Greater Aestia

Confederate States of Greater Aestia
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: "Sic Semper Tyrannis" "Thus Always to Tyrants"
Anthem: The Bonnie Red Flag
Capital	Tuckborough
Largest city	Stockton
Official languages	Reynish
Religion	Dissenting- 68.8% Catholic- 30.1% Other- 1.1%
Demonym(s)	Aestian
Government	Confederal Presidential Republic
• President of Aestia	James Robinson
• Vice President	Robert Musgrove
History
• Discovery by Hestaican Explorers	1544
• Reynish Settlement Begins	1665
• Declaration of Emancipation	March 5, 1824
• The Great Oppression	1824-1825
• Proclamation of Independence	September 5, 1825
• War of Freedom	1825-1828
• Confederacy Formed	October 1, 1825
• Treaty of Tuckborough	November 11, 1828
• War of Coastal Aggression	1875-1876
• Davis Proposal	July 3, 1876
Population
• 1932 estimate	13,500,000
Currency	Aestian Pound
Driving side	right

The Confederate States of Greater Aestia, known more commonly as Greater Aestia or simply  Aestia, is a sovereign power on the southwestern Aestia in the world of Verthandi, bordered by Chassar to the Southwest, Goldkuste to the West, the Pan-Cavado Republic to the North, and Wiñaypachatinsuyu to the Northeast. A large and very geographically diverse country, although the coast was discovered by Hestaican settler, it was not largely settled until movements of settlers from Reynland in the late seventeenth century. The collection of colonies of the region that became known as Greater Aestia over time grew and developed. Each colony developed its own identity and had its own distinct geography, with the coastal provinces being more urban and the inland provinces becoming more agrarian, and in addition, each colony had its own legislature and governed itself. Many Nymerian slaves were taken from Freijian colonies and transported to Aestia to assist in the development of agricultural growth. Soon Greater Aestia became the breadbasket of the region, growing wealthier by not only developing profitable crops but as well as supplying most of the food for Aestia. The backbone of the Greater Aestian economy soon came to become mostly agricultural, with the cities developing but never reaching the level of development that São Marcos did. The colonies themselves began to grow further apart, with the coastal cities being more Catholic and the majority of the country being agrarian and Dissenting. As the colonies began to rapidly expand and develop in the early nineteenth century. In 1824 tensions boiled to a head after the Reynish King, upon request from abolitionists from the urban regions, to end slavery. When the inland colonies refused, the Reynish Parliament levied heavy taxes against the inland colonies, starting uprisings. Reynish troops were deployed to help keep order, but tensions still continue to worsen and worsen. The inland colonists formed a Congress and the inland colonies declared their independence from Reynland as a Confederation of states in 1825. The coastal colonies became divided, some wishing to join in the Independence and others to remain loyal to the Reynish Crown. However, the Reynish troops were not enough to support the coastal loyalists, and the armies of the Confederacy were able to overcome most resistance, conquering the loyalist holdings on the coast and driving the Reynish back. Defeated, the Reynish singed the Treaty of Tuckborough in 1828. The Confederacy now was in complete control of Greater Aestia, although the central government was fairly weak. Instead most of the power rested in the states themselves, each of them progressing a strong degree of autonomy. However, the central government was dominated by the upper classes of the inner states, and the coastal cities were generally seen as lesser, especially for having the majority of the Catholic minorities, who got treated as second class citizens. However, tensions from slaves and from abolitionists did not go away, but instead grew for forty more years, until the Coastal states began a large revolt against the Confederacy, declaring their express desire to "tear down the Confederacy". Combined with unrest from the slaves, the coastal forces gained a few key victories in the early stages of the war, forcing the Confederacy's chief general, Howard Davis, to begin to arm slaves and promise them freedom. Despite the outrage it caused amoung the upper class, nevertheless the moved proved highly successful, and the Confederacy's forces swelled, eventually crushing the forces of the coastal cities. However, although slavery was no longer official, nevertheless de facto most of the freed slaves now worked for the upper class. Since then, the states are still divided between inland and coastal, and racial tensions continue to remain. Catholics and freed slaves continue to be treated as largely second class citizens, and the government has continued to be dominated by the upper class, however, the regime also enjoys a great deal of support from the Dissenting Whites, who embrace the the ideal of liberty and freedom which the Confederacy professes to uphold. Currently there are 13 states of the Confederacy.