Founded in 1986 by a half Kirghiz/Half Russian former Soviet General, Mikhail Okuolov, the Mongol Empire has grown to be the largest governmental entity on the planet. Okuolov created a heavily armed bandit gang from the remnants of his troops and used it to form a military dictatorship in the vicinity of Akmola in Kazakhstan. Over the next few years, Okoulov recruited many Khirgiz, Tartar, Kazakh, and Mongol tribesmen to build up his forces. In 1988 he defeated the Russian-ethnic Siberian Coalition at the cost of the last of his pre-1985 heavy equipment.
As his opponents had been all pure ethnic Russians and attempting to reduce all the Central Asian peoples to subjugation, Okoulov played up his Asian ancestry, to the point of publicly converting to Islam and proclaiming himself the true heir of Ghengis Khan. His new empire was increasingly "Mongolized" in nature, making a benefit out of low technology and violence. Genghis II, as he called himself, died in the summer of 1996 and was followed on the throne by his brilliant but unstable son, Batu I.
Batu, though apparently three quarters Russian in ancestry, vowed to eliminate all Russian influence from Asia forever. He spent the next 17 years directing the expansion of his empire and the forced "Asianation" of the ethnic Russian population of Siberia. All traces of Russian and Communist rule were destroyed, including all writings in Cyrillic. Even all road signs were ordered destroyed. Ethnic Russians were forced to change their names to Russian ones and spoken Russian was prohibited upon pain of death. Membership in the Russian Orthodox Church, or any Christian sect for that matter, also was a mandatory death penalty. Batu left the empire far larger, better organized, and more cohesive than his father. When he died in early in 2014, his son Hulegu, age twenty, followed him.
Hulegu's mother was the daughter of a major Kazakh leader. He was raised to hate Europeans, especially Russians, and to believe that it was the destiny of the Mongol EMpire to rule the entire world. He was killed fighting the Japanese in 2035 and followed on the throne by his son, Batu II.
Despite being a low tech entity overall, it has succeeded in expanding due clever organization, ruthless leadership, and a decentralized structure that permits considerable local autonomy and flexibility, while allowing the central government overall control and direction of effort.
The basic hierarchy of the empire is as follows: at the head is the central government with the absolute khakhan at the pinnacle. Under him, and his Imperial Court are the seven regional khans, each a semi-autonomous ruler in his own right. Each of these lesser khanates was carved out of neighboring territory by an ambitious general eager to make a name for himself. If a general is successful enough in expanding the boundaries of the empire, he is then promoted to be khan of the area he has conquered. Needless to say, this makes for extraordinarily aggressive behavior by the khan’s generals. Not surprisingly, the khans usually appoint close family members to these commands. Thus, there is a competition between the various khanates to see who can aggrandize his family the most.
The khakhan maintains control through a mixture of persuasion, force, and rewards. He has enormous influence as being the wealthiest and most powerful ruler in Asia. He can reward those who serve him well with wealth, titles, position, and the opportunity to advance. To those who disobey the punishments are dire. If a khan disobeys a direct order, the khakhan may punish him by massacring not only the offending khan, but all his close relatives. Generally, the heart of any khan’s army is a Tuman (10,000 man unit) of Keshik Imperial Guard Cavalry. The Keshik commander has the power to enforce imperial edicts on the spot by summary execution of any official except for khans, whose fate rests in the hands of the khakhan alone. The Keshik provides the khans with their personal bodyguards, thus making it easy to eliminate any khan who seems to aspire to higher things.
The Khanates possess considerable autonomy. As long as they provide soldiers and tribute to the khakhan, do not fight each other or hinder trade, they are allowed to conduct themselves as they desire. The khakhan may at his whim interfere with anything, anywhere, but unless he feels the greater needs of the empire are involved, rarely chooses to do so. Because of this autonomy, the UKA is currently at war with the Ukrainian Khanate, the Caucasian Khanate, and the Khanate of Baghdad, but not with the others.. Analysts believe that the fact we have no physical contact with the others is the primary reason for this.
The Ukrainian and Caucasian Khanates have allied themselves and have been encroaching on the territories of our European allies over the last two years, leading to disastrous defeats inflicted on the Roman Empire, which has virtually destroyed that state. While our limited number of engagements against Mongol troops has been uniformly successful, our limited resources and the logistical impossibility of supplying an advance into the rugged territory of the Balkans has lead our government to go over to a defensive posture and try to prop up the disintegrating Roman state as a buffer.
The Khanate of the Greater Rus does its best to keep UKA and Commonwealth merchants out of its territory and is expanding its influence into Poland.
We have been continually at war with the Baghdad Khanate since the early 2020s,as they have overrun our trading partners in the area.
The Mongols tend to keep their dependence on technology limited, both as a matter of philosophy, and as a way making it difficult for high tech military forces to operate in its territories. Much of their military units formed from subject peoples are at best armed with muzzle loading weapon, or even bows and crossbows. Only the Keshik units are completely armed with modern firearms, mainly captured Japanese and Roman weapons, and refurbished ex-Soviet arms. Mongol forces are weak in artillery and support weapons, and their transport is mainly horse-drawn. The best Mongol units are horse cavalry. Mongolian territory lacks any form of electronic communications, though it does have a highly efficient postal service.