Nova Azcoria

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Nova Azcoria is a Democratic Republic located on the northern peninsula of Serrona in southern Eldham. It was once a vassal of Batu. The head of state is a Chancellor who is elected every month. Members of Parliament are also elected every month, proposing and voting on new legislation. Nova Azcoria has no state religion but hosts two indigenous religions: Donalucianism and the Custodians of the Cube.

After a lost war with Kaladinia, Azcorian exiles settled in Batu territory delegated to them during the time of the Federation of the Southern Stars as a protectorate. There, Horizonte was founded as the nation's capital. After Stepasound's term and the relinquishment of city permissions from Templars, Nova Azcoria was declared a republic.

Founding
Azcoria fought and the "Prosperita war" against Kaladinia. After refusing to become a vassal, Azcorians were sent into exile, most leaving the country with the exception of a few. The founding leaders were Templars, the Chancellor of the temporary government following the coup against the Monarchy; nobility, such as Con, Paying and Nicholas and Stepasound, as well as other citizens as part of the reconstruction of the country.

When in exile, the southern stars offered a reallocation of the people inside it's territory; with both Bai and Batu offering Azcorian exiles to settle and become a vassal nation. Out of the options, Batu was selected for convenience and closer distance. Nova Azcoria was founded in a northern peninsula in west Serrona as a protectorate of Batu (formerly Eldham Trading Company).

Membership of FSS granted Nova Azcoria representation in the federal Senate. The supernational government member sent to represent Azcoria in southern stars was called a Senator.

The Nova Azcoria Server was created in 19/06/21. By Stepasound, a citizen of Nova Azcoria. The territory the exiles found was given by Batu detailed by the conditions in "The treaty of Horizonte". This treaty signed by the southern stars and Templars included five articles granting Nova Azcoria determination, commercial treaty rights, financial aid; and vassalage and foreign policy authority to Batu.

On the second emigration to the now established territory, tents where built as temporary residence when the country was founded and the first building was built, the diamonds shop at 5º Pelagus street, by Con. This building was used as a standard model for the rest of Horizonte.

Templars administration [19/06/21 - 27/06/21]
Templars was the leader of the Nova Azcoria Monarchy; and head of church of Donalucianism, making it his government and national certified religion.

He directed and designed with the founders the first buildings of the town, owning the rights of the town as mayor. This accounts for the buildings in Pelagus and Apicem street (without the gendarms); Donalucia's temple; the public housing building; the first Prosperita war memorial; the memorial square; the flumen bridge; per vultus square; and the Capitol.

Templars gave himself the title of Chacellor, with absolute powers on the country. Subdivisions of power occurred by direct appointment; and Templars maintaining the ownership of the city as well as the self appointed role of prime minister with authority on territorial distribution. Trusted individuals with positive relations with the government where given the role of Senator; which had suffrage rights, voting other senators to become the next chancellor.

In the process, the territory was divided within estates named by planned hierarchical order based on political or religious affiliation and urban planning. Flat Tax and business permits where introduced to all trusted players to have a planned economy at the beginning of the country and a few businesses settled in east Horizonte. Plots where arranged and sold for 5k after templars had them standarized. Starting 23/06/21 Paying created a flat tax record to count trusted players paying taxes as active citizenship; this record being delegated to the Minister of economy in future administrations.

Nicholas administration [28/06/21 - 11/07/21]
The term started in the 28/06/21 by a senatorial election. The chancellor had the same powers as in the previous administration, but delegated it's executive function to members of the government, "advisors" that represented the executive government and where commanded to perform tasks but could not forge new laws or enact them without supervision (continuity ambiguity suggest this title was left blank in role or made patricians). New members where added such as Voltage to be government members. Ministerial positions where assigned in 4 ministries: Economy (Paying), defence (Stepasound), diplomacy (Templars) and infrastructure (Con).

Nicholas started the construction of a new town called Castellucia: a fortification on the southwest border with Batu; placed on the geysers biome. The building was in function a construction for defensive purposes and allegiance to a religious para-military group called the Nights of Lumière, headed by Nicholas. This was motivated by the regular bandit attacks at Horizonte that forced government efforts towards building defensive structures and a wall around the city delta. Additionally a subterranean tunnel network was built under east Horizonte to tackle bandit attacks more effectively.

Further defensive planning included Derrmakkir being hired as a military advisor; bandit preparation architecture including isolation doors and the sewers; safety storage for military equipment and formation protocols for the militia to protect the city in the case of a bandit invasion. A Fort near Floya was also included as part of the fortification efforts, on the middle of the Azcoria bay, north of the Horizonte peninsula.

Templars had a new distribution of land, creating two distinct new areas for the two towns; one being Horizonte as the City state and Castellucia being a defensive enclave. The remaining territory was discarded from taxonomy to instead be granted specific purposes such as farming or "country side".

(On 4/07/21 Pertuum sadly past away IRL. To honor his work and dedication to the country a street named after him on the next administration.)

Primix, a citizen of Azcoria was dissatisfied with building regulation regarding inflexible style standards. On the 6/07/21 He built a fort within 8 chucks distance from Horizonte in Azcoria Bay, visible on the shore; and called it Floya, an independent nation. After its development, two thieves from Horizonte fled to Floya in the seek of refuge. Because of the border friction and notoriety status; tensions raised from the Nova Azcorian government towards the group.

The southern stars had a southern stars senatorial meeting determining vassals status where at 1/07/21 Nova Azcoria lost FFS representation, and on the 10/07/21, the Federation of southern stars colapsed with batu and vulpinia both departing from the federation.

On 11/07/21 Nicholas declared any citizen to be eligible to become a chancellor.

Paying administration [12/07/21 - 25/07/21]
The term started on the 12/07/21 by default for being the only candidate running; Templars was running as the main opposition, but granted support to Paying on the conditions of protecting the state religion and the old establishment roles and territories. That same day Batu became the ETC, without updates to the treaty of Horizonte. Ministries where assigned for the first time requiring an employing application: with defence (Con), economy (Voltage), diplomacy (Stepasound) and updated with the removal of infrastructure and the addition of the ministry of culture (Templars). The gendarmerie was founded as a hybrid military-police force.

The Paying term Localized a lot of plot selling efforts sold for 5k to expand the city as well as more formalization of building constructions. The University was started in design by Templars and the gendarmes as well as new building projects where expanded. The city greatly grew in population thanks to marketing efforts from Paying and Templars.

Tensions dissipated with Floyans once they resettled on a western island of Nova Azcoria on the 15/07/21; unknown from them it was a claim of Oceanum; independent of the forge at the time. That same day the first bandit was killed in Horizonte after the recruiting efforts put on the city fortification and gendarmerie recruiting.

On the 17/06/21 the first census was redacted and released by Voltage to the public; this included questions about housing, religious membership, Minecraft name, discord tag, current discord roles and dedication. Census would be later used to certify citizens and grant them suffrage right; making the country a democracy. The same day the redaction of the constitution by Voltage is started with public sharing of the document redaction.

On 21/07/21 two bandits where killed in the city by the same means

The election was set up by Paying; abolishing the senator role and instead having patricians become official suffrage eligible citizens; including government members and trusted citizens by appointment. Paying announced at the 22/07/21 how any citizen can become a chancellor candidate and only patricians eligible to vote. Patricians where given as a role by favourable relations with the government and time spent in the country as a citizen. There was no separation of powers during the democratic process; making the next term an executocracy.

Stepasound administration [26/07/21-07/08/21]
Stepasound was elected on 25/07/21 on the same day Paying stepped down as chancellor, being election day. Government positions where given by application review by the chancellor. On the same day; the ministerial positions where updated by Voltage and given heraldic graphics by Millie, and where given to new government members on 26/07/21. After consideration of government functions; Ministries where assigned as Defence (Con), Economy (Voltage), Infrastructure (Templars), Interior (Millie) and Foreign affairs being the chancellor (Stepasound).

Because of Templars existing in the government as a mayor/prime minister; having urban design, plot supervision and territorial management it collided with responsibilities held by the Minister of Economy, that then subdivided the ministry to create the Ministry of Interior. Before assignment, the responsibilities where conflicting and shared by both Voltage and Templars in respective offices. This arisen tension between the two, having both a say on matters of plot distribution and building projects. For Voltage, Templars was overstaying political power despite not being an elected or hired position and abusing it to overwrite bureaucratic work. For Templars; Voltage as a new bureaucrat was invading old structures of government, changing how decisions where taken, and having his position of power stripped despite being a founder and the first leader of the country. In the Voltage taxonomy efforts, Templars was included in a new infrastructure ministry where his job as mayor was translated to it.

Once Batu as the ETC was at war with Druk yul, the nation asked Nova Azcoria for military personnel; gifting them military equipment in the process. This equipment was mostly lost. The Fort Earnhardt battle was a defeat for Azcoria aiding the ETC. The conflict was confirmed to be later against groupings of bandits. Suggesting reasons for the defeat where lesser pvp proficiency; bad army leadership and untrained coordination. The official announcement on the 26/07/21 by Stepasound declared the withholding of hostilities to Druk Yul and a stance for peaceful foreign relations.

Templars reformed the territory by removing most of the before created territories; and divided the territory in the Patriarchate of Horizonte: including estates given to founders of the country, and the territory of Horizonte city on itself; and the Principality of Naverno, which included Castellucia and it's biome.

Millie published the second census with the redaction help of Voltage on the 26/07/21. This census was used to certify citizens and grant them suffrage rights. The premise is that the information granted control over the voting population and filtered individuals that couldn't be confirmed it's identity; in the case they where notorious, their identity would be known. Furthermore, this expanded the range of action of the government, knowing the needs of the population. This was certified the next day by Stepasound with the Political Reform Act, released the next day. This indicated how certified citizens had granted suffrage rights, senators where abolished as an outdated role, extending the Chancellors term to one month, and having the role of town mayor be delegated to the chancellor every new election.

On the 27/07/21:

The PRA was the document that cemented the transition from an oligarchy to a democracy by the initiative of Stepasound and some of thy ministers; and was the document that begun the internal political conflict with the called new cabinet and the old establishment.

Floya was a territory occupied that unknown for their settlers was Oceanum territory. After they disputed the land they asked directly for financial compensation; an amount of 100k to be payed for the floyans to buy their claim. On the refusal by Voltage of sending such amount by what he considered a small territory for the price; the floyans where asked to reallocate to avoid territorial disputes and/or escalation with the nation.

The Ministry of Culture was included in the standard of cabinets without a candidate, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Em) was updated. The same day, Millie created the first standard Horizonte urban plot map and begun the development of the citizenship discord bot; to make the application process automatic. Millie also had the first draft of the land reclamation proposal; a Floya province administration proposal; a land ownership registry and discussed with the rest of the executive office territorial disputes. After talking with the cabinet and in the absence of nicholas, one of the banned citizens in 21/07/21, the southern estate was expropriated from him and granted to the city of Horizonte; making the estates of Allevatori and Dellarosa the two official and remaining estates to the west of Horizonte.

On the 28/07/21:

The local citizenship was contemplating independence from Batu. Some of the reasons included the rising of local populous; the amount of autonomy; the lack of involvement in the region from Batu and the recent military failure that both participated in. This talks where later discarded as a popular opinion rather than an official statement from the government.

Pillov finished a temple construction that was planned and approved by past chancellor administrations and was asking compensation for the building project; issuing up to 70k in total. This was a payment that templars expected the government to pay without the minister of economy being aware of such contract. This issued a discussion regarding if the building was justified to be built with public money knowing the official religion of the country was followed by a marginal 10% of the population with an expense of nearly 65% of the country's treasury; with the additional concern of templars being a non elected member of government issuing a project of such scale, that later was proven expensive with inflated costs because of a bad trade acquisition of materials. The justification for the payment of the building was the cancelling of past chancellors agreements and decisions, the building being important for the promoting of the religion which was used to attract more citizens and defended his position as mayor as an important role for its responsibilities and keeping it as a tradition.

This discussion resulted in very aggravating comments from both parties that ultimately eroded their cooperation inside the same government.

Stepasound prepared talks with part of his cabinet; and funded the Democratic Progress Party (DPP) with the intention of pushing towards removing autonomy from the old establishment roles and institutions. The same day, a protest organized by the old establishment was displayed as signs in the memorial square. Messages such as "Down with gov" "Down with Voltage" "Pay the church" "Voltage is power hungry" "Protest, protest" where included displayed to the public. Additionally, the first news paper of the nation was created, called "New Horizonte Times", claiming the protest in favour of the old establishment, the government supressing the freedom of speech and supporting independence. Other claims included: the government denying local culture and religion, creating anarchy in Horizonte, exiling floyans to "shoebox houses" and the such.

The textual answer by Voltage was "Btw I am not removing the signs at the memorial sq. because I believe in freedom of speech; but If you test my patience I'll just fuck off. If you don't want a democracy it's up to you.". Shortly after both political entities (mainly Voltage and Templars) started more heated arguments regarding government responsibilities, power legitimacy and complaints about direct attacks from press. The old establishment tackled the claims as normal within democracies, being expected consequences; as well as claiming past administrations achievements as justification to keep certain power roles (Templars denying to be a tyrant). This rose the tensions between both groups; as the old establishment and the new cabinet started creating their own occult societies to cooperate propagandistic efforts against each other.

On the 29/07/21:

Following a series of follow up protests, the Azcorian Reformist Party was formed. The Opposition party, which comprised of a variety of ideologies including Conservatism, Socialism, and even Monarchism, began to campaign against the DPP. In response, Azcorian Today, a pro-DPP newspaper, was formed. With civil unrest and tensions in the nation rising, eventually culminating in the Chancellor elections on the 7th.

On the 07/08/21

In a landslide victory, most likely due to the ARP's late creation and disunified politics, the DPP, with Millie as Chancellor, won the election with over 64% of the vote. Shortly following this, the ARP fell into irrelevance, with the Socialist wing forming the Worker's Party of Azcoria (WPA), the Conservative Wing forming the Azcorian Liberal Democrats (ALD), and the remaining members reforming the party into the People's Action Party (PAP). This would cement the DPP's political power, with Millie winning all consecutive elections.

Millie administration [07/08/21 - Present]
On the /18/08/21

Following the creation of the Azcorian Independence Movement by Paying Allevatori and Gunk, the group, led by Gunk and Goose, seized the Batuan-owned Saki Bar. Clashing with Gendarmerie in the so called "Battle of Memorial Square". In said battle, Gunk would be arrested and fined for rioting, and Goose would be hunted by Gendarme in the following days. Before the occupation, AIM declared they would occupy the Bar, covering it in Azcorian flags and surrounding it with barricades, however it was retaken by Gendarme after a day of occupation. This would not stop AIM, however, who proceeded to organise a March from Horizonte to Lazodi.

On the 20/08/21

Beginning in Horizonte, AIM members and foreign supporters marched from the Azcorian capital to Lazodi. Outside it's gates, they then drunk a variety of alcohols and teas before marching into the outer city. Here marchers fired on the walls of the Inner City, accidentally shooting some Batuans in the crossfire, and declared a People's Declaration of Independence, written by Paying. Following this, the group, who at that point numbered around 15 - 20 individuals, continued to demonstrate outside Lazodi's inner walls before Batuan officials were able to disperse them.

On the 26/08/21

Following both separate negotiations between the Azcorian and Batuan governments, and the aforementioned AIM protests, the Treaty of Mayaro, a treaty that granted Azcorian independence from Batu, was signed. This was preceded by a National Referendum on the issue which won in a landslide 34 - 3 vote for Independence. Though independent both Batu and Azcoria retained close relations, with independent Azcoria joining the Serronan Entente.

On the 29/08/21

In the first Parliamentary Elections of Azcoria, the DPP won a whopping 68 - 58% of the Seats in Parliament, with the Independent Candidates coming in second with a collective 35 - 32%. This was largely a result of the split of the ARP and the weakness of the Opposition in general, with the ARP's predecessor, the PAP, gaining only 14 - 12%. Despite this, the formation of Parliament formally established Azcorian democracy, and split it's past from Templars and the Diarchy.

On 07/09/2021

After the creation of an Azcorian Peacekeeping Force (APF) Fort in a Helosian island, the Kingdom of Helos was integrated as an independent territory under Nova Azcoria. The treaty, named the Helosian Integration Treaty, would see Helos functionally act as a Protectorate of Azcoria, expanding Azcorian influence in Serrona.

On the 08/09/21

Shortly following Helos' integration, Bannatyne, a Solsgaard city with ties to many Azcorians, was integrated as a province into Nova Azcoria. However, following this integration and a period of prosperity, the town would become inactive and largely abandoned

On the 11/09/21

Following a surprise split from the DPP, the former Minister of Culture, Em, ran against Millie in the following Chancellor elections. Only narrowly losing out, winning just under 46% of the vote. This was largely due to the universal support of the Opposition in regards to Em, with supporters ranging from Socialists to Conservatives. Though the DPP remained in power, the close election indicated a shift in the strength of the formally ineffective opposition.

On the 24/09/21

After a border dispute in regards to an Azcorian trading post in the Central Sea, Skjoldrbrodir threatened to declare war on Azcoria and it's allies. Shortly after declaring Martial Law, a general propaganda campaign for Gendarmerie applications began. With the government looking to swell it's military numbers to prepare for the upcoming war. However, due to international condemnation and pressure, Skjold backed off. With the trading post remaining untouched following their ultimatum's deadline. Following this, martial law was lifted and Parliamentary elections were announced.

On the 14/10/21

Following it's creation, Azcoria joined the Serronan Defence Accords as one of it's founding members. With the Accords acting as the de facto successor to the Serronan Entente.

On the 16/10/21

Following a very drawn out process, with various amendments and reforms taking place over months, the Azcorian Constitution was finished. Spread out into 10 distinct legal documents and primarily written by the then Minister of Economy, Voltage. It's clauses included official stances on things like Martial Law, Parliament, Court cases, Martial Law, and many others.

On the 17/10/21

The Second Parliamentary Elections would come as a massive upset to the DPP, with their voting share going down to 37%. Alongside this, various new parties, such as the AFA and WPA, entered Parliament and were able to propose and pass a variety of laws. Such as the Rights and Freedoms Bill and the Ecological Preservation Bill. Indicating a fall in the power of the DPP, and the rise of the Opposition foreshadowed by the last Chancellor election.

On the 18/10/21

Following discussions with Azcoria's largest newspapers, the state-run, but independent, newspaper of Res Publica was formed. With journalists from Azcoria Today, Red Quill and New Horizonte Times prepared to write for it. The paper is now one of Eldham's largest and most popular news outlets, and is famous for it's difficult crosswords.

On the 29/10/21

Partially due to it's coalition with the AFA, and partially due to Millie's popularity, the DPP was able to stay in power with a large 62% of the vote. Despite this, the WPA won 24% of the vote, a large portion considering both their radical policies and their previous unpopularity. Thanks to the DPP's coalition with the AFA, the position of Vice Chancellor, de facto acting as a second Chancellor in terms of power, was formed. With Koru being appointed to it.

On the 31/10/21

After talks with Batuan leaders, the Khaganate of Batu was dissolved, with Vulpinia, Nova Azcoria and Hagusaki taking over it's former lands. This saw Azcoria's landmass more than double in size, triple including the autonomous province of Hagusaki. The new land, quickly organised into various provinces and whatnot, also brought new population and ethnicities into the previously one city nation. Formally establishing Azcoria as a major player in Serronan affairs.

Geography
Nova Azcoria is located to the Northwest of Serrona, encompassing most of the more temperate areas of Former Batu, climate wise. Otherwise, Azcoria largely holds Eastern Batu. It also has coastal territories in both Bannatyne and Abbadon, or Linusia.