North Eastern Pact

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### Member States

Faltírvars, Szchnow, Republic of Bullfrog, Free City of Paluker, Urorelum Empire, Chrysos, Cendrai, Palenquenox, Contazia, Mesi Empire, Empire of Ladinia, Crownice Novum

### Overview

The **North Eastern Pact**, commonly shortened to NEP, was a political and military alliance. Being initially a bilateral agreement between the nations of the Sentinels and Szchnow, the pact became somewhat dominated by Faltírvars after Szchnow had joined the Sentinels and the same had reformed its state. The NEP was, while focused around the North Eastern lands of Iaddithis involved in the politics of many other regions.

### History

#### Creation

The North Eastern Pact was founded as a pact between the nation of the Sentinels and Szchnow. Its creation was formalised on the 29th of October 2021 *(gre.)* in the Treaty of Reiganzberg and began expanding to include other nations in the following month.

#### Expansion

The Kingdom of Vistula would join on the 9th November 2021 *(gre.)* and the submission of joint laws would be made possible subsequently. The Inter-Alliance Legal Justice Cooperation would become ratified in the following days ensuring a proper trial for outlaws and joint actions against bandits. In accordance with this law, an criminal named Majornoam would be outlawed in the whole NEP after a court trial.

Further members would join the NEP, including Urorelum, Bullfrog and Chrysos while one of the alliance's defence commitee members, Szchnow, collapsed forever leaving the task solely to the Sentinels. The Free City of Paluker was also made into a functionally independent member state, which was meant to soon host the alliance's capital.

#### Askettan Desert Exclusive Zone

With the exploration of the desert to the North by a Palui member of the alliance, the gold-rich area he named 'Asketta' would come into focus of the NEP. Other nations would however express interest aswell, leading to the pact establishing an Askettan Desert Exclusive Zone, in which every new town would have to join the alliance or be destroyed. While citizens of both Albia and Solaris were specially permitted to enter, other nations such as the Constidel weren't and a project to enclose the destert with a wall was thought up.

The act to establish the Exclusive Zone was the result of a meeting in which Phienox of Chrysos advocated for an agressive approach while Askei Neute of Paluker favoured a more peaceful solution. Another result of this meeting was the ratification of the Universal Recognition of People's Rights.

#### First World War

With the war between Tennu and Albia involving multiple members of the alliance on the Albian side, the rest of the NEP would be called to either aid or remain neutral towards Albia. With Faltírvars peacing out however, most involvement from the pact would end after the First Battle of Nova Domus. The end of the First World War would see members of the alliance become more connected to each other with a Trade Union Law passing which entailed the creation of the *North Eastern Economic Alliance* (NEEC).

#### Avacynist Tensions

With relations between Faltírvars and Avacyn becoming strained after the end of the World War and Avacyn's ideology shifting to become more authoritarian, certain amounts of tension could be felt between the NEP and the Nation of Avacyn. The swift declarations of war then exchanged between Lemor and Avacyn would prompt not only a quick expansion of the alliance to include a Varsic military outpost but also a press conference to answer all diplomatic questions. The Kiaoin-Tsardom of Vistula would offer to mediate between the two powers yet with Avacyn's expansions to include both Jaedary and Khulmiu-Faira peace remained a wish at best.

#### PF-7

While the Asketta conflicts aswell as the tensions with Avacyn would remain as problems for the alliance for a long period of time, none would be as pressing and important as the outbreak of a fungal plague in the Varshaadi peninsula. While it quickly spread throughout the Kingdom of Faltírvars, other memberstates would soon too feel the effects. Such an instant impact did it leave that on the same day as its outbreak was reported, the 12th April 2022 *(gre.)*, the *Northeastern Organization for Disease Containment* (NODC) was formed. Through the close cooperation of different laboratories within the memberstates of the Palenquenox and Vistula, the infection was effectively studied and a cure could finally be found.

#### Malgo Crisis

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After a crisis within the **Garden Union** and a resulting Ferean ultimatum for Faltírvars to cede the protected monastery to them, the NEP went to war supported by the Sultanate of Qamari. The invasion of Ferea would however be a failure and the war would conclude being a draw, though many had perished on both sides.

### Structure

The Leadership within the NEP was originally shared by the two defense council members Faltírvars and Szchnow, with the annexation of Szchnow it would fully fall to Eldron Eratean, though there were plans to have it become a rotational duty. Each member state had one representative and could appoint lower representatives for meetings. With rising tensions another branch was added gradually, which was the NEP Military Corps. It was mostly made up of the the Varsic military with major contribution by mostly Urorelum and Vistula.