Arian Federation

Flag of the Arian Federation

Map of the Arian Federation

### Capital(s)

Nova Parizénnya (Philadelphia) - presidential residenceNova Azaranya (New York) - head of government

### Regional & Minority Languages

Declavan, Universal Spore Language, over 4,100 recognized indigenous minority languages

### Ethnic groups (2020)

Very Multicultural; 92.5% various native Arian cultures with various degrees of Western Noobic influence
6.2% Western Noobic (direct)
1% Declavan
0.3% Other

### Religion (2018)

68.3% Atheist/Irreligious12.5% Avárlosian Noobism
12.2% Evangelical Decism
5.3% Voolarienism
1% Indigenous Spore Religions
0.7% Other

### Demonym(s)

Arian (Arian'ya) - Hondori (colloquially)

### Government

**Various:** * Constitutional Federal Republic under an Authoritarian Provisional Dictatorship (1939-1945) - *known as the Early Longist Era*
* Constitutional Presidential Federal Republic (1945-1971) - *known as the Late Longist Era*
* Constitutional Semi-Presidential Federal Republic with Direct Democratic Representative, Prime Minister and Presidential vote (1971-) - *known as the Information Era*

### Legislature houses

Zetnesrlz House (Upper), Venote House (Middle), Lapist'ker House (Lower)

### Formation

1784 (Independence) - 1939 (end of 2nd Arian Civil War) - 1971 (modern Government)

### GDP

2020 estimate41.6 Trillion (PPP)
31.12 Trillion (Nominal)

### Currency

Azonian Zonos

The **Arian Federation**, officially the Union of Arian Federated Peoples *(Arian: Unieonar Valtora-Comonvala Arian'ya)*, and colloquially (mostly in Gammeria) known as the 'Arian Fed', or in most other countries, 'Aria', is a world major power, the largest and most powerful majority Spore state on Earth, and the vast hegemon of the Greater Arian Continent. The Arian Federation, like its brothers in the Spore Mainland, has had a long history. Previously being colonized around 100,000 years ago by the massive Genesis Empire of old, the Genesian decline led to its colonial withdrawal and subsequent total collapse of its ideas around 71,000 years ago, and civilization there would revert back to pre-Genesian times for the most part, however it did leave behind Yelovium, which, due to its exposure to Earthly materials, slowly turned into the weaker, green-glowing yet more malleable and versatile Azonium. The first Arian polities emerged around 5,600 BD, being very small and often quite long-lived. Before the arrival of the colonial empires, vast empires often formed in the Mississippian, Lawrencian and Mexican areas, with countries such as the Erish Empire, Calverde Empire, Balestori Empire, Ionaran Imperium, and the Mastover'hane Divine State forming in the long millennia of Arian history (all of these past 500 BD, mind you). The Sunglow Empire, Siberia and later the Vaipura Kingdom/Queendom would make contact with the Arian peoples for quite some time in the High and Late Middle Ages before the Voronian discovery of the Arian Continents. With this, various nations like the Funtimes, Voronians, Anglos, some Surnachte polities, Spheriodic refugees and companies, Declavans and more would jump to get a peace of the pie in the Arian continent, in the expense of the natives (mainly the Spores) who faced the blunt of the colonialism. The Orbid Imperium, the Mayan polities and Solovar-Empyrean Empire (Funtime-Janeiro) would be conquered by 1650. Thus, the continent would fall into the influence of the major powers. The Enlightenment rolled around, the Arian Federation would eventually get its independence from an Albíonese dominion in Eastern Aria. It would slowly purchase, settle and/or conquer most of North America (except for Siberia's in Alaska) and rose to prominence as a major power, only enhanced by participation in two world wars, as well as two major civil wars. The independent Erishes would join in 1951, leading to the creation of the Modern Arian State. The Arian Federation has 1 territory, 104 velkins or states in total with 1 autonomous velkin, as well as 7 federal cities (Nova Parizénnya, Nova Azaranya, Kotomia, Lekora, Nistokel, Piv'nerao, and Erishxiacualan), to make a total of 112 subdivisions.

## Etymology

The name **Aria** refers to the continent of Aria, which was named after the Arian Basin (the Caribbean Sea) and is generally known as a misnomer, as it was meant to refer to a 'new part of Asia'. The name, however, stuck and the continents continue to be called Aria to this day (Aria Vecno and Aria Polastia). Generally though, the name unfolded into native names (Ariae is the name of the Arian continent in Arian, and Leanaora in Erishon). Some natives also call the continent entirely differently, but the general accepted term for it is Aria (very close to Asia).

### Attempts to name it differently

#### United Federation of Nova Sporia

There was an attempt in 1801 to name the Arian Federation, "United Federation of Nova Sporia", however that didn't go anywhere. Some cities continued to use it, though, which angered some nations quite a bit. This also came in a time where the young Federation couldn't gain much legitimacy partially as a result of significant anti-Spore feelings in most of Europe during and following the Naalsachte Revolutionary Wars (notably the Funtime Tsardom), and it wasn't recognized by many nations (besides the Spore, newly independent South and Central American states who also had trouble, and Noob states) until the 1830s.

#### Republic of Grenaria

A second attempt to rename the country came in 1827, where several senators proposed the name 'Republic of Grenaria' in honor of Arian-Declavan explorer Gren McGrenFace. Nothing came of it, though.

## History

*See also: **Dominion of Earthervia**, **Arian Age of Kingdoms**, **Arian colonial history, early Arian Federation, middle Arian Federation and Great War, Longist era, modern Aria***

*Summaries: **List of heads of state of the Arian Federation***

### Arian Stone and Arian Neolithic

#### Arian Stone Age

The Arian Stone Age began approximately 2.9 million years ago, with the discovery of stone tools by various cultures near modern-day Cleveland (known as simply the Cleveland site). Due to the lack of writing in this time, the Arian Stone Age (otherwise known as the pre-Genesis period) is mostly unknown. Sites have been discovered around San Francisco, Indianapolis, and Miami with varying degrees of archaeological complexity. Towards the Genesian Era starting approximately 120,000 BD, some more sites were discovered, and had some pretty significant complexity, such as spires pointing to the sky with evidence of magical imbuing. Around 120,000 BD, the then-declining Genesis Empire would land on the Arian continent with intent to establish outposts in the region. They had also introduced Yelovium onto the continent, however when exposed to planets with such amounts of nitrogen and oxygen transforms into Azonium.

#### Genesian Era

*See also: **Dominion of Earthervia***

The Genesis Empire would colonize the entirety of Aria Vecno and set the precedent for the modern Arian Federation's borders. Though there were considerations to spread their influence further throughout Earth, they were rejected by the then-Genesian High Council. Initially, for millennia, the colony was directly ruled by the Genesis Empire, but ultimately was made into a dominion as its population grew from immigration and an increase of quality of life, and a new culture would form. The Genesis Empire tried, successfully, to prevent its advanced technology from spreading to the parts of Earth it did not colonize. The Dominion of Earthervia was arguably the peak of the Arian civilization; most cities in the modern Arian Federation were built out of the ruins and foundations of the highly advanced Genesian settlements on the continent, and its language HIGHLY resembles Genesian, even sharing a few words with its father language. Eventually, as the Genesis Empire continued to fall apart, the Dominion of Earthervia suffered an absolutely devastating catastrophe, one that made the catastrophic downfalls of Arian continental civilizations pale in comparison. Its entire population, society and technology completely regressed back to Stone Age levels, only leaving back the Genesian language, culture and Yelovium deposits, as well as a few Yerevenes. This would lead to the 'Post-Genesian Era'.

#### Post-Genesian Era

The Post-Genesian Era was also fairly uneventful, with more relatively minor sites propping up over a few ten thousand years. Humans would migrate to the continent around 10,000 BD however their presence would be very small and limited, mostly in modern-day Yukon and British Columbia. The Arian Neolithic period would come and go, and the first kingdoms would rise in around 3,600 BD.

### Independent Aria

#### Declaration of Independence (1784-1815)

While a revolution was ongoing in the colonies, spurred by Enlightenment ideals and a resentment by the Spore natives against the government of Londivia, the independence of the Arian Federation from its Albionese overlords in the Arian Eastern Seaboard was relatively non-violent. With the supervision of the Albionese government, the Governor of Palecorna, Dec'vos Wilhelm, would issue the declaration of independence of the First Arian Republic from Albion on October 3, 1784. Each colony would ratify the independence throughout the month; ending with the province of Quebec joining the First Republic on October 31, 1784 (as Francia was still part of the Empire of Voronia during that time period; otherwise, it would have joined an independent Francia). Major cities, such as Nova Azaranya, Imperia, and Veni'cora, would continue to be occupied by Albion until 1790 in order to prevent the collapse of the newly formed Republic. Though popular unrest was relatively low in the Republic's early days, politicians were often in disagreement on how to organize the government. Until 1785, the Arian Republic was a provisional government, mostly operating by the aforementioned Dec'vos Wilhelm's command, and still had no elections as there was no system of government to agree on. On March 3, 1785, the delegates of the velkins of the Arian Republic were to be called and organized in Memburg in order to create the new government of the Republic. In the Memburg Conference, the Founding Fathers of the nation would sign the Articles of the Union of Aria, the very first proper government of the Arian Republic. However, these articles were flawed. They gave way too much power to the states, who were basically independent countries bound together by a shaky alliance. Dec'vos knew that this was not ideal in the slightest, so another convention was held in October 2, 1785 in the same city. This was known as the Second Memburg Conference, and it altered the Articles, giving more power to the government and allowing it to control commerce and trade, as well as raise its own taxes and army. It was still a fairly weak government, however it was better than nothing. The Articles of the Union of Aria would remain in place for four years, and unrest especially in Quebec and the southern velkins would rise. On November 2, 1786, the Gulf of Cesi Incident would occur, demonstrating the still-present lack of power and ability for Aria to protect its own trade. This would lead to the New Gyrn Mutiny only 4 days later, which would lead to a major protest in the capital of the velkin of North Gaesarea, demanding that the governor, Maes'vi Narovir, of the province establish better protective measures of trade. The governor was forced to cave in after a week of protests, fearing potentially being overthrown. After another incident occurred near Cape Cod, President Wilhelm had enough. He demanded a third conference in Memburg in order to completely recreate the Arian system of government from scratch. The governors agreed, and the Third Conference of Memburg, which occurred from January 2 to January 27, 1787, would lead to the signing of the new Arian Constitution, as well as the Bill of Rights. This, after a 25-day bitter debate over how the Constitution would be framed, would be surprisingly effective. The Arian Republic now had a very robust system of government, from which it could conduct affairs both globally and domestically. It took velkins a while to ratify the Bill of Rights, with the last signer being Ophelia, on March 3, 1790, only 1 day before Albionese withdrawal from the Arian Republic as a whole. On July 3, 1789, an insurrection would break out in Charlotte, North Gaesarea, incited by radical civilians who wanted a government more similar to Republican Naalsachte. This would be the last uprising in the Arian Federation to be quelled by a foreign power; the others were done with exclusively by the Arian army and police force (the sole exception being Sava's Arian Union State, which would unify the Federation in 1939, much later).

However, the Republic would face other problems as well. Proper taxation became an issue domestically, and abroad, Gammeria was deliberately provoking and harassing Arian trade vessels in an attempt to provoke a war and colonize the Arian lands for itself. In the west, the Arian Republic's claims overlapped with the Erish Empire's, the Funtimeans, and the Siberians. Archon (President) Wilhelm was determined to solve these issues. A treaty with Siberia was signed in Anchorage, on January 1, 1791, the Arians promising to give Siberia a good chunk of Alaska. This portion of Alaska given to Siberia would persist to this day as the modern border between the Arian Federation and the Siberian state. An attempt to negotiate with the Funtime Tsardom was made in early 1792, but the stubborn Funtime Emperor was very unwilling to accept withdrawing from most of their claims, and thus negotiations between two of the three negotiating powers (Aria, Funtimea, and the Erishes) broke down. The Erishes and Arians were able to settle some border disputes, but the resentment from the disputes would lead to war in 1846.

##### First Arian-Gammerian War (1793-1794)

In April 1793, an attack on the port of Miami by Gammerian vessels would lead to President Wilhelm promising to 'give the Gammerians the war they had wished'. The First Arian Republic declared **war on Gammeria** on April 3, 1793, starting the Arian-Gammerian War. Though in the Sargasso Sea there were initial victories of Gammeria against small Arian privateers, the war culminated in a Gammerian landing in Dover, where they took the city and razed it to the ground. They attempted to push further into Annapolis, but were decisively defeated and pushed out on June 9, 1793. As revenge, the Gammerian general leading the attack was executed by the First Republic. The Gammerian navy was lured into and destroyed by a joint Snowbrine-Arian force in the Arctic, and significant damage was dealt to it in the Battle of Nunavut (July 1 - July 9, 1793). The Arian Navy would thus begin sailing to the Gammerian mainland, and would successfully land forces in Naples and Palermo on January 6, 1794. With the Arians pushing further into Decammeria, Voronia and the Declavan Republic would demand peace, which the Arians would agree to, as they did not seek territorial gains. The Armistice of Campania was signed on January 19, 1794. The first interstate war of the Arian Federation was a victory. Earlier in the war, on September 1, 1793, the longest-lasting Arian alliance would be signed; the Arian-Vaipuran alliance, signed personally by President Dec'vos Wilhelm and Queen Laine von Ghas'turas. This alliance would persist on to this day. On March 1, 1794, the Treaty of Gome was signed, forcing Gammeria to pay reparations to the Arian Federation for damages done to their trade, as well as full compensation for the rebuilding of the destroyed city of Dover. This treaty would also end the war with the Vaipura Queendom, where the country seized Gammerian Greenland.

After the war with Gammeria, the Arian Republic eventually had to figure out a new currency, as while the government had its own currency with which to tax and finance wars, the states mostly used their own currencies, from all of which the federal government derived. This became problematic, as Gammeria now had to pay reparations to the national government of Aria, and the states couldn't decide how much money Gammeria had to pay to them. Thus, on May 12, a national currency was introduced; the paper cap. The paper cap was, as the name states, paper currency, and the calculated total that Gammeria had to pay became apparent; Gammeria had to pay 1,130,000 paper caps to the Arian Republic; 1,000,000 to recover the destroyed city of Dover, and 130,000 for the damages done to merchant ships. The Arians, meanwhile, had to pay only 92,000 for damages done to the cities of Palermo and Naples.

The paper currency also came with a boon of making wars and internal projects easier for the Arian federal government, as well as the states, to finance, managing to defuse the Rum Rebellion of the far southern provinces Ophelia. It allowed the Arian government to begin their largest project yet; the Arvi Canal. With President Cerulean's election in 1797, the canal was started, being constructed from a period of March 4, 1797 to October 6, 1799 in order to allow easier access to shipping into the rich cities of the Arvian Sea's coastline. With the completely spontaneous assistance of freelance mages from the Declavan Republic, the canal was completed in much shorter time than expected, and extended for a far greater range than the original vision of the canal, allowing for easier trade. However, a scourge to the morality of the Arian Federation was still in full force; slavery. While many northern velkins had already abolished it as an immoral practice, the south still extensively enslaved Spores (yes, Spores enslaving Spores) and other peoples from Africa. Though the federal government pushed many times for the total abolition of slavery, it came with so much opposition from southern landowners that eventually it was abandoned all together, much to the horror and anger of prominent abolitionists from the northern states. This was a problem that would be difficult to overcome, as the 19th century would come around. In the Atlantic, another undeclared naval war would break out between the radical republican Naalsachte's naval forces and the Arian Navy, a war that came to be known as the Quasi-War. This war would last from January 2, 1800 with the Battle of the Bermuda Sea to April 3, 1803 and the Treaty of Vienna, which would reestablish proper relations and peace between the two, relatively similar states (ideologically). The Arian Republic would also begin sending aid to the Spore realms of the North, and encourage unification, which would, among other reasons like incursions and the current rampant anti-Spore racism, cause the Funtime Emperor to permanently cut ties with the Republic on December 6, 1804 and drop negotiations entirely in Western Aria, the Funtime Tsardom seeing the Arians as simply 'subhumans' and a 'boisterous paper tiger'. This move would also cause Arian-Jaegon and Arian-Declavan relations to deteriorate, and Voronia would cut ties with the Arian Federation on March 3, 1806. Still fledgling and unrecognized by large parts of the world, President Lillian, in a bid to be recognized by Noob organizations and states, would declare support for the independence of Francia from both the Empire of Greater Germania (Naalsachte) and the Empire of Voronia. Relations between Voronia and Aria reached a low point, and it seemed war between the two states was coming.

In this timespan, new velkins would be admitted in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Sasketchewan, and the Dakotas.

##### First Arian-Voronian War (1806-1809)

On November 2, 1806, the Voronian Empire and Funtime Tsardom would jointly declare war against the First Arian Republic. Both of them expected an easy victory, however the Germanians decided to take advantage invading Voronian Francia again, forcing much of the army of both nations to withdraw from North America. The Arians besieged Fort Ross on November 30, 1806, a siege that only lasted 4 days and ended on December 3. With this, the Funtimes withdrew from the war due to the German attack. So, while the Funtime Tsardom and Voronian Empire were both at war with Aria, the Funtimes withdrew early on, being forced to cede Fort Ross and withdraw all of its claims in North America. The First Arian-Voronian War was mostly characterized by naval action in the North Atlantic, but despite the war lasting 2 years, not much actually happened in the way of land warfare. The Vaipura Queendom declared war against Voronia in late 1807, but the country was so small it really didn't matter much. Although the Voronian Navy was far superior, the Arian-Vaipuran navies put up a significant fight, and denied the Voronians a landing spot on the Arian coastline they could use as leverage. The Treaty of Conorhas was signed on July 2, 1809, bringing an end to the relatively pointless war. Both countries claimed victory in the conflict.

The length of the war, combined with the significant need to patrol the North Atlantic to defend against the then-far superior Voronian Navy would lead to the Arian government falling quite deeply into debt. This would lead to President Lillian being voted out in favor of Kelos "Atoll Burr" Sinidar, who would take power in 1810. Kelos' early presidency was defined by attempts to pay off the immense debt accumulated by the Arian government in its successful attempts to fend off a Voronian invasion, all of which were unsuccessful. Failure to do this would lead to Kelos being assassinated by a top government official in 1812, and his vice president, Pelorva Y'res, would take power. Pelorva was far more successful in solving the debt crisis, and much of the debt the Arian Republic had to pay would successfully be paid by 1815, which is also considered to be the start of the 'Time of Good Feelings', and the start of the era of the Early Arian Republic as inflation decreased and the Arian economy would reach an all time high. The defeat of Emperor Marian, and with him the fall of the Empire of Greater Germania, would lead to Naalsachte exiles and emigres to flee west to the Arian Republic; the first of many migrations into the country with promises of better employment and far higher living standards than were present at home. Some of the boats they used to flee were attacked by some countries, most notably Voronia and Gammeria; thus the fleets used by emigres to escape to the Federation and to the Americas became known as the 'shadow navy'.

Meanwhile, tension begins to stir in Latin America as new independence movements prop up against their colonial overlords...

#### Early Republic (1815-1861)

After the successful Gammerian campaign, as well as the semi-successful Voronian campaign, the Arian Military began to see higher esteem and prestige throughout the world. After the resolution of the Arian debt crisis, the Republic would begin to support independence movements in Voronian America, in order to show solidarity with the peoples in the region. The Arian Government, along with the Erishes, were the foremost supporter in the colonies' struggle for independence from Voronia, although the Erishes took it a step further and also proclaimed its wishes for the restoration of the rights of indigenous Spores in South Aria (which would be partially realized). In 1816, Pelorva, before he was replaced by Joaquin Velodira, would issue his famous 'Yearn of the Oppressed' speech to the Arian legislature as part of his State of the Union address, and also wished that his speech be made public; it spread very quickly across the world, and became one of the primary factors for immigration into the Arian Republic early on. People from all over the world migrated into the country in hopes of better living standards and better treatment than the countries they left, with the most migrations coming from the Surnachte Confederation, Voronian America, Voronian Francia, Gammeria (despite government attempts to suppress migration) and the deliberately impoverished Spore Mainland. A large portion of the Arian population is descended from these foreign migrants, *especially* ones from the Spore Mainland, where around 43% of the population claims descent from Sporia proper. Hearing of this large-scale migration, Joaquin felt a need for the Arian Republic to protect its migrants, and thus initiated two relatively famous acts; first was the Protection Act, meant to safeguard migrants from oppression by foreign countries (which led to Gammeria backing down) and the Joaquin Doctrine, preventing recolonization of the Americas (even if it was de-facto enforced by Albion up until the late 19th century). In 1819, the significant impacts of the Galestown hurricane meant that the Arians needed to improve infrastructure, especially on coastal cities; Joaquin initiated a program to completely overhaul the building code, as well as the nation's infrastructural system, however it was only partially realized, as in 1821, the new president Zolemmia, who was a fervent conservative, would halt the programme. There was enough resistance from the Legislature, however, to prevent Zolemmia from reversing such reforms outright. Zolemmia would later lead the country into an economic recession in 1822, and was outed a month after due to a corruption scandal. A new president was then elected who was a Voronian admiral and in that time period an Arian war hero with Mainland Spore descent; Nicolaj Enevoldsen. Nicolaj enacted his policies of westward expansion into the relatively uninhabited lands past the Mississippi River, which led to conflicts with native Spore tribes. Compared to another war hero afterward (which will be mentioned soon), Nicolaj attempted to exist in harmony with the natives, similar to the Albionese policy beforehand. This proved to work very well, and led to swift population growth in the Great Plains (well, relative to the near-uninhabited status that it was). With the addition of newer states in the region, a controversy soon began to arise in the slaveholding southern states.

The abolitionist North began to greatly outweigh the South in population and representation, and southern politicians (read, plantation owners) sent an ultimatum to the Arian government; a compromise must be held, or secession. Nicolaj refused to bend, but as this was in 1824, the president afterward (Ecolir) chose to bend to their demands, which kept the practice going for much longer (until 1861). This greatly frustrated Nicolaj, who believed that under his leadership, he could take on the South and abolish slavery by force. Thus, Nicolaj created a radical abolitionist paramilitary, and began raids into Southern states to emancipate slaves. The South, in response, appealed to the federal government to raise the military to help them. Four years of war ensued, as the skilled general and admiral would outmanuever the Arian military in their numerous attempts to capture him. He was finally apprehended in late 1828 after his defeat in the Battle of Choson City, however the Arian courts were sympathetic to the Abolitionist cause, and were respectful of him having freed over 10,000 slaves in his raids into the south, and thus they let him go with only 4 years of prison. This would make Nicolaj the first president of Aria to be arrested. In 1829, Tyre Javik would be elected president of the Arian Federation. Being a Southern landowner, he tightened policies to prevent abolitionism from taking root in the future, and forced the abolition of the Sons of Equality paramilitary. In addition, he forced the unlawful execution of its members, which led to him getting impeached and ousted. His vice president, a far more moderate individual, would take power. However, he still felt threatened by the abolitionist North greatly outnumbering the slaveholding South, and thus forced a new province in modern-day Oregon to adopt slavery against the wishes of its inhabitants. This led to the Chalom Uprising, and Oregon seized its independence for over a year, repelling Arian advances at every turn. The Lesonian Republic would rejoin the Arian Federation with a prominent Northern abolitionist and war hero, known as Philippe Ceru. Though Philippe was against slavery as a practice, he also called the order to begin relocation of hundreds of thousands of Native Spores to reservations, which was now known as the Trail of Tears. This brutal ethnic cleansing of the native Spores would be the defining policy for Arian 19th century native treatment up until the Arian Civil War, where more utopian and humanistic ideals would begin to take root in the North (Union). The Trail of Tears is a highly controversial issue, and there are more than a few political parties that have advocated for the abolition of native reservations even in the modern-day Federation. On the other hand, Philippe took an uncompromising stance towards slavery in the South, and even got it abolished in Maryland, Delaware and northern Virginia (by literally splitting it in half), and also greatly improved Arian economy and infrastructure via starting work on a large railway to connect the Atlantic and Pacific (which would not be finished until the 1850s, due to political factors). In addition, the president would set the first frameworks for immigration into the Federation in order to potentially restrict malicious agents from entering the country. In 1836, Philippe would form a migration and economic pact with the Ostravikura Council of Spores, which would last until 1915. He would be elected for another term in the same year, in a highly divisive election which led to the brief return of the Sons of Equality (under a different leader). In 1837, Philippe, after capturing them, was forced to completely ban anyone from forming a group with that name again.

At the same time, Arian landowners in Texas began displacing the native Texan Jaes and Spores in the region, which led to violence. This began the Texan War of Independence, where the Texans began pushing for Arian recognition. The Arian government disapproved of these displacements (except for Philippe, who greenlit recognition) and the Northern-dominated Congress did not want to push for recognition until the Texans stopped displacing the natives. Philippe was finally forced to bend in 1838; this led to a significant collapse in Arian-Erish relations. The Arians would funnel support until the Erishes were forced to recognize Texan independence in 1839. The newly formed Republic of Jaena-Cexas appealed to join the First Arian Republic the same year; Philippe and his cabinet refused in order to defuse escalating tensions with the Erishes. Jaena-Cexas fell into civil war in 1840, and the Jaes overtook the country and forcibly abolished slavery. Though Philippe was later voted out of power in favor of Politician Ionias Vel'zinton, he began to see more favor in taking in Jaena-Cexas with it now being an abolitionist state. Ionias, in contrast to Philippe, wanted to escalate things with Erishes for potential land grabs in the northeastern frontier of the Greater Erish Empire. Thus, in 1841, he accepted the second Jae request to join the Arian Republic. The Erishes saw this as an act of war, however they were not in any position to do much about it, being in a revolution of their own. The Southerners got increasingly angry at the north; the addition of an abolitionist Texas outnumbered their representation even more. Ionias was forced to concede, and northern Virginia once again became a slaveholding state. Despite this, tensions were still high between the two, due to the highly abolitionist North, as well as Canada. In 1842, things became violent with the newly admitted Lenori Territory; the north had voluntarily abolished slavery a year prior, and the South wasn't about to let things slide with Lenoria. Lenoria also became a slave-holding state, but after significant political violence and even a few assassinations. By 1844, tensions between the South and North were at an all time high, and the Ionian cabinet needed to do something about it; thus, when he was reelected for a term until 1848, he had an idea; provoking a war with the Erishes. Such a war would unify the North and South and delay a civil war for the time being, which would not be ideal. Another rebellion would begin in Erish California, which while snuffed out quite quickly would begin resistance in the Rocky Mountains. Tensions would continue to rise between the Erish and Arian governments even into 1845. By 1846, Congress was fully in favor of triggering a war between the two states, but they needed to provoke the Erishes into starting such a war with the Arian Republic. Thus, in March 2, 1846, the Vegas Incident occurred in Nevada, which was an Arian 'filibuster' invasion of the state of the same name. The Erishes demanded Arian compensation, which the Republic overwhelmingly declined; thus, on April 9, the Erishes declared war on the First Arian Republic. This started the Erish-Arian War.

##### The Erish-Arian War (1846-1848)

The Erish-Arian War started and ended as a total Arian curbstomp; the Erish Empire by this point was quite weak and fragile and its armies were horrifically outdated. About the only thing going for the Erishes were that they were a Spore state and thus were able to field COBs and, well, Erishes on a much larger scale than the Arians were able to. The Erishes used this to great effect at the start of the war, using the lumbering beasts as shock troops and managing to secure some towns on the Arian border. However, the Arian artillery retaliated and as the Erishes started going down so did the Erish advance. The Erish invasion was repulsed by June 1, and the Arian invasion on three fronts would begin; first on the Oregonian front, then on the "Frontier" and finally on the Erish lands proper. The Arian offensive led to a slaughter of much of the outdated Erish armies, and the entire Erish frontier fell in a matter of months as the military governors of Carivona and Nestoria. The Arians quickly took the fight to the Erish lands proper, as they began blockading Erish Mexico itself. The Arians took Monterrey and much of the state of Sonora, and landed near Veracruz where they began to push for Erishxiacualan. By December 1847, the Arians were outside Erishxiacualan, and had captured practically the entirety of the northern Erish lands. In February 1848, the Erishes were forced to sign peace with the Arians following the fall of their very capital. The Treaty of Erishxiacualan was signed in the same city, ceding the Mexican Cession and the Gadsden Purchase lands to the First Arian Republic. Despite Funtime calls for a better treaty, and even offers to help the Erishes regain lost land, the Erish Emperor did not seek to go against the Arian Republic after the complete devastation the Republic had brought to their land, and he signed the treaty. The Erish Empire surprisingly did better afterwards, as losing frontier lands allowed the Emperor to consolidate his power more.

After the war, in November 1849, the 2nd Arian Republic was proclaimed briefly by Jackovin Ardentir, although it was simply a 6 month long name change that went completely nowhere and is generally considered to have been utterly pointless. After this, the Arian Federation was proclaimed in 1850, complete with a more updated Bill of Rights (at the expense of the South) that had several clauses implying release of slaves that flee to the Northern states. Slavery was abolished in the Lenori region, as well as once again in northern Virginia. The proclamation of the Arian Federation is also the event to have 'unlocked' the very first Awakening ability, though it did almost nothing for the country for now (just some simple economic and military 'boosts', much later ones especially after the Arian civil wars made a distressed Arian Federation a total powerhouse, the country only awakened ONCE and that was when the Prisarians invaded). Though quite eccentric, Ardentir is considered a decent president, setting stone many of the laws and precedents that would be set for the North during the First Arian Civil War, and overhauled the standing army of the Arian Federation from a decent though somewhat disorganized fighting force that successfully wrestled with 2 vastly more powerful states (and 1 weaker one) in order to get the Federation where it was now, to a solid fighting force that was much more organized and better equipped. At the same time, in 1853, Ardentir began work on the Federation's very first transcontinental railway from Nova Azaranya to Icopolis. This railway would be fully complete by 1859, which established further incentive to migrate to the West. In this period, the Platinum Rush would also begin, where amateur miners would flock to western states recently claimed from the Erish lands in search of minerals to little avail. However, the Platinum Rush itself would be deeply entrenched in Arian culture, mainly in the state of Stocia where much of the Platinum Rush occurred (and also its greatest yields). Despite this, Ardentir was later voted out from power in one of Aria's first elections where the electoral vote did not match the popular vote, mostly as representatives were fearful of Southern secession due to his hawkish, radical abolitionist domestic policy towards southern slavery. The Erish-Arian War had done little to satisfy Southern desires for equal representation, and with the new president Vison being mostly sympathetic to their cause, it was time to act. The South would begin attempting to turn new states slaveholding, managing to succeed in New Erishia, and Chanzia despite those two being blocked off by two abolitionist regions (Native Chezia and Texas). They also built up their own infrastructure, while the North didn't get as many favors. In 1858, it was time for him to be voted off, and Aria's most famous president, Moritz Holderman, who campaigned on a platform of total abolition and an uncompromising treaty should the South secede, would be voted almost unanimously into office. Halfway into his first term, he was able to build up the army and greatly expand Northern infrastructure and technology; however, he proclaimed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1860 and attempted to force all of the slaveholding Southern states to abolish slavery. They did not take this well; 9 states seceded in the South (including 2 abolitionist areas in Kentucky and Oklahoma) and formed a (semi) slaveholding monarchy, however New Mexico remained with the Union. This led to a standoff throughout 1860 and 1861 where both sides began to mobilize their men and economy against the other, and in 1861, the Battle of Chizurin would start the First Arian Civil War; the third deadliest conflict in Arian history (behind the Prisarian Wars and the 2nd Arian Civil War, in second and first respectively). The First Arian Civil War was very well known in Arian popular culture until the 2nd one greatly surpassed it in total popularity.

#### Arian Civil War and Reconstruction Period (1861-1872)

*Main article: First Arian Civil War*

The First Arian Civil War, despite the fall of Texas in the initial parts of the war, was practically and completely a victory for the North immediately after the Battle of Appalachia in late 1861. Southern leaders refused to bend after this victory; though the massive defeat crippled Southern morale as they were no longer able to march on Nova Azaranya and potentially force a surrender, southern King Velos I had other ideas; he wanted to prolong the war as long as possible to exhaust the North. The Northern tide would quickly march south, capturing major cities such as Frankfort in February 1862, Jonesboro (on the Mississippi) in March of that year, and managed to enter North Carolina by summer. The Texan Campaign would begin to be reversed as Arian troops would march west from the loyal state of New Erishia, willing to comply with Northern demands to abolish slavery. In northern Tennessee, the North began to see setbacks as a result of poor strategy by the leading general at the time, Alecros, who was dismissed by the President in August 1862. The general that replaced him, General Ansgar, had another plan; with the approval of President Moritz, he began marching down the Mississippi River in an attempt to cut the Southern States in half; compounded with a landing on the banks of New Orleans by the superior Union Navy, the Federation would swiftly cut off the Mississippi River (with the exception of the stubborn Southern city of Pine Bluff, which would be besieged all the way into 1863). The North would recapture western Texas by November 1862, and would begin succeeding offensives into North Carolina and parts of Tennessee by the end of year. In 1863, with the former capital Atlanta threatened by an offensive into Tennessee, the Arian capital would be moved to the "safer" city of Montgomery. January would see the fall of Pine Bluff, and with it the Kingdom of Aria would be split in twain. President Moritz would enforce the complete emancipation of all slaves in the Southern territories, and the further the Union pushed the more the Kingdom's morale would begin to crack. With the Battle of Lawrenceburg in Tennessee ending in a Union victory, the Union now had the ambitious goal of splitting the South again via the capture of their former capital in Atlanta and then a "march to the sea" ending in Charleston and Savannah. After the fall of Austin in March 1863, this plan was initiated. It was widely successful, with the very same general responsible for the Mississippi cutoff executing the plan. Ansgar swiftly captured Atlanta after a short siege, and the March to the Sea began in late March. Ansgar would capture Savannah by the very beginning of May, and would go directly to Charleston, capturing the city as well soon after. With the South cut in three, the North began its movements to crush the remnants. Three offensives were launched against the Raleigh, Montgomery and Houston pockets. The Houston Pocket would fall first on June 9, but the Raleigh and Montgomery pockets were far more stubborn. Despite being very poorly equipped, the Kingdom's forces managed to stall the Northern advance for nearly a year, though taking very high casualties while doing so. A major Arian setback would be decided in the decisive monarchist victory in Marion, Virginia in September which forced the Arians to completely rethink their plans. Ultimately, they settled on crushing the Raleigh pocket before the Montgomery one which they fully succeeded in doing so by January 1864 after the decisive battle of Lecian Creek, as well as a crushing victory in Marion against the force that had defeated the north. With this, the Arian Federation moved into the south, defeating Monarchist forces in Tallahassee, Athens and Birmingham before laying siege to Montgomery itself in March. The siege lasted two months and resulted in a very bloody Arian victory. Velos would flee to Orlando, Florida, where he would, 7 days later, on May 29, sign peace with the Northern Arian Federation. The Kingdom of Aria was abolished and reintegrated into the Federation, and slavery was forcibly abolished. This ended the First Arian Civil War after a mere 3 years...or so, they thought.

The end of the First Arian Civil War was not very clear-cut; though the Kingdom of Aria surrendered in 1864, small armies loyal to the Southerners continued fighting even into 1865, most notably the Celery Corp (named after the celery-like emblem they had, which they embraced), while a single ship from the Kingdom of Aria fled all the way to Europe and declared loyalty to the then-State of Oldenburg. The period from the end of the Arian Civil War all the way until the election of Sylwester Basara in 1872 is known as the Reconstruction period. It started with the military occupation of the secessionist Southern states after Moritz' unanimous reelection by popular and electoral vote, in order to keep order in the area and prevent further secessions. The Arian Civil War had led to an economic boom in the North, as unemployment quickly plummeted due to the drafts into the Arian armed forces. The South, meanwhile, was left in ruins, due to the vast majority of combat taking place there (which ravaged the countryside). The civil war also led to the introduction and especially the application of new technologies, most notably the ironclad, which the North used to blockade the South (although the South had actually developed one first, which they used to destroy a significant Northern fleet in the Battle of Ardenburg). These new technologies began to see civilian use, which further improved the situation of the North. Thus, the early period of reconstruction was marked by significant economic growth for the Northern states. The South also began to see a period of explosive recovery spurred by growth in the Northern states, as businessmen in the North were eager to aid the South and perhaps gain favor from the war-weary Southerners to prevent another secession. This was, of course, highly successful; the South wouldn't secede again until 1936, and even then it would be under an entirely different philosophy. In 1865, President Moritz would suffer a significant attempt on his life in the city of Memoria en route to the Mississippi River. Doing this to gain popular support on the Mississippi states, he instead led to massive shockwaves being delivered throughout the abolitionist Lilac party, along with their more conservative Jade allies. The assassination attempt would lead to demands for justice to the perpetrator, and in response to these demands, Moritz would begin a trial of suspects which lasted two whole months from 1865 to 1866. There, Seloniav Jakonir was declared guilty and sentenced to death. This would be the last death sentence ever done by the Arian government, as in 1867 under the government of Oliver Hovland and his Summer Rose Party, the death penalty would be abolished as part of their reforms. Moritz would resign out of paranoia for two reasons; first to prevent another significant assassination attempt, and second to prevent his paranoia from causing him to, in the future, try and dismantle Arian democracy and/or disrupt it from running its course. The 1866 election, as a result, was hotly contested between four different sides; the Jade-Lilac coalition ran by Senator Theodosius, the Gold party ran by Senator Joacim, the Gray party led by Senator Hofastius, and the Summer Rose party led by Oliver Hovland. After many recounts, mainly in the western frontier states, the Summer Rose Party was declared victor of the 1866 election, which led to an attempted coup by the Gray Party. After this coup attempt, Oliver authorized to ban (read: forcibly dissolve) the Gray Party as a whole, and it fragmented into several smaller parties which later got absorbed into the big-tent Gold Party, as well as the Jade-Lilac Coalition. The big-tent policies of the opposition would later lead to the Summer Rose party only serving one term despite its general popularity. In the meantime, the Summer Rose Party began a total overhaul of Arian work laws (of which there were barely any) as well as Arian infrastructure. The Oliver administration had built more railroads and constructed more towns than the administrations between the first transcontinental railroad and the Summer Rose election of 1866 combined. The Summer Rose administration had finally established a Monday-Saturday work week, completely banned child labour, as well as an eight-hour work day, and a minimum wage. Towards the end of their administration, they also adjusted the minimum wage to account for inflation (which continues even into the modern day, as the Arian Union State was a proponent of the inflation-adjusted minimum wage), rooted out corruption and enacted policies that drifted the country towards equalism. The Summer Rose Party's chummy relations with equalism would lead to them being voted out by the electoral college, despite winning the popular vote by a landslide, which would begin a movement for direct democracy. In its place, the Jade-Lilac coalition's representative, Benjamin Holmlund, would take power in 1870.

Though the extreme form of equalism, Mudbloodism, took significant root in Europe, it failed to gain much traction within the Arian lands. However, with Benjamin not doing much in contrast to the radical reforms of the Summer Rose Party, another movement took root within the Arian Federation; syndicalism. Syndicalism originated in Voronian Francia with the relative inaction of the country's emperor to improve the economic situation in the Francian lands, however the incomplete reforms of the Summer Rose Party left unionized workers in the Arian Federation wanting more. Thus, they turned to the syndicalist movement in hopes that help will arrive. The Arian Syndicalist Party, the world's largest syndicalist political organization in 1910, was founded in 1872, an event which is generally agreed to have caused the Gilded Age, as it would steadily gain more power until its crux in the Second Arian Civil War. In that same year, Benjamin would also resign due to popular discontent; he was replaced with Gold party leader Sylwester Basara.

#### Gilded & Progressive Age (1872-1914)

Sylwester Basara is considered to be one of the best Arian presidents, both in foreign policy and domestically, who took the reforms of the Summer Rose Party and took them even further (though the direction he took them in led to controversy in the Great Depression, and the northern Syndicalists during the 2nd Civil War planned to modify the reforms he set in stone). One of his first major acts was recognizing the newly-founded Federation of Spore Creatures becoming one of the first countries to do so. Despite having a very non-interventionist attitude, Sylwester also strengthened relations with the foremost ally of the Arian Federation, the Vaipura Queendom, who recognized the Spores a few hours after the Arians did (much to Nestori's chagrin). Domestically, the women's political movement was greatly appeased with reforms that eventually led to women in the Arian Federation being allowed to vote (although linguistic literacy tests in the South meant that people of opposing 'castes' were often not allowed to vote outside their designated 'caste region'; this form of segregation proved a very controversial issue, especially in the Cold War. People of opposing castes often enslaved each other as well; the Deep South is far more ethnically violent in Aria than OTL America). Sylwester also attempted to pass an edict to outlaw the caste system in the South, but it didn't pass through the Supreme Court. Militarily, Sylwester led to a significant buildup of the Arian navy, and the Arian population exploded allowing for much more manpower in the future. This explosion of the Arian population, combined with similar blowups in Erish, mainland Sporian and southwestern Saneatsu (then a protectorate of the Funtime Tsardom) became known as the Spore population explosion connected to significant developments in those particular regions (most notably in Aria and mainland Sporia, the latter of which turning from an extremely agrarian backwater to an extremely powerful industrial state) as well as immigration from other peoples seeking opportunity from economically stagnant areas of the world. Immigration into these lands was met with a relatively variant response; the Spores and northern Arians welcomed these migrants (unless they were Funtime or Declavan in the former's case) while the Arian South and the Erishes viewed them (unless they were rich businessmen) as filthy abolitionists (Southern sentiment toward slavery remained favourable until the early 1890s) and destroyers of tradition in the former's case (as most immigrants were firm republicans and came from countries that had already abolished slavery), and job stealers in the latter's. Southern inhospitability toward immigration led to the North and West, as well as the abolitionist-dominated lands taking from the Erishes, growing rapidly in population and economic prowess while the previously bustling Southern economy crashed and stagnated as it was unable to find anything to replace its previous institutions. Proper investment toward the Southern economy, while its frameworks were devised in the tale end of Sylwester's presidency, would start under the rule of Jonathan Decius of the Jade-Lilac Coalition.

With the rise of popular discontent in Protectorate Saneatsu, which was supported by the majority-Spore nations, combined with a rapidly rising Spore power in Northern Europe, led to Saneatsu being released by the Funtimes under a very brief monarchy as it was getting far too expensive to maintain order in the region and juggle a rising military expenditure in order to combat a revanchist Spore state on its northwestern border. The Arians refused to intervene in the turbulent situation in the Saneatsu territories, the President invoking the Joaquin Doctrine to justify a non-intervention policy in the Old World (the New World, however, was fair game). This did not stop Arian investors from investing into the Saneatsu First Republic, then Imperial Saneatsu's economies. A shared resentment toward Funtime concessions and, in Saneatsu's case, full occupation, led to the Federation of Spore Creatures and Empire of Saneatsu forming an anti-Funtime alliance known as the Concord of Parreetown. This occurred in 1878. The purpose of this alliance made European powers feel threatened enough for them to form the Coalition against the Spores; the subsequent tension between the two blocs would lead to the First Spore Coalition War (also known as the First World War in Arian historiography). The Sporophobic Fever was being turned around on its heels entirely and turning into a Sporian racist fever against pretty much everyone who had wronged them; this would cause Arian public opinion to shift away from both the Spores and Saneatsu and calls to stop aiding the two states would erupt in large parts of Arian land.

The Arian Federation would refuse to participate in the Great Global Scramble, for the most part; the Arians believed that Southern expats forming a 'colony' of theirs just north of Jae Tamma was enough to satisfy them. The presidency of Jonathan, and later Nuuvius (the Arian Federation's first Noob president), would be marked by significant industrialization and modernization as well as more railroads being developed in order to connect the territories of the absolutely enormous Federation. Nuuvius' rule in particular was very much in favor of an independent Francia; being descendant of Voronian-rule Francian emigrants, he believed that an emancipation of Francia was a significant priority. However, due to the Joaquin Doctrine, the Arian Congress never approved of any Arian support for Francian independence organizations; this would go on until Arian entry in the First World War allowed them to finally break the doctrine and support such groups. Nuuvius would also be the first of a succeeding group of Arian presidents to support 'dualism' in Funtime Russia, a movement for both Noobs and Funtimes to rule over the territory. This movement gradually died out after the Luiskran Soviets rose up and attempts at making a dualist Luiskra ended in utter failure due to the significant grievances both peoples had against each other as well as very prominent atrocities committed tit-for-tat during the Funtime Civil War. Algodoo emigration would occur on an unprecedented scale during Nuuvius' successor, Wilhelm, who was elected in 1886. Immigration by Algodoos into the Arian Federation was primarily done by Algodoo intellectuals who firmly believed that the Algodoo territories were to be treated better than a simple military buffer province between the Spore and Funtime 'realms'; the ones who didn't choose to leave out of disgust for what their lands had become campaigned for further Algodoo autonomy, or in the case of radicals, full-on independence from the Tsardom. Radical Algodoo independence movements were often brutally suppressed, and autonomy movements were not left out of the crossfire; this led to unrest in the region that not only compounded Algodoo emigration but ultimately culminated in the short-lived, however united Algodoo Republic forming during the Funtime Civil War. Though it repelled the White Guardsmen, it was eventually incorporated into Mudbloodist and later Republican Luiskra.

The 1890s in the Arian Federation were predominantly known for the greatest influence corporations have ever had in Arian politics (it gradually died down throughout the 1900s until a resurgence in the 1910s, however corporate influence and lobbying were stamped down for good by the Arian Union State in 1937, which was carried over to their unification), as well as a very significant military buildup of the Arian Federation, including significant naval modernization and rearmament. This military buildup was compounded by breakthroughs in military and civilian technology, including the plane, which was made in 1894 by Solovari-Arian engineer Anacleto Veridantia (although the creator is disputed by the Spores, and the Solovar and Arian governments dispute over where exactly it was invented for credit; Solovar sources state it was made in Sao Paulo, while Arian sources state the plane was created in Atlanta). Anacleto later also made the first flight without the assistance of a catapult in 1896, which was confirmed to be done in Recife (then part of Empyrea, further escalating things between the two countries). The airplane was quickly adopted by other, mainly European industrial powers such as the Voronians, Erwinians, Declavans, Albionese, Spores and Funtimes although the rate at which they adopted the plane varied significantly. The Spores in particular were sluggish to do so, after all they already had COBs which were (at the time) superior in every way, and continued to be superior all the way into the 1930s. Planes mainly had civilian use up until the First Coalition War. These breakthroughs would lead to the first flight of the helicopter by an Albionese inventor in 1897. These various breakthroughs by the Western world would lead to a period known as the Second Industrial Revolution, felt most notably in Albion itself, and would lead to science in some areas accelerating at an uncontrollable level; these would lead to technologies in the 1930s being very anachronistic, and with the assistance of magic (until mudblood Luiskra created the mana inhibitor), very deadly. The rapidly advancing world of technology was embraced with open arms by the Arian government, but not so much by corporations; this led to Arian infrastructure starting to lag behind especially with the rise of significant environmental issues in the country relating to the rampant use of fossil fuels. The Arian Federation would only be able to make a very significant push toward renewable energy with the rise of the Union State later on. Conservation, on the other hand, was welcomed, with president Antoine Veraclian (1898-1910) establishing the very first national park in 1899, early into his first term. More efforts toward conservation, technological improvements, and equality would be taken during his rule. The most notable of these would be the Hundred-Mile Patch, an area of land in rural South Dakota which was to be delegated to the local wildlife (the Hundred-Mile Patch was the rough area of the Ceradrian megadiversity zone) which was created in 1901. The delegation of such a massive area of land to the wildlife angered corporations so much that one CEO even attempted to coup the Arian government in 1903, which ended in utter failure; this led to significant regulations targeted toward corporations, especially against monopoly. Measures against lobbying would be created in 1904, which was met with very wide support within the rapidly transforming South; the state of Ceratrina in particular had turned from one of the most conservative states in Aria to one of the most liberal, abolishing the caste systems that had plagued it 2 years prior in 1902. The fire of Choledon in 1906 made it very clear that the Arian Federation would need a new way to develop infrastructure. By this point, most buildings were made out of wood, which barely withstood the frequent natural disasters that struck Aria, most notably tropical cyclones (carridars in Arian language, separate from tucarridars, a hurricane-strength tropical cyclone), tornadoes, wildfires, and earthquakes. The vast size of the Arian Federation meant that a building code would have to account for the vastly different climates of the South, West, Northeast, and Far North. President Antoine solved this by creating building codes for each individual area of the Arian Federation to account for varying natural disasters; these became known as the Antoine Codes, and a heavily amended variation of the Codes (colloquially known as the New Antoine Codes, mostly introduced after the union of the Arians and Erishes) are still used to make Arian buildings today. However, the requirement for more sturdy materials to be used in buildings (especially in earthquake and cyclone vulnerable areas on the Pacific Coast, south Atlantic Coast, Gulf of Erishia region and Appalachia) meant that there had to be more Arian infrastructure dedicated to producing these new materials. Groups of rookie mages learned spells to help in creating sturdy building materials, which would be used for construction, formed to solve this problem for the time being. Eventually, they unified into a single order akin to the Freemasons, with one notable exception; these people couldn't run for politics (as it went against what they believed in, helping the common people). Enter...the Society of Magebornes. The Society of Magebornes was founded in 1910 by newly-formed Grandmaster Erikus Vandoren, chosen simply because he was among the wisest and strongest of the 'rookie mage movement', being an ex-Sonu Master Arelf who left the order after becoming disillusioned with its politics. Firmly believing in the ideas of equalism despite not really belonging, he decided to lead the order that could assist the Arian people in its time of greatest need until they could field the infrastructure necessary for construction. Though the Society of Magebornes really only played a civilian role until the Roaring Twenties (until they weren't exactly needed as much anymore), their duties were at first lauded by all but the most extreme of peoples (these extremists would later indulge in anti-Mageborne conspiracies that would later fuel the propaganda machines of the Ultranationalist states in the Second Spore Coalition War). The society also led to the creation of a far more liberal Mudblood movement that wished to give mages in a society a case-by-case fair trial after seeing the duties of the Mageborne Society.

In spite of the idealistic view that the Arians had with a significant portion of their population working together to ensure the country meets production quotas for its rapid industrialization, as well as some members who actively created food to give to the poor (using magic to make money is outlawed), there was something that was made very clear. A new president was elected in 1910, President Honordin Lem'nas, who decided to focus on domestic affairs as things started to get messy in Europe. The storm clouds were rolling over Europe as dictator Sondre Gunderson planned to retake the ancestral lands of the Spores from its neighbors and prove the Spore nation in the face of the world...by force. Arian aid would slowly wane in the 1910s, with the Arian Federation finally realizing that the Spores were starting to become...a bit insane. The alliance however remained, though its actual effectiveness in international politics was very questionable at its best by the time the 1910s rolled around. Sondre also claimed the entirety of the lands of the Vaipura Queendom, and due to Arian prioritization of good relations with the Snowbrines relations with the Spores began to deteriorate. In 1912, outbreak of war in the Balkans as minorities in the region went up in arms made it entirely clear that Europe was in the path for a war; a war of a scale no one would have ever seen before. The Arian census of 1910, which showed a total population of 265 million people, would be the last one conducted before the Arians got involved in Europe for the first time since the wars with Voronia and Gammeria. From 1913 to 1914, Arian negotiations between the Parreetown Concord and the Coalition proved futile, as in July 9, 1914, Spore boots would march into the Funtime Algodoo lands. This would start the First Spore Coalition War, and the Arians wanted no part in it other than support for the Spores (which was cut off following the discovery of concentration camps of people the Spores deemed as 'enemies of the state').

#### Great War and Aftermath (1914-1929)

##### The Great War (1914-1920)

###### 1914 - The War Begins

The first year of the Great War greatly divided the Arian Federation; many Arians (mostly Spores whose ancestors suffered the brunt of the Ages of Humiliation) were sympathetic to the FSC in the early months of the war while others supported the Coalition due to the Spores' blatant acts of aggression towards its neighbors. Support for Albion in the concurrent invasion of Voronia was however quite unanimous within the Arian populace, even within Funtimes living in the Federation's borders, but most of them still wanted the Arian government and military out of European politics. Thus, President Honordin would sign the Act of Neutrality, which, well, guaranteed Arian military neutrality in the Spore Coalition War and invasion of Voronia. Though the Arians did send aid to the Spores, it was very limited and mostly involved humanitarian aid (which, rather suspiciously, was very much never used). On the topic of Funtimes, Arian sentiment toward them began to rise with the advent of Nova Chelosya, where much of the film industry would be centered; Funtimes would have a massive influence on Arian film culture in its early days before the civil war, and such influence, especially from Funtime emigres from their civil war, would contribute to the negative public opinion the Arian populace had towards Mudblood Luiskra, as well as Mudbloodism as a whole, in the interwar period, as well as during the Cold War. While the Federation remained officially neutral in the conflict for the time being, it had very poor relations with the Empire of Saneatsu, and tensions were rising over dominion of the Pacific.

###### 1915 - Cutting Ties with the Parreetown Concord

At home, societal change began to occur. The chaos occurring in Europe led to significant emigration to the Arian Federation, which caused suspicion among the populace; the neutral Arian Federation was feared by both sides of the conflict to be a hotbed for spy operations from both the Parreetown Concord and the Coalition. The Arian Federation's refusal to comment upon operations made from either side (despite there being quite a number) would even cause the Declavans to cut ties with the Arian Federation until 1917 for 'refusing to act against blatant transgressions upon our sovereignty in its lands'. This would cause public opinion to shift towards joining the Spore side, atleast until 1915, when Sondre made the significant blunder of sinking the Celodiv in August 4, 1915, an Arian freight ship transporting supplies to Albion to assist them in their invasion of Voronia. This would cause public and governmental opinion to shift the opposite direction, to the point where President Honordin would cut ties with the Spores entirely a week later on August 11. With the Spores and Arians now in a tense situation, Queen Laine authorized general mobilization for the Vaipura Queendom on September 2, 1915 to 'defend the country from a potential Spore invasion'. The Empire of Saneatsu would also begin naval manuevers in the Pacific, which the Arians considered to be preparations for war, thus, Honordin completely embargoed Saneatsu on September 5, 1915 for good. This starved the Saneatusan economy; while Aria was its primary rival, it was also the country's primary trade partner, and thus the Saneatsuans began to militarize in order to get more natural resources. Saneatsu found itself in a tough spot; neither Zhaogunt nor Aria were particularly favourable opponents to take natural resources from. Thus, Saneatsu occupied Vladivostok, bringing them into war with the Funtimes; the Saneatsuan war machine still had an abundancy in its stockpile of resources and thus swiftly advanced through Funtime Siberia, all the way up into Amur and Kamchatka. The swift Saneatsu war machine would cause the morale of the Coalition to start to dip, with the Funtimes under immense stress in a two front war with the Spores and Saneatsuans. With the Coalition starting to feel hopeless, isolationist feelings once again returned to the Arian Federation into 1916.

###### 1916 - A War Scare

Early into the year, Arian isolationist fervor was at a peak. Many Arians believed that intervention in the Coalition War would likely result in countless deaths to achieve next to nothing, which was a sentiment shared by Congress, as well as by the President. This was also the darkest hour for the Coalition; the Spores and Saneatsuans were making numerous gains against their foes in Europe and Asia, several countries from the Coalition were on the brink of revolution, and the Parreetown Concord had undisputed naval superiority. To make things worse, in Central America the Salvadoreans joined the Parreetown Concord, and despite its very small size, it managed to pull some weight during the war, easily defeating its foes in Honduras and Guatemala, and providing some naval support in the Pacific (it had almost no power to project in the Atlantic). In spite of this, though, the Coalition continued to fight on, hoping that one day the tides could be turned and that victory would be theirs. While the Arian Federation was greatly opposed to joining the 1st Coalition War, popular support began to sharply rise for Francia and Albion during the Invasion of Voronia, and calls to intervene in that conflict to liberate an oppressed Francia were often ignored by the government, as they went against the Joaquin Doctrine. Following evidence of further atrocities committed by the Spores, the Arian Federation would launch an official embargo against the Parreetown Concord (except El Roqueron), strengthening its position against both its brothers in Europe and its rivals in Asia.

Later on in 1916, the Arian Federation would see a significant amount of economic growth, as well as foreign debt to the country, from sending goods and resources to the Coalition during the war. These would be used to further infrastructural projects in 1916, 1917, 1918 and 1919. El Roqueron signed a 25 year long non-aggression pact with the Arian Federation on November 17, 1916, which would persist until this day due to a renewal in 1941 during the Second Coalition War, after which it was made a 'perpetual non-aggression pact', which de-facto was a NAP until either state wanted to cut it off (which neither did). This non-aggression pact would cause them to leave the war once the Empire of Saneatsu declared war on the Arian Federation in early 1918, and the Spores followed suit. Another noteworthy event was the Treekun Hostage Crisis, which occurred from December 2 to December 9, 1916. This crisis occurred when the Spores attempted to take an Arian diplomat hostage for economic and political leverage during the Coalition War, and nearly led to the Arians entering the war themselves. However, after a week of very tense negotiations, Gunderson finally backed down, recognizing his country alone would not be able to withstand the extremely powerful industrial might of the Arians.

###### 1917 - The Tide Turns

In 1917, the tide finally began to turn in Eurasia for the Coalition. The overextended Saneatsuan war machine was starting to get desperate as their march further into Funtime Siberia was accompanied by significant losses to the cold of the winter, so they began to employ new very inexperienced soldiers and even went as far as to conscript child soldiers. The Spores had suffered a decisive defeat in the Battle of Nuremburg (there was a front in the First Coalition War fought in neutral Donau-Patribund, but the Battle of Nuremburg led to it joining the Coalition), leading to the death of one of their most esteemed generals, General Fyr'sanson, to a combined Declavan-Jaegon-Erwinian force and they too were starting to become greatly strained. With both major members of the Parreetown Concord beginning to run out of momentum for their war effort, the Arians began to lean towards the Coalition, and supplies to the Coalition soon intensified. The Salvadoreans were the only member to still stay relatively strong even with Nicaragua's entry on the Coalition (which led to them being overrun in the matter of a week and a half) and, given their distance from the two major fronts of the conflict, they were unable to help their struggling allies in Europe and Asia. This, combined with their northern neighbors Aria and Erishia starting to make moves, meant that the Salvadoreans had to peace out soon if they didn't want to break their non-aggression pact. Arian public opinion slowly shifted from neutrality to support for intervention in the Great War as a whole, with the tides turning in Europe and the Empire of Saneatsu acting increasingly antagonistic towards the Arian Federation. This eventually culminated in the Midway Crisis of July 4, 1917, where Saneatsuan ships intentionally violated the waters of the Arian province in modern-day Hawaii; this led to the Arian Federation decreeing general mobilization and putting its navy on relatively high readiness at the peak of the crisis. The Arian Federation, due to the current high state of tension, would not demobilize after this, leading to the 'Marching Period' between August 1917 and February 1918 where Arian troops simply marched across the country and/or trained. Another crisis broke out with the same country over Guam, though it was resolved much more quickly. These crises essentially predestined Saneatsu and Aria into war.

###### 1918 - Showdown in the Pacific

January 1918 was marked with significant public unease in the wake of greater Arian involvement in the First World War. The Arians were sending more materiel than ever to the Coalition, and hostile actions by the Empire of Saneatsu towards the Arian Federation had led to a very tense political situation between the two countries. Meanwhile, the Federation of Spore Creatures, growing increasingly desperate to hold on to its lands in the east in the face of declining public support and manpower (the Spores have plenty of resources, they'd pretty much never properly run out of food if united), was considering invading the Vaipura Queendom for a base of operations in the North Sea. Unrest grew in the occupied Germanian and Funtime territories by the day, which was only compounded by the Albionese naval blockade of the Spore lands, preventing them from establishing any significant foreign trade, as Albion completely blocked their sea access and all of their neighbors were also their enemies. On February 17, 1918, the Salvadoreans would sign peace with the Coalition, practically establishing hegemony over Central America. Tensions would boil over in the Pacific during the Battle of the Citrus Sea, a tactical Saneatsuan victory (though extremely shortsighted in its goals) that would be a pretext for the Empire of Saneatsu, desperate for resources, to declare war on the Arian Federation on February 28, 1918. The Arian Federation would join the Coalition on March 3, 1918 following the Federation of Spore Creatures' declaration of war. The Arian Pacific and Atlantic Fleets, as well as their vast army, were mobilized to deal with the Atlantic and Pacific threats. The Vaipura Queendom declared war on the Spores and Saneatsuans one day later on March 4, 1918, and allowed Arian vessels and troops to be stationed in Iceland. With the Spores practically unable to project any naval power in the Atlantic, the brunt of the Arian Navy enclosed upon the extremely powerful yet struggling Saneatsuan navy, defeating them in the 2nd Battle of the Citrus Sea and the Battle of Mariana. They were however, defeated near Guam in March 19, 1918, leading to the island being occupied. The Arian entry into the war was mostly on their own terms; the Arian Federation still had at best decent (with the Declavans and Jaegons) and at worst absolutely terrible (Gammeria, the Funtimes and the Voronians) relations with the Coalition while also having great relations with an ex Concord member (El Roqueron). Being a Spore country at war with another Spore country, many Coalition members were worried of a potential fifth column within the Arian ranks. In addition, the Arian Federation's government was quite different to the remainder of the coalition's; with the exception of the Spheriodics in Poland and the Albionese, most of the Coalition in Europe consisted of semi-constitutional monarchies upheld by mage deep states or stratocracies at best (even the Vaipura Queendom, the Arian's staunchest ally, falls under this category), and despotic absolute monarchies at worst. This ideological rift further separated the Coalition and the Arian Federation, and leftover tensions after the war would lead to the Arians launching the Atlantic War in 1922. Militarily, however, the arrival of Arian troops into the European fronts greatly increased Coalition morale, especially within the Erwinians who were very close to mutiny. In the Pacific, the Arians and what remained of the Funtime Empire's navy (mostly in exile, as Siberia...well...controls a pretty large portion of the far northeast) won the Battle of the Kuril Islands, breaking the Saneatsuan naval blockade of Kamchatka in May 1918. The Spores launched the Nihty'gf'd Offensive in June 1918, as not even the newly arrived and fresh Arian troops were able to stop the practically disintegrating Funtime army from retreating all the way back to Mostime, despite their and the rest of the Coalition's best efforts to do so. These efforts, however, delayed the end of the offensive by nearly 3 months; the Spores were expecting it to end in August and instead it came to an end in November, when the Funtime Civil War broke out. With the Mudbloodist Noobs in open rebellion, the Arians maintained troops to hold off the Spore advance for the time being although they very slightly assisted the Funtime White Army in their struggle to hold out against the Mudbloodists. Things on the German front were much better; the Coalition with Arian assistance would launch the Summer offensive against the Spores in 1918, causing them to retreat all the way to the Jena-Hannover line. The Arians tried to push further, but one offensive into the line ended very poorly for their men, so they chose to wait things out for the time being. The Arians would also attempt to take fighting to the Spore homeland in the Battle of Skipio in the far west, which occurred in mid September, though they were unable to establish more than a beachhead in the Spore Mainland after their victory in the city, especially as the Arian force was defeated in the Battle of Kerulea just 6 km east of Skipio (although inflicted heavy casualties on the Spore defenders). In the Pacific, the Saneatsuans established the Cizamora Protectorate from their occupied territories in the Funtime Empire, although they would be quite short-lived (they would last until 1921 when the Mudbloods forced the surrender of Vladivostok), and with the Funtimes in disarray they could focus their remaining ships on the Arian Federation's creeping Pacific Navy. This would not do much to help their cause, as the freed up fleets would be defeated in the Battle of the Buddian Gulf in early November. Public support to continue involvement in the Great War was high following significant victories in both Europe and Asia, even despite losses in mainland Sporia and Guam and the Arian industry continued to gear up to continue the conflict. The final actions of the year were the Battle of Jena, the Second Battle of Skipio, and the Battle of Ioria Cape, all Arian victories in some matter. On December 30, 1918, the Erishes would join the Coalition.

In November, Honordin's refusal to run for more than 2 terms led to him being succeeded by Surány Benedek in the Arian Presidency, which would take effect in January 1919.

###### 1919 - The Rising Star

By 1919, the Arian war industry was starting to escalate into something greater (Arian industry was so vast it didn't even finish mobilizing it by the end of the war; what was left was used to fight the Atlantic War with Voronia in 1922. Though the Federation was a tad behind technologically (it didn't have tanks yet), it was the only other country to have a large amount of COBs to use in warfare, being a Spore country; COBs were used by Sporia and to a lesser extent Saneatsu and practically dominated the skies throughout the entire conflict, but the Arians not only had more COBs but also more COB diversity, thus even Spore aerial superiority was starting to be broken by early 1919. The Arians and Vaipurans engaged in massive aerial battles over the North Sea with naval support from the Albionese, as well as slight aerial support from the Coalition, against the Spore Air Force. While the Arian air force was more numerous, the Spore counterparts were often more experienced (the country had been in constant war for almost 5 years by this point), and thus early on the Arians were unable to break Sporian air superiority, being defeated in the First Battle of the North Sea. Things were better on the Erwinian front, though; on February 2 the Arians successfully recaptured Erfurt in the first battle since the beginning of the war to be conducted with overwhelming Coalition aerial superiority following the nearby battle of Weimar (January 27) where the Arians, Declavans and Gammerians successfully wiped out a Spore aerial squadron and inflicted high casualties on dozens more. On February 9 the Arian offensive was however halted by significant Sporian defenses in the First Battle of Naumburg, although they inflicted higher casualties on their Spore opponents. On February 22, a Sporian attempt to paratroop men into the Vaipura Queendom was thwarted by a swift battle over Papey Island, a decisive Arian victory leading to the deaths or captures of over 17,000 Spores on the massive EOB/POB fleet, while the Arian fighters and COBs and Vaipuran anti-air suffered little to no damage. In the Pacific, the Battle of Yigo broke out on March 3, which lasted for 4 days but by the end the entire Saneatsu Central Fleet was practically crippled by the Arian navy, who also suffered significant casualties. Guam was retaken after a swift battle on March 8, and the Arians made preparations for island-hopping to Mainland Saneatsu. Despite relentless aerial bombardment by the Spores, as well as guerrilla warfare, the Arians finally managed to break out of the Ch'yn (Skipio) Beachhead on March 14, launching the Battle of Torefjell which was an Arian victory. Following this battle, the Arians established defensive positions on the mountain in preparation for a potential Spore counteroffensive. The Arians would participate in the two-month-long Battle of Koblenz from late March to early June, resulting in the Spores being pushed out of the city at a very high casualty rate. Also during this point, the Albionese would sign peace with the Spores around April 9 leading to the Arians launching a naval blockade of Sporia in place of the Albionese who did it prior. The 2nd Battle of the North Sea would be initiated as a result, with the Arians tired of their ships being rocked by constant COB attacks. This time, the Arian Air Force would gain a decisive victory in the matter of a month, culminating in the Battle of Taroshnr over the island of Faronia, a decisive Arian-Vaipuran victory which would secure Arian aerial and naval superiority over the North Sea by late May. June was marked by offensives all over the Erwinian front, most of which proved to be unsuccessful at cracking the Spore defenses. In addition, the Arians would also send a small volunteer regiment to assist the Albionese invasion of Francia, which would cause Voronian-Arian relations to collapse. The only battle these volunteers would largely contribute to was over a very small town in modern-day Occitania. On June 29, the Arians would capture Neuwied after a bloody battle over the city. The disorganized Coalition men there were caught off guard by a Spore ambush, leading to Neuwied being recaptured on July 2. In the Pacific, the Battle of Garapan on July 8 would begin the Arian pacific offensive in the Saneatsu-held Northern Mariana Islands, which would take around a month to complete and would culminate in the Battle of Asuncion Island on August 1. The Arian victory over the Northern Mariana Islands would be great for aerial and naval operations to attack the Saneatsu Mainland, which led to the Saneatsuan Bombing Campaigns. On August 9, the only attempt at an invasion of the Arian Mainland would occur, as Spore ships slipped by undetected in the Arctic, starting the Battle of Eureka which lasted 1 day before the invaders were pushed out. After this, the Arians would launch the Skipio offensive, which led to them pushing near Korribaa in the span of a month. By this point, other Coalition troops would begin to flow to the front with significant resistance, due to Albion's obstruction of the flow of some Coalition vessels (notably Declavan ones). On September 3, the Battle of Korribaa would begin, ending in a pyrrhic Sporian victory and the establishment of a salient around the city. To its south, the Battle of Infinica would also break out on September 4, leading to the Arians taking an important supply hub for Western Spore. Following this, the Siege of Korribaa would break out after the city was encircled by Coalition forces, a siege which would last all the way into 1920.

Meanwhile, in the Eastern Front, the Spores would annex the Livvi-Cattier and Algodoo regions following the Treaty of Blasa, as well as Nevino, Viipuri and Kylens Island from the Funtime Empire, now in civil war. This would cause the Algodoo National Liberation Army, promised independence, to switch sides to the Coalition, angry at the Spore government for betraying them. The ANLA, however, found themselves in a very poor position against the Spores and were driven into high mountain positions, losing practically every major city in Algodonia in the span of 2 weeks. By the time Coalition aid arrived, the ANLA was on the brink of total oblivion. The Battle of Vermilona (Lumbovka), a landing by Vaipuran troops in early October, would be the only successful landing in Algodonia in the entire war by the Coalition, and the lands occupied by the Queendom would become a safe haven for Algodoo rebels against the Spores. On Halloween, the Vaipurans would capture the nearby town of Orangy (Lovozero). In Erwinia, the Fall Offensive would begin on November 2. With the Spores starting to pay more attention to the Arian invasion of the west, they were caught completely off guard by the Coalition attack in Erwinia. The offensive, lasting until New Years' Eve, would lead to the recapture of several major cities, such as Leipzig, Dusseldorf, Siegen, and Kassel before the Coalition's (besides Aria's) supply started to grow overextended from the sheer amount of troops on the front (many Coalition members refused to cooperate with the Arian troops due to the latter's support for Francian independence movements and their vastly different ideologies, although their military command did mostly cooperate). By the end of the year, the Coalition had enough momentum to finish the war for good as the Spores and Saneatsuans were growing increasingly desperate to continue the conflict.

###### 1920 - Peace is Restored

While Arian morale remained high, both the Coalition and Parreetown Concord were exhausted and ready to sign peace by the time 1920 rolled around. The Empire of Great Saneatsu was the first to chicken out from the Parreetown Concord, signing peace with the Arian Federation on January 4, 1920 and the rest of the Coalition on January 5, its navy in pure shambles and the mainland under threat from an amphibious invasion by the Arians. In Sporia, things weren't much better; though Albionese support did start to come the Spore army and navy, although veteran, were extremely disorganized and ill-supplied as a result of six years of constant fighting. At home, riots and protests occurred in major cities such as Baa City, Nevino, the Backbender Cities, Parreetown, Eyeruscant and Treekun and the Mudblood movement grew ever larger in mainland Sporia. The Coalition was very reluctant to advance as well; mutinies were occurring in the Erwinian and Spheriodican armed forces as the Spores marched into Prussia, the Funtime Empire was well into civil war and many of the other members wished to avoid the same happen to their countries. On January 29, the Battle of Konigsberg was the last major Spore victory in the war; the Spheriodic Republic in Poland would thus descend into civil war between republicans, nationalists and Mudbloodists as a result while Erwinia would be forced to withdraw from its East Prussian holdings. In February 19, a combined Coalition offensive would launch the Battle of Dortmund against the Spores, which after month-long fierce fighting in both the air and on the ground would lead to the liberation of the strategically important Erwinian city. The Arians would launch an offensive west to capture Essen and Duisburg while the other Coalition marched north/east to secure their flanks. The battles of Essen and Duisburg would break out on March 6, and March 7 respectively. Though referred to as battles, they were more like sieges in nature after several failed Arian attacks on the tough Spore defense. The cities finally fell on June 9 and June 2 respectively after extremely bloody fighting, while other Coalition members would fail to capture Paderborn (although succeed in Salzgitter) by the end of April. Paderborn would be relinquished 4 days later after the 1st Battle on May 4 by Spore forces, after fighting broke out; the city center was captured in the 2nd Battle by paratroopers (the first major paratroop operation in human history) leading to a Spore retreat to avoid encirclement. Brunswick would fall on May 23, and the Coalition would stop just outside of Hannover, with its defenses quite hardened it would be a nightmare to capture so they saved it for another future offensive as their supply was overextended and their troops significantly demoralized by six constant years of fighting. The last city to fall of the Spring-Summer Offensive of 1920, Cottbus, would do so on June 14. On June 19, the Declavans and Erwinians would launch the Battle of Luckau; their forces were heavily supported by the Arian Air Force where they captured the city after 2 days of fighting. A further offensive into occupied Berlin was attempted, however it was highly unsuccessful. Meanwhile, in Algodonia, the Arians captured Murmansk after heavy fighting throughout July and early August, while Munster would also fall to Arian forces on August 17. On September 1, the Spore war effort would finally begin crashing down; an enormous mutiny would begin on the Erwinian front, allowing the Coalition to liberate Hannover and Potsdam without a fight by September 3. On September 3, PM Sondre Gunderson was overthrown in the Spore Revolution, and Berlin was liberated on the 4th. Several Spore Army units would surrender in Northern Germany throughout September 4, although one went rogue and formed the Republic of Mecklenburg. On September 5, the Arians captured Treekun without a fight and pushed towards Eyeruscant in the night, hoping to force a surrender in the new Spore government. While that, the Erwinians, Declavans, Gammerians and Arians invaded Mecklenburg after battles began in Neubrandenburg and Schwerin. A Coalition force would triumphantly march into Hamburg just before midnight, hoisting the Erwinian flag for the new day. Flensburg was recaptured on early September 6 by the Arian military. On that same day, the ANLA would proclaim the Algodoo Confederation in the early morning, and 2 hours after the Siege of Brainer began, the Second Spore Republic would, at 9:34 AM on September 6, officially sign an instrument of unconditional surrender to the Coalition as the Maggots, Backbenders and Livvis went up in arms against them. The Coalition accepted, and thus, after over 6 years of constant warfare, the First Coalition War...was finally over. But do note, it does say the *first...*

###### 1920 - The Treaty of Berlin

The subsequent Treaty of Berlin recognized Spore sovereignty over Spore City, Kylens Island, Nevino and the Midnite Islands, however forced them to give up Holstein, both Schleswigs (including a major city, Brainer), Estonia, and the entire Algodoo region to the Coalition. The entirety of Brainera, Pytonia, Baalik and the Ground-Sky region were occupied together by the European Coalition while Skipio and North Spheriodica were occupied by the Arian Federation. Hitra Island was occupied by the Vaipura Queendom. In addition, the Spores had to pay over 644 billion ducats, not only to pay off debts to Aria and damages for the war, but in order to 'punish' Sporia for their actions in the conflict. The Treaty of Berlin proved very controversial for the Spores, but it didn't matter as the Second Spore Republic was in a catastrophic state economically and politically with major uprisings in the Maggot and Backbender territories. In addition, it did not enforce peace as was expected; the Albionese were still at war with Voronia, and Spheriodica and Funtimea were both entrenched in a major civil war. Despite this, peace was still ensured between Europe's great powers for 19 years; until the Redian Swarm, Ultranationalist Voronia and Mudbloodist Luiskra allied and attacked Erwinia, the Declavans, the Jaegons and Spheriodica again in 1939.

After the Treaty of Berlin, the Arians would once again pull out of European politics, wanting to not be disturbed. Meanwhile, Mainland Sporia would later be usurped by the Ants in 1921.

##### Early Interwar (1921-1929)

The early Interwar period would be known as the Roaring Twenties, due to Arian participation and mobilization for war significantly strengthening its economy and rapidly decreasing unemployment. The Arian Federation, due to its prospering economy, decided to help the Spores recover from their economic plights and help them pay their debts to the remainder of the Coalition. With the Arians mostly unaffected by the war, the Spores barely had debts to the Federation, Erishes or Vaipura Queendom, and thus those nations could provide economic aid. However, in March 1921, the Ants would usurp the Spores. The Ant Empire's debts were practically nullified, being a completely different entity from the Second Spore Republic before it, and thus Arian economic aid for recovery stopped and with it began a new bill for Arian economic aid for the Ants to help build infrastructure and the like as the Spore Mainland was still in total ruins from the Coalition War. In May 1921, the Arians would send a small volunteer force to the Erwinians where they, the Jaegons and the Declavans would occupy Pomerania and Silesia to directly assist the Spheriodic Republicans in their civil war. The Invasion of Voronia was still ongoing, with the final phase of the conflict beginning in November. Arian stances favouring Francia and Albion would lead to a diplomatic crisis with the Voronians, the Voronians accusing them of sending aid (which was not entirely unfounded, as Arian volunteer divisions were employed to assist the UNdF). The greatly expanded Arian navy used this diplomatic crisis as plenty an excuse to try and liberate the last vestiges of Voronian colonial territory. While the Arian Federation was reluctant to go to war with Voronia to try and take colonies, they provided even more aid to Francia, a nation they greatly sympathized with due to a shared history (Francian Noobs are the most common culture of Noob in the Arian Federation), which caused the Voronians, eager for revenge from what they considered a 'stroke of Arian luck' in 1805 to send the Arians an ultimatum; stop supporting Francia by February 1922 or war. The Arians simply ignored it; Voronia was not in a state to be at war with both the Arian Federation and Albion at the same time, as its navy was in shambles and its army and economy highly disorganized. On November 1921, with the Coalition War having given a huge blow to the COB population in both Sporia and Aria, the Arian Federation began diverting more of its industry to produce biplanes in order to avoid having so many biological losses. President Surany Benedek in this same month would begin a program to help veterans of the First Coalition War get back on their feet, which was very successful to boosting his and the new progressive-liberal Lantana Party's popularity for the 1922 Presidential Election (he refused to run in 1926). In January 1922, Arian troops overseas were called back for Operation Stormbearer, the invasion of Voronian Honduras, to be initiated on February 3, 1922. On February 1, 1922, with the ultimatum ignored, Voronia declared war on the Arian Federation. Meanwhile, the Arian Federation refused to support an effort for intervention in the northwest, though Vaipuran troops defended the Algodoo Confederation from invasion by Luiskra until 1924.

###### The Atlantic War

*Main article: Atlantic War*

Compared to the First Arian-Voronian War beforehand, in which the Voronian-Funtimean coalition was far stronger than Aria, the Arians and Vaipurans were far, **far** stronger than Voronia in pretty much every way. After swiftly capturing a Voronian colonial naval patrol the Arians launched an invasion of Voronian Honduras; Operation Stormbearer, which they expected to take a week, took only a day to complete. The Atlantic War proved to be very short, as the Voronians surrendered in a mere week (February 8, 1922), liberating Belize (the short-lived Republic of Deodara) from Voronia. The Arians also took the Voronian Micronesian Islands in order to better protect their port island of Guam. Deodara, on March 29, 1923, then chose to join the Erish Empire as an autonomous province of the country. The combined Arian-Albionese assault led to the Voronians going ultranationalist in the mid 1920s, becoming the first country to adhere to the ideology of 'Gredolism' or Fascism in the 20th century. Not much happened in 1922 other than the Lantana Party overwhelmingly winning, both in the electoral and popular vote, the 1922 Arian Presidential Election in November 1922, as well as a very minor naval skirmish between the Arians and Declavans just after the end of the Atlantic War which led to the Gibraltar Crisis, which only lasted 4 hours before the Declavan Emperor Decavian III received the news of the signing of the Treaty of Lisbane, defusing the crisis.

On January 1923, President Surany Benedek would begin the Four-Year Plan as the first major bill of his new presidency, akin to the 1st four-year plan of Mudbloodist Luiskra, which had mostly won the civil war (only Southern Yakutia and parts of Central Asia were under Funtime control, as well as northern Algodonia remaining under the control of the Algodoo National Liberation Army). In addition, strained relations with the new Mudbloodist government in Luiskra led to the Arians sending volunteer forces to help the Vaipurans and Algodoos. These volunteer forces would help stall the fall of the Algodoo Confederation for another year. It would also lead to an incident with the Navy and Olive Domain over a bomb accidentally falling from an Arian bomber, landing right next to Navy and Olive's house and causing a bit of a ruckus due to the debris from the explosion. The Arian bomber responsible was en route to Naviolia to assist the Algodoo National Liberation Army, and its squadron would later have an ace pilot in various conflicts (the Algodonian War of Independence, the Second Arian Civil War and the Second Spore Coalition War). The ensuing titular Zhurpur crisis broke out on March 3, 1923, which lasted for about a week until the Domain eventually sort of forgot about it. Such a crisis wasn't technically resolved until September 6, 1939 when the Longist Government, near victory, apologized for the bombings. Hostilities between the Navy and Olive Domain and Arian Federation, however, were over by the day after the start of the crisis (March 4, 1923) as the damage was quickly repaired. The Arian involvement was initially successful, reclaiming the major town of Yelovs and Giguris from the Mudbloods, but soon draining supplies and popular morale forced it on the defensive throughout the summer, and later into a retreat towards the Algodonia Peninsula proper. Arian volunteer regiments participated in the Siege of Crimsonia which started in July 1923, which was the longest battle of the Algodonian War of Independence. Other Arian forces held the lines near Castle Mint and Limaria, which was a trend that continued throughout the summer. When autumn and winter came around, however, the Arians were forced to withdraw all the way to the major cities of Naviolia and the rebellion capital of Olivaria, while the Vaipurans continued guerrilla resistance in the Karelia region. Naviolia fell on November 23, but Olivaria continued stubborn resistance against the Mudblood Noob forces. In early 1924, the Arian Federation would begin withdrawing from Algodonia (with the exception of Crimsonia, where the Arians there fought to the last man even after the fall of Olivaria), as the war grew increasingly unpopular for their people. The withdrawal led to the swift fall of the Algodoo Confederation, which the exception of Crimsonia which did not fall until August 1924. The failure in Algodonia led to doubts in the Arian military structure and command, as the government had made no attempt to adapt it to the changed military environment of the early Interwar period. In addition it would also lead to a nationalist riot in Cincinnati that was quickly squashed. Meanwhile, throughout the country, workers' strikes would begin with the rise of the equalist and Mudbloodist movements in the Arian Federation and its backyard, most infamously the Appalachian Coal Strike of October 1924, which was brutally put down by Arian police after major fighting. In January 1925, the Second Great Central Arian War would break out with Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and New Tyemaro on one side vs El Roqueron and its puppets on the other. The Arians would support the Nicaraguan coalition, but despite initial Nicaraguan gains the Battle of Honduras would quickly become a long, drawn-out stalemate with the Roqueronese being well supplied and the Nicaraguan coalition...not so much. The Nicaraguans decided to dig in, as the Europeans did in the First Coalition War. El Roqueron would recapture Sabanagrande and save Tegucigalpa from collapse using their new technology of tanks. Roqueronese tanks during this time were very poor quality, being Erish models imported from the Spore Mainland in 1916 and barely updated, but they did the job somewhat well in overwhelming the Coalition's trenches. The Nicaraguan Coalition would continue to hold territory in Honduras, however. On July 1925, the Arians would switch support to El Roqueron, providing them with more advanced tank models allowing them to launch the Lake Ciragua Offensive, capturing the Nicaraguan city of Leon. The Roqueronese victory would be accentuated by a rise in war exhaustion for the Coalition, but they would refuse to sign peace even after the fall of major Nicaraguan Port Cabezas on September 1925. The Coalition appealed to Solovar-Empyrea for tanks, getting roughly 1918 'Morais' models to oppose the modernized 1924 'Glazonia' models provided from the Arian Federation. Thus, the 2nd Great Central American War would turn into a proxy war between Solovar-Empyrea and the Arian Federation + Empire of Erishes. Siuna would be captured by Roqueron on October 1925 though with heavy losses. The Solovar-Empyrean Morais models would be however shredded by the Glazonias, leading to Solovar-Empyrea providing direct troop support in order to avoid Managua from falling to the Roqueronese. The Roqueronese, undetered, would launch the First Battle of Managua on November 1925 however they were repulsed from the city, being unable to penetrate its inner defenses and running low on supply to continue the offensive. In January 1926, failure in the Second Battle of Managua led to both sides in Central America signing an armistice, which led to the 2nd Great Central Arian War ending in the Treaty of Neritala City. The conflict ended in a (mostly) white peace; the Coalition paid war reparations to El Roqueron and the puppet of Neritala was given independence (where it joined the Erishes), leaving El Roqueron with only Honduras. After the war, El Roqueron would launch an invasion of the Heymore lands, previously occupied by both sides in the 2GCAW (although a resistance did form), which while it did not end in total success it led to the Heymore State being significantly shrunken in size. On April 1926, the Arian Federation would form the Magic Corps of the Arian Armed Forces, a division relegated to especially gifted mages from the Arian lands (mostly foreign immigrants from places like the Jaegons and Declavans). In response the Society of Magebornes would form its own paramilitary branch for mages who wished to join the Arian Army's MCAAF. Also in the same month nuclear fission was discovered in an Arian laboratory in Indianapolis. Due to the destructive potential of weapons made with this technology, the Arians would begin working on a project to make them in secret, though shared the actual discovery of nuclear fission worldwide. On September 1926, the Dovatic Act was signed, asserting Arian neutrality in Old World politics after the intervention against Algodonia, however they did not assert any neutrality in their home continent (which would be very important in the future). The November 1926 Election was won by Shaithis Iagar of the Lantana Party, who promised to continue President Benedek's policies of reform and a new Aria-first non-interventionist policy in Old World politics. Shaithis, however, was far more radical with his reforms which alienated him among conservative members of the Senate. Among these reforms were a continuation of Gilded and Progressive-age workers' reforms to satisfy Mudbloodist workers unions, as well as extensions of women's rights and steps to completely abolish the Southern caste system. However, Shaithis also tried pursuing better Arian-Albionese relations, the attempt of which was partially successful. During his rule, the hunting industry was also at a primary peak (its secondary peak was during the middle parts of the Cold War), earning both common civilians and the Arian government a lot of money. However, the endangerment of rare species by this hunting led to the government enacting policies to protect endangered species on July 1927, with the senate ratifying them by August. National parks' purposes were also greatly expanded during this period heavily satisfying environmentalist parts of the Arian Federation.

On September 1927, the Battle of Cherodey (Monterrey) would start the Erish Revolution, which would last all the way until 1946, nineteen straight years of political violence in the Erish Empire. The Arian Federation would intervene against Erish cartels and revolutionaries in multiple points throughout the revolution, the first occurring on January 1928 when a cartel attempted an attack across the border; this led to the Arian border guard engaging the cartel in the Battle of Cedoar, in modern-day New Mexico. Although they were greatly outnumbered, they were far better equipped and trained, and thus inflicted heavy losses until they had to call for reinforcements from a nearby army, the "Longhouse" Division of the National Guard, who dealt with the cartel threat in Cedoar rather easily. A pursuit into Erish territory soon began, with the Arians going around 200 km into Erish land before the Erish Empire told them to leave, which they obliged, but not before destroying the cartel responsible. February 1928 would see the start of the Prohibition era, where the Arian Government would officially put a ban onto alcoholic drinks. This did not end well, as it gave more of an incentive to drink them using more...illicit means. The start of the Prohibition era also led to the rise of major crime syndicates, mostly in the Arian Midwest, such as the Dearans, the only syndicate so strong it required the National Guard to take down on one occasion. These crime syndicates made much of a profit from the alcohol black market, exploiting it for their own personal benefit to take down other families, syndicates and gangs all while being able to fund enough to resist the Arian police force, which was heavily bolstered following major incidents in the Steel Belt (Midwest). On January 1929 the Tyrian Supervolcano would erupt in Colorado, resulting in significant farming failures worldwide and resulting in a very dark summer over the Arian Federation. This would lead to the Arians mandating rationing for the remainder of the year with the food situation growing bad, which was only exacerbated by the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression later that year. The response to these two events would lead to the Lantana Party's popularity collapsing as the Arian Federation would enter a new dark age for an entire decade. Not all was bad though. The same year, the Ulysses Tank model was made in 1929, becoming revolutionary in future tank models as the first one to be less than extremely cumbersome to manuever around. This was combined with the Beluran fighter model, signifying a movement from early fighter and biplane technology into more advanced models for the 1930s.

#### Great Depression (1929-1934)

The Great Depression, an exacerbation of the already potent effects of the Tyrian eruption, would prove truly devastating for the Arian Federation. Immense bouts of unemployment combined with a famine and dust bowl in the West would occur, causing more...extreme political parties to rise in the 1930 Presidential Election from both the far right (Gredolist) movement and the far left (Mudbloodist) movement, as well as Speedist movement, promising swift recovery from the immense economic plight. The 1930 Arian Presidential Election would be won by the Lapis Coalition of conservative parties, led by new President Senofonte Vetro, which wouldn't do much to help with the current economic situation at hand, especially and primarily since they were elected through an electoral college majority rather than a popular majority (which contributed to the abolishment of the electoral college after the Second Arian Civil War). Due to a Conservative-dominated Congress, bills to actually help the economy wouldn't pass due to concerns with taxpayers, only exacerbating the situation further and leading to an increased rise in instability throughout the Federation. In addition, statist elements (as in, amongst the individual velkins of the Federation) would begin to grow in popularity and power throughout the early 1930s, further assisted by right-wing populist elements led by Fynnder Sava of the Arian National Union Party, which would contribute to further instability throughout the Federation especially in its southern territories. Meanwhile, right-wing nationalism would begin rising in Noob-majority Quebec and Carles' Land, with the situation in the Arian Federation being used in order to justify racism by the Spore majority against the Noob minorities in these areas. This was further compounded by the Arian Syndicalist Party and the Arian National Union Party both promising to give Noobs equal rights within the Federation should they take power. Quebec was not the only region suffering from this; Cascadia would also begin suffering from the rise of left-wing nationalist movements within their territories. Senofonte proved very ineffective in dealing with these rising movements, on all sides of the political spectrum and of all motivations, and it became increasingly clear the nation was headed towards a nasty civil war. As the 1934 Arian presidential election approached, the nation and its people would grow increasingly uneasy, with the rise of Gredolist and ultranationalist regimes in Sporia and Voronia, and the rise of Mudbloodism in Luiskra that this civil war was not just going to be one of brothers, not of ideologies, and not even of politicians; it was going to be a civil war of spirit. A civil war between competing national spirits, backed by foreign nations with interests in how the nation should be going forward.

In 1933, the Arian National Union Party would see a massive shift ideologically from right-wing populism to a more left-wing, social government of populism, as a result of a change in ideals from its leader and the elections of new left-wing figures of the NUP. Led by the National Union Party, the populist parties of the Arian Federation would hold the Williamsburg Conference in order to determine the future of the nation in the wake of the 1934 election, where the most popular parties consisted of a pro-Mudbloodist coalition (United Front of Workers' Parties, UFWP) led by the Syndicalist Party of the Arian Federation, a left wing populist coalition (the NUC, National Unity Coalition) led by the National Union Party, the rising Lantana Party (who started to align with the National Unity Coalition) and the Party for National Salvation, a Gredolist and Spore ultranationalist party who gradually began to see polling influence in the region of Halisora. These four parties mainly used the newly dominant technology of radio, early television and the rise of mass media in order to spread their influence. The 1933-1934 presidential campaigning season in the Arian Federation would be the first major presidential or general election on record to use multimedia propaganda on this much of a scale. When the 1934 presidential election came around, and the Arian economy reached an all-time low, the president Senofonte Vetro would decide to use his power to ban the Party for National Salvation in order to maintain democratic institutions within the Federation. This, while it was a good move morally speaking, would also decrease his popularity even further as he was criticized both by the population and the media for focusing on banning fringe parties rather than doing anything to help their pitiful situation. Fiete Härig and the Lantana Party would win the 1934 Arian presidential election early in the year. While much of the opposition conceded victory (including both of the major coalitions), many were still displeased, in particular the Arian commander-in-chief Mathias Schoenberg. Mathias believed that major electoral fraud had occurred, and that the "extremist states of Europe" (referring to Luiskra, Sporia and Voronia) were behind it. Garnering much support within the elite echelons of the Arian military, he began plotting Operation Purity, the overthrow of the sitting-duck Arian government in order to obstruct the inauguration of Fiete in October. Throughout the sitting duck phase, the Maronite strikes and Great Northern Riots occurred, and it became very clear that the Arian people wanted change. On October 12, 1934, the 1934 Arian coup de'tat occurred, and after significant fighting in the capital city of Nova Azaranya Mattias would reign victorious. He would instate a military dictatorship within the country. Fiete and many Lantana Party senators, as well as Syndicalist and National Union opposition (though their leaders would survive), would be executed without trial by the new state within the coming days, which would result in the Syndicalist and National Union coalitions beginning to mobilize paramilitaries, invoking the right in the Arian constitution that the Arian people have a right to resist tyranny. Mattias' crackdowns would only serve to cause unrest to boil out of control, as on October 21 the Lantana Party would officially align with the National Union Party; with this the southern "Savaist" states would ***secede from the Arian Federation***, as would the northern Syndicalist states. They would form the Arian Union State and the Arian Union of Syndicalist Communes. This would begin the Arian pre-war crisis, and with Arian free trade completely cut off from the rest of the world due to the imminent civil war the world economy collapsed further in a second wave of the Great Depression. The largely unaffected states of the Axis Powers and Luiskra would begin making bets for who to support in the conflict, and after Halisora and various other places went up in arms throughout November, the expiration of the Federal ultimatum to the secessionist states on November 12 and the Halisoran invasion of Carson City, as well as Syndicalist and Arian Union military action against the Federal Matthian military dictatorship and subsequent three-way declaration of war between each other for the legitimate Arian state, would result in the outbreak of the Second Arian Civil War, the deadliest conflict on record in Aria's history.

## Government and Politics

### Political Subdivisions

**See also: Detailed list of Arian subdivisions**