Solvarkia

Solvarkia is a developed area in the Eastern Block, just east of the Stone Kingdom along the Road to Iron. It is not unified, as a civil war in the late Golden Age saw it split into two separate factions. The nations are around the Gulf of Solvark, the name of which comes from the word "Solvarka", which means "__?__" in an extinct local dialect.
== Southern Solvarkia ==
The southern side is a Democratic Republic. Their main exports are fish, crab, and lumber.
== Northern Solvarkia ==
The northern side is a Constitutional Monarchy. Their main exports are fish, crab, and wool.
== History ==
Solvarkia was originally a semi-unified confederacy which had grown around the trade hubs on the Road to Iron and the ports and fisheries of the Slovark Gulf.
At some point in the Golden Age, the king of a large province in the north set out to unify the various city-states under one banner.
The Technocracy intervened early in the conflict, working to prevent civilian casualties and property destruction.
The states south of the gulf unified into a more cohesive federation to repel the invasion, and eventually adopted their own unified government, becoming a republic.
The Unbounded intervened and demanded the conflict end when the fighting reached the trade route.
During the decline at the end of the Golden Age, Northern Slovarkia adopted constitutional and parliamentary measures to quell unrest and improve relations with the Technocracy, as famines had given them need for aid. By that time, Southern Solvarkia's leadership selection process had become mostly democratic.
Today, the two nations have decent relations due to foreign intervention and time, but will probably not reunify for a long time.
Category:Eastern Block