NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC: First things first. Before we get any more politically involved than we've already been, Ezafarul and Patreille need their geographies and basic histories worked out; and that which has already been worked out, needs to be re-stated. So. Considering we've got six small nations, but they will (hopefully) become large nations, just how large does Ezafarul need to be? I'm thinking Australia-sized, large enough for our lebensraum for the time being but small enough for a very interconnected native culture. Jorj, whadaya think?

Australia-sized sounds about right. I figure, we nations are all hugging the coast, and there's plenty of room for us to expand inward.

So, we need some history. Here's how it seems to have gone down, from our earlier discussions . . .

First - Ezafarul. Ezafarul is home to multiple native semi-tribal cultures. Some of those cultures is the Jibleans, the Batorya, and the Racatli. The people of this area practice a faith known to outsiders as Pilalamism, or Pilalam. A handful of deities, extreme devotion, warrior faith, and so on. But, from the Ishmael point of view, they aren't Leavers, they aren't hunter-gatherers. They simply weren't as advanced as their counterparts.

Second - The Patreille "quasi-Europeans" come in. The tribes that live on the lush and useful coast, such as the Batorya, are subdued and made subjects of the Patreille nations. Because Jibleans live in a barren and worthless place (think Kansas), the Patreillans leave them alone. This happens kway long ago (400 years?)

Third - Jiblea, a nation being culturally invaded by foreigners, undergoes a spiritual revolution. After allegedly being contacted by a religious prophet, Stratei hond'asfex Cardaryas takes his army back to the Jiblean capital of Grasceras and declares himself military and religious dictator. All foreign influences are expunged. This was a century and four emperors ago.

Fourth - The originally authoritarian monarchies of Patreille go democratic. The colonies, seeing an opportunity to rebel, take it. They succeed (how easy success?). Patreille decides to take Jiblea, a psychotic Empire with no friends, as a beach head. After wading knee-deep in the blood of Jibleans, they succeed. In order to roust out Patreille for good, the 4 ex-colonies, now backed by their tribal population, go to war. Patreille loses, and nobody returns to Patreille to give a report on the grisly fate of their forces, as well as how their entire fleet was captured and converted thanks to a misplaced sea mine. This was last year.

Fifth - Zanaclar, the missing link in all this, was the last colony to be liberated. Zanaclar was a slave nation - tons of industry. The Zanaclari organized themselves into militia using the guns they made themselves and fought off the Patreille occupiers. The sheer savagery of their attack made Patreille keep away from them forever. After the night fires finish burning, the Zanaclari decide to build a new state based on mixing the old knowledge with the new. This was at the last moment of the above-mentioned war.

Sixth - The Mondiale, a local alliance, forms. May it last forever. This was immediately after the war finished.

And, of course, why the colonies of Ezafarul revolted because of democracy to begin with. The aristocracy in Patreille settled into Ezafarul for some get-rich-quick mercantilism, found they liked it, decided to stay. Think Latin America. As the ruling aristocracy gains more independence as a result of being ignored by Patreille beginning in the late 18th century, they actually do better with it and the populace assimilates, natives with colonials. After the now-assimilated aristocracy gets comfy, Patreille decides on democracy after a big war in the 1940's. In 1950, the first revolution happened in Montesille, quite literally overnight. Led by Salvator Caruzzo, a simple carpenter and the son of a failed merchant, his disgust for rule by "the whim of an overseas majority" whipped his co-workers into an uproar, then a city block, then the entire capital city of Leoni (all thanks to a lack of military and damn near lack of police; as I said before, Patreille has been ignoring these people). At 4:30 a.m. on December 5th, 1950, less than twenty-four hours since the beginning of the revolution, the colonial governor surrendered, and Caruzzo found himself a part of a new ruling council (which he ruthlessly killed off over the next several months).

And so we have the beginning of the revolution. Why, though? Why was it so supported? The common people didn't want an overseas majority ruling them; and the aristocrats didn't want to lose their corrupt businesses to all this new idealism.

Malacor is a coastal nation which has been vacillating between dictatorships and democracy. Settled by a Dutch-style republic, it gained independence in them late 1800's through a "British North America Act."

How long ago did Malacor gain its independence, and did they take part in the war against the democracies?

I assume the Mondiale went to war with the democracies sometime around 1960...

Malacor is pretty neutral. They joined the Mondiale because of intense regional pressure after it's formation. Probably thought of as weak, but has a powerhouse economy.