Kingdom of Adilandia

## **History**

The Kingdom of Adilandia in its current form has a rocky history at best. Before the First Weltkrieg in 1910, the region was a Briayonish Colony. While it had some autonomy from their overlords in Pendel, Briayon still kept Adilandia at a tight leash. This would change in the aftermath of the Mrassian Empire’s victory over Briayon in 1918. In the Treaty of Kulster, Briayon would lose control over Adilandia, and Adilandia would be granted independence as a puppet state monarchy with Leopold I taking the throne, and Christopher Schmitz. Many would oppose their new Mrassian masters, which culminated in the 1919 Republican Uprising as pro-Briayonish, anti-monarchist factions attempted to take up arms against their new government, however with new Mrassian troops arriving the same year, the riots and rebellions were violently put down.

The Schmitz would focus solely on securing the control of the new Adilandian government, and appealing to the Adilandian nationalists and republican groups, offering them a seat in the House of Representatives and the Royal Senate. These concessions would see stability return to the region. The new ministry also guaranteed that the Mrassians wouldn’t be as restrictive as the former Briayonish rulers. Stating that under Mrassian protection, Adilandia would be allowed to determine its own path and its own foreign policy. Same would be said by the succeeding prime minister, Levi Höfle. However things would quickly deteriorate by 1929 with the Kulster Stock Market Crash. Adilandia, with its close economic ties to the empire, saw its economy collapse just as quickly. Levi Höfle’s cabinet would need to fix the crisis before the people rebelled. In the factories and urbanized areas, the socialist parties began demanding answers from the government about why employment was hitting rock bottom and why the workers weren’t receiving fair wages. This would see Höfle’s cabinet voted out of power and for the first time, the Social Democratic Party under Albert Weisskopf won the 1934 General Elections.

Under the new leftist Weisskopf ministry, the Fair Labour Law was passed through the House of Representatives and Royal Senate with ease. He invested in the construction of new cities to help bring in new jobs. He secularized the state in an attempt to remove church power over the government, an action opposed by a majority of the population; as of the 1930s, around 93% of the population were protestant Christians. Ralph Lehmbruck of the Liberal Party would win the elections of 1942 and would begin to adjust the reforms made by Weisskopf. Secularization was halted, and the rights of Protestants were respected once again. On the other hand, the Lehmbruck ministry  pressed on with economic reforms. Foreign companies were taxed more equally to native Adilandian companies, and by the end of his term in 1950, the economy had stabilized and recovered.

The 50s dragged along quietly as the Adilandian people enjoyed a new era of peace and prosperity, and the economic policies of the liberals gave way to a Golden Age which would last until the 1980s. Frank Schaab in the 50s would turn away from economics and would shift his focus outward, by improving relations with other members of the Berufspakt, and in 1957 a trade deal was signed between Adilandia, Garecia and Katyiniju, boosting the economy of the country even more. Successor, Vinzenz Kornfeld in 1958 would modernize the state infrastructure, military and would invest in more modernizing technology with help from the Mrassian Empire and State of Josaki. Antonin Grohl of the progressives, would pass the National Unity Act in 1969 which granted equal citizenship to the old Briayonish majority to that of the Mrassian minority, and working off of the old Weisskopf reforms, better worked out the Better Workplace Act in the 1973, which shortened the workday to 8 hours and increase the minimum wage for all workers regardless of rank and status.

Things would begin to get worse in the 1980s however. Tensions in the Cold War were rising between the Internationale and Berufspakt, and this would see the militarists and conservatives demand the government to put their military on full combat readiness, but this would be opposed by the centrists and liberals, which would be a mistake. In the 1982 General Elections, the nationalist conservative, Lorenz Horn won handily and began to militarize the army and industry to be ready for war at a minute's notice. He promoted Adilandian nationalism through a new propaganda campaign, which would see the conservatives win once again in 1990 under Torsten Fersen. However, unlike Horn, Fersen would see the outbreak of the 2nd Weltkrieg the same year, not even half a year into his ministry. The Fersen ministry sent 500,000 men to the European front, 200,000 to the North American and South American fronts each, and the main bulk of Adilandia’s military was focused in Asia and the Pacific.

Most of Adilandia’s efforts in Asia would be in Shayaku and North Chricanta. From 1990 to 1993 the military would fight in N. Chricanta, however, would later be encircled and defeated. In Shayaku, their motorized and artillery were forced to retreat during the closing years of the war, and in 1995, signed a conditional surrender with the Internationale. As an added problem, the Mrassian Empire, after being defeated in Europe by 1995, saw the Kaiser Erwin IV flee into exile, and the Adilandian government openly offered him asylum and even rulership over Adilandia. In the same year, King Leopold III abdicated the throne and two months later, Eriwn IV would become the new king, and the de facto leader of the Mrassian imperial government in exile.

After the war officially came to a close in 1996, post-war ministries would rebuild the economy and would grant new jobs for soldiers returning home. Both Kim Ehrmann and Raoul Grebel would focus on reconstructing the state to fit in the post-war society. By 2014 the economy would have recovered from the Weltkrieg, however an interesting offer would arrive in 2015, when Garecian President Alicia Scott revealed to Prime Minister Alois Fersen, that she was planning on bringing the remnants of the Berufspakt back to the world stage. Alicia shared the idea of forming a new military bloc, the Democratic League. The Fresen ministry accepted, and from 2015 to 2019 the Adilandians would once again conduct military and economic cooperation with the remnants of the old Berufspakt.