South Reinkalistan

People's Federation of Reinkalistan Тожокин Федетезек Реинтази (Tozhokin Fedetezek Reintazi)
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Motto: The old world will be smothered beneath our countless fists.
Anthem: Song of the Reinkalistani Worker
Capital	Turaniskidak
Official languages	Reinkalistani
Ethnic groups	87% Reinkalistani, 7% Aruntu, 6% Stayaczian
Religion	Spiritual Vanguardism, New World Theory, Folk Religion
Demonym(s)	Reinkalistani
Government	Federal Vanguardist Theocracy
• President	Mozhkin Turaniski
• General Secretary	Mihal Koronoski
Legislature	National Congress of the Reinkalistani People
Establishment
• Proclaimed	1964
Population
• Estimate	312 million
GDP (nominal)	estimate
• Total	11.5 trillion
• Per capita	36,859
HDI	0.789 high
Currency	Reinkalistani Graska (G£)
Date format	mm-dd-yyyy
Driving side	left

South Reinkalistan, officially the People's Federation of Reinkalistan, is a transcontinental country in Reinkalistan. It is bordered to the north-west by North Reinkalistan, and shares a maritime border to the north-east with Stayaczia. It is a federal union of six republics, and claims its northern neighbour as the autonomous Renyashika Territory. Constitutionally it is state socialist, applying an interpretation of Vanguardist theory known as Kaszar Turaniski Thought which synthesises Reinkalistani folk religion, mythical esotericism, and communism. The country is a modern, first-world nation with a high HDI and relatively advanced living standards. However, it is considered by many states to suffer a significant democratic deficit and many human rights abuses carried out by the government have been reported.

Formed in 1964, South Reinkalistan had a turbulent start, experiencing the stalemate "Reinkalistani Civil War" which divided the country in two, and then involving itself in a war against the Iron Republic of Kayastadt, a global superpower at the time. After emerging victorious, South Reinkalistan quickly became the biggest rival of its erstwhile ally, Dhoeria, and soon began to build-up a nuclear stockpile using Kayan scientists and the immense resources from the "liberated" territories Reinkalistani troops had seized from Kayastadt. Currently, South Reinkalistan is a fairly high-income nation with a developed and diversified economy. It is a major political, scientific, economic, and military force.

History

Reinkalistan as a nation was formed around the turn of the 4th Century in 312, with the ancient tribes of Renyashika, Ontak, Kaskia, Shiraka, Kovtekka, and Suzkoch being united through conquest and diplomacy by the first "Dezukirik" ("unifier", "king") of the nation, Tanay'ii Reintasz. He was elected as such by the first "Tay Vozavskiy" ("Grand Council") assembled from all the tribes of the Reinkalistani continent. Soon, a centralised state and bureaucracy would take form in Reinkalistan, with minted currency, paid and privileged administrators, and a comprehensive legal system which recognised the rights of tribal elders while also binding them to a semblance of law and order. A multi-century golden age would thus proceed until the 783 conquests of the Kayan Knights, which civilised the chaotic continent of Askander and sent tens of thousands of pirates, outlaws, and vagabonds over the Ganvadak Strait and into Reinkalistan.

What would follow is a deep instability in the Reinkalistani state, as bandits and mercenaries became commonplace throughout the countryside. This culminated in famous warlord Siemowyć Haczalai bribing the Tay Vozavskiy in 794 to elect him as Dezukirik, which outraged local provincial authorities and catapulted Reinkalistan into civil war. The following chaos effectively left regional governors with much autonomy which they proceeded to exploit, totally fracturing the country. Dozens claimed the title of Dezukirik, and the whole continent was plunged into centuries of conflict, which also allowed the Kayans to occupy the prosperous port city of Ganvadak.

This period of chaos would nevertheless come to an end in 1165, following a period of military campaigns led by Alkisz Tonazhi, who reunified the ancient clan-lands and re-modelled the country under the basis of Kayan Feudalism, emulating the now-dominant Kayan Empire on Askander. Following the reconquest of Ganvadak, Reinkalistan and Kayastadt, as the known world's two largest civilisations, by and large agreed to leave each other alone, with both largely conducting their own affairs with limited interaction or trade until the discovery of Dhoeria in 1578. An entirely new continent, it became the exclusive colonial dominion of Kayastadt until the Dhoerish Revolution, at which point the far-away continents of Odoheia and Sianshu had nevertheless been thoroughly imperialised by the Kayans and the many smaller Askanderean imperial polities.

Entering the 19th Century a thoroughly sidelined and backwards country, Reinkalistan suffered many humiliating defeats both economically and militarily as it began to slowly fall more and more beneath the sway of the Kayan Empire. By the 1900s, the assassination of King Alexander III in 1924 led to the signing of the Three-Power Treaty between the Dhoerish Union, Kayan Empire, and Reinkalistan the next year. This actualised unprecedented economic exploitation of Reinkalistani labourers and exclusive Dhoerish and Kayan rights to Reinkalistani resources.

This led to growing domestic unrest, allowing the Anti-Imperialist Unity Front (Vra'zyczyda Karadovi Insztra, or VzKI) under the leadership of Kaszar Turaniski, Horath Devask, and Joreyu Lethk to seize power. The VzKI was composed of myriad political tendencies, such as spiritual socialists, secular socialists, and anarcho-communists, but nevertheless it managed to obtain enough unity to overthrow the government in 1964 and functionally force a stalemate in the Reinkalistani Civil War by 1967, leaving the country split in two by the Kaskian Mountains, despite a revolt by Lethk's anarchists against the VzKI.

The VzKI re-organised itself into the Communist Party of Reinkalistan following its victory, and Turaniski and Devask operated on a broad power-sharing agreement in the People's Federation until disagreements saw the 1971 New Years' Coup have Devask ousted and forcing him to flee to Askander. This left the country under the full control of the spiritualist faction.

South Reinkalistan thus underwent a period of intense and sometimes violent industrialisation under the Six-Year Plans, which transformed the predominately rural Reinkalistani society into an urban-industrial one, allowing it to join the Third Great War of Askander in 1983 and handily defeat Kayastadt once and for all in concert with the Dhoerish Union, Provoka, and Suthambram. The post-war division of Askander saw the D'ailloustre Line divide the continent between a capitalist North and vanguardist South, thus initiating the Cold War which currently divides the Earth..

In 2001 Kaszar Turaniski would die and be succeeded by his young son, Mozhkin Turaniski, who proceeded to thoroughly purge the administration of perceived "geriatrics" and assemble a new cabinet of his supporters. Under Turaniski Jr., Reinkalistan has taken an actively hostile stance on the world stage, which has brought it into conflict with not just Dhoeria, but also states such as Nifon, Cassadia, and Aureumterra.

Antiquity

The first known civilised inhabitants on the Reinkalistani continent were the Dethdekereni, a largely tribal society that appears to have migrated from Askander ~1400 B.A. and was ruled by a series of semi-legendary kings. The society mastered bronzeworking, pottery, and was particularly adept at seafaring, however they were largely obliterated by the Tuten peoples who migrated southward after the collapse of the Askander Authority, who wiped out the long-standing Dethdekereni civilisation and established their own system of myriad petty chiefdoms that ruled over vast swathes of the continent. While the tribes waxed and waned over the course of their history, there remained six large peoples represented by local chiefs: the Ontaki, the Suzkochi, the Renyashiki, the Shiraka, the Kaskians, and the Kovtekkans. These were all vast domains in their own right, and frequently waged war against each other, leading to a deep warrior culture based upon a nigh-chivalric system known as Krezhtav, which was the Tuten code of honour.

Despite their warlike nature, the Tuten were nevertheless relatively technologically advanced, especially in the post-Authority world which was largely considered in the throes of a dark age until the Kayan Empire's emergence; they had an excellent grasp of iron-working and could sculpt marble incredibly efficiently, leading to chiefs and warlords having their own vast marble palaces and colosseums. The vast array of climates in Reinkalistan also contributed to the development of different cultures; the cooler, rocky south, nigh-tropical near-equatorial north, and the myriad mountains, deserts, and steppes in between allowed for multiple different localised yet ethnically-similar identities to emerge, which still remain in place today and form the constituent nations of the greater "Reinkalistani Civilisation". Religion was unusually decentralised; largely different faiths were kept to themselves as local folk religions with a surprising lack of enmity between different groups. Chiefs would usually add gods of conquered peoples to their pantheons, thus helping to integrate their new subjects. Thanks to this, Reinkalistani warfare was undertaken with notably little malice, instead understood as a respectable conflict on behalf of one's Chief. Captured chiefs and military leaders would, customarily, be treated with respect for a week with access to feasts and entertainment until their ritual execution.

Wars of Unification

However, the period of inter-tribe warfare was largely shattered in the year 280, when Tanay'ii Reintasz, Chief of the Shiraka, invaded Kovtekka with a massive army and immediately conquered the entire territory, absorbing it into Shiraka. This shattered a multiple-century status-quo by which small territorial, prestige, and resource concessions were granted in the event of the conclusion of a military conflict. Outright conquest was frowned upon, and soon the Kaskians and Suzkochi moved a joint army southwards to face the growing threat. They met Reintasz's army at the strategic port city of Ganvadak, but were routed by the Shiraka cavalry, who were far more numerous and well-trained than their Kaskian-Suzkochi counterparts, outmanoeuvring the army and crashing into its rear in the thousands. After this, Reintasz moved north and sacked the historical Kaskian capital of Vatodak, killing the chief and all his family and further appropriating more land for the Shiraka.

At this point, a second coalition was formed between the remnants of the Suzkochi army, along with the Renyashiki and Ontaki, meeting Reintasz again near the Ontaki city of Chentsk, on the major river Vontaszk. Attacking across the river proved a unique challenge for Reintasz, but at this point he outnumbered his foes two-to-one with the immense manpower he had attained from his previous conquests, and through moving his cavalry across the Bridge of the Heroes - a giant stone bridge which could not be quickly destroyed - he pushed through the defenders (who had foolishly failed to provide adequate spear-men) through the sheer momentum the horses provided, and soon yet again routed the army, albeit at massive losses to himself. He conquered Ontak and Suzkoch, but sued for peace with the Renyashiki chief, who he promised autonomy as long as Renyashika swore fealty to him. The ultimatum was accepted.

Having emerged victorious against all the tribes which opposed him, Reintasz had done something which no Tuten chief had been capable of achieving before: unifying the entire continent, which was now his to malleate to his wishes. He assembled the first "Tay Vozavskiy", the grand council of the tribes, who unilaterally elected him as "Dezukirik" -- "Unifier", in 312. The country, subsequently, was named after him, leading to the creation of "Reintazi" - Reinkalistan in English.

Post-Unification

Reintasz and his successors would reform the country significantly, creating a code of law known as the "Reintasz Code", which formulated the basis of Reinkalistani law until the dawn of the 9th Century. The country was re-adjusted with a provincial system, which largely reflected the borders of the older tribes, and effectively mirrored pre-collapse Askanderean governing traditions as the basis for the new Reinkalistani state. Tribal elders and chiefs became the new silk-clad nobility, who enjoyed immense luxuries pending an explosion in technological and cultural development under Reintasz's successors. The Tay Vozavskiy largely opted to elect based on merit, and despite Reintasz's sons being conventionally chosen as consecutive Dezukiriki, eventually the incompetence of Reintasz's grandson, Myk'al, saw him ousted in favour of a new dynasty of rulers. This tradition of periodic dynastic rule followed by peaceful re-alignment of power would define Reinkalistan over the next centuries, with few lapses.

Obviously, this re-organisation of society was not popular with everyone -- the autonomous Renyashiki still resented the authority of what they perceived to be a Shirakan-dominated status-quo, and, after a negotiation with the provincial governor-families of Kaskia, revolted with the Kaskians in what became known as the Kaskian Revolt in 324. Supported by many of the old tribal families that were still left, it represented a titanic clash between the old ways and the new. Tanay'ii Reintasz, at that point an old man, semi-mythically challenged the leader of the Renyashiki to a duel. According to legend, the battle was titanic, until Reintasz beheaded his foe before collapsing and dying of exhaustion. While the historical record regarding this is questionable at best, it has become a cornerstone of Reinkalistani mythos and culture, even in the modern day.

When the Kaskian revolt was crushed, the continent knew very little but peace for multiple centuries. The Reinkalistani Golden Age saw immense advances in architecture, mathematics, music, and agriculture. While the militaristic facets of the old Tuten peoples faded away, relegated to little more than stories and tales for bards and playwrights, the wealth and lavishness of the lifestyles the Reinkalistani elite classes enjoyed grew. However, to the north-east, on the comparatively barbarous continent of Askander, merely a strait away, whispers grew of an almost unprotected land full of plenty to be robbed and stolen. While these stories were largely dismissed by the pirates and bandits which roamed Askander - and those who did sail to Reinkalistan rarely returned - eventually, their hand was forced. When the Knights of Kayastadt formed and began their nigh-continental conquests in 783, the forward tide of civilisation pressed on the various outlaws of post-collapse Askander, and they were forced to flee south-west in droves on whatever ships they could muster.

What they found exceeded their wildest dreams. The pirates and bandits had sailed south in desperation, not sure if they would find anything of worth at all; instead, they found prosperous trade routes, fat, unprotected cities, and fertile farmland, across an entire continent. Tens of thousands fled southwards as the word spread, and soon bandit and raider communities had established themselves all across the continent. This burdened the Reinkalistani state immensely, and soon royal decree established emergency defense forces to fight off the foreign plunderers. However, sending word and co-ordinating such efforts across Reinkalistan's vast size and terrain, which had for eras been one of its greatest strengths, became very difficult when envoys were ambushed on roads and royal armies were ambushed and picketed by bandits.

Eventually, the last straw to break the camel's back was placed atop Reinkalistan's convulsing form: Siemowyć Haczalai, famous Askanderean mercenary pirate, in 794, bribed the Tay Vozavskiy with his exorbitant riches to proclaim himself as Dezukirik. When news of this arose, practically no governors ratified it, instead assembling their own Tay Vozavskaya and frequently proclaiming themselves Dezukirik instead. This, in effect, put an end to Reinkalistan as a unified polity for the next few centuries once more.