December 31, 2009: Riots break out all over Greece due to a major scandal which involved trillions of dollars flowing between Greece and Turkey. 158 people are killed, in what became known as the Christmas Riots.
January 15th, 2010: The Christmas Riots end. Another scandal occurs, and the Greek government loses power. Greece returns to being a nation of city-states.
September 11th, 2010: War has raged across Greece. Now, Athens has emerged as the dominant city-state, and they form the Democratic Republic of Greece.
February 3rd, 2011: The DRG falls to civil war, and the city-states rise once again.
October 31, 2011:The Greek city-states form a loose confederation.
November 27th, 2011: Albania, fearing invasion, joins Greece as a "city-state", Greek City states declare war on Turkey, claiming "Retribution for historical events"
December 31, 2011: The Turkish capital, Ankara, falls to a Greek-Albanian blitz attack, and the Greek Empire forms again, with Greece, Albania, and Turkey as members.
Not since the death of Alexander had Greece had so much power. For such a long time after Alexander's death, Greece was sbject to empire after empire; the Romans, the Byzantines, the Ottomans. But no more. Greece was, once again, an empire. To reflect this, the old flag of revolution was adopted, with one minor change: a red canton, for Albania. The capital remains at Athens, the birthplace of Democracy.