Estovakia

Estovakian National Flag

## History

### Early History (~1970)

In 1970, Estovakia established relations with Belka and Yuktobania, who became the main suppliers of weapons for its armed forces. In the 1990s, the local economy achieved a high level of activity. A major refinery in the northeast of the country owned by the Oil Resource Development Corporation was abandoned under unknown circumstances in 1990, and remained abandoned for the rest of the decade.

### Ulysses and Civil War (1999, 2007-2014)

After the announcement of the 1994XF04 Ulysses asteroid's impending impact by the Federation of Central Usea in 1996, the country launched its own program to develop a weapon against the asteroid on account of the lack of similar systems to the Stonehenge Turret Network in Anea. The product, the Chandelier railgun, was built on the northern Sonne Island to intercept Ulysses' fragments, but failed to engage them on its planetfall on July 1999. The meteors that struck Estovakia devastated the country's economy and plunged it into chaos, making it one of the worst affected countries by the disaster. The capital of the city lost its status after the impact, likely because of Ulysses' devastation.

In 2000, neighboring Emmeria launched a humanitarian aid campaign with NGO groups to assist in Estovakia's reconstruction efforts. The following loss of government control across the country birthed armed factions that controlled its regions, the largest of which, the Lyes United Front, seized the former capital and west Estovakia in April 2007, becoming its de facto government. The faction's repression of opposition to its regime caused the Estovakian Civil War after mass deaths caused by aid deprivation to the city of Gledina, inciting the Eastern Faction and their rivals to rise in arms against them. The war ended five years later with the Faction's victory on account of the "Aerial Fleet Initiative" conceived by commander Gustav Dvornik and Belkan defector Lorenz Riedel, who created the P-1112 Aigaion and its escort airships.

Following the civil war's end, various members of the Eastern Faction and their allies formed a new government helmed by The Generals, a military junta of high-ranking army officers that included Dvornik himself as Supreme Commander of the Estovakian armed forces. The post-war era was marked by separatist movements and guerrilla attacks from LUF remnants against the new government, one of which claimed the life of Foreign Minister Isaac Arensky in late 2013, triggering fears of tension between the country's various armed groups. Emmerian soldiers on humanitarian missions were also targeted by the LUF, leading to the death of 28 soldiers and aid workers on the region of Vistoc in February 2014.

## Description

Much like it's western neighbor Emmeria, Estovakia is populated with dense arboreal forests, mountains, and rocky beaches. After the Ulysses landfall the landscape was likely ravaged with meteor pock marks and burning forest fires. It is not outside reason to suspect that crops and infrastructure were further destroyed by the ensuing Civil War.

### Politics

Prior to the landfall of the Ulysses asteroid, Estovakia was likely a Democratically Socialist country, given it's real life expy, but after it's five way civil war it became a Military Oligarchy. AFter the Anean Continental War it's government and politics remain a mystery, but if the "Republic of Anea Initiative" is reinstated and Anea becomes a single country, it is likely that it becomes a Democratic Republic.

## Armed Forces

### Navy

* 3rd Carrier Air Wing, 1st Squadron "ljuljaška"
* 3rd Carrier Air Wing, 2nd Squadron "Crn"

### Air Force

#### Central Forces Precinct

* 1st Aviation Regiment, 1st Tactical Fighter Squadron "Zlato"
* 3rd Aviation Regiment, 12th Tactical Fighter Squadron "Grom"
* 10th Aviation Regiment, 1st Tactical Fighter Squadron "Nem"
* 60th Aviation Regiment, 5th Tactical Fighter Squadron "Arrov"
* 80th Aviation Regiment, 3rd Tactical Fighter Squadron "Zmija"
* 87th Aviation Regiment, 8th Tactical Fighter Squadron "Grobar"
* 98th Aviation Regiment, 76th Tactical Fighter Squadron "Vreme"
* 120th Aviation Regiment, 1st Tactical Fighter Squadron "Vrh"
* 124th Aviation Regiment, 8th Tactical Fighter Squadron "Dete"

#### Southern Forces Precinct

* 18th Aviation Regiment, 23rd Tactical Fighter Squadron "Ijutnja"
* 22nd Aviation Regiment, 42nd Tactical Fighter Squadron "Most"

#### Aerial Fleet

* 370th Aviation Regiment, 9th Tactical Fighter Squadron "Strigon"

## Notable Characters

* Second Lieutenant Nicholai 'Dragon' Stroika
* Second Lieutenant Vladimir 'Nosferatu' Boromov
* Second Lieutenant Aleca 'Frostbite' Tulisoronen
* Captain Yuri 'Vampire' Zubarev

## Trivia

* Estovakia is likely an expy for the Non-Soviet nations of the Warsaw Pact and Yugoslavia.