New Samotkhe

New Samotkhe, officially the Republic of New Samotkhe, was a located in what is now South Kesh. It was established by remaining loyalist elements of the then-defunct Samot-Seratof Colonial Garrison in Eastern Ramay on the 17th of April, 1925, in an attempt to preserve Samot-Seratofian imperial hegemony over the area, despite the empire's collapse weeks prior. It was proclaimed and led by Akhatidze Natruli during its one-year long existence. Claiming the entirety of the former Eastern Ramayan colonial lands, the administration only administered 2.4% of the total area during its beginnings. During the final stages of the republic, the state controlled only the surrounding lands around Citeras, and was severely outnumbered in both manpower and resources.

Without access to resupplies and facing growing pressure from the native republican movement, the state collapsed on the 6th of June, 1926 after its leader, Akhatidze Natruli, was caught by Eastern Ramayan partisans while in an attempt to flee and was summarily executed. New Samot troops surrendered one day later, being handed over by Minister of Defense Sugitomo Ngatiman to the Republic of East Ramay. To this day, historians still argue whether any of the successor states of the SSE acknowledged the existence of such state, and whether the state was aligned with the successor states of the Samot-Seratofian Empire or was a single attempt to maintain Artemian hegemony over the native population.