Full Nation Name : The Golden State of the Rus.
Majority/Official Culture : A Polyglot identity based on the Rus' cultures' hybridization and the Turkic Tribes in the south.
Territorial Core : The territory is shown in the reserved map.
Territorial Claim : The vast expanses of Siberia.
Capital City : Sarai.
Population : Forty five Million.
Government Type : Semi-elective monarchy.
Government Ideology/Policies : Preservation of the Nation, Industrialization, and Social Cohesion.
Government Focus : Cultural Hegemony, and Imperial Preservation
Head of State : The Khagan/Golden Emperor Abd Al-Ahan Khan
Head of Government : High Prince of the Rus Leon Trotsky
Government Description : A union state combined the former arrangement of the Golden Horde in the south and its former tributary states in the north. Reforms made for the sake of necessity have concentrated the polyglot identity of the nation into three power blocs. The city-states of the Rus are lead by princes who pay tributary taxes of money, and crops while engaging in their own level of representation via the Thing (a holdover from their Norse heritage). The Kurultai serves its capacity as the legislature of the Bolgars, Mongols, and Khazars. Then of course there is the princely council which serves as a general advisory body. There is also an independent judiciary for the entire nation as well. The Khagan/Golden Emperor is chosen by election through the Kurultai and has to often deal with the imperial court, bureaucracy, and sometimes the kurultai itself if they hope to not only reform but sustain the system.
Majority/State Religion : Sojournism.
Religious Description : Sojournism: The Non-Karaite counter to Rabbinic Judaism.
Whereas Samaritans limit themselves to the first five books of Moses, and Karaites claim extra-biblical interpretation to not be valid, the Sojourners raises the third point. That Moses (if he existed) was wrong, and all one has to do is look at the wastrels of the former land of Judea. The Sojourners base their name on Abraham who sojourned from his lands on the orders of God to give birth to a whole host of peoples, places, and things. They don't believe in Moses, the judges, the prophets, and the kings nor do they claim Jerusalem as their holy site to be headed by a high priest, and a temple. Canaan is their holy land, but for now, they are "in Egypt" awaiting the day God will ordain the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to come forth from every corner, and set up their tents.
The holy text of the Sojourners is Genesis divided into twelve portions as per the old Torah cycle readings. Each of their months is named after an event of some significance in the text. Sections are read over the months with the year starting again when it comes time to read about the creation of the world. The calenders end with the death of Joseph, and the descendants of Abraham awaiting in Egypt for the time to be right. The faith of the sojourners is a monotheistic faith centered on the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob a being who is able to be known, and who walks on the earth with his angels. Worship is held in tents, and gardens and the faith view marriage in the context of bigamous (just as Jacob married Rachel and Leah) or allowing concubines (Abraham with Hagar).
Animal sacrifice is conducted following a ceremony reading God's test of Abraham over his son Jacob. Young men reach maturity in a ritual where they seek their father's blessings. People are circumcized within the faith as well, and the religion is more than willing to allow vengeance in cases of rape ( such as when the brothers of Dinah exacted vengeance upon their sisters rapists). Yet like Jacob, and Esau it also encourages proper forgiveness, to not lie (the birthright deception), to not murder (Cain and Abel or deceive (as josephs brothers did to their father).
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In regards to the Jewish connection essentially the Khazars survived rather than be destroyed, and were able to assimilate the polytheistic Rus, and eventually, the Golden Horde ended up converting to Judaism. The Sojournist branch is as much a take on the Mongol traditions as it is an attempt at genuine theology. Jerusalem is in the hands of tritheistic idolaters (Christians), and there is no Messiah coming to liberate Jews. God will act when he sees fit.
Economic Ideologies : Mixed Economy with bickering between the imperial government, reformers, and traditionalists in the east.
Major Production : Copper, Bauxite, Nickel, Petroleum, Agricultural Products, Fishing, Coal, Gold, and other minerals.
Economic Description : Different areas of the country have vested themselves into different areas of economics. The port principalities cling to trading, and merchants while the interior Rus states prioritize agriculture. The heartland where Sarai is located is a polar opposite to the horde areas. Modern and industrialized clash with the horde areas that are sprawling with forests, and lands for grazing. Several noted bands raid the Siberian for spouses, resources, and anything not nailed down.
Development: Semi-Industrialized.
Development Description : The economic development of the Golden State is highly mixed, to say the least. Novograd, for example, is highly industrialized compared to some of the other Rus principalities which have an agrarian-based economy. The lands of the Sarai area are modernized by western definitions yet go to the east and witness life as the wild west. It's at a crossroads between modernizing and being traditional to put it lightly.
Army Description : Organized via the Golden Writ with Mongolian, Indian, and Persian Tactics these days its assigned as an actual army rather than an excuse to raid, pillage, and conquer. However, there is debate over the direction of the army. Some want a fast, and mobile army while others merely want a defensive one.
Army Weakness : Internally squabbling amongst commanders, ethnic divisions, and the question over what to do with the frontier areas prevent this from being a well-oiled machine. The Golden State desires an efficient army but will have to solve these problems first.
Naval Description : Multiple fleets of varying precision, and skill with a primary focus on defensive military stances, combating piracy, and the enlistment of private merchant fleets
Naval Weakness : The decentralized nature of naval forces has for lack of a better word established several navies who report to different areas. The imperial navy located in the Caspian, and baltic is the only officially controlled government force. Meanwhile, Novgorod pretty much has their own private navies and assist the imperial fleet in matters of piracy. For all intents and purposes, the fleet of the east is privately owned by mercantile interests operating out of the western ports.
Further Military Description : There is disunity amongst the imperial command about the definition that should make up core doctrine for a new, and united military.
National Goals : 1) Revitalization vs Tradition 2) Reform vs Stagnancy 3) A Future vs being stuck in the past.
National Issues : 1) Industrialization needs to be uniformly enforced amongst the various regions, but local autonomy prevents such imperial overreach. As a result, the farther you get from the imperial territory, and the Rus heartland the more agrarian, and nomadic the commonwealth is. The very system which allows Sarai to profit by taxing its principalities to the north have ironically weakened it in other ways. In order to keep the various princes happy or distracted, the golden emperors/khagans over the past have granted them boons, privileges, and kept them bickering over one another.
2) Consolidation of an effective national identity, and government.
National Figures of Interest :
1) Leo Tolstoy: An agrarian, and monastic figure who promotes a pacificist state.
2) Leon Trotsky: Beliefs in the reformation of the Golden State into a Eurasian-styled state following mass democracy, acceptance of multiracial makeup, and a form of collectivism that promotes gradual change in society.
3) Golden Emperor/Khagan: The current holder of the title is Abd Al-Ahad Khan. He is a stern reformist and a no-nonsense ruler from the southern fringes of the imperial heartland. Elected from the Kurultai as a military, and the administrative candidate he will see the commonwealth to greatness before passing from this world.
4) Vladimir Lenin: A radical collectivist who wants to turn the Golden State into a state of perpetual revolution where everyone, and everything is a part of a proletarian dictatorship arranged by the military. The society of his ideal state will be arranged by perpetual warfare, perpetual indoctrination, perpetual nationalism, and perpetual revolution (the four goals). Mankind will build itself a god based on revolutionary virtues, and the executions will continue until the revolution finally has achieved its goals of liberating mankind.
National Ambition/Aspirations : Reformation into a federal structure, and clear definition of the various estates, and branches of power.
History :
Age of the Khazars (650-969)
Pre-Mongol Times (969-1206)
United Mongolian Empire (1206-1227)
Genghis Khan's imperial ambitions in China would not see much success despite him spending much of his life in an attempt to conquer it. Regardless the Mongolians did expand outwards at a rapid pace like no other.
[1211]: Genghis Khan ravages western Xia, but one of his commanders overzealous in their actions attacks a town belonging to the Song dynasty. Following the massacre, the Song proceeded to break off diplomatic relations with the Mongolians.
[1214-1215]: The defeat of Genghis Khan at the infamous battle of Yinchuan by the combined might of Jin, and Song put an end to Genghis and his ambitions in China for the rest of his life. Historians argue that had the battle gone the other way China very well may have begun to fall.
[1217-1221] Genghis Khan begins a campaign into the lands bordering the various states of the Rus, and by 1221 nearly borders them entirely.
[1227]: The Khagan is struck dead during a battle against the Bolgars inhabiting near the Volga river. Despite winning the battle that day the offensive is stalled in part due to the necessity of arranging a kurultai to elect a new Khagan.
The Mongolian Empire Cracks (1228-1267)
[1228] Batu Khan is appointed over the far reaches of the western portions of Genghis Khan's empire.
[1236] The Bolgars on the Volga river fall in part due to the efforts of Batu Khan. He rests for the remainder of the year before beginning an offensive into the Rus.
[1237-1242] Batu Khan's conquest of the Rus states is incredibly bloody and violent with hundreds of thousands being put to the sword, and several cities burned to the ground. Batu Khan began to turn his attention to Europe even going so far as to sack several polish towns, and cities before falling strangely ill.
[1256] The reign of Sartaq Khan while incredibly short does bring one incredible change, and that is the sponsorship of Judaism as a state religion after a series of engagements with wandering mystics.
[1267] Khan Khaishan who is ruling in Mongolia goes against the advice of other Mongol rulers and launches an attack on Jin dynasty lands in China. While the dynasty pushes back the Mongols. The dynasty still is heavily devastated from the raids, but this proves to be the last straw as the other major Mongol rulers separate from Mongolia.
The Golden Horde, and the World [1267-1359]
[1274] The first attempt by Kublai Khan of Mongolia to invade Japan.
[1281] A second attempt by Kublai Khan of Mongolia to invade Japan.
[1281-1312] As the authority of the old Mongol heartland began to decline especially in the face of Kublai Khan's repeated failures to expand into China or Japan the Golden Horde began to look west rather than east. During this time the Khans of the Golden Horde earn the moniker of "Patriarchs" like more, and more Mongolians listen to them and flock to their banners to ring in conquest after conquest. A division in the Jewish presence began to occur with some scholars claiming that the Torah hadn't been written by Moses. The truth could only be found in the first book of Genesis, and that the "mosaic invention" could be debunked by simply looked at the state of Jerusalem.
[1313-1341] Reign of Uzbeg Khan: This khan allowed visitation by Buddhist lamas and Tengrist Mongols from the old homeland. The Golden Horde under Uzbeg saw a flourishing of trade especially with merchants from the port cities of the Romans, and the land trade brought from Persia. Sarai exploded in growth from all this trade with a grand synagogue being built in the center of the city as well as libraries, and markets. Uzbeg listened to the rabbinical complaints concerning the state of the serfs, and issue commands to reform the system. During his reign it is stated that 300,000 men were in the military at one point.
[1342–1357] Reign of Jani Beg Khan: Following a short dynastic war with his brothers Jani Beg the son of Uzbeg Khan firmly cemented his power. His policy of actively interfering the politics of the Rus tributary states would ultimately come to backfire on him. Some historians think during a siege he used catapults to launch dead body parts into a city as part of a terror campaign. This is believed to have spread the great black death across Europe whether intentional or not.
Centuries of Trouble [1359-1480]
[1359-1381] The various states of the Rus attempt to form coalitions in several phases in an attempt to drive out the Golden Horde. By the 1370s they eventually succeeded if only for a short time as the Golden Horde assembled an army to reclaim the area.
[1381-1419] The Golden Horde would reclaim the Rus by blood, and in one infamous example, they tricked the Muscovites into surrendering on false promises. The commanders ordered the slaughter of the city. While the resistance by the Rus was put down the political leadership was unstable, and despite the reunification, the country was hardly in an ideal situation. Eventually, several contenders emerged, and in one case the capital of Sarai burned to the ground. Thanks to the fall of Mongolia to the Chinese there was no outside coming not even in the slimmest of chances.
[1420-1480] With Sarai gone, and the power vacuum beyond recovery the Golden Horde effectively fell within itself. Several different khanates formed, and the princes of the Rus didn't benefit from this as they had hoped. The khanates warred with them as much as they had each other. The polish even launched offensives effectively occupying several princely states.
End of the Fall, and Babur's dynastic coupling (1480-1862)
[1480-1494] The last fourteen years of the centuries-ridden war period would end, and see the rise of the Indian influenced dynasty of Babur Khan. Babur Khan would reestablish the Golden Horde as a tributary state and swiftly dealt with the rebellious Rus city-states.
[1494-1530] Reign of Babur Khan: Babur Khan a conqueror many compare to Genghis Khan managed to pierce into both India and the Rus. Initially ruled as one empire its vastness was a monument to his legacy as much as a burden. Babur didn't follow the Jewish majority faith or even the Tengrist faith, but rather Islam which caused some to wonder what direction the lands would be taken in, but Babur proved tolerant.
[1530-1551] Reign of Hindal Mirza: The tributary state of the Golden Horde is gifted to the third son of Babur Khan. Educated by Persian masters from Mongolian Persia, and Indian masters employed by his father Hindal Mirza chose to take the title of Khan rather than the traditional Khagan to avoid offense, and show his status within the new structure leading from India. However domestically the once great capital of Sarai was rebuilt, and a princess from Moscow was taken as a consort to demonstrate the partnership necessary from the princedoms.
[1551-1626] Reign of Ruqaiya Sultan Begum: Tributary Khaness, and Consort to the Mughal Emperor Akhbar the 1st. Between Spending time in India, and Persia she brought forth new architectural styles, and even ordered the construction of the Sun-Throne. It would have been an affront to Akbar the 1st, but following his death in complete control until here death in 1626.
[1626-1695] Reign of Shahryar Mirza: The youngest son of Mughal emperor Jahangir, he was exiled for political trickery in trying to usurp the Mughal throne from his older brother. He would have very well died had it not been for a warning from supporters. He found himself in Sarai without purpose until the Kurultai chose him as a leader. He diminished the status of his realm as a tributary and effectively declared independence. He assumed the title of Khagan and first crowned himself the Golden Emperor. Shahryar sponsored the Sojournist faction and officially changed the official realm faith from Judaism to the Sojournist beliefs in a mass conversion. While the previous leaders of the Babur dynasty had been of others faiths this was no longer to be the case. Shahryar's reign even saw the welcoming of Mongol, and Persia exiles fleeing the end of Mongol rule in Persia and a return to the Hellenistic system.
Publication of the Golden Writ
Structure of the Imperial Government: Re-established the Mongolian Kurultai, but for the moment as an advisory body available to Mongolians, Turkic, and other people of the steppes. The princely council would be established as an advisory body to represent the people of the Rus who were equals rather than vassals to be brutalized and subjugated. Imperial provinces would be regulated by governors responsible for tax collection, and the ministers of the government would be known by their title of Viziers. In order to prevent corruption, a revenue department was founded to keep an eye on governors. There would be an official bureaucracy in charge of the royal bodyguard, royal court, and royal government.
A separate judiciary was founded to ensure fairness for the diversity of peoples, and beliefs.
Military: The military would be based on a system of appointments and promotes in regards to the imperial military. The elite of the military is formed from the four clans which comprise the Mingghans (Mongol regiment of 1,000) dating back to the clans sent over from Mongolia to aid the former Golden Horde. Persian and Indian tactics were integrated into the military as well. The official standing army is relatively small compared to the population size of the country these days. The highest it has ever gotten has been 300,000.
[1695-1706] Reign of Gauhar Ara Begum: Fourteenth, and Youngest child of the Mughal Shah Jahan. Witness her brother's death, and somehow ended up as the Khaganess, and Golden Empress. No one is quite sure how, but with the death of Shahryar's children, no one was electable until the Kurultai found her. Despite being only ruler for eleven years she spent time modernizing the military, conversing with scholars, and updating the law. She died at 74 years old in Sarai. Her death lead to a period of great decline.
[1706-1837] A period of decline of the realm due to the machinations of the imperial court with weak Khagans/Emperors.
[1837-1862] Bahadur Khan II: A Khagan/Emperor stuck between reform, and being a puppet of the bureaucracy. Unlike others who spent their time locked away in Sarai he chose to spend it amongst the people. Encouraging industrialization to catch up with the west, and tried to link the empire together. Ultimately he, and his sons were assassinated by a group of anarchist luddites on his way back to Sarai one day.
The Interregnum [1862-1885]
The assassination of the Khagan/Emperor sparked the military to seize control when no immediate candidate could be chosen by Kurultai. The military shared power with the Kurultai initially but gradually became more dictatorial to clamp down on Rus secessionism, and the rise of the Liberationists groups.
[1862-1876] The Liberationists War: Unlike previous wars of nationalistic concern the liberationists lead by Mikhail Bakunin were interested in the total liberation of society from the need of the state. The principality of Tver is overthrown, and Bakunin declares the establishment of the "free assembly". Historians refer to it unofficially as the Free Assembly of Tver. The early phase of the war was confined to the principalities until the last assembly fell in 1867. The fall of Tver triggered the "Arduous March" (1867-1869) in which the remaining Liberationists fled, and consolidated past the Volga.
This allowed the creation of a new "free region", and it was able to recuperate until 1872 when the military launched an offensive eThe military was pushed ba the first few timesck the first few times, but eventually, by 1875 a major counteroffensive breached into their territory. By the end of 1876, Bakunin was brought to face trial in Sarai and then hanged.
[1876-1885] Rule of the High Prince of the Rus: Due in part to the Kurultai's indecisiveness a uniquely democratic feature of the Golden Writ came into play. Asking for help from the Rus princedoms. The High Prince of the Rus was the first start to a new era and chosen every four years. The most prominent role they played being the integration of the Rus states.
Time of Revolution, and Upheaval [1885-Present]
[1885] The kurultai elect Abd Al-Ahad Khan as the Khagan and Golden Emperor. He presents himself as a stern reformist in the midst of an empire of a quagmire. He firstly proposes the "two nations" theory in part due to the growing discontent between the Russians, and the Russo-Mongolians. In his inauguration speech, he claims that both Russia and Mongolia need each other to survive due to how intertwined the two are.
[1887] Opponents of the two nations theory form the Rus revitalization league. The general intent is to secure the primacy of the Rus within the commonwealth, but how the faction means to achieve this is currently unknown due to several divergent schools of thought operating.
A) Rus Unity Party: Belief in the culture, religion, language, and the people that share a common bond despite the ethnic differences.
Beliefs in placing the Rus, its culture, and language as the source of primacy within the union. They also believe the principalities should be abolished, and unified as one nation.
B) Russian Autonomous Group: Believes in the unification of a Rus state, but as a co-equal to the imperial heartland.
C) Russian Independence Coalition: Believes in the unification of a completely independent Rus state.
[1900] The National Reform Congress forms with a coalition of several ideologies that while contradictory at several points intend on reforming the Golden Commonwealth into a proper nation.
[1904] Following a massacre of naval dockworkers in the Rus principality of Novogorad a revolutionary by the name of Vladimir Lenin stirs the principalities workers into revolution. The Collectivist republic is founded but crushed brutally within a year. Vladimir Lenin is said to be hiding in the wilds waiting his chance.
[1905] Chairman of the Eurasian Society Leon Trotsky is elected as High Prince of the Rus. He begins talks with the imperial court, government, and reformist elements of the country to launch a massive change initiative for the country. Rumors from Sarai allege his efforts are making considerable progress, and upon the next imperial speech the emperor will supposedly announce incoming changes.
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