Russia

Russia is a nation on Earth, located in the north-middle of Eurasia, west of the Ural mountains and east of the Baltic Sea. Russia can trace its history back over 1,000 years to the Kievan Rus, and has expanded east under the Russian Empire. In 1917, a communist revolution took place and overthrew the tsar, establishing the Soviet Union. The leader of this revolution, Vladimir Lenin, was a direct influence on Kan Kut'o hundreds of years later.

In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed dramatically, resulting in its constituent nations separating.

History since 2020 and collapse
In 2022, a large-scale invasion of Ukraine, one of the former Soviet states, was launched, to disastrous results. Russia was sanctioned by most of the world and its economy suffered heavily. The following turmoil resulted in several of Russia's federal subjects breaking away in protest. Most of the seceding areas were far away from the political core of Moscow and St. Petersburg, and/or inhabited by ethnic minorities that objected to the colonialism of the Russian state.

Caucasus and Pontic Steppe
The Pontic Steppe was the first to leave the Russian Federation. The perennially separatist area of Chechnya was the first to leave, uniting with its western neighbour of Ingushetia to declare independence in 2025 and form Ichkeria. followed by Dagestan to its east in March 2026 and Ossetia to its west in August 2026.

The republics of Adygea, Karachay-Cherkessia, and Kabardino-Balkaria, as well as part of Krasnodar Krai, seceded to form the nation of Circassia in 2028.

Central Asia
Tatarstan and Bashkortostan