Derkasian Spring

The Derkasian Spring was a period in Derkasian history sparked with the death of Supreme Chairman of South Derkasia, Thomas Thunley. The period started with protests, which led to conflicts between different factions of the Derkasian Revolutionary Party. Eventually, the government of North Derkasia, South Derkasia's monarchist northern neighbour, took South Derkasia's disunity as a time to settle scores brought on by the Derkasian Revolution, swiftly invading the south, capturing the South Derkasian capital of Prumley Bay, and reunifying Derkasia into one singular country.
The death of Thomas Thunley on January 6th, 2002, caused a massive rift in South Derkasian politics, with different factions of the DRP disagreeing with who would replace Thunley. After a vote, Doron Wardrope, a socialist reformer, was elected as Supreme Chancellor. However, many were dissatisfied with the result, mainly because the opposition, Alton Trompetter, was more popular among the party's members based off previous polling numbers, and suspicions of voter fraud began to arise. A peaceful citizen protest supporting Trompetter was later suppressed by the police, who had sworn loyalty to Wardrope days earlier, and the Derkasian Spring began. 
In June later that year, North Derkasia began catching on to news regarding the conflict. The prime minister of North Derkasia, Gavin Charrier, saw an opportunity to take the south and unify Derkasia. Operation Austral, nicknamed Order 66 after the day the invasion was meant to start, was put into force on June 6th, 2002. North Derkasian troops breezed through the south, taking key locations and securing control over the airspace. Facing near-obliteration, Trompetter and his supporters surrounded the South Derkasian capital of Prumley Bay and threatened to defend the city to the last man, while Wardrope resigned his position and peacefully surrendered himself to the northern forces. In the early hours of September 8th, 2002, after a month of preparation, North Derkasia carried out the final part of Operation Austral, nicknamed Operation Hive, and captured Prumley Bay, winning the war and unifying Derkasia into one singular country. 
Derkasia came to the brink of economic obliteration following the Derkasian Spring, mainly because alot of South Derkasia's infrastructure was greatly damaged. Despite this, Charrier and his political party, the Derkasian Opportunities Party (D.O.P.) saw it's polling numbers shoot up, and the party would win the elections later that year in late November. Despite actions like the South Derkasian Rebuilding Act, passed in early 2003, the southern regions of the modern Derkasia remain poorer and worse off than their northern counterparts. As well as this, the Derkasian government received widespread criticism from the GUIS and the Commonwealth of Nations, both of which condemned attacks that were made on civilian locations, particularly Prumley Bay. 
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