Katkiller 5
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| Motto: I am the one who hunts the night. | |
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| Region | The Democratic Union |
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| Capital | Zultic |
| Official Language(s) | Russian Primarily, English, German, Finnish |
| Leader | High Chancellor Mirana |
| Population | 2,172,000,000 |
| Currency | Confederate Dollar |
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The Confederate Empire is a large, fiercely militaristic nation spanning across the Gathan peninsula down the coast to the Icarian jungle. The Confederate Government is a two-branch system dividing power between a Chancellory and a Senatorial branch. The military is very large, consisting of five million front line troops and a massive navy, and the nations economy revolves around the arms manufacturing plants and technological factories. Zultic, the national capital, is a beacon of technological might, with the primary labor operations being done by machines and robots, even the lower class lives very well compared to similarly sized nations. The Confederacy has a rising economy, and is currently de-facto allied with Ileou, Corzia, and the Seyechelles Islands. The current High Chancellor is Kilrain Mirana, a member of the Progressive Party.
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Government of the Confederacy
The Confederate Alliance is based on a two-branch system; Senatorial Branch and the Chancellery Branch.
The Senatorial Branch has several layers, starting with the National Senate, followed by the five regional senates: Zultic, Icar, Bandow, Abantia, and Atlaria. The National Senate possesses twenty members, four from each region, and they make domestic policy and laws. The Regional Senates make laws within their own province, though their laws may be declared null and void by a majority vote of the National Senate. The Senatorial branch is also in charge of the courts, with the National Senate being the highest Court in the nation.
The Chancellery Branch is headed by the High Chancellor, who is the leader of the Confederacy. The Chancellery is in charge of military and judicial control. The High Chancellor is the leader of the military, and the chief of the executive branch. Supporting him is a cabinet of officials who are appointed by him. He is elected every six years for a single term.
History
Markatsk and Sevanski, the Begginings
If any one location caused the creation of the Confederate Empire, it is the city of Zultic. It was first founded by sea raiders, in the early eleventh century. They had been traveling slowly north, raiding small coastal villages and attacking lone ships as they migrated north, looking for a location from where they could stash their treasures. They eventually left the continental coast and came upon the Gathan peninsula. After exploring the near side, they discovered a small peninsula that created an incredible harbor, and they decided to settle there. They named their new home Markatsk, "Sea-Village". The near perfect harbor allowed them to base dozens of raiding ships, and from which they attacked and raided islands near and far, venturing as far north as the current BA islands, and as far west and south as Western Corzia. However, as it is with raiding peoples, they at one point sailed north and attacked and razed a small Gathanian village, and, approximately in the year 1503, a Gathanian warlord named Ivan Sevanski marched south from his people's home in the Gathan Mountains with a massive army, determined to put a stop to the raiders who had attacked his people. He engaged the raiders just north of the city and decimated them in a pitched three day battle. The depleted city fell quickly, but the chivalric Gathanians did not raze it nor did they pillage it. Instead, Sevanski united his people with the surviving raiders, and he renamed the city Zultic, "Warrior Home". From there, the now united Gathanians explored and settled, encountering the natives of the Bandowian isles, the Altarian desert, and the traders in Icar. They created a two branch government to rule over their peninsula, with an Amporer holding military and executive powers, with an Elected Senate holding legislation and judicial powers, and they created the Gathan Democratic Empire.
The Gathan Democratic Empire
In the early 1700s, the Empire began to undergo reforms under the progressive leaderships of Amporers Jonathan and Milan the II. It was during this time that the Confederacy became an agnostic nation, with Jonathan being the last Christian Amporer. In schools, the teachings that while science and religion both made excellent points, it was best to take a middle course, accepting that both had facts right, and both had facts wrong began. Under Milan the II, the Gathanians began construction of a merchant fleet, seeking to create a trade empire. They rapidly began to succeed, gaining market dominance over Altaria, Abantia, and Bandow. Only in Icar, a trade city itself, did they meet competition, but the two cities quickly became friends when the Amporer’s son fell in love with an Icarian princess. As the 1800s drew nearer, the rising of more powerful and larger nations around what is today the Confederacy began to alarm not only Milan but the leaders of the other small nations around them. In 1802, Milan asked that a conference be held in the small city of Atlaria concerning mutual defense. After six months of arguing, debating, and compromising, it was decided that a merger and union into a single massive nation would be required. That year, the Confederate Charter was signed, and the Confederate Empire was created. It was decided that the Gathanian Amporer would gain the highest throne, with a constitution similar to the Gathanian one enacted. However, in 1804 as the final decisions were being made in preparation for the merger, Milan’s son, Michael the III and his fiancée were killed during a hurricane in southern Icar, on vacation before their wedding. Milan, broken hearted at having lost his heir and his deeply loved daughter in law, died a few months later, the last of the Gathanian Amporers.
The Confederate Empire and the War of the Interior
With the death of Milan, the Confederacy almost fell apart, for upon him the leadership had been rested, and he had left no heir, for he had been an only child and had not trusted his farther and older relatives. After nearly a year of arguing and furious debate, it was decided that the monarchy was to be thrown away and the Imperial Branch be changed to the Chancellery branch, with its leader elected by the people in a direct fashion. The first Chancellor was Gathanian Richard Morvian, and he was avid about the finalization of the charter. It was his skillful political maneuverings that caused Zultic to become the national capital. Incredible growth in technology carried the nation through the 1800s, with the nation remaining both civilly progressive and highly militaristic. However, as the early 1900s began, problems developed. Abantia and Bandow, the once proud island nations, had never been happy with the Confederate charter, and they wished for their monarchies to have power once again, they had no wish to be ruled by “Gathanian Fools”. The Confederate government was not prepared to tolerate such views of monarchy, and the two sides quickly came to blows in 1931. The Confederate states of Gathan, Icar, and Altar fought against the Monarchist states of Bandow and Abantia for a brutal three year war. It was a fast paced war, with the Monarchists launching an attack upon the Gathan peninsula within the first few months of the war, and Altair and Icar launching an attack upon the Bandow Island, creating the two main theaters. The Gathanian army was slowly pushed back, for most of it had not yet arrived from the mountainous north where it had been training. For the first year, the Monarchists conducted a blitzkrieg, driving to Mount Milan, from where they could see the glow of Zultic upon its other side. However, High General Selaven and his four waves awaited them upon its slopes, and in a month long hand to hand fight amongst the boulders and slopes of the highest Mountain in the Confederacy, the Monarchists were driven back. Three months later, Bandow and Pandow both fell to the Confederate powers and a ruthless total war began. The Gathanian drove steadily forwards, eventually cutting off and destroying the Monarchist army before it could flee to the sea. Under Selaven, a combined Confederate force launched a massive invasion of the dozens of islands under the Monarchists control. Showing no quarter, they wore down and destroyed the enemies will to fight, culminating in the Monarchist surrender on December 11, 1934.
The Confederate Empire and the Future
The Monarchist states were shown a soft hand when the war ended, their leaders and the monarchial families were exiled, but they were not kicked when they were down, instead they were allowed to go about their business as usual almost immediately after the war. The war had an unexpected side effect however, for it created a huge technological boom that continued into the late 1960s. In 1944, the Confederacy detonated its first atomic bomb, and nuclear power became the national standard as the technology was refined. In 1955, High Chancellor Verkana created the Cosmodrome of Aklaria, from where the Confederate Space Agency was based. In 1958, the first Confederate man was sent into space and returned safely. The nation became enamored with space, a fad that never really went out of style, as the Confederacy built space stations, satellites, and experimented with new technologies, never truly losing the public support. As the years passed, the nation became increasingly Socialist-Capitalist. Workers rights were respected, civil liberties were granted. During the 80s, the Confederacy began negotiations with the Allied States of Corzia, located just across the Grey Sea, and two became de facto allies, conducting exercises and war games in coordination with each other. In the 1990s, the nation became more and more wrapped up in regional politics, and a massive revamping of the military began. More recently, another such revamping has begun under High Chancellor Mirana in the aftermath of the Union War with Ileou.
Culture
The Confederacy is a unique nation, its people on the average living in luxury. The abundance of technology combined with the high quality itself allows the lower class to live comfortably and reasonably well compare to most other nations. They are extremely against racists and sexists, and they do not tolerate those views even from visiting foreigners. Justice in the Confederacy is highly military, with rapists and murders barely even receiving perfunctory trials before they are shot by firing squad. Foreigners are given total military trials, and in especially severe crimes, again i.e. rape and murder, they are shot first and questions are asked later. Corruption in business and the government is winked upon, but never allowed to grow too large, for fear of full criminal operations.
The people of the Confederacy are not terribly trusting of foreigners, although they do hold a soft spot for refugees and poor immigrants. Traditionally highly supportive of the military, pacifists are not at home amongst Confederates. Holding a relaxed attitude towards life, robotic labor is used for construction, farming, and the other traditional manual labors, enabling the people to live a loose and wild lifestyle.
Climate
The climate of the Confederate Empire is extremely varied, depending upon which region you examine. The Gathan peninsula is highly mountainous, with Mount Milan being the highest point in the nation. The western half of Gathan is covered almost entirely by mountains, with several rich valleys in the southern portion. To the southeast lies the Waechter Mountain range. Two large rivers, the Avornia in the North and the Kreanz to the South create lush farmlands and split the peninsula into its sections. The Abantian islands are a diverse lot, primarily they are just as temperate as Gathan, but they are all still mildly Volcanic and so have small ash lands. The Bandowan isles are more mountainous, and Pandow is almost entirely swamp, with few major cities. The region of Icar in the Deep South is lush with trees, with great pine forests to the north giving way to deep jungle in the south. It’s location around the warm bay of Icar, however, proves fertile ground for hurricanes, and south Icar is regularly struck by them. Atlaria is compromised mostly of desert, with high hills and small mountains dominating the coast line. Only in the interior, where the north most section of the Icarian Taiga encounters the Aklaris mountains is it good land. There, high in the mountains is the 3rd largest city in the nation, Aklaria. The city itself is remarkable, surviving the cold by burrowing into the plateaus and mountains, with half its people living in underground homes, and the rest living on half a dozen plateaus of different altitudes, the city is extraordinary. The average temperature of the Confederacy is 49° Fahrenheit.
