Socialist World Union

This is a work in progress. In the near future I will add images, polish the look and add more notable members.

Brief description:

Socialist World Union is a loose, decentralised and somewhat chaotic political-economic union of socialist states who all share the end goal of achieving full communism.

Formation:

1. Every good socialist would claim that the groundwork for the Socialist Union was placed with the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between the german state under the old regime and the soviet state in 1938, but the truth is that the workers of Germany and the Soviet Union were quite alienated towards each other until the signing of the Berlin-Moscow alliance in 1940, which created a great divide within the german nazi party: the radicals saw the alliance as a betrayal to the original nazi values, whereas the moderates viewed the Soviet Union as a fellow socialist enemy of the decadent capitalist system. Just a month after the signing of the alliance, the radicals made a successful attempt on Adolf Hitler's life which prompted the moderates to act and purge the radicals from the party. This drastically changed Germany's political scene as the nazi party no longer aimed to conquer in the name of race. Instead, it aimed to conquer in the name of socialism. The new national socialists religiously canonised the name of their fallen leader by naming streets, libraries, schools and even a city after him, and made sure that he is remembered as a victim in the fight against capitalism. In the meantime, Italy felt abandoned by the treacherous germans and formed its own political bloc, "The Iron Fasces" by exploiting the paranoia which dominated the politics of the weaker european nations in the months following the creation of the powerful Berlin-Moscow Alliance. The Fasces, which included Italy, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Romania, Spain and Greece, all states that could not be accepted among the ranks of the Allies due to ideological differences, posed a threat to both the democratic and the socialist world.

2. Alliances are not without a purpose and late into 1940, the German republic demanded the incorporation of Danzig into the republic, the stated reason being that the german workers of Danzig suffer greatly under the yoke of the incompetent polish government. Poland naturally refused which forced the Soviet Union and the new German Republic to declare a war on Poland, which in turn sparked the Second World War between the "Unholy alliance" and the Allies. Poland stood no chance between the might of the Wehrmacht and the Red army, and France was quickly overwhelmed by superior german tactics and great soviet numbers. The two unholy allies quickly dominated Europe and not even Germany's former ally Italy and its petty sphere of influence was spared the onslaught. This sudden takeover sent shockwaves throughout the world. The USA, initially lacking support at home, eventually started supplying Great Britain with weaponry and food but their support came too late as the combined german and soviet war industries out produced great britain's by a great margin. The skies above britain were darkened each day by bombers, and each bomber shot down was immediately replaced by 4 new ones.

3. The final nail in the coffin for Great Britain came in 1942 when the german naval blockade, combined with the near total destruction of british infrastructure and industry, caused food riots in what was left of London and the other cities. The unrest quickly escalated into a rebellion first in London and later in Manchester after british soldiers, supported by french deserters, were ordered to open fire at the looters. By early 1943, Great Britain was no more. Instead, the new British Union, a weak communist puppet state propped up by the Soviet Union and Germany from the ruins of the old kingdom, unofficially aligned itself with the Unholy Alliance. Its remaining colonies declared independence but quickly succumbed to trouble: Hong Kong was annexed by Japan, british rule in Egypt, the Middle East and Africa collapsed in the wake of nationalist arab rebellions, In South Africa the racist nationalist faction dominated politics and millions of blacks were put in forced labour camps; Alone and isolated, Australia, Dutch Indonesia and French Indochina fell prey to Japan's expansionism. The collapse of Great Britain and the Commonwealth birthed popular ultra-nationalist movements in Canada which established control of the government in 1943 after a successful coup. Fearing the presence of an anti-democratic power so close to home, the United States of America moved in to occupy Canada a few month after the coup under the pretence of defending democracy and the french minorities in Quebec.

4. With Britain's collapse, the last flame of democracy in Europe was extinguished and the continent was quickly divided between a Soviet and a German sphere of influence. The Soviets annexed Finland, Poland (with the exception of Danzig), and the countries of Southeastern Europe as Soviet Republics. Germany kept the rest of Europe but preferred to establish semi-autonomous fellow socialist puppet states in the occupied territories rather than annex them. In a bid to pursue common socialist goals after the war, Germany and the Soviet Union established the "Socialist Union" which replaced the Berlin-Moscow Alliance in purpose but went even further by featuring international institutions which extended their control throughout the entirety of the Union. In the east, Japan established its East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, together with its colonies and isolated itself politically and economically from the rest of the world. The Second World War was over and private ownership was forbidden within the German Republic.

5. The status quo lasted until 1946 when german scientists working on the top-secret "Wunderwaffe" program created a bomb so powerful that it could decimate entire cities in less than a minute. Due to the conditions of the Socialist Union, the German Republic shared the new technology with the Soviet Union and the two socialist nations quickly set out to bully the world into submission. Having already set its eyes on the faraway decadent capitalist nation of the americans, the German Republic demanded that the USA disbands its military and agrees to talks regarding the incorporation of the entirety of the US into the German Republic. Unsurprisingly, the US refused and the Socialist Union declared anwar on the USA. In march 1943, 20 highly experimental german Stealth Jet bombers, also created by the Wunderwaffe program, crossed the ocean and each dropped their nuclear payload on an american city. Washington, New York, Boston, Miami, Charlotte, Philadelphia, Portland and others were gone in a flash and reportedly even the american president perished in Washington. The nuclear blasts destroyed the american east coast in its entirety and dozens of millions of americans died during the blasts and from the chaos that followed. Fearing further destruction, the surviving american government surrendered all of its territories to the Socialist Union, which was a widely unpopular move on the west coast whose spirit was not lowered by the blasts. In Asia, the Empire of Japan occupied the now german bases of Pearl Harbor and Hawaii but the socialists were too preoccupied with dealing with the greatest humanitarian crisis humanity has ever faced, as well as subduing the wild american spirit to deal properly with japan's hostility. The german and soviet occupational forces, which numbered in the millions, effectively kept order in the cities but it was an open secret that anti-socialist revolutionary cells operate in the uncontrollable american countryside.

6. The news of america's destruction convinced the rest of the "free" world to bow before the new socialist world order. All remaining un-socialist nation states on Earth were threatened with total nuclear annihilation if they do not submit and the world was quickly divided into a german-led and a soviet-led sphere of influence, with the Socialist Union serving its role to ensure cooperation between the new socialist republics. The only two entities which refused submission in spite of repeated threats were The Commune of Switzerland and the Japan-led East Asian Co-Prosperity sphere. The socialists decided not to bother with them

International jurisdiction:

All states within the union are autonomous, however some international extra juridical organisations exist to ensure loyalty to the socialist cause on a state level, the most prominent being "Socpol", responsible for observing the daily lives of socialist citizens and ensuring that they do not succumb to a wide number of moral depravities such as overownership and the possession of un-socialist literature. Other organisations are the Internationale (34th and counting!), which is responsible for ensuring peace and harmony between all political entities on earth, and "The People's International Political Commissariat for Shared Socialist Acquisition and Ethical Redistribution of Finite Natural Resources", or PICAR in short, which is responsible for the distribution of all natural resources to each country according to its need, as to avoid un-socialist imperialistic tendencies.

Notable members:

Independent American Communes: In a truly american fashion with socialist elements, the american people did not find the traditional german socialist system to be satisfactory to their socialist tastes and they spontaineously rebelled against their unsuspecting german comrades in 1968. Originally mistaking the american militiamen for fascists, the forces of the Wehrmacht carried out their duty in the name of socialism which cost the lives of millions of comrades on both sides over the span of 16 years. The intense fighting left most american cities, including the recently rebuilt great centres of american worker's culture of Neu York, Hitlerstadt and Karl-Marxstadt, in ruins. In 1984, The german state, its workers tired of fighting an ocean away, caved into some of the demands of the american rebels and, under the guidance of the Socialist Union, allowed the creation of the Independent American Communes in the territories of the former United States of America, under an anarchist system. With time, the american system turned out to be dangerously incompetent as the communes failed to unite and restore the cities, or even effectively represent themselves at the Internationale. Some communes started attacking each other over basic necessities. To this day, Neu York and Washington (now Hitlerstadt) stand in ruin and are a heaven for un-socialists. The american territories as a whole remain a wild and dangerous place where one's life is short and the only respected rule is the rule of the gun but to the dismay of the socialist world, the americans fanatically defend their their way of life and the few communes which willingly represent them at the Internationale fervently deny voluntary incorporation into the german state.

Political enemies:

The East Asian Co-prosperity sphere: The only area of the world still officially using the outdated capitalist system, it represents an isolated political-economic bloc that is headed by the extremely traditionalist and authoritarian Empire of Japan. It spans from Australia in the south to Sakhalin in the north, and from Hawaii in the East to Siam and Sinkiang in the west. After the conclusion of the Second World War, The Empire of Japan closed itself and its colonies off from the rest of the world and has secretly carried out ethnic genocide and colonisation on a massive scale to ensure that there are dominant ethnic japanese populations in all member countries of its limited sphere of influence. The 15th International swore to one day avenge the deaths of over 600 million chinese comrades, though some speculate that such uncharacteristically militant rhetoric was instead provoked by Japan's refusal to acknowledge PICA's demand for it to provide 30% of the nation's yearly output of Steel to the Socialist Union due to a perceived unjust abundance of the resource in the Empire.

People's Commune of Switzerland: A most hated socialist state which for some reason stubbornly clings to the obviously and undoubtedly failed syndicalist system. Its very existence brings shame to the socialist world. Even Socpol does not bother to correct un-socialist literature if it only critisizes Switzerland, but The 6th Internationale decided to guarantee the existence of this failed nation nonetheless.