Kesh Rehabilitory Commission

The Kesh Rehabilitory Commission (KRC) was a North-South Concordant (NSC) economic program initiated in 1961 tasked with providing foreign aid to Selengeria, Asharistan, Alvakalia and Nasiria following the Great Kesh War. Aid to help rebuild Wujin — which was the subject of the first combat nuclear bombing at the hands of Tiperyn during the war — was later provided to Kodeshia under the KRC framework. The KRC among the first joint initiatives carried out by the NSC, which was founded in 1960.

The program had the objective of hastening the recovery of Keshan Crown Concordant states that were ravaged by war. With the founding of the nascent NSC and the integration of the ad hoc Crown Concordant into that alliance, there was a massive economic disparity between the Big Four (Tiperyn, Koryeo, Agrana y Griegro and Boaga) and its Keshan members. To aid in peacetime recovery, the KRC provided a formal avenue to funnel foreign investment into and drop trade barriers and restrictions for target nations. The program also sought to provide favorable-interest-rate loans for low-income states who were considered too risky to lend to, as the battleground states during the Great Kesh War were. They would accomplish this by backing loans for infrastructural development in low-income members with the credibility of the North-South Concordant as a whole. This initiative would serve as the basis for the Concordant Investment Bank founded in 1967.

Significant focus areas included the construction of key infrastructure (such as ports, roads, rail lines, sewage, and electricity grids), modernization of agricultural and industrial capacity, professionalization and proliferation of secondary and tertiary education, reducing barriers to NSC capital and labor flows, and rebuilding defense infrastructure. Priority for funds was calculated based on the nation's war contribution, with several quantitative metrics, including human losses, costs in infrastructural damage, and days in combat. Selengeria received approximately 45% of KRC funding, followed by Asharistan (30%), Nasiria (16%), and Alvakalia (9%).

While the KRC succeeded in its goal of increasing the economic output and modernizing the industries of target nations, the program was generally criticized by NSC rivals as a means of solidifying NSC influence over low-income areas in Kesh. Academics have cited that the ultimate objective of the KRC was to strengthen the NSC's position in Kesh to rival the Kodeshia-Beifang bloc and League of Free Nations. Further, the League targeted Tiperyn — among the largest contributors to the program — in particular for its role in gaining private and state ownership over large areas of the Selengerian economy.

Boaga
The KRC was controversial in Boaga and is often cited by historians as the beginning of the rift between Boaga and the other Big Four members of the NSC. The Liberal Government of Jon Legarra was sympathetic towards Kodeshia in the Great Kesh War due to Tiperyn's use of weapons of mass destruction against Kodeshia and Selengeria's role in initiating the war was widely unpopular among the populace, who viewed the Great Kesh War as Kodeshia's national struggle against aggressors not unlike the many Boagan-Goetic Wars. However, King Eneko IX remained steadfast in his support of the NSC and the KRC. His position was weakened by the belief of his heir, Crown Prince Erramun (later King Erramun XI) that Kodeshia was the nation that needed rehabilitation the most as a result of the nuclear weapons used against it. Erramun and Legarra successfully pressured the king into appealing to the NSC to include Kodeshia in the KRC (a position which enjoyed widespread popular support). This proposal was eventually accepted by the other members of the NSC.