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The Union of Strassonist People's Republics (Westlandic:) commonly referred to as the Strassonist Union or abbreviated as the USPR is a non-contiguous trans-continental state consisting of territories in Western Europe and North America. The union has a total population of approximately 67 million people covering an area in excess of 5,470,480 km2, making it the 7th largest country by land area in the world.

The union can trace its founding back the 10th century with the establishment of the Kingdom of Westland in Western Europe, which following several conflicts with the Danes during the 11th and 12th centuries aquired territories in the North Atlantic. The kingdom later went on the become the seat of a colonial empire with territories in North America. During the 19th century Westland was the second country in the world to undergo an Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution, coupled with growing socialist mindsets both in Westland and Europe, caused the growth of the Socialist Party during the early 1900's, which led to a series of constitutional changes climaxing in the dissolution of the Monarchy in 1923 and the formation of a Socialist State. The state incorporated the Kingdom's overseas dominions as equal People's Republics in a federal system, collectivising the state's economy, society and industry. Following several decades of single-party rule between the 1920's and the 1950's, the state opened up to democratic reforms allowing new parties to be formed and contest elections however with strict regulations on the ideological basis of such parties.

During the Cold War the union was often called the 'Central Bloc' standing in the middle ground between the Capitalist Western Bloc and the Communist Eastern Bloc led by the Soviet Union. The union was often said to be the 'third way' in the Ideological Crisis advocating the ideology of Strassonism.