Democratic Republic of Pojoinen

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The Democratic Republic of Pohjoinen is a country located in northwestern Sairana. its capital is Lehdanso

## History

### Origins

During the 12th century, a proto-Pohjoinan culture appeared in the eastern part of the Tebing Empire. there the were called Uligurs. they were mainly peasents and aften tried to revolt against the local authorities aften calling for the intervention of the Tebing millitary. the life conditions of the Uligurs became harsher and harsher as the Empire imposed sanctions to the revolting people. this spiral of vilence came to a climax in 1534 when the Teibing army raided the biggest Uligur settelments and seized all the food there. This caused the great Uligur famine of 1534 killing 30 000 people in the process. after this, a relative state of peace was held for 40 years although relations were very tense and the Uligur people still were considered as serfs.

### Colonisation of Pohjoinen

In 1568, the first Tebing exploration discovered that Turska Bay were Tebing fishers caught cod for centuries was in fact close to the New World discovered by the Orleanians several years ago. Inside the bay they found an estuary where they built the first settelment in the region, they called it Lei Dan So. Upon the arrival of the news that a new continent was open for colonizing, the Uligur people flooded the harbours and soon 100 000 Uligurs settled around Turska Bay. by 1697, 3 million Uligurs populated the land and only few stayed on the mainland. Too happy to see one of their problems disapear, the Tebing governement decided to grant autonomy to the colony, abolishing serfdom for example. Though they still tightly controlled the land with garnisons located around the towns and an all powerful governor assigned directly by the emperor as well as heavy taxes on the Pohjoinan products

### Independance mouvement and the Tiitus Virta eara

At the dawn of the 19th century, the Pohjonians now with a truly established culture and language, vastly different form the Uligurs of the mainland grew increasingly discontent. they strived for independance and self-representation as well as less taxes and corruption. Pohjoinen was very badly managed at the time and had been for two centuries now because the emperor chose the governor himself and was the only one to have a say in the matter, he aften named close relatives or good freinds to the position regardless of actual skill and competence. The independance mouvement was lead by Tiitus Virta, a 25 years old colonel, highest grade accesible to Pohjoinans in the millitary. he planned a quick and effective revolution, involving very few people and hiding it very well from the Tebing eyes. On the night of Febuary 12th 1825 as midnight rang, Virta's plan was executed, every ethnic Tebing living in Pohjoinen were stabbed or strangled. it was a huge operation as there were approximately 1000 Tebing residents in the country but due to the lack of open combat as well as the discretion of the operation, it was called the Quiet Revolution later on. Titus Virta then crowned himself king of Pohjoinen as Tiitus 1st and wrote a constitution creating a constitutional monarchy where the Royal Council presided by himself submittted laws to the Assembly where elected representatives would vote on them. Although the king had the veto right on all decisions. For most Pohjoinan it was enough as they didn't have to pay taxes to the Tebing crown although some were displeased and wanted a more democratic country, they thus founded underground resistance mouvements. Not a lot happened during the rest of the 19th century as the democratic mouvements were split up between a liberal faction that wanted a direct democracy and a socialist faction that wanted to redistribute all wealth amrong all people to create an equal society. After the death of Tiitus 1st in 1867, his son Osmo took over the throne and kept the kingdom as it was during the reign of his father.

### The "Glorious Revolution" of 1908

Osmo 1st had other ideas in mind than his dad, records show that he vetoed two times more Assembly decision than his father and introduced new taxes to finance his lavish lifestyle. He built the Eagle's Castle in the eastern mountains and reinforced the police's powers by allowing them to search every person they deemed suspect. these changes lead more and more people to join the democratic mouvements, most people as they were still farmers joined the socialist mouvements in hope of becoming wealthier and stop paying taxes, on the other hand the liberal mouvement was seen as a bunch of dreamers and utopists who didn't care about the things that mattered. On the 25th of July 1908 after a poor harvest the people had enough and decided to spontaneously riot all over the country. the leaders of the different branches of the socialist mouvement took the opportunity and convinced those who weren't on board yet that a socialist utopia was the best one they could have. after some shootings in the streets of Lehdanso, the royal palace was finally taken on the 27th of July and by the end of the year the Eagle's Castle was destroyed. the new governement was headed by Kiira Villanen, the first Secretary General of the Democratic Republic of Pohjoinen, the Assemby was disolved and all companies were made public and became state owned, all foreign investments and people were expulsed. The nobility that was created during the Tiitus Virta eara was executed. the school system was reformed and the history rewritten. Tiitus became a pawn in the hand of a supposed communist leader. After the death of Kiira Villanen in 1939, her most accomplished dignitary took over, the former Secretary of the Economy, Eero Anttonen. During his period, nothing really changed and Villanen's policies were still applied with a big focus on developping the iron mining industry and selling it to the reconstructing countries after the Great War

### The Great Plan and the 20 Golden years

After Antonnen's passing in 1957, Herman Partanen was chosen. he was young (31 years old) and studied in the best universities of the CSU. His first action was to draft an industrialization plan to show the other developped nations that Pohjoinen could. he developped the steel industry and created LAV as a car manufacturer and LSV for motobikes. he opened the country to foreign investments for the first time since 1908 and allowed a limited numbr of immigrants in the country, mostly ambassadors and buisnessmen. the plan worked and all factories where opened in two years time, former peasants flocked to the eastern mountains and the newly created industrial towns, the popluation boomed as the agricultural production increased due to the arrival of modern machinery such as tractors and combined harvesters. the population reached its highest in 1978, just as 20 years had past. this period was also an expansionist eara with the creation of the northenmost settlements, mostly used to host the powerplants needed to supply energy to the booming inustries