 People's Democratic Republic of Sahalaball : جمهوری دموکراسی محبوب یا سهالی “Jomhury Demokrata Populu ya Sūhaly” | |
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 “BIJI SUHALY!” | |
| Government |  Unitary Marxist-Leninist One Party Socialist Republic |
| Personality | Secular, giving, progressive, strict, tough |
| Language(s) | Sahali |
| Type | File:Iran-icon.png Iranic |
| Capital | Ismairutball |
| Religion(s) |  State Atheism (33%) (Offical)  Islam (56%)
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| Relations and opinions | |
| Friends | Nahunball File:Pakistan-icon.png Pakistanball  Palestineball  Egyptball File:Gaddafi Libya-icon.png Libyan Arab Jamahiriyaball File:Algeria-icon.png Algeriaball File:South Yemen-icon.png South Yemenball File:Vietnam-icon.png Vietnamball  Chinaball (not really) File:Rojava-icon.png Rojavaball File:Syria-icon.png Syriaball (mostly) File:Cuba-icon.png Cubaball  North Koreaball |
| Enemies | Most of the west, especially  it's former colonizer |
| Likes | Communism,  Rayiys Shaban, Marwand Hafiz, Ajaanja, Secularism, |
| Dislikes | Capitalism, The West, Fr*nce, Monarchy, Revisionism |
| Historical information | |
| Founded | August 19th, 1949 |
| Predecessor | French Protectorate of Sahaly-Nahunball |
| Population | |
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| Can into space? | Sahala had an attempted space research program from 1975-1982 |
| Börk | Shaban Shaban, Suhaly Suhaly |
| Food | Khadjas, Parsanks, Fanharu, Majxs, Ajaanja |
| Notes | |
Sahalaball, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Sahalaball, is a communist nation in the Arabian Sea near File:Iran-icon.png Iranball and File:Pakistan-icon.png Pakistanball. Its capital is the city of Ismairutball, formerly known as Ismaravilleball under French colonial rule. The country speaks Sahali, an Iranic language related to Farsi, Kurdish, and Pashto.
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History
Pre-1869
Sahalaball is an ancient society of thousands of years ago. The island historically was known for its fertile land and its role as a hub of trade and commerce in the region. It was also known for being a warrior nation that would not be conquered without a fight, which explains why it was rarely able to be conquered by outsiders. Not even the 
Mongolballs could defeat the Sahali spirit.
However, things changed in 1841, when Franceball and Sahalaball would engage in a brutal conflict for 4 years over trading rights. It ended in the port of Bahjirball (modern-day Sanjudabadball) becoming part of the French Empireball. The French would also prop up a puppet Shah, File:Mohammad Salar-icon.png Mohammad Salar II, who would attempt modernization but would fail in the end. File:Sanjudist-icon.png Iraj Sanjud. a military officer in the Sahali Royal Army, would launch a coup d'etat in 1857 and would effectively become the new ruler of Sahalaball from 1857-1869. Sanjud's anti-imperialist sentiment would lead to war with the French in 1861, which would end up in the conquering of all of Sahalaball by 1869. Sanjud would attempt to lead a guerilla war against Franceball later on but would die of typhus in 1881 at the age of 64.
French Colonialism
After the fall of Ismairutball in 1869 to French forces; the Shah, Karajid III, was forced to sign a treaty making Sahalaball a protectorate of Franceball. The Shah would keep his position but the country would be put under French colonial administration. Colonial rule was brutal, as peasants were subject to regular unfair taxes and exploitation. Numerous rebellions occurred to end this oppression but all ended in a brutal crackdown that involved massacres of hundreds and sometimes thousands of innocent civilians who were caught up in the fighting. The most successful of these rebellions happened in 1891, when Sahali colonial soldiers mutinied and attempted to rebel. This rebellion, now known as the Matelot Rebellion, resulted in 400 deaths as the French brutally cracked down on them.
File:Sanjud-icon.png A Rebellion In Making
File:RST-icon.png Rayiys Shaban, also known by his nom de guerre Salar Khan, was born in 1891 to a wealthy, petty bourgeois family of "Jaratis" (wealthy peasants). Rayiys enjoyed a conformable life as a child but soon became discontent with French colonialism as he grew older. At age 16, he secretly took all his money to take a trip to Paris. There, he joined the Party of Sahali Patriots, an anti-colonial organization of exiled Sahali anti-colonial activists. It is said that in Paris during the early 1910s, he read a French copy of the Communist Manifesto and he quickly found interest in it. Soon, there was a split in the PSP; and the Democratic Labour Party emerged out of the more left-wing factions of it in 1915. Soon however, another struggle would occur between those who supported the October Revolution and the Bolsheviks, and those who were against it. Shaban took the former side, and soon emerged as their leader. In 1924, the Sanjudist faction would break off and form the Communist Party of Sahalaball, with Shaban as the Chairman of this party. For many years, the party would engage in small sabotage while it waited for the right conditions to start the revolution.
File:Marwand Hafiz-icon.png Marwand Hafiz was born into a poor peasant family in what is now the province of Jamhara. He was the the fourth son of a Sahali father and a mixed Kunyati mother. As a kid, he endured the hardships of being at the bottom of the social hierarchy in Sahala. At age 10, he ran away from home and scavaged the city of Thasan. He eventually joined the French Colonial Army in Sahala at age 15. It is said that once when he was deployed to help with the crackdown on revolting peasants in the province of Pembelta, he saw just how brutal the French were in crushing descent and this led him to radicalization. At age 19, he joined a secret meeting of the File:Paleosanjud.png Democratic Labour Party's chapter in Thasan, and soon gathered up enough money to travel to Paris in 1923 to meet with Sahali exiles there. In Paris, he saw firsthand the ongoing factional tensions between the members of the DLP, and soon sided with Rayiys Shaban and his File:Sanjud.png Sanjudists in the establishment of the File:Commie.png Communist Party of Sahala. Due to his military experience, he was able to rise to become one of the commanders of the CPS' paramilitary, the Sahali Workers' and Peasants Revolutionary Army.
The Sahali Revolution
In April of 1932, protests would break out in the city of Bahjir to protest worsening economic conditions and generally against French colonialism. In response, French authorities would crack down brutally on the protesters. However, this would, unlike other failed uprisings, lead to more joining in. Soon, the protesters overran French authorities and the workers and peasants of Bahjir took control of the city, forming a revolutionary government of elected councils in its place. The Communist Party would soon take control of the revolutionary government, and File:RST.png Rayiys Shaban would arrive in Bahjir secretly. However, French backups would arrive and would take back control of the city. This would force the Sahali revolutionaries to make a retreat to the rural countryside.
File:Marwand Hafiz-icon.png Marwand Hafiz would lead the Sahali guerillas, mainly focusing on hit and run tactics to catch the French off-guard and to drag them further and further into the countryside to cut off their supplies. When France was invaded and later occupied in 1940 by Germany, the Sahali guerillas took the opportunity to launch a massive offensive into enemy territory. By 1945, the Sahali guerillas controlled around 60% of the country. There were numerous excesses committed by Hafiz however in the campaign, such as the Khasanji Massacre where hundreds of captured French soldiers were killed and buried in mass graves.
France after WW2 would attempt to launch a counteroffensive against the Communists, but by this time it would be too little too late. In July of 1949, the colonial capital of Ismaraville would be captured and in August, Rayiys Shaban would arrive in the city and would declare the creation of the File:Sanjud.png People's Republic of Sahalaball. A few days later, Sahala would have its independence recognized by France, ending Sahala's almost 17 year long national liberation struggle.
The first elections in 1949 are held in the city capital of Ismairutball.
1949 ELECTIONS
| Option | Votes | Percentage of Total Votes |
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| Communist Party
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Insert Population Number | 73.3% |
 Independent
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Insert Population Number | 11.3% |
| 🧺 Agrarian People's Party | Insert Population Number | 8.9% |
| 🏭 Industrial Democratic Party | Insert Number | 6.7% |
Soon after independence, the country would begin the Mechanism for Economic Development (MED). This policy was designed to help build up capital and the productive forces needed for the country to escape semi-feudal, semi-colonial conditions. Land reform was implemented and while successful, numerous excesses would occur in its implementation. The country would begin recover from its 16-year-long independence war, while also beginning industrialization. The country would launch a massive literacy campaign in 1950, with 85% of Sahalis being literate by 1952; up from 25% two years prior. The Red Terror would also occur as counterrevolutionaries were purged and hunted down, with this mostly being a success in riding the country of counterrevolutionary spies and revisionists. Chairman and president, Rayiys Shaban had visited the 
Soviet Unionball to discuss cooperation between the two countries in trade and buying military equipment. Sahalaball has announced the nationalization of all foreign assets, and the putting of them in hands of the working class. This has angered many foreign countries, who have broken off diplomatic relations with Sahalaball to protest this seizure.
Sahalaball has introduced agricultural land reform to restructuring land from the landlords and “Cirdans” (wealthy peasants), to the peasantry. This however has led to much violence, with armed peasants massacring landlords in retaliation for hundreds of years of oppression. Many landlords have also been shot by army troops in retaliation for resisting the reforms, and refusing to comply.
Sahalaball in only a few months has been able to industrialize the country, bring food to the table of 85% of Sahalaball, eradicate smallpox, and reduce measles, mumps, and rubella. Land reform has been successful, and the country has been able to increase farming productivity by 60% more. Literacy has risen to 84% in only a year, from 31% in 1949, and child morality is being reduced dramatically. Meanwhile, it had also went to far on miltant Atheism and attackef mosques.
In 1956, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, slandered Stalin in his Secret Speech. In response, the Communist Party came out with a statement defending Stalin and his actions, with Chairman Shaban stating:
"Mr. Khrushchev has betrayed the communist world with his slander of Comrade Stalin. Stalin, while not perfect, was a great comrade to all communists, and this slander of him is unacceptable. Stalin was a man who while not perfect, helped pave the way for the Eastern European nations, China, and us to see the light of socialism. It is to be seen that Khrushchev does not actually care about the issues he brought up, but instead wants to tarnish the Soviet proletarian state for his clique's purposes. This is why I refuse to join Mr. Khrushchev's denouncement of Joseph Stalin."
In 1957, the MED would be ended and the country would make a transition towards state socialism. Meanwhile, Soviet aid to Sahala would lessen as Sahala got closer and closer to China and the country became more self-sufficient. In 1958, Shaban would have his first of many heart attacks. This would lead to Shaban de facto retiring from politics, as he did not seek another term as Chairman of the Communist Party in 1959. The Chairman role was also abolished with him, and Marwand Hafiz became the new General Secretary of the Communist Party. His health would slowly worsen and worsen until in January 1961, he would die in his sleep from heart failure. His death would mark the beginning of Hafiz’s rule.
File:Marwand Hafiz-icon.png Marshal Hafiz’s Rule (1961-1974)
With the establishment of the role of General Secretary of the Central Committee, File:Marwand Hafiz-icon.png Marwand Hafiz would take the role. However, he’d face heavy opposition from the pro-Soviet File:Ali Khaledi-icon.png Ali Khaledi and his faction. This would culminate in a purge of Khaledi’s faction in 1960, and the threatening of others deemed “revisionist”. In 1963, File:Ali Khaledi-icon.png Ali Khaledi killed himself after a failed party coup d’etat of 
File:Marwand Hafiz-icon.png Hafiz occurred. However, many Khaledites blamed his death on File:Marwand Hafiz-icon.png Hafiz, calling it an “assassination.”
Meanwhile, File:Marwand Hafiz-icon.png Marwand Hafiz would see the countryside with File:Mao.png Mao in the Sino-Soviet Split and the continued rapid industrialization of Sahala from the ground up. The country would become the first country to become 100% electrified in 1963. The country would enter a golden age with the growth of innovation, the arts, etc. Abortion would be legalized under his rule in 1961, and homosexuality in 1971 (it had already been decriminalized in 1962). The Sahali People's Army would become of the largest militaries in the world, with it having over 600,000 active soldiers and over 300,000 in reserves.
With the establishment of the role of General Secretary of the Central Committee, File:Marwand Hafiz-icon.png Marwand Hafiz would take the role. However, he’d face heavy opposition from the pro-Soviet File:Ali Khaledi-icon.png Ali Khaledi and his faction. This would culminate in a purge of Khaledi’s faction in 1960, and the threatening of others deemed “revisionist”. In 1963, File:Ali Khaledi-icon.png Ali Khaledi killed himself after a failed party coup d’etat of File:Marwand Hafiz-icon.png Hafiz occurred. However, many Khaledites blamed his death on File:Marwand Hafiz-icon.png Hafiz, calling it an “assassination.”
Meanwhile, File:Marwand Hafiz-icon.png Hafiz would see the countryside with File:Mao-icon.png Mao in the Sino-Soviet Split and the continued rapid industrialization of Sahalaball from the ground up. The country would become the first country to become 100% electrified in 1963. The country would enter a golden age with the growth of innovation, the arts, etc. Abortion would be legalized under his rule in 1961, and homosexuality in 1971 (it had already been decriminalized in 1962). The Sahali People's Army would become of the largest militaries in the world, with it having over 600,000 active soldiers and over 300,000 in reserves.
In 1966 in response to Chinaball's cultural revolution, File:Marwand Hafiz-icon.png Hafiz would announce the start of Sahala's own in order to finally remove all reactionary bourgeois elements from society. Although there were excesses committed during this (particularly against the religious), the cultural revolution is generally seen as a positive thing in Sahalaball today.
Around this time, a Maoist militant paramilitary of revolutionary youth known as the Pārajaha. They were originally a youth organization affiliated with the Sahali Socialist Youth League, but eventually turned violent during the cultural revolution. During the 1970s, they perpetuated numerous bombings against the Sahali government and at this time were accused of being a cult by many. They also moved to the countryside, and established a commune in Eastern Kunyat. Eventually, their leader was killed in 1976 in a clash with the police.
File:Marwand Hafiz-icon.png Hafiz's health would become worse and worse starting in 1972, when he suffered a debilitating stroke that left him paralyzed from the waist down. In December of 1974, he would die from pneumonia at 74 years old. He would be replaced by a Serokati consisting of File:Angar-icon.png Angar Ghizali as General Secretary of the Communist Party, Iraj Esfahani as Prime Minister, and Salman Gaya Bahri as President.
File:Angar-icon.png Colonel Angar's Leadership and the Decade of Stagnation (1974-1989)
File:Angar-icon.png Angar Ghizali would succeed File:Hafiz-icon.png Marwand Hafiz as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Sahala. He would form Serokati with Iraj Esfahani and Salman Gaya Bahri, but would soon emerge victorious in the power struggle in the party. For the first half of his rule, he'd mostly continue File:Hafiz-icon.png Hafiz's policies. The 1970s would see Sahala peak in terms of economic growth and prosperity, with continued advances in technology, science, the arts, etc.
However, things would take a turn for the worse in 1979 with the Islamic Revolution in Iranball. Pro-Khomeini Shi'ites would take to the streets to protest the government, quickly turning counterrevolutionary. Anti-Communist Shia terrorist organizations would be formed, which would commit bombings across Sahala. Violence would break out in the streets as pro-CPS and pro-Khomeini protesters would clash. This combined with military overspending and complacency would lead to stagnation in the 80s.
1974 ELECTIONS
| Option | Votes | Percentage of Total Votes |
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| Communist Party
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Insert Population Number | 62% |
| Independent
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Insert Population Number | 38% |
1979 ELECTIONS
| Option | Votes | Percentage of Total Votes |
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| Communist Party
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Insert Population Number | 53% |
| Independent
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Insert Population Number | 47% |
File:Hafiz-icon.png Hafiz's health would become worse and worse starting in 1972, when he suffered a debilitating stroke that left him paralyzed from the waist down. In December of 1974, he would die from pneumonia at 74 years old. He would be replaced by a Serokati consisting of File:Angar-icon.png Angar Ghizali as General Secretary of the Communist Party, File:MND-icon.png Iraj Esfahani as Prime Minister, and Salman Gaya Bahri as President.
1984 ELECTIONS
| Option | Votes | Percentage of Total Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Communist Party
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Insert Population Number | 62% |
| Independent
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Insert Population Number | 38% |
In 1984, File:Angar-icon.png Angar would decide to not seek a third term as General Secretary of the Communist Party. He would die in 1991 from lung cancer peacefully in his home village of Jadshan Khakusta, located in the province of Pembelta.
File:YemludMiah.png Nuweti Reforms and the Sahali Revival File:SepandTajik.png (1989-2009)
File:YemludMiah.png Yemlud Miah took power in 1989 during a time when the legacy of the Sahali Revolution was under threat, as socialism at this time was seen as dying. She was the former leader of the Rayiys Shaban Communist Youth League, and had played a role in the Cultural Revolution in the 60s. In 1989, she was elected as General Secretary of the Communist Party. Immediately, she started implementing her Nuweti reforms designed to help modernize the Sahali economy and to save it from the stagnation of the last few years. She also began to open relations with the West although as she stated, it was a purely pragmatic move.
File:SepandTajik.png Sepand Tajik would succeed her as General Secretary. He'd continue her policies, but would also start loosening restrictions on religion that had been implemented in the 60s and 70s. Sahala would begin to see renewed economic growth in the mid 1990s and 2000s because of these efforts.
File:RST.png Rise of Mohammad Pasha Shaban (2009-)
File:PashaShaban.png Mohammad Pasha Shaban was the second son of File:RST.png Rayiys Shaban, born on December 8th of 1949 in Ismaraville (modern-day Ismairut). When his father died, he was raised by his mother until in 1967, when he went to the University of Iraj Sanjud in Sanjudabad. He participated in the Cultural Revolution at this same time. He was able to rise up the ranks of the Rayiys Shaban Communist Youth League and would become its head in 1977. In the 1990s, he supported File:YemludMiah.png Yemlud Miah's reforms, but took a disliking towards File:SepandTajik.png Sepand Tajik as saw him as "too soft on defending Marxism-Leninism from extinction." During this time, he would gain a reputation of being a populist and bold member of the party. He saw the party as "slowly decaying" and he stated that "if we do not fix our country's problems, our country will fall to bourgeois revisionist liberalism."
In 2009, he became General Secretary of the Communist Party. He would start out his leadership with a purge of corrupt and revisionist officials. Due to this, he was called by western liberal media a "Neo-Stalinist" and a "dictator". He emphasized national sovereignty and self-sufficiency at this time, as well. Sahala would remain stable during the 2010s both economically and politically.
In 2019, Sifa Jalili would take Pasha's place as General Secretary, and would continue his policies for the most part. During the COVID-19 pandemic around the world, Sahala would be praised by even liberal outsiders for its handling of it.
Personality
Sahalaball is very kind and giving, often being seen giving food to those in need. It's very progressive and accepting, especially compared to it's middle eastern neighbors. However, it's also very strict and authoritarian at times due to paranoia about being invaded by foreign powers. It still suffers from trauma from colonialism and it's revolutionary war from 1932-1949.
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