Argyrea

Workers State of Argyrea Εργατική Πολιτεία Αργυραίας (Greek)
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Motto: Η Διεθνής Εργατική Τάξη θα είναι η Ανθρώπινη Φυλή! ("The International Working Class Will be the Human Race!")
Anthem: Argyreannaise '17
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Capital and largest city	Argyreopolis
Official languages	Argyreo-Istroyan, Kemetoid, Fellahidi
Ethnic groups	Argyreo-Istroyan, Kemetic, Fellahidi
Religion	None, Laïcité society.
Demonym(s)	Argyrean (noun) Argyreic (adjective) Argyreans (plural)
Government	One Party Bolshevi-Leninist State
• Chairwoman	Zoe Alafouzos
• Plenary Head	Ophelia Vissarion
• Upper house	Party Plenary
• Lower house	Parliament
Establishment
• Founding of Crusader State of Argyreopolis	1257
• Founding of the Dual Empire of Argyrea-Kemet	1609
• Bolshevi Revolution	1921
Population
• Estimate	328,993,212
• Census	308,900,122 (2024)
GDP (PPP)	2030 estimate
• Total	22.334 trillion
GDP (nominal)	estimate
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Gini	Your gini coefficient
HDI (2019)	.898 very high
Currency	Ducat (DCT)
Driving side	right

Argyrea, officially the Workers State of Argyrea, is a One Party Bolshevi-Livasist state in Audonia, the largest city and capital being Argyreopolis. Argyrea consists of the Workers State as a federal entity encompassing 7 nations divided into 300 cataracts and 19 autonomous Toliz ethnic councils that grant nominal equal power to the many ethnic groups in the Workers State. The Nations are further subdivided into cataracts that represent local party branches, which make up the Plenary, the indirectly elected legislative body that consists partially of Party coordinators and Trade Union representatives.

Argyrea has been settled since the earliest record of human history with the arrival of the Proto-Kemeti civilization in the 10,000s BC, shifting to being part of the Kemeti civilization around the dawn of the 3000s BC , being part of the birthplace of the first writing system, the dawn of architectural engineering, and the emergence of city polities. Argyrea as a specific entity has existed arguably since the founding of Argyreopolis over the ruins of Old Akhmatiea by Carlo Luis Melachrino, a crusading knight commander. The City of Argyreopolis evolved into the Duchy of Argyrepolis under the steady but chaotic rule of the Melachrino Dynasty. The rule of the Melachrino Dynasty has seen the growth of Argyreopolis into a hub for trade, the slow conquest of land through war and through diplomatic ways, the use of intrigue to turn small and large nations against each other. By the early 1600s, The Melachrino dynasty restored the crown of Pharaoh after centuries of dormancy, and formed the Imperial Dual Crown of Argyrea-Kemet. From here, Argyrea rose to the status of local powerbroker. Argyrea's position in Audonia enabled the nation to be one of the first ports of import for distribution of luxuries to the continent. Imperial Argyrea's conquests of the Islamic nations around it would cement it as truly an empire, and the wealth brought from trade established a basis for native industrialization. Argyrea's economic identity was defined by the founding of Régie, a corporation that exists today initially ran by the Imperial family. Luxury clothing designed in Occidental styles from silks, muslins, and cotton was exported, high quality perfumes, and the lifeblood of Argyrea's existence, tobacco, became the main export of the country to this day. Argyrea's society straddled between rapid industrialization and serfdom, and a strict hierarchy of class and ethnicity decreed by the Pharaohs. This led to the Bolshevi Revolution, named for Dawud Boshevi, the Judeo-Felahidi intellectual expelled from the early Livasist movement. This bloody revolution led to Argyrea becoming the Workers State, led by Bolshevi from 1921 to 1955. Argyrea was one of the earliest adopters of social rights such as gay rights, trans rights, and reparations to former slaves under the leadership of Emma Abravranel, who is considered alongside Livas and Bolshevi to make up the Ideological Core of the Workers Party of Argyrea. Argyrea's constitution and party line espouses a focus on the Revolution of the Oppressed, a political doctrine focusing on revolutions led by the most oppressed workers with the masses of all working class peoples. Argyrea is a wealthy country for its regional position, due to the focus on monopolies directed towards international corporate trade, with the profits from this trade being put back into the hands of workers. Argyrea, as the Workers State, made combat and diplomacy with both Deviationist Livasist states and Capitalist states, opportunistically taking sides when convenient. Currently, Argyrea considers itself to be the last true bastion of Livasism, considering any other form to be deviationism. Supporting weaker countries throught the world against Imperialism, regardless of ideology, Argyrea sees itself as a diplomatic power that counters the superpowers of the world, the torchbearer of true socialism. Argyrea is currently under the governance of the Hardliner Bolshevi government of Zoe Alafouzos, the youngest Chairperson in Argyrean history, who took power in 2020.

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Etymology

Argyrea is named for the ethnic majority of the nation, the Argyreans, who are a mixed-culture of Istroyans and the Kemeti, who have lived on the southern coast of Argyrea for a few centuries before the arrival of Carlo Melachrino.

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Kemeti Civilization

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Pseudo-Pharaohs

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Khedivate Era and Early Crusader activity

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The Melachrino Dynasty and early Colonization

Argyrea's coast was already settled by Istroyan peoples who began colonizing the coast of Old Kemet since the 900s, but the colonization of Argyrea truly ramped up once the Crusades reached the shores of Audonia and began carving out small Crusader States among themselves. The most notable of these was the group led by Carlo Melachrino, a Conquistador and son of a petty Baron from ((country)), who was able to conquer the ruined city of Akhmatea, a port city that while still having some importance in local trade, was mostly unoccupied by this time.

The Dual Empire

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The Workers State

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Executive

The Executive body of the Argyrean state is the Plenary, a collective of both high ranking party members elected to the Plenary by card-carrying Workers Party members, and representatives from trade unions elected by the members of those trade unions. This body is 170 seats strong, with a proportion of 85 Party Officials and 85 Union representatives. The structure of the Plenary ensures nominally that the Workers Party of Argyrea does not have complete control over the running of the nation. In practice, however, many aspects of Argyrean life are directly controlled by the Workers Party. Still, a citizen of Argyrea, as the nation is 90% unionized, has influence to oppose the party should the need come, in line with the Permanent Revolution perspective. The mission of the Plenary is to carry out the Revolution from Below, this concept being that the true revolution originates not from the party but from the workers themselves. The Party simply carries out the revolution on behalf of the workers. The function of the Plenary is to rubber stamp legislature from the Parliament and to clearly define the ideological mission of the Party and the nation of Argyrea.

The Plenary is led by an Executive Body of 10 Plenary members, divided equally between the Unions and the Party, the most powerful of which is the Party Chairperson. The Party Chairperson can be elected multiple ways; typically the Plenary chooses a pre-elected successor. However, the other path to this position can be through popular election among the rank and file of the Party. This has happened once when Zoe Alafouzos was put into power in the aftermath of a popular revolt against the Liberalizer government of Soussa Perieira. As the people demanded, the previous pre-elected successor was disqualified and party members voted directly for Alafouzos.

Legislative

Argyrea's laws are decided by the Parliament, a body with 300 directly elected members, one from each Cataract. As Argyrea is a single-party state, only Workers Party members are allowed to hold this office. However, all Argyrean citizens in good standing may vote for the specific candidate they like for their Cataract. The Cataracts are divided through cultural and population concerns.

Federal subdivisions

Argyrea is divided into; 2 Self-Governing Cities (Argyrea City and Xanadu), 7 Nations, 31 Koinéa, which are Party Branch groupings, 300 Cataracts, which are smaller branch groupings, and 3800+ branches, which are rank and file groupings of individuals within the party. Some of the cataract borders are very ancient, some dating to the 3000s BC, with the divisions being based on local cultural groups and their degree of Hellenization. There have been changes in borders over the years however, a notable one being making the Lémoncello-Vorakis Cataract separate from the formerly larger Manitë cataract due to the Vorakis region being separated by mostly impassable mountains. Cataracts are governed by a Local Plenary Council and Koinéa are governed by a Regional Plenary Council. These councils elect Plenary members. Self governing cities have their own popularly elected Mayors that theoretically can be elected from any citizen at all, as well as the Regional Plenary Council respective to those cities.

Politics

Argyrea has used Soviet aesthetics in the past for propaganda in the early ages of the country, but due to the failures of Stalinist countries, a few reforms were implemented. Emma Abravranel theorized the "subculture" doctrine, which proposed that through multiple problems, namely the isolation of the party from the workers, and because of the problem of the cult of personality, communist ideology could easily become a replacement for a state religion. The earliest program for propaganda reform was a law that banned the glorification of revolutionary figures specific to the Argyrean revolution beyond medals and awards. No statues of Emma Abravranel have been built where she stands alone due to this law. After her death, further reforms were implemented by Comrade Boutros to "destalinize" Argyrea. First, in 1962, the emblems of the Workers Party discontinued the use of likenesses of Marx and Livas, and of Bolshevi as well. Statues and murals of these individuals can be built, but they must depict them humbled amongst the proletariat. In 1964, aesthetic destalinization was complete with the removal of the use of Hammer and Sickle logos from all official ideological propaganda, with the exception of parades celebrating May Day, and the 1921 Bolshevist revolution. It goes further than that, however. Despite Argyrea being mostly a planned or worker run economy, surface level aspects of capitalism that have been created naturally have been artificially grafted onto the fabric of society based on the harmlessness of the customs. For example, the Argyrean public transit system is not standardized by name, with different cities allowed to decorate their subways and buses in different ways, and allowing them to choose different names. Products are varied and markedly different from each other in quality in terms of commodities, with control of prices kept in mind.

Public protest is legal and protected in the Argyrean constitution, with some caveats. Protests against policies and laws passed by the Parliament and Plenary are fully allowed, but must be registered with Cultus-Public Order a week before. Otherwise, no restrictions, CMPO will only intervene if a fascist is found within the crowd and will only arrest the individual. People on the Fascist Registry are technically allowed to protest, but this is a Honeypot rule created by CMPO to monitor non registered individuals who stand with them. However, CMPO still only observes. It is up to the local Party branches to physically intervene and prevent the protest from happening. This is a theoretical doctrine to involve the workers in anti fascist fights. Fascism is attacked via surveillance and via imploring citizens to be the first line of defense against it. This includes bringing non ballistic, non bladed weaponry to the counter protest and beating them away. Unless the right wingers die during this process, there is no legal consequence. In the rare event where a party branch cannot muster the numbers to put a challenge against the anti party citizens, the branch still cannot call on CMPO to break up the protest. They must first contact nearby branches to send cadre via public transit to reinforce their numbers.

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The Democracy Network currently is the primary representative of the right-wing dissent movement inside Argyrea and abroad among Argyrean dissidents. Officially Democracy Network is a liberal and democratic organization that seeks to turn Argyrea into a popularly elected multi-party democratic state. However, most of the members and participating parties in the Network seem to be quite illiberal; The largest party in Democracy Network is called Freedom for All, which has 89,000 members and professes to be a classical-liberal party, but their social policies are considered to be far-right. The second largest is Prostasía tou Laoú/14/83, a far right and white supremacist organization that translated loosely to "Defense of the People", referencing the fourteen words and "Hail Casimir". This organization operates primarily as a paramilitary organization that physically harasses left-wing Argyreans abroad. The third largest is the People's Zionist Organization, the oldest organization inside Democracy Network which also represents the interests of Argyrean Jews in the Diaspora who are anti-communists as well. Formerly also opposed to the Monarchy before 2004, afterwards they joined Democracy Network in a front against the Communist government. There are smaller organizations in Democracy Network as well, such as the Traditional Homemakers, who represent women in the Diaspora, the Argyrean Orthodox Church in Exile, which is a rogue split from the official Church, and We Remember, an organization that commemorates the falsified "genocide" of white Argyreans that Democracy Network claims to have happened.

Maison Melachrino was a front for the Imperial Melachrino family of Argyrea to move assets from Regié into foreign banks. Seeing the end of the Empire from miles away, Emperor Casimir II declared that the foreign entity of Regié and the Argyrean State Monopolies were now separate entities. Tobacco stockpiles and seeds were transferred to Avonur, the location of Regié's largest retailer store, as soon as possible, with rebranding and renovation to the building being underway, turning it into Maison Melachrino's international headquarters. Billions of dollars were transferred and most of the Imperial family were rescued from death before the revolutionaries took ultimate power in 1955. Maison Melachrino operated as the legal remnant of the Argyrean Empire, and Castle Ozymandias was the Argyrean Empire's de facto embassy and point of contact for nations that refused to recognize the Workers State as the true Argyrea. Maison Melachrino used their profits from diversified ventures to grant loans to Argyrean diaspora business owners and landlords, who then in turn donated to the government in exile and trained as paramilitary to prepare for a retaking of Argyrea in the future. At peak, Maison Melachrino was the second largest tobacco corporation behind Regié itself, but began declining as Regié was able to convince governments to delist Maison Melachrino's products in exchange for favorable tax deals. By the late 80s, the Government in Exile had problems connecting with the diaspora as the children of the emigres began assimilating in the cultures of the countries they settled in. In 1989, the Emperor in Exile founded Democracy Network, which put the exiled political parties and paramilitary organizations under a united front that agitated for an end to communism in Argyrea.

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Demographics

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Ethnicity

Self-reported ethnic origin in the Workers State (2030)

  Mextiko-Argyreans (40.4%)

  Fellahidi (22.2%)

  Afro-Argyreans (18.5%)

  Kemeti (10.9%)

  Arabs (2.2%)

  Kashmiris (1.4%)

  Other (4.4%)

Argyrea's people are considered culturally to be part of a metaphorical soup, yet there are cultural and linguistic differences through the country. The majority of Argyreans are Mestiko, a term for mixed race peoples from Istroyan stock of any combination who also speak Argyreo-Istroyan as a language. Mestiko people come in varied phenotypes and behaviors. Argyrean villages have more ethnic diversity among them than two other countries in Ixnay would. The Fellahidi Peoples of the North are the second biggest ethnic group, and this ethnic group is further divided into a great number of tribes. The Fellahidi have their own Sub-Nation and are guaranteed equal rights to the majority, with their pre-conquest land returned for the most part after multiple conferences. Afro-Argyreans are the third biggest ethnic group in Argyrea, descended from slave populations. Formerly the poorest ethnic group, Afro-Argyreans now are quite wealthy due to; reparations, investments in Regie, having a great outsized influence on musical and visual art commercially, and holding high positions in the Workers Party. The Kemeti indigenous people live mostly in the large cities or in the most isolated reaches of Argyrea, having legal protection and their own Toliz.

Language

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Religion

Religious affiliations in the Workers State of Argyrea

  Atheism (44.5%)

  Islam (30.7%)

  Coptic Christianity (20.3%)

  Judaism (5%)

  Catholicism (.5%)

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1. Argyreans are known to be quite polite and friendly, unless one is disliked by them. It is common for a visitor in Argyrea to step into the cities and be *unwillingly* helped by the locals almost immediately. Argyreans tend to be very amicable and have no fear of talking to others. Many walk around with a smile on their face and indicate they are not available for a conversation with a blank expression, because a frown also invites conversation about why one might be sad. Argyreans are typically very knowledgeable about other cultures. It is common for an Argyrean to stop a foreigner and say "excuse me brother/sister, are you from x?" and be correct most of the time. However, they are *not* knowledgeable about how people live in other countries due to extended travel being somewhat restricted to the citizens of the country. There is some regional variation to this, as Portékyrea residents are considered rude (although friendly from an outsiders perspective), Argyrea City residents being considered somewhat snobby, and rural folk being a bit more clueless about the world's current state in general.Almost everywhere possible is a third space for Argyreans, with people having a beer and a cigarette in the most strange of places, especially in public. Who is considered "family" in Argyrea is quite loose. Argyreans freely call their close friends their "brothers and sisters", and even people they dislike that they know would be called "my lost brother/sister". Especially interesting is a holdover from more Christian times where a mother of a martyr is considered the mother of every son who lives on her block or her village. The only change is that it is now for party members who have been martyred and their mothers. The purpose of this is to immediately take over the duties her son had before to lessen her grief. This has been slowly extending to the mothers of woman martyrs as well. Argyrean politeness extends even to bigotry. It is a joke that right wing Argyreans will raise their hands, shake their head, and say something like "I'm so sorry you're a pronoun but have a wonderful day regardless!", then still invite the person for tea and continue asking incredulously why the person chose to be a "pronoun." It takes a lot for an Argyrean to personally dislike another individual. This usually is due to repeated small violations of one's boundaries, but a few things could get an Argyrean to dislike you. Biggest manner is inauthenticity. If one seems to brag too much or lie quite often, that is seen as inauthentic. Speaking too formally is also seen that way. Another way is to be messy in public. To some Badlanders shock, although Argyreans are chainsmokers they also carry around portable ashtrays just in case they cannot find a public one. Littering in general is seen as a mark of not caring about others (except in Portékyrea which is quite a dirty city). Argyreans, when they dislike someone, are not pleasant people. Typically they will straight up tell that person to not speak to them, or will ridicule them to their face. Ridicule behind someone's back is considered incredibly rude however. An Argyrean typically would tell someone, for example, "One second, isn't X your friend? I am only ranting to you." if someone begins a two way ridicule when someone isn't there. Argyreans somewhat have trouble when they visit other countries. Stopping people on the street for random small talk is not well received in most places and it confuses them further when the person they stop won't answer a ton of questions. If an Argyrean is in diaspora however for quite a while, they tend to learn the culture and code switch partially. It is very common for an Argyrean to invite people to their house for tea, coffee, or a cocktail/beer. One must have a good reason to say no like prior plans or being late for the train, lest it be considered as unfriendly.

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Gender Roles in Argyrea

Argyrean gender roles are looser than other nations due to decades of Bolshevik-Feminist rule, with programs to encourage young girls to exercise and be on par with boys in sports leading to the meme that women in Argyrea are "masculine". This wasn't always the case, as in the past, Argyrean women were second class citizens before the 1950s, with female literacy not being legal beyond the nobility until 1888. Under Comrade Emma's reforms, literacy was expanded to all citizens and a program to abolish physical and social discrepancy between the two sexes was enacted, under the Bureau for Feminist Struggle. This Bureau is still active. Transgender people have been guaranteed full rights in Argyrea to change name and gender with minimal prerequisite (pretty much only a previous physical ID to hold onto for as archive purposes) since 1956.

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Religion

Religion in the Workers State is heavily regulated and restricted by the Constitution of Argyrea. At first, it would seem that Argyrea allows religious practice, turning away from the State Atheist practice of the early Revolutionary period. A plurality of Argyreans are registered as Atheists by the state, due to this early policy. Argyrea adopted a different approach in the late 1930s, allowing religious services in registered places of worship once again. However, surveillance of religious people is heavy, with alleged persecution of those registered under a religion via methods of harassment and allegations of right-wing behavior and anti-state activity being thrown around by the State Intelligence agency quite often.

Arts and Literature

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Argyrea's musical heritage is varied and long, from the early hymns of the Kemeti to the contemporary and popular rap music of today. Argyrea is the birthplace of many genres of music, from blues, to soul, to rap music. Argyrea's high Sub-Saharan population, with the influence from Occidental musical styles has resulted in a rich musical culture that produces a high proportion of world-renowned musicians compared to the importance of the nation in other aspects. Argyrea's government has an aggressive policy of pushing musical influence onto other nations as a form of soft propaganda. Unlike some socialist nations, Argyrean music and propaganda have a subtle relationship, which is intended to portray Argyrea as a luxurious and cultured nation. Very rarely will music from Argyrea be overtly Bolshevi in lyrical content or even promote socialism directly. Artists like Samuel Davidos Jr, Michel Ioannes, Dawud Ben Yoel, Ye Diseos, Kallistos Lamron, are considered to be the Argyrean artists with the greatest artistic cultural reach throught the world.

Argyrea's musical legacy extends to other art too, with Argyrean Opera being renowned by some as well composed and written. Advertisements are not seen as throwaway efforts to sell products, but as art in their own right. Argyrea continues to have cigarette advertisements to be legal, and these advertisements are considered to be the first frontline of the cultural war against Capitalism. Advertisements for cigarettes and other tobacco often last a minimum of two minutes, have a soundtrack, storyline, complex cinematography, and selective casting. Not only is the lifestyle of Argyrea put on display, but these ads show that the luxury of a gold-inlaid Argyrean cigarette is just a half-block away on sale.

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