Nowa Polska, officially the Polish Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, was a warlord state in Kazakhstan. It borders the Caspian Sea and Aktobe to the south-east, Reichskommissariat Moskowien to the west, and Samara and Orenburg to the north.
The country was governed by Polish refugees who were forced out of Europe. These refugees were the largest ethnic group in the region, though still making up less than a majority of the population, thus placing the native Kazakh people and Russian settlers under a minority government. This was a large source of contention between the people of this region.
The state was led by Marian Spychalski, a Polish resistance figure and popular leader amongst the Polish people. His government, known as the National Salvation Council, does not wish to take over the Kazakh region, but only to administrate a temporary homeland until the Polish people would return to Europe.
In the v.1.5.0 "The Ruin" update, Nowa Polska was removed and its territory made part of the Kazakh SSR. However, the state in which it used to exist has a majority Polish culture.
Every several weeks, Luftwaffe planes from the airfields of Reichskommissariat Moskowien fly over the warlord states of western Russia, gleefully bombing any civilian targets they find as a demented form of "pilot training". While they make life hell for rural communities and can occasionally slip through and rain fire upon provincial cities, they find that lingering for too long in Russian airspace risks interception by the remnants of the Soviet Air Forces. If the Free Aviators were not there to give the Luftwaffe hell at every opportunity, the situation in Russia would be far more dire.
Marian Spychalski's Bizarre Dictatorship
Daily Political Power Gain: +0.10
Stability: +10.00%
Acceptance of Authoritarian Socialist Diplomacy: +0.10
Acceptance of Libertarian Socialist Diplomacy: +0.10
The "Rada Ocalenia Nowej Polski" (RONP) assumed power through a bloodless coup against the ineffective civilian government led by the Polish Workers' Party. The new military dictatorship consists of officers that fought alongside the Soviet Union in either the 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division or leftist resistance movements such as the People's Guard and the People's Army. Its political ideology defies classification - Marian Spychalski declares "full allegiance to the West Russian Revolutionary Front, the Soviet Union and socialism as a whole". all while making tactical alliances with the clergy, subverting the Polish Workers' Party, and liberalizing society as a whole. This has been viewed as a betrayal of the principles of socialism by some, and has thus led to stanch critique by ideological purists of the Polish Workers' Party. In the end, the RONP exists solely to ensure the survival of the endangered Polish nation - everything else comes second.
Nation of Survivors
Recruitable Population Factor: -20%
Stability: +20.00%
Division Defense on core territory: +20.0%
Originally a mere nation-building project initiated by the Soviet Union to create a Polish autonomy within the Kazakh SSR, the territory of the Polish ASSR became the promised land for thousands of Poles who were deported by the Nazis from their true homeland and Soviet-Polish citizens who found themselves unwelcome by post-Soviet warlords; with every single one of them facing incredible suffering and hardships on the journey away from home.
The sons and daughters of Nowa Polska will stop at nothing to protect their new homeland from any invader.
Polish Rule
Daily Political Power Gain: +0.25
Division Organization: +20.0%
Recruitable Population Factor: -20%
Stability: -20.00%
Acting in the interests of the Polish nation first and foremost, the government of Nowa Polska found itself at odds with the local Kazakh population, who are now disadvantaged and undermined in the lands of their forefathers.
Combined with the unclear and hardly-defined policy of the Polish state towards Kazakhs, the ethnic tensions remain one of the major issues for Nowa Polska that threaten the stability of the young state.