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11-25-2017, 02:39 PM
My informants told me that you are close to a country of mine, Nentsia.
Brief background
Nentsia is a small republic, former USR, and its politics was dominated by a figure named Aliaksei Vynnychuk since 1558. He brought stability, both economic and political, but also rampant corruption, cronyism and nepotism. In 1572 he stepped down, having served the maximum number of consecutive terms, but installed a puppet (Stanislav Zhyrovitski) to govern in his place. Heavily manipulated elections, coupled with economic decline, led to the protests of 1573, demanding Zhyrovitski's resignation. In 1576 Vynnychuk announced his candidacy for the presidency once more, promising to return the stability in the country and ending the endemic corruption. The elections of 1577 were heavily manipulated, journalists were intimidated, kidnapped or committed suicide under suspicious circumstances. Vynnychuk won by a landslide, while the opposition demonstrations were brutally crushed by the police. Opposition leader Mikita Marcinkiewicz, present at the demonstrations, was beaten into a coma and since then lives in exile.
In 1584, things went from bad to worse. With the president's health deteriorating, his daughter, Ksenia, ignited an internal power struggle to secure her position as his successor. She had the Vice-president Gavrilenko assassinated and pressured her father to appoint her as new Vice-president. The population, having a long history of hatred against Ksenia - being the embodiment of the corrupt system - occupied the town squares in all the big cities of the country. They demanded the ousting of the entire Vynnychuk clan and free and fair elections. The authorities, taken by surprise, had no idea how to respond. In 1585, with the mass protests still ongoing, Aliaksei Vynnychuk passed power over to his daughter while he entered the final stage of his terminal illness. Upon his death, Ksenia authorized the military the intervene.
The RP is still ongoing, but because I'm lagging behind the actual time its now taking place in the past. This is the topic for the 1584-85 developments: http://board.eternityrpc.com/showthread.php?tid=489
How does the Nentsian govt view Saeard
Likely as a rotten, decadent, potentially hostile and corrupt state. Not because they dislike Saeard, but basically the Nentsian government distrusts any country in the neighbourhood with a better human rights track record. It also has a long history of diplomatic disputes with the saints from Mordvania. Anticipating on criticisms coming from such countries, and on the admiration of Nentsian dissidents confused and misguided deviants, the Nentsian govt prefers to discredit the source beforehand. Other than that, at this point the country is a little too busy to be conducting any kind of a serious foreign policy, other than exporting trucks to Severyane and importing Kalashnikovs.
Brief background
Nentsia is a small republic, former USR, and its politics was dominated by a figure named Aliaksei Vynnychuk since 1558. He brought stability, both economic and political, but also rampant corruption, cronyism and nepotism. In 1572 he stepped down, having served the maximum number of consecutive terms, but installed a puppet (Stanislav Zhyrovitski) to govern in his place. Heavily manipulated elections, coupled with economic decline, led to the protests of 1573, demanding Zhyrovitski's resignation. In 1576 Vynnychuk announced his candidacy for the presidency once more, promising to return the stability in the country and ending the endemic corruption. The elections of 1577 were heavily manipulated, journalists were intimidated, kidnapped or committed suicide under suspicious circumstances. Vynnychuk won by a landslide, while the opposition demonstrations were brutally crushed by the police. Opposition leader Mikita Marcinkiewicz, present at the demonstrations, was beaten into a coma and since then lives in exile.
In 1584, things went from bad to worse. With the president's health deteriorating, his daughter, Ksenia, ignited an internal power struggle to secure her position as his successor. She had the Vice-president Gavrilenko assassinated and pressured her father to appoint her as new Vice-president. The population, having a long history of hatred against Ksenia - being the embodiment of the corrupt system - occupied the town squares in all the big cities of the country. They demanded the ousting of the entire Vynnychuk clan and free and fair elections. The authorities, taken by surprise, had no idea how to respond. In 1585, with the mass protests still ongoing, Aliaksei Vynnychuk passed power over to his daughter while he entered the final stage of his terminal illness. Upon his death, Ksenia authorized the military the intervene.
The RP is still ongoing, but because I'm lagging behind the actual time its now taking place in the past. This is the topic for the 1584-85 developments: http://board.eternityrpc.com/showthread.php?tid=489
How does the Nentsian govt view Saeard
Likely as a rotten, decadent, potentially hostile and corrupt state. Not because they dislike Saeard, but basically the Nentsian government distrusts any country in the neighbourhood with a better human rights track record. It also has a long history of diplomatic disputes with the saints from Mordvania. Anticipating on criticisms coming from such countries, and on the admiration of Nentsian dissidents confused and misguided deviants, the Nentsian govt prefers to discredit the source beforehand. Other than that, at this point the country is a little too busy to be conducting any kind of a serious foreign policy, other than exporting trucks to Severyane and importing Kalashnikovs.