Gurguvungunit
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| Motto: Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die. | |
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| Region | Karasitha |
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| Capital | Rysika |
| Official Language(s) | English |
| Leader | Prime Minister Koril Vardas |
| Population | 3.326 Billion (as of 11-13-04) |
| Currency | Bolevar |
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Politics
Gurguvungunit is a democratic republic. It has two major branches of Government, the Legislative and Judicial branches. The Legislative Branch is made up of the Gurguvii Parliament, lead by the Prime Minister, which is the so called 'Top Job' in Gurguvungunit's government. The Judicial Branch is a non-partisan, hierarchical system of courts, with the National Court as the highest court in the entire nation. Nine judges sit on the panel, each with differing viewpoints so as to not have a partisan Judicial system. Each Province elects a varying number of representatives to parliament based on their population, and the Prime Minister is elected by popular vote of every citizen of voting age. Judges at all levels are elected by their constituents. Therefore, a city elects its judges, a Province elects theirs and the entire nation votes on the nine judges of the National Court. There are four political parties. They are the Conservative, the Liberal, the Morality and Socialist parties. The Conservative and Liberal parties are mostly centrist, while the Morality and Socialist parties are more extreme. Currently, the Liberal party has a slight lead in number of Parliamentary seats over the other three, and the Prime Minister, Koril Vardas, is a Liberal.
History
Gurguvungunit was founded in 1034 CE by King Antonov Guravga, leader of the Guravgii tribe of barbarians. Desiring to settle his followers in one place, he and several other bands of nomads invaded the peaceful region of Cheeseland, immediately destroying its regional organization and setting King Antonov up as the new ruler of the region. He swiftly quelled rebel movements with his well trained cavalry. His dominion continued until his death in 1069. King Antonov left behind no sons, only two daughters. The eldest, Nyssa, ascended to the throne, edging out her younger sister Kala through a brutal character assasination. Kala, deprived of her queenship, gathered those lords that held loyalty to her in secret, and planned a civil war. By 1031, all was ready. Kala's lover, General Huskil Zezyryki, led an army of ten thousand on the coastal town of Greyton, where he killed the garrison and took the warships docked there for himself. Over the next year, Zezyryki conducted lightning raids up the coast of Gurguvungunit, all the time evading the Navy, which had put to sea to find and kill him. On land, Lord Ishil Varakov captured the cities of Dale, Horin Ganoth and Horin Vimril for the Sepratists. Using them as a power base, Varakov struck crushing blows to the Royal Army at Vimrill Hill and the river Parth. By 1036, the nation was divided in two, with Nyssa as Queen of the North, and Kala as Queen of the South. The war had cooled into occasional skirmishes between the two parties, and the borders had roughly stabilized. Both monarchs bided their time, amassing great armies in an attempt to break the stalemate. In 1081, Nyssa herself led the Royal Army south to Horin Ganoth, breaking through the Rebel lines and laying seige to the Tower of Vigilance. When Lord Ishtil counterattacked, Nyssa led her forces to victory, crushing the Rebel land forces in a decisive battle under the wall of Horin Ganoth. Subsequently retaking the city, she prepared to lay seige to Horin Vimril, seeking to consolidate her still shaky power base in the south. In 1082, she launched her second attack on the rebellion, splitting her forces for a simultaneous attack on the Tower of Guard and Greyton, the primary coastal town of the South. At Greyton, a town protected only by a low palisade, the Royal Army was victorious, but Horin Vimril, perhaps the most heavily fortified city in the nation, withstood the assault. Half of Nyssa's army was annihilated, forcing her to retire to the North. Were it not for Kala's bodyguard, an agent of the North, the stalemate might well have resumed for another few years. As it was, Yuri Tchaiakov killed his charge by poisoning her drink. He was later killed by two Knights hired for the task, but the war was over. Without a possible heir to the throne, the rebellion faltered. Within the year, the entire nation was once again under the rule of Queen Nyssa. For five and a quarter centuries, Gurguvungunit was ruled by its traditional monarchs. However, in 1603, the Gurguvii Parliament was instated. The King of the time, William III, became king in name only. The entire political power was invested in the Parliament and its Prime Minister, Robert Crowly. Peace resumed in Gurguvungunit for another century, although some lords, yearning for the power of their fathers, attempted to rebel or seceede. With the advent of gunpowder, which was kept strictly under Parliamentary control, such rebellions were put down swiftly and bloodily. However, in 1711, King Frederick I gathered an army of discontented soldiers and bribed the colonel in charge of a Parliamentary Armoury. Distributing the captured muskets among his forces, Lord Maywether, one of Frederick's chief conspiritors, marched on the House of Parliament, killing several delegates and garrisoning the House of Parliament. A regiment of Grenadiers loyal to the Parliament laid seige to the converted fortress, eventually forcing the Royalists to surrendur. However, King Frederick's army was still at large, and now well armed. The arms factory in Whitting had been captured, and was now producing weapons at a furious pace to fill the shortfall. (TBC)
