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In [[1914]], the King solicited Urcea to send educated workers to Arona that could serve as managers and technical experts in the early stages of industrialization. He suggested sending Protestants, which served as the genesis for a broader idea developed over the course of that year and [[1915]]. Urcea's [[Cisionian people]] - a self-proclaimed national group of ethnically Urcean Protestants - had long sought [[Cisionian offer|settlement abroad]], and the government of King Patrick III approached Akule with a proposition: 3,500 Cisionians would be resettled in Arona over the course of the next five years. Those being resettled would have to be educated, which both parties agreed to. Beginning in February 1916, batches of Cisionians would arrive in Arona. The first several hundred of these individuals arrived and began to form neighborhoods in Toucari and elsewhere. They faced significant discrimination, but did successfully take roles as industrial supervisors and technical advisors to new industrial firms and the government. The latter groups of Cisionians who arrived instead established New Ionia, a settlement in the Aronese interior close to the border with [[Vespera]]. The program would continue after Akule's death through 1920, when the final group arrived. In all, 3,628 Cisionians were transported to Arona. The Cisionians that arrived then make up the vast majority of ancestors of Arona's modern Protestant population, and in [[2030]] about 20,000 people in Arona identify as ethnically Cisionian. | In [[1914]], the King solicited Urcea to send educated workers to Arona that could serve as managers and technical experts in the early stages of industrialization. He suggested sending Protestants, which served as the genesis for a broader idea developed over the course of that year and [[1915]]. Urcea's [[Cisionian people]] - a self-proclaimed national group of ethnically Urcean Protestants - had long sought [[Cisionian offer|settlement abroad]], and the government of King Patrick III approached Akule with a proposition: 3,500 Cisionians would be resettled in Arona over the course of the next five years. Those being resettled would have to be educated, which both parties agreed to. Beginning in February 1916, batches of Cisionians would arrive in Arona. The first several hundred of these individuals arrived and began to form neighborhoods in Toucari and elsewhere. They faced significant discrimination, but did successfully take roles as industrial supervisors and technical advisors to new industrial firms and the government. The latter groups of Cisionians who arrived instead established New Ionia, a settlement in the Aronese interior close to the border with [[Vespera]]. The program would continue after Akule's death through 1920, when the final group arrived. In all, 3,628 Cisionians were transported to Arona. The Cisionians that arrived then make up the vast majority of ancestors of Arona's modern Protestant population, and in [[2030]] about 20,000 people in Arona identify as ethnically Cisionian. | ||
The overall industrialization and economic revitalization initiative of Arona had its effect, but the sudden economic transformation inaugurated a social transformation that King Akule was unable to properly grapple with. By his death in [[1917]], he was deeply unpopular, particularly due to his failure to pursue social policies to alleviate the hardships endured by the decade-old industrial working class. | The overall industrialization and economic revitalization initiative of Arona had its effect, but the sudden economic transformation inaugurated a social transformation that King Akule was unable to properly grapple with. By his death in [[1917]], he was deeply unpopular, particularly due to his failure to pursue social policies to alleviate the hardships endured by the decade-old industrial working class. Akule had also spent a significant amount of state funds in the period between [[1910]] and [[1915]] building the Cornelian Palace, a lavish home for himself and the other members of the Cornelian dynasty in downtown Toucari; this use of government funds was disliked by the majority of the population, deepening resentment between the population and the royals. | ||
===Republic established=== | ===Republic established=== | ||