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Fourth Republic of Poland

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Official Name: Fourth Republic of Poland, Third Republic of Poland (Trzaskowski), Second Third Republic of Poland (Hołownia), Polish Federation (Biedroń), Polish People's Republic (Polish Revolution), Polish Workers' People's (Polish Revolution, Gomułka), Polish State (Popek), Polish Psychiatry (Tomaszewicz), Europrotectorate of Poland (Boisson), Polish Soviet Socialist Republic (Wyszyński)

Ruling Party: Law and Justice - True Patriots

Ideology: Kaczyńskism^note

Propaganda Machine: Polish Television constantly broadcasts information favorable to the government.
The Republic: The Republic of Poland aka Rzeczpospolita has a long history and is already the fourth in history.
Dual Wielding: The ruling party and the opposition control two gigantic electorates with which they are constantly fighting.
Hitler Ate Sugar: The ruling party cannot decide whether to call the opposition neo-Nazis or post-communists, so it uses both interchangeably.

Government of Law and Justice

Jarosław Kaczyński

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Role: President-Chairman^note

Party: Law and Justice - True Patriots

Ideology: Kaczyńskism^note

Embarrassing Nickname: Opposition parties call him "Duck".
President for Life: Changes in Poland are not possible as long as Kaczyński is in power.
Absolute Xenophobe: The president pursues a conservative policy and populistically defines what constitutes an "anti-Polish" element.
Feeling Their Age: Kaczyński is very old and his departure from the political scene is only a matter of a few months.
Hypocrite: Kaczyński always talks about the opposition's lies and manipulations, at the same time that his TVP broadcasts propaganda in Polish homes.
Plot-Triggering Death: Kaczyński's death allows for political changes not only in the ruling far-right coalition, but also in the entire Polish state.

Mateusz Morawiecki

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Role: Prime Minister^note

Party: Law and Justice - True Patriots

Ideology: Managerial State^note

Puppet King: Most of Morawiecki's decisions must be consistent with the party line drawn by Kaczyński.
Crazy Enough to Work: Mateusz Morawiecki promises a very large number of investments, but few of them are actually taken into account and most are not created at all.

Przemysław Czarnek

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Role: Minister of Foreign Affairs^note

Party: Law and Justice - True Patriots, National Party (After the collapse of Law and Justice)

Ideology: Clericalism^note

Hated by All: Przemysław Czarnek is hated by students and teachers as a former minister of education.
You Cannot Kill An Idea: After the fall of Law and Justice and the victory of the opposition, Czarnek creates the National Party, which follows the old ideas of the fallen party.

Adam Glapiński

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Role: Minister of Economic Development and Technology^note

Party: Law and Justice - True Patriots

Ideology: Fascism^note

Awesome, but Impractical: Glapiński has plans for improving Polish economy, but there will always be reasons why this plan is unfeasible.
Fish out of Water: Law and Justice politicians agree that Glapiński is not a good candidate for the minister of economy, and his printing money does not serve the Polish economy.

Mariusz Błaszczak

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Role: Minister of Public Security^note

Party: Law and Justice - True Patriots

Ideology: Military Junta^note

Conscription: Błaszczak requests mass conscription into the army when there is a great threat from the west and east.

Opposition victory

Rafał Trzaskowski

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Role: Mayor of Warsaw, President^note (Winning the Election)

Party: Total Opposition, New Civic Platform (Elections won)

Ideology: Provisional Government^note, Social Liberalism^note (Stabilization of Power)

Reassigned to Antarctica: The Civic Platform was pushed by Law and Justice to Warsaw, where its popularity never diminished.
Government in Exile: Trzaskowski was the embodiment of the Third Polish Republic, positioning himself as the main opponent of Law and Justice.
Crazy Enough to Work: Trzaskowski is shocked after he actually receives power and the opportunity to carry out reforms liberalizing Poland.

Szymon Hołownia

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Role: Marshal of the Sejm, President^note (Winning the Election)

Party: Total Opposition, Poland 2666 (Elections won)

Ideology: Christian Liberalism^note

Pragmatic Hero: Hołownia is able to secure coalition support and support from the Sejm.
Hope Bringer: With the start of the new marshal's function, the Polish nation has high hopes for changes in the country's political system.

Robert Biedroń

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Role: Voivode of West Pomerania, President^note (Winning the Election)

Party: Total Opposition, Newest Left (Elections won)

Ideology: Social Democratic

Taking Up the Mantle: Biedroń is, in the eyes of many, the most important left-wing politician who can lead the new movement.

Polish Revolution

Kazimierz Pużak

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Role: General Secretary^note (Successful Revolution)

Party: Polish Socialist Party – Freedom, Equality, Independence

Ideology: Radical Socialism

A Lighter Shade of Black: Pużak's People's Guard is progressive in its views and the most liberal of the socialist formations.
Going Native: Pużak is of Ukrainian origin, but he knows Polish very well, which helps him in his political career.
Plot-Triggering Death: Pużak's death allows for the election of another secretary general who will change the political scene.

Władysław Gomułka

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Role: Head of Government, General Secretary^note (Nationalists elected)

Party: Polish Workers' Party

Ideology: National Communism^note

Dirty Communists: Gomułka returns to the patriotic narrative, and his independence from the direction of the party in Moscow allows him to take more nationalizing steps.
Commie Nazis: Gomułka's plan is to accuse Jews of the poor condition of the Polish economy and of taking jobs from Poles.
Fun with Acronyms: Out of impetus, when Władysław Gomułka calls himself Wiesław, he calls Polish People's Republic - "Polish Workers' People's", due to the same abbreviation in Polish (PRL), which is accepted by the delegates as changing the country's name after Pużak.

Edward Gierek

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Role: Foreign Minister, General Secretary^note (Moderate Socialists elected)

Party: Polish Party of the Democratic-People's Left

Ideology: Titoism^note

The Purge: Gierek expels nationalists from the party and puts Sovietophiles on trial for spying on behalf of Afro-Eurasia.

Bolesław Bierut

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Role: Economy Minister, General Secretary^note (Sovietophiles elected)

Party: Polish Communist Party - Side of Friendship and Peace

Ideology: Marxism-Leninism^note

Please Select New City Name: Bierut changes the name of Katowice to Stalinogród to show his triumph over the Silesians who want autonomy, whom he calls "bourgeois right-wing bandits".
Banned in China: Bierut isolates Poland from Western culture, which he considers demoralizing.
Pop-Culture Isolation: The distribution of pro Western films and press is strictly prohibited.
The Purge: Pużak's former followers are imprisoned for "social-fascism", and Gomułkists are imprisoned for right-wing deviation.
People's Republic of Tyranny: Bierut changes the name of Poland to the Polish People's Republic.
Monumental Damage: Bierut destroys the Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń and builds blocks of flats for workers in its place.

Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski

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Role: Military General, Security Minister, General Secretary^note (Army Coup)

Party: Council for the Defense of the People's Republic of Poland

Ideology: Stratocratic Communism^note

State Sec: Jaruzelski replaces the Police with the Citizens' Militia and instead of the State Protection Office, the Security Service.
The Paranoiac: Jaruzelski replaces all politicians with his military colleagues in government positions to prevent him from being removed from his new position of General Secretary.
Glorious Leader: Out of respect, military representatives call Jaruzelski "Comrade General".

Successors of the Communists

Czesław Kiszczak

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Role: Head of Government (Jaruzelski cabinet), General Secretary^note (Jaruzelski's Successor)

Party: Council for the Defense of the People's Republic of Poland

Ideology: Stratocratic Communism^note

We Used to Be Friends: When Jaruzelski is hospitalized, Kiszczak takes advantage of this and removes him from his position, explaining this with the General's poor health. After he takes power, he purges the party, describing Jaruzelski as a corrupt and fame-hungry politician who uses his position for his own purposes.
Hate Sink: After gaining power, Kiszczak delivers his exposé blaming Jaruzelski for the cult of personality, terror and poor economic situation in order to distract the delegates from his own crimes.
This Is Your Brain on Evil: As time passes since the takeover, Kiszczak is increasingly subordinating society to himself, implementing curfews and payment controls.

Rappers Referendum

Paweł Ryszard Mikołajuw

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Role: Rapper, Head of State (Referendum)

Party: Young Poland

Ideology: Left-wing Corporatism^note

Only in It for the Money: Popek, as a representative of his enterprises, is focused on profits.
Foreign Ruling Class: Old women mistakenly perceive Popek as born in Albania.
The Purge: After the manifesto of Young Poland, Popek liquidates the Sejm and Senate.
Nepotism: One of his twin brothers, Colonel Gideon Krux, becomes the Minister of National Defense of Poland under Popek's rule.
Benevolent Boss: Popek introduces his colleagues, including Peja and Słoń, to the political scene.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Popek feels too much of the negative responsibilities that come with managing the country, he will flee to Colombia.
Properly Paranoid: Nosy journalists and crowds of envious Internet users diagnose Popek with schizophrenia F20.

Ryszard Waldemar Andrzejewski

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Role: Rapper, Head of State (Popek succession)

Party: Respect of the People of the Street

Ideology: Anarchism^note

Hip-Hop: Peja is the face of Poznań and Polish hip-hop, and has been creating it since the 1990s.
Music Is Politics: Peja includes psychological and economic context in his songs, emphasizing social injustices; politicians earned a lot when his family in Jerzyce led a hard and poor life.
A Father to His Men: Peja defends the lower social classes, understanding their problems and wanting to fix them.
Old Friend: Peja likes Słoń and sometimes they performed in the same songs. If Peja takes power, Słoń becomes his advisor.
The Idealist: Unlike Słoń, Peja never abandoned his desire for justice for the poor and the abolition of unjust privileges of the upper classes.

Wojciech Zawadzki

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Role: Rapper, Head of State (Popek succession)

Party: Higher School of Making Noise

Ideology: Anti-politics^note

Horrorcore: This is the musical genre in which Słoń finds himself best.
Murder Simulators: Many of the Słoń's songs are about killing false and evil people, however, this is a form of literary fiction, and the Słoń himself has pacifist views.
Ban on Politics: Słoń sees the Sejm as a place of constant disputes that cause fun at the expense of the Polish nation.
The Cynic: Słoń considers the world a bad place full of injustice, but he tries to reform Poland, because if not him, no one will do it better than him.
Old Friend: Słoń likes Peja and sometimes they performed in the same songs. If Słoń takes power, Peja becomes his advisor.
Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: After school, Słoń worked in many jobs just to earn money for basic needs before developing his music career.
Hero with Bad Publicity: After his songs, journalists accuse Słoń of pathology, Satanism and deviations.