Schamiltist Virassia
Virassian Republic Վռսկըննա Ռէսպօբլիկօ (Vrskanna Respubliku) | ||||||
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Motto | ||||||
None But God Transcend | ||||||
Anthem | ||||||
Virassia Will Never Perishsrc | ||||||
![]() Map of Virassia after April 1901, within Amlei | ||||||
Nation | ||||||
Capital: | St. Engelkea | |||||
Largest City: | Belessia | |||||
Official languages: | Virassian | |||||
Demonym: | Virassian | |||||
Politics | ||||||
Government: | Autocratic one-party military dictatorship | |||||
- President-General: | General Wassen Schamilte | |||||
- Chief Minister: | Johan Konlof | |||||
Legislature: | Vrskanna Kohorte | |||||
State religion: | ![]() | |||||
Geography & Demographics | ||||||
Population: | 71,600,000 | |||||
Ethnic groups: | 94% Virassian, 5% Visser[1] | |||||
Time zone: | SMT -5 to -3 | |||||
Economy | ||||||
Currency: | Vibser (Ꮌ)(?) | |||||
GNP: | Ꭶ156,139 million ([1]) | |||||
GNP per capita: | Ꭶ2330.4 ([2]) | |||||
Core industries: | Wheat, vegetables, meat, coal, gold, woven goods, timber, iron ore, livestock | |||||
Primary imports: | Agricultural tools and machinery, weapons, industrial components, steel | |||||
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The Virassian Republic (?/vɪ.ˈræ.siː.ə/; Virassian: Վռսկըննա Ռէսպօբլիկօ tr. Vrskanna Respubliku) was a nation in central Amlei. Schamiltist Virassia, or simply the Virassian Junta, are colloquial names of the modern post-Civil War incarnation of the nation of Virassia ruled by the clique of President-General Wassen Schamilte, who rose to power following the Nationalist victory over the People's Revolutionary Front and Anarchist movement and crushing of the revolution. In 1901 its population was the 6th largest in the world at 71,600,000 (1901 census), ahead of Nuntu but behind Sine Weythern.
History[edit | edit source]
Geography[edit | edit source]
Politics[edit | edit source]
Governance[edit | edit source]
After the end of the Virassian Civil War and the establishment of the Schamilte junta the Parliament was formally dissolved and the replaced with the Vrskanna Kohorte (lit. Virassian Cohort), a legislative body completely de-fanged of any possible authority that served merely a rubber stamp for the military rule of Wassen Schamilte and his generals. In the process of dissolution, all of its political parties were outlawed.
Political parties[edit | edit source]
The Virassian Royal Parliament was for its short existence comprised of two coalitions of right and left wing parties. To the right was the Kondat-Argent Dawn Coaliton (KAD), comprised of the pro-monarchy centre-right conservative Constitutional Democratic Party (colloquially "Kondats", from the Virassian Konstatutional Damēkratik Gruphe) and the parliamentary branch of the fascist Argent Dawn. To the left was the Republican & Socialist Coalition (ReSoC), formed of the centre-left pro-republic Virassian Republican Party and the left reformist Socialist Party.
Administrative Divisions[edit | edit source]
Virassia was divided into the 4 princedoms of Astrary, Bupreca, Midde-Virassia and Ucrissia, each led by a respective Princedom Governor (historically Princes). Below the princedoms sat marches, counties and baronies, led by marquesses, counts and barons respectively, of which there are 48. These regions were further divided into boroughs, of which there were 577.
Administrational divisions of Virassia | |||||
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No. | Province | Capital | No. | Province | Capital |
1 | Oshbva county | Hoȥmik | 25 | Stimme barony | Staile |
2 | Kodme barony | Kodme | 26 | Kanig county | Kogbor |
3 | Bosorba county | Brasei | 27 | Hasmkh county | Dzein |
4 | Pyloie county | Ucrissia | 28 | Blathme county | Hagtē |
5 | Tsimmen county | Onshti | 29 | Hibvor county | Hibvor |
6 | Haide barony | Bede | 30 | Osdrase march | Vriskor |
7 | Uppe-Esvkrassia march | Yigror | 31 | Aska county | St. Sebāstian |
8 | Aregzei barony | Uvorda | 32 | Isbraspa county | Makhnea |
9 | Laskien county | St. Bakhus | 33 | Dȥkavei county | Dȥkavei |
10 | Vasriya county | Iyasāmn | 34 | Uppe-Astrary county | Uppe-Astrary |
11 | Pashealbel march | Faskor | 35 | Ledles barony | Ostime |
12 | Weiden march | Haslpa | 36 | Roskge barony | Miskagā |
13 | Sazdema county | St. Brandēn | 37 | Thalkea county | Morazor |
14 | Vethden march | St. Engelkea | 38 | Brasidor county | Brasde |
15 | Riserv county | Brein | 39 | Lour-Astrary county | Ald-Astrary |
16 | Omakh barony | Waspor | 40 | Palors county | Ideaor |
17 | Hegla barony | Hegla | 41 | Blakh barony | Morgenin |
18 | Meibe barony | Sazdea | 42 | Sonnzirē county | Misomkh |
19 | Trosk county | Troska | 43 | Haus county | Abbos |
20 | Teveyl county | Shamka | 44 | Zasȥa county | Nikhsa |
21 | Naravor county | Tunde | 45 | Seeskost county | Nae-Seeskost |
22 | Semal barony | Semal | 46 | Mishka county | Puzshar |
23 | Vesitna march | Kinstony | 47 | Krālars march | Belessia |
24 | Mikhavn county | Paurban | 48 | Wisorva barony | Fadmis |
Military[edit | edit source]
The Virassian military was comprised of conscripted soldiers from overwhelmingly peasant backgrounds commanded by a distinctly educated, upper-class layer of officers.
Police force[edit | edit source]
Legal system[edit | edit source]
Foreign Policy[edit | edit source]
Law enforcement[edit | edit source]
Economy[edit | edit source]

By western standards Virassia in the 19th and 20th centuries has proved to be a particularly backward country. After the first few waves of the Industrial revolution there has been little further industrial development, with a large 70% of its population still living on the land as peasants and agricultural labourers (with agricultural produce accounting for two thirds of the nation's exports) and an infrastructure unable to compete with those of the advanced Amleian economies. The division of Virassian land has consistently been amongst the smallest in Amlei; in 1890 almost 70% of Virassian land was in the hands of only 2% of all landowners, of whom were highly concentrated within the ranks of the state. Unlike in nations such as Etruarand, Sine Weythern or Atraeth - where truly bourgeois revolutions occurred, dismantling feudalism and establishing the nations as capitalist republics - the Virassian bourgeoisie never properly consolidated itself as a new ruling class of the nation, with the Virassian military proving to be an effective and vital crutch for the survival of the Virassian feudal state. The post-revolution makeup of the state was thus characteristically different from that of other industrialised nations in the decades following, with ownership of the means of most capitalist production kept primely in the hands of the aristocracy and military as opposed to the private sector. Due to the state's monopoly over the economy, internal competition was minimal, severely limiting long-term internal growth, with Virassia instead relying on its ever diminishing edge over the international market. This bottleneck ultimately caused Virassia to enter a deep recession following the Great Crash, sparking a decade of societal problems that have lasted right until the turn of the century.
Currency[edit | edit source]
Industry[edit | edit source]
Virassia had a fairly strong coal, oil and gold producing industry, however its industrial sector is comparatively backwards compared to the more advanced economies of Etruarand, Cesmela, Atraeth and Amulna.
Agriculture[edit | edit source]
The majority of Schamiltist Virassia's economy rested on agriculture.
Workers' rights[edit | edit source]
In the eyes of labour historians late Michlinof-era and Schamiltist Virassia was notorious for having some of the worst workers' rights in Amlei, with wage rates on average lower than the averages in advanced capitalist countries of Atraeth and Etruarand, and roughly on par with Saeyri. Due to national economic stagnation leading up to and following the Great Crash, pressure on the state and capitalists to cut wages had soared.
Since 1880 Virassian capitalists had gradually implemented a piece rate system for workers' wages, dually as an attempt to drive production and to drive workers into competition with one-another, and was employed as an attempt to replace the existing wage increases won by union action in the past decade. As of 1900, roughly two thirds of the industrial workforce had been transferred to piece rate schemes. Coal workers, for example, were paid 110% above normal wage rates for a productive output 50% above the norm, with wage bonuses increasing to a meagre 189% for 70% over-fulfilment, and 300% for a 100% over-fulfillment. Average wage rates - without overproduction bonuses - were across dozens of industries practically unliveable, with the typical Virassian worker needing to exceed the average production quota by 50-70% each day to earn enough to sufficiently afford rent, essentials, and for most workers to also provide for their families.
Demographics[edit | edit source]
Largest cities[edit | edit source]
Rank | City | Population |
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1 | Belessia [note 1] | 1,430,000 |
2 | St. Engelkea | 1,130,000 |
3 | Ucrissia | 570,000 |
4 | Uppe-Astrary | 390,000 |
5 | Misomkh | 280,000 |
6 | Kinstony | 240,000 |
7 | Brasde | 177,000 |
[1] Part of Nicimia from October 1899 to April 1901.
Ethnic groups[edit | edit source]
In a 1882 census, the first and thus far only Virassain census detailing ethnic groups, roughly 94% of the population identified as ethnically Virassian, and 5% as Visser. The other 1% contained a wide variety of ethnic groups, with the largest sections including Imlyna and Cambrinian. These statistics however are rather broad and are visibly skewed due to many ethnic groups hiding their identities due to ethnic persecution.
The Visser ethnic group in particular has had a long history of discrimination within the nation of Virassia, with anti-Visser practices having been especially endemic in the century following the industrial revolution and the rise of capitalism, and features common symptoms of ethnic discrimination including denied or hyper-exploitative employment, suppression of culture and language, police brutality, apartheid-like separation in public and domestic life, and in recent history genocide. According to the narrative presented by mainstream history, Virassian-Visser hostility harks much further back to the days of the first Kingdom of Virassia, where traditional Ewigic people and Amulndians of Ewigic descent fought bitterly for the right to the Virassian namesake. Due to their rampant poverty and unemployment forcing them into substance abuse, violence and severe disenfranchisement with the system, Vissers have become to be stereotypically seen and portrayed as short-tempered, illiterate, spouse abusing, rebellious, uncivilised brutes with alcoholic tendencies and little regard for the great Virassian traditions of nationalism, military-like discipline and respect for family. The Visser people's attachment to Ewigic cultures and traditions also often allows them to be portayed as backward traditionalists, and further reinforces their stereotypical dislike of Virassian culture.
Imlynans, the ethnic group native to Amulna, have also been historical targets of discrimination, most of whom are practising Astralists. Due to the centuries-old religious conflicts between Astralist and Necrist nations all across Amlei, Imlynans are frequently treated as collaborators with the enemy, dissidents, and unworthy of the title of Virassian. These assumptions are not entirely baseless, and do have genuine basing in historical events, where during any of the religious wars of old thousands of Astralist Virassians would often defect to the other side.
Language[edit | edit source]
The most spoken languages by number of native speakers, c. 1898.
Rank | Language | Population |
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1 | Virassian | 57,996,000 (81%) |
2 | Visser | 10,740,000 (15%) |
3 | Oshbvern | ~2,148,000 (~3%) |
4 | Other | ~716,000 (~1%) |
total | 71,600,000 |
Virassia's dominant language was the Virassian language, an Upcymlu-Amleian language spoken by 81% of the population that is descended from the Zemlyumir language, the common ancestor of most of the Amulndian Amleian languages. The Amulndian heritage of the nation's dominant language can be traced to a considerable population of former Necrist clansmen adopting civilised lifestyles within the empire, maintaining their religious beliefs and traditions with little resistance due to the religious tolerance of the multi-ethnic, continent-spanning empire. Visser is the largest minority language, spoken by 15% of the population, descended from the native Ewigic language family. Oshbvern is a significant creole of Virassian and Visser, spoken by about three percent of the population.
Society[edit | edit source]
Religion[edit | edit source]
Though the religious institutions were not a key part of the ruling class unlike the Astralist or Igniscist Churches of the former Amulndian nations, the de facto state religion was Virassian Church Necrism, with the sect practices of the ethnic Virassians forming a key part of Virassian nationalism.
Status of women[edit | edit source]
Throughout the existence of the first and second republics, the womens' rights held fast to the Michlinof-era ways. It was widely accepted and promoted by the ruling establishment that a woman's place was in the home, with the extent of her life goals being marriage and raising children. A woman was expected to be subservient to the demands of her father, mother, and later her husband, and while they could get a job, were paid anywhere between 80-60% of men's wages, and were expected to stop working after marriage. Influenced by the Atraelish regime, Schamilte implemented minor reforms in the 1920's, introducing universal suffrage and lessening the de jure legal restrictions that forced women into marriage (such as inheritance laws, buying and selling property, and so fourth for non-married women), most of which were largely only of benefit to the middle and ruling classes. Equal pay was formally introduced in the 1978 in the wake of widespread strikes - making Virassia the third last country in Amlei to legalise it (before Cambrinia and Cossica) - however the gender pay gap persisted right into the 1990's and beyond. Abortion remained illegal until the civil rights movement.
Same-sex relationships[edit | edit source]
Like all Necrist-majority nations, the Virassian state's and church's attitude towards same sex relations is noticeably relaxed compared to the extreme discrimination and illegality of homosexuality of any form by the organised Astralist churches and the nations that adhere to them. There was no religious prosecution of same-sex relationships or any laws concerning the prosecution of sodomy. Any matters regarding the family structure however were still as highly controlled as they are in any other western nation of the time, with state homophobia manifesting instead as a defence of the male-female family structure as the natural behaviour of humans, rather than religious persecution of sinners. Same sex marriage was therefore illegal, and public romantic and sexual affection between individuals of the same sex were, whilst technically legal, highly frowned upon as degenerate and inhuman, with publicly visible offenders often arrested for public indecency.
Culture[edit | edit source]
Architecture[edit | edit source]
Virassian architecture of the era displayed the proud hallmarks of modern Eastern Amleian architecture, with little influence drawn from Amulndian architecture, and is famously characterised by usage of faceted domes and tented roofs in black shingles, brass or painted metal (often in white or grey), and a liberal usage of red clay bricks for walls. Windows are typically small and arched, however stained glass is exceptionally rare, and is generally frowned upon as characteristically foreign in origin. Artistic, architectural movements of the time, such as the Atraelish art nouveau-like Modernism or western Amleian rococo-like Aquane had little effect on Virassian styles, with Virassian architects preferring to stay firmly rooted in the architectural styles of the height of the Chasteuila dynasty around 1668 CE.
Religion[edit | edit source]
Notes[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Official statistics