Guadalupador

Federal Union of Guadalupador Federali Unyone do Guadalupador
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Motto: "One History, Many Peoples"
Anthem: "Our Blessed Land, Triumphant"
Capital and largest city	Nosamo
Official languages	Dorian, English, French
Ethnic groups (2015)	94.3 % Guadalupadorian 4.7 % Seitrian 1.0 % Other
Demonym(s)	Guadalupadorian
Government	Federal Republic
• Grand Premier	Enrique Yanama
• Vice Premier	Bori Manuel-Masumaha
• National Assembly Speaker	Saito Marcos
• Chief Justice	Dirudia Veldthi
Legislature	National Assembly
Establishment
• Empire of Nosamo Declared	19 November 2580 BCE
• Treaty of Sharakov	January 546 CE
• Yama Umendo Crowned Empress of Patra	October 761 CE
• Olahnka Annexation	952 CE
• Start of Seitrian Occupation	July 23 1470
• The Accords of Independent Rule	August 31 1716
• Dorian Tripartite Alliance Established	September 1 1867
• Federation of Guadalupador Established	March 12 1893
• Federal Union of Guadalupador Established	June 10 2013
Area
• Total	6,630,900 km2 (2,560,200 sq mi)
Population
• 2017 estimate	200,450,000
Currency	Federal Rublyen (GFR)
Time zone	ESDT
Driving side	right
Calling code	+701
Internet TLD	.gu

The Federal Union of Guadalupador (Dorian: Federali Unyone do Guadalupador) commonly called Guadalupador, is a Representative Republic in Supaciviga. Guadalupador is bordered by Itarica to the east, Aletare to the north, the unincorporated lands of Seitra to the south, and the Galacitha Ocean to the west. Guadalupador covers 6,630,900 square kilometers and has an estimated population of 200,450,000 as of 2017. Guadalupador comprises of 35 Provinces and Two Overseas Territories. Modern Guadalupador was founded in 1893 following an invasion by the Empire of Seitra, prompted the unification of three states into one Guadalupador initially ruled by a Triumvirate.

Etymology

Guadalupador originated from Seitrian documents and texts dating from the 12th Century which Francified the Old Dorian term Kahtalupatar, which literally translates to: "The People of the River Khatala (Guadala) and the Lupan Cliffs." Kahtalupatar referred to the ethnic group that inhabits present-day Guadalupador (Dorians), and was what the local people referred to themselves as when asked by foreigners.

History

Prehistory

Anthropological estimations of Dorian settlement into present day Guadalupador are as far back as 7,000 BCE to as recent as 4,500 BCE. Recent archaeological findings have determined that hunter-gatherer populations were well and fully present within the area circa 4,000 BCE, and that static horticultural populations emerged in southern Guadalupador around 3,800 BCE, while Nomadic Pastoral populations roamed the plains and steppe of northern Guadalupador around the same time. According to the K'hadai'sh, the oldest recorded writing found in Guadalupador, the Dorian people were said to have originated far to the north until a time when the Gods "revealed a path to the most blessed land" and migrated southward to an "untouched, and sacred land."

Empire of Nosamo (2580 BCE-0 CE)

Around 2600 BCE, the first city-states of Yama, Nosamku (Present-day Nosamo), Llovia, and Deu were established and began trading with eachother. By 2586 BCE each city began to be influenced by the increasing power of the city-state of Nosamku, the city-state forced Yama, and Llovia under its trade league: The Nosamo League. Deu on the other hand began to militarize to counter being economicaly dominated by Nosamku. Yama, and Llovia later lost their independence when the Empire of Nosamo was proclaimed by its First Emperor: Rabkanadas I on the 19th of November, 2580 BCE.

Rabkanadas I was the known as the "Avatar of Warriors". Later, Rabkanadas I would be deified in the form of Caedas, Dorian God of War. He proclaimed the Empire of Nosamo and expanded his empire with the conquests of the northern tribes, and waged a successful war against the city-state of Deu. Two groups of Deuian refugees fled into the mountain range to the west and the other group fled north to the Lupan coast and formed the city-states of Avhano (Modern-day Avijanos) and Enrico. The Age of the Nosamoan Empire lasted for 680 years until the empire began to decline, the economy was dying, various civil wars devistated the empire and dissolved in 0 CE.

The Dorian Dark Age (0-546 CE)

With the death of the Nosamoan Empire, came new independent cities, Olahn and Enrico had lost contact and formed their own languages, and culture, while New Yama, Shogu, Sharakov, and Galpa took land from the former Nosamoan Empire, now just a small city-state. Various alliances were made between the nations making a war inevitable between the Patra Alliance led by Sharakov, and the Yama League led by New Yama. The First Internal War lasted from 532 to 546 CE, it costed tens of thousands of lives and ended when the city of New Yama was burned to the ground by Patra Alliance forces in 545 CE (The peace treaty was written in 546.) With the Patra Alliance victorious, it became the grandest power in the region, completely oblivious of the growing power of Olahn, and Enrico. The Patra States rediscovered many lost technologies from the First Empire of Nosamo, and had a sort of technological renaissance, giving them an advantage over other kingdoms in the area. Finally free of threats from the North and West, the Patra States, under the dictator, Bansua finally ventured South into what would be Seitra, known at this time as the Seitre Feudal Kingdom, in 594 CE. The Patra States have known of the existence of the Feudal Kingdom for decades, the only reason that they didn't venture south was that the Patra States were occupied with consolidating their power, and rebuilding from the First Internal War. Contact with the Seitre Feudal Kingdom at first was a tense matter, but in time, the two states became trusted allies.

Emergence of Patra (670-715 CE)

In 670, Dictator Ideyoshi rebuilt the city of Nosamo as the capital of the Patra States, and started to send scouts North of Guadalupador, to find new lands to conquer, since the Patra States, were beginning to become overpopulated. Various kingdoms were discovered, and Ideyoshi deemed them to be inferior and conducted several military campaigns in order to conquer these kingdoms, all of these seven campaigns and expeditions were considered failures, since the army was mismanaged by incompetent generals, most of which were Ideyoshi's cousins and brothers, all of which had only rudimentary military experience. After these failures, the Dictator decided to isolate the Patra States from the rest of the world, shutting down most trade markets in the Seitre Feudal Kingdom, and in other nations. Ideyoshi was becoming more and more incompetent as he grew older, and several bureaucratic officials thought that the aging Dictator needed to be dealt with. The bureaucratic officials, led by an official named Maikeno ousted Ideyoshi from the throne and installed himself as Dictator. Maikeno made sweeping reforms all throughout the land, lessening taxes on the country's lower merchant classes, and lessening regulations on international trade, and bringing the Patra States out of its 23 year era of isolation in 715.

The Yan Period (715-760 CE)

The Patra States then experienced a new age of peace and harmony, expanding far into the north, and down along the western coast. Maikeno led the Patra States as a strong but immensely paranoid leader. He had his family under constant surveillance, and created the first secret police force in the region, known as the Yan. Maikeno used the Yan with deadly efficiency, making any political or civil opponent of his disappear as if they had never existed. Ironically the Yan would depose Maikeno, and kill him in 732, replacing him with the leader of the Yan, Vyche Umendo. Vyche Umendo was a tyrant, as simple as that. The bureaucracy under him was entirely filled with members of the Yan. He had control of the entirety of the government, giving him absolute power. Vyche Umendo was so thorough in his control, that he made sure even local governors and mayors were members of the Yan. Umendo's espionage network was one of the most extensive in history, it was as if he could see and hear anything in the Patra States. His reign was one of terror and intimidation, public executions were common all over, over the smallest offences. Umendo was a bloodthirsty and power hungry man, praying for war. In 760, Umendo had the army sack his own city of Sharakov, because he was under the impression that they were going to secede from the Patra States. That impression was later proven to be false in his own journals, he sacked Sharakov because he wanted to and that he was fully aware of the fact that Sharakov was not going to secede.

The Patran Golden Age (761-950 CE)

With the death of Umendo in 761, his daughter, Yama Umendo took to the throne of Patra, becoming the first woman leader in Guadalupador since the days of the Empire of Nosamo. She was known as Yama the Reformer, or Yama the Emancipator she loosened control of the Yan on the government and the army. She stopped the public executions, and the era of fear made by her father. Like her father, she was a strong leader, that freed up the mercantile class from government control, as well as the citizenry. Yama Umendo was very popular, and had many supporters from all classes. Once again the Patra States entered a golden age under her and her children's rule. Yama's reforms were numerous: The establishment of a standing military with mass produced equipment, the formation of a national education system teaching hundreds of thousands of children, the establishment of Old Dorian as a language to unite the peoples under Patra's banner, as well as ordering her scribes to form a new alphabet: Yamah'ksh. Unfortunately, it was not to last, in the year 942 after a failed military campaign on the island of Ku, the Patra State's economy collapsed due to the lack of trade between the Seitre Feudal Kingdoms. The reason was that the Seitrians found that the rising power of the Olahnka Feudal Kingdom across the mountains in the East more profitable of a trading partner. The economic collapse was catastrophic, the state couldn't pay for the military, or anything else for that matter, this gives the Olahnka Feudal Kingdom the perfect excuse to annex the dying Patra States. In 950, after several years of civil unrest, with the royal family killed during the process, the Olahnka Feudal Kingdom annexed the Patra States.

Olahnka Feudal Period and Growing Seitrian Influence (950-1470)

The age of the Olahnka Feudal Kingdom was a relatively short one, of course it spanned across all of Guadalupador. During this time, Old Dorian became the language of the land, no longer restricted to business and government affairs. Old Dorian helped unite various cultures and people together forming the first snippets of a national identity. During the time of the Olahnka Kingdom, the first recorded usage of the name/title Guadalupador is used, for the people along the western coast of the kingdom: Kahdalupatar (Literal Translation: The People of the River Guadala [Khatala], and the Lupan.) With the Olahnka Feudal Kingdom deeply fragmented by a war of succession in 1300, two Dorian states existed: The Republic of Enrico, and the Olahn City-States. While the Kingdom of Greater Seitra annexed the remaining land from the fragmentation. A unified Seitrian state emerged two decades before, in 1280 when the Seitrian High King, Jacques David XI consolidated his power, taking it away from the Seitrian nobles and making the Seitre Feudal Kingdoms into the Kingdom of Greater Seitra. With the fragmentation of the Dorian states, the Kingdom of Greater Seitra took advantage of the situation by arranging several high-profile political marriages and small annexations of city-states.

Seitrian Occupation (1470-1716)

The age of the Unified Seitran/Guadalupan Empire began in 1470 when the Emperor of Seitra married Princess Isimalda I of Nosamo. The Greater Seitrian Empire was the dominant power in the region at the time. It encompassed all of Seitra and modern-day Guadalupador (minus the islands.) Hailing from the southern reaches, the Seitrians seemed like completely different people. The Seitrians spoke a completely different language than the people of Guadalupador did, speaking what the proto-Dorians called "Seitrian," which happened to be the Old Dorian word for French. The people of Seitra also had a different outlook on women as a whole, seeing them as subservient to their husbands or fathers. Most proto-Dorians considered this "traditional" outlook as backward, and sacrilege. As Guadalupadorian societies considered women to be leaders of communities, and as equals alongside their male counterparts. The Seitrians also brought a strange religion to the land of Guadalupador. Christianity was introduced to Guadalupador in 1386 by Seitrian Missionaries, but quickly spread through the land due to conversion, both forced and voluntary. Most people in Guadalupador preferred the "Old Gods", and "Mother Veii" to just one, nameless, God. With the Empire of Seitra having domain over Guadalupador, the laws of Seitra fell onto the Dorians. According to Seitrian law, women were not considered citizens, and any governmental post must be held by a Christian, preferably of Seitrian birth, homosexuality was criminalized with those that were guilty being executed, and Seitrian culture was to be the dominant culture that every person had to follow. To the Dorians, these laws infringed on their religious freedoms and their culture as a whole. These laws stirred sentiment among the people of Guadalupador, so much so that the Union was later destroyed by constant ethnic and cultural conflicts between the Seitrans and Dorians, culminating in the elimination of Seitrian rule in Guadalupador in 1716 with the signing of The Accords of Independent Rule.

The Modern Period (1716-1891)

Once again, the Dorians had control of their own destinies, the new powers, known as the Republic of Nosamo, the Empire of Enrico, and the Kingdom of Olahn would exist in a relative peace, not trying to provoke one another. Usually banding together to fight off a foreign force, with an official and permanent alliance between the three states emerging in 1867. They lived this type of existence for a bit more than a century and a half, until a time of great crisis. This alliance of the three states was formally known as the Dorian Tripartite Union, and within times of foreign incursion they would call one another together to form a temporary alliance, and act as one singular state for the duration of the crisis, the state would be formally known as “Guadalupador.”

The War of Unification (1891-1895)

1891, a time of turmoil in the Dorian Tripartite Union’s neighbor to the south, Seitra. Seitra was once again on the war path, the Seitrian Empire conquered their southern neighbors, and were aiming to reclaim their lost Dorian provinces. On the 3rd of June, 1892 the two million man Seitrian Imperial Army conducted one of the largest invasions in modern history, invading the Republic of Nosamo and overrunning its military within weeks. The Nosamoan royal family, nowhere to be found was replaced by a Republic in exile. The two other governments then began to mobilize for their own defense against the Empire of Seitra. The Republic of Nosamo then organized a resistance to fight against the Seitrians. As the resistance took the Seitrian's attention from invading Enrico and Olahn the two countries fully mobilized their armies and counterattacked against Seitra, invading and liberating occupied territory. The Republic of Nosamo then returned to the capital and reorganized the resistance into the army and helped fight off the Seitrians in what would be known as the War of Unification.

On the 12th of March 1893, the Federation of Guadalupador was established by unifying all three governments into one, a triumvirate making up of the new King of Guadalupador, the President, and the Premier of the Legislature. The war lasted into the winter of 1895 when the Seitrians signed a peace treaty known as the Olahn Accords. This ended the war and embarrassed the Seitrian Empire that three nations could stand up against the largest country in the region and win.

The Turn of the Century (1900-1930)

In 1900, Guadalupador held its first constitutional convention to determine the fate of the Triumvirate structure of the early Guadalupadorian government. The Federation of Guadalupador emerged from the Constitutional Convention as the Federation Constitution abolished the Guadalupadorian Monarchy and fully established a representative republic. Following the finalization of the Constitutional Convention, a referendum was announced to determine if the people of Guadalupador would support the continued existence as one country or revert back to the Dorian Tripartite Alliance structure. By the time of the Referendum 98% of Guadalupadorian citizens supported the status quo over the old Dorian Tripartite Alliance. Guadalupador's first forays into international diplomacy included finalizing the Treaty of Echevarria with Seitra in 1901 and establishing relations with the Principality of Simendosa in 1907.

Over the course of the 1920's Guadalupador played a large role in the affairs of its southern neighbor Seitra after the assassination of the Seitran Emperor Dominic I in 1913 sparked a period of civil war in Seitra. Guadalupador supported Gilbert du Rien's claimant as Emperor Philippe I with material and military intervention in 1917 that ended in failure by 1923 when Gilbert du Rien was killed at the battle of Andalais. Following the death of Gilbert du Rien Dorian troops withdrew from Seitra, evacuating the remainder of du Rien's supporters and family in the process. In 1925, the Seitran War of Succession ended with the ascension of the Comte D'Sondres, Romain Sant-Giles. Sant-Giles led a vehemently anti-Dorian faction during the civil war and ascended to the throne as Dominic II. Dominic II continued to harbor anti-Dorian sentiments as he blamed Guadalupador for inciting the War of Succession in the first place by orchestrating the assassination of Dominic I. By 1930, Guadalupador formally recognized Dominic II's claim to the Seitran throne though very begrudgingly. The ascension of Dominic II put Dorian/Seitran relations back down to an all-time low and would remain there for several decades.