Fiction:Chostvan Soyuz (Gigaquadrant)

May the Soyuz live forever! Incoming transmission, comrade!

"Friends of the Soyuz, friends of the people, may the Soyuz live forever!"

- Former Chief Executive Minerva Kukrysrar, speaking in S.Y 1871

The Chostvan Soyuz is a union composed of many species outside of the Gigaquadrant, however the Chostvan Soyuz has a large footprint in the Gigaquadrant, with 1,307 colonies (planets, moons, and asteroids) in the Gigaquadrant. 805 of the colonies are in the Mirus Galaxy, and 502 in the Milky Way Galaxy. Using the colonies as springboards for intervention into the Gigaquadrant (and using them to watch the Glistennaens so they don't try anything for the second time in a millennium), they are a major power and influence in the Gigaquadrant. Under the leadership of Mer Korolyova the Chostvan Soyuz has grown out of its home planets and into a power that rivals many in the Gigaquadrant. Mer Korolyova has lead the Chostvan Soyuz for almost 796 Standard Years now, ruling during many times that were important for the Soyuz, such as 'The Great War', known to most in the Gigaquadrant as 'The Final War'.

The Chostvan Soyuz is also a heavily socialist nation when it comes to economic policies, although the political system is extremely free, with many parties in the People's Assembly voting on many matters, and ruling the Chostvan Soyuz. In the People's Assembly each Assembly representative votes on a matter (mostly following their parties line, or their beliefs if they are an independent) and elections for Assembly representatives take place every four years, however if a representative resigns early (or is incapacitated) elections shall be held before the usual date. Elections for Chief Executive take place every six years, however if one resigns early or is incapacitated elections may be held early. holds the record for the longest time in office as the Chief Executive, reigning from 2008 to today, however Minerva Kukrysrar holds the record for oldest Chief Executive (she ruled from 1871 to 1920, before resigning).

Considered by some to hold true to the national motto, the Chostvan Soyuz shows no sign of stopping, growing every day and having been in a nearly never-ending Golden Age perhaps since the founding of the Chostvan Soyuz. Indeed, may the Soyuz live forever!

Before the Space-Faring Imperium
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As this is not relevant to the Soyuz, please reference the article above.

The Years of the Early Space-Faring Imperium
Before the Chostvan Soyuz, there was the Chostvan Imperium. A sad state, where workers and peasants would toil away for the Chostvan Imperial State under the control of the Imperium. A place where, to be fair, you would emigrate from if you had the chance. A sad and yet solemn place.

And, of course, they had space travel capabilities.

Writing the history before the space-faring Imperium would be ludicrous and take up space, so please do reference the article known as 'Chostva', instead of this, which is a history of the spacefaring history of the Imperium and of the Chostvan Soyuz. Yes, please do leave. Yes, that door there. Yes, that one. No, I'm not misleading you. The door just above where you are reading. Mhm. Leave if you want to read about the pre-spacefaring history, good friend. Leave. Can you hear me? No? Or do you just want to read on? If you do, please, do read on to find out about the early space-faring Imperium, or rather Imperial State.

On the 24th of Octobre (not a spelling mistake you nitwit) S.Y 1648... we first went to space. We had been travelling for years before using the mysterious... stones, but I shall not go into that, and that was travel, not for colonisation and establishing bases as an actual space-faring civilization. The Imperium program sent up the rocket as part of the program. The rocket was not occupied by a lifeform however.

It was glorious. The rocket took off, orbited the planet a number of times, and thanks to advanced technology, it made a completely safe re-entry and what was left of it landed in the Hauptstadt Sea, which was soon collected by the various... shady organisations that aided the Imperium with their endeavours to get into the so-called 'open wilderness of space'. Rather, they aided the Imperium with almost everything, they were the practical secret police and mercenaries of the Imperial State after all. Crowds cheered as they saw the rocket go through the streets of Hauptstadt, being delivered back to the scientific facilities, all while the rebels from the Aout (August) Rebellion were being tortured in a nearby building... and now I shall go into detail on that.

The Aout Rebellion was devastating for the Imperium. Inspired by Syndicalist, Democratic, and Socialist ideals, a number of groups organised an uprising to overthrow the Imperium. They failed, miserably. Miserably in the way they completely failed, and the fact that the people had to put up with the Imperium and Imperial State for an even longer time, with even more brutal crackdowns on revolutionaries, rebels, and supporters of democracy, socialism, and syndicalism in the Imperial State.

Devastating in the way that a lot of machinery was broken and nobles killed. Hundreds of nobles were executed by the Aout Rebellion wherever the Rebellion found them. Nobilities were not being handed out like posters for a circus at the time, they were being handed out like political party pamphlets. That being that they really were rare at the time, and the hundreds of nobles executed made a perhaps more than slight dent in the bureaucracy and noble lineage.

And, a lot of possible future suitable mates for the Kaizhar of the Imperium, which I shall go into in a few parts.

The Rebellion was lead by a number of people, who actually weren't prosecuted. A lot of members were, but the leaders weren't. Mainly because the leaders used quite amusing (but life-saving) aliases such as Signed, a group of politicians who do not wish to stuff their coffers.

That, and the refusal and inability to give up the names of any other member under severe torture due to the close-knit network of cells where most were best friends and the pretend aliases the members of the Rebellion would use to hide away from the Imperium, Imperial State, spies, and sometimes other members altogether because they wanted their identity hidden. Most did.

And so we went to space for the first time with the Imperium program, which has actually been kept by the Chostvan Soyuz, mainly for reasons involving confusion about two programs in two different history books, one named the Soyuz program and the other the Imperium, for example.

The Chostvan Revolution
On the 24th of Novembre, the Chostvan Revolution began. Hundreds of thousands of workers, peasants, and former government soldiers took to the streets, to march on the Imperium building. The Imperium panicked and immediately arranged a charter train to take them to the colonies to wait the revolution out, but all the train engineers and mechanics had ironically joined with the Revolution too. The entire Imperium was captured at the train station at 11:00 in the morning, thinking they were about to board a train.

They were lead onto another train, a train bound for what was then the Imperial Hall of the Arts, known today as the Chostvan National Theatre. They were lead off the train like cattle at precisely 11:14 in the morning, and were herded into the halls. With Minerva Kukrysrar and other leading revolutionaries watching, a flurry of bullets entered the bodies of the Imperium members. The Imperium members had met their fate at precisely 11:23 in the morning, and the Revolution was gaining traction. The entire Imperium was gone, and Kaizhar Menxoshar V, aged twenty-five, immediately ordered a new emergency Imperium to be formed. The only remnant of the old government surviving was Kaizhar Menxoshar V and the Imperial Command members who were visiting Menxoshar the Fifth to present a series of new bills to him, and so they survived. They were also the most important members of the government (like the Executive of the Soyuz), and so immediately helped Kaizhar Menxoshar on forming a new Imperium in a large castle on a lake nearby Hauptstadt, one of Menxoshar's dozen or so residences.

The new Imperium was quickly formed, and they also quickly passed a number of bills, declaring Minerva Kukrysrar and the leadership of the Revolution criminals who had committed treason, offering a large bounty for Minerva Kukrysrar's death alone. Overall, the bounty would have made anyone who had killed the entire leadership an instant billionaire with how much the government was offering. However, the workers, peasants, and former government soldiers refused to take up the offer.

At 13:00 in the afternoon, the castle beside the lake was stormed with the help of disgruntled guards, and Kaizhar Menxoshar V was captured along with the entire Imperial Command. The Imperium had left just before the revolutionaries had arrived, however the newly-formed Imperium was captured near a small village and brought back to Hauptstadt to stand trial, in order to portray the Chostvan Soyuz as being partially civilised with actual trials instead of random murders.

The entire Imperium was found guilty of Crimes against the People by 18:00. All were shot by a number of firing squads consisting of revolutionaries, former government soldiers, and really anyone who could shoot and not be traumatised forever afterwards. At 18:10, Kaizhar Menxhoshar was also found guilty of Crimes against the People, along with the entire Imperial Command.

They would be hung outside of the building where the proceedings took place. Kaizhar Menxhoshar the Fifth begged for mercy and offered the executioner the entire Imperial State if the executioner would spare him. The executioner and crowd laughed. Menxhoshar took over half an hour to die, one of the longest executions in the history of the Chostvan Soyuz. The Imperial Command soon followed to the gallows, taking less time, although some had to be dragged screaming and kicking to the gallows.

Minerva Kukrysrar however, was drinking with fellow revolutionaries at a cafe near the execution site when the executions happened. Minerva had won, and a new 'People's Assembly' and 'Executive of the Soyuz' were quickly formed in order to bring order, justice, and peace to the Chostvan Soyuz. The Chostvan Soyuz had just begun. In the cafe however, Minerva Kukrysrar made an inspirational speech that would eventually become the motto of the Soyuz...

The Years just after The Revolution
After the Revolution, the brand new Chostvan Soyuz inherited a number of things. A large workforce, a beautiful capital city, and random mining and exile colonies splattered all over the place in strategic areas for forced labour and mining. The newly elected Chief Executive, Minerva Kukrysrar, got to work with the Executive of the Soyuz and the People's Assembly to rebuild the Soyuz back up from the rubble it had become during the Revolution that shook Chostva and the colonies. Various economic reforms were enacted in order to ensue maximum economic efficiency for the Soyuz, combined with workplace reforms in order to make a happy workforce, in order to destroy strikes before they had even started.

Workers Self-Management was enacted, allowing the workers of the Soyuz to work safely, happily, and most of all, productively. The Planned Economy with workers autonomy was beginning to gain popularity. Foreign investment policies were also enacted, forcing foreign investors to give the workers a decent amount of time off work and pay, although the Workers Self-Management policies were not enacted in foreign factories and shops, mainly to actually entice investors into investing in the future of the Soyuz rather than turn them away from a willing and happy workforce that needed work.

Minerva Kukrysrar and the Socialist-Revolutionaries were meanwhile getting almost every single policy they wanted through the People's Assembly thanks to their new-found popularity among the population and even many other political parties in the People's Assembly such as the Syndicalists, who particularly liked the idea of Workers Self-Management and the growing trade union influence in the People's Assembly, government, workplaces, and the Chostvan Soyuz. New railway systems, trade routes, and roads were built. Things were going extremely well for the Chostvan Soyuz.

It was also under the Chostvan Soyuz that space colonisation began to be considered seriously. It really was I suppose. Anyway, this part of the Years just after The Revolution chapter shall cover all about the plans to go to space and colonise new planets under the rule of Minerva Kukrysrar and the Socialist-Revolutionaries just after the Revolution which overthrowed the Imperial State, with a lot of Imperium members executed of course, as I have covered already in the previous chapter.

It began with the Voyageur program, for none-core world colonisation, and the Coureur program, for inhabiting more and more core worlds near Chostva itself. Coureur was given the larger amount of funding, of course, as the government saw the core worlds program as more... inviting and productive than the plan to colonise outer worlds under Voyageur. Indeed, many of those core worlds became huge industrial hubs in the 20th Century under many industrialisation plans, although many frontier worlds contributed heavily to mining and trade as well as the benefits of the core colonisation.

We sent the Voyageurs up to space, and I suppose we reaped the benefits of the colonisation! Without it, I dare say the Chostvan Soyuz might not have been a hyperpower like it is today, stretching across the universe! Industry grew during these times thanks to these newly colonised planets. Although, helped the nations power status to grow too later on.

Also in 1871 Project: Minerva was commissioned, a pet project by the military in co-operation with the government in order to create a system to manage the planned economy and run an entirely sapient robot-run system of towns underground, with no contact from the outside world for centuries at a time. The project was approved, and it went into action soon after.

The Beginning of the 20th Century
The 20th Century began with Minerva Kukrysrar still in power, and many celebrations across Chostva and the newly settled Core Worlds and far-flung mining and trade colonies that dotted the area surrounding Chostva itself. The military, aka the Chostvan People's Forces, were a force to be reckoned with as they, thanks to the heavy foreign investment and industrialisation, had many star-cruisers (and so had extremely powerful air support) and troops in the military. Of course, the gigantic workforce and massive population still were there, helping the economy grow and grow along with foreign investment and industrialisation. Things really were looking up for the Chostvan Soyuz, as they were on their way to becoming a power to be reckoned with in many matters. Diplomatic, military, and economic matters all had significant influence by the Chostvans involved.

The 20th Century had begun. Various new social reforms passed through, making the Chostvan Soyuz a hub of free speech, social liberalism, and other appealing ideas to the new generation. Minerva Kukrysrar proclaimed the Chostvan Soyuz to be a 'free nation-state of peace and democracy', with more and more immigrants flocking to the Chostvan Soyuz in search of a better life with freedom to do what they wanted.

The economy was still booming, and the mining colonies were bringing in a large surplus of money, with the Chostvan Soyuz a good place to live. Large amounts of foreign investment begun, with foreign company owners eager to get a slice of the profits from the refinement and mining of various metals, minerals, and other rare resources the Chostvan Soyuz was mining in both its far-flung and close mining colonies. Trade colonies were also a good market, with many trade routes using them as refueling stops, and places to sell goods and stock up on new goods for the journey ahead.

The 1910s
The 1910s were a good time for the nation. The economy was booming better than ever, and the Chostvan Soyuz had settled into the world. It was now an accepted part of the universe, not a revolutionary state that was unwelcome with opportunists in many governments proposing invasion of the Chostvan Soyuz. It had finally become an established state, and Project: Minerva was helping the economy better than ever before. The economy really was booming, with the mining industry growing and growing, as well as hundreds of other industries throughout the Chostvan Soyuz. More and more foreign companies were setting up shop in the Chostvan Soyuz and investing in the Chostvan Soyuz, further protecting the Chostvan Soyuz against international intervention.

The Chostvan Soyuz sponsored a number of revolutions during this time in various places, which all sooner or later joined the Chostvan Soyuz as member states of the Chostvan Soyuz. However, industrialisation was needed in many places, and so Minerva Kukrysrar enacted many industrialisation policies, industralising the various colonies, and helping the new Core Worlds grow and grow.

Nothing really happened apart from economic and colonial expansion. The nation-state of the Chostan Soyuz just grew, and grew, and grew.

Minerva's Resignation & The 1920-1930s
In the year 1920, one year after the 1919 elections, Minerva Kukrysrar resigned, ending her forty-nine year rule over the Chostvan Soyuz forever, although she would still maintain an influence in the Socialist-Revolutionary Party for various reasons including her status as 'Minerva, leader of the Revolution!', 'Minerva, the guiding light of Soyuz who brought us to be a power!', and most of all, Minerva's heavy cult of personality that had autonomously developed thanks to the happy and helpful population, who had voted her into power every year.

The new elections brought in a new Socialist-Revolutionary Chief Executive, called Kohaku 'Nicky' 'Irons' Fanchamush, who immediately set the Socialist-Revolutionary Party towards 'building a better future, with whatever is necessary'. Irons sent the political prisoners and some enemies of the state that he didn't want in prisons to work on the colonies to, in Iron's own words, 'industrialise the colonies and bring about a new state of prosperity', in his talk with Mizzunmee Koktel, one of his close friends and advisers.

In 1921 Irons achieved major popularity for the first time with the 50th Celebrations of the Chostvan Soyuz on the 24th of Novembre 1921. He organised major feasts, firework shows, plays, and other forms of entertainment for the entire population of the Chostvan Soyuz, significantly raising his approval ratings among the civilians for his 'fun-loving ideas'. Alas, these so-called 'fun-loving ideas' did not show later on.

Irons also achieved popularity in 1924, when a number of low-ranking officers planning to overthrow the Chostvan Soyuz were arrested by the 'National Koktel Visionary Divisions', effectively the bodyguards of Irons. They were found guilty of Crimes against the People and executed by firing squad, some in their cells refusing to move. The people applauded the work of Irons and Koktel in flushing out the enemy of the people, and so Irons won re-election as Chief Executive in 1926.

By 1932 the Chostvan Soyuz was prospering, and Irons was still popular among the people. He had set up a practical cult of personality with help from an eager Koktel, who was soon promoted to being Deputy Chief Executive, effectively in power when Irons was not there to decide upon major party and state decisions. Koktel used his power wisely in many cases, and he would later become a diplomat of the Chostvan Soyuz, furthering his sly decisions and relatively intelligent decision-making throughout the international stage whenever he could, and also furthering the will of the Chostvan Soyuz.

Under Irons the ability to make computers self-aware with a consciousness (and without a conscience conveniently) was discovered, with Koktel himself leading the scientific team that had discovered the new capability. Minerva Kukrysrar was the first citizen subject to this, as part of Irons 'keeping the revolutionary spirit alive' plan, on the 9th of Decembre 1937.

Ironically for Irons, Irons died before his scheduled 'upload', scheduled for the 2nd of Juillet 1938. Irons died on the 9th of Avril from a sudden stroke, a few weeks before the election. Koktel formally took control until the election. A solemn funeral for Irons took place on the 2nd of Juillet as a last memory of Irons, perhaps one of the most debated leaders of the Chostvan Soyuz.

After Irons, the Late 30s and Early 40s
Cita Zisrierr, the Agricultural-Industrial Party candidate, won the elections, perhaps because of the unwillingness of the Socialist-Revolutionaries to put forward an actual campaign, as it might have been seen to be disrespectful to Irons. Indeed, the idea of a campaign seemed stupid so soon after Irons and his cult of personality had died, although Minerva tried to press the Socialist-Revolutionary Party to actually put forward a candidate and win. Despite her being the first Chief Executive, 'guiding light of the Soyuz', 'leader of the revolution', and revolutionary hero, the Socialist-Revolutionaries decided to vote against making an actual campaign.

Cita Zisrierr had not expected to win, indeed, he would not win a second term in 1944. Cita Zisrierr decided to only make a few decisions. Under Cita Zisrierr many new roads, railways, and shipping routes were designed and built in order to further the economy and foreign trade. More foreign companies flocked to the nation, and he let many of the political prisoners go free, although the enemies of the state stayed in the colonies until 1943, when they were transported back to prison when he declared that 'the industrialisation of the colonies has been finished now that foreign companies and trade can help them expand without the need for runaways causing crime and terrible things in the colonies'.

Cita Zisrierr passed other reforms, giving foreign companies more rights in order to entice more to come to the Chostvan Soyuz. This eventually backfired, as Cita Zisrierr did not win re-election, almost completely because of this reason, as even his own party turned away from him in disgust for his 'betrayal of the Chostvan Soyuz and the socialist ideals'.

And so Cita Zisrierr did not win the 1944 Elections. Instead, Mizzunmee Koktel won the elections with the backing of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, after a relatively uninteresting legacy from Cita Zisrierr, called 'the most uninteresting Chief Executive', and to be honest, the most forgotten one out of the entire Chief Executive list. A Chief Executive who could have done a lot of change and good, instead he worried about re-election and ended up losing.

Koktel's 40s and 50s
Mizzunmee Koktel took office in 1944, the Fourth Chief Executive to rule over the Chostvan Soyuz after Minerva Kukrysrar, Irons, and Cita Zisrierr. Koktel, having been a diplomat under the rule of Cita Zisrierr (and he would later return to that position after his term was over), had quickly got back into the political scene, although he made no mention of Irons, as the personality cult Irons had obtained, was now dead for various reasons, including political distractions. Irons, was officially dead, and the Socialist-Revolutionary Party chose him as the candidate for Chief Executive after numerous debates and speeches.

He won, with a large percentage of the vote. Irons was being reconsidered however, for his 'deportation of political prisoners' being a bit controversial, and with the huge political and social revolutions happening, Irons, by the first month of Koktel's term, was no longer a relevant force in the government and Socialist-Revolutionary Party, and the name of Irons now had no influence or reactions from the populace. It seemed Irons had died out as a leader after his death.

Koktel wasn't too bothered, as he was an opportunist, and had been opportunistic when he had allied with Irons. Instead, Koktel decided to go about making many changes, pushing the Soyuz in foreign affairs, and staying up all night working and petitioning the People's Assembly for various bills, acts, and laws to be passed. Koktel had a heavy influence, and he was building it up, although he disliked the idea of a cult of personality, saying that 'only the original revolutionaries deserve to be officially honoured, and what is the point of a cult of personality? It is pointless!' in an official party meeting. For this, he was surprisingly applauded, as it seemed even the party had changed thanks to the recent changes in society and the government.

Koktel had more and more influence, and soon he had passed a number of civil rights reforms, as he personally supported many civil rights movements, as well as many movements that wanted changes to the Chostvan Soyuz and society as a whole. Indeed, Koktel was known to many as 'the man that changed the Soyuz for the best', with his reforms making a heavy impact on life throughout the entire Chostvan Soyuz, from the colonies to the Core Worlds where the government worked.

Koktel supported many public projects and infrastructure plans, and also approved a plan to rebuild Hauptstadt completely, with Executive Apartments, brand new government buildings, parks, museums, theatres, and anything else that a cultured capital needed. In Koktel's own words, 'The Chostvan capital, Hauptstadt, shall change from being just a political capital, to a cultural capital and a political capital! And soon, even an economic capital!'. Indeed, the economic capital prediction was correct, as soon many economically beneficial buildings, complexes, and districts were added to the plan to rebuild Hauptstadt. The plan soon went ahead with his approval.

He oversaw the construction of the entire Trans-Chostvan Railway, under National Railways. This project expanded the railway system more than ever before, and expanded the trade potential and freight potential of the railway system, as well as the ability to carry passengers across the entire Chostvan Soyuz quickly, and easily. He also oversaw massive nature reserves and parks, preserving many non-sapient species.

Under Koktel, Project: Minerva was further updated, with brand new sections of the robotic town being built. Many new military bunkers and command centres were also built, in order to further the power of the military, as well as large new components of the fleet, such as flagships, major ships, and other various required components of the fleet. Indeed, the Chostvan Soyuz was becoming a military power, not that it hadn't been before, but it was certainly improving, and extremely quickly too.

In early 1960 however, four years after winning a third term, Koktel resigned from the position of Chief Executive and once more took up a position in diplomacy. A new election was held, and so began the Expansionist 60s...

Expansionist 1960s
In 1960, Prozres Zify became the Fifth Chief Executive with support from Koktel, the previous Chief Executive (the fourth Chief Executive). He was the candidate from the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, and Minerva Kukrysrar had personally spoken out in favour of him, saying he would 'bring the Soyuz to new heights with his expansion program!', perhaps because of Minerva's fondness for the Voyageur and Coureur programs that she had overseen during her twenty-year rule as Chief Executive of the Chostvan Soyuz.

Prozres Zify was heavily expansionist. He did not care about the previously isolationist (in terms of war and that sort of thing) foreign policy of the Soyuz. Instead, he looked to expand the territory of the Chostvan Soyuz, by reaching to more planets and more systems than ever before. BIllions of trained citizens with assigned professions settled the new planets, expanding the Chostvan Soyuz and bringing in a gigantic population boom soon enough. Within a few years the population was soon booming throughout the Chostvan Soyuz.

Prozres had succeeded at the colonial program. Now however, new infrastructure projects had to be enacted. Billions upon billions of jobs were created for those without jobs, with new railways, military vessels, trading ships, and buildings being built across the entire Chostvan Soyuz, with the workforce working hard to accommodate the brand new population boom and colonial expansion that had just been enacted. Prozres was doing extremely well, and his approval ratings were extremely high.

The military was expanded, and so was the trading capacity of the Chostvan Soyuz. Military escorts guarded trading vessels as they set out on trading missions, and more and more foreign companies began to invest in the future of the Chostvan Soyuz, with many new factories and corporation/company offices opening throughout the entire Chostvan Soyuz, bringing the economy to new levels in conjunction with the trading vessels and new trade routes that extended across the entire Chostvan Soyuz.

Prozres would be considered one of the best Chief Executives ever for his colonisation and infrastructure schemes, with Koktel applauding Prozres for his 'cool head and wise plans in revitalising the entire Chostvan Soyuz for the good of the people!'. Prozres would be re-elected in 1966, although he resigned in 1970 after a healthy career with plenty of expansion and infrastructure-building.

The 1970s and Early 80s, More Expansion
In 1970, Prozres Zify resigned, and Mizzunmee Koktel, asked to run by the party a number of times, refused to run for Chief Executive, preferring the world of diplomacy he had happily and heavily integrated himself into permanently. Indeed, Koktel made a speech about his diplomacy. 'Perhaps, dear friends, I do not want to run for Chief Executive? Where would the Chostvan Soyuz be if there were no diplomats? Nowhere my friends, and so I shall stay on as a diplomat for the Chostvan Soyuz, and my mind shall not be changed.'.

And so they turned to a smaller voice in the party. Kuro Reniss had previously served on the Executive of the Soyuz under Prozres Zify as an adviser, and he was well-learned in many subjects, including politics, which made him a prime candidate for the party. He was also expansionist, although not as much as Zify, stressing that 'expansion has already been done, we now need to focus on filling the gaps and mining asteroids!'. Indeed, Kuro Reniss would be known as the only 'Chief Executive to obsess over Asteroid Mining', as to be fair, Kuro Reniss did believe that Asteroid Mining would be the way forward for the economy of the Chostvan Soyuz.

It would work. Thanks to the Asteroid Mining obsession of Kuro Reniss, the economy went to new heights, and many more foreign companies and corporations invested in the Chostvan Soyuz, building factories, opening company/corporation offices, and employing workers across the Chostvan Soyuz. However, Kuro Reniss also implemented a process where only 'companies beneficial to the worker' could invest or build in the Chostvan Soyuz, trying to make the nation a true socialist state.

He had two full terms, and unlike the other Chief Executives who had resigned before their terms ended, Kuro Reniss stayed on until 1982, when his second term ran out. He left office happily and joyfully, having changed the Soyuz for the better with his many bills and acts that had improved the economy.

The Later 1980s, Even More Expansion, and a Second Boom
Mizzunmee Koktel was once more asked to run, but once again he refused. Prozres was asked to run, and he refused. Minerva was asked to run, and she refused. The Socialist-Revolutionary Party was in complete disarray, and finally they gave up, refusing to run for Chief Executive, and instead attempting to control the entire People's Assembly. And so, the National Labourer Association, a loose collection of farmers, workers, peasants, and eco-friendly civilians, took power, with Naneemny Fesoss as Chief Executive.

And so Naneemny Fesoss won the 1982 Elections. In the next couple of years he would change the Soyuz and make some policies heavily eco-friendly, although he didn't do much else, due to the entire People's Assembly being controlled by the Socialist-Revolutionary Party. Naneemny Fesoss immediately pushed new laws, bills, and acts through the People's Assembly, all to do with the environment, and how 'we need to protect Chostva from environmental destruction!'.

Naneemny Fesoss didn't really do much though. Naneemny won in 1988 once more, however in the middle of 1991, the Socialist-Revolutionary Party began to get disgruntled with him not doing anything (although they still weren't ready to take the position of Chief Executive back just yet), and so voted him out of office. Naneemny Fesoss is considered one of the worst Chief Executives ever, having done so much good for the environment, but being too timid and scared to make an actual difference. Real credit for environmental issues would go to Mer Korolyova.

The Early 1990s aka The Syndicalist Five Years
Unsurprisingly, the Syndicalists won the 1991 election. They immediately began to push Trade Union issues, as well as heavy Worker's Self-Management once more. Most of their bills, reforms, acts, and laws passed with help from the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, and so Kozsurr Sho took power as the Eighth Chief Executive, with support from many workers and trade unions.

He pushed many bills and acts through the People's Assembly rapidly, trying to get as much done as possible. Due to this, in 1996, the People's Assembly, dominated by the Socialist-Revolutionaries, voted him out, and finally put their own candidate up for vote...

The Late 1990s & The Second Millennium Begins
Kuro Reniss was brought back. Prozres Zify was also brought back, although he was the adviser to Kuro Reniss now, a twist compared to what it had been like around forty years before. Reniss and Zify began to push many reforms, bills, and acts, mainly to do with labour laws and allowed expansion. They also created many new jobs, with many more new infrastructure projects and state-owned corporation projects being pushed through the People's Assembly at a rapid speed.

Reniss and Zify, at first, had refused to take part in the elections as candidates for the Socialist-Revolutionary Party. However, after pressure from Minerva herself and even Koktel, Reniss and Zify caved in and became the candidates, and they won, of course, otherwise they would not have passed the bills, reforms, acts, etc, infrastructure projects.

And then 2000 hit. The Second Millennium. The time to celebrate. Firework shows, plays, parties, and everything happened across the nation on Decembre 31st and Janvier 1st. Approval ratings shot up for Reniss and Zify, as they had supplied many of these events as part of a public image program.

They won re-election in 2002 and did many more great things for the nation, but in 2008, they resigned, leaving someone new to take up office...

The Late 2000s
Mer Korolyova was twenty-two when she became Chief Executive. She was the youngest, and still is the youngest Chief Executive to have ever taken power as Chief Executive of the Chostvan Soyuz. Mer Korolyova was different from the other Chief Executives, actually chosen as a 'representative of the younger generation' by the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, with Minerva Kukrysrar interfering with every part of the campaign to portray Korolyova as a second Minerva Kukrysrar. Mer Korolyova was portrayed to have the traits Minerva Kukrysrar had, a few of which were actually relatively truthful, while others, such as her portrayed asexuality, were not at all truthful, and instead just propaganda campaigns propelled by Minerva Kukrysrar. Considered by the Socialist-Revolutionary Party to be someone who could 'reach out to the people and finally bring us back to power after our hiatus away from it for so long!'. Indeed, it was Mer Korolyova, the second female Chief Executive, who brought the Socialist-Revolutionary Party back into power once and for all. The Socialist-Revolutionaries were in the position of Chief Executive again, with Minerva Kukrysrar quite pleased with her work running the campaign.

Mer Korolyova immediately began providing more funding to the military, saying it was the only thing between the 'autocrats who face us on the other side and us!'. Indeed, the military grew a lot during the first few years of Mer's campaign, and the government began to take over foreign factories for 'military production use'. A new flagship, the SSV Minerva, was quickly commissioned to be built, and it was built quite quickly, being finished by 2011, and it is still in use today. Many new plasma fighters, laser fighters, and other fighters that could be used were also commissioned, in order to build up the fleet to new levels that really hadn't been seen before, by anyone in the Chostvan Soyuz at all. Mer Korolyova also built up the economy with new industrialisation programs, building up the colonies of the Soyuz even more. Mer's economic and military ideas would later aid the Soyuz heavily during The Great War.

New entertainment buildings were opened across the Soyuz, and Mer Korolyova also ordered that a new 'Executive Complex' for the Chief Executive (which, was really herself) should be built in Hauptstadt, as well as a full renovation of the government buildings, military facilities, office buildings, and anything else in the capital that wasn't already 'suitable for Mer's tastes in architecture', to be fairly honest about the entire project to rebuild Hauptstadt.

Catti, Offshoots, & Close Relatives
Catti=
 * Name - Catti
 * Population - Unknown, too big

The Catti are the species with the current majority in the entire Chostvan Soyuz. While they may be Least Concern, it is expected that within the next few centuries or so, the entire Catti species will have morphed into either genetically-engineered bodies built to house a consciousness after death, and those organically born will be a new 'Chostvan' super-species, with improved body parts such as arms, legs, mouths, and other better versions of current organs, limbs, and other body parts currently on or in the Catti.

This process is also being pushed by Mer Korolyova (who, in theory, is a cross between a robot and a Catti after her Transformation in the 2030s that also reversed her aging to the point of her looking 22 instead of in her 50s), with a lot of funding compared to other scientific programs, or as some lifeforms call them, 'mad schemes that will tear the Soyuz apart!', or even just 'mad schemes that disrupt the evolutionary process!'. One thing that is certain however, is that the Catti in their current state will most likely not exist in a few centuries time, thanks to the Chostvan government. Of course, the Catti really are an eternal species with their current status, and the Catti themselves will never really die out.

The Catti are, overall, the dominant species of the Soyuz, and the only species to have ever had a Chief Executive. Some call this slightly 'speciesist', although considering the numerous factors including the amount of Catti and how many Chief Executives have existed, this may not be speciesist, and instead likely just chance that the Catti dominate the Chief Executive, considering that the Executive of the Soyuz actually has very few Catti in it.

Grox
Chostvan Grox=
 * Name - Chostvan Grox
 * Population - 23,000,000

The Chostvan Grox are perhaps one of the most interesting species of the entire Chostvan Soyuz. The Chostvan Grox are Grox offshoots who joined the Chostvan Soyuz due to various reasons. Chostvan Grox generally have a good life and are mainly concentrated on the Core Worlds, although a few do live in the colonies, and an even smaller amount live in the Gigaqudrantic Territories. Young Chostvan Grox tend to do extremely well in the education system, and getting an excellent job is extremely easy for many of them, and quite a few Chostvan Grox work in the government and judicial system, one even serving on the Executive of the Soyuz, the Executive of the nation that effectively controls the entire nation.

Loyal to the Soyuz as officers in the military, high-ranking members of the civil service, well-known scientists and engineers, and most of all, government members and workers, they are a core component of the Chostvan Soyuz, and perhaps are nothing like 'real' Grox.

Soyuz Core System
Chostva= The planet of is an extremely interesting planet, the native home of very few actually sapient species, but with a lush environment and plentiful amount of non-sapient flora and fauna throughout the entire planet, due to its interesting ecosystem. Many non-native sapient species also live on permanently, as it is the homeworld and capital of the Chostvan Soyuz, a hub for trade, diplomacy, discussion, and politics, the gem of the entire Chostvan Soyuz. The gem of the Chostvan Soyuz indeed.
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There is the megacity of, a megacity that stretches over a wide stretch of land and is home to many, many species and lifeforms. It is also the actual capital of the Chostvan Soyuz, as is in reality just the planet housing the capital. has extremely good public transport, infrastructure, and other necessary public utilities, and un-necessary ones such as parks, which are also in extremely good condition in. Hauptstadt is perhaps the true gem of the entire Chostvan Soyuz.

Koktel= Koktel is not exactly a 'real planet', actually being a dwarf planet nearby, with plenty of industry and shipbuilding yards for the entire Chostvan Soyuz. The SSV Minerva was built in Koktel, as were many other flagships, fighters, and vessels during the 'Reconstruction of the Fleet' in the early 21st Century. It continues to build many ships even today, although now it has many re-fueling facilities, eco-friendly fuel-making plants, and refinement plants across Koktel.
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Andasium




Andasium is a commonly-found-in-some-areas resource that can power a lot of things, which aids the Soyuz on its path to good foreign relations and excellent trade routes and trade deals with other nation-states across the universe. Sold for a decent price to some, a lot of it is sent to Algolurnian refinement facilities, where a small amount of it is then sold (with the profits split) to other nations, although the majority is shared between the Popular Republic and the Soyuz, for the purpose of peace, friendship, and good trade throughout the Nastavnik Pact.

The Planned Economy, and Project: Minerva
The Planned Economy is run almost completely by Project: Minerva, a long and short-range capability command centre that gives orders to all heavy industry across the Chostvan Soyuz. Commissioned in 1871 and still running today (admittedly with centuries of updates to the command centre), Project: Minerva handles the problems of a planned economy efficiently with nearly no problems at all, eliminating the problem of corruption by political commissars commonly seen in other nation-states with a planned economy and socialist government, sadly working against the idea of socialism..

Project: Minerva is a command centre packed to the brim with hundreds of sapient and self-aware robots who manage the planned economy. Long since past the point where they need orders, they manage the planned economy with no organic aid, help, or contact. The building is isolated and beneath the Haupstadt People's Assembly, secluded from the outside world. Even the janitors and workers who help clean and fix up the facility are sapient robots, and the only lifeforms to have stepped inside in the past few hundred years have been mostly non-sapient small lifeforms that are incapable of thought, through small holes. Since then, the sapient robots have built other sapient robots to fix the building up, effectively patching up any holes that were in the original structure, or holes that may have appeared over time.

Project: Minerva is not just a command centre for the planned economy, however. Project: Minerva is a living and breathing project with hundreds of thousands of sapient and self-aware robots producing products in the factories, ironically commanded by those robots in the command centre. Robots raise families of robots, and have gained true emotions over time, yet happily working for the Soyuz as a pet project with robot cafes, robot schools, robot universities, robot cafes, robot bus services, anything in the real Soyuz will be there, but with the sapient robots doing it instead of the (mostly) living breathing organic lifeforms of the Chostvan Soyuz above ground.

DigitalVision Channels in the Soyuz
This is a list of all DigitalVision channels operational in the Chostvan Soyuz, be they foreign, national, or government-owned.

Military (Chostvan People's Forces)
"They thought our damn ships were pirate ships? Personally, I'm more offended by the fact they thought our state-of-the-art ships to be pirate ships, but get me on the line!"

- Chief Executive Mer Korolyova

Capital Punishment & Execution in the Soyuz
Capital Punishment (aka Execution) is legal under the People's Laws. However, very few methods of execution are actually allowed for use. Firing squad (for military use), hanging (for Crimes against All Lifeforms), a bullet to the back of the head (murder, rape, kidnapping), and beheading, used for all other crimes that have not been mentioned. Upon request (that can be denied), a criminal may ask for a different form of execution. The Soyuz uses (relatively) quick methods for execution, however it has been known for those who are condemned to hang to 'hang' around in the air, strangulating for up to half an hour afterwards, as seen in the case with Kaizhar Menxoshar V.

Imprisonment in the Soyuz
Imprisonment in the Chostvan Soyuz is actually fairly decent, mainly because those who have committed worse crimes, generally don't stay in prison, instead being held in holding cells before their execution starts. The government attempts to rehabilitate prisoners who under the 'Korolyova Laws' are considered 'suitable for rehabilitation. There are a number of major prison facilities across the entire Chostvan Soyuz, housing criminals. Political prisoners (convicted of Political Crimes against the People) are not sent to normal prisons, instead they are sent to various facilities for (mainly) rehabilitation if they are believed to be suitable for rehabilitation, and those who are not suitable for rehabilitation, are usually sent to labour camps for the 'industrialisation and good of the Chostvan Soyuz!'.

The prisons and rehabilitation facilities are relatively good for inmates (or prisoners) compared to some other prisons around the universe. They have DigitalVision sets, various fun activities, and other things to do while they are being rehabilitated. On the other hand, labour camps are not so humanitarian as the prisons and rehabilitation facilities.

Allies
"May you also live forever, gallant allies!"


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Friends
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Neutral
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Disliked
"Do not stay long. The air of Hauptstadt is not suited for the likes of you."


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Enemies
"You shall be crushed, and your people integrated into the Chostvan Soyuz under the hand of friendship once we have dissolved your nation-state."


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