Jastrebovian restoration

The Jastrebovian restoration (Razarian: Ⱑⱄⱅⱃⰵⰱⱁⰲⱄⰽⰻ ⱁⰱⱀⱁⰲⰰ Jastrebovski obnova) was a programme of far-reaching political and social reforms, often seen as revolutionary, in Razaria, conducted and directed by the eponymous Svetoslav Jastrebović beginning in 1964. The restoration's consolidation of the system it intended to bring about is commonly placed at 1969, though it is officially an 'ongoing process' according to state rhetoric in Razaria. The restoration shaped much of modern Razarian politics and society.

Since the end of the Razarian Civil War the country was ruled confusedly as a guided democracy with distinguishably republican and constitutional elements, with the Fatherland Party and an united front, the Razarian National Coalition, dominating and monopolizing its nominally democratic politics. President Jastrebović's grip on the country however was not completely consolidated or firm; his allies from the Civil War began to pose threats to his power. As such after the Gozar War in the Rectification and Lustration Campaign a protracted mass purge of the government began with thousands arrested and executed over the course of five years. After this only Jastrebović and the Fatherland Party's circle loyal to him remained in Razaria, and local authority was taken over by fanatical students.

Jastrebović thereon decided an entirely new system must be put into place. Months after the last mass executions, in July 1964, a speech before the annual parliamentary conference declared the beginning of the 'construction of the resurrection of national will'. After the vague declaration, Jastrebović and clerics as well as generals of his inner circle drafted and issued over the course of ten months statutes and decrees that constitutionally empowered the military and the clergy, dissolved the entire state, and replaced it with new institutions tied with the two newly promoted classes. The National Fortification Command and its subsidiary 14 secretariats and commissions were established, the country was reorganized into nodes, and the system surrounding the Vrhovnik of Razaria and the position itself was created. Official privileges such as holding certain state positions were ascribed to the military and clergy.

This was followed by a programme that promoted and upheld the new political doctrine of tvrdjavism, the concept of 'national fortification', and the rejection and suppression of ideologies regarded as foreign, which had expanded from left-wing revolutionism to democracy and liberalism in general. There were also cultural movements that aimed to resurrect traditional Razarian culture and reject foreign influence in all aspects from philosophy to everyday life.

The positions Jastrebović created still needed to be filled over time however from the two classes that had minimal political participation immediately after the Civil War's end. Thus they were not completely properly staffed by members from military-clergy until 1969 when most of the new state apparatus was complete and functional. The rise of fanatical students during the Lustrations also created the National Invigoration Organization in a powerful position, which Jastrebović had to compromise with and concede some power to.