Ashgabat Groupball

The Ashgabat Groupball was an economical and political group under the leadership of Russian Greater SFSRball, oriented toward socialism and authoritarian Soviet politics. Its members were from Central Asia, Caucasus and nearby regions, it worked into union states.

Officially it was claimed the group's objective was to ensure regional cooperation, but Russia used the group as a political tool and prepared those countries to join its Soviet Union. Ling Chinaball also had a strong influence in the group.

Characteristics
The members of the group were characterized from being violently authoritarian and secular, with a strong charismatic and populist leadership. Statism and centralism were important characteristics of them beside authoritarianism, being their industries nationalization at full force. An anti western sentiment was also present, developed as a result of Russophilia and Soviet nostalgia.

Its members were in what Russia called as an “experience through rediscovering socialism and adapting it to specific realities”. Most of them were scientific socialist experiments with different aspects of Marxism, not a copy of the Russian system but a tool of it.

Members of the group also had mutual defense agreement, being the organization very focused on the military issue and the most important of all, a shared nuclear program sponsored by Russia, in which the main objective was to intimidate Western expansionist plans to the region. Under the nuclear treat firmed by Russia, all countries members of the pact were free to explore the nuclear technology as long as they respected a series of criteria.

Economically, the group received support from Ling Chinaball, in return they helped China and the FEAUball bloc with military technology.

The group was an affiliate of the International Socialist Blocball and ended when New Soviet Unionball was born and annexed the members into their territory, saying their experiences into scientific socialism was completed.

Members

 * Russian Greater SFSRball
 * Ling Chinaball (as a guest)
 * Byelorussian-Ukrainian SRball (as a guest)
 * PR Finlandball (as a guest)
 * Fourth Hellenic Republicball (as a guest)
 * Second Federal Republic of Yugoslaviaball (as a guest)
 * United Arab Republicball (as a guest)
 * Sovereign Republic of Iranball
 * New Kazakhbrick
 * New Kyrgyzball
 * New Uzbekball
 * New Turkmenball
 * Mohasherwani Afghanistanball
 * Mazdak Tajikball
 * New Unified Georgiaball
 * Ciscaucasian Confederacyball

Supposed to be members but refused therefore enemies

 * Greater Armeniaball
 * New Azerbaijanball
 * Georgian Kingdomball (was destroyed during the Great Counter-Offensive of the Caucasus)