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An alliance, formerly known as a "Mutual Protection Pact (MPP)", is an offensive and defensive agreement between two countries. If one country in the pact attacks another country, or is attacked by another country, the other country automatically becomes an ally in the war. If a country is an ally in the war, its citizens can fight for their ally from their homeland. This agreement is favorable because you can count on your partners to come to your defense if you are attacked. On the other hand, you will be forced to fight against any attacker of the countries linked to this agreement - even if that attacker is a partner of your country in another Alliance.

How Alliances are Made

Accessible from Main menu - Community - Country administration

Note: Signing an Alliance will cost 10,000 local currency from both country treasuries. It expires in 30 days.

Alliances can be proposed as laws by the president of any given country. When a president proposes an Alliance to Congress, 10,000 units of the country's local currency is removed from the treasuries of each country. The Members of Congress have to vote for or against the law in the two countries. If accepted by both Congresses, it will be valid starting on the day it was marked as accepted for 30 days. If not accepted by at least one of the two Congresses, the money will return to the treasury of each country. Voting in both congresses will be simultaneous.

Example: Hungary wants to make an alliance with Serbia. In this case 10,000 HUF is used from Hungarian treasury and 10,000 RSD from Serbian treasury.

Alliances can be proposed and voted for at any point before they expire.

After 30 days, the period while it lasts, the Alliance is disabled automatically. Before being disabled, the president can propose another Alliance with the same country and, if approved by Congress, the end date is delayed to the "30 days limit" again. In some cases, alliances last for more than this period, if both CPs send the proposal at the same time.

Friend of a Friend Cancellation

Although Alliances have given expiration times, they are automatically canceled if a country attacks a country that shares a common Alliance with it (known as the friend of a friend cancellation)

Example: If Sweden and Germany both have an Alliance with Poland, and Sweden decides to attack Germany, the Alliance between Sweden and Poland will be canceled.

When the alliances are checked for common countries?

MPP cancellation is checked:

• at the beginning of the war (either through "Declare war" law or "Natural enemy" law);
• at the beginning of each campaign (either through automatic attack or when the president clicks on the button).

You can sign alliances (e.g. MPPs) anytime you wish - before or during a war AND before or during a campaign. Their cancellation kicks in only when an event is happening (war or NE declaration, start of campaign, etc.).

Triggering Alliances

In any war, both the country that is being attacked and the country that declared the war may have allies through Alliances.

• Alliances are triggered on both sides when a country attacks any region of another country.
• Once triggered, they are by default active only as long as there is an active Alliance between the countries or the war is closed.
• Triggered Alliances will support all future offensive actions in any region.

See Also

• Non-Aggression Pact

External Links

• List of Alliances

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