The United Republics of Taki-Lukin

The United Republics of Taki-Lukin, more commonly known as Taki-Lukin, is a nation surrounding the Arabian Sea. It consists of Modern day Southwestern Asian states (India, Pakistan, Iran), Southeastern Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Yeman, UAE), and Eastern Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia). Taki-Lukin is a neutral country in WWII (Season 3 of Nations).

## History

### Pre-Establishment

In the early 19th century, there were four kingdoms in the region Taki-Lukin rests, they are the kingdoms of Tahanya, Kidubi, Lukina, and Linwan. For the past few centuries since the Mongolian conquest through the land, the kingdoms have lived in peace, enjoying the luxuries of trade in the region and with the far east Asian nations. After the advancement of ships and usages of gunpowder, the kingdoms were slow to keep up.

In 1823, the kingdoms encountered pirates in the Arabian Sea, who were raiding merchants and major ports. The kingdoms of Linwan and Kidubi sent their navy in as an attempt to resolve the crisis in the Battle of Aden, only to suffer in near complete loss of their navies. After the incident, the four kingdoms' monarchs started to ignore the consistent merchant pressure to stop the pirates, since they had did not have the naval might to combat them. Over time, trade between the kingdoms diminished, as the populations resented against their ruling classes.

In 1828, when barbarians invaded the kingdoms, some of the population, most notably the civilians of the cities of Aden, Djibouti, and Muscat, assisted the barbarians to destroy the monarchs. At first, the monarchs threaten to kill all civilians with intentions to assist the barbarians to overthrow the government. The Linwan and Kidubi monarchs allowed their armies to invade suspected cities to find traitors and kill them and their families. However, there was no standard of who was or was an innocent, thus after a while, the army started randomly killing and raiding any family that seemed suspicious. The army raided homes in a massive scale, spilled maroon on the streets of the scream coated cities. Fortunate witnesses who managed to escape told others what they saw, spreading rumors of the monarchs possibly starting a widespread genocide of their own people, leading to a rapid revival of resentment against the monarchs. The kingdom of Tahanya saw this and sent their army into Linwan and Kidubi to assist the ruling monarchs secure their place, leading to a widespread uprising in Tahanya against the monarch's decision. Seeing all the fighting on their western neighbors, the kingdom of Lukina was hesitant to join the conflict. Before long, the barbarians brought in more reinforcements after witnessing the local support for them, forming an united force with local rebel groups. When three monarchs heard of such, they did not hesitate to send in their entire military force, effectively starting a decade-long civil war.

During the war, the King of Lukina allowed for the population to form a congress of representatives of each of the provinces of the kingdom, in which members are selected based on merit to do good for the people as opposed to the monarch. This led to people approving of the monarch, and the royalty resenting it. Under this limited monarchy, Lukina was able to thrive economically once more by selling goods to rebel groups in the warring regions.

In 1839, the war ended with the barbarians and the rebel groups killing off the final members of the ruling class that did not surrender. The rebels drafted a plan to create new republics from the rubbles of the former three kingdoms, inviting the barbarians to become citizens of the new nation, which they accepted. After the republics of Kinwan (formerly Linwan), Tahanya, and Kidubi were established, the king of Lukina, offered to provide aid to the nations to help them stabilize. to which they accepted. The King-resenting royalty of Lukina secretly proposed a plan with the barbarians of the newly formed nations to sabotage the economy Lukina so the royalty most of the power once more.

In 1841, the barbarian populations of the republics called for war against Lukina, many questioned their ideology, however, the barbarians were quite stubborn, leading to developments of factions in the republics. The congress of Lukina was more than shocked since they were putting aid into the three republics, the people of Lukina thought it may have been the king's doing to suppress the congress, since he seemed to complain about not being able to get anything done with the congress in place. Thus within a month, there were protests for the king to resign and start a republic as well. Coincidently, the King also wanted to give up on leading the nation, and so he too wanted to end the monarch's reign. In under a fortnight of protests, the king disbanded the monarch and the royalty, signing an agreement with the congress to fully turn the kingdom into a republic. With the royalty of Lukina disbanded the barbarians had no reason to call for war anymore, and thus ends the crisis. The former king of Lukina was assassinated soon after the agreements, leading to the people of the region to march on the streets to mourn him for an entire month for his doings to support his people and others recover.

In 1843, the republic of Lukina proposed for the four republics to unify so they can rebuild the republics faster and industrialize, the other three republics were hesitant about giving up their national identity. Eventually, after some amendments, the republics formed the United Republics of Taki-Likin, using the first syllables of each of their republics. The people of the republics can be recognized as "Taki-Lukinese" altogether, or their individual regional demonym as "Tahanyanese", "Kidubian", "Lukinese", or "Kinwanian".

### Nations

The United Republics of Taki-Lukin was midst of rapid industrialization, and trading was its main economic focus, boosting its economy into new heights before the war. Seeing the tensions between the other countries, Taki-Lukin declared its neutrality in the case of a war, until further notice. In the meantime, Taki-Lukin is spending a large portion of their GDP securing their economic growth and military might in advance.

More would be updated as *Nations: Season 3* continues.

## Government Structure

Though Taki-Lukin sounds like four separate republics historically, the four republics are a lot joint together than most would think of it as. While one region have some branches of government separate from the other regions, they have multiple branches that overlap with each other.

### Executive

The executive branch consists of 4 chairmen, each have equal power in different aspects of the nation, these are:

#### Economic Chairman

* The Economic Chairman has near complete power over the economy, having power to alter taxes and tariffs, print money, oversee inflation, provide subsidies, make trade deals with other countries, and control the national budget and treasury.
* Economic Chairmen are chosen by the national committee most of the times for their economic and historical expertise, as well as their negotiative and reasonability abilities.
* Their advisor intel committee consists of some of the nation's best economists and researchers.
* They are required to meet with the committee of commerce (CoC) monthly, to determine what is best for the economy.

#### Martial Chairman

* The Martial Chairman has near complete power over the military, possessing the position of Commander in Chief, and powers to propose war declaration, fund and plan defense measures, propose alliances and non-aggression pacts, civilian training, and lead the army, navy, air force, defense, and research of the nation.
* Marital Chairmen are chosen by the National Committee most of the times for their strategic combat and war expertise, as well as their diplomatic abilities.
* Their advisor intel committee consists of some of the nation's best former generals, and strategists.
* They are required to meet up with the their five committees weekly, in the case of a war or a war close to home, they are required to get updates from their committees daily.

#### Sociologic Chairman

* The Sociologic Chairman is responsible for the well being of the nation's people, taking responsibility of parts of civilian lives deemed essential, such as education, necessary healthcare, non-extravagant housing, security, transportation, waste management, and civilian interests. This means that if another Chairman does something the civilian population does not approve of, the Sociologic Chairman would step in.
* Sociologic Chairmen are chosen by the National Committee with help and approval from the People's Congress of Interests (PCoI), this is so due to the fact that the PCoI would be represented by the Sociologic Chairman, thus, if the PCoI has the constitutional right to dismiss the chairman and appoint a new chairman.
* Their advisor intel committee consists of some of the nation's best experts and researchers in their corresponding fields of necessity, as well as some populist experts.
* They are required to give a national update about domestic changes twice a year, and are required to meet with the PCoI twice a month.

#### Ethic Chairman

* The Ethic Chairman is responsible for overseeing the ethicality and reasonability in all aspects of the nation, they will take responsibility of calling out the unethicality and unreasonability of other Chairmen and having the highest degree of power to propose overturns of any legal enforcements with agreement from the People's Congress of Interests (PCoI) over court cases, military practices, executive orders, laws, as well as previous overturns, they have total power over the current law if they have the support of the PCoI.
* Ethic Chairmen are chosen by the National Committee with help and approval from the People's Congress of Interests (PCoI) and the National Anti-Corruption Chancery (NACC). If the current Ethic Chairman is suspected by either the PCoI or the NACC for not being ethically align with the people, the sitting Ethic Chairman can be questioned by both the PCoI and the NACC, with the NACC as the judge and examiner, and the PCoI as the jury.
* Their advisor intel committee consists of newsbringers, who are chosen by merit to deliver as apathetic, omnipotent, and unbiased as possible of the news.
* They are required to meet up with the PCoI and the NACC every month.
* In the time of war, the Ethic Chairman will temporary have less power over the other chairmen, as survival is of greater importance than that of ethicality. However, during the time of war, the Ethic Chairman will serve more as an assistant to the other chairmen, helping them consider of consequences of actions before putting plans into action.