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The '''Northern Confederation''', officially the '''Confederation of the Universal North''', was a country in [[Cusinaut]]. The Confederation, founded in the 17th century, united the [[List of peoples of Cusinaut|dozens of different peoples of eastern Cusinaut]] into a loose confederation able to solve disputes between its members and establish firm rules for trading, and in so doing the new Confederation created nearly three centuries of stability and growth in Cusinaut. Critically, the Confederation also unified the military capabilities of its members, allowing it to consistently defeat efforts by the [[Occident]] to colonize Cusinaut, and even when Occidental colonies were established the strong defense of the Confederation prevented further expansion. By 1800, the Confederation took on greater, codified responsibilities, and in 1847 it adopted a formal written constitution. The Confederation gradually become unable to resolve disputes, especially those involving the emergent Algosh and Honeoye peoples, which led to the decline of its political relevancy. The Confederation continued on through the [[War of the Northern Confederation]], wherein some of its members invited [[Urcea]]n intervention against other members. Despite having been rendered functionally obsolete, the Confederation continued on through the war until the [[Algosh coup]] formally reorganized it. | The '''Northern Confederation''', officially the '''Confederation of the Universal North''', was a country in [[Cusinaut]]. The Confederation, founded in the 17th century, united the [[List of peoples of Cusinaut|dozens of different peoples of eastern Cusinaut]] into a loose confederation able to solve disputes between its members and establish firm rules for trading, and in so doing the new Confederation created nearly three centuries of stability and growth in Cusinaut. Critically, the Confederation also unified the military capabilities of its members, allowing it to consistently defeat efforts by the [[Occident]] to colonize Cusinaut, and even when Occidental colonies were established the strong defense of the Confederation prevented further expansion. By 1800, the Confederation took on greater, codified responsibilities, and in 1847 it adopted a formal written constitution. The Confederation gradually become unable to resolve disputes, especially those involving the emergent Algosh and Honeoye peoples, which led to the decline of its political relevancy. The Confederation continued on through the [[War of the Northern Confederation]], wherein some of its members invited [[Urcea]]n intervention against other members. Despite having been rendered functionally obsolete, the Confederation continued on through the war until the [[Algosh coup]] formally reorganized it. | ||
The Confederation had many different forms over its existence, but the form it took by [[1920]] remained recognizable abroad and reflects its traditional core membership. Its 1920 borders now include the nations of [[New Harren]], the [[Algosh Republic]], the [[Chenango Confederacy]], the [[Unnuaq Mission State]], [[Housatonic]], [[Pachaug]], [[ | The Confederation had many different forms over its existence, but the form it took by [[1920]] remained recognizable abroad and reflects its traditional core membership. Its 1920 borders now include the nations of [[New Harren]], the [[Algosh Republic]], the [[Chenango Confederacy]], the [[Unnuaq Mission State]], [[Housatonic]], [[Pachaug]], [[Caracua]], and [[Maloka]]. | ||
==Etymology== | ==Etymology== | ||
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===Pre-confederate Cusinaut=== | ===Pre-confederate Cusinaut=== | ||
===Great Confederation=== | ===Great Confederation=== | ||
Although historians continue to debate the exact originating point of the idea of a Confederation, they are mostly unanimous that the [[Kiravia]]n settlement of the island of [[Porfíria#Beginnings_on_Rovaion|Rovaion]] in [[1654]] provided the immediate impetus for anti-Occidental action. | |||
The areas to the northwest of Cusinaut (modern [[Caracua]]) were slow to embrace the need for the Confederation. However, the rapid growth of [[Thýstara]] to about 12,000 people by [[1700]] increased the frequency of Kiravian excursions into the northern Cusinauti interior. Accordingly, the peoples living there began to join the Confederation beginnining in [[1687]] and completing by around [[1720]], whereby the Confederation extended across Cusinaut from east to west. | |||
====Riot of 1741==== | ====Riot of 1741==== | ||
In [[1741]], the [[Mitei]] of the National Conference met in the city of Kaigwa. | In [[1741]], the [[Mitei]] of the National Conference met in the city of Kaigwa. | ||
===Resisting the Occident=== | ===Resisting the Occident=== | ||
====Constitutionalist shift==== | ====Constitutionalist shift==== | ||
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The degree of centralization and unified political authority varied over the course of the Confederation's history. In [[1883]] following the Confederation's victory over [[Urcea]] in its attempted expansion of [[New Harren]], the Confederation convened an emergency standing central government called the Union Directorate. The Union Directorate was invested with the ability to call on any Confederation unit military while also collecting a small voluntary contribution from the members on an annual basis; in [[1912]] it also began to collect a share of all tariff dues collected by the members. With these funds, a small but functional Confederation-wide bureaucratic apparatus was established, allowing the Directorate to sponsor construction of roads, bridges, airports, and other infrastructure. Composed of seven independent Directors, the Union Directorate was nominally under the authority and direction under the National Conference. In practice, the Union Directorate took on the characteristics of an independent central government, renewed annually by the National Conference for the "duration of the crisis" that was continued Occidental pressure in [[Cusinaut]]. The Directorate's independent power was its authority over the military, bureaucracy, and administration, largely ensuring the inability of the Conference to dissolve it. The Union Directorate served as a quasi-executive committee at the pleasure of the National Conference in theory, but in practice many members of the Directorate became independently politically influential, preventing them from being recalled or replaced. National political factions in the 20th century would often form as cliques around individual Directorate members. In the 1960s, these cliques would increasingly take on an ethnic component. | The degree of centralization and unified political authority varied over the course of the Confederation's history. In [[1883]] following the Confederation's victory over [[Urcea]] in its attempted expansion of [[New Harren]], the Confederation convened an emergency standing central government called the Union Directorate. The Union Directorate was invested with the ability to call on any Confederation unit military while also collecting a small voluntary contribution from the members on an annual basis; in [[1912]] it also began to collect a share of all tariff dues collected by the members. With these funds, a small but functional Confederation-wide bureaucratic apparatus was established, allowing the Directorate to sponsor construction of roads, bridges, airports, and other infrastructure. Composed of seven independent Directors, the Union Directorate was nominally under the authority and direction under the National Conference. In practice, the Union Directorate took on the characteristics of an independent central government, renewed annually by the National Conference for the "duration of the crisis" that was continued Occidental pressure in [[Cusinaut]]. The Directorate's independent power was its authority over the military, bureaucracy, and administration, largely ensuring the inability of the Conference to dissolve it. The Union Directorate served as a quasi-executive committee at the pleasure of the National Conference in theory, but in practice many members of the Directorate became independently politically influential, preventing them from being recalled or replaced. National political factions in the 20th century would often form as cliques around individual Directorate members. In the 1960s, these cliques would increasingly take on an ethnic component. | ||
===Constituents=== | |||
Legal conceptions of the sovereignty of the constituent members evolved over time, altering the model of how "local governance" and "constituent nations" worked in the Confederation. The Occidental notions of sovereignty and nationhood were largely foreign to the indigenous Cronan peoples that formed the Confederation in the 17th century. As the peoples of the Confederation were exposed to [[Occidental]] legal treatises and conceptions, the leading legal experts and thinkers of the Confederation began to adapt the Occidental models and systems into their own conception of themselves. | |||
By the end of the 20th century, all of the sedentary members of the Confederation had distinct borders relative to one another. Nearly all of these constituents had strong, deeply-held conceptions of themselves as sovereign entities within a broader Confederation. In many respects, restoration of that sovereignty after the [[Algosh coup]] - and therefore, a return to tradition - was a major motivator to many former constituent peoples in siding with [[Occident]]al powers against [[Algoquona]]. | |||
==Culture== | ==Culture== | ||
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[[Category:IXWB]] | [[Category:IXWB]] | ||
[[Category: Cusinaut]] | [[Category: Cusinaut]] | ||
[[Category:Northern Confederation]] | |||