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===Reform effort===

Beginning in [[1812]], King Abey II began an ambitious series of reforms to transition the Kingdom from a personalist client-patron piratocratic model into a more traditional, Occidental-style institution-based state. Abey's vision was that Oustec would move to an absolute monarchy, where the crown would serve as the central system of political organization, and that state revenues would be based more on trade duties and internal economic activity rather than the no longer lucrative tradition of piracy. The reforms were partly successful but were resisted both by traditionalists, who sought to maintain Oustec's oceanic orientation, and local powerbrokers who resented efforts to centralize. Significant resistance came from the [[Arona#Provincial_history|Harounan Province]]. Abey sought to balance the Kingdom's armed forces by changing focus from solely privateer-based naval and marine forces to a standing professional land army, and Harounan possessed the best trained and most professional forces in the country. Efforts to centralize its forces led to bitter resentments that would splinter the province from the Kingdom as it faced terminal threats elsewhere.

In an effort to legitimate his realm and his reforms, Abey abandoned the traditional "roving court" seaborn model the Kingdom had employed and established the court at Oduria, a major city and once the seat of a same-named [[Vallos#Loose_Caphiric_hegemony|undecimvirate]].

==Legacy==

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