History of the Fall of the Libirachi Republic (1970 - 2019)

* 2010 - Nathan Jackson
 * High Republic

The **History of the Imperial Republic of Libirachi in the period of 1970 - 2019** is known as the **Fall of the Republic** and was the third and last major period of history in the Imperial Republic of Libirachi.

Entering the last days of the Imperial Republic of Libirachi, the political sphere had evolved yet again with different sects of the Revolutionary party seizing power, having tried to re-consolidate power following the transformation with the Progressive party becoming the single party in the nation. As part of a logistical struggle of changing the dominant party in an one-party state, the Revolutionary Socialist sect of the Revolutionary party seized power in 1970 and began a gradual process of diminishing the Progressive party, relegating it to a puppet opposition party within the neglected National Congress. With the election of Nathan Jackson to power in 2010, the Revolutionary party proper took power and re-started it’s decades old dominance over the nation, being the party of 7 out of the 10 presidents of the Libirachi Empire. The main offices of state were the:

* **President of the Libirachi Empire**; defined as the head of state within the new republic, the president would be responsible for co-ordinating the efforts of the Imperial Government and directing the policies of the nation, whilst also taking the role of head of state and thus being the unofficial emperor of the country.
* **Minister of Defence**; defined as the minister responsible for the protection of the nation, the Ministry of Defence also controlled the First Legion of the Libirachi Imperial Army and thus was one of the most powerful leaders in the country.
* **Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces**; as the head of the Libirachi Imperial Army, the Supreme Commander of the Imperial Republic commanded huge influence in the nation and with the lack of a nation-wide civilian government, local warlords from the army would run entire regions of the nation.

## Fall of the Republic

#### Zuma presidency

    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.

### Democratisation

    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.

    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 *Mandate to the People Act of 2010* and 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. Proving her nay-sayers wrong, President Fox managed to pull the army under her thumb and began to set about consolidating power, before passing 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, bringing the 167 years of the Imperial Republic to an end. Remembered as a staunch democrat fighting against all sides and often members of his own government for progress, Nathan Jackson is remembered as a martyr in the cause of Libirachi Democratisation internationally and by historians, whilst state propaganda paints a different picture of Jackson as a corrupt official who's poor handling of the nation left the armed forces no choice but to depose him and replace his regime with that of Laura Fox. Regarded as one of only a handful of the nation's leaders to properly attempt to bring about the introduction of free elections, even members of Jackson's own cabinet such as Alastar Brigman and Ashley Young actively worked against his campaign for freedom and ultimately continued to serve in the new order after its formation in 2019.

### A New Order

    With the death of President Nathan Jackson in September 2019, the nation briefly stayed under Marshal Law until September 27th when Laura Fox was declared the new President of the Libirachi Empire. 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.