Bolshtine Republic

Bolshtine Republic Вели́кое Госуда́рство (Velíkoje Gosudárstvo)
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Capital and largest city	Odengrad
Official languages	Slabadic
Demonym(s)	Bolshtiner
Government	Presidential republic
Legislature	Supreme National Assembly
• Upper house	Security Council
• Lower house	All-Bolshtine Constituent Assembly

The Bolshtine Republic is a nation in Central Auressia.

History

Archaic Period

Proto-Auressians

Main article: Proto-Auressian people

Medieval Period

Barjan expansion

Main article: Barjans

Geography

Administrative divisions

The republic is divided into thirteen military districts, each of which has a civil and military governor, as well as four rural regions, which have a military administrator and no formal civil executive. These districts and regions were created during the mid-twentieth century as the scope of the central government was enlarged by military mining interests. During that time, the republic was centralized, but was less and less able to administrate the rapidly expanding bureaucracy to support popular public policies such as free public education, healthcare, and public events. As a result, different proposals were floated to the security council concerning the creation of a special administrative branch of the military or new offices available to civilians. Odingrad, in particular, was quickly growing and without a comprehensive urban plan, slums and suburbs appeared faster than the military could organize. At first the security council attempted to slow the growth to a manageable level by ordering construction work halted, but shanty towns emerged to replace home construction and often evaded efforts from the interior troops to destroy them. The Security Council issued special dispensation to a citizen-organized city council in 1956 and, over the next decade, granted several other cities similar special dispensation. In 1968, after spending hundreds of hours debating individual city requests, the Security Council ordered Cherstam and Malkenod to form city councils and then prevented future requests by organizing the remaining territory into districts under the nearest city-council.

From 1968 to 1987 there were no alterations to the established districts. In 1983, however, during a joint session of the Security Council and Constituent Assembly, a group of protestors from Aristovia were allowed into the chamber by an Assemblyman; the protestors were attempting to raise awareness for abuses from the city-centric administration system. While the initial protestors were arrested and the Assemblyman ejected, public outcry continued to escalate, especially in 1985 after the execution of protest leaders. The Security Council established a commission to investigate abuses, although by this time they were already well documented. Abuses ranged from shutting off power to rural areas during peak demand to tearing out electrical infrastructure to sell the raw materials. In order to ameliorate this problem, the Security Council first dismissed seven civil governors for corruption (although they were never charged with a crime) and then removed some of the largest, least densely populated territories from urban control by organizing new rural districts with only a military governor. This move was met with approval in the military districts, but small towns and cities still under the district system protested with another wave of special dispensation requests. In another compromise, the Security Council changed the seat of power the Dyatlov district to Yarkavod, which had surpassed the former in population. After this compromise was handed down, Security Council aides began issuing citations and fines for further special dispensation requests.