History of the Libirachi High Republic (1912 - 1970)

* 1933 - Eshter Morgan
* 1925 - Eshter Morgan
 Preceded By
 * Early Republic

The **History of the Imperial Republic of Libirachi in the period of 1912 - 1970** is known as the **High Republic** and was the first major period of history in the Imperial Republic of Libirachi. By the time of the High Republic Era of the Imperial Republic of Libirachi, the political spectrum had somewhat evolved with presidents taking on more of the burdens of office whilst also being the leaders of political parties, such as the Revolutionary party which dominated the empire for much of its republican era, whilst the Progressive party and the off-shoot Revolutionary Socialist party also held office at one point too. As such the old tribunal was slightly adjusted during this era;

* **President of the Libirachi Empire**; defined as the head of state within the new republic, the president would be responsible for co-ordinating the efforts of the Imperial Government and directing the policies of the nation, whilst also taking the role of head of state and thus being the unofficial emperor of the country.
* **Vice President of the Libirachi Empire**; defined as the head of government in the Imperial Republic, the vice president would be responsible for keeping the National Congress in line with the president’s goals and policies, whilst also chairing the imperial cabinet in the absence of the president and was first in line to the presidency in the line of succession. The title was abolished in 1933 with the ascendancy of Eshter Morgan to the Presidency
	+ **First Minister of the Libirachi Empire**; with the death of Eshter Morgan in 1949, the remaining Libirachi government attempted to perpetrate the lie that Morgan was still alive and the with Jacob Zuma pulling the strings of office, he appointed himself as First Minister, a title which was promptly revoked in 1950 when Xi Kanna took office.
* **Grand Marshal of the Imperial Army**; as the head of the Libirachi Imperial Army, the Grand Marshal was the *alter rex* of the new Imperial Republic, with the army commanding huge influence in the nation and with the lack of a nation-wide civilian government, local warlords from the army would run entire regions of the nation, so the Grand Marshal wielded sizeable influence over the regime.

## High Republic

### New Longwood era

    Entering into politics as a member of the Imperial Ruling Council as part of his father's Revolutionary Party in 1901, Pearce Longwood became a renowned councillor in the early years of the new century, serving his father loyally in the council, which served as a replacement for the Libirachi National Congress which was shut in 1871 following the Shanghai Uprising of 1870-71. Serving as Chairman of the Ruling Council between 1905 and 1912, Pearce Longwood acted as the head of government during his tenure and upon the death of his father in 1912, Longwood was inaugurated as the third President of the Libirachi Empire on August 5, 1912.Taking over power from his father the day after his death, Pearce Longwood became the third President of the Libirachi Empire aged 50, making him the youngest President of the Imperial Republic of Libirachi at the time. Following a sombre military state funeral for Ashford Longwood in early September 1912, President Longwood began setting out a new infrastructure plan to unite the nation together, connecting the political capital of Beijing with the western reaches which had been subjugated under his father's regime, allowing for greater trade between all regions of the Libirachi Empire. To keep order along these new roads and rail lines, the army was expanded to match the occasion and military control over several regions began to intensify, leading to an outwards push into the imperial protectorate of Russia which became a fully integrated part of the empire following it's 1735 occupation. Following 7 years of leading the Imperial Ruling Council under the presidency of Ashford Longwood, Pearce Longwood brought back the Libirachi National Congress in 1915 and slowly began reintroducing elements of local rule to deal with the task of governing a vast continental republic, devolving powers to regional governors across the 1910s and 1920s in order to grant them regionalised powers for provincial governance.

    Likewise, the National Congress began to legislate on behalf of the Revolutionary Party as the party began to form the National Front, a group of secondary parties which served as a *de-jure* opposition to the revolutionaries, but in reality served no purpose other than to present the façade of democracy. Despite this, Longwood attempted to grow democratic establishments for ranks under the presidency, ensuring that the President would remain as a *de-facto* dictator over the nation whilst allowing for a democratic National Congress to legislate for itself. Appointing his wife Jane to the office of Vice President in 1912, Longwood became a proponent of women's rights and in 1920 signed into law the Gender Equality Act of 1920, making the Libirachi Empire one of the first nations in the world to allow women's suffrage, although like many other such policies at the time, only women over 30 who either owned land or were married would be allowed to vote for members of the National Congress. With the resignation of his wife Jane in 1925 following a bout of illness, President Longwood appointed his aide Eshter Morgan to the rank of Vice President the same year and as Vice President Morgan began to cultivate her own political style as a loyal deputy to the most powerful man in Asia, Longwood's health began to deteriorate in the 1930s. Having made his last public address in 1932, Pearce Longwood eventually succumbed to old age and illness following a bout of influenzia, and on July 23, 1933 died in the Presidential Palace in Beijing, ending 63 years of Longwood family rule over the Libirachi Empire with the assentation of Vice President Eshter Morgan to the presidency.

### Morgan Era

    After a regal inauguration ceremony, Eshter Morgan quickly set about solidifying her position of power, dissolving ranks such as the Vice President and the Cabinet, placing her as the sole wielder of power in the nation. Having appointed herself Protector of the Empire, she used the military to transform the country into a one-party state, killing hundreds of freedom of speech protesters in Tiananmen Square when she sent the military in to crush demonstrations. Taking over the reigns of the Libirachi Imperial Army, the ongoing Cold War with Bovido Has grew increasingly antagonistic as the Libirachi Empire began to cause boarder skirmishes during the 1930s, sending patrols over the Bovido boarders and claiming parts of their land to be Libirachi property, leading to all out fighting in 1938 and Bovido Archbishop and Emperor Caanan Ujung was quietly removed and replaced behind the scenes in the same year, leading to Matthew Aquilla taking up the mantle and pursuing a more peaceful solution, ceding land to the Libirachi Empire in 1942 and the establishing the Joash Boarder on mainland Asia, which at the time was the largest fortified land boarder in the world. Having proven her mettle in the 1938 Libirachi-Bovido Boarder Skirmishes, President Eshter Morgan began to use her newfound political capital to embark on a socialist redistribution of wealth and land in 1940 under the proclamation of a "Cultural Revolution", stripping vast parts of the federal system favoured by her predecessors and the nation's founders in favour of a more centralised governmental system, inadvertently throwing thousands across the nation into poverty as the chaotic centralisation of power saw those resistant to the plans being removed from office and thrown into holding camps for harbouring "anti revolutionary ideologies".

    With as many as 1.2 million detainees being held in some form of holding camp, the government of Eshter Morgan began to find itself shorted by a lack of capable party members to govern the nation, and the Progressive Party gradually began to conduct insurgent warfare against the government under the leadership of party chairman Xi Kanna, using the party's membership of the National Front to hide it's actions; having their connection to rebel groups detected in 1944 following a foiled assassination attempt on First Minister Jacob Zuma, the Progressive party was expelled from the Libirachi National Congress and for the most part the political organs of the party were dissolved by the state, but with notable officials like Chairman Xi escaping the arms of the Imperial Army, the party was able to begin anew in the wilderness of Inner Mongolia, where the party formed into a formidable fighting force. Returning back to the forefront of Libirachi internal affairs in 1945 with the capture of an armed convoy headed for Beijing, the Progressive movement began to carry out guerrilla warfare against the state, forcing the Libirachi Imperial Army to fight a war of attrition against their foes, draining the resources and moral of the Libirachi soldiers in the process. Later the same year, a brutal prison riot at Imperial Holding Camp 456 led to the liquidation of the entire roster of detainees, including children, leading to outrage as the story began to make its way to the civilian population, and many joined up arms with the Progressives to topple the Morgan regime

    Battered and bruised by 4 long years of war, the government of President Eshter Morgan cease to function and be dissolved by February 1949, with the Presidium being founded in March 1949 to act as a ruling council instead as the National Congress likewise began to resist Morgan's edicts and was forcefully closed on May 4, 1949. Eager to try and project her own personal power, President Morgan began holding large scale rallies in Beijing as the insurgents began to encircle the city, leading to a fateful speech on June 28, 1949 when Morgan was assassinated on the balcony of Tiananmen gate by a sniper team led personally by Chairman Xi Kanna, leaving the government in disarray and even further internal turmoil. Electing the young First Minister Jacob Zuma to the office of General Secretary of the Revolutionary Party in a closed door meeting on the same day as Morgan's death, the party began to purge itself in seeming preparation for self-exile, but with Zuma at the helm they instead began to perpetuate the lie that Eshter Morgan had indeed survived the assassination attempt, but was receiving medical treatment within the Forbidden City. This so-called "Great Lie" allowed the Zuma government to claim to act on the president's behalf and function as if they were her chosen deputies; indeed, the party even went to the effort to use heavily edited footage and drive around the president's personal train to attempt to show the president was alive and moving about. Despite governing for 7 months in the name of the assassinated president, the government of First Minister Jacob Zuma began to crumble as the insurgency encroached around Beijing, leading Zuma and his government to flee the capital and set up a rival government in the Libirachi mountains of Tibet. Capturing the capital city of the Libirachi Empire on February 13, 1950, Chairman Xi Kanna was inaugurated as the fourth President of the Libirachi Empire, formally ending the presidency of Eshter Morgan who still held the title legally, making her the only president to rule posthumously

### Kanna Years

    Battered and bruised by 4 long years of war, the government of President Eshter Morgan cease to function and be dissolved by February 1949, with the Presidium being founded in March 1949 to act as a ruling council instead as the National Congress likewise began to resist Morgan's edicts and was forcefully closed on May 4, 1949. Eager to try and project her own personal power, President Morgan began holding large scale rallies in Beijing as the insurgents began to encircle the city, leading to a fateful speech on June 28, 1949 when Morgan was assassinated on the balcony of Tiananmen gate by a sniper team led personally by Chairman Xi Kanna, leaving the government in disarray and even further internal turmoil. Electing the young First Minister Jacob Zuma to the office of General Secretary of the Revolutionary Party in a closed door meeting on the same day as Morgan's death, the party began to purge itself in seeming preparation for self-exile, but with Zuma at the helm they instead began to perpetuate the lie that Eshter Morgan had indeed survived the assassination attempt, but was receiving medical treatment within the Forbidden City. This so-called "Great Lie" allowed the Zuma government to claim to act on the president's behalf and function as if they were her chosen deputies; indeed, the party even went to the effort to use heavily edited footage and drive around the president's personal train to attempt to show the president was alive and moving about. Despite governing for 7 months in the name of the assassinated president, the government of First Minister Jacob Zuma began to crumble as the insurgency encroached around Beijing, leading Zuma and his government to flee the capital and set up a rival government in the Libirachi mountains of Tibet. Capturing the capital city of the Libirachi Empire on February 13, 1950, Chairman Xi Kanna was inaugurated as the fourth President of the Libirachi Empire, formally ending the presidency of Eshter Morgan who still held the title legally, making her the only president to rule posthumously

    Having spent nearly 40 years as a major public figure within the Libirachi Empire and 20 of those as the nation's leader, Xi Kanna finally succumbed to a variety of ailments on January 2, 1970 after suffering from two major heart attacks the previous month and a third lethal on January 2, ending the turbulent regime of Xi's presidency. With no strong successor ready to assume the presidency, the title remained vacant for nearly 8 days as in-fighting among the Progressive party led to widespread chaos in Beijing and afar as the government made the premature decision to announce the death of Xi Kanna on January 3, 1970 leading to the infighting only growing in tenacity in the following days. Word of President Xi's demise quickly got out, traveling as far as the Mongolian plains where former First Minister Jacob Zuma and his Libirachi Revolutionary Party remained in exile following the Tiananmen Uprising of 1945-1950; by January 7, Zuma had built up an army on his travel southward to Beijing, massing many thousands in size. Fearing both for their lives and of another civil war, the National Congress voted by majority to dissolve itself and invite Jacob Zuma to take up the presidency; with the Libirachi National Congress dissolved, much of the Progressive party fled the nation and went into exile, and upon the inauguration of Zuma on January 10, 1970, the Congress was reinstated with a new Revolutionary Socialist majority, ending the crisis as now-President Jacob Zuma began to consolidate his power.