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The end of the [[Final War of the Deluge]] brought many disparate ethnic groups and former slaves in [[Varshan]] under Urcean political control, and many of these groups sought new lives elsewhere. After significant deliberation and negotiation with the [[Constituent_states_of_New_Harren#Mixcala|Mixcala]], the [[Constituent_states_of_New_Harren#Weluta-New_Mixcala|Condominium of Weluta-New Mixcala]] was opened to settlers from eastern Crona and Varshan in [[2028]], largely supplanting intended Levantine colonial settlement there. This would precipitate unexpected political issues with respect to the Condominium in the 2030s. | The end of the [[Final War of the Deluge]] brought many disparate ethnic groups and former slaves in [[Varshan]] under Urcean political control, and many of these groups sought new lives elsewhere. After significant deliberation and negotiation with the [[Constituent_states_of_New_Harren#Mixcala|Mixcala]], the [[Constituent_states_of_New_Harren#Weluta-New_Mixcala|Condominium of Weluta-New Mixcala]] was opened to settlers from eastern Crona and Varshan in [[2028]], largely supplanting intended Levantine colonial settlement there. This would precipitate unexpected political issues with respect to the Condominium in the 2030s. | ||
[[Algoquona]] had played a major role in the establishment of New Harren; it had served as the primary antagonist from which the Confederation's initial members sought protection. It had similarly played a major role in the establishment of the [[Unnuaq Mission State]] to the north, as that region's Christian missions required military protection from Algoquona. Algoquona was destroyed at the end of the [[Final War of the Deluge]], which had significant impacts on New Harren's society. As with the implementation of the 2024 Charter, it changed the mindset of most of the people of New Harren from a siege mentality to a more forward-looking worldview in which the Kingdom was the "future" of Cusinaut. It also had the effect of rendering the Unnuaq Mission State redundant as a state. The missions running the state had also requested that political power and governance be shifted from their monastic apparati and to a normal civilian government. After years of examining self-governance options, the Mission State, New Harren, and Urcea reached an agreement in which the territory would eventually become part of New Harren. The prospect of another constituent state to the Confederation caused political anxiety among the indigenous members of the Confederation who were concerned about the | [[Algoquona]] had played a major role in the establishment of New Harren; it had served as the primary antagonist from which the Confederation's initial members sought protection. It had similarly played a major role in the establishment of the [[Unnuaq Mission State]] to the north, as that region's Christian missions required military protection from Algoquona. Algoquona was destroyed at the end of the [[Final War of the Deluge]], which had significant impacts on New Harren's society. As with the implementation of the 2024 Charter, it changed the mindset of most of the people of New Harren from a siege mentality to a more forward-looking worldview in which the Kingdom was the "future" of Cusinaut. It also had the effect of rendering the Unnuaq Mission State redundant as a state. The missions running the state had also requested that political power and governance be shifted from their monastic apparati and to a normal civilian government. After years of examining self-governance options, the Mission State, New Harren, and Urcea reached an agreement in which the territory would eventually become part of New Harren. The prospect of another constituent state to the Confederation caused political anxiety among the indigenous members of the Confederation who were concerned about the balance of power between the Occidentals and indigenous going forward. The extinguishing of the Algosh military threat also left the large [[Constituent_states_of_New_Harren#Military_frontier|military frontier]] - a buffer on the Algoquonan border - largely redundant. | ||
The | The traditionally harmonious Mixcala-Rectory relationship was greatly disturbed by the developments in the Condominium during the post-war period. As Varshani refugees supplanted intended Occidental settlers, Urcean preferences and outlook changed. The once-hated Tepetlcali that occupied it had become a stateless people since their defeat at Urcea's hands in the 2000s. The Urcean government, and Rectory with it, heavily favored repatriating the Tepetlcali into the territory and gradually having Tepetlcali join the Kingdom, replacing the Condominium. This solution was unthinkable to the Mixcala, who not only hated the Tepetlcali and had their own interests in the territory but were concerned about the political impacts on the Confederation when also considering the addition of Borealia. The Mixcala thus refused a formal request to allow the Tepetlcali to resettle the territory in [[2030]]. Throughout 2030 and early 2031, political tensions grew within the Confederation. In order to diffuse the growing issue, the Governor-General convened a special working group of the [[New_Harren#Legislative|Grand Council]] with one representative per state to propose a solution in April 2031. The April Conference, as it has since been called, came upon the idea of partitioning the now-unused military frontier lands to help resolve the crisis. Their proposal was to, simultaneously, add the Unnuaq Mission State as an [[New_Harren#Confederated_units|Occidental-style constituent]], upgrade the [[Constituent_states_of_New_Harren#Free_Cities|Free Cities]] to a [[New_Harren#Confederated_units|nation within the Confederation]] with frontier lands added, dissolve the Condominium by means of partition between Mixcala and the Rectory, and to compensate Mixcala with lands from the frontier in exchange for its loss of influence in former Tepetlcali lands. The April Conference unanimously agreed on this report and submitted it to the Governor-General. In consultation with the national leaders, the Governor-General began to implement the April Conference's plans via negotiations beginning in May 2031. The negotiations yielded the territorial settlement of 2032, implemented on 1 January 2032 of that year. The final settlement differed in some respects from the original report. First, the Statutory Charter of 2024 was amended to create a new governmental form - the [[New_Harren#Confederated_units|province]] - which functions similar to Occidental-style governance but with a majority indigenous population; the Unnuaq Mission State was annexed to the Confederation and became a province - [[Constituent_states_of_New_Harren#Borealia|Borealia]]. Second, the Free Cities rejected losing their confederal governance and refused to change their form of government. Instead, the city of Canisteo, the largest among them, was joined to adjoining parts of the military frontier to establish the new [[Constituent_states_of_New_Harren#Canisteo|Province of Canisteo]]. Thirdly, the Condominium was dissolved and partitioned between Mixcala and the Rectory along ethnic lines as anticipated, but Mixcala took a much smaller share of the territory in exchange for significant financial compensation and a much larger share of the military frontier. | ||
With the settlement in place, political harmony returned to New Harren. Additionally, with the dissolution of the Condominium, the Tepetlcali were legally allowed to return to their ethnic homeland. Though not a free-standing state within the Confederation, they were afforded significant political rights and self-governing communities within the Rectory in [[2032]] and [[2033]]. New Harren in the 2030s has become, by far, Urcea's most important foreign dependency and arguably its most important foreign relation overall. | |||
== Government == | == Government == | ||