Republic of Sedry

Flag of the Republic of Sedry, adopted in 1955

> Decades have we born the brunt of Iljekyan boots and expansionism, and decades our forefathers suffered in silence, knowing that one day we would cast off the cloak of oppression and misery and emerge into the 1900s a new and free people! Communism has failed us, people of Sedry, and it is time to begin a new age of free democracy!
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In 1955, Pionetska collapsed under the burden of an ineffective government that fought itself more than the supposed enemies of state. Sedrian freedom fighters gathered in the capital of Cordul and decided to declare the small, industrial region of Sedry an independent republic with a Constitution similar to that of other CETO nations like the Republic of Aleurusia and the Federal Republic of Carosthania, with the writers of the constitution taking particular inspiration from Carosthania.

The provisional government was headed by moderates, and received heavy support from the Church of the First Son, and soon Pionetska had collapsed and the people of Sedry formed an Independent, secular Republic with support from CETO. Pionetska had left scars. Sedry had ended up exporting nearly all its industrial products to other parts of the country, and Sedry was left impoverished and in the gutter despite their richness natural resources.

Jasenko Kavka- he leader of the Sedry Democratic League- gained the backing of both the Church of the First Son as well as most moderates and anti communists, and managed to win the position of Prime Minister of Sedry. The Government of Sedry consists of a bicameral Parliament with two houses- the Sedrian Senate, which is the Upper House and consists of members chosen by the Church, as well as some educated members of society, and a Lower House that is the Sedrian National Assembly, which is directly elected. The Prime Minister is the official leader of the country, and is assisted by his chosen Cabinet of Ministers.

## History

### Kingdom of Sedry (1600s-1800s)

Before the 1600s, the region of Sedry was a loose group of city-states and petty kingdoms with no single unified government. This changed in the 1600s, when the Zhivkov family of the Principality of Cordul managed to decisively maneuver the various city states into unting under Cordul, paying taxes to the central government in exchange for relative autonomy and protection from outsiders.

In the 1700s, King Andrej Zhivkov was King of Sedry. Sometime into his reign, a large army from the lands of the modern Archduchy of Reine and Republic of Aleurusia amassed at Sedry's borders, seeking to quickly eliminate the small kingdom. Zhivkov, a great military mind, quickly raised an army of conscripts from across the country side, and made use of modern technology like rifled firearms and cannons. King Zhivkov decisively beat back the enemies of Sedry. Andrej Zhivkov cemented himself as a great leader and an important figure in the Sedrian nationalist mind, and the Sedrian Independence movement of the 1950s would be supported by his descendants and would evoke his name while fighting the Iljekyan and Pionetskan overlords of Sedry.

The Kingdom of Sedry lasted nearly 200 years, with fairly reliable records saying that the nation was founded in 1607 and remained active and strong until 1806. In the latter years of the kingdom, Sedry was increasingly subjected to Iljekyan attacks and invasions, and its borders kept shrinking as the Zhivkov monarchs lost their strength and popularity. Eventually, the Sedrians were conquered by the Yugolski Empire in 1806, with the Zhivkov family fleeing to the Kingdom of Prithania.

### Yugolski Rule (1806-1900s)

Very few records remain of Sedry under the Yugolski Empire. Some Sedrian Social Democrats claim that many poor farmers staged a revolt against the forces of the Czar in the 1880s. These claims are unverified though, and due to extensive erasure of history by Communist Iljekya and the Iljekyan Communist Party, no facts can be reliably confirmed.

The Yugolski and subsequent Iljekyan occupiers carried out assimilation policies to wipe out the Sedrian language, culture and national identity, and this had led to much of Sedry's history being lost