Vostok

**Vostok** (Russian: Восток, [vɐˈstok]), officially the **Grand Principality of Vostok**, is a transcontinental country located in Northeastern Asia and Northwestern part of North America, bordered by the  British Empire to the east, the  United Commonwealths to the southeast,  Russia to the west, and shares a maritime border with  Japan to the south as well as  Liechtenstein-Alaska to the southeast. It covers an area of 4,665,489 square kilometres (1,801,355 sq mi), with a population of just 2.1 million, making it the world's second most sparsely populated sovereign nation, after  Greenland. The country's capital and largest city Kyrillgorod, named after Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia, longitude is 150°48′E, making it the world's third easternmost capital, after Nouméa and Honiara.

By the mid-17th century,  Russia had established areas of control that extended to the Pacific Ocean. Vostok, just like Siberia, became one of the destinations for sending internal exiles. In the Russian Civil War, most of Russia fell to the  Bolsheviks, with this region being an exception. The east of the former  Russian Empire was also called **White Russia** for most of the 20th Century because of the many exiles of the White Army. At the end of 1939, the Red Army occupied Vostok, effectively ending the civil war. In American exile, the Vostoker government acquired Alaska from  Liechtenstein, which bought the region from the  Russian Empire 81 years earlier. Both Alaska and Vostok were occupied by the  United States at the end of World War II. It did not recognize the new sale of the region and incorporated Anchorage and its surroundings, while  Liechtenstein was compensated with the Alexander and Kodiak archipelagos, neither recognized by Vostok, which to this day claims all of Alaska as part of its territory.

After the war, the Romanovs accepted the crown from the Grand Principality of  Vostok for the first time. Attempts to make some socialist reforms were made under Prime Minister Raphael Abramovitch, but Grand Prince Vladimir quickly put an end to the whole project and seized more and more power for himself. During the Cold War,  Vostok was an authoritarian regime that claimed to be Russia in its entirety, although there were four other states that made the same claim. With the decline of  Rome, the way to reunite the many Russias was finally free. However, since the Romanovs could not rule this new Russia, they decided to maintain the independence of their  Grand Principality. This didn't save them from losing the remaining power in the Snowflake Revolution and the new 1996 constitution which gave them the role of ceremonial monarch. At the same time, the claim to represent the entire empire was dropped.

About three quarters of the population are ethnic Russians, the indigenous people make up the largest minority with almost 10%. The third place is occupied by the Germans, who emigrated to Alaska before the Second Purchase. The main religion is Christianity with the majority, mainly of Russian origin, follows the Russian Orthodox Church. Due to its geopolitical position between several great powers, Vostok has declared itself a strictly neutral country and therefore hardly participates in regional associations. However, the country is a member of important international organizations such as the WTO, WHO, ILO, FIFA and the  United Nations.