Garecian Republic

Garecia, also known as the Garecian Republic is a nation with a mixed history. From gaining independence in 1768, the young republic faced enemies in every direction, and its independence was contested on several occasions. From a second war against its former colonial masters from 1850 to 1852, to civil war against proto-fascists, an economic crisis, a second civil war, and finally a member of the Berufspakt Bloc in the Cold War from 1949 to 1996.

## **History**

The **Garecian Republic** came into existence on August 6th, 1768 with the signing of the **Treaty of Nannover**. The nation had gained independence from the **Kingdom of Briayon** after a series of unfair laws were ratified by the corrupt parliament in Pendel. In the peace negotiations, the new republic gained all of **Briayonish North America**, and the colonial administration was completely dissolved. Shortly after winning its independence, **Thomas Garret**, a prominent war general became the first president. Garecia functioned as a multi-party, federal democratic state, with elections being held every 4 years, and presidents could be elected for 4 more years if they win the vote in the next election round.

As many settlers rushed from the Eastern cities and into the sparsely populated Kaloon and Arecian valley, the local native tribes like the remnants of the Quinn and the Clay Rocks were pushed further Westward. However the Clay Rocks refused to surrender without a fight, and in 1771, the Clay Rock Rebellion was launched under command of the tribal chief **Askook** who began by launching a series of raids on Garecian settlements in the Great Lakes. Not wanting to lose complete control over the region, the Garecian army under lead of **Archie Lloyd** launched a counterattack. The natives used the nature to their advantage, which led to massive casualties on the Garecian side, yet after a few years of fighting, the Clay Rock tribe surrendered by 1773 and Askook was captured and killed. Westward expansion would lead up to the formation of the Dixon Territory in 1799.

When the **Prestige Wars** in 1798 began in Europe between the restorationist monarchies and the Jacobin republics in Briayon and Lindonce, the Garecian Republic under **Noah Adams** immediately declared the nation to be neutral in the war, and continued trade and diplomacy with both sides. This caused tension with Briayon and Lindonce who wanted Garecia to provide support for the Jacobins, yet this would never happen, and Briayon would conduct several ship raids, crippling Garecian trade with the rest of the world. In 1800, **Oscar Stone** was elected as president and would take up a more affirmative foreign policy. As new nations began to pop up across the Western Hemisphere, many in Stone's cabinet agreed that these nations interests should be guarantied to prevent a second wave of European colonialism. While many wanted to pass a brand new Stone Doctrine in 1801, it was blocked by the pacifist factions in congress who stated that Garecia didn't yet have the military strength to defend any allies.

The **Treaty of Hatchet** native land partition was signed on March 1, 1830 by the **Garecian Republic**, **Republic of Katyiniju**, **Empire of Nalima**, **Hatarkan Empire** and **Republic of Laurada**, splitting up the native tribes of the Western plains and arctic circle amongst themselves. All resistance was crushed with military forces.

Despite immigrating North from the **Islamic Republic of Torlastan**, the rapid Christianization and anti-Islamic sentiment of the Northern and Southern states forced the Torlastani immigrants to flee Westward. Soon they settled in the **Roxson Territory** by 1830, and set up a series of small communities led by **Sakeen el-Jabbar**. It wouldn't be until 1847 when Torlastani-Garecians put pressure on the government to help the community flourish, referring to the democratic values the republic stood for, and calling out the hypocrisy towards the treatment of non Christian faiths, the Riley administration gave in and formed Jarsia, Arabic for Garecia, into an official state, however did not hold any autonomy.

In 1848, with the de-radicalization of Briayon and Lindonce with their new republican governments in charge, the **Ashton Riley** administration believed that diplomatic rapprochement was now possible with the republic's former enemies. January 1850, Two diplomats, **Douglas Mccullough** and **Sawyer Hurley** were sent to the Republic of Briayon in an attempt to re-establish positive relations. By March 1850, Mccullough and Hurley entered negotiations with the Briayonish government, however the Briayonish president, Dexter Henderson, was very skeptical of the duo’s arrival, and quickly succeeded to shut down the discussions. Fears spread that the Garecians were trying to take advantage of Briayon’s weakness leftover from their two republican revolutions. Things would escalate rapidly in April 1850, when Mccullough and Hurley were arrested and put on trial under the suspicion of trying to infiltrate the Briayonish government. The act is controversial in both countries as the two men are Garecian citizens being tried under Briayonish law. News quickly reached the Riley administration about the growing issue.

Seeing no other option for a peaceful solution, the Riley government in Garecia sent an official ultimatum is sent to the Briayonish government. To either return Mccullough and Hurley or face war. After the month deadline passed without an answer, the Garecian Republic declared war on Briayon. Beginning the **Waver War** by May 15, 1850. By June 1851, Lindonce joined the Waver War on the side of Briayon. A full naval invasion of the mainland was staged from the Briayonish island of Holloway. During the invasion, the industrialized areas of the North were prioritized over the agrarian south, sowing seeds of discontent between the two regions. On October 16, 1851, Colville was placed under coalition siege that would last for several months. Before the government evacuated the city, the Colville Commune took over the city, led by a council of radical leftists, anarchists, syndicalists, and communists, and refused to surrender to Briayon. However the CC was crushed in 1852 by the government military.

The invading naval fleets were defeated off the Garecian coastline and retreated to bases in Holloway by January 1852. A few months in April, Holloway was invaded by the Garecian military and came under their full occupation. Not wanting to allow them any closer to mainland Europe, Briayon and Lindonce surrendered. In the following treaty, Holloway was annexed by the republic, which massively boosted Garecian presence in the North Atlantic Ocean. In June, Ashotn Riley was assassinated by a Southern nationalist, seeing the urban North betraying the South during times of war. Following the murder, **Finlay Andrews** was elected to replace him. After finally arresting the Southern assassin, Andrews and his cabinet began to assert control over the South, which only further planted more seeds of division and hatred.

With the view of the North betraying the South during wartime, reactionary, proto-fascist nationalism started to rise in the Southern provinces. In 1863, the city of Chesly, King is burned down by the proto-fascists, however the growing separatist movements in the South pinned the blame on a local government division acting out of line. Fearing the worst outcome of his continued leadership, Enrique Griffin dropped out of the 1864 election, giving way for **Cristopher Hensley** to be elected as president. By 1865, the Hensley administration placed ever greater pressure on the Southern provinces to maintain their loyalty to the republic. Many nationalist governors refused this and begin making moves to declare independence. The state of King declared independence from Garecia, followed by Lorario, Gaelina, Lilasee, Tanaco, Meriden, and finally Jacignia. The loyalist armies were forced to leave, causing a national crisis. The **Garecian Federation** was formed from these breakaway states. Refusing to allow this to continue, president Hensley declared war on the rebels, beginning the **Garecian Civil War** in 1866.

May 1868, the loyalist navy was sent from Holloway to launch a surprise invasion on the shores of Gaelina and Lorario. The attack was a success. August 1868, **Jarrett Brook**, a Catholic Christian missionary, led a group of over 500,000 followers Westward to the unclaimed regions of the West. Once they arrived, they formed the **Republic of Brookeret**, a de facto neutral state in the Garecian Civil War. Despite government complaints, not much action was taken.

1869, The frontlines in Jacignia collapsed as many major cities along the border started to fall under loyalist control. By 1871, all remaining pockets of resistance surrendered to the republican loyalists, ending the civil war.

Aiming to reincorporate Brookeret into the republic, the presidency of **Reuben Dixon** militarizes its border with Brookeret, preparing for an inevitable war to reclaim the lost territory. However tension would rise elsewhere that would drag in the attention of the Garecian government. In 1876, the **Emasilian Republic** in South America fell into a debt crisis after the conclusion of its own civil war. The **Mrassian Empire** and **Empire of Destburg**, two main suppliers of the loyalist forces, confronted the Emasilians at sea to pressure them to pay up for their debt. The Garecian navy intervened but was shunned and forced to withdraw almost immediately.

By 1879, after years of preparation, Garecia invades Brookeret to reincorporate the lands. However Brookeret’s independence was guaranteed by the Republic of Nalima, escalating into the **Garecian-Naliman War**. In 1880, Kenja and Katyiniju formed a military coalition with Garecia against Nalima, drastically turning the tides in the aggressors favor. Meanwhile, **Sean Gardner** was elected as president, who made the final push to win the war. 1882 would see Nalima and Brookeret defeated and forced to surrender. In the peace negotiations, Brookeret lost 45% of its territory and was forced to become a permanently neutral buffer state. Massive land gains were made from Nalima as well.

The last war the Garecians would ever engage in the 19th Century would come in 1889 when a series of naval disputes in the North Atlantic, the Nordic states of **Kendena, Tatiland, and Reanord** declared war on Garecia, beginning the **Northern Sailor War**. The war would transition into a sluggish drag with very little gains and losses on both sides. By 1900, a white peace was signed, with both sides being forced to respect specific fishing limits in the Atlantic to prevent future conflict. The constant wars of the 1800s would leave Garecian industry and its population restless.

As industrial conditions continue to worsen, and as monopolies continue to dominate the market, the **Grand** **Council of Garecian Syndicates** was established in 1909 in the city of Briswall. When the **Weltkrieg** broke out in 1910 between the **Global Powers** and the **Clacton Entente, Henry Miller** declared Garecian neutrality, as he and his cabinet tried to focus on keeping the stagnating republic together. By 1915, the Garecian Republic broke diplomatic ties with Lindonce following the **Riher Massacre**, and Briayon soon afterwards after uncovering a Clacton Entente plan to invade and seize Garecian industry and resources. 1918 would see the Global Powers victorious in the Weltkrieg, and president **Edwin Talley** would congratulate the Mrassian Empire for its grand victory, however the economic and political fallout from the war that followed would soon reach Garecian shores. Briayon and Lindocne collapsed into political and economic instability. Syndicalist, communist, fascist and futurist ideologies began to flood into Garecia from Europe, which heavily worsened national stability.

February 1920, as instability rapidly escalated worldwide, cases of depression and drug usage increased along with it. The Talley administration began to debate about how to solve the rising crisis. **Kingsley Jones** was elected as president. The Jones cabinet cracked down harder on the black market after several smugglers were arrested along the East Coast. Alcohol and other harmful drug usage is outlawed completely with the passing of the **'Sober Man Act'** through the congress in 1922, however with conflict between the navy and the blockade fleet, the ban was reluctantly lifted, but soon after some regulations were reinstated.

In 1930, the **United Socialist Front** party funded several riots across the country, demanding the faux liberal **Scott Lane** administration step down from power. With the unrest growing out of control, the military under command of General **Ace Hudson** was called in to help suppress the violence in the streets. 1934, the fascist political leader **Chace Maxwell** denounces the democratic government and how he would bring back peace and prosperity to the country. His rally was quickly shut down by the government and news coverage is censored.

In the 1936 Presidential Election, **Max Mccarthy**, a former journalist and student in the JFSSR, won with the support of the working class and the GCGS. Refusing to allow the syndicalists to take power completely, he was quickly overthrown by **Ace Hudson**, who creates a military junta. When he ordered a purge of all enemies of the republic, several rebel movements took up arms against the government, beginning the **2nd Garecian Civil War**. For 6 long, bloody years, the civil war would be won by the Garecian Unitary Republic of the southern states. The GUR president, **Augustus Brooks** became the new president of a broken, but reunified nation.

1949, the Garecian Republic joins the **Berufspakt Bloc** against the **Pendel Internationale**. Escalating tensions in the **North American Cold War**. Throughout the 1950s, the republic would engage in several proxy wars across the Third World and the Americas. However as the 50s turned into the 1960s, the entirety of the Berufspakt Bloc would enter an era of progressivism and neoliberalism. The Garecian Republic would see no different, as in 1964, **Tristan Lopez** would win the elections with the support of growing pacifist and civil rights movements. The Lopez government immediately began to withdraw support from the **Congo War**, satisfying the pacifists, and passing a series of new civil rights laws. The Lopez cabinet officially denounced Mrassian neo-imperialism and left the Berufspakt, which began the **Garecian-Mrassian Split**. The crisis wouldn't be resolved until 1972, when **Natasha Hill**, was elected as the first female president. Hill and her cabinet begamn to re-approach the Mrassian Empire, ending the diplomatic split.

**Stanley L. Watts**, who was elected in 1980, continued with Natasha Hill's vision. With tensions rising in the Cold War, the Watts administration rapidly invested in military and defense, thus angering the pacifists once again. The liberal Democratic Union party opposed this action, and refusing to believ a new Weltkrieg was coming, **Jackson K. West** won the election of 1988 and began to cut back on military and defense, opting to go on a more diplomatic approach to the Cold War. Yet this wouldn't last, and in 1990, the outbreak of the **2nd Weltkrieg** caught the West administration off guard, however the military quickly mobilized and invaded the **People's Republic of Laurada**.

1993, the harsh winters stopped the Garecian invasion dead in its tracks, and with reinforcements beginning to arrive from Europe, the Lauradans pushed the invaders back to the border by the end of the year, and in 1994, Laurada would begin its invasion of Garecia. By 1995, the Berufspakt in Europe and Asia would surrender to the Internationale, and in 1996, Colville fell, and the new president, **Miles Campbell**, announced the nation's conditional surrender with the syndicalists. For 8 years after the 2WK, the republic would struggle to recover, until 2004 when **Vance Mosely** vowed to bring back the glory days of the country. Massive investments were made into the civilian industry, which helped boost the economy, and on top of that, the first **5 Year Plan** was enacted through congress which planned to make the Garecian Republic fully economically independent by 2009. After that succeeded, the **II 5 Year Plan** began, which finalized the reconstruction of major cities, and began to resume military production.

In 2012, the presidency of **Alicia Scott**, would see the education sector massively expanded to help boost national morale and spark a new era of innovation and learning. By the year 2013, the Garecian Republic had mostly recovered from the damages of the 2nd Weltkrieg. Yet her biggest plan would come in the mid-2010s, when her cabinet pushed towards cooperation with the remnants of the former Berufspakt Bloc, such as the **2nd Empire of Nalima**, and **Dominion of Adilandia**. Her successor in 2016, **Matthew Chester**, would continue with these plans, and in 2019, the **Democratic League** was formed as the official successor pact to the Berufspakt.

## **Politics**

### Heads of State (1768-PRESENT)

#### *Presidents (1768-1934)*

1. Thomas Garret (1768-1776)
2. Cullen Watson (1776-1784)
3. Archie Lloyd (1784-1792)
4. Noah Adams (1792-1800)
5. Oscar Stone (1800-1804)
6. Louie Davies (1804-1808)
7. Karsen Willis (1808-1816)
8. Gabriel Lewis (1816-1824)
9. Zak Scott (1824-1828) ——> In the aftermath of a banquet he died rather young of food poisoning.
10. Henry Walker (1828-1836)
11. Hudson Charles (1836-1844)
12. Ashton Riley (1844-1852) ——> Assassinated by a nationalist in 1952 because of his failure to protect the country from foreign invasions.
13. Finlay Andrews (1852-1860)
14. Enrique Griffin (1860-1864) ——> While he could’ve run for a third term in office, he refused to, seeing political tension rising within the country and already being too overwhelmed to handle the crisis.
15. Cristopher Hensley (1864-1872)
16. Reuben Dixon (1872-1880)
17. Sean Gardner (1880-1884)
18. Nicholas Bennett (1884-1892)
19. Kaden Tate (1892-1900)
20. Lewis Cook (1900-1908)
21. Henry Miller (1908-1916)
22. Edwin Talley (1916-1920)
23. Kingsley Jones (1920-1928)
24. Scott Lane (1928-1936)
25. Max Mccarthy (1936) ——> He won the 1936 election yet was overthrown by the military under Ace Hudson. Mccarthy survived the coup and fled to the state of Mattaca and began an open rebellion against the junta that lasted until 1942.

#### *Military Dictators (1934-1940)*

1. Ace Hudson (1936-1940) ——> Was shot by his own daughter, Ashley Hudson when the Unitary Republic to the South fought for and captured the junta capital of Colville. With his death, Augustus Brooks, leader of the Unitary Republic, seized the leadership of the former junta territory as well.

#### *Presidents (1936-Present)*

1. Augustus Brooks (1940-1944)
2. Peter Bennet (1944-1952)
3. Markus Dawson (1952-1956)
4. Harry M. Torres (1956-1964)
5. Tristan Lopez (1964-1972)
6. Natasha Hill (1972-1980)
7. Stanley L. Watts (1980-1988)
8. Jackson K. West (1988-1996)
9. Miles Campbell (1996-2004)
10. Vance Mosely (2004-2012)
11. Alicia Scott (2012-2016)
12. Matthew Chester (2016-)