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====Land seizures====

As part of the overall plan to Occidentalize the nation's economy, Autocrat [[Maitsoi Taphanso]] implemented an ambitious policy in [[2018]] to seize vast plots of land for the construction of major infrastructure, such as highways in exchange for half of its fair market value. This program would inevitably put the government and ruling classes in opposition to the nation's powerful and largely aristocratic planter classes, as their cash crop farms occupied the vast majority of the land area that was to be seized 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 eliminating the influence of the planter class in government. Accordingly, between [[2025]] and [[2030]], the rate of land seizures had accelerated, except many of these lands were auctioned off to private Netanic economic interests or even to foreign investors, deeply angering the planter elite. This divide set the administration of Autocrat Taphanso and the planter elite on a political collision course throughout the first half of the 2030s, especially as the continually-growing middle class continues to demand further reforms.

==Government==