A bit of a primer on the state of...the United States in the 2040s.
The United States is not in a good way, its economy has shrunk following the loss of France and Japan as part of its bloc and increasingly losing more and more of Africa and Latin America. The Two party system has broken apart following the fracturing of the Republican party when its cult of personality around its earlier candidate lead to the party tearing itself apart in trying to find a designated successor after he died. A sort of PR system was hastily established as the democratic party began to fragment too in an effort to build a sort of stability via the establishment of coalitions to appoint the speaker of the house while the Presidency shifted to direct popular vote as a minor concession. Give the people more illusion of choice while the coalitions ultimately consolidate politics more around the centre.
The current American parties with Congressional representation are from left to right: The International Proletarian Party of America, the Socialist Liberation Party of America, the Labor Party of America, the People's Party of America, the Green Party of America, the Progressive Reform party of America, the Democratic Party of America (Populist Faction), the Democratic Party of America (Liberal Faction), the Constitutionalist Party of America ("Compassionate Conservative"), the Libertarian Party of America, the National Conservative Party of America, the Republican Party of America (currently lead by someone who is best friends with the Grand Wizard of the KKK), the American Traditional Worker's Party, the American Ultranationalist Legion, and the American Christian Ultranationalist Corporatist Party which is exactly as horrifying as it sounds but is not poised to win any state besides maybe Idaho.
The current president, Karen Jane Whittaker, may or may not have been a Secret Service agent in her twenties and may or may not have killed a certain senator from Vermont on orders from the directorate of the Secret Service during the crises started by the fall of France and Japan. She's ruthless but pragmatic and understands that she's not in the strongest position but is always looking for opportunities to try and break that. She's facing challengers from multiple ends, left and right; but seems likely to win her re-election. She's willing to cut deals for survival though, and in the revelation of new land masses will focus more on expanding the American system outwards into the new world rather than try to focus on contesting the ULAPAC.
The flag of the Sozialistische Rätebünderepublik Deutschland
Und weil der Mensch ein Mensch ist,
drum braucht er was zum Essen, bitte sehr!
Es macht ihn ein Geschwätz nicht satt,
das schafft kein Essen her.
Refrain
Drum links, zwei, drei!
Drum links, zwei, drei!
Wo dein Platz, Genosse, ist!
Reih dich ein in die Arbeitereinheitsfront,
weil du auch ein Arbeiter bist.
Und weil der Mensch ein Mensch ist,
drum braucht er auch noch Kleider und Schuh!
Es macht ihn ein Geschwätz nicht warm
und auch kein Trommeln dazu.
Refrain
Und weil der Mensch ein Mensch ist,
drum hat er Stiefel im Gesicht nicht gern!
Er will unter sich keinen Sklaven seh'n
und über sich keinen Herr'n.
Refrain
Und weil der Prolet ein Prolet ist,
drum wird ihn kein anderer befrei'n.
Es kann die Befreiung der Arbeiter nur
das Werk der Arbeiter sein.
Refrain
(Though Auferstanden Auf Ruien is the actual national anthem)
I'm probobly the most war-hawky one here, but I have decided that I must change my vote due to Valeriya's removable maluses, and general skills, as well as her incredible diplomacy buffs. We can put Xuan uncharge of the army, and you bet I will do everything in my power to push us and the GTO to war, but we need someone who can govern after that war is over as well, and Xuan just simply isn't up to it at nearly the same level that Valeriya is.
It's one thing to win the war, and it's another to win the piece. Xuan can be put in charge of winningthe war, but Rudenko will be able to win the peace long term. Regardless of the actual threat the Americans pose, it is better to deal with them now, than risk any future problems that may arise from letting them be.
We can do the war with either canidate, with Xuan were incompetent at everything else, and with Valeriya were great at everything else. Valeriya is the right choice
[x] Shido Shaciye Shuuriye: A Somali man who has served in just about every capacity to the point of having even been a Cosmonaut at one point in his younger years during the 2010s, Shido is a man of compromise and many trades. Having served as both a physical and an intellectual labourer and even as an accomplished novelist; Shido has connections in just about every circle and the smiling Somali man has virtually no enemies to speak of. Shido is also known for being rather lucky and always seeming to know when and where to commit to certain actions for the best possible results. Able to do anything and everything to ensure the triumph of the revolution, Shido makes sure to avoid tying himself too much to any one field or form of activity or tactic. However his desire to keep everyone pleased has lead to him frequently being highly stressed, and many worry if he is pushing himself too hard to stay on everyone's good side.
United forever in friendship and labor,
Our mighty republics will ever endure.
The great Soviet Union will live through the ages.
The dream of a people, their fortress secure!
[]: Valeriya Mykhailivna Rudenko: A Ukrainian Woman with a distinctively relaxed attitude towards her duties, Valeriya is an experienced manager of personnel and well regarded as a people person who can build teams from even deeply disparate individuals. Though relatively unproven in genuine crisis due to being rather young, Valeriya has demonstrated tremendous aptitude in simulated exercises, particularly when it comes to decisive action in highly contested debates and environments and managing complex and tight budgets. A masterful planner who has advised many a five-year plan and deeply familiar with the ins and outs of Cybersyn, Rudenko is regarded as something of an economic prodigy. Cool under pressure and even seeming to revel in having stress placed on her, Valeriya's chief weakness is her relatively limited connections due to her political career having only really begun in 2038. She will be seen as needing to prove herself if selected for the burdensome task of shaping the policy of the people's of nearly three-quarters of the Earth.
+: Enthusiastic; Rudenko is much more resistant to developing stress points as a result of her job, only accruing stress at one quarter the normal rate.
+: Personable; Rudenko greatly enjoys working with people and enjoys handling negotiations herself when possible, and is relatively easy to make friends with, making her more likely to succeed at diplomatic actions with a +10 bonus.
+: Organizer; Rudenko is a masterful organizer of assets and gets a +15 administration roll bonus to virtually all administration checks that increases to +20 when in a high-stress situation. Her skill in administration also applies to military and espionage actions; where she gets a small +5 bonus.
+: Planning Sorceress: Rudenko grants one additional die for each economic field such as production, agriculture, and military design and she can reroll the outcomes of planned economic activity and take the better of the two.
+: Mediator; Rudenko thrives in highly contested environments and is extremely good at swaying a debate one way or the other. She may reroll diplomatic actions that are needed to resolve a conflict between two or more parties.
+: Former Prodigy, Valeriya gets a +5 bonus to most checks except when under crisis, which causes her to lose her bonus entirely. This bonus doubles to +10 for Academic checks and triples to +15 for Administration checks.
=: Soviet Citizen; As a citizen of the Soviet Union, Valeriya's appointment as Commissar in Chief would increase Soviet influence in the Otmezosob by five and also automatically generates five Soviet favour points per turn.
-: Inexperienced; Rudenko has not been tested in a genuine crisis and will take a temporary -5 penalty on most actions (as she loses her former prodigy bonus in times of crisis this becomes -5) in times of crisis until she loses the inexperienced trait.
-: Lacking in connections; Being new to her post means that Rudenko will need time to build up the networks of trust that underpin virtually all forms of collective organisation. She generates -5 ULAPAC and Comintern influence points until this modifier is obsoleted.
-: Disliked by the GTO; Rudenko is distrusted by the GTO for her policy proposals of promoting revolution in the remaining peripheries of America's sphere and doubling efforts to assist the underclass organise. Her appointment to Commissar in Chief would be seen as a direct threat by the GTO. She takes a -5 penalty to diplomacy with the GTO and increases the likelihood of hostile actions by the G.T.O.
By overwhelming majority vote from the ULAPAC STAVKA, Cybersyn Polling, and the Supreme Soviet of the Communist International, You, Valeriya Mykhailivna Rudenko has been elected to serve as the Commissar in Chief of the Otmezosob. Though very young at a mere twenty-five years of age, you; a former Child Prodigy and organizational savant have managed to win over the electorate with your confident charisma, dedication to problem-solving, eager smile, a stellar record of mediating conflicts, firm but fair stance towards the Global Treaty Organisation, and masterful work with smoothing out the common plans integral to lower stage Communism.
The second youngest major candidate up for the election, your victory, especially by such an overwhelming margin was seen as something of an upset in the face of the more experienced Shido and Shirvan, but has been welcomed by many; not the least of which is the Soviet Union.
Though the election was at first quite hotly contested, foreign policy proved to be one of the most dominating issues of debate. A clear distinction between four camps rose quickly; the so-called Fire, Earth, Water, and Air camps. The Air camps which had backed Mastache argued passionately for a need to resolve the problem of the Global Treaty Organisation immediately through the backing of revolutionaries and the launching of all-out war before either the indigenous polities or the Americans could gain their bearings. The opposing Earth camp backed the veteran and widely respected diplomacy wizard Shirvan, whose depthless experience and not even begrudging respect from the GTO was used to champion the cause of peace and an amicable path to communism for our erstwhile rivals.
However, the contest would ultimately come down to the Fire and Water camps. The Fire Camp rallying behind Xuan Xulian of China and the Water Camp behind yourself. Both camps sought hostile relations with the GTO, but were differentiated by wishing for either a hot or a cold resolution to the cold war. But what had once been a close race changed dramatically as former supporters of Shrivan changed to your camp out of a belief that your pragmatic view and lack of experience could allow them to shift her policies towards their ends, and of course, your initial supporters lauding you for your incredible talent at organization and broad base of skills in many situations over Xuan Xulian's brusque, undiplomatic and militaristic approach.
With your triumph, the Soviet Union cements itself as one of the more influential member states of the ULAPAC over the Otmezosob but you are no chauvinist, seeking to ensure that the voices of the whole of the Communist International and the people they represent are heard in accordance to the principles of justice and progress. An ardent advocate of Soviet Democracy and Revolutionary Progress, you will seek to ensure that the spirit of Red October lives on forever whatever the storm ahead might bring upon the peoples of the Earth and beyond. And should it be necessary, you will fight for the freedom of whatever people live in this new world too and even into the stars themselves; for the promise of Communism is one extended to all peoples.
"Comrades, I thank you for this honour despite my youth and the short notice of the election. I promise that you will not be let down by me and that I will work tirelessly to vindicate your trust. We face an unprecedented situation, and we have many questions that must be answered regarding the strange surroundings we find ourselves in. But with careful observation and analysis and diligent, forthright action and praxis, we can overcome whatever challenges lie ahead. Such is the philosophy that has guided our revolutionary movement for more than a hundred and twenty-five years, and must continue to guide it for the centuries still to come.
Into this future we shall not go as imperialists or conquerors, but as liberators who shall act upon the historical necessity of the cause of freedom for all peoples and the end of the tyranny of class rule, imperialism, bigotry, exploitation, and reaction. We want not to conquer foreign lands or exploit them for our gain, but to fulfill our historical obligation to assist those who are in need, those who toil in misery and despair and yearn for something better so that what they make by their hands shall not be snatched by the leeches who claim to be their rulers. We seek not to enrich ourselves, but to uplift all who struggle on the ground and join in hands with all who wish to be our comrades.
But this is not merely a matter of obligation or necessity, but also of our desire and our dreams for peace and understanding. We are not seeking the glories of conquest or to decorate ourselves in war honours, such is the thinking of Imperialists who have immiserated the world for centuries. Rather, we wish to secure a future for all of us, one where we can all continue to rise to our aspirations and fulfill our hopes and dreams together. We want to hear nothing more of the cries of the needy and the frightened, we will not stand for a world where people beg and plead only to go unanswered. We will create a world where none need ever cry again, as we always have sought to do. Because as rightful people, such has always been our desire, not merely to brush away tears but to eliminate any need to cry in solidarity and camaraderie.
But to those who would seek to advantage themselves of us or press their boot down on those who produce and toil or struggle under unfair biases and prejudices; we say this to you. We are mighty together and our cause is backed by the inexorable processes of history. Whatever strength you may have procured from tyranny, we shall take from you as we break the chains you have placed or seek to clasp around the throats of those you believe to be meek. Whatever Empires you have built or seek to build, we shall set free. Whatever riches you have hoarded for the benefit of the privileged few, we shall give to all who have built them until none are live in squalor amidst the wonders they have built.
Our task is great, for we are but a small speck on a vast world. But we have faced many arduous trials before and have triumphed again and again. From the battles against the forces of reaction that sought to crush our revolutions to the great anti-fascist war and our enduring struggle against the remaining Imperialist powers, we have marched from strength to strength and decorated ourselves in a million triumphs. We look to this task with the same fervour that we have taken so many great ventures and march forwards with the knowledge that we can and must triumph against all the odds that would set themselves before us. So comrades, I ask you, raise your arm and give a cheer; for we embrace the challenge with proud hearts and limitless courage!"
- Excerpt from Valeriya's acceptance speech.
You, as a 177-centimetre woman might not look like much to many, still having a girlish face framed with long but straight blonde hair with augmented reality glasses over yourblue eyes while being lean and sporty; dressing unassumingly in a simple service woman's skirt over your trousers and a relatively plain-looking red blouse and walking to work in comfortable boots; but you've got a razor-sharp intellect. And of course, you'd do all your fellow Jews proud with your dedication to arguing a point. A dedicated problem solver and team builder, you go over the dossiers of personnel that have volunteered themselves for service in the central committee and the STAVKA. All you can do is recommend candidates of course; they will still need to be voted on for confirmation, but you are hopeful that you'll get your way.
(Reappearing characters will have somewhat different traits, Characters can only be selected for one role. Cost refers to both resource point cost and the overall number needed to succeed at a project unless stated otherwise. )
Chairman of the Presiding Committee (Essentially your deputy and backup, choose someone you can work with but can cover some weaknesses)
[] Shido Shaciye Shuuriye: A Somali man who has served in just about every capacity to the point of having even been a Cosmonaut at one point in his younger years during the 2010s, Shido is a man of compromise and many trades. Having served as both a physical and an intellectual labourer and even as an accomplished novelist; Shido has connections in just about every circle and the smiling Somali man has virtually no enemies to speak of. Shido is also known for being rather lucky and always seeming to know when and where to commit to certain actions for the best possible results. Able to do anything and everything to ensure the triumph of the revolution, Shido makes sure to avoid tying himself too much to any one field or form of activity or tactic. However his desire to keep everyone pleased has lead to him frequently being highly stressed, and many worry if he is pushing himself too hard to stay on everyone's good side.
+: Generalist: Shido receives a +8 bonus to all rolls.
+: The Lucky Man: Under Shido, you may choose to reroll up to three results and take the better of the two.
+: Friends on all sides: Shido gains two favour points with the Soviets, Chinese, and Germans per turn and gains five influence points with both the ULAPAC and the Comintern per turn.
+: Amicable with the GTO: The GTO has no real complaints with Shido and largely regards him as a reasonable man, thus reducing the chance of hostile conflict with the Americans and making them more likely to accept deals.
+: Experienced at peacetime: Shido gets an additional +10 bonus on all rolls unless stressed, at which point it drops down to +5.
+: The Decisive One: Shido may commit one extra dice to any action of the player's choosing for free due to his experienced, general purpose leadership.
-: No specialities: Shido may not choose to specialise in a certain field or go down speciality paths.
-: Conflict Averse: Shido will typically back down if challenged on a decision by the ULAPAC Stavka of the Comintern should he be unable to convince them rather than having the option to try to argue the point further (cannot make later diplomatic rolls if an influence check fails). While easy to get to back your plays, he will also back away just as quickly if challenged.
-: Frequently Stressed: Shido accumulates stress points at double the normal rate.
[] Marini Risala: An African woman from Tanzania and a seasoned veteran of years of work in organising communist movements in the global south, Marini considers herself a student of Amadeo Bordiga and his theses. As such she works to ensure that the party itself is running in the optimum condition and is working astutely to ensure that it remains focused on the goals of class struggle and is an expert at keeping people on task. She can delegate tasks excellently, motivate people who are feeling down, help manage building stress levels, and ensure that everyone's morale is kept up and running as good as possible.
+: Morale Officer: Marini can make a diplomacy roll to remove accumulated stress from a single character every turn.
+: Keeping spirits high: Thanks to her frequent tending to the needs of those she works with, everyone operating under her has halved stress gain.
+: Building a movement: Marini has a +20 bonus on rolls involving setting up, organising, or building up a communist movement.
+: I know a guy: Marini has an eye for talent and can recruit new characters at a 25% lower cost that stacks with anyone else's.
+: General Skills: Marini offers a general +8 bonus to most rolls unless she would suffer a penalty.
+: The African Bordiga: Marini offers a +15 per turn favour point gain with the comintern.
-: The Invariance of being an ass: Marini will grate with characters who have radically divergent views on socialism with her and the chance of critical failure in diplomacy with them Is increased to 1-5.
-: Liberals: Marini has fairly open disdain for liberals and will require a diplomacy check to convince of the need to cooperate with them in any capacity.
-: Nationalism? Grotesque: Marini has little patience for overt display of patriotism and regards the idea of exceptional national characters to be pseudoscientific nonsense, and has automatically lowered opinions of overtly patriotic characters.
[] Phạm Trường Phát: Pham is a Vietnamese Labour Councilman of significant experience and a staunchly proletarian man, Pham has spent his whole life working various fields of labour and has his fingers on the pulse of the workingman's life even in the transition to lower stage communism. As a man who has both read Marx's capital and seen the marks of capital in his daily life, Pham is a powerful advocate for the workingman and calls many heroes of Vietnam's struggle for freedom his ancestors. Pham also will report on the state of production available to the task force and works closely with those involved with the means of production and so can be trusted to help make such matters more efficient but fair. He is also tremendously skilled at organising groups and in studying the labour situation of foreign powers.
+: Labourer: Pham generates a pair of additional dice for all forms of production if he is in the Central Committee.
+: Organizer: Pham generates a pair of additional dice for all forms of revolutionary agitation, organization, and insurgency so long as he is in the central committee.
+: Councilman: Pham generates 5 Favour points with the STAVKA, Comintern, and the general populace every turn.
+: Experienced: Unless Pham would receive a penalty, he receives a broad 5+ bonus to all rolls.
+: Means of Production: As long as Pham is on the Central Committee, your resource point income will be increased by a quarter.
+: Proletarian Triumph: Pham is an eminent every man and extremely down to Earth, offering a +10 bonus to diplomacy rolls that doubles when speaking to other leftist powers.
-: A bit unsophisticated: Pham disdains bourgeois formalism and two faced legalese and grates with more aristocratic societies that place high values on such concepts. He loses his bonuses against Countries whose cultures have a high value on formality.
-: Card Carrying Marxist: Pham tends to regard non-marxist socialists such as Utopians and Anarchists as rather naive at best, losing his bonuses with them, and possibly outright dangerous at worst if they reject revolutionary struggle or make a lot of reactionary concessions and his bonuses invert into penalties with them.
-: Hardcore Atheist: Pham does not believe in Gods and even in Xarazanth's high fantasy setting, sees no reason that the deities deserve their special relation with mortals rather than mortals harnessing such power for themselves. Remove his bonuses when speaking to supernatural beings.
[] Marie Isabelle Marinette: A French bisexual woman and a second-generation revolutionary who witnessed the revolution of 2025 as a young girl, Marie is an advocate of the cultural revolution and the radical transformation of society to wash away all the oppressions of old, famously criticising her revolutionary parents for lingering transphobia and binarist thoughts. Marie is a ferocious advocate for the dispossessed of all stripes and has been active in the continuing revolutionary struggle against all elements of reaction in France. "I want a world where a woman may feel free to walk in a burqa or stark naked without fear or worry; where she may say no to advances or embrace as many as she would choose; where she may limit her interest to only women or to whatever assortment of genders she desires" She is famous for saying. She also seeks to push people out of getting overly comfortable with certain lines of thought, taking the dogma that to be a marxist is to question everything to heart.
+: Cultural Radical: On any roll that involves dealing with cultural effects, Marinette gains a +20 bonus towards recommending a change in policy and ensuring that these changes become reality and not merely legality. She also gains a +25 bonus on diplomatic rolls with people from dispossessed or oppressed groups. She also generates 10 favour points with the general Proletariat per turn.
+: Revolutionary Theorist: Marinette is an expert on the theory and praxis of revolution, having immersed herself in every aspect of revolution and its science from an early age and as such, allows any dice roll involving a revolution to be rolled twice with the better of the two being taken.
+: Aux Armes Citoyens!: Marinette is almost frightfully good at getting people to organise and fight for a cause, generating two additional insurgent activity dice per turn and generating two additional dice for forming radical movements abroad per turn.
+: Charismatic: Marinette is a genuinely charismatic figure who gains a +10 bonus to diplomacy rolls that doubles to +20 when she's trying to sway someone into taking action. Her automatic success range also increase to 99 to 100.
+: Art Nouveaux: Marinette is a gifted artist and animator who is deeply familiar with the sort of art that speaks to the soul and the stories that really resonate with people, allowing her to reroll any diplomacy dice used on propaganda/internal diplomacy efforts and take the better of the two and in propaganda, her success range doubles again to 97-100.
+: Fearless Elan: Marinette never suffers mental health negative modifiers to rolls she is asked to assist with due to her boundless enthusiasm for the cause. She is also virtually immune to accumulating stress.
-: A tad gauche: Marinette is often prone to saying rather shocking or rude things to people she dislikes or has issues with and as such the automatic failure range for diplomatic rolls involving her increases from a natural 1 to a natural 1 or 2.
-: Everybody's Critic: Marinette will grate on the nerves of more conservative politicians or those whom she perceives as holding back the struggle against all forms of oppression and can make quite a lot of enemies. When speaking to characters with the conservative modifier; her natural failure range doubles to 1-4.
-: French: France is a young revolutionary Republic and as such it does not carry the same prestige as some other revolutionary states. Until France has established itself more solidly she causes an automatic bleed of 1 favour points with the Soviets and Chinese.
Commissar of Foreign Affairs (Diplomat)
[] Sirvan Vahdat: An experienced veteran of the Iranian Communist Party and the inner workings of the Communist International, Sirvan has drifted along multiple career tracks from the military to civil service to Communist party politics and diplomacy across a long and distinguished record of service. Well regarded for his virtual incorruptibility and varied skillset, Sirvan is perhaps long in the tooth but remains deeply dedicated to his duties, whatever they may be. Sirvan is even respected by the GTO due to his role in negotiating peaceful solutions to the crises in Japan and France that saw the fall of the American aligned governments there when he was a young diplomat. An advocate for detente and understanding between the blocs, the GTO genuinely seems to hope that he will be elected to the position, and those who hope for peace also look to him for amicable solutions to the world's problems; even in the now greatly expanded world that we live in.
+: Old Wizard of Tehran: Sirvan has been a dedicated servant of the Iranian Federative Council Socialist Republic and the Communist International for decades. Sirvan gains a +10 bonus on virtually all checks unless he would take a penalty instead. This bonus doubles on Diplomacy checks.
+: Join the Party: Sirvan is good at negotiating with other Communist or Leftist parties into joining the Communist International, halving the number of diplomatic points needed to get a foreign leftist group to join the Comintern and the ULAPAC.
+: Man of peace: Sirvan is skilled at defusing potential conflicts before they happen or de-escalating tense situations while still ensuring that the people's cause comes ahead. Sirvan gets a +10 bonus to conflict de-escalation or resolution diplomacy checks and an additional +20 bonus to diplomacy checks in general.
+: Party support: Sirvan gets three additional dice for establishing above-ground channels of revolutionary activity per turn, such as supporting foreign parties, trade union movements, and activism.
+: Beloved by the GTO: Sirvan's role in negotiating amicable peaces with the GTO has meant that he is one of the few "commies" that even the GTO offers a great deal of respect for, and his election would greatly de-escalate possible tensions with the Americans. Sirvan will make the GTO much less likely to make hostile actions and as foreign commissar reduce the likelihood of the Americans starting a conflict.
+: Comintern Regular: Sirvan has been drifting amidst various positions in the Communist International for longer than many of the other candidates have even been alive and is well aware of how things work within it, giving a +10 bonus to the generation of influence points with the Comintern.
-: Peacenik: The ULAPAC however, regards Sirvan as not overly suited for service in wartime and the ULAPAC STAVKA is unlikely to wholly approve of his election. Sirvan takes a -5 penalty to generation ULAPAC influence points and his selection will cause him to try to influence you away from aggressive actions. Repeatedly overriding him will worsen relations and eventually make him resign. He will get along poorly with militaristic Committee picks.
-: Honourable: Sirvan dislikes the cloak and dagger approach to spreading revolution and prefers to work with more open channels such as supporting unions and above ground parties to create the base needed for a worker's movement to flourish. Sirvan has a general -10 penalty to Espionage rolls.
-: No fabrications: Sirvan cannot be used to fabricate reasons to go to war.
[] Marie Isabelle Marinette: A French bisexual woman and a second-generation revolutionary who witnessed the revolution of 2025 as a young girl, Marie is an advocate of the cultural revolution and the radical transformation of society to wash away all the oppressions of old, famously criticising her revolutionary parents for lingering transphobia and binarist thoughts. Marie is a ferocious advocate for the dispossessed of all stripes and has been active in the continuing revolutionary struggle against all elements of reaction in France. "I want a world where a woman may feel free to walk in a burqa or stark naked without fear or worry; where she may say no to advances or embrace as many as she would choose; where she may limit her interest to only women or to whatever assortment of genders she desires" She is famous for saying. She also seeks to push people out of getting overly comfortable with certain lines of thought, taking the dogma that to be a marxist is to question everything to heart.
+: Cultural Radical: On any roll that involves dealing with cultural effects, Marinette gains a +20 bonus towards recommending a change in policy and ensuring that these changes become reality and not merely legality. She also gains a +25 bonus on diplomatic rolls with people from dispossessed or oppressed groups. She also generates 10 favour points with the general Proletariat per turn.
+: Revolutionary Theorist: Marinette is an expert on the theory and praxis of revolution, having immersed herself in every aspect of revolution and its science from an early age and as such, allows any dice roll involving a revolution to be rolled twice with the better of the two being taken.
+: Aux Armes Citoyens!: Marinette is almost frightfully good at getting people to organise and fight for a cause, generating two additional insurgent activity dice per turn and generating two additional dice for forming radical movements abroad per turn.
+: Charismatic: Marinette is a genuinely charismatic figure who gains a +10 bonus to diplomacy rolls that doubles to +20 when she's trying to sway someone into taking action. Her automatic success range also increase to 99 to 100.
+: Art Nouveaux: Marinette is a gifted artist and animator who is deeply familiar with the sort of art that speaks to the soul and the stories that really resonate with people, allowing her to reroll any diplomacy dice used on propaganda/internal diplomacy efforts and take the better of the two and in propaganda, her success range doubles again to 97-100.
+: Fearless Elan: Marinette never suffers mental health negative modifiers to rolls she is asked to assist with due to her boundless enthusiasm for the cause. She is also virtually immune to accumulating stress.
-: A tad gauche: Marinette is often prone to saying rather shocking or rude things to people she dislikes or has issues with and as such the automatic failure range for diplomatic rolls involving her increases from a natural 1 to a natural 1 or 2.
-: Everybody's Critic: Marinette will grate on the nerves of more conservative politicians or those whom she perceives as holding back the struggle against all forms of oppression and can make quite a lot of enemies. When speaking to characters with the conservative modifier; her natural failure range doubles to 1-4.
-: French: France is a young revolutionary Republic and as such it does not carry the same prestige as some other revolutionary states. Until France has established itself more solidly she causes an automatic bleed of 1 favour points with the Soviets and Chinese.
[]: Dalip Qalhari: A highly astute Sikh diplomat and one of India's golden sons, Dalip has a promising career and helped to negotiate the end to the long standing separation of Pakistan and India following the Pakistani revolution of 2032; bringing the two sundered countries back together at last in 2038. Dalip is a pragmatic optimist when it comes to his diplomacy. He would like to resort to the nice route, but thinks little of browbeating or threatening force if needed or resorting to violence when necessary. As a religious Sikh, he also believes that there is a duty to fight to protect the weak from the depredations of the strong, and that pacifism in the face of tyranny is a capitulation to evil; but also that usage of force when it is not necessary is to also become a tyrant oneself. As such he is judicious with his approach to violence in foreign policy, never taking it off the table, but not bringing out his sword immediately.
+: Mender of Bridges: Dalip Qalhari has a general +10 diplomacy bonus that increases to +20 when negotiating to reunify a sundered people or +: when it comes to dealing with longstanding divisions and grudges between people.
+: Treaty maker: Daliph Qalhari can roll three times and take the best result when it comes to rolling dice to determine whether a treaty is accepted or not or to negotiate more favourable deals.
+: Maker of Alliances: Dalip Qalhari increases the automatic success range for diplomacy rolls that involve creating alliance, ceasefires, trade deals, or other forms of agreement to 95-100 and eliminates the chance of automatic failure entirely.
+: Establisher of Revolutions: Dalip Qalhari gains two extra dice for rolling on either above or underground revolutionary activity and organization.
+: Diplomatic Capital Accumulation: Dalip Qalhari gives a 10% bonus to the acquisition of Diplomatic resource points.
+: Beloved by the international Community: Dalip gives a favour point income of 10 points from the STAVKA, China, Germany, the Soviet Union, the Comintern, and the General Populace.
-: Not an atheist: Characters who are especially hardset on Atheism or a particular religion not friendly to Sikhism will face the expected penalties with Dalip.
-: Justice must be served: Dalip feels quite strongly about his sense of justice and will not offer his approval to conflicts or even lacks of conflict if he feels that this would not serve the cause of justice; requiring a diplomacy check to override.
-: Hindu Nationalist Target: The remnants of the Hindu Nationalist movement have it bad for Dalip and his election to this post would elevate him as a target in their eyes.
[] Ninia Makreli: A Greek woman and student of ancient history turned diplomacy wonk, Ninia works tirelessly to ensure that there is room in which communist movements can grow. She focuses primarily on ensuring concessions for leftist movements to organise, radicalise, and expand and in ensuring that hardcore anti-communists are isolated and contained to prevent them from linking up their resources with one another. She also works to ensure that those who build themselves on oppression are villainised as much as possible in the eyes of the international community and was key in ensuring that the Thai government was abandoned by the Americans by making it as politically difficult as possible to continue to support them.
+: Bismarckian Diplomacy: Ninia gains a +25 diplomacy bonus when it comes to rolls meant to isolate a target country and cut it off from allies so that it will all on its own without succor on the horizon.
+: Do you stand by these monsters? Ninia is extremely good at waging public relations offensives that will negatively affect a country's reputation. When she makes denouncement actions, she gains a +25 bonus and automatically succeeds on a natural roll of 95 or higher.
+: Let my people go: When it comes to making sure that communist movements have some room to operate, few are better at the job than Ninia who allows for a +35 bonus to negotiations revolving around the freedom of action for leftists to organise.
+: Student of Diplomacy: Ninia has a general +10 bonus to all diplomatic rolls.
+: Terrorists? No, Freedom Fighters: Ninia can change the international perceptions of a movement so that efforts to denouncement fail, gaining a +25 bonus on these opposed rolls.
+: Stop these madmen: Ninia gains a +25 bonus to diplomacy rolls to urge other countries to intervene against a target or foe.
-: Machiavelian reputation: Many regard Ninia as something of a snake who routinely manipulates people into a certain line of thinking, including some more principled figures in the Comintern and the GTO. -5 Comintern favour points per turn and strained relations with the GTO.
-: Enemy of Spain: Following her role in forcing the Spanish to retreat from Corsica and Sardinia the Spanish government has had little but scorn for her and has long sought to ruin her reputation. Hostile action from Spain likely.
-: Target for the Mossad: Israel has a particularly deep enmity for her for getting it hit with a blockade that has devastated its economy and is still trying to have her assassinated.
Commissar of Production (Economy dude)
[]: Zdravko Samuilov Valeriva: A Bulgarian mathematical wizard, Zdravko is an old hat with Cybersyn systems and has been working on them for decades. Zdravko helps take the data and the desires expressed within Cybersyn Paraecon planning systems and compile them with the recommendations he makes based on his own perspective from the top. Thus ensuring the most efficient possible plan for productive activity. With his work, the implementation of Nuclear Fusion energy was largely seamless in the Balkans despite the amount of initial resource set up, and his eye for ecological consciousness also makes him popular among many younger officials. He is something of a stranger to wartime production, but the old man is confident that he can wrap his head around it given a little time.
+: Cybersyn Wizard: Zdravko is an expert with working with computer systems and when given the benefit of working with the proper cybernetic data networks, will increase the automatic success range to 95-100 and eliminate the automatic failure range entirely for Administration rolls.
+: Networking Master: Zdravko reduces the points cost for any projects that involve networking or building networks or computer systems by a full half.
+: Adminstrative Sorcerer: Zdravko adds a +15 general bonus to all administration rolls.
+: Experienced: Zdravko has been at his job since the 20th century and gains a +10 general bonus to all rolls he partakes in unless he would take a penalty.
+: Software Coding Master: Zdravko has been working with software since he was a teenager and can always add two free dice to any one project that involves computer coding or artificial intelligence. He can also apply his +15 administrative bonus to cultural diplomatic rolls involving creating computer games due to his experience with such systems.
+: He does Machines: Zdravko is endlessly fascinated with machines and reduces the hiring cost of any talent that is either mechanical in nature or works heavily with machinery by half; making it easier to increase research point gain rate.
-: Computer Geek: Zdravko spends most of his time working on computers and rather little time with people, as such he takes a -10 penalty on opposed diplomacy rolls due to being relatively weakly socialised.
-: Old Man: Zdravko is an old man in his seventies and is seen as something of a gerantocrat by many younger politicians and as such generates -5 favour points with the Comintern.
-: Civilian Work: Zdravko has spent relatively little time working with military systems and loses his experienced and sorcerer bonus when working on militarily related administrative projects until he loses this penalty.
[]: Ryom Na-Rae: A logistician with the Korean military with a background in civilian industry and labour organization, Na-Rae is young, ambitious, throws herself into her work wholesale and is quite the architect on top of all that. Na-Rae is an expert at consolidating teams to help realise plans and taking the data and requests of everyone across a Cybersyn network to finalise her ideas for how to improve quality of life and productivity in an area without asking more of the populace. A strong advocate of automation and the budding field of general A.I development, Na-Rae also considers herself an advocate for the rights of synthetically conscious comrades and has made a name for herself in the circles of the Comintern big three for her stellar work with helping to modernise production zones.
+: Rennovatio Popularum: Na-Rae can cut the points needed to improve existing infrastructure or industrial assets by half thanks to her tremendous degree of familiarity with how to improve existing sites.
+: Military Darling: Na-Rae is well appreciated by the ULAPAC STAVKA and generates 5 favour points with the STAVKA per turn as well as generates an additional 20 military points per turn.
+: Military production maestro: Na-Rae is extremely familiar with how to maximise productivity from military facilities, and rolls for production or development of military projects have their results increased by 25%.
+: Smoothing out the kinks: Na-Rae removes the automatic failure on a natural roll of 1 for military projects and increases the automatic success range to 97-100.
+: Roboticist: Na-Rae can commit two free dice to any one project revolving around robotics to help make them come out faster.
+: Administrative wunderkind: Na-Rae adds a general +20 bonus to all administration rolls and gives +3 favour points with China, the Germans, and the Soviets.
-: Stubborn: Na-Rae has very fixed ideas about what is good or not and will require a diplomacy check to convince of write-ins.
-: Prideful: Na-Rae will try to finish a project in her jurisdiction to the very conclusion and pulling her away from the project requires a diplomacy roll.
-: Ambitious: Na-Rae has big aspirations and wants the organisation to focus on big projects and will argue against sinking points into projects with a points cost below 100, believing this is best left to the member nations of the ULAPAC. Thus requiring a diplomacy check to convince her otherwise.
[] Phạm Trường Phát: Pham is a Vietnamese Labour Councilman of significant experience and a staunchly proletarian man, Pham has spent his whole life working various fields of labour and has his fingers on the pulse of the workingman's life even in the transition to lower stage communism. As a man who has both read Marx's capital and seen the marks of capital in his daily life, Pham is a powerful advocate for the workingman and calls many heroes of Vietnam's struggle for freedom his ancestors. Pham also will report on the state of production available to the task force and works closely with those involved with the means of production and so can be trusted to help make such matters more efficient but fair. He is also tremendously skilled at organising groups and in studying the labour situation of foreign powers.
+: Labourer: Pham generates a pair of additional dice for all forms of production if he is in the Central Committee.
+: Organizer: Pham generates a pair of additional dice for all forms of revolutionary agitation, organization, and insurgency so long as he is in the central committee.
+: Councilman: Pham generates 5 Favour points with the STAVKA, Comintern, and the general populace every turn.
+: Experienced: Unless Pham would receive a penalty, he receives a broad 5+ bonus to all rolls.
+: Means of Production: As long as Pham is on the Central Committee, your resource point income will be increased by a quarter.
+: Proletarian Triumph: Pham is an eminent every man and extremely down to Earth, offering a +10 bonus to diplomacy rolls that doubles when speaking to other leftist powers.
-: A bit unsophisticated: Pham disdains bourgeois formalism and two faced legalese and grates with more aristocratic societies that place high values on such concepts. He loses his bonuses against Countries whose cultures have a high value on formality.
-: Card Carrying Marxist: Pham tends to regard non-marxist socialists such as Utopians and Anarchists as rather naive at best, losing his bonuses with them, and possibly outright dangerous at worst if they reject revolutionary struggle or make a lot of reactionary concessions and his bonuses invert into penalties with them.
-: Hardcore Atheist: Pham does not believe in Gods and even in Xarazanth's high fantasy setting, sees no reason that the deities deserve their special relation with mortals rather than mortals harnessing such power for themselves. Remove his bonuses when speaking to supernatural beings.
[] Marija Tesla: A relative of Nikola, Marija Tesla is less the mad scientist her famous ancestor was and more the irate engineer who wants to make sure that everything is producible in large quantities and at reasonable costs while still maintaining quality standards. Though she has an interest in some megaprojects, Tesla is more concerned with ensuring that production is useful for the masses and is generally less than impressed with one offs. Marija is also very good at ensuring that resource budgets are followed, extra resources are found where needed, and that everyone is treated fairly in the entire production process, making her quite popular with many people. The STAVKA in particular loves her.
+: Means of Mass Production: Marija Tesla cuts the cost of all projects under her purview by 2/5ths.
+: Assembly Woman: Tesla adds four dice to be distributed to any production rolls under her purview.
+: Efficient and Clean: Tesla refunds 20% of resource points spent on projects once they are done due to her tremendous efficiency.
+: No room for error: Natural ones are rerolled and are not counted as failures for projects under Tesla's Purview. The automatic success range increases to 90-100.
+: Iron Harvest: Tesla increases resource point gain by 20% due to her familiarity with extracting every drop from the environment necessary.
+: Reverse Engineering: Though not involved in research generally, Tesla is very good at figuring out how things work, and grants a +15 bonus to reverse engineering projects when she is on the Committee.
-: Nothing fancy: Tesla requires diplomacy checks to convince of the value of particularly out there projects.
-: It's not ready!: Tesla generally speaking dislikes the idea of super-prototypes and rushing them into battle and will require diplomacy checks to rush anything undergoing testing into service.
-: No one-offs: Tesla will require diplomacy checks to approve the use of anything that cannot be mass produced in sufficient quantities and may resign if too many failed checks accumulate in too short a span of time.
Commissar of Research and Development (Science dude)
[]: Mannfred Lukas Meyer: Extremely young but upbeat with regards to his political duties, Mannfred is boundlessly energetic and highly approachable even if he has a habit of taking on too much work on his own head. Charming and with strong ties to the field of education, Mannfred has no real enemies and has made a number of friends. However, he is regarded as perhaps a bit naive when it comes to diplomacy and the tepid approval that the G.T.O has for him being appointed is seen by some as a sign of an overwillingness to compromise. Mannfred is, however, committed to the future of the communist youth, and none will fight harder to ensure that the next generation of mankind advances into it with the best possible preparations.
+: Enthusiastic; Mannfred is much more resistant to developing stress points as a result of his job, only accruing stress at one quarter the normal rate.
+: Charming; Meyer is likable, twinkishly handsome, and has made a number of strong friendships already as he has consistently proven to be trustworthy. He gets a +5 bonus to diplomatic actions and generates +4 ULAPAC and Comintern Influence points.
+: Champion of the Youth; Meyer is heavily tied to the education department of Germany and is well regarded for his ceaseless efforts for pushing educational policy to the best that it can be. Under Meyer, gain three extra dice for usage in research rolls and a +15 bonus to rolls relating to improving research infrastructure.
+: Young Scholar; Meyer was a prodigy as a child and shows an almost inherent aptitude for learning more information, and gains a +15 bonus to academic rolls that increases to +20 when dealing with structuring research or educational programs.
+: Polytechnic Magus: Meyer has deep roots in the Polytechnic academies and will reduce research costs by one quarter across the board as he knows how to best maximise the benefits of science towards the ends of the organisation.
+: Former Prodigy, as a former child prodigy and a "very clever boy" Meyer has a +5 bonus to virtually all checks except when under crisis, which causes to lose his bonus entirely until he learns how to deal with high stress situations. This bonus doubles to +10 for Administration checks and triples to +15 for Academic checks.
=: German Citizen; Meyer is a native of Deutschland and as such his appointment increases Deutsch influence on the Otmezosob by 5 and automatically generates five Deutsch favour points per turn.
-: Naive: Meyer is overly trusting at times and tends to assume the best out of everyone he meets. He takes a -5 penalty on opposed diplomatic rolls attempting to deceive him or sway his opinion.
-: Not a fighter: Meyer is neither experienced nor deeply familiar with the way war works, though he knows better than to poke his nose into the affairs of his military staff. As such, until he improves his martial aptitude, he may not assist military rolls and if forced into military actions; takes a -10 penalty on them. He can remove this penalty with experience though. And he does not have this penalty when it comes to overseeing the development of military technology.
-: Barely of Age: At just twenty-two, Meyer is extremely young and his election would be somewhat unusual. He is as such, considered to have less weight in resolving disputes between members of the Stavka and takes a -5 penalty on such rolls.
[]: Sizamile Msizi: A descendant of the revolutionary struggle in South Africa, Sizamile is a bright and promising figure in the sciences who has made a name for herself in nanotechnology in particular. Sizamile is highly dedicated and sometimes serious with her duties, but when off-duty will always put aside some time for people who want to have a moment with her. A trans-rights activist whose team helped pioneer the treatment that has allowed her and many other transpersons achieve reproductive fertility, her commitment to ensuring that the fruits of scientific labour are there for all people is virtually faultless and peerless. She also is open to new and novel ideas as part of her coming from the post Apartheid generation pushing back against colonial assumptions and isn't afraid to challenge scientific orthodoxy.
+: Scientific Maverick: Sizamile can generate two additional free dice for research relating to esoteric fields that will not cost any resource points.
+: Bold venture: Sizamile increases the automatic success range for research dice to 97-100.
+: Advocate: Sizamile will fight to integrate new researchers from new lands into the Scientific wing of the international and will reduce the policy costs needed to hire fresh talent to acquire additional research points by half.
+: Scientific Expert: Sizamile grants a general +10 bonus on academic rolls that doubles on any subjects revolving around her specialty in nanotechnology and biology.
+: Dedicated: Sizamile accrues stress points at only half the usual rate.
+: Scientific Icon: Sizamile's election would automatically generate 5 favour points with the comintern and general populace.
-: Not an Arms Dealer: Sizamile generates -5 favour points with the ULAPAC STAVKA due to her lack of credentials with the military.
-: Inexperienced with military technology: Sizamile loses her bonuses when working with military application roles until she is familiar enough with military R&D to remove this penalty.
-: A little too Maverick: Sizamile must reroll results of 95 and accept the second roll due to her habit of second-guessing even the most orthodox of facts.
[] Sadi Al-Sheikh: Sadi is a project manager first and foremost, he specialises less in his actual skills and more in making sure that projects get the resources, talent, and time they need to deliver the best results. A consummate professional and a dedicated veteran of Communist projects since he was born in Egypt at the turn of the century, Sadi is a man whom virtually everyone trusts and respects and regards as a visionary. Especially given his eye for making practical projects out of high minded ideas and making sure everything comes out on time without resorting to crunch or burning out those below him. He is also an excellent talent scout, and excels at finding and recruiting fresh blood into his agency.
+: Project Manager: Sadi cuts all projects under his purview's cost by a third rounded down to the nearest ten.
+: You would be of use: Sadi cuts the recruitment costs of Chief Scientists in half
+: We will build a team: Sadi cuts the resource cost for investments into improving research point gain in half.
+: Optimal teamwork: Sadi increases the bonuses of all Chief scientists under him by 50% and has a +20 bonus on diplomacy when it comes to resolving conflicts with his team.
+: From concept to design: Sadi allows for three free dice to be rolled on any two projects that involve taking theoretical research into practical designs.
+: Militarised Science: Sadi's time with the United Arab Republic's Army has given him a strong appreciation for the science of war, giving him a +10 bonus to military-related Science projects and giving you 10 points of favour with the ULAPAC STAVKA
-: Head beneath the clouds: Sadi requires diplomacy checks to get on board any project he considers a bit too pie in the sky to be likely of use.
-: Proven methodology: Sadi prefers to stick with what he knows works and his project manager bonus is cut in half when dealing with esoterics until he can familiarise himself with it.
-: Hardcore Atheist: A dedicated Atheist, Sadi is slow to accept the value of holding faith and does not see the Gods as anything but particularly powerful magimorphs who demand worship; causing a -15 diplomacy malus with divine beings.
[] Anna Jonsson: Anna is the quintessential mad scientist and probably a bit too obsessed with the weapons applications of just about every weird principal she can find. One of the premier people behind the development of Tesla weapons and Cryolasers, Anna Jonsson hasn't met a principle of particle physics she hasn't created multiple diagrams to figure out how to turn towards destructive ends. Voted "most likely to blow up one of the planets of the solar system" for several years in a row, this quirky young redhead's wide grin and cybernetic glasses usually have goggles fitted over them as the Swedish girl indulges every dangerous experiment she was not allowed to in her days as a child prodigy after turning eighteen just two years ago. She is also quite famous for discovering a method of faster than light travel by accident while trying to develop a system meant to give particle cannons enough reach to hit the moon.
+: The Madgirl from Stockholm: Anna genuinely has a somewhat aberrant brain that learns far better than virtually anyone else's and can visualise information in her head almost as if it were real. She provides an overwhelming +100 bonus to Academic rolls. She also doesn't feel stress, at all.
+: I can weaponise this: Anna cuts the research point costs and minimum accumulated roll value needed of creating a new military project out of new phenomenon or capabilities to a quarter.
+: I did it in my sleep: Anna generates a massive five free research dice if she is on the Committee due to her manic obsession with science.
+: Nothing is impossible: Anna gets access to special experimental projects that push the boundaries of what even the natives believe is practical, safe, or even possible.
+: Known phenomenon? Easy: Anna cuts the research points cost of developing new technology from any already known phenomenon and well understood principles in half even if she finds such work boring and will require diplomacy checks to keep on task if not given novel, esoteric, or experimental research.
+: Magic you say?: Anna is very eager to find out how magic works and can reroll any dice for adding Academic points to esoteric research and take the better of the three.
=: Well that wasn't supposed to happen: Experimental Projects managed by Anna may end up turning out a completely different result than expected if she stumbles upon something else.
-: Ooooh shiny: Anna gets bored easily and her bonus towards a project is reduced by half for every turn past the first it takes for the project to be completed and the risk of a natural failure increases by one each turn (from 1 to 2 to 3 etc.)
-: Oops: Critical failed rolls for experimental projects will turn one territory point's status into "Damaged".
-: Threat to one and all: Most people find Anna to be more than a little scary and so granting her this high position causes a -15 diplomacy malus and a bleed of -5 Favour points from all organisations and member countries.
Commissar of Security (Spy dude)
[] Zarina Mastache: A respected veteran of revolutionary conflicts in Latin America, Zarina is Mapuche on her father's side and Sephardic Jewish on her mother's; hailing from Chile and is regarded as an almost peerless expert in the science of revolutionary conflict and covert action. The Steel Woman of the Southern Cone is sometimes feared for her rather hardline attitude towards dealing with counter-revolutionaries and her endorsement of Red Terror to deal with obstinate counter-revolutionaries who refuse to put down their arms as well as her endorsement of protracted violent revolutionary struggle against imperialist forces. Regarded as supremely dangerous by the GTO, Zarina outright welcomes the hatred of class enemies and makes no attempt to hide her admiration for figures such as Felix Dzerzhinsky or Ernst Thalmann. However, those who fight the revolutionary struggle around the world adore her as the woman with the right stuff to finally beget an end to Imperialist tyranny.
+: Protracted Warrior: Zarina gives a +10 bonus to military rolls involving special forces.
+: People's war: Zarina gets a +12 bonus to any rolls relating to revolutionary activity that doubles when she is working with especially downtrodden groups such as imperialised countries or ethnic underclasses.
+: The mistress of insurgency: Zarina gets three additional revolutionary activity dice per turn
+: Guerilla Mistress: Zarina gets two additional guerilla military activity dice per turn.
+: The great weaver: Zarina is a peerless spymaster and has an astounding +15 bonus to any and all espionage actions and will grant an additional agency ring if elected.
+: By the throat; Zarina doubles the likelihood that enemy casualties suffered in special forces military actions will be permanent.
-: Mortal enemy of the GTO: Zarina's election to the position of Commissar of Intelligence of our organisation would put the GTO on high alert.
-: Third worldist: Zarina's tactics typically focus on the less developed sections of the world and are generally speaking not quite as suited to the situation of already industrially developed and modernised nations, her bonuses are halved when supporting revolutionary action in countries considered to be developed (thus negating her bonus to working with the underprivileged in developed nations)
-: Memories of Dzerzhinsky: Zarina makes a lot of people very nervous and despite her age and experience, and the thing is that most regard the apparatus of a Red Terror to be a temporary tool at best to be eliminated as quickly as possible before it seeks to justify itself. Zarina takes a -4 influence point generation penalty with both ULAPAC STAVKA and the Comintern.
[] Akifume Shinzo: A veteran of the Japanese revolution, Akifume Shinzo is a transman with something to prove. Famous for finally eliminating the Yakuza after his predecessors had struggled with the remnants of the group for a decade, Akifume has been fighting the revolutionary struggle since he was a teenager. Akifume is an expert in sussing out reactionary infiltrators and calling upon the populace to deal with the threats amidst them themselves rather than relying on heavy-handed purges or policing. He is also tremendously skilled at getting reactionary groups to turn upon themselves and tear themselves apart to save the people the pain of a protracted struggle. He is also well familiar with the on the ground facts of revolution and foreign spy work, and is a master of setting up spy rings in foreign countries and knows more about the Australian government's military disposition than the Australian prime minister.
+: Proletarians, defend yourselves!: Shinzo forces foreign infiltrators to have to reroll successes when they try to infiltrate your field of operations if he is the Commissar of Security, while failed rolls to find infiltrators can be rerolled.
+: Spying is Risky work: Shinzo increases the automatic failure range for enemy spying efforts to 1-5, while increasing the automatic success range for his spy work to 95-100.
+: A velvet glove: Shinzo does not generate resentment when he does security actions, particularly useful in occupied territory.
+: Revolutionary Networking: Shinzo halves the diplomacy points needed to turn occupied territories politically reliable and halves the number of diplomacy points needed to build revolutionary cells or organizations abroad.
+: Elusive Shadow: Shinzo gets a general +12 bonus to any espionage rolls that increases to +20 when dealing with counter-revolutionaries or when assisting revolutionaries.
+: Sorge reborn: Shinzo halves the espionage points needed to build new spy rings and grants two extra ones for free upon elected.
-: Brooding Shadow: Shinzo is something of a social wilting flower and will quickly back down from suggestions if confronted on them.
-: Inexperienced with Commando work: Shinzo takes a -5 penalty on special forces military rolls due to his lack of experience with the skulduggery of Spetsnaz operations.
-: Japanese: Japan is a young revolutionary republic and as such it does not carry the same prestige as some other revolutionary states. Until Japan has established itself more solidly he causes an automatic bleed of 1 favour points with the Chinese and Germans.
[] Verano Cetta: An Italian veteran of many efforts to try and sneak the forces of the descendants of Mussolini back into Italy by the Spanish as well as helping to clear out reactionaries in North Africa, Cetta takes his duties very seriously and doesn't often joke. Very often he barely talks, and he tends to show up to his meetings in full hazmat NBC gear to add an air of mystery to him and also to prevent people gunning for him from knowing what he actually looks like. Even the overwhelming majority of people only know him as "Il Manos", though at least you know his real name. He is certainly eccentric and distant, perhaps a bit on the creepy and offputting side, but he gets the job done well and quietly, usually with nobody noticing. He tends to steal your morning Coffee though. Prick.
+: Man of Mystery: Virtually no one outside of your group really knows much about Verano and his veil of secrecy is nearly impenetrable. Hostile attempts at espionage need three successes to pass if he is in the committee. He also gives a +25 bonus to all espionage rolls in general and generates three free espionage dice per turn.
+: How did they even get there?: Verano is a mad genius at infiltrating and exfiltrating places and gives an amazing +50 bonus to espionage rolls involving infiltrating locations.
+: Frogman: Verano gives a +30 bonus to military and espionage rolls involving special forces.
+: I know what you know: Verano gives a +30 bonus to espionage rolls involving stealing information
+: He's a dead man: Verano has a +30 bonus to rolls for assassination operations.
+: Mister International: So long as Verano is on the committee, you will never suffer "strange culture" penalties for espionage, not even for wildly inhuman species for reasons unknown.
-: Weirdo: Verano is a very strange man and has a -15 diplomacy malus on conversations with most other people due to his eccentricities.
-: Yoink: Verano's odd habits cause a roll of a d100 every turn. On a 5 or less he causes an incident that needs to be resolved when he does something like filch somebody's coffee.
-: Please enter the door like a normal person: Verano's preferred means of entering meeting rooms such as crawling through the ducts or rappeling through windows can cause stress points on a roll of a one due to their jarring nature.
[] Sayar Aktug: West Asia is a busy and difficulty fraught place to work in, especially with the continual orbit of spies and agents near the city of region of Palestine. Kurdish on her mother's side and Turkish on her father's, Sayar is well aware of the fraught difficulties of working in highly ethnically divided regions such as the complex tapestry of religions and peoples of western Asia and North Africa. She knows how to get people in communities, how to build up networks, how to pour into every facet of society until the time is right and flip the table all at once as she did in Ba'athist Iraq, toppling the heir of Saddam Hussein's regime in under a day with little bloodshed. Though she's patient to a fault, she will get the job done.
+: Organisation in Chaos: Sayar does not accrue stress points when working in highly complicated scenarios and in fact, her usual +12 bonus to espionage doubles to +24 in such chaotic scenarios with large numbers of factors interlocking with one another.
+: Keep an ear to the ground: Sayar is skilled at setting up citizen watch networks who will inflict a -20 penalty on enemy attempts at infiltration.
+: Setting up the Dominoes: Sayar's espionage bonuses double once again when it comes to setting up coups or revolutions.
+: Revolutionary Networking: Sayar halves the diplomacy points needed to turn occupied territories politically reliable and halves the number of diplomacy points needed to build revolutionary cells or organizations abroad.
+: Building Friendships: Sayar not only doesn't build up resentment in territories under her purview as Commissar of Security but she actually builds up gratitude which greatly increases the speed that these territories can be integrated. This bonus is doubled in ethnically diverse areas.
+: Rise up ye who are oppressed: Sayar's mission cost is halved when dealing with areas with significant oppressed ethnic minorities.
-: Mononational countries are not my expertise: Sayar's usual tactics revolve around looking around for vulnerabilities in a security network by looking for those who already don't like the system. Mononational countries remove this and so halve her bonuses against them.
-: Overly Patient: Sayar will wait an extra turn to overkill an espionage project which while producing better results, takes more time.
-: Target for the Mossad: the Mossad has its sights set on her and is still trying to assassinate her to this day.
Commissar of Culture (Culture dude)
[] Marie Isabelle Marinette: A French bisexual woman and a second-generation revolutionary who witnessed the revolution of 2025 as a young girl, Marie is an advocate of the cultural revolution and the radical transformation of society to wash away all the oppressions of old, famously criticising her revolutionary parents for lingering transphobia and binarist thoughts. Marie is a ferocious advocate for the dispossessed of all stripes and has been active in the continuing revolutionary struggle against all elements of reaction in France. "I want a world where a woman may feel free to walk in a burqa or stark naked without fear or worry; where she may say no to advances or embrace as many as she would choose; where she may limit her interest to only women or to whatever assortment of genders she desires" She is famous for saying. She also seeks to push people out of getting overly comfortable with certain lines of thought, taking the dogma that to be a marxist is to question everything to heart.
+: Cultural Radical: On any roll that involves dealing with cultural effects, Marinette gains a +20 bonus towards recommending a change in policy and ensuring that these changes become reality and not merely legality. She also gains a +25 bonus on diplomatic rolls with people from dispossessed or oppressed groups. She also generates 10 favour points with the general Proletariat per turn.
+: Revolutionary Theorist: Marinette is an expert on the theory and praxis of revolution, having immersed herself in every aspect of revolution and its science from an early age and as such, allows any dice roll involving a revolution to be rolled twice with the better of the two being taken.
+: Aux Armes Citoyens!: Marinette is almost frightfully good at getting people to organise and fight for a cause, generating two additional insurgent activity dice per turn and generating two additional dice for forming radical movements abroad per turn.
+: Charismatic: Marinette is a genuinely charismatic figure who gains a +10 bonus to diplomacy rolls that doubles to +20 when she's trying to sway someone into taking action. Her automatic success range also increase to 99 to 100.
+: Art Nouveaux: Marinette is a gifted artist and animator who is deeply familiar with the sort of art that speaks to the soul and the stories that really resonate with people, allowing her to reroll any diplomacy dice used on propaganda/internal diplomacy efforts and take the better of the two and in propaganda, her success range doubles again to 97-100.
+: Fearless Elan: Marinette never suffers mental health negative modifiers to rolls she is asked to assist with due to her boundless enthusiasm for the cause. She is also virtually immune to accumulating stress.
-: A tad gauche: Marinette is often prone to saying rather shocking or rude things to people she dislikes or has issues with and as such the automatic failure range for diplomatic rolls involving her increases from a natural 1 to a natural 1 or 2.
-: Everybody's Critic: Marinette will grate on the nerves of more conservative politicians or those whom she perceives as holding back the struggle against all forms of oppression and can make quite a lot of enemies. When speaking to characters with the conservative modifier; her natural failure range doubles to 1-4.
-: French: France is a young revolutionary Republic and as such it does not carry the same prestige as some other revolutionary states. Until France has established itself more solidly she causes an automatic bleed of 1 favour points with the Soviets and Chinese.
[] Danny Murtagh: A young but already promising Irish firebrand who became famous for being the first to strike a hammer blow at the Belfast wall in 2025 as a young boy, Danny is a ferocious advocate for the liberation of oppressed nations and knows how to electrify the soul of the downtrodden into action. His hard-hitting agitprop, oration, and fiction has been lauded from an early age and the British government considers him so dangerous that they have made it illegal to consume any media that he has created, resulting in a widespread underground "Danny market" in Scotland, Wales, and Cornwall.
+: Shatter the Empire!: When it comes to waging propaganda and agitation campaigns against Imperialised countries or peoples, Danny gains a +30 bonus on the requisite diplomacy rolls, reduces the cost of a campaign by 25% and generates +10 favour points with China every turn.
+: A people United!: When facing questions of people divided by imperialism or other outside forces, Danny's diplomacy roll doubles to a whopping +60 (or simply to +30 if the division is not a result of Imperialism) and generates +10 favour points with Germany every turn.
+: Legacy of the IRA: Danny's parents were in the IRA and so were their parents before them, he can lend a hand to organising rebel and revolutionary cells, eliminating automatic failure on rolls of a natural one and increasing automatic successes to 98-100.
+: Celtic Pagan: Amidst a gaggle of atheists, Danny is a neopagan who tries to touch with the old faith of Ireland before the onset of the catholic church, this gives him a greater appreciation for esoteric forces (+10 on rolls involving esoterics) and the Fae (+20 on most rolls interacting with Xarazanth's fae, increasing to +30 when dealing with the Red Court Fae)
+: Tech Savvy: Danny is well experienced with modern media campaigns, and can generate two additional dice for propaganda diplomatic efforts that revolve around modern media.
+: Novelist: Danny is an accomplished creator of fiction and generates an additional 50 Cultural resource points per turn.
-: Laser-Focused: Danny is strongly focused on the anti-imperialist struggle and can sometimes forget that there's more avenues of oppression than merely Imperialism. His bonuses in campaigns not revolving around Imperialism are halved.
-: "Oh I'll show you a fight": Danny is easily angered and trembles with outrage at every injustice in the world. He will demand propaganda campaigns against any reactionary or fascist entity discovered and may resign if he is overridden on his requests for targets too often with failed diplomacy checks.
-: Banned in the U.K. Still smarting from the loss of North Ireland and regarding the Celtic firebrand as incredibly dangerous to the unity of the United Kingdom, the British government has made it illegal to consume any content he produces and as such his election to this position would be seen as a declaration of intent, immediately escalating tensions with British and to a lesser degree, the Spanish.
[] Sophie Sligman: A Dutchwoman of tremendous acclaim as a writer of fiction and a game designer, Sophie is the propagandist for the new age; deftly woving themes into her work to get the viewer or consumer to stop and think. When she makes something, even the very game mechanics are selected in such a way as to reinforce a certain point or view and the very act of enjoying them gently seduces someone to the way she sees things. This allows her to work with a great deal of subtlety that allows her to slip under a lot of censors who are mostly looking for more overt propaganda but it does mean that she tends to be a bit less flashy and direct with what she's trying to say. Which can be an issue when the point is something that very much requires blunt force to get across.
+: Works of Art: Sligman gets a +30 bonus to diplomacy checks involving fictional agitprop.
+: Won't even notice it: Sligman's agitprop usually goes by unnoticed by any but the most observant people or people versed in media analysis, allowing it to slip by censors more often than not.
+: Subtle: Sligman's agitprop gets to reroll failed attempts at influencing opinion because it's not particularly in your face.
+: Loves her work: Sligman accrues stress points at only one eighth the normal rate.
+: Smiling Dutchgirl: Sligman is a very charming person in the flesh and can easily bedazzle people with her personality, looks, and mannerisms, having a +15 bonus to diplomacy rolls personally involving her.
+: Great output: Agitprop only costs half the usual cultural points to produce under her.
-: Not a documentarian: Sligman's focus on fiction means that she has little experience with documentary propaganda work which might be more needed sometimes, giving her a -10 malus on such propaganda until she learns more experience.
-: A bit too subtle sometimes: Sligman's agitprop sometimes only has a chance of returning resource points instead of the desired effect if its successful but not enough people actually get it.
-: A bit avant grade: Sligman grates with more conservative characters due to her love of pushing boundaries.
[] Zubair Sahetapy: An Indonesian journalist and screenwriter, Zubair has won numerous awards for his in-depth documentaries, his factual and emotion stirring reporting, and his often gut-wrenching films. Zubair's expose into the war crimes of the Australian government in the 80s in Indonesia that they had buried for decades touched countless hearts and unravelled a deep web of mystery and intrigue. Though he's most comfortable with media made with a video camera and a trusty keyboard, Zubair is at least somewhat flexible when it comes to what he makes and experiments with other mediums sometimes. However he also has a particular style of his craft that works best with certain types of people and can have more difficulty trying to cross into overly different cultures without at least some common ground.
+: Indonesia's golden boy: Zubair is well trusted by the Indonesian and thus the Chinese government and so grants a +15 favour point bonus with the Chinese.
+: Hard-hitting facts: Zubair gets a critical success on a roll of a 90 or better due to the strength of his factual reporting.
+: Transformative sensibilities: Zubair is able to attempt agitprop campaigns against normally very resistant populations that other Cultural commissars would not be.
+: Emotional writing: Zubair gets a +20 bonus on all diplomacy checks involving agitprop.
+: Muckracking: Zubair also gives a +10 bonus on espionage checks due to the widespread nature of his expert journalists.
+: What a scoop: Zubair's agitprop campaigns have a one in two chance of turning up useful intelligence.
-: I don't get it: Zubair can sometimes struggle with cultural barriers. If a culture is sufficiently different from his own, his bonuses are halved until he familiarises himself with them.
-: Less into fiction: Zubair gets no bonuses with fictional agitprop until he familiarises himself with the format.
-: This story needs to be told: Zubair will resist any suggestion to classify news unless a successful diplomacy check is made.
[x] Shido Shaciye Shuuriye: A Somali man who has served in just about every capacity to the point of having even been a Cosmonaut at one point in his younger years during the 2010s, Shido is a man of compromise and many trades. Having served as both a physical and an intellectual labourer and even as an accomplished novelist; Shido has connections in just about every circle and the smiling Somali man has virtually no enemies to speak of. Shido is also known for being rather lucky and always seeming to know when and where to commit to certain actions for the best possible results. Able to do anything and everything to ensure the triumph of the revolution, Shido makes sure to avoid tying himself too much to any one field or form of activity or tactic. However his desire to keep everyone pleased has lead to him frequently being highly stressed, and many worry if he is pushing himself too hard to stay on everyone's good side.
