Russia once held vast territories across the northern part of the Eurasian continent.
The region that came into being after its collapse in the Gremlin Disaster is known as the former Russian territories.
The loss of electricity severed communications and transportation, which in turn severed the country itself.
Cars wouldn't run, telephones didn't work, and monsters ran rampant. Under such circumstances, even contacting the neighboring city was difficult, let alone holding the nation together as one.
It also hurt that they had not been blessed with a Transcendent.
Unlike America and Japan, they never produced a Transcendent with powerful leadership, nor did they develop the foundation needed to oppose the threat of monsters as a group rather than as individuals. Even now, the former Russian territories remain a disjointed patchwork of small countries.
Some small countries are recognized as nations by the United Nations, while others are lawless regions in all but name. There are even areas claimed by one country as its territory where nobody actually lives, leaving them as paradises for monsters.
Then again, sometimes small countries start skirmishing with one another, only to be wiped out together when a massive monster outbreak occurs at the moment they are exhausted.
Some simply disappear after suffering repeated crop failures.
In other cases, a Transcendent is born in a village that isn't even a town, becomes its source of support, and establishes a new country...
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