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The Tavari Union
Flag The National Emblem of the Tavari Union National Emblem
Motto: Per aspera ad occidens "Through hardship to the west"
Anthem: "A Strong and Mighty Country"
Location of Tavaris (dark green) on the continent of Gondwana (grey)
Capital	Nuvrenon
Largest city	Good Harbor
Official languages	Tavari
Demonym(s)	Tavari
Government	Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy
• King	Sukaran
• Premier	Shano Tuvria
Legislature	Assembly of the Union
Establishment
• Kingdom of Tavaris established	c. AD 1350-1400
• Exile from Avnatra	June 10th, 1499
• Good Harbor settlement established	December 14th, 1567
Area
• Total	62,000 km2 (24,000 sq mi)
Population
• 2019 estimate	10,413,625
GDP (nominal)	estimate
• Total	$600,000,000,000
• Per capita	$57,616
Currency	Tavari Mark (TAM)
Time zone	Tavari Standard Time (UTC -07:30)
Driving side	right
Calling code	+688
Internet TLD	.ta

The Tavari Union, commonly called Tavaris, is a federation of nine provinces, known as chiefdoms, located in northern Gondwana on Urth.

History

The Tavari nation was initially established on the island of Avnatra (today home to the countries of Acronis and Masceola). Elves are believed to have settled on Avnatra sometime between the first and fourth centuries AD, after having left the continent of Concord and traversed through northern Gondwana. From time to time throughout history, various chiefdoms would unite under a single leader to gain strength and control over other chiefdoms. By the beginning of the 15th century AD, every Tavari chiefdom on the island of Avnatra was united in a loose confederation under the banner of a single King. This polity is referred to the Kingdom of Tavaris and is the direct predecessor of the Tavari Union.

Sometime between 1470 and 1480, the Akronist religion - a charismatic religious movement that emerged from northern Tavari folk beliefs - emerged on the northwestern coast of Avnatra and became popular among the chiefdoms in the area. Very quickly, the religious movement inspired political defections among the chiefs as they decided to form a new government inspired by Akronist religious teachings. The following military conflict is called the Tavari Civil War by modern Tavari historians, and is called the War of Foundation in Acronis. Minor violent skirmishes between chiefdoms broke out in the late 1470s, with the emergence of major hostilities sometime between 1480 and 1485. On the one side was the emergent faction of Akronists (called Akronians, now spelled "Acronians") who gradually formed themselves into a state, and on the other were the Tavari chiefdoms united under the King.

The Acronian Empire declared itself an independent state on February 20th, 1496, with the signing of the document known as The Pact. By that time, a majority of Tavari chiefdoms had joined the Akronists. The war would end in 1499, with the Acronian capture of the Tavari capital on King's Island. The Tavari surrendered before the city could be besieged, and in exchange, the Acronians allowed the still loyalist Tavari to leave safely - with the exception of the Tavari king Zaram, who they killed.

Of a total of 1,161 chiefs in the Kingdom of Tavaris at time of the start of the war, only 9 of them remained loyal to Tavaris in their entirety. These 9 chiefs took their loyal citizens, as well as loyalists from other chiefdoms, and left the island of Avnatra for the east. Tavari historians refer to this event as "the exile" because they hold that leaving Avnatra was the only option presented to them without converting faiths. Acronian historians generally hold that the Tavari voluntarily emigrated.

The Tavari left Avnatra by boat and migrated back east to the coast of mainland Gondwana. Because the jungle on the mainland is very dense, it took the Tavari three attempts and 68 years to establish a settlement that could sustain them. They named the settlement Good Harbor, and the official date of establishment is considered to be December 14th, 1567. Good Harbor is located on the eastern coast of the body of water Tavaris refers to as the Sea of Tavaris. Acronis refers to the body as the Sunrise Sea. Over the course of time, the Tavari expanded their holdings further east to the coast of Lake Unar, the largest of the cluster of five lakes known as the Five Brothers. On Lake Unar they established the city of Nuvrenon, which would become the political capital of the country. The government agreed to divide the country into nine regions that would each fall under the control of one of the nine chiefdoms that remained loyal to Tavaris. These chiefdoms remain in place today, nominally controlled by a hereditary chief descended directly from the nine original loyalist chiefs.

Government

The Tavari Union is a federal system, with the nine chiefdoms (also called provinces) having their own governments that have the ability to control affairs within their borders. The most recent Constitution of the Tavari Union establishes that the central government has only those powers that are explicitly delegated to it in the constitution, with all other powers belonging to the chiefdoms. On the federal level, the executive of the country is the cabinet, led by a Premier. The legislature is the unicameral Assembly of the Union, which has 385 members. The Assembly elects the Premier, who is typically the leader of the largest party or whomever leads a coalition that holds a majority of votes. The Premier then appoints the members of the cabinet.

The chiefdoms each have their own unicameral legislatures, usually called Assemblies, that appoint a Premier in a similar fashion. To distinguish the two different kinds of Premiers, they can be called Provincial Premiers and the Union Premier.

The nine hereditary chiefs are nominally the leaders of each chiefdom, but they hold no executive authority and are not involved in the government. From among their membership, the chiefs elect a King, who the constitution states is "the symbol of the unity of the Tavari state" but is not even nominally the Head of State. A king rules until death, at which time a new king is elected.

The current constitution was ratified in 1963. There have been several iterations of Tavari government, but generally speaking, over time power has moved away from the King and hereditary chiefs and towards the elected governments.