Namese Republic

Namese Republic Other: nickname; Nam
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Motto: "Great and Glorious"
De facto national language	Riamese Common Namese Language
Demonym(s)	Namese
Government	Unitary Republic
Time zone	UTC-6
Date format	dd-mm-yyyy
Driving side	right

The Namese Republic, often refered to as "Nam", was a short-lived rebel state in Riamo, located at the south of Hirethia. The country is known for the Unification War, which started as a regional effort to stabilize Riamo but lead to brutal jungle combat and the use of ethically questionable methods of warfare against the rebels, which would later surrender.

During its lenght, Nam was a partially-recognized state which claimed independence from the Riamese Federation, becoming an authoritarian regime lead by the Namese Liberation Front (NLF). The conflict started when the NLF -party which had led the emancipatory movement as a local political party until 1978- obtained no representation in the national government, moment when the situation started escalating into protests and riots. Within days, the movement would soon be heavily repressed by the Riamese Armed Forces, with figureheads of the organization turning to the dense forests of eastern Riamo as their hiding place.

The escalation of the conflict reached a peak when, in November 1978, the Riamese Armed Forces that had been temporarily deployed to the urban areas of the region, were ordered to intervene and arrest the members of the rioting party. This action saw hundreds of followers of the NLF imprisoned temporarily as cautionary meassure, and would mark the start of a violence streak in the region known marked by bombings and terrorist assaults on armed forces personnel.

Several incursions of the armed forces occured during the following years, with some towns being completely conquered and held hostage by the group in several occasions as bargaining tokens, with napalm bombings and other atrocities happening a number of occasions against the rebels.

Princess Diana I, current monarch of Riamo, reclaimed the throne in 1982 and lead the country's transition into a federal republic as the auto-proclaimed head of state of the nation

As king George XIII's regime tumbled in 1982, the war would partially come to a halt in 1983, when the new federal government pacted with rebels and a generalized indult was given to the combatants. Some factions within the NLF would remain officially active until, at least, 1975, with some minor disconnected components supposedly being disbanded in the following years.

Impact

The war became the event that fundamentally changed the population's opinion of the semi-military regime of king George XIII, and is said to be the event who, effectively, ended the regime's last remnants of popularity. The conflict has been called by namy names through the decades, such as the Nam war and the War of Federalization, while the subsequent regime toppling and revolution is often referred to as the Peaceful Revolution.