Order of Trotsky

Order of Trotsky Орден Троцкий
Awarded by the Sovietian Emperor
Type	National order
Established	8 July 2020
Ribbon
Motto	Ордем пела Револуçãо Перманенте! Order by the Permanent Revolution!
Awarded for	Meritorious achievements in service of the people.
Status	Currently constituted
de facto Grand Master	Arthur van der Bruyn
Grades	Recipient
Statistics
First induction	8 July 2020
Last induction	28 March 2021
Precedence
Next (higher)	None (highest)
Next (lower)	Order of the Scepter and the Sickle

The Order of Trotsky (Portuguese: Ordem de Trotsky; Cyrillic: Орден Троцкий ) is the highest civilian decoration bestowed by the Socialist Soviet Empire, named after Leon Trotsky, the leader of the 1905 and co-leader of the 1918 Russian revolutions. Officialy headed by the Imperial Soviet people, its de facto Grand Master is the Soviet Emperor, as supreme representative of the popular working-class.

The order was established alongside with the state's proclamation of sovereignty over the world's factories on 8 July 2020 as the nation's highest honour, immediately followed by the Order of the Scepter and the Sickle. It is granted to nationals and foreigners as a token of recognition for meritorious achievements as long as these achievements serves the people. The medal's design was inspired by that of the Order of Lenin of the former Soviet Union, replacing his name and effigy for that of Trotsky, as Sovietia's formal ideology is the Trotskyism, and adding the country's heraldic Crown of the People on top, representing the people's sovereignty over the order through the person of the Emperor.

History

The Order of Trotsky was formally created on 8 July 2020 by the proclamation on which Arthur II, then solely King of Ebenthal, claimed all of the world's factories as territory of a new sovereign entity, labeled micronational - the Sovietian Empire. The creation of the order came as a mean to keep this de facto "secondary micronation" (as Arthur's main micronational activity is in the Kingdom of Ebenthal) somehow active and to honour his friends and allies, specially those of socialist/communist sentiments. It was almost entirely inspired by the Soviet Union's Order of Lenin, changing and adding some features of Trotskyism such as Trotsky's effigy and name and an improvised motto regarding that communist leader's theory of permanent revolution which was developed during the 1905 revolution he led.

Since its establishment, the order have been awarded very few times, but the government kept no official record of it. As a result, on 1 February 2021, the Emperor decided to start granting the order from scratch, de-considering previous grants, unless those are proven by the recipients.

Precedence and privileges

The order is characterized as a single-grade order, thus, having only one grade. As the country is officialy communist, it does not grant or recognizes titles (other than the people's imperial title embodied by the person of the Emperor) and so, the order's sole grade is not that of Knight (or the feminine Dame) but Recipient. Recipients of this order are assigned positions in the order of precedence, ranking above recipients of the country's other two orders. Consorts, children and children-in-law does not takes part on the order of precedence, as the State's honour is granted to a personal level, meaning that relatives of the awarded are equal to be granted the order, but were not.

All members of the order are entitled to the prefixes of "Comrade". When an individual is entitled to use multiple post-nominal letters, the ones of the order (OTR) takes precedence.

Insignia

The order is represented by the face of Leon Trotsky wrapped in golden laurels, representing his success. Above his portrait, there's the communist symbol of the hammer and sickle, at the left, a red star, and at the right his name written in a red ribbon. Above the medal stand the Crown of the People, the Sovietian Emperor's crown, representing the people's sovereignty over the order through his person. The colour of the order is light yellow and crimson red. The order's ribbon in yellow with a red hammer and sickle on the mid.

Offices

Grand Master

The order's establishment charter designates that, in order to keep real communism, the order has officialy no Grand Master and answers to the Sovietian people. But, as according to the constitution, the Emperor is the embodiment of the people and their supreme representative, as well as General Secretary of the Sovietian Workers' Party, to which all the working-class must be member, he acts as the de facto Grand Master and fons honorum of the order.

So far, the order have had one acting Grand Master:

Name	Acting Grand Master and Sovereign as	Period
Arthur I of Sovietia	Emperor of the Sovietian Workers	8 July 2020 – present
Constantine I of Sovietia		8 June 2024 – present

Recipients

Name	Conferred as	Date conferred
Oscar I of Karnia-Ruthenia	Emperor-King of Karnia-Ruthenia	28 March 2021
Lucas, Stadhouder of Mauritia	Stadhouder of Mauritia	28 March 2021
Leonardo I	Emperor of Villa Alicia	28 March 2021
Thomas I of Quinta Velha	King of Quinta Velha	28 March 2021
Rafael I of Luna	King of Luna	28 March 2021
Matheus I of Braspor	King of Braspor	28 March 2021
Pedro I of Schneeblutig	King of Schneeblutig	28 March 2021
Louis Phillipe I of Eminia	King of the Eminians	28 March 2021
Varuna Sriraya	Rashtradhyaksh of Vishwamitra	28 March 2021
Maria of Sildavia	Queen of Sildavia	28 March 2021
Carlo, Prince of Nossia	Prince of Nossia	28 March 2021
Marco Antonio Rino	President of Rino Island	28 March 2021
Lucas Ribeiro	Archchancellor of Achsen	28 March 2021
Luísa Somme, 2nd Duchess of Montana	Minister of Foreign Affairs	1 April 2021
Raphael Sousa	ex-Prime Minister of Ebenthal	4 April 2021
João Antônio Santana	Chancellor of Mauritia	21 June 2021
Jonathan I	King by the Rhine	9 August 2021
Layanne Almeida	President of Maragogui	10 December 2024
Benjamin Jeonghyeok	President of the Supreme People's Assembly	10 December 2024