Russian Sociocratic Cantonal Republic

On the Late Revolution in Russia by Edward Pichler

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 Zemsky Sobor which only meets occasionally

-terms of 15 years but elected by the people directly

-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

-aka the "National Salon" which it is structured like

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

-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