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===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 Mirhaimians 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
==== Lapinumbian rule ====
A lack of leadership by the imperial dynasty led to warlords increasing their power and selling land to elites and the Lapinumbian Empire, 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.
Lapinumbian rule completely destroyed Esmiri industry. The export economy was done away with, and instead of manufacturing goods, Esmir supplied the Lapinumbian Empire with raw materials.
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.
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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 support for the Legacy Order,
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.
==== Legacy Party ====
Upon taking power, the Legacy Order proclaimed the Esmiran State 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==
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