Gorno-Badakhshan (1983: Doomsday)

The Islamic Republic of Badakhshan, or Gorno-Badakhshan, Is a nation in eastern Tajikstan.The nation is located in a mountainous climate in Central Asia. The republic is not in the League of Nations, being blocked by the USSR from entering.

Pre-Doomsday
Before the events of September 26, 1983,the Tajik SSR had one of the worst standards of living in the USSR. It was home to the Persian Tajik people.

Post doomsday
Although the region was never directly hit, Fallout and the onslaught of refugees from the north and east resulted in mass hysteria and unrest in the republic. With no contact with Moscow, the Tajik SSR quickly disenigrated, Its core becoming a mass of unorganized warlords and clans. In the west, however, A Pamiri-Russian Imam by the name of Mohammed Yussof formed the Islamic Republic of Gorno-Badakhshan. He set up a counsil of personally picked officials,  many Imams themselves, some who had served in the Soviet army, and others local Pashmiri leaders. One of his first problems he faced was dealign with the Uzbek, Tajik, and Kazakh refugees which were flooding into the new republic. They had taken up residence un in the northern part of the nation, creating chaos with the locals. Sending which would later become the Badakh Army to deal with the horde of foreigners.

Rebuilding
In late 1984, contact was made with the Kokandi provisional government and later other new governments in Central Asia. Reconstruction proscesses led by the government began across the region, mainly south of the Pyandzh river, which although improving the living conditions of those in the capital and other residencies south of the river, would plant the seeds of the Badakh Insurgency.

In 1985 they came into contact with Pakistan, who would become a valuable trading partner for the small nation, and the capital was officially placed at Khrough. FOr the next 4 years the development would continue, although not up to scale as some of its distant neighbors, it continued to attract refugees from regions across central asia, which would lead to a minor food shortage and later the closing of its borders. The Sunni refugees would cause sectarian violence in the north, for the latter part of the decade a few riots.

Military
Badakhshan has a small standing army of about 16,000 men. They patrol the north for insurgents and have gone on policing raids, Not fighting a major war since the Badakh Civil War and Border clashes with Afghan tribes.

The Army uses former Soviet weaponry, the standard assault rifle being the AKM and AK-47.