Larcetany
|
Republic of Larcetany  República d'Ellarça (Larcetan) |
Loading map... |
Larcetany (/lar'sɛ'təni/, pronounced: lar-SEH-tuh-nee; Larcetan: Ellarça, pronounced: [ə'ʎarsə], uh-YAR-suh), officially The Republic of Larcetany (Larcetan: República d'Ellarça), is a sovereign state in southwestern Uletha∈⊾. It is bordered by Saiol to the south, Alora to the north, UL04e to the southeast and Lucetia Regalis to the east. The Larcetan shores, west of the country, lie on the Mesembric Sea∈⊾. The capital and largest city of the country is Cirtella, located in the southwest of the country.
Politically, it is defined as a Unitary parliamentary republic, with a unicameral legislature system. Diplomatically, it is a member of the Association of South Ulethan Nations, after joining in 19xx.
The history of Larcetany is defined by the early medieval counties of Cirtella and Mingó, which dominated the coast and interior of the country, respectively. During the middle ages, a personal union ended up in the union of both counties. During the 14th century, a succession crisis would result in the throning of a prince that became a vassal of Castellán. This vassalage would last during three centuries, after which Larcetany would break it after the independence war in 1662, severely limiting the colonial rights it gained during the vassal period. During the 19th century, parlamentarianism would be established in 1813, gaining power through the century and eventually championing the Liberal Revolution, ousting the prince in 1882. The liberal democratic period would be broken in 1927 with the Worker Revolution, establishing a socialist system. Reactionarian forces inside the army would eventually foster a Coup d'État in 1942, setting in an authoritarian military dictatorship that would last until 1957, when new social movements would promote the restablishment of democracy.
Etymology
Both the endonym (Ellarça) and the common exonym for Larcetany have the same origin. During the classical era, before the *romantish* invasion of the lands that are currently Larcetany, geographers described the peoples living between the Braida and the Casquer river mouths as Larcetanii. Eventually, those lands would be called Larcetania, which would become Llarcetania, Ellarcetania, and eventually Ellarça in the native Larcetan.
Geography
Topography and hydrography
Environment and climate
History
 | |
|---|---|
| History of Larcetany | |
| Larcetan Counties period | |
| • Foundation of the county of Cirtella | 723 |
| • Foundation of the county of Mingó | 748 |
| • Personal union | 941 |
| Principality of Larcetany | 941-1882 |
| • Castellanese vassal state | 1380-1658 |
| • Independence war | 1658-1662 |
| • Foundation of the Larcetan Court | 1813 |
| Republic of Larcetany | 1882- |
| • Socialist revolution | 1927 |
| • Reactionary coup d'état | 1942 |
| • Democratic restoration (Fourth republic) | 1957 |
Pre-"Romantish" Period
Archeological and historical records have found urban settlements in the lands currently known as Larcetany since at least the year 700 BCE, forming a culture known by literary sources as the Larcetanii, which interacted with the seafaring trader routes existing in the Mesembric sea at that point.
"Romantish" Period
xxx
"Romantish" Kingdom of the Southeast
xxx
Larcetan Counties
During the 8th century, the southeastern territories gradually were fragmented into smaller counties, which started to gain autonomy from the Kingdom of the Southeast as the disconnect between national and territorial interests became evident. In the year 723, the first hereditary Count of Cirtella, Berenguer I, broke its vassalage from the Southeast with little to no resistance. In the east of the country, in Mingó, vassalage was broken in the year 748, leading to the collapse of the Kingdom of the Southeast. Both counties would exist independent from each other, although with close familiar ties. Eventually, in the 10th century, when Count Oscar I of Mingó died without offspring in 937, the county title would jump to Countess Conception I, who was already Count of Cirtella, holding both counties at the same time. After the death of Conception, the new Countess, Anna, would proclaim herself Princess of the Larcetans, establishing the Principality of Larcetany in 941 and establishing the Larcetan Dinasty, which would rule over the country for four more centuries.
Castellanese vassal period
From the 13th century onwards, the increased influence of Castellán through commerce and naval influence in the Mesembric sea as a rising kingdom would start pressuring favourable relations between the princes of Larcetany and the Castellanese court, favouring the Castellanese court in the affairs of the Larcetan Principal Family. This pressure would reach its tipping point during the reign of Didacus VI (1356-1380), an ill-fit prince who couldn't produce any offspring, favouring the intervention of Castellanese officials into Larcetan politics. This influence favoured a new pretendent to the Larcetan throne, Alfonso de Reíllo, who eventually was awarded princedom after the death of Prince Didacus in 1380.
Inmediately after assuming the role of prince, Alfonso promised vassalage to the Kingdom of Castellán. This, combined with the extensive infiltration of Castellanese nobility throughout Larcetany, allowed Castellán to have control over Larcetan affairs. As a reward for his continued loyalty to the Kingdom of Castellán, Alfonso was rewarded with the title of Viceroy of Takora, which all subsequent princes of Larcetany would hold. Despite this, the influence that the country would exert over Takora would be minimal, as all other colonial officials in Takora would be Castellanese.
During the vassal period, the Larcetan nobility would leverage its status with Castellán to obtain trade benefits from the Castellanese colonies, allowing the enrichment of the country. Despite this, the Castellanese court, as imperial expansionism grew, would see Larcetany as the target for a new extractionist colony, and during the 17th century tensions grew between the established nobility in Larcetany, which would like to see itself as a co-colonizer in the territories being invaded mainly in Tarephia, and the Castellanese court, which preferred to bring their own officials to colonise Larcetany itself.
Independence War
The first prince to question the practices of Castellanese lords in Larcetany would be Didacus X, who in 1658 published that Castellanese ships wishing to enter goods into the port of Cirtella would have to pay customs, as every other foreign nation was doing at this point in time. Castellanese merchants refused to pay and went back to the port of Reíllo, noticing authorities that Cirtella was making them pay customs at what they considered their own land. Inmediately after, a naval fleet stormed Cirtella, took the city, and captured and killed Prince Didacus.
After these events, the Principal family fled inland to Marguera and Prince Louis III inherited the crown, with the mission of fighting the stationed troops in Cirtella, which were advancing through the country with the objective of eventually taking Larcetany as a new Castellanese colony, with the help of Takoran colonial troops from the north. From this point on, the Prince was stripped from the Viceroyalty of Takora, and triggered a four-year-long war which was fought between the establishment of Larcetan nobility and the Castellanese imperial forces. A new ally for Larcetany emerged in Valonny, which saw this invasion as a threat to the control of its foreign colonies, as it would facilitate a blockade for trade across the Vela Strait. This war would cause the death of Prince Louis in action in 1660, and the subsequent battles captained by the new Prince, Eiximenis VII, allowing advances for the Larcetan troops until the final siege in Cirtella, in 1662, with the help of a popular revolt inside the sieged city against Castellanese soldiers, would result in the surrender of Castellán, granting full independence to Larcetany.
Independent Larcetany
Absolutist period
As Larcetany became fully independent in 1662, the government model of the country would be inspired from the Valonnais royalty of the time, as it tried to distance itself from the previous Castellanese influence, which inmediately was ostracized after the war. Many lords of Castellanese origin, especially those who were close to the Castellanese royal family, were stripped of their nobiliary rights, and either fled to Castellan or were sentenced for treason in Larcetany, despite some having supported the Larcetan efforts during the independence war. The prince and his council tried to get an absolutist hold of the country to avoid foreign interferences during this period.
Larcetan Court: Constitutional monarchy
During the late 18th century, tensions between the liberal urban burgoisie, mainly in Cirtella, and the Principal family grew substantially, as their interest grew apart during the very first stages of the Industrial Revolution in the country. The role of Prince Phillip III, who ruled between 1801 and 1813, only fostered tensions between both groups, prosecuting several liberal leaders during his tenure. After the death of Phillip III, in order to reconciliate nobility and bourgoisie, new young prince Joseph V encouraged debates with the burgoisie, which helped reduce the tensions as the country was being introduced to a new economical order caused by the technologies championed at the time. These debates formed the Larcetan Court, at the time divided 50/50 between bourgoisie and nobility, who was tasked with the writing of a new set of laws. The end result would be the first Larcetan Constitution, proclaimed the same year, which established the country as a modern constitutional monarchy by the time.
Republican period
Republican revolution
xxx
Socialist period
xxx
Military dictatorship
xxx
Fourth republic: Democratic restoration
xxx
Politics and Government
 | |
|---|---|
| Government of Larcetany | |
| Unitary parlamentary republic | |
| Legislature | National Congress |
| AN, ASUN | |
Larcetany is currently a Parlamentary republic, with a unicameral system. The National Congress holds 180 seats, with 60 of them assigned one to each county (Diputats comarcals) and the other 120 assigned proportionally to population in regions, all of them chosen every five years through elections. The National Congress elects the President, at the beginning of each legislature, through two votes. On the first vote, each representative votes for a candidate, and an absolute majority (91 votes) is required for the candidate to get elected as president. If no candidate is chosen through the first vote, a second vote must be held, which will elect the president through a simple majority.
Government buildings
Most government buildings and ministries are in the Eixample district of the capital city, Cirtella.
Ministry of Infrastructures and Transportation
Ministry of the Presidency (Government Palace)
Ministry of Agriculture and Environment
Diplomacy
Larcetany is a member of the Association of South Ulethan Nations, and the Assembly of Nations.
Diplomatic missions
| Country | Larcetan Embassy | Embassy in Larcetany | Consulates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anglesbury and Youcestershire | 6-8 Nae Street, Whangiora | Carrer de la Independència, 84 | |
 Banuvia
|
Granovska avenija, Sarengrad | Carrer de Barnils, 21 | |
 Barzona
|
Via eu Cavall, Carante | Carrer del Consell Ellarçà, 107 | |
 Castellan
|
Carrer de la Memòria | ||
 Demirhanlı Devleti
|
Avinguda del President Balcells | ||
 Geklinia-Dregolesia
|
Плац Крўлевскі, Dobrzanka | ||
| Maslinavia | Opolovac | ||
 Qennes
|
Patra Arṣanta Naoță, Arta | Ronda de Sant Just, 35 | |
 Kofuku
|
Wellstar Street, Bako-Huz | Carrer del Comtat, 25 |
Administrative divisions
 | |
|---|---|
| Administrative divisions of Larcetany | |
| First-level | 8 regions (Larcetan: Vegueries) |
| Second-level | 60 counties (Larcetan: Comarques) |
| Third-level | Municipalities (Larcetan: Municipis) |
Largest cities | |
| • Cirtella • Calaire • Borgona • Mollerà • Marguera | |
There are three main levels of administrative divisions in Larcetany: regions (Vegueries), counties (Comarques) and municipalities (Municipis).
| Region | Capital | Number of counties |
Land area | Population | Population density | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| km² | mi² | km² | mi² | ||||
| Altolà i Errates∈⊾ | Votlla | 7 | 5,879 | 2,270 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Vall Colomera∈⊾ | Creugisa | 5 | 5,156 | 1,991 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| les Altes∈⊾ | Vidó | 6 | 4,019 | 1,552 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Serres de Llevant∈⊾ | Santa Coloma de Berrià | 7 | 5,821 | 2,248 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Baixa Ellarça∈⊾ | Cirtella | 9 | 8,102 | 3,128 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Comarques Centrals∈⊾ | Vilafranca de Grifós | 4 | 4,468 | 1,725 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Valls de Migjorn∈⊾ | Carmajor | 12 | 7,114 | 2,747 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Camp de Mingó∈⊾ | Camingó | 10 | 7,737 | 2,987 | TBD | TBD | TBD |