Esmir
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Esmiran Federation | |
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 Flag of Esmir
 Emblem of the Legacy Party
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Motto: "Therebeing, Faith, Labor" | |
Anthem: Protect the Motherland, O' Patriarchs! | |
 Internationally recognized territory of the Esmiran Federation | |
| Capital | Zey |
| Largest city | Alo Yopa |
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| Recognised regional languages |
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| Ethnic groups (2020 Estimate) | 100% Human |
| Demonym(s) | Esmiran Esmiri |
| Government | Federal Dahorianist one-party totalitarian dictatorship with theocratic elements |
• Supreme Leader | Aboa Habshi |
• Presidial Chief | Tauga Utso |
• Director of Internal Affairs | Jituj Tkaya |
| Legislature | Supreme Council |
| History | |
• Formation of Raku Dynasty | 2500 BC |
• Formation of Lashma Dynasty | 1500 BC |
• First Holy Incursion | 249 BC |
• Rise of a central state apparatus under the Cheshmej Dynasty | 100s |
• First Peasant Uprising | 617 |
• Imperial Esmir | 955 |
• Union State under Lapinumbian rule | 1759 |
• Independence from Lapinumbia | 1890 |
• Formation of Republic | 1945 |
• Formation of Socialist Republic | 1947 |
• Formation of Federation | 1974 |
• Technical Revolution | 1977 |
| Population | |
• 2024 estimate | 47,438,939 |
• Census | Undisclosed |
| Currency | Esmiran dlas |
| Date format | yyyy/dd/mm |
| Driving side | right side |
Esmir, officially the Esmiran Federation, is a country in Gondawa that spans across both sides of the Esmiri Strait. Throughout history. Esmir was largely dominated by Estamite faiths, often united under different dynasties. In 1910, the Sara Dynasty united much of modern Esmir’s borders under its control by annexing two of its vassal states.
Since the 1990s, the Esmiran Federation’s unique insights regarding geopolitics have placed it in an interesting position. For the most part, it remains rigidly isolationist and militaristic while placing an emphasis on its Dahorianist anthropology, which remains the core of Esmiran political life. The country is exceedingly critical of the “seafaring empires” of the world, which it sees as individual projects of an antagonistic “thalassocratic object”. Esmir considers itself a “land empire”, to say that its territory being the subject of Esmiran reality reinforces its closed, associative quality, while the “seafaring empires” maintain the sea as the territory of the cosmopolitan reality, which reinforces the open and dissociative quality. The supreme leader of Esmir is Aboa Habshi.
Esmir is a regional power due to its geostrategic location and expansive military capabilities, as well as its leading role in the Orthodox Katharian faith. It is the leading member of the Rehmed Cooperation Association and a founding member of the International People's Organization.
Etymology
History
Prehistory
Hominids such as Homo habilis and Homo erectus are possible direct ancestors of modern Homo sapiens, and lived in Esmir tens of thousands of years ago.
Pre-Kathar Esmir
Old Documents
According to traditional Esmiri historiography, the Estam ("enlightened kingdom") was established sometime in the late fourth millennium BC, being the setting for what is now known as the Old Documents in Orthodox Katharianism or the Chalash in Neo-Estamism. While much of these documents remain classified and kept in the North Castle Library, there are a few documents that are released to the public. The seven public books of the Old Documents describe a prehistoric betrayal of God by man and an army of fallen angels equipping the Irapkas (priest-kings) with forbidden knowledge. The majority of this forbidden knowledge is said to lie in the classified books. The Irapkas struggled against one another until there were nine left, whose tribes united to form the Estam. In the later Old Estam Period, God was revealed to Irapka Sesom I of Zayem, who was given a series of commandments as well as the power to appoint a new "King Layem" who would be the new emperor of the land under the Estam. The identity of King Layem is not known.
Scholarly perspective
The years at which the events took place in the Old Estam are not clear, leading many aspects of its existence to be contested by secular historians, who hold the events in the Old Documents to scrutiny. Meanwhile, religious scholars argue for its legitimacy. Certain non-Estamite spiritual movements in the region hold the Old Documents in high regard.
Rise of Katharianism
Early Raku Dynasty
The Raku Dynasty is the first Esmiri dynasty which is widely agreed to have existed among religious and secular scholars alike. It was founded around 2500 BC. The earlier emperors are not known, however, the first recorded one was Emperor Tadumo who claimed direct lineage from King Layem as appointed by the Irapka Sesom I of Zayem on behalf of God from over a millennia earlier.
Kathar Documents
The final years of the Raku Dynasty around 1700 BC again are not quite clear. Prophecy in the Old Documents foretold of a completion to God's law in the form of a prophet, which according to the Katharians was complete in the ascension of Emperor Kathar to the throne. According to the Kathar Documents, Kathar claimed to be the enlightened prophet of God, performing miracles and healing wounded homeless people. Despite being Emperor, he slept on the streets and tended to the sick, which was unheard of and entirely inappropriate for an emperor. The entirety of the Old Estam, with the exception of one Irapka Zemo II of Temra, motioned to have Kathar stoned. Kathar was instead crucified by a band of religious zealots and Zemo II was then sentenced by his fellow Irapkas to be hung, until Kathar descended from heaven. Under pure shock, the Old Estam accepted Kathar as the prophet. Finally, God's face is said to have appeared to the Old Estam and hundreds of others from the sky, in front of whom he declared Kathar as Himself revealed in the flesh in a fully divine-human nature. A key to heaven was given to Zemo II who with the rest of the Irapkas founded the Orthodox Katharian Church as the successor to the Old Estam on behalf of God.
Scholarly perspective
Once again, beyond the events laid out in the Kathar Documents, what happened isn't quite clear. With Kathar having supposedly "ascended to heaven" according to the documents, secular historians interpret the implication of a final emperor as true. No one is sure precisely what happened from 1700 BC to 1500 BC aside from the continued spread of the Katharian faith. The Old Estamites seem to have disappeared in this time period. It is theorized that they fled Esmir and their descendents founded Neo-Estamism in 1400 BC. Others theorize that they entirely converted to Katharianism or were persecuted.
What is most peculiar is that prior to Kathar, there was no "th" sound in the Hamayan language. A new letter was created specifically for Kathar's name.
Post-Kathar Esmir
Lashma Dynasty
By around 1500 BC, Katharian civilization began to be referred to as Esmir ("blessed kingdom"). The Katharian Church by this point was made up of five synods: the Kordeshi Synod, the Urashi Synod, the Zayemi Synod, the Temran Synod, and the Oyani Synod. The period from 1300 BC to 900 BC is marked by increased human-orc interaction according to historical records. Orcs were never incorporated into Katharian civilization and instead were seen as "other" beings, even when they were tolerated. A bishop was excommunicated in the Lashma Dynasty for ordaining an orc in the Council of Ranon which stapled Orthodox Katharianism as an exclusively human religion. The Council of Ranon, having excommunicated several bishops, led to these bishops claiming to each be continuations of the church in their own right, which served as the beginnings of the self-titled non-Ranonian churches, or the heterodox Katharians according to Orthodox Katharianism
Sometime around 900 BC to 800 BC, the "five kingdom alliance of orcs" declared war on Kingdom of Daswe, which was at the time a vassal of the Lashma Dynasty. The Urashi and Zayemi Synods had properties vandalized by orc residents within the Kingdom of Daswe and thus orcs were expelled from all of Esmir. With Lashmite support, the Kingdom of Daswe managed to defeat the orc invasion.
Following the rise and domination of the Tzruids from the south, Lashmite vassals were absorbed into the Tzruid Dynasty around 600 BC as the Lashma Dynasty disintegrated into several smaller kingdoms.
Tzruid era
The Tzruid era was marked by Tzruid domination of Esmiri civilization from the south while the northern kingdoms remained fractured, leaving them too busy to compete with one another to compete with the Tzruids. The Tzruid Dynasty was Neo-Estamite and thus drove parts of the church into hiding. The bishops associated with the Urashi Synod who were under Tzruid domination were granted synodality by the Orthodox Church as the Daswei Synod. The Council of Rahit in 523 BC led to the decision that all synods were equal under the communion and that Tahiro 4:6 ("And those with closed hearts reign terror on my body, questioning my prophethood") referred specifically to the Neo-Estamites. While the latter decision was not controversial, the decision in respect to equality of synods was. Head Bishop Yebli of the Zayemi Synod argued that the Council of Rahit was a split from the church and that the Head Bishop of the Zayemi Synod was always the patriarch of the entire church, while the Council of Rahit explicitly stated that the Zayemi Synod played an advisory role as opposed to a necessarily dominant one. With him, he brought a little under half of the Zayemi Synod to declare himself as the remnant of the church, stylized as the Patriarchal Orthodox Church. King Muake IV of Zayem declared himself Patriarchal Orthodox in 514 BC leaving Zayem concretely under the political influence of the Patriarchal Orthodox. Certain priests across Esmir also declared themselves Patriarchal Orthodox within their own synods, although it didn't happen often enough to be much of a problem for the synods themselves.
In 381 BC, the Tzruids attempted to vassalize the Kingdoms of Bhurato, Shdek, Esala, and Yomuka and failed. This led these four kingdoms to form a coalition along with several other kingdoms over the next few years. The Anti-Heterodox Coalition, as it was called, called on the Orthodox Church to reassert itself in Esmiri politics. In 356 BC, thirty-two kingdoms formed the Holy Confederation in the north as the culmination of the Anti-Hederodox Coalition. The Holy Confederation invaded neighboring non-Rahitian kingdoms and forcing dynasties to accept the Council of Rahit over the next few decades before the First Holy Incursion was launched against the Tzruids 249 BC. The Tzruids were not prepared for the attacks and with Daswei forces attacking from the west coming down from mountains to meet the northern forces, the Tzruids were forced to retreat immediately. The retreat failed and the bulk of their forces were flanked causing the capitulation of the Tzruids in 245 BC.
Holy Empire
The collapse of the Tzruids saw the growth of the Holy Confederation which was renamed the Holy Empire in 227 BC. While the Holy Empire covered a good portion of modern Esmir, it was plagued by corruption and it was little more than a loose association of competing kingdoms that the church barely managed to control. Heterodoxy, Neo-Estamism, and a new heretical religion called "spiritualism" still continued to exist and even slowly gain ground in the Holy Empire throughout the years. Some scholars argue that the Holy Empire fizzled out of existence, and other scholars argue it never really existed as an entity in the first place. By 100 BC, all of the kingdoms of the Holy Empire were under the influence of the Cheshmej Dynasty, which continued to refer to itself as the "holy empire" even as the term was no longer used by the general populace. This would become a common theme among all dynasties to come.
Much of the kingdoms of the Holy Empire would fly triangular flags of various colors. While none were officially adopted, the triangular design is rooted here.
Cheshmej Dynasty
While the Cheshmej Dynasty promoted Orthodox Katharianism as the one true faith, it maintained a policy of religious tolerance throughout its existence. Ironically, this period saw a halt in the growth in heterodox and Neo-Estamite faiths. Orcs were even tolerated by the dynasty, although they faced discrimination from locals. Many kingdoms throughout the Cheshmej sphere of influence experimented with peasant-oriented economic systems, which would go on to be a source of inspiration for the Dahorianists over two millennia later. However, as time went on from the 100s, the Cheshmej Dynasty began to centralize Esmir. The Cheshmej Dynasty would hold onto power until the First Peasant Uprising in 617.
Medieval Esmir
Warlord era
The Peasant Uprising in 617 led to the founding of the Alo Yopa Republic. Land was redistributed to those that partook in the uprising. While the Orthodox Church supported the uprising, it did not support the republic that came after. Southern regions of Esmir did not recognize the republic nor the redistribution program and gave rise to five different kingdoms, each claiming to be the successor of the Cheshmej Dynasty thus calling themselves the Holy Empire. From 625 to 670, the Alo Yopa Republic became more defunct as warlords became impossible for the government to control. Durubi warlord Nyeshm I declared himself emperor after annexing two other states thus giving rise to the Dorhanic Empire in the east. It conquered southward while warlord states in the west were consolidated under the Irangan warlord Regra I. Both claimed to be the holy empire and while the Dorhanic Empire used it as a secondary title, Regra's empire used it as its first title. The west and east from this point onward remained divided. The west and east went through several successive competing dynasties all the way until 955, when the Muzki Dynasty of the west united Esmir once again. It was officially called Imperial Esmir.
Imperial Esmir
Imperial Esmir, like the dynasties that came before it, continued to centralize the civilization under the state apparatus, introducing the civil service exam and finally standardizing a new alphabet for Esmiri, which up until then used Hamayan letters. Unlike the Cheshmej Dynasty, Imperial Esmir was extremely intolerant of outsiders. All residents that could not feasibly claim heritage from the ancient Irapkas were expelled, and while many humans could simply lie about their heritage, it wasn't as easy for non-human intelligent species, which were probably expelled in the tens of thousands. They were pushed to "trade zones" of cities and were only allowed to be merchants on top of having to pay an extra tax to the government. Imperial Esmir officially adopted the well-known triangular flag in 1227 which would be in off-and-on use throughout its history.
Esmir's fertile highlands and comprehensive trade routes throughout the medieval period kept it from being easily sabotaged by barbarians and allowed for it to easily dominate almost any invading power. Imperial Esmir was known as the "mountain hermit" to the outside world.
The later period of Imperial Esmir was marked by stagnation and slow decline.
Early modern era
Expanding commerce in Imperial Esmir gave rise to new Esmiri commercial and political elite throughout the country. having been forced into trade, the orcs, alongside Neo-Estamites and non-Ranonite Katharians became very wealthy. These elites enjoyed their own private armies and swathes of land which would slowly but surely take the forms of kingdoms. The Lapinumbians and Trinterians purchased ports along the coast and the strait, establishing overseas companies to look after the security of their newfound ports. In response, the Orthodox Church condemned the foreign powers and demanded that the emperor join the church in an incursion, which was promptly denied. Seeing the writing on the wall, the church arranged for its knightly orders to retreat to the countryside and the mountains to establish and consolidate kingdoms strictly loyal to the Orthodox Church. Operations still continued throughout Esmir while the church prepared for "the worst", which did indeed come. By the mid-1700s, Lapinumbians were able to ensure the loyalty of the various sympathetic kingdoms, outcompeting the Trinterians.
Union State of Esmir
A lack of leadership by the imperial dynasty led to warlords increasing their power and selling land to elites and the Lapinumbians, often helping to facilitate the extraction of resources by the Lapinumbian Esmir Company. Esmir continued to fracture even more thanks to rebelling princes who were bribed by Lapinumbians.
The Lapinumbian Esmir Company had complete control of Esmir's industries by 1750. The export economy was done away with, and instead of manufacturing goods for export, Esmir supplied the Lapinumbians with more raw materials and produced significantly less manufactured goods.
Lapinumbian occupiers proclaimed the Union State of Esmir in 1759 which was little more than a colony. The aim was to claim continuity with Esmiri history. The congress appointed a new Governor-General every four years and the heterodox faiths (Patriarchal Orthodox Church, Western Orthodox Church, Spiritualist Movement, etc.) were heavily promoted by the regime in an attempt to curb the influence of the Orthodox Katharian Church.
Orthodox resistance
The Orthodox Church and its knightly orders made protecting supply routes a challenge. Knights would claim responsibility for tens of thousands of assassinations during Lapinumbian rule. Many ships were raided and destroyed. The Orthodox resistance is often cited as an early example of guerilla warfare.
West Esmir & East Esmir
Because warlord states, kingdoms, and the colonizers alike kept claiming the land of peasants, the Second Peasant Uprising began in 1816 in the east and resulted in Lapinumbian work sites being raided. Soon after, the Orthodox Church ordered an incursion and the knights freed the majority of Esmir's indentured servants in the east. It became the strategy of the Lapinumbians overtime to focus on consolidating the western portion of Esmir instead of the east, which proved significantly less risky and thus more profitable. The knights successfully united the east by 1866 under the Sara Dynasty which became the Republic of Esmir in 1881 before the Sara Dynasty was promptly restored in another incursion that same year.
Modern era
In 1884, West Esmir's borders were demarcated by the colonial authority. During a visit to Portaloy, Governor-General Thomess was assassinated by a knight. Knights descended upon the colony from the mountains, liberating peasants who joined the ranks of the knights as they marched eastward toward work camps and destroying supply routes along the way. The Lapinumbians were completely driven out by 1890 as forces landed on the shores from the east, finally breaching the Lapinumbian Empire's naval formations along the strait. As they were driven out, Lapinumbian flags were burned and Lapinumbians abandoned during the withdrawal were sent to work camps for the rest of their lives, usually in treacherous conditions. Two vassal states were created in the west. In 1910, the Sara Dynasty annexed the western vassals, officially reuniting Esmir under one flag. In 1933, there was a failed attempt at a seizure of power from liberal elements within the House of Sara that resulted in a large-scale conflict between loyalists and supporters of the ‘opposite faction’. While this faction was swiftly defeated within the House of Sara, the wave of political dissidence only continued to get stronger as supporters began to rally behind the new Republican Party.
Republican period
In 1945, the military forced Emperor Tetbe’s abdication, leading to the Republic of Esmir. The republic suffered food shortages and political turmoil during its short-lived existence until 1947 when leftists in the military launched another coup and established the Socialist Republic of Esmir. In response to the socialist takeover, and anonymous writer published State & Civilization under the pseudonym Edho Dahorian. The book, which opposed all ideologies and instead presented a concrete psychogeographical, sociopolitical, phenomenological, and ontological analysis that was at its core existentialist while borrowing from the “ideologies” of the world, “having discarded their delusions for content”. In 1948, the Legacy Order was established in Alo Yopa by university students in the church. While it was at first a group composed of thinkers on the fringe of Esmiran politics, the organization capitalized off of a wave of discontentment with the socialist regime from 1953 onward. Still, it continued to grow in popularity and began participating in protests, charity programs, and self-sufficiency initiatives for farming communities across the country. Between 1953 and 1957, the Legacy Order prepared its armed forces for an insurrection. Government intelligence uncovered the plot in 1957 and managed to capture then-leader Mautin Stuye, who was swiftly executed. Tbebe Serul, Stuye’s right-hand man, took his position as chairman of the Legacy Order and immediately began the insurrection against the socialist authority. The Orthodox Church, having been banned by the socialist regime, pledged moral support for the Legacy Order.
Aramha regime
In 1965, then-president and secretary-general of the ruling Workers’ Party was placed on house arrest by the military and replaced with Ujune Aramha, minister of transport. His regime maintained socialist aesthetics but was considered a nationalist leader. His nationalist tendencies led to a split in the Workers’ Party which prompted political purges and repressions for years up until 1971, when he was pressured by his cabinet to liberalize. Aramha died in 1973 and his son, Iruyo Aramha, was placed as his successor. Unlike his father, Iruyo was deeply unpopular and was overthrown by insurrectionary forces the year after.
Esmiran Federation
Upon taking power, the Legacy Order proclaimed the Esmiran Federation in 1974. The former Workers’ Party was completely purged by the Dahorianists and was merged into the Legacy Order, which was renamed the Legacy Party. Being openly anti-democracy, Serul rejected the notion of a popular election. Instead, he instituted “reconciliatory totalitarianism”. While the socialist republic depended on the largely progressive urban intelligentsia and the secularist segment of the working class, Serul appealed to the peasants and conservative elements of the working class. In 1977, Serul began to institute academic reform, which eventually coalesced into the Technical Revolution (1977-1989). The Technical Revolution Revolution saw the complete rejection of the “thalassocratic” philosophical tradition. Academists, scientists, politicians, and students were sent to the countryside to “realize” the masses. This has a profound effect on the sciences even today, as academics and politicians are expected in Esmir’s political culture to “get their hands dirty”. A surge in cinema, art, and poetry resulted from this stage of Technical Revolution. The second stage involved a “reengagement” with technology: a renewed understanding of the culture’s relation to technology according to territorial interests and underlying territorial cosmology. Having spent the former half of the Technical Revolution persecuting academia and even to some extent the use of technology, Serul used the second half to breathe new life into it. Serul died in 1988 and the Technical Revolution ended a year later.
Politics
Esmir functions as a federal one-party totalitarian dictatorship. According to its constitution, it is a non-democratic federation of states under the supervision of the supreme leader who is directly held accountable by the people via the Legacy Party, which is guided by the Dahorianist political science. No other political parties are permitted and no elections take place among commoners. The Legacy Party doubles as a thinktank-militia organization, just like its roots. Members engage with the Dahorianist philosophy and learn about its resulting anthropology. Members climb the ranks both by doing community service and by writing analysis.
Relevant administrative entities are summoned by the supreme leader to the federal council. This includes major companies in primary industries.
The Orthodox Katharian Communion has the ability to excommunicate people from the church which barres them from participating in the Legacy Party, which originated as an order in the church.
Struggle sessions remain a part of daily political life. Local officials are held on trial automatically biannually, where their expenses are made public and their decisions have to be defended to the community in court, The peasantry is most privileged by the government.
State philosophy
Dahorianism is the state philosophy of Esmir. The brand of Dahorianism that meets the particularities of Esmir can sometimes be stylized as Dahorianism-Stuyeism. Adherents of the philosophy believe that the subject of politics is not class, state, nor ego, but existence itself in therebeing—a conscious person reckoning with community, environment, class, and death (neither collective nor individual). From an existential point of view, this makes organized religion important, because it allows for a cultural default to be set in therebeing. However, there is an ontological basis as well. Dahorianists argue that necessary existence relies on some infinite substance and that for something to truly be substantial it has to negate the negation of direct infinity, meaning that the negation of direct infinity in free will actually contributes to a predetermined outcome. Many contradictions are built upon these positions and negations, which in actuality are one in the same having appeared to the subject as two resulting from the negation. To Dahorianists, the [true] peasant is the archetype of a man that is there or consciously exists. The peasant seeks self-sufficiency, reckons with his realities, is conscious of his class interest, and tends to be traditional. Tradition is found on the ground as opposed to the cloud of ideas; therebeing reveals the particularities that serve as a basis to tradition, as the purpose of tradition itself is to reckon the people with the realities of the land. Thus, traditionalism most efficiently resolves these contradictions that rear their head everywhere.
Dahorianists contend with liberalism, cosmopolitanism, and democracy as a whole because these are thalassocratic and exist only in the ideal. Instead of being rooted in a human reckoning with land, these phenomenon are rooted in the open seas. The sea empire looks to the cloud of ideas as it seeks to grasp at these ideas to find an excuse to impose an open regime on the peoples it conquers, as opposed to a closed regime based on the traditional particularities that must be shared with the conqueror in order for a true incorporation of a peoples to take place in a manner that is at all beneficial to both parties let alone the conqueror. What the sea empire is not conscious of is that it sacrifices its therebeing in the open seas, adopting the fluidity of water in its philosophy and serving as the foundation for oppressive international finance.
But out of good arises the bad and out of bad arises the good. In this super open post-modernity is rooted a rejection of the open quality itself. For instance, the projects of thalassocracy have inadvertently given rise to great land empires, as is the case with Esmir. Through this inadvertently furnished land spirit, true historicity with the civilization that really exists can be found, and therebeing is pursued.
Administrative divisions
The Esmiran Federation is composed of 12 states, 5 municipalities, and 14 autonomous people's councils. All 31 of these entities are under the supervision of the supreme leadership and have their own branch of the Legacy Party as parties in of themselves and form the federal council.
States are led by presidents but are not defined as republics. Instead, presidents act as autocrats and are held directly accountable to their people through their state's branch of the Legacy Party. While certain states have certain specifications, they are generally responsible for appointing a state minister, which acts under the president's permission to appoint ministers throughout the government. All of the presidents make up the presidium, which is headed by a presidial chief. The presidial chief is appointed by the supreme leader with the permission of the presidium itself (via an election) and helps guide the presidium to coordinate cooperation between the states in political, economic, and cultural domains. The presidium makes itself accountable to the federal council as opposed to each state doing so in name. Individual states may be called to represent themselves if requested by the supreme leader.
Municipalities are cities with their own government directly accountable to the supreme leadership instead of going through a state. This status is reserved for cities of strategic importance, such as the capital.
Autonomous people's council is a status reserved for groups without permanent territory (generally nomadic tribes) that are granted representation by the supreme leadership.
Foreign relations
As a result of its isolation, Esmir is commonly referred to as the "mountain hermit", a term that originally applied to Imperial Esmir. Despite its isolation, it maintains relations with all of Gondawa, seeing as the majority of trade in the region happens through the Esmiri Strait which runs through the country. Countries outside of Gondawa usually have to use Gondawan companies to send ships through the strait. Its closest allies tend to be smaller developing countries and other isolationist powers.
Esmir is not a member of the International Forum. Instead, it founded the International People's Organization, which is solely meant for humans.
Law enforcement and internal security
Esmir has a unique civil law system based on the imperial model and influenced by Dahorianist legal theory. Judiciary procedures are handled by community struggle sessions, municipal courts, the church, and the Supreme Court. Justice is handled by the community in a struggle session until a party involved in the case requests for a higher court, as the right to a higher court is a constitutional right. Judges are appointed by chapters of the Legacy Party.
The Directory of Internal Affairs maintains the most law enforcement activities. It is one of the most powerful federal institutions in Esmir and oversees the Federal Police Force, investigates major cases, and co-manages correctional facilities along with the Orthodox Church. The DIA also oversees fire departments, traffic control, and tailroad security. It is said to also conduct counterintelligence and intelligence operations abroad.
Military
The Esmiran Armed Forces are estimated to be comprised of around 150,000 active duty troops and over a million reservists, giving Esmir one of the world's highest percentage of citizens with military training. Members of the military often receive employment benefits and are given free university education. Some reservists join paramilitary orders under the church.
Esmir has been identified as a regional military power due owing to its geostrategic location and the capabilities of its armed forces.