faked the documents and that the weapons were from Serbian defectors from Macedonia who had stolen weapons from a local factory and had been selling them to the Vidin military and tensions cooled down. Today, they continue to have good relations as both continue to keep embassies in each others capitals and continue to trade goods, although border disputes do tend to cause an occasional problem, but these are oftenly solved with little conflict.

Former Yugoslavia
Contact was made with the other countries of former Yugoslavia in 2007, they had not wanted to explore into the north as they believed it still was made of warlords and smaller kingdoms of extremists. However, after a Serbian radio message was found by a Macedonian patrol in the north and they responded to it, the two countries made contactin April 2007, they have continued to experience excellent relations and keep embassies in eachother's capital city. Although Macedonia does own portion of southern Serbia, Serbia has allowed them to control the area, as it is still somewhat troubled due to scattered resistance which remains in the area, but is seen to the Macedonians as a little threat. Relations with Croatia were established in mid-2008, and although they still had strained relations with Serbia, they managed to keep relations with both countries and now Croatia and Macedonia have embassies in eachother's capital. Contact was established with Bosnia a few days after Croatia, and after a little period of concern in the Assembly over having relations with an Islamic republic, they established embassies in their capitals and continue to have relations to this day.