Chernan

**Chernan**, officially the **People's Republic of Chernan**, is a nation on the continent of Grastica. Chernan currently borders Swaslonia, Salhai, Pao, Korye, and Koswavia. The capital city, Gozra, is located in the central region of the country. This country is de jure a communist country, but de facto the country is now more liberal and is more into a socialist market economy. This country is one of the most powerful in the world with thousands of nukes, a high GDP and a big population. However, the life quality is not the best in the world and this country is still very authoritarian. In term of international relations, Chernan has good relations with socialist, communist or anti-western countries like Russbania, East Prussen, The United Abasic Republics,... And Chernan has bad relations with anti-socialist and anti-communist nations like Union of Koswavia or Sedland. In term of culture and soft power, Chernan is very famous for its rock music, bands like Sky are very appreciated, however the government doesn't like the rock music scene in Chernan, considered as the songs of the enemy.

## The People’s Republic of Chernan

Flag of Chernan

Map of Chernan

### Ethnic Groups

Sakartian, Ukar, Anxi, Nician, Kazar, Taran, Lettish

## History

### Early History (??? - 500)

Since at least 300 BC, the Lakarian tribes and the Anxi people who are the ancestors of the original Chernanians inhabited the area. The first kingdoms that appears on the current chernanian borders are the Anxi dynasties of Jong and Shanxi. And the kingdom of the Nicians. But in 100 BC, the Naromans (a people from the East) invade Chernan and occupy the region for at least 500 years.

### Medieval times (500-1500)

After the fall of Naroman Empire and the invasion of nomads people from the west, new kingdoms appear. There were the Sakartian kingdom, the Ukar kingdom, Anxi dynasty, Lettistan Sultanate, Nician Theocracy and Kazar and Taran hordes.

### From 1500 to 1900

During those times the different countries that compise the current country of Chernan will all be isolated from each others. However, in 1750 the Sakartians will invade the Ukar kingdom and will occupy the country until 1801 after being attacked by the Anxi dynasties. Moreover in 1858 in Gozra, a group of politicians, intellectuals, writers and revolutionaries will discuss about the project of uniting all the countries around Sakartia to rivalise the other superpowers of that time.

### The Republican and Unionist Revolution (1900-1913)

During that time, the will of democracy was rising. The Peoples were tired of monarchies and start speeading the revolutionary ideas of the Union of Chernan. The first country that got his first revolution was the Sakartian Kingdom. In 1900, the people went to the Monarch's palace and captured the royal family. And after this even the Sakartian Republic was proclaimed. The second country to have a revolution was the Ukar Kingdom. In 1904, the King of the Ukars was brutally assassinated in Dinr. The Ukar Republic was proclaimed.

### Establishment of The Union and World War I (1913 - 1921)

The Union of Chernan was formed in 1913 from the Sakartian Republic, the Anxi dynasties and the Ukar Republic. The Nician Kingdom was also later incorporated into the Union. Lettistan was incorporated into the Union on January 11th, 1915 after Chernanian victory at the battle of Sumarabad .

### Chernan Civil War (1921 - 1939)

As the Union of Chernan has become too unstable and divided between ethnicities and social classes, the first civil war begins in 1921. The country becomes divided between several different countries: The National Republic of Chernan (Heir of the Union), The People’s Republic of Chernan, and different warlords.

### Involvement in World War II (1939 - 1947)

As N.W.O.P. (Swaslonia) forces began an invasion of Chernan, the communists and the national republicans began to cooperate to fight against a common enemy. The Swaslonians succeeded to be at 1km from Gozra (the capital city of Chernan) but they were repulsed by the Nationalists and the communists guérillas. By the middle of 1944, the nationalists succeeded to expulsés the Swaslonians from the Chernanian borders and their army are rushing through Swaslonia. The war was already won by the Chernanians at this moment.

### The Chernan War (1947 - 1952)

In September 1950, the communists forces took control of Gozra. The 29th September 1950, the People's Republic of Chernan is proclaimed. By 1952, the People's Republic of Chernan now encompasses the entire mainland. The Nationalist government of Chernan was exiled on the island of Sapparo.

### The People's Republic of Chernan (1952 - 1982)

In 1953 and 1955, Salhai and Chernan went to war over border disputes, resulting in Salhai regaining the Krazai region. From 1952 to 1960, Chernan was destroyed and very poor. The five years plans of Timur Molgadin was inefficient and the country was still poor. So in 1960, Molgadin hired a son of his friend, Leon Borzhonov. He is a very clever person and learned a lot about rich countries. So in 1960, Molgadin and Borzhonov started a plan of new reforms. Their plan was to first investing in mining and agriculture, to feed the country and sell natural ressources to others. Then they invest into the industrial sector that was able to work correctly thanks to the good natural ressources management. They even allow liberal caracteristics like profitability. In 1966, Borzhonov becomes the chairman and the following years will be the prosperous years for Chernan until 1982.

The first chernanian was sent to space in 1969. Chernan was one of the most performant countries during the Global Games. Chernan army was one of the strongest. Chernan was one of the biggest industrial producer amongst the communist countries. From 1965 to 1975, the poverty rate went from 35% to almost inexistence. At this point, Chernan was an example of communism all around the world.

### Political and Economic Structural Reforms (1982 - 2022)

In 1982, Chernan is stagnant. Industrial production is slowing, the technology and innovations were slow and the nation was getting old. Every countries were growing rapidly but Chernan started to subit a crisis. The Chernan oil lost all of its value since countries like United Abasic Republics were selling more for cheaper, the chernanian diplomacy was becoming weaker because of the fall of numerous communist regimes like in Korye, Avestania, Capanesia and more,... The laissez aller of the Chernanian government during the second half of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s slowed down the growth of the nation.

In 1986, Patrik Bartovich becomes the Prime Minister, and goes on to institute a series of reforms to the economy and political system. Socialist economy was abandoned to socialist market economy.

In 1996, Kuzhan Khadmirov was elected Chairman of Chernan, but he was accused of being financed by Sedland. So a coup organised by the Chernanian Secret Services led by Vadim Lubimenko overthrew Kuzhan and one week of severe repression and martial law was established. This event was know as "The bloody week". At this moment the government didn't proposed the changes, they imposed it.

In 2000, Vladim Lyesin is the new chairman of Chernan and start to massively re-invest into the mining and industrial sectors. He also promote the creation of private chernanian enterprises.

Chernan was a member of the Anti-Terrorist Coalition during the Keia Civil War.

In 2008, Chernan successfully suppresses the Democratic Republic of Letanarya during the Lettish Independence war.

In 2010, Chernan was involved in the Koryean Civil War to overthrow the Korye Democratic Republic and help establish a communist government.

### Contemporary History (2022 - )

Chernan was involved in the 2022 Korye Conflict.

## Geography

Chernan has a big diversity of biomes. It has plains, forests, mountains, steppes, deserts,... There are 3 major rivers that flow into Chernan which are the Chumin River, Logda River, and the Molga River. Around 3/4 of chernanian land is arable. The country is rich in ressources like natural gas, iron, uranium, coal,... Indeed, Chernan is one of the richest countries in term of ressources.

The land area of Chernan is about 3 000 000 km2.

### Climate

Central Chernan has a temperate climate, Southwest Chernan contains desert, southeast and south Chernan has a Mediterranean climate, Northeast Chernan contains steppes, Northern and Western Chernan contain major mountain ranges.

## Demographics

There are seven major ethnic groups in Chernan. These seven ethnic groups are separated in four families. The Lakarians, composed of the Sakartians and the Ukars. The Abasic, composed of the Nicians and Lettish. The Lipics, composed of the Tarans and Kazars. and the Anxis that have no related ethnic group. The largest ethnic group are the Sakartians with more than 50 million people in 2023. And the population of Chernan since the 1990s is stagnating or even decreasing in some regions.

## Politics and Economy

### Government structure

Chernan is a one-party state led by **The People’s Labour Party** since 1952. But since the 1980s, Chernan started to apply a socialist market economy. The party controls almost everything in the country, it is the powerhouse of the nation. And Chernan has a half federal and half unitary system, the country let each ethnic group to officially exist and have a certain recognition from The Party but they have to obey to the central power of Gozra.

### Military

Chernan has the 2nd most powerful military in the world as of 2022. Chernanian air force, land force and naval force are one of the most competent in the world. Chernan created a lot of technological weapons like the famous CHR-75 aircraft. Chernan has also a lot of tanks like BMP or T tanks (T-44 and others, even though it's kind of old). They have also a good marine (comparable to China).

### Economy

Chernan has a primarily socialist economy, but reforms starting during the 1980s partially liberalized the economy. The government owns around 70% of the GDP of Chernan.

So since the 1990s, Chernan gave up its socialist economic system to turn into something more liberalised. Indeed, before the 1990s the State owned every enterprises and redistributed the profits equally to the population. But today, things changed. Private enterprises can now exist and can keep the profits for themselves. This will allow competition between companies and boost the productivity of the nation. However, the state will still keep a control over the private entreprises and will still own a big part of all enterprises of the nation. So to summarise, the economy of Chernan is a free market economy controlled by the government.

The Chernan economy is mainly based on industry and natural resources extraction. The country worked on the process of extraction and transformation of ressources since the 60s, Chernan is well known to have productive labour force. The natural ressources of the country are various (uranium, iron, phosphate,...) and the industry of the country is specialised into every domains.

## Culture

### Music

Chernan modern music is mainly famous for its underground rock music. During the 1970s and 1980s, punk music started to develop in the underground scenes of big cities. A movement of freedom started to appear amongst the youth of the country. Bands like the famous Sky band (Группа Скай) with his famous member Alexei Stroi were very popular at that moment. A lot of the chernanian rock songs talked about corruption, depressing life, introspection,... But obviously the government had and has the tendency to censor this type of content. So ironically the famous musics were secrets. Chernan loves music.

## Trivia

* Chernan is the very first fictional country created for this universe, and first appeared in the April 2, 2022 MaxSka video "Every Communist Scenario"

## References

1. ↑ Let’s discover CHERNAN - YouTube
2. ↑ Random communist scenario - YouTube