Commonwealth of Byss

The Commonwealth of Byss, also known as the Byssian Commonwealth and the Novayan Military Colony of Byss, is a de jure regional military occupation and a de facto military colony located in the Galaxy Foxtrot-Foxtrot-Alpha. The Commonwealth of Byss was formed after the battle of Byss, a battle which was part of Operation Hallowed Sword. It was created from the NSC Military Occupational Authority in Byss and remnants of the Final Order or New Empire envisioned by Darth Sidious after the Coruscant City Conventions, more specifically the Temple District Convention and the Galactic Senate Convention which led to the Void Coalition colonization scramble. The Commonwealth of Byss, an NSC-controlled military colony, was given to NSC Navy admiral Audrey Norsoutha, who self-proclaimed as Supreme Commander of the Byssian Commonwealth and of All NSC Forces in Byss.
==Politics==
===Government===
The Commonwealth of Byss was a military colony run by an authoritarian military dictatorship, led by Admiral Audrey Norsoutha, who held the title and position of Supreme Commander. As a regional military occupation and colonial territory of the NSC, Admiral Audrey ruled with an iron fist, dictating where the Byssians will work through a corvee system, a system which is considered the absolute right of the state to decide where its citizens will live and work.
The Byssian Commonwealth General Staff, headed by an admiral, serves as the executive and legislative branches of the government of the Commonwealth of Byss. The Byssian Commonwealth General Staff is composed of high-ranking military officers acting on the orders of Admiral Audrey, implementing policies and laws and administering the day-to-day operations of the military and government.
===Law===
The Byssian Commonwealth Military Tribunal is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Byss. Headed by the Judge Advocate General, the Byssian Military Tribunal deals with crime that broke the law. The Byssian Military Tribunal, in conjunction with the General Staff, implements laws which dictated which is acceptable and which is not acceptable.
==Military==
===Byssian Military Forces===
The Byssian Military Forces in Byss is the unified military forces of Commonwealth of Byss. Operating under the orders of Admiral Audrey, the Byssian Armed Forces also serve as public and military forces in Byss. It was composed of regular NSC military units included First Order, Sith Eternal, Eternal Empire, and Final Order units which not only survived Operation Hallowed Sword but were also impressed into the military. It was sustained by heavily-militarized factories and recruits from the local Byssian and Novayan colonial populaces; in times of war the Byssian Armed Forces would also conscript civilians with promises of returning to their old life, rewards and compensation, the latter of which were forwarded to the family or parents of the conscripts if they die in battle. Sometimes, the Byssian Armed Forces would also forcefully conscript their enemies who became prisoners of war.
==Economy==
The Commonwealth of Byss, which has been experiencing a large unemployment rate, has been known for reusing the economic ideals of Nazi Germany during World War II in Universe Alpha-November-India-Mike-Echo and the Greater Novayan Federation during the Zeroth Void War, ideals which disturbed the Jedi Coalition but also unnerved the Void Coalition and United Nations of Earth (Universe ANIME), the NSC being the most unnerved and afraid due to its experience when it was the GNF and the fact Admiral Audrey is hellbent on vengeance against the Sith.
The Byssian economy was planned by Admiral Audrey to militarize the Commonwealth of Byss in preparations for the invasion of any Final Order or Sith holdout worlds; though the preparations were complete when the Yuuzhan Vong invaded the Galaxy Foxtrot-Foxtrot-Alpha, thereby ruining her plans, it led to heavy military spending being the primary bulk of the Byssian economy, with construction, mining and manufacturing as the secondary bulks.
===Reich-style economics===
As a result of the damages done during Operation Hallowed Sword and the NSC Military Occupational Authority in Byss's dismissal of workers from their jobs prior to the Coruscant City Convention, the Byss sector experienced a drastic unemployment rate of more than thirty percent. After the Commonwealth of Byss was established and Admiral Audrey installed as its ruler, Lieutenant General Hank Morgan, head of the General Staff's economics bureau, organized a scheme for deficit financing, with capital projects paid for through the issuance of promissary notes based on the MEFO bills. Economic recovery was uneven, with reduced work hours and erratic availability of necessities, leading to disenchantment with the Novayan military regime, something that Admiral Audrey didn't expect. On her orders, the Development Bank of Byss was created to balance the economic recovery and increase work hours while the printing presses and presses were used to mitigate the cash shortage. She and her General Staff planned for an upcoming territorial expansion which would provide the means of repaying the growing debt.
Sienar Fleet Systems, Incom Corporation, Arden Industries and Baktoid Armor Workshop were appropriated and established a presence in the Commonwealth of Byss. In concert with other spacecraft manufacturers (such as TransGalMeg Industries, Incorporated), production was ramped up. From a workforce of 120,000 which produce 400 units through Automated Manufacturing Plants, Orbital Shipyards and hand-held equipment, the industry grew to employ a quarter of ten million workers in manufacturing over 200,000 spacecraft.
The Byssian Government signed a profit-sharing agreement with Kirgalis Pharmaceutical Exports and Athakam Medtech, guaranteeing a 5 percent return on capital investments. Any excess profits were turned over to the Commonwealth of Byss. As a result, excess profits were by then generated. In preparations for an invasion of any Final Order holdouts, the Commonwealth of Byss made the reconstituted InterGalactic Banking Union, Trade Federation, and Techno Union sign a trade agreement, securing an adequate wartime supply of dedlanite. An elaborate, if not labyrinthine, bureaucracy have been created to regulate imports of raw materials and finished goods with the intent of improving the state's balance of payments.
Major public works projects financed with deficit spending included the construction of an elaborate highway network system, resorts, buildings, shipyards, and industrial complexes and providing funding for programmes for housing and agricultural development and improvements. To stimulate the construction industry, credits were offered to private businesses and subsidies were made available for home purchases and repairs. Women, especially wives, were permitted to join the workforce in order to combat the shortage of skilled laborers.
A hundred million people were unemployed before Admiral Audrey rose to power; after becoming Byss's new ruler, it was reduced to twenty million. Trade unions were encouraged in exchange for providing 10 percent of their funds to the Byssian Government and the trade unions' leadership cooperate with her government.
The focus was then shifted towards remilitarization. Military expenditures accounted for 61 percent of the government's purchases of goods and services. In addition for the construction of steel mills, synthetic rubber plants, and other factories, wage and price controls were instituted and the issuance of stock dividends restricted. Expenditures for rearmament were made on an average scale with concerns for growing deficits. Plans made for five-months medium-to-large increases to the army and navy were nearly complete, as Byss have the financial and material resources to build the planned units as well as the necessary fuel to keep them running in part to several agreements made with Void-based and Galaxy FFA-based businesses. By introducing compulsory military service, the Byssian Armed Forces, which had 10 million personnel, expanded to 50 million personnel on active service before the start of the Yuuzhan Vong War, with a hundred million personnel in reserve. By the start of the Yuuzhan Vong War, unemployment was down to twenty million and then only to one hundred thousand.
Even before the Yuuzhan Vong War, the Commonwealth of Byss has been fortifying the Byss system and the secondary and tertiary capital systems with help from the Unity Pact, which lended money, credits, construction equipment, materials, resources, and military equipment.
===Wartime economy and forced labor===
The Byssian war economy is a mixed economy combining free market with central planning. Meetings at Coruscant and then at Carth 9K1 confirmed that the Byssian economy is between the command economy of the Soviet Union and Saiyanese Stellar Federation and the capitalist system of the Interantional Union of Armanya, United Nations of Earth, and United States of America.
Before the start of the Yuuzhan Vong War, the Commonwealth of Byss shuffled the General Staff to increase the government's efficiency, with Colonel General Oleg Petrenko becoming the head of the Bureau of Armaments. After the start of the Yuuzhan Vong War, wartime rationing of consumer goods led to an increase in personal and familial savings, funds which were in turn lent to the government to support the war effort. Within the first two months the war consumed 70 percent of the gross domestic product, compared to 65 in Ober Sud, 60 in the New Meridian Federation, 57 in the Commonwealth of Elegasso, 55 in the Commonwealth of Zakuul, 64 in the Commonwealth of Sakana, and 61 in the Commonwealth of New Neith. Colonel General Petrenko improved production by centralizing planning and control, reducing production of consumer goods, and, to the horror of the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth, using slavery and forced labor. The wartime economy relied heavily on the large-scale employment of slave labor. Byss imported millions of droids for manual labor, and then imported and enslaved criminals, the latter of whom were imported before the war to serve their sentences, and even captured Yuuzhan Vong to work in factories and on farms. Many forced laborers, especially the captured Yuuzhan Vong, were casualties of suppressions of slave unrests and uprisings; those who followed the Byssian Government's orders and persevered were given rewards for their loyalty and obedience, and even a reward is either to go home or volunteer to work with them in hindering the Yuuzhan Vong and their allies.
===Financial exploitation of conquered territories===
During the course of the war, plans were made to extract considerable plunder from worlds which have fallen or joined the Yuuzhan Vong either willingly or out of fear, the latter of which would require a planetary invasion. Gold reserves and other foreign holdings were taken from planetary or regional banks of occupied worlds, while large occupation costs were imposed on the worlds the Byssian Armed Forces invaded to force the Yuuzhan Vong and their allies out. One particular ally of the Yuuzhan Vong is the Ylesian Republic, formed by the Peace Brigade and led by Thrackan Sal-Solo, the first cousin of Han Solo. Because of the Peace Brigade's acts of treason and of war crimes, the Commonwealth of Byss imposed large occupation costs upon the Ylesian Republic, which is soon forced to pay for their treason and war crimes.
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