Alpachnia

The Alpachnee Empire or Alpachnia is a landlocked country in northeastern Crona. It is bordered by the International Nature Preserve, Copake, Xisheng and Mid-Atrassic Crona.It was established out of the previous Alpachnee Confederation, which ceased to exist following the Alpachnee War.

Balu's coup and social reform
Following the Alpachnee War, the domestic political situation in the Confederatiom reached a tipping point. Although President Sisubiso had overseen defeat in the conflict, the Alpachnee State still stood and avoided total annexation. Additionally, many of the periphery nationalities and branches of the Sugondese people had been lost in territorial cessions to Daxia and Kiravia. As these groups were traditionally opponents of the Sisubiso administration, President Sisubiso paradoxically emerged from the war is a much stronger position when also considering the political capital he gained from extricating the Confederation from possible destruction.

In 2023, Sisubiso began to use his strengthened position to replace most senior Confederate and military leaders with individuals loyal to him. As the Final War of the Deluge reached its conclusion, the administration began to signal its belief that the Occident would once again thrn its attention to the Alpachnees. A major media and propaganda campaign drove a public narrative by 2025 that the country needed a "strong leader" willing to dispense with the traditional construction of the Confederation.

On 8 May 2025, a major demonstration began in Opa-Loka demanding government reform, and these demonstrations were suppressed by forces loyal to traditional Council leadership. The Sisubiso administration and its military allies seized this incident as pretext to arrest the members of the Confederate Council for “crimes against the people” on 11 May 2025. On 12 May 2025, a counter-coup was defeated and martial law was established in Opa-Loka. On the morning of 13 May, President Sisubiso cited the arrested Council as evidence of the failure of the traditional system, and proclaimed himself Emperor of the Alpachnees, dispensing with the centuries-old Confederation government. These events, known as the “May Days”, were largely enabled by the loss of domestic opponents to Daxia and Kiravia.

The newly-styled Emperor Balu I, recognized by most Deluge participants, spent most of 2025 consolidating control and pledging a new, Occidental-style constitution at a future point once national stability was reestablished.