Gaullica-Satucin relations

Gaullica-Satucin relations

Gaullica	Satucin
Diplomatic mission
Gaullican Embassy, Gatôn	Satucinais Embassy, Verlois
Envoy
Ambassador Abraham Calvet	Ambassador Estelle Favre

Gaullica-Satucin relations (Gaullican: Relations entre la République gaulloise et l'Union des Satucins) are the bilateral relations between the Republic of Gaullica and the Union of Satucin. The history of both countries began with the declaration by Pierre Avenard of his claiming of the land of the Sythes river basin for the Gaullican Empire in June of 1539.

Relations between the natives and the Gaullican crown were largely up to the governing of the six established viceroyalties, and the relations between themselves and the crown were as equally as varied and subject to change throughout the centuries. Relations were tumultuous during the period in which the Gaullicans aimed at outlawing slavery in their colonies, and were only resolved by the colonial unification of Satucin in 1846.

From unification until the end of the Great War, Satucin was one of two Dominions in the Gaullican Empire (the other being Cassier) and was granted independence from Gaullica at the conclusion of the war. Since independence, Gaullica and Satucin have had a healthy relationship based on their historic, cultural and linguistic ties.

Country comparison

	Gaullican Republic	Union of the Satucins
Flag
Coat of Arms
Anthem	Chant des Gaullois	Allons Armée Catholique
Capital city	Verlois	Gatôn
Largest city	Verlois – 8,781,017	Gatôn – 10,340,927
Established	September 6, 1936	April 5 1939
Government	Federal semi-presidential republic	Federal constitutional monarchy
First leader	Albert Montecardé	Cyrile Montecardé
Current leader	Monique Degar-Abdulrashid	Théodore I
Main language	Gaullican	Gaullican
Main religions	88.1% Solarian Catholic 2.8% No religion 2.2% Other Sotirian 1.3% Atudite 1.3% Irfan 4.3% Other	68.4% Solarian Catholic 1.3% No religion 23.2% Other Sotirian 0.3% Atudite 0.8% Irfan 6.3% Other
Area	786,321 km2 (303,600 sq mi)	3,022,226 km2 (1,166,888 sq mi)
Population	87,176,289	201,105,368
Population density	110/km2 (284.9/mi2)	75/km2 (194.2/mi2)
GDP (nominal)	$3.377 trillion	$1.690 trillion
GDP (nominal) per capita	$38,738	$13,514
GDP (PPP)	$4.221 trillion	$2.683 trillion
GDP (PPP) per capita	$46,485	$21,451

Historical relations

Colonial Era (1539 - 1846)

Pierre Avenard was the first Euclean to set foot at the Sythes river, and led numerous Gaullican expeditions and colonial ventures across the coast of what is now Satucin

In late 1537 Pierre Avenard began his venture from Maredoux to Port de la Sainte on the Arucian island of Sainte-Chloé, taking with him six ships. He arrived by mid 1538, where he spent much of the time at port retaining supplies and undergoing numerous ventures and explorations across the Arucian. By April of 1539, Avenard began launching expeditions along the coast of Asteria Inferior. He left one ship to set up the fort known as La Porte on the westernmost island of Parane, where it still stands today, and began sailing in a southwards direction.

Arriving at the Sythes river basin on the 24th of June, Avenard and his men disembarked from their ships by way of rowboats towards the banks of the Sythes and upon landing declared the land property of the Emperor in Verlois. With further supplies arriving by way of Sainte-Chloé, settlement of the coast of Satucin began in earnest by the proclamation of Francois I, dividing the newly charted land into six viceroyalties. The territory however was vast, unexplored and unclaimed at this point with only one viceroy, Avenard being declared the Viceroy of Pasau with this declaration.

The Gaullicans would encounter various indigenous peoples who likely spoke related Marai languages, especially as they began to venture up the coast and up the Sythes river. Relations between the Gaullicans and the natives varied tremendously on the indigenous group involved: some were retained as guides and trade was established between them. However several native peoples were sent back to the Arucian colonies as slaves following skirmishes on the river and across the new settlements. Others still were wiped out by both disease and force of arms in the clearing of coastal areas for Euclean settlement.

What would become Satucin became a legend in Gaullica and in Euclea; the reports from Avenard's expedition spoke of an "immense wilderness and countless creatures never before seen." Indeed, Avenard's accounts are the first Euclean records of: jaguars, piranha, sloths and what he described as 'magic frogs that kill by touch'.

Avenard's exploits, discoveries and rumours -- including that of a legendary city of silver that the Sythes flowed through -- caught the attention of other Euclean powers and explorers. Gaullcia became embroiled in an economic competition with other maritime powers, wrestling for control and colonial of the Satucine coast for much of the remainder of the 16th and early 17th century.

Whilst Gaullica initially settled the coast of Satucin and launched expeditions to the interior unopposed, and possessed a monopoly on its exotic wood and new crops, it would not be long for other Euclean maritime powers to aim to break Gaullica's monopoly. In 1561, a Caldian expedition financed by Cassair Mac Cana, Count of Clane landed at the tip of the Anniane Peninsula. There, the Caldish settled a colony and outpost that brought contention to the region. The Gaullicans had initially objected to settling at the tip of the peninsula, given its rugged terrain and belief that control of the straits could be maintained from La Porte. However, Caldian naval presence brought about fears of control from the straits of Parane. By 1570, armed colonists and Gaullican naval efforts in the region had driven the Caldish colonists out.

For Gaullica however, the Caldish represented the first of the Euclean attempts -- and were succeeded in the region by numerous settlements established by Poveglian merchants and explorers. At the time, Gaullica and Poveglia were diplomatically allied -- the Gaullican empire had often attempted to intervene in Vespasian affairs through its city-state ally, but when it came to the establishment of colonies contention grew. In 1588, a Vespasian fleet blockaded the port of Sainte-Chloé and two fleets exchanged fire near the straits of Parane. Gaullican forces took two Poveglian coastal outposts settled in modern day Nouveau Sessonis, as well as all territories established west of the straits, but the Poveglian fleets had destroyed the Imperial colonies set up along the coasts of modern day Jossia and Gapolania.

By 1601, Gaullican and Poveglian diplomats created a formal agreement on the separation of interests in the region. This agreement established that Gaullican interest would extend over the northern coast of the territory of its established six-viceroyalties, as well as the islands of the Straits of Parane, but would not extend further along the northern coast of Asteria Inferior. The Manouida Mountains were chosen as the natural border between both colonies. In addition, Gaullica granted the Poveglians free travel through the straits in an exchange for the recognition of Gaullica's claims to the Îles Émeraude. Both parties agreed on a mutual defence agreement from competing Euclean powers in the region; and Gaullica accepted the Poveglian claim to the northern coast of the straits of Parane. Despite its vague wording on the particular extent at where the six viceroyalties of Satucin ended; it did give shape to the border regions between the Gaullican and Poveglian colonies.

The denouncement of the enslavement of native peoples, as well as their initial susceptibility to old world diseases, led the viceroyalties to demand a further increase in the Bahian slave trade. Several of the viceroys were involved in supporting the establishment of Michel Masson's Lower Gonda Company and its successful settlement of Sainte-Germaine, which oversaw the shipment of over 2,000,000 enslaved peoples to the Asterian colonies. The vast expanse of the colony, its ideal temperature for growing certain crops, the discovery of precious metals and the expansive lumber-networks resulted in an atypical Gaullican colony. Whilst Cassier was a settler colony, for instance, the Satucinais Viceroyalties were a mixture of both settler and slave colonies. It is estimated that by 1700 the enslaved population was twice as large as the free and was growing at a faster rate.

With little oversight in way of their internal relationships from home, the competitive nature of the viceroyalties reached numerous critical stages. The monopoly of the port of Anneville in Annianne saw an explosion of economic and population growth that the other viceroyalties failed to replicate, even those that had been established earlier.

This, as well as the status of slavery in the wider Gaullican Empire during the 19th century, would lead to the thirty-four year long Satucine Civil Wars, which would end in the six viceroyalties being united under self-government as the Dominion of Satucin.

Resident diplomatic missions

Gaullican missions in Satucin

• Gatôn (embassy)
• Pasau (consulate-general)
• Satau (consulate-general)
• Bonhavre (consulate)

Satucinais missions in Gaullica

• Verlois (embassy)
• Rayenne (consulate-general)
• Saint-Thomas (consulate)