Unnuaq Mission State

The Unnuaq Mission State was a country in Cusinaut. The country was formed out of a region populated by eighteen Catholic missions and the towns that sprang up around them. Though the missions have existed in the Unnuaq region for centuries, the political apparatus of the territory only began in the 2010s as the Unnuaq exclusion area mandated under the Treaty of Narasseta. The eighteen missions in the region began to see to self-governance as a league of mission-town governments, but the end of the treaty threatened both the newly fledgling government and the missions themselves. The Armed Forces of the Apostolic Kingdom of Urcea assumed control of the exclusion zone during Operation Mission Shield, which was primarily launched to ensure the security of the mission zone. Following months of military occupation, the local missions received sufficient guarantees from Urcea and declared their independence on 2 May 2017. The country was a formal protectorate of Urcea, and the Apostolic King of Urcea is invested as Protector-General of the country, a largely symbolic executive position within the Mission State's domestic governance. The Unnuaq Mission State was a member of the Nysdra Sea Treaty Association.

Following the Final War of the Deluge and the destruction of Algoquona, the need for a distinct political entity to protect the northern missions largely passed. Additionally, the clerics and officials who led the missions began to issue reports that their role as public administrators and association with the state were detracting from their religious objectives. The State's existence as a theocratic confederation and the lack of significant electoral input ran contrary to the stated goals of NSTA, though it was granted several exceptions by that organization. By 2028, Urcea committed to help guiding the country to self-governance while allowing the missions to return to their primarily religious objectives. The country was annexed in 2032 by New Harren, completing this transition, and its territory makes up the constituent state of Borealia.

Government
The Unnuaq Mission State was a federal republic based on the territorial jurisdictions of the eighteen Catholic Church missions within the country. Its government existed from the early 2010s, though it only became formalized following the country's independence in 2017. Each of the eighteen missions was administered by a Abbot-General, who is the overall administrator of the mission area in addition to being the abbot of the central monastic mission community. These Abbot-Generals were subject to the appointment of their religious order, making administration within the country fluid. In order to ensure continuity of operations given the unusual nature of religious life in the Mission State, the religious orders in charge of the missions typically assigned priests or monks already in the Unnuaq region as Abbot-General. Within each mission, the Abbot-General functioned as executive administrator, and in lieu of an official executive agency, the operations of the monastic community under his purview functioned as the governing bureaucracy of a mission in addition to many other responsibilities. Within each mission, the Abbot-General oversaw a Popular Committee, a consultant body of local notables and citizens responsible for providing popular input into the affairs of government. Unlike traditional governing apparatus, public administration was largely a collaborative work between the local monastic communities and the local population. Police responsibilities were initially done by local militias, but after independence the country collaborated with the Armed Forces of the Apostolic Kingdom of Urcea to employ military police in combination with local neighborhood watch programs in order to enforce local laws. The Apostolic King of Urcea served as Protector-General, a nominal role of the nation, though it had few official roles within the state apparatus.

Each of the eighteen Abbot-Generals met several times per year in an institution known as the All-Mission Council. The All-Mission Council served as the legislature for the Unnuaq Mission State, though in practice much of the responsibility of governing was handled at the mission level. After independence, the Council had been responsible for ratifying treaties and was additionally responsible for regulating the State's relationship with Urcea and others. The Unnuaq Mission State had a very small central government, consisting of the All-Mission Council, the Counsel to the Missions, the Trade Administration Board, and the Defense Administration Board, which combined made up approximately 150 full time employees. The Personnel Administration Board, not an official "government agency" but the human resources and personnel division of the government overseeing the other parts of the central government, consistently had an additional 15 employees. Not including members of the country's defense force, priests, or the Abbots themselves, the government had no more than 165 administrative personnel.

Linguistic Demographics
The majority of native peoples of the Unnuaq Mission State spoke the Housatonish language.

Demographics
The Unnuaq Mission State was unique in Crona for its religious demographics; as of 2017, it was the only state to have a Catholic majority besides New Harren, and it was the only semi-independent state to have a Catholic majority. The foundation and nature of the Mission State was largely responsible for the Catholic population, and consequently the urban areas that were established surrounding Catholic missions were overwhelmingly Catholic. The minor M'acunist minority typically lived in smaller settlements and rural areas on the southern border of the country or in the extreme northern sections.

Military
The Unnuaq Mission State had three primary military forces; the State Guard, which serves as its ground forces branch, the Nysdra Sea Guard, which served as its navy and coast guard, and the State Air Forces, which served as the nation's air force. The military was coordinated under the Defense Administration Board. Given the small size and scope of the armed forces, Urcea's Royal and Imperial Army was largely responsible for the usual defense of the country.

The State Guard was a small, loosely organized corps of professional officers responsible for maintaining national defense readiness. The Guard was responsible for coordinating with each Mission to establish and organize its militia, and to establish "phantom" infantry units which militia forces are called up into upon activation. These phantom units maintained active headquarters and support personnel despite the lack of actual infantry attached to the formation. As such, the State Guard did not serve as a standing army but rather as a vehicle for which a coordinated national defense could be erected among the Missions of the country. The paper strength of the collective militia units, known as the State Defense Battalion, was approximately 900 in 2025. In the event of war, the Battalion would be subordinated under local Royal and Imperial Army Command for the duration of the conflict in order to have a united defensive effort of the country as part of NSTA's Defense Coordination Initiative.

The State Guard had two primary "standing" units, the Border Patrol Battalion and the Boreal Rescue Platoon. The Border Battalion was composed of 782 men in 2025 and was largely responsible for manning a series of remote outposts along the country's northern and western border. The Border Battalion largely managed the transient, nomadic tribal groups who seasonally migrated around the country, and accordingly members of the Battalion were expected to have training in conflict resolution and cultural sensitivity to help coordinate migrations in a timely and safe manner. The Boreal Rescue Platoon was the ground-based rescue operations unit responsible for search and rescue in the northern tundra regions of the country and coordinated with the State Air Forces on all rescue efforts.

Upon annexation, the State Guard was fully incorporated within the Royal and Confederate Army, and its phantom units were aggregated into that force's comparable skeleton divisions.

The Nysdra Sea Guard is the naval force of most NSTA members, previously including the Unnuaq Mission State. The Mission State paid for a portion of the Sea Guard's annual budget and provides sailors and officers for its personnel. Due to the nature of the nation, the Sea Guard's Chaplain was also always a Mission State national. Following the annexation of the Mission State in 2032, New Harren assumed the full share of Sea Guard payments previously made by the Mission State.

The State Air Forces were a small air force comprised of two components, the State Air Forces Combat Group (SAFCG) and the State Air Forces Rescue and Logistics Group (SAFRLG). The SAFCG was composed of a squadron of 14 fighter aircraft provided by the Royal Air Force. The SAFRLG was composed of several dozen search and rescue planes as well as firefighting, air training, and transport planes and helicopters. The SAFCG coordinated heavily with the Boreal Rescue Platoon of the State Guard to coordinate rescue missions in the nation's frozen northern portions. When the country was annexed, the State Air Forces formed the basis of the new Royal New Harren Air Force (RNHAF).