Me and my friends have a huge world building project, the whole scope of it would be impossible to explain without several hundred screenshots of discord convos and pictures of notebooks. To summarize everyone is responsible for a fictional country and can make stories about it and how the nations interact with each other. Obviously my country was communist, I called it ‘Antegria’ (before playing Papers, Please and being like 
). I was getting bored of being a good country, so I had my country get couped and became a theocratic empire, and transition to a capitalist economy. This had pretty devastating effects on the people, and very many became poor. One bit of the story I wanted to make is a majority of class-conscious communists in the government, military, and general population fleeing persecution (the junta was killing suspected communists) to another communist country, the Communist Union of Benteria (which is kinda like if west germany and the DDR were both communist, and then unified). The government were very sympathetic to the fleeing communists and gave them a large empty bit of land to make a semi-autonomous commune. Over time, the commune grew enough to the point where 15-16,000 people occupied it, and they started to make a plan to take over the empire in a cuban revolution-esque plan. So a large force travels to a very rural part of the old country, and brings food and healthcare to the farmers and miners, who desperately need it as the austerity and privatisation had put a lot of them out of jobs (many had jobs in nearby cities, as the gov. ran high-speed trains between cities, but when the new government privatised the rail industries, it became prohibitively expensive to travel by train). By doing this across many rural areas they grow slightly in numbers and declare a few rural towns to be Antegria proper, and the junta’s new government to be fraudulent. Is this in any way realistic or practical? Or really a way that a revolution could even happen?
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Sounds kinda like the Vietnamese resistance, the revolutionaries fight beyond internationally recognized borders by linking up with comrades in the occupied part of their country. So yeah, it could definitely work
awesome, I’m glad i wasnt crazy
It’s your world tho, always remember having fun is the most important thing! My friends tried something like this a long time ago, my buddy who loved maps when all out with maps of the world detailing different climate zones and natural resources deposits. We played a similar game where you played as DnD style gods working together to take turns building a world. I’ll post the rules sometime on here!
that sounds cool! thanks
By doing this across many rural areas they grow slightly in numbers and declare a few rural towns to be Antegria proper, and the junta’s new government to be fraudulent. Is this in any way realistic or practical? Or really a way that a revolution could even happen?
I think it would depend on the ability for the Junta to project its authority in the newly-occupied areas. Is there something preventing them from doing that? Maybe these areas are very mountainous and are difficult to control from the metropole. Maybe it’s where the communists originally formed their power base before the revolution so its a more natural place for them to occupy where they’re perceived as more legitimate. Maybe the Junta is tied up in other conflicts.
You’re right, that’s something i never really fleshed out. ill figure something out for why the new empire is occupied.
The concept does hold some value, but like another commenter said you need to find a justification to explain why the communists don’t get immediately wiped out by the junta.
Otherwise they would need military assistance from their home country, which might very well frame them as foreign puppets and invaders. The whole thing may even had the opposite effect from what the communists want, in the sense that the junta would have an easy time painting communism as a foreign ideology, incompatible with national values, a threat to their sovereignty, etc…
Ultimately, the amount of foreign assistance your rebels will need depends on you. I think there’s great story-telling potential either way, even if the “important foreign intervention” one is less often depicted. You can take inspiration from Afghanistan for the later, and maybe Vietnam for the other.
