Yugoslavia (Nuclear Apocalypse: 2014)

Yugoslavia, officially the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is a sovereign state located on the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe. Yugoslavia originally dissolved during the events surrounding the Yugoslav Wars.

History
Yugoslavia emerged after the First World War in 1918 under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes by the merger of the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (itself formed from territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire) with the formerly independent Kingdom of Serbia. The Serbian royal House of Karađorđević became the Yugoslav royal dynasty. Yugoslavia gained international recognition on 13 July 1922 at the Conference of Ambassadors. The country was named after the South Slavic peoples and constituted their first union, following centuries in which the territories had been under the rule of the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary.

The nation was renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 3 October 1929, and it was invaded by the Axis powers on 6 April 1941 during the Second World War. In 1943, a Democratic Federal Yugoslavia was proclaimed by the Partisan resistance. In 1944, King Peter II recognized it as the legitimate government, but in November 1945 the monarchy was abolished and the king exiled. Yugoslavia was renamed the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia in 1946, when a Marxist-Leninist government was established. It acquired the territories of Istria, Rijeka, and Zadar from Italy. Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito ruled the country as the head of state until his death in 1980. In 1963, the country was renamed again as the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

The constituent six socialist republics that made up the country were the SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SR Croatia, SR Macedonia, SR Montenegro, SR Serbia, and SR Slovenia. Serbia contained two Socialist Autonomous Provinces, Vojvodina and Kosovo, which after 1974 were largely equal to the other members of the federation. After an economic and political crisis in the 1980s and the rise of nationalism, Yugoslavia broke up along its republics' borders, at first into five countries, leading to the Yugoslav Wars.

After the breakup, the republics of Serbia and Montenegro formed a reduced federation, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), which aspired to the status of sole legal successor to the SFRY, but those claims were opposed by the other former republics. Eventually, Serbia and Montenegro accepted the opinion of the Badinter Arbitration Committee about shared succession. Serbia and Montenegro themselves broke up in 2006 and became independent states, while Kosovo proclaimed independence in 2008. Kosovo's recognition remained controversial in the international community, Serbia refused to recognise her independence.

Nearly a decade later, the world would be engulfed in the nuclear war. Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia maintained a policy of neutrality during and before the events of the conflict and therefore they were left untouched. Croatia and Slovenia, however, were both member states of NATO and the European Union and they were struck by Russian ICBMs. Within thirty minutes, their capital cities and military bases were obliterated, leaving the two nations weakened.