Haiti is a Tier III Caribbean Island nation located in North America 
.
Haiti has a total of 10 cities, with the capital and biggest city being Port-au-Prince. Its only land border is with the 
Dominican Republic, and mainly due to its location and its general statistics, Haiti is not a nation that you commonly will see being played.
This is not recommended for new players unless you're looking for a challenge. Although a poorly managed Haiti can end up as a colony, a well-managed Haiti could be placed as a regional power or even a superpower.
Background
The island was originally settled/inhabited by the indigenous Taíno people, who originated in South America. The first European to arrive was Christopher Columbus in 1492 during his first voyage in an attempt to reach Asia for additional trading routes, and so he initially believed that the land he discovered was the coast of India or China. Columbus then subsequently founded the first settlement in the Americas, La Navidad, which is now the northern coast of Haiti. Not too long after that, Spain claimed the island, and they then named it "La Española", forming part of the Spanish Empire until the 1700s. However, the French eventually received control over the western portion of the island in 1697, thanks to their competing claims and settlements. Their new French colonists established sugarcane plantations which were worked by vast numbers of slaves brought from Africa, which made the now French colony one of the richest in the world.
In the midst of the French Revolution (1789-1799), slaves and others launched the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). After 12 years of conflict, Napoleon's forces were defeated by Jean-Jacques Dessalines's revolutionaries, who then promptly declared Haitian independence. This new Republic of Haiti was the first Latin America and the Caribbean nation free from colonizers, the first one to abolish slavery, and the second republic in the Americas.
Haiti is a founding member of the United Nations, Organization of American States (OAS), Association of Caribbean States, and the International Francophone Organisation. In addition to CARICOM, it is a member of the International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. Historically poor and politically unstable, Haiti has the lowest Human Development Index in the Americas. Since the turn of the 21st century, the country has endured a coup d'état, which prompted a U.N. intervention, as well as a deadly earthquake that killed over 250,000.Base Statistics
Economy
Haiti has a small income of $265,815.
Resources
Haiti produces no resources.
Military
As a low tier nation, Haiti starts with 20,000 Home Guards, stationed at its capitol and has 60,000 manpower in reserve.
| Base Manpower Capacity of Haiti per Conscription Law | |
|---|---|
| The following columns below present the manpower capacity from lowest (Disarmed) to highest (Required). RP stands for "Recruitable Population". | |
| Disarmed [1% RP] |
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| Volunteer [2% RP] |
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| Limited [5% RP] |
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| Extensive [10% RP] |
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| Required [25% RP] |
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Geography
Haiti is located on the island of Hispaniola, bordering only the Dominican Republic. Its terrain is primarily flat with hilliness in the south and northwest, while being completely covered in Jungle.
Cities
Haiti controls 10 cities. Haiti's largest city is its capital, Port-au-Prince, with 2 million people. Haiti's core cities make up 2,813,373 people in total.
Politics
Haiti starts with the non-aligned ideology, allowing any ideologies to be chosen to suit the current playstyle, and starts with the Volunteer Conscription Law.
Threats
- Strong nearby countries expanding through the Caribbean, like the Dominican Republic or
Cuba.
Formables
- Haiti can only form the
Empire of Haiti
Strategy
To get straight to the point, justify on the Dominican Republic. Make one Electronic Factory, Steel Factory and a Motor Factory. The rest of your Treasury will be for buying the resources required for your factories, namely 2.2 Tungsten, 3.5 Iron, 0.5 Titanium, 2 Copper, and lastly 2 Gold.
If you are unaware, selling Electronics gives a massive income if you are able to sell 16 of them. Even better if you produce more than that.
Go to the doctrines tab and select Massed Attack to gain x2 the manpower. Convert all your manpower to tanks, and prepare for the war with the Dominican. We will need the Dominican for more cities, manpower, and forming the Empire of Haiti.
If the Dominican is a player (which is highly unlikely) you can still crush them easily with your powerful Tanks. Capturing the Dominican will be extremely easy for you as you have converted all your manpower to Tanks. Split them in to reasonable amounts and conquer the rest of the Dominican, which will allow you to form Empire of Haiti.
So why is forming so important? Well, for starters you can instantly have cores on the original lands of the nations required. This means it will produce original Manpower, Tax Income, and normal building speeds.
Now, your next move should be justifying at Cuba and 
Jamaica, which will be easy as well as allying a nearby power like 
United States or 
Brazil. Make 2 frigates to protect your island and factories, and if you're willing to, 2 destroyers. (More expensive, but worth it)
Now, your next goal is to elsewhere. Take, for instance Central America. Your main threat there is 
Mexico, so maybe that's not a good option. As for South America 
, Brazil, so the safest option would be Africa, however 
Nigeria is commonly a player. Not a lot of safe spaces to expand... Unless you want to fight them. So maybe fight our closest threat, Mexico. Unless they're a player.
Since you have limited manpower, Tanks would be our best option for taking the Dominican, whether it's AI or a player. Make sure to buy Oil once you have Tanks, since Haiti does not produce any resources.
After, you could go after 
Venezuela and 
Colombia as they would make you gain more power and a bigger 
Oil production or you can attack the rest of the Caribbean Islands for more money.
If USA has not taken it already, annex Mexico and the rest of Central America.
Colonization
If you preferred on colonizing Africa, this is for you. First of all invade, 
Sierra Leone and 
Liberia, you will get 
Titanium and 
Iron which means you can make steel factories. You should build mines at the resource-producing cities, and you also have a free major city for you to make tanks in Africa. Make at least 1.000 Tanks to invade them. After you annexed them, you should sweep through 
Guinea and 
Cote d'Ivoire using your 1.000 tanks. Keep invading African nations till you border Nigeria, make at least 2k tanks to invade Nigeria. Invade and occupy a Nigerian city that is on the jungle biome, once that's done capture Lagos and auto-capture. after you successfully annexed Nigeria, you are probably a regional power. You can go up in Africa and land on Europe.
Invasion of Europe
Using your colonies in North Africa, the best place to start is the Iberian peninsula. after you invaded the Iberian peninsula, you could go after 
France or 
Italy. after your done with that, your basically strong and nobody can stop you. you can also try to invade the whole European continent, and also seize control over the Mediterranean which gives you naval dominance which makes the invasion easier and you may be able to conquer Europe easier.
Trivia
Haiti used to have a second formable known as the 
Caribbean Federation, but it was removed in an update.
