Ereckia

The United Provinces of Ereckia Den Haeresse Vormoren de Ereckse
Flag Coat of arms
Motto:  "Sapienta Sit Potentia"
Anthem:  "Ereckse Szíd! Faer De Republik"
Capital	Ronera
Largest city	Aisbruck
Official languages	Ereckian
Religion (2022)	60% Christianity 25% Irreligion 3% Islam 2% Judaism 8% Ereckian Traditional Beliefs 2% Other
Demonym(s)	Ereckian
Government	Federal parliamentary Republic
• President	Dera Ruan
• Prime Minister	Matt Linnessen
Legislature	Parliament (Unicameral)
Establishment
• Federation of Ereckia	7 May 1926
Area
• Total	787,000 km2 (304,000 sq mi)
• Water (%)	2
Population
• Estimate	94,770,990
• Density	120.4/km2 (311.8/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)	2022 estimate
• Total	$4.079 trillion
• Per capita	$56,000
Gini (2019)	29.8 low
HDI (2019)	0.942 very high
Currency	Ereckian Mark (ERM)
Time zone	EST
Date format	dd/mm/yyyy
Driving side	right
Calling code	+58
Internet TLD	.er

The United Provinces of Ereckia or informally simply Ereckia is a country in northwestern Ersa which has an extensive coastline along the Koldenn Sea to its west and also has a land border with several other Ersan countries on its south, north and east. Ereckia consists of four constituent province. The Torsk mountains run from northern Ereckia through the province of Hera where they then snake into the east of the country thereafter into the province of Lora. The western costal region is known for its flatter low lying land dotted with small to medium lakes as well as the nation’s largest lake, Lake Nea which is located in the south west in Berno province. The official language of Ereckia is Ereckian which is spoken by a majority of the population however the province of Lora has its own distinct dialect spoken there. Along with mainland Ersan Ereckia the United Provinces has 4 overseas territories. All 4 overseas territories consist of one or several small islands and all elect 1 member of parliament to sit in the capital Ronera. The four largest cities in Ereckia are Aisbruck which is seen as historically the cultural centre of the nation, Ronera which is the capital of Ereckia and the seat of the Ereckian government, legislature and judiciary. The city of Geiren and the city of Aven-Attal.

Ereckia has been a Parliamentary Republic since 1926 following Federation which occurred after the event known as the people’s revolution which overthrew the Ereckian Monarchy. In the 20th and 21st centuries Ereckia has a reputation as a tolerant and highly democratic and socially liberal policies such as same women’s sufferage, sex marriage and drug laws. Ereckia is also a founding member of the Ersan Cooperation Organisation (ECO).

History

Early History

What is today called Ereckia has been inhabited by many peoples who lived in and around the bay of Kora and on the Bernonian coast as well as on the shores of Lake Nea and the flatter lands along the Koldenn Sea and through into the Torsk valleys along where the cities of Aven-Attel and Geiren are situated today. To the north and the modern day province of Hera the Dauic peoples migrated south from the Ersan uplands and coalesced with the coastal Dauic peoples along the Koldenn Sea. The Middle Ages marked the beginning of the foundation of the three kingdoms which would go on to dominate the area with at this time there being a jigsaw of smaller kingdoms and entities.

Three Kingdoms Era

Fredrick VI of Tor Founded Ereckia’s capital Ronera in 1588

By the mid 1400s there were certain powers emerging in the area that the United Provinces exists in today. To the west the duchies of north and south Berno had united into one Grand Duchy. The Grand Duchy of Berno competed fiercely with the Kingdom of Tor which dominated the land south of the Aven River and up to the Torsk Highlands. To the north in the Boreal Torsk ranges the Kingdom of Daun which also competed with Berno for control of the Koldenn Sea and the Rona delta. In 1567 the Kingdoms of Tor and Daun went to war after the collapse of the Valleran Dynasty in Daun left a power vacuum which led to the Kingdom of Tor attempting to annex the Kingdom of Daun and expand its influence hoping to win out over the nkw Kingdom of Berno for dominance of northern Ersa as Berno had undergone a golden age due to trade with southern Ersan nations and the creation of outposts on islands in the Kolsk and Altani Oceans which saw a boom in the economy and the newfound increase in wealth and culture in the city of Aisbruck. To compete with the might of Aisbruck the King of the newly expanded Kingdom of Tor merged the cities of Aven and Attel to form Aven-Attel and also founded the city of Ronera in the Torsk foothills to establish and cement Torish control of the former Kingdom of Daun which was renamed the Duchy of Hera.

Heran Revolts and Bernoian Expansion

In 1607 the people of the Duchy of Hera took part in a series of revolts against the King of Tor and his increasingly authoritarian policies in regards to taxation and grain requisition which led to a widespread famine in late 1606 and revolts thereafter. The revolts in Hera were spoked by Bernonian interference in the then King Marean III’s court which led to his complete loss of popularity anf eventually sparked civil war in Torne. This civil war in the Kingdom of Tor which began in 1610 was jumped upon by the Kingdom of Berno which used the chaotic state of its rival to invade and annex huge swathes of it between 1610 and 1619. In only nine years the once all dominant kingdom of Tor had been completely annexed by its western neighbour Berno and the crowns of Berno and Tor were then unified and consolidated into one Ereckian Kingdom in 1620 with its capital in Aisbruck. The Kingdom of Ereckia became a powerhouse economically in northern Ersa and would go on to annex more land just beyond the Torsk mountains which now makes up the Province of Lora. This land which is dotted with mountain lined lakes and valleys became extremely popular with the Ereckian upper class and the city of Maddielvik was established in the then Govornate of Lora in 1723. At this time Ereckia went through an age known as The Age of Enlightenment where the old kingdoms and duchies were disbanded in favour of Govornates in Hera, North Berno, South Berno, Aven, Geiren, Lora, Ronera and Irkomm. There was also a parliament established in Aisbruck although at this stage it was unelected and it’s members appointed by the King.

Decline of the Ereckian Monarchy

The changing nature of the Kingdom of Ereckia in the 19th century following the Industrial Revolution depicted in a painting

Decline of the Ereckian Monarchy The decline of the Ereckian monarchy progressed throughout the late 18th and early 19th centuries due to a number of factors. The increase in the powers of Parliament saw the monarchy take less and less of an impact in Ereckian policy and governorship. The Industrial Revolution which led to the switch of Ereckia being an agrarian and rural society to a predominantly urban and industrial one with its people demanding better living standards and a government representative of themselves chosen by them. In 1819 there were riots in Ronera over food shortages caused by the embargo of grain into the city on behalf of the King at the time Roste V who had been advised that this would send the people of the govornate into submission. Ronera had long established itself as the more radical of the largest Ereckian cities with the workers of its mines and factories being spurred on by early Ereckian revolutionaries Pol de Kampere and Daniel Freès. It was far enough away from the centre of the monarchies power base in Aisbruck to fit this role.

Republican Movement

The City of Ronera was torn apart during the Ereckian Civil War (1923-26)

The idea of an Ereckian republic only fully came into being in the early 20th centuries. By this time Parliament had increased its powers tenfold and there had been successive expansions and emigrations into Aisbruck which had changed the culture of the city to a more diverse city of the people rather than the playground of the monarch. However it was in Ronera where the event known to all Ereckians as the people’s revolution began. The People’s revolution was sparked in 1923 due to the then Queen of Ereckia Laura II making a speech which implied the scaling back of the powers of the parliament. This led to so called ‘People’s Parliaments’ being set up in cities such as Ronera and Geiren and later Aisbruck. They forwent the rule of the monarchy and several republics in the cities where people’s parliaments convened were declared. However the Revolution did not begin in earnest until the brutal crackdown of the people’s parliaments occurred with public executions of revolutionaries shocking and dismaying the Ereckian public and actually having the opposite intended effect in winning public sympathy and support for a full Ereckian Republic pushed for by Revolutionary leaders at the time like Martin de Roch and Jaar Opmaller both leaders of the Freedom Party (more commonly known by its Ereckian name the Vríghed Partí) which began a guerrilla campaign throughout the country which over a 3 year period known as the Ereckian Civil War from 1923-1926 ended with the abdication of Queen Laura II and the end of the Ereckian monarchy.