Corporate Republic of Dunsteen

The **Corporate Republic of Dunsteen** (French: **République corporative de Dunsteen**, Dutch: **Corporate Republiek Dunsteen**, German: **Korporative Republik Dunsteen**), also informally known as the **C.R. Dunsteen** or the **CRD**, as well as by it's regional name **Morra**, was a corporate single party totalitarian state in western Europe. The Corporate Republic had a population of 17.6 million people, all living within a total area of roughly 41,800 km2 (16,100 sq mi)—of which the land area is 33,500 km2 (12,900 sq mi)— making the Corporate Republic of Dunsteen the 16th most densely populated country in the world during it's existence. The nation shared a singular land boarder with the Republic of Dunsteen, from which the state gained *de-facto* independence in 2022 as the successor state to the Transitional State of Dunsteen and internationally recognised independence in 2031 as part of the Kiev Accords. In 2029, the state was replaced with the Republic of Morra after the government voted to rebrand the regime; the Republic of Morra is considered as a continuation of the C.R. Dunsteen and the Transitional State before it.

The region under the control of the Corporate Republic was once home to the Dutch kingdoms and later the Dutch Republic, under which the region became economically powerful and wealthy in the global economy. Following the Dutch Republic's annexation into the Kingdom of Dunsteen in 1785, the region continued to play a key role within the new state, ultimately becoming the key economic centre of the nation. During the First Dunsteen Civil War, the region united behind the von Ostreg faction to help form the Republic of Dunsteen, and remained loyal to the government until the toppling of the von Ostregs in 1903; as the nation began to democratise, the Dutch regions grew increasingly culturally distinct from the Germanic roots of the central Dunsteen government and an underground resistance movement was first established in 1976. By 2022, the Rebel Alliance had managed to secure elected governance over many of the Dutch regions under the political banner of the "National Alliance"; in October 2022, the region broke away from the central government as the Transitional State of Dunsteen with the backing of the Confederacy of Independent Nations and EuroCorp. In August 2024, a military backed coup deposed the Transitional State and the Corporate Republic of Dunsteen was founded in it's place.

Under the control of EuroCorp, the Corporate Republic of Dunsteen was a single party authoritarian state with minimal political freedoms afforded to citizens; despite this, Morra was a wealthy state with a nominal GDP nearly as high as the entire GDP of the Republic of Dunsteen. As the world's first corporate state, the C.R. Dunsteen is regarded by historians as having created it's own form of government in a model which would later inspire the creation of Canto Haven by the Security Coalition in 2028. Relations between North Dunsteen and it's parent state remained hostile until 2031, following the C.R. Dunsteen's transition into the Republic of Morra, when the Republic of Dunsteen normalised relations and relinquished it's claim to the breakaway province as part of the Treaty of Beijing.

## Name

The formal title of Morra during the corporate period was the Corporate Republic of Dunsteen, so named after it's parent state the Republic of Dunsteen, which in turn was named after the House of Dunsteen, a medieval Germanic royal family which united the Germanic regions into a unified kingdom in 1572. Following the independence of the Transitional State of Dunsteen, the Rebel Alliance chose to retain the name of the republic it had ceded from with the aim of ultimately re-uniting the two states; upon the formation of the Corporate Republic of Dunsteen in September 2024, the country retained the moniker of Dunsteen but began to make a shift towards using the term for the region as a whole, Morra, by the end of the 2020s as President Sunil Bakshi began to aim towards the re-proclamation of the nation as the Republic of Morra, which occurred on February 20, 2029. The proclamation of the Republic of Morra formally ended the Corporate Republic of Dunsteen, although officially the government of Morra counts the Transitional State and C.R. Dunsteen as early Morranian states.

## History

### Transitional State of Dunsteen

Over the course of Summer 2022, EuroCorp and the Confederacy of Independent Nations jointly sponsored the Rebel Alliance of Dunsteen in it's takeover of the Benelux regions and on October 13, 2022, the Transitional State of Dunsteen was formally proclaimed with Werner Reinheart assuming the title of President by the selection of Rebel High Command. As the first leader of the Transitional State, President Reinheart presided over the government of the regime and set about introducing new legislation with a new constitution planned to be introduced on January 25th, 2023; despite this, a coalition of opposition parties in the legislature caused the new corporatist constitution was blocked repeatedly, leading to President Reinheart being forced to call for an early presidential election in January 2023 to secure his position as the unrivalled leader of the secessionist nation. During the election campaign, Werner Reinheart became a controversial and divisive candidate after attempting to use his links within the EuroCorperation to try to influence the election, leading some to fear a self-coup would take place if Reinhart won the election, which in turn saw a larger than predicted swing towards the National Alliance party before such a coup could take place. Having been removed from office in the 2023 presidential election, Werner Reinheart instead took up the position of leader of the opposition and began to coordinate political attacks against the new government, led by Jean Luc Melenchon of the National Alliance. In February 2023, President Melenchon passed through a new constitution for the Transitional State which formally banned EuroCorp from operating in the nation and expelling representatives of the company from the country, forcing Reinheart into exile. In August 2023 the Transitional State of Dunsteen attempted to withdraw from a partnership with the Confederacy of Independent Nations (CIN), resulting in CIN president Almac Docu providing billions of dollars worth of financial support to EuroCorp in exchange for the organisation organising a take-over of the Transitional State; as such, Reinheart became appointed as the leader of an EuroCorp taskforce with the sole purpose of gaining power in the TSD. On August 17, 2024, the armed forces of the transitional state launched a military coup against President Melenchon and bombed the presidential palace, killing Melenchon and making way for the armed forces to install a junta government loyal to EuroCorp. On September 3, 2034, the junta government passed a new constitution into law and formally resigned, making way for Werner Reinheart to be appointed as president for a second time.

After his re-appointment as president on September 4, 2024, Werner Reinheart set about dismantling the democratic institutions of the Transitional State of Dunsteen and consolidating power into the executive branch; on September 23, 2024, President Reinheart announced the formal dissolution of the Transitional State and it's replacement with the Corporate Republic of Dunsteen, with presidential elections scheduled to be held on January 6, 2025 to elect a new head of state. Under the C.R. Dunsteen, the new administration set about devolving essential government services such as policing to subsidiaries of EuroCorp in order to funnel large amounts of taxpayer money into the corporation. Likewise, President Reinheart formally initiated the process of fully privatising the armed forces with a government paper passed on November 29, 2024 providing an outline for the government's plans. On November 17, 2024 with the death of Confederate president Almac Docu, Werner Reinheart withdrew the C.R. Dunsteen's support for the Confederacy of Independent Nations, with Reinheart meeting with Libirachi foreign minister Xi Jimping on December 1st to normalise relations between the two nations once again, providing favourable trading relationships to the world's most powerful nation. On December 11, 2024, President Werner Reinheart announced his intention not to stand for the presidency in the 2025 presidential election, instead choosing to run as vice president alongside his nominated successor Sunil Bakshi in order to retain more control over the business side to the nation, whilst Bakshi would assume political control.

### Corporate Republic of Dunsteen

Having won the 2025 presidential election, Sunil Bakshi was formally inaugurated as president of Morra on January 20, 2025 during a handover ceremony from Werner Reinheart in the city of Amsterdam. As one of his first acts of government, President Bakshi formed an economic advisory commission under the leadership of Vice President Werner Reinheart with the aim to further and deepen the shrinking of the economic responsibilities of the state through the delegation of key social services to private firms. On May 1, 2025, President Sunil Bakshi announced a transition plan to reform the political system of the Corporate Republic of Dunsteen to become more akin to a democratic state; beginning on August 14, 2025, regions from across Morra were invited to select delegates to represent them in a National Assembly, whilst 50% of the seats were reserved for corporations and representatives of different sectors of the economy. On September 4, 2025 the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) was founded from the EuroCorp affiliated independent caucus to become the majority government political party, with President Bakshi and Vice President Reinheart joining the organisation as general secretary and deputy secretary respectively. On October 1, 2025 the National Assembly began it's first parliamentary session, replacing the presidential council as the main legislature of the nation; as the first act of the National Assembly, the session passed an amendment codifying the existence of the National Assembly into the constitution of the C.R. Dunsteen.

With a new national assembly set in place, in January 2026 President Sunil Bakshi passed a series of legislation introducing a contracting system for public services centralised under the newly established Ministry for Public Services Management, bringing government services such as policing, healthcare, transport and emergency services into the organisations with the intention of entirely subcontracting the industries. On March 15, 2026, President Bakshi and Vice President Werner Reinheart formally launched the EuroCorp private security firm Bestrafer as the formal police force of the nation at a ceremony in The Hague alongside EuroCorp CEO Alisher Usmanov. Further privatisations of services continued throughout 2026 and early 2027, with the contracting of healthcare to Gezondheidszorg Morra (GM), another EuroCorp subsidy, taking place in May 2027. As part of the government's economic policy, an economic commission led by Vice President Reinheart and Finance Secretary Alexander de Croo was in existence between January 2025 and June 2027 with the purpose of sustainably cutting levels of taxation against private companies in such a manner to retain a sufficient level of public money to operating contract license fees and to function. In August 2027, the global financial system suffered a collapse as the Lemurian Star Bank fell into insolvency, bringing down much of the globalised economy with it; in the Corporate Republic of Dunsteen, the crisis manifested itself in the form of an intense recession as thousands found themselves unemployed and unable to afford privatised healthcare. On September 4, 2027, President Sunil Bakshi dismissed his economic commission, along with finance secretary Alexander de Croo, and installed the economist Wopke Hoekstra as the head of a new Ministry of Economics and Finance with the task of resuscitating the Morranian economy. In an attempt to gain additional financial aid, President Bakshi formally opened communications with the government of Dunsteen, with Bakshi and Dunsteenian president Katharina Müller meeting for the first time at a mediated summit in the Avalonian city of Malmo on November 18, 2027, with Avalonian väldeminister Ada Nilsen heading negotiations between the two states. On February 3, 2028, finance minister Wopke Hoekstra resigned from the government following policy differences with senior administration officials, leading Eris Assecla to be appointed to the finance ministry the same evening. As part of communications with the Republic of Dunsteen, on February 28, 2028 President Sunil Bakshi established the Commission on Morranian Identity under the leadership of vice president Werner Reinheart with the intention of rebranding the republic to a more internationally acceptable form of government in exchange for receiving international aid and economic support. As gas and oil prices started to spiral upwards in April 2028 following the attack on the Bolshoy oil fields in the Russian Federation, President Bakshi opened a commission for energy independence with finance secretary Eris Assecla at it's head with the sole goal of finding ways to create local energy self-sufficiency.

On August 17, 2028, President Sunil Bakshi formally announced the government's intention to dissolve the Corporate Republic of Dunsteen and replace it with a new government "better reflecting Morranian identity"; within the ruling VVD party, the move to abandon the corporate republic was deeply contentious and indeed several key senators within the National Assembly threatened to resign in protest. Despite some internal VVD opposition, EuroCorp CEO Alisher Usmanov publicly supported the move and pledged to respect the drafting of a new constitution. On September 3, 2028, vice president Werner Reinheart presented a draft constitution to the National Assembly, beginning a several month long process of amendments and modifications to the draft document. With finance secretary Eris Assecla heading a new treasury commission, the Morranian economy began to significantly recover as the government injected billions of dollars worth of subsidies into businesses to keep them afloat; by October 2028, the deep recession in the Corporate Republic of Dunsteen had ended and confidence in the economy rose, boosted by the announcement of a new regime in the nation. On November 6, 2028, President Bakshi and Dunsteenian president Katharina Müller held a second public meeting in the city of Madrid, with both sides agreeing to an aid package for the C.R. Dunsteen, as well as the establishment of a framework for establishing formal diplomatic ties between the two states; Müller and Bakshi met again on December 11, 2028 in London as part of a peace conference hosted by UK prime minister Rishi Sunak. Following the National Assembly's adoption of the revised constitution on December 20, 2028, President Sunil Bakshi formally passed an executive order to institutionalise and codify a host of new symbols, logos, flags and seals into law for the proclamation of the new regime to replace those of the Corporate Republic of Dunsteen. On January 1, 2029, Sunil Bakshi was succeeded as the head of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) by Peter Illich. On February 2, 2029, the National Assembly was dismissed and dissolved after passing a law to allow members to continue their terms for an interim session of the new legislature. In the city of Amsterdam on February 20, 2029, President Sunil Bakshi formally proclaimed the creation of the Republic of Morra as a successor state to the Corporate Republic of Dunsteen by enacting the 2029 Moranian Constitution; with the implementation of the new constitution, Bakshi's formal title changed to that of President of Morra, with new restrictions and powers granted to the office. Similarly, the National Assembly of Morra was established as a successor to the former C.R. Dunsteen Assembly and retained the same members until the completion of the 2025-2030 congressional term.