North Caucasus

The United States of North Caucasus is a federal republic in North Causus. It is mainly made up of former Russian federal subjects and separatist territories, which were assembled to create a federation of caucasian people.

History
In 2008, right after the Russo-Georgian War Abkhazia and South Ossetia officially declared their independences from Georgia with the support of Russia and at the same time made a alliance, called Caucasian Union. Russia having strongly won the war on Georgia, this one didn't oppose in the independence of these two territories. But the separatist movement caught on like wildfire in the region, and a lot of peoples wanted to do the same thing.

While North Ossetians declare their independence in the aim to join South Ossetia, Chechnya seceded from Russia, in the same will of joining a union created by minorities. Russia did not accept the secession of North Ossetia and Chechnya and was ready to use military force, but Abkhazia and South Ossetia reminded that if Russia was an ally, it's the same case for these two territories. Therefore Russia abandoned and the four territories band together as "North Caucasus".

Like a snowball effect, Ingushetia and Dagestan joined, and a little later Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachai-Cherkessia, followed by Adygea. In exchange of these ceded territories, the federation must mainly buy and sold to Russia and use its gas. However, Adygea being enclaved, the united states wanted a patch of territory to link it, this one including the city of Sochi. Russia accepted, in return of the north-east of Dagestan which is populated by ethnic russians.

The states of North Ossetia and South Ossetia were merged into Ossetia, and Chechenya and Ingushetia into Chechen-Ingushetia as well. The state of Dagestan was divided into Nogay, Cuman, Avaria and South Dagestan.

Geography
The most populated city is Makhachkala, and the capital city, Grozny, is only 4st.

Topography
With a superficy of 854 762 km², the country is bigger than Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan together. North Caucasus is mainly mountainous, except in the northern states where it becomes mostly flat. The highest point is the Mount Elbrus (Karachai-Chekessia) which rises to 5,642 meters. There is also the Dykh-Tau (Kabardino-Balkaria) which reaches the 5,205 meters. The main rivers are the Kuma (originating in Karachai-Cherkessia, delimiting the boundary between Nogay and Russia and basins of Caspian Sea), the Terek (bypassing Ingushetia, passing through Chechnya and basins of Caspian Sea) and the Sulak (crossing Avaria and basins of Caspian Sea).

Subdivisions


North Caucasus is divided into 10 states, which are divided into 38 regions, which are divided further into 95 departments and finally 285 municipalities.

Each state has a capital city, a flag and a seal.

Languages and ethnicity
Ethnic groups are pretty diverse, there are 24 different of them belonging to Caucasian, Indo-European and Altaic people. Same for languages, which are the same number as the ethnic groups. Such a diversity of language and ethnicity being not simple to the understanding, russian has been designated as the "master language" : everyone know russian besides their native language.

The State of South Dagestan is the most diversified one, with 8 ethno-linguistic groups.

List of main ethno-linguistic groups by states :

Religions
The majority of people are muslim, except a christian minority spreaded almost everywhere. Islam is mainly sunni, with a shiite minority in south east of South Dagestan (Azeri).

Economy
The country economy is based on mineral resources, more specifically zinc, lead and various metals, extracting oil deposits, but also on agriculture (especially tangerine and tobacco), timber and textile.