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We aren't sure when this nation exactly arose, though we do know that it was by hand of former Russian military officer. While most of Russia's population died when their few cities were destroyed, the vast expanses of the country, and secretive nature of their military meant that many individual complexes survived. Soldiers within them survived unscathed, often with considerable supplies, although many would perish in bloody wars for control and resources shortly after.

One group however, chose to abandon its dwellings and proceeded to abandon Russian Wastes in search of more habitable terrain. They eventually arrived in Mongolia, whose various rural communities survived unscathed. The stories say that the group's leader persuaded one of the tribal leaders to let his men join his clan; as the soldiers sought land and to diversify their gene pool while clan wanted additional protection. Armed with latest in military technology, the soldiers were readily accepted and gradually subjugated surrounding clans. The groups leader became chief's son-in-law, and upon his death the clan head himself, at which point he declared himself "Tsar", and founded the Dynasty. In following years, his men searched many secret bases on Russian borders, pillaging technologies, supplies and armaments, while the collective might of ED rolled across still-habitable areas of Asia.

The ED is a curious mixture of old-fashioned, but reliable technology and some surprisingly advanced techniques. In particular, the ED completely retained old Russia's knowledge in sphere of genetics and man-machine interfaces and cyborgization. Our infiltrators report that ED's on the verge of perfecting mass-scale cloning technology, and that advanced prosthesis are commonplace amongst ED troops and workforce.

While their military may look obsolete (which their primary combat vehicles being based on XX-century tanks) they have proven highly reliable and surprisingly efficient. The ED science has also created some interesting prototype weapons, such as Lasers (thermal beams made to critically heat enemy vehicles until their own fuel and munitions explode) and Ion weaponry (high-powered electrical charges meant to fry enemy electronics).

It is hard to exactly pin-point when this organization arose, but the timing seems to be largely concurrent with our and ED's own founding. The States originally were an assembly of independent survivor groups, that chose to co-operate in the name of mutual survival. Although Europe was long-since divided by various petty ethnic and religious divides, the generations after the Collapse abandoned that mindset as simply infeasible in the new world. As divides begun to fade, the quasi-federal system developed into a true, unified federal system. The States subsequently took over almost all of still-habitable Europe, and begun a lengthy process of ecological recovery.

A noteworthy aspect of this group however, is its politics. As it seems that the nature of Collapse in not well-understood in Europe, the Collapse was blamed on political leaders. Consequently, CS lacks any proper "political" spheres. Leaders are randomly selected from populace by popular lottery.

To aid these men and women in governance, the CS has created massive "advisory systems" - powerful computer networks meant to effectively rule the country as impartial servants. Over time, the CS populace has embraced this system of government; in fact most people are content with "Rule by Machine", and are calling for abolition of politics entirely.

Naturally, CS has perfected the computer sciences, and various networking systems. Their entire society is based machines, which do all menial tasks - from labor to war, while humans focus on pure hedonism, consumption or intellectual pursuits. Consequently, CS military is a master in usage of remote-type weapons. In particularly, the CS has employed a unique category of "mecha" platforms - bi-or more pedal machines meant to operate within uneven or otherwise limited terrain.
CS sciences has also demonstrated an astute ability to manipulate energy and matter - reports suggest that the nation recently perfected a unique type of energy weapons called "Plasma Guns", and is working on mastering what may be anti-gravity drives.

Given how little remained in post-Collapse world, this raises a serious question of where is all this science coming from. Rumors suggest that CS is "reverse-engineering" something, but we have absolutely no idea what it might be, and CS data networks are too well encrypted for any possible spying ventures.