Navasharan

Navasharan ਨਵਾਂਸ਼ਰਨ navā̃śaran
Capital	Asces
Official languages	Ratin
Religion	Bhramavada
Government	Federal respublic
• Prime Minister
Establishment
• Ratin War	1890
• Rationalist era	1970
Area
• Total	316,920 km2 (122,360 sq mi) (38)
Population
• Estimate	38,030,400
• Density	120/km2 (310.8/sq mi)

Navasharan (Ratin: ਨਵਾਂਸ਼ਰਨ navā̃śaran) is a country in eastern Ascesia, consisting of Ratina on the west of the Gulf of Serrinea, and Aritta on the east which forms the tip of the Kerend peninsula. In clockwise order it borders Dimaja, Nation 128, Nation 103, Khetar, and Nation 134.

History

Asces

In the late 6th century the otherwise unremarkable city of Asces suddenly attained immense prestige in Vijna through its exquisite adezan ceremonies that were viewed as the best reproduction of the times of the Serovite Empire. Exploiting this to build its own chandane, Asces soon became an institutionally supported hegemon or ostomshahr over eastern Ascesia. Its cultural achievements defined the Era of Impressions and the philosophy of Jakar developed in its walls. In 811 the system transformed under pressures into the Ardmandian Empire, buying Asces another three centuries of prominence until the Empire's collapse into abanan warlordism. Asces continued to exist as a major city-state, but its inexorable decline ended with the total loss of any formal distinctiveness or prestige when a fleet from the Sabhian Unity pillaged it in the 14th century and forced it to submit to Sabhia.

Dimajan era

While by 1700 western Vijna was established as a participant in the Prajnaganana, and with the First Calculator Intervention became more closely associated with a Dimajan empire, Kerend remained autonomous enough to fall under Messenian influence instead. Over the course of the 19th century, Dimajan-centred governance of the Ganana by the Mittayukta caused considerable discontent in its Ratin possessions. The Siursk-led Refounding of Asces in Kerend built up an independence movement starting in the 1830s, which justified itself primarily in terms of submitting to the chandane of the new ostomshahr. Coordinating with Siursk efforts against the Second Calculator Intervention during the Race to the Gate, an uprising in 1885–90, the Ratin War, saw Ratina and the Rasuta highlands break away from Dimaja and accept Siursk-Kerendi rule from Aritta, the site of the 'New Asces'. This new chandane was named 'Navasharan' specifically as the resurrection of the Sharana, one of the many titles of Asces' hegemony.

Modern era

In the Siursk Ascesian sphere known as the reisnarboð, Navasharan was unique, as its recent formation meant it did not undergo the native state-building process the Fjárhald imposed. Autonomous local communities were governed by the leifturserkir Golden Wall Fellowship as mihrbeds or even a verndun, who claimed to enforce the ceremonial authority of the city of Aritta, whose presence was very much cosmetic. They produced an efficient government over the two sides of the Gulf as one entity, but one which, through its elusiveness, failed to stake out a truly regal image among the majority of the Ascesians.

While Navasharan avoided the initial wave of Rationalism that caused in Sabhia the Virgathi Emergency and the Circular War, the results of those two conflicts combined with economic problems to belatedly usher in Rationalist politics among better-connected and better-read locals. During the years without summers the Bequest of Hunger sparked an insurgency alongside a wider Rationalist opposition movement, and initiated the long Navasharani Emergency, a major theatre of the Dravaplava. Because of its brutal but unpopular tactics, sanctions from Siurskeyti, and from 1969 major religious and millenarian uprisings as a spillover of the Dodaristan War, in 1970 the Fellowship hastily gave up power to a Rationalist native government, which continued to face fierce religious rebellions.

By 1977 ruthless counterinsurgency tactics by a Ratin-dominated government had stabilised the region, at the expense of scathing condemnations of this regime and its Siursk patronage in the Simmering Censure. The government in Aritta moderated its tactics to earn Ostari's approval, but faced with a decline in Siursk aid and renewed uprisings in Rasuta this alignment became untenable. In 1979 a harsher Ratin clique led by general Budhwar Chugh took power in a coup backed by Odann. The Siursk began supporting Nation 103's claims to serving as a more humane overlord over the Rasutans, who though disarmed after another brutal suppression in the early 1980s continued to protest against Ratin lowlander settlement of their lands. The Navasharani defeat in the Rasutan War of 1984 resulted in the fall of Chugh, the annexation of Rasuta to Nation 103, and the secession of Khetar as an interordinately recognised free city but effectively under Nation 103 tutelage. Rapprochement with both neighbours and Siurskeyti was accomplished under a more moderate civilian government.

Politics

Navasharan has a federal respublican government adapting Bhramavadic institutions into a Messenian, specifically Siur, framework. Cadamanderies serve as important public forums and local assemblies, which nominate delegates to a legislature and cast votes collectively on most major issues along the lines of amskyldr. The cadamanderies, and a number of urban councils representing non-Bhramavadic communities that hold equal dignity, elect a Prime Minister as the head of government, who nominally answers to an Senate constituted from every recognised prestigious noble, major upasak, and city elder in Navasharan, but provides mainly a supervisory function. In theory, traditional principalities and Pattern Fiefdoms hand over powers to the Messenian-style rational government of the Prime Minister through the Senate.

The government meets in Aritta, particularly in the purpose-built district populated by extravagant restorations of Asces, and at formal occasions officials adopt idealised native clothing.

Foreign relations

Despite the intrigues between Siurskeyti and Odann that characterised Vijna's recent history, Navasharan has emerged to be fairly independent and juggles favours from many Messenian powers. Its geo-strategic importance mainly comes from its hold on the Gulf of Serrinea, for which good relations are maintained with Savam to secure shipping routes from Messenia to Dodaristan.