Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin is a Soviet ace pilot turned presidential dictator of Novosibirsk. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Pokryshkin settled in his hometown of Novosibirsk, and the Central Siberian Republic appointed him as the city's governor. Hoping to live out his life in peace, the Siberian War crushed that dream, and motivated Pokryshkin to secede from the Republic along with the like-minded mayor of Barnaul, Vasily Shukshin.