Dra-pol
28-08-2004, 06:29
A windier fact book resulting from the facts that the original fact book was terrible and that the revised fact book is hopelessly out of date, this is a record of the Choson People’s Republic of Dra-pol.
The War For Korean Unification, Da'Khiem judged, had raised the CPRD’s profile a thousand fold in households across at least those nations heavily engaged against the revolution. The Central Directorature had concluded that this interest was a resource worth tapping, and had commissioned Dra-pol’s first website. While there was no great internal need for the internet, it was believed that most of the enemy states were heavy users of the medium, and that as such a large audience could be found and educated. There was always the possibility of the site being blocked, but then the involved governments would be sanctioning Dra-pol's own regulation of information.
The Choson People’s Republic of Dra-pol and the Korean Peninsula
Our Geography
Located on the Korean peninsula, the CPRD extends from borders with China and Russia in the north to a heavily militarised boundary with the Republic of Korea in the south. This southern border lies to-day some way further down the peninsula than was recently the case, beginning in the west just south of Suwon, and sweeping down to the border town of Andong in the east. The twin cities of Hamhung and Hungnam, situated far north on the east coast, are under a Quinntonian mandate –known as Quinntonian Dra-pol- and ringed by considerable static fortification against the People’s Republic from which the land was forcibly stolen.
Note-
Korea Bay, in the north of the western Yellow Sea, is closed to foreign shipping, its waters hosting only Drapoel and Chinese vessels. This is especially important since the repeated use of these Asian waters by outsiders bent on disrupting vital commerce and sabotaging diplomatic relationships.
Capital city
Da’Khiem; Northeast of Pyongyang, population probably in the area of 100,000.
Other major cities-
Seoul; 5,000,000, largest city in the CPRD
Kanggye; 2,500,000, most productive industrial city
Paegam; 12,000, “the Forbidden City” old royal capital and site of cultural significance
Wonsan; 1,250,000, headquarters of the East Sea Fleet
Namp’o; 900,000, headquarters of the Yellow Sea Fleet
Haeju; 840,000, major port and airport and a centre for the nation’s international trade
Pyongyang; 150,000 excluding military personnel, “the air force city” still dangerously irradiated
Suwon; 1,200,000, major military centre close to border
Hotanang; 1,300,000, major crossroads for goods and military concerns in the south
Andong; 120,000 Drapoel side of border, divided border town straddling strategic river
Our History
Origins...
According to state funded research literature the Drapoel people arose millennia ago from Paektusan a small and dark skinned people created to protect and develop the Korean peninsula to the utopian condition sure to be brought on by Kurosite Thinking.
During the murky infant centuries of this history there came many other races, less pure and driven than the Drapoel. These “Wider Asians” are thought by Republican scholars to have constituted the subject peoples of the eventual Choson Empire, which was of course a civilisation of Drapoel construction. This empire certainly encompassed the entirety of the peninsula, and is pivotal to the modern Drapoel affinity with the south.
Several thousand years of abject isolation were permeated only by a steady flow of thwarted invasions in which Japanese, Mongol, Russian, and Chinese empires saw their armies slaughtered in the mountains of Korea, picked apart by a private and ruthless warrior class. Forts would periodically be erected or ports established by foreign powers, even by westerners come the C19th, but each would ultimately fall to Dra-pol’s royal armies or else be razed in furious peasant revolts. Never would outsiders be allowed to penetrate the northern heartland, barred as they were from even setting eyes upon mother Paektusan or father Paegam’s Forbidden City.
Rumblings of change...
The twentieth century brought the first major changes in Korean life for untold centuries, and it brought them from the outside world Dra-pol so rightly feared. The Russo-Japanese war and its aftermath saw Japanese forces arriving again on the peninsula, and the limp response of a young Drapoel Emperor Wiman did almost as much to incite disquiet as had the incursions themselves. It was left primarily to local populations to resist Japanese colonisation, and the combination of Japanese influence and this increased local self-sufficiency further weakened the Choson Empire. It is not known precisely why the state’s response was so uncharacteristically mild and uncoordinated. It has variously been suggested that internal power-politics in young Wiman’s government were to blame, that the emperor himself was simply an idiot, or that it is just that the time was right for revolutionary progress.
Revolution...
In 1931, with Japanese expansionism picking-up pace along southern shores, a man known only as comrade or brother Sulo took to the hills with a partisan force consisting of desperate peasants and disconcerted warriors tired of Wiman’s impotence. The Suloists, as they came to be known, spread communistic propaganda and waged guerrilla war against every outpost of Wiman’s dynastic rule. Civil war raged for seven years, during which time the Suloists are reputed to have come in contact with Chinese revolutionaries, and to have co-operated against the Japanese invaders of Korea and China. By 1938 Wiman’s forces had been finally vanquished, in the north by Sulo, and in the south by Japan, and Sulo had moved the capital from Paegam to Da’Khiem, enacting a deadly policy of forced ruralisation in the process. The fight for Korea went on as Suloist forces continued to battle the Japanese in the south, acquiring from them Dra-pol’s first aircraft and automatic fire arms. It may not be a stretch to call this fight one of history’s most vicious and horrid, with Imperial Japanese infamy pitted against the revolutionary and nationalist fury of the ill-understood Drapoel under mad Sulo. The bloody quagmire was of course a stalemate, broken only by Japan’s surrender in World War II, which brought western influence to the territories of that fallen empire. Southern Korea was included in this envelope as paranoid capitalists sought to establish military bases on the doorsteps of Mao and Stalin. No consideration was given to the facts of Drapoel sovereignty, of Mao’s interest only in the revolutionary progress of China, or of Stalin’s introspective and self-interested power politics, and the Americans found enemies where none previously existed.
Retreat...
In the division of Korea, Sulo apparently blamed the “wider Asian” population of the peninsula for failing to properly support the revolution, and began to destroy them in the north. This hastened the ethnic divide in Korea as paler Koreans fled for the capitalist south, and darker people claiming “original descent” filtered north, inflated by Suloist histories that declared them founders of the Choson Empire and masters of Korea.
In 1950 the Drapoel Suloists attempted to assert their historic rights and complete their revolution by storming across the demilitarised zone that had been established through their peninsula’s waist, and laying the new Republic of Korea Army to ruin. They were evidently surprised by the reaction of America and the United Nations, failing to grasp the significance of cold war balances in the region. The Drapoel have yet to forgive the outside world for interfering in their revolution, or even to forgive the Russians for what is seen as weak Stalin’s cowardly abandonment of the revolution on his doorstep. Chinese sacrifice by contrast served to strengthen ties between that nation and the CPRD, as begun in the ‘30s when Sulo was reputed to have met with Mao to plan the defeat of their personal and common (Japanese) enemies.
After the aborted effort to reunify Korea and to complete the revolution, the CPRD fell into an isolation familiar to the people, and Sulo actually taught that the outside world had destroyed itself in an apocalyptic conflict (combining the Second World War with the so called Korean or American War). His teaching demanded a return to Dra-pol’s origins as a new People’s Choson Empire was to be raised, and the ruthless Red Bamboo enforced the tortuous implementation of this dream.
Renewed contact...
When, in the 1990s, Quinntonian soldiers responded to the distress call of a refugee vessel lost when it wandered close to the Drapoel coast, they would stumble ashore to be greeted by an agrarian state peopled by frightened comrades who would think them spirits. When a terrified teenage girl called Yasuki Jing squeezed the trigger of her collective’s sixty year old Japanese bolt-action rifle, sending a 7.7mm bullet into the throat of an approaching Quinntonian soldier, an epic clash of cultures was realised with the beginning of The Three Day War. The Quinntonians would call it Kurosian’s Rage, naming it for Director Kurosian I, Sulo’s more wise successor as premier of the revolutionary state. The conflict saw Da’Khiem, Dra-pol’s only significant city, flattened, and Quinntonian Dra-pol’s twin cities of Hamhung and Hungnam established where the imperialist Crusaders came ashore.
The thousands that fell in those three short days were as nothing compared to the more than three million deaths resulting from the Republic’s brave attempt to liberate Hamhung, which erupted into what Kurosian I called The Crusader War. This saw a coalition comprised primarily of Christian states rally around the Quinntonians in an ill-informed and uncoordinated effort to over-throw the popular Revolutionary regime. It saw barefaced land-grabs continue with the establishment of Raysian Dra-pol and futile aggression in the blockading by naval assets of a nation that did not even conduct overseas trade. By the same token, Dra-pol’s isolation and inexperience of the modern world lead to the sacrificing of countless soldiers against the Hamhung perimeter, as human wave assaults desperately and courageously probed the developed-world’s combined forces for a weakness that would not reveal itself.
The latest rising...
It was during this conflict, however, that one comrade Secretary Hotan was first encountered by the outside world. Hotan, Secretary of the Communist Party of Dra-pol, would command a Red Bamboo Assault Division in the field, capturing an entire Raysian airborne formation, mercifully releasing it, and over-running Raysian Dra-pol to leave the Quinntonians isolated and force an end to open efforts against the Republican government. Despite Hotan's great and underserved mercy, and Kurosian I's surrender of his own son to Quinntonian authorities, in the pursuit of peace, the enemies continued to seek the erradication of a culture older than their beloved God, presumably because it offended their very recent and naive concept of civilisation.
Dra-pol’s terror and isolation would only be increased, however, by the following underhanded persistence against its leadership. Director Kurosian I would be assassinated while on a state visit to China, and an attempt would be made on Hotan’s life at the same time. Hotan survived, slaying all three of his western attackers despite serious injuries.
The modern era...
To-day Hotan is both Secretary of the Party and Director of the Republic, making him arguably the most powerful man in Korean history. Thus far he has wielded this power in carrying out a great Kurosite Progress to repair the regression of the Suloist years, and to pursue the reunification of the Korean peninsula. The Two Billion Struggle has industrialised Dra-pol to an unprecedented degree, and the second attempt to reunify north and south brought Seoul and many other cities into the CPRD.
At this moment in time the CPRD is as open as it has ever been, more industrious, and more heavily armed, but rarely have its people been hungrier. It’s titanic forces face enemies in Quinntonian Dra-pol and others arrayed in what remains of the capitalist south, and there can be little doubting Hotan’s commitment to the on going revolution and the reunification of his ancient homeland. After so many thousands of years, the shamefully misrepresented Land of Morning Calm can proudly state that –in spite of its own repeated victimisation- it has not once engaged in a war of aggression against foreign peoples nor invaded a foreign land. We wonder as the Quinntonians raise more tower blocks atop our finest farmland and the reactionaries police our southern shores, reader, can your nation say the same?
Our Economy
The Choson People’s Republic of Dra-pol has, through Kurosite Wisdom, become in a few short years an industrial powerhouse to be admired and this despite the loss of so much territory and the decimation of cities such as Kosong and Pyongyang. However, much of its productivity is consumed by simply trying to import food enough to support its hard working people while they are denied so much of their finest farmland, and consumer economies refuse to take Drapoel goods at a fair price thanks to political propaganda.
Industries
Military products, machine building, electric power, chemicals; mining (coal, iron ore, magnesite, graphite, copper, zinc, lead, and precious metals), metallurgy; textiles, food processing
Electricity production
Fossil fuel- 29% hydro 34% nuclear 37%
Yes, our Kurosite Progress is ever bit the relentless entity of less moral consumer cultures, but it works with great respect for the ancient land upon which it builds. The ratio of hydroelectric and nuclear power used to generate electricity increased constantly at the expense of dirty and elsewhere ill-got fossil fuels.
Agricultural products
Rice, corn, potatoes, soybeans, pulses, yams, cattle, pigs, pork, eggs, poultry.
Export commodities
Minerals, metallurgical products, armaments, mechanical equipment, bicycles, textiles, timber, nuclear technologies.
Import commodities
Oil and fuels, grains and foodstuffs, medical equipment and drugs
Major trade partners
Marimaia, Spyr, Beth Gellert, North Yaman, African Commonwealth
Our Defence Forces
Unified People's Army
Comprised of 1.4million men and women aged 17-44 and 17-32 respectively. Such a huge force will still contain a large proportion of straight-leg infantry, but the UPA’s mechanised strength is none the less undeniably great.
The Red Bamboo
Formerly the Banat Combat Corps, serves the nation as its elite force, and comprises a theoretical 140,000 further persons, mainly men in their twenties and thirties. These soldiers are chosen for their exceptional loyalty, commitment, and ability. The corps trains for amphibious, airborne, mechanised, and tunnel warfare and is highly proficient in infiltration tactics. The force is exceptionally well armed and supported, fanatically motivated, and highly experienced in over half a dozen major conflicts in defence of Dra-pol since the Republic's birth in the 1930s.
People’s Rear Defence Organisation
2.4 million persons, men and women aged 17-44 and 17-32 respectively, who are not part of the Unified People’s Army or primary rear-area military infrastructure.
The UPA supervises the PRDO, which trains for around forty days a year. The PRDO is active in contingencies, units often serving under UPA or Banat officers, and is supposed to be capable of limited offensive operations on a local scale and for a limited time. UPA mechanised elements may be attached to PRDO formations. This organisation constitutes the core of the nation’s reserves and would be tasked with fairly heavy combat operations in the event of invasion, especially if the UPA was seriously deployed to the south. Much of the light equipment used by UPA formations is also available to the PRDO.
Kuro Student Defence League
1.7 million 13-16yr old students across the Republic drill each Sunday for five hours (260hrs a year), and also benefit from variably scheduled off-campus drills totalling 340 further yearly hours. In peace the KSDL is organised by Local Civil Defence Directoratures, and in contingencies is answerable to the Unified People’s Army.
Working Women’s Home Brigade
Around 150,000 unmarried women aged 17-32 who are not part of the PRDO train for up to forty days a year to serve in the Brigade. The Brigade is primarily concerned with operating air defence machineguns on ridges and over valleys around sensitive areas. They provide rotational skeleton crews for many positions during peace time, meaning that a fairly high state of readiness against imperialism is maintained off duty.
-The Yasuki Jing Medal for Bravery and Vigilance is applicable to the KSDL and WWHB.
United Worker’s Militia
The Militia is formed by 6 million older men aged 45-60, men aged 17-44 who are not part of the PRDO or UPA, and unmarried women aged 17-32 who are not part of the PRDO, UPA, or WWHB. This unit is secondary to the PRDO and its strengths will lie in the intimidation factor provided by such a massive mobilisation and in harassing invaders across any part of the country without relent. The UWM is incapable of offensive operation, as were all branches of Republican military strength until the Crusader invasions.
People's Army Air Force
The PAAF's strength is at least 127,000 men and women operating almost six hundred helicopters, over a thousand fighter jets, and several hundred other aircraft. The finest include the new S-11 fighter (NT4-E Hobgoblin) and S-10 (NT5 Cardinal)
Air Defence Command
CS-400 Red Sky Beth Gellen SAM/ABM battalions are deployed to Da’Khiem, Kanggye, Pyongyang, and Seoul for long range and anti ballistic-missile defence.
S-200/SA-5 Gammon batteries give 255km range air defence from the Republic’s coasts and borders against large aircraft such as AWACS and heavy bombers.
HQ-2B SAM regiments, usually in regiments of three batteries are deployed in rings to defend towns and important facilities at Najin, Kanggye, Da’Khiem, Namp’o, Wonsan, Haeju, Inch’on, Suwon, Hotanang, Andong, and Kangung.
DRAR-19 SAM launchers represent Dra-pol's movement into domestic design of surface-to-air defence missiles, some mounted on Type-192 APCs, trucks, or trailers.
Chinese-designed QW-2 MANPADS, D-ZSU-47-2 SPAAAGs, static, truck-mounted, and towed 100mm, 75mm, 47mm, 30mm, 14.5mm Anti-Aircraft Artillery guns all add to the defensive grid.
(Oh my, yes, this is going to expand greatly.)
The War For Korean Unification, Da'Khiem judged, had raised the CPRD’s profile a thousand fold in households across at least those nations heavily engaged against the revolution. The Central Directorature had concluded that this interest was a resource worth tapping, and had commissioned Dra-pol’s first website. While there was no great internal need for the internet, it was believed that most of the enemy states were heavy users of the medium, and that as such a large audience could be found and educated. There was always the possibility of the site being blocked, but then the involved governments would be sanctioning Dra-pol's own regulation of information.
The Choson People’s Republic of Dra-pol and the Korean Peninsula
Our Geography
Located on the Korean peninsula, the CPRD extends from borders with China and Russia in the north to a heavily militarised boundary with the Republic of Korea in the south. This southern border lies to-day some way further down the peninsula than was recently the case, beginning in the west just south of Suwon, and sweeping down to the border town of Andong in the east. The twin cities of Hamhung and Hungnam, situated far north on the east coast, are under a Quinntonian mandate –known as Quinntonian Dra-pol- and ringed by considerable static fortification against the People’s Republic from which the land was forcibly stolen.
Note-
Korea Bay, in the north of the western Yellow Sea, is closed to foreign shipping, its waters hosting only Drapoel and Chinese vessels. This is especially important since the repeated use of these Asian waters by outsiders bent on disrupting vital commerce and sabotaging diplomatic relationships.
Capital city
Da’Khiem; Northeast of Pyongyang, population probably in the area of 100,000.
Other major cities-
Seoul; 5,000,000, largest city in the CPRD
Kanggye; 2,500,000, most productive industrial city
Paegam; 12,000, “the Forbidden City” old royal capital and site of cultural significance
Wonsan; 1,250,000, headquarters of the East Sea Fleet
Namp’o; 900,000, headquarters of the Yellow Sea Fleet
Haeju; 840,000, major port and airport and a centre for the nation’s international trade
Pyongyang; 150,000 excluding military personnel, “the air force city” still dangerously irradiated
Suwon; 1,200,000, major military centre close to border
Hotanang; 1,300,000, major crossroads for goods and military concerns in the south
Andong; 120,000 Drapoel side of border, divided border town straddling strategic river
Our History
Origins...
According to state funded research literature the Drapoel people arose millennia ago from Paektusan a small and dark skinned people created to protect and develop the Korean peninsula to the utopian condition sure to be brought on by Kurosite Thinking.
During the murky infant centuries of this history there came many other races, less pure and driven than the Drapoel. These “Wider Asians” are thought by Republican scholars to have constituted the subject peoples of the eventual Choson Empire, which was of course a civilisation of Drapoel construction. This empire certainly encompassed the entirety of the peninsula, and is pivotal to the modern Drapoel affinity with the south.
Several thousand years of abject isolation were permeated only by a steady flow of thwarted invasions in which Japanese, Mongol, Russian, and Chinese empires saw their armies slaughtered in the mountains of Korea, picked apart by a private and ruthless warrior class. Forts would periodically be erected or ports established by foreign powers, even by westerners come the C19th, but each would ultimately fall to Dra-pol’s royal armies or else be razed in furious peasant revolts. Never would outsiders be allowed to penetrate the northern heartland, barred as they were from even setting eyes upon mother Paektusan or father Paegam’s Forbidden City.
Rumblings of change...
The twentieth century brought the first major changes in Korean life for untold centuries, and it brought them from the outside world Dra-pol so rightly feared. The Russo-Japanese war and its aftermath saw Japanese forces arriving again on the peninsula, and the limp response of a young Drapoel Emperor Wiman did almost as much to incite disquiet as had the incursions themselves. It was left primarily to local populations to resist Japanese colonisation, and the combination of Japanese influence and this increased local self-sufficiency further weakened the Choson Empire. It is not known precisely why the state’s response was so uncharacteristically mild and uncoordinated. It has variously been suggested that internal power-politics in young Wiman’s government were to blame, that the emperor himself was simply an idiot, or that it is just that the time was right for revolutionary progress.
Revolution...
In 1931, with Japanese expansionism picking-up pace along southern shores, a man known only as comrade or brother Sulo took to the hills with a partisan force consisting of desperate peasants and disconcerted warriors tired of Wiman’s impotence. The Suloists, as they came to be known, spread communistic propaganda and waged guerrilla war against every outpost of Wiman’s dynastic rule. Civil war raged for seven years, during which time the Suloists are reputed to have come in contact with Chinese revolutionaries, and to have co-operated against the Japanese invaders of Korea and China. By 1938 Wiman’s forces had been finally vanquished, in the north by Sulo, and in the south by Japan, and Sulo had moved the capital from Paegam to Da’Khiem, enacting a deadly policy of forced ruralisation in the process. The fight for Korea went on as Suloist forces continued to battle the Japanese in the south, acquiring from them Dra-pol’s first aircraft and automatic fire arms. It may not be a stretch to call this fight one of history’s most vicious and horrid, with Imperial Japanese infamy pitted against the revolutionary and nationalist fury of the ill-understood Drapoel under mad Sulo. The bloody quagmire was of course a stalemate, broken only by Japan’s surrender in World War II, which brought western influence to the territories of that fallen empire. Southern Korea was included in this envelope as paranoid capitalists sought to establish military bases on the doorsteps of Mao and Stalin. No consideration was given to the facts of Drapoel sovereignty, of Mao’s interest only in the revolutionary progress of China, or of Stalin’s introspective and self-interested power politics, and the Americans found enemies where none previously existed.
Retreat...
In the division of Korea, Sulo apparently blamed the “wider Asian” population of the peninsula for failing to properly support the revolution, and began to destroy them in the north. This hastened the ethnic divide in Korea as paler Koreans fled for the capitalist south, and darker people claiming “original descent” filtered north, inflated by Suloist histories that declared them founders of the Choson Empire and masters of Korea.
In 1950 the Drapoel Suloists attempted to assert their historic rights and complete their revolution by storming across the demilitarised zone that had been established through their peninsula’s waist, and laying the new Republic of Korea Army to ruin. They were evidently surprised by the reaction of America and the United Nations, failing to grasp the significance of cold war balances in the region. The Drapoel have yet to forgive the outside world for interfering in their revolution, or even to forgive the Russians for what is seen as weak Stalin’s cowardly abandonment of the revolution on his doorstep. Chinese sacrifice by contrast served to strengthen ties between that nation and the CPRD, as begun in the ‘30s when Sulo was reputed to have met with Mao to plan the defeat of their personal and common (Japanese) enemies.
After the aborted effort to reunify Korea and to complete the revolution, the CPRD fell into an isolation familiar to the people, and Sulo actually taught that the outside world had destroyed itself in an apocalyptic conflict (combining the Second World War with the so called Korean or American War). His teaching demanded a return to Dra-pol’s origins as a new People’s Choson Empire was to be raised, and the ruthless Red Bamboo enforced the tortuous implementation of this dream.
Renewed contact...
When, in the 1990s, Quinntonian soldiers responded to the distress call of a refugee vessel lost when it wandered close to the Drapoel coast, they would stumble ashore to be greeted by an agrarian state peopled by frightened comrades who would think them spirits. When a terrified teenage girl called Yasuki Jing squeezed the trigger of her collective’s sixty year old Japanese bolt-action rifle, sending a 7.7mm bullet into the throat of an approaching Quinntonian soldier, an epic clash of cultures was realised with the beginning of The Three Day War. The Quinntonians would call it Kurosian’s Rage, naming it for Director Kurosian I, Sulo’s more wise successor as premier of the revolutionary state. The conflict saw Da’Khiem, Dra-pol’s only significant city, flattened, and Quinntonian Dra-pol’s twin cities of Hamhung and Hungnam established where the imperialist Crusaders came ashore.
The thousands that fell in those three short days were as nothing compared to the more than three million deaths resulting from the Republic’s brave attempt to liberate Hamhung, which erupted into what Kurosian I called The Crusader War. This saw a coalition comprised primarily of Christian states rally around the Quinntonians in an ill-informed and uncoordinated effort to over-throw the popular Revolutionary regime. It saw barefaced land-grabs continue with the establishment of Raysian Dra-pol and futile aggression in the blockading by naval assets of a nation that did not even conduct overseas trade. By the same token, Dra-pol’s isolation and inexperience of the modern world lead to the sacrificing of countless soldiers against the Hamhung perimeter, as human wave assaults desperately and courageously probed the developed-world’s combined forces for a weakness that would not reveal itself.
The latest rising...
It was during this conflict, however, that one comrade Secretary Hotan was first encountered by the outside world. Hotan, Secretary of the Communist Party of Dra-pol, would command a Red Bamboo Assault Division in the field, capturing an entire Raysian airborne formation, mercifully releasing it, and over-running Raysian Dra-pol to leave the Quinntonians isolated and force an end to open efforts against the Republican government. Despite Hotan's great and underserved mercy, and Kurosian I's surrender of his own son to Quinntonian authorities, in the pursuit of peace, the enemies continued to seek the erradication of a culture older than their beloved God, presumably because it offended their very recent and naive concept of civilisation.
Dra-pol’s terror and isolation would only be increased, however, by the following underhanded persistence against its leadership. Director Kurosian I would be assassinated while on a state visit to China, and an attempt would be made on Hotan’s life at the same time. Hotan survived, slaying all three of his western attackers despite serious injuries.
The modern era...
To-day Hotan is both Secretary of the Party and Director of the Republic, making him arguably the most powerful man in Korean history. Thus far he has wielded this power in carrying out a great Kurosite Progress to repair the regression of the Suloist years, and to pursue the reunification of the Korean peninsula. The Two Billion Struggle has industrialised Dra-pol to an unprecedented degree, and the second attempt to reunify north and south brought Seoul and many other cities into the CPRD.
At this moment in time the CPRD is as open as it has ever been, more industrious, and more heavily armed, but rarely have its people been hungrier. It’s titanic forces face enemies in Quinntonian Dra-pol and others arrayed in what remains of the capitalist south, and there can be little doubting Hotan’s commitment to the on going revolution and the reunification of his ancient homeland. After so many thousands of years, the shamefully misrepresented Land of Morning Calm can proudly state that –in spite of its own repeated victimisation- it has not once engaged in a war of aggression against foreign peoples nor invaded a foreign land. We wonder as the Quinntonians raise more tower blocks atop our finest farmland and the reactionaries police our southern shores, reader, can your nation say the same?
Our Economy
The Choson People’s Republic of Dra-pol has, through Kurosite Wisdom, become in a few short years an industrial powerhouse to be admired and this despite the loss of so much territory and the decimation of cities such as Kosong and Pyongyang. However, much of its productivity is consumed by simply trying to import food enough to support its hard working people while they are denied so much of their finest farmland, and consumer economies refuse to take Drapoel goods at a fair price thanks to political propaganda.
Industries
Military products, machine building, electric power, chemicals; mining (coal, iron ore, magnesite, graphite, copper, zinc, lead, and precious metals), metallurgy; textiles, food processing
Electricity production
Fossil fuel- 29% hydro 34% nuclear 37%
Yes, our Kurosite Progress is ever bit the relentless entity of less moral consumer cultures, but it works with great respect for the ancient land upon which it builds. The ratio of hydroelectric and nuclear power used to generate electricity increased constantly at the expense of dirty and elsewhere ill-got fossil fuels.
Agricultural products
Rice, corn, potatoes, soybeans, pulses, yams, cattle, pigs, pork, eggs, poultry.
Export commodities
Minerals, metallurgical products, armaments, mechanical equipment, bicycles, textiles, timber, nuclear technologies.
Import commodities
Oil and fuels, grains and foodstuffs, medical equipment and drugs
Major trade partners
Marimaia, Spyr, Beth Gellert, North Yaman, African Commonwealth
Our Defence Forces
Unified People's Army
Comprised of 1.4million men and women aged 17-44 and 17-32 respectively. Such a huge force will still contain a large proportion of straight-leg infantry, but the UPA’s mechanised strength is none the less undeniably great.
The Red Bamboo
Formerly the Banat Combat Corps, serves the nation as its elite force, and comprises a theoretical 140,000 further persons, mainly men in their twenties and thirties. These soldiers are chosen for their exceptional loyalty, commitment, and ability. The corps trains for amphibious, airborne, mechanised, and tunnel warfare and is highly proficient in infiltration tactics. The force is exceptionally well armed and supported, fanatically motivated, and highly experienced in over half a dozen major conflicts in defence of Dra-pol since the Republic's birth in the 1930s.
People’s Rear Defence Organisation
2.4 million persons, men and women aged 17-44 and 17-32 respectively, who are not part of the Unified People’s Army or primary rear-area military infrastructure.
The UPA supervises the PRDO, which trains for around forty days a year. The PRDO is active in contingencies, units often serving under UPA or Banat officers, and is supposed to be capable of limited offensive operations on a local scale and for a limited time. UPA mechanised elements may be attached to PRDO formations. This organisation constitutes the core of the nation’s reserves and would be tasked with fairly heavy combat operations in the event of invasion, especially if the UPA was seriously deployed to the south. Much of the light equipment used by UPA formations is also available to the PRDO.
Kuro Student Defence League
1.7 million 13-16yr old students across the Republic drill each Sunday for five hours (260hrs a year), and also benefit from variably scheduled off-campus drills totalling 340 further yearly hours. In peace the KSDL is organised by Local Civil Defence Directoratures, and in contingencies is answerable to the Unified People’s Army.
Working Women’s Home Brigade
Around 150,000 unmarried women aged 17-32 who are not part of the PRDO train for up to forty days a year to serve in the Brigade. The Brigade is primarily concerned with operating air defence machineguns on ridges and over valleys around sensitive areas. They provide rotational skeleton crews for many positions during peace time, meaning that a fairly high state of readiness against imperialism is maintained off duty.
-The Yasuki Jing Medal for Bravery and Vigilance is applicable to the KSDL and WWHB.
United Worker’s Militia
The Militia is formed by 6 million older men aged 45-60, men aged 17-44 who are not part of the PRDO or UPA, and unmarried women aged 17-32 who are not part of the PRDO, UPA, or WWHB. This unit is secondary to the PRDO and its strengths will lie in the intimidation factor provided by such a massive mobilisation and in harassing invaders across any part of the country without relent. The UWM is incapable of offensive operation, as were all branches of Republican military strength until the Crusader invasions.
People's Army Air Force
The PAAF's strength is at least 127,000 men and women operating almost six hundred helicopters, over a thousand fighter jets, and several hundred other aircraft. The finest include the new S-11 fighter (NT4-E Hobgoblin) and S-10 (NT5 Cardinal)
Air Defence Command
CS-400 Red Sky Beth Gellen SAM/ABM battalions are deployed to Da’Khiem, Kanggye, Pyongyang, and Seoul for long range and anti ballistic-missile defence.
S-200/SA-5 Gammon batteries give 255km range air defence from the Republic’s coasts and borders against large aircraft such as AWACS and heavy bombers.
HQ-2B SAM regiments, usually in regiments of three batteries are deployed in rings to defend towns and important facilities at Najin, Kanggye, Da’Khiem, Namp’o, Wonsan, Haeju, Inch’on, Suwon, Hotanang, Andong, and Kangung.
DRAR-19 SAM launchers represent Dra-pol's movement into domestic design of surface-to-air defence missiles, some mounted on Type-192 APCs, trucks, or trailers.
Chinese-designed QW-2 MANPADS, D-ZSU-47-2 SPAAAGs, static, truck-mounted, and towed 100mm, 75mm, 47mm, 30mm, 14.5mm Anti-Aircraft Artillery guns all add to the defensive grid.
(Oh my, yes, this is going to expand greatly.)