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Initially, the declaration of the Kiravian Union was fiercely resisted in parts of the country where the Kirosocialist Party had not been popular. State governments that refused to recognise the new order were swiftly suppressed by the Union authorities across most of Great Kirav. [[Farravonian Counterrevolution|Federalist loyalists on the West Coast]] folded under the pressure of an economic blockade. In South Kirav opponents of the régime put up substantial resistance but were largely defeated by 21149 (a low-level rural insurgency would continue for the duration of the Union's existence). | Initially, the declaration of the Kiravian Union was fiercely resisted in parts of the country where the Kirosocialist Party had not been popular. State governments that refused to recognise the new order were swiftly suppressed by the Union authorities across most of Great Kirav. [[Farravonian Counterrevolution|Federalist loyalists on the West Coast]] folded under the pressure of an economic blockade. In South Kirav opponents of the régime put up substantial resistance but were largely defeated by 21149 (a low-level rural insurgency would continue for the duration of the Union's existence). | ||
==Mid-Kirosocialism== | ===Mid-Kirosocialism=== | ||
==Late Kirosocialism== | ===Late Kirosocialism=== | ||
==Downfall== | ===Downfall=== | ||
==Territorial Extent== | ==Territorial Extent== | ||
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==Economy== | ==Economy== | ||
The Kiravian Union had a socialist economy overseen by the Economic and Social Soviet (''Timoniúlix-Askolax Sovèt''), an overarching body with authority over socialist economic planning, redistribution systems, state-owned enterprises and national industries, monetary policy, sector-specific regulation of non-state enterprise, natural resource management, social and labour policy, development projects, price controls, and capital allocation. The ESS was responsible for formulating and implementing {{wp|Five-year plan|quinquennial plans}}, directing investment, coördinating material balance transfers between non-market components of the economy, and overseeing research into applied mathematical methods and computational technologies to improve socialist economic management. | |||
===Agriculture=== | |||
In accordance with the writings of Kiravian social-nationalist theorist Mixîl Paśkirin, the Kiravian Union generally respected the property and inheritance rights of freeholding family farmers (though *ad hoc* and arbitrary confiscations were known to occur). Collectivisation of large expropriated estates was attempted in many places across the country but ultimately remained in effect mostly in the Sydona Islands, South Kirav and parts of the Baylands. Improvements in agronomic technologies allowed for some large collective farms to be established *de novo* in parts of the Southwest, Near West, and Western Highlands as part of agricultural colonisation programmes. | |||
Achieving food independence for Great Kirav was an important but elusive goal for the Kirosocialists. During the early phase of Kirosocialist rule, it was widely assumed that scientific socialist planning and technological advancement would solve the problem in short order, but as time wore on and national self-sufficiency in food failed to materialise, the government was forced to approach the issue from other angles, such as initiatives to slow population growth, massive investments in aquaculture and pelagic fishing fleets, and numerous bureaucratic efforts at "ration optimisation" which often resulted in fraudulent accounting and the distribution of incorrect or incomplete ration units as administrators struggled to meet central production targets. The government also dedicated much effort to obtaining new sources of nutrition, whether by the introduction of new crops and crop varieties suitable for cultivation in more marginal areas of Great Kirav, the rediscovery of {{wp|famine foods}} from premodern times, and the harnassing of unusual and ersatz foodstuffs such as insects. As Mid-Kirosocialism turned to Late Kirosocialism, it had become patently obvious to the general population that state rations were becoming so adulterated with alternative protein sources and fillers like {{wp|sawdust|tree flour}}, kelp agarose, and {{wp|acorn meal}} that they were often no longer recognisable as the foods they purported to be, often leading to public unrest. | |||
==Society & Culture== | ==Society & Culture== | ||