Armenia (Vote Socialist)

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation is a large landlocked federal state nestled within the caucausas bordering Turkey, Kurdistan, Persia, and Russia. The federation is a single party state, however it is considered democratic by international standards. The Armenian Revolutionary Federation is both a political party and federal state and elections for head of state are held within the party. The ARF also represents more than just the land of Armenia, but also many Armenians living abroad, particularly in Lebanon where it has a few seats in the regional assembly. The ARF is powerful regional military and economic power noted for its system of national service that has been utilized in ongoing border skirmishes over a border strip with Kurdistan. The ARF was established in 1923 in the wake of the Armenian Genocide and after the Armenian Revolution drove out both the Kemalists and Azeris and led to a peace treaty between Turkey and Armenia under pressure from Russia. During World War II, Turkey would invade Armenia as well as Greece and eventually the British Empire and Arabia. Throughout the interwar period, Armenia would grow and industrialize, becoming an emerging power in the center of Eurasia. Leon Trotsky had allied with Armenia reluctantly in order to defeat the Menshevik dictatorship in Georgia which had allied with Ataturk's Turkey. and they suffered immensely. Turkey wwas backed by the military-industrial complex of Germany and had a fiercely modern military compared to the revolutionary militia of Trotsky's red army. Turkey had also incited rebellions in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Chechnya. Though Turkey would capture Yerevan in 1941, the ARF would continue resistance and assassinations on local leaders until the Turkish would surrender to a Russian-Armenian coalition army at Kars. With Turkey now protected by Britain, Russia had to act more carefully and demanded a plebiscite to determine which areas would go to the ARF and which would go to Turkey. In 1945, after the Russian supported Mimeograph Putsch, Armenia sided with the USA and split against Russia and Turkey. Subsequently, nuclear weapons were placed by Russia near Armenia in the Russian autonomy of Azerbaijan. After the dissolution of the German Empire in 1987 led to instability in the German allied state of Turkey. Leftist students had become a major protest force, and Abdullah Ocalan's Kurdish Worker's Party would become a major force in a new Kurdish independence movement. Ocalan would initially work with Russia, America, and the ARF. After the collapse of the Turkist government, Armenians and Kurds would soon bicker over lands, with the most nationalist Armenians asking for the city of Wan and nearly all of eastern Turkey. In the 90s, a series of conflicts would break out between Turkey, Kurdistan, and Armenia. In the 2000s, thawing of relations between the countries would lead to a series of treaties in which Korea would give up claims to a large portion of Turkish territory while theyl would maintain an official claim on a small border strip.