United Socialist Federation of Khefanestan

United Soviet Socialist Federation of Khefanestan
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Capital	Antenkh
Largest city	Kachori
Official languages	None Federally
Recognised national languages	Heyeric, Kurtulian, Kishidili, Tbeti, Nekhtic, Karasaut, Matic, Zaurataban, Uriatic, Alamysian, Orighat.
Demonym(s)	official Khefanestani unofficial Khefani
Government	Federal One-Party Parliamentary Socialist Republic
• General Secretary	Khasan Taymuraz
• Minister President	Kaystak Ghasabyan
Legislature	All-Union Congress of the Republics
Population
• 2020 census	90,198,098
GDP (PPP)	2021 estimate
• Total	$1,223,717,595,566
• Per capita	$13,567
Gini (2021)	44.0 medium
HDI (2021)	0.789 high
Date format	dd/mm/yyyy (AD)
Driving side	left
Calling code	+768
ISO 3166 code	KHF
Internet TLD	.khf

Khefanestan (Heyeric:Խեֆանեստան; Kurtulian: ხეფანესტანი; Kishidili: خئفآنهصطآن) , Officially know as the United Socialist Federation of Khefanestan, is a nation located at the boundry of !Europe and !WestAsia. It is dominated by the Greater Balkharic Mountains, and is bounded by the !EastSea to the East, WestSea, to the West, and the Omerian Federation to the South West and South. Antenkh is the Capitol as well as one of the oldest continuously inhabetted cities in the world, the largest city is Kachori.

The Greater Balkharic range was inhabeted as early as the Paleolithic age. The first recorded civilization was the Mkhor-Sarcharic Culture of the late Pre-Pottery Neolithic. Major ealy civilizatiosn in the region included the Agydarian Ropecord Culture from the early Chalcolithic to middle Bronze Age, the Horse Mound Culture of the late Chalcolithic, and the Nartic Culture, who were the earliest record agracultural societies in the region. The first recorder npolitical entity in the region was the Tepet Kingdom formed in the 6th century BC. !Christianity would spread to the region in the 1st century AD due to the work of St. Bartughimeos the Leper. !Persian conquest and subsaquent !Turkic migrations in the 8th through 11th centuries have changed the ethno-liguistic and religious character of the region of Khefanestan.

The Republic of the Mountain Dwellers proclaimed its independence in 1916 and was the first independent political entity in the region since the annexation of the Orighat Khanate in 1678. Political instability and risidual fighting from the War of Independence severly weakened the republic. In 1918 The Unified Mountain Dwellers Communist Party would launch a major strike that would eventually lead to the December Revolution in 1919. The modern state of Khefanestan formed in 1922 under the control of the Communist Party. Liberal Partisans and Ethnic Nationalist would continue to fight until 1925. Khefanestan would become a major industrial economy, utilizing large Iron, Uranium, and Oil resources to power its economy. The Khefanestani Civil War would be fought from 1991 until 1996 when Kishidili Nationalist would declare their independence, the war ended with a government victory but would be economically devestated until the late 2000's.

Khefanestan is a Federal One-Party Parliamentary Socialist Republic, is one of the founding memebers of the Workers International, Founding memeber of the International Federation for Medical Humanitarianism, Kachori Economic Group, and the Freternety of Stateless Nations. Khefanestan is also a growing regional economic and military power, with economic and Military relations globally.

Etymology

Khefanestan originates from the old persian word kaufestān (𐎣𐎳𐎿𐎫𐎴) which had been a historical exonym for the region. After the decleration of the Mountain Dwellers Republic and the subsaquent revolution the name was chosen by the Supreme Revolutionary Council of the Mountain Dwellers as a politically nuetral for the new revolutionary state, which wished to create an ethnically nuetral state.

History

Prehistory

the earliest known evidence of human habitation in what is today Khefanestan dates back to roughtly 33,000 BP, when Mode VI Stone tool were discovered at an excivation cite in the northern steppe region. The first evidence of settled society is located at Arhem, where in 1971 Archeologist Alyksandr Dzaegoyty would coin the term Arhemic-Hneva Archeological Complex (AHAC Culture) to describe a trend of similar Pre-Pottery Neolithic tools spanning along a 3km long range, from Arhem in the east, to Hneva in the west, and bound by the Mgartdzor Mountains to the north and the Tzagent River to the south. Within this archeological range the city of Alaxsha would be discovered, dating the earliest case of communal urban living in the country to around 7000 BP. However the regions archeological record shows a long period of coexistance between complex agracultural societies and hunter gatherers.

Civil War

Muğsoylu Crisis

On march 3rd 1991 a mass protest organized by the Peace and Development Alliance hit the major agracultural community of Muğsoylu. Muğsoylu was at the time one of the main sources of grain inside the Quqizlözen River Basin and thus an important economic center within the Guhuz SSR. Protestors were organized because of a lack of funding from the Central Agracultural Financial Committee, with irigation infrastructure in disrepair and overall economic infrastructure subject to a single railway and Government convoys. These protests were describbed as apolitical at the time they occured, looking for increased economic support from the !Georgian and !Armenian dominated Central Government. At the time Jalal Adigozal Had staged an internal coup of standing Chairman of the Guhuz SSR Poliburo, Tokay Asadulla. Leading the Guhuz SSR to prassue a more antagonistic relationship with the Politburo and Central Committee as Adigozal sought a policy of wider autonomy. As the protests widened in scope issues such as forced conscription of young agracultural workers, and aggressive tactics from State Police Forces became central issues. Protestors also noted a lack of such aggressive policies in regions unstream of the Quqizlözen populated by !Armenians.

Director of the 13th Law Enforcement Region of Khavad, Nareh Sodoyan would order the 127th Battalion of the Special Purpose Mobility Force into the city to quell what were becoming incresingly aggressive protests. This move was promted by reports that local, Ethnic Guhuzic police were unwilling to preform protest control. the 127th Battalion was overwhelimingly !Armenian and when they arrived in the city on March 8th the crowd grew increasingly agitated. on the night of the 9th riots had broken out after the 127th declared an Unlawful Assembly and used less-than-lethal munitions to disperse the crowed. Riots initially targeted security forces, however arson and looting took place in ethnic !armenian and !georgian neighbourhoods. Prompting the authorization of lethal force against "Looters", however reports claim that this was used indiscriminetly at civilians still on the streets. the night of March 9th to 10th saw 7 people killed and 42 injuried per government counts.

On the 13th of March Citizens of organized in Revolution Square, where the city government resided. Protests were initially peaceful, but after the use of Tear Gas by security forces protestors stormed the City Hall. the 127th was not initially present at the demonstration. Commanding Officer Hovhannes Davtjan had opted to allow local SSR Police Forces to handle the protest in the ssquare. During his deposition to the People's Commissariat of Justice he would state that his reasoning to do so was to "not stoke ethnic conflict which had been brewing since the Battalions diployment." later stating he hoped that local police units would aid is deescalating the violence the area had seen.

SRSG Unit Breaching a Door During the Battle of Street 227

Protestors occupied City Hall for 14 Hours as the 127th Battalion moved in. Initially hoping to prevent further participents from entering, the unit was tasked with clearing the building of protetors using lethal force. The unit moved into Revolutionary Square, shooting at protestors while blocking off most escape routes. The Revolutionary Square Massacre killed nearly 479 people, left 1,927 injured, and led to over 4,000 arrests. many of the arrested were futher disappeared by the SUSA. Sogoyan would send in the 193rd and 89th Battalions of the Special Purpose Mobility Force to reenforce the 127th in securing the city. In the aftermath of the massacre large segments of the local police force would defect and join the protestors. by some estimates nearly 63% of the cities local police would defect, including the whole of the KhMB Special Response Unit. This would open up local police armories to looting by locals. Groups of people calling themselves "Local Saftey Committees" would arm themselves, with many police officers taking command of these autonomous bands of armed civilians. the Battle of Street 227 was a tipping point in the ongoing crisis. Saftey Committees, led by now former police officer Sadegh Najafzadeh opened fire on Special Purpose Mobility Forces patroling the Ağşam Public Housing Complex (located on Street 227). These Saftey Committees would occupy the Housing Complex made up of seven indivudial 5-story buildings. The standoff would last two weeks. Sogoyan would eventually authorize the deployment of the SRSG Derectorate "T" Unit. Derectorate T forces would conduct a days long room-to-room battle with armed civilians, clearing the facility after nearly 17 hours of fighting.

Muğsoylu would be declared "Secured" by the 27th of March. The crisis directly spawned the Guhuz Resistence Movement. with the National Liberation Front for Guhuzistan and the Islamic Resistence Brigade claiming they were founded during these events. The wider destablization of the region would culminate in a civil war as other protets would aim to recreate what those in Muğsoylu had attempted. with major riots in Muğanabad, Nurdağiqala, and Gazyurdi.

Politics

Government

Khefanestan is a Socialist Federal Republic made up of 32 Autonomous Socialist Republics. the Constitution of 1922 proclaimes that the nation is "Guided by the spirit of revolution, and by the desires of a free and dignified working people". The government is broken up into four entities. The Communist Party, The Congress of the Republics, The Republican Council, and the Politburo. The General Secritary of the United Mountain Dwellers Communist Party is tasked with heading the Politburo and acting as the nations international reprasentative. The Congress of the Republics is headed by the speaker who organizes the Congress and works to pass legislation to be sent to the Politburo. The Republican Council is chaired by the 32 Presidents of the Autonomous Socialist Republics, it is led by the Minister President, who is elected as a sitting member of the council and is proclaimed "first amongst equals". They are tasked with coordinating verious domestic policies and coordinating policy between the verious republics. The Politburo is tasked with signing or vetoing legislation passed by the Congress of the Republics, it is also exerts executive authority on areas not expressly given to the other political organs, as well as the desision making body in times of emergency.

Military

Main article: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Khefanestan

Soldiers of the Mountain Reconnaissance Rifle Brigade during the 2019 May Day Parade.

Geography

Mount Avkaz, 2009

Demographics

Ethnic groups

People of Khefanestan

Culture

Cinema

The Long March Home, Directed by Norayr Kazanyan won the 2021 International Workers Film Festival