Federal Vanguardist Rëal Commonwealth

## FVRC

**The FVRC**, officially the **Federal Vanguardist Rëal Commonwealth**, is a major country and rising power on the Ardenican Continent.

## History

### The Lilac Wars

The Lilac Wars were a series of colonial conflicts, sometimes open, often undeclared, that involved the major colonial powers of the time jockeying for control of the Lilac Kingdoms. Colonial powers used bribes and gunboat diplomacy to gain control of the Kingdoms as often as they did open invasions. The era was a period of humiliation for the Lilac people, as their formerly proud and wealthy realms were ransacked by colonial companies, as their royal governments did little or nothing, often assisting the colonial regimes. During the period the Kingdoms retained nominal independence but were merely puppet states under the control of various foreign powers. The Kings of the Kingdoms were often secure in their lavish palaces, growing wealthy off the bribes of colonial companies while their lands were ravaged.

The era of foreign control gradually came to a close as the return on investment from the deployment of colonial troops diminished, and the various armies were needed elsewhere in the lead up to the Sundering.

The FVRC did not exist during the years of the Sundering, but its predecessor states did participate.

## General information

### Politics

The ruling party is currently the Technarchist Vanguardist Party - Common Lilac Party, who adhere to the Technarchist interpretation of the Vanguardist Ideology as laid out in the Vanguard Declaration. The FVRC is not a democracy but has certain elements of republican government. Certain opposition parties are permitted to participate in government and citizens may apply for the right to vote in elections. Currently the TVP-CLP has managed to retain control through a combination of popular support, government consensus building, elimination of certain rivals, and restricting voting to a subset of citizens who support the party.

In 1972 Chairwoman Aisha Sel'Marko Passed the Basic Law of the FVRC, establishing a constitution for the state.

Chairpersons of the Executive Standing Committee
 Golda Fareil Mossemin
 Omar Hasser
 Aisha Sel'Marko
 Rousuf Al'Rakia

The Government of the FVRC is administered by 15 Sections, each with their own mandates and duties. The Chairs of each section are appointed by the Revolutionary Executive Standing Committee, and confirmed by the Legislative Assembly, except the Director of Section 0, which as a minor administrative post is merely appointed by the Chairperson and confirmed by a council within Section 0.

### Military

Following the successful Lilac Revolution, the largely irregular military force of the FVRC has been dramatically reduced in size to a small corps of professional and loyal troops, augmented by new divisions of Mobile Suit units, equipped with MSAB-1 Emancipators, introduced in the final weeks of the Revolution.

The FVRC maintains a competent Air Force equipped mostly with older surplus aircraft, as well as several wings of new domestically produced F-1 Liberator Attack Jets. A versatile aircraft, the F-1 is suited well for both air superiority and ground support operations. It has already seen use in the Adamari Invasion of Skalan, as well as in the Bakian Civil War.

See Gondar-Lilac War