Kiravian Union
Kiravian Union Kiravix Thūra | |||||||||
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| 21146–21185 | |||||||||
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Motto: Kéarita, Āra Plānond, Soksyalrisēn! "Republic, Power to the People, Socialism!" | |||||||||
| Capital | Kartika | ||||||||
| Common languages | Kiravic Coscivian (official) | ||||||||
| Religion | Secular state | ||||||||
| Government | Single-party socialist republic | ||||||||
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• 21146-21148 | A.R. Paśkirin | ||||||||
• 21182-21185 | E.D. Ástukéter | ||||||||
• Legislature | Ixtísovèt | ||||||||
• Constitutional body | Union Council | ||||||||
| Historical era | Postwar Era | ||||||||
• Declared | 21146 | ||||||||
• Denounced | 21185 | ||||||||
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The Kiravian Union (Coscivian: Kiravix Thūra) was a single-party socialist state that governed Great Kirav and several historically Kiravian island possessions from 21144 to 21185. Under the leadership of the Kirosocialist Party the Kiravian Union undertook a campaign of centralised statebuilding and state-directed economic and social modernisation with the goal of developing a "spiritual socialist civilisation" independent of Occidental capitalist forces. Despite some successes towards its guiding political objectives, the Kiravian Union suffered from economic and administrative inefficiencies and its heavy-handed methods of economic restructuring and political repression strained its already tepid popular legitimacy. A series of nationwide labour strikes and dissension within the ruling party during the mid 21180s led to multiparty elections and ultimately the dismantling of the régime by the National Renewal Movement.
History
The Kiravian Union was declared in 21146. The Kirosocialist Party had controlled the Prime Executure and the Stanora of the Kiravian Federal Republic since [YEAR], operating within the parameters of the existing constitution. Its capture of additional state legislatures by 21146 accorded it the political trifecta necessary to amend the constitution unilaterally. The Stanora did so in 21146, repealing the entire constitution and replacing it with the Constitution of the Kiravian Union, which laid out a single-party state largely following the classical Devinist model. The Stanora was immediately converted into the Supreme Soviet (Ixtísovèt) and all non-Kirosocialist Delegates automatically forfeit their seats. The sole dissenting Kirosocialist vote, Soran Akēvarin, vacated his seat the next day upon his expulsion from the Party.
Initially, the declaration of the Kiravian Union was fiercely resisted in parts of the country where the Kirosocialist Party had not been popular. State governments that refused to recognise the new order were swiftly suppressed by the Union authorities across most of Great Kirav. Federalist loyalists on the West Coast folded under the pressure of an economic blockade. In South Kirav opponents of the régime put up substantial resistance but were largely defeated by 21149 (a low-level rural insurgency would continue for the duration of the Union's existence).
Mid-Kirosocialism
Late Kirosocialism
Downfall
Territorial Extent
The Kiravian Union claimed to inherit all territorial holdings and treaty rights held by the Kiravian Federal Republic. With the exception of the Sydona Islands, most Kiravian overseas possessions and protectorates initially refused to recognise the Union's authority, and the Union's ability to assert it authority overseas was crippled by mass defections from the Kiravian Navy and the flight of naval vessels to Scapa and Æonara in the Union's first days of existence.
Æonara, Atrassica, the Krasoa Islands, Seváronsa, Saint Kennera, Pribraltar, Scapa, and Kiravian Cusinaut would remain permanently outside of KU control.