Kagdazka
30-03-2009, 19:35
(A note: I intend to refrain from messing around with any map-related RPing, that is to say from anything to do with cities, geography, etc, until I can get ahold of a space on the AO map. That will all be added in future amendments to the following.)
Kagdazka - a Factbook
Country Name-
Long Form: The People's Republic of Kagdazka
Short Form: Kagdazka
Government Type: Communist dictatorship
Current Head of State and of Government: Timotei Zivkovic, Chairman of the Ecosocialist/Communist (E/C) Party and Supreme Chancellor of the People's Assembly
Official Language: Russian
National Holidays: 18 April (Ecosystem Day), 6 July (The Birthday of the Great Chairman), 2 August (Hakharusyy Massacre Day), 17 October (Harvest Day)*, 22 October (Independence Day)*
* The week of Harvest Day and Independence Day is traditionally the most celebrated on the Kagdaz calendar. In addition to other festivities, the Chairman's Cup final is played if not during this period, then at least on a day close to it.
National Sport(s): Football and ice hockey are the two most popular sports in Kagdazka. There is frequent debate about which is more popular within the nation, however, Kagdazka's international presence in both sports is so insignificant that the argument is more or less irrelevant.
Nationality-
Noun: Kagdaz
Adjective: Kagdaz
Population: 10 million
Flag: Kagdazka's wisteria and sea green flag is also the flag of the Kagdaz E/C Party. The wisteria (sometimes mistakenly referred to as either purple or lavender) at the top pays homage to the ancient traditional flag of Kagdazka, which incidentally has been lost. There are theories and rumours about the original design of the flag, but none will ever likely be confirmed. For centuries in the corporate consumerist dictatorship that once ruled Kagdazka, all wisteria items, whether they were flags, bedsheets, microwaves, bicycles, or even flowers, were confiscated and destroyed on sight. (For this and other reasons, the name of this foreign occupier is never uttered in Kagdazka under penalty of death.)
The story of the other two flag elements is much more simple. The sea green at the bottom of the flag is the customary color of the "Dark Green" environmentalist movements from which the Ecosocialist/Communist Party partially draws its origins. The hammer and sickle in the upper right hand corner is of course the emblem of international Communism, a reminder of the proletariat's victory over the irresponsible consumerist upper class from which the Kagdaz have freed themselves.
History: As mentioned above, Kagdazka was until only recently a territory of a corporatist dictatorship. Kagdazka (or District 6, as it was known during occupation), was larger than all the other territories in the nation, but its unfriendly tundra environment left it sparsely populated. The Russian-speaking ethnic Kagdaz minority were nearly the only inhabitants of the territory and this led to apathetic, careless, and periodically even racist treatment by the central government, seated in the extremely heavily populated District 1.
The hundreds-year-old occupation was largely tolerated until the events that took place eight years before present. The closing of all District 6 schools due to "budget shortfalls" led to massive protests throughout Kagdazka. These were mostly ignored until several Kagdaz radicals kidnapped a 6-year-old boy in District 3 and held him for the ransom of District 6 education funding. For weeks it was assumed that the boy was dead, but an audio tape soon emerged that supposedly recorded the boy being tortured. (The boy was never found and it has never been confirmed whether he was actually tortured or not. Rumours have widely circulated asserting that current Kagdaz Chairman Timo Zivkovic was one of the kidnappers. This is also unknown.)
At any rate, a massive invasion ensued. Numerous atrocities occurred, perpetrated by both sides, though the treatment of ethnic Kagdaz occupants of territories other than District 6 is typically regarded by most Kagdaz as particularly despicable. Many were forced to leave their homes and flee back to Kagdazka, though quite a few never made it, as in the case of the Hakharusyy Massacre. The tiny village of Hakharusyy is just over the Kagdaz border in District 5, and its inhabitants were apparently particularly disgusted with the influx of refugees trying to get home. Three months into the war, when a group of about a hundred Kagdaz families passed through, the locals captured the refugees and killed them, most by locking them in a derelict building and burning it down.
The day of the massacre is now commemerated by a national holiday, mentioned above.
The war finally ended with Kagdaz independnce. A controversi election was held in which the traditionally well-supported Communist party (though this support was of course not public during occupation) merged with the anti-industrialist Ecosocialists just hours before the election, though they were ostensibly running against one other. Now it is widely assumed that Ecosocialist Party candidate Timo Zivkovic had planned the move from the beginning and that the whole election was a sham.
The E/C Party now rules as the only legitimate entity in a one-party system. Though supposedly Kagdazka is a democratic country, for most in the international community the use of the term "democracy" as applied to the rule of Chairman Zivkovic rings decidedly hollow. Elections, when they are permitted at all, are a nationalistic propoganda-filled joke.
Notes for the Visitor: While the Kagdaz people are mostly very friendly (to be frank, it is usually way too cold for anyone to summon the requisite energy to be angry), one must note that while democracy is a relative term in Kagdazka, the people mostly do agree with the ruling party's histerical opposition to corporate structure, private wealth, and business in general. Expats, tourists, and foreigners of any kind from capitalist-leaning nations are advised to pick a different destination as deaths have been known to occur.
Kagdazka - a Factbook
Country Name-
Long Form: The People's Republic of Kagdazka
Short Form: Kagdazka
Government Type: Communist dictatorship
Current Head of State and of Government: Timotei Zivkovic, Chairman of the Ecosocialist/Communist (E/C) Party and Supreme Chancellor of the People's Assembly
Official Language: Russian
National Holidays: 18 April (Ecosystem Day), 6 July (The Birthday of the Great Chairman), 2 August (Hakharusyy Massacre Day), 17 October (Harvest Day)*, 22 October (Independence Day)*
* The week of Harvest Day and Independence Day is traditionally the most celebrated on the Kagdaz calendar. In addition to other festivities, the Chairman's Cup final is played if not during this period, then at least on a day close to it.
National Sport(s): Football and ice hockey are the two most popular sports in Kagdazka. There is frequent debate about which is more popular within the nation, however, Kagdazka's international presence in both sports is so insignificant that the argument is more or less irrelevant.
Nationality-
Noun: Kagdaz
Adjective: Kagdaz
Population: 10 million
Flag: Kagdazka's wisteria and sea green flag is also the flag of the Kagdaz E/C Party. The wisteria (sometimes mistakenly referred to as either purple or lavender) at the top pays homage to the ancient traditional flag of Kagdazka, which incidentally has been lost. There are theories and rumours about the original design of the flag, but none will ever likely be confirmed. For centuries in the corporate consumerist dictatorship that once ruled Kagdazka, all wisteria items, whether they were flags, bedsheets, microwaves, bicycles, or even flowers, were confiscated and destroyed on sight. (For this and other reasons, the name of this foreign occupier is never uttered in Kagdazka under penalty of death.)
The story of the other two flag elements is much more simple. The sea green at the bottom of the flag is the customary color of the "Dark Green" environmentalist movements from which the Ecosocialist/Communist Party partially draws its origins. The hammer and sickle in the upper right hand corner is of course the emblem of international Communism, a reminder of the proletariat's victory over the irresponsible consumerist upper class from which the Kagdaz have freed themselves.
History: As mentioned above, Kagdazka was until only recently a territory of a corporatist dictatorship. Kagdazka (or District 6, as it was known during occupation), was larger than all the other territories in the nation, but its unfriendly tundra environment left it sparsely populated. The Russian-speaking ethnic Kagdaz minority were nearly the only inhabitants of the territory and this led to apathetic, careless, and periodically even racist treatment by the central government, seated in the extremely heavily populated District 1.
The hundreds-year-old occupation was largely tolerated until the events that took place eight years before present. The closing of all District 6 schools due to "budget shortfalls" led to massive protests throughout Kagdazka. These were mostly ignored until several Kagdaz radicals kidnapped a 6-year-old boy in District 3 and held him for the ransom of District 6 education funding. For weeks it was assumed that the boy was dead, but an audio tape soon emerged that supposedly recorded the boy being tortured. (The boy was never found and it has never been confirmed whether he was actually tortured or not. Rumours have widely circulated asserting that current Kagdaz Chairman Timo Zivkovic was one of the kidnappers. This is also unknown.)
At any rate, a massive invasion ensued. Numerous atrocities occurred, perpetrated by both sides, though the treatment of ethnic Kagdaz occupants of territories other than District 6 is typically regarded by most Kagdaz as particularly despicable. Many were forced to leave their homes and flee back to Kagdazka, though quite a few never made it, as in the case of the Hakharusyy Massacre. The tiny village of Hakharusyy is just over the Kagdaz border in District 5, and its inhabitants were apparently particularly disgusted with the influx of refugees trying to get home. Three months into the war, when a group of about a hundred Kagdaz families passed through, the locals captured the refugees and killed them, most by locking them in a derelict building and burning it down.
The day of the massacre is now commemerated by a national holiday, mentioned above.
The war finally ended with Kagdaz independnce. A controversi election was held in which the traditionally well-supported Communist party (though this support was of course not public during occupation) merged with the anti-industrialist Ecosocialists just hours before the election, though they were ostensibly running against one other. Now it is widely assumed that Ecosocialist Party candidate Timo Zivkovic had planned the move from the beginning and that the whole election was a sham.
The E/C Party now rules as the only legitimate entity in a one-party system. Though supposedly Kagdazka is a democratic country, for most in the international community the use of the term "democracy" as applied to the rule of Chairman Zivkovic rings decidedly hollow. Elections, when they are permitted at all, are a nationalistic propoganda-filled joke.
Notes for the Visitor: While the Kagdaz people are mostly very friendly (to be frank, it is usually way too cold for anyone to summon the requisite energy to be angry), one must note that while democracy is a relative term in Kagdazka, the people mostly do agree with the ruling party's histerical opposition to corporate structure, private wealth, and business in general. Expats, tourists, and foreigners of any kind from capitalist-leaning nations are advised to pick a different destination as deaths have been known to occur.