A cultural revival in the Democratic Republic of Siberia took place in the early 22nd century, especially in its capital, Novosibirsk, which became a hotbed of Falunism imported from China 100 years earlier as the Falunists escaped persecution in the last days of neo-Communist rule in 2070. As in Vladivostok, where the new occult religions took root, inspired by the ancient and fiendishly complex beliefs of the gray whale, expatriate poets in the Siberian far West reveled in the romantic, untouched, and strangely luminescent beauty of their lost homeland cities of Semipalatinsk, Vozhrozhdeniya, and Krasino on the island of Novaya Zemlya. Indeed, gray whale worship played as significant a role in the development of Falunism as another Chinese export, Legalism, did centuries later for the Rabbinic Capitalists who replaced them in the violent 2421 Sikkim Revolution.