Mursland

Mursland, officially The Royal Confederation of the Mursland Provinces, is a state in XXX. Here should be some more information later.

The Confederation has an and is industrialized, with their main export focus in general-use vehicles, precision machining, and cereal products. Besides that, the state is also known for their knowledge export, fielding some of the highest ranking engineering schools on the continent.

History

 * Note: these dates are currently from an old copy over, and will be changed later to fit the narrative of this world better

Bond of the Mursland Countries
Historians agree that the predecessor of the Confederate Provinces was the Bond of the Mursland Countries, formed in 1834 for defensive purposes consisting of Gelria, Certinia, and several smaller countries. The Bond booked success in the Sitrakt Crisis of 1835 and the Second Brabanian-Gelrian war; these achievements, combined with the growing neighbouring countries in the region, the Bond quickly gains members. In 1838 Heleren-Visk joins the bond, and in 1841 Catapularia joins the bond, creating a strong axis in the region.

As a result of the Third Brabanian-Gelrian War in 1842, Gelria grows significantly in territory and power. As a response, Certinia and the new member Catapularia form a political front as counterweight. These two countries would end up in a personal union in 1859 with the marriage of Willem of Certinia and Matilde, baroness of Idena.

Congress of Gortningsburg
In 1862, the XXX war started, with the Bond on one side and Rys and ?? on the other. Rys had a considerably sized army, and the smaller armies of the Bond would have to work closely together to ensure victory. In the run up to the conflict, the popular Willem of Catapularia and Certinia had gathered support of the public opinion to make the Bond work closer together on various subjects like trade. As the pressure of the neighbouring countries increased, Willem decided to call for unification of the Bond members. All Bond members but one voted in favour on the Congress of Gortningsburg; Bonhemland refused, because it feared to be politically overruled by the culturally-different southward countries.

The 14 former bond members now formed an unified army, which was troubled by disconnected command in the initial stages of the war, but later on regained its organisation and soon booked several successes on the battlefield (most noteworthy the Siege of Magni, battle of Mucin Ridge, and Crossing of the Middle Yr). With the Treaty of Tselling of 1865, the united countries, which renamed themselves to the Union of the Mursland Countries, established themselves as a regional power, quickly exerting influence upon all smaller border nations. In the following 3 years, another 4 countries joined the federation via referenda. The 1868 Four-day War resulted into adding Kochland and Yrsland to the Union after a succession issue of the latter.

Politics
The current constitution of the Confederate Provinces is from 1962, which is a slightly corrected version of one dating back to 1924. The 1924 constitution was a complete revamp of the 1891 version, and deals with the power of the King relative to the states.

Government
The Confederate Provinces has a federal constitutional monarchy, with an unicameral parliament and an independently elected State-President. The parliament, called the Province-Room, is led by the Province-President, whom is selected from the largest party seated in the Province-Room based on the previous elections. The Province-Room is directly elected by popular vote, with each province having his own candidate list (with the exception of the protectorates), which is directly tied with the Provincial legislatures; in other words: members of the parliament are also members of the provincial governments and vice-versa.

The number of seats per province is determined on basis of population size of said province, with one seat per 75000 legal civilians. Provinces with less than 8 seats have additional seats which do not count towards the Province Room, but do count for the government of the Province in question. This is to prevent having too few people ruling over a province resulting in the Head of Province being able to force his decisions.

The past few decades, the population of the Confederate Provinces has grown considerably, thus the size of the Province-Room has increased accordingly: currently there are N seats.

Both the State-President, Province-Room and Province-President serve 4 years each, with the State and Provincial elections alternating every two years. The constitution is designed to keep the two elections from desynchronizing. In case the State-President or Province-Room resigns, two options are possible: in case the resigning entity has served more than two years the other will be re-elected two years after said resignation. In case the entity has server for less than two years the other will be re-elected one year after said resignation (thus re-elections can be delayed) and the new elections will follow the regular schedule.