West Kalshei Federation

## West Kalshei Federation西凱聯邦

* Flag
* Prime Minister

* (Xīkǎi Liánbāng)
* (Si Kai Lianbang)

ZS: 西凱聯邦

* (Seigai Renpō)

KT: 西凱聯邦

* (Tây Koi Liên Bang)

South Cathei

* Hezhou 河州
* Qizhou 岐州
* Huicheng 繢城
* Haimen 海門
* Jianhai 湔海
* Shaoqing 紹清
* Lizhou 曆州
* Chigang 赤港
* Caichun 綵春
* Yichang 誼昌
* Jiangkou 江口
* Baidi 白帝
* Shushan 蜀山
* Dayang
* Anshan 安山
* Aogang 澳港
* Xinhai 新海
* Xuanzhou 楦州
* Dafu 大福
* Meiyang 梅陽
* Yuanhai 淵海

The **West Kalshei Federation** is a large nation in Yulea spread over the continents of Kalshei and Merelaux. The WKF does not share any direct land borders with other nations, consisting entirely of islands, it does share large maritime borders with the Interstellar Cooperation Organization as well as some with the ZUSA. The Federation also shares a small maritime border with the Central Eredanese Federation, but this border is so small that it is often not counted by academics.

The Federation was formed over a period of 12 years, starting in 1994 and ending in 2006, but in some respects the process of forming the federation had begun in the 1960s. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the Kanikawa Shogunate- whose authoritarian government controlled all of Cathei, Kon Thiet and Kanikawa- was shaken by hundreds of attacks on government officials as revolutionary sentiments grew among the populace. This was not surprising to most- Kanikawa was a country where a small minority ruled over a vast majority who had their political independence and culture suppressed. In 1992, the Second Republic of Polmaria seized the last Polmarian monarchist holdout- Haense- while in Bargad, the secular Republic of Kariq succesfully repelled an invasion by the conservative Alahist theocrats of Aazarkan and Kagrabad. These victories acted as a rallying points for revolutionaries across the world, and prompted the various disparate revolutionary groups in Kanikawa to gather in the city of Huicheng and begin coordinating their own revolution.

In 1994, these revolutionaries- who had formed the National Revolutionary Party and Pan-Red Coalition to present a united anti-Shogunate Front- began the Kalsheii Revolutionary Wars. With large scale support from the Second Republic of Polmaria and CETO, as well as some support from nations like Kariq, Kherfiyyah and, to an extent, Adeno-Holraes and Kokinos, the Pan-Red Coalition began a large scale war beginning in the urban centres of Kon Thiet and Cathei. By 1995, most Cathese and Kon Thiet cities were under revolutionary control, and by 1996 the majority of Kon Thiet had been brought under the Pan-Red fold. The Kanikawan government- which had little international or domestic support- was pushed on the defensive, with the Revolutionaries slowly pushing them completely out of Cathei by 1998. Finally, by 2006, Shogunate's government surrendered as even their home province of Kanikawa erupted in revolution.

The Revolutionary government quickly implemented a new constitution- which they had begun drafting in 1993- which established the new 'West Kalshei Federation' as a unitary parliamentary democracy with 'cultural governments' to handle cultural affairs in Cathei, Kanikawa and Kon Thiet. However, with the nation ravaged by a decade of war, it was impossible to immediately implement "democracy". A period of "tutelage" was implemented, where the government prioritized on reconstruction, decolonization, and consolidation of power. While parliamentary elections were held, they were mostly meaningless and the National Revolutionary Party led the country in the "tutelage period" for a few decades, until the country was "fully democratized" by the 2060s.

The first elections to the Federation's parliament- the Federal Congress- resulted in an unsurprising landslide victory for the NRP and the Pan-Red Coalition, with the NRP leader Hong Wei being sworn in as the country's first Prime Minister.

In the 2020s, the Empire of Zenshan was peacefully split between two nations- the Republic of Zenshan in the Eastern Island and the United Provinces of Zenshan in the West. In the United Provinces, WKF diplomats quickly began lobbying for a referendum on the country's entry into the Federation- a decision which was supported by many according to surveys. Despite some initial resistance, the Zenshanese government eventually agreed, and after the referendum resulted in a pro-federation landslide, the UPZ was peacefully absorbed into the Federation.

Currently, the Federation's Prime Minister is Liu Zheng of the National Democratic Committee, which is the head of the centrist Liberty & Prosperity Alliance. The Federation's politics have two major axes- the aforementioned centrist alliance and the centre-left Pan-Red Coalition, which was founded in the 1990s and led the Kalsheii Revolutionary Wars.

## History

### Early Federal Era (2000s-2010s)

The early Federal era saw the beginning of the tutelage period to rebuild and stabilize the country, as well as campaigns to wipe out regional insurgent groups and warlords (formerly allies of the Coalition), and the Great Anti-Colonial Struggle to stamp out Kanikawa's cultural influence and punish the Xiajian

## Government

### Regional Administration

The West Kalshei Federation, despite its name, is a unitary state. Instead of 'member-states', it has 'cultural governments' to handle cultural affairs in Cathei, Kanikawa and Kon Thiet. Regional administrative units of each region do not report to their 'cultural governments', but directly to the Federal/National government. Likewise, administrators of the regions are not elected, but appointed by the Federal/National government

#### Cathei

Cathei is divided into 15 Provinces (道, alternatively known as Circuits) and 6 Directly Administered Cities (直隸府). In order to prevent regionalism and warlordism, the Provinces and DACs are not headed by a single governor, but a Political Affairs Committee (民政事務委員會; 民事委 for short), which directs the administrative and legislative affairs of the region. Depending on the size and importance of the region, the PAC's members can range from 4 to 10. The Chairman of the PAC (民政事務委員長) is the highest ranking, but no decisions can be made without the approval of a majority of the PAC's members.

Beneath the Provinces are Counties (縣) and Cities (府), the basic territorial administrative units. The Counties govern rural areas, and the Cities govern urban areas. In areas with significant populations of ethnic minorities, Self-Governing Counties (自治縣) may be set up. These are the only territorial administrative units that can elect their own leaders - though they still have to be appointed by the Federal/National government. Standard Cathese is the official language of all of Cathei - the languages of ethnic minorities may be co-official in Self-Governing Counties.

DACs are important cities of Cathei - they're either the capital, or major port cities that were under direct Shogunate administration during the occupation.

#### Kanikawa Isles

Like in Cathei, the administrative units of the Kanikawa isles and other island territories consist of the 道 and 縣. (Also known as Prefectures, though the WKF prefers calling them Counties due to standardization) Unlike in Cathei, however, Counties can exist without being subordinate to a Circuits. The Kanikawa Isles and other island territories of the former Shogunate (except Cathese islands) are grouped under the "Kanikawa Cultural Government" and Zenshanese is the official language, to the detriment of Native Islanders that inhabited the various southern islands before Kanikawa invasion (such as the Mawikan Islands, now known as the Mawashima Prefecture).