Best International Film

Name of Film: "The Death of Stalin"
Genre: Historical Political Satirical Comedy
Nation: Nis
Brief Outline: After being in power for decades, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.
Link to trailer: Linkle

(OOC, i'm assuming that the delegation either didn't eat on the way to Nis or only had a light snack)

Basil lead the way within the White Palace, the paintings of his ancestors frowning down at the party as they walked down the main hallway. They walked some more before turning left, into a room with a wide window overlooking a bubbling fountain and swaying flowerbeds. A table was set up in the middle of the room, its mahogany legs contrasting with the rich red carpet of the room, and the dark oak panelling used around on the walls.

The table was set up for around a dozen people, three of the chairs already being taken up by a man in dark clothing silently leaning back in his chair as two young men on either side of him talked earnestly at each other, seemingly to the man's amusement. Upon hearing the sound of the king and delegation enter the room, the man sat up slowly, turning round to greet the entering group.

"Your highness," the man nodded.
Basil quickly introduced the man to the delegation, though it was a formality, as the face of Irinej, Patriarch of Niš in all his priestly attair being beloved with Niš and well known without. Basil explained that his presence here was to ensure that the Church of Niš was happy with all agreements made here as Irinej shook hands with the delegation.

Basil took the seat at the head of the table, and poured himself a small drink from the beaker of liquor there on the table. As servants brought in food for the group, Basil gestured towards the Patriarch.

"Your Holiness, if you may."
He nodded, and closing his eyes he placed his hands over the food, "O Christ God, bless the food and drink of Thy servants, for holy art Thou, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen." He made the sign of Christ and sat down.

"So," Basil said, placing a chicken sandwich on his plate and taking a draught from his glass, trying to look smart and respectable, whilst simultaneously informal and friendly, as this shared meal was meant to be, "How fares Samantra's Patriarch, Alexy? I pray he is well? I had hoped that we would be able to get both sides of your government, both secular and theocratic, here today. Maybe some other time, maybe on a visit to your fair nation."

Name of Site:- Dečani Monastery
Location:- Zrenjanin, Kingdom of Niš


Description of Site:- Started by Stefan Dečanski and finished by the great Nišavan Emperor Stefan Dušan (both of House Nemanjić) in the early 14th Century, the Monastery has stayed intact and relatively preserved for over 7 centuries. The church has five-nave naos, a three-part iconostasis, and a three-nave parvise. With the dome, it is 26 m high. Christ the Judge is shown surrounded by angels in the western part of the church. There are twenty major cycles of fresco murals and it features over 1000 compositions and several thousand portraits on the inside. The frescos and portraits represent the best preserved collection of medieval Nišavan art, anywhere.



Why is the site significant beyond its own nation?:- 

1. Dečani represents an exceptional example of medieval architecture and sculpture on the territory of the Imperial Rus spiritual sphere, i.e. an original
combination of the traditional Imperial Rus church with contemporary Romanic-Gothic architecture of the South, the largest preserved Niš and Eastern Rus monument; the monastery of Dečani is unique among Orthodox monasteries in East Arayne, an East Christian temple built and decorated by the Catholic craftsmen from the lower southern coast region.

2. The Dečani paintings are the largest preserved fresco entirety of the Medieval Rus world, the largest source of data concerning Medieval Rus iconography, and an exceptional witness to the diverse style trends in Medieval Rus art during the middle of the 14th century; remarkable series of mural paintings are of outstanding artistic quality, done by numerous painters of different knowledge and origin (from Samantra, Niš, Halych), who worked for almost 15 years and covered the area of about 4000 square meters.

3. During four centuries following their creation, the Dečani wall paintings exerted an exceptionally great influence on painters who decorated the walls of numerous churches in medieval Nišava, especially after the restoration of the Peć Patriarchate in 1557 on the territory of the former state; the role of the Dečani frescoes in the development of the Orthodox art of the East Arayne area during the period of Communist domination was decisive and it is unavoidable in research of the post-Imperial Rus monuments.

4. Dečani Monastery is closely connected to protagonists and events of the greatest importance for medieval history of the East Arayne area, especially of the 14th century and the changes that took part with the organisation and the borders of the countries whose territories occupied the area, such as Imperial Rus, Nišava, Halych etc.

Signed

Basil, by the Grace of God, King of the Nišavans
Niš, King of

Teth looked up as the Imperial TIE fighter flew low over the valley in which he had his home, and screeched along. Ever since that imperial highup had arrived to oversee whatever imperial exercise was happening, TIE fighters had been a consistent feature of Kothlis' sky. Not that he could prove it, but he was sure that the constant screeching and whatever space engine fuel they were leaking on their flights was disturbing the activity of his beer worms, reducing their appetites, and thus reducing the amount of their secretions. Without their secretions he couldn't make beer. His one-man business was also hurt in another way by the recent influx of imperial force; every time he went to the market he got harassed by the storm troopers there, causing him to often drop and spill the sacks of grain he had to haul up the hill to his home.

Walking into the silo where he kept the grain for brewing, and checked the levels. Sighing, he saw that the grain levels required him to pick up some more from the markets within the nearby city. He went into his house, and pulled on his backpack, the head of A-2H "waking up" as he pulled the pack out of its charging slot. Putting a bag over his shoulder, Teth began to walk into town.

Сатанистичка наука се дешава у Хејри!


Недавно је мала нација Хејра открила свој последњи покушај да изиграва Бога.


Закон о људском унапређењу, који је одобрио Национални савет Хејрана, омогућава научницима ове демонске републике да се мешају у Божији домен, додирујући свето царство тајне живота.

Признају да су покушали да "побољшају" свету ДНК коју нам је појединачно дао Господ. Такво светогрђе не би требало да стоји.

Његова Светост, Порфирије, наш вољени патријарх, објавио је саопштење у име нишких епископа, осуђујући нови чин. Цитати из саопштења укључују њега с правом називајући га"одвратношћу у очима Господњи" и осуђујући све покушаје мешања у свети процес живота као "мешање тамо где човек није направљен да се меша".

Домаћинство његовог височанства издало је слично саопштење, осуђујући тај потез као "непоштовање природних закона универзума". Они су коментарисали како се Народна скупштина Хејрана "усудила да себе назове хришћанином када је направила такав потез".

Translated badly into Serbian courtesy of Bing Translate

Принц од Аосте убијен издајом


Принц Лоренцо је трагично настрадао од стране подмуклих чланова особља овог петка.

Покушај напада на трогодишњег цара Аосте трагично је резултирао смрћу принца Лоренца. Напад се догодио током јутра, када су припадници царевог обезбеђења (у савезу са онима који су покушали сличан покушај атентата на принцезу-намесника) окренули своје саборце по оружју и покушали да убио дете цара.

Одани чувари су брзо били преплављени, а када је стигло појачање остало је само неколико њих да стоје. Речено је да је принц Лоренцо узео оружје у одбрану цара и да је убијен. Био је кремиран заједно са оданим чуварима који су такође страдали, а њихов пепео је заједно развејан по бизарним духовним линијама њихове вере. Преживјелима у нападу Политика жели добро, а онима који нису.

Неколико нација је изразило званично саучешће нацији Аосте.

Translated badly into Serbian courtesy of Bing Translate and Google Translate

Basil IV, by the Grace of God, King of the Serbs, stood waiting by the front window of the White Palace.
Checking his schedule, the delegation from Samantra would soon arrive, having landed at Niš Uroš the Great Airport and being swifted escorted on the road towards the Royal District of Niš.
Once they arrived, they'd exchange pleasantries over a light lunch, before retiring to a study to discuss the various diplomatic friendliness that he aimed to achieve with his neighbour.
He tucked his pocket watch into his jacket's pocket and turned towards the door, walking out of the drawing room, and stepped into the hallway. He was joined by his General Secretary, Baron Vojnović, and his Personal Secretary, Natasa Bojevi. Together, they walked out the door, and onto the drive, where the vehicle containing the foreign delegation could be seen pulling into the gates at the far end of the drive.
He straightened his tie, and straightened his back, attempting to look as dignified and smart as his position expected him to be. The car pulled up and a footman swiftly opened the door and stepped back.
Basil leaned forwards and shook President Litvin's hand.
"Welcome to the White Palace," he said, "please, come in."

History of Niš

Niš was established on the 9th of November, 1979. Originally, it was composed of the former territories of the FSS Nišavia and the FSS Blitkentia, both former parts of the FSUR Severrusavia, which dissolved on the 7th of November, 1979. Though a Republic in its earliest days, a referendum held voted to establish a Monarchy, so the Royal Family of Nišavia was invited to be crowned. Despite initial hopes that the family would surrender direct power to a constitutional assembly by the Niš's founders, careful navigation of the state apparatus lead to this never coming to fruition.  The new Kingdom was stated to be a direct continuation of Nišavia, and so absorbed its church and other functions.

The Royal Family, continuing to hold claims to Basnio, now an independent Republic, due to their 1902 inheritance of the Kingdom of Basnio demanded Basnio join under Niš. Basnio refused, the nation's Sunni faith clashing with that of the Nicholasist (Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality) views of the then-King, Alexander VII. In response to the refusal, Niš declared war upon Basnio, and invaded and conquered the nation over the course of two years, the war ending in 1981. However, failure to keep captured land in check and growing ethno-nationalism in the soldiers of Niš lead to an impromptu genocide, which gradually picked up support from the state, continuing on for almost a decade after the war started, even after all forms of rebellion had stopped. In the ensuing genocide, around 3.5 million Basnions lay dead, with official modern estimates by the state of Niš putting it around only around a hundred thousand, claiming that most of the victims were killed aiding or attempting to aid rebels against the legitimate government with an intent to cause sabotage and death, and so cannot be considered victims of genocide. Most unbiased historians estimate from around 1 million to 5.3 million. The genocide mainly focused on Sunni Basnions, however also included small amounts of other ethnic minorities, including Jews and Roma.

In 1982, following the Nišlijka invasion of Basnio, Niš pressured the governments of Ilirijia, Visina and Aleka into holding national referendums on whether they wanted to be absorbed into Niš. The referendums were hugely problematic, and a few eyebrows are still being raised today, but by a slim majority each of the nations voted to be assimilated into Niš. A year later, Niš launched an invasion into Tralkija, their Casus Belli being that it remained a Soviet aligned dictatorship, despite losing its communist flavouring in the 1980 Trački Revolution. Conquering it in 1985. In 1991, the national assembly of Slovenija, with Niš winning by a great majority (likely due to Slovenija already being a puppet state in all but name due to increasing economic reliance on Niš), formally absorbing Slovenija into it.

Throughout the rest of the 20th century, and the 21st century, Niš set about modernising and liberalising its economy, slashing taxes on the rich during the reign of King Basil III, until he died in a car crash less than a year into his reign, making his younger brother, Vladmir III, King in 1998. Vladmir would successfully revolutionise Niš' economy, bringing it up to par and above its neighbours. After his tragic and premature death to testicular cancer in late 2016.

Basil IV was born in 2004, and become King in 2016 after watching his father die in a hospital bed. Being only 12 at the time of his ascension, the Queen-mother acted as regent on his behalf until he took official and de facto control at the age of 16.

History of the Federal Socialist United Republic of Severrusavia

Formed from two Socialist Republics agreeing to merge in 1940 to combat attempted Rodinian and liberal influence in both nations, Severslavia was formed as a union between the US Blitkentia and the SR Nišavia-Basnia. It was heavily federal, with initially three very autonomous democratic governments under a single dictatorial central government, lead by Jacob Tito. As Severslavia grew, more federal governments under it were created.

Sverrusavia stayed neutral and isolationist for most of its lifetime, fearing liberal influence and influence of the USR, however eventually absorbed its neighbouring nations of the SSR Aleka, the Republic of Visinia and the SSR Ilirija. This policy of isolationism was criticised and likened to an ostrich sticking its head in the stand, ignoring the danger of not having any international friends, and was thus christened by dissenters as the ostrich policy. The failures of the ostrich policy began to rear its head when it was abandoned by Tito in 1978 that the economy of Sverrusavia was vastly outmatched by that of the rest of the world, and that a lack of friends, warned off by the ostrich policy, resulted in no partner to pick up the slack to improve the economy, resulting in Sverrusavia becoming a backwater nation economically. The baptism by fire of Sverrusavia into the global economy resulted in an economic backlash, the internal economy crumbling. The growth of poverty also lead to the growth of ethno-nationalism, tensions growing higher and higher, but mainly kept in check.

This all fell apart once Tito died less than a year later in 1979, his successor, Dragan Nevsky, failing to keep tensions under control, resulting in ethnic-inspired violence bursting out disastrously. Seeing the failing state of the union, the local governments mainly refusing to work with each other and the growth in anti-socialist rhetoric even amongst the government, Nevsky formally disbanded the central government, releasing each local government as their own independent republic in 1979 and causing chaos. Several wars between the newly independent nations broke out, with partisan and guerrilla ethnic terrorism erupting along the borders.

History of Nišavia

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History of Basnio

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History of Blitkentia

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History of Aleka

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History of Visina

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History of Slovenija

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History of Trakija

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History of Ilirija

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Historical Maps

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Capital City: Niš
Population: 79.49 million
Currency: Dinar (=100 paras)
GDP per Capita (not worked out, estimate around 27,666.24)
Ethnicities: Nišavan (30.6%), Trački (24.1%), Blitken (14.3%), Basnion (11.4%), Ilirski (10.1%),  Slovenački (7.3%), Visine (2.2%)
Religions: Orthodox Christianity(82.5%), Sunni Islam (15.5%) [largely confined to Basnion or Ilirski communities], Irreligious or undeclared (2%)
State Religion: Nišlija Orthodox Church
Demonyms: Nišlija (male or neutral), Nišlijka (female)

Head of State and Government: Basil IV
Government Type: Blessed Monarchism
Legislative Body: House of Barons


Head of State: King Basil IV
Head of Government: King Basil IV
Government Type: Blessed Monarchy
Legislative Body: House of Barons

Peacetime Anthem Lyrics

Wartime Anthem Lyrics

The Civil War



Brief overview of factions
CRUST (Communo-Republican United Sludderland Territories)
Head of faction: Premier Soheil Najafisson
A group of militant Marxist-Leninists, lead by Soheil Najafisson. Though originally a peaceful group that attempted to win the Sludderland election, the previous leader was killed by Soheil, who had been rapidly rising through the ranks due to his charisma and band of loyal supporters. Under Soheil, CRUST gained more and more members, however (despite the group's stated goal and ideology) most were violent thugs or even fascists who joined in the novel ideal of gaining power after their victory.
Soheil himself is an outspoken Marxist-Leninist in public, saying all the right things and catchphrases. However, privately, he and his inner circle are nothing more than opportunists. He himself has never read a word of marxist, stalinist or any other vaguely left-wing writings. Several of his inner circle are more happy with books from the other extreme of the spectrum, such as writings by Benito Mussolini.

Government
Head of faction: President Ali Baghersson
The official and legal government of Sludderland, the nation is lead by President Ali Baghersson, voted into power upon the early death of his predecessor. Under his reign the slave revolt blossomed and took hold, and now it is up to him to put it down, as well as the communists. Assisting him is Chancellor Arash Narasson, his faithful and loyal friend.

SLAM (Slave Liberation Army of Midarayne)
Head of faction: Provisional General Secretary Muhammad Ali
The slave revolt was a success. Armed with weapons, supported with vehicles and assisted with intel (all supplied by many of the group's backers) the slaves that rose up in the revolt headed towards the meeting place. Though many were stopped, killed or imprisoned, a large amount arrived in the East. There, their backers joined them, groups such as the Ragnarssons; the Quidists; and the Axids to name a few. The former-slaves were organised based off their skills and place of residency. Soon, the SLAM had captured dozens more cities, and were pushing further west.

Government type: Unitary Republic
Head of State: President
Head of Government: Chancellor
State Religion: Manism
Governmental Culture: Nirian
Population: 6.825 million

Background
Established by stranded Norse raiders in the 9th century, the nation eventually turned from paganism to Islam, and then from Islam to Manism. Their culture was mixed with that of the natives, creating a hybrid culture now known as Nirian.

The possible existence of anarcho-liberal Aschlon on this map frightens me

Full Name of Country/Region: Second Republic of Aschlon
Representative Signing: President Henry Furer
First Language: Aschlonian