Don Republic (1983: Doomsday)

''' Don Republ c '''is a country located in OTL Russia, and Ucraine.

Doomsday
Shortly after Doomsday, the people near the Don River, start to die and get sick with the radioactive dust coming from Ukraine Soviet Republic and Georgia Soviet Republic, in october of 1983 radioactive rain storms start in the river and nearby parts, many people were killed. This brought a massive killing of fishes in the Don River, making a giant famine and hambrune. By 1985 Don River and nearby areas were devasted. Novocherkassk, the most important city in the zone was also devasted, radiocativeted and burned by the rain and dust, famine and hambrune were all over, even the smell of the city was horrible, they were even dead bodies in the streets. Meanwhile in the countryside agriculture was ENTIRILY dead also all domestic animals. An epidemy of Influenza was all over the zone specially in the countryside and in Novocherkassk. By 1987 the zone was almost dead.

Independence

In 1988 people in the zone start to talk about seceding and creating a sustantable goverment which would make survive the zone. In May 21, 1988, the declaration of a republic was made, it was the Don Republic. By 1990 the country was recovering thanks to a health program, agricultural program, Don River cleaning, and the reconstruction of Novocherkassk.

Today
The country has no military, and most of the people are farmers, in Novocherkassk there are some parts of the city still abandoned, but actual president Viktor Vodolatskiy is initiating a project of modernizing the capital city, Novocherkassk.