Mascyllary Kingdom

Mascyllary Kingdom Maskillisches Königreich
1793–1924
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: Vereint in Blut und Schwur "United in blood and oath" Nihil sine Deo "Nothing without God" (Cambran)
Anthem: Sieg mit uns (official anthem of the King) "Victory with us"
The Mascyllary Kingdom on the eve of the Great War in green, territories lost after 1841 in light green
Capital	Langquaid (1793-94) Königsreh (1794-)
Common languages	Official: Hesurian Unofficial: Cuthish Valimian Temarian Falian
Religion	Semitarism
Demonym(s)	Mascyllary
Government	Federal semi-constitutional monarchy
King
• 1793–1827	Lucas I
• 1827–1847	Lucas II
• 1847–1882	Sophia I
• 1882–1892	Frederick I
• 1892–1923	Louis I
Prime Minister
• 1793–1835	Wilhelm von Stenreck (first)
• 1924	Justus of Holnia (last)
Legislature	Parliament
• Upper house	Reichssenat
• Lower house	Reichsrat
Historical era	1793–1923
• Unification	23 May 1793
• Constitution adopted	17 April 1796
• Great War	8 September 1910
• Treaty of Lehpold	10 March 1917
• Mascyllary Revolution	13 May 1923
• Abdication of Louis I	2 June 1923
• Marlau Constitution	18 January 1924
Population
• 1800	26,800,000
• 1900	44,570,000
• 1909	47,720,000
• 1920	63,220,000
Currency	Mascyllary Karning (1793–1910) Mascyllary Pappemark (1910–1918) Mascyllary silver mark (1918–1923)
Preceded by Succeeded by Elbgau Confederation Kingdom of Adwhin Kingdom of Holnia Grand Duchy of Birchau Grand Duchy of Tudonia Grand Duchy of Amretz-Heinrichsbronn-Amsern Duchy of Welsbach-Gehrach Principality of Engelbart-Maining and Saalburg Principality of Würthburg Mascylla
Today part of	Cuthland Lilienburg Mascylla Temaria

The Mascyllary Kingdom (Hesurian: Maskillisches Königreich), also inofficially known as the Kingdom of Mascylla (Hesurian: Königreich Maskillien) or simply Mascylla, was the Mascyllary nation state that existed from the unification of Mascylla in 1793 until the abdication and execution of King Louis I in 1923. The Mascyllary Kingdom was composed of 20 constituent states, most of them had been ruled by a royal family (referred to as the Reichsfürste); these included five kingdoms, three grand duchies, five duchies, three principalities, and four independent cities.

The unification and establishment of Mascylla was belatedly concluded with the Treaty of Langquaid signed on 18 May 1793 to end the fighting of the War of the Five Kings, the subsequent proclamation of Lucas I, King of Aldia, as Mascyllary King (Maskillischer König) in Langquaid on 23 May, and the adoption of the Constitution on 17 April 1796. On the basis of the hegemony of the House of Ahnern over Mascylla as a whole and the exclusion of Adwhin from supranational power, the Mascyllary Kingdom was the first Mascyllary nation state in history.

The kingdom saw a major and gradual transformation of society and economy owed to the Industrial Revolution, while it socially and structually began to reform itself from an agrarian state to an industrial nation, with significant service, banking and manufacturing sectors and a steadily growing economy (colloquially called the Gründerjahre). The increasing emancipation of the growing middle class of entrepeneurs and politically active citizens prompted social reforms such as increased global trading, suffrage and socialism as political directive of the rising worker class. Structural basis of these developments include a rapid population growth, large migration and urbanisation.

The development of domestic and foreign policy was dominated by the fallout of the Second Cutho-Mascyllary War of 1839-41 and worsening enmity to Cuthland. Succeeding prime ministers and kings, most notably King Louis I, designed an intricate international network of alliances with Lavaria, Falland, and later Sarrac, similar to Wilhelm von Stenreck's original foreign policy in the 1830s abolished by the more ambitious Lucas II, which sought to combat the Central Alliance's powers of Cuthland and Dulebia in Berea. While the alliances were supposed to ensure peace among major powers, Louis I intensified the role of Mascylla as an imperialist and great power, vying to regain lost territories from Cuthland as revanchism and expand its colonial empire in overseas. International conflicts of interest arose quickly and laid the foundations of the later Great War.

The rise of labour unions and popular parties precipitated the liberalisation of the press and the growing importance of popular opinion in politics. Because of that, the government tried persuading and assuring the public through an imperialist foreign policy, a notably anti-social democratic internal policy and a popular expansion of naval forces (Reichsmarine). These interests found themselves at odds with Cuthish and Dulebian Empire, the latter of which being alienated by Mascylla's action despite their historic friendship through the rule of the Ahnern-Loxstedt-Hoeveden-Zhdanovy monarchy in Dulebia since the 1870s. The Great War was greatly exhausting and the eventual victory in 1916 came at a great cost in human and economic resources. The ratification of the Treaty of Lehpold in 1917 allowed Mascylla to reclaim its territories lost in 1841, pressure Cuthland into enormous war reparations and solidify itself as a forefront global hegemon. The Mascyllary colonial empire reached its territorial zenith by the 1920s, but the gradual rise of military influence on internal policy and the effects of intense warfare caused social and eventually political upheavel.

The Crowned Republic and the abdication of Louis I were declared during the October Revolution of 1923 and intense political and societal clashes and infighting. The National Assembly at Weidenau in 1924 constituted the kingdom as a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, and the first Prime Minister to wield a parliamentary majority, Peter Zeschtemann, was subsequently elected. Present Mascylla is identical to the Mascyllary Kingdom of 1793 according to international law, even though its form of government and territory have changed multiple times since.