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• Delyth Guair :verified: • @FHFyddinFeadaral • 2nd and 3rd Free Divisions have secured the coastal city of Osweyan in Algoquona, and with the aid of local militias and the Third Squadron are moving to lay siege to the regional Algosh capital, Kimiornee. More as the information war allows - the safety of our men abroad comes first!

Teindún Gach-latha :verified: • @Staid_Naid_Nàis • This more than doubling of manpower to nearly fifty thousand personnel indicates confidence that we are in Maloka to stay, especially considering the pitched fighting reigniting through the city of Kimornee as local auxiliaries begin to help dig out the entrenched Algosh troops in the city's Foreign and Old Quarters.

Local leaders and freedom fighters declared the formation of the Republic of Ashkenang today as our boys in green rolled into the woods and flats of the North Cuisinaut Basin last week. At long last, we can expect a closing to the war in Crona and the beginning of reconstruction within sight. (1/2)

The command staff of the 21st Algosh Corps has formally surrendered its arms, handing over the critically injured Hierarch Hatakawa to Fhainnin troops. The hot war in Algoquona is officially over, barring disparate remnants in the subarctic.

The Foreign Affairs Bureau has officially recognized the Algosh Republic's territorial claims, as has Ashkenang. Ashkenang and the Algosh Republic, under advisement by Urcean and Fhainnin officials, are working on a treaty to allow seasonal Algosh migration along traditional paths through the Boreal Corridor into the Arctic Circle. The creation of the Algosh Republic has rendered Algoquona erased by default, as the state has no territory or recognized government remaining.

Fhainnin National Army elements, after a months-long siege, finally breach the walls of the Old City in Kimiornee, using local auxiliaries to absorb the brunt of an Algoquonan counterattack along the city's waterfront. Retaliatory missile strikes from the Fhainnin destroyer Brenansglen are partially countered by native anti-air assets, with the attack leveling several choke points in the city but failing to create a total breakthrough. As of nightfall, the result is moderate allied gains, with Algoquonan forces fighting hard to prevent the Old City from falling and tearing a hole in their line.

At 2:13 AM, the Brenansglen is attacked by Algoquonan fighter planes. Two planes are shot down, with the destroyer being hit in the superstructure by a guided missile. The ship is swapped out for the Gelenwin, limping back to the protection of friendly port with seventeen dead and thirty-two in critical condition.

The First Revolutionary Guards Brigade, the only Fhainnin-trained Malki unit thus far, attempts to storm the Kimiornee Old City. Losses are heavy on both sides, with the attack being ultimately repulsed and the Algoquonans ceding ground around the Hall of Deliberations and administrative center. Survivors begin reorganizing as Fhainnin troops secure the day's gains.

Fhainnin troops push through the densely packed Old City in Kimiornee, finally pushing out Algosh forces two weeks after the initial breach. Several hundred native soldiers are caught within the walls and captured. Roughly fourty percent of the buildings within the quarter are leveled, with most of the civilian population having already fled to other districts as fighting intensified or leaving the city entirely. Algosh forces are allowed to retreat across the riverbank the city straddles without serious pressing from Fhainnin forces as the expeditionary force's command staff estimate they are not capable of causing a rout. This estimation is largely due to the continued reorganization and refit of damaged Malki units from the initial assault.

A night raid sees significant gains as Fhainnin troops cross the riverbank in Kimiornee, expelling Algosh units from the downtown district in a mechanized blitz aided by the destruction of a key rail line leading back east to the Confederation's heartland. Tentative air attacks from supporting naval elements resume due to the elimination of several higher-tech native air defense assets.

Fhainnin troops rout Algosh forces north of Kimiornee's outer reaches, securing the riverside and covering engineering elements deployed to repair several major bridges. Algosh formations present largely crumple under several days of intense fighting, with the reorganized 1st Crona Rhon running down enemy mechanized assets in a bid to keep Confederation lines from stabilizing, followed by slower tribal allies. 2nd Crona Rhon continues to shell east Kimiornee, with bridging vehicles creating supply lines to prevent a counterattack against the Fhainnin foothold.

Algosh forces attempt to break from their positions in Kimiornee to reorganize outside the city perimeter, with two of the present Confederate divisions retreating in relatively good order with 21st Route Army Command. Rear-guard pickets face little change in intensity of combat until several hours after the initial movements, before being quickly overrun by Malki militias supporting mechanized Fhainnin troops from the First Cronan. A third division is cut off from a clean retreat by the 2nd Cronan Rhon, forcing it to fight its way through a section of the city under pressure from the north and peppered with occasional skirmishes to the west and south as elements of the division are picked apart or dispersed in one of the city's slums.

Reinforcements from Faneria's metropole consisting of the 23rd and 24th Infantry Bragadts and 5th Armored Bragadt arrive in Osweyan, Malokan Provisional Republic, and are promptly rechristened as the 3rd Cronan Rhon. On the front, the 2nd Cronan switches to move on the smaller city of Tutelo, hoping to link up and reinforce the rebels there before the remainder of the Algoshi 21st Route Army forces its way through. Running battles are fought on the Confederacy's northern flank as the Madiodha tanks of the 2nd prove capable, running down motorized units and destroying their vehicles to retard the retreat before pulling away from a protracted engagement with the slower native infantry.

The 2nd Crona reaches the outskirts of Tutelo too late to prevent a breakthrough by the Algosh vanguard, but with plenty of spare time to cut off the slower main body in conjunction with the destruction of two bridges over a minor river that trapped several regiments' worth of native vehicles between the coast, the 2nd, and the advancing 1st. While the residents of Tutelo are unable to stop the blitz through their town, carrying command staff and veterans to safety, roughly a third of the remaining combat strength of the 21st Route Army is stuck with the choice to dismount and continue at a crawl or fight off the 1st Crona while under air attack and attempting to ford the stream with their supplies. The remainder press on Tutelo, attempting to sweep aside the 2nd's tentative encirclement before the situation becomes more dire. The severely weakened 24th Route Army, positioned in the snowy northern hills of the Malokan Provisional Republic, gains significant ground against Malki militia forces but is forced to leave those gains and move south in a bid to distract Fhainnin forces and prevent the defeat of the 21st Route. Algosh leadership knows the terrain is difficult for supply and local Malki fighters have neither the ability nor the willpower to conduct an offensive into the northern tundra, making maintaining the front a minor priority. Several smaller garrisons remain behind to prevent probing attacks and raids regardless.

Fhainnin intelligence strongly indicates severe fuel and artillery shell shortages among Algosh units within the Kimiornee-Tutelo pocket as intense fighting erupts in the latter city. The remnants of the 24th Route Army crush the First Malki Northwestern Brigade, slamming into other rebel forces and threatening to break into the Kilmer River Basin from the north. The 1st Cronan wipes out or captures several formerly motorized regiments instructed by the Algosh 21st as continued airstrikes from supporting naval assets wear away at the men trapped between the two cities, namely targeting armored and mechanized units.

The 2nd Crona Rhon becomes stuck in woods and city fighting as the few Algosh troops already freed from encirclement double back in an effort to turn their near-rout into a stalemate. Meanwhile, the 1st and allied militia press the Algosh rear, overrunning nearly a dozen square miles in one morning as they break Algosh lines and rampage through the camp and support sections of the 21st Route. The 24th Route continues to barrel south, batting aside numerous small Malokan units and annihilating the native Seventh and Second Kimiornee Liberators Brigades in a mass assault along the upper branches of the Kilmer River.

Algosh forces close in around the 2nd Crona, attacking from three sides as Fhainnin ships provide continuous fire support and launch repeated airstrikes against the 21st Route Army, both west and east of Tutelo. Several thousands of Algosh soldiers surrender to the advancing 1st, the pocket slowly collapsing as the Rhon presses hard to prevent the 2nd from being cut into pieces and overrun. The 2nd Crona reports good conditions on its east and west, but its northern approach is under serious threat from the advancing 24th Route remnants.

1st Crona Rhon reports the surrender of several thousand additional Algosh troops within the Tutelo Pocket as the 2nd successfully defeats the breakthrough attempts by the partially freed 21st Route Army. The 24th Route, however, connects with the 2nd Crona from the north, threatening the foreign troops with counter-encirclement, albeit a fragile and unreliable one.

Fhainnin forces crush the reminder of the Tutelo Pocket in a brilliant few days, taking large numbers of prisoners as other native troops filter past the 2nd Crona to reorganize eastward. 2nd Crona turns its attention to fighting the remnants of the 21st and 24th Route Armies to the east and north, and the 1st Crona moves north. The Malokan First Frvolutionary Guards Brigade, resupplied and retrained after its heavy losses in Kimiornee, joins the fighting on the 24th Route Army's flank.

The 2nd Crona, after suffering dearly at the hands of frantic Algosh counterattacks, begins pushing the severely diminished 21st Route Army eastward. The 1st and native allies dig their heels in, and intense fighting on the northern flank is only stymied by concentrated air attacks and the last-minute bringing up of vanguard elements of the 3rd Cronan moving to join the line. Algosh reserves are able to slow, but not contain, the advance of Fhainnin and Malokan troops, and it appears a breakout from the Malo Peninsula into the open tundra is imminent. Fhainnin casualty figures are not reported.

Fhainnin forces deliver a crushing blow to the remnants of the 21st Route Army on Tuesday and Wednesday, breaking straight past the peninsular boundary and just into the inland tundra of the Algoquonan Confederation. The northern front with the 24th Route remains stable as reinforcements from the 3rd bolster the 1st, putting the Algosh troops in a compromising position if they remain behind and risk losing lines of logistics to the heartland.

A small team of Malokan-born special forces embedded in the ANH assassinate several mid-ranking officers deemed to be among the most hostile to Occidental cooperation. Several copies of Callac Cananach's books roughly translated into a dialect of Varshani are additionally left in the ANH's command center overnight.

The Algosh 21st and 24th Armies begin to give ground on the Tutelo-Niahar rail lne, sabotaging it as they retreat. The line is the only easy route of supply into the continental heartland, forcing the Fhainnin advance to slow and allow for supplies to travel by truck or crawl along the rail as engineers repair it behind the lines. While the Occidental forces carry ample reserves, their native auxilliaries have no such luxury.

Fighting continues in Algoquona's Nihiqi Chiefdom as Fhainnin troops secure the local capital of Niahar following the collapse of two Algosh brigades; reserve units, particularly air defense and heavier artillery, put the Fhainnin advance to a sudden halt as they readjust and allow Malokan forces to catch up.

A general uprising in parts of the Toposa Ashkenauk community in Nihiqi Chiefdom following the liberation of the local capital causes chaos on the roads; Fhainnin officers negotiate initial terms with the Chief in Niahar and begin to organize Ashkenauk militias.

The Chief of Nihiqi drinks himself into a stupor and is found the morning after the negotiations facedown and hungover in a gutter.

Fhainnin forces reach Lake Nohataka as the remaining Algosh and their loyalist tribal auxiliaries find themselves unable to contain the snowball effect of the capture of the Niahar rail junction; Malokan and Ashkenauk troops seize several weapons depots and celebrate the advance into the Ashkenauk heartland with raucous partying and surprising weapons discipline. Two major Algosh enclaves in the region find themselves living with Fhainnin military police for their own protection as the revolutionary temper runs hot in the liberated western reaches.

A video circulates of Ashkenauk militias cheering as a Fhainnin military vehicle pulls down the Gowhanee 'Peace and Co-Prosperity' monolith in the city's center, which is surrounded by Algosh-dialect signage and shops. Word within the administration implies a deal to mitigate ethnic violence in the postwar settlement is soon to come from the Malokan Council and Director Walaerin and the diplomatic corps.

With one Rhon staying behind for occupation duty, the remaining two Fhainnin Rhonn in Cuisinaut and the Malokan Revoluionary Army mass to strike at the central rail hub at Tantateka on the eastern end of Lake Nohataka. Several Ashkenauk revolts in the vicinity agree to coordinate an assault from most angles as Algoquonan forces dig in.

Sabnak troops link up with Ashkenauk Army of Liberation units after the surrender of the Gikpliki Lesser Heirarchy on the border of Sabnaki. Tensions are high with the region's majority Sabnak population welcoming the invaders with the Sabnakan flag rather than that of Ashnenang, which laid claim to the territory during its initial declaration of independence, but for the time being, both armies party hard as the last major pocket of Algoquonan resistance behind the front falls.

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Republic of Maloka
Flag
Anthem: That Western Star
Capital and largest city	Kimiornee
Official languages	Malkn
Ethnic groups	Malki (82%), Ashkenauk (10%), Algosh (4%), Sabnak (2%), Rianee(<1%), Other(1%)
Demonym(s)	Malki
Government	Republic
• Director	Mohoke Tohola Buyan
• Chief Minister	Oyuun Ashawa Yukaghir
Legislature	People's Council
Independence from Algoquona
• Malokan Council State	2024
• Republic of Maloka	2029
Population
• 2020 estimate	5,723,109
GDP (nominal)	2025 estimate
• Per capita	$14,233
Gini (2025)	44.6 medium
HDI (2025)	0.492 low
Currency	Malokan Barra, Taler (BrM)
Mains electricity	test
Driving side	right
Calling code	(773)
ISO 3166 code'	MK
Internet TLD	.mak

The Republic of Maloka, formerly the Malokan Council State, is a Fanerian protectorate in northern Crona. It borders Aeonara, the Levantine Ocean, and the Mera Bay by sea, as well as Ashkenang by land to the east. Internally, it is organized as a unitary representative republic with its capital in Kimiornee, which oversees a territory of over xxx square miles and nearly six million people. Historically, Maloka's people and history have been defined by its separation from much of the subcontinent by the Mera Bay, which insulated them from some ancient migrations and made them a fishing people, as well as making them a desirable target for conquerors aiming to dominate the fur trade in northern Cusinaut such as the Northern Confederation and the Algosh Hierarchy, resulting in their lacking an independent state until the 2020s as part of the outcome of the Peninsular War.

Geography

Maloka is largely coastal, being largely composed of the Malho peninsula with a coast stretching up into and along the mainland to the Boral Zone. Its northern coast is rugged and frozen, and its southern areas are cold and snow well into summer. The peninsula itself is mostly flats or rolling hills; the region is only marginal for farming quality and natural resources are poorly exploited. Its inland stretches are sparsely inhabited tundra. Most of its population lives along the inner coastline of the bay it rests on, the Mera, as storm weather on the coast is infrequent but savage; icebreaking and transport to the southern tip of the peninsula is critical for the country. The Kilmer River forms its primary watershed in the inner Mera Bay, with smaller creeks and rivers draining water along the peninsular region.

History

Fhainnin Occupation and Protectorate

Maloka faces considerable challenges with infrastructure, education, and public health, particularly north of the Kilmer River Basin and on the exterior coast of the Malokan Peninsula. Its military and bureaucracy are heavily dependent of Fhainnin foreign aid, and the government's primary concern has been establishing effective taxation, services, and information systems, as well as formally creating a registry of citizens to fix the issue of more than twenty percent of the population being undocumented as citizens of any country. While basic food and water availability has been met, these services are often privatized, and the government is not yet capable of regulating racketeering without external support.

Government and politics

Maloka's government is comprised of a unicameral legislature of 33 people, called the People's Council, which is lead by a Chief Minister elected by a direct first-past-the-post vote. Terms are capped at six terms of four years each; this extends to judges, ministers, and the executive as well. Previously, the People's Council was both the legislative and executive organ of government; as of 2029, an executive branch in the form of a Directorate was formed as part of legal reforms intended to finalize the formation of government independent of Fhainnin military advisement.

Maloka's government has a variety of ministries that operate at the beck and call of the Directorate, while the Chief Minister exercises great powers in budgetary decisions and the country's Triad Court is assigned a judge each by the Director, Chief Minister, and a popular vote in the People's Council.

Maloka does not exercise rights as a nation in regards to bilateral relations with other states, but instead operates a diplomatic ministry that works in conjunction with the Fhainnin Foreign Affairs Bureau. In theory, this limits their ability to conduct diplomacy; in practice, it is more a check to ensure Malokan relations do not counteract Fanerian aims.

The primary Ministries of the Malokan government are the Ministries of War, Trade, Security, Records, Development, and Finance.

Parties

The three major political parties of Maloka are the Red Suns, White Suns, and Forward Path. The Forward Path is a reactionary party focused on advancing the aims of the disparate northern enclaves, shoreward communities, and tribal factions; the Red Sun is a conservative reformist faction aimed at centralization of the state along Occidental lines; the White Sun is the liberal faction (comparable to Occidental centrists) and focuses on government reform specifically along Cananachan lines as well as social reform reflective of Occidental enlightenment and modernism. The Red Sun and White Sun have consistently formed coalition governments throughout the country's history.

Voting in Maloka is limited to citizens; the Forward Path has been pushing for a switch to landed voting but is unsuccessful. Due to the country's moderate cohesion, its elections tend to be difficult and filled with low turnouts and a relatively small voting pool compared to the total adult population.

Administration

Maloka is divided into thirteen provinces, three of which are semiautonomous as part of the Rianee Cooperative Reserve. Each non-autonomous province elects three delegates to the People's Council, one of which is approved by the peoples' council to simultaneously serve as governor of their province. Each semiautonomous province appoints one delegate, and is permitted to operate under local tribal law and is not regulated by the central government in regards to hunting and fishing rights within their territory.

South Osweyan, the southernmost province, is partially leased to the government of Faneria until 2123. while Maloka also agreed to sell the Tohatacan Strip to Faneria in 2025 in exchange for a military aid package of a frigate, several fighter aircraft, and repair and sustainment aid, which Faneria gifted to Ashkenang to allow it access to the sea.

Culture

Malki

Malki culture is heavily based in familial and clan ties; most Malki families live in multigenerational compounds that are grouped into blocks rather than Occedental-style housing divisions. Their people are stratified by a somewhat more educated and developed urban class and a much poorer small community class, and many still live in cottage industry towns, forgotten by the urban core around the Kilmer River. Their diets heavily feature shellfish and fish, though potatoes have also become a staple crop. Malki art glorifies triangle patterns, as their ancient cloth weaves used series of colored triangles as a primitive writing system.

Ashkenauk

Ashkenauks are a considerable minority in Maloka, but are a large minority in some of the border regions with Ashkenang. Ashkenauk culture is a unique branch-off of the more common continental M'acunism, and their tribal faiths burn their offerings in addition to other parts of the sacrifices made.

Rianee

The Rianee people are largely hunter-gatherers, and have a preindustrial culture with a heavy emphasis on subsistence hunting and fishing. Many of them visit temporary living sites throughout the north and Polar Zone, and furs and handcrafts still feature heavily in their garb. In modern times, they have acquired a small number of firearms and manufactured goods in addition to traditional spears and clubs, and have adapted well to using modern trappings while maintaining distance from urban society. The few static Rianee communities are relatively stable albeit poor, and Rianee are often found in shanty towns throughout north and central Maloka. Historically, the Malki pushed the Rianee north from the peninsula, wiping most of them out. The Northern Confederation, during its tenure, had little concern for their status considering their small population size, while the Hierarchy employed many as pathfinders and enforcers against the Malki majority.

Algosh

The Algosh homeland is on the opposite side of Cusinaut from Maloka, but controlled a vast swathe of territory, including Maluka, under the now-defunct Algoquonan Hierarchy. During the occupation, ALgosh settlers became a dominant social class in the major cities, and after the liberation of Maloka, suffered from pogroms, asset siezures, and forced deportations. Many of these were combatted by Fhainnin troops during the Final War of the Deluge, but the Algosh remain a hated minority in Maloka. As a result, many have voluntarily emigrated to the Algosh Republic or to the city of Mharnsgate, which is governed by Faneria.

Demographics

Education is highly stratified, with the Algosh population being 85% literate, the Malki being 64% literate, and the Rianee being 4% literate. The majority of the Rianee population lives in the tundra and northern coastal regions, and are by far the poorest, with some never receiving regular contact with the south and only nominally being under Malokan control. The Algosh population has, since the war of liberation, become a pariah caste, sticking to their own communities to avoid backlash - typically consolidating towards the lease city of Mharnsgate, which is legally a safe haven - a reality usually enforced by Fhainnin troops, though violence does occasionally occur. The Algosh, despite their previous affluence, are politically a non-entity, while the Rianee communities in the southern regions are small enough to be safely ignored and generally are only supported by the White Suns out of deference to their imported ideals.

The largest city in Maloka is Kimiornee, which is home to a population of 1.42 million people. The next largest cities, Losha and Tutelo, hold 1.18 and half a million, respectively, making the Kilmer watershed and its urban zones the core of the country with around two-thirds of the population residing there. These communities are some of the oldest permanent settlements in the country, but remained a smaller proportion of the population until 2011, after the area was annexed by the Algoquonan Heirarchy and a program of forced urbanization was enacted to help modernize the area.

Economy

Maloka is a developing nation with a fairly small GDP, and relies heavily on Faneria for funding its military and political process. Fishing and subsistence farming, along with imports, feed the nation, and its few exports largely consist of meagre iron yields and canned goods. Trade is reliant on the city of Mharnsgate, at the southern tip the peninsula, which is currently under a 99-year lease to Faneria. Shipping further into the bay normally requires icebreakers except in summer.

Military

Order of Battle of the National Liberation Army as of 2030.

National Liberation Army

Maloka's Army consists of four brigades modelled in a roughly Occidental style, with three motorized infantry brigades and a Pathfinders Brigade, the latter of which is in theory special forces but acts in a mountaineering and border patrol capacity. The majority of its equipment is surplus Occidental equipment, and training is handled by a small core of local officers aided by Fanerian advisors. Most of the initial equipment was mixed, with captured Algosh arms, local small arms, and Fhainnin gifts being seen side by side, but as reorganizations have gone on the Army has gradually approached uniformity, with the oldest armaments being passed down to garrison units and later decommissioned or sold off in batches to Sabnaki or other petty states to help pay for better equipment. The NLA only possesses a half-dozen tanks, although its primary armored vehicle, the Bataís, is an excellent rough terrain vehicle (for a tracked system) and is decently effective against most of the local Cronan threats the NLA would reasonably be expected to fight.

Originally, the National Liberation Army consisted of a large variety of militia forces and political extremist groups; after the Peninsular War, an internal winnowing was undertaken to refine the military into a considerably smaller and more manageable force aimed at national defense and maintaining internal order. The focus of military doctrine is purely defensive, and as such relies on simpler, tried-and-true methods rather than complex maneuver.

National Liberation Navy

The Malokan Navy is a green-water force which consists of six major surface craft (one older frigate, two icebreakers, and three heavy patrol craft) and two dozen-odd patrol boats; its frigate is a mine warfare-oriented design of Fanerian origin and its corvettes are Fanerian surplus. The Navy also operates Maloka's fleet of fourteen aircraft (two trainers, four scout planes, and eight last-gen fighter craft). Its primary role is coastal and air defense, and it operates the country's major naval base in Kimiornee and uses Mharnsgate as a second port due to the Fanerian base there.

In 2026, Maloka sold four of its then eighteen fighters to Ashkenang to pay for a maintenance and training program on its other aircraft..