S.F.R. Xylvania Lore

Xylvania was formally one of three large, ancient empires located on the continent of Transafricasiana, comprising of no less than 6 subordinate kingdoms and numerous Vassals and Duchies.Resenting the perceived humiliation dished out by the presence of relatively new, European states to the south and having lost the northern territory of Develon and Kaiserreich to the Southwest to pay off decades worth of debt to the settler states. Xylvania's elite begun to deeply distrust and resent both their own emperor and the increased organization of their own working populus; fearing that they would meet the fate of the French nobility 100 years prior.
These fears were soon realized when the largest of the three empires experienced a continental-wide uprising in 1921, leading to the establishment of the continent's first socialist state; People's Republic of Transafricasiana with an ideology deeply inspired by both the Soviet Union and early Indian Nationalism.
The elites responded rapidly and brutally, deposing the Emperor in favour of a Executive Military Council and ferociously clamping down on trade unionists, separatists and monarchist elements of Xylvanian society in addition to invading and annexing the Republic of Kaiserriech, Moratia and N. Columbia. The final notable for being a defacto private US colony set up citizens unhappy with the enlargement of the US Federal government during the late 1840's and substantially expanded nearly a century later by people disaffected by the great depression and thus possessing a substantial core of fascist & authoritarian sympathizers. Inspired by European fascists like Mussolini they slowly begun to turn the country into a totalitarian state dominated by the ruling 'Xylvanian Patriotic league', such efforts were also replicated in the occupied territories, each one possessing it's own XPL spin-off.

The regime's allegiance to fascism however would prove to ultimately be it's undoing, after spending the best part of 10 years militarizing it attempted to topple the P.R.T. through an protracted ground invasion in late 1940. In similar fashion to Germany's ill-fated invasion of the USSR some six months later the Xylvanian's quickly found themselves in hot water, unable to man and adequately equip their nearly 2000 mile frontline, by 1942 progress ground to a halt. Over the next 5 years the regime was gradually pushed back by the efforts of the P.R.T. and Settler states, Kaiserreich and Moratia both being liberated by December 1946. The battle for Xylvania itself was a bloody affair with almost all industry, rail and roads damaged or destroyed and half of Dresselburg itself levelled in the war's final 3 month battle between September-November 1947.
Upon it's defeat, the nation was placed directly under the occupation of the P.R.T. for three years, eventually regaining 'independence' under a socialist system in 1951. The new state's challenges are still vast, having lost the majority of it's arable land to P.R.T. annexation and being almost entirely dependent on it for power, materials and resources. The first two economic plans under the previous Chairman managed to repair most of the roads and railways; in no small part due to the P.R.T. army's need for such infrastructure to be put in place to move troops around, but the country is still very much little more than a Transafricasian outpost. The challenge for the new chairman in 1960 is to turn this net consumer of P.R.T. aid into a stable, reliable contributer to Transafricasiana's Socialist states. He must do this whilst juggling a delicate combination of domestic and international challenges, housing is still a major issue as is the border with the capitalist Settler States, not to mention the issues of separatism and social unrest stemming from the smallest republic; North Kaiserriech. Bisected against it's will from the rest of the country as a concession for the P.R.C;'s role in liberating the Republic from fascist occupation nearly twenty years ago.