Introduction

Summary: With the war over and her military career in shambles, Tanya von Degurechaff has to forge a new path for herself. Fortunately, she finds an opportunity to get involved in the political scene. A safe, easy job has never been closer at hand. What could possibly go wrong?

The source material for this fic is fairly obscure. To help people ease into it I will provide a brief summary in this post. Honestly, I think the source material is entertaining enough that it's worth going out and enjoying it for its own sake, but if you just want to jump into this fic I'll do my best to get you oriented with this post.

Youjo Senki / The Saga of Tanya the Evil

In a nutshell: isekai loli Flashman.

For the purposes of this fic, the Empire lost the war after getting dogpiled by everybody but alt!Russia. They were subjected to a ruinous peace treaty that reduced them to the borders of Weimar Germany (as a new polity, the Republic of Germania) as well as other punitive terms. I will otherwise be using a mix of LN and anime canon. I'll do my best to make everything else clear from context.

This fic was prompted by The Leader by lord of the land of fire. While the basic story arc is similar you can expect to see a very different take on Tanya in this one.

Other miscellaneous notes:

Aerial mages: in this universe magically talented people contribute to the war effort as aerial mages. They use military grade computation orbs to fly, enhance their reflexes and physical resilience, and shield themselves from enemy fire. They can deliver attacking spells directly or by using guns that are crafted to aid in spell delivery. Functionally, aerial mages act something like attack helicopters.

Country names: Canon uses a series of extremely lazy name changes throughout alt-Europe. I will continue that tradition for countries that are introduced in this fic. A list is below for reference.

The Empire: Imperial Germany

Allied Kingdom: the UK

Grand Duchy of Dacia: Romania-ish

Ildoa Kingdom: Italy

Francois Republic: France

Legadonia Entente: Norway + Sweden combined in a single country.

Rus Union: USSR

Unified States: USA

Waldstatten: Switzerland

(non-canon)

Republic of Germania: Germany