The PERDR, or the Peoples' Eastern Roman Democratic Republic, entered this century as the most feared nation in the world. They had proclaimed themselves the vanguard of the Levelist Revolution, and felt it was their duty to incorporate poor, "oppressed" countries into their "liberated' nation. Many small nations like Hungary and Czechoslovakia had fallen to the Byzantines, and their thirst for expansion continued. They were driven by their feared leader, Baltazar Georgopoulos, who celebrated a huge propaganda victory with the Byzantines being the fourth nation to land a man on the moon in 1904 (after Meixikou, Japan, and India). However, after his death in 1905, great political instability and strife gripped the Byzantine Republic, with the next several leaders barely lasting for a si