CSR

"From the ashes anew."

- Official motto of the CSR

"Si vis pacem, para bellum."

- Common Gracchist saying

The Commonwealth of Socialist Republics, or CSR, is a supra-national union of Socialist states situated on the south-east of Eidora. It is a very young union, having existed only for 9 years at the beginning of the story (1914). The union came to be after three former kingdoms, with Astaria at its core, succumbed to Gracchist uprisings, and the new republics signing a treaty to begin the world revolution under one flag - the star-flower.

Their stated goal is to, unsurprisingly, unite the workers of the world under one banner, by force if necessary. As a result, the CSR is highly militarised, and it eventually finds itself taking part in a 3-year war with Radovia in what would become known as the Great Eidoran War.

Scholars are still unsure whether or not the CSR could be considered a state, an alliance, or some kind of coalition; a problem most contemporary politicians struggled with aswell.

Gracchism
Gracchism is a militaristic and revolutionary form of socialism, that grew out of the Age of Turmoil in central and eastern Eidora. Contrary to earlier socialist ideologies, Gracchism advocates armed conflict and military conquests as a mean to further socialism, as the capitalist structures of old are too rigid to collapse on its own. Thus, when Gracchism took a hold of Astaria and nearby kingdoms in 1907 and formed the CSR, the rest of Eidora prepared for a fight.

Thaddeus (1879 - 1907) and Junea Gracchus (1881 - 1907) were the founders of the ideology.