Urilian Deportation

The **Urilian Deportation**, less commonly known as the **Urilian Genocide**, was the systematic deportation of the Urilians from the Nesarian Empire taking place from approximately 1932 to 1941. It oversaw the expelling of the vast majority of the Urilian population from Inecuria, and the accidental or deliberate death of a significant proportion of them. The 1930 population of Urilians is estimated at 2 million, and as of the 2018 census, only 50,000 Urilians lived in the Empire.

The anti-Urilian laws passed by Emperor Adrion I in 1932 (officially titled the Laws for the Purification of Our Sacred Homeland) declared that Urilians were no longer Imperial citizens and that they were banished from the Empire, given one year to vacate the land on their own terms before the state would begin to forcefully evict them. Police squadrons tasked with seeking out remaining Urilians were dispatched the same day the grace period elapsed, performing mass arrests and taking the Urilians to port cities where they would be forced to sail away.

The Imperial state merely ordered the Urilians to leave, it did not actually provide the means to leave the continent; the transportation had to be organised by the Urilians themselves. Wealthy Urilians who had already left within the grace period had mostly settled in California in the United States of America, and they came together to found the Urilian Freedom Agency (UFA) in Los Angeles once the arrests began, which contracted passenger ships to offer cheap travel across the ocean for Urilian refugees - and the tickets were cheap, as it was estimated that the UFA only made one cent per passenger after taking costs into account. As a result, the overwhelming majority of Urilians who left the continent (willingly or otherwise) settled in California. Most members of the UFA were also members of the Frozen Few.

It was an open secret at the time that many of the Urilians who were hunted down by the police would never make it to the port cities. Those who provided any kind of resistance were often killed, and this was in addition to pogroms which targeted Urilians which raged across the continent both before and after the 12-month deadline. None of the violent rioters who attacked Urilians were ever given criminal charges. When the war began in 1940, the Imperial Government saw the relocation efforts as a waste of time and implicitly gave the order through veiled language to simply execute any Urilians that were discovered. Imperial nationalists today claim that there never was an order to systematically execute the Urilians, rather it was a simple misunderstanding of the orders. Mainstream historians, though, argue that the implied order of genocide was too obvious for it to be a mere mistake.

## Numbers

Exact numbers are controversial and hard to attain, as both Imperial and Urilian sources either greatly downplay or inflate the numbers. Approximately 1.6 million Urilians live outside the Empire today, of which 1.5 million are in the USA. The fertility rate of the Urilians has been very low for centuries, barely surpassing the level required to maintain a stable population, so it is generally assumed that if the modern population of Urilian refugees is 1.6 million then the number of refugees who fled in the 1930s should be similar.

Since it is known that the 1930 population of Urilians was 2 million, and 1.6 million fled whilst 50,000 remain in the Empire today, this places the estimate of Urilians who were killed at approximately 350,000, the highest estimate the Imperial Government is willing to admit to. However, of course, this relies upon the assumption that the fertility rate is so low that the overall population barely changed, which should not be taken for granted. Urilian sources generally claim that the modern number of Urilians is substantially higher than the number who fled, and they claim that anywhere from 500,000 to a million Urilians were killed during what they call a genocide. Mainstream historians generally agree to disagree and place the death toll at between 350,000 and 500,000.

Far more controversial than the number who were killed is the number who were killed by state forces, and to what extent Emperor Adrion himself willed the killing of the Urilians. It is true that Adrion never openly called for the Urilians to be killed, and in his later years he expressed regret at the deaths of so many, but at the time he took no real action to stop the killings and he made no formal declarations condemning them. The Imperial records counted 70,000 Urilians as dying at the hands of the police whilst resisting arrest, but most mainstream historians think this to be a gross underestimation; since the total estimated death toll of all the known pogroms comes to approximately 200,000-250,000, which falls short of the lowest recognised total death toll of 350,000 (let alone the upper estimate of 500,000), far more than 70,000 must have been killed by state forces.