NationStates Jolt Archive

Samarkand, Crossroad of Cultures

"...So, certainly, child, you need not worry! You simply can't fail me again. Well? Hurry to your task! Now, Vizier! Why does this ridiculous Kazakh not appreciate that my good will is dependent upon his recognition of the true Caliphate? He shall wake with a fatawā on his head if he does not make more haste than my dear cousin, here! Have you still not left? Go on, woman!

Paris, City of Lights

Alighting from a Soviet-era turboprop, Gulsana Turesbekova has much work ahead of her, and after being expelled from Mumbai she walks a fine line over the favours of her distant cousin Chingiz, whose name some publications in this country have been spelling -quite legitimately- Genghis.

Gulsana, claiming relation to the legitimate successor to the Prophet, expects and arrogantly demands a proper greeting and royal audience in Versailles when she approaches, dressed in traditional silken garments.

"I am here by will of my master, Turkmenbashi, Khan of Khans, King of the Islamic Struggle, Successor to the Prophet, Peace Be Upon him, Khalifah al Muslimeen, Lord of Samarkand and Keeper of Tammerlane's Gate and the Khyber Pass.

"Chingiz Khagan Depkazi wishes to ask why the infidel oppressor Edmund Wolfgang Tchokareff receives protection in the domains of the Kings of Europe."

Gulsana would explain that Edmund is surely no friend of the Christian league. He, after over-throwing his father, the last Premier of the USSR, not only lost Kazakhstan -the act of a dangerous idiot- but chose to turn the former Depkazi Soviet Socialist Republic into nothing less than -in his own words- an Atheist Labour Republic. Edmund is an atheist, a madman, and almost a communist, so says the diplomat.

"It is time, is it not, that we accept that the world is carved into spheres. There are monotheists, polytheists, and atheists, and the mighty Caliph has made it his work to destroy the latter two. Within the monotheistic sphere may be found the tired old sect of the Jews, and more rightly the western kingdoms of the Christians, and the eastern domain of the Ummah.

"Can we not agree, my lord asks, that the Christian is a Christian only so much as the Muslim is a Muslim, and that so long as men are governed by right moral codes there can be no dispute between nations of alien faith?

"Destroy Edmund in the proper manner and discuss with his holy incredibleness the propriety of establishing cordial relations between Christendom and Caliphate. If we do not achieve something good in this regard then it is certain that our worlds shall collide and perhaps the Godless socialists shall prevail by our mutual harm and we shall see more cultists like the demon-worshipping Maharaja of Kashmir spread their lunacy across the land."

Turesbekova indicated, then, that Chingiz wanted his father buried to the neck and stoned to death and the act recorded for the joy of the Depkazi people and all men of faith. The act, it was implied, would create friendship between the Christian world as lead by the Pope and the Kings of Europe and the Islamic world as lead by the Depkazi Caliph. Or at least a certain mutual respect and shared opposition to the spreading menace in the idea that men and women can be governed by a secular body.

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(Doubtless a very significant development for the Indian National Union, and there will be a more involved post to follow.)

Had Chingis attempted something like this while Zhang was still in power, he could have expected to see Samarkland burn while Depkazia was still making overtures to Paris. But his latest moves were expected, with no where to turn to and Beijing cosying up to the Tsar and by extension the Holy League, it appeared Chingis has smartened up and burst his own power-trip bubble. Victory in Central Asia was a far cry from victory over Xinjiang or Kazahkstan. Chinese politicians were left to ponder whether the latest visit implied Depkazian recognition of Kazahkstan.

OOC: One problem, I don't know who this guy you want killed is?

OOC: One problem, I don't know who this guy you want killed is?

Edmund Tchokareff, the previous ruler of Depkazia who supported Athiesm and Socialism. He got toppled with Chinese help to install Chingis.

A history lesson, for AMW's newcomers...

In the 1980s the USSR was in trouble. Its war in Afghanistan was going badly as Mujahideen resistance received aid from the Indian National Union, and Tsar Wingert was leading an increasingly effective seccessionist war in Ukraine. The Indian Soviet Commonwealth -in its first incarnation- was starting to take the place of Moscow in leading the world revolution, and was courting traditional allies such as Vietnam.

By the start of the '90s Wingert's rebels had over-thrown Moscow's control in Ukraine, depleting the USSR's agricultural and industrial base. Premiers fell and the Party was in chaos. A senior Party member and respected General, comrade Chokareff, was instrumental in evacuating much heavy industry to the Mid Asian Soviet Socialist Republics and consolidating loyal Soviet Army forces there.

An attempted hard-line coup in Moscow was beaten-down by Yeltsin's reformists, and Chokareff became the only effective leader surviving in the Soviet old-guard.

The USSR essentially collapsed and a new Russia was birthed as the Baltic states went their own ways, Ukraine remained under Wingert's domination, and the Caucasus crumbled before Armandian Combine influence.

However, in Mid Asia General Chokareff was proclaimed Premier of the Soviet Union, which by then consisted only of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Kazakhstan and the SSR of Depkazia (Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan). Chokareff's Communist Party loyalists planned to re-group and launch a second coup attempt in Moscow and, if necessary, to invade Russia from Kazakhstan.

They failed. Chokareff died suddenly and his son assumed power in Depkazia while, in December of 1991, Kazakhstan seceded from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, effectively dissolving that entity.

Chokareff's son went by the name of Edmund Wolfgang Tchokareff, disowning his father, and founded the Depkazi Aethist Labour Republic. Edmund was a lunatic who consumed liquid mercury in pursuit of immortality, and was infamous for his pet hippo and the passing of ridiculous laws. Under his rule Depkazia contributed to the decline of the Aral Sea and made enemies of all of its neighbours. Towards his end, in the late '90s, Tchokareff travelled to Europe to befriend the Holy League, realising that he had to change his ways to lose power.

While he was out of the country his estranged son launched a Chinese-backed coup against his corrupt and dangerous misrule. His son is none other than Chingiz Khagan Depkazi, restorer of the Caliphate.

Tchokareff has been in exile in Christian Europe ever since, and Chingiz has built an empire covering much of Afghanistan and the former Republic of North Pakistan in addition to Depkazia. He is now seeking European recognition for his authority over the Muslim world and the Turkic peoples, and as such wishes his cruel father destroyed.