Adanal

Revolutionary Assemblage of the People-Masses
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Capital	none official
Largest city	Amadad
Official languages	none official
Ethnic groups	no data
Religion	no data
Demonym(s)	Adanali
Government	Delarueist confederation
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Formation
• First Revolution	1915
• Second Revolution	1969
Population
• 2024 estimate	80 million
GDP (PPP)	2024 estimate
• Total	$1.1 trillion
• Per capita	$13,750
GDP (nominal)	2024 estimate
• Total	$400 billion
• Per capita	$5,000
Gini	20 low
HDI	0.775 high
Currency	none
Date format	dd/mm/yyyy
Driving side	right

Adanal, officially the Revolutionary Assemblage of the People-Masses, is a political entity in Northern Hylasia.

Name

'Adanal', also rendered 'Adunel' or 'Adanel', is a name for a vague location in northern Hylasia long used in Palmerist and subsequently Gregorian scripture; in Palmerism it is best known as the place where several enlightened figures went into exile. The historically most common etymology proposed derives it from ʿdnʾ 'time, halting place' (compare Abbasian عدان ʕiddān, عدن ʕadn) and ʾēl 'god', meaning 'abode of God'. An alternative theory derives it from the Esophite word dengal 'monkey, dwarf'. The name was not used for a north Hylasian country until the end of the First Adanali Revolution in 1920, when it was chosen by revolutionaries over the plainer 'North Hylasia'.

The current Adanali polity officially refers to itself in communications and on formal state rosters such as that of the United Congress as the 'Revolutionary Assemblage of the People-Masses', in the sense that it considers itself the instantiation of the revolutionary praxes of all humanity on Teleon, a grand claim that figures prominently in official political theory and the constitutional definition of modern Adanal as a whole. This name is used sparingly, with various shorter but still generic epithets and euphemisms such as 'people-masses', 'revolutionary entity', or simply 'the revolution' used domestically in reference to higher authorities or coordinative projects, while variations of 'confederated communities of the land of Adanal' are used in diplomacy.

History

Antiquity

• City-state of Azeth — Carthage, first location of Gregory's ministry, destroyed by Esophites, -300–20
• Terdant Empire — has a god-king cult of the reincarnated 'interlocutor of Gregory', 1000–1200

Hamin Hylasia

• Mustasads — Abbasian Hamin conquerors, 1300–1500
• Hylasian Heptarchy — corsair republics on coast, 1500–1750
• Mustatars — Hamin Esophite millenarians, 1700–1915
  • Increased extraterritoriality for Calesians after defeats in the 1850s
  • Hyacinthe main suzerain
  • Secessionist communes established by Hyacinthean settlers
  • Nationalist revolts from 1880s, secessionists turn contrarian from 1890s

Revolutionary Adanal

• Adanali Revolution triggers failed Hyacinthean intervention and cascades into Hyacinthean revolution in 1922
• Power struggle between mostly Calesian vanguard party and local revolutionaries
• Massive planned industrialization, collectivization, other drastic reforms
• Occupation by Hyacinthean troops in 1935 and turned into protectorate
• Party undergoes indigenization after 1940s, considerable reforms
• Independent pivot from 1950s
• Second Revolution driven by student movements and autonomists in late 1960s, initially supported by Hyacinthe
• New confederal government breaks totally with Hyacinthe in 1971
• Re-normalization with Lisieux Pact in 1990s
• Massive involvement in Hylasian and East Abarian conflicts

Politics

Adanal is officially a stateless society consisting of autonomous communities that constitute and cooperate on a negotiatory and participatory basis, and through the Delarueist abolition of serial social structures. This description itself is simply given by all the communities inhabiting its internationally recognized territory without any apparent inherent coordination, and on this basis it — or rather the collective of said communities — denies the existence of state institutions. While there is easily noticeable military and economic coordination across its territory, the exact mechanisms behind this apparatus remain highly secretive and in flux. Communities gather into various councils and boards that coordinate affairs at the regional and national level, but these are never fixed and reconstituted frequently, officially out of participatory negotiation, and many large projects or policy enactments take place seemingly independent of public council decisions. Several classes of organizations known as Servers, such as revolutionary leagues, security commissions, and literature clubs, regularly embed their membership in other councils, and are believed to play a vanguardist role in ensuring compliance with central directives, but they too are impermanent.

'All-Adanali' administration is steered by councils that represent most of the country and adopt enactments followed by said majorities, though besides impermanence it is common for several of them to exist simultaneously and adopt policies in different fields. Leadership is presumed to consist of a central committee, either elected by national councils in secret, or self-appointing, but it is generally agreed that only one exists and is relatively stable as an institution. External analysis of Adanali governance has focused on individual politicians, whose careers are published for the sake of accountability and to advertise them for council elections, but this encounters difficulty with national leadership, which heavily uses and swaps pseudonyms; membership is deduced by analysts through public appearances. This leadership is believed to have command over the military, and a strong but not total control over a hierarchy of Server organizations, which have in turn produced most presumed inner circle members.

Foreign analysis is conflicted about the degree of centralization in all-Adanali governance, which has been described either as an effectively rebranded and concealed vanguardist party-state, or as a system of polycratic rule where ambitious activists and experts rise through the ranks through ephemeral councils to eventually become recognized among a still-competitive oligarchy. The main factions in national politics identified include the internationally aggressive and militarist Inversionists, the technocratic and development-focused Analysts, as well as the autonomist and frequently (though not inherently) diplomatically reconciliatory Solidarists.

Foreign relations

A majority of Adanali communes describe the Revolutionary Assemblage as being engaged in a 'war by nature' against the serial world, which frequently extends to even other communist countries. This does not prevent diplomacy through majority-adoption of relevant acts by national councils, and relations are sustained through the mostly automatic adoption of legacy resolutions by new councils succeeding old disbanded ones. Embassies are also elected and entrusted by these temporary councils, and similarly automatically inherited by their successors. Through this Adanal enjoys technical membership in the United Congress, the Global Socialist League, the Lisieux Pact, and a number of other intergovernmental organizations; it maintains formal relations with much of the world's countries despite revolutionary rhetoric.

Adanal is nevertheless very active in fomenting revolution, intervening in several conflicts in Hylasia and eastern Abaria. As a member of the Lisieux Pact it has close relations with Hyacinthe and Equatoria as fellow socialist powers.

Military

Main article: Military of Adanal

Like any institutional organization in Adanal, the military is frequently reconstituted, but this largely amounts to the rotation of units manned by what are practically conscripts and the purely cosmetic renaming of standing forces; underlying, more permanent unit numbers have been identified through intelligence analysis. Every locality-representing community raises conscripts in addition to organizing a self-defense militia which usually performs policing roles, while professional and standing units form communes or syndicates unto themselves. Units are grouped together under commands known as defense councils or operations rooms, and in practice their structure and coordination are comparable to other state militaries.

It is estimated that Adanal has about 500,000 active military personnel in dedicated military units and as many as 2 million more in various kinds of militia duty, although most of the latter are not combat-ready and instead employed as police or labor. Of the dedicated units, the largest operations room approximating the regular army has a strength of 400,000. The remaining 100,000 personnel are divided between at least 4 smaller operations rooms consisting mostly of paramilitaries and special forces who act independently (though usually according to the agenda of national leadership), engaging in border incursions in Hylasia and operating overseas as Adanali intervention forces and mercenaries.

Economy

• One of Teleon's largest oil producers
• Communalized and heavily militarized economy
• Some special economic zones for foreign investment