Georgia

= Georgia = Georgia is a country in the Southern Caucaus. It borders the Don-Kuban Union to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia and the Ottoman Empire to the south.

History
The modern state of Georgia was established under the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, and during the ensuing chaos of the Russian Civil War she emerged as a Menshevik stronghold, firmly establishing a potentially grave threat to White Forces in the Caucasus and Don-Kuban region who were only just beginning to regroup. However, the Georgian leadership quickly declared their new country's neutrality in the Civil War, and unwilling to risk a potentially disastrous conflict in the mountains of the Caucasus, especially when the Bolsheviks still held the Russian heartland, Kerensky and the Generals were content to leave the small state alone for the time being. A Popular Front of native Mensheviks, small groups of Bolsheviks, and Social Revolutionaries quickly emerged, and went to work building a new form of 'Caucasian Socialism' under a representative parliamentary system.

Since the revolution, the state has been characterized by strong state power, regulation, and intervention, and although this has given the country a surprisingly strong industrial base, not all is well in Menshevik Georgia. Indeed, the industrialization process subverted the country's constitution by creating a massive and unaccountable bureaucratic administration and putting it in charge of the country, and with each day the regime of this vast organization becomes more and more bound to the police and 'internal security service'. Georgia's democratic constitution has now become irrelevant, and all real power is now concentrated in the hands of the Supreme Economic Council, which is in turn increasingly controlled by the Chairmanship of Lavrentiy Beria - a man who is eager to integrate more regions into the Caucasian Socialist State.

Politics
Georgia is a socialist republic controlled by the Menshevik Party of Georgia.

President: Kandid Charkviani

Chairman of the Central Committee of the Menchevik Party and Minister of War: Lavrentiy Beria

Minister of Foreign Affairs: Budu Mdivani

Minister of Finance: Georgi Eliav

Head of the Internal Security Service: Sergo Ordzhonikidzhe

Head of the External Security Service: Nikola Nakashidzhe

Chief of Georgian Ground Forces: Igor D. Tcherniakhovski

Chief of Georgian Navy: Alexei Brusilov

Chief of Georgian Air Force: Mamia Orakhelashvili

Military
The People's Guard is the privileged military force in the country. Founded on September 5 1917 as the Worker's Guard it was later renamed into the Red Guard, and finally into the People's Guard. It is a highly politicized military structure placed directly under the control of the Ministry of War and consist of six infantry divisions. Serious naval and air military programs were never attempted.

Foreign Relations
Friendly relations with Socialist Republic of Italy.

Unfriendly relations with Don-Kuban Union, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Ottoman Empire.