Great Kirav Independence Party

The Great Kirav Independence Party (Kiravic: Plaiduv Viutikordh Ambrikiravsk) is a minor Kiravian political party that advocates for Great Kirav and its constituent provinces to secede from the Kiravian Federacy and Collectivity and become an independent federal republic. Great Kirav is the metropole of the two entities in question; however, GKIP maintains that the post-reunification constitutional and political framework disadvantages the mainland provinces for the benefit of the overseas provinces, and threatens to make Great Kirav effectively "a colony of its colonies". The Party is supportive of downsizing the Kiravian overseas network by gradually relinquishing KF control of such possessions, but ultimately believes that removing Great Kirav itself from the Federacy is a more feasible strategy given the structure of the KF constitution and foreseeable political conditions.

Great Kirav Independence Party Plaiduv Viutikordh Ambrikiravsk
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States	Serikorda, Vaiśyadan, Erusta, Knassania, Elegia
Headquarters	Kirav City, Kannur
Chairman	G.K. Indepencerton
Whip	Arvin Thinoréin
Platform	Great Kirav independence Insularism Territorial nationalism Cisatrassicism
Voter Base	Small
Conference	Labour Front of Kirav (observer)
Federal Stanora	212 / 545

Platform

The central doctrine of the GKIP platform is:

• The 1987 constitution and federal policy under all subsequent administrations have been principally directed toward maintaining and expanding an empire.
• Whereas under a classical colonial empire value is extracted from the colonies to enrich the metropole, under the Kiravian neo-empire the resources of the putative metropole are used to support the colonies and perpetuate the neo-imperial project as an end in itself.
• This state of affairs was engineered by a concert of narrow élite interests - the military-industrial complex, Renaissance Party nomenklatura, certain business entities, and the bureaucratic corps - who seek to preserve and expand it for their own benefit.
• This arrangement is actively detrimental to the economic development of Great Kirav (especially its inland provinces) and subverts the equal dignity and democratic rights of Mainlanders.

GKIP claims that the financial burden of the defence spending and other government expenditure required for the upkeep of the overseas provinces is excessive and not justifiable by any modern, democratic standard of the public interest, and also that this burden is borne mostly by the mainland. It also claims that the diversion of tax revenues and government spending toward sustaining the empire retards the development of the lower-income mainland provinces.

The left-right spectrum does not enjoy wide currency in Kiravia, but Occidental observers of Kiravian politics generally categorise GKIP as a centre-left party for historical reasons: The party grew out of the movement against Kiravian reunification, the base of which was homogeneously left-wing in opposition to the majority right-wing National Reunification Front coming to power on the Mainland. The founders of GKIP all had some level of background in the Kirosocialist movement, though the party itself is not socialist or aiming to restore the Kiravian Union. The party does not subscribe to any particular fiscal-economic ideology, and notes that it includes both liberals and protectionists in its organisation.

Exit Strategy

As of its 2007 manifesto, GKIP's vision for Great Kirav's separation from the Kiravian Federacy follows a model dubbed "Paulastrafication" (Pávlastrasoiktor), referencing the peaceful and amicable manner in which Paulastra became independent from Kiravian colonial rule. Whereas Paulastra erected its own monarchy while recognising the symbolic authority of the Marble Emperor, the GKIP envisions a Republic of Kirav as a federative crowned republic with the Emperor as its direct head-of-state.

GKIP's preferred process for independence is for each province in Great Kirav to receive "self-rule under the Emperor" in their own right, and then for these provinces to accede to the Republic of Kirav.

According to Simon Ruhnama, "What the Federacy does after Great Kirav leaves is its own business", and that the Republic of Kirav should maintain "good relations but no obligations" toward a rump Federacy and/or any other post-Federacy independent states. The party rejects proposals for a looser federal/confederal structure, a supranational or intergovernmental successor to the Federacy, or relationships of free association between the Republic of Kirav and former colonies, saying that such structures would only "incubate the reëmergence of empire". Some individual party members have expressed hostility toward a "Second Remnant" and stated that they would prefer that former Kiravian colonies be annexed to or vassalised by friendly foreign powers if unable to survive independently.

GKIP says it would "come to a transitional arrangement" with a rump Federacy allowing it to retain the District of Ksoīnvra for up to five years while it finds a new seat of government, provided that the Federacy cover the District's utility bills. It would expect that the Interlake Canal District be gifted to the Republic of Kirav upon independence, however.

Activities

GKIP actively campaigns for the ejection of Sydona from the Kiravian Collectivity. In the words of former spokesman Werner Wienerson, "Sydona proves our entire case. The fact that families in Elegia have to pay to subsidise the basket-case economy of a country on the ass-end of the world full of Slavs and Phrygians just because some Kiravian crusaders retired there 800 years ago tells you everything about who's really in charge."

During the 2034 Canespa Crisis, party chief Ahmet Longoślonguv appeared on the AM radio show I Got Court to highlight the inefficiency of the pluricontinental federacy, asking "Say that there were a full ground invasion of Porfíria tomorrow. Forget Great Kirav - how are the Porfírians better off relying on our scattered, overextended military assets for their defence? Wouldn't they be safer joining the NSTA?"