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Similar to the defeat of the Tasirad Kingdom at the hands of the Dictrian Coalition, the defeat of Dukala at the hands of the League accelerated the internal conflicts that has intensified during the war as the member states of the Peace of the Vultures broke away from the Dukalan alliance, many of them backed by Confederation money. What would have spilled into a second long warring period was curbed by the intervention of the Confederation, which saw an opportunity to extend its influence and safeguard its eastern seaboard and trade, as a Confederation army moved from the south of the island to the north, forcing the polities of the island into submission. The nobles of Kalana had grown used to the autonomy they had built over the period fo Dukalan rule, however, so they remained as relatively autonomous vassal states, similar to their relation to the Dukalan crown, rather than be completely dissolved and integrated into the Confederation as the mainland territories were.
Though a united state, the Confederation retained large levels of devolution from its origins as a league of multiple nations, and this gave it a uniquely non-monarchical character, being governed by a body, known as the Federal Assembly, comprised of representatives from each member of the confederation. These representatives served dual rules as administrators of the Confederation and religious leaders in their respective states. The executive body of the Federal Assembly was known as the Directorate, and was composed of 5
Unity in the peninsula offered a great degree of wealth and prosperity to the people of the Confederation, and the arts and the sciences flourished, as many libraries and educational institutes sprung up across the Confederation, rapid progress was made in the natural sciences, architecture, visual arts, theater, literature, and philosophy.
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