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Federative Republic of Ardesia

República Federativa do Ardésia (Luzelese)
Flag of Ardesia, the Ardese
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Location of Ardesia (dark green) in Asteria Superior
CapitalRémont (executive and judicial)
Sao Agostino (constitutional and legislative)
Official languagesLuzelese
Ethnic groups
(2020)
44.12% White
31.88% Mixed
13.59% Black
9.41% Indigenous
~1% Other
Religion
(2019)
81% Sotirianity
-87.2% Solarian Catholicism
-12.8 Amendism
12% Irreligious
7% Indigenous Spiritism
Demonym(s)Ardese, Ardesian
GovernmentFederal semi-presidential constitutional republic
• President
Frédéric Ardila
Anton Caetano
Emanuel Joachim
LegislatureFederal Assembly
Federal Senate
Chamber of Deputies

Ardesia (Luzelan: Ardésia; Ardesian Luzelese: [aʁdizˈiɐ]), or the Ardese , officially the Federative Republic of Ardesia, or Federative Republic of the Ardese is a sovereign country located in Asteria Superior. It neighbors Eldmark to the west, Marchenia to the north, and Vinalia to the east. It shares maritime borders with Maracao, Satucin, and previously mentioned Eldmark. Ardesia covers a population of over 51 million. It is a federation comprised of 12 federal states and 2 federal districts. The capitals of Ardesia are Rémont, and Sao Agostino. Both cities accounting roughly 20% of the population. Other major cities are Méndi, Porto Sotiri, and Ravelle. The official language of Ardesia is Luzelan. Ardesia is heavily multiethnic, with many ethnicities of Euclean, Black, Mixed, and indigenous backgrounds. Solarian Catholicism is the predominant religion in Ardesia, with the secondary being indigenous spiritism.

Prior to colonization from Vespasian explorers of Poveglia. It had belonged to the indigenous peoples of Tetuolmec and Tzapotlan civilizations, both having spanned territories upon Ardesia proper. By 1523 it was colonized under the name of Novo Poveja and flourished to the cultivation of sugar canes and deposits of metals. The Solarian Church propped the spread of Sotirianity through the colony all while the region had been governed through Rémont. Vespasian was also widely spoken through the coats. Shortly after the establishment of Rémont, cities of Porto Sotiri and Sao Agostino were built up and swallowed the rest of the coasts for commerce. Many cultural indigenous influences had also been embraced around the 1600's.

After the major Ten Years' War and Povelia's defeat causing bankruptcy, the colony was sold to Paretia in 1724. Multiple Vespasian settlers and landowners fled the colony, notably a large portion remained in Sao Agostino and Rémont. Ardesia's nationstate identity fully solidified after the Ardesian War of Independence, waged during the revolutions in Paretia against the barely supplemented forces in Asteria. Ardesia was victorious under the armies of the United Provinces of the Ardese, triumphant over the battles of TBD and TBD. The first republic of Ardesia was notably unstable, encountering an issue centralizing the country around the concurrent capital of Rémont. The first president and remarked patriot of Ardesia, Jerónimo Mendez, quickly handed power over to a provisional government that operated as a benevolent dictatorship under patriot and General Augusto Pacheco. Under the dictatorship he sought to restore stability by reforms that still remain in use in Ardesia today.

Ardesia modernized and experienced internal stability for nearly 100 years, only adjusting the term limits of a president under the pretext of the War of the Arucian. The following decades of Ardesia were marked by the Great Collapse, ushering a party of functionalists to firstly be elected through the chambers. The chamber elections and failure of the aimed presidency by the candidate Dinis Montecara ended in a coup supported by the military in 1923. The Ardesian State collapsed by the end of the Great War, both by incursions of the Allied forces and rebel partisans. Ardesia was briefly under an interim government before entering the 'Old Republic', remarked by the staunch leftism and social welfare policies that were enacted. These were cutshort by another though lighter military coup, the Estado Novo dictatorship that ruled as a one party state until its collapse in 1980. A peaceful transition of power to the last provisional government had ensured Ardesia long sought stability. Under a new presidency foreign investment was reintroduced ushering a period of brief economic prosperity, including an upbringing of tripartism that evolved Ardesia into a near social democracy.

A set of measures to stabilize the economy had also removed hyperinflation. Many of the contemporary Ardesian domestic issues have pertained to corruption within spheres of media companies, notable political parties, coastal gang violence, and the mid-2010s poverty crisis. The economy is a developed mixed economy, with major exports of Iron, raw sugar, coffee, tourism, and automotives. Ardesia is a newly industrialized country, all while a regional power in the Asterias. Ardesia is the world's TBD by nominal GDP and TBD by PPP. It is a member of the Community of Nations, OAN, and ITO.


Etymology

The word 'Ardesia' comes from the Luzelese word 'Ardósia', meaning slate. It likely pertains to the sedimentary rock from few of the inactive volcanoes of the Arucian Coasts. Furthermore the Luzelese word 'Ardósia' comes from the Gaullican word 'Ardoise', and from the Tenic root *ard(u)- 'high, in altitude'

The official name of Ardesia in its colonial period was "Novo Poveja" (New Poveglia) derived from the Vespasian state who colonized the lands. People outside nobility and within commerce commonly called it "Land of the Slate", due to the immense amount of slate that was used in trade. The informal name usurped the official Vespasian name overtime, with the purchase of Ardesia by Luzela cementing this. The native Zapoyan name for Ardesia is "Tzapotlan", meaning "abundance of sapote".

History

Indigenous civilizations

Zapoyan ceramic ware

Human habitation of Ardesia has been dated all the way back to 10,000 BCE based off chipped pottery and stone works. Many of these discoveries were made recently in the northeast valleys of Ocotlan. Nomad and hunter gatherer societies had existed in the valley before settling down to the Gulf of Cresconio, developing works of surviving pottery. Agriculture eventually began with the cultivations of beans, tomatoes and maize. The now evolved hunter gatherer group had been the Zapoyans, which had overtaken a neighboring adversary being the Tetuolmec civilisations by 100 CE. The Tetuolmecs notably developed functioning social formations, effective water systems and uncommonly, large populations. The area of the Hueyatl Peninsula and the gulf grew a population of approximately 6 million people. Other groups grew to being mostly semi-nomadic with the niche of migrant farming and fishing. Much of the overtaken lands of the Tetuolmecs later formed the Tzapotlan empires. The Tzapotlan Empire already subjected closer local states and tribes and began to engage in protracted conflict with the encroaching presence of the Uuchmaans, already fighting the more farther empire of the Meyaletun. Zapoyans of the smaller states fled further down the Hueyatl as the established Uuchmaan city states kept a presence north of Ardesia’s three rivers and at the edges of the gulf by 500 CE. Near civil wars within the Zapoyans cities had also contributed to their losses. Pre-Bastine era borders of Ardesia had consistently changed from the previously marked wars. Many prisoners of war were to be later pressed into human sacrifices.

Tzapotlan Empire in 1522

Within the 10th century, the Tzapotlan empire further centralized power and expanded greatly into the west against the gulf. Cities such as the later Sao Agostino, Remont, and Ravelle were absorbed, with the inclusion of these settlements saw a flourish of culture. These settlements had later established more sites and structures. Cintliacan, now Porto Sotiri had been the echelons of the Tzapotlan empire for the centralized focus on law and religion. Outer regions were paid in tithes respectively. In the 13th century, Zapoyan victory was soon achieved after the Tzapotlan and smaller cities regained control of the east of Ardesia. This solidified with the ensured conditions of converting to the cultures. The neighboring empire of Calkhun centered in modern-day Itzel had strayed from war, instead of engaging in intricate webs of alliances between the concentrated mass of sole resistance in the north. Instances of opportunistic Uuchmaans started revolts. By the late 1400s, these groupings formed a loose confederation against the empire and slowly made ground against the now declining Tzapotlans with further centralizing enacted on the capital. Confederal grounds seemed to lessen as the later rebellions were crushed. The collapse of the Tzapotlan empire was furthered by the abrupt arrival of the Eucleans.

Novo Poveja and the conquest of Tzapotlan

Bastine's men sacking Cintliacan

In 1523 Ardesia had been discovered by explorers under the command of Angelo Bastin of Poveglia who were ordered by their Doge to begin furthering their trade monopoly of the Arucian Strait of the south the northern continent. The landing of the explorers had been in the choppy coasts of the Hueyatl nearing Remont, which eventually brought them to the governor of Remont, the last of Tzapotlan. Previously the islands of Sanslumière were the only areas that had been previously explored. Relations between Bastin and the now-approached emperor Cuauhtemoc turned sour after he first hand attempted to cooperate with the Povelians, who under Bastin held an ambition and threatened the sacking of the capital if relations were ruined (which would soon happen). Bastin and his men had already begun building relations with neighboring petty tribes and subjected areas with the offer of abolishing human sacrifices and tithes. With the failure of urgency to take action against the Povelians by Cuauhtemoc, a mustered revolt of Zapoyans was launched against the occupying force of 700 commanded by Julio Marihno.

The ensuing massacre at the capital perpetrated by Cuauhtemoc’s relatives had given the excuse of pulling Bastin’s men out of the city and regrouping in near disarray. An immediate consequence of the scuffle was the spread of smallpox among the natives fragile to the Old War disease. Many peers of Cuauhtemoc were caught in the spread of the disease, dying and causing further chaos. Bastin ordered the sacking of the city, and his forces quickly caught the vulnerable forces by surprise. Majority of the capital's population was killed off between the violence and the immense outbreak. Cuauhtemoc and his peers pulled out of the city in an attempt to retreat to Remont. While the conquest of the Tzapotlan’s began, many of the neighboring states and now rebelling subjects of the empire had spread and further descended the land into chaos. The spread of the smallpox outbreak had leaked out of the city, now ravaging populations indiscriminately. Sources (notably from the University of Montecara), had estimated the deaths from smallpox on the native population diminished it down to 2 million, from a population of more than 11 million.

The emperor and his regrouped forces had attempted to retake the capital and the concurrent rebelling city of nearby Francesco. With the vastly superior technologies of the Poveglians and the Tzapotlan diminished forces saw disastrous defeats, with the latter battles at Francesco seeing the capture of Cuauhtemoc and his brother Tezcacoatl being captured. While in captivity the two had died from smallpox, with the rest of the empire now in the reins of dismayed relatives. The east of the empire was easily taken by the Poveglians, remaining resistance was concentrated in the Remont and Sao Agostino, which saw ruthless use of biological warfare by the Bastin’s men. Many items such as clothes and blankets, and even corpses were used against the rebelling Tzapotlans. Swaths of land were shortly swallowed as the last remaining bastions of the native resistance were suppressed. Cuauhtemoc’s death largely marked the end of the empire, with the rest of native leadership nearly wiped from the plague which had mostly left the Poveglians unaffected. Bastin had been governor and captain general of the now renamed Novo Poveja, with the capital centered on Remont as Cintliacan had been largely ruined, only to be rebuilt and renamed as Porto Sotiri. Colonial rule was briefly contested with a rebellion in Mendi, however this was largely squashed. Future provisions in preventing rebellions saw local off coast garrisons in the Gulf of Cresconio which still lay today. Under the guise of protecting their trade ports and routes, Povelia soon engaged in a war against the Gorsanids in which they secured its economic arteries.

Ardesia within the Povelian dominions

The demographics of Euclean and Bahians were introduced, with the Eucleans derived from the Vespasian states to either administer the now centralized single capital of Remont. Eucleans arriving to Ardesia had also been there to extract the resources of many minerals and slate used in trade, bolstering the Poveglian network in the Asterias. Most worked as laborers along side the Bahians utilized as slaves, which had also further introduced diseases from the Old Word as the native populations were too weak to be forced into slavery. Black slaves worked in vast plantations remarkably in the capital and Mendi. Native populations subsided but remained significant, though emigration to Ardesia was further encouraged and even sponsored by Povelia and i’s dominions.Bandeirantes commissioned by the newly propped colonial council had further expanded Ardesia further north all the way to states such as Acopa and Tototltepec. Many of these hailed from the capital under a land grant. Majority of their background was of first generation Asteroindian background, and the motives of these were mainly off of profit. With the increased diversity was however scorned by the colonial administration acting off of segregation, mainly against black, Coiusan, and native people which saw the harshest treatment. This discrimination laid ahead the first instance of dissatisfaction in the colony. Laws implemented were of Solarian origin and naturally created a divide between the local level and colonial council. Non-mixed Povelians either born in the colony or from abroad had the highest privileges, and were mainly the first and sometimes the only group experiencing the immense wealth monopolized. Privileges such as higher education and access to clergy and civic offices were within the outnumbered urban areas against the still largely rural colony. Remont had and remains at the forefront of a world economy, having access to limitless cultures and trade.

Importantly evangelization had been one of the primary tasks of the established Solarian Church in Novo Poveja, which had been another catalyst for brief native revolts east of the colony. Sao Agostino soon became second to Remont as being a vital city, for facilitating the trade network and ports along the Arucian Strait, which saw vast modernization and migration in the 1600s. The racial segregation from the colonial whites had already soon lost its grasp, with the distinct mixed culture borrowing influence from all the notable groups which had formal legal designations, ranging from the mixed, indigenous, and black population; though this wouldn’t stop the prevalent slave revolts from the coasts and inland. A renowned slave revolt was at a plantation near Passos in 1701, where all participants either black or indigenous were captured and killed in a firing squad. Mitigations to lower the likelihood of revolts the colony brought reforms that limited the privileges of fully Euclean-born or Asterian Povelgians to areas of civic offices. Many forced labor of the slaves didn’t settle well as sugarcane were the reasons behind their large import to the colony, which had only begin declining as export as gold and silver usurped this for centuries.

Flight of the Vespasians, painting of 1909

In 1721 Novo Poveja had overseen the slow collapse of their oversee, as Povelia engaged and severely suffered huge losses in the Ten Years’ War, bankrupting the country as many resources had been drained. The costs of this war triggered the first instance of pro-independence movements, these were led by many enraged citizens soon to be martyrs and juntas established in Sao Agostino, Remont, and Porto Sotiri. The rebellions had raged for months before being stamped out, with the sour dissatisfaction as Valorea had been successful in a near bloodless movement. Novo Povelian society was rapidly radicalized as they were now under the near direct rule of the Euclean power and had already begun adapting the widely used informal name of the colony, Ardesia. By 1724 the colony was sold to the Paretian country of Luzela, held to hopefully secure the costs of the war. In reaction were again revolts that spread rapidly across the colony, many sectors of society began to romanticize the idea of a free and liberal Ardesia away from direct Euclean influence. Some of these evolved into works of writing later such as poems by Ardesian authors and writer Giovanni Fedele and Mario Moreno. As the transition to a Luzelese occurred one of the most significant population declines in recent human history occurred, as approximately 3 million people, mostly making up Vespasian, fled Novo Poveja. This marked the end of the Vespasian majority make up of Eucleans in Ardesia, although a significant remain in its most populous city. Luzelese colonization steered away from the name of Novo Poveja and embraced the common monicker of Ardesia for the colony, now overseeing a rush of ethnic Luzelese to the region.

Luzelese Colonization

By 1811, revolutionary Ardesian armies had secured multiple victories both ground and naval

Not long after the reins of colonial rule were handed to the Luzelese, Ardesia experienced an explosion of culture and national identity. Many enlightenment ideals supplanted the previous vie of a kingdom, but instead a republic with every man equal. Social classes remained agitated and unchanged as full abolition of institutions such as slavery had been introduced. The opportunities of the middle class saw the spread of works by various other authors and revolutionaries to further support separatism such as “A Razão” by Hugo Veratia, which opted for egalitarianism and prosed persuasive arguments. Ardesia had largely switched to speaking majority Luzelese, though there was recognition for speakers of Zapoyan and Vespasian, and with the renaming of cities such as Ravelle. Luzelese order and monopoly persisted as many hardline actions against separatism remained at large throughout the 18th century, worthy examples such as free slave states that were ultimately evolved congregated ghettos. The Euclean revolutions had spread more ideas among Ardesian liberal philosophers, Euclean upper-classmen, and even to the slowly dissatisfied coastal garrisons, they’ve been engaged in endless patterns of dismantling revolts.

A conspiracy focused on Sao Agostino attempted by loose bands of intellectuals, military personnel and clergy planned a hurtled revolutionary government in the city. These hopes along with the moved capital to Porto Sotiri, and the still attained slavery were caught in the eyes of the authorities, which decided few to be exiled and most to be publicly executed. Despite the conflicting views over egalitarianism between the conspirators and concurrent revolutionaries, anniversaries have been celebrated as national holidays. As their Euclean overseer had once again devolved into turmoil seemed to be a chance of opportunity, and their last straw. Now the moment had been seized by a seemingly unilateral alliance of the divided alliances of the colony, as the Paretians neared civil war in 1806 overseas.

Independence and early republic

Proclamation of the First Republic
General Augusto Pacheco, who led an interim government setting reforms and birthing the Second Republic

A band of revolutionary leaders began to concentrate in Porto Sotiri, with additions of many more leaders added later as the insisting colonial authorities failed and the conflict escalated into war, with their first congressional meetings held in 1809. This meeting was introduced as the first recorded legal document declaring separation from a Euclean power. The aftermath was the forging of the United Provinces of Ardesia, which was a short-lived revolutionary republic serving as a predecessor to the modern-day nation-state. The barely recognized nation waged the conflict with citizen militia and rebelling soldiers from numerous garrisons. Battles such as Avisio and Palma de Praia proved the aging of direct Euclean influence in colonial Ardesia. In 1813 the second meeting of the federal assembly at Remont shortly after the declared victory against the deprived Luzelese forces. Revolutionary Ardesia was recognized as a unitary political regime by Luzela, now independent though this would be met with multiple obstacles. Ardesia at the time practically functioned as a directorial republic with the established revolutionaries, and the first elections of 1813 would serve as a testament to the longevity of a republican Ardesia.

The nominees of the 1813 election were between the liberal Maximino Lázaro and moderate Jerónimo Mendez with the aftermath saw Mendez as the victor. This didn’t sit well with many of the liberals within Ardesia that differed in ideology usually based on the stances of the Solarian Church in the region. Events like these were one of the stepping stones for the disastrous “” known previously in modern Ardesia. Political turmoil immediately came with multiple uprisings across urban centers, namely for the secular stances that were hoped to be achieved against the Sotirist institution. Many more uprisings furthered due to the retained dynamic of the country internally, with Remont being a centered capital instead of the other and more equally vital hubs. Attempts at liberal reforms were in the wake of violence between Federalists and Centralists. The main center of conservatism in Ardesia was and remains the Solarian Catholic church, with many seen in the congress and notably military fields.

19th century and Second Republic

Proclamation of the Second Republic, painting of 1894


Arvelo would concentrate all of the development in coastal cities and invited open foreign investment. Meddling with the limitless terms of the presidency at the time would keep him in power extensively. The dislike of the forwarding centralization policies in Ardesia’s populated cities would spark brief state-level rebellions. Throughout 1872 the revolts only lasted for 5 months, as they were poorly organized and ended the state-level rebellions that had threatened the stability of Ardesia. Conservative rule seemed apparent after these rebellions ended, and the means of maintaining power had involved authoritarian means. Costs of completing multiple infrastructure projects came with utilizing force labor on indigenous and poorer populations resulting in hundreds of death from overworking. Politically and economically they suffered. Even with the beneficial infrastructure projects resulted in more direct power from the government, before this, the distance from hubs had given them more autonomy. Telegraph lines established would also give the government more direct responses to any regional revolts. Agitation from the opposition liberals had existed from namely all the attempts of exercising direct control of the states. Opposition mainly existed in the lower Chamber of Deputies, though the instances of rebellions led to their dissolutions by Arvelo even if he lacked formal powers to do so. These had been done with the no-confidence attempted unilaterally in a string of votes in short periods.

Internationally policies attempted in reinforcing regionalism against the Empires of Gaullica and Estmere strengthening relations with Aurucia would quickly turn against them. Arvelo had an aggressive position against the quasi-states such as Satucin, which was sought to be a fully independent nation. Majority of the populace had backed the stance, which fully wished for an Asterias free of Euclean dominions. Relations with Aurucia eventually evolved into an alliance that would soon secure the Arucian Straits. Immediately Gaullica and Estmere would reinforce their territories that had been beaten back by that Ardesian navies bulked up before the conflict. The War of the Arucian evolved into a defensive conflict, where the Gulf of Cresconio and the vital peninsulas of the Hueyatl and Ocotlan under siege by Gaullican forces. One of the capitals being Remont were under siege as well, and nearing unconditional did Arvelo surrender and exiled with the help of his generals. Remont and Sao Agostino were under occupation from 1885 to 1891. Ravelle served as the capital during these six years, while changes to the constitution were made over the term lengths of the president. The war had been catastrophic for Ardesia as land claims over the strait were relinquished and democracy was reinstated with no hopes of returning to ambitions internationally.

Great Collapse and Great War

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Dinis Montecara, Chanceller of the Ardesian State
Ruined town of Passagem do Rio

Prior to the Great War, in 1891 the Gaullicans exited Ardesia proper the nation returned to normalcy with the moderate presidency of Sergio Nico, who began deregulating foreign investment coupled and peddled a strong labor market. Short presidencies were eventually handed over to Luiz Horacio who unfortunately oversaw the Great Collapse unfold in 1913. Ardesia was quickly hit hard in the collapse, early against the mining industry and more severely with their sugar and coffee industries that were halted in production to desperately prevent bankruptcy. Open investments were immediately affected due to dependencies of external trade partners like Gaullica, Estmere, and Nuxica.

Bombing in Sao Agostino, 1934

Functionalism quickly arose out of the Collapse which was subsequently shaped by the event, a period of agitations between the far-left and far-right organizations had erupted as many parties engaged in open fighting. These agitations had already begin the appeasement towards the National Functionalist Party from the conservative elite. By the 1920s the general elections arose and between the arising functionalist leader Dinis Montecara and the conservative Gustavo Filipe. The turnout was a victory for Filipe, however, on October 30th, 1914 a military-backed coup had quickly captured Filipe and sent him into exile. The Ardesian State was declared and had immediately backed policies of militarism, rapid industrializing, and enforcing state Catholicism. Economic independence was heavily promoted while economic ties remained largely between Functionalist Gaullica, and other future principal powers involved in the Great War. Shortly Montecara would ban any political opposition parties, and suppressed personal freedoms. Multiple laws were enacted that allowed the named “Chanceler” to exercise a centralized totalitarian state. This dictatorship had already started repressive policies against the indigenous native populations, kicking them out of homes and mass arrest of Zapoyan males. The government concentrated its discrimination against various other groups ranging from political opponents to homosexuals, roughly 1 million victims faced these systemic murders. Ardesia eventually evolved their alliance with Gaullica in 14 into the newly formed Quadruple Alliance as an essential power. Build up between the neighboring nation of Eldmark and Ardesia immediately sparked in 1927. Ardesian mechanized units steamrolled the Eldmarsk military through the west, their forces poorly repelling the encroaching functionalist threat.

The Ardesian military had collaborated with Eldmarsk functionalists to bolster their occupation for harsh treatment. People under occupation were either to various camps within deep into the country as far as Ravelle. Supply from the powers in Euclea however placed the military at a disadvantage, which began to grow into supply shortages that would be unable to keep up with the vast grounds covered in the war against the now recovered Eldmarsk forces. Counteroffensives immediately followed into Marchenia and occupied Eldmark, eventually, the entire front collapsed as Ardesia began to deal with incursions from the Sao Agostino being naval landings, and bombings. Ardesian partisans began making ground as they had previously performed various guerilla operations that had been costly. Combined forces of Eldmarsk and partisan forces reached Remont, as the functionalists immediately surrendered as Montecara had committed suicide.

Populist Republic and Estado Novo

Student demonstration in Ravelle
Ardesian Air Force helicopter deployed against guerillas in Arauá, 1976

Post-Great War Ardesia is noted for the brief occupation and reintroduction of democracy. In 1936, the Third Republic or “Populist Republic” brought back a federal parliamentary government and a rewritten constitution partially by partisan leader Julio Avila and various allied supervisors. In a referendum, he took the presidency of Ardesia and won reelection before resigning in 1944. During this Ardesia had joined the Community of Nations, steadfast in the industry sector and the economy as well as the opening to more political opposition. Ardesia in this time grew to a multi-party presidential republic, with peaceful transferrals of power. Following Avila was successor Sergio Vidal, who had served 2 terms before resigning with the note-worthy centralized laws on the armed forces in the prevention of juntas. Vidal had made the short compromise with the opposition in a brief crisis that would limit the powers of the president. Neutralism lessened when it came to the close leak of violence from neighboring Vinalia, where the populist republic had been open more to the split north. After was former President of the Chamber of Deputies Omero Povel. Ardilla eventually restricted more political opposition and reintroduced policies on the armed forces, which had been criticized by military officers and various fringe conservatives. A wide variety of protests notably of students began to protest shortly followed on the renounced policies. Government response quickly escalated into violence in cities as instances of as many as hundreds of deaths were recorded. Povel was swiftly deposed in 1960 by a bloodless military coup perpetrated by elements of the army who sought to hold an enforced grip on the crisis.

Former Ardesian Army commander Dante Carmino had assumed control in an interim government, eventually concentrating into a military dictatorship. This era is known as the ‘New State’. The nation served as conservative, corporatist, and authoritarian throughout its reign. Oppression against institutional oppositionists remained, this was shadowed by the war focused in northeast Ardesia against socialists guerillas and was approached with indiscriminate land and air operations. Another crisis that partially shadowed and gave the regime slight popularity was the hardline approach to the Remont Drug War waged from the 70s to 80s. Violence had deesecelated before then and opening policy would’ve come shortly after public pressure from emerging hyperinflation and eventual death in 1983 of Carmnist strung leader Duarte Pier. The final years of the regime were led by the single term of Admiral Raphael Borges. A peaceful transition of power to a newer provisional government had ensured Ardesia long-sought stability. Under a new presidency, foreign investment opened ushering a period of economic prosperity, including an upbringing of tripartism evolving Ardesia into a near social democracy under Lorenzo Nestor. A set of measures to stabilize the economy had also removed hyperinflation.

Contemporary Era

President Frédéric Ardila, 2017-present

The transition to the fourth republic and the beginning of the new millennia faced the first crisis with an earthquake that had largely damaged Mendi and cost billions in 2001. Even with the stability saw the series of official and media corruption seen in elections, bribery, the inefficiency of the social services, city-level police corruption, and establishment tax evasion.

Party politics of Ardesia shifted as the broad demographics of conservative parties, liberal parties, and even reintroduced socialist parties had rebranded and splintered. Many cases of corruption were discovered in the scandals that followed the early 2000s and were highlighted on the various centre-left and centre-right coalitions that governed Ardesia. The centre-left coalitions have governed Ardesia with slight margins under the presidencies of the first Ardesian female president Carla Miriam and Agostin Ugo, with the current now Frédéric Ardila elected in 2017. All have which belonged to the Ardesian Social Democratic Party .

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