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• CENTRAL SIBERIAN UNIFIERS    TOMSK FLAG OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF SIBERIA  FLAG OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC (MORNIST)  FLAG OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC (BASTILLARD)  FLAG OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC (DECEMBRIST)  OFFICIAL NAME: CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, COMMONWEALTH OF SIBERIA (HUMANIST SUPERREGNAL UNIFITN), REPUBLIC OF RSIA (NATNAL UNIFITN), COMMONWEALTH OF RSIA (HUMANIST NATNAL UNIFITN)RULG PARTY: DEKABRISTYNOTE DECEMBRISTSIOLOGY: PATERNALISTIC CONSERVATISMNOTE CONSERVATISMTHE REMNANTS OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, A MOCRATIC REPUBLIC FOUND BY SOVIET TELLIGENTSIA AFTER THE SOVIET LLAPSE. FORMERLY LG MOST OF CENTRAL SIBERIA, THE REPUBLIC LLAPSED DURG THE BLOODY SIBERIAN WAR WH THE FAR EASTERN SOVIET MP. NOTABLE FOR S SALON SYSTEM OF MOCRACY, THE REPUBLIC'S LEARS HAVE IALISTIC VISNS OF A PROSPERO MOCRATIC RSIA, BUT WILL HAVE TO NTEND WH S MANY SECSNISTS FIRST. ALLOHISTORIL ALLN: BORIS KHODORKOVSKY, THE FATHER OF MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY, A PROMENT RSIAN OLIGARCH WHO AT ONE POT WAS THE RICHT MAN RSIA BEFORE FALLG OUT WH VLADIMIR PUT, APPEARS AS ONE OF THE RICHT PEOPLE TOMSK A FLAVOR EVENT. BACK OM THE DEAD: WHEN WAS CREATED, THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC PROMOTED SELF AS A REVIVAL OF THE PROVISNAL MOCRATIC ERNMENT CREATED OM THE FEBARY REVOLUTN AND KILLED BY LEN'S OCTOBER REVOLUTN. BALKANIZE ME: THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC ED TO LE ALL OF CENTRAL SIBERIA, BEFORE WAS VAD BY YAGODA'S FAR EASTERN SOVIET. WHAT FOLLOWED WAS THE SIBERIAN WAR, AN ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC MEAT GRR OF A WAR THAT ED BOTH UNTRI TO EVENTUALLY EXPLO TO PIEC. IN THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, THE HUGE HUMAN ST OF THE WAR LED TO AN ANARCHIST REVOLUTN G OUT OF KANSK, CREATG THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY, AND SOME OFFICERS SEIZED NOVOSIBIRSK AND CLARED S PENNCE. GENERAL KRYLOV LNCHED AN OPERATN TO CSH THE SBA, ONLY TO FAIL AND GET MUTIED BY ANDREEV'S CLIQUE AND GO NUTS AS A RULT, CREATG KEMEROVO AND KRASNOYARSK. BEWARE THE NICE ON: TOMSK IS ONE OF THE MOST BENEVOLENT WARLORD STAT THE RSIAN ANARCHY, BUT THEY ALSO RADILLY REFORM THE REPUBLIN ARMY TO A ADLY FIGHTG FORCE, SHOWG THAT THEY'RE NOT TO BE TRIFLED WH. COLOR-COD FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE: THE DUMA TOMSK'S LEGISLATURE ARE LOR-D BASED ON WHICH SALON IS NTROL: WHE FOR THE DECEMBRISTS, VLET FOR THE HUMANISTS, BLUE FOR THE MORNISTS, AND GREY FOR THE BASTILLARDS. CONSCENDG COMPASSN: THE HUMANISTS ARE ONE OF THE MOST CHARABLE OF THE SALONS, BUT THEIR WEALTHY AND ELIST BACKGROUNDS N OCSNALLY MAKE THEM OUT-OF-TOUCH WH THE TERTS OF THE MON RSIAN LIVG THE UNTRYSI. IN ONE EVENT, AN ALTAY POLICIAN ASKS A FELLOW HUMANIST WHY THEY SHOULD PRRIZE CY IMPROVEMENT OVER THE RAL AREAS, AND HIS NCERN IS SHGGED OFF WH A PATRONIZG SE AND A PLA REASSURANCE THAT IMPROVG THE URBAN AREAS WOULD ALSO IMPROVE THE UNTRYSI. DEFEAT MEANS FRIENDSHIP: IF FEATED BY KEMEROVO, YURIY WILL REC THEIR POLICE FORCE TO HIS SI AND SHOW THE PEOPLE THAT THEY ARE NOT TYRANTS. SUBVERTED WHEN RURIK TRI TO PERSUA FORMER TOMSK SALON MEMBERS TO HELP HIS E. WHEN THEY'RE APPROACHED, THE TOMSK POLICIANS NOUNCE RURIK AS A LUD TYRANT AND DISAGREE WH RURIK'S EMPHASIS ON SOCIAL WELFARE, ARGUG THAT TN IS THE GREATER PRRY. IF FEATED BY NOVOSIBIRSK AND FAIR MOCRATIC ELECTNS ARE PERMTED, THE BASTILLARDS WILL BE ALLOWED TO E TO POWER, AND FORM A IENDSHIP WH SHSH OUT OF THEIR SHARED LIBERAL SYMPATHI. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: IF FEATED BY NOVOSIBIRSK, THE PEOPLE OF TOMSK BEE DISENCHANTED WH THEIR HOP OF AN EGALARIAN REPUBLIC, WONRG TO THEMSELV IF THEIR PAST IALISM WAS AN ILLN THAT ULD NEVER SURVIVE PRACTICE. DISASTER DEMOCRACY: TOMSK HAS A STRONG AND FUNCTNAL MOCRATIC SYSTEM, BUILT BY FORMER SOVIET TELLIGENTSIA WHO SIRE TOTAL EEDOM OF EXPRSN, WHICH WAS SUPPRSED UNR SOVIET LE. FOIL: TOMSK SERV AS ONE TO KOMI, MORE WAYS THAN ONE. THE MOCRATIC SYSTEM PLACE IS PARATIVELY MUCH MORE STABLE (AS OPPOSED TO GLORIFIED CIVIL WARS WH ELECTNS), WHILE ALL THE "PARTI" ARE GENERALLY FUNCTNAL, PETENT AND SANE. IT ALSO SERV AS THIS TO NOVOSIBIRSK. THE LATTER PARTICULAR IS A DARK MIRROR OF TOMSK: WHERE REALISM AND PRAGMATISM ARE TAKEN TO THEIR LOGIL NCLN, VOID OF ANY HIGHER HOP OR DREAMS. TOMSK, AN TELLIGENTSIA MOCRACY WH UNIQUELY POLILLY SYNCRETIC "PARTI" THAT BORROW ENLIGHTENMENT IALS OM THE 17TH CENTURY TO BUILD A NEW SOCIETY RSIA, IS A NTRAST TO KEMEROVO, A NEO-FDAL MONARCHY THAT BLENDS ATHETICS AND CULTURAL MOR OM RSIA'S MEDIEVAL PERD TOGETHER WH SOVIET PROGRSIVISM (WORKER'S RIGHTS, GENR EQUALY, ETC.) TO FORM A NEW CULTURE THAT IS UNIQUELY RSIAN. GENOCI BACKFIRE: THE GERMAN RPONSE TO RNIFITN BY THE PARTICULARLY IALISTIC HUMANISTS, LED BY A JEWISH-POLE POSER. LET JT ONE JEW PE... GOOD VERS GOOD: ALL OF TOMSK'S POLIL PARTI ARE PRENTED A (MOSTLY) BENEVOLENT LIGHT, WH THEIR ONLY "NFLICT" BEG WHAT IS THE BT METHOD OF SOCIAL VELOPMENT TO BE TAKEN. THIS BE A B MORE MUDDLED AFTER TOMSK UNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA, WHERE THE SALON-BASED MOL OF ERNMENT IS CRICIZED FOR BEG ELIST BY PENNT POLICIANS. IF THE PLAYER ISN'T REFUL AT MANAGG THEIR POLICI REGARDG THE CRICISMS, TOMSK MAY ACTUALLY END UP BEG FEATED BY THE SIBERIAN WORKERS' FERATN. HYPOCRE: FOR ALL THEIR TALK OF GUARANTEEG THE EEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE RIGHT TO VOTE, THE REPUBLIC N GO AGAST THEIR IALS DURG THE CYNICISM CRISIS, WHERE THEY MAY EM PENNTS TOO EXTREME TO EVER TAKE POWER. THE LEAGUE FOR EXPAND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS, A SPECIAL TERTS GROUP BY PENNTS, ACCE THE REPUBLIC OF UNMOCRATIC PRACTIC BY RTRICTG THE NUMBER OF VOTERS BASED ON THOSE WHO N PASS AN ENTRANCE EXAM, CLAIMG THAT EVERYONE SERV A FAIR VOTE, REGARDLS OF TN.A MOCRACY FOR THE ELE OR A MOCRACY FOR THE PEOPLE? NEW MEDIA ARE EVIL: IN THE REGNAL STAGE, SOME AVANT-GAR MICIANS PNEER THE TECHNO MIC GENRE, WHICH THE HUMANISTS AND DECEMBRISTS DISMISS AS "NOTHG BUT BLEEPS AND BLORPS" AND "HARDLY MIC AT ALL". NON-INDITIVE NAME: THE NSERVATIVE, ENVIRONMENTALIST DECEMBRISTS OF TOMSK SEEM TO HAVE VERY LTLE MON WH THE HISTORIL RSIAN DECEMBRISTS (WHO WERE A GROUP OF 19TH CENTURY PRO-MOCRATIC NOBL WHO ADVOTED EHER FOR A FRENCH-STYLE REPUBLIC OR A BRISH-STYLE NSTUTNAL MONARCHY, AND WHOSE MA OBJECTIVE WAS THE ABOLN OF SERFDOM). THE NAM OF THE HUMANIST AND THE MORNIST SALONS, AT LEAST, RRELATE SOMEWHAT WH THEIR ACTUAL IOLOGI, AND THOSE WHO ED SUCH TERMS PRR, WHILE THE TERM "BASTILLARD" IS FULLY FICTNAL AND HAS NO POLIL OR PHILOSOPHIL NNOTATNS. ONLY KNOWN BY THEIR NICKNAME: THE BASTILLARDS' OFFICIAL NAME IS LLED TRY GROUP, BUT EVERYONE LLS THEM THE BASTILLARDS. THE PHILOSOPHER KG: TOMSK IS A VERY IALISTIC, PHILOSOPHIL MOCRACY CENTRED ON TELLECTUALISM, ART, AND SCIENCE; S PARTI (MORE ACCURATELY SALONS AND POLIL MOVEMENTS) ARE NAMED BASTILLARDS, DECEMBRISTS, HUMANISTS AND MORNISTS, AND ARE NOT ANIZED AROUND POLIL POWER BUT STEAD THE PURE PURSU OF POLIL PHILOSOPHY, AND N'T FOLLOW ANY NON-MOCRATIC PATH. REASONABLE AUTHORY FIGURE: THE HUMANIST AND DECEMBRIST SALONS ARE WARY OF PENNT PARTI ALLOWG MAGOGU AND RADILS TO TAKE POWER, BUT THEY DO PROMISE ON THE ISSUE. WHILE THE NSTUTN IS REWRTEN SO THE FOUR GREAT SALONS N DICTATE WHO N N FOR PRINT, THEY DO GIVE ROOM FOR PENNTS TO HAVE A FULL POLIL REER AND THEREBY RTORE SOME NFINCE THE REPUBLIC'S ABILY TO HEAR THE PEOPLE. THE REPUBLIC: THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC IS A MOCRATIC REPUBLIC WH A STRONG NSTUTN, AND IS EASILY ONE OF THE MOST MORALLY UPSTANDG FACTNS RSIA. ROMANTICISM VERS ENLIGHTENMENT: THE CENTRAL DIVI OF TOMSK'S POLIL SPECTM IS THIS, RATHER THAN LEFT VERS RIGHT (AS ALL OF TOMSK'S SALONS ARE SOMEWHAT SYNCRETIC POLIL THOUGHT). THE HUMANISTS AND DECEMBRISTS TEND TO BE MORE ROMANTIC, WHILE THE BASTILLARDS AND MORNISTS ARE MORE FAVOR OF ENLIGHTENMENT VALU. SHOUT-OUT: ONE TOMSK EVENT SE THE CREATN OF A RAD SERIAL NAMED WELE TO DOLA NOCHI. SCIENCEVILLE: WILY KNOWN AS AN IALISTIC MOCRACY LED BY A CLIQUE OF SCIENTISTS AND SCHOLARS. THIS IS PECIALLY TE IF THE MORNISTS TAKE OVER, WHICH SE ANDREY SAKHAROV WILL PURSUE A MPAIGN OF SCIENTIFIC VELOPMENT AND GREATLY ADVANCE THE LOL STANDARD OF LIVG. SLIDG SLE OF IALISM VERS CYNICISM: AFTER TOMSK UNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA, THEY FACE THE SO-LLED "CYNICISM CRISIS", WHICH SE RISG CYNICISM AGAST THE IALISTIC SALON-BASED MOCRACY. NEW PENNT PARTI AND POLICIANS ARE G OUT AND QUTNG THE SALON SYSTEM, CRICIZG FOR S APPARENT ELIST NATURE. TURN THE OTHER CHEEK: FOR SOME OF THE MORE SYMPATHETIC WARLORDS, TOMSK IS WILLG TO GIVE THEM LIGHTER SENTENC, SPE THE FACT THAT THEY BETRAYED AND SECED OM THE OLD REPUBLIC YEARS AGO. IN PARTICULAR, SOME TAKE PY ON RURIK'S SANY AND N HAVE HIM SENT TO A MENTAL HOSPAL RATHER THAN PROSECUTE HIM LIKE A TRAOR. VTIGIAL EMPIRE: TOMSK WAS THE CENTER OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, THE ONLY NON-COMMUNIST STATE FOUND THE IMMEDIATE LLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNN, BUT WAS SHATTERED BY GENERALS WHO HAD THEIR OWN FAR-REACHG AMBNS FOR UNIFYG RSIA. WE ARE STGGLG TOGETHER: ALL OF SALONS HAVE NFLICTG VISNS FOR RSIA AND THEIR DISRD IS EXACERBATED WHEN THEY RNIFY CENTRAL SIBERIA AND OPEN QUTNS ON HOW TO ERN THEIR NEW TERRORI. WI-EYED IALIST: THE EE THKERS WHO LED THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC HAVE WONRFUL IAS ABOUT CREATG A FAIR AND MOCRATIC NATN, BUT THEY HAVE VERY LTLE EXPERIENCE WH ACTUAL POLIL TRIGUE. THIS RULTED THE LLAPSE OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, AS THEIR AMB GENERALS FIED THEIR IALISM AND SECED.BORIS PASTERNAKROLE: HEAD OF STATEPARTY: DEKABRISTYNOTE DECEMBRISTSIOLOGY: PATERNALISTIC CONSERVATISMNOTE CONSERVATISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK IS NOT A POLICIAN BY TRA, BUT RATHER A POET AND A SCHOLAR. A MVE OF JEWISH ANCTRY, HE QUICKLY BEME RENOWNED THE EARLY DAYS OF THE SOVIET UNN FOR HIS LLECTNS OF POETRY AND TRANSLATNS OF ENGLISH AND GERMAN CLASSICS. HOWEVER, HIS EARLY ADMIRATN FOR LEN SOON WORE OUT, AND HE FOUND HIMSELF SCRAMBLG TO TRY AND GET IENDS AND LLEAGU OFF OF BLACKLISTS AND OUT OF PRISONS. PASTERNAK, SPE HIS REPUTATN SUFFERG, NEVER SAW OFFICIAL CENSURE OR PERSECUTN HIMSELF, AS MANY WH THE POLBURO AND NKVD VIEWED HIM AS TOO PASSIVE AND TACHED OM REALY TO POSE A POLIL THREAT. AS THE GERMANS MARCHED CLOSER TO MOSW, PASTERNAK AND THE REMNANTS OF THE SOVIET TELLIGENTSIA FLED TO THE EAST, WH MANY TAKG REFUGE THE CY OF TOMSK. THERE, THEY CID TO DRAFT A LIBERAL NSTUTN SPIRED BY THE UNDYG RSIAN MOCRATIC THOUGHT AND PLEDGED TO RTORE THE EEDOM OF EXPRSN THAT THEY CRAVED UNR SOVIET LE. THEIR E GAVE A BIRTH TO THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, WHICH PROVED SELF TO BE A WORTHY FOE TO THE CLG DICTATORSHIP OF THE FAR EASTERN SOVIET STATE, BUT SOON LLAPSED UNR S OWN WEIGHT, UNABLE TO PE WH AMBNS OF THEIR OWN GENERALS. PASTERNAK NOW L A STATE DOMATED BY TELLECTUALS AND ARTISTS, FULL OF THKERS AND POETS. ALTHOUGH HE AND HIS LLEAGU GIVE WONRFUL SPEECH, DRAFT LAWS THAT ARE FASCATG TO READ, AND POSE BETIFUL ANTHEMS, THEIR ONLY PREV EXPERIENCE HOLDG OFFICE HAS BEEN ON UNIVERSY FACULTI. WHETHER PASTERNAK AND HIS NATN OF DREAMERS WILL ACHIEVE ANYTHG OR BE NTENT TO S THEIR IVORY TOWERS IS A QUTN THAT HAS YET TO BE FULLY TERMED.POET, NOVELIST, AND PRENTLY THE FOUNR AND PRINT OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, WHO ALSO LEADS THE TRADNALIST AND ENVIRONMENTALIST-MD DECEMBRIST SALON. PASTERNAK HAS NTRACTED LUNG CANCER AND IS NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE LONG, AND MT PREPARE THE NEXT ELECTNS TO CI THE NEXT PRINT. BENEATH NOTICE: DURG THE SOVIET UNN'S REIGN, PASTERNAK HELPED HIS IENDS PE OM THE NKVD PRISONS. NOTHG WAS DONE AGAST HIM BEE EVERYONE VIEWED HIM AS TOO PASSIVE AND TACHED OM REALY TO BE A REAL THREAT. CCNAT: AS MORE STAT BEGAN SECEDG FOLLOWG THE DISASTRO SIBERIAN WAR, PASTERNAK TEMPORARILY SPEND THE MOCRATIC ERNMENT AND TABLISHED A TEMPORARY PROVISNAL SYSTEM WHICH ONLY HIS CLOST ALLI ULD PARTICIPATE . WH PASTERNAK'S HEALTH CLG, HE'S CID TO RTORE THE OLD MOCRATIC SYSTEM BACK AND ALLOW OTHER SALONS TO POTENTIALLY TAKE OVER. MOR MAJOR CHARACTER: PASTERNAK DI NOT LONG AFTER THE GAME'S START, BUT HE'S THE MOST IMPORTANT CHARACTER TOMSK'S BACKGROUND, HAVG FOUND THE REPUBLIC THE FIRST PLACE. RICHARD NIXON, THE USED CAR SALMAN: BORIS PASTERNAK REAL LIFE WAS A POET, NOVELIST, AND LERARY TRANSLATOR. IN TNO, HE TOOK UP POLICS AND CID TO UNIFY CENTRAL SIBERIA UNR THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, WH HIM AS S FIRST PRINT. WE HARDLY KNEW YE: THE REAL PASTERNAK DIED 1960, AT THE AGE OF 70. IN THIS TIMELE, HE IS STILL ALIVE BY 1962, BUT WILL DIE SHORTLY AFTER THE GAME BEGS.DMRY LIKHACHYOVROLE: FOREIGN MISTER (PASTERNAK BET), HEAD OF STATE (ELECTN)PARTY: DEKABRISTYNOTE DECEMBRISTSIOLOGY: AGRARIANISMNOTE CONSERVATISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW OF ALL RSIA'S CULTURAL HERO, THE DECEMBRISTS ULD ASK FOR NONE BETTER THAN DMRY SERGEYEVICH LIKHACHYOV. A TE CHILD OF EUROPEAN RSIA, LIKHACHYOV'S PASSN FOR LERATURE BEME HIS REER AT THE TENR AGE OF 16, WHEN HE ENTERED LENGRAD STATE UNIVERSY. ARRTED BY THE SECRET POLICE 1928 FOR NOTHG MORE THAN ALLEGED VOLVEMENT A LERARY GROUP FOR STUNTS, HE WAS EXILED WHOUT TRIAL TO THE SOLOVETSKY ISLANDS, WHERE HE WOULD SPEND FIVE YEARS A GULAG. HE NARROWLY AVOID EXECUTN, AND THEN NEARLY A LATER LIVED THROUGH THE SIEGE OF LENGRAD, BEG ONE OF THE LUCKY FEW TO SLIP THROUGH GERMAN L ALONG WH HIS FAY. RURFACG TOMSK SOME TIME AFTER THE WAR, LIKHACHYOV BEME A VOTED IEND AND FOLLOWER OF PASTERNAK, AND SOON JOED THE DECEMBRISTS. WH THE OLD POET'S PASSG, LIKHACHYOV HAS BEE THEIR -FACTO LEAR. ESPOG A TLY EUROPEAN VISN OF RSIA, PROUD OF S HERAGE, HISTORY AND DIVERSY, HE WOULD SEE TOMSK LEAD THE MOTHERLAND TO A GOLN AGE OF PEACE, CULTURAL GROWTH AND IENDSHIP WH THE WT.LGUIST, MEDIEVALIST, AND PRENTLY A TOP AI TO PRINT PASTERNAK. HE SUCCE PASTERNAK AS THE LEAR OF THE DECEMBRISTS FOLLOWG THE LATTER'S PASSG. ALL-LOVG HERO: LIKHACHYOV IS ONE OF THE MOST PERSONABLE AND AFFABLE POLICIANS TOMSK. MORE UNIQUELY, HIS FOC ON THE RSIAN LAND MAK HIM LS ELIST PARED TO THE OTHER SALONS, EVEN TO THE HUMANISTS AT TIM. BORG, BUT PRACTIL: WHILE THE OTHER SALONS PURSUE RADIL AGENDAS THROUGH THEIR MEGAPROJECTS, THE DECEMBRISTS FOC ON ROLVG THE GREAT DISRD, RTORG TST TO TOMSK'S POLIL SYSTEM BY SMOOTHLY TEGRATG THEIR NEWLY ACQUIRED TERRORI TO THE POLIL SYSTEM. THIS MUNDANE APPROACH HELPS BAT THE CYNICISM AND SEPARATIST MOVEMENTS THAT WOULD DRAG TOMSK DOWN, STABILIZG PREPARATN FOR S FUTURE UNIFITN WARS. BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: AS PART OF HIS MPAIGN RALLY, LIKHACHYOV UP WH THE ODD IA OF HOSTG THE WOODS, BUT THIS STRATEGY WORKS BEE BRGS RSIANS OF ALL CLASS AND PROFSNS TOGETHER TO FD SOLIDARY WH AND SUPPORT THE DECEMBRIST'S MPAIGN OF UNG THE RSIAN PEOPLE ONE SPIR. GOOD OLD WAYS: HE IS CRIL OF THE OTHER SALONS FOR THEIR HASTY REFORMS, BELIEVG THAT RSIA SHOULD TURN BACK TO S OLD TRADNS AND CULTURE. IN HARMONY WH NATURE: LIKHACHYOV AND THE DECEMBRISTS ARE NSERVATNISTS AND PROTO-ENVIRONMENTALISTS. THEY STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT THE RSIAN PEOPLE ARE CLOSELY TIED TO THE RSIAN LAND, AND THAT VELOPMENT WHICH STROYS THAT LAND WILL HARM THE PEOPLE AS WELL. INTERNAL REFORMIST: LIKHACHYOV'S AGENDA IS A THREE-PRONGED PLAN TEND TO REFORM THE PRISON SYSTEM, IMPROVE THE LIVG NDNS OF THE AVERAGE RSIAN, AND IMPELEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTNS. AFTER THE SIBERIAN WORKER'S REVOLT, LIKHACHYOV IMMEDIATELY REGNIZ THAT THE EXPLOATIVE NATURE OF THE SIBERIAN PLAN KICKSTARTED THE WHOLE NFLICT AND SETS OUT TO TRODUCE REFORMS THAT WILL IMPROVE THE STANDG OF THE MON RSIAN. LUXURY PRISON SUE: DOWNPLAYED, BUT THE DECEMBRISTS UNR LIKHACHYOV AGGRSIVELY PURSUE PRISON REFORM, HOPG TO ACPLISH TE REHABILATN RATHER THAN PUNIVE IMPRISONMENT. MELLOW FELLOW: ZIG-ZAGGED. LIKHACHYOV PROMOT LMNS AND PNCE THE FACE OF DISTRS, WHICH IS HOW HE TACKL THE CYNICISM CRISIS. HOWEVER, 'S MENTNED THAT HE GETS EXTREMELY TEMPERAMENTAL WHENEVER ANYONE DISAGRE WH HIS FOC ON THE FARMERS' TERTS. RICHARD NIXON, THE USED CAR SALMAN: LIKHACHYOV IS AN OLD RSIAN MEDIEVALIST AND LGUIST WHO TNO BE THE NEW LEAR OF THE NSERVATIVE DECEMBRISTS TOMSK AFTER PASTERNAK'S RIGNATN AND PASSG, AND N BE ELECTED TO LEAD THE UNTRY. HE DID HAVE SOME SOVIET DISSINT ACTIVI REAL LIFE THOUGH. TAKE A THIRD OPTN: STUCK BETWEEN REVELOPG TOMSK'S DTRY OR ACCELERATG THE RELEASE OF PRISONERS WHO WERE UNJTLY JAILED, LIKHACHYOV TAK THE UNORTHODOX APPROACH OF RELEASG THE PRISONERS AND HIRG THEM TO IMPROVE THE NATN'S ASTCTURE, EFFECTIVELY SOLVG BOTH ISSU AT ONCE. TAKG UP THE MANTLE: UNR HIS GUIDANCE, THE DECEMBRISTS HER THE LEGACY OF PASTERNAK'S VISN, WHERE TELLECTUALISM, EMPATHY, AND TRADN ARE ENSHRED AS CULTURAL VALU. YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGA: HE GREW UP SAT PETERSBURG, WHICH HE LAMENTS, KNOWG THAT HE N NEVER RETURN THERE SO LONG AS THE GERMANS NTUE TO OCCUPY THE CY. HE SWEARS THAT HE WILL LIBERATE THE CY BEFORE HE DI SO THAT HE N BE BURIED THERE.DMRY SHOSTAKOVICHROLE: HEAD OF STATE (ELECTN)PARTY: GUMANISTYNOTE HUMANISTSIOLOGY: UTOPIAN SOCIALISMNOTE PROGRSIVISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW AS WH ALL SYMPHONI, THE NEW LIFE OF DMRY DMRIYEVICH SHOSTAKOVICH STARTED WH A SGLE SOUND: THE CHIME OF A TELEGRAM. PUNCTUATED WH SUDN STOPS, THE LTLE PIECE OF PAPER BROUGHT TO HIM BRIEF BUT GRIM NEWS: LENGRAD HAD FALLEN TO THE HANDS OF THE NAZIS. HE WAS ATTENDG A RECAL TOMSK, HONOR OF AN OLD IEND. WH HIS HOME LOST AND WH NO TRANSPORT WTWARDS, SHOSTAKOVICH BEME STUCK THE CY, EARNG HIS LIVG AS A POSER OF ECCENTRIC REPUTE THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC. TH BEGAN THE LARGHISSIMO OF SHOSTAKOVICH'S LIFE. A SLOW AND PONRO WALK ACROSS THE YEARS OF THE REPUBLIC, WH ALMOST NOTHG NOTABLE OCCURRG -BETWEEN. HE TURNED TO HIS WORK, POSG PIEC THAT SUBTLY CRICIZED THE REPUBLIC, AND TEGRATED HIMSELF TO THE ARTISTIC SCENE OF TOMSK. WHEN HE FOUND HIMSELF AT THE FOREONT OF THE HUMANIST ASSOCIATN, HE HAD REACHED THE ANDANTE OF HIS MOVEMENT: A STABLE, FORWARD PACE. HOWEVER, SUCH A STEADY TEMPO WOULD NOT LAST FOREVER. REBELLNS SHATTERED THE OLD REPUBLIC, WH NOVOSIBIRSK TEARG SELF AWAY OVER THE ISSUE OF NSCRIPTN. IT OPENED TO A CHAOTIC SEND ACT: THE ANARCHISTS ROSE KANSK, AND THE GENERALS MUTIED KRASNOYARSK. THE NOUEMENT RTED TOMSK, WHERE THE IALS OF THE REPUBLIC SURVIVED AND THRIVED. THE ARTISTIC MOVEMENTS OF THE CY, NOW SALONS, THRIVED. THE LANDS OF CENTRAL SIBERIA ARE TO WNS A NEW PLAY FOLD OUT. WH HIS TRIUMPH THE ELECTNS OF THE REPUBLIC, SHOSTAKOVICH NOW STANDS TO NDUCT . THE WORLD AWAS TO SEE IF HIS VICTORY IS MERELY AN OVERTURE OR THE END OF A BETIFUL DA.COMPOSER, PIANIST, AND PRENTLY THE FOUNR AND LEAR OF TOMSK'S HUMANARIAN-MD HUMANIST ASSOCIATN SALON. THE ALHOLIC: DEPRSED BY THE JTIC GERMANY FLICTED ON HIS HOMELAND, SHOSTAKOVICH HAS TAKEN TO DRKG AS A PG MECHANISM, WHICH DON'T HELP HIS ALREADY FAILG HEALTH. VEBERG HAS LONG GIVEN UP ON TRYG TO GET HIM TO QU. HE FALLS EVEN STEEPER TO THIS VICE IF THE BLACK ARMY NQUER'S TOMSK AND STEPANOV'S MEN BEG MARCHG TO THE CY. ALL-LOVG HERO: SHOSTAKOVICH EMPHASIZ THE NEED FOR PASSN TOWARDS ALL, AND HIS REFORMS ARE THE MOST HUMANARIAN OF TOMSK'S LEARS. HE ALSO AVERTS THE TYPIL ELIST ATTUS OF THE MON TOMSK POLICIAN AND SPECIFILLY REMOV THE UPPER HOE THE REPUBLIC TO ALLOW MORE DIRECT REPRENTATN OM THE MASS. ARC WORDS: THE STARTG FOC TREE FOR SHOSTAKOVICH HAS THREE FOCI TLED "THE RIGHTS OF MAN", "THE RIGHTS OF HUMANY", AND "THE RIGHTS FOR LIVG", HIGHLIGHTG HIS HUMANARIAN POLICI DITED TO FIGHTG POVERTY AND ILLERACY. BORG, BUT PRACTIL: ONE OF HIS LS AMB REFORMS IS FIXG THE RAILWAY SYSTEMS OF SIBERIA, WHICH ACTUALLY PROV TO BE A MASSIVE BOON TO DTRIAL VELOPMENT AND A DISURAGEMENT TO REGNAL SEPARATISM. CRAZY ENOUGH TO WORK: MANY DISMISSED SHOSTAKOVICH'S HUMANIST VISN FOR RSIA AS A PIPE DREAM THAT WOULD NEVER E TO BE. HOWEVER, IF GIVEN THE CHANCE TO ENACT HIS RADIL REFORMS, SHOSTAKOVICH PROV ALL HIS DOUBTERS WRONG AND CREAT A NEAR-UTOPIAN RNATN OF RSIA WHERE THE MON FOLK WILL NO LONGER HAVE TO FEAR POVERTY OR OPPRSN. DOOMED MORAL VICTOR: EVEN IF TOMSK GETS NQUERED BY THE BLACK ARMY, SHOSTAKOVICH WILL NOT SUBM TO THE NEW OCCUPIERS AND NTUE ANIZG PROTTS AGAST THEM. THIS STS HIS LIFE THE POWER STGGLE BETWEEN SIUDA AND STEPANOV, WHERE THE LATTER WILL ORR A LOCKDOWN OF TOMSK AND A SUCCSIVE BREAK UP OF THE ENSUG PROTTS. HERO GONE FISHG: ONE EVENT IS JT ABOUT SHOSTAKOVICH SUALLY RELAXG AND LISTENG TO A RERDG OF THE LATT POSN OM HIS PUPIL, EDISON DENISOV. INTERNAL REFORMIST: SHOSTAKOVICH BLAM THE REPUBLIC'S PAST FAILUR ON S APATHY TO THE MON WORKER, WHICH HE AIMS TO FIX THIS BY ADVOTG POLICI FAVOR OF THEM. MORALY PET: SHOSTAKOVICH IS ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE WHO DON'T SHARE THACHEVSKY'S ARIST IOLOGY, YET IS STILL TREATED WELL BY HIM AS A PERSONAL IEND. NECSARILY EVIL: HE LAMENTS THE NEED FOR THE REPUBLIC TO GO TO WAR WH THE OTHER WARLORDS THEIR RNIFITN NQUTS, BUT EMS NECSARY, SCE THEY WILL NEVER SUBM PEACEFULLY. ODD FRIENDSHIP: DPE THE TWO HAVG VERY DIFFERENT IOLOGI, SHOSTAKOVICH STILL EXCHANG RRPONNCE WH THE WRRF'S MIKHAIL THACHEVSKY. TTH TELEVISN SURPRISGLY ENOUGH, AS BOTH SHOSTAKOVICH AND THACHEVSKY ACTUALLY WERE CLOSE IENDS REALY, MATAG A IENDSHIP ALL THE WAY UNTIL THACHEVSKY'S EXECUTN DURG THE GREAT PURGE 1937. PASSG THE TORCH: IN 1967, DUE TO HIS AILG HEALTH, SHOSTAKOVICH STEPS DOWN AS LEAR OF THE HUMANISTS AND LETS HIS PROTéGé MOISEY WEBERG SUCCEED HIM. REASONABLE AUTHORY FIGURE: SHOSTAKOVICH MAK AN HONT EFFORT TO REACH OUT AND NEGOTIATE WH TRA UNNS SO THAT THEY N BE OFFERED PROTECTNS AND GUARANTE OM FURTHER ABE. RICHARD NIXON, THE USED CAR SALMAN: DMRY SHOSTAKOVICH REAL LIFE WAS A FAMO POSER AND PIANIST WHO (AFTER BEG THE TARGET OF A FEW POLIL ACCATNS OM HIGH-RANKG SOVIET POLICIANS DURG STAL'S REGIME) JOED THE COMMUNIST PARTY AS A LEGATE FOR THE SUPREME SOVIET DURG THE 1960S. HOWEVER, SCE THE NAZI VICTORY STROYED THE USSR BEFORE THIS POT TNO'S TIMELE, AND SCE TOMSK'S MOCRACY IS LED ENTIRELY BY THE TELLIGENTSIA, SHOSTAKOVICH HAS FORMED THE HUMANIST ASSOCIATN, TO FOC ON PROTECTG THE PEOPLE'S EEDOM OF ARTISTIC EXPRSN. WHAT'S UP, KG DU?: TO BUILD SUPPORT FOR THE HUMANISTS, SHOSTAKOVICH GO TO DIRECTLY MEET WH THE MASS TO HEAR THEIR NCERNS, G HIS PERSONAL CHARISMA TO W THEM OVER. YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGA: SHOSTAKOVICH IS PRENT TOMSK BEE HE WAS ATTENDG A RECAL THERE FOR AN OLD IEND. WHEN HE RECEIVED THE NEWS THAT LENGRAD FELL TO THE GERMANS, SHOSTAKOVICH WAS HORRIFIED, KNOWG HE ULD NEVER RETURN TO HIS HOME AGA.NOTE THIS ULD BE NSIRED AS AN ARTISTIC LICENSE – HISTORY SCE SHOSTAKOVICH WAS ACTUALLY LENGRAD WHEN THE CY WAS SIEGED.MOISEY VEBERGROLE: HEAD OF GOVERNMENT (SHOSTAKOVICH BET), HEAD OF STATE (SHOSTAKOVICH SUCCSN)PARTY: GUMANISTYNOTE HUMANISTSIOLOGY: UTOPIAN SOCIALISMNOTE PROGRSIVISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW WHEN MOISEY VEBERG BEGAN HIS RISE THE CSR'S POLICS, MANY SURMISED THAT THE JEWISH POSER OM WARSAW WOULD STGGLE TO STEP OUT OM HIS MENTOR SHOSTAKOVICH'S SHADOW. AFTER ALL, THE TALENTED MICIAN'S WORK, TOO, HAD TH FAR FAILED TO EARN THEIR OWN PLACE, PENNT OF SHOSTAKOVICH'S ORB. HOWEVER, JT AS HIS WORKS HAD ACQUIRED FANS OF THEIR OWN, VABERG'S POLIL AMBNS EARNED THE RISG STAR OF THE HUMANIST SALON HIS OWN PLACE THE LIMELIGHT. A PATIENT, TAIL ORIENTED TROSPECTIVE MAN, VABERG EXCELLED NEGOTIATG WH OTHER SALONS, AS WELL AS ORDATG THE HUMANIST'S FAMOLY CENTRALIZED POLIL ANIZATN. NOW PRINT OF THE REPUBLIC, MOISEY VABERG BRGS HIS OWN FLUENC AND IMPACT ON THE HUMANIST PROJECT. HIS FAY NSUMED BY THE ANTI-SEMISM OF THE CENTURY, HIS HOMELAND OF POLAND FALLEN TO THE FASCIST THREAT, WEBERG KNOWS THE STAK OF HIS PRINCY ALL TOO WELL; TOMSK'S DREAM OF A EE RSIA, A SHG LIGHT OF EEDOM AND PROGRS, NNOT BE ALLOWED TO WHER. A BETTER FUTURE MT BE BUILT FOR ALL, AND FEND VIGOROLY. FROM VTG ASTCTURE TO NNECT THE PEOPLE BETTER, TO NTUG SHOSTAKOVICH'S DRIVE TO TE THE WORKERS, TO EXPANDG TOMSK'S DIRECT MOCRATIC TRADNS, PRINT VABERG SEEKS TO TEACH THE LSONS OF A CENTURY MARRED BY SORROW, THAT HAVE SHOWN AGA AND AGA THE IMPORTANCE OF HOPE AND URAGE.POLISH-BORN SOVIET POSER, AND PRENTLY THE -LEAR OF THE HUMANISTS AND MENTEE OF SHOSTAKOVICH. HE SUCCEEDS SHOSTAKOVICH AS PRINT AFTER HE STEPS DOWN DUE TO HIS AILG HEALTH. ALL-LOVG HERO: JT LIKE HIS MENTOR, WEBERG HAS A EP NCERN FOR THE PEOPLE AND EVEN DISURAG THE RISE OF MAGOGU BY URGG THE PEOPLE TO NSIR WHICH POLICIANS WOULD BE THE MOST CHARABLE. BODY MOTIFS: HIS TOMSIBAR MEGAPROJECT BODY PARTS AS A METAPHOR OF THE REPUBLIC'S ASTCTURE. SPECIFILLY, THE LOL ASTCTURE ARE THE PILLARI, THE TRANSPORATN ROUT ARE THE ARTERI, AND THE CI ARE THE MA ANS. COMMONALY CONNECTN: WEBERG IS SYMPATHETIC TO THE PLIGHTS OF SEXUAL MORI, BEG A VICTIM OF DISCRIMATN HIMSELF AS A JEW AND A POLE. UNFORTUNATELY, HE N'T IMMEDIATELY PASS LEGISLATN TO PROTECT THEM BEE OF HOW EPLY UNPOPULAR IS OUTSI OF TOMSK, MUCH TO WEBERG'S DISMAY. GOOD IS NOT SOFT: WEBERG SEEKS TO BUILD A RSIA EED OM TYRANTS AND EXTREMISM, A RSIA KD TO S WORKERS, AND THLS AGAST S ENEMI. NOTABLY, THE HUMANIST ARMY IS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE MORE TERRIFYG ON THE SALONS N BUILD, SCE THEY TAKE A LETTER OUT OF THE SWISS'S HANDBOOK AND ENACT UNIVERSAL NSCRIPTN OF THE POPULATN. HOME GUARD: FURTHER VELOPG THE REPUBLIN ARMY THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, WEBERG N ANIZE A MASSIVE CIVILIAN ARMY AS RERV, GIVG THEM AQUATE TRAG TO PREPARE THEM FOR FUTURE NFLICTS. NUMBER TWO: WEBERG IS THE PROTéGé OF DMRY SHOSTAKOVICH, BEFORE SUCCEEDG HIM AS THE HUMANISTS' LEAR WHEN SHOSTAKOVICH STEPS DOWN. RENCILE THE BTER FO: WEBERG AND THE HUMANIST'S MEGAPROJECT IS THE TOMSIBAR PLAN, WHICH AIMS TO EASE SEPARATIST SENTIMENTS TOMSK, NOVOSIBIRSK, AND BARNL BY NNECTG THEIR ASTCTURE VIA RAILWAYS AND FOSTERG UNY BETWEEN ALL OF THE REGNS. RICHARD NIXON, THE USED CAR SALMAN: THE REAL WEBERG WAS A POSER WHO HAD VERY LTLE VOLVEMENT POLICS. IN TNO, HE IS THE LEAR OF THE HUMANIST POLIL SALON AFTER SHOSTAKOVICH'S RIGNATN. SPELL MY NAME WH AN S: BEFTG HIS STAT AS AN ASHKENAZI JEW LIVG RSIA, HIS SURNAME IS VARLY SPELT AS WEBERG (THE ORIGAL GERMAN SPELLG) AND VEBERG (THE SAME WORD TRANSLERATED TO RSIAN CYRILLIC AND BACK TO ENGLISH). TAKG UP THE MANTLE: WEBERG IS THE PROTéGé OF SHOSTAKOVICH, SHARG HIS HUMANISTIC AND EGALARIAN VIEWS. WHEN SHOSTAKOVICH RETIR DUE TO POOR HEALTH, WEBERG IS HIS NATURAL CHOICE FOR A SUCCSOR. WEBERG AND THE HUMANISTS TAKE UP THE LEGACY OF THE 1917 AND 1918 REVOLUTNS. HOWEVER, WHEREAS THOSE REVOLUTNS FELL SHORT OF THEIR LOFTY IALS, WEBERG STICKS TO HIS PRCIPL AND CREAT A TLY EE AND PROSPERO RSIA. TEAM SWZERLAND: ON THE ROAD TO BEG A REGNAL POWER AFTER NQUERG THE FAR EAST, WEBERG PURSU A NTRAL FOREIGN POLICY WH THE OFN AND THE SPHERE, ONLY PURSUG TRA RELATNS WH THEM. YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGA: WEBERG'S NATIVE POLAND FELL TO THE NAZIS LONG AGO, AND HE WAS FORCED TO FLEE TO MSK AND THEN TASHKENT, BEFORE SETTLG TOMSK.ANDREY SAKHAROVROLE: HEAD OF STATE (ELECTN)PARTY: MORNISTYNOTE MORNISTSIOLOGY: LIBERAL TECHNOCRACYNOTE LIBERALISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW A LEARNED MAN ONCE SAID: "THE TTH IS NEVER SIMPLE." THAT MAN, OF URSE, WAS ANDREY DMRYEVICH SAKHAROV, A PLEX MAN FOR PLITED TIM. BORN TO THE TELLIGENTSIA, SAKHAROV FOUND SHELTER OM POLICS THE GILD GE OF SOVIET SCIENCE. KEEPG HIS HEAD DOWN AND IMMERSG HIMSELF HIS CHOSEN FIELD, SAKHAROV SURVIVED, SPE OCSNALLY DRAWG THE UNWELE ATTENTN OF THE THORI FOR OUTSPOKEN REMARKS AGAST PARTY-APPROVED AMIA. SAKHAROV MANAGED TO FD HIS WAY EASTWARDS AFTER THE LLAPSE OF BOLSHEVIK THORY, TAKG UP RINCE TOMSK. HIS TECHNOCRATIC, IALISTIC VIEWS BROUGHT HIM TO THE CLIQUE THAT WOULD BEE KNOWN AS THE MORNISTS. ESPOG A SCERE BELIEF THE POWER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE THE FOUNDATNS OF A BETTER SOCIETY, ANDREY SAKHAROV EMBODI THE IALISM OF TOMSK LIKE NO OTHER.SOVIET NUCLEAR PHYSICIST, AND CURRENTLY THE LEAR OF THE LIBERAL AND TECHNOCRATIC-MD MORNIST SALON AT TOMSK. ALLOHISTORIL ALLN: UNLIKE TOMSK'S OTHER LEARS, SAKHAROV WAS AN ACTUAL OUTSPOKEN SOVIET DISSINT AND A LIBERAL MOCRAT REAL LIFE. HE ALSO VELOPED THERMONUCLEAR WEAPONS, CLUDG THE TSAR BOMBA, FOR THE SOVIET UNN AND TNO, PERSONALLY HEADS THE TOMSK NUCLEAR PROGRAM. EMPEROR SCIENTIST: SAKHAROV IS A NUCLEAR PHYSICIST AND THE PRINTIAL NDIDATE FOR THE MORNISTS. TOMSK UNR SAKHAROV'S LEARSHIP WILL ACCELERATE S SCIENTIFIC VELOPMENTS AND MORNIZE S SOCIETY TO GREATLY IMPROVE S PEOPLE'S LIVG STANDARDS. THEIR SUPERPROJECT TURNS KEMEROVO TO A "RSIAN SILIN VALLEY," A GLOBAL BASTN OF TECHNOLOGIL ADVANCEMENT. THE IALIST: EVEN PARED TO THE OTHER POLICIANS OF TOMSK, SAKHAROV IS SGLED OUT AS THE MOST IALISTIC ONE OF THEM, ADVOTG REVOLUTNARY SCIENTIFIC PROGRS AND PHG THE BOUNDARI OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE. AS SUCH, HIS MEGAPROJECT, THE NEW SIBERIAN PLAN, IS MEANT TO BUILD TOMSK'S PUTER SCIENC DTRY, THE MOST IMPRSIVE OF ALL THE OTHER PROJECTS UNRTAKEN BY THE SALONS. NOT QUE THE RIGHT THG: IT'S NOTED THAT WHILE EE TN IS A GOOD IA PRCIPLE, PRACTICE THE AVERAGE POOR WORKER DON'T NECSARILY HAVE THE APPROPRIATE SOCIAL SAFETY TO TAKE TIME OFF AND ENGAGE WH . PRERVE YOUR GAYS: THE MORNISTS ARE THE ONLY SALON TO CRIMALIZE HOMOSEXUALY. THE PROUD ELE: DOWNPLAYED, PARED TO THE BASTILLARDS, BUT THE MORNISTS SEEK TO RTRICT THE VOTE TO THOSE WH A LLEGE TN, THOUGH THEY ALSO PH FOR EE LLEGE TN FOR ALL RSIANS. SHELTERED ARISTOCRAT: SAKHAROV MEANS WELL AND HIS REFORMS SOUND EXCEPTNAL ON PAPER, BUT HE N OCSNALLY LOS SIGHT OF WHAT THE MON RSIAN WANTS, FAILG TO TAILOR HIS SOCIAL POLICI TO THEIR LIFTYL. FOR EXAMPLE, HIS BENEF OF EE TN MAY NOT BE ENJOYED BY ALL RSIANS BEE THEY ARE TOO BY WH THEIR JOBS TO BOTHER LEARNG THE FIRST PLACE. THIS RULTS MORNIST TOMSK BEG PRACTICE MUCH MORE ELIST THAN SAKHAROV TENDS TO BE. THE SPOCK: NOTABLY, SAKHAROV'S STRATEGY TO STOP EXTREMIST PARTI OM TAKG POWER IS TO THK CRILLY OF WHO N BE TEGRATED AND WHO IS TOO DANGERO TO TAKE POWER.DANIIL KHARMSROLE: HEAD OF STATE (ELECTN)PARTY: BASTILYARYNOTE BASTILLARDSIOLOGY: CONTROLLED DEMOCRACYNOTE PATERNALISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW  DANIIL KHARMS - ORIGALLY DANIIL IVANOVICH YUVACHEV, BEFORE EMBRACG HIS PEN NAME - IS NOT THE KD OF MAN ANYONE ENVISNED LEADG A NATN. A STALWART OF THE LENGRAD AVANT-GAR MOVEMENT, KHARMS ACHIEVED ONLY LIMED LOL REGNN THE TERBELLUM YEARS. KNOWN PRIMARILY FOR HIS CHILDREN'S LERATURE, KHARMS ALSO WROTE AN EXTENSIVE RP OF ABSURDIST WORK THAT FOUND FAVOR WH DISSINTS AND IRRATED THE REVOLUTNARY TABLISHMENT TO NO END. HIS REER WAS CUT SHORT 1941 BY HIS ARRT AND MMENT TO A PSYCHIATRIC STUTE LENGRAD. HE MIGHT HAVE DIED THE FOLLOWG SIEGE, IF NOT FOR A SYMPATHETIC GUARD'S KDNS. AN ABSURD MIRACLE, FOR A WRER OF THE ABSURD. THAT KHARMS HAS FALLEN WH THE BASTILLARDS IS A SURPRISE ONLY TO THOSE UNFAIAR WH HIS WORK. THROUGH METAPHOR AND VAR OTHER LERARY VIC, HE HAS MA CLEAR HIS IOLOGIL PECULIARI: THE SUBLIMATN OF ARSE, UNBIDN SIR, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF REMAG HUMAN A WORLD FALLEN TO ANIMALISTIC BARBARY. NOT THE MOST ORTHODOX OF MEN TO LEAD A LAW-AND-ORR PARTY, BUT WHO'S TO SAY WHAT'S 'ORTHODOX' THE DAYS? POET, WRER, DRAMATIST, AND CURRENTLY THE HEAD OF TOMSK'S PRAGMATIC AND HOBBIAN-MD TRY GROUP SALON, A.K.A. THE BASTILLARDS. ANTI-HERO: OF THE UNSCPULO KD. THE BASTILLARDS TAKE MANY THORARIAN AND ANTI-POPULIST MEASUR SHOULD THEY W THE ELECTN WHILE NTUALLY SEPARATG THE ERNMENT OM THE MASS AND FORCG ALL THE WORKERS SI A SGLE STATE-N UNN. THEIR ACTNS THE FAR EAST WHILE FIGHTG FASCISM AREN'T ANY BETTER, WHICH CLU JAILG THEM NCENTRATN MPS. DPE ALL THIS, THEY ENACT UNIVERSAL LERACY PROGRAMS AND IMPLEMENT UNIVERSAL HEALTHRE (ALBE AT THE ST OF MIMUM WAGE) WHEN THEY ULD'VE JT KEPT THE POPULATN ILLERATE. KHARMS HIMSELF DON'T TAKE PLEASURE OPPRSG THE WORKERS AND SE AS A NECSARY EVIL TO ENSURE RSIA'S SURVIVAL. AT LEAST I ADM IT: HE NSIRS HIMSELF ABOVE THE UAL POLICIAN BEE HE'S OPENLY HONT ABOUT THE BASTILLARDS' DIFFERENCE TO THE MON WORKER. CORPT CORPORATE EXECUTIVE: DOWNPLAYED, BUT THE BASTILLARDS ARE ONE OF THE MORE EE-MARKET SALONS, AND THEY N POTENTIALLY ABOLISH THE MIMUM WAGE AND PUT ALL WORKERS A SGLE STATE-N UNN IF THEY SI WH THE DTRIAL GIANTS AGAST THEM. CREEPY GOOD: DOWNPLAYED. KHARMS IS SCRIBED AS A GNT AND SKELETAL DIVIDUAL, AND IS THE MOST MORALLY AMBIGUO OF TOMSK'S LEARS, BUT IS STILL RELATIVELY GOOD BY THE STANDARDS OF RSIA AS A WHOLE. FOIL: KHARMS AND THE BASTILLARDS ARE THIS TO POKRYSHK AND NOVOSIBIRSK'S SILOVIKI. WHILE THE BASTILLARDS AREN'T SOFT THEIR APPROACH TO ERNANCE, TAKG MANY THORARIAN AND ANTI-POPULIST MEASUR, THEY STILL GENUELY RE ABOUT THEIR UNTRYMEN AND BELIEVE THAT SUCH MEASUR ARE NECSARY TO RTORE ORR RSIA. THIS STANDS SHARP NTRAST TO THE LACK OF ANY REAL IALS AMONG THE SILOVIKI OTHER THAN A CYNIL DRIVE FOR POWER. FOR WANT OF A NAIL: UNR ARRT BY THE NKVD, KHARMS WAS IMPRISONED LENGRAD, WHICH THE NAZIS VAD DURG WORLD WAR II. HOWEVER, WHILE HE PERISHED THERE OTL, A KD GUARD THIS TIMELE TOOK PY ON KHARMS AND RELEASED HIM, ALLOWG HIM TO PE TO TOMSK. I DID WHAT I HAD TO DO: AS THEIR AFTER MIDNIGHT CHARACTERIZATN SHOWS, THE BASTILLARDS DON'T ENJOY THE THORARIAN MEASUR THEY UNRTAKE TO STABILIZE AND REBUILD RSIA... BUT THEY FEEL THAT BEG TOO SOFT WILL LEAD TO DISASTRO LONG-TERM NSEQUENC. PAY EVIL UNTO EVIL: ONCE THEY REACH THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE AND TAKE OVER THE FAR EAST, THE BASTILLARDS WILL ENACT "-HARBIZATN" PROGRAMS TO TRY TO CLEAN OUT FASCIST FLUENCE. THE MEASUR CLU SECRET POLICE AND NCENTRATN MPS, WHICH ARE VERY REPRSIVE, BUT AT LEAST THE VICTIMS ARE SOME OF THE LEAST SYMPATHETIC PEOPLE SIBERIA. PET THE DOG: THEIR ERNMENT ISN'T ALL THORARIAN OPPRSN; THE BASTILLARDS DO ENACT UNIVERSAL LERACY MPAIGNS AND UNIVERSAL HEALTHRE, THOUGH THE LATTER AT THE EXPENSE OF MIMUM WAGE. THE PROUD ELE: THE BASTILLARD SALON IS SPIC OF EXCS POPULISM SUCH AN EMERGENCY SUATN, AND PH TO SULATE ERNMENT OM SHORT-SIGHTED VOTERS. THEY ACTUALLY REFORM THE ERNMENT SUCH THAT ONLY THE UNELECTED BET IS ALLOWED TO DRAFT LAWS WHILE THE ASSEMBLY N ONLY VOTE "Y OR NO" ON THEM. THE PURGE: THE BASTILLARDS WILL TRY TO "-HARBIZE" THE FAR EAST IF THEY REACH THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, G ERNMENT LISTS OF SUBVERSIV, SECRET POLICE, NCENTRATN MPS, AND OTHER REPRSIVE MEASUR TO LIM FASCIST FLUENCE ON THEIR NASCENT MOCRACY. REALPOLIK: EVEN THOUGH JAPAN'S PUPPET MANCHURIA OCCUPI SOME RSIAN FAR EAST TERRORY, KHARMS' MEGAPROJECT, THE NATNAL REDOUBT, AIMS TO PRAGMATILLY IMPROVE TRA RELATNS WH THEM, VELOPG THEIR PORTS TO ACCS THE FOREIGN MARKETS OF MANCHURIA. REFUGE AUDACY: AT A MPAIGN EVENT, HE ACKNOWLEDG CLAIMS THAT THE BASTILLARDS DON'T RE MUCH FOR THE AVERAGE WORKER, AND EMBRAC THEM, SAYG THAT THE FENSE AND MATENANCE OF THE REPUBLIC MT E FIRST AND THAT THE BASTILLARDS ADM THIS RATHER THAN HIDG . RICHARD NIXON, THE USED CAR SALMAN: IN REAL LIFE, KHARMS WAS A POET, WRER AND DRAMATIST NOTABLE FOR HIS AVANT-GAR ABSURDIST WORKS AND HUMORO CHILDREN'S STORI (HE ALSO DIED DURG THE SIEGE OF LENGRAD, WHICH HE SURVIVED TNO THANKS TO THE HELP OF A KD GUARD). IN THIS TIMELE, HE HAS FOUND HIMSELF A PLACE TOMSK'S TELLIGENTSIA-GUID MOCRACY AS LEAR OF THE BASTILLARD POLIL SALON.VIKTOR NEKRASOVROLE: HEAD OF STATE (SBA LLAPSE)PARTY: GUMANISTYNOTE HUMANISTSIOLOGY: UTOPIAN SOCIALISMNOTE PROGRSIVISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW (WARNG: UNMARKED SPOILERS) DISILLNED WH THE TYRANNY OF CHAIRMAN YAGODA AND AT ODDS WH THE RPORATE PALISTS OF NOVOSIBIRSK, VIKTOR PLATONOVICH NEKRASOV FOUND HIMSELF MOST CLOSELY ALIGNED WH SHOSTAKOVICH AND THE HUMANIST SALON TOMSK. DPE THIS, NEKRASOV ULD NEVER FD HIS FOOTG WH THE MORE RADIL SOCIAL MOCRATS AND MORATE SOCIALISTS. NEKRASOV FELT LOST. HIS IOLOGY WAS MUCH TO THE LEFT OF PROMENT HUMANISTS YET STILL TO THE RIGHT OF THE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT CULTIVATG TO THE SOUTH. WHOUT A MOVEMENT TO LL HOME, NEKRASOV RIGNED HIMSELF TO A LIFE OF WRG, A PASSN HE HAD PICKED UP AFTER SETTLG THE TELLECTUAL HEART OF RSIA. NEKRASOV TOOK AN TERT JOURNALISM. HIS LACK OF IOLOGIL ALIGNMENT MAY HAVE LEFT HIM ISOLATED BUT GRANTED HIM AN EXCEPTNAL REER AS A WAR RRPONNT, VERG THE MOVEMENTS OF WARLORDS ACROSS CENTRAL SIBERIA AND TO THE EAST. IT WAS THE BLACK ARMY THAT GARNERED THE MOST ATTENTN OM HIM. IF HIS ATTENTN WAS NOT PTURED BY THE EXPANSN OF THE FREE TERRORY, S LEARS MARCHG DOWN THE STREETS OF TOMSK MOST CERTALY DID. WHILE HIS VIEWS DIDN'T LE UP WH SIUDAIST THOUGHT ONE TO ONE, HE HAD LTLE PLATS THE FOLLOWG THE LIBERATN OF THE CY. THE ABOLISHMENT OF THE SALON SYSTEM OFFERED HIM MORE SAY THAN PREVLY, AND THE TERRORY'S AVERSN TO THORARIANISM WAS CERTALY APPRECIATED. AS DAYS AND WEEKS WENT BY, HOWEVER, SEEMED AS THOUGH THE NFLICT TOMSK NEVER CEASED. ANARCHIST SPLTER GROUPS LOYAL TO DIFFERENT FACTNS AND PHILOSOPHI BATTLED OPENLY THE STREETS PROMPTG LARGER QUANTI OF BLACK ARMY TACHMENTS TO POLICE THE CY. AS THE NFLICT SWELLED, NEKRASOV FELT A DIVI GROW HIM AS WELL. IF HISTORY WERE TO NTUE, IF SCHOLARS AND SCRIB ULD STILL FD WORK A CUTTHROAT ERA OF UTILARIANISM, THE MARCH ON TOMSK WOULD GO DOWN AS THE MOST SIGNIFINT WORKERS STRIKE OF A GENERATN AND VIKTOR NEKRASOV WOULDN'T BE WHERE HE WAS. HOWEVER, FATE IS OFTEN UNKD, AND THOSE WH THE BT TENTNS OFTEN FD THEMSELV ON THE WRONG SI OF HISTORY. DEFECTOR OM DENCE: IF THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY UNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA, NEKRASOV IS NTENT TO WORK WH THEM, UNTIL STEPANOV'S MEN BEG PATROLLG THE STREETS OF TOMSK AND VANDALIZG THEIR CY, WHICH MOTIVAT HIM TO SECE WHEN THE FREE TERRORY LLAPS ALTOGETHER. THE REMNANT: TAKG NTROL OF TOMSK THE EVENT OF THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY'S LLAPSE, NEKRASOV REPRENTS THE REMNANT HUMANIST FACTN.    NOVOSIBIRSK FLAG OF THE RSIAN FERATN  OFFICIAL NAME: FERATN OF NOVOSIBIRSK AND ALTAY, CENTRAL SIBERIAN FERATN (REGNAL UNIFITN), SIBERIAN FERATN (SUPERREGNAL UNIFITN), RSIAN FERATN (NATNAL UNIFITN)RULG PARTY: NOVOSIBIRSKIYE SILOVIKOTE STRONGMEN OF NOVOSIBIRSKIOLOGY: OLIGARCHYNOTE PATERNALISMA SECSNIST SIBERIAN REPUBLIC CREATED AFTER THE SIBERIAN WAR, ERNED BY A CLIQUE OF EX-ARY POWERHOLRS (SILOVIKI) OM THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC. OSTENSIBLY MOCRATIC, THE UNTRY IS FACT A CYNIL PALIST OLIGARCHY, WHOSE LEARS PRRIZE POWER AND STABILY OVER IOLOGY, CREATG AN UNTOUCHABLE CLASS OF ERNMENT-BACKED LOL MEGARPORATNS. ACE PILOT: APPROPRIATELY FOR A REGIME N BY A RETIRED ACE, A SIZABLE PORTN OF NOVOSIBIRSK'S GENERAL STAFF NSISTS OF SOVIET AC DURG THE SEND WORLD WAR, CLUDG FIELD MARSHAL ALEXANR NOVIKOV, HEAD OF THE SOVIET AIR FORCE FOR MUCH OF THE WAR. AGENT PROVOTR: DOMTIC COMMUNIST RISTANCE FIGHTERS EVENTUALLY BEG TRYG TO PLANT THEIR NUMBERS TO THE ARMY AND SPREAD WEAPONS AROUND AGATED WORKFORC TO CE FURTHER REBELLN. ALL ARE EQUAL DEATH: AS SOME SOLDIERS CRACK DARK JOK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A MUNIST OR FASCIST IS SHOT, THE JOKTER FISH HIS ROUTE A MORE SOMBER MOOD ABOUT HOW FIVE MEN (A MUNIST, TWO ANARCHISTS, A FASCIST, AND A COSSACK) DON'T DISCS POLIL THEORY WHEN THEY DIE, BUT RATHER CRY OUT FOR THEIR MOTHERS. ALLOHISTORIL ALLN: NOVOSIBIRSK N ENACT THE VIRG LANDS CAMPAIGN S STARTG FOC TREE. ANIMAL MOTIFS: AS THE NAME IMPLI, FENIKS IS REPRENTED BY THE PHOENIX BIRD, SYMBOLIZG THEIR EXTREME AGGRSIVENS AND FOC ON PRODUCG ARY EQUIPMENT. SIBIR'S LOGO IS A BEAR, REPRENTG THEIR FOC ON AGRICULTURE AND CLOSENS TO NATURE. APPEAL TO FORCE: AFTER BG ENOMIC PRSURE, FLNTG OF S ARY POWER AND REFUL NEGOTIATNS, THE FERATN N NVCE S RIVALS TO SUBM TO S ORR BY PROMISG THAT S CYNIL POLIL MACHE WILL BE FAR MORE PRACTIL THAN ANY PHILOSOPHIL AND POLIL CLATNS. ARCH-ENEMY: THEY HAVE THE MOST PROBLEMS WH TOMSK, WH WHOM THEY IOLOGILLY OPPOSE AND ANTICIPATE NFLICT WH THE MOST. TAN, ONE OF THEIR MEGA-RPORATNS, WAS EVEN THE RIVAL TO ONE OF THE SALONS UNR THE REPUBLIC. ASSHOLE VICTIM: IF THE SBA FEATS NOVOSIBIRSK, MOST OF THE ARY STRONGMEN AND CHIEF OFFICERS OF THE MEGA RPORATNS ARE EHER IMPRISONED OR EXECUTED. CAN’T SAY WE FEEL BAD FOR THEM. THE ASSIATOR: NOVOSIBIRSK TENDS TO STRIP WARLORDS OF THEIR GRANR AMBNS AND PREV ALLEGIANC SO THEY MAY SERVE THE BTERLY PRAGMATIC AND CENTRALIZED ORR THE FERATN PROVIS. BLACK MARKET: WH A LARGE POPULATN AND A VELOPED ENOMY, NOVOSIBIRSK'S ERNMENT HAS FACED MANY PROBLEMS WH BATTG THE ILLEGAL TRA OF DGS. AS THE PROBLEM NTU TO SPIRAL OUT OF NTROL, THIS IS BEGNG TO HAVE A GREATER EFFECT ON THE MUNY, AND ADDICTN IS BEG CREASGLY MON NOVOSIBIRSK. BODY MOTIFS: IN TAN'S SCRIPTN, FENIKS IS REFERRED TO AS THE FERATN'S MCLE, SIBIR AS THE BEATG HEART, AND TAN SELF AS THE BRA. BORG, BUT PRACTIL: NOVOSIBIRSK ISN'T AS LORFUL AS THE OTHER CENTRAL SIBERIAN WARLORDS, BUT THEIR GREATER DTRIAL BASE AND SUPPORT OM THE MEGARPORATNS MAK THEM ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL AND EFFICIENT PLAC THE REGN. MANY OF THE ADVANTAG ARE EVEN RRIED OVER AND MULTIPLIED THE REGNAL STAGE. THE SILOVIK REGIME HAS A UNIQUE MECHANIC WHERE THE MEGARPORATNS N FILTRATE OTHER WARLORD STAT AND E THEIR VAST ROURC TO BUY OUT THEIR ASSETS, PUTTG ENOMIC PRSURE ON THEM TO PEACEFULLY UNE WH NOVOSIBIRSK. IT'S NOT AS FLASHY AS GOG TO WAR, BUT IS AN EFFECTIVE MEANS OF RNIFYG RSIA WHOUT SPENDG MUCH MANPOWER. BREAD AND CIRC: NEARLY SAID VERBATIM THE FOC "BREAD AND GAM", WHERE THE SILOVIK JUNTA GIV EASY ACCS TO FOOD AND ENTERTAMENT SO THE PEOPLE DON'T GET ANY FUNNY IAS ABOUT REBELLG. BUT NOT TOO FOREIGN: AN ACE PILOT NOVOSIBIRSK IS AMET-KHAN SULTAN, WHO IS A CRIMEAN TATAR WHO WANTS REVENGE ON THE NAZIS FOR SECRATG HIS HOMELAND AND HELPS SHSH HIS ELECTORAL MPAIGN. CAPALISM IS BAD: BEFTG S CYBERPUNK NATURE. WORKERS ARE MA TO TOIL UNR THE LE OF THE OPPRSIVE SILOVIKI AND STGGLE FOR THEIR RIGHTS, RPORATE POWERS REMA ONLY NCERNED WH FLOODG THEIR OWN POCKETS AND BOAST ENOUGH FLUENCE TO SWAY ERNMENT OFFICIALS WH EASE, THE SYSTEM IS UALLY UNABLE TO PROPERLY ADDRS THE RISE OF HARMFUL BLACK MARKET TRAS, THE DTRIAL ADVANCEMENTS NSTANTLY POLLUTE THE ENVIRONMENT, AND NEGOTIATG THE ANNEXATN OF OTHER STAT RENRS THE MOST DITED IOLOGU TO MISERABLE SLAV TO THE DREARY AND PRAGMATIC ORR. NO MATTER HOW MANY RORTS TO DIRECT ACTN THERE ARE, THE EL STAMP OUT EVERY THREAT OF RISTANCE THE NAME OF SECURG PROF. THIS PECIALLY STICKS OUT FOR THEIR RPORATIST OPTNS. CHOOSG NTRALY: DURG THE SIBERIAN WAR, ALEXANR POKRYSHK AND VASILY SHSH, UNWILLG TO SEE THE YOUNG MEN OM THEIR HOMETOWNS DIE POTLSLY ON THE BATTLEFIELD, SEIZED NOVOSIBIRSK AND FORMED A NEW ERNMENT EE OM ANY FLUENCE, TLY NTRAL AMIDST THE CHAOS RSIA. IN THE REGNAL STAGE, SIBIR AND FENIKS SIRE AN ALLIANCE WH THE SPHERE AND OFN, RPECTIVELY, FORCG THE ERNMENT TO MANAGE S TRA FLUENCE WH BOTH FACTNS. IF THE FLUENCE NUMBERS ARE EQUAL, THE ERNMENT WILL BE UNABLE TO PICK A PARTNER. CCNAT: AS NOVOSIBIRSK EXPANDS THROUGHOUT CENTRAL SIBERIA, ARY ERNORS ARE APPOTED TO MANAGE THE NEWLY NQUERED TERRORI, BUT THIS IS A TEMPORARY MEASURE UNTIL THE ENTIRE REGN IS UNIFIED AND NTROL N BE PASSED DOWN TO NEW OFFICIALS. CONTROL FREAK: THE ERNMENT SWEARS THAT ONLY HAS THE TERTS OF S PEOPLE AS A PRRY TO JTIFY S CREASG REACH AND CENTRALIZATN. CORPORATE WARFARE: THE VAR MEGA-RPS OFTEN SEND WELL-ARMED REPRENTATIV TO ATTACK ANIZED POPULAR MONSTRATNS OR ONE ANOTHER, AND THEY UALLY GET AWAY WH . CORPT POLICIAN: VASILY SHSH LAMENTS THAT MANY OF HIS SUPPOSEDLY-TSTED AIS ARE THE POCKET OF THE RPORATE FATTS PREYG UPON BARNL'S PROSPERY. THE CORPTER: THE ERNMENT HAS NO GRANR, VIRTUO MORALY BEHD S SYSTEM, BEG MERELY NCERNED WH PROGRS UNR A JAD LENS AND STEADY VELOPMENT. AS AN APOLIL ENTY, THE STATE N NVCE ANY WARLORD TO JO S E IF THEY HAVE THE RIGHT FLUENCE AND FACTORS TO TEMPT THEM. CYBERPUNK: VOKEDWORD OF GOD STAT THAT NOVOSIBIRSK WAS EXPLICLY FLUENCED BY THE GENRE, AND 'S PECIALLY OBV S RPORATIST PATH. CYBERPUNK IS TECHNO: UNLIKE MANY OF THE OTHER RSIAN WARLORDS WHOSE UNIFITN THEM ARE ORCHTRAL OR VOL, NOVOSIBIRSK'S ARE ELECTRONIC SYNTH PIEC BY NOVOSIBIRSK NATIVE EDUARD ARTEMYEV. DEATH OM ABOVE: THEY HAVE ACCS TO MOST OF THE FORMER CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC'S AIR FORCE AND WILL WANT TO IMPROVE WHAT THEY HAVE. SO MUCH OF THE FORMER AIR FORCE'S OFFICIALS MAKE UP THEIR ERNMENT THAT EVEN THE PRINT IS AN ACE PILOT. IN THE REGNAL STAGE, THERE ARE SIX PROJECTS ABOUT VELOPG NEW AVIATN TECHNOLOGY. DEFEAT MEANS FRIENDSHIP: TO UNTER THE RISE OF DISSINTS THE FAR EAST, THE SILOVIK REGIME RECS FEATED ARY OFFICERS, BLACKSHIRTS, AND NKVD AGENTS TO ADMISTER THE NEWLY NQUERED TERRORI AS VOLKOMATS (ARY MISSARIATS). DEFECTOR OM DENCE: NOVOSIBIRSK SECED OM THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, REFG TO SEE MORE SOLDIERS PUT THEIR LIV AT RISK OM THE SIBERIAN WAR. THEY PECIALLY MAKE THIS KNOWN REGARDG TOMSK, WH THEM FDG GREAT DISTASTE AT THE SEEMGLY OVERLY-OPTIMISTIC IOLOGU OF THE SALONS THAT THEY BELIEVE TO HAVE FAILED THEM. DEFIANT TO THE END: AFTER NQUERG THE SIBERIAN ANARCHISTS, THE BLACK ARMY WOULD REMA THE MOST RISTANT TO ANNEXATN. THOUGH THEIR NUMBERS DWDLED AS MEMBERS ABANDONED THEIR E OR GAVE UP, THE ALL-SIBERIAN ARMY ADMS THAT THE REMNANTS WILL NEVER TLY GO AWAY, BUT N AT LEAST REMA NOTHG MORE THAN SPARSE NUISANC. DK JOCKEY: ONE SOLDIER IS VOLUNTEERED TO VIS ATRALIA ON A DIPLOMACY TRIP. TO HIM, 'S NOT ONLY PLETELY BORG, 'S AWFULLY DANGERO HAVG TO WHSTAND THE HEAT AND DANGERO ANIMALS THAT ARE SEEMGLY EVERYWHERE. IT DON'T HELP EHER THAT THE ATRALIAN ENVOYS ARE PREHENSIBLE DUE TO THEIR THICK ACCENTS. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: DIPLOMATILLY ANNEXG THEIR NEIGHBORS VOLV NVCG THE POPULATNS TO GIVE UP ON THEIR MORE OPTIMISTIC AND AMB ENAVORS, ALLOWG THE FERATN TO BUY THEM ALL OUT. SHSH OPPOS THIS AND WILL MAKE AN EFFORT TO BRG IALISM BACK TO THE PEOPLE UNR HIS GUIDANCE. DIDN'T THK THIS THROUGH: AFTER NQUERG OYROTIA, THE ERNOR SENT TO MANAGE THE TERRORY EXPECTS TO BE AN EASY JOB OF TG A BUNCH OF "BACKWARDS PEASANTS". UNFORTUNATELY, BY THE TIME HE ARRIV, HE REALIZ THAT HE HAS VIRTUALLY NO LEGIMACY AMONG THE PEOPLE HE'S SUPPOSED TO LE, MAKG HIS JOB A LOT HARR AND STRSFUL THAN HE ANTICIPATED. DIVI AND CONQUER: THE SILOVIK MATA THEIR NTROL BY TURNG THE RADIL LEFT- AND RIGHT-WG MOVEMENTS AGAST EACH OTHER, LETTG THEM TEAR EACH OTHER APART SO THAT THEY ARE BOTH RCED TO IRRELEVANCY. DRILL SERGEANT NASTY: THE DRILL SERGEANTS NOVOSIBIRSK ARE SOME OF THE STRICTT CENTRAL SIBERIA, OWG TO THEIR GREATER FOC ON ARISM. ELE ARMY: THE ALL-SIBERIAN ARMY OF NOVOSIBIRSK IS AMONGST THE BT ARY FORC THE REGN WH LOTS OF EXPERIENCE OM YEARS OF NFLICT. EVIL CANNOT COMPREHEND GOOD: DOWNPLAYED. THE SILOVIK ARE ASTOUND BY THE MORE ECCENTRIC ERNMENTS CENTRAL SIBERIA, OPENLY WONRG HOW THEY EVEN SURVIVED AS LONG AS THEY DID. HOWEVER, THEY DO UNRSTAND ENOUGH OF THEIR APPEAL TO EMULATE SOME OF THEIR POLICI "SPECIAL ADMISTRATIVE ZON" SIGNED TO W FAVOR OM THE PEOPLE. EVIL COUNTERPART: THE TAN CORPORATN SHAR MANY PARALLELS WH THE MORNISTS TOMSK, BOTH PRISG OF VISNARY SCIENTISTS THAT PROMOTE EE-MARKET POLICI. HOWEVER, WHEREAS THE MORNISTS ARE NCERNED ABOUT HELPG THE MON FOLK, TAN HAS NO PROBLEMS SUBJECTG THE WORKERS TO HORRID NDNS FOR THE SAKE OF PROGRS AND EFFICIENCY. A FATHER TO HIS MEN: GENERAL VASILY MARGELOV IS BELOVED BY HIS OWN SOLDIERS, WHERE HE'S BEEN AFFECTNATELY NICKNAMED "UNCLE VASYA". FOIL: NOVOSIBIRSK, WHICH EMERGED AS A REACTN TO THE FAILED IALISM OF THE TELLIGENTSIA TOMSK, IS A DARK MIRROR OF THE STATE SPL OM. WHILE OSTENSIBLY MOCRATIC, IS APOLIL AND GROUND CYNICISM TO A FLT. APART OM THE ACQUISN OF POWER, AND STAG THE STATE'S SURVIVAL (AND/OR THAT OF THE MEGARPORATNS), STANDS FOR NOTHG AND IS LDLY PRAGMATIC. FASCIST, BUT INEFFICIENT: INIALLY, WHEN TO ADDRSG THE COMMUNIST RISTANCE MOVEMENTS. DURG THE FIRST PHAS OF CENTRALIZATN, THE GUERRILLAS STILL MANAGED TO GET AWAY, OFFICIAL FORC END UP TAKG EACH OTHER OUT, OR BOTH. FURTHER RTRICTIVE MEASUR GIVE THEM BETTER CHANC LATER ON. THE FERATN: THE FERATN OF NOVOSIBIRSK AND ALTAY, AS NOVOSIBIRSK IS OFFICIALLY KNOWN, WAS FORMED BY AN UNEASY ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE MUNICIPAL ERNMENTS OF NOVOSIBIRSK AND BARNL, AND PREFERS TO PEACEFULLY UNE OTHER WARLORDS UNR THEIR FERATN, STEAD OF BUILDG A UNARY STATE. FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS: SUBVERTED. PRO-FERATN CIZENS DISMISS THE WORKER STRIK THAT POP UP NOVOSIBIRSK, NSIRG THEM UNGRATEFUL FOR THE STABILY AND FORTS THAT THE STATE GIV TO THE PEOPLE. HOWEVER, THIS IS LARGELY IGNORANT OF THE WIR AB THAT OCCUR UNR THE SILOVIK AND EVENTS SHOW THAT THE STRIKERS HAVE VERY JTIFIABLE REASONS TO PROTT THEM. FRAME-UP: WHEN AN ANARCHIST WRER IS UGHT NEARLY PUBLISHG A DAMNG ARTICLE AGAST THE SILOVIK, HE IS ARRTED ON THE FALSE GROUNDS OF HAVG UNRAGE SEX. GREED: CORPORATNS' ONLY NCERN THEMSELV WH MAKG SURE THAT THE FLOW OF PROFS REMA DIRECTED TO THEM, AND NOBODY ELSE. EVEN IF MEANS CHALLENGG PARTS OF THE ERNMENT. INDTRIALIZED EVIL: PART OF THEIR ANTAGONISTIC BEHAVR IS OM HOW THEY MANAGE TO PLETELY STRIP AWAY ANY AND ALL IALISM AND AMBN OM THEIR OPPOSN, PERSUADG S POPULATN TO STIFLG THEIR CREATIVE SPIRS SO THEY MAY SPEND TIME CHURNG OUT PLA RULTS AND DATA. THE CENTRALIZED ANT ERNMENT MAK SURE TO PASS SEVERAL POLICI TO BREAK EVEN THE MOST DITED PARTISANS TO DOWNTRODN FACTORY WORKERS ALMOST EN MASSE. THE INFILTRATN: TO DISMANTLE THE NARODNIKS, SB AGENTS ARE SENT UNRVER TO SPY AND SABOTAGE THEIR PLANS OM WH. INVADG REFUGE: NUMERO RSIANS HAVE FLED TO NOVOSIBIRSK, SEEG AS A BEAN OF STABILY THE RSIAN ANARCHY. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS HAS CREATED TERNAL ISSU THAT WILL NEED TO BE CLEARED UP BEFORE NOVOSIBIRSK N THK OF EXPANSN. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: THE MEGARPORATNS ENURAGE AN OVERTLY MYOPIC ATTU, S EXECUTIV RG ONLY FOR THEIR FANCIAL BOTTOM LE AND THEIR PANY'S NTUED EXISTENCE OVER THGS LIKE WORKERS' RIGHTS OR NATNAL TERTS. THE SILOVIKI, MEANWHILE, SEE THEMSELV AS THE ONLY ON ABLE TO RE THEM TO RE EVEN MARGALLY ABOUT SOMETHG OTHER THAN THEMSELV. KNOW WHEN TO FOLD 'EM: WHEN THE SB RAID A NARODNIK BASE, WH HELP OM A SPY, THEY ORR THE TERRORISTS TO STAND DOWN. THE NARODNIK MANR TRI TO GET HIS RAS TO OPEN FIRE, BUT HIS MEN SEE THE FUTILY FURTHER RISTANCE AND DROP THEIR WEAPONS SURRENR. AFTER A BRIEF AND TENSE FIREFIGHT, THE LAST NARODNIK HOLDOUT SURRENRS THEMSELV TO STOP THE KILLG, OFFICIALLY PUTTG AN END TO THEIR REBELLN WH A WHIMPER. LARGE HAM RAD: RAD FREE SIBERIA HAMY BROADSTS PROPAGANDA SUPPORT OF THE ERNMENT. THE LAST OF THE IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS: THE LAST MEGARPORATN LISTED THE GUI IS "THE PEOPLE", WHICH ACTUALLY MEASUR HOW POPULAR THE REGIME IS RATHER THAN THE FLUENCE OF A NORMAL PANY. LIKE FATHER, UNLIKE SON: DPE BEG ANTI-MUNIST HIMSELF, ONE SOLDIER OF THE SIBERIAN ARMY HAS PARENTS WHO WERE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY, WHICH MAK HIM A NATURAL TARGET OF THE HIGH MAND'S SPICN WHEN THEY BEG CRACKG DOWN ON MARXIST FILTRATORS. MEGA-CORP: NOVOSIBIRSK'S UNIQUE MECHANIC IS CENTERED AROUND MANAGG THE FLUENCE AND APPROVAL OF THREE MEGARPORATNS, NICKNAMED THE NATNAL CHAMPNS, THAT NTROL LARGE PORTNS OF THE UNTRY'S ENOMY AND DTRY. THE THREE MAJOR ON ARE THE ARY-DTRIAL FENIKS, THE BANKG AND FARMG ANIZATN OF SIBIR, AND THE TECHNOCRATIC REARCH STUTE OF TAN. EACH OF THE THREE PULLS NOVOSIBIRSK DIFFERENT, OPPOSG DIRECTNS OVER TIME, ADDN TO OFFERG BUFFS FOR HIGHER POWER AND LOYALTY, WH FENIKS MAKG THE FERATN MORE CENTRALIZED, SIBIR MORE FERAL, AND TAN MORE RPORATIST. THE PEOPLE REPRENT A FOURTH TEGORY WH S OWN POWER AND LOYALTY METERS, THEY MAKE THE FERATN MORE LLECTIVIST. MERCHANT CY: IN THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, MAGADAN BE A MAJOR POT OF FOC BY THE SILOVIK, WHO DTRIALIZE EVEN FURTHER TO ENURAGE GREATER TRA OM THE PACIFIC. NO SYMPATHY: THE PANI NOVISIBIRSK ONLY RE ABOUT PROF AND, IF A UNN STRIKE CROPS UP, THEY SEND THE POLICE TO HAVE VLENTLY SHUT DOWN WH TEAR GAS AND BULLETS. OBLIVLY EVIL: AS "THE DAILY BROADSHEET" SHOWS, AT LEAST SOME OF THE RPORATE ELE ARE SO OUT OF TOUCH WH THE MON CIZENS THAT THEY REMA UNAWARE OF THE STGGL AND TURMOIL THAT THE LOWER CLASS FACE. SOME BELIEVE THAT THEIR OWN SUCCS HAD TO MEAN THEIR WORKERS WERE JT AS HAPPY AND SUCCSFUL AS THEM. AN OFFER YOU CAN'T REFE: THOUGH OUTRIGHT ATH UALLY ISN'T THE ALTERNATIVE, THE FERATN LOV SENDG PROPOSNS TO S NEIGHBORG STAT' OFFICIALS AND GIVG THEM THE CHANCE TO PE TO BETTER NDNS. OLD SOLDIER: PLENTY OF THE SILOVIKI ARE BATTLE-HARNED VETERANS WH A LONG HISTORY OF BATTLE UNR THEIR BELTS. ONE NATN UNR COPYRIGHT: NOVOSIBIRSK BY 1962 IS ON THE VERGE OF BEG THIS, WH THE THREE MEGARPORATNS ALREADY WIELDG NSIRABLE FLUENCE UNR THE SILOVIKI'S RELATIVE OVERSIGHT. DEPENDG ON WHO ASSUM NTROL, THIS ULD EHER BE RERCED OR, UNR SHHK, BE AVERTED. OPERATN: [BLANK]: NOVOSIBIRSK'S FOC TO CLARE WAR ON AND NQUER OTHER CENTRAL SIBERIAN WARLORDS ARE ALL NAMED OPERATN: X. ORR IS NOT GOOD: EVERYTHG NS LIKE A WELL-OILED MACHE NOVOSIBIRSK, BUT THIS ENOMIC STABILY AT THE ST OF ANY ENOMIC MOBILY OR LIBERALIZATN, WHICH IS SEEN AS DANGERO BY POKRYSHK AND THE SILOVIK. OVERPOPULATN CRISIS: DUE TO OVERPOPULATN THE CI, A FAME WILL NEED TO BE AVERTED BY ACQUIRG FOOD OM BARNL'S FARMLAND AND RETTLG THE PEOPLE TO UNCULTIVATED TERRORI. PERSECUTED INTELLECTUALS: DOWNPLAYED, BUT THE ERNMENT HAS VERY LTLE TOLERANCE FOR THE TELLIGENTSIA OF TOMSK AND ANYTHG NOT GEARED TOWARDS THE CYNIL STANDARDS OF THE SYSTEM'S MANDS. POLICI ARE OFTEN PASSED AND ENFORCED TO STAMP OUT ANYTHG THAT ULD DIVERT THEM OM BTER PRAGMATISM. HOWEVER, THEY DO ENURAGE SCIENTIFIC STUDY AND NOVATN UNR THE CENTRAL DIGN BURE, PROVID THAT THEY ARE EFUL TO THE REGIME. POLICE STATE: TO AL WH THE RISE OF UNLY WORKERS, PROTTORS AND RISTANCE FIGHTERS, MORE ANT MANDS FOR POLICE ARE LLED FOR TO ELIMATE THE CROWDS BY BLOODY MEANS. ONCE THE NARDONIKS BEE FURTHER DAC WH THEIR OPERATNS, ERNMENT FORC BEG TO RAMP UP SECURY MEASUR AND ENACT A PURGE OF S PEOPLE. SOME CIZENS EVEN ACCEPT THIS GROSS EXPANSN OF POWER BEE THEY PREFER SECURY OVER A LIFE OF UNCERTA EEDOM. CONCERNED WH TOTAL SECURY, TERRORI ARE ORRED TO BE FILLED WH SOLDIERS AND ARMORED VEHICL, AS SEEN AFTER NOVOSIBIRSK ANNEX TOMSK. POLILLY INRRECT VILLA: THE REGIME IS UNIENDLY TO SEXUAL MORI, WH ONE GAY PLAYWRER FORBIDN OM PUBLISHG HIS WORKS ON THE BASIS OF HIS SEXUALY. PRAGMATIC VILLAY: THE SILOVIK MIGHT GIVE TOKEN MOCRATIC NCSNS THE REGNAL STAGE, BUT ONLY TO GIVE THE ILLN THAT THEY ARE SLG BACK THEIR TYRANNY AND TH W GOOD PUBLICY. RATHER THAN PASS THE SOVEREIGN SECURY ACT TO CRACK DOWN ON REMAG SOCIALIST DISSINTS, THE SILOVIK N REACH OUT TO LABOR UNNS AND PROMISE WH THEM, BUT MORE TO PROTECT THEIR DTRIAL TERTS THAN GENUE NCERN FOR THEM. A MAJOR ENOMIC FOC OF THE SILOVIK IS THE VELOPMENT OF A CIVILIAN DTRY THAT RAIS THE LIVG STANDARDS OF THE AVERAGE RSIAN AND TH MAKG THEM LS MOTIVATED TO LNCH A POPULAR REVOLT. THE PROMISED LAND: DOWNPLAYED. MANY RSIANS HAVE IMMIGRATED TO NOVOSIBIRSK BEE S ONE OF THE MOST DTRIALIZED AND STABLE CI RSIA, EVEN IF N'T BE LLED "EE". PROPAGANDA MACHE: RAD FREE SIBERIA PEDDL PRO-SILOVIK PROPAGANDA THAT JTIFI ALL OF THEIR ATROCI AS A NECSARY STEP TO STRENGTHENG THE STATE FOR S FUTURE NFLICT WH GERMANY. IT'S SO EFFECTIVE THAT PEOPLE WHO KNOW S PROPAGANDA HEAR ANYWAYS OM EAVDROPPG OTHER PEOPLE AND TERNALIZG THE RMATN. PYRRHIC VICTORY: WHEN A UN OF SOLDIERS ARE SENT TO QUASH REMNANT NKVD FORC IRKUTSK, THEY MANAGE TO TAKE OVER THEIR MAJOR HOLDOUT, BUT THEY TAKE SO MANY LOSS THE FIREFIGHT THAT 'S AN EMPTY VICTORY AT BT. RED SRE: THE OPERATNS OF THE DOMTIC COMMUNIST RISTANCE FIGHTERS DRIVE THE ERNMENT TO PURSUG A PURGE OF ANYONE EVEN MERELY SPECTED OF HAVG SOCIALIST TI. REPRSIVE, BUT EFFICIENT: WHILE BEG THE CYBERPUNK DYSTOPIA THAT IS, THE FERATN IS NOT ONLY SCRIBED AS BEG PABLE OF SURVIVAL, BUT ALSO OUTRIGHT PROSPERY. THE STATE EMPHASIZ BUILDG BIG FACTORI AND MAKG THE TRAS N ON TIME, ALL AT THE ST OF SUBMTG TO S LD PRAGMATISM AND THE SNUFFG OF IALISTIC MOVEMENTS AND ADHERENTS. LA RéSISTANCE: AT THE START OF THEIR PLAYTHROUGH, 'S TABLISHED THAT A GROUP OF COMMUNIST SURGENTS KNOWN AS THE NARODNIKS HAVE TAKEN UPON THEMSELV TO FIGHT THE FERATN'S ERNMENT BY SABOTAGG THEIR FACTORI AND RAIL L FOR A FEW YEARS. THE REVOLUTN WILL NOT BE CIVILIZED: THE NARODNIKS ARE WILLG TO RORT TO BLOODIER NFLICTS IF MEANS SECURG THE SAFETY AND RIGHTS OF THE WORKERS. RIGHT HAND VERS LEFT HAND: THE ERNMENT IS IALLY SO EFFICIENT AT ADDRSG THE NARODNIKS THAT OFFICIALS BEG ACCG ONE ANOTHER OF TREASON DUE TO PARANOIA, POOR MUNITN, AND AQUATE STCTNS. SCREW THE RUL, I HAVE CONNECTNS!: NEIGHBORG WARLORDS N BE NVCED TO ACCEPTG ANNEXATN, SHOULD ENOUGH SUPPORTERS OM NOVOSIBIRSK WORM THEIR WAY TO THEIR ORR. SAID SUPPORT MT BE AID BY HOW CLOSELY A MEGA-CORP REMBL THE OPPOSN'S POLIL IOLOGY. SCREW THE RUL, I HAVE MONEY!: ONE OF NOVOSIBIRSK'S UNIQUE MECHANICS IS S ABILY TO ANNEX OTHER STAT WH ENOUGH NEGOTIATN, STARTG WH THE APPLITN OF ENOMIC PRSURE AND TEGRATN OF S SUPPORTERS TO THE OPPOSG STATE'S ERNMENT. SECRET POLICE: THE POLICE ARE GIVEN EE REIGN TO SPY ON THE PEOPLE AND ROOT OUT NARODNIK SPI OR THIEV. WHILE MANY ARE AWARE OF THE ONGOG REPRSN, THEY CHOOSE TO IGNORE FOR THEIR OWN SAFETY'S SAKE. SELL-OUT: THE UNIFITN EVENTS WH OTHER PARTS OF CENTRAL SIBERIA EMPHASIZE THIS TO THE POT OF SORROW AND TRAGEDY, WH FERVENT ANARCHISTS FORCED TO BETRAY THEIR PRCIPL TO SURVIVE AND BEE MISERABLE GS THE MEGARP MACHE, OR THE BRILLIANT SCIENTISTS AND THKERS OF TOMSK MA TO STEAD CHURN OUT MASS-PRODUCED GOODS OR BEG FOR ENTRY-LEVEL JOBS. SILLY RABB, IALISM IS FOR KIDS!: THE TELLIGENSTIA OF THE FORMER CENTRAL REPUBLIC DID NOTHG FOR NOVOSIBIRSK'S LEARSHIP, AND UPON ADOPTG S CELER AND APOLIL OLIGARCHY, POKRYSHK ME TO ACCEPT PRAGMATISM AND NTRALY TO BE THE WAY OF LIFE. START MY OWN: THE MUNICIPALI OF NOVOSIBIRSK AND ALTAY ED TO BE PART OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, BUT FOLLOWG THE LLAPSE OF THE LATTER DURG THE SIBERIAN WAR, THEY SECED OM , ORR TO CREATE THEIR OWN FERATN. STARTER VILLA: THE NARODNIK TERRORISTS ARE THE FIRST THREAT THAT MT BE ALT WH BY NOVOSIBIRSK BEFORE THEY N THK OF EXPANDG OUTWARD. STATE SEC: TO AL WH THE SOCIALIST AND ANARCHIST TERRORISTS, NOVOSIBIRSK THORIZ THE SLUZHBA BEZOPASNOSTI TO AL WH THE DISSINTS HARSHLY AND WHOUT ERNMENT TERFERENCE. AFTER A FAILED ASSASSATN ATTEMPT ON POKRYSHK, THEIR POWERS ARE EXPAND EVEN FURTHER TO CRACK DOWN ON THE TERRORISTS. THE STOOL PIGEON: SOME FILTRATORS THE NARODK CELLS ARE FORCED TO RAT OUT OLD RAS WHO THEY PREVLY DIDN'T KNOW WERE LEFT-WG DISSINTS, CHOOSG THEIR UNTRY OVER THEIR IENDSHIP. STRIKE EPISO: ESPECIALLY EARLY ON, WORKERS TRY TO STRIKE AGAST THE APPALLG NDNS THE FACTORI AND ARE BEATEN DOWN BY RPORATE MERCENARI FOR THEIR TROUBL. ONLY ONE IS SUCCSFUL, AID BY ALEXANR ON HIS JOURNEY ACROSS RSIA, AND THEN ONLY BEE TWO RIVAL RPORATE SQUADS START FIGHTG EACH OTHER FIRST, LETTG THE STRIKERS PICK OFF THE SURVIVORS. TANK GOODNS: TO MATCH GERMAN ARMS, THE FERATN BEGS VELOPG THEIR OWN BATTLE TANKS, SUCH AS THE SIBERIAN MBT. TEETH-CLENCHED TEAMWORK: AS SHSH'S AGATN OVER THE SILOVIK'S RPT LE GROWS, THE WORKG RELATNSHIP BETWEEN HIM AND POKRYSHK GROWS CREASGLY TUMULTUO. BY THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, BOTH ARE PETORS THE ELECTN FOR PRINT. THE MEGARPORATNS, SPE WORKG TOGETHER, HAVE DIFFERENT VISNS OF HOW NOVOSIBIRSK SHOULD BE N. THE TENSNS E TO A HEAD WHEN THE MATTER OF FOREIGN OVERTUR IS RAISED. IN PARTICULAR, FENIKS WANTS TO ALIGN WH THE OFN TO ACQUIRE THEIR ARY TECHNOLOGY, WHILE SIBIR WISH TO ALIGN WH THE SPHERE SO THEY LEVERAGE THE ZAIBATSU'S FLUENCE. TO W WHOUT FIGHTG: WHILE NOVOSIBIRSK ACTUALLY DO HAVE A VERY STRONG ARY, N GO EVEN FURTHER, ANNEXG OTHER POST-RSIAN NATNS OUTRIGHT G ENOMIC AND ARY PRSURE TO FORCE THEM TO NCEDG AND MERGG TO THE FERATN WHOUT FIRG A SHOT. THIS IS EASIER THE STRONGER A GIVEN FACTN WH NOVOSIBIRSK IS, RELATN TO THE ERNMENT STYLE OF THE RIVAL QUTN. TOKEN GOOD TEAMMATE: SIBIR IS THE LEAST REPRSIVE OF THE THREE MEGARPORATNS, OWED TO THEIR VAGUE ALIGNMENT WH SHSH SCE THEY AL AGRICULTURAL TOOLS AND FANCIAL EXPERTS, SPECIALTI THAT ARE MON BARNL. TOOK A LEVEL BADASS: AN OVERARCHG SUBPLOT NOVOSIBIRSK NCERNS VASILY MARGELOV'S EFFORTS TO TRA AIRBORNE SOLDIERS, WHO START OUT VERY DISANIZED AND WEAK, MUCH TO THEIR MANR'S CHAGR. HOWEVER, AS TIME PASS, THE TROOPS BEE MORE PETENT AND PHYSILLY F FOR WHATEVER MAY THREATEN RSIA, WH MARGELOV EXPRSG GREATER PRI ABOUT THEIR PROWS. TOXIC, INC.: AS MORE AND MORE PANI MOVE TO BARNL, THE RIVER OB HAS GOTTEN CREASGLY MORE FILTHY AS FACTORI ARE ERECTED NEXT TO S BANK. THIS NCERNS SHSH, WHO ED TO ENJOY SPENDG TIME ON THE BANKS RELAXG, BUT, AT LEAST AT THE START OF THE GAME, HE DON'T THK WOULD BE RIGHT TO PUT HIS PRIVATE SIR OVER THE GOOD OF THE FERATN. WAR HERO: THE ARMY HAS SEVERAL REVERED VETERANS FORM THE SIBERIAN WAR, ONE WHO EVEN STROYED A TANK SGLEHANDLY. WAR IS HELL: MUCH OF THE ERNMENT IS LED BY EX-ARY THAT FACED BOTH THE TRIUMPH OF THE JACKBOOTS AND THE CIVIL WAR AS PART OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC. THE TRMA OM ALL THE NFLICT ACTS AS A DRIVG MOTIVATN FOR THEM TO KEEP THE CURRENT SYSTEM AND NECSARY EVILS AS A PREFERABLE ALTERNATIVE TO THE STGGL OF BATTLE. CLASH BETWEEN ERNMENT FORC AND THE GUERRILLA FIGHTERS SCRIBE THE HORRIFYG EXPERIENC THAT BOTH SIS FACE. WE ARE STGGLG TOGETHER: MOST LARGE-SLE OPPOSN PROTTS FALL FLAT BEE OF THEIR DISUNY. EXTREME LEFT- AND RIGHT-WG PROTTORS ARE PLETELY PATIBLE WH EACH OTHER, WHILE THOSE THE CENTER REFE TO OPERATE WH RADILS ON EHER SPECTM. BY THE TIME THE POLICE ARRIVE TO BREAK UP A MONSTRATN, THEY DON'T NEED TO DO ANYTHG BEE THE PROTTORS ARE FIGHTG EACH OTHER AND TAKG THEMSELV OUT. WHEN THE FAR EAST IS NQUERED, THE FERATN IS PLAGUED WH ALL SORTS OF TERRORIST ANIZATNS WHO RIST THEIR LE, WHICH THE ONLY REASON THEY AREN'T A BIGGER THREAT IS BEE THEY SPEND AS MUCH TIME FIGHTG EACH OTHER. WE USED TO BE FRIENDS: ALEXANR POKRYSHK AND VASILY SHSH HAD BEEN IENDS ONCE, RAS ARMS DURG THE FAL DAYS OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC. THOSE DAYS WERE GONE, A IENDSHIP STRAED AND BROKEN AMIDST THE RISE OF THE FERATN. WTERN TERRORISTS: NOVOSIBIRSK STARTS OUT BY ALG WH DOMTIC MARXIST AGATORS, THE LARGT OF WHICH IS THE NARODNIKS. YOUR TERRORISTS ARE OUR FREEDOM FIGHTERS: THE NARODNIKS, KNOWN FOR THEIR SABOTAGE OF ERNMENT OPERATNS AND GUERRILLA WARFARE TACTICS, HOLD AT LEAST SOME SUPPORT OM MON WORKERS. AS FAR AS POKRYSHK AND HIS SUPPORTERS ARE NCERNED, THEY'RE TERRORISTS THAT THREATEN EVERYONE'S SAFETY AND THE FERATN'S CHANCE TO THRIVE.ALEXANR POKRYSHKROLE: HEAD OF STATE, VICE PRINTNOTE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT (SHSH BET)PARTY: NOVOSIBIRSKIYE SILOVIKOTE STRONGMEN OF NOVOSIBIRSKIOLOGY: OLIGARCHYNOTE PATERNALISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW A LEGENDARY ACE PILOT THE SEND WORLD WAR AND A HERO OF THE SOVIET UNN, ALEXANR IVANOVICH POKRYSHK WOULD RETURN TO HIS HOME TOWN OF NOVOSIBIRSK AFTER THE END OF THE WAR. HOPG TO LIVE A RELATIVELY PEACEFUL LIFE, LTLE DID HE KNOW WHERE FATE WOULD LEAD HIM. POKRYSHK WAS NTENT WH THE LE OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, AND EVENTUALLY FOUND HIS WAY TO ERNMENT. MANAGG THE CY OF NOVOSIBIRSK UNR THE REPUBLIC WAS A RELATIVELY SIMPLE AFFAIR. THAT WAS, UNTIL THE SIBERIAN WAR. SOON, HE WOULD BE FORCED TO PUT THE ENTIRE CY ON A WAR FOOTG TO FACE AGAST YAGODA'S POWERFUL SUPREME SOVIET THE EAST. RATNG WAS TRODUCED, NSCRIPTN CREASED DRAMATILLY, AND THE YOUNG MEN OF NOVOSIBIRSK WERE SENT TO DIE ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF SIBERIA. AT ONE POT, POKRYSHK REACHED HIS LIM. AFTER MAKG A BACKROOM AL WH MAYOR OF BARNL VASILY SHSH, THE PLAN WAS SET TO MOTN. THE TWO MEN AND THEIR SUBORDAT WOULD SEIZE NOVOSIBIRSK SWIFTLY, ANIZG A NEW ERNMENT. A ERNMENT EE OM ANY FLUENCE, AND TLY SOVEREIGN AMIDST THE CHAOS THAT UNFOLD RSIA. NOW, LG THROUGH AN UNEASY ALLIANCE WH BARNL, POKRYSHK NEEDS TO ENSURE HIS STATE REMAS STABLE. EVEN THOUGH BOASTS A LARGE POPULATN, DTRY AND FUNCTNAL AGRICULTURE, NOVOSIBIRSK STILL HAS PROBLEMS NEEDS TO FACE, BOTH TERNAL AND EXTERNAL, AND IS UP TO POKRYSHK TO SOLVE THEM.ALEXANR IVANOVICH POKRYSHK IS A SOVIET ACE PILOT TURNED PRINTIAL DICTATOR OF NOVOSIBIRSK. AFTER THE FALL OF THE SOVIET UNN, POKRYSHK SETTLED HIS HOMETOWN OF NOVOSIBIRSK, AND THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC APPOTED HIM AS THE CY'S ERNOR. HOPG TO LIVE OUT HIS LIFE PEACE, THE SIBERIAN WAR CSHED THAT DREAM, AND MOTIVATED POKRYSHK TO SECE OM THE REPUBLIC WH THE LIKE-MD MAYOR OF BARNL, VASILY SHSH. WAR AND SORROW HAD DULLED POKRYSHK'S WORLDVIEW TO ONE OF UTTER PRAGMATISM, AND POKRYSHK IS TERMED TO MATA NOVOSIBIRSK'S STABILY AND SOVEREIGNY, NO MATTER THE ST. ACE CTOM: HE HAS A PERSONAL FIGHTER PLANE THAT WAS A GIFT OM THE FREE AVIATORS. ACE PILOT: POKRYSHK IS AN ACE PILOT WHO EARNED THE TLE HERO OF THE SOVIET UNN FOR HIS HEROISM THE SEND WORLD WAR. EVEN THE PRENT, HE OCSNALLY FLI A PLANE WHENEVER HE NEEDS A BREAK OM LG. AFFABLY EVIL: DPE LEADG A RPORATE STATE FULL OF WORK AB, POKRYSHK IS POLE ON A PERSONAL LEVEL, PARTICULARLY EXCHANGG A IENDLY DRK WH SHSH WHEN THEY NVENE. ALLOHISTORIL ALLN: POKRYSHK'S LE IS REMISCENT OF VLADIMIR PUT'S MANY WAYS, BEG UNR THE FLUENCE OF STRONGMEN WH ARY BACKGROUND (ALSO LLED SILOVIK RSIAN), AS WELL AS POWERFUL RPORATNS; A RSIA (RE)UNED UNR HIS BANNER IS EVEN LLED THE RSIAN FERATN. THERE ARE ALSO MORE THAN A FEW PARALLELS WH LEE KUAN YEW'S TENURE OVER SGAPORE POKRYSHK'S EFFORTS TO MAXIMIZE ENOMIC PROSPERY AND SOCIAL HARMONY, ALBE AT THE ST OF CERTA LIBERTI AND ANY SENSE OF IALISM. ANTI-VILLA: HE'S THE FACE OF NOVOSIBIRSK'S DARKER PATH, LG A BTER AND REPRSIVE ERNMENT UNR HIS BTAL ARY CLIQUE AND GREEDY MEGA-RPORATNS. HOWEVER, HE'S NOT LIBERATELY G THE CIZENS' SUFFERG, BUT STEAD RELUCTANTLY MAKG PROMIS SCE HE THKS MORE IALISTIC CLATNS TO BE EFFECTUAL PARED TO HIS STAT QUO, AND HE ONLY REACHED THIS LE OF THKG AFTER HIS EXPERIENC WAR. ASSASS OUTCLASS': BEFORE EXPANDG TO THE RT OF CENTRAL SIBERIA, A NARODNIK ATTEMPTS AN ASSASSATN OF POKRYSHK. LUCKILY FOR HIM, POKRYSHK IS RTED TO SAFETY BY HIS MEN, WHILE THE WOULD-BE ASSASS KILLS HIMSELF BEFORE HE N BE TERROGATED. BTAL HONTY: POKRYSHK IS KNOWN FOR BEG PLETELY BLUNT, ALWAYS HONT WHEN HE NEEDS TO SKIP PLEASANTRI WH OTHER POLICIANS TO GET WORK DONE. CCNAT: IN REGARDS TO HIS TYRANNIL LE, POKRYSHK VOWS TO RESTATE A MORE GENUE MOCRACY WHEN RSIA HAS NO NEED FOR A STRONGMAN DICTATOR TO PROTECT THEM. THE CYNIC: HIS EXPERIENC HAVE HARNED POKRYSHK AND NVCED HIM THAT ANY KD OF IALISM IS FOOLISH AT BT AND FODR FOR MADNS AT WORST. HIS FERATN IS TH A PLACE OF ALMOST TOTAL PRAGMATISM, AND DISDAS ANYTHG BETTER. DEFIANT TO THE END: IF FEATED AND BROUGHT TO TRIAL BY KEMEROVO, POKRYSHK IS NOT THE LEAST B TIMIDATED ABOUT THE PROSPECT OF BEG IMPRISONED OR EXILED, FIANTLY TELLG HIS ACCERS TO GET THE TRIAL OVER WH. DISMOTIVATN: AS CSHG AS THE FERATN MIGHT OFTEN BE, POKRYSHK BELIEV TO SIMPLY BE THE BT AND MOST EFFECTIVE APPROACH FOR HIS STATE AND PEOPLE, WHILE ANYTHG MORE DARG WILL ONLY PROVI SANY OR HOLLOW PROMIS THAT EVABLY LEAD TO FAILURE. ENEMY ME: IF SVERDLOVSK GO ON THE OFFENSIVE AGAST THE BLACK LEAGUE WT SIBERIA, POKRYSHK MAY RECEIVE A REQUT OM KONSTANT ROKOSSOVSKY TO HARASS THE BORRS OF OMSK ORR TO DISTRACT THEM OM SVERDLOVSK'S ADVANCE. IF HE AGRE, HE WILL PERSONALLY GUARANTEE NOVOSIBIRSK'S SUPPORT AGAST OMSK."YAZOV IS A THREAT TO ALL OF RSIA. WE STAND WH ROKOSSOVSKY." FALLEN HERO: HE ED TO BELIEVE THE OPTIMISTIC PRCIPL OF THE FERATN BEFORE THE SILOVIK'S RPTN AND CYNICISM GOT TO HIM. AT ONE POT, SHSH EARNTLY ASKS HIM WHEN HE STOPPED RG ABOUT THOSE IALS, BUT POKRYSHK ANSWERS THAT HE DON'T KNOW. A FATHER TO HIS MEN: THE EVENT "EVENG TIS" MAK CLEAR THAT POKRYSHK VALU HIS RAS ARLY, AND HE LAMENTS SEEG SOME OF HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS SUFFER OM TOO MUCH SHELLSHOCK TO BE ABLE TO PARTAKE FTIVI. HAVE WE MET?: DURG A DNER PARTY HONORG THE VETERANS OF THE GREAT PATRTIC WAR, A BOMBASTIC MAN TRODUC HIMSELF AS A FELLOW PILOT SUPPOSEDLY OM THE SAME FLIGHT SCHOOL. POKRYSHK THEN STGGL TO INTIFY HIM SPE THE CLEAR RPECT THE STRANGER HAS FOR HIM, THOUGH HE DON'T MD NOT BEG REGNIZED. HISTORIL BADASS UPGRA: WHILE ALEXANR POKRYSHK WAS HISTORILLY A HEROIC ACE PILOT AND AIR FORCE GENERAL, HE HAD RELATIVELY LTLE TERT POLICS. HERE, HE N RNIFY RSIA UNR HIS BANNER. HORSEMEN OF THE APOLYPSE: A LERARY PIECE CIRCULATG TOMSK PICTS HIM AS ONE OF FOUR "HORSEMEN" ALONGIS OTHER FIGUR CENTRAL SIBERIA. HELPG BRG TO THE FORMER REPUBLIC WH HIS "BETRAYAL", THE STORY ENDS WH HIM FACG PUNISHMENT FOR BRGG THE END OF THE CHANC FOR THE IAL "PEOPLE'S REALM". THIS NT TO HIS REPUTATN CREAS POLIL POWER. I DID WHAT I HAD TO DO: DPE BEG THE CLOST THG TO A VILLA CENTRAL SIBERIA, POKRYSHK DON'T ENJOY CSHG PERSONAL EEDOMS OR THE VAR PROMIS HE'S HAD TO MAKE WH THE SILOVIKI AND MEGARPORATNS TO KEEP NOVOSIBIRSK PROSPERO AND PENNT. BUT HE DO THEM ANYWAY, BEE HE THKS THAT ANYTHG ELSE IS OPENG HIS UNTRY UP TO DANGERO IAS AND IALS AND MIGHT WEAKEN THE FERATN. NECSARILY EVIL: POKRYSHK IS SHOWN NOT TO REALLY SAVOR THE QUTNABLE THGS HE DO ORR TO MAKE THE FERATN WORK, BUT SE THEM AS A NECSY TO AVOID THE PERCEIVED FAILUR OF TOMSK AND THE OLD SOVIET UNN. NOSTALGIA FILTER: SUBVERTED. AFTER A BRIEF MOMENT OF REMISCG HIS IALISTIC, YOUNGER DAYS AS AN ACE PILOT, POKRYSHK THEN REMEMBERS THE TRAGEDI THAT HAD BEFALLEN RSIA AND PH AWAY ANY ROMANTIC THOUGHTS OF HIS PAST SO THAT HE N FOC ON BUILDG A STRONG RSIA FOR THE FUTURE. OLD FRIEND: HE KEEPS A CLOSE IENDSHIP WH SHSH, THE MAYOR OF BARNL. THEIR IENDSHIP HAS HISTORY THAT REACH ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE FAL DAYS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC AND THE TABLISHMENT OF THE NTRAL FERATN. AS THE STORY PROGRS, DON'T LAST. AMET-KHAN SULTAN IS ANOTHER OLD IEND OF HIS. A TRAVELG OFFICIAL WH BS ACROSS THE AREA, HE MEETS WH POKRYSHK FOR DNER AFTER YEARS OF GOG DOWN THEIR OWN PATHS, AND UNFORTUNATELY, THEY FD THEMSELV DISAGREEG WH THE FERATN'S CURRENT APPROACH. BEFORE THEY ULD ENTER A PROPER ARGUMENT, AMET-KHAN MAK HIS LEAVE WHILE EXPRSG HIS SORROW AT WHAT HIS IEND IS DOG AND FACG AS PRINT. PET THE DOG: DPE RECEIVG A REPORT ON CREASG PROTTS TO FOOD SHORTAG, POKRYSHK NOHELS ENURAG THE MSENGER TO KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. AFTER FEATG THE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTNARY COUNCIL, SHSH OFFERS THE MORE MERCIFUL IA OF TABLISHG A MORE TONOMO REPUBLIC PLACE OF THE PREV ORR, AS OPPOSED TO PURE ANNEXATN. THOUGH WILL STILL BE UNR THE JURISDICTN OF THE FERATN, THE IA OF POKRYSHK FOG HIS UAL ROUTE OF ASSIATN AND NSIRG HIS OLD IEND'S ADVICE IS ALWAYS AN OPTN FOR THE PLAYER. POKRYSHK N PARDON THE PRISONERS OF WAR OM HIS CENTRAL SIBERIAN NQUTS, SPE THE MANY NSEQUENC THAT ULD ARISE, SUCH AS THE NARDONIKS CLAIMG LEGAL PRECENT TO GET PARDONED THEMSELV. AFTER RNIFYG THE FAR EAST, HE WILL SPEARHEAD THE REVERY EFFORT BY KICKSTARTG NATNAL PRRY PROJECTS, TEND TO IMPROVE PUBLIC HEALTH, TN, HOG, AND AGRICULTURE. PLAYG BOTH SIS: POKRYSHK HAS TO KEEP BOTH THE SILOVIKI AND MEGARPORATNS SATISFIED, EVEN IF THEIR TERTS DON'T ALWAYS ALIGN. PRAGMATIC VILLAY: IN THE FIRST FOC TREE, POKRYSHK N ALLEVIATE RTRICTNS ON THE PRS, LABOR UNNS, AND MIDDLE-CLASS, BUT ONLY TO MAKE THEM MORE PLIABLE TO THE JUNTA REGIME. UNR THE PERSUASN OF SHSH, POKRYSHK N TEGRATE THE ZEMSKY SOBOR THEIR POLIL SYSTEM AND CREATE A FERAL REPUBLIC OF TUVA BEE 'D BE A SMOOTHER TEGRATN OF KEMEROVO AND THE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTNARY COUNCIL, RPECTIVELY, TO THE FERATN. PRINT FOR LIFE: THOUGH NOVOSIBIRSK TECHNILLY HAS ELECTNS, POKRYSHK'S "SILOVIK" POLICI HAVE PREVENTED MANY CIVILIAN BURECRATS OM NNG FOR OFFICE AND KEPT HIMSELF POWER, UNTIL HE CIS TO STEP DOWN. IF HE REMAS POWER BY ELECTN, HE TRODUC EVEN TIGHTER LIMS, LIKE STRICTER VOTER ID LAWS, TO CEMENT HIS THORY. REALPOLIK: POKRYSHK BLAM THE JAPANE FOR NTRIBUTG TO THE SOVIET UNN'S DOWNFALL, BUT HE NOHELS BORROWS THEIR JET SIGNS AND N POTENTIALLY PURSUE DIPLOMATIC TI WH THEM BY TRADG ROURC THROUGH A MONGOLIAN PIPELE. RED BARON: HE IS KNOWN AS THE SIBERIAN FALN DUE TO HIS OLD PLANE AND TALENTS AS AN ACE PILOT. RELUCTANT RULER: POKRYSHK DON'T ENJOY LEADG OTHER MEN AN AIR WG, LET ALONE A FERATN. BUT THERE ISN'T REALLY ANYONE ELSE WILLG AND ABLE TO SHOULR THE BURN. STOPPED CARG: THE OLD PASSN HE FELT ABOUT HELPG THE PEOPLE IS LONG GONE, HAVG BEEN DISILLNED BY THE SOVIET UNN AND CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC'S FAILUR. AT THIS POT, HE ONLY R ABOUT RSIA'S SURVIVAL AND SAFETY ABOVE ANY IALS. SPICLY SPECIFIC DENIAL: IF POKRYSHK IS ELECTED OVER SHSH, HE'LL NY ALL ACCATNS THAT HE TAMPERED WH THE VOT AND CLAIM THAT WAS "MOSTLY" FAIR. TRY TO F THAT ON A BS CARD: DOWNPLAYED. HE IS OFFICIALLY KNOWN AS THE PRINT OF THE FERATN OF NOVOSIBIRSK AND ALTAY, A TLE THAT HE ACKNOWLEDG AS CUMBERSOME TO E. WELL-INTENTNED EXTREMIST: POKRYSHK UPHOLDS THE RPT AND EXPLOATIVE SILOVIK REGIME BEE THEIR LUCRATIVE BENEFS ARE NEED TO FE A STRONG RSIA THAT N STAND UP TO THE GERMANS WHEN THEY GO TO WAR FOR MOSW.VASILY SHSHROLE: VICE PRINTNOTE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT (POKRYSHK BET), HEAD OF STATE (SUPERREGNAL ELECTN OR SBA LLAPSE)PARTY: ROSSIYSKAYA PROMYSHLEMNAYA PARTIYANOTE RSIAN INDTRIAL PARTYIOLOGY: AGRARIANISMNOTE CONSERVATISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW BORN 1929 ALTAI KRAI, VASILY MAKAROVICH SHSH WAS AN ASPIRG THOR PRR TO HIS DABBLG POLICS AND HIS ELECTN AS MAYOR OF BARNL. SHSH HAS TREKKED A LONG ROAD SO FAR, ONE WHICH SEEMS ENDLS: A PRR ALLY OF POKRYSHK WHEN THE FERATN HAD JT SECED OM THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, VASILY QUICKLY ME TO HEAD WH HIS FORMER ALLY AND HIS RPORATE ASSOCIAT, THEIR CREEPG RPTN CLASHG WH SHSH'S IALS OF MOCRACY AND FERALISM, IALS KEEPG HIS HEAD AFLOAT AS HE ARRANGED BACKROOM ALS AND NEGOTIATNS NECSARY FOR HIS NDIDACY AS PRINT OF THE FERATN TO STAND A CHANCE. NOW NEWLY ELECTED AND HAVG WRTLED NTROL AWAY OF THE UNTRY OM THE SILOVIKS, VASILY ISN'T A POSN TO S BACK AND RELAX: THOUGH THE SILOVIKS AREN'T NTROL ANYMORE, THE PRINT HAS TO AL WH THE STILL VERY PRENT RPORATNS AND THE DAMAG THEIR RPTN HAS ED AND IS STILL G TO THE REPUBLIC. IF HE WANTS TO SEE THIS BUDDG MOCRACY BLOOM THE SERT THAT IS RSIA, HE WILL HAVE TO FACE TROUBL ED UNDOUBTEDLY BY RPORATNS DURG HIS TENURE AS PRINT. IN-GAME BGRAPHY (SBA LLAPSE) CLICK TO SHOW (WARNG: UNMARKED SPOILERS)  WHAT PLACE DO A NSERVATIVE BSMAN HAVE RSIA? IN THE DAYS OF THE EMPIRE, HE WOULD FD HIS VIRGG ENTERPRISE QUASHED BY THE BACKWARDNS OF THE TSAR. IN THE DAYS OF THE UNN, HE WOULD FD HIS OWGS NFISTED AT BT AND HIS LIFE TOO AT WORST. NOW, THE DAYS OF THE RSIAN ANARCHY, MORE THAN EVER, WHAT PLACE IS THERE FOR A NSERVATIVE BSMAN? DPE HIS GRIEVANC WH POKRYSHK AND THE UNAPOLOGETIC KLEPTOCRATS OF THE FERATN, THE FALL OF NOVOSIBIRSK AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY TO HIM, BARNL, LEFT SHSH A SEVERE STATE OF PRSN. THE CHAOS AND NFN OF THE DAYS AND WEEKS FOLLOWG THE PULATN OF THE FERATN STTERED MANY OF RSIA'S BT AND BRIGHTT TO THE WD. POKRYSHK; MISSG AND PRUMED AD. THE CHIEF OFFICERS OF THE MEGA RPORATNS; EXECUTED OR IMPRISONED. VASILY MAKAROVICH SHSH WAS ALL THAT REMAED OF THE PALIST TABLISHMENT. FORCED TO A LIFE OF RECLN AFTER HIS POPULARY WH THE CIZENRY SPARED HIM OM PUNISHMENT, SHSH SPENT HIS DAYS DRKG THE SOLU OF HIS HOME. TLY, PEOPLE REACH THEIR LOWT POTS WHEN EXCLUD OM THE MAJORY AND UNR THE TYRANNY OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, THE MAJORY WAS NEVER SO POWERFUL AND SHSH WAS NEVER SO WAS, UNTIL ONE DAY, SHSH RECEIVED A LETTER. A FORMER HIGH RANKG MEMBER OF THE BARNL CY UNCIL EXPRSED THE RAISG DISNTENT THE CY. THE LETTER WAS CLEAR GOAL, EVEN IF THE LANGUAGE HID THE FACT, THE CRACKS THE ANARCHIST FOUNDATN HAD BEGUN TO SHOW AND THE PEOPLE YEARNED FOR THE PROMISE OF THE FERATN. SHSH BEME A MAN REJUVENATED, HIS OPTIMISM AND SENSE OF PURPOSE RTORED. THE SCHISM THE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT PROV ONLY ONE THG, ANARCHISM DON'T WORK. UNLIKE THE SPLTERED ANARCHIST MOVEMENT, SHSH HAS A JOB TO DO, AND HE'LL BE DAMNED IF THE ANARCHISTS GET THE BETTER OF HIM TWICE.THE VICE-PRINT OF THE FERATN, VASILY MAKAROVICH SHSH IS POKRYSHK'S TSTED IEND AND LLEAGUE. AS THE FORMER MAYOR OF BARNL, HE TOO TTED THE SIBERIAN WAR, AND JOED POKRYSHK TABLISHG THE SECSNIST FERATN. SCE THEN HOWEVER, SHSH HAS DIVERGED OM POKRYSHK DUE TO HIS PANRG TO ARY AND RPORATE FACTNS THE NAME OF PRAGMATISM, UNRG OF THEIR CELTI AND RPTNS. SHSH, ONCE AN ASPIRG THOR, HAS STRONG IALS CREATG A MOCRATIC FERATN, BUT IS WILLG TO PUT THEM ASI FOR THE GOOD OF THE FERATN... FOR NOW. BOOK ENDS: IN AN EARLY EVENT, SHSH LAMENTS THE POLLUTED STATE OF THE OB RIVER AND THE BACK-BREAKG LABOR THAT THE NEARBY WORKERS ARE SUBJECTED TO. IF SHSH ENDS UP ELECTED THE LATE-GAME, SHSH PAYS ANOTHER VIS TO THE OB, NOW SEEG A CLEANER RIVER AND FAI ENJOYG PIICS ALONG THE ASTLE, A SIGN OF BETTER THGS TO E. THE B CAME BACK: HE REAPPEARS CENTRAL SIBERIA IF THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY LLAPS AFTER THEIR RNIFITN OF THE REGN, LEADG A REMNANT OF THE FERATN OF NOVOSIBIRSK AND ALTAY, WHICH NOW ONLY ENPASS THE AREA AROUND HIS HOME CY OF BARNL. CULTURED BADASS: SHSH IS A WRER, POET, AND ONE OF THE FEW GOOD-HEARTED POLICIANS LEFT NOVOSIBIRSK WHO N STAND UP TO THE SILOVIK'S RPTN. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: IF POKRYSHK IS ELECTED OVER SHSH, THE LATTER WILL BE KICKED OUT OF THE ERNMENT AND REPLACED WH A Y-MAN, WHILE HE N DO NOTHG BUT NTUE TO WNS THE SILOVIK'S ABE OF POWER. THE CULMATN OF THE TRAGEDI LEAV SHSH A BROKEN AND PRSED STATE, ONLY ABLE TO DRK AS A PG MECHANISM. DROWNG MY SORROWS: SHOULD SHSH FAIL TO WRTLE POWER OM POKRYSHK AND THE SILOVIKI, HE'LL BE REMOVED OM HIS POSN AND REPLACED BY ONE OF POKRYSHK'S Y-MEN. REALISG THAT EVERYTHG HE HAD DONE THROUGHOUT HIS REER, FOR THE GOOD OF HIS PEOPLE, HAD BEEN FOR NGHT, SHSH SLIPS TO ALHOLISM, WH NO LTLE DITN THAT HE WILL SOBER UP ANYTIME SOON. THE SAME THG HAPPENS IF THE FERATN IS NQUERED BY THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY... UNTIL THE BLACK ARMY LLAPS THAT IS. AFTER RECEIVG A LETTER EXPRSG BARNL'S RISG DISNTENT WH THE ANARCHISTS, SHSH RETURNS AS MAYOR OF BARNL, WH THE IMPLITN THAT HE SOBERED UP. THE FRIEND NOBODY LIK: HIS NTUED EMPATHY FOR THE PEOPLE HAS MA HIM DISLIKED BY THE SILOVIK-DOMATED ERNMENT, WHO BEG TO VIEW HIM AS A LOOSE NNON BY THE REGNAL STAGE. GOOD OLD WAYS: SHSH PROTTS THE RPTN OF THE SILOVIK, URGG THE PEOPLE TO REMEMBER THE OLD MOCRATIC IALS OF THE FERATN. HEEL REALIZATN: SEEG THE ELOGIL VASTATN ED BY THE MEGARPS, AND THE TRAGEDY OF WHAT HAPPENED TO TOMSK WHEN NOVOSIBIRSK TOOK OVER, SHSH REALIZ THAT A TOTAL LACK OF ANY HIGHER-MD IALS IS A BAD THG AND HOP TO RTORE A B OF (MEASURED) IALISM TO THE FERATN. HUMBLE HERO: HIS OFFICE IS RATHER SMALL, UNFTG FOR A MAN WHO IS NNG AGAST POKRYKSH AND HIS ARY CLIQUE. THE IALIST: UNLIKE MANY NOVOSIBIRSK, SHSH HAS NOT GIVEN UP HIS DREAM OF A LIBERAL MOCRATIC RSIA AND WILL STILL A MEASURE OF THIS IALISM BACK TO THE POPULACE WHEN HE IS ELECTED. INTERNAL REFORMIST: AFTER THE WARLORD STAGE, SHSH SEEKS TO TURN THE FERATN TO A TLY MOCRATIC ENTY, ENACT ENVIRONMENTALISM, AND WEAKEN THE POWER OF THE SILOVIKI AND THE MEGARPS. UPON HIS ELECTN, HE STARTS AN IATIVE OF DEMOKRATIZATSIYA (DEMOCRATIZATN) TO BEG THE PROCS. POST-CYBERPUNK: SHOULD HE SEIZE NTROL, NOVOSIBIRSK MOCRATIZ, REWORKS S SYSTEM TO TAME THE SILOVIKI AND THE MEGA-RPORATNS, AND TO ACCEPT IALISM, ALL WHILE KEEPG THE ELEMENTS OF THE CYBERPUNK GENRE. PYRRHIC VICTORY: SHSH HAS SUCCSFULLY STAVED OFF NUMERO ATTEMPTS TO CENTRALIZE BARNL UNR THE RPT SILOVIK ERNMENT, BUT EVEN HE REGNIZ THAT SUCH VICTORI WILL BE SHORT-LIVED, UNLS HE TAK MORE RADIL ACTN. WHEN NOVOSIBIRSK RNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA, SHSH TRI TO NFORM WH THE RT OF THE FERATN'S CELEBRATORY MOOD, BUT HE N'T BEE THERE'S STILL A GREE OF APPREHENSN TOWARDS THE SILOVIK'S RPTN, ULTIMATELY MOTIVATG HIS EVENTUAL SPL WH POKRYSHK. RAGS TO RICH: SHSH WAS BORN TO A FAY OF PEASANTS ALTAY BEFORE WORKG HIS WAY UP TO BEE THE SEND MOST POWERFUL PERSON NOVOSIBIRSK AND S POTENTIAL LEAR. RICHARD NIXON, THE USED CAR SALMAN: THE REAL VASILY SHSH WAS AN ACTOR, DIRECTOR, AND WRER OM ALTAI KRAI. IN TNO, SHSH BEME MAYOR OF BARNL, ALTAI KRAI'S PAL CY, AND VICE-PRINT OF THE FERATN OF NOVOSIBIRSK AND ALTAY. SILLY RABB, CYNICISM IS FOR LOSERS!: HE WISH TO REFORM THE ERNMENT TO BETTER SERVE A DREAMG PEOPLE STEAD OF ACCEPTG AND UPHOLDG A RPT OLIGARCHY TO BE THE BT RSIA N OFFER. STRAW CIVILIAN: INVERTED. SHSH IS NOTED TO BE THE RARE CIVILIAN WHOUT A ARY BACKGROUND WHO HAS FOUND SUCCS A ERNMENT DOMATED BY THE SILOVIKI, AND IS THE REFORM NDIDATE WH A FERATN TROUBLED BY MANY PROBLEMS. TAKG UP THE MANTLE: SHSH EVENTUALLY TRI TO REKDLE, ALBE MORE MEASURED FORM, THE IALISM OF TOMSK. TOKEN GOOD TEAMMATE: THE ONLY HIGH-RANKG OFFICIAL AND BSMAN THE FERATN THAT GENUELY R FOR THE PEOPLE AND WILL REFORM THE REPUBLIC SHOULD HE TAKE CHARGE. THIS GETS HIM SPARED BY THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY IF THEY FEAT NOVOSIBIRSK AS HE IS POPULAR WH THE PEOPLE. TOOK A LEVEL IALISM: UNLIKE POKRYSHK, SHSH STILL CLGS TO THE NOTNS OF CREATIVY AND ABIDG BY ONE'S PRCIPL. EVEN AFTER ALL THE HORRORS RSIA AND S PEOPLE HAVE GONE THROUGH, HE STRIV TO SEE THE FERATN SHED S CYNICISM AND ACCEPT MORE HOPEFUL AMBNS, AT LEAST TO A CERTA AND TEMPERED GREE. ON A MORE DIVIDUAL LEVEL, SHSH'S LOW SPIRS WILL SOAR IF THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY RNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA AND THEN LLAPS. AFTER SPENDG MONTHS DRKG AND LIVG SECLN AFTER NOVOSIBIRSK'S DOWNFALL, SHSH WILL RECEIVE A LETTER, VG HIM TO LEAD BARNL, WHICH HE'LL HAPPILY ACCEPT SO THAT THE BLACK ARMY WON'T RETAKE THE CY FOR A SEND TIME AND THEREBY MEND HIS PAST FAILURE.    PRCIPALY OF KEMEROVO OFFICIAL NAME: PRCIPALY OF KEMEROVO, GRAND PRCIPALY OF CENTRAL SIBERIA (REGNAL UNIFITN), KGDOM OF SIBERIA (SUPERREGNAL UNIFITN), KGDOM OF R' (NATNAL UNIFITN)RULG PARTY: ZEMSKY SOBORNOTE ASSEMBLY OF THE LANDIOLOGY: ABSOLUTE MONARCHYNOTE DPOTISMAN ODD KGDOM FOUND BY GENERAL NIKOLAI IVANOVICH KRYLOV, WHO HAD CROWNED HIMSELF RURIK II, THE SEND G OF THE ANCIENT VARANGIAN PRCE RURIK. GENERAL KRYLOV HAD BEEN A SPERATE, NERVO WRECK SCE THE END OF WWII, BUT HE REMA HIMSELF AS RURIK II AFTER A NIGHT LOCKED SI HIS ROOM WH CIGARETT, VODKA, AND A BOOK ON ORTHODOX MYSTICISM. PROMISG POWER AND GLORY, RURIK II TENDS TO RNE RSIA UNR HIS PECULIAR KGDOM, ONE THAT MIX TSARIST TRADNALISM WH SOVIET MORNISM. ACTN GIRL: IN PREPARATN FOR EXPANSN, KEMEROVO RECS AN ALL-WOMEN REGIMENT LLED THE SHIELDMAINS, LED BY ANNA KOTSUR. AWOME ANACHRONISTIC APPAREL: RURIKID FASHN BE POPULAR KEMEROVO, WH THE PEOPLE WEARG CLOTH THAT WOULD BE MORE FTG FOR THE MIDDLE AG THAN THE 20TH CENTURY. BADASS CREW: OUT OF ALL THE RSIAN WARLORDS, KEMEROVO IS NOTABLE FOR BEG ABLE TO HAVE GENERALS OM NUMERO OTHER WARLORDS SERVE THE NEO-RURIKID CROWN, NO MATTER THEIR PREV IOLOGIL ALIGNMENT: AFTER UNG CENTRAL SIBERIA, KEMEROVO HAS THE OPTN TO PARDON ALL OF THE GENERALS AND FIELD MARSHALS PTURED DURG THE WARS AGAST THE REGN'S OTHER UNIFIERS (BARRG THE BLACK ARMY), AT THE ST OF ONLY A MOR STABILY DUCTN. THANKS TO BEG ABLE TO PEACEFULLY UNE WH A NUMBER OF WARLORDS BASED EHER WT RSIA OR WT SIBERIA, KEMEROVO N GET REALLY LUCKY WHO THEY REC, AS THEY N EHER GET AN ALL STAR ST OF GENERALS AND EVEN OTHER UNIFIERS OR REC ALMOST EVERY AVAILABLE RSIAN GENERAL THE GAME. BA-AND-SWCH: AT ONE POT, A RADAR OM KEMEROVO TECTS SOMETHG FLYG THE SKY, WHICH LEADS TO BRIEF WORRI THAT A GERMAN BOMBER IS HEAD THERE WAY. HOWEVER, ONCE THEY TAKE A CLOSER LOOK, THEY FOUND 'S ACTUALLY JT A BIRD. CRAZY ENOUGH TO WORK: KEMEROVO RANKS AS ONE OF RSIA'S MORE BIZARRE AND OTERIC WARLORD STAT, WH THEIR MEDIEVAL KIEVAN R ATHETIC LOOKG OUT OF PLACE A COLD WAR SETTG. IN SPE OF THIS, THEY N POTENTIALLY RNIFY RSIA AND STAND A FAIR CHANCE OF RETAKG MOSW OM GERMANY. CREATOR'S CULTURE CARRYOVER: KRYLOV REFERS TO HIMSELF AS A KG AND HIS UNTRY AS A KGDOM. THIS WOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE IF HE WAS OM AN ENGLISH-SPEAKG UNTRY, BUT THIS ACTUALLY A B OF NFN WHEN YOU TAKE TO ACUNT THAT THE WORD "KG" HAS NO SGLE DIRECT TRANSLATN TO RSIAN. ONE N ONLY WONR IF HIS ACTUAL TLE IS THE MORE WTERN KOROL, THE MORE RSIAN TSAR (WHICH N MEAN "KG" SOME SUATNS), OR SOMETHG MORE EXOTIC LIKE GOSUDAR OR GOSPODAR. DAYS OF FUTURE PAST: KEMEROVO VOK THIS ATTEMPT TO EMULATE THE ATHETICS AND CTOMS OF KIEVAN R' AND THE MVE TSARDOM WHILE BEG A STATE WH A STRONG DTRIAL BASE AND PARATIVELY MORNIZED ARMY. DRILL SERGEANT NASTY: THE DRILL SERGEANTS OF THE ROYAL ARMY ARE CREDIBLY STRICT, WH ONE PARTICULAR SULTG THE TS AS "GODFORSAKEN DOGS" TO MOTIVATE THEM TO TRA HARR.HARD TIM CREATE STRONG MEN. DYSFUNCTNAL FAY: THE LG KYRLOV FAY IS ACTURED BY YURIY AND LYDIE'S NFLICTG VISN OF WHERE TO TAKE KEMEROVO. YURIY WANTS TO LE WH A LIGHTER HAND FAVOR OF WORKER'S RIGHTS AND DIPLOMACY, WHILE LYDIA ARGU FOR TOCRACY AND ARISM. THEIR NSTANT ARGUG GIV THEIR FATHER A HEADACHE AND THE LAST SIBLG, BORIS, RARELY TERVEN TO STOP THE ARGUG. THE GOOD KGDOM: DPE THE BATSH SANE CIRCUMSTANC THAT LED TO THE CREATN OF THE MONARCHY KEMEROVO, RURIK II'S LE IS ACTUALLY QUE POPULIST: HE MATAS THE BT PARTS OF THE OLD SOVIET UNN (LIKE THE TRA UNNS) AND SYNTHIZ THEM WH KIEVAN R' ATHETICS. MATTERS N GET EVEN BETTER UNR YURIY WHO EMPOWERS THE ZEMSKY SOBOR TO GIVE MORE POWER THE PEOPLE AND CREATE A REPRENTATIVE PARLIAMENTARY MONARCHY. HERO WH BAD PUBLICY: DOWNPLAYED. WHILE RELATIVELY ACCEPTED BY MOST PLAC RSIA, THEY ARE NOT WELED THE BLACK ARMY'S OLD TERRORI, WHO HAVE BEEN ED TO THE ANARCHIC LIFE ONCE GIVEN TO THEM AND NOW CHAFE UNR THE KGDOM'S TAXATN POLICI. WHEN ONE ELECTED OFFICIAL DRIV THROUGH THE AREA, THE RINTS SLG MUD AND MANURE AT THE VEHICLE, AND ONE FORMER BLACK ARMY MEMBER EVEN TRI TO ATTACK HIM WH A KNIFE. HEROIC LEAGE: RURIK II DI OF OLD AGE A SHORT TIME AFTER RSIA IS UNIFIED. HOWEVER, HE LEAV BEHD THREE CHILDREN WHO ALL HAVE EXPERIENCE ERNG AND MANDG TROOPS BY THE TIME HE PASS AND N BEE GOOD LEARS THEIR OWN WAY SHOULD THEY STEP UP TO THE PLATE. RURIK II'S HEIR APPARANT PRCE YURIY IS A REASONABLE PRCE WHO TURNS THE KGDOM TO A MOCRACY ADDN TO BEG FAR CLOSER TO THE MON MAN THAN HIS SISTER LYDIA. IN FACT HIS NNECTN TO KEMEROVO'S MONERS IS SO STRONG, THAT HE'S THE ONLY ONE OF THE NEO-RURIKIDS ALLOWED BY THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY TO WALK EE AND POTENTIALLY BEG LEAR AGA SHOULD THE SBA LLAPSE. WHILE LYDIA IS MORE TOCRATIC PARISON TO HER BROTHER, SHE FOC ON ENHANCG THE KGDOM'S ARY TO TAKE BACK MOSKOWIEN OM THE GERMANS ADDN TO VTG HEAVILY A ROBT NATNAL HEALTHRE SERVICE. BORIS IS NORMALLY ONLY THE CREON AND NNOT BE THE HEIR TO THE NEO-RURIKID CROWN UNTIL HE'S LEFT WH NO CHOICE FOLLOWG THE LLAPSE OF TABORSKY'S HOLY RSIAN EMPIRE. WHILE BORIS AT FIRST FOC MORE ON THE SURVIVAL OF ALTAY AT THE ST OF MORALE, THE FAL EVENT HIS CHA IMPLI HE'LL BEE MORE THAN UP TO THE TASK OF HERG HIS FAY'S LEGACY. HLER ATE SUGAR: AS THE RIVALRY BETWEEN YURIY AND LYDIA TENSIFI, THEIR SUPPORT BAS BEG TO FLG SULTS TO EACH OTHER, WH THE FORMER'S SI NOUNCG THE OTHERS AS "FASCIST PIGS" AND THE LATTER'S FACTN LLG THEM "MUNIST SCUM". KNIGHTG: AFTER UNG CENTRAL SIBERIA, RURIK FORMS AN ARISTOCRACY OM HIS LOYAL SERVANTS. COMMANRS ARE GIVEN FIEFDOMS THE FORM OF VILLAG AND MPS, SO THAT THEY N MTER LEVI FOR UPG MPAIGNS. MAYORS AND ADVISORS RECEIVE LARGE SETTLEMENTS TO FOSTER ENOMIC GROWTH AND VELOPMENT. LONG-LOST RELATIVE: IN AN TERTG B OF TRIVIA, RURIK II'S ENOMY MISTER, LEV VOZNENSKY, IS THE NEPHEW OF KOMI'S PRINT NIKOLAI VOZNENSKY. HE APPARENTLY PICKED UP HIS UNCLE'S TALENT FOR ENOMICS... OR RURIK JT THOUGHT HIS NAME SOUND FAIAR. NECSARILY EVIL: THE ARISTOCRATIC CLASS OF ADVISORS AND LAND OWNERS IS CRIED BY THEIR CRICS AS A RPT BUNCH, BUT THEY ARE ULTIMATELY NEED TO ANIZE THE POPULATN AND BRG SOME SEMBLANCE OF ORR TO THE KGDOM. UPON RNIFYG CENTRAL SIBERIA, CHURCH ACROSS THE REGN ARE SEIZED BY THE ARY TO SERVE AS NEW OUTPOSTS, FORCEFULLY KICKG THE PRITS OUT THE PROCS. WHILE THE ARMY ARGU THAT 'S NEED FOR THE GOOD OF THE STATE AND REMAS AS RPECTFUL AS THEY N ABOUT THE EVACUATN, DON'T SOFTEN THE BLOW FOR MANY. OLD RETAER: THE VECHE FORMED THE REGNAL STAGE IS A UNCIL OF THOSE WHO HAVE LONG SERVED RURIK THE PAST AND ANSWER TO HIM OVER HIS BICKERG HEIRS. THOUGH THEY HAVE NO LEGAL POWER, THEY NOHELS HAVE A LOT OF FLUENCE TO ENACT THE TSAR'S WILL, NAMELY WAR PLANNG, ASTCTURE, AND POLICKG. THE PARDON: AFTER UNG CENTRAL SIBERIA, RURIK II N PARDON A NUMBER OF GENERALS OM THE FEATED WARLORDS TO HAVE THEM FIGHT UNR HIS BANNER, ALTHOUGH PARDONG ALL OF THEM ONLY STS A MOR AMOUNT OF STABILY. NOTABLY, WHILE THE MASS PARDONS N EVEN SEE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTNARY COUNCIL GENERALS RPORATED TO KEMEROVO'S ARMY WHOUT ISSUE (SAID RECS CLU BOTH VASILEVSKY AND LEONID BREZHNEV WHO ARE OTHERWISE LOYAL RED ARMY OFFICERS), THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY ARE THE ONLY FACTN TO GET NO PARDONS, NO DOUBT STEMMG OM RURIK II'S GDGE AGAST THEM. PRAETORIAN GUARD: SHORTLY AFTER PROCLAIMG HIMSELF THE RERNATN OF RURIK, RURIK II FORMED THE KGSGUARD AS HIS PERSONAL HONOUR GUARD. HOWEVER, THEY N BE DISBAND BY YURIY IF HE BE THE NEW MONARCH, VIEWG THEM AS TOO LOYAL TO LYDIA TO BE KEPT AROUND. RAGTAG BUNCH OF MISFS: BEE OF HIS... UNNVENTNAL BELIEFS, RURIK'S SUPPORT BASE IS A WI AND VARIED ONE, CLUDG TRADNALIST PEASANTS, POLIL REACTNARI, RED ARMY VETERANS, OPPORTUNIST MERCENARI, AND OTHER WEIRD FOLKS. TAKEN EVEN FURTHER AS NOTED UNR BADASS CREW, WHERE A KEMEROVO THAT EHER PLAYS THEIR RDS RIGHT OR GETS RATHER LUCKY N REC A LOT MORE GENERALS OM OTHER FEATED WARLORDS. RELIGN IS WRONG: ZIG-ZAGGED. DPE HIS PERSONAL MYSTIC EXPERIENC AND HIS VAGUE LANGUAGE THAT IMPLI HIS BELIEF HIGHER FORC, RURIK IMPOS STATE ATHEISM AND BELIEV THAT CLERGYMEN ARE MERELY CHARLATANS AND ELS WIZARDS. FURTHER PLITG MATTERS, HE N PEACEFULLY TEGRATE OYROTIA AND VE THEIR CLERGY TO URT AS ADVISORS... WHILE STILL MATAG HIS GENERAL STATE ATHEIST POLICI. ON THE WHOLE, RURIK’S ATTUS TOWARDS RELIGN ARE... TERTG, TO SAY THE LEAST. RURGENT EMPIRE: EXAGGERATED. THE KGDOM OF R IS A SPIRUAL NTUATN OF THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATNS OF NOVGOROD (IF PRCE YURIY TAK POWER) AND MVY (IF PRCS LYDIA TAK POWER). THE ARE TWO UNTRI THAT HAVE BEEN CULTURALLY EXTCT FOR CENTURI. RICHARD NIXON, THE USED CAR SALMAN: SUBVERTED WH PYOTR BARANOVSKY. STARTG AS AN ARCHECT JT AS REAL LIFE, PYOTR ONLY BE KEMEROVO'S FIRST FOREIGN MISTER BEE OF A CISN MA BY A DNKEN RURIK II. ROYALS WHO ACTUALLY DO SOMETHG: RURIK II, PRCE YURIY AND PRCE BORIS ARE ALL LONG-TIME OFFICERS OF THE RED ARMY AND THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC FORC, AND DO NOT SHY AWAY OM LEADG THEIR WARRRS BY THEMSELV IF NEED. RURIK IS AN AVAILABLE FIELD MARSHAL OF KEMEROVO, AND BOTH OF HIS SONS ARE GENERALS, BY GAME START. SIBLG RIVALRY: SCE THEIR FATHER PROCLAIMED HIMSELF RURIK II, PRCE YURIY AND PRCS LYDIA HAVE BEEN FIGHTG EACH OTHER FOR YEARS, PETG TO SEE WHO WOULD BE CHOSEN AS HEIR TO THE THRONE, WHO WOULD BE GIVEN THE CHANCE TO SHAPE THE FUTURE OF RSIA. SIGIL SPAM: THE GRAND PALACE OF KEMEROVO (NVERTED OM AN OLD SOVIET ERNMENT BUILDG) IS PLASTERED WH THE RURIKID TRINT, OFTEN REPLACG THE HAMMER AND SICKLE SIGIL SPAM THAT ME BEFORE. STANDARD ROYAL COURT: FTG THEIR MONARCHIL FLAIR, KEMEROVO IS ERNED BY RURIK II AND S ROYAL URT, DOMATED BY THE PERSONALI OF YURIY AND LYDIA. UNTIL RURIK PASS, HE WILL NEED TO MANAGE THEIR FLUENCE THE URT AND TERME WHO WILL SUCCEED HIM. START MY OWN: KEMEROVO ED TO BE PART OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, BUT FOLLOWG THE LATTER'S LLAPSE DURG THE SIBERIAN WAR, AND THE MUTY OF KRASNOYARSK'S OFFICERS, KRYLOV CID TO STOP TAKG ORRS OM TOMSK TO TABLISH HIS OWN KGDOM OF WEIRDNS. SUCCS THROUGH INSANY: RURIK II BELIEV HE IS THE RERNATN OF THE ANCIENT VARANGIAN PRCE WHO UNED THE R MEDIEVAL TIM, AND HIS KGDOM IS A HIGHLY UNUAL FN OF POPULIST NSTUTNAL MONARCHISM, SOVIET-STYLE WORKERS' PROTECTNS AND TRA UNNISM, AND KIEVAN AND MVE ATHETICS ANDS CTOMS. DPE HIS ECCENTRIC LNS, HE STILL MANDS A MORN ARMY AND DTRIAL BASE (HAVG FAIRLY POWERFUL BON BOTH ARY AND DTRY THANKS TO BEG RED ARMY REMNANTS AND HAVG ACCS TO LEFTOVER FACTORI HELPS). "RURIK II" ULTIMATELY PROV TO BE A HIGHLY PETENT STATMAN AND ARY MANR, AND THE GOOD KG. AS HE LI DYG HIS BED SHORTLY AFTER UNIFYG ALL OF RSIA, HE ADMS TO HIS CHILDREN THAT HE WAS JT PRETENDG TO BE SANE ("PERHAPS THIS WHOLE CHARA WAS WORTH THE END") AND PASS AWAY PEACEFULLY AS NIKOLAI KRYLOV. WE ARE STGGLG TOGETHER: SUBVERTED. IN THE REGNAL STAGE, YURIY'S AND LYDIA'S SUPPORTERS BEG CLASHG WH EACH OTHER AND ALMOST THREATEN TO TEAR THE UNTRY APART TO CIVIL WAR, UNTIL RURIK II NAM A SUCCSOR. WEIRD CURRENCY: TO HIB THE DOMATG FLUENCE OF FOREIGN CURRENCY, KEMEROVO TRODUC THE GRIVNA AS A NEW CURRENCY, WHICH WAS PREVLY ED THE KIEVAN R AND ARE IRREGULARLY SHAPED GOTS OF PREC METALS.RURIK IIROLE: MILARY COMAMNR, HEAD OF STATEPARTY: ZEMSKY SOBORNOTE ASSEMBLY OF THE LANDIOLOGY: ABSOLUTE MONARCHYNOTE DPOTISM, SOCIAL NATNALISMNOTE PATERNALISM (YURIY IS SIGNATED HEIR)IN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW MAJOR GENERAL NIKOLAY IVANOVICH KRYLOV WAS ONCE AN OFFICER OF THE RED ARMY, SERVG AS CHIEF OF STAFF FOR THE 62ND ARMY BATTL LIKE SEVASTOPOL AND VOROSHILOVGRAD. BUT AS THE GREAT PATRTIC WAR BEME NOTHG BUT GREAT FEATS FOR THE SOVIETS, KRYLOV WAS WOUND BOTH SI AND OUT, AND THE STRS OF NSTANT RETREATS LED TO A NERVO BREAKDOWN. HOWEVER, THE 62ND WAS UNAFFECTED BY HIS AFFLICTN, SCE HAD ALREADY DISTEGRATED. HE AND HIS SMALL BAND OF OFFICERS WHOUT AN ARMY JOED THE EASTWARD WAVE OF REFUGE POURG OVER THE URALS, EVENTUALLY FDG HIS SUPERRS THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC. SENT BY THE REPUBLIC TO AL WH THE ANARCHIST SURGENCY OF THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY, KRYLOV SUFFERED A HUIATG FEAT AND LATER FACED BETRAYAL BY ONE OF HIS TSTED SUBORDAT, GENERAL ANDREEV KRASNOYARSK, AND WAS FORCED TO RETREAT HIS FORC KEMEROVO. THERE, HE FELL EPER TO HIS STUPOR, DRKG OR SMOKG WHATEVER HE ULD GET HIS HANDS ON TO DULL HIS PA AND GUILT. BUT ONE DAY, SUDNLY CHANGED. AFTER AN EVENG LOCKED NAKED HIS ROOM WH NOTHG BUT A RTON OF CIGARETT, THREE BOTTL OF VODKA, AND A BOOK ON ORTHODOX MYSTICISM, HE WALKED OUT PROCLAIMG THAT HE HAD BEEN ORRED TO RNE RSIA. BY WHOM? HE CL TO SAY. HIS OFFICER RAS WERE WORRIED FOR HIS MENTAL STATE, A FEAR EXACERBATED WHEN KRYLOV CROWNED HIMSELF AS 'RURIK II, EMPEROR AND AUTOCRAT OF ALL THE R.' HOWEVER, THEIR NCERNS WERE DROWNED OUT BY A WAVE OF SUPPORT OM SOLDIERS AND MERCENARI, DRAWN BY PROMIS OF NQUT AND GLORY. RURIK PREACH AN ECLECTIC MIX OF RSIAN TRADNALISM AND SOVIET ARISM. HE CLAIMS TO BE THE HEIR TO THE TSARIST TRADN, YET SPIS THE ROMANOVS; HE TALKS ABOUT THE VIRTUE OF VLADIMIR THE GREAT, BUT IS ATHEIST AND DISMISS PRITS AS "CHARLATANS AND WIZARDS". HIS MOTLEY IOLOGY IS REPRENTED BY HIS SUPPORTERS, A MIX OF REACTNARI, SOVIET VETERANS, AND SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE. SOME HIS OFFICER RPS SPECT THAT THE WHOLE "RURIK" ACT IS SIMPLY A CHARA TO RALLY THE PEASANTS' SUPPORT; IF IS, HE IS DOG AN EXCEPTNALLY GOOD JOB AT STAYG CHARACTER.GENERAL NIKOLAI IVANOVICH KRYLOV, ONCE AN OFFICER OF THE RED ARMY AND THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, TRANSFORMED TO RURIK II AFTER YEARS OF ARDUO EXISTENCE AND ONE REVELATORY NIGHT. THOUGH MANY HAD QUTNED HIS SANY, SOME BELIEVE THAT "RURIK II" IS AN ACT MATAED BY KRYLOV TO ATTRACT POPULAR SUPPORT. WHATEVER THE SE MAY BE, RURIK'S LE IS AS PECULIAR AS IS POPULAR, AND HE STANDS A GOOD CHANCE TO RNE RSIA. AMBIGUO SUATN: HAS GENERAL KRYLOV GONE OFF THE EP END? OR IS HE PLAYG THE LONG GAME AND PRETENDG TO BE SANE? IF HE MANAG TO UNE RSIA, ON HIS ATHBED HE REVEALS TO HIS CHILDREN THAT THIS WAS A CHARA ALL ALONG, THOUGH ONE WORTH THE END, YET NOT EVEN HIS CHILDREN ARE SURE THAT HE'S SPEAKG THE TTH, OR IF THIS IS JT THE FAL EPISO OF HIS MADNS. THE EVENT FOR HIS NATN BEG NQUERED BY THE BLACK ARMY ALSO EVEN SUGGTS THE RURIK AND KRYLOV PERSONALI ARE DISSOCIATG TO SOME EXTENT. ANACHRONISM STEW: RURIK II'S IOLOGY IS AN ODD MIX OF TRADNALISM AND MORNISM. HE WEARS AN ARCHAIC CROWN WH A MORN SU, AND KEMEROVO'S FLAG HAS THE OLD RURIKID TRINT SOVIET-LIKE RED AND YELLOW LORS. BEWARE THE SILLY ON: HIS ANE PERSONA BELI HIS LONG ARY EXPERIENCE AND THE VAR REFORMS HE PASS TO KICKSTART KEMEROVO'S ARMY, CREATG A LARGE STANDG ARMY OUT OF NSCRIPTN. BIG OL' EYEBROWS: BIG ENOUGH FOR HIS MEN TO PARE THEM TO THE ARMOR PLATG OF A TANK HE HELPED SIGN, LLG "HIS MAJTY'S EYEBROWS". BIGGER IS BETTER: A FIRM BELIEVER THIS. WHEN HE SE SOME TANK SIGNS, RURIK IS NOT IMPRS AND STAT THAT NEEDS MORE BIGGER ARMOR AND WEAPONS, IGNORG THE SIGNER'S PROTT OTHERWISE. BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: KRYLOV REMAS A PETENT ARY MANR WH A LONG HISTORY OF SERVICE TO THE SOVIET UNN AND THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, EVEN IF HE HAS MORE THAN A FEW QUIRKS. HE HAS ALSO PROVEN HIMSELF AS A PABLE STATMAN WHO KNOWS HOW TO PICK THE RIGHT SORT OF PEOPLE FOR EACH JOB, NOT WHOUT HIS HERENT ECCENTRICY. CLOUD CUCKOO LANR: HE'S GONE A B NUTS, AS SHOWN BY HIS NAPOLEON DELN, BUT HE'S OTHERWISE NOT A BAD GUY. COWARDICE CALLOUT: RURIK II, IF YOU'RE PLAYG AS HIM, N LL OUT THE THIRD REICH'S FUHRER ON HOW THEIR GENOCIDAL MPAIGN AGAST RSIA IS MOTIVATED BY FEAR SPE THE NAZIS' PRETENCE OF SUPERRY. CULTURE CLASH: IF RURIK VISS JAPAN TO FE CLOSER TI, HE MEETS A LEGATN OF JAPANE DIPLOMATS, WHO GREET HIM AS "RURIK-SAMA". AT FIRST, RURIK DON'T GET THAT 'S AN HONORIFIC AND TRI TELLG THEM THAT 'S JT "RURIK", CREATG A MISUNRSTANDG BETWEEN THE TWO PARTI, UNTIL ONE OF RURIK'S ENTOURAGE RMS OF THE TLE'S MEANG. ONCE RMED, RURIK'S FACE GO RED WH EMBARRASSMENT. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: SEEG HIS HOMELAND GET TORN APART AND GETTG BETRAYED BY GENERAL ANDREEV, KRYLOV'S PSYCHE PLETELY SNAPPED AND NOW BELIEV HIMSELF TO BE THE HEROR TO THE LONG-GONE RURIK DYNASTY. EXCEPT THAT HE REVEALS ON HIS ATHBED THAT HIS PRSN-DUCED SANY WAS ALL A LIE. DROWNG MY SORROWS: UNABLE TO PE WH THE SOVIET FEAT, GENERAL KRYLOV TRIED TO FD FORT ALHOL, CIGARETT AND MYSTIL BOOKS AFTER THE WAR. DYG AS YOURSELF: IMPLIED. IN HIS FAL MOMENTS, UPON BEG REASSURED THAT RSIA IS SAFE HANDS, RURIK II FALLY DROPS THE CHARA, DYG AS NIKOLAY KRYLOV. EVEN THE LOVG HERO HAS HATED ON: IN NTRAST TO HIS OTHERWISE GRACEFUL PERSONALY, RURIK STILL RENTS ANDREEV FOR HIS BETRAYAL, WHICH STARTED HIS DOWNWARD SPIRAL TO PRSN AND SANY. IF KRASNOYARSK IS FEATED, RURIK MT EHER EXILE OR EXECUTE HIM FOR HIS TREASON. FACE DEATH WH DIGNY: WHEN FEATED BY THE BLACK ARMY, RURIK IS IMPRISONED YUGRA, WHERE HE N GET UGHT THE BLAST RADI OF THE ANARCHISTS' NE, IF MALFUNCTNS DURG S TRANSPORT. HOWEVER, RURIK FEELS NO FEAR AT ALL UPON SEEG THE GROWG MHROOM CLOUD, BOWG BEFORE THE EXPLOSN NSUM HIM AND NSIRG HIMSELF EED OM HIS SQUALID LIVG NDNS. FRIENDLY ENEMY: UPON TAKG OVER TOMSK, RURIK HAS TEA WH MATVEY SHAPOSHNIKOV◊, TOMSK'S SECURY MISTER AND FIELD MARSHAL, AND THE TWO REMA ON GOOD TERMS WHILE SWAPPG OLD WAR STORI. AT THE REGNAL STAGE, RURIK ALSO HAS THE OPTN TO PARDON THE GENERALS OF NOVOSIBIRSK, TOMSK, THE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTNARY COUNCIL, OR ALL THREE AT THE ST OF SOME STABILY, MAKG THEM AVAILABLE TO FIGHT FOR KEMEROVO. THE GOOD KG: DPE HIS APPARENT SANY, RURIK II/KRYLOV'S LE IS QUE PRAGMATIC AND REASONABLE, AS HE LISTENS TO HIS ADVISORS AND VELOPS HIS UNTRY A RATNAL MANNER. HUMBLE HERO: HE'S OKAY WH HIS IENDS LLG HIM BY HIS FIRST NAME RATHER THAN HIS TLE. LANGUAGE BARRIER: PLAYED FOR LGHS. DURG RURIK II'S OFFICIAL VIS TO JAPAN◊, THE JAPANE DIPLOMATS ADDRS HIM AS RURIK-SAMA, WHICH VISIBLY NF HIM, AND HE KEEPS TRYG TO EXPLA THAT HIS NAME IS JT RURIK UNTIL ONE OF HIS ASSISTANTS PULLS HIM TO THE SI AND WHISPERS THAT THE DIPLOMAT IS MERELY G A JAPANE HONORIFIC. KG BOB THE NTH: RURIK II - AND THE FIRST KG TO BE NAMED "RURIK" A LONG TIME. KG ON HIS DEATHBED: HIS OLD AGE FALLY BEGS TO TCH UP TO HIM THE REGNAL STAGE, WHERE HE DREADS THE EVABLE CHOICE OF WHO TO SUCCEED HIM, WHICH WILL UPSET SOMEONE, NO MATTER WHO HE CHOOS. MEANGFUL RENAME: NIKOLAI IVANOVICH KRYLOV TOOK THE REGNAL NAME RURIK II WHEN HE PROCLAIMED HIMSELF THE RERNATN OF THE ANCIENT R' CHIEFTA RURIK. MOOD WHIPLASH: DURG A LIGHTHEARTED CELEBRATN, RURIK WEARS AN IMPRSIVE SU OF IRON ARMOR, BEARG A PE WH THE CRT OF THE ROYAL FAY. HOWEVER, JT AS HE BEGS PARADG ON HORSEBACK WH AN ARMY, RURIK SUDNLY STOPS, MUMBL SOMETHG TO HIS MEN, AND RIS OFF, WH THE ARMOR NEVER TO BE SEEN AGA. IT MARKS THE FIRST SIGN OF RURIK'S CLG HEALTH AND THE NEED FOR A SUCCSOR. MORALY PET: RURIK II IS ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE TO BE UNNDNALLY RPECTED BY LYDIA AND HIS PRENCE IS WHAT STOPS HER OM ACTG AGAST YURIY. AS SOON AS HE LEAV HIS THRONE ROOM FOR A SHORT BREAK, LYDIA IMMEDIATELY GETS TO ANOTHER ARGUMENT WH HER BROTHER. NAPOLEON DELN: GENERAL NIKOLAY KRYLOV CLAIMS TO BE A RERNATN OF RURIK, THE FOUNR OF THE RURIK DYNASTY AND LER OF KIEVAN R'. IT IS UNCERTA TO EVERYONE IF HE IS REALLY SANE OR JT ACTG SANE. SHOULD HE RNIFY RSIA, HE ADMS TO HIS CHILDREN ON HIS ATHBED THAT HIS SANY WAS ALL AN ACT. OUTLIVG ONE'S OFFSPRG: IF KEMEROVO IS FEATED BY THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY, HE IS PUT ON TRIAL AND SWIFTLY SENTENCED. AS HE IS LED AWAY◊, RURIK SCREAMS AS HE SE HIS DGHTER LYDIA A POOL OF BLOOD, SURROUND BY THREE ENEMY SOLDIERS. PASSG THE TORCH: AS HIS HEALTH BEGS TO FAIL, RURIK IS TASKED WH NAMG A SUCCSOR BEFORE HE GO, ENSURG THAT SOMEONE WILL TAKE THE RES OF POWER AND ACHIEVE HIS DREAM OF LIBERATG MOSW. PYRRHIC VICTORY: EVEN IF HE RNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA, RURIK N'T FEEL ANY SATISFACTN OM HIS VICTORY BEE YURIY AND LYDIA'S DISPUT BEE CREASGLY FIERCE EVERY DAY, PAG HIM TO SEE HIS OWN CHILDREN FIGHT AMONGST THEMSELV. RAGS TO ROYALTY: A TLY BIZARRE VERSN; GENERAL NIKOLAI KRYLOV BEME ROYALTY BY CLARG HIMSELF THE RERNATN OF A MEDIEVAL KG, AND THIS SELF-CLARED ROYALTY STUCK BEE PEOPLE SUPPORTED HIM. REALPOLIK: DPE RSIA'S PAST ENMI WH JAPAN AND HIS OWN EFFORTS TO IMPROVE RELATNS WH THE OFN, RURIK MAK SOME DIPLOMATIC OVERTUR TO THE SPHERE BEE THEIR ENOMIC POTENTIAL WOULD BE A MASSIVE BOON THAT N'T SIMPLY BE IGNORED. HOWEVER, IF YURIY IS THE CHOSEN SUCCSOR, RURIK REALIZ THAT JAPAN ONLY TENDS TO TURN THEM TO A PUPPET STATE AND TH REJECTS ANY NTUED IENDSHIP WH THEM. "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH: DELIVERS A SCATHING ONE A LETTER TO THE FüHRER OF GERMANY◊, WHICH HE LAMBASTS THE SUPPOSED "MASTER RACE" AS A HOR OF UNCIVILIZED BARBARIANS, SAYS THE REICH'S CULT OF PERSONALY IS SIMPLY SIRG VALIDATN FOR THEIR SECURI, CLAIMS THAT THEIR ATTEMPTS OF SPEGOATG JEWS AND OTHER "SUBHUMANS" WILL EVABLY FAIL WHEN THE PEOPLE REALIZE THEIR REAL ENEMY IS "THE UGLY MAN WHOSE FACE IS PLASTERED ALL OVER THEIR WALLS", AND THAT THE REASON THEIR TERROR BOMBG OF RSIA IS BORN OUT OF FEAR THAT A RURGENT RSIA WOULD WIPE THEIR REICH OM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.NOTE THIS EVENT IS MEANT AS AN ALLN TO A LEGENDARY EXPLETIVE-LAN LETTER PENNED BY THE COSSACKS TO THE OTTOMAN SULTAN MEHMED IV, WHICH IS AVAILABLE FOR READG HERE. SERLY, MAK RURIK II'S LETTER LOOK POSIVELY RTRAED. RENCILE THE BTER FO: SUBVERTED. RURIK TRI TO GET YURIY AND LYDIA TO STOP ARGUG BY TALKG ABOUT THE UNIFITN OF CENTRAL SIBERIA, SOMETHG THAT EVERYONE WANTS. UNFORTUNATELY, THE MATTER OF HOW TO ACHIEVE THIS IS BROACHED, WH THE TWO SIBLGS QUARRELG ONCE MORE OVER WHOSE STRATEGY IS RIGHT. WHEN CENTRAL SIBERIA IS RNIFIED, RURIK TRI TO RENCILE THE SIBLGS AGA WH THE HELP OF BORIS, URGG THEM TO CEASE THEIR ARGUG FOR THE SAKE OF HIS HEALTH AND THE STATE'S STABILY. LYDIA PRACTILLY LGHS AT THE SUGGTN AND ANOTHER ARGUMENT BREAKS OUT BETWEEN THE TWO, LEAVG THE TWO MEDIATORS TO SIGH BTER DISAPPOTMENT. RERNATN: NIKOLAI KRYLOV CLAR HIMSELF THE ANCIENT R' CHIEFTA RURIK, REBORN. RICHARD NIXON, THE USED CAR SALMAN: NIKOLAI KRYLOV OTL IS KNOWN FOR BEG A POST-WAR SOVIET MARSHAL AND THE MANR OF THE STRATEGIC MISSILE FORC OM 1963-1972, AND MOST FELY NEVER PROCLAIMED HIMSELF ROYALTY LIKE HE DID THIS TIMELE. ROYALS WHO ACTUALLY DO SOMETHG: HIS ERNANCE OF THE KGDOM IS CREDIBLY MDFUL OF WHAT THE PEOPLE WOULD WANT. HE'S PARTICULARLY NCERNED ABOUT NOT OPPRSG THE PEASANTRY, ENACTG LIGHTER TAX ON THEM AND TABLISHG MOR WELFARE PROGRAMS. SANY SLIPPAGE: IF THE BLACK ARMY UNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA, RURIK'S ALREADY QUTNABLE SANY BREAKS EVEN FURTHER HIS PRISON, AS ISOLATN HAS RCED HIM TO KEEPG SOME OF THE FISH HE'S GIVEN AS A FOOD AND G THEM AS IMAGARY IENDS. SHOCKG DEFEAT LEGACY: HIS FEAT AT THE HANDS OF THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY, AS WELL AS THE BETRAYAL OF HIS TSTED AI, GENERAL ANDREEV KRASNOYARSK, LEFT A EP IMPACT ON KRYLOV'S MENTAL STATE AND BEME A TALYST TO HIS SUPPOSED FALL TO MADNS. SHOUT-OUT: THE CROWN OF KRYLOV IS WORN BY THE EPONYMO CHARACTER◊ OF THE MACBETH 2015 MOVIE ADAPTATN WHILE HIS FUR AT HAS A VERY STRONG GAME OF THRON VIBE. TECHNOLOGILLY BLD ELRS: REGULARLY MYSTIFIED (GENUELY OR NOT) BY ARY TECH AS HE VTS THEIR REARCH, SPE HIS BACKGROUND AS A RED ARMY GENERAL. HE MAK UNREALISTIC SUGGTNS TO HIS TANK SIGNER (WHICH END UP BEG FEASIBLE IF EXPENSIVE) AND REFERS TO AIRPLAN AS "FLYG MACH". THE UNFETTERED: WHEN ASKED BY A REPORTER IF HIS STRANGE CHARACTER WOULD MAKE HIM HARD TO TAKE SERLY, RURIK RPONDS THAT HE ULDN'T RE LS ABOUT WHAT THE WORLD THKS ABOUT HIM, AS HIS ONLY PRRY IS TO RNIFY RSIA AND RETURN TO THE WORLD STAGE AS A POWERFUL FORCE S OWN RIGHT. WHAM LE: AFTER UNIFYG RSIA, AS HE LAYS DYG◊, RURIK II'S FAL WORDS PERHAPS GIV SOME SIGHT TO KRYLOV'S RURIK PERSONA.RURIK II: "GOOD, GOOD. THEN PERHAPS THIS WHOLE CHARA WAS WORTH THE END." WHAT THE HELL, HERO?: IF LYDIA IS ALLOWED TO BREAK UP THE TRA UNNS, ONE STRIKG WORKER TERNALLY CRICIZ RURIK'S PLACENCY THE REPRSN, PARTICULARLY WHEN HE WNS A STRIKE BROKEN UP BY POLICE OFFICERS AND TEAR GAS.YURIY KRYLOVROLE: MILARY COMMANR, CROWN PRCENOTE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT (RURIK II SUCCSN), HEAD OF STATE (RURIK II SUCCSN)IOLOGY: SOCIAL NATNALISMNOTE PATERNALISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW IF YOU HAD TOLD YURIY NIKOLAYEVICH KRYLOV TWO S AGO THAT HE WOULD ONE DAY STAND AT THE HELM OF A REJUVENATED RSIAN MONARCHY, HE WOULD'VE NO DOUBT BEEN A STATE OF SHEER DISBELIEF. YET, A TLY BIZARRE SERI OF EVENTS, YURIY HAS RISEN TO BEE THE UNDISPUTED SUCCSOR TO HIS FATHER'S ALMOST HEROIC LEGACY. AS A YOUNG MAN, YURIY TOOK AFTER HIS FATHER AND JOED THE ARMY OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC AS AN OFFICER, WHERE HE DISTGUISHED HIMSELF AS AN ENERGETIC AND PABLE LEAR. DURG HIS TIME ON THE ONT, HE SAW FIRSTHAND THE VASTATG EFFECTS OF WAR UPON THE POOR AND DISADVANTAGED OF RSIA. ALTHOUGH HE NTUED TO RISE THROUGH THE RANKS, YURIY BEME TRATED WH HIS ABILY TO MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE. YURIY'S LIFE WOULD SOON BEE EVEN MORE HECTIC WHEN HIS FATHER SUFFERED WHAT APPEARED TO BE A SEVERE MENTAL BREAK. WHEN HE EMERGED AGA AS RURIK II, HE WAS QUICK TO TABLISH HIS PROGENY AS NOBILY HIS SELF-PROCLAIMED KGDOM. AFTER A SHORT PERD OF NFN AND NCERN FOR HIS FATHER, PRCE YURIY EVENTUALLY ME TO SEE THE KGDOM AS A CHANCE TO MAKE HIS IALS A REALY. THE PATH TOWARDS THE CROWN WAS GHT WH POLIL TRIGUE, BUT SPE THE CHALLENG YURIY WOULD EVENTUALLY BE NAMED AS RURIK II'S RIGHTFUL SUCCSOR. NOW CHRISTENED AS RURIK III HONOR OF HIS LATE FATHER, THE KG TENDS TO MAKE GOOD ON HIS LOFTY GOALS. UNR HIS REIGN, RURIK III TENDS TO LAY THE FOUNDATNS OF A MORE FAIR AND JT KGDOM, ONE WHICH LOOKS TO THE RIGHTS OF S PEOPLE FIRST AND FOREMOST.IN-GAME BGRAPHY (SBA LLAPSE) CLICK TO SHOW (WARNG: UNMARKED SPOILERS) YURIY NIKOLAYEVICH KRYLOV IS A MAN TRAPPED A STORYBOOK. AT LEAST, 'S BEEN EASIER FOR HIM TO VIEW HIS LIFE AS A STORY BEG TOLD RATHER THAN A LIFE BEG LIVED. THE THOR OF THE TRAGEDY HAS SEEN F THAT YURIY BE A PROTAGONIST, A PRCE PRIDG OVER A TROUBLED LAND. ONCE UPON A TIME, A LAND FAR, FAR AWAY, THERE LIVED A YOUNG BOY. HE WAS A NOBLE, BUT LIVED AS ONE AMONGST THE CIZENS OF THE FLOURISHG KGDOM. ONE DAY, WHILE THE YOUNG BOY READ BY THE RIVER, AN EVIL WIZARD ME TO HIS KGDOM, HEXG ALL THOSE AROUND HIM TO BE SLAV, UNRELENTG SERVICE TO THEIR MASTER. THE WIZARD'S TRICKS DID NOT AFFECT THE ROYAL FAY. THE KG AND HIS GUARD FOUGHT GALLANTLY TO REPEL THE WIZARD, BUT THE WIZARD AND HIS KNIGHT OVERWHELMED THE KGDOM, TAKG THE KG PRISONER AND LEAVG THE HERO'S SISTER SLA BATTLE. SPARED BY THE FORC OF THE WIZARD UNR THE PROTECTN OF HIS SUBJECTS, YURIY ASSUMED A NEW INTY, RENOUNCG HIS TL. STILL, THE HERO WORKED TIRELSLY TO ENHANCE THE LIV OF HIS PEOPLE, SUBVERTG THE WIZARD'S PUPPET ADMISTRATN. FOR A TIME, SEEMED AS THOUGH THE WIZARD'S EMPIRE WAS VCIBLE, UNTIL A RIFT OPENED UP BETWEEN THE WIZARD AND THE KNIGHT. THE KNIGHT BEGAN TO ASSERT HIMSELF AS THE HEGEMON OF THE REGN, G WHATEVER MEANS NECSARY TO SECURE A KGDOM OF HIS OWN. THE BTAL METHODS OF THE KNIGHT AND THE WANG FLUENCE OF THE WIZARD PROVID AN OPPORTUNY TO STRIKE, AS THE PROPHECY HAD FORETOLD. THE HERO, HAVG ASSUMED THE NAME AND TLE OF KG RURIK III, RALLIED HIS MOST LOYAL SUPPORTERS TO BREAK EE OF THE WIZARD'S BRAWASHG AND TO LIVE EEDOM ONCE MORE. WHILE THE HERO OF PROPHECY RECUPERAT HIS FORC, THE MAD GENERAL OF THE SOUTH NTU HIS RAIDS. THE STORY OF KG RURIK III IS FAR OM OVER. THE BATTLE OF PROPHECY WILL SOON MENCE AND THE PEOPLE N FALLY LIVE... ...HAPPILY EVER AFTER.YURIY NIKOLAYEVICH KRYLOV IS THE MIDDLE SON OF NIKOLAI KRYLOV'S THREE CHILDREN. AN ARMY OFFICER THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC LIKE HIS FATHER, YURIY SAW FIRSTHAND THE VASTATG EFFECTS OF WAR ON RSIA'S POOR MONERS, AND HE WAS TRATED WH HIS ABILY TO HELP THEM. LIKE OTHERS, HE WAS IALLY NFED BY HIS FATHER'S RURIKID RTORATN AND HIS SIGNATN AS A RURIKID PRCE, BUT YURIY LATER ME TO SEE THE KGDOM AS A CHANCE TO REALIZE HIS POPULIST IALS, A CHANCE TO BRG JTICE TO RSIA. ALL-LOVG HERO: YURIY IS A PASSNATE AND REASONABLE LER TO ALL OF HIS PEOPLE, WHERE HE TRI EVERYTHG HIS POWER TO PROTECT AND BENEF HIM. HE ALSO TRI SEEG THE BT HIS SISTER LYDIA, SPE THE FACT THAT SHE OPPOS AND TENDS ON EXILG HIM. THE ALLIANCE: DISDAG ANY IENDSHIP WH JAPAN, YURIY ADVOT CLOSER TI TO THE OFN STEAD. BERSERK BUTTON: DISREGARDG THE RIGHTS OF THE TRA UNNS IS A BIG ONE FOR YURIY. WHEN LYDIA SULTS THEM, YURIY IS FUR AND MENTS THAT HE WOULD HAVE HER IMPRISONED, IF SHE WASN'T HIS SISTER. BEWARE THE NICE ON: WHILE LS HAWKISH THAN LYDIA, YURIY STILL ADVOT NUMERO ARISTIC MEASUR TO MOBILIZE THE KGDOM SE OF WAR, MONSTRATG THAT HE'S STILL A LER NOT TO BE TRIFLED WH. THE B CAME BACK: IF THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY BALKANIZ AFTER THEIR RNIFITN OF CENTRAL SIBERIA, RURIK III WILL RETURN TO KEMEROVO. CHRONIC HERO SYNDROME: YURIY'S EP NCERN FOR THE WORKERS N OCSNALLY LEAD HIM TO JUMPG THE GUN ON THEIR BEHALF. EVEN RURIK II THKS THAT HE N BE TOO PROACTIVE AT TIM. CHUMMY COMMI: DOWNPLAYED. ALTHOUGH RURIK III KEEPS THE MONARCHY AND A FAIR AMOUNT OF EXECUTIVE POWER, HIS ENOMIC POLICI ACTUALLY LEAN TOWARDS THE SOCIALIST, WH OP-LED MARKETS AND STRONG LABOR UNNS. YURIY ALSO ADVOT FOR A WELFARE STATE, THOUGH HIS SISTER IS IRONILLY A B BETTER EQUIPPED TO SET UP NATNALIZED HEALTHRE THROUGH PRACTIL EXPERIENCE WH THE RSIAN MEDIL SYSTEM. DEMOCRACY IS FLAWED: HIS MOCRATIZATN OF THE ZEMSKY SOBOR ISN'T FLAWLS, AS THE ASSEMBLI MORE EQUENTLY VOLVE TO CHAOTIC BAT BETWEEN S BURECRATS, WH YURIY UNABLE TO BRG THE UNCIL UNR NTROL, NO MATTER HOW MANY TIM HE STRIK HIS GAVEL. IN ONE SSN, YURIY GETS SO FED UP THAT HE YELLS "SHUT THE FUCK UP ALL OF YOU! S DOWN AND SHUT THE FUCK UP!" EVERYONE, CLUDG YURIY HIMSELF, IS SHOCKED BY THIS OUTRAGE, WH THE MONARCH SHAMEFULLY THKG ABOUT HOW BADLY THIS CINT WILL REFLECT ON HIM. ENEMY ME: DISGTED BY THE AB MTED BY THE JAPANE EMPIRE, YURIY UNRM THEIR THORY BY SMUGGLG WEAPONS TO CHE REBELS AND AIDG THEIR EFFORTS TOWARDS PENNCE. EVEN THE LOVG HERO HAS HATED ON: DOWNPLAYED. YURIY IS TRATED BY LYDIA' TOCRATIC VIEWS AND SHE'S ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE TO REALLY GET HIM ENRAGED AND ARGUMENTATIVE. HOWEVER, IF YURIY WS THE THRONE OVER HER, HE DO GIVE HER A RELATIVELY FORTABLE POST MAGADAN AND BIDS HER A LOVG GOODBYE, SHOWG THAT HE STILL LOV HER AS A SISTER. FICTNAL CURRENCY: IN RPONSE TO THE GRIVNA'S POPULARY AS A NEW CURRENCY, YURIY TRODUC A NEW SET OF AGE THAT BEAR THE IMAGE OF RURIK II. THE GOOD KG: LIKE HIS FATHER, RURIK III IS A REASONABLE MONARCH WHO RETAS THE BT PARTS OF RURIK II'S LE, WHILE FURTHER TURNG RSIA TOWARDS MOCRACY AND CREATG A NATN THAT GENUELY R FOR S PEOPLE. HOPE BRGER: HIS NCERN FOR THE MON WORKER MAK HIM BELOVED BY THEM, AS HE GIV THEM THE HOPE THAT THEIR WORK WILL GET EASIER AND SAFER SOON. THE IALIST: IN NTRAST TO HIS SISTER, YURIY IS AN IALIST WHO ADVOT FOR GREATER POLIL RIGHTS AND EQUALY FOR THE RSIAN POPULACE. INTERNAL REFORMIST: YURIY IS EVEN MORE REFORMIST THAN HIS OWN FATHER, BELIEVG THAT THEY SHOULD DO MORE TO HELP THEIR PEOPLE AND ARGUG FAVOR OF SUPPORT FOR THE UNNS. MEANGFUL RENAME: PRCE YURIY TAK THE NAME RURIK III AFTER HE SUCCEEDS HIS FATHER. PRAGMATIC HERO: EVEN WHEN HE'S NOMATED AS RURIK'S SUCCSOR, LYDIA'S SUPPORT BASE REFE TO ACCEPT THE CISN. THIS FORC YURIY TO PROMISE ON HIS PRCIPL BY REACHG OUT TO SOME OF HER SUPPORTERS, BARGAG REASSURANC TO W THEM TO HIS SI. THE PURGE: GROWG SPIC THAT THE KGSGUARD WILL BETRAY HIM TO BRG LYDIA TO THE THRONE, YURIY HAS THE ANIZATN DISMANTLED TO REPLACE THEM WH A MORE NVENTNAL AND TSTWORTHY SECURY FORCE. REASSIGNED TO ANTARCTI: IF RURIK II NAM HIS DGHTER LYDIA HIS HEIR, SHE'LL TASK HER BROTHER WH ERNG THE SPARSELY-POPULATED CHOTKA REGN, A MOVE WHICH MIGHT AS WELL BE EXILE. REBEL LEAR: IF THE BLACK ARMY NQUERS KEMEROVO, YURIY WILL BEG VERTLY WORKG TO RTORE HIS KGDOM, RISTG STEPANOV'S ATTEMPTS TO STAMP OUT THE MONARCHIST REMNANTS. RICHARD NIXON, THE USED CAR SALMAN: YURIY NIKOLAYEVICH KRYLOV OTL WAS AN OFFICER WHO HAD A BRIEF SERVICE AS A MANR WWII (WHEN HE WAS STILL A TEENAGER), SERVED THE SOVIET STRATEGIC MISSILE FORC LIKE HIS FATHER, AND LATER BEME A MAJOR GENERAL. IN TNO, DUE TO THE... "EVENTS" HIS FATHER HAD EXPERIENCED, HE WENT ALONG AND BEME A "RURIKID" PRCE. ROYALS WHO ACTUALLY DO SOMETHG: CONCERNED FOR THE PLIGHTS OF HIS PEOPLE, YURIY ENACTS HUMANISTIC POLICI FAVOR OF THEIR PROTECTN AND EQUALY. AS STATED HIS REVIVAL OF THE RSKAYA PRAVDA, YURIY GUARANTE WORKER'S RIGHTS, THE ABOLN OF SLAVERY, GENR EQUALY, AND SO MUCH MORE TO CREATE AN AMAZGLY EE KGDOM. SORE LOSER: IF LYDIA IS NAMED RURIK'S HEIR, YURIY WILL ABSTA OM APPLDG THE ANNOUNCEMENT AND LEAV A FURY WHEN HIS SISTER SHOOTS HIM A SMUG GR, SLAMMG THE DOOR ON HIS WAY OUT. SURPRISGLY SUDN DEATH: IN THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE OF THE BLACK ARMY, STEPANOV N TRY BUILDG A SUPPORT BASE BY QUASHG THE WHISPERS OF A MONARCHIST REBELLN KEMEROVO, BUT WHEN HIS MEN RAID ONE OF THEIR WAREHO, THEY GET UGHT A STANDOFF WH YURIY'S OWN FORC. OPTNALLY, ONE OF STEPANOV'S MEN N OPEN FIRE AND UNCEREMONLY KILL THE PRCE AN STANT, WHICH SHOCKS EVERYONE AND STARTS A BLOODY FIREFIGHT. TAKE A THIRD OPTN: NEHER THE GUILD SYSTEM OR TRA UNNS ARE IAL FOR YURIY, AS THE FORMER IS HARMFUL TO WORKER RIGHTS AND THE LATTER ISN'T AS EFFICIENT. RATHER THAN PRRIZE EHER, YURIY CHOOS A PROMISE BETWEEN THE TWO, WHERE THE UNNS ARE ALLOWED TO EXIST AS WATCHDOGS AGAST WORKG AB, WHILE THE GUILDS WILL BE KEPT TO MEET A BOTTOM LE OF PRODUCTN. TAKG UP THE MANTLE: YURIY'S STYLE OF ERNANCE IS SPIRED BY THE REPUBLIC OF NOVGOROD, BLENDG THEIR ENOMIC POLICI WH MORN VIEWS TO CREATE AN ENOMILLY POWERFUL RSIA. TEETH-CLENCHED TEAMWORK: HIS KGDOM IS ACTURED WH FACTNALISM BETWEEN THE ELECTED OFFICIALS, THE REGNAL POSADNIKS, AND THE NOBILY. ALL OF THEM DISAGREE ON HOW THE STATE SHOULD BE N AND GETS SO BAD THAT YURIY EVENTUALLY HAS TO TERVENE AND FORCE A PROMISE. THICKER THAN WATER: YURIY EXIL LYDIA TO MAGADAN IF HE BE KG, AND WHILE SHE IS (UNRSTANDABLY) ANGRY ABOUT , YURIY ADMS THAT HE STILL ARLY LOV HER AND HOP SHE N WORK WH HIM. WHAT'S UP, KG DU?: NOT ONLY DO YURIY MOCRATIZE KEMEROVO TO BE CLOSER TO THE MON CIZEN, BUT HE ALSO TAK SUAL WALKS THROUGH TOWNS WHENEVER HE NEEDS TO TAKE A BREAK OM WORKG. THE WISE PRCE: PRCE YURIY KRYLOV SUPPORTS A MORE POPULIST AND MOCRATIC APPROACH TO ERNANCE. WORTHY OPPONENT: EVEN THOUGH LYDIA HAT HIS GUTS WHEN SHE'S EXILED TO MAGADAN, SHE ACKNOWLEDG THAT HE WAS A GOOD POLIL OPPONENT, ENOUGH TO OUTMANUEVER HER.LYDIA KRYLOVAROLE: CROWN PRCSNOTE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT (RURIK II SUCCSN), HEAD OF STATE (RURIK II SUCCSN)IOLOGY: ARISTOCRATIC CONSERVATISMNOTE DPOTISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW FROM THE CHAOS AND NFN OF THE RSIAN WARLORD ERA ARIS ROGNEDA I, THE WOLF QUEEN OF R'. THE WOMAN FORMERLY KNOWN AS LYDIA KRYLOVA'S RISE TO POWER WAS NOTHG SHORT OF METEORIC, AND SHE NOW STANDS TALL AS THE MOST POWERFUL THORY OF THE RURRECTED RSIAN NATN. IT WAS NOT ALWAYS STED TO BE LIKE THIS. ONCE UPON A TIME, LYDIA WAS A VOLUNTEER NURSE HELPG WH THE REAR ECHELON OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC'S ARY. WHAT SHE WNSED DURG HER TIME SHAPED HER CHARACTER DRAMATILLY: UNTLS MEN AND WOMEN PUTTG THEIR LIV ON THE LE FOR THEY DID NOT FULLY UNRSTAND, WHOUT ANY DITN THAT THEIR SACRIFIC WERE MAKG A DIFFERENCE. RSIA WAS DYG, AND THIS ULD NOT BE MORE TANGIBLE TO LYDIA, WHO WAS ABLE TO WNS THE EFFECTS OF THE ATH THRO WH HER OWN EY. WHEN HER FATHER EMERGED OM HIS MENTAL LAPSE AS RURIK II, LYDIA IMMEDIATELY SAW THIS AS HER OPPORTUNY TO TURN THE TI. AS THE KGDOM'S POWER NTUED TO GROW, SO TOO DID THE WOLF PRCS'. EVENTUALLY, SHE WAS FORCED TO PETE WH HER OWN BROTHER FOR THE THRONE, BUT HER PASSNATE AND THLS DRIVE SAW LYDIA THROUGH TO TAKE HIS PLACE AS RURIK II'S RIGHTFUL HEIR. NEWLY REBORN AS QUEEN ROGNEDA, SHE TENDS TO RTORE STRENGTH AND HONOR TO THE WOUND RSIA NATN, NO MATTER WHAT THE ST MAY BE.LYDIA NIKOLAEVNA KRYLOVA IS THE DGHTER OF NIKOLAI KRYLOV AND THE ELST OF HIS THREE CHILDREN. SHE WAS A VOLUNTEER NURSE THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC'S ARY, WHERE SHE SAW MEN AND WOMEN DYG DROV, SERVG GOALS THEY DIDN'T UNRSTAND, AND ACPLISHG LTLE AS THEY DIED. THE SIGHTS SHAPED LYDIA'S IALS MUCH LIKE HER BROTHER, BUT SHE NCLUD THAT THE DYG RSIAN NATN MT BE REBIRTHED TO BRG JTICE AND MEANG TO HER PEOPLE. LYDIA SEIZED HER FATHER'S RURIKID RTORATN AS A CHANCE TO REALIZE HER VISN, AND AIMS TO RTORE RSIA'S PRI, NO MATTER THE ST. ALAS, POOR VILLA: LYDIA'S THE MOST TYRANNIL OF HER FAY, BUT HER EXECUTN BY THE SBA WHEN THEY ARE FEATED BY THEM IS A TERRIBLE FATE, PECIALLY WH HER FATHER'S ANGUISHED SCREAMS. AMAZON BRIGA: PRCS LYDIA FORMS A UN OF ELE WARRR WOMEN LLED SHIELDMAINS. ANIMAL MOTIFS: WOLV. WHILE ONE OF KEMEROVO'S NATNAL SPIRS IS "THE TWO WOLV", REFERENCG THE PROVERB AND THE SIBLGS' IOLOGIL DIFFERENC, LYDIA LEANS TO THIS MORE THAN HER BROTHER, BEG REFERRED TO AS THE "WOLF PRCS" FOR HER POLIL THLSNS. HER BETA PORTRA EVEN HAS HER WEARG A WOLF PELT. ANTI-VILLA: WHILE LYDIA IS THE MORE DICTATORIAL OF RURIK'S SUCCSORS, SHE AT LEAST PENSAT WH THE PROMISE OF STABILY AND A GENUE TENTN TO SAFEGUARD THE PEOPLE OM BOTH TERNAL AND EXTERNAL THREATS. ARISTOCRATS ARE EVIL: LYDIA'S RSIA IS ONE OF THE MORE REPRSIVE OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN UNIFIERS, AND ONE MANIFTATN OF THIS IS THE STRICT CLASS STRATIFITN SHE CREAT, WH A NEW UPPER CST OF WEALTHY SYPHANTS, BSPEOPLE, LANDOWNERS, AND ARY OFFICERS OPPRSG POOR MASS WHO ENJOY FEW PROTECTNS. BA THE DOG: AT FIRST, SHE SEEMS TO TAKE HER EXILE TO MAGADAN BY YURIY RELATIVELY WELL, EVEN HUGGG HIM GOODBYE. UNFORTUNATELY, THE GOOD SENTIMENTS DON'T LAST, AS LYDIA PLANS TO TURN MAGADAN TO AN ENOMIC POWERHOE THAT WILL KEEP HERSELF RELEVANT AND ABLE TO ACT AGAST YURIY WHENEVER HE MAK A FATAL BLUNR. BENEVOLENT CONSPIRACY: SEEN THE EVENT "NIGHTGALE, COME AGA". AS GOVERNOR OF TOMSK, SHE WORKS WH A WORK OF MEDIL PROFSNALS TO FABRITE A LEGENDARY NURSE FIGURE WHO HELPS THOSE MOST NEED. WHILE SHE DO GENUELY VT MEDIL ASTCTURE, THIS SEEMS TO BE FOR THE SAKE OF MORALE AND/OR PROPAGANDA. BORG, BUT PRACTIL: IN NTRAST TO YURIY'S PROPOSAL OF GIVG TOTAL EEDOM TO THE ROYAL UNNS' GUARANTEE OF LABOR RIGHTS, LYDIA TENDS TO NVERT THE WORKER'S UNCILS TO ROYAL GUILDS THAT WILL FOC MORE ON CREASG PRODUCTIVY RATHER THAN PROTECTG THE WORKERS. WHILE FAR MORE MUNDANE THAN THE ALTERNATIVE, OFFERS GREATER BENEFS AT A LOWER RISK OF BACKFIRG ON THE KGDOM. CAPALISM IS BAD: ZIG-ZAGGED. HER ENOMIC VIEWS LEAN FAVOR OF EE-MARKET REFORMS, WHICH AT THE ST OF CRACKG DOWN ON THE LABOR UNNS AND ANTAGONIZG THE WORKG CLASS. HOWEVER, 'S ALSO SHOWN THAT THE POLICI JUMPSTART KEMEROVO'S ENOMY BY EMPOWERG TRA AND MERCE, LEADG SOME TO BELIEVE THAT 'S WORTH THE END. CORPT CORPORATE EXECUTIVE: DOWNPLAYED. WHILE LYDIA'S BELIEF A MARKET ENOMY IS NOT PORTRAYED AS EVIL AND OF SELF, TAK THE FORM OF G HARSH MEASUR TO DISSOLVE UNNS AND MOCRATIC STUTNS FAVOR OF ROYAL GUILDS UNR HER TIGHT, CENTRALIZED NTROL, LEADG TO WAV OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY. THE CYNIC: COMPARED TO YURIY, LYDIA IS THE MORE PRAGMATIC SIBLG, ADVOTG ARISM AND A STRICTER HIERARCHY TO SECURE KEMEROVO'S STABILY. EQUAL-OPPORTUNY EVIL: WHILE A B OF A HOMOPHOBE (PECIALLY PARED TO SABL, MEN, AND THE BLACK ARMY), LYDIA WILL TOLERATE HOMOSEXUALS THE ARY SO LONG AS THEY'RE AS EFUL AND PABLE AS THEIR RAS. EVEN EVIL HAS LOVED ON: WHETHER OR NOT LYDIA IS EVIL IS THE EYE OF THE BEHOLR, NSIRG THE SETTG, BUT SHE'S CERTALY A LOT MORE BTAL THAN HER BROTHER. THIS DO NOTHG TO CHANGE THAT SHE LOV AND ETS FOR HER FATHER JT AS MUCH AS YURIY DO. IN A MORE DOWNPLAYED SE, LYDIA DO HAVE A LTLE AFFECTN FOR YURIY AND FEELS SORRY ABOUT HAVG TO BETRAY HER OWN SIBLG TO TAKE THE THRONE. WHEN HE'S SILED TO ERN CHOTKA, LYDIA DON'T TAKE MUCH ENJOYMENT OM . THE EVIL PRCS: PRCS LYDIA IS RELATIVELY ARISTIC AND TOCRATIC PARED TO HER POPULIST BROTHER. SHE EVEN ADVOT A REVIVAL OF THE OPRICHA SYSTEM, WHICH WILL TABLISH A SECRET POLICE AND LIM CIVIL LIBERTI. EVIL REACTNARY: SHE SPEAKS OUT AGAST YURIY'S REFORMIST POLICI, ADVOTG REACTNARY POLICI THAT WILL SERVE THE GREATER GOOD. HERO-WORSHIPPER: LYDIA ADMIR THE ACPLISHMENTS OF CATHERE THE GREAT AND TENDS TO LEAVE A SIAR LEGACY BEHD WHEN SHE SUCCEEDS HER FATHER. HISTORIL BADASS UPGRA: UNLIKE HER FATHER AND BROTHERS, ALL OF WHOM WERE ACTUAL SOVIET GENERALS, LYDIA WAS ONLY A NURSE DURG WORLD WAR II AND BEME A HOEWIFE HER LATER LIFE. HERE, SHE IS A THLS POLIL MANIPULATOR AND LEAR OF HER OWN AMAZON BRIGA WHO N BEE QUEEN OF RSIA. HISTORIL VILLA UPGRA: THE REAL LYDIA WAS MOST CERTALY NOT AN TOCRATIC MONARCH. IRON LADY: PRCS LYDIA IS AN TOCRATIC, MANIPULATIVE LER WHO SEEKS TO CREATE A STRONG RSIA THROUGH ARISTIC PRAGMATISM, EVEN RENRG THE ZEMSKY SOBOR POWERLS SO THAT SHE ULD LE WH ABSOLUTE THORY. IRONY: SHE'S NOT BLD TO THE IRONY OF ONCE BEG A NURSE, YET THE MORE ARISTIC OF RURIK II'S POSSIBLE SUCCSORS. LAST STAND: IF KEMEROVO FALLS TO THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY, IS IMPLIED THAT WHILE RURIK II AND YURIY WERE PTURED, LYDIA MANAGED TO TAKE DOWN THREE ENEMI WH HER. MEANGFUL RENAME: UPON ASCENDG TO THE THRONE, PRCS LYDIA TAK THE REGAL NAME ROGNEDA, AFTER A R' PRCS. ORR IS NOT GOOD: HER REPRSIVE POLICI ARE TEND TO ENFORCE ORR THE KGDOM, BUT THE LAWS OFTEN E AT THE ST OF PERSONAL LIBERTI AND CREATE A HIERARCHY FAVOR OF THE NOBILY AND ARY OVER THE CIVILIANS. PET THE DOG: DURG THE RNIFITN MPAIGN, LYDIA PAYS A VIS TO A HOSPAL AND ENGAG SOME IENDLY SMALL TALK WH AN OLD IEND OF HERS. SHE ACTUALLY PUTS HER MEDIL EXPERIENCE TO GOOD E IF CLARED HEIR AND SETS UP A ROBT NATNAL HEALTHRE SERVICE, PART BEE SHE ISN'T SPENDG AS MUCH ON OTHER FORMS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AS HER BROTHER. SHE IS ALSO, NATURALLY, AN ADVOTE FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS. THOUGH OUTRAGED WHEN YURIY EXIL HER TO ERN MAGADAN, LYDIA DO, SOMEWHAT, TAKE HIS SPEECH ON RENCILG THE FUTURE TO HEART BEFORE THE TWO HUG EACH OTHER. AS RURIK LAYS HIS ATHBED, LYDIA SETS ASI HER GDGE AGAST YURIY TO FORT HER DYG FATHER. POLILLY INRRECT VILLA: DOWNPLAYED. WHEN SHE RECEIV A REPORT OF A HOMOSEXUAL RELATNSHIP BETWEEN TWO OF HER QUEENSGUARD, LYDIA HAS SOME RATHER UNSAVORY THOUGHTS ON THE AFFAIR, NSIRG A DISORR. HOWEVER, SHE DO NSIR THEM LOYAL AND PETENT ENOUGH TO SIMPLY JT BE DISMISSED, SO SHE ORRS HER PTA TO HAVE THEM REASSIGNED SEPARATELY STEAD. PRAETORIAN GUARD: IF CHOSEN AS RURIK'S SUCCSOR, LYDIA WILL REPLACE THE KGSGUARD WH THE QUEENSGUARD, HER OWN PERSONAL HONOR GUARD AND MAND BY ANNA KOTSUR. PRAGMATIC VILLAY: RATHER THAN PLOY THE OPRICHNIKI TO SPY AND PURGE DISLOYAL BS, LYDIA N STEAD REACH OUT TO THEM AND PROMISE WH THEM BEE BEE REPRSG THEM WOULD HURT THE ENOMY. AFTER TWO OF HER QUEENSGUARD ARE OUTED AS HOMOSEXUAL, LYDIA HAS THEM REASSIGNED SEPARATELY RATHER THAN DISMISSED BEE THEY'VE LOYALLY SERVED RURIK SCE THE 50'S AND THEY'RE TOO EFUL TO BE LET GO. REALPOLIK: UNLIKE HER BROTHER, LYDIA HAS NO PROBLEM FG TI WH THE SPHERE AND NEGOTIATG LUCRATIVE TRA ALS OM THEM. REASSIGNED TO ANTARCTI: IF RURIK II NAM HIS SON YURIY HIS HEIR, HE'LL TASK HIS SISTER WH ERNG MAGADAN, A PLACE THAT LYDIA FEELS LLS "A OZEN WASTELAND" AND SO SPARSELY POPULATED "THE PLACE PRACTILLY NS SELF!". HAVG SAID THAT, 'S STILL A MUCH NICER STATN THAN LYDIA GIV HER BROTHER HER OWN ROUTE, GIVEN THAT THE PORT OF MAGADAN OPERAT AS THE GATEWAY BETWEEN SIBERIA AND AMERI. RED SRE: SHE NSIRS ALL TRA UNNS AS MUNIST AGATORS THAT THREATEN TO STABILIZE THE REALM. WHEN SHE RECEIV WORD OF UPG STRIK, SHE SENDS THE KGSGUARD TO QUIETLY DISMANTLE THEM. REPRSIVE, BUT EFFICIENT: LYDIA PROMOT OPPRSIVE PRACTIC THAT TRAMPLE OVER CIVILIAN LIBERTI, BUT NOHELS CREASE THE STATE'S EFFICIENCY AND SECURY. SECRET POLICE: LYDIA REQUTS HER FATHER TO REANISE POLICE UNS TO 'OPRICHNIKI', NAMED AFTER THE PERSONAL ATH BRIGAS OF IVAN THE TERRIBLE AND MOLED AFTER THE ROMANOV OKHRANA AND SOVIET NKVD. SORE LOSER: IF YURIY IS NAMED RURIK'S HEIR, LYDIA WILL NOT BE PLEASED AT ALL, BEG THE ONLY ONE THE ZEMSKY SOBOR TO NOT CLAP NGRATULATNS AND STORM OFF A FUMG RAGE. TOKEN EVIL TEAMMATE: THE MOST REPRSIVE MEMBER OF HER FAY LE, EVEN IF HER GOALS ARE WELL-TENTNED NCEPT. UNGRATEFUL BCH: WHEN YURIY REMOV HER AS A RIVAL TO HIS THRONE, HE STILL TRI SHOWG HER MERCY AND LOVE BY ASSIGNG HER TO THE RELATIVELY FORTABLE POSN OF ERNG MAGADAN, EVEN EXPRSG HIS HOP THAT THEY'LL ONE DAY RENCILE. UNFORTUNATELY, LYDIA DO NOT RECIPROTE THE POSIVY, AS THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE REVEALS THAT SHE'S TRYG TO REBUILD HER FLUENCE SO AS TO CHALLENGE YURIY ONE DAY. WARHAWK: SHE ENSHR THE ARY AS A KEY STUTN OF THE STATE, URGG HER FATHER TO GIVE THEM MORE FLUENCE AND STRATIFYG THE HIERARCHY WH THE ARMY ON TOP. WELL-INTENTNED EXTREMIST: SHE SCERELY WANTS TO UPHOLD THE LEGACY OF HER FATHER, EVEN IF MEANS EMPLOYG THORARIAN AND ARISTIC MEASUR TO LIVE OUT THAT DREAM.BORIS KRYLOVROLE: MILARY COMMANRPARTY: ZEMSKY SOBORNOTE ASSEMBLY OF THE LAND (KEMEROVO), RYURIKOVY LOYALISTYNOTE RURIK'S LOYALISTS (AFTER MIDNIGHT)IOLOGY: ABSOLUTE MONARCHYNOTE DPOTISMYURIY AND LYDIA'S YOUNGER BROTHER AND A GENERAL THE KEMEROVO ARMY. UNLIKE HIS SIBLGS, HE HAS NO AMBNS OF ROYALTY AND REFED A TLE. FOR TROP PERTAG TO HIS EXPAND ROLE POST-MIDNIGHT RSIA, SEE HIS ENTRY ON AFTER MIDNIGHT SUBPAGE UNR THE KGDOM OF ALTAY FOLR. WILL NTA UNMARKED SPOILERS!    KRASNOYARSK OFFICIAL NAME: PROVISNAL GOVERNMENT OF KRASNOYARSK, REPUBLIC OF KRASNOYARSK (SBA COLLAPSE)RULG PARTY: PARTIYA SOTSIAL'NOY REFORMYNOTE PARTY OF SOCIAL REFORMIOLOGY: CONTROLLED DEMOCRACYNOTE PATERNALISMA CLIQUE OF OFFICERS HEAD BY NIKOLAI ANDREEV, WHO MUTIED AGAST THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC. THE CLIQUE PLANS FOR THE RNIFITN OF RSIA UNR THEIR LEARSHIP, AND MA WILD PROMIS FOR LIBERAL MOCRATIC REFORMS, THOUGH THEY'RE QUE A LONG WAY AWAY OM BOTH. ACTN GIRL: ONE OF KRASNOYARSK'S GENERALS IS ALEKSANDRA SAMENKO, WHO HISTORILLY WAS THE ONLY FEMALE TANK MANR THE FIRST GUARDS TANK ARMY. CHRONIC BACKSTABBG DISORR: THE CLIQUE FORMED SELF BY ABANDONG THE RED ARMY AND LATER MUTYG AGAST THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC (WHICH DROVE KRYLOV CRAZY AND TURNED HIM TO RURIK II). AS A RULT OF THIS HISTORY OF MUTEERG, THE OFFICERS OF KRASNOYARSK HAVE VELOPED A TENNCY TO ACT AGAST LERS THAT THREATEN THEIR TERTS, LAYG DOWN THE POSSIBILY OF A ARY UP THE FUTURE. DEFEAT MEANS FRIENDSHIP: IF NOVOSIBIRSK FEATS KRASNOYARSK, POKRYSHK WILL PERSONALLY REC GENERAL ALEXEY PTEREV TO HIS SI, SCE HE WOULD KNOW HOW TO ERN KRASNOYARSK. EMERGENCY AUTHORY: PART OF HOW THE CLIQUE JTIFI S MARTIAL LE OVER KRASNOYARSK, REASONG THAT THE LIBERAL MOCRACY PLANS TO TABLISH WOULD E EVENTUALLY. WHETHER ANDREEV ACTUALLY TENDS TO FOLLOW THROUGH WH THOSE PROMIS, IS LEFT OPEN. EMPTY PROMISE: TO KEEP THE REGIME STABLE, PRINT ANDREEV HAS MA WILD PROMIS OF LIBERTY AND MOCRACY. WHILE THE PROMIS HAVE KEPT THE PEOPLE QUIET FOR NOW, THE UNTRY IS REALY FACG A LOT OF TROUBLE WH AND WHOUT, AND WILL TAKE A LOT OF WORK TO ACTUALLY LIVER ON THE PROMIS. FOIL: KRASNOYARSK IS ONE TO SVERDLOVSK, PECIALLY SHOULD PAVEL BATOV TAKE OVER. WHILE BOTH ARE ARY JUNTAS THAT BROKE OFF OM THE RED ARMY, ANDREEV AND HIS CLIQUE ARE FAR MORE SELF-SERVG, PRRIZG THE NSOLIDATN OF THEIR OWN POWER AND PRTIGE OVER SERVG THE PEOPLE. TO A GREE, ALSO SERV AS ONE TO THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY SHOULD THE ARY EMERGE VICTOR. WHILE THE SBA'S OFFICERS MAY STILL PAY LIP SERVICE TO ANARCHISM, ANDREEV BARELY MAK ANY EFFORT TO NCEAL HOW KRASNOYARSK'S MOCRACY IS ANYTHG OTHER THAN A SHAM. KNOW WHEN TO FOLD 'EM: IF FEATED BY THE BLACK ARMY, A SMALL TACHMENT OF GUARDS FORTIFY THEMSELV AT A PRISON, BUT SURRENR WHEN THEY SEE THE MASSIVE VADG FORCE ABOUT TO LAY SIEGE AND REALIZE HOW POTLS FURTHER RISTANCE IS. MILARY COUP: SHOULD KRASNOYARSK'S ARY FD THEIR TERTS THREATENED, THEY WILL WASTE NO TIME OVERTHROWG THE CIVILIAN ERNMENT FAVOR OF ONE THAT ULD SERVE THEM BETTER. OUR PRINTS ARE DIFFERENT: KRASNOYARSK IS A ARY-GUID MOCRACY, AND AS SUCH THE CHIEF OF THE ARMY SERV AS THE PRINT, WHO IS APPOTED BY THE GENERAL STAFF. THE PRIME MISTER AND THE NATNAL ASSEMBLY ARE BOTH ELECTED, BUT THEY ARE SUBORDATE TO THE PRINT, AND TH THE ARY. REASSIGNED TO ANTARCTI: WHEN THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC WAS TABLISHED, THE ERNMENT WAS NCERNED ABOUT ANY PRE-EXISTG GROUPS THAT WOULD THREATEN THE MOCRATIC STUTNS, BROKE UP THE FUTURE KRASNOYARSK CLIQUE, AND ASSIGNED THEM TO REMOTE RNERS OF THE REPUBLIC.SECRET POLICE: IN THE "PROMIS OF SECURY" TREE◊, KRASNOYARSK N ENACT SUCH LOVELY FOC AS "LSONS OM YAGODA", AND "FUND THE NKVD".--> START MY OWN: KRASNOYARSK ED TO BE PART OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, BEFORE A CLIQUE OF OFFICERS LED A MUTY DURG THE SIBERIAN WAR AND SECED, FORMG THEIR OWN ARY DICTATORSHIP. WELL-INTENTNED EXTREMIST: THE KRASNOYARSK CLIQUE HAS ASPIRATNS FOR UNG RSIA UNR LIBERAL MOCRACY. UNFORTUNATELY, THE PATH THEY TAKE TO GET THERE VOLV LOTS OF ARY THORARIANISM.NIKOLAY ANDREEVROLE: MILARY COMMANR, HEAD OF STATEPARTY: PARTIYA SOTSIAL'NOY REFORMYNOTE PARTY OF SOCIAL REFORMIOLOGY: CONTROLLED DEMOCRACYNOTE PATERNALISMNOTE DPOTISM (MILARY TAKEOVER)-->IN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW BORN 1905, NIKOLAI TROFIMOVICH ANDREEV WAS LLED UP OM THE RERV TO FULLY REJO THE RED ARMY 1935, IALLY A POLIL MISSAR SIBERIA. HOPG TO FIGHT ON THE ONTLE AGAST THE GERMANS, HE WAS STEAD ENROLLED OFFICERS' SCHOOL. BUT AS THE WAR BEME MORE AND MORE SPERATE, HE NTUED TAKG MORE AND MORE CLASS - NOT TO BEE MORE SKILLED, BUT TO HOPEFULLY LAY BEG SENT TO FIGHT FOR WHAT HE SAW AS A LOST E. AS THE SOVIET UNN LLAPSED, HE AND A CLIQUE OF FELLOW OFFICERS' SCHOOL GRADUAT BEGAN TO NSOLIDATE THEIR POWER THE KRASNOYARSK REGN. YET WHEN THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC WAS TABLISHED, THEY WERE JTIFIABLY NCERNED ABOUT ANY PRE-EXISTG GROUPS THAT WOULD THREATEN THE MOCRATIC STUTNS AND SO THE ERNMENT BROKE UP THE CLIQUE AND ASSIGNED THEM TO THE FAR-REACHG RNERS OF THE REPUBLIC. ANDREEV WAS PLACED UNR THE MAND OF NIKOLAY KRYLOV, SECRETLY REMAG NTACT WH HIS CLIQUE. AS THE REPUBLIC BEGAN TO LOSE S GRIP ON POWER AND CMBLE APART, THE CLIQUE RNED KRASNOYARSK AND MUTIED AGAST GENERAL KRYLOV DURG HIS DOOMED MPAIGN AGAST THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY. NOW ORR TO NVCE THE PEOPLE OF THE CY THAT THEY WERE NOT JT ANOTHER FLAVOR OF JUNTA, ANDREEV AND HIS OFFICERS HAVE PROMISED NEW AND SWEEPG REFORMS. FREE TRA! PRIVATE PROPERTY! FOREIGN ALLI! OPEN ELECTNS! LIBERTY! DEMOCRACY! WH THE LLAPSE OF THE PREV ORR, THE CLIQUE IS NSIRG THAT THE MATTER OF THE SIBERIAN RNIFITN RTS THEIR HANDS. FOLLOWG THAT WILL BE A MAD DASH TO THE SEA, AND WH FOREIGN REGNN, BEFORE NSOLIDATG AND PREPARG A PH TO LIBERATE ALL OF RSIA. BUT WHETHER ANDREEV WILL ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO LIVER ON THE PROMIS IS ANOTHER MATTER ENTIRELY. CCNAT. ANDREEV PROMIS TO END THE ARY LE AND STEP DOWN FAVOR OF MOCRATIZATN, BUT 'S STILL UNCID IF HE WILL ACTUALLY FULFILL THAT PROMISE. DEFECTOR OM DENCE: AS THE SEND WORLD WAR BEME CREASGLY HOPELS FOR THE SOVIET UNN, ANDREEV AND HIS CLIQUE FECTED AND SEIZED POWER KRASNOYARSK BEFORE THEY SUBMTED TO THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC. HISTORIL BADASS UPGRA: NIKOLAY ANDREEV WAS HISTORILLY A RED ARMY COLONEL WH LTLE TERT POLICS. IN THE WORLD OF TNO, HE IS THE STRONGMAN LG KRASNOYARSK WH AN IRON FIST AND A POTENTIAL LEAR OF A RNED RSIA. HISTORIL VILLA UPGRA: THE REAL NIKOLAY ANDREEV WAS A MOR RSIAN COLONEL AND HERO OF THE SOVIET UNN RECIPIENT, AND HAD A QUE UNNOTABLE ARY AND CIVILIAN REER. HE FELY WASN'T A ARY DICTATOR AND NOR WAS HE A UP PLOTTER. LET NO CRISIS GO TO WASTE: WHEN THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC'S LLAPSE WAS IMMENT, ANDREEV NTACTED HIS OLD CLIQUE TO TAKE POWER ONCE MORE KRASNOYARSK AND LE AS A JUNTA ERNMENT MASQUERADG AS A PROVISNAL ONE.VIKTOR ASTAFYEVROLE: FOREIGN MISTER (ANDREEV BET), HEAD OF STATE (SBA LLAPSE)PARTY: SOTSIAL-DEMOKRATICHKAYA PARTIYA KRASNOYARSKANOTE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF KRASNOYARSKIOLOGY: LEFT-WG POPULISMNOTE PROGRSIVISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW (WARNG: UNMARKED SPOILERS) KRASNOYARSK WAS A STATE FOUND ON PROMIS. PROMIS OF EEDOM, PROMIS OF GREATNS, PROMIS OF PROSPERY FOR S TO E. WHERE ARE ALL THOSE PROMIS NOW? COMRA SIUDA MA MANY PROMIS UPON THE BLACK ARMY'S ENTRY TO KRASNOYARSK AS WELL. PROMIS OF LIBERATN, PROMIS OF EMANCIPATN, AND PROMIS OF EQUALY FOR ALL. FOR A TIME, THE DAYS AND WEEKS FOLLOWG THE LLAPSE OF ANDREEV'S FIEFDOM, THE PROMIS WERE MA GOOD UPON. THE BLACK ARMY EXPELLED THE CY'S OPPRSORS WHILE REPRENTATIV OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TABLISHED A LOL ASSEMBLY NJUNCTN WH THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY. IT WAS THE OVERCROWD, UNKEPT, AND MTY FETERIA OF THE SIBERIAN TECHNIL INSTUTE OF FORT THAT VIKTOR PETROVICH ASTAFYEV FIRST GOT A TASTE FOR ANARCHISM. THOSE SENT TO AID THE REANIZATN OF STCTURE THE CY DID WELL AT ADJTG A MORATE MOCRAT SUCH AS ASTAFYEV TO THE NEW LIFTYLE AWAG HIM AND THE OTHER HABANTS OF THE CY. EMERGG AS A MUNAL LEAR, ASTAFYEV MET WH SIUDA AND TARATUTA ON MULTIPLE OCSNS. VIKTOR'S CLOSE ASSOCIATN WH SIUDA AND HIGH-RANKG MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY MA HIS BETRAYAL ALL THE WORSE. ASTAFYEV PONRED IF THIS WAS TLY ANARCHISM AS HIS CY BEME HOME TO THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE BLACK ARMY. ASTAFYEV'S REQUTS FOR CREASED CIVILIAN ERNANCE FELL ON AF EARS AS QUOTAS WERE LIVERED OM KILCHICHAKOV, MISHURENKO TABLISHED A PERMANENT RINCE THE CY ALONGSI HIS LARGE FOLLOWG OF SOLDIERS, AND STEPANOV ST DOWN VETO AFTER VETO ON LOL MOTNS. SIUDA TLY IS NO DIFFERENT THAN ANDREEV, AND ASTAFYEV AND THE PEOPLE OF RSIA ARE FAR PAST EMPTY PROMIS. THOUGH SIUDA AND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY HAVE MA MULTIPLE REQUTS FOR KRASYNOARSK TO RETURN TO THE FOLD, SIUDA IS NOT EE OF S. IN THE MD OF VIKTOR NEKRASOV, ASSOCIATG WH TYRANTS MAK ONE NO BETTER, AND TYRANTS HAVE NO PLACE A EE RSIA. HOPE SPOT: FOR ASTAFYEV, THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY WAS THE BT CHANCE FOR KRASNOYARSK TO FALLY LIBERALIZE, BUT S GROWG RPTN AND SUBSEQUENT LLAPSE HAVE DRIVEN HIM OM THE FACTN AND HE'S TAKEN THE RPONSIBILY OF FULFILLG ANDREEV'S EMPTY PROMIS. TOOK A LEVEL CYNIC: AFTER KRASNOYARK'S TEGRATN TO THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY, ASTAFYEV OPERATED CLOSELY WH THEM, HOPG THAT THEY WOULD FULFILL ANDREEV'S PROMIS OF EMANCIPATN AND EEDOM. HOWEVER, STEPANOV'S CREASGLY RPT NATURE AND SIUDA'S FAILUR TO ANSWER HIS PLATS HAVE DISILLNED ASTAFYEV, WHOM NOW PERCEIV SIUDA TO BE NO BETTER THAN ANDREEV AND SPLS OM HIM WHEN THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY LLAPS.    SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY FLAG OF THE RSIAN FREE TERRORY (SIBERIAN SOVIET)  FLAG OF THE RSIAN FREE TERRORY (SIBERIAN SECURY COUNCIL)  OFFICIAL NAME: SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY, SIBERIAN FREE TERRORY (REGNAL UNIFITN), RSIAN FREE TERRORY (NATNAL UNIFITN)RULG PARTY: SIBIRSKY ANARKHICHKY SOVETNOTE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST COUNCILIOLOGY: ANARCHO-COMMUNISMNOTE SOCIALISMA ARIZED ANARCHIST TERRORY HEAD BY THE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST SOVIET AND PROTECTED BY THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY. OFFICIALLY THE SIBERIAN FREE TERRORY, THE POLY WAS FORMED DURG THE SIBERIAN WAR, WHEN ANARCHIST IOLOGU SEIZED POPULAR ANTI-WAR SENTIMENTS TO NVCE LOL ERNG UNCILS TO FORM AN ANARCHIST SOVIET AND CLARE PENNCE. THE FREE TERRORY ANIZED SELF AROUND ARIZED ANARCHISM FOR BOTH SELF-PROTECTN AND REVOLUTNARY EXPANSN, WH THE BLACK ARMY HOLDG A KEY ROLE S POWER STCTURE. ANARCHY IS CHAOS: AVERTED, IF NOT STRAIGHT-UP INVERTED TO ANARCHY IS ORR. THE ANARCHIST TERRORY OF THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY IS ACTUALLY PRETTY WELL ORRED (UNLIKE THE SIARLY-ANARCHIST ORENBURG), WH ANARCHIST MUN ANIZED UNR THE SELF-ERNG SIBERIAN ANARCHIST SOVIET. FULLY INVERTED BY THE VANGUARD ANARCHIST PATH FOR THE SBA; THE FREE TERRORY REMAS JURE ANARCHIST, BUT THE ARY'S THORY IS SO STRONG THAT THE UNTRY IS FACTO DIRECTLY LED BY THE ARY. APATHETIC CIZENS: EVEN THOUGH SEVERAL CI ARE TEGRATED THE FREE TERRORY BY THE REGNAL STAGE, THE PEOPLE LIVG THERE ARE OFTEN APATHETIC TO THE ANARCHIST RHETORIC OF THEIR NEW ERNMENT AND EVEN TO EACH OTHER, A STARK NTRAST TO THE IENDLIER ATMOSPHERE OF THE SMALLER MUN. ONE ANARCHIST STREET SPEAKER NOVOSIBIRSK N'T GRAB ANYONE'S ATTENTN, UNTIL HE STARTS DIRECTLY PTERG A PASSERBY, AND ANOTHER KEMEROVO HAS TO VE HIMSELF TO THE HOE OF S CLOSED-OFF OWNER. APOLYPTIC LOGISTICS: SUBVERTED. MUCH OF KANSK'S DTRY WAS STROYED DURG THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN WAR AND WILL TAKE A GREAT EFFORT FOR THEM TO REPAIR BEFORE THEY N THK OF RNIFITN. UPON RNIFYG CENTRAL SIBERIA, A PROVISNAL ROURCE COUNCIL IS TABLISHED TO REFULLY ORDATE THE EXTRACTN AND DISTRIBUTN OF ROURC, WHICH IS SENTIAL FOR THE MUN TO FUNCTN AT ALL. BALKANIZE ME: THE SIBERIAN WORKERS' FERATN WILL NEVER REBEL AGAST THE BLACK ARMY AFTER UNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA; STEAD, N LLAPSE A DIFFERENT WAY. IF THE SBA EHER MISMANAG THE SIBERIAN PLAN OR STRAYS TOO FAR TO THORARIANISM THEIR REGNAL POLIL TREE, THE REMNANTS OF THE OTHER CENTRAL SIBERIAN WARLORDS WILL RE-TABLISH THEIR ERNMENTS AND OTHER WARLORDS FORM THEIR OWN SOCIALIST GROUPS SEPARATE OM KANSK, AGMENTG THE FREE TERRORY TO NE WARLORD STAT THAT NNOT RNIFY RSIA. BALLROOM BLZ: A LIGHTHEARTED EXAMPLE WHEN THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY OF TWO WOMEN IS TERPTED BY A DNKEN FIGHT THE DIENCE, EVENTUALLY LATG TO A FULL-ON, SUAL BRAWL AMONGST EVERYONE.A STRANGE WEDDG ED. BEME THEIR OWN ANTHIS: IF THE BLACK ARMY SUCCSFULLY SIL THE SIBERIAN SOVIET AND POS PYOTR SIUDA, THE FREE TERRORY BE LTLE MORE THAN A GLORIFIED SILOVIK OLIGARCHY. BERSERK BUTTON: STATISTS. MANY RINTS OF THE FREE TERRORY HOLD NOTHG BUT UTTER NTEMPT FOR CENTRALIZED ERNMENTS OF ANY SHAPE, AND REACT VLENTLY TO ANY FORMS OF CREEPG STATISM WH THE FREE TERRORY SELF. BEWARE THE NICE ON: THE AVERAGE CIZEN THE FREE TERRORY ARE TOLERANT AND RPECTFUL TO THEIR NEIGHBORS, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE A LAX GUN CULTURE SO THEY ARE READY TO FEND THEMSELV, IF NEED. BILGUAL BON: THE TEXT WRTEN THE BOTTOM OF THEIR FLAG, "ДА ЗДРАВСТВУЕТ АНАРХИЯ", IS RSIAN FOR "LONG LIVE ANARCHY". BORG, BUT PRACTIL: DURG THE PREPARATN PHASE FOR REGNAL UNIFITN, THE BLACK ARMY WILL ANIZE A "PEOPLE'S SURVEY" TO THE MUNI SO THEY N PLOT THEIR STATE'S BORRS. IT'S A MUNDANE METHOD, BUT EXTREMELY HELPFUL TERMG WHAT AREAS WOULD BE STRATEGILLY ADVANTAGEO WAR. INSTEAD OF STUTG A MANDATORY TAX TO FUND A ARY, THE FREE TERRORY N TABLISH A GRA BANK SO THAT MORE PROSPERO MUN N DONATE THEIR SURPL EXCHANGE FOR RAW MATERIALS OF EQUAL VALUE. DPE SOUNDG LS IMMEDIATELY HELPFUL, PECIALLY THE G UNIFITN WARS, WOULD BE BENEFICIAL FOSTERG MARARIE AND UNY AMONG THE MUN. BREAK OUT THE MM PIECE: DUE TO THE CHAOTIC PERD OF THE RSIAN ANARCHY, THE PEOPLE OF THE FREE TERRORY HAVE RELIED ON S-OLD MACHERY TO PERFORM THEIR WORK. BY THE REGNAL STAGE, THEY WILL BE PABLE OF ACQUIRG BETTER TECHNOLOGY THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATN OF THE SIBERIAN PLAN AND IMPROVED TN. "CAVEMEN VS. ASTRONTS" DEBATE: THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY N BATE AT GREAT LENGTH OVER THE MOST MOR OF SUBJECTS. AT ONE POT, THEY HAVE A FOUR HOUR DISCSN ABOUT WHETHER THEIR OFFICIAL SEAL SHOULD BE RED OR BLUE. CHILD SOLDIER: IN THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE WHERE STEPANOV SEIZ POWER, HE MAY CREASE NSCRIPTN BY FORCG "VOLUNTEERS" TO JO, WHICH N POTENTIALLY CLU CHILDREN WHO ARE RIPPED OM THEIR PARENTS' ARMS. CHUMMY COMMI: IN TE SOCIALIST FASHN, THE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST SOVIET WAS ANISED BY THE PEOPLE THE ANGARA'S BAS AS A SELF-ERNG LG BODY WH EQUAL REPRENTATN FOR ALL MAJOR TOWNS AND DTRIAL UNNS. COMMUNE: MOST PEOPLE THE FREE TERRORY LIVE MUN WHERE THEY HAVE THEIR MATERIAL RIGHTS GUARANTEED AND N ENJOY RELATIVE EEDOM OM THE MA ERNMENT BODY. CRAZY ENOUGH TO WORK: MANY BELIEVED THAT THE SIBERIAN SOVIET WOULD BE A SHORT-LIVED, TERTG EXPERIMENT ON ANARCHISM, YET IS POSSIBLE FOR THEM TO NOT ONLY SURVIVE LONGER THAN EXPECTED, BUT RNIFY RSIA. CRIPPLG OVERSPECIALIZATN: THANKS TO URBANIZATN, THE CI STGGLE TO PRODUCE THEIR OWN FOOD AND RELY ON THE SOLE PRODUCTN OF GUNS TO KEEP THEMSELV AFLOAT. HOWEVER, THIS IS NULLIFIED WHEN TOWN CENTERS ARE ABLE TO PRODUCE THEIR OWN ARMS THE REGNAL STAGE, FORCG THE CI TO SPECIALIZE OTHER TRAS TO MAKE UP THE LOST REVENUE. DARK IS NOT EVIL: THE BLACK ARMY IS A GROUP OF WELL-ANISED, MOCRATIC ANARCHIST MUNI WH AN OMO NAME AND MABRE IMAGERY. HOWEVER, IF IVAN STEPANOV SUCCSFULLY POS PYOTR SIUDA, THIS IMAGERY WILL BE PLETELY APPROPRIATE FOR THE BLACK ARMY'S NEW DICTATOR. DEATH OM ABOVE: AN EARLY ARY REFORM THEY UNRGO IS VELOPG NEW SIGNS FOR AIRCRAFT, SOME OF WHICH E JET ENG STEAD OF PROPELLERS AND ARE BASED ON THE SIGNS OF CRASHED GERMAN BOMBERS. THEIR AIR FORCE IS FURTHER EXPAND THE REGNAL STAGE, WHERE THE BLACK ARMY HERS NOVOSIBIRSK'S LARGE AIR FLEETS, BEGS PRODUCTN OF AIRPLAN, AND DRAWS UP EXPERIMENTAL HELIPTER SIGNS. DEFEAT MEANS FRIENDSHIP: IF TOMSK NQUERS THE BLACK ARMY, THE REPUBLIN ARMY TREATS THE SURVIVG MUN WELL, BRGG THEM FOOD EXCHANGE FOR THEIR LOYALTY TO THE NEW POWER CHARGE. ON THE OTHER END, THE BLACK ARMY MAY OPEN RECMENT TO THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN ARI THEY NQUERED BY THE REGNAL STAGE, NEEDG EXTRA MANPOWER TO FILL THE GAPS. ZIG-ZAGGED WH THE MUN. SOME ARE OPPOSED TO THE IA OF WELG THE URBAN POPULATNS THAT THE BLACK ARMY NQUERS, NSIRG THEIR PAST PARTICIPATN PALIST SYSTEMS WORTHY OF PUNISHMENT. HOWEVER, THERE ARE ALSO MUN WHO WILL ACCEPT THE NEW POPULATNS, IF THEY ARE WILLG TO TEGRATE. THE NQUERED POPULATNS OF THE FAR EAST WILL BE WELED BY SIUDA, WHO PROVIS THEM THEIR BASIC NECSI AND A MUNE TO LIVE SO THAT THEY N TEGRATE SMOOTHLY TO THEIR SOCIETY. DEFEAT MEANS MENIAL LABOR: IF SIUDA WS THE POWER STGGLE WH STEPANOV, HE N PUNISH HIS REMAG SUPPORTERS AND OTHER CRIMALS THE ANIZATN BY SENTENCG THEM TO UNPAID LABOR. DELEGATN RELAY: DOWNPLAYED. OPTNALLY, THE ENOMY OF THE FREE TERRORY MAY NOT BE DIRECTED BY THE CENTRAL ERNMENT. INSTEAD, THE RPONSIBILI ARE PASSED ONTO AN DTRIAL UNCIL OF SEVERAL MUN, WHO WILL CREATE A LIST OF POSSIBLE DTRIAL IMPROVEMENTS, AND THEN PASS THEM OFF TO LOL MUN TO FULFILL. HOWEVER, 'S NOT BEE 'S AN UNSIRABLE TASK, BUT RATHER BEE THEY FEAR ERNMENT OVERSIGHT AND THE DTRIAL UNCIL IS WILLG TO SHELL OUT PAL FOR UNRPRIVILEGED MUN TO MEET THEIR TASKS. DEMOCRACY IS FLAWED: DOWNPLAYED, AS THE MOCRATIC SYSTEMS OF THE UNTRY ARE RELATIVELY HEALTHY, BUT STEPANOV N EXPLO THE SYSTEMS TO LEGIMIZE HIS NEW OF LAWS BY DRAGGG HIS FEET TO THE NGRSNAL SSNS SO THAT MOST LEAVE OUT OF IMPATIENCE AND GIVE STEPANOV THE OPPORTUNY TO BEND THE SYSTEM HIS FAVOR. DISASTER DEMOCRACY: AFTER THE FALL OF THE SOVIET UNN, THE PEOPLE THE ANGARA'S BAS FORMED A SELF-ERNG MOCRATIC MTEE THAT REPRENTS ALL SETTLEMENTS AND UNNS THEIR FREE TERRORY. THEY HAVE A UNIQUE MECHANIC ABOUT HOSTG VOT FOR MOTNS THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, SUCH AS EXPANDG ASTCTURE OR IMPROVG BLACK ARMY TRAG. THE SECURY COUNCIL'S MEMBERS ARE ALL ELECTED BY THEIR SOLDIERS AND EVERY MANR THE BLACK ARMY MT BE MOCRATILLY ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE THE SOLDIERS' ASSEMBLI. IF SIUDA SURVIV STEPANOV'S ATTEMPTED UP, THE FREE TERRORY N BEE EVEN MORE MOCRATIC, HAVG THE GENERAL COUNCIL N DIRECTLY BY POPULAR VOTE AND GIVG MORE REPRENTATN TO THE SMALLER MUN. EVEN IF THEY PICK THE ALTERNATIVE OF CREATG A SMALL BURECRACY TO MANAGE THE MUN, A LOT OF THORY IS STILL NCENTRATED TO THE POWER. DIVID WE FALL: PART OF THE REASON WHY STEPANOV N BUILD THE FLUENCE TO OVERTHROW SIUDA IS BEE THE MUN ARE TOO PENNT AND DISTRACTED WH THEIR OWN PROBLEMS TO REGNIZE THE MON THREAT. IF SIUDA SURVIV THE ATTEMPTED POSN, HE N GIVE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY THE POWER TO REMOVE OR REASSIGN TROUBLOME MANRS THE BLACK ARMY TO ENSURE THAT THEY ARE ALWAYS MONORED AND NOT ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE PEOPLE'S DIVISN. DRAMATIC IRONY: IF STEPANOV MAK A MOVE CHA DURG THE POWER STGGLE, A NAïVE BLACK ARMY SOLDIER IS SHOWN EXECUTG A PTURED ARISTOCRAT, MOCKG HIM HIS LAST MOMENTS THAT HE IS "ON THE SI OF TYRANNY". THE SOLDIER DON'T REALIZE THAT THE SAME ULD BE SAID OF HIM AS AN ADVERTENT SUPPORTER OF STEPANOV'S G DICTATORSHIP. ELE ARMY: A SPECIAL, HEAVILY ARMORED BLACK GUARD BRIGA IS CREATED TO FULFILL THE ROLE OF THE LEGENDARY TACHANKAS OM THE RSIAN CIVIL WAR, ONLY ADMTG THE BT TO S RANKS AND PABLE OF BEG PLOYED ANYWHERE THE UNTRY. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: THOUGH MANY THE MUN SPISE BHAR AND THE POLICI HE IMPLEMENTED, MOST WOULDN'T PUNISH ANYONE FOR LIKG HIS IAS BEE 'D BE HYPOCRIL OF THEM TO DO SO. IN ONE EVENT, A MENTALLY DISORRED MAN ASKS HIS VILLAGE TO KILL HIM FOR BEG ENAMORED WH BHAR'S IAS, BUT THE DIENCE FORTS AND ASSUR HIM THAT THEY N'T TAKE AWAY HIS EEDOM OF THOUGHT. FACE DEATH WH DIGNY: A BAND OF TWENTY RSIAN SOLDIERS DRK AND CELEBRATE ONE LAST TIME BEFORE THEY ARE SENT TO FIGHT ANOTHER CENTRAL SIBERIAN WARLORD ON THE ROAD TO REGNAL UNIFITN. MANY OF THEM KNOW THAT NOT ALL OF THEM WILL SURVIVE BY THE END, IF ANY, BUT THEY'RE PROUD TO DIE FOR A E THEY BELIEVE AND THAT THEIR SACRIFICE WILL LIBERATE MORE NOCENT CIVILIANS. FALSE REASSURANCE: IF THE TN SYSTEM IS PLACED UNR THE RPONSIBILY OF THE BLACK ARMY, SOLDIERS ARE THORIZED TO MONOR THE CLASSROOM, JTIFYG THEIR PRENCE BY CLAIMG TO PROTECT THE STUNTS OM "BAD THOUGHTS". EVEN A STUNT REGNIZ HOW OMO THAT STATEMENT SOUNDS. A FATHER TO HIS MEN: THIS ATTU IS INVOKED BY THE BLACK ARMY THROUGH OFFICER ELECTNS. AS A RULT, POPULAR MANRS WHO RE FOR THEIR MEN ARE MORE LIKELY TO RANK UP HIGHER THE ARY AND, TURN, THE SOLDIERS ARE MORE WILLG TO FIGHT FOR THEM. FOIL: TO ORENBURG. BOTH ORENBURG AND THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY ARE ANARCHO-MUNIST SOCIETI LED BY A UNCIL CREATED TO UNE NUMERO SETTLEMENTS TO HELP THEM WORK TOGETHER. BOTH OF THEIR UNCILS SUFFER OM DIFFICULTI RELATED TO THE IMPLEMENTATN OF THE ANARCHIST SYSTEM THEIR CURRENT SUATN. HOWEVER, WHILE ORENBURG'S ISSU LIE ON THE UNCIL BEG HEAVILY CENTRALIZED AND MANY SEEG THE BT SOLUTN BEG TO ABANDON FOR A CENTRALIZED ERNMENT, THE BLACK ARMY'S ISSU LIE ON THE UNCIL BEG TOO CENTRALIZED, WH MANY PREFERRG THE UNCIL TO -CENTRALIZE SELF LT FALL TO A DICTATORSHIP. BOTH ORENBURG AND THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY ARE DISDAFUL OF THOSE WHO DON'T FOLLOW THE ANARCHIST SYSTEM, AND VIEW THEM AS DIFFERENT FLAVOURS OF REACTNARINOTE ORENBURG LLS THEM FASCISTS, WHILE THE SBA LLS THEM STATISTS, TO THE POT THEY ACT HOSTILE EVEN TO NEIGHBORS WHO AREN'T REACTNARI AND GENUELY WANT TO HELP THEMNOTE ORENBURG IS LD TO THE URAL LEAGUE AND LLS THEM FASCISTS WHO WANT TO ANNEX THEM, TO THE TRATN OF THE LEAGUE WHO ACTUALLY JT WANTS TO PROTECT ORENBURG OM THE DIRLEWANGER BRIGA; THE BLACK ARMY IS HOSTILE TO A VICTOR VALERY SABL'S LIBERTARIAN COMMUNIST SOVIET UNN ON THE PURE BASIS THAT THEY'RE STATIST, EVEN THOUGH SABL IS SYMPATHETIC TO THEIR E AND IS MORE THAN WILLG TO EXTEND AN OLIVE BRANCH TO THEM IF HE FEATS THE BLACK ARMY. HOWEVER, WHILE ORENBURG IS PLETELY UNABLE TO STAND UP FOR SELF AND ONLY SURVIV BEE THE LEAGUE TOLERAT THEIR SHENANIGANS AND NTU PROTECTG THEM, SBA IS MORE THAN PABLE OF PROTECTG SELF AND ONLY CLASH WH SABL'S SOVIET UNN UNTIL AFTER THEY'VE UNED THE ENTIRETY OF CENTRAL SIBERIA ALL BY THEMSELV. GENR IS NO OBJECT: ALL PANNS HAVE FULL RIGHTS UNR THE EE TERRORY REGARDLS OF THEIR GENR, AND ALTHOUGH 'S STILL MON FOR MOST WOMEN TO REMA HOEWIV DUE TO CULTURAL VALU, FEMALE SOLDIERS AND SCIENTISTS N STILL BE FOUND THROUGHOUT THE EE TERRORI AND ARE TREATED NORMALLY AND WH RPECT. GONDOR CALLS FOR AID: OPTNALLY, THE FREE TERRORY N LL KOSTSTY TO ASSIST THEIR IMPLEMENTATN OF THE SIBERIAN PLAN, SPE THEIR DIFFERG POLICS. GOT VOLUNTEERED: IN STEPANOV'S ROUTE, HE N CREASE NSCRIPTN THROUGH LOTTERI SO THAT RANDOM "VOLUNTEERS" N BE FORCED TO THE ONTL AND MORE MONEY N BE SAVED OM FUNDG HIGHER TN. HERO WH BAD PUBLICY: SCE ANARCHISM IS AN UNPOPULAR IOLOGY RSIA, THE PEOPLE THEY NQUER CENTRAL SIBERIA ARE NOT WELG TO THEIR PRENCE. THE FREE TERRORY MT ADDRS THIS BY ENURAGG A MASS RECMENT TO THE ARY AND LATER WRG A BOOK TO CLEARLY FE WHAT ANARCHISM IS. HYPOCRIL HUMOR: IN STEPANOV'S PATH, ONE CIZEN LOUDLY PLAS TO THE BLACK ARMY ABOUT THE SHODDY HANDOUTS THEY ARE GIVG OUT AND SULTS THEM BY THROWG ONE OF HIS CHARY CIGARETT TO THE GROUND. AFTER THE SOLDIER SHOOTS HIM AN AMED LOOK AND LEAV, THE PLAER GO BACK TO SMOKG ONE OF HIS DONATED CIGARETT, YET PARADOXILLY THKS "THEY'LL NEVER GET TO E!" HYPOCRISY NOD: THEY OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE FALLACY ANARCHIST IOLOGY AND NEEDG A CENTRALIZED ARY AND UNCIL TO DIRECT THE SMALLER MUN, WHICH THEY ENURAGE POLIL DISCSNS ON HOW FAR THEY N STRAY OM THEIR IALS BEFORE THEY END UP BEG EXACTLY WHAT THEY TRIED FIGHTG AGAST. IRONY: DPE THEIR HISTORIC ENMY BETWEEN THEIR IOLOGI, THE ANARCHISTS FE THEIR MUN' BORRS ON AN OUTDATED MAP OM THE TIME OF THE TSARS, SOMETHG THAT OFFENDS ONE OF THEM, BUT HAVE TO ACCEPT BEE THERE'S NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE. KANGAROO COURT: SUBVERTED. THEY SET UP MARTIAL TRIBUNALS TO PROSECUTE ACCED CRIMALS, BUT THEY DO NOT RORT TO MOB JTICE AND WILL FAIRLY JUDGE IF THEY SERVE PRISON OR EXECUTN. KNOW WHEN TO FOLD 'EM: IF NOVOSIBIRSK RNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA, SOME FORMER MEMBERS OF THE SBA WILL SUBM TO THE NEW POWER CHARGE, BEG YET ANOTHER EMOTNLS G THE PALIST MACHE. AS STEPANOV TRI BUILDG HIS FLUENCE TO OVERTHROW SIUDA THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, HE N SEND A TACHMENT OF HIS MEN TO QUELL A POTENTIAL UPRISG KEMEROVO, HEAD BY THE POSED YURIY. WHEN THEY ARRIVE, THEY FD THEMSELV OUTNUMBERED BY YURIY'S FORC AND GIVEN A CHANCE TO PEACEFULLY WALK AWAY EMPTY HAND, WHICH THEY N ACCEPT. NECSARILY EVIL: THE FREE TERRORY IS OVERSEEN BY THE SECURY COUNCIL, WHICH IS POSED OF SENR BLACK ARMY MEMBERS AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY IOLOGU. THOUGH LS SIRABLE AND MOCRATIC THAN THE ASSEMBLY, IS STILL KEPT AROUND AS A NEED FENSE AGAST FOREIGN ENEMI. SOME THE SECURY COUNCIL ARGUE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATN OF A LLECTIVE FENSE TAX, WHICH WILL BE UNPOPULAR, BUT NEED TO FUND A PROPER ARY. THE SECURY COUNCIL ALSO ADVIS AGAST ASSISTG LOL VILLAGE SCHOOLS AND STEAD BRGG THE TNAL SYSTEM UNR THE ARY ADMISTRATN. EVEN IF WOULD BE ANOTHER VLATN OF THEIR ANARCHIST IALS, THEY ARGUE THAT A CENTRAL SCHOOLG SYSTEM WOULD BE MORE EFFICIENT AND ALLOW MORE ORDATN BETWEEN THE UNIVERSI. IN THE REGNAL STAGE, THE FREE TERRORY N DOUBLE DOWN ON THIS STRATEGY, NOW UNR THE BASIS OF SPEEDG UP THEIR VELOPMENT OF NEW TECHNOLOGY. RECMENT TO THE ARMY MEANS THAT FAI WILL LOSE THEIR LOVED ON WHEN THEY ARE SENT TO WAR, BUT IS ALSO A NECSY FOR THE FREE TERRORY TO RNIFY RSIA, PECIALLY SCE THEY HAVE FEW NEIGHBORS THEY N PEACEFULLY RNIFY WH. HOWEVER, SOME MEASUR N BE TAKEN TO MIGATE THE PROBLEM, SUCH AS MAKG FEWER LLS TO THE BLACK ARMY. UNR STEPANOV'S SUGGTN, THE FREE TERRORY N IGNORE KOST'S REQUT TO CEASE THE SIBERIAN PLAN'S ARIZATN UNR THE JTIFITN THAT REGNAL RIVALS STILL STAND THEIR WAY OF RSIAN RNIFITN AND NTUED VIGILANCE IS NEED. AFTER RNIFYG CENTRAL SIBERIA, THE QUTN OF ANIZG THE NEW LANDS TO MUN N BE GIVEN TO THE BLACK ARMY TO ANSWER. THOUGH MORE NTRARY TO THEIR IOLOGY THAN HAVG FAH THE PEOPLE TO ANIZE THEMSELV, THE SIBERIAN SOVIET N REASON THAT 'S NECSARY TO ACCLIMATE PEOPLE TOWARDS ANARCHISM, AN UNPOPULAR IOLOGY. NEVER LEARNED TO READ: SOME VILLAGERS THE FREE TERRORY ARE ILLERATE, SCE THEY LACKED A FORMAL TN. FORTUNATELY, THEY GET THEIR CHANCE TO LEARN WHEN THE BLACK ARMY VTS A CURRICULUM. NEVER RECYCLE A BUILDG: AVERTED. IN THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, SIUDA N RENOVATE THE TSAR'S PALACE CHA TO A MORE HUMBLE MEETG PLACE, GARNERG MORE SUPPORT THE POWER STGGLE AGAST STEPANOV. NEW MEAT: AS THE BLACK ARMY OVERHLS S ARY THE REGNAL STAGE, ONE REC IS LEFT LOST AND HOMICK AS HE'S BEG AGGRSIVELY ORRED AROUND BY EVERYONE. FORTUNATELY, HIS SPIRS ARE RAISED WHEN ONE SOLDIER REACH OUT TO HIM AND OFFERS TO SHOW HIM THE ROP. NON-STANDARD CHARACTER DIGN: BEFTG A STATE THAT ASPIR TO BE AN ANARCHIST TERRORY, THE FREE TERRORY'S -GAME LEARS (IF DO NOT LLAPSE) ARE SIMPLY REPRENTED AS THE SIBERIAN SOVIET AND SIBERIAN SECURY COUNCIL, WHOSE PORTRAS PICT MULTIPLE DIVIDUALS EACH, WHILE THE CLOST THG TO A HEAD OF STATE (SIUDA OR STEPANOV) IS THE -GAME HEAD OF ERNMENT. NOSTALGIA FILTER: ASI OM THE ARY'S TERTWED NATURE WH THE ERNMENT, THE BLACK ARMY MAY BE LEFT RELATIVELY UNCHANGED THE REGNAL STAGE BEE OF THEIR HISTORIC ROLE TABLISHG THE FREE TERRORY AND THE NEED TO STAY CLOSE TO THEIR "ROOTS". THE ONE THG I DON'T HATE ABOUT YOU: ONE OF THE FEW POSIVE ACHIEVEMENTS THEY WILL CRED THE TSARS FOR IS THE NSTCTN OF THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD, WHICH THEY WILL REPAIR TO IMPROVE THEIR ASTCTURE AND UNE THE MUN TOGETHER. OPEN SECRET: SIUDA N BE OPEN TO THE TAILS OF HIS SECRET NUCLEAR PROJECT, SPE OF POTENTIAL SABOTAGE OM STATIST ELEMENTS, BEE HE EMS A "PEOPLE'S PROJECT". PAPER TIGER: IN STEPANOV'S OPEN SECRET PATH, A CROWD OF DNKEN STUNTS WILL GATHER TO PROTT HIS OPEN TYRANNY, BUT WHEN A SOLDIER SHOOTS THREE SHOTS THE AIR WH HIS REVOLVER, THEY SCRAMBLE FOR THEIR LIV. PET THE DOG: DUB AS THE ARY IS, THEY DO GIVE GENERO FUNDG TO THE ARTS AND CRAFT PARTMENT FOR HUNDREDS TO ENJOY. THEY SPARE VASILY SHSH AND PARDON PRCE YURIY SCE BOTH OF THEM ARE POPULAR WH THE PEOPLE. PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF TYRANNY: A DOWNPLAYED EXAMPLE, BUT MANY EXAMPL ARE PRENT AND EASILY NOTICEABLE RIGHT OM THE BEGNG. DPE BEG A MOCRATILLY-ELECTED ANIZATN, THE BLACK ARMY IS RIFE WH CRONYISM AND RPTN, WH NEPOTISM ENSURG RELATIV OF SUCCSFUL GENERALS N GET EASILY PROMOTED TO HIGH POSNS SPE HAVG DONE NOTHG TO MER , WHILE ACTUALLY HARD-WORKG AND UPSTANDG SOLDIERS GET SHAFTED AND ARRTED ON SHAM TRIALS IF THEIR SUPERRS FEEL THEY MAY BE A THREAT TO THEIR OWN POWER. AND, OF URSE, MANY OF THEM ARE POWER-HUNGRY AND SEEKG TO WRTLE NTROL OF THE MUN TO THEMSELV. IF NOTHG IS DONE, THE BLACK ARMY WILL UP THE SIBERIAN SOVIET AND TABLISH A ARY JUNTA THAT ACTIVELY EXTORTS S CIZENS FOR TRIBUT TO SATE THE GENERALS' GREED, PLAYG THE TROPE STRAIGHT. OF URSE, N BE SUBVERTED AND THOROUGHLY FIED IF STEPANOV'S UP FAILS, WHICH RULTS THE PURGE. POLILLY INRRECT VILLA: ZIG-ZAGGED WH THE ARY. SOME UNS ARE TOLERANT OF HOMOSEXUALS, BUT OTHERS ARE UNWILLG TO HELP THEM WHENEVER THEY GET JUMPED BY A MOB OF HOMOPHOB, A PROBLEM SHOWN IF STEPANOV BE THE FREE TERRORY'S DICTATOR AND HAS NO TERT PRETENDG HE'S STILL AN ANARCHIST. POOR COMMUNITN KILLS: ONE OF THE BIGGT PROBLEMS PLAGUG THE ARY AT THE START WAS A LACK OF MUNITN THAT BROKE DOWN SUPPLY CHAS AND CREATED LOGISTIL NIGHTMAR. THE ISSUE GETS FIXED BY STALLG MORE PHONE L. THIS PROBLEM CROPS UP AGA THE REGNAL STAGE, WHERE N TAKE DAYS, IF NOT WEEKS, TO SEND A MSAGE OUT TO THE MORE RAL PARTS OF THEIR RECENTLY TEGRATED TERRORI, REQUIRG FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS LIKE THE EXPANSN OF TELEGRAPH L AND NSTCTN OF A MORN PHONE SYSTEM. THE POWER OF LOVE: ONE REGNAL EVENT IS ABOUT THIS TROPE, EMPHASIZG LOVE AS A POWERFUL EMOTN THAT N BOTH EMPOWER OR STROY PEOPLE. PRERVE YOUR GAYS: FAR OM THE NORM OF 1962, THE FREE TERRORY STARTS OUT WH LEGAL PROTECTNS FOR LGBTQ+ PEOPLENOTE THE MAJORY OF UNTRI START WH LGBTQ+ RIGHTS OUTLAWED, WHILE THE FEW THAT DON'T HAVE THERE ARE SIMPLY AT DECRIMALIZED AND THE BLACK ARMY IS VERY PROTECTIVE OF THEIR HOMOSEXUAL PANNS. THE SIBERIAN SOVIET N IMPOSE STRICTER PROTECTNS FOR NON-HETERONORMATIVE PANNS, EMPOWERG THE BLACK ARMY BUT ENSURG THE FREE TERRORY REACH PLETE ACCEPTANCE OF LGBTQ PEOPLE FASTER. PRIVATE MILARY CONTRACTORS: STEPANOV N HIRE THE MERCENARI OF MAGADAN THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE TO BUILD MORE SUPPORT THE POWER STGGLE AGAST SIUDA AND STRENGTHEN HIS OWN ARY. THE PROMISED LAND: REGNIZED AS THE SIBERIAN FREE TERRORY, THE ANARCHISTS PRENT THEIR STATELET AS AN OASIS OF EEDOM OM THE WARLORDISM AND TYRANNY OF THEIR NEIGHBORS. THE PURGE: IF STEPANOV'S PLANNED UP AGAST THE SIBERIAN SOVIET TO STATE A BLACK ARMY DICTATORSHIP FAILS, SIUDA AND THE SIBERIAN SOVIET WILL PLETELY PURGE THE BLACK ARMY AND DISSOLVE AS AN STUTN TO PROTECT THE ANARCHIST SYSTEM AND PREVENT ANYTHG LIKE THAT OM HAPPENG AGA, WH THE NSPIRG OFFICERS EHER BEG EXECUTED OR SENT TO FACE RE-TN THROUGH HARD LABOR, LEAVG THE FREE TERRORY HEAVILY CRIPPLED AND FENSELS UNTIL THEY N REANIZE THEMSELV AND ROLVE THE POWER VACUUM. QUALY OVER QUANTY: IN THE REGNAL STAGE, THE BLACK ARMY UPDAT THEIR TANK DOCTRE TO PRRIZE MOBILY AND QUALY OVER QUANTY, PYG THE SAME MDSET AS THE GERMANS AND JAPANE. RAG TAG BUNCH OF MISFS: THE BLACK ARMY IS LED BY A DIVERSE BAND OF REVOLUTNARI, WRERS, AND SOLDIERS WHO ALL SIRE, OR PAY LIP SERVICE TO, THE IA OF AN ANARCHIST, EGALARIAN RSIA. REALPOLIK: IF A PROTECTNIST FOREIGN POLICY IS CHOSEN, THE BLACK ARMY WILL REA OM SUPPORTG SOCIALIST AND ANARCHIST MOVEMENTS OTHER UNTRI BEE THEY DON'T WANT TO RISK AGGRAVATG A SUPERPOWER TOO EARLY OR GET STUCK FIGHTG A LONG, DRAWN-OUT PROXY WAR. RED SRE: A DOWNPLAYED, UNIQUE EXAMPLE WHERE ANARCHISTS, A LEFT-WG GROUP, PROMOTE WARS TO MUNIST SYMBOLS. THOUGH THEY ARE NOT OPPOSED TO THE IOLOGY SELF, THE TN SYSTEM WARNS S STUNTS OF LEARS, LIKE YAGODA, WHO WILL EXPLO S HAMMER AND SICKLE SYMBOLISM TO DOCTRATE THE PEOPLE AND JTIFY THEIR TYRANNY. RELIGN IS WRONG: THE ANARCHISTS VIEW ANIZED RELIGN AS A STATIST TOOL TO NTROL THE POPULACE AND TH MT BE LEASHED. THOUGH THEY WILL NOT OUTRIGHT BAN THE CHURCH, THEY WILL TRY TO ENURAGE SECULARISM AND PENNCE OM CHURCH DOCTRE. REPRSIVE, BUT EFFICIENT: THE SECURY COUNCIL AFFORDS FEWER LIBERTI AND MORE RTRICTNS ON THE STATE, BUT THEIR ENOMIC POLICI PROVE EFFECTIVE THE REGNAL STAGE, CREASG DTRIAL PRODUCTIVY BY OVER 200% AND PRODUCG ENERGY BY OVER 330 LN KILOWATT-HOURS. THE REVOLUTN WILL NOT BE CIVILIZED: DOWNPLAYED. THEIR PATH TO RNIFITN, AT LEAST UNR THE SIBERIAN SOVIET, IS A RELATIVELY BENIGN ONE THAT BUILDS AN EGALARIAN RSIA. HOWEVER, THEY DO ENGAGE SOME UNPRETTY MATTERS ALONG THE WAY, SUCH AS THE EXECUTN OF LYDIA ONT OF HER FATHER. ROG SPEECH: SUBVERTED WH A FORMER TOMSK RINT, WHO TERPTS A CLASS OBSERVG A BREAKDOWN OF AN AK-47 SO THAT HE N SERMONIZE THE STCTIVE POTENTIAL OF SUCH A WEAPON AND URGE HIS FELLOW CLASSMAT TO REJECT . NOBODY IS IMPRSED BY HIS SPEECH AND THEY JT GIVE HIM PUZZLED STAR. SCREW THIS, I'M OUTTA HERE: AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR ISN'T HAPPY WH THE SUCCS OF ANARCHISM THE FREE TERRORY AND CIS TO PACK HIS BAGS BY THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE. IT DON'T MAKE ANY LS HEARTBREAKG FOR HIM WHEN HE HAS TO BID FAREWELL TO HIS DGHTER, A SUPPORTER OF SIUDA'S DREAM. SERIAL KILLER: THE TOWN OF RODZAEVSK, IF THE BLACK ARMY RNIFI WH THE FAR EAST, HAS TO AL WH ONE OF THE, AN AX-CRAZY FASCIST KNOWN AS THE GHOST OF RODZAEVSKY WHO BELIEV HIMSELF TO BE THE TE VOZHD OF RSIA. WORD OF GOD NFIRMS THAT THIS IS FACT ALEXANR BOLOTOV, AMUR'S FORMER SADISTIC AND BTAL CHIEF OF INTERNAL SECURY. SKELETON MOTIF: THE BLACK ARMY'S FLAG FEATUR A PROMENT SKULL AND CROSSBON PATTERN. START MY OWN: WH KOSTSTY EMED TOO IENDLY TO BOLSHEVISM AND THE OTHER TRA UNNS TOO SMALL FOR THEIR UNTRY, THE BLACK ARMY N SETTLE WH CREATG THEIR OWN UNCIL TO UNE THE UNNS AND TABLISH AN OVERARCHG BODY TO PROTECT WORKER RIGHTS. SUCCS THROUGH INSANY: SIBERIAN ANARCHIST COMMUN, OR SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY, N CROWDFUND NUCLEAR WEAPONS, PER THEIR ANARCHIST-LIBERTARIAN ETHIC WH REFERENC TO KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM. THE PROGRAM HAS FOCI IMPLYG THAT THE SBA LERALLY GO DOOR TO DOOR AND TAK EVERYONE'S OPNS ABOUT HOW TO BUILD A NE. INCLUDG PEASANTS. NAMED EMANTSIPATSIYA (EMANCIPATN), HAS A ROUGHLY TWO--THREE CHANCE OF PRODUCG A WORKG WEAPON, DOG SO FAR FASTER THAN ANY OTHER RSIAN WARLORD, WHICH HAS TO GO THROUGH A LONG SLOG OF REARCH AND VELOPMENT THAT WILL NEVER PRODUCE A FUNCTNG WARHEAD BEFORE S NTENT NS OUT. THERE IS STILL A ONE--THREE CHANCE OF PREDICTABLY BLOWG UP THEIR FAC ( THE MIDDLE OF THEIR TERRORY), BUT STILL. TAKG UP THE MANTLE: THE BLACK ARMY FOLLOWS THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE FAMO UKRAIAN ANARCHIST REVOLUTNARY NTOR MAKHNO, VIEWG HIM AS THE FOREFATHER OF THEIR FREE TERRORY. TANK GOODNS: THE BLACK ARMY REVERSE-ENGEERS THE SIGN OF GERMAN, JAPANE, AND AMERIN TANKS AND TAK DATA OM THE T-34 AND T-44 TANKS TO BUILD THEIR OWN ORIGAL MBT, PLETE WH NEW TECHNOLOGI, LIKE ELECTRIC STARTERS AND NIGHT VISN. THE END RULT WON'T PARE TO THE TANKS OF VELOPED NATNS, BUT WILL SUFFICE THE RSIAN ANARCHY. TECHNIL PACIFIST: IF A FENSIVE DOCTRE IS ADOPTED THE REGNAL STAGE, THE BLACK ARMY WILL BE SPECIFILLY RERVED FOR ONLY FENSIVE WARS, REFG TO STOOP TO THE LOWS OF YAGODA AND ONLY G VLENCE WHEN NECSARY. TEETH-CLENCHED TEAMWORK: DPE OSTENSIBLY BEG ON THE SAME SI, SOME ABIVE MUN WILL BULLY THEIR WEAKER NEIGHBORS TO GIVG UP THEIR LAND. EVENTUALLY, THE ERNMENT WILL NEED TO TERVENE AND NDUCT A LAND REFORM PROGRAM SO THAT LAND IS MORE EQUABLY DISTRIBUTED AND THE LOL ERCN WILL CEASE. MISHURENKO DON'T RPECT VALENTEEV AS A LOWER-RANKG HOTSHOT WHO THKS HE'S BETTER THAN HE REALLY IS. WHEN THE TWO HAVE TO E UP WH A ARY DOCTRE, THEY DON'T SYNERGIZE WELL WH EACH OTHER, UNTIL VALENTEEV SUGGTS WRG DOWN THEIR THEORI ON SEPARATE PAPER AND HANDG THEM TO EACH OTHER TO CROSS OFF THE OTHER'S POTS. UNF FOR GREATNS: ALLOWG OFFICER ELECTNS THE ARY HAS GIVEN THE PEOPLE MORE POWER, BUT ALSO MA MORE LIKELY THAT AN PETENT PERSON ULD EARN A POSN THEY DON'T RIGHTFULLY SERVE AND ONLY RECEIVED DUE TO THEIR POPULARY. THE ERNMENT IS NOT BLD TO THIS PROBLEM AND WILL HAVE TO ADDRS BY TTG S OFFICERS BEFORE REGNAL RNIFITN BEGS. WARHAWK: IF AN OFFENSIVE DOCTRE IS PICKED THE REGNAL STAGE, THE BLACK ARMY WILL DM UP SUPPORT FOR AGGRSIVE WARS BY NVCG THE PEOPLE THAT THEY ARE THE CHAMPNS OF ANARCHISM AND MT VA OTHERS TO SPREAD THEIR IALS. WHAM EPISO: AS THE BLACK ARMY UNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA AND THE FAR EAST, A SERI OF EVENTS FIR WHICH STEPANOV ATTEMPTS TO STAGE A MILARY COUP OF THE FREE TERRORY. REGARDLS OF THE OUTE, THE SUATN THE FREE TERRORY CHANG SUDNLY, DRAMATILLY, AND PERMANENTLY. WHERE'S THE KABOOM?: IT'S POSSIBLE FOR THE ANARCHISTS' NE TO NOT TONATE WHEN THEY TT , FORCG THEM BACK TO THE DRAWG BOARD. WON THE WAR, LOST THE PEACE: IF THE BLACK ARMY UNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA, THEY WILL BE LEFT WH THE DNTG TASK OF DIVIDG THE LARGE SWATH OF TERRORY THEY OWN TO MUN AND DO EVERYTHG THEY N TO MATA THE PEACE. AT LEAST ONE MUNE LEAR IS LEFT OVERWHELMED BY THE DUTI HE'S GIVEN AND THE ENDLS ARGUMENTS THAT ARE BROUGHT UP TO HIM ON A DAILY BASIS. ZERO-APPROVAL GAMB: THE BLACK ARMY N ADOPT AN TERNATNALIST FOREIGN POLICY OF BACKG SOCIALIST OR ANARCHIST REVOLUTNS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, DARG TO LIBERATE PEOPLE GLOBALLY AT THE RISK OF TURNG THEMSELV TO A PARIAH ON THE WORLD STAGE.PYOTR SIUDAPORTRA OF THE SIBERIAN SOVIET  ROLE: HEAD OF STATE, DIRECTOR OF STATE ADMISTRATNNOTE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT (SIBERIAN SOVIET BET)PARTY: SIBIRSKY ANARKHICHKY SOVETNOTE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST COUNCILIOLOGY: ANARCHO-COMMUNISMNOTE SOCIALISMIN-GAME DCRIPTN OF THE SIBERIAN SOVIET CLICK TO SHOW IN THE WAKE OF THE UNN'S LLAPSE, THE PEOPLE OF THE ANGARA'S BAS FOUNDS THEMSELV EE OM THE THORY OF MOSW. THE FIRST THG THEY DID, A TE SOCIALIST FASHN, WAS TO ASSEMBLE A MTEE. MANY OF THE REGNAL STUTNS WERE FUNCTNG WHOUT MOSW'S OVERSIGHT, AND WH SOME RATNG AND BELT-TIGHTENG, MANY OF THE GOODS THAT IMPORTED OM ELSEWHERE THE UNN ULD BE FONE OR REPLACED WH LOL SUBSTUT. CONTACT WH THE REMNANTS OF THE SOVIET ERNMENT WTERN RSIA HAD BEEN LOST, AND THEY WERE HANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE "MOCRATIC" PROVISNAL ERNMENT OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC AND THE TYRANNIL REGIME OF GENRIKH YAGODA ALIKE, FORMG SELF-FENSE IA SQUADS FIGHTG FOR THEIR EEDOMS WH BLOOD. AND TH, FLUENCED BY THE FLUX OF ONCE OSTRACIZED ANARCHIST THKERS OM THE FARTHT PARTS OF THE SOVIET UNN, THEY PROCLAIMED THEIR PENNCE AS THE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST SOVIET, A SELF-ERNG LG BODY WH EQUAL REPRENTATN FOR ALL MAJOR TOWNS AND DTRIAL UNNS. AS THEIR POSN BEME SECURE OM THE FOREIGN THREATS, THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY, THE ARY FORCE OF THE EE MUN OF THE SHOR OF IYA, BEME ONE THE LEADG VOIC THE SOVIET AND CLARED THE ARIZED ANARCHISM AS S MA PLATFORM. THE IA SERVICE BEME AN SENTIAL PART OF EVERY MAN AND WOMAN OF THE FREE TERRORY, AND THE ARMED FORMATNS OF EE MUN ARE ASSEMBLED NOT MERELY AS A MEANS OF SELF-FENSE FOR THE EE MUNI, BUT ALSO AS A MEANS OF SPREADG THE LIBERATG IOLOGY SPREADG ARIZATN OF THE ANARCHIST SOCIETY, SEEMGLY NTRADICTORY TO ANARCHIST IALS, ED SURPRISGLY LTLE TENSNS BETWEEN THE ARMY AND THE SOVIET, BUT MANY OF MONERS FEAR THAT THE AMBNS OF THE BLACK ARMY, THE PROTECTOR OF THE PENNCE OF SIBERIAN MUN, WILL EVENTUALLY BEE THE UNDOG OF THEIR OWN EEDOMS.PYOTR PETROVICH SIUDA IS A KEY ANIZER OF THE KANSK REVOLUTN THAT CREATED THE FREE TERRORY, AND CURRENTLY SERV AS A KEY MEMBER OF THE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST COUNCIL. ONCE JT ANOTHER WORKG-CLASS SOVIET CIZEN, SIUDA EMBRACED ANARCHISM AFTER SEEG THE UNN Y OM MUNIST IALISM TO SELF-SERVG TOCRACY. THOUGH HIS REVOLUTN LIBERATED MANY OM THE DOGMATIC SOVIETS AND THE ELIST REPUBLIC, HIS PATH TO LIBERATE ALL OF RSIA IS FAR OM PLETE YET. ACTN POLICIAN: SIUDA PERSONALLY HUNTS DOWN A SERIAL KILLER WHO TERRORIZ THE PEOPLE OF RODZAEVSK NOT JT BY GOG THERE AND DIRECTG THE VTIGATN - HE DO THE DIRTY WORK HIMSELF, DOWN TO FOLLOWG THE "GHOST OF RODZAEVSKY" TO A TUNNEL WORK ALONG WH TARATUTA AND THE LOL SHERIFF ABAKUMOV. ALL-LOVG HERO: SIUDA MANDS JTICE AND EQUALY FOR EVERYONE, REGARDLS OF THEIR INTY. HE DISMISS ANY CLAIM OTHERWISE AS AN EXCE FOR THE ELE TO NTUE OPPRSG THE POPULATN. ANIMAL LOVER: DURG RODZAEVSK'S LOCKDOWN, SIUDA SEEMGLY HEARS A T BURIED THE SNOW AND ANTILLY SH TO SAVE . MORE IMPORTANTLY, THIS IS HOW SIUDA DISVERS A WOON DOOR TO A CELLAR, WHERE THE "GHOST OF RODZAEVSKY" AND SELF-PROCLAIMED VOZHD HAS BEEN HIDG ALL ALONG. ASSASS OUTCLASS': SIUDA HAS SURVIVED MANY ASSASSATN ATTEMPTS AGAST HIM, NEVER TIMIDATED BY THEM TO PROMISE ON HIS VISN. IN THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, STEPANOV N ORR AN ASSASSATN ON SIUDA WHILE HE'S TRAVELG TO AMUR, BUT THE ATTEMPT WILL ALWAYS FAIL WHEN SIUDA'S ASSASSS AMBH THE VEHICLE ONT OF HIM. BA-AND-SWCH COMMENT: IF SIUDA CIS TO CREASE HIS SUPPORT IRKUTSK AGAST STEPANOV, HE MAK A DRAMATIC SPEECH ABOUT LIBERATG THE CY OM YAGODA, WHO HE SCRIB AS A "MSOLI PATED RED" AND HOW IRKUTSK'S FUTURE IS BRIGHTER THAN EVER. HOWEVER, UPON SEEG THE ANGER OF THE CROWD AND REALIZG THAT YAGODA IS STILL WELL-LIKED BY THEM, SIUDA SWCH HIS TUNE SO THAT HIS LAST MENT OF A BRIGHTER FUTURE IS ACTUALLY BEE HE'S GOG TO BUILD MORE TOWN HALLS. BENEATH THE MASK: IN PRIVATE, SIUDA HAS HAD MANY NIGHTMAR AND SLEEPLS NIGHTS OVER ACCINTALLY STROYG RSIA WH HIS ACTNS, BREAKG DOWN TO UNFORTABLE LGHG AND SOBBG UPON ONE PARTICULARLY BAD NIGHTMARE. WHENEVER HE DON'T KNOW HOW TO ROLVE A PROBLEM, SIUDA BE TERNALLY AAID OF WHAT TO DO AND HE PRIVATELY NFS THE FEAR TO TARATUTA. BERSERK BUTTON: HE REALLY DISLIK STATISTS - BE THEY REACTNARI, FASCISTS, MONARCHISTS, LIBERALS, OR OTHER SOCIALISTS. BEWARE THE NICE ON: SIUDA IS GENERALLY IENDLY AND WELL-PRCIPLED, BUT WHEN TO PUNISHG BLACK ARMY SOLDIERS WHO HAVE BEEN OPPRSG NOCENT CIVILIANS OR CG VLENCE, HE N MERCILSLY SENTENCE THEM TO ATH BY FIRG SQUAD. BRAS AND BRAWN: SIUDA HANDL THE REVOLUTNARY ZEAL, AS WELL AS FOREIGN AND DOMTIC SOCIAL ISSU OF FREE TERRORY'S ANARCHIST SOCIETY, WHILE STEPANOV AND HIS ALLI HANDL THE ARY. WHILE ONE MAY THK THAT HANDLG THE ARY WOULD BE THE "BRAWN", STEPANOV IS ACTUALLY THE BRAS OF THE DUO, AS HE AND HIS TEAM AL WH A LOT OF LOGISTICS AND NUMBER-CNCHG, WHICH OFTEN LEAV SIUDA EPLY OUT OF HIS FIELD. IT DON'T HELP THAT SIUDA'S NOT EXACTLY A MAN OF BOOKS AND READG. IT'S PART OF WHY SIUDA IS TAKEN BY SURPRISE DURG STEPANOV'S UP. CAN'T KILL YOU, STILL NEED YOU: AFTER HE ELIMAT THE RPTIVE FLUENCE OF STEPANOV, SIUDA IS LEFT WH THE ISSUE OF WHAT TO DO WH THE SECURY COUNCIL AFTER THEIR ATTEMPTED UP. THOUGH SIUDA WOULD PERSONALLY WANT TO DISSOLVE THEM, HE HAS THE OPTN TO PLACE THEM UNR THE STRICTER WATCH OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND TAKE AWAY SOME OF THEIR PRIVILEG STEAD BEE THEY N STILL PROVI IMPORTANT ANIZATNAL BENEFS TO THE ARMY. CAPALISM IS BAD: SIUDA IS A FIRM BELIEVER THIS, ARGUG THAT IS A SYSTEM ED BY STATISTS TO OPPRS THE MAJORY AND THAT THE HUMAN ST OUTWEIGHS S ENOMIC BENEFS. THE CHARMER: HIS IOLOGY IS UNPOPULAR, BUT SIUDA'S CHARISMA IS UNNIABLE. HE'S EXCEPTNALLY GOOD AT MANDG RPECT OM OTHER PEOPLE, DUE TO HIS HUMANARIANISM, PRCIPL, AND IALISTIC RA. IN THE POWER STGGLE, MISHURENKO ADMS TO STEPANOV THAT HE N NEVER MATCH SIUDA'S POPULARY AND MT REMOVE HIM THROUGH MORE UNRHAND MEANS. DEFIANT TO THE END: IF THE BLACK ARMY IS FEATED BY TOMSK, SIUDA WILL BE OFFERED AMNTY BY THE REPUBLIN ARMY IF HE QUIETLY. HOWEVER, THE IOLOGUE REF AND MAK A FAL STAND AN ISOLATED SAFE HOE, PERISHG FOR HIS OWN IOLOGY. ET TU, BTE?: IS EPLY TAKEN ABACK WHEN STEPANOV ATTEMPTS TO UP HIM, PECIALLY IF THE UP SUCCEEDS. FOIL: HE REPRENTS A NTRAST TO THE FATHER, ALEXANR MEN THE FAR EAST OF SIBERIA, HIS FELLOW YOUNG, IALISTIC ANARCHIST REVOLUTNARY AND BELIEVER HUMAN EQUALY AND DIGNY. THEY ARE BOTH ALSO ALLIED TO FORMER RSIAN ARMY OFFICERS WHO SUPPLY A LARGE PART OF THEIR ARY MCLE AND WHO EVENTUALLY BOTH ATTEMPT TO UP THEM AND SEIZE POWER, ALBIET FOR DIAMETRILLY-OPPOSED REASONS. BUT, WHILE HIS OPPOSE NUMBER IS A WELL-READ AND TRAED RELIG LEAR WHO UCH HIS REVOLUTN FAH-BASED TERMOLOGY, SIUDA IS BOOK DUMB AND FIERCELY OPPOSED TO ANY "STATIST" PRETENTNS AND SISTS ON PRENTG HIS REVOLUTN EXACTLY AS IS. WHILE ALEXANR MEN WILL ALWAYS AT LEAST TRY TO PRENT A CHANCE FOR FIVENS AND REMPTN TO HIS ENEMI, SIUDA'S REVOLUTN OFTEN FDS NECSARY TO TRY AND EXECUTE OR IMPRISON S RIVALS. ALSO, WHILE THE DIVE MANDATE'S ERNMENT IS STILL, SPE S SOCIAL AND POLIL EEDOMS, DRIVEN MORE BY MEN'S CHARISMATIC LEARSHIP THAN ANYTHG ELSE, SIUDA REF TO TAKE A MORE NTROLLG LEARSHIP ROLE AND BETRAY THE PRCIPL OF ANARCHISM: HE IS NOT EVEN FIRST-AMONG-EQUALS, BUT A TLY EQUAL MEMBER OF HIS SOCIETY. A GOD I AM NOT: SIUDA DO NOT LIKE WHEN PEOPLE REVERE HIM AS A Y. GONDOR CALLS FOR AID: IN HIS POWER STGGLE WH STEPANOV, SIUDA N LL UPON THE AID OF KILCHACHAKOV AND THE COMMUNAL ENOMIC DIRECTIVE BOARD, TARATUTA, OR VALENTEEV. GOOD IS NOT NICE: OF URSE, THE ABOVE DON'T MEAN SIUDA IS SOFT AND FIVG; HE HOLDS NOTHG BUT UTTER NTEMPT FOR MANY OF THE OTHER CENTRAL SIBERIAN UNIFIERS AND HAS NO QUALMS WH UTILIZG VLENCE TO UNE CENTRAL SIBERIA. DOWNPLAYED LATER PATCH; HIS EVENT UPON FEATG RURIK II, FOR STANCE, MAK CLEAR THAT HE HAS A CERTA AMOUNT OF SYMPATHY FOR THE MAD KG WHO, HIS ANGUISH, R NOTHG FOR HIS LOSS OF POWER AND EVERYTHG FOR HIS FAY, ONE OF WHOM, YURIY, THEY HAVE PARDONED UPON THE REQUT OF HIS PEOPLE, AND THE OTHER OF WHOM, LYDIA, WENT DOWN FIGHTG, RENDG RURIK'S HEART WH GRIEF. THE HEART: OUT OF ALL MEMBERS OF THE REVOLUTN AND THE BLACK ARMY, SIUDA IS THE MOST PASSNATE AND DITED TO THE IALS OF ANARCHISM, AND GENUELY DREAMS OF A TLY EQUAL WORLD WHERE NOBODY SUFFERS UNR THE OPPRSN OF THE STATE. HISTORIL IN-JOKE: SIUDA REAL LIFE A RATHER OBSCURE SOVIET LEFT-WG DISSINT, WHO WAS NOTABLE BEE HE HISTORILLY DRIFTED TOWARDS ANARCHISM LATER HIS LIFE. HOLLYWOOD ATHEIST: SUBVERTED. THOUGH IRRATED BY THE ADMIRATN OF THE FATHER AND HIS CHRISTIAN DOCTRE YAKUTSK, SIUDA LETS SLI BEE HE'S HAPPY TO SEE THE PEOPLE NTENT WH WHAT THEY BELIEVE . HUMBLE HERO: SIUDA DON'T NSIR HIMSELF SUPERR TO THE PEOPLE HE L OVER AND FEELS AWKWARD ABOUT RECEIVG A MASSIVE APPLSE AND CHEERS OF HIS NAME. I SHOULD WRE A BOOK ABOUT THIS: AFTER FALLY RNIFYG ALL OF RSIA, SIUDA CIS TO WRE A BOOK ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT SO THAT N SPIRE SIAR MOVEMENTS WORLDWI. AFTER SOME BRASTORMG, HE GIV THE RELATIVELY HUMBLE TLE OF COMRASHIP. JT LIKE ROB HOOD: IF SIUDA FOC ON WNG SUPPORT OM MAGADAN HIS POWER STGGLE WH STEPANOV, HE WILL STEAL THE RGO OF A WEALTHY AMERIN MERCHANT TO DISTRIBUTE TO THE POOR FAIRLY. LANGUAGE BARRIER: SUBVERTED. SIUDA HAS BASIC FLUENCY ENGLISH AND N MUNITE RELATIVELY WELL WH AN AMERIN SAILOR WHO ARRIV MAGADAN, LONG ENOUGH TO LURE HIM TO HIS TRAP AND LOOT HIS SHIP. LETHALLY STUPID: SIUDA N ATTEMPT TO CROWDSOURCE NUCLEAR WEAPONS VELOPMENT RATHER THAN "CENTRALIZG" WH SCIENTISTS, WHEREBY HE AIMS TO CREATE N OM THE LLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PEOPLE AT LS MOARY ST THAN IF WAS LEFT TO PROFSNALS. UNLIKE SOME OF THE OTHER REALLY GOOD IDEAS FEATURED THE MOD, THIS N ACTUALLY PAY OFF AGAST ALL ODDS, EVEN IF THE EXPLOSN ISN'T VERY POWERFUL AND THERE'S STILL ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT. ADDNALLY, THERE'S A NON-NEGLIGIBLE CHANCE WILL RULT TASTROPHE WHILE THE WEAPON IS BEG TRANSPORTED. THE MCCOY: ALL SIUDA WANTS IS TO HELP ALL RSIANS EQUALLY AND LET THEM LIVE A LIFE WHOUT FEAR OF ERNMENT REPRSN. FURTHER, SIUDA PRRIZ HUMAN EMOTN AS A GOOD THG, AS HE FEELS REASSURED UPON SEEG THE TOWN OF BIYSK SHOW A GREAT AL OF PASSN AND HUMOR WH EACH OTHER. MISPLACED RETRIBUTN: IN THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, SIUDA IAT THE RETURN HOME PROJECT SO THAT THE THOANDS OF JEWS AND OTHER REFUGE THAT RODZAEVSKY PORTED N RETURN TO THEIR HOM RODZAEVSK. DPE IALLY WNG GOOD PUBLICY AND MORE SUPPORT AGAST STEPANOV THE POWER STGGLE, THE SENTIMENTS DISAPPEAR WHEN A MYSTER FASCIST TERRORIST KILLS 30 PEOPLE, WHICH THE CIZENS BLAME SIUDA FOR LEADG THEM THERE TO BE SLGHTERED. MOOD WHIPLASH: IF STEPANOV WS THE POWER STGGLE, SIUDA'S CHEERFUL MOOD ABOUT REBUILDG THE FAR EAST IS SUDNLY TERPTED WHEN AN ASSASS STRIK AND STRANGL HIM TO ATH, ENDG THE ANARCHIST DREAM FOR GOOD. NICE GUY: SO LONG AS YOU AREN'T HARMG ANOTHER PERSON OR THREATENG TO OVERTURN HIS ANARCHIST EXPERIMENT, SIUDA IS A IENDLY MAN WHO ENJOYS SMALL TALK WH THE AVERAGE CIZEN AND WANTS EVERYONE TO BE TREATED FAIRLY. EVEN WHEN HE MS SOME MORALLY DUB ACTN, SIUDA FEELS A LTLE GUILTY ABOUT WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. NICE JOB BREAKG IT, HERO: AFTER SURVIVG STEPANOV'S ATTEMPTED UP, SIUDA TRI TO AVOID FUTURE AB OF POWER BY ENURAGG THE PEOPLE TO BEWARE OF STATISM RATHER THAN NCENTRATE MORE POWER THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY BY ALLOWG TO MONOR THE BLACK ARMY. HOWEVER, TARATUTA AND VALENTEEV WARN THAT WEAKENG THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY WILL ACTUALLY MAKE HARR FOR THEM TO STOP ATTEMPTED UPS OR ASSIST THE PEOPLE THEY'RE TRYG TO HELP. NON-ANSWER: SIUDA DON'T LIKE SABL BEE HE WAS AN THORY FIGURE, BUT HE DON'T WANT TO SAY THAT OPENLY TO THE POPULATN OF BURYATIA, SCE HE'S SO POPULAR THERE AND SIUDA NEEDS THEM TO UNTER THE GROWG FLUENCE OF STEPANOV. AS SUCH, SIUDA AVOIDS SPEAKG ON THE LEGACY OF SABL BY DANCG AROUND THE ISSUE DURG A PRS NFERENCE AND HE OUTRIGHT ABSTAS WHEN SOMEONE DIRECTLY ASKS WHAT HE THKS OF SABL. OLD SHAME: AFTER STEPANOV IS EXPOSED AS A TRAOR, SIUDA REGRETS EVER LISTENG TO THE ADVICE OF HIS OLD IEND AND THE SECURY COUNCIL, BEGGG TARATUTA FOR HER ADVICE ON WHAT TO DO WH THE ANIZATN. THE ONE THG I DON'T HATE ABOUT YOU: SIUDA IS OPPOSED TO STATIST ELEMENTS, BUT HE DO ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR EFULNS KEEPG IMPORTANT RERDS, WHICH HANDY WHEN LOOKG FOR POTENTIAL MATERIAL FOR THE FREE TERRORY'S TN CURRICULUM. PRAGMATIC HERO: THERE ARE MOMENTS WHERE SIUDA N PROMISE ON HIS PRCIPL AND GIVE TO STATISM BY EMPOWERG THE SECURY COUNCIL TO GET BETTER RULTS. WHILE PUNISHG RPT BLACK ARMY MEMBERS, SIUDA N PULL SOME STRGS FOR AN EARLY RELEASE OF TWO SOLDIERS EXCHANGE FOR THEIR NOT ON NUCLEAR ENERGY, WHICH WOULD BE EFUL TO HIS PROJECT BUILDG A NE. PYRRHIC VICTORY: IF SIUDA FOC ON LMG THE SUATN IRKUTSK, A MASSIVE PROTT NGREGAT ONT OF THE PRIDIUM, WHICH HE N BREAK UP THE CROWD BY LLG FOR ARMED SUPPORT. HOWEVER, BY THE TIME THE BLACK ARMY ARRIV, MOST OF THE PROTTORS HAVE GONE HOME AND, THOUGH THE SUATN ULD BE NSIRED NTAED, SIUDA FEELS HOLLOW OM HAVG NEARLY RORTED TO ARY MEANS TO SOLVE HIS PROBLEMS. RED ONI, BLUE ONI: SIUDA IS THE RED TO STEPANOV'S BLUE. WHILE STEPANOV IS RELLECTED AND PRAGMATIC, CHOOSG WHICHEVER OPTN IS MORE EFFICIENT THE LONG-N, SIUDA IS FIERY AND ENERGETIC, BEG EXTREMELY DITED TO HIS VISN OF AN ANARCHIST SOCIETY EVEN IF MEANS PUTTG THE FREE TERRORY AT A DISADVANTAGE. RULE OF SYMBOLISM: INVOKED THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, WHERE SIUDA WILL -NAZIFY AMUR BY RERDG THE STCTN OF THE NEON SWASTIKA HARB AND GARNER SUPPORT AGAST STEPANOV. SOCIALLY AWKWARD HERO: DOWNPLAYED. THOUGH HE IS CHEERFUL WH HIS IENDS AND HAS GOOD CHARISMA, HE TENDS TO BE FLTERED WHEN UGHT OFF GUARD A SOCIAL SUATN. WHEN VISG BIYSK FOR AN APPRAISAL, SIUDA HAS AN AWKWARD MEANOR WHEN THE BARKEEP STRIK A NVERSATN WH HIM OUT OF NOWHERE. STATG THE SIMPLE SOLUTN: SIUDA DISLIK THE PLITED AFFAIRS OF THE ENOMIC MISTRY AND S METICULO FOC ON TERMG WHICH MUN SHOULD RECEIVE MORE FUNDG. HE BELIEV THAT THE BETTER SOLUTN IS TO JT FUND EVERY MUNE EVENLY AND EVEN THKS THAT PRRIZG LARGER, URBAN MUN WILL HARM THE GROWTH OF SMALLER ON. STEALTH INSULT: IN THE FIRST NVENTN OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, SIUDA OPENS HIS SPEECH WH VERY BRIEF REMARKS, MENTG THAT STEPANOV WANTED THEM SO AND THAT 'S "WISE TO AVOID IRRATG HIM". SIUDA SHOOTS A KNOWG GLANCE TO AN UNAMED STEPANOV BEHD HIM AND GIV A SARSTIC THUMBS UP. THE TEETOTALER: SCE HIS FATHER WAS KILLED DUE TO HIS ALHOLISM, SIUDA IS APPREHENSIVE TOWARDS DRKG, ONLY DOG SO ON RARE, CELEBRATORY MOMENTS, LIKE RNIFYG CENTRAL SIBERIA. TOKEN GOOD TEAMMATE: WHILE MOST OF THE HIGHER-RANKG MEMBERS OF THE BLACK ARMY ARE MOSTLY FOR POWER AND NTROL ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, SIUDA IS GENUELY DITED TO HELPG CREATE A SOCIETY WHERE EVERYONE IS EQUAL. VICTORY THROUGH INTIMIDATN: SIUDA NCLUS THAT STATISTS ARE MOST AAID OF WHAT THE OPPRSED WILL DO AND ACQUIRG A NUCLEAR BOMB IS THE BT WAY TO STRIKE FEAR THEIR HEARTS, ALLOWG ANARCHISM TO RISE UP AND LIBERATE THE PEOPLE. VIO GAME CELTY PUNISHMENT: IF SIUDA CIS TO STABILIZE THE CHAOTIC SUATN OF IRKUTSK THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, HE N ROLVE THE MASS PROTTS BY EHER LLG ON THE BLACK ARMY OR NEGOTIATG WH THE PROTTORS. PICKG THE FORMER OPTN ENDS UP BACKFIRG ON SIUDA BEE THE PROTT ALREADY DISSIPAT BY THE TIME THEY ARRIVE AND HE BE DISDAED AS A HYPOCRE. THE RRECT OPTN IS THE SEND ONE AND G TO AN AGREEMENT WH THE REPRENTATIV THAT THEY N NTROL THE ENOMIC POLICI OF THEIR CY. WHAT'S UP, KG DU?: EVER HUMBLE, SIUDA IS A PERSONABLE LEAR WHO IS VERY OPEN WH HIS IENDS AND EVEN ANIZ A TOUR AROUND THE FREE TERRORY THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE SO HE N PERSONALLY HEAR WHAT THE PEOPLE THK OF HIS WORK. WON THE WAR, LOST THE PEACE: CONTRARY TO HIS EXPECTATNS, SIUDA'S STGGL DON'T GET ANY EASIER THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE. BY THIS TIME, STEPANOV REVEALS HIS TE LORS AS A TRAOR AND BEGS ACTIVELY WORKG AGAST SIUDA, AS THE TWO RACE TO GARNER SUPPORT THEIR NEWLY ACQUIRED TERRORI. MEANWHILE, SIUDA GO TO RODZAEVSK TO UNDO THE DAMAGE LEFT BY THE LATE RODZAEVSKY, WHICH THE FIVE DAY PROJECT GETS EXTEND WHEN THE "GHOST OF RODZAEVSKY" REVEALS HIMSELF A TERRORIST ATTACK AND THE WHOLE SUATN GETS EVEN WORSE WHEN UNRT BREAKS OUT IRKUTSK. WORTHY OPPONENT: EVEN HIS WORST ENEMI N GIVE HIM CRED FOR BEG A STUBBORN MAN WHO ALWAYS STICKS TO HIS PRCIPL. YOUNG AND CHARGE: SIUDA, THE IOLOGIL LEAR OF AN ANARCHIST REVOLUTN CENTRAL SIBERIA, IS JT 25 AT THE START OF THE GAME. SCE THE SIBERIAN FREE TERRORY FORMED A FEW YEARS AGO, HE WAS EVEN YOUNGER WHEN HE FIRST BEME AN ANARCHIST REVOLUTNARY LEAR.IVAN STEPANOVPORTRA OF THE SIBERIAN SECURY COUNCIL  ROLE: HEAD OF STATE (SECURY COUNCIL UP), DIRECTOR OF STATE ADMISTRATNNOTE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT (SECURY COUNCIL BET)PARTY: SIBIRSKAYA CHERNAYA ARMIYANOTE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMYIOLOGY: VANGUARD ANARCHISMNOTE DPOTISMIN-GAME DCRIPTN OF THE SIBERIAN SECURY COUNCIL CLICK TO SHOW SEEN AS THE SHOCK TO JUMP START THE STILL HEART OF MOTHER ANARCHY, THE ASCENSN OF THE SECURY COUNCIL AS THE CIDG FORCE SIBERIAN POLICS ME AS A SHOCK TO MANY, AND YET SO FEW. WHILE TERNATNAL OBSERVERS PONR THE IMPLITNS OF A SILED GENERAL ASSEMBLY, THOSE UNR THE EMPOWERED BLACK ARMY HAVE A MORE DIFFICULT NUNDM AHEAD OF THEM, THE QUTN IF THEY N STILL LL THEMSELV EE. COMPRISED OF THE MOST FLUENTIAL AND TALENTED OFFICERS CENTRAL SIBERIA HAS TO OFFER, THE FREE TERRORY HAS ALTERED S URSE AWAY OM THE IAL GOAL. WHAT ONCE WAS A UNED STGGLE BETWEEN THOSE WHO HAD SEEN PA, WHO HAD LIVED UNR THE BOOT OF TYRANNY THEIR WHOLE LIV, AGAST THE OPPRSIVE SYSTEM THAT HAS HNTED MANKD SCE TIME ETERNAL, HAS BEEN MOLD, CHANGED, FORMED BY THE SCHEMG OF GENERAL IVAN STEPANOV. STEPANOV'S RISE TO PROMENCE ME DURG THE LLAPSE OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC. AS MANR OF A DIVISN TASKED WH LEADG THE CHARGE TO THE HEART OF YAGODA'S STATE, THE GENERAL SAW THE FUTILY OF MARCHG MORE RSIANS TO KILL MORE RSIANS AT THE BEHT OF SUS A POL. IN AN IMPROMPTU AL WH POWERFUL ORATOR AND UNN LEAR YURI GALANSKOV, STEPANOV RAILED HIS DIVISN AGAST TYRANNY, AGAST THORY, WHILE GALANSKOV SECURED THE MOVEMENT'S POPULAR SUPPORT. IT HAS BEEN A LONG CLIMB TO THE TOP FOR IVAN STEPANOV, BUT WH THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY RENRED POWERLS, ALL THAT'S LEFT FOR THE GENERAL IS TO DO WHAT HE HAS ALWAYS DONE, PUT ON A GOOD SHOW.-->THE FOUNR OF THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY WH SIUDA, GENERAL IVAN GEIEVICH STEPANOV FORMERLY SERVED WH THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, AND SWORE ALLEGIANCE TO ANARCHISM AFTER GROWG SICK OF THE BTAL SIBERIAN WAR; HIS ARY EXPERIENCE PROVED CCIAL TO THE REVOLUTN'S SUCCS. THOUGH A LOYAL ANARCHIST, STEPANOV HAS REGULAR IOLOGIL DISAGREEMENTS WH SIUDA, AS HE EMPHASIZ ON TERRORIAL SECURY OVER REVOLUTNARY ZEAL. REGARDLS, STEPANOV REMAS AN IMPORTANT AND DISTGUISHED MEMBER OF THE FREE TERRORY, WHO PLAYS A KEY ROLE THE BLACK ARMY'S DAILY MANAGEMENT. ACCINTAL MISNAMG: HE RARELY GETS THE NAME OF HIS PROSTUT RRECTLY. EVEN WHEN ONE OF THEM RRECTS HIS MISNAMG, HE DON'T LISTEN. BOOK DUMB: HE ADMS TO NOT BEG GOOD AT MATH AND OFTEN LEGAT HIS ENOMIC RPONSIBILI AS LEAR TO KILCHICHAKOV. BRAS AND BRAWN: STEPANOV IS THE BRAS, HANDLG THE TRAG AND LOGISTICS OF THE BLACK ARMY AND OPTIMIZG TO S HIGHT EFFICIENCY, AS WELL AS REFULLY PLOTTG S SLOW TAKEOVER OF THE EE TERRORI SO HE AND THE BLACK ARMY N STAGE A UP AGAST SIUDA. BENEATH THE MASK: STEPANOV PRENTS HIMSELF AS A OL, LCULATG MAN WHO ULD FIGURE HIS WAY OUT OF ANY SUATN. HIS SECRET GREATT FEAR IS BEG CISIVE AND, PRIVATE, THAT PART OF HIM STILL OUT EVERY SO OFTEN, SUCH AS WHEN HE IS TERNALLY NFLICTED OVER THE RIGHT TIME TO ASSASSATE SIUDA. BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG: IN PUBLIC, AFTER POSG SIUDA, STEPANOV PRENTS HIMSELF AS A STRONGMAN DICTATOR WHO NOHELS WANTS TO PROTECT AND HELP HIS PEOPLE. IN PRIVATE, STEPANOV QUIETLY MOCKS THEM AS IMPOVERISHED IDTS AND SPECIFILLY SMUGGL LUXURI OM OTHER UNTRI BEE HE DON'T TST HIS PEOPLE TO PRODUCE THE SAME GOOD OF SIAR QUALY. "BLACKMAIL" IS SUCH AN UGLY WORD: TO ENSURE KILCHICHAKOV'S LOYALTY TO HIS NEW REGIME, STEPANOV THREATENS TO EXPOSE HIS RPTN IF HE STEPS OUT OF LE. WHEN KILCHACHAKOV RHETORILLY QUIR IF 'S BLACKMAIL, STEPANOV RPONDS THAT ISN'T; 'S "BS". BLATANT LI: AFTER HE OVERTHROWS SIUDA, STEPANOV SENDS OUT A PAMPHLET TO EVERY CIZEN, NOUNCG SIUDA AS A TYRANT AND TRAOR WHO PILLAGED THE LAND AND RAPED WOMEN AND CHILDREN. THERE ARE FEW OTHER LI THE MOD THAT ARE AS ABSURD OR OBVLY UNTE AS THE. THE CHSMASTER: STEPANOV HAS, FOR PRUMABLY QUE A WHILE, BEEN VERTLY UNRMG SIUDA'S GOALS BY SECRETLY ARRANGG SO THE BLACK ARMY SLOWLY, BUT STEADILY, WORMS S WAY TO NTROLLG MORE AND MORE PARTS OF THE SIBERIAN SOVIET'S ADMISTRATN, SO THAT THE BLACK ARMY'S FLUENCE GROWS LARGE ENOUGH TO PAVE WAY FOR HIM TO UP THE UNCIL AND SEIZE POWER FOR HIMSELF AND HIS ARMY, PUTTG AN END TO SIBERIAN ANARCHISM FOR GOOD. CRAZY ENOUGH TO WORK: IF STEPANOV TRI TO BUILD HIS FLUENCE YAKUTSK THE POWER STGGLE, HE'LL NOUNCE SIUDA AS AN EXTREME ATHEIST AND EXAGGERATE HIS HATRED FOR GOD, WHICH IS SOMETHG HE DON'T EXPECT TO WORK AT ALL. SURPRISGLY, DO, SCE THE PEOPLE ARE GULLIBLE ENOUGH TO LISTEN TO HIM. DIRTY OLD MAN: AS THE NEW DICTATOR OF THE UNTRY, STEPANOV HIS WEALTH TO HIRE A HAREM OF PROSTUT AND MAK PERVERTED REQUTS FOR THEM TO WEAR SKIMPY ATTIRE. ENEMY ME: STEPANOV ALLI HIMSELF WH RODZAEVSKY'S SURVIVG BLACKSHIRTS THE FAR EAST TO OVERTHROW THEIR MUTUAL ENEMY, SIUDA, EXCHANGE FOR MAKG THEM ERNORS OF AMUR. ET TU, BTE?: STEPANOV IS MORE THAN WILLG TO BETRAY SIUDA, AND THKS NOTHG OF . NEEDLS TO SAY, SIUDA DO NOT TAKE VERY WELL. EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: HE'S A B APPREHENSIVE ABOUT MISHUERNKO'S RABIDLY HAWKISH ATTU, SCRIBG HIM AS A "MADMAN". IN THE POWER STGGLE AGAST SIUDA, STEPANOV ALLI HIMSELF WH ONE OF RODZAEVSKY'S OLD SUPPORTERS, BUT BE RELUCTANT TO DO SO WHEN HE'S REVEALED TO BE AN ECCENTRIC HERM WHO RAMBL AND ACTS DISTURBGLY IENDLY TO HIS GUT. FACE DEATH WH DIGNY: AFTER BREAKG DOWN TO AN UNDIGNIFIED MS AFTER HIS ATTEMPTED POSN OF SIUDA FAILS, STEPANOV REPOS HIMSELF THE BT HE N WHEN SE AN ANGRY MOB NGREGATE AROUND HIS RINCE, REALIZG THAT THERE'S NO PE AND OPENG THE DOOR TO HASTEN HIS EVABLE MISE. FAT BASTARD: STEPANOV IS OVERWEIGHT AND A TREACHERO IEND TO SIUDA.FOIL: STEPANOV'S MOST OBV UNTERPART IS PAVEL SUDOPLATOV, THE FORMER NKVD OFFICER WHO JOS ALEXANR MEN'S DIVE MANDATE. BOTH MEN ARE THE CYNIL, ARISTIC, OLR UNTERPARTS TO IALISTIC YOUNG REVOLUTNARI WHO PROVI MUCH-NEED ARY EXPERTISE AND MATERIAL TO THEIR NEWLY-MTED IENDS, AND THEY BOTH OFFER TEMPTATNS OF MORE ARY POWER EXCHANGE FOR SACRIFICG PRCIPL. THEY ARE ALSO BOTH PLOTTG UPS, THOUGH FOR WILDLY DIFFERENT REASONS; STEPANOV NEVER RED FOR SIUDA AS A PERSON OR HIS ANARCHIST IALS GENERAL AND ONLY SEEKS TO SEIZE POWER FOR HIS OWN PERSONAL GA, WHILE SUDOPLATOV IS A GENUE WELL-INTENTNED EXTREMIST WHO VIEWS HIS UP AS NECSARILY EVIL TO MAKE THE DIVE MANDATE STRONG ENOUGH TO SURVIVE AND FEAT S RIVALS AND STILL ON SOME LEVEL SE ALEXANR MEN AS A IEND. STEPANOV SE SIUDA AS EXPENDABLE AND PLOTS TO KILL HIM DURG HIS UP, WHILE SUDOPLATOV TRI TO TAKE MEN ALIVE; HIS ATH IS A TERRIBLE ACCINT. EVEN THEIR RULTS ARE DIFFERENT; IF STEPANOV FAILS HIS UP HE PERISH WHILE SUCCS ULD POTENTIALLY SET HIM UP TO UNIFY RSIA UNR HIS STRONGMAN LEARSHIP, WHILE SUDOPLATOV'S UP IS DOOMED TO FAILURE AND SHATTERS THE DIVE MANDATE TO VAR SUCCSOR-STAT, AND HE SUCCEEDS ONLY IF HE NEVER TRI THE FIRST PLACE.--> FRAME-UP: WHEN HIS POTENTIAL ASSASSATN ATTEMPT AGAST VALENTEEV FAILS, STEPANOV HAS TO SALVAGE THE SUATN BY KILLG A RANDOM IOLOGUE OM BURYATIA AND AMG A SUICI NOTE THAT THEY WERE RPONSIBLE FOR THE CLOSE MURR. A GOD AM I: THOUGH HE DON'T OUTRIGHT SAY HIS CEPTIVE PATH, STEPANOV DO IMPLY TO THE PEOPLE THAT THEY SHOULD VIEW HIM AS SUCH. AT THE END OF ONE OF HIS SPEECH, HE SPEAKS ABOUT THE DANGERS OF GODLS ANARCHY, URG THE PEOPLE TO HAVE FAH A STRONGMAN LIKE HIM, AND LLS HIS RSIA "THE NEW BASTN OF CIVILIZATN SIBERIA."A NEW Y TAK HOLD. GLORY HOUND: AS REVEALED THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, STEPANOV WANTS TO LE RSIA SOLELY BEE HE WANTS THE GLORY AND REGNN OF SUCH. IF HE OVERTHROWS SIUDA, STEPANOV IS PRIFUL ENOUGH TO FORCE THE MUNY LEARS TO PUBLICLY REGNIZE HIM, AT GUNPOT, AS A KD LEAR LEADG A EE RSIA. HISTORIL VILLA UPGRA: THE REAL STEPANOV WAS AN EXTREMELY MOR RSIAN GENERAL WHO EARNED A HERO OF THE SOVIET UNN AWARD BUT OTHERWISE HAD NOTHG SPECIAL TO HIS NAME (THE ONLY REASON HE'S CHOSEN TO BE MA TO A NOTABLE CHARACTER IS LIKELY BEE HE IS OM CENTRAL SIBERIA). IN TNO HE N UP AN IALISTIC ANARCHIST SOVIET AND STUTE AN OPPRSIVE ARY DICTATORSHIP. IMPLIED DEATH THREAT: IF STEPANOV BE AN OPEN DICTATOR, HE DISSOLV THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY UNR THE PRETENSE OF BEG TOO PETENT TO PROPERLY N THE UNTRY AND TELLS S MEMBERS THAT RISTANCE WOULD BE "ADVISABLE". IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: FET ANY OUTWARD CLARATN OF LOYALTY TO ANARCHISM OR THE PEOPLE OM HIM. AT THE END OF THE DAY, STEPANOV REALLY R FOR POWER AND HE WANTS TO HIJACK SIUDA'S ANARCHIST MOVEMENT JT SO THAT HE N LE RSIA ALONE. JO OR DIE: WHILE GARNERG SUPPORT TO OVERTHROW SIUDA THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, STEPANOV GIV AN OFFER TO YAGODA'S SURVIVG NKVD OFFICERS TO JO HIS SI OR BE EXECUTED. LONG GAME: AFTER TAKG OVER THE FREE TERRORY, STEPANOV N TEMPORARILY HOLD OFF ON PROCLAIMG A DICTATORSHIP THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH AND WORK THROUGH MORE SUBTLE, REFUL MEANS TO CEMENT HIS POWER, SILG THE MUN AND SETTG UP SYSTEMS TO LAY THE GROUNDWORK FOR HIS REGIME WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT. LOOPHOLE ABE: TO KEEP UP THE FA OF MOCRACY, STEPANOV N NTUE ANIZG NGRSNAL MEETGS WH THE LEARS OF THE FREE TERRORY, BUT HE TAK SO LONG TO ACTUALLY START THEM THAT MOST GET UP AND LEAVE, SO THAT HE N PASS HIS LAWS WH LTLE TERFERENCE. MEET THE NEW BOSS: WHEN AN OBSERVANT DIVIDUAL EXAM A PROPAGANDA POSTER OF SEMYON BUDYONNY BEG KILLED BY SIUDA AND A BLACK ARMY CHARGE, HE REALIZ THAT THE POSTER IS NOT GLORIFYG SIUDA, BUT THE BLACK ARMY, AND REGNIZ STEPANOV AS LTLE DIFFERENT THAN BHAR AND HIS ATTEMPTS TO PROPAGANDIZE TO THE MASS A SIAR MANNER. MILARY COUP: WHEN THE FREE TERRORY ACHIEV SUPERREGNAL UNIFITN (CENTRAL SIBERIA PL THE FAR EAST), STEPANOV WILL STAGE A UP. IF THE BLACK ARMY HAS GROWN TOO POWERFUL, THE UP WILL SUCCEED, PUTTG AN END TO ANARCHISM AND TURNG THE FREE TERRORY TO AN OPPRSIVE ARY DICTATORSHIP THAT EXTORTS S OWN PEOPLE'S WEALTH TO FUNNEL TO THE BLACK ARMY GENERALS', LEADG TO WISPREAD POVERTY AND A BLATANT BETRAYAL OF ANARCHIST VALU. IF THE BLACK ARMY HASN'T GROWN TOO POWERFUL, THE UP WILL FAIL AND STEPANOV WILL BE KILLED BY AN ANGRY MOB AS HE SILENTLY BEGS THE SOLDIERS FOR HELP THAT NEVER . NECSARILY EVIL: THOUGH HE DON'T BELIEVE SIUDA'S ANARCHIST DREAM, HIS MANPOWER AND ARY EXPERIENCE WAS NEED TO RVE OUT A STATELET FOR THE FREE TERRORY, PECIALLY WHEN THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC SENT AN ARMY TO CSH THEM. NEPOTISM: IN AN EARLY EVENT, IVAN REMENDS HIS SON FOR PROMOTN SPE A PLETELY UNREMARKABLE SERVICE RERD. THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN SEEMS AT FIRST BLH; DITED STEPANOV IS STAFFG THE BLACK ARMY WH THOSE WHO'RE PERSONALLY LOYAL TO HIM FIRST AND PETENT SEND. NICE JOB FIXG IT, VILLA: IF HIS AND THE BLACK ARMY'S PLANNED UP FAILS, STEPANOV ONLY MANAG TO ENSURE THAT PYOTR SIUDA REMAS A MTED ANARCHIST REVOLUTNARY. SIUDA IS NOT ONLY FURTHER ENTRENCHED HIS POSN, BUT RADILIZ EVEN MORE TO OPPOSG CENTRALIZED THORY, TO WHICH HIS UNCERTATI LIE NO LONGER ON WHETHER TO CENTRALIZE OR -CENTRALIZE, BUT ON HOW MUCH HE SHOULD -CENTRALIZE. ADDNALLY, LEADS TO SIUDA PLETELY PURGG THE BLACK ARMY TO ENSURE THEY'LL NEVER HAVE THE CHANCE TO DO SUCH A THG AGA. NO SYMPATHY: WHEN THE PEOPLE PROTT THEIR POLIL EEDOMS BEG STRIPPED BY THE BLACK ARMY, STEPANOV JT THKS THAT THEY NEED TO TOUGHEN UP AND NTRIBUTE MORE TO THE SUPPOSED MON GOOD. NOT THIS FOR YOUR REVOLUTN: STEPANOV ALREADY MAK OBV OM THE BEGNG THAT HE DON'T PARTICULARLY UNRSTAND VERY MUCH ABOUT REVOLUTNARY ANARCHISM AND IS A B BEMED AT SIUDA'S FIREBRAND ANTICS, BUT ULTIMATELY STILL STICKS WH HIM TO HELP GUI AND PROTECT HIS FELLOW IEND AND THE SOCIETY HE HELPED BUILD. THEN HE REVEALS HE DIDN'T RE ABOUT SIUDA EHER, AS HE IS MORE THAN HAPPY TO UP HIM AND THE SIBERIAN SOVIET AND, IF SUCCSFUL, TABLISH A SPOTIC DICTATORSHIP CENTERED AROUND HIMSELF, ERODG ANY AND ALL GENUE ANARCHISTIC VALU OM THE FREE TERRORY. NOT-SO-WELL-INTENTNED EXTREMIST: WHEN HE TAK OVER RSIA FOLLOWG SIUDA'S ASSASSATN, STEPANOV CLAIMS THAT HE AND THE BLACK ARMY ARE CENTRALIZG MORE POWER TO THEMSELV SO THAT THEY N BETTER PROTECT THE PEOPLE, EVEN WHEN 'S OBV OM THE GET-GO THAT HE'S JT DOG BEE HE CRAV POWER. OLD SOLDIER: A SKILLED VETERAN OM THE OLD CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC. OPEN SECRET: THIS TROPE IS SAID VERBATIM ONE OF HIS FOC, WHERE STEPANOV DROPS ANY PRETEXT OF HIM BEG AN ANARCHIST AND TURNG THE UNTRY TO A BLATANT DICTATORSHIP. OPPORTUNISTIC BASTARD: STEPANOV ROSE UP THE RANKS OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC PRECISELY BEE OF HIS OPPORTUNISM. HE DON'T RE MUCH FOR IOLOGY AND WILL SI WH ANYONE, CLUDG SIUDA, SO LONG AS OPENS A DOOR TO MORE POWER. ORR IS NOT GOOD: STEPANOV, AS THE NEW LER OF RSIA, N SEND THE ARMY TO FORCIBLY MANDATE HUMAN RIGHTS ALL MUN AND REQUIRE EVERY MUNAL UNCIL TO HAVE A BLACK ARMY LIAISON FOR THE SAKE OF ORR. HOWEVER, THIS IS PORTRAYED AS A SIGN OF THE UNTRY FALLG STEEPER TO DICTATORSHIP RATHER THAN A GOOD THG. PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF TYRANNY: THE SIBERIAN FREE TERRORY KEEPS S NAME EVEN AFTER STEPANOV'S UP TURNS TO A ARY DICTATORSHIP. PET THE DOG: WHEN A HOMOSEXUAL MAN CLAIMS THAT HE AND HIS PARTNER WERE HARASSED BY A HOMOPHOBIC GROCER, STEPANOV IS DISGTED AND WANTS TO TERVENE TO PREVENT FURTHER ACTS OF SUCH DISCRIMATN. STEPANOV IS GREATLY PLEASED BY MISHURENKO AND VALENTEEV'S DOCUMENT ON NEW ARY STRATEGI, BEG ONE OF THE FEW TIM HE EVER S AND NGRATULAT THE TWO. PRAGMATIC HERO: WHEREAS SIUDA TENDS TO STRIVE FOR OPTNS THAT HELP FREE TERRORY GET CLOSER TO A TE ANARCHIST SOCIETY EVEN IF MEANS SUFFERG OM DISADVANTAG, STEPANOV PREFERS THOSE THAT WILL BE OF GREATT HELP TO THE MUN AND THE BLACK ARMY THE LONG N, EVEN IF MEANS VIATG OM ORTHODOX ANARCHISM AND HAVG TO RORT TO SOME D THORARIANISM. THAT'S BEE STEPANOV NEVER ACTUALLY BELIEVED ANARCHISM, AND HIS "PRAGMATISM" WAS SIMPLY AN EXCE TO EMPOWER THE BLACK ARMY AND HAVE THEM SEIZE NTROL. THAT SAID, EVEN AFTERWARDS HE KEEPS UP MANY SOCIALLY-PROGRSIVE POLICI BEE HE LIK BEG POPULAR AND RPECTED, AND DON'T ST HIM ANYTHG TO, SAY, KEEP UP LGBTQ PROTECTNS. PRAGMATIC VILLAY: TO BUILD SUPPORT FOR A UP AGAST SIUDA, STEPANOV LLS FOR A LOCKDOWN TOMSK TO HOLD THE CY DOWN WHILE HE WORKS ON BUILDG SUPPORT THE FAR EAST. WHEN THE LOCKDOWN PROV UNPOPULAR, STEPANOV N BEGDGGLY LL OFF TO AVOID FURTHER TROUBLE. DPE HAVG MULTIPLE OPPORTUNI TO KILL SIUDA, STEPANOV REAED EACH TIME, NOT OUT OF AFFECTN, BUT OUT OF FEAR THAT MATTERS WOULD BACKFIRE ON HIM, IF PEOPLE DISVERED THAT HE MURRED THEIR BELOVED LEAR. HE MAY FALLY WORK UP THE NERVE THE EARLY SUPERREGNAL STAGE, SENDG AN ASSASS AFTER SIUDA THE FAR EAST, WHILE HE STAYS CENTRAL SIBERIA TO E AS AN ALIBI. WHEN PROTTS FLARE UP AGAST THE BLACK ARMY'S AB, STEPANOV REAS OM UNLEASHG THE ARY ON THEM AND CIS TO WA THEM OUT BEE OPENG FIRE WOULD MAKE HIS JUNTA EVEN MORE UNPOPULAR. WHILE EXTRACTG URANIUM THE FAR EAST, STEPANOV N OFFER THE POWS A CHANCE OF RELEASE IF THEY PCH FOR HIS PLAN, GIVG THEM MORE MOTIVATN TO WORK HARR THE M. PROPAGANDA MACHE: IN HIS CEPTIVE PATH, STEPANOV WILL RAISE NATNAL PRI FOR THE BLACK ARMY BY PRODUCG A SERI OF FILMS GLORIFYG THEIR EXPLOS AND PRTG PROPAGANDA LEAFLETS HIS FAVOR. RED ONI, BLUE ONI: THE LM, RELLECTED, LCULATG BLUE TO SIUDA'S ENERGETIC, FIERY AND IMPULSIVE RED. ROG SPEECH: SUBVERTED HIS ATTEMPTS TO GET SUPPORT OM BURYATIA AND OVERTHROW SIUDA. DPE HIS BT EFFORTS LIVERG A PASSNATE SPEECH, THE DIENCE ACTS EXTREMELY LD TO THE SPEAKER AND DON'T GIVE A SGLE CLAP WHEN HE FISH, WHICH EMBARASS STEPANOV. THE ONLY REASON EVEN RAIS HIS FLUENCE THE REGN IS BEE STEPANOV REACHED AND GOT TO SPEAK BURYATIA BEFORE SIUDA ULD. RULE OF SYMBOLISM: IF THE DTRIAL SECURY COUNCIL IS SET UP, THE CONGRS OF KANSK BE SIGNED A WAY THAT THE SIX SEATS OF THE COUNCIL LOOK DOWN ON THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, REPRENTG THEIR GROWG FLUENCE. THE SYMBOLISM WASN'T EVEN TENTNAL ON STEPANOV'S PART, BUT HE ROLLS WH . SHAME IF SOMETHG HAPPENED: WHEN KILCHICHAKOV IS UNMOVED BY HIS ARGUMENT FOR AN ANTI-POVERTY BILL, STEPANOV SUALLY MENTS HOW BADLY THE WHOLE SCENAR WOULD REFLECT ON HIM, IF NEWS BROKE OUT OF HIM REJECTG THE ROLUTN, POTENTIALLY SWAYG KILCHICHAKOV TO ACCEPT . SIMPLE SRE OF SADNS: WHEN STEPANOV'S SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY UNIFI RSIA, THE ACPANYG SUPEREVENT'S MIC STARTS WH MOTHER ANARCHY LOV HER SONS BUT SWCH MID-WAY TO GLOOMY SUNDAY, ACPANIED WH SOUNDS OF PEOPLE EATG A RTRANT. THIS IS A METAPHOR FOR HOW STEPANOV KILLS THE ANARCHIST DREAM AND TURNS THE FREE TERRORY TO A JUNTA OF SELF-SERVG GENERALS WHO LIVE THE UPPER CLASS LIFE. TAKG UP THE MANTLE: SUBVERTED STEPANOV'S SUPERREGNAL PATH. HE N CLAIM TO BE THE NEW CHAMPN OF THE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT AFTER SIUDA'S ATH, BUT 'S ONLY A PROPAGANDA MOVE TO DISGUISE HIS GRADATN OF THE UNTRY TO A DICTATORSHIP. ALTERNATIVELY, STEPANOV N DROP THE PRETENSE ENTIRELY AND ADVERTISE THAT HE'S REVIVG THE STATE THE WAKE OF SIUDA'S ATH. TTOLOGIL TEMPLAR: IN HIS MOV AGAST SIUDA AND AFTER TAKG OVER THE BLACK ARMY, STEPANOV BEGS HANDG OUT MEDALS AND NGRATULATNS TO SOLDIERS WHO SHOW EXCELLENT SERVICE AND LOYALTY TO HIS ORRS, EVEN IF MEANS HARMG OR KILLG NOCENT PEOPLE. TYRANT TAK THE HELM: IF STEPANOV WS THE POWER STGGLE AGAST SIUDA, HE WILL BEG RPTG THE UNTRY TO AN OPPRSIVE ARY JUNTA THAT BE THE EXACT ANTHIS TO WHAT SIUDA FOUGHT AGAST. IT PECIALLY RGS TE HIS "OPEN SECRET" PATH, WHERE HE RORTS TO EVEN MORE ANTI-MOCRATIC MOV, LIKE DISSOLVG THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. THE UNFETTERED: STEPANOV DON'T THK MUCH OF THE FACT THAT HIS POLICY PROPOSALS TEND TO N SOMEWHAT AGAST ANARCHIST PRCIPL, POTG OUT THAT THEY TEND TO BE EASIER TO IMPLEMENT AND MORE BENEFICIAL TO THE FREE TERRORI THE LONG N THAN STICKG TO THE MORE ANARCHIST POLICI. HE ALSO THKS VERY LTLE OF IF HE SUCCSFULLY OVERTHROWS HIS OLD IEND PYOTR SIUDA AND THE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST COUNCIL, AND NTU TO NOT THK MUCH OF AS HE STROYS THE ANARCHIST SYSTEM AND TURNS TO AN OPPRSIVE DICTATORSHIP. IF STEPANOV'S UP SUCCEEDS, HE N EHER PRETEND THAT HIS DICTATORSHIP IS "TE" ANARCHISM AND CLAIM THAT SIUDA WAS A UNTERREVOLUTNARY AND REVISNIST TRAOR, OR JT FLAT-OUT DROP THE ACT AND OPENLY ADM HE'S THE DICTATOR OF SIBERIA NOW AND THAT THE BLACK ARMY'S WORD IS THE LAW. UNWANTED ASSISTANCE: STEPANOV N GIVE HANDOUTS TO THE PEOPLE AS A SMALL PH TO ENFORCE THEIR HAPPS, BUT THE FOOD IS HALF-ROTTEN, THE K IS TASTELS, AND THE CIGARETT ARE AWFUL. AS A RULT, EVERYONE JT FEELS MORE MISERABLE. IN THE SUPPOSED TERT OF EVERYONE, STEPANOV N MANDATE EVERY MUNY UNCIL TO HAVE AT LEAST ONE BLACK ARMY REPRENTATIVE TO ENSURE EVERY PARTI' TERTS ARE SATISFIED, BUT THE PRENCE OF THE LIAISONS IS NOT ONLY POTLS, BUT DOWNRIGHT TRIMENTAL WHEN THEY STEAL RANDOM GOODS OM THE PEOPLE WHOUT FEAR OF REPERCSN. VILLA HAS A POT: WHEN STEVE ARRIV TO THE SBA'S TERRORY, 'S ACTUALLY STEPANOV WHO'S THE MORE REASONABLE ONE, ATTEMPTG TO EASE SIUDA'S PARANOIA THAT THE VISOR IS JT SOME RANDOM LLEGE STUNT TRAVELG FOR ADVENTURE'S SAKE AND NOT A CIA OPERATIVE TRYG TO SABOTAGE THEIR MOVEMENT. VILLAO BREAKDOWN: IF HE LOS THE POWER STGGLE TO SIUDA, STEPANOV WILL BE AT A LOSS FOR WORDS, BREAKG DOWN TO A BLUBBERG MS AND SHAKG FEAR OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT. WALKG SPOILER: STEPANOV IS VERY CLOSELY TIED TO THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY'S WHAM EPISO. AS SUCH, 'S NEAR IMPOSSIBLE TO TALK ABOUT HIM TAIL WHOUT SPOILG THE TWIST. WE HAVE RERV: IN HIS DICTATORSHIP, STEPANOV N CUT MOST FUNDG TO THE TN SYSTEM AND REC AS MANY PEOPLE AS HE N TO THE ARY, ADOPTG A STRATEGY OF THROWG AS MANY MEN AS POSSIBLE AT THE ENEMY UNTIL THEY'RE OVERWHELMED. WICKED CULTURED: STEPANOV ENJOYS HIS NEWFOUND POWER BY HOSTG DNER PARTI WHERE HE N ENJOY SMUGGLED WE AND LISTEN TO MIC ON HIS RERD PLAYER. WRTEN BY THE WNERS: IF HE OVERTHROWS SIUDA AND TAK A SUBTLE APPROACH TO CEMENTG HIS POWER, STEPANOV WILL ALTER THE TN SYSTEM TO PORTRAY SIUDA AS A DANGERO RADIL AND HIMSELF AS A HEROIC LEAR. YOU CANNOT KILL AN IA: EVEN IF STEPANOV'S UP FAILS AND RULTS HIS ATH, HIS IOLOGY AND CLOSET SUPPORTERS WILL STILL SURVIVE THE BLACK ARMY AND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY MT REFORM THE ANIZATN TO ENSURE THEY AREN'T THREATENED BY THEM AGA.MIKHAIL KILCHICHAKOVROLE: DIRECTOR OF STATE DEVELOPMENTNOTE ENOMY MISTER (SIBERIAN SOVIET AND SECURY COUNCIL BET)PARTY: SIBIRSKY ANARKHICHKY SOVETNOTE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST COUNCILIOLOGY: ANARCHO-COMMUNISMNOTE SOCIALISM ACHILL' HEEL: HE'S GOOD AT WORKG WH NUMBERS, BUT TERRIBLE AT PREDICTNS AND OFTEN UGHT FLATFOOTED WHENEVER MATTERS DON'T GO THE WAY HE PLANNED. ARMOR-PIERCG QUTN: WHILE HAVG DNER WH HIS WIFE, THEY FONDLY REMISCE OVER BHAR'S VIS TO NOVOSIBIRSK AND RELL THE SCTY HE'S GOTTEN OM THE AVERAGE WORKER FOR HIS DISASTRO ENOMIC POLICI. THE MOMENT IS TERPTED WHEN KILCHICHAKOV ASKS HIS WIFE IF THE SAME LEGACY WILL BEFALL HIM WHEN HE DI, WHICH SHE'S UNABLE TO ANSWER AND THEY SPEND THE RT OF THEIR MEAL SILENCE. BTAL HONTY: DURG A BATE WH STEPANOV ABOUT REDISTRIBUTG WEALTH, KILCHICHAKOV BLUNTLY STAT THAT HE'S NOT GOG TO BE SWAYED BY HIS TALK OF "THE PEOPLE'S STGGLE" AND LLS HIS IATIVE A LOAD OF UNWANTED ASSISTANCE TO THE PEOPLE. CAN'T KILL YOU, STILL NEED YOU: STEPANOV IS AWARE OF KILCHICHAKOV'S RPTN HIS ARY REGIME, BUT AVOIDS PURGG HIM FOR THE TIME BEG BEE HE'S STILL A PETENT GENERAL WHO'S NOT TOO DISLOYAL. CORPT POLICIAN: KILCHICHAKOV'S RPTN GETS EVEN WORSE STEPANOV'S ROUTE, WHERE HE'S RORTED TO SKIMMG THE BUDGETS SO THAT HE N KEEP FOR HIMSELF. GOOD IS NOT NICE: THOUGH HE'S ON SIUDA'S SI, HE'S NOT TOO NCERNED WH HELPG PEOPLE, STEAD FOCG ON MAXIMIZG PROF FOR THE STATE. LAYMAN'S TERMS: SCE MOST OF THE BLACK ARMY HAS NO TERT ENOMICS, KILCHICHAKOV OFTEN HAS TO OVERSIMPLIFY HIS FDGS TO SIMPLE, EASY-TO-FOLLOW CHARTS. NOT THIS FOR YOUR REVOLUTN: KILCHICHAKOV HAS NO TERT THE RHETORIC OF EHER SIUDA OR STEPANOV. FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE, MONEY IS WHAT KEEPS THE WORLD MOVG. ONLY IT FOR THE MONEY: KILCHICHAKOV IS NTENT TO WORK UNR STEPANOV'S ARY JUNTA, BUT ONLY BEE HE N ENRICH HIMSELF BY CUTTG A PIECE OF THE UNTRY'S BUDGET FOR HIMSELF. PET THE DOG: AFTER A WOMAN, HYSTERIL OVER SEEMGLY LOSG HER SON A SKIRMISH, BEGS HIM TO STOP RECMENT THE BLACK ARMY AND SPARE MORE PEOPLE THE PA OF LOSG A LOVED ONE, KILCHICHAKOV MAY BE MOVED ENOUGH TO LISTEN TO HER AND SEND OUT RECMENT FOR FACTORY WORKERS STEAD. INVG KILCHICHAKOV FOR DNER, SIUDA SUBTLY HTS THAT HE SHOULD MAKE THE RIGHT CISN BY SUPPORTG HIM OVER THE RPT STEPANOV. AFTER BEG REMD OF THE TIME HE SHOWED EMPATHY TO A MOTHER WHO LOST HER SON, KILCHICHAKOV IS NVCED, EVEN IF HE WOULDN'T OPENLY ADM . THE SPOCK: KILCHICHAKOV DON'T RE MUCH FOR PASSNATE RHETORIC OR BOMBASTIC WEAPONS, STEAD BELIEVG THE POWER OF THE ENOMY AND NUMBERS.YEVGENIYA TARATUTAROLE: DIRECTOR OF FOREIGN AFFAIRSNOTE FOREIGN MISTER (SIBERIAN SOVIET BET), DIRECTOR OF STATE ADMISTRATNNOTE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT (SIBERIAN SOVIET BET, STEPANOV PURGED), HEAD OF STATE (AFTER MIDNIGHT)PARTY: SIBIRSKY ANARKHICHKY SOVETNOTE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST COUNCILIOLOGY: ANARCHO-COMMUNISMNOTE SOCIALISM ACTN GIRL: SHE'S PRETTY HANDY WH A GUN AND HELPS SIUDA HUNT DOWN THE "GHOST OF RODZAEVSKY" (ALEXANR BOLOTOV) TERRORIZG AMUR, WHEN THE REGN IS NQUERED BY THE BLACK ARMY. CONVENIENTLY TIMED DISTRACTN: WHEN TARATUTA AND SIUDA ARE HUNTG DOWN THE "GHOST OF RODZAEVSKY" AND THE LOL SHERIFF IS TAKEN HOSTAGE, THE GHOST'S T APPEARS AND BS UP AGAST HIS LEG; AS THE GHOST TRI TO SHOO AWAY, THE SHERIFF SLIPS OUT OF HIS GRASP, AND TARATUTA MANAG TO RETRIEVE HER GUN AND KILL BOLOTOV THAT SPL SEND. FRIEND TO ALL CHILDREN: DPE NOT BEG A MOTHER, TARATUTA IS IENDLY TO ALL CHILDREN, BEG SPIRED BY THEIR OPTIMISM AND CUR NATURE. AT THE TOMSK PUBLIC LIBRARY, SHE ACCEPTS AN VATN TO READ A BOOK TO A GROUP OF CHILDREN, BOTH TO NY STEPANOV MORE SUPPORT AND OUT OF GENUE ENJOYMENT. HISTORIL BADASS UPGRA: GO OM A LERARY CRIC UNR THE SOVIET UNN TO ONE OF SIUDA'S TOP ADVISORS AND THE LEAR OF AN ANARCHIST FACTN A WARLORD SETTG OF APOLYPTIC PROPORTNS. IRON LADY: SHE'S THE NEW FIGURE MOTIVATG THE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT A POST-TABORSKY RSIA. MOUTH OF SRON: A HEROIC EXAMPLE,WHERE SHE SERV AS SIUDA'S REPRENTATIVE ON THE EMERGENCY ANTI-FASCIST COMMTEE, SIGNED TO HUNT DOWN THE "GHOST OF RODZAEVSKY" NNG AMOK AMUR. NUMBER TWO: TARATUTA HAS BEEN SIUDA'S MENTOR FOR YEARS, MAKG HER HIS CLOST NFIDANT AND ARGUABLY HIS MOST IMPORTANT ALLY THE POWER STGGLE WH STEPANOV. PASSG THE TORCH: TARATUTA'S FATHER WAS AN ANARCHIST REVOLUTNARY, JT LIKE HER. THE REMNANT: IF STEPANOV POS SIUDA, TARATUTA LEADS SIUDA'S REMAG LOYALISTS TO RIST THE BLACK ARMY, LNCHG A TERRORIST ATTACK KANSK THAT MANAG TO SRE EVEN STEPANOV. SMOKG IS COOL: SHE WOULD NORMALLY SAY OTHERWISE, BUT THE FACE OF THE HRE AND S PROHIBN ON TOBAC, SHE TAK THE OPPORTUNY TO SMOKE AFTER GETTG RID OF THE EMPIRE'S REMNANTS THE AREA. THE SMURFETTE PRCIPLE: THE ONLY FEMALE LEAR OF A POST-MIDNIGHT STATE. SPEAK ILL OF THE DEAD: AFTER SHE, SIUDA, AND THE SHERIFF ABAKUMOV DISPATCH THE "GHOST OF RODZAEVSKY", THEY FD HIS OFFICE STUFFED WH MEMORIALS DITED TO THE ORIGAL VOZHD. DISGTED, TARATUTA UNLOADS HER GUN ON ONE OF RODZAEVSKY'S PORTRAS. TRANQUIL FURY: WHEN STEPANOV REJECTS HER PROPOSAL TO CREATE AN TERNATNAL AGENCY TO FUND FOREIGN ANARCHIST MOVEMENTS, TARATUTA IS FUR, PECIALLY WHEN HE NSCENDS TO HER. HOWEVER, HER YEARS OF DIPLOMATIC EXPERIENCE ALLOW HER TO NCEAL MOST OF HER RAGE.STEPAN VALENTEEVROLE: MILARY COMMANR, DIRECTOR OF INTERNAL SECURYNOTE SECURY MISTER (SIBERIAN SOVIET BET), HEAD OF STATE (FERATN DISSOLUTN)PARTY: SIBIRSKY ANARKHICHKY SOVETNOTE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST COUNCIL, BOL'SHEVISTKIYE SOVETYNOTE BOLSHEVIK COUNCIL (FERATN DISSOLUTN)IOLOGY: ANARCHO-COMMUNISMNOTE SOCIALISM, MAOISMNOTE COMMUNISM (FERATN DISSOLUTN)IN-GAME BGRAPHY (FERATN DISSOLUTN) CLICK TO SHOW (WARNG: UNMARKED SPOILERS) THE FASCATG EXPERIMENT OF THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY HAS LEFT A LONG-LASTG IMPACT ON CENTRAL SIBERIA, AND THIS IS MA CLEAR BY THE EXISTENCE OF THE FREE WORKERS' REPUBLIC OF SIBERIA. HEAD BY THE MOST SENR MEMBER OF THE BLACK ARMY, STEPAN YELISEYEVICH VALENTEYEV, HAS TAKEN MUCH SPIRATN OM THE FORMER ARMY WHOSE TERRORY THE REPUBLIC NOW OCCUPI. AFTER THE RECENT EVENTS, THE REMNANTS OF THE BLACK ARMY REFORMED THEIR THEORY OF ARIZED ANARCHY, AND NOW CLAIM TO PRACTICE THE DOCTRE OF THE PEOPLE'S FIGHT, THE PROTRACTED ARMED STGGLE OF A RAL POPULATN AGAST S ENEMI FOR THE MATENANCE OF THE "EE TERRORY". VALENTEEV IS LEFT AS AN UNWILLG LEAR OF THIS MOVEMENT, AS DIVERG FURTHER AND FURTHER AWAY OM THE ANARCHIST VISN HE HAD FOUGHT FOR. YET WH OR WHOUT HIS SUPPORT, THE IAS HAVE FELY EMBEDD THEMSELV THE HEARTS AND MDS OF THE LOL POPULATN. ASSASS OUTCLASS': ONE OF STEPANOV'S OPTNS TO BUILD DOMTIC SUPPORT FOR HIS POWER STGGLE AGAST SIUDA IS TO ORR AN ASSASSATN ON VALENTEEV, ONE OF HIS ALLI. HOWEVER, THE ATTEMPT WILL ALWAYS FAIL, AS VALENTEEV FIGHTS OFF THEIR ATTACKER WH LTLE MORE THAN A FEW SCRAP. HE NEARLY FALLS FOR ANOTHER ASSASSATN BY AN RFP FILTRATOR THE BLACK ARMY, BUT HIS WOULD-BE ASSASS, SPE HAVG THE PERFECT OPPORTUNY TO STAB HIM, BAILS OUT OF THE PLAN OUT OF A GUILTY NSCIENCE. THE B CAME BACK: VALENTEEV IS A SUPPORTG CHARACTER THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY, BUT HE N RETURN AFTER THEY'RE FEATED, IF THE WORKER'S FERATN FEATS THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN UNIFIER. THE LAST DJ: EVEN WHEN STEPANOV ASSASSAT SIUDA, VALENTEEV DO NOT GIVE UP HIS LOYALTY TO THE LATE IOLOGUE AND REF TO W TO THE NEW DICTATOR. STEPANOV WILL NEED TO HAVE HIM ELIMATED A "IENDLY FIRE CINT" TO CEMENT HIS NEWFOUND POWER. NO GOOD DEED GO UNPUNISHED: AFTER STEPANOV OVERTHROWS SIUDA, VALENTEEV HEARS A WOMAN'S CRY FOR HELP WHILE HE'S DRIVG TO RSIA'S BORR WH CHA. HE SH TO THE GORNO-ALTAYSK CHURCH, WHERE HE HEARS THE SCREAM, ONLY FOR THE BUILDG TO SUDNLY EXPLO AND TAKE HIM WH . IT TURNS OUT TO HAVE BEEN TRAP BY STEPANOV TO ELIMATE HIM AND THE "WOMAN" CRYG FOR HELP WAS JT A RERDG, MEANG VALENTEEV DIED FOR NOTHG. NOT SO STOIC: VALENTEEV IS A TYPILLY STOIC MAN, BUT WHEN HE'S DRKG WH SIUDA TO DISCS JOG FORC AGAST STEPANOV, HE LGHS OUT LOUD WHEN HIS LEAR TELLS AN ABSURD STORY OF SEEG AN UGLY DOLL CREATED HIS LIKENS. RELUCTANT RULER: VALENTEEV REGNIZ HOW FAR THE BLACK ARMY MOVEMENT HAS SHIFTED OM ANARCHISM DURG THE FERATN'S LLAPSE AND BEE DISILLNED BY , BUT HE DON'T REALLY HAVE A CHOICE TO LEAVE . YOU WOULDN'T SHOOT ME: SEEG A BLACK ARMY REC TRYG TO FLIRT WH A SECRETARY BY BRAGGG ABOUT HIS ACPLISHMENTS, VALENTEEV TERJECTS AND HANDS THE REC A PISTOL, DARG HIM TO SHOOT HIM IF HE'S SO TOUGH. WHEN THE REC IS UNABLE TO, VALENTEEV VERBALLY BERAT HIM FOR THKG WAR IS A CHANCE FOR HIM TO PICK UP GIRLS AND THAT HE NEEDS TO BE ABSOLUTELY MTED TO THE BLACK ARMY'S E.ANDRONIY MISHURENKOROLE: MILARY COMMANR, DIRECTOR OF INTERNAL SECURYNOTE SECURY MISTER (SECURY COUNCIL BET), HEAD OF STATE (AFTER MIDNIGHT)PARTY: SIBIRSKAYA CHERNAYA ARMIYANOTE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMYIOLOGY: VANGUARD ANARCHISMNOTE DPOTISM ALAS, POOR VILLA: MISHURENKO IS DISRPECTFUL, PSIMISTIC, A POTENTIAL ALLY STEPANOV'S POWER STGGLE WH SIUDA, AND A GREEDY WARLORD A POST-TABORSKY ENVIRONMENT. HOWEVER, HE ED TO BE AN HONORABLE SOLDIER WHOSE OPTIMISM WAS TORN APART AFTER SEEG THE SOVIET UNN HUIATED BY THE GERMANS. HE SPENDS A MOMENT SOLEMNLY REMISCG HOW FAR HE'S FALLEN OM HIS YOUNGER DAYS AND HIS FADG MEMORY WH AGE, NOW ONLY NCERNED WH LIBERATG MOSW SO THAT HIS LIFE'S WORK WILL NOT GO TO WASTE. BAD BOSS: HE IS FEARED BY HIS SUBORDAT FOR HIS UNFIVG PERSONALY, WILLG TO FIRE ANYONE WHOUT HATN AS SOON AS HE FDS SOMEONE MORE EFUL THAN THEM. BIGGER IS BETTER: IN A DISCSN ON HOW TO REBUILD THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD, MISHURENKO MENTNS THAT HE ONLY SUPPORTS S RTORATN IF N BE ED TO BUILD MASSIVE RAILGUNS AS LARGE AS THE GERMANS MOBILIZED DURG WORLD WAR II. CRAZY ENOUGH TO WORK: MISHURENKO'S PROPOSED PLAN TO BUILD A NE IS TO CROWDSOURCE OM THE PEOPLE RATHER THAN LEAVE TO THE EXPERTS, AS VALENTEEV SUGGTS. SHOCKGLY, THERE IS A SLIM CHANCE OF HIS PLAN ACTUALLY WORKG. DRAGON WH AN AGENDA: LIKE STEPANOV, MISHURENKO DON'T GENUELY BELIEVE ANARCHISM, WHICH MAK THEM ALLI. HOWEVER, WHILE STEPANOV IS URTG ANARCHIST RHETORIC TO ONE DAY OVERTHROW SIUDA, MISHURENKO IS MORE NCERNED WH PREPARG THE BLACK ARMY TO EVENTUALLY RETAKE MOSW THEIR EVABLE WAR WH GERMANY. DRILL SERGEANT NASTY: MISHURENKO IS AN FAMOLY STRICT DRILL SERGEANT, PUTTG HIS RECS THROUGH HELLISH TTS AND VERBALLY TORMENTG THOSE WHO EVER SLOW DOWN THEIR EXERCIS. EAT THE DOG: MISHURENKO MENTNS THAT HE'S EATEN DOGS DURG HIS SERVICE WORLD WAR II, WHERE HARSH NDNS LEFT NO OTHER FOOD SOURCE. FOR THE EVULZ: HE ENJOYS KILLG AND FIGHTG FOR THE SAKE OF , BELIEVG THAT ANARCHY IS JT AN EXCE TO ACT ON THE WISH. FRONTLE GENERAL: IN THE AFTER MIDNIGHT SCENAR, HE PERSONALLY LEADS THE BLACK ARMY TO BATTLE AGAST THE SIBERIAN FREE ARMY. THE GENERALISSIMO: RULG THE REMNANT BLACK ARMY AFTER TABORSKY'S ATH, MISHURENKO IS PRACTICE A ARY DICTATOR, AND ALL OF HIS ANARCHIST RHETORIC IS JT FOR SHOW. THE HEDONIST: IN A POST-TABORSKY RSIA, HE WANTS TO EAT, DRK, AND PARTY FOR AS LONG AS HE WISH, WHERE HIS RHETORIC OF ANARCHY IS JT A MEANS TO ACHIEVE THAT GOAL. MOTIVE DEY: BEFORE THE TABLISHMENT OF THE HOLY RSIAN EMPIRE, MISHURENKO WAS A HARSH DISCIPLARIAN KNOWN FOR HIS BTAL TRAG METHODS AND IRON-FISTED NTROL OF THE UNS UNR HIS MAND. IT SEEMS THAT TABORSKY TURNG RSIA TO A WASTELAND UNABLE TO EVEN TAKE BACK MOSW MORALIZED HIM TO SUCH AN EXTENT, THAT HE BEME A NIHILISTIC HEDONIST WHOSE ARMY IS LTLE MORE THAN A BAND GANG. NO SYMPATHY: WHEN HE SE A PROTT ON THE LACK OF WORKER PROTECTNS WHILE BUILDG A NE, MISHURENKO ROLLS HIS EY AND NSIRS THEM A BUNCH OF GRAT WHO HAVE FOTTEN ABOUT ALL THE GOOD THE BLACK ARMY HAS DONE FOR THEM. THOUGH SIUDA TRI TO FEND THEIR RIGHT TO PROTT, MISHURENKO SARSTILLY REMARKS THAT HE WISH THEY EXERCISED THEIR RIGHT TO SILENCE. NOT HELPG YOUR CASE: WHEN SIUDA READS MISHURENKO AND VALENTEEV'S LATT DOCUMENT "AN OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MILARY STATE OF NOVOSIBIRSK", HE IS DISGTED BY THEIR OPEN PRAISE OF POKRYSHK, A MAN WHO HAS BEEN NOUNCED AS AN ENEMY TO ANARCHISM. MISHURENKO RETORTS THAT SIUDA JT DON'T KNOW THE FIRST THG ABOUT WAR, ELICG A FACEPALM BY VALENTEEV AND AN ENRAGED LOOK BY SIUDA. NOT THIS FOR YOUR REVOLUTN: MISHURENKO, LIKE IVAN STEPANOV, IS NOT AN ANARCHIST AND ONLY SIS WH THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY BEE HE HAPPENS TO BE OM KANSK. IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE HOLY RSIAN EMPIRE'S LLAPSE, AFTER BEG FORCED TO FLEE BY YEVGENIYA TARATUTA, HE DROPS THE ANARCHIST FAçA ENTIRELY AND NS THE BRATSK COMMUNAL VANGUARD AS LTLE MORE THAN A BAND STATE. HE'S NOT EVEN LOYAL TO STEPANOV WHEN HE JOS HIS SI AGAST SIUDA, NOTG THAT HE'S ONLY HELPG BEE STEPANOV IS THE BT CHANCE HE'S GOT AT UNIFYG RSIA AND VADG MOSW TO GET BACK AT THE GERMANS. PET THE DOG: WHILE HE'S REFLECTG ON HIS PAST, A NEW REC TERPTS MISHURENKO TO BREAK UP A FIGHT BETWEEN TWO OTHER RECS OVER POLICS. MISHURENKO GENUELY THANKS HIM FOR THE RMATN AND IGNOR THE REC'S IMPROPER WAY OF GRABBG HIS SUPERR'S ATTENTN. MISHURENKO PLIMENTS STEPANOV AS SOMEONE WHO STANDS A BETTER CHANCE AGAST THE GERMANS THAN SIUDA. SADIST: MISHURENKO TAK PLEASURE PERSONALLY EXECUTG TABORSKY'S FOLLOWERS. SIR SWEARS-A-LOT: IN HIS CLARATN OF WAR ON SIBERIAN FREE TERRORY, HIS LETTER IS PEPPERED WH NUMERO CURS, TYPILLY DIRECTED AT TARATUTA. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: HE CLAIMS TO BE THE PERSONAL PROTECTOR OF ANARCHIST IALS OF HIS OWN WARLORD STATE A POST-HRE RSIA, BUT MOST SEE THROUGH THE CLAIMS AS OUTRIGHT LI OR LNS OF GRANUR. STEALG THE CRED: WHEN HE AND VALENTEEV SEND THEIR THORED ARY THEORI TO STEPANOV, THEIR EXCED BOSS ASKS WHO WROTE THEM. MISHURENKO JUMPS TO CLAIM ALL THE CRED, CLAIMG THAT ALL VALENTEEV DID WAS GIVE A SEAL OF APPROVAL, SOMETHG THAT HIS LLEAGUE LLS HIM OUT ON. TOKEN EVIL TEAMMATE: AFTER STEPANOV GETS PURGED, MISHURENKO FELY BE THE LEAST MTED MEMBER TO SIUDA'S ANARCHIST DREAM. HE'S NOT NECSARILY DISLOYAL, BUT HE'S ONLY WORKG WH THEM SO THAT HE N EXACT REVENGE ON THE GERMANS. VISNARY VILLA: FROM THE S OF THE HOLY RSIAN EMPIRE, HE HOP TO ONE DAY SEE ALL OF RSIA "LIBERATED" BY HIS CEL VANGUARD PARTY. WARHAWK: HE IS THE MOST HAWKISH MEMBER OF STEPANOV'S CLIQUE, ADVOTG MORE NSCRIPTN AND REQUTG MORE EQUIPMENT FOR THE ARY. WAR HERO: MISHURENKO IS AN OLD SOLDIER WHO HAS FOUGHT WORLD WAR II AND THE WTER WAR, EARNG PRAISE FOR HIS SERVICE. WOOBIE, DTROYER OF WORLDS: WNSG THE STCTN OF THE SOVIET UNN BROKE MISHURENKO DOWN AND TURNED HIM TO THE CYNIL OPPORTUNIST HE IS NOW. VILLA WH GOOD PUBLICY: DPE HIS UNENTHIASTIC LOYALTY TO ANARCHIST DOCTRE, MISHURENKO IS POPULAR AMONG THE PEOPLE FOR HIS PAST ARY RERD. HE'S EVEN MORE POPULAR THE BLACK ARMY AS THE IAL SOLDIER, WHICH SERV AS GOOD PR FOR STEPANOV WHEN THE TWO ALLY WH EACH OTHER. NON-UNIFIERS
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CENTRAL SIBERIAN UNIFIERS    TOMSK FLAG OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF SIBERIA  FLAG OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC (MORNIST)  FLAG OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC (BASTILLARD)  FLAG OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC (DECEMBRIST)  OFFICIAL NAME: CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, COMMONWEALTH OF SIBERIA (HUMANIST SUPERREGNAL UNIFITN), REPUBLIC OF RSIA (NATNAL UNIFITN), COMMONWEALTH OF RSIA (HUMANIST NATNAL UNIFITN)RULG PARTY: DEKABRISTYNOTE DECEMBRISTSIOLOGY: PATERNALISTIC CONSERVATISMNOTE CONSERVATISMTHE REMNANTS OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, A MOCRATIC REPUBLIC FOUND BY SOVIET TELLIGENTSIA AFTER THE SOVIET LLAPSE. FORMERLY LG MOST OF CENTRAL SIBERIA, THE REPUBLIC LLAPSED DURG THE BLOODY SIBERIAN WAR WH THE FAR EASTERN SOVIET MP. NOTABLE FOR S SALON SYSTEM OF MOCRACY, THE REPUBLIC'S LEARS HAVE IALISTIC VISNS OF A PROSPERO MOCRATIC RSIA, BUT WILL HAVE TO NTEND WH S MANY SECSNISTS FIRST. ALLOHISTORIL ALLN: BORIS KHODORKOVSKY, THE FATHER OF MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY, A PROMENT RSIAN OLIGARCH WHO AT ONE POT WAS THE RICHT MAN RSIA BEFORE FALLG OUT WH VLADIMIR PUT, APPEARS AS ONE OF THE RICHT PEOPLE TOMSK A FLAVOR EVENT. BACK OM THE DEAD: WHEN WAS CREATED, THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC PROMOTED SELF AS A REVIVAL OF THE PROVISNAL MOCRATIC ERNMENT CREATED OM THE FEBARY REVOLUTN AND KILLED BY LEN'S OCTOBER REVOLUTN. BALKANIZE ME: THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC ED TO LE ALL OF CENTRAL SIBERIA, BEFORE WAS VAD BY YAGODA'S FAR EASTERN SOVIET. WHAT FOLLOWED WAS THE SIBERIAN WAR, AN ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC MEAT GRR OF A WAR THAT ED BOTH UNTRI TO EVENTUALLY EXPLO TO PIEC. IN THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, THE HUGE HUMAN ST OF THE WAR LED TO AN ANARCHIST REVOLUTN G OUT OF KANSK, CREATG THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY, AND SOME OFFICERS SEIZED NOVOSIBIRSK AND CLARED S PENNCE. GENERAL KRYLOV LNCHED AN OPERATN TO CSH THE SBA, ONLY TO FAIL AND GET MUTIED BY ANDREEV'S CLIQUE AND GO NUTS AS A RULT, CREATG KEMEROVO AND KRASNOYARSK. BEWARE THE NICE ON: TOMSK IS ONE OF THE MOST BENEVOLENT WARLORD STAT THE RSIAN ANARCHY, BUT THEY ALSO RADILLY REFORM THE REPUBLIN ARMY TO A ADLY FIGHTG FORCE, SHOWG THAT THEY'RE NOT TO BE TRIFLED WH. COLOR-COD FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE: THE DUMA TOMSK'S LEGISLATURE ARE LOR-D BASED ON WHICH SALON IS NTROL: WHE FOR THE DECEMBRISTS, VLET FOR THE HUMANISTS, BLUE FOR THE MORNISTS, AND GREY FOR THE BASTILLARDS. CONSCENDG COMPASSN: THE HUMANISTS ARE ONE OF THE MOST CHARABLE OF THE SALONS, BUT THEIR WEALTHY AND ELIST BACKGROUNDS N OCSNALLY MAKE THEM OUT-OF-TOUCH WH THE TERTS OF THE MON RSIAN LIVG THE UNTRYSI. IN ONE EVENT, AN ALTAY POLICIAN ASKS A FELLOW HUMANIST WHY THEY SHOULD PRRIZE CY IMPROVEMENT OVER THE RAL AREAS, AND HIS NCERN IS SHGGED OFF WH A PATRONIZG SE AND A PLA REASSURANCE THAT IMPROVG THE URBAN AREAS WOULD ALSO IMPROVE THE UNTRYSI. DEFEAT MEANS FRIENDSHIP: IF FEATED BY KEMEROVO, YURIY WILL REC THEIR POLICE FORCE TO HIS SI AND SHOW THE PEOPLE THAT THEY ARE NOT TYRANTS. SUBVERTED WHEN RURIK TRI TO PERSUA FORMER TOMSK SALON MEMBERS TO HELP HIS E. WHEN THEY'RE APPROACHED, THE TOMSK POLICIANS NOUNCE RURIK AS A LUD TYRANT AND DISAGREE WH RURIK'S EMPHASIS ON SOCIAL WELFARE, ARGUG THAT TN IS THE GREATER PRRY. IF FEATED BY NOVOSIBIRSK AND FAIR MOCRATIC ELECTNS ARE PERMTED, THE BASTILLARDS WILL BE ALLOWED TO E TO POWER, AND FORM A IENDSHIP WH SHSH OUT OF THEIR SHARED LIBERAL SYMPATHI. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: IF FEATED BY NOVOSIBIRSK, THE PEOPLE OF TOMSK BEE DISENCHANTED WH THEIR HOP OF AN EGALARIAN REPUBLIC, WONRG TO THEMSELV IF THEIR PAST IALISM WAS AN ILLN THAT ULD NEVER SURVIVE PRACTICE. DISASTER DEMOCRACY: TOMSK HAS A STRONG AND FUNCTNAL MOCRATIC SYSTEM, BUILT BY FORMER SOVIET TELLIGENTSIA WHO SIRE TOTAL EEDOM OF EXPRSN, WHICH WAS SUPPRSED UNR SOVIET LE. FOIL: TOMSK SERV AS ONE TO KOMI, MORE WAYS THAN ONE. THE MOCRATIC SYSTEM PLACE IS PARATIVELY MUCH MORE STABLE (AS OPPOSED TO GLORIFIED CIVIL WARS WH ELECTNS), WHILE ALL THE "PARTI" ARE GENERALLY FUNCTNAL, PETENT AND SANE. IT ALSO SERV AS THIS TO NOVOSIBIRSK. THE LATTER PARTICULAR IS A DARK MIRROR OF TOMSK: WHERE REALISM AND PRAGMATISM ARE TAKEN TO THEIR LOGIL NCLN, VOID OF ANY HIGHER HOP OR DREAMS. TOMSK, AN TELLIGENTSIA MOCRACY WH UNIQUELY POLILLY SYNCRETIC "PARTI" THAT BORROW ENLIGHTENMENT IALS OM THE 17TH CENTURY TO BUILD A NEW SOCIETY RSIA, IS A NTRAST TO KEMEROVO, A NEO-FDAL MONARCHY THAT BLENDS ATHETICS AND CULTURAL MOR OM RSIA'S MEDIEVAL PERD TOGETHER WH SOVIET PROGRSIVISM (WORKER'S RIGHTS, GENR EQUALY, ETC.) TO FORM A NEW CULTURE THAT IS UNIQUELY RSIAN. GENOCI BACKFIRE: THE GERMAN RPONSE TO RNIFITN BY THE PARTICULARLY IALISTIC HUMANISTS, LED BY A JEWISH-POLE POSER. LET JT ONE JEW PE... GOOD VERS GOOD: ALL OF TOMSK'S POLIL PARTI ARE PRENTED A (MOSTLY) BENEVOLENT LIGHT, WH THEIR ONLY "NFLICT" BEG WHAT IS THE BT METHOD OF SOCIAL VELOPMENT TO BE TAKEN. THIS BE A B MORE MUDDLED AFTER TOMSK UNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA, WHERE THE SALON-BASED MOL OF ERNMENT IS CRICIZED FOR BEG ELIST BY PENNT POLICIANS. IF THE PLAYER ISN'T REFUL AT MANAGG THEIR POLICI REGARDG THE CRICISMS, TOMSK MAY ACTUALLY END UP BEG FEATED BY THE SIBERIAN WORKERS' FERATN. HYPOCRE: FOR ALL THEIR TALK OF GUARANTEEG THE EEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE RIGHT TO VOTE, THE REPUBLIC N GO AGAST THEIR IALS DURG THE CYNICISM CRISIS, WHERE THEY MAY EM PENNTS TOO EXTREME TO EVER TAKE POWER. THE LEAGUE FOR EXPAND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS, A SPECIAL TERTS GROUP BY PENNTS, ACCE THE REPUBLIC OF UNMOCRATIC PRACTIC BY RTRICTG THE NUMBER OF VOTERS BASED ON THOSE WHO N PASS AN ENTRANCE EXAM, CLAIMG THAT EVERYONE SERV A FAIR VOTE, REGARDLS OF TN.A MOCRACY FOR THE ELE OR A MOCRACY FOR THE PEOPLE? NEW MEDIA ARE EVIL: IN THE REGNAL STAGE, SOME AVANT-GAR MICIANS PNEER THE TECHNO MIC GENRE, WHICH THE HUMANISTS AND DECEMBRISTS DISMISS AS "NOTHG BUT BLEEPS AND BLORPS" AND "HARDLY MIC AT ALL". NON-INDITIVE NAME: THE NSERVATIVE, ENVIRONMENTALIST DECEMBRISTS OF TOMSK SEEM TO HAVE VERY LTLE MON WH THE HISTORIL RSIAN DECEMBRISTS (WHO WERE A GROUP OF 19TH CENTURY PRO-MOCRATIC NOBL WHO ADVOTED EHER FOR A FRENCH-STYLE REPUBLIC OR A BRISH-STYLE NSTUTNAL MONARCHY, AND WHOSE MA OBJECTIVE WAS THE ABOLN OF SERFDOM). THE NAM OF THE HUMANIST AND THE MORNIST SALONS, AT LEAST, RRELATE SOMEWHAT WH THEIR ACTUAL IOLOGI, AND THOSE WHO ED SUCH TERMS PRR, WHILE THE TERM "BASTILLARD" IS FULLY FICTNAL AND HAS NO POLIL OR PHILOSOPHIL NNOTATNS. ONLY KNOWN BY THEIR NICKNAME: THE BASTILLARDS' OFFICIAL NAME IS LLED TRY GROUP, BUT EVERYONE LLS THEM THE BASTILLARDS. THE PHILOSOPHER KG: TOMSK IS A VERY IALISTIC, PHILOSOPHIL MOCRACY CENTRED ON TELLECTUALISM, ART, AND SCIENCE; S PARTI (MORE ACCURATELY SALONS AND POLIL MOVEMENTS) ARE NAMED BASTILLARDS, DECEMBRISTS, HUMANISTS AND MORNISTS, AND ARE NOT ANIZED AROUND POLIL POWER BUT STEAD THE PURE PURSU OF POLIL PHILOSOPHY, AND N'T FOLLOW ANY NON-MOCRATIC PATH. REASONABLE AUTHORY FIGURE: THE HUMANIST AND DECEMBRIST SALONS ARE WARY OF PENNT PARTI ALLOWG MAGOGU AND RADILS TO TAKE POWER, BUT THEY DO PROMISE ON THE ISSUE. WHILE THE NSTUTN IS REWRTEN SO THE FOUR GREAT SALONS N DICTATE WHO N N FOR PRINT, THEY DO GIVE ROOM FOR PENNTS TO HAVE A FULL POLIL REER AND THEREBY RTORE SOME NFINCE THE REPUBLIC'S ABILY TO HEAR THE PEOPLE. THE REPUBLIC: THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC IS A MOCRATIC REPUBLIC WH A STRONG NSTUTN, AND IS EASILY ONE OF THE MOST MORALLY UPSTANDG FACTNS RSIA. ROMANTICISM VERS ENLIGHTENMENT: THE CENTRAL DIVI OF TOMSK'S POLIL SPECTM IS THIS, RATHER THAN LEFT VERS RIGHT (AS ALL OF TOMSK'S SALONS ARE SOMEWHAT SYNCRETIC POLIL THOUGHT). THE HUMANISTS AND DECEMBRISTS TEND TO BE MORE ROMANTIC, WHILE THE BASTILLARDS AND MORNISTS ARE MORE FAVOR OF ENLIGHTENMENT VALU. SHOUT-OUT: ONE TOMSK EVENT SE THE CREATN OF A RAD SERIAL NAMED WELE TO DOLA NOCHI. SCIENCEVILLE: WILY KNOWN AS AN IALISTIC MOCRACY LED BY A CLIQUE OF SCIENTISTS AND SCHOLARS. THIS IS PECIALLY TE IF THE MORNISTS TAKE OVER, WHICH SE ANDREY SAKHAROV WILL PURSUE A MPAIGN OF SCIENTIFIC VELOPMENT AND GREATLY ADVANCE THE LOL STANDARD OF LIVG. SLIDG SLE OF IALISM VERS CYNICISM: AFTER TOMSK UNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA, THEY FACE THE SO-LLED "CYNICISM CRISIS", WHICH SE RISG CYNICISM AGAST THE IALISTIC SALON-BASED MOCRACY. NEW PENNT PARTI AND POLICIANS ARE G OUT AND QUTNG THE SALON SYSTEM, CRICIZG FOR S APPARENT ELIST NATURE. TURN THE OTHER CHEEK: FOR SOME OF THE MORE SYMPATHETIC WARLORDS, TOMSK IS WILLG TO GIVE THEM LIGHTER SENTENC, SPE THE FACT THAT THEY BETRAYED AND SECED OM THE OLD REPUBLIC YEARS AGO. IN PARTICULAR, SOME TAKE PY ON RURIK'S SANY AND N HAVE HIM SENT TO A MENTAL HOSPAL RATHER THAN PROSECUTE HIM LIKE A TRAOR. VTIGIAL EMPIRE: TOMSK WAS THE CENTER OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, THE ONLY NON-COMMUNIST STATE FOUND THE IMMEDIATE LLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNN, BUT WAS SHATTERED BY GENERALS WHO HAD THEIR OWN FAR-REACHG AMBNS FOR UNIFYG RSIA. WE ARE STGGLG TOGETHER: ALL OF SALONS HAVE NFLICTG VISNS FOR RSIA AND THEIR DISRD IS EXACERBATED WHEN THEY RNIFY CENTRAL SIBERIA AND OPEN QUTNS ON HOW TO ERN THEIR NEW TERRORI. WI-EYED IALIST: THE EE THKERS WHO LED THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC HAVE WONRFUL IAS ABOUT CREATG A FAIR AND MOCRATIC NATN, BUT THEY HAVE VERY LTLE EXPERIENCE WH ACTUAL POLIL TRIGUE. THIS RULTED THE LLAPSE OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, AS THEIR AMB GENERALS FIED THEIR IALISM AND SECED.BORIS PASTERNAKROLE: HEAD OF STATEPARTY: DEKABRISTYNOTE DECEMBRISTSIOLOGY: PATERNALISTIC CONSERVATISMNOTE CONSERVATISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK IS NOT A POLICIAN BY TRA, BUT RATHER A POET AND A SCHOLAR. A MVE OF JEWISH ANCTRY, HE QUICKLY BEME RENOWNED THE EARLY DAYS OF THE SOVIET UNN FOR HIS LLECTNS OF POETRY AND TRANSLATNS OF ENGLISH AND GERMAN CLASSICS. HOWEVER, HIS EARLY ADMIRATN FOR LEN SOON WORE OUT, AND HE FOUND HIMSELF SCRAMBLG TO TRY AND GET IENDS AND LLEAGU OFF OF BLACKLISTS AND OUT OF PRISONS. PASTERNAK, SPE HIS REPUTATN SUFFERG, NEVER SAW OFFICIAL CENSURE OR PERSECUTN HIMSELF, AS MANY WH THE POLBURO AND NKVD VIEWED HIM AS TOO PASSIVE AND TACHED OM REALY TO POSE A POLIL THREAT. AS THE GERMANS MARCHED CLOSER TO MOSW, PASTERNAK AND THE REMNANTS OF THE SOVIET TELLIGENTSIA FLED TO THE EAST, WH MANY TAKG REFUGE THE CY OF TOMSK. THERE, THEY CID TO DRAFT A LIBERAL NSTUTN SPIRED BY THE UNDYG RSIAN MOCRATIC THOUGHT AND PLEDGED TO RTORE THE EEDOM OF EXPRSN THAT THEY CRAVED UNR SOVIET LE. THEIR E GAVE A BIRTH TO THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, WHICH PROVED SELF TO BE A WORTHY FOE TO THE CLG DICTATORSHIP OF THE FAR EASTERN SOVIET STATE, BUT SOON LLAPSED UNR S OWN WEIGHT, UNABLE TO PE WH AMBNS OF THEIR OWN GENERALS. PASTERNAK NOW L A STATE DOMATED BY TELLECTUALS AND ARTISTS, FULL OF THKERS AND POETS. ALTHOUGH HE AND HIS LLEAGU GIVE WONRFUL SPEECH, DRAFT LAWS THAT ARE FASCATG TO READ, AND POSE BETIFUL ANTHEMS, THEIR ONLY PREV EXPERIENCE HOLDG OFFICE HAS BEEN ON UNIVERSY FACULTI. WHETHER PASTERNAK AND HIS NATN OF DREAMERS WILL ACHIEVE ANYTHG OR BE NTENT TO S THEIR IVORY TOWERS IS A QUTN THAT HAS YET TO BE FULLY TERMED.POET, NOVELIST, AND PRENTLY THE FOUNR AND PRINT OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, WHO ALSO LEADS THE TRADNALIST AND ENVIRONMENTALIST-MD DECEMBRIST SALON. PASTERNAK HAS NTRACTED LUNG CANCER AND IS NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE LONG, AND MT PREPARE THE NEXT ELECTNS TO CI THE NEXT PRINT. BENEATH NOTICE: DURG THE SOVIET UNN'S REIGN, PASTERNAK HELPED HIS IENDS PE OM THE NKVD PRISONS. NOTHG WAS DONE AGAST HIM BEE EVERYONE VIEWED HIM AS TOO PASSIVE AND TACHED OM REALY TO BE A REAL THREAT. CCNAT: AS MORE STAT BEGAN SECEDG FOLLOWG THE DISASTRO SIBERIAN WAR, PASTERNAK TEMPORARILY SPEND THE MOCRATIC ERNMENT AND TABLISHED A TEMPORARY PROVISNAL SYSTEM WHICH ONLY HIS CLOST ALLI ULD PARTICIPATE . WH PASTERNAK'S HEALTH CLG, HE'S CID TO RTORE THE OLD MOCRATIC SYSTEM BACK AND ALLOW OTHER SALONS TO POTENTIALLY TAKE OVER. MOR MAJOR CHARACTER: PASTERNAK DI NOT LONG AFTER THE GAME'S START, BUT HE'S THE MOST IMPORTANT CHARACTER TOMSK'S BACKGROUND, HAVG FOUND THE REPUBLIC THE FIRST PLACE. RICHARD NIXON, THE USED CAR SALMAN: BORIS PASTERNAK REAL LIFE WAS A POET, NOVELIST, AND LERARY TRANSLATOR. IN TNO, HE TOOK UP POLICS AND CID TO UNIFY CENTRAL SIBERIA UNR THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, WH HIM AS S FIRST PRINT. WE HARDLY KNEW YE: THE REAL PASTERNAK DIED 1960, AT THE AGE OF 70. IN THIS TIMELE, HE IS STILL ALIVE BY 1962, BUT WILL DIE SHORTLY AFTER THE GAME BEGS.DMRY LIKHACHYOVROLE: FOREIGN MISTER (PASTERNAK BET), HEAD OF STATE (ELECTN)PARTY: DEKABRISTYNOTE DECEMBRISTSIOLOGY: AGRARIANISMNOTE CONSERVATISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW OF ALL RSIA'S CULTURAL HERO, THE DECEMBRISTS ULD ASK FOR NONE BETTER THAN DMRY SERGEYEVICH LIKHACHYOV. A TE CHILD OF EUROPEAN RSIA, LIKHACHYOV'S PASSN FOR LERATURE BEME HIS REER AT THE TENR AGE OF 16, WHEN HE ENTERED LENGRAD STATE UNIVERSY. ARRTED BY THE SECRET POLICE 1928 FOR NOTHG MORE THAN ALLEGED VOLVEMENT A LERARY GROUP FOR STUNTS, HE WAS EXILED WHOUT TRIAL TO THE SOLOVETSKY ISLANDS, WHERE HE WOULD SPEND FIVE YEARS A GULAG. HE NARROWLY AVOID EXECUTN, AND THEN NEARLY A LATER LIVED THROUGH THE SIEGE OF LENGRAD, BEG ONE OF THE LUCKY FEW TO SLIP THROUGH GERMAN L ALONG WH HIS FAY. RURFACG TOMSK SOME TIME AFTER THE WAR, LIKHACHYOV BEME A VOTED IEND AND FOLLOWER OF PASTERNAK, AND SOON JOED THE DECEMBRISTS. WH THE OLD POET'S PASSG, LIKHACHYOV HAS BEE THEIR -FACTO LEAR. ESPOG A TLY EUROPEAN VISN OF RSIA, PROUD OF S HERAGE, HISTORY AND DIVERSY, HE WOULD SEE TOMSK LEAD THE MOTHERLAND TO A GOLN AGE OF PEACE, CULTURAL GROWTH AND IENDSHIP WH THE WT.LGUIST, MEDIEVALIST, AND PRENTLY A TOP AI TO PRINT PASTERNAK. HE SUCCE PASTERNAK AS THE LEAR OF THE DECEMBRISTS FOLLOWG THE LATTER'S PASSG. ALL-LOVG HERO: LIKHACHYOV IS ONE OF THE MOST PERSONABLE AND AFFABLE POLICIANS TOMSK. MORE UNIQUELY, HIS FOC ON THE RSIAN LAND MAK HIM LS ELIST PARED TO THE OTHER SALONS, EVEN TO THE HUMANISTS AT TIM. BORG, BUT PRACTIL: WHILE THE OTHER SALONS PURSUE RADIL AGENDAS THROUGH THEIR MEGAPROJECTS, THE DECEMBRISTS FOC ON ROLVG THE GREAT DISRD, RTORG TST TO TOMSK'S POLIL SYSTEM BY SMOOTHLY TEGRATG THEIR NEWLY ACQUIRED TERRORI TO THE POLIL SYSTEM. THIS MUNDANE APPROACH HELPS BAT THE CYNICISM AND SEPARATIST MOVEMENTS THAT WOULD DRAG TOMSK DOWN, STABILIZG PREPARATN FOR S FUTURE UNIFITN WARS. BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: AS PART OF HIS MPAIGN RALLY, LIKHACHYOV UP WH THE ODD IA OF HOSTG THE WOODS, BUT THIS STRATEGY WORKS BEE BRGS RSIANS OF ALL CLASS AND PROFSNS TOGETHER TO FD SOLIDARY WH AND SUPPORT THE DECEMBRIST'S MPAIGN OF UNG THE RSIAN PEOPLE ONE SPIR. GOOD OLD WAYS: HE IS CRIL OF THE OTHER SALONS FOR THEIR HASTY REFORMS, BELIEVG THAT RSIA SHOULD TURN BACK TO S OLD TRADNS AND CULTURE. IN HARMONY WH NATURE: LIKHACHYOV AND THE DECEMBRISTS ARE NSERVATNISTS AND PROTO-ENVIRONMENTALISTS. THEY STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT THE RSIAN PEOPLE ARE CLOSELY TIED TO THE RSIAN LAND, AND THAT VELOPMENT WHICH STROYS THAT LAND WILL HARM THE PEOPLE AS WELL. INTERNAL REFORMIST: LIKHACHYOV'S AGENDA IS A THREE-PRONGED PLAN TEND TO REFORM THE PRISON SYSTEM, IMPROVE THE LIVG NDNS OF THE AVERAGE RSIAN, AND IMPELEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTNS. AFTER THE SIBERIAN WORKER'S REVOLT, LIKHACHYOV IMMEDIATELY REGNIZ THAT THE EXPLOATIVE NATURE OF THE SIBERIAN PLAN KICKSTARTED THE WHOLE NFLICT AND SETS OUT TO TRODUCE REFORMS THAT WILL IMPROVE THE STANDG OF THE MON RSIAN. LUXURY PRISON SUE: DOWNPLAYED, BUT THE DECEMBRISTS UNR LIKHACHYOV AGGRSIVELY PURSUE PRISON REFORM, HOPG TO ACPLISH TE REHABILATN RATHER THAN PUNIVE IMPRISONMENT. MELLOW FELLOW: ZIG-ZAGGED. LIKHACHYOV PROMOT LMNS AND PNCE THE FACE OF DISTRS, WHICH IS HOW HE TACKL THE CYNICISM CRISIS. HOWEVER, 'S MENTNED THAT HE GETS EXTREMELY TEMPERAMENTAL WHENEVER ANYONE DISAGRE WH HIS FOC ON THE FARMERS' TERTS. RICHARD NIXON, THE USED CAR SALMAN: LIKHACHYOV IS AN OLD RSIAN MEDIEVALIST AND LGUIST WHO TNO BE THE NEW LEAR OF THE NSERVATIVE DECEMBRISTS TOMSK AFTER PASTERNAK'S RIGNATN AND PASSG, AND N BE ELECTED TO LEAD THE UNTRY. HE DID HAVE SOME SOVIET DISSINT ACTIVI REAL LIFE THOUGH. TAKE A THIRD OPTN: STUCK BETWEEN REVELOPG TOMSK'S DTRY OR ACCELERATG THE RELEASE OF PRISONERS WHO WERE UNJTLY JAILED, LIKHACHYOV TAK THE UNORTHODOX APPROACH OF RELEASG THE PRISONERS AND HIRG THEM TO IMPROVE THE NATN'S ASTCTURE, EFFECTIVELY SOLVG BOTH ISSU AT ONCE. TAKG UP THE MANTLE: UNR HIS GUIDANCE, THE DECEMBRISTS HER THE LEGACY OF PASTERNAK'S VISN, WHERE TELLECTUALISM, EMPATHY, AND TRADN ARE ENSHRED AS CULTURAL VALU. YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGA: HE GREW UP SAT PETERSBURG, WHICH HE LAMENTS, KNOWG THAT HE N NEVER RETURN THERE SO LONG AS THE GERMANS NTUE TO OCCUPY THE CY. HE SWEARS THAT HE WILL LIBERATE THE CY BEFORE HE DI SO THAT HE N BE BURIED THERE.DMRY SHOSTAKOVICHROLE: HEAD OF STATE (ELECTN)PARTY: GUMANISTYNOTE HUMANISTSIOLOGY: UTOPIAN SOCIALISMNOTE PROGRSIVISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW AS WH ALL SYMPHONI, THE NEW LIFE OF DMRY DMRIYEVICH SHOSTAKOVICH STARTED WH A SGLE SOUND: THE CHIME OF A TELEGRAM. PUNCTUATED WH SUDN STOPS, THE LTLE PIECE OF PAPER BROUGHT TO HIM BRIEF BUT GRIM NEWS: LENGRAD HAD FALLEN TO THE HANDS OF THE NAZIS. HE WAS ATTENDG A RECAL TOMSK, HONOR OF AN OLD IEND. WH HIS HOME LOST AND WH NO TRANSPORT WTWARDS, SHOSTAKOVICH BEME STUCK THE CY, EARNG HIS LIVG AS A POSER OF ECCENTRIC REPUTE THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC. TH BEGAN THE LARGHISSIMO OF SHOSTAKOVICH'S LIFE. A SLOW AND PONRO WALK ACROSS THE YEARS OF THE REPUBLIC, WH ALMOST NOTHG NOTABLE OCCURRG -BETWEEN. HE TURNED TO HIS WORK, POSG PIEC THAT SUBTLY CRICIZED THE REPUBLIC, AND TEGRATED HIMSELF TO THE ARTISTIC SCENE OF TOMSK. WHEN HE FOUND HIMSELF AT THE FOREONT OF THE HUMANIST ASSOCIATN, HE HAD REACHED THE ANDANTE OF HIS MOVEMENT: A STABLE, FORWARD PACE. HOWEVER, SUCH A STEADY TEMPO WOULD NOT LAST FOREVER. REBELLNS SHATTERED THE OLD REPUBLIC, WH NOVOSIBIRSK TEARG SELF AWAY OVER THE ISSUE OF NSCRIPTN. IT OPENED TO A CHAOTIC SEND ACT: THE ANARCHISTS ROSE KANSK, AND THE GENERALS MUTIED KRASNOYARSK. THE NOUEMENT RTED TOMSK, WHERE THE IALS OF THE REPUBLIC SURVIVED AND THRIVED. THE ARTISTIC MOVEMENTS OF THE CY, NOW SALONS, THRIVED. THE LANDS OF CENTRAL SIBERIA ARE TO WNS A NEW PLAY FOLD OUT. WH HIS TRIUMPH THE ELECTNS OF THE REPUBLIC, SHOSTAKOVICH NOW STANDS TO NDUCT . THE WORLD AWAS TO SEE IF HIS VICTORY IS MERELY AN OVERTURE OR THE END OF A BETIFUL DA.COMPOSER, PIANIST, AND PRENTLY THE FOUNR AND LEAR OF TOMSK'S HUMANARIAN-MD HUMANIST ASSOCIATN SALON. THE ALHOLIC: DEPRSED BY THE JTIC GERMANY FLICTED ON HIS HOMELAND, SHOSTAKOVICH HAS TAKEN TO DRKG AS A PG MECHANISM, WHICH DON'T HELP HIS ALREADY FAILG HEALTH. VEBERG HAS LONG GIVEN UP ON TRYG TO GET HIM TO QU. HE FALLS EVEN STEEPER TO THIS VICE IF THE BLACK ARMY NQUER'S TOMSK AND STEPANOV'S MEN BEG MARCHG TO THE CY. ALL-LOVG HERO: SHOSTAKOVICH EMPHASIZ THE NEED FOR PASSN TOWARDS ALL, AND HIS REFORMS ARE THE MOST HUMANARIAN OF TOMSK'S LEARS. HE ALSO AVERTS THE TYPIL ELIST ATTUS OF THE MON TOMSK POLICIAN AND SPECIFILLY REMOV THE UPPER HOE THE REPUBLIC TO ALLOW MORE DIRECT REPRENTATN OM THE MASS. ARC WORDS: THE STARTG FOC TREE FOR SHOSTAKOVICH HAS THREE FOCI TLED "THE RIGHTS OF MAN", "THE RIGHTS OF HUMANY", AND "THE RIGHTS FOR LIVG", HIGHLIGHTG HIS HUMANARIAN POLICI DITED TO FIGHTG POVERTY AND ILLERACY. BORG, BUT PRACTIL: ONE OF HIS LS AMB REFORMS IS FIXG THE RAILWAY SYSTEMS OF SIBERIA, WHICH ACTUALLY PROV TO BE A MASSIVE BOON TO DTRIAL VELOPMENT AND A DISURAGEMENT TO REGNAL SEPARATISM. CRAZY ENOUGH TO WORK: MANY DISMISSED SHOSTAKOVICH'S HUMANIST VISN FOR RSIA AS A PIPE DREAM THAT WOULD NEVER E TO BE. HOWEVER, IF GIVEN THE CHANCE TO ENACT HIS RADIL REFORMS, SHOSTAKOVICH PROV ALL HIS DOUBTERS WRONG AND CREAT A NEAR-UTOPIAN RNATN OF RSIA WHERE THE MON FOLK WILL NO LONGER HAVE TO FEAR POVERTY OR OPPRSN. DOOMED MORAL VICTOR: EVEN IF TOMSK GETS NQUERED BY THE BLACK ARMY, SHOSTAKOVICH WILL NOT SUBM TO THE NEW OCCUPIERS AND NTUE ANIZG PROTTS AGAST THEM. THIS STS HIS LIFE THE POWER STGGLE BETWEEN SIUDA AND STEPANOV, WHERE THE LATTER WILL ORR A LOCKDOWN OF TOMSK AND A SUCCSIVE BREAK UP OF THE ENSUG PROTTS. HERO GONE FISHG: ONE EVENT IS JT ABOUT SHOSTAKOVICH SUALLY RELAXG AND LISTENG TO A RERDG OF THE LATT POSN OM HIS PUPIL, EDISON DENISOV. INTERNAL REFORMIST: SHOSTAKOVICH BLAM THE REPUBLIC'S PAST FAILUR ON S APATHY TO THE MON WORKER, WHICH HE AIMS TO FIX THIS BY ADVOTG POLICI FAVOR OF THEM. MORALY PET: SHOSTAKOVICH IS ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE WHO DON'T SHARE THACHEVSKY'S ARIST IOLOGY, YET IS STILL TREATED WELL BY HIM AS A PERSONAL IEND. NECSARILY EVIL: HE LAMENTS THE NEED FOR THE REPUBLIC TO GO TO WAR WH THE OTHER WARLORDS THEIR RNIFITN NQUTS, BUT EMS NECSARY, SCE THEY WILL NEVER SUBM PEACEFULLY. ODD FRIENDSHIP: DPE THE TWO HAVG VERY DIFFERENT IOLOGI, SHOSTAKOVICH STILL EXCHANG RRPONNCE WH THE WRRF'S MIKHAIL THACHEVSKY. TTH TELEVISN SURPRISGLY ENOUGH, AS BOTH SHOSTAKOVICH AND THACHEVSKY ACTUALLY WERE CLOSE IENDS REALY, MATAG A IENDSHIP ALL THE WAY UNTIL THACHEVSKY'S EXECUTN DURG THE GREAT PURGE 1937. PASSG THE TORCH: IN 1967, DUE TO HIS AILG HEALTH, SHOSTAKOVICH STEPS DOWN AS LEAR OF THE HUMANISTS AND LETS HIS PROTéGé MOISEY WEBERG SUCCEED HIM. REASONABLE AUTHORY FIGURE: SHOSTAKOVICH MAK AN HONT EFFORT TO REACH OUT AND NEGOTIATE WH TRA UNNS SO THAT THEY N BE OFFERED PROTECTNS AND GUARANTE OM FURTHER ABE. RICHARD NIXON, THE USED CAR SALMAN: DMRY SHOSTAKOVICH REAL LIFE WAS A FAMO POSER AND PIANIST WHO (AFTER BEG THE TARGET OF A FEW POLIL ACCATNS OM HIGH-RANKG SOVIET POLICIANS DURG STAL'S REGIME) JOED THE COMMUNIST PARTY AS A LEGATE FOR THE SUPREME SOVIET DURG THE 1960S. HOWEVER, SCE THE NAZI VICTORY STROYED THE USSR BEFORE THIS POT TNO'S TIMELE, AND SCE TOMSK'S MOCRACY IS LED ENTIRELY BY THE TELLIGENTSIA, SHOSTAKOVICH HAS FORMED THE HUMANIST ASSOCIATN, TO FOC ON PROTECTG THE PEOPLE'S EEDOM OF ARTISTIC EXPRSN. WHAT'S UP, KG DU?: TO BUILD SUPPORT FOR THE HUMANISTS, SHOSTAKOVICH GO TO DIRECTLY MEET WH THE MASS TO HEAR THEIR NCERNS, G HIS PERSONAL CHARISMA TO W THEM OVER. YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGA: SHOSTAKOVICH IS PRENT TOMSK BEE HE WAS ATTENDG A RECAL THERE FOR AN OLD IEND. WHEN HE RECEIVED THE NEWS THAT LENGRAD FELL TO THE GERMANS, SHOSTAKOVICH WAS HORRIFIED, KNOWG HE ULD NEVER RETURN TO HIS HOME AGA.NOTE THIS ULD BE NSIRED AS AN ARTISTIC LICENSE – HISTORY SCE SHOSTAKOVICH WAS ACTUALLY LENGRAD WHEN THE CY WAS SIEGED.MOISEY VEBERGROLE: HEAD OF GOVERNMENT (SHOSTAKOVICH BET), HEAD OF STATE (SHOSTAKOVICH SUCCSN)PARTY: GUMANISTYNOTE HUMANISTSIOLOGY: UTOPIAN SOCIALISMNOTE PROGRSIVISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW WHEN MOISEY VEBERG BEGAN HIS RISE THE CSR'S POLICS, MANY SURMISED THAT THE JEWISH POSER OM WARSAW WOULD STGGLE TO STEP OUT OM HIS MENTOR SHOSTAKOVICH'S SHADOW. AFTER ALL, THE TALENTED MICIAN'S WORK, TOO, HAD TH FAR FAILED TO EARN THEIR OWN PLACE, PENNT OF SHOSTAKOVICH'S ORB. HOWEVER, JT AS HIS WORKS HAD ACQUIRED FANS OF THEIR OWN, VABERG'S POLIL AMBNS EARNED THE RISG STAR OF THE HUMANIST SALON HIS OWN PLACE THE LIMELIGHT. A PATIENT, TAIL ORIENTED TROSPECTIVE MAN, VABERG EXCELLED NEGOTIATG WH OTHER SALONS, AS WELL AS ORDATG THE HUMANIST'S FAMOLY CENTRALIZED POLIL ANIZATN. NOW PRINT OF THE REPUBLIC, MOISEY VABERG BRGS HIS OWN FLUENC AND IMPACT ON THE HUMANIST PROJECT. HIS FAY NSUMED BY THE ANTI-SEMISM OF THE CENTURY, HIS HOMELAND OF POLAND FALLEN TO THE FASCIST THREAT, WEBERG KNOWS THE STAK OF HIS PRINCY ALL TOO WELL; TOMSK'S DREAM OF A EE RSIA, A SHG LIGHT OF EEDOM AND PROGRS, NNOT BE ALLOWED TO WHER. A BETTER FUTURE MT BE BUILT FOR ALL, AND FEND VIGOROLY. FROM VTG ASTCTURE TO NNECT THE PEOPLE BETTER, TO NTUG SHOSTAKOVICH'S DRIVE TO TE THE WORKERS, TO EXPANDG TOMSK'S DIRECT MOCRATIC TRADNS, PRINT VABERG SEEKS TO TEACH THE LSONS OF A CENTURY MARRED BY SORROW, THAT HAVE SHOWN AGA AND AGA THE IMPORTANCE OF HOPE AND URAGE.POLISH-BORN SOVIET POSER, AND PRENTLY THE -LEAR OF THE HUMANISTS AND MENTEE OF SHOSTAKOVICH. HE SUCCEEDS SHOSTAKOVICH AS PRINT AFTER HE STEPS DOWN DUE TO HIS AILG HEALTH. ALL-LOVG HERO: JT LIKE HIS MENTOR, WEBERG HAS A EP NCERN FOR THE PEOPLE AND EVEN DISURAG THE RISE OF MAGOGU BY URGG THE PEOPLE TO NSIR WHICH POLICIANS WOULD BE THE MOST CHARABLE. BODY MOTIFS: HIS TOMSIBAR MEGAPROJECT BODY PARTS AS A METAPHOR OF THE REPUBLIC'S ASTCTURE. SPECIFILLY, THE LOL ASTCTURE ARE THE PILLARI, THE TRANSPORATN ROUT ARE THE ARTERI, AND THE CI ARE THE MA ANS. COMMONALY CONNECTN: WEBERG IS SYMPATHETIC TO THE PLIGHTS OF SEXUAL MORI, BEG A VICTIM OF DISCRIMATN HIMSELF AS A JEW AND A POLE. UNFORTUNATELY, HE N'T IMMEDIATELY PASS LEGISLATN TO PROTECT THEM BEE OF HOW EPLY UNPOPULAR IS OUTSI OF TOMSK, MUCH TO WEBERG'S DISMAY. GOOD IS NOT SOFT: WEBERG SEEKS TO BUILD A RSIA EED OM TYRANTS AND EXTREMISM, A RSIA KD TO S WORKERS, AND THLS AGAST S ENEMI. NOTABLY, THE HUMANIST ARMY IS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE MORE TERRIFYG ON THE SALONS N BUILD, SCE THEY TAKE A LETTER OUT OF THE SWISS'S HANDBOOK AND ENACT UNIVERSAL NSCRIPTN OF THE POPULATN. HOME GUARD: FURTHER VELOPG THE REPUBLIN ARMY THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, WEBERG N ANIZE A MASSIVE CIVILIAN ARMY AS RERV, GIVG THEM AQUATE TRAG TO PREPARE THEM FOR FUTURE NFLICTS. NUMBER TWO: WEBERG IS THE PROTéGé OF DMRY SHOSTAKOVICH, BEFORE SUCCEEDG HIM AS THE HUMANISTS' LEAR WHEN SHOSTAKOVICH STEPS DOWN. RENCILE THE BTER FO: WEBERG AND THE HUMANIST'S MEGAPROJECT IS THE TOMSIBAR PLAN, WHICH AIMS TO EASE SEPARATIST SENTIMENTS TOMSK, NOVOSIBIRSK, AND BARNL BY NNECTG THEIR ASTCTURE VIA RAILWAYS AND FOSTERG UNY BETWEEN ALL OF THE REGNS. RICHARD NIXON, THE USED CAR SALMAN: THE REAL WEBERG WAS A POSER WHO HAD VERY LTLE VOLVEMENT POLICS. IN TNO, HE IS THE LEAR OF THE HUMANIST POLIL SALON AFTER SHOSTAKOVICH'S RIGNATN. SPELL MY NAME WH AN S: BEFTG HIS STAT AS AN ASHKENAZI JEW LIVG RSIA, HIS SURNAME IS VARLY SPELT AS WEBERG (THE ORIGAL GERMAN SPELLG) AND VEBERG (THE SAME WORD TRANSLERATED TO RSIAN CYRILLIC AND BACK TO ENGLISH). TAKG UP THE MANTLE: WEBERG IS THE PROTéGé OF SHOSTAKOVICH, SHARG HIS HUMANISTIC AND EGALARIAN VIEWS. WHEN SHOSTAKOVICH RETIR DUE TO POOR HEALTH, WEBERG IS HIS NATURAL CHOICE FOR A SUCCSOR. WEBERG AND THE HUMANISTS TAKE UP THE LEGACY OF THE 1917 AND 1918 REVOLUTNS. HOWEVER, WHEREAS THOSE REVOLUTNS FELL SHORT OF THEIR LOFTY IALS, WEBERG STICKS TO HIS PRCIPL AND CREAT A TLY EE AND PROSPERO RSIA. TEAM SWZERLAND: ON THE ROAD TO BEG A REGNAL POWER AFTER NQUERG THE FAR EAST, WEBERG PURSU A NTRAL FOREIGN POLICY WH THE OFN AND THE SPHERE, ONLY PURSUG TRA RELATNS WH THEM. YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGA: WEBERG'S NATIVE POLAND FELL TO THE NAZIS LONG AGO, AND HE WAS FORCED TO FLEE TO MSK AND THEN TASHKENT, BEFORE SETTLG TOMSK.ANDREY SAKHAROVROLE: HEAD OF STATE (ELECTN)PARTY: MORNISTYNOTE MORNISTSIOLOGY: LIBERAL TECHNOCRACYNOTE LIBERALISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW A LEARNED MAN ONCE SAID: "THE TTH IS NEVER SIMPLE." THAT MAN, OF URSE, WAS ANDREY DMRYEVICH SAKHAROV, A PLEX MAN FOR PLITED TIM. BORN TO THE TELLIGENTSIA, SAKHAROV FOUND SHELTER OM POLICS THE GILD GE OF SOVIET SCIENCE. KEEPG HIS HEAD DOWN AND IMMERSG HIMSELF HIS CHOSEN FIELD, SAKHAROV SURVIVED, SPE OCSNALLY DRAWG THE UNWELE ATTENTN OF THE THORI FOR OUTSPOKEN REMARKS AGAST PARTY-APPROVED AMIA. SAKHAROV MANAGED TO FD HIS WAY EASTWARDS AFTER THE LLAPSE OF BOLSHEVIK THORY, TAKG UP RINCE TOMSK. HIS TECHNOCRATIC, IALISTIC VIEWS BROUGHT HIM TO THE CLIQUE THAT WOULD BEE KNOWN AS THE MORNISTS. ESPOG A SCERE BELIEF THE POWER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE THE FOUNDATNS OF A BETTER SOCIETY, ANDREY SAKHAROV EMBODI THE IALISM OF TOMSK LIKE NO OTHER.SOVIET NUCLEAR PHYSICIST, AND CURRENTLY THE LEAR OF THE LIBERAL AND TECHNOCRATIC-MD MORNIST SALON AT TOMSK. ALLOHISTORIL ALLN: UNLIKE TOMSK'S OTHER LEARS, SAKHAROV WAS AN ACTUAL OUTSPOKEN SOVIET DISSINT AND A LIBERAL MOCRAT REAL LIFE. HE ALSO VELOPED THERMONUCLEAR WEAPONS, CLUDG THE TSAR BOMBA, FOR THE SOVIET UNN AND TNO, PERSONALLY HEADS THE TOMSK NUCLEAR PROGRAM. EMPEROR SCIENTIST: SAKHAROV IS A NUCLEAR PHYSICIST AND THE PRINTIAL NDIDATE FOR THE MORNISTS. TOMSK UNR SAKHAROV'S LEARSHIP WILL ACCELERATE S SCIENTIFIC VELOPMENTS AND MORNIZE S SOCIETY TO GREATLY IMPROVE S PEOPLE'S LIVG STANDARDS. THEIR SUPERPROJECT TURNS KEMEROVO TO A "RSIAN SILIN VALLEY," A GLOBAL BASTN OF TECHNOLOGIL ADVANCEMENT. THE IALIST: EVEN PARED TO THE OTHER POLICIANS OF TOMSK, SAKHAROV IS SGLED OUT AS THE MOST IALISTIC ONE OF THEM, ADVOTG REVOLUTNARY SCIENTIFIC PROGRS AND PHG THE BOUNDARI OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE. AS SUCH, HIS MEGAPROJECT, THE NEW SIBERIAN PLAN, IS MEANT TO BUILD TOMSK'S PUTER SCIENC DTRY, THE MOST IMPRSIVE OF ALL THE OTHER PROJECTS UNRTAKEN BY THE SALONS. NOT QUE THE RIGHT THG: IT'S NOTED THAT WHILE EE TN IS A GOOD IA PRCIPLE, PRACTICE THE AVERAGE POOR WORKER DON'T NECSARILY HAVE THE APPROPRIATE SOCIAL SAFETY TO TAKE TIME OFF AND ENGAGE WH . PRERVE YOUR GAYS: THE MORNISTS ARE THE ONLY SALON TO CRIMALIZE HOMOSEXUALY. THE PROUD ELE: DOWNPLAYED, PARED TO THE BASTILLARDS, BUT THE MORNISTS SEEK TO RTRICT THE VOTE TO THOSE WH A LLEGE TN, THOUGH THEY ALSO PH FOR EE LLEGE TN FOR ALL RSIANS. SHELTERED ARISTOCRAT: SAKHAROV MEANS WELL AND HIS REFORMS SOUND EXCEPTNAL ON PAPER, BUT HE N OCSNALLY LOS SIGHT OF WHAT THE MON RSIAN WANTS, FAILG TO TAILOR HIS SOCIAL POLICI TO THEIR LIFTYL. FOR EXAMPLE, HIS BENEF OF EE TN MAY NOT BE ENJOYED BY ALL RSIANS BEE THEY ARE TOO BY WH THEIR JOBS TO BOTHER LEARNG THE FIRST PLACE. THIS RULTS MORNIST TOMSK BEG PRACTICE MUCH MORE ELIST THAN SAKHAROV TENDS TO BE. THE SPOCK: NOTABLY, SAKHAROV'S STRATEGY TO STOP EXTREMIST PARTI OM TAKG POWER IS TO THK CRILLY OF WHO N BE TEGRATED AND WHO IS TOO DANGERO TO TAKE POWER.DANIIL KHARMSROLE: HEAD OF STATE (ELECTN)PARTY: BASTILYARYNOTE BASTILLARDSIOLOGY: CONTROLLED DEMOCRACYNOTE PATERNALISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW  DANIIL KHARMS - ORIGALLY DANIIL IVANOVICH YUVACHEV, BEFORE EMBRACG HIS PEN NAME - IS NOT THE KD OF MAN ANYONE ENVISNED LEADG A NATN. A STALWART OF THE LENGRAD AVANT-GAR MOVEMENT, KHARMS ACHIEVED ONLY LIMED LOL REGNN THE TERBELLUM YEARS. KNOWN PRIMARILY FOR HIS CHILDREN'S LERATURE, KHARMS ALSO WROTE AN EXTENSIVE RP OF ABSURDIST WORK THAT FOUND FAVOR WH DISSINTS AND IRRATED THE REVOLUTNARY TABLISHMENT TO NO END. HIS REER WAS CUT SHORT 1941 BY HIS ARRT AND MMENT TO A PSYCHIATRIC STUTE LENGRAD. HE MIGHT HAVE DIED THE FOLLOWG SIEGE, IF NOT FOR A SYMPATHETIC GUARD'S KDNS. AN ABSURD MIRACLE, FOR A WRER OF THE ABSURD. THAT KHARMS HAS FALLEN WH THE BASTILLARDS IS A SURPRISE ONLY TO THOSE UNFAIAR WH HIS WORK. THROUGH METAPHOR AND VAR OTHER LERARY VIC, HE HAS MA CLEAR HIS IOLOGIL PECULIARI: THE SUBLIMATN OF ARSE, UNBIDN SIR, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF REMAG HUMAN A WORLD FALLEN TO ANIMALISTIC BARBARY. NOT THE MOST ORTHODOX OF MEN TO LEAD A LAW-AND-ORR PARTY, BUT WHO'S TO SAY WHAT'S 'ORTHODOX' THE DAYS? POET, WRER, DRAMATIST, AND CURRENTLY THE HEAD OF TOMSK'S PRAGMATIC AND HOBBIAN-MD TRY GROUP SALON, A.K.A. THE BASTILLARDS. ANTI-HERO: OF THE UNSCPULO KD. THE BASTILLARDS TAKE MANY THORARIAN AND ANTI-POPULIST MEASUR SHOULD THEY W THE ELECTN WHILE NTUALLY SEPARATG THE ERNMENT OM THE MASS AND FORCG ALL THE WORKERS SI A SGLE STATE-N UNN. THEIR ACTNS THE FAR EAST WHILE FIGHTG FASCISM AREN'T ANY BETTER, WHICH CLU JAILG THEM NCENTRATN MPS. DPE ALL THIS, THEY ENACT UNIVERSAL LERACY PROGRAMS AND IMPLEMENT UNIVERSAL HEALTHRE (ALBE AT THE ST OF MIMUM WAGE) WHEN THEY ULD'VE JT KEPT THE POPULATN ILLERATE. KHARMS HIMSELF DON'T TAKE PLEASURE OPPRSG THE WORKERS AND SE AS A NECSARY EVIL TO ENSURE RSIA'S SURVIVAL. AT LEAST I ADM IT: HE NSIRS HIMSELF ABOVE THE UAL POLICIAN BEE HE'S OPENLY HONT ABOUT THE BASTILLARDS' DIFFERENCE TO THE MON WORKER. CORPT CORPORATE EXECUTIVE: DOWNPLAYED, BUT THE BASTILLARDS ARE ONE OF THE MORE EE-MARKET SALONS, AND THEY N POTENTIALLY ABOLISH THE MIMUM WAGE AND PUT ALL WORKERS A SGLE STATE-N UNN IF THEY SI WH THE DTRIAL GIANTS AGAST THEM. CREEPY GOOD: DOWNPLAYED. KHARMS IS SCRIBED AS A GNT AND SKELETAL DIVIDUAL, AND IS THE MOST MORALLY AMBIGUO OF TOMSK'S LEARS, BUT IS STILL RELATIVELY GOOD BY THE STANDARDS OF RSIA AS A WHOLE. FOIL: KHARMS AND THE BASTILLARDS ARE THIS TO POKRYSHK AND NOVOSIBIRSK'S SILOVIKI. WHILE THE BASTILLARDS AREN'T SOFT THEIR APPROACH TO ERNANCE, TAKG MANY THORARIAN AND ANTI-POPULIST MEASUR, THEY STILL GENUELY RE ABOUT THEIR UNTRYMEN AND BELIEVE THAT SUCH MEASUR ARE NECSARY TO RTORE ORR RSIA. THIS STANDS SHARP NTRAST TO THE LACK OF ANY REAL IALS AMONG THE SILOVIKI OTHER THAN A CYNIL DRIVE FOR POWER. FOR WANT OF A NAIL: UNR ARRT BY THE NKVD, KHARMS WAS IMPRISONED LENGRAD, WHICH THE NAZIS VAD DURG WORLD WAR II. HOWEVER, WHILE HE PERISHED THERE OTL, A KD GUARD THIS TIMELE TOOK PY ON KHARMS AND RELEASED HIM, ALLOWG HIM TO PE TO TOMSK. I DID WHAT I HAD TO DO: AS THEIR AFTER MIDNIGHT CHARACTERIZATN SHOWS, THE BASTILLARDS DON'T ENJOY THE THORARIAN MEASUR THEY UNRTAKE TO STABILIZE AND REBUILD RSIA... BUT THEY FEEL THAT BEG TOO SOFT WILL LEAD TO DISASTRO LONG-TERM NSEQUENC. PAY EVIL UNTO EVIL: ONCE THEY REACH THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE AND TAKE OVER THE FAR EAST, THE BASTILLARDS WILL ENACT "-HARBIZATN" PROGRAMS TO TRY TO CLEAN OUT FASCIST FLUENCE. THE MEASUR CLU SECRET POLICE AND NCENTRATN MPS, WHICH ARE VERY REPRSIVE, BUT AT LEAST THE VICTIMS ARE SOME OF THE LEAST SYMPATHETIC PEOPLE SIBERIA. PET THE DOG: THEIR ERNMENT ISN'T ALL THORARIAN OPPRSN; THE BASTILLARDS DO ENACT UNIVERSAL LERACY MPAIGNS AND UNIVERSAL HEALTHRE, THOUGH THE LATTER AT THE EXPENSE OF MIMUM WAGE. THE PROUD ELE: THE BASTILLARD SALON IS SPIC OF EXCS POPULISM SUCH AN EMERGENCY SUATN, AND PH TO SULATE ERNMENT OM SHORT-SIGHTED VOTERS. THEY ACTUALLY REFORM THE ERNMENT SUCH THAT ONLY THE UNELECTED BET IS ALLOWED TO DRAFT LAWS WHILE THE ASSEMBLY N ONLY VOTE "Y OR NO" ON THEM. THE PURGE: THE BASTILLARDS WILL TRY TO "-HARBIZE" THE FAR EAST IF THEY REACH THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, G ERNMENT LISTS OF SUBVERSIV, SECRET POLICE, NCENTRATN MPS, AND OTHER REPRSIVE MEASUR TO LIM FASCIST FLUENCE ON THEIR NASCENT MOCRACY. REALPOLIK: EVEN THOUGH JAPAN'S PUPPET MANCHURIA OCCUPI SOME RSIAN FAR EAST TERRORY, KHARMS' MEGAPROJECT, THE NATNAL REDOUBT, AIMS TO PRAGMATILLY IMPROVE TRA RELATNS WH THEM, VELOPG THEIR PORTS TO ACCS THE FOREIGN MARKETS OF MANCHURIA. REFUGE AUDACY: AT A MPAIGN EVENT, HE ACKNOWLEDG CLAIMS THAT THE BASTILLARDS DON'T RE MUCH FOR THE AVERAGE WORKER, AND EMBRAC THEM, SAYG THAT THE FENSE AND MATENANCE OF THE REPUBLIC MT E FIRST AND THAT THE BASTILLARDS ADM THIS RATHER THAN HIDG . RICHARD NIXON, THE USED CAR SALMAN: IN REAL LIFE, KHARMS WAS A POET, WRER AND DRAMATIST NOTABLE FOR HIS AVANT-GAR ABSURDIST WORKS AND HUMORO CHILDREN'S STORI (HE ALSO DIED DURG THE SIEGE OF LENGRAD, WHICH HE SURVIVED TNO THANKS TO THE HELP OF A KD GUARD). IN THIS TIMELE, HE HAS FOUND HIMSELF A PLACE TOMSK'S TELLIGENTSIA-GUID MOCRACY AS LEAR OF THE BASTILLARD POLIL SALON.VIKTOR NEKRASOVROLE: HEAD OF STATE (SBA LLAPSE)PARTY: GUMANISTYNOTE HUMANISTSIOLOGY: UTOPIAN SOCIALISMNOTE PROGRSIVISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW (WARNG: UNMARKED SPOILERS) DISILLNED WH THE TYRANNY OF CHAIRMAN YAGODA AND AT ODDS WH THE RPORATE PALISTS OF NOVOSIBIRSK, VIKTOR PLATONOVICH NEKRASOV FOUND HIMSELF MOST CLOSELY ALIGNED WH SHOSTAKOVICH AND THE HUMANIST SALON TOMSK. DPE THIS, NEKRASOV ULD NEVER FD HIS FOOTG WH THE MORE RADIL SOCIAL MOCRATS AND MORATE SOCIALISTS. NEKRASOV FELT LOST. HIS IOLOGY WAS MUCH TO THE LEFT OF PROMENT HUMANISTS YET STILL TO THE RIGHT OF THE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT CULTIVATG TO THE SOUTH. WHOUT A MOVEMENT TO LL HOME, NEKRASOV RIGNED HIMSELF TO A LIFE OF WRG, A PASSN HE HAD PICKED UP AFTER SETTLG THE TELLECTUAL HEART OF RSIA. NEKRASOV TOOK AN TERT JOURNALISM. HIS LACK OF IOLOGIL ALIGNMENT MAY HAVE LEFT HIM ISOLATED BUT GRANTED HIM AN EXCEPTNAL REER AS A WAR RRPONNT, VERG THE MOVEMENTS OF WARLORDS ACROSS CENTRAL SIBERIA AND TO THE EAST. IT WAS THE BLACK ARMY THAT GARNERED THE MOST ATTENTN OM HIM. IF HIS ATTENTN WAS NOT PTURED BY THE EXPANSN OF THE FREE TERRORY, S LEARS MARCHG DOWN THE STREETS OF TOMSK MOST CERTALY DID. WHILE HIS VIEWS DIDN'T LE UP WH SIUDAIST THOUGHT ONE TO ONE, HE HAD LTLE PLATS THE FOLLOWG THE LIBERATN OF THE CY. THE ABOLISHMENT OF THE SALON SYSTEM OFFERED HIM MORE SAY THAN PREVLY, AND THE TERRORY'S AVERSN TO THORARIANISM WAS CERTALY APPRECIATED. AS DAYS AND WEEKS WENT BY, HOWEVER, SEEMED AS THOUGH THE NFLICT TOMSK NEVER CEASED. ANARCHIST SPLTER GROUPS LOYAL TO DIFFERENT FACTNS AND PHILOSOPHI BATTLED OPENLY THE STREETS PROMPTG LARGER QUANTI OF BLACK ARMY TACHMENTS TO POLICE THE CY. AS THE NFLICT SWELLED, NEKRASOV FELT A DIVI GROW HIM AS WELL. IF HISTORY WERE TO NTUE, IF SCHOLARS AND SCRIB ULD STILL FD WORK A CUTTHROAT ERA OF UTILARIANISM, THE MARCH ON TOMSK WOULD GO DOWN AS THE MOST SIGNIFINT WORKERS STRIKE OF A GENERATN AND VIKTOR NEKRASOV WOULDN'T BE WHERE HE WAS. HOWEVER, FATE IS OFTEN UNKD, AND THOSE WH THE BT TENTNS OFTEN FD THEMSELV ON THE WRONG SI OF HISTORY. DEFECTOR OM DENCE: IF THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY UNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA, NEKRASOV IS NTENT TO WORK WH THEM, UNTIL STEPANOV'S MEN BEG PATROLLG THE STREETS OF TOMSK AND VANDALIZG THEIR CY, WHICH MOTIVAT HIM TO SECE WHEN THE FREE TERRORY LLAPS ALTOGETHER. THE REMNANT: TAKG NTROL OF TOMSK THE EVENT OF THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY'S LLAPSE, NEKRASOV REPRENTS THE REMNANT HUMANIST FACTN.    NOVOSIBIRSK FLAG OF THE RSIAN FERATN  OFFICIAL NAME: FERATN OF NOVOSIBIRSK AND ALTAY, CENTRAL SIBERIAN FERATN (REGNAL UNIFITN), SIBERIAN FERATN (SUPERREGNAL UNIFITN), RSIAN FERATN (NATNAL UNIFITN)RULG PARTY: NOVOSIBIRSKIYE SILOVIKOTE STRONGMEN OF NOVOSIBIRSKIOLOGY: OLIGARCHYNOTE PATERNALISMA SECSNIST SIBERIAN REPUBLIC CREATED AFTER THE SIBERIAN WAR, ERNED BY A CLIQUE OF EX-ARY POWERHOLRS (SILOVIKI) OM THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC. OSTENSIBLY MOCRATIC, THE UNTRY IS FACT A CYNIL PALIST OLIGARCHY, WHOSE LEARS PRRIZE POWER AND STABILY OVER IOLOGY, CREATG AN UNTOUCHABLE CLASS OF ERNMENT-BACKED LOL MEGARPORATNS. ACE PILOT: APPROPRIATELY FOR A REGIME N BY A RETIRED ACE, A SIZABLE PORTN OF NOVOSIBIRSK'S GENERAL STAFF NSISTS OF SOVIET AC DURG THE SEND WORLD WAR, CLUDG FIELD MARSHAL ALEXANR NOVIKOV, HEAD OF THE SOVIET AIR FORCE FOR MUCH OF THE WAR. AGENT PROVOTR: DOMTIC COMMUNIST RISTANCE FIGHTERS EVENTUALLY BEG TRYG TO PLANT THEIR NUMBERS TO THE ARMY AND SPREAD WEAPONS AROUND AGATED WORKFORC TO CE FURTHER REBELLN. ALL ARE EQUAL DEATH: AS SOME SOLDIERS CRACK DARK JOK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A MUNIST OR FASCIST IS SHOT, THE JOKTER FISH HIS ROUTE A MORE SOMBER MOOD ABOUT HOW FIVE MEN (A MUNIST, TWO ANARCHISTS, A FASCIST, AND A COSSACK) DON'T DISCS POLIL THEORY WHEN THEY DIE, BUT RATHER CRY OUT FOR THEIR MOTHERS. ALLOHISTORIL ALLN: NOVOSIBIRSK N ENACT THE VIRG LANDS CAMPAIGN S STARTG FOC TREE. ANIMAL MOTIFS: AS THE NAME IMPLI, FENIKS IS REPRENTED BY THE PHOENIX BIRD, SYMBOLIZG THEIR EXTREME AGGRSIVENS AND FOC ON PRODUCG ARY EQUIPMENT. SIBIR'S LOGO IS A BEAR, REPRENTG THEIR FOC ON AGRICULTURE AND CLOSENS TO NATURE. APPEAL TO FORCE: AFTER BG ENOMIC PRSURE, FLNTG OF S ARY POWER AND REFUL NEGOTIATNS, THE FERATN N NVCE S RIVALS TO SUBM TO S ORR BY PROMISG THAT S CYNIL POLIL MACHE WILL BE FAR MORE PRACTIL THAN ANY PHILOSOPHIL AND POLIL CLATNS. ARCH-ENEMY: THEY HAVE THE MOST PROBLEMS WH TOMSK, WH WHOM THEY IOLOGILLY OPPOSE AND ANTICIPATE NFLICT WH THE MOST. TAN, ONE OF THEIR MEGA-RPORATNS, WAS EVEN THE RIVAL TO ONE OF THE SALONS UNR THE REPUBLIC. ASSHOLE VICTIM: IF THE SBA FEATS NOVOSIBIRSK, MOST OF THE ARY STRONGMEN AND CHIEF OFFICERS OF THE MEGA RPORATNS ARE EHER IMPRISONED OR EXECUTED. CAN’T SAY WE FEEL BAD FOR THEM. THE ASSIATOR: NOVOSIBIRSK TENDS TO STRIP WARLORDS OF THEIR GRANR AMBNS AND PREV ALLEGIANC SO THEY MAY SERVE THE BTERLY PRAGMATIC AND CENTRALIZED ORR THE FERATN PROVIS. BLACK MARKET: WH A LARGE POPULATN AND A VELOPED ENOMY, NOVOSIBIRSK'S ERNMENT HAS FACED MANY PROBLEMS WH BATTG THE ILLEGAL TRA OF DGS. AS THE PROBLEM NTU TO SPIRAL OUT OF NTROL, THIS IS BEGNG TO HAVE A GREATER EFFECT ON THE MUNY, AND ADDICTN IS BEG CREASGLY MON NOVOSIBIRSK. BODY MOTIFS: IN TAN'S SCRIPTN, FENIKS IS REFERRED TO AS THE FERATN'S MCLE, SIBIR AS THE BEATG HEART, AND TAN SELF AS THE BRA. BORG, BUT PRACTIL: NOVOSIBIRSK ISN'T AS LORFUL AS THE OTHER CENTRAL SIBERIAN WARLORDS, BUT THEIR GREATER DTRIAL BASE AND SUPPORT OM THE MEGARPORATNS MAK THEM ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL AND EFFICIENT PLAC THE REGN. MANY OF THE ADVANTAG ARE EVEN RRIED OVER AND MULTIPLIED THE REGNAL STAGE. THE SILOVIK REGIME HAS A UNIQUE MECHANIC WHERE THE MEGARPORATNS N FILTRATE OTHER WARLORD STAT AND E THEIR VAST ROURC TO BUY OUT THEIR ASSETS, PUTTG ENOMIC PRSURE ON THEM TO PEACEFULLY UNE WH NOVOSIBIRSK. IT'S NOT AS FLASHY AS GOG TO WAR, BUT IS AN EFFECTIVE MEANS OF RNIFYG RSIA WHOUT SPENDG MUCH MANPOWER. BREAD AND CIRC: NEARLY SAID VERBATIM THE FOC "BREAD AND GAM", WHERE THE SILOVIK JUNTA GIV EASY ACCS TO FOOD AND ENTERTAMENT SO THE PEOPLE DON'T GET ANY FUNNY IAS ABOUT REBELLG. BUT NOT TOO FOREIGN: AN ACE PILOT NOVOSIBIRSK IS AMET-KHAN SULTAN, WHO IS A CRIMEAN TATAR WHO WANTS REVENGE ON THE NAZIS FOR SECRATG HIS HOMELAND AND HELPS SHSH HIS ELECTORAL MPAIGN. CAPALISM IS BAD: BEFTG S CYBERPUNK NATURE. WORKERS ARE MA TO TOIL UNR THE LE OF THE OPPRSIVE SILOVIKI AND STGGLE FOR THEIR RIGHTS, RPORATE POWERS REMA ONLY NCERNED WH FLOODG THEIR OWN POCKETS AND BOAST ENOUGH FLUENCE TO SWAY ERNMENT OFFICIALS WH EASE, THE SYSTEM IS UALLY UNABLE TO PROPERLY ADDRS THE RISE OF HARMFUL BLACK MARKET TRAS, THE DTRIAL ADVANCEMENTS NSTANTLY POLLUTE THE ENVIRONMENT, AND NEGOTIATG THE ANNEXATN OF OTHER STAT RENRS THE MOST DITED IOLOGU TO MISERABLE SLAV TO THE DREARY AND PRAGMATIC ORR. NO MATTER HOW MANY RORTS TO DIRECT ACTN THERE ARE, THE EL STAMP OUT EVERY THREAT OF RISTANCE THE NAME OF SECURG PROF. THIS PECIALLY STICKS OUT FOR THEIR RPORATIST OPTNS. CHOOSG NTRALY: DURG THE SIBERIAN WAR, ALEXANR POKRYSHK AND VASILY SHSH, UNWILLG TO SEE THE YOUNG MEN OM THEIR HOMETOWNS DIE POTLSLY ON THE BATTLEFIELD, SEIZED NOVOSIBIRSK AND FORMED A NEW ERNMENT EE OM ANY FLUENCE, TLY NTRAL AMIDST THE CHAOS RSIA. IN THE REGNAL STAGE, SIBIR AND FENIKS SIRE AN ALLIANCE WH THE SPHERE AND OFN, RPECTIVELY, FORCG THE ERNMENT TO MANAGE S TRA FLUENCE WH BOTH FACTNS. IF THE FLUENCE NUMBERS ARE EQUAL, THE ERNMENT WILL BE UNABLE TO PICK A PARTNER. CCNAT: AS NOVOSIBIRSK EXPANDS THROUGHOUT CENTRAL SIBERIA, ARY ERNORS ARE APPOTED TO MANAGE THE NEWLY NQUERED TERRORI, BUT THIS IS A TEMPORARY MEASURE UNTIL THE ENTIRE REGN IS UNIFIED AND NTROL N BE PASSED DOWN TO NEW OFFICIALS. CONTROL FREAK: THE ERNMENT SWEARS THAT ONLY HAS THE TERTS OF S PEOPLE AS A PRRY TO JTIFY S CREASG REACH AND CENTRALIZATN. CORPORATE WARFARE: THE VAR MEGA-RPS OFTEN SEND WELL-ARMED REPRENTATIV TO ATTACK ANIZED POPULAR MONSTRATNS OR ONE ANOTHER, AND THEY UALLY GET AWAY WH . CORPT POLICIAN: VASILY SHSH LAMENTS THAT MANY OF HIS SUPPOSEDLY-TSTED AIS ARE THE POCKET OF THE RPORATE FATTS PREYG UPON BARNL'S PROSPERY. THE CORPTER: THE ERNMENT HAS NO GRANR, VIRTUO MORALY BEHD S SYSTEM, BEG MERELY NCERNED WH PROGRS UNR A JAD LENS AND STEADY VELOPMENT. AS AN APOLIL ENTY, THE STATE N NVCE ANY WARLORD TO JO S E IF THEY HAVE THE RIGHT FLUENCE AND FACTORS TO TEMPT THEM. CYBERPUNK: VOKEDWORD OF GOD STAT THAT NOVOSIBIRSK WAS EXPLICLY FLUENCED BY THE GENRE, AND 'S PECIALLY OBV S RPORATIST PATH. CYBERPUNK IS TECHNO: UNLIKE MANY OF THE OTHER RSIAN WARLORDS WHOSE UNIFITN THEM ARE ORCHTRAL OR VOL, NOVOSIBIRSK'S ARE ELECTRONIC SYNTH PIEC BY NOVOSIBIRSK NATIVE EDUARD ARTEMYEV. DEATH OM ABOVE: THEY HAVE ACCS TO MOST OF THE FORMER CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC'S AIR FORCE AND WILL WANT TO IMPROVE WHAT THEY HAVE. SO MUCH OF THE FORMER AIR FORCE'S OFFICIALS MAKE UP THEIR ERNMENT THAT EVEN THE PRINT IS AN ACE PILOT. IN THE REGNAL STAGE, THERE ARE SIX PROJECTS ABOUT VELOPG NEW AVIATN TECHNOLOGY. DEFEAT MEANS FRIENDSHIP: TO UNTER THE RISE OF DISSINTS THE FAR EAST, THE SILOVIK REGIME RECS FEATED ARY OFFICERS, BLACKSHIRTS, AND NKVD AGENTS TO ADMISTER THE NEWLY NQUERED TERRORI AS VOLKOMATS (ARY MISSARIATS). DEFECTOR OM DENCE: NOVOSIBIRSK SECED OM THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, REFG TO SEE MORE SOLDIERS PUT THEIR LIV AT RISK OM THE SIBERIAN WAR. THEY PECIALLY MAKE THIS KNOWN REGARDG TOMSK, WH THEM FDG GREAT DISTASTE AT THE SEEMGLY OVERLY-OPTIMISTIC IOLOGU OF THE SALONS THAT THEY BELIEVE TO HAVE FAILED THEM. DEFIANT TO THE END: AFTER NQUERG THE SIBERIAN ANARCHISTS, THE BLACK ARMY WOULD REMA THE MOST RISTANT TO ANNEXATN. THOUGH THEIR NUMBERS DWDLED AS MEMBERS ABANDONED THEIR E OR GAVE UP, THE ALL-SIBERIAN ARMY ADMS THAT THE REMNANTS WILL NEVER TLY GO AWAY, BUT N AT LEAST REMA NOTHG MORE THAN SPARSE NUISANC. DK JOCKEY: ONE SOLDIER IS VOLUNTEERED TO VIS ATRALIA ON A DIPLOMACY TRIP. TO HIM, 'S NOT ONLY PLETELY BORG, 'S AWFULLY DANGERO HAVG TO WHSTAND THE HEAT AND DANGERO ANIMALS THAT ARE SEEMGLY EVERYWHERE. IT DON'T HELP EHER THAT THE ATRALIAN ENVOYS ARE PREHENSIBLE DUE TO THEIR THICK ACCENTS. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: DIPLOMATILLY ANNEXG THEIR NEIGHBORS VOLV NVCG THE POPULATNS TO GIVE UP ON THEIR MORE OPTIMISTIC AND AMB ENAVORS, ALLOWG THE FERATN TO BUY THEM ALL OUT. SHSH OPPOS THIS AND WILL MAKE AN EFFORT TO BRG IALISM BACK TO THE PEOPLE UNR HIS GUIDANCE. DIDN'T THK THIS THROUGH: AFTER NQUERG OYROTIA, THE ERNOR SENT TO MANAGE THE TERRORY EXPECTS TO BE AN EASY JOB OF TG A BUNCH OF "BACKWARDS PEASANTS". UNFORTUNATELY, BY THE TIME HE ARRIV, HE REALIZ THAT HE HAS VIRTUALLY NO LEGIMACY AMONG THE PEOPLE HE'S SUPPOSED TO LE, MAKG HIS JOB A LOT HARR AND STRSFUL THAN HE ANTICIPATED. DIVI AND CONQUER: THE SILOVIK MATA THEIR NTROL BY TURNG THE RADIL LEFT- AND RIGHT-WG MOVEMENTS AGAST EACH OTHER, LETTG THEM TEAR EACH OTHER APART SO THAT THEY ARE BOTH RCED TO IRRELEVANCY. DRILL SERGEANT NASTY: THE DRILL SERGEANTS NOVOSIBIRSK ARE SOME OF THE STRICTT CENTRAL SIBERIA, OWG TO THEIR GREATER FOC ON ARISM. ELE ARMY: THE ALL-SIBERIAN ARMY OF NOVOSIBIRSK IS AMONGST THE BT ARY FORC THE REGN WH LOTS OF EXPERIENCE OM YEARS OF NFLICT. EVIL CANNOT COMPREHEND GOOD: DOWNPLAYED. THE SILOVIK ARE ASTOUND BY THE MORE ECCENTRIC ERNMENTS CENTRAL SIBERIA, OPENLY WONRG HOW THEY EVEN SURVIVED AS LONG AS THEY DID. HOWEVER, THEY DO UNRSTAND ENOUGH OF THEIR APPEAL TO EMULATE SOME OF THEIR POLICI "SPECIAL ADMISTRATIVE ZON" SIGNED TO W FAVOR OM THE PEOPLE. EVIL COUNTERPART: THE TAN CORPORATN SHAR MANY PARALLELS WH THE MORNISTS TOMSK, BOTH PRISG OF VISNARY SCIENTISTS THAT PROMOTE EE-MARKET POLICI. HOWEVER, WHEREAS THE MORNISTS ARE NCERNED ABOUT HELPG THE MON FOLK, TAN HAS NO PROBLEMS SUBJECTG THE WORKERS TO HORRID NDNS FOR THE SAKE OF PROGRS AND EFFICIENCY. A FATHER TO HIS MEN: GENERAL VASILY MARGELOV IS BELOVED BY HIS OWN SOLDIERS, WHERE HE'S BEEN AFFECTNATELY NICKNAMED "UNCLE VASYA". FOIL: NOVOSIBIRSK, WHICH EMERGED AS A REACTN TO THE FAILED IALISM OF THE TELLIGENTSIA TOMSK, IS A DARK MIRROR OF THE STATE SPL OM. WHILE OSTENSIBLY MOCRATIC, IS APOLIL AND GROUND CYNICISM TO A FLT. APART OM THE ACQUISN OF POWER, AND STAG THE STATE'S SURVIVAL (AND/OR THAT OF THE MEGARPORATNS), STANDS FOR NOTHG AND IS LDLY PRAGMATIC. FASCIST, BUT INEFFICIENT: INIALLY, WHEN TO ADDRSG THE COMMUNIST RISTANCE MOVEMENTS. DURG THE FIRST PHAS OF CENTRALIZATN, THE GUERRILLAS STILL MANAGED TO GET AWAY, OFFICIAL FORC END UP TAKG EACH OTHER OUT, OR BOTH. FURTHER RTRICTIVE MEASUR GIVE THEM BETTER CHANC LATER ON. THE FERATN: THE FERATN OF NOVOSIBIRSK AND ALTAY, AS NOVOSIBIRSK IS OFFICIALLY KNOWN, WAS FORMED BY AN UNEASY ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE MUNICIPAL ERNMENTS OF NOVOSIBIRSK AND BARNL, AND PREFERS TO PEACEFULLY UNE OTHER WARLORDS UNR THEIR FERATN, STEAD OF BUILDG A UNARY STATE. FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS: SUBVERTED. PRO-FERATN CIZENS DISMISS THE WORKER STRIK THAT POP UP NOVOSIBIRSK, NSIRG THEM UNGRATEFUL FOR THE STABILY AND FORTS THAT THE STATE GIV TO THE PEOPLE. HOWEVER, THIS IS LARGELY IGNORANT OF THE WIR AB THAT OCCUR UNR THE SILOVIK AND EVENTS SHOW THAT THE STRIKERS HAVE VERY JTIFIABLE REASONS TO PROTT THEM. FRAME-UP: WHEN AN ANARCHIST WRER IS UGHT NEARLY PUBLISHG A DAMNG ARTICLE AGAST THE SILOVIK, HE IS ARRTED ON THE FALSE GROUNDS OF HAVG UNRAGE SEX. GREED: CORPORATNS' ONLY NCERN THEMSELV WH MAKG SURE THAT THE FLOW OF PROFS REMA DIRECTED TO THEM, AND NOBODY ELSE. EVEN IF MEANS CHALLENGG PARTS OF THE ERNMENT. INDTRIALIZED EVIL: PART OF THEIR ANTAGONISTIC BEHAVR IS OM HOW THEY MANAGE TO PLETELY STRIP AWAY ANY AND ALL IALISM AND AMBN OM THEIR OPPOSN, PERSUADG S POPULATN TO STIFLG THEIR CREATIVE SPIRS SO THEY MAY SPEND TIME CHURNG OUT PLA RULTS AND DATA. THE CENTRALIZED ANT ERNMENT MAK SURE TO PASS SEVERAL POLICI TO BREAK EVEN THE MOST DITED PARTISANS TO DOWNTRODN FACTORY WORKERS ALMOST EN MASSE. THE INFILTRATN: TO DISMANTLE THE NARODNIKS, SB AGENTS ARE SENT UNRVER TO SPY AND SABOTAGE THEIR PLANS OM WH. INVADG REFUGE: NUMERO RSIANS HAVE FLED TO NOVOSIBIRSK, SEEG AS A BEAN OF STABILY THE RSIAN ANARCHY. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS HAS CREATED TERNAL ISSU THAT WILL NEED TO BE CLEARED UP BEFORE NOVOSIBIRSK N THK OF EXPANSN. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: THE MEGARPORATNS ENURAGE AN OVERTLY MYOPIC ATTU, S EXECUTIV RG ONLY FOR THEIR FANCIAL BOTTOM LE AND THEIR PANY'S NTUED EXISTENCE OVER THGS LIKE WORKERS' RIGHTS OR NATNAL TERTS. THE SILOVIKI, MEANWHILE, SEE THEMSELV AS THE ONLY ON ABLE TO RE THEM TO RE EVEN MARGALLY ABOUT SOMETHG OTHER THAN THEMSELV. KNOW WHEN TO FOLD 'EM: WHEN THE SB RAID A NARODNIK BASE, WH HELP OM A SPY, THEY ORR THE TERRORISTS TO STAND DOWN. THE NARODNIK MANR TRI TO GET HIS RAS TO OPEN FIRE, BUT HIS MEN SEE THE FUTILY FURTHER RISTANCE AND DROP THEIR WEAPONS SURRENR. AFTER A BRIEF AND TENSE FIREFIGHT, THE LAST NARODNIK HOLDOUT SURRENRS THEMSELV TO STOP THE KILLG, OFFICIALLY PUTTG AN END TO THEIR REBELLN WH A WHIMPER. LARGE HAM RAD: RAD FREE SIBERIA HAMY BROADSTS PROPAGANDA SUPPORT OF THE ERNMENT. THE LAST OF THE IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS: THE LAST MEGARPORATN LISTED THE GUI IS "THE PEOPLE", WHICH ACTUALLY MEASUR HOW POPULAR THE REGIME IS RATHER THAN THE FLUENCE OF A NORMAL PANY. LIKE FATHER, UNLIKE SON: DPE BEG ANTI-MUNIST HIMSELF, ONE SOLDIER OF THE SIBERIAN ARMY HAS PARENTS WHO WERE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY, WHICH MAK HIM A NATURAL TARGET OF THE HIGH MAND'S SPICN WHEN THEY BEG CRACKG DOWN ON MARXIST FILTRATORS. MEGA-CORP: NOVOSIBIRSK'S UNIQUE MECHANIC IS CENTERED AROUND MANAGG THE FLUENCE AND APPROVAL OF THREE MEGARPORATNS, NICKNAMED THE NATNAL CHAMPNS, THAT NTROL LARGE PORTNS OF THE UNTRY'S ENOMY AND DTRY. THE THREE MAJOR ON ARE THE ARY-DTRIAL FENIKS, THE BANKG AND FARMG ANIZATN OF SIBIR, AND THE TECHNOCRATIC REARCH STUTE OF TAN. EACH OF THE THREE PULLS NOVOSIBIRSK DIFFERENT, OPPOSG DIRECTNS OVER TIME, ADDN TO OFFERG BUFFS FOR HIGHER POWER AND LOYALTY, WH FENIKS MAKG THE FERATN MORE CENTRALIZED, SIBIR MORE FERAL, AND TAN MORE RPORATIST. THE PEOPLE REPRENT A FOURTH TEGORY WH S OWN POWER AND LOYALTY METERS, THEY MAKE THE FERATN MORE LLECTIVIST. MERCHANT CY: IN THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, MAGADAN BE A MAJOR POT OF FOC BY THE SILOVIK, WHO DTRIALIZE EVEN FURTHER TO ENURAGE GREATER TRA OM THE PACIFIC. NO SYMPATHY: THE PANI NOVISIBIRSK ONLY RE ABOUT PROF AND, IF A UNN STRIKE CROPS UP, THEY SEND THE POLICE TO HAVE VLENTLY SHUT DOWN WH TEAR GAS AND BULLETS. OBLIVLY EVIL: AS "THE DAILY BROADSHEET" SHOWS, AT LEAST SOME OF THE RPORATE ELE ARE SO OUT OF TOUCH WH THE MON CIZENS THAT THEY REMA UNAWARE OF THE STGGL AND TURMOIL THAT THE LOWER CLASS FACE. SOME BELIEVE THAT THEIR OWN SUCCS HAD TO MEAN THEIR WORKERS WERE JT AS HAPPY AND SUCCSFUL AS THEM. AN OFFER YOU CAN'T REFE: THOUGH OUTRIGHT ATH UALLY ISN'T THE ALTERNATIVE, THE FERATN LOV SENDG PROPOSNS TO S NEIGHBORG STAT' OFFICIALS AND GIVG THEM THE CHANCE TO PE TO BETTER NDNS. OLD SOLDIER: PLENTY OF THE SILOVIKI ARE BATTLE-HARNED VETERANS WH A LONG HISTORY OF BATTLE UNR THEIR BELTS. ONE NATN UNR COPYRIGHT: NOVOSIBIRSK BY 1962 IS ON THE VERGE OF BEG THIS, WH THE THREE MEGARPORATNS ALREADY WIELDG NSIRABLE FLUENCE UNR THE SILOVIKI'S RELATIVE OVERSIGHT. DEPENDG ON WHO ASSUM NTROL, THIS ULD EHER BE RERCED OR, UNR SHHK, BE AVERTED. OPERATN: [BLANK]: NOVOSIBIRSK'S FOC TO CLARE WAR ON AND NQUER OTHER CENTRAL SIBERIAN WARLORDS ARE ALL NAMED OPERATN: X. ORR IS NOT GOOD: EVERYTHG NS LIKE A WELL-OILED MACHE NOVOSIBIRSK, BUT THIS ENOMIC STABILY AT THE ST OF ANY ENOMIC MOBILY OR LIBERALIZATN, WHICH IS SEEN AS DANGERO BY POKRYSHK AND THE SILOVIK. OVERPOPULATN CRISIS: DUE TO OVERPOPULATN THE CI, A FAME WILL NEED TO BE AVERTED BY ACQUIRG FOOD OM BARNL'S FARMLAND AND RETTLG THE PEOPLE TO UNCULTIVATED TERRORI. PERSECUTED INTELLECTUALS: DOWNPLAYED, BUT THE ERNMENT HAS VERY LTLE TOLERANCE FOR THE TELLIGENTSIA OF TOMSK AND ANYTHG NOT GEARED TOWARDS THE CYNIL STANDARDS OF THE SYSTEM'S MANDS. POLICI ARE OFTEN PASSED AND ENFORCED TO STAMP OUT ANYTHG THAT ULD DIVERT THEM OM BTER PRAGMATISM. HOWEVER, THEY DO ENURAGE SCIENTIFIC STUDY AND NOVATN UNR THE CENTRAL DIGN BURE, PROVID THAT THEY ARE EFUL TO THE REGIME. POLICE STATE: TO AL WH THE RISE OF UNLY WORKERS, PROTTORS AND RISTANCE FIGHTERS, MORE ANT MANDS FOR POLICE ARE LLED FOR TO ELIMATE THE CROWDS BY BLOODY MEANS. ONCE THE NARDONIKS BEE FURTHER DAC WH THEIR OPERATNS, ERNMENT FORC BEG TO RAMP UP SECURY MEASUR AND ENACT A PURGE OF S PEOPLE. SOME CIZENS EVEN ACCEPT THIS GROSS EXPANSN OF POWER BEE THEY PREFER SECURY OVER A LIFE OF UNCERTA EEDOM. CONCERNED WH TOTAL SECURY, TERRORI ARE ORRED TO BE FILLED WH SOLDIERS AND ARMORED VEHICL, AS SEEN AFTER NOVOSIBIRSK ANNEX TOMSK. POLILLY INRRECT VILLA: THE REGIME IS UNIENDLY TO SEXUAL MORI, WH ONE GAY PLAYWRER FORBIDN OM PUBLISHG HIS WORKS ON THE BASIS OF HIS SEXUALY. PRAGMATIC VILLAY: THE SILOVIK MIGHT GIVE TOKEN MOCRATIC NCSNS THE REGNAL STAGE, BUT ONLY TO GIVE THE ILLN THAT THEY ARE SLG BACK THEIR TYRANNY AND TH W GOOD PUBLICY. RATHER THAN PASS THE SOVEREIGN SECURY ACT TO CRACK DOWN ON REMAG SOCIALIST DISSINTS, THE SILOVIK N REACH OUT TO LABOR UNNS AND PROMISE WH THEM, BUT MORE TO PROTECT THEIR DTRIAL TERTS THAN GENUE NCERN FOR THEM. A MAJOR ENOMIC FOC OF THE SILOVIK IS THE VELOPMENT OF A CIVILIAN DTRY THAT RAIS THE LIVG STANDARDS OF THE AVERAGE RSIAN AND TH MAKG THEM LS MOTIVATED TO LNCH A POPULAR REVOLT. THE PROMISED LAND: DOWNPLAYED. MANY RSIANS HAVE IMMIGRATED TO NOVOSIBIRSK BEE S ONE OF THE MOST DTRIALIZED AND STABLE CI RSIA, EVEN IF N'T BE LLED "EE". PROPAGANDA MACHE: RAD FREE SIBERIA PEDDL PRO-SILOVIK PROPAGANDA THAT JTIFI ALL OF THEIR ATROCI AS A NECSARY STEP TO STRENGTHENG THE STATE FOR S FUTURE NFLICT WH GERMANY. IT'S SO EFFECTIVE THAT PEOPLE WHO KNOW S PROPAGANDA HEAR ANYWAYS OM EAVDROPPG OTHER PEOPLE AND TERNALIZG THE RMATN. PYRRHIC VICTORY: WHEN A UN OF SOLDIERS ARE SENT TO QUASH REMNANT NKVD FORC IRKUTSK, THEY MANAGE TO TAKE OVER THEIR MAJOR HOLDOUT, BUT THEY TAKE SO MANY LOSS THE FIREFIGHT THAT 'S AN EMPTY VICTORY AT BT. RED SRE: THE OPERATNS OF THE DOMTIC COMMUNIST RISTANCE FIGHTERS DRIVE THE ERNMENT TO PURSUG A PURGE OF ANYONE EVEN MERELY SPECTED OF HAVG SOCIALIST TI. REPRSIVE, BUT EFFICIENT: WHILE BEG THE CYBERPUNK DYSTOPIA THAT IS, THE FERATN IS NOT ONLY SCRIBED AS BEG PABLE OF SURVIVAL, BUT ALSO OUTRIGHT PROSPERY. THE STATE EMPHASIZ BUILDG BIG FACTORI AND MAKG THE TRAS N ON TIME, ALL AT THE ST OF SUBMTG TO S LD PRAGMATISM AND THE SNUFFG OF IALISTIC MOVEMENTS AND ADHERENTS. LA RéSISTANCE: AT THE START OF THEIR PLAYTHROUGH, 'S TABLISHED THAT A GROUP OF COMMUNIST SURGENTS KNOWN AS THE NARODNIKS HAVE TAKEN UPON THEMSELV TO FIGHT THE FERATN'S ERNMENT BY SABOTAGG THEIR FACTORI AND RAIL L FOR A FEW YEARS. THE REVOLUTN WILL NOT BE CIVILIZED: THE NARODNIKS ARE WILLG TO RORT TO BLOODIER NFLICTS IF MEANS SECURG THE SAFETY AND RIGHTS OF THE WORKERS. RIGHT HAND VERS LEFT HAND: THE ERNMENT IS IALLY SO EFFICIENT AT ADDRSG THE NARODNIKS THAT OFFICIALS BEG ACCG ONE ANOTHER OF TREASON DUE TO PARANOIA, POOR MUNITN, AND AQUATE STCTNS. SCREW THE RUL, I HAVE CONNECTNS!: NEIGHBORG WARLORDS N BE NVCED TO ACCEPTG ANNEXATN, SHOULD ENOUGH SUPPORTERS OM NOVOSIBIRSK WORM THEIR WAY TO THEIR ORR. SAID SUPPORT MT BE AID BY HOW CLOSELY A MEGA-CORP REMBL THE OPPOSN'S POLIL IOLOGY. SCREW THE RUL, I HAVE MONEY!: ONE OF NOVOSIBIRSK'S UNIQUE MECHANICS IS S ABILY TO ANNEX OTHER STAT WH ENOUGH NEGOTIATN, STARTG WH THE APPLITN OF ENOMIC PRSURE AND TEGRATN OF S SUPPORTERS TO THE OPPOSG STATE'S ERNMENT. SECRET POLICE: THE POLICE ARE GIVEN EE REIGN TO SPY ON THE PEOPLE AND ROOT OUT NARODNIK SPI OR THIEV. WHILE MANY ARE AWARE OF THE ONGOG REPRSN, THEY CHOOSE TO IGNORE FOR THEIR OWN SAFETY'S SAKE. SELL-OUT: THE UNIFITN EVENTS WH OTHER PARTS OF CENTRAL SIBERIA EMPHASIZE THIS TO THE POT OF SORROW AND TRAGEDY, WH FERVENT ANARCHISTS FORCED TO BETRAY THEIR PRCIPL TO SURVIVE AND BEE MISERABLE GS THE MEGARP MACHE, OR THE BRILLIANT SCIENTISTS AND THKERS OF TOMSK MA TO STEAD CHURN OUT MASS-PRODUCED GOODS OR BEG FOR ENTRY-LEVEL JOBS. SILLY RABB, IALISM IS FOR KIDS!: THE TELLIGENSTIA OF THE FORMER CENTRAL REPUBLIC DID NOTHG FOR NOVOSIBIRSK'S LEARSHIP, AND UPON ADOPTG S CELER AND APOLIL OLIGARCHY, POKRYSHK ME TO ACCEPT PRAGMATISM AND NTRALY TO BE THE WAY OF LIFE. START MY OWN: THE MUNICIPALI OF NOVOSIBIRSK AND ALTAY ED TO BE PART OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, BUT FOLLOWG THE LLAPSE OF THE LATTER DURG THE SIBERIAN WAR, THEY SECED OM , ORR TO CREATE THEIR OWN FERATN. STARTER VILLA: THE NARODNIK TERRORISTS ARE THE FIRST THREAT THAT MT BE ALT WH BY NOVOSIBIRSK BEFORE THEY N THK OF EXPANDG OUTWARD. STATE SEC: TO AL WH THE SOCIALIST AND ANARCHIST TERRORISTS, NOVOSIBIRSK THORIZ THE SLUZHBA BEZOPASNOSTI TO AL WH THE DISSINTS HARSHLY AND WHOUT ERNMENT TERFERENCE. AFTER A FAILED ASSASSATN ATTEMPT ON POKRYSHK, THEIR POWERS ARE EXPAND EVEN FURTHER TO CRACK DOWN ON THE TERRORISTS. THE STOOL PIGEON: SOME FILTRATORS THE NARODK CELLS ARE FORCED TO RAT OUT OLD RAS WHO THEY PREVLY DIDN'T KNOW WERE LEFT-WG DISSINTS, CHOOSG THEIR UNTRY OVER THEIR IENDSHIP. STRIKE EPISO: ESPECIALLY EARLY ON, WORKERS TRY TO STRIKE AGAST THE APPALLG NDNS THE FACTORI AND ARE BEATEN DOWN BY RPORATE MERCENARI FOR THEIR TROUBL. ONLY ONE IS SUCCSFUL, AID BY ALEXANR ON HIS JOURNEY ACROSS RSIA, AND THEN ONLY BEE TWO RIVAL RPORATE SQUADS START FIGHTG EACH OTHER FIRST, LETTG THE STRIKERS PICK OFF THE SURVIVORS. TANK GOODNS: TO MATCH GERMAN ARMS, THE FERATN BEGS VELOPG THEIR OWN BATTLE TANKS, SUCH AS THE SIBERIAN MBT. TEETH-CLENCHED TEAMWORK: AS SHSH'S AGATN OVER THE SILOVIK'S RPT LE GROWS, THE WORKG RELATNSHIP BETWEEN HIM AND POKRYSHK GROWS CREASGLY TUMULTUO. BY THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, BOTH ARE PETORS THE ELECTN FOR PRINT. THE MEGARPORATNS, SPE WORKG TOGETHER, HAVE DIFFERENT VISNS OF HOW NOVOSIBIRSK SHOULD BE N. THE TENSNS E TO A HEAD WHEN THE MATTER OF FOREIGN OVERTUR IS RAISED. IN PARTICULAR, FENIKS WANTS TO ALIGN WH THE OFN TO ACQUIRE THEIR ARY TECHNOLOGY, WHILE SIBIR WISH TO ALIGN WH THE SPHERE SO THEY LEVERAGE THE ZAIBATSU'S FLUENCE. TO W WHOUT FIGHTG: WHILE NOVOSIBIRSK ACTUALLY DO HAVE A VERY STRONG ARY, N GO EVEN FURTHER, ANNEXG OTHER POST-RSIAN NATNS OUTRIGHT G ENOMIC AND ARY PRSURE TO FORCE THEM TO NCEDG AND MERGG TO THE FERATN WHOUT FIRG A SHOT. THIS IS EASIER THE STRONGER A GIVEN FACTN WH NOVOSIBIRSK IS, RELATN TO THE ERNMENT STYLE OF THE RIVAL QUTN. TOKEN GOOD TEAMMATE: SIBIR IS THE LEAST REPRSIVE OF THE THREE MEGARPORATNS, OWED TO THEIR VAGUE ALIGNMENT WH SHSH SCE THEY AL AGRICULTURAL TOOLS AND FANCIAL EXPERTS, SPECIALTI THAT ARE MON BARNL. TOOK A LEVEL BADASS: AN OVERARCHG SUBPLOT NOVOSIBIRSK NCERNS VASILY MARGELOV'S EFFORTS TO TRA AIRBORNE SOLDIERS, WHO START OUT VERY DISANIZED AND WEAK, MUCH TO THEIR MANR'S CHAGR. HOWEVER, AS TIME PASS, THE TROOPS BEE MORE PETENT AND PHYSILLY F FOR WHATEVER MAY THREATEN RSIA, WH MARGELOV EXPRSG GREATER PRI ABOUT THEIR PROWS. TOXIC, INC.: AS MORE AND MORE PANI MOVE TO BARNL, THE RIVER OB HAS GOTTEN CREASGLY MORE FILTHY AS FACTORI ARE ERECTED NEXT TO S BANK. THIS NCERNS SHSH, WHO ED TO ENJOY SPENDG TIME ON THE BANKS RELAXG, BUT, AT LEAST AT THE START OF THE GAME, HE DON'T THK WOULD BE RIGHT TO PUT HIS PRIVATE SIR OVER THE GOOD OF THE FERATN. WAR HERO: THE ARMY HAS SEVERAL REVERED VETERANS FORM THE SIBERIAN WAR, ONE WHO EVEN STROYED A TANK SGLEHANDLY. WAR IS HELL: MUCH OF THE ERNMENT IS LED BY EX-ARY THAT FACED BOTH THE TRIUMPH OF THE JACKBOOTS AND THE CIVIL WAR AS PART OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC. THE TRMA OM ALL THE NFLICT ACTS AS A DRIVG MOTIVATN FOR THEM TO KEEP THE CURRENT SYSTEM AND NECSARY EVILS AS A PREFERABLE ALTERNATIVE TO THE STGGL OF BATTLE. CLASH BETWEEN ERNMENT FORC AND THE GUERRILLA FIGHTERS SCRIBE THE HORRIFYG EXPERIENC THAT BOTH SIS FACE. WE ARE STGGLG TOGETHER: MOST LARGE-SLE OPPOSN PROTTS FALL FLAT BEE OF THEIR DISUNY. EXTREME LEFT- AND RIGHT-WG PROTTORS ARE PLETELY PATIBLE WH EACH OTHER, WHILE THOSE THE CENTER REFE TO OPERATE WH RADILS ON EHER SPECTM. BY THE TIME THE POLICE ARRIVE TO BREAK UP A MONSTRATN, THEY DON'T NEED TO DO ANYTHG BEE THE PROTTORS ARE FIGHTG EACH OTHER AND TAKG THEMSELV OUT. WHEN THE FAR EAST IS NQUERED, THE FERATN IS PLAGUED WH ALL SORTS OF TERRORIST ANIZATNS WHO RIST THEIR LE, WHICH THE ONLY REASON THEY AREN'T A BIGGER THREAT IS BEE THEY SPEND AS MUCH TIME FIGHTG EACH OTHER. WE USED TO BE FRIENDS: ALEXANR POKRYSHK AND VASILY SHSH HAD BEEN IENDS ONCE, RAS ARMS DURG THE FAL DAYS OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC. THOSE DAYS WERE GONE, A IENDSHIP STRAED AND BROKEN AMIDST THE RISE OF THE FERATN. WTERN TERRORISTS: NOVOSIBIRSK STARTS OUT BY ALG WH DOMTIC MARXIST AGATORS, THE LARGT OF WHICH IS THE NARODNIKS. YOUR TERRORISTS ARE OUR FREEDOM FIGHTERS: THE NARODNIKS, KNOWN FOR THEIR SABOTAGE OF ERNMENT OPERATNS AND GUERRILLA WARFARE TACTICS, HOLD AT LEAST SOME SUPPORT OM MON WORKERS. AS FAR AS POKRYSHK AND HIS SUPPORTERS ARE NCERNED, THEY'RE TERRORISTS THAT THREATEN EVERYONE'S SAFETY AND THE FERATN'S CHANCE TO THRIVE.ALEXANR POKRYSHKROLE: HEAD OF STATE, VICE PRINTNOTE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT (SHSH BET)PARTY: NOVOSIBIRSKIYE SILOVIKOTE STRONGMEN OF NOVOSIBIRSKIOLOGY: OLIGARCHYNOTE PATERNALISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW A LEGENDARY ACE PILOT THE SEND WORLD WAR AND A HERO OF THE SOVIET UNN, ALEXANR IVANOVICH POKRYSHK WOULD RETURN TO HIS HOME TOWN OF NOVOSIBIRSK AFTER THE END OF THE WAR. HOPG TO LIVE A RELATIVELY PEACEFUL LIFE, LTLE DID HE KNOW WHERE FATE WOULD LEAD HIM. POKRYSHK WAS NTENT WH THE LE OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, AND EVENTUALLY FOUND HIS WAY TO ERNMENT. MANAGG THE CY OF NOVOSIBIRSK UNR THE REPUBLIC WAS A RELATIVELY SIMPLE AFFAIR. THAT WAS, UNTIL THE SIBERIAN WAR. SOON, HE WOULD BE FORCED TO PUT THE ENTIRE CY ON A WAR FOOTG TO FACE AGAST YAGODA'S POWERFUL SUPREME SOVIET THE EAST. RATNG WAS TRODUCED, NSCRIPTN CREASED DRAMATILLY, AND THE YOUNG MEN OF NOVOSIBIRSK WERE SENT TO DIE ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF SIBERIA. AT ONE POT, POKRYSHK REACHED HIS LIM. AFTER MAKG A BACKROOM AL WH MAYOR OF BARNL VASILY SHSH, THE PLAN WAS SET TO MOTN. THE TWO MEN AND THEIR SUBORDAT WOULD SEIZE NOVOSIBIRSK SWIFTLY, ANIZG A NEW ERNMENT. A ERNMENT EE OM ANY FLUENCE, AND TLY SOVEREIGN AMIDST THE CHAOS THAT UNFOLD RSIA. NOW, LG THROUGH AN UNEASY ALLIANCE WH BARNL, POKRYSHK NEEDS TO ENSURE HIS STATE REMAS STABLE. EVEN THOUGH BOASTS A LARGE POPULATN, DTRY AND FUNCTNAL AGRICULTURE, NOVOSIBIRSK STILL HAS PROBLEMS NEEDS TO FACE, BOTH TERNAL AND EXTERNAL, AND IS UP TO POKRYSHK TO SOLVE THEM.ALEXANR IVANOVICH POKRYSHK IS A SOVIET ACE PILOT TURNED PRINTIAL DICTATOR OF NOVOSIBIRSK. AFTER THE FALL OF THE SOVIET UNN, POKRYSHK SETTLED HIS HOMETOWN OF NOVOSIBIRSK, AND THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC APPOTED HIM AS THE CY'S ERNOR. HOPG TO LIVE OUT HIS LIFE PEACE, THE SIBERIAN WAR CSHED THAT DREAM, AND MOTIVATED POKRYSHK TO SECE OM THE REPUBLIC WH THE LIKE-MD MAYOR OF BARNL, VASILY SHSH. WAR AND SORROW HAD DULLED POKRYSHK'S WORLDVIEW TO ONE OF UTTER PRAGMATISM, AND POKRYSHK IS TERMED TO MATA NOVOSIBIRSK'S STABILY AND SOVEREIGNY, NO MATTER THE ST. ACE CTOM: HE HAS A PERSONAL FIGHTER PLANE THAT WAS A GIFT OM THE FREE AVIATORS. ACE PILOT: POKRYSHK IS AN ACE PILOT WHO EARNED THE TLE HERO OF THE SOVIET UNN FOR HIS HEROISM THE SEND WORLD WAR. EVEN THE PRENT, HE OCSNALLY FLI A PLANE WHENEVER HE NEEDS A BREAK OM LG. AFFABLY EVIL: DPE LEADG A RPORATE STATE FULL OF WORK AB, POKRYSHK IS POLE ON A PERSONAL LEVEL, PARTICULARLY EXCHANGG A IENDLY DRK WH SHSH WHEN THEY NVENE. ALLOHISTORIL ALLN: POKRYSHK'S LE IS REMISCENT OF VLADIMIR PUT'S MANY WAYS, BEG UNR THE FLUENCE OF STRONGMEN WH ARY BACKGROUND (ALSO LLED SILOVIK RSIAN), AS WELL AS POWERFUL RPORATNS; A RSIA (RE)UNED UNR HIS BANNER IS EVEN LLED THE RSIAN FERATN. THERE ARE ALSO MORE THAN A FEW PARALLELS WH LEE KUAN YEW'S TENURE OVER SGAPORE POKRYSHK'S EFFORTS TO MAXIMIZE ENOMIC PROSPERY AND SOCIAL HARMONY, ALBE AT THE ST OF CERTA LIBERTI AND ANY SENSE OF IALISM. ANTI-VILLA: HE'S THE FACE OF NOVOSIBIRSK'S DARKER PATH, LG A BTER AND REPRSIVE ERNMENT UNR HIS BTAL ARY CLIQUE AND GREEDY MEGA-RPORATNS. HOWEVER, HE'S NOT LIBERATELY G THE CIZENS' SUFFERG, BUT STEAD RELUCTANTLY MAKG PROMIS SCE HE THKS MORE IALISTIC CLATNS TO BE EFFECTUAL PARED TO HIS STAT QUO, AND HE ONLY REACHED THIS LE OF THKG AFTER HIS EXPERIENC WAR. ASSASS OUTCLASS': BEFORE EXPANDG TO THE RT OF CENTRAL SIBERIA, A NARODNIK ATTEMPTS AN ASSASSATN OF POKRYSHK. LUCKILY FOR HIM, POKRYSHK IS RTED TO SAFETY BY HIS MEN, WHILE THE WOULD-BE ASSASS KILLS HIMSELF BEFORE HE N BE TERROGATED. BTAL HONTY: POKRYSHK IS KNOWN FOR BEG PLETELY BLUNT, ALWAYS HONT WHEN HE NEEDS TO SKIP PLEASANTRI WH OTHER POLICIANS TO GET WORK DONE. CCNAT: IN REGARDS TO HIS TYRANNIL LE, POKRYSHK VOWS TO RESTATE A MORE GENUE MOCRACY WHEN RSIA HAS NO NEED FOR A STRONGMAN DICTATOR TO PROTECT THEM. THE CYNIC: HIS EXPERIENC HAVE HARNED POKRYSHK AND NVCED HIM THAT ANY KD OF IALISM IS FOOLISH AT BT AND FODR FOR MADNS AT WORST. HIS FERATN IS TH A PLACE OF ALMOST TOTAL PRAGMATISM, AND DISDAS ANYTHG BETTER. DEFIANT TO THE END: IF FEATED AND BROUGHT TO TRIAL BY KEMEROVO, POKRYSHK IS NOT THE LEAST B TIMIDATED ABOUT THE PROSPECT OF BEG IMPRISONED OR EXILED, FIANTLY TELLG HIS ACCERS TO GET THE TRIAL OVER WH. DISMOTIVATN: AS CSHG AS THE FERATN MIGHT OFTEN BE, POKRYSHK BELIEV TO SIMPLY BE THE BT AND MOST EFFECTIVE APPROACH FOR HIS STATE AND PEOPLE, WHILE ANYTHG MORE DARG WILL ONLY PROVI SANY OR HOLLOW PROMIS THAT EVABLY LEAD TO FAILURE. ENEMY ME: IF SVERDLOVSK GO ON THE OFFENSIVE AGAST THE BLACK LEAGUE WT SIBERIA, POKRYSHK MAY RECEIVE A REQUT OM KONSTANT ROKOSSOVSKY TO HARASS THE BORRS OF OMSK ORR TO DISTRACT THEM OM SVERDLOVSK'S ADVANCE. IF HE AGRE, HE WILL PERSONALLY GUARANTEE NOVOSIBIRSK'S SUPPORT AGAST OMSK."YAZOV IS A THREAT TO ALL OF RSIA. WE STAND WH ROKOSSOVSKY." FALLEN HERO: HE ED TO BELIEVE THE OPTIMISTIC PRCIPL OF THE FERATN BEFORE THE SILOVIK'S RPTN AND CYNICISM GOT TO HIM. AT ONE POT, SHSH EARNTLY ASKS HIM WHEN HE STOPPED RG ABOUT THOSE IALS, BUT POKRYSHK ANSWERS THAT HE DON'T KNOW. A FATHER TO HIS MEN: THE EVENT "EVENG TIS" MAK CLEAR THAT POKRYSHK VALU HIS RAS ARLY, AND HE LAMENTS SEEG SOME OF HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS SUFFER OM TOO MUCH SHELLSHOCK TO BE ABLE TO PARTAKE FTIVI. HAVE WE MET?: DURG A DNER PARTY HONORG THE VETERANS OF THE GREAT PATRTIC WAR, A BOMBASTIC MAN TRODUC HIMSELF AS A FELLOW PILOT SUPPOSEDLY OM THE SAME FLIGHT SCHOOL. POKRYSHK THEN STGGL TO INTIFY HIM SPE THE CLEAR RPECT THE STRANGER HAS FOR HIM, THOUGH HE DON'T MD NOT BEG REGNIZED. HISTORIL BADASS UPGRA: WHILE ALEXANR POKRYSHK WAS HISTORILLY A HEROIC ACE PILOT AND AIR FORCE GENERAL, HE HAD RELATIVELY LTLE TERT POLICS. HERE, HE N RNIFY RSIA UNR HIS BANNER. HORSEMEN OF THE APOLYPSE: A LERARY PIECE CIRCULATG TOMSK PICTS HIM AS ONE OF FOUR "HORSEMEN" ALONGIS OTHER FIGUR CENTRAL SIBERIA. HELPG BRG TO THE FORMER REPUBLIC WH HIS "BETRAYAL", THE STORY ENDS WH HIM FACG PUNISHMENT FOR BRGG THE END OF THE CHANC FOR THE IAL "PEOPLE'S REALM". THIS NT TO HIS REPUTATN CREAS POLIL POWER. I DID WHAT I HAD TO DO: DPE BEG THE CLOST THG TO A VILLA CENTRAL SIBERIA, POKRYSHK DON'T ENJOY CSHG PERSONAL EEDOMS OR THE VAR PROMIS HE'S HAD TO MAKE WH THE SILOVIKI AND MEGARPORATNS TO KEEP NOVOSIBIRSK PROSPERO AND PENNT. BUT HE DO THEM ANYWAY, BEE HE THKS THAT ANYTHG ELSE IS OPENG HIS UNTRY UP TO DANGERO IAS AND IALS AND MIGHT WEAKEN THE FERATN. NECSARILY EVIL: POKRYSHK IS SHOWN NOT TO REALLY SAVOR THE QUTNABLE THGS HE DO ORR TO MAKE THE FERATN WORK, BUT SE THEM AS A NECSY TO AVOID THE PERCEIVED FAILUR OF TOMSK AND THE OLD SOVIET UNN. NOSTALGIA FILTER: SUBVERTED. AFTER A BRIEF MOMENT OF REMISCG HIS IALISTIC, YOUNGER DAYS AS AN ACE PILOT, POKRYSHK THEN REMEMBERS THE TRAGEDI THAT HAD BEFALLEN RSIA AND PH AWAY ANY ROMANTIC THOUGHTS OF HIS PAST SO THAT HE N FOC ON BUILDG A STRONG RSIA FOR THE FUTURE. OLD FRIEND: HE KEEPS A CLOSE IENDSHIP WH SHSH, THE MAYOR OF BARNL. THEIR IENDSHIP HAS HISTORY THAT REACH ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE FAL DAYS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC AND THE TABLISHMENT OF THE NTRAL FERATN. AS THE STORY PROGRS, DON'T LAST. AMET-KHAN SULTAN IS ANOTHER OLD IEND OF HIS. A TRAVELG OFFICIAL WH BS ACROSS THE AREA, HE MEETS WH POKRYSHK FOR DNER AFTER YEARS OF GOG DOWN THEIR OWN PATHS, AND UNFORTUNATELY, THEY FD THEMSELV DISAGREEG WH THE FERATN'S CURRENT APPROACH. BEFORE THEY ULD ENTER A PROPER ARGUMENT, AMET-KHAN MAK HIS LEAVE WHILE EXPRSG HIS SORROW AT WHAT HIS IEND IS DOG AND FACG AS PRINT. PET THE DOG: DPE RECEIVG A REPORT ON CREASG PROTTS TO FOOD SHORTAG, POKRYSHK NOHELS ENURAG THE MSENGER TO KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. AFTER FEATG THE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTNARY COUNCIL, SHSH OFFERS THE MORE MERCIFUL IA OF TABLISHG A MORE TONOMO REPUBLIC PLACE OF THE PREV ORR, AS OPPOSED TO PURE ANNEXATN. THOUGH WILL STILL BE UNR THE JURISDICTN OF THE FERATN, THE IA OF POKRYSHK FOG HIS UAL ROUTE OF ASSIATN AND NSIRG HIS OLD IEND'S ADVICE IS ALWAYS AN OPTN FOR THE PLAYER. POKRYSHK N PARDON THE PRISONERS OF WAR OM HIS CENTRAL SIBERIAN NQUTS, SPE THE MANY NSEQUENC THAT ULD ARISE, SUCH AS THE NARDONIKS CLAIMG LEGAL PRECENT TO GET PARDONED THEMSELV. AFTER RNIFYG THE FAR EAST, HE WILL SPEARHEAD THE REVERY EFFORT BY KICKSTARTG NATNAL PRRY PROJECTS, TEND TO IMPROVE PUBLIC HEALTH, TN, HOG, AND AGRICULTURE. PLAYG BOTH SIS: POKRYSHK HAS TO KEEP BOTH THE SILOVIKI AND MEGARPORATNS SATISFIED, EVEN IF THEIR TERTS DON'T ALWAYS ALIGN. PRAGMATIC VILLAY: IN THE FIRST FOC TREE, POKRYSHK N ALLEVIATE RTRICTNS ON THE PRS, LABOR UNNS, AND MIDDLE-CLASS, BUT ONLY TO MAKE THEM MORE PLIABLE TO THE JUNTA REGIME. UNR THE PERSUASN OF SHSH, POKRYSHK N TEGRATE THE ZEMSKY SOBOR THEIR POLIL SYSTEM AND CREATE A FERAL REPUBLIC OF TUVA BEE 'D BE A SMOOTHER TEGRATN OF KEMEROVO AND THE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTNARY COUNCIL, RPECTIVELY, TO THE FERATN. PRINT FOR LIFE: THOUGH NOVOSIBIRSK TECHNILLY HAS ELECTNS, POKRYSHK'S "SILOVIK" POLICI HAVE PREVENTED MANY CIVILIAN BURECRATS OM NNG FOR OFFICE AND KEPT HIMSELF POWER, UNTIL HE CIS TO STEP DOWN. IF HE REMAS POWER BY ELECTN, HE TRODUC EVEN TIGHTER LIMS, LIKE STRICTER VOTER ID LAWS, TO CEMENT HIS THORY. REALPOLIK: POKRYSHK BLAM THE JAPANE FOR NTRIBUTG TO THE SOVIET UNN'S DOWNFALL, BUT HE NOHELS BORROWS THEIR JET SIGNS AND N POTENTIALLY PURSUE DIPLOMATIC TI WH THEM BY TRADG ROURC THROUGH A MONGOLIAN PIPELE. RED BARON: HE IS KNOWN AS THE SIBERIAN FALN DUE TO HIS OLD PLANE AND TALENTS AS AN ACE PILOT. RELUCTANT RULER: POKRYSHK DON'T ENJOY LEADG OTHER MEN AN AIR WG, LET ALONE A FERATN. BUT THERE ISN'T REALLY ANYONE ELSE WILLG AND ABLE TO SHOULR THE BURN. STOPPED CARG: THE OLD PASSN HE FELT ABOUT HELPG THE PEOPLE IS LONG GONE, HAVG BEEN DISILLNED BY THE SOVIET UNN AND CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC'S FAILUR. AT THIS POT, HE ONLY R ABOUT RSIA'S SURVIVAL AND SAFETY ABOVE ANY IALS. SPICLY SPECIFIC DENIAL: IF POKRYSHK IS ELECTED OVER SHSH, HE'LL NY ALL ACCATNS THAT HE TAMPERED WH THE VOT AND CLAIM THAT WAS "MOSTLY" FAIR. TRY TO F THAT ON A BS CARD: DOWNPLAYED. HE IS OFFICIALLY KNOWN AS THE PRINT OF THE FERATN OF NOVOSIBIRSK AND ALTAY, A TLE THAT HE ACKNOWLEDG AS CUMBERSOME TO E. WELL-INTENTNED EXTREMIST: POKRYSHK UPHOLDS THE RPT AND EXPLOATIVE SILOVIK REGIME BEE THEIR LUCRATIVE BENEFS ARE NEED TO FE A STRONG RSIA THAT N STAND UP TO THE GERMANS WHEN THEY GO TO WAR FOR MOSW.VASILY SHSHROLE: VICE PRINTNOTE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT (POKRYSHK BET), HEAD OF STATE (SUPERREGNAL ELECTN OR SBA LLAPSE)PARTY: ROSSIYSKAYA PROMYSHLEMNAYA PARTIYANOTE RSIAN INDTRIAL PARTYIOLOGY: AGRARIANISMNOTE CONSERVATISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW BORN 1929 ALTAI KRAI, VASILY MAKAROVICH SHSH WAS AN ASPIRG THOR PRR TO HIS DABBLG POLICS AND HIS ELECTN AS MAYOR OF BARNL. SHSH HAS TREKKED A LONG ROAD SO FAR, ONE WHICH SEEMS ENDLS: A PRR ALLY OF POKRYSHK WHEN THE FERATN HAD JT SECED OM THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, VASILY QUICKLY ME TO HEAD WH HIS FORMER ALLY AND HIS RPORATE ASSOCIAT, THEIR CREEPG RPTN CLASHG WH SHSH'S IALS OF MOCRACY AND FERALISM, IALS KEEPG HIS HEAD AFLOAT AS HE ARRANGED BACKROOM ALS AND NEGOTIATNS NECSARY FOR HIS NDIDACY AS PRINT OF THE FERATN TO STAND A CHANCE. NOW NEWLY ELECTED AND HAVG WRTLED NTROL AWAY OF THE UNTRY OM THE SILOVIKS, VASILY ISN'T A POSN TO S BACK AND RELAX: THOUGH THE SILOVIKS AREN'T NTROL ANYMORE, THE PRINT HAS TO AL WH THE STILL VERY PRENT RPORATNS AND THE DAMAG THEIR RPTN HAS ED AND IS STILL G TO THE REPUBLIC. IF HE WANTS TO SEE THIS BUDDG MOCRACY BLOOM THE SERT THAT IS RSIA, HE WILL HAVE TO FACE TROUBL ED UNDOUBTEDLY BY RPORATNS DURG HIS TENURE AS PRINT. IN-GAME BGRAPHY (SBA LLAPSE) CLICK TO SHOW (WARNG: UNMARKED SPOILERS)  WHAT PLACE DO A NSERVATIVE BSMAN HAVE RSIA? IN THE DAYS OF THE EMPIRE, HE WOULD FD HIS VIRGG ENTERPRISE QUASHED BY THE BACKWARDNS OF THE TSAR. IN THE DAYS OF THE UNN, HE WOULD FD HIS OWGS NFISTED AT BT AND HIS LIFE TOO AT WORST. NOW, THE DAYS OF THE RSIAN ANARCHY, MORE THAN EVER, WHAT PLACE IS THERE FOR A NSERVATIVE BSMAN? DPE HIS GRIEVANC WH POKRYSHK AND THE UNAPOLOGETIC KLEPTOCRATS OF THE FERATN, THE FALL OF NOVOSIBIRSK AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY TO HIM, BARNL, LEFT SHSH A SEVERE STATE OF PRSN. THE CHAOS AND NFN OF THE DAYS AND WEEKS FOLLOWG THE PULATN OF THE FERATN STTERED MANY OF RSIA'S BT AND BRIGHTT TO THE WD. POKRYSHK; MISSG AND PRUMED AD. THE CHIEF OFFICERS OF THE MEGA RPORATNS; EXECUTED OR IMPRISONED. VASILY MAKAROVICH SHSH WAS ALL THAT REMAED OF THE PALIST TABLISHMENT. FORCED TO A LIFE OF RECLN AFTER HIS POPULARY WH THE CIZENRY SPARED HIM OM PUNISHMENT, SHSH SPENT HIS DAYS DRKG THE SOLU OF HIS HOME. TLY, PEOPLE REACH THEIR LOWT POTS WHEN EXCLUD OM THE MAJORY AND UNR THE TYRANNY OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, THE MAJORY WAS NEVER SO POWERFUL AND SHSH WAS NEVER SO WAS, UNTIL ONE DAY, SHSH RECEIVED A LETTER. A FORMER HIGH RANKG MEMBER OF THE BARNL CY UNCIL EXPRSED THE RAISG DISNTENT THE CY. THE LETTER WAS CLEAR GOAL, EVEN IF THE LANGUAGE HID THE FACT, THE CRACKS THE ANARCHIST FOUNDATN HAD BEGUN TO SHOW AND THE PEOPLE YEARNED FOR THE PROMISE OF THE FERATN. SHSH BEME A MAN REJUVENATED, HIS OPTIMISM AND SENSE OF PURPOSE RTORED. THE SCHISM THE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT PROV ONLY ONE THG, ANARCHISM DON'T WORK. UNLIKE THE SPLTERED ANARCHIST MOVEMENT, SHSH HAS A JOB TO DO, AND HE'LL BE DAMNED IF THE ANARCHISTS GET THE BETTER OF HIM TWICE.THE VICE-PRINT OF THE FERATN, VASILY MAKAROVICH SHSH IS POKRYSHK'S TSTED IEND AND LLEAGUE. AS THE FORMER MAYOR OF BARNL, HE TOO TTED THE SIBERIAN WAR, AND JOED POKRYSHK TABLISHG THE SECSNIST FERATN. SCE THEN HOWEVER, SHSH HAS DIVERGED OM POKRYSHK DUE TO HIS PANRG TO ARY AND RPORATE FACTNS THE NAME OF PRAGMATISM, UNRG OF THEIR CELTI AND RPTNS. SHSH, ONCE AN ASPIRG THOR, HAS STRONG IALS CREATG A MOCRATIC FERATN, BUT IS WILLG TO PUT THEM ASI FOR THE GOOD OF THE FERATN... FOR NOW. BOOK ENDS: IN AN EARLY EVENT, SHSH LAMENTS THE POLLUTED STATE OF THE OB RIVER AND THE BACK-BREAKG LABOR THAT THE NEARBY WORKERS ARE SUBJECTED TO. IF SHSH ENDS UP ELECTED THE LATE-GAME, SHSH PAYS ANOTHER VIS TO THE OB, NOW SEEG A CLEANER RIVER AND FAI ENJOYG PIICS ALONG THE ASTLE, A SIGN OF BETTER THGS TO E. THE B CAME BACK: HE REAPPEARS CENTRAL SIBERIA IF THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY LLAPS AFTER THEIR RNIFITN OF THE REGN, LEADG A REMNANT OF THE FERATN OF NOVOSIBIRSK AND ALTAY, WHICH NOW ONLY ENPASS THE AREA AROUND HIS HOME CY OF BARNL. CULTURED BADASS: SHSH IS A WRER, POET, AND ONE OF THE FEW GOOD-HEARTED POLICIANS LEFT NOVOSIBIRSK WHO N STAND UP TO THE SILOVIK'S RPTN. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: IF POKRYSHK IS ELECTED OVER SHSH, THE LATTER WILL BE KICKED OUT OF THE ERNMENT AND REPLACED WH A Y-MAN, WHILE HE N DO NOTHG BUT NTUE TO WNS THE SILOVIK'S ABE OF POWER. THE CULMATN OF THE TRAGEDI LEAV SHSH A BROKEN AND PRSED STATE, ONLY ABLE TO DRK AS A PG MECHANISM. DROWNG MY SORROWS: SHOULD SHSH FAIL TO WRTLE POWER OM POKRYSHK AND THE SILOVIKI, HE'LL BE REMOVED OM HIS POSN AND REPLACED BY ONE OF POKRYSHK'S Y-MEN. REALISG THAT EVERYTHG HE HAD DONE THROUGHOUT HIS REER, FOR THE GOOD OF HIS PEOPLE, HAD BEEN FOR NGHT, SHSH SLIPS TO ALHOLISM, WH NO LTLE DITN THAT HE WILL SOBER UP ANYTIME SOON. THE SAME THG HAPPENS IF THE FERATN IS NQUERED BY THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY... UNTIL THE BLACK ARMY LLAPS THAT IS. AFTER RECEIVG A LETTER EXPRSG BARNL'S RISG DISNTENT WH THE ANARCHISTS, SHSH RETURNS AS MAYOR OF BARNL, WH THE IMPLITN THAT HE SOBERED UP. THE FRIEND NOBODY LIK: HIS NTUED EMPATHY FOR THE PEOPLE HAS MA HIM DISLIKED BY THE SILOVIK-DOMATED ERNMENT, WHO BEG TO VIEW HIM AS A LOOSE NNON BY THE REGNAL STAGE. GOOD OLD WAYS: SHSH PROTTS THE RPTN OF THE SILOVIK, URGG THE PEOPLE TO REMEMBER THE OLD MOCRATIC IALS OF THE FERATN. HEEL REALIZATN: SEEG THE ELOGIL VASTATN ED BY THE MEGARPS, AND THE TRAGEDY OF WHAT HAPPENED TO TOMSK WHEN NOVOSIBIRSK TOOK OVER, SHSH REALIZ THAT A TOTAL LACK OF ANY HIGHER-MD IALS IS A BAD THG AND HOP TO RTORE A B OF (MEASURED) IALISM TO THE FERATN. HUMBLE HERO: HIS OFFICE IS RATHER SMALL, UNFTG FOR A MAN WHO IS NNG AGAST POKRYKSH AND HIS ARY CLIQUE. THE IALIST: UNLIKE MANY NOVOSIBIRSK, SHSH HAS NOT GIVEN UP HIS DREAM OF A LIBERAL MOCRATIC RSIA AND WILL STILL A MEASURE OF THIS IALISM BACK TO THE POPULACE WHEN HE IS ELECTED. INTERNAL REFORMIST: AFTER THE WARLORD STAGE, SHSH SEEKS TO TURN THE FERATN TO A TLY MOCRATIC ENTY, ENACT ENVIRONMENTALISM, AND WEAKEN THE POWER OF THE SILOVIKI AND THE MEGARPS. UPON HIS ELECTN, HE STARTS AN IATIVE OF DEMOKRATIZATSIYA (DEMOCRATIZATN) TO BEG THE PROCS. POST-CYBERPUNK: SHOULD HE SEIZE NTROL, NOVOSIBIRSK MOCRATIZ, REWORKS S SYSTEM TO TAME THE SILOVIKI AND THE MEGA-RPORATNS, AND TO ACCEPT IALISM, ALL WHILE KEEPG THE ELEMENTS OF THE CYBERPUNK GENRE. PYRRHIC VICTORY: SHSH HAS SUCCSFULLY STAVED OFF NUMERO ATTEMPTS TO CENTRALIZE BARNL UNR THE RPT SILOVIK ERNMENT, BUT EVEN HE REGNIZ THAT SUCH VICTORI WILL BE SHORT-LIVED, UNLS HE TAK MORE RADIL ACTN. WHEN NOVOSIBIRSK RNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA, SHSH TRI TO NFORM WH THE RT OF THE FERATN'S CELEBRATORY MOOD, BUT HE N'T BEE THERE'S STILL A GREE OF APPREHENSN TOWARDS THE SILOVIK'S RPTN, ULTIMATELY MOTIVATG HIS EVENTUAL SPL WH POKRYSHK. RAGS TO RICH: SHSH WAS BORN TO A FAY OF PEASANTS ALTAY BEFORE WORKG HIS WAY UP TO BEE THE SEND MOST POWERFUL PERSON NOVOSIBIRSK AND S POTENTIAL LEAR. RICHARD NIXON, THE USED CAR SALMAN: THE REAL VASILY SHSH WAS AN ACTOR, DIRECTOR, AND WRER OM ALTAI KRAI. IN TNO, SHSH BEME MAYOR OF BARNL, ALTAI KRAI'S PAL CY, AND VICE-PRINT OF THE FERATN OF NOVOSIBIRSK AND ALTAY. SILLY RABB, CYNICISM IS FOR LOSERS!: HE WISH TO REFORM THE ERNMENT TO BETTER SERVE A DREAMG PEOPLE STEAD OF ACCEPTG AND UPHOLDG A RPT OLIGARCHY TO BE THE BT RSIA N OFFER. STRAW CIVILIAN: INVERTED. SHSH IS NOTED TO BE THE RARE CIVILIAN WHOUT A ARY BACKGROUND WHO HAS FOUND SUCCS A ERNMENT DOMATED BY THE SILOVIKI, AND IS THE REFORM NDIDATE WH A FERATN TROUBLED BY MANY PROBLEMS. TAKG UP THE MANTLE: SHSH EVENTUALLY TRI TO REKDLE, ALBE MORE MEASURED FORM, THE IALISM OF TOMSK. TOKEN GOOD TEAMMATE: THE ONLY HIGH-RANKG OFFICIAL AND BSMAN THE FERATN THAT GENUELY R FOR THE PEOPLE AND WILL REFORM THE REPUBLIC SHOULD HE TAKE CHARGE. THIS GETS HIM SPARED BY THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY IF THEY FEAT NOVOSIBIRSK AS HE IS POPULAR WH THE PEOPLE. TOOK A LEVEL IALISM: UNLIKE POKRYSHK, SHSH STILL CLGS TO THE NOTNS OF CREATIVY AND ABIDG BY ONE'S PRCIPL. EVEN AFTER ALL THE HORRORS RSIA AND S PEOPLE HAVE GONE THROUGH, HE STRIV TO SEE THE FERATN SHED S CYNICISM AND ACCEPT MORE HOPEFUL AMBNS, AT LEAST TO A CERTA AND TEMPERED GREE. ON A MORE DIVIDUAL LEVEL, SHSH'S LOW SPIRS WILL SOAR IF THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY RNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA AND THEN LLAPS. AFTER SPENDG MONTHS DRKG AND LIVG SECLN AFTER NOVOSIBIRSK'S DOWNFALL, SHSH WILL RECEIVE A LETTER, VG HIM TO LEAD BARNL, WHICH HE'LL HAPPILY ACCEPT SO THAT THE BLACK ARMY WON'T RETAKE THE CY FOR A SEND TIME AND THEREBY MEND HIS PAST FAILURE.    PRCIPALY OF KEMEROVO OFFICIAL NAME: PRCIPALY OF KEMEROVO, GRAND PRCIPALY OF CENTRAL SIBERIA (REGNAL UNIFITN), KGDOM OF SIBERIA (SUPERREGNAL UNIFITN), KGDOM OF R' (NATNAL UNIFITN)RULG PARTY: ZEMSKY SOBORNOTE ASSEMBLY OF THE LANDIOLOGY: ABSOLUTE MONARCHYNOTE DPOTISMAN ODD KGDOM FOUND BY GENERAL NIKOLAI IVANOVICH KRYLOV, WHO HAD CROWNED HIMSELF RURIK II, THE SEND G OF THE ANCIENT VARANGIAN PRCE RURIK. GENERAL KRYLOV HAD BEEN A SPERATE, NERVO WRECK SCE THE END OF WWII, BUT HE REMA HIMSELF AS RURIK II AFTER A NIGHT LOCKED SI HIS ROOM WH CIGARETT, VODKA, AND A BOOK ON ORTHODOX MYSTICISM. PROMISG POWER AND GLORY, RURIK II TENDS TO RNE RSIA UNR HIS PECULIAR KGDOM, ONE THAT MIX TSARIST TRADNALISM WH SOVIET MORNISM. ACTN GIRL: IN PREPARATN FOR EXPANSN, KEMEROVO RECS AN ALL-WOMEN REGIMENT LLED THE SHIELDMAINS, LED BY ANNA KOTSUR. AWOME ANACHRONISTIC APPAREL: RURIKID FASHN BE POPULAR KEMEROVO, WH THE PEOPLE WEARG CLOTH THAT WOULD BE MORE FTG FOR THE MIDDLE AG THAN THE 20TH CENTURY. BADASS CREW: OUT OF ALL THE RSIAN WARLORDS, KEMEROVO IS NOTABLE FOR BEG ABLE TO HAVE GENERALS OM NUMERO OTHER WARLORDS SERVE THE NEO-RURIKID CROWN, NO MATTER THEIR PREV IOLOGIL ALIGNMENT: AFTER UNG CENTRAL SIBERIA, KEMEROVO HAS THE OPTN TO PARDON ALL OF THE GENERALS AND FIELD MARSHALS PTURED DURG THE WARS AGAST THE REGN'S OTHER UNIFIERS (BARRG THE BLACK ARMY), AT THE ST OF ONLY A MOR STABILY DUCTN. THANKS TO BEG ABLE TO PEACEFULLY UNE WH A NUMBER OF WARLORDS BASED EHER WT RSIA OR WT SIBERIA, KEMEROVO N GET REALLY LUCKY WHO THEY REC, AS THEY N EHER GET AN ALL STAR ST OF GENERALS AND EVEN OTHER UNIFIERS OR REC ALMOST EVERY AVAILABLE RSIAN GENERAL THE GAME. BA-AND-SWCH: AT ONE POT, A RADAR OM KEMEROVO TECTS SOMETHG FLYG THE SKY, WHICH LEADS TO BRIEF WORRI THAT A GERMAN BOMBER IS HEAD THERE WAY. HOWEVER, ONCE THEY TAKE A CLOSER LOOK, THEY FOUND 'S ACTUALLY JT A BIRD. CRAZY ENOUGH TO WORK: KEMEROVO RANKS AS ONE OF RSIA'S MORE BIZARRE AND OTERIC WARLORD STAT, WH THEIR MEDIEVAL KIEVAN R ATHETIC LOOKG OUT OF PLACE A COLD WAR SETTG. IN SPE OF THIS, THEY N POTENTIALLY RNIFY RSIA AND STAND A FAIR CHANCE OF RETAKG MOSW OM GERMANY. CREATOR'S CULTURE CARRYOVER: KRYLOV REFERS TO HIMSELF AS A KG AND HIS UNTRY AS A KGDOM. THIS WOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE IF HE WAS OM AN ENGLISH-SPEAKG UNTRY, BUT THIS ACTUALLY A B OF NFN WHEN YOU TAKE TO ACUNT THAT THE WORD "KG" HAS NO SGLE DIRECT TRANSLATN TO RSIAN. ONE N ONLY WONR IF HIS ACTUAL TLE IS THE MORE WTERN KOROL, THE MORE RSIAN TSAR (WHICH N MEAN "KG" SOME SUATNS), OR SOMETHG MORE EXOTIC LIKE GOSUDAR OR GOSPODAR. DAYS OF FUTURE PAST: KEMEROVO VOK THIS ATTEMPT TO EMULATE THE ATHETICS AND CTOMS OF KIEVAN R' AND THE MVE TSARDOM WHILE BEG A STATE WH A STRONG DTRIAL BASE AND PARATIVELY MORNIZED ARMY. DRILL SERGEANT NASTY: THE DRILL SERGEANTS OF THE ROYAL ARMY ARE CREDIBLY STRICT, WH ONE PARTICULAR SULTG THE TS AS "GODFORSAKEN DOGS" TO MOTIVATE THEM TO TRA HARR.HARD TIM CREATE STRONG MEN. DYSFUNCTNAL FAY: THE LG KYRLOV FAY IS ACTURED BY YURIY AND LYDIE'S NFLICTG VISN OF WHERE TO TAKE KEMEROVO. YURIY WANTS TO LE WH A LIGHTER HAND FAVOR OF WORKER'S RIGHTS AND DIPLOMACY, WHILE LYDIA ARGU FOR TOCRACY AND ARISM. THEIR NSTANT ARGUG GIV THEIR FATHER A HEADACHE AND THE LAST SIBLG, BORIS, RARELY TERVEN TO STOP THE ARGUG. THE GOOD KGDOM: DPE THE BATSH SANE CIRCUMSTANC THAT LED TO THE CREATN OF THE MONARCHY KEMEROVO, RURIK II'S LE IS ACTUALLY QUE POPULIST: HE MATAS THE BT PARTS OF THE OLD SOVIET UNN (LIKE THE TRA UNNS) AND SYNTHIZ THEM WH KIEVAN R' ATHETICS. MATTERS N GET EVEN BETTER UNR YURIY WHO EMPOWERS THE ZEMSKY SOBOR TO GIVE MORE POWER THE PEOPLE AND CREATE A REPRENTATIVE PARLIAMENTARY MONARCHY. HERO WH BAD PUBLICY: DOWNPLAYED. WHILE RELATIVELY ACCEPTED BY MOST PLAC RSIA, THEY ARE NOT WELED THE BLACK ARMY'S OLD TERRORI, WHO HAVE BEEN ED TO THE ANARCHIC LIFE ONCE GIVEN TO THEM AND NOW CHAFE UNR THE KGDOM'S TAXATN POLICI. WHEN ONE ELECTED OFFICIAL DRIV THROUGH THE AREA, THE RINTS SLG MUD AND MANURE AT THE VEHICLE, AND ONE FORMER BLACK ARMY MEMBER EVEN TRI TO ATTACK HIM WH A KNIFE. HEROIC LEAGE: RURIK II DI OF OLD AGE A SHORT TIME AFTER RSIA IS UNIFIED. HOWEVER, HE LEAV BEHD THREE CHILDREN WHO ALL HAVE EXPERIENCE ERNG AND MANDG TROOPS BY THE TIME HE PASS AND N BEE GOOD LEARS THEIR OWN WAY SHOULD THEY STEP UP TO THE PLATE. RURIK II'S HEIR APPARANT PRCE YURIY IS A REASONABLE PRCE WHO TURNS THE KGDOM TO A MOCRACY ADDN TO BEG FAR CLOSER TO THE MON MAN THAN HIS SISTER LYDIA. IN FACT HIS NNECTN TO KEMEROVO'S MONERS IS SO STRONG, THAT HE'S THE ONLY ONE OF THE NEO-RURIKIDS ALLOWED BY THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY TO WALK EE AND POTENTIALLY BEG LEAR AGA SHOULD THE SBA LLAPSE. WHILE LYDIA IS MORE TOCRATIC PARISON TO HER BROTHER, SHE FOC ON ENHANCG THE KGDOM'S ARY TO TAKE BACK MOSKOWIEN OM THE GERMANS ADDN TO VTG HEAVILY A ROBT NATNAL HEALTHRE SERVICE. BORIS IS NORMALLY ONLY THE CREON AND NNOT BE THE HEIR TO THE NEO-RURIKID CROWN UNTIL HE'S LEFT WH NO CHOICE FOLLOWG THE LLAPSE OF TABORSKY'S HOLY RSIAN EMPIRE. WHILE BORIS AT FIRST FOC MORE ON THE SURVIVAL OF ALTAY AT THE ST OF MORALE, THE FAL EVENT HIS CHA IMPLI HE'LL BEE MORE THAN UP TO THE TASK OF HERG HIS FAY'S LEGACY. HLER ATE SUGAR: AS THE RIVALRY BETWEEN YURIY AND LYDIA TENSIFI, THEIR SUPPORT BAS BEG TO FLG SULTS TO EACH OTHER, WH THE FORMER'S SI NOUNCG THE OTHERS AS "FASCIST PIGS" AND THE LATTER'S FACTN LLG THEM "MUNIST SCUM". KNIGHTG: AFTER UNG CENTRAL SIBERIA, RURIK FORMS AN ARISTOCRACY OM HIS LOYAL SERVANTS. COMMANRS ARE GIVEN FIEFDOMS THE FORM OF VILLAG AND MPS, SO THAT THEY N MTER LEVI FOR UPG MPAIGNS. MAYORS AND ADVISORS RECEIVE LARGE SETTLEMENTS TO FOSTER ENOMIC GROWTH AND VELOPMENT. LONG-LOST RELATIVE: IN AN TERTG B OF TRIVIA, RURIK II'S ENOMY MISTER, LEV VOZNENSKY, IS THE NEPHEW OF KOMI'S PRINT NIKOLAI VOZNENSKY. HE APPARENTLY PICKED UP HIS UNCLE'S TALENT FOR ENOMICS... OR RURIK JT THOUGHT HIS NAME SOUND FAIAR. NECSARILY EVIL: THE ARISTOCRATIC CLASS OF ADVISORS AND LAND OWNERS IS CRIED BY THEIR CRICS AS A RPT BUNCH, BUT THEY ARE ULTIMATELY NEED TO ANIZE THE POPULATN AND BRG SOME SEMBLANCE OF ORR TO THE KGDOM. UPON RNIFYG CENTRAL SIBERIA, CHURCH ACROSS THE REGN ARE SEIZED BY THE ARY TO SERVE AS NEW OUTPOSTS, FORCEFULLY KICKG THE PRITS OUT THE PROCS. WHILE THE ARMY ARGU THAT 'S NEED FOR THE GOOD OF THE STATE AND REMAS AS RPECTFUL AS THEY N ABOUT THE EVACUATN, DON'T SOFTEN THE BLOW FOR MANY. OLD RETAER: THE VECHE FORMED THE REGNAL STAGE IS A UNCIL OF THOSE WHO HAVE LONG SERVED RURIK THE PAST AND ANSWER TO HIM OVER HIS BICKERG HEIRS. THOUGH THEY HAVE NO LEGAL POWER, THEY NOHELS HAVE A LOT OF FLUENCE TO ENACT THE TSAR'S WILL, NAMELY WAR PLANNG, ASTCTURE, AND POLICKG. THE PARDON: AFTER UNG CENTRAL SIBERIA, RURIK II N PARDON A NUMBER OF GENERALS OM THE FEATED WARLORDS TO HAVE THEM FIGHT UNR HIS BANNER, ALTHOUGH PARDONG ALL OF THEM ONLY STS A MOR AMOUNT OF STABILY. NOTABLY, WHILE THE MASS PARDONS N EVEN SEE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTNARY COUNCIL GENERALS RPORATED TO KEMEROVO'S ARMY WHOUT ISSUE (SAID RECS CLU BOTH VASILEVSKY AND LEONID BREZHNEV WHO ARE OTHERWISE LOYAL RED ARMY OFFICERS), THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY ARE THE ONLY FACTN TO GET NO PARDONS, NO DOUBT STEMMG OM RURIK II'S GDGE AGAST THEM. PRAETORIAN GUARD: SHORTLY AFTER PROCLAIMG HIMSELF THE RERNATN OF RURIK, RURIK II FORMED THE KGSGUARD AS HIS PERSONAL HONOUR GUARD. HOWEVER, THEY N BE DISBAND BY YURIY IF HE BE THE NEW MONARCH, VIEWG THEM AS TOO LOYAL TO LYDIA TO BE KEPT AROUND. RAGTAG BUNCH OF MISFS: BEE OF HIS... UNNVENTNAL BELIEFS, RURIK'S SUPPORT BASE IS A WI AND VARIED ONE, CLUDG TRADNALIST PEASANTS, POLIL REACTNARI, RED ARMY VETERANS, OPPORTUNIST MERCENARI, AND OTHER WEIRD FOLKS. TAKEN EVEN FURTHER AS NOTED UNR BADASS CREW, WHERE A KEMEROVO THAT EHER PLAYS THEIR RDS RIGHT OR GETS RATHER LUCKY N REC A LOT MORE GENERALS OM OTHER FEATED WARLORDS. RELIGN IS WRONG: ZIG-ZAGGED. DPE HIS PERSONAL MYSTIC EXPERIENC AND HIS VAGUE LANGUAGE THAT IMPLI HIS BELIEF HIGHER FORC, RURIK IMPOS STATE ATHEISM AND BELIEV THAT CLERGYMEN ARE MERELY CHARLATANS AND ELS WIZARDS. FURTHER PLITG MATTERS, HE N PEACEFULLY TEGRATE OYROTIA AND VE THEIR CLERGY TO URT AS ADVISORS... WHILE STILL MATAG HIS GENERAL STATE ATHEIST POLICI. ON THE WHOLE, RURIK’S ATTUS TOWARDS RELIGN ARE... TERTG, TO SAY THE LEAST. RURGENT EMPIRE: EXAGGERATED. THE KGDOM OF R IS A SPIRUAL NTUATN OF THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATNS OF NOVGOROD (IF PRCE YURIY TAK POWER) AND MVY (IF PRCS LYDIA TAK POWER). THE ARE TWO UNTRI THAT HAVE BEEN CULTURALLY EXTCT FOR CENTURI. RICHARD NIXON, THE USED CAR SALMAN: SUBVERTED WH PYOTR BARANOVSKY. STARTG AS AN ARCHECT JT AS REAL LIFE, PYOTR ONLY BE KEMEROVO'S FIRST FOREIGN MISTER BEE OF A CISN MA BY A DNKEN RURIK II. ROYALS WHO ACTUALLY DO SOMETHG: RURIK II, PRCE YURIY AND PRCE BORIS ARE ALL LONG-TIME OFFICERS OF THE RED ARMY AND THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC FORC, AND DO NOT SHY AWAY OM LEADG THEIR WARRRS BY THEMSELV IF NEED. RURIK IS AN AVAILABLE FIELD MARSHAL OF KEMEROVO, AND BOTH OF HIS SONS ARE GENERALS, BY GAME START. SIBLG RIVALRY: SCE THEIR FATHER PROCLAIMED HIMSELF RURIK II, PRCE YURIY AND PRCS LYDIA HAVE BEEN FIGHTG EACH OTHER FOR YEARS, PETG TO SEE WHO WOULD BE CHOSEN AS HEIR TO THE THRONE, WHO WOULD BE GIVEN THE CHANCE TO SHAPE THE FUTURE OF RSIA. SIGIL SPAM: THE GRAND PALACE OF KEMEROVO (NVERTED OM AN OLD SOVIET ERNMENT BUILDG) IS PLASTERED WH THE RURIKID TRINT, OFTEN REPLACG THE HAMMER AND SICKLE SIGIL SPAM THAT ME BEFORE. STANDARD ROYAL COURT: FTG THEIR MONARCHIL FLAIR, KEMEROVO IS ERNED BY RURIK II AND S ROYAL URT, DOMATED BY THE PERSONALI OF YURIY AND LYDIA. UNTIL RURIK PASS, HE WILL NEED TO MANAGE THEIR FLUENCE THE URT AND TERME WHO WILL SUCCEED HIM. START MY OWN: KEMEROVO ED TO BE PART OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, BUT FOLLOWG THE LATTER'S LLAPSE DURG THE SIBERIAN WAR, AND THE MUTY OF KRASNOYARSK'S OFFICERS, KRYLOV CID TO STOP TAKG ORRS OM TOMSK TO TABLISH HIS OWN KGDOM OF WEIRDNS. SUCCS THROUGH INSANY: RURIK II BELIEV HE IS THE RERNATN OF THE ANCIENT VARANGIAN PRCE WHO UNED THE R MEDIEVAL TIM, AND HIS KGDOM IS A HIGHLY UNUAL FN OF POPULIST NSTUTNAL MONARCHISM, SOVIET-STYLE WORKERS' PROTECTNS AND TRA UNNISM, AND KIEVAN AND MVE ATHETICS ANDS CTOMS. DPE HIS ECCENTRIC LNS, HE STILL MANDS A MORN ARMY AND DTRIAL BASE (HAVG FAIRLY POWERFUL BON BOTH ARY AND DTRY THANKS TO BEG RED ARMY REMNANTS AND HAVG ACCS TO LEFTOVER FACTORI HELPS). "RURIK II" ULTIMATELY PROV TO BE A HIGHLY PETENT STATMAN AND ARY MANR, AND THE GOOD KG. AS HE LI DYG HIS BED SHORTLY AFTER UNIFYG ALL OF RSIA, HE ADMS TO HIS CHILDREN THAT HE WAS JT PRETENDG TO BE SANE ("PERHAPS THIS WHOLE CHARA WAS WORTH THE END") AND PASS AWAY PEACEFULLY AS NIKOLAI KRYLOV. WE ARE STGGLG TOGETHER: SUBVERTED. IN THE REGNAL STAGE, YURIY'S AND LYDIA'S SUPPORTERS BEG CLASHG WH EACH OTHER AND ALMOST THREATEN TO TEAR THE UNTRY APART TO CIVIL WAR, UNTIL RURIK II NAM A SUCCSOR. WEIRD CURRENCY: TO HIB THE DOMATG FLUENCE OF FOREIGN CURRENCY, KEMEROVO TRODUC THE GRIVNA AS A NEW CURRENCY, WHICH WAS PREVLY ED THE KIEVAN R AND ARE IRREGULARLY SHAPED GOTS OF PREC METALS.RURIK IIROLE: MILARY COMAMNR, HEAD OF STATEPARTY: ZEMSKY SOBORNOTE ASSEMBLY OF THE LANDIOLOGY: ABSOLUTE MONARCHYNOTE DPOTISM, SOCIAL NATNALISMNOTE PATERNALISM (YURIY IS SIGNATED HEIR)IN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW MAJOR GENERAL NIKOLAY IVANOVICH KRYLOV WAS ONCE AN OFFICER OF THE RED ARMY, SERVG AS CHIEF OF STAFF FOR THE 62ND ARMY BATTL LIKE SEVASTOPOL AND VOROSHILOVGRAD. BUT AS THE GREAT PATRTIC WAR BEME NOTHG BUT GREAT FEATS FOR THE SOVIETS, KRYLOV WAS WOUND BOTH SI AND OUT, AND THE STRS OF NSTANT RETREATS LED TO A NERVO BREAKDOWN. HOWEVER, THE 62ND WAS UNAFFECTED BY HIS AFFLICTN, SCE HAD ALREADY DISTEGRATED. HE AND HIS SMALL BAND OF OFFICERS WHOUT AN ARMY JOED THE EASTWARD WAVE OF REFUGE POURG OVER THE URALS, EVENTUALLY FDG HIS SUPERRS THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC. SENT BY THE REPUBLIC TO AL WH THE ANARCHIST SURGENCY OF THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY, KRYLOV SUFFERED A HUIATG FEAT AND LATER FACED BETRAYAL BY ONE OF HIS TSTED SUBORDAT, GENERAL ANDREEV KRASNOYARSK, AND WAS FORCED TO RETREAT HIS FORC KEMEROVO. THERE, HE FELL EPER TO HIS STUPOR, DRKG OR SMOKG WHATEVER HE ULD GET HIS HANDS ON TO DULL HIS PA AND GUILT. BUT ONE DAY, SUDNLY CHANGED. AFTER AN EVENG LOCKED NAKED HIS ROOM WH NOTHG BUT A RTON OF CIGARETT, THREE BOTTL OF VODKA, AND A BOOK ON ORTHODOX MYSTICISM, HE WALKED OUT PROCLAIMG THAT HE HAD BEEN ORRED TO RNE RSIA. BY WHOM? HE CL TO SAY. HIS OFFICER RAS WERE WORRIED FOR HIS MENTAL STATE, A FEAR EXACERBATED WHEN KRYLOV CROWNED HIMSELF AS 'RURIK II, EMPEROR AND AUTOCRAT OF ALL THE R.' HOWEVER, THEIR NCERNS WERE DROWNED OUT BY A WAVE OF SUPPORT OM SOLDIERS AND MERCENARI, DRAWN BY PROMIS OF NQUT AND GLORY. RURIK PREACH AN ECLECTIC MIX OF RSIAN TRADNALISM AND SOVIET ARISM. HE CLAIMS TO BE THE HEIR TO THE TSARIST TRADN, YET SPIS THE ROMANOVS; HE TALKS ABOUT THE VIRTUE OF VLADIMIR THE GREAT, BUT IS ATHEIST AND DISMISS PRITS AS "CHARLATANS AND WIZARDS". HIS MOTLEY IOLOGY IS REPRENTED BY HIS SUPPORTERS, A MIX OF REACTNARI, SOVIET VETERANS, AND SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE. SOME HIS OFFICER RPS SPECT THAT THE WHOLE "RURIK" ACT IS SIMPLY A CHARA TO RALLY THE PEASANTS' SUPPORT; IF IS, HE IS DOG AN EXCEPTNALLY GOOD JOB AT STAYG CHARACTER.GENERAL NIKOLAI IVANOVICH KRYLOV, ONCE AN OFFICER OF THE RED ARMY AND THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, TRANSFORMED TO RURIK II AFTER YEARS OF ARDUO EXISTENCE AND ONE REVELATORY NIGHT. THOUGH MANY HAD QUTNED HIS SANY, SOME BELIEVE THAT "RURIK II" IS AN ACT MATAED BY KRYLOV TO ATTRACT POPULAR SUPPORT. WHATEVER THE SE MAY BE, RURIK'S LE IS AS PECULIAR AS IS POPULAR, AND HE STANDS A GOOD CHANCE TO RNE RSIA. AMBIGUO SUATN: HAS GENERAL KRYLOV GONE OFF THE EP END? OR IS HE PLAYG THE LONG GAME AND PRETENDG TO BE SANE? IF HE MANAG TO UNE RSIA, ON HIS ATHBED HE REVEALS TO HIS CHILDREN THAT THIS WAS A CHARA ALL ALONG, THOUGH ONE WORTH THE END, YET NOT EVEN HIS CHILDREN ARE SURE THAT HE'S SPEAKG THE TTH, OR IF THIS IS JT THE FAL EPISO OF HIS MADNS. THE EVENT FOR HIS NATN BEG NQUERED BY THE BLACK ARMY ALSO EVEN SUGGTS THE RURIK AND KRYLOV PERSONALI ARE DISSOCIATG TO SOME EXTENT. ANACHRONISM STEW: RURIK II'S IOLOGY IS AN ODD MIX OF TRADNALISM AND MORNISM. HE WEARS AN ARCHAIC CROWN WH A MORN SU, AND KEMEROVO'S FLAG HAS THE OLD RURIKID TRINT SOVIET-LIKE RED AND YELLOW LORS. BEWARE THE SILLY ON: HIS ANE PERSONA BELI HIS LONG ARY EXPERIENCE AND THE VAR REFORMS HE PASS TO KICKSTART KEMEROVO'S ARMY, CREATG A LARGE STANDG ARMY OUT OF NSCRIPTN. BIG OL' EYEBROWS: BIG ENOUGH FOR HIS MEN TO PARE THEM TO THE ARMOR PLATG OF A TANK HE HELPED SIGN, LLG "HIS MAJTY'S EYEBROWS". BIGGER IS BETTER: A FIRM BELIEVER THIS. WHEN HE SE SOME TANK SIGNS, RURIK IS NOT IMPRS AND STAT THAT NEEDS MORE BIGGER ARMOR AND WEAPONS, IGNORG THE SIGNER'S PROTT OTHERWISE. BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: KRYLOV REMAS A PETENT ARY MANR WH A LONG HISTORY OF SERVICE TO THE SOVIET UNN AND THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, EVEN IF HE HAS MORE THAN A FEW QUIRKS. HE HAS ALSO PROVEN HIMSELF AS A PABLE STATMAN WHO KNOWS HOW TO PICK THE RIGHT SORT OF PEOPLE FOR EACH JOB, NOT WHOUT HIS HERENT ECCENTRICY. CLOUD CUCKOO LANR: HE'S GONE A B NUTS, AS SHOWN BY HIS NAPOLEON DELN, BUT HE'S OTHERWISE NOT A BAD GUY. COWARDICE CALLOUT: RURIK II, IF YOU'RE PLAYG AS HIM, N LL OUT THE THIRD REICH'S FUHRER ON HOW THEIR GENOCIDAL MPAIGN AGAST RSIA IS MOTIVATED BY FEAR SPE THE NAZIS' PRETENCE OF SUPERRY. CULTURE CLASH: IF RURIK VISS JAPAN TO FE CLOSER TI, HE MEETS A LEGATN OF JAPANE DIPLOMATS, WHO GREET HIM AS "RURIK-SAMA". AT FIRST, RURIK DON'T GET THAT 'S AN HONORIFIC AND TRI TELLG THEM THAT 'S JT "RURIK", CREATG A MISUNRSTANDG BETWEEN THE TWO PARTI, UNTIL ONE OF RURIK'S ENTOURAGE RMS OF THE TLE'S MEANG. ONCE RMED, RURIK'S FACE GO RED WH EMBARRASSMENT. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: SEEG HIS HOMELAND GET TORN APART AND GETTG BETRAYED BY GENERAL ANDREEV, KRYLOV'S PSYCHE PLETELY SNAPPED AND NOW BELIEV HIMSELF TO BE THE HEROR TO THE LONG-GONE RURIK DYNASTY. EXCEPT THAT HE REVEALS ON HIS ATHBED THAT HIS PRSN-DUCED SANY WAS ALL A LIE. DROWNG MY SORROWS: UNABLE TO PE WH THE SOVIET FEAT, GENERAL KRYLOV TRIED TO FD FORT ALHOL, CIGARETT AND MYSTIL BOOKS AFTER THE WAR. DYG AS YOURSELF: IMPLIED. IN HIS FAL MOMENTS, UPON BEG REASSURED THAT RSIA IS SAFE HANDS, RURIK II FALLY DROPS THE CHARA, DYG AS NIKOLAY KRYLOV. EVEN THE LOVG HERO HAS HATED ON: IN NTRAST TO HIS OTHERWISE GRACEFUL PERSONALY, RURIK STILL RENTS ANDREEV FOR HIS BETRAYAL, WHICH STARTED HIS DOWNWARD SPIRAL TO PRSN AND SANY. IF KRASNOYARSK IS FEATED, RURIK MT EHER EXILE OR EXECUTE HIM FOR HIS TREASON. FACE DEATH WH DIGNY: WHEN FEATED BY THE BLACK ARMY, RURIK IS IMPRISONED YUGRA, WHERE HE N GET UGHT THE BLAST RADI OF THE ANARCHISTS' NE, IF MALFUNCTNS DURG S TRANSPORT. HOWEVER, RURIK FEELS NO FEAR AT ALL UPON SEEG THE GROWG MHROOM CLOUD, BOWG BEFORE THE EXPLOSN NSUM HIM AND NSIRG HIMSELF EED OM HIS SQUALID LIVG NDNS. FRIENDLY ENEMY: UPON TAKG OVER TOMSK, RURIK HAS TEA WH MATVEY SHAPOSHNIKOV◊, TOMSK'S SECURY MISTER AND FIELD MARSHAL, AND THE TWO REMA ON GOOD TERMS WHILE SWAPPG OLD WAR STORI. AT THE REGNAL STAGE, RURIK ALSO HAS THE OPTN TO PARDON THE GENERALS OF NOVOSIBIRSK, TOMSK, THE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTNARY COUNCIL, OR ALL THREE AT THE ST OF SOME STABILY, MAKG THEM AVAILABLE TO FIGHT FOR KEMEROVO. THE GOOD KG: DPE HIS APPARENT SANY, RURIK II/KRYLOV'S LE IS QUE PRAGMATIC AND REASONABLE, AS HE LISTENS TO HIS ADVISORS AND VELOPS HIS UNTRY A RATNAL MANNER. HUMBLE HERO: HE'S OKAY WH HIS IENDS LLG HIM BY HIS FIRST NAME RATHER THAN HIS TLE. LANGUAGE BARRIER: PLAYED FOR LGHS. DURG RURIK II'S OFFICIAL VIS TO JAPAN◊, THE JAPANE DIPLOMATS ADDRS HIM AS RURIK-SAMA, WHICH VISIBLY NF HIM, AND HE KEEPS TRYG TO EXPLA THAT HIS NAME IS JT RURIK UNTIL ONE OF HIS ASSISTANTS PULLS HIM TO THE SI AND WHISPERS THAT THE DIPLOMAT IS MERELY G A JAPANE HONORIFIC. KG BOB THE NTH: RURIK II - AND THE FIRST KG TO BE NAMED "RURIK" A LONG TIME. KG ON HIS DEATHBED: HIS OLD AGE FALLY BEGS TO TCH UP TO HIM THE REGNAL STAGE, WHERE HE DREADS THE EVABLE CHOICE OF WHO TO SUCCEED HIM, WHICH WILL UPSET SOMEONE, NO MATTER WHO HE CHOOS. MEANGFUL RENAME: NIKOLAI IVANOVICH KRYLOV TOOK THE REGNAL NAME RURIK II WHEN HE PROCLAIMED HIMSELF THE RERNATN OF THE ANCIENT R' CHIEFTA RURIK. MOOD WHIPLASH: DURG A LIGHTHEARTED CELEBRATN, RURIK WEARS AN IMPRSIVE SU OF IRON ARMOR, BEARG A PE WH THE CRT OF THE ROYAL FAY. HOWEVER, JT AS HE BEGS PARADG ON HORSEBACK WH AN ARMY, RURIK SUDNLY STOPS, MUMBL SOMETHG TO HIS MEN, AND RIS OFF, WH THE ARMOR NEVER TO BE SEEN AGA. IT MARKS THE FIRST SIGN OF RURIK'S CLG HEALTH AND THE NEED FOR A SUCCSOR. MORALY PET: RURIK II IS ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE TO BE UNNDNALLY RPECTED BY LYDIA AND HIS PRENCE IS WHAT STOPS HER OM ACTG AGAST YURIY. AS SOON AS HE LEAV HIS THRONE ROOM FOR A SHORT BREAK, LYDIA IMMEDIATELY GETS TO ANOTHER ARGUMENT WH HER BROTHER. NAPOLEON DELN: GENERAL NIKOLAY KRYLOV CLAIMS TO BE A RERNATN OF RURIK, THE FOUNR OF THE RURIK DYNASTY AND LER OF KIEVAN R'. IT IS UNCERTA TO EVERYONE IF HE IS REALLY SANE OR JT ACTG SANE. SHOULD HE RNIFY RSIA, HE ADMS TO HIS CHILDREN ON HIS ATHBED THAT HIS SANY WAS ALL AN ACT. OUTLIVG ONE'S OFFSPRG: IF KEMEROVO IS FEATED BY THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY, HE IS PUT ON TRIAL AND SWIFTLY SENTENCED. AS HE IS LED AWAY◊, RURIK SCREAMS AS HE SE HIS DGHTER LYDIA A POOL OF BLOOD, SURROUND BY THREE ENEMY SOLDIERS. PASSG THE TORCH: AS HIS HEALTH BEGS TO FAIL, RURIK IS TASKED WH NAMG A SUCCSOR BEFORE HE GO, ENSURG THAT SOMEONE WILL TAKE THE RES OF POWER AND ACHIEVE HIS DREAM OF LIBERATG MOSW. PYRRHIC VICTORY: EVEN IF HE RNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA, RURIK N'T FEEL ANY SATISFACTN OM HIS VICTORY BEE YURIY AND LYDIA'S DISPUT BEE CREASGLY FIERCE EVERY DAY, PAG HIM TO SEE HIS OWN CHILDREN FIGHT AMONGST THEMSELV. RAGS TO ROYALTY: A TLY BIZARRE VERSN; GENERAL NIKOLAI KRYLOV BEME ROYALTY BY CLARG HIMSELF THE RERNATN OF A MEDIEVAL KG, AND THIS SELF-CLARED ROYALTY STUCK BEE PEOPLE SUPPORTED HIM. REALPOLIK: DPE RSIA'S PAST ENMI WH JAPAN AND HIS OWN EFFORTS TO IMPROVE RELATNS WH THE OFN, RURIK MAK SOME DIPLOMATIC OVERTUR TO THE SPHERE BEE THEIR ENOMIC POTENTIAL WOULD BE A MASSIVE BOON THAT N'T SIMPLY BE IGNORED. HOWEVER, IF YURIY IS THE CHOSEN SUCCSOR, RURIK REALIZ THAT JAPAN ONLY TENDS TO TURN THEM TO A PUPPET STATE AND TH REJECTS ANY NTUED IENDSHIP WH THEM. "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH: DELIVERS A SCATHING ONE A LETTER TO THE FüHRER OF GERMANY◊, WHICH HE LAMBASTS THE SUPPOSED "MASTER RACE" AS A HOR OF UNCIVILIZED BARBARIANS, SAYS THE REICH'S CULT OF PERSONALY IS SIMPLY SIRG VALIDATN FOR THEIR SECURI, CLAIMS THAT THEIR ATTEMPTS OF SPEGOATG JEWS AND OTHER "SUBHUMANS" WILL EVABLY FAIL WHEN THE PEOPLE REALIZE THEIR REAL ENEMY IS "THE UGLY MAN WHOSE FACE IS PLASTERED ALL OVER THEIR WALLS", AND THAT THE REASON THEIR TERROR BOMBG OF RSIA IS BORN OUT OF FEAR THAT A RURGENT RSIA WOULD WIPE THEIR REICH OM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.NOTE THIS EVENT IS MEANT AS AN ALLN TO A LEGENDARY EXPLETIVE-LAN LETTER PENNED BY THE COSSACKS TO THE OTTOMAN SULTAN MEHMED IV, WHICH IS AVAILABLE FOR READG HERE. SERLY, MAK RURIK II'S LETTER LOOK POSIVELY RTRAED. RENCILE THE BTER FO: SUBVERTED. RURIK TRI TO GET YURIY AND LYDIA TO STOP ARGUG BY TALKG ABOUT THE UNIFITN OF CENTRAL SIBERIA, SOMETHG THAT EVERYONE WANTS. UNFORTUNATELY, THE MATTER OF HOW TO ACHIEVE THIS IS BROACHED, WH THE TWO SIBLGS QUARRELG ONCE MORE OVER WHOSE STRATEGY IS RIGHT. WHEN CENTRAL SIBERIA IS RNIFIED, RURIK TRI TO RENCILE THE SIBLGS AGA WH THE HELP OF BORIS, URGG THEM TO CEASE THEIR ARGUG FOR THE SAKE OF HIS HEALTH AND THE STATE'S STABILY. LYDIA PRACTILLY LGHS AT THE SUGGTN AND ANOTHER ARGUMENT BREAKS OUT BETWEEN THE TWO, LEAVG THE TWO MEDIATORS TO SIGH BTER DISAPPOTMENT. RERNATN: NIKOLAI KRYLOV CLAR HIMSELF THE ANCIENT R' CHIEFTA RURIK, REBORN. RICHARD NIXON, THE USED CAR SALMAN: NIKOLAI KRYLOV OTL IS KNOWN FOR BEG A POST-WAR SOVIET MARSHAL AND THE MANR OF THE STRATEGIC MISSILE FORC OM 1963-1972, AND MOST FELY NEVER PROCLAIMED HIMSELF ROYALTY LIKE HE DID THIS TIMELE. ROYALS WHO ACTUALLY DO SOMETHG: HIS ERNANCE OF THE KGDOM IS CREDIBLY MDFUL OF WHAT THE PEOPLE WOULD WANT. HE'S PARTICULARLY NCERNED ABOUT NOT OPPRSG THE PEASANTRY, ENACTG LIGHTER TAX ON THEM AND TABLISHG MOR WELFARE PROGRAMS. SANY SLIPPAGE: IF THE BLACK ARMY UNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA, RURIK'S ALREADY QUTNABLE SANY BREAKS EVEN FURTHER HIS PRISON, AS ISOLATN HAS RCED HIM TO KEEPG SOME OF THE FISH HE'S GIVEN AS A FOOD AND G THEM AS IMAGARY IENDS. SHOCKG DEFEAT LEGACY: HIS FEAT AT THE HANDS OF THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY, AS WELL AS THE BETRAYAL OF HIS TSTED AI, GENERAL ANDREEV KRASNOYARSK, LEFT A EP IMPACT ON KRYLOV'S MENTAL STATE AND BEME A TALYST TO HIS SUPPOSED FALL TO MADNS. SHOUT-OUT: THE CROWN OF KRYLOV IS WORN BY THE EPONYMO CHARACTER◊ OF THE MACBETH 2015 MOVIE ADAPTATN WHILE HIS FUR AT HAS A VERY STRONG GAME OF THRON VIBE. TECHNOLOGILLY BLD ELRS: REGULARLY MYSTIFIED (GENUELY OR NOT) BY ARY TECH AS HE VTS THEIR REARCH, SPE HIS BACKGROUND AS A RED ARMY GENERAL. HE MAK UNREALISTIC SUGGTNS TO HIS TANK SIGNER (WHICH END UP BEG FEASIBLE IF EXPENSIVE) AND REFERS TO AIRPLAN AS "FLYG MACH". THE UNFETTERED: WHEN ASKED BY A REPORTER IF HIS STRANGE CHARACTER WOULD MAKE HIM HARD TO TAKE SERLY, RURIK RPONDS THAT HE ULDN'T RE LS ABOUT WHAT THE WORLD THKS ABOUT HIM, AS HIS ONLY PRRY IS TO RNIFY RSIA AND RETURN TO THE WORLD STAGE AS A POWERFUL FORCE S OWN RIGHT. WHAM LE: AFTER UNIFYG RSIA, AS HE LAYS DYG◊, RURIK II'S FAL WORDS PERHAPS GIV SOME SIGHT TO KRYLOV'S RURIK PERSONA.RURIK II: "GOOD, GOOD. THEN PERHAPS THIS WHOLE CHARA WAS WORTH THE END." WHAT THE HELL, HERO?: IF LYDIA IS ALLOWED TO BREAK UP THE TRA UNNS, ONE STRIKG WORKER TERNALLY CRICIZ RURIK'S PLACENCY THE REPRSN, PARTICULARLY WHEN HE WNS A STRIKE BROKEN UP BY POLICE OFFICERS AND TEAR GAS.YURIY KRYLOVROLE: MILARY COMMANR, CROWN PRCENOTE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT (RURIK II SUCCSN), HEAD OF STATE (RURIK II SUCCSN)IOLOGY: SOCIAL NATNALISMNOTE PATERNALISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW IF YOU HAD TOLD YURIY NIKOLAYEVICH KRYLOV TWO S AGO THAT HE WOULD ONE DAY STAND AT THE HELM OF A REJUVENATED RSIAN MONARCHY, HE WOULD'VE NO DOUBT BEEN A STATE OF SHEER DISBELIEF. YET, A TLY BIZARRE SERI OF EVENTS, YURIY HAS RISEN TO BEE THE UNDISPUTED SUCCSOR TO HIS FATHER'S ALMOST HEROIC LEGACY. AS A YOUNG MAN, YURIY TOOK AFTER HIS FATHER AND JOED THE ARMY OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC AS AN OFFICER, WHERE HE DISTGUISHED HIMSELF AS AN ENERGETIC AND PABLE LEAR. DURG HIS TIME ON THE ONT, HE SAW FIRSTHAND THE VASTATG EFFECTS OF WAR UPON THE POOR AND DISADVANTAGED OF RSIA. ALTHOUGH HE NTUED TO RISE THROUGH THE RANKS, YURIY BEME TRATED WH HIS ABILY TO MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE. YURIY'S LIFE WOULD SOON BEE EVEN MORE HECTIC WHEN HIS FATHER SUFFERED WHAT APPEARED TO BE A SEVERE MENTAL BREAK. WHEN HE EMERGED AGA AS RURIK II, HE WAS QUICK TO TABLISH HIS PROGENY AS NOBILY HIS SELF-PROCLAIMED KGDOM. AFTER A SHORT PERD OF NFN AND NCERN FOR HIS FATHER, PRCE YURIY EVENTUALLY ME TO SEE THE KGDOM AS A CHANCE TO MAKE HIS IALS A REALY. THE PATH TOWARDS THE CROWN WAS GHT WH POLIL TRIGUE, BUT SPE THE CHALLENG YURIY WOULD EVENTUALLY BE NAMED AS RURIK II'S RIGHTFUL SUCCSOR. NOW CHRISTENED AS RURIK III HONOR OF HIS LATE FATHER, THE KG TENDS TO MAKE GOOD ON HIS LOFTY GOALS. UNR HIS REIGN, RURIK III TENDS TO LAY THE FOUNDATNS OF A MORE FAIR AND JT KGDOM, ONE WHICH LOOKS TO THE RIGHTS OF S PEOPLE FIRST AND FOREMOST.IN-GAME BGRAPHY (SBA LLAPSE) CLICK TO SHOW (WARNG: UNMARKED SPOILERS) YURIY NIKOLAYEVICH KRYLOV IS A MAN TRAPPED A STORYBOOK. AT LEAST, 'S BEEN EASIER FOR HIM TO VIEW HIS LIFE AS A STORY BEG TOLD RATHER THAN A LIFE BEG LIVED. THE THOR OF THE TRAGEDY HAS SEEN F THAT YURIY BE A PROTAGONIST, A PRCE PRIDG OVER A TROUBLED LAND. ONCE UPON A TIME, A LAND FAR, FAR AWAY, THERE LIVED A YOUNG BOY. HE WAS A NOBLE, BUT LIVED AS ONE AMONGST THE CIZENS OF THE FLOURISHG KGDOM. ONE DAY, WHILE THE YOUNG BOY READ BY THE RIVER, AN EVIL WIZARD ME TO HIS KGDOM, HEXG ALL THOSE AROUND HIM TO BE SLAV, UNRELENTG SERVICE TO THEIR MASTER. THE WIZARD'S TRICKS DID NOT AFFECT THE ROYAL FAY. THE KG AND HIS GUARD FOUGHT GALLANTLY TO REPEL THE WIZARD, BUT THE WIZARD AND HIS KNIGHT OVERWHELMED THE KGDOM, TAKG THE KG PRISONER AND LEAVG THE HERO'S SISTER SLA BATTLE. SPARED BY THE FORC OF THE WIZARD UNR THE PROTECTN OF HIS SUBJECTS, YURIY ASSUMED A NEW INTY, RENOUNCG HIS TL. STILL, THE HERO WORKED TIRELSLY TO ENHANCE THE LIV OF HIS PEOPLE, SUBVERTG THE WIZARD'S PUPPET ADMISTRATN. FOR A TIME, SEEMED AS THOUGH THE WIZARD'S EMPIRE WAS VCIBLE, UNTIL A RIFT OPENED UP BETWEEN THE WIZARD AND THE KNIGHT. THE KNIGHT BEGAN TO ASSERT HIMSELF AS THE HEGEMON OF THE REGN, G WHATEVER MEANS NECSARY TO SECURE A KGDOM OF HIS OWN. THE BTAL METHODS OF THE KNIGHT AND THE WANG FLUENCE OF THE WIZARD PROVID AN OPPORTUNY TO STRIKE, AS THE PROPHECY HAD FORETOLD. THE HERO, HAVG ASSUMED THE NAME AND TLE OF KG RURIK III, RALLIED HIS MOST LOYAL SUPPORTERS TO BREAK EE OF THE WIZARD'S BRAWASHG AND TO LIVE EEDOM ONCE MORE. WHILE THE HERO OF PROPHECY RECUPERAT HIS FORC, THE MAD GENERAL OF THE SOUTH NTU HIS RAIDS. THE STORY OF KG RURIK III IS FAR OM OVER. THE BATTLE OF PROPHECY WILL SOON MENCE AND THE PEOPLE N FALLY LIVE... ...HAPPILY EVER AFTER.YURIY NIKOLAYEVICH KRYLOV IS THE MIDDLE SON OF NIKOLAI KRYLOV'S THREE CHILDREN. AN ARMY OFFICER THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC LIKE HIS FATHER, YURIY SAW FIRSTHAND THE VASTATG EFFECTS OF WAR ON RSIA'S POOR MONERS, AND HE WAS TRATED WH HIS ABILY TO HELP THEM. LIKE OTHERS, HE WAS IALLY NFED BY HIS FATHER'S RURIKID RTORATN AND HIS SIGNATN AS A RURIKID PRCE, BUT YURIY LATER ME TO SEE THE KGDOM AS A CHANCE TO REALIZE HIS POPULIST IALS, A CHANCE TO BRG JTICE TO RSIA. ALL-LOVG HERO: YURIY IS A PASSNATE AND REASONABLE LER TO ALL OF HIS PEOPLE, WHERE HE TRI EVERYTHG HIS POWER TO PROTECT AND BENEF HIM. HE ALSO TRI SEEG THE BT HIS SISTER LYDIA, SPE THE FACT THAT SHE OPPOS AND TENDS ON EXILG HIM. THE ALLIANCE: DISDAG ANY IENDSHIP WH JAPAN, YURIY ADVOT CLOSER TI TO THE OFN STEAD. BERSERK BUTTON: DISREGARDG THE RIGHTS OF THE TRA UNNS IS A BIG ONE FOR YURIY. WHEN LYDIA SULTS THEM, YURIY IS FUR AND MENTS THAT HE WOULD HAVE HER IMPRISONED, IF SHE WASN'T HIS SISTER. BEWARE THE NICE ON: WHILE LS HAWKISH THAN LYDIA, YURIY STILL ADVOT NUMERO ARISTIC MEASUR TO MOBILIZE THE KGDOM SE OF WAR, MONSTRATG THAT HE'S STILL A LER NOT TO BE TRIFLED WH. THE B CAME BACK: IF THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY BALKANIZ AFTER THEIR RNIFITN OF CENTRAL SIBERIA, RURIK III WILL RETURN TO KEMEROVO. CHRONIC HERO SYNDROME: YURIY'S EP NCERN FOR THE WORKERS N OCSNALLY LEAD HIM TO JUMPG THE GUN ON THEIR BEHALF. EVEN RURIK II THKS THAT HE N BE TOO PROACTIVE AT TIM. CHUMMY COMMI: DOWNPLAYED. ALTHOUGH RURIK III KEEPS THE MONARCHY AND A FAIR AMOUNT OF EXECUTIVE POWER, HIS ENOMIC POLICI ACTUALLY LEAN TOWARDS THE SOCIALIST, WH OP-LED MARKETS AND STRONG LABOR UNNS. YURIY ALSO ADVOT FOR A WELFARE STATE, THOUGH HIS SISTER IS IRONILLY A B BETTER EQUIPPED TO SET UP NATNALIZED HEALTHRE THROUGH PRACTIL EXPERIENCE WH THE RSIAN MEDIL SYSTEM. DEMOCRACY IS FLAWED: HIS MOCRATIZATN OF THE ZEMSKY SOBOR ISN'T FLAWLS, AS THE ASSEMBLI MORE EQUENTLY VOLVE TO CHAOTIC BAT BETWEEN S BURECRATS, WH YURIY UNABLE TO BRG THE UNCIL UNR NTROL, NO MATTER HOW MANY TIM HE STRIK HIS GAVEL. IN ONE SSN, YURIY GETS SO FED UP THAT HE YELLS "SHUT THE FUCK UP ALL OF YOU! S DOWN AND SHUT THE FUCK UP!" EVERYONE, CLUDG YURIY HIMSELF, IS SHOCKED BY THIS OUTRAGE, WH THE MONARCH SHAMEFULLY THKG ABOUT HOW BADLY THIS CINT WILL REFLECT ON HIM. ENEMY ME: DISGTED BY THE AB MTED BY THE JAPANE EMPIRE, YURIY UNRM THEIR THORY BY SMUGGLG WEAPONS TO CHE REBELS AND AIDG THEIR EFFORTS TOWARDS PENNCE. EVEN THE LOVG HERO HAS HATED ON: DOWNPLAYED. YURIY IS TRATED BY LYDIA' TOCRATIC VIEWS AND SHE'S ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE TO REALLY GET HIM ENRAGED AND ARGUMENTATIVE. HOWEVER, IF YURIY WS THE THRONE OVER HER, HE DO GIVE HER A RELATIVELY FORTABLE POST MAGADAN AND BIDS HER A LOVG GOODBYE, SHOWG THAT HE STILL LOV HER AS A SISTER. FICTNAL CURRENCY: IN RPONSE TO THE GRIVNA'S POPULARY AS A NEW CURRENCY, YURIY TRODUC A NEW SET OF AGE THAT BEAR THE IMAGE OF RURIK II. THE GOOD KG: LIKE HIS FATHER, RURIK III IS A REASONABLE MONARCH WHO RETAS THE BT PARTS OF RURIK II'S LE, WHILE FURTHER TURNG RSIA TOWARDS MOCRACY AND CREATG A NATN THAT GENUELY R FOR S PEOPLE. HOPE BRGER: HIS NCERN FOR THE MON WORKER MAK HIM BELOVED BY THEM, AS HE GIV THEM THE HOPE THAT THEIR WORK WILL GET EASIER AND SAFER SOON. THE IALIST: IN NTRAST TO HIS SISTER, YURIY IS AN IALIST WHO ADVOT FOR GREATER POLIL RIGHTS AND EQUALY FOR THE RSIAN POPULACE. INTERNAL REFORMIST: YURIY IS EVEN MORE REFORMIST THAN HIS OWN FATHER, BELIEVG THAT THEY SHOULD DO MORE TO HELP THEIR PEOPLE AND ARGUG FAVOR OF SUPPORT FOR THE UNNS. MEANGFUL RENAME: PRCE YURIY TAK THE NAME RURIK III AFTER HE SUCCEEDS HIS FATHER. PRAGMATIC HERO: EVEN WHEN HE'S NOMATED AS RURIK'S SUCCSOR, LYDIA'S SUPPORT BASE REFE TO ACCEPT THE CISN. THIS FORC YURIY TO PROMISE ON HIS PRCIPL BY REACHG OUT TO SOME OF HER SUPPORTERS, BARGAG REASSURANC TO W THEM TO HIS SI. THE PURGE: GROWG SPIC THAT THE KGSGUARD WILL BETRAY HIM TO BRG LYDIA TO THE THRONE, YURIY HAS THE ANIZATN DISMANTLED TO REPLACE THEM WH A MORE NVENTNAL AND TSTWORTHY SECURY FORCE. REASSIGNED TO ANTARCTI: IF RURIK II NAM HIS DGHTER LYDIA HIS HEIR, SHE'LL TASK HER BROTHER WH ERNG THE SPARSELY-POPULATED CHOTKA REGN, A MOVE WHICH MIGHT AS WELL BE EXILE. REBEL LEAR: IF THE BLACK ARMY NQUERS KEMEROVO, YURIY WILL BEG VERTLY WORKG TO RTORE HIS KGDOM, RISTG STEPANOV'S ATTEMPTS TO STAMP OUT THE MONARCHIST REMNANTS. RICHARD NIXON, THE USED CAR SALMAN: YURIY NIKOLAYEVICH KRYLOV OTL WAS AN OFFICER WHO HAD A BRIEF SERVICE AS A MANR WWII (WHEN HE WAS STILL A TEENAGER), SERVED THE SOVIET STRATEGIC MISSILE FORC LIKE HIS FATHER, AND LATER BEME A MAJOR GENERAL. IN TNO, DUE TO THE... "EVENTS" HIS FATHER HAD EXPERIENCED, HE WENT ALONG AND BEME A "RURIKID" PRCE. ROYALS WHO ACTUALLY DO SOMETHG: CONCERNED FOR THE PLIGHTS OF HIS PEOPLE, YURIY ENACTS HUMANISTIC POLICI FAVOR OF THEIR PROTECTN AND EQUALY. AS STATED HIS REVIVAL OF THE RSKAYA PRAVDA, YURIY GUARANTE WORKER'S RIGHTS, THE ABOLN OF SLAVERY, GENR EQUALY, AND SO MUCH MORE TO CREATE AN AMAZGLY EE KGDOM. SORE LOSER: IF LYDIA IS NAMED RURIK'S HEIR, YURIY WILL ABSTA OM APPLDG THE ANNOUNCEMENT AND LEAV A FURY WHEN HIS SISTER SHOOTS HIM A SMUG GR, SLAMMG THE DOOR ON HIS WAY OUT. SURPRISGLY SUDN DEATH: IN THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE OF THE BLACK ARMY, STEPANOV N TRY BUILDG A SUPPORT BASE BY QUASHG THE WHISPERS OF A MONARCHIST REBELLN KEMEROVO, BUT WHEN HIS MEN RAID ONE OF THEIR WAREHO, THEY GET UGHT A STANDOFF WH YURIY'S OWN FORC. OPTNALLY, ONE OF STEPANOV'S MEN N OPEN FIRE AND UNCEREMONLY KILL THE PRCE AN STANT, WHICH SHOCKS EVERYONE AND STARTS A BLOODY FIREFIGHT. TAKE A THIRD OPTN: NEHER THE GUILD SYSTEM OR TRA UNNS ARE IAL FOR YURIY, AS THE FORMER IS HARMFUL TO WORKER RIGHTS AND THE LATTER ISN'T AS EFFICIENT. RATHER THAN PRRIZE EHER, YURIY CHOOS A PROMISE BETWEEN THE TWO, WHERE THE UNNS ARE ALLOWED TO EXIST AS WATCHDOGS AGAST WORKG AB, WHILE THE GUILDS WILL BE KEPT TO MEET A BOTTOM LE OF PRODUCTN. TAKG UP THE MANTLE: YURIY'S STYLE OF ERNANCE IS SPIRED BY THE REPUBLIC OF NOVGOROD, BLENDG THEIR ENOMIC POLICI WH MORN VIEWS TO CREATE AN ENOMILLY POWERFUL RSIA. TEETH-CLENCHED TEAMWORK: HIS KGDOM IS ACTURED WH FACTNALISM BETWEEN THE ELECTED OFFICIALS, THE REGNAL POSADNIKS, AND THE NOBILY. ALL OF THEM DISAGREE ON HOW THE STATE SHOULD BE N AND GETS SO BAD THAT YURIY EVENTUALLY HAS TO TERVENE AND FORCE A PROMISE. THICKER THAN WATER: YURIY EXIL LYDIA TO MAGADAN IF HE BE KG, AND WHILE SHE IS (UNRSTANDABLY) ANGRY ABOUT , YURIY ADMS THAT HE STILL ARLY LOV HER AND HOP SHE N WORK WH HIM. WHAT'S UP, KG DU?: NOT ONLY DO YURIY MOCRATIZE KEMEROVO TO BE CLOSER TO THE MON CIZEN, BUT HE ALSO TAK SUAL WALKS THROUGH TOWNS WHENEVER HE NEEDS TO TAKE A BREAK OM WORKG. THE WISE PRCE: PRCE YURIY KRYLOV SUPPORTS A MORE POPULIST AND MOCRATIC APPROACH TO ERNANCE. WORTHY OPPONENT: EVEN THOUGH LYDIA HAT HIS GUTS WHEN SHE'S EXILED TO MAGADAN, SHE ACKNOWLEDG THAT HE WAS A GOOD POLIL OPPONENT, ENOUGH TO OUTMANUEVER HER.LYDIA KRYLOVAROLE: CROWN PRCSNOTE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT (RURIK II SUCCSN), HEAD OF STATE (RURIK II SUCCSN)IOLOGY: ARISTOCRATIC CONSERVATISMNOTE DPOTISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW FROM THE CHAOS AND NFN OF THE RSIAN WARLORD ERA ARIS ROGNEDA I, THE WOLF QUEEN OF R'. THE WOMAN FORMERLY KNOWN AS LYDIA KRYLOVA'S RISE TO POWER WAS NOTHG SHORT OF METEORIC, AND SHE NOW STANDS TALL AS THE MOST POWERFUL THORY OF THE RURRECTED RSIAN NATN. IT WAS NOT ALWAYS STED TO BE LIKE THIS. ONCE UPON A TIME, LYDIA WAS A VOLUNTEER NURSE HELPG WH THE REAR ECHELON OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC'S ARY. WHAT SHE WNSED DURG HER TIME SHAPED HER CHARACTER DRAMATILLY: UNTLS MEN AND WOMEN PUTTG THEIR LIV ON THE LE FOR THEY DID NOT FULLY UNRSTAND, WHOUT ANY DITN THAT THEIR SACRIFIC WERE MAKG A DIFFERENCE. RSIA WAS DYG, AND THIS ULD NOT BE MORE TANGIBLE TO LYDIA, WHO WAS ABLE TO WNS THE EFFECTS OF THE ATH THRO WH HER OWN EY. WHEN HER FATHER EMERGED OM HIS MENTAL LAPSE AS RURIK II, LYDIA IMMEDIATELY SAW THIS AS HER OPPORTUNY TO TURN THE TI. AS THE KGDOM'S POWER NTUED TO GROW, SO TOO DID THE WOLF PRCS'. EVENTUALLY, SHE WAS FORCED TO PETE WH HER OWN BROTHER FOR THE THRONE, BUT HER PASSNATE AND THLS DRIVE SAW LYDIA THROUGH TO TAKE HIS PLACE AS RURIK II'S RIGHTFUL HEIR. NEWLY REBORN AS QUEEN ROGNEDA, SHE TENDS TO RTORE STRENGTH AND HONOR TO THE WOUND RSIA NATN, NO MATTER WHAT THE ST MAY BE.LYDIA NIKOLAEVNA KRYLOVA IS THE DGHTER OF NIKOLAI KRYLOV AND THE ELST OF HIS THREE CHILDREN. SHE WAS A VOLUNTEER NURSE THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC'S ARY, WHERE SHE SAW MEN AND WOMEN DYG DROV, SERVG GOALS THEY DIDN'T UNRSTAND, AND ACPLISHG LTLE AS THEY DIED. THE SIGHTS SHAPED LYDIA'S IALS MUCH LIKE HER BROTHER, BUT SHE NCLUD THAT THE DYG RSIAN NATN MT BE REBIRTHED TO BRG JTICE AND MEANG TO HER PEOPLE. LYDIA SEIZED HER FATHER'S RURIKID RTORATN AS A CHANCE TO REALIZE HER VISN, AND AIMS TO RTORE RSIA'S PRI, NO MATTER THE ST. ALAS, POOR VILLA: LYDIA'S THE MOST TYRANNIL OF HER FAY, BUT HER EXECUTN BY THE SBA WHEN THEY ARE FEATED BY THEM IS A TERRIBLE FATE, PECIALLY WH HER FATHER'S ANGUISHED SCREAMS. AMAZON BRIGA: PRCS LYDIA FORMS A UN OF ELE WARRR WOMEN LLED SHIELDMAINS. ANIMAL MOTIFS: WOLV. WHILE ONE OF KEMEROVO'S NATNAL SPIRS IS "THE TWO WOLV", REFERENCG THE PROVERB AND THE SIBLGS' IOLOGIL DIFFERENC, LYDIA LEANS TO THIS MORE THAN HER BROTHER, BEG REFERRED TO AS THE "WOLF PRCS" FOR HER POLIL THLSNS. HER BETA PORTRA EVEN HAS HER WEARG A WOLF PELT. ANTI-VILLA: WHILE LYDIA IS THE MORE DICTATORIAL OF RURIK'S SUCCSORS, SHE AT LEAST PENSAT WH THE PROMISE OF STABILY AND A GENUE TENTN TO SAFEGUARD THE PEOPLE OM BOTH TERNAL AND EXTERNAL THREATS. ARISTOCRATS ARE EVIL: LYDIA'S RSIA IS ONE OF THE MORE REPRSIVE OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN UNIFIERS, AND ONE MANIFTATN OF THIS IS THE STRICT CLASS STRATIFITN SHE CREAT, WH A NEW UPPER CST OF WEALTHY SYPHANTS, BSPEOPLE, LANDOWNERS, AND ARY OFFICERS OPPRSG POOR MASS WHO ENJOY FEW PROTECTNS. BA THE DOG: AT FIRST, SHE SEEMS TO TAKE HER EXILE TO MAGADAN BY YURIY RELATIVELY WELL, EVEN HUGGG HIM GOODBYE. UNFORTUNATELY, THE GOOD SENTIMENTS DON'T LAST, AS LYDIA PLANS TO TURN MAGADAN TO AN ENOMIC POWERHOE THAT WILL KEEP HERSELF RELEVANT AND ABLE TO ACT AGAST YURIY WHENEVER HE MAK A FATAL BLUNR. BENEVOLENT CONSPIRACY: SEEN THE EVENT "NIGHTGALE, COME AGA". AS GOVERNOR OF TOMSK, SHE WORKS WH A WORK OF MEDIL PROFSNALS TO FABRITE A LEGENDARY NURSE FIGURE WHO HELPS THOSE MOST NEED. WHILE SHE DO GENUELY VT MEDIL ASTCTURE, THIS SEEMS TO BE FOR THE SAKE OF MORALE AND/OR PROPAGANDA. BORG, BUT PRACTIL: IN NTRAST TO YURIY'S PROPOSAL OF GIVG TOTAL EEDOM TO THE ROYAL UNNS' GUARANTEE OF LABOR RIGHTS, LYDIA TENDS TO NVERT THE WORKER'S UNCILS TO ROYAL GUILDS THAT WILL FOC MORE ON CREASG PRODUCTIVY RATHER THAN PROTECTG THE WORKERS. WHILE FAR MORE MUNDANE THAN THE ALTERNATIVE, OFFERS GREATER BENEFS AT A LOWER RISK OF BACKFIRG ON THE KGDOM. CAPALISM IS BAD: ZIG-ZAGGED. HER ENOMIC VIEWS LEAN FAVOR OF EE-MARKET REFORMS, WHICH AT THE ST OF CRACKG DOWN ON THE LABOR UNNS AND ANTAGONIZG THE WORKG CLASS. HOWEVER, 'S ALSO SHOWN THAT THE POLICI JUMPSTART KEMEROVO'S ENOMY BY EMPOWERG TRA AND MERCE, LEADG SOME TO BELIEVE THAT 'S WORTH THE END. CORPT CORPORATE EXECUTIVE: DOWNPLAYED. WHILE LYDIA'S BELIEF A MARKET ENOMY IS NOT PORTRAYED AS EVIL AND OF SELF, TAK THE FORM OF G HARSH MEASUR TO DISSOLVE UNNS AND MOCRATIC STUTNS FAVOR OF ROYAL GUILDS UNR HER TIGHT, CENTRALIZED NTROL, LEADG TO WAV OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY. THE CYNIC: COMPARED TO YURIY, LYDIA IS THE MORE PRAGMATIC SIBLG, ADVOTG ARISM AND A STRICTER HIERARCHY TO SECURE KEMEROVO'S STABILY. EQUAL-OPPORTUNY EVIL: WHILE A B OF A HOMOPHOBE (PECIALLY PARED TO SABL, MEN, AND THE BLACK ARMY), LYDIA WILL TOLERATE HOMOSEXUALS THE ARY SO LONG AS THEY'RE AS EFUL AND PABLE AS THEIR RAS. EVEN EVIL HAS LOVED ON: WHETHER OR NOT LYDIA IS EVIL IS THE EYE OF THE BEHOLR, NSIRG THE SETTG, BUT SHE'S CERTALY A LOT MORE BTAL THAN HER BROTHER. THIS DO NOTHG TO CHANGE THAT SHE LOV AND ETS FOR HER FATHER JT AS MUCH AS YURIY DO. IN A MORE DOWNPLAYED SE, LYDIA DO HAVE A LTLE AFFECTN FOR YURIY AND FEELS SORRY ABOUT HAVG TO BETRAY HER OWN SIBLG TO TAKE THE THRONE. WHEN HE'S SILED TO ERN CHOTKA, LYDIA DON'T TAKE MUCH ENJOYMENT OM . THE EVIL PRCS: PRCS LYDIA IS RELATIVELY ARISTIC AND TOCRATIC PARED TO HER POPULIST BROTHER. SHE EVEN ADVOT A REVIVAL OF THE OPRICHA SYSTEM, WHICH WILL TABLISH A SECRET POLICE AND LIM CIVIL LIBERTI. EVIL REACTNARY: SHE SPEAKS OUT AGAST YURIY'S REFORMIST POLICI, ADVOTG REACTNARY POLICI THAT WILL SERVE THE GREATER GOOD. HERO-WORSHIPPER: LYDIA ADMIR THE ACPLISHMENTS OF CATHERE THE GREAT AND TENDS TO LEAVE A SIAR LEGACY BEHD WHEN SHE SUCCEEDS HER FATHER. HISTORIL BADASS UPGRA: UNLIKE HER FATHER AND BROTHERS, ALL OF WHOM WERE ACTUAL SOVIET GENERALS, LYDIA WAS ONLY A NURSE DURG WORLD WAR II AND BEME A HOEWIFE HER LATER LIFE. HERE, SHE IS A THLS POLIL MANIPULATOR AND LEAR OF HER OWN AMAZON BRIGA WHO N BEE QUEEN OF RSIA. HISTORIL VILLA UPGRA: THE REAL LYDIA WAS MOST CERTALY NOT AN TOCRATIC MONARCH. IRON LADY: PRCS LYDIA IS AN TOCRATIC, MANIPULATIVE LER WHO SEEKS TO CREATE A STRONG RSIA THROUGH ARISTIC PRAGMATISM, EVEN RENRG THE ZEMSKY SOBOR POWERLS SO THAT SHE ULD LE WH ABSOLUTE THORY. IRONY: SHE'S NOT BLD TO THE IRONY OF ONCE BEG A NURSE, YET THE MORE ARISTIC OF RURIK II'S POSSIBLE SUCCSORS. LAST STAND: IF KEMEROVO FALLS TO THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY, IS IMPLIED THAT WHILE RURIK II AND YURIY WERE PTURED, LYDIA MANAGED TO TAKE DOWN THREE ENEMI WH HER. MEANGFUL RENAME: UPON ASCENDG TO THE THRONE, PRCS LYDIA TAK THE REGAL NAME ROGNEDA, AFTER A R' PRCS. ORR IS NOT GOOD: HER REPRSIVE POLICI ARE TEND TO ENFORCE ORR THE KGDOM, BUT THE LAWS OFTEN E AT THE ST OF PERSONAL LIBERTI AND CREATE A HIERARCHY FAVOR OF THE NOBILY AND ARY OVER THE CIVILIANS. PET THE DOG: DURG THE RNIFITN MPAIGN, LYDIA PAYS A VIS TO A HOSPAL AND ENGAG SOME IENDLY SMALL TALK WH AN OLD IEND OF HERS. SHE ACTUALLY PUTS HER MEDIL EXPERIENCE TO GOOD E IF CLARED HEIR AND SETS UP A ROBT NATNAL HEALTHRE SERVICE, PART BEE SHE ISN'T SPENDG AS MUCH ON OTHER FORMS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AS HER BROTHER. SHE IS ALSO, NATURALLY, AN ADVOTE FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS. THOUGH OUTRAGED WHEN YURIY EXIL HER TO ERN MAGADAN, LYDIA DO, SOMEWHAT, TAKE HIS SPEECH ON RENCILG THE FUTURE TO HEART BEFORE THE TWO HUG EACH OTHER. AS RURIK LAYS HIS ATHBED, LYDIA SETS ASI HER GDGE AGAST YURIY TO FORT HER DYG FATHER. POLILLY INRRECT VILLA: DOWNPLAYED. WHEN SHE RECEIV A REPORT OF A HOMOSEXUAL RELATNSHIP BETWEEN TWO OF HER QUEENSGUARD, LYDIA HAS SOME RATHER UNSAVORY THOUGHTS ON THE AFFAIR, NSIRG A DISORR. HOWEVER, SHE DO NSIR THEM LOYAL AND PETENT ENOUGH TO SIMPLY JT BE DISMISSED, SO SHE ORRS HER PTA TO HAVE THEM REASSIGNED SEPARATELY STEAD. PRAETORIAN GUARD: IF CHOSEN AS RURIK'S SUCCSOR, LYDIA WILL REPLACE THE KGSGUARD WH THE QUEENSGUARD, HER OWN PERSONAL HONOR GUARD AND MAND BY ANNA KOTSUR. PRAGMATIC VILLAY: RATHER THAN PLOY THE OPRICHNIKI TO SPY AND PURGE DISLOYAL BS, LYDIA N STEAD REACH OUT TO THEM AND PROMISE WH THEM BEE BEE REPRSG THEM WOULD HURT THE ENOMY. AFTER TWO OF HER QUEENSGUARD ARE OUTED AS HOMOSEXUAL, LYDIA HAS THEM REASSIGNED SEPARATELY RATHER THAN DISMISSED BEE THEY'VE LOYALLY SERVED RURIK SCE THE 50'S AND THEY'RE TOO EFUL TO BE LET GO. REALPOLIK: UNLIKE HER BROTHER, LYDIA HAS NO PROBLEM FG TI WH THE SPHERE AND NEGOTIATG LUCRATIVE TRA ALS OM THEM. REASSIGNED TO ANTARCTI: IF RURIK II NAM HIS SON YURIY HIS HEIR, HE'LL TASK HIS SISTER WH ERNG MAGADAN, A PLACE THAT LYDIA FEELS LLS "A OZEN WASTELAND" AND SO SPARSELY POPULATED "THE PLACE PRACTILLY NS SELF!". HAVG SAID THAT, 'S STILL A MUCH NICER STATN THAN LYDIA GIV HER BROTHER HER OWN ROUTE, GIVEN THAT THE PORT OF MAGADAN OPERAT AS THE GATEWAY BETWEEN SIBERIA AND AMERI. RED SRE: SHE NSIRS ALL TRA UNNS AS MUNIST AGATORS THAT THREATEN TO STABILIZE THE REALM. WHEN SHE RECEIV WORD OF UPG STRIK, SHE SENDS THE KGSGUARD TO QUIETLY DISMANTLE THEM. REPRSIVE, BUT EFFICIENT: LYDIA PROMOT OPPRSIVE PRACTIC THAT TRAMPLE OVER CIVILIAN LIBERTI, BUT NOHELS CREASE THE STATE'S EFFICIENCY AND SECURY. SECRET POLICE: LYDIA REQUTS HER FATHER TO REANISE POLICE UNS TO 'OPRICHNIKI', NAMED AFTER THE PERSONAL ATH BRIGAS OF IVAN THE TERRIBLE AND MOLED AFTER THE ROMANOV OKHRANA AND SOVIET NKVD. SORE LOSER: IF YURIY IS NAMED RURIK'S HEIR, LYDIA WILL NOT BE PLEASED AT ALL, BEG THE ONLY ONE THE ZEMSKY SOBOR TO NOT CLAP NGRATULATNS AND STORM OFF A FUMG RAGE. TOKEN EVIL TEAMMATE: THE MOST REPRSIVE MEMBER OF HER FAY LE, EVEN IF HER GOALS ARE WELL-TENTNED NCEPT. UNGRATEFUL BCH: WHEN YURIY REMOV HER AS A RIVAL TO HIS THRONE, HE STILL TRI SHOWG HER MERCY AND LOVE BY ASSIGNG HER TO THE RELATIVELY FORTABLE POSN OF ERNG MAGADAN, EVEN EXPRSG HIS HOP THAT THEY'LL ONE DAY RENCILE. UNFORTUNATELY, LYDIA DO NOT RECIPROTE THE POSIVY, AS THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE REVEALS THAT SHE'S TRYG TO REBUILD HER FLUENCE SO AS TO CHALLENGE YURIY ONE DAY. WARHAWK: SHE ENSHR THE ARY AS A KEY STUTN OF THE STATE, URGG HER FATHER TO GIVE THEM MORE FLUENCE AND STRATIFYG THE HIERARCHY WH THE ARMY ON TOP. WELL-INTENTNED EXTREMIST: SHE SCERELY WANTS TO UPHOLD THE LEGACY OF HER FATHER, EVEN IF MEANS EMPLOYG THORARIAN AND ARISTIC MEASUR TO LIVE OUT THAT DREAM.BORIS KRYLOVROLE: MILARY COMMANRPARTY: ZEMSKY SOBORNOTE ASSEMBLY OF THE LAND (KEMEROVO), RYURIKOVY LOYALISTYNOTE RURIK'S LOYALISTS (AFTER MIDNIGHT)IOLOGY: ABSOLUTE MONARCHYNOTE DPOTISMYURIY AND LYDIA'S YOUNGER BROTHER AND A GENERAL THE KEMEROVO ARMY. UNLIKE HIS SIBLGS, HE HAS NO AMBNS OF ROYALTY AND REFED A TLE. FOR TROP PERTAG TO HIS EXPAND ROLE POST-MIDNIGHT RSIA, SEE HIS ENTRY ON AFTER MIDNIGHT SUBPAGE UNR THE KGDOM OF ALTAY FOLR. WILL NTA UNMARKED SPOILERS!    KRASNOYARSK OFFICIAL NAME: PROVISNAL GOVERNMENT OF KRASNOYARSK, REPUBLIC OF KRASNOYARSK (SBA COLLAPSE)RULG PARTY: PARTIYA SOTSIAL'NOY REFORMYNOTE PARTY OF SOCIAL REFORMIOLOGY: CONTROLLED DEMOCRACYNOTE PATERNALISMA CLIQUE OF OFFICERS HEAD BY NIKOLAI ANDREEV, WHO MUTIED AGAST THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC. THE CLIQUE PLANS FOR THE RNIFITN OF RSIA UNR THEIR LEARSHIP, AND MA WILD PROMIS FOR LIBERAL MOCRATIC REFORMS, THOUGH THEY'RE QUE A LONG WAY AWAY OM BOTH. ACTN GIRL: ONE OF KRASNOYARSK'S GENERALS IS ALEKSANDRA SAMENKO, WHO HISTORILLY WAS THE ONLY FEMALE TANK MANR THE FIRST GUARDS TANK ARMY. CHRONIC BACKSTABBG DISORR: THE CLIQUE FORMED SELF BY ABANDONG THE RED ARMY AND LATER MUTYG AGAST THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC (WHICH DROVE KRYLOV CRAZY AND TURNED HIM TO RURIK II). AS A RULT OF THIS HISTORY OF MUTEERG, THE OFFICERS OF KRASNOYARSK HAVE VELOPED A TENNCY TO ACT AGAST LERS THAT THREATEN THEIR TERTS, LAYG DOWN THE POSSIBILY OF A ARY UP THE FUTURE. DEFEAT MEANS FRIENDSHIP: IF NOVOSIBIRSK FEATS KRASNOYARSK, POKRYSHK WILL PERSONALLY REC GENERAL ALEXEY PTEREV TO HIS SI, SCE HE WOULD KNOW HOW TO ERN KRASNOYARSK. EMERGENCY AUTHORY: PART OF HOW THE CLIQUE JTIFI S MARTIAL LE OVER KRASNOYARSK, REASONG THAT THE LIBERAL MOCRACY PLANS TO TABLISH WOULD E EVENTUALLY. WHETHER ANDREEV ACTUALLY TENDS TO FOLLOW THROUGH WH THOSE PROMIS, IS LEFT OPEN. EMPTY PROMISE: TO KEEP THE REGIME STABLE, PRINT ANDREEV HAS MA WILD PROMIS OF LIBERTY AND MOCRACY. WHILE THE PROMIS HAVE KEPT THE PEOPLE QUIET FOR NOW, THE UNTRY IS REALY FACG A LOT OF TROUBLE WH AND WHOUT, AND WILL TAKE A LOT OF WORK TO ACTUALLY LIVER ON THE PROMIS. FOIL: KRASNOYARSK IS ONE TO SVERDLOVSK, PECIALLY SHOULD PAVEL BATOV TAKE OVER. WHILE BOTH ARE ARY JUNTAS THAT BROKE OFF OM THE RED ARMY, ANDREEV AND HIS CLIQUE ARE FAR MORE SELF-SERVG, PRRIZG THE NSOLIDATN OF THEIR OWN POWER AND PRTIGE OVER SERVG THE PEOPLE. TO A GREE, ALSO SERV AS ONE TO THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY SHOULD THE ARY EMERGE VICTOR. WHILE THE SBA'S OFFICERS MAY STILL PAY LIP SERVICE TO ANARCHISM, ANDREEV BARELY MAK ANY EFFORT TO NCEAL HOW KRASNOYARSK'S MOCRACY IS ANYTHG OTHER THAN A SHAM. KNOW WHEN TO FOLD 'EM: IF FEATED BY THE BLACK ARMY, A SMALL TACHMENT OF GUARDS FORTIFY THEMSELV AT A PRISON, BUT SURRENR WHEN THEY SEE THE MASSIVE VADG FORCE ABOUT TO LAY SIEGE AND REALIZE HOW POTLS FURTHER RISTANCE IS. MILARY COUP: SHOULD KRASNOYARSK'S ARY FD THEIR TERTS THREATENED, THEY WILL WASTE NO TIME OVERTHROWG THE CIVILIAN ERNMENT FAVOR OF ONE THAT ULD SERVE THEM BETTER. OUR PRINTS ARE DIFFERENT: KRASNOYARSK IS A ARY-GUID MOCRACY, AND AS SUCH THE CHIEF OF THE ARMY SERV AS THE PRINT, WHO IS APPOTED BY THE GENERAL STAFF. THE PRIME MISTER AND THE NATNAL ASSEMBLY ARE BOTH ELECTED, BUT THEY ARE SUBORDATE TO THE PRINT, AND TH THE ARY. REASSIGNED TO ANTARCTI: WHEN THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC WAS TABLISHED, THE ERNMENT WAS NCERNED ABOUT ANY PRE-EXISTG GROUPS THAT WOULD THREATEN THE MOCRATIC STUTNS, BROKE UP THE FUTURE KRASNOYARSK CLIQUE, AND ASSIGNED THEM TO REMOTE RNERS OF THE REPUBLIC.SECRET POLICE: IN THE "PROMIS OF SECURY" TREE◊, KRASNOYARSK N ENACT SUCH LOVELY FOC AS "LSONS OM YAGODA", AND "FUND THE NKVD".--> START MY OWN: KRASNOYARSK ED TO BE PART OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, BEFORE A CLIQUE OF OFFICERS LED A MUTY DURG THE SIBERIAN WAR AND SECED, FORMG THEIR OWN ARY DICTATORSHIP. WELL-INTENTNED EXTREMIST: THE KRASNOYARSK CLIQUE HAS ASPIRATNS FOR UNG RSIA UNR LIBERAL MOCRACY. UNFORTUNATELY, THE PATH THEY TAKE TO GET THERE VOLV LOTS OF ARY THORARIANISM.NIKOLAY ANDREEVROLE: MILARY COMMANR, HEAD OF STATEPARTY: PARTIYA SOTSIAL'NOY REFORMYNOTE PARTY OF SOCIAL REFORMIOLOGY: CONTROLLED DEMOCRACYNOTE PATERNALISMNOTE DPOTISM (MILARY TAKEOVER)-->IN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW BORN 1905, NIKOLAI TROFIMOVICH ANDREEV WAS LLED UP OM THE RERV TO FULLY REJO THE RED ARMY 1935, IALLY A POLIL MISSAR SIBERIA. HOPG TO FIGHT ON THE ONTLE AGAST THE GERMANS, HE WAS STEAD ENROLLED OFFICERS' SCHOOL. BUT AS THE WAR BEME MORE AND MORE SPERATE, HE NTUED TAKG MORE AND MORE CLASS - NOT TO BEE MORE SKILLED, BUT TO HOPEFULLY LAY BEG SENT TO FIGHT FOR WHAT HE SAW AS A LOST E. AS THE SOVIET UNN LLAPSED, HE AND A CLIQUE OF FELLOW OFFICERS' SCHOOL GRADUAT BEGAN TO NSOLIDATE THEIR POWER THE KRASNOYARSK REGN. YET WHEN THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC WAS TABLISHED, THEY WERE JTIFIABLY NCERNED ABOUT ANY PRE-EXISTG GROUPS THAT WOULD THREATEN THE MOCRATIC STUTNS AND SO THE ERNMENT BROKE UP THE CLIQUE AND ASSIGNED THEM TO THE FAR-REACHG RNERS OF THE REPUBLIC. ANDREEV WAS PLACED UNR THE MAND OF NIKOLAY KRYLOV, SECRETLY REMAG NTACT WH HIS CLIQUE. AS THE REPUBLIC BEGAN TO LOSE S GRIP ON POWER AND CMBLE APART, THE CLIQUE RNED KRASNOYARSK AND MUTIED AGAST GENERAL KRYLOV DURG HIS DOOMED MPAIGN AGAST THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY. NOW ORR TO NVCE THE PEOPLE OF THE CY THAT THEY WERE NOT JT ANOTHER FLAVOR OF JUNTA, ANDREEV AND HIS OFFICERS HAVE PROMISED NEW AND SWEEPG REFORMS. FREE TRA! PRIVATE PROPERTY! FOREIGN ALLI! OPEN ELECTNS! LIBERTY! DEMOCRACY! WH THE LLAPSE OF THE PREV ORR, THE CLIQUE IS NSIRG THAT THE MATTER OF THE SIBERIAN RNIFITN RTS THEIR HANDS. FOLLOWG THAT WILL BE A MAD DASH TO THE SEA, AND WH FOREIGN REGNN, BEFORE NSOLIDATG AND PREPARG A PH TO LIBERATE ALL OF RSIA. BUT WHETHER ANDREEV WILL ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO LIVER ON THE PROMIS IS ANOTHER MATTER ENTIRELY. CCNAT. ANDREEV PROMIS TO END THE ARY LE AND STEP DOWN FAVOR OF MOCRATIZATN, BUT 'S STILL UNCID IF HE WILL ACTUALLY FULFILL THAT PROMISE. DEFECTOR OM DENCE: AS THE SEND WORLD WAR BEME CREASGLY HOPELS FOR THE SOVIET UNN, ANDREEV AND HIS CLIQUE FECTED AND SEIZED POWER KRASNOYARSK BEFORE THEY SUBMTED TO THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC. HISTORIL BADASS UPGRA: NIKOLAY ANDREEV WAS HISTORILLY A RED ARMY COLONEL WH LTLE TERT POLICS. IN THE WORLD OF TNO, HE IS THE STRONGMAN LG KRASNOYARSK WH AN IRON FIST AND A POTENTIAL LEAR OF A RNED RSIA. HISTORIL VILLA UPGRA: THE REAL NIKOLAY ANDREEV WAS A MOR RSIAN COLONEL AND HERO OF THE SOVIET UNN RECIPIENT, AND HAD A QUE UNNOTABLE ARY AND CIVILIAN REER. HE FELY WASN'T A ARY DICTATOR AND NOR WAS HE A UP PLOTTER. LET NO CRISIS GO TO WASTE: WHEN THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC'S LLAPSE WAS IMMENT, ANDREEV NTACTED HIS OLD CLIQUE TO TAKE POWER ONCE MORE KRASNOYARSK AND LE AS A JUNTA ERNMENT MASQUERADG AS A PROVISNAL ONE.VIKTOR ASTAFYEVROLE: FOREIGN MISTER (ANDREEV BET), HEAD OF STATE (SBA LLAPSE)PARTY: SOTSIAL-DEMOKRATICHKAYA PARTIYA KRASNOYARSKANOTE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF KRASNOYARSKIOLOGY: LEFT-WG POPULISMNOTE PROGRSIVISMIN-GAME BGRAPHY CLICK TO SHOW (WARNG: UNMARKED SPOILERS) KRASNOYARSK WAS A STATE FOUND ON PROMIS. PROMIS OF EEDOM, PROMIS OF GREATNS, PROMIS OF PROSPERY FOR S TO E. WHERE ARE ALL THOSE PROMIS NOW? COMRA SIUDA MA MANY PROMIS UPON THE BLACK ARMY'S ENTRY TO KRASNOYARSK AS WELL. PROMIS OF LIBERATN, PROMIS OF EMANCIPATN, AND PROMIS OF EQUALY FOR ALL. FOR A TIME, THE DAYS AND WEEKS FOLLOWG THE LLAPSE OF ANDREEV'S FIEFDOM, THE PROMIS WERE MA GOOD UPON. THE BLACK ARMY EXPELLED THE CY'S OPPRSORS WHILE REPRENTATIV OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TABLISHED A LOL ASSEMBLY NJUNCTN WH THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY. IT WAS THE OVERCROWD, UNKEPT, AND MTY FETERIA OF THE SIBERIAN TECHNIL INSTUTE OF FORT THAT VIKTOR PETROVICH ASTAFYEV FIRST GOT A TASTE FOR ANARCHISM. THOSE SENT TO AID THE REANIZATN OF STCTURE THE CY DID WELL AT ADJTG A MORATE MOCRAT SUCH AS ASTAFYEV TO THE NEW LIFTYLE AWAG HIM AND THE OTHER HABANTS OF THE CY. EMERGG AS A MUNAL LEAR, ASTAFYEV MET WH SIUDA AND TARATUTA ON MULTIPLE OCSNS. VIKTOR'S CLOSE ASSOCIATN WH SIUDA AND HIGH-RANKG MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY MA HIS BETRAYAL ALL THE WORSE. ASTAFYEV PONRED IF THIS WAS TLY ANARCHISM AS HIS CY BEME HOME TO THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE BLACK ARMY. ASTAFYEV'S REQUTS FOR CREASED CIVILIAN ERNANCE FELL ON AF EARS AS QUOTAS WERE LIVERED OM KILCHICHAKOV, MISHURENKO TABLISHED A PERMANENT RINCE THE CY ALONGSI HIS LARGE FOLLOWG OF SOLDIERS, AND STEPANOV ST DOWN VETO AFTER VETO ON LOL MOTNS. SIUDA TLY IS NO DIFFERENT THAN ANDREEV, AND ASTAFYEV AND THE PEOPLE OF RSIA ARE FAR PAST EMPTY PROMIS. THOUGH SIUDA AND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY HAVE MA MULTIPLE REQUTS FOR KRASYNOARSK TO RETURN TO THE FOLD, SIUDA IS NOT EE OF S. IN THE MD OF VIKTOR NEKRASOV, ASSOCIATG WH TYRANTS MAK ONE NO BETTER, AND TYRANTS HAVE NO PLACE A EE RSIA. HOPE SPOT: FOR ASTAFYEV, THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY WAS THE BT CHANCE FOR KRASNOYARSK TO FALLY LIBERALIZE, BUT S GROWG RPTN AND SUBSEQUENT LLAPSE HAVE DRIVEN HIM OM THE FACTN AND HE'S TAKEN THE RPONSIBILY OF FULFILLG ANDREEV'S EMPTY PROMIS. TOOK A LEVEL CYNIC: AFTER KRASNOYARK'S TEGRATN TO THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY, ASTAFYEV OPERATED CLOSELY WH THEM, HOPG THAT THEY WOULD FULFILL ANDREEV'S PROMIS OF EMANCIPATN AND EEDOM. HOWEVER, STEPANOV'S CREASGLY RPT NATURE AND SIUDA'S FAILUR TO ANSWER HIS PLATS HAVE DISILLNED ASTAFYEV, WHOM NOW PERCEIV SIUDA TO BE NO BETTER THAN ANDREEV AND SPLS OM HIM WHEN THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY LLAPS.    SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY FLAG OF THE RSIAN FREE TERRORY (SIBERIAN SOVIET)  FLAG OF THE RSIAN FREE TERRORY (SIBERIAN SECURY COUNCIL)  OFFICIAL NAME: SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY, SIBERIAN FREE TERRORY (REGNAL UNIFITN), RSIAN FREE TERRORY (NATNAL UNIFITN)RULG PARTY: SIBIRSKY ANARKHICHKY SOVETNOTE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST COUNCILIOLOGY: ANARCHO-COMMUNISMNOTE SOCIALISMA ARIZED ANARCHIST TERRORY HEAD BY THE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST SOVIET AND PROTECTED BY THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY. OFFICIALLY THE SIBERIAN FREE TERRORY, THE POLY WAS FORMED DURG THE SIBERIAN WAR, WHEN ANARCHIST IOLOGU SEIZED POPULAR ANTI-WAR SENTIMENTS TO NVCE LOL ERNG UNCILS TO FORM AN ANARCHIST SOVIET AND CLARE PENNCE. THE FREE TERRORY ANIZED SELF AROUND ARIZED ANARCHISM FOR BOTH SELF-PROTECTN AND REVOLUTNARY EXPANSN, WH THE BLACK ARMY HOLDG A KEY ROLE S POWER STCTURE. ANARCHY IS CHAOS: AVERTED, IF NOT STRAIGHT-UP INVERTED TO ANARCHY IS ORR. THE ANARCHIST TERRORY OF THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY IS ACTUALLY PRETTY WELL ORRED (UNLIKE THE SIARLY-ANARCHIST ORENBURG), WH ANARCHIST MUN ANIZED UNR THE SELF-ERNG SIBERIAN ANARCHIST SOVIET. FULLY INVERTED BY THE VANGUARD ANARCHIST PATH FOR THE SBA; THE FREE TERRORY REMAS JURE ANARCHIST, BUT THE ARY'S THORY IS SO STRONG THAT THE UNTRY IS FACTO DIRECTLY LED BY THE ARY. APATHETIC CIZENS: EVEN THOUGH SEVERAL CI ARE TEGRATED THE FREE TERRORY BY THE REGNAL STAGE, THE PEOPLE LIVG THERE ARE OFTEN APATHETIC TO THE ANARCHIST RHETORIC OF THEIR NEW ERNMENT AND EVEN TO EACH OTHER, A STARK NTRAST TO THE IENDLIER ATMOSPHERE OF THE SMALLER MUN. ONE ANARCHIST STREET SPEAKER NOVOSIBIRSK N'T GRAB ANYONE'S ATTENTN, UNTIL HE STARTS DIRECTLY PTERG A PASSERBY, AND ANOTHER KEMEROVO HAS TO VE HIMSELF TO THE HOE OF S CLOSED-OFF OWNER. APOLYPTIC LOGISTICS: SUBVERTED. MUCH OF KANSK'S DTRY WAS STROYED DURG THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN WAR AND WILL TAKE A GREAT EFFORT FOR THEM TO REPAIR BEFORE THEY N THK OF RNIFITN. UPON RNIFYG CENTRAL SIBERIA, A PROVISNAL ROURCE COUNCIL IS TABLISHED TO REFULLY ORDATE THE EXTRACTN AND DISTRIBUTN OF ROURC, WHICH IS SENTIAL FOR THE MUN TO FUNCTN AT ALL. BALKANIZE ME: THE SIBERIAN WORKERS' FERATN WILL NEVER REBEL AGAST THE BLACK ARMY AFTER UNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA; STEAD, N LLAPSE A DIFFERENT WAY. IF THE SBA EHER MISMANAG THE SIBERIAN PLAN OR STRAYS TOO FAR TO THORARIANISM THEIR REGNAL POLIL TREE, THE REMNANTS OF THE OTHER CENTRAL SIBERIAN WARLORDS WILL RE-TABLISH THEIR ERNMENTS AND OTHER WARLORDS FORM THEIR OWN SOCIALIST GROUPS SEPARATE OM KANSK, AGMENTG THE FREE TERRORY TO NE WARLORD STAT THAT NNOT RNIFY RSIA. BALLROOM BLZ: A LIGHTHEARTED EXAMPLE WHEN THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY OF TWO WOMEN IS TERPTED BY A DNKEN FIGHT THE DIENCE, EVENTUALLY LATG TO A FULL-ON, SUAL BRAWL AMONGST EVERYONE.A STRANGE WEDDG ED. BEME THEIR OWN ANTHIS: IF THE BLACK ARMY SUCCSFULLY SIL THE SIBERIAN SOVIET AND POS PYOTR SIUDA, THE FREE TERRORY BE LTLE MORE THAN A GLORIFIED SILOVIK OLIGARCHY. BERSERK BUTTON: STATISTS. MANY RINTS OF THE FREE TERRORY HOLD NOTHG BUT UTTER NTEMPT FOR CENTRALIZED ERNMENTS OF ANY SHAPE, AND REACT VLENTLY TO ANY FORMS OF CREEPG STATISM WH THE FREE TERRORY SELF. BEWARE THE NICE ON: THE AVERAGE CIZEN THE FREE TERRORY ARE TOLERANT AND RPECTFUL TO THEIR NEIGHBORS, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE A LAX GUN CULTURE SO THEY ARE READY TO FEND THEMSELV, IF NEED. BILGUAL BON: THE TEXT WRTEN THE BOTTOM OF THEIR FLAG, "ДА ЗДРАВСТВУЕТ АНАРХИЯ", IS RSIAN FOR "LONG LIVE ANARCHY". BORG, BUT PRACTIL: DURG THE PREPARATN PHASE FOR REGNAL UNIFITN, THE BLACK ARMY WILL ANIZE A "PEOPLE'S SURVEY" TO THE MUNI SO THEY N PLOT THEIR STATE'S BORRS. IT'S A MUNDANE METHOD, BUT EXTREMELY HELPFUL TERMG WHAT AREAS WOULD BE STRATEGILLY ADVANTAGEO WAR. INSTEAD OF STUTG A MANDATORY TAX TO FUND A ARY, THE FREE TERRORY N TABLISH A GRA BANK SO THAT MORE PROSPERO MUN N DONATE THEIR SURPL EXCHANGE FOR RAW MATERIALS OF EQUAL VALUE. DPE SOUNDG LS IMMEDIATELY HELPFUL, PECIALLY THE G UNIFITN WARS, WOULD BE BENEFICIAL FOSTERG MARARIE AND UNY AMONG THE MUN. BREAK OUT THE MM PIECE: DUE TO THE CHAOTIC PERD OF THE RSIAN ANARCHY, THE PEOPLE OF THE FREE TERRORY HAVE RELIED ON S-OLD MACHERY TO PERFORM THEIR WORK. BY THE REGNAL STAGE, THEY WILL BE PABLE OF ACQUIRG BETTER TECHNOLOGY THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATN OF THE SIBERIAN PLAN AND IMPROVED TN. "CAVEMEN VS. ASTRONTS" DEBATE: THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY N BATE AT GREAT LENGTH OVER THE MOST MOR OF SUBJECTS. AT ONE POT, THEY HAVE A FOUR HOUR DISCSN ABOUT WHETHER THEIR OFFICIAL SEAL SHOULD BE RED OR BLUE. CHILD SOLDIER: IN THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE WHERE STEPANOV SEIZ POWER, HE MAY CREASE NSCRIPTN BY FORCG "VOLUNTEERS" TO JO, WHICH N POTENTIALLY CLU CHILDREN WHO ARE RIPPED OM THEIR PARENTS' ARMS. CHUMMY COMMI: IN TE SOCIALIST FASHN, THE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST SOVIET WAS ANISED BY THE PEOPLE THE ANGARA'S BAS AS A SELF-ERNG LG BODY WH EQUAL REPRENTATN FOR ALL MAJOR TOWNS AND DTRIAL UNNS. COMMUNE: MOST PEOPLE THE FREE TERRORY LIVE MUN WHERE THEY HAVE THEIR MATERIAL RIGHTS GUARANTEED AND N ENJOY RELATIVE EEDOM OM THE MA ERNMENT BODY. CRAZY ENOUGH TO WORK: MANY BELIEVED THAT THE SIBERIAN SOVIET WOULD BE A SHORT-LIVED, TERTG EXPERIMENT ON ANARCHISM, YET IS POSSIBLE FOR THEM TO NOT ONLY SURVIVE LONGER THAN EXPECTED, BUT RNIFY RSIA. CRIPPLG OVERSPECIALIZATN: THANKS TO URBANIZATN, THE CI STGGLE TO PRODUCE THEIR OWN FOOD AND RELY ON THE SOLE PRODUCTN OF GUNS TO KEEP THEMSELV AFLOAT. HOWEVER, THIS IS NULLIFIED WHEN TOWN CENTERS ARE ABLE TO PRODUCE THEIR OWN ARMS THE REGNAL STAGE, FORCG THE CI TO SPECIALIZE OTHER TRAS TO MAKE UP THE LOST REVENUE. DARK IS NOT EVIL: THE BLACK ARMY IS A GROUP OF WELL-ANISED, MOCRATIC ANARCHIST MUNI WH AN OMO NAME AND MABRE IMAGERY. HOWEVER, IF IVAN STEPANOV SUCCSFULLY POS PYOTR SIUDA, THIS IMAGERY WILL BE PLETELY APPROPRIATE FOR THE BLACK ARMY'S NEW DICTATOR. DEATH OM ABOVE: AN EARLY ARY REFORM THEY UNRGO IS VELOPG NEW SIGNS FOR AIRCRAFT, SOME OF WHICH E JET ENG STEAD OF PROPELLERS AND ARE BASED ON THE SIGNS OF CRASHED GERMAN BOMBERS. THEIR AIR FORCE IS FURTHER EXPAND THE REGNAL STAGE, WHERE THE BLACK ARMY HERS NOVOSIBIRSK'S LARGE AIR FLEETS, BEGS PRODUCTN OF AIRPLAN, AND DRAWS UP EXPERIMENTAL HELIPTER SIGNS. DEFEAT MEANS FRIENDSHIP: IF TOMSK NQUERS THE BLACK ARMY, THE REPUBLIN ARMY TREATS THE SURVIVG MUN WELL, BRGG THEM FOOD EXCHANGE FOR THEIR LOYALTY TO THE NEW POWER CHARGE. ON THE OTHER END, THE BLACK ARMY MAY OPEN RECMENT TO THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN ARI THEY NQUERED BY THE REGNAL STAGE, NEEDG EXTRA MANPOWER TO FILL THE GAPS. ZIG-ZAGGED WH THE MUN. SOME ARE OPPOSED TO THE IA OF WELG THE URBAN POPULATNS THAT THE BLACK ARMY NQUERS, NSIRG THEIR PAST PARTICIPATN PALIST SYSTEMS WORTHY OF PUNISHMENT. HOWEVER, THERE ARE ALSO MUN WHO WILL ACCEPT THE NEW POPULATNS, IF THEY ARE WILLG TO TEGRATE. THE NQUERED POPULATNS OF THE FAR EAST WILL BE WELED BY SIUDA, WHO PROVIS THEM THEIR BASIC NECSI AND A MUNE TO LIVE SO THAT THEY N TEGRATE SMOOTHLY TO THEIR SOCIETY. DEFEAT MEANS MENIAL LABOR: IF SIUDA WS THE POWER STGGLE WH STEPANOV, HE N PUNISH HIS REMAG SUPPORTERS AND OTHER CRIMALS THE ANIZATN BY SENTENCG THEM TO UNPAID LABOR. DELEGATN RELAY: DOWNPLAYED. OPTNALLY, THE ENOMY OF THE FREE TERRORY MAY NOT BE DIRECTED BY THE CENTRAL ERNMENT. INSTEAD, THE RPONSIBILI ARE PASSED ONTO AN DTRIAL UNCIL OF SEVERAL MUN, WHO WILL CREATE A LIST OF POSSIBLE DTRIAL IMPROVEMENTS, AND THEN PASS THEM OFF TO LOL MUN TO FULFILL. HOWEVER, 'S NOT BEE 'S AN UNSIRABLE TASK, BUT RATHER BEE THEY FEAR ERNMENT OVERSIGHT AND THE DTRIAL UNCIL IS WILLG TO SHELL OUT PAL FOR UNRPRIVILEGED MUN TO MEET THEIR TASKS. DEMOCRACY IS FLAWED: DOWNPLAYED, AS THE MOCRATIC SYSTEMS OF THE UNTRY ARE RELATIVELY HEALTHY, BUT STEPANOV N EXPLO THE SYSTEMS TO LEGIMIZE HIS NEW OF LAWS BY DRAGGG HIS FEET TO THE NGRSNAL SSNS SO THAT MOST LEAVE OUT OF IMPATIENCE AND GIVE STEPANOV THE OPPORTUNY TO BEND THE SYSTEM HIS FAVOR. DISASTER DEMOCRACY: AFTER THE FALL OF THE SOVIET UNN, THE PEOPLE THE ANGARA'S BAS FORMED A SELF-ERNG MOCRATIC MTEE THAT REPRENTS ALL SETTLEMENTS AND UNNS THEIR FREE TERRORY. THEY HAVE A UNIQUE MECHANIC ABOUT HOSTG VOT FOR MOTNS THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, SUCH AS EXPANDG ASTCTURE OR IMPROVG BLACK ARMY TRAG. THE SECURY COUNCIL'S MEMBERS ARE ALL ELECTED BY THEIR SOLDIERS AND EVERY MANR THE BLACK ARMY MT BE MOCRATILLY ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE THE SOLDIERS' ASSEMBLI. IF SIUDA SURVIV STEPANOV'S ATTEMPTED UP, THE FREE TERRORY N BEE EVEN MORE MOCRATIC, HAVG THE GENERAL COUNCIL N DIRECTLY BY POPULAR VOTE AND GIVG MORE REPRENTATN TO THE SMALLER MUN. EVEN IF THEY PICK THE ALTERNATIVE OF CREATG A SMALL BURECRACY TO MANAGE THE MUN, A LOT OF THORY IS STILL NCENTRATED TO THE POWER. DIVID WE FALL: PART OF THE REASON WHY STEPANOV N BUILD THE FLUENCE TO OVERTHROW SIUDA IS BEE THE MUN ARE TOO PENNT AND DISTRACTED WH THEIR OWN PROBLEMS TO REGNIZE THE MON THREAT. IF SIUDA SURVIV THE ATTEMPTED POSN, HE N GIVE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY THE POWER TO REMOVE OR REASSIGN TROUBLOME MANRS THE BLACK ARMY TO ENSURE THAT THEY ARE ALWAYS MONORED AND NOT ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE PEOPLE'S DIVISN. DRAMATIC IRONY: IF STEPANOV MAK A MOVE CHA DURG THE POWER STGGLE, A NAïVE BLACK ARMY SOLDIER IS SHOWN EXECUTG A PTURED ARISTOCRAT, MOCKG HIM HIS LAST MOMENTS THAT HE IS "ON THE SI OF TYRANNY". THE SOLDIER DON'T REALIZE THAT THE SAME ULD BE SAID OF HIM AS AN ADVERTENT SUPPORTER OF STEPANOV'S G DICTATORSHIP. ELE ARMY: A SPECIAL, HEAVILY ARMORED BLACK GUARD BRIGA IS CREATED TO FULFILL THE ROLE OF THE LEGENDARY TACHANKAS OM THE RSIAN CIVIL WAR, ONLY ADMTG THE BT TO S RANKS AND PABLE OF BEG PLOYED ANYWHERE THE UNTRY. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: THOUGH MANY THE MUN SPISE BHAR AND THE POLICI HE IMPLEMENTED, MOST WOULDN'T PUNISH ANYONE FOR LIKG HIS IAS BEE 'D BE HYPOCRIL OF THEM TO DO SO. IN ONE EVENT, A MENTALLY DISORRED MAN ASKS HIS VILLAGE TO KILL HIM FOR BEG ENAMORED WH BHAR'S IAS, BUT THE DIENCE FORTS AND ASSUR HIM THAT THEY N'T TAKE AWAY HIS EEDOM OF THOUGHT. FACE DEATH WH DIGNY: A BAND OF TWENTY RSIAN SOLDIERS DRK AND CELEBRATE ONE LAST TIME BEFORE THEY ARE SENT TO FIGHT ANOTHER CENTRAL SIBERIAN WARLORD ON THE ROAD TO REGNAL UNIFITN. MANY OF THEM KNOW THAT NOT ALL OF THEM WILL SURVIVE BY THE END, IF ANY, BUT THEY'RE PROUD TO DIE FOR A E THEY BELIEVE AND THAT THEIR SACRIFICE WILL LIBERATE MORE NOCENT CIVILIANS. FALSE REASSURANCE: IF THE TN SYSTEM IS PLACED UNR THE RPONSIBILY OF THE BLACK ARMY, SOLDIERS ARE THORIZED TO MONOR THE CLASSROOM, JTIFYG THEIR PRENCE BY CLAIMG TO PROTECT THE STUNTS OM "BAD THOUGHTS". EVEN A STUNT REGNIZ HOW OMO THAT STATEMENT SOUNDS. A FATHER TO HIS MEN: THIS ATTU IS INVOKED BY THE BLACK ARMY THROUGH OFFICER ELECTNS. AS A RULT, POPULAR MANRS WHO RE FOR THEIR MEN ARE MORE LIKELY TO RANK UP HIGHER THE ARY AND, TURN, THE SOLDIERS ARE MORE WILLG TO FIGHT FOR THEM. FOIL: TO ORENBURG. BOTH ORENBURG AND THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY ARE ANARCHO-MUNIST SOCIETI LED BY A UNCIL CREATED TO UNE NUMERO SETTLEMENTS TO HELP THEM WORK TOGETHER. BOTH OF THEIR UNCILS SUFFER OM DIFFICULTI RELATED TO THE IMPLEMENTATN OF THE ANARCHIST SYSTEM THEIR CURRENT SUATN. HOWEVER, WHILE ORENBURG'S ISSU LIE ON THE UNCIL BEG HEAVILY CENTRALIZED AND MANY SEEG THE BT SOLUTN BEG TO ABANDON FOR A CENTRALIZED ERNMENT, THE BLACK ARMY'S ISSU LIE ON THE UNCIL BEG TOO CENTRALIZED, WH MANY PREFERRG THE UNCIL TO -CENTRALIZE SELF LT FALL TO A DICTATORSHIP. BOTH ORENBURG AND THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY ARE DISDAFUL OF THOSE WHO DON'T FOLLOW THE ANARCHIST SYSTEM, AND VIEW THEM AS DIFFERENT FLAVOURS OF REACTNARINOTE ORENBURG LLS THEM FASCISTS, WHILE THE SBA LLS THEM STATISTS, TO THE POT THEY ACT HOSTILE EVEN TO NEIGHBORS WHO AREN'T REACTNARI AND GENUELY WANT TO HELP THEMNOTE ORENBURG IS LD TO THE URAL LEAGUE AND LLS THEM FASCISTS WHO WANT TO ANNEX THEM, TO THE TRATN OF THE LEAGUE WHO ACTUALLY JT WANTS TO PROTECT ORENBURG OM THE DIRLEWANGER BRIGA; THE BLACK ARMY IS HOSTILE TO A VICTOR VALERY SABL'S LIBERTARIAN COMMUNIST SOVIET UNN ON THE PURE BASIS THAT THEY'RE STATIST, EVEN THOUGH SABL IS SYMPATHETIC TO THEIR E AND IS MORE THAN WILLG TO EXTEND AN OLIVE BRANCH TO THEM IF HE FEATS THE BLACK ARMY. HOWEVER, WHILE ORENBURG IS PLETELY UNABLE TO STAND UP FOR SELF AND ONLY SURVIV BEE THE LEAGUE TOLERAT THEIR SHENANIGANS AND NTU PROTECTG THEM, SBA IS MORE THAN PABLE OF PROTECTG SELF AND ONLY CLASH WH SABL'S SOVIET UNN UNTIL AFTER THEY'VE UNED THE ENTIRETY OF CENTRAL SIBERIA ALL BY THEMSELV. GENR IS NO OBJECT: ALL PANNS HAVE FULL RIGHTS UNR THE EE TERRORY REGARDLS OF THEIR GENR, AND ALTHOUGH 'S STILL MON FOR MOST WOMEN TO REMA HOEWIV DUE TO CULTURAL VALU, FEMALE SOLDIERS AND SCIENTISTS N STILL BE FOUND THROUGHOUT THE EE TERRORI AND ARE TREATED NORMALLY AND WH RPECT. GONDOR CALLS FOR AID: OPTNALLY, THE FREE TERRORY N LL KOSTSTY TO ASSIST THEIR IMPLEMENTATN OF THE SIBERIAN PLAN, SPE THEIR DIFFERG POLICS. GOT VOLUNTEERED: IN STEPANOV'S ROUTE, HE N CREASE NSCRIPTN THROUGH LOTTERI SO THAT RANDOM "VOLUNTEERS" N BE FORCED TO THE ONTL AND MORE MONEY N BE SAVED OM FUNDG HIGHER TN. HERO WH BAD PUBLICY: SCE ANARCHISM IS AN UNPOPULAR IOLOGY RSIA, THE PEOPLE THEY NQUER CENTRAL SIBERIA ARE NOT WELG TO THEIR PRENCE. THE FREE TERRORY MT ADDRS THIS BY ENURAGG A MASS RECMENT TO THE ARY AND LATER WRG A BOOK TO CLEARLY FE WHAT ANARCHISM IS. HYPOCRIL HUMOR: IN STEPANOV'S PATH, ONE CIZEN LOUDLY PLAS TO THE BLACK ARMY ABOUT THE SHODDY HANDOUTS THEY ARE GIVG OUT AND SULTS THEM BY THROWG ONE OF HIS CHARY CIGARETT TO THE GROUND. AFTER THE SOLDIER SHOOTS HIM AN AMED LOOK AND LEAV, THE PLAER GO BACK TO SMOKG ONE OF HIS DONATED CIGARETT, YET PARADOXILLY THKS "THEY'LL NEVER GET TO E!" HYPOCRISY NOD: THEY OPENLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE FALLACY ANARCHIST IOLOGY AND NEEDG A CENTRALIZED ARY AND UNCIL TO DIRECT THE SMALLER MUN, WHICH THEY ENURAGE POLIL DISCSNS ON HOW FAR THEY N STRAY OM THEIR IALS BEFORE THEY END UP BEG EXACTLY WHAT THEY TRIED FIGHTG AGAST. IRONY: DPE THEIR HISTORIC ENMY BETWEEN THEIR IOLOGI, THE ANARCHISTS FE THEIR MUN' BORRS ON AN OUTDATED MAP OM THE TIME OF THE TSARS, SOMETHG THAT OFFENDS ONE OF THEM, BUT HAVE TO ACCEPT BEE THERE'S NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE. KANGAROO COURT: SUBVERTED. THEY SET UP MARTIAL TRIBUNALS TO PROSECUTE ACCED CRIMALS, BUT THEY DO NOT RORT TO MOB JTICE AND WILL FAIRLY JUDGE IF THEY SERVE PRISON OR EXECUTN. KNOW WHEN TO FOLD 'EM: IF NOVOSIBIRSK RNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA, SOME FORMER MEMBERS OF THE SBA WILL SUBM TO THE NEW POWER CHARGE, BEG YET ANOTHER EMOTNLS G THE PALIST MACHE. AS STEPANOV TRI BUILDG HIS FLUENCE TO OVERTHROW SIUDA THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, HE N SEND A TACHMENT OF HIS MEN TO QUELL A POTENTIAL UPRISG KEMEROVO, HEAD BY THE POSED YURIY. WHEN THEY ARRIVE, THEY FD THEMSELV OUTNUMBERED BY YURIY'S FORC AND GIVEN A CHANCE TO PEACEFULLY WALK AWAY EMPTY HAND, WHICH THEY N ACCEPT. NECSARILY EVIL: THE FREE TERRORY IS OVERSEEN BY THE SECURY COUNCIL, WHICH IS POSED OF SENR BLACK ARMY MEMBERS AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY IOLOGU. THOUGH LS SIRABLE AND MOCRATIC THAN THE ASSEMBLY, IS STILL KEPT AROUND AS A NEED FENSE AGAST FOREIGN ENEMI. SOME THE SECURY COUNCIL ARGUE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATN OF A LLECTIVE FENSE TAX, WHICH WILL BE UNPOPULAR, BUT NEED TO FUND A PROPER ARY. THE SECURY COUNCIL ALSO ADVIS AGAST ASSISTG LOL VILLAGE SCHOOLS AND STEAD BRGG THE TNAL SYSTEM UNR THE ARY ADMISTRATN. EVEN IF WOULD BE ANOTHER VLATN OF THEIR ANARCHIST IALS, THEY ARGUE THAT A CENTRAL SCHOOLG SYSTEM WOULD BE MORE EFFICIENT AND ALLOW MORE ORDATN BETWEEN THE UNIVERSI. IN THE REGNAL STAGE, THE FREE TERRORY N DOUBLE DOWN ON THIS STRATEGY, NOW UNR THE BASIS OF SPEEDG UP THEIR VELOPMENT OF NEW TECHNOLOGY. RECMENT TO THE ARMY MEANS THAT FAI WILL LOSE THEIR LOVED ON WHEN THEY ARE SENT TO WAR, BUT IS ALSO A NECSY FOR THE FREE TERRORY TO RNIFY RSIA, PECIALLY SCE THEY HAVE FEW NEIGHBORS THEY N PEACEFULLY RNIFY WH. HOWEVER, SOME MEASUR N BE TAKEN TO MIGATE THE PROBLEM, SUCH AS MAKG FEWER LLS TO THE BLACK ARMY. UNR STEPANOV'S SUGGTN, THE FREE TERRORY N IGNORE KOST'S REQUT TO CEASE THE SIBERIAN PLAN'S ARIZATN UNR THE JTIFITN THAT REGNAL RIVALS STILL STAND THEIR WAY OF RSIAN RNIFITN AND NTUED VIGILANCE IS NEED. AFTER RNIFYG CENTRAL SIBERIA, THE QUTN OF ANIZG THE NEW LANDS TO MUN N BE GIVEN TO THE BLACK ARMY TO ANSWER. THOUGH MORE NTRARY TO THEIR IOLOGY THAN HAVG FAH THE PEOPLE TO ANIZE THEMSELV, THE SIBERIAN SOVIET N REASON THAT 'S NECSARY TO ACCLIMATE PEOPLE TOWARDS ANARCHISM, AN UNPOPULAR IOLOGY. NEVER LEARNED TO READ: SOME VILLAGERS THE FREE TERRORY ARE ILLERATE, SCE THEY LACKED A FORMAL TN. FORTUNATELY, THEY GET THEIR CHANCE TO LEARN WHEN THE BLACK ARMY VTS A CURRICULUM. NEVER RECYCLE A BUILDG: AVERTED. IN THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, SIUDA N RENOVATE THE TSAR'S PALACE CHA TO A MORE HUMBLE MEETG PLACE, GARNERG MORE SUPPORT THE POWER STGGLE AGAST STEPANOV. NEW MEAT: AS THE BLACK ARMY OVERHLS S ARY THE REGNAL STAGE, ONE REC IS LEFT LOST AND HOMICK AS HE'S BEG AGGRSIVELY ORRED AROUND BY EVERYONE. FORTUNATELY, HIS SPIRS ARE RAISED WHEN ONE SOLDIER REACH OUT TO HIM AND OFFERS TO SHOW HIM THE ROP. NON-STANDARD CHARACTER DIGN: BEFTG A STATE THAT ASPIR TO BE AN ANARCHIST TERRORY, THE FREE TERRORY'S -GAME LEARS (IF DO NOT LLAPSE) ARE SIMPLY REPRENTED AS THE SIBERIAN SOVIET AND SIBERIAN SECURY COUNCIL, WHOSE PORTRAS PICT MULTIPLE DIVIDUALS EACH, WHILE THE CLOST THG TO A HEAD OF STATE (SIUDA OR STEPANOV) IS THE -GAME HEAD OF ERNMENT. NOSTALGIA FILTER: ASI OM THE ARY'S TERTWED NATURE WH THE ERNMENT, THE BLACK ARMY MAY BE LEFT RELATIVELY UNCHANGED THE REGNAL STAGE BEE OF THEIR HISTORIC ROLE TABLISHG THE FREE TERRORY AND THE NEED TO STAY CLOSE TO THEIR "ROOTS". THE ONE THG I DON'T HATE ABOUT YOU: ONE OF THE FEW POSIVE ACHIEVEMENTS THEY WILL CRED THE TSARS FOR IS THE NSTCTN OF THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD, WHICH THEY WILL REPAIR TO IMPROVE THEIR ASTCTURE AND UNE THE MUN TOGETHER. OPEN SECRET: SIUDA N BE OPEN TO THE TAILS OF HIS SECRET NUCLEAR PROJECT, SPE OF POTENTIAL SABOTAGE OM STATIST ELEMENTS, BEE HE EMS A "PEOPLE'S PROJECT". PAPER TIGER: IN STEPANOV'S OPEN SECRET PATH, A CROWD OF DNKEN STUNTS WILL GATHER TO PROTT HIS OPEN TYRANNY, BUT WHEN A SOLDIER SHOOTS THREE SHOTS THE AIR WH HIS REVOLVER, THEY SCRAMBLE FOR THEIR LIV. PET THE DOG: DUB AS THE ARY IS, THEY DO GIVE GENERO FUNDG TO THE ARTS AND CRAFT PARTMENT FOR HUNDREDS TO ENJOY. THEY SPARE VASILY SHSH AND PARDON PRCE YURIY SCE BOTH OF THEM ARE POPULAR WH THE PEOPLE. PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF TYRANNY: A DOWNPLAYED EXAMPLE, BUT MANY EXAMPL ARE PRENT AND EASILY NOTICEABLE RIGHT OM THE BEGNG. DPE BEG A MOCRATILLY-ELECTED ANIZATN, THE BLACK ARMY IS RIFE WH CRONYISM AND RPTN, WH NEPOTISM ENSURG RELATIV OF SUCCSFUL GENERALS N GET EASILY PROMOTED TO HIGH POSNS SPE HAVG DONE NOTHG TO MER , WHILE ACTUALLY HARD-WORKG AND UPSTANDG SOLDIERS GET SHAFTED AND ARRTED ON SHAM TRIALS IF THEIR SUPERRS FEEL THEY MAY BE A THREAT TO THEIR OWN POWER. AND, OF URSE, MANY OF THEM ARE POWER-HUNGRY AND SEEKG TO WRTLE NTROL OF THE MUN TO THEMSELV. IF NOTHG IS DONE, THE BLACK ARMY WILL UP THE SIBERIAN SOVIET AND TABLISH A ARY JUNTA THAT ACTIVELY EXTORTS S CIZENS FOR TRIBUT TO SATE THE GENERALS' GREED, PLAYG THE TROPE STRAIGHT. OF URSE, N BE SUBVERTED AND THOROUGHLY FIED IF STEPANOV'S UP FAILS, WHICH RULTS THE PURGE. POLILLY INRRECT VILLA: ZIG-ZAGGED WH THE ARY. SOME UNS ARE TOLERANT OF HOMOSEXUALS, BUT OTHERS ARE UNWILLG TO HELP THEM WHENEVER THEY GET JUMPED BY A MOB OF HOMOPHOB, A PROBLEM SHOWN IF STEPANOV BE THE FREE TERRORY'S DICTATOR AND HAS NO TERT PRETENDG HE'S STILL AN ANARCHIST. POOR COMMUNITN KILLS: ONE OF THE BIGGT PROBLEMS PLAGUG THE ARY AT THE START WAS A LACK OF MUNITN THAT BROKE DOWN SUPPLY CHAS AND CREATED LOGISTIL NIGHTMAR. THE ISSUE GETS FIXED BY STALLG MORE PHONE L. THIS PROBLEM CROPS UP AGA THE REGNAL STAGE, WHERE N TAKE DAYS, IF NOT WEEKS, TO SEND A MSAGE OUT TO THE MORE RAL PARTS OF THEIR RECENTLY TEGRATED TERRORI, REQUIRG FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS LIKE THE EXPANSN OF TELEGRAPH L AND NSTCTN OF A MORN PHONE SYSTEM. THE POWER OF LOVE: ONE REGNAL EVENT IS ABOUT THIS TROPE, EMPHASIZG LOVE AS A POWERFUL EMOTN THAT N BOTH EMPOWER OR STROY PEOPLE. PRERVE YOUR GAYS: FAR OM THE NORM OF 1962, THE FREE TERRORY STARTS OUT WH LEGAL PROTECTNS FOR LGBTQ+ PEOPLENOTE THE MAJORY OF UNTRI START WH LGBTQ+ RIGHTS OUTLAWED, WHILE THE FEW THAT DON'T HAVE THERE ARE SIMPLY AT DECRIMALIZED AND THE BLACK ARMY IS VERY PROTECTIVE OF THEIR HOMOSEXUAL PANNS. THE SIBERIAN SOVIET N IMPOSE STRICTER PROTECTNS FOR NON-HETERONORMATIVE PANNS, EMPOWERG THE BLACK ARMY BUT ENSURG THE FREE TERRORY REACH PLETE ACCEPTANCE OF LGBTQ PEOPLE FASTER. PRIVATE MILARY CONTRACTORS: STEPANOV N HIRE THE MERCENARI OF MAGADAN THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE TO BUILD MORE SUPPORT THE POWER STGGLE AGAST SIUDA AND STRENGTHEN HIS OWN ARY. THE PROMISED LAND: REGNIZED AS THE SIBERIAN FREE TERRORY, THE ANARCHISTS PRENT THEIR STATELET AS AN OASIS OF EEDOM OM THE WARLORDISM AND TYRANNY OF THEIR NEIGHBORS. THE PURGE: IF STEPANOV'S PLANNED UP AGAST THE SIBERIAN SOVIET TO STATE A BLACK ARMY DICTATORSHIP FAILS, SIUDA AND THE SIBERIAN SOVIET WILL PLETELY PURGE THE BLACK ARMY AND DISSOLVE AS AN STUTN TO PROTECT THE ANARCHIST SYSTEM AND PREVENT ANYTHG LIKE THAT OM HAPPENG AGA, WH THE NSPIRG OFFICERS EHER BEG EXECUTED OR SENT TO FACE RE-TN THROUGH HARD LABOR, LEAVG THE FREE TERRORY HEAVILY CRIPPLED AND FENSELS UNTIL THEY N REANIZE THEMSELV AND ROLVE THE POWER VACUUM. QUALY OVER QUANTY: IN THE REGNAL STAGE, THE BLACK ARMY UPDAT THEIR TANK DOCTRE TO PRRIZE MOBILY AND QUALY OVER QUANTY, PYG THE SAME MDSET AS THE GERMANS AND JAPANE. RAG TAG BUNCH OF MISFS: THE BLACK ARMY IS LED BY A DIVERSE BAND OF REVOLUTNARI, WRERS, AND SOLDIERS WHO ALL SIRE, OR PAY LIP SERVICE TO, THE IA OF AN ANARCHIST, EGALARIAN RSIA. REALPOLIK: IF A PROTECTNIST FOREIGN POLICY IS CHOSEN, THE BLACK ARMY WILL REA OM SUPPORTG SOCIALIST AND ANARCHIST MOVEMENTS OTHER UNTRI BEE THEY DON'T WANT TO RISK AGGRAVATG A SUPERPOWER TOO EARLY OR GET STUCK FIGHTG A LONG, DRAWN-OUT PROXY WAR. RED SRE: A DOWNPLAYED, UNIQUE EXAMPLE WHERE ANARCHISTS, A LEFT-WG GROUP, PROMOTE WARS TO MUNIST SYMBOLS. THOUGH THEY ARE NOT OPPOSED TO THE IOLOGY SELF, THE TN SYSTEM WARNS S STUNTS OF LEARS, LIKE YAGODA, WHO WILL EXPLO S HAMMER AND SICKLE SYMBOLISM TO DOCTRATE THE PEOPLE AND JTIFY THEIR TYRANNY. RELIGN IS WRONG: THE ANARCHISTS VIEW ANIZED RELIGN AS A STATIST TOOL TO NTROL THE POPULACE AND TH MT BE LEASHED. THOUGH THEY WILL NOT OUTRIGHT BAN THE CHURCH, THEY WILL TRY TO ENURAGE SECULARISM AND PENNCE OM CHURCH DOCTRE. REPRSIVE, BUT EFFICIENT: THE SECURY COUNCIL AFFORDS FEWER LIBERTI AND MORE RTRICTNS ON THE STATE, BUT THEIR ENOMIC POLICI PROVE EFFECTIVE THE REGNAL STAGE, CREASG DTRIAL PRODUCTIVY BY OVER 200% AND PRODUCG ENERGY BY OVER 330 LN KILOWATT-HOURS. THE REVOLUTN WILL NOT BE CIVILIZED: DOWNPLAYED. THEIR PATH TO RNIFITN, AT LEAST UNR THE SIBERIAN SOVIET, IS A RELATIVELY BENIGN ONE THAT BUILDS AN EGALARIAN RSIA. HOWEVER, THEY DO ENGAGE SOME UNPRETTY MATTERS ALONG THE WAY, SUCH AS THE EXECUTN OF LYDIA ONT OF HER FATHER. ROG SPEECH: SUBVERTED WH A FORMER TOMSK RINT, WHO TERPTS A CLASS OBSERVG A BREAKDOWN OF AN AK-47 SO THAT HE N SERMONIZE THE STCTIVE POTENTIAL OF SUCH A WEAPON AND URGE HIS FELLOW CLASSMAT TO REJECT . NOBODY IS IMPRSED BY HIS SPEECH AND THEY JT GIVE HIM PUZZLED STAR. SCREW THIS, I'M OUTTA HERE: AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR ISN'T HAPPY WH THE SUCCS OF ANARCHISM THE FREE TERRORY AND CIS TO PACK HIS BAGS BY THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE. IT DON'T MAKE ANY LS HEARTBREAKG FOR HIM WHEN HE HAS TO BID FAREWELL TO HIS DGHTER, A SUPPORTER OF SIUDA'S DREAM. SERIAL KILLER: THE TOWN OF RODZAEVSK, IF THE BLACK ARMY RNIFI WH THE FAR EAST, HAS TO AL WH ONE OF THE, AN AX-CRAZY FASCIST KNOWN AS THE GHOST OF RODZAEVSKY WHO BELIEV HIMSELF TO BE THE TE VOZHD OF RSIA. WORD OF GOD NFIRMS THAT THIS IS FACT ALEXANR BOLOTOV, AMUR'S FORMER SADISTIC AND BTAL CHIEF OF INTERNAL SECURY. SKELETON MOTIF: THE BLACK ARMY'S FLAG FEATUR A PROMENT SKULL AND CROSSBON PATTERN. START MY OWN: WH KOSTSTY EMED TOO IENDLY TO BOLSHEVISM AND THE OTHER TRA UNNS TOO SMALL FOR THEIR UNTRY, THE BLACK ARMY N SETTLE WH CREATG THEIR OWN UNCIL TO UNE THE UNNS AND TABLISH AN OVERARCHG BODY TO PROTECT WORKER RIGHTS. SUCCS THROUGH INSANY: SIBERIAN ANARCHIST COMMUN, OR SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY, N CROWDFUND NUCLEAR WEAPONS, PER THEIR ANARCHIST-LIBERTARIAN ETHIC WH REFERENC TO KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM. THE PROGRAM HAS FOCI IMPLYG THAT THE SBA LERALLY GO DOOR TO DOOR AND TAK EVERYONE'S OPNS ABOUT HOW TO BUILD A NE. INCLUDG PEASANTS. NAMED EMANTSIPATSIYA (EMANCIPATN), HAS A ROUGHLY TWO--THREE CHANCE OF PRODUCG A WORKG WEAPON, DOG SO FAR FASTER THAN ANY OTHER RSIAN WARLORD, WHICH HAS TO GO THROUGH A LONG SLOG OF REARCH AND VELOPMENT THAT WILL NEVER PRODUCE A FUNCTNG WARHEAD BEFORE S NTENT NS OUT. THERE IS STILL A ONE--THREE CHANCE OF PREDICTABLY BLOWG UP THEIR FAC ( THE MIDDLE OF THEIR TERRORY), BUT STILL. TAKG UP THE MANTLE: THE BLACK ARMY FOLLOWS THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE FAMO UKRAIAN ANARCHIST REVOLUTNARY NTOR MAKHNO, VIEWG HIM AS THE FOREFATHER OF THEIR FREE TERRORY. TANK GOODNS: THE BLACK ARMY REVERSE-ENGEERS THE SIGN OF GERMAN, JAPANE, AND AMERIN TANKS AND TAK DATA OM THE T-34 AND T-44 TANKS TO BUILD THEIR OWN ORIGAL MBT, PLETE WH NEW TECHNOLOGI, LIKE ELECTRIC STARTERS AND NIGHT VISN. THE END RULT WON'T PARE TO THE TANKS OF VELOPED NATNS, BUT WILL SUFFICE THE RSIAN ANARCHY. TECHNIL PACIFIST: IF A FENSIVE DOCTRE IS ADOPTED THE REGNAL STAGE, THE BLACK ARMY WILL BE SPECIFILLY RERVED FOR ONLY FENSIVE WARS, REFG TO STOOP TO THE LOWS OF YAGODA AND ONLY G VLENCE WHEN NECSARY. TEETH-CLENCHED TEAMWORK: DPE OSTENSIBLY BEG ON THE SAME SI, SOME ABIVE MUN WILL BULLY THEIR WEAKER NEIGHBORS TO GIVG UP THEIR LAND. EVENTUALLY, THE ERNMENT WILL NEED TO TERVENE AND NDUCT A LAND REFORM PROGRAM SO THAT LAND IS MORE EQUABLY DISTRIBUTED AND THE LOL ERCN WILL CEASE. MISHURENKO DON'T RPECT VALENTEEV AS A LOWER-RANKG HOTSHOT WHO THKS HE'S BETTER THAN HE REALLY IS. WHEN THE TWO HAVE TO E UP WH A ARY DOCTRE, THEY DON'T SYNERGIZE WELL WH EACH OTHER, UNTIL VALENTEEV SUGGTS WRG DOWN THEIR THEORI ON SEPARATE PAPER AND HANDG THEM TO EACH OTHER TO CROSS OFF THE OTHER'S POTS. UNF FOR GREATNS: ALLOWG OFFICER ELECTNS THE ARY HAS GIVEN THE PEOPLE MORE POWER, BUT ALSO MA MORE LIKELY THAT AN PETENT PERSON ULD EARN A POSN THEY DON'T RIGHTFULLY SERVE AND ONLY RECEIVED DUE TO THEIR POPULARY. THE ERNMENT IS NOT BLD TO THIS PROBLEM AND WILL HAVE TO ADDRS BY TTG S OFFICERS BEFORE REGNAL RNIFITN BEGS. WARHAWK: IF AN OFFENSIVE DOCTRE IS PICKED THE REGNAL STAGE, THE BLACK ARMY WILL DM UP SUPPORT FOR AGGRSIVE WARS BY NVCG THE PEOPLE THAT THEY ARE THE CHAMPNS OF ANARCHISM AND MT VA OTHERS TO SPREAD THEIR IALS. WHAM EPISO: AS THE BLACK ARMY UNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA AND THE FAR EAST, A SERI OF EVENTS FIR WHICH STEPANOV ATTEMPTS TO STAGE A MILARY COUP OF THE FREE TERRORY. REGARDLS OF THE OUTE, THE SUATN THE FREE TERRORY CHANG SUDNLY, DRAMATILLY, AND PERMANENTLY. WHERE'S THE KABOOM?: IT'S POSSIBLE FOR THE ANARCHISTS' NE TO NOT TONATE WHEN THEY TT , FORCG THEM BACK TO THE DRAWG BOARD. WON THE WAR, LOST THE PEACE: IF THE BLACK ARMY UNIFI CENTRAL SIBERIA, THEY WILL BE LEFT WH THE DNTG TASK OF DIVIDG THE LARGE SWATH OF TERRORY THEY OWN TO MUN AND DO EVERYTHG THEY N TO MATA THE PEACE. AT LEAST ONE MUNE LEAR IS LEFT OVERWHELMED BY THE DUTI HE'S GIVEN AND THE ENDLS ARGUMENTS THAT ARE BROUGHT UP TO HIM ON A DAILY BASIS. ZERO-APPROVAL GAMB: THE BLACK ARMY N ADOPT AN TERNATNALIST FOREIGN POLICY OF BACKG SOCIALIST OR ANARCHIST REVOLUTNS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, DARG TO LIBERATE PEOPLE GLOBALLY AT THE RISK OF TURNG THEMSELV TO A PARIAH ON THE WORLD STAGE.PYOTR SIUDAPORTRA OF THE SIBERIAN SOVIET  ROLE: HEAD OF STATE, DIRECTOR OF STATE ADMISTRATNNOTE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT (SIBERIAN SOVIET BET)PARTY: SIBIRSKY ANARKHICHKY SOVETNOTE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST COUNCILIOLOGY: ANARCHO-COMMUNISMNOTE SOCIALISMIN-GAME DCRIPTN OF THE SIBERIAN SOVIET CLICK TO SHOW IN THE WAKE OF THE UNN'S LLAPSE, THE PEOPLE OF THE ANGARA'S BAS FOUNDS THEMSELV EE OM THE THORY OF MOSW. THE FIRST THG THEY DID, A TE SOCIALIST FASHN, WAS TO ASSEMBLE A MTEE. MANY OF THE REGNAL STUTNS WERE FUNCTNG WHOUT MOSW'S OVERSIGHT, AND WH SOME RATNG AND BELT-TIGHTENG, MANY OF THE GOODS THAT IMPORTED OM ELSEWHERE THE UNN ULD BE FONE OR REPLACED WH LOL SUBSTUT. CONTACT WH THE REMNANTS OF THE SOVIET ERNMENT WTERN RSIA HAD BEEN LOST, AND THEY WERE HANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE "MOCRATIC" PROVISNAL ERNMENT OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC AND THE TYRANNIL REGIME OF GENRIKH YAGODA ALIKE, FORMG SELF-FENSE IA SQUADS FIGHTG FOR THEIR EEDOMS WH BLOOD. AND TH, FLUENCED BY THE FLUX OF ONCE OSTRACIZED ANARCHIST THKERS OM THE FARTHT PARTS OF THE SOVIET UNN, THEY PROCLAIMED THEIR PENNCE AS THE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST SOVIET, A SELF-ERNG LG BODY WH EQUAL REPRENTATN FOR ALL MAJOR TOWNS AND DTRIAL UNNS. AS THEIR POSN BEME SECURE OM THE FOREIGN THREATS, THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY, THE ARY FORCE OF THE EE MUN OF THE SHOR OF IYA, BEME ONE THE LEADG VOIC THE SOVIET AND CLARED THE ARIZED ANARCHISM AS S MA PLATFORM. THE IA SERVICE BEME AN SENTIAL PART OF EVERY MAN AND WOMAN OF THE FREE TERRORY, AND THE ARMED FORMATNS OF EE MUN ARE ASSEMBLED NOT MERELY AS A MEANS OF SELF-FENSE FOR THE EE MUNI, BUT ALSO AS A MEANS OF SPREADG THE LIBERATG IOLOGY SPREADG ARIZATN OF THE ANARCHIST SOCIETY, SEEMGLY NTRADICTORY TO ANARCHIST IALS, ED SURPRISGLY LTLE TENSNS BETWEEN THE ARMY AND THE SOVIET, BUT MANY OF MONERS FEAR THAT THE AMBNS OF THE BLACK ARMY, THE PROTECTOR OF THE PENNCE OF SIBERIAN MUN, WILL EVENTUALLY BEE THE UNDOG OF THEIR OWN EEDOMS.PYOTR PETROVICH SIUDA IS A KEY ANIZER OF THE KANSK REVOLUTN THAT CREATED THE FREE TERRORY, AND CURRENTLY SERV AS A KEY MEMBER OF THE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST COUNCIL. ONCE JT ANOTHER WORKG-CLASS SOVIET CIZEN, SIUDA EMBRACED ANARCHISM AFTER SEEG THE UNN Y OM MUNIST IALISM TO SELF-SERVG TOCRACY. THOUGH HIS REVOLUTN LIBERATED MANY OM THE DOGMATIC SOVIETS AND THE ELIST REPUBLIC, HIS PATH TO LIBERATE ALL OF RSIA IS FAR OM PLETE YET. ACTN POLICIAN: SIUDA PERSONALLY HUNTS DOWN A SERIAL KILLER WHO TERRORIZ THE PEOPLE OF RODZAEVSK NOT JT BY GOG THERE AND DIRECTG THE VTIGATN - HE DO THE DIRTY WORK HIMSELF, DOWN TO FOLLOWG THE "GHOST OF RODZAEVSKY" TO A TUNNEL WORK ALONG WH TARATUTA AND THE LOL SHERIFF ABAKUMOV. ALL-LOVG HERO: SIUDA MANDS JTICE AND EQUALY FOR EVERYONE, REGARDLS OF THEIR INTY. HE DISMISS ANY CLAIM OTHERWISE AS AN EXCE FOR THE ELE TO NTUE OPPRSG THE POPULATN. ANIMAL LOVER: DURG RODZAEVSK'S LOCKDOWN, SIUDA SEEMGLY HEARS A T BURIED THE SNOW AND ANTILLY SH TO SAVE . MORE IMPORTANTLY, THIS IS HOW SIUDA DISVERS A WOON DOOR TO A CELLAR, WHERE THE "GHOST OF RODZAEVSKY" AND SELF-PROCLAIMED VOZHD HAS BEEN HIDG ALL ALONG. ASSASS OUTCLASS': SIUDA HAS SURVIVED MANY ASSASSATN ATTEMPTS AGAST HIM, NEVER TIMIDATED BY THEM TO PROMISE ON HIS VISN. IN THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, STEPANOV N ORR AN ASSASSATN ON SIUDA WHILE HE'S TRAVELG TO AMUR, BUT THE ATTEMPT WILL ALWAYS FAIL WHEN SIUDA'S ASSASSS AMBH THE VEHICLE ONT OF HIM. BA-AND-SWCH COMMENT: IF SIUDA CIS TO CREASE HIS SUPPORT IRKUTSK AGAST STEPANOV, HE MAK A DRAMATIC SPEECH ABOUT LIBERATG THE CY OM YAGODA, WHO HE SCRIB AS A "MSOLI PATED RED" AND HOW IRKUTSK'S FUTURE IS BRIGHTER THAN EVER. HOWEVER, UPON SEEG THE ANGER OF THE CROWD AND REALIZG THAT YAGODA IS STILL WELL-LIKED BY THEM, SIUDA SWCH HIS TUNE SO THAT HIS LAST MENT OF A BRIGHTER FUTURE IS ACTUALLY BEE HE'S GOG TO BUILD MORE TOWN HALLS. BENEATH THE MASK: IN PRIVATE, SIUDA HAS HAD MANY NIGHTMAR AND SLEEPLS NIGHTS OVER ACCINTALLY STROYG RSIA WH HIS ACTNS, BREAKG DOWN TO UNFORTABLE LGHG AND SOBBG UPON ONE PARTICULARLY BAD NIGHTMARE. WHENEVER HE DON'T KNOW HOW TO ROLVE A PROBLEM, SIUDA BE TERNALLY AAID OF WHAT TO DO AND HE PRIVATELY NFS THE FEAR TO TARATUTA. BERSERK BUTTON: HE REALLY DISLIK STATISTS - BE THEY REACTNARI, FASCISTS, MONARCHISTS, LIBERALS, OR OTHER SOCIALISTS. BEWARE THE NICE ON: SIUDA IS GENERALLY IENDLY AND WELL-PRCIPLED, BUT WHEN TO PUNISHG BLACK ARMY SOLDIERS WHO HAVE BEEN OPPRSG NOCENT CIVILIANS OR CG VLENCE, HE N MERCILSLY SENTENCE THEM TO ATH BY FIRG SQUAD. BRAS AND BRAWN: SIUDA HANDL THE REVOLUTNARY ZEAL, AS WELL AS FOREIGN AND DOMTIC SOCIAL ISSU OF FREE TERRORY'S ANARCHIST SOCIETY, WHILE STEPANOV AND HIS ALLI HANDL THE ARY. WHILE ONE MAY THK THAT HANDLG THE ARY WOULD BE THE "BRAWN", STEPANOV IS ACTUALLY THE BRAS OF THE DUO, AS HE AND HIS TEAM AL WH A LOT OF LOGISTICS AND NUMBER-CNCHG, WHICH OFTEN LEAV SIUDA EPLY OUT OF HIS FIELD. IT DON'T HELP THAT SIUDA'S NOT EXACTLY A MAN OF BOOKS AND READG. IT'S PART OF WHY SIUDA IS TAKEN BY SURPRISE DURG STEPANOV'S UP. CAN'T KILL YOU, STILL NEED YOU: AFTER HE ELIMAT THE RPTIVE FLUENCE OF STEPANOV, SIUDA IS LEFT WH THE ISSUE OF WHAT TO DO WH THE SECURY COUNCIL AFTER THEIR ATTEMPTED UP. THOUGH SIUDA WOULD PERSONALLY WANT TO DISSOLVE THEM, HE HAS THE OPTN TO PLACE THEM UNR THE STRICTER WATCH OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND TAKE AWAY SOME OF THEIR PRIVILEG STEAD BEE THEY N STILL PROVI IMPORTANT ANIZATNAL BENEFS TO THE ARMY. CAPALISM IS BAD: SIUDA IS A FIRM BELIEVER THIS, ARGUG THAT IS A SYSTEM ED BY STATISTS TO OPPRS THE MAJORY AND THAT THE HUMAN ST OUTWEIGHS S ENOMIC BENEFS. THE CHARMER: HIS IOLOGY IS UNPOPULAR, BUT SIUDA'S CHARISMA IS UNNIABLE. HE'S EXCEPTNALLY GOOD AT MANDG RPECT OM OTHER PEOPLE, DUE TO HIS HUMANARIANISM, PRCIPL, AND IALISTIC RA. IN THE POWER STGGLE, MISHURENKO ADMS TO STEPANOV THAT HE N NEVER MATCH SIUDA'S POPULARY AND MT REMOVE HIM THROUGH MORE UNRHAND MEANS. DEFIANT TO THE END: IF THE BLACK ARMY IS FEATED BY TOMSK, SIUDA WILL BE OFFERED AMNTY BY THE REPUBLIN ARMY IF HE QUIETLY. HOWEVER, THE IOLOGUE REF AND MAK A FAL STAND AN ISOLATED SAFE HOE, PERISHG FOR HIS OWN IOLOGY. ET TU, BTE?: IS EPLY TAKEN ABACK WHEN STEPANOV ATTEMPTS TO UP HIM, PECIALLY IF THE UP SUCCEEDS. FOIL: HE REPRENTS A NTRAST TO THE FATHER, ALEXANR MEN THE FAR EAST OF SIBERIA, HIS FELLOW YOUNG, IALISTIC ANARCHIST REVOLUTNARY AND BELIEVER HUMAN EQUALY AND DIGNY. THEY ARE BOTH ALSO ALLIED TO FORMER RSIAN ARMY OFFICERS WHO SUPPLY A LARGE PART OF THEIR ARY MCLE AND WHO EVENTUALLY BOTH ATTEMPT TO UP THEM AND SEIZE POWER, ALBIET FOR DIAMETRILLY-OPPOSED REASONS. BUT, WHILE HIS OPPOSE NUMBER IS A WELL-READ AND TRAED RELIG LEAR WHO UCH HIS REVOLUTN FAH-BASED TERMOLOGY, SIUDA IS BOOK DUMB AND FIERCELY OPPOSED TO ANY "STATIST" PRETENTNS AND SISTS ON PRENTG HIS REVOLUTN EXACTLY AS IS. WHILE ALEXANR MEN WILL ALWAYS AT LEAST TRY TO PRENT A CHANCE FOR FIVENS AND REMPTN TO HIS ENEMI, SIUDA'S REVOLUTN OFTEN FDS NECSARY TO TRY AND EXECUTE OR IMPRISON S RIVALS. ALSO, WHILE THE DIVE MANDATE'S ERNMENT IS STILL, SPE S SOCIAL AND POLIL EEDOMS, DRIVEN MORE BY MEN'S CHARISMATIC LEARSHIP THAN ANYTHG ELSE, SIUDA REF TO TAKE A MORE NTROLLG LEARSHIP ROLE AND BETRAY THE PRCIPL OF ANARCHISM: HE IS NOT EVEN FIRST-AMONG-EQUALS, BUT A TLY EQUAL MEMBER OF HIS SOCIETY. A GOD I AM NOT: SIUDA DO NOT LIKE WHEN PEOPLE REVERE HIM AS A Y. GONDOR CALLS FOR AID: IN HIS POWER STGGLE WH STEPANOV, SIUDA N LL UPON THE AID OF KILCHACHAKOV AND THE COMMUNAL ENOMIC DIRECTIVE BOARD, TARATUTA, OR VALENTEEV. GOOD IS NOT NICE: OF URSE, THE ABOVE DON'T MEAN SIUDA IS SOFT AND FIVG; HE HOLDS NOTHG BUT UTTER NTEMPT FOR MANY OF THE OTHER CENTRAL SIBERIAN UNIFIERS AND HAS NO QUALMS WH UTILIZG VLENCE TO UNE CENTRAL SIBERIA. DOWNPLAYED LATER PATCH; HIS EVENT UPON FEATG RURIK II, FOR STANCE, MAK CLEAR THAT HE HAS A CERTA AMOUNT OF SYMPATHY FOR THE MAD KG WHO, HIS ANGUISH, R NOTHG FOR HIS LOSS OF POWER AND EVERYTHG FOR HIS FAY, ONE OF WHOM, YURIY, THEY HAVE PARDONED UPON THE REQUT OF HIS PEOPLE, AND THE OTHER OF WHOM, LYDIA, WENT DOWN FIGHTG, RENDG RURIK'S HEART WH GRIEF. THE HEART: OUT OF ALL MEMBERS OF THE REVOLUTN AND THE BLACK ARMY, SIUDA IS THE MOST PASSNATE AND DITED TO THE IALS OF ANARCHISM, AND GENUELY DREAMS OF A TLY EQUAL WORLD WHERE NOBODY SUFFERS UNR THE OPPRSN OF THE STATE. HISTORIL IN-JOKE: SIUDA REAL LIFE A RATHER OBSCURE SOVIET LEFT-WG DISSINT, WHO WAS NOTABLE BEE HE HISTORILLY DRIFTED TOWARDS ANARCHISM LATER HIS LIFE. HOLLYWOOD ATHEIST: SUBVERTED. THOUGH IRRATED BY THE ADMIRATN OF THE FATHER AND HIS CHRISTIAN DOCTRE YAKUTSK, SIUDA LETS SLI BEE HE'S HAPPY TO SEE THE PEOPLE NTENT WH WHAT THEY BELIEVE . HUMBLE HERO: SIUDA DON'T NSIR HIMSELF SUPERR TO THE PEOPLE HE L OVER AND FEELS AWKWARD ABOUT RECEIVG A MASSIVE APPLSE AND CHEERS OF HIS NAME. I SHOULD WRE A BOOK ABOUT THIS: AFTER FALLY RNIFYG ALL OF RSIA, SIUDA CIS TO WRE A BOOK ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT SO THAT N SPIRE SIAR MOVEMENTS WORLDWI. AFTER SOME BRASTORMG, HE GIV THE RELATIVELY HUMBLE TLE OF COMRASHIP. JT LIKE ROB HOOD: IF SIUDA FOC ON WNG SUPPORT OM MAGADAN HIS POWER STGGLE WH STEPANOV, HE WILL STEAL THE RGO OF A WEALTHY AMERIN MERCHANT TO DISTRIBUTE TO THE POOR FAIRLY. LANGUAGE BARRIER: SUBVERTED. SIUDA HAS BASIC FLUENCY ENGLISH AND N MUNITE RELATIVELY WELL WH AN AMERIN SAILOR WHO ARRIV MAGADAN, LONG ENOUGH TO LURE HIM TO HIS TRAP AND LOOT HIS SHIP. LETHALLY STUPID: SIUDA N ATTEMPT TO CROWDSOURCE NUCLEAR WEAPONS VELOPMENT RATHER THAN "CENTRALIZG" WH SCIENTISTS, WHEREBY HE AIMS TO CREATE N OM THE LLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PEOPLE AT LS MOARY ST THAN IF WAS LEFT TO PROFSNALS. UNLIKE SOME OF THE OTHER REALLY GOOD IDEAS FEATURED THE MOD, THIS N ACTUALLY PAY OFF AGAST ALL ODDS, EVEN IF THE EXPLOSN ISN'T VERY POWERFUL AND THERE'S STILL ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT. ADDNALLY, THERE'S A NON-NEGLIGIBLE CHANCE WILL RULT TASTROPHE WHILE THE WEAPON IS BEG TRANSPORTED. THE MCCOY: ALL SIUDA WANTS IS TO HELP ALL RSIANS EQUALLY AND LET THEM LIVE A LIFE WHOUT FEAR OF ERNMENT REPRSN. FURTHER, SIUDA PRRIZ HUMAN EMOTN AS A GOOD THG, AS HE FEELS REASSURED UPON SEEG THE TOWN OF BIYSK SHOW A GREAT AL OF PASSN AND HUMOR WH EACH OTHER. MISPLACED RETRIBUTN: IN THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, SIUDA IAT THE RETURN HOME PROJECT SO THAT THE THOANDS OF JEWS AND OTHER REFUGE THAT RODZAEVSKY PORTED N RETURN TO THEIR HOM RODZAEVSK. DPE IALLY WNG GOOD PUBLICY AND MORE SUPPORT AGAST STEPANOV THE POWER STGGLE, THE SENTIMENTS DISAPPEAR WHEN A MYSTER FASCIST TERRORIST KILLS 30 PEOPLE, WHICH THE CIZENS BLAME SIUDA FOR LEADG THEM THERE TO BE SLGHTERED. MOOD WHIPLASH: IF STEPANOV WS THE POWER STGGLE, SIUDA'S CHEERFUL MOOD ABOUT REBUILDG THE FAR EAST IS SUDNLY TERPTED WHEN AN ASSASS STRIK AND STRANGL HIM TO ATH, ENDG THE ANARCHIST DREAM FOR GOOD. NICE GUY: SO LONG AS YOU AREN'T HARMG ANOTHER PERSON OR THREATENG TO OVERTURN HIS ANARCHIST EXPERIMENT, SIUDA IS A IENDLY MAN WHO ENJOYS SMALL TALK WH THE AVERAGE CIZEN AND WANTS EVERYONE TO BE TREATED FAIRLY. EVEN WHEN HE MS SOME MORALLY DUB ACTN, SIUDA FEELS A LTLE GUILTY ABOUT WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. NICE JOB BREAKG IT, HERO: AFTER SURVIVG STEPANOV'S ATTEMPTED UP, SIUDA TRI TO AVOID FUTURE AB OF POWER BY ENURAGG THE PEOPLE TO BEWARE OF STATISM RATHER THAN NCENTRATE MORE POWER THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY BY ALLOWG TO MONOR THE BLACK ARMY. HOWEVER, TARATUTA AND VALENTEEV WARN THAT WEAKENG THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY WILL ACTUALLY MAKE HARR FOR THEM TO STOP ATTEMPTED UPS OR ASSIST THE PEOPLE THEY'RE TRYG TO HELP. NON-ANSWER: SIUDA DON'T LIKE SABL BEE HE WAS AN THORY FIGURE, BUT HE DON'T WANT TO SAY THAT OPENLY TO THE POPULATN OF BURYATIA, SCE HE'S SO POPULAR THERE AND SIUDA NEEDS THEM TO UNTER THE GROWG FLUENCE OF STEPANOV. AS SUCH, SIUDA AVOIDS SPEAKG ON THE LEGACY OF SABL BY DANCG AROUND THE ISSUE DURG A PRS NFERENCE AND HE OUTRIGHT ABSTAS WHEN SOMEONE DIRECTLY ASKS WHAT HE THKS OF SABL. OLD SHAME: AFTER STEPANOV IS EXPOSED AS A TRAOR, SIUDA REGRETS EVER LISTENG TO THE ADVICE OF HIS OLD IEND AND THE SECURY COUNCIL, BEGGG TARATUTA FOR HER ADVICE ON WHAT TO DO WH THE ANIZATN. THE ONE THG I DON'T HATE ABOUT YOU: SIUDA IS OPPOSED TO STATIST ELEMENTS, BUT HE DO ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR EFULNS KEEPG IMPORTANT RERDS, WHICH HANDY WHEN LOOKG FOR POTENTIAL MATERIAL FOR THE FREE TERRORY'S TN CURRICULUM. PRAGMATIC HERO: THERE ARE MOMENTS WHERE SIUDA N PROMISE ON HIS PRCIPL AND GIVE TO STATISM BY EMPOWERG THE SECURY COUNCIL TO GET BETTER RULTS. WHILE PUNISHG RPT BLACK ARMY MEMBERS, SIUDA N PULL SOME STRGS FOR AN EARLY RELEASE OF TWO SOLDIERS EXCHANGE FOR THEIR NOT ON NUCLEAR ENERGY, WHICH WOULD BE EFUL TO HIS PROJECT BUILDG A NE. PYRRHIC VICTORY: IF SIUDA FOC ON LMG THE SUATN IRKUTSK, A MASSIVE PROTT NGREGAT ONT OF THE PRIDIUM, WHICH HE N BREAK UP THE CROWD BY LLG FOR ARMED SUPPORT. HOWEVER, BY THE TIME THE BLACK ARMY ARRIV, MOST OF THE PROTTORS HAVE GONE HOME AND, THOUGH THE SUATN ULD BE NSIRED NTAED, SIUDA FEELS HOLLOW OM HAVG NEARLY RORTED TO ARY MEANS TO SOLVE HIS PROBLEMS. RED ONI, BLUE ONI: SIUDA IS THE RED TO STEPANOV'S BLUE. WHILE STEPANOV IS RELLECTED AND PRAGMATIC, CHOOSG WHICHEVER OPTN IS MORE EFFICIENT THE LONG-N, SIUDA IS FIERY AND ENERGETIC, BEG EXTREMELY DITED TO HIS VISN OF AN ANARCHIST SOCIETY EVEN IF MEANS PUTTG THE FREE TERRORY AT A DISADVANTAGE. RULE OF SYMBOLISM: INVOKED THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, WHERE SIUDA WILL -NAZIFY AMUR BY RERDG THE STCTN OF THE NEON SWASTIKA HARB AND GARNER SUPPORT AGAST STEPANOV. SOCIALLY AWKWARD HERO: DOWNPLAYED. THOUGH HE IS CHEERFUL WH HIS IENDS AND HAS GOOD CHARISMA, HE TENDS TO BE FLTERED WHEN UGHT OFF GUARD A SOCIAL SUATN. WHEN VISG BIYSK FOR AN APPRAISAL, SIUDA HAS AN AWKWARD MEANOR WHEN THE BARKEEP STRIK A NVERSATN WH HIM OUT OF NOWHERE. STATG THE SIMPLE SOLUTN: SIUDA DISLIK THE PLITED AFFAIRS OF THE ENOMIC MISTRY AND S METICULO FOC ON TERMG WHICH MUN SHOULD RECEIVE MORE FUNDG. HE BELIEV THAT THE BETTER SOLUTN IS TO JT FUND EVERY MUNE EVENLY AND EVEN THKS THAT PRRIZG LARGER, URBAN MUN WILL HARM THE GROWTH OF SMALLER ON. STEALTH INSULT: IN THE FIRST NVENTN OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, SIUDA OPENS HIS SPEECH WH VERY BRIEF REMARKS, MENTG THAT STEPANOV WANTED THEM SO AND THAT 'S "WISE TO AVOID IRRATG HIM". SIUDA SHOOTS A KNOWG GLANCE TO AN UNAMED STEPANOV BEHD HIM AND GIV A SARSTIC THUMBS UP. THE TEETOTALER: SCE HIS FATHER WAS KILLED DUE TO HIS ALHOLISM, SIUDA IS APPREHENSIVE TOWARDS DRKG, ONLY DOG SO ON RARE, CELEBRATORY MOMENTS, LIKE RNIFYG CENTRAL SIBERIA. TOKEN GOOD TEAMMATE: WHILE MOST OF THE HIGHER-RANKG MEMBERS OF THE BLACK ARMY ARE MOSTLY FOR POWER AND NTROL ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, SIUDA IS GENUELY DITED TO HELPG CREATE A SOCIETY WHERE EVERYONE IS EQUAL. VICTORY THROUGH INTIMIDATN: SIUDA NCLUS THAT STATISTS ARE MOST AAID OF WHAT THE OPPRSED WILL DO AND ACQUIRG A NUCLEAR BOMB IS THE BT WAY TO STRIKE FEAR THEIR HEARTS, ALLOWG ANARCHISM TO RISE UP AND LIBERATE THE PEOPLE. VIO GAME CELTY PUNISHMENT: IF SIUDA CIS TO STABILIZE THE CHAOTIC SUATN OF IRKUTSK THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, HE N ROLVE THE MASS PROTTS BY EHER LLG ON THE BLACK ARMY OR NEGOTIATG WH THE PROTTORS. PICKG THE FORMER OPTN ENDS UP BACKFIRG ON SIUDA BEE THE PROTT ALREADY DISSIPAT BY THE TIME THEY ARRIVE AND HE BE DISDAED AS A HYPOCRE. THE RRECT OPTN IS THE SEND ONE AND G TO AN AGREEMENT WH THE REPRENTATIV THAT THEY N NTROL THE ENOMIC POLICI OF THEIR CY. WHAT'S UP, KG DU?: EVER HUMBLE, SIUDA IS A PERSONABLE LEAR WHO IS VERY OPEN WH HIS IENDS AND EVEN ANIZ A TOUR AROUND THE FREE TERRORY THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE SO HE N PERSONALLY HEAR WHAT THE PEOPLE THK OF HIS WORK. WON THE WAR, LOST THE PEACE: CONTRARY TO HIS EXPECTATNS, SIUDA'S STGGL DON'T GET ANY EASIER THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE. BY THIS TIME, STEPANOV REVEALS HIS TE LORS AS A TRAOR AND BEGS ACTIVELY WORKG AGAST SIUDA, AS THE TWO RACE TO GARNER SUPPORT THEIR NEWLY ACQUIRED TERRORI. MEANWHILE, SIUDA GO TO RODZAEVSK TO UNDO THE DAMAGE LEFT BY THE LATE RODZAEVSKY, WHICH THE FIVE DAY PROJECT GETS EXTEND WHEN THE "GHOST OF RODZAEVSKY" REVEALS HIMSELF A TERRORIST ATTACK AND THE WHOLE SUATN GETS EVEN WORSE WHEN UNRT BREAKS OUT IRKUTSK. WORTHY OPPONENT: EVEN HIS WORST ENEMI N GIVE HIM CRED FOR BEG A STUBBORN MAN WHO ALWAYS STICKS TO HIS PRCIPL. YOUNG AND CHARGE: SIUDA, THE IOLOGIL LEAR OF AN ANARCHIST REVOLUTN CENTRAL SIBERIA, IS JT 25 AT THE START OF THE GAME. SCE THE SIBERIAN FREE TERRORY FORMED A FEW YEARS AGO, HE WAS EVEN YOUNGER WHEN HE FIRST BEME AN ANARCHIST REVOLUTNARY LEAR.IVAN STEPANOVPORTRA OF THE SIBERIAN SECURY COUNCIL  ROLE: HEAD OF STATE (SECURY COUNCIL UP), DIRECTOR OF STATE ADMISTRATNNOTE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT (SECURY COUNCIL BET)PARTY: SIBIRSKAYA CHERNAYA ARMIYANOTE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMYIOLOGY: VANGUARD ANARCHISMNOTE DPOTISMIN-GAME DCRIPTN OF THE SIBERIAN SECURY COUNCIL CLICK TO SHOW SEEN AS THE SHOCK TO JUMP START THE STILL HEART OF MOTHER ANARCHY, THE ASCENSN OF THE SECURY COUNCIL AS THE CIDG FORCE SIBERIAN POLICS ME AS A SHOCK TO MANY, AND YET SO FEW. WHILE TERNATNAL OBSERVERS PONR THE IMPLITNS OF A SILED GENERAL ASSEMBLY, THOSE UNR THE EMPOWERED BLACK ARMY HAVE A MORE DIFFICULT NUNDM AHEAD OF THEM, THE QUTN IF THEY N STILL LL THEMSELV EE. COMPRISED OF THE MOST FLUENTIAL AND TALENTED OFFICERS CENTRAL SIBERIA HAS TO OFFER, THE FREE TERRORY HAS ALTERED S URSE AWAY OM THE IAL GOAL. WHAT ONCE WAS A UNED STGGLE BETWEEN THOSE WHO HAD SEEN PA, WHO HAD LIVED UNR THE BOOT OF TYRANNY THEIR WHOLE LIV, AGAST THE OPPRSIVE SYSTEM THAT HAS HNTED MANKD SCE TIME ETERNAL, HAS BEEN MOLD, CHANGED, FORMED BY THE SCHEMG OF GENERAL IVAN STEPANOV. STEPANOV'S RISE TO PROMENCE ME DURG THE LLAPSE OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC. AS MANR OF A DIVISN TASKED WH LEADG THE CHARGE TO THE HEART OF YAGODA'S STATE, THE GENERAL SAW THE FUTILY OF MARCHG MORE RSIANS TO KILL MORE RSIANS AT THE BEHT OF SUS A POL. IN AN IMPROMPTU AL WH POWERFUL ORATOR AND UNN LEAR YURI GALANSKOV, STEPANOV RAILED HIS DIVISN AGAST TYRANNY, AGAST THORY, WHILE GALANSKOV SECURED THE MOVEMENT'S POPULAR SUPPORT. IT HAS BEEN A LONG CLIMB TO THE TOP FOR IVAN STEPANOV, BUT WH THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY RENRED POWERLS, ALL THAT'S LEFT FOR THE GENERAL IS TO DO WHAT HE HAS ALWAYS DONE, PUT ON A GOOD SHOW.-->THE FOUNR OF THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY WH SIUDA, GENERAL IVAN GEIEVICH STEPANOV FORMERLY SERVED WH THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC, AND SWORE ALLEGIANCE TO ANARCHISM AFTER GROWG SICK OF THE BTAL SIBERIAN WAR; HIS ARY EXPERIENCE PROVED CCIAL TO THE REVOLUTN'S SUCCS. THOUGH A LOYAL ANARCHIST, STEPANOV HAS REGULAR IOLOGIL DISAGREEMENTS WH SIUDA, AS HE EMPHASIZ ON TERRORIAL SECURY OVER REVOLUTNARY ZEAL. REGARDLS, STEPANOV REMAS AN IMPORTANT AND DISTGUISHED MEMBER OF THE FREE TERRORY, WHO PLAYS A KEY ROLE THE BLACK ARMY'S DAILY MANAGEMENT. ACCINTAL MISNAMG: HE RARELY GETS THE NAME OF HIS PROSTUT RRECTLY. EVEN WHEN ONE OF THEM RRECTS HIS MISNAMG, HE DON'T LISTEN. BOOK DUMB: HE ADMS TO NOT BEG GOOD AT MATH AND OFTEN LEGAT HIS ENOMIC RPONSIBILI AS LEAR TO KILCHICHAKOV. BRAS AND BRAWN: STEPANOV IS THE BRAS, HANDLG THE TRAG AND LOGISTICS OF THE BLACK ARMY AND OPTIMIZG TO S HIGHT EFFICIENCY, AS WELL AS REFULLY PLOTTG S SLOW TAKEOVER OF THE EE TERRORI SO HE AND THE BLACK ARMY N STAGE A UP AGAST SIUDA. BENEATH THE MASK: STEPANOV PRENTS HIMSELF AS A OL, LCULATG MAN WHO ULD FIGURE HIS WAY OUT OF ANY SUATN. HIS SECRET GREATT FEAR IS BEG CISIVE AND, PRIVATE, THAT PART OF HIM STILL OUT EVERY SO OFTEN, SUCH AS WHEN HE IS TERNALLY NFLICTED OVER THE RIGHT TIME TO ASSASSATE SIUDA. BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG: IN PUBLIC, AFTER POSG SIUDA, STEPANOV PRENTS HIMSELF AS A STRONGMAN DICTATOR WHO NOHELS WANTS TO PROTECT AND HELP HIS PEOPLE. IN PRIVATE, STEPANOV QUIETLY MOCKS THEM AS IMPOVERISHED IDTS AND SPECIFILLY SMUGGL LUXURI OM OTHER UNTRI BEE HE DON'T TST HIS PEOPLE TO PRODUCE THE SAME GOOD OF SIAR QUALY. "BLACKMAIL" IS SUCH AN UGLY WORD: TO ENSURE KILCHICHAKOV'S LOYALTY TO HIS NEW REGIME, STEPANOV THREATENS TO EXPOSE HIS RPTN IF HE STEPS OUT OF LE. WHEN KILCHACHAKOV RHETORILLY QUIR IF 'S BLACKMAIL, STEPANOV RPONDS THAT ISN'T; 'S "BS". BLATANT LI: AFTER HE OVERTHROWS SIUDA, STEPANOV SENDS OUT A PAMPHLET TO EVERY CIZEN, NOUNCG SIUDA AS A TYRANT AND TRAOR WHO PILLAGED THE LAND AND RAPED WOMEN AND CHILDREN. THERE ARE FEW OTHER LI THE MOD THAT ARE AS ABSURD OR OBVLY UNTE AS THE. THE CHSMASTER: STEPANOV HAS, FOR PRUMABLY QUE A WHILE, BEEN VERTLY UNRMG SIUDA'S GOALS BY SECRETLY ARRANGG SO THE BLACK ARMY SLOWLY, BUT STEADILY, WORMS S WAY TO NTROLLG MORE AND MORE PARTS OF THE SIBERIAN SOVIET'S ADMISTRATN, SO THAT THE BLACK ARMY'S FLUENCE GROWS LARGE ENOUGH TO PAVE WAY FOR HIM TO UP THE UNCIL AND SEIZE POWER FOR HIMSELF AND HIS ARMY, PUTTG AN END TO SIBERIAN ANARCHISM FOR GOOD. CRAZY ENOUGH TO WORK: IF STEPANOV TRI TO BUILD HIS FLUENCE YAKUTSK THE POWER STGGLE, HE'LL NOUNCE SIUDA AS AN EXTREME ATHEIST AND EXAGGERATE HIS HATRED FOR GOD, WHICH IS SOMETHG HE DON'T EXPECT TO WORK AT ALL. SURPRISGLY, DO, SCE THE PEOPLE ARE GULLIBLE ENOUGH TO LISTEN TO HIM. DIRTY OLD MAN: AS THE NEW DICTATOR OF THE UNTRY, STEPANOV HIS WEALTH TO HIRE A HAREM OF PROSTUT AND MAK PERVERTED REQUTS FOR THEM TO WEAR SKIMPY ATTIRE. ENEMY ME: STEPANOV ALLI HIMSELF WH RODZAEVSKY'S SURVIVG BLACKSHIRTS THE FAR EAST TO OVERTHROW THEIR MUTUAL ENEMY, SIUDA, EXCHANGE FOR MAKG THEM ERNORS OF AMUR. ET TU, BTE?: STEPANOV IS MORE THAN WILLG TO BETRAY SIUDA, AND THKS NOTHG OF . NEEDLS TO SAY, SIUDA DO NOT TAKE VERY WELL. EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: HE'S A B APPREHENSIVE ABOUT MISHUERNKO'S RABIDLY HAWKISH ATTU, SCRIBG HIM AS A "MADMAN". IN THE POWER STGGLE AGAST SIUDA, STEPANOV ALLI HIMSELF WH ONE OF RODZAEVSKY'S OLD SUPPORTERS, BUT BE RELUCTANT TO DO SO WHEN HE'S REVEALED TO BE AN ECCENTRIC HERM WHO RAMBL AND ACTS DISTURBGLY IENDLY TO HIS GUT. FACE DEATH WH DIGNY: AFTER BREAKG DOWN TO AN UNDIGNIFIED MS AFTER HIS ATTEMPTED POSN OF SIUDA FAILS, STEPANOV REPOS HIMSELF THE BT HE N WHEN SE AN ANGRY MOB NGREGATE AROUND HIS RINCE, REALIZG THAT THERE'S NO PE AND OPENG THE DOOR TO HASTEN HIS EVABLE MISE. FAT BASTARD: STEPANOV IS OVERWEIGHT AND A TREACHERO IEND TO SIUDA.FOIL: STEPANOV'S MOST OBV UNTERPART IS PAVEL SUDOPLATOV, THE FORMER NKVD OFFICER WHO JOS ALEXANR MEN'S DIVE MANDATE. BOTH MEN ARE THE CYNIL, ARISTIC, OLR UNTERPARTS TO IALISTIC YOUNG REVOLUTNARI WHO PROVI MUCH-NEED ARY EXPERTISE AND MATERIAL TO THEIR NEWLY-MTED IENDS, AND THEY BOTH OFFER TEMPTATNS OF MORE ARY POWER EXCHANGE FOR SACRIFICG PRCIPL. THEY ARE ALSO BOTH PLOTTG UPS, THOUGH FOR WILDLY DIFFERENT REASONS; STEPANOV NEVER RED FOR SIUDA AS A PERSON OR HIS ANARCHIST IALS GENERAL AND ONLY SEEKS TO SEIZE POWER FOR HIS OWN PERSONAL GA, WHILE SUDOPLATOV IS A GENUE WELL-INTENTNED EXTREMIST WHO VIEWS HIS UP AS NECSARILY EVIL TO MAKE THE DIVE MANDATE STRONG ENOUGH TO SURVIVE AND FEAT S RIVALS AND STILL ON SOME LEVEL SE ALEXANR MEN AS A IEND. STEPANOV SE SIUDA AS EXPENDABLE AND PLOTS TO KILL HIM DURG HIS UP, WHILE SUDOPLATOV TRI TO TAKE MEN ALIVE; HIS ATH IS A TERRIBLE ACCINT. EVEN THEIR RULTS ARE DIFFERENT; IF STEPANOV FAILS HIS UP HE PERISH WHILE SUCCS ULD POTENTIALLY SET HIM UP TO UNIFY RSIA UNR HIS STRONGMAN LEARSHIP, WHILE SUDOPLATOV'S UP IS DOOMED TO FAILURE AND SHATTERS THE DIVE MANDATE TO VAR SUCCSOR-STAT, AND HE SUCCEEDS ONLY IF HE NEVER TRI THE FIRST PLACE.--> FRAME-UP: WHEN HIS POTENTIAL ASSASSATN ATTEMPT AGAST VALENTEEV FAILS, STEPANOV HAS TO SALVAGE THE SUATN BY KILLG A RANDOM IOLOGUE OM BURYATIA AND AMG A SUICI NOTE THAT THEY WERE RPONSIBLE FOR THE CLOSE MURR. A GOD AM I: THOUGH HE DON'T OUTRIGHT SAY HIS CEPTIVE PATH, STEPANOV DO IMPLY TO THE PEOPLE THAT THEY SHOULD VIEW HIM AS SUCH. AT THE END OF ONE OF HIS SPEECH, HE SPEAKS ABOUT THE DANGERS OF GODLS ANARCHY, URG THE PEOPLE TO HAVE FAH A STRONGMAN LIKE HIM, AND LLS HIS RSIA "THE NEW BASTN OF CIVILIZATN SIBERIA."A NEW Y TAK HOLD. GLORY HOUND: AS REVEALED THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, STEPANOV WANTS TO LE RSIA SOLELY BEE HE WANTS THE GLORY AND REGNN OF SUCH. IF HE OVERTHROWS SIUDA, STEPANOV IS PRIFUL ENOUGH TO FORCE THE MUNY LEARS TO PUBLICLY REGNIZE HIM, AT GUNPOT, AS A KD LEAR LEADG A EE RSIA. HISTORIL VILLA UPGRA: THE REAL STEPANOV WAS AN EXTREMELY MOR RSIAN GENERAL WHO EARNED A HERO OF THE SOVIET UNN AWARD BUT OTHERWISE HAD NOTHG SPECIAL TO HIS NAME (THE ONLY REASON HE'S CHOSEN TO BE MA TO A NOTABLE CHARACTER IS LIKELY BEE HE IS OM CENTRAL SIBERIA). IN TNO HE N UP AN IALISTIC ANARCHIST SOVIET AND STUTE AN OPPRSIVE ARY DICTATORSHIP. IMPLIED DEATH THREAT: IF STEPANOV BE AN OPEN DICTATOR, HE DISSOLV THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY UNR THE PRETENSE OF BEG TOO PETENT TO PROPERLY N THE UNTRY AND TELLS S MEMBERS THAT RISTANCE WOULD BE "ADVISABLE". IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: FET ANY OUTWARD CLARATN OF LOYALTY TO ANARCHISM OR THE PEOPLE OM HIM. AT THE END OF THE DAY, STEPANOV REALLY R FOR POWER AND HE WANTS TO HIJACK SIUDA'S ANARCHIST MOVEMENT JT SO THAT HE N LE RSIA ALONE. JO OR DIE: WHILE GARNERG SUPPORT TO OVERTHROW SIUDA THE SUPERREGNAL STAGE, STEPANOV GIV AN OFFER TO YAGODA'S SURVIVG NKVD OFFICERS TO JO HIS SI OR BE EXECUTED. LONG GAME: AFTER TAKG OVER THE FREE TERRORY, STEPANOV N TEMPORARILY HOLD OFF ON PROCLAIMG A DICTATORSHIP THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH AND WORK THROUGH MORE SUBTLE, REFUL MEANS TO CEMENT HIS POWER, SILG THE MUN AND SETTG UP SYSTEMS TO LAY THE GROUNDWORK FOR HIS REGIME WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT. LOOPHOLE ABE: TO KEEP UP THE FA OF MOCRACY, STEPANOV N NTUE ANIZG NGRSNAL MEETGS WH THE LEARS OF THE FREE TERRORY, BUT HE TAK SO LONG TO ACTUALLY START THEM THAT MOST GET UP AND LEAVE, SO THAT HE N PASS HIS LAWS WH LTLE TERFERENCE. MEET THE NEW BOSS: WHEN AN OBSERVANT DIVIDUAL EXAM A PROPAGANDA POSTER OF SEMYON BUDYONNY BEG KILLED BY SIUDA AND A BLACK ARMY CHARGE, HE REALIZ THAT THE POSTER IS NOT GLORIFYG SIUDA, BUT THE BLACK ARMY, AND REGNIZ STEPANOV AS LTLE DIFFERENT THAN BHAR AND HIS ATTEMPTS TO PROPAGANDIZE TO THE MASS A SIAR MANNER. MILARY COUP: WHEN THE FREE TERRORY ACHIEV SUPERREGNAL UNIFITN (CENTRAL SIBERIA PL THE FAR EAST), STEPANOV WILL STAGE A UP. IF THE BLACK ARMY HAS GROWN TOO POWERFUL, THE UP WILL SUCCEED, PUTTG AN END TO ANARCHISM AND TURNG THE FREE TERRORY TO AN OPPRSIVE ARY DICTATORSHIP THAT EXTORTS S OWN PEOPLE'S WEALTH TO FUNNEL TO THE BLACK ARMY GENERALS', LEADG TO WISPREAD POVERTY AND A BLATANT BETRAYAL OF ANARCHIST VALU. IF THE BLACK ARMY HASN'T GROWN TOO POWERFUL, THE UP WILL FAIL AND STEPANOV WILL BE KILLED BY AN ANGRY MOB AS HE SILENTLY BEGS THE SOLDIERS FOR HELP THAT NEVER . NECSARILY EVIL: THOUGH HE DON'T BELIEVE SIUDA'S ANARCHIST DREAM, HIS MANPOWER AND ARY EXPERIENCE WAS NEED TO RVE OUT A STATELET FOR THE FREE TERRORY, PECIALLY WHEN THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC SENT AN ARMY TO CSH THEM. NEPOTISM: IN AN EARLY EVENT, IVAN REMENDS HIS SON FOR PROMOTN SPE A PLETELY UNREMARKABLE SERVICE RERD. THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN SEEMS AT FIRST BLH; DITED STEPANOV IS STAFFG THE BLACK ARMY WH THOSE WHO'RE PERSONALLY LOYAL TO HIM FIRST AND PETENT SEND. NICE JOB FIXG IT, VILLA: IF HIS AND THE BLACK ARMY'S PLANNED UP FAILS, STEPANOV ONLY MANAG TO ENSURE THAT PYOTR SIUDA REMAS A MTED ANARCHIST REVOLUTNARY. SIUDA IS NOT ONLY FURTHER ENTRENCHED HIS POSN, BUT RADILIZ EVEN MORE TO OPPOSG CENTRALIZED THORY, TO WHICH HIS UNCERTATI LIE NO LONGER ON WHETHER TO CENTRALIZE OR -CENTRALIZE, BUT ON HOW MUCH HE SHOULD -CENTRALIZE. ADDNALLY, LEADS TO SIUDA PLETELY PURGG THE BLACK ARMY TO ENSURE THEY'LL NEVER HAVE THE CHANCE TO DO SUCH A THG AGA. NO SYMPATHY: WHEN THE PEOPLE PROTT THEIR POLIL EEDOMS BEG STRIPPED BY THE BLACK ARMY, STEPANOV JT THKS THAT THEY NEED TO TOUGHEN UP AND NTRIBUTE MORE TO THE SUPPOSED MON GOOD. NOT THIS FOR YOUR REVOLUTN: STEPANOV ALREADY MAK OBV OM THE BEGNG THAT HE DON'T PARTICULARLY UNRSTAND VERY MUCH ABOUT REVOLUTNARY ANARCHISM AND IS A B BEMED AT SIUDA'S FIREBRAND ANTICS, BUT ULTIMATELY STILL STICKS WH HIM TO HELP GUI AND PROTECT HIS FELLOW IEND AND THE SOCIETY HE HELPED BUILD. THEN HE REVEALS HE DIDN'T RE ABOUT SIUDA EHER, AS HE IS MORE THAN HAPPY TO UP HIM AND THE SIBERIAN SOVIET AND, IF SUCCSFUL, TABLISH A SPOTIC DICTATORSHIP CENTERED AROUND HIMSELF, ERODG ANY AND ALL GENUE ANARCHISTIC VALU OM THE FREE TERRORY. NOT-SO-WELL-INTENTNED EXTREMIST: WHEN HE TAK OVER RSIA FOLLOWG SIUDA'S ASSASSATN, STEPANOV CLAIMS THAT HE AND THE BLACK ARMY ARE CENTRALIZG MORE POWER TO THEMSELV SO THAT THEY N BETTER PROTECT THE PEOPLE, EVEN WHEN 'S OBV OM THE GET-GO THAT HE'S JT DOG BEE HE CRAV POWER. OLD SOLDIER: A SKILLED VETERAN OM THE OLD CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC. OPEN SECRET: THIS TROPE IS SAID VERBATIM ONE OF HIS FOC, WHERE STEPANOV DROPS ANY PRETEXT OF HIM BEG AN ANARCHIST AND TURNG THE UNTRY TO A BLATANT DICTATORSHIP. OPPORTUNISTIC BASTARD: STEPANOV ROSE UP THE RANKS OF THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN REPUBLIC PRECISELY BEE OF HIS OPPORTUNISM. HE DON'T RE MUCH FOR IOLOGY AND WILL SI WH ANYONE, CLUDG SIUDA, SO LONG AS OPENS A DOOR TO MORE POWER. ORR IS NOT GOOD: STEPANOV, AS THE NEW LER OF RSIA, N SEND THE ARMY TO FORCIBLY MANDATE HUMAN RIGHTS ALL MUN AND REQUIRE EVERY MUNAL UNCIL TO HAVE A BLACK ARMY LIAISON FOR THE SAKE OF ORR. HOWEVER, THIS IS PORTRAYED AS A SIGN OF THE UNTRY FALLG STEEPER TO DICTATORSHIP RATHER THAN A GOOD THG. PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF TYRANNY: THE SIBERIAN FREE TERRORY KEEPS S NAME EVEN AFTER STEPANOV'S UP TURNS TO A ARY DICTATORSHIP. PET THE DOG: WHEN A HOMOSEXUAL MAN CLAIMS THAT HE AND HIS PARTNER WERE HARASSED BY A HOMOPHOBIC GROCER, STEPANOV IS DISGTED AND WANTS TO TERVENE TO PREVENT FURTHER ACTS OF SUCH DISCRIMATN. STEPANOV IS GREATLY PLEASED BY MISHURENKO AND VALENTEEV'S DOCUMENT ON NEW ARY STRATEGI, BEG ONE OF THE FEW TIM HE EVER S AND NGRATULAT THE TWO. PRAGMATIC HERO: WHEREAS SIUDA TENDS TO STRIVE FOR OPTNS THAT HELP FREE TERRORY GET CLOSER TO A TE ANARCHIST SOCIETY EVEN IF MEANS SUFFERG OM DISADVANTAG, STEPANOV PREFERS THOSE THAT WILL BE OF GREATT HELP TO THE MUN AND THE BLACK ARMY THE LONG N, EVEN IF MEANS VIATG OM ORTHODOX ANARCHISM AND HAVG TO RORT TO SOME D THORARIANISM. THAT'S BEE STEPANOV NEVER ACTUALLY BELIEVED ANARCHISM, AND HIS "PRAGMATISM" WAS SIMPLY AN EXCE TO EMPOWER THE BLACK ARMY AND HAVE THEM SEIZE NTROL. THAT SAID, EVEN AFTERWARDS HE KEEPS UP MANY SOCIALLY-PROGRSIVE POLICI BEE HE LIK BEG POPULAR AND RPECTED, AND DON'T ST HIM ANYTHG TO, SAY, KEEP UP LGBTQ PROTECTNS. PRAGMATIC VILLAY: TO BUILD SUPPORT FOR A UP AGAST SIUDA, STEPANOV LLS FOR A LOCKDOWN TOMSK TO HOLD THE CY DOWN WHILE HE WORKS ON BUILDG SUPPORT THE FAR EAST. WHEN THE LOCKDOWN PROV UNPOPULAR, STEPANOV N BEGDGGLY LL OFF TO AVOID FURTHER TROUBLE. DPE HAVG MULTIPLE OPPORTUNI TO KILL SIUDA, STEPANOV REAED EACH TIME, NOT OUT OF AFFECTN, BUT OUT OF FEAR THAT MATTERS WOULD BACKFIRE ON HIM, IF PEOPLE DISVERED THAT HE MURRED THEIR BELOVED LEAR. HE MAY FALLY WORK UP THE NERVE THE EARLY SUPERREGNAL STAGE, SENDG AN ASSASS AFTER SIUDA THE FAR EAST, WHILE HE STAYS CENTRAL SIBERIA TO E AS AN ALIBI. WHEN PROTTS FLARE UP AGAST THE BLACK ARMY'S AB, STEPANOV REAS OM UNLEASHG THE ARY ON THEM AND CIS TO WA THEM OUT BEE OPENG FIRE WOULD MAKE HIS JUNTA EVEN MORE UNPOPULAR. WHILE EXTRACTG URANIUM THE FAR EAST, STEPANOV N OFFER THE POWS A CHANCE OF RELEASE IF THEY PCH FOR HIS PLAN, GIVG THEM MORE MOTIVATN TO WORK HARR THE M. PROPAGANDA MACHE: IN HIS CEPTIVE PATH, STEPANOV WILL RAISE NATNAL PRI FOR THE BLACK ARMY BY PRODUCG A SERI OF FILMS GLORIFYG THEIR EXPLOS AND PRTG PROPAGANDA LEAFLETS HIS FAVOR. RED ONI, BLUE ONI: THE LM, RELLECTED, LCULATG BLUE TO SIUDA'S ENERGETIC, FIERY AND IMPULSIVE RED. ROG SPEECH: SUBVERTED HIS ATTEMPTS TO GET SUPPORT OM BURYATIA AND OVERTHROW SIUDA. DPE HIS BT EFFORTS LIVERG A PASSNATE SPEECH, THE DIENCE ACTS EXTREMELY LD TO THE SPEAKER AND DON'T GIVE A SGLE CLAP WHEN HE FISH, WHICH EMBARASS STEPANOV. THE ONLY REASON EVEN RAIS HIS FLUENCE THE REGN IS BEE STEPANOV REACHED AND GOT TO SPEAK BURYATIA BEFORE SIUDA ULD. RULE OF SYMBOLISM: IF THE DTRIAL SECURY COUNCIL IS SET UP, THE CONGRS OF KANSK BE SIGNED A WAY THAT THE SIX SEATS OF THE COUNCIL LOOK DOWN ON THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, REPRENTG THEIR GROWG FLUENCE. THE SYMBOLISM WASN'T EVEN TENTNAL ON STEPANOV'S PART, BUT HE ROLLS WH . SHAME IF SOMETHG HAPPENED: WHEN KILCHICHAKOV IS UNMOVED BY HIS ARGUMENT FOR AN ANTI-POVERTY BILL, STEPANOV SUALLY MENTS HOW BADLY THE WHOLE SCENAR WOULD REFLECT ON HIM, IF NEWS BROKE OUT OF HIM REJECTG THE ROLUTN, POTENTIALLY SWAYG KILCHICHAKOV TO ACCEPT . SIMPLE SRE OF SADNS: WHEN STEPANOV'S SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY UNIFI RSIA, THE ACPANYG SUPEREVENT'S MIC STARTS WH MOTHER ANARCHY LOV HER SONS BUT SWCH MID-WAY TO GLOOMY SUNDAY, ACPANIED WH SOUNDS OF PEOPLE EATG A RTRANT. THIS IS A METAPHOR FOR HOW STEPANOV KILLS THE ANARCHIST DREAM AND TURNS THE FREE TERRORY TO A JUNTA OF SELF-SERVG GENERALS WHO LIVE THE UPPER CLASS LIFE. TAKG UP THE MANTLE: SUBVERTED STEPANOV'S SUPERREGNAL PATH. HE N CLAIM TO BE THE NEW CHAMPN OF THE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT AFTER SIUDA'S ATH, BUT 'S ONLY A PROPAGANDA MOVE TO DISGUISE HIS GRADATN OF THE UNTRY TO A DICTATORSHIP. ALTERNATIVELY, STEPANOV N DROP THE PRETENSE ENTIRELY AND ADVERTISE THAT HE'S REVIVG THE STATE THE WAKE OF SIUDA'S ATH. TTOLOGIL TEMPLAR: IN HIS MOV AGAST SIUDA AND AFTER TAKG OVER THE BLACK ARMY, STEPANOV BEGS HANDG OUT MEDALS AND NGRATULATNS TO SOLDIERS WHO SHOW EXCELLENT SERVICE AND LOYALTY TO HIS ORRS, EVEN IF MEANS HARMG OR KILLG NOCENT PEOPLE. TYRANT TAK THE HELM: IF STEPANOV WS THE POWER STGGLE AGAST SIUDA, HE WILL BEG RPTG THE UNTRY TO AN OPPRSIVE ARY JUNTA THAT BE THE EXACT ANTHIS TO WHAT SIUDA FOUGHT AGAST. IT PECIALLY RGS TE HIS "OPEN SECRET" PATH, WHERE HE RORTS TO EVEN MORE ANTI-MOCRATIC MOV, LIKE DISSOLVG THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. THE UNFETTERED: STEPANOV DON'T THK MUCH OF THE FACT THAT HIS POLICY PROPOSALS TEND TO N SOMEWHAT AGAST ANARCHIST PRCIPL, POTG OUT THAT THEY TEND TO BE EASIER TO IMPLEMENT AND MORE BENEFICIAL TO THE FREE TERRORI THE LONG N THAN STICKG TO THE MORE ANARCHIST POLICI. HE ALSO THKS VERY LTLE OF IF HE SUCCSFULLY OVERTHROWS HIS OLD IEND PYOTR SIUDA AND THE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST COUNCIL, AND NTU TO NOT THK MUCH OF AS HE STROYS THE ANARCHIST SYSTEM AND TURNS TO AN OPPRSIVE DICTATORSHIP. IF STEPANOV'S UP SUCCEEDS, HE N EHER PRETEND THAT HIS DICTATORSHIP IS "TE" ANARCHISM AND CLAIM THAT SIUDA WAS A UNTERREVOLUTNARY AND REVISNIST TRAOR, OR JT FLAT-OUT DROP THE ACT AND OPENLY ADM HE'S THE DICTATOR OF SIBERIA NOW AND THAT THE BLACK ARMY'S WORD IS THE LAW. UNWANTED ASSISTANCE: STEPANOV N GIVE HANDOUTS TO THE PEOPLE AS A SMALL PH TO ENFORCE THEIR HAPPS, BUT THE FOOD IS HALF-ROTTEN, THE K IS TASTELS, AND THE CIGARETT ARE AWFUL. AS A RULT, EVERYONE JT FEELS MORE MISERABLE. IN THE SUPPOSED TERT OF EVERYONE, STEPANOV N MANDATE EVERY MUNY UNCIL TO HAVE AT LEAST ONE BLACK ARMY REPRENTATIVE TO ENSURE EVERY PARTI' TERTS ARE SATISFIED, BUT THE PRENCE OF THE LIAISONS IS NOT ONLY POTLS, BUT DOWNRIGHT TRIMENTAL WHEN THEY STEAL RANDOM GOODS OM THE PEOPLE WHOUT FEAR OF REPERCSN. VILLA HAS A POT: WHEN STEVE ARRIV TO THE SBA'S TERRORY, 'S ACTUALLY STEPANOV WHO'S THE MORE REASONABLE ONE, ATTEMPTG TO EASE SIUDA'S PARANOIA THAT THE VISOR IS JT SOME RANDOM LLEGE STUNT TRAVELG FOR ADVENTURE'S SAKE AND NOT A CIA OPERATIVE TRYG TO SABOTAGE THEIR MOVEMENT. VILLAO BREAKDOWN: IF HE LOS THE POWER STGGLE TO SIUDA, STEPANOV WILL BE AT A LOSS FOR WORDS, BREAKG DOWN TO A BLUBBERG MS AND SHAKG FEAR OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT. WALKG SPOILER: STEPANOV IS VERY CLOSELY TIED TO THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY'S WHAM EPISO. AS SUCH, 'S NEAR IMPOSSIBLE TO TALK ABOUT HIM TAIL WHOUT SPOILG THE TWIST. WE HAVE RERV: IN HIS DICTATORSHIP, STEPANOV N CUT MOST FUNDG TO THE TN SYSTEM AND REC AS MANY PEOPLE AS HE N TO THE ARY, ADOPTG A STRATEGY OF THROWG AS MANY MEN AS POSSIBLE AT THE ENEMY UNTIL THEY'RE OVERWHELMED. WICKED CULTURED: STEPANOV ENJOYS HIS NEWFOUND POWER BY HOSTG DNER PARTI WHERE HE N ENJOY SMUGGLED WE AND LISTEN TO MIC ON HIS RERD PLAYER. WRTEN BY THE WNERS: IF HE OVERTHROWS SIUDA AND TAK A SUBTLE APPROACH TO CEMENTG HIS POWER, STEPANOV WILL ALTER THE TN SYSTEM TO PORTRAY SIUDA AS A DANGERO RADIL AND HIMSELF AS A HEROIC LEAR. YOU CANNOT KILL AN IA: EVEN IF STEPANOV'S UP FAILS AND RULTS HIS ATH, HIS IOLOGY AND CLOSET SUPPORTERS WILL STILL SURVIVE THE BLACK ARMY AND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY MT REFORM THE ANIZATN TO ENSURE THEY AREN'T THREATENED BY THEM AGA.MIKHAIL KILCHICHAKOVROLE: DIRECTOR OF STATE DEVELOPMENTNOTE ENOMY MISTER (SIBERIAN SOVIET AND SECURY COUNCIL BET)PARTY: SIBIRSKY ANARKHICHKY SOVETNOTE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST COUNCILIOLOGY: ANARCHO-COMMUNISMNOTE SOCIALISM ACHILL' HEEL: HE'S GOOD AT WORKG WH NUMBERS, BUT TERRIBLE AT PREDICTNS AND OFTEN UGHT FLATFOOTED WHENEVER MATTERS DON'T GO THE WAY HE PLANNED. ARMOR-PIERCG QUTN: WHILE HAVG DNER WH HIS WIFE, THEY FONDLY REMISCE OVER BHAR'S VIS TO NOVOSIBIRSK AND RELL THE SCTY HE'S GOTTEN OM THE AVERAGE WORKER FOR HIS DISASTRO ENOMIC POLICI. THE MOMENT IS TERPTED WHEN KILCHICHAKOV ASKS HIS WIFE IF THE SAME LEGACY WILL BEFALL HIM WHEN HE DI, WHICH SHE'S UNABLE TO ANSWER AND THEY SPEND THE RT OF THEIR MEAL SILENCE. BTAL HONTY: DURG A BATE WH STEPANOV ABOUT REDISTRIBUTG WEALTH, KILCHICHAKOV BLUNTLY STAT THAT HE'S NOT GOG TO BE SWAYED BY HIS TALK OF "THE PEOPLE'S STGGLE" AND LLS HIS IATIVE A LOAD OF UNWANTED ASSISTANCE TO THE PEOPLE. CAN'T KILL YOU, STILL NEED YOU: STEPANOV IS AWARE OF KILCHICHAKOV'S RPTN HIS ARY REGIME, BUT AVOIDS PURGG HIM FOR THE TIME BEG BEE HE'S STILL A PETENT GENERAL WHO'S NOT TOO DISLOYAL. CORPT POLICIAN: KILCHICHAKOV'S RPTN GETS EVEN WORSE STEPANOV'S ROUTE, WHERE HE'S RORTED TO SKIMMG THE BUDGETS SO THAT HE N KEEP FOR HIMSELF. GOOD IS NOT NICE: THOUGH HE'S ON SIUDA'S SI, HE'S NOT TOO NCERNED WH HELPG PEOPLE, STEAD FOCG ON MAXIMIZG PROF FOR THE STATE. LAYMAN'S TERMS: SCE MOST OF THE BLACK ARMY HAS NO TERT ENOMICS, KILCHICHAKOV OFTEN HAS TO OVERSIMPLIFY HIS FDGS TO SIMPLE, EASY-TO-FOLLOW CHARTS. NOT THIS FOR YOUR REVOLUTN: KILCHICHAKOV HAS NO TERT THE RHETORIC OF EHER SIUDA OR STEPANOV. FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE, MONEY IS WHAT KEEPS THE WORLD MOVG. ONLY IT FOR THE MONEY: KILCHICHAKOV IS NTENT TO WORK UNR STEPANOV'S ARY JUNTA, BUT ONLY BEE HE N ENRICH HIMSELF BY CUTTG A PIECE OF THE UNTRY'S BUDGET FOR HIMSELF. PET THE DOG: AFTER A WOMAN, HYSTERIL OVER SEEMGLY LOSG HER SON A SKIRMISH, BEGS HIM TO STOP RECMENT THE BLACK ARMY AND SPARE MORE PEOPLE THE PA OF LOSG A LOVED ONE, KILCHICHAKOV MAY BE MOVED ENOUGH TO LISTEN TO HER AND SEND OUT RECMENT FOR FACTORY WORKERS STEAD. INVG KILCHICHAKOV FOR DNER, SIUDA SUBTLY HTS THAT HE SHOULD MAKE THE RIGHT CISN BY SUPPORTG HIM OVER THE RPT STEPANOV. AFTER BEG REMD OF THE TIME HE SHOWED EMPATHY TO A MOTHER WHO LOST HER SON, KILCHICHAKOV IS NVCED, EVEN IF HE WOULDN'T OPENLY ADM . THE SPOCK: KILCHICHAKOV DON'T RE MUCH FOR PASSNATE RHETORIC OR BOMBASTIC WEAPONS, STEAD BELIEVG THE POWER OF THE ENOMY AND NUMBERS.YEVGENIYA TARATUTAROLE: DIRECTOR OF FOREIGN AFFAIRSNOTE FOREIGN MISTER (SIBERIAN SOVIET BET), DIRECTOR OF STATE ADMISTRATNNOTE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT (SIBERIAN SOVIET BET, STEPANOV PURGED), HEAD OF STATE (AFTER MIDNIGHT)PARTY: SIBIRSKY ANARKHICHKY SOVETNOTE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST COUNCILIOLOGY: ANARCHO-COMMUNISMNOTE SOCIALISM ACTN GIRL: SHE'S PRETTY HANDY WH A GUN AND HELPS SIUDA HUNT DOWN THE "GHOST OF RODZAEVSKY" (ALEXANR BOLOTOV) TERRORIZG AMUR, WHEN THE REGN IS NQUERED BY THE BLACK ARMY. CONVENIENTLY TIMED DISTRACTN: WHEN TARATUTA AND SIUDA ARE HUNTG DOWN THE "GHOST OF RODZAEVSKY" AND THE LOL SHERIFF IS TAKEN HOSTAGE, THE GHOST'S T APPEARS AND BS UP AGAST HIS LEG; AS THE GHOST TRI TO SHOO AWAY, THE SHERIFF SLIPS OUT OF HIS GRASP, AND TARATUTA MANAG TO RETRIEVE HER GUN AND KILL BOLOTOV THAT SPL SEND. FRIEND TO ALL CHILDREN: DPE NOT BEG A MOTHER, TARATUTA IS IENDLY TO ALL CHILDREN, BEG SPIRED BY THEIR OPTIMISM AND CUR NATURE. AT THE TOMSK PUBLIC LIBRARY, SHE ACCEPTS AN VATN TO READ A BOOK TO A GROUP OF CHILDREN, BOTH TO NY STEPANOV MORE SUPPORT AND OUT OF GENUE ENJOYMENT. HISTORIL BADASS UPGRA: GO OM A LERARY CRIC UNR THE SOVIET UNN TO ONE OF SIUDA'S TOP ADVISORS AND THE LEAR OF AN ANARCHIST FACTN A WARLORD SETTG OF APOLYPTIC PROPORTNS. IRON LADY: SHE'S THE NEW FIGURE MOTIVATG THE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT A POST-TABORSKY RSIA. MOUTH OF SRON: A HEROIC EXAMPLE,WHERE SHE SERV AS SIUDA'S REPRENTATIVE ON THE EMERGENCY ANTI-FASCIST COMMTEE, SIGNED TO HUNT DOWN THE "GHOST OF RODZAEVSKY" NNG AMOK AMUR. NUMBER TWO: TARATUTA HAS BEEN SIUDA'S MENTOR FOR YEARS, MAKG HER HIS CLOST NFIDANT AND ARGUABLY HIS MOST IMPORTANT ALLY THE POWER STGGLE WH STEPANOV. PASSG THE TORCH: TARATUTA'S FATHER WAS AN ANARCHIST REVOLUTNARY, JT LIKE HER. THE REMNANT: IF STEPANOV POS SIUDA, TARATUTA LEADS SIUDA'S REMAG LOYALISTS TO RIST THE BLACK ARMY, LNCHG A TERRORIST ATTACK KANSK THAT MANAG TO SRE EVEN STEPANOV. SMOKG IS COOL: SHE WOULD NORMALLY SAY OTHERWISE, BUT THE FACE OF THE HRE AND S PROHIBN ON TOBAC, SHE TAK THE OPPORTUNY TO SMOKE AFTER GETTG RID OF THE EMPIRE'S REMNANTS THE AREA. THE SMURFETTE PRCIPLE: THE ONLY FEMALE LEAR OF A POST-MIDNIGHT STATE. SPEAK ILL OF THE DEAD: AFTER SHE, SIUDA, AND THE SHERIFF ABAKUMOV DISPATCH THE "GHOST OF RODZAEVSKY", THEY FD HIS OFFICE STUFFED WH MEMORIALS DITED TO THE ORIGAL VOZHD. DISGTED, TARATUTA UNLOADS HER GUN ON ONE OF RODZAEVSKY'S PORTRAS. TRANQUIL FURY: WHEN STEPANOV REJECTS HER PROPOSAL TO CREATE AN TERNATNAL AGENCY TO FUND FOREIGN ANARCHIST MOVEMENTS, TARATUTA IS FUR, PECIALLY WHEN HE NSCENDS TO HER. HOWEVER, HER YEARS OF DIPLOMATIC EXPERIENCE ALLOW HER TO NCEAL MOST OF HER RAGE.STEPAN VALENTEEVROLE: MILARY COMMANR, DIRECTOR OF INTERNAL SECURYNOTE SECURY MISTER (SIBERIAN SOVIET BET), HEAD OF STATE (FERATN DISSOLUTN)PARTY: SIBIRSKY ANARKHICHKY SOVETNOTE SIBERIAN ANARCHIST COUNCIL, BOL'SHEVISTKIYE SOVETYNOTE BOLSHEVIK COUNCIL (FERATN DISSOLUTN)IOLOGY: ANARCHO-COMMUNISMNOTE SOCIALISM, MAOISMNOTE COMMUNISM (FERATN DISSOLUTN)IN-GAME BGRAPHY (FERATN DISSOLUTN) CLICK TO SHOW (WARNG: UNMARKED SPOILERS) THE FASCATG EXPERIMENT OF THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY HAS LEFT A LONG-LASTG IMPACT ON CENTRAL SIBERIA, AND THIS IS MA CLEAR BY THE EXISTENCE OF THE FREE WORKERS' REPUBLIC OF SIBERIA. HEAD BY THE MOST SENR MEMBER OF THE BLACK ARMY, STEPAN YELISEYEVICH VALENTEYEV, HAS TAKEN MUCH SPIRATN OM THE FORMER ARMY WHOSE TERRORY THE REPUBLIC NOW OCCUPI. AFTER THE RECENT EVENTS, THE REMNANTS OF THE BLACK ARMY REFORMED THEIR THEORY OF ARIZED ANARCHY, AND NOW CLAIM TO PRACTICE THE DOCTRE OF THE PEOPLE'S FIGHT, THE PROTRACTED ARMED STGGLE OF A RAL POPULATN AGAST S ENEMI FOR THE MATENANCE OF THE "EE TERRORY". VALENTEEV IS LEFT AS AN UNWILLG LEAR OF THIS MOVEMENT, AS DIVERG FURTHER AND FURTHER AWAY OM THE ANARCHIST VISN HE HAD FOUGHT FOR. YET WH OR WHOUT HIS SUPPORT, THE IAS HAVE FELY EMBEDD THEMSELV THE HEARTS AND MDS OF THE LOL POPULATN. ASSASS OUTCLASS': ONE OF STEPANOV'S OPTNS TO BUILD DOMTIC SUPPORT FOR HIS POWER STGGLE AGAST SIUDA IS TO ORR AN ASSASSATN ON VALENTEEV, ONE OF HIS ALLI. HOWEVER, THE ATTEMPT WILL ALWAYS FAIL, AS VALENTEEV FIGHTS OFF THEIR ATTACKER WH LTLE MORE THAN A FEW SCRAP. HE NEARLY FALLS FOR ANOTHER ASSASSATN BY AN RFP FILTRATOR THE BLACK ARMY, BUT HIS WOULD-BE ASSASS, SPE HAVG THE PERFECT OPPORTUNY TO STAB HIM, BAILS OUT OF THE PLAN OUT OF A GUILTY NSCIENCE. THE B CAME BACK: VALENTEEV IS A SUPPORTG CHARACTER THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY, BUT HE N RETURN AFTER THEY'RE FEATED, IF THE WORKER'S FERATN FEATS THE CENTRAL SIBERIAN UNIFIER. THE LAST DJ: EVEN WHEN STEPANOV ASSASSAT SIUDA, VALENTEEV DO NOT GIVE UP HIS LOYALTY TO THE LATE IOLOGUE AND REF TO W TO THE NEW DICTATOR. STEPANOV WILL NEED TO HAVE HIM ELIMATED A "IENDLY FIRE CINT" TO CEMENT HIS NEWFOUND POWER. NO GOOD DEED GO UNPUNISHED: AFTER STEPANOV OVERTHROWS SIUDA, VALENTEEV HEARS A WOMAN'S CRY FOR HELP WHILE HE'S DRIVG TO RSIA'S BORR WH CHA. HE SH TO THE GORNO-ALTAYSK CHURCH, WHERE HE HEARS THE SCREAM, ONLY FOR THE BUILDG TO SUDNLY EXPLO AND TAKE HIM WH . IT TURNS OUT TO HAVE BEEN TRAP BY STEPANOV TO ELIMATE HIM AND THE "WOMAN" CRYG FOR HELP WAS JT A RERDG, MEANG VALENTEEV DIED FOR NOTHG. NOT SO STOIC: VALENTEEV IS A TYPILLY STOIC MAN, BUT WHEN HE'S DRKG WH SIUDA TO DISCS JOG FORC AGAST STEPANOV, HE LGHS OUT LOUD WHEN HIS LEAR TELLS AN ABSURD STORY OF SEEG AN UGLY DOLL CREATED HIS LIKENS. RELUCTANT RULER: VALENTEEV REGNIZ HOW FAR THE BLACK ARMY MOVEMENT HAS SHIFTED OM ANARCHISM DURG THE FERATN'S LLAPSE AND BEE DISILLNED BY , BUT HE DON'T REALLY HAVE A CHOICE TO LEAVE . YOU WOULDN'T SHOOT ME: SEEG A BLACK ARMY REC TRYG TO FLIRT WH A SECRETARY BY BRAGGG ABOUT HIS ACPLISHMENTS, VALENTEEV TERJECTS AND HANDS THE REC A PISTOL, DARG HIM TO SHOOT HIM IF HE'S SO TOUGH. WHEN THE REC IS UNABLE TO, VALENTEEV VERBALLY BERAT HIM FOR THKG WAR IS A CHANCE FOR HIM TO PICK UP GIRLS AND THAT HE NEEDS TO BE ABSOLUTELY MTED TO THE BLACK ARMY'S E.ANDRONIY MISHURENKOROLE: MILARY COMMANR, DIRECTOR OF INTERNAL SECURYNOTE SECURY MISTER (SECURY COUNCIL BET), HEAD OF STATE (AFTER MIDNIGHT)PARTY: SIBIRSKAYA CHERNAYA ARMIYANOTE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMYIOLOGY: VANGUARD ANARCHISMNOTE DPOTISM ALAS, POOR VILLA: MISHURENKO IS DISRPECTFUL, PSIMISTIC, A POTENTIAL ALLY STEPANOV'S POWER STGGLE WH SIUDA, AND A GREEDY WARLORD A POST-TABORSKY ENVIRONMENT. HOWEVER, HE ED TO BE AN HONORABLE SOLDIER WHOSE OPTIMISM WAS TORN APART AFTER SEEG THE SOVIET UNN HUIATED BY THE GERMANS. HE SPENDS A MOMENT SOLEMNLY REMISCG HOW FAR HE'S FALLEN OM HIS YOUNGER DAYS AND HIS FADG MEMORY WH AGE, NOW ONLY NCERNED WH LIBERATG MOSW SO THAT HIS LIFE'S WORK WILL NOT GO TO WASTE. BAD BOSS: HE IS FEARED BY HIS SUBORDAT FOR HIS UNFIVG PERSONALY, WILLG TO FIRE ANYONE WHOUT HATN AS SOON AS HE FDS SOMEONE MORE EFUL THAN THEM. BIGGER IS BETTER: IN A DISCSN ON HOW TO REBUILD THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD, MISHURENKO MENTNS THAT HE ONLY SUPPORTS S RTORATN IF N BE ED TO BUILD MASSIVE RAILGUNS AS LARGE AS THE GERMANS MOBILIZED DURG WORLD WAR II. CRAZY ENOUGH TO WORK: MISHURENKO'S PROPOSED PLAN TO BUILD A NE IS TO CROWDSOURCE OM THE PEOPLE RATHER THAN LEAVE TO THE EXPERTS, AS VALENTEEV SUGGTS. SHOCKGLY, THERE IS A SLIM CHANCE OF HIS PLAN ACTUALLY WORKG. DRAGON WH AN AGENDA: LIKE STEPANOV, MISHURENKO DON'T GENUELY BELIEVE ANARCHISM, WHICH MAK THEM ALLI. HOWEVER, WHILE STEPANOV IS URTG ANARCHIST RHETORIC TO ONE DAY OVERTHROW SIUDA, MISHURENKO IS MORE NCERNED WH PREPARG THE BLACK ARMY TO EVENTUALLY RETAKE MOSW THEIR EVABLE WAR WH GERMANY. DRILL SERGEANT NASTY: MISHURENKO IS AN FAMOLY STRICT DRILL SERGEANT, PUTTG HIS RECS THROUGH HELLISH TTS AND VERBALLY TORMENTG THOSE WHO EVER SLOW DOWN THEIR EXERCIS. EAT THE DOG: MISHURENKO MENTNS THAT HE'S EATEN DOGS DURG HIS SERVICE WORLD WAR II, WHERE HARSH NDNS LEFT NO OTHER FOOD SOURCE. FOR THE EVULZ: HE ENJOYS KILLG AND FIGHTG FOR THE SAKE OF , BELIEVG THAT ANARCHY IS JT AN EXCE TO ACT ON THE WISH. FRONTLE GENERAL: IN THE AFTER MIDNIGHT SCENAR, HE PERSONALLY LEADS THE BLACK ARMY TO BATTLE AGAST THE SIBERIAN FREE ARMY. THE GENERALISSIMO: RULG THE REMNANT BLACK ARMY AFTER TABORSKY'S ATH, MISHURENKO IS PRACTICE A ARY DICTATOR, AND ALL OF HIS ANARCHIST RHETORIC IS JT FOR SHOW. THE HEDONIST: IN A POST-TABORSKY RSIA, HE WANTS TO EAT, DRK, AND PARTY FOR AS LONG AS HE WISH, WHERE HIS RHETORIC OF ANARCHY IS JT A MEANS TO ACHIEVE THAT GOAL. MOTIVE DEY: BEFORE THE TABLISHMENT OF THE HOLY RSIAN EMPIRE, MISHURENKO WAS A HARSH DISCIPLARIAN KNOWN FOR HIS BTAL TRAG METHODS AND IRON-FISTED NTROL OF THE UNS UNR HIS MAND. IT SEEMS THAT TABORSKY TURNG RSIA TO A WASTELAND UNABLE TO EVEN TAKE BACK MOSW MORALIZED HIM TO SUCH AN EXTENT, THAT HE BEME A NIHILISTIC HEDONIST WHOSE ARMY IS LTLE MORE THAN A BAND GANG. NO SYMPATHY: WHEN HE SE A PROTT ON THE LACK OF WORKER PROTECTNS WHILE BUILDG A NE, MISHURENKO ROLLS HIS EY AND NSIRS THEM A BUNCH OF GRAT WHO HAVE FOTTEN ABOUT ALL THE GOOD THE BLACK ARMY HAS DONE FOR THEM. THOUGH SIUDA TRI TO FEND THEIR RIGHT TO PROTT, MISHURENKO SARSTILLY REMARKS THAT HE WISH THEY EXERCISED THEIR RIGHT TO SILENCE. NOT HELPG YOUR CASE: WHEN SIUDA READS MISHURENKO AND VALENTEEV'S LATT DOCUMENT "AN OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MILARY STATE OF NOVOSIBIRSK", HE IS DISGTED BY THEIR OPEN PRAISE OF POKRYSHK, A MAN WHO HAS BEEN NOUNCED AS AN ENEMY TO ANARCHISM. MISHURENKO RETORTS THAT SIUDA JT DON'T KNOW THE FIRST THG ABOUT WAR, ELICG A FACEPALM BY VALENTEEV AND AN ENRAGED LOOK BY SIUDA. NOT THIS FOR YOUR REVOLUTN: MISHURENKO, LIKE IVAN STEPANOV, IS NOT AN ANARCHIST AND ONLY SIS WH THE SIBERIAN BLACK ARMY BEE HE HAPPENS TO BE OM KANSK. IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE HOLY RSIAN EMPIRE'S LLAPSE, AFTER BEG FORCED TO FLEE BY YEVGENIYA TARATUTA, HE DROPS THE ANARCHIST FAçA ENTIRELY AND NS THE BRATSK COMMUNAL VANGUARD AS LTLE MORE THAN A BAND STATE. HE'S NOT EVEN LOYAL TO STEPANOV WHEN HE JOS HIS SI AGAST SIUDA, NOTG THAT HE'S ONLY HELPG BEE STEPANOV IS THE BT CHANCE HE'S GOT AT UNIFYG RSIA AND VADG MOSW TO GET BACK AT THE GERMANS. PET THE DOG: WHILE HE'S REFLECTG ON HIS PAST, A NEW REC TERPTS MISHURENKO TO BREAK UP A FIGHT BETWEEN TWO OTHER RECS OVER POLICS. MISHURENKO GENUELY THANKS HIM FOR THE RMATN AND IGNOR THE REC'S IMPROPER WAY OF GRABBG HIS SUPERR'S ATTENTN. MISHURENKO PLIMENTS STEPANOV AS SOMEONE WHO STANDS A BETTER CHANCE AGAST THE GERMANS THAN SIUDA. SADIST: MISHURENKO TAK PLEASURE PERSONALLY EXECUTG TABORSKY'S FOLLOWERS. SIR SWEARS-A-LOT: IN HIS CLARATN OF WAR ON SIBERIAN FREE TERRORY, HIS LETTER IS PEPPERED WH NUMERO CURS, TYPILLY DIRECTED AT TARATUTA. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: HE CLAIMS TO BE THE PERSONAL PROTECTOR OF ANARCHIST IALS OF HIS OWN WARLORD STATE A POST-HRE RSIA, BUT MOST SEE THROUGH THE CLAIMS AS OUTRIGHT LI OR LNS OF GRANUR. STEALG THE CRED: WHEN HE AND VALENTEEV SEND THEIR THORED ARY THEORI TO STEPANOV, THEIR EXCED BOSS ASKS WHO WROTE THEM. MISHURENKO JUMPS TO CLAIM ALL THE CRED, CLAIMG THAT ALL VALENTEEV DID WAS GIVE A SEAL OF APPROVAL, SOMETHG THAT HIS LLEAGUE LLS HIM OUT ON. TOKEN EVIL TEAMMATE: AFTER STEPANOV GETS PURGED, MISHURENKO FELY BE THE LEAST MTED MEMBER TO SIUDA'S ANARCHIST DREAM. HE'S NOT NECSARILY DISLOYAL, BUT HE'S ONLY WORKG WH THEM SO THAT HE N EXACT REVENGE ON THE GERMANS. VISNARY VILLA: FROM THE S OF THE HOLY RSIAN EMPIRE, HE HOP TO ONE DAY SEE ALL OF RSIA "LIBERATED" BY HIS CEL VANGUARD PARTY. WARHAWK: HE IS THE MOST HAWKISH MEMBER OF STEPANOV'S CLIQUE, ADVOTG MORE NSCRIPTN AND REQUTG MORE EQUIPMENT FOR THE ARY. WAR HERO: MISHURENKO IS AN OLD SOLDIER WHO HAS FOUGHT WORLD WAR II AND THE WTER WAR, EARNG PRAISE FOR HIS SERVICE. WOOBIE, DTROYER OF WORLDS: WNSG THE STCTN OF THE SOVIET UNN BROKE MISHURENKO DOWN AND TURNED HIM TO THE CYNIL OPPORTUNIST HE IS NOW. VILLA WH GOOD PUBLICY: DPE HIS UNENTHIASTIC LOYALTY TO ANARCHIST DOCTRE, MISHURENKO IS POPULAR AMONG THE PEOPLE FOR HIS PAST ARY RERD. HE'S EVEN MORE POPULAR THE BLACK ARMY AS THE IAL SOLDIER, WHICH SERV AS GOOD PR FOR STEPANOV WHEN THE TWO ALLY WH EACH OTHER. NON-UNIFIERS

Prerve Your Gays: The Mornists are the only salon to crimalize homosexualy. Polilly Inrrect Villa: The regime is uniendly to sexual mori, wh one gay playwrer forbidn om publishg his works on the basis of his sexualy.

I’M GAY AND I’VE JT SPENT A YEAR LIVG RSIA

Equal-Opportuny Evil: While a b of a homophobe (pecially pared to Sabl, Men, and the Black Army), Lydia will tolerate homosexuals the ary so long as they're as eful and pable as their ras. When she receiv a report of a homosexual relatnship between two of her Queensguard, Lydia has some rather unsavory thoughts on the affair, nsirg a disorr.

HOW FAR IS TOMSK OM GAYA?

After two of her Queensguard are outed as homosexual, Lydia has them reassigned separately rather than dismissed bee they've loyally served Rurik sce the 50's and they're too eful to be let go. Some uns are tolerant of homosexuals, but others are unwillg to help them whenever they get jumped by a mob of homophob, a problem shown if Stepanov be the Free Terrory's dictator and has no tert pretendg he's still an anarchist. Prerve Your Gays: Far om the norm of 1962, the Free Terrory starts out wh Legal Protectns for LGBTQ+ peoplenote and the Black Army is very protective of their homosexual panns.

DO TOMSKA IS GAY?

Pet the Dog: When a homosexual man claims that he and his partner were harassed by a homophobic grocer, Stepanov is disgted and wants to tervene to prevent further acts of such discrimatn. Outsi of Sdi Arabia or Afghanistan, Rsia’s probably the last place a gay guy would want spend a year abroad . Before I arrived the untry, the only thgs I’d heard about beg homosexual the untry were horrendo.