About VDNKh Commonwealth - Metro 2033
The apparently unnamed "VDNKh Commonwealth" is an alliance of three stations: VDNKh, Alexeyevskaya and Rizhskaya of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line.
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Recently formed, the stations of the commonwealth joined forces to further empower the line's mushroom tea industry, and to prevent annexation from Hanza.
Every station in the Commonwealth has its own administration (formed from the actual former Metro administration workers even in the first Central Control time), the cooperation consists of free-ride for traders and citizens between the stations of the Commonwealth. Passports are issued for each station, to allow travel.
There is a strict law enforcement and harsh punishment on all stations. VDNKh also enforces labor duties on every citizen. All men from VDNKh must take armed watch in all of the tunnels leading to VDNKh, including the northern tunnel to Botanicheskiy Sad where the Dark Ones assault from. A reserve troop of men are also on watch if anything suspicious is called from the guards in the tunnel, they carry spotlights and large machine guns.
This trio of stations is one of the few radial governments situated in a dead end that can actually make ends meet and even spare some on culture. They have a small library of their own and books purchased from Polis, along with a high literacy rate with courses for it's children. The stability and relative prosperity is primarily due to "specialty" tea production which is produced for a half of the Metro; this attracts people, but the VDNKh Commonwealth is not that immigrant-friendly, rarely letting anyone new into VDNKh.