South Slavic Union (1983: Doomsday)

The South Slavic Union is a post-Doomsday country, successor state of what was once known as the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia. Following the death of SFRY's founding Father, Josip Broz Tito in 1980, the country's internal ethic tensions were high. However, with the end of Doomsday, being one of the rare European countries to avoid the bombings because of it's Non-Alignment policy, Yugoslavia experienced a massive influx of refugees from the neighboring countries. Some 5 million people died out of hunger during the first post-Doomsday winter, with another 7 million in the following 3 years. The capital city of Belgrade was burned to the ground during the Food riots in 1984. The government finally convened on September 17th 1985, in the city of Drvar, Bosnia, and the self-proclaimed leaders of mini-states agreed to reform the country into a self-sustainable centralized union. The capital was moved to the city of Sarajevo, and 3 year recovery plans were enacted. Edvard Kardelj's Autogestione socialism doctrine was once again put in action, only this time with a bit more success. The wast natural resources helped in rebuilding the country, while the army was reformed to integrate the remnants of the armed forces of the neighboring states which emigrated after Doomsday. On December 25th, 1987 the new Constitution of the South Slavic Union was put in action.

Economy
Given the fact that Yugoslavia's economy was suffering greatly in the late 70s, Doomsday left the country in shambles. However, through the inaction of the 3 year Recovery plans, the country started recovering pretty quickly. The forgotten Work Actions of the 60s created a sense of togetherness and helped ease the old ethnic tensions as well as integrate the refugees. With amazing amount of luck, most of the harvested land in the province of Vojvodina and East Slavonia did not get affected by the radioactive dust, however, climate changes did affect the cultures which could now be grown. They provided almost 80% of the countries needs by 1987. Heavy duty industry continued due to the accessibility of natural resources, however, most of the traditional branches such as oil refining and the car industry perished. Coal mining and the abundance of hydro-powered plants provided enough electricity, however, the infrastructure was greatly severed and took more than 15 years to restore to the pre-Doomsday level.

Conflict
The Union closed it's borders in 1984, and denied entry to several hundred thousand refugees from Hungary and Albania. Since then, it has held only limited communication with the Greek states and the Alpine Confederacy. Exports have started in 2005 after the Union Assembly voted on easing up the Isolation Act from 1984. However, tensions remain high with Sicilian raider ships patrolling the Mediterranean, and two medium conflicts with them marked the beginning of the 90s, over the islands of Vis and Lastovo in the Adriatic sea. The Union views the Sicilian state as it's greatest threat, and has started refitting the Navy to defend Union coastal waters.

Diplomatic Relations
Since the ease on the isolation policy, the Union has made some efforts in establishing diplomatic relations with the surroundings countries. The trade agreement was signed in trilateral talks in Vienna, between the Confederation of Greece, Alpine Confederacy and the Union in 2006. CoG and the Union have also signed the Joint Defense Agreement, in response to the growing threat of the Sicilian state.

Future Political Trends
Union is slowly opening to the world, however, many people thought the country view that as a controversial move at best. Since the Unions isolationism kept the country alive since Doomsday, people have developed a sense of xenophobia. However, the import of foreign goods and the talks of enabling border crossings with CoG and the Alpine confederacy are slowly swaying the general opinion towards an open society.