Enyaman Civil War
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The Enyaman Civil War (Enyaman Tsurushemese: 에냐마 나이센, Enyama naisen, Norinnian: Anaabell Civelium Niborai), also called the Great Northern Chaos or the Interstate War was a protracted multi-sided civil war in the region and former Norumbian nation of Enyama, initially fought between the totalist Enyaman National State led by former Enyaman President Muratagi Eijiro, and, after his disappearance, between various domestic and foreign forces opposing both the former Enyaman government and each other in varying combinations, including the democratic-socialist Enyaman Democratic Coalition, the stratocratic Three Colors army which consists of the former Enyaman Armed Forces sans the Internal Troops, the seperatist Sovereign Consulate of Norinnia, and the Banno Shogunate. The conflict was spurred by an Elatian military operation within Enyama's borders and the ensuing chaos; the Elatian military continued to be involved in the conflict until its resolution in 2022; military forces from various nations, including Belfras, Phansi Uhlanga, Wahzeganon, also participated in the conflict's latter stages, as did international volunteer battalions . Nations indirectly involved in the conflict included Gristol-Serkonos, Zacapican, Ghant, Yisrael, Latium, The Mutul, Tsurushima, Sante Reze, and Lion's Rock.
Background
Enyama is a diverse nation situated in northern Norumbia, slowly molded over history from interaction between several waves of settlers and their mingling with the natives. Enyama's majority ethnicity is that of the Enyamans, largely directly descended from the admixture of Tsurushiman settlers which arrived on the nation's southwestern shore in the 13th century, alongside the Wabayan people of central Enyama. In addition to its Tsurushimese-Enyaman majority, Enyama has a substantial minority of Norinnians, also known as Dairi, who descend from the admixture of various Belisarian colonists, including Ottonians, Haratago, and Latins, alongside native groups from the north such as the Quanitigan and Anagán. Despite having either full or pseudo-independence for much of the middle ages, the Dairi region of Norinnia has either been historically ignored or oppressed since their 1544 annexation into the broader Enyaman state, including through centuries of instiutionalized racial hierarchy.
Enyama's historically libertarian and anti-authoritarian culture, which had been reactionary to Tsurushemese colonial governance, was tested in 1989 by a failed Syndicalist coup, and again through the following two decades as organized crime, headed by the Yakuza-esque Gokudo crime organizations, more or less assumed control of the nations' local governance and instituted systems of ubiquitous political and civic corruption.
Muratagi Eijiro and New Frontier government
In 2005, populist frontrunner Muratagi Eijiro won the presidential election on a strong anti-crime and economic revitalization platform. His newly-formed big tent right-wing populist party, the New Frontier Party, also gained a substantial majority in the Asenbura, giving Muratagi little political resistance in the way of enacting his reforms. At the time of his initial election, Muratagi focused largely on crime and avoided describing ethnic or broader economic problems. In December of 2005, while Muratagi was still President-Elect, the Shinobi-Kai of the Enyaman Ground Forces killed Enyama's most powerful crime lord, Hoki Hisato, brutally burning down his mansion and strafing it with an attack helicopter. The Hoki incident set the stage for Muratagi's hard stance on his opposition.
By 2007, the New Frontier administration had begun a substantial rearmament of the neglected Enyaman military, beginning slowly to fortify the border and posture against Enyama's southern neighbor, Elatia. Though the two nations had fought twice before in the 20th century, the New Frontier's populist initiatives began to establish a system of intense racial and cultural propaganda which favored the Tsurushemese majority over any of the nations' minorities, and viewed the 'Latinized' Elatians as subhuman; previous grievances over the two nations had largely been ideological instead of racial. Subsequently, Muratagi created the Internal Troops of Enyama, which served as a paramilitary wing that many were encouraged to join. The Metsuke, a secret police, was also formed, and began in 2008 to coerce academia into rewriting Enyaman prehistory to better favor Tsurushemese accomplishments. International democrats were worried about Enyama's descent into populism; in 2011, amid sweeping military budget increases and reorganization, the Forum of Nations reclassified Enyama as an illiberal democracy. Muratagi spurred economic growth in previously undeveloped regions by initiating the construction of two nuclear power plants, fostering a domestic arms industry, and improving Enyama's spotty infrastructure, thus gaining him more popular support among his base.
For the Dairi and indigenous minorities, however, Muratagi's regime typically brought a slew of human rights abuses. Gokudo enforcers, as well as Metsuke and Internal Troops, began to more strictly police Ertoria Province, where non-Tsurushemese groups are the majority, and in 2016, amid another election victory, Enyama opened its first concentration camp for political dissidents, LGBTQ peoples, and seperatists, which typially included the Dairi and Elatians. In 2018, amid increasing resistance from the Dairo-Elatian minority within the city of Akutera thought to be supported by Elatian intelligence, Muratagi declared martial law within Ertoria Province, thus completing the area's militarization.
Rising tensions with Elatia
Beginning in 2011, the New Frontier regime began denouncing the socialist ideology of Elatia, as well as cracking down on the ethnic Elatian and Dairi minorities in Enyama. This ilicited a strongly negative response from the Elatian government, leading to a wave of increasing militarization in both nations. Airspace interceptions were regular, and both nations' military doctrine began to change around the expectation of a potential future conflict. In 2014, the Asenbura passed a full Enyaman embargo of all Elatian goods, and fully closed the border later that year, in some cases separating Elatian families split between the two nations.
In response to New Frontier rhetoric implicating "inevitability of war in Norumbia", Elatia began intense intelligence and surveillance operations of the Enyaman military, which prompted Enyama to develop its intelligence agencies, chiefly the Metsuke secret police and domestic intelligence agency, and the military intelligence branch of the Enyaman Armed Forces. Futher capitalizing on the increased tension was the heavy expansion and militarization of the Enyaman Internal Troops, which soon became the continents' largest paramilitary organization in both numbers and funding.
In addtion to the Dairi and Elatian minorities, the larger Enyaman opposition, which had largely been leftists and liberals, denounced Muratagi's negative relationship with Elatia, which often jeapordized their political futures; regardless, the Asenbura gained a coalition oppostion in the 2018 elections, split approximately 60%/40% between liberals and more staunch leftists; per the old constiution, President Muratagi was forced to take some ministers from his opposition, a fact he soon rectified with additional amendments.
Capture of Minister Sakata Emio
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sakata Emio, was long considered to be one of the few voices of reason among the New-Frontier / Coalition paradigm, with her influence preventing the most egregious attempts at democratic regression from the New Frontier while not entirely condemning herself in her eyes. She was nicknamed the "Queen of Compromise" within the Asenbura due to her ability to negotiate between wildly different ideologies. In late 2018, President Muratagi, wishing to expand Enyama's diplomatic ties with the outside world in case of war with Elatia, sent various ministers to diplomatic events worldwide, including the Grand Republic Festival in Pulau Keramat. Minister Sakata was set to travel to Uluujol in order to meet with ther leadership to discuss a friendship agreement.
However, the aircraft provided for the trip, a supposed stealth cargo plane, was simultaneously ordered by Muratagi to attempt to straddle the airspace of hostile socialist state Phansi Uhlanga, in an effort to both provoke the Union without placing the crew in any danger. Due to massive flaws in the design, however, the aircraft was intercepted, and Minister Sakata was detained along with 10 members of the Internal Troops who were guarding her. Despite a growing diplomatic crisis, Muratagi refused to trade Minister Sakata for decades-old stocks of pre-Socialist Jheng gold held at the Bank of Iwawara, thus dooming Sakata to indefinite imprisonment.
In the legislative process, Sakata's absence left a void in strong voices for the opposition coalition, which was filled by the Committee Leader of the Socialist Party, No Au, who was far more harsh in her language towards Muratagi than Emio had been, and polarized the legislature more instead of maintaining the same type of delicate balance that had existed under Sakata's leadership.
Elatian covert actions in Ertoria Province
Though Elatian intelligence services had been sparring with their Enyaman counterparts for the greater part of Muratagi's presidency, the winter of 2018-19 saw new developments in anti-government resistance both domestic and foreign, especially in the Dairi-dominant Ertoria Province, and the ethnically diverse city of Akutera (Norinnian: Ala Nova). Starting in January 2019, operatives from the Elatian intelligence services began arming ethnically Dairo-Elatian dissidents within Ertoria province, while also bringing their own gear and operatives into the operating area. The Beardless, which consituted more of a loose insurgency than a dedicated resistance group, began targeting prominent Gokudo members in Akutera which were supporting the Enyaman government; over sixteen enforcers and two mob bosses died within a month of the operation beginning; the Internal Troops with which the crime bosses were tied proceeded by instituting a heavy crackdown, but were unable to pinpoint the precise leadership of the Beardless, and the Elatian saboteurs remained elusive into the year.
Akutera Incident and Elatian invasion
On the 7th of September, 2019, tensions in Ertoria province reached a breaking point; in the Akutera Incident, Enyaman Minister of Defense Watanabe Keisho, along with several other members of his staff and the Mayor of Akutera, were taken hostage by Beardless insurgents. During the developing hostage situation in the Monye-Otomo building at the heart of Akutera, Elatian saboteurs bombarded the area with mortars, causing chaos among the Internal Troops which had arrived to diffuse the situation, and allowing the Beardless to escape with the Minister through the city's catacombs; the Minister was rediscovered by Enyaman forces heading down the coastal road towards the Elatian border in an apparent effort to hand over the minister to the Elatians.
President Muratagi was reportedly furious at the news, quickly mobilizing the military in the region and sending them to the border to attempt to diffuse the standoff while keeping the minister alive. With MoFA Sakata already being held captive in Jhengstang, the additional kidnapping of Watanabe Keisho, one of the strongest supporters of Muratagi as well as the New Frontier's ostensible link into the Enyaman military culture, was seen as a major blow to the New Frontier government's political legitimacy and the government's stability as a whole.
At the border crossing, as the armored truck holding Keisho was beginning to ford the Vyrgok river into Elatian territory, a general order came to the Enyaman military forces to engage and destroy the insurgents, and prevent Minister Watanabe's capture by killing him along with his captors; the Enyaman Armed Forces headed by Field Marshal Ashikaga Shinzo refused the order on moral grounds, refusing to open fire on their own minister and potentially start a conflict with the Elatian military, which had begun to coalesce across the Enyaman border. While the Armed Forces refused, the Internal Troops, loyal to Muratagi, followed the order and opened fire on the convoy, with orders coming moments later to consider any Enyaman soldier not following orders a "mutineer". While the second order was likely intended as a deterrent, the result was that the Enyaman Ground Forces and Internal Troops began to engage each other, fracturing the Enyaman establishment. Confused Elatian troops saw the action as an act of war, and began to press into Enyama despite the complicated situation.
President Muratagi, fearing his options were limited, ordered the Internal Troops to march on the Asenbura in Karasuna, at which point they overpowered the Asenbura guard and began opening fire on opposition ministers in what has been called Muratagi's Purge. The action started riots in Karasuna that were subsequently violently put down by the Internal Troops, which began to impose martial law on areas outside of Ertoria, often clashing with Ashikaga's troops, which now considered Muratagi's New Frontier government hostile. Despite the developing civil conflict, Elatian troops continued their invasion of Enyama, clashing fiercely with both Internal Troops and Armed Forces troops, eventually winning crucial battles at the Armed Forces stronghold city of Fujikawa, sinking the Enyaman navy while it was leaving port and beginning a sustained bombardment of strategic sites with aircraft and ballistic missiles.
Factions
Though the conflict began as a three-way confrontation between the Enyaman Internal Troops, the Enyaman Armed Forces, and the invading Elatian military, the situation continued to devolve after the withdrawal of Elatian combat troops and the dissolution of the Enyaman government.
Three Colors Army
Not operating under any former governmental structure, Field Marshal Ashikaga Shinzo's share of the armed forces, now called the Three Colors army after their mon, consitute the largest and most organized faction militarily, though they have middling public support. The Three Colors army has garnered support from many Belisarian nations, as well as Elatia's southern rival and former Enyaman ally Belfras, which has sent substantial detachments of troops, advisors, and equipment to support the Three Colors.
Politically, the Three Colors operates as a stratocracy, though public statements from the faction have denied to elaborate on precise future governmental plans for Enyama. Field Marshal Ashikaga rules his military alongside his Chiefs of Staff, which is mainly composed of top generals and representatives of the other branches of the former Enyaman military; this governing body is coloquially referred to as the 'Defense Council'. They control large swathes of southwestern Enyama, though they have lost their original coastal nexus of Fujikawa to sustained Elatian invasion. As the only major faction with a functioning airforce, they hold total control over Takayama and the surrounding areas, thus also controlling Enyama's profitable tungsten and uranium mines, some of the largest in the world and in Norumbia.
Democratic Coalition and other leftists
Following the purge of the Asenbura, the Enyaman political opposition was left in disarray, and with many of their members disappeared, murdered, or kidnapped. Lacking the leadership of moderate Sakata Emio, the opposition instead coalesced around far-left leader No Au, who was rescued from Muratagi's imprisonment with Elatian support in January 2020 and now leads the fragmented but powerful Democratic Coalition, a militarized government aiming for a leftist solution to Enyama. Split between the two major subfactions of the Fujikawa Directorate, a Wernerist state headed by No Au, and the Shakohidaka Pocket, a more loosely-organized group of republican leftists, anarchists, and other land reformists, the Democratic Coalition is an uneasy and disorganized alliance united largely by the common goal of eliminating existing right-wing factions. Many socialist nations and socialist-adjacent nations have flocked to the coalition's support, including invader Elatia, Phansi Uhlanga, Tsurushima, and, in support of the Shakohidaka Pocket specifically, Wazheganon.
The Democratic Coalition was given direct administrative control of many areas captured by Elatia in its initial invasion, including the southern coast and parts of the eastern front-line. Generally speaking, far-left socialist nations have supplied and supported the bulk of the Coalition stationed at the former Army stronghold of Fujikawa and along the Elatian border. Formerly, the center of the moderate Coalition was the coastal stronghold of Iwawara, which enjoyed support from Enyama's former colonial master of Tsurushima, but the 'Iwawara Pocket' was wiped out in mid-2020 by advancing Three Colors forces. The Shakohidaka Pocket now the center of the moderate coalition, their main foreign benefactor being the Wahzenaby, which arrived in force in Ala Nova in mid-2021.
Soveriegn Consulate of Norinnia
Created by Dairi and indigenous democrats after the replacement of the Elatian invasion force with the Democratic Coalition in late January 2020, the Independence League, also known as the Northern Independence League, was an ethnic alliance aiming at ending ethnic Tsurushimese domination of the minority areas of Enyama, with their ostensible claim extending throughout the entirety of Norinnia, including sections of the region annexed by Elatia in the 1910s and the exclaved Viggotoro Province. While their leadership had initially held out for peace accords to solve the problem of their seccession, the Wahzenaby blockade, which began in early June 2021, saw the Dairi state declare full independence as the Soveriegn Consulate of Norinnia.
Geopolitically, the Consulate is the only faction explicity calling for religious protections to Origans and Fabrians within Norinnia's borders, while also tentatively extending said assurances to Furóltaí living in northern Enyama. Though they had previously courted international support, especially from Belisarian nations, the Three Colors' staunch resistance to any independence movement stifled diplomacy. Norinnia's declaration of Independence has shifted this paradigm slightly, with nations such as Latium and Yisrael recognizing the Dairi state's independence from Enyama shortly after the beginning of the blockade and declaration of indpendence. Relations with the two Enyamo-centric factions of the Three Colors and the Fujikawa directorate are strained due to their disdain for seperatism, however, the League and later the Consulate has enjoyed a nearly year-long truce with the Shakohidaka Pocket, a truce increasingly under pressure by the larger Coaltion establishment in Fujikawa and the arrival of the Wahzenaby blockade.
Banno Shogunate
Created by former Three Colors general Banno Yudo in early February 2020, the Banno Shogunate is a self-styled military monarchy created out of loyal elements of the Three Colors and other warlords which joined under his banner. Modeled after the Kakita Shogunate of Tsurushimese history, the Banno Shogunate is considered by many to not be much more than the product of an upjumped warlord. In an attempt to garner international legitimacy, the Banno Shogunate initially reached out to the world's monarchist powers, particularly Onekawa-Nukanoa, garnering only mixed success as many of its prospective allies prefer the Three Colors army. Nevertheless, Banno has exploited the accusations of aimlessness levied towards the mainline Three Colors, leading to him garnering substantially more public support from the general populace, as well as military support from defecting generals of the Three Colors Army. With Onekawan forces supporting Banno and his May 2021 gain of large swathes of 3C territory through the defection of seven Generals, Banno's influence is rising, though the Shogunate has been reluctant to undertake risky military operations, instead following the Consulate's example in maintaining neutrality with the remainder of the Three Colors as best as possible.
Defunct and miscellaneous factions
Several other, smaller factions emerged into the paradigm, especially after January 2020. While some of these factions are the product of warlordism, which ran rampant throughout the conflict in 2019 and still continues in smaller forms to this day, many others have used their warlord status as a basis for implementing organization.
Enyaman National State and other loyalists
In December 2019, Muratagi declared the dissolution of the Federal States of Enyama, and announced a new constiution creating the Enyaman National State, which vested totalitarian power in the New Frontier party and Muratagi more specifically. At the beginning of the war loyal Internal Troopers continued to fight for the National State, alongside loyalist militias which have mainly been mustered out of Gokudo members and rural farmers loyal to Muratagi's pro-Enyaman rhetoric. The National State also employed mercenaries of various nationalities, fueled largely by a large stock of gold originally belonging to Phansi Uhlanga, held in Enyama after the former's fall to socialism in the early 20th century.
Initially the territorially and numerically largest faction, the National State was targeted by several successful offensives from the Three Colors, Democratic Coaliton, and even the then-infant Independence League, leading to their almost total dissolution by autumn of 2020; Muratagi disappeared in the chaos, and his wearabouts are considered unknown. Many former fighters for the National State, which had largely been using guerilla tactics to fight more advanced and mechanized armies, are now being recruited en-masse by the Banno Shogunate, the only faction to maintain some degree of Tsurushimese supremacy over regular Enyamans and Dairi.
Miscellaneous warlords and bandits
Other warlords and groups of bandits formed after the collapse of Enyaman internal structure, primarily out of the factions of the Gokudo that often clashed with Muratagi's government. Most are loosely organized bands of guerrilas, operating throughout the war-torn nation. Others are Military, Internal Troops, or Police leaders that have assumed a larger degree of independence in the conflict, while remaining ostensibly aligned to one of the factions: Shogun Banno, before his monarchist declaration, was one such Three Colors-aligned warlord.