Republic of Kokinos

Flag believed to have been used by the Republic. This was debunked as being a hoax in 2015

## Government

### Government

Federal parliamentary republic (de jure)
Loose confederation of militias (de facto)

### Ruler(s)

Provisional PM Nestoras Spereas (first)
PM Gianni Iordanou (last)

## General Information

### Significant Locations

Konstantinos
Hesota
Enotilopolis

### Ethnic Groups

Kokinans
Ionians
Airolians
Ionian Elves

### Succeeded by

Principality of Novo Gavia

The **Republic of Kokinos** was a short-lived democratic state in the lower course of the Iordanou River that controlled most of the modern-day Kokinan district of Iordanou from 1907 to 1917. The republic, formed after the Cataclysm, was the first state with a Kokinan national identity instead of an Ionian one, and is considered to be the precursor to modern Kokinan nationalism and national identity.

## History

### Formation

After the abandonment of occupied Ionia by the invading occupiers, groups of surviving Kokinans in the lower course region of the Iordanou River, including Nestoras Spereas and Spiro Floros, grouped together in Iordanou City and proclaimed a republic based on the revolutionary and democratic ideals of the Ionian Rebel Alliance. However, these Kokinans declared an "independent" state known as "Kokinos", instead of "Ionia". The republic had nominal sovereignty over the middle-lower course of the Iordanou River, along with the island of Hesota. However the Republic suffered much of the problems of the Rebel Alliance of old, and it only had *de facto* control over the major settlements of Iordanou City, Konstantinos and Hesota. Immediately after the formation of the Republic, centralization and the national identity of "Kokinos" would be controversial topics that polarized and eventually led to the end of the republican government

### Enotilopolis

The ruins of Enotilopolis, a former industrial city of the Ionian state, lied within the borders of the Republic. The question of what to do with it plagued the republic throughout its existence, as it would be greatly profitable if it was rebuilt and the factories back in commission, but the republic did not have the capital, manpower or technology to do such a feat without diverting funds and attention from the impoverished rural towns and rebuilding major cities. The various factions within the republic were torn on debating it, leading to them neglecting more important issues such as banditry, the Iordanou flooding, and the arrival of the Lespians

### Dissolution

In 1915, the newly formed Principality of Novo Gavia found the Republic of Kokinos a fractured mess plagued with banditry, internal power struggles and ethnic conflict. Despite the Republic's forces outnumbering Novo Gavia 3:1, the Lespians brought the republic down through divide and conquer, supporting non-Kokinan rebels and bandits in the region, as well as pro-Lespian factions in the government. Hesota Island seceded in 1916, and Iordanou City eventually erupted in civil conflict as the various factions began fighting each other, and Novo Gavian forces entered the city in 1917 to sweep up the survivors, officially ending the 10 year old Republic

## Government

The Republic of Kokinos was a parliamentary democracy, with the various factions (called political parties by some, although they were more like paramilitaries) in a National Assembly that acted as the legislative body of the Republic. Elections would be held once every 5 years, with the first one in 1908 and the last in 1913. The lack of a strong leader, along with a divided parliament where no faction had a majority in the National Assembly led to the republic being in disarray.

The voters of constituencies would often be "persuaded" by the faction controlling the constituency to vote for said faction, and of the 7 major factions in the National Assembly, no one ever got more than 20 seats in the Assembly's 50

## Military

The Republic had no unified standing army or command, as no faction wished to give up their power. Instead, the factions in the National Assembly had their own militias to defend the settlements and roads under their control, to varying degrees of success. Many fighters in these paramilitaries were conscripted or joined out of starvation, and would flee at the first sound of a gunshot. Others acted no differently from the bandits they were supposed to fight. As one could expect, the different factions had no coordination with other rival factions