Complete History

The Insomnia empire had reigned down terror on Stevenis for centuries. The Empire was properly established in 1798, marking the end of 'The War of Threes' taking place between Elves, Dwarfs and Humans, with Humans raining victorious, and slaughtering all other races. The Insomnia Empire was led by Gareth Christou and was divided into 6 provinces; Yurning, Faringhigh, Redding, Ariel, Alberat & Wordsmith.

## The Rebellion

In 1820, Yakob Ersnev of Ariel managed to give Ariel independence. Though the war took years to fight, eventually Gareth Christou gave up and gave Ariel independence. Unfortunately for Christou, after one country was freed from their tyranny, every other country wanted the same. But Christou was positive that no other countries would be able to gain independence any time soon (in 1821 Hergit Glosk of Faringhigh attempted to gain independence, but lost dreadfully as he was not a particularly gifted strategist).

Beech Williamson was born in 1803 to Edward and Katherine Williamson, in the country of Yurning. Beech Williamson - whilst still an impoverished commoner - had a extreme interest in politics and was very interested in gaining the position of 'Representative' amongst the Insomnia Empire council. Beech Williamson constantly preached the word of 'Axism' (later renamed to Alexism); it was an ideology that was constantly refered to as 'glorified socialism'. Beech Williamson made his political ideology very clear, and rallied in the streets everyday to get his point across. After gaining a big following, Beech Williamson was arrested several times for spreading 'anti-empire' ideas. Beech Williamson was originally on board with the idea of working alongside the empire, but the empire made it very clear that they did not support Beech Williamson or his 'Ax group'. Beech Williamson did have a group of advisors / equals: Alex Nicolas (most importantly), Simon Levi, Sherlock Bench, Duncan Pillia.

Beech Williamson, Alex Nicolas, Simon Levy, Duncan Pillia & Sherlock Bench were extremely popular in Yurning and people were very confident in Yurning's ability to gain independence. By 1823, the Ax Army had been fully formed (for some reason the general public seemed very swayed by Alex Nicolas, so he was the other face of the rebellion, but in reality he did he very little). At first, Beech Williamson desperately tried to create a peaceful, non-violent agreement, but Christou was not willing to lose another country from his empire, so the Ax Army got ready for war.

## The Trade

By 1826, war had been raging on for 3 years. Officially a day over the time it took Yakob Ersnev to gain Ariel's independence, Beech Williamson felt the war, whilst beginning to be successful, was ultimately going nowhere, so he decided to make a deal. Beech Williamson settled with Christou - if he was to exchange his life and his riches, his country be given independence.

Whilst many Insomnia Central citizens like to believe Alex Nicolas both came up and executed this deal, they're wrong - only one of these is true. Alex Nicolas sacrificed himself instead of Beech Williamson, for no real reason other than Alex Nicolas wanted to be the hero and didn't truly think they would kill him, until he saw the axe the intended on using. When he did attempt to go back on his deal, he accidently killed the executioner by shitting so violently that the smell killed the executioner.

## Independence

In 1826, Yurning was officially given independence. Its name was changed to 'Insomnia Central' about a month into its nationhood, causing much confusion. But with the new country, they needed new laws and borders. Beech Williamson elected himself as President (until a political system could be drawn up). But that's not to say Beech Williamson did nothing to benefit Insomnia Central (IC), whilst he was creating the laws - he gave Duncan Pillia, Simon Levi and himself a third of Insomnia Central each to govern in three different states; Pillia, Leviavon (now Leviathon) and Williamshire.

   It took until 1827 for Beech Williamson to finalise the laws of Insomnia Central, and so for a year IC ran on ethics alone. Not until 1876 did Beech Williamson manage to finalise a democratic election and political system as well as a complete 'Constitution'. After Williamson created the election laws, he stepped down and held an election for his leadership. He went on to win 2 elections, then suffered a fatal heart attack, only a week before his third.

## Age of Democracy

After Beech Williamson beat Sherlock Bench and Simon Levi (1876 and 1882 respectively), he died. There was then an election between Sherlock Bench and Simon Levi, in which Sherlock Bench won. From then on, democracy was pretty much never challenged within the confines of Insomnia Central.

* List of Presidents