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===Deluge and Occidentalization=== | ===Deluge and Occidentalization=== | ||
With the beginning of a sixteen-year-long period of geopolitical and military incidents known as [[the Deluge]], Netansett was largely neutral at first as it had no interest nor love for its longtime enemy and rival the [[Northern Confederation]], but when the [[War of the Northern Confederation]] resulted in its [[Algosh coup|overthrow by a military coup]] which reorganized it into [[Algoquona]] the Netanic state wound up finding itself resuming a centuries-long skirmish it had with the Algosh people. As the Algosh were fighting against the Occidental powers, that also gave Netansett a wide range of potential allies and new influences over its society. Throughout much of the 2010s, Netansett had embarked on an ambitious program of military and infrastructural modernization to put both in line with Occidental standards. This meant that Occidental advisors and cultural influences were brought in as the Deluge continued. Occidental influences also led to an increase in foreign investment and an unprecedented economic boom that has grown beyond initial socio-political reform targets. The middle class, which was a small demographic in the 1980s, more than quadrupled throughout the 2010s, with the entirety of them calling for further socio-political reforms ranging from further democratization to even a return to federalism. | |||
====Land seizures==== | ====Land seizures==== | ||
As part of the overall plan to Occidentalize the nation's economy, Autocrat Maitsoi Taphanso implemented a policy in [[2018]] to seize plots of land for the construction of major infrastructure, such as highways in exchange for half of fair market value. This program inevitably put the government and ruling classes in opposition to the nation's powerful planter classes, as their cash crop farms occupied the vast majority of the land area in the interior part of Netansett. Several attempts were made by leading planters to end the policy, but by [[2024]] it was clear these efforts had failed. In response, about a third of the Council of Ministers and the Chief Minister, aligned with the planters and owning large plots of lands themselves, resigned in protest. This had the effect of both alienating the planter class from the political ruling elite Tsailists but also practically removing the influence of the planters in government. Accordingly, between [[2025]] and [[2030]], the rate of land seizures accelerated, except many of these lands were auctioned off to private Netanic economic interests or even to foreign investers, deeply angering the planter elite. This divide set the administration of Autocrat Taphanso and the planter elite on a political collision course in the 2030s. | As part of the overall plan to Occidentalize the nation's economy, Autocrat Maitsoi Taphanso implemented a policy in [[2018]] to seize plots of land for the construction of major infrastructure, such as highways in exchange for half of fair market value. This program inevitably put the government and ruling classes in opposition to the nation's powerful planter classes, as their cash crop farms occupied the vast majority of the land area in the interior part of Netansett. Several attempts were made by leading planters to end the policy, but by [[2024]] it was clear these efforts had failed. In response, about a third of the Council of Ministers and the Chief Minister, aligned with the planters and owning large plots of lands themselves, resigned in protest. This had the effect of both alienating the planter class from the political ruling elite Tsailists but also practically removing the influence of the planters in government. Accordingly, between [[2025]] and [[2030]], the rate of land seizures accelerated, except many of these lands were auctioned off to private Netanic economic interests or even to foreign investers, deeply angering the planter elite. This divide set the administration of Autocrat Taphanso and the planter elite on a political collision course in the 2030s. | ||
==Government== | ==Government== | ||
{{main|Politics of Netansett}} | {{main|Politics of Netansett}} | ||