Mawbol/Administration

==Provinces==
Provinces are the main administrative divisions of Mawbol below the national government, being further subdivided into Districts and National Cities.
===History===
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==Royal Territories==
"Royal Territories" refers to the duchies, counties, principalities and other hereditary offices that made up Mawbol simultaneously with the provinces during the period in which Mawbol was a kingdom.
The beginnings of this system can be seen in the late Neuverian era, when the Neuverian monarchy, wanting to populate and grow a noble class in Messer, handed out multiple cities or forts to Neuverian noble families in exchange for either money or land back in Neuver being handed over to the monarchy. These forts or cities would soon have their surroundings also added on to them to continue the process, forming "fortrings" or "cityrings" as they were known, due to the fact the added land most time had towns or other forts in it, that surrounded the first fort or city handed over to the noble in a circle. By the 1590's, this would finally transform into the first counties, such as the County of Ciber, located in south Ikrayia around Fort Ciber, and the County of Mainten, located in Jameston around the small fishing towns/cities of Mainten and Bardnon. These circles and counties functioned inside the legal framework of the General-Governorships and Governorship of New Neuver, having to adopt any law passed by the Governor and help New Neuver in any situation of war, though being a circlelord or count did come with the benefit of having a seat on the governing council of New Neuver. Just before the Mawbol revolt, New Neuver would pass a law allowing duchies to form, granting any noble who wanted more land a ducal title, such as the Duchy of Pasmort.
Soon after Mawbol gained it's independence, the king would decide to elevate the royal territories to be above the Provinces, officially completely splitting the two into seperate entities in 1639. The monarchy would also hand out even more land to multiple prominent noble families or government members, mainly being done to limit the power of the lower class and give the king a loyal and strong innercircle of other monarchs. The final change would come in the late 1670's, when grand duchies were introduced as the top rank below the king, though this title would only truly become mainstream among the nobles in the 1700's. The royal territories would continue growing in size, controlling half of the country by the 1800's and removing most power from the provinces, which would slowly make the provinces and lower and middle classes resent the monarchy more and more, this being one of the many reasons for the Spring Revolution. Following the establishment of the republic, most royal territories would be taken away and returned to the provinces, with all royal titles officially being abolished in 1857.
===Holdings of the House of Lyson===
In 1606, Sir Jeremy Lsyon was granted some lands on what was at the time called the Eastwardings River, though it would soon after be renamed to Lsyon River in honour of the family. In 1607, this arrangment became official with the creation of the County of Molestread, which was located right at the mouth of the Lyson River. The land at the time had no major towns or fortifications, which meant that it was not easily governable and didn't have a large population to use for agriculture or to gain taxes from. This would make Jeremy order the construction of a small fort, which he would name Fort Lyson, making the workers settle around it and become permenant residents, founding the small town of Lison, which reached a population of 600 by 1610. Two years later, seeing the success of Jeremy's holdings, especially Lison, the king of Mawbol would award Jeremy's brother, Sir Merdaen Lyson, a plot of land slightly north of Molestread, known as the County of Illingsworth. Molestread itself would be expanded a year later, granting Jeremy room for another fort, founding Fort Jeremius in 1615, which would become the basis for the small town of Jeremia. Jeremy would die in 1617 of a sudden stroke, leaving his land to his brother Merdaen, as Jeremy himself had no children, putting the counties of Molestread and Illingsworth under a personal union until the death of Merdaen in 1626.
In 1631, the son of Merdaen, Sir Wently Lyson, decided that Fort Lyson was too small and underprotected to be the place his county was ruled from, buying a plot of land a bit more north from the monarchy and beginning construction on castle. The castle would be finished by 1633, being named Lyson Castle. It was the third largest castle in Mawbol at the time, being able to house roughly 300 people and having some of the best defenses possible at the time. A settlement of 800 people would form around the castle, originally being named New Lyson, though it would later be simply changed to the name of the castle. Henry I, King of Mawbol, even visited the castle in 1637, saying it was one of the grandest and prettiest castles he had ever seen, unexpectedly elevating Wently to a duke on the spot. After the death of his brothers William and John in 1646 and 1651 respectively, Merdaen would once more unite the rulings of the Lyson Family, having this ducal title changed to Duke of Lyson, now encompassing all of the Lyson lands and a bit more. By 1664, when Wently died, the town of New Lsyon had reached a population of 3200, being one of the largest in the undersettled and underdeveloped Eastern Mawbol at the time.
After the death of Wently, the Duchy of Lyson would be ruled by his son Walter from 1664 to 1682 and then grandson Henry from 1682 to 1703. Following the death of Henry, the duchy would once more be split into multiple pieces between brothers, this time the brothers being George, William and Albert, with George getting Illingsworth, Albert getting Molestread and William getting the rest, which included the Duchy of Polsburry and the County of Morgingam. During his stay at Lyson Castle, Albert would realize the castle lacked one crucial thing, that thing being a private park and pond, which Albert would immediately get to working on, hiring around 10 gardeners and multiple architects, giving them the task of making the most luxurious and largest castle park in all of Mawbol. By 1708, the park would finally be done, reaching 8km in length and 4.5km in width, coming out to a whopping total of 36km2 of parkland, encompassing three different ponds, multiple walking trails and many exoticic animals from such places as Akail, Somorcos, Menzer, Bornia and the continent of Jupitorma. The park would achieve it's goal, becoming the largest castle park yet made in Mawbol at the time, and even today, as no one tried to make a larger one. Albert would also increase the size of the castle itself, granting it three new towers, a new, larger library and massive party hall. Meanwhile the town of New Lsyon had grown to around 7 thousand inhabitants, becoming a center for trade and agricultural activity in Eastern Mawbol, supplying almost the entirety of the rejoin with anual bread. Albert would die in 1748, having in the mean time also obtained the possesions of his brothers, who all left them to him, now himself leaving them to his only son, Sir John William Lyson.
Sir John William would immediately buy more land in an attempt to increase his influence and future wealth, purchasing the counties of Floden and Baus-Mazol in 1749, the Duchy of Arsou in 1750 and the County of Haum-Mazol in 1752. After the purchases, he would begin a mass construction of castles and forts all over his new lands to draw in new settlers to his realm and increase agricultural output, yhe products of which he could then sell to the rest of the country from profit. This would mainly be succesful, leading to the founding of many new settlements, such as Mardau Kelias, Buisvat and Henrystown, which produced large amounts of bread and other foods, making up roughly 18% of the market. In 1768, John William's objectives would finally be complete, as he would be elevated to Grand Duke of Lsyon-Obsburry, being given ownership of almost half the east and 85% of what is now the province of Marannia. 
He would die in 1779, with his two sons, Sir Ballery Lyson and Sir William Defor Lyson, splitting the grand duchy, Ballery getting Obsburry and William getting Lyson. William would die in 1784 of a sudden infection, leaving his land to Ballery, who himself died in 1811, leaving the Grand Duchy to his eldest son Sir George Leon Lyson, who would be the second last person from the House of Lsyon to rule a Royal Territory. His reign would mostly see the growth of already established cities with the help of the Mawbol government. Lyson Castle would grow to 38 thousand people, while Lison grew to 26 thousand by the end of his reign. By the 1840's, George Leon would begin to sense change coming, seeing more people being unhappy with the monarchy, and being worried for his own position, he would begin supressing republicans and becoming more conservative and pro-monarchist, today being remembered as the "Tyrant Duke" by many, as over all his supression campaigns roughly 18 thousand people were arrested in total, with 1523 even executed. In 1851, George would be shot fatally by a republican during a parade in Lyson Castle, leading to two months of insability.
After the death of George, his son, Sir Jeremy Lyson would become the new Grand Duke, who was a firm liberal and had tried multiple times, though with limited success, to convince his father into ending the anti-republican campaigns. When the first signs of a full blown revolt or even revolution popped in 1855, Jeremy would publically denounce the king, calling him a "backwards moron and bloody dumbass". When the Spring Revolution began, Jeremy immediately signed up to the republican army as a general, helping secure Eastern Mawbol for the republicans. He would surrender the Grand Duchy of Lyson to the new government without resistance in 1857 when the royal territories were abolished, later on becoming a major politician and member of the Republican Party in Eastern Mawbol, dying in 1892.
====List of Rulers and Holdings of the House of Lyson====
County of Molestread/Duchy of Molestread(1703)
Order 	Name 	Reign 	Notes
1. 	Sir Jeremy Lsyon (Jeremy I) 	1606-1617	
Under personal union with the County of Illingsworth	1617-1626 	 	
2. 	Wently I 	1626-1637	
- 	Under personal union with the Duchy of Lyson 	1637-1703	
3. 	Albert I 	1703-1739	
- 	Under personal union with the Duchy of Lyson, Grand Duchy of Lyson-Obsburry	1739-1857	
County of Illingsworth/Duchy of Illingsworth(1703)
Order	Name 	Reign 	Notes
1. 	Sir Merdaen Lyson (Merdaen I) 	1612-1626	
2. 	William I 	1626-1646	
- 	Under personal union with the Duchy of Lyson 	1646-1703	
3. 	George I 	1703-1739	
- 	Under personal union with the Duchy of Lyson, Grand Duchy of Lyson-Obsburry	1739-1857	
County of Polsburry/Duchy of Polsburry(1703)
Order	Name 	Reign 	Notes
1. 	John I 	1626-1651	
- 	Under personal union with the Duchy of Lyson 	1651-1703	
2. 	William I 	1703-1738	
- 	Under personal union with the Duchy of Lyson, Grand Duchy of Lyson-Obsburry	1738-1857	
Duchy of Lyson/Grand Duchy of Lyson-Obsburry(1768/1784)
Order	Name 	Reign 	Notes
1. 	Wently I 	1637-1664	
2. 	Walter I 	1664-1682	
3. 	Henry I 	1682-1703	
- 	Split up 	1703-1739	
3. 	Albert I 	1739-1748	
4. 	John William I	1748-1779	
5. 	William I 	1779-1784	
6. 	Ballery I 	1784-1811	
7. 	George Leon I 	1811-1851	
8. 	Jeremy I 	1851-1857	
Duchy of Obsburry
Order	Name 	Reign 	Notes
1. 	Ballery I 	1779-1784	
- 	Under personal union with the Duchy of Lyson, constituent part of the Grand Duchy of Lyson-Obsburry	1784-1857	
===Holdings of the House of Mal===
The House of Mal-Valingsbrook, originally the House of Mal has first settled in Messer around the 1580's after being granted Fort Victoria Major in Ikrayi by the Neuverian monarchy in a purchase worth around 50000 Glasdern. The House would side with Mawbol during the independence war, getting to retain all their lands, now amounting to the County of Victorina, based around the now castle of Victoria. The first representative of the house would be Sir Malbour Mal, who would rule until 1623, managing to obtain a few more smaller counties in Yellowia and Jameston due to his positive relations with the King of Mawbol, being one of his best friends. After his death, the lands in Ikrayi would go to eldest son Sir John Matthias Mal, while Jameston and Yellowia would go to this second son Sir Walter Crimson Mal. John Matthias's line would become known as the House of Mal-Austerbrook, while the line of Walter Crimson would become known as Mal-Valingsbrooks.
====List of Rulers from the House of Mal====
County of Victorina
Order	Name 	Reign 	Notes
1. 	Sir Malbour Mal (I)	1582/1601-1623	
====The House of Mal-Valingsbrook====
Walter Crimson's reign would mostly involve the purchasing of more land, with many other counties and duchies ebing bought up, allowing Walter to be elevated to duke, gaining the Duchy of Valingsbrook in 1646, his branch of the house being named after the duchy. He would continue ruling until 1652, dying during an hunting accident, when his rifle malfuctioned and exploded in his hands, burning his hands and face, dying a few hours later. He would be succeeded by his cousin Richard, though the throne would actually go to his son, also named Richard, due to the first Richard being in Neuver and serving under the Neuverian king, while the second Richard had moved to Mawbol is protest against his father after he left him out of his will. Richard would rule until 1679, ordering the construction of multiple castles and forts, including Fort Blassimius, which soon attracted settlers, founding the town of Blassimius, growing to 12 thousand by 1665. Richard would spend most of his time as a admiral, leaving governing of Valingsbrook to Sir John Willson, who would be responsible for multiple major reforms granting peasents more rights in the duchy, even proposing governor elections in Valingsbrook, before being removed by the Mawbol government for being too reformist and opposed to the absolute monarchy. This would result in a minor peasent revolt, though it would quickly be put down by the army, resulting in the death of 4 thousand peasents and a famine as a result of the destruction of many farms in the region. After learning of this, Richard abandoned the admiralty, returning to his duchy and helping rebuild the farms, handing out free building supplies and food to the peasents who had their farms destroyed.
Following the death of Richard, his sons Henry and Jeremy would rule from 1679 to 1685 and 1685 to 1694, before his grandson, Richard II, took over. He purchased some land around the entrance of the Sevsten River, building multiple forts on the coast and inland, encouraging people to come and settle there. This would be the basis for the modern city of Mayortown, which today has a population of 509 thousand inhabitants, though in the time of ducal rule, it only managed to reach around 150 thousand before the royal territories were abolished. Richard II would have a long reign, ruling from 1694 until 1753, living until the age of 81 and outliving all of his sons and one of his grandsons, leaving the duchy to his next grandson, Alexander I. Alexander is mainly remembered for his many reforms, which gave merchants and peasents more freedom in trade, production of goods and other things, such as lifting the ban on movement put on the peasents. He managed to get away with all of this by paying out bribes to the Mawbol royal family, practically bankrupting himself and Valingsbrook by the end of his reign. Alexander was also against the genocide and slavery of natives, secretly helping thousands of escaped slaves flee into his duchy and start a new life, managing to keep this undetected until the very end of his reign, when the Mawbol government finally discovered it. Having had enough, Mawbol sent in an army and surrounded Fort Western, forcing Alexander to raise his own army and march out to the fort to combat the Mawbol troops. The battle would last four days, the final day featuring hours of brutal fighting, in which Alexander personally fought, managing to keep his troops together till the end and drive off the Mawbol army, winning the battle and forcing the king to pardon him for helping escaped slaves and give Alexander roughly 3.5 million Fardi. Alexander would die two weeks later on August 19th, 1789, from injuries that had been sustained during the fighting, leaving the throne to his son, Alexander II, who would himself die in 1793 from an unknown disease caused by an infenction in his right arm.
After the death of Alexander II, the duchy would be ruled by his brother William from 1793 until 1824, during which time William would attempt to reverse some of the reforms introduced by Alexander I, resulting a massive peasent revolt in 1804. William was forced to reinstate all the reforms he had reversed, becoming powerless and unable to do anything of importance, as there was a high chance it would spark another revolt. By the 1810's, he would begin to realise that the monarchy was coming to end and the people were getting more pro-republican and pro-reform by the day, deciding to simply let it happen, retreating to his palace in the south of Ikrayi by 1817. After an entire three decades of having done nothing on the throne, William would begin to get bored of the job, also seeing as only another danger for himself, as he was hated by his populace who wanted even more rights. In late 1823, a new revolt would begin, this time aiming to completely overthrow William and install a fairer monarch. Understanding that he had no hope of winning without Mawbol help, William, not wanting to become a puppet of the royal family, decided that it was best to simply give up, handing over the duchy to his brother Jeremy II. Jeremy wouldn't be any stronger of a ruler, as his private army completely failed in crushing the rebels, leaving him powerless just like his brother before him. He would decide the duchy wasn't worth his trouble, selling it to the Mawbol government in 1825 for 6.4 million Fardi and spending the rest of his days with his brother in their palace before dying in 1846. William would go onto live until 1863, having most of his palaces and mansions taken from him after the Spring Revolution, joining the Republican Party for the last two years of his life before dying of old age.
=====List of Rulers from the House of Mal-Valingsbrook=====
County of Victorina
Order	Name 	Reign 	Notes
1. 	Sir Walter Crimson Mal (I)	1623-1646	
Duchy of Valingsbrook
Order	Name 	Reign 	Notes
1. 	Walter Crimson I	1646-1652	
2. 	Richard I 	1652-1679	
3. 	Henry I 	1679-1685	
4. 	Jeremy I 	1685-1694	
5. 	Richard II 	1694-1753	
6. 	Alexander I 	1753-1789	
7. 	Alexander II 	1789-1793	
8. 	Wiliam I 	1793-1824	
9. 	Jeremy II 	1824-1825	
====The House of Mal-Austerbrook====
John Matthias ruled from 1623 to 1636, spending most of his reign spreading the faifth of Solarity around his realm, being a very devout and religious person. He would also move the capital to Austerburg in 1629, building a new castle and fort in the small town. This was mainly done to position himself more in the center of all the counties he owned, which were spread out apart all over Yellowia and Jameston. Following his death, his son George would become king, having a exactly 30 year long until 1666. During this time, he would travel around his domains, helping fund many starting farms and communities personally, wanting to help the peasents, as he believed they were being mistreated by the rest of the nobility. George also built many more forts all around his lands, such as Fort Palter and Fort Henriet, serving as both points to center individual counties on and to provide greater defense. He also was very interested in theater, sponsoring the construction of multiple theaters all over his realm, himself even writing a few plays, regarded by most historians as "average or even good for the time". After multiple years of begging and giving gifts to king George I, he would finally get eleveated to the status of a duke in 1650 with the help of his uncle and then Duke of Valingsbrook, Walter Crimson. Following his death, George would be succeeded by his brother Alfred, who sold off many of the farthest counties he owned, at the same time consolidating the Duchy of Valingsbrook by buying up lands in Jameston to connect all his holdings. His reign wouldn't be very long, ending in 1673 after he was unknowingly poisoned by someone, leavng the realm to his eldest son Jackson.
Jackson spent his rule mostly letting the realm run it's course, preferring to go on long holiday trips to other countries or party in large mansions at home. During this period of neglect, local leaders would begin to rise in place of the dukes, doing their job far more effectively as most times they weren't from the noble class and had a far smaller region to manage, being able to better focus on the needs of the people. In 1694, Jackson would sell roughly a quarter of his realm to other dukes in order to finance another trip abroad, this time planning to travel to Somorcos. After arriving to Somorcos in early 1695, Jackson would spend a few months there, planning to return in early August of the same year. As he was enjoying his return to Mawbol on a luxury ship, the ship suddenly struck a rock in a shallow area around some islands, getting stuck and stranding the king along with the crew. They would finally make it back to Mawbol in 1697, with Jackson in poor health from two years of almost weekly starvation and terrible eating habits on the island, dying in 1698. His son Carter would rule from 1698 to 1729, spending most of his reign partying or serving in the army, leaving the realm to continue to be managed by local leaders, decentralising it beyond belief at the time. Carter also continued the legacy of his father in another way, selling off even more land, though this time to the Mawbol monarchy, attempting to make himself richer to throw grander parties. He would sell away so many lands that the duchy had shrunk by a half by the end of his reign, leaving many of the local leaders disapointed with him. 
After the death of Carter, his son Baelmound took over, attempting to once more repeat the mistakes of his father and grandfather, but the local leaders had had it with the dukes and rebelled with their own army, storming into Austerburg and forcing Baelmound to abdicate, placing his younger, but more serious brother, Michael, on the throne. Michael would attempt to repurchase many of the lost counties and rebuild the crumbling forts, castles and theaters, becoming the first good ruler in roughly 50 years. These attempts would mostly succeed, with most of the old duchy being bought back and old castles being repaired and brought to the standards of the time, allowing culture be rebirthed all around the realm. Michael would also issue major reforms, turning the local leaders into recognized administrators and giving the peasents more rights, though with some limitations due to the oversight of Mawbol. His reign would last until 1784, bringing a golden age to Austerbrook and making him the most popular duke ever in the duchy, having his legacy last even up to the modern day. Signs of cracks though would already begin to show at the end of his reign, as the kings of Mawbol tried to take away as many royal territories and make as many of them state owned as possible, leading to the slow reduction of the Austerbrook in size, though minimal during the reign of Michael. After the death of Michael, things would quickly begin to spiral out of control, as the peasents constantly attempted to gain more rights through revolts while Mawbol took away more land, making the reign of Michael II, Michael I's son, a constant annoyance and one disaster after another, finally forcing him to sell most of his land in 1801, only retaining the country of Austerburg, which he would rule until 1815, then followed by his son Michael III until 1839 and finally his grandson, Henry, who spent his entire reign serving in the Mawbol army before deciding to join the republicans during the Spring Revolution of 1855.
=====List of Rulers from the House of Mal-Austerbrook=====
Country of Austerburg
Order	Name 	Reign 	Notes
1. 	John Matthias Mal (I) 	1623-1636	
2. 	George I 	1636-1650	
- 	In personal union with the Duchy of Austerbrook	1650-1801	
3. 	Michael I/II 	1801-1815	
4. 	Michael II/III 	1815-1839	
5. 	Henry I 	1839-1855	
Duchy of Austerbrook
Order	Name 	Reign 	Notes
1. 	George I 	1650-1666	
2. 	Alfred I 	1666-1673	
3. 	Jackson I 	1673-1698	
4. 	Carter 	1698-1729	
5. 	Baelmound 	1729 	
6. 	Michael I 	1729-1784	
7. 	Michael II	1784-1801	
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