Political Parties

Iron Party - conservative authoritarian nationalists

Iron Party leader and Autarch - Ernst Kreuz, a typical nationalist who believes that Ballistikov is fine just the way it is and will focus on maintaining the status quo. Ernst has the largest public support of all the party leaders.

Percentage of seats held in congress 45% (majority)

Percentage of seats held by Iron Court Justices 100%

Sword Party - militarists

Sword Party leader - Heinz Graben, militarist and revanshist who hates demihuman nations and socialist nations and always pushes for increased military and police funding. Has a significant support of the military command and soldiers.

Percentage of seats held in congress 15%

Reformist Party - conservative authoritarian democrats

Reformist Party leader - Stefan Betrüger, who pretends to be a liberal reformist, but actually doesn't care for social reforms and only wants to improve the economy of Ballistikov to the point where Iron League would be a stronger economic bloc than the ISC and Imperial Nations. However, there are a lot of liberals in his party, who may even attempt to remove him should he completely abandon his liberal promises, given that his support primarily consists of students and open-minded men of art and science.

Percentage of seats held in congress 30%

Exodus Party - Ultravisionary Ultranationalists

Exodus Party leader - Walter Albtraum, who believes that all socialists and demihumans must be exterminated via nuclear war. Only then can Ballistikov truly prosper. He has little to no support.

Percentage of seats held in congress 10%

The Iron Republic is technically a multi-party republic but the Iron party makes sure that no other party ever holds a majority in the Iron Council or the position of Autarch. They do this by controlling the media, manipulating elections, bribery, and in rare cases assassinations. The main reason for the Iron party allowing other parties to exist is to prevent their citizens from revolting, and so far this system has worked well for them.

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