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Kiravian exploration of the Mid-Atrassic region probably began in the 1570s AD, and there is cartographic evidence therefor from the 1580s. From bases on the island of [[Atrassica]], Kiravian navigators would fan out to chart the shores of [[Alpachnia]], [[Yordest Bay]], and points south. | Kiravian exploration of the Mid-Atrassic region probably began in the 1570s AD, and there is cartographic evidence therefor from the 1580s. From bases on the island of [[Atrassica]], Kiravian navigators would fan out to chart the shores of [[Alpachnia]], [[Yordest Bay]], and points south. | ||
In the Chapatec lands, large-scale Coscivian settlement was attempted on tracts of pericoastal land purchased for such purposes from Chapatec tribes, but was thwarted by high mortality rates due to a poorly-understood waterborne disease known as [[Atrassic diarrhœa flagrans]], which is of unknown {{wp|etiology}} but suspected to be caused by endoparasitic protozoa. | In the Chapatec lands, large-scale Coscivian settlement was attempted on tracts of pericoastal land purchased for such purposes from Chapatec tribes, but was thwarted by high mortality rates due to a poorly-understood waterborne disease known as [[Atrassic diarrhœa flagrans]], which is of unknown {{wp|etiology}} but suspected to be caused by endoparasitic protozoa. Whatever its vector, the disease was evidently not endemic on the offshore island of Atrassica, which supported substantial Coscivian settler populations and would become a permanent appendage of Kiravia in the region. | ||
===Deluge=== | ===Deluge=== | ||
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=====Nanzitolclatl War Proper===== | =====Nanzitolclatl War Proper===== | ||
The central government led by Mirek Alaganek found itself fighting a two-front war against [[Daxia]] and [[Kiravia]]. | The central government led by Mirek Alaganek found itself fighting a two-front war against [[Daxia]] and [[Kiravia]]. | ||
On [DATE], based on a preponderence of evidence from broad spectrum of intelligence sources, Prime Executive Candrin issued a {{wp|proclamation}} that the Nanzi central state had irretrievably ceased to function, abrogating its sovereignty, and that as the ''de facto'' authority with monopoly over use of force in the eastern half of the former country, Kiravia had established {{wp|paramountcy}} there. Now known as the Paramountcy Proclamation, the missive also granted ''bona fide'' recognition of native chiefs (albeit as {{wp|Popular monarchy|rulers of peoples}}, not territories) within their traditional remit. Kiravian sovereignty would not be formally declared until [DATE] | |||
During the process of formalising the boundaries between Daxia and Kiravia concluded the [[Touxian |Touxian Agreement]] to delineate the boundary between the enlarged [[Xisheng]] and [[Mid-Atrassic Crona]], which would bisect the former capital of Rigo. Given Rigo's large population and its central position with regard to the surviving infrastructural networks of former Nanzitolclatl, it was decided that the city and its environs would be administered as a {{wp|Condominium (international law)|condominium}}, the [[Rigo Joint Security Area]]. | During the process of formalising the boundaries between Daxia and Kiravia concluded the [[Touxian |Touxian Agreement]] to delineate the boundary between the enlarged [[Xisheng]] and [[Mid-Atrassic Crona]], which would bisect the former capital of Rigo. Given Rigo's large population and its central position with regard to the surviving infrastructural networks of former Nanzitolclatl, it was decided that the city and its environs would be administered as a {{wp|Condominium (international law)|condominium}}, the [[Rigo Joint Security Area]]. | ||
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===Federal subjects=== | ===Federal subjects=== | ||
Federal subjects of the Mid-Atrassic states may be classified as either self-governing (''suluāritax'') or non-self-governing (''dhisuluāritax''). Chartered states and Self-Administered Zones (SAZs) are considered self-governing, as is the Chapatec Free State. Other federal subjects are considered non-self-governing. | Federal subjects of the Mid-Atrassic states may be classified as either self-governing (''suluāritax'') or non-self-governing (''dhisuluāritax''). Chartered states and Self-Administered Zones (SAZs) are considered self-governing, as is the Chapatec Free State. Other federal subjects are considered non-self-governing. Montagnard states in the Southern Division are owed eventual {{wp|responsible government}} within the Collectivity under the terms of the Treaty of Electorsbourg, and their political and financial institutions are being developed toward this end. | ||
====List==== | ====List==== | ||
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The Mid-Atrassic States, with the general exception of the Self-Administered Zones, are the primary beneficiaries of the Human Capital Transfer Programme (''Ruvastra Hanplátidherá'') operated under the auspices of the [[Overseas Development Executive]]. | The Mid-Atrassic States, with the general exception of the Self-Administered Zones, are the primary beneficiaries of the Human Capital Transfer Programme (''Ruvastra Hanplátidherá'') operated under the auspices of the [[Overseas Development Executive]]. | ||
[ | ===Land reform=== | ||
The most important asset underlying the Mid-Atrassic States' economic potential is its abundant {{wp|Land (economics)|land}}, which must be substantially reällocated to maximise productivity and value through {{wp|land development}}. Mid-Atrassic land is made available for capital-intensive development through the Commonwealth Land Bureau, which manages an immense inventory of properties sourced from former Nanzitolclatl and Varshan state land, property vacated by emigrants and forfeit under General Ordinance #67, the estates belonging to 'proscribed elements' (e.g. parts of the [[Arzalism|Orthodox Arzalist]] temple system and Varshani 'militarist enterprises') or ruled as proceeds of corruption, and land identified as abandoned under the Agricultural Capital Act of 2034 (uncultivated and unoccupied for five solar years without documentary title). Land may also be made available on the open market or by voluntary forfeiture to reduce tax liability. In the Northern Division the 2029 Land Value Tax Act passed by Mid-Atrassic Crona came into effect in 2032, creating financial incentives to encourage the efficient and equitable distribution of land. | |||
===Internal Resettlement=== | |||
In the immediate aftermath of the Nanzitolclatl War, Kiravian authorities directed the relocation and resettlement of numerous communities on the territory of the former country under their control. The Overseas Governance Executive officially refers to this policy as "Internal Resettlement" (''Yētrix Ōrkurva Trébikorsk'') and describes it as "a proactive intervention to permanently resettle and socially reïntegrate {{wp|internally displaced persons}} and to defuse ethnic-tribal tensions via the physical clarification of ethnic boundaries." Critics allege that so-called Internal Resettlement was in fact a programme of {{wp|ethnic cleansing}} under a thin humanitarian guise, and that its true motive was to consolidate the former Nanzitolclatl civilian population into {{wp|bantustan|manageable, homogenous ethnic homelands}} and depopulate strategically and economically valuable pockets of territory for military use and {{wp|settler colonialism|settler colonisation}}. | In the immediate aftermath of the Nanzitolclatl War, Kiravian authorities directed the relocation and resettlement of numerous communities on the territory of the former country under their control. The Overseas Governance Executive officially refers to this policy as "Internal Resettlement" (''Yētrix Ōrkurva Trébikorsk'') and describes it as "a proactive intervention to permanently resettle and socially reïntegrate {{wp|internally displaced persons}} and to defuse ethnic-tribal tensions via the physical clarification of ethnic boundaries." Critics allege that so-called Internal Resettlement was in fact a programme of {{wp|ethnic cleansing}} under a thin humanitarian guise, and that its true motive was to consolidate the former Nanzitolclatl civilian population into {{wp|bantustan|manageable, homogenous ethnic homelands}} and depopulate strategically and economically valuable pockets of territory for military use and {{wp|settler colonialism|settler colonisation}}. | ||
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Critics, e.g. ''[[Ğábravik]]'', allege that before the consolidation of the Mid-Atrassic States, the Kiravian administration applied transmigration policies targeting Mid-Atrassic Crona that could be described as "social dumping". These policies are alleged to have involved the recruitment of immigrants to Mid-Atrassic Crona from among the Kiravian {{wp|working poor}} and {{wp|underclass}} through the use of inexpensive incentives and possibly unethical practices on the part of contracting "emigration agencies". Those pushing the "social dumping" narrative claim that the policy was motivated by territorial avarice, and that its goal was to maximise the Kiravian minority population in Mid-Atrassic Crona as quickly and inexpensively as possible in order to legitimise Kiravian military and political control of the country and justify future interventions. ''Ğábravik'' also claims (without evidence) that Kiravian municipal governments such as those of [[Valēka]] and [[Escarda]] were complicit in implementation of this policy, hoping to offload members of their {{wp|unhoused}} community. | Critics, e.g. ''[[Ğábravik]]'', allege that before the consolidation of the Mid-Atrassic States, the Kiravian administration applied transmigration policies targeting Mid-Atrassic Crona that could be described as "social dumping". These policies are alleged to have involved the recruitment of immigrants to Mid-Atrassic Crona from among the Kiravian {{wp|working poor}} and {{wp|underclass}} through the use of inexpensive incentives and possibly unethical practices on the part of contracting "emigration agencies". Those pushing the "social dumping" narrative claim that the policy was motivated by territorial avarice, and that its goal was to maximise the Kiravian minority population in Mid-Atrassic Crona as quickly and inexpensively as possible in order to legitimise Kiravian military and political control of the country and justify future interventions. ''Ğábravik'' also claims (without evidence) that Kiravian municipal governments such as those of [[Valēka]] and [[Escarda]] were complicit in implementation of this policy, hoping to offload members of their {{wp|unhoused}} community. | ||
===Future: Atrassic Union or Piecemeal Federalisation?=== | |||
The long-term future of the Mid-Atrassic states remains an {{wp|List of unsolved problems in mathematics|open question}} and hotly debated. The future relationship of the Mid-Atrassic States or any successor entity thereto with the Kiravian Federacy will likely be contingent on domestic political developments in Kiravia; however, at the present time full Kiravian withdrawal and unqualified independence are generally considered to not be in the proverbial cards. The two most likely scenarios touted by {{wp|Kashmiri pandits|pundits}} are "[[Atrassic Union]]" - whereunder the Mid-Atrassic States continue to develop as a unified and separate country that will gradually engage in ever-closer {{wp|economic integration}} with Kiravia - and "Piecemeal federalisation" - whereunder the Mid-Atrassic States is ultimately a transitional entity from which the better-developed states will be detached over time to become [[federal subjects of the Kiravian Federacy]] or take on some other bilateral constitutional status within the Collectivity short of incorporation. | The long-term future of the Mid-Atrassic states remains an {{wp|List of unsolved problems in mathematics|open question}} and hotly debated. The future relationship of the Mid-Atrassic States or any successor entity thereto with the Kiravian Federacy will likely be contingent on domestic political developments in Kiravia; however, at the present time full Kiravian withdrawal and unqualified independence are generally considered to not be in the proverbial cards. The two most likely scenarios touted by {{wp|Kashmiri pandits|pundits}} are "[[Atrassic Union]]" - whereunder the Mid-Atrassic States continue to develop as a unified and separate country that will gradually engage in ever-closer {{wp|economic integration}} with Kiravia - and "Piecemeal federalisation" - whereunder the Mid-Atrassic States is ultimately a transitional entity from which the better-developed states will be detached over time to become [[federal subjects of the Kiravian Federacy]] or take on some other bilateral constitutional status within the Collectivity short of incorporation. | ||
==Society and Culture== | ==Society and Culture== | ||
===Ethnic Demography=== | ===Ethnic Demography=== | ||
A comprehensive formal census of the Mid-Atrassic States has yet to be conducted. Demographic figures are extrapolated from civil registries (which likely do not reflect the native population at large), and estimates from MAS authorities and the Kiravian Army based on resource consumption and other evidentiary touchstones. | |||
====Native peoples of the Northern Division and Free State==== | ====Native peoples of the Northern Division and Free State==== | ||
Nanzitolclatl was a multiëthnic country, and the Mid-Atrassic states have inherited its ethnic diversity. The largest ethnic groups whose homelands would become fully or partially incorporated into the Mid-Atrassic states after the dissolution of Nanzitolclatl are the Chapatec, the historically {{wp|privilege|privileged}} Čikibriki, and the Copacaban people. Other native peoples inhabiting the territory in appreciable numbers include the Čapticolani, Čezequaki, Qoptanquatl, Symantek, and [[Sugondese people]]. Clear-cut boundaries between ethnic zones were generally absent in Nanzitolclatl, but have hardened since the Deluge as a result of war and instability conducing the territorialisation of ethnic communities, as well as Kiravian policies such as internal resettlement and the designation of self-administered zones to function as ethnostates within the Mid-Atrassic commonwealth. Čikibriki people, previously found all across the country as a dominant minority, are now concentrated mainly near the Northern Division's western border in the Frontier Military District, [[Rigo Joint Security Area]], and Nanzi-Čikibrik SAZ. On the other hand, Chapatec people - whose traditional range corresponds roughly to the boundaries of the Chapatec Free State - expanded their geographic footprint during the Deluge and are now found living in many different provinces. | Nanzitolclatl was a multiëthnic country, and the Mid-Atrassic states have inherited its ethnic diversity. The largest ethnic groups whose homelands would become fully or partially incorporated into the Mid-Atrassic states after the dissolution of Nanzitolclatl are the Chapatec, the historically {{wp|privilege|privileged}} Čikibriki, and the Copacaban people. Other native peoples inhabiting the territory in appreciable numbers include the Čapticolani, Čezequaki, Qoptanquatl, Symantek, and [[Sugondese people]]. Clear-cut boundaries between ethnic zones were generally absent in Nanzitolclatl, but have hardened since the Deluge as a result of war and instability conducing the territorialisation of ethnic communities, as well as Kiravian policies such as internal resettlement and the designation of self-administered zones to function as ethnostates within the Mid-Atrassic commonwealth. Čikibriki people, previously found all across the country as a dominant minority, are now concentrated mainly near the Northern Division's western border in the Frontier Military District, [[Rigo Joint Security Area]], and Nanzi-Čikibrik SAZ. On the other hand, Chapatec people - whose traditional range corresponds roughly to the boundaries of the Chapatec Free State - expanded their geographic footprint during the Deluge and are now found living in many different provinces. | ||