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Welcome to the mini-series 'The Struggle for Freedom!'. In this series, each friendly country will be featured and analyzed. There will be two main sections, the stats and the analysis. The analysis will describe the country and its situation in more detail. The stats will be split into three parts: strength, importance, and loyalty.

Strength defines the country's raw ability to fight. It involves its population, experience, resources, money, and amount of land. It is NOT based on strength relative to countries near it.

Importance describes the country's value to the alliance. While all countries are cared for, some countries naturally have more to offer. Though power may play a minor role, it is mostly rated based on geography and its presence in various regions. Those with an ability to directly fight major battles are considered more important.

Loyalty details how much the country attempts to help others in the alliance, and generally being a good buddy. It includes having MPPs, giving back lands to allies, helping in battles, and many other minor factors. Loyalty also is based in how long the country has been allied; while long-time friends tend to be more loyal, new additions often need to prove their worth.

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Germany (3/9/10)

The irony of a Polish Germany aside, Germany has always been a somewhat weak country. Historically bordering both Serbia and Poland, Germany is in a key position in the most important continent. Besides beating up Denmark, Germany hasn't had much success of late, giving up most of its lands to Poland. It is, though, an essential country, and if it managed to retain its lands, it would be in the center of Europe. It's been faithful to its alliances, and is only in need of some help to get it up and running.

Greece (5/4/9)

Greece has always done its own thing. When Saudi Arabia and Egypt were introduced, Greece and Cyprus teamed up to take some of the juicy oil. When FYROM was added, Greece immediately took a disliking to them, and have been embroiled in an endless battle ever since. Though Greece is currently losing the war, don't be fooled. Its strength is much greater than it would first appears, much like its loyalty; while it often fights a separate enemy than its fellow brethren, it's never been one to turn on its comrades. Its position is decent; it has borders with FYROM and occasionally Serbia when it makes a breakthrough, but otherwise has little to offer geographically.

India (4/3/9)

Out-of-the-way India's been a curious country for its lifetime. Though it's a massive country, it's merely average in terms of strength, seeing as Thailand was an even match for it. Other than Pakistan, it has no land borders aside from "friend" China. China's and India's relations are slightly strained, but otherwise India has been a dependable country. However, its unimportance in terms of location cannot be ignored. Though India's a great ally, there are definitely more important friends to keep close.

Italy (2/8/9)

The booted pasta-loving country is disappointingly weak. For all that it had going for it, including two WTFoil regions and plenty of land and borders, it managed to waste it away, leading to its mere three provinces still in its possession. It has/had borders with many countries, both friendly and not-so-friendly, including France, Switzerland, Slovenia, and currently with Serbia. It also has a path to the Balkans through Apulia, or at least it used to. All in all, Hetalia Italy is a country of wasted opportunity and waving the white flag.

Israel (4/1/7)

There's not much to say for the religious battleground country. It's not particularly strong, nor does it have super relations with any country. It's more neutral than most members of the alliance. Owning some of Saudi Arabia, it is somewhat strong, but its strength is limited, or at least its perception, as it has not had any chance to show what it's made of. Perhaps in the future as more countries are settled, Israel will become the hotspot of a tense battle, but as of now, it's in the middle of nowhere.

Japan (3/1/9)

Finding similarities between Israel and Japan is difficult, but there are three: both are weak, in the middle of nowhere, and are in the same coalition. Japan is a archipelago of islands forever locked into fighting Indonesia, the Koreas, and no one else for the rest of its life in the alliance, which appears to be for a long time. Seeing as Japan is only recently re-establishing independence from maybe-evil-but-maybe-not Taiwan, it's difficult to see any relevance Japan has to offer anytime soon.