Jack of Harts

The Democratic Republic of Gorgas is the Decisive Action Training Environment’s fictional emerging representative democracy trying to find itself in the modern world. A massive majority of the population is Orthodox Christian, though they maintain very friendly relations with neighboring Islamic Atropia, and Gorgas pipelines carry Atropian oil to the Black Sea. Gorgas wishes to insulate itself from Donovian influence by joining the West and NATO, and has sent military forces to join multiple US led coalitions in the last decade or two. Their wish to remain free of Donovian influence is hampered by the fact that two Gorgas provinces have declared independence with the aid of Donovian support. Military conflicts between Gorgas and breakaway provinces have caused massive civilian strife and large refugee populations, which destabilize local politics and life.