Commonwealth of Cairon

Cairon, officially the Commonwealth of Cairon, is a nation in Oceania, comprising of the eastern Oceanian mainland as well as a vast array of archipelagos, primarily over Gargon's Bay. Like many other nations across the Armestisian Equator, it is considered a megadiverse nation with tropical rainforests across most of the eastern coast. In the continent, it is the second largest, most populous and most economically powerful. It shares a direct land border with the Democratic People's Republic of Cairon and maritime borders with the Philippines, Polynesia and Vaiga. The capital of Cairon is Cairns.

## Etymology

The name Cairon originally was used as a shorthand moniker for a people who lived on the south-east coast of Oceania by European explorers who first navigated the region. They were named such after their large array of stone monuments, their largest city being dubbed Cairns, which survives to this day.

Oceania is called such as naval navigators sailing across the Armestisian Equator expected the eastern bridge continent to continue in their northwards incline and predicted where Oceania was to be entirely of ocean. After the discovery of a huge landmass, it was initially dubbed Oceania as a jest but the name stuck in official Armestisian documents and transcripts due to its prolific usage as popular slang in the Armestisian navy.

## History

Though most of the recorded history of Cairon did not commence until Armestisian colonisation of Oceania in the 18th century, native aboriginals had inhabited the land for at least 50,000 years according to archaeological data, living in some of the world's most culturally rich, diverse, artistic and long-standing civilisations. The current Cairon nation descends from one of these civilisations, known to the European explorers as Cairns. After a brutal genocidal war against Armestisian colonists, the Oceanian civilisations were slowly assimilated into European empires, particularly that of Armestis. After gold was discovered in the mid 19th century, many migrants flocked to Oceania and Armestis' vast array of fertile and free lands across the Armestisian Equator meant that it could reward its sailors with land after their service. Subsequently, the European population grew in the following decades.

After gaining self-governing rights from Armestis following the disastrous War of the Crows in 1920, Cairon underwent a massive political and military upheaval, with many of its political core comprised naturally of skilled ex-Armestisians sailors, as they had both the skillset to survive until retirement and the political power from gaining large swathes of land. As such, Cairon's government became unified for the next decade under the concept of the "Caironian Equator", the successor to Armestis' empire. However, the navy was widely condemned despite their successes (such as the conflict in East Adriatia), due to the drain such a large carrier fleet imposed on the new nation, with many international neighbours sanctioning the state. However, this flipped during the Second Great War's Pacific Theatre, where with the help of a mass propaganda campaign, Cairon successfully portrayed themselves as the heroes that liberated Asia from the imperialistic Yamato threat, gaining governance from willing lands such as the Philippines and many other islands in the Coral Sea.

Cairon's power would eventually cascade even further during the Cold War, when with the help of captured Yamato experimental scientists, they successfully developed some of the most powerful and game-changing weapons of the early Cold War, most infamously the AD-1111 "Tenny", the first reliable anti-ICBM missile readily available for military usage. Many of their ports were also key strategic areas for ITO containment operations in Asia, gaining valuable insight in the logistical requirements of large carrier fleets and political tact of handling a hosted coalition of a wide variety of competing international nations. Most of the knowledge and fleet power gained during the Cold War was utilised during the 1980s, taking advantage of ITO's distraction of the Third American Civil War and a low point for the People's Republic of Chunjin, successfully winning a streak of decisive battles, gaining their naval forces the nickname of "Suntouched", due to their perceived invulnerability. After suffering defeat after defeat and besieged on the sea, Chunjin conceded Caironian spheres of influence to be expanded to most of the rest of South Asia, including the entirety of Kiphu, making Cairon for a time the most populous country in the world.