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By [[1704]], the legal boundary of Porfíria had extended far northward into the [[Cusinaut]] interior to the border with the [[Northern Confederation]]; this land had been acquired by intermittent warfare and treaties between the colonial settlers and native peoples. This area, known as the "Northern Tracts", was largely unsettled and is roughly coterminous with modern [[Iriquona]]. In colonial Cusinaut, such land claims were not effective sovereignty, but rather the right to obtain and settle indigenous lands to the exclusion of other colonial powers. Increasingly, however, border forts, trade posts, and other zones of control began to be erected by the Kiravian colonial administrators through the early-to-mid 1700s. Kiravia was able to project power in this region despite limited resources because of the fractured nature of the local tribal people, who were deeply divided by ancient political and social differences. The rising power of Kiravia led to a reconsideration of these animosities, and in [[1764]] the landmark Treaty of Hukon was signed by the eight most powerful tribes in the region. The Treaty bound them together in loose confederation and military alliance. From then on, the Hukon League launched ever-larger raids into southern Porfíria, devestating the economy and disrupting settlement efforts. The "Hukon War" ended in [[1773]] with the Treaty of Vittēmur. The Treaty pledged to prevent further settlement in the Northern Tracts but allowed existing trading posts and forts to remain, and also required the Hukon to continue to trade exclusively with Kiravia rather than with other Occidental powers or the Northern Confederation. The Treaty effectively recognized the Hukon League as the legitimate representative body of indigienous peoples in the Northern Tracts. Per the Treaty, in [[1774]] the new Law of Settlement was enacted, which forbid non-native peoples from settling north of a certain line within Porfíria. The Settlement line comprises Porfíria's modern northern boundary.

During [[the Deluge]], Porfíria was directly involved in the [[Kiroquois War]]. It hosted numerous [[Kiravian Armed Forces|Kiravian military]] support activities during the [[Final War of the Deluge]], and also introduced limited {{wp|conscription}} into its provincial self-defence and civil defence forces due to fears of home-soil attacks launched from [[Varshan]] and [[Iriquona]], the first new instance of conscription in the Kiravian Federacy since the 1988 AD [[National Service Suspension Order]].