[quote=@Inkwell] I understand your points but do have a few to make. For one near Krasnodar their is both oil extraction and refining (I looked on some old resource maps). So that will provide me with some fuel. Also you can make dry stone walls without concrete but I have to admit earthworks would be better maybe. Also transport I was thinking of limiting it to very high ranking officers or government officials so there would only be a handful on the roads (less than 50). All other cars would have been scraped for parts. Also there is a limited rail network in the south so I could use diseal trains but would probably only have one or two. I have to say north of the city of Krasnodar I would probably have it as technically under there control but it is pretty much lawless like the old west. Only a few horse patrols go every now and again. They offer rewards for bounty hunters. My government would probably collect a food tax from farmers which would have them collect a small portion of the farmers crops. Thus keeping the cities feed. For the most part I see my country going back to 1860. However you would see government using what little fuel/resources to have a small amount of technology. But I imagine that by 1960 my country is at the limit of what it can produce and it small pieces of advanced equipment are now beginning to fail. Thus them looking out to the wider world for support. [/quote] The thing with fortification lines is that projects like the Maginot Line took eleven years to build for a relatively wealthy, industrial, non-civil war wrought country like France. If we excused the depth of the line itself, the French built it at 4-5 miles a day over the span of those eleven years for the 943 miles. Geography may be different where you're situated, but the reality of Russia is different with borders less than static. And possessing oil fields and refineries doesn't really imply automatic security in wealth. Simply having it doesn't mean you get the wealth-creation of someone like the Arabs or any large oil-carrying nation. Not only would oil and gas be cheap, but local instability means either no one would want to gamble their investment and put money into the area to develop or maintain those fields until the situation stabilizes, but because other groups may and will need fuel oil and gas that they would also be raiding those locations to either knock them out and deprive you, or seize them and enrich themselves. Places where there is conflict does not mean that there'd be a consistent workforce in the area; either working skeleton hours or abandoning the area all together.