Shout Out / The New Order: Last Days of Europe

• The U-2 Incident event for Germany mentions over three hundred confirmed kills of Hermann Graf.
• To protect themselves from nuclear attacks, Omsk can introduce bunker systems with a large metro system designed to house their leadership and troops.
• A post-apocalyptic event named "A Canticle" where priests preserve an pre-war nuclear missile site and protect its secrets from unprepared masses is a clear reference to A Canticle for Leibowitz.
• Pavolini's focus for allying with Muti is entitled "The Fast and the Furious".
• A focus for Ostafrika is called "Southern Roads, take us home".
• Another focus for Ostafrika is named "GET YOUR FREE TVS!", which is a reference to the first test level of Half-Life 2. Icon for the focus is even modeled after the only known screenshot of the level.
• The demo version set in Southern Urals is named Old World Blues, after one of the DLCs for Fallout: New Vegas. Indeed, the entire Southern Urals area is a direct shoutout to New Vegas, down to the very factions, their leaders and their nature.
• One event from the Old World Blues demo has a squadron of the Ural League get lost, and find a village commune. The squad leader trying (and failing) to find somebody of authority he can ask directions from is almost verbatim to the scene of King Arthur meeting the Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune.
• One of the Ural League events involves an Ural League trainee killing a drill sergeant and committing suicide due to the extreme stress of the training.
• One of the Ural League's demo endings (where their victory is rendered hollow with Russia still in the throes of warlord conflict without any sign of reunification), the final line is "The truth was that, for the Guard, the game was rigged from the start."
• The icon for the Dirlewanger Brigade's "Bandit State" idea is the bandit patch from S.T.A.L.K.E.R..
• The event where many Japanese officials are implicated in corruption leading up to the Japanese Economic War is titled "Tumbling Down." The reaction quote reinforces the reference.
  "It all returns to nothing."
• The name of the second demo, Don't Surf, is a reference to the line "Charlie don't surf" from Apocalypse Now.
• One of the focus icons in the game features the character Tachanka from Rainbow Six Siege. According to one of the devs, the focus icon was originally supposed to show the historical Tachanka, i.e. horse-drawn machine gun platforms, but the dev decided to use R6S's Tachanka instead.
• Chita's focus to expand the diamond mines of Yakutsk is called "The Diamond Age".
• One of Vyatka's foci is named Mother Russia Bleeds.
• The superregional tree for Igor Shafarevich's Ust-Sysolsk starts with a focus named "The Great Uniter" - the title of Kuvira from The Legend of Korra.
• One of the post-apocalyptic events◊ basically describes a post-apocalyptic version of King of the Hill, with "The Hill" (located in "a region known by the mysterious name of 'the Panhandle'") being ruled by a conservative family man, who treated his neighbors with barbecues, punishes criminals to pay compensation with either beer or propane, and whenever some outsiders arrived with strange technology or "potentially destabilizing ideas", he (and his several, heavily-armed friends) would "-ask them politely, yet firmly, to leave."
• An event tells about George Orwell being the author of a series of Alternate History novel titled Legacy of the Weltkrieg. Beside the reference in the title, the series's premise is exactly like Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg.
• The game contains multiple references Warhammer 40,000:
  • The final focus in Ural League's Starinov tree is named "And They Shall Know No Fear", referencing the Adeptus Astartes.
  • The message that occurs if the West Russian Revolutionary Front capitulates is "Only in death, does duty end", a common Imperial catchphrase.
  • Taboritsky's Holy Russian Empire screams "Imperium of Man". Genocidal and religiously ultranationalistic to a fault, both are theo-crypto-necrocracies on an unstoppable and steadfast decline, and both are in the habit of consecrating what would normally be most decidedly secular objects (in the Imperium's case, giant robots as cathedrals, and in the Empire's, factories as temples).
    • One event for Taboritsky's path is called "Suffer Not the Mutant", another Imperial catchphrase.
  • The icon for grenade launchers in the tank designer is a boltgun.
• The World War III superevent picture is a color photo of red balloons flying in the sky.
• The Free Territory can eschew formally trained nuclear physicists in developing nuclear weapons and attempt to democratize development in what is tracked internally as the "Kerbal Nuke Program" and the metrics used to judge the appropriateness of decisions made along the way are the same as the two stats Kerbalnauts have - courage and stupidity.
  • In addition, one of the decisions in the program, 'Visit the Tomsk Commune', prompts an event - aptly named "Not a Matter of Why But Why Not" - that is a Russified jab at the Portal franchise, down to the Tomsk Enrichment Centre, the C. Ivanov in charge (the C is not for Companion), and his assistant Karolina. Ivanov is precisely as unhinged as Cave Johnson, and Yuri internally remarks his ego is collecting rocks on the moon, a reference to the repulsion gel being made of ground-up moon rock.
• Doubling as a Take That!, an event for America describes the release of an alternate history book called The Greatest Story Never Told by one "Bodean Clefton Dixie", a reference to the title of a neo-Nazi propaganda documentary. The book is described as So Bad, It's Good, claiming that Nazi Germany is a "Judeo-Bolshevik bastion" among many other wild assertions, and becomes a bestseller purely on the basis of Bile Fascination.
• An event revealing a German prototype computer network, NetzRAM's main operator has the scientists "answer" questions posed by the operator which sound... familiar◊:
  NetzRAM: "WHAT IS YOUR NAME?"
  Scientist: "Walther Bothe."
  NetzRAM: "WHAT IS YOUR QUEST?"
  Scientist: "To further science."
  NetzRAM: "WHAT IS THE AIRSPEED VELOCITY OF AN UNLADEN SWALLOW?!"
  (Momentary panic among scientists as that wasn't supposed to be a response from NetzRAM)
  Scientist: "An African or a European Swallow?"
  (Two-minute pause)
  NetzRAM: "SCHEIßE!!!"
• A flavour event for Tomsk describes a popular new radio serial, Welcome to Dolina Nochi, set in a small town that sees such events as a vast glowing cloud becoming principal of the kindergarten, a five-headed dragon being arrested by the police for fraud and a strange forest on the outskirts of town whispering to residents to join it.
• Reinhard Heydrich comes out in staunch opposition to a hypothesized plan by the most rabid militarists in Germany's sphere to nuke the "non-Aryan" nations of the world and decides to take action.
  • The name of two of the focuses in Heydrich's fake focus tree◊ (third focus tree down) are "Once the rockets go up" followed by "who cares where they fall down?"
• The quote for the superevent announcing that Pokryshkin's Russian Federation has reunited Russia comes from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which Blade Runner, one of the main works of Cyberpunk, is loosely based upon.
• WerBell's path for Magadan, eventually culminating in the United States of Russia, is a massive love letter to Metal Gear, right down to his faction's name and even flag being an homage to MSF.
• If COINTELPRO is revealed, RFK drops a Precision F-Strike as he realizes his reputation is ruined not unlike a certain OTL president.
  This is the end of my presidency. I'm fucked.
• The internal security service◊ of Ultravisionary Komi is known as Special Circumstances.
• Emil Maurice, the partially Jewish Reichskommissar of Madagaskar being the leader of such a country is possibly a reference to another Maurice from Madagascar.
• The Komi electoral focus for the 1963 elections is called "Something Wicked This Way Comes". An apt name if you have chosen to empower particularly unsavory political leaders.
  • The description for that same focus opens with the sentences: "Months of rigorous preparation. Days of campaigning. Enjoy it or dread it, participate in it or flee from it - the election comes all the same."
• One of Brazil's focuses for Goulart's path if Lacerda fails to coup him is called "Jango Unchained"
• In a same-company cross-reference, a Vyatka that has expanded to become West Russia briefly uses the Victoria II sphering mechanics when diplomatically wooing the Urals.
  • For that matter, any unifier west of Omsk with at least one compatible state remaining in the Southern urals can use this mechanic, though much of the time it will end up solely as an option to declare war.
• A Guangdong event introducing Stanley Ho is titled "This Charming Man."
• The icon for immigration policy "You Will Never Leave" is lifted wholesale from The Simpsons, complete with Commissar Cap wearing Mr. Burns leaning on it. Doubles as a CMoF.
• The "Burgundian Inheritence" idea is gained by France and Paktkommission Frankreich or Germany representing the legacy of the Burgundian System and the toll it will have on their economy. The name of the idea itself is a reference to the event of the same name in Europa Universalis IV, which revolves around France and Austria fighting over the lands of the Duchy of Burgundy.
• The reaction text for the Italian East Africa collapse news event is "One fire fights one fire, one nail one nail."
• In one of Guangdong's events, police Commissioner Ōmori Kan makes a speech where he refers to "the imposters among us", a reference to the popular videogame Among Us.
• The event where Komai considers creating a Censorship Bureau to prevent any defiance towards his government is called "The Ministry of Truth".
• The reaction text to the event involving Lee gunning down Hitachi guards on his way to kill Komai is "We could be heroes, just for one day.".
• During Lee's Roaring Rampage of Revenge through Hitachi to kill Komai, the event titles and reaction options reference a quote from Ahab in Moby-Dick after Moby Dick destroys the Pequod.
  Ahab: "Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. "
• One particularly action packed event in Guangdong is titled Heroic Bloodshed.
• During a speech commending the brave and competent members of the Guangdong police, Ōmori Kan says that he "wants the imposters among us to know; I am watching". This is a Shout-Out to the hit indie game Among Us.
• One update is called The Ugly American, which fittingly, has a large focus on American involvement in foreign affairs, from the positive (aiding a Malagasy revolt against the Nazis and overthrowing fascist dictators) to the ugly side (rigging elections and orchestrating coups if electoral outcomes that threaten American interests occur).
• In one event, Matsushita boasts about being more competent than the rest of the Big Five and having the proper acumen to turn Guangdong into a powerhouse, with the reaction text concluding "Be polite. Be efficient."
• The phone from this still◊ of American Psycho is used in several focus icons.
• This still◊ from Come and See is used as one of the main menu images in "The Ruin" update.
• The foci for Philip Hart's foreign policy tree as revealed in late 2022◊ all take their names from the titles of the Warrior Cats: The New Prophecy books.
• When Ibuka Masaru tries to expand Fujitsu's markets to Chile, he visits Salvador Allende and really impresses the President with his latest line of computers. Seeing it as the ultimate tool to make economic management a breeze, Allende tells Ibuka "I'll buy your entire stock."
• This focus icon from George Romney's tree features the aforementioned telephone from American Psycho, as well as a still image of Saul Goodman in the background.
• The news event for the collaborators winning in Britain uses an image from It Happened Here.
• Adhemar de Barros' teased focus tree references numerous memes in their focus icons:
  • "They Just Want More And More" includes the farmer from the "But It's Honest Work" meme.
  • "Adhemar, the Heisenberg of Brazil" features Barros in Walter White's black, pork pie hat.
  • "Yankie Entrepeneurs" shows a truck, where the slogan on its trailer reads "Come to Brazil".
• The final part of the African Devastation superevent has one of the sounds ripped from Stalingrad (1993).
• One of the post-apocalyptic events is titled "Darling in the Franks". Said event's confirm button states "Will your lips taste the kiss of death?", a reference to the series' first opening sequence.
• An post-apocalyptic event that focuses on a young girl and a old man traveling through a ruined Yokohama is called "Yokohama Shopping Trip".
• In the Guangdong Riots, the Police can investigate the GFT for potential weaknesses, with one lead being a paper trail of the GFT using money laundering to fund their operations. If Japan's patience does not reach over 50%, the Police can hastily investigate the matter further, handing out arrest warrants and storming the financial institutions with brisk pace. Appropriately, the event is titled "The Need for Speed".
• The United Kingdom's focus tree has several references to Pink Floyd. For example, the icon for "The Factories, Unstaffed" features the same building from the cover of the Animals album.
• A Second Malagasy Uprising event is titled "Back The Empire Strikes Back", for when the conflict still rages on after Hitler's death and Milch overthrows Maurice to ramp up the war effort.

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