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As [[Varshan]] fell into significant internal disarray with the end of the [[Varshan#Yun-harle_dynasty|Yun-harle dynasty]], the Polar Captaincy collapsed as Varshani forces withdrew in [[1964]]. Most major world powers expressed concern regarding the lack of central authority and social organization in Venua'tino following the withdraw. In [[1967]], the entire region was made into a mandate by the [[League of Nations]] with the express purpose of ensuring political stability, organizing distinct and self-sufficient states, developing infrastructure, and providing for humanitarian concerns in the region. The League-established Commission for Venua'tino'pouri'tino'nui was set up in [[Shenendehowa Bay]] to administer the territory. Although never considered part of Venua'tino proper due to its distance from the [[Nysdra]], the remaining "stateless northern territories" which were sometimes included with Venua'tino were split off into the [[East Arctic Mandate]] under [[Kiravia|Kiravian]] supervision. Control over the mandate initially rotated between several designees before this system was revised in [[1974]]. Under the influence of [[Urcea]], the Mandate was permanently assigned to Urcean supervision under the justification that its presence in nearby [[New Harren]] made it the closest permanent member of the [[League of Nations Security Council]]. Urcea would begin an intermittent forty decade process of economic development and attempted state creation. | As [[Varshan]] fell into significant internal disarray with the end of the [[Varshan#Yun-harle_dynasty|Yun-harle dynasty]], the Polar Captaincy collapsed as Varshani forces withdrew in [[1964]]. Most major world powers expressed concern regarding the lack of central authority and social organization in Venua'tino following the withdraw. In [[1967]], the entire region was made into a mandate by the [[League of Nations]] with the express purpose of ensuring political stability, organizing distinct and self-sufficient states, developing infrastructure, and providing for humanitarian concerns in the region. The League-established Commission for Venua'tino'pouri'tino'nui was set up in [[Shenendehowa Bay]] to administer the territory. Although never considered part of Venua'tino proper due to its distance from the [[Nysdra]], the remaining "stateless northern territories" which were sometimes included with Venua'tino were split off into the [[East Arctic Mandate]] under [[Kiravia|Kiravian]] supervision. Control over the mandate initially rotated between several designees before this system was revised in [[1974]]. Under the influence of [[Urcea]], the Mandate was permanently assigned to Urcean supervision under the justification that its presence in nearby [[New Harren]] made it the closest permanent member of the [[League of Nations Security Council]]. Urcea would begin an intermittent forty decade process of economic development and attempted state creation. | ||
====Coastal Coalition===== | |||
Following Urcea's assumption of control over the Mandate in [[1974]], a team of Urcean diplomats and world renowned experts on Cronan culture from 18 countries traveled to the Mandate's administrative headquarters in Shenendehowa Bay. Over the next year, the [[Government of Urcea]] used its team on the ground to forge an entity known as the Coastal Coalition. The Coalition was an ad hoc alliance and non-aggression treaty signed between all of the major coastal cities and polities that was agreed to and entered force in late [[1975]]. The Coalition was intended by Urcean diplomats to be a first step towards the establishment of an independent state in the region. In early [[1976]], the Urceans convinced the Coalition to ratify a trade agreement between its members, establishing a common customs area that would enter force on 1 January [[1980]]. | |||
The Coalition began to show signs of strain almost immediately, due to tensions between its members and due to their disagreements with Urcea. The historic rivalries, both political and cultural, between the cities was not restrained for long, and a series of perceived diplomatic insults led to light skirmishing as early as June [[1976]]. Although the skirmishes were resolved using forces from other Coalition cities to keep the peace, the good will of the project had been irrevocably tarnished. In addition, following the collapse of the Varshani administration, the coastal cities began to exert new political and economic dominance over the inland tribes and villages; the balance provided by the Polar Captaincy prevented these incursions before the establishment of the Mandate. In [[1977]], Urcea asked the Coalition to ratify an agreement to not exert their influence or send settlers beyond a specific northern line in order to respect the historic lands of the inland tribes; the Coalition unanimously voted to refuse this agreement in 18 October 1977. The "northern line incident" deeply wounded relations between Coalition leaders and Urcea, with the Coalition becoming gradually more uncooperative over the course of [[1978]]. During that time, new skirmishes broke out that led to most of the major cities walking out of the Coalition's temporary governing council on 14 August 1978. The Coalition continued on in a mostly de jure basis but was dissolved on order of the Urcean government on 1 March [[1979]]; by that point it had comprised just a tenth of its initial members. | |||
Following the collapse of the Coalition project, which had been an embarrassment for Urcea in the contentious period of the [[Occidental Cold War]], Urcea resumed a strategy of multilateral engagement with every local polity on an individual basis. The Urceo-Venua enmity that had been caused by the northern line incident had largely been soothed by [[1985]] through this strategy. Urcea would continue to administer the area on this multilateral, hands-off basis for the next three decades, although it continued to invest economic development funding in the area while trying to build stronger relations with all local parties. | |||
====Deluge==== | |||
The beginning of [[The Deluge]] led to a renewed focus within Urcean foreign policy on the affairs of [[Crona]]. This renewed attention led not only to increased budget investments in diplomats and economic development funding for the Venua'tino area, but also a new mandate from the public to bring the forty year old League Mandate project to a close with the creation of freestanding national states in Venua'tino or to otherwise divest itself of the territory. The Government of Urcea, reflecting on the failure of the Coastal Coalition project, decided that Venua'tino should be partitioned rather than attempted to be made into a full nation. | |||
In [[2018]], the region was bisected by the creation of the [[International Nature Preserve]] in the sparsely populated central region of Venua'tino. The bisection divided the territory into Western Venua'tino and Eastern Venua'tino, which both remained under the purview of the League Commission but under now seperate departments. The creation of the Preserve also precipitated the compensated relocation of the few tribes and peoples living within its boundaries, leading to the growth of small settlements in the remaining Mandate territory into moderate sized cities in the Mandate interior. These cities, an unprecedented development in the history of Venua'tino, created an opportunity for cultural exchange as well as cultural tensions. These new cities also required major investment into infrastructure by [[Urcea]], which began in earnest with the construction of highway networks throughout both Eastern and Western Venua'tino. In [[2018]], [[Quicksilver Industries]] arranged a [[international charter city]] treaty with [[Shenendehowa Bay]], removing it from the territory. | In [[2018]], the region was bisected by the creation of the [[International Nature Preserve]] in the sparsely populated central region of Venua'tino. The bisection divided the territory into Western Venua'tino and Eastern Venua'tino, which both remained under the purview of the League Commission but under now seperate departments. The creation of the Preserve also precipitated the compensated relocation of the few tribes and peoples living within its boundaries, leading to the growth of small settlements in the remaining Mandate territory into moderate sized cities in the Mandate interior. These cities, an unprecedented development in the history of Venua'tino, created an opportunity for cultural exchange as well as cultural tensions. These new cities also required major investment into infrastructure by [[Urcea]], which began in earnest with the construction of highway networks throughout both Eastern and Western Venua'tino. In [[2018]], [[Quicksilver Industries]] arranged a [[international charter city]] treaty with [[Shenendehowa Bay]], removing it from the territory. | ||