Please note that there will be no invasions and open military conflict in this episode. This serves as the diplomatic tension and buildup to the civil war. Direct military intervention will be allowed in parts 2 and 3.
Currently please keep intervention to either joint-intelligence or the stationing of troops in Christoslavia if approved by the government once it reaches that point.
There is no such thing as victory, only avoiding defeat
-Ajax Santosa
-Ajax Santosa
Background
For centuries the idea of survival of the fittest dictated Christoslavia. From humble beginnings as a safe haven for business, followed by rapid expansion, militarism, and industrialization; Christoslavia soon became a dominant power on Aurus. Fearsome Private Military Corporation's along with the state enforced a totalitarian, corporatist fasco-capitalist society through the majority of the 20th century.
The majority of civilians constituted the lower class who lived in a state of perpetual wage slavery to the companies they worked for and the state over all, with only the incredibly rich or those deemed fit for military service living at the least a semi-decent life in the upper echelons of society.
In 1957, Dwight Reynolds was unanimously chosen by the Board of Directors to be the next Chairman of the Board and ruler of Christoslavia, however in a coup the Board was dissolved and power consolidated in the hands of Reynolds who took the title, Director, although at no loss to the various corporate entities that ruled Christoslavia.
As such, any remaining civil rights were eliminated by the state. Christoslavia in it's history had terribly oppressed the ethnic Chen and Chuwan minorities including several genocides throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, mainly by forced labor and deliberate ethnic cleansing.
Now, the common man was subject to the same treatment, all Christoslavians suffered under this new regime, fostering a new sense of camraderie among the downtrodden lower classes, the problem was no longer racial, but economic. Crony capitalism squeezed the life out of the country, environments were destroyed, families torn apart, and the state of living for the average Christoslavian kept to the bare essentials.
Under the Director the governments power expanded significantly and the standing professional army, one of the few public entities in the state, expanded in quality and quantity, bolstered by the various militias and PMC's already used by the numerous corporations throughout the country. With communist and generally aggressive neighbors, Christoslavia combined its business approach, as a mix between globalism and nationalism, with its military approach, becoming more aggressive in it's attitudes towards Hartel, Chen, Madera, and Uralskoy chiefly.
Christoslavia had a dominating philosophy that preached an infallible connection between corporatism and the Gods, wealth and the freedom of capitalism being the key to happiness and unity with the Gods.This specific branch of Katharism, known as Veultaism, from the 18th century missionary and philosopher Adolf Veult, held enormous sway in Christoslavia and was interwoven with every corporate entity, solidifying their power and legitimizing their treatment of their employees and the country in general. Led by the Master Cardinal Glen Hover, the Church of Veultaism was there to assist The Director when beckoned.
This opening to the saga will take us to the beginning, 5:00 PM, January 16th, 1978, as all workers in the city of Forzera, the heart of Christoslavian industrial enterprise including coal, metal/minerals, and machinery, rose up collectively and took the city from their corporate overlords, leading to the Resistance Day Massacre.
We will end on August 19th, 1978, the day Ajax Santosa took over the Citadel, thus beginning 5 years of war. Everything that happens in between remains to be seen.
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Chen
New Phallia
Madera
(Potentially rp'ed by Wanka if he joins)
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