USSR

Sidlearctica wrote:

Ranked top 5% in the world for most income equality. nation=sidlearctica/detail=trend?censusid=33

Congratulations, Comrade.

The inequality problem might rage up later on — at highest levels of Average Income.
However, if you'll continue to select options for wealth redistribution/wage increases/social welfare when dealing with issues such as strikes and etc, then you'll preserve equality at highest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tozJW4iITQA

Socialist Republic of Russians wrote:

Great sound, Comrade.
But is this sound coming from the soviet era?
Because I believe this already existed during the Russian Empire.

Yes, the song itself originates from the Russian Empire; it is about the grueling labor of *burlaks*—barge haulers hired to manually pull barges along the riverbank (as the adoption of steamships lagged behind).

It was first transcribed by the composer Mily Balakirev in Nizhny Novgorod between 1860 and 1861 and subsequently published in his collection of folk songs in 1866.

However, there is a very similar revolutionary song—"Oh, a small club"
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMCFALhS90c).
And while the lyrics of the "Song of the Volga Boatmen" are relatively innocuous, in the same time song "Oh, a Little Club"—which begins with words about grueling toil — eventually shifts toward a metaphorical description of class struggle (taking on an increasingly self-sustaining character, as indicated by the phrase "it will go on her own") and revolution:

"I have heard many songs in my native land—
Songs telling of joy and of sorrow—
But one of those songs is etched in my memory:
The song of the workers' collective ("artel'").

Oh, a little club, heave-ho!
Oh, it'll go on her own;
A tug, a pull, and then—heave-ho!

A wise Englishman, to lighten the toil,
Invented a machine to do the work.
But our Russian peasant,
When the labor grew too hard, would take up his trusty club — his heavy cudgel.

Oh, a little club, heave-ho!
Oh, it'll go on her own;
A tug, a pull, and then—heave-ho!

But the time arrived, and the people rose up,
Straightening their stooped backs

And shook from their shoulders
The heavy yoke of centuries,
Raising that cudgel against their foes.

Oh, a little club, heave-ho!
Oh, it'll move on her own;
A tug, a pull, and then—heave-ho!

So march ever forward, O mighty people,
Cast aside your sorrow and woe;
And to holy freedom, sing a joyful hymn
To that cherished, trusty cudgel.

Oh, a little club, heave-ho!
Oh, it'll move on her own;
A tug, a pull, and then—heave-ho!” .

That's why (thanks to revolutionary meaning of second version of the song and thanks to glorifying labor itself) they still were popular in Soviet Russia/USSR.

Today, the song itself might sound a bit odd to an outside observer, but in the context of those years, peasant life was defined by a near-total lack of political freedoms (which, for the masses, only emerged after the revolution) — as well as by famine and grueling labor that brought nearly no wealth to the common people, since they were not working for themselves. And the song, I believe, is to some extent about their awakening to this reality, about emergence of class consciousness.

Welcome, The Peoples Republic of Khalistan, Revolutionary Khalistan, and Stravaa!

Socialist Republic of Russians wrote:

Hello comrades, I want to tell you that I've been much less active on NationStates these last months as you maybe noticed.
I'm going through hard events currently in my irl life so I don't always have time to try to help keeping the board alive. Maybe I'm slightly exaggerating my situation but it really exhausts me some days.
Just wanted to tell you that so you know, comrades.

It's okay, Comrade.

We wish you the best in handling everything — may you manage it all superbly.

And what kind of difficult events are these?