The Soviet Republics

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The Soviet Republics
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Flag of The Soviet Republics
Motto: "Great are the things of Earth... but none like the Soviets"
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Region The Heartland
Capital Moskva, Russian SFSR
Official Language(s) English, German, Russian
Leader President Sergei M. Verkhoyanskiy (as of 03/14/2504)
Population 2,586,000,000(2506 Census)
Currency Sovetskæ(SUS/Ŝ) 
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Background

The Russian Empire to the Soviet Union (1200-1991)

Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to the Pacific. Under Peter I "The Great" (ruled 1682-1725), hegemony was extended to the Baltic Sea and the country was renamed the Russian Empire. During the 19th century, more territorial acquisitions were made in Europe and Asia. Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow in 1917 of the imperial household. The Communists under Vladimir I. Lenin seized power soon after and formed the USSR. The brutal rule of Josef "Stalin" Dzhugashvilli (1928-53) strengthened Russian dominance of the Soviet Union at a cost of tens of millions of lives. The Soviet economy and society stagnated in the following decades until General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev (1985-91) introduced glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) in an attempt to modernize Communism, but his initiatives inadvertently released forces that by December 1991 splintered the USSR into 15 independent republics and plunged the nation into a sixteen year civil war.

The Soviet Civil War (1991-2006)

Several historians have argued about the events that ignited the Soviet Civil War, but they all agreed that the August Coup that resulted in the August 29 death of Gorbachev became one of the many focal points in the spread of anarchy. By September 5 most of the Soviet Union's largest population centers were rioting and the Soviet military had to be brought in to restore order, during this time the leaders of the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian republics were demanding independence, to avoid more civil unrest the provisional government accepted their demands and recognized their independence from the Soviet Union on September 6. After hearing that the Baltics were just cut loose Ukriane, Armenia, Georgia and Moldova declared their independence almost simultaneously from the Soviet Union. By December 1991 all fifteen republics had declared their independence and the then acting Soviet President Anton Kirilovich Semyonovskiy refusing to recognize them sent in military into the twelve remaining republics to restore order, upon reaching their destinations the Soviet military found that they were ill equipped to combat the amount of people that they were put up against.

On November 21, Soviet troops entered Baku in Azerbaijan and fired on a crowd of demonstrators killing over three-hundred in an attempt to break up the public demonstrations taking place. The next day the populace of Azerbaijan had taken a nose-dive into complete anarchy as the populace attacked the Soviet military in the streets. The resulting deaths caused the populace all over the country to cry out for independence, with masses of rioters in downtown Moskva looting business and vandalizing landmarks President Semyonovskiy again sent in military forces to restore order. By 1993 Civil War had erupted when several soldiers left the Soviet Red Army and turned on the Soviet government by attacking government buildings and cutting off any and all communications going in and coming out of Moskva. President Semyonovskiy remained in office for six years before he stepped down on December 31, 1999 as Soviet President and was replaced the next day by Alexis Mavrana Chernyshev his acting Vice-President.

As the newly elected Soviet President, Alexis Chernyshev had her plate full with the ongoing Civil War engulfing nine out of the twelve remaining Soviet republics and slowly began easing tensions in the areas hardest hit by the conflict by opening relations with the Californian Sovereign Democratic-Socialist Federation as allies. Entering into a 250-year Treaty of Friendship, Economic Cooperation and Free Trade with the Californians, Chernyshev began to slowly restore order to the battered and torn Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. By the year 2002 the Soviet Union's economy has dropped to the status of a second world power and barely had an army left to defend itself when she enlisted the help of the Californians again to help keep the peace and ensure order within the borders of the Soviet Union while the country cleaned itself up. By June 2005 the nation's economy had rebounded and the leaders of the twelve remaining Soviet republics had agreed to come back as republics of the Soviet Union on the stipulation that the Soviet Union be restructured as a supranational entity, where all republics would be represented equally as Sovereign Republics within the Soviet Union.

Under the President's new policies the Soviet Union shifted from being stoutly Communist to becoming a Democratic-Socialist Republic. The first new session of the Soviet Parliament was met with success as the decision was made to officially change the country's name from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics. On July 19, 2006 the leaders of all twelve Soviet Republics signed the All-Union Treaty establishing the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics, while keeping the acronym of the U.S.S.R. the President of new Soviet Union instituted wide-sweeping changes throughout the nation by setting up the first multi-party system in the Soviet Parliament.

By December of 2006 the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics has resolved all of its issues including its political and ethnic disputes, with equal representation and almost complete sovereignty within the new U.S.S.R. the Soviet Republics worked together to rebuild the military of their civil war torn nation.

Geography

Location: Northern Asia (that part west of the Urals is included with Europe), bordering the Arctic Ocean, between Europe and the North Pacific Ocean

Area:

  • Total: 8,867,293 sq. miles (22,972,261 sq. km)
  • Land: 8,836,637 sq. miles (22,892,842 sq. km.)
  • Water: 30,656 sq. mi. (79,419 sq. km.)

Land Boundaries:

  • Bordering Countries: Balkania, China, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithiania, Iran, North Korea, Mongolia, Norway, Poland, Turkey.

Maritime Claims:

  • Continental shelf: 200 NM depth or to the depth of exploitation
  • Exclusive economic zone: 200 NM
  • Territorial sea: 12 NM


Climate: Mostly temperate to arctic continental; winters vary from cool along Black Sea to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from hot in southern deserts to cool along Arctic coast

Terrain: Broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia, deserts in Central Asia, mountains in south

Elevation

  • Highest Point: Garmo Peak, 24,590 ft. above sea level
  • Lowest Point: Caspian Sea ??? ft. below sea level


Natural Resources: coal, copper, lead, molybdenum, phosphates, uranium, bauxite, gold, iron, mercury, nickel, potash, silver, tungsten, zinc, petroleum, natural gas, timber

Land Use:

  • Arable land: 47.6%
  • Permanant Crops: 37.3%


Natural Hazards: N/A

People

Population: 2,586,000,000 (February 9, 2005)

Life Expectancy at Birth:

  • Immortals: indefinite
  • Elven: indefinite
  • Human: 170.72 years

HIV/AIDS – Adult Prevalence Rate: 0.00005%

HIV/AIDS – People Living with AIDS: 1125 (2003 Estimate)

HIV/AIDS – Deaths: Less than 30 (2003 Estimate)

Nationality

  • Noun: Soviet(s)
  • Adjective: Soviets

Races and Ethnic Groups

White 70.6%, Asian 16.5%, Black 4.3%, Amerindian and Alaska natives 3.5%, Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islanders 2.1% other 3% (2224)

Religion

National Religions Atheist: 90.5% Agnostic: 2% Baptist: 2% Catholic: 2% Methodist: 2% Lutheran: 1% Other: 0.5%

Languages

English, French, German, Russian.

Literacy

Definition: Age 5 and over can read and write
Total population: 100%
Male: 100%
Female: 100%

Government

Country Name

Conventional Long Form the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics
Conventional Short Form the Soviet Union, the USSR
Local Long Form the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics
Local Short Form the Soviet Union, the USSR

Government Type

Democratic Socialist

Capital

Moskva

Administrative Divisions

Thirteen constituent republics form the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics.

Soviet Sovereign Republics:

  • Afghan Soviet Sovereign Republic
  • Armenian Soviet Sovereign Republic
  • Azeri Soviet Sovereign Republic
  • Belarussian Soviet Sovereign Republic
  • Georgian Soviet Sovereign Republic
  • Kazakh Soviet Sovereign Republic
  • Kyrgyz Soviet Sovereign Republic
  • Moldovan Soviet Sovereign Republic
  • Russian Soviet Federative Sovereign Republic
  • Tajik Soviet Sovereign Republic
  • Turkmen Soviet Sovereign Republic
  • Ukrainian Soviet Sovereign Republic
  • Uzbek Soviet Sovereign Republic

Independence

August 29, 2007 (Re-unification of the Soviet Union proclaimed)

National Holiday

Independence Day, August 29; President's Day, September 18.

Suffrage

16 years old (universal)

Executive Branch

  • Chief of State President Sergei M. Verkhoyanskiy (since September 15, 2504)
  • Head of Government President Sergei M. Verkhoyanskiy (since September 15, 2504)
  • Cabinet Appointed by President with Parliament approval.
  • Elections held every five years on September 5. (or unless otherwise stated)
  • For Republic President Every five years on September 5.
  • For Mayor Every year on September 5.

Legislative Branch

The Soviet Parliament, dominated by the Democratic-Socialist Congress of the Soviet Union. Members are voted in every 2 years by a general election. The Soviet Parliament has 450 members, delegating each republic within the Soviet Union. On issues each state holds referendums and are voted on by the majority of the vote. When the votes come to a tie the Speaker Of The House adds his vote to tip the vote, otherwise the Speaker Of The House submits his vote.

Election Results

  • Democratic-Socialist Party: 282 seats.
  • Communist Party: 132 seats.
  • Federative Party: 36 seats.

Parties and leaders

  • Communist Party: Vladimir P. Voronov
  • Democratic Party: Sergei I. Kuznetsov
  • Socialist Party: Anrdrei S. Shcherbakov
  • Federative Party: Alexa M. Dmitriev
  • Parliament Headquarters The Presidential Residence, within the Kremlin in Moskva.

Judicial Branch

  • People's Court for each State, Territory and Dependency.
  • Supreme Soviet Court presides over the entire nation.

International Organizations

International Organization Participation

AEGIS; AU; EAA; FAO; IAEA; IBRD; IBTA; ICAO; ICC; IFC; IFRCS/ICRM; IHO; IMF; IMO; IOC; IOM; ISO; ITU; OAS; OECD; OPCW; OPEC; Interpol; UE; UN note – voting member and regional delegate, tends to ignore resolutions anyway; UNESCO; UNIDO; UPU; WHO; WIPO; WMO; WTO; ZC (OOC: A lot of these are RL organizations, which may or may not have relevance to NS.)

Environmental Agreement Participation

Air Pollution, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling (OOC: All RL treaties, may or may not have relevance to NS.)

Economy

Economic Overview: The Soviet Union has began a massive oil recovery program in the Siberian Far East after Californian scientists and mechanic engineers helped develop a carbon-rich composite alloy resistant to extreme tempuratures called polycarbonadium. Since the discovery of polycarbonadium the Soviet Union has tripled its oil exports and has become one of the leading producers of oil both crude and refined. With its economic and political alliance with the Californian Sovereign Federation the Soviet Union's economy has been growing exponentially each year. With the resurrection of the Soviet Space Program in the late 2070's the Soviet Union joined the Californians in their mining of the astreoid belt between Mars and Jupiter yielding the nuclear fissile material dubbed tetracassium by the Californians.

Since then the Soviets have replaced their entire uranium and plutonium based weapons and energy sources in favor of using tetracassium rods for their research in cold fusion. With the innovative terraforming projects taking place in Soviet Central Asia the Soviet Union has gone far and beyond its ability to feed its population and has become the fourth largest producer and supplier of wheat and corn. Several land acquisitions, especially in the Far East with Japan's Hokkaido island have been a boost to the Soviet economy, stocks are selling at unprecedented record highs. Exports and imports of raw materials, metals, automobiles & electronics, agriculture, foodstuffs, textiles and medicines has seen a rise like never before causing the explosion of the Soviet economy as one of the first world powers of the Eurasian continent.

GDP: purchasing power parity - $37,358,000,00,00

GDP - Per Capita: purchasing power parity - $14,446

Population below poverty line: 0%

Unemployment Rate: 13.10% (Only those who are disabled or cannot work, all else are guaranteed a job)

Inflation Rate: 1.17%

Labor Force: 2,385,000,000 (includes unemployed)

Major Industries: One of the leading Industrial Powers in the Western Hemisphere, highly diversified and technologically advanced; Shipbuilding, Aircraft, Electronics & Communications Equipment, Metals, Chemicals, Military Applications & Equipment, Military Arms & Vehicles, Super-Computers, Petroleum Based Exports, Steel, Motor Vehicles, Aerospace, Telecommunications & Information Technology, Food Processing, Consumer Goods, Lumber, Mining & Extractive Industries,

Industrial Production Growth Rate: 1.317% (2500 est.)

Electricity Production By Source:

  • Cold Fusion: 61%
  • Hydroelectric: 18%
  • Nuclear (fission & fusion): 10%
  • Wind/Solar: 11%

Electricity Production: 98 trillion kWh

Electricity Consumption: 67 trillion kWh

Electricity Exports: 113 billion kWh

Oil Production: 52.350 million bbl/day (2499 est.)

Oil Consumption: 49.125 million bbl/day (2499 est.)

Oil Exports: 1.13 million bbl/day (2499 est.)

Oil Imports: 925,000 bbl/day (2499 est.)

Oil Reserves: 56.13 billion bbl (1 January 2499)

Natural Gas Production: 1.918 billion cu m (2499 est.)

Natural Gas Consumption: 1.762 billion cu m (2499 est.)

Natural Gas Exports: 30.69 billion cu m (2499 est.)

Natural Gas Imports: 313.78 billion cu m (2499 est.)

Natural Gas Reserves: 12.98 billion cu m (1 January 2499)

Debt: $0 SUS

Economic Aid: 30 billion SUS

Currency: Soviet Sovetskæ

Currency Code: SUS

Exchange Rate per US dollar: Ŝ1.3655 SUS = $1.00 USD (2506)

Fiscal Year: January 1

Communications

General Assessment: a large, technologically advanced, multipurpose communications system.

Domestic: a large system of fiber-optic cable, microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, and domestic plasma-satellites carries every form of comm-screen traffic; a rapidly growing cellular system carries mobile comm-screen traffic throughout the country.

International: Country Code: 1; 237 plasma fiber-optic ocean cable systems in use; vast network of several hundred advanced satellites also in use.

Comm-screens (Lines In Use): 3.23 billion (2499 est.)

Comm-screen Broadcast Stations: Over 75,000 (including nearly 15,500 being affiliated with the eight major comm-screen networks - SUNN, SNN, TASS-ITAR, KGVM, PRAVDA ; in addition, there are about plasma-sat TV systems) (2499)

Internet Country Code: .su (Californian-specific top level domains include .ssu, .ussr, .sov)

Internet Service Provders: ±350,000

Internet Users: ±2,735,000,000

Transportation

Railways: N/A

Highways: N/A

Waterways: N/A

Pipelines: N/A (2499)

Ports and Harbors: N/A Merchant Marine: 1,740 ships

Airports: 18,952 (2499 est.)

Airports - With Paved Runways:

  • Total: 13,128
  • Over 3,047 m: 7,188
  • 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2,221
  • 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1,375
  • 914 to 1,523 m: 1,383
  • under 914 m: 961 (2499 est.)

Airports - With Unpaved Runways:

  • Total: 5,824
  • Over 3,047 m: 1
  • 2,438 to 3,047 m: 7
  • 1,524 to 2,437 m: 161
  • 914 to 1,523 m: 1,714
  • under 914 m: 3,941 (2499 est.)

Heliports: 275 (2499 est.)

Military

Military Branches: Soviet Army, Navy and Marine Corps, Air Force, Strategic Missile Forces and Coast Guard (Coast Guard administered in peacetime by the Department of Homeland Security, but in wartime reports to the Department of the Navy)

Military Manpower:

  • Age: 18
  • Active Military Personnel: 4,487,600 (male and female)
  • Available Military Personnel: 86,300,000 (male and female 18-49)
  • Military Trained Manpower: 86,300,000 (male and female, 2500 estimate; compulsory basic combat training with firearms with elective advanced training)

Military Manpower - Based On Defense Condition: Note: these numbers are static and change with the population gain.

  • at DefCon 5 — .13% = 4,928,300
  • at DefCon 4 — .25% = 9,477,500
  • at DefCon 3 — .31% = 11,752,100
  • at DefCon 2 — .43% = 16,301,300
  • at DefCon 1 — .50% = 18,955,000

Military Expenditures: Dollar Figure - $20,145,000,000,000 (FY 2500 est.) (August 2499)

Military Expenditures: Percentage of GDP - 19% (FY 2499 est.) (December 2500)

Transnational Issues

International Disputes: China and the Soviet Union in 2004 resolved their last border dispute over islands in the Amur and Argun Rivers, but details on demarcation have not yet been worked-out; the sovereignty dispute over the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan, and the Habomai group known in Japan as the "Northern Territories" and in Russian as the "Southern Kurils," occupied and administered by the Soviet Union since 1945, and claimed by Japan, remains the primary sticking point to signing a peace treaty formally ending World War II hostilities; The Soviet Union and Norway dispute their maritime limits in the Barents Sea and the Soviet Union's fishing rights beyond Svalbard's territorial limits within the Svalbard Treaty zone; The Soviet Union continues to reject signing and ratifying the joint technical border agreement with Estonia drafted in 1996; the Soviet Parliament refuses to consider ratification of the boundary treaties with Estonia and Latvia, but in May 2003, ratified land and maritime boundary treaty with Lithuania, which ratified the 1997 treaty in 1999, legalizing limits of former Soviet republic borders; a simplified transit regime was adopted in July 2003 for residents of the Kaliningrad coastal exclave to travel through Lithuania to the Russian Soviet Federative Sovereign Republic.

Illicit Drugs: Limited cultivation of illicit cannabis and opium poppy and producer of methamphetamine, mostly for domestic consumption; government has active illicit crop eradication program; used as transshipment point for Asian opiates, cannabis, and Latin American cocaine bound for growing domestic markets, to a lesser extent Western and Central Europe, and occasionally to the Californians and the rest of North America; major source of heroin precursor chemicals; corruption and organized crime are key concerns; heroin increasingly popular in domestic market

See also