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by **Dra-pol** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:25 am

The Choist People's Republic of Dra-pol
A Visitor's Handbook
DCP Press, Khiem'ko, 2011

Name

The name Dra-pol has a poetic root in aboriginal Drapoel culture, which has developed over a million years, and refers to the country as the land of morning calm.

The occupied southeast of the nation is known to patriots as Sul-pol, another ancient poetic reference from the same period, which in modern use describes the collaborationist state as the land of disturbed nights. The illegal regime in Kheol styles itself the National Republic of Dra-pol, which is unrecognised in Da'Khiem and all free societies.

The Choist People's Republic takes its official title from the name of its Wisest Leader, who had the courtesy name Chao Shih-an during his career as a university professor and Secretary of the Drapoel Communist Party before adopting the cadre name Kurosian upon his election as Director of the Republic.

Foreign parties acting under the guise of neutrality have sought to avoid causing offence to Sul-pol's alien occupiers by referring to the CPRD and NRD respectively as Upper and Lower Dra-pol, giving more regard to the pride of imperial occupiers than to the wishes of seventy million Drapoel people.

Complexities of the Drapoel language and writing system make translation and transcription a relatively fluid affair historically. This applies also to the nation's name. The term Choist People's Republic of Dra-pol is one translation, and may also be written Kurosite People's Republic of Dra-pol.

Commonly used abbreviations by English-language or other Latin-script sources include CPRD and KPRD.

by **Dra-pol** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:26 am

Out Of Character Qualification Post

This thread is presented as a publication of the CPRD deviating significantly from the usual tone of state media output and official statements in that it is not in itself tantamount to a declaration of war on anybody. It is not for domestic consumption. While less extreme in its patriotism and ideological bias than most government publications, the factbook is still far more sympathetic to Da'Khiem than any Walmingtonian or even third-party source would be.

I say all of this now so that the thread should not become clogged with OOC criticism and contention. Take it up with the Drapoel Communist Party.

This is the first time that Da'Khiem has directly admitted that the likes of Kurosian and Hotan are cadre names, and that the personalities behind them previously went by more normal names, and indeed that those prior names -which in some cases were previously known to foreign scholars et cetera- are also likely to have been adopted mid-life and to differ from birth names. All of this was, of course, previously known, but not something that the state would ever have bothered to explain. This may be unimportant in itself, but stands as representative of just how unusual a publication the handbook really is.

Some names, such as Sul-pol for the south, are used by Da'Khiem but not by the subject and perhaps not anywhere outside of the CPRD except by its few international supporters.

There is some historical revisionism evident in the text, and the tone is unsurprisingly critical when addressing the nation's many grievances with the world at large.

Note, for example, the supposed million years of Drapoel culture: this is something that many ordinary citizens are encouraged to interpret as a million years in which recognisably Drapoel people have worked the soil and rock of the peninsula, hunted its fauna, and defended its borders. Foreign observers in the know will recognise instead an unsubstantiated but not necessarily impossible belief in Drapoel academia that early human foragers walked into Dra-pol almost one million years ago and, rather than dying out and being replaced hundreds of thousands of years more recently by homo sapiens, evolved an independent branch of modern humanity that would eventually become the small, dark, and hardy Drapoel people. For these people to hold such a belief is not so incredible, with some people in China having similar ideas about themselves, and is basically another branch of the relatively unpopular theory of multi-regional origin of modern humans. It does mean, however, that the Drapoel believe themselves not just a distinct race but a unique species. Whether this has been accepted or even considered by anyone else isn't for me to say.

Within the CPRD the tone of state media is immeasurably more hostile to and damning of Walmington, Avarga, Chrinthanium, Belgeland, and other states, and the level of self aggrandisement astronomically higher. Different statistics are presented to the populace. Foreign actions that the guidebook describes as bad may be doubleplusungood so far as the populace is aware and completely made up so far as foreigners can tell.

Accordingly, even visitors choosing to buy the handbook could face significant problems with the authorities should they even accidentally disseminate to the general population any information contained within it, though this is likely to be difficult in any case due to the guided and guarded nature of tours and even of business and diplomacy visits.

Finally, Dra-pol is not North Korea, or Burma, or Kampuchea. At times I have incorporated Korean and Burmese images, names, terms, but I will be trying to colour any such enhancements a Drapoel hue in future so as to avoid confusion. It is certainly an East Asian (or, depending on your preferred definition, South Asian, or South East Asian) place, an East Asian people and culture, and an East Asian history, but in each case an artificial East Asian item. Oh, and that's not a dig at any of our alternate real-world nations! I just don't want people to dismiss Hotan as Kim Jong-il, or the reunification struggle as red menace imperialism.

by **Dra-pol** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:27 am

Geography

Dra-pol is situated in South East Asia, between the Revolutionary Sea and the East Sea.

The Choist People's Republic borders in the southeast the collaborationist National Republic of Sul-pol, where foreign imperialism holds sway as it does over the Twin Cities off the coast.

Dra-pol's extent is to some 907,568 square kilometres all told. Of this, 675,578 square kilometres constitute the de facto boundaries of the Choist People's Republic while the Walmingtonian and Belgen occupied territories account for approximately 1,000 square kilometres and collaborationist Sul-pol represents 230,990 square kilometres. Of the CPRD's total, 219,028 square kilometres were recovered from imperialism by Hotan, the Greatest Leader, during the Glorious Reunification War.

Dra-pol's terrain features a central plain ringed by rugged mountains, and its highest point is Mt.Kurosian, a mountain on the northern border, rising 5,881 metres, the tallest in South East Asia.

The climate is tropical and monsoonal. Natural hazards with which the people have learned to contend traditionally include droughts followed by severe flooding, as well as occasional typhoons and earthquakes.

Natural resources found in Dra-pol include petroleum and natural gas, coal, precious stones, tin, tungsten, copper, zinc, lead, antimony, marble, limestone, timber, rubber, fish, and hydropower potential.

by **Dra-pol** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:28 am

Population

The population of Dra-pol is estimated to be 71,671,462. About 1,100,000 live under Walmingtonian domination and another 100,000 Belgen, and 18,257,088 in Sul-pol. The de facto population of the Choist People's Republic is presently 52,214,374.

Due to the sacrifices of recent generations, made in the liberation struggle, Dra-pol today has a relatively young population, a large proportion of which has grown up orphaned by imperialist bombs and raised communally as sons and daughters of Director Hotan and brothers and sisters of the state he has rebuilt from ruin. In attempting to destroy Kurosian's ideas in practice, the imperialists have strengthened Socialism in the hearts of his children. The people and their fatherland have grown in harmony, with unity of purpose.

Most citizens are ethnic Drapoel. There is a small minority, amounting to to less than one percent of the populace, driven from other parts of Asia by historic crises and conflicts, while in Lower Dra-pol the largest minority is associated with imperialist and exploiter classes as is the case in the so-called Concessions.

by **Dra-pol** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:28 am

Government

Capital: Da'Khiem

Government type: Kurosite Socialist Directorate, Democratic Centralist

Chief of State: The CPRD's premiership lies with the Central Directorate, headed by the Director; the post is currently held by The Greatest Leader, Comrade Director Hotan.

Head of Government: The CPRD's government is headed by the Secretary of the Republic, who is elected by the Communist Party of Dra-pol; presently Comrade Secretary Iim Iyun-ki serves in this role

Suffrage: 16 years of age, universal

by **Dra-pol** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:30 am

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Economy

The economy of the Choist People's Republic is uniquely stable and resilient in a global age of reckless boom and bust profiteering. Wars of foreign aggression have been disruptive to economic planning, destructive of infrastructure, and have forced Da'Khiem to put valuable resources into securing industry against sabotage and the sort of civilian bombing that has been directed against the nation in the past, yet the economy has grown by one to four percent in nine of the new century's first ten years. This steady growth in industrial and agricultural output has translated into a similar rise in wages for workers in the Socialist economy, which in turn has enabled an increasing standard of living.

All citizens of the CPRD have the basic right to dietary-sustenance, housing, healthcare, and education, all of which are provided free of charge. Wages in the Choist model are used to acquire luxuries from exotic supplements to the staple diet of citizens to toys for children, and many workers choose to donate their wages to patriotic causes or establish a party subscription since all the necessities of life are provided by the state.

The CPRD has a young, skilled workforce, and since the mass liberations of the Glorious Reunification War has been able to significantly address long-standing labour shortfalls. The nation's economic base, which produces globally or regionally significant quantities of jade, gemstones (including more than 90% of the world's rubies), petrochemicals, hardwood, and medical opiates, is one of the world's largest rice producers and exporters, and is involved in everything from timber and paper production to the cutting-edge technologies of the space age.

Dra-pol exports more rice than is thought to be cultivated in the whole of North America and Europe combined, while still providing a minimum staple quantity of the grain free of charge to all citizens and allowing more to be traded at farmers' markets across the nation.

Though minerals and manufactures are exported across the globe, Dra-pol's most important trade partners include Beddgelert, Soviet Eelam, Nilosahara, and Depkazia...probably

by **Dra-pol** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:35 am

Defence

Dra-pol's Special Forces Command is possibly the largest such institution on earth, with 400,000 personnel in total.

The name of the Red Bamboo was awarded in honour of the peasants who rose against the occupiers and collaborationists during the liberation struggle and were popularly referred to in this colourful manner by their fearful enemies. With 280,000 personnel it is the largest special forces branch, and is perhaps the most intensively trained. Tasked with infiltrating occupied territory to conduct reconnaissance and espionage against the imperialist infrastructure, the Red Bamboo achieve this above and below ground and water, and by air.

Volunteer and national service recruits in the regular forces who receive above-average grades in training and exhibit genuine patriotic courage and political awareness are given the chance to join the elite infiltration force, and receive additional training in survival and evasion strategies, interrogation resistance, marksmanship, identification and use of standard enemy equipment, and hand-to-hand combat. The self-discipline techniques of pre-revolutionary Drapoel monks are adapted for Red Bamboo training, allowing recruits to remain detached and calm under pressure and to endure great hardship in the cause of revolution and reunification. Traditional martial arts, such as those used by then-Secretary Hotan to slay his three would-be assassins, are taught to the highest degree and, recalling the Wisest Director's feat, all Red Bamboo must defeat three regular soldiers in hand-to-hand combat before being allowed to join a mission.

The Parachute and Amphibious Divisions are formed of 120,000 special light infantry who would deploy with the help of Air Forces helicopters and light transport planes, Coast Guard submarines, landing ships, and hovercraft, and Ground Forces assault and infiltration tunnels in the opening stages of an offensive against the imperialists and attempt to seize key locations, disrupt enemy command, communications, and logistics, and spread confusion ahead of the Ground Forces Assault Divisions.

Like the Assault Divisions, it is conceivable that the special forces would cease to be necessary were the Christian imperialists and their collaborators to withdraw from Dra-pol and release its people.

by **Dra-pol** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:35 am

The Difficult Century

A modern history of the Drapoel state.

Long War of Foreign Intrusion: 1910-1945

Continuation War: 1950-53

Three Day War: 1963

Resistance War to Save the Nation from the Christian Empire (A.K.A. Kurosian's Rage): 1963-75

Glorious Reunification War: 1980-88

((W.I.P.))

by **Dra-pol** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:36 am

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by **Dra-pol** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 10:42 am

((Major updates to military and history sections, still in-progress))

by **Dra-pol** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 2:50 pm

((Overhaul step 2 completed. Irritation on realising that apostrophes break spoiler tags handled. More to come.))

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