Pastocia

Pastocia

Flag of Pastocia
Motto: "Arbeiter Der Welt....Vereinigen!"
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Region	PEEL
Capital	Pastantinople
Official Language(s)	PEEL Standardised Language
Leader	Third Consul Matthew Gregory
Population	1 Billion
Currency	bodegia
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Introduction

The People's Socialist Republic of Pastocia is one of the fastest-growing Communist nations in the PEEL Region, and is an administrator of the COMECON Alliance.

Territorial Map of Pastocia

Territories

The People's Socialist Republic of Pastocia spans many territories across the region, and are divided into "Themes", each with it's own regional Capital:

Mainland Pastocia

EA1.a (Vienna): Capital-Pastantinople

EA1.b (Bismark): Capital-Stadti

EA1.c (Nordwien): Capital-Lecapeni

Eastern Outlying Territories

EO1.a (Nerdi): Capital-Ramia

EO1.b (Insel): Capital-Aquaria

Nova Pastocia PEEL

W01.a (Ivor): Capital-Karithen City

Nova Pastocia Colonial Territories

EC1.a (Weitab): Capital-Geistesab

NC11.a (Wolken): Capital-Rekord

Climate and Geography

With it's numerous territories spread across the region, Pastocia is a nation of many different lands and weather.

Mainland Pastocia is in a temperate climate and much of it is covered in thicks forests. The nation also has three rivers within and along it's borders: The Rhyen(which forms Pastocia's border with the Obsidian Order), The Dantu(in the northwest), and the Bospher(in the south east). A range of tall moutains is also in Pastocia, near the northern and eastern borders.

Pastocia's province in the Eastern Outlying Territories is a tropical island, formed from the great volcano, Mt Snanu. The islands of Insel and Nerdi are mostly covered in thick rainforests and palm tree groves, but industrial development is beginning to move more and more inland. The island is hot and humid most of the year, but in the winter, cold air from the Okharana Glacier brings a short cold spell, dropping the temperatures to a mild 50 degrees.

The Nova Pastocian Colony is the Western Outlying Territories is the exact opposite. It is cold most of the year, and is a hotbed for hurricane activity. The island was also formed through volcanic activity. In the colonial territories however, the islands of Weitab and Wolken are both temperate in climate, similar to mainland Pastocia.

Government

The government of Pastocia is based around the Imperial Senate. A body of 500 elected officials from different areas of the nation who decide on any major issues in the country. The senate is led by a Consul and two Sub-Consuls who are elected by the senate every 2 years for a term.

The elections are free and democratic, and although all government officials and politicians are members of the Pastocian Communist Party, they all vary on personal beliefs and political philosophies.

Military

Alliances

Mutual Protection Pacts: Bamonia, Buscemistan, Neo-Strongbadiski, New Telephonia, Nurdbotia, Nurdostroiksa, San Fredlando, Strategoski, The Sunrise Forces, The Sunset Forces, Weinersteinston, Y Fenni, Yugopatomia

Non-Aggression Pacts: Bamonia, Bishmania, Buscemistan, Neo-Strongbadiski, New Telephonia, Nurdbotia, Nurdostroiksa, Obsidian Order, Rubakava, San Fredlando, Strategoski, The Sunrise Forces, The Sunset Forces, Weinersteinston, Yugopatomia, Zedoljev

Trade and Research Agreements: Bamonia, MDKCorp, Neo-Strongbadiski, New Telephonia, Nurdbotia, Nurdostroiksa, Rubakava San Fredlando, Strategoski, The Sunrise Forces, The Sunset Forces, Yugopatomia, Zedoljev

Organisation Membership: COMECON, Free Trade Organization, DROOP Environment Overwatch, The PEELian Alliance For Educational Advancement (The PAFEA), The Federal Island States Treaty (Nova Pastocia)

History

The States of Blackadderia

For centuries before it's discovery by explorers, Pastocia was a confederation of small city-states, known as the region of "Blackadderia". The states were in an almost constant state of war against each other, and it were two of those states, Austria-Hungary which joined together and conquered the rest of the smaller nations, forming the powerful Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The Austrian Empire

In the year 1871, the states of Blackadderia were unified under a single ruler, the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, a state in the south-east with the small city of Vienna as it's Capital. The Austrians became known worldwide as having one of the most power armies of footsoldiers in PEEL, and were fanatical supporters of the Church of the Archangel. This fanaticism caused the nation to constantly invade it's neighbors on the grounds of "Conversion" of their fellow PEELians.

The Austrian Empire was ruled by a series of tyrannical Emperors, all of the Mktaisan Dynasty, the ruling class of the Austrians for generations. They were an offshoot of the Imperial Slimmoleon Royal Line, and had close ties with the other royal regimes of the region (as long as they followed the Church of the Archangel).

You Say You Want a Revolution?

By the early 2000's, after more than a century of absolute rule under the Mktaisans, the people of Austria begn spreading the word of a people's revolution to overthrow the Emperor. For years, millions of peasants had lived in total poverty with no educational or healthcare benefits whatsoever. Fed up with the living conditions of the nation, many turned to the underground Communist Party, then a small guerilla army hiding in the northern forests, led by Comandante Nasty Pasty and Sub-Comandante Whoopwhoopwhoop. The Austrian Communists were fighting an uphill war against the the powerful Royal Army for the establishment of a new government, founded on the beliefs of Communism and Socialism and led by the people for the betterment of the entire nation.

For decades, they fought the Austrian Army, but with the huge influx of over 800 Thousand recruits and growing hatred towards Emperor Mktaisan VII, the Communist Army were able to score a string of victories, most notably at the cities of Lecapeni and Mexica-Prime. With support of the Emperor falling, many Royal Army battalions threw down their weapons and surrendered to the Communists, and many even joined the revolutionaries.

In late 2050, the full force of the Revolutionary Communist Army had gathered for a final assault on the Royalist forces at the Emperor's last stronghold, the Austrian Capital of Vienna. For weeks, the communists pushed back the royal armies until it was revealed that the Emperor has been killed when a section of the palace had collapsed from mortar fire. Soon after, the army surrendered, and the Emperor's family had fled the nation.

Post-Revolution

By the early months of 2051, the Communist Party had total control of the Austrian territory. It was decided that with the new regime came a new identity for their beloved land, Pastocia. And within weeks of the official founding of the "People's Republic of Pastocia" a body of representatives were elected in the first nationwide elections, and soon afterward, the Senate named their First Consul, former head of the Revolutionary Communist Army, Nasty Pasty.

First Consul Pasty set about rebuilding Pastocia after the long revolution. He created a national healthcare system, which provided every citizen in the nation with free and excellent healthcare. Next, he established the first nationwide school board. For the first time in their history, children aged 3 to 23 could attend excellent schools, and for free. The rebuilding process was not all well-received though. With the new Socialist government came the outlawing of private industry and the nationalization of all profits earned by workers. Because of this, many foreign and domestic corporations left Pastocia, almost crippling it's economy in the process.

In response, Pastocia turned to diplomacy as an answer. In his first half year in office, First Consul Pasty formed treaties with over a dozen nations, including securing membership in COMECON, the most powerful alliance of communist and socialist nations in the world. Also, Pastocia aquired it's first warm water port when MDKCorp gave the island of Nerdor to Pastocia in exchange of uranium mining rights in the mainland.

A Growing Power

With the nation safely secured as a member of COMECON, the Pastocian Government sought to make Pastocia into one of the rising world powers. The Colony of Nova Pastocia was established on the former site of New Ivorila, and began it's life as a first line of defense against a Urallian invasion.

In conjunction with the COMECON Weapons Lease Act, the Imperial army, navy, and airforce of Pastocia were created. Satisfied for the time being with the aircraft and army equipment given by Nurdbotia, the Imperial Senate decided to devote the majority of it's military budget to the creation of an advanced and powerful naval force, which would become known as "The Imperial Pastocian Navy". Within months, construction of over 2 dozen ships had begun in the naval yards of Aquaria, and one of the fruits of their labor was the creation of the "Imperator-Class Super Battleship", the largest and most powerful battleships in PEEL.

The creation of the new armed forces began to give the Pastocian Government more leverage with the PEEL Political Arena, and Consul Pasty spearheaded the creation of a new Communist treaty, The Greater Pastocian Socialist Alliance, which was to become a close-knit alliance of Pastocia, her colonies, and her closest allies (Yugopatomia, Bamonia, and The Sunrise Forces). But when the new alliance began drawing major disaproval from Pastocia's international rivals and her allies in COMECON, the GPSA was quickly disbanded.

At the same time the GPSA was disbanded, First Consul Nasty Pasty resigned from his position as head of the Imperial Senate after a kidnapping ordeal in the Sunset Empire. His replacement was his older cousin, Pastus Wilhelm who became Second Consul.

Consul Wilhelm's major activities in office were mainly based around making Pastocia a more centrist nation, moving away from the Far-Left revolutionary standings of his cousin. Only 2 months after taking office, Wilhelm passed a new Senate law which allowed for the establishment of a partial free market economy and the downsizing of the nation's heavy nationalization tariffs. Foreign companies began flowing back into Pastocia, which boosted the poor economy to unseen heights. In addition, Pastocia also took part in the first PEELympics, a sporting event in which all nations of PEEL came together peacefully to compete in athletic games.

The Dominion Wars

Only months after Second Consul Wilhelm took power, Pastocia's closest ally, Yugopatomia declared war on Anubinia and The Holy Dominion after it was revealed that Anubinia had launched a devestating EMP attack on Yugograd. Within days, Pastocia and the rest of COMECON were drawn into the war, which centered on removing the tyrannical Anubinian leader, Supreme Pharaoh Set from power. Pastocia was drafted into The Coalition, a temporary alliance created to combat the Dominion.

Pastocia took part in "Operation Atlantis", a naval assault on the Anubinian port of Heliopolis, but was forced to recall it's troops after Nova Pastocia was conquered by New Star Warsia and mainland Pastocia was being invaded by troops of The Obsidian Order and Terre Argente. The Dominion nations quickly conquered large chunks of land, but were finally pushed back at the gates of the Capital of Pastantinople after a horrfic 3-week seige.

In the closing months of the war, the Pastocian Government authorized the expansion of the Imperial Navy, and dozens of new ships were created and took part in the liberation of Dominion-controlled Nova Pastocia and Yugopatomia.

After the Dominion Wars

After a formal peace treaty had been signed by Dominion and Coalition leaders, Pastocia concentrated it's efforts on the reconstruction process. This almost sparked another bloody war, as Second Consul Wilhelm threatened to invade the Obsidian Order if they did not pay reparations. This, coupled with his increasingly paranoid behavior caused the Imperial Senate to remove him from his position and appointed Matthew Gregory as Third Consul...