Turn 25 incidents (EMG-1)

At the beginning of Turn 25, several coups and regime changes occurred (this is the incident of February 10th; if you divide up the turns evenly the in-universe time of most of the occurrences were on January 18th)

The Second Danelaw
At the end of 2027, a fascist movement known as the Second Danelaw formed in Britain, supported by Anna Tyndall. They rapidly gained support and their claims included many Adriatic lands. Immediately, leader of Iceland Sigmund Hreiðarsson commended this movement and offered a lend-lease, which they declined. Following Adriatic attempts to fight off the rebellion, Viktor Frans Tiranë was assassinated by a Second Danelaw member on a trip to the United States to meet with President Kamala Harris. Vice Minister-President Zeledir Velo was also killed. Therefore, former Communist Party and Socialist People's Party member Peter Zchladep took office. Shortly thereafter, Anna Tyndall died due to poisoning by DIA agents. The Adriatic Republic then attempted to form an alliance with Iceland and the USSR, called the Industrialized Nations Alliance. It was to initially be an economic alliance only, but later could become a defensive pact in nature.

Annexations and Referendums
While this was happening, a referendum to unify Cameroon, Nigeria, Gabon and the Central African Republic passed, forming a socialist nation known as the LUN, LUA, or "L'unité africaine", with President Jean at its helm. The USSR also annexed Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan, and began an invasion of Mongolia. After the conquest of Canada, all of its provinces voted to join Iceland in a referendum widely agreed to be fraudulent. Dolgozo noted extremely low voter turnout and unanimous vote in Prince Edward Island, and demanded that British Columbia and southern Quebec be granted independence. This was denied, and relations between Dolgozó and Iceland became increasingly strained. Dolgozó attempted to send intelligence agents to ascertain the popular opinion in Iceland, but instead discovered a new Icelandic species of poplar tree known as populus gardari.

Tiranë's diplomacy
Iceland offered to join the Industrialized Nations Alliance, concurrent with its leaving the Anti-Imperialist Alliance following the signing of the ACM.

Tiranë's condition
Shortly after his assassination, in the beginning of 2028, moaning was heard in Viktor Frans Tiranë's mausoleum. Tiranë was quickly pronounced alive and found to have a medical condition that lets him "hibernate" if he were to be in critical condition. This greatly shifted popular opinion, with Adrians saying he "was so strong, he fought death and won". He requested to meet with Hreiðarsson, Russian Majority Leader Artem Federova and Dolgozan president Jozef Maliar immediately, and they all met in his house.. Despite constitutional provisions, Zchladep refused to transfer power to Tiranë. Shortly thereafter, Maliar was shot by a neo-Nazi attempting to kill Tiranë, but missed and hit all four leaders, all of whom were sent to the hospital. All were in critical condition, and after a disulfur decafluoride bomb was found in their room all, especially Tiranë, had difficulty breathing. While in the hospital, he was murdered a second time by a hospital worker strangling him, followed by Zchladeps agents killing his 10 and 7 year old children. Maliar then commited suicide with explosives as revenge, killing Federova, the hospital workers, and possibly Hreiðarsson. (reports differ on Hreiðarsson; Dolgozan sources clearly saw him being blown apart and he continued to lead Iceland until his official death 4 months later.) Iceland at the time withdrew from the INA.

Invasions
Iceland finally declared war on the United States to satisfy its claims, and quickly took much of its northern territory, as Dolgozo invaded the de facto independent states of Texas and Florida, as well as annexing parts of Alabama for continuity. They quickly took control of the Gulf Coast, and much of the southern border territory of the United States.

Soviet coup
68 members of the Communist Caucus left to form the Party of Greater Russia led by Sergei Kunetsov, advocating for more expansionism and less tied to socialist policies. Artem Federova was strongly against this party, referring to them as fascists, and began a crackdown, leading to numerous riots. Shortly thereafter, Kunetsov successfully led a coup against the USSR, forming GIRU—the Greater Imperial Russian Union, helped by Federova's absence, being in Tirana meeting with Tiranë. Shortly after, RTOcK agents attempted, but failed, to poison Kunetsov while passing by.

Adriatic Actions
After Tiranë's second death, Peter Zchladep recognized Mongolia as Russian land and remained friendly with Russia, and invaded Spain and France. Hreiðarsson attempted to send support to Spain and France as soon as possible; in reaction, Zchladep withdrew all troops from France and re-opened land deal talks with Spain. A deal was made with which Adria (renamed from a Republic to an Empire) would recieve much of Spain's east coast, leading to the beginning of further talks to buy Sardinia from Dolgozó and the remaining half of Corsica from Iceland.

Seth Macejkovic
With Maliar's suicide bombing, Vice President Seth Macejkovic became President. In his inauguration speech, he declared his true affiliations to be with the left-wing populist movement along with Kunetsov and Zchladep. He then banned all political parties with the exception of his own Együtt party and renamed his title to Patriarch.

Dolgozan genocide
In response to this, violent rebellions began in Budapest. To quell these, Macejkovic deployed bombs to the protestors, and to numerous indiscriminate locations. Bombings and killings of dissident institutions and civilians mostly took place in Hungary, Serbia and Libya. New bombing rounds were announced by the government as repeated announcements of statements with the format "___ traitors were sent to hell." The bombing campaign was so intensive that according to final records 364,122 people were killed, mostly civilians, despite the regime only lasting 6 hours. It is possible that these numbers were inflated by the regime.

This did not quell the violent rebellions, and by noon on January 18 protestors were quickly able to enter the patriarchal residence and killed Macejkovic. Shortly afterwards, all members of the Együtt party who had ever held office were killed by protestors. To calm the chaos, Spanish intelligence agencies installed Enzo Gonzales as his replacement. Macejkovic's government is known for its exceptional brutality despite its extremely short time in power.

Freesch
Concurrent with Macejkovic's bombing campaign, Zchladep began a to promote anarchy and destroying any presence of government, structure or society other than his own kingship, and the military if another country invaded. Many citizens supportive of Zchladep committed severe destructive acts, such as the destruction of Barcelona for being "a symbol of government", in addition to public executions of economists. This was also sufficiently opposed that a faction of the military, led by General Gottshalk Erhart Weiß-Schunger, attempted to perform a coup against Zchladep. Just after midnight on the 19th, the capital was successfully taken, and Gottshalk created a monarchic dynasty with himself as king as the new government, called the Kingdom of Adria.