Imperial Republic of Libirachi

The **Imperial Republic of Libirachi**, also commonly known as the **Libirachi Empire** or the **Libirachi Republic**, was a presidential republic within what is now the Fox Dynasty. It was established in 1852 with the death of Emperor George Libirachi IV, and ruled Libirachi between 1852 and 2019. It was preceded by 60 years of the Libirachi Dynasty, which was overthrown during the Libirachi War of Revolution and was succeeded in 2019 by the Fox Dynasty. It was the second largest empire in world history in terms of territorial size during its 167 year existence.

Formed in 1852 after the death of Emperor George Libirachi IV and the surrender of Beijing to the Rebel Alliance, the Imperial Republic of Libirachi became the official title of the new regime within the empire, forgoing the flag of the Alliance for a new design and seal. Proclaimed from the the Forbidden City on 27th August 1852, the Imperial Republic took over the nation, with a President replacing the Emperor as head of state, although the nation retained its title as the Libirachi Empire despite not having a monarch.

Founded from the ruins of the Libirachi Dynasty, the Imperial Republic took over land controlled by the former Empire and the Alliance, merging the two armies together over the span of the next decade. Elected almost unanimously in 1852 by Alliance High Command, General Stanford Rightly was proclaimed President on August 30, 1852 before dissolving the Alliance on the same day with all former members becoming absorbed into the empire, with several states forcefully occupied by the Imperial Guard and former Alliance Army to keep them in tow with the Beijing government. As the first Presidential term came to an end in 1856, Rightly and his Vice President conducted a self coup, demolishing the democratic institutions they had fought to create to preserve their grip on power.

With the death of President Rightly in 1870, the new nation crumbled as two fractions vied for control, before a brutal civil war erupted later that year. Having secured the Presidency from his brother in 1871, Ashford Longwood and his Imperial Army quelled the rebellion and established itself as the dominant force within the nation. With Longwood's death in 1912, his son Pearce took the reigns of the nation with his wife Jane as Vice President, before replacing her with Eshter Morgan after Jane's retirement in 1925. With the death of Pearce Longwood in 1933, Vice President Morgan took power and implemented a sting of laws to consolidate her power, dissolving the Cabinet and Vice Presidency, placing herself as the sole leader within the country. Taking the title Protector of the Empire alongside the Presidency, Morgan used the military excessively to quell small protests, leading to a larger uprising in 1949, when she was assassinated by Progressive party chairman Xi Kanna. With the loss of President Morgan, First Minister Jacob Zuma proclaimed himself Protector of the Empire but refused to acknowledge the death of Morgan, to the extent that new legislation was published in her name and old footage was re-edited to show her alive. In 1950, the Zuma administration was toppled by the Progressive Party and Xi Kanna took office as President, reversing much of the Morgan government's policies before his death in 1970. Taking power once more, Zuma installed himself as the leader of the Revolutionary Socialist party after spending two decades forming the party from the ashes of his administration. After 40 years of power, Zuma's government was toppled democratically after the 2010 Presidential Election, the first such election since 1852, by Nathan Jackson and his Revolutionary party. Establishing his own government, Jackson fundamentally re-structured the Empire between 2010 and 2015, setting up his downfall in 2019 at the hands of the Libirachi Imperial Army. With the death of Jackson during the 2019 civil war, Minister of Education Laura Fox was appointed as the new President by Imperial High Command on September 27, 2019 before the Imperial Republic was officially dissolved on November 11, 2019 with the coronation of Fox as the Empress of the Libirachi Empire, thus beginning the Fox Dynasty.

## History

### New Republic

    With the death of Emperor George IV on August 26, 1852, the Alliance Grand Council took control over the nation as a military junta, before the Imperial Republic of Libirachi became the official title of the new regime under the leadership of the inaugural President Stanford Rightly, forgoing the flag of the Alliance for a new design and seal. Proclaimed from the the Forbidden City on August 30, 1852, the Imperial Republic took over the nation, with a President replacing the Emperor as head of state, although the nation retained its title as the Libirachi Empire despite not having a monarch. Founded from the ruins of the Libirachi Dynasty, the Imperial Republic took over land controlled by the former Empire and the Alliance, merging the two armies together over the span of the next decade. Elected almost unanimously in 1852 by Alliance High Command, General Stanford Rightly was proclaimed President on August 30, 1852 before dissolving the Alliance the same day with all former members becoming absorbed into the empire, with rebel states forcefully occupied by the Imperial Guard and former Alliance Army to keep them in tow with the Beijing government.

With Duke Rightly's proclamation of the Imperial Republic of Libirachi on August 30, 1852, the new republic began to be hashed out haphazardly, with new institutions being introduced in the months after the proclamation of the republic, such as the office of Vice President of the Libirachi Empire in December 1852 which was granted to Grand Marshal Ashford Longwood upon the creation, and in 1853 the Libirachi National Congress was created with the Vice President acting as the chief presiding officer. Establishing the Constitution of the Libirachi Empire in 1852 as the principle law document of the new republic, Stanford Rightly set about introducing term limits and elections, the first of which being the 1852 Libirachi Presidential Election in which President Rightly was the only candidate for office. Conducted between April 24 and May 17, 1856, the Beijing Spring was a self coup by President Rightly in which the Constitution of the Libirachi Empire was re-written by the Libirachi National Congress in order to remove term limits in the run-up to a planned May 20 election which was scrapped by decree of the Congress on May 17, with the LNC instead ruling that President Rightly held the right to serve as he pleased for the sake of the nation, so long as he continued to hold the confidence of the Congress and the Imperial Army, in effect setting the precedent that Presidents could rule almost indefinitely within the right of law. In 1864, Ashford Longwood was removed from the Vice Presidency as Stanford Rightly began to reform the nation in his vision, attempting to limit the power of his deputy through his dismissal from the title of head of government, instead replacing him with Theodore Rothchild, whilst splitting the office of Vice President and Chairman of the Congress and granting the latter title to Azriel Janda.

Upon his death in 1870, Stanford Rightly had created a cult of personality around himself, framing his leadership as being that which saved the nation from despair and failure at the hands of Emperor George IV and the Libirachi Dynasty, forever solidifying himself in history as the man who saved the nation from stagnation in the 19th century and rose the nation out of a tyranny, although state propaganda frequently glosses over the numerous failures of President Rightly in order to paint the picture of a noble statesman. As the founder of the Imperial Republic of Libirachi, Stanford Rightly established one of the longest lasting Asian republics and in doing so cemented a legacy as a nation builder too, although following the 2019 Libirachi Coup d'état and the dissolution of the republic in favour of the Fox Dynasty, the Libirachi family managed to secure vengeance with the systematic dismantling of the remaining institutions created by Rightly, although over the 167 year history of the republic much of the original constitution and organisations had been rewritten and rebirthed, most notoriously during Eshter Morgan's presidency.

#### Longwood presidency

    Following the death of President Stanford Rightly in 1870 following a gunshot wound, Vice President Theodore Rothchild laid claim to the presidency and assumed control over the Libirachi National Congress on July 4, 1870, causing Grand Marshal Longwood to lead his armed forces in an uprising against the President and beginning a civil war within the nation as the army began to fight against the republican forces of the President from their city fortress of Shanghai. With the death of President Rothchild in October 1870, and his successor President Azriel Janda in December 1870, the Libirachi Republic was taken over by Feidel Longwood, brother to the Grand Marshal, until in October 1871 when Longwood and the Imperial Army stormed Beijing and overthrew his brother, ending the civil war decisively with the destruction of the only other major opponent to the LIA. Having secured the Presidency in 1871 with the execution of his brother Feidel, President Longwood sought to establish the nation as a military dictatorship, closing the National Congress in vengeance for their support of the previous administrations during the war, and in it's place created the Imperial Ruling Council alongside the newly formed Revolutionary Party; likewise, Longwood began destroying records of the Presidencies of Rothchild, Janda and his brother in order to secure himself in historical records as the true successor to Stanford Rightly, a myth which is still perpetrated by Libirachi propaganda and records which decline to count the presidencies between Rightly and Longwood as formal tenures.

    Bringing his wartime ally Gorden Tobiet into government as the Vice President, Longwood set about demolishing the constitutional right to local governance and instead replaced much of the civilian government across the nation with a network of Marshals and other enlisted officers of the Libirachi Imperial Army, ensuring that all effective leadership would be conducted by generals and officials loyal to him, whilst figurehead Governors elected through the Revolutionary Party served to present the illusion of choice to the populace of the nation. With the Imperial Ruling Council ruling over the nation, Ashford Longwood began to attempt to solidify his position as the head of the nation and from 1880 onwards the Imperial Army began to conduct a Pacification of the Western Reaches, cracking down on remnants from the Libirachi War of Revolution in order to consolidate the president's power over the nation. Over the space of 27 years, the pacification campaigns eradicated much of the resistance to the Imperial Republic of Libirachi and with the defeat of the Kuomintang in 1907, the pacification came to an end as President Longwood's health began to deteriorate. Having made his son Pearce the head of the Imperial Ruling Council in 1905, President Ashford Longwood started to rely more and more on the IRC, with his son's role slowly growing into that of a head of government by the time of Longwood's death in August 1912, allowing Pearce Longwood to secure the presidency with minimal effort.

### 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.

### Fall of the Imperial Republic

#### Stagnation

    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. Spending the next two decades in exile, Zuma usurped the presidency from the progressive party upon the request of the National Congress, fearing an all out war with the reformed Revolutionary party, which had become the Revolutionary Socialist party during it's exile period

    Having assumed the presidency in 1970, Zuma set about swinging the nation leftwards and re-structuring the nation, creating institutions like Imperial Intelligence and the Imperial Security Bureau which would later become tentpoles of the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order in later regimes. Likewise, a major revamp of the economy ensued and led to major socialist redistribution of finances, causing widespread damage to the livelihoods of large swathes of the population, as wealth re-distribution became subject to increasing taxation in order to prop up the regime. Having brought into existence the major security arms of the nation, President Zuma began a widespread set of purges to flush out opposition, with a red terror reigning down upon the population and purging thousands from high ranks across the nation, leading to rebellion groups forming across the nation, with notable opposition coming in the form of counter-revolutionary speaker Nathan Jackson, who's outspoken criticism of the Zuma presidency led to several decades being spent in prison, although following Jackson's 2004 escape from a high security prison alongside fellow dissident Spencer Davis, the regime struggled to keep the revolutionary movement down and ultimately the original Libirachi Revolutionary Party would be re-founded under the control of Jackson and Davis in 2008.

With an unofficial political party challenging his regime, Zuma began to crack down even more on the dissidents, although by this point old age and a plethora of illnesses meant that Jacob Zuma had become a hollow shell of his original political prowess and as such much of the administration was running itself, with different ministers fighting amongst themselves to try to covet power and secure their own succession after Zuma's death, leading to a fragmented and fractional government prone to messy infighting. With political leaders such as Laura Fox (Minister of Defence; *2009 - 2010*) and Xi Jimping (Minister for Internal Affairs; *2010*) advocating for an election to prove Zuma's mandate for office, the president capitulated to the younger generation of leaders, and as such the 2010 Libirachi Presidential Election became the first truly democratic election in nearly 200 years; subsequently Zuma was legally ousted from office on April 17, 2010 and by the end of the week most other nations recognised only the Jackson Administration. Having been deposed constitutionally, Zuma was sentenced by a kangaroo court to serve the remainder of his life in prison, a move acclaimed as a show of Jackson's desire to modernise and reform, although just 6 months later, the new president signed an executive order mandating the execution of Jacob Zuma on October 20, 2010.

#### Growth

    Having won the 2010 election, Nathan Jackson ousted incumbent President Jacob Zuma and ordered the arrest of his predecessor on his first day in office, whilst purging the ranks of the government's upper echelons of members of Zuma's Revolutionary Socialists in favour of loyalist Revolutionaries in a radical shake-up. Producing economically liberalising measures in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the Libirachi Empire began to prosper under Jackson's rule, whilst crack-downs on dissident groups ensured the stability of the new government. As a program of releasing the nation from the socialist measures placed by Zuma got underway, the Jackson began to initiate a more sustainable environmental plan under the new Minister for the Environment, Laura Fox, which allowed the nation to convert from fracking and fossil fuels in exchange of next-generation nuclear power plants and natural fuels, such as wind, water and air. As the political sphere saw significant shake-ups, the military also saw radical change over the first five years of Jackson's rule, allowing him to control the nation through force, whilst in Beijing, the constitution was radically altered to remove constitutional term limits imposed by the Kanna Government and the Imperial Cabinet grew in power to delegate responsibilities of state away from the presidency. Whilst allowing smaller businesses to establish themselves, the Jackson administration nationalised the largest corporations, allowing the government great sway across the world, with Libirachi companies like Huawai responsible for maintaining essential parts of overseas internet and broadband systems. Using chemicals such as the MC14 drug, which diminishes brain functions and makes victims suggestible, the new government began experimenting with new technologies to keep the population subservient, with mixed results, before resorting to re-writing the Patriotism Laws inherited from Xi Kanna's regime. While cultivating the return of the Quokka into the national parks dotted across the nation, the Jackson regime promoted Environmental minister Laura Fox to the ministry of education and propaganda, where she began to grow a support base amongst members of Imperial High Command in the later years of Jackson's presidency.

    Elected into office in April 2010, President Nathan Jackson ended the 40 year dictatorship of Jacob Zuma with his inauguration and immediately set about introducing the Mandate to the People Act of 2010 in the Libirachi National Congress, which passed by decree before the congress was re-opened following elections in August. As only the second democratically elected leader of the Libirachi Empire, Nathan Jackson's victory in the 2010 Libirachi Presidential Election proved that democracy could work within the nation, with the true aim of the Jackson administration being the eventual democratisation of the nation as specified in the unpublished *Route To Freedom* roadmap of 2019, which was ultimately due to be published after the completion of the *Patriot Act of 2019*, although as history knows this was never the case thanks to the Libirachi Civil War of 2019. Following the Xi Kanna and Jacob Zuma regimes, the government power pretty much stayed the same until the Jackson administration began to attempt to cause systematic change of the nation in the 2010s, attempting to rein in the power of the Libirachi Imperial Army and effectively bring democracy to the nation, with Jackson’s Revolutionary party storming the 2010 National Congress elections. Despite this urge to do good, the Jackson administration was continuously foiled by members of the LIA who eventually rose up in a coup in 2019, placing former education secretary Dame Laura Fox as the new President in what was largely viewed at the time to be a puppet regime.

    As part of the Jackson Doctrine favoured by the Foreign Office, the Libirachi Empire began an invasion of Iran in 2019 which resulted in small-scale nuclear warfare and the ensuring fallout which wreaked havoc in the province of Ranjor within the Western China, Lower Stan Provinces and Iran oversector, leading to the disfranchisement of Grand Marshal Edward Mandelson and Marshal Ashton Morre and the execution of the former. Having escaped from Imperial custody, Morre escaped to the mountains of Western China where he began accumulating a conglomeration of dissidents and rebels. Whilst having to deal with the loss of some of his most loyal officers, Jackson attempted to push a new Patriotism Act based on Xi Kanna's original, but with the rights of military personnel severely downplayed and the role of High Command delegated to the President's inner circle, all the while reducing the importance of commissioned military officers in favour of a new army of shocktroopers loyal only to the President. Reacting with outrage to these proposals, IHC joined with the Minister of Education to hold a coup against Jackson's rule, uniting the various disfranchised sections of the military with their distaste of the President. With a quick swoop on September 24th 2019, all major cities in the Empire fell under marshal law whilst the Libirachi Imperial Army marched on Tienanmen Square and the Presidential Palace in the Forbidden City, engaging in skirmishes against the Presidential Guard as they attempted to break into the Presidents residency. By 6pm on September 25th, the Army had cut through to the forbidden city, where the Imperial Government was based. Much to the horror of the Army, they were greeted with a 200 strong deployment of Imperial Guards, and a 300 strong contingent of Presidential Guards - the President's personal security force. The ensuring battle lasted a solid hour, by which time it was beginning to go dark in Beijing. With the Guard dead, a black Cadillac pulled up outside the Libirachi Government Building, and a black clad figure emerged, flanked a contingent of loyal soldiers as she entered the building. Laura Fox had arrived, and was determined that this miniature civil war wouldn't fail. Marching though the building, the LIA met even more resistance from a further deployment of Presidential Guards, in a firefight that shredded the Presidential Congress room (used for important speeches and announcements - and the former home of the People's Congress, a relic from the 1850s abolished in 1933).

While the Guard was distracted in the Congress room, Fox and her escort made their way through the building, killing those in the way and shooting the occasional light to scare workers. They arrived at the Presidential Office, informally known as the round room, where President Jackson, oblivious to the situation, was working on new legislation to abolish the rebellious military. The escort smashed through the doors, and fired wildly into the room, eliminating the Presidential Guard. Fox marched in, and shot Jackson where he sat - twice in the chest, and once in the head - killing him instantly. All that remained of Jackson's support base surrendered the next day, officially supporting the new regime. Propaganda was issued to the people to re-assure them that the military might they had seen was just a exercise drill, albeit a large one, and that the government was as stable as ever. Only those in the Forbidden City knew of Jackson's death, and it was the new government's intention to keep it that way. The leaders of the coup (Surpeme Commander Kanan Garel, Education Minister Laura Fox, Deputy Minister of Defence Xi Jimping, Damian Hurst, Grand General Cassio Tagge and military adviser Bowen Shi) began to plan how the new government would be declared, and the LIA generals were keen to have a singular plan of action for the Declaration of the New Order.

### Transition to Monarchy

With the death of President Nathan Jackson in September 2019, the nation briefly stayed under martial Law until September 27th when Laura Fox was declared as president of the Imperial Republic. Under Fox's presidency, the controversial Patriotism Bill was revoked and a meeting of the Libirachi National Congress granted the Assent Bill (2019) which granted the president's choice of regent the right to take the throne of the Libirachi Empire. Selecting herself, Fox was crowned as Empress Laura Fox on November 11th 2019 and appointed fellow coup leader Xi Jimping as a replacement president. Having legally secured power as the first regent since the abolishment of the monarchy in 1852, Fox set about solidifying her power base, purging both the state bureaucracy and military of Jackson supporters and reshuffling the corridors of power to firmly place her as head of state. Pursuing an aggressive foreign policy, the new regime frequently came to odds with the neighbouring economic and military superpower of Bovido Has, as well as the foundling Persian Republic in the middle east, over international policies and regime changes, actively supporting the Zander administration in the United States of America whilst attempting to topple the Cameron government in the United Kingdom for their support of the previous Jackson presidency.

## See Also

* Democratisation Efforts in the Libirachi Empire
* Libirachi Democratic Transitional Council
* Libirachi Imperial Army
* Libirachi National Congress