Theohuanacu

The administrative divisions of Theohuanacu and their capitals, as of MC 2029.

Theohuanacu is a territory of the Golden Throne, joining the federation in MC 2019 after a Macabéan invasion. It is the largest island of the archipelago continent Xipil in Greater Dienstad.

Territorial Organization

Zealand Freestate

North Point, the capital of the Zealand Freestate.

The Zealand Freestate is the wealthiest and most populous freestate in Theohuanacu. Its government sits at the capital city of North Point.

Cuathl Freestate

Occupying the southwest portion of Theohuanacu, the Cuathl Freestate is governed from its capital city of Xitaupec.

Inxuahtl Freestate

With its capital city at Inxuahtl, the Inxuahtl Freestate makes up most of the western Theohuanacu coastline.

Storm Isles Freestate

The Storm Isles are composed primarily of the three major islands off the southwestern coast of Theohuanacu. This freestate's capital sits at Stormhaven.

Imperial Freestate

The Imperial Freestate was founded in MC 2029. Its capital sits at Tlaloc. Another city in the Imperial Freestate, Fedorohuacan, will become the territorial capital in MC 2035.

Mazteca Freestate

Landlocked, the Mazteca Freestate was founded in MC2029 and comprimises the center of Theohuanacu. Its capital city is Theotihuacan.

Disputed Territory

Both the territorial government of Theohuanacu and the imperial federal government claim the Thacu Islands and the Island of Taf as parts of historical Theohuanacan lands. Both are currently occupied by United Gordonopia.

Government

Territorial Government

Since the Treaty of Tlaloc in MC 2030, Theohuanacu's territorial government is composed of three branches: the governorship, legislative, and territorial courts.

The governor is directly appointed by the emperor of the Golden Throne and holds executive priviliges, including the right of veto over laws enacted through the Theohuanacu legislative branch. The governor also holds the right to ignore an overrule of their veto by the legislative branch. Although the governor cannot be directly removed by either the legislative or courts, the incumbent can be removed from power at any time by the emperor.

Two chambers make up the territorial legislative branch: the Euque and Konsolari. Freestates vote three representatives to the Euque, the upper chamber, every two years. The Konsolari forms the lower chamber and is made up of more than 300 seats, each of which is distributed to a freestate proportionally to its population. Territorial legislative action must flow from the Euque to the Konsolari, but the Euque's Kríeror must be voted for by the Konsolari. The Kríeror serves as president of the upper chamber.

The territorial courts are responsible for the interpretation of territorial law. A supreme court, the Calixequi, serves as the highest court of territorial law and holds partial jurisdiction over the interpretation of treaty law as it concerns the Treaty of Tlaloc.

Imperial Government

Since MC 2019, the primary executive of Theohuanacu is the governor. The governor is appointed and replaced directly by the emperor, who is advised by a kríerlord assigned to observing the government of the territory. The imperial courts are represented in Theohuanacu via a string of freestate courts, with jurisdiction over the local enforcement of federal law, and the Theohuanacan Koert of the Willed. This latter court is presided by seven judges appointed by the kríerlord kuncil for life. It is serves as the highest imperial court in Theohuanacu and is also the supreme authority in the interpretation of treaty law as it concerns the Treaty of Tlaloc.

The current Kríerlord assigned to Theohuanacu is Angiko Bas.

History

Rebels, Pirates, and Secessionists

A Free Inxuahtl Movement freedom fighter.

At the dawn of the 21st century MC, a confederation of southeastern Theohuanacan coastal port cities led by Tlaloc, Palenque, and Tiwanaku operated as safehavens for piracy, their governments long ago coopted by criminal elements. Their ships, officially unaffiliated but nevertheless given safe harbor, raided the western Theohuanacan coasts in search of loot and slaves to sell in the newly lucrative Firmadorian markets. Western Theohuanacu was devastated as pirate ships destroyed, murdered, and raped their way up and down the coastline. In MC 2004, Tapexa's harbor was heavily damaged in an attack led by Captain Jonah "Green-Skinned" Deringer. Inxuahtl and its surrounding townships also suffered heavily from repeated pirate attacks on municipalities as small as secluded fishing villages. By MC 2007, the resurgent pirates attacked and took Callisto, capital of the Thacu Islands. The raiding expanded to the southwestern Panooly and the northeastern Indran coastlines.

The freestate government in Zealand waged a shadowy war against mounting subversive forces, in the name of Theohuanacu, but the national government proved largely incapable of extending their control beyond the capital city. Located in the center of the country by design, Theotihuacan was faraway from North Point, the freestate capital of Zealand. The two governments drifted as North Point became the increasingly dominant partner in the relationship. As fewer government forces intervened in the west, rebel movements, such as the the Free Inxuahtl Movement, consolidated their forces and launched a revolution engulfing most of central and western Theohuanacu.

A nascent Golden Throne had meanwhile aligned itself with Holy Panooly and, possibly to protect southerwestern Panooly coasts without involving itself militarily, issued a contract to the southeastern Theohuanacan pirates to escort a division-sized mercenary unit to the inland southwestern city of Nichahuan. But the operation turned sour when the contract was suddenly rescinded. No longer receiving pay from the Golden Throne, the mercenaries established a government of their own in the city and began taxing its inhabitants. Relations between the private military contractors and their pirate escorts deteriorated for unknown reasons, causing the mercenaries to expel the latter. In retaliation, the pirates joined with the remnants of the local rebel forces previously defeated and jointly attacked and sacked Nichahuan. Survivors were sold into slavery.

In 2010, the Zealand Freestate seceded from Theohuanacu to become an independent state. It became known that rebels had captured stockpiles of nuclear weapons after overruning Theotihuacan. They were not slow to use them, almost all of them exclusively within the confines of central Theohuanacu. Theotihuacan and most of the center surface of the island were devastated and became uninhabitable, remaining so to this day. The western freestate was largely protected by the fallout by virtue of the mountain range running north to south, seperating them from the rest of the continent. The pirate cities, however, received the brunt of the fallout, leading to largescale population loss as a result of heavy radiation poisoning. Tlaloc was particularly affected.

Empire

Theohuanacu was invaded by the Golden Throne in MC 2019, with the intention of using the island's resources to supply a potential war against Stevid. The official cassus belli was the arrest and murder of a Macabéan tourist in North Point, which prompted the occupation of North Point and the imposition of a peacekeeping mission on the entirety of the country. Tarn was occupied in an initial phase of the occupation, followed by an uncontested landing in northeastern Theohuanacu. The initial invasion stood out as a result of the use of Guffingfodi and Havenic auxilaries, soldiers recruited from the recently annexed Havenic and Guffingfordi territories. Simultaneously, Macabéan surface ships raided Indran oil platforms along the Theohuanacan coast before the imperial government announced a unilateral decision to end foreign drilling off the Theohuanacan coast.

At first, the Macabéan invasion of Theohuanacu prompted the intervention of Adaptes Astrates. Stevidian warships and aircraft also closely monitored the movement of the Macabéan fleet, which sailed through the Sea of Otium Aqua. However, eventually an agreement was signed between the three powers, trading a cesation of Macabéan claims in Jumanota, aside from the occupation of Tarn, in exchange for a guarantee of non-intervention in the Theohuanacu conflict. The Golden Throne's aggression in Theohuanacu, however, promoted Stevid to occupy an island chain south of Guffingford as means of bolstering its naval deployments in the seas between the Golden Throne and Theohuanacu.

After securing the Zealand Freestate, the Golden Throne's invasion continued into the central landmass, with the intended occupation of Theotihuacán. Because the area was largely uninhabited, as a result of the nuclear exchanges of MC 2010, this phase of the annexation also went largely unimpeded. However, because of the distances and terrain involved, the empire's mechanized forces suffered a particularly heavy attrition rate and the full occupation took two weeks. Theotihuacán was eventually occupied and used as a barracks for a long-term operation to decontaminate central Theohuanacu from nuclear radiation. This decontamination is under the oversight of the Agén Rognuklek, has yet to be completed.

Operations into western Theohuanacu occured simultaneously, initially consisting of thunder runs carried out by the newly established regulíes, foreign legion units organized under the Ejermacht.

Military operations against the southeastern pirate cities commenced in December MC 2021. This series of battles is known as the First Theohuanacu Pirate War, and the fighting is considered to have ended in August MC 2022. However, six months later, the conflict renewed again, known as the Second Theohuanacu War.

Imperial Military Recruitment

Since the territory's formal annexation into the imperial federation, military recruiment is common in Theohuanacu. Theohuanacan soldiers have served in pacification duties in Zarbia, among other parts of the empire.

Soldiers recruited from other territories and satrapies of the empire have also served in Theohuanacu. Zarbian recruits, for example, are known to have operated in southeastern Theohuanacu during the Gothic War.

Economy of Theohuanacu

Piracy and the Vices

The economy of southeastern Theohuanacu was dominated by piracy until the destruction of Tiwanaku and Palenque in MC 2029. A significant portion of the trade carried through pirate ships was the sale of illicit pharmaceuticals, including cocaine, marijuana, heroin, and other drugs. The growing and production of these drugs dominates the agricultural economy of the area to this day. The production and sale of most illicit substances was legalized post-annexation, leading to much of this trade to return to the formal economy.

Until the advent of the Gothic War, human trafficking remained a powerful segment of the southeastern Theohuanacu economy. The slave trade remained active, even under putative Macabéan oversight, until the rebellion of the southwestern city-states in MC 2026.