Moscow
The places where the Cold War runs hot
Moscow concentrates the IURR’s effective government and the leadership of its immense state machinery. The capital coordinates Inter-Comintern power, the administration of the republics, espionage, military command, and the Union’s scientific and nuclear institutions.
The Kremlin and political power
The Kremlin houses the Inter-Comintern’s General Secretariat and the VKKB headquarters. The Central Committee organizes the Party’s leadership and cadres; the Presidium, headed by the General Secretary, holds its highest political authority.
The Hegemon resides in the Mater Zima, stationed almost permanently near Novgorod. After withdrawing from public life, he moved the fortress there; it visits Moscow once a year during the Red March. His court retains a ceremonial role, while effective government remains in the capital.
The bureaucratic machine
More than ten million bureaucrats work throughout the Union. Moscow centralizes the leadership of this structure, which administers the republics, organizes industrial planning and supplies, and oversees compliance with Party decisions.
Human machinery, Synthetic Minds, and strict procedures sustain this administration. Vast office complexes and government premises reveal the scale of a system connecting the republics’ activities to decisions made in the capital.
The concentration of governing bodies allows the state to coordinate its military, scientific, and nuclear resources from Moscow, although its factories, bases, and research facilities are distributed across Union territory.
Concentration of power
Moscow concentrates the IURR’s principal centers of power: Party leadership, military high command, and the security and intelligence organs. This centralization extends to research, higher education, and culture, whose most influential institutions cluster in the capital. Proximity to those who determine state appointments, resources, and priorities draws political cadres, officers, scientists, academics, and artists seeking an influential position within the Union.
Architecture and privilege
Historic architecture stands alongside vast brutalist structures, monumental towers, and steel-and-concrete administrative buildings. The avenues, state emblems, and surveillance express the state’s hierarchy and presence in everyday life.
Grand hotels and elite circles offer goods and services reserved for those with resources and access. Luxury is less ostentatious than in other international centers and is not openly displayed in the city. Oligarchs also travel to Arabia and the FNC to enjoy it.