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English name: Crimea
Official name: Qırım (墙私)
Ruling system: Parliamental Khanate
Continent, region: Europe, east
Religion: none (Teñriism in state favor,
islam and orthodoxy - large numbers)
Currency: Altın (CAT)
Drives on the: right
Ruler: Great Khan
Capital: Kharkov (1.777.220 hab)
Largest city: Moscow (10.920.641 hab)
Area: 20.563.664 sq.km
Population: 208.351.367 people

Crimean Empire is the Parliamentary Khanate, located in Eastern Europe and North and CentralAsia , spanning from Dunay river, Dnestr and Zbruch rivers on the West to the Pacific in the east, from North Pole, Barents and White Sea in the north towards Black Sea in the south. Big and prospering cities, beautiful Crimean Peninsula in the country south, several big european rivers, ending in Crimea, and unique culture, that finds traces of itself in 2 000 BC - all this makes Crimea the No. 1 destiny to live and to visit in Eurasia.
In the Second World War Crimea was almost overrun by Germany in its european part but won the war with the help of China and Western Allies
Modern Crimea is a state with strong state economical sector, 'asian means of production' (collectivism and practically non-existent middle class), very strong trade connections across the southern Europe, Middle East, East Asia and further abroad.
Crimea is a nuclear state and implements an unique military strategy, as follows:
1. Crimea will not invade any country, even if bordering
2. If any country will invade Crimea (with conventional army included), Crimea can retaliate, using tactical or strategical nukes.
History
From 1300 BC, the name for native population was "Kimmerians". In 700 BC, Saqa tribes had arrived from Turan steppes in east. They intermarried with kimmerians, and adopted protoiranic Black Sea culture.
In 600-500 BC, Saqa and Kimmerians interacted with Greek colonizers and had modernised very quickly, giving beginning to the most sophisticated army of the antic Europe. Saqa khan Mitridat the Great was a close ally of Roman republic and had defeated many enemies of Romans in the east, namely Armenia, Persia, and others.
In 550 BC Theodosia, Kerch, Sevastopol, Kherson, Odessa, Mariupol (now Zhdanov), Tana (now Rostov) were founded by greeks.
In 300 BC Aq-Meçit was founded by Saqa tribes by greek name "Neapolis" and became a new capital. Now it is called Simferopol and is a biggest city of Lesser Crimea Prefecture.
In 600 AC turkic language was adopted by crimeans.
So Crimea was a turkic country long before 1223, when it was peacefully incorporated into Empire of Genghis-Khan.
Aq-Meçit was in decline, new capital was founded in the east of country - Qırım. Crimea had acquired that name as country name. This city had last to our days in Feodosia province, although having only 9.373 habitants.
In 1400 Theodosia city was bought by italians, namely by Genoa Republic.
In 1441 year, Crimea gained independence from Golden Horde.
In 1475 year, Crimea concluded the mutual protection treaty with Ottoman Turkey.
In 1571-1572 years, Devlet Girey I undertook several tax collecting raids on Russia, second of which with the help of Ottoman Turkey. Turkish help was of controversial usefulness, and the second raid ended with failure to collect taxes and losing influence over Astrakhan khanate.
In late 16th century a project for building a channel between Black Sea and Caspian Sea was discussed on joint meeting of Ottoman sultan and Crimean khan. The building was started but paused shortly after due to geological difficulties and lack of knowledge at the time.
In 1649, Crimea took Polish border town of Zbaraj and reestablished Crimean control on Kiev, Jitomir, Chernigov and lands between Dnepr and Zbruch rivers.
In 1654, Crimea lost Left-Bank East Slavia to Russia (Chernigov, Poltava, Kharkov etc)
In 1683, Crimea relegated rights to Podolye to Turkey.
In 1699 Turkey concluded a separate treaty with Poland, giving Podolye back to Poland
In 17th century, Crimea actively engaged in Caucasus wars to drive out Persia from Caucasus, which culminated in Qancal battle in 1708. After a humiliating inability to subdue local Cherkes (çirkiş, "wild people" from Crimean) population, which resorted to guerilla tactics, Crimea and Persia, equally unable to directly gain any land here, concluded a treaty which delineated spheres of influence in Caucasus. Because Cherkes people were laying between Crimea and Persia and closer to Crimea, they were recognized as neutral tribes, but in Crimean sphere of influence, whereas Dagestan, Chechnya, Ossetia and so on were brought under Persian influence.
In early 18 century, Russian emperor Peter the First suffered a catastrophic defeat near the city of Azov and Russia was reinstated as an autonomy of Crimean Khanate.
In 1774 year, Crimean nobility switches sides under Russian pressure. New khan, Şahin Girey I was a young man educated in Europe. He had close ties with Russia, Dutch and the British.
In 1783 year, a Proclamation of land return was signed, driving out major feudal lords from politics. Several new raids were conducted in Bucaq region, further upsetting Turkey. These raids brought Moldavia and Podol under direct control of Crimea, but next year a coup occured in Moldavia, and the ancient kingdom splitted along ethnic and social lines, namely, Bucaq region went to Crimea and rest of the kingdom became again an Ottoman protectorate.
In 1790, Crimea undertook a major raid on Poland, joining forces with autonomous Russia. Acknowledging rising influence of Crimea in Podolye, Russia relegated rights to all Right-Bank East Slavia to Crimea.
In 1795 Polish campaign culminated in the last partition of Poland. Crimea gained Wolyn, Russia gained Southern Baltics and West Belarus, Austria gained Galicia and Lublin and Germany gained all other areas.
In 1796 Pavel I took the throne in Russia. His short reign was marked by overt admiration over Prussia, Turkey and Crimea. He returned Königsberg to Prussia, and all Crimean territory in borders of 1441 to Crimea, ending more than 120 years of russian domination in the area. The idea of "quadruple alliance", however, was short-lived. Neither Turkey, nor Prussia never signed any treaty which could give any concessions to Russia. Crimea, nevertheless, recognized superior rights of russian settlers in returned territories and obligated to protect Russian sovereignty on all other lands, effectively ending much larger complex Crimean claims over Kazan, Siberia and other lands of former Mongol Empire.
In 1798 year russian boyars, dissatisfied with territorial concessions of Pavel, assassinated him in a palace coup. The treaty with Crimea was broken, and Şahin Girey was enraged.
The new policy of Şahin Girey could be interpreted as "aggressive neutrality". This period is marked by establishing diplomatic relationships with Qing China (previously Crimea claimed to be a sole successor of Mongol Empire, therefore unable to recongize China, but since 1796 this was not the case) and France.
In 1801 Şahin Girey conducted an "auto-coup", banning Turkish imams from entering the country, purging half of noblemen and executing most local warlords. This was the year of proclamation of The Crimean Empire.
In the same year local currencies over all land of the Empire were abolished.
To better control recently returned lands and protect them from now-hostile Russia, the capital was relocated in Kharkov, which obtained new name Sarıhan (this was at the time praised as "correction" of the name, purportedly being named over Khazar Sarı-Han in 11th century).
In 1804 the whole country was subdivided into prefectures, modeled after French departments. Usually the area of the prefecture coincided with one day on horse from the capital to the furtherst town in the prefecture. Those were grouped into old provinces, now having slightly modified borders. The new conflict was brewing in Caucasus area over Cherkes lands and Turkish Sucuq-Qala fort.
In 1805 Şahin Girey died, and now his son, Devlet III Girey took his place, because previous emperor changed the inheritance rules to direct male descension, opposed to brothers' rights.
Devlet III Girey quickly recognized that French interests in Europe are much larger, than previously thought, and the relations between two countries gradually soured.
On the contrary, Turkish-Crimean relations were bettering. Turkey allowed Crimea to purchase narrow land strip from northern outskirts of Abkhazian Ğağrı town up to Sucuq-Qala. Both sides decided to end decades long Turkish claim on Bucaq region and Crimean claim on Moldavia. Also Turkey somewhat prematurely recognized Cherkes people as Crimeans and imposed a trade blockade on Persia and Cherkes people.
In 1812 Crimea stayed out of the Russo-French war which was fought mainly to the north in Russian Belarus.
In 1817 the new Caucasus colonial war started, which saw no improvements until 1850s, when Devlet III died and Qırım II Girey took his place. The new emperor recognized the need to change the war outlook by bribing local Cherkes warlords and instigating small local clan clashes. This tactic was a large success, and in 1864 Crimea fully integrated the Cherkes lands up to previously delineated border with Persia. Meanwhile Persia could not integrate Dagestan and Azerbaycan, and Crimean army commanders began to smuggle arms to those disputed lands.
The beginning of Qırım II Girey reign was, nevertheless, not sunny. In 1853 the Crimean war started, because British wanted to "open" the country and to break Crimean-Turkish alliance which prevented British from exercising influence in the region. They occupied a small patch of land on the southernmost tip of Crimea Peninsula in the Aq-Yar city, threating old capital of Bağcasaray. In 1856 their rights were recognized, and British army left the country.
In 1878 Qırım II Girey died and Sufi Girey took the throne. His reign was marked not by terrestrial conquests, but economical reforms instead. In the first years of his reign, british specialists constructed a railway between Aq-Yar and Bağcasaray. The railway was a huge success, and the next railway project was several times longer, connecting Bağcasaray and Sarıhan. The Great Channel of Black and Caspian Seas was again under construction, now in the place on Quma-Manıç depression. The new goal, inspired by British technicians, was to create lockless channel much like Suez, and equalize levels of Black and Caspian sea. The building of the channel protracted well into 1910s.
In 1890, The Crimea University was founded in Kharkov\Sarıhan, and next year, the Technical Academy was also founded.
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Geography
Crimea consists of the "inner land" (内地, iç yer) and two more tiers of autonomies and protectorates - second-class lands and third-class lands.
Autonomies of Russia, Tatarstan, Siberia, Kazakhstan, United Dagestani States and Ossetia are of second class (except some selected regions of Kazakhstan).
Autonomies of Karelia, Komi, Yamal, Yugra, Taymyr, Yakutiya, Chukotka and Tyva are of third class and are demilitarized.
Crimean Empire is bordering Norway and Finland in the north, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Lithuania and Romania in the West, Turkestan, Georgia, Azerbaijan in the south, China and Mongolia in the southeast and Japan and the US in the far east.
Crimea is bordered by twelve seas and Pacific and Northern Oceans.
Nature of Crimea can be classified into several nature zones, namely, mountainous river valleys and beaches in southern part of the country, steppes in the northern and eastern part of the country, highland plains in the northwest and tayga forests in the extreme north.
Society of Crimea

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Nomad yurts near settled houses in Pyatigorsk

Crimea is a nomad nation. It is true even in our times, in XXI century.
Classical nomads, which move around the country constantly, make up to 30% of population, while all other population is forced to resettle from their previous settlements for once in their life (when they are conscripted to army). Army term is 10 years (not months), spanning from 18 years to 28 years of citizen's age.
Army isn't a 'brute force' and 'cannon meat'. It is, basically, a big corporation of underpaid workers, which receive only housing, meal, uniform according to season, but no money. Money is saved on a temporary blocked bank account. Instead, conscripts have election rights. They construct most infrastructure projects and do the biggest amount of public works.
After 10 years of service, Crimean soldier is decommissionned, bank money is unlocked, and a Crimean citizen can use earned money to set up his own business (no tax unless it's international trade) or to get a minimal pension each month to sustain his own life. Usually, a decommissionned crimean soldier stays in the region of his service rather than returns home.

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An example of Crimean script
Reads "Kirazı altında"
Means "Under cherry"
Is a name of a cafe in Kharkov.
So, there is a constant "brewing pot" of people in Crimea, and there are no ethnic minorities from a classical point of view.
The culture of Crimea is also mixed because of this lifestyle.
It is mainly altaic, nonreligious (although there are considerable influences of Teñriism (native religion) sunni islam, buddhism, and eastern orthodoxy), and collective-centered.
Main masterpieces of Crimean culture are verses and poems, created by crimean khans and other noble persons, some of these poems depict fatal battles and some - the life of 'usual' crimean noblemen and their 'power struggle'. Also the crimean architecture is known widely around the world.
Main masterpieces of visual art were initially produced by migrants, because in 1500~1700-s islam, being a main religion, prohibited visual arts. But in 1800-s, when islamic influence declined, japanese, russian and european influence increased, especially after 1801 coup attempt and consequential prohibition of islam, visual arts became more common in Crimea.
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İ. K. Aivazian, 1887
"Napoleon on St. Helene island"

In 1801, Great Khan Shahin-I-Geray reintroduced Teñri as a state religion and banned the use of islamic script.
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M. Voloşın, 1927
İkişerk (two-folded verse) in the left reads as
"All - clouds, trees and hills had freezed
In autumnal sluggish seas"

That placed a strain on cultural development for 15 years.
Russian culture was spreading actively in this period. Many noblemen shifted to Russian, French and Chinese from the Tatar language, considering it too "outdated". French was removed from public use after 1812, and Chinese - after bloody Taiping Uprising clampdown. Russian was used in some social circles until 1940-50s.
Latin or Cyrillic script was not introduced because of fear of western colonisation. Firstly, owing to big business deals between Japan, China and Crimea, chinese characters were used according to türkic word roots. For example, "araba" meaning "carriage" was replaced to "车", and "qapı" meaning "gate" was replaced to "门". So the final version of the word "wide gate" (arabaqapı) became "车门". River (Su) became 水, black became 黑, so the name of Qarasu city became 黑水.
But there were no definitions for the number of nouns, which is present in crimean tatar language and absent in Chinese and Japanese.
So in time of Meiji restauration in Japan and Crimean political reforms in 1890-s, a new script emerged, as a compromise between old islamic script and japanese hiragana. It is used through today, mainly for international names writing.

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How to write in New Crimean Script

From all Crimean visual artisans, Ivan Aivazian (Armenian national) is the most famous. His seascapes are exhibited all around the world and belong to the most recognisable art works of humanity.
The Kimmerian arts school (Kimmeria is an ancient greek name for Crimea), which begins with Aivazian, next gives M. Voloşın, being at the same time a poet and an artisan. It is the second world-famous crimean artisan.


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So strange that the meaning of being
To me was revealed with such ease,
And "I" that in seed has been hidden,
And to growth and bloom secret keys.
In plants, in the rocks - everywhere,
In mountains, clouds above,
In beasts, in the blue star out there
I hear the singing of love.

The Riot (originally written in Russian)
You are prisoners of self-made labyrinths!
You — corpses in the coffins clamped with nails!
You — fanatics, who throw bombs
Into the Parlaments, stock exchanges, and palaces, —
And you imagine that you can destroy with dynamite
All that which sprouts from within —
From your own self with irrepressible force!
I call you to rebel against
The laws of your habitual nature and your mind:
To jump out of humanity —
To final madness —
The Transformation of your own self.


Demography of Crimea and Yabançı phenomena

In Crimea currently (2022) lives 213.293.382 habitants in about 106 mln of households.
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Plot of ethnicities and tribes of Crimea
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One can see that Crimea is currently in a last phase of demographic shift - long lifespan, free medicine in combination with conservative values and employment of either gender (making child raising more difficult) contributes to population aging and, ultimately, to demographical crisis. It is highly unlikely that Crimea will still make it to 200 mln in 2050. But the government develops new policies to encourage child raising and adoption and to prevent accidents and suicides.
Although, there exists yet another point of view - when the "60-s baby boom" cohorte will die, the "Y generation" will be the main workforce, and so the strain placed on social welfare system will be alleviated, and Crimea can even expect a demographical "big bang".
There are some migrant populations in Crimea, they are called Yabançı (外者). Migrants usually speak russian or english, rarely can speak tatar. They define themselves as foreign nationals in Crimea, rather than Crimean residents. Some crimean-born citizens also are Yabançı if they define themselves as foreign nationals, not Crimean citizens. It is mostly true in regard of romanian and chechen nationals in Crimea, which usually retain their identity even in next, crimean generation and do not adapt to crimean customs and culture.
They are heavily discriminated by people, but government denies any discrimination of foreigners. The root of discrimination of foreigners is in time of "monk khan" Sufi-Geray, when foreign nationals constructed railways and opened industry corporations using loan money and placed a considerable burden on Crimean economy.

Chechens, according to public anti-foreigner humour, are "too conservative", "worse than an uncalled guest", "capable to treason" and, in the same time, "extremely loyal to family values", "ready for revenge", "bad workers", "good soldiers".
Serbs, bosniaks, banatians and croats, called "Yugoslavians", are expected to be "work-thirsty", "bad soldiers", "undependable", "very poor", "have big family abroad", "very low in demands", "cook very big food portions".
There are others stereotypes of foreigners in Crimea, for example, American\Anglosaxon people are depicted as ignorant, selfish and incapable of true love, often treasonous. Russians and East Asians are often seen as drunkards, and Indians and Muslims - as poor and uneducated people. There are no stereotypes for black people in Crimea, except the generic name "negro" for them, being not a slur word but mainly a generalisation.

Yabançı are forbidden to own property or to form political forces, but they usually make some corporations in IT, resource extracting and management spheres, formally owned by crimean citizens.

History of religion and superstitions in Crimea
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A mengir

There are 4 major religions in Crimea.
The first religion historically created in Crimea is a Teñri path. Dingir is translated as "Sky" in protosumerian, from this language it was loaned to prototurkic and spread accross the Eurasian steppe.
Saqa people in 6 century BC probably already were Teñrians, since they actively used sky and solar motives in their jewelry and pottery. This is probably due to protoiranic, sumerian influence. The Tripolye archeological culture is a main historical monument to ancient Teñri worshippers.
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A road iççi worship place aside of the road

Teñri is based on worshipping the Eternal Sky-Father (Teñri), and (sometimes) the Great Mother-Soil (Umay). The artifacts of this religion are dolmens (big stone coffins with a round hole, meaning Mother-Soil) and mengirs (big round stone poles, meaning Father-Teñri).
With the flow of time, Dolmens were discontinued, and Mengirs were reshaped into Balbals - stone pole-like figures of ancient warriors and khans. It is not 100% anthropomorphic, because the main purpose is not to show an image of this only warrior or khan, but to point a symbol and (or) to mark a border (often not only Horde's border but also the border between perceived human and deity worlds).
There are no hell in Teñri. Instead, "the other face of earth" is often described as a grey and black place (like a negative of a film), named Qarataş, where souls wander around sand hills and dead trees, waiting for something like reincarnation. The time of wandering may wary, and depends on whether the soul had "lost its true path" in the human world before. (But no more than 40 days).
Some teñriists advocate existence of "souls that had not left", called "Keremet" (Unusual). Keremet is not only a ghost in usual meaning of this word - poltergheists, unusual nature cataclysms and "voices" are believed to be "keremets' inorderly deeds". Keremet is not filthy or bad at all. It is just an unhappy soul which seeks attention, that's why it is so active sometimes. Also Keremet is a name for a deceased ancestor, and each house has some "red corner" where there is a home-made altar for worshipping Teñri, Umay and ancestors' Keremets. If the descendant will not worship ancestors shortly after death (in the flow of 9 days), they will return as loud Keremets and will disturb him, until they are worshipped correctly. After 40 days, the soul is believed to end "black stone land" (Qarataş) journey and to reincarnate in our world, completely losing all previous experience.
Also some teñriists do believe in "İççi" (small spirits inside of every thing, not bad and not to be confused with Keremet). While Keremet has no viable form (that's why it is disturbing others), iççi is pretty happy inside of the roadway, bridge, animal, or work instrument. If the animal grows big and old, iççi may try to convert it to human form (usually fails). If the material thing is used masterly (swords, axes, hammers and so on) or very often (bridge, roadway) it becames "alive" and has its own character. Some accident-prone roadway junctions are worshipped by teñriists, they make small money and food sacrifices near to these places, also marking the place by paper or fabric strips. When they are marking the place, they make a wish, and iççi will try to make it come true. Work instruments are worshipped by keeping in clean dry place, and by passing from one qualified master to another, because the old and valuable working instrument is believed to "misbehave" in too young hands.
In 1915, all Teñri shamans were subordinated to the Great Khan, and the religion was systematised and revived as official, enjoying very big rise of clients.
In 1930, the Golden Gate rock in Qara-Dağ volcanic complex (Feodosia Prefecture) was designated as an official "sacred trip place". Each crimean, reaching 20 years, usually completes a ritual, which involves naked swimming through the Golden Gate (accessible only by boat, because a volcano territory is a protected national park), and launching a firework after departing back in sea after completion of this ritual. Because of the tension, placed on a sacred place, the visiting number each day is limited.
On the gallery of sacred places below it is placed by number 1.
Tengriism is practiced by some 40% of people, whilst 15% are mostly irreligious but still registered as tengriists, because census does not have "atheist" choice for religion.
The second by number religion is Eastern Orthodoxy. Believed by slavic tribes, the faith of orthodoxy is created in 13 century, after roman-bysantium clashes. In fact, when slavics accepted christianity, they have not chose eastern orthodoxy, because it was non-existent at the time. Only with flow of the time, Bysantium and Crimean (Kievan) slavic tribes shifted to a modern form of their Christianity.
This religion is shared between some of 20% of Crimean people, mostly in the northwestern part.
The sacred place of Orthodoxy is located in Sevastopol (Aqyar city, Lesser Crimea prefecture), it's a St. Vladimir church, where (place, not church) St. Vladimir was baptised by Greeks (but there are no "official" trip place in Orthodoxy). On the gallery of sacred places below it is placed by the number 2.
The third by number religion is Sunni Islam. After 1966, alleviating Islam restrictions, many old mosques were reopened, including the oldest - Sultan Beybars (12 century, number 3 on the gallery). Currently about 19% of crimean people are muslims.
The fourth religion, making around 1%, is Mahayana Buddhism, in two flavors - Gelug-pa (Yellow Caps) Tibetan Buddhism and Rinzai Zen buddhism. It was around from 16 century, brought by qalmyq nomads in Tibetan flavor and from XIX century brought by japanese businessmen in Zen flavor. The biggest monastery of Buddhism is in Elista, it is "Golden house of Shakyamuni Buddha" (number 4 in the gallery).

Sacred places of crimean faiths

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1. Golden Gate (Teñriism)

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2. St. Vladimir church (Orthodoxy)

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3. Sultan Beybars mosque (Islam)

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4. Golden house of Buddha (Buddhism)

Social services in Crimea
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A feldşer unit near Elton village,
Torun prefecture.
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A staqan near Ulu Yasa sqr.
(Kharkov city office)

The medicine in Crimea is modelled after Germany. Regarding very high level of medical help in the german army in WW I (in turn caused by lower population than Entente) Crimean Great Khan decided to model some aspects of medical help in Crimea after Kaiser Germany.
So, the medicine in Crimea is divided into 3 major groups.
First being the Feldşer medicine, modelled after german "Fieldscher". A feldşer has a half of secondary education, he can conduct routine operations and examinations. Salary of feldşer is between the salary of a doctor and of a medical sister.
Feldşer medicine is free to all citizens, residents and tourists.
Second being the Doctor medicine. The Doctor is the equivalent of M. D. in western countries. He has full secondary education including additional 5 years of internature. He conducts unusual examinations and complex operations similar to that provided by Israeli, Swiss and German medicine.
Doctor medicine is free to citizens which had been in army, or which are disabled and cannot serve in army.
Third being the Private medicine. Private medicine contains stomatology, plastic surgery, hair and skin therapy (if not after an accident or serious illness). It is not free for all citizens, residents and guests.
Each feldşer unit is located in a municipality, and each municipality has an area smaller than 200 sq. km. (77 sq. miles). That means, the medical help is accessible to any citizen within 8 minutes, which is a standart to save life in serious circumstances.
The police in Crimea can resemble japanese police forces, but was created independently.
Each municipality has a police station and a number of police boxes, each covering about 4 sq. km. (1.5 sq. mile). Police box is slightly taller and higher than japanese or british ones. It contains 2 policemens, called "militsia" after latin "militia" (armed population). Militsia forces can be used to control traffic, to investigate small thefts, fightings or threats, to return lost items after holder identification, to direct other social services (fire extinguishing forces, feldşer forces) and to help lost tourists.
The box of militsia is called Staqan after russian "стакан" meaning "a drinking glass", because of form.
Usually one militsiamen polices a neighborhood, sitting high in the Staqan. The other militsiamen stays away from staqan to direct people and to run on a call. Usually militsiamens are armed with small guns like TT or PM, while the general population does not have guns at all (except those in active army service).
The Internet in Crimea is expansively seen as a type of social service. The Internet is free (Wi-Fi type) in "special order cities" and "outstanding cities", while its price in usual cities and villages is not high. The right of author in Crimea amounts only to indicating the author of the art piece, not to restricting informational exchange. But all art authors receive small donations from state, defined by the demand on their art pieces and by the general socio-political need in those art pieces. Many "pirate" websites are hosted in Crimea, but due to Internet sovereignity law western countries have little influence to cut them down or to prohibit informational exchange.
Due to omnipresent Wi-Fi, crimean phones do not have a 5G module or LTE, they are only 3G.
Culinary of Crimea
Crimean culinary begins as such in 15 century, after independence from Golden Horde.
Great ottoman and italian influence leaded to creation of a sophisticated coffee culture.
Coffeeshops, named "kafehana" (咖啡館), are presented in each crimean city in quantity of 100 and more.
There are small coffeeshops around one car with built-in coffeemachine, or big halls with distinct men and women places.
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Interior of typical Kafehana. It is more the place of relaxation and business, more than usual eatery

When it is hot in crimean steppes, people are concentrating aroud "kafehana" to discuss matters, to have relax, to use "kalian" (water-filter tobacco smoking system, the only smoking type allowed in Crimea).
The hot period usually lasts for July-August, from 12:00 to 16:00 each day.
But the main eating place is at home.
Crimean cuisine includes:
1. Şorpa (translates as "soup"). Usually with meat and a lot of pepper.
2. Tala. A frozen fresh fish is sliced into thin slices, the unusual sauce is prepared to accompany it.
In last times, Tala use abroad is increased. But nations abroad do not comply with sea-to-customer delivery time, Crimea considers to set up a Tala international comittee.
3. Pılov. A mutton with rice, cooked in a high-walls pan.
4. Beşbarmaq. A horse with square pasta leafs. It is eaten by hand, much like tala. Can be accompaigned by potato.
5. Lagman. A crimean ramen. Can be both a soup or a main course, it depends on bouillon quantity.
6. Haçapuri. A georgian origin dish. It is a pie with cheese and egg, size and openness\closeness may vary.
7. Çibörek. A native crimean pie, fryed into oil. Caution - hot bouillon and oil inside.
8. Çurçhela. Yet another dish from Caucasus. Fruits and nuts inside of dehydrated jam.
9. Qurt. Dehydrated cottage cheese. Very salty. Formerly used as a "just in case" military meal in a glorious Golden Horde Army.
10. Borsç. A soup of slavic tribes, but originated in what is now Crimea. Uses a lot of beet.

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İndustry of Crimea

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The Barabaşqa market is the biggest market in Europe. It is called after
Nikolay Pavlovich Barabashov, astronome. But it was commonly "renamed"
(not officially) after a house iççi, which often causes disturbance and noise.
Currently it is home to textile and cheap electronics stores. Government tries
to repurpose it into a high-tech cluster (but fails).

The industrial revolution in second half of the XIX century happened in Crimea all at once. Only in 50 years Crimea underwent a drastical transformation process.
Until 1850-s, there were no needs to develop industry - more than 85% of area of Crimea is an arable land with good natural irrigation. So, Crimea suffered from a "resource curse" and, as a result, from a blatant corruption.
But up to 1890, Crimean khan Sufi-Girey, called a "monk Khan", allowed international capital to modernise crimean economy. Long and sophisticated rail network spanned entire Crimea. New factories were opened. But almost all of them were constructed on loan money, as in Ottoman Empire. Crimea very quickly became "a second ill man in Europe".
Çingiz Girey expelled foreigners and nationalised all industry. Crimea was isolated from Europe and had trade only with Ottomans, China and Japan.
In 1920-30-s, after annexation of Turkey and Southern Balkans, Crimea was building one of the best armies in the world, and in 1939 went with war on Poland, obtaining East Galicia.
Crimea was neutral in WWII, helping Soviets with lend-lease.

Old crimean products

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SAS computer, the first with
the graphic stylus (1969)

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One of the first Foton TV's

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First crimean minicar ZAZ968

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First crimean cellphone Fiolent-85

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Salgir C3 (1983)

New crimean products


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VLIW architecture
monoblock PC "Elbrus"

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Russian ad of the Foton Smart TV.

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Slavuta car. It is subsidized to buy,
its base is 2300 mm, engine just 1.2 L

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New version of Fiolent X (Fiolent X9)

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Salgir Nova sketch
In 1950s, regarding shrinking of army budget, electronics and atomic research had received a big increase in funding.
In 1960-s, first electronics' companies appeared in Crimea.
In 1966, FOTON TV LTD started international colored TV trade.
In 1973, LCD version of Foton TV introduced.
In 2014, first Smart TV was produced.
In 2018, neurocomputing interface was tested at Kharkov Polytechnic University, although not ready for industrial use.
İnner politics of Crimea
Crimea is officially a parliamentary khanate.
With the flow of time, the position of crimean Khan, firstly established in 1441, drifted towards an absolute monarchy. There were elections, but only between candidates belonging to royal family.
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Primary political system

In 1890s, Sufi Girey felt the instability of the political system of Crimean khanate. Socialist ideas were spreading at the time.
So the Great Khan made a turn towards general public, regarding Meiji restauration. He purged most of "Divan" members (hereditary noble men that made up consultative political council) and gave constitution to people, known as "Ulu Yasa" or "Yeñi Yasa" (Great Law or New Law), not to be confused with the first constitution in the world (Genghis-Khan's Yasa).
The new constitution made the Khan accountable in his deeds to people through a Qurultay, which became not an electoral commission, as before, but a constant political force, divided into 2 chambers - refurbished Divan (now more seen as an executive institution) and a new Majilis (representatives from all uluses, in total about 300 people). Representatives of uluses were military chiefs, still hereditary, each in commanding about 10 000 (one "tümen" ("万")) conscriptable men. That system was introduced mainly due to inflation of noble ranks.
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New system - noble ranks inflated, their influence on army is mainly lost to the Great Khan

In 1940-s, new Great Khan, regarding success of Soviet and American system over totalitary states, made military chiefs electable by conscripted soldiers, but ignored calls for total suffrage. More parties were legalised, but Divan members were prohibited to be any party members.
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Noble ranks abolished, existing noble men gradually purged out of Majilis

In that state Crimean political system exists until today. Only 17.774.449 crimeans were eligible to vote on last parliamental elections. They elected new Parliament of 174 chiefs in 2016, which will serve to 2020 year.
Currently in Crimea there are 4 major parties, each representing some corner of the political compass.
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Crimean political compass

The Milliy Fırqa (People's Party) is the oldest party in Crimea, it was founded by the Prime-Minister Özenbaş in 1891, following first statewide elections. The party is a typical "ruling class" party, such as Liberal-Democratic party in Japan, Nur Otan in Qazaqstan, AKP in Turkey or United Russia in Russia. In 2012 it underwent a massive renovation, many technocrats from young parties and from the general population were recruited. The ruling party was the first dropping its "chinese characters" name and writing all names and documents in a "new script".
In 1948, Milliy Fırqa lost to a Communist Party of Crimea, founded in 1920 following red revolution in Russia. Communist Party of Crimea is more liberal than russian or chinese ones, but still more conservative than "new left" in France or Ireland. Communist Party ruled up (1956-1968 in coalition) to 1988 year, and was trying to shift Crimean international policy from Japan to Russia.
In 1988, CESARET (Bravery) party came to power. It is a very conservative force, some arguing it is "pro-big-cats" party. It was founded in 1956 year, as a new opposition to communists, and as representation of big business corporations. In 1956 to 1968 it made a coalition with communists, searching ways to peacefully spread business interests. In 2008 year it had lost to Milliy Fırqa.
In 2012 year, a new party "Two worlds" won a judicial process of 5 courts in total to register itself, although its agenda is somewhat "racist" and "inhumane", as stated in the first court verdict.
Its agenda is appealing to interests of arms manufacturers and small businesses, also it has an anti-immigration, but pro-LGBT and pro-weed flavor. Currently it has no seats in parliament and, consequentially, has no government funding.

The day of election is exempted from a calendar, and Crimea has an universal calendar spanning 365 days breaking it into 5 national holidays, inserted after some usual days (end of the year (after 30 december), WWII victory day (after 8 may), Equality day (after 7 march), Greater October Revolution (after 6 november), Empress-dowager birthday (before end of the year) and 12 months with western names, but each spanning 30 days, in turn breaked into 5 weeks of 6 days, from which only 4 are work days, and 2 are weekend. Work hours are 16 hours per week, meaning 4 hours per day. This makes Crimea a country with lowest work hour and the biggest wage-to-hour ratio in the world.
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Crimean People's Army

The foundation of army

The beginning of a modern crimean army is in 1912, when Özenbaş's cabinet passed "Army priority" law.
The risk of global war was perceived by both the Great Khan and the Cabinet, so in 1913 the first modern batallion of 20 artillery units and 280 people (of which 60 was cavalry) was formed, replacing 5 cavalry hundreds.

In 1950's, after full-scale modernisation of economy and army, a unified commandery was created. In 1980's, almost all fleet was replaced and modernised, although many supportive ships remained in place, for example, Sarıqala rescue ship, built in 1915 and imported in Crimea from Russia in next year. Currently Sarıqala is an oldest ship on duty in the world. In 2015 it was modernised for third time and equipped with an underwater selfcontrolling "SeaEye" droid. Other secondary ships are no older than 1954, while main battle ships are no older than 1983.
In 2014 year, after US internal crisis and beginning of the Syria operation, Crimean fleet ordered a construction of the serie of artillery and rocket boats. Currently about 13 new artillery and rocket boats entered duty.
In general, current state of crimean fleet is not so good, because in 1980-s it was envisioned as a strategic task force, containing many long-range battlecruisers, some of which were atomic, and after 1990-s financial crisis many strategic ships including all atomic ones, were conservated or sent to deep repair, and a doctrine of "mosquito fleet" was adopted. So currently in Crimea there are, in fact, 2 different fleet types, and each has its own traditions and ship squadrons.

Traditions, composition and quantity of military forces

Army of Crimea concludes of construction and infrastructure corpse (about 65% of all army size), which in fact isn't a military force, and highly mechanised cavalry, accompanied by all-range artillery, tactical missiles and multiple rocket launchers. Aviation and strategic missiles are subordinated to fleet.
The precise size of army is unknown, as the only open source of the army size is the electoral register, updated each 4 years.
Currently there are almost 18 mln soldiers in both army and fleet, according to 2020 electoral register. Real numbers can be slightly smaller due to demographic crisis and consequent drafting crisis. Almost 60% of them are non-combatants, used for construction and public works.
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Crimean Army flag.

The fleet of Crimea is seen, like a very agile and usable force for special operations and army support rather than a major force. Although current crimean fleet is basically 4th after USA, China and Russia with its impressive 202 ships (85% of which have arms) and a nuclear submarine (currently in drydocks for reconstruction until 2021), it is more easy for crimeans to make military career, because the army of Crimea is much more conservative in its doctrine. The fleet is divided on commands, each command of the ship is headed by a Captain (Qapıdan, 门出), the squadron of ships is headed by a Captain-Bey (门出富) and the fleet is headed by a Captain-Paşa (门出官), subordinate to the Great Khan (太王). Airforces are guided similarly. So in the fleet (navy or aviation) there are only 4 military ranks (a sailor (or a pilot), a Captain, a Captain-Bey, a Captain-Paşa). In army there are decimal ranks - a soldier, an Onbaş ("Ten" leader, 〸头), a Yuzbaş ("Hundred" leader, 百头), a Miñbaş ("Thousand" leader, 千头), a Tümenbaş ("Ten thousands" leader, formerly a noble rank, 万头), an Army Bey ("Hundred thousands" leader, 军富, often was an equivalent of a governor until 1890) and an Army Paşa ("Million leader", 军官, an OTC commander and formerly a close advisor of Great Khan (太王)). That means, there are 7 ranks to rise in army. For misbehaviour, a sailor, a pilot or a soldier can be descended to a Başıbuzuq (头冰得), translating as "hooligan", "elders abuser", "heads chopper", he can only have sword, not gun, and is subordinated to the soldier selected by a Captain or Onbaş, other ranks are descending one rank back.
The Guard of Crimea currently is on decline, there are 2 types of guardsmen - noble ones, to which yatağans are passed from their fathers\grandfathers (noncombatant) and recruited, trained ones (hired directly by the Great Khan, but not hereditary since 1940s). Since 1945, noble status is not an equivalent to owning land and livestock.
Army data (not precise)
Artillery amounts to 1200 units
Tanks - 1500 units
Multiple rocket artillery - 500 units
Tactical rockets - 200 units
Strategical nukes - 150 units
Aviation data (not precise)
Fighters amount to 100 units
Helicopters amount to 40 units
Strategical bombers amount to 25 units

Biggest crimean ships

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Sarıhan (on repair, atomic
battlecruiser, former flagship)

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Anadolu (multi-air platform, passed testing, current flagship)

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Sarısu (Was flagship between 1993 and 2022, sank recently on Greek mine)

Fleet compositionQuantity

Diesel submarines

20

Frigates

28

Corvettes

18

Rocket boats

22

Minesweepers

27

Landing ships

6

Landing boats

12

Reconnaissance ships

3

Coast guard

180

Multi-air platform

1

Total armed ships

317

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