Empire of Plagatéa

The Empire of Plagatéa (formerly the United Kingdom of Plagatéa), later also referenced as the First Empire of Plagatéa, was an empire located in the continent of Plagos (known as Plagatéa by the people of the nation). This state controlled the overwhelming majority of the continent, which made them one of the biggest powers in Northern Rathnir at the time, rivaled by only the Second Empire of Niedea.

The Empire was dissolved into its various constituent provinces following the death of Emperor Nero on Summer 80 SMP, though would later largely reunify temporarily into the Kingdom of Plagos under Queen Aisuru Numachi, before she proclaimed the Kingdom would now be known as the The Realm of Asarakaen.

From Federation to Kingdom
Before the Empire of Plagatéa, the nations of Plagos had united in a federal system called The Nova Plagatéa Federation. The Federation was plagued with issues, the most prevalent being its inability to form a stable and working government.

Opposing sides were formed between the two dictators that were in control of the Federation until a government was formed. On one side was Nero Terazawa Shigetada, the Shogun of the Shigetada Shogunate, which was the most powerful and influential state in the Federation, by extension making Nero the most influential and powerful ruler in the Federation. Nero wished to form a stable government with a republican structure where all states in the Federation would have a vote. Opposing him was Crabapplez Zerkalo, the president of Arinovla. In Crabz's eyes, the Federation had to have a more centralized state. The disagreements drove the Federation to the brink of civil war.

However, the appearance of a new opponent, Jayjayrex, would change things. Jayjayrex's actions forced the nation to go into a referendum to become a kingdom. Crabz and Nero united together to prevent Jayjayrex from emerging victorious, with Nero running against him and due to the large and loyal population of the Shogunate he won the referendum easily. As a consequence, the nation turned from a Federal Republic to a Kingdom, thus forming the United Kingdom of Plagatéa.

The Time of Troubles
Shortly after the referendum Jayjayrex started a heated debate in the former senate of the federation about Nero's management. Nero's reforms would strip all nations from their lands and reduce every single nation in the newly formed kingdom into a mere city state. Because of that with the manipulation of the Jayjayrex, both Nova Regna and Czervoslavia revolted against the crown.

The King of Czervoslavia called Ryzan to support its independence against Plagatéa but they backed out when The Imperial Archonate of Viodoxa offered their unconditional support for the newly formed kingdom. And so the Czervoslavian revolt was suppressed

Though the Nova Regnan revolt was an other story. At this point Jayjayrex had taken leadership of the revolt and the two sides were taking part in a proxy war. Plagatéa was facing the issue that the revolt had allied themselves with Bardonia and The Hutican Federation so they couldn't just fight them. Because of that a diplomatic fight between the two sides raged for 2 months until both Plagatéa and Viodoxa agreed on a scheme to kick out the rebels. Plagatéa would sell the revolted land to Viodoxa so they can deal with them without Bardonian/Huitcan interference. The Scheme almost worked but one of the Archons of Viodoxa invited a new player in the continent of Plagos. His name was D_Loaded

And just like that one of the Archons of Viodoxa had backstab the young nation and created a new rival in plagos. The newly establish state of Donfuer was a threat to not only Plagatéa but to all of Plagos. Because of that a new policy was drafted to stop their expansion, the so called "Pax Plagatéa". After some border disputes between the two states Donfuer ultimatly collapsed due ot the diplomatic pressure that Pax Plagatéa was causing. As a last attempt to avoid the capture of their lands from Plagatéan forces Donfuer was sold to the Empire of Uldarash. That action ended the 3 month period known as "The Time of Troubles"

Colonial Expedition
Plagatéa began a colonial expedition with the creation of the Dominion of Michinaru, the first colony with GaoKong as its founding settlement. After the integration of Seaside into the Empire the colony of Presevo was also added to the Imperial holdings. Eli Akihiro, adoptive daughter of Tagavor Nero, ruled over the Eldham colonies as Magistrate. There were talks of forming the Dominion of Presevo. However, during the collapse of the Empire, the colonies were left without guidance, protection or guarantees and thus were forced to yield to other powers in Eldham, with Presevo brought under Skjoldbrodir control and Michinaru brought under the Simulami Empire and renamed Kardovia.

From Kingdom to Empire
After some careful negotiations with Plagatéa, jayjayrex's rebellion finally succeeded and the Kingdom of Plagadonia was formed. The Plagatéan leadership had initially hoped for peaceful cooexistance and cooperation with the young kingdom, however Plagadonia sought to challenge Plagatéan dominance in Plagos. The aggression and posturing from Plagadonia was considered too much of a destabilising influence by the Plagatéan leadership, one that could not be allowed to continue, so on the 4th of July 2021 the United Kingdom of Plagatéa formally declared the existence of a state of war against the Kingdom of Plagadonia. After a numerous skirmishes, Plagadonia collapsed due to toxicity and the banishment of their leadership from Rathnir. The Bardonian Empire also saw the war as destabilising, so intervened and temporarily annexed Plagadonia in order to restore order, sending in the army. Plagatéan and Bardonian forces fought alongside each other and crushed the resistance in Plagadonia. After negotiations, the Bardonians yielded Plagadonia over to Plagatéa, at which point Tagavor Crabapplez Zerkalo announced the annexation and the First Empire of Plagatéa on the 9th of July 2021.

Crownland of Seaside
Marshal Jaxfon would make an agreement on the 9th of July with Plagatéa for the integration of the Republic of Seaside into the empire. The Seaside leadership council would overrule and reject his proposition, however Plagatéa exerted diplomatic pressure on Seaside's council both financially and militarily, ensuring the agreement would go through. Despite Jaxfon’s banishment from Rathnir, along with the agreement being declared illegal, Plagatéa would assume control over Seaside, creating the Crownland of Seaside. Most of its citizens, along with Seaside's council, would leave to form their own society south in Bardonia's Avalon Province.

End of the Empire
On August the 13th, the Skittles Alliance (including Aurora Novum, Baronov and others) backed by the Magisterium declared war on the Empire. Tagavor Nero had left the nation in a unstable, poor state in his latter years before his sudden death, with economic centralisation failing to provide growth and leaving many in poorer provinces moving to the provinces they perceived to be ran better, like the prosperous northern provinces of Sakura and Sakurai Tempo, leaving large land areas sparsely populated. Thus, Tagavor Tempo Yamato was left in control of an unstable nation. As he saw it, the only way to protect the Empire was to instruct all Lords to declare independence, and reunify at a later date, to give Plagatéa a fresh start. The Lords did so, and one by one the provinces declared independence.

The death of Tagavor Nero Akihiro had left no obvious ruler due to previous Tagavor Tempo Yamato's unwillingness to rule and thus due to the absence of a clear successor the new country would be content to be ruled by, a succession crisis began, between Lady Aisuru Numachi of Sakura and SerfBort_ of Gunggum.

However, merely days later the majority of the former Empire was once again united under Queen Aisuru Numachi, who emerged the successor after lengthy negotiations, into the Second Kingdom of Plagatéa, though it was only known as this temporarily. Shortly afterward, Queen Aisuru would proclaim the Kingdom would henceforth be known as The Realm Of Asarakaen, and established a new government, mainly notable for the precedence of several new elected Ministers including a Prime Minister.

However, multiple states of the old empire are still independent, such as the Kingdom of Czervoslavia and Nova Regna, or are part of another country, such as the former Crownlands of Seaside, or Eden.

During the succession crisis, the ruler of Aurlûnor Velande, Coffeeccubus, would demand the Imperial Family during the chaos, and would eventually declare that the Empire of Plagatéa-in Exile would in the view of Aurlûnor be the continuation of the former Empire, not formally recognising its dissolution.

Government
The central governmental structure of the Empire of Plagatéa was the Tagavors. The Tagavors held total and undisputed power in the state. Their words were laws and commands that the citizens of the empire must follow.


 * For the purposes of administration, Plagatéa was divided into provinces. Each province was governed by a Lord of the province. The lords were highly autonomous, but were required to contribute toward the nation as a whole. A show of treachery towards the Tagavor was considered treasonous, at met with the instant removal of the Lord from any position of power.
 * The Lords often set up governors to oversee towns, that were, just like the relation between Tagavor - Lord, highly autonomous, but still pledged allegiance to the lord. A Lord could not remove a governor from power unless without justification.
 * On the matters of succession the next Tagavor in line was the Royal Regent, chosen by the Tagavor himself. While the Tagavor is unreachable the Royal Regent governed with full powers in their absence.