Svezjacael

## Svezjacael

### Full Name

The Greater Confederate Republic of Svezjacael

### Legislature

The Staff of Peace
 The Senate of War

## **Etymology**

The the Maltski traditional writing form of
Svezjacael is written as 'Svezjaçæl', where this writing form has been
used in official documents for Svezjacael since its annexation by
Jaskerov, and much more after the Treaty of Reventshire released the
major rebelling nations - Svezjacael included - from Jaskerovi rule.
Other common ways to write or refer to the people or country of
Svezjacael include the shortening to "Svez" or "Svezja" for either
people or the country itself, while 'The Greater Confederate Republic',
'The Fatherland', and 'The Confed Repub' are specific to referring to
the country itself.

Citizens of Svezjacael, as well as the race of
 people from Svezjacael, are known collectively as 'Svet' in both the
singular and plural forms, while some distinguish between the race of
Svezjacael's dominant majority as 'Svet' and people of Svet descent
living either inside or outside Svezjacael, who are not of Svet racial
descent, as 'Svezja' - although the later is unofficial while the former
 is officially documented by the State for both the race and nationals
within and outside the nation.
Other common international terms
and names, from most common to least, include 'Svetsi' for either the
country or people, 'Confed Repubs' for the people, '(The) GCR' for
either the the country, and though very common outside of Svezjacael,
the usage of 'Svak' as a term for people of Svezjacael, though it is
considered racially offensive by the whole of the Svet people.

## **History**

The Jaskerovi Empire Era (1598-1723)

The
 areas of Svezjacael and Navahakael were discovered by the Royal
Jaskerovi Navy in late 1598 when a fleet of ships was blown off course
by a storm, causing them to land in a foreign, previously undiscovered,
land. The ships discovered several city-states who were constantly at
war with one another, and behind the Jaskerovi Empire in technological
advancements. When the IJN landed near one of the city-states the locals
 had called ‘Aleksander’, they found it besieged by a rivaling city of
Arkhan. The IJN needed supplies to repair their ships, and sent a small
platoon of soldiers to the nearby besieged city during a break in the
attacks to attempt to trade for the resources needed.

Once the
soldiers arrived, they were met with suspicion and a language barrier,
using only gestures other basic forms of communication to explain their
desires and want from the people. With nothing to trade, the locals had
pointed to their arquebus and early muskets, before pointing to the
outside of the wall. What became understood was the defense of the city
in exchange for the supplies needed by the IJN to repair their ships.
The defense of the city with the introduction of the Jaskerovi firearms
was a success, and the locals not only provided the materials for the
repairs, but also supplied a few of their citizens to assist.

In
the following years, the Jaskerovi people often returned to the area to
trade with the various city-states, after extensively learning the local
 languages and teaching the Jaskerovi language of Maltski to many of the
 local people. As trading continued, various city states opted to join
the empire, creating colonies for the Jaskerovi Empire over the next
three decades.

With a few of the major city-states allying with
the Jaskerovi Empire, Jaskerov’s King Vachmaan III declared imperial war
 on the area on his 20th birthday. Using both the local people and
Imperial Jaskerovi military forces to conquer many of the local
city-states over the next four decades, Jaskerov would use intimidation
and force to absorb the other city-states in the Imperial Expansion
Wars. The wars ended in 1669 with the new colonies of Agskabrael,
Jankasael, Navahakael, Svezjacael, Wundaskenael, and Yadeshkvael. The
colonies were named after the most difficult people to conquer as a
tribute; ‘Agskabrie’ meaning ‘sword’, ‘Jankas’ meaning ‘water’,
‘Navahaki’ meaning ‘deception’, ‘Svezjac’ meaning ‘fighting’,
‘Wundaskentol’ meaning ‘of great stature’, and ‘Yadeshkven’ meaning
‘corn field’ with ‘eal’ being the suffix for ‘peoples’ to any attached
word.

Under Jaskerovi rule, the colonies advanced rapidly,
introducing a road system, banking, infrastructure, language, regulated
education, and economic growth. Populations exploded in the regions,
from around seven hundred thousand collectively to almost two million
over the next few decades. The different colonies, although close
together, developed their own cultures, values, and political beliefs
over this time, giving birth to conflict with opposing colonies and
their beliefs. Economic growth also lead to conflict. Jankasael,
Navahakael, Svezjacael, and Wundaskenael grew the most prosperous
economically because of their location, populations, and industries,
while Agskabrael and Yadeshkvael grew at a much slower pace, leading
them to feel prejudiced against by the Jaskerovi Empire.

In the
year 1702, the Jaskerovi Empire entered the Rushian-Jaskerovi War, where
 the Rushian and Jaskerovi nations fought over land in the far east,
resulting in an Imperial War. With Jaskerov’s declaration of the war,
The Rushian Kingdom soon responded with a declaration o their own. The
Jaskerovi forces claimed the land to be named ‘Davakael’ while the
Rushian forces claimed the land to be named ‘Istra’. Soon after the war
began, The Caridan Empire joined the war in support of Jaskerov, while
The Holy Empire of Esdragon, sworn enemies of Carida, joined the war on
the side of the Rushian Kingdom. In the beginning of the war, with
Jaskerovi Colonies being larger and more closely located, the Jaskerovi
side of the conflict saw strategic and militaristic victories across the
 front lines.

The first major battle was for the Rushian front
line city of Kalumdagar between largely Svet supplied Jaskerovi forces
who marched on the Colonial Istranian soldiers of Rushia. The Svet
forces employed long range siege cannons to besiege the city, breaking
holes in the stone wall surrounding the city. The siege lasted four days
 with constant fire from Svet military cannons, which were met with
little return fire from the land-based cannons, which did not have the
range to meet the Svet artillery and early mortars. After the four day
siege, other colonial Jaskerovi forces arrived and began to assist with
infantry personnel to launch the initial attack on the town. The battle
lasted three weeks, ending with one of many early Jaskerovi victories.

By
 June of the year 1714, Jaskerov, its colonies, and the Caridan Empire
had almost successfully pushed the Rushian and Esdragonian forces from
the disputed territory when Westland declared war on The Jaskerovi
Empire for violating its trade sphere with military vessels. The
Westland merchant marines began to target and sink Jaskerovi ships at
sea in raids and ambush, using lighter vessels to quickly hit the ships
and run before they could be fired upon. The extensive damages to the
Imperial Jaskerovi Navy began to effect the war effort as soon as the
fall of that year. In turn, with no Imperial support or logistics
command, the colonial militaries began to lose coordination within
themselves and started to quickly lose land to the Rushian and
Esdragonian forces advancing upon the disputed lands.

With half
of their territory lost in only one year, the Colonial Forces of
Jaskerov found themselves at the original declaration lines, with
advancing forces quickly reclaiming land they had lost and moving into
previously Jaskerovi claims. The last great Colonial Forces of Jaskerov
offense was The Battle of The Red Mud in August of 1718, where Svet and
Navah forces found themselves backed into a corner by Rushian and
Esdragonian military forces. The Svet forces led a charge against the
advancing forces at night, and continued the onslaught for three days
straight while Navah forces commanded artillery and a newer, more
reliable, mortar in the reformed Artillery Corps. The Colonial Forces of
 Jaskerov managed to gain five miles of land in that time, being the
largest single gain of area per day in the entire war, however, on the
fourth day many of the Colonial Forces ran out of ammunition, being
forced to abandon their gains and retreat to a more supplied post ten
miles back in The March of Red Mud, where advancing Rushian and
Esdragonian forces continued to fire on the fleeing Colonial Forces. Of
the original fifteen thousand at the beginning of the retreat, only
three thousand made it to safety with other Colonial Forces.

During
 the end of 1718, Jaskerovi Imperial forces landed on the battlefield
for the first time in three years, and attempted to replenish the
Colonial Forces and regain their land, to little effect. The momentum of
 the Rushian and Esdragonian forces proved to be too much for the
paultry Imperial Jaskerovi Army forces that landed to assist the
Colonial Forces. In February of 1719 the Caridan Empire, aware of the
impending loss for Jaskerov, declared themselves no longer participant
of the war, leaving Jaskerov and its colonies to fight the opposing
forces alone with little food, ammunition, and land to hold. The final
year of the war saw some of the bloodiest battles, with massacres of
Colonial Forces in three separate battles in March, November, and
December respectively.

Finally on January 3, 1720 the war ended
with The Treaty of The Colonies, which resulted in the severe economic
stipulations for the Jaskerovi Empire to The Rushian Kingdom. Because of
 The Caridan Empire’s early leave of war, they were exempt from the
treaty, remaining unaffected by the terms and conditions the treaty
imposed on Jaskerov.

Soon after the war ended, Jaskerov placed
heavy taxes and tariffs on the Colonial Trade and Produce Management
Group, which was headed by the Senator of the most economically
prosperous colony; Svezjacael. Senator Mikeal Valderov was staunchly
opposed to forcing the local population to pay for the increased taxes,
so much so that he had started to use a portion of his family’s wealth,
acquired from generations of Senators, to pay portions of the taxes for
the individual Svet citizen. Following his lead, several other colonial
Senators began to use their wealth to pay for portions of the taxes, so
much so that few of the taxes were seen down to the individual colonist.

 The system worked moderately well for awhile, increased by
Senators and their Colonial Forces looking the other way to un-reported
trades at borders between colonies, for much needed supplies with newly
introduced Imperial Taxes, but soon found an Empirical Investigation to
how the Senators’ wealth was reducing and how trades for imports had
fallen for inter-colonial supplies. This caused the Imperial Jaskerovi
Military to land in the colonies, patrolling borders and enforcing
taxation without cause, while restricting the Senators from using their
own wealth to resume paying taxes for their citizens.

In the year
 1722 a Svet and Agskabraeli trade route was compromised by the
Jaskerovi Military, resulting in the arrest of three trade groups from
Agskabrael. Consqeuentially, Agskabraeli militia soon began to attack
Svet border towns and trade groups entering into Agskabrael and other
colonies sharing a border with Svezjacael. Not long after Svet cities
were reporting Agskabraeli militia attacking them and stealing supplies
from trade groups, Svet militia began to retaliate, resulting in small
inter-colonial skirmishes. Neither side formally addressed the militia
activity, knowing it would launch another Imperial Investigation.

Jaskerovi
 Militay groups patrolling the border would eventually stumble into one
of these skirmishes in the middle of the year when a militia from
Agskabrael was attacking a Svet trade group and met by Svet militia. The
 Jaskerovi forces interfered and arrested everybody on sight, and in
October of that year Jaskerov ordered forced quartering of soldiers in
the colonies, with increased numbers of soldiers sent to the colonies to
 police them. Several citizens went to protest this upon their arrival,
but were met with arrests, beating, and increased ‘quartering’ taxes.

In
 January of 1723 the Jaskerovi military was sent to Regnarium, the Svet
colonial capital, to quell a protest by several Svet citizens who had
refused to quarter soldiers and pay the quartering tax. When the
Jaskerovi Military arrived, they found several hundred people meeting
for the protest, all protesting outside of Senator Valderov’s house. The
 soldiers ordered a dispersal, which the protesters ignored. When the
officer of the military group ordered dispersal again, a snowball was
thrown at him from somebody in the crowd. Their weapons already aimed at
 the protesters, the captain yelled in pain as the snowball hit him in
the face, and mistaking that for a wince of pain, several of the
Jaskerovi military soldiers fired on the crowd. After the first rounds
were fired, several of the protesters ran for cover and safety, while
others tended to the wounded. When the ordeal was over, five Svet
civilians had been killed and another twenty two were injured.

Soon
 after this, Senator Valderov condemned the actions of the Jaskerovi
Military, and ordered they return to their quarters. Valderov began to
speak to his citizens that night at a meeting, and said that he would do
 everything in his power to protect the people of Svezjacael from
another event like this occurring again. One of the men at the meeting,
Kyle Sandson, was an old war friend of Senator Valderov’s from the
Rushian-Jaskerovi War. He asked if any prosecution would come to the
militia if they retaliated against the Jaskerovi military’s occupation.
Senator Valderov replied they would persecute any militia who attacked
Jaskerovi personnel if they were “caught by the Svet Colonial Military”.
 Many took this as denial of acknowledging any future attack, as Svet
Colonial Military forces only left their fortifications to defend the
nation’s borders.

By the end of the 1723, Svet militia were
regularly opposed to Jaskerovi Military Personnel, however no gunfire
had been exchanged to that point. Several newspapers in Svezjacael
reported the situation in the colony, as well as all other colonies, and
 urged people to take up arms to stop paying their imposed Jaskerovi
taxes. Some more radical papers called for the complete declaration of
independence from Jaskerov, however, these papers were largely ignored
by the public as ‘extremist’ and ‘over reactionary’.

The Revolutionary Era (1724 - 1733)

In
 March of 1724, a group of militia were guarding a group of farmers
headed to the capital city to sell their produce when they were stopped
at a Jaskerovi checkpoint. The soldiers harassed the militia as little
more than boys with guns, and began demanding all produce be handed to
the Jaskerovi personnel as the lack of taxation enforcement had strained
 their food reserves through the colony. When the farmers refused, the
soldiers attempted to arrest them for Negligence to The King’s Orders, a
 crime punishable by death. The militia drew their muskets on the
soldiers and demanded they stand down, only for the soldiers to aim
their weapons as well. The soldiers and militia stood with their
firearms drawn for little time before one of the militia looked at the
commander of his group asking if they were going to shoot. The soldiers
used this opportunity to fire on the militia, leaving only three
surviving militia to be executed at the Jaskerovi fort.

News of
the incident spread across the colony within weeks, and soon militia
groups began harassing the Military with hit and run engagements,
forcing Jaskerov to send more soldiers to enforce the peace after a
decree was issued by the King in December of 1724. Though they feared
their loss of military forces domestically, Jaskerov sent two fleets of
ships with soldiers to the colonies to restore order, leaving only four
fleets at home.

When the soldiers arrived to restore order, they
too were met with militia engagements before they vanished into the
woods. In June of 1725, just weeks after the two fleets arrived, a group
 of several militia had even laid siege to one of the Jaskerovi
fortifications. The siege was at first a success, with the unprepared
soldiers quickly overrun and out-gunned, however the Military responded,
 surrounded the fort, and executed every militia member for treason when
 the counter-siege ended in November of that year.

Several Svet
citizens began to join militia, while others petitioned for independence
 to Senator Valderov, citing the abuse of the colonies by Jaskerovi
personnel. In July of 1726, a meeting approved for a drafted
Constitution and Declaration of Independence, both documents being
completed by early August. Finally, on August 16 of 1726, Svezjacael
announced to the world that they were declaring themselves a separate
entity away from The Jaskerovi Empire.

The already weakened
Jaskerovi Roayl Military implored the colonial governments to stand at
their side, citing that there would be immense violence if they should
declare official independence. Svezjacael returned the imploring letter
to The Jaskerovi Empire, with no official response, leaving it to be
assumed they were content with declaring war. Jaskerov responded by
marshalling their remaining military might to take the offensive on
their rebelling colonies, who had less equipment and training than the
Imperial Jaskerovi Military.

When Jaskerovi forces landed across
the colonies, they initially saw successful battles against the colonial
 armies, using their naval cannons to drive them from the coasts and
giving the beachheads to Jaskerov. The first major Svet infantry battle
was The Battle for Regnarium, where Jaskerovi forces besieged the city
from the local forces, shelling it for two weeks. When soldiers finally
moved in, they found most of the rebellion was hit by the shelling, and
few remained in the city to oppose them. The city was captured on March 5
 of 1727, with twenty Svet Royal Armed Forces soldiers captured and
hanged the next day for treason.

Battles continued in favor of
The Jaskerovi Military until 1729, when on October 21 of that year, The
Royal Armed Forces of Svezjacael had launched a counterattack to retake
the half of the country under Jaskerovi control. The other colonial
militaries had seen the initial success of The Battle of Waldstadt -
where Svet forces besieged the city and captured it in one and a half
weeks - and taken offensives of their own. At this time, Jaskerov’s
military debts were starting to grow higher than they could sustain, and
 new soldiers and ships were becoming less common to be sent to assist
in the colonies.

The next successful battle for the Svet Royal
Armed Forces was The Second Battle of Waldstadt from December 5 of 1729
to December 8 of 1729, where Jaskerovi forces attempted to recapture the
 city, but ultimately failed when Svet militia flanked their artillery
and rendered the siege ineffective, while cutting the Jaskerovi forces
off from their line of retreat. The Royal Armed Forces captured the
artillery and took up to 350 prisoners after that battle, many of whom
defected to The Royal Armed Forces of Svezjacael in exchange for their
lives.

With the colonial militaries pushing Jaskerov back on
their fronts, Jaskerov only held Yadeshkvael completely as their
revolution was a silent protest and public display of angst against
Jaskerov, including the self-burning of many men on piles of wood,
burning themselves alive in silence as protest to Jaskerovi influence in
 their nation. Jaskerov pulled their forces from Yadeshkvael on February
 2 or 1730 to support the more violent fronts, which Yadeshkvael
celebrated as their victory over the Jaskerovi Empire.

With more
soldiers on the militant fronts, Jaskerov attempted to push back the
colonial armies, largely Svezjacel and Jankasael as they were the main
coastal deployments. Agskabrael sent their armies in assistance, but
with no coast for Jaskerov to land on, they remained unaffected by the
domestic damages done by Jaskerov to the other colonies. The push up in
Navahakael threatened to infiltrate Agskabraeli territory, as this was
the least defended area and Agskabrael had few domestic soldiers not
deployed to help the colonial effort. By June of 1730, Agskabrael was
facing the threat of invasion of their own colonial territory, while the
 frontlines in Svezjacael and Jankasael had slowed to a crawl of gain
for the colonial armies.

Agskabrael withdrew their forces from
the fronts to defend their borders, weakening the joint colonial armies
in Svezjacael. Svezjacael’s former Senator, who had become the General
was Mikeal Valderov. As the Agskabraeli forces retreated, he ordered a
retreat of the Svet forces, drawing Jaskerovi forces into a bulged area
of land to take. When they took the bait, the fronts on either side of
the Jaskerovi forces retreated from their front-lines, attacking the
large central force. The Svet counter-offensive lasted three weeks from
this ambush, driving the enemy back forty kilometers in the first week
alone.

Decimated, the Jaskerovi forces tried to reorganize again,
 only to be cut off by Svet and Janka forces enroute. In September of
1731, after several consecutive losses to the Colonial Forces and
militia, Jaskerovi military forces held only the coasts in Svezjacael
and Jankasael, and were completely pushed out of Navahakael and
Agskabrael. The Colonial Forces then ceased pursuit of the Jaskerovi,
offering them peace. A ceasefire was signed between General Valderov of
Svezjacael and General Garston of Jaskerov finally on December 31 of

Talks between the weakened and indebted Jaskerov and the
Colonial Powers began in the middle of January, with an official
agreement reached by March. The Jaskerovi King, who had sailed to The
Colonies beforehand as a publicity event, instead spent the end of his
visitation signing The Treaty of Reventshire on March 15 of 1732,
officially freeing the colonies into being their own nations. Terms
included the new nations pay Jaskerov damages and dues from their times
as colonies over the next five years, which the powers agreed to.

The Establishment Era (1734 - 1853)

[size=110][u]The Maltski Renaissance Era (1854 - 1915)

The Jaskerovi Wars Era (1916 - 1944)

The Amendment and Civil Rights Era (1945 - 1951)

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The Space Race Era (1952 - 1970)

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The War on Fascism Era (1971 - 1995)

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The Technological Advance Era (1996 - 2010)

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The Modern Era (2011 - Present)

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