Confederate States of Northern Avalonia

The Confedrate States of Northern Avalonian, otherwise know as K.N.A, is a confederation of ten nations made from former colonies fomred in 1933, it came into existence as for as a compromise between sepratists and untist factions in the nations of Liao and Schangau after the GC. Since then the Confederacy has become a much more politcally and socially unified entity, with the KNAfication movement which was highly popular during the 70s and 80s. Today K.N.A is economically rich and Diverse nation with many of its constiutants having highly specialised economies

Etymology
roughly means far place.

Native settlement
Settled around 10000 BC by early humans.

Kingdoms
by 700 AC a number of small tribal kingdoms had popped up in what is now Liao, composed of many different cultural groups they were competitive and small wars would break out often, they lived in a type of walled hill city known as a kurik.

Arrival of AYG and the Far purchase
Originally AYG setteled the coastal areas with small trade outposts and forts, but eventually much of it was sold to other nations in the Far purchase however it kept the territory of Santa Radox. beifang sets up the colony of liao, ringerike creates sorland, SSE creates nastral,

Early colonial period
Each colony set up relations with a singular native group which they trade guns, land and valuables for weapons, these groups were collectively know as the Shakan or civil tiwn. Each shakan gradually took up the culture of its colonial backer, after the resoures of the interior regions began to run slim, the shakan began to fight one another in a proxy war between the competing colonies. by 1800 the shakan had been moved inland as the new colnies now firmly established themselves in costal regions.

War of the Blue Wheel (1823-1827)
By the 1820s the Shakan had become increasingly hostile to there former colonial allies after being pushed further and further inland, in 1823 they formed the Blue wheel alliance and attacked the colonies in a number of mass Raids. The war lasted 4 years as the colonist alliance faced a well organised force with many battles resembling modern Artemian warfare, The war ended with the agreement of Ulencia with the creation of the modern state of Shakan which was a dominion of Beifang.

Baka-Samot war(1830-1833)
Liao takes the SSE colony on the mainland in 1830, launching brutal raids against lere with the war ending a few years later.

Baka-Teutonic war (1850)
Beifang is crushed navally in the war, with the port of shaggao handed over in the treaty of Mastburg creating the colonial possesion of Schangau

Teutonic wars of Expansion 1865-1866
During the campaign against agrana. The schangau front is a unexpected victory for the Teutons, with the total victory of the Schangau squadron against the larger Agranan squadron at the battle of picho, the AYG colonial army is thrown into chaos by a suspirse Teutonic offensive and gives up in a mass surrender.

Gulkysten war (1873-1874)
Sorland and Liao go to war over the gold rich gulkysten river system, after a pitched campainge, the Liaotian army is defeated decisively at 3 battle of kixi. Sorland is able to expand northward.

Baka-teuton friendship treaty
Teutonia hands over some land in Schangau exchange for an alliance with beifang, Liao and schangau become close allies

Liaotian Independance (1900)
in 1900 Liao was granted independence from beifang.

GC (1915-1925)
Liao and schangau fought together against Crown coalition and Republicans in the Avaonian theatre.

Post War troubles and confedracy (1925-1933)
ethnic tensions in Liao and Schangaus are compounded by a bad economy, 2 major factions emerge in both nations. the Unitists believe they must unite the nations to become stronger together, while separatist want to dissolve the nations into small Individual states, violence erupts between both groups until vote of agreement on confederacy in 1933.

Internal period (1933-1972)
After confederation was a period of neutrality as K.N.A began to a long period of internal change, the first articles of confederation gave the Confedral council limited abilities to interfere with the polices of it member states. throughout this period the country began a slow but steady economic growth, the Kesh war was a time of tensions between teutons and bakanese, a large aki populace arrived to farm a swamp, but overall remained stable. by the late 60s Rapid economic growth and increased interaction between the nations began to take route in the KNAfication Movement which called for greater unification between the states, this was achieved with the signing of the Second articles of confederation which set up common law, greater interconnection and greater power for the confederal council

Sorland War(1975)
in 1975 a popular republican revolution rose up in the Ringerike colony of Sorland, after a few days of freedom it was brutally crushed by the rmed forces which remaind loayl to the home government, K.N.A declared that the colonial government was illegitimate and invaded, overpowering the much smaller and lighter defence force it was able to secure the mainland quickly. However it suffered much heavier losses against the RRN and was unable to take prince albert island.

Sorland joins KNA(1979)
after becoming independent its economy was in a poor state due to war damage so after a few years it joined KNA.

Watomori(1993)
in 1993 a change in laws around langue school funding spirals into protest in the Aki dominated regions of south east Gexie for recognition as its own nation, the republic of watomori officaly becomes part of K.N.A in the same year.

Balinese hostage crisis (2002)
a prominent Gexie business man and his family are taken hostage while on holiday in BM, K.N.A begins a campaign to rescue its citizens and assit the BM government in destroying radical groups

Economy
The economies in K.N.A are highly developed free market economies mostly revolving around technology, manufacture and service industries, Schangau is one of the worlds largest ports and is at the forefront of developments in cybersecurity, social media and cybersystems. Gexie is the manufacturing hub of K.N.A containing the massive Jingzhoa combined manufacture plant.Much of K.N.A,s assets are owned by powerful families, houses, and conglomorates

Government
K.N.A is a Confederal Presidential Diarchy. at the Confederal level it has the semi elected Confederal council which is made up of 20 seats and runs on a majority vote system. The Council is limited to passing laws on foreign relations, military, interconnecting infrastructure and health, all national governments must send laws they have created to the council which can delay them from being processed for 6 mouths, it also can summon emergency powers if all council member are in agreement. national governments control there own local militias, law enforcement, local infrastructure, public services, economics, and taxation.

Military
The Confederal armed forces is the unified military organization comprising the Confederal Army, Air Force and Navy. The presidential diarchy is the commander-in-chief of the military, and formulates policy through the Minister of Defence. since the 1970s and after several major reequipment programs, the Armed Forces have become one of the most technologically advanced and professional armed forces in Northern Avalonia. The Confederal Army is mostly supplied with equipment from local producers. WMD command is part of the Airforce

Culture
A deep respect and admiration for cultural traditions is ingrained in soceity, with many people choosing to wear traditional style dress in public or at work, and visit religous sites. there is a deep tolerance of other cultures and religions within K.N.A although this may not extend to foreign groups as elitist views are common.

Sport
Velic grapple Ball is the national sport of K.N.A

Food
alot of colonial fusion food, K.N.A must import a large portion of its staple foods