Collab:Suria

This encyclopedia article is about the mapping collaboration in Suria. You may be looking for the page for the country itself.

The Surian Confederation (Suria) is a territory in central Uletha and a collaborative project on a national scale. It consists of 9 confederative units (republics) with high autonomy. However, have in mind that Suria is a confederation and Surian republics are not independent.

To join a project, contact Bixelkoven, the admin for West Uletha. To learn more about the project and the general vision, you can also contact users ante44, sudo91, and thermo_nuclear.

Ideas and rules

As of June 2023, out of 9 republics, 5 are available for claiming and two are for participating in republic collaboration. Triglav, the capital city, is a collaborative project as well, despite being the part of available Sur Republic. It is currently being developed by users ante44 and sudo90. Being a planned city, it requires coordination and mutual agreement, so please, refrain from unilateral editing before contacting aforementioned users.

Republic	Status	Owner/Coordinator	Mapping inspiration and culture elements	Area on OGF
Sur	collaborative	none	Historic core of Russia	UL16-01
Chara	collaborative	stjur	southern Russia, Ukraine (terrain), northern Russia and pre-christian Russia sometimes (culture-wise). Minorities such as Antharians (~Romanians), Hellanesians (~Greeks), and even Demirhan Turquese (~Turks) can also be found there.	UL16-02
Lido	owned	sudo90	Culturally is similar to St. Petersburg area with Western European influence, also Ukrainian, Belarus and Polish elements. The terrain is mostly russian moderate forests and taiga.	UL16-03
Livadia	available	none	Some mix of Russian (Surian) culture and one of the minorities, possibly Turkic.	UL16-04
Karzalia	owned	thermo_nuclear	Inspired by Tatarstan and Azerbaijan mostly, the terrain is somewhat similar to Ural mountains or Carpats. Most of the population are Karzals with about a quarter of Surians.	UL16-05
Chobouk	available	none	vague analog of Central Asian countries, e.g. Kazakhstan.	UL16-06
Tabriz	available	none	To be determined. Probably Turkic but Finno-Ugric is also plausible	UL16-07
Bardash	owned	ante44	Bardashians are a Velitic (~Slavic) nation somewhat similar to South Slavs. Culturally has close ties to neighbouring Mallyore.	UL16-08
West Kartlegia	available	none	Generally based on Georgia.	UL16-09

Before joining, few things you should have in mind regarding the lore of country:

• Suria is a socialist country with semi-planned economy. The planning degree can vary between republics, thence decentralized from national level (it is the subject of internal republic affairs). You should adapt your mapping and develop your lore and ideas in this direction.
• Although not a direct copy, the Surian Confederation is highly inspired by the Soviet Union, with some major differences:
  • Surian republics are more autonomous than the republics and territorial units of ex-USSR. This means that each republic has its own government, ministries and sub-republic administrative units. However, the army and foreign affairs are coordinated on national level.
  • Suria is less totalitarian and authoritarian than ex-USSR. It is democratic to some extent: there is an election system strongly favorizing different socialist parties. Each republic can have distinct socialist parties or regional branches of different parties on a national level. The business in general is also somewhat less supervised and centralized than in the USSR. For example, some important industry will be controlled by the central government, but small business and retailers will be subject of regulated, but liberalized socialist market principles.
  • Local cultures other than Surian (Russian) are not repressed, especially constitutive republic nations (other Slavic nations, Turkic nations). Republics can not be overpowered; the concept of confederation implies joint decision-making and the vote equality of every constitutive republic. Nevertheless, Surian culture is major one and dominant, with Surian (Russian) language acting as lingua franca of the country.
• You could loosely imagine the Surian Confederation as the vision of the Soviet Union in modern times if it had not dissolved. Again, please refrain from any direct copying from real world.

Urban mapping style mostly resembles old Eastern European or Central Asian forts and towns, blended with Soviet-styled mapping in 20th century and contemporary time. Rural areas are diverse and represent various regions of ex-Soviet Union. For general plans regarding climate and geography, or peculiarities of certain region, feel free to contact coordinators or republic owners.