Republic of Kaliningrad (World of Sultans)

The Republic of Kaliningrad (Russian: Республика Калининград Respublika Kaliningrad, German: Republik von Königsberg, Polish: Republika Kaliningradzie) is a country located in Eastern Europe.

Russian, German and Polish are the three official state languages.

Christianity is the predominant religion practiced in Kaliningrad, consisting of over 95%. Russian Orthodoxy comprises for 55%, while Roman Catholicism comprises 40% of the total religious makeup. The other 5% comprise of other Christians, Islam, Buddhism, as well as irreligious.

Kaliningrad currently runs on a presidential republic.

Due to its location, the country is also known for its German and Polish influence in addition to the Russian one. During World War II, the Russians occupied the city in 1944. The German population was subsequently persecuted. Forces led by Imperial Russian Army general Ivan Chernyakhovsky carried out the persecutions against Germans, in a retaliatory vengance for the way the Germans treated Russian POWs.

However, General Aleksandr Vasilevsky viewed the ethnic Germans as valuable to the Russian invasion of Germany, and along with Chernyakhovsky, made a deal and pact with German leaders, to help the Russians in their invasion of Germany. Out of mercy, most of the German citizens agreed, which led the formation and Kaliningrad Battalion, consisting of ethnic Germans serving under the Imperial Russian Army. Known as the Treaty of Königsberg, it is known to have saved the German population of modern-day Kaliningrad from total extermination or expulsion.

General Vasilevsky ordered the Russians to only shoot resisting Germans, and to spare German cathedrals, palaces, buildings and etc. from destruction. In order to prevent any possible German resistance from using this to their advantage, General Vasilevsky installed ethnic German puppets in charge of these places to weed out any resistors.