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| | | 57.5% Rusani | ||
| | | 15% Daxian | ||
| | | 10.7% Yue | ||
| | | 7% Tauqi | ||
| | | 5.3% Dukir | ||
| 4.5% Kassar | | 4.5% Kassar | ||
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|demonym = Rusani | |demonym = Rusani | ||
|government_type = | |government_type = Unitary Republic | ||
|leader_title1 = | |leader_title1 = President | ||
|leader_name1 = [[Rostam Khosa]] | |leader_name1 = [[Rostam Khosa]] | ||
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|established_event1 = | |established_event1 = Ancient Kingdoms | ||
|established_date1 = | |established_date1 = Pre 665 | ||
|established_event2 = | |established_event2 = Oduniyyad Caliphate | ||
|established_date2 = | |established_date2 = 665-860 | ||
|established_event3 = | |established_event3 = Caliphate Successor States | ||
|established_date3 = | |established_date3 = 860-1685 | ||
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Musa Al Ghanim would not live to see the surrender of the monastery the next day, dying on the field of battle from the wound to his neck. The monastery of the White Peak would later be converted into the Ghazi Al Ghanim Mosque. He was succeded in command by Khamis Muminir, commander of the cavalry. The Muslim victory at Rauran Pass crippled the military power of the Dagnumites, the loss of men too high for any hopes of further resistance. Muminir spent a further three years imposing the Caliph's rule and building fortresses to cement Odduniyad control in the long term. He separated part of the Alsar wilayat and united it with the new territory to create the Rusana wilayat, named after the Caliph's mother. Khamis Muminir was confirmed by the Caliph as governor and also made the post hereditary for three generations after him. Muminirs governorship would continue until his death in battle in 688 against an insurrection in Pukhgundi. His son Walid would inherit his position as governor and initiate a vast program of colonization, bringing in thousands of lower class Audonian families to his territories. He mandated the construction of the city of [[Tabish]] at the Baari inlet to serve as a new port and settled it with audonian immigrants. It is also during his reign that a border war would begin against the Oduniyyad's neighbor to the east, the kingdom of Nasrad. The pressing need for more military forces would give rise to the phenomenon of the slave-soldier, as Oduniyyad authorities enslaved many Dagnumites and forced them to serve in the east. While for most of the Oduniyyad period the majority of the forces available to local governors were composed of Audonians and converts, and Dhimmis were barred from military professions, slaves brought from central Audonia, the northern steppes and Nasrad were plentiful and the system of indoctrinated slave warriors would become very important in post Oduniyyad islamic states. | Musa Al Ghanim would not live to see the surrender of the monastery the next day, dying on the field of battle from the wound to his neck. The monastery of the White Peak would later be converted into the Ghazi Al Ghanim Mosque. He was succeded in command by Khamis Muminir, commander of the cavalry. The Muslim victory at Rauran Pass crippled the military power of the Dagnumites, the loss of men too high for any hopes of further resistance. Muminir spent a further three years imposing the Caliph's rule and building fortresses to cement Odduniyad control in the long term. He separated part of the Alsar wilayat and united it with the new territory to create the Rusana wilayat, named after the Caliph's mother. Khamis Muminir was confirmed by the Caliph as governor and also made the post hereditary for three generations after him. Muminirs governorship would continue until his death in battle in 688 against an insurrection in Pukhgundi. His son Walid would inherit his position as governor and initiate a vast program of colonization, bringing in thousands of lower class Audonian families to his territories. He mandated the construction of the city of [[Tabish]] at the Baari inlet to serve as a new port and settled it with audonian immigrants. It is also during his reign that a border war would begin against the Oduniyyad's neighbor to the east, the kingdom of Nasrad. The pressing need for more military forces would give rise to the phenomenon of the slave-soldier, as Oduniyyad authorities enslaved many Dagnumites and forced them to serve in the east. While for most of the Oduniyyad period the majority of the forces available to local governors were composed of Audonians and converts, and Dhimmis were barred from military professions, slaves brought from central Audonia, the northern steppes and Nasrad were plentiful and the system of indoctrinated slave warriors would become very important in post Oduniyyad islamic states. | ||
The Nasrad kingdom, being a subject of the Chen Daxian dynasty could expect to be aided in case of conflict. Therefore Governor Walid determined that the invasion had to proceed as swiftly as possible to prevent Daxian reinforcements from arriving in time. | The Nasrad kingdom, being a subject of the Chen Daxian dynasty could expect to be aided in case of conflict. Therefore Governor Walid determined that the invasion had to proceed as swiftly as possible to prevent Daxian reinforcements from arriving in time to the aid of their vassals. The Odduniyad's began an invasion of Nasrad with two separate armies, moving swiftly through the countryside. The Nasrid forces declined to give open battle and adopted a prolonged defensive strategy of attrition. The Nasrids converted the thousands of irrigation canals of their territory into trenches, spiked pits and positions to harass the mostly cavalry force of the Odduniyads. They also quickly erected hundreds of inexpensive mud towers that could house two or three archers in them, surrounded by sharpened stakes. | ||
In 725 the Caliph Abdul Hakan declared a jihad upon Daxia who began to be called Kafiristan (land of the unbelievers) for a series of Daxian raids on the border city of [[Khov|Khovedjan]]. Governor Walid Al Muminir was commanded to throw back the infidels past the Arik Mountain range which marked the traditional boundary between the two realms. | In 725 the Caliph Abdul Hakan declared a jihad upon Daxia who began to be called Kafiristan (land of the unbelievers) for a series of Daxian raids on the border city of [[Khov|Khovedjan]]. Governor Walid Al Muminir was commanded to throw back the infidels past the Arik Mountain range which marked the traditional boundary between the two realms. | ||
===Post Caliphate Period and Kingdoms of Ghanim, Lakdu, Barpubad (860-1400)=== | ===Post Caliphate Period and Kingdoms of Ghanim, Lakdu, Barpubad (860-1400)=== | ||
==== | ====Border skirmishes==== | ||
Following the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Horoz plain in 1060, the kingdom of Ghanim fell into the sphere of the [[Daxia|Chen]] dynasty. Emboldened by the victory at Horoz, the Chen dynasty initiated an invasion of Barpubad intending to gain the southern shore of lake Doyeon. As the Chen marched south in the direction of Barpubad's heartland, their enemy divided its forces into three separate armies, refusing to engage general Qu Hou's larger army in the open. After reducing several fortresses in late 861, Qu Hou marched on the Barpubad capital. The main Barpubadid army finally stood in his way to give battle at the village of Pasdar but unbeknownst to Qu Hou his army was being flanked from the east and the west by the other two formations. The initial battle went in favor of the larger Chen army but as it was close to overwhelming the Barpudadid infantry the auxiliary armies initiated their attack from the rear and eastern flank. The morale of the Chen collapsed upon being close to encirclement and a rout soon initiated. Qu Hou broke free of the trap with a few hundred horsemen and fled north while the bulk of the Chen infantry tried to flee west, only to get bogged down and picked off in the marshes. The defeat at the battle of Pasdar ended the Barpubad expedition and dented Chen military prestige altough Ghanim's own weakened position at the time precluded it taking advantage to throw off its vassal status. | Following the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Horoz plain in 1060, the kingdom of Ghanim fell into the sphere of the [[Daxia|Chen]] dynasty. Emboldened by the victory at Horoz, the Chen dynasty initiated an invasion of Barpubad intending to gain the southern shore of lake Doyeon. As the Chen marched south in the direction of Barpubad's heartland, their enemy divided its forces into three separate armies, refusing to engage general Qu Hou's larger army in the open. After reducing several fortresses in late 861, Qu Hou marched on the Barpubad capital. The main Barpubadid army finally stood in his way to give battle at the village of Pasdar but unbeknownst to Qu Hou his army was being flanked from the east and the west by the other two formations. The initial battle went in favor of the larger Chen army but as it was close to overwhelming the Barpudadid infantry the auxiliary armies initiated their attack from the rear and eastern flank. The morale of the Chen collapsed upon being close to encirclement and a rout soon initiated. Qu Hou broke free of the trap with a few hundred horsemen and fled north while the bulk of the Chen infantry tried to flee west, only to get bogged down and picked off in the marshes. The defeat at the battle of Pasdar ended the Barpubad expedition and dented Chen military prestige altough Ghanim's own weakened position at the time precluded it taking advantage to throw off its vassal status. | ||
====Fragmentation into taifas==== | ====Fragmentation into taifas==== | ||
====Daxian Viceroyalties period==== | ====Daxian Viceroyalties period==== | ||
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The hostilities began with clashes in the capital of [[Tabish]] between the FDH and the NCDP, with the FDH being victorious in evicting their rivals from the entirety of the city after three weeks of fighting. | The hostilities began with clashes in the capital of [[Tabish]] between the FDH and the NCDP, with the FDH being victorious in evicting their rivals from the entirety of the city after three weeks of fighting. | ||
==== | ====The Little Incursion==== | ||
During the presidency of [[Daxia]]'s [[Qiu Heng]] he sought to address the rebuilding of the traditional [[Daxia]]n sphere of influence, nations like the newly formed Rusana and [[Canpei]] had drifted out of their relations of dependence. The [[Rusani Civil War]] had been raging almost since he was first democratically elected and he wanted the disruption to border security and trade to end. He also was unwilling to countenance a victory of the conservative and islamist forces that formed the FDH due to their extreme hostility to [[Daxia]]. The FDH wanted to expel all [[Daxia]]ns and ethnic groups related to them from Rusana, these groups totaled some fifteen percent of the population at the time. [[Qiu Heng]] was convinced the FDH's secular opponents, the National Congress for the Defense of the People (NCDP) led by [[Farrukhzad Khosa]], were unable to achieve victory on its own after almost nine years of a slogging war. After a series of meetings in November 1962 with [[Farrukhzad Khosa]], an agreement was finalized to 'assist the legitimate government of Rusana in restoring its territorial integrity'. The state propaganda apparatus began driving the narrative that ethnic [[Daxia]]n's were in grave danger of annihilation and that a short and victorious war was needed to save them. On December of the same year some forty thousand Daxians entered into Rusana from the Xiazhai Pass in the far south; this military action would be known as [[the Little Incursion]] in Daxian history, after the term the president used for the operation. | |||
Boosted by [[Daxia]]n mechanized forces and modern aviation, the NCDP began a series of successful offensives over the course of two months that pushed the FDH back towards the Mursi river in disarray and then forced them across with terrible losses of men and vehicles. Some 7,000 men from the FDH are thought to have been killed fighting to defend the FDH perimeter on the south bank of the Mursi as its limited transport capacity struggled to ferry as many of the trapped troops to the other side. The FDH lack of modern planes meant that their armored columns were prone to being destroyed by enemy aviation before they could be properly deployed for battle or were blown up piecemeal as sitting ducks. By July 1963 the NCDP had made further advanced north and retaken the capital of [[Tabish]] almost without a fight, the FDH too battered and demoralized to be able to mount an effective defense even with the benefit of fighting on an urban area, which generally favors the defenders. Only a month later the two sides of the civil war signed a cessation of hostilities that froze the conflict lines, the FDH only controlled a corner of territory in the northwest, some 8% of Rusana while their rivals controlled the rest of the country. [[Qiu Heng]] had maintained his promise to the people and delivered a short and victorious war. The NCDP began the process of reasserting its control over the destroyed country and rebuilding its political structures, only now heavily in debt to [[Daxia]] politically, militarily and economically; with numerous Daxian bases established in its territory. The [[Rusana Patriotic Alliance]] which is the direct political successor of the NCDP continues to steer Rusana into its neighbor's embrace, to the point of dependence. | |||
====Puppet regime==== | ====Puppet regime==== | ||
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==Geography and Climate== | ==Geography and Climate== | ||
[[File:Panjsir.jpg|thumb|A view of Droon Valley in central Rusana]] | [[File:Panjsir.jpg|thumb|A view of Droon Valley in central Rusana]] | ||
The climate of Rusana varies from tropical to temperate, with semi-arid conditions in the coastal south. There is a monsoon season with frequent flooding due to heavy rainfall, and a dry season with significantly less rainfall. There are four distinct seasons in Rusana: a cool, dry winter from December through February; a hot, dry spring from March through May; the summer rainy season, or | The climate of Rusana varies from tropical to temperate, with semi-arid conditions in the coastal south. There is a monsoon season with frequent flooding due to heavy rainfall, and a dry season with significantly less rainfall. There are four distinct seasons in Rusana: a cool, dry winter from December through February; a hot, dry spring from March through May; the summer rainy season, or southeast monsoon period, from June through September; and the retreating monsoon period of October and November. Rainfall can vary greatly from year to year, and patterns of alternate flooding and drought are not uncommon. | ||
The geography of Rusana is varied, the east is dominated by the Arik mountain range that begins in the north and extends south all across the [[Daxia]]n border. West of the mountain range, the terrain descends into verdant lowlands and plains with few distinct orographic features. This area is bound to the north by the southern end of the Hongse river that flows from [[Canpei]] and to the south by the Akhdar river, as a result this region is extremely fertile making this the agricultural breadbasket of the country. | |||
==Government and Politics== | ==Government and Politics== | ||
===Government=== | ===Government=== | ||
Rusana follows the traditional republican system | [[File:Mansour abbas.jpg|thumb|President Rostam Khosa]] | ||
Rusana follows the traditional republican system of three separate branches that balance each other; an executive led by the popularly elected President who heads the central administration. The President is elected through nationwide elections, every five years and has wide powers over military, economic affairs and foreign policy. The bicameral legislative arm is composed of the Assembly of Tribal Elders and the National Majles, the first is formed by two hundred elders from all of Rusana's ethnic groups and the latter is composed of five hundred elected delegates, with each of the country's 250 districts having two seats, renewed by election every three years. Finally the judiciary is represented by the Supreme Islamic Court and lower level regional courts. | |||
===Political Parties=== | ====Executive==== | ||
The Constitution of Rusana creates a strong presidency, serving as the head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the Rusani Armed Forces. A president is elected with two vice-presidents. The president appoints cabinet ministers and heads of state owned companies, which are to be approved by the National Majles. The President's official residence is the Jalali Palace. | |||
====Legislative==== | |||
The bicameral legislature is formed by an upper-house, the 200-member Assembly of Tribal Elders and a lower-house, the 500-member National Majles. National Majles members are elected via first-past-the-post under universal adult suffrage, representing National Majles constituencies. The constitution reserves 80 seats for women and religious minorities, allocated to political parties based on proportional representation. Members of the Assembly of Tribal Elders are elected by consensus of the legally recognized tribe confederations. | |||
====Judicial==== | |||
====Political Parties==== | |||
Main Article: [[Political Parties of Rusana]] | Main Article: [[Political Parties of Rusana]] | ||
Current Rusana politics are divided between two electoral alliances, the conservative Alliance for Prosperity and the relatively moderate Builder's Alliance supported by most ethnic and religious minorities. | Current Rusana politics are divided between two electoral alliances, the conservative Alliance for Prosperity and the relatively moderate Builder's Alliance supported by most ethnic and religious minorities. | ||
==Demographics== | ==Demographics== | ||
===Ethnic Groups=== | ===Ethnic Groups=== | ||
*'''Rusani''' - The Rusani people constitute approximately | {{Pie chart | ||
| radius = 100 | |||
| thumb = right | |||
| caption = Ethncity according to the official census (2030) | |||
| other = | |||
| label1 =Rusani|Rusani | |||
| value1 =57.5 | |||
| color1 =MediumSeaGreen | |||
| label2 =Daxian|Daxian | |||
| value2 =15 | |||
| color2 =Gold | |||
| label3 =Yue | |||
| value3 =10.7 | |||
| color3 =Khaki | |||
| label4 =Tauqi | |||
| value4 =7 | |||
| color4 =SaddleBrown | |||
| label5 =Dukir | |||
| value5 =5.3 | |||
| color5 =Chocolate | |||
| label6 =Kassar | |||
| value6 =4.5 | |||
| color6 =OliveDrab | |||
}} | |||
*'''Rusani''' - The Rusani people constitute approximately fifty-seven percent of Rusana's population, or just over thirty million people. Rusani are of a mixed Perso-Audonian and West Audonian stock, with ancestry most commonly being from Umardwal and Bulkh migrants. Rusanis are almost uniformly muslim, with a divide between followers of the Sunni and the Shia branches. Christianity is practiced only by a few thousand people who are a protected minority. | |||
*'''Daxian''' - | *'''Daxian''' - | ||
*'''Yue''' - | *'''Yue''' - | ||
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File:Olives3.jpg|Merchant offering a variety of olives in a bazaar | File:Olives3.jpg|Merchant offering a variety of olives in a bazaar | ||
File:Pink Salt.jpg|Worker sorts chunks of pink salt | File:Pink Salt.jpg|Worker sorts chunks of pink salt | ||
File:Olives2.jpg|Olive trees in Droon Valley | File:Olives2.jpg|Olive trees in Droon Valley | ||
File:Oil RU.jpg|Ramle oil field | File:Oil RU.jpg|Ramle oil field | ||
File:Copper mine.jpg|Al Bustan copper mine | File:Copper mine.jpg|Al Bustan copper mine | ||
File:Grapes.jpg|Vineyard in Dofzul region | File:Grapes.jpg|Vineyard in Dofzul region | ||
File:Salt workers.jpg|Workers gathering salt above ground | File:Salt workers.jpg|Workers gathering salt above ground | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
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[[Category:Rusana]] | [[Category:Rusana]] | ||
[[Category:Countries]] | [[Category:Countries]] | ||
[[Category:NPC Countries]] | [[Category:NPC Countries]] | ||
[[Category:Daxian NPC Countries]] | [[Category:Daxian NPC Countries]] | ||
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