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| Capital | Bălți | ||||||
| Largest city | Bălți (de facto), but Chișinău’s ruins (honoury status only) | ||||||
| Other cities | Cornești, Camenca, Dubăsari, Drochia, Bender (being repaired), Tiraspol (being repaired), Orhei, and Florești | ||||||
| Language official |
Russian, Moldavian, Romanian and Ukrainian | ||||||
| others | Gaguzian, Belorussian, Yiddish, Bulgarian and Romani | ||||||
| Religion main |
78% Eastern Orthodox Christianity | ||||||
| others | 10% Athist, 2% Islam and 1% Judaisim. | ||||||
| Ethnic Groups main |
60% Moldovans (ethically akin to Romanians) and 20% Romanians (Romanians proper) | ||||||
| others | 10% Russians, 5% Ukrainians, 2% Gaguzian, 1% Belorussians, 1% Jews, 0.5% Bulgarians and 0.5% Romani | ||||||
| Demonym | Transnistrian or Moldovan | ||||||
| Government | It's officaly a parliamentary democracy, but is in relay a communist dictatorship | ||||||
| Legislature | Provisional Supreme Soviet | ||||||
| President | Nicolae Grigorișin | ||||||
| Population | Approx. 245,000 (2022 estimate) | ||||||
| Independence | from Moldovan SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||
| declared | 1987 | ||||||
| Currency | Moldovo and Transnistria Ruble and barter, but the Romanian Lieu is used for overseas trade. | ||||||
Overview[]
The Socialist Republic of Moldovo and Transnistria, is a post-Soviet survivor state based around the banks of the River Răut and the former Moldovan SSR.
History[]
Pre-Doomsday[]
The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (Moldavian SSR) was a republic of the Soviet Union from 1940 to 1983. It was located in Eastern Europe, was largely inhabited by ethnic Romanians and its capital was Chişinău.
It is bordered was by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. Moldova has a population of about 4.15 million people and a land area of about 13,000 square kilometers.
The Moldavian SSR was created after the Soviet Union annexed Bessarabia from Romania in 1940, was a region that had been part of Romania since 1918. The Soviet Union also annexed Northern Bukovina from Romania at the same time.
The Moldavian SSR was a one-party state, and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the only legal political party. The government of the Moldavian SSR was controlled by the Communist Party.
The Moldavian SSR was a largely agricultural country. The main crops grown in the Moldavian SSR were wheat, corn, and grapes. The Moldavian SSR also had a small industrial sector and a few steel mills in the north east of the country.
Nukes[]
The Nuclear Cloud that destroyed Tiraspol.
- Chişinău= 2x 100kt
- Tiraspol= 1x 100kt
- The steel mills at Rîbnița= 1x 20kt
- Rîbnița= 1x 100kt
- Izmail port= 1x 100kt
- Izmail naval base at Izmail= 1x 100kt each
- Odessa port= 1x 100kt
- Odessa naval base = 2x 100kt
- Odessa= 1mt
- Dubăsari hydroelectric dam = 1x 20kt
- Giurgiulesti port= 1x 20kt
Post-Doomsday[]
The nation declared it’s nominal independence in 1983 (which became official in 1987), several days after they had received word that a nuclear war had just occurred between the Soviet Union and the United States. The territory would soon collapsed in to death and anarchy within a matter of weaks. The material loss and death toll were huge! Later, rampaging hordes of sick and starving refugees proved be just as dangerous as a nuclear strike was!
Bălți was not hit and Dubăsari was only badly damaged, but the fallout from other nearby strikes also posed a threat. Most of the places struck, like Chişinău and Odessa were devistated and hurt the nation strongly as well. Immediately after the strikes occurred, many of the survivors got sick and the few hospitals remaining did not have the staff or supplies to treat the majority of them.
The self apoited interim government in Bălți, with the city’s mayor as acting president, declared martial law in the lands he controled and nominal independence from the former USSR in preparation for the hordes of refugees they thought would come, but to their surprise few managed to reach the fledgling nation, except from the ruins of their own Soviet Republic. Soon population flight, especially to Romania, wold take hold as dysentery and radiation sickness hit the former SSR. Only martial law held what was left of the area together and stopped the nation from completely emptying it’s self out as refugees on the Romanian border.
Most of the former Moldavia SSR fell in to anarchy and warlord during the 1980s and 1990s. Bălți and it’s allied settlements would emerge as the most significant of them in 1985 and declared it’s self the Bălți, Orhei, Florești and the River polity in 1987.
The nation tried to maintain an independent and self-sufficient way of life, but it was hard going at best of times as food collapsed. Farming was restarted as best it could to provide a stable source of food and maintain basic santry standards. As time passed, agricultural output slowly rose.
While nominally an entrenching tool, the MPL-50 shovel has seen wide-ranging wartime applications, from a close-quarters combat weapon to a cooking utensil. The shovel also has a D-shaped handle that can be used for carrying or as a makeshift weapon, the latter use being a common sight in the former Moldavia SSR.
Bălți, Orhei, Florești and the River Răut began to stabilise in 1999 and layed claimed to the other warlord states, many of which had ether joined Romania or died out over the years.
The dimished remnants of Edineț and Drochia were peacfuly intergrated in to the emergent state during 1991, followed by Cornești in 1992. The near desrted vilage of Hlina, along with a small, near by Ukranian fefugee camp, were both conqured in 1994. The struggling warlords of Dubăsari-Grigoriopol, Bender, Tiraspol and Camenca singed up to membership in 1998, but insisted Russian and Ukranian were given protected status in thire small teritories. The abandoned town of Milestii Mici was claimed in 2000 and partly settled in 2005, but local bandits drove them off a year later. Soroca and the local warlord were defeated and forcibly intergraed in 2007.
The region only became truly stable in 2009, when martial law was lifted and the radiation decrease reduce the amount of radiation sickness in the populace and disentry was a thing of the past.
They eventuly got as far as the minor starving warlord states around Cahul-Cotihana, Ștefan Vodă , Dnestrovsk, Slobozia, Crasnoe and Tarutyne in 2008, laying claim to them, but having no actual controle over the claimed lands. It is at this time they relised they were surrended by other states, including Transylvania, who they officaly allied with in 2010.
Government[]
The government is officially a Communist republic, however several small and sucseffull private industries have existed throughout the country and the capital Bălți since 2010.
Political parties are allowed under the constitution, however most of the Supreme Soviet is held by the Communist Party of Moldovo and Transnistria. Senatorial elections are held every two years, however vote-rigging is a constant and ongoing problem, which the public largly don't know about.
The general stability of the country and the government's success at increasing the prosperity of the people and the sucsesfull agricultural sector has resulted in relatively low amounts of political and ethnic violence. Non the less many would like to see a more liberal socity, with fair elections; for the SRMT controle of the Cahul-Cotihana, Ștefan Vodă , Dnestrovsk, Slobozia, Crasnoe and Tarutyne Rayon; increased trade with Transylvania and a closer relations with Transylvania.
New Capital[]
Bălți is situated 127 kilometres (79 mi) north of the former capital Chișinău, and is located on the River Răut, a tributary of the Dniester, on a hilly landscape in the Bălți steppe. It would emerge as the dominant city in 1985 and become republic’s the capital in 1987.
Foreign Relations[]
Moldovo and Transnistria has foreign relations with most of Europe and several countries of Asia. Moldovo and Transnistria also has got strong relations with the Siberians and West Poland, but some politicians advocate distancing themselves from the Soviets and focus on unifying the Romanian/Moldovan people.
A major foreign issue is the status of former Moldova, and tensions between Transylvania and Transnistria are quite high over it after they fought a inconclusive 6 day war over the issue of who owns the northern parts of the former Tarutyne Raion in 2008.
Currently Transylvania blocks Moldovo and Transnistria from joining the League of Nations.
Moldovo and Transnistria still lays claime to the former warlordships of Cahul-Cotihana, Ștefan Vodă, Dnestrovsk, Slobozia, Crasnoe and Tarutyne, along with the entire former Tarutyne Raion (and the 7,500 people in it) in the former Ukraine’s Odessa, which was part of the historical region of Budjak.
Military[]
The military of Moldovo and Transnistria is divided into three sections, the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force. The Army is the largest part of the Military, and is responsible for the defense of the nation and achieving local domination. It number 3,000 personell all in all.
Stray dogs[]
The became River Răut known for its packs of wild dogs, descended from domestic dogs that have been abandoned or escaped. They are often seen scavenging for food in the countryside. The wild dogs of the River Răut are a problem for the local community. They pose a threat to people and livestock. They can be aggressive, and there have been reports of them attacking people at night. They can also damage crops and spread disease. The wild dogs of the River Răut are a complex problem. The government of Moldova has tried to address the problem of the wild dogs, but have failed. The wild dog population continues to grow.
Climate[]
The nation has a humid continental climate (Köppen: Dfb bordering on Dfa), like the former Moldavian SSR had befor doomsday. Some Dfa ans Bsk occers to the south; along with Bsk in the interior of the Budjak, with a few odd river rilated patches of Cbf in the far south of the former Moldavian SSR, as well as in the former Budjak to the south. The Bălți steppe was Dfa, but has gon more like Bsk in places due to post Doomsday cliamctic changes to the pevalying climate on the Bălți steppe. It's proximity to the Black Sea gives it a mild and sunny climate. A humid subtropical climate is in (Cfa) is present upon the coastline of the former Budjak, but has gon more like Csa in places due to post Doomsday climactic changes to the pevalying climate on the Budjak.