Italy (1976–2027)

Italy was a predominantly autocratic state that existed between 1861 and 2027, with a brief breakup during the Second World War before finally culminating in its penultimate dissolution by the third. Over the course of its 165-year-long existence Italy only enjoyed roughly three decades of true democracy between 1946 and 1976 from the abolition of the Monarchy to the 1976 coup de tat spearheaded by the Andreotti right-wing during Italy's early Years of Lead, and approximately 71 of those years were spent under fascism.

The longest period of Italian Fascism officially began in the first few Years of Lead which saw the ascendancy of both far-left and far-right fascist terrorism, but fascist government in Rome most visibly began to gain traction with the third term of Prime Minister Gilulio Andreotti, who resigned in disgrace a few short years before the commencement of the third instance of global hostilities between the great powers, with Italy being one of the largest forces in Iraq behind only the United States, UK and South Korea, and one of the willing EU countries to declare opposition to France, Germany and the Nordics spearheaded by EU members Italy, Spain, Portugal and Denmark in support of Britain and its ally in the US. Although Italy would collapse into civil conflict in the mid-2020's they would continue to support Spain's militarism in Latin America and the Middle-East, while also playing NATO and Axis against each other being an unofficial neutral EU country during the Third World War.