The loose association of the former Soviet republics that stayed close to Moscow after 1988.
In our world
The Commonwealth of Independent States was founded in December 1991 as the Soviet Union dissolved. Its Collective Security Treaty, signed at Tashkent in May 1992, bound Russia to a ring of former republics; by 2000 it was Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
In TND
Here the Union fell in March 1988, in war rather than by agreement, and the republics that had fought Moscow never came back: Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic states stayed out. The CIS is the loose association of those that stayed close - and its security treaty is Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Lukashenko's communist Belarus, which seized power in a coup in 1994, refuses to join a Russian-led bloc. Moscow, broke and fighting in Chechnya, has spent a decade unable to make it.
Members on 1 January 2000
Led by 
Russia
Armenia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan 
Tajikistan
Faction rules
The national spirit
Commonwealth of Independent States
Every member
The loose association of the former Soviet republics that stayed close to Moscow after 1988.
- +15% trade opinion
- -10% resource shortage penalty
- +3% stability