Yashurhieli Republic

Imperial Republic of Yashurhiel (Ryupábalká Zìsyảshùrhịel)
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem
March of the Patriotssrc
The Yashurhieli Republic, c. 1941
Nation
Capital:	Zhenams
Official languages:	Yashurhieli language
Demonym:	Yashurhieli, Nationalist Yashurhieli
Politics
Government:	Autocratic One-party Republic
State religion:	Hararism
Formation:	1939
Dissolved:	1995
Geography & Demographics
Economy
Currency:	Kheklam(?)
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The Imperial Republic of Yashurhiel (Yashurhieli tr. Ryupábalká Kánnọi Zìsyảshùrhịel) is the Fascistic regime born from the defeat of the Black Army during the Yashurhieli Civil War, styling itself off the autocratic regimes of Atraeth and Saeyri.

History

Kingdoms of Ylow (~3000 BCE - ~1300 BCE)

Main article: Ylow Yashurs

The Yashur people, an ethnic group native to the lush Ylow Islands situated east of the Glistening Sea, grow to become an advanced naval civilisation with the acquisition of domesticated water buffalo and maize from trade networks with Wu and other eastern Cymluni city states.

Zhotl period (~1300 BCE - 640 BCE)

Main article: Zhotl Dynasty

The Kryshur people native to southeastern Cymlun are displaced as the Yashur people sail southward, conquering the coasts west of their homeland. The Yashurs gradually seize the deltas of the Glistening Sea and eastern coastlines of southern Cymlun over decades of raids and settlement. The ruling Zhotl dynasty consolidates its rule over the east of southern Cymlun, moving gradually inland through successive conquests, subjugating more native Kryshur peoples to their rule. Regarded as the first empire, with its legendary foundation date as the Empire of Yashurhiel being 1180 BCE. Rules from the Alabaster Throne in Dshinyo for its 340-year reign, where it expired with the last Emperor dying from illness, with his vizier claiming the throne.

Yaqshan period (640 BCE - 600 BCE)

Main article: Yaqshan Dynasty

A brief, turbulent dynasty, as the Emperor's Vizier Pastfan Yaqshan struggles to maintain his control of the throne amongst the chaos of pretenders raising armies marching to on Dshinyo or to carve up sections of the countryside for themselves.

Great Collapse period (600 BCE - 220 BCE)

Main article: Great Collapse Period

Lots of bickering kingdoms, principalities and warlord states, comprised of the warrior-prince states of Ytlitl, Jeredi, Sanzhuai, Zimdan, Diszlat and Harahur, the warlord states of Bay, Shin, Tla, Ren and Szoto, and the city-states of Dshinyo, Kabaty and Dantriyasz.

Szatljayi period (220 BCE - 102 BCE)

Main article: Szatljayi Dynasty

State of Zimdan forms a new kingdom of Yashurhiel, consolidating its rule as a small kingdom in the east, ruling from the Lapis-Lazuli Throne in the city of Zhenams.

Bizsyuiyo period (102 BCE - 31 CE)

Main article: Bizsyuiyo Dynasty

Kingdom of Yashurhiel expands under a new dynasty, acquiring the lost historical capital of Dshinyo, where it ruled from 87 BCE.

Saknashusz period (31 CE - 420 CE)

Main article: Saknashusz Dynasty

Second empire, ruled from Dshinyo.

Hanaszua period (420 CE - 972 CE)

Main article: Hanaszua Dynasty

Golden age of the Yashurhieli empire, spanning at its height form southern Gakkni and parts of Lake He-Bat in the north, to most of modern Aggurat in Rashyahiel in the west. Ruled from Dshinyo.

Three dynasties period (972 - 1394)

Main article: Three Dynasties

Yashurhiel exists largely as an undefined blob of loosely affiliated kingdoms and states controlled at various times by three key competing dynasties: Tiyatl (ruling from Dshinyo), Senshesej (Ruling from Kabaty), and Hanhuatl (Ruling from Zhenams). Is constantly invaded by neighbouring empires and warrior-principalities, most notably the Seonmi Empire.

Hanhuatl period (1394 - 1706)

Main article: Hanhuatl Dynasty

Third empire, ruled from Zhenams.

Atloehyoszo period (1706 - 1937)

Main article: Atloehyoszo Dynasty

The first and last modern Yashurhieli dynasty.

Socialist Yashurhiel (1937 - 1939)

Main article: Federal Socialist Republic of Yashurhiel

Short-lived worker's government, which governed most of northeastern Yashurhiel after the Yashurhieli Revolution and during most of the Yashurhieli Civil War before the defeat of the socialist Black Army by the the nationalist Coloured Army.

Yashurhieli Imperial Republic (after 1939)

Fascistic regime born from the defeat of the Black Army, styling itself off the autocratic regimes of Atraeth and Saeyri.

Politics

Military

Uniforms used by the Yashurhieli Republican military

Governance

Yashurhiel was for most of its existence been ruled as an absolute monarchy, with the power of the Imperial Family shifting from dynasty to dynasty and ruler to ruler. Since the enthronement of of Yotobyur XV Atloehyozo in 1779, the Imperial Family had been characterised by a fascination with the liberalism of the west, with the late Yotobyur XV styling his government as an enlightened monarchy, embracing the principles of logic and rationality over mysticism into his family's rule. Across his and his sons' reign, rights to education and religious tolerance were promoted, as well as a limited degree of freedom of speech for all classes of society. In 1800, the Imperial Family codified into common law the right for wealthy persons outside of nobility to purchase and own state property, granted that the land was used to enrich and advance the Yashurhieli state and people.

Culture

Caste system

Pyramid illustrating the caste system

In the centuries following the invasion of lower Cymlun by the Ylow Yashurs and the subjugation of the Kryshur people (and minor ethnic groups), the Zhotl Emperors intensified the social stratification intrinsic to ancient Ylow class society in their generational attempts to preserve their lineages as a ruling class, and to ensure the particular oppression and exploitation of both the Yashur peasantry and the subjugated natives of lower Cymlun. In time, this stratification became ingrained into Yashurhieli society, with each layer of society solidifying into one of five castes. The castes are:

• Wyotlana - comprised of priests. Though considered the highest class, the Wyotlana had even before the rise of the Zhotl dynasty been reduced to a middling section of the ruling class.
• Zubadjazh - comprised of hereditary warriors and royalty. The core section of the Yashur ruling class, formed of kings, warrior-princes and generals, as well as the professional sections of the army who enforce the rule of law, and defend and expand national borders.
• Tangyota - comprised of merchants and landowners. Initially comparable to peasants in their social power, this caste steadily rose to prominence - most especially after the colonisation of the Inner Sea - rising to become fundamental sections of both the ruling and middle classes.
• Tloszany - comprised of peasants and workers. In Yashurhiel the Tloszany caste is comprised of both Yashurs and non-Yashurs, and is the highest caste that a non-Yashur can aspire to.
• Shagabu - regarded as the "unclean caste" untouchable by higher castes. The caste of slaves and outcasts. Shagabu is the caste reserved for all non-Yashurs who have not assimilated into Yashur culture, and live on the fringes of society as beggars or in the most lowly of jobs, such as street cleaning, waste and sewerage management, or as slaves.

The philosophy of castes also extends to all other societies beyond Yashurhiel, with the other ethnic groups deemed worthy of comparision with the Yashur people referred to as dignified races. Groups oppressed by other societies are inversely regarded as indignant races, and are typically treated the same abroad by Yashurhieli royalty and ambassadors as non-Yashurs are on home soil. This classification of races has shifted with the times and interests of the ruling classes of the Yashurhieli races; modern examples of dignified races include Kuosi and Atraelish, and for undignified races Vissers, Hobrians, and all Neiran ethnicities.