League-occupied Varshan
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League Occupation of Varshan | |
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 The flag of League-occupied Varshan | |
| Capital | Anzo |
| Common languages | |
| Government | Military occupation |
 Martin St. Clair | |
 Oliver F. Tudela | |
| History | |
• Establishment of a commission for occupied Anzo | 1 June 2024 |
| Currency | Taler (de facto) |
League-occupied Varshan is the administration of Varshan from its 2024 defeat in the Final War of the Deluge.
The victorious League members asserted joint authority and sovereignty over Varshan as a whole, defined as all territories of the former Worshipful Realm of Varshan excluding those separated by the Treaty of Electorsbourg. The five powers divided "Varshan as a whole" into five occupation zones for administrative purposes under Urcea, Kiravia, Corumm, Alstin, and Cartadania. In addition to the occupation zones, an unoccupied area - overseen by the former Army of the National Homeland - continued to exist in the Western portion of the country. This division was put in place in June of 2024 and ratified at the Treaty of Electorsbourg. In addition to the five occupation zones, a sixth zone for Anzo - declared a city under international supervision - was created under the joint military administration of the five League members and the political administration of the Protected Lands and Sea Lanes Authority of the League of Nations.
Occupation zones
International Anzo
On June 1st, 2024, Martin St. Clair in his authority as Supreme Commander Allied Forces declared the city of Anzo and surrounding areas to be under "direct international administration". This was the first declaration regarding the status of any occupied land anywhere in Varshan, and this declaration provided for a two-sided administration of the city. The area placed under the "international administration" were subject to the civil and political regulations established by the Protected Lands and Sea Lanes Authority of the League of Nations, which would provide for a basic public administration and basic civil law code. The military and police protection of the city would be provided by a Joint Board of Military Commissioners, a five-man committee with a representative of each of the five major occupying powers. The Board had little power over the day-to-day civil administration of the city but oversaw its protection and policing and was also granted the ability to create or abolish laws of the zone when in the interests of "ending practices of the abolished regime related to humanitarian or civil rights violations", particularly with regard to elements of Arzalist practice as well as the caste system and slavery.
Urcean zone
Kiravian zone
The central administration of the Kiravian Zone is headquartered at Jeb!ultepec Airport. General Carinþius Stólevrin serves as the inaugural Military Governor of the Zone, which covers the far east of Varshan, from Lake Jeb!ultepec to the Mountains of Terror. The eastern periphery of the country was a later addition to the Varshani realm, and heavily exploited for its mineral and environmental resources. As such, it has a relatively smaller ethnic Varshani (both freeborn and ex-slave) and larger ex-slave population than most of the other zones, as well as a small but notable population of highland peoples who had not been as thoroughly incorporated into the Varshani social and political order. The Kiravian Zone also contains a very high number of internally displaced persons. Kiravian authorities have attributed the IDP crisis mainly to the breakdown of supply chains to the region's many outlying plantations and isolated mining settlements as the Varshani economy imploded, though it has been widely argued that infrastructural damage from the aggressive Kiravian bombing campaigns during the war is in fact the primary cause.
Top priorities for the Kiravian administration include addressing the IDP and food distribution issues, providing assistance to former slaves, and confronting the threat posed by roving warrior bands and Arzali fundamentalists still aligned with the old order.
Cartadanian zone
Corummese zone
Alstinian zone
Free territory of the Army of the National Homeland
Territory separated from Varshan
Territory ceded to NSTA members
Territory ceded to Xisheng
Territory ceded to Greater Atrassica
Territory ceded to neutral and TRIAD states
Territory ceded to Alstin and its allies
Expulsion policy
Four of the five major occupying powers of Varshan pledged to respect the land rights of those who have historically lived in Varshan and sought to stay in territories separated from the country - Urcea, Kiravia, Alstin, and Cartadania. Corumm did not sign any pledge to this effect.
Demilitarized zones
In addition to territorial losses, two demilitarized zones were created in northern Varshan to prevent the newly constituted state from posing a military threat to New Veltorina and Quetzenkel.
Occupation policy
Resettlement policy
Freedmen's Bureaus
The rapid and violent dismantling of Varshan's slave economy liberated a massive population of former slaves, estimated to number in the XXX millions, whose humanitarian situation was extremely dire. Many, especially those involved in industrial or mining labour, or held by the temple system, were left without any means of support immediately after the war, and it is reported that many others continued to be in *de facto* bondage even after the fall of Anzo, being held in rural areas with a lighter Allied troop presence or remaining under their pre-war masters for lack of other options. Former slaves faced severe and unshakable social stigma that limited their access to what little remained of the Varshani economy, and as a brutally oppressed class of disparate ethnic origins, they lacked any suitably wide-reaching organisations or social networks of their own to help meet their collective needs.
Several of the occupying powers established Freedmen's Bureaux to alleviate the plight of the former slaves. The Kiravian bureau was established during the middle phase of the war to manage the throngs of slaves fleeing behind the Kiravian Army's lines and north to the Southern Military District during its incursion into northeastern Varshan. The first field offices on Varshani territory were opened in Monthember 2024 after the capture of Jeb!ultepec. The first Urcean bureaux were opened shortly after, in [places].
The Freedmen's Bureaux did [things].