Venua'tino
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| Mandate for Venua'tino | |
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| Created | 2017 |
| Ratified | 2017 |
| Location | Palace of Nations, Alba Concordia |
| Signatories | League of Nations Security Council |
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Venua'tino or Mandatory Venua'tino is a region in northern Crona adjacent to the Arctic. It is a League of Nations mandate under the supervision of Urcea, established in 2016.
Etymology
History
Prehistoric times
Venua Empire and collapse
Quetzen hegemony
Modern period
Mandate established
As Crona descended into chaos during and after the War of the Northern Confederation, major world powers began to feel extreme concern regarding the lack of central authority and social organization in Venua'tino in the 2010s. In 2017, Urcea managed to have the entire region assigned to it as a mandate by the League of Nations with the express purpose of ensuring political stability, organizing distinct and self-sufficient states, developing infrastructure, and providing for humanitarian concerns in the region. The League-established Commission for Venua'tino'pouri'tino'nui was set up in Shenendehowa Bay to administer the territory.
In 2018, the region was bisected by the creation of the International Nature Preserve in the sparsely populated central region of Venua'tino. The bisection divided the territory into Western Venua'tino and Eastern Venua'tino, which both remained under the purview of the League Commission but under now seperate departments. The creation of the Preserve also precipitated the compensated relocation of the few tribes and peoples living within its boundaries, leading to the growth of small settlements in the remaining Mandate territory into moderate sized cities in the Mandate interior. These cities, an unprecedented development in the history of Venua'tino, created an opportunity for cultural exchange as well as cultural tensions. These new cities also required major investment into infrastructure by Urcea, which began in earnest with the construction of highway networks throughout both Eastern and Western Venua'tino. In 2018, Quicksilver Industries arranged a international charter city treaty with Shenendehowa Bay, removing it from the territory.
In 2019, a major conflict broke out between the tribes and cities of Eastern Venua'tino, ostensibly over broken agreements between once-rival tribes. The Royal and Imperial Army began an occupation of the entire Eastern Venua'tino region that year, ending the conflict and beginning negotiations for the establishment of a new, confederated state. Negotiations broke down several times in both 2019 and 2020, leading to low level skirmishes, before negotiations resumed in earnest in the autumn of 2020. With the outbreak of the Final War of the Deluge, troop levels were drawn down and negotiations once again came to a halt as many local parties refused to consider a confederation agreement similar to New Yustona until Urcea proved itself able to protect its Cronan allies.
Administration
Mandatory Venua'tino is administered by the Commission for Venua'tino'pouri'tino'nui. The Commissioner, appointed by the Urcean Ministry of State, is responsible for the execution of international law within the Mandate as well as the organization of League efforts in the Mandate. The Commission originally had ten subordinate agencies, being the Agencies of Tribal Diplomacy, Infrastructure, Healthcare, Commercial Organization, Law and Justice, Education, Cultural Affairs and Preservation, Economic Development, and Environment. In 2018, with the reorganization of the Commission came just two subordinate units within the Commission, the Eastern Department and the Western Department. Each Department, lead by a Department Supervisor, has their own ten subordinate agencies.