The December revolution

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### Parties involved

United Kingdom of Northland, Runick Kingdom, Kingdom of FjallsmarkenFree Northic Communist Movement

## The Northic Communist Movement

The December revolution (desemberrevolusjonen: Northic) Is a civil conflict that took place from 3 BBS to 0 BBS in the Kingdom of Northland. During the Northic-Oscon war a few years before the newly ascended Oscar III introduced new taxes and regulations surrounding agricultural export. These new regulations were put in place to save food for the war to prevent the country from starving. However after the war ended most farmers were paid back to late or not at all causing many to get into economic trouble. Oscar however discovered this to late and worked around the clock to get it fixed but this effort would go unknown to the average citizen. In 3 BBS Einar Olafssen who was a radical left wing thinker at the time formed a new movement called the FNCM (Free Northic Communist Movement) and aimed to bring down the monarchy and the structural hierarchy of the government. Einar who had long been exiled had been allowed to return by Oscar under the strict watch of the Lögreglen.

## The December revolution

In december of 3 BBS the FNCM called upon the average citizen to "pick up their arms and fight the tyranny". This call to arms wasn't as well received by the people as they hoped though. In fact due to Oscar III's rising popularity due to wining the war many Northic people were enraged by audacity to even try to revolt and if we look back the revolution only gained about 90.000 supporters in a country of 958.000. The first thing the revolutionaries did was to raid a military base to get arms which they got. However this surprise raid wasn't to go unnoticed by Oscar. The army was mobilized and laid siege to several Communist movement buildings and arrested the occupants with Lögreglen help. This strategy went well for the first few times only when a Police-Lögreglen joined force tried to lay siege to a FNCM base of operations in Ryggholm it didn't take long for the streets to turn into warzone. Police and Lögreglen got caught in a tense firefight with revolutionaries. But eventually it became clear that superior Lögreglen training and Military reinforcements were going to drive the revolutionaries out of the city.

However these crackdowns by the Lögreglen didn't do to much to calm the situation as now the Communist movement had retreated to the south into Sør Bakkeland and Fjallenberg. After this retreat the FNCM hoped to save their efforts by declaring independence from Northland however they did choose maybe the worst provinces to do so as the locals are fiercely loyal to the monarchy even more than Skog. This fierce loyalty to the crown was spark which ignited on august 29th when local farmers, workers, monarchists and even socialists joined the Northic partizans and quickly escalated the conflict into what its best known for, Brutal house to house urban combat. Both Communist patriots and Northic partizans were hiding behind every hedge row and inside every house and ruin. At first the Patriots were winning only the Partizans weren't there to win they were there to stall. On September 18th the Northic army had enough time to mobilize their forces around the Provinces and marched in with everything they had. The patriots hadn't expected the swift Northic advance and had to retreat to what are now the cities of Heustel and laugans where the front stabilized. Later on in December of 2 BBS Oscar III and Kristian Obenheim put Orsen Mertelheim in charge of the Northic war effort which proved to be a great choice.

Looking from the other perspective after the Patriots had declared their independence they immediately started the transition from monarchy to communism only this proved to be one of the worst possible decisions ever as Northic society had been unconsciously build in a way which would make it really hard to transition to a communist society. The farms of local farmers under Northic rule had been allowed to state themselves as companies which worked for the Monarchy and due to certain import and export laws farmers made a lot of money with this system. But when the communists came to power they made all farms and their associating company public domain taking all farmer profit away in an instant which results in the region still being a developing territory to this day.

## Consequences

The war officially ended when Heustel was personally liberated by Mertelheim on the 7th of November 0 BBS. In the end the war isn't known for its combat or the honor that was won in the fight. Instead its known for the suffering it caused on the local population which caused the Northic goverment to become fiercely right wing and anti communist. Another undiscussed part of the war has to do with Orsen Mertelheim, Later on he would commit genocide in Northic Guinea this genocide was fuelled by mistrust of local people and paranoia caused by the civil war expanding its reach of suffering.