RADIO SILENCE

RADIO SILENCE is an ideology originating from the HOI4 mod The New Order; Last Days of Europe. It is the end result of the Taboritsky path in Russia, arguably the worst possible ending for a single country in the entire mod (if not the entire game, the One State from Red Flood is a contender). By orthodox definitions, it is not an actual ideology, as RADIO SILENCE has no praxis, no core values, no end goal, no anything. It merely symbolizes and is a placeholder for the dead, desolate place once known as Russia. =History=

Old
When playing as the Komi Republic in Russia, you can manipulate events until you place Sergey Taboritsky, the Mad Regent, in power. From there, you must reunite the Russian wastes so that Taboritsky's vision, the belief in the continued existence of the long-dead Tsarevich Alexei Romanov, may be "realized." As time goes on, Taboritsky completely abandons his base ideology as a mere Clerical Fascist in order to adopt the Burgundian System, which he uses to enforce an absolute nightmare state upon the local population while also "purifying" Russia for Alexei's return. Due to the nature of Taboritsky's unholy ideology, Russia will inevitably collapse after Midnight (an allusion to both Taboritsky's declining mental health and the countdown to his inevitable death), causing the remnants of his state, the Holy Russian Empire, to begin a suicidal campaign of chemical warfare and mass executions. Despite this, many severely-balkanized and highly unstable splinter states form in Tomsk and other places, but it is not enough. These republics, including the HRE proper, all gradually collapse into a state known as RADIO SILENCE until the entire Russian country is covered by a pitch-black void.

New
The events play out the exact same way after this patch/update to the game, except there are now roving bands of warlords, empowered with unrivaled extremism, that occupy small chunks of a heavily-Balkanized Russia. These include a Redeemed Black League, multiple HRE remnants, a Satanist faction, Anarcho-Communists and Vanguard Anarchists. However, there is still a large swathe of utterly-decimated land in Northeastern Siberia, once home to the second Divine Mandate, that was completely destroyed by chemical bombardment. This land is known as The Wilderness, and it is a completely-dead place that was once foolish enough to harbor hope. AND NOW, THERE IS NOTHING. =Characteristics= Nothing of any real substance defines RADIO SILENCE, other than the ever-lingering belief that Tsarevich Alexei is indeed alive and that Russia must endure ever further for him to return. In both iterations, the land itself is very scarred from the chemical bombardment unleashed by the Holy Russian Empire, and entire ecosystems were killed off in that process. In these dead zones, nothing alive is present, not even bacteria. In the Pre-Warlord Update RADIO SILENCE, the land was described to have been rife with bandits, crime and disorder, while also having reverted to a pseudo-industrial state in terms of technology. Communication is also effectively dead by this point, which is why this ideology has the name "RADIO SILENCE." There is no organization whatsoever other than communes in ruined cities and a few isolated villages, and there is also no economy to speak of. Russia is dead, and nothing shall come from it ever again. Beyond the update, most warlords are driven by either hardline survivalism or ideological extremism of the highest caliber, although some simply want to revert back to what once was, while one group in particular calls upon the United States and the OFN to help them. The Wilderness itself is a dead, gutted land, with only a few survivors eking out existence in those territories. Russia's story may be over, but her people are not. =Ideology= RADIO SILENCE is the result of unfathomable human cruelty married with extreme ideological devotion. It is a destroyed nation, without any sort of hope for the future or progress itself, with the residents adopting nihilistic attitudes, being focused only on either getting to safety or surviving. The people there are also ultranationalistic to a fault, unlike most other Anarchies (which are usually Libertarian Socialists). The single core belief of RADIO SILENCE (at least the old version) is the same belief system used by the HRE, summarized in its very descriptor; '''REMAIN CALM.  THE REGENT ENDURES.  ALEXEI LIVES.  THE HOLY RUSSIAN EMPIRE SHALL ENDURE.  ''THERE IS MUCH TO BE DONE. ' =Personality= RADIO SILENCE does not have a personality, appearing blank, pale and lifeless wherever it goes. It barely moves, sitting in the same place for hours. At night, it can be heard muttering about nihilistic philosophy and Alexei.