Perestroika

Perestroika is an autonomous commonwealth within Eruowood, located 55 miles off the east coast of the United States.

Geography
Perestroika is an island divided into 20 states and a federal district called Vladivostok. There is also a prison island off the southwest coast of the main island called the Hades Prison Complex.

Before 1941
Until 1806, the island of Perestroika was uninhabited. In 1806, during the first Russian Circumnavigation, the island of Perestroika was founded.

Initially a city-state called Vladivostok was formed. Throughout the 19th Century, the Imperial Russian government expanded Perestroika to span the entire west and northern coasts of the country.

In 1917-1918, Bolsheviks seized power from the Imperial Russian government, later forming the Russian SFSR, better known as the Soviet Union. As a result, after the Romanov empire ceased to exist, Perestroika became a British colony like nearby Eruowood, led by Nikolai Glebov.

In 1922, a prison was built on an island off the coast of Perestroika to house political dissidents. During Premier Glebov's rule, as many as 2 million people were exiled to the prison camp between 1922-1945.

Under Glebov's leadership, the government launched a command economy, industrialization of the country through expanding into the interior of the island, and collectivization of all agriculture.

World War II and U.S. Colonization (1941-1949)
In December 8, 1941, during World War II, Perestroika became a protectorate of the Crown Colony of Eruowood.

After the end of World War II in 1945, the Eruowoodian government liberated the imprisoned dissidents and granted them British National - Eruowoodian citizenship. In 1949, former Russian-Perestroikan prisoners and the Governor-General of Eruowood met in Vladivostok to bring the nation into conformity with Eruowoodian customs and government.

Contemporary History (1950-present)
On February 10, 1950, the island of Perestroika became autonomous within the Crown Colony of Eruowood. In the 1950 general elections, Roman Rascalov and Yuri Bodoni were elected as the first Premier and Leader of the Opposition of Perestroika. The Perestroika Constitution, heavily based off the Statute of Westminster, was passed on February 15, 1950.

As part of the Perestroikan Constitution, ten states were ratified on February 15, 1950, which included Moscow, Odin, New Valhalla, Shenron, Ragnarok, Vesilahti, Seraphina, Vanderbilt, Galileo, and Queensmont. The city of Vladivostok was designated as the nation's capital.

The first two Canadian-Eruowoodian retailers opened stores on February 15, 1950. They included a Zellers department store and a Loblaw's in Downtown Tunguska in Moscow.

Throughout the 1950s, ten more states were ratified, which include New Amsterdam (ratified on August 25, 1952), New Rotterdam (ratified on May 3, 1953), Newfoundland (ratified on January 11, 1955), Labrador (ratified on July 18, 1956), Kashmir (ratified on April 14, 1957), Casablanca (ratified on November 17, 1957), Hudson (ratified on May 23, 1958), Granada (ratified on June 17, 1958), Sinamoi (ratified on August 4, 1958), and New Cambria (ratified on June 21, 1959).

The first fast-food restaurant opened in 1956, an Insta-Burger King (now Burger King) in Gothard, New Rotterdam.

Since the 1950s, Perestroika has experienced sustained economic growth and an expansion of the middle class.