Arvantin

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The **Chancellery of Arvantin** is a medium sized nation located in Eastern Asvalin, bordering the Federation of Hesel to the East, the Federal Territory of Alent to the North, Yanzera to the South and the Magish Territory of Alent to the West.

Arvantin is the only portion of the Alent region which has not been colonised by either of the superpowers. This was possible largely due to Arvantin's lack of useful resources and mountainous terrain, meaning both superpowers considered it tactically useless and not worth invading.

Since its creation, Arvantin's politics have been dominated by the Red Hand Movement, which earned its popularity by ensuring Arvantin's independence in the 1900s. The RHM has the outright support of the military, and the Arvantin civil service has sold itself out to rig elections for the RHM.

## Government

### Democratic Institutions

Officially, Arvantin is a unitary parliamentry republic, with the Union Assembly being the apex legislature and choosing the government. The government is headed by a Chancellor and his chosen Cabinet who do not have a fixed tenure and remain in power as long as they enjoy a majority in the Union Assembly. Elections to the assembly are held every five years, although early elections may be held. The Union Assembly has has 200 members, with two members for every million people in the country.

The government of Arvantin is headed by the Chancellor and their cabinet. The cabinet is made up of Union Assembly members picked by the cabinet, and the legislature has no say in their appointment. In the early years of Arvantin's history, the Chancellor was an extremely powerful position, but as time went on and the military began to interfere in politics, the position was reduced to a rubber stamp, along with all other democratic institutions, and the democratic government of Arvantin has been reduced to nothing but puppets of the Marshal.

## Modern Arvantin

### Beginning of the Red Hand Movement (1920s)

By the 1900s, the situation in the Alent region was dire. Ever since the Federation of Hesel had decisively beaten the Kingdom of Alent in 1703, the region had been in disarray, and Hesel had taken the former capital Xalthim as well as much of northern Alent under its fold as reparations.

The hilly regions of southern Alent- known as Arvantin- worried that they would soon suffer the same fate. Slowly, in the capital city of Extegil, anger brewed against the weak Grand Duke who had succeeded the Kings of Alent, and many citizens decided to take matters into their own hands. In the pubs of Extegil, radical officers who had begin to tire of the Grand Duke, began to converse. Soon, even the mayor of Extegil had joined these conversations, and the cabal began to plot regicide. After much of the Arvantin officer corp joined this cabal, they began to plan to usurp the Grand Duke, who was at the time the aging Elbur Port.

    The cabal got an opportunity to strike in 1923 when a task force sent by the Republic of Magtish through Ruhnkor invaded the Western half of Alent, establishing the Magish Territory of Alent and leaving only the Arvantin region unoccupied. Elbur Port unsuccesfully tried to regain this land, but after the brief War of Alent, his forces were decisively beaten and Arvantin lost even more land. Now with the public sentiment firmly against the Grand Duke, the leader of the cabal- Marshal Arbert Law- began to send out letters to the commanders of all battalions of the country. These letters were sealed with a symbol of a bloody red hand, giving the movement its contemprary name.

The Red Hand Movement quickly seized control of all farmland in the country, as well as the majority of Extegil. Marshal Arbert Law quickly gathered several thousand RHM troops and led them on a brutal urban warfare campaign through Extegil, fighting the few troops still loyal to Grand Duke Elbur Port. Within a week, Extegil had been taken, and Elbur Port had been sent to spend the rest of his days under supervision in the countryside, far away from the centre of Arvantin's power.

### A Nation Reborn (1923-)

With the Red Hand Movement now controlling the country, their radical leadership began setting up a democratic system and wiping the remnants of the Monarchist government. Many monarchist officials were banished from the country, while several monarchist officers were sentenced to death. Some low ranking officials were granted amnesty and permission to retain their jobs, but most high level monarchist figures were completely eliminated from the country.

Meanwhile, key figures of the RHM- like Martin Gardner, Arbert Law and Clement Hearth- alongside other republicans from organisations like the Arvantian Labour League, formed a committee to draft a new constitution for the country. This was completed within a few months, and the first elections to the country were held in the same year, which saw the RHM unsurprisingly win 129 out of 200 seats in the Union Assembly, with Arbert Law being sworn in as the country's first Chancellor.