General Canon Summary (For RP)

Official Name: The Rational Confederation of Northern States (RCNS)

TL:DR Encompassing Siberia, Mongolia, North Canada, Alaska and Greenland; the RCNS is a power to be reckoned with. The political system and military are equal to those in Forestrian Canon and the country is a secular, progressive and highly scientifically advanced power.

Government: Federal Technocratic Republic
Capital: Ulan Bator
Population: 23 million

History:

• During the purge of native Americans, Sioux, mohawk and Iroquois exilees form the Indian Republic in the Northern Canada and annex Alaska after a seven day war with Russia.

• During the Russian civil war the Czechoslovak legion and allied forces that came to assist it liberate Siberia, funding an independent state.

• During the Stallinist purges, many scientists, artists and philosophers come to Siberia where they become the ruling class.

• The Indian Republic, Siberia and Mongolia unite under a federal Constitutionin 1935 to counter the Soviet, Japanese and American threat;

• During WWII the newly established Confederation repeals Japanese attacks due to scorched earth tactics and a strategy of mobile warfare based on that used by Finland during the winter war. Japan is invaded and becomes a puppet state, China is split between the communist and nationalist factions;

• The Confederation is the first to send a human to space in 1956, the Confederation sides with the European Federation amid the cold war between the European Federation, North American Union and Soviet Eurasiatic Directorate;

• Current year: 1980;