Aeduadia

`**Aeduadia**` (a portmanteau of **Aeduai** and Persadia) refers to the ongoing involvement and influence of the Aeduai Republic over its former Persadian colonies, while the term **Alwhard** refers to the geographic areas of Northwest Persadia formerly colonized by Aeduai. Aeduai has a high degree of economic influence via state-owned influence and direct state-to-state economic ventures and trade deals, as well as military involvement via advisors, bilateral peacekeeping forces, and international alliances. There are currently two major (transnational) insurgencies and a single ongoing civil war in Aeduadia.

## `Nahra Insurgencies`

Ongoing ethnic conflicts funded by Nahrahayn among neighboring *Nahra* minorities have rocked most of the states of `Northwest Persadia` since decolonization in the 1960s. The latest escalation in 1988 saw the Golaian *Nahra* minority take power. That minority continues to rule despite pressure from all their neighbors and Aeduai. Ongoing ethnic cleansing has caused major refugee crises in ethnically *Golwann* Palal and Anlal al Surro. Ethnically *Hetlasian* Murakasta and *W'nama* Alta'wn continue to suffer from major *Nahra* insurgencies, which are almost impossible to root out since they can always flee across the border into Nahrahayn. Aifana's totalitarian government has kept it aloof from the ongoing conflicts, though growing tensions with Nahrahayn are driving it closer to Aeduai and its bloc.

## `The Al'waniss War`

Upon decolonization, the former Alivinix Protectorate split into three states, each roughly corresponding to the socio-economic sectors of the ethnically homogenous protectorate. The miniscule Republic of Fawal was devoid of natural resources, but a series of talented administrators urbanized and developed the area, leaving it much more prosperous and less dependent on extractive industry than the vast Alya'nis, which boasted an equivalently sized population spread across vast rural farms that fed both Fawal and the destitute miners of 'Ulas. Military officers (read: warlords) in Alya'nis, which claimed to represent all the ethnic *Alya* of the `Al'waniss`, or "Alya Coast" region, made their support for a new constitutional monarchy contingent on the new regime invading their neighbors. 'Ulas fell in 1959, then 'Hlanash in 1965. When the military regime in Alya'nis invaded Fawal in 1971, however, Aeduai intervened to protect the only functional state in the area by air strike and airborne assault (via sea and neighboring Suen), and the shock of military defeat caused the Alya'nis regime to collapse. The remnants of the military regime fled into 'Hlanash, where they continue to rule despite periodic attempts to oust them by the new Alya'nis regime in concert with Fawal, 'Ulas, and Aeduai. *Pan-Alyanist* insurgents continue to battle the Aeduai-backed regimes in both 'Ulas and Alya'nis, though Fawal's relative material prosperity has led to greater stability.

## `The Wassis Civil War`

An attempted coup in 1982 by anti-Aeduadian military officers, backed by the clergy of the local syncretic (and radically anti-colonial) form of Sethdeg, was put down by the Wassis army and Aeduai advisors. In 1985, the Beydan civil war came to an end and breakaway province Surro successfully joined fellow ethnically *Golwann* province Anlal. A cabal of ethnically *Beywan* officers refused to accept the war, but were ousted by a pro-democratic coup. Many crossed the border into Wassis with loyal soldiers, provoking a military response from Wassis which soon escalated into a full-scale three-way war between religious insurgents, pro-Aeduai government forces, and *Beywan* exiles. The war is ongoing with minimal Aeduai involvement - as the Corîu is tied up in `Al'waniss` and `Northwest Persadia`