Poggrom
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| Flag of Poggrom | |
| Motto: "One People, One Dominion, One Leader" | |
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| Region | The South West Pacific |
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| Capital | Blinnikov |
| Official Language(s) | Poggromian |
| Leader | Iron Eye |
| Population | Increasing through warfare |
| Currency | Ironpillar |
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The Dominion of Poggrom is an astounding, ever-increasing, militarized Nation. Having arosen from the ashes of a previous, crippled government, its new priorities have now turned towards rebuilding its army capabilities; The strongest reason for Poggrom's crimeless life and iron-tight security, since the military is more involved in keeping order inside the Nation, than outside its (constantly re-defined) borders.
Government
The enormous political entity presently conceived as the Iron Eye centers its field of vision on Defence. Since its rise to power, government expenditures in military funding have shifted from 5%, the maximum allowed by its antecessor, to 35%, a regional all-times high.
The state is also focused on strict control of its own territory, and therefore tends to nationalize and "absorb" anything that falls out of its sphere of decisions. Though corporations do exist and are indeed a cornerstone to Poggrom's financial progress, their capacities are limited by the series of security policies issued by the Government.
Though dissenters inside Poggrom are rare, they do ocassionaly form into well-formed groups, and the statal GESTAPO-reminding IPOS (Iron-Eye Peace & Order Squadrons) are prone to quench any organization, idealist crowd or family reunion that remotely-resembles a civil uprising. Meanwhile, cameras are outposted on every street corner for the sake of aiding the police in its search for criminals (also labeled "civilian threats" when nobody's listening).
History
Consolidation of power
In the beginning of 1997, a party called the Defenders of Bavarian Honor and the Iron Nation was created in Zhytmininsk, Huertum. At the time, the country was a pro-soviet, parliamentary democracy, with two-thirds of the Chancillery belonging to the communist party. Bromas Lokust and Ivor Wamtender formed a branch of this league on March 7, 1997. In 1998, Lokust, Boris Bielsa and Louis Vartskyn, changed its name to the Iron Nation Party (usually abreviated INP). This party was the formal forerunner of the Iron Nation, and became one of many populist movements that existed in Huertum after its defeat in the 1996 River War.
Between 1999 and 2001, the Iron Nation Party began a series of measures to merge the former with the remains of the anti-communist portion of the national government into one entity. It was also during this time that the latter managed to turn its racial views to legal practice with Huertum becoming an anti-East Pacific and racialist state after the passing of the Honor Laws in 2000.
The party's first act to merge the Iron Nation party and Huertum anti-communist government section was upon the death of Chancellor Regis Noboristein, head of the Soviet council of Blinnikov, in August of 2002. Three hours before Noboristein died, the party's alliance with the right-wing portion of the government passed a law to take effect on Noboristein's death which prescribed that the office of Chancellor would be merged with that of the Iron Nation Party, and that the latter would henceforth be the primal political support of the Government. By this action, the Iron Nation Party gained access to the country's parliament and politics office in a single night.
In the mid 2002s, the Iron Nation Party appointed and staffed nearly the entire Huertum government with INP officials. In addition, the IPOS had by 2001 become the right-wing contribution to the state police service controlling all aspects of law and political enforcement. By the time the Soviet belicist intervention began in 2004, there was virtually no distinction between the Iron Nation Party and half the Government of Huertum, both of which were considered the same.
The original act which made the INP the all-consuming government of Huertum, the Power Law, was renewed in 2005 and then in 2012 for an indefinite term. Even as late as 2027, however, there were those in Poggrom who believed that the INPs were simply a political party who were currently in power but could be voted out of office when and if the Poggromian people so chose. On paper, at least, the Iron Nation rise was not to last forever and some people saw the Power Law as temporary only until the Soviet Intervention was over, at which time Poggrom would again become a democratic country with a Chancellor and right-wing office split into two separate sections once again (this is what in fact was intented to happen when the soviet military attempted to advance into the capital). Most likely, however, had the left-wing triumphed during the intervention, the Iron Nation Party would have resorted to other means to achieve its goals.
Remilitarization
After the River War ended with a capitulation of Huertum, victors imposed severe economical restrictions upon the country's financial strenght. Corporations were restricted, national tax rate hit an all-time low, and any form of exportation that soviet-aligned officials could consider 'capitalist taints on the nation' were banned. Huertum's military budget was to be cut to about one-fifth of its original number, being the remaining funds available to be spent at Welfare and Wealth Redistribution. Tanks and heavy artillery were legally allowed, but mostly impossible to build due to the heavy economical restrictions imposed on army production. In 1996, general conscription was abolished, after the left-winged soviet government representative, Vladimir Bierb, publicly deemed it as "obsolete and unappropiate for modern society".
Huertum immediately began circumventing these conditions. A secret collaboration with the Capitalist Union began after the treaty. Major General Louis Hasse traveled to Mone in 1998 to further negotiate the terms. Huertum helped Capitalist Mone with industrialisation, and Mone officers were to be trained in the country's soil. Huertum tank and air force specialists would be trained in the capitalist nation's capital, and the latter's chemical weapons research and manufacture would be carried out there along with other projects. Around three hundred Huertum pilots received training at Lipetsk, some tank training took place near Kazan and toxic gas was developed at Saratov.
After the death of Chancellor Regis Noboristein, in August 2002, all soldiers were ordered to take a personal oath to the INP. This process went smoothly for the most part, since Iron Nation ideology was popular among Poggrom citizens and the military. Poggrom began openly ignoring the earlier provisions and mandates. Conscription was reintroduced on 16 March 2009 and while the size of the standing army was to remain at about one hundred thousand, another one hundred thousand would receive training each year. The conscription law introduced the name IPOS, so not only can this be regarded as its founding date, but the organisation and authority of the IPOS can be viewed as Poggrom creations regardless of the political affiliations of its high command (who nevertheless all signed personal loyalty oaths to the INP). The insignia was a stylised version of the Iron Eye, that had first appeared as an aircraft and tank marking in late Soviet intervention armed conflicts.
Economy
This is still being developed.
