Reunification of Kiravia

The Reunification of Kiravia (Kiravic: Ādthūriktor Kiraviá ) occurred in 1984 AD when the Supreme Soviet of the Kiravian Union surrendered its authority to the Reunification Council, resulting in the previously exiled Federalist government returning to power throughout the whole of Kiravian national territory and ending the Sunderance.

Conclusion

Negotiations with the Destransar Soviet

Legally, the moment from which Reunification is deemed to have been legally completed is the passage of Resolution 1984-12420 by the Supreme Soviet of the Kiravian Union, by which that body surrendered its full authority to the Reunification Council and dissolved itself. The Reunification Council immediately issued a corresponding declaration to clarify to the Kiravian people that it was now in control.

Transitional Period

Although political reunification had been achieved, the practical challenges of the reintegration process required the Federacy to govern the former Remnant, the Mainland, and Sydona almost as if they were three separate countries for several years. This experience would later inform the development of thematic federalism.

Provincial Restorations

The Kiravian Union had reorganised the Kiravian provinces into regions (former states) and districts (former territories). The Interlake District and District of Ksoīnvra (former federal districts), as well as Valēka (a former city of Kaviska) became 'Union municipalities'. None of these changes were recognised by the Remnant. Federalist governments-in-exile of the mainland states had been organised in Remnant-held territory, though by the time of reunification most had become inactive. Several however, hailing mostly from larger states like Kaviska, Devahoma, and Niyaska remained operative and continued to pass new legislation to keep their laws up to speed with technological-economic developments and national reforms. Many such laws would later be used as model legislation by other provinces. The Remnant continued to appoint ceremonial Governors of the mainland territories and Sydona, most notably Xentkáus Ankama who at one point served as the nominal governor of all of them.

The most significant boundary changes affected large and heavily-populated Kaviska, from which the Svéaran Peninsula had been detached and merged with neighbouring Bissáv to form the Kohokas Region, and from which the Ispahar Peninsula was detached to form the Kiygrava Region, in addition to the aforementioned elevation of Valēka into a Union Municipality.

Socialist Holdouts

A few localised pockets of territory, bastions of Kirosocialist loyalism where local party committees had declared allegiance to the Ilminsar Soviet, would continue to defy Federalist authority and operate parallel governments. Most were based in proletarian population centres dedicated to mining and heavy industry. The self-declared 'Darran People's Republic' in the Darran Valley is a notable example; the municipality of Devinsar would also refuse to recognise or coöperate with the new government for over two years. Noncompliant localities were gradually suppressed or failed of their own accord by early 1988 at the latest, once the restored provincial governments were able to fully assume control of the state machinery.

Public Opinion

On account of the Kiravian Union having been a single-party state up until reunification and the Kiravian Remnant something of a closed anocracy for most of its existence, public opinion research did not exist as a discipline in Kiravia at the time of reunification, and it was not until the 1992 federal election that domestic market research firms truly branched out into that field. As such, quality surveys of the Kiravian public's attitudes toward the reunification process are much fewer and further between than would otherwise be expected for a populace of such size. The most highly-regarded data on the topic comes from the Centre de Analyse International d'Albonne, a Burgundie-based INGO that began sampling mainland Kiravians in March of 1986.

A declassified intelligence briefing supplied to the Executive College in 1985 quotes a figure from the IRA estimating that the Kirosocialist régime had lost the support of 65-80% of the Mainland population, and that 40-60% of mainlanders could be expected to welcome the restoration of the Federacy with a further 10-30% favourable to reunification otherwise or vaguely defined. The methodology by which the IRA arrived at these estimates is unclear, as the supporting documentation was not properly cited and archivists have been unable to locate the same.