[quote=@Lone Wanderer]
1. [b][u]Nation Name:[/u][/b] Socialist Republic of Voskiya

2. [b][u]Head of State:[/u][/b] Premier Dominik Luczynski, 44

3. [b][u]Political Alignment during the Most Atrocious War:[/u][/b]  Entered the War a [color=lightblue]Pact Nation[/color]. Ended the War a [color=gray]Neutral Nation[/color] following the Winter Revolution of 1915. 
 
4. [b][u]Culture:[/u][/b] 
The great experiment, a nation of socialist principle and theory forged within the harsh anvil of war and winter. The butcher's bill of the Most Atrocious War stands tall, amidst the millions of lives claimed by the 6-year war can states and nations be counted, the Voskiyan Commonwealth was one such casualty. Faced with a buckling front and internal unrest, the blizzards of the 1915 winter oversaw more then just to near collapse of the Commonwealth's allies in the Pact of Unity but the utter collapse of the Voskiyan Commonwealth to discontent rebels and parties of the radical left during the Winter Revolution of 1915, and the subsequent formation of the Socialist Republic of Voskiya from the ashes. Following it's ascension, the new worker's state was quick to end it's involvement in the Atrocious War and instead sought to centralize it's rule while the world continued to turn upon it's axis and tear itself to pieces for a further four years. 

The Voskiyan Republic has existed for a mere 4 years though in that time the new government has been swift with the implementation of Socialist theory. The first nation to adopt a planned economy, the production and distribution of goods were centralized and to be directed by the new government on the behalf of the people with the nationalization of industry, the collectivization of agriculture and the elimination of free trade and private enterprise. In 1916 it was also established that Voskiya was to be a secular state, with religion being incompatible with the spirit of scientific materialism following a decree that forbade the public teaching of religion though accepted that citizens may teach and may be taught religion privately.

Culturally the Socialist Republic is distinct. A state of socialism and secularism in an age of monarchs and capitalists. The worker's state enjoys an age of relative freedom and experimentation as the new Socialist Republic seeks to discover it's own unique culture and society. As encouraged by the central government, a variety of trends, be it in art or literature, in numerous schools, some traditional and others radically experimental have proliferated under the new government, with an extensive interest by the state in the burgeoning film industry as a means to communicate with the masses. 

Such is life in the young Socialist Republic of Voskiya as it seeks to forge it's own identity and power in the post-war world. [/quote]

[b]Accepted[/b].

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