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[ | ===Sunderance=== | ||
After the Kirosocialist takeover of the Kiravian mainland, Ardmore did not recognise the [[Kiravian Union]], instead remaining loyal to the [[Kiravian Remnant]]. Kirosocialism had never been popular in the islands, which had only a small industrial sector and rather narrow wealth disparities. Early on, Ardmore was considered a desirable haven for émigrés departing from the Eastern Seaboard. [[Koskenkorva]] was cold and underdeveloped, and the [[Suderavia]]n economy was under great strain due to the sudden influx of refugees. In contrast, Ardmore was warm and well-supplied, with secure lines of communication to Æonara, and was particularly inviting to Gaelic-speaking émigrés. However, with the defeat of the [[Farravonian Counterrevolution]] and the fall of Koskenkorva, it found itself in a less favourable position, which became acutely precarious in 1948 AD with the outbreak of the [[Carnish Revolution]]. With a communist victory looming in Carna and the overextended Remnant reeling from its defeats in Farravonia and Koskenkorva, the Kiravian administration of the islands urgently appealed to [[Urcea]] for aid. The Urcean government under [Procurator of the time] responded with a rapid deployment of the Royal and Imperial Army to the imperilled archipelago. | |||
Although Ardmore would nominally maintain its allegiance to the Kiravian Remnant for the duration of the Sunderance, electing Delegates to the Rump Stanora and all that, the local administration came to operate largely independently of the Æonara authorities in its internal affairs, who were preöccupied with the Western Hemisphere and content to hold Ardmore by a long leash. Direct federal taxation of Ardmore was suspended by the Rump Stanora in [YEAR]. At the same time, Ardmore began to function as a ''de facto'' Urcean protectorate, becoming more reliant on the Apostolic Kingdom not only for military protection, but also for financial support, indirect diplomatic representation in many matters, and trade. Cut off from the Kiravian Union and Carnish economies, the economy of New Ardmore naturally reoriented itself toward Urcea and South Levantia, and the geopolitical worldview of its leadership and public shifted in this direction as well. Following the formation of the Levantine Union, Ardmore participated in the Levantine integration process on a bilateral basis, concluding a number of agreements with the supranational union and implementing many internal regulatory reforms to maintain synchrony with the LU economic space as it evolved. | |||
===Post-Sunderance=== | |||
[Post-Kirsok]<br> | [Post-Kirsok]<br> | ||