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[u][b]Name of Nation:[/b][/u] Peoples' Federation of the Crimea and Its Associated Territories

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The Peoples' Federation is a close-knit federal state consisting of the following non-sovereign states:

The Grand Crimean Republic, with its capital in Sevastopol

The Free State of Adygea, with its capital in Myequape

The Kuban People's Republic, with its capital in Krasnodar

The Autonomous Don State, with its capital in Rostov-na-Donu

The Donetsk People's Republic, with its capital in Donets’k, which is a constituent Republic of the Federal State of Novorossiya

The Lugansk People's Republic, with its capital in Luhansk, which is a constituent Republic of the Federal State of Novorossiya

The Dniprozvychayna Free State, with its capital in Dnepropetrovsk

The South Buh Republic, with its capital in Mykolaiv

The Autonomous City and Territories of Odessa, with its capital in Odessa

The Dunayhirlo Region, with its capital in Izmayil

The foremost legislative body of the Peoples' Federation is the Grand Council of All the Crimean Peoples, which meets at least twice a year in the official Federal Capital of Bakhchysarai. The constituent states of the Peoples' Federation are able to operate their own individual forms of government so long as they conform with Federal legislature. The official head of the Federation is a nationally-elected individual, referred to as the First Minister of the Crimean Peoples. At the moment, the First Minister is Sergey Valeryevich Aksyonov from the Grand Crimean Republic, in addition the head of the Social Crimean Peoples' Party.

[u][b]Military:[/b][/u] The Coalition of the United Armed Forces of the Peoples' Federation of the Crimea and Its Associated Territories is an instrument of the Federal government in Bakhchysarai, and is lead by a meritocratically determined, nation-disregarding Crimean Department of Defence.

-The Peoples' Army for the Defence of Crimea is entirely volunteer based, and employs 25,000 standing men and women. The Peoples' Army is primarily equipped by indigenous constructed Russian-derivative weapons, and is currently in the process of being refitted with a new entirely Crimean arsenal. The Peoples' Army is tasked entirely with defending the integrity of Crimean borders. As such, the Peoples' Army is primarily composed of stationary and mobile artillery units, alongside some recently implemented experimental directed energy and sonic weapons. Mobility is nonessential in the Peoples' Army, and is sacrificed for massive firepower and defencibility.

-The Grand Naval Forces of the Crimean Peoples is the branch of the United Armed Forces that receives the most funding from Bakhchysarai, as well as, due to a Federal Naval Subsidiary Clause passed in 2029, a tributary stipend of funding from each constituent state of the Federation. As such, the Grand Naval Forces are funded well enough to maintain a standing personnel of 143,027 men and women, necessary to protect the lucrative Crimean shipping routes around the world from various pirate and privateering endeavours. These naval personnel are distributed among 108 active duty ships, most of which are distributed along the aforementioned shipping routes, but some of which are stationed in Crimean ports.

-The Crimean Aeronautic and Astronautic Union is not officially a branch of the Coalition of the United Armed Forces, but is still operated by the Department of Defense. A bulk of the Crimean Aeronautic Force, a subset of the Union, is stationed alongside and aboard the Grand Naval Forces. The Union employs 30,000 standing men and women in its aeronautic and extraterrestrial endeavours.

[u][b]Economy:[/b][/u] Crimea operates a massive trade economy, connecting east, west, and every nation in between. The trade centre of Sevastopol was developed recently after the Russian annexation of Crimea and its transformation into an autonomous state. Backed by Russian industry, which was more liberally supplied to Crimea than Ukrainian industry, the Aksyonov administration was able to maintain and create a lucrative trade port in Sevastopol, expanding upon his evolving position as an essentially neutral third party in regards to the Russo-Ukrainian Crisis, and later War. Aksyonov took full advantage of this divide to act as a trade proxy for the west and the Russosphere, which allowed Sevastopol's trade volume to grow exponentially, and even eclipse Amsterdam by the close of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2028. By the start of the Third World War, in which the Crimean Republic under Aksyonov was able to declare its quick independence after the crushing of Russian armies, Sevastopol maintained its position as a neutral commercial and banking centre in the midst of global chaos, even encouraging a lucrative underground arms industry in spite of Crimean neutrality. In addition, the Peoples' Federation maintains traditional Russo-Ukrainian industry, agriculture, and mining operations in Dniprovychayna, Kuban, and the Don Basin. Crimea maintains Ukraine's former position, due to its Donbass holdings, as the 10th largest steel producer among all the nations on the globe. The Dnieper River provides a plethora of arable farmland for Crimeo-Ukrainian planters and farmers to grow a large supply of grain, though not much else. Finally, the Peoples' Federation operates another mandatory tribute to the National Crimean University system to spur research and development.

[u][b]Foreign Policy:[/b][/u] Official foreign policy of non-belligerism, though not official neutrality. The Peoples' Federation maintains clear, cordial relations with a majority of all nations, and has wrested free trade agreements with most of these, as well as an assurance on the openness of the Straits of the Bosporus, Malacca, Gibraltar, and Hormuz, as well as the Panama, Kiel, Suez, and Kra Canals for Crimean-affiliated non-military vessels.

[u][b]History:[/b][/u] The history of the Peoples' Federation in its current incarnation comes with the Russian annexation of the Ukrainian Autonomous Republic of the Crimea in 2014, and the installment of Prime Minister of the new Republic of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov, who now remains the aged but revered Crimean head of state. As Russia continued its vicious proxy conflict with the West, Crimea prospered. Economically, the peninsula attracted a plethora of trade routes, diverting them from Istanbul, Rostov-on-Don, and Odessa, being the foremost trade port in the Black Sea, and eventually all of Europe. While Russia eventually engaged in its bloody conflict with a western-supported Ukraine, Prime Minister Aksyonov, with a great deal of foresight and insight, declared the renegement of the Russian annexation and the independence of Crimea. As a result, while Ukrainian and Russian armies marched back and forth north of the peninsula, Crimea under Aksyonov maintained a no-sail zone, much to the content of regional powers such as Turkey, Romania, and Bulgaria, across the entire Black Sea. While Russia crumbled, Crimea grew ever stronger. The collapse of the Russian Federation and Ukraine in 2028 allowed an opportunistic Aksyonov to prop up a great number of successor republics by immediately recognizing and funding these states. To this day, these Crimean puppet states form the precursors to the modern constituent states of the Peoples' Federation.

It was this puppet network of Crimea that allowed Aksyonov to incorporate these states by promoting and encouraging the signing of a charter of federation in 2030. And by 2031, the Peoples' Federation of the Crimea and Its Associated Territories was born, Prime Minister Aksyonov signing the Charter of Federation in Bakhchysarai alongside officials from Novorossiya, Rostov, and Izmayil. By 2032, Kuban and Adygea, Nikolaev, Odessa, and Dnepropetrovsk had also signed the charter, and Abkhazia was forcibly annexed from a chaotic Georgian state. Thus, by the start of 2033, the Peoples' Federation, ever an island of stability in a sea of chaos, had reached its modern geopolitical boundaries. The only political event worth noting from 2033 to the present was the 2034 International Assurance of Eternal Crimean Non-Belligerence, guaranteeing Crimean recognition, independence, and neutrality.

[u][b]Foes:[/b][/u] Officially, in standing with the Peoples' Federation non-belligerent policy, none. In practice, the (whatever the hell is going to be worked out regarding Russia), due to traditional Russian dominance over these fellow Vostokoslavic peoples, and fears of greater Russian revanchism.

[u][b]Population:[/b][/u] 27,016,724

[u][b]Other:[/b][/u] To be added once a valid global history can be worked out.