Asmir

## Map

Unitary Dahorian theocratic technate under the Nasruhate

**Asmir**, officially **Revolutionary Asmir**, is a country located in the Shelf of Masio. It has a population of 180 million, making it the world's ??? largest country by population. It borders the Kingdom of Masema to its northwest, Revolutionary Imizagh to its west, and the Republic of T'Kampa to its southwest. The country's capital and largest city is Aray.

Revolutionary Asmir was established following the 1965 putsch orchestrated by Colonel Manatova which dissolved the former Asmiri People's Republic. From 1965-68, Manatova consolidated his rule by re-empowering the clergy, which had been purged by the former regime, and purging political opponents. From 1972-1979, Asmir experienced heavy conflict. Separatists in the south declared the Obagde Republic following the 1973 failed coup d'état attempt and were swiftly defeated by early 1974. In 1975, the Kingdom of Imizagh fell into political turmoil following the death of King Yutuan, who had no heirs. This, mixed with the heavy tension between the Katharians and Aferists, caused an epidemic of violence to strike Asmir's neighbor. Asmir intervened months after violence initially broke out in favor of the Dahorian faction which had completely consolidated the country and installed an Asmir-friendly government by 1979, despite opposite intervention by other powers such as the Confederated States and T'Kampa, which remain some of Asmir's key rivals.

Asmir is a heavily militarized country with a single operational nuclear warhead. It is an authoritarian theocracy with a command economy. There are no legal political parties.

## Historical background

### Asmiri People's Republic (1955-1965)

By 1955. the Socialist Unity Party of Asmir seized power in a coup d'etat against the Asmiri Republic and declared the Asmiri People's Republic by use of its sympathizers in the military. The party leader, Sasio Guran, was declared president. Initially, the socialist regime showed openness toward working with the church and granting concessions to the clergy, who were in favor of land reform. This made them an ally of the socialists. Tensions first arose between the clergy and the party when in 1958, Katharians were purged from the party. They were allowed to form the Katharian League, however, this organization was banned in 1959 and the controversy caused a mass exodus from the ruling Socialist Unity Party. Negotiations were held in Aray, however, a conclusion was not reached. The church became increasingly critical of the socialist regime as time went on, and accused them of "Vostressan imitation". Having experienced policy failure under the previous Asmiri Republic as well, fundamentalist Katharians began making a comeback in mainstream politics due to the failures of secularism.

The Asmiri Orthodox Church was declared illegal by the Asmiri People's Republic in 1962. Clergymen were arrested and sometimes executed for promoting "reactionary ideologies". Attempts at negotiation were made by the church, yet all were denied by Guran. The Iron Pact's assassination of Guran a few months following marked their resurgence in the political scene. It aligned itself with the Dahorian Front, which had recruited many ex-socialists kicked out the party for their religious affiliation. The Dahorians also appealed to peasants, something the Socialist Unity Party failed to do. The Iron Pact's membership was expanded by thousands as more of the population became disillusioned with the People's Republic, and eventually, after having successfully captured tens of thousands of socialist sympathizers and dispersing them to re-education camps across the country, the Iron Pact overthrew the Asmiri People's Republic in the 1965 putsch, installing Colonel Manatova as the new President of Revolutionary Asmir.

## Government and politics

Asmir's centralized system is based on the 1965 Constitution which remains in effect today. According to Article 1, it is a self-described revolutionary defensive technate based on the Dahorian principle of "active struggle". Despite officially having no legal political parties according to Article 2 of the Constitution, the Iron Pact functions triually as a political, intelligence, and paramilitary force and is the sole legal organization of its kind. All candidates must be officially independent. All recognized religious institutions are under the sworn protection of the Iron Pact, while Asmiri Orthodox Katharianism is the official religion of Asmir. Key theorists of the Dahorian movement are more often than not Katharian.

### Dahorianism

Dahorianism, derived from the Hamayan word for "guardian" (Dahorian), is a revolutionary ideology which promotes a "natural modernity that does not conflict with real tradition". It asserts that monotheism must be correct and is strictly opposed to polytheism and atheism. Dahorianism is deeply concerned with the concept of civilizations; according to Dahorian thinkers, the world is better governed by regional technates ("post-empires") whose borders are based on geographic realities. Dahorianism also emphasizes the importance of aesthetic, advocating for modern vernacular architecture and the emboldenment of the common person in art.

Dahorians believe that global finance seeks to divide and conquer the world in order to fuel its "machine of disorder" through psychological operations and political crises. Thus, countries should nationalize primary industries, censor the media, and continue the *revolution*, the Dahorian definition of which is the struggle against social-parasitism for social-symbiosis, which only truly exists in a Dahorian society (in the form of a revolutionary political state) between Dahorian societies (in the form of a revolutionary understanding, a *forming state*).

### Nasruhate

The technate's political state is overseen by what is called a Nasruhate, the function of which is to act as a learning, self-critiquing, and revolutionary body. The head of the body is the Nasruh, which serves as the country's figurehead, but is required to constantly engage with the unique aspects of the political economy in various ways, in order to gain a true understanding of the country's conditions.

The Nasruh is nominated by the Asmiri Orthodox Church, voted upon by the Nasruhate Council, then voted upon by the Electorate. The Nasruhate Council functionally serves as a secretariat, however, has the ability to dismiss the Nasruh with the approval of the Electorate.

The concept of the Nasruhate was not originally a part of the original works that gave life to the Dahorian movement. The Nasruhate was conceptualized by Manatova, for which self-described "Orthodox Dahorians" (of no relation to the religion) denounce Asmir's regime as social-parasitism. "Manatovists", on the other hand, more often referring to themselves as simply Dahorians, see Manatova's contributions to Dahorianism as legitimate and view Asmir as a truly revolutionary state.