Posadastan

Glorious People's Republic of Posadastan K̀αηꙍιν Τικ Ψοcαδαcταν Ρενμιν Κυη Ꙍοκ̀οκ Kwangwin Tik Posadastan Renmin Kung Wokwok
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: Ψοcαδαc Yϫчικ Μανcοι! Posadas Yũchik Mansoi! Long Live Posadas!
Anthem: Ψακμαν Υιηλει Pakman Yinglei "Millions of Miles"
Map of Posadastan
Capital and largest city	Kamyun City Καμ́υν Δειгοκ
Official languages	Posadi
Religion	State-sponsored Atheism
Demonym(s)	Posadi, Posadastani
Government	Unitary Trotskyist-Posadist One-party Communist Republic under a Totalitarian military dictatorship
• Generalissimo	Gadzi Hao-ma
• Party Chairman	Lin Zakyan-po
• Commandant	Poika Kang-po
Establishment
• City-State of Amo	1698
• Kingdom of Amon	1794
• State of Amon	1850
• 2nd Kingdom of Amon	1890
• Republic of Amon	1929
• People's Republic of Amon	1933
• Federation of Communes	1942
• Posadastan	1975
Area
• Total	235,867.63 km2 (91,069.00 sq mi)
Population
• 2025 census	18,974,320
• Density	80.44/km2 (208.3/sq mi)
GDP (nominal)	estimate
• Total	$450.5B
• Per capita	$23,720
Time zone	UTC-0:45 (PST)
Date format	dd/mm/yyyy
Driving side	right
Calling code	+75
Internet TLD	.po

Posadastan, officially the Glorious People's Republic of Posadastan, is a relatively small nation located on the eastern coast of Elisia, on the planet Telrova. It is a nation renowned for its autarkist policies and commitment to ideological fervor. Posadastan also maintains a relatively well-developed dictatorial government, as they manage to prevent hereditary dictatorships. It also maintains a high amount of technological literacy among its population, and has carried out multiple initiatives towards establishing itself as a technological powerhouse; however, this is typically overlooked due to Posadastan's abysmal human rights record, foreign interventionism, and its Orwellian government structure. It is also a nation heavily committed to global environmental protections, having set aside vast swathes of terrain for preservation and building multiple nuclear and hydroelectric power plants.

Etymology

The namesake of Posadastan comes from a collective pen name of anonymous Trotskyist writers who emerged in the late-1950s to early 1960s calling themselves J. Posadas. It started out primarily as a fringe movement within the ruling Trotskyist party, the Revolutionary Worker's Party (RWP). The group and all those who associated with the caucus were formally expelled from the RWP in 1967, where they began forming their own underground party, the Posadist Revolutionary Union (PRU). After siding with the military during the 1975 coup d'état, the PRU was established as the ruling party of what they began to call "Posadastan." According to the PRU itself, the namesake of the original collective was an early bandit who fought against the monarchs in the late 18th century, those there is some speculation to the historical accuracy of these claims.

History

Pre-History

Due to the lack of ancient texts and writing systems in the region, not too much is known about ancient history of Posadastan. However, archeological evidence points to human settlements in the mountainous regions dating back to nearly 7,500 years ago, with the lowland coastal region, being surrounded by the mountains, exhibiting evidence of human settlement no more than 600-800 years later. Many of the groups that settled in the mountains and valleys retained their own unique cultural and linguistic diversity, but the openness of the plains and hilly areas along the coast saw more intermingling among settled groups, who largely formed the people now known as "Posadis" (formerly Amonians) that we know today.

Age of Discovery

The modern capital city, Kamyun City (Καμ́υν Δειгοκ), was “founded” during the “age of discovery,” a period when many empires were forming and beginning to trade across the seas. Modern day Posadastan was full of moderately rich, semi-strategic ports, and many of these port cities begin to create their own governments. In Kamyun City, then known as Amo (Αμο), a rich lord, known as Lord Zhanci managed to take over the city after years of it suffering from both maritime piracy and land-based raids by indigenous “mountain people” to establish a state of peace. This occurred in 1698. He used the import of religion to the region from abroad to establish and consolidate his rule, and used his acquired riches and promises of security to garner support and an early military. This was the basis of the city-state of Amo, later called Amon (Αμον).

After establishing himself as “Lord of Amon" (Αμον 𐓊υλεc𐓣δι), he went on to make alliances and war with other nearby coastal city-states. Upon his death, in 1739, his son, Lord Khan took power and continued expanding the reach of the city of Amon and its allies. This gradual consolidation continued on until his own death in 1775, wherein his own son took over. This son, Lord Jonwa began to consolidate the Amonian identity, and ended up forcefully merging all city-states into a single kingdom, during this process he crowned himself King, or 𐓊υδι. With this, the early “Kingdom of Amon” forms, officially founded in 1794 after 19 years of “divine conquest”. This era was marked by extreme violence and King Jonwa attempted to seize as much land as he could. Approximately 30k indigenous people were killed by the Amon Royal Army in the kingdom’s 53 year rule, along with many thousands of internal dissidents.

By the death of King Jonwa in 1829, his son took over for a short while, being killed in 1843 during an indigenous rebellion. Upon his death, his own son, who was only 16 at the time of his father's death, took on the title of king, becoming King Monr̃a. His father's consuls largely ruled for him, breeding corruption and mismanagement of the country, leading to the famine of 1848-1849, killing nearly 6% of the population during that time, and forcing another approximately 10% to flee the country.

Early Liberalization

In 1850, disaffected military officers (mostly lower-ranked officers and soldiers) and local lords decided to overthrow the monarchy in favor of a “democratic system.” The new state was called the “State of Amon” or “Democratic Amon.” And with this, the monarchy was exiled abroad, where the monarch took on the title of “emperor-in-exile.” For the first 11 years of this “democracy” only land-owning and military men could vote (all non-Amonian people and women could not vote). This ended with the “Brown Revolution” of 1862, where women, indigenous peoples, and workers' unions banded together in protest. The “brown” comes from the color of the shirts they’d wear, representing the poverty in which they lived. The month-long Revolution ended the military domination over the democratic system, though it resulted in nearly 3,000 dead or missing and many more injured. As a result, the Amon Communist Party (ACP) was founded in 1862 and took part in the elections, but it only gathered ~2,000 votes nationally. This period saw the ruling coalition institute a policy of “general amnesty” for many foreign political advocates (mostly communists) and, briefly, saw the nation flourish socially, politically, and economically. However, the “democratic coalition” in parliament started to become corrupt after over a decade in power consolidated power among the rich donors and main figures in the coalition.

After another 28 years of democracy, three main factions formed: democrats, royalists, and communists. And after a subsequent series of assassinations and an investigation into the ruling Democratic Party’s corruption, the “emperor-in-exile” came back in 1890 to reclaim his throne, this time with the support of the military, citing anti-communism and the failure/corruption of democracy, which he claimed was inherent to “the institutionalized system of mob rule.” The policy of general amnesty was ended, and many political opponents were jailed, executed, or exiled, creating a general frustration among the working and academic classes.

2nd Kingdom & Civil War

This period led to the 1891 ban on the communist party and the establishment of a “constitutional monarchy," known as the 2nd Kingdom of Amon This new monarchy was largely propped up by the rich and some foreign maritime powers. While the Amon Communist Party (ACP) operated in exile, the Democratic Party was rebranded as the “Social Democratic Party of Amon,” becoming a controlled opposition party to the official monarchist/royalist caucus. Communist organizing remained a largely underground activity from this point on. With unions, protests, and most forms of party-organizations being banned outright.

But, by the rule of King Monr̃a's son, which started in 1910, things had started to go downhill, and the political climate in Amon continued to decay. King Pyaro attempted to bring in a wave of liberalization and reforms, including granting more autonomy to the Social Democrats, but this was very short-lived as they immediately turned against him in parliament causing their leaders to be jailed or exiled. This all climaxed on February 22, 1921, when the government forcefully put down a general strike outside the capital city, killing nearly 230 striking workers and civilians. This was the start of the Amonian Civil War. This event is known in Posadastan as the 222 incident.

The Civil War was drawn out into 4 phases of conflict over nearly 12 and half years between March of 1921 and September of 1933. During this war, the monarchy was officially absolved in April of 1929 when its main forces abdicated to the Republican forces, and the entire royal family escaped to the south where they were later captured and brutally killed by communist militias later that year. With the republicans having seized most of the country, and the capital, the turned to fight the communists, who had initiated the war. But the Republic of Amon fell apart internally due to many unwilling warlords, internal unrests, strikes, and corruption; all of which forced their government to concede its final strongholds to the communist government in September of 1933.

Rise of Communism

With the surrender of the final Republican stronghold on 13 September, 1933, the “People’s Republic of Amon” was founded by a loose coalition of labor unions, anarchists, syndicalists, tribal groups, the communist party, and various smaller factionalist and regionalist groups. This early republic witnessed many mutinies and rebellions in its early years, most of which came from warlord armies (former Royalists and Republicans) who had been integrated into the weak and fragmented “People’s Army”. The most notable of these mutinies was the Faimyo Rebellion, in 1940, where approximately 5,000 soldiers, backed by a former warlord, announced an independent “Noha Republic,” made up of the two northernmost regions. In this rebellion, which lasted nearly 14 months and saw nearly 3,000 die on each side of the conflict. As control of the nation was weak and uncertain, many landlords, tribal leaders, and former warlords retained control over local affairs, taking advantage of the lack of government control. The death of Chairman Lenin in 1940 and his unpopular successor, Chairman Galing, also made the situation even more unstable. So, in 1942, in direct response to the Faimyo Rebellion, a coalition of Troskiites, Syndicalists, and military officers overthrew the ruling Leninist government, claiming it was insufficient. They subsequently renamed the nation to the “Federation of Communes” (FoC).

The FoC began to centralize governmental control, focusing less so on the party and military. While this was only a minor issue, the FoC government did quell most conflicts during the duration of its reign and helped to develop and industrialize the nation by the early 1960s. They also helped to re-integrate many civil war veterans as a means of preventing further internal armed conflicts. However, efforts at centralization were met with difficulty as many communes in the Northwest maintained their own federated armies and defied some party orders, creating contention. Moreover, the military considered itself underdeveloped, and the isolationist nature (as well as lack of other communist allies) of the FoC left it in a perpetual state of relative poverty. But, the FoC did do extensive research into missiles and rockets as a means of deterrence, though it never credibly amounted to anything. This weak and decentralized military system, as well as the existence of multiple factionalist communist paramilitary groups didn’t help, as some tribal groups (mostly those whose traditional ranks where threatened by revolutionary reforms) continued to rebel. Most Leninist groups also maintained arms, but rarely took up arms against government forces, which led to an era called “The Long Struggle”.

The exact starting date of “The Long Struggle” is heavily debated, though most historical accounts put it at 1955, when the Leninist Faction carried out a month-long armed occupation of parliament building and the Troskiist party HQ due to the arrests of several high-ranking Leninist leaders. The Long Struggle did see some low-level conflicts, mostly among former tribal leadership and some small “counter-revolutionary” movements, but these conflicts never saw more than 100 deaths per year (about 1,800 people died of armed conflict within Posadastan during the period of 1955-1975).

Posadism

Around the mid- to late-1960s, a collective of authors calling themselves “Juan Posadas” (“Ҩan Ψocaδac”) began publishing multiple articles and zines, before creating an official caucus within the Troskiist “Revolutionary Workers Party”, called the “RWP-Posadist”. Though small at first (getting only 0.8% of the vote in 1962), the quickly grew, getting almost 5% of the vote in 1966 before being expelled in 1967 from the RWP for creating a “subversive apparatus” (that is, their own labor unions, “party” congress, and a small paramilitary group). By 1972 the group had modified its platform to include a “willingness to work with all communists and willing nuclear nations to put an end to the perils of capitalism and imperialism,” which proved popular as a means to overcome the political Balkanization of the FoC. The ruling Trotskyists in the RWP started to become unpopular as the Posadist's power grew, and the military disliked the focus on a party-based paramilitary overtaking the actual military in power, but the military didn’t possess the capability to rule the country by itself, and needed political backing for a coup, something the Posadists gave it in 1974 after a clash between the RWP and PRU (Posadist Revolutionary Union, the Posadist political party). In early 1975, with the support of another semi-capable party, the "Revolutionary coup" was launched, in which nearly 75% of the military took part. While shots were fired, only around 2,000 died and it all lasted less than a month. Many of the communes joined in too, believing it would bring them more autonomy and control.

It ended on 25 March 1975 with the PRU and the military (rebranded as the Red Liberation Army (RLA)) proclaiming a victory over the RWP. The RWP was then banned as being revisionist, with a new puppet “Trotskyist Party” being formed to house some of those who didn’t want to join the PRU, all as a means of maintaining a controlled opposition. The loyal remnants of the RWP did reform into the reformed-RWP (r-RWP) and continued fighting until the modern era, mostly in remote mountainous areas.

The position of "chairman" was superseded in 1986, after the assassination of Chairman Hakoit, by the position of Generalissimo, which was utilized by Generalissimo Hao from 1986 to 2008 to denote a position over both the party and the military, largely as a way to maintain complete control. This has led to the military being mostly ideologically aligned with the party in modern times, though conflict can still arise. Modern day Posadastan now maintains a loose policy of Autarky while also actively pursuing its own place on the global stage. It is broadly considered one of the most unfree and dictatorial governments in all of Telrova, but manages to maintain itself through wide-reaching and successful propaganda and educational campaigns, something described as creating "two types of Posadis: those who are aflame with ideological fervor, and those whose apathy towards politics could only be matched by the dead."