Polymentarian Revolution

The Red Army being welcomed into Declavania

### Result

**Red Army victory:*** Polymentarian nobles are either killed or exiled in the Edict of Malornia
* Emancipation of millions of Polymentarian workers
* Decstantine's intervention leads to the Treaty of Declavania, leading to the end of Red Army rule.
* Disbanding of the Red Army and creation of the Polymentarian Taihan Party (known as the Polymentarian Collectivist Party)

### Total deaths:

6 civilians killed in crossfire**104 military deaths**
**>8,110 total deaths**

The **Polymentarian Revolution** was a violent revolution that occurred in the Province of Polymentaria in October 273. It pitted most of the common populace, led by the Polymentarian Red Army or the Free Commons of Polymentaria, against the Province of Polymentaria and its nobility. The Red Army eventually took leadership of the situation and mostly absorbed the Free Commons into itself, before promptly handing the Polymentarian government a decisive defeat in the matter of a week as its garrisons were overwhelmed by the strength and numbers of the Red Army. Subsequently, a change of government was held and the entire Polymentarian constitution would be changed, turning the previously oligarchic, corporate state into a relatively free and fair Collectivist haven (although Collectivist rule wasn't to last, as a multiparty democracy was later established after the Treaty of Declavania). The sudden and violent nature of the revolution later led to Decstantine Tello intervening in it, leaving to a bloodless standoff with the Red Army until they laid down their arms in exchange for being pardoned and acquitted, and a peaceful transfer to civilian government.

Tensions had been boiling in Polymentaria for decades prior to this point; many common Polymentarians (primarily the working class) were sick of the nobility in many ways; they were sick of the massive influence they had over the Polymentarian government, the extremely bad reputation that they gave Polymentaria in the eyes of other provinces, and they were *especially* sick of how poorly treated they were especially considering Polymentaria was supposed to be one of the richest provinces. However, due to the strength of the nobility as well as their ability to amass mercenaries if they tried anything, it took until the disastrous Great War for them to get dangerous with the province.

The decisive Novman defeat in the hands of the Coringlians, Anakorii, Teutonnians, Americans and Siberians would lead to a massive decrease in available manpower, and thus less mercenaries. The Polymentarian nobility would thus be relatively unable to do much as the common people continued to grow in strength, eventually organizing their command structure and numbers into several major resistance groups, who began pushing for more and more reform in Polymentaria in the early 270s. Notably, the Platabian Canal, being under much fairer conditions under the Tellos, did not participate in these protests. Regardless, the protests were led and primarily organized by Kamata Shigeri's Polymentarian Red Army. Massive government and noble pushback leading to almost nothing getting done would lead to the Polymentarian Red Army growing increasingly impatient, and in early 273 these protests and petitions would turn violent after a crackdown in Monmorthis. Thus, riots would erupt across Polymentaria demanding that reform be made immediately or they will do it themselves. With the Polymentarian government still refusing to listen, and infact calling for corps to quell the extremely unstable political situation within Polymentaria, Kamata Shigeri would send an ultimatum to the senator and nobility of Polymentaria; accede to the protester-drawn Monmorthis Charter of Workers' Rights, or war. With them declining, massive workers' strikes and then even larger uprisings would begin quickly overwhelming the local garrisons and raising the flag of the Polymentarian Red Army, starting the week-long revolution. The other resistance groups would organize into the Free Commons of Polymentaria, which was mostly a subset of the Red Army, and minor fighting would break out (mostly just mass surrenders, though).

The rebel captures of major cities would be subsequently followed by the mass execution of their nobility, demanded by Kamata Shigeri. The Polymentarian senator would later be shot to death in Declavania by the revolutionaries, who would establish a provisional transitional military government in Polymentaria. The surrender of the last garrisons in the province would lead to the end of the revolution. However, the bloodshed would attract Decstantine Tello, who was quite obligated to deal with the revolutionaries, following news of the revolutionaries' violent methods to dealing with the nobility. Once he landed in Declavania, he would find no resistance, and eventually the Red Army would turn themselves in to him. The subsequent treaty would allow for a peaceful transition to civilian government, with the Red Army being abolished in exchange for being pardoned and set free. The revolution would be seen as a decisive Red Army success, one that would forever change the political climate of Polymentaria from one dominated by corporations to one dominated by popular rule.

The revolution sent shockwaves of worry to nearby provinces, primarily Artica and Dectica who feared that they too could be overthrown by Collectivists. Meanwhile, Talanstine breathed a sigh of relief. An Artican Revolution was narrowly avoided by a Decstantinean crackdown upon the province, but the revolution had given the Republic a warning sign that Collectivism is nowhere near dead.