Lokelian People's Republic

1.9% Erethian

2.2% Blue Frethicism

1.1% Golicism

The Lokelian People's Republic is a Revolutionary State. It follows basic principles of Revolutionary Ideals, by having a separation of powers in government, freedom of religion (until 3003, see: Hypolenist Revolution), and running of course a complete socialist society. It operates with eight Regions and one Autonomous State. The largest Region is the Amrilon Region. Its capital has its own Region (respectively named Capital Region), the actual capital of the LPR being Lokeli. The LPR is a member state of the Grand Council, and has a full Councilate. The LPR is a founding member of the Four United National. The LPR was forged out of the Dissolution Treaty after the Lokelian Revolution in 2670, as a legitimate and recognized Revolutionary State, and the immediate successor to the Lokelian Empire. Since then, the republic has seen a rough start as a nation, losing its largest Region in the Tokelian Revolution, which caused a state of economic shock. Afterwards, Grand Councilor Amrilon initiated the Martial Reformation (2747-2952), which was a carefully designed series of mainly military, but also political and economic reforms aimed at recovering from economic shock after the Tokelian Revolution.

Amrilon, in an attempt to showcase a refreshed Lokelian military, declared war on the infant Tokelian Republic to secure the Golic population from them in 2763. This was the Ten Years' War. The war was supposed to be a landslide victory, however, major Tokelian resistance at the planet Ionli caused a ten year siege to begin. This exploded in 2773, when the Tokelians launched a twenty million man reinforcement mission to Ionli. The destruction the Tokelians brought to the Lokelian military, by nationalistic ferocity, forced Amrilon to sue for peace, which resulted in a permanent peace agreement, which got the LPR the Golic population, but not the recognition it wanted.

The eighty-thousand Golics that emigrated to the LPR made a considerable influence on Lokelian society. They were sent to the Lanikian Region, an already Golic majority Region, neighboring the Primilan Region. With the advent of Blueism after the Blue Revolution, the Primilan Region saw massive waves of Blue Frethic movements against the neighboring Golic population. This escalated in 2899 when the Verik was written, a theological revolution in the Golic world. As the scripture preached radical ideas of killing non-believers, hostile Blue Frethics often antagonized Golics. Tensions reached their climax in 2903 when forty Blue Frethics massacred eighty-seven Golics, many of whom were not radicals. This atrocity forced the Golic Shalash, Tymch Adchyay, to declare the Verik in 2902, signaling the beginning of a holy war against the Frethics. This caused both the Lanikian Region and the Primilan Region to go to war with each other in the First Frethic-Golic War in 2903. The LPR treated the two warring Regions as rebellions, and did not take sides between the religions. The war (which is sometimes dubbed as a civil war) lasted seventeen years, and was officially over when Grand Councilor Aesath signed the Peace and Liberation Accords, which gave independence to the Lanikian and Primilan Regions, separating the two with the newly created Amrilnae Buffer Zone. This was done solely because Aesath thought that having considerable numbers of religious extremists in the country would continue to jeopardize the internal stability of the LPR.

In 2960 the LPR became the center of attention when two-hundred thousand Erethian refugees came from the Tokelian Republic, and then another five-hundred thousand in 2961. This was due to political strife in the Erethian State in Tokel at the time. Hearing of mass killings, hostage crises, and terrorism, the LPR openly supported a separatist movement in 2961, sparking the Erethian War of Independence the same year. The LPR would directly supply the separatists, and even fight Tokel at points along the border, but never going into full-blown war. However, a lot of this behavior was illegal in the Grand Council, and when the conflict was resolved, and the Republic of Ereth was formed, eight Generals and Admirals of both the LPR and Tokel were tried for war crimes.

In 3003, the LPR experienced a philosophical revelation in the form of Hypolenism. The anti-religion philosophy spread across the nation at an exponential rate. By 3017, the LPR had become an almost homologous state of Utopianists, advocating for human unity under one banner. This triggered their closest non-United National ally, the Primilan Frethic Republic, to sever all ties to the LPR believing that the Lokelians had betrayed them. This was important in the Second Frethic-Golic War when Primil, without hesitation, invaded the LPR, dragging the United National into the war that would eventually cause more devastation than any war has ever caused before.

## Etymology

The identity of *Lokelian* comes from after the Taesithian Civil War in [TBD]. Amrilon Lokeli, was the founding member of his dynastic power during the Aesonian Code, which became independent in the civil war, with him receiving the title of Sonae initially. The people of the Lokelian Sonae thereby adopted the identity of *Lokelian*, just as any other dynastic power in North Aeson.

## History

### Empire to Revolution

After seeing such rapid colonial expansion in the Age of Expansion, it was no surprise that the Lokelian Empire was suffering from severe debt after the expansion ended. The cost to maintain the colonies drained any profit the Empire made out of them. As one got further away from Lokeli, the colonies got more and more impoverished, as help got further and further away. This prompted Emperor Aserae to initiate the New Work and Development Project for Outer Colonies Program in 2606. This was an attempt to use the poor Golics in the Empire to help develop colonies, while they earned fair wages. Unfortunately, this backfired when Ameron Amderae, the governor of the Ameron colony, published *The Golic Problem*, a year later. The work was a manifesto that criticized the Development Project and claimed that giving Golics too much money and power would create a Golic revolt in the empire. In 2609, Aserae halted the Development Project in wake of major resistance to it.

In 2618 Emperor Aserae died, and his son Aeron ascended to the throne. Aeron was an avid Ameronist, which was the prime reason for his 2620 proclamation of the Damnation Policy. This policy was an Imperial Decree that stripped Golics of all human rights. It went on to order the reduction of the Golic population of 14.6 million to be reduced to 500,000, the rest of which would be put in so-called *Hell Camps*, that were literally supposed to simulate hell on earth. This was carried out to near perfection. During the reign of Aeron, the population of Golics within the empire was reduced to 500,000. To the number, 14,067,653 Golics were executed on sight. The other 500,000 were sent to the Hell Camps, of which two-hundred thousand died in them.

During the reign of Aeron, the Damnation Policy was the one key establishment that saw the beginning of the Lokelian Revolution. Even radical conservatives in the empire criticized the policy as *too much*. Without surprise, resistance in the form of radical liberals launched an attack on the Aeroni Hell Camp in 2625. This would be the first of many unorganized radical liberal attacks to forcefully halt the Damnation Policy.

To better organize the effort against Aeron's Ameronism, Aemoni Gamonsith founded the Graveyard Party, a political faction of mostly moderate liberals, in 2629. This was the first political resistance to Aeron's regime. Within only a few years of its founding, seventy-three per cent of the empire identified as a proud member of the party, of them, eighty-seven per cent were radical liberals. By 2634, the Graveyard Party was the largest power in the empire, other than the crown of course.

Aemoni would die in 2634, and leave his succession in the party to Aerath Terongal. Aerath was a rare breed of a rare ideology in the empire. Revolutionary Socialism was an ideology that was not only outlawed, but also highly unwanted by even the most radical of liberals. So when he took command of the most powerful faction in the empire, many people were worried, but more of the poorer and desperate liberals from the eastern ends of the Empire were eager to hear his immediate and grand solutions. Aerath preached revolutionary socialism from speech to speech, turning the Graveyard Party into the Revolutionary Party of Socialists and Liberals in 2635, and into the Revolutionary Socialist Party three years later when he deemed that all malcontent radical liberals were out of the party. During this time, Aerath instigated and agitated incidents all throughout the Empire, directly supporting revolts in many eastern colonies, as well as some close to Lokeli. The most notable of which, was the Angerae Crisis, where the revolutionaries threw a putsch at the local government, and proclaimed their own revolutionary socialist enclave in the empire. Emperor Aeron responded with a military invasion of the planet, which ended in quite possibly the most Pyrrhic victory the Lokelian Empire ever experienced. In total, over 8 million died in the fighting, including soldiers and non-combatants. The rogue government was overthrown at year's end. This did a lot of damage to the Empire and its morale. Many people joined the revolutionary socialist cause seeing the weakness of the Empire, and the Imperial Military faced desertions at an ever expanding rate.

In 2638 Aerath finally proclaimed the Lokelian Revolutionary Council as an independent body that did not recognize the authority of Aeron, or the empire. With this came the whole eastern portion of the empire breaking away and declaring their allegiance to the Council. And as Aeron was expected to retaliate furiously, he instead did nothing about the situation, knowing that his army was on the brink of collapse. The LRC began the Unitarian Wars a year later, with the goal of capturing Lokeli and killing the Emperor.

Lokeli was captured and sacked in 2651, marking the start Anarchy Stage of the Lokelian Revolution (called as such due to the lack of sovereignty between the four successor states). The LRC was reformed into the Lokelian Revolutionary State, based in Lokeli as its capital. It was this decision that finally ignited tensions between two distinct ideological differences between the revolutionary socialism of the state and the revolutionary socialism of the people of Angerae, who saw themselves as the true first revolutionaries. Separatism and ideological fervor prompted Angerae to attempt to break away from the LRS in 2659 through an armed conflict named the Angeraen War of Secession. Despite help from the Imperial Federation, the LRS was able to crush the Angeraen resistance quickly though at a cost of four-million soldiers and countless civilians. The end of the war marked a short four year period of prolonged peace between all states, called the Recovery Years, in which as the name suggests, the immediate powers of the LRS, Silonian PDG, and Second Alekan Republic took their time to solve their administrative and economic problems. The peace was interrupted in 2663 when a coup destabilized the Thesolian Republic. Revolutionary socialists who called themselves *Winterists*, overthrew the pro-Imperial Federation government, despite constant warnings from the LRS that such an action would not be supported. A subsequent declaration of war against the Winterist government from the Imperial Federation forced the LRS's hand in also joining the conflict on behalf of the Winterists, due to the fact that not supporting a revolution would have shaken the LRS's political legitimacy. The Four Year War raged on as the second largest conflict of the Lokelian Revolution, behind the Unitarian Wars.

The revolution came to an effective end after the Dissolution Treaty of 2670, where the Lokelian People's Republic, Silonian Democratic Republic, Second Alekan Republic, and Theoslian People's Democratic Republic were formed from the corpse of the Lokelian Empire.

### Post-Revolution LPR:

The Age of Collapse continued for five more years after the end of the Lokelian Revolution due to the complete devastation still taking a heavy toll on the newly formed states. For the infant Lokelian People's Repubic, administration and economy was at the top of the list of areas that were in shambles post-revolution. Because the LPR did not cede any territory to any of the other successor states, the LPR was left with a massive swath of underdeveloped, war torn, and ill-administered colonies.

### Martial Reformation

The Revolution was an operational failure for the LPR. Grand Councilor Aerilath unexpectedly took his life when he learned of the revolt, sending the republic into a political crisis as there was no decided successor. For the time, the republic was led by the Grand Admiral Avrae Gereth, who had to balance the quickly declining Lokelian economy and the war against the Tokelians. It is no surprise that the Tokelian Sector was lost, and in 2745 Avrae conditionally surrendered to the Tokelians, granting them recognized independence, under the condition that they acquire a Grand Council membership. After the revolution, Avrae ceded his position to Councilor Amrilon Vendae, who would become the official Grand Councilor for the LPR. He became the leader of a republic in disrepair yet again, as the revolution saw the largest economic source in the nation break away, sending the LPR into a state of economic shock. In 2747, Amrilon initiated the Martial Reformation, which he would start, and would last for two-hundred years. Amrilon would revitalize economy using practically the same methodology as Aserae had done after the Lokelian Revolution, but the importance of the reformation lied in the military which had been decimated in the revolution. During it, the Lokelian Military suffered from desertion, understaffing, manpower shortages, and supply shortages. Amrilon instituted a short-term draft of five-million men and women for three years, enough to sustain the military until volunteers arrived in greater numbers. The Lokelian military industry was revamped and expanded, and the command structure was reorganized and re-educated in more modern styles of combat. All troops would go through extensive training and discipline programs, and most would even see higher-levels of education to better increase battlefield autonomy away from officers. In this case, Amrilon was highly regarded to be the Emperor Aerath of his time.

And to showcase the refreshed Lokelian Military, Amrilon would illegally declare war on the Tokelian Republic in 2763 in order to save the Golic population of 80,000 from certain genocide. This was the Ten Years' War. Over thirty-million men invaded the republic, taking all of the objective border colonies in a week, and taking most of the objective core colonies in a month. The Tokelian Republic at the time was in horrible political upheaval. The undemocratically appointed president, Ameron Revderae, had been ruling for over ten years, and there were major opposition groups ready to through a putsch. So when the war started, Ameron refused to retaliate, as he already saw his nation in collapse, and he thought he could do nothing to save it. However, all was not lost for the Tokelians, because in order to have a stable supply line, the Lokelians had to take the planet of Ionli. Ionli, was a core colony that held over four billion people, easily one of the largest in the republic. The LPR needed it to maintain steady supplies, so the General in command of the garrison, General Aerath, effectively fought off three Lokelian invasions, all numbering over five-million men. From this unexpected resistance, Second Admiral Aerilath ordered a three year siege of the planet. This is known as the Siege of Ionli, and it is what made this war last ten years.

After the three years, Aerilath ordered the invasion of the planet, but by that time, General Aerilath had already mobilized nearly the entire population of the planet to build fortifications. The eight-million man invasion failed horribly, three-million died. After four unsuccessful invasions in three years, Aerilath organized a type of attritional warfare. He would send one-million men in the course of a year down to Ionli to flexibly destroy infrastructure and drain the enemy of manpower and resources. These were never intended to be suicide missions. This process lasted eight years. By 2773, when plans were being made to attack the starved planet, an unexpected attack by a suicide Tokelian navy opened a hole in the siege, allowing for twenty-one million men to arrive and land on the surface. A panicking Aerilath ordered the immediate invasion of Ionli to prevent the entrenchment of the reinforcements. A five-million man force was sent down to fight the poorly organized Tokelians (most of which were untrained and did not even use combat skins). This is referred to as the Second Battle of Ionli, as it involved both naval and ground fighting, but others call it the Third Battle of Ionli. It ended with the complete routing of the Lokelian force, due to the extreme nationalist devotion of the Tokelians in combat.

After the battle, Amrilon was ready to sue for peace. By this time, over fourteen-million Lokelians had died, and eighteen-million Tokelians had died. Amrilon organized a permanent peace agreement to reset the status quo, as long as Tokel handed over its Golic population. The war ended in 2773, in a sort of compromise, but is commonly known to be a Lokelian defeat.

Amrilon was completely disgusted and dumfounded by the ferocity of the Tokelian rabble that won in the Second Battle of Ionli. He stated in a meeting with his Advisory:

> "*No man should never have to endure what these men have. We will never fight the Tokelians ever again. . . they are animals that we cannot control."*
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In the aftermath of the Ten Years' War, the LPR experienced little drawback. The incident that was Ionli could not have been seen from afar, and the only thing Amrilon could do, was analyze what happened, and hoped it never happened again.

### Blue Revolution Spreads and the Golic World is Shaken

In 2784, the Tokelian National Creation Party overthrew the Ameron administration that had been undemocratically ruling the Tokelian Republic for thirty-one years. The Blues as they were called, led by Gilae Veralicon, assembled the Tokelian National Convention, which was a corrupt congress of elites only there to legitimize the President's dictatorial power. This was Ideological Blueism, the belief in ultra-nationalist regimes with strong religious roots. The strain of Blueism that would spread to the LPR was Blue Frethicism, a radical form of the religion. Prior, the LPR was secular in government, while nearly all of the population were Reformed Frethics, who were Frethic by name, but not in practice. They were largely secular, and typically never followed the words of the Aerath. They really only existed to not be called atheists or traitors to the more religious southerners and easterners. So it should be no surprise that Blue Frethicism made its debut in the Primilan Region, where most of the population was deeply religious. Blue Frethicism spread at an exponential rate in the Region, having ninety-three per cent of its population identifying as Blue Frethic in 2820.

With this extreme rise of radical Frethicism, the Golic world also had a revolution. In 2899, Tymch Adchyay, wrote the Verik. It was a Golic scripture, the first one written in thousands of years. Its main idea was the creation of a great struggle against the non-believers, and the establishment of a universal Golic universe. The creation of the Verik certainly shook the entire galaxy. A new radical idea Golics can follow. And just like Blue Frethicism, Verikism spread like wildfire in the Golic regions of the LPR.

The conflict was amplified with Blue Frethicism and Verikism living right next to each other. The Primilan Region, and the Lanikian Region were bordering regions. The Primilan Region was the largest Blue Frethic region in the LPR, while the Lanikian Region harbored the most Verikists. With this, Blue Frethics and Verikists clashed regularly, causing minor unrest in the two regions. However, the tension increased over a few years, and it all climaxed in 2902, when a small group of fifteen Blue Frethics went to Lanik, the capital of Verikism, and went on a killing spree. After they were subdued, they had killed over eighty Golics, none of whom ever identified as Verikists. This action angered the Verikist Shalash, who declared the Verik shortly after.

### The First Frethic-Golic War

Although not the first war between Frethics and Golics in human history whatsoever, it was indeed the first war between them that took place in human-controlled Andromeda. The war did not start with the declaration of the Verik, instead it took place a year later in 2903, when the Primilan and Lanikian Regional Governors declared war on each other. This was not a legal act in the LPR, as no where in any Lokelian document does it say that Regions can declare war on each other. The Grand Councilor at the time, Adae Varcon, was in an interesting situation. He technically had to treat this "war" as a rebellion, but there was an ethical problem with this. Adae could not kill the Blue Frethics, as they had the support of the rest of the people, as a Frethic majority nation. Nor could he mainly fight the Golics, as the LPR fought a long war to save the Golics from genocide. But Adae could not dabble in ethical problems, he saw this as a rebellion, and he had to suppress it.

Most of the armies that made up the two rebellious Regions were made up of militia. There were very few numbers of professional Lokelian soldiers that joined in the fighting. Which meant that the professional Lokelian military, which was refreshed from the Ten Years' War, could easily take down the revolt. The navies of the two Regions were either a few navy ships that mutinied, or armed civilian ships, nothing the massive Lokelian fleet could not handle. On paper, the First Frethic-Golic War only should have lasted a couple of years at most, but it went on for eighteen years, killing thirty-two million people. The reason for such an unexpected lengthy war, was the complications in fighting it. This was not a war against another nation, it was a war against a religion, or a rebellion. The Lokelian navy could not systematically bombard planets and destroy the entire population, as they would do in a regular war, because these were still planets considered to be a part of the LPR. Invasion Forces were often sent down into heavily defended positions, guarded by religious fanatics, only to be slaughtered within a week or two of fighting. The navy even suffered greatly, as the rebel ships did not just use their guns, they would commonly use ships filled with explosives and ram them into Lokelian ships, destroying any ship it rams. And if a planet was taken, occupation was just as hard as taking it, and even though the leading officers of the Lokelian military wanted to crack down on radicals, Grand Councilor Adae refused to let the military indiscriminately kill civilians.

In 2920, the leaders of the revolts, the Golic Shalash and Primilan Regional Governor, went to the negotiation table. It was set that the rebelling Regions would be released from the LPR, a bold decision by Adae himself. Adae did not want radicals who ended up being responsible for the death of millions in his nation. So the Lanikian Divine Mandate and Primilan Frethic Republic were made as a result of the peace. And to make sure that these two nations do not instantly go back to war, a special two colony wide zone was established between them. The Amrilnae Buffer Zone was created. Amrilnae and Posligae made it up, and they were evacuated to become planet-sized military bases if war occurred once more.

For Adae, the end of the war was very advantageous. There were two more nations in Andromeda, two nations that could easily become allies against the Tokelians, and more importantly join the United National. The prime target was Primil, who was close to bordering the Tokelian Republic, and were Frethic is nature. Lanik was equally capable, but Adae was not ready to accept Verikism. So the LPR instituted the Frethic Cooperation Initiative, a Grand Council recognized economic faction, aimed towards making Primil a military powerhouse for a war against the Tokelians. In it was of course the LPR and Primil, along with the rest of the United National. In this faction, Primil received millions from the Lokelians and Silonians mainly. Their first President used this money to repair the nation and increase quality of life, which was not the intended use. After his term ended, Adae influenced the elections in the nation, making Aminae Gerig win, who would listen to all of Adae's demands. As soon as he went into office, the Primilan economy switched to the military. This was the first showcase of the LPR's new influence, due to the Martial Reformation.

### Limits of Regionalism (Incomplete)

Ever since its creation, the LPR has ran on a modified version of the administrative theory of regional autonomy. The idea was that the LPR was too big for one central administration that controlled all, so the nation was split into Regions that answered to a central administration that only focused on the international and political processes of the LPR, while the Regions focused on local administration. And the system was not nearly even remotely decent. A grand showcase of the system's ineffectiveness was the Tokelian Revolution, an example of when a Region's autonomy makes them develop rebellious sentiment. But there were other problems. Regions had different policies and laws that made it hard for the LCG (Lokelian Central Government) to develop their own policies and laws. The military typically moved in an unorganized fashion through the nation because of this, which was a huge limiting factor during the Ten Years' War.

The next large scale event that made the LPR question its regionalism was the secession of the Sephelian Region. Regionalism granted Regions in the LPR so much autonomy that they could legally break away from the nation. This freedom was established after the Tokelian Revolution, with the idea that people can leave the nation if it is in a state of decay. This coincided with another weak point of Regionalism, the development of independent identities. Regions are so big, and have such large populations, that not only did they develop their own cultures, they developed whole other identities. Yes, it is common for a nation to have different cultures from region to region, but in the LPR, almost nobody called themselves a *Lokelian*. This was the case in the Sephelian Region, a Region that was drastically different from any other Region in that the Sephelians had been making an independence movement to establish a Sephelian state.

### The Erethian Crisis

The Age of Conflict got its name for the rapid increase in conflict between nations. And before 2960, that name was not so accurate, as there was really only one conflict, and that it is was contained in the LPR for the most part. But what happened after 2960 would make the Age gain its name. In that year, Lokelian border colonies on the Tokelian border received hundreds of civilian ships from the Tokelian Republic. The fleet contained 200,000 civilian refugees, claiming to be escaping political turmoil in the Autonomous Erethian Republic that could soon turn into a civil war. The refugees were accepted into Avronae and were interviewed by Lokelian authorities. Apparently, that part of Tokel was undergoing a national and political revolution. Nationalist movements in the form of the Erethian Liberation Army, and counter-movements such as the Closer Tokelian Relations Party clashed violently. A year earlier, the ELA had taken five-hundred hostages in a CTRP building and threatened to murder all of them if the current Erethian administration did not step down. The Erethian militia was sent to relieve the hostages, but that only resulted in a firefight that killed two-hundred of the hostages, and all of the assailants, in total killing three-hundred.

The 2959 Hostage Crisis was the turning point for the region. A year later, 200,000 civilians took up arms and escaped the Tokelian Republic to seek sanctuary in the LPR. But this was not the end of it, as half a year later in 2961, 500,000 refugees arrived in the LPR, this time brining news of ELA and CTRP revolts across the region, causing riots, mass executions, sackings, and bombings by both sides. Grand Councilor Amerae announced the situation to the Grand Council. The Tokelian Councillate had not made the crisis public, in their nation or in the Council. In retaliation, Amerae led the effort to punish the republic severely for their inhumane actions. It was only a month long struggle, that resulted in economic and political sanctions being put on the republic. To further express his anger, Amerae, without the United National, directly supported the ELA. Sending weapons and other military supplies, Amerae wanted to see an independent Erethian state, one that did not suffer at the hands of the Tokelians.

When the ELA grew strong enough to start a war to gain independence, they did so in late 2961. The Erethian War of Independence however would not just be Erethians verus the Tokelians. Amerae was not going to accept the defeat of the ELA, so he sent volunteer forces to support the ELA. Two professional Lokelian armies, and a brigade of volunteer Erethians were sent to the war. It lasted three years, and in those years, it killed five-million, mostly all were civilian. The war was also a victory for the Erethians. In 2964, the Republic of Ereth was formed, without a seat in the Grand Council, but at least earned the recognition from the whole United National and even the Tokelians (from the peace treaty). The only nation that never recognized the republic would be Lanik.

### Aftermath and Prelude

The Erethian War of Independence was a major turning point in the history of Andromedian humanity. It was not only a devastating show of nationalism's effect on a population, but also a reckoning for the Tokelian Republic. In 2967, the colony of Nistonia would revolt against the republic, and fight a twenty-eight year struggle to win independence. After Lokelian mediations of peace led by Councilor Adae, Nistonia was given independence, although, as a trade off the Tokelian Republic did not have to recognize the nation. The only other nation to recognize Nistonia's sovereignty would by the LPR.

Just like the Sephelians, another group was aiming to break away from the LPR. This time, it was the Asentinian Region, made up of mainly Golics. Ever since the First Frethic-Golic War, Verikism had shifted from Lanik, to Asent. A not so prosperous Region, Asent was growing more and more troublesome. Not wanting to sit through a second religious war, Grand Councilor Amerae accepted the referendum to free the Region, and create the Asentinian Divine Mandate, or Talash as it would be later known as. This action at the time seemed strategic. Amerae did the right thing to ensure the stability of his nation. . . however this decision would cause something horrible in the future.

### The Hypolenist Revolution (incomplete for story development problems)

Bear with me here, this is kinda hard to come up with. . .

### The Second Frethic-Golic War

In 3021, the effects of the Hypolenist Revolution started to become serious. After Primil's departure from the FCI, they had sought a new ally. The Frethic Defense Pact was formed between Primil and Tokel as a Grand Council recognized militant faction. The goal of it was to forge a frontline against the Hypolenist threat. The Tokelians were an obvious addition. They did not join because of philosophical reasons, they joined because it was finally a faction formed against the United National. The Primilans had created it, because they seriously believed that the Hypolenist nations were traitors to Frethicism. And then the Sephelians. The Sephelian Republic was the only other Frethic nation. They also had similar feelings towards the revolution, however, ever since their creation, the LPR made sure that they would remain intensely close allies. Most if not all of the Sephelian military was rooted from the Lokelian military. And Asent made the Lokelian-Sephelian relationship even stronger, as it was a common foe. The Lokelians funded huge defensive projects on Sephelian border colonies, to ensure that when a war comes, Sephel will be prepared. And for a while, Sephel's status in the FDP was uncertain. This was until 3036 when they joined the FDP as an associated state; not quite a part of the faction, but also a part of the faction.

The feeling of war started in 3035, with Asent declaring themselves a Talash, a Golic holy state. Verikism had been in control of the nation ever since its creation, and it had not done any good. The country was in political turmoil between the Verikists and Palishists, and it never recovered from it. Most of the nation was radical, but a rebellious group of centrists still remained. With this, Asent regularly faced Grand Council persecution, getting new sanctions every year. Unsurprisingly, Asent also became more and more louder with every new Verikist leader. But in 3035, Asent nearly went to war with Sephel on political terms. The Vaneth Incident nearly put the two nations at war, but thankfully President Agerae settled the tensions, preventing war from breaking out.

Peace did not last forever unfortunately. In 3036, the Golic Shalash officially declared the Verik, which was immediately followed by an Asentinian declaration of war against Sephel. Just a day later, the FDP (Primil and Tokel) declared war on Asent and Lanik, even though Lanik was not involved in the war. As the week went by, Primil invaded the Armrilnae Buffer Zone in order to get to Lanik, a move which forced the whole United National to declare war on the FDP, officially creating what we know today as the Second Frethic-Golic War.

For the LPR, the war did not cause much devastation. All of the fighting the LPR did was in Primil, and briefly in the Buffer Zone. On the Tokelian Front, fighting was very small and no planet was ever invaded. The reason for this was because both sides did not want to invade each other. The LPR and the United National knew very well how difficult it would be to conquer Tokel, as did Tokel know how difficult it would be to conquer the LPR. So the main focus of attention was on Primil. Within the first few years of fighting, nearly all of the Primilan border colonies were taken, and the fight to get to Primil was underway. However, the war become stalemated, when the Primilans organized a massive mobilization effort. With a huge surge in manpower, resources, and zeal, the Primilans held off the Lokelian advance. Battles grew larger, in some instances, pitting ten-thousand men against each other on the same battleflat. The war went on and on until 3061. The Sephelians never invaded Asent, and Asent could not break the Sephelian defenses. The Primilans committed genocide in Lanik, and the LPR never held more than two core colonies of Primil at a time.

The war of course ended abruptly with the start of the Human-Lord War, in which Primil was invaded by the Primeval Lords. The LPR would be a founding member of the United Human Front, the homogenous nation of all humanity that fought against the Primeval Lords.

## Government and Politics

### Administration

The administration of the LPR is officially recognized as a Revolutionary One-Party Congress. It works with a Councilate, meaning, the Grand Councilor of the nation works as the chief executive, and other Councilors work in the government. This is to insure closer cooperation with the Grand Council. The congress is bicameral. The upper house consists of the All-Lokelian Congress of the Revolutionary Socialist Party, and lower house consisting of the Council of Revolutionary Socialists.

The All-Lokelian Congress (or ALC for short) functions as the system's upper house. It contains 415 elected delegates and creates drafts of laws to be sent to the Council of Revolutionary Socialists (the lower house [Council for short]) to be approved or vetoed. The ALC's delegates are elected every ten years, and come in groups of five from each of the 82 colonies, plus five from Lokeli. In the ALC, a Councilor appointed by the Grand Councilor is put in charge of organizing the congress, called the Head Councilor, this position acts like a judge in a court. They don't have any electoral power, they just keep everyone in the congress calm and collected, and oversee the whole process. The Council operates a little differently. The 201 delegates are appointed, all hand selected by the Grand Councilor with the approval of the Advisory Court. This is where laws get passed or vetoed. The Grand Councilor runs this part of the government as a sort of Head Councilor. While the ALC meets every day, the Council only meets once a week.

The next power in the Lokelian administration is the Lokelian Councilate, the de facto executive and somewhat judicial power. The head of state is the Grand Councilor, the Council elected leader. He or she is the last step in the law making process. If the Council passes a law, the Grand Councilor has the power to overrule it, and kill it. The Grand Councilor can also send forth Revolutionary Declarations, essentially unquestionable, permanent decrees. What keeps this position in check is the Advisory Court. They are a small cabinet of thirteen people, appointed by the Grand Councilor and approved by the Council, to oversee the Grand Councilors actions and make sure that he or she is keeping the LPR in good shape. A Grand Councilor can be impeached by a unanimous vote by the Council and ALC.

The judicial power in the LPR is the All-Lokelian Court of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (Lokelian Court shortened). This power is comprised of eleven Council and ALC approved judges who will analyze a new law if passed by the Council, and before it reaches the Grand Councilor. It is headed by the Primary Judiciary, who is supposed to be the most senior word in the court, but has no actual power. If the court votes that a law is unconstitutional then it will be killed without Grand Councilor consent. The Grand Councilor can bypass the court however. If a law happens to be illegal, then the Grand Councilor can create a Revolutionary Declaration with the same contents. There were multiple times where the Council tried to remove this exploitation, but every time the court deemed it unconstitutional, and the Grand Councilor always killed it.

### Regional Administration

Of course, the LPR could not just let every Region control itself entirely. To modify the theory of regional autonomy, the LPR has three powers all relating to administering the eight Regions of the LPR. The Regional Autonomy Court, Regional Legislative Committee, and Regional Law and Order Council.

The Regional Autonomy Court determines a Region's status within the nation. They can either suppress or raise the autonomy of a Region, by order of the Grand Councilor. They also analyze overall behavior of all of the Regions, and how that links with their autonomy. It is headed by the Court Director, who is the authority to Court Officials. They make up a fifteen person court. Examples of the Court's powers, includes the sectorization of the Tokelian Region and the integration of the Thesolian People's Democratic Republic as an ICASP.

The Regional Legislative Committee keeps the Regional Governors in check. They oversee their decisions and actions. They can force the Governors to repeal laws or pass laws. Everything a Governor does, goes through the Committee. It is headed by the Regional Executor, the leader of the Committee, who is generally an appointed Councilor. His or her subordinates are the Regional Counselors. They make up a thirteen man committee.

The Regional Law and Order Council is responsible for enforcing laws made by the Grand Councilor or Council. Headed by the Chief Executive of Law Authority and the Chief Executive of Law, this council is designed to determine how new laws are to be integrated into all of the Regions. They can, like the Committee, order around Governors as well, telling them what to do and how to do it.

#### The Lokelian Region

The LPR contains eight Regions. Seven of them are run by an elected Regional Governor, who exercises nearly dictatorial control over the Region, with the exception of having to go through the larger Regional Administration. The eighth Region, the Capital Region, is run by the Grand Councilor, and is not bound to the Regional Administration.