The kindling is in place for a fire to burn down the whole Reich. The internal politics of the NSDAP have grown increasingly bitter and adversarial due to an elderly Hitler's deteriorating health, with the intense factionalism reflecting the broader rifts in German society. From his headquarters in Ordensstaat Burgundy, he plots to implement his vision of a purer, fundamentalist version of National Socialism across the entire Reich.

The Reich struggles to reassert control over its unruly Eastern European colonies and a massively powerful SS, which has effectively gone rogue under Heinrich Himmler. Germany's economy experienced a disastrous crash in the 1950s from which it has never recovered.

Over the first thirty years of a golden age that Hitler promised would last a millennium, the Reich has gone from being the world's preeminent superpower to teetering on the brink of collapse. In reality, these are dire times for the thousand-year Reich. It ought to be invincible and unbreakable. For all intents and purposes, the Reich is at the top of the world. Such is their power that the Nazis have realized the Atlantropa project and reshaped the Eurasian continent to their will. America was humiliated under a combined assault from Imperial Japan and a nuclear-equipped Germany. The Soviet Union has shattered into several dozen warring splinter states. France and England are Nazi puppet states. World War II ended with a Greater Germanic Reich dominating all of Europe. The mod is known for being incredibly ambitious and features many new mechanics and large amounts of events, paths, and characters its primary gameplay also deviates from the war and conquest-based gameplay of base game HOI4 in favor of political simulation and storytelling through events and new mechanics, in the vein of Political Strategy Games like Crisis in the Kremlin. The New Order is a narrative-driven mod that focuses on the fallout of an Axis victory and its disastrous effects on the world, leading to a three-way Cold War in the 60s. The New Order: Last Days of Europe is a Hearts of Iron IV Game Mod that is set in an alternate timeline where Nazi Germany utterly wins World War II, but quickly loses the peace.

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