Russia

### Government

Federal semi-presidential nonpartisan republic under a totalitarian dictatorship

### Currency

Ruble

**Russia**, or the **Russian State**, is a massive country spanning across Eastern Europe and northern Asia, bordering twelve different countries and spanning twelve different time zones. It is a member and the de facto leader of the Moscow Accord.

## Politics

### Leadership

**Vozhd, President of the Russian State, Chairman of the Union for the Defense of the Motherland and Freedom:** **Boris Savinkov**

**Prime Minister of the Russian State:** Aleksandr Dikgof-Derental

**Minister of Internal Affairs:** Sergei Efron

**Minister of Foreign Affairs:** Victor Mikhailovich Baidalakov

**Minister of Finance:** Dmitri Shepilov

**Minister of Communications:** Konstantin Rodzaevsky

**Minister of Culture:** Nikolay Vasilyevich Ustryalov

**Chief of the Armed Forces:** Markian Popov

**Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces:** Andrey Vlasov

**Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy:** Ivan Isakov

**Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force:** Pavel Kutakhov

### Government

Russia is a de jure semi-presidential republic, with elections organized every five years. However, in practice, Russia is a totalitarian dictatorship, and these elections are merely held to fill the mainly ceremonial Senate and Duma. The presidential elections, too, are a formality, as the only two options are to either confirm or deny the re-election of the dictator Boris Savinkov: elections which see a nearly 100% victory margin. Even if these elections were to oust him, he would remain in power, as the separate position of Vozhd is lifelong and absolute.

## Gameplay

Boris Savinkov, the Vozhd of two decades, shall be celebrating his 77th birthday in early 1956, but no speech or ceremony will be given. For the past few years, Savinkov has scarcely made public appearances, remaining in office but reportedly taking extraordinarily long vacations. Public appearances and statements have mainly been issued from his younger son, Lev Savinkov, who has served as his personal caretaker in recent years. Rumors suggest Savinkov is in very ill health, having apparently suffered a stroke in March 1954, and the ramifications of this has spread all across the Russian government.

Because Savinkov did not officially name a successor, nor organize a well-defined governmental structure, the interest groups that supported Savinkov have scrambled into infighting: primarily the bureaucrats, aristocrats, and the military. The former, primarily led by ministers Aleksandr Dikgof-Derental, Victor Mikhailovich Baidalakov, and Dmitri Shepilov, would form a troika that has formed the *de facto* authority in Russia for the past two years.

## National Spirits

-20.00% Stability
+5.00% Resistance Growth Speed
+10.00% Damage to Friendly Garrisons

The Third Patriotic War saw the All-Russian Nation finally restore its balance against the Hun, welcoming the disparate and often-confused peoples back into the motherland. From the sands of Central Asia, to the Baltic shore, to the peaks of the Caucasus, to the Carpathian highlands. The so-called “independent states” of the East, established by either German enslavement or Russian humiliation, are back in the fold, and will remain for centuries to come.
However, they perceive a different story.
Their decades of illusion, under the tyrannical guise of independence, have tainted their natural place in a greater Russia. Even the most ardent anti-Germans had actively fought against us to the last man, betraying our common heritage. And now, today, they remain fighting. So convinced have they been by this lie that they have done so for over a decade, rallying behind desperate partisan guerrillas who wish to maintain their freedom. Their own people cheering them on as they ransack and ambush Great Russians.

-30.00% Stability
-0.50 Daily Political Power Gain