Akrovia

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Akrovia (officially, Federated Republics of Akrovia) is a country in western Altirus and eastern Entirus, and the largest country in Altirus by land area. It is bordered by Marezheivo and Zvergonye (as of 582; previously Syrvania) to the east, the Kartasian Sea and Ashkhan to the south, Elandris to the south and west, Alyet to the west (as of 582), and Inkata and the Kohmorenn Sea to the north. It is one of five remaining nation-states resulting from the split of the Lusivakian Confederacy along with Elandris, Ashkhan, Inkata, and Marezheivo.

## History

### Lusivakian Confederacy

As of the first century PC, the Khasyrate of Akrovia comprised a land area from the country's modern western border to the west bank of the river Dima. However, its namesake and first Khasyr - Akrovets the Long-Strider - had claimed territory as far east as the Pordski range, and as far north as the southern coast of the Kohmorenn Sea. This territory was deemed to be too large to administrate under the Lusivakian Confederacy, and was partitioned into the Khasyrates of Zvergony (comprising an area spanning from the eastern bank of the Dima river to the Pordski range), Serevo (comprising much of the northern half of modern Akrovia), and Lusmarez (comprising the modern borders of Marezheivo, extending west to the east bank of the Zvedma). The partitioning gave rise to the Bredyegi ("Striders"), Akrovian Sivaks descended from Akrovets, key members of his host, and others dissatisfied with the shift in power from the House of Akrovets to the House of Murmay, who had allowed Akrovets' original territory to be divided.

### Lusivakian Dissolution and the War of Akrovian Reclamation

The Dissolution of the Lusivakian Confederacy in 352 PI brought with it the Wars of Sivak Secession, waged over disagreements on Imperator Nikolanz IV's final decree on the partitioning of the empire. Chief among them was the Khasyrate of Akrovia, under Khasyr Egor I the of House Bobka, longstanding members of the Bredyegi faction. Under Egor I and his daughter and heir, Anika the Golden, Akrovia engaged in the 42-year-long War of Akrovian Reclamation to consolidate territories ceded to other Khasyrates over previous centuries. By the turn of the 5th century, Akrovia would comprise the largest land area of its history, and its borders would remain until the 582 Secessions.

### Akrovian Empire

#### Federalist Revolution

The Sivak Spring of the mid to late 400s saw the collapse of the Sivo-Craenate monarchy, as prior constituents of the Lusivakian Confederacy transitioned to Progressivist republics. In Akrovia, this manifested as the 1st and 2nd Federalist Revolutions, anti-monarchist, Syndico-Republican movements which formed in response to corruption and wealth inequality under the Khasyrate.

The First revolution, also known as the East Army Mutiny, began in 446, near the end of the First Leersog War. At that time, the Pordski Question proposed the start of a war with a weakened Syrvania amid ongoing conflicts with Inkata and Elandris, which caused a split in monarchist leadership and caused unrest among the population. The revolution began in ernest in the ranks of the Grand East Army, which received conflicting orders over an eastward march despite dwindling supplies. A number of lower-level officers (particularly Sivianists, those dissatisfied with the ruling House Greko and hoping to bring House Sivian to power), along with Sivianist, Republican, Syndicalist, and other ideologically-motivated enlisted men under their command, mutinied, gathering rebel forces from workers, peasents, deserters, and other mutineers in southeastern Akrovia. This force would form a nascent Federalist Revolutionary Army, which would engage Monarchist forces for the next three years until the Siege of Krykno in 449, and the revolution's subsequent disbandment.

The Second Revolution, starting in 486, would occur under similar circumstances, but see more success, and ultimately result in Akrovia's transition from monarchy. Among monarchists, the Sivianist faction had grown over the decades, while rapid industrialization had in turn seen the intensification of Republican movements, especially Syndico-Republicanism. These dissonant, yet commonly anti-establishment factions would materialize as the Federalist Revolutionary Coalition after the disastrous battles of Cape Achka against the Inkata Commonwealth and Zigrot Island against Elandris. Mass mutinies in the Akrovian Army and Navy granted the revolution a significant advantage in equipment, and working in conjunction with urban and rural uprisings, the Federalists were able to overthrow the Grekoist government in 489. As the Syndico-Republicans had seized the capital of Akrehotsk, Antoniy Stryvian was able to dictate the terms of a conference among revolutionary factions to determine the transition. In doing so, Nationalist and Sivianist representatives - including Demitriy Sivian himself - were murdered in the royal palace, the meeting having been a front for an assasination plot. Holdout elements of other revolutionary factions would remain until 494.

### Akrovian Federation

#### Stryvian Regime

[Placeholder; reign of terror, proposal of Lusivakian Commonwealth after peace talks with Elandris and Inkata; removed from power in 499]

#### Radovansky Regime

[Placeholder; removal of Stryvianists, compromise with former revolutionary rivals, Federal Autonomy act gives greater recognition and power to constituent republics, market liberalization and Free Industry Boom; Akrovia considered Altirus's premier industrial power by 520.]

#### Syrvanian Trade War and The Chergarian Incursion

[Placeholder; Lusivakian Commonwealth offers support to Syrvania after foundation of Parliamentary Republic in 508; collectively aids in modernization. Elandris seen to leverage industrial power, shipbuilding industry, and institutional knowledge in administration to gain influence in late 510s, with potential of using Syrvania as an ideal staging area for invasion in case of conflict with Akrovia; Akrovia provides manufacturing capability, infrastructure, and arms industry knowledge to assert its own influence, hoping to annex Syrvania. Aid culminates in Akrovian-Syrvanian Trade Pact of 521, allowing unrestricted trade and deployment of Akrovian military forces on Syrvanian soil. Results in Chergarian invasion, responding to creeping anti-Monarchist influence in the Westenlands; war in Syrvania ends with Pansk Treaty, which includes forbidding the annexation of Syrvania, limitation of assistance to Westenlands states to training and materiel only]

### Postwar

#### Breakup of the Lusivakian Commonwealth

[Placeholder; tensions amid Elandric occupation of Syrvania; alliance broken by 560. Later tensions with Inkata over warm water ports and Arctic shipping in 560s and 570s]

#### 582 Secessions

[Placeholder; major political shifts result in republics of Zvergonye, Alyet, others(?) splitting from Akrovian Federation in 582]