History of Urcea (1955-present): Difference between revisions

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The end of the [[Great War]] and [[Third Fratricide]] ushered in what most historians consider to be the "modern" or "contemporary" period of Urcean history given that the [[Constitution of Urcea]] was, by 1950, complete in its present form. The consideration of Urcea in the "present" also includes the end of the [[Holy Levantine Empire]], rise of the [[Levantine Union]], and enmity with [[Caphiria]], all of which resulted from the war. Regardless of how the period is framed, [[Urcea]] left the [[Great War]] considerably more powerful and wealthy than it had been when it had entered the war. Tens of millions of fighting men returned home in the mid 1950s, an age when the horrors of military development were transformed into an "age of wonders" in terms of civilian technology. The economy, which had been geared towards large scale military production, had lost most of its inefficiencies in the early to mid war period, such that Urcea's economy was undeniably the world's strongest by 1955. Many scholars have posited that the Great War brought to a conclusion the long period of reforms and modernization initiated by King Niall V, with Urcea becoming a consensus superpower featuring an illiberal constitution, rational administration, a large navy, and a powerful industrial economy.