[quote=@Pepperm1nts]
That's a much better draft than the one you showed me in the PM. My only concern is the size and stability of your claim, but that is mostly a nitpick. In the last version of PoW, the Caucasus as a whole were a near-lawless stretch of land controlled and fought over by warlords, with only small areas here and there that were relatively in order. I personally really liked that, because it added to the chaos in Russia and made for some really cool posts when Vilage and Evan had characters pass through there. I even made a post there once when I played as Germany, and portrayed the area as a warlord-controlled territory as well. 

Another thing worth mentioning, is that the Caucasus have historically been pretty unstable, with a lot of ethnic and religious strife. In a world without a powerful Russian counterweight to all that, I can only imagine it'd be worse, which makes it hard for me to picture a state as stable as you describe (even with the organized crime bit).

Otherwise, I think the app is fine and I like that you referenced a lot of the stuff that I mentioned in my app. But like I said in the PM the first time, I'm going to leave it up to Aaron and Vilage 'cause I'm not that knowledgeable when it comes to that part of Russia. If they think the size and stability of the state is fine then I have no objections.

EDIT: Although I think Georgia should definitely be independent.
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Not to be a party pooper, but...

When we went through designing the map, Aaron mentioned wanting everything South of Volgograd to be that chaotic, micro-state mess. It's why I had to revamp the map so many times, actually.

Edit: Yeah. This is what the area was like in my original fracture-design.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/7HCkKrn.png[/img]

And this is what it became after Aaron asked me to break it up more.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/X6FWABx.png[/img]

Edit edit: Of course, I'm not the final say. Just letting you know it's something our mighty overlord mentioned wanting.

I also feel your pain, as somebody who originally was going to play a Moscow-based government.