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Russian Empire / Novorossiyan General-Governorate

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Official Name: Russian Empire

Ruling Party: Soyuz Gosudarstvennogo Obyedineniya Rossii^note Union of the State Association of Russia

Ideology: Oligarchy^note Polyarchy

The Murder of Nicholas II in Kiev stirred up Russia. The government of confidence led by Prime Minister Stolypin stabilized the country and withstood the Great War. But the war broke the spirit of the Russian people. The socialists along with the traitorous liberals plunged the country into turmoil. The collapse of the country was stopped through the efforts of the people who remained faithful to the oath. A decade passed and Russia has recovered. Alexander Kolchak holds the steering wheel firmly but the clouds thickened over Russia. Will the admiral withstand the coming flood or will the stream blow Russia to the rocks of History?

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• Allohistorical Allusion: Russia at the start of game is fractured amongst various warlords under the nominal leadership of a military dictator styling himself as the Regent of the effectively defunct monarchy, making Russia a combined analog to both Interwar China and Francoist Spain.
• Civil War: The main reason for the Russian Empire's decline is that it was unable to recover from the Civil War, having given too much authority to regional governors in order to keep up a facade of unity.
• Evil Chancellor: If any of the possible leaders of the Rusian Empire installs a Romanov on the throne, he will switch from Regent for Life to this.
• State Sec: The Black Hundreds are a far-right, ultra-reactionary monarchist group that essentially act as Kolchak's thugs against liberals and socialists.
• Vestigial Empire: After the Great War, the Russian Empire is but a shadow of its former self. Lithuania, Belarus, Western Ukraine, Armenia and most of Central Asia (except Kazakhstan) have formally declared independence, Russian Manchuria is controlled by a rival Republican government, most of the Southern Caucasus is controlled by Red Army remnants. The rest of the territories still controlled by Russian Empire, though nominally under control of Petrograd, is in truth a dysfunctional disaster of barely held together provincial lords that exists as a unified country only on paper, and is ready for the first spark to formally collapse into a warlord era.

Aleksandr Kolchak

Role: Regent^note Country Leader

Party: Soyuz Gosudarstvennogo Obyedineniya Rossii^note Union of the State Association of Russia, Soyuz Russkogo Naroda^note Union of the Russian People (Black Hundreds)

Ideology: Oligarchy^note Polyarchy, Aristocratic Reaction^note Reactionism (Black Hundreds)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Alexandr Vasilyevich isn't the one of those whose name should be taken lightly. In Russia its said, that were it not for the pure hatred and anger inside of him, he might have lost the civil war. A legendary man, known for spilling the blood of those who dared to doubt the imperial ways Motherland has always followed. Nevertheless, many say the Supreme Ruler is more and more withdrawn from the state affairs. The one who tamed the raging beast of the revolution is now only in anxiety and weary anticipation before the next Duma elections. By now, anyone who knows the current situation in Russia well can say with confidence that Kolchak's days are numbered and many are just waiting for the opportunity to take his place.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: As a renowned admiral who takes over a post-revolutionary country with the backing of a reactionary coalition and rules as a regent for life, Kolchak is eerily reminiscent of Hungarian Regent Miklos Horthy.
• Assassin Outclassin': While Kolchak is in Yalta, Drozdovsky will organize an assasination attempt against him, which was foiled by his bodyguards.
• Evil Reactionary: Kolchak can ally with the reactionary Black Hundreds association, as well as with ultraconservatives and other far-right groups.
• Glory Days: A former legend, famous for spilling revolutionary blood, Kolchak now seems to be merely biding his time until the end of the next Duma session. A man once determined to tame the beast of Russia in revolt is now running a government which can only be accurately described as ineffective.
• Internal Reformist: Instead of diving Russia further into reaction, Kolchak can potentially enact Neo-Stolypin reforms by abolishing serfdom, cracking down the Black Hundreds, and opening up to the West.
• Regent for Life: Kolchak has been ruling the Russian Empire since the death of Tsar Alexei, as there were no clear successors for the Imperial throne.

Mikhail Drozdovsky

Role: Regent^note Country Leader (Summer Coup victory)

Party: Russkii Natsionalnii Soyuz Uchastnikov Voyni^note Russian National Union of War Participants

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}If Alexandr Kolchak can be called as de facto Tsar of White Russia, Drozdovsky is definitely Tsarevich of it. However, this Tsarevich didn't waited when his time to take the throne will come. Now Mikhail Gordeevich has seized power and have plans to build Russia, which Kolchak couldn't. United and undivided Russia that truly based on the values of the White Army: monarchism, anti-republicanism and militarism.

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• Civil War: Drozdovsky makes his bid for power by launching the Summer Coup, which takes the form of a civil war between his Novorossiyan General-Governorate and Kolchak's Russian Empire.
• Cult of Personality: Drozdovsky will create a cut of personality around himself.
• Evil Colonialist: Drozdovsky's Novy Kurs program involves sending ethnic Russians en masse to settle in Central Asia and turning the peoples of the steppes into a minority in their own homeland.
• Internal Reformist: If Drozdovsky comes to power, he reforms the decrepit empire into something much greater, building train tracks spreading across the empire, modernizing the economy, and, unfortunately, colonizing the Steppe.
• The Purge: Drozdovsky will launch a purge against those he accuses of treason and much later will institute periodic purges against enemies of the state.
• Regent for Life: If he defeats Alexander Kolchak, Drozdovsky will replace him as Regent and true leader of the Russian Empire.

Mikhail Diterikhs

Role: Regent^note Country Leader (Shtabs-Kapitans coup)

Party: Rossiiskoe Narodno-Imperskoe (Shtabs-Kapitanskoe) Dvizhenie^note Russian People's Imperial (Staff-Captain) Movement

Ideology: Religious Fundamentalism^note Reactionism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Mikhail Diterikhs is a reactionary among reactionaries. If someone said revolutionary should be shot to death, he would slap them for not demanding they be burned at the stake. Diterikhs considered the Russian Civil War a Holy War, and himself as crusader against Bolshevism. To that end, Mikhail Diterikhs has taken advantage of the power vacuum in order to bring true Orthodox Christian governance to Russia.

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• The Coup: Diterikhs comes to power through a coup against Kolchak's government.
• Evil Reactionary: Diterikhs is even described as a "reactionary among reactionaries", wanting to turn back the clock to the times of absolute monarchy and fundamentalist Orthodox faith and absolutely hating any changes different from his ideal.
• The Fundamentalist: Diterikhs is an arch-reactionary and fanatical Orthodox Christian who considered the Russian Civil War a Holy War, and himself a crusader against Bolshevism. If he seizes power, he turns the Russian Empire into a theocratic absolute monarchy adhering to a fundamentalist Orthodox creed.
• The Theocracy: His path is essentially this, as after the coup he will ban all non-believers from Russia and form a theocratic regime with an Orthodox Patriarch in charge.

Alexander Kazembek

Role: Country Leader (Military coup)

Party: Soyuz Mladorossov^note Union of Young Russians

Ideology: Revolutionary Nationalism^note Despotism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}An Azerbaijani-Iranian noble, Aleksandr Kazem-Bek is the founder and leader (Glava) of the Mladorossi, or "Young Russians". His ideology involves synthesizing Soviet democracy and Tsarist autocratic rule, hence their slogan, "Monarch and the Soviets".

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• Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Rising to power would make him the first leader of the Russian Empire of Azerbaijani or Iranian descent.
• Commie Nazis: Kazembek is the leader of the Mladorossi, a very strange political group that fuse Russian monarchism and the Soviet system advocated by the socialist revolutionaries from the Russian Civil War into a strange hybrid ideology classified in-game as despotic. This is actually subverted, in that the Mladorossi aren't actually socialist (they're corporatist) and any resemblance to socialism are purely aesthetic for the most part. Even in real life their claims of being this (and recognizing the Soviet Union as the true and rightful Russia) were basically just to get in the good graces of the Soviet Union and hopefully shape the state to their liking.
• Putting on the Reich: Kazembek holds the title of Glava (leader) of the Mladorossi movement he founded.

Anastasia I

Role: Monarch^note Country Leader (Mladorossi installs Anastasia)

Party: Soyuz Mladorossov^note Union of Young Russians

Ideology: Revolutionary Nationalism^note Despotism

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• Did Anastasia Survive?: Few are sure where the Mladorossi really brought Anastasia back, and most don't even believe that she was still alive in 1919. Some claim she has been under their protection since 1920, others claim she is an impostor, dragged out of the shadows from some ambitious aristocratic family. Word of God, however, confirms that it is in fact her, as the Imperial family, save Nicholas and Alexei, survived.
• Puppet King: Tsaritsa Anastasia holds very little power compared to the members of the Mladorossi, who were responsible for crowning her.
• Rightful King Returns: Anastasia Nikolayevna, the only surviving child of Tsar Nicholas II, can be crowned Tsaritsa of Russia should the Mladorossi come into power.

Vselovod I/Andrei I

Despotist Vselovod I

Reactionary Andrei I

Role: Monarch^note Country Leader (Kolchak/Drozdovsky/Diterikhs installs a puppet tsar)

Ideology: Absolute Monarchy^note Despotism (Drozdovsky)

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• Puppet King: Tsar Vselovod or Andrei is but a puppet for either Kolchak, Drozdovsky or Diterikhs after they take over Western Russia.

Finland

Grand Duchy of Finland

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Official Name: Grand Duchy of Finland, Republic of Finland (democratic), Kingdom of Finland (Ilmari I), National State of Finland (Kekkonen), Black Lands (Wettenhovi-Aspa), Black and Red Lands (Egypt conquered)

Ruling Party: Seynin Klikki^note Seyn's Clique

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism

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• Civil War: If Finland is taken over by an ultra-reactionary faction, the Finnish communists will rebel in Karelia, beginning the Second Finnish Civil War.

Franz Albert Seyn

Role: Governor-General^note Country Leader

Party: Seynin Klikki^note Seyn's Clique

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Franz Albert Seyn is not a particularly proud man, but nor is he a man who has nothing to be proud of. Governor-General of Finland since 1909, Seyn has done a better job of governing Finland than any Russian authorities expected, or cared for that matter. However, the respect of his superiors has come at the cost of the support of Finland's people. Though some might say that a Russian warlord should care little for his subjects, Seyn knows that, should his clique fall, the Russian army will likely not see Finland as worth saving. Therefore, if he does not consolidate support soon, he will be at the mercy of whatever political force decides to replace him.

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• Curb-Stomp Battle: During the Kolchak-Drozdovsky war, Seyn is able to decide whether or not to go through with his ambitious plans and attempt to seize Petrograd and proclaim a new Russian Empire pretender in the area. If he does, his troops are massacred.
• Failure Is the Only Option: If Seyn decides to seize Petrograd as Kolchak and Drozdovsky go to war, his troops are crushed and subsequently execute him. If he has the good sense to not carry out his over-ambitious plans, he'll still be forced to resign amidst mass protests, but at least gets to keep his life. In either case, he can never turn his dream of becoming Regent of Russia into reality.
• The Mutiny: After Seyn's disastrous attempt to seize Petrograd, his troops mutiny against him and execute him.
• The Starscream: Despite having been originally installed by the Russians, Seyn has ambitions to overthrow Alexander Kolchak, take over Petrograd, and proclaim himself the new Regent of Russia.

Ragnar Furuhjelm

Role: Governor-General^note Country Leader (Seyn resigns)

Party: Kansallinen Edistyspuolue^note National Progressive Party

Ideology: Anocracy^note Polyarchy

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Juho Kusti Paasikivi

Role: President^note Country Leader (Election)

Party: Kansallinen Kokoomus - Tasavaltalaiset^note National Coalition Party - Republicans

Ideology: National Conservatism^note Conservatism

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Kyösti Kallio

Role: President^note Country Leader (Election)

Party: Maalaisliitto^note Agrarian League

Ideology: Social Liberalism^note Liberalism

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Väinö Tanner

Role: President^note Country Leader (Election)

Party: Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue^note Social Democratic Party

Ideology: Progressive Democracy^note Progressivism

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• Red Scare: Tanner, leader of the Social Democratic Party, promises of fairness and equality without the 'tyranny' of communism.

Karl Fredrik Wilkama

Role: Country Leader (Seyn executed)

Party: Seynin Klikki^note Seyn's Clique

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism

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Ilmari I

Role: Monarch^note Country Leader (Military-chosen successor)

Party: Kuningasmieliset^note Royalists

Ideology: Absolute Monarchy^note Despotism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Despite being entirely German, Ilmari I now finds himself King of Finland. Thrust into power in a strange land, this Ilmari knows that his situation is as strange as it is brimming with opportunity. After all, a strong German monarchy has not existed in Europe since the Vaterland fell to godless councilism. Even Ilmari's noble allies in Prussia have only managed to establish a military junta, lacking a proper heir to the throne. But now, there is a German who stands strong above his Kingdom. And this German just may have the stones to reclaim Berlin.

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• Assassination Attempt: Ilmari will be the target of one and it may succeed, resulting in Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa coming to power.
• Cincinnatus: Although initially crowned as an absolute monarch, King Ilmari has the choice to partially relinquish power to Parliament and turn Finland into a constitutional monarchy.
• Offered the Crown: If monarchist officers seize power in the aftermath of Franz Albert Seyn's death, they'll invite Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover to Finland and crown him King Ilmari I.

Urho Kekkonen

Role: Supreme Leader^note Country Leader (Election or Military-chosen successor)

Party: Akateeminen Karjala-Seura^note Academic Karelian Society

Ideology: Revolutionary Nationalism^note Despotism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}While many have heard this man's name and the innumerable tales surrounding it, few can comprehend the truths behind the man. Sometimes, when he sits alone on the balcony of the Supreme Leader's Palace, he feels as though he is the only one who knows everything about himself. And even then, Kekkonen's trust in himself falters. After all, what's left for a man after everyone around him has fallen into madness, and begun worshipping him as a god? Is it more sane to call out, to try and stop all of this? Or is it better to simply embrace the madness?

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• Glorious Leader: Päällikkö (Chief) Kekkonen is the embodiment of the Finnish concept of sisu, the man who led the Finnish nation from the crossroads of existence towards glory.
• Historical Villain Upgrade: The real Kekkonen was only briefly part of a far-right nationalist group in his youth, and was a moderate centrist politician for most of his life, although he came the closest to a dictator of the leaders of modern Finland when he was "re-elected" President in 1973 without rival candidates or elections. Here, he is an ultranationalist dictator who commits what amounts to Russian genocide to realise his pan-Uralic ambitions.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: Kekkonen will militarise Finland, create an ultranationalist and ultra-irredentist nation based on militarism and creation of an industrial-military complex filled with paramilitary groups to bolster conscription numbers. Promoting Finno-Ugric supremacism, he seeks to expand Finland to the Urals and completely assimilate Russians, establishing a completely homogenous pan-Uralic nation that has expelled the Muscovite toxin forever.

Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa

Role: Country Leader (Ilmari I assasinated)

Party: Kalevalais-Egyptiläinen Kansanpuolue^note Kalevala-Egyptian People's Party

Ideology: Reactionary Esotericism^note Reactionism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Depending on who you ask, Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa is either a power-mad dictator, a visionary with ambitious plans for Finland, or just plain crazy. Aspa is obsessed with the idea that Finland and its people were descended from Ancient Egyptians, and he seeks to reconnect Finland with its ancient legacy. Meanwhile, the world desperately clings to their disbelief in his theories, all the while his state's legitimacy and continued existence forces humanity to ask whether common sense truly governs the truth at this point. Hell, even if he's wrong, isn't that reality more exciting?

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• Build Like an Egyptian: As part of his Fenno-Egyptian beliefs, Wettenhovi-Aspa builds great pyramids in Finnish cities to show the might of the Thirty-Fourth Dynasty.
• The Coup: Should King Ilmari die, Wettenhovi-Aspa will be able to rouse former Kekkonenist generals with the help of Edward Juutilainen and take over in a coup against the extremely weak Regency Council.
• Earn Your Bad Ending: Even his own biography can't believe that this maniac actually succeeded in taking over Finland, and a lot needs to break his way for it to happen, let alone for him to realize his mad ambitions.
• Naturalized Name: Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa takes the Egyptian name Sihathor Wahneferhotep-Ankhkhaf after proclaiming himself Pharaoh of Finland.
• Please Select New City Name: All Finnish cities are given new Egyptian names by Pharaoh Sihathor Wahneferhotep-Ankhkhaf.
• Word Salad Philosophy: Depending on who you ask, Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa is either a power-mad dictator, a visionary with ambitious plans for Finland, or just plain crazy. According to his theories, the Finnish people originated from Java, and subsequently went on a journey from there to Egypt, and lived there until Roman times where a portion of them went to Finland, and settled there after a painful and horrific journey. Once in power, he'll rouse the Egyptian people into rebelling against their British overlords, then merge Finland and Egypt into one nation and proclaim himself Pharaoh of the Thirty-Fourth Dynasty.

Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic

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Official Name: Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic, United Communes of Finland (Päiviö), Free Territory of Finland (HVA)

Ruling Party: Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue^note Finnish Communist Party

Ideology: Spartakism^note Popular Socialism

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• Due to the Dead: The Visage of the Liberators monument, constructed just outside the Finnish Capitol building, honours all soldiers who participated in the Finnish Civil War, with a detached section dedicated to enemy soldiers who were conscripted or otherwise manipulated into fighting for Urho Kekkonen.

Oskari Tokoi

Role: Chairman^note Country Leader (Election)

Party: Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue^note Finnish Communist Party

Ideology: Spartakism^note Popular Socialism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A traditional council communist, Oskari Tokoi seeks to import the German Revolution to Finland. However, Tokoi is no Germanophile. In fact, some in Germany have labelled Tokoi's policies as relatively libertarian compared to other socialists, for better or for worse. Despite objections from the Leninist camp about the defensibility of the revolution, Tokoi and his comrades have insisted that revolutionary democracy should and shall be the first priority of any true social revolution. Yrjo Sirola, on the other hand, argues that democracy means little when facing the other end of a gun barrel.

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• Chummy Commies: Tokoi and his comrades insist that revolutionary democracy should and shall be the first priority of any true social revolution.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In the aftermath of the socialists' victory in the Civil War, as the once-loyal Red Guards become a political liability, Chairman Tokoi has the choice to purge them so they wouldn't overthrow the government.

Yrjö Sirola

Role: Chairman^note Country Leader (Election)

Party: Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue - Punakaarti^note Finnish Communist Party - Red Guard

Ideology: Leninism^note Vanguard Socialism

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• The Purge: Should he become Chairman after the socialists win the civil war, Sirola conducts a mass purge of remaining reactionary elements in Finland, and has the choice to purge his own party as well.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Sirola argues that democracy means little when facing the other end of a gun barrel, and that only authoritarian measures could ensure the survival of the socialist revolution.

Karl Einar Päiviö

Role: Chairman^note Country Leader (Election)

Party: Maailman teollisuustyöläisten liitto - Suomi^note World Federation of Industrial Workers-Finland

Ideology: Social Anarchism^note Anarchism

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• Chummy Commies: Päiviö seeks to establish true workers' democracy by setting up parallel institutions in the city and the countryside, which are controlled directly by their members, rather than some power-hungry political party.

Helsinki Veteran's Association

Role: Country Leader (Coup)

Party: Helsingin Veteraaniliitto^note Helsinki Veterans' Association

Ideology: Individualist Anarchism^note Anarchism

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• Anarchy Is Chaos: Under the HVA, the Free Territory of Finland is a lawless land, where the very notion of decency, of family, of kindness, is a tyranny to be abolished. The people huddle in fear as fires rage unchecked, bandits take whatever they please, and millions slowly begin to starve.
• Battle Trophy: A trio of HVA bandits became known as the Dentists for their penchant for tearing gold fillings from the mouths of their victims.
• Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: The HVA is an unruly mob of looters and vandals who turn Finland into a bandit state if they seize power.
• The Coup: The HVA comes into power by storming into the capital and killing Oskari Tokoi, Yrjö Sirola and their supporters.
• From Camouflage to Criminal: The Helsinki Veteran's Association is a group of disgruntled, vaguely anarchist bandits.
• Rape, Pillage, and Burn: When the HVA takes over a town, they ruthlessly gun down any resistance, rob people, break into homes, and empty them of any valuables, keepsakes and women they could find.

Estonia and Latvia

Baltic General-Governorate

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Official Name: Baltic General-Governorate, Baltic Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Anvelt), Realm of Truth (Brotherhood's goals achieved), United Baltic Duchy (Rosenberg), Greater Germanic Reich (Germany conquered)

Ruling Party: Vereinigter Landesrat des Baltikums-Germanofily^note United State Council of the Baltic States-Germanophile

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism

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• Balkanize Me: If the nationalists defeat Avalov during the anti-partisan operations in the Vitebsk Governorate, the Baltic General-Governorate dissolves as Latvia and Estonia secure their independence, while the Slavic majority territories are annexed by the victor of the Summer Coup War in Central Russia.
• Foreign Ruling Class: The Baltic General-Governorate is a de facto Russo-German condominium, paying lip service to Kolchak's regency and encouraging Russian settlement while letting the Baltic-German aristocracy manage the day-to-day governance.

Pavel Bermondt-Avalov

Role: Military Commander, Country Leader

Party: Vereinigter Landesrat des Baltikums-Germanofily^note United State Council of the Baltic States-Germanophile, Vereinigter Landesrat des Baltikums-Rusofily^note United State Council of the Baltic States-Russophile (Russophile)

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism, Oligarchy^note Polyarchy (Russophile)

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Georgy Leikhtenbergsky

Role: Country Leader (Coup)

Party: Bratsvo Ruskoy Pravdy^note Brotherhood of Russian Truth

Ideology: Religious Fundementalism^note Reactionism

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• The Assimilator: The Brotherhood of Russian Truth's goal is the full and unconditional assimilation of non-Russians into a Russian-speaking, Orthodox Christian identity.
• Going Native: During the Civil War, the German-born Leuchtenberg had an enlightenment which led him to embracing hardcore Orthodox creed.
• Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Leikhtenbergsky's brutal measures to Russify his domain are likened to the Black Horse, the Red Horse and the White Horse.
• Naturalized Name: Georg von Leuchtenberg refers to himself as Georgy Nikolayevich Leikhtenbergsky after diving headfirst into Russian culture and Orthodox Christianity.

Jaan Anvelt

Role: Country Leader (Communist revolt)

Party: Üle-Balti Kommunistlik Partei/Visbaltijas Komunistiskā Partija^note Pan-Baltic Communist Party/All-Baltic Communist Party

Ideology: State Socialism^note Vanguard Socialism

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• The Federation: In order to account for the Baltic SFSR's constituent peoples' rights for national self-determination, Anvelt adopts a compromise policy of contradictory-sounding international nationalism - in practice, this means establishing a separate Soviet Socialist Republic for each of the five founding peoples of the Baltic SFSR, all of them being merely administrative divisions of the same state.

Alfred Rosenberg

Role: Country Leader (Coup)

Party: Völkischer Bund Ostlands^note National League of Ostland

Ideology: Reactionary Populism^note Reactionism

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• Allohistorical Allusion: If he conquers the Russian Empire, Rosenberg can appoint Siegfried Kasche as Reich Commissioner of Muscovy, a position which the real Kasche was proposed to hold under the Nazi regime, but never actually materialised.
• Master Race: Rosenberg believes that Baltic Germans are part of the Nordic race, which should go on to rule the world due to their superiority. He also claims that among the Nordic groups, Germans were of the purest blood, while the Balts are not too far beneath.
• Putting on the Reich: Rosenberg, a top-ranking Nazi in real life, uses a flag with four swastikas, and calls his esoteric reactionary state the Greater Germanic Reich and its colonies Reichskommissariate.

Erhard Kroeger

Role: Country Leader (Rosenberg succession)

Party: Völkischer Bund Ostlands^note National League of Ostlands

Ideology: Reactionary Esotericism^note Reactionism

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Post-Collapse Baltic States

Latvian National State

Official Name: Latvian National State

Ruling Party: Pērkonakrusta Kustība^note Thunder Cross Movement

Ideology: National Rejuvenatism^note Accelerationism

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• Conlang: If they choose to embrace pan-Baltic supremacy, the Latvian National State will construct a new language, combining elements from all tongues spoken in the Baltics, to overcome ethnic barriers.
• Illegal Religion: As part of the First Pagan Crusade, enacted if Latvia chooses to not work with Poland, Dievturība is made Latvia's state religion, and pagan mobs are officially sanctioned to pogrom monotheists.

Herberts Cukurs

Role: Country Leader

Party: Pērkonakrusta Kustība^note Thunder Cross Movement

Ideology: National Rejuvenatism^note Accelerationism

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• Occupiers Out of Our Country: Cukurs will expel anyone with a German or Russian surname out of Latvia.

Republic of Estonia

Official Name: Republic of Estonia

Ruling Party: Rahvaeraerakond^note The People's Party

Ideology: Progressive Democracy^note Progressivism

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• Conscription: Estonian conservatives favour conscription as necessary to build a standing army capable of defending national sovereignty.
• Red Scare: In response to Tõnisson (a social democrat) being elected President of Estonia, the right will start spreading misinformation about him being a socialist who wants to turn Estonia into a puppet of Germany.

Jaan Tõnisson

Role: President^note Country Leader (Election)

Party: Rahvaeraerakond^note The People's Party

Ideology: Progressive Democracy^note Progressivism

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Konstantin Päts

Role: President^note Country Leader (Election)

Party: Eesti Rahvuspartei^note Estonian National Party

Ideology: Anocracy^note Polyarchy

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• Tyrant Takes the Helm: If Päts wins the first election after Estonia secures independence following the Baltic Governorate-General's collapse, he'll crush political opponents and turn himself into a dictator in the veins of the old Roman Republic.

Caucasus

South Eastern Union

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Official Name: South Eastern Union of the Almighty Don Host, National Peasant Republic of Russia (Gorgulov), Great Scythia (Gorgulov, Russian reunification)

Ruling Party: Lineytsy^note Liney Faction

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism

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• Action Politician: With the exception of Gorgulov, the possible leaders of the South Eastern Union are Ataman, holding political and military leadership over the Cossacks and leading their army themselves.
• Born in the Saddle: The South Eastern Union is politically dominated by Cossacks, whose way of life revolves around horse riding.
• The Federation: The South Eastern Union is a confederation of Cossack hosts and non-Cossack regional polities, led by the respected old ataman Alexei Kaledin.
• I Can Rule Alone: If the Lineytsy and Scythists form a coalition during the 1936 All-Union assembly, they'll run into intense disagreements after less than a week governing the Union. Their leaders Mikhail Grabbe and Pavel Gorgulov will then hold a duel, with the victor getting to keep power.

Alexei Kaledin

Role: Field Marshal, Ataman^note Country Leader

Party: Lineytsy^note Liney Faction

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism

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Mikhail Grabbe

Role: General, Ataman^note Country Leader (Dominant Lineytsy influence)

Party: Lineytsy^note Liney Faction

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism

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• The Assimilator: Ataman Grabbe's policies are entirely built around removing any differences between the South-East and Central Russia, in the process achieving a degree of stability at the cost of gradual loss of autonomy.

Nikolai Ryabovol

Role: General, Ataman^note Country Leader (Dominant Chernomortsy influence)

Party: Chernomortsy^note Black Sea Faction

Ideology: Anocracy^note Polyarchy

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• Internal Reformist: Ryabovil doesn't wish to govern as an autocrat in his petty fiefdom, and as such conducts mild reforms to fulfill his faction's agenda.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Ryabovil is the least authoritarian leader of the South Eastern Union.

Pavel Gorgulov

Role: Country Leader (Dominant Scythist influence)

Party: Krestyanskaya Narodnaya Partiya Zelenykh^note Peasant People's Green Party

Ideology: Reactionary Populism^note Reactionism

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• Battle Trophy: Gorgulov has his warriors adorn their vehicles with the scalps and skulls of the enemy.
• Bilingual Bonus: The text on Gorgulov's flag "Наша сила - Земля. Наша воля - закон." translates to "Our Strength is the Earth. Our Will is the law." A motto fitting of his ideas.
• Born in the Saddle: Invoking the image of the ancient Scythians riding into battle on mighty steeds, Gorgulov builds a new cavalry for modern Great Scythia consisting of tanks and trucks.
• Hordes from the East: Gorgulov turns the Scythian military toward the old ways of shock tactics and terror, and disregards outdated and Romanic notions such as rules of engagement and mercy.
• Master Race: Gorgulov is a Russian supremacist who believes that 'lesser races' are unfit to rule and destined to serve.
• The Purge: Gorgulov conducts a massive purge of liberals, Tsarists, socialists and minorities after taking power.
• Visionary Villain: Gorgulov is a visionary who dreams of Great Scythia, a barbaric, ideologically fanatical totalitarian state rejecting most of the established paradigms of Russian nationalism.

Kavkaz Society

^{Flag of the Republic of Labour and Virtue}

^{Flag of the Island of the Asian Soviet Socialist Union}

^{Flag of the Socialist Republic of Eurasia}

^{Flag of the Sublime Kingdom of Russia}

^{Flag of the United Socialist States of Russia}

Official Name: Caucasian Federation of Soviets, Republic of Labour and Virtue (Mayakovsky, Russian reunification), Island of the Asian Soviet Socialist Union (Khlebnikov, Russian reunification), Socialist Republic of Eurasia (Mirsky, Russian reunification), Caucasian Federation of Peoples (Severyanin), Sublime Kingdom of Russia (Severyanin, Russian reunification), United Socialist States of Russia (Stalin, Russian reunification)

Ruling Party: Obshchestvo Revolyutsionnykh Kommunistov na Kavkaze^note Society of Revolutionary Communists in the Caucasus

Ideology: Futurism^note Accelerationism

The Red Army of the Russian Republican Movement, retreating south, fortified their position in the Caucasus. In this easily defensible position they managed to fend off the White attacks. The cornered Bolsheviks needed a strong visionary to guide them in these hard times. Their saviour became none other than Vladimir Mayakovsky, a futurist poet and revolutionary. He reorganised the Red forces in the Caucasus into a republic that became known as the Kavkaz Society - a land of poets and prophets. The Society transcends the divide that brings Europe into flames, instead presenting a synthesis of the two most revolutionary projects of modernity – Futurism and Communism.

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• The Federation: As it takes over the rest of the Caucasus, the Kavkaz Society adopts a federative mode of governance in order to better rule the region's disparate ethnic groups.
• Please Select New City Name: When the Kavkaz Society under Mayakovsky, Khlebnikov or Stalin reunifies Russia, it changes the names of several cities, with some names being those given by the Soviet Union in OTL^note Ekaterinodar becomes Krasnodar, Tsaritsyn becomes Stalingrad, Novonikolayevsk becomes Novosibirsk, Petrograd becomes Krasnograd.
• The Remnant: When the communist faction of the Russian Republican Army retreated south, they fortified their position in the defensible Caucasus, where they managed to fend off Tsarist attacks.
• Soviet Superscience: Mayakovsky and Mirsky have access to an event chain that describes science "going beyond bourgeois conventions and morality" that describes various weird theories and experiments (taken from real Soviet scientists). These include the foundation of "cosmobiology" - something that resembles a more modern version of astrology, and the (failed) attempt to create a human-ape hybrid.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: All of the leaders of the Kavkaz Society have a futurist vision of society where beneficial technology and egalitarian ideals go hand to hand, while advocating ruthless and uncompromising politics against those willing to stand in the way of their views. Notably, all of the reunification news events for the Kavkaz Society describe the fantastical advancements made in Russia alongside the darker side of their revolution, such as Mayakovsky's aggressive rhetoric, Mirsky's plans for world conquest, Khlebnikov's quase-insane experiments, and Stalin being himself.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Role: Chairman^note Country Leader

Party: Obshchestvo Revolyutsionnykh Kommunistov na Kavkaze^note Society of Revolutionary Communists in the Caucasus, Partiya Revolyutsionnykh Kommunistov^note Party of Revolutionary Communists (Mayakovsky reunifies Russia)

Ideology: Futurism^note Accelerationism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, the iconoclastic herald of acceleration, is the first formally Futurist head of state in the world. It is by some quirk of fate that it would occur in his native land of Georgia. A teenage convert to socialist activism, he was soon drawn into the RSDRP underground, and during a spell in prison, a series of experiments in poetry would begin to shape him into an avowedly socialist artist. Shortly after release, he would make connections in art school that brought him into nascent Russian Futurism, and his poetry was hurled into the urban arts scene as a bomb that would provoke raucous crowds.

But like it did millions of others, the Great War would change Mayakovsky's life irrevocably. His political reputation saw him turned away from volunteering, but his opposition to the war saw him seek work as a draftsman during later mobilization. When the Russian Civil War broke out, however, Mayakovsky was immediately drawn to the communist wing of the revolutionaries, where he became a propagandist for the cause. Alas, defeat came eventually, and while some of the movement would flee into Zheltorossiya, and others into Eastern Europe, he would find himself in the contingent that escaped into secessionist Georgia and Azerbaijan. Without the core of the RSDRP, and with many other candidates dead in the fields of Kuban, it would be the sect surrounding Mayakovsky that came to dominate the hardened core of the southern revolutionaries. Through cooperation with local communists, the states of the region were overthrown and united into the Caucasian Federation of Soviets in 1920, with the young poet as its first Premier.

Over a decade later, the world of the Kavkaz Society has changed under the revolutionary helmsman. The breakneck modernization, industrialization, and agitation that is now understood as Futurism in practice was codified through his rule. Defiant in their mountain fortress, Mayakovsky's government has created a center of revolutionary art and proletarian culture to rival Fiume, presenting Tbilisi as a shining light in contrast to the oppression and backwardness to the north. However, after so long as a revolutionary, having taken drastic measures to preserve the cause, and having earned the scorn of former inspirations such as Vladimir Lenin, what is left of Vladimir Mayakovsky? What price will Mayakovsky the poet pay for Mayakovsky the revolutionary? And what price can all of Kavkaz pay to free Russia?

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• Godhood Seeker: Seeing himself as a modern Prometheus, Mayakovsky's goal is nothing less than a total uplifting of humanity from its animal state. Through communism, humanity will become gods themselves, unbound to any god or king.
• Monumental Damage: As a demonstration of his break from the past, Mayakovsky destroys the Kremlin to make way for a modern-style government building made from glass and steel.
• The Power of Hate: Mayakovsky embraces hatred as the one emotion that unites people in the face of adversity. They are indestructible because their hearts are filled with hostility towards everything that opposes them. There is no challenge that they are unable to conquer through the sheer power of pure hatred.
• Rage Against the Heavens: Mayakovsky declares God a tyrant and orders his banishment from the world.
• Reluctant Ruler: Sometimes Mayakovsky wishes to retire as Chairman due to his age and dreams of a heroic death in battle, but he also has the responsibility of carrying the revolution, which he refuses to abandon. He won't turn back like a coward, he will finish the revolution or die trying.
• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: In real life, Mayakovsky was a Futurist poet, playwright and actor. In this timeline, he is the ruler of Accelerationist Georgia.
• The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: A revolutionary futurist, Mayakovsky believes that ruthless and destructive methods are needed to bring about the new world: including mass terror and destruction of historical monuments.
• Übermensch: The creation of a new proud, brave and cultured race of men is the ultimate goal of Mayakovsky's Kavkaz Society.

Velimir Khlebnikov

Role: Chairman^note Country Leader (Election)

Party: Obshchestvo Revolyutsionnykh Kommunistov na Kavkaze^note Society of Revolutionary Communists in the Caucasus, Obshestvo 317^note Society 317 (Formulation of Political Rayism focus)

Ideology: Futurism^note Accelerationism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Poet. Playwright. Futurologist. Now, Premier. But never boring. Like his predecessor, Velimir Khlebnikov is a man from the south of the Russian Empire, born in Astrakhan Governate and having a touch of Zaporozhian Cossack ancestry. While he would eventually end up in the capital for his studies, he would quickly drop out to focus on his written pursuits. Shortly thereafter, he fell in with the future luminaries of Russian Futurism, and soon he became a distinctive, if eccentric, artistic voice - often forgetting to eat or clothe himself while consumed with work. Speculative essays about the future of technology sat alongside poetic works in convention-defying constructed language.

And of course, the Great War upended all manner of plans. Like a number of Futurists, Khlebnikov attached himself to the communists as a fellow utopian and served as a propagandist until the flight into the Caucasus. While his influence would help secure the Futurist-Communist faction's control over the newborn Federation, Mayakovsky ascending to the Premiership may have started the slow divorce of the former compatriots. Khlebnikov and like-minded artists played a great role in shaping the artistic culture of Kavkaz in the coming years, but their esoteric dreams and demands would sometimes clash with the practical realities of governance - with the Premier struggling to manage a coalition government while Kolchak's Russian Empire waited to pounce on any signs of weakness. While Velimir would occasionally be distracted by diplomatic and cultural missions to states like Fiume, the former collaborators would be at loggerheads again as soon as he returned.

In the end, when Mayakovsky fell, it was the Futurists who would inherit the state he built. But what a madman who would lead the vanguard. In one hand, Premier Khlebnikov promises a world perfected through the harnessing of technology and democratization of knowledge. In his other, fixations on prophecy, numerology, and mythology drive him toward primordial, irrational truths of human meaning. The new futurist man, the Futurian, prepares to walk an Earth turned on its head – but will the Premier's visions prove a dream? Or a delusion?

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• Conlang: The Zaum' is a perfect lingua franca made in conscious defiance of existing literary language with entirely new rules of forming words, a language of the future, a pinnacle of Chairman Khlebnikov's legacy.
• Mad Artist: Khlebnikov was one of the few leaders in Red Flood that were historically suspected to be schizophrenic. As such his state is built on barely comprehensible ideas, and pursues many impossible artistic projects.
• Word Salad Philosophy: Khlebnikov's bizarre, confusing ideology mixes western futurism, Slavophilia, pan-Asianism, Bolshevism and esoteric divagations about the nature of numbers and time.

Dmitry Mirsky

Role: Chairman^note Country Leader (Election)

Party: Obshchestvo Revolyutsionnykh Kommunistov na Kavkaze^note Society of Revolutionary Communists in the Caucasus, Natsional-Bolshevistkaya Partiya^note National Bolshevik Party (Bolshevism for Eurasia! focus)

Ideology: National Rejuvenatism^note Accelerationism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Russia's Red Prince has earned his second chance. The name of Dmitry Petrovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky is cursed back in the Empire, even by many of his former allies, but it is perhaps poetic that the son of a Georgian princess would come to power here instead. His father, an officer and noble himself, would also serve as Minister of the Interior until shortly before the Great War. Despite these origins, Mirsky gave up his royal title at a young age and devoted himself to literary studies. Like many future luminaries of Kavkaz, he would also become a poet, though in the uncanny and portentous Symbolist style.

Unlike a number of his poetic contemporaries, however, Mirsky would serve in the army throughout the entire war, despite a reprimand and transfer between fronts for suspected defeatism. Crucially, he would remain an imperial loyalist throughout the Civil War. After demobilization, Mirsky became a professor and published author on the subject of Russian literature, but despite his adherence to the Whites, his personal politics would diverge radically from the orthodox monarchists. As a founder of the Eurasianist movement, he would be foregrounded as a member of the ascendent political party SNP, or the Union of National Prosperity. Unfortunately, when the details of his correspondence with notable communists - and his true political beliefs - were leaked in the so-called Mirsky Affair of 1931, he was only spared a lengthy katorga sentence when the train transporting him east was captured by a team sent from the sympathetic Kavkaz Society.

Perhaps only a communist as syncretic as Mirsky could seize the moment after the fall of Mayakovsky. Celebrated for his letters, literary work, and the dramatic circumstances of his arrival, the dispossessed prince easily took to the Kavkazian literary and political scene. No longer needing to conceal his convictions, he added to his revolutionary corpus from the likes of Bogdanovite scientism, the Fiumean political avant-garde, and Bolshevik economic theory. Heralding the coming of a total Eurasian state, the new Premier is ready to begin here what never could be done from St. Petersburg. Today in Eurasia, tomorrow the stars.

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• Commie Nazis: Mirsky's ideology combines the far right and the far left together "synthesizing Russian messianic nationalism and Eurasianism with radical Bolshevism."
• Deity of Human Origin: According to Mirsky, Orthodox Christianity is not mere monotheism but a certain synthesis between monotheism and pantheism. While God is a being on His own, he becomes through actualising Himself in the material world, and this task of fulfilling God is beholden on mankind.

Igor Severyanin

Role: Chairman^note Country Leader (Election)

Party: Obshchestvo Revolyutsionnykh Kommunistov na Kavkaze^note Society of Revolutionary Communists in the Caucasus, Russkaya Liga Futuristov^note Russian Futurist League (A Russian Remedy focus)

Ideology: Futurism^note Accelerationism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Igor Vasilyevich Lotaryov - or Igor Severyanin, on his works - was a dark horse among the other dark horses who competed over Mayakovsky's seat. As his adopted surname would suggest, he was born far from his current refuge, up in St. Petersburg - though he would also spend some time in far-flung Harbin immediately before the war with Japan. Upon returning home, the newly adult Severyanin began self-publishing poetry, but his eventual breakthrough into the public eye would also place him into an uneasy coexistence with his future Kavkazian contemporaries. Dubbing his school of verse "Ego-Futurism," the poet issued a similar call for the complete modernization of art and adoration of the engine, but at the same time would cut a bizarrely aristocratic profile, always slickly dressed and occasionally openly declaring himself a genius.

Though prone to infighting with his fellow Ego-Futurists, Severyanin was relatively content to continue his work until the Russian Civil War. This marked the beginning of an unproductive exile period for the would-be high-society entertainer. Though he would escape the worst fighting and the epicenter of Kolchakite oppression by moving to the Baltics, the stern military government in the region proved as unappealing as the prospect of moving to Germany or Poland. However, when the Caucasian Federation of Soviets proved more than a flash in the pan, the futurist cultural line of the state was too enticing for Severyanin, who immediately started looking to immigrate.

It was a strange road that brought Severyanin to the premiership, and not everyone in the Kavkazian establishment is pleased. His relatively moderated sensibilities, in contrast to the totalizing visions of his opponents, made him appealing to the segments of society who were alienated by Mayakovsky's proletarian militancy. Certainly, Igor is a man of the future, but the Russia of the future need not dismiss its heroes such as Dostoevsky! His promises of a softened cultural policy, as well as rumblings of economic liberalization, are greeted with relief and displeasure in equal measure. Can this would-be aristocrat overcome the mob within Kavkaz and without? Or will he be pulled under the wheels of the future he claims to steer?

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• Corrupt Politician: To guide the Kavkaz Society's economic liberalization, Severyanin inserts his cronies into core positions in the government, where they could furnish a suitable new dynamic 'class' of men and women worthy of the Future that lies ahead, whilst also conveniently being firmly in Severyanin's pocket.
• The Social Darwinist: According to Severyanin, the committed Futurist should feel no pity for he who will not take his life into his own hands but regard them as but vermin. Those who succeed are ultimately and inherently more valuable than those poor in wealth, spirit, character and human quality, who should rot in their squalor or live as mere servants among those better than they are. Charitable institutions will be closed down as a burden and injustice.

Iosif Stalin

^{Stalin after uniting Russia}

Role: Field Marshal, Head of Military Intelligence (Mayakovsky or Mirsky cabinet), Chairman^note Country Leader (Successful coup against Severyanin)

Party: Obshchestvo Revolyutsionnykh Kommunistov na Kavkaze^note Society of Revolutionary Communists in the Caucasus, Rossiyskaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya (bolshevikov)^note Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (Stalin reunifies Russia)

Ideology: Vperedism^note Accelerationism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}The old guard of the Bolsheviks has made its position clear - Mayakovsky was an outsider they could work with, but the man who followed him surely was not. But who is the man at their head, besides another native of Georgia? Born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, Stalin's trajectory was originally of a bright schoolboy who earned a scholarship to a seminary school, but at some point, his attitude toward religion soured. First learning Marxist theory - and a touch of Nietzsche - through a clandestine book club, he would leave to join a local revolutionary organization, and rapidly went underground to avoid arrest. In the early 1900s, the future Stalin made a name for himself as a socialist agitator, even escaping from Siberian prison before becoming an organizer of paramilitaries during the Russo-Japanese War. Somewhat infamous for his attacks on the Black Hundreds, as well as the use of bank robberies to secure funds for operations, he developed a reputation as an extremely militant member of the cause - for better or worse.

Perhaps more difficult for the man was the field of party politics. For a time, Stalin had a close working relationship with Vladimir Lenin, which undoubtedly helped his ascent through the Georgian branch of the RSDRP. Despite that, he would find himself on Bogdanov's side in the split of the Bolsheviks, even becoming the editor of the party newspaper while in exile following the tsar's assassination. During the Great War, however, Stalin languished in Siberian prison once more, even being spared mobilization like his comrades due to a childhood arm injury. The outbreak of civil war allowed him to escape and link up with the party, and even take field command against the tsarist forces. Like so many contemporaries, however, he was forced on a long retreat into the Caucasus, where he was the highest-ranking Bolshevik remaining and a key party to the writing of the Kavkaz constitution.

Seeing the benefits of maintaining communist influence in the army, Stalin followed a number of his comrades in staying in the army, despite his self-criticism for their defeats in the civil war. Now, following the ascent of Severyanin, the army has issued its veto with the sounding of guns. Premier Stalin now has the floor, and the excesses of futurism are being dispensed with. In its place will rise a clarification of the party line promulgated by Comrade Bogdanov, this time with feet firmly planted on the ground. The war against capital and reaction demands an organic, self-regulating party to see it through, and Stalin will be its cultivator.

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• Above Good and Evil: Stalin rejects the concepts of good and evil as lies spun by reactionaries to demonise those who challenge the system. The only morality needed is that which concerns the revolution, as it is the great liberator of the proletariat.
• Allohistorical Allusion: Stalin can become the leader of a country called the USSR like OTL, although the meaning of the acronym differs.
• Anti-Mutiny: Stalin and Mayakovsky launch a coup to defend the proletarian revolution when Igor Severyanin, the only right-wing potential Chairman of the Kavkaz Society, takes over and threatens to end everything the Society dedicated their lives to.
• The Coup: Stalin launches a coup immediately after his hated rival Igor Severyanin wins the Chairman election of 1936.
• Cult of Personality: Stalin reinvigorates the proletariat by plastering propaganda outlining the possibilities of mankind, from science to productivity, on every building. Children shall be taught of the great heroes, inventors and warriors of the past, who struggled against the evils of capitalism. Everyday revolutionaries shall be turned into legends, near mythological figures who rose up and cast off their chains.
• Emperor Scientist: Influenced by Howard Scott's planning techniques, Stalin puts the economy in the hands of scientists and engineers, in order to ensure that every measure implemented will increase productivity.
• Red Baron: His first focus describes Stalin as the Alchemist of the Proletariat, who shall transmute the backwards, conservative Russia into a golden state, with a golden future.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: After reunifying Russia, Stalin's portrait will change from a military uniform to a simpler white shirt while smoking a pipe.

Republic of Armenia

^{Flag of Armenia (Reactionism)}

Official Name: Republic of Armenia

Ruling Party: Sots’ial Demokrat Hnch’akyan Kusakts’ut’yun^note Social Democrat Hunchakian Party

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Revisionist Socialism

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• Arch-Enemy: To the Kavkaz Society, as every foreign policy for Armenia ultimately culminates in their conquest.
  • Likewise, the Sublime Ottoman State is one of Armenia's main opponents. The Ottomans have cores on several Armenian states and will almost always launch a war with the Armenians to take them back. Many of Armenia's focus trees deal with preparing for (or starting) war with the Ottomans.
• Evil Colonialist: Armenia can forcibly assimilate the non-Armenian populations in its territory.
• Flipping the Bird: Played for Laughs, with one of their focuses literally being called "Giving the Turks the Finger".
• Sadistic Choice: The only way possible to create a benevolent Progressive/Revisionist Socialist Armenian state is to refuse to negotiate with the Azeri rebels and crush the rebellion. If the government attempts to enter peaceful dialogue, then Armenia falls under a Reactionary government that turns the whole country into a rabidly anti-Communist hellhole that would make the Khmer Rouge blush.

Hovhannes Kajaznuni

Role: Country Leader

Party: Sots’ial Demokrat Hnch’akyan Kusakts’ut’yun^note Social Democrat Hunchakian Party

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Revisionist Socialism

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Sirakn Tigranyan

Role: Country Leader (Election)

Party: Hay Yeghap'vokhankan Dashnakts'ut'iwn^note Armenian Revolutionary Federation

Ideology: Left Wing Populism^note Progressivism

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Garegin Nzhdeh

Role: Country Leader (Attempt negotiation with Azeri rebels or Intermarium victory)

Party: Ts'eghakronistakan Sharzhum

Ideology: Reactionary Populism^note Reactionism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Garegin Nzhdeh is a controversial figure in Armenia, being seen as an extreme ultra-nationalist and violent chauvinist by many of the socialist political establishment, and as a national hero by his Tseghakronists, who believe in a strict social hierarchy based on devotion to the Armenian nation. While this is a state secret, his birth name is Garegin Ter-Harutyunyan. Nzdeh was born to a poor family in the village of Kznut, in Nakchivan, born to a family of four of a local priest. Nzhdeh received his education through a Russian school in Nakhchievan City, and then continued his higher education in Georgia. During the Russian Revolution, he fled from Bulgaria and went back to his Armenian homeland, he led militias to liberate Western Armenia from Turkish rule according to the Wilsonian Treaty of Sevrés. Now he sits at the top of the Armenian political world after decades of intrigue, rallies, and denouncings of the socialist Government of Armenia. What future he shall bring to Armenia is up in the air.

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• Blood Knight: Nzhdeh glorifies militarism is the cure for a bubonic liberal society. Violence should be a daily situation for Armenians, who should be fearless and completely able to look at the face of death without fear.
• Press-Ganged: With the exception of a few intellectuals and manufacturers, Nzhdeh forces every Armenian to serve in the military, including those with disabilities.
• The Purge: Nzhdeh conducts a massive purge of all kinds of leftists after taking power.

Central Asia

Kazan Military District

^{Flag of the Kazan Directory/Eurasian Union}

^{Flag of the Realm of Belovodye/Tsardom of Holy Rus'}

Official Name: Kazan Military District, Kazan Directory (Trubetskoy), Eurasian Union (Trubetskoy, Russian reunification), Realm of Belovodye (Rasputin), Tsardom of Holy Rus' (Rasputin, Russian reunification)

Ruling Party: Klikka Dutova^note Dutov's Clique

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism

The advent of the civil war had shown all parties that the military districts had been too inefficient. From these conditions was born the Kazan military district, led by Alexander Dutov and his autonomous band of Cossacks. Meant to be a neutral force, Dutov threw in his lot with Kolchak during the conflict. Following the crushing of Kazakh protests, Alash parties started to actively oppose Dutov. The situation became worse following the famine of 1932-33 which led to a Pro-Communist Peasants revolt. While it seems that the troubles of the Kazan Military District are largely over, it shall be seen if the vultures circling the nation will make themselves known.

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• Bilingual Bonus: The writing on Rasputin's flag reads "слава христу", meaning "glory to Christ".
• Unwitting Pawn: The assassin who makes the attempt on Alexander Dutov early in the game is a gullible anarchist, used as a pawn by Mikhail Drozdovsky.

Alexander Dutov

Role: Military Commander, Country Leader

Party: Klikka Dutova^note Dutov's Clique

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Alexander Dutov has plentiful experience commanding cossack regiments, giving him the skills necessary to govern the Kazan Cossacks. Dutov has two simple tasks: keep the Kazan Territory under Russian control, and kill anyone who stands in his way. Being a hardened Russian military man, Dutov is glad to oblige on both accounts.

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• And There Was Much Rejoicing: Many ethnic Kazakhs cry tears of joy upon hearing of Alexander Dutov's death.
• Assassination Attempt: In one of Kazan's first events, a disguised anarchist attempts to assassinate Dutov by throwing a hand grenade at him. Which paths Kazan can subsequently follow depends on whether Dutov survives or not.
• Evil Colonialist: Dutov is a brutal dictator who violently represses his Kazakh subjects in the Kazan military district.
• Plot-Triggering Death: Should Dutov be successfully assassinated, his death sets in motion the rise of Eurasianism among the Russian aristocracy and intelligentsia of the Military District who became disillusioned by how Russia abandoned them after the Ataman's death, as well as a conspiracy regarding Rasputin; this eventually leads to the establishment of either the Eurasian Union or the Tsardom of Holy Rus.
• The Starscream: During the Russian Civil War, Dutov sided with Alexander Kolchak and became the de facto governor of a region spanning most of Kazakhstan. When Mikhail Drozdovsky offers Dutov to guarantee Kazan's autonomous status, Dutov has the choice to betray his erstwhile master and sign a pact with the dark messiah of Russian monarchism, instead of staying loyal until Kolchak can properly reintegrate Kazan into the Empire.

Nikolai Trubetskoy

Role: Country Leader (Dutov assassinated)

Party: Yevraziyskaya Narodnaya Partiya^note Eurasian People's Party

Ideology: National Rejuvenatism^note Accelerationism

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• The Assimilator: Trubetskoy has the choice to continue or intensify Dutov's Russification, or make an effort to craft a real Eurasian identity, encompassing all citizens of Eurasia regardless of their culture or heritage. Nonetheless, Russian remains the only official language of the country, with all citizens being encouraged to think of it as their mother tongue, because only the Russian language could bridge the gap between Europe and Asia.
• The Philosopher King: Duke Trubetskoy treats the entire country as a testing ground for Eurasianist thinkers. According to his Idea-Ruler concept, the idea is a central element of Eurasianist governance.
• Warhawk: The Eurasianists seek to conquer both the West and the East, expanding the Demotia through one frontier conquered after another, until the entire Eurasian cultural space from Finland to Hokkaido is safeguarded from foreign invaders.

Grigori Rasputin

Role: Country Leader (Dutov assassinated)

Party: Tserkov Iisusa Khrista v Rossii^note Church of Jesus Christ in Russia

Ideology: Reactionary Esotericism^note Reactionism

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• The Dreaded: Rasputin is regarded as a dangerous sorcerer, master of the dark arts. While this myth is obviously false, he can use this legend to his advantage. The name of Rasputin will be shrouded in a terrible cloak of fear and madness, and horrific stories of his powers and cruelty spread far and wide among his enemies.

Olga I

Role: Monarch^note National Spirit (Rasputin)

Party: Tserkov Iisusa Khrista v Rossii^note Church of Jesus Christ in Russia

Ideology: Reactionary Esotericism^note Reactionism

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• Puppet King: Or in this case queen. She has no power and is only a national spirit in the game.

"Burning Memories" rework

^{Flag of the All-Russian Federative People's Republic (Rev Soc Savinkov)}

^{Flag of the Russian Social Republic (Fiumean Savinkov)}

Boris Savinkov

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Role: Country Leader (Savinkov takeover)

Ideology: Nationalist Socialism^note Revisionist Socialism, Fiumanism^note  Accelerationism (Radical route)

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• Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Savinkov is compared to Death riding on the Pale Horse (in real life, he even named his second autobiography after the Pale Rider). When he takes over Russia, his superevent is accompanied by the following quote from Revelations 8:6:
  And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Savinkov is obsessed with a single goal: revenge on Alexander Kolchak and his disgusting lapdogs, and triumph of the Socialist Revolution. The root of evil, the cancer at the throat, the iron beast which threatens to devour the last bastions of passion—that is what Petrograd is, or more specifically Alexander Kolchak.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: Should he go down his radical route, Savinkov's portrait will change to one of him wearing a military outfit with a sinister look.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Savinkov seeks to create an "Idylic agrarian Russian nation of fairness and dead landlords" through liberal use of terrorism, which he justifies by saying that he's only retaliating against misdeeds of others and fighting for the greater good. Downplayed somewhat if he goes down his fiumean path, where the government is taken over by a sort of terrorist aristocracy and the state generally tends towards fascism, if with some socialist elements.
• Western Terrorists: Savinkov is the most wanted terrorist in Russia's recent history, and recruits many terrorist Socialist Revolutionaries against the Russian Empire after he takes power. In fact, the importance of terrorism is engraved into his ideology, with Savinkov believing that violence should be done for its own sake as an act that gave meaning to life.

Turkestan

Turkestan Governorate-General

Official Name: Turkestan Governorate-General, Tsardom of Turkestan (Turkestan unification)

Ruling Party: Otdel'naya Svodnaya Atamana Annenkova Armiya^note Separate Consolidated Ataman Annenkov's Army

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism

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• Bilingual Bonus: The flag of the independent Governorate-General reads "CЪ НAMИ БOГЪ И ATAMAНЪ", meaning "God and the Ataman are with us" in Russian.
• Deadly Euphemism: What Annenkov's men call 'security operations', everyone else calls bloody raids on innocent civilians or whoever they deem a target.
• False Flag Operation: When Annenkov's minions want to raid fellow Russians, they do so with strict instructions of covering their faces, removing any and all insignia, dressing in Turkestani attire and speaking as little Russian as possible around outsiders.
• Jolly Roger: Upon cutting links with the Russian Empire, the Governorate-General will adopt a new Cossack flag with a skull over a pair of swords.
• Leave No Survivors: Viewing prisoners of war and civilians as impediments to their advance, the Annenkovites simply give them a bullet to their head.
• Rape, Pillage, and Burn: Known for their cruelty, the Annenkovists spend most of their resources on savage raids in neighbouring territories and sometimes their own.
• Totalitarian Gangsterism: Russian Turkestan is a lawless frontier, where Annenkov and his motley army of Siberian Cossacks, bandits and other undesirables are free to roam and ravage as they please. For nearly two decades uninterrupted, they have bled the people dry via extortion, raids, massacres and everything in between.

Boris Annenkov

Role: Governor-General^note Country Leader

Party: Otdel'naya Svodnaya Atamana Annenkova Armiya^note Separate Consolidated Ataman Annenkov's Army

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism

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• The Starscream: Annenkov will always cut ties with Russia should the Summer Coup War happen and expand his own fiefdom.

Republic of Turkestan

Official Name: Republic of Turkestan

Ruling Party: Shuroi Islomiya

Ideology: Social Liberalism^note Liberalism

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• Disaster Democracy: The Republic of Turkestan is one of the few liberal democracies that rose up from the dying corpse of the Russian Empire.
• Evil Reactionary: The muslim religious leaders in the Republic oppose and decry every liberal reform attempted by the government in favor of the "good old ways".
• Plot-Triggering Death: The death of Stolypin marked the start of the rebellion in Turkestan and the birth of the Republic.

Solomon Hertzfeld

Role: Country Leader

Party: Shuroi Islomiya

Ideology: Social Liberalism^note Liberalism

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Khorezm

Official Name: Khorezm People's Socialist Republic, Democratic People's Republic of the Turan (Turkestan unification)

Ruling Party: Turon Ischi-Dehqon Sotsialistik Partiyasi^note Turan Worker-Peasant Socialist Party

Ideology: National Vanguardism^note Vanguard Socialism

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• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: While Sultan-Galiev currently holds power in Khiva, his rule is contested. The Young Khivans distanced themselves from the Red Tulip radicals due to their violent nature, while the Red Tulips believes that Sultan-Galiev doesn't focus enough on the proletariat. Though overall the popular front remains united and stable, only time will tell whether it can truly last.

Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev

Role: Country Leader

Party: Turon Ischi-Dehqon Sotsialistik Partiyasi^note Turan Worker-Peasant Socialist Party

Ideology: National Vanguardism^note Vanguard Socialism

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Transcaspian Protectorate

Official Name: Transcaspian Protectorate, Turkestan Protectorate (Turkestan unification)

Ruling Party: The Committee for Public Safety

Ideology: Colonial Government^note Polyarchy

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• Les Collaborateurs: The British colonial authority ensures peace through an alliance with local chiefs, fresh blood from the Isles and a new imported crop of gurkhas.
• Foreign Ruling Class: Being a British colony, the Transcaspian Protectorate is controlled by British colonial administrators rather than its native population.
• MegaCorp: The British extract the Transcaspian oil for export to the Commonwealth through Transcaspian Oil Ltd., a subsidiary of the infamously powerful Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
• The Remnant: The Transcaspian Protectorate considers itself the last remnant of the British Empire in the region since the collapse of the Raj and believes its destiny to be the conquest of Central Asia to accomplish the imperialist "civilizing" mission of the Empire there.

Wilfried Malleson

Role: Country Leader

Party: The Committee for Public Safety

Ideology: Colonial Government^note Polyarchy

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Emirate of Turkestan

Official Name: Emirate of Turkestan

Ruling Party: Emir'in Konseyi^note Emir's Council

Ideology: Personalistic Dictatorship^note Despotism

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• The Theocracy: Bukhara is ruled by the Mujahideen whose allegiance goes to God and the Ottoman Caliph and consider themselves an Army of Islam, destined to restore the Caliph's rule over Turkestan and the world.

Emir Enver

Role: Emir^note Country Leader

Party: Emir'in Konseyi^note Emir's Council

Ideology: Personalistic Dictatorship^note Despotism

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• Action Politician: Enver is both the Emir of Turkestan and the Commander-in-Chief of the Mujahideen.
• Internal Reformist: During his time in service to the Ottoman Empire, Enver's Young Turks faction was the foremost progressive force in Constantinople. Now, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Mujaheddin in Bukhara, his progressive ideals have remained—despite the backlash from conservatives, Enver believes that the Dar-al-Islam has no future unless she turns her eyes from the past.

Central Siberia

Siberian General-Governorate

^{Flag of the Autonomous Siberian Republic/United States of Siberia/Siberian Autonomous People's Republic}

^{Flag of the Siberian People's Labour Directorate}

^{Flag of the Russia People's Labour Republic/Russian Union State}

^{Flag of the Tsardom of Russia}

Official Name: Siberian General-Governorate

Autonomist: Autonomous Siberian Republic (Autonomist Grishin-Almazov), Siberian Autonomous People's Republic (Derber), United States of Siberia (Siberian unification/Pepelyayev)

Solidarist: Siberian People's Labour Directorate (Vlasov), Russia People's Labour Republic (Baydalakov, Russian reunification), Russian Union State (Vlasov, Russian reunification), Tsardom of Russia (Alexander IV, Russian reunification)

Ruling Party: Voennaya Administratsia^note Military Administration

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism

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• Civil War: Should Zheltorossiya turn to socialism and Grishin-Almazov stick with the Black Hundreds, the former will inevitably arm the Siberian resistance, leading to a bloody civil war between Grishin-Almazov's regime and socialist revolutionaries.
• Dirty Cop: Crime flourishes in the Siberian General-Governorate, due to the corruption of the police.
• The Federation: Autonomist Siberia can be structured akin to Switzerland or to the old French Republic. In case Siberia decides to seek unity with other European polities in North Asia, it can form a faction called "European Union" as an alternative to joining the League of Nations.
• Start My Own: In the Autonomist path, the people of Siberia cut their ties with European Russia to create their own new, independent country.

Alexey Grishin-Almazov

Role: Field Marshal, Governor-General^note Country Leader

Party: Voennaya Administratsia^note Military Administration, Sibirskyi Oblastnicheskyi Soyuz^note Siberian Regional Union (Autonomist)

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism, Left Wing Populism^note Progressivism (Autonomist)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Aleksey Nikolaevich Grishin-Almazov is tired. He has always lived a life of luxury, from his birth in Tambov to his current life and residence in his dacha nearby Novosibirsk, but far away enough to not be near the center of the city. An astute traveler, he used his wealth to travel from the Holy Amur to the very edges of the Zheltorossiyan territory, beyond the city of Harbin. However, his life as a wealthy socialite and young, charismatic man had faded into nothing once he'd heard that Holy Russia had befallen into great conflict - perhaps a Sacred War in the name of it's independence. Regardless, Russia, his motherland and place of birth, had come out inconclusive in said war - losing several territories but managing to evade any kind of reparations or treaties. The nationalist in him calls it a victory; the pragmatist, though, calls it a stalemate. Yet, through all this, he had managed to keep his comfortable position in Russian life, and yet again his dreams of finding peace were gone, as he heard once more that Russia had fallen to conflict, to drown herself in blood of her children once more. In the end, after a violent guerilla war across the Siberian wastes, from Kamchatka to Tomsk City, He had served for Holy Russia once more, and so Kolchak, her servant and most loyal protector, requested that he protect Siberia's general-governorate, and so was proclaimed Governor-General. Now, he sits in his dacha with relative comfort, unaware of the future that trembles with chaos ahead of him...

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• Cincinnatus: In the Autonomist route, as Siberia transitions to a republican form of governance, Grishin-Almazov will retire to make way for a democratically-elected President.
• Emergency Authority: In one of the Siberian General-Governorate's first events, Grishin-Almazov decides that instead of a powerless Siberian Duma, he needs to summon a different kind of council, an Emergency Directorate with the power to force the administration across Siberia to obey the orders from Novonikolayevsk.
• Internal Reformist: If Grishin-Almazov sides with the Autonomists, he'll fill his Emergency Directorate with democratic intellectuals and professional administrators. Languages other than Russian will be recognised, a governing coalition shall be forged out of remnants of various opposition parties, and the economy will be optimised into a brand new free market welfare state.
• Secret Police: In the Black Hundreds path, Grishin-Almazov employs the Cossacks to discourage dissidents from opposing him.

Andrei Vlasov

Role: Theorist, Chief of Army, Country Leader (Solidarist takeover)

Party: Narodno-Trudovoy Soyuz Rossiyskikh Solidaristov^note National Alliance of Russian Solidarists

Ideology: Anocracy^note Polyarchy

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• Cool Shades: Vlasov's portrait shows his wearing orange-tinted glasses.
• Historical Villain Downgrade: Vlasov never becomes a Nazi collaborator as OTL.

Viktor Baydalakov

Role: Country Leader (Solidarist referendum)

Party: Narodno-Trudovoy Soyuz Rossiyskikh Solidaristov^note National Alliance of Russian Solidarists

Ideology: Social Nationalism^note Progressivism

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Alexander IV

Role: Monarch^note Country Leader (Solidarist referendum)

Party: Narodno-Trudovoy Soyuz Rossiyskikh Solidaristov^note National Alliance of Russian Solidarists

Ideology: National Conservatism^note Conservatism

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Ivan Serebrennikov

Role: Country Leader (1936 Duma election)

Party: Sibirskyi Oblastnicheskyi Soyuz^note Siberian Regional Union

Ideology: Left Wing Populism^note Progressivism

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Pyotr Derber

Role: Country Leader (1936 Duma election)

Party: Partiya Sotsialistov-Revolyutsionerov^note Socialist Revolutionary Party

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Revisionist Socialism

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Anatoly Pepelyayev

Role: General, Country Leader (Intermarium victory)

Party: Konstitutsionno-Demokraticheskaya Partiya^note Constitutional Democratic Party

Ideology: Social Liberalism^note Liberalism

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"Burning Memories" Rework

Lavr Kornilov

Role: Governor-General^note Country Leader

Mongolia

Altay Confederation

^{Flag of People's Republic of Hyperborea}

^{Flag of the United Commonwealth of the Soviets}

Official Name: Altay Confederation, Oirot Confederation (Gurkin, Imperial Authority annexed)

Socialist: Altaic People's Republic, Great Red Brotherhood (Mongolian People's Army annexed), People's Republic of Hyperborea (Barchenko, Russian reunification), United Commonwealth of the Soviets (Bokii, Russian reunification)

Ruling Party: Karakorumskoye Pravitelstvo^note Karakorum Government

Ideology: National Conservatism^note Conservatism

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• The Coup: The socialist United Labour Brotherhood comes to power through a putsch resulting in either Bokii or Barchenko taking power.

Grigoriy Gurkin

Role: Country Leader

Party: Karakorumskoye Pravitelstvo^note Karakorum Government

Ideology: National Conservatism^note Conservatism

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• Good Old Ways: Gurkin adheres to a form of conservative socialism based on the principle of conservation of the Altay people's way of life and ancestral laws.
• Illegal Religion: Viewing the black shamans as devil worshippers that terrify the population with their stories of terrible magic and obscurantist folklore, Gurkin believes that shamanism needs to be condemned and persecuted in order to ensure Altay's future.

Gleb Bokii

Role: Country Leader (YTB Putsch, The Red Faust chosen)

Party: Yedinoye Trudovoye Bratstvo^note United Labour Brotherhood

Ideology: State Socialism^note Vanguard Socialism

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• For Science!: Some of Bokii's experiments are rather disturbing.
• Red Baron: Gleb Bokii is called The Red Faust.
• Soviet Superscience: Bokii conducts experiments that aim to study the paranormal in order to subjugate it to a socialist state.

Alexander Barchenko

Role: Country Leader (YTB Putsch, The Red Merlin chosen)

Party: Yedinoye Trudovoye Bratstvo^note United Labour Brotherhood

Ideology: Esoteric Socialism^note Revisionist Socialism

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• High Priest: After years of study of Buddhism, theosophy, hermeticism, Kabbalah, alchemy and all sorts of sciences, Barchenko rose to the position of the High Priest of the United Labour Brotherhood. Under his counsel, the Brotherhood works for the spiritual awakening of all humanity.
• Interfaith Smoothie: The new religion of Hyperborea is highly syncretic: combining elements of Buddhism, indigenous shamanic beliefs, mystical judaism, Marxist doctrines and Sufism along with a large dose of western esoteric traditions such as hermeticism, theosophy and alchemy. Weird pseudo-science plays a large role as well.
• Precursors: Barchenko believes that in the ancient days there existed highly spiritual and technologically advanced civilizations of Hyperborea and Agartha, and aims to restore their society.
• Red Baron: Alexander Barchenko is called The Red Merlin.

Aleksandr Kaygorodov

Role: Country Leader (Intermarium victory or Solidarist Mongolia puppet state)

Party: Karakorumsokye Pravitelstvo^note Karakorum Government

Ideology: Social Conservatism^note Conservatism

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Imperial Authority

Official Name: Imperial Authority, Realm of the Living Buddha (Mahakala proclaimed)

Ruling Party: Order of Militant Buddhists

Ideology: Reactionary Esotericism^note Reactionism

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• Eagle Squadron: The starting army includes a Tibetan cavalry division.
• Hordes from the East: Ungern-Sternberg takes inspiration from the brutality of the Mongol hordes, and applies it to the Imperial Authority's army. The Imperial Authority's sole starting division template consists in a cavalry division.
• Mythology Gag: In vanilla Hearts of Iron IV, Tannu Tuva is known among the fanbase as a minor generic country, which is also quite popular for challenging world conquest runs because of its weakness and unoptimal starting position. The Imperial Authority is located at the positon of Tannu Tuva, is led by a notorious warmonger, and its path results in the conquest of large parts of Central Asia and China.
• The Theocracy: With the right decision, Ungern-Sternberg will proclaim himself as Mahakala, a Buddhist god. Further in the focus tree, once most of China and Central Asia is conquered, the country is renamed as "Realm of the Living Buddha".

Roman von Ungern-Sternberg

^{Sternberg as Mahakala}

Role: Military Commander, Country Leader

Party: Order of Militant Buddhists

Ideology: Reactionary Esotericism^note Reactionism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Born in Austria to Baltic-German nobles of the Russian Empire, Nikolai Robert Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg was a decorated cavalry officer of the Russian Empire, serving his Tsar in the Caucasus during the Great War. When Russia collapsed he joined the White Army in Siberia and quickly made a name for himself, defeating revolutionary forces with his band of brutal, multi-national cavarlymen. The chaos in Russia and deteriorating position of the Republicans in China allowed 'The Mad Baron' to carve out a small kingdom for himself on the Russian-Mongol border region of Tuva, near Lake Baikal. The Baron may have been raised in the Russian Orthodox Church, but his fascination with Chinese-Mongol esoteric Buddhism has lead him to some strange religious beliefs. Combined with his loyalty to a Tsar who does not rule and an Empire that no longer exists, Sternberg now works to complete his dream of a religiously syncretic Eurasian Empire.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: In real life, Ungern-Sternberg was briefly the ruler of Mongolia after the end of the First World War. Here, he instead became warlord of nearby Tannu Tuva.
• The Conqueror: Imperial Authority's focuses allow conquests of a large territory in Central and Eastern Asia, including Southern Siberia, Zheltorossiya, Northern China, Tibet^note not conquered through warfare, but peacefully annexed through a focus, and even Afghanistan.
• Defiant to the End: If Imperial Authority is defeated by Altay, the Baron goes into hiding in the countryside. When Altay forces locate him, he and his men fight fiercely with the Altay task force, killing 124 of 250 soldiers before falling.
• The Main Characters Do Everything: He's the initial nation's leader, one of the three starting generals available, and is the single candidate for each position in the Imperial Authority's Military Staff (minus Theorist). In other words, Ungern can rule the country, lead armies on the field, and control the whole country's military at the same time.
• Mighty Whitey: He's a Russian officer ruling a rogue Central Asian country.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: Ungern-Sternberg's portrait will change to show him wearing a mask after he becomes the Mahakala.

Transbaikal

^{Flag of the Far Eastern Republic}

Official Name: Hetmanate of Transbaikal, Republic of Transbaikal (Taskin, Sorokin), Great Mongolian State (Mongolian reunification), Far Eastern Republic (Taskin/Sorokin, unification with Zheltorossiya)

Ruling Party: Soyuz Dalnevostochnykh Kazachikh Voysk^note Union of Far Eastern Cossack Troops

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism

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Grigory Semyonov

Role: Field Marshal, Military High Command, Country Leader

Party: Soyuz Dalnevostochnykh Kazachikh Voysk^note Union of Far Eastern Cossack Troops

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}There is nothing that hasn't been said about Grigory Semyonov, rivals and friends alike have called him a madman, hedonist, murderer and visionary in many colourful ways, yet it all makes no difference as those who dare talk ill of him eventually end up as target practice for his regiments. Born in his homeland of Transbaikal grew up much like the average peasant at the time would, managing to learn Buryat and Mongol shortly before joining the Russian army, graduating from the Orenburg Military School in 1908 as a yesaul, seeing combat in the Great War and the later Russian Civil War in the Caucasus. In July 1917, he was appointed as the commissar of the provisional government of Transbaikal, and stayed in his position right until the end of the war, remaining the leader of the region as a reward for his exemplary actions. As he grew older, he grew more bitter and hedonistic, becoming an alcoholic, lashing out against others irrationality - leading up to the year of 1925 when he organised the Cossack regiments under his command to take over the province and declare independence from Moscow as the Transbaikal Cossack Host. The reasons behind his secession are vague, some think it was motivated by Semyonov's Buryat nationalism, others thought that Semyonov grew resentful over Kolchak and his autocratic rule over Russia's minorities. With the 20's coming to a close, the reality of this near-anarchist militaristic society began kicking in as societal order broke down and banditry became a common theme of life in the province, much do the contrast of Semyonov's former courageous persona. However, one thing that had not vanished after all these years were Semyonov's ambitions for his impoverished homeland...

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• Action Politician: Grigory Semyonov is both a political and military leader.
• Cult of Personality: Semyonov works with local Church leaders to paint himself as a cult-like figure.
• Prisoner's Work: Those who question Semyonov's will are put to hard labour, constructing homes, bridges, parks and so on.
• Protection Racket: Semyonov has the Cossacks demand tribute from villages and towns in exchange for 'protection' from imaginary threats.

Sergey Taskin

Role: Economy Minister (Semyonov cabinet), Country Leader (Election)

Party: Konstitutsionno-Demokraticheskaya Partiya^note Constitutional Democratic Party

Ideology: Social Liberalism^note Liberalism

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Pitirim Sorokin

Role: Country Leader (Election)

Party: Vserossiyskiy Krest'yanskiy Soyuz^note All-Russian Peasant Union

Ideology: Social Conservatism^note Conservatism

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Khüree

Official Name: Khüree

Ideology: Religious Fundamentalism^note Reactionism

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Sambadondogiin Tserendorj

Role: Country Leader

Ideology: Religious Fundamentalism^note Reactionism

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Mongolian People's Army

Official Name: Mongolian People's Army, Socialist Republic of Mongolia (Mongolian reunification)

Ideology: Stratocratic Socialism^note Vanguard Socialism

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Damdin Sükhbaatar

Role: Field Marshal, Country Leader

Ideology: Stratocratic Socialism^note Vanguard Socialism

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• Action Politician: Sükhbaatar is the political and military leader of the Mongolian socialists, being both the country leader and an in-game field marshal.

Dogsomyn Bodoo

Role: Country Leader

Ideology: Spartakism^note Popular Socialism

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Ivan Yefremov

Role: Country Leader

Ideology: Futurism^note Accelerationism

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Far East

Far Eastern General-Governorate

^{Flag of the Far Eastern Republic}

^{Flag of the Great Tungus People's Republic}

^{Flag of the United States of the Slavs}

Official Name: Far Eastern General-Governorate, Far Eastern Republic (Kulachikov)

Ksenofontov: Far Eastern Republic, Great Tungus People's Republic (Independence)

Gajda: Far Eastern Slavic Republic, Slavic Republic of Russia (Superregional unification), United States of the Slavs (Russian reunification)

Ruling Party: Klika Starka^note Stark's Clique

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism

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Georgiy Stark

Role: Admiral, Chief of Navy, Military High Command, Governor-General^note Country Leader

Party: Klika Starka^note Stark's Clique

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Born of Scottish-Swedish ancestry, Georgiy Stark is a strange outsider to Russia. Despite this, he has slowly risen through the ranks as a more and more relevant officer, peaking in commanding power as he sent several fleets into the Sea of Japan against Japanese battleship, winning several decisive victories for the Russian Empire, and becoming Governor-General of the Yakutian Governorate, which then unified into the Far Eastern General-Governorate, and through a bloody civil war, managed to continue existing as a rump governorate, now in all but name existing once more as Yakutia. Georgiy Stark, an ambitious admiral with a strong legacy behind him, the commander and leader of all Far-Eastern naval forces, the great protector of the Admiralty, has much to handle in the future, as he realizes many in his realm are unhappy with his Thassalocracy. Perhaps in the eyes of Stark, these detractors will never succeed, but they continue to grow stronger...

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• Reassigned to Antarctica: Should the Yakut rebels prevail, Stark will lose his position as governor of Yakutia and be relocated to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, where he could train a new generation of naval officers.

Pavel Ksenofontov

Role: General, Chief of Army, President^note Country Leader (Native takeover)

Party: Yakutskaya Natsional'naya Partiya^note Yakut National Party

Ideology: Left Wing Populism^note Progressivism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}There is a tale among Russian colonists in Sakha, the holy realm of the Yakut peoples, that a man with slanted eyes and gentle demeanor, but a restless and unending amount of energy heard in 1918 that the Bolsheviks had taken over Yakutsk. And that this man asked his local town; "Have they uncompromisingly promised to give total independence to the peoples of the holy Sakha?" and when given conflicting answers, he swore by the sword and by his horse that he'd fight them to the death until he'd achieve a free Yakutia. These days are long gone - he is an older man, he has learned the art of being cautious: Instead of terrorism, he decided on simple, irreverent and consistent, unending advocacy for the Yakut peoples and their survival, along with total birthing of their national conscious. Despite this, his chances of achieving an independent Yakutia seemed far too impossible and unsustainable - and then, he realized on a rainy and snowy night; Perhaps the true path is one of compromise, one of understanding. He decided that the future was to create a pluralist society, where all could be welcome, where all would be free to express themselves, without fear of ethnic or cultural repression. And so, after restless work, this dream has been achieved.

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• Internal Reformist: In case he leads the uprising to victory, Yakutia will become a democratic republic whose government aims to gradually expand the welfare state in addition to developing a Yakut national identity.
• Occupiers Out of Our Country: The Yakut people violently takes power from Russian colonial rule.
• Team Switzerland: One of the foreign policy directions that democratic Yakutia could take is full neutrality, which is available regardless who rules over neighboring Siberia.

Radola Gajda

Role: Field Marshal, Chief of Army, Theorist, Country Leader (Czechoslovak coup)

Party: Klika Gajdy^note Gajda's Clique

Ideology: Revolutionary Nationalism^note Despotism

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• The Coup: Gajda comes to power by a coup against Stark.
• The Exile: Gajda and the Czechoslovak Legion fought for Russia against the Austro-Hungarian Empire occupying Czechoslovakia. At game start Czechia and Slovakia are still under Austrian and Hungarian rule respectively and so the Legion remains in stuck in its far eastern exile.
• Foreign Ruling Class: Gajda's regime is a (part of) Russia controlled by exiled Czechoslovak troops.

Serafim Kulachikov

Role: Country Leader (Intermarium victory)

Party: Partiya Sotsialistov-Revolutsionerov^note Socialist-Revolutionary Party

Ideology: Utopian Socialism^note Revisionist Socialism

Zheltorossiya

^{Flag of the Russian Republic (Milyukov)}

^{Flag of the Free Republic of Russia}

^{Flag of the Russian Republic of Labour}

^{Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Trotsky)}

^{Flag of the United Labour Collective}

^{Flag of the One State}

^{Flag of the Free Sonarodstvo of Russia}

Official Name: Russian Republic

Rosenbaum: Free Republic of Russia

Communists: Zheltorossiyan Soviet Republic, Russian Republic of Labour (Spiridonova, Russian reunification), Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Trotsky or Kamenev, Russian reunification)

Vperedists: Russian Labour Collective, United Labour Collective (Bogdanov, Russian reunification), One State (Gastev/OP-01, One State focus taken)

Avksentiev/Dan: Russian People's Republic (Russian reunification)

Chapayev: Free Sonarodstvo of Zheltorossiya, Chapayevia, Free Sonarodstvo of Russia (Russian reunification)

Ruling Party: Obyedinnenaya Trudovaya Partiya^note United Labor Party

Ideology: Left Wing Populism^note Progressivism

After the Great War, the Russian Empire managed to make important territorial gains in Northern Manchuria. With the 1919 Revolution a failure and the dictatorship of Kolchak supreme, the remaining Republicans and Socialists fled to the Far East where they created their own rump democratic state. Even with its disnfuntional system that has allowed the rise of all kinds of extremists, Zheltorossiya is still a beacon of democracy in East Asia, but for how much longer?

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• Balkanize Me: If Zheltorossiya collapses, Harbin will fall into anarchy, while the rest of the Republic gets divided between 7 successor states^ListHarbin, Autonomous Army Territory, Free Creatorium, National Restoration Council, All-Russian People's Crusade, Priamurye, Republic of Green Ukraine.
• The Famine: In early 1936, the revolution in Japan leads to the zaibatsu-owned railway companies collapsing, causing a massive famine in Zheltorossiya as supply lines are heavily disrupted. The resulting crisis leads to a push from the Soviet for Kerensky to resign.
• Military Coup: Following Kerensky's resignation, the army can step in, take over the entirety of Zheltorossiya, and install one of their candidates as the country's new leader.
• Vestigial Empire: Manchuria is all that remains of the Russian Republic after the country collapsed into warlordism.

Alexander Kerensky

Role: Minister-Chairman^note Country Leader

Party: Obyedinnenaya Trudovaya Partiya^note United Labor Party

Ideology: Left Wing Populism^note Progressivism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Though many have tried, none have been able to remove Kerensky from power. Although him and his party have promised freedom and democracy to Zheltorossiya, many have taken notice of his unwillingness to resign as president, and fear he may further consolidate his power. Regardless, Kerensky is intent on carrying out the Russian Revolution, no matter what it takes.

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• Bread and Circuses: If Kerensky maintains power, he'll make heavy use of social welfare in order to solidify his power and distract from his corruption.
• Cult of Personality: If Kerensky refuses to resign in response to the 1936 famine, he'll create a cult of himself to solidify his power:
  The leader in a republic must not merely be a parliamentary figure, but the unifier of all its citizens. Russia is composed of many kinds of people, and both the Tsar, the Bolsheviks and the Kolchak government only drove a wedge in between them. But we are all Russians, stretching from Petrograd to Vladivostok, and they can be unified by a common national identity and a leader whom they respect and adore. The people have willed me into office, and thus I am their sword and shield! They adore their elected officials like they would God himself, and this is not sacrosanct, but holy!
• I Am the Noun: When his critics call him out for trying to establish a dictatorship and circumvent the soviets by forming the Directorate of Internal Affairs, Kerensky only replies: 'I AM the Soviets.'
• President for Life: Although Kerensky originally came to power democratically by winning the 1933 election, if he does not resign when pressured by the Supreme Soviet when famine erupts in 1936, he'll cement his position as the great Democratic Dictator of Russia.
• Secret Police: Kerensky establishes the Directorate of Internal Affairs, which has unprecedented powers and only answers to Kerensky himself.

Pavel Milyukov

Role: Head of Government (Kerensky prevails), Minister-Chairman^note Country Leader (Kerensky resigns)

Party: Konstitutsionno-Demokraticheskaya Partiya^note Constitutional Democratic Party

Ideology: Classical Liberalism^note Liberalism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Longtime leader of the Kadets, Milyukov is a new arrival to Zheltorossiya, as reformist liberals were only recently ousted from the Russian regime. Now seeing the faults in negotiating with power-mad tyrants, Milyukov aims to reconcile with the revolutionaries of 1905 and 1917 in order to reignite the flame of democratic rebellion in Russia.

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• Internal Reformist: Milyukov advocates for moderate social reform and liberal economics. If Milyukov comes to power and manages to see off the upstart Alisa Rosenbaum, he will begin liberalising the country and building a robust, federal republic, with forms of social welfare and strong education focus.

Alisa Rosenbaum

^{Rosenbaum Harbin portrait}

Role: Minister-Chairwoman^note Country Leader (Successful coup against Milyukov)

Party: Konstitutsionno-Demokraticheskaya Partiya^note Constitutional Democratic Party, Harbin Verkhovnyy Sovet - Individualsty^note Harbin Supreme Council - Individualists (Harbin)

Ideology: Libertarian Capitalism^note Liberalism (Zheltorossiya), Individualist Anarchism^note Anarchism (Harbin)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Rosenbaum, like many other ideological radicals, fled to Zheltorossiya following the victory of the Whites in the Russian Civil War. However, unlike most of her compatriots, Rosenbaum has no issues with Russia's capitalist economy. Rather, the authoritarian regime of Kolchak has pushed her towards a radical form of liberalism, one in which freedom and the market take absolute primacy. The question remains, can Russia be bought by Rosenbaum, or will she have to fight for a new Russian Republic?

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• Allohistorical Allusion: Rosenbaum turned towards ultra-right libertarianism just like in real life, but as a reaction to living under Kerensky's social democratic regime (with the famine and the mismanagement that come with it), instead of under the Soviet Union.
• Book Ends: Rosenbaum's first focus (after she takes power) is named 'Atlas Shrugged No More'. If she manages to unify Russia, the ensuing world event ends in:
  And so, Atlas Shrugged.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: Rosenbaum cares nothing about racial homogeneity, and believes that her ideal objectivist order should not care about the race of people.
• Gratuitous Latin: The flag of Rosenbaum's Free Republic of Russia includes the Latin motto Sic Sember Tyrannis (thus onto tyrants).
• Historical In-Joke: One of her focuses is named "Atlas Shrugged No More". The elaborate building which Rosenbaum commissions and then demolishes immediately after it is unveiled, in order to clearly demonstrate her objectivist ideology, is called The Fountainhead.
• Private Military Contractors: According to Rosenbaum's objectivist principles, military officers have to transform themselves into innovators and capitalists, proud in their abilities and strengths and showing only contempt for those who oppose them. Every officer is like a boss in the workplace, who answer to higher ups and have to manage the workers. Soldiers shall have to prove their worth; if they don't, they're out. The chain of command must stop considering themselves selfless devotees to a cause, because that 'reeks of socialism'.
• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: In this timeline, Rosenbaum never went to America or became a writer with the pen name Ayn Rand, but stayed in Russia and can eventually take power in Russian Manchuria.
• The Starscream: Rosenbaum is Pavel Milyukov's subordinate in the Kadets, but can seize power from him and turn the party toward her vision of Objectivism.

Alexander Bogdanov

Role: Country Leader (Kadets stand down)

Party: Rossiyskaya Sotsial-Demokraticheskaya Rabochaya Partiya (bolsheviki) - Vpered^note Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) - Forward

Ideology: Vperedism^note Accelerationism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Alexander Alexandrovich Bogdanov can be called one of the last true polymaths – a scientist, heralded for his innovations in the fields of systems theory and medicine, a succesful writer of science fiction, a capable organiser, a philosopher – and now, the visionary leader of the new revolutionary Republic of Zheltorossiya. A true intellectual mind behind the steers of this shabby boat, meant to moor in the harbor of a bright future for all – in the stars and even beyond.Being among the founders of the radical Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, Bogdanov fell into conflict with the now disgraced Vladimir Lenin. Accusing the old leader of ceasarist and authoritarian tendencies, Bogdanov’s avant-garde faction of the party took initiative during the 1905 revolution, slowly transforming the glorified terrorist organisation into a carefully designed machine, creating, on the principle of rational technocracy, a platform for the Russian proletariat, relentlessly laboring to throw off the old shackles and create a new, industrial and collective culture. Yet Bogdanov doesn’t see the future of humanity as mere cogs, crushed under the weight of a great machine. From the revolution, a New Man will arise – free and powerful, taking from the fullness of life, a real God of this world. And this revived humanity will partake in a glorious conquest of all nature to serve its will, breaking the chains of hunger, want, gravity and even death. Will this crazy alchemy succeed, a new race of immortal gods walking the Earth? Or will the Bolsheviks' dream be buried under the imperial bayonets, leaving mere rubbles of the new Babel this modern Nimrod called to pierce the skies?

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• Chummy Commies: Bogdanov's humanist version of communism aims to create a technocratic utopia and bring peace and prosperity to the world.
• Deity of Human Origin: Bogdanov believes that after the communist revolution, a new, godlike mankind will arise, who will conquer nature and break the chains of physical limitations.
• Emperor Scientist: Bogdanov, a physician and leader of the Vperedist Bolsheviks, seeks to build a platform for the Russian proletariat based on the principle of rational technocracy.
• Immortality Seeker: Bogdanov dreams of the Elixir of Life, sought after by generations of alchemists and scientists, the first steps to eternal vitality and immortal life.
• Soviet Superscience: The Vperedists' plans include many grand scientific projects: among them "physiological collectivism" that is the remaking of the United Labour Collective into a collective organism through mass blood transfusions and the complete overhaul of Russia's energy production.
• Uncertain Doom: If Zheltorossiya collapses, Bogdanov vanishes in the ensuing chaos.

Aleksei Gastev/OP-01

^{Gastev Harbin portrait}

Role: Country Leader (Kadets stand down, Gastev coup)

Party: Rossiyskaya Sotsial-Demokraticheskaya Rabochaya Partiya (bolsheviki) - Vpered^note Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) - Forward, Harbin Verkhovnyy Sovet - Sindikalisty^note Harbin Supreme Council - Syndicalists (Harbin)

Ideology: Technocracy^note Accelerationism (Zheltorossiya), Revolutionary Syndicalism^note Popular Socialism (Harbin)

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Given his extensive background of revolutionary activity, trade union activism, and advocacy for scientific economic management, Alexei Gastev was the perfect candidate for the Soviets on paper. However, only Gastev knew then what his true plans were. To transform Russia, and soon the world, into his final work of art. A realm of humanity's next evolution, Homo Metallum, guided entirely by scientific management. Gastev sees the proposal of planned economies as too moderate, instead proposing a planned society. And seeing as his plans are already in motion, it seems little will stand into the way…

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• Shout-Out: Gastev's "One State" path is directly based on the dystopian society from the novel Literature/We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, who took inspiration from the Soviet attempt to implement Taylorism, led by the Real Life Gastev himself.
• State Sec: In the "We" path, Gastev establishes the Bureau of Guardians, which purges any and all resistance/dissent to his rule.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: Gastev seeks to create a socialist utopia with no poverty, no disease, and no hunger, at the cost of all freedoms.

Fyodor Dan

Role: Country Leader (Kadets stand down, Moderates in control)

Party: Rossiyskaya Sotsial-Demokraticheskaya Rabochaya Rartiya (mensheviki)/Partiya Sotsialistov-Revolyutsionerov^note Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Mensheviks)/Party of Socialist Revolutionaries

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Revisionist Socialism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Originally a founding member of the Mensheviks, Fyodor Dan abandoned revolutionary parties altogether after their failure to bring socialism to Russia. Now, Dan sees cooperation with the RSDRP as the only effective means of opposing the Kolchakocracy. With Kolchak's downfall, they hope to implement a form of agrarian socialism more suited to the Russian peasantry.

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Nikolay Avksentiev

Role: Country Leader (Kadets stand down, Moderates in control)

Party: Rossiyskaya Sotsial-Demokraticheskaya Rabochaya Rartiya (mensheviki)/Partiya Sotsialistov-Revolyutsionerov^note Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Mensheviks)/Party of Socialist Revolutionaries

Ideology: Agrarian Socialism^note Revisionist Socialism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}Nikolai Avksentiev has come out on top of the triumvirate along with the PSR faction with a plan of socialization and agrarian socialism. Although sharing the same party, Avksentiev has decided to distance himself from Boris Savinkov in Belarus, and aims to rebrand the party.

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Maria Spiridonova

Role: Country Leader (OLN-RSDRP alliance defeats Vperedists, Spiridonova elected)

Party: Organizatsiya Levykh Narodnikov^note Organization of the Left Populists

Ideology: Folk Socialism^note Popular Socialism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}In a stunning turn of fate, Maria Spiridonova has managed to take power, bringing Anarcho-syndicalism to Russia. Distrusting of both authoritarian socialist ideologies and social democracy, Spiridonova aims to create a new Russian society with a stateless federation of trade unions. She also aims to mix the Soviet Feminist ideas of Alexandra Kollontai with Anarchist philosophy.

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• Chummy Commies: Distrusting of both authoritarian socialist ideologies and social democracy, Spiridonova aims to rebuild Russia as a federation of trade unions.

Lev Kamenev

Role: Country Leader (OLN-RSDRP alliance defeats Vperedists, Kamenev elected)

Party: Rossiyskaya Sotsial-Demokraticheskaya Rabochaya Partiya (bolsheviki) - Leninisty^note Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) - Leninists

Ideology: Leninism^note Vanguard Socialism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A former ally of Leon Trotsky, Kamenev has taken leadership of the party on a Leninist platform. Kamenev seeks to revive the Russian revolution, with his long-term goal being to create a vanguard socialist russian Republic and its imperial territories. While managing to secure wide support among the people and party, revisionists and libertarians of all stripes have denounced him and presumably begun plotting against him.

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Leon Trotsky

Role: Field Marshal, Chief of Army, Country Leader (Military coup, Trotsky chosen)

Party: Rossiyskaya Sotsial-Demokraticheskaya Rabochaya Partiya (bolsheviki) - Leninisty^note Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) - Leninists

Ideology: Stratocratic Socialism^note Vanguard Socialism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A former Internationalist general and prospective heir to Vladimir Lenin, Trotsky has been forced to continue waging the Russian Civil War from Zheltorossiya. However, in his exile, Trotsky has managed to rally with former Mensheviks to form a new radical wing of the RSDRP. It was this clique that easily won over the Zheltorossiyan peasantry and proletariat with promises of radicalization of socialist reforms and protection from famines and anarchist chaos. However, few know of Trotsky's true ambition: to restore the Soviet Union and shape it in his own ideological image.

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• Dry Crusader: Trotsky views alcohol as a vice that grips many workers and must be broken.
• Warhawk: Trotsky believes in a permanent all-out war against all enemies of the Revolution, and the spread of the Revolution must be prioritised over the betterment of society.

Vasily Chapayev

Role: Field Marshal, Chief of Army, Country Leader (Military coup, Chapayev chosen)

Party: Narodno-Rabochaya Osvoboditel'naya Gvardiay Rodiny^note People's-Worker's Liberation Guard of the Motherland, Narodno-Osvoboditelnyi Avangard Svobodnoy Rossii^note People's Liberation Vanguard of Free Russia

Ideology: Stratocratic Anarchism^note Anarchism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}A radical Anarchist general in Kerensky's army, Chapayev saw an opportunity in the political turmoil surrounding the famines in Zheltorossiya. The people were suffering, and they cried out in anger at a government which had failed to deliver on its promises. The people demanded justice, and as Chapayev listened to their cries, he resolved to give it to them. But he realized something else, too. No one can truly be trusted with the people's freedom. No one, that is, except the people themselves. Chapayev's military experience has thus far equipped him to protect his chaotic realm, but only time can tell how long the fragile peace will last.

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• Anarchy Is Chaos: Chapayev turns Zheltorossiya into a confederation of syndicalist communes, where justice is enforced by a mob of people's thugs.
• Egopolis: Chapayev can potentially rename Zheltorossiya to Chapayevia.
• Persecuted Intellectuals: Chapayev is an anti-intellectual who accuses scientists, philosophers, artists and teachers of historically having bourgeois sympathies or being the agents of oppression, and drags them out to the field to do manual labour.

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Mikhail Tukhachevsky

Role: Country Leader

Ideology: Revolutionary Nationalism^note Despotism

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Nikolai Ustryalov

Role: Country Leader

Party: Konstitutsionno-Demokraticheskaya Partiya^note Constitutional Democratic Party

Ideology: Conservatism

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Aleksandar Svyatogor

Role: Country Leader (Bogdanov succession)

Party: Rossiyskaya Sotsial-Demokraticheskaya Rabochaya Partiya (bolsheviki) - Vpered^note Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) - Forward

Ideology: Vperedism^note Accelerationism

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Andrei Zhdanov

Role: Country Leader (Bogdanov succession)

Party: Rossiyskaya Sotsial-Demokraticheskaya Rabochaya Partiya (bolsheviki) - Vpered^note Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) - Forward

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Nikolai Bukharin

Role: Country Leader (Bogdanov succession)

Party: Rossiyskaya Sotsial-Demokraticheskaya Rabochaya Partiya (bolsheviki) - Vpered^note Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) - Forward

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Alexei Kosygin

Role: Country Leader (Bogdanov succession)

Party: Rossiyskaya Sotsial-Demokraticheskaya Rabochaya Partiya (bolsheviki) - Vpered^note Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) - Forward

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Maxim Gorky

Role: Country Leader (Bogdanov succession)

Party: Rossiyskaya Sotsial-Demokraticheskaya Rabochaya Partiya (bolsheviki) - Vpered^note Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) - Forward

Ideology: Vperedism^note Accelerationism

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Zheltorossiya Collapse

Harbin

^{Flag of the Free Federation of Russian Syndicates}

Official Name: Harbin City, Zheltorossiyan Syndicate (Gastev/Rosenbaum), Free Federation of Russian Syndicates (Gastev/Rosenbaum, Russian reunification)

Ruling Party: Trudovaya Narodno-Sotsialisticheskaya Partiya^note Labor People's Socialist Party

Ideology: Left Wing Populism^note Progressivism

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• Back from the Brink: Even after Zheltorossiya collapses and is reduced to Harbin itself and the surrounding area, the faction that seizes power in the city can still try to unify Russia, in one of the hardest possible paths in the game.

Aleksei Gastev

Role: Country Leader

Party: Harbin Verkhovnyy Sovet - Sindikalisty^note Harbin Supreme Council - Syndicalists

Ideology: Syndicalism^note Popular Socialism

See his entry in the Zheltorossiya folder.

Alisa Rosenbaum

Role: Country Leader

Party: Harbin Verkhovnyy Sovet - Individualsty^note Harbin Supreme Council - Individualists

Ideology: Individualist Anarchism^note Anarchism

See her entry in the Zheltorossiya folder.

Autonomous Army Territory

Official Name: Autonomous Army Territory, Heilong Clique (Regional unification), Federation of East Asia (Zongyuan, Chinese reunification), Republic of China (Zongchang, Chinese reunification)

Ruling Party: Honghuzi

Ideology: Personalistic Dictatorship^note Despotism

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• Occupiers Out of Our Country: When Zheltorossiya collapses, the Chinese population in Manchuria begins chasing Russian and Ukrainian settlers away from their towns and cities.

Zhang Zongyuan

Role: Country Leader

Party: Honghuzi, Kokuryuukai^note Black Dragon Society (Chinese reunification)

Ideology: Personalistic Dictatorship^note Despotism

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• Rōnin: Zhang Zongyuan (born Date Junnosuke) styles himself the Ronin of Manshu, a descendant of the illustrious Date clan, who has been without a master since the samurai were stripped of their ancient rights and swords.

Zhang Zongchang

Role: Country Leader (Zongyuan steps down)

Party: Honghuzi, Zhonghua Minguo Junshi Zhengfu (Chinese reunification)

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism

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Free Creatorium

^{Flag of the Free Creative Union}

^{Flag of the Cosmic Commonwealth of Order}

Official Name: Free Creatorium, Free Creative Union (Yaroslavsky, Russian reunification), Cosmic Commonwealth of Order (Muravyev, Russian reunification)

Ruling Party: Kreatoriy Biokosmitov - Avangard^note Biocosmist Creatorium - Vanguard

Ideology: Futurism^note Accelerationism

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• Godhood Seeker: The Free Creatorium rejects Abrahamic faiths as 'grave worship' and replaces it with a new gospel centred around building humanity's common destiny, culminating in the rise of a new race of Gods.
• Immortality Seeker: Two of the Biocosmists' maximal pillars are Immortalism and Resurrection.

Alexander Yaroslavsky

Role: Country Leader

Party: Kreatoriy Biokosmitov - Avangard^note Biocosmist Creatorium - Vanguard

Ideology: Futurism^note Accelerationism

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Valerian Muravyev

Role: Country Leader (Creatorium debate)

Party: Kreatoriy Biokosmitov - Avangard^note Biocosmist Creatorium - Vanguard, Institut Uluchsheniya Chelovechstva - Liga Vremeni^note Institute for the Advancement of Humanity - League of Time (Russian reunification)

Ideology: Technocracy^note Accelerationism

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• Emperor Scientist: Muravyev believes that the true expression of human creativity will be a perfect Cosmocratic state, where humanity is led by its scientific and intellectual elite.

National Restoration Council

Official Name: National Restoration Council, Russian Republic (Russian reunification)

Ruling Party: Komitet Vosstanovleniya Rossiyskoy Respubliki - Narodnaye Sovety^note Restoration Committee of the Russian Republic - People's Councils

Ideology: Progressive Corporatism^note Progressivism

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Vasily Boldyrev

Role: General (Zheltorossiya), Field Marshal, Chief of Army, Military High Command (Zheltorossiya), Country Leader

Party: Komitet Vosstanovleniya Rossiyskoy Respubliki - Narodnaye Sovety^note Restoration Committee of the Russian Republic - People's Councils, Komitet Vosstanovleniya Rossiyskoy Respubliki - Sotsial-Demokraty^note Restoration Committee of the Russian Republic - Social Democrats (Party and reforms path)

Ideology: Progressive Corporatism^note Progressivism, Democratic Socialism^note Revisionist Socialism (Party and reforms path)

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• Cult of Personality: Boldyrev establishes himself as a personality for the people to rally around, a general who saw the despotism of the old imperial system as unsustainable, who joined and protected Kerensky when he retreated to Zheltorossiya, and who has taken up the banner of the Republic in its direst hour.
• Patriotic Fervor: Rejecting communist internationalism, Boldyrev promotes a form of socialism that is first and foremost based on loyalty to Russia.

All-Russian People's Crusade

^{Flag of the Russian Empire}

Official Name: All-Russian People's Crusade, Russian Empire (Russian reunification)

Ruling Party: Vserossiyskiy Narodnyy Krestovyy Pokhod^note All-Russian People's Crusade

Ideology: Reactionary Populism^note Reactionism

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• The Fundamentalist: The All-Russian People's Crusade considers the Orthodox Church as a pillar of the holy Russian nation, which has bound the Tsar and the people together, and regards their quest to unify Russia as a crusade against (among others) heretics and godless revolutionaries.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: The All-Russian People's Crusade is made up of Russian ethnonationalists who refer to other ethnic groups by various slurs.
• Red Scare: The All-Russian People's Crusade regards Bolsheviks as a unique enemy, a degeneration of human nature, seeking knowledge that should never have been unveiled.

Konstantin Rodzaevsky

Role: Country Leader

Party: Vserossiyskiy Narodnyy Krestovyy Pokhod^note All-Russian People's Crusade

Ideology: Reactionary Populism^note Reactionism, Revolutionary Nationalism^note Despotism (Pro-Japan path)

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• Evil Reactionary: Just as he tried to do in real life, Rodzaevsky leads an ultra-reactionary army with the mission to free Manchuria, and eventually the whole of Russia, from all those who have led Russia astray — the Communists, the Freemasons, and the Jews.
• Historical Villain Upgrade: OTL Rodzaevsky never came close to controlling any part of Russia, being the leader of a small fascist party among White emigres in Manchuria. In this timeline he can get a chance to conquer all of Russia.

Priamurye

^{Flag of the Russian National Republic}

Official Name: Republic of Priamurye, Russian National Republic (Russian reunification)

Ruling Party: Primorskaya Duma^note Priamurye Duma

Ideology: Anocracy^note Polyarchy

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• Corrupt Corporate Executive: The Merkulov brothers lead a clique of rich oligarchs who entrench rule among themselves and promote unchecked capitalism, while the working class has few rights and is only expected to be obedient.
• Graceful Loser: The Merkulov brother who loses the vote for leadership of Priamurye will shake hands with the winner and congratulate him for his victory.
• Sibling Rivalry: After the collapse of Zheltorossiya, power in Primorye coalesces around the Merkulov brothers, whose political differences are easily noticeable.

Spiridon Merkulov

Role: Country Leader

Party: Primorskaya Duma^note Priamurye Duma

Ideology: Anocracy^note Polyarchy

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• Democracy Is Bad: Spiridon Merkulov blames Kerensky's populism for the failure of Zheltorossiya, and does not trust the 'irrational' masses. Under his rule, only educated property-holders will be able to vote and decide on the fate of the Republic.

Nikolay Merkulov

Role: Country Leader (Election)

Party: Primorskaya Duma^note Priamurye Duma

Ideology: Oligarchy^note Polyarchy

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• Private Military Contractors: Nikolay Merkulov organises soldiers into a security company and formally legalises similar corporations, making defending the state and economy into a profitable enterprise.

Republic of Green Ukraine

Official Name: Republic of Green Ukraine, Green Ukrainian State (Fajda), Far Eastern Federation (Borovyk, Regional unification)

Ruling Party: Konhres Ukrayintsiv Zelenoho Klynu^note Congress of Ukrainians of the Green Wedge

Ideology: Praetorian Oligarchy^note Polyarchy

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Borys Kreshchatyts'kyi

Role: Field Marshal, Country Leader

Party: Konhres Ukrayintsiv Zelenoho Klynu^note Congress of Ukrainians of the Green Wedge

Ideology: Praetorian Oligarchy^note Polyarchy

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Dmytro Borovyk

Role: President^note Country Leader (Failed UPA storming of the parliament)

Party: Zelena Ukrayinska Revolyutsiyna Partiya^note Green Ukrainian Revolutionary Party

Ideology: Left Wing Populism^note Progressivism

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• The Federation: As Green Ukraine takes over Manchuria, Borovyk federalises his state, creating a country where Ukrainians, Russians, Jews and Chinese can live together in harmony.

Grigory Fajda

Role: Country Leader (Successful UPA storming of the parliament)

Party: Ukrains'ka povtans'ka armiya^note Ukrainian Insurgent Army

Ideology: Reactionary Populism^note Reactionism

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• The Coup: During the first convocation of the Green Ukrainian Rada, the UPA attempts a coup, seeking to overthrow the liberals by force to seize the state apparatus.
• Final Solution: Fajda commits genocide on the Russians, Jews and Chinese, whom he views as less than human, in his quest to create a Green Ukraine for Ukrainians and Ukrainians only.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: Fajda, a follower of Stepan Bandera and leader of the local UPA branch, enforces class collaborationism, purges socialists, regards non-Ukrainians as subhumans that must be cleansed, and seeks to turn the Russian Far East a place in the sun for the Ukrainian nation, one untainted by foreigners.
• Young and in Charge: Fajda was born in late 1913, making him only 22 upon the start of the game.

Post-Intermarium Victory Russia (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

European Russia

Free City of Nevsk

Official Name: Free City of Nevsk

Ruling Party: Nevskiy Promyshlennyy Sovet^note Nevsk Industrial Council

Ideology: Oligarchy^note Polyarchy

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• Land of One City: Following the Intermarium victory over Russia, Saint-Petersburg is turned into an independent city-state.
• Please Select New City Name: Saint-Petersburg is renamed Nevsk.
• La Résistance: The Nevsk City Industrial Council, consisting of the city's old elite, now actively tries to deter Marshal Józef Unrug, commander of the Polish occupational forces, through acts of passive resistance or legalist stalling, much to the occupiers' annoyance.

Józef Unrug

Role: Country Leader

Party: Nevskiy Promyshlennyy Sovet^note Nevsk Industrial Council

Ideology: Oligarchy^note Polyarchy

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Russian Confederation

^{Flag of the Muscovite Republic}

^{Flag of the Slavic State of Eastern Rus}

Official Name: Russian Confederation, Muscovite Republic (Biskupsky), Slavic State of Eastern Rus (Mirobulov)

Ideology: Provisional Goverment^note Polyarchy

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Bronislav Kaminski

Role: Country Leader

Party: Bespartiynaya Liga Svobody i Protsvetaniya Rossii^note Non-partisan League for the Freedom and Prosperity of Russia

Ideology: Provisional Government^note Polyarchy

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• Allohistorical Allusion: Kaminski, a top-ranking Russian collaborator with Nazi Germany in real life, does the same thing if the Intermarium invades Russia and is rewarded with leadership of the Russian Confederation after their victory.
• The Quisling: Kaminski is installed by the Intermarium as their puppet leader in western Russia.

Vasily Biskupsky

Role: Country Leader

Party: Narodno-Demokraticheskaya Partiya Moskovii^note People's Democratic Party of Muscovy

Ideology: National Conservatism^note Conservatism

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Yuri Mirolubov

Role: Country Leader

Party: Natsional'nyy Soyuz Slavyanskikh Patriotov^note National Union of Slavic Patriots

Ideology: Neo-Folkism^note Accelerationism

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Komi SSR

Official Name: Komi Soviet Socialist Republic

Ruling Party: Komi Kommunisticheskaya Partiya^note Communist Party of Komi

Ideology: National Vanguardism^note Vanguard Socialism

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• Patriotic Fervor: The Komi socialists synthesise the ideas of communism with pride stemming from their Uralic soul, blood and armour.

Dmitry Batiyev

Role: Country Leader

Party: Komi Kommunisticheskaya Partiya^note Communist Party of Komi

Ideology: National Vanguardism^note Vanguard Socialism

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Idel-Ural Republic

Official Name: Idel-Ural Republic

Ruling Party: Millät Mäclese^note National Assembly

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Revisionist Socialism

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Ayaz İshaki

Role: Country Leader

Party: Millät Mäclese^note National Assembly

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Revisionist Socialism

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Baltic States

Latvian State

Official Name: Latvian State

Ruling Party: Pērkonakrusta Kustība^note Thunder Cross Movement

Ideology: Neo-Folkism^note Accelerationism

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Ernests Brastiņš

Role: Country Leader

Party: Pērkonakrusta Kustība^note Thunder Cross Movement

Ideology: Neo-Folkism^note Accelerationism

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• The Fundamentalist: Brastiņš is a neo-pagan who removes the "Christian plague" from Latvia and replaces it with the Commandments of Power.

Republic of Estonia

Official Name: Estonian Republic

Ruling Party: Sotsiaal-Futuristlik Ruhmitus^note Social-Futurist Group

Ideology: Neo-Folkism^note Accelerationism

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Uku Masing

Role: Country Leader

Party: Sotsiaal-Futuristlik Ruhmitus^note Social-Futurist Group

Ideology: Neo-Folkism^note Accelerationism

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• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: Masing, who was a philosopher, folklorist and linguist in real life, can become leader of Estonia if Russia is destroyed by the Intermarium.

Caucasus

Volga Germany

Official Name: Volga Germany

Ruling Party: Wolgadeutsche Volkspartei^note Volga German People's Party

Ideology: Leninism^note Vanguard Socialism

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• Commie Nazis: Ernst Reuter's Leninism and his brother Otto's Völkist rhetoric syncretized in a way reminiscent of the ideology espoused by Ernst Graf zu Reventlow in Germany, mixing Communist and German Nationalist Pagan ideals.

Ernst Reuter

Role: Country Leader

Party: Wolgadeutsche Volkspartei^note Volga German People's Party

Ideology: Leninism^note Vanguard Socialism

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People's State of Kalmykia

Official Name: People's State of Kalmykia

Ruling Party: Kalmitskiy Ispolnitel'nyy Komitet^note Kalmyk Executive Committee

Ideology: National Liberalism^note Liberalism

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Danzan Tundutov

Role: Country Leader

Party: Kalmitskiy Ispolnitel'nyy Komitet^note Kalmyk Executive Committee

Ideology: National Liberalism^note Liberalism

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Cossackia

Official Name: Cossack Hetmanate

Ruling Party: Donskoye Khozyaystvo

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism

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Ivan Poltavets-Ostryanitsa

Role: Country Leader

Party: Donskoye Khozyaystvo

Ideology: Military Dictatorship^note Despotism

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North Caucasian Imamate

Official Name: North Caucasian Imamate

Ruling Party: Ulemma

Ideology: Religious Fundamentalism^note Reactionism

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Hitsos Nazhmudin

Role: Country Leader

Party: Ulemma

Ideology: Religious Fundamentalism^note Reactionism

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Georgia

Official Name: People's Futurist Republic of Georgia

Ruling Party: Put'urist'uli P'art'iya "Ganakhleba"^note Futurist Party "Ganakhleba"

Ideology: Futurism^note Accelerationism

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• Enemy Mine: Following the Intermarium invasion of Russia, the Mensheviks and Futurist-Communists agreed to form an alliance against the threat it poses to Georgia.

Ilia Zdanevich

Role: Country Leader

Party: Put'urist'uli P'art'iya "Ganakhleba"^note Futurist Party "Ganakhleba"

Ideology: Futurism^note Accelerationism

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Azerbaijan

Official Name: Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

Ruling Party: Musavat^note Equality

Ideology: National Liberalism^note Liberalism

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Mammad Amin Rasulzade

Role: Country Leader

Party: Musavat^note Equality

Ideology: National Liberalism^note Liberalism

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Central Asia

Brotherhood of Grey Ukraine

Official Name: Brotherhood of Grey Ukraine

Ruling Party: Hryhorivshchyna^note Hryhorivists

Ideology: National Anarchism^note Anarchism

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• Commie Nazis: Grey Ukraine is ruled by an alliance of anarchists, Socialist Revolutionaries and OUN members who combine socialist economic policies with ethnic chauvinism. Ukrainians are provided strong welfare and protected by the state, while Russians, Kazakhs and Jews are treated as second-class citizens.
• Foreign Ruling Class: Grey Ukraine is ruled by a Ukrainian settler colonial elite who brutally oppress native Kazakhs and Russians and pogrom Jews.

Nykyfor Hryhoriv

Role: Country Leader

Party: Hryhorivshchyna^note Hryhorivists

Ideology: National Anarchism^note Anarchism

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Union of Turkestan

Official Name: Union of Turkestan

Ruling Party: Ultsil Qozgalis Parfiyasi

Ideology: Revolutionary Nationalism^note Despotism

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Zeki Velidi Togan

Role: Country Leader

Party: Ultsil Qozgalis Parfiyasi

Ideology: Revolutionary Nationalism^note Despotism

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Mongolia

Tuvan People's Republic

Official Name: Tuvan People's Republic

Ruling Party: Social Revolutionary Party

Ideology: Religious Socialism^note Revisionist Socialism

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Donduk Kuular

Role: Country Leader

Party: Social Revolutionary Party

Ideology: Religious Socialism^note Revisionist Socialism

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Khanate of Mongolia

Official Name: Khanate of Mongolia

Ruling Party: Khungtayji

Ideology: Constitutional Monarchy^note Despotism

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Demchugdongrub

Role: Country Leader

Party: Khungtayji

Ideology: Constitutional Monarchy^note Despotism

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Far East

Vladivostok

Official Name: Free City of Vladivostok

Ruling Party: Vladivostokskaya Gorodskaya Duma^note Vladivostok City Council

Ideology: Plutocracy^note Polyarchy

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• Land of One City: Following the Intermarium victory over Russia, Vladivostok was turned into an independent city-state.
• Wretched Hive: Shortly after the Intermarium invades Russia and establishes the Free City of Vladivostok, it quickly becomes a den of criminals and self-appointed vigilantes.

Boris Bryner

Role: Country Leader

Party: Vladivostokskaya Gorodskaya Duma^note Vladivostok City Council

Ideology: Plutocracy^note Polyarchy

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Republic of Zheltorus

Official Name: Republic of Zheltorus

Ruling Party: Zheltorusskaya Narodnaya Partiya - Bratstvo^note Zheltorussiyan People's Party - Fraternity

Ideology: Spartakism^note Popular Socialism

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• Fictional Country: Citing the long exile of the Russian Republic and Manchuria's multiethnic nature as proof of cultural separation from the Muscovite devil, the Russian revolutionary defeatists establish the Republic of Zheltorus, which they frame as a distinct nation from Russia, after the Intermarium's successful invasion.
• La Résistance: The Republic of Zheltorus has to fight off those who cling to their old identities and refuse to accept the new artificial nation.

Ivan Maisky

Role: Country Leader (Intermarium victory)

Party: Zheltorusskaya Narodnaya Partiya - Bratstvo^note Zheltorussiyan People's Party - Fraternity

Ideology: Spartakism^note Popular Socialism

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