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The Sun Will Never Set (Reboot)

It seems like we're twiddling our thumbs otherwise, so why not?

Civilization Roleplay: Rise of Races (The Tribes of Nova Mondial Want You!)

I think the reality of the situation is just that this is going to be a glacially slow RP. Nothing wrong with that, as long as people aren't leaving for good.

The Sun Will Never Set (Reboot)

So... IC posting?

The Sun Will Never Set (Reboot)

Willy's right about the above. The explosive yield wouldn't be any greater than traditional explosives, say TNT, but the primary thing making it deadlier is the flammability and potential for thermobaric explosives.

Also, on the rocket/missile question, I basically had V2s in the old RP and my sheet still reflects that (and no one objected). So if they're disallowed I will have to change that. Mine are only guided by a simple gyroscope so they have even rougher accuracy, pretty much only able to hit a specific city.

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@Voltus_Ventus

I put my sheet up on the character tab, let me know if anything is strange or out of bounds. I added the history that Cyclone, Isotope and I agreed to as well. Should be finished.

The Sun Will Never Set (Reboot)

People's Republic of Kataylabinsk

Nation Name and Basic Facts:

Proletarii Respublika iz Kataylabinsk (People's Republic of Kataylabinsk or PRK)

Demonym (describing an individual of or something belonging to the nation): Kataylan

Capital: Volodyna

National Motto: "No freedom without equality, and no equality without freedom"

Leader:
Premier Commissar Yekaterina Velikaya, Leader of the Working People, Hero of the Revolution and Empress of the Former Imperium

Nation History:

Before the collapse of an ancient empire that had unified almost the entire northern half of the continent, the land of Kataylabinsk was a group of northern provinces speaking a different language than the southern provinces, which had conquered the ancient Kataylan city-states and integrated them into their empire. After a series of internal catastrophes and a period of strife, this ancient empire was no longer able to defend itself and succumbed to both the invasion of barbarian tribes from the south and the rival Verenden Empire in the east. These northern provinces were the only areas that retained imperial authority in the face of widespread collapse, but they would prove unable to reassert authority over the southern areas of the empire due to the necessity of sending all military forces to deal with the Verenden threat. Over time, this nation, which now styled itself the Kataylabinsk Imperium, the true successor to that ancient empire, would stabilize and reform itself. After the defeat of the Verenden Empire roughly 750 years ago, the Imperium truly became an unopposed great power. This situation would not last for long, as the Holy Moravian Empire, also claiming to be continuous from the old empire, began to rise and absorb all of the neighboring states. This rivalry inevitably lead to a series of inconclusive wars between the two empires, but when the Holy Moravian Empire was torn apart by religious strife 200 years ago, the Kataylans liberated several large swathes of land that have been the point of contention between it and the Commonwealth ever since.

However, in the century leading up to present, following the loss of various colonies, the Imperium decayed politically and economically, unable to adjust to modern life. In its decayed state, the Kataylabinsk Imperium was an feudal monarchy in which the Emperor was merely a figurehead and the interests of petty nobles and a rising capitalist class took precedence. While the Imperium made great technological advances thanks to this partnership of state and industry, keeping pace with the rest of the world, and indeed surpassing it in areas such as chemical development, it was unable to function as an effective polity. Despite this progress, the workers of the Kataylabinsk Imperium became increasingly disillusioned with the state of affairs as their hours grew longer and safety regulations virtually disappeared. Very little would likely have happened, however, without the interference of the new Empress, crowned sixteen years ago, who quickly built up support among both the peasantry and the industrial workers for her sympathy towards their plight. With a great deal of diplomatic intrigue, she effectively performed a coup to end the feudal system and remove all capitalist influence from the government.

Having been secretly exposed to the books of Kalyrnan (the premier socialist activist in Kataylabinsk) by her uncle, the Empress became a dedicated socialist and upon achieving her coup announced the dissolution of the Imperium and the formation of a People's Republic, believing it better for the people to not have a monarchy at all. However, this decision firmly cemented her popularity and in a marvelous manipulation of events, she was elected the first Executive Commissar of the PRK. She has since then increased her nation's military forces to a significantly greater size, began an extensive spy network to support worker's revolutionary movements in other countries, and opened her nation's borders to refugees and dissenters from across the world as a refuge, bolstering Kataylabinsk's population to even larger numbers.

Race:

The People's Republic of Kataylabinsk is majority human, but it contains large minorities of various different races. Ethnic or species discrimination is banned and heavily enforced, but there is some underlying racial tension.

Form of Government:

Socialist Republic. The foremost leader is the Premier Commissar or Premier, and there is a Supreme Worker's Council made up of an upper house of the following:

Agricultural Commissar: Vasiliy Filatov
Industrial Commissar: Vyacheslav Starovolkov
Welfare Commissar: Angela Garanina
Energy Commissar: Leonid Marinkin
Political Commissar: Anton Chepurin
Foreign Commissar: Miroslav Yerkhov
Justice Commissar: Tatiana Mashir
Intelligence Commissar: Anjelika Adraneda
Treasury Commissar: Adam Aleyev
War Commissar: Vladimir Emin
Transportation Commissar: Daria Trufanova
Health Commissar: Irina Kilesso
Education Commissar: Aleksei Sadykov

All of these positions are elected by the people working in the various industries, namely teachers for education, soldiers for war, farmers for agriculture, in order to represent their interests to the upper house. The terms for these and for the lower house are five years each. The lower house is represented proportionally by population, and functions similarly to the government of the United Kingdom by which different parties or factions are elected to different proportions of the house. Parties which are labeled "anti-socialist" are not allowed to compete for office. Laws and decisions must pass with a majority vote through both houses, and must be approved by the Executive Commissar unless they have an overriding majority of 75%. This allows the Premier Commissar almost complete control over the final decisions.

Total Population:

267,110,000 (226,360,000 humans)

Nation Location:

Purple, left middle

Nation Geography:

The lands of Kataylabinsk are predominantly flatland forests, with some grasslands and hills near to the bottom of the nation where most of its agriculture is based. A number of small mountain ranges separate it from its southern neighbor, Moravia. In the northernmost area lies significant reserves of oil, which mostly goes into making petrochemicals and plastic.

Economic Overview:

The economic system of the PRK is a market socialist economy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism) in which farms, factories, and industries are owned cooperatively by the workers that work in them, electing managers democratically. The Agricultural, Industrial, Energy, and Transportation Commissars make up a Central Planning Board that helps to coordinate these cooperatives towards the best interests of the nation, though the primary economic power is held by the workers. Certain of the highest-level industries, mostly those dealing with weapons manufacture, are handled exclusively by the state.

The People's Republic of Kataylabinsk is heavily industrialized, but its economy is primarily centered around chemical manufacture and processing and electronics rather than machinery or manufactured goods, being a prime exporter of plastic, helium, artificial fertilizer, various types of fuels, radios and other simple electronics.

Technological Overview:

The People's Republic has very developed chemical and electrical industries, but their mechanical industry still remains overwhelmingly coal-based and there are no cars on its streets. Kataylabinsk is, however, still crisscrossed by an extensive railroad network which performs most of the required transportation. Electronics such as radio, lights, and even simple household devices such as heaters, toasters and dishwashers are fairly commonplace, with a reliable if dirty coal-fired electric grid. The University of Volodyna in the capital is one of the world's foremost chemistry research institutions, attracting chemists from all over the world.

Special Material: Fyrurock

Important Info

Fyrurock is a combustible gas that is heavily compressible, allowing an extremely large amount of it to be packed into a small container. Its main application are Fyrurock bombs and rockets, in which the warhead opens up prior to reaching the target, spraying the gas in a large cloud, and then sets it on fire for a massive thermobaric explosion. It is also often used sprayed out of large nozzles and set on fire as a flamethrower of sorts capable of bathing targets in flames.

Military Overview

Army Overview:

The PRK, due to its notable lack of mechanized warfare technology, mainly utilizes other methods of remaining competitive on the ground. Most notable among these are their MPRPs (Man-Portable Rocket Projectiles) which are carried in small numbers by most infantry regiments for use if they come into contact with enemy armored formations. These help Kataylan ground forces achieve military parity with armor-supplemented forces.

A second unique aspect of the Kataylan military forces is that they utilize war-trained bear cavalry, armored and outfitted with a light machine gun on top. While they are unable to stand up to tanks, they are a menace to any infantry that cross their path and are much more maneuverable.

Their ground forces mostly utilize bolt-action rifles supplemented by the occasional light machine gun, which is carried by two people. They usually carry two of each of fragmentation grenades, thermite grenades, and Fyrurock grenades. There are a few remaining normal cavalry regiments, but they no longer play a vital role in the Kataylan ground forces.

The PRK primarily utilizes Katalusha rocket artillery for the ground support role, which is slightly less accurate but significantly more deadly thanks to the Fyrurock warheads each salvo contains. The other main drawback of these artillery is the long reload time between launches.

Active-Duty Military: 3,500,000 (35 main army groups of 100,000 each, split into ten regiments each of 10,000)
Reserve Military: 4,500,000

Navy Overview:

The Kataylan navy is the pride of the People's Republic, widely considered to be one of the strongest in the world. Though all of its ships are coal-fueled, they boast considerable power and speed, and are equipped with the latest in composite alloy armor. Every ship has installed radar and relatively recent sonar systems for detecting submarines, as well as depth charges to attack them. Though it is not listed here, the PRK navy also maintains a sizable amount of amphibious landing boats for deploying their land military to other continents.

Lysacek-class destroyers

Length: 112.8 m
Speed: 40 mph
Armament: 4 130mm guns, 2 75mm AA guns, 2 45mm AA guns, two heavy machine guns, 6 torpedo tubes

The Lysacek-class destroyer is the workhorse of the PRK fleet, performing its primary anti-air and anti-submarine functions while still carrying reasonable anti-ship armament.

Eyrosya-class submarines

Length: 97.65 m
Speed: 22 mph surface, 12 mph submerged
Armament: 6 forward torpedo tubes, 4 aft torpedo tubes, 2 100mm guns, 2 45mm guns.

The Eyrosya-class destroyer is primarily used offensively, to take out enemy submarines and warships from underwater. However, it can also defend itself in surface combat.

Aurora-class cruisers

Length: 140.13 m
Speed: 27 mph
Armament: 4 234mm guns, 8 190mm guns, 16 75mm guns, 4 45mm AA guns, 3 430mm torpedo tubes

The Aurora-class cruiser is the primary heavy firepower of the Kataylan fleet, and one of the main contributors to its naval superiority, dealing heavy blows to other enemy ships regardless of size.

Kyrnovet-class battleships

Length: 181.2 m
Speed: 22 mph
Armament: 12 305mm guns, 16 120mm guns, 2 75mm AA guns, 4 450mm torpedo tubes.

The Kyrnovet-class battleship, while with imposing statistics, is gradually becoming a more outdated ship in the Kataylan navy in comparison to more maneuverable and less expensive firepower such as the Aurora.

Katayla-class airship carriers

Length: 273 m
Speed: 22 mph
Armament: 4 75mm AA guns, two strategic Komyra Fyrurock missiles

The Katayla-class airship carrier is unique ship in the PRK's navy as opposed to other world navies in that is a sea-based carrier which fields airships, not aircraft. A single Katayla can serve to base four Tyrnovus or eight Volodynas, allowing the PRK to project air support far away from its borders. Experimentally, these airship carriers have been retrofitted with tubes from which to launch strategic Komyra missiles which are capable of reaching up to 100 miles inland (although with only enough accuracy to hit a specific city).

Air Force Overview:

Every Kataylan airship is powered by coal-fired steam turbines, which lessens their available loads but enables them to run for a much greater period of time than similar gasoline-powered craft. Each is made with Kataylan-invented Kievar plastic-based fabric, which is highly resistant to bullets and fairly resistant to anti-aircraft flak, but not entirely.

Volodyna-class multirole airships

The Volodyna-class multirole airship is designed both for anti-air and light bombing capabilities. It is equipped with two rotating 75mm antiaircraft guns, one at the front and one at the rear, although these guns are also capable of firing normal shells if necessary in a ground support role. There are three rotating heavy machine gun emplacements on either side to cover the areas where the two primary AA guns cannot reach, and each airship is outfitted with a full 2000-kg load of bombs, primarily Fyrurock, but also some chlorine gas and conventional bombs. Their top speed is roughly 45 mph.

Tyrnovu-class heavy bomber airships

The Tyrnovu-class heavy bomber is lightly armed for the anti-air role, only carrying four rotating heavy machine gun emplacements on each of the four corners. However, it carries a massive load of 5000 kg of bombs, with equal proportion Fyrurock and chlorine. These much slower craft only can manage a top speed of 30 mph.

Yakut-class reconnaissance airships

The Yakut-class recon craft is primarily intended for its namesake, boasting a top speed of 60 mph and carrying two rotating light machine gun emplacements, one each on the front and back, to at least be able to defend itself. These are not at all intended to participate in combat, however.

The Sun Will Never Set (Reboot)

I'll probably go for something like 275 million people, just a bit more than Moravia.

Civilization Roleplay: Rise of Races (The Tribes of Nova Mondial Want You!)

<Snipped quote by Mihndar>

Aye sir; I'll start drafting something then. I am going to PM it to you if and once I finish it :)
However, there's something I didn't understand in the sign up sheet. When you refer to techs, what you mean with "specifically those not already given"?

@DeepestApology

Something beyond basic wooden tools and fire, essentially.

The Sun Will Never Set (Reboot)

<Snipped quote by Sigma>Communities of "liberated" proletariat, you mean.
With PRK's presence is only for their "own good" by "helping" them to modernize. A process for which they generously "thank" the PRK by transporting them food and raw materials as "gifts".
Calling these "colonies" is vulgar and only something the imperialist scum would do.

@Willy Vereb

Of course, of course.

I think I won't have "colonies" (satellite states), but I will raise my population in consideration of the fact that I probably control the largest quantity of developed land.

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Holy fudge, Willy, way to claim like half the world. I hope those aren't like fully developed colonial possessions, because that seems kind of ridiculous.

Maybe I should have colonies... hmmm