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[More politically focused, similar to the Enlightenment]
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By the end of the 18th century, Auravas was deeply in debt due to its recent expensive wars, still reeling from [insert war], and the effect this had on the lower classes was accentuated by a series of bad harvests. Furthermore, the ideals of the Intellectual Revolution had spread rapidly through the country, putting many figures in opposition to the increasingly authoritarian regime of King Ikasvau. On May 6th, 1783, open revolt broke out in Uravin after a declaration of a new tax to be imposed on all but the nobility to pay off the royal debt. The revolters, at first armed with crude peasants weapons, raided a series of munitions depots in the city, sheer numbers overwhelming the guards, and stormed the royal palace only to find the King had departed and was gathering forces to retake the city. The city held out for 1 and a half months in which the revolutionaries formed the Assembly to draft a constitution for the nation in the absence of monarchical authority, but the assembly was sharply divided along those who supported the establishment of a republic and those who supported the the process was interrupted on June 21st when monarchist forces retook the city in an event known as the Bloody Solstice. Though almost a fourth of the assembly was killed or imprisoned on the Bloody Solstice, the remaining members of the Assembly reconvened a few dozen miles outside of Uravin, rallied around a prominent republican named Kaoto Verlan. The monarchist massacre on the solstice had radicalized the remaining members of the Assembly and the Declaration of Independence of the People of Auravas was ratified with the First Constitution of the Republic on August 19th, declaring the formation of the Republic of Auravas.
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[War Stuff]
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The war devastated the Auravasi economy after the upturn of the 60s, and the emergence of the war industry accelerated and accentuated the developments of the Second Industrial Revolution. Though the initial phases of the war saw nationalistic unity between the classes in the face of the Nagatoian invasion, these bonds dissolved as the war progressed and the economic state shifted. By the end of the war, the working class was fed up with the harsh industry reforms the government had instituted in order to continue the war effort, and many unions began to call for strikes as peace drew close. Upon the declaration of peace, demonstrations erupted across the monarchy in what was termed the Hundred Days, termed as such due to the approximately hundred days between the end of the war and the Declaration of Servitude. These demonstrations were not very organized and called for worker reforms in the wake of the policies and developments of the war, though most of the demonstrations were forcefully put down.
On November 24th, 1882, the government of Auravas released a statement, now widely known as the Declaration of Servitude, stating that wartime labor reforms would continue to exist until the economic situation in Auravas stabilized and that the planned elections for the Assembly would be suspended. It is generally considered that this declaration was the trigger for the Auravasi People's Revolution. In reaction to the Declaration, the Confederation of Auravasi Unions (CAU), the most influential trade union organization in Auravas, called a general strike, which rapidly escalated into an armed revolt as military forces clashed with groups of trade union members who raided weapons depots. As opposed to the disjointed demonstrations of the Hundred Days, the CAU quickly mobilized organized the riots into a united military force against the monarchy. Seeing the actions of the CAU, many other workers rose up alongside the CAU, and formed military units, the Independent Revolutionary Armies, that collaborated with CAU forces despite the lack of CAU membership. These revolting workers were joined by groups of veterans returning from the front lines, upset with the war and the monarchy. In the Assembly, the PSDA had grown to the second largest party by number of seats and the largest party by number of votes by a massive margin, only curtailed by voting weights. Following the eruptions of the CAU revolt, the PSDA faced a crisis, as the majority of its members supported the revolutionary action, but a portion of the PSDA, who were worried by the radicalism of the revolt, split off and formed the Moderate PSDA (MPSDA). On the same day, an independent revolt occurred in Uralia City where the monarchist national police were forcibly ejected from the city by the Uralia City Volunteer Guard (UCVG). As the northernmost Auravasi city and a city on the coast, Uralia City had seen some of the most fighting of any region of Auravas during the War. During the multiple year long siege of Uralia City, a volunteer army had been assembled, primarily from the working class neighborhoods of the city, and the army had radicalized in the later years of the war and the Hundred Days, during which it uneasily coexisted with government forces but never fully demobilized. As strikes and revolts erupted across Auravas on November 24th, so too they did in Uralia City, but in the city they were joined by the war-hardened UCVG.
As fighting erupted across Auravas, areas controlled by the CAU, the primary revolutionary force, began experimenting with new political structures in the void left by the lack of political authority. A number of regional administrative organizations emerged, termed the Regional Administrative Councils (RAC). Within these regional administrations, a process of expropriation and collectivization of previously privately owned resources commenced. As the revolution was strongest in highly industrialized regions, much of Auravas' industry underwent the socialization process. Without the traditional capitalists at the head of industry, worker councils and democratic cooperatives were assembled and power over the industry was transferred to them, while some industries were directly nationalized by the administration. The agricultural sector also underwent incredible land reform, with the deposition of landlords and the establishment of self-managed communes based on collective ownership and governed by assemblies. Revolutionary reform extended beyond just the economic sphere but also to the social sphere, as a reformist fervor spread through the revolution controlled territory. Numerous schools were constructed and efforts to promote literacy and healthcare were emphasized, and religion and its influence drastically declined, with a severing of ties between the RACs and the Shviesist organizations.
In Uralia City, a new government known as the Autonomous Worker's Commune of Uralia was established, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Auravas
The monarchy did not respond with complete passivity, however. With a mobilized army still partially under monarchical control as well as a police force and the backing of the panicked upper class, the monarchy was able to suppress the worker mobilization in a number of cities, instituting martial law in many suppressed territories. Soon, frontlines solidified as the crown attempted to hold on to its authority. In the capital of Uravin, urban warfare had broken out between the revolutionary forces and monarchist forces, with substantial territory, including the Assembly building, being held by the revolutionary forces but the Royal Palace being held by monarchist forces. In a show of power and confidence, King Mir had not evacuated the city, electing to stay in the Royal Palace. On August 3rd, 1883, the leader of the now mobilized PSDA, Sival Dyra, proclaimed the founding of the Republic of Auravas, triggering the August Clashes within the revolutionary-occupied territories as members of the PSDA and members of the RAC who were willing to incorporate with the newly formed republican government clashed with the RACs that wanted to preserve their existing regional council structures without the oversight of a national government who found authority through the Assembly. In the Uralia City Commune, a plebiscite was organized on the matter of recognizing the authority of the Republic of Auravas, ending in a majority supporting integration. Despite this, the city would remain functionally independent till post-war reforms.
As the clashes between pro-republic and anti-republic forces threatened to divide the revolutionary movement, many leaders began to fear a similar situation to the Republican Revolution, in which divides in the revolution would allow monarchical forces to overcome the movement and reinstate authority of the crown. In order to assemble a unified front against the monarchy, the various revolutionary forces met and created the Central Committee for the Revolution, uniting the various forces under the banner of the Auravasi Armed Revolutionary Forces, and eventually passing the Socialist Future Agreement on March 6th, 1884, which recognized the authority of the Republic of Auravas over the revolutionary forces while giving all members of the Central Committee a say in the post revolution political landscape.
By 1886, fighting in Uravin turned decisively in favor of the Revolutionary Forces as the socialists slowly forced their way through monarchist defenses. On July 26, the Revolutionary Forces finally reached the Royal Palace of Auravas and engaged in battle with members of the King's Guard. After the Guard was overcome, the Storming of the Royal Palace commenced, in which the armed revolutionaries and unarmed groups that had gathered during the battle stormed the Royal Palace and took King Mir captive, a massive blow to the monarchist movement, which was now rapidly losing ground to the Republic. With the fall of Uravin to the Revolutionary Forces, the city became the seat of the Central Committee, who began drafting plans for the post-war structure of the Republic. Once again, disputes over the organization of the Republic arose, with one group, dominated by the PSDA, advocating for a centralized parliamentary system while the CAU advocated for a more decentralized system of councils.
Meanwhile, monarchist forces persisted in some regions, rallying under the leadership of General Oro Saryun, who had taken control of the monarchist forces following the capture of King Mir. Though Saryun officially proclaimed he desired to restore the monarchy, his personal intentions were to establish a military dictatorship under his rule once asserting power over the country. He had begun to plot a coup to take over the administration, drawing support from the growing mistrust of the King among high level officers as the monarchists progressively lost more and more land, but the capture of the King by the rebel forces made the coup unnecessary. Under his command, the monarchist forces would hold out in small pockets across the country for several years, until the final monarchist stronghold fell to the Revolutionary Forces in 1888, and General Saryun committed suicide on September 2, marking the end of a unified government resistance.
=== Republic of Auravas ===
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