Soviet Union

The Soviet Union is a rump state in Central Asia. It borrdered by Kazakh Military District, Kazan Military District, Reichskommissariat Ukraine, Reichskommissariat Moskowien, Reichskommissariat Kaukasus, the Islamic State of Turkestan, the Republic of China, the Mongolian Peoples Republic,, Novosibirsk and Yeniseyk Governate. It's legitimacy is challenged by the Russian Republic, a nation established by the United States following their invasion of the Russian Far East. A buffer zone of warlords however prevents the Soviets and the Republic from entering into a direct war.

History
For the Soviet Union the war against Germany never truly ended, but by 1946 Soviet forces had melted away as the Union collapsed from within and Stalin disappeared. The Germans would go about carving up their conquests into new Reichkommisariats, but after their defeat at the hands of the Axis, the Soviet Union would not only lose their European territories.

The authority of the Soviet Union over its eastern territories had first started collapsing in 1944, the cities that constituted Siberia and the Far East were left without governance from Moscow. Nobody knew what was happening and the winter set in. The banner armies of the East were left as garrisons in the cities they were stationed in and the last pieces of Soviet organization fell away.

Politics
The Soviet Union is an authoritarian one party state under the control of Lavrentiy Beria and the NKVD. However, the party line is no longer as strong as it was under the rule of Stalin, and all Soviet figures have largely rejected Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy.

However, for now Beria has kept a tight leash on all these factions, and none are able to move while he lives. Should Beria perish, however, the Party's deep divisions will come to a head.

Military
The Red Army is the largest of the Russian warlord states but is in many ways a paper tiger in 1952, still using outdated wartime equipment and lacking the military industrial complex to properly equip such a large force. However, it still retains many of the renowned generals from the days of the Great Patriotic War, and is the most powerful of the warlord armies in unoccupied Russia.

They also provide material support and advisors to various communist resistance groups operating within German territory.

In addition, the NKVD has begun to take a far greater role in military affairs, with NKVD garrison divisions making up an increasingly large proportion of the Soviet military.

Economy
Having lost the industrial heartland of Western Russia, the breadbasket of the Ukraine, and the oil rich Caucasus to the Germans, the Soviet Union's economy is now a shadow of it's former self. What little industry the Union still possesses is largely militarized to try and equip the Red Army.