Girtabelilu State

The national emblem of the Girtabelilu.

> "*Girtabelilu civilization tempts catastrophe. Very nearly was the heart of my race torn out after the war. I saved it. The unified Girtabelilu state embodies order in a cold and senseless universe; it's continuation and that of the Girtabelilu species are inextricably linked. Anything is permissible in advancing its interests.*"
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> **- Appan-Il, leader of the Girtabelilu State**
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The **Girtabelilu State** is the government that emerged to govern the Girtabelilu civilization after the West Selten War.

## Stats

* NATION
* INCOME
* TRADE

**Helvetion, 23 NE** - 𝔛1.1 Quadrillion from Spare Income & 5 Export Routes

**Aresen, 23 NE** - 𝔛1.1 Quadrillion from Spare Income & 5 Export Routes

**Aresen, 23 NE** - 𝔛500 Trillion paid to Kleitos, one-time payment for Shipyard Agreement.

**Murrius, 23 NE** - 𝔛1.1 Quadrillion from Spare Income & 5 Export Routes
**Alus, 23 NE** - 𝔛600 Trillion to be paid from Spare Income & 0 Export Routes

**Prigemen, 23 NE** - 𝔛600 Trillion to be paid from Spare Income & 0 Export Routes

**Agria, 24 NE** - 𝔛3.6 Quadrillion to be paid by Kleitos for Shipyard Agreement, every 6 months.

## Operatives

1. Sopotlija ***Sleuth***
2. Adrealis ***Cypher - Hawk-1***
3. Sopotlija ***Sleuth***

## Government

The Girtabelilu state operates as an autocratic regime under the control of *Ensi* Appan-Il. The *Ensi* operates his realm through a small, efficient, *ad hoc* court of handpicked statesmen and experts who execute the *Ensi's* executive commands at the operational level and manage the day-to-day operations of the government apparatus in Ministerial roles. The State has had the good fortune of inheriting the highly effective administrative apparatus of the previous Realm of the Girtabelilu, with its legions of highly-trained career bureaucrats, and has on its side the obedient nature of the Girtabelilu themselves and their overriding concern for good order.

In other matters however the government faces serious problems. Wartime destruction, purges of Realmist radicals and agitators, a state religion and priestly class hostile to the moderate political goals of the Girtabelilu State, and discontented Lugals seeking to retake power in a reformulated Realm all threaten to tear the fragile new State apart. The State largely keeps these issues under control through the judicious use of the remaining Girtabelilu administrative apparatus: bureaucrats organise public works programs to reduce unemployment and idleness as well as repair the damage from the war, Ukus are carefully audited and re-registered to optimise the use of manpower resources, promotions are more than ever reconfigured to encourage individual merit over Uku of origin-- and a specialised paramilitary force known as the **State Guard** are used personally by the *Ensi* as a secret police force to monitor, apprehend, and assassinate agitators as well as a task force that can intervene when regular police and army assets prove insufficient.

The Girtabelilu State's tenuous grasp on stability is maintained through the leadership, competence, and ruthlessness of *Ensi* Appan-Il, and thereby through the competence of his direct subordinates. The new State has so far managed to successfully graft itself onto the existing state apparatus of the Realm, which had been rendered headless by Appan-Il's coup and without a moral centre after the defeat. Whether the State will be able to consolidate its gains and reformulate the Girtabelilu civilization into a viable, moderate country-- or if it will again descend into a renewed Realm-- is another question.

## Internal Factions

*The serpent stirs.*

## Society

Girtabelilu society, being as conservative and static as it typically is, has seen the onset of the Girtabelilu State as a significant disruption. The most significant change would be that in the social status of Lugals. Where once the fertile Girtabelilu assumed absolute leadership roles over the highest echelons of their Ukus as well as the Realm itself, the social entitlements of the Lugals have been reduced significantly, and the rights and privileges of the Masdas and Lugals of all Ukus have been equalised significantly. Instead of a "Lugalocracy" combined with a strict caste system, the State prefers a meritocracy, where Girtabelilu of all kinds can hold significant leadership positions, provided they possess exceptional merit. This change-- one of the earliest made-- greatly incensed the politically-disempowered Lugals as well as the traditional priesthood, whose offices were increasingly filled by Masdas and Lugals sympathetic to Appan-Il as the months of his rule continued.

This has also altered, indeed damaged, the relations between a Lugal and their Uku-- where once a Lugal was an unquestioned moral leader of their Uku, who organised the operation and assigned occupation of the caste, their leadership position has increasingly come under question in many Ukus. Already, experiments in "multi-role" Ukus, in which the caste acts more like a self-sustaining community with most of its occupational and economic needs met within itself, have been conducted with mixed results and mixed reception from the government, which fears secession from particularly large broods.

## Military

The military of the Girtabelilu State relies on the gigantic mass-army first built by the Realm. It is geared, almost exclusively, to the attack, and makes use of high numbers of low-tech, middling quality units to overwhelm the enemy and maintain high amounts of momentum. Speed, numbers, and violence of action are essential. While Appan-Il aspires to create a smaller and more professional military that can be more easily controlled by the central leadership, the State is not in a strong enough political or economic shape to undergo fundamental military reforms. Indeed, the military and its supporting industries are major employers, and the political prospects of leaving millions of trained men out of a job and a paycheque are considered very grim.

## Economy and Trade

The economy of the Girtabelilu State, like most of its apparatuses, are inherited from the Realm it took over. The Realm maintained a command economy structure in which each Uku had a proscribed economic role or industry for its members by the central government, be that economic or military. Ukus would trade required products with eachother out of their surplus and provide some to the central government as a form of tax, and other Ukus would regulate these transactions either as bureaucrats, merchants, or retailers. Most Ukus have a degree of economic self-sufficiency, in that every Uku has some workers in different industries and small cadres of natively-trained bureaucrats, managers, and retailers at the lower levels of organisation. This system has suffered disruption both from the damage of the war as well as from the changes of the State. There has been a move towards more self-sufficient Ukus, and a complementary, if tentative, move towards more free market principles.

Foreign trade was unheard of before the advent of the state. The introduction of foreign trade-- indeed the introduction of any economic system besides complete autarky-- shocked and confused most Girtabelilu experts who could not understand the vulnerability dependence on foreign trade represented. It was with reluctance that Girtabelilu commissioners drew up initial trade regulations-- often for products which were entirely new and foreign to them-- and foreign-trained Girtabelilu experts began to draft an export-focused trade policy.

The objective of the Appan-Il regime had been to maintain an export-focused economy which maintained enough of the Realm-era industrial apparatus to placate his conservative rivals in the priesthood and bureaucracy. However, the Murrius 23 NE trade crisis in Kleitos caused Appan-Il to make a sudden about-face on trade policy on the advisement of Ea Nasir, a Girtabelilu notable and merchant stationed in Kleitos. Imports of Kleitian goods ramped up massively, greatly helping the State's economic efficiency and relations with Kleitos and the Rosokovo Accords at the cost of alienating domestic rivals.

## Foreign Relations

  Binding Military Alliance
  Close partnership
  Guaranteeing independence
  No relationship
  Open Rivalry
  State of War
  Trade Embargo

### Alliances and Commitments

 ↑ Illarian Empire
 ~ Kuolbenic Despotate
 ~ Moloch
 ~ Talaqsin
 ~ Unified Systems Republic

### Rivals and enemies

 ↑ Illarian Empire

 **!** New Adresaas Empire
 **?** Paschalist Free State of Alkarzio
 **?** Kingdom of Chark
 **?** Kingdom of Lechtunfaux