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The '''Cerdani Democratic Republic''', often simply referred to as '''East Cerdani''', is a Unitary One Party Socialist Republic located in Southeastern Gondwana. The capital and largest city is [[Morzahnstadt]] and is the main cultural and commercial centre.

Evidence for habitation and settlement of sapient species in the region dates back to at least 450,000 years ago with rock shelters and fossils showing the presence of humans and non-humanvarious species in the region. Evidence of modern humans and species are found mostly along the Alemanda river valley, including a 71,000-year-old village preserved after a huge mud slide along with various artifacts and tools ranging from the neolithic to iron age.

Prior to the formation of the Cerdani Empire in 1459, the region was largely a collection of loosely associated kingdoms and smaller independent communities. The largest and most dominant of these being the Cerdani Kingdom and the Red River Confederation.

The Cerdani Empire was officially proclaimed in 1459 following the signing of the Morzahn Accords and the official merger of the Red River Confederation into the newly proclaimed empire. One of the first goals of the new empire was to take over many neighbouringneighboring kingdoms and incorporating them, either through force or diplomacy. This period of war and conquest lasted until the late 1700s when the Cerdani Empire reached it's largest extent, establishing the modern day borders of the Cerdani states.

By the early 1900s the Cerdani Empire was one of the most underdeveloped and backwards nations on Urth. Illiteracy rates among the working class was incredibly high, along with high infant mortality rates and poor access to healthcare and food. This was contrasted by the immense luxury and wealth the ruling class enjoyed.

It was also during this time that the empire's government was weakening substantially. The parliament was largely ceremonial and dysfunctional, acting as a rubber stamp for the Emperor and, his family and various business owners. Various Republican, Socialist and Communist parties that emerged during this period were outlawed and heavily persecuted. Despite this however, many of these groups operated successfully underground, recruiting many disillusioned and dissatisfied peasants and workers into their ranks.

By 1915 the situation in the Cerdan Empire was rapidly deteriorating, the parliament was abrogated indefinitely in April 1915 and a significant portion of the military were working without pay. Although the Empire had been bankrupt since 1912 it was not officially annoucedannounced until December 1915 when the Emperor was conducting his traditional end of year speech.

The announcement was interpreted by the various anti-monarchist forces as a clear sign of the government's weak state and many movements quickly sought to seize the opportunity. Between January 27nd27 to February 8th8 1916, a large portion of the eastern countryside including over a hundred hamlets and villages were occupied by communist and socialist militias, meeting little or no resistance from the local police or military forces who were largely sympathetic or outright associated with them. During this same time Republican forces in the west did the same, occupying a significant portion of the outer countryside.

By the end of February most of the countryside was now out of the control of the government, and most of their control was now largely confined to the major urban centres and towns. On March 5th5 1916, the Emperor broadcast an official announcement, declaring that the occupying communist and republican forces were to lay down their arms within two weeks and that if they did so, there would be a general amnesty and talks on forming a new government. The attempt failed however, and the militias and their leaders were not convinced.

After the two week period lapsed on March 19th19 1916, the Royal Cerdan Army begun a large scale invasion of the countryside, aiming to retake and cleanup the regions by force. The army initially had successes in taking back a handful of hamlets and larger villages but were unable to assert control effectively for more than a couple of weeks. Compounding this further was the poor morale the troops and junior officers, who had been working with little to no pay for over a year and were reliant on outdated and poorly maintained equipment. In many cases troops sent out to fight simply walked across and joined the other side or surrendersurrendered immediately, much to the frustration of the high command and officers.

The Monarchy collapsed on August 11th, 1921 when communist and socialist militias linked up and seized control of the capital of Morzahnstadt after months of heavy fighting, taking the city block by block. The red flag was raised over the Imperial Palace at noon and a provisional government was formed to assume the duties and manage the running of the country later that day.

Following the end of the war against the monarchy, in -fighting between the socialist and communist militias and the capitalist republican militias quickly broke out. Ostensibly this was due to perceived notions of overreach by each side to the other, most notably was that each sides respective provisional governments, meant to be mixed with Cerdans of all political and social backgrounds, was stacked with socialists and communists in the east, and capitalists in the west.

Following the end of the Civil War, the newly independent Cerdani Democratic Republic's government set out to begin a series of dramaticambitious initiatives and rapid initiativesprojects in healthcare, education and industrialisation with an aim of transforming the country into a self sufficient socialist country by 1950. At independentindependence over 70% of the rural peasantry could not read or write, and lacked access to basic healthcare, education and adequate housing which would take decades for the government to address and fix. In addition the country was technologically and industrially backwards compared to similar nations at this period. Despite the incredibly difficult situation and the economic chaos the country and economy grew appreciably through the remainder of the 1920s.

Local Government Areas are the main subdivisions of districts. These typically are headed by a Local Council which collectively runsmanages the area and it's associated local infrastructure.

Local Government Areas can be further subdivided into localities in large cities, also headed by a local council although typically responsible for only a few city blocks.

Main Article: [[National People's Army]], [[People's Militias (East Cerdani)]]