Charisogo

Official flag of Charisogo

### National Anthem

"Mon pays bien-aime Chari" (Mikana)"My beloved country, Charisogo" (Nalacian)"Dinyalga ivs claravie, Charisa" (Ivinan)

### Alarian Value System (AVS)

4th

**The Charisogan Republic**, or simply, **Charisogo** (also known by it's former name of **Cisco**), is a country in the Southwestern Region of Argan. It is bordered by the Ahanic Ocean to it's south, Ivina to the north, Temp to the Northwest, Bromania to the north, and Juliana to the east. It's capital city is Port Alonosia, and it's official language(s) are Mikanan, and in some regions, Ivinan. Charisogo has an AVS ranking of 4th, and is the 8th largest country in Alaria by area.

## Geography

As a nation primarily in the southwest of Argan, Charisogo is seperated into three different climate different regions. In the West, the Forests and plains of Collines Belles. This area holds many landmarks including but not limited to: Port Alonosia, The Southern and Central pillars, Le Belle, Tropicale, Shoal, and Lanetois. The central is Charisogan Cernanics. Aside from several mountain towns and roads to several areas all around Argan, the world's highest peak: Mt. Kiro, sits on Charisogo's border with Ivina, and remains an icon of Charisogo's ability to conquer challenges. The east holds Charisogo's portion of the Octavian Desert, bordering Juliana, and several outposts before entering the harsh conditions of the desert.

## History

Charisogo's earliest known settlement came in the form of a Wakidau tribe that had migrated from the original tribe in the northern cernanics. Unlike the drought that wiped out their sister tribes in the cernanics, the Collines Belles Wakidau grew in diversity and contention, and warfare among the people led to their destruction beyond saving in the year 75 CE.

The land was overtaken by the elements. In 600 CE, a couple Jackal tribes settled around Mt. Kiro. This tribe is where the name of the mountain originates.

The first Post-Present portal opening civilization to make it's way through Charisogo arrived in 1545, when several settlers from Vemel had migrated east in search of a better life. They spotted land in Monna, before traveling along the coast until they could safely land in Alonosia Bay. The settlers from Vemel began treking up north. they weren't entirely sure to what destination they would go to. Eventually, the group settled in the Cernanics, forming the early stages of Vemia.

In 1596, 10 ships from Anastasia's Canyoventure Cassie Company ventured from the treacherous south storms of the Ahanic Ocean and spotted land near today's Point Guillaume. They curled around the peninsula and set up settlements in the bay.

The captain of the company, Nicolas Beaufort, established small camps and settlements around the bay and declared the bay Anastasian territory, until he could figure out exactly where he was in relation to Anastasia. Beaufort sent three ships out of the bay and toward the south from whence they came to tell Anastasia of their discovery. Alas, the storms of the Ahanic during the summer season pushed the ships back toward the bay. Thinking they couldn't ever leave, the Company established the Canyoventure Federation, with the different settlements acting as city states. This would last for a year until the most prominent of these federation states: Port Alonosia, began to carry major economic influence.

By 1598, Beaufort had gained complete control on the western side of the bay and began to expand into the forests to the north edging closer to the mountains that dominated the landscape. The flow of resources such as water, fertile land, and other stones and precious ores turned Port Alonosia into arguably the most profitable state in all of Argan at the time. The eastern settlements: Shoal, Lanetois and Corrinth being the three most prosperous, decided to merge and form a single union.

A kingdom was chosen and Beaufort became Nicolas I of Canyo. Port Alonosia quickly grew with the support of the other federation states and Canyo flourished and they expanded into the surrounding areas.

Canyo instantly became trade partners with the Nalacians and their western colonies. From their eyes, they gained the better end of the deal. Canyo traded their technology and the Nalacian's offered them various resources that Monson provided. When Monson was beginning to dip in profit for Nalacia, that and on going problems back in Ventes involving war, Nalacia offered the people independence. This was something the Canyan government was storngly against.

Monson gained their independence in 1632 and took a valuable part of Alna as well, forming the Kingdom of Monna. As the tides turned, trading became significantly more difficult for the Canyans and they saw a drop in production, damaging their economy. When Nalaa seized it's independence about 5 years later, they chose to maintain an adjusted relationship with Canyo. The main being an alliance pact in case violence broke out among other nations in Argan.

Canyo expanded to the edges of the Octavian desert, taking on the harsh conditions of the southern cernanics and establishing relations with the Jackal Tribes surrounding the peak of Alaria: Mt. Kiro. Their eyes remained on the west coast, and seeking to take all of the resources of Monna for themselves.

The Monnan-Conyan War of 1675 started the first major conflict for Canyo, a war in which they would lose and spend funds for the next three years. War reperations began to deplete the economy, and tensions began to flare with the Vemians to the north, the Monnans now pressuring for more reperations, and the ongoing expeditions around Argan and to Aloso marked the beginning of the fall of the kingdom.

The test for Canyo's future came after tensions with the Vemians led to disputes around Mt. Kiro, starting the 1st Argan War in 1751. Monna entered the war on the side of the Vemians due to their war pact, and the Tempesians also sided with the Kingdom Powers (the former mentioned nations) The Marcunite Clan, the dominant of the Octavian tribes at the time opted to side with Canyo despite their lack of military support (the ongoing Silva War became a proxy war of the 1st Argan War). Nalaa was obligated to support Canyo, especially following their absence in Canyo's previous war with Monna, however they faced a war of their own as the Windaguards declared war and indepence in 1750, forcing the Nallavians to focus their attention on that front.

The Canyo lines fell to the Monnans and they laid siege to Port Alonosia in 1770, and the remaining loyalists to the king fought with the ill fated Avonvagrim of Nalaa at the Battle of La Belle. King Gaspard surrendered following Analeas' victory in the battle and effectively ending the war in Canyo.

The Kingdom Powers turned to the people of Canyo to decide what would happen to the nation. Canyo ceded the Southern Cernanic Area to Vemia, the Fluerette Coastline to the Monnans, paid reperations and had to trim down their military. After it was all said and done, the people held a free election, effectively creating the first republic on Argan, and arguably one of the first of it's kind on Alaria. A constitution was drafted and the people elected to call themselves a new name: The Republic of Cisco.

Cisco became an ally to many in Argan. Analeas and Cisco would build one of the first railroads to go from one coast to the other on any continent, and trade with Monna began to become like that of the times of old. Following the ceding's of Vemia in the late 1820s, Cisco was granted a major portion, including the lost territory that was ceded during the 1st Argan War.

Just north of Mt. Kiro, Cisco began construction on a crossroad city built on the ruins of New Alleen. Cisco City was constructed and the government moved the capital from Port Alonosia to Cisco City in 1842. Cisco City became the center of international trade within Argan as Railroads crossed through the city. With the Analeasian Conquest of Bloomsburg in 1846, the two nations completed the first railway to span a continent.

The Republic quickly grew into one of the leading economies not just in Argan, but the world as a whole. Port Alonosia remained a major port for ships travelling from Aloso, and with the railway construction all throughout Argan, Cisco had become a trade hub.

Throughout the 1850's and 1860's saw the nation combat the Alarian Small Pox Pandemic and seek medical research for cures and possible ways at scientific study. These ideas of enlightenment truly sparked Cisco's Industrial Revolution and they developed better Locomotives for their railways.

Following increasing pressure and global tension, Cisco joined the Honest Powers in Alaria War I in 1872. They were involved in the South Argan Theatre, the Northern Aloso Theatre and partially the East Ventes Theatre. Following the Forged Powers surrender in 1878, Cisco was granted territories south of the recently discovered Jevi, and the southern half of Tannerman Island (Maoland).

The Republic's colonial gains improved their effects on Alarian Globalization, and even granted the nation a seat at the Alarian Council of the Nations. Throughout the 1880's, the nation saw major developments in infrastructure and class restructure. Throughout the 1890's, the country fought wars in Jevi to combat the growing rise of new socialist ideas that were approaching their colonies.

By the turn of the 20th century Cisco's bright minds had began the blueprints of Alaria's first personal automobile. They didn't become the first to construct one, but it was their blueprint that inspired Analeas' Koffman Motors.

Cisco continued developing their colonies and imperial ambitions throughout the early 1910s and 1920s. At the dawn of the War of the Isles, Cisco remained neutral, not wishing to draw more unnecessary violence on Argan. At the war's end, while other nations were purchasing the isles, Cisco was not given the chance to expand their colonial empire, and were not given a cut. This caused Cisco to increase it's pressure on the Jevian territories they held, and to attempt to incorporate it into the empire as a more industrial superpower.

The Zhao Dynasty of northern Tannerman began to grow weary of Cisco's influence to the south, and as pressure and tensions grew for the island to be unified under a sole power, other Jevian nations also saw their struggles increase.

Cisco's foreign policy shifted into a much more aggresive one as several nations were on the edge of war with the surrounding nations and therefore were beginning to lose their ability to simply remain neutral.

The war was dubbed Guillaume Anderson's War and saw the Republic of Anastasia also fight for the right to govern Hakani, the Fujiland Empire, and also portions of Trevestra (modern-day New Vietnam). The war saw Fujiland remain an independent power, while Trevestra and Hakani fell into Anastasia's control once again. Despite their victories, Cisco lost their side of the war fighting the Zhao, and were ultimately forced off of Tennerman Island, and the entire island was united under the Zhao dynasty flag.

Determined to hold a colony in Jevi, Cisco purchased the rights to Hakani from the Anastasians, in which the Anastasians agreed to for a generous price, but had to give tribute of goods produced there for the next 50 years.

From 1947 onward, Cisco demanded that the Hakanian people pay tribute to their colonial rulers in exchange for the supplies they needed. This was one of the first examples of Ciscan oppression brought to the daylight.

Cisco lost their Hakanian colonies in 1963 after the Pride War which saw the northern neighbors of Hakani drive out the remaining colonial powers in Jevi. This loss began to deplete many aspects of the Ciscan bank and as the world began to begin transitioning into the modern period of today, Cisco began to find it harder to overcome their debts in their many wars.

In the 1970s Cisco utilized their island colonies south of Jevi and attempted to revive their national pride and well being. Quickly, their luck began to switch as they began to develop stock in the tech industry to fund even more projects. By this point, Cisco City had developed into a metropolis and remained an epicenter for trade around Argan and Alaria.

Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Cisco saw a military decline and many trade routes decline with the growing nationalism in several countries around Jevi. Since the Ciscans left almost 30 years before, Hakani had developed a sense for nationalism, and their leader, Zosa Carmella, had built up an army that other nations in Jevi began to fear. In 1992, Carmella demanded that the Ciscans hand over the islands of Dela Vida and Gardeau about 300 miles west of Hakani's beaches. The Ciscans refused and the islands were invaded and overrun, with many Ciscans fleeing to other islands in hopes of being saved.

Reports of an invasion of Argan was being speculated by the people in Argan, yet no one believed that the Hakanians had the Naval power to overrun the blockades that surrounded the continent.

In 1994, Bromania was invaded from the inside out. Emperor Archard I was assassinated and the Bromanians declared war on the invading Carmellan Hakanians. In only 6 months, Bromania was overrun, and Carmella launched an invasion on the coast of southern Cisco, which was suprise to the army. After a long siege on Port Alonosia, the Hakanians occupied the city, and Cisco declared war. Temp, Juliana, and Monna quickly followed and the 2nd Argan War began.

By 1997, the most of Cisco had fallen to the Hakanians, with only the northeastern part of the country remaining unscathed. Forces from Aloso and other naval powers began to liberate the southern beaches of Cisco, all while the north continued to be bombarded by Zosa Carmella and his grand army.

Analeas also declared war following a monarch change and so all the powers in Argan fought against the regime for what could be their freedom. Cisco City fell to Carmella in April of 1997. The Carmellans controlled all of Bromania and nearly all of Cisco, and installed a puppet governor in Monna as the King fled to Juliana.

With the overwhelming forces of the Analeasians to assist them, the remaining Ciscan troops began to push out the regime, and overtook Cisco City. In killing Carmella, the Hakanian troops fell into chaos, and ultimately surrendered.

Following the war, the atoricities that the people of Cisco endured left a gaping whole to them. No with many displaced Hakanians in the continent, the nation was part of two concepts to the issue. Integrate, or deport. Cisco chose the latter.

As the region of Cisco City became overpopulated with Hakanians, the region had began to seperate themselves from other Ciscans who wished to eliminate all the remaining Hakanians on the continent. Cisco City became part of Monna, and Cisco moved it's capital back to Port Alonosia for the first time since 1842. Deciding that the name of the country didn't match with what losing their old capital entailed, many name ideas arose: Cosette, named after the head of the captain of the liberating forces down south, Alonosia to mimic their capital and main capital region. However, as many people deemed the country "non-inclusive" for their discrimination towards Jevians, one brought to mind a name not in Mikanan, but in Middle Argana. Charisogo, which meant "Liberty we seek" began to stick with the people. Charisogo became the new name in the constituiton, while many still referred to the nation as Cisco, despite having lost their namesake capital.

Today Charisogo remains an economic stronghold. Despite not holding full administration of Cisco City, the trades that occur there are not under the jurisdiction of Ivina, but by the regulations set by Argan , which isn't any different from pre-war Argan.