Republic of the Red Star of the North

Somewhere on the slopes of the mighty Kronotsky there was an old research institute, buried under much debris and snowfall. Inside, they found a trove of documents, both technical information and philosophical treatises. The explorers return to Petropavlovsk was met with great jubilation and their discoveries changed everything. Technological progress in the fractured post-Soviet statelet accelerated at a breakneck pace, or at the very least, caught up to the other post-Soviet remnants in the East. But the double effect of the writing of Fyodorov, Tsiolkovsky, and Bogdanov were the development of an intense cosmist ethos in Kamachatka.

The first event was a military coup led by a general who had read Tsiolkovsky’s suggestions and agreed with his panpsychic world view. Though this general, Pavel Fyodorovich, was an ardent communist, he viewed the present Kamachatka government as senile old men clinging to a hope for contact from Moscow that would never come. When he ordered their arrest and execution, it had already been 25 years since the sky roared with fire.

After the Pavel Coup, things developed quickly. First his kleptocratic government was itself overthrown by a popular revolution led by a group called the Leonidian Left (LL, named for the main character of Bogdanov’s novel *Red Star*). The LL then established a Soviet Democracy, synthesizing the envisioned Martian communist utopia from *Red Star,* and Leninist Soviet Democracy. The largest departure from Lenin’s ideas was the implementation of political parties, though these were strictly determined some four years after the Leonidian Revolution to prevent another uprising. The parties, which work collaboratively and have shared power on numerous occasions in the last decades were structured around the major writings discovered on Kronotsky.

The aforementioned **Leonidian Left** espouses the ideas of Bogdanov, including an emphasis on blood transfusion to prolong life and forestall aging and the cybernetic theories of tektology.

The **Cosmists** are a political party structured around the teachings of Nikolai Fyodorov and espouse the ultimate goal of the resurrection of all human life and temporal immortality for all human life as the pre-requisites for establishing communism.

The final party, structured around a near cult-of-personality adoration for Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, was called the **Panpsychists**.

Four minor civic organizations also influence politics in the Republic, though not as full parties. They are:

* The Biocosmists-Immortalists – a sub-branch of the Cosmists, have two explicit demands: freedom of movement in interplanetary space; and the right to live forever
* The Constructivists and the Suprematists are two major artistic movements, the former advocating the integration of art with public policy and societal design and the latter (closely aligned with the Panpsychists) advocating art to capture the inherent sensations of all things
* The Working People’s Democratic Soviet of Petropavlovsk (WPDSP) is the most powerful trade union in the country centered in the capital. Closely aligned with the Leonidian Left, they uphold the “triune theoretical alliance” of Bogdanov, Lenin, and Bukharin.

At present, a Cosmist, Igor Konstantinovich Nikolaev is the elected Marshal of the Republic, and will serve for another three years.