MiriAi

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**MiriAi**, officially the **Free Complex of** **MiriAi** and formerly the **Republic of Mirai**, is a sovereign country and city-state in Foresenan. It lies entirely on the Mirian Peninsula on the west coast of Forsenan, and shares a land border with Ibarkla to the south while its eastern border is formed by Weilai Bay and its western border is defined by the Grarante Ocean. It has the highest population density in the world. With a large, multicultural and multiethnic society, MiriAi has five official languages; Bjork, Ibarklan, Nantese, Axocha and Potstumian.

## History

### As part of Ibarkla

The area now included in MiriAi was settled by Ibarklans in prehistoric times, and artifacts dating back to the Hong dynasty have been uncovered in archaeological findings. The history of organized human settlement in the region begins around 400 BCE, when Ibarklan settlers founded cities around the Weilai Bay area. It was established as Jinjiao (Ibarklan: 金角, "Golden Horn") and became an important center of shipping and commerce in western Ibarkla. The capital of the Xi Kingdom was established here during the Winter of the Nation, and was the site of the Battle of Jinjiao, the turning point of the Rurten invasion of the Ibarklan heartland.

After the rise of the Kuai dynasty, Jinjiao's political and economic importance waned as other cities became more powerful. Nevertheless, it became the capital of the State of Luo during the Seven Dynasties period. It experienced a brief resurgence under the Yang dynasty, before continual skirmishes along the border with Doge Wonderlandian forces caused the city to lose much of its adult population to the war effort. After the Doge Wonderlandian conquest of the Tsang dynasty, Jinjiao was conquered and renamed to Dogear. By around 1770, the city had become abandoned due to neglect, mismanagement by the colonial government, and depopulation via slavery.

After the independence and establishment of Ibarkla in its modern form, interest in reviving and resettling the city, especially by the national government, grew due to its location as a potential shipping hub. Envisioned as a "city of the future", multiple delays and setbacks, including the Panic of 1852, the 1877 Weilai Bay earthquake, the SS Letaisont disaster and the Second Wonderlandian War prevented its restoration until the mid-20th century. The city was finally reconstructed in 1931 during the postwar economic recovery period, featuring nuclear fission reactors as its main power source. Renamed to Weilai (Ibarklan: 未来, "Future"), it enjoyed over two decades of prosperity until the 1955 Seramont Island disaster, in which the Seramont Island Nuclear Power Plant experienced a partial meltdown; the city was evacuated and abandoned, and the Ibarklan government expended over ₲400 million on containing and cleaning up the region. Cleanup was declared completed on 9 October 1965, the 10-year anniversary of the accident, but public fears of radiation caused most former residents to elect not to move back. However, it experienced an influx of poor internal migrants as rents in the city were kept artificially low due to the undesirability of the land.

### Independence from Ibarkla

In response to the 1962 military coup of Ibarkla and subsequent declaration of martial law, large-scale protests were organized in multiple cities across Ibarkla, including Weilai. The military government responded by shutting off utilities and basic necessities to protesting communities, thus halting construction of the New Confinement Shelter meant to replace the aging Seramont Power Plant Radiation Enclosure. This, combined with general instability resulting from the coup and existing resentment towards the national government by residents of Weilai, sparked the First Mirian Revolutionary War.

The war attracted significant international attention, including from the Axocha-based crime organization Nyakuza and Nantese separatist groups, which supplied the nascent independence movement with arms and training in return for safe harbor in the region after its independence. By mid-1964, Weilai had achieved *de facto* independence from Ibarkla, enforced by their possession of at least two nuclear weapons supplied by Nyakuza. After the Ibarklan civilian government reestablished control over the nation, it signed the Treaty of Weilai on 1 November 1965, establishing MiriAn sovereignty.