Statistics

Name - Российская Социократическая Кантональная Республика (Russian)
Continent - Europe/Asia
Capital - Petrograd [St. Petersburg]

Administration

Head of state and government - Chief High Administrator --------
Legislature - Zemsky Sobor
President of the Zemsky Sobor -
Moral power - High Council of Sociocracy, Science, and Positive Philosophy
Chief High Sociocrat -
Additional bodies - Financial Assembly
President of the Financial Assembly -
Judiciary - High Council of Judicial Administration
Chief High Judicator -
Form of government - Federal republic under a democratic sociocratic solonic constitution
Form of law - Cambacérès Code
Demonym - Russian

Geography

Area - 16,931,856 km^2
Largest cities
-Moscow - 17,501,000 (city), 24,172,000 (metro)
-Petrograd - 12,538,000 (city), 17,314,000 (metro)
-Vartanyansk [Krasnoyarsk] - 5,421,000 (city), 7,826,000 (metro)

Demography

Language - Russian
Population - 268,351,000
Density - 15.85 /km^2

Symbols

National festival - Emancipation Day (May 28) - celebrating the declaration of the abolition of serfdom (1902)
Anthem - Prinesi yubiley (Принеси юбилей; Bring the Jubilee)
Motto - Любовь – наш принцип, порядок – наша основа, прогресс – наша цель

Flag

-bottom part comes from old Russian flag -top part is from Ideology > Sociocracy -green for humanity -initials of "Love is our Principle, Order is our Basis, Progress is our End", motto of Russia # Government -established under an order of Ideology > Sociocracy

-national government headquartered in Morozov Palace
-which was placed on what was formerly the Winter Palace before its destruction in Young Russian Revolution (1902-8)

High Administration

-headed by the Chief High Administrator
-who has near-absolute power over the National Administration
-only restricted by the National Salon which only meets occasionally
-terms of 15 years

-High Administration
-consists of Chief High Administrator at its head
-below them High Administrators of Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture
-each of whom directs role of, and corporations within, their specific economic sector

Zemsky Sobor

-legislative power is held by Zemsky Sobor
-elected for terms of ten years and members non-renewable
-staggered into two classes
-members allocated across the cantons with total 1126
-with delegation of one-fourth appointed by Chief High Administrator with full voting powers
-except on impeachment and Chief High Administrator elections
-meets in its legislative capacity only two times a year
-to revise and approve or reject administrative decrees
-and otherwise is merely consultative in its weekly meetings
-aside from:
-holding referenda on removing Chief High Administrators at a three-fifth margin every five years
-adding new Chief High Administrators

High Financial Assembly

-separately financial power is held by the High Financial Assembly
-elected for terms of five years
-only meets one time a year to approve of budgets and revise accounts for the year

Judicial Administration

-judicial power is held by a Judicial Administration
-only separated from executive after the end of the recent military junta

High Council of Sociocracy, Science, and Positive Philosophy

-separate "moral power" is held by a High Council of Sociocracy
-managed entirely separately from the rest of the state
-has special constitutional state stipend to manage itself
-co-optation of scholarly officials in these councils
-top-down has a system of Cantonal Councils of Sociocracy
-runs school system
-including a special system of Sociologic Academies who train Administrators
-also runs hospitals and medical system
-also runs libraries
-also administrators appointed from it
-also runs grand meeting houses which serve as headquarters for all districts
-series of elected bodies with full eligibility for all citizens
-and they elect people up the board all the way to the council which is headed by High Administrator

-High Council of Sociocracy headquartered in the Free Economic Society buildings
-and heads the Free Economic Society, which is a grand learned society of elite scientists and philosophers
-accused of serving as a sort of deep state
-but in fact it's pretty open and its sessions are open
-additionally manages foreign affairs through a specially appointed bureaucracy

Cities

Rank	City	Canton	City proper	Metropolitan population
1	Moscow	Independent city	17,501,000	24,172,000
2	Petrograd	Independent city	12,538,000	17,314,000
3	Vartanyansk	Independent city	5,421,000	8,826,000
4	Odessa	Odessa	3,249,000	6,494,000
5	Kharkov	Kharkov	4,131,000	6,032,000
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-Odessa booming because it's main Russian port on Black Sea
-and because Kiev devastated by Young Russian Revolution (1902-8)
-Kharkov got forcibly Russified

Colonies

Russian America

-now Republic of Alaska

Manchuria, Mongolia

-nominally a run by their protectorate of the Qing
-but practically Trans-Siberian Railway going through it means it's under Russian control
-with a lot of settlers sent to it
-annexed by China in Russo-Chinese War (1893-9)

Siberia

-there's been a fair bit more settlement of the more temperate parts of Siberia here
-as well as a fair many serfs who escaped northwards

Sagallo

-formed by Cossack trader fascinated by Orthodox Abyssinia and achieves Russian recognition
-in 1878
-expands into something bigger as part of Russian desire to make Abyssinia a protectorate
-against French expansionism
-becomes trade hotspot and its arms trade makes it highly important for Abyssinian statelets
-with Begemder's expansion towards it being motivated by control of Russian arms
-concludes with the Yejju Ras of Begemder expanding his kingdom
-makes himself effective ruler of most of Abyssinia
-and war with Shoa ending with it conquered in 1892
-all of this makes newly unified Abysinnia a Russian protectorate
-continued arms being necessary to keep it cohesive
-then with Young Russian Revolution (1902-8) Sagallo is very Tsarist
-and this results in its administration willfully becoming an Abyssinian vassal
-and Russian (Cossack) elite troops being part of its brewing state cohesion

Jever

-technically a lordship in personal union
-now Empire of Jever

Diaspora

Russian Pacific diaspora

-after Russo-Chinese War (1893-9) millions of Russian settlers in China forced to flee
-giant wave of refugees in particular after fall of Vladivostok
-huge numbers of refugees to Pacific seaboard of North America
-San Francisco gets a huge Little Moscow
-additional large numbers of refugees in Port Townsend and in St. Genevieve
-and in Alaska
-Cossacks settle far into Interior
-additionally a lot of Russian refugees move to Republic of Australia
-with its recent conquest of New Zealand the Russian refugees buy up some land there and make their own settlement
-following Recessions > Panic of 1911 a lot of Russians forced out because they're blamed for taking jobs

White Russian diaspora

-following Young Russian Revolution (1902-8) defeated monarchist White Russians forced to flee
-a lot of this occurs eastwards
-many move to Empire of Jever