NationStates Jolt Archive

The Gorka League was founded six months ago, consisting of five small states in Eastern Europe.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, many people starved when the free market refused to take advantage of the cheap labour of the Five States.

GIANT is the leader of The Gorka League. He is an enigma, for he is never publicly seen. His face, however, appears everwhere throughout The Gorke League: on buildings, signs, cans of food, even tatooed on some people's bodies.

GIANT's mantra is simple: Obey.
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GIANT certainly has improved the five tiny nations since The Gorka League was founded. Food is availiable to everyone, from government stations, after the collectivization of the GL's farms.

The Gorka League is incrediably xenophobic, because of Nazi and Soviet occupation throughout the latter half of the 20th century, and Western alienation after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

The Five States of The Gorka League are as follows:

Wyzsch-Near Poland, Wyzsch is the agrian centre of the GL. Most of the citizenry live here, working day and night on collective farms.

Mirka-The smallest of the states, Mirka is known for it's barren steppes and fields of...rock. Few people live here, except for some miners and those that Gorkan society wouldn't accept.

Kolzuchev-The industrial centre of The Gorka League, Kolzuchev's sky is polluted by coal from the factories, and gas from old Soviet cars. Acid rain has corroded most of the old libraries and cemetaries, and the newer buildings are faring no better.

Haffja-The Gorka League's only Islamic state, Haffja is culturaly significant to Muslims around the world. The people of Haffja were the first to rally around Father, something they have never let the European Gorkans forget.
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Sakae-Bordering Mongolia, Sakae is reknowned for it's horsemen and archers. It's people are nomads, with few permanant settlements existing within the entire state. Those who find cattle and goat herding too humble a life often join The Gorkan League's armed forces. As a result, most of Gorka's military personelle are Sakaen.
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OOC: Interesting. Nice pics too.

Secretary Hotan regarded with some interest the information before him. Perhaps the late Director Kurosian had been right about the survival outside Dra-pol of the revolution.
There were many parallels between the Choson Peoples' Republic of Dra-pol and this Gorka League. Dra-pol understood how it was to be abused by outsiders, and knew isolation well.
DaKhiem would never tollerate even a small private sector, however. Perhaps this Giant fellow would attend to that soon enough.

"Sho Cheiy!" The Secretary called out, prompting the entry of a man in Banat dress uniform. Major Cheiy listened as the Secretary conveyed young Director Koshiako's purported desire to contact The Gorka League for the purposes of potential trade, and the protection of the revolution.

It seemed that even if they were unwelcome, Dra-pol had nothing to loose from sending a few Banat agents to Sakae. If they failed to establish relations, joining a procurement project in China wouldn't hurt them.

Presently an old L2D4 transport plane struggled out of Kanggye and headed west into China, from where a pair of Banat agents would travel as far by rail as proved possible, before seeking contact with the Gorka authorities.

Within Turlabaan, the largest city in Sakae, Dra-Pol's agents met a Gorkan officer on the street. Propaganda littered the walls of the buildings that housed the few permanant workers that lived in Turlabaan, and the poles of the city's few street lamps.
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The officer waited for the Dra-Polians...

The Banat two agents -Sho Cheiy and a junior officer of presently minor note- were finding the climate agreeable enough, but were somewhat disturbed by simply how far they could see. Cheiy had once in his life left Dra-pol, visiting China at the time of Director Kurosian's assassination, and the second man had spent all of his life in the mountainous little republic. He'd been amazed to look across the Mongol landscape and not see the side of a hill in every direction. He was more surprised on arrival at the city of Turlabaan, having spent his youth enjoying the forced ruralisation of the Drapoel populace. This must be what DaKhiem is like he supposed.

Presently Sho Chiey sighted what he deemed to be an authoritative figure, and formally greeted the officer.

"Yonniseyo" Came the Major's Drapoel formality, before he attempted in Drapoel, broken English, and if needs be half understood Chinese dialects to introduce the pair as agents of the Choson People's Republic.

After finally finding a Chinese dialect that they both spoke, the officer greeted Cheiy formally.
"I am Uhai Ukkahu," he said in a deep voice. He had a short, unruly beard, and his long hair was braided, and contained several beads.
"GIANT wishes you pleasant stay in Sakae. Our city is somewhat...untidy,"
he glanced over at a dead mammal of some sort lying in a gutter, "but I am sure we can find accomodation that is suiting well the people of your promiscuity." It was clear that Ukkahu had meant to say 'prominence', but his poor grasp of the language he was speaking made him unaware that he had made any mistake.
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Ukkahu led the pair to a dingy hotel with an electric sign that flashed only the letters 'h' 'o' and 'e'. Several women of 'unsavoury virtue' stood outside the building, smoking. One of the women, a particularly muscular woman, with stubble on 'her' face, lifted up 'her' skirt, revealing a large, hairy leg to the pair of Drapoel agents. Two uniformed men...
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...walked up to one of the women, dressed in a zebra-print coat and leggings, and grabbed her by the arms. One of the soldiers hit her on the head, and blood ran out of her mouth. The soldiers dragged the screaming woman into an alley, out of sight of Ukkahu's Drapoel guests.
Ukkahu looked at the alley, then at the Cheiy. He then turned and walked through the doorway.

Ukkahu showed the men to their room. He said that he had to leave, but that he would return by dinnertime.

Outside, on the streets, there was blood over Gorka.

Cheiy, who had only a basic grasp of the linguistic situation assumed that he had slightly misheard Ukkahu, but his partner's surprised expression suggested a better understanding of the tongue.

As the trio passed the ..characters of questionable repute, the young officer's expression again betrayed some disapproval- at first he moved as if to unshoulder the Type-99 rifle he would have carried were this Dra-pol. He realised its absence and moved towards his holstered Nambu 14th Year pistol at about the same time as a piercing glance from Cheiy put him in his place, reminding him of his absence of authority here.

The Major was seemingly pleased, and the young officer at least placated by the forcible removal of one of the women.

The young officer entered the hotel room first, as Cheiy stopped to bow slightly before the departing Ukkahu, who he managed at least twice to call "comrade".

"Shin-kyun!" Chiey finally spoke the Sub-Lieutenant's name, calling to an end the young man's destructive hotel room search for electronic bugs.

The pair waited, Cheiy staring silently from the dirty window, Shin-kyun detailing what they had seen thus far, in a cardboard portfolio.

OOC: There are no bugs. We don't have that kind of technology!
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(Nor do we, in any serious degree. We're just barely in touch enough to be aware that some outsiders do. Experiments with great clunking tape-recorders and ineffectual mics are underway, mind. Don't take it personally- Dra-pol is just deeply, deeply paranoid ;) )

(Nor do we, in any serious degree. We're just barely in touch enough to be aware that some outsiders do. Experiments with great clunking tape-recorders and ineffectual mics are underway, mind. Don't take it personally- Dra-pol is just deeply, deeply paranoid ;) )

OOC: Okay.

We find the Gorka League to be a totalitarian dictatorship, that does not genuinely care for the welfare of it's citizens.

We believe that more civil freedoms are neccesary before we accept the Gorka League as anything more than a fascist dictatorship, fit to be wiped off the face of the earth.

As Secretary Hotan prepared to declare the disgusting interventional Gladanian state an enemy of the people, he issued a statement of defiance to their implied imperialism. If attempts were made by unconcerned foreign powers to interfere with the running of a sovereign nation such as that of The Gorka League, millions of their Drapoel comrades would pour forth to butcher the imperialists in their defence.

As Secretary Hotan prepared to declare the disgusting interventional Gladanian state an enemy of the people, he issued a statement of defiance to their implied imperialism. If attempts were made by unconcerned foreign powers to interfere with the running of a sovereign nation such as that of The Gorka League, millions of their Drapoel comrades would pour forth to butcher the imperialists in their defence.

How dare we be called imperialists! We fight for the freedoms of all the world's people! We wish only to inprove the standard of life for the Gorkan people.