Dra-pol
26-03-2004, 04:22
The Choson People’s Republic of Dra-pol
To some it appeared that the Republic had lost her way. The arguably heretical attempt to turn Kosong into an economic free zone had fallen on its face, no one was much interested in sustained and serious trade when their ships and planes were subject to almost arbitrary search and even destruction by the massive defence forces of the CPRD. Drapoel steel and iron had failed to win a major market share- apparently low cost meant little when quality was sufficiently poor.
Evidently some counter-revolutionary element was to blame for this failure, and for the accompanying economic down-turn. DaKhiem was having trouble blaming the Christians or the south, this time, as they’d not even reacted when the traitor Akiyoro leaked Republican military secrets, including the likely presence of military transport and demolitions tunnels under Seoul itself.
In the capital’s massive Central Directorature, Secretary Hotan scanned Banat security reports, production totals, collective records, anything to identity targets. In the forbidden city of Paegam meanwhile, young Director Koshiako was beginning to seriously and earnestly seek by reasonable deduction the parties at fault. He was even starting to question the motivation and position of the Secretary of the Communist Party. Hotan never came to see him in person. Why was that?
Banat under secretaries bearing the same piece of news to both figureheads interrupted the two almost in unison.
“Comrade Secretary.” Said the agent in DaKhiem, extending a file towards Hotan. “A report from Hamhung. Tunnel 14 has collapsed.”
So that was it. Tunnel 14 under Hamhung, one of the principle means of attack against the Quinntonian occupation there, had failed. It was the direct responsibility of the Razimov Collective. So the Russians were to blame for all this!
Secretary Hotan had his demons. Dra-pol’s 0.05% Russian minority was attempting to undermine the revolution- they had always been pale revolutionaries next to the Drapoel, quitters like Yeltsin! These people were outsiders, after all, thought Hotan, and they couldn't possibly understand the Drapoel spirit or the Choson people.
In Paegam, Director Koshiako Kurosian, oblivious to Hotan’s conclusion, was considering medals appropriate to any number of the 74 ethnic Russians who’d died alongside their native Drapoel comrades when Tunnel 14 was discovered by capitalist authorities in Quinntonian Dra-pol.
(ooc: For those who don't know, Dra-pol exists over North Korea, and is essentially that nation on PCP. To the south is South Dalania, which is more or less South Korea's big brother. North is China, as in reality, more or less. The east-coast cities of Hamhung and Hungnam are under Quinntonian administration following a long and bloody war now in a state of protracted cease-fire (as is the Korean War between Dra-pol and South Dalania). Dra-pol is hyper isolationist, and only the city of Kosong is really open to the outside world- venturing anywhere else you're likely to be shot or at least arrested, never to be seen again.
The essence of this post is that a new "Struggle" is to be launched by DaKhiem (the Drapoel capital), this time against the weakness of the Russian spirit, since a Russian community had the misfortune to be primarily responsible for one of the tunnels (under Hamhung) that was discovered by the Quinntonian authorities.
Really, I just want more people to have contact with Dra-pol, which is difficult as we're so paranoid, and to have someone besides myself and a handful of other players see the many layers of the nation. To get some characters floating around Kosong trying to make their fortune in the untapped markets, or journalists/adventurers trying to slip into the interior of the 'hermit kingdom' (the last journalists turned up curcified on the border))
To some it appeared that the Republic had lost her way. The arguably heretical attempt to turn Kosong into an economic free zone had fallen on its face, no one was much interested in sustained and serious trade when their ships and planes were subject to almost arbitrary search and even destruction by the massive defence forces of the CPRD. Drapoel steel and iron had failed to win a major market share- apparently low cost meant little when quality was sufficiently poor.
Evidently some counter-revolutionary element was to blame for this failure, and for the accompanying economic down-turn. DaKhiem was having trouble blaming the Christians or the south, this time, as they’d not even reacted when the traitor Akiyoro leaked Republican military secrets, including the likely presence of military transport and demolitions tunnels under Seoul itself.
In the capital’s massive Central Directorature, Secretary Hotan scanned Banat security reports, production totals, collective records, anything to identity targets. In the forbidden city of Paegam meanwhile, young Director Koshiako was beginning to seriously and earnestly seek by reasonable deduction the parties at fault. He was even starting to question the motivation and position of the Secretary of the Communist Party. Hotan never came to see him in person. Why was that?
Banat under secretaries bearing the same piece of news to both figureheads interrupted the two almost in unison.
“Comrade Secretary.” Said the agent in DaKhiem, extending a file towards Hotan. “A report from Hamhung. Tunnel 14 has collapsed.”
So that was it. Tunnel 14 under Hamhung, one of the principle means of attack against the Quinntonian occupation there, had failed. It was the direct responsibility of the Razimov Collective. So the Russians were to blame for all this!
Secretary Hotan had his demons. Dra-pol’s 0.05% Russian minority was attempting to undermine the revolution- they had always been pale revolutionaries next to the Drapoel, quitters like Yeltsin! These people were outsiders, after all, thought Hotan, and they couldn't possibly understand the Drapoel spirit or the Choson people.
In Paegam, Director Koshiako Kurosian, oblivious to Hotan’s conclusion, was considering medals appropriate to any number of the 74 ethnic Russians who’d died alongside their native Drapoel comrades when Tunnel 14 was discovered by capitalist authorities in Quinntonian Dra-pol.
(ooc: For those who don't know, Dra-pol exists over North Korea, and is essentially that nation on PCP. To the south is South Dalania, which is more or less South Korea's big brother. North is China, as in reality, more or less. The east-coast cities of Hamhung and Hungnam are under Quinntonian administration following a long and bloody war now in a state of protracted cease-fire (as is the Korean War between Dra-pol and South Dalania). Dra-pol is hyper isolationist, and only the city of Kosong is really open to the outside world- venturing anywhere else you're likely to be shot or at least arrested, never to be seen again.
The essence of this post is that a new "Struggle" is to be launched by DaKhiem (the Drapoel capital), this time against the weakness of the Russian spirit, since a Russian community had the misfortune to be primarily responsible for one of the tunnels (under Hamhung) that was discovered by the Quinntonian authorities.
Really, I just want more people to have contact with Dra-pol, which is difficult as we're so paranoid, and to have someone besides myself and a handful of other players see the many layers of the nation. To get some characters floating around Kosong trying to make their fortune in the untapped markets, or journalists/adventurers trying to slip into the interior of the 'hermit kingdom' (the last journalists turned up curcified on the border))