Kyrat

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**Kyrat**, officially known as the **Kingdom of Kyrat**, is a landlocked Himalayan nation that borders Tibet. The Kingdom of Kyrat is an absolute monarchy, which is ruled by the despotic self-appointed King Pagan Min. Kyrat shares a border with Tibet in China and India.

## History

### Ancient times and origins

It is believed in Kyrati mythology that Banashur created the world and his daughter, Kyra, created Kyrat. In 500 BC, Chal Jama Monastery was built by followers of Kyra, which also become the place where the teachings of Kyra were first recorded.

At some point, numerous Fortresses were constructed in Kyrat. They are extremely similar to Bhutanese Dzongs. Though it is not confirmed why they were built, it can be assumed that, based on the military history of Bhutan, they were constructed to deter a Tibetan invasion. This would've been around the 1600s.

Shanath Arena was built in the 1750s by King Avinash to get citizens' minds off issues. At this time, the arena featured elephants fighting tigers to the death.

### Under British Rule

In the late-18th and early-19th century, after British Empire invasion, Kyrat was transformed into a colony of the Honourable East India Company. The economy of Kyrat during this period was primarily dependent upon the export of gold through mining, which was done via the company KEO. After Kyrat was granted its independence in the 1950s, KEO continued to mine for and export gold, but it eventually went out of business. All that remains of KEO's presence are a few abandoned mines.

### King Min's Kyrat

Kyrat was wracked by conflict; a civil war raged between the supporters and opponents of the aging monarch: the Royalists and the Nationalists. The Royalist forces, after a few months of bloody fighting, stormed the palace and attempted to crown the young heir to the throne. Pagan Min, a Golden Triangle drug lord with a massive bounty on his head who had set his eyes on Kyrat and had joined the Royalist army in order to forge a name for himself, decided to turn against his comrades and killed the heir and took the Kyrati throne for himself, brutally purging the Royalist leadership of his opponents. Min's betrayal led to the formation by Mohan Ghale of the resistance movement known as the Golden Path (which he named based on a dream Ishwari had), who were committed to his downfall.

Months after Pagan Min's takeover of the nation, the new king's mercenaries succeeded in killing many Royalists not even aware of the danger. Mohan Ghale and some Royalists survived the disaster and went into hiding.

Over the subsequent weeks, Min solidified his control of the country and people flocked to join his new military, enticed by his promises of high pay and a new future for Kyrat.

As the next civil war stretched into 1988, the better equipped and organized Royal Army rapidly advanced across the country and enforced Min's totalitarian regime. Min employed Yuma Lau to track down and eliminate those mercenaries who sided with the Golden Path, and by all accounts she was highly successful. Kyrati businesses were converted to service the opium and heroin trade to fund the army and the lavish lifestyle of Min and his inner circle. The country's borders were closed to all foreigners and international trade prohibited. Temples and other religious sites were banned to the public and their artifacts locked inside Jalendu Temple. Kyrat's historic bell towers were made into makeshift propaganda towers to broadcast regime propaganda. Min even had his likeness printed on the Kyrati rupee. However, as is shown by the outdated money one can loot from corpses, it seems as though the current monarch always bore their face on the rupee.

The situation was increasingly desperate for the overwhelmed Golden Path. Later in 1988, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) made contact with Ghale, offering to deliver weapons and provide military advisors. Ghale accepted the weapons, which put the Golden Path on a more even footing with the Royal Army, but declined the "advisors", believing that the war should be won by Kyratis, not Americans. Even with the new weapons, however, the Golden Path was steadily pushed back. At some point, they were expelled from northern Kyrat.

As the Golden Path continued losing ground, tensions came to a head between Mohan Ghale and Ishwari, who was frustrated that Mohan refused to let her become more involved in the war effort. At around the same time, Pagan Min found himself living with an American woman with whom he bought from human traffickers from India. At some point she got pregnant and later on she managed to escape to the United States, where she gave up her child for adoption. This child eventually grew up to be Dante Miles, who was adopted by Peter Miles and his wife Mallory.

Mohan ordered Ishwari to infiltrate the Royal Palace as a spy and gain Min's confidence, hoping that this task would keep her out of his way and show her how brutal Min's regime was. Ishwari brought her newborn son, Ajay, with her. Over the next two years she proved to be an effective spy and became Min's lover. Her effect on Min was pronounced, as his love for her distracted him from running his regime; Yuma Lau began to think he had "gone soft". In 1990, Mohan learned that Ishwari had a daughter by her relationship with Min named Lakshmana. Furious, Mohan killed Lakshmana, and Ishwari killed Mohan in turn, then departed Kyrat and emigrated to the United States with Ajay. Pagan Min fell into depression and retreated into the Royal Palace, becoming a recluse, while the Golden Path floundered without its leader.

Years later, Dante Miles would return to Kyrat after someone contacted him about a shocking secret.

## Military

The Kyrati military is divided into Royal Army and Royal Guard, which respectively operate in Southern and Northern Kyrat. The Royal Army, which consists of native Kyratis who are loyal to Pagan Min, is led by Paul "De Pleur" Harmon, General of the Royal Army. Whilst the Royal Guard, governed by Yuma Lau, is stronger, better equipped, and consists of foreign mercenaries mostly from Hong Kong. Although in 2014 Kyrat is guarded by Royal Army in the south and Royal Guards in the north, according to enemy soldiers, in the past the Royal Army and Royal Guards were present throughout Kyrat. The reason the Royal Army was sent out of northern Kyrat might've been to prevent them from launching a coup d'etat against Pagan Min.

## Politics

Kyrat is an absolute monarchy with Pagan Min as the king. It is divided into four administrative regions with each of them led by governors. In the south and southeast by Paul Harmon, in the west by Noore, in the north by Yuma Lau, and in the very northeast by Pagan Min himself.

However, while given the title "governors", they are more of managers for Pagan Min's many black market businesses and activities on Kyrat, even utilizing citizens as slave workers for them.

The capital of Kyrat is likely the Royal Fortress, the largest settlement (though more of a military base) in Kyrat by area.

It is unknown what happens to Kyrat's government after King Min was executed by Dante Miles.

## Foreign relations

As a result of Pagan Min's influence, he successfully convinced the outside world that he is a benevolent ruler whose regime was disturbed by the terrorist group Golden Path. Furthermore, he also made Kyrat an isolated country, with little information moving in or out of the country through official channels. As claimed by Rabi Ray Rana, even with the full-blown war going on in Kyrat, no Western media outlet has reported what is going on in Kyrat (though some have tried), despite the conflict gaining great attention on social media.

Furthermore, it has little to no political relationship with other countries and is not a member of the United Nations. As mentioned in *Far Cry 4'*s introduction, not even the United States has any relationship with the country. However, the country has been monitored by the CIA since the start of the First Kyrati Civil War between Royalists and Nationalists, in which it allegedly supplied Nationalists with weapons. In the first years of the 2nd civil war, the CIA also supplied weapons to the Golden Path after their offer of arms was accepted by Mohan Ghale. The monitoring continues until 2014 when the current regime was deemed to possess no threat to the United States.
The Government of Kyrat issues passport booklets with green covers and gold text to its citizens with seemingly little screening. Kyrati passports appear to be (or have been) accepted for travel to and from at least some bordering countries.
After King Min was executed by Dante Miles, it is unknown what happened to Kyrat's relations with the rest of the world.