Protectorate of Casoria

The Civil Protectorate of the Former Empire of Casoria was the successor state to the Fifth Casorian Empire, formed in 1999 by the Inner Council of Emperor Karl III. Following the death of the final Wohn Emperor, the council decided that they were better able to rule than any single Emperor. They abolished the monarchy, proclaiming a republic with the Inner Council as the leaders of the nation. They did not, however, extend the opportunity for government through representation, or any form of democracy, going as far as to disestablish the Imperial Senate.
During the rule of the Protectorate, the Empire entered into a time of unprecedented decline. Nations that had voluntarily pledged fealty to the Empire broke free. The most significant of whom was the High King of Athorna and Galtar, who declared that his ancestors bowed only to the Great Emperors, and not a gaggle of power-hungry aristocrats. Many more nations followed, and the Protectorate did not have the power to stop them. There were great revolts in the Southern Provinces, and many of the generals of the Army refused to lend their aid to what they saw as the "illegitimate republic". Mutinies within the Imperial Navy were commonplace, and many deserted entirely and turned to piracy. This depressing state of affairs continued for 42 years.
In 2041 the Council were presented with a petition to re-establish the Monarchy putting forward the former Emperor's great-great grandfather's second child's great grandson as the legal heir. The claimant had succeeded in rallying much of the army establishment behind him, and the people of the Empire were wholely supportive of him. The situation was clear - if the Council refused, they would face both a civil war and a revolution. By the end of the year Tibor III ascended to the throne of the Sixth Casorian Empire, and set to work righting the wrong of the Protectorate.
Category:Destroyed State
Category:Empire
Category:Protectorate
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