Russian Empire (Imperial States of America)

Russia was a nation in Eastern Europe and Asia that rose to become the second greatest power in the world. After its' formation following an era of mongol rule, chaos broke out, resulting in the over three hundred year reign of the Romanov dynasty. The Romanovs and the Czar Nicolas II were overthrown in 1917 due to World War I and class tensions. Civil war soon broke out, with Leftist forces supporting the newfound Russian Republic, which had a heavy socialist bent, against the Conservatie monarchist " White Russians." The Entente Forces of Britain, France, and the United States originally supported the white Russians, but later mediated a treaty creating a coalition between the two sides. The Russian Republic was highly corrupt and ineffective, and Russia remained in poverty for much of the 1920's, with Radical Bolshevik forces waging a low-level rebellion. When the Russian Republic's finances were destroyed with the start of the Great Depression in 1929, the government neared collapse. A charismatic monk and former adviser to the royals, Grigori Rasputin, then lead a march to Petrograd from his exile in Siberia, gathering much support and creating the '''New Russian Empire. '''The Black Hundreds became the ruling party. A strange twist of fascism, anti-semitism, slavic nationalism, and Orthodox theocracy came to dominate Russia, leading to the first successful totalitarian state.

Rasputin, calling himself the son of God, and Supreme Elder of the Slavic people, was technically not Emperor, this role falling to Czar Alexei II. However he was basically the ruler of Russia, modernizing the nation, expanding its' military for an invasion of Georgia from the U.S and the crushing of dissidents, and the extermination of Russia's Jews in the Holocaust. When the German People's Republic invaded in 1941, Russia was thrown into a terrible struggle against the Communist invaders, though Rasputin chased them out, and the Czar's Army occupied Eastern Europe, while the other major allied powers, primarily the U.S, occupied the West. World War III broke out after U.S president Douglas MacArthur expanded into the Middle East, threatening Russia. After Rasputin's death, uncertainty rocked the Russian hierarchy, and a ceasefire was negociated. A disasterous invasion of Afghanistan also brought decline. The Americans continued bombing in 1959, and after the Armenian missile crisis in 1961, the Americans invaded the Russian Empire. Russia was hit by multiple nuclear missiles, Petrograd taken, and the Empire collapsed into various states, one of which, the Republic of the Volga, lead by Alexei II negociated a ceasefire with the Americans, resulting in a heavily reduced democratic Russia recovering for the rest of the 20th century.