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The 20th century in Bulkh saw the rapid adoption of [[Occidental]] memes such as industrialism, capitalism, urbanization, but development has been uneven, mostly occurring in its coastal regions. Following the [[First Great War]], and especially after the [[Second Great War]], Bulkh was rapidly increased its adoption of secularism, and democracy and its cultural and economic ties with [[Burgundie]]. The nation signed a constitution in [[1906]] and became a secular republic. This government set about a series of invasive modernization policies that were not popular, but any resistance was quashed by a corrupt but loyal police force and army. During the [[Second Great War]] [[Burgundie]] and Bulkh were allied against the anti-colonial powers of [[Audonia]] and [[Alshar]] and this arrangement made the government and elite incredibly rich. This income disparity as well as the [[Occidental]]ization caused a rift in the nation that ultimately led to a communist insurgency in the western part of the country during the 1960s-80s. During this period the government further embraced [[Burgundie]] and became a rising star in the globalizing world. It has become a stable global trading partner for nations and has developed a strong manufacturing sector that rivals any in the [[Middle seas region]]. Today, Bulkh is a key second tier manufacturing hub for industrializing nations and nations with moderate and lower incomes. It is also serves as a point of power projection for [[Burgundie]] in the [[Audonia]]/[[Alshar]]i interface zone, through which it also conducts its own modest power projection.

From [[1968]]-[[1982]] the Bulkh People's Republic (BPR) was a break away region of Bulkh that hosted its own {{wpl|agrarian socialist}} government and society. It rose in opposition to the increasingly urbanist, industrialist, and capitalist society that was forming in the aftermath of the [[Second Great War]]. Its center of power was in the market settlement of Tall Diwabjah. Despite its aims, the BPR was never successful in its attempts to fully realize its socialist ideals as it occupied mostly inarable, inhospitable desert and was, from [[1974]] until its defeat in [[1982]], constantly at war with government forces.

The BPR was most of a political movement than a defacto state and the population it oversaw were largely Bedouin nomads and transient herders who owed no particular allegiance to the BPR's government. It did some international recognition from other communist and socialist states but it was never seriously considered by most nations and had no trade arrangements with any other states. In its own internal census of [[1980]] it reported to have a population of 325,493 people, but the government of Bulkh has never reported more than 25,390 people in the areas under BPR control in the [[1965]] or [[1985]] censuses of the regions.