• Corrupt Politician: An ever-present problem since the 1991 August Coup is corruption in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• Occupiers Out of Our Country: A nationalist uprising can erupt against the USSR in Chechnya, the Ukraine and in Lithuania if handled poorly.
• Vestigial Empire: While the USSR was saved from death's door by the August Coup, the six-year-long Gorbachev administration has done its damage—the Union has lost much power and influence with the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the secession of several former SSRs.
• We ARE Struggling Together: The CPSU is bitterly divided between factions vying for power.

Gennady Yanayev

• Despair Event Horizon: After making some hasty, desperate attempts to rejuvenate the Soviet economy, Yanayev loses all hope of remaining General Secretary when he is informed the Politburo are seeking his resignation.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Yanayev resigns less than a year after the beginning of the game.
• The Chains of Command: Yanayev spends his short time in Game trying to balance the Influence of each Faction within the CPSU, all while trying to recover the collapsing Soviet Economy.

Valentin Pavlov

• Short-Lived Leadership: Valentin Pavlov serves only as a caretaker General Secretary until a new one can be elected by the CPSU.
• Authority in Name Only: Inorder to keep a semblance of Stability before the Election, Pavlov will Rule the Soviet Union for less then a Month.

Boris Pugo

• Breaking the Glass Ceiling: If Pugo becomes the General Secretary after Yanayev resigns, he will be the first General Secretary of the USSR of Latvian descent.
• Status Quo Is God: Boris Pugo leads the Conservative Faction of the CPSU that wants to keep the USSR running through its current style of governance without much reforms.
• Two Roads Before You: Boris Pugo can choose between enacting a Stalinist or Brezhnevite Economic Policy, with the ladder leading to the introduction of OGAS, and the Digitalization of the Economic System, Likewise He can also choose to attempt a Detente with the USA. or to continue the Soviets Aggresive Policy
• Enemy Mine Inorder to Purge the Politburo of Liberals and the Disloyal, Pugo will Empower Putin. A Man who would gladly Purge him if he ever became General Secretary
• Succession Crisis During Pugos reign you have many choices to support either Zyuganov or Adreyveva, following his Death, the more Influential One will take Power
• Government in Exile If Putin Purges the Military Faction, and then collapses, Boris Pugo and his fellow Conservative Party members will take Refuge in Central Asia, being the only other Government with any actual Legitimacy.

Nikolai Ryzhkov

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• Internal Reformist: If he comes to power, Ryzhkov will work to revive the stagnant Soviet economy. He can choose to reform it in one of two ways: either implementing his own version of Perestroika, or following Deng Xiaoping’s model of economic transformation.
• The Rival: Though not in the Traditional Sense, Ryzhkov serves as the Rival of both the Conservatives and Militarists, who attempt to thwart his Reforms at every possible Chance.
• Pragmatic Hero: Is Applicable if Ryzhkov uses Putins KGB inorder to Purge the Hardliners
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Similar to Gorbachev, if his Reforms go too far, and he is unable to Contain the Hardliner Pressure, he will be overthrown.

Dmitry Yazov

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• Cult of Personality: As the respected head of the Soviet armed forces, paintings and other artworks of Yazov are displayed in every single base, outpost, and barrack across the country.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Most of the wars waged by Yazov occur after completing focuses which give some hefty buffs to the military. Given that many of the targeted nations are nowhere near as powerful as the USSR to begin with, they stand no chance of winning.
• Deadly Gas: As part of the preparations for war with China, Yazov approves the use of chemical weapons.
• Old Soldier: Dmitry Yazov served in World War II, joining the Red Army at the age of seventeen.
• Revenge: The USSR under Yazov's leadership can invade and puppet Finland as revenge for the Winter War sixty years earlier.
• War Hawk: Yazov is the head of the Militarist Faction of the CPSU that wishes to reclaim the Warsaw Pact and invade either NATO or China.
• Historical Badass Upgrade: Yazov went from being One of the Heads of the failed August Coup, to the Leader of the Soviet Union, and potential Conquerer of Asia and the West.
• The Remnant: If Putin purged the Conservative Faction before collapsing, Yazov will take refuge in Central Asia, dedicating the rest of his Time purging his Enemies, and trying to reclaim the Union

Vladimir Putin

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• The Spymaster: At the start of the Game, Putin is the head of the influential KGB, to the point where other Paths include either allying with Him or purging Him.
• In Spite of a Nail: Putin can still come into power over Russia even in a timeline where the USSR has survived Mikhail Gorbachev's disastrous tenure.
• Sell-Out: Your only Options for Economic Reform as Putin both involve liberalizing the Economy, and paving the way for a new type of Oligarch Class in the Union.
• Deal with the Devil: This is first seen if you appoint Patrushev as KGB Director, as it leads to cooperation with Russian Nationalists and a Blind-eye to Corruption, in order to maintain Stability Putin will legalize Nationalist Parties in Russia and the Ukraine along with taking up contact with Eurasian Philospher Aleksander Dugin. His Ideas can help Putin Reform the Soviet Union into the Eurasian Empire
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Putins Portrait will change to have him wear stylish Aviators after he wins the Invasion of Europe.
• The Purge: Once Putin finishes consolidating Power in the KGB, he will denounce the Ruling Party and eventually Purge one of the Major Factions within it.
• Rubber-Band History: Putin can cause the dissolution of the Soviet Union, leading to a Result that is very similar to our Timeline.
• Russia in Ruins: If the Party refuses to approve his Plan which would give himself more Control over the Government, it leads into multiple cascading Events, eventually causing the Collapse of, and subsequent Civilwar in Russia and its Republics.
• Full-Circle Revolution: Putin, can use his new found Power within the Nationalist Movement, to form the Eurasian Empire, essentially subverting the Soviet Union, and turning it into a Neomonarchist Autocracy.
• Meet the New Boss: If Putins Union collapses, and he ends up reunifing it, it is shown that he is nothing more then an Oligarch, with the new Union having lost all Traces of Communism.

Mikhail Gorbachev

• The Scapegoat: The near Collapse of the Union in 1991 is blamed fully on him.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In our Timeline Gorbachevs Perestroika and Glasnost ended up causing the dissolution of the Soviet Union, this is almost the case, as He is removed via Coup in Red Dusk

Vladimir Kryuchkov

• Brutal Honesty: One early event sees Gennady Yanayev meet with Kryuchkov. While the meeting starts off friendly, Kryuchkov ends up bluntly telling Yanayev that his attempts at reform will only get him voted out of office by the Communist Party. He goes on to remind him that reforms were how Gorbachev was ousted from power.
• Retired Badass: Kryuchkov used to lead the KGB and played a major role in the August Coup, but by the time of the mod’s start date, he is retired and living comfortably in a dacha in the countryside of the Russian SFSR.

• Take a Third Option: The Reform Party has managed to find a place for itself in American politics as a proper third party on the national scale.
• In Spite of a Nail: Despite the differing circumstances in the RDTL, 9/11 still happens and shakes the US to its core.
• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: In the Red-Dusk Timeline, Jerry Brown becomes President in 1992. Although in our World he had attempted to win the 1992 Primaries, he lost it to Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton.

Dan Quayle

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• 0% Approval Rating: The recession and his refusal to attack the opponents has caused Dan Quayle's popularity to drop.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: President Quayle's illness leads him to not seek reelection, so he's only in power until the second year of the game.

George W. Bush

• In Spite of a Nail: George W. Bush still has the chance to get elected in the 2000 and 2004 Election, like how He did in our Timeline. Another similarity is that he can launch an invasion of Iraq whenever Saddam Hussein attempts to Takeover Kuwait.

Pat Buchanan

Al Gore

• Allohistorical Allusion: Even though he's not the incumbent Vice-President, Gore can still become the Democratic nominee for the 2000 election as he was in OTL.

Paul Wellstone

• Allohistorical Allusion: In our World Paul Wellstone died in a tragic Plane crash in the early 2000s, however he either survived, or never got into the Crash in Red Dusk.

Donald Trump

• Allohistorical Allusion: Although more associated with the Republicans and right wing politics in modern day, Trump really was a member of the Reform Party in 2000 and even attempted to become its presidential nominee.

Jesse Ventura

John McCain

Jeb Bush

Dick Cheney

John Kerry

Bill Bradley

Ann Richards

• Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Richards may become the first female President of the United States.

Bernie Sanders

Ralph Nader

Ron Paul

Tony Blair

Gordon Brown

William Hague

Ken Livingston

• Assassination Attempt: As the 2005 election kicks off, Prime Minister Ken Livingston is assassinated.

• Enemy Mine: During the collapse of the Fifth Republic, the RPR under Séguin reached out to the Socialist Party under Chevènement to form the MPR and shape together the Sixth Republic.
• Landslide Election: The MPR won the constitutional elections in a landslide, allowing it to shape the new Sixth Republic as it pleased.

Philippe de Gaulle

Wolfgang Schäuble

Angela Merkel

Wolfgang Schneiderhan

• Military Coup: If the Soviet Union invades its former states in Eastern Europe, Schneiderhan will use the German military to attempt a bloodless coup in the interest of national security.

• Balkanize Me: Yugoslavia did not completely collapse as OTL, but did lost Slovenia and Croatia and its control over Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo is not effective.
• Military Coup: If Stambolić fails to keep Milošević's loyalists weak enough the army might launch a coup.
• Occupiers Out of Our Country: Yugoslavia faces active Bosnian and Kosovar Albanian independentist forces.
  • If Šešelj comes to power, he will provoke nationalist revolts from the non-Serbian populations against his regime.
• Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: The Yugoslavian government refers to Bosnian and Kosovar independentists as terrorists while they and their supporters see them as freedom fighters against Serbian oppression.

Ivan Stambolić

• Team Switzerland: Yugoslavia under Stambolić will rejoin the Non-Aligned Movement.

Vojislav Šešelj

• Assassination Attempt: Shortly after the start of the nationalist revolts, an attempt is made on Šešelj's life by the Kosovo Liberation Army.
• Civil War: Šešelj's crackdown on non-Serbs provokes a series of nationalist revolts against his Serb ultranationalist regime leading to a Yugoslav Civil War.
• The Coup: Šešelj takes power in a coup supported by Serbian ultranationalist elements of the army and militias.
• Final Solution: After reconquering all of former Yugoslavia, Šešelj enacts a genocide against non-Serbians.

Victor Orbán

• Disaster Democracy: The failure of the invasion of Romania by the National State of Hungary leads to a democratic revolution against it.

• Balkanize Me: Czechoslovakia's unity is very fragile and very likely to end in a split between Czechia and Slovakia as it lives on borrowed time.
• Elite Army: Thanks to high military spendings, the Czechoslovak People's Army is one of the best in the former Warsaw Pact.
• Emergency Authority: In the wake of the bombing in the Central Committee, the Czechoslovak People's Army takes power and installs martial law, leading to protests from every opposition forces in the country.
• Enemy Mine: Everyone who stands against the government, including hated enemies like Anarchists, Fascists and Socialists, gets in the streets to protest the military coup.
• The Exile: Following the suppression of the Velvet Movement, Václav Havel went in exile. In the wake of the anti-government protests however, he comes back to Czechoslovakia to help organize them.

Miloš Jakeš

• Assassination Attempt: Several leaders of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) are killed in a bombing, including President Miloš Jakeš.

Vasil Bilak

• Civil War: Bilak's rule will cause Czech and Slovak liberal independentists to revolt against him, causing a civil war.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: Bilak's attempts to maintain a united communist Czechoslovakia by force will lead to a civil war that may definitively end it.

Ladislav Adamec

• History Repeats: A Yazov-led USSR will invade Finland a second time, intending to settle the score for failing to wholly conquer it in the Winter War.
• Team Switzerland: Finland is committed to neutrality between the Eastern and Western Blocs and refuses to take part in conflicts that are not their own.

Tarja Halonen

• Civil War: Algeria is embroiled in the same civil war as OTL with the government fighting the Islamic Salvation Front.

Mohammed Magariaf

• Regime Change: Magariaf leads the NATO-backed liberals who can launch an uprising to replace Muammar Gaddafi's administration with one that is much more friendly to neocolonialism.

• Civil War: As OTL, Sierra Leone is in a civil war between the government and the rebel Revolutionary United Front.

• Full-Circle Revolution: The RUF declared it would share the profits of diamond mining with the people unlike the "Freetown elite", instead they do the exact same thing and use the money to finance their war with the government.

• Civil War: As OTL, the Second Liberian Civil War is ongoing between the government of Charles Taylor and the LURD rebels.

• Civil War: As OTL, the Second Congo War is ongoing, opposing the Kabila government to the Rally for Congolese Democracy's insurgency.

• We ARE Struggling Together: Soon after game start, the anti-Kabila alliance will break and both RDC factions will go to war with each other.

• We ARE Struggling Together: Soon after game start, the anti-Kabila alliance will break and both RDC factions will go to war with each other.

• Civil War: As OTL, the Second Sudanese Civil War is ongoing between Omar al-Bashir's government and Sudan People's Liberation Army.

• Civil War: Similarly to the OTL Ethiopian Civil War, Ethiopia is in a civil war with Eritrean independentists.

• Occupiers Out of Our Country: The Eritrean People's Liberation Front seeks independence for Eritrea from Ethiopia.

• Balkanize Me: Should the EPRDF win the civil war, they will peacefully allow Eritrea to gain independence with a territory larger then OTL.

• Anarchy Is Chaos: Most of Somalia, except the federal member state of Somaliland, is in chaos with no central authority.

Joseph Kony

• Army of Thieves and Whores: The LRA is made up of brutal militias who respect nothing except power. This makes them poor armed forces if they take power in Uganda.
• The Coup: Kony takes power in the aftermath of the defeat of the Ugandan-backed side of the Second Congo War.
• Cult of Personality: After taking power, Kony creates a cult of personality around himself.
• The Fundamentalist: Joseph Kony is the leader of a Christian fundamentalist armed group.
• The Theocracy: Kony and the LRA want to establish a Christian theocracy in Uganda.

• Civil War: The Burundian Civil War is ongoing since 1993.

• Civil War: As OTL, the Angolan Civil War between the MPLA and UNITA is ongoing.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: The three flag proposals for a democratic South Africa were all proposed OTL.
• Assassination Attempt: The Military Junta assassinates Nelson Mandela as he lies in prison in an attempt to break the will to fight of the ANC. It doesn't work.
• Balkanize Me: If parliament attempts to suppress the ANC and goes through with it fully, South Africa will collapse into multiple states^note South African National Front under Viljoen, Fifth Commando Army, the ANC and the Boer Free State under Eugène Terre'Blanche.
• Civil War: South Africa will fall into civil war against the ANC if the military refuses to restore parliamentary rule.
• Deadly Gas: Apartheid South Africa may resort to chemical weapons against the ANC during the South African Civil War, earning the condemnation of the world.
• Emergency Authority: The Military Junta imposed martial law and people found outside after curfews are shot on sight.
• Foreign Ruling Class: Since 1948, South Africa has been an Apartheid state where the white minority, descended from settlers from Europe, holds all political power over the black native majority.
• Military Coup: General Constand Viljoen led a military coup against Nelson Mandela in 1994 to prevent the end of Apartheid.
• The Mutiny: A prelude to the South African Civil War is a mutiny by soldiers demanding the end of Apartheid and the release of political prisoners, but quickly ended by special forces.
• Naturalized Name: South Africa becomes known as Suid-Afrika under Terre'Blanche or Meiring, reflecting Afrikaner-only rule.
• The Purge: If the military junta is dismantled, the military will be investigated to root out the pro-junta elements.
• Revealing Cover-Up: The Junta declares Mandela's death was in "mysterious" and "uncertain" circumstances, only furthering the correct suspicions they murdered him.

Constand Viljoen

• The Generalissimo: Viljoen is the racist military dictator of Apartheid South Africa.
• People's Republic of Tyranny: After maintaining the militray junta, winning the civil war and the power struggle, Viljoen will found the "National Freedom Front" as the ruling party of his authoritarian state.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: General Viljoen made his coup and leads a military dictatorship to maintain South Africa's racist Apartheid system.
• Small, Secluded World: If Viljoen wins the post-civil war power struggle, he will lead an isolationist policy.

Georg Meiring

• Military Coup: The military faction led by Georg Meiring can coup Viljoen after the civil war.
• Rising Empire: Under Meiring, South Africa will invade its neighbors until it becomes master of Subsaharan Africa.

Frederik Willem de Klerk

• Emergency Authority: If parliament attempts to suppress the ANC but backtracks to prevent a civil war, it will take emergency powers.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

• Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Buthelezi can become the first black leader of South Africa, albeit one still under a form of Apartheid.

Thabo Mbeki

Patricia De Lille

• Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Patricia De Lille can become the first female leader of South Africa.

• The Alliance: The ANC can form the African Liberation Front with Botswana, Mozambique, Madagascar and Zimbabwe, getting their help to win the civil war.
• Landslide Election: The ANC will win the first post-Apartheid with more than 90% of the vote—unsurprisingly, since the blacks who make up their support base and who are finally allowed to vote after the end of Apartheid make up the majority of the country's population.
• Please Select New City Name: The ANC gets rid of English and Afrikaans toponyms, replacing them with native ones. Port Elizabeth becomes Gqerbeha (as OTL), Port Natal becomes Durban, Johannesburg becomes eGoli, Bloemfontein becomes Manguang, Cape Town becomes Madiba City in honor of Nelson Mandela, Madiba being his nickname.
• La Résistance: The ANC leads an insurgency against the Apartheid government and may start a civil war against the Junta to end it.
• Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: As OTL, the Apartheid government refers to the ANC as terrorists while its supporters consider them freedom fighters against the Junta's racist dictatorship.

Thabo Mbeki

• Breaking the Glass Ceiling: If Apartheid is fully abolished, Mbeki can become the first black leader of South Africa.
• Cult of Personality: At the conclusion of his focus tree, Mbeki is heralded as the second father of the state.
• Rebel Leader: Mbeki is the de facto political leader of the ANC since Mandela's imprisonment and de jure after his assassination, leading the fight against apartheid since.
• The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified: If the ANC favors democratization or gives in to popular backlash against authoritarianism, Azania will find itself on the path to become a genuine democracy.

Fikile Mbalula

• The Coup: As the People's Republic of Azania organizes its first election, the Youth League can storm the ANC's convention and take power.

Surat Huseynov

• Allohistorical Allusion: OTL Surat Huseynov launched in 1993 the military coup that turned Azerbaijan into an authoritarian state.
• Military Coup: Surat Huseynov will organize a coup against the Azerbaijani government with the support of the Armed Forces after the Iranian takeover of Lankaran.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: The flag of Syria as an Iranian puppet is the same as the flag of the OTL Syrian Salvation Government, an Islamist faction of the Syrian Civil War.
• Hereditary Republic: As OTL, Hafez Al-Assad will be succeeded by his son Bashar upon his death.
• We Used to Be Friends: Syria and Iraq once had a cordial relationship. However, the Iraqi and Syrian factions of the Ba'ath Party fell into conflict over growing ideological difference; the Syrian Ba'athists remained mostly committed to socialism and secularism, while Iraq under Saddam has drifted towards a more right-wing and militaristic form of Ba'athism with some Sunni Islamist rhetoric.

Hafez Al-Assad

• We Hardly Knew Ye: Hafez will die less than two years into the game, leaving his son Bashar to succeed him and decide the future of Syria.

• Foreign Ruling Class: Israel was founded upon the colonialist view that Jews, regardless of where they are actually from, have the right to occupy Palestine as their 'rightful' homeland while discriminating against native Palestinians.
• Hated by All: Israel's existence is a major sore spot for its Arab neighbours.

• Puppet State: The State of Palestine, though nominally independent and a member of the UN, is in practice wholly subservient to Israel, which occupies half of its territory.

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• La Résistance: The Kurdish insurgency is very active and might even rebel if not kept in check.
• Shocking Defeat Legacy: The consequences of the Gulf War still hang heavily over Iraq with the continued presence of no-fly zones enforced by the USA and the Iraqi military still not recovering from its utter destruction during the war.

Saddam Hussein

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• Allohistorical Allusion: Saddam may launch an invasion of Kuwait like in OTL 1991.
• Cult of Personality: As OTL, Saddam Hussein creates a cult of personality around himself.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: If the player decides to use force against the Kurds, Saddam enacts harsh measures to further suppress the Iraqi Kurds to diminish their ability and will to fight. This includes forced deportation, incarcerating Kurdish activists, and authorizing bombing runs against Peshmerga military camps and Kurdish villages.

• Occupiers Out of Our Country: Iraqi Kurds will rise up against Saddam Hussein's regime to create an independent Kurdistan.

Masoud Barzani

• Rebel Leader: Masoud Barzani is the leader of the KDP and its fighters for independence.

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• Hated by All: Iran has a contentious relationship with its neighbours.
  • Iraq has an ongoing territorial dispute over the Khuzestan Province as the region is home to a large population of Iranian Arabs.
  • Saudi Arabia and Iran clash over religious differences. Saudi Arabia is a Sunni Kingdom, while Iran is a Shia Islamic Republic, with both vying to be the dominant power in the Middle East.
• The Theocracy: Iran, as its full name suggests, is an Islamic Republic under the rule of an Ayatollah.

Sayyid Ali Khamenei

Mohammad Khatami

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Mir-Hussein Musavi

Mohammad Musavi Khoeiniha

• Civil War: As OTL, Afghanistan is in a civil war between the ruling Talibans and the Northern Alliance.
• The Remnant: If defeated by the Northern Alliance, the Talibans will start an insurgency just like OTL.

• Civil War: The Communists can start a civil war in India.

• Civil War: As OTL, the Sri Lankan Civil War is ongoing between the government and the LTTE, which seeks to create an independent Tamil state.

• Occupiers Out of Our Country: The LTTE seeks independence for Tamil Eelam from Sri Lanka, which has long been discriminating against the Tamil minority.

• Civil War: Nepal falls into civil war between the Royalist government and Maoist insurgents.

Pushpa Kamal Dahal

• The Purge: After taking power, the Maoists purge the remnants of the Royalist regime.

• Balkanize Me: Thailand's defeat in the Fourth Indochina War leads to its collapse into several states.

Surayud Chulanont

• Military Coup: The military can organize a coup against the Thai government.

Norodom Ranariddh

• Military Coup: Royalist forces led by the FUNCINPEC will launch a military coup against the Communist government, splitting the country in two.

Pen Sovan

Sam Rainsy

• Corrupt Politician: Corruption has become a rampant issue in Vietnam since the adoption of the Doi Moi reforms.
• Far East Asian Terrorists: The 'Degar State' is a terrorist group that operates in Vietnam's Central Highlands, promoting the local ethnic minorities to secede and create a Protestant state.
• Won the War, Lost the Peace: Not different from real life, after Vietnam's heroic victory against the US and its puppet Republic of Vietnam, the peace was cut short by a war with Pol Pot's regime. Although conventional warfare lasted only 2 weeks, Vietnam has had to maintain an oversized armed force to fight off Khmer Rouge remnants for a decade, all while being sanctioned by most non-socialist countries. This took a heavy toll on the Vietnamese economy, causing the industrialisation plans of the 80s to fail.

• Balkanize Me: If the USSR invades China, it may divide the country after its victory, creating separate puppet states in East Turkestan, Tibet and Manchuria.

Jiang Zemin

Hu Jintao

Chen Liangyu

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• Allohistorical Allusion: The flag of the Taipei Special Administrative Region is the same as the OTL flag of the Taiwan People's Communist Party.
• We ARE Struggling Together: The Kuomintang suffers from infighting between factions, harming its position in Taiwanese politics.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: President Lee Teng Hui may resign barely a month after the game's start due to pressure from his own party.

Hau Pei-tsun

• Landslide Election: Hau wins the 2000 election in a landslide.

Future Update

• Loss of Identity: The country is undergoing an identity conflict whether it is Chinese or Taiwanese, with tensions rising between both sides of the growing divide.

Soong Chu-yu

• Naturalized Name: He is also known by the english name James Soong.

Keizō Obuchi

• We Hardly Knew Ye: He dies a few months after game start.

Yoshirō Mori

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• Hereditary Republic: The head of state of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is always a member of the Kim family.

Kim Jong Il

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• MegaCorp: The Republic of Korea's economy is completely dominated by large industrial conglomerates known as chaebols.

Kim Dae-jung

John Howard

• Corrupt Politician: Brazil has a practically endemic problem of corruption.

Vladimir Putin

• Full-Circle Revolution: Following His failed attempt at reforming and centralizing the Soviet Union. If he is able to reunify the Union, he will fill the Politburo with only the most loyal and corrupted Apparatchiks, to make sure that no Dissent like that would ever occur again.
• Meet the New Boss: It is shown that when he reunifies the Soviet Union, that it ends up being nothing more then a Communist State in Name, as a new Oligarch Class dominates all aspect of Soviet Society.

Sergei Ivanov

• Knight Templar: The KGB in Leningrad will rise up and support their allies in the Task Force Moskva, regardless of who currently occupies Moscow, their only mission being to remove the Revisionists and reunite the Union under the KGB.
• Last Stand: Ivanov and his Forces in Leningrad will never peacefully surrender, even if their only hope of Survival is ended with the fall of Task Force Moskva. They will fight to the Bitter end rather then give up to Traitors of the Union
• Redshirt Army: Unlike the Task Force Moskva, the KGB in Leningrad are entirely comprised of disorganized Units that just so happened to be stationed there when the KGB revolted.

Sergei Ivanov

• Knight Templar: Similar to the KGB in Leningrad, the Task Force Moskva have risen up for the express purpose of defeating the Traitors in Moscow, be they Putinist Revisionists or Reactionaries under the Banner of Limonov.
• Elite Army: While the KGB Units themselves are mostly unsuitable for long term Combat, many high ranking Generals and Heavily Armoured Units defect to the KGB upon their rebellion.
• Sinister Surveillance: When the KGB reunify the Soviet Union, they will go to extreme Lengths to make sure any Unrest will be nipped in the Bud before it can cause any real damage, leading to a 1984 style Totalitarian State.

Eduard Limonov

• Commie-Nazis: Limonovs National Bolshevik State is just that, the Fusion of Marxist and Ultranationalist Beliefs.
• Cult of Personality: Eduard was an incredibly theatric and charming Personality in our timeline, one would assume that these Traits are only complimented as Leader of the new Russian State.