East Chanchajilla
Federation of Chanchajillan Republics | |
|---|---|
 Flag | |
 East Chanchajilla (white) and the State of Turania (red), which is contested with West Chanchajilla and Paraboca | |
| Capital | Vilanja |
| Recognised national languages | Spanish, English |
| Government | Federal Republic |
| Gideon Boer | |
| Establishment | |
• Unification of Chanchajilla | 1450 |
• Chanchajilla breaks apart | 1932 |
• Republic of Chanchajilla | 1951 |
| Population | |
• 2020 estimate | 47,800,000 |
| Currency | Chancu Dimo |
| Date format | mm-dd-yyyy |
East Chanchajilla, or as it is less commonly referred to as the Republic of Chanchajilla and the official title of Federation of Chanchajillan Republics is a nation located on the continent of Euronia in the Coalition of Crown Albatross. It is landlocked and bordered by Zamastan to the south, Paraboca to the north, West Chanchajilla to the west, and Avergnon in the east. The west and east had been unified as Greater Chanchajilla from their respective kingdoms since 1450, although a brutal occupation and resulting violent Parabocan War eventually eroded the social and governmental states of the nation. The separation of Chanchajilla and the ensuing Chanchajillan Civil War in 1932-44 resulted in two separate nations; east and west. East Chanchajilla, which remained a capitalist-centered economy with more political freedoms than their neighbors to the west, gained significant aid from Zamastan following the conclusion of the World War, and they provided packages that built their military, infrastructure, and economics.
East Chanchajilla is considered developing, and has a semi-industrialised economy with a well-integrated agriculture sector and a growing services sector. It is ranked among the emerging economies of the world, and is backed by one of the world's largest and fastest-growing middle class. The country continues to face challenging problems, including overpopulation, terrorism, poverty, illiteracy, and corruption. East and West have also had multiple violent and sporadic conflicts between on their border in the past century, including the South Turania Offensive.
History
Early Age
Unification of Kingdoms
Parabocan Occupation
Throughout the late 1700's and early 1800's, the military dictatorships of Paraboca thrived to conquer territory to reach their imperial boundaries to the Toyana Ocean and eventually, in a long shot endeavor, the Olympic Ocean. In 1788, the Parabocan Empire captured Vilanja after a month-long siege, ultimately annexing much of the eastern regions of Chanchajilla into their empire. Thirty years later in 1819 in another bout for resource-fueled expansion, a more aggresive push westward brought the Parabocan armies to Ivora. Throughout the next twenty years, Parabocan armies began to seize area around the Louise Mountains and eventually into indigenous Zamastanian lands in current day Aunistria, Mayotte, and Pahl, where the fledgling tribes were either conquered or retreated north towards the newly established nation of Zamastan. President Tomias Hapson established projects to house and protect fleeing indigenous refugees, one of the first refugee-crisis management projects in history.
In 1832, Paraboca invaded the Kingdom of Mayotte, seizing their southern shoreline and effectively capturing their access to the Toyana Ocean. In 1840, they moved northward and captured territory that bordered Zamastan's newly established frontier. President Hapson met with Parabocan leader Osi Jo Oberk when the latter traveled to Tofino, and aggressively talked him down from any more aggression westward, to which the Parabocans agreed. Instead of expanding southwest, the Parabocans moved directly south, capturing swaths of land up to just shy of the southern border of Avergnon.
As the manifestation of the expanse and settling of the east by Zamastanians continued in the 1850s and 60s, the Empire of Paraboca, which had recently annexed the Kingdom of Mayotte, and settlers came into occassional conflict with one another. President Elliott North in 1861 ordered Zamastanian troops to mass around the as of yet undeclared border on the frontier, which provoked the 1862 Battle of Joanah Ranch where Zamastanian settlers, soldiers, and Parabocan troops exchanged gunfire and dozens were killed. In response, the Empire began massing troops in the Mayotte region, threatening to invade Zamastan if the continued inhabitation of the newly annexed land broke into Parabocan lands. North ceased the military activity in the region, but settlers continued to create their homesteads and grow settlements in the area. Emperor Cardoza III, recognizing that the threat of the Zamastanian military had pulled away, decided that the annoyance of Zamastanian settlers would have to be a regular disturbance that he wouldn't act on for the sake of maintaining a relatively stable empire.
The dynamic greatly shifted in 1867 when President Bryson Woodward further encouraged farming and ranching in the new frontier, with these activities often times crossing into the imperial territory. This further angered the empire, especially Emperor Cardoza IV (III's son who inherited power after his father's assassination in 66'), who began issuing bounties to Parabocan homesteaders who were able to kill Zamastanian army officials and present the heads of their victims to their regional offices. This practice, known as the Cardoza Bounties, resulted in over 200 army commanders and soldiers being killed in ambush style attacks on the frontier, causing newly elected President William Castovia in 1869 to declare Paraboca "the great enemy", and resentment between the two powers continued to grow over the next year as attacks and rhetoric continued.
The Parabocan War
Separation and Civil War
Republic
In 1949-50, Drambenburgian airraids on East Chanchajillan military supply storages, provoked by the rampant escalation of the World War ongoing in neighboring Avergnon, prompted the nation to offer refugee status to thousands of Avergnonians. The country eventually joined the war, allowing Zamastanian troops to use their territory as a staging area to recapture Avergnon, and often times fighing alongside them in massive battles. East Chanchajilla reformed into a republic following their entrance to the war and in the midst of the conflict, electing their first ever President, Biel Morata, in 1951. The World War concluded in 1954 with the surrender of Drambenburg and the Dominion of the Sanguine Church, and East Chanchajilla rapidly began to modernize and flourish with a more freed up capitalist styled economy and a more open system of government. Aid from countries like Zamastan and Emmiria flowed into the country as well, further propelling their prospects.
In 1972, war erupted between West Chanchajilla and East Chanchajilla over the West's military dictator, Parish White's, goal to reunite the two nations after nearly 40 years of separation. The war intensified as Western forces steamrolled into the East. The confrontation sparked major fears across the world, especially with the communist powers such as Yuan and Beleroskov (who backed White's socialist-style government), and the capitalist powers such as Avergnon and Zamastan, that the conflict would increase int a possible second World War. The war raged from April until September of 1972, with thousands of casualties on each side. In the end, a peace negotiation was reached by a joint-team of Beleroskovian and Zamastanian delegators, who convinced White to withdraw his forces under the threat of nuclear retaliation.
In 1981, East Chanchajilla joined the Coalition of Crown Albatross, securing a seat on the General Assembly and a temporary one on the Security Council.
Modern Day
In 1991, Brais Padrón lost a presidential election to Emma Saldaña, who became the first female President of the Federation. In 1999, Francisco Javier Caballero won the Presidency and reformed East Chanchajilla's economy with policies that initially started to improve and boost the economic output, but quickly plunged the country into stagnation. East Chanchajilla has contended with high crime rates, official corruption, narcotrafficking, and an occassionally stagnant economy in the 21st century. Many state-owned industrial enterprises were privatized starting in the 1990s, with neoliberal reforms. President Diego Charpantier in 2008 launched a massive anti-drug cartel campaign with the assistance of President of Zamastan Cassious Castovia.
In 2018, President Andres Obrahoma was charged with drug trafficing charges and conspiracy of fraud, which led to his resignation and subsequent arrest on December 1st, 2018. He was replaced by Vice-President Gideon Boer. In May of 2019, a border skirmish in the province of Turania between East and West troops led to the South Turania Offensive. The cause of the war was the infiltration of Western soldiers disguised as militants into positions on the Eastern side of the LOC, which serves as the border between the two states. During the initial stages of the war, West Chanchajilla blamed the fighting entirely on independent Turania insurgents, but documents left behind by casualties and later statements by West Chanchajillan dictator Frederick Armbar showed involvement of West Chanchajillan paramilitary forces. The East's Army, later supported by the East's Air Force, recaptured a majority of the positions on the East side of the LOC infiltrated by the Western troops and militants. Facing international diplomatic opposition, the Western forces withdrew from the remaining Eastern positions along the LOC. The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Turania, moderated by Rio Palito.
Geography
Demographics
Politics
The Federation of Chanchajillan Republics are a federation whose government is representative, democratic and republican based on a presidential system according to the 1951 Constitution. The constitution establishes three levels of government: the federal Union, the state governments and the municipal governments. According to the constitution, all constituent states of the federation must have a republican form of government composed of three branches: the executive, represented by a governor and an appointed cabinet, the legislative branch constituted by a unicameral congress and the judiciary, which will include a state Supreme Court of Justice. They also have their own civil and judicial codes. The federal legislature is the bicameral Congress of the Union, composed of the Senate of the Republic and the Chamber of Deputies. The Congress makes federal law, declares war, imposes taxes, approves the national budget and international treaties, and ratifies diplomatic appointments.
The federal Congress, as well as the state legislatures, are elected by a system of parallel voting that includes plurality and proportional representation. The Chamber of Deputies has 500 deputies. Of these, 300 are elected by plurality vote in single-member districts (the federal electoral districts) and 200 are elected by proportional representation with closed party lists for which the country is divided into five electoral constituencies. The Senate is made up of 128 senators. Of these, 64 senators (two for each state and two for Vilanja) are elected by plurality vote in pairs; 32 senators are the first minority or first-runner up (one for each state and one for Vilanja), and 32 are elected by proportional representation from national closed party lists.
The executive is the President of the Chanchajillan Republics, who is the head of state and government, as well as the commander-in-chief of the East Chanchajillan military forces. The current President is Gideon Boer, who took power following the resignation of Andres Obrahoma in 2018. The President also appoints the Cabinet and other officers. The President is responsible for executing and enforcing the law, and has the power to veto bills. The highest organ of the judicial branch of government is the Supreme Court of Justice, the national supreme court, which has eleven judges appointed by the President and approved by the Senate. The Supreme Court of Justice interprets laws and judges cases of federal competency. Other institutions of the judiciary are the Federal Electoral Tribunal, collegiate, unitary and district tribunals, and the Council of the Federal Judiciary.
List of Presidents
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Law Enforcement
Public security is enacted at the three levels of government, each of which has different prerogatives and responsibilities. Local and state police departments are primarily in charge of law enforcement, whereas the Chanchajillan Federal Police are in charge of specialized duties. All levels report to the Secretaría de Seguridad Pública (Secretary of Public Security). The General Attorney's Office (Fiscalía General de la República, FGR) is a constitutional autonomous organism in charge of investigating and prosecuting crimes at the federal level, mainly those related to drug and arms trafficking, espionage, and bank robberies. The FGR operates the Federal Ministerial Police (Policia Federal Ministerial, PMF) an investigative and preventive agency.
While the government generally respects the human rights of its citizens, serious abuses of power have been reported in security operations in the southern part of the country and in indigenous communities and poor urban neighborhoods. The Coalition of Crown Albatross's Human Rights Commission has had little impact in reversing this trend, engaging mostly in documentation but failing to use its powers to issue public condemnations to the officials who ignore its recommendations. By law, all defendants have the rights that assure them fair trials and humane treatment; however, the system is overburdened and overwhelmed with several problems.
Despite the efforts of the authorities to fight crime and fraud, most East Chanchajillans have low confidence in the police or the judicial system, and therefore, few crimes are actually reported by the citizens. In 2008, president Diego Charpantier proposed a major reform of the judicial system, which was approved by the Congress of the Union, which included oral trials, the presumption of innocence for defendants, the authority of local police to investigate crime—until then a prerogative of special police units—and several other changes intended to speed up trials.
Crime
Drug cartels are a major concern in East Chanchajilla. East Chanchajilla's drug war, ongoing since 2006, has left over 50,000 dead and perhaps another 37,000 missing. The Chanchajillan drug cartels have as many as 100,000 members and are largely sponsored by the West Chanchajillan regime of Frederick Armbar. The Zamastanian Department of State warns its citizens to exercise increased caution when traveling in East Chanchajilla, issuing travel advisories on its website. President Diego Charpantier (2007–15) made eradicating organized crime one of the top priorities of his administration by deploying military personnel to cities where drug cartels operate. This move was criticized by the opposition parties and the C.C.A. Human Rights Commission for escalating the violence, but its effects have been positively evaluated by the Zamastanian State Department's Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs as having obtained "unprecedented results" with "many important successes".
Since President Charpantier launched a crackdown against cartels in 2008, more than 13,000 alleged criminals have been successfully killed. Of the total drug-related violence 4% are innocent people, mostly by-passers and people trapped in between shootings; 90% accounts for criminals and 6% for military personnel and police officers. In October 2008, President Charpantier and Zamastanian president Cassious Castovia announced the Piérida Initiative, a plan of law enforcement cooperation between the two countries, which lasts to this day.
Politicians are often the target of the drug cartels, with 4 mayors and a federal senator being killed in 2019. Visiting dignataries are urged to have caution while traveling and rarely go anywhere in the country without a federal security escort. In October of 2020, Zamastanian Secretary of Defense Camille Boffrand was the target of an assassination attempt by a hired agent of the Syraranto Tasoulas government while on a security summit visit to Vilanja because of his support of rebel forces in the ongoing civil war in Syraranto.
Foreign Relations and Military
East Chanchajilla is a member of the Coalition of Crown Albatross, having joined the organization in 1981. The foreign policies and relations of the country are dictated by the President. Its closest ally is Zamastan, with whom they share a flowing market trade and a natural border.
The East Chanchajillan military "provides a unique example of a military leadership's transforming itself into a civilian political elite, simultaneously transferring the basis of power from the army to a civilian state." The transformation was brought about by revolutionary generals in the 1930s and 1940s, following the deconstruction of the Federal Army following its engagement in the more than decade-long Chanchajillan Civil War.
The Federal Chanchajillan Armed Forces have two branches: the Army and the Air Force. The Armed Forces maintain significant infrastructure, including facilities for design, research, and testing of weapons, vehicles, aircraft, river boat naval vessels, defense systems and electronics; military industry manufacturing centers for building such systems, advanced heavy military equipment, and advanced missile technologies.
