Laiskatt

Laiskatt, also known as Laikatt or Laika, is a city in the Greater Longyearbyen area of Vandistan. The city covers multiple constituencies, and is largely based in Laiskatt Downtown. While the city has gone through multiple renovations through its history, the most prominent era of the city took place when it was known as Leizhou, during which it acted as a de-facto autonomous city-state ruled entirely by the Marxist-Leninist Xilimandang and its chairman, Chengxiang Xiliman. 
== History ==
=== Early history ===
The city was originally founded in 1929 as Ovtsebykovsk under the jurisdiction of the Russian SFSR. The city remained in relative peace and stability until the 1992-1993 Vandi Civil War, when it became a Red Army stonghold. By the end of the war, Ovtsebykovsk had been completely razed.Over next 20 years it was redeveloped, but only functioned as a sub-urban town of Longyearbyen.
In late 2019, a prominent elite known as Laiska came to the area, and reestablished Ovtsebykovsk as the city of Laiskatt, named in his honor. The city became home to a large Finnish and Vandiini population, as well as a homegrown Juche movement.
=== Xilimandang history ===
After its failed attempt to establish the Boxue People's Commune, the Xilimandang saw Laiskatt as an approriate location for a retrial of the project, and by August of 2022, the city government was entirely under the control of the Xilimandang. Over the coming months, the majority of the residents of Laiskatt were forcefully removed from their homes by the Xilimandang, and a social hierarchy was implemented by the party that benefitted solely people of Chinese origin. The systematic removal of the non-Chinese residents of Laiskatt is widely regarded as ethnic cleansing, and resulted in riots such as the Laiskatt Paper Revolution and the October Laiskatt Race Riot. 
Following these incidents, the government of Laiskatt locked down hard upon disloyal people, banning them from owning land, attending university, owning weapons, protesting, and holding public office. People not of Chinese, Korean, or Southeast Asian descent were forbidden from managing finances, and non-XIlimandang members were mandated to carry a "倭" badge at all times, with non-Asian citizens being specifically questioned and targeted without reason. Over several months beginning in October 2022, the name Laiskatt was quietly "retired", and on 13 March, 2023, the city was officially renamed Leizhou (Chinese: 雷州, lit. Province of Thunder) to exemplify Chinese dominance over the city.
After his election as Prime Minister of Vandistan in December 2022, Xilimandang chairman Xiliman allocated massive amounts of funds to the further development of Leizhou. This included the construction of a massive stone wall surrounding part the city of Leizhou, separating it from Longyearbyen. The rapid increase in Leizhou's development led many of the Chinese residents of the city to view it as superior to the rest of Vandistan, deepening the divide between Leizhou and the surrounding cities and birthing a sizeable Lei nationalist movement. 
=== Black June ===
On 15 June, 2023, Xiliman and the Xilimandang were found guilty of involvement in the Firebombing of Noshkolm, and sentenced to 15 years in prison, though they were later pardoned by Regent's Decree. In retaliation, the Xilimandang set fire to the High Court of Vandistan and closed all entrances to the city of Leizhou, constructing armaments upon its borders. Within Leizhou and areas of East Longyearbyen ensued a series of massacres by the Yuannists, a league of Leizhou Chinese ultranationalists, against people of Japanese, Russian, and Vandiini descent in what became known as Black June. After civilians in the neighboring town of Devireddypallem began to take up arms, the Red Guard began targeting Telugu civilians as well. The rebellion of Leizhou against Vandistan resulted in the suspension of government and the full mobilization of military and various paramilitary forces to protect the people of Longyearbyen. Mass riots and violence against Chinese-Vandistanis took place in cities such as Vaatishtatt, and Lei Feng Island descended into anarchy due to the overflow of refugees. The Xuanhuahui, previously a close affiliate of the XIlimandang, cut all ties with the party and Leizhou. In the aftermath of the rebellion, Xiliman was charged with treason, the Red Guard of Leizhou was forcefully disbanded, and a new parliament was selected, making the Fifth Parliament the shortest in Vandistan history. The rebellion's catastrophic failure began the final period of history for Leizhou, known as the Leichi (雷耻, Lei Humiliation).
During the 20 June Tsunami and Earthquake, a multitude of Leizhou residents evacuated to the recently founded town of Rongzhou in Fudzhi Oblast, heavily contributing to its population. As the "Lei-Rong Convoy" left Leizhou, lead by an illegally reformed Red Guard, a man from the decimated city of Noshkolm carried out a suicide attack against the Sun and Moon Palace, the headquarters of the Xilimandang, supposedly as "payback" for the Firebombing of Noshkolm. The fire was quickly put out by an aerial tanker of the Vandistan Republican Air Force, and the man was never identified. While high flooding continued, Japanese-owned businesses in Fudzhi were raided by Yuannists in a planned strike known as "Operation Yuanbao".
Following a disastrous football game between Leizhou Huanghai FC and the Japanese-Fudzhian team Suparutaku Fudzisan FC on 21 June, 2023, in which fans flew Imperial Japanese flags, the entirety of the Fudzhian team was kidnapped and subsequently murdered by Yuannists. All eight perpetrators were later imprisoned and executed, and the attack resulted in further ridicule on the city of Leizhou, who memorialized them as "Eight Martyrs". The same day, Leizhou Huanghai FC was terminated by the Vandistan Football League for their encouragement of the attacks and failure to protect other players.
Near midnight on 4 July, 2023, a resident of Fudzhi drove to the center of Juche Square in Leizhou, and detonated a van full of explosives in a suicide bombing, resulting in heavy damage to the Juche Tower. In retaliation, Leizhou declared the Great Proletariat Legal Revolution, a campaign of hard crackdowns against potential terrorists, which included the official reestablishment of the Red Guard of Leizhou.
=== Deconstruction of Leizhou ===
On 15 July, 2023, Leizhou was locked down without notice, and several days later on 19 July, 2023, Xiliman was unanimously deported from Vandistan, resulting in the internal collapse of leadership in the Xilimandang and its control over Leizhou. The city then fell under the direct administration of the Longyearbyen Area Police Department, and all naming structures enacted by the Xilimandang were repealed. Any remaining elements of systematic oppression against non-Chinese people in the city were terminated on 20 September, 2023 by an executive order of Interim Prime Minister Owen, in which he declared that "all previous racial-ethnic quotas in the City of Laiskatt, systematically and punctiliously dissolved since mid-July, are rendered fully null and void by the full force of law enforcement and the military".
For the next several months, the city was known interchangeably as Laiskatt, Leizhou, and sometimes Laiskatt-Leizhou. In November it was officially renamed after the first animal in space, Laika, due to the belief that the city's first leader was irrelevant. The status of the city's name was dubious for the following months, until it was legally confirmed as both Laika and Laikatt. Despite this, in many contexts it is still referred to as Laiskatt, such as with the Rongzhou-Laiskatt Sister Organization and Laiskatt Central Economic Commission, the organization which formed the new city government in May 2024.
Category:Cities