Yugoserbia

**Yugoserbia** (juːgoʊ'sɜːrbiə, Serbian: *Југосрбија*, Croatian: *Jugosrbija*), officially the **Slavic Republic of Yugoserbia** is a sovereign state in the Balkans. It is a state Union that combines Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, parts of Italy and the northern half of Albania. It has an area of 280,401 km² (108,263 mi²) and is bordering  Rome to the west, the  German Reich and  Hungary to the north,  Dacia ( Rome) and  Bulgaria to the east and  Hellas to the south. The state in its current form was established on January 7th, 1999, after the proclamation of the State of Yugoserbia, following the aftermath of the Roman Wars in the 90s.

The  Kingdom of Yugoslavia is officially recognized as the predecessor state of the modern state of Yugoserbia.  Yugoslavia was founded in the chaotic aftermath of the First World War, on December 1st, 1918 it was proclaimed as the  *Kingdom of Croats, Serbs and Slovenes*. During the 1920s, the name was changed to  Yugoslavia. At the beginning of the Second World War, the Kingdom ruled by the Karađorđević dynasty decided to stay neutral and not be affected in any conflict. This changed after  Italy and her allies attacked  Yugoslavia and quickly overrun the country. From 1941 to 1955 the pre-WW2 territory was split up between  Austria,  Bulgaria,  Hungary and  Italy with the addition of two puppet states -  Croatia and  Serbia which were both de facto Italian puppet states. After eight years of divided occupation the two puppet states were merged into one marionette country, being referred as  Yugoslavia again.

In September of 1955, all lost territories during the war except for the Dalmatian coastline and parts of  Montenegro and South Serbia were returned to the Kingdom, which was at that point established as the  *Second Kingdom of Yugoslavia*, ruled by Petar II of the Karađorđević dynasty. During the course of the Cold War in Europe, the Kingdom never formally decided to ally with one side but rather stay politically neutral and have trade relations with both conflicting sides. During that time, the king ruled with absolute power and disagreed to any democratic reforms, similar to what happened in  Italy at that time. This resulted in a wave of protests of young students in the late 70s and early 80s, demanding a parliament and free elections. In 1986, the King's palace was stormed by 50 anti-monarchy demonstrators. Petar II had to accept the under the pressure of his population and agreed on the establishment of a parliament.

Two years later, the country was ready to transform itself to a constitutional monarchy with the first elections being held in 1988. After the Roman Wars, the newly independent states of  Krajina,  Istria and  Primorska joined  Yugoslavia in 1996 and  Albania was split up between  Hellas and  Yugoslavia. It also was in that year that the long-reining monarch Petar II died at the age of 73 years. His son, Nikola I, abolished the monarchy one year later and in January 1999, the Slavic Republic of Yugoserbia was established with Rajko Metić as president. The current president, Milorad Veljović, has been in power since the 10th of July, 2019.

Yugoserbia is known for his high level of infrastructure, especially in the railways. This is due to an enormous expansion of its railway network, caused by *The Laws of Budget Priorities*, being passed by former King Petar II in 1956. Starting almost immediately, a system of "corridor-routes with priority status 1-4" has been established, and construction work on the "Jugosrpski koridor 1" (Jesenice – Zagreb – Beograd – Niš – Skopje – Gevgelija) started the year later. In the next 40-50 years, the number of high-speed railkilometres skyrocketed and nowadays every corner of Yugoserbia is at least by a series of connecting trains attached to the high-speed railway network. The highest allowed speed limitation is 430km/h, being in use on the relation Slavonski Brod – Okučani or Krško - Ljubljana. The state-owned railway company **JŽ** (Jugoslovenske Železnice) is the soul operator of the railway network and one of the largest railway companies worldwide, possessing over 50,000km of railway tracks.

The slavic republic is member of many organisations and alliances. In 1995, the then former  Kingdom of Yugoslavia joined the  European Union and shortly after, in 2001, agreed to join the Schengen Area, allowing free travel to and from Yugoserbia. Before that, there were agreements with  Austria,  Hungary and  Rome on free border passing for its citizens. Yugoserbia is a member state of  DCIN, a military alliance led by  Zarexium and joined by his allies. In 2003, the  *Čakovec Pact* (ČP) was founded. This is a branch of the  European Union which focuses on expanding the infrastructure on an international basis. The  ČP enables EU-wide railway or highway projects to be done between two or more countries like for example the Transeuropean Network system. Being headquartered in the eponymously named city of Čakovec, part of the  YR Croatia, the now 20-year-old infrastructure alliance spends more than 180 billion UC$ yearly on new high-speed railway, expansion of telecommunication, road projects, construction works and maintainence of streets and railway tracks.