Cynapsia
22-08-2007, 17:49
A Brief History of Cynapsia
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The story of the Cynapsian nation begins in 1750, when a large island in the Central Atlantic was discovered by an English expedition team seeking new areas of the world for mining activites. Upon landing, the team discovered a native population of Iberian descent previously undiscovered, an ecosystem lush with forest on the equatorial line, and large amounts of gold, zinc and copper under the surface. The natives, somewhat unwelcoming of the intrusion into their home, quickly became hostile to the Englishmen and forced them to retreat. Not to be outdone in the discovery of this valuable peice of territory, the English returned with a small Army and conquered the native population. The country was later renamed from the native word Modashu (meaning 'Island Land') to Cynapsia, after the head of the expedition, Lord James Cynapsi.
The country spent the next 169 years as a British Colony, with two minor native uprisings spoiling an otherwise uneventful history. In 1919, as a reward for Cynapsian native troops fighting on behalf of the Empire in Europe during the Great War and due to the financial crisis facing British, Cynapsia was officially given independence. A Republican system of government was set up, electing Jack Donaldson was the first democratically elected President of the Cynapsian Republic.
Democracy was not to last, and five years later a Coup by military and industrial leaders brought about the rule of President-General Daniel Honso, a part-native soldier with a hatred for the English-descendent dominated government. Honso, backed by a group of industrialists, imposed a corporate police state and utilised force to reduce the population to little more than a slave group.
Honso ruled the island by force from 1924 to 1937, when a little-known peice of Second World War history occured. The Nazis, now in power in Germany and looking to expand, negotiated a settlement with the President-General and officially annexed Cynapsia into the Third Reich. The deal was simple - Honso was allowed to maintain control of the country, and the Third Reich gained a staging point in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean to conduct future attacks against the United States. Quick to utilise Nazi policies, the new administration began to systematically wipe out the now-small native population of Cynapsia, believing them to be inferior to the white-dominated society.
These horrific acts continued until 1944, when German forces were forced to pull out of Cynapsia to defend the homeland ahead of the Allied push through Western Europe. The National Democratic Front (NDF), a group that had been a bane of the Nazi occupation and the Cynapsian equivalent of the French Marquis, quickly seized power from the ageing President-General Honso, and established the Second Republic under President Gregory Taylor. The Second Republic led a shaky, violent existence as the NDF splintered into the differing ideologies once held together by the common Nazi foe. The boiling came to a point in 1952, when socialist guerillas and sympathisers within the military staged a coup and deposed President Taylor. The United Socialist States of Cynapsia was born, under President-Kommissariat Ivan Peterson. Quick to establish allies, the USSC aligned itself with the Soviet Union, and entered a period of diplomatic isolation with everyone bar the USSR and the Warsaw Pact nations.
Following the fall of the USSR, there was a crisis in the leadership that led to the downfall of President-Kommissariat Peterson in 2007. He was replaced in a General Election with Maxmillian Coltrane, who reopened diplomatic relations with the world in order to build new Socialist allies, and develop Cynapsia into a world power in the brotherhood of left-wing nations.
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The story of the Cynapsian nation begins in 1750, when a large island in the Central Atlantic was discovered by an English expedition team seeking new areas of the world for mining activites. Upon landing, the team discovered a native population of Iberian descent previously undiscovered, an ecosystem lush with forest on the equatorial line, and large amounts of gold, zinc and copper under the surface. The natives, somewhat unwelcoming of the intrusion into their home, quickly became hostile to the Englishmen and forced them to retreat. Not to be outdone in the discovery of this valuable peice of territory, the English returned with a small Army and conquered the native population. The country was later renamed from the native word Modashu (meaning 'Island Land') to Cynapsia, after the head of the expedition, Lord James Cynapsi.
The country spent the next 169 years as a British Colony, with two minor native uprisings spoiling an otherwise uneventful history. In 1919, as a reward for Cynapsian native troops fighting on behalf of the Empire in Europe during the Great War and due to the financial crisis facing British, Cynapsia was officially given independence. A Republican system of government was set up, electing Jack Donaldson was the first democratically elected President of the Cynapsian Republic.
Democracy was not to last, and five years later a Coup by military and industrial leaders brought about the rule of President-General Daniel Honso, a part-native soldier with a hatred for the English-descendent dominated government. Honso, backed by a group of industrialists, imposed a corporate police state and utilised force to reduce the population to little more than a slave group.
Honso ruled the island by force from 1924 to 1937, when a little-known peice of Second World War history occured. The Nazis, now in power in Germany and looking to expand, negotiated a settlement with the President-General and officially annexed Cynapsia into the Third Reich. The deal was simple - Honso was allowed to maintain control of the country, and the Third Reich gained a staging point in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean to conduct future attacks against the United States. Quick to utilise Nazi policies, the new administration began to systematically wipe out the now-small native population of Cynapsia, believing them to be inferior to the white-dominated society.
These horrific acts continued until 1944, when German forces were forced to pull out of Cynapsia to defend the homeland ahead of the Allied push through Western Europe. The National Democratic Front (NDF), a group that had been a bane of the Nazi occupation and the Cynapsian equivalent of the French Marquis, quickly seized power from the ageing President-General Honso, and established the Second Republic under President Gregory Taylor. The Second Republic led a shaky, violent existence as the NDF splintered into the differing ideologies once held together by the common Nazi foe. The boiling came to a point in 1952, when socialist guerillas and sympathisers within the military staged a coup and deposed President Taylor. The United Socialist States of Cynapsia was born, under President-Kommissariat Ivan Peterson. Quick to establish allies, the USSC aligned itself with the Soviet Union, and entered a period of diplomatic isolation with everyone bar the USSR and the Warsaw Pact nations.
Following the fall of the USSR, there was a crisis in the leadership that led to the downfall of President-Kommissariat Peterson in 2007. He was replaced in a General Election with Maxmillian Coltrane, who reopened diplomatic relations with the world in order to build new Socialist allies, and develop Cynapsia into a world power in the brotherhood of left-wing nations.