Spain

Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Europe in the Iberian Peninsula

Reign of Turnismo
During the 1910s Spain found itself facing numerous colonial uprisings and local revolts, in which the influence of leftist and nationalist parties grew substantially in the face of declining support for the government and especially the king, Alfonso XIII, who faced ridicule for his lifestyle. Even the Carlists, who had all but collapsed following the Third Carlist War, began to resurge and pose a tangible, albeit disjointed, threat.

Turmoil of the '20s
Following the Great War Spain remained under the sway of American, British, and German economic interests. Despite this, divisions along class lines became all the more apparent as wealth had become concentrated in the hands of a few powerful oligarchs. Politically, Spain was still dominated by Turnismo, which had allowed the Liberal Party and Conservative Parties to continuously share power for decades through rampant electoral fraud. While Spain was a de-jure constitutional monarchy with a parliament, de facto the primary political opposition came from the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT); Spain’s largest trade union, as well as anarchist terrorism, with political assassinations being common. Originally aimed at maintaining Spanish democracy whilst keeping radicalism out, Turnismo failed in all respects as corruption, cronyism, and chauvinism rose. All the while the country has been waging the Rif War, a war fought between Spain and the Republic of the Rif - a Berber Republic led by Abd el-Krim in the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco. Despite numerous expeditions to defeat el-Krim, the Spanish proved unable to dislodge the Berber rebels.