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==Geography== | ==Geography== | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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===Varshani Potentate=== | ===Varshani Potentate=== | ||
The schism in the [[Ixa'Taka]]n empire did not go unnoticed by [[Varshan]], only a few years later it started incursions into the former's southernmost territories as far as the Mountains of the Sun. At first these territorial intrusions involved only a few hundred men at any one time and were either ignored or thrown back easily enough. By the 1200's [[Varshan]] began to openly attack the Ajaw settlements that paid tribute to Ixa'Taka prompting harsher responses. An army commanded by a nephew of the Umatz Janab I pushed the invaders out and then invaded north [[Varshan]] for five months before being annihilated in battle by the Zurg's royal army. The following century would see a pattern of territorial encroachment by [[Varshan]] and temporary alliances by [[Chimoche]] and [[Ixa'Taka]] to push back on these advances. By 1230 all the lands south of the Mountains of the Sun had been lost to [[Varshan]] and in 1245 the Ixa'Takans sealed a marriage alliance with the Zurg whereby they became a tributary state and adopted [[Arzalism]]. By abandoning their wartime alliance with [[Chimoche]] they also got to achieve a historical revenge against them for their multiple rebellions, Ixa'Takan troops played an important role in the Varshani subjugation of [[Chimoche]]. The [[Varshan]] Zurgs decided to appoint high caste noblemen from [[Anzo]] as potentates over both [[Chimoche]] and [[Ixa'Taka]] to oversee their kings, observe that Arzalism was practiced and tribute delivered on time. This period of history is known as the Varshani Potentate and it is characterized by local historians as unusually harsh and bleak. The potentates were often fanatically religious and looked down on the locals as lacking zeal in their Arzalist devotions. A great deal of resources were poured into building new temples and the [[Blood Fane of Buruso]] was said to glow red at night due to all the blood shed on its steps. | [[File:Máscara_de_Xiuhtecuhtli_Cultura_Azteza-Mixteca_Ars_Summum.JPG|thumb|Jade mask worn by third Varshani Potentate, Vresidot Shaggath who reinstated blood sacrifices at the Fane of Buruso]] | ||
The schism in the [[Ixa'Taka]]n empire did not go unnoticed by [[Varshan]], only a few years later it started incursions into the former's southernmost territories as far as the Mountains of the Sun. At first these territorial intrusions involved only a few hundred men at any one time and were either ignored or thrown back easily enough. By the 1200's [[Varshan]] began to openly attack the Ajaw settlements that paid tribute to Ixa'Taka during its [[The Hunt (Varshan)|the Hunts]], prompting harsher responses. An army commanded by a nephew of the Umatz Janab I pushed the invaders out and then invaded north [[Varshan]] for five months before being annihilated in battle by the Zurg's royal army. The following century would see a pattern of territorial encroachment by [[Varshan]] and temporary alliances by [[Chimoche]] and [[Ixa'Taka]] to push back on these advances. By 1230 all the lands south of the Mountains of the Sun had been lost to [[Varshan]] and in 1245 the Ixa'Takans sealed a marriage alliance with the Zurg whereby they became a tributary state and adopted [[Arzalism]]. By abandoning their wartime alliance with [[Chimoche]] they also got to achieve a historical revenge against them for their multiple rebellions, Ixa'Takan troops played an important role in the Varshani subjugation of [[Chimoche]]. The [[Varshan]] Zurgs decided to appoint high caste noblemen from [[Anzo]] as potentates over both [[Chimoche]] and [[Ixa'Taka]] to oversee their kings, observe that Arzalism was practiced and tribute delivered on time. This period of history is known as the Varshani Potentate and it is characterized by local historians as unusually harsh and bleak. The potentates were often fanatically religious and looked down on the locals as lacking zeal in their Arzalist devotions. A great deal of resources were poured into building new temples and the [[Blood Fane of Buruso]] was said to glow red at night due to all the blood shed on its steps on the orders of the Potentates. The seeds of rebellion against the Potentate came in 1581 when the 13th Potentate, Kangar Dun Talmoc, ordered the destruction of the temples of the local deity Tlaloc, a local god of rain and bountiful weather worshipped as an aspect of the Arzalist Rain God. The forceful destruction of his shrines incensed both the commoners and nobles of [[Ixa'Taka]] and [[Chimoche]]. A low level revolt with sporadic murders of Varshani soldiers and the harassment of Arzalist priests began as a result of this action. This morphed into a full fledged uprising when the Potentate Kangar Dun Talmoc and several Anzo dignataries were attacked and killed by an angry mob in the central plaza of Rixis, an event possibly organized by the Ixa'Takan Umatz himself. | |||
The following conflict was named in the annals of [[Varshan]] as the War of Serrated Teeth, a bitter conflict that raged for decades and is an example of a preindustrial population engaging in something reminiscent of total war. The priesthoods of the Old Gods of [[Ixa'Taka]] and [[Chimoche]] whipped their peoples into a religious fervor to expel the occupiers and destroy the Potentate. The animosity against [[Varshan]] was so great that soon the Potentate and his apparatus had to flee the great cities of the region and head south, too many of the officials and priests employed by the Potentate were being targeted and murdered by regular people who then simply melted back into the population. Kangar Dun Talmoc's successor, the 14th Potentate Razoxtin Zun Malat immediately requested the support of the Zurg to put down the popular rebellion. Underestimating the seriousness of the situation and with favorable omens of victory from the priesthood, only a small Varshani army was deployed. Harassed all the way through their march in Ajaw region, the [[Varshan]]is were ambushed and destroyed by an [[Ixa'Taka]]n army shortly after crossing the Mountains of the Sun; the dead were decapitated and their skulls piled up in grisly towers as a grim warning. The War of Serrated Teeth went on for thirty years throughout various phases and intensity, at one point [[Varshan]] had reconquered most of the territory until civil strife and plague back in the interior forced them to withdraw; it was never able to fully restore the Potentate before the arrival of [[Daxia]]. | |||
===Arrival of Daxia=== | ===Arrival of Daxia=== | ||
[[File:Qiancav14.jpg|thumb|Daxian cavalry marching through the gates of Rixis during the War of Serrated Teeth. The distorted faces are typical of Qian artwork of the period.]] | |||
In 1609 the first explorers from [[Daxia]] arrived in the shores of western [[Ixa'Taka]] during a period in which Varshani presence had been pushed back south. After securing their foothold on the island of [[Cao]] and clearing it of pirates, the [[Daxia]]ns sailed eastwards and came in contact with [[Quetzenkel]] and [[Varshan]]. The latter were particularly unwelcoming of the strange looking, yellowish dignitaries and ordered them to leave. On [[Ixa'Taka]] however they were gladly received with honors as a possibly ally against [[Varshan]], against who the War of Serrated Teeth still raged. The Ixa'Takans were eager for an alliance for word of the defeat of the pirate lords of [[Cao]] were welcome news all around the Nysdra. The [[Daxia]]ns required land for ''some small settlements'' and ''gold trinkets of some value'' before agreeing to getting involved. [[Daxia]]n requirements were vaguely worded on purpose, the definition of the word 'some' would be stretched as necessary to filch the Ixa'Takans of as much as possible. The [[Pinghai]] Compact obliged [[Daxia]] to aid [[Ixa'Taka]] and to a lesser extent [[Chimoche]] in their struggle to retain their independence from [[Varshan]] in exchange for the aforementioned boons. The compact did not specify what form [[Daxia]]n aid would take, the locals possibly expected immediate dispatchment of [[Daxia]]n troops, the Qian were planning no such thing and instead transported guns and offered to train the forces of the Umatz in their use. The use of firearms was a turning point in the War of Serrated Teeth, forcing back a [[Varshan]] that lacked similar technology. In the last year of the war, the [[Daxia]]ns participated actively in the field of battle with its cavalry. The horse was unknown in [[Varshan]]'s domains and they frightened its warriors, cavalry charges were used to great effect. The War of Serrated Teeth ended with [[Varshan]] retreating from all traditional Chimor and Ixa'Takan lands and stopping its slave Hunts but there never was a peace treaty concluded between the sides. | |||
While the war was drawing down [[Daxia]] turned back to its new holdings in the Shengoi peninsula where it constructed the fort city of [[Pinghai]] as the first of many spots deemed desirable for settlement. Over the next decades the Daxians would rapidly expand through the peninsula, creating new settlements and bringing in larger waves of settlers. In 1645 the Daxian settlements were organized into the [[Pinghai]] Department and Wen Rong was appointed as the first Governor General. Wei Rong was highly disdainful of the [[Chimoche]] and [[Ixa'Taka]]ns and endeavored to secure more agricultural land at their expense. The Chimor under king Falcao IV fought back at these attempts, starting the first Qian-Chimor War. The Chimor achieved some early tactical victories but the arrival of reinforcements from [[Cao]] turned the war against them and they were forced to negotiate, having to surrender all Chimor territory up to the Urgall Depression and thus losing the access to the Nysdra Sea they had previously possessed. Following the war, the Daxians began using tactics meant to sow division among the nobility of [[Chimoche]]. They bribed several important noble families and bankrolled the overthrow of Falcao IV and his replacement by his uncle, Tamazro. Tamazro was not accepted by the cities of eastern Chimoche and a civil war over the throne went on for twelve years until Tamazro's death and the enthronement of Falcao IV's son, Tizroc III, who was a minor at the time. The constant infighting and a tactical alliance between [[Daxia]] and [[Ixa'Taka]] led to the Second Qian-Chimor War in 1712, Chimoche was soundly defeated and most of its territory was occupied by [[Daxia]] as a buffer zone. King Tizroc V and the royal clan were interned in [[Pinghai]], this would be known as the [[Captivity of Weeping Sores]]. The Chimoche royal bloodline would continue to exist under Daxian tutelage for almost 300 years until the creation of the [[Chimoche]] Autonomy, the release of Tizroc V's descendants and their reappointment to rulership. | |||
Despite the size of the new acquisitions, the Qian decided not to create a new territorial unit and instead joined all the land to the [[Pinghai]] Department for the foreseeable future. Court bureaucrats reasoned that in this way the Chimor identity could be more easily diluted and suppressed under the rule of the well oiled and fully staffed administration of coastal Daxian settlers. | |||
===The Model Colony=== | |||
===Army of Conquest fief=== | |||
===The Deluge=== | ===The Deluge=== | ||
Destruction of [[Ixa'Taka]], attack western territories of [[Nanseetucket|Nanzitolclatl]], addition of southern territories | |||
==Government== | |||
===Executive=== | |||
The Governor of Xisheng is the executive official with the broadest authority in the running of the province. The governor is personally appointed by the Chancellor, the only informal requirements for the office is to have a registered domicile in Xisheng for at least a period of ten years and valid membership in the [[Party of Daxian Democrats|PDD]]. The governor runs the province in accordance with Daxia's Basic Law and local legislation, he can veto the latter if it contravenes the Basic Law. The governor does not have direct authority over the Autonomies, on this he serves as more of a liaison with mainland ministries from which the Autonomies receive their funding. While Autonomies have internal security forces, in case of a serious emergency or threat to public order, the governor is authorized and expected to intervene with the forces under his purview to regain control the situation. | |||
===Legislative=== | |||
[[File:XishengLegis.png|thumb|Main chamber of Xisheng's Colonial Senate]] | |||
The Colonial Senate is the unicameral legislature of Xisheng, a successor body to the deliberative Settler Commission that existed under the Qian administration. The Colonial Senate is composed of fifty six members, elected to terms of five years; there is no established limit on the number of terms that members can serve which has historically resulted in a Senate that is filled with members of a few select political dynasties. The Colonial Senate is not nearly as toothless as mainland legislative bodies, it has the power set spending priorities and modify budgets for Xisheng's administrative departments and has specialized organs to carry out audits. | |||
Use of its auditing power has led to clashes with several governors, in 1999 the Colonial Senate building was besieged by police at the direction of then Governor Wang Ruchi in a bid to stop the Audit Board from convening to review the government's accounts; the governor was eventually ordered by the Ministry of Interior to lift the police blockade. While the governor is named by the central authorities, the senate has at times toyed with codifying for itself the power to remove governors; invariably it has backed down from confrontation with the center but the issue pops up semi regularly during political campaigning. | |||
===Autonomies=== | |||
Historically the segregation of ethnic [[Daxian people|Daxians]] from the conquered groups living on Xisheng was something that happened organically and not as a result of a top down dictate from local governments. Certain degree of intermixing was even tolerated as a way to promote social harmony and foster supporters of [[Daxia]] from people of mixed background. The [[Party of Daxian Democrats|PDD]] put a stop to this status quo immediately upon taking power, clamping down on race mixing and beginning a policy of urban isolation of minorities by driving them into delineated pockets to live in. In 2015 the Law on Autonomies was passed by the legislature, this law provided for the creation of quasi autonomous administrative regions within Xisheng for certain ethnic groups known as Autonomies. There are currently only two existing designated Autonomies, the [[Chimoche|Chimor]] Autonomy and the Ixa'Taka Autonomy, homeland of the Chimor and [[Ixa'Taka]] ethnic groups respectively. | |||
The areas covering these two autonomies were originally subdivided into regular districts. The law provided for the carrying out of special census to ascertain the specific ethnic demographics of districts with high numbers of Chimor and [[Ixa'Taka]]n inhabitants and authorized their merging together to form the Autonomies. People in these special administrative zones do not possess [[Daxia]]n citizenship, only a form of reduced citizenship. They have a small tax burden, may not vote in elections outside the Autonomies, are exempt from military service outside [[Crona]], may not intermarry outside their group, etc. The Autonomies have their own semi-sovereign governments and are allowed various traditional trappings of statehood such as its own flag and symbols, control of its budget and within certain constraints; police forces and a defense force of its own. Autonomies have minimal budgets allocated by the Ministry of Finance, instead they have control of their own natural resources and discretionary powers to gather revenue from them in addition to separate taxation systems. | |||
===Politics=== | |||
While the primacy of the [[Party of Daxian Democrats]] has never been in question in the region, local interests have traditionally been strong enough that the politics of Xisheng are more dynamic than those of mainland [[Daxia]]. The local [[Party of Daxian Democrats|PDD]] structures are dominated by competing interest groups; elections in the state have competition between different candidate slates all running under the [[Party of Daxian Democrats|PDD]]. The special interest groupings with influence and positions within the party in Xisheng are broadly as follows: | |||
* '''Association of Daxian Mobilized Committees'''- The Association is a body that has its origins on groups of self defense by [[Daxia]]n settlers during the Qian colonization, previously known as the Association of Daxian Settlers on Xisheng. Its members usually had basic weapons training to defend their communities from native Cronan attacks and also served as auxiliaries for Qian regular troops during conflict. After the Qian era and the start of the regional political primacy by the [[Army of Conquest]], the association was allowed to keep their weapons provided they helped with the suppression of dissidents. The association achieved an official recognition of their armed role in with the introduction of the Law on Special State Formations in 1959; it renamed the association and gave it a legal basis for existing as an armed body under state supervision. This status was accepted by the new [[Party of Daxian Democrats|PDD]] governments in exchange for increased surveillance of the association and the integration of its leadership cadres into the Party. The practical result from this is by the late 2010's the party structure in Xisheng has itself been colonized as more association members become card carrying party members. The association's influence is felt in various local party organs that are of importance in crafting policy, they are especially active in curtailing the sovereign powers awarded to the autonomy zones of [[Chimoche]] and [[Ixa'Taka]]. They have also been pushing internally for central government permission to settle parts of the [[Zanoma Regional Administration]], territory that is officially part of [[Varshan]]. | |||
*'''Coordinating Council of Fig Producers'''- The Coordinating Council of Fig Producers (CCFP) is one of the leading private enterprise groupings of Xisheng, pulling together the largest fig producers of the state, as such it holds a great degree of economic influence. As part of the Party's consolidation of power, economic groups like the CCFP were invited to add their input on economic matters; they were also invited to discreetly fund party activities in exchange for government contracts. Through strategic donations and establishing personal relations with people in key bureaucratic positions the CCFP has achieved a chokehold on the province's economic and tax policy bodies. It is their influence that has been blocking the entrance of fruit imports from the [[Zanoma Regional Administration]] as council figures argue they would unfairly disadvantage local producers. The CCFP is only occasionally aligned with the Association of Daxian Mobilized Committees, the latter represents many small agricultural cooperatives as opposed to the council being a representative of the interests of large, industry-leading companies. | |||
*'''Anti Varshan League'''- The Anti Varshan League (AVL) is a grassroots, non-profit lobbying group. They consider [[Varshan]] to be a dangerous entity that cannot be allowed to exist, their main objective is its partition into a dozen smaller nations. The AVL is one of the main supporters of the establishment of the [[Zanoma Regional Administration]], they see the autonomous region as a future model region for the dismemberment of [[Varshan]]. Accordingly the Anti Varshan League constantly tries to pressure the Xisheng administration to strengthen the capabilities and budgetary resources available to Zanoma while also maintaining a strong and paternal [[Daxia]]n influence over it. The AVL also opposes all efforts by the [[League of Nations]] and other occupying powers at rehabilitating and normalizing the reestablishment of an independent [[Varshan]]. | |||
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