Kiravian Union

The Kiravian Union (Coscivian: Kiravix Thūra) was a single-party socialist state that governed Great Kirav and several historically Kiravian island possessions from 21144 to 21185. Under the leadership of the Kirosocialist Party the Kiravian Union undertook a campaign of centralised statebuilding and state-directed economic and social modernisation with the goal of developing a independent of Occidental capitalist forces. Despite some successes towards its guiding political objectives, the Kiravian Union suffered from economic and administrative inefficiencies and its heavy-handed methods of economic restructuring and political repression strained its already tepid popular legitimacy. A series of nationwide labour strikes and dissension within the ruling party during the mid 21180s led to multiparty elections and ultimately the dismantling of the régime by the National Renewal Movement.

History
The Kiravian Union was declared in 21146. The Kirosocialist Party had controlled the Prime Executure and the Stanora of the Kiravian Federal Republic since [YEAR], operating within the parameters of the existing constitution. Its capture of additional state legislatures by 21146 accorded it the political trifecta necessary to amend the constitution unilaterally. The Stanora did so in 21146, repealing the entire constitution and replacing it with the Constitution of the Kiravian Union, which laid out a single-party state largely following the classical Devinist model. The Stanora was immediately converted into the Supreme Soviet (Ixtísovèt) and all non-Kirosocialist Delegates automatically forfeit their seats. The sole dissenting Kirosocialist vote, S.P. Akēvarin, vacated his seat the next day upon his expulsion from the Party.

Initially, the declaration of the Kiravian Union was fiercely resisted in parts of the country where the Kirosocialist Party had not been popular. State governments that refused to recognise the new order were swiftly suppressed by the Union authorities across most of Great Kirav. Federalist loyalists on the West Coast folded under the pressure of an economic blockade. In South Kirav opponents of the régime put up substantial resistance but were largely defeated by 21149 (a low-level rural insurgency would continue for the duration of the Union's existence).

Territorial Extent
The Kiravian Union claimed to inherit all territorial holdings and treaty rights held by the Kiravian Federal Republic. With the exception of the Sydona Islands, most Kiravian overseas possessions and protectorates initially refused to recognise the Union's authority, and the Union's ability to assert it authority overseas was crippled by mass defections from the Kiravian Navy and the flight of naval vessels to Scapa and Æonara in the Union's first days of existence.

Æonara, Atrassica, the Krasoa Islands, Seváronsa, Saint Kennera, Pribraltar, Scapa, and Kiravian Cusinaut would remain permanently outside of KU control.

Language
Based on the belief that linguistic diversity was a hindrance to national and proletarian unity and that diglossia among multiple dialects and literary registers of Kiravic was a retrograde holdover from the country's hierarchical past, the Kirosocialist government vigorously promoted monolingualism among the Coscivian population, suppressing regional, local, and ethnic vernaculars and the levelling of Kiravic dialects. It also curtailed the use of High Coscivian in higher education and the publication of new books in the language, in addition to banishing High Coscivian formulae from state ceremonies and quietly scrapping High Coscivian mottoes of government agencies. In order to promote literacy in the sole national language among non-native speakers and purge Kiravian letters of perceived bourgeois and reactionary elements, the Union promoted the use of Standard Kiravic, a different written standard from traditional Literary Kiravic designed to be more regular, more "modern", and more accessible to the less educated and non-native speakers. Although these policies had only a limited effect on major regional languages like Southern Coscivian and West Coast Marine Coscivian, their impact on ethnic languages spoken in the cities was considerable. Even many urban centres in non-Kiravic-speaking areas, such as Béyasar and Saar-Silverda, became mainly Kiravic-speaking during this time.

The régime was more accommodating toward non-Coscivian minority languages and launched language development initiatives for Aboriginal languages like Qódava. It also supported education and public services in the Prythonic language, as Welsh-Kiravians were ardent supporters of Kirosocialism and many high-ranking Party members, such as Secretary-General Rŵlan Jones, were native Welsh speakers. Gaelic education outside of Gaelic-majority areas was shut down and many Gaelic institutions of higher education were shut down or subjected to interference by the authorities, but the Kirosocialists quickly abandoned programmes to shift Gaelic-speaking areas to Kiravic as impractical.