United Socialist States of Persia

Flag of the DMSA, and by extension the Governorate of Persia

### Important Cities

Mashhad, Cairo, Haifa, Riyadh, Ankara, Baghdad, Jerusalem, Mecca, Bandar Abbas, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Al Ahmadi, Kuwait City

### Faction

Eurasian Confederation of Soviet Socialist Republics

### Founded

October 24, 1944May 23, 1955 (Unification Day, "The Red Eid" as the Agreement took effect on Eid al-Fitr)

## DEMOGRAPHICS

### Language(s)

Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, Egyptian, Hebrew, Russian, French, Mandarin, Cantonese, English

## POLITICS

### Head of Government

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Official)Chairwoman Niusha Monshipour (De Facto)

### Other Parties

The United Front - Bolshevist
The Jangala

Daesh (Suppressed)

People's Democratic Party

Union for Palestinian Independence

Socialist Party of Turkey

National Union of the Aryan Brotherhood (Suppressed)

Union for the restoration of the Imperial House of Pahlavi

## ECONOMY

### GDP

Approx. 460 Billion USD (142 Billion Rial)

The دولت متحد سوسیالیستی ایران (pronounced Dewlet Methed Sewsaalaseta Aaran), colloquially known as the **United Socialist State of Persia**, is a Socialist State encompassing the entirety of the Middle-East, who's politics are manly dominated by officers of the former Red Army who have escaped from Russia, as well as leftists seeking refuge from purges in Brittania and Germany.

As of writing, The Dewlet, is dominated in the Revolutionary Diet by **The United Front**, with a slight advantage in the **Internationalist faction** over the **Bolshevist faction**. Due to the nature of its revolutionary elements, it is widely considered to be an **Internationalist United Front**, a far-cry from its actual Economic Policies of Building Socialism in one state.

Its capital is located in **Tehran**, with 5 Sub-Capitals located in **Baghdad, Cairo, Haifan, Riyadh, and Ankara** to facilitate the governing of the State with consideration to the challenges posed by the Arabian Desert. Though an oil-producing country, its power is mainly sourced from Solar and a bourgeoning Nuclear industry, with much of its oil output exported in order to fuel the build-up of the state's productive forces. Unlike many contemporary Socialist States, it encourages the practice of the many religions within its borders as part of its cultural programs.

Also unique among contemporary socialist states is the existence of a reigning Monarch. The former Shah of Iran **Mohammad Reza Pahlavi** is the official Head of State and Government. They however have no existing powers aside from special observation powers within the true head of the Socialist State: **The Revolutionary Diet.**

Currently, the DMSA is undergoing a deadlock in its governance, with its various competing factions unable to even elect a Head of State. With tensions rising among its various ethnic groups, and its coalition government threatened to collapse by a rumored coup that's supposedly to be instigated by the Shah Pahlavi, who knows whether The Dewlet could organize itself in time into the **Arab Federation of Socialist States** and truly representing its demographics, before succumbing into its various contradictions and collapsing any hope of building socialism in this wretched world.

## History

### Gilan and the Jangal

The United Socialist State of Persia sees its beginnings in the province of Gilan as the Persian Socialist Soviet Republic, founded by the Jangali movement and its leader, Mirza Kuchik Khan. A rebellion against the Turkic Qajar Dynasty, the Soviet Red Army ardently supported its people’s war, culminating in a revolution that seeked to liberate much of Persia as the Pahlavi Dynasty took power away from the Qajars.

Mirza’s tenure as the Revolutionary Vanguard was not long-lived. Unpopular due to his alliances with conservative elements (Which culminated in the alliance with the Shah), He was swiftly replaced by a primitive version of the **Revolutionary Diet**, paving the way to People’s Democracy.

### Into the European War

The Soviet of Gilan sees its hardships turn sour as the world enters global conflict, with the USSR sending less support to the fledgling republic as the Pahlavi Dynasty strengthens its hold upon the borderlands.

The 1940s saw Tumultuous times for the Revolution, unable to produce enough materiel to arm its tiring army. In spite of this, the Revolution pressed on, with the assistance of Foreign Legions from French, Britannic, and North American leftists, as well as the ardent zeal of the few Soviet Legions that chose to remain.

It was in 1944 that the **United Socialist State of Persia**, or the **Dewlet Methed Sewsaalaseta Aaran**, formed. On the backfoot for a decade, its Red Fighters saw grueling experiences in combat, often having to fight modern weapons with mere cavalry and clever tactical prowess against both the Pahlavi Forces, Islamic Extremists, and Colonial Foreign Legions wishing to assist the reactionary state.

This flood of Red Fighters from the west did have an effect on other countries, rapidly reinforcing the spread of Left-Wing Ideology throughout the Middle-East in an event known as the **Arab Spring**. Coupled with the fate of the Soviet Union, this has turned the tide not only for the Persian Revolution, but for the entirety of Middle Asia, facilitating the formation of **The United Front**.

### Fall of the Soviet Union

It is simply Poetry, or perhaps pure Irony, that the fall of the greatest Socialist Project also helped the formation of the greatest experiment of Civilization. The collapse of the Soviet Union due to the fall of Moscow to the German Reich saw the rapid flood of Soviet Nationals into the Revolutionary State.

Now Equipped with thousands of young, eager, yet veteran revolutionaries, wishing to do good for their former Motherland, the Red Fighters of the DMSA was finally able to push back the forces of the Pahlavi Government, as well as the rising tide of Far-Right Extremism inspired by the European Fascists.

By 1952, the DMSA had surrounded the capital of Tehran, and commanded supremacy over the nation. In the interests of peace, the Red Fighters signed an agreement to a coalition government with the Shah, enabling the DMSA to support fighters in its neighbors to drive off the Foreign Colonizers and facilitate the spread of the Arab Spring

By 1955, the reactionary governments of the Middle-East had fallen to the Red Tide of the Arab Spring. Though it is not without bloodshed, The United Front has spread its mission to cover even those of religious minorities, enabling the state to be able to succeed its revolution without the wanton destruction of other revolutions before it.

### The Cultural Revolution

Upon the unification of the Middle East under the Red Banner of the DMSA, it undertook the mission of rectifying its conservative elements of its numerous peoples.

The 1960s were marked by social upheavals on all levels. The Revolutionary Diet, now entering its maturation, struggles to thread the thin line uniting the various factions making up the DMSA. Disagreements on all levels of government is the norm, with the Diet not even able to decide on a General Secretary.

It is often cited as a miracle how the state is able to maintain its relatively prosperous ways of life nowadays, even as late into the 1980. Riding upon the coattails of a now prosperous Oil-extraction industry, it is now diversifying into Assembly Production and the refining of Raw Materials sourced from Allied nations. Despite this, prominent political analysts forecast the complete collapse of The United Front within the next 2 decades, if not sooner. Without the convenience of a common enemy in place of arrogant imperialists, little unites the various Left-Wing parties with figures such as the Shah and the various tribal elders.

Only time may tell if the DMSA can continue upon its unique path, or if they have to resort to the very same methods employed by their ancestors before them. Whatever fate may befall it, the world shall tremble upon the consequences.

## Politics

### Overview

The DMSA is officially a United Front of Leftist Movements that seeks to establish a Socialist State in order to build productive forces for the establishment of Communism in the Middle-East. In practice, however, the DMSA is unable to perform most of these functions outside of its borders, in fear of angering The Imperial Federation as well as to ensure safety from internal strife within its own.

Right now, the government of the DMSA is composed of a coalition between The United Front, as well as loyalists to the former Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. The Internationalists and Bolshevists, however, wish to correct this, specially as rumors abound of a plot by the Shah to overthrow the Revolutionary Government.

### Ministries of the DMSA

The Five Ministries are regarded as the second-highest Seats of State, and their ministers also regarded as the most powerful Cabinet Members of the General Secretary, the rest being a body of Special Advisers, Four Hand-Picked by the General Secretary (Currently Unfilled), Five Elected by the Revolutionary Diet, Another Four being the Hand-Picked Judges from the Supreme Court, and a last Two being elected directly by constituents of the DMSA.

In this function, they are considered as De Facto second only to the General Secretary theirself, who is in turn beholden only to the United Front as a whole.

#### The Ministry of Defense

Motto: "Para Bellum"

The Ministry of Defense primarily oversees the defensive and offensive capabilities of the nation. It controls the Armed Forces of the DMSA, and with that the Military Intelligence Departments.

The Ministry of Defense also houses the Vezarat, and with it the SAVAK or Secret Police. The Vezarat is however considered independent of the Ministry of Defense, though is "obligated" to share its findings to the Defense Minister unless otherwise advised by the General Secretary.

The Ministry of Defense is not allowed to operate combat operations on DMSA Soil, except on times of war or national high alert. This is however circumvented by policies such as the General Secretary declaring Martial Law. It also exercises an advisory role in the Internal Gendarmerie, which is under the Interior Minister.

The Minister of Defense has the following Sub Departments under their control

* **The Revolutionary Armed Forces, and with it the Red Army, Revolutionary Navy, Revolutionary Air Force**, is the Ministry's and by extension the DMSA's Primary Force for National Defense. It maintains a border patrol in concert with the Revolutionary Gendarmerie, as well as the Coast and Interior Waterway Guards. The **SAVAK** also is technically included in its power as a Military Police Force.

* **The Revolutionary Gendarmerie**, at an advisory role, is the civil paramilitary organization of the DMSA for occasions that the Revolutionary Militia is unable to muster sufficient strength to exercise the will of the United Front. It is armed closely to the standards of the Armed Forces, although it is not allowed to equip weapons of mass destruction, as well as those of weapons designed for widespread destruction. It is therefore limited to precision munitions for its comparably small Artillery Forces

#### The Ministry of the Interior

Motto: "To Serve the People"

The Ministry of the Interior handles the internal affairs of governance of the DMSA. This then includes Internal Security, Civil Registration, Public Emergency Management (Such as Natural Disasters), and matters of Local Governance and Elections.

To exercise this, the Ministry of the Interior operates several Sub Departments, including but not limited to the Revolutionary Bureau of Investigation, the Revolutionary Gendarmerie (the Internal Troops), the Revolutionary Militia (the Civil Police), the National Soviet on Electoral Matters which shares power with the Bureau of Elections, Department of Labor, and the Department of Immigration

The Interior Ministry is widely regarded as the largest Ministry in the DMSA, and is therefore also housed in the largest Ministry Complex of the Nation in Tehran. It is also considered to be the most powerful Ministry, and therefore the Interior Minister is also usually the Secretary of State.
The Interior Minister has the following Departments under their control.

* **The Revolutionary Bureau of Investigations** covers the Domestic Intelligence and Security Services of the DMSA at a national level.

* **The Revolutionary Militia,** the Civil Police Force of the DMSA, operates on the intelligence gathered by the RBI as well as generally keeping the peace. The RM’s powers are limited to the specific regional and local constituency their specific militias are assigned to.  The RM also maintains a Special Action Force for occurrences requiring greater specialist powers, but not the full might of the Gendarmerie. Under Partial Control of the Ministry of Justice.

* **The Revolutionary Gendarmerie,** or the Interior Troops, serves as the Civil Equivalent of the Armed Forces. It is directed to deal with matters of the interior on a level requiring the special military powers of the Armed Forces, and is therefore considered a second army of the DMSA. It then also handles Highway and Border Patrol under the advisory role of the Ministry of Defense, as well as Insurgencies in areas not covered by the Riyadh, Cairo, or Ankara High Command, which are directly controlled by the Ministry of Defense.

* **The National Soviet on Electoral Matters,** charged with examining the national conditions of state and therefore amend the rules of conduct of elections on an as-case basis as determined by the specific needs of the time-period, such as those of National Emergencies or war.

* **The Bureau of Elections,** charged with examining whether or not an individual running for elections is suitable as a candidate, as well as with running and tallying the votes for each election. It retains special powers to summon an investigation by the Revolutionary Pillar on suspicions of electoral fraud.
* **The Department of Science and Technology,** charged with handling scientific and technological advancements of the Nation, as well as maintaining a tally of recognized Doctors, Engineers, and National Scientists residing in the nation. Aside from this, it retains special powers to assign specialists to various governmental projects on an as-needed basis, and retains special powers with the Department of Education on maintaining the STEM Faculties of Universities, as well as overseeing the conduct of various Special Science Schools for Gifted Children.

* **The Department of Culture and the Arts**, overseeing the cultural development of the nation, preserving cultural artifacts and practices on a national level as well as making sure such practices are in-line with the values of the United Front. On these capacities, it shares power with the Bureau of Religious Matters with examining the conducts of various religious sects, though not covering that of the Autonomous Governorates, as well as with The Department of Education on running special Cultural Schools, including those of Literary, Visual, Vocal, and even Kinetic Arts. It also runs a series of Cultural Museums and Theatres to showcase said arts, and producing specialists for their preservation.

* **The Bureau of Religions**, overseeing the conduct of various religious sects in the DMSA, as well as overseeing the conduct of the Council of Elders in the Autonomous Governorates. It shares powers with the Department of Education on overseeing Religious Schools that were allowed to operate, specially those located in the Autonomous Governorates.

* **The Department of Education** oversees the conduct of the various educational institutions of the DMSA, including Religious Schools, Cultural Schools, and Scientific Schools set up by the three aforementioned Departments. It exercises the right to determine the educational conduct of institutions from the Preparatory Level (Three Years, namely the Caring, Developmental, and Preparatory Grades), to the Elementary Level (Six Years, Two for Lingua-Arithmetic Development, Two for Arithmetic Development, and Two for Physio-Cultural Development), and the Primary Level (Six Years, Two for Acclimatization, Two for Ideological Development, and the Last two for Specialization into STEM, Cultural, or Administrative Strands). The Department also operates the **Commission on Higher Education**, overseeing Higher Education Institutions for further Educational Development of constituents, as well as special Trade Schools for people wanting to instead specialize in trades faster, producing Technicians, Service Engineers, and other Laborers of the like for a shorter span (Two Years instead of the regular Four to Six Years entailed by Higher Education).

* **The Department of Health**, overseeing the Health and Wellness of  the nation’s constituents, covering those of a medical nature, up to and including preventing mass-starvation (in concordance with the Cornucopia), as well as that of the nation’s mental well-being.

* **The Department of Labor**, partially overseen by the Cornucopia, assigns laborers to various occupations on a basis of skills, qualifications, as well as that of the needs outlined by the states various departments (and those of the requests of Private Companies in the SEZ’s when requesting specialists. It coordinates with the Department of Immigration for handling immigrant workers.

* **The Department of Immigration** oversees the immigration and emigration of people into the DMSA. It also determines who is eligible for full citizenship into the DMSA (allowing free entry into the rest of the country outside of the SEZ’s, without the requirement of Diplomatic, Work, or Tourist Visas), as well as tracking Immigrant Workers with the help of the Department of Labor. The Department of Immigration also enlists the help of the Revolutionary Gendarmerie for Border Patrol Purposes

* **The Soviet Council for National Defense** determines the conduct of the Civil Government at times of National or Local Disasters, including Plagues, Natural Disasters, among other things of a non-military nature.

And many more such as the **Department of Motor Vehicles, the National Statistics Authority, the Civil Aviation Authority, the Environmental Protection Authority,** and lastly the **Department of People's Welfare and Development.**

#### The Ministry of External Affairs

Motto: “For a Peaceful Revolution”

The Ministry of External Affairs primarily oversees the Foreign Interests of the Dewlet. It is primarily interested in forming the DMSA’s Foreign Policy in the pursuit of the state’s interests and goals on a global scale, as well as revising it and the Domestic Policy in response to the evolving political realities of the world at large as well as to prevent damage by external and internal factors to the national and ideological integrity of the state.

The Ministry has two departments in order to accomplish its mission:

* **The Revolutionary Diplomatic Corps** is the primary diplomatic instrument of the DMSA. It is in charge of training foreign diplomats, envoys, and ambassadors to other nations, as well as establishing embassies in friendly and allied nations. In addition to this, the Diplomatic Corps is charged with realizing alliances of all natures as required by the DMSA, and entrusted with signing treaties and other sorts of agreements to the betterment of the Revolutionary Cause

* **The Revolutionary Security Service** is the Signals Intelligence wing of the Ministry of External Affairs. It is in charge of both gathering information on the current interests of foreign groups and nations, as well as running counterintelligence operations to prevent the same from being done in the Dewlet. The RSS often works in concert with the Vezarat as its boots on the ground in order to help the latter achieve its objectives in a much better manner.

#### The Ministry of Justice

Motto: “Justitiae Pax Opus”

The Ministry of Justice, due to the DMSA not having a true separation of Powers, is directly overseen by the General Secretary of the DMSA.

The Ministry handles the Courts of Law, and is primarily instructed to the specific Interpretation of both the Revolutionary Constitution, the National Laws passed by the Revolutionary Diet, as well as the Local Laws passed by Governorate Diets as overseen by the National Government. To exercise this, the Ministry Oversees a series of Courts ranging from the Local to the National Level.

These courts include:

* **Local Councils of Justice**, primarily operating on Communal levels largely operated by normal civilians and overseen by a single Judge as elected by the population from a shortlist submitted by the City Bar

* **Council of Elders**, exclusively found in the Autonomous Governorates of Makkah and Jerusalem, composed each of eight Judges, four from the recognized Clerical Councils, and four civil judges from a shortlist submitted by the Revolutionary Bar. The Council of Elders is meant to be a check and balance between the exclusively religious Clerical Council and the Autonomous Diets of the two governorates.

* **Communal Trial Courts**, operating on Local and City levels, overseen by three Judges elected by the City or Municipal Diets from a shortlist submitted by the City Bar

* **Regional Trial Courts**, operating on Regional level (or multiple regions if covering an underdeveloped region), overseen by three Judges elected by the Governorate Diet from a shortlist submitted by the Governorate Bar.
* **Governorate Supreme Court**, operating on a governorate level, overseen by three judges elected by the Governorate Diet from a shortlist submitted by the Governorate Bar, who are in turn overseen by a Revolutionary Judge from the Revolutionary Supreme Court, assigned by the Revolutionary Diet from a shortlist submitted by the Revolutionary Bar.

* **The Court of Appeals**, overseen by a council of four judges from each constituent Governorate of the DMSA, eight more representing the National Capital Region of Teheran, elected by the Revolutionary Diet from a shortlist submitted by the Revolutionary Bar,  as well as two (Clerical and Civil) judges each from the Muslim Governorate of Makkah and the Interfaith Governorate of Jerusalem, each elected by a joint decision of their Governorate Diets and Council of Elders. The Court oversees Appeals from Lower Courts of Justice and examines if they need to be elevated to a higher Court of Justice, and to which specific Court of Justice to direct it to on a basis of National Importance. The Clerical Judges only serve on Appeals of religious natures from their respective Autonomous Governorates.

* **The Revolutionary Supreme Court**, overseen by a council of four judges from each constituent Governorate, elected by the Revolutionary Diet from a shortlist provided by the Revolutionary Bar,  and an additional eight judges representing the National Capital Region of Teheran (Four from the National Capital itself, and another four hailing from outside the Capital), each assigned by the General Secretary theirself. The Revolutionary Supreme Court is the highest court of the land, and retains exclusive rights to control of the RBI, the Revolutionary Bar, and the exercise of Lower Court Control of the RM to exercise Justice.

The Ministry of Justice also operates **The Revolutionary Pillar**, a special appellate court composed of Sixteen Judges elected directly by the populace from a shortlist submitted by the Revolutionary Bar. The RP serves as a check and balance against the Revolutionary Diet in the occurrence of abuse and oversees the Ideological Loyalty of the DMSA’s Leaders. In order to serve in its capacity, the Pillar exercises partial control of the SAVAK for investigations of special natures. It is widely considered the most powerful Court of the DMSA, and has historically deposed multiple Ministers on accounts of Graft, Corruption, and most notably a purge of the Local Diet of the Hormuz Strait SEZ on account of alleged revisionism and disloyalty to the United Front, sentenced to death by Firing Squad.

The Ministry of Justice also operates multiple Bars of Local and National Levels, with the **Revolutionary Bar** examining if a Juris Doctor is qualified to be an Attorney of State for the practice of Law, and the Local Bars merely keeping track of Attorneys of State living in their direct constituency.

Lastly, the Ministry operates the **Department of Corrections**, which executes the will of the Courts of Law. It is through the DOC that the Ministry exercises its partial control of the Revolutionary Militia, assigning some to guard its various Prison Camps. The Revolutionary Pillar also operates its own Labor Camps, with condemned individuals undergoing Re-Education and Forced Labor for Ideological Drift.

#### The Ministry of the Economy

Motto: “A Horn of Plenty for us all”

Also called the Ministry of Plenty, or the Cornucopia, the Ministry of the Economy exercises control over the distribution of resources all over the DMSA. In this capacity, it also exercises partial Control of the Ministry of the Interior’s Department of Labor, as well as operates its own sub departments: the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Audits.

* **The Department of the Treasury** oversees the master-list of all possessions of the State within and without the DMSA, ranging from its monetary funds, liquid assets, up to and including the smallest nail and bottles of glue produced in the nation’s labyrinthe of factories.

* **The Department of Audits** then oversees a master-list of all equipment and funds, liquid or not, distributed to the various governmental functions of the State. It also audits to the best of its ability the spending powers of the various Private Companies that choose to settle businesses in the Hormuz Strait SEZ.

These two Departments, if detecting an anomaly in accounting, reserve the power to request an investigation by the Revolutionary Pillar into the offending Department, Ministry, or Company.

The Ministry also oversees various departments, including but not limited to the **Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture, Department of Oil Production, Department of Munitions, Department of Aviation**, and many others covering the many different facets of the Civil and War Economies of the DMSA.