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Cronan Security and Trade Union
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	Land controlled by member states shown in dark green
Abbreviation	CSTU
Formation	27 April 2027
Type	Military alliance
Headquarters	Kinnaird, Arcerion
Membership	Alstin; Arcerion; Paulastra
Chairman of the Union Council	Marcus Anderson, Minister of Foreign Relations of the Imperial Kingdom of Paulastra (acting)
Commander, Joint CSTU Forces	Admiral John Smythe, Alstinian Navy
Supreme Allied Commander Crona	Lieutenant-General Frederick Allison, Arcer Army
Expenses (TBD)	TBC

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The Cronan Security and Trade Union (CSTU) is a military alliance based on the continent of Crona. Formed in 2027 by the three nations of Alstin, Arcerion, and Paulastra, it was aimed at providing a hybrid economic and military alliance that benefitted their capitalist, free market economies but also provided provisions for collective defense and military cooperation. Its headquarters is located centrally in Kinnaird, Arcerion and is expected to be finished construction in 2029. Until then, the Union Council is housed between the Arcer Ministry of Defense building and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The CSTU system is centered on ecomic cooperation and collective defense, where an attack by a third party is an attack on all. It was established mainly to combat growing problems following the Final Deluge and the impacts of the Varshan power vacuum in Crona. The Union Council's headquarters in Kinnaird is to be mirrored by a second Allied Coordination and Planning Centre (ACPC) which will likely be in Arcerion due to its central nature. Members in the alliance commit to military spending to ensure that they contribute to the Union's aim of a secure, stable and peaceful South Crona.

History

Military Operations (2027-present)

Anti-piracy in the Malentine Sea

Beginning in April of 2027, the Union announced its first operation as a joint element would be combatting the increase in piracy and Varshani-sponsored terrorism in the Malentine Sea. Arcerion was the initial sponsor, providing the headquarters and support facilities required for JTF-M (Joint Task Force - Malentine), from which it began assigning patrol vessels and other assets to assist with the operation. The Operation was approved by the Union Council and other nations in the Union pledged their support. It was separated into three separate lines of effort, the first of which is Operation Wavetop, which focuses on the actual counter-piracy mission and counter-proliferation of weapons and arms enabling piracy. The second, Operation Shoreline, was a joint initiative to improve the quality of life and increase humanitarian aid and support infrastructure building in coastal communities of Kelekona, Telokona, and Malentina. By doing so the hope was to prevent future generations from engaging in piracy as a means of survival. Finally, Operation Albatross was the Special Operations targeting and prosecution of key financiers, smugglers, and pirate leaders that were responsible for enabling the burgeoning Malentine piracy trade.

Membership

Membership in the CSTU is defined by the members under Resolution IX, and is defined as the following:

The Members may, by unanimous agreement, invite any other Cronan or near-Cronan state in a position to further the principles of this Union and to contribute to the security of Crona to accede to this Union. Prospective members must adhere to the following criteria:
New members must uphold democracy;

New members must be making progress or already have an established market economy;

New members military forces must be under firm civilian control and oversight;

They must be good neighbours and members of their regional community;

They must be working toward compatibility with other member state's forces.

Observership

Burgundie is an observer of of the CSTU, meaning there where it does not conflict with preexisting commitments, especially those of the Levantine Union, Burgundie commits itself to the membership criteria of the CSTU. It is particularly engaged in supporting the Union's anti-piracy mission in the Malentine.

Burgundie's diplomatic mission in Arcerion maintains a post that serves as the liaison to the CSTU. This liaison sits on the Economic and Security committees but is not enfranchised.

Associations with Non-Member States

Some nations in Crona already have existing security arrangements with other nations in Crona. For example, Arcerion has an aerospace patrol and basing agreement with the New Archduchy, and while this may require Arcer forces to work under a different joint command with the New Archduchy, their forces are not necessarily unprotected by the resolutions of the CSTU Charter.

Structure

All agencies and organizations of CSTU are considered to be part of the civilian administrative branch or the military operational branch. All of the subordinate organizations serve to further the aims of the Union or support its ongoing operations.

Union Council (UC) - The governing body of the Cronan Security and Trade Union, serves as the executive body that deals with the effective governance and administration of the Union. It is sub-divided into two sub-councils (referred to as committees). It convenes several times a month and has permanent representatives posted to its headquarters to help shape CSTU policy and direction. It is chaired by the Chairman of the Union Council, and sub-councils are accordingly convened and headed by Deputy Chairmen.
- Economic Committee - Convened at least once a week, the purpose of the economic committee is to ensure that member nations coordinate economic policy and respect national sovereignty in the economic sphere, and create a more competitive market for CSTU member states.
- Security Committee - This committee is convened daily, and is made up of uniformed personnel and civilians, and they discuss ongoing operations and future plans for security and defense matters in Crona or as required by the member states.

Status in Crona

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+The '''Cronan Security and Trade Union (CSTU)''' is a military alliance based on the continent of [[Crona]]. Formed in 2027 by the three nations of [[Alstin]], [[Arcerion]], and [[Paulastra]], it was aimed at providing a hybrid economic and military alliance that benefitted their capitalist, free market economies but also provided provisions for collective defense and military cooperation. Its headquarters is located centrally in Kinnaird, Arcerion and is expected to be finished construction in 2029. Until then, the Union Council is housed between the Arcer Ministry of Defense building and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
-'''League-occupied Varshan''' is the administration of [[Varshan]] from its 2024 defeat in the [[Final War of the Deluge]].
+The CSTU system is centered on ecomic cooperation and collective defense, where an attack by a third party is an attack on all. It was established mainly to combat growing problems following the [[Final War of the Deluge|Final Deluge]] and the impacts of the Varshan power vacuum in Crona. The Union Council's headquarters in Kinnaird is to be mirrored by a second Allied Coordination and Planning Centre (ACPC) which will likely be in Arcerion due to its central nature. Members in the alliance commit to military spending to ensure that they contribute to the Union's aim of a secure, stable and peaceful South Crona.
+== History ==
-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 (2024)|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 (Varshan)|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 [[Provost-General_of_the_League_of_Nations#Protected_Lands_and_Sea_Lanes_Authority|Protected Lands and Sea Lanes Authority]] of the League of Nations.
+== Military Operations (2027-present) ==
+=== Anti-piracy in the Malentine Sea ===
-==Occupation zones==
+[[File:Pirates in Malentine Sea.jpg|thumb|Members of the ACS ''Howland'' conduct a stop-and-search of a Telokonan ''dhow''-type vessel of the coast of Foxhey Governorate, May 2027. ]]
+Beginning in April of 2027, the Union announced its first operation as a joint element would be combatting the increase in piracy and Varshani-sponsored terrorism in the Malentine Sea. Arcerion was the initial sponsor, providing the headquarters and support facilities required for JTF-M (Joint Task Force - Malentine), from which it began assigning patrol vessels and other assets to assist with the operation. The Operation was approved by the Union Council and other nations in the Union pledged their support. It was separated into three separate lines of effort, the first of which is Operation Wavetop, which focuses on the actual counter-piracy mission and counter-proliferation of weapons and arms enabling piracy. The second, Operation Shoreline, was a joint initiative to improve the quality of life and increase humanitarian aid and support infrastructure building in coastal communities of Kelekona, Telokona, and Malentina. By doing so the hope was to prevent future generations from engaging in piracy as a means of survival. Finally, Operation Albatross was the Special Operations targeting and prosecution of key financiers, smugglers, and pirate leaders that were responsible for enabling the burgeoning Malentine piracy trade.
-===International Anzo===
+== Membership ==
-On June 1st, 2024, [[Martin St. Clair]] in his authority as [[League of Nations Command|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 [[Provost-General_of_the_League_of_Nations#Protected_Lands_and_Sea_Lanes_Authority|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 [[Arzalism|Arzalist practice]] as well as the [[Arzalism#Caste_System|caste system]] and slavery.
+Membership in the CSTU is defined by the members under ''Resolution IX'', and is defined as the following:
+<blockquote>The Members may, by unanimous agreement, invite any other Cronan or near-Cronan state in a position to further the principles of this Union and to contribute to the security of Crona to accede to this Union.  Prospective members must adhere to the following criteria:
-===Urcean zone===
+# New members must uphold democracy;
-===Kiravian zone===
+# New members must be making progress or already have an established market economy;
-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 {{wp|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.
+# New members military forces must be under firm civilian control and oversight;
+# They must be good neighbours and members of their regional community;
-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.
+# They must be working toward compatibility with other member state's forces.</blockquote>
-The Summer of Blood, a widespread eruption of atrocities against upper-caste Varshanis and Martial-among-Gentiles in July and August 2024, was severe in the Kiravian Zone, especially the Southern Division, featuring numerous M'acunist-derived ritual slaughters of upper-caste people along the rivers flowing into the Širaq Basin. The failure of efforts to quell the mob violence prompted Gen. Stólevrin to order a comprehensive evacuation of upper castes to Army-enforced "safe zones" in August, promising to complete the transfer of deportees to other parts of Varshan by winter.
-===Cartadanian zone===
-===Corummese zone===
-===Alstinian zone===
-===Free territory of the Army of the National Homeland===
-{{Main|Army of the National Homeland (Varshan)}}
-==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 [[Freedmen's Bureau (KF)|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 [[Freedmen's Bureau (Urcea or NSTO or LU or Whatever)|Urcean bureaux]] were opened shortly after, in [places].
+===Observership===
+[[Burgundie]] is an observer of of the CSTU, meaning there where it does not conflict with preexisting commitments, especially those of the [[Levantine Union]], [[Burgundie]] commits itself to the membership criteria of the CSTU. It is particularly engaged in supporting the Union's anti-piracy mission in the Malentine.
-The Freedmen's Bureaux did [things].
+[[Burgundie]]'s diplomatic mission in [[Arcerion]] maintains a post that serves as the liaison to the CSTU. This liaison sits on the Economic and Security committees but is not enfranchised.
+== Associations with Non-Member States ==
+Some nations in Crona already have existing security arrangements with other nations in Crona. For example, Arcerion has an aerospace patrol and basing agreement with the [[New Archduchy]], and while this may require Arcer forces to work under a different joint command with the New Archduchy, their forces are not necessarily unprotected by the resolutions of the CSTU Charter.
-[[Category: Varshan]]
+== Structure ==
-[[Category: Crona]]
+All agencies and organizations of CSTU are considered to be part of the civilian administrative branch or the military operational branch. All of the subordinate organizations serve to further the aims of the Union or support its ongoing operations.
-[[Category: Final War of the Deluge]]
+* Union Council (UC) - The governing body of the Cronan Security and Trade Union, serves as the executive body that deals with the effective governance and administration of the Union. It is sub-divided into two sub-councils (referred to as committees). It convenes several times a month and has permanent representatives posted to its headquarters to help shape CSTU policy and direction. It is chaired by the Chairman of the Union Council, and sub-councils are accordingly convened and headed by Deputy Chairmen.
+** Economic Committee - Convened at least once a week, the purpose of the economic committee is to ensure that member nations coordinate economic policy and respect national sovereignty in the economic sphere, and create a more competitive market for CSTU member states.
+** Security Committee - This committee is convened daily, and is made up of uniformed personnel and civilians, and they discuss ongoing operations and future plans for security and defense matters in Crona or as required by the member states.
+== Status in Crona ==
+[[Category: Arcerion]]
+[[Category: Alstin]]
+[[Category: Paulastra]]