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Narozalic Republic Hoрoзалик Републіка Norozalik Republika ᠨᡇᠷᡇᡓᠠᠯᡇ ᡐᠠᡊᡎᡒ Hypyзaлy Tаңһч Nuruzalu Taꞑhç Noruşalık Cumhuriyet
Flag Seal
Motto: Unitum in victoria United in victory
Anthem: Hoрoд Пісня ("Song of the Narod'")
Capital and largest city	Samistopol
Official languages	Narodyn, Zalyk
Recognised regional languages	Yaratan, Kansen, Minervan, Wazovian, Temeran
Ethnic groups (2017)	Narodyns (61.3%) Zalyks (27.8%) Yaratans (6.4%) Other (4.5%)
Religion (2017)	Epismialist Christianity (89.7%) Irreligious (5.6%) Other (4.7%)
Demonym(s)	Narozalic, Narozalican
Government	Authoritarian dominant-party federal semi-presidential constitutional masterocratic revivalist republic
• President	Mergen Baynev
• Chairman of the Vojnaskul	Dimitri Dubrinsky
• Chairman of the Federal Council	Ayuga Notanev
Legislature	Federal Assembly
• Upper house	Vojnastul
• Lower house	Federal Council
Establishment
• Duchy of Narod' formed	910
• Zalyk tribes arrive	1256
• Union between Narod' and Zalykia	1317
• Grand Duchy of Narozalica proclaimed	1498
• Tsardom proclaimed	1567
• Empire proclaimed	1790
• Republic proclaimed	1861
Population
• 2017 census	88,081,653
GDP (PPP)	2017 estimate
• Total	$2.992 trillion
• Per capita	$33,971
GDP (nominal)	2017 estimate
• Total	$1.807 trillion
• Per capita	$20,514
Gini (2017)	26.3 low
HDI (2017)	0.821 very high
Currency	Narozalic Zolota (NZZ)
Date format	yyyy/mm/dd
Driving side	right
Calling code	+72
Internet TLD	.nr

Narozalica, officially the Narozalyk Republic is a sovereign state in western Euclea that borders Kansasto and Minerva to the east and Wazovia and Vedmed to the south-east.

While the ancestors of the Narodyns did roam the land beforehand, the land of what is now the Narodyn Republic within Narozalica was first consolidated and unified into one state, the Duchy of Narod', in 910 by X. The Duchy of Narod' was centred in the east around modern-day Samistopol, competing largely with the Verliquoian Empire, who still dominated eastern Euclean affairs, over the power of the continent. Zalyk tribes arrived in the area around Lake Nimgan in 1256, forming the Zalyk Khanate. The two kingdoms initially tussled over affairs in western Narozalica in the Narod-Zalyk Wars in the latter half of the 13th century, but following the Narodyn victory in the wars, the Zalyks opted to surrender and become a vassal state of the expanding Narodyn duchy. The unity between the two countries was solidified in 1317 when Duke Nikolai IV ascended to the Zalyk throne, and become the first person to be crowned as Duke of Narod' and Khan of Zalykia. Over 170 years of union led to the proclamation of the Grand Duchy of Narozalica, the first instance of a unified Narozalic state, in 1498, to compete with the growing influence of countries like Gaullica, who had been unified and power centralised in the early part of the 15th century. Further consolidation led to the Tsardom of Narozalica being proclaimed in 1567 and the colonisation of the Ledoy Islands in the north in 1570. In 1604 the tribes of Yarat in the south west were subjugated and annexed into the empire. The newfound tribal presence and cavalry-dominated combat tactics of the Zalyks and Yaratans led to military reformations and the creation of the Mornorda - entirely cavalry-based divisions, in 1630. The Zalyks' and Yaratans' prowess on horseback and the lack of anything similar to the armies prior made them extremely effective armies throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, conquering Kansasto in 1722 and Minerva in 1790 - after which the Narozalic Empire was proclaimed. The Empire would dominate Euclean affairs until the War of the Triple Alliance, where successive defeats by the Weranic-Estmerish armies caused the Zalyks and Yaratans - who felt they were ineffectively led by Narodyn generals, and the poorer Narodyn citizens - who had suffered throughout the war to revolt against the Tsar in 1857, deposing him and installing a Presidency in its place in 1861, one of the first countries to do so. Democracy quickly dwindled however as the Presidents quickly began bribing tribal leaders and authorities to continue their authoritarian reigns in the country. The flag was changed in 1880 and again in 2003 following a referendum.

In the modern-day, Narozalica is a member of the Community of Nations, the ITO and the GIFA, and still projects its influence over western Euclea. Narozalica's economy is fast-growing as it pursues industrial measures for its natural resources, which include coal, oil and gas, and in 2017, its GDP was around $2.1 trillion, making it one of the strongest in Euclea.

History

Duchy of Narodinia

Following the Zalyk migrations and settlements near Lake Nimgan, charismatic warlord and prophet Nuruk formed the united Duchy of Narodinia in 910 AD after the conquest of various Narodyn tribes who had previously only been unified in fighting against the Empire of Arciluco - and scarcely even then. The newly-formed duchy succeeded in conquering land from the dwindling and declining Solarian Empire and expanded its influence into central Euclea through various conquests led mainly by Nuruk himself. By the turn of the millennium, owing both to Nuruk's conquest and the fall of the Solarian Empire, Narodinia had become a forefront power in both western and central Euclea.

The Duchy turned west toward the Zalyk Khanates beginning in the 10th century, following numerous raids on the duchy's wealthy western cities - namely Nimganopol - and began the almost three-century-long series of Narod-Zalyk Wars, which would dominate the scene of western Euclean politics (especially in Narozalica). The Narod-Zalyk Wars would form the fabric of Narozalic military tactics up until the War of the Triple Alliance as well as the Great War. The first war began in 1013 AD with the war itself ending in a stalemate as the Narodyn armies were hesitant to advance over the flatlands near the Nimgan, a commonplace tactic that defined most of the wars. It wasn't until 1176 - the seventh such war - where the Narodyn armies successfully defeated the Zalyk hordes at the Fifth Battle of Ulan Khol, successfully occupying, and subsequently annexing, the flatlands the Narodyn had feared beforehand. Following the Seventh Narod-Zalyk War, the tides of the conflicts began to turn heavily in favour of the Duchy, with the hilly terrain of western Narozalica proving difficult for the Zalyk hordes to fight on, and so the tributes demanded by the Narodyn kept increasing until 1285 - the Eleventh Narod-Zalyk War - where Ayuga Khan successfully defeated the Narodyn armies and began laying siege to Nimganopol for the first time in a hundred years. The siege is renowned for Nikolai of Lipa's defense of the city that repelled the Khanate from the city and killed the heir to the Zalyk throne. When Ayuga Khan died in 1317, Nikolai ascended to the throne of Zalykia as Khan, officially unifying the two states and concluding the Narod-Zalyk Wars.

The two countries were ruled as two entities under the Narodyn Duke between Nikolai's unification of the countries in 1317 until the proclamation of the Grand Duchy of Narozalica in 1498. The 14th and 15th centuries were shaped largely by dormancy and economic recuperation following the expenses of three centuries of almost-constant conflict. The Duchy of Narodinia lost much of its eastern land to ethnic revolt as the centralised government in Samistopol struggled to keep a firm grip on the land, especially with independence movements flourishing during the Narod-Zalyk Wars.

Grand Duchy and Tsardom of Narozalica

The Grand Duchy of Narozalica was proclaimed by Grand Duke Ivan II on the 16th of December, 1498, and aimed to formally unite the two constituent states of Narozalica by constitution, with the document being ratified by Ivan II on the 18th, establishing the Narodyn and Zalyk as an equal people under Narozalic law, although the Narodyn people were usually favoured socially and by the higher-classes of Narozalic society. Ivan II and his successor, Ivan III, largely continued the economic reforms that has shaped the previous two centuries, with Narozalica still in some debt to various guilds across Euclea as a result of the Narod-Zalyk Wars. The Royal Narozalic Bank was established in 1516 by Ivan III in an attempt to alleviate some of the fiscal pressure the country faced.

With states in eastern Euclea quickly growing in strength relative to Narozalica (who did still dominate western Euclean affairs), the Tsardom of Narozalica was proclaimed in 1567 to solidify the country's empirical status in Euclea, with expeditions into unclaimed eastern territory - then belonging to an assortment of tribal confederacies and rump states - swiftly beginning as Narozalica conquered much of the land uncontested between 1569 and 1584. In 1570, Narozalica's first colonial expeditions began, and the Ludoy Islands colony was successfully set up, with a trading base at Ust-Tolya, still the largest city on the islands to date. While Narozalica was by no means a colonial power in the sense that the eastern Euclean powers were, Assim Asteris' discovery of the Asterias peaked the interest of many Narozalic rulers, who saw it as a prime interest of the country to establish a power base in the newly-discovered continent, both as a matter of national strengthening and the royals' egotistical personalities coming to light. Various plans to begin expeditions east of Euclea were planned, and the Narozalic Navy was built up for deep-sea and long-haul voyages to the Asterias.

Tsar Jan IV issued the New Ovdapol Charter in 1646, staking a Narozalic claim to islands now part of Cassier under the name of New Ovdapol, an expedition to formally and officially claim the islands for Narozalica set sail a year later, but a joint Estmere-Caldia naval force prevented the Narozalic ships from passing the straits that pass between Werania and Ordennya, wishing to prevent another major Euclean nation from landing on the continent and challenging Estmerish and Caldian hegemony on the continent. The military and government of Narozalica saw the blockading of the straits from Narozalic ships as a form of attack on the nation, and plans to declare war on the two nations were devised but eventually scrapped by Jan IV in 1651 who didn't wish to embroil the country in a naval conflict. When the Gilded Wars began, Narozalica loosely and indirectly alligned itself with Gaullica, seeking revenge for the events of 1647, and actively sought to sabotage Estmerish actions during the wars. It was unsuccessful and the Estmerish League became the dominant trading force in the colonial world.

The futility of eastwards exploration and colonialism for Narozalica posed a question to many Narozalic scientists, with the discovery of Kylaris' spherical shape, would it not be feasible to travel to the Asterias westwards instead of east? This was the question posed by scientist John Aanholt, a Hennish scientist working in the employ of the Narozalic royal courts, and at the time during a conversation with Tsar Jan V. Jan V was convinced by Aanholt's proposal and set aside funding for an expedition westwards, setting off from Samistopol with admiral Michel Jarabinec as the lead, with Aanholt also on board, in 1688. Five months later, in 1689, Jarabinec and his crew reached land around 40 miles north of modern-day Volosovo. While not sure, they assumed the land to be Asterian, and thus founded the East Asterian Trading Company in 1689. The Company quickly expanded to dominate fur trading, a valuable market, in the Asterias, and Narozalica became wealthy back home from the company's profits. A separate expedition established the colony of Svobinsk in 1693. As the company was not a separate state in its own right, independence movements were scarce as the Asterian War of Secession broke out, of which neither the company nor Narozalica participated in. However, the success of the war for the independence of many Asterian states spiked the interests of Narozalic Asterians to declare their own country, independence of Narozalica, who had been exploiting the company for profit for a long time.

Gaullica and Narozalica officially began their alliance in 1722, setting a new precedent for Euclean conflicts with Gaullica and Narozalica together controlling a large majority of the colonial Asterias by themselves. In the same year, Velzemia was annexed in the Tsardom's first major expansion outside of Asterias in the early-modern period. With Narozalica now creeping closer to eastern Euclea, Narozalica was swiftly becoming a major global power, able to compete with those in eastern Euclea. Brosia was partitioned between Narozalica and Gaullica in 1790, and with the two countries now bordering each other, the Narozalic Empire was proclaimed in 1790.

Narozalic Empire

The high of the Narozalic rulers following the proclamation of the empire would not last long as the country quickly saw itself failing to progress at the same rate as the eastern powers. It entered a large social and economic dormancy period between 1790 and 1797 where little was done by Emperor Ivan V to combat the rapidly increasing poverty of the peasantry of Narozalica, concentrated mainly in Samistopol and Patovatra, which culminated in the Samistopol Revolt of 1797, a peasants' revolt inspired by the success of the Etrurian Revolution and the formation of the First Etrurian Republic. Ivan V cracked down hard on the revolts and the military disbanded them quickly with many people being killed and many more being injured and wounded. The peasantry's situation would continue to worsen as the Industrial Revolution spread throughout eastern Euclea, but Ivan V's reluctancy to implement reforms meant the technology of the Industrial Revolution did not reach Narozalica until much later. The employment created by the Industrial Revolution never came to fruition in Ivan V's reign, and so the peasant's population continued to expand and the unemployment rates continued to rise. Homelessness became a large problem in Samistopol in particular, but the military would often kick people off the streets if they saw them. Begging and busking was outlawed in 1823 throughout the empire, which put immense pressure on the homeless to either migrate or find a job within the city's borders. In a stroke of bad luck, the harvest of 1823 was extremely poor due to a large dip in temperatures and reduction in sunlight hours throughout the year, leading to the Famine of 1823 and increasing the unrest between the peasantry as many watched their friends and family die in the famine. As many as 300,000 people died as a direct result.

Conditions would not improve when Ivan VI succeeded to the throne in 1829, and he largely continued the brutal policies of his father. As unrest broiled, the peasantry were at breaking point. With liberalism taking hold throughout Euclea, the peasantry of Samistopol stormed the Nuruk Palace in 1848, and almost succeeded in breaching the palace gates. The storming led Ivan VI to seclude himself within in palace for the rest of the year, and he was not seen outside the palace until he made a public address in the February of 1849 explaining his absence. Ivan promised "great riches" and "the progression of all mankind" in his 1849 address, but scarcely acted on it between the speech and his reforms - which were the opposite of what he promised. Ivan VI's reforms were anything but, and they changed largely irrelevant and arbitrary things while ignoring or brushing aside the main problems that the empire had been facing for the past 60 years. The country's economy was in one of the worst recessions it had seen in years and the lack of farmers as well as the situations faced let many to resort to subsistence farming to help themselves and their family survived, only amplifying the hunger problem the country was facing. Ivan's reformed outlawed subsistence farming entirely in favour of a better system that would provide for both the farmer and the peasant. In the first year of the implementation of this new system, both farmers and urban peasants were starving as the food the farmers grew was simply not enough to sustain the growing urban population of the empire. Farmer's began resorting to hiding their food in the floorboards or under hay bales to avoid having to send it all away (a farmer had to provide a certain amount of food before they could keep some for themselves). This pushed the poverty imbalance back towards the urban centres, and the unrest broiled once again. Fearing a threat to his reign, Ivan VI attempted to unify the nation under a single cause when he declared war on Werania in support of Gaullica in 1852 and entered the War of the Triple Alliance.

Initial success was found when Narozalica entered the war in 1852, and small victories spurred on by Narozalic cavalry regiments were occurring in the theatres of the conflict, mainly against Estmere. The success faded however as aforementioned discrimination between the Zalyks and Narodyns meant inexperienced generals were commanding armies of Zalyk cavalry, which were ineffective utilising the tactics of a Narodyn army. These discrepancies ultimately culminating in the large Narozalic defeats at the Battle of Trierburg and the Siege of Rokrika, which would plunge the country into civil war, with the western republicans, under Vasiliy Chaykev, fighting the eastern monarchists, led indirectly by Ivan VI.

Narozalic Republic

• Established in 1861 following the civil war
• Authoritarian reigns quickly followed, bribes/corruption
• Naro fought for the GA in the Great War, contributed heavily to defeat of Gaullica
• Naro invades Kansasto during the Solarian War
• Anti-EC alignment in modern-day