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Coalition of the Coconeh Calpotlin
Flag Coat of Arms
Motto:  Ma zan moquetzacan! Stand up!
Anthem:  Zan Nompehua Noncuica I begin to sing
Capital and largest city	Yancuicopan
Official languages	Nahuatl
Recognised national languages	Otomí, Matlatzinca, Mazahua, Mazatec, Huaxtec, Tepehua, Popoloca, Popoluca, Tlapanec, Mixtec, Cuicatec, Trique, Zapotec, Zoque, Chochotec, Chinantec, Totonac, Cuitlatec, Pame, Mam, Tapachultec, among others
Demonym(s)	Coconeh
Government	Federal socialist republic
Legislature	Mochicalpulleh Tlahtoloyan
Area
• Total	634,192 km2 (244,863 sq mi)
Population
• 2018 estimate	95 millions
• 2012 census	94,783,889
• Density	149.46/km2 (387.1/sq mi)
Currency	Mutual Credit
Date format	dd.mm.yyyy
Driving side	right
Internet TLD	.tl

the Coalition of Coconeh Calpotlin, also known as the Coalition of the Free Calpotlin, Calpullali, or by the acronym of CCC, officially known as the Chimalli-Amoxtli Coconeh Calpotlin is a Calpulist federal state in the Eastern Continents. It has a population of roughtly 95 millions inhabitants. It’s capital is Yancuicopan. Before the Cloud and Flower Revolution, the country was known as the Azcapotzalco Tlahtoloyan or “Empire of Azcapotzalco”.

After the fall of the Nazahualkanids Dynasty, the Tlahtoloyan was replaced by the Altepetl Federation. But this regime was itself very weak and unstable, finally dissolving during the War of Thousand Colors that ended with the victory of the Calpulist faction and the creation of the current Coalition.

Etymology

A Calpulli, translated as “Great House”, “Communal House”, or “District”, is a traditional administrative and social division inside the Coalition. One of the great objective of the CCC was to create a socialist society capable of being understood and accepted by the general population. To this day, the nation is officially only a “Coalition” of autonomous District, with barely any administrative division recognized beyond it.

“Coconeh”, meaning “Children", is the accepted political term to design every citizen of the CCC without distinction of ethnicity or regional origin.

History

First Tulla

Around 300 BC, the city of Tulla began expanding in the Xaltocan Valley, similarly to other great cities like its rival Cuilca, destroyed during a volcanic eruption in 55 BC. After this event, Tulla was left free to expand without any rival to balance its rise.

During the following centuries, the city became the heart of a vast network of tributaries and of economical and cultural dependencies. It’s wealth was unequaled and by 450 AD, it had reached it height. It’s only during the 7th century that Tulla started to decay due to unfavorable climatic changes and waves of migrating Chichimecas. The temples and palaces of the cities were burned during what is supposed to have been massive popular unrest and riots, and then Tulla was abandoned by its inhabitants.

intermediate Period

The First Chichimeca Migration brought in the once Tullan-held territories new populations and new languages that added themselves on top of the Oto-mangues speakers of the preceding era. It’s during that time that the Toltec, Chichimecas who adopted Tullan culture, emerged, and developed their own city-states alongside those of the natives, taking their distances from their nomadic past.

To the south, the Totonacs whom had come to dominate the second half of the Tullan era re-centered their civilization around another major trade hub : the city of Tajin which had been spared from the Chichimecas invasions. Chroniclers from later periods would refer to the Intermediate Period by the poetic phrase of “Dogs packs, Builders’ cities, and a Thunderous Voice”.

Second Tulla

Ruin of a Toltecatl Pyramid

“Second Tulla” is the name commonly given to the Toltec city of Zuluya whom managed to become the sole hegemon of most of what had been the First Tulla’s core territories and of almost all Toltecs cities. But even at its height, it was permanently in conflict with Tajin, which had become an important hegemon in its own right, taking over vast sways of what is today the south of “Calpullali”. Lasting from the 10th to the 13th century AD, this period received the poetic name of “North and South” ("Tlatziuhqui iuan Ytzicotla”) by later chroniclers, referring to a famed poetry compendium of the same name.

Like the previous Tulla, this era ended with a second migration wave of Chichimeca, when the NahuatlNahuatl-speaking people destroyed both Zuluya and Tajin. The Nahuas settled down in the lands they had conquered and started to adopte the Toltec culture themselves. This led to the period historians know as the “Second Intermediate Period” which is traditionally considered to end with the reign of the Tepanec Tlatoani Tezozomoc (1349 - 1426) and the unification of all the principalities around Lake Xaltocan.

Azcapotzalco Empire

Codice recording the cities defeated by Acolhuanacatl during his reign

After the fall of the Second Tulla, new populations migrated into the Xaltocan Valley. One of these groups, the Tepanecs, led by Matlacoatl I, founded the settlement of Azcapotzaltongo on the shores of Lake Xaltocan in 1152. 50 years later, the settlement had become an important city with other Nahua-speaking principalities as rivals, such as Acolhuacan, but also Chichimeca Kingdoms like Tenayuca, and surviving colonies of Tulla like the prestigious Colhuacan. The Tepanecs nonetheless managed to expand and colonize most of the northern shore of the lake.

In 1293 Acolhuatzin, Tlatoani of Azcapotzaltongo, married the daughter of Tenayuca’s king, ending the alliance of that principality with Acolhuacan. Acolhuatzin decided to move his capital to a new settlement he called Azcapotzalco which was located in a much more strategic position now that the threat of Chichimeca raids was lifted. His son, Acolhuanacatl, succeeded him in 1343.

When his maternal uncle died a few days later, Aclohuanacatl was invited by a faction of Tenayucan nobles to come and take the throne of the city-state, which Acolhuanacatl did, proclaiming himself Tlatoani of both Azcapotzalco and Tenayuca. It was a long process for the Tepanec King to legitimize his takeover, only completed with his victory against the Acolhuas in 1360. And so, in 1367, his son Tezozomoc inherited both Altepetl without any unrest.

During Tezozomoc’s rule, the Tepanecs knew a few military defeats against both Acolhuan and Colhuacan. The latter notably had started to employ a newly arrived Nahua-speaking tribe, the Mixca, as mercenaries in their wars. The Mixca were offered the hills of Chapultepec, that delimited the Azcapotzalco-Colhuacan border. However, relations between Colhuacan and their mercenaries grew colder after a serie of diplomatic events, allowing Tezozomoc to ally himself with the Mixca and other nomadic people. After a new war against Colhuacan, the Tepanec and their new allies destroyed the city-state. After this victory Acamapichtli, leader of the Mixca, was recognized in his position as Tlatoani of Chapultepec, and became a vassal of Tezozomoc in 1372.

Tezozomoc did not stop there and continued to tie various chiefdoms and principalities to himself through dynastic marriages, alliances, and vassalage, greatly expanding his sphere of influence to the point that during the last years of his rule, he was able to conquer Acolhuan and turn it into a tributary state.

Maxtla the Pretender

In 1426 Tayahauh succeeded his father on the throne but his brother Maxtla, who had received the throne of Aculnahuacatl a Tepanec colony, contested the succession and proclaimed himself Tlatoani of Azcapotzalco. The Mixcas and the Chichimecas sided with Tayahauh, while Maxtla allied with Acolhuan. Ultimately, Tayahauh and his partisans emerged victorious from the civil war.

Tayahauh’s rule was contrasted. On the bright side after the civil war he managed to resume the Tepanec’ expansion and to finally conquer the last independents city-states in the Valley and was proclaimed Huetlatoani, “'Great King”, by his vassals. On the other hand, these same vassals had become more and more powerful, both in term of courtly titles they held but also because the dismantlement of Maxtla and his partisans possessions was done in their favours. It’s notably under the Mixca’s influence that the newly crowned Huetlatoani started a vast serie of reforms, re-organizing the collection of taxes, tributes, made school mandatory for every young man and woman, created the title Quauhpili for commoners who proved themselves in battle as a stepping stone toward the nobility… the foundations of the imperial edifices were layed out.

Tecollotzin, son of Tayahauh and of a Mixca princess, expanded his hegemony to new territories. This renewed expansion process would not stop until the 16th century, and by then the Tepanec had made themselves the masters of a vast territory, from the mountains to the ocean.

16th century crisis

It is under the reigns of Chimalopoca (1469-1489) and Tezozomoc II (1489-1519) that the Tepanec finished their first “great conquests”. However, the year 1521 was marked by the spread of the Teltetzaltin Plague, so called because it caused the death of the Huetlatoani Teltetzaltin (1519 - 1524). It is estimated that the Plague killed almost a third of the Empire’s total population, some estimates going as far as more than an half.

The successor of Teltetzaltin, Tayahauh II, started a vast project of public health to stop the epidemy : systematic quarantines, construction of new hospitals, creation of a new agency charged with the inspection of canals and sanitations. Ultimately the situation improved, but infantile mortality would remain higher than during the previous century.

The direct approach of the throne toward the plague meant that it had to overtake the local aristocracy. Slowly, the Tlatoani tried to install the superiority of “Plague Inspectors” over local governors in matters associated to diseases and public health, and then attempted to reinforce the powers of all inspectors over vassal rulers. This strengthening was possible because of the chaotic situation left by the death of a sizeable minority of the aristocracy and the ensuing conflicts over their inheritance.

Tecollotzin II (1547 - 1579) would use this reinforced administration and central authority to launch multiple campaigns of expansions, a process that finished alienating the noble houses toward the monarchy.

Great Lords Revolt

Itzacohuatl succeeded his father on the throne in 1579. At first his rule was peaceful, but with each passing year, his mental state deteriorated until he was no longer able to rule correctly. It was his mother, Chalchiuitl, who obtained the regency, but this started a conflict between her and the Huetlatoani’s wife, Icnoyotl. It would culminate in 1582 when the general Motelciuh entered Azcapotzalco on the invitation of Chalchiutl and her partisans and forcing their rivals to flee the general and his army. Motelciuh became co-regent, but the next year he forced Chalciutl to flee the city too, and took the control of the throne for himself.

Itzacohuatl’s brother, Oquitzlin, joined his mother’s side and launched a revolt against Motelciuh. By 1587 he had taken over some of the mountain passes that controlled the access to the capital. Two years later, Motelciuh fled the city with the “mad huetlatoani”. In 1590, both Itzacohuatl and Motelciuh were killed in battle, and Oquitzlin succeeded his brother on the throne. Nonetheless, the son of Motelciuh, Motelciuh the Younger, would continue his father’s fight until 1603, when he was killed during a raid against his camp.