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The Kingdom of Franerre
Flag of Franerre, with the Royal Fleur de Lis
Established (Historical): 689 PI
Established (Modern): 1765 PI
Language: Franerri (Official), Lusatian (Commonly Spoken)
Ethnicity: Franerri, 71%, Luso-Franerri, 13%, Elenrian, 7%, Lusatian, 5%, Jzedian, Other, 2%.
Religions: Lusatian Catholic, 90%, Convent of the Paths, 6%, Other, 4%
Population: 76,401,293
Government: Constitutional Monarchy
Capital: Pareau
Currency: Franerri Parian/Lianets (Exchange rate to Koian Jewel: 17.29 Parian = 1 Jewel)
Head of State:King Dante Emil Soleil Della Rosa II Queen Jadwiga Kainé Gwiazda Della Rosa
Victory sings, for us
History: Modern Franerri history begins with the arrival of the Lusatians. The Lusatians had first contacted Franerre in the late 1500's, invading the country after King Amadeo Bertriece Gaumer Michoun VI refused to grant Lusatian merchants special privileges in Franerre and instead ordering the expulsion of the Lusatians from Franerre for the insult, slaughtering the next merchant ship that attempted to land in the country. The war was short, lasting from 1610-1612 PI and ending with the death of the King in the Battle of Vameau Grove. Abolishing the independent Kingdom of Franerre, the Lusatians established the colonial regime known as the Lusatian Dominium Franerrje, or the Lusatian Dominion of Franerre. Large numbers of Lusatian colonists began to enter the country, especially in the Marias and Esteirre regions, though they never numbered more than 30% of Franerre's population. Initially there was little resistance to the Lusatian Dominium Franerrje, though as the Franerre gradually became second-class citizens in their own country as their history and culture were gradually erased by the Lusatian Dominium Franerrje, resistance continued to build up over the years. This resistance would explode into outright revolt in Bellien 1765 when word arrived that Lusatia had fallen into civil war over a succession crisis. This first armed revolt in Franerre's west would be short lived, swallowed up by the expansionist Shysil Empire to Franerre's south, but more would spring up in Foa 1767. The Lusatian garrison, now cut off from reinforcements, were defeated by a group of revolutionaries in 1770 lead by Jan Della Rosa, in what would be known as the Foa Restoration, the son of a wealthy Franerri family who had used their influence to have him sent to Lusatia to be tutored. Proclaiming himself King Jean Neir Nuage Della Rosa I, Sovereign of the Kingdom of Franerre. King Jean I would add the titles Shield of her People and Defender of the Foa Restoration when his revolutionaries, now closer to a proper army than the rag-tag militia they had been before, beat back a Lusatian force intent on 'restoring order' in Astillia 1779.
In the lull between those two events, King Jean I set to building his Kingdom. His first order of business was deciding what to do about the Lusatians in Franerre, and arguably more importantly, the Luso-Franerri. The Luso-Franerris were a broad group, containing Franerri collaborators who had become somewhat culturally Lusatian, Lusatians who had somewhat integrated into Franerri society, and the children of mixed Franerri and Lusatian couples, all of whom had occupied an ill-defined cultural middle class between the Lusatians and Franerri in the Lusatian Dominium Franerrje. It was eventually decided that, after seizing the wealth and land of the highest members of the Lusatian Dominum Franerje, the land would be dolled out to the more well educated Luso-Franerri allies of Jean I while giving the common Franerri farmers much smaller plots of land to sustain themselves on. The wealth, meanwhile, would go to purchasing arms for the King's army and to offering up sums of money to buy the land and property of any minor Lusatian families who would use that money to sail back to Lusatia. Any Lusatians who remained would become citizens of Franerre. While this policy did result in a brain drain that would slow down Franerre's development, in King Jean I's mind, it was a price well worth the stability of Franerre.
The next order of business would be to see to Franerre's borders. Little could be done for Franerre's brothers in the Lusatiun Dominium Tafatu, which had been snatched up by the Shahdom of Selucidenia, but with an army trained by Gaelian advisors and armed with Gaelian guns, the Shysil invaders were expelled from what was rightful Franerri territory. The next thirty years of Jean I's rule was spent building up the Kingdom of Franerre. While the seizure of wealth from the fall of the Lusatian Dominum Franerje could sustain the reborn Kingdom of Franerre for a short time, that wouldn't last forever, and so a new trading partner would have to be found. Jean I first turned to the Kingdom of Ulster-Gaelia, then the rival of Lusatia to trade with. The relationship between the two states began to sour, however, as King Jean began to fear that Franerre would only go from a Lusatian colony to a Gaelian one. And so, in a controversial move at the time, King Jean I began to warm diplomatic in trade relations with the Kingdom of Lusatia in 1785, engaging in a risky foreign policy of playing the two rivals off each other. This strategy worked, money and arms flowing into Franerre as both rivals tried to out maneuver one another for influence. With this money, King Jean and the cadre of Luso-Franerri nobles who King Jean granted control of Franerre's mines, farmland, and fishing industries to began to grow fabulously wealthy. To the surprise of many, Lusatia would come out on top in the so-called 'Great Game,' with the 1812 diplomatic mission by the Lusatian Liberal Artur Łukowski firmly solidifying the friendship of Franerre and Lusatia near the end of King Jean I's rule.
The next four decades would see the reign of the 'Quiet Kings,' King Louis I, King Dante I, and King Louis II. This time period was marked by stability and stagnation economically and technologically while seeing a birth of the 'Franerri Renaissance' culturally. The Kings and the many nobles in Franerre invested into rediscovery of pre-colonialization Franerri culture as well as works of art, literature, and song extolling the glory of the Foa Restoration and the victory over the Shysil Empire. In the background, however, some subtle forces began their work in Franerre. Along with diplomatic ties to Lusatia came Lusatian ideas, helped along by the majority Luso-Franerri nobility's tendency to send their children to Lusatia for tutoring, or hiring Lusatian tutors to found some of Franerre's first universities, came Lusatian ideas. The two ideas most prevalent were 'democracy' and 'industrialization,' though for the majority of the reign of the Quiet Kings these would remain fringe ideas only present in noble circles.
The 'democracy' ideas were mainly developed by the Franerri branch of the Lusatian catholic church. Many in the church began to worry that the Franerri Renaissance would result in the decline of the church's prominence due to their Lusatian origin, and that the Kings and nobles were becoming more decadent while the fortunes of the peasants on their land steadily grew worse and worse. Many prominent bishops, mainly of Luso-Franerri birth began to preach in favor of democracy. The 'industrialization' idea was mainly developed by the sons of Franerri nobility who had been to Lusatia and seen first hand the developments occurring in other parts of Ourhi. These men were worried about Franerre falling behind and becoming a victim of colonialization a second time. Additionally, many saw Franerri industrialization as a springboard to lift up the other nations of Touli who had been victims of colonization and that it was 'The Franerri Man's Burden' to lift up their fellow Toulians.
The 1860s would be the most tumultuous years in Franerre ever since the revolution itself. 1860 saw the stunning victory of Kumosenkan over Elenria in the 12 Minute War. Waves of panic began to spread through the country. Elenria had long been seen as a great eternal rival to Franerre, who had warred many times in the past, often long, bloody affairs that more often than not ended in stalemates. To see them taken out so swiftly, many in Franerre began to fear they were next. In 1862 and 1863 would become known as 'The Reight of the Four Louis,' as within the span of two years, four King Louis would sit on the throne, each one killed by a cholera epidemic that swept through the country. Louis VI would be succeeded by King Phillipe I. With many of Franerre's workers dead due to cholera, a bad drought began to rapidly increase grain prices. Phillipe I would cut funding to the army in and use the funds to alleviate the situation. While it was partially effective in lowering bread prices, many of Franerre's poorest still suffered greatly and turned to the Catholic Church for sustenance. In stepped Prince Claude Devola Jove Della Rosa I. A charismatic young man, he was a member of the various different circles of Luso-Franerri nobility who sought to industrialize Franerre, and saw the instability of the nation as the perfect vehicle to usurp his father on the throne. Many clergy of the Franerri Catholic Church began to intensify their sermons in favor of democracy at the behest of Claude and his allies, while many nobles and generals were angry at Phillipe at cutting funding to the army while Kumosenkan still looked eager to strike. And so, in Astrilla of 1864, during the Feast of Mordred, a festival celebrating a Franerri pagan goddess which had come to prominence during the Franerri Renaissance, large protests broke out against Phillipe I's rule. When Phillipe attempted to send the army in to crush them, his generals disobeyed, and with almost every power in Franerre against him, Prince Claude couped his father and became King Claude Devola Jove Della Rosa I, and began writing of the Franerri constitution.
And so, what would become known as Mordred's Revolution would result in the establishment of the democratically-elected National Chamber to replace the former unelected and advisory Privy Council to serve as the legislative body of Franerre. An independent judiciary branch would be founded with a High Mandat of five judges, a selection of three candidates per position would be put forth by the National Chamber for the King to choose the final one of. The King would retain veto power over the National Chamber, which would be overruled by either a 3/4th majority of the National Chamber or 2/3rd of the National Chamber and the majority of the High Mandat. The King would also be the commander of Franerre's army and have the power to declare wars, as well as being able to enact Royal Edicts, emergency measures that could last no longer than one year before needing to be renewed by the National Chamber. Some modern historians, however, have taken to calling Mordred's Revolution the 'Phony Revolution.' While not toothless, the King still held a large sway over the new democracy. In addition, those two parties behind Mordred's Revolution, the Church and the Luso-Franerri nobility collaborated to form the Democratic People's Party, who would go on to be the sole ruling party in Franerre's National Chamber for nearly its entire history, spearheaded by one Baron Isaac Dufour Sr.
The first acts of the new National Chamber would be simple: industrialization. Massive subsidies were given to the mining industry to increase production of Franerre's mineral outputs, while large coastal cities like Pareau, Elenerre, and Alcasse became hubs of industrialization where the large factories were owned and operated by a new generation of the Luso-Franerri nobility. In the vast swathes of farmland and forests in central Franerre, the mass emigration of people to the cities left the land open to be purchased, not by the nobility as one might expect, but by a burgeoning middle class of small landowners who's farms were larger and produced more than the vast majority of Franerri farmers who did so for simple sustenance. The only political conflicts during this time would be between the coastal industrialists and border mining barons (referred to informally as the 'Industrialists') versus the church and petite farming and logging bourgeoisie of the interior (referred to informally as the 'Agriculturalists'). While the latter would have some political successes, such as the instituting of Catholicism as the state religion and strong agricultural protectionist trade policies, the Agriculturalists would more often than not lose out to the greater institutional and capital power of the Industrialists, to the point where they were barely even a force in the party by 1905.
But, just as during the period of the Quiet Kings, more foreign Lusatian ideas began to work their way into Franerre behind the scenes, threatening to upset the status quo. Of workers' rights, of socialism. Of living a better life than 14-hour factory shifts five days a week. Of conditions more than barely livable. These ideas first took coalesced into action in the Franerri Worker's Party (Parti Ouvrier Franerri/POF), founded in 1899, who would attempt to establish several unions in key Franerri industries, such as shipping and mining. These first few open attempts were brutally suppressed via mass arrests by the Gendarmerie, but they never could quite root out the entirety of the party or their ideas. It was like a hydra -- for every leader the Gendarmerie arrested, two more would join the party. What was worse was that the POF began to spread their ideology to the countryside. The Agriculturalists let it happen for the most part, despite the danger the ideology posed to their power, seeing the popularity of the POF as a bargaining chip to pressure the Industrialists with for a ticket back into power.
1830 (gaelia-lusatia friends
1860 (industrialization)
{Post is WIP}
Established (Modern): 1765 PI
Language: Franerri (Official), Lusatian (Commonly Spoken)
Ethnicity: Franerri, 71%, Luso-Franerri, 13%, Elenrian, 7%, Lusatian, 5%, Jzedian, Other, 2%.
Religions: Lusatian Catholic, 90%, Convent of the Paths, 6%, Other, 4%
Population: 76,401,293
Government: Constitutional Monarchy
Capital: Pareau
Currency: Franerri Parian/Lianets (Exchange rate to Koian Jewel: 17.29 Parian = 1 Jewel)
Head of State:
National Anthem:
Song of Departure
Victory sings, for us
Her gates have opened from afar
Liberty leads all of our strides!
And from north to the south
The mighty horn of war
Came the time for its battle cry!
Tremble, enemies of France
Kings drunk on blood and pride
The sovereign people shall advance,
Tyrants descend in graves to hide!
Independence calls for us!
Let’s know how to vanquish or how to fail
For she has given the Franerri life
And for her he must give to prevail!
Do not fear that our motherly eyes shall weep
From us begone, cowardly grief!
We shall triumph when you take up arms
It is kings who should shed a tear
We gave you life
Warriors, it is no longer yours
All your days belong to the fatherland
She is your mother more than we are.
Independence calls for us!
Let’s know how to vanquish or how to fail
For she has given the Franerri life
And for her he must give to prevail!
May their fathers' blade be placed in the hands of the brave,
Remember us on the Field of Merse
Baptized in the blood of colonies
The blade thus blessed by your elders
And by bringing back home
Both wounds and virtues
Return to shut our eyes
When tyrants are no more
Independence calls for us!
Let’s know how to vanquish or how to fail
For she has given the Franerri life
And for her he must give to prevail!
The fates of Barra and Viala fill us with envy
They died, but they prevailed
Cowards crushed by the weight of years never truly knew life
He who dies for the People has lived
You are brave, so are we
Lead us against Tyrants
Die to free the nation
We honor thee
Independence calls for us!
Let’s know how to vanquish or how to fail
For she has given the Franerri life
And for her he must give to prevail!
Leave, valiant husbands! Battles are your feasts
Leave, models for warriors
We shall pick flowers to crown your heads
Our hands shall braid laurels
And if the temple of memory
Should open for your victorious manes
Our voices shall sing your glory
Our wombs shall bear your avengers
Independence calls for us!
Let’s know how to vanquish or how to fail
For she has given the Franerri life
And for her he must give to prevail!
And we, sisters of the heroes, we who of Artoria's
sweet bonds are still ignorant;
If someday to join his fate to ours,
The citizens should express the wish,
Let them come back within our walls
Embellished with glory and liberty,
And let their blood, in battle,
Have spilled for equality.
Independence calls for us!
Let’s know how to vanquish or how to fail
For she has given the Franerri life
And for her he must give to prevail!
On the iron, before God, we swear to our fathers
to our wives, to our sisters
to our representatives, to our sons, to our mothers
that we shall annihilate oppressors
Everywhere, into the deep night
by sinking the most fearsome enemy
We shall give to the nation
peace and liberty
Independence calls for us!
Let’s know how to vanquish or how to fail
For she has given the Franerri life
And for her he must give to prevail!
History: Modern Franerri history begins with the arrival of the Lusatians. The Lusatians had first contacted Franerre in the late 1500's, invading the country after King Amadeo Bertriece Gaumer Michoun VI refused to grant Lusatian merchants special privileges in Franerre and instead ordering the expulsion of the Lusatians from Franerre for the insult, slaughtering the next merchant ship that attempted to land in the country. The war was short, lasting from 1610-1612 PI and ending with the death of the King in the Battle of Vameau Grove. Abolishing the independent Kingdom of Franerre, the Lusatians established the colonial regime known as the Lusatian Dominium Franerrje, or the Lusatian Dominion of Franerre. Large numbers of Lusatian colonists began to enter the country, especially in the Marias and Esteirre regions, though they never numbered more than 30% of Franerre's population. Initially there was little resistance to the Lusatian Dominium Franerrje, though as the Franerre gradually became second-class citizens in their own country as their history and culture were gradually erased by the Lusatian Dominium Franerrje, resistance continued to build up over the years. This resistance would explode into outright revolt in Bellien 1765 when word arrived that Lusatia had fallen into civil war over a succession crisis. This first armed revolt in Franerre's west would be short lived, swallowed up by the expansionist Shysil Empire to Franerre's south, but more would spring up in Foa 1767. The Lusatian garrison, now cut off from reinforcements, were defeated by a group of revolutionaries in 1770 lead by Jan Della Rosa, in what would be known as the Foa Restoration, the son of a wealthy Franerri family who had used their influence to have him sent to Lusatia to be tutored. Proclaiming himself King Jean Neir Nuage Della Rosa I, Sovereign of the Kingdom of Franerre. King Jean I would add the titles Shield of her People and Defender of the Foa Restoration when his revolutionaries, now closer to a proper army than the rag-tag militia they had been before, beat back a Lusatian force intent on 'restoring order' in Astillia 1779.
In the lull between those two events, King Jean I set to building his Kingdom. His first order of business was deciding what to do about the Lusatians in Franerre, and arguably more importantly, the Luso-Franerri. The Luso-Franerris were a broad group, containing Franerri collaborators who had become somewhat culturally Lusatian, Lusatians who had somewhat integrated into Franerri society, and the children of mixed Franerri and Lusatian couples, all of whom had occupied an ill-defined cultural middle class between the Lusatians and Franerri in the Lusatian Dominium Franerrje. It was eventually decided that, after seizing the wealth and land of the highest members of the Lusatian Dominum Franerje, the land would be dolled out to the more well educated Luso-Franerri allies of Jean I while giving the common Franerri farmers much smaller plots of land to sustain themselves on. The wealth, meanwhile, would go to purchasing arms for the King's army and to offering up sums of money to buy the land and property of any minor Lusatian families who would use that money to sail back to Lusatia. Any Lusatians who remained would become citizens of Franerre. While this policy did result in a brain drain that would slow down Franerre's development, in King Jean I's mind, it was a price well worth the stability of Franerre.
The next order of business would be to see to Franerre's borders. Little could be done for Franerre's brothers in the Lusatiun Dominium Tafatu, which had been snatched up by the Shahdom of Selucidenia, but with an army trained by Gaelian advisors and armed with Gaelian guns, the Shysil invaders were expelled from what was rightful Franerri territory. The next thirty years of Jean I's rule was spent building up the Kingdom of Franerre. While the seizure of wealth from the fall of the Lusatian Dominum Franerje could sustain the reborn Kingdom of Franerre for a short time, that wouldn't last forever, and so a new trading partner would have to be found. Jean I first turned to the Kingdom of Ulster-Gaelia, then the rival of Lusatia to trade with. The relationship between the two states began to sour, however, as King Jean began to fear that Franerre would only go from a Lusatian colony to a Gaelian one. And so, in a controversial move at the time, King Jean I began to warm diplomatic in trade relations with the Kingdom of Lusatia in 1785, engaging in a risky foreign policy of playing the two rivals off each other. This strategy worked, money and arms flowing into Franerre as both rivals tried to out maneuver one another for influence. With this money, King Jean and the cadre of Luso-Franerri nobles who King Jean granted control of Franerre's mines, farmland, and fishing industries to began to grow fabulously wealthy. To the surprise of many, Lusatia would come out on top in the so-called 'Great Game,' with the 1812 diplomatic mission by the Lusatian Liberal Artur Łukowski firmly solidifying the friendship of Franerre and Lusatia near the end of King Jean I's rule.
The next four decades would see the reign of the 'Quiet Kings,' King Louis I, King Dante I, and King Louis II. This time period was marked by stability and stagnation economically and technologically while seeing a birth of the 'Franerri Renaissance' culturally. The Kings and the many nobles in Franerre invested into rediscovery of pre-colonialization Franerri culture as well as works of art, literature, and song extolling the glory of the Foa Restoration and the victory over the Shysil Empire. In the background, however, some subtle forces began their work in Franerre. Along with diplomatic ties to Lusatia came Lusatian ideas, helped along by the majority Luso-Franerri nobility's tendency to send their children to Lusatia for tutoring, or hiring Lusatian tutors to found some of Franerre's first universities, came Lusatian ideas. The two ideas most prevalent were 'democracy' and 'industrialization,' though for the majority of the reign of the Quiet Kings these would remain fringe ideas only present in noble circles.
The 'democracy' ideas were mainly developed by the Franerri branch of the Lusatian catholic church. Many in the church began to worry that the Franerri Renaissance would result in the decline of the church's prominence due to their Lusatian origin, and that the Kings and nobles were becoming more decadent while the fortunes of the peasants on their land steadily grew worse and worse. Many prominent bishops, mainly of Luso-Franerri birth began to preach in favor of democracy. The 'industrialization' idea was mainly developed by the sons of Franerri nobility who had been to Lusatia and seen first hand the developments occurring in other parts of Ourhi. These men were worried about Franerre falling behind and becoming a victim of colonialization a second time. Additionally, many saw Franerri industrialization as a springboard to lift up the other nations of Touli who had been victims of colonization and that it was 'The Franerri Man's Burden' to lift up their fellow Toulians.
The 1860s would be the most tumultuous years in Franerre ever since the revolution itself. 1860 saw the stunning victory of Kumosenkan over Elenria in the 12 Minute War. Waves of panic began to spread through the country. Elenria had long been seen as a great eternal rival to Franerre, who had warred many times in the past, often long, bloody affairs that more often than not ended in stalemates. To see them taken out so swiftly, many in Franerre began to fear they were next. In 1862 and 1863 would become known as 'The Reight of the Four Louis,' as within the span of two years, four King Louis would sit on the throne, each one killed by a cholera epidemic that swept through the country. Louis VI would be succeeded by King Phillipe I. With many of Franerre's workers dead due to cholera, a bad drought began to rapidly increase grain prices. Phillipe I would cut funding to the army in and use the funds to alleviate the situation. While it was partially effective in lowering bread prices, many of Franerre's poorest still suffered greatly and turned to the Catholic Church for sustenance. In stepped Prince Claude Devola Jove Della Rosa I. A charismatic young man, he was a member of the various different circles of Luso-Franerri nobility who sought to industrialize Franerre, and saw the instability of the nation as the perfect vehicle to usurp his father on the throne. Many clergy of the Franerri Catholic Church began to intensify their sermons in favor of democracy at the behest of Claude and his allies, while many nobles and generals were angry at Phillipe at cutting funding to the army while Kumosenkan still looked eager to strike. And so, in Astrilla of 1864, during the Feast of Mordred, a festival celebrating a Franerri pagan goddess which had come to prominence during the Franerri Renaissance, large protests broke out against Phillipe I's rule. When Phillipe attempted to send the army in to crush them, his generals disobeyed, and with almost every power in Franerre against him, Prince Claude couped his father and became King Claude Devola Jove Della Rosa I, and began writing of the Franerri constitution.
And so, what would become known as Mordred's Revolution would result in the establishment of the democratically-elected National Chamber to replace the former unelected and advisory Privy Council to serve as the legislative body of Franerre. An independent judiciary branch would be founded with a High Mandat of five judges, a selection of three candidates per position would be put forth by the National Chamber for the King to choose the final one of. The King would retain veto power over the National Chamber, which would be overruled by either a 3/4th majority of the National Chamber or 2/3rd of the National Chamber and the majority of the High Mandat. The King would also be the commander of Franerre's army and have the power to declare wars, as well as being able to enact Royal Edicts, emergency measures that could last no longer than one year before needing to be renewed by the National Chamber. Some modern historians, however, have taken to calling Mordred's Revolution the 'Phony Revolution.' While not toothless, the King still held a large sway over the new democracy. In addition, those two parties behind Mordred's Revolution, the Church and the Luso-Franerri nobility collaborated to form the Democratic People's Party, who would go on to be the sole ruling party in Franerre's National Chamber for nearly its entire history, spearheaded by one Baron Isaac Dufour Sr.
The first acts of the new National Chamber would be simple: industrialization. Massive subsidies were given to the mining industry to increase production of Franerre's mineral outputs, while large coastal cities like Pareau, Elenerre, and Alcasse became hubs of industrialization where the large factories were owned and operated by a new generation of the Luso-Franerri nobility. In the vast swathes of farmland and forests in central Franerre, the mass emigration of people to the cities left the land open to be purchased, not by the nobility as one might expect, but by a burgeoning middle class of small landowners who's farms were larger and produced more than the vast majority of Franerri farmers who did so for simple sustenance. The only political conflicts during this time would be between the coastal industrialists and border mining barons (referred to informally as the 'Industrialists') versus the church and petite farming and logging bourgeoisie of the interior (referred to informally as the 'Agriculturalists'). While the latter would have some political successes, such as the instituting of Catholicism as the state religion and strong agricultural protectionist trade policies, the Agriculturalists would more often than not lose out to the greater institutional and capital power of the Industrialists, to the point where they were barely even a force in the party by 1905.
But, just as during the period of the Quiet Kings, more foreign Lusatian ideas began to work their way into Franerre behind the scenes, threatening to upset the status quo. Of workers' rights, of socialism. Of living a better life than 14-hour factory shifts five days a week. Of conditions more than barely livable. These ideas first took coalesced into action in the Franerri Worker's Party (Parti Ouvrier Franerri/POF), founded in 1899, who would attempt to establish several unions in key Franerri industries, such as shipping and mining. These first few open attempts were brutally suppressed via mass arrests by the Gendarmerie, but they never could quite root out the entirety of the party or their ideas. It was like a hydra -- for every leader the Gendarmerie arrested, two more would join the party. What was worse was that the POF began to spread their ideology to the countryside. The Agriculturalists let it happen for the most part, despite the danger the ideology posed to their power, seeing the popularity of the POF as a bargaining chip to pressure the Industrialists with for a ticket back into power.
1830 (gaelia-lusatia friends
1860 (industrialization)
{Post is WIP}