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=== Post-Kirosocialism === | === Post-Kirosocialism === | ||
The decade immediately following the consummation of Kiravian Reunification was difficult and turbulent for Æonara, and is remembered as a time of bittersweet zeitgeist due to the conflicting emotions surrounding, on one hand, achievement of the overarching National mission around which so much of modern Æonaran culture had been organised, and on the other the loss of Æonara's central position within the Kiravian Federacy and Coscivian world as a direct consequence of this success. | The decade immediately following the consummation of Kiravian Reunification was difficult and turbulent for Æonara, and is remembered as a time of bittersweet zeitgeist due to the conflicting emotions surrounding, on one hand, achievement of the overarching National mission around which so much of modern Æonaran culture had been organised, and on the other the loss of Æonara's central position within the Kiravian Federacy and Coscivian world as a direct consequence of this success. | ||
The mixed implications of reunification for the Æonaran economy - which had formed the core of the economy of the Kiravian Remnant - were evident from the very beginning. As progress in reunification negotiations became public knowledge, investor confidence in certain segments of the Remnant's economy, most acutely {{wp|real estate}}, higher-order industries within the high technology sector, the defence industry, and primary sector industries reliant on resources in [[Atrassica]] and [[Cusinaut]], began to waver, while confidence in the financial sector hit a fever pitch. Market actors anticipated (correctly) that the the merger of the two Kiravian economies would entail significant structural adjustments. Despite the vastly increased potential for long-term growth by extension of the Remnant's successful economic and political systems over the enormity of Great Kirav, there were well-founded concerns that in the near-term that Æonara's well-established market-oriented economy was essentially taking on a gargantuan, severely distressed asset in the form of the Mainland's imploded command economy, and that the demands of the transition would be a massive drag on Æonara's own efficiency and productivity. | |||
As predicted, reunification brought on dramatic changes to Æonaran trade dynamics. Æonara had by then been punching above its weight in global trade for several decades, and a reunification redirected the patterns of its commercial relations away from its established foreign trading partners and peripheral overseas colonies and toward the opening Mainland market. Integration with the Kiravian Mainland provided access to a massive, thitherto untapped domestic market, presenting new opportunities for Æonaran businesses, especially those selling {{wp|consumer goods|consumer}} and light {{wp|capital goods}}, and professional services. On the flipside, it also decimated many local Æonaran industries (such as bauxite and coal mining), and killed critical public subsidies to strategically-important sectors and to industries oriented toward exports to other advanced economies, these government funds being needed to finance the political transition and economic reconstruction on the Mainland. {{wp|Foreign direct investment}} patterns were also similarly affected: Æonara had been a major beneficiary of significant foreign investment due to its stable political environment and robust economic fundamentals. Reunification and liberalisation of the former Kiravian Union altered the perception of Æonara as a separate investment destination from the Mainland, resulting in the redirection of some foreign investment towards Great Kirav-based enterprises, largely at the expense of Æonara's FDI inflows. However, the attractiveness of Æonara's skilled workforce, technological capabilities, and transparent legal framework did help to retain and attract foreign investment, even in the midst of such changes. | |||
==Politics and Governance== | ==Politics and Governance== | ||