Mid-Atrassic States
Commonwealth of Mid-Atrassic States Lódrisavravuntin Iviatrassix Ārkîya | |
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| Capital | Anaqua |
| Largest | East Rigo |
| Official languages | Kiravic Coscivian |
| Recognised regional languages | Chapatec, Demotic Varshani Čikibriki, Patapzcotl Copacaban, Čapticolani, Qoptanquatl |
| Ethnic groups | Native (majority) Settler (minority) |
| Religion | Čulčeo, Christianity Hail Gods Faith, Solar Arzalism |
| Demonym(s) | Mediatrassic |
| Government | Benefactor confederacy |
• Sovereign | Marble Emperor |
• Governor-General | Ivoŕ Arolian |
| Legislature | Legislative Conference |
| Dependencies within the Kiravian Collectivity | |
| 2034 | |
| Currency | Cronan lira |
| Driving side | left |
| Internet TLD | .ms |
The Mid-Atrassic States is a federation of Kiravian overseas dependencies in east-central Crona, under the auspices of the Kiravian Collectivity. It was established in 2034 AD by the amalgamation of two preceding entities: Mid-Atrassic Crona (Kiravian-held lands in the former Nanzitolclatl) and Upper Atrassic Crona (lands permanently separated from Varshan under the Treaty of Electorsbourg). A product of the Deluge, the Mid-Atrassic States form one of the larger contiguous colonial territories in modern Crona and are of enormous economic, strategic, and geopolitical-ideological importance to the Kiravian Federacy.
History
Most of what is currently known about the premodern history of the lands that would become the Mid-Atrassic States concerns the impact of Varshani imperialism in the area. The southern parts of the Mid-Atrassic States fell victim to Varshani conquests and suffered long periods of direct rule, while more northerly areas, though spared this fate, were nonetheless targeted for large-scale slave raids as part of the Hunts, as well as other forms and modes of indirect domination and malign influence by the continental hegemon.
[Mississippian stuff? Adapted Precolumbian Mesoamrican social organisation?]
[Early Kiravian contact - Goa-Mangaloreanisation of Chappaqua and {insert other region here?}]
Deluge
Nanzitolclatl War
Final War
The course of the Eastern Front of the Final War of the Deluge ran through the future Mid-Atrassic States and would ultimately lead to their expansion and consolidation as a single entity after the war.
Postwar devastation
Post-Electorsbourg
It was recognised that the Mountains of Terror and their foothills were too economically and socially underdeveloped for immediate independence, and that geographic and historical barriers would ensure that the political development of these lands would be a very long-term project. responsible government. Delimited by the treaty and formally separated from Varshan as Upper Atrassic Crona.
Economic and living conditions in Mid-Atrassic Crona improved after the war. The rising importance of logsitical chains running through the territory to support the Kiravian occupation of eastern Varshan brought increased employment opportunities for the population.
Consolidation
The Mid-Atrassic States were established in 2034 pursuant to the Atrassic Crona Governance Act, which effected a merger of Mid-Atrassic Crona and Upper Atrassic Crona. The consolidation of Kiravia’s new dependencies under a single overarching territorial formation was first suggested in a report from the Bureau of Governance Analysis, which found that combining the two existing administrations would eliminate redundancies and considerably reduce costs, as well as facilitate the integration of both territories into the Kiravian overseas network and hasten development. Further impetus toward consolidation came in the wake of the 2033 federal election in which the Labour Front of Kirav greatly increased its strength in the Stanora, riding a tide of insularist and Cronasceptic sentiment in the electorate and vowing to cut spending on Cronan affairs. The ACGA also provided for other reforms meant to make the colonial administration more fiscally freestanding and legislatively empowered, in order to insulate the Kiravian presence in the concerned territories from divestment under a potential future Labour majority or administration.
Governance
[Constitutional status and sovereignty situation]
The Governor-General chairs a General Executive Council, which acts as both a cabinet and a legislative body, having the power to enact primary legislation for the country through decrees known as 'conciliar ordinances' (kovarigisvamdin).
A Legislative Conference is empowered to legislate on matters of interstate domestic policy and taxation, as well as to legislate directly for the non-self-governing territories, with the exception of military districts.
Civil service positions are staffed by officers of the Cronan Administrative Service, an agency of the Overseas Governance Executive.
For some administrative purposes, the Mid-Atrassic States observes the division of its territory into three parts: the Northern Department (former Mid-Atrassic Crona), the Southern Department (former Upper Atrassic Crona), and the Chapatec Free State. The Northern and Southern Departments each have a Secretary of State serving as the chief administrative official; their counterpart in the Chapatec Free State is the Free State’s Prime Executive.
The Mid-Atrassic Postal Service (MAPS) took over responsibility for mail delivery in the Northern and Southern Departments in 2035, though its organisation, procedures, and systems are identical to those of the Kiravian Post that served its predecessor territories. The Chapatec Free State continues to be served by the Kiravian Post pending revision of its treaties with the Kiravian Federacy, which may result in a switchover either to MAPS or an independent domestic postal service.
Federal subjects
List
- Anaqua Territory
- Chapatec Free State
- Êrdesta Bay Territory
- Gatún Lake Territory
- Montitoba Territory
- Perth Amboy Territory
- South Amboy Territory
- Human Development District
- More
Citizenship
[General principles]
[Internal passport system]
Some native Cronans hold Kiravian nationality and/or citizenship. Many such people were naturalised in gratitude for their services to the Kiravian military or the civil administration. The Hailstorm Warrior auxiliaries who fought alongside Kiravian forces during the Mountain March are a notable example; having been extended Kiravian nationality by [legislation] and personally sworn in as Kiravian citizens by PE Andrus Candrin in [YEAR].
Law
Human sacrifice was banned by military order in [YEAR] and subsequently reinforced by statutes. However, it is believed that the practice continues illegally on a small scale, mostly in the Southern Department.
Forced marriage was banned by the Cronan Marriages Order, but this has proven very difficult to enforce. Not only does forced marriage remain widespread among the native population, but there have been reported incidents of marriage by abduction carried out by male settlers against native women.
Capital punishment is dispensed by the MAS government and those of its provinces and traditional jurisdictions. Most executions are public.
Public Order, Security, and Defence
The Mid-Atrassic States does not maintain its own armed forces. Defence is the responsibility of the Kiravian Federacy.
Troops of the First Cronan Corps of the Kiravian Army are permanently stationed in Mid-Atrassic States in order to ensure the country's defence against external threats. Additionally, they deter and combat internal security threats such as insurgents of Čikibriki suprematist or Arzalist persuasions, deliver general law enforcement services across most of the country, and provide support to local authorities in the event of civil unrest or public emergency.
Military police units of the KF Territorial Defence Forces rated as 'deployment-ready' are rotated through the Mid-Atrassic States to assist the Kiravian Army in its public order, law enforcement, and internal security roles. These rotations are intended to provide experiential learning and organisational learning to the TDF units involved and increase their readiness for wartime deployment to Crona should such a situation arise in the future.
The Chapatec Free State retains its own defence force, the Chapatec People's Liberation Army, a right which it reserved under the terms of its incorporation into the Mid-Atrassic States. By agreement with the MAS and KF governments, the CPLA's marine unit, the Chapatec People's Liberation Army Navy, serves as a coast guard for the Mid-Atrassic States as a whole, and receives Kiravian government subsidies, surplus matériel, and other aid to assist it in this mission and progressively increase interoperability with the Kiravian Maritime Cutter Service.
Self-Administered Zones and Chartered Territories are permitted to raise and command organised militia subject to regulation by the General Executive Council. Most such jurisdictions also hire their own local police and/or gendarmes. Local 'private' militia unregulated by the state are commonplace in both native and transplant communities due to the recent experience of war and the limitations of the Kiravian Army's ability to provide a rapid response to stochastic threats. The Mid-Atrassic States are a major market for private security contractors, mostly hired by overseas corporations to protect their assets, personnel, and operations in the country.
Processes of Colonisation
[Human Capital Transfer]
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.
[Colonisation via land reform]
[Internal resettlement] - The policy of internal resettlement was ended in 2032.
[Social dumping and its consequences]
[Future: Atrassic Union or piecemeal federalisation?]
Society and Culture
[Native tribes]
[ Settlement Movement ]
Varshani people are an important ethnic minority in the Mid-Atrassic States. Although the ethnic Varshani population of Upper Atrassic Crona saw massive decline after the war, mostly through emigration to League-occupied Varshan, they retain a significant presence in the Southern Department’s larger population centres in the piedmont and wider mountain vales. A smaller population of Varshanis exists in the Northern Department; it is mostly comprised of resettled collaborators and defectors, specially-selected refugees and IDPs, and some former POWs who refused repatriation after the war. Most live in resettlement camps.
Religion
The religious landscape of the Mid-Atrassic States, historically dominated by long-established native belief systems such as Čulčeo and orthodox Arzalism, is presently in flux due to migration, post-Deluge disruptions and developments in Arzalism, and the growing influence of Christianity.
The worship of Xzibit is widespread in the Mid-Atrassic States, extending across multiple religious systems from Culceo to Arzalism. His cult is centred in the town of Ix’xzotil. Another important traditional deity is the Great Lobster, associated with fate, who is revered mainly in coastal communities.
The highland tribes of Upper Atrassic Crona mainly revere weather-related deities, especially the Hail Gods. Worship of these figures was officially prohibited under Varshani rule, but due to the remoteness of mountain tribal communities the prohibition was only rarely enforced. The Hail God Faith has been practiced more openly since liberation and has just begun to be studied by Kiro-Occidental scholars.
Christianity has a long history on the territory of the Mid-Atrassic States, having established a small beachhead in what is now the Chapatec Free State during the 1600s AD. Its subsequent diffusion outside of this area was visible but limited, though it accelerated during the 20th century AD with foreign support and independent missionary activity. The Deluge allowed for a dramatic increase in Christian evangelism, led mostly by Kiravian and international church-affiliated aid organisations carrying out humanitarian and educational work in the country. The Roman Catholic and Insular Apostolic churches are the most active in this regard, with the latter making particularly notable inroads in the less accessible regions of the Southern Department. The Coscivian Orthodox Church and Protestant groups have a smaller missionary presence.
It is believed that between four-hundred and one-thousand Christian Abrigalasts live in the Mid-Atrassic States, with a few Abrigalast families having settled there even before the Deluge.
There are two known mosques in the Mid-Atrassic States, in Anaqua and Amboy City. The Qustanti Sovereign Wealth fund has made some investments in the country.
Economy
The Mid-Atrassic States have a developing economy. Northeast Crona is the poorest geoschematic region of the world, a legacy of geographic and ecological endowments, Varshani oppression, modern anocracy and extractivism, and the effects of Deluge conflicts. Geographically isolated and politically subjugated for centuries, the mountainous regions constituting the former Upper Atrassic Crona are particularly deprived and face persistent barriers to growth, with their inhabitants living a largely premodern subsistence lifestyle. The current development agenda guiding colonial administration and Kiravian interventions is to accelerate the country’s transition from what is effectively a least developed country to a frontier market capable of attracting at least a modest degree of unfacilitated private investment.
[Canal project]
The currency of the Mid-Atrassic States is the Cronan lira, which is issued by the Atrassic Monetary Commission and pegged to the Kiravian saar, both to ensure stability and simplify accounting for government agencies and Kiravian businesses operating in the Mid-Atrassic, who generally perform their bookkeeping in saars but opt to make local purchases and payroll in lire.
The foundations for a globally significant acericultural sector to harvest and process maple sugar and maple syrup for export are currently being laid in the Montitoba Territory, as well as in adjacent provinces to a more limited extent. Projections from the Multilateral Coöperation Council Agrifood Development Office suggest that the "syrup belt" of northeast Crona stretching across the northern latitudes of the Mid-Atrassic States and Xisheng could dominate world sugar maple production by the 2050s.
Marine crustaceans are an important export.