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The United Socialist States of Advara
Motto: Brothers and Sisters! To fight for the Union! Prepare!
Anthem: The hymn of the people
Capital		Lornograd
Largest city		Tsarna
Demonym		Citizen, Soviet, Clansmen
Government		council democracy/direct democracy
-	Representative of the Luran republic	Journ Boris
-	Representative of the Red Army	General Zergi
-	Representative of the Sentili	General Kirna
-	Representative of the Federation/clansmeet	Moriani Auster jurgen
-	Representative of the Boluran republic	Kristian Adler
Establishment
-	First Clansmeet	Circa 500
-	Brown Flag rebellion	1791
-	Red Flag rebellion	1935
-	Decleration of the independant USSA	1955
Area
-	Total	8,412,696 km2 3,248,160 sq mi
Population
-	2060 census	126.700.000
Currency		The Credit

The United Socialist States of Advara

The USSA or the United Socialist States of Advara is a nation that is run under a Treaty of mutual social, economic and military cooperation that is currently composed of 3 member states. The first Being the Federation of Advar clans or the "Clansmeet" in the north. The second would be the Luran Republic, otherwise called the "Soviet Republic of Advara" in the east. The third would be the Bolarun Republic in the south.

The USSA has their own small government composed of all 3 member states that decide on economic and social reforms that impact all the member states. Aswel as any military intervention that is required by them as a whole. All member states have independance in arranging their own police forces and dictating local law to a large extent. But the other member states will intervene if the reputation or stability of the whole is at risk.

Lornograd, both the capital city of Luran & the USSA as a whole, houses the majority of their governmental institutions. It also 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 near the international border of the Kursk province.

The USSA situates itself in the far north portion of the continent. The entire region is often referred to as "advara" by the local population, which roughly translates to "homeland" in the Terrisian, which explains the name. The USS of Advara covers an area of X km² and juggles a cold climate to the south with its much harsher artic equivalent more north in the region. The X 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, which can be attributed to their social policies.

The current economic, political and military nature of the nation is regarded as slightly xenophobic, especially towards the more interiour nations, with whom the USSA has a very destructive history. However, when compared to their past, the current outlook is much healthier and open then how the nation used to be. But even taking this into account, the population is known to be rather introvert as a whole and they regards their neighbours with a little more then healthy suspicion. This attitude is mirrored by their goverment, which explains many of the internal and foreign policies they enforce. It is no suprise then, that the USSA is known for their rather extreme imigration and visitation policies.

The Unites Socialist States of Advara functions as overlapping government for all member states to ensure mutual cooperation in economics, social policy, international politics and military defense. All member states sign a Treaty that enforces a common constitution that is centered around the basic notion of building a combined socialist nation.

Geography

The USSA is relatively large region with a massive amount of natural beauty within their borders, something that is defended fiercely, by the state. There are nearly 33 national parks and 70 nature reserves, of varying size within the nation. Their size is somewhat downplayed by the large portion that lies within the artic circle the permafrost climate they nurture.

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, with tundra along the northern fringes. 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 eastern Sea. Multiple islands are also under their jurisdiction, 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 neighbours for decades. The two Baiki sisters, as the lakes are sometimes called, alone contains a massive portion of the world's fresh surface water, Other major lakes include Constance and Donkermeer, who are all 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 enormous size of the USSA and the remoteness of many areas from the sea result in the dominance of the humid continental climate, which is prevalent in most parts of the country except for the tundra and artic climate to the north. Mountains along the north-eastern coasts protect the nation from extreme influences from the northern oceans and the plain of the west and south makes the country open to continental influences.

The large size of the USSA ensures that is enjoys differing climates based on the province or region you visit, basicly cut into 2 major climatical regions. A subartic one, with permafrost in many regions and extreme winters in the north and a more moderate one further south, though with rather harsh winters and somewhat mild summer.

Biodiversity

The regions under the USSA are known for their harsh winters and massive amount of 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 and their their nature reserves. From north to south the region of Advara is clad sequentially in Arctic tundra along the northern islands, coniferous forest (taiga) along the north of the continent, mixed and broad-leaf forests in the center regions and eventualy grasland and plains, as the changes in vegetation reflect the changes in climate. The USSA as a result has huge forest reserves also known as "the lungs of the continent". There are hundreds mammal species and nearly a thousand native bird species in the USSA region. A total of 315 animal species have sadly been included in the Red Data Book of the USSA as of 2019 and are now protected.

Politics

The USSA constitution is well known for enforcing the soviet in all of their current territories. Workers in each voting district elect their local soviet or assembly, which serves as the legislative part of the governmen. This local soviet then elects their regional assembly all the way unto a state assembly, which has jurisdiction over their own territory. They then elect their representatives to see to their needs in the USSA Supreme Soviet or Supreme Assembly. Each of these Assemblies would then allways elect their local so called "peoples" Councils, who would serve as the Administrative branch of each level of government.

Each member state has high autonomy, but still needs to adhere to the Constitution of the USSA aswel as any policy that passes through the Supreme Assembly. The Supreme Assembly, aided by the Supreme Council and the supreme court are considered to be the highest tier of government in the nation.

The Assembly serves as the legislative portion of the USSA and they discuss any matter that a member state wishes to discuss. They are the true cornerstone of the nation and decide over its immediate and long term future, be it social, economic or military. The Supreme court ensures that the common constitution and all its policies are upheld and executed properly. The Supreme Council then ensures the law administring section of the state and ensure that the Administrative needs are taken care off.

The member states, as mentioned above, are allowed high autonomy in their law & descision making, but only if it is in accordance with the basic democratic and socialist values decreed by the USSA constitution. The USSA Supreme Court also upholds the duty of ensuring that all member states act in accordance with the Treaty upon which the USSA is based aswel as any policies it enacted. The Supreme Council and the Assembly also uphold and maintains the complex system that intertwines the member states economies aswel as control the USSA Armed Forces, better known as the "Red Army".

Law

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Foreign Relations

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Military

The military of the USSA comes from a tithe, the member states are allowed their own internal defense forces, but they are required to contribute for one part to the nationwide draft aswel a certain amount of military personel and funds to upkeep the combined armed forces, the size of the tithe generaly calculated by their population size. This is the normal system, utilised by the Luran and Bolarun republics. But the Advar federation, otherwise known as the clansmeet, has typicly refused to have their ground forces trained by anything else but their own cultural standards and norms. This is allowed has been partially allowed in the USSA, but the federation pays for that privilage by being deployed in nearly every military and policing endeavour the USSA embarks upon. The exception does not apply to all branches of the military however, but this is explained in more detail under the "Sentili".

The military of the USSA is mostly composed of 3 major branches. The Army, Airforce and Navy. But they also nurture three independent arms of service: The Strategic Missile Departement, The Aerospace Defence Departement and the Airborne corps. Both the border and coastal guard(who both have an independant federation counter part) are self sustaining departments in peace time, but they subject to the Army and navy respectively in wartime.

The USSA also employs a nationwide one year draft, sometimes marginalised as the "soviet" draft. It lasts for the majority of a full year and is designed to instil respect and discipline into the drafties, who will spend the majority of their time in basic training and performing survival exersizes. They regulations of the draft ensure that they can not be deployed in foreign territory unless all member state governments agree in the neccesity. The Federation itself, with their only supports the naval draft as they enforce a similair draft, but then subject to the Sentili command structure instead of that of the USSA regulair army.

The USSA Also sports an unhealthy nuclear weapon stockpile, but the exact size is unknown, remenisent of a cold war that included most of the continent decades ago. 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. They 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, not counting the yearly draft members. The USSA army is much smaller then the larger army is sustained in decades past, but after the cold war they abolished a large portion of their standing army, to avoid economic collapse.

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

Sentili

The sentili is the autonomous military command that operates under the Clansmeet and is manned completely by Federation citizenry. The culture of the Clansmeet is radicaly different then those of their neighbours and even their counterpart USSA member states. So different, that is was deemed better overal, in operational effectiveness, as the cultural unity within the army allows for better communication through the ranks and to allow the Sentili high command to discipline their own soldiers as they wish. It is well known that discipline and punishment for any crime when wearing the sentili uniform is harshly dealth with. Something that is often seen as somewhat barbaric compared to the other USSA armed forces.

The Sentili technicaly only comprises of a land army and an airborne corps that is seen as a subdivision of the overal command. The USSA armed forces, especially the airforce has entire squadrons manned with Federation citizens. These squadrons and divisions are then often deployed within Federation territory or semi-permenantly attached to Sentili military formations.

The Sentili is basicly a massive exception to the USSA draft and military contribution law, which states that all member states must contribute to the draft and the military of the USSA as a whole. The exception of the Sentili and the privilage of organising the USSA draft internaly does ofcourse come at a price. The Clansmeet must deploy alongside ANY action the USSA armed forces undertake, no matter how small or how large. They must contribute to any military intervention the USSA undertakes and they must complete any military directive the USSA council decides to deploy them on independantly.

This practice has ensured that in the past few decades, the ratio of time deployed per person in service is much higher in the Sentili then it is in the Red Army. It is more or less seen as a badge of honor though, then as a burden. The Federation admits that they are in stark breach of the USSA conscription laws and are more then willing to pay for their privilage this way.

Economy

Although there are significant differences among the USSA member states in their economic policies, they all share some common traits. These include support for a "universalist" welfare state which is aimed at stabilizing the economy and ensuring a commitment to free trade. The current model the USSA implements focusses on maximizing labor force participation, extensive benefit levels, a large magnitude of wealth redistribution, and liberal use of expansionary fiscal policy.

The economic system is described as one of competitive capitalism combined with a large public sector. The combination of extensive public provision of welfare and individualism has been described by many as “statist individualism." The current economic system is marked with low levels of inequality, generous welfare states and reduced concentration of top incomes.

Infrastructure

The USSA has been known for building vehicles of all shapes and sizes. This comes from no small part that the USSA nurtured an economy build on the back of ship and automobile manufacturing. In the past few decades, new laws and policies were implemented to dramaticaly reduce the amount of personal vehicles on the road and to upgrade the public transport net so that it could facilitate more then 80% of civilian traffic within national borders. This was temporarily damaging to the local economy, but the laws were implemented slowly, in order to give the industry time to shift their production. Currently, the major industries within the nation are shipbuilding and the refinement of heavy and light metals aswel as chemical engineering. Their arms industry is a medium sized, but well oiled machine that systematicly churns out devices of war to be sold abroad or to replace the well kept stock the USSA & Sentili armed forces.

Due to their infrastructure focus, the majority of civilian and industrial goes by train, metro or bus. Another bulk portion of industrial transport goes by the nations waterways. The USSA member states keep 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. The USSA also pushes its members to build railway tracks that are constructed in a way as to least interfere with their surroundings. Because of this the road density of the USSA, especially far from cities, is lower then most other nations of similair wealth.

Most Civilian railroad traffic is run by the state, to ensure most internal traffic is very cheap for citizens inside the USSA. Industrial railroad traffic is partialy privatised. But the state owns a large share in practicaly all "private" railroad companies, many who were state run companies in decades past. Most railroads are electrified with only the most remote mining sites or older, irrelevant railroads are still traversable by mechanised train. Exceptions to this being places where the weather simply does not allow for the electric track system. The most renown railway in the USSA is Union Maglev line. Which connect The 10 largest cities within the Union, The union was amongst the first nations 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 two seas, 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, directly adjecent to the city, replaced with a cultural and civilian port.

The USSA has many major sea harbors, especially for international export. In 2055 the nation 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, with practicaly all of said naval production and maintenance done within their own border. Because of their artic positioning, the USSA owns the largest fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers in the world and they use them 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 cities in the USSA have extremly-developed systems of public transport, with the most common method of transportation being the metro systems. The USSA ensures the well developed metro infrastructure of the larger cities investing or advising city councils whenever neccesary. The USSA has amongst the best kept and developed metro systems in the world and all the member states take pride in building their stations, especially their major intersections, with rich decorations often depicting cultural or historical art in a typical soviet or Advar style depending on the location.

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 advanced their industry to compete on the world stage, 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 inside 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, rivaled only by areaspace technology and seconded by genetics, ecological and communications technology.

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. The USSA has the capability to produce a steady number of 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 been pushing the limits of space exploration in an effort to pioneer and expand human presence in space & on other bodies in space, starting with the moon. Accidents and delays have ensured that the dream of a permanent lunar base allways lies just outside of reach.

This massive drain on the nations resources is validated by the motto of the USSA aerospace exploration 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 a 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 cellular regeneration & many others venues of research that center around the improvement of the human species. 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

-->Short intro, basicly a placeholder The USSA as it stands now was created in 1935 and still stands in 2060, albeit it has amended the constitution once along the way. The USSA was created 8 years after the Red flag rebellion ended in 1927.

In 1927, the red flag rebellion officially ended and the luran and Boluran republic were both in a horrible state, both in economics and in military strength. The combined damage of the The krir war a decade prior, followed by nearly a six years of civil war made it impossible for either the Luran or Boluran republics to ensure their own independance against their neighbours who were already preparing a second Krir war in the wake of their severly weakened enemies.

The Clansmeet ( The name "Advar Federation" had not yet been coined yet ) had aided in the rebellion and both republics requested that the clansmeet would defend their combined independance until they could rebuild, in return the two nations would cede a portion of their less populated areas and pay them a yearly sum for ten years, starting 5 years after the treaty was signed. The Clansmeet accepted and the Sentinel Treaty was signed, it later served as the groundwork of the Decleration of the United Socialist States of Advara, which was drafted 6 years after the Sentinel Treaty went into effect.

The two nations had rebuild faster then expected and they were well on their way of rebuilding the worst of the damage suffered. They already started levying their own armies in order to facilitate their own defense, negating the need of the Sentili Treaty. However, all 3 nations wished for a continued economic and military pact, in order to continue their collective growth. As such, the USSA was born in juli 1935.

History of the Advar Federation (and their predecesors) spans from 525 AD to 2060

History of the Luran Republic (and their predecesors) spans from 1325 to 2060

History of the Boluran republic spans from 1791 to 2060

Culture

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The Advar Federation

TheLuran Republic

The Boluran Republic

Demographics

The population of the USSA numbers around X inhabitants. The majority of these live inside the Luran republic , with the second most populace being the Federation and the Boluran republic making a close third.

The percentage of Ethnic Advar inside the USSA is around 26.5% and has been on the slow rise for quite sometime as their average birthrate is higher then the one of the other member states. A thing that has spawned the systematic growth of Advar cities who are known for being rather small compared to most others. the Luran republic, make up the majority of the remaining population at an 52% and the Boluran republic houses the remaining 21%.

The USSA recognises 2 different levels of legal standing in their region. Citzenry, non-citizenry, the act of granting the title is left to the member states, with some basic requirements given. Citizenry in one of the member states ensures legal and medical security in the entirety of the USSA. To become a citizen of the USSA, one must pass several legal circuits and they must undergo a basic investigation to ensure they have the will and the capabilities to function within the USSA as a whole. ADDED to this, is the draft, which must be completed before given legal citizenry to all who are capable. Some exceptions are allowed in certain cases, but one will serve the state in a different capacity in that case for an equal amount of time. Those who are not capable of performing the draft can still apply for residency within the USSA, but that stature does not hold as much "privilage" as the citizenry, one is not seen as a second class citizen, but is simply barred from working in certain government facilities and they will not be given automatic national healthcare, although substitute programs do exist.

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 and any alternative given.

The Majority of the population speaks one of the national languages, these being either Dutch, German or 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.

Education

The USSA has a free education system, which is guaranteed for all citizens by the Constitution. This ensures that all citizens recieve free education from 2 to 18 years of age. However entry to subsidized higher education is highly competitive. The USSA places immense emphasis on science and technology in education, this ensures that their medical, mathematical, scientific, and aerospace research is of the highest quality.

Education is generaly done in 4 different levels. Each one generating a "degree" which is required for advancing to the next level. The first is known as the "Initiation" or "pre-schooling". Every child, starting from the age of 2 to 3 start this program. The second generaly starts from age 6 and is known as the "primary". The third level, known as "secondary" starts from age 12 and continues to age 18. These 3 levels are mandatory, with some exceptions. The fourth level is college or University and is voluntary.

Health

The USSA Constitution guarantees free, universal health care for all its citizens In practice, however, free health care is partially restricted because of mandatory registration of citizens and the differences of coverage between citizens and non-citizens. Citizens enjoy a purely tax-funded healthcare systems with minimal to no requirements placed on the population prior or during use of the system. Non-citizens however, have to apply for a generalised social healthcare insurance model that the state upkeeps. Depending on the region and the indivdual, no extra cost to the person is enforced, but the insurance model allows closer supervision of the individual and the oppertunity to deny coverage if the government finds evidence of abuse. A system created to ensure foreigners do not enter the country hoping for quick, free healthcare.

Religion

Religion has long been known as a dying thing inside the Luran and Bolarun territories. Fifty years ago, those states no longer subsidised religious organisations of any kind. This, coupled with the fall of spirituality in the population ensured that the amount of religious affiliated people in the USSA has crashed significantly. The focus of the state and the culture around crude realism, brute honesty and discipline often competed directly with the values of many religious sects, also contributing to their decline. This is not to say that religion is completely dead in the USSA, but the percentages are neglegable. The vast majority of the population in these two member states lists itself as unaffiliated or atheist.

This is not to say spirituality is completly dead however. One of the cornerstones of the culture in the Clansmeet territories is a mix of ancestor glorification and a deeply rooted appreciation for nature and its "gifts". This practice is often called the "Barrenbo" which roughly translates to "Giving Thanks"