Italian-Iberian Cold War

Background
The Italian-Iberian Cold War (also known as the Italian Civil War) was a period of geopolitical tension between Regno D’Italia and the Iberian Empire and their respective allies during the fourth Geographica season. The period is generally considered to span the claiming of Italy to the end of the season three. The term "cold" is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two nations, but instead fought battles of influence and propaganda. The conflict was based around the controversial claiming of Italy where a rival nation of Regno D’Italia had “stolen” the Italian peninsula. The struggle for dominance was expressed via indirect means such as, propaganda campaigns, espionage, and in rivalry in competition.

The Iberian alliance was a sparse collective of nations who were mostly led by various former members of the Iberian Empire and was much weaker compared to the Regno D’Italia alliance who were primarily anti-iberian nations and pvpers.

The Italian-Iberian Cold War began immediately after the failed merger negotiations led by Don Mclean and Mint, the then leaders of Appalachia. With the leader of Regno D’Italia, highway31 threatening invasion in the failed talks, with this highway31 began a campaign of anti-Iberian propaganda while the cautious leaders of Iberia decided to seek a policy of total isolationism suspending all recruitment as a growing sense of paranoia swept the empire.

Iberian CB Crisis
On the morning of May 16th, 2020 members of the Iberian Empire woke up to find a active CB against them for trespassing from Regno D'Italia and officially declared Def-con 1 at 11AM EST on the same day. Although intelligence suggested that members were planning a war against the Iberia Empire the claims that they had a CB were dismissed by officials believing that they were attempting to intimidate the empire and believed that they did not have a CB however weapon production was ramped up as a precaution.

On June 13, 2020 the Iberian CB Crisis came to a end when MofuAwake agreed to cede the provisional territory of Naples to Regno D'Italia, although highway31, leader of Regno D'Italia initially attempted to scam the Iberian Empire by not removing the CB as promised the conflict was later resolved by a intervening staff member.

Propaganda
While there was no battles or large scale fighting Regno D'Italia and their respective allies began a campaign of propaganda in order to express anti-Iberian beliefs to others with the most iconic piece of propaganda being "All my homies hate iberia" with the Regno alliance managing to turn public opinion against the Iberian Empire.