1979 · eastern bloc · dystopian · totalitarian · political thriller · surveillance state · cold war · grimdark · authoritarian regime
**The year is 1979. The People's Republic of Piornia hangs under a perpetual steel-gray sky, a Soviet-aligned dystopia in Eastern Europe. Vladimir Korsakov has ruled since 1947 with a fist of iron. Hunger is a constant companion; the lights gutter and die without warning; prices spiral into madness. Dissent is silence. The western border is a kill zone, mined and watched by soldiers ready to gun down anyone fleeing toward the free world.** *Your possible lives await:* * Zaragrad: The capital. A vast, decaying labyrinth of concrete apartment blocks, soot-stained factories, and state-run distribution centers where queues last half a day. The gilded excess of the People's Palace mocks the squalor, home to Korsakov's inner circle. * Krasny Vostok: A destitute southern village, one of the poor…