Standalone/Peoples Republic of Afghanistan

Peoples Republic of Afghanistan د افغانستان د خلکو جمهوریت
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem: "Be ardent, be more ardent"
Capital and largest city	Kabul
Official language	Dari, Pashto
Ethnic groups	Pashtun, Hazara, Aimak, Tajik, Uzbek, Turkmen
Religion	Secular State
Demonym(s)	Afghan
Government	Unitary one-party Socialist Republic
• President	Akram Yari
• Prime Minister	Faiz Ahmad
Legislature	Revolutionary Council
Establishment
• Saur Revolution	27–28 April 1978
• Soviet Invasion	27 December 1979
• Soviet Retreat	15 February 1989
• Republic Declared	26 December 2003
Area
• Total	652,864 km2 (252,072 sq mi)
Population
• Estimate	22.65 Million
HDI	0.402 low
Currency	Afghani (AFA)
Time zone	UTC+4:30
Date format	dd/mm/yyyy
Driving side	right
Calling code	+93

The Peoples Republic of Afghanistan is a landlocked country located in Central Asia, it is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east.

Reffered to as the 'Heart of Asia', human habitation in Afghanistan dates back to the Middle Paleolithic era, and the country's strategic location along the historic Silk Road has led it to being described, picturesquely, as the ‘roundabout of the ancient world’.

The modern Afghan state has its origins in the 18th Century, with the breakup of the Sadozai Kingdom, commonly called the Durrani Empire, Afghanistan went trough a period of over 70 years of Civil Wars and Unification Wars, which resulted on the unification of the country in 1863 by Dost Mohammad Khan. Since its very inception, Afghanistan was part of the so called 'Great Game', an imperialist competition between the Russian Empire and the British Empire for control over Central Asia. In the end, Afghanistan managed to preserve its independence trough several wars of resistance against the British.

During the years following the First World War, Afghanistan went trough a period of brutal civil unrest and war. During the rule of Amānullāh Khān, sweeping reforms never seen before in the region where undertaken, such as liberalisation of the economy, the abolishment of Sharia law and equal rights to women. These reforms upset the Afghan Clergy aswell as the largely tribal and religious Afghan countryside, due to this, a war know as the 'Saqqawist Rebellion' or the 'Afghan Civil War' began in 1928, where the 'Saqqawist' forces, led by warlord and bandit Habibullāh Kalakāni, revolted against the government policies and sought to stablish an Islamic Emirate. The rebbelion was ended after the military defeat of Habibullāh Kalakāni and the deposition of Amānullāh Khān by Mohammed Nadir Shah, which kept the kingdom on its feudal, tribal, conservative and deeply religious roots.

This period of quietness would be broken by the beggining of a political awakening of the country in the 1960s, soon, in 1973, the Kingdom would be abolished and replaced by a republic after Mohammed Daoud Khan, the prime minister, organized a coup d'etat against Mohammed Zahir Shah. A few years later, in 1978, another coup d'etat brought a pro-Soviet government to power, the coup is know as the Saur Revolution. The new Democratic Republic of Afghanistan was plagued by internal instability and political rivalries, which culminated on the invasion of the country by the Soviet Union in 1979, at the request of the government.

Immediatly after the invasion, an alliance of anti-soviet groups was formed, the Afghanistan Mujahedin Freedom Fighters Front (AMFFF), a coalition of anti-soviet communists, democrats, monarchists and islamists. Altough they managed to wage a considerable resistance campaign against the Soviet Army and the collaborationist government, internal conflict culminated on the breakup of the Alliance in 1986. Despite this, the different groups still managed to wage a sucessfull war of resistance until the soviet withdraw from the country in 1989. Following the withdrawl, Afghanistan fell into a state of chaos and civil war, the pro-Soviet government abandoned Marxism and reversed many of the revolutionary policies, but it was too late to win over any sections of the population. This period of civil war would last until 2003, when the Afghanistan Liberation Organization (ALO) advanced into Kabul, ending the civil war after more than 20 years.

After the ALO takeover, the countries national symbols where reversed to the original 1978 ones, the organisation renamed itself to Communist Party of Afghanistan and a series of economical and social reforms on a process which the government called 'New Democracy'.

The Peoples republic of Afghanistan rejected both the Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China, declaring both to be 'Social Imperialists', it also does not describe itself as socialist, but as a 'New Democracy', whose means would be developing forces to reach said socialism. It is the first and only country to ever describe itself as Maoist.

Afghanistan is prominently rich in natural resources, including lithium, iron, zinc, and copper, amongst many others. It used to be the world's largest producer of opium and the second largest producer of cannabis, whomeover, the production of all kinds of addictive substances fell dramatically following the Maoist takeover of the country.