Laiskatt

Laiskatt Downtown, 2023

**Laiskatt**, sometimes referred to as **Laiskatt-Leizhou**, is a city in the Greater Longyearbyen area of Vandistan. The city covers multiple constituencies, and is largely based in Laiskatt Downtown. While the city has gone through multiple renovations through its history, the most prominent era of Laiskatt took place when it was known as **Leizhou**, during which it acted as a de-facto autonomous city-state ruled entirely by the Marxist-Leninist Xilimandang and its chairman, Chengxiang Xiliman.

## History

### Early history

The city was originally founded in 1929 as Ovtsebykovsk under the jurisdiction of the Russian SFSR. The city remained in relative peace and stability until the 1992-1993 Vandi Civil War, when it became a Red Army stonghold. By the end of the war, Ovtsebykovsk had been completely razed.

In late 2019, Laiska came to the area and reestablished Ovtsebykovsk as the city of Laiskatt, named in his honor. The city was home to a large homegrown Juche movement, as well a sizeable Finnish minority.

## City of Leizhou

雷州之城

* Civil flag
* Official flag

### Founded

2022

After its failed attempt to establish the Boxue People's Commune, the Xilimandang saw Laiskatt as an approriate location for a retrial of the project, and by August of 2022, the city was entirely under the control of the Xilimandang. Over the coming months, the majority of the residents of Laiskatt were forcefully removed from their homes by the Xilimandang, and a social hierarchy was implemented by the party that benefitted solely people of Chinese origin. The systematic removal of the non-Chinese residents of Laiskatt is widely regarded as ethnic cleansing, and resulted in riots such as the Laiskatt Paper Revolution and the October Laiskatt Race Riot.

Following these incidents, the government of Laiskatt locked down hard upon disloyal people, banning them from owning land, attending university, or holding public office. People not of Chinese, Korean, or Southeast Asian descent were forbidden from managing finances, and non-XIlimandang members were mandated to carry a "倭" badge at all times, with non-Asian citizens being specifically questioned and targeted. Over several months beginning in October 2022, the name *Laiskatt* was quietly "retired", and on 13 March, 2023, the city was officially renamed **Leizhou** (Chinese: 雷州, lit. *Province of Thunder*) to exemplify Chinese dominance over the city.

After his election as Prime Minister of Vandistan in December 2022, Xilimandang chairman Xiliman allocated massive amounts of funds to the further development of Leizhou. This included the construction of a massive stone wall surrounding part the city of Leizhou, separating it from Longyearbyen. The rapid increase in Leizhou's development led many of the Chinese residents of the city to view it as superior to the rest of Vandistan, deepening the divide between Leizhou and the surrounding cities and birthing a sizeable Lei nationalist movement.

On 15 June, 2023, Xiliman and the Xilimandang were found guilty of involvement in the Firebombing of Noshkolm. In retaliation, the Xilimandang burned the High Court of Vandistan to the ground and closed all entrances to the city of Leizhou, constructing cannons upon the walls of the city. Within Leizhou and areas of East Longyearbyen ensued a series of massacres by the Yuannists, a league of Leizhou nationalists, against people of Japanese, Russian, Telugu, and Vandiini descent in what became known as *Black June*. The rebellion of Leizhou against Vandistan resulted in the suspension of government and the mobilization of military and paramilitary forces to protect the people of Longyearbyen. In the aftermath of the rebellion, Xiliman was charged with treason and the Red Guard of Leizhou was forcefully disbanded. This incident began the final period of history for Leizhou, known as the *Leichi* (雷耻, *Lei Humiliation*).

Following a disastrous football game between *Leizhou Huanghai FC* and the Japanese-Fyydzhian team *Suparutaku Fudzisan FC*, the entirety of the Fyydzhian team was murdered by Yuannists on 21 June, 2023, leading to the execution of all 8 perpetrators by INTERPOL and further sanctions on Leizhou. The same day, Leizhou Huanghai FC was terminated by the Vandistan Football League for their encouragement of the attacks and failure to protect other players.

Near midnight on 4 July, 2023, a resident of Fyydzhi drove to the center of Juche Square in Leizhou, and detonated his van full of explosives in a suicide bombing, resulting in heavy damage to the Juche Tower. In retaliation, Leizhou declared the *Great Proletariat Legal Revolution*, a campaign of hard crackdowns against potential terrorists, which included the reformation of the Red Guard of Leizhou.

### Deconstruction of Leizhou

On 15 July, 2023, Leizhou was locked down without notice, and several days later on 19 July, 2023, Xiliman was unanimously deported from Vandistan, resulting in the collapse of leadership in the Xilimandang and its control over Leizhou. The city then fell under the control of the Longyearbyen Area Police Department, and all naming structures enacted by the Xilimandang were repealed. Any remaining elements of systematic oppression against non-Chinese people in the city were terminated on 20 September, 2023 by an executive order of Interim Prime Minister Owen, in which he declared that "all previous racial-ethnic quotas in the City of Laiskatt, systematically and punctiliously dissolved since mid-July, are rendered fully null and void by the full force of law enforcement and the military".