Geopolitics Roleplay

Nation Name: Socialist Republic of Ryudinia

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Capital City: Ivakutsk

Government Type: Democracy (Male Suffrage)

Economic System: Communist

Leader Name: First Speaker Artoym Mikhailov

Ruling Political Faction: Unstable coalition of the Totalist Party, the Syndicalist Party and the Democratic Party.

Most Followed Religion / State Religion: Secular State. Common religion is Semuyism. See other Ryudinia for details.

History:

To understand the current state of the Socialist Republic of Ryudinia, one must first understand the historical context. In the year 1487 of the Common Era, the lands of what would become the republic were not yet part of Ryudinia at all. Indeed, they were primarily comprised of many small factions and petty lordships. Unable to band together to stop conquest by the invaders from the Southwest, they fell one by one. In the years that followed, programmes of settlement and cultural assimilation had driven almost all of the old populace out of the lands now claimed by the Imperiya Ryudinia.
Among the lands they fled to was Entokia, which as a large kingdom was able to put up fierce resistance against the Ryudinians. Similarly, Celestina put up a fight, though was eventually subjugated also.

Over the course of the next few hundred years, these settlement programmes continued, and by the 1800s, the lands of Northern Ryudinia were considered fully assimilated into the empire, though those in the east still retained their heritage.

Separate from the capital of the empire, however, it was perhaps inevitable that the lands of the North would become something of a haven for free thinkers and philosophers, able to hide themselves away in the vast jungles and mountains. It was in the mid 1800s that the ideas of socialism began to take root here, and by the turn of the century, there were several large groups of dissenters waiting for their opportunity to sieze power and mold the country into something better. This opportunity came with the Great War of 1914. The Imperiya Ryudinia suffered terribly in this war, and by the end, the empire was crippled.

In the aftermath of the Great War, what was once the Imperiya Ryudinia disintegrated. Fascists in the southern homeland incensed at the breaking off of huge portions of the empire, lead a coup which deposed the emperor and siezed power in the south.. Those socialist militant groups in the north, seeing this opportunity, broke off in a relatively bloodless revolution.

The People’s Army, an alliance of all major socialist groups in the country, swept across the land, casting down tyrants, reactionaries and fascists alike. Within seven months, they had cut ties with the south and formed a coalition government, now comprised of three main partiess, each only bound together by necessity.

It is now 1920, and this coalition has become uneasy. Calls for elections are increasing in volume, and rumours spread across the streets that it won’t be long now before the tensions in this fledgling republic boil over.

The Syndicalists cry out for the government to press onwards with the internal revolution, to transition into an anarchic utopia, free from the chains of landlord and government alike.
The Totalists call for further centralisation, claiming that the people should not be expected to have a hand in the running of the state. They claim that a strong, centralised political force is necessary to keep the revolution alive.
The Democrats insist that the current form of government is ideal, where all have a say in the workings and yet there is still strength behind the government’s policy. They advocate for a permanent revolution, for the country to push onwards and gain allies to ensure that fascists and reactionaries cannot steal what they have all fought so hard to accomplish.

There is no question that something has to happen soon. Truly, the only questions that now remain are those of “What?”, “When?”, and perhaps most importantly, “Who?”.