Infobox

Equality, Progress, Human Dignity

Flag of Astana-Anders

General Information

Capital	Omni City
Largest City	Omni City
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Official Language	Astanai English
Recognized Language	Veoannish
Demonym	Astanai
Population	1,096,198,007
Area	2,896,001km2

Government

Classification	Federal parliamentary Republic with Executive Presidency
Lord President	Damien Thomas Noahs
Federal Chancellor	Cameron Brisbane

• Legislature: Parliament of the Republic
  • Upper House: Parliamentary Senate
  • Lower House: Parliamentary Assembly

Establishment

Declared	4 April 1917 AD
Recongized	14 Nov 1925 AD

Other Information

• GDP(nominal): 22.6 trillion Lien / Per Capita: 109,850 Lien
• Human Development Index: 90.8
• Currency: Lien (LI)
• Timezone: Astanai Time (ATC+1)
• Calling code: +772
• ISO 3166 code: AR/AAT
• Internet TLD: .aat

Overview

Astana-Anders, officially the Federal Socialist Republic of Astana-Anders or FSRAA, is a country within the northeastern portion of the continent of Dissopoloforia, a part of the region commonly referred to as the Highsteppe. It is bordered to its south by the nations of both the National Republic of Veoannia and the Workers Republic of Veoannia, and to its northeast by the Coastal kingdom of vale. To its southeast alongside oceanic borders with the Nordic Ocean to the northwest and the North Meridian Sea to the southeast. It is currently 2,896,000 square kilometers and has an estimated population of around 700.096 million citizens. It is a federal semi-presidential republic with 16 subdivisions called "Provincial Communes", with 16 self-governing communities called "Autonomous Communes" in each of Provincial Communes, alongside a semi-autonomous "Omni City Federal City Commune".

Astana-Anders was first unified as a nation under the leadership of King Ivar-Morgan in 1354 following a series of long military campaigns known as the Unification Wars. After this, the nation would be ruled under a series of imperial houses that ruled under a repressive feudal regime. After the annexation by the Kkhanoese however, numerous revolutionary and republican groups formed in opposition both Kkhanoese and Imperial rule. This would culminate in the Astanai and Veoannish Revolutions, which would last from 1914 to 1926, resulting in the establishment of a socialist one-party state under Dimitri Kier and the Socialist Republicans, which would end in 1935. Afterward, the nation would experience numerous political upheavals, though largely remaining socialist during this time period. That was until 1986, following a constitutional crisis, the nation would become capitalist under the rule of the People's Conservative Party, marked by outpouring violence of the independence struggles in Veoannia, known as The Struggles. This would end in the aftermath of the 2015 election, showing the return of the socialism under Joseph Vargas and his successor, Fide Thomas Rush, but this has been drawn into question with the election of the conservative President, Damien Noahs, in the 2025 election.

Astana-Anders is a vastly wealthy country, with one of a high standard of living and fast economic growth and development, alongside massive scientific and economic achievements, such as becoming one of the few nations to become fully nuclear-powered and abandoning cars in favour of full-scale public transportation, helping to grow from 361 million in 1925 to 700.09 million, with an GDP per capita of rate of nearly 109,850 Lien and virtually non-existent unemployment and poverty. In spite of this, its contemporary history has been marred with large-scale political instability, as well as ethnic divides between the predominantly White Astanai population and other national minorities.

Etymology

Astana-Anders comes from one of the only pieces of culture before the Empire was founded. The name comes from an old myth which tells the tale of two individuals, Ivan Astana and Irene Anders came together to marry and give birth to the people of Astana-Anders.

The standard way to refer to a citizen of Astana-Anders is as an "Astanai", though it can change depending on individuals, who often can identify primarily on ethnic lines, such as "White Astanai" or "Veoannish.

History

The Pre-Imperial Era

Astana-Anders was once a collection of independent tribes from various cultures that (most likely after the year 400) became more complexed city-states, kingdoms, empires, duchies, protectorates etc. While on occasion they warred and battled with one another, the mostly remained in relative peace and tranquility. Often times, trading, marrying, and befriending another. In fact, before the Unification Wars, over 40 nations existed in that area alone.

The Empire

In 1323, Arch-Prince of the Serene Empire of Vera, Ivar-Morgan, married a queen of another powerful nation, merging to the two nations together and making him the supreme authority. He then annexed four smaller city-states and kingdoms towards the south, north, east, and west. In 1329, he proclaimed himself King of the Ancient Land of Astana-Anders and the Imperial Throne and changed the nations name to the National Empire of Astana-Anders and ordered all nations to unify under his banner.

This angered all other leaders, especially his main rival, Autocrat Justus Paine III of the Holy State of Telrgan, forged an alliance with other anti-AA nations and declared war with Ivar-Morgan. The first war lasted for 3 years before an armistice was called which lasted for 2 years before the 2nd war started again, lasting 4 years, this was a huge defeat for the anti-AA alliance with them losing half of them allies before another 5 years armistice. The final war lasted for 6 years before Ivar-Morgan himself lead a crushing blow against alliance forces at the battle of Porter Heights. The following treaty soon allowed Ivar-Morgan complete and utter rule over the region.

On August 18th, 1354, King Ivar-Morgan declared the Empire of Astana-Anders, uniting the entire Astanai population under a single banner. Under his successors, most notably during the Ernst Age, in which there was numerous advancements in technology as well as starting the Golden Dawn cultural movement, which was focus on melding what remained of Astanai culture with radical philosophical ideas and arts, helping to introduce the Gothic arts early on in Astana-Anders. Afterwards however, under the House of Auguste following the end of the War of Astanai Succession due to Ernst III lacking any heirs, the Empire fell into an economic slump due to administrative mismanagement coupled with numerous shakeups in international trade, most notably concerning Trondelang, which led to further resentment against the heavily burdened peasantry and the ascendent merchant classes, in which Auguste of the Dark Horse would use to usher in a civil war known as the War of Rebellion in 147, the first used of widescale gunpowder use in Astanai history, leading to large-scale destruction of the nation, only ending 1472 under Fredrick-George I, the son of the victor, Alexander I, in which he and his successors began to further develop trade relations and Astanai military strength.

This would culminate under King Eamon, also known as Eamon the Supremacist, who successfully conquered Veoannia in the Veoannish-Astanai War in 1543, which was done to help re-established the economy following the Great Plague, which devastated the empire from 1490 to 1529. This allowed for widespread exploitation of the Veoannish population, which greatly helped to boost its economy. As a result, his successor from 1546, King Octavin, would lead the charge for several other attempts at colonization, including in warring United Kingdom of Miotia-Candor (State), Coastal kingdom of vale in the Second Bombard War, North Electrica (Nation), Chylif and evenKjanu (State), resulting in the large scale development of the military alongside increase urbanization to support it alongside increased international trade, but with these projects failures and further constrains on the social classes led to various large-scale public revolts against the monarchy following Octavin's death in 1575, in the Rising of the Classes from 1575 to 1581, and the even more widespread Black Ten Years from 1590 to 1600.

Following this, underneath Joseph II and subsequent successors, initiated the Renewal Age, resulting in large scale improvements in agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, administrative bureaucracy, and especially, financial capital, coming from increased reform from international trade developments. This would lead to the development of the Astanai Stock Market, opening in Omni City in 1610 and the development of joint-stock companies, alongside the merchant-class becoming a powerful economic class within the economy. These developments would later become crucial for the development of capitalism in Astana-Anders under King Maximillien-Octavian in 1682, which led from the shift from medieval feudalism towards Astanai Capitalism.

With this the development of capitalism strengthening both the older aristocratic families alongside both the nouveau riche and the upper class of the developing middle-class, would lead to unprecedented industrialization due to strengthening both heavy industry and international trade, kickstarting the Industrial Revolution under Johnson I of the House of Griffin-Ryder, which overthrew the former House of Weiss-Ambers in 1773. With this came the invention of factories, the watts engine, steam and gas-powered trains and ships, alongside other developments helped to modernize and strength the economy, but wreaked havoc on the vast majority of the population, alongside the newly created working-class in urbanized areas, causing large scale public dissatisfaction with the monarchy, leading to a deepening of tense relations that would explode following a deadly massacre in Hournesol, 1861.

With the development of the black market led to the development of both liberal-radicalism and socialist thought, leading to the formation of secret societies and paramilitary organizations dedicated to societal change. As a result, the largest of these groups would coalesce to form the Organization of Astanai Revolutionaries and its militant wing, the Citizens Revolutionary Army, under the early Marxist Jagger Berliner, starting the CRA Insurgency, in which from 1861 to 1910, which helped alongside the newly formation of trade unions, Veoannish independence organizations, and popular dissatisfaction with Monarchial rule helped to bolster the CRA's might, which allowed it to nearly take Omni City in 1881, leading to the overthrow of King Richardson-Stephenson in favour of King Fredrick-George II. However, by 1886, due to military strategy and the assassination of upper leadership, the OAR had lost much of what it had gained and by 1890, was reduced to a small territory in Ruvlenko.

Its final defeat would come following the success of Operation: Burning Bridge in 1902, in which the CRA had successful destroyed numerous government installations across Astana-Anders, leading to a massive counter-offensive, resulting in what was left of the CRA to be destroyed unilaterally by 1910 under Berliner's successor, Ulyesses Charleston. That same year, the Empire of Astana-Anders officially became apart of Kkhano, in which King Fredrick-Geroge II remained King due to peacefully ceding sovereignty to Kkhano

The Astanai Revolution

Gallery of the Astanai Revolution

In 1900, Dimitri Kier founded the Socialist Party for an Astanai Republic (SPAR) along with fellow revolutionary, Devin de Blue. Dimitri was born in 1862 to a poor family of farmers in the small town of Lower Savon. In his young adulthood, he traveled toNovoroyska (Nation). There, he was radicalized by the Bolsheviks and Vladimir Ulyanovisk and eventually headed back to start the armed struggle against the government.

Five years after Dimitri founded the SPAR, the government launched a massive raid on its chapters and headquarters, executing over 200 people, including Devin de Blue and his childhood crush, Rossa Sasha Neilson. Dimitri escaped to North Electrica where he was able to partner with like-minded exiled revolutionary, Irene-Rei de Cosgrave (and eventually dated and married her). He then returned in 1908 and established the Socialist Republicans along with its armed wing, the Astanai Republican Volunteer Army (ARVA).

In 1915, a recession happened which further crippled the economy. The government instead of helping out citizens, cut back even more on the already extremely budgets of vital services like healthcare and welfare. In response, massive protests rocked the country. At this time, with over 900 thousand members, Dimitri launched a rebellion in late August that same year in the capital. The rebels held a portion of the city and were able to galvanize the populace before having to abandoned it after 3 months of siege and street combat.

Following the street fighting, this was just enough to rally the people so much that in April 1917, along after a surprising victory by Republican forces at Dongras, the people stormed the Imperial Palace alongside Dimitri and other republican soldiers and killed King Fredrick-George II.

However, confusion arose following the Titel Peace Accords were signed in 1921, in which gave Jadefall the mandate to occupy Astana-Anders following the War of the Third Coalition against the Kkhanoese Empire as Astana had sold arms to various Third Coalition members to prevent the possibility of an annexation by the Kkhanoese. Both sides sent representatives in secret to talk concerning the Accords. Jadefall came to the decision to simply occupy Astana-Anders but to not intervene in the fighting or pick sides and vowed to leave in 1925 when its occupation would expire.

The war did not end however, as on the same day that Dimitri declared the Socialist Republic of the Union of Astana-Anders, the prince, Ernst IV, in his vacation home at Eskyesburgh along with other escaped noblemen, declared himself the new King of the National Empire and organized the National Monarchist Army to combat Dimitri's now reorganized Astanai Republican Army. The ensuring civil war lasted for another year before it ended with a decisive Republican victory at Hallsburgh. This resulted in Prince Ernst IV signing the Treaty of Serene Bridge in 1925 following a ceasefire mandated by the Jadefall Empire, in which Prince Ernst IV formally abdicated the throne and any and all rights to the throne and permanently dissolved the Empire.

The Socialist Republic Era

Following the victory in the Astanai Revolution, the Socialist Republic of the Union of Astana-Anders was formally established and recognized by the wider international community, but was forced to deal with a constitutional crisis early on, in which the Socialist Republic of the Commune of Veoannia, led by the Veoannish nationalist, Aleksandra Chevonne, was denied independence by the Assembly of the Republic, even though Dimitri himself supported the independence movement. As a result, he was forced to put down ensuing rebellion, resulting in the exile of Aleksandra Chevonne in December 1926, to which he was able to give Veoannia de facto independence. During and afterwards, Dimitri began to formally consolidate popularity considerably by initiating the First Four-Year Plans, directly inspired by Feodore Ivanov's own First Five-Year Plans Novoroyska (Nation) to rapidly industrialize the FSRN, he himself modeled his own after it, though instead within the confines EPSR, though with greater state involvement, helping to radically reindustrialize the economy, alongside further achievements of the APSR, which were partly inspired by Chevonne's own development model.

Following Dimitri stepping down in 1930, the Party Collective Conference elected senior party member, Ivan North Cosgrave, as both Party Secretariat and President. Following this, he'd continue Dimitri's suggested policies but was largely unable to bring unity within the party and larger society, leading to conservative party elements led by Flora-Rossamaire Eire Tristan, ending one-party rule in 1935, resulting in a multi-party democracy. Following this, she would be elected President in 1938, with her attempts at establishing a more market-based economy inspired by social democracy leading to further political unrest, in which she would eventually be assassinated by Astanai ultranationalists in 1940, leading to Henryk Charles Rome, leader of the Legion of Nationalists and former political boss of the newly found People's Conservative Party, to declare himself head of state

Henryk would soon quickly be overthrown in 1941 by Issac Turner O'Masters, who attempted to re-establish a one-party state under the SRs, but was also overthrown by Enoch Williams in 1942, who instead re-establish the previous 1935 Constitution, allowing the return for multi-party democracy in 1943, with the SRs returning to power under Acurd Immanuel Hall. Acurd, alongside his successor, fellow SR leader, Aleskandra Silas-Corbin Vogel, would help to usher in the Fiery 40s and 50s, a period of immense social and political expansion and growth accompanied by great cultural and scientific advancements via the mobilization of mass organizations and state-owned enterprises, cementing SR rule during the period.

However, a growing conservative backlash and a popular desire for high quality commodities that the Fiery 40s and 50s, alongside a factionalized SR led to the election of Augustine Ohlin Davis of the PCP in the 1963 General Election following the death of incumbent moderate SR President Gregory Percy Fowler. Such a movement would also resurrect the once dormant far-right, which was increasingly being led by Octavian-Amon Felix Roman and his underground organization, the National Renaissance-Pro Fatherland Front. Despite a leftist counterreaction, Augustine Ohlin was able to solidify support by pleasing moderate leftists and the right, until he was caught in a s*xual abuse scandal and forced to resign in 1966, leading to his successor, Martha Emilia Nove, of a minor right-wing party to become President, with her attempts to solidify control forcing her to be ousted in 1968.

Blair Jonas Weiss of the SR was then elected as President under a Dimitrist platform, alongside countering the resurgent far-right under the NRPFF, leading to his eventual assassination in 1970, leading to the 1970 Civil War, in which the NRPFF attempted to establish a powerbase. The war would claim both heads of each side, with Weiss' successor, Hall Fraser Acker, being killed by a car bomb in 1972, alongside Octavian was assassinated by BlackFox agents just 3 days earlier. The war would also see Veoannia attempt to formally declare independence in 1971, leading to an informal alliance under Acker and later his successor, Johan Prim, to ally with the NRPFF to crush the attempt and place Veoannia under strict military control. Eventually, Octavin's successor, Ion Joanne Reed, would surrender in 1973 and fleeing to exile, ending the civil war.

After a 3-year provisional government under Johan, the brother of Blair Jonas Weiss, Augustine Frost Weiss, was elected as President on the SR ticket in 1976. His administration would cement much of modern Astanai society, including the abolition of cars and the complete transition towards a mostly nuclear-powered energy sector, leading to gradual economic development.

The Conservative Era

In spite of the success of the SR, the party was deeply divided following the death of Gregory Percy Fowler, especially in regard to Veoannish independence, and thus, was split during the election, leading to the PCP to return in 1984 under Johannes Hans Lagos. Johannes' policies of social corporatism and law and order helped to consolidate popularity amongst an increasingly violate economy and Veoannia, in which leftist and rightist nationalist forces were militant vying for independence, in what has now become known as The Struggles. With popular support, he was able to force controversial policies, leading to a constitutional crisis in which the leftist opposition attempted to oust him, only to then be suppressed following a public revolt in 1986. With that, he'd establish a market-economy alongside a liberal democracy, with the PCP becoming the dominant power, as the SRs took a more centrist turn.

Successive governments after his 2 5-year terms ended in 1994 would attempt to consolidate popular support, but was increasingly met with more organized opposition, especially as light industry came at the price of heavy industry and living standards. This, alongside an increasingly violent Veoannia, in which the leftist National People's Organization of the Liberation of Veoannia and the ultranationalist Insurgent Army of the Fatherland vied against both government forces and the NRPFF to secure independence, leading to large scale uprisings throughout the 90s and 20s, as the government attempted to repress calls for democracy and independence.

This decreasing public support came to a head following the signing of the Veoannish Negotiations Agreement in 2000 under PCP President and leader Ian Craig and subsequent successor, August Keyes, in which in 2008, in which Veoannia was able to elect Bridgette Coleson, a left-wing nationalist, as Governor, defying government ideals and attempting to further independence. This, alongside an increasingly unstable economy as a result following August Keyes' death in office in 2009 led to the election of William Waters Rivers, a hardline conservative, in order to attempt to restore party unity and public unity by massively reducing state bureaucracy and increase law-and-order policies

His attempts to do so were met with large-scale public resistance, with his attempt at revoking Veoannia's right to petition for a referendum on independence to the federal government caused a massive public revolt in 2012, with Governor Bridgette using the opportunity to formally declare independence as a result. The subsequent Veoannish War of Independence destroyed the PCP's and Waters' popularity, with a leftist SR returning to office under democratic socialist Joseph Vargas in the 2015 General Election, with Rivers being arrested for attempting to stop the transition of power.

Geography

Astana-Anders is located within the north-east of Dissopoloforia, with a total area of 2,896,001 kilometers (1,799,492 mile²), sharing borders with both the National Republic of Veoannia and Workers' Republic of Veoannia to the south and the Coastal kingdom of vale, with the Nordic and North Meridian Ocean to its northwest and southeast respectively.

Astana-Anders' highest point is Mount Crest in Keteria Provincial Commune (7,011m (23,002ft) above sea level), with its lowest point being The Bayou, an area of mudflats at the estuary of the Dissopoloforian River at Sharon Habour, Ruvlenko (-56m (183ft) below sea level). Typically, the nation itself tends to be very flat. In spite of that, both the Northern alongside the Southern provincial communes typically have mainly mountainous and rocky regions with green panoramic vistas. River Anders, the nation's longest river at 1,110km (689.7m) long, rising in Adaro Provincial Commune in the south and flows all throughout the rest of Astana-Anders, with a confluence with River Continental at Hournesol and ending in Vangravan Provincial Commune.

The nation's lush vegetation, a product of its mild climate and frequent rainfall, earns it the sobriquet the Emerald Highsteppe. Overall, Astana-Anders has a mild but changeable oceanic climate with few extremes. The climate is typically insular and temperate, avoiding the extremes in temperature of many other areas in the world at similar latitudes. This is a result of the moist winds which ordinarily prevail from the southwestern Nordic Ocean.

Precipitation falls throughout the year but is light overall, particularly in the northeastern regions. The northeast tends to be wetter on average and prone to North Meridian storms, especially in the late autumn and winter months. These occasionally bring destructive winds and higher total rainfall to these areas, as well as sometimes snow and hail. The areas of midwest Onculand and Zaultia have the highest incidents of recorded lightning annually for the nation, with lightning occurring approximately five to ten days per year in these areas. Adaro, in the south, records the least amount of snow. Whereas Leniziria, in the northwest, records the most. Inland areas are warmer in summer and colder in winter. Usually around 40 days of the year are below freezing 0 °C (32 °F) at inland weather stations, compared to 10 days at coastal stations.

Demographics

Population

The latest 2024 census counted a total of 1,096,198,007 inhabitants, a stable increase from 1,096,171,356 from the 2023 census report. Astana-Anders overall ranks as the most populous nation in both Dissopoloforia and the Highsteppe, with it being the 3rd most populous globally. Its population density is currently 166 persons per square kilometer of land area, making it one of the densly populated nations in the world as well, well above the average of 50 people per square kilometer. The population growth rate in 2020 was an estimated 1.03% annually, with a birth rate of 25.9 live births per 1,000 inhabitants and a mortality rate of 1.4 deaths per 1,000 inhabitants. Since 2020, the crude net migration rate has ranged from four to up to ten immigrants per 1,000 inhabitants per year.

Astana-Anders, in spite of having a relatively low fertility rate of 1.75 per household, has a relatively young population, with the proportion of people under 15 being an average of 30%, above the healthy average of 28%, with the proportion of people over 65 being a rather small 5%, also below the world average of 7%. Astana-Anders has one of the lowest infant mortality rates globally, with a fertility rate of 1.75 per woman, significantly lower than 7.0 per woman in 1925. The median age is 27.1 years with life expectancy at birth being 89.6 years, one of the highest in the world. LGBTQ+ people are significantly normalized within Astanai society, becoming one of the first nations globally to not only decriminalize same-sex relations in 1930, but also full-scale legalization of same-sex unions and marriage in 1955 and 1969 respectively.

Religion
(See also: Catholicism in Astana-Anders)

Religion of Astana-Anders

Astana-Anders is a heavily secular country in which freedom to religion is a constitutional right. The current national policy on religion is based on the concept known as laicism or religious rationalism, in which there is a strict and clear separation of church and state under which the government and public life are kept completely secular, detached from any religion, with currently no exception given to this policy. In spite of this, according to the 2024 census report, currently the vast majority of Astanais identify as Harman Catholics, at 70%, making it the nation's largest Catholic population. Overall, 75% of the nation identifies as being considered Christians, with 2.5% identifying as Protestant, 2% identify as Independent Catholics, and the remaining .5% as being unspecified. With this, it also has one of the world's largest Irreligious populations, with over 20% of Astanais claiming to be Agnostic, Atheist, or any form of not practicing any religion. 2.4% then identify with Islam, 1.9% with the Veoannish based religion, the Goețaí Diaigna (Religion), and the remaining .7% identifying with any other religion.

Catholicism has had a unique history in Astana-Anders relatively to other predominantly Catholic nations. Historically, it was the Catholic Church that was instrumental in centralizing smaller states and helping to unify Astana-Anders under Ivar-Morgan, to which he then established it as the nation's state religion. However, tensions arose when Ivar-Morgan, and his successor, Ernst I, repeatedly asserted power onto the Church by inserting favoured clergymen into positions and repressing dissenting priests, especially under the 1st Patriotic Terror. As a result in 1366, when Ernst I made a petition to ask for the beginning of the sanctification process for his father and a venerated Catholic priest, locally referred to as St. Dominic, the church refused. Leading to Ernst I declared the current papacy an "anti-pope" and separated to form the Astanai Catholic Church, which took the Harman Catholic Church's place as the state religion, with Ernst I and all successor Kings of Astana-Anders being declared Pope of the Church.

This changed dramatically during the Astanai Revolution, in which the Astanai Catholic Church splintered between factions in support of the Monarchists and the Republicans in 1918, following the death of Fredrick-George II. Following the Republican victory in 1925, the Assembly of the Republic passed the Government Religious Policy Act (GRPA), which aimed at greatly reducing the role of the church and in some cases, de-Christianisation, aspects of society, in which iconoclasm stripping the churches of statues and ornaments. Following a small revolt, Dimitri instead enacted the Religious Policy of the Socialist Republic (RPSR), which rolled back policies of State Atheism, instead establishing the
aforementioned principle of laicism.

To this day, the government is prohibited from recognizing specific rights to any religious community. It recognizes religious organizations according to formal legal criteria that do not address religious doctrine, and religious organizations are expected to refrain from intervening in policymaking. As a result, neither political parties cannot campaign on issues relating to religious policy either. In spite of this, the government in numerous times throughout modern history has directly intervene within church affairs and policy. Most famously was the Harman-Astanai Catholic Reunification, a process from 1944 to 1950, in which the government helped to facilitate and mediate talks between the Harman and Astanai Catholic Church, eventually leading to the reunification of the two churches, with the Astanai Catholic Church becoming under the Harman Catholic Church once more, ending 584 years of ecclesial independence.

Health

The current healthcare system, known as Universal Federal Health Enterprise (UFHE), was instituted in 1925. UFHE is a single-payer compulsory social insurance plan that centralizes the disbursement of healthcare funds. The system promises equal access to healthcare for all citizens, and the population coverage had reached 99 percent by the end of 2004. UFHE is mainly financed through premiums, which are based on the payroll tax, and is supplemented with out-of-pocket co-payments and direct government funding. Low-income families, veterans, centenarians, children under three, and catastrophic diseases are exempt from co-payments. Co-pays are reduced for disabled and low-income households maintain 100 percent premium coverage.

Early in the program, the payment system was predominantly fee-for-service. Most health providers operate in the private sector and form a competitive market on the health delivery side. However, many healthcare providers took advantage of the system by offering unnecessary services. In the face of increasing loss and the need for cost containment, UFHE changed the payment system from fee-for-service to a global budget, a kind of prospective payment system, in 1955.

The implementation of universal healthcare created fewer health disparities for lower-income citizens in Astana-Anders. According to a recently published survey, out of 3,360 patients surveyed at a randomly chosen hospital, 75.1 percent of the patients said they are "very satisfied" with the hospital service; 20.5 percent said they are "okay" with the service. Only 4.4 percent of the patients said they are either "not satisfied" or "very not satisfied" with the service or care provided.

Largest Cities

Politics

Government

The Federal Socialist Republic of Astana-Anders is defined by the Constitution of the Astanai Republic (2016), as a federal parliamentary democratic republic with an executive presidency. Federal legislative power is invested in the Parliament of the Republic consisting of the upper house, the Parliamentary Senate, who are elected in single-transferrable voting system. And the lower house, the Parliamentary Assembly, which are voted in direct elections by the lower provincial legislatures, in a system generally inspired by the soviet model. The current political system is defined by the aforementioned Constitution of the Astanai Republic, which became the constitution following the 2016 Constitutional Referendum under Lord President Joseph Vargas. Amendments typically require a two-thirds supermajority from both the Parliamentary Senate and Assembly, the fundamental principles of the constitution.

The Lord President of the Republic, currently Damien NOahs, is the head of state, but unlike other parliamentary structures, acts more so of the role of a Prime Minister, exercising executive power through the Cabinet of Secretaries, whilst also serving as the commander-in-chief as well as the representative during diplomatic affairs. As such, the Lord President is directly elected by the population and requires a super-majority within both Parliaments in order to govern, making the office directly responsible to Parliament. The Lord President then appoints the Federal Chancellor, which is the official head of government, which is then approved by Parliament, who oversees the daily sessions of both bodies.

Since the establishment of the republic in 1925, Astana-Anders has been heavily dominated by the Socialist Republicans, now called the Party of the Socialist Republic, with it being the sole legal political party from 1917 to 1935, before multiparty elections took place following a constitutional referendum, with 13 heads of state being a member of the PSR. Since then, however, they have generally competed with right-wing parties for power, formerly under the People's Conservative Party, which was the dominant party from 1985 until 2015, in which the PSR came back to power and the PCP was dissolved, with its successor, the National Union Party, being the dominant opposition party since then, with smaller parties either forming junior coalition parties with the PSR or supporting the conservative opposition.

Law

The judicial system of Astana-Anders is a civil law system divided between courts with regular civil and criminal jurisdiction and administrative courts with jurisdiction over litigation between individuals and the public administration. Astanai law is codified is based primarily on a mixture between elements of older Imperial Astanai law as well as a larger degree, civil law. The court system for civil and criminal jurisdiction consists of local courts, regional appellate courts, and the Constitutional Court. The administrative branch of justice consists of administrative courts and the Federal Administrative Court. In addition to the regular courts, there are a few special courts in certain branches of administration. There is also a High Court of Impeachment for criminal charges against certain high-ranking officeholders.

Administrative Divisions

Map of Astana-Anders

The FSRAA is constitutionally a federation divided into 16 areas called Provincial Communes. Each Provincial Commune has its own constitution and is largely autonomous in regard to its internal organization. In recent years however, each Provincial Commune now has their own semi-autonomous area known as Autonomous Provincial Commune, which generally exists inside of the larger Provincial Commune but is largely for a designated ethnic minority. They are then divided into 2,862 Municipal Communes.

Foreign Relations
(See Also: Foreign Affairs Secretariat)

Astana-Anders historically has primarily concerned itself within Dissopoloforia and Glestonoph, with few exceptions, keeping itself mostly out of foreign affairs for much of its history, with some few exceptions, such as the Anterian-Novoroyskan War (1938 - 1945). This changed following the Conservative Era in the 80s, in which it sought closer ties with economically advanced nations, such as United Kingdom of Miotia-Candor (State), The atlas archipelago, and Feng Dynasty, seeking investment and tourism, alongside military aid during The Struggles. This changed yet against significantly following 2016, which again sought a re-balance of foreign relations. Reinstating strong ties with Grenopia (Nation), Novoroyska (Nation), and Ovstylap, alongside traditionally leftist nations, whilst seeking stronger ties with the World Union (Faction), to the point of seeking membership.

Military
(See Also: Astanai Republican Army)

Astana-Anders' military, the Astanai Republican Army, is organized into the Astanai Republican Armed Forces (ARAF) and the BlackFox - Military Secretariat (BFMS), the Astanai Republican Air Forces (ARAF), and the Astanai Republican Naval Forces (ARNF). Additionally, the Astanai Republican Army is supported by the Federal Militia Organization (FMO), the Astanai Coastal Forces (ACF), the BlackFox - Cyber Intelligence Secretariat (BFCIS), and the Astanai Republican Mechanized Forces (ARMF). At 290.4 billion Lien, it has one of the highest military expenditures, with over 9.48% of the GDP. Historically, military expenditure averaged around 4% of GDP, but in recent years, especially following the 2022 Military Reform Act.

As of January 2022, the ARA has 438,170 active personnel and 65,160 civilians. Reservists are available to the armed forces and participate in defense exercises and deployments abroad. For a brief period from 2022 to 2023, military service was compulsory for men at age 18, but this was officially suspended in November 2023 and now all service is compulsory. The role of the ARA is described in the Constitution of Astana-Anders as defensive only. But after a ruling of the Constitutional Court in 1994, the term "defense" has been defined not only to include protection of the borders of Astana-Anders, but also crisis reaction and conflict prevention, or more broadly as guarding the security of Astana-Anders anywhere in the world. As of 2017, th Astanai military has about 3,600 troops stationed in foreign countries as part of international peacekeeping forces, including 900 apart of the Intercontinental Commonwealth - Unified Military Command.

Economy

Federal Stat Planning Assembly HQ, Omni City

At over 22.1 trillion Lien, Astana-Anders has one of the largest economies in the world, and currently the third highest GDP in Dissopoloforia, behind The atlas archipelago and North Electrica respectively, with it also having one of the highest GDP PPP in Dissopoloforia, behind both North Electrica and Anteria. In recent years, economic growth has largely expanded due to ongoing economic reforms under incumbent Lord President, Lord Thomas Rush, in which from 2015 to 2023, the economy grew by over 6.8%, making it as well one of the fastest growing economies in the world as well. Its citizenry as well ranks as having one of the highest GDP per Capita globally, with the average Astanai making 109,850 LI annually.

Traditionally a hub for international trade, throughout the 20th century, the nation began to close itself from outside trade, with exceptions from allied nations. From the 1980s onward, there was a dramatic uptick in international trade, with it becoming the fifth-largest exporter and third largest importer of goods. Following protectionist policies under Joseph Vargas, the country once more reopened international trade in the 2020s, retaining its place as the third largest importer and becoming the fifth largest exporter goods. Its major trading partners include Novoroyska (Nation), Ovstylap, United Kuzikstan (Nation), Quziq, Grenopia (Nation), and recently, other members of the Intercontinental Commonwealth, including Estland-Iskalot and Gundun. Since the 1970s, foodstuffs alongside rubber and plastic products are currently the most imported commodity, whilst iron, machinery, and recently thorium have become the country's largest export. Because of the political nature of the country and the demand by workers for self-management, multinational companies either avoid employing Astanai labour or enter the market because of production efficiency and recent economic reforms.

In 2022, the private-public sector was estimated to constitute 71.6% of the economy, with central government and state-owned enterprises accounting for 10.9% and the local government accounting for the remaining 17.5%. Considered a postindustrial economy with the service sector constituting 60% of the GDP, Astana-Anders maintains an industrial power, producing a significant portion of the worlds steel, ships, vehicles, and electronics, alongside thorium, textiles, and pharmaceuticals.

Though laws may vary depending on both enterprise and industry, minimum annual leave with pay varies, although the average ranges between 16 - 20 days. All workers outside the realm of emergency paid leave on five days out of the years. Paid family leave is a universal right among all enterprises and women how belong to a family and are a part of the Registry of Labour are granted a stipend and maternity package for their childbearing from the federal government. The Labour Registry is considered the highest honour among the working-class and has been a source for the nation's high workforce productivity, to which alongside it ranks among near the top. Workers within Astana-Anders are documented as to have the highest rates of job satisfaction, with job control and positive work atmospheres being the main contributors, causing a healthy work-life balance, with an eight-hour work week, though it is not based on an hourly wage, rather a formula of salaried wage and dividends from workplace profits.

Increasingly since the 1980s, Astana-Anders has utilized more mixed-market economies, particularly utilizing both public and private enterprises. Previously dominated by state-owned enterprises, recently, the Astanai economy has introduced Communal-owned Enterprises, a form of enterprise in which it is owned by both local governments, cooperatives, and the federal government, exempting them from the usual strict regulations regarding SOEs, allowing them to more quickly initiate in the direction of their respected industries. This dispersed social ownership has built in recent years a competitive market, where SOEs and worker-collectives seek to produce higher quality goods at an effective rate.

Infrastructure

Lincoln District, Omni City

Due to its geographical position, Astana-Anders has been often a crossroads of trade between the Highsteppe and the rest of Dissopoloforia, making it the transport hub of the region, with it having the densest number of rail-lines in the world. This was due to the phasing out of private transportation in the 1970s, notably cars, in favour of usage of trains and other public transport as its replacement, allowing it to serve not only connections for major Astanai cities as well as destinations towards neighboring countries, but also serves as the primary method of transport towards intracity travel. The largest Astanai airports are Omni City - Dimitri International Airport, Atlasian Airport, and Hansk City International Airport. The Port of Vander is today one of the largest container ports of the world.

In 2020, Astana-Anders was among one of the largest consumers of energy globally. It meets its energy demands using 90% renewable sources, and it has been called an "early leader" in nuclear energy, alongside solar and offshore wind energy. The country's household recycling rate is among the highest in the world—at around 65%.

Culture

Astanai culture has predominantly been shaped in two fashions; remnants of Imperial culture that continues to exist to this day and the philosophies and popular currents within both Dissopoloforia and worldwide. Historically tied to Catholicism and the wider Catholic Church, both religious and secular scientists, writers, and philosophers have played a large part of developing many core tenants of both Astanai identity as well as wider contemporary forms of thought. Following the Astanai Revolution, Astanai society has now been redefined with a unifying creed of equality under the law, social equality, and societal and individual advancement and achievement, which were primarily drawn from contemporary thought alongside waves of immigration during the Fiery 40s and 50s and the Cultural Reinvention. As a result, many scholars point out the seemingly contradictory tenants within contemporary Astanai society, celebrating equality and diversity whilst also engaging within, what some experts call, chauvinism and nationalism.

Literature

Imperial Astanai literature was created as a sudden shift following the 1st Patriotic Terror, wherein proto-Imperial Astanai cultures were dismantled and eradicated in favour of a newly defined Astanai society, in which Astanai English, a relative of New Republic of Fronteran English, became the dominant language due to its historical usage as a lingua franca amongst most proto-Astanai societies, with what's widely considered the first piece of work during Imperial Astana being the Histories of Dissopoloforia, which is also considered to be one of the earliest works using Astanai English. Much of these works were also largely inspired by both the Darman Catholic Church and later the Astanai Catholic Church, helping to popularize and solidify both Astanai philosophical thought alongside cultural values during Golden Dawn cultural movement, which often combined Catholicism alongside Prafecturian and Anterian values to replace proto-Astanai culture, also helping to create Critical Religious Theory.

Following the Astanai Revolution, literature took a large-scale shift, often deemphasizing national identity in favour of exploring and examining both international and regional identities, often with a Marxist outlook, alongside the rising Literary modernists which were suppressed by the Imperial government. With the Fiery 40s and 50s leading to large-scale immigration to Astana-Anders, alongside empowerment of Black Astanai and Veoannish, it helped to develop a tradition of independent literature exposing both national and societal trends and ideological currents, as well as celebrating their cultures, rejecting homogeneity in favour of exposing societal failings. Contemporary literature is more pluralistic than in previous eras, with the closest thing to a unifying feature being a trend toward self-conscious experiments with language.

Media

The state-owned enterprise, Commonwealth Television Network, often shortened to CommonwealthTV has a monopoly over operating media. In spite of this, independent stations and enterprises are allowed to produce public news and television without approval from government oversight, the largest of which being Axel Berstein En and North Republic media. Around 90% of Astanai households have cable or satellite TV, with a variety of free-to-view public and commercial channels. hTere are more than 300 public and private radio stations in Astana-Anders; Astana-Anders's national radio network is Radio Republic and the public Vander Hotspot is the main Astanai radio and television broadcaster in foreign languages. Currently, the highest papers in circulation are the Newbridge Republic, The Hansk Critique, Daily News of Omni City, and the state-owned Voice of the Republic. Astana-Anders has a large video gaming market, with over 234 million players nationwide. The Lobby Area is one of the world's largest gaming conventions.

Astanai cinema has made major technical and artistic contributions to film. Riding off the techniques of Marxist Film Theory and the Novoroyskaian inspired montage, the state-owned film enterprise, Astanai Film Enterprise, helped to popularize Astanai film through attracting young film directors and actors, some underground artists escaping from the rising Fedore regime, helping to popularize early avant-garde and Astanai Impressionist Cinema, such as Robert Fielder and Donovan Boire. The Epic is considered to be the greatest success of the era and helped to redefine Astanai film as a result, as a full retelling of the New Testament. During the Fiery 40s and 50s, as animation began to become a dominant art form, it helped to foster both exploitation genres such as Jet Black Films, alongside New Astanai Cinema, inspired by both the Grenopian New Wave and the Electrican New Wave. In the 1970s to 2000s, Neo Astanai Cinema took hold, inspired by Cinema of Transgression and a revival of Neorealism, with directors such as Dutch Browder, Monroe Hawks, and Elie Lola helping to bring Astanai film into the international mainstream, with films such as The Debut, Omni, and Marshall.

Art

Due to the influence of Catholicism within Astana-Anders, Astanai artists often took inspiration from other art movements, such as naturalism, Verleschidian Art, and Praefecturian Art. Eventually, this would eventually lead to the introduction of Gothicism, as well as helping to foster mannerism, and eventually Romanticism, Baroque, and Impressionism during the Industrial Revolution. Notably artists include Zachary Butch, Floyd Beer, and Kohr Lancastler. Following the Astanai Revolution, underground artists began to gain mainstream appeal, such as avant-garde, surrealism, and expressionism, but especially neorealism, which often combined with socialist realism, cubism, and eventually New Subjectivism, an early form of postmodernism, which helped to shape the wider artistic world.

Cuisine

Astanai cuisine is less dependent on culture and more so on geographical area. Unlike most nations, wheat was not typically capable of being grown within much of Astana-Anders, meaning bread only gain a dominant place within the southern provinces, such as Ruvlenko and Adaro, were the climate and soil was good enough to support large-scale wheat production, alongside a greater consumption of chicken. As a result, dense forest areas such as the Northwest often relied upon pork and low labor-intensive fruit and vegetables like potatoes and leafy vegetables in order to go by. In other areas, such as the Center and Northern regions, the cooler but more spacious climate allowed for the large-scale usage of cattle and pork, alongside the adoption of energy dense foods such as tomatoes, carrots, and beans.

During the medieval ages, rice imported from Ovstylap and Aurorheim led to the large-scale adoption of rice consumption, with Astana-Anders now the world's largest importer of rice, due to it able to feed a larger populace with the same nutrients as bread, leading to rice becoming a staple dish within Astanai cuisine.

Education

Omni City Federal University

The minimum age for primary school is about six years, but municipal communal governments also provide a free "children's school" starting at age four or five. Primary school continues until grade four, five or six, depending on the school. Traditionally, the first foreign language in school was typically any other locally widespread minority language, although in 2017, Veoannish was elevated in a few provincial communes. At the end of primary school or at the beginning of secondary school, pupils are assigned according to their capacities into one of several sections (often three). The fastest learners are taught advanced classes to prepare for further studies and the matura, while other students receive an education adapted to their needs.

Astana-Anders hosts over 18 universities, sixteen of which are maintained at the provincial communal level and usually offer non-technical subjects, the largest is Omni City Federal University with nearly 5.5 million students. The federal government sponsors two institutes: the Federal Institute of Technology Onculand (FITO) in Atlasian, founded in 1855 and the Federal Technical Institute of Eastern Heliarearce (FTIEH) in Southpines, founded in 1969, formerly associated with the Provincial University of Neorepublic. More than 30% of tertiary graduates are in science-related fields. Forest improvement, materials research, environmental sciences, neural networks, low-temperature physics, brain research, biotechnology, genetic technology, and communications showcase fields of study where Astanai researchers have had a significant impact. Astana-Anders is highly productive in scientific research.

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