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Self-governance would prove to be largely ineffective in not only its attempt at stopping the sectarian violence, there was also another major issue that the Ardmori government just could not ignore. Although the settlers from Ardmore were initially Protestants who have professed to the Ænglican faith and even though Ardmore has historically been relatively tolerant of Protestantism, the 19th Century saw a huge change in religious direction as the kingdom began to pursue making the Catholic Church the {{wp|state religion}}, with programs set up to covert as much of the Protestant colonists in Crona into Catholics as possible, having already successfully converted the remaining Ænglicans in Ardmore proper beforehand. While the colonists in Arcerion have largely acquiesced to this initiative in hopes of remaining in the crown's favor, this was seen as a immensely unlawful to the colonists in Pertoolua. Upon the first arrival of new Catholic bishops from Arcerion to replace the Ænglican ministers, the colony rose up in revolt shortly afterward, with the bishops fleeing back to Arcerion shortly thereafter. This incident was seen as a national embarrassment to Ardmore which led to the kingdom entering into a very tense series of negotiations. These discussions were mostly filled with intense squabbles between both the colonial administration and the Ardmori government as most of the concessions that Ardmore was willing to make were seen as not good enough in the eyes of the colonial government; by the time these negotiations began, the colony had no interest in remaining as a self-governing realm within the Ardmori crown. Eventually, Pertoolua was granted full independence, if only because the Ardmori government really did not want to remain as sovereign over an increasingly-defiant Protestant-majority land.

Although Pertoolua has finally obtained its independence after essentially rising up in revolt against the Catholicization effort that was implemented by the Ardmori crown, the new country would find itself falling under the powerful influence of more powerful nations in Levantia; the Pertooluan government was more or less unchanged from the previous colonial administration. The Ænglo-Ardmori citizens still remained in control of the government, and the North Songunese and Qabóri citizens still served as the local Cronan aristocracy though with new privileges that were granted in the [[Constitution of Pertoolua, 1900|first Pertooluan constitution]] such as conditional suffrage and limited representation which were not granted to the indigenous insular peoples. Instead, the indigenous Malentines were mostly disregarded at best and at worst were forced out of their traditional homelands to make way for new settlements to facilitate a migration boom that was happening to Pertoolua at this time. Various Malentine liberation groups would also emerge, with many of them being the first Neomaalit Wakabiist groups as well; initially a modernized branch of Wakabiism, it quickly became a vehicle for indigenous Malentine nationalism with elements of revolutionary socialism being integrated into the faith. Many of these groups were the main instigators for various small-scale skirmishes for the next three decades, with the largest of these skirmishes prior to 1933 being the [[Hierkuun Rebellion]] in 1925 which was brutally suppressed by the armed forces, leading to casualties in the thousands.

In 1933, the nation's largest indigenous nationalist group, the [[United Maali-Tinud Liberation Army]], would mount the largest indigenous rebellion in the nation's history. Known as the [[Starlit Revolution]] due to the timing of these attacks happening during moonless nights, the largely-outnumbered rebels were able to score key victories against the Pertooluan government and their local Cronan aristocrats, and would soon establish the [[Malentine Council Republic]], a indigenous nationalist and revolutionary socialist state. The revolution was very successful in overthrowing Pertoolua by mid-1933, but soon the new socialist government would squander its popularity. The new indigenous government began to enact a series of new laws that were designed to specifically target against the Ardmori population and especially former plantation owners and Pertooluan government officials that have failed to flee to Arcerion where a {{wp|government-in-exile}} was established. Just over seventy percent of the Ardmori population were either wiped out or have fled to Arcerion in a matter of months by the time the latter country had initiated a swift intervention campaign against the revolutionary government. By the time the Malentine Council Republic fell to Arcer forces in late 1933, the islands were so devastated both demographically and economically by the botched policies of the former socialist government that they were to be placed under an [[Mandate of Pertoolua|international mandate]] with Arcer and Cartadanian supervision.

International occupation would last for just over five decades, facilitating much-needed programs designed to aid in the economic and demographic recovery of the island. Most of the Ardmori refugees from the islands would not return, however, and so much of the local administration would have to be delegated to the North Songunese and Qabóri residents of the islands alongside the remaining Ardmori residents. In 1987, after a successful [[Malentine sovereignty referendum, 1985|referendum]] vote in 1985, the [[Conference of the New Confederation]] would be established to draft a treaty which would serve as the basis for a new constitution. Among the provisions that were set up, there was a strict and harsh limit implemented on their military capacity, essentially forbidding the islands from establishing domestic bases on their own soil. This provision also gave Arcerion permission to enforce a full demilitarization of the islands if need be. Other provisions included establishing the form of government that the islands should be ruled under, that being a {{wp|directorial republic}} under a confederate government consisting of three republics, each with their own presidents and internal governments that are independent from the other two confederated republics. To appease the indigenous islanders, the new country was to be named Malentina, a slight variation of Malentinu which itself is the portmanteau of the ænglicization of the names of the islands' two largest indigenous groups, those being the Maaleens and the Tinuuds. All provisions as laid out in the [[Treaty of the New Confederation]] have served as the basis for the new [[Constitution of Malentina|constitution]] that was drafted just a month after the ratification of the treaty.