Eurasia

Flag of the Union of Eurasia

The **Union of Socialist Republics of Eurasia** (**Eurasia**) is a supermassive state on the continent of Eurasia, comprising China, Russia, and much of Central Asia along with the outlying territory of Singapore and the Island of Taiwan. The nation is apart of the global communist alliance and the economic union Comecon. It is De Jure a socialist state but since the reforms of the 2010s and the Ansui Coup it has become a hybrid corporatist regime.

The country is currently directly administered and operated by the Ansui Corporate Government who maintains a Eurasian Transitionary Government. Eurasia has undergone a significant period of increased censorship and a crackdown on personal freedoms since the coup, along with a collapse in state control in the more remote areas of the Union. Currently Eurasia exists in a federal structure with day to day government being devolved to the Socialist State of China, the Socialist State of Turkestan, and the Socialist State of Russia. With each state having their own internal governance. The union is united through a common army, currency, foreign policy, and federal government.

## Origins

Eurasia began as part of an early economic union between the newly declared People's Republic of China and the USSR during the Cold War setting the stage for broad cooperation and an early jumpstart to China's post war economy. Cooperation would eventually evolve to the declaration of a common currency in 1955, and a full fledged federal Union in 1965. The Eurasian Common Army first saw limited action as part of its advisor teams sent to Indochina, the eventual success of the Common Army saw successive deployments across the globe along with the development of a robust Eurasian Arms Industry. Despite the agreement to federalization taking place in 1965, much of the current Eurasian State structure would develop slowly throughout the 20th century through various reforms and policies.

## China's Growing Dominance

China's immense population would grow to outstrip the Russians, even though the former USSR retained an economic advantage for much of the 20th century. Mass investment and intelligent economic policies would lead to the Chinese Eastern Seaboard becoming a hotbed for economic development and trade leading to millions being lifted out of poverty and creating a new middle class within Eurasia centered in China. Soon the political heart of the Union would also shift with the Beijing becoming the Executive Capital of the union(Moscow hosting the legislature and Astana becoming the Judicial Center). The decision to host the seat of power in Beijing deeply upset the Russian Ultranationalist movement rising in the country leading to the formation of the party in 1985, and it being banned in 1990.

## Eurasian Civil War

The defining event of the 21th Century was the brief, but costly, Eurasian Civil War. Fought primarily in the Russian Socialist State, the Eurasian Civil War saw the mass uprising of the Russian Ultranationalist Party against the Eurasian State. Throughout the early 21st Century the Ultranats began waging a low level insurgency against Eurasia, growing in support and largely hiding in the rural parts of Russia. By 2035 the party had gained general popular support in Russia and in many ways had infiltrated the national guard and some levels of power within Russia. In August of that year, ultranationalist insurgents donned their blue berets and took to the streets, at the same time political officials such as the Mayor of Moscow ordered local forces to stand down and within days the vast majority of Western Russia was under the control of the new Ultranationalist state. Similar scenes took place in the Russian Far East leading to the establishment of the Free Russian Far Eastern Republic.
For the next year the Eurasian Army would encircle and destroy the rebellion, with notable battles taking place in Leningrad, Vladivostok, and Ryazan. The key factor for the Eurasian's lightning success came to be the frequent infighting amongst the Ultranationalists. Leftists and Fascist elements of the movement often openly fought each other and worked against each other as the situation grew more desperate and the rebellion faltered.
The civil war caused Eurasia's global position to falter leading directly to a series of successive proxy engagements in Operation Cetshwayo, Southeast Asian Spring, and the fall of East Germany during the Civil War.

## Ansui Coup

Following an extended decade of peace and rebuilding the premier of the Eurasian Communist Party, Han Keqiang, had set Eurasia on the path of reform and rapprochement with the west. Consecutive successful meetings with NATO+ leaders allowed for the closing of the conflict in Turkey, along with a general decrease in tensions. For his efforts, the Paramount Leader of Eurasia, had won himself a Nobel Peace Prize and seen Eurasia rise to an era of peace and prosperity following the turbulence of the Russian Ultranationalist revolt and its fallout. However, much of his success was owed to the equal success of the Ansui Corporation, which had taken a deep hold of global society. Ansui military elements had become become one of the largest and most capable forces in the world, their equal partnership within the Eurasian military meant they had entrenched themselves deep in the state. Using the growing resentment amongst hardline politicians and the military, Ansui orchestrated a successful palace coup of the Eurasian government, replacing it with a transitionary government. Simultaneously Ansui executed a coup in their home nation of Japan, leading to the Japanese Civil War. This would also lead to a period of extended instability within Eurasia as the Ansui government reasserted control over the massive union. The former government of Eurasia would flee to Taiwan and Singapore, taking over the islands and setting up a government in exile there while asserting their legitimate status.

## Poltiics

The Eurasian Union officially operates as a Socialist People's State Guided by the Ansui Corporation. The state ideology is Corporate Socialism, which was created by the newly ruling Ansui government. The nation has a significant militarist and expansionist wing owing to the influence of the military on the state as a whole. The transitionary government is set to end in 2057 where a new premier will be chosen and a new legislature elected.

## Foreign Relations

The new Ansui government continues to assert itself as the head of the global socialist order, but that position is now in dispute with the UAPR. Eurasia remains close ties with Hungary, Bulgaria, Afghanistan, and Korea who have declared themselves loyal to the new regime and whereas the rest of the Eastern Bloc remains neutral or has asserted the UAPR as the global head.