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New Veltorina is the nation-state of the [[Veltorine people]]. Veltorines people began to settle in northwestern [[Crona]] in the 1960s and 70s as part of a movement to find a new homeland following the conquest of the original [[Veltorina]] by [[Caphiria]] at the conclusion of the [[First Great War]]. Veltorines received some status in [[Quetzenkel]] and Veltorines migrated to from Sarpedon to the Brudxaan Province, a territory taken by Quetzenkel from [[Zurgite Varshan]] in the 1960s. Conditions gradually worsened as political stability in Quetzenkel declined, precipitating the [[South Nysdra War]] in the 2010s and [[Urcea]]n intervention. Following that intervention, the Veltorines established their first independent state in a century with the proclamation of the Principality of [[Cetsencalia]], a declaration which led to precipitous migration of remaining Veltorines from the Occident to the territory. The growth of an Occidental population in northern Crona was particularly offensive to the government and people of Varshan, and when Varshan began the [[Final War of the Deluge]] against Urcea, Cetsencalia was its first target. Cetsencalia eventually capitulated to Varshani occupation, beginning a slow-moving genocide of Veltorine people in the territory. The genocide was interrupted by the advanced of Urcean and allied forces, which liberated the territory and placed it under the [[Veltorine Territories]] occupation government. Subsequently, popular political movements under the [[Veltorine Popular Defense Committee]] participated in the liberation of the country, and following the war the VPDC took control of the country. Negotiations between it and the sometimes-rival [[Veltorine government-in-exile]] resulted in a merger and the formation of a new, unified New Veltorine state in [[2026]] under the [[New Veltorine Provisional Government]]. A constitution was subsequently ratified in [[2028]].

It is a member of the [[Nysdra Sea Treaty Association]].

===Indigenous history===

The Brudxaan area was first settled by humans in the period of the 6000s BC along with neighboring [[Quetzenkel]] and parts of [[Varshan]].

The eastern hinterlands and northern coastal region (referred to historians as the "periphery") were settled by the Quetzen people not long after they established a written culture and urban society in Quetzenkel, and the predecessor of the modern Quetzen language is recorded in this region as of the 1st century AD. The Quetzen settlement of the area varied over time. At times, nomadic tribes in the area served as tributaries of far-off Quetzen trade cities, and at other times direct settlement of the area occurred with the Quetzen people's furthest flung western cities being in the territory. Historians agree that the majority of the nomadic peoples living in the area were not Quetzen as of the 8th or 9th century AD but were significantly influenced by them, with Quetzen peoples only being in the easternmost fringe of this territory. The influence was such that the Quetzen language became the lingua franca of modern New Veltorina by the 12th century and was used as a trade language even in the city of Čak Qozal.

The periphery was [[Zurgite Varshan#Conquest_of_the_North|conquered by Varshan]] in [[1525]]. This region became a critical point which allowed Varshan to project its influence across the [[Nysdra Sea]] into [[Venua'tino]], greatly enriching Čak Qozal. The city became an important transshipment point for goods, soldiers, and slaves coming to and from the Varshani heartland to Venua'tino by means of coastal shipping. Čak Qozal thrived during this period, with significant construction occurring. In the 21st century, it is the best preserved example of an early modern Varshani city, escaping the destruction that devastated Varshani archeological prospects during the [[Final War of the Deluge]].  

===The Diaspora and Cronan settlement===

The conquest of [[Veltorina]] at the end of the [[First Great War]] brought to an end the independence of the nation-state of the [[Veltorine people]], a people native to northeastern [[Sarpedon]]. Their conquest by [[Caphiria]] led to a century of various efforts by the Veltorine people to reestablish their independence, both in their home territory and, later, abroad. The [[Veltorine government-in-exile]] supported efforts to reestablish Veltorine independence, while later movements such as the [[Veltorine_people#Life_Abroad_Movement|Life Abroad Movement]] and 21st century resettlements supported by [[Urcea]] sought to establish a new Veltorine state abroad.

The Quetzen acquisition of the Brudxaan Province (an area adjoining the [[Nysdra Sea]]) of [[Varshan]] in the 1960s had important societal effects both for Varshan and the conquering party, [[Quetzenkel]]. Occidentals with expertise were sought after by both countries to help modernize their economies and armed forces, and the Quetzen sought to supplement the local Quetzen population of Brudxaan with a non-Varshani population. Accordingly, both countries began to solicit the Life Abroad Movement (with the [[Caphiria]]n government serving as intermediary) to begin settling Veltorines in the area. Brudxaan, rather than Varshan, was the more popular destination of the Movement, though Varshan generally paid higher and offered unprecedented exemptions to Veltorine experts and consultants. Accordingly, a few Veltorines settled in Varshan's northwestern borderlands, but most agreed to relocate to Brudxaan. Veltorine settlers began to arrive in [[1971]]. In the first decade and a half of Veltorine settlement, Veltorines generally enjoyed specific legal protections and a prominence in society protected by the Quetzen state. In this period, the new arrivals served as technical experts, consultants, and advisors to Quetzenkel as it modernized its military and economy; many of the arrivals had been scientists, civil servants, and even military officers in [[Caphiria]], and accordingly they imparted on the Quetzen state a semi-Caphiric model of administration and organization of the military. The impact of the Veltorines within both Quetzen and Varshani society began to decline by the 1980s, as the highly sought after professionals began to age out or die; in their place, a well-cultured but poorly-educated second generation of Veltorines began to mature, most of whom taking positions as non-skilled laborers. Veltorines maintained their place in society, however, as waves of them from Sarpedon continued to arrive through the year [[1992]].

{{Further|South Nysdra War|Cetsencalia}}

By the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the Veltorine people living in Brudxaan faced rapidly deteriorating material conditions and social position. Now in their second or even third generation, many Veltorines had become agricultural workers, soldiers, or other non-specialist positions which were of little use to the Quetzen people. As their utility and conditions declined, the Veltorines began to be the subject of scorn to the other Quetzen and indigenous peoples they lived alongside. For a time, the state was able to maintain order and prevent violence, intermittently making attempts to integrate the Veltorines into Quetzen society. Those efforts came to an end as [[Quetzenkel#21st_century|Quetzenkel descended into political chaos]]. Archchief Honau V's death in 2013 inaugurated the reign of Quetzen XXIII and a traditionalist regime, which began a crackdown on Veltorine civil rights. The Veltorines launched an insurrection aimed at seizing control of Brudxaan, becoming a combatant in the [[South Nysdra War]] now consuming Quetzenkel. A Veltorine assassin killed Quetzen XXIII in early [[2014]], plunging the country further into civil war and ending the ability of the Akwesasne government to project power into Brudxaan. By mid-[[2015]], the Veltorine militias were nominally in charge of the territory, but the coalition of Veltorine leaders began to fragment while facing indigenous guerillas. An inter-Veltorine civil war appeared likely in [[2016]] as the general Quetzen conflict intensified, but events would soon unfold such that a relatively unified Veltorine state would be established by the end of the year.

====Capitulation and resistance====

{{Further|Veltorine Popular Defense Committee|Veltorine Territories}}

====Veltorine unification====

{{Further|New Veltorine Provisional Government}}

===Republic established===

==Government==

New Veltorina is a {{wp|unitary republic|unitary}} [[Julian republic]] with a {{wp|unicameral legislature}}. It is governed by the Constitution of 2028, which took effect Jan 1 of that year following a [[New_Veltorine_Provisional_Government#Constitutional_convention_and_elections|convention and ratification process]] that took place in 2026-27. As a Julian republic, the Veltorine constitution is modeled on the form of the [[Government of Urcea|Urcean government]], which employs different offices each for the {{wp|head of state}}, the {{wp|chief executive}}, and the {{wp|head of government}}.  Unlike most other Julian systems, New Veltorina employs {{wp|civil law}}; accordingly, the National Convocation is the final court of appeal and the judicial system is largely made up of appointed arbitrators rather than a freestanding court system. Some courts are established in the largest cities, such as [[New Taxades]].

As New Veltorina is a unitary republic, few policy choices are made at the local level. The country is nominally divided into four [[New_Veltorine_Provisional_Government#Local_governance|prefectures]] (and one special governance area) whose governments were dissolved at the time of the implementation of the constitution; most of the municipalities or other local administrations are now directly under the central government. Despite this theoretical , the country has a very large patchwork of local administrative systems due to the way in which it was established. A majority of New Veltorina's populace live within Urban Community Areas (UCA), a municipal government which in theory is intended to function democratically but in practice is primarily made up of central government appointments, including, in some cases, continued holdovers of the [[New_Veltorine_Provisional_Government#Local_governance|provisional government municipal committees]]. A majority of the land area, meanwhile, is directly under the authority of a central government body known as the Parcel Administration, which was responsible for the survey and division of the New Veltorine countryside into parcels to be sold off to Veltorine settlers. The "Parcel Area" consequently collectively refers to all lands divided by the Parcel Authority but not yet sold. When a parcel is sold, it automatically leaves the jurisdiction of the Parcel Authority and becomes subject to the local Urban Community Area (UCA), creating a geographic patchwork of municipal boundaries with some parcels being separated from the cities in which they are a part by hundreds of miles of Parcel Area land. A smaller portion of the country, particularly in the south, are part of various legal entities which predate the Veltorine settlement and are referred to as "antique commons", which are centuries-old village communes of the indigenous Cronan population. Very few antique commons are legally similar to each other, and though national law treats them the same as Urban Community Areas in theory, in practice relations between the communes and the government vary greatly. Significant outside intervention in the form of lobbying and grant-giving, particularly by [[Urcea]] but also increasingly by [[New Harren]] and [[Quetzenkel]], is required to prevent the encroachment of both the government and private land owners onto antique common areas.

====Qozala Special Governance Area====

The city, once prominent under the Varshani and Quetzen administrations, became politically sidelined once [[Cetsencalia]] was established, and its fate was a constant source of political discord in that country. When Varshan occupied much of Cetsencalia during the [[Final War of the Deluge]], the city had a minor uprising in support of Varshan before the uprising was suppressed by the Urcean military. After that time, the city was subject to reprisals from Veltorine militia forces, and it became evident that the city would be in danger of public violence unless afforded special status. Such status was mandated by the [[Treaty of Electorsbourg (2024)|Treaty of Electorsbourg]] and created by agreement with [[Urcea]] in [[2025]].

{{Main|Veltorine people}}

New Veltorina has a culture extending back several millennia due to the shared history, common traditions, and imported social mores of the Veltorine people, who emerged in [[Sarpedon]] during the medieval period from the intersection of [[Ancient Istroyan civilization]] and [[Latinic people]]. Beyond this longstanding tradition, New Veltorines have taken on a more militaristic and solidaristic worldview due to the effects of the [[Final War of the Deluge]] on Cronan Veltorines. New Veltorine society is considered to be deeply hierarchical and, [[Veltorine_people#Religion|as is the case with other Veltorines]], {{wp|Bishops in the Catholic Church|Catholic bishops}} have a position of personal influence, social standing, and cultural tastemaking virtually unknown in most other Catholic countries; in New Veltorina, this began with the appointment of Bishop Melinkes in [[1980]], who instantly became an international symbol of Veltorine resilience. Cultural commentators have observed that the country's three Catholic bishops have a semi-monarchical effect on cultural tastes.  

New Veltorines are generally divided into three major cultural groups, the first two of which are ethnically Veltorine (and both of which make up about half of the Veltorine population) while the remainder is the assorted Cronan indigenous persons which are mostly marginalized within "proper" New Veltorine society, instead emphasizing their historic ties and relationship to the city of Qozala. The first major group is the so called "''Brudxi''", named for the [[Veltorine_people#Life_Abroad_Movement|Varshani province settled by Veltorines first during the 1960s]]. The Brudxi are Veltorines who relocated to Crona during the middle and late 20th century, and accordingly most are part of multi-generational families that have lived in what is now New Veltorina for decades. The Brudxi are usually observed to have a more rustic character, having shed many of the tastes of high [[Sarpedon]]ic culture and affluence in the decades since moving to Crona. The Brudxi are also considered to be more world-weary in outlook due to several decades of status as a minority ethnicity; while Sarpedonic Veltorines also share this view of themselves as a minority, the Brudxi were victim to multiple waves of attempted ethnic cleansing before and during the [[2010]]s, which make them observably more suspicious of indigenous Cronans as well as authority in general. The Brudxi tend to have a distinctive accent with some [[Hieratic Varshani]] words introduced, particularly as slang. The Brudxi also have a mixed cuisine style, retaining many Veltorine traditional favorites and family recipes while including indigenous meals, which they have eaten for generations. Politically, the Brudxi are more cynical, more {{wp|populist}}, and socially conservative. The Brudxi made up a majority of the personnel of the [[Veltorine Popular Defense Committee]] during the [[Final War of the Deluge]]. Most Brudxi would be considered nationalist in a sense (and most are members of the Party for the National Movement), but scholars have observed that the Brudxi eschew more intellectual or Romantic senses of nationalism in favor of a "defensive" or "possessive" view of nationality. Brudxi mostly have lower levels of educational attainment than their Fero counterparts; though their ancestors were largely technical experts or scientists, the children of those experts were generally not given easy access to education. Economically, many Brudxi occupy working class and agricultural jobs as well as service in the New Veltorine military, though the Brudxi also make up the senior clique in the Party for the National Movement and consequently form the country's political elite.

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