BLARGistania
07-12-2005, 03:56
In the times before dates were officially set down, a migrant people walked across the land, seeking a fertile plane to settle upon. The people were tribal in nature, hunting their way across the plains, following the herds of wilderbeasts and great mammals that roamed during the early days of the world. There was one such day though, when the people grew tired of wandering the world. They sought out a land to call their own. And in this way, the land that would eventually become Blargistania was settled. Nestled upon a rise overlooking the ocean, the people settled into villages. The nearby mountains provided a source of metals and minerals, steel was forged, and precious stones, as well as silver and gold were mined into coins, used as noted of spending and wealth. The people had no official government, instead, a council of village elders watched over the vitality of individual villages, with contact between the councils for news of the outside world.
The people continued in this way for some time, until a time when steel was in high production and wealth flowed between merchants as water. A villager from the outskirts of a town named Red Dawn, a man named Rurick, held dreams of greatness. Upon the day that Rurick came of the age to be considered an adult he claimed a seat of the council of elders, the youngest person to ever serve on the council. As time passed, Rurick used his position to gain power. He went out to the people and spoke of the values of central rule, of the prosperity that could come from a singularly driven people, and of the ideals of a common cause. Once he felt he had the support of the people, Rurick asked for their permission to head the council of elders, the single leader for the people of the village. The council of elders attempted to stop this move, trying to limit the power of Rurick in the council and moving him off to side projects of no matter. The council however, could not stop the will of the village people and Rurick was made leader of the village, the first King in the age of imperialism. Once he was firmly ensconced in his position of power, Rurick went to work expanding his influence in other villages. He went on tours of the land, befriending the people and laying down his base of support. Using his powers of rhetoric, Rurick was able to convince the people of his importance and of the power and clout of the village of Red Dawn. The people bought the tales and began to gravitate towards Red Dawn. Merchants made more frequent stops, they began to set up their houses and warehouses within Red Dawn, making the city as important as Rurick had led them to believe. As the power of Red Dawn grew, Rurick began to seek the loyalty of other towns, forging the beginnings of an empire. It was at this time that the first war would begin in plane that had held the people in its bosom for so long.
Another village, in another region, a village named Twin Rivers, challenged the authority of Rurick and his right to rule over the villages. Rurick responded with force. The first series of militias and even early Calvary rode out to raise the city and eliminate the challenge to Rurick. Upon the field of grain the two armies met. The conflict was small in terms of modern scale, a mere few hundred men with primitive weapons, meeting to do war. It was on this field that the opposition to Rurick was crushed, but Rurick himself fell upon the field, pierced by the foul spears of a Twin Rivers pikeman. Rurick did not live to see his empire, but he delivered a unified state to his son and successor, Remus.
Remus took the gift his father had given, ruling for near two decades. His first move as king was to set an official calendar, dating the date the Rurick died as day one in the first year. Decades passed without significant event. The empire grew in land and power, Remus passed the reigns onto his son and his son after that and so one down the line of the royal family. The peace shattered the day that the peoples of the Empire, christened by Emperor Hulel (r. 23-37), Blargis, encountered a new indigenous people to the east.
Armies rode out into combat, much expanded into the thousands of men. Upon field they met and upon fields, blood was spilled. The wars of men lasted nigh onto a decade before the indigenous peoples were crushed, and by treaty with their Khan, assimilated into the Empire. Several years of unrest followed the treaty with minor skirmishes along the frontier regions of Blargis.
The unrest came to a head on a cold day in December, the year 234. The current Emperor, crowned Thiselis II, was assassinated by rebels from the frontier. The response was immediate and devastating. Thiselis II’s son, named Felix immediately took power and decreed that any border town not swearing total fealty to the crown was to be crushed. It is unsaid how many thousands died, but surviving accounts claim that the fields were littered with the corpses of those who did not comply. Felix would go down into the history books as one of the bloodiest rulers of the empire.
Felix eventually died in the year 257. His successor was his cousin, Sergonyev. After facing two decades of bloodshed and death, the people hoped for a different type of ruler. Sergonyev gave the people their wish, setting up the first constitution in the year 260, granting basic rights of speech and movement to the people. At the advice of his council, Sergonyev also set up a congress of sorts, meant to provide him with advice on the will of the people through their voted actions. Thus the idea of democracy was born in the Empire of Blargis. Sergonyev died in the year 274, leaving his son as successor, Alexai I.
For the next 800 years, the Empire continued, unabated expect for minor skirmishes with new peoples encountered upon the ever expanding eastward frontier. In the year 1074, the changes made by Sergonyev were rolled back by a new emperor, Nickoli III. Raised as a conservative mind with a strong desire for domination, Nickoli took his place in the history books be beginning a new era of violence. The poor serfs, who had long held their basic freedoms, were forced into slavery by the BSP, a newly created secret police system. Anyone who resisted was killed. Texts from survivors indicate over five million men women and children disappeared, with accounts of entire villages appearing to have been abandoned, some houses even having food left of the table, ready to be eaten. No number is certain for Nickoli had all record of his atrocities erased as fully as possible, with only a certain few texts surviving the purge.
Nickoli was assassinated by an advisor in the year 1094, at the age of 62. History cites the advisor as having family ties to an important intellectual who had criticized the government and had disappeared.
The next two emperors, Nickoli IV and Ivan II did nothing to change the system that Nickoli III had set up. Their advisors had seen to it that both men were weak-willed and easily controlled by the BSP. It was not until Sergonyev III, nearly a hundred years later in 1199, that changes were finally made. The people’s council was reinstated and a permanent ban on slavery was enacted within a new constitution. Sergonyev placed himself as chief executive of what he called the second republic.
The republic thrived until the year 1432, when contact with outside nations began and relations had been normalized with the neighboring states. The idea of a king had since been forgotten with the idea of Chief Executive long since imprinted on the nation identity of the people. It was in 1432, under the leadership of Fyolder that a new conflict began. This conflict would be with neighboring Pathological Exiles, and it would prove to be a regional war. Blargis had been on normalized trade and diplomatic relations with the neighboring republic Mentholyptus, and asked for their alliance in the war. Mentholyptus responded with an alliance, only to find the nation of the Troutists attacking their flank. For three years the war raged across the plains, gunpowder added a deadly mix to the conflict. The war ended with a treaty of truce, known as the Yalta/Seres Pact. Uneasy peace was maintained along the borders.
Industrialization of Blargis began in the year 1708, after nearly 300 years of an uneasy truce with Pathological Exiles. Industry began to spring up around the nation, factories and supply trains were built in the cities, expanding the economic power of Blargis. Blargis industrialized quickly, with massive government subsidies going into huge new industries. Textiles, wool, and military arms began to be exported in large quantities from Blargis, creating economic demand across the world. It was at this time that Blargis began to engage itself in international political affairs, creating alliances and involving itself in wars. The first conflicts bloodied the armies of Blargis, but it proved to be a time of great learning. Veterans of the wars trained new recruits in the ways of international combat, setting the stage for a new military power to emerge. Corporations expanded their resources and supply chains, becoming political powers in and of themselves. It was the age of capitalism within Blargis. In the year 1837, another regional civil war broke out. Pathological Exiles and the Troutists pushed to expanded again, once more threatening Mentholyptus and Blargis. The two powers combined and were able to push out the invading forces, but at a high cost. The militaries were decimated and the industries were in shambles. However, the threats of the Troutists and Pathological Exiles were eliminated forever, giving Blargis and Mentholyptus new room to expand into. It was at this time that one of the major defense corporations, Initech, made its political push. Using the war as cover, Initech began running its own politicians, claiming that the elcted government had been unable to protect the people from casualties and the reality of war. Initech pushed for corporate governorship, claiming it to be far more effective than any new form of government could manage. The ploy worked. Through mass marketing as well as economic blackmail, Initech was able to get its own elected politicians into office. These officials immediately removed governmental controls of industry and allowed corporations to have free run in the country.
Shortly after the removal of regulations, corporations began to expand at a voracious rate. Production and consumerism became the only things that mattered within Blargis. Mass crowds swamped the shops every holiday season, inciting riots when the latest products ran out of stock. It was the time of private ownership of anything and everything. Nothing was unsellable, for a price. Human trafficking became a major industry, with Initech being the largest importer of human labor. As every industry became privatized, corporate dishonesty and corruption skyrocketed. Crime rates rose as acts, once unspeakable, became commonplace, seen as a business venture by the ruling corporations. The degredation of society sparked a movement, it became known as the Revolutionary Socialist Army, the RSA. The RSA began, in 1923 as a small group of people dedicated to bringing about change in Blargis through revolutionary means. Using gorilla tactics and underground urban warfare, the RSA achieved several of their important goals in bringing about a revolution. The first was the destruction of the largest arms manufacturing plant in Blargis, the rebels also managed to destroy the data storage facility for the largest creditor in the region. Finally, the rebels managed to sabotage a nuclear reactor, forcing an evacuation of the city of New Tierelis, and creating an inquiry into the corporate practices of the nuclear industry. As the questioning of the corporate government began to grow, the rebels grew more bold, attacking corporate art, power stations, banks, and grocery stores. The corporate giants that controlled the enforcement agencies responded with harsh measures. They enforced curfews through closing out every subsidy the parent corporation owned, making people stay inside because there was nothing outside. Strict security protocols were established, hassling people in and out of stores, making them feel always watched over by big brother at Rebok co.
As measures grew more and more desperate to stop the attacks, popular support grew for the RSA. Soon, the leadership within the RSA found itself with an army of popular support at their backs. In November of 1930, they made their move. Coming out into the open, the entire RSA movement joined ranks and arms in the capitol, Red Dawn. Non-existent gun laws had given the populace the means to own heavy arms capable of posing a serious threat to their targets. Initech, now the largest corporation in the region, responded to the threat with force. The private security firms under Initech, along with Initech’s economic allies attempted to halt the RSA once and for all. No one is sure who fired the first shot, but the showdown turned into a bloodbath. Though the Initech forces had superior weaponry, the massed numbers of the RSA proved to be the deciding factor. As the day ended, it was estimated that nearly 700,000 people had died in the fire fight. Red Dawn was in ruins, the 1,500 year old city laid to smoking skyscrapers and collapsed offices. The RSA had carried out their prime directive, they had decapitated the board of Initech, the de-facto leader of the corporate government. The leadership council of the RSA immediately took over, acting as a privy council. The remaining RSA forces and new recruits formed the backbone of the new enforcement department, state run, rather than corporately owned. Using the RSA forces to subdue any further corporate resistance, the Pricy council was able to reestablish order. As more and more directives began to issue from the Pricy Council, a picture of what the nation would turn into began to paint itself. While leaving a healthy private sector, welfare, charity, social security, healthcare, education, and security were taken over as government industries, with options to give work contracts to defense industries. Corporations had no place to run, and were forced to give into the new regulations passed upon them by the new government. After three years, in 1933, when order had finally been fully reestablished under the Privy Council, the Council dissolved itself and called for new elections to write a constitution. A new legislature was elected, consisting of two houses, one where each province had four votes, and another based upon the population of each province. The legislature crowned itself the beginning of the Third Republic and christened the nation under a new name, Blargistania.
Thus came about the founding of the modern nation of Blargistania. After 72 years and eleven leadership changes, Blargistania resides where it stand today. A nation of nearly 4.5 billion as of December 2005, Blargistania now represents a world super-power. Economically, a giant, due to the delicate balance between the public and private sectors. Socially, one of the most diverse states in the region of Fististan (christened after the 1933 revolution). Politically, Blargistania is an advanced nation a Democratic Socialist government with a parliamentary foundation. Historically, Blargistania is rich with times of peace and war. Since the takeover of the Socialist governments, Blargistania has not been involved in any major conflicts. And so, through the ages, Blargistania has flourished.
The people continued in this way for some time, until a time when steel was in high production and wealth flowed between merchants as water. A villager from the outskirts of a town named Red Dawn, a man named Rurick, held dreams of greatness. Upon the day that Rurick came of the age to be considered an adult he claimed a seat of the council of elders, the youngest person to ever serve on the council. As time passed, Rurick used his position to gain power. He went out to the people and spoke of the values of central rule, of the prosperity that could come from a singularly driven people, and of the ideals of a common cause. Once he felt he had the support of the people, Rurick asked for their permission to head the council of elders, the single leader for the people of the village. The council of elders attempted to stop this move, trying to limit the power of Rurick in the council and moving him off to side projects of no matter. The council however, could not stop the will of the village people and Rurick was made leader of the village, the first King in the age of imperialism. Once he was firmly ensconced in his position of power, Rurick went to work expanding his influence in other villages. He went on tours of the land, befriending the people and laying down his base of support. Using his powers of rhetoric, Rurick was able to convince the people of his importance and of the power and clout of the village of Red Dawn. The people bought the tales and began to gravitate towards Red Dawn. Merchants made more frequent stops, they began to set up their houses and warehouses within Red Dawn, making the city as important as Rurick had led them to believe. As the power of Red Dawn grew, Rurick began to seek the loyalty of other towns, forging the beginnings of an empire. It was at this time that the first war would begin in plane that had held the people in its bosom for so long.
Another village, in another region, a village named Twin Rivers, challenged the authority of Rurick and his right to rule over the villages. Rurick responded with force. The first series of militias and even early Calvary rode out to raise the city and eliminate the challenge to Rurick. Upon the field of grain the two armies met. The conflict was small in terms of modern scale, a mere few hundred men with primitive weapons, meeting to do war. It was on this field that the opposition to Rurick was crushed, but Rurick himself fell upon the field, pierced by the foul spears of a Twin Rivers pikeman. Rurick did not live to see his empire, but he delivered a unified state to his son and successor, Remus.
Remus took the gift his father had given, ruling for near two decades. His first move as king was to set an official calendar, dating the date the Rurick died as day one in the first year. Decades passed without significant event. The empire grew in land and power, Remus passed the reigns onto his son and his son after that and so one down the line of the royal family. The peace shattered the day that the peoples of the Empire, christened by Emperor Hulel (r. 23-37), Blargis, encountered a new indigenous people to the east.
Armies rode out into combat, much expanded into the thousands of men. Upon field they met and upon fields, blood was spilled. The wars of men lasted nigh onto a decade before the indigenous peoples were crushed, and by treaty with their Khan, assimilated into the Empire. Several years of unrest followed the treaty with minor skirmishes along the frontier regions of Blargis.
The unrest came to a head on a cold day in December, the year 234. The current Emperor, crowned Thiselis II, was assassinated by rebels from the frontier. The response was immediate and devastating. Thiselis II’s son, named Felix immediately took power and decreed that any border town not swearing total fealty to the crown was to be crushed. It is unsaid how many thousands died, but surviving accounts claim that the fields were littered with the corpses of those who did not comply. Felix would go down into the history books as one of the bloodiest rulers of the empire.
Felix eventually died in the year 257. His successor was his cousin, Sergonyev. After facing two decades of bloodshed and death, the people hoped for a different type of ruler. Sergonyev gave the people their wish, setting up the first constitution in the year 260, granting basic rights of speech and movement to the people. At the advice of his council, Sergonyev also set up a congress of sorts, meant to provide him with advice on the will of the people through their voted actions. Thus the idea of democracy was born in the Empire of Blargis. Sergonyev died in the year 274, leaving his son as successor, Alexai I.
For the next 800 years, the Empire continued, unabated expect for minor skirmishes with new peoples encountered upon the ever expanding eastward frontier. In the year 1074, the changes made by Sergonyev were rolled back by a new emperor, Nickoli III. Raised as a conservative mind with a strong desire for domination, Nickoli took his place in the history books be beginning a new era of violence. The poor serfs, who had long held their basic freedoms, were forced into slavery by the BSP, a newly created secret police system. Anyone who resisted was killed. Texts from survivors indicate over five million men women and children disappeared, with accounts of entire villages appearing to have been abandoned, some houses even having food left of the table, ready to be eaten. No number is certain for Nickoli had all record of his atrocities erased as fully as possible, with only a certain few texts surviving the purge.
Nickoli was assassinated by an advisor in the year 1094, at the age of 62. History cites the advisor as having family ties to an important intellectual who had criticized the government and had disappeared.
The next two emperors, Nickoli IV and Ivan II did nothing to change the system that Nickoli III had set up. Their advisors had seen to it that both men were weak-willed and easily controlled by the BSP. It was not until Sergonyev III, nearly a hundred years later in 1199, that changes were finally made. The people’s council was reinstated and a permanent ban on slavery was enacted within a new constitution. Sergonyev placed himself as chief executive of what he called the second republic.
The republic thrived until the year 1432, when contact with outside nations began and relations had been normalized with the neighboring states. The idea of a king had since been forgotten with the idea of Chief Executive long since imprinted on the nation identity of the people. It was in 1432, under the leadership of Fyolder that a new conflict began. This conflict would be with neighboring Pathological Exiles, and it would prove to be a regional war. Blargis had been on normalized trade and diplomatic relations with the neighboring republic Mentholyptus, and asked for their alliance in the war. Mentholyptus responded with an alliance, only to find the nation of the Troutists attacking their flank. For three years the war raged across the plains, gunpowder added a deadly mix to the conflict. The war ended with a treaty of truce, known as the Yalta/Seres Pact. Uneasy peace was maintained along the borders.
Industrialization of Blargis began in the year 1708, after nearly 300 years of an uneasy truce with Pathological Exiles. Industry began to spring up around the nation, factories and supply trains were built in the cities, expanding the economic power of Blargis. Blargis industrialized quickly, with massive government subsidies going into huge new industries. Textiles, wool, and military arms began to be exported in large quantities from Blargis, creating economic demand across the world. It was at this time that Blargis began to engage itself in international political affairs, creating alliances and involving itself in wars. The first conflicts bloodied the armies of Blargis, but it proved to be a time of great learning. Veterans of the wars trained new recruits in the ways of international combat, setting the stage for a new military power to emerge. Corporations expanded their resources and supply chains, becoming political powers in and of themselves. It was the age of capitalism within Blargis. In the year 1837, another regional civil war broke out. Pathological Exiles and the Troutists pushed to expanded again, once more threatening Mentholyptus and Blargis. The two powers combined and were able to push out the invading forces, but at a high cost. The militaries were decimated and the industries were in shambles. However, the threats of the Troutists and Pathological Exiles were eliminated forever, giving Blargis and Mentholyptus new room to expand into. It was at this time that one of the major defense corporations, Initech, made its political push. Using the war as cover, Initech began running its own politicians, claiming that the elcted government had been unable to protect the people from casualties and the reality of war. Initech pushed for corporate governorship, claiming it to be far more effective than any new form of government could manage. The ploy worked. Through mass marketing as well as economic blackmail, Initech was able to get its own elected politicians into office. These officials immediately removed governmental controls of industry and allowed corporations to have free run in the country.
Shortly after the removal of regulations, corporations began to expand at a voracious rate. Production and consumerism became the only things that mattered within Blargis. Mass crowds swamped the shops every holiday season, inciting riots when the latest products ran out of stock. It was the time of private ownership of anything and everything. Nothing was unsellable, for a price. Human trafficking became a major industry, with Initech being the largest importer of human labor. As every industry became privatized, corporate dishonesty and corruption skyrocketed. Crime rates rose as acts, once unspeakable, became commonplace, seen as a business venture by the ruling corporations. The degredation of society sparked a movement, it became known as the Revolutionary Socialist Army, the RSA. The RSA began, in 1923 as a small group of people dedicated to bringing about change in Blargis through revolutionary means. Using gorilla tactics and underground urban warfare, the RSA achieved several of their important goals in bringing about a revolution. The first was the destruction of the largest arms manufacturing plant in Blargis, the rebels also managed to destroy the data storage facility for the largest creditor in the region. Finally, the rebels managed to sabotage a nuclear reactor, forcing an evacuation of the city of New Tierelis, and creating an inquiry into the corporate practices of the nuclear industry. As the questioning of the corporate government began to grow, the rebels grew more bold, attacking corporate art, power stations, banks, and grocery stores. The corporate giants that controlled the enforcement agencies responded with harsh measures. They enforced curfews through closing out every subsidy the parent corporation owned, making people stay inside because there was nothing outside. Strict security protocols were established, hassling people in and out of stores, making them feel always watched over by big brother at Rebok co.
As measures grew more and more desperate to stop the attacks, popular support grew for the RSA. Soon, the leadership within the RSA found itself with an army of popular support at their backs. In November of 1930, they made their move. Coming out into the open, the entire RSA movement joined ranks and arms in the capitol, Red Dawn. Non-existent gun laws had given the populace the means to own heavy arms capable of posing a serious threat to their targets. Initech, now the largest corporation in the region, responded to the threat with force. The private security firms under Initech, along with Initech’s economic allies attempted to halt the RSA once and for all. No one is sure who fired the first shot, but the showdown turned into a bloodbath. Though the Initech forces had superior weaponry, the massed numbers of the RSA proved to be the deciding factor. As the day ended, it was estimated that nearly 700,000 people had died in the fire fight. Red Dawn was in ruins, the 1,500 year old city laid to smoking skyscrapers and collapsed offices. The RSA had carried out their prime directive, they had decapitated the board of Initech, the de-facto leader of the corporate government. The leadership council of the RSA immediately took over, acting as a privy council. The remaining RSA forces and new recruits formed the backbone of the new enforcement department, state run, rather than corporately owned. Using the RSA forces to subdue any further corporate resistance, the Pricy council was able to reestablish order. As more and more directives began to issue from the Pricy Council, a picture of what the nation would turn into began to paint itself. While leaving a healthy private sector, welfare, charity, social security, healthcare, education, and security were taken over as government industries, with options to give work contracts to defense industries. Corporations had no place to run, and were forced to give into the new regulations passed upon them by the new government. After three years, in 1933, when order had finally been fully reestablished under the Privy Council, the Council dissolved itself and called for new elections to write a constitution. A new legislature was elected, consisting of two houses, one where each province had four votes, and another based upon the population of each province. The legislature crowned itself the beginning of the Third Republic and christened the nation under a new name, Blargistania.
Thus came about the founding of the modern nation of Blargistania. After 72 years and eleven leadership changes, Blargistania resides where it stand today. A nation of nearly 4.5 billion as of December 2005, Blargistania now represents a world super-power. Economically, a giant, due to the delicate balance between the public and private sectors. Socially, one of the most diverse states in the region of Fististan (christened after the 1933 revolution). Politically, Blargistania is an advanced nation a Democratic Socialist government with a parliamentary foundation. Historically, Blargistania is rich with times of peace and war. Since the takeover of the Socialist governments, Blargistania has not been involved in any major conflicts. And so, through the ages, Blargistania has flourished.