Confederation of Kyldigardian Cantons

Confederation of Kyldigardian Cantons Kyldigard
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: "Our Pride is in our People"
Capital and largest city	Muremysct
Official languages	Kelerruth
Recognised national languages	Kelerruth, Scizcian
Ethnic groups	Kyleth (84%), Scizc (16%), Kitan (0.0015%)
Religion	Relejism
Demonym(s)	Kyldigardian (citizen); Kyleth (native species)
Government	Clan Assembly, later Elective Monarchy, later Corporatocratic Dictatorship
• Grand Warden	Gijeng Kujij (Final official leader)
Legislature	[Council of Wardens]]
Establishment
• Establishment of the Confederation	634 AR (1st), 895 AR (2nd), 1457 (3rd)
• End of Segregation	1535 AR
• Dissolution	1613 AR
Population
• 1611 AR estimate	~27,000,000 (peak)
GDP (nominal)	estimate
• Per capita	21,132,151 Ching (42,349 USD)
Currency	Ching (CNG)
Date format	yy/mm/dd/hh

The Confederation of Kyldigardian Cantons (Kelerruth: Urr 'Kongemverij eg Sctutseng Kyldigard [kɪldiɡäɹd]), colloquially known as Kyldigard, was a country located in northwestern Pelia, strattling the edge of the Clastoclites. Three seperate Confederate governments existed from the nation's unification to the Revolution of 1613, with each having unique governing bodies and legal systems. To its west was the Kesper Sea and to its north was the Wintry Ocean. Its capital city was Muremysct, and it had a population of about 27,000,000 Kyldigardian citizens at it's height, of which 84% were of the Kyleth majority species, less than 1% were of the giant Kytang minority subspecies, and 16% were of the minority Scizc species. The Confederation was made up of 19 cantons and 1 colonial territory, West Yeverekev. The confederate governing body was an elective monarchy with the de-facto state religion of Relejism for the majority of its history.

Brief History

Kyldigardian Unification and Peaceful Era (630s-1000s)

From the 500s to the 610s AR, Kyldigard was an assortment of hundreds of warring independent clans, mostly divided by ethno-racial identity and regional cultures, and to some extent religious groups. The clandom era of Kyldigard saw many foreign raids on the coast, mostly by human and other pirate raiders. During this era, the city-state of Athalox conquered the rural south, leading to the organization of many modern southern cantons. After a brutal series of incursions from seafaring raider clans in the early 7th century, the Kyleth clans officially united their by now already-intertwined polities into the Confederation of Kyldigardian Cantons in 613 A.R.

The Confederation was involved in a series of religious wars known as the Great Varkades between 651 and 898 AR, leading to its temporary dissolution in 684 and its later reinstatement in 895.

Catastrophe Era (1200s-1387 AR)

During the years following the end of the Peaceful Era, the Kyldigardian government experimented with many controversial magical projects, such as the unintentional creations of the Great Ice Plague, Manguwerigj Hive Mind, and the Kitan/Eof species. These incidents caused great violence within the country, breaking trust down between the people and their government and resulting in the formation of an independent Kitantis in Kyldigard's short-lived territorial hold on the sub-ocean territories.

Protests Against Kyldigardian Segregation (1388-1457 AR)

During this era, many Kyldigardian societal traditions were called into question, namely gender and racial segregation, which led to the end of the patriarchy at the hands of violent action on part of the radical feminist and radical neutralist movements, as well as the various Kytang and Eoth movements in the country, all of whom represented people who suffered long at the hands of Kyldigardian lawmakers' outright refusal to grant equality. After the end of segregation by forced demand to the Council of Wardens, the Council of Wardens immediately repealed the act the next day, which led to the Great Riot of 1457, after which certain paranoid Wardens, after purging all opposition, banned all political parties and implemented an autarky economic system in the confederation as well as a new, more authoritarian, constitution.

Pre-Revolutionary Modern Period (1458-1612)

During the years before the demise of the Confederation, Kyldigard was thrown into several wars with foreign powers, usually coming out victorious or mostly unaffected by the conflicts. During this period, the unionized economy began to collapse, leading to semi-privitization and deregulation, which would cause the government's downfall only a few centuries later.

Kyldigardian Revolution of 1613

The Confederate government was overthrown in early 1613 by anti-government revolutionaries with the support of Uaderrim Vijaroscij during what is now known as the Kyldigardian Revolution of 1613. Most members of this former government were deemed traitors and sentenced to prison or even death, although some major figures (including the country's beloved former Grand Warden, Gijeng Kujij) were pardoned for their crimes and kept on close watch. The Confederate government was officially dissolved on 26 Umbra, 1613, with the proclamation of the Federated Stewardship of Kyldigard, ending nearly 1000 years of Confederate rule over the Kyldigardian people.

Politics

Foreign Relations

During its existence, the Confederation of Kyldigardian Cantons positioned itself in a very isolationist manner, not engaging in diplomacy with most nations until nearly the end of its existence. It considered the Enlightened Kingdom of Kitantis its main political rival, and Prestore an untrusted threat. In the earlier parts of its history, it had hostile relations with the neighboring Ascended Kingdom of Khijovia, however in modern times the two had more cordial relations. Due to being the creators of the Kyleth species, Kethes felt obligated to attempt to contact Kyldigard multiple times during the Confederation's reign, however, as Kyldigard was unaware of Kethes' progress since then, they did not successfully recieve a response from Kyldigard that wasn't a statement of warning.