Capuria

Republic of Capuria Republik Kapuria
Flag Coat of arms
Capital and	Lubok Antu
Official languages	Belaw, Gaullican
Demonym(s)	Capurian
Government	Federal semi-presidential republic
• President	Jugah Anak Nyaring
• Premier	Marcel Barieng
Legislature	Legislative Assembly
Population
• 2023 census	25,681,901
GDP (PPP)	estimate
• Total	$624.8 billion
• Per capita	$24,331
GDP (nominal)	estimate
• Total	$277.9 billion
• Per capita	$10,822
Gini	42 medium
HDI (2023)	0.735 high
Currency	Capurian Kepai
Internet TLD	.cp

The Republic of Capuria (Belaw: Republik Kapuria, Gaullican: République de Capurie), more commonly referred to as Capuria, is a sovereign state located in the Brown Sea region of southeastern Coius. It borders Surubon to the north by land and shares maritime borders with Penduk. A unitary state, Capuria is divided into six departments. The capital is situated at Lubok Antu, a major port city. The population of Capuria is approximately 26 million.

Settled by modern humans for tens of thousands of years, Capuria has been populated primarily by Supra-Pelangic peoples since the start of their migrations. The nation’s geography was far less suited to the development of large-scale civilisations than the north of the island, leading to the emergence of a diverse range of people groups in the coastal foothills and river deltas. Many trading ports were established in these areas, allowing for goods to be traded between the Orang Ulu highlanders and Orang Laut, sea nomads. These two groups remained functionally independent, with the port polities themselves ruling as primitive mercantile republics. Competition between such states was frequent, leading to the development of shifting alliances between the statelets. Over time, Lubok Antu emerged as the leading mercantile centre as the Belaw peoples there were united a monarchy which would trace its ancestry back to an exile prince of the Dhijivodhi dynasty. This claimed divine legitimacy, and an army strengthened through more direct links with mainland Coius, helped to build a stratified and established kingdom. Though the Serumbu dynasty which ruled would only last for around 75 years before its fall at the dawn of the thirteenth century, its establishment fundamentally shifted the political landscape of the south of the island. After a bloody interregnum which lasted twenty years, stability returned under Princess Tan Renangah. The Kingdom of Pulai, established following the shifting of the capital city, was the longest lasting state in Capurian history, persevering until 1670 when the capital was razed by an invasion force from Ladangabu. The surviving elite were forced to relocate back to Lubok Antu, where a rump state was established which became a protectorate of the Aguda until the arrival of the Gaullicans. Active in this time were missionaries, who saw significantly more success than elsewhere in Coius as they were able to introduce a written language to the Orang Ulu who had previously been reliant on Surubonese writing.

Due to this willingness to cooperate with Gaullican authorities during the colonial period, the Belaw grew in importance as the colonial authorities saw them as a counterweight to resistant Surubonese. Belaw nobles were educated in Gaullican schools, while the local colonial militia was disproportionately Belaw and its officer corps was dominated. This led to a distinctly racial split to anticolonial activities, with the north a hotbed of radical separatism and Lubok Antu home to more gradualist and democratic elements. A source of many colonial troops during the great war, the island was invaded by the Asterian Federal Republic in 1933. Though coastal areas were swiftly taken, the fighting in the southern mountains dragged on until 1935 with the Gaullican surrender. Reorganised as the Military Administration of Capuria, the island would eventually pass under a Commonwealth of Nations mandate administered by the AFR. Inexperienced in statebuilding, the Asterians granted the bulk of power to the southern gradualist political forces who were seen to be malleable to their own state interests. Socialist agitation continued, especially in the north, but the mandate's government was well established. However, faced with internal and external pressure towards independence, the mandate began to establish the framework of a republic. Independence was granted in 1957, and elections were held from which the BAHSUPAN were banned. After exit polling showed that a successor party was likely to win, these elections were annuled and a transitional government declared around military elites. This was immediately rejected by BAHSUPAN and other socialist forces, who began to occupy government buildings and declared a council republic. A civil war broke out, which while initially highly messy came to find geographic coherence as the ideological struggle took on a distinctly racial face. Conflict came to stagnate, until the early 60s when the AFR was no longer engaged in its own war and was able to support the now struggling southern republic. Backed with new armaments, the Capurian government would sue for peace in 1964. Once independent, Capuria was dominated by Bujang Alexandre Leman, who had studied in Asteria and was therefore highly supportive of the country's former coloniser. Though a facade of democracy was established, the country was run autocratically by him and, after 1978, his son. Though the fall of Surubon's socialist government initially raised hopes of a detente, Capuria's close ties with Senria and the northern regime's siding with Shangea meant that relations remained fraught.

The 1980s were a period of instability, with the sudden cutoff of Asterian support weakening the military regime. On 29 June 1982, following weeks of protests, lower officers rebelled against orders to fire on demonstrators and toppled the regime. After a period of transfer closely monitored by Euclean states, a democratic government was installed and elections scheduled for 1983. Premier Bunyau Anding of the People's Party was elected in a tightly contested election, on a loosely left-populist campaign that promised to root out corruption. However, following skirmishes on the northern border, his government took an authoritarian turn and strengthened the military who began to take a much more active role in social and economic life.

In the modern period, much of Capuria is defined in opposition with its northern rival. A long-time ally of both Euclea and Senria, Capuria’s economy has grown through this role and is an emerging market economy pillared by manufacturing, tourism, and Template:Ep. Its political system is often characterised as a southern democracy, with elections seen as free if not always fair and the military holding a larger role in politics than in free countries. Freedom of speech and assembly are constitutionally guaranteed, though this is not always enacted, and there have been three military coups since the return of democracy.