Confederacy of Valkyria

The Confederacy of Valkyria was a nation founded in the year 159 by Elijah Halmans. The Nation was started in a way to gain world peace and create a single unified government to control most of the known world. The vision of a continent spanning government was achieved but at the cost of much instability. Valkyria would go on to define the next 2 decades creating new political philosophies and ways of life. The Confederacy was short lived but its influence will go on to last.

### History

#### Founding

In the year 159 Elijah Halmans, Vice Royal of the Empire of Atmoris, devised a plan to end the constant warring and politics of nations. His plan was Valkyria. Valkyria was named after Rohan Valkri, the founder of the Rosism, who believed in a single state with equality as its key principle. Elijah went to Alex Halmans, His son and ruler of Inferat, the plan to which Alex agreed. With the support of Inferat he went to the Emperor of Atmoris, Kaleem von Atmor, with this idea. Emperor Kaleem disagreed with the idea and made Elijah leave the city. Elijah then returned to the City of Northbridge and declared independence from the City. To Elijah and Inferat this means war. A army was gathered at the base of Atmoris City ready to invade and take the city. They march on the city to find all the guards in the city excepting Elijah Halmans and his army as Kaleem flees from the city. Elijah Halmans made Augustus Typhoon the Temporary Emperor of Atmoris while the Government was being reworked. After a few weeks of work, Valkyria was founded with its first states being Inferat, Atmoris, Nueva Terras(which was Northbridge before hand), Inferat, and Frigus. The first election then took place, this election was not like later elections as at the time Elijah Halmans believed in a strict class system. Elijah was elected to be the first Judge Supreme of Valkyria along with Quinton Snoopdog as Chief Admiral.

#### Gold and Alcohol Period

Starting Around the founding of the state of Frigus many alcohol and drug producers started to pop up in the state of Frigus and in the back woods of many different states. This caused a crisis of very poor made drugs that would cause poising and very poor made moonshine that would cause blindness. This crisis also grew as Quinton Snoopdog was also known to make drugs. This created a rise in drug and alcohol abuse in Valkyria. Eventually in the year 163, Judicial Act 82-D9IO-1, or more commonly known as the Drug and Alcohol Act of 5/19, was passed prohibiting the sale of Drugs and Alcohol without permits from the government. This lead the supply to rapidly go down while the demand stayed the same creating a scarcity and rapid rise in profits for those who still sold illegally. This lead many of the people in Frigus to go into the back woods and start making illegal moonshine. Many busts happened but the biggest story was that of Jimmy Pickleridge and Ronny housefire, who were chased for weeks while they smuggled illegal moonshine across the border into Anglia. Not much is known of after they sold the alcohol besides there fast and sudden disappearance. Many think that the disappearance was due to the Drunk king Caleb of Anglia murdering them in a drunk fit of rage.

Around the same time the gold deposits in the Golden Desert started to be discovered and mined. This caused many to flock towards the golden desert in hopes of hitting it rich. Elijah Halmans wanting to keep nature preserved and keep the gold deposit in the Golden Desert just for Valkyria passed the Environment and prospecting act in the year 168. This caused a major decline in the population of the golden desert causing it to have one of the lowest populations of any region. This low population led to it being less watched by the law attracting many criminals and untrustworthy people. Two of those people being the famed criminals Johnny Talisman Roberts and Robby Buckbottems. These two started a Illegal mining operation until Quinton Snoopdog found them and arrested them in a makeshift prison in Atmoris. Due to the unwell treatment of the prisoners and their friendship with King Noel Bondepat, Elijah Halmans ordered their release and political exile in Waynor.

Libertia and Waynor both later joined the confederacy in the year 168

#### Rioting and Change

In the year 170 Chief Admiral Quinton Snoopdog commits suicide blowing himself up (And his two kids). This blowing himself up would bring up questions in the people mind. Quinton Snoopdog was seen as a protector of the people for his service as Chief Admiral, so his death brought up the question who would protect the people now, the people did not know, also the people could not choose. At this time the only people that could choose the leaders of the nation were the noble class and after the death of Quinton this angered the peasant class, which was about 89 percent of the population at the time. This disagreement with the government became a full movement known as the Undivided Equality Movement.

Over time riots in the streets of cities like Polaris and Atmoris started due to the unequal treatment of peasants compared to nobles. Many of the riots though were focused in the city of Atmoris, where the leader of the movement there was Nathan Brown. These riots kept on going until there was an official response by the Judge Supreme which basically said that the riots were all in mockery of the late Quinton Snoopdog. This angered Nathan Brown who then went on the Empire of Atmoris radio to talk about his views. He demanded that the voting system be open to all people, he also demanded an election to happen every 5 years and that everyone be given certain rights to things like free speech and freedom of movement. outside of Nathan Brown and Atmoris, the territory of Waynor was quickly becoming a center of the UE movement due to its leader, Noel Bondepat, being a supporter of the movement.