Slavic Union

Slavic Union Славянский союз Slavyanskiy Soyuz
Flag Coat of arms
Motto:  "Vozhd' nad Soyuzom, Soyuz prezhde vsego!" (Russian) "The Vozhd above the Union, and the Union above all!"
Anthem:  "[Privetstvuyu Vozhd'] (Russian)" Hail to the Vozhd
Capital	Osipovgrad
Official languages	Slavic
Ethnic groups	Slavic
Religion	Orthodox Christianity
Demonym(s)	Slavic
Government	Unitary One Party Dictatorship
• Vozhd	Maksim Borosov
• Minister of Foreign Affairs	Anton Vinogradov
• Minister of Defense	Matvei Pavlov
• Chairman of the Duma	Georgii Federoff
Legislature	Duma
Establishment
• Slavic Empire Declared	March 12 1813
• Slavic Union Declared	October 18 1938
GDP (PPP)	2020 estimate
• Total	333 billion
Currency	Ruble
Driving side	Right
Calling code	+327

The Slavic Union (Slavic: Славянский союз, Slavyanskiy Soyuz) also commonly known as simply The Union is a nation located [insert location] in the Coalition of Crown Albatross. [Other facts about location]

The nation's capital is located in Osipovgrad, with other major cities in Ivanovgorod, Moscow and Zhukovgrad. The nations west is heavily populated, with the majority of the east's population living in small towns.

For centuries the Slavic Union was a series of small, constantly warring princedoms, until they were united into the Slavic Empire by Tsar Ivan I in the 18th century. Eventually in 1917 the Krasnyy attempted to overthrow the monarchy, starting the 12 year Slavic Civil War, which would eventually be won by the white army, and the Slavic Republic would be established. Eventually in 1938 the tsardom would be abolished by Nikifor Osipov, who would take complete control of the nation and establish the Slavic Union with himself as Vozhd.

While technically a democracy due to the Duma the Vozhd is a dictator with almost complete control over the Union, with the nation also being a one party state. The military has massive sway in the politics of the nation, with its interests often coming before the interests of the people.

The Slavic Union has often been criticized for its blatant human rights abuses, suppressing any criticism of its regime, and how much power the military has over it, essentially acting as another branch of the government.

History

Early History

The first settler of the modern day Slavic Union were the Rodnyye, who came here during Second Great Iearth Migration dated to approximately 50,000 years BP. The first settlers came form Zamastan and were primarily hunter gatherers. The mountains near the middle of the country meant that settlement of the east was sparse.

Early on the land that now makes up the Slavic Union was divided among small princedoms in a near constant state of warfare, over time as technology advanced Slavs were able to connect more with outside nations, the constant warring lead to many young boys being trained from birth to be a soldier, gaining Slavs a reputation for being good fighters, with many being hired as mercenaries.

Portrait of Ivan I, 1815

The constant warfare kept the Slavic nations behind technologically and culturally, with the average lifespan being incredibly short and the Industrial Revolution passing them by. In 1802 Ivan I was crowned king of Moskva, and by 1813 he had brought all Slavic lands under his control, he was crowned Tsar of the Slavs by the Patriarch of the Orthodox church.

Slavic Empire

Slavic Peasant Women

Despite the unification of Slavic lands the Empire remained behind other nations in the world, with old practices such as leaving newborns perceived as weak out to die being maintained for centuries before slowly dying out in the late 1800s. Slavery was abolished in 1822 but serfdom remained until 1877.

Slavic tsars often preferred to party and display their wealth as much as they could, mingling with the rulers of foreign nations more than their own people. The Slavic Empire's backward state often had them perceived as the odd man out among other nations, despite this a strong nationalist sentiment formed among the people.

Over time the lower classes polarized into wildly different ideologies, when Pyotr Laskin wrote his book A Critique of Capitalist Economics better known as Capital, it was wildly popular, but things weren't universal, with several right wing thinkers publishing their own writings the ideology of Unitism and right wing nationalism rising up in reaction to the communist movement.

Bolotin in 1915

In 1909 the Slavic Social Democratic Party, better known as the Krasnyy (Slavic for red after the red arm bands they wore at rallies) was formed, and quickly became the dominant socialist party in the Empire under the leadership of Arseni Bolotin.

Slavic Civil War

Main Article: Slavic Civil War

Tsar Aleksei II and his family in 1916

On September 12 1917 Russian police opened fire on peacefully protesting Krasnyy members, starting a riot which lead to the deaths of 9 Krasnyy and 2 police officers, with several more injuries. After this Tsar Aleksei II declared the Krasnyy a terrorist group, which lead to hundreds of Krasnyy taking up arms and storming the capital building in the Battle of the Winter Palace, where Aleksei and his family were rounded up and executed via firing squad before being hung by lampposts in the city streets.

With the Krasnyy quickly taking control of the Slavic capital of Ivanovgorod (The name of which would soon be changed to Bolotingrad) and establishing the Slavic Socialist Republic (SSR) in the nations north, with a provisional Slavic State made up of a coalition of anti-communist forces being established in the south with the capital in Adrikagorod (Modern day Osipovgrad).

Aleksei II's cousin Aleksandr I managed to flee south to Adrikagorod, being installed as a constitutional monarch, his powers now kept in check by the Duma and the Prime Minister. Fighting was almost immediately fierce, Slavic tactics had evolved little beyond close quarters take no prisoners combat, which was effective at striking fear into your enemies, but not at limiting casualties.

One of the few exceptions to this rule was General Nikifor Osipov, who developed a military doctrine known as Sekretvoyna, which would use guerilla and deception tactics, the most prominent use of which was in the Ledyanaya Offensive. Osipov also formed the Slavic Union Party in 1918, a Slavic nationalist party, which soon would become much more.

While Osipov would win victory after victory in the east the rest of the slavic army struggled against the SSR, which controlled Bolotingrad, at the time the industrial and economic hub of the Slavic nation, one of the most destructive examples of incompetence was the Battle of Provropol, in which an underequipped force of 90,000 marched into the city of Provropol, the poorly commanded force would suffer 20,000 casualties, with thousands more captured.

Painting of the Battle of Adrikagorod

By 1922 SSR forces were within sight of Adrikagorod, with Nikifor Osipov given the task of defending against the 300,000 man strong army with 180,000 men. The SSR was eventually able to capture the city after a nearly 2 year siege where they last 170,00 men to the Slavic State's 30,000. Osipov was captured by the red army but the SSR was severely weakened to the point where they could never recover.

Osipov was imprisoned by the SSR, and in the time between then and the liberation of the city he wrote The Power of the United Nation, which would become the defining writing of Osipovism, also known as unitism. Osipov published the book once freed from prison in January of 1925, which was an immediate hit, incredibly popular among the masses.

By 1928 the SSR was on their backfoot, and Osipov, now the commander in chief of the Slavic military, planned the killing blow in the Ledyanaya Offensive, Army A, a 150,000 man strong decoy force marched north into SSR territory, while Army B, 80,000 men went through the Ledyanaya region, which the SSR believed to be impassible by a force so large.

In July 1928 the SSR sent the bulk of their army to face head on Army A, meanwhile Army B went around enemy lines and captured the city of Noyalensk, giving them control of the strategically important Noya river, with this tens of thousands of SSR troops were captured. And in 1929 Bolotingrad would be captured, and Arseni Bolotin would be executed along with various SSR leaders.