Greater Ohuryean Technocracy

### Legislature

(Upper Chamber) Council of Technocrats(Lower Chamber) People's National Parliament

### Currency

Ohuryen Dons

The Ohuryens are one of the youngest cultures to appear, as they are the result of the assimilation of different people into the Greater Ohuryean Technocracy. Known world wide as the home of the Industrial Revolution, the Technocracy is a major force in Ikuna and Yuzoan politcs.

Due to its inhospitable climate, the Ohuryen Technocracy has few but massive urban centers, as the 50% of the population resides in three major cities: Kyzon, the capital of The Ohur Valley and of the whole Technocracy, Kalaki, the city around which the former Yenchen confederacy was centered around, and Vaultten, a former Trakhan city that is the main commercial port of the nation.

Ohuryea currently has a population of 257,379,000 inhabitants and a total GDP of 5,547,367 Millions of Ohuryen Dons (3.034.937 Million USD). Its main industries are the mining, metalworking, chemical processing, pharmaceutical, automobile, and aerospace production.

## History

### Prehistory and Medieval Era (~ 1540 CE)

The Ohuryen people were at first two very different cultures, the Yenchen, originated in the valleys of the Sura Mountains, and the Ohur, that came from the fertile Ohur Valley to the north. These two groups had constant contact thanks to their proximity, both to defend together against the occasional Ahtal raid and to exchange Ohurian wine and supplies and Yenchen minerals extracted from the rich deposits of the Sura Mountains.

### The Betrayal War and The Century of Courage (1540 ~1700 CE)

All of this changed with the coronation of the Kazh Parkion, king of The Ohur Valley, which pursued an expansionist policy against his former allies. Known as the Betrayal war, the bloody conflict lasted around 20 years, as despite the initial Ohur victories, the Yenchen tribes unified themselves as the Yenchen Confederation. The combined strengths of the Yenchen tribes drove the conflict into a stalemate. After the death of Kazh Parkion during a battle, his daughter, Parizian, took the title of Kazh. After seeing the bloodbath that was the war, she schemed with the Chief of Chiefs son, Ghodyn, in order to stop the conflict, which resulted in the Morning Uprising of 1560, installing Ghodyn as the new Chief of Chiefs. Finally, the war ended with the marriage of Ghodyn and Parizian, unifying both nations

After the unification, the new Kazhs began developing a series of public Works, the most important of which is the great aqueduct of Kalaki. The death of both Ghodyn in 1586 and Parizian, in 1589, gave place of the beginning of the Century of Courage. Under the leadership of the Kazhs son, Mhongyan, the nation began a period of territorial expansion, which confronted the Double Kingdom of Yenchen-Ohur against the Trakham nomads to the north and some of the Ahtal city states to the east, giving the nation its current form. In the end of his life, Ghodyn began to center its attention around civil matters. Is from this time were the Ohuryean culture originated: the Kazh started a campaign to assimilate all its subjects into an single culture, the Ohuryean. This policy proved very efficient, specially in the few urban centers. There were no more Ohur, Yenchen, Trakahm or Ahtal, only Ohuryen, and the state was renamed form Double Kingdom of Yenchen-Ohur to Kingdom of Ohuryean.

The last half of the Century of Courage passed under the ruler-ship of Kazh Ohzyr, who started to reform the country to prepare it for the productive revolution his councilor, Gokahn, saw coming. He improved the agricultural production by settling people in the fertile north coast, reformed the land property, expanded the Kalaki mining complex and founded the first Ohuryen University in Kyzon, the Gokahn University, in honour to his councilor.

### The Industrial Revolution and the Ohuryenyut (1700~1950 CE)

The XIX century marked the total transformation of Ohuryen government structure, as the Kazh power declined in favor of its councilors: after the premature death of Kazh Ohzyr´s son, Kazh Perhyon, a regency council was established, leaving the successive Kazh as a figure head pupped for the Council (Ohuryenyut). The most relevant events of this period are the Fostarian Wars (1770 - 1780), where following the example of Carparia, The Kingdom of Ohuryean attacked Fostaria in search of its resources, mainly timber. Despite the Ohuryen victories against the Fostarian Forces, the general unrest led to the occupation being to expensive to maintain, and the Ohuryen retired from the north. The discovery of the fertilizer and the creation of the crop rotation system around 1775 led to a massive spike in agricultural production, which caused a lot of urban immigrants to the great cities. The Ohuryenyut also started a massive campaign against illiteracy, stabilizing a public school system around 1760.

In 1782 a graduate from Gokahn University invented the steam machine, jump-starting the industrial revolution in Ohuryenyut, which was possible thanks to the huge urban population and mineral deposits of the country. What followed sue was almost a century of quick scientific and industrial development under the guidance of the Ohuryenyut. Despite of the massive improvements in daily lives thanks to increased income and medicine, the industrial revolution was a period of internal struggle, as first the guilds began a series of massive protest against the machines, and later the Factory owners started to organize to fight for their rights. At the end of the XIX century the Ohuryen Kingdom had been established as a productive powerhouse, specially in the industries of metalworking, chemistry and arms manufacturing.

The Ohuryen Kingdom entered the XX century as a modern and industrialized nation, with a complex web of commercial agreements and alliances. Not seeking any further territorial expansion, the different wars that it waged were to get access to different markets, as the Ohuryenyut sought only the well-being of its inhabitants. In 1934 Karhthyn Ugazal, a former professor of economics of the Gokahn University made a series of political maneuvers in order to become the leader of the Ohuryenyut. The new leader started implementing a great deal of reforms: He overthrew the monarchy, establishing the Ohuryen Republic, created a public healthcare, and nationalized most of the industry. Protest sparkled over all of the country, but the administration could calm them by compromising with the industrialist into establishing a weighted suffrage system.

The program of nationalization gave a lot of the industry to the different universities of the country, with the idea of speeding up the industrial development and innovation. However, this act gave the universities a great deal of power, which allowed them to plot making a coup d'état. In January 1950, Rector Khunaman of the Gokahm University gave a speech now considered the foundation of the Ohuyen State, in which he argued for a meritocratic Technocracy, in which the right to vote would only be given to those with the sufficient knowledge to be able to make informed decisions. That same day the tanks went into the streets, and the Greater Technocratic Republic of Ohuryens was established.

### The Technocracy and The War (1950~1960 CE)

The first trouble the Technocracy faces was the strong international condemnation of the uprising by nations such as The Metilic Empire, The Federation of Libion, the Alliance of the Orient or Bazia. Fearing the end of the new regime, Rector Khunaman proposed both a referendum and elections in order to normalize the government situation. Both were held in February, after the Voting Exams were corrected. The results were a massive pro-technocracy support in the referendum, showing that the Ohuryen people were excited about this new experiment, and Rector Oghiorganan of the Vaultten University of Economics was elected First Rector. Her proposals in order to avoid a crisis was seeking for the support of other nations in their struggle, reaching out to Carparia, Suseva, Rekklia, and Silang'guba and to expand the armed forces to deter attacks.

In 1951, after the start of the Krecia-Metillic War, the Congress of Kyzon was hosted, where the different nations that had supported the technocracy in the previous crisis agreed to defend the Krecian right to self determination, declaring war on the The Metilic Empire, starting the Nine Years War as a unified alliance known as the Axis of Cooperation (Coaxis).

### The First Ohuryen Shinjlekh Yut (1960~61 CE)

After the victory on the Nine Years War, the newly created Technocracy had to restart the process of nation building that the war had caused to grind to a stop. The first step in this process was the convocation of national elections in order to write a new constitution. Following the new policy of informed decision making, the new state introduced the concept of giving vote only to those able to pass a general knowledge exam, which would test will be voters about their knowledge of history, economics, political sciences and basic STEM, which would be tested for the first time the 23rd of January 1961, with the elections being called on 3rd of March of the same year.

Despite the local character of the elections, it was becoming clear that there would be two mayor cliques:

- The **Humanist**, who called for the construction of a moral democracy with technocratic characteristics that would limit the worst excesses of the masses by giving a lot of power to different committees of experts and proposing a strong welfare state and a consumers oriented economy.

- The **Steelers**, who argued that the state should be the main method of advance of any society, proposing a more decentralized while authoritarian government, which only focus would be the research and development of new technologies, and arguing for all other state functions to be privatized.

The elections ended up giving a 60% majority to the Humanist, who had to compromise with the Steelers in order to appease all the population. At the end, the Technocratic constitution ended up giving birth to a pseudo democracy, based upon the three principles of the modern Ohuryean State: **Responsibility, Enlightenment** and **Equality.**

The Ohuryean Technocracy maintains to this day good relations with the members of the CoAxis, specially with Silang´guba, which after their normalization of relations with Ohuryea, they have created the Ohuryen-Silang'guban commercial pact of 1992 with Silang´guba in order to facilitate commerce between the two nations and secure a reliable source of timber.

## Goverment

As defined in its constitution, The Greater Ohuryean Technocracy is a Social Technocratic State that vows to chase the truth and to improve the quality of life of all Ohuryen, who are defined as all those who have born or are sufficiently integrated in the lands of Ohuryea. Its government follows the separation of powers, having 3 main branches, the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches.

### Executive Branch

The National Rector is the head of the Executive branch of the government in Ohuryea. It acts both as a director for the branch and as a coordinator for the five sub-agencies that form up the executive:

- **The Agency of Progress**, which takes care of managing both education and research, which naturally put the influential Ohuryean universities under its command.

- **The Technocratic Defense Army**, is the main military body of the technocracy. It has a defensive purpose only, although it usually uses the Technocratic Navy in order to protect the ever important naval trade routes of the nation

- **The Agency of Culture** not only protects and curates traditional Ohuryean culture and history but also has the mission to develop it further by the allocation of grants to different media projects. It also had the duty, in collaboration with the agency of international relations, to expose us to the wider world.

- **The Agency of International Relations** has the sole duty of managing the Ohuryean communication with external entities, like countries or other types of organizations. It also is the one responsible for the Ohuryean representation in the YCIC.

- **The Agency of Economy** has the very important duty of managing the technocratic economy. From investing in infrastructure to selecting the interest rate of the Ohuryean National Bank, most Ohuryen can thank their prosperity to this very institution.

### Legislative Branch

Ohuryea functions under a bicameral system with two chambers: the People`s National Parliament and the Council of Technocrats, both of them able to introduce and veto laws and amendment, but each with its own unique purpose:

- **The People's National Parliament** - Its the lower chamber of the technocracy, and the one that represents the interest of the common people. Its 859 MPs are elected every 4 years through single transferable vote by all adults who have passed a basic knowledge exam. It is known to be the most politically active chamber and its traditionally the one who introduces laws.

-  **The Council of Technocrats** - This chamber acts as a counter balance to the People's National Parliament, as it has the duty of both supervising the lower chamber in order to avoid passing harmful or based on false principles laws and educating the citizenry about the arguments for and against a piece of legislature. It's a highly unusual institution, as almost all representatives are only there for a single law debate, regarding one area of their expertise. The chamber is made up of 100 Technocrats at any given moment, selected from a pool of more than 100.000 who have passed both minimum academic requirements and a background check.

The traditional path that a law takes in order to be approved is to be presented and discussed on the National Parliament and then it is voted upon. If the bill receives more than 33% of both yes and abstention then the law is seen as worthy of discussion and passed to the Council of Technocrats, where it is amended as the experts see fit. The amended bill is therefore passed back to the National Parliament, and in case of being ratified without further modification, is put into effect. In the opposite case the law would repeat its journey until both the Parliament and the Council approve the exactly similar law.

## Culture

### Literature

Legends on Kazh Parizian

The Three Principles of a Modern Technocracy