Russia (From Sea to Shining Sea)

The Democratic Republic of Russia, informally known as Russia, is a democratic country in Eurasia.

Formation
On February 18, 1905, inspired by the success of the Hundred Days' Reform in China, Tsar Nicholas II signed the Articles of Democracy, Russia's Constitution, transferring his political power to the State Duma. This turned Russia into a constitutional monarchy, and located the capital to Moscow. Vladimir Lenin was elected as Prime Minister of Russia on June 18, 1905. The Russian Provisional Government was renamed the "Republic of Russia" by Lenin, and later changed to the "Democratic Republic of Russia" by Trotsky in 1935. Under Lenin, the country slowly industrialized, and allied with Britain and France, while relations with the Austro-Hungarian Empire gradually deteriorated. On September 24, 1905, a cease-fire was negotiated with Japan, ending the Russo-Japanese War. Lenin implemented socialist policies intended to help the workers and peasants.

Support for American communists
When World War 1 erupted across Europe, Russia was only involved for 4 months before Lenin convinced Austria-Hungary to negotiate. Lenin saw a Russian defeat as inevitable and the White Army as too weak to win the war. Before Russia left the war, the German Empire's invasion of France had begun. Russia spent most of the war solving internal issues. Under Trotsky, Russia supplied international support for the Workers' Freedom Army in the Second American Civil War, though this ended in 1932 with the election of Joseph Stalin. By World War 2, the White Army, the military of Russia, successfully repelled the Nazi invasion. Following the end of World War 2, Russia became a global superpower.

Cold War
Germany was divided among Russia, Britain, France, and the United Socialist Republics of America. While sections occupied by France, Britain, and Russia were reunited, the American-occupied section became the short-lived country of South Germany. The new country began invading the much larger "North Germany", and with help from the countries that previously occupied it, East Germany fell and was incorporated into the "Federal Republic of Germany". The clash between the capitalist economy of Russia and communist economy of America drove the Cold War between the 2 countries from 1945 to 2015, though this ended when the American president Janet Kim passed the reforms of 2015, renouncing America's right to declare war.

Later history
Throughout the 1980s, the rise of nationalist moments lead to many regions of Russia breaking off into independent nations, which still recognized the Tsar as their monarch. Under Gorbachev, Russia joined both the European Union and the Asian Alliance, founded the Eurasian Coalition, the successor of the Sino-Russian Alliance, which grew into an alliance between the European Union and Asian Alliance, and cemented relations with America. By modern day, Russian citizens enjoy the fifth-highest standard of living, the third-lowest infant mortality rate, the world's fourth-largest industry, the nineteenth-least corrupt and twelfth-most stable government. In today's world, Russia benefits from the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons, a large military, and a large number of allies, but suffers from a stagnant population growth and a struggling economy.