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The United Socialist States of Advara

The USSA is a nation that situates itself in the far north portion of the continent. The entire north of the continent is often referred to as "advara" by the local population, which roughly translates to "homeland" by the language of the locals, who call themselves the Advar, which explains the name. It is ruled over by an unorthodox council democracy in the way that it regularly holds national referendums for certain more socially impactful political decisions in addition to the political system in place. The capital city of Lornograd doubles as the center of culture and is located along the shores of the Ohzogri lake. wheras the most populated and economicly important city is known as Tsarna, which lies in the center of the Kursk province.

The USS of advara covers an area of 8,412,696 km² and juggles a cold-temperate climate to the south with the harsher artic ones more north in the region. The 126 million inhabitants make the USSA one of the more populous countries in the north and it has stabilized around this number for some decades now. The current economic, political and military nature of the nation is regarded as slightly xenophobic. Its population is introvert and regards their neighbours with more then simple healthy suspicion. This attitude is mirrored by their goverment, which explains many of their internal and foreign policies they enforce. It is no suprise then, that the USSA is known for their rather extreme imigration policies.

The Unites Socialist States of Advara has two different governing structures inside their borders. One is generally called the Soviet(translates to council) and it functions in the same capacity as most would imagine a regulair government would. The counterpart is called the "clansmeet" which is a similair political system that has existed for centuries amongst the local advar and deals with their internal politics. The clansmeet cooperates with the so called "soviets" in matters of foreign policy and nationwide economical and security matters. In some portions of the law, the soviet stands above the clansmeet, in others, they are allowed complete autonomy. A structure that has proven to be confusing and alien to many governments neighbouring them. Especially when visiting regions under juridiction of the clansmeet.

Geography

The USSA is relatively large region with a massive amount of natural beauty within their borders. There are nearly 33 national parks and 70 nature reserves within the nation. A large portion of its territory lies within the artic circle and large regions in the north have a permafrost climate.

Attributed to its size and the large amount of geological features in their territory, the USSA has a wide natural resource base, including major deposits of timber, petroleum, natural gas, coal, ores and other mineral resources.

Topography

Most of the USSA consists of a vast forests in the center and the north added with large plains to the south and south-east that are predominantly steppe to the south and heavily forested to the north, with tundra along the far northern fringes. These large plains in the southern section of the country ensure that the USSA has a massive amount of arable land, this combined with their relatively low density ensures that the USSA is practicaly self sufficient in food production aswel as making it one of their bigger exports. Mountain ranges are found along the eastern & southern regions and the northern fringes, such as the Caurus and the Vanu'Tian range, the latter contains the highest active volcano in the entire region aswel as one of the highest mountains in the world. The Jur'us Mountains, rich in mineral resources, form along the southern border, arching alongside the eastern coast.

The USSA has an extensive coastline along the Arctic and western oceans, as well as along the western Sea. Multiple islans are also under their control, the largest of these being Novayi zur, the island of nieuw zeeland and nieuw antwerpen. Multiple other islands, such as the vangrir islands are part of the USSA, but they are often small and sometimes not even places on the map.

The USSA has hundreds of rivers and inland bodies of water, providing it with one of the world's largest surface water resources. Its lakes contain a massive portion of the worlds liquid fresh water supply. The largest and most prominent of their bodies of fresh water is Lake Baikur and Baikar, they are both considered the world's deepest, purest, oldest and most capacious fresh water lakes. They are not completely bordered inside the USSA, but they protect any and all traffic over it in a nearly religious manner. Even though their neighbours to the south have a coastline, they are not allowed free and unregulated acces to the center of the lake. Something that has been the source of political strife between the two nations for decades. The two Baiki sisters, as the lakes are sometimes called, alone contains a large portion of the world's fresh surface water. Other major lakes include Constance and Donkermeer, also part of the ten largest lakes in the world, a list the USSA dominates. The USSA is the first in the volume of the total renewable water resources.

climate

The large size of the USSA and the large lakes that are spread around in their regions ensure humid continental climate, which is prevalent in all parts of the country except for the tundra in the far northern regions. The Mountains spread around the western and northern edges of the USSA protect it from the worst of oceanic influences, while the plains of the east and the south makes the country open to recieve warmer air from the south.

Most of North has a subarctic climate, with extremely severe winters in the inner regions of the upper provinces(mostly the vangrir and some of the korzani regions), and more moderate elsewhere. The strip of land along the shore of the Arctic Ocean, as well as the small islands in the far north, have a polar climate.

The most temperate portions of the nation can be found near the shores of the baiki lakes, where the influence of the continental climate to the south is the strongest.

Throughout much of the territory there are the 4 distinct seasons, especially in the south and the center, but even this region is known for their harsh winters. The north only has 2 practical seasons, a brutal winter and a reasonable summer.

Biodiversity

The USSA is known for its harsh winters and massive protected natural reserves and forests. This ensures that many species that no longer exist in many parts of the continent still roam inside the more isolated regions of the nation. From north to south the region of Advara, is clad sequentially in Arctic tundra, coniferous forest (taiga), mixed and broad-leaf forests and grasland, as the changes in vegetation reflect the changes in climate. The USSAA has huge forest reserves, known as "the lungs of Advara". There are hundreds mammal species and nearly a thousand native bird species in Russia. A total of 315 animal species have been included in the Red Data Book of the USSA as of 2019 and are now protected.

Politics

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Law

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Foreign Relations

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Military

The military of the USSA comes from 2 different sources, the clansmeet & the soviet. The clansmeet has no official warfleet and military aviation on any large scale. Most clans in the clansmeet contribute to the Legio(an army under direct command of the clansmeet, while the soviets and the Ktari clan contribute the Sentili(Translates to The guards). The other sections of the military are freely mixed between the population of the clansmeet & soviet combined, these would include the navy & the airforce. The USSA also nurtures three independent arms of service: The Strategic Missile Departement, The Aerospace Defence Departement, and the Airborne Troops. Both the border and coastal guard(whho both have a clansmeet counter part) are self sustaining departments in peace time, but subjects to the military in wartime.

The so called soviet draft that is enforced across the nation for all adults between 18 and 26, but the law does not automaticly enforce military service (see politics, the soviet draft). If one is subject to the military draft, then the second portion of the draft includes working in one of the military branches that allow drafties. These include the navy, the sentili, the Legio & border guard.

The USSA has an unhealthy nuclear weapon stockpile, but the exact size is unknown, remenisent of a cold war that included most of the continent. The only concrete fact is that the stockpile that they have is regularly modernised and that they have vehicle based mobile launchers that can establish launch sites in every corner of the USSA. It also sports a small fleet of ballistic missile submarines, who have been deployed in military engagements in the past, but never with nuclear armerments installed.

The total size of the USSA's military forces aswel as their surface navy and air force are among the largest in the region & the world.

The nation as a large and fully indigenous arms industry, producing most of its own military equipment with few types of weapons imported, moreso, the USSA would aquire lease contracts to build the weapons inside their own borders. The USSA does activly sell weapons internationally, exporting to nearly a hundred nations, but these do not include their complete stock. Several designs and vehicles are kept off the market and kept purely for official military service.

Economy

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Infrastructure

The soviets are known for building vehicles of all shapes and sizes. This comes from no small part that the USSA was a nation build on the back of ship and automobile manufacturing. The majority of civilian and industrial goes by train. Another bulk portion of industrial transport goes by the nations waterways. he USSA keeps pride in ensuring the high quality of their infrastructure and they invest in new technology and research to aid in its development all the time. But the USSA does not cater well to the needs of those who travel only by car. The road density of the USSA is lower then most other nations of similair wealth.

Civilian railroad traffic is run by the state, as it most internal traffic is very cheap for citizens inside the USSA. Industrial railroad traffic is privatised., they also large share in most "private" railroad companies, who are practicaly all privatised state companies. Practicaly all the railroad lines are electrified with only the most remote industrial sites or older, irrelevant railroads are still traversable by mechanised train. Since. The most renown railway in the USSA is Union Maglev line. Which connect all the major cities within the Union, The union was the first nation to build a trans city maglev line and it still holds the record for longest Maglev train track in the region.

Much of the Advaran inland waterways, which sprawl across the entire nation, are made up of natural rivers or lakes, supplemented by channels and dams when neccesary. In the southern provinces, the netwerk connects many of the major rivers and lakes to eachother, allowing naval traffic to each of the major lakes in the nation. The capital is sometimes called "the port of the 4 winds", because of its waterway connections basicly slice the city in four with major industrial harbors placed a few kilometers out of the city center, the old industrial harbor replaced with a cultural and civilian port.

The USSA has many major sea harbors, especially for international export. In 2055 the country owned nearly 1.400 merchant marine ships, a number kept stable and kepy healthy with the addition of new ships, the retirement of older ones and the refurbishing of those who need it. The USSA owns the largest fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers in the world and they use it for their controvertial economic operations on the polar regions. Aswel as to keep the sea routes to the north of their territory open for trade.

Typically, major soviet and Advar cities have extremly-developed systems of public transport, with the most common varieties of exploited vehicles being the metro system. most major cities have developed metro systems, expanded whenever the city infrastructure demands it. The USSA has amongst the best kept and developed metro systems in the world and they take pride in building their stations, especially their major intersection stations with rich decorations, often depicting cultural or historical art in a typical soviet or Advar style.

Science & Technology

In the past century, in which the USSA grew to be amongst the great economic powers in the region, they have not only modernised their industry to the modern standards, but they also started to carve their own legacy in the terms of Science and technology.

Although most avenues of technology and research are in some way being researched in the territories of the USSA, some have a much larger amount of funds at their disposal and enjoy a much more central place in the economy of the USSA. Energy research, especially nuclear, aswell as fusion and other related fields are amongst the most researched inside the USSA, ecplipsed by areaspace technology and seconded by genetics, ecological and communications technology.

In the latter, the USSA is reasonably infamous, the world wide web, to which the majority of the world connects, is under heavy restriction inside the nation after military hacking & information theft from foreign sources became a problem in years past. The USSA have their own internal communications netwerk alongside the WWW which is used exstensivly for all state run departments, the military & many companies within the nation. Connection to the "USSA servers" as most call the phenomenon from outside the USSA can be done via connecting to USSA sattilites, but this is rarely allowed and requires a contractual agreement with the USSA state.

But what the USSA is famous for or at the very wants to be known for, is their push into areospace technology. They invest massivly in satellite development and the USSA has operated their own station in orbit for 2 decades now, which is a controversial drain on their resources. They have a fleet of readily replaced single use launch craft which they use to economicly send cosmonauts into orbit and beyond. The USSA also has a fleet of 4 space shuttles, one of those temporarily mothballed with 2 others decommisioned in the past 3 decades, one turned into a museum piece, the other in storage. The USSA has pushed for efforts to pioneer and expand human presence in space & on other bodies in space, starting with the moon. Accidents and delays have ensured that a semi-completed lunar base lies abandoned on the lunar surface, waiting until the USSA clears more funds and missions to continue the operation.

This large drain on the nations resources is validated by the motto of the USSA aerospace departement: "keeping the dream of human progress and the exploration of space a reality and to commence the expansion of the human race beyond the confines of our planet."

The USSA also has very controversial genetical research program and performs mandatory tests on new borns to test for genetic defects & diseases, many of which are curable in this day and age. Others involve "improving" on the human design, which includes boosting the human imune system, improving the rate in which people recover from wounds & many others venues of research that center around the improvement of the human body. Most of this research is done in very remote regions in research facilities off limits to the general public. Many specualte that even more controversial research is done without public knowledge.

history

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Culture

The culture in the USSA is a mix of two very different worlds, the more traditional Advar who take pride in keeping their ancient tradition alive and the patriotic soviets who are a hardy folk and very proud of the nation they often say was build with their own sweat & blood. The population under the soviet is well accepted as a modern civilisation, even though they are perhaps overly proud and patriotic, which is a result of their culture and the ingrained propaganda of the government,the draft and their history in fighting for their independance. Their society values discipline very highly, which is shown in their controversial nationwide draft, something that is very rare in the world these days. The culture the clansmen nurture is very different as they are much more extreme, especially in their traditionalism and how they mix modern technology with their very typical architecture, art & day to day life.

Even though their are some parallels in the overal culture inside the USSA, the stark difference between the two cultures makes the USSA a strange place. The soviets intigrate relatively succesfully within the international stage, but the traditional advar never did wel outside their borders. The culture shock often leaves them baffled and the lack of more traditional respect and the frank nature of general society often leaves them disgusted. Such is the often unmentioned agreement between the advar & the soviets that they take into account the social and cultural requirements of their neighbours and their hospitality is well rewarded. In turn for their hospitality and social, technological & economic advise, the soviets are allowed to often act as intermediaries in social and economic matters between the Advar territories and the world at large, gaining a healthy profit while doing so.

But history proves that these neighbours have not allways been on such friendly terms. Open hostility between the two factions has happened many times in history, but since the red flag rebellion, the socia, peace has been constant between the two factions and the treaty of Valentir, which defined the birth of the USSA ensured a close cooperation and friendship between the two population groups. Ancient hostilities are remembered by the Advar, but most if not all consider the modern soviets to be their trusted allies. The advar enjoy a large amount of independance and their culture thrives on their relative isolationism. They leeches all the fruits of a more progressive, adaptive society from the soviets. The soviets accept such an agreement on the terms of gaining a very valuable ally who are known for being fiercly loyal and willing to stand in the forefront of any trouble the nation at large finds itself in. It is not by chance that the percentage of Advar in the military in comparison to their total populace is much higher then the soviet one.

A good thing to know is that the clash between these two cultures asure that nationality and citizenship in the USSA has become somewhat complex. Technicaly, both groups are "Citizens of the Unites Socialist States". But you are far more likely to hear one of two things, either one idenitifies himself as a clansmen or even simply by the name of his clan or otherwise one would call himself a "soviet" as if defining himself by the council that represents him. This became, through the years, an official designation on most passports and electronic Indentification cards aswel. This play on words originates from the traditional Advar greeting. They welcome people from outside their clan, especially strangers, by the name of their clan of origin. The non-Advar population obviously do not have such a titel to call their own and eventually the name "soviet" was generaly agreed upon by the Advar as a respectful term to greet their neighbours with. After the valentir Treaty was signed and the two nations became one, it slowly intigrated in soviet society aswel. These days it is a term used by the government and the world at large to define a citizen of the USSA.

The Advar

The Advar culture is a unique mix between old and new. This is represented in their social interactions, their art, their architecture and in how they view society outside their own borders. The old clan culture of the Advar has been preserved through the centuries, hidden inside many of the traditions many of the clans still hold dear. The regions under the clansmeet use most of their more traditional values to inluence many of their laws and regulations, which creates a society that slightly reminds people of centuries past. Advar society & culture is roughly the same in all of their territories, but each different clan has their own specific quirks and characteristics under this general banner of Advar culture. Their society as a whole and by proxy each of the clans hold a handful of values to be their goal in life. These often include ancient terms such as honor and kinship but also discipline, trust & respect. These are considered to be the cornerstones of their society. They believe it to be the "secret" behind their longstanding history and they will consider any attempt to ridicule these "sacred" values inside their own territories to be an insult to their society, themselves personaly and in some cases, even a punishable crime.

history of the advarr -WIP-

The Advar are the original inhabitants of the northern and western most parts of the region and are known for their still predominant clan like social structure and their rather unique culture. The earliest evidence of Advar culture dates back to 390 A.D. But most historians agree that true Advar clan culture is connected to the birth of the clansmeet around 1200 A.D.

The Soviets

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Demographics

The population of the USSA numbers around 109.700.000 inhabitants. The majority of these live under the soviet government and are situated in the southern most provinces of the USSA. These regions have the highest population density in the nation and house the majority of the nations economy.

The percentage of Ethnic Advar inside the USSA is around 30.5% and has been on the slow rise for quite sometime as their birthrate has been higher then the average national rate for several decades now. A thing that has spawned the systematic growth of Advar cities who are known for being rather small compared to most others. Ethnic Kursks, the original inhabitants of the south-east temperate region of what is now the USSA, make up the majority of the remaining population at an 52%.The remaining population is composed of several other ethnic groups residing within the territory of the region. Most first generation imigrants do not become full citizens because of the requirements the soviet council places upon it.

The government recognises 3 different levels of legal citizenship in their region. The first are the the "soviets" or otherwise, the general populace of the nation, those that have a decleration of citizenship, something rather unique to the USSA. The second group are official inhabitants of the USSA, but those without an decleration of citizenship. They are classified as residents and non-citizenry and are barred from using some social services and from servicing in any government institution. These people have either chosen not to complete the draft or do not meet the imigration standards of the nation but are allowed temporary or permenant residance under some circumstances. The third group consists of everyone who resides under the banner of the clansmeet. They have jurisdiction to grant citizenship to any person they so desire.

The amount of foreign citizens in the USSA is limited, the culture of the region is not generaly not very welcoming to foreigners, especially outside the major cities and further from the border. Imigration laws are harsh and very demanding of the applicant. If one wishes citizenship per example, he must join the soviet draft, with nearly no exceptions to be given in this regard. If one can not complete the draft or is unwilling, he is not elligable for citizenship and must apply for residence without citizenship. Children born inside the USSA from non-citizen parents do not automaticly recieve citizenship, but can recieve it upon completing the draft when they are of age. Children born inside the USSA will recieve their citizenship at birth, but risk losing it when refusing to join the draft.

The current percentage of the non-citizenship population in the USSA is around then 11%

The Majority of the soviet population speaks one of the national languages, these being either Dutch, German of russian. However, english is most often used as a nationwide standard in the USSA as it it often the second language most children learn because it is ofcourse, the world standard international trading language.

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