The long term state policy of Kamchatka calls for the expansion towards natural frontiers and the fortification of them. Policy as laid out last year dictated that the first step was the security of the lands directly north of Kamchatka. Immediately this was undercut during talks with the Alyaskans, who insisted upon the tip of the Peninsula for themselves. Similarly the ingress of Hokkaido onto the continent caused the long term policy to head towards revisions.

However, the subsequent collapse of Hokkaido has offered many opportunities. With the north now reasonably secure, the country may look back to it's historic holdings: the Kuril Islands. The exiled Volzhe survivors of the prior war struggle to make their living in Nangorod, a tent city. Now the opportunity exists to take them home. Similarly, attempts are planned to secure a strategic island holding: Attu Island, thus securing the Pacific Flank completely.

The future then, is south. But how far south will Kamchatka go?

Some postulate that given the anarchy of Japan it may be prudent to take the entirety of Hokkaido and integrate them, so that they may never again threaten the Archipelago.

Others propose a greater regional control, painting the entire coastline of North Eastern Asia in Kamchatka White. This policy of Greater Kamchatka has many supporters in the Bureaucracy below the First Citizen. In another camp, many point out the inevitability of the Volzhe people becoming a minority within their own state should expansion continue at this rate, a prospect none expected to be dealing with so soon - if at all.

Regardless, with the collapse of her only major rival it remains to be seen if world affairs will allow an expansionist Kamchatka to continue unabated across the Far East.

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