Union of Collectivist Council Republics

The U.C.C.R. officially the Union of Collectivist Council Republics is a socialist state which exists and resides in the Western half of the continent Arith. It is nominally a federal union of multiple national republics, but in practice its government is highly centralised, and controls many of the aspects of the respective Collectivist Council Republics. The country is a one-party state governed by the National Collectivist League, with Melevorgrad as its capital within its largest and most populous republic, the Ceiltean CCR.

The U.C.C.R. has a history spanning long before it's own establishment. Originally being the planned name of a union of states headed by the Pyrrhian Collectivist Council Republic, the project was abandoned following the outbreak of the First Great Alathran War and the subsequent fall of the Pyrrhian Collectivist Council Republic. Following the establishment of the High Kingdom of Ceiltea, socio-economic pressures eventually led to the Folksocialist January Revolution which freed the imprisoned High King and former Pyrrhian General Secretary, Melevor. After the successful completion of the Revolution across both Ceiltea and the occupied Lordship of Yangtzeguo a provisional government was established and eventually a basis of government was formed with the release of Melevor's Collectivist Charter.

Etymology
The Union is comprised of two Collectivist Council Republics, the Ceiltean and Hongseguoan CCRs. The term "Collectivist" is derived from the concept of Collectivism which is the principle of giving a group priority over each individual in, while the "Council Republic" is derived from the original Councils which formed the Pyrrhian Commune - the ancestral nation of the Ceilteans - and the Councils which formed following the January Revolution to govern the nation.

Pre-History of the U.C.C.R.
The concept of the Union was first considered by Melevor during his rule over the Pyrrhian Collectivist Council Republic. His idea was to form a union state with various Collectivist Council Republics centred around Western Arith. This concept was quickly dropped, however, due to the pressures that the First Great War applied upon the young PCCR. Following the defeat of the Alathran Entente, which included Pyrrhus, and the scorched earth policies enacted by the Pyrrhian Politburo the city of Pyrrhus was left desolate and in ruins. After fighting to keep the city out of the hands of foreign elements in the Unity-Luton - Pyrrhus War, Melevor resettled alongside the remaining Pyrrhians in the far West of Artih, forming the High Kingdom of Ceiltea.

Western Wastelands
Prior to the establishment of the city of Pyrrhus and the PCCR, the Western half of Arith was mostly unpopulated and empty, though sparsely populated with various bandit tribes who had used the region for many years as a base to attack into the wealthy Free Cities of Alathra's territories before returning with their stolen goods. These bandits were, however, not natives to this land, and had instead enslaved the local population - which would later become the Pyrrhians and then the Ceilteans - into endless mining across iron and gold rich region. The proto-Pyrrhians lived a basic subsistence, with the majority of food, housing and other basic necessities being hoarded by the bandits.

15 Years of Death
While the suffering of the proto-Pyrrhians was immense, it would only get worse as the Four Piglins (Pestilence, War, Famine and Death) struck the region igniting a 15 year-long series of events which included multiple famines, droughts, bandit conflict and widespread plague scourging the lands. During this time many of the already small proto-Pyrrhian population perished either due to hunger, sickness or death at the hands of bandit warlords who fought throughout the lands for dominance. The catastrophic event ended only after the organisation of a widespread rebellion by the proto-Pyrrhians spearheaded by Melevor and the establishment of the city of Pyrrhus.

P.C.C.R. and First Great Alathran War
With the creation of the city of Pyrrhus and quick development thanks to the command economy implemented and overseen by the ruling Politburo it was not long before an official Pyrrhian nation-state had been formed under the name of the Pyrrhian Collectivist Council Republic. The new state embarked on a campaign to consolidate its position through forming friendships both on the continent of Arith, and also around the world. Before the start of the First Great Alathran War, Pyrrhia had officially signed treaties with the Kingdoms of Arith, the Federation of Arith, the Fossores Republic and the young Arcadian Altanate. With the declaration of war upon the Federation of Arith by the Kingdom of Elyria and the formal creation of the Alathran Entente, the P.C.C.R. joined the war on the Entente's side. The war, infamously, was very short and created the circumstances by which the decision was taken by the Politburo to enact scorched earth policies inorder to leave the city with nothing to be taken by the enemy. This left the city of Pyrrhus in disrepair and created the ruins that the city is today.

Unity-Luton - Pyrrhus War
A year following the desolation of Pyrrhus and the end of the First Great War, there were very few people left in the city of Pyrrhus and so the decision was taken by the joint Kings of the Union of Unity-Luton, Gbhm2 and HawlMGamez, to conduct an invasion of Pyrrhian territories to take the land for themselves. The situation looked bleak for those few remaining Pyrrhians, though mercenaries from the Kingdom of Elyria helped repulsed the invading force and win the war for the Pyrrhians, preserving the city from foreign conquest.

The Long Journey
Following the victory at Pyrrhus the decision was made by Melevor to relocate the Pyrrhian people to a new area in the West. After embarking along the then roadless Arith, after many deaths and many days of walking, crossing rivers and hills, the Pyrrhians arrived at the land which would become the four provinces of Ceiltea.

Wealth and Revolution
Throughout his rule as High King of Ceiltea, Melevor held to his beliefs of old, eventually writing "Wealth - A critique of Alathran Elitism", a book which following the release of Lord Eytelis of Haven's "Socialist Manifesto" prompted the birth of a worldwide socialist movement. The book first released in Melevor's own lands with enormous success with the common people and intelligentsia, but after two weeks was censored and banned by the Collins Government. Fearing the spread of these ideas further, Dedrich Collins - the Prime Minister of the time - imprisoned the High King inside the former Palace of Kings in Ard Saileach.

After it was leaked that the High King has been put under house arrest by the Government, underground socialist partisans which had formed since the release of the book took to the streets with the aid of intelligentsia who had been preaching the knowledge from "Wealth" to the common people in public squares, organised an overwhelming revolt against the Government and filling the streets with angry workers and farmers.

After a small skirmish on the way into the Government district the capital city fell before the masses, who after releasing the High King declared city as "Red Saileach", before sending missionaries to the other cities of the Kingdom to spread the word of the Revolution and to bring the others in line with the new status-quo. In Carrig, the Lord Ronan Carrig after having his bunker stormed revealed that he was, in fact, a long-time supporter of the socialist cause in Ceiltea, and officially handed the town over to the Revolutionary movement and formally renaming to "Red Carrig". While in the Ceiltean occupied Lordship of Yangtzeguo an internal revolt prompted by socialist agitators led to the city government caving to demands and handing control over to revolutionaries and renaming to "Hongseguo".

While the other major cities of the Kingdom were being captured by revolutionaries, those in Red Saileach, under the command of Melevor formed the official "National Folksarmy" or the "Red Army of the Miners and Farmers". This relatively disorganised and mainly peasant-based military force was then sent to capture the ruins of the town of Rafferty along the border with Willowglade, and the small township of Doire, both of which were successfully captured without bloodshed.

The Collectivist Charter
With the Revolution completed, a Provisional Government was established in Red Saileach until Melevor had completed his newest literary work which would serve as the basis for the government of the rising new state in Ceiltea and Hongseguo. While writing this document the Provisional Office of Revolutionary Activities endorsed the socialist movements of the shortly lived Moriean Republic, and Cresvlits.

Melevor publicly released the Collectivist Charter on the 10th of January 2022, a manifesto which serves as the basis both for the ideology of National Collectivism - also known as Folksocialism - and for the new state the Union of Collectivist Council Republics. The Collectivist Charter promoted the nationalism of the new Union, unity between the nations within it, economic and social protections for workers, religions and cultures as well as promoting an authoritarian socialist political and social stance. The main focus of the manifesto was the concept of the "Great Leader Theory" which promotes the new leader of the state as one that is infallible and the ultimate embodiment of the people's will - and thereby is all-powerful.

The Union was established with two Collectivist Council Republics, the Ceiltean Collectivist Council Republic with appointed Folksgovernor Ronan Carrig, and the Hongseguoan Collectivist Council Republic with appointed Folksgovernor KindOfTiger_. Following the formal establishment of the U.C.C.R. the Folkspresidium voted unanimously to rename the city of Red Saileach to Melevorgrad in honour of the Eternal Leader.

Geography
The entirety of the U.C.C.R. resides in Western Arith, with the largest and most populous Council Republic being the Ceiltean Council Republic. The CCCR is between the two rivers of the Saile and the Darach and is covered mostly by forests and jungles with there being two forests and one jungle. There is a small plain to the east of Melevorgrad along the coastline which leads to the ruins of the town of Rafferty and the border between the U.C.C.R. and Willowglade. The second and less populous Council Republic is Hongseguo, which is comprised mostly of forests, rivers and mountains. The two Council Republics are seperated administratively by the Darach River while the city of Hongseguo is settled on the Hongse River.

Ecology
The U.C.C.R. is home to many different forests and different types of plant life including dark oak trees, birch trees, oak trees, jungle trees, bamboo and large mushrooms of both brown and red varieties. While Ceiltea has a jungle, a dark oak forest and a birch forest, Hongseguo has only birch and dark oak forests. The over-abundance of dark oak nearby, with Melevorgrad being on the site of a former dark oak forest, has led to the wood being highly popular for furniture and buildings within the Ceiltean CCR and throughout official government buildings in the rest of the U.C.C.R. The fauna of the U.C.C.R. includes the diverse range of cows, pigs, horses and parrots, with other species such as wolves being introduced from the lands south of Hongseguo as pets.

Administrative Divisions
The U.C.C.R. is divided into two administrative districts, those being the two Council Republics, although the former Ceiltean Administrative Divisions included seats for the four Provincial Lords of Ceiltea, this has been discontinued with the instatement of the Union and the appointment of Ronan Carrig as the Folksgovernor of Ceiltea.

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Towns

 * Melevorgrad
 * Carrig
 * Doire
 * Hongseguo
 * Snowland