Ubunye

Ubunye, officially the Free League of Ubunyi Councils, is a nation in the North-West of Audonia. It’s immediate neighbour is Burgundie, in the form of the Isle des Coulettes. It covers an area of 1,527,368km² (589,720 sq mi), It holds no overseas territories and is a single landmass. The country has a population of over 143 million, split between Ubunye’s many chapters, each represented by workers’, soldiers’ synod and peoples’ councils. It is a highly decentralised federation modelled after Carna, encompassing 111 peoples’ councils. The capital city is Kuleko, with other major cities including Igolide, the industrial heart of Ubunye, and Ilanga, the tourism jewel of the nation. Other important locations include The Crag, housing the political and defence assemblies of Ubunye, and The Isha Belt, the harsh desert stretching across the centre of the Nation.

Up until the 13th century Ubunye was a divided area of countless tribal groups, until a unification war took place led by the Munye tribe, forming the First Northern Alliance, centred on the location of the modern day capital,  Kuleko. It is to be believed that the unification never extended to the south due to the harsh nature of the Isha Belt and any sort of mass force travelling across it would likely not survive the crossing. The 16th Century saw the collapse of the united northern tribes, with the overthrowing of the King in what is known as the First Ubunyi Revolution. The following decades saw a monumental splintering of the northern people, spreading themselves across the northern province once again into individual tribes. By the 19th century the tribes formed a symbiotic society all across the Northern province, with technological innovations allowing traversal of the Isha belt for the first time, allowing relations with the Southern tribes to bloom. 1817 saw the Second Unification of the North, a democratic pact signed by the leaders of the tribes, with many southern tribes joining the fold in the coming years. The meeting place of the tribe representatives was decided to be Kuleko, as the ancestral home of the first Northern Alliance. From the 840s however, The monarchical nation of Carna began a large-scale colonisation of Ubunye, starting over a century of occupation. The occupation saw the Ubunye people reduced to labourers underneath the Carnish people. It was not until the Bairdist revolution and the subsequent Independence deal in 1948 that Ubunye once again became free. By this time Ubunye had a mixed population of natives and ex-Carnish individuals, while still a majority native Ubunyi people, the ex-Carnish made up a significant portion of the population.

Upon the success of the Bairdist revolution and independence deal Ubunye became free of mainland Carnish influence, the nation withdrew itself from the Great War, never having been involved of their own volition in the first place. A new Bairdist society emerged from collaboration between the natives and the ex-Carnish people; the land was divided into chapters, each of which would produce councils for political decisions, with a greater assembly of all the chapters set to meet to decide on policy and law. Ubunye, much like Carna, is governed as a non-partisan semi-direct democracy, with political parties outlawed and therefore no multi or single party system. In early 1949 The new nation was dubbed ‘The Free League of Ubunyi Councils’, remaining a close ally of the new Union of Carnish Councils for years to come.

Following the re-organisation of Ubunye into a Bairdist nation, Ubunye saw an industrial boom, with the help of the ex-Carnish people the land saw great innovation in city-planning, farming, industry, medicine and technology. In the present day, Ubunye remains a close ally of Carna, and is a member-nation of the Treaty of International Assistance and Development (TRIAD). While still not a forerunner in economics, military or technology, Ubunye has accelerated to be leaders in world medicine, combining modern Carnish medical innovations, with traditional Ubunye remedies and treatment. Ubunye is a top contributor to humanitarian efforts and boasts the world’s most modern healthcare system, with much of its education and research funding dedicated to medical training and healthcare research.

History
By the 5th century Ubunye was divided into many isolated tribes, the most prominent of which being the Munye and the Insimbi, to the north and south of the Isha Belt respectively. Other than these there were countless tribes of indigenous and migratory peoples, spread over the vast landmass. While many tribes adopted a nomadic and hunter society, by the 7th century the first had begun to settle and pasteurise the land, becoming split hunter-farmer societies. By the 9th century most had settled, with few tribes remaining close to the harsh land in the proximity of the Isha Belt. Archaeological evidence tells us of a King Inhliziyo that rose from among the ranks of the Munye Tribe in the 13th century, leading them on a military quest across the north of the country, vassalizing and crushing other tribes in its path. By the late 13th century Munye was the definitive power in the north, uniting many tribes under one banner. Most of the united northern tribes settled in the north west in the location that the current Ubunye capital Kuleko stands. It is to be believed that the unification never extended to the south due to the harsh nature of the Isha Belt and any sort of mass force travelling across it would likely not survive the crossing. By the 15th century traders and caravan families would frequently travel the Belt, however large scale parties were still ill-advised unless all were very well equipped for the journey. The 16th Century saw the collapse of the united northern tribes, with the overthrowing of the King in what is known as the First Ubunyi Revolution. The following decades saw a monumental splintering of the northern people, spreading themselves across the northern province once again into individual tribes.

By the early 19th century these once divided tribes formed a symbiotic society, with trade and travel flourishing throughout the Northern Province. By this time advancements in technology allowed for traversal of the Isha belt, and relations with the Southern tribes bloomed, with only minor conflict from the more aggressive tribes. In 1817 was the second unification of the north, this time a democratic pact signed between the leaders of each tribe, with only a few voluntarily excluded. Over the coming years many southern tribes would join the fold, with the alliance encompassing an estimated 70% of tribes and 81% of the population by the 1830s. The coming together of the native people saw a great increase in technological innovation, with the greatest minds of the united Ubunyi collaborating on improving the quality of life and societal structures of the tribes. The meeting place of the tribe representatives was decided to be Kuleko, as the ancestral home of the first Northern Alliance.

But at the dawn of the 1840s, the first scouting party of Carna is received in Ubunye. Within the next 5 years, Carna launched a mass colonisation of Southern Ubunye, causing most of the southern tribes to flee across the Belt to the safety of the North. In the coming years the native land would be compressed further and further, making way for Carnish settlers and farmlands. By the start of the Great War, over 100,000 Carnish people called Ubunye their home, comprising mostly of civilian farmers, businesses and soldiers, with some engineers, and medical workers brought over as well. During the years of the Great War the Ubunyi people were forced into labour under the immoral Carnish monarchy, forced to farm and work for the army, hauling supplies and other manual labour. However later on into the War Ubunye became a hotspot for Bairdist revolutionaries. As mainland Carna became wary of Bairdist revolutionary cells, the movement in Carnish Ubunye remained mostly unnoticed, as the settlers and soldiers became disillusioned with the monarchies plans of crushing the natives. The main revolutionary group on Ubunye met with the remaining Ubunye leaders and formed an understanding with them. Gradually through the 1940s the Carnish settlers stopped their negative treatment of the Ubunyi, and these years saw a greater level of integration into society, as the Carnish and Ubunyi collaborated, no longer discriminating against one another on a mass scale. However this heightened level of tolerance did not go unnoticed by the Carnish colony high command, who sought a renewed crushing of the Ubunyi underfoot. This tension came to fever pitch in the Riot of 46’, where a young Ubunyi male named Intsha Udrako was shot along with his Carnish friend Beinstan Zeller. This atrocity caused mass rioting and protest from both the Ubunyi and the Carnish colonisers en-masse, and saw the taking of the Carnish government building in the city of Igolide, however hundreds of protesters were gunned down by the loyalist Carnish troops. This tragedy was published worldwide, leading to an increase in revolutionary activity in mainland Carna, and a great resentment for the Carnish monarchy among most in Ubunye. The next year saw frequent protest and rioting, along with several guerrilla-terrorist actions in Ubunye. In 1948 the Bairdist revolution was set to dawn in Carna, and a deal was struck between the mainland Carnish revolutionaries, the Ubunyi tribes and the Carnish-Ubunyi revolutionary cells. The Ubunyi and Carnish citizens of Ubunye would rise up in tandom with the Bairdist revolution in Carna, overthrowing the monarchy and loyalist soldiers, in return Ubunye would be granted its long-sought independence.