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Russian Tsardom
Russkoye tsarstvo

Capital

Moscow

Government

Federal Constitutional Monarchy
Nicholas IV (Tsar)
Filippa Stepanova (Prime Minister)

Legislature

Russian Senate
Imperial Council (Upper House)
State Duma (Lower House)

Population

100,468,755

Area

16,642,715.27 km2

GDP

$168.33 billion

Currency

Russian ruble (RUB; ₽)

The Russian Tsardom (Russian: Russkoye tsarstvo), commonly called Russia (Russian: Rossiya) is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area and encompasses nearly one-eighth of the world's inhabited land area. Its population of 100.47 million is one of the largest in Europe. Russians, though not Slavic by birth, are the largest Slavic group in the world and their language is the most spoken Slavic, and second-most spoken native language in Europe. Russia borders Finland, Karelia, Ingria, Livonia, Estonia, Courland, Lithuania, Poland and Ruthenia in the west, Circassia, Georgia, Dagestan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the Heavenly Kingdom, Japan and the Free City of Vladivostok in the south.

History

Before the Slavs came about, what is now Russia was populated by many ancient civilisations. Greeks came about and brought classical civilisation to trade emporiums. Goths and then Huns ruled between the 3rd and the 4th centuries CE. Following the Goths and the Huns, a Hellenistic polity ruled in the south. Huns, Avars, Magyars and many other nomadic civilisations of Turkic origin passed the Russian steppes to greener pastures. One of the longest-standing were the Khazars who ruled the lower Volga basin between the Caspian and Black Seas until the 10th century. Slavs came to Russia beginning in the 7th century. This arrival coincided with the arrival of the Varangians, Vikings extending from the eastern Baltic to the Black and Caspian seas. Varangians established their own states in what is now Russia, such as the Principalities of Holmgarth. Hrothric and his descendants, mainly Ingvarr and Sveinald, subdued the East Slavic tribes, destroyed the Khazar Khaganate and established the Kievan Rus'. The Viking settlers slowly assimilated into Eastern Slavic culture but wiped out more of the native Slavic population, creating the modern Russian civilisation. The Kievan Rus', in particular during the reigns of Valdemar the Great and Jarisleif the Wise, took Orthodox Christianity, brought about the Russkaya Pravda and constituted the Golden Age of Kiev.

As feudalism was brought to Russia, so did decentralisation and dynastic infighting. The Rurikid dynasty tore the Kievan Rus' asunder and created many small-states. The Rus disintegrated in the Mongol Invasion of 1237-40. Kiev was destroyed and half the Rus' were wiped out. The Mongolic invaders, known as Tatars, founded the Golden Horde, which ruled southern and central Russia and held the western principalities as vassals and tributaries for two centuries. It was here that Galicia was made Polish. Though many Russian principalities fought for dominion, it would be the Grand Duchy of Moscow, initially a vassal of the Tatars, who became ascendant. Moscow reunified the Rus' lands and expanded Russia. The times of unification were difficult: Tatars raided frequently, agriculture was non-existent thanks to the Little Ice Age, plague was frequent and war often. Still, the Russians, commanded by the Moscuvites, consolidated the whole of Central and Northern Rus. After Constantinople fell, Ivan III of Moscow married Sophia Palaiologina, the neice of the last Byzantine Emperor, and his descendant Ivan IV ("the Terrible") crowned himself the Tsar of Russia in 1547.

Politics

Constitutionally, Russia is a federal state under a constitutional monarchy though in reality it is as close to an autocracy as a European state can come close to. Its Head of State is the Tsar of Russia (Russian: Tsar' Rossii). The Russian throne passes by male-preferred primogeniture where a woman will inherit if there are no men on the immediate line of succession. Nikolai Karolovich Romanov holds the throne as Nicholas IV, while Grand Duchess Theresa Vladimirovna is his heir presumptive. The Tsar retains some prerogatives historically belonging to the Emperors and Tsars of Russia, such as an absolute veto over all legislature, state, dissolve and reinstate the State Duma and retain command of the Russian Armed Forces. Meanwhile the Government of Russia is administered by a Council of Ministers, made of 21 Ministers and one Deputy Prime Minister and chaired by the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is appointed directly by the Tsar at the advice of the Russian Senate and is usually a member of one of the two chambers thereof. The Prime Minister serves at the Tsar's pleasure and can be sacked of his office at any given time. The Prime Minister holding office now is Filippa Stepanova, a politician from the far-right All-Russian Motherland Party (Russian: Vserossiyskaya Partiya Rodiny), "Rodina" for short.

Lawmaking is done through Russia's bicameral legislature, the Senate of Russia (Russian: Senat Rossii), a bicameral body divided into the Imperial Council (Russian: Soviet Tsarskiy) and the State Duma (Russian: Gosudárstvennaya dúma). Though both bodies elect their members through universal suffrage and a secret ballot, these elections are not held at the same time. Rather, the Imperial Council's 113 members are elected on a state-wide basis, with each of Russia's provinces, governorates and oblasts electing their own representatives, while the Duma's members are elected from 308 single-seat constituencies. The Senate makes, amends and repeals laws, it sets the budget and the military size, decides on taxes and has the right to hold the Council of Ministers to account. Russia is an exception among bicameral legislatures as its Lower House is the more powerful of the two chambers.

Russian is the official and national language of Russia. There are many minority languages in Russia, namely Ruthenian, Tatar, Lithuanian, Polish and Belarussian. None of these languages have any form of protected or recognised status.

Demographics

Russia is one of the world's most sparsely populated and urbanised countries and had a population of 100.46 million according to the 2020 census, which rose from 98.12 million in 2010. It is the third most populous country in Europe and the world's 8th most populous country, with a population density of 6.03 inhabitants per square kilometre. Apart from a short period from 1978 to 1990, Russia's death rate has exceeded its birth rate since the conclusion of the Second Great War, something that has been described by analysts as a demographic crisis. The total fertility rate across Russia is 0.9 children born per woman, one of the five lowest fertility rates in the world. Thecountry has one of the oldest populations in the world as well, with a median age of 40.3 years.

Russia is a multinational state with more than 190 ethnic groups in its borders. 80.9% of its population are ethnic Russians, a Slavised North German ethnocultural group, while the other 19% of the population are minorities. Tatars, Ruthenians, Bashkirs, Chuvash and Chechens make up 8.4% of the population and are collectively the largest minority groups. The other 10.6% are diverse Indo-European, Turkic or Finnic peoples. Due to the wartorn and destabilised nature of the state, there is a substantial diaspora of Russian people abroad, with 46 million Russians living in other countries, namely Louisiana, Ruthenia, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, New Holland and even China.

The Eastern Orthodox Church is Russia's official state church and the monarch and all personnel of the government and legislature have to follow that religion. According to official records, around 71% of the Russian population are Orthodox Christians. Meanwhile 1% are Catholic and up to 7% are Protestant or follow "other" Christian Churches. 15% of the population are godless, 10% are Mohammedans and 1% follow "other" religions. Foreign estimates believe however that these numbers are inaccurate, and that 41% of Russians follow the Eastern Orthodox Church, up to 48% of the state are godless and that Mohammedans make more than 20% of the population.

Economy

Russia has a mixed economy with enormous natural resources, particularly oil and natural gas. It has one of the lowest GDPs and GDP per capita among all nations, with a nominal GDP of $168.3 billion, which makes for $1,675.44. The economy is controlled by a small number of absurdly rich individuals who control the land and industry. The agriculture makes for 53% of the economy, with industry following along at 38%. Service makes for a measly 9% of the economy, and it is mostly in some wealthy cities such as Moscow and Tsaritsyn. Russian exports are worth $55.5 billion dollars a year, mostly being raw petroleum and natural gas, metals, wood and wood products and a wide variety of military manufactures. Most of Russia's exports go to the Heavenly Kingdom, one of the few states willing to trade with it. It imports much less as few are willing to trade with it, standing at $5.3 billion, mostly machinery, pharmaceutical products, foodstuff and petroleum products which it buys from the same countries that it sells its raw petrol to.

Five-eighth of the nation's labour force work in Russia's farmlands, standing at 1,265,267 square kilomters of cultivated area. Due to the harshness of most of Russia's landmasss however only 13.1% of its land is agricultural and only 7.4% arable. Grain occupies more than half of Russia's farmlands and is its main farming produce. Other crops grown are barley, buckweat, oats, rye and sunflower seed. One-third of the sown area is devoted to fodder crosp and the rest of the farmlands are devoted to vegetables and fruits. Due to its large coastling along three oceans, Russia maintains a large fishing fleet, which helps it produce one-third of all canned fish, one-fourth of all fresh and frozen fish in the world. Most of Russia's factories and nearly all of its industrial sector is used to build weapons of war: tanks, missile systems, ships, firearms and aircraft are produced and used both domestically and internationally by many pariah states and nonstate actors.

Railway transport in Russia is mostly under control of the state-run Russian Railways. The total length of railway tracks exceeds 87,157 km. There's some 1,452.2 thousand km of roads and there's 102,000 kms of inland waterways. Russia has 1,218 airports, though the only one that's in any way busy is the Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow. Novorossiysk along the Black Sea is Russia's largest port. Though Russia has large reserves of uranium and other nuclear fuel, it is not a nuclear state and attempts to build reactors or prosecute research on that front are often met with hostile response from the world's Great Powers.

Military

The Royal Russian Armed Forces , Russia's Armed Forces, are under command of the Russian Tsar, their Commander-in-Chief, though daily dealings are overseen by the Minister of War on the civilian and a Chief of General Staff on the military side. The Armed Forces are divided into the Royal Ground Forces, the Royal Russian Navy and the Royal Aerospace Forces. There are two independent arms of service: the Strategic Missile Troops and the Airborne Forces. Russia has an active personnel of 1,014,000 and a reserve force of 2,000,000. It is mandatory for all male citizens between 18 to 27 to serve for seven years in the Armed Forces. Though it is a large military, it is considered by most to be a paper tiger, in part because its military expenditure stands at $11.3 billion (6.7% of its GDP).

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