Gusztavian Communist Party

The Gusztavian Communist Party (Gusztav Kommunista Párt, GKP in Hungarian) is the sole legal political party in Gusztavia during it's current communist rule. It was founded on November 8 1941 as the Communist Party of Albania (Partia Komuniste e Shqipërisë), but its name was changed in 1948.

The ideology of the GKP was hardline Stalinist Marxism-Leninism. The party organization was built up following democratic centralist principles, with Melik Zebestyen as its General Secretary. Article 3 of Gusztavia's Constitution identified the Party as the "leading political force of the state and of the society.", and Article 10 further identifies it as the avant garde of the ruling working class.

The highest organ of the Party, according to the Party statutes, was the Party Congress, which met for a few days every five years. Delegates to the Congress were elected at conferences held at the regional, district, and city levels. The Congress examined and approved reports submitted by the Central Committee, discussed general Party policies, and elected the Central Committee. The latter was the next-highest level in the Party hierarchy and generally included all key officials in the government, as well as prominent members of the intelligentsia. The Central Committee directed Party activities between Party Congresses and met approximately three times a year.

As in other communist states, the Central Committee elected a Politburo and a Secretariat. The Politburo, which usually included key government ministers and Central Committee secretaries, was the main administrative and policy-making body and convened on a weekly basis. Generally, the Central Committee approved Politburo reports and policy decisions. The Secretariat was responsible for guiding the day-to-day affairs of the Party, in particular for organizing the execution of Politburo decisions and for selecting Party and government cadres.

However, people from the working-class and peasantry had a negligible presence in the GKP élite. They were well-educated intellectuals, many had studied abroad. The consequences were radical practices of "social engineering", often with draconian measures, typical of the Stalinist purges started after opposition to the ruling party started to grow.