Avestania

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**Avestania** (Avestanian) or the **Commonwealth of Avestania** is a country in the continent of Grastica. It is one of the richest countries in the continent with the 2021 GDP of over 650 billions Clovers. Avestania is about the size of 75% of Ukraine and it borders Salhai to its north and Pao to its west with the population of over 65.9 Million people. Avestania’s official language is Syori and the country has one of the most educated people in Grastica, if not the world. Its capital city is Pogris which covers 914 Square kilometers. The national anthem of Avestania is “Land From Where Avestus Came” which was written during the early 20th century when Avestania was still under Salhani rule and meant to support the Avestanian independence movement from Salhai.

## **Flag**

Avestania’s flag consists of a white background stands for, the people of Avestania. The black part of the flag, signifies, equality and integirty. Green stands for dignity, Red stands for bravery and determination, the yellow ray stands for Justice, blue stands for Perseverence and the star in the middle flag stands for unity and solidarty.

## Physical Geography

For Avestania’s physical geography, the northwest region of the country also called Belastanya has hills scattered around it and the south, having a green plain which can go well for agriculture. For Avestania’s Northeastern region however, it is a desert where not many people live in except in the cities and it is where Avestania’s capital city, Poggersberg is located. The flatter/lighter plain in between the desert and the green plain has a Mediterranean climate. It’d be very important to mention Avestania’s 2 most important rivers. The first river to the north is the Chang River and the 2nd river to the south is the Novgorn River. These rivers are important for agriculture and contribute to Avestania being one of the most bread rich countries in Gratica and exports bread to other countries. These rivers contain nitrogen and Phosphorus and the soil around it is very fertile which is good for agriculture. There is also a rainy season within a summer season where rain clouds that come from the ocean would travel along the 2 rivers where the rain which contains Phosphorus, Nitrogen, Potassium, and Calcium would fertilize the crops. The Belastanya region is usually colder than the rest of Avestania, the desert part is usually very warm and hot and thus, the light green reigon shown on the phsysical geography map between the desert and the green region has a mediterranean climate including the coast and the rest usually has a moderate climate.

## Ethnic Makeup Map

Avestania’s ethnic groups shows that 82% of Avestania’s population is ethnically Avestan with 14% of the being Salhani with the remaining 4% being Paosian. This does not account for the foreigners, living in Avestania who moved to the country in search of opportunities with the Koryeans making up, 27% of the

foreigners in Avestania. Despite Avestania’s population being 82% ethnically Avestan, Avestania does have regional cultures with their own music and tradition within the single unifying culture and identity that everyone haves in Avestania, including the Salhani’s and Paosians living in Avestania.

## **Culture**

Avestania has a culture that values literature and creativity. It has many books and poems written by Avestanians and Avestanians are encouraged to read books or poems. Avestanians Cinema and animation often have movies that are based on books or inspired by books. Avestanian Mythology is also a major part of Avestanian culture and even history. For the Gastronomy of Avestania, dishes such as Meatballs, Lumras (Lumras are based on the Lumpiang Shanghai in the Philippines), Poelis (Based on Sinigang in the Philippines), and more are famous dishes in Avestania.

For music, there regional types of music that regions in Avestania are into such as the eastern region of the country, is into drums and singing while the south is into the flute and singing with sometimes drums and the north is into just singing with their voice. However, when the classical form of music was introduced in Avestania, all the different regions within Avestania all had a unifying taste in classical music and helped create a unified sense of identity in music and soon, national identity. For art, Oil painting is very popular in Avestania. Modern day Avestanian music, Indie pop music and indie rock music is very popular in Avestania.

For the famous stars in Avestania, we have a famous chess player named Victoria Belladonne. She is known as the Chess Queen or “Queen Victoria”. She became famous around the late 2000s and hasn’t lost a game since 2011 when she lost against a chess bot. Victoria has continued to play chess up until now! There is a famous painter in Avestania known as Martin Yen. The painter would often be filmed on TV, painting beautiful paintings using different painting techniques and he has a kind personality. There is also a popular Indie pop and rock trio called AKS. The AKS stands for the following members of the band, Atith, Kiry, and Sven and they are very popular in Avestania for their amazing songs such as “World’s Largest Symphony”, “Unkind Tapestry”, “Out of Kindness”, “Your Title”, and more! They may sometimes tour around the country and even go on an world tour once in a while. They became popular during the late 2000s and up until now they are still active in their careers!

## Liberal Democratic Party of Avestania

Avestania’s form of government is a Liberal Democracy. Avestania believes in serving the people and preserving their rights. Avestania calls itself a “Commonwealth” which is a meaning for the common welfare; the public good. The Government has been run by the Liberal Democratic Party of Avestania (Left-leaning) who has so far, been the only party that has been running the country since 1987. The Liberal Democratic Party of Avestania has had a huge impact on modern Avestania itself from the economy and society. The LDPA is very popular with the people as they have helped the country become a prosperous and developed country. There are also other parties in Avestania such as the Social-Democratic Party of Avestania (Left-leaning) and the National Unity Party of Avestania (Right-leaning). As for now, the LDPA is the current dominant political party of Avestania and remains popular with the Avestanian people.

## Early Phinum

Avestania’s origins date back to the migration of the Avestanic tribes from the north to south along with the Salhanic tribes and they were jointly migrating south, eventually forming into kingdoms. The first civilization to have popped in up in Avestania was the kingdom of Phinum which was founded on the Chang River which was thought to have existed since 1170 B.C. The kingdom was real but parts of it’s origins are likely to be mythical. It is said that this kingdom was founded when the 4 spirits of Good blessed a mother of good heart with a baby, prophesying that the baby will grow up to lead his people and start a prosperous civilization. The Spirits of Good made this decision in order to help combat the 4 Sprits of Evil as the Spirits of Good and the Spirits of Evil are in a constant struggle over what the fate of the world should be, The 4 spirits of spirits of good are Dignitas, the spirit of Dignity, Eoghan, the spirit of Bravery and Determination, Oisín, the spirit of Justice, and Aodhan, the spirit of Perseverance. The 4 Spirits of Evil are Halnus, the spirit of Corruption, Daruk, the spirit of Fear, Damni, the spirit of arrogance and selfishness, and Gonemn, the spirit of Greed. The baby that would be born would be named, Avestus. By the time of Avestus’ birth, his village would be raided by barbarians where the mother with her baby would flee away from her village. A wolf would be sent by the spirits of good and would appear near the mother but the wolf was friendly and the wolf would protect the mother and the baby from any harm and danger and the mother would feed the wolf in return. When Avestus grew older, he would begin to expand the farm that his mother built in order to feed herself and Avestus and he would expand the farm by order of the Spirits of Good and get animals to move in and later, people would move in to his farm in order to be fed as they too have fled their villages and was suffering from hunger and thirst so they moved into his farm for sanctuary. Soon, Avestus’ home would grow into a village and a sanctuary. When Avestus’ was old enough, he would to establish a professional army in the village to protect themselves against any future raids. Avestus would also build a boat to sail to other villages where he would establish trade and relations with other villages. Avestus would eventually unite all the other villages along the Chang River into a single kingdom called Phinum with other villages and towns along the Chang River later joining. He would then raise a strong professional army from each village in the Kingdom Phinum where they would protect the kingdom from any attacks and raids. Avestus would crowned king and he was a generous king whom as the spirits prophesied that he would establish a prosperous civilization and Avestus did exactly that. Avestus would eventually pass away, where the the people were then ordered by the Spirits to cast Avestus into the river. The river began showing light when Avestus was casted into the river and later, the people name it, the Chang River which means, the Shining River. The Chang River would double the agricultural production.

## Early Phinum

Since Avestus did not birth a child or marry anyone, he didn't have an heir to take the throne. This would cause a brief moment of a succession crisis and many provinces within Phinum wanted to claim the crown. However, in order to not cause the kingdom to collapse into smaller states because of the succession crisis, the provinces would decide that Avestus would remain as the king spiritually and that the local provinces must remain united in order to protect themselves against future raids however the provinces will be autonomous. There would be a leader that would help govern all the provinces and that would be the leader that come from the same place that Avestus built and grew up on and that would be Azelan. Azelan would focus on, strengthening the kingdom as well as expanding it. He would focus on education as well and and increasing access to education for everyone. This would create a culture of literacy, creativity, and art.

## Phinum

Phinum in the later centuries would interact with other civilizations in modern Avestania such as Novrika and the Belastanya clans. Phinum would trade with the Belastanyan clans while establsihibg diplomatic ties with Novrika. Phinum was a prosperous kingdom for its time with a strong military. Phinum was also good with diplomacy and is often a neutral state. Phinum was also effective in governing itself. Phinum would last a long time because of this.

## Albon

When the Lipian Empire started to invade everyone, it managed to reach modern day Avestania. Despite, Phinums strong military, it was unable to beat the tactics of the raiders and thus, the rest of modern day Avestania got consumed into the Lipian Empire. What came out of it was the Kingdom of Albon which was a Lipian puppet state. There were reasons for why Phinum fell such as over-reliance neutrality, stagnation, etc. Phinums people had feared that the raiders would one day return and destroy everything and it had just happened. The Kingdom of Albon would be ruled by primarily Lipian and Salhani rulers and they would subjugate the population. There was slavery and brutal mass slaughter for opposition but there was also knowledge shown from the Phinum days to the Albon rulers and the rulers would slowly adapt to Avestanian society and culture. Resistance in Albon would slowly grow stronger as the Lipian Empire grow weaker.

Eventually, there would be a massive rebellion against the Albon and Lipian army. The rebellion would successfully kick out the Albon rulers out of Avestania. The states that would come out of this rebellion would be Novgornia to the south, Scotia and Yuraquez which are city states bordering Novgornia, Beldare, Belastanya, Marisia, and the biggest break away state, Tarystanya. Taristanya was led by a man who claimed to be the Spiritual descendant of Avestus and thus, he proclaimed to be known as **Avestus the II**. Avestus the II would vow to unite all the kingdoms under 1 kingdom and to form a prosperous civilization that Avestus before him had done.

## 7 Kingdoms Period

7 Kingdoms came out of the rebellion after kicking out the Albon rulers. Out of the 7 kingdoms, the Kingdom known as "Aryistanya" led by a man named "Avestus the II" who claimed to be the spiritual descendant of Avestus ruled the biggest and strongest kingdom. He seeked to unite all the kingdoms under his kingdom whether by force or not. Taristanya would spend the following 4 years, preparing and mobilizing to take over the other kingdoms. This eventually led to a clash between Aarystanya and the other 6 kingdoms. Avestus the II would lead an invasion into Novgornia and Beldare. Belastanya would respond by invading into Arystanya, advancing along the Chang River. The Arystanyan army would then defeat Beldare and then turn towards invading Belastanya. Meanwhile, the advancing Belastanyan forces were stopped by the Arystanian army and resistance. The Arystanyan forces would then advance deeper into Novgornia and capture Scotia. Marisia would then enter the war against Arystanya and help out Belastanya and Novgornia and liberating parts of Beldare. Belastanya would eventually retreat back to Belastanya where they would hold out against Arystanya. Eventually, Novgornia and Yuraquez would fall to Arystanyan forces and they would turn to wiping out the rest of Beldare and defeating Marisia before finally taking over Belastanya. Defeating Beldare and Marisia were not easy however, defeating Belastanya was even harder due to the hilly terrain and potential ambushes that the Arystanyan forces could face so it took awhile to defeat Belastanya and it took bribing local rulers of Belastanya to turn on Belastanya for benefits abd military tactics to finally defeat Belastanya.

## Arystanya

The early period of Arystanya was to integrate the newly conquered kingdoms and to fight off rebellion. In order for his kingdom to last long was to make sure that there would be no succession crisis after his death. So he married a woman named Tralsa where he would birth 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls. Avestus the II made sure that he would have a continuing family bloodline that would rule Aristanya beyond his reign.

## Late Arystanya

Arystania after the 7 kingdoms period, focused on establishing trade routes with nearby civilizations. The trade route would benefit Arystanya economically, exporting textiles and agricultural products in general. Thanks to the trade routes established, there was a push to make agriculture easier and thus, the Seed Rower was invented in Arystanya and mills were built as well. Aystanta would focus on neutrality, good diplomacy, and a strong military like what Phinum did in the past however, Arystanya would not remain isolationist and stagnant and would adapt to new changes such as the adaption gunpowder and guns. Furthermore, Arystanya would focus on establishing new trade routes and would experience an age of exploration during the mid 15th century. Arystanya would also have a golden age and a renaissance age for art and culture during the mid 15th century. Arystanya made other cool inventions that were from other countries such as the clock, fireworks, cool ways of architecture, etc. and Arystanya made some cool discoveries like treatment of diseases that was also adapted from other countries and for military stuff and they invented the Hwacha's and adapted the use of the Huolongchushui's from other countries. Arystanya had a powerful navy that was useful in protecting trade or getting demands from other countries. Arystanya gained Paosian tributary states from Paosian nomadic clans near Arystanya who may try to plan on invade and raid Arystanya however thanks to Arystanya's good diplomacy, the Paosian clans were provided support, military protection and an alliance from Arystanya in exchange for paying tributes such as taxes or offerings to Arystanya.

However, as modern states begin to form out of Arystanya's neighbors and grew more powerful, they eyed towards Arystanya, seeking to take its land for themselves.

## Partition of Arystanya

As Arystanya's neighbors begin to grow more powerful, they began to eye on Arystanya. For Pao at the time, they wanted to take some of Arystanya's land to "liberate the ethnic Paosians living in Aystanya" and annex Arystanya's Paosian tributary states. For the newly united Salhai, they wanted to take Arystanya in order to obtain the coastal cities and seize Arystanya's powerful navy so that they can use them for trade and potentially use them to build a powerful navy. They also wanted to get access to the Chang and Novgorn river that they could use to have a huge agricultural industry out of so they could have a bigger economy. Pao and Salhai would sign a deal to partition Arystanya. Despite Arystanya's diplomatic efforts to satisfy both of its neighbors, it would ultimately be useless as on 1639, both Pao and Salhai would invade Arystanya. The invasion would last 6 years as Arystanya had a strong military with the technology advantage and Arystanya would even be able to go on the offensive sometimes however, Arystanya wasn’t able to successfully beat her enemies and eventually, the invaders would be able to successfully beat back the Arystanyan forces and would begin to advance on all sides. Arystanya’s enemies had the larger manpower that Arystanya had to fight with and it would begin to drain Arystanya’s manpower and recourses. When the war began to turn south for Arystanya, the Arystanyan monarchy would begin to board the ship in Yuraquez where the royal family would sail away from the fighting where they would end up in modern day Nadam. Arystanya would eventually capitulate in 1645 however, resistance would still remain.

When Arystanya capitulated, the people felt devastated that their homeland that had lasted for a long, capitulated to the invaders in just 6 years. There was a hope that the people had on that day that one day, the Arystanyan monarchy or an angel would come to liberate their homeland from the foreign occupiers.

## Guinivite Rebellion

When Arystanya fell, the people felt devasted about this. Despite this, many hoped that one day, someone may come to liberate their homeland from the foreign occupiers. As the royal family of Arystanya fled, they would take refuge in modern day Nadam where they would stay there in exile. Over 80 years after the invasion and capitulation of Arystanya, a woman from the royal family named **Guinevere** would sail back to Arystanya to attempt to liberate the homeland. Guinevere would spend her years in modern day Nadam, raising a lot of money. She was told stories from her family about the tragic events that happened decades about what happened in Arystanya when was young and she took an oath, vowing to one day return to the homeland to liberate Arystanya from the foreign occupiers.

She would take a leap of faith to sail back to Arystanya in 1721 where she would end up in the Novgornia region under Salhani rule. Turns out, that the people since the fall of Arystanya have either been turned into surfs with landlords having a lot of power. Since Salhai now occupies most of former Arystanya, they now have access the coastal cities meaning, they have built a stronger navy and had better trade with other countries since the fall of Arystanya and since they have access to the Chang and Novgorn river, they have been able to have a bigger agricultural industry and had access to produce a lot of textiles, cotton, wheat, and more that made the Salhanis richer. Guinevere would spend 7 years, attempting to rally many people to her cause while trying to arm as many people as possible while not getting caught. Tensions between the people and the occupiers as there would be clashes in the streets of villages, towns, and even cities in the years and months leading up to the rebellion. When the time was ready, she began to make a grand statement to call the people to take up arms and rebel against the occupiers. The people led by Guinevere would instigate a rebellion in the northeast region of modern day Avestania and very quickly, many would soon follow.

The rebellion would begin in the northeast region of modern day Avestania. The rebellion would quickly spread like wildfire across occupied-Arystanya. The Guinivite forces would defeat the outnumbered and unprepared Salhanis in the early stages of the war and the Paosians, despite their large numbers would be defeated repeatedly by the Guinivites on multiple battles and confrontations. When the Guinivites captured the coastal cities, they used the ships that were built by Salhai to launch naval raids on Salhani coastal cities. Guinevere and the Guinivites were doing relatively well during the early stages of the war, leaving the occupiers devastated and having to re-organize. However, as the years drag on between the occupiers and the Guinivites, Guinevere now had to deal with the recourse depletion. As the rebellion continued for a long time, guns, manpower, horses, and more would slowly start to deplete. Meanwhile, Guinevere’s enemies had began to learn from their early defeats and would would adapt their tactics accordingly. This eventually led to the Salhani and Paosian counteroffensive that would devastate the Guinivite forces but so much blood had to be bled in order to defeat the Guinivites. The rebellion would last a total of 21 years which showed how much, all sides were willing to pay in order to achieve victory. Eventually, the Guinivites would finally mostly be stamped out and Guinevere would be executed however, resistance would still remain for a long time and the concept of an Avestanian national identity would also remain until the independence of Avestania centuries later.

Pao and especially Salhai would reduce their harsh treatment on the Avestanian people in order to prevent further rebellions. The Guinivite Rebellion was an important historical event in Avestania’s history. Even though, the rebellion failed, it showed the determination and resilience that Guinevere and her followers were. The Guinvite Rebellion is often a very romanticized historical event as the historical event may poetically be represented as “an angel who would come to the homeland to liberate it from the foreign occupiers”. The cyan color that Guinevere used during the rebellion would become a symbol of Liberty in Avestania.

### **Salhani Rule (1645-1952)**

During period between 1645 and 1728 before the Guinivite rebellion, Salhai would focus on trying to take advantage of the agriculture in Avestania and building a strong navy. Salhai now had the powerful battle ships ships left from the Arystanya days. They would turn many Avestanians into surfs to work on the farms in order to maximize the agricultural production and they would begin to build stronger and more powerful ships thanks to the help of studying the design of many Arystanyan battle ships and capturing Avestanian ship architects. Salhai would also begin to trade more after the fall of Arystanya. This would create an economic rise for Salhai but Avestanians being surfs, would be treated badly, almost like slaves.

The Salhanis would have reduce their harsh treatment of the Avestanians after crushing the Guinivite Rebellion but their would be more Salhani military presence in Avestania just in case. Serfdom would eventually cease to exist. Salhai would still focus on using Avestania to increase trade with other countries, build a strong navy, and use the Chang and Novgorn river to boost the agricultural production and build other industries from agriculture such as the cotton and textile industries. As serfdom was eventually abolished, Avestanians were slowly given more rights and they would be seen as a major ethnic group in Salhai. Avestanians would protest for a local government in Pogris instead of only being ruled by the government in Tofarakhan and a nicer Salhani government would eventually grant them, a local government in Pogris by the late 1830s in order to make ruling and managing it's territories easier but Avestania would still ruled by Salhai. There would later be ideas and attempts of establishing a Salhai-Avestanian Union (kinda like Austria-Hungary, in real life).

## Industrial Revolution in Avestania

When the industrial revolution was in full swing, Avestania would be able to industrialize before Salhai. This was because, innovation was part of Avestanian culture and was heavily encouraged and thus, engineers and inventors were respected in Avestanian society and was encouraged and this was evidently the case for centuries and Avestanians also had access to education whether its from schools or knowledge passed down to the next generation. Another reason was because Salhai would invest a lot into Avestania as Salhai uses Avestania to trade with other countries and the Chang and Novgorn river are also important for the agricultural industry. Salhai investment into the agricultural industry and innovation from the Avestanians would already stage for Avestania to rapidly develop and many farmers would move to the cities. Avestania didn't need to invest money to have a standing army as Salhai already covers that and would act as a protector for Avestania. Avestania also had access to the recourses needed to industrialize whether it was from its own country or from trade. And so the stage was set and Avestania would begin to industrialize and develop itself. When the local government was established, the local government would do a strategy of allowing investors to invest into Avestania which would help, further make Avestania even more economically developed than Salhai in which, they would follow soon after. The textile and cotton industries would become mechanized which would boost the production of cotton and textiles even more and thus, increasing revenues in trade in which, the revenue from trade would help develop Avestania's economy even further. Avestania and Salhai would do a joint investment into building railways that would connect the major cities of Avestania together and making transportation into other cities in Avestania, easier. Now, working conditions weren't the best like any industrial society during the early and late industrial revolutions and Avestanians weren't paid a lot but the products produced were cheap anyway. Avestanian culture would also flourish during this time with classical music becoming very popular in Avestanian society and it would help form Avestania's national identity.

Things would go well for Avestania, going into 20th century. Salhai would begin to allow Avestania to become democratic and host elections by 1912 after further demands from the people. The Avestanian National Party which is a pro-independence party would quickly become the most popular party in Avestania along with along with the rising left-wing parties that include socialist and communist parties in Avestania but still pro-independence. During ww2, Salhai would export and sell Avestanian grains/wheat and other agricultural products to the allied nations during the war. Avestania with Salhai’s permission also provided humanitarian aid and such aid included food, electricity, medical care, communication, and even arms/weapons up until the end of the war. Avestania would get it's chance at independence when Salhai began to face a revolution in 1949 that would establish the modern Salhai Republic and overthrowing their monarchy. The local Avestanian government in Pogris would quickly seize their chance and they would declare independence in 1949, officially establishing the Republic of Avestania.

### **First Avestanian Republic (1949-1962)**

After Avestania’s declaration of independence from Salhai in 1949, they would hold an election in which the Avestanian National Party would win and their first president, Vikto Layno would take office. There was one massive issue that Viktor Layno had to confront. You see, after the independence of Avestania, the trade that Salhai had with other countries was severely disrupted as lots of the trade that Salhai conducted trade with was through Avestania and so, both Avestania and Salhai’s economy began to tank. Another problem that Viktor had to deal with was corruption. The economic turmoil in Avestania would see a rise of corruption within the government. Governors who are financially struggling were likely to engage in corruption and struggling businesses may often resort to taking bribery from corrupt politicians or government officials who would want to increases their influence. This led to political instability as many politicians would compete for influence within the same party. Another problem arising was the rise of communist parties in Avestania who would begin to campaign for a radical change or even revolution in the government. As many people in Avestania begin to struggle, they begin to turn to the red banner as a solution. Viktor Layno in response to this would begin to ban leftist parties in Avestania and would even turn to purging suspected communists. This led to even more radicalization of the people and would begin to call for revolution which would lead to Viktor declaring Martial Law in 1959. The turn of events would soon lead to a man named Yalu Quandale a revolutionary to become the leading figure and call for revolution. Riots would begin to erupt in many of the major cities of Avestania. Yalu would later get aid from Chernan, getting 21 tanks and many arms. Yalu would begin to arm many people and they would to begin to march into Pogris in Avestus Square in March of 1962. The ensuing violence in Avestus Square would lead to the violent overthrow of the government in Pogris and many governors there would later be slaughtered and purged. This event in March of 1962 would later be known as the “Red March Revolution”.

## Democratic People’s Republic of Avestania

When Yalu Quandale took power in Avestania, he began implementing collectivization policies and enlisting many 9-17 to work in the farms where they will work to produce wheat for food and to take care of the animals from sunrise to sunset for at least, 4 years and people ages, 18-80 would be distributed into the cities (Or get sent into the mines to extract stuff) where they will work in factories to produce either military equipment or other things and there would also be a policy of self reliance and isolation from the entire world, even from other communist countries and the regime would close down their borders so anyone who was caught trying to escape would get killed on the spot. All ethnic Salhanis were distributed into built camps with factories or farms where they would live and work there and they would be treated badly and the living conditions there would be horrific. Salhani culture was also suppressed. All 8-21 year old Salhanis and Paosians would be sent to the mines to extract minerals. Avestania’s communist regime wasn’t allowed into the 2nd Internationale as Russbania blocked their entry into the alliance because communist revolutionaries brutally massacred the governors of the old Avestanian government during the Red March Revolution. Yalu Quandale also set up a cult of personality and banned all religions in the country. Foreign or free media, freedom of speech and freedom of the press was banned however, some Avestanians may sometimes try to smuggle in foreign media despite risk of the severe consequences that they would suffer and secret illegal news media would sprout news that the Communist government wouldn’t want it’s people to know like the Avestanian National Broadcast or the ANB.

## Avestanian Famine

Since many 9-17 year olds were forced to work in the farms, this caused problems. First, they didn’t have the proper education and experience to do farming and providing food for the population. They were also overworked, underfed and exhausted meaning they wouldn’t have the energy to continue working in the farms for many days after one exhausting day. There was also diseases that killed off the Laborers. The Laborers were also encouraged to deter the sparrows with whatever they have. This caused an ecological imbalance and resulted in an explosion in the vermin population like crop eating insects, now with no predators. Also, due to the Laborers, having little to no experience in working in the farms, crops weren’t properly plowed and planted. There was also no proper farming equipment given to the farmers. Lastly, the government implemented Monoculture into the farms and all of these together resulted in a disastrous famine that affect population of Avestania in 1965-1971. This famine would kill over 7 Million people. The famine eventually ended when the farmers were given proper framing equipment and education, the farmers were no longer encouraged to deter the sparrows and crop rotation was implemented. 9-17 year old farmers were also sent back to their homes and instead, enlist more adult farmers.

### **The Democratic People's Republic of Avestania (1962-1986) Part 2**

Yalu Quandale introduced a Government Police force called the Internal Security Unit meant to “protect communism the nation internally” however they became infamously known as the “I Shoot U”. They would terrorize the population across the country where there would reports of human rights abuses and violations committed by the “I Shoot U”. They would roam the streets with of cities with guns to intimidate the people so they will think twice before protesting or rioting. For the Paosians living in Avestania, their culture was suppressed and they wouldn’t be allowed to go many places in Avestania and if they were caught going to a place that they weren’t allowed to go to, they would be executed on the spot. This would end up in the deaths of many Paosians during the famine so many would attempt to flee to Pao. In fact, many Paosians living in Avestania during the communist regime would flee to Pao despite risk of getting killed if they got caught by the ISU or border guards. Much of Avestanian culture itself wasn’t spared during the communist regime. Many books burnt and replaced with only that were pro communist regime propaganda books, symbols of Avestus and Avestus the II were removed with “Avestus Square” in Pogris being renamed to “Red March Square” in reference to the Red March Revolution in 1962.

Yalu Quandale died in 1979 and was replaced by the military commander, Mark Gregory and he would continue on with Yalu Quandale’s previous policies. During this, a reformist would gain the popularity of the people and his name is John Cen- I mean John Kim. John Kim was a a politician in the communist government who was secretly a reformist who hated the regimes policies that ruined the country and he began calling for reform within the country when Mark Gregory took power. He believed in a similar economic model that East Prußen implemented called the “Consumer-Socialism” Policy and believed that it should be implemented here in Avestania as well. He gained a lot of support from the people. Protests began erupting across the nation with the people supporting John Kim. The regime attempted to crack down on the protesters by using the ISU but the protesters fought back violently and the protesting escalated into rioting. The rioters would organize a well planned riot and they would fight back using medieval tactics to defeat the ISU, often forming frontlines with auxiliaries which they would switch out when the front got tired. They also used battering rams which caused great devastation to the riot police and their vehicles. They would also often wear helmets and many would be equipped with a shield and some would be armed with a gun. The During this, the Avestanian Liberation Army was created and their goal was originally to overthrow the government and put John Kim on power. The ALA gained money from selling drugs to the ISU, donations from the people and soldiers in the ALA and aid from the Salhani Government who also gave them weapons and trained the ALA soldiers. Guns would be manufactured in secret by the workers as well. The ALA would grow and eventually be the biggest militia against the regime. The regime would try to purge anyone suspected of collaborating or being in the ALA however, it would do little to stop its growth. John Kim was also hunted down by hitmen sent by the regime to assassinate and he sometimes may flee to Salhai temporarily or go under hiding or be under disguise temporarily. He was eventually assassinated on December of 1983 from the regime. His death greatly angered the Avestanian people and they organized a huge riot in Red March Square on February of 1984 against the government and they used the same medieval tactics and tools to fight back against the ISU and the riot police and they were more armed so they were able to fight back effectively. Everyone including women joined in. This was starting to be more like a revolution and the regime feared that they would be overthrown and so they organized a massive a military response to the riot happening in Red March Square. The military began a massive crackdown on the opposition and thousands would die during the crackdown. The people still fought back against the crackdown and the crackdown was being recorded on camera by the Avestanian National Broadcast. They sent their journalists to smuggle in the footage of the whole crackdown happening on camera despite risk of losing their lives however, they managed to successfully capture the crackdown on camera and began releasing these footages across the country and even the world to expose the regime. This was the last straw for the people of Avestania and they began to rebel and since they were in the ALA, they already had weapons and they were well trained. Soon, the ALA would kick out the ISU and the police out of most of the main cities and they were now under ALA control. The Avestanian Civil War had begun.

## Avestanian Civil War

The Avestanian Civil War was a conflict fought between the Avestanian Liberation Army (ALA) who have rebelled against the Communist regime, fighting against the Avestanian People’s Army (APA) and the regimes police force, the Internal Security Unit (ISU).

Most of the people have joined the ALA and so they occupy most of the major cities in Avestania. Thanks to years of training and aid from the Salhani Government, they were able to make major advances. There were ALA a guerrilla groups that were behind the enemy frontlines and they would kill enemy troops, destroy tanks and sabotage their supply lines that included the railroads and they also sabotaged the enemy communication and would even target enemy airbases. These ALA guerrilla groups greatly weakened the communist war effort. Also, the regime’s wasn’t able to manufacture new military equipment since there were little to no workers in the factories to manufacture them so as the civil war continued, the regimes military equipment would slowly run out. For the ALA, they had the workers on their side and they occupied factories where the workers can manufacture military equipment to the ALA and so the ALA wouldn’t run out of military equipment. The communists attempted 2 counterattacks during the civil war but that only weakened them further and when the ALA launched a counterattack, the regimes army was at breaking point. It was only a matter of time before they would fall to the ALA and the civil war would be over. They would later be caught of attempting genocide against the Salhanis and some footage of their crimes would be recorded in secret and sent to the Salhani Government thanks to the help of the Avestanian National Broadcast and their journalists. The ANB would later de-classify this information to the entire world to further expose the regime. Soon, the Salhai Republic launched an invasion into Communist Avestania and helping the ALA defeat and finally overthrow the communist regime. By 1986, the communist regime would finally be defeated and they would flee into exile with a few thousand troops where they would cooperate with PMC Zimmer Group, abandoning the other soldiers who were still fighting for the regime behind and they would be forced to surrender. The Avestanian Civil War was over and the ALA was victorious.

### **The Commonwealth of Avestania (1986-present day)**

Avestania after the civil war had to rebuild, stabilize, and develop their country. The new government would become a democracy and they would hold an election in 1986 in which the Liberal Democratic Party of Avestania would win. The LDPA would continue all following elections ever since. Avestania would be undergoing a process of significant development in under 4 decades.

## Avestania’s Economic Miracle

The new government's first objective was to rebuild the country, become capitalist, and liberalize the economy. They opened their doors to foreign investment, let foreign companies into Avestania, set the taxation to be very low for the people and businesses, and signed trade agreements with other countries. They focused heavily on education through, campaigns like the Read To Succeed campaign in order to get people from the younger people to read books, introducing educational reforms, and more. Avestania would join alliances which are the Free States Treaty Organization, Gozra Accords, and the Grastican Economic Commonwealth in hopes that joining them will benefit Avestania economically. Avestania began revitalizing the agriculture sector while building up the petroleum industry. Avestania would introduce a policy known as “Share The Wealth” in which 12% of the Governments investing will go the poor in order to combat poverty however, the policy would last until today where the Share The Wealth policy is now more focused on funding businesses that need it and giving direct financial support to people that need it. The government encouraged it’s people to save and be financially responsible and so the government established the Avestanian International Bank where everyone can save money and the government would take 4% of the money saved in AIB and use it for investing. By 1996, Avestania would face an increase of economic growth. Tourism was promoted, Avestania would encourage private trade and allowed the establishment of private trading companies. The government invested in transportation and communication infrastructure. Novgra was opened up as another city for trade and commerce, with a focus on the tech manufacturing industry. Avestania would sign a series of complimentary trade deals with many countries including the trade of semiconductors. would import the recourses necessary to manufacture semiconductors and then export the semiconductors to other countries and Avestanua can build a semiconductor industry domestically and thanks to a growing educated population, Avestania's semiconductor industry would quickly grow and so would Avestania's economy. Avestania would invest into better railway infrastructure and better trains. Avestania would create a close personal alliance with a some countries called the “Pysonal Cordiale”.

## Modern Day Pogris

Avestania became a well-developed 1st world country with the period of economic prosperity known as the Miracle On The Chang River. Overall, thanks to a period of reforms, economic policies, and competent leadership, Avestania’s economy flourished in under 4 decades. Today, Avestania is currently a developed country under the Commonwealth of Avestania who’s system of government is a Liberal Democracy ran by the Liberal Democratic Party of Avestania and it’s current president is Yoni Gha.

## **Economy**

Avestania’s economy has many mechanisms that power Avestania’s economic powerhouse. First off is Avestania’s Semiconductor Industry. The semiconductor industry has had a huge impact in Avestania’s economy as that contributes to Avestania’s tech industry. Avestania also have the car industry. Avestania’s car industry is also big as Avestania produces some of the best cars and we can’t forget about Avestania’s agricultural industry. Avestania is a massive producer of agricultural products and is also a major producer of cotton, leather, and cloth like textiles and exports a lot of them to other countries.

Avestania’s economic system is capitalism which is is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. The market in Avestania is pretty competitive with many businesses trying to get profit which is beneficial for Avestania’s healthy economy. Avestania’s economy and government also encourages ambition and innovation. Aveatania has the Share The Wealth Policy in which 12% of Avestania’s profits/Investing will go to funding hospitals, schools, businesses, and providing direct financial support. The taxation in Avestania is low as Avestania doesn’t to put much burden on the persons finance. The people will only have to give 4% of their income to the government and businesses will only have to share 4% of their profits to the government. There is also the Avestanian International Bank where the people and businesses can save their money and 4% of the businesses money put into the bank will go to investing into education, infrastructure, healthcare, etc. The Avestanian government also encourages it’s people to save money which is why the Avestanian International Bank exists. Avestania’s coastal cities are also important economic centers in Avestania as that’s where the foreign trading ships come here for trade and commerce or as a destination for further traveling into other countries for trade or both. They use these ports for cheap price every month. These coastal cities are rich, rich, RICH and are very important for Avestania. These cities have a high population, very productive in the market and have competitive businesses seeking to gain attention to get many customers from there. They are cities of opportunities which ultimately contributes to Avestania’s economic growth. Avestania also has foreigners living in the country who came here for opportunities, especially the smart and skilled foreigners who moved here, giving Avestania a brain gain and giving the country, extra labour. Avestania also attracts a lot of investors which benefits the Avestanian economy and tourism is also profitable for Avestania especially during the summer. The Petroleum industry in Avestania is also very big though recently, the Avestanian Government is making attempts to reduce the use of Petroleum and slowly adopt more environment friendly energy such as solar and wind power.

Since taxes here in Avestania is low, only sharing 4% of profits made by companies, and people’s income, Avestania has many ways of having supplies of money such as the coastal cities making up 963.6 Million Clovers every year for the Government and the banks. When people save up money by putting their money into the AIB and other banks, the Avestanian Government would take 4% of the money put in the bank by the people and companies, Avestania would use that 4% to invest and there is also a bank for the governments to put their money into to save money and Avestania also takes 4% of the money out into the bank from the governments to invest. Avestania would have a state-owned company in extracting Petroleum and Avestania would be sharing 50% of the profits made by their state-owned company in petroleum and also use that to invest. Lastly, the country has their own personal economic alliance called the Pyonsol Cordiale. Members of the alliance focus on being business friendly, doing tech research, joint economic policies, etc.

Overall, Avestania’s economy is diverse and has many things that contribute to Avestania’s economic growth and prosperity.

## **Foreign Relations**

Avestania has relations with many countries whether it’s from economic deals, trade, or alliances. Avestania is very close with capitalist and democratic countries but has had relations with communist/socialist countries. Russbania and Chernan are the closest “red” allies of Avestania as Russbania was the only country that publicly condemned Avestania’s communist regime and Chernan and Avestania have many economic relations. In general, Avestania is very open and with the international community and generally wants to be friendly and make no enemies with any countries.

## **Science and Technology**

Avestania invests money into science, healthcare, and technology. Research such as curing diseases is funded by the government whether it’s through the Avestanian International Bank, Avestania’s Share The Wealth Policy. general Government investing, or through investors, etc. Thanks to Avestania’s educated population, they have also contributed to the advancement of healthcare, science, and technology which ultimately contributes to Avestania’s economic growth!

## **Education**

The Education system in Avestania has a holistic environment, there is more accountability for the teachers, the Avestanian system of education encourages often cooperation instead of competition, there is no standardized testing, and more. Considering, books are important in Avestanian culture, books would especially be emphasized in the education system and kids are often encouraged to read. The education system would start off by simplifying a topic like the immune system and make it easy and fun to learn to students on the earlier grades and slowly add more detail to the topic and add more of the complexity in which this method is called, “scaffolding”. Education is free and accessible as schools can be funded by the government and through the Avestanian International Bank. Education is also emphasized as the government wants to maximize the student performance in the education system as they are the next generation that would be important to Avestanian society and national development.

## **Military**

Avestania’s Military or the **Avestanian Armed Forces (AAF)** is split into 4 branches, the **Avestanian Liberation Army (ALA)**, The **Avestanian Navy**, the **Avestanian Air-Force (AAF)**, and the **Avestanian Cyber Intelligence Agency (ACIA)**. Like the Avestanian economy, the Avestanian Military has grown over the recent years, the Semiconductor Industry and Tech Industry had helped advance the technology of the Avestanian Military. This not only strengthened the Avestania’s Military but also gained the status as a strong ally in the military alliance that Avestania is in. A country that can hold it’s own instead of having to always rely on the help of stronger foreign nations, thus being seen as more as an equal member.

### **Avestaanian Liberation Army**

The **Avestanian Liberation Army** or the **ALA** has existed before the creation of the Commonwealth of Avestania and it started as a militia against Avestania’s Communist regime however, they have since grown and overthrown the communist regime. The ALA has around 69,420 active personnel and 32,734 reserves. The ALA military tactics are centered around guerrilla tactics, defeat in detail, maneuverability, and more. The ALA prefers light tanks as they fast and maneuverable and heavier tanks to compliment the light tanks.