Meagharia

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The Secular Republic of Meagharia
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Motto: True Soldiers Know No god
Anthem: The Soldiers Song
Status	<At Peace>
Capital	Burnside
Largest	Sherman
Ethnic groups	Meagharians, Milovites
Religion	State Atheist
Demonym(s)	Meagharian
Government	Unitary Democratic Stratocracy
• Grand Marshal	Nathaniel O'Fahr
• Army Marshal	John O'Caelin
• Navy Marshal	Jack O'Reddin
• Air Marshal	Milo O'Sherman
Legislature	Centurions Assembly
Nation  Independent
• Meagharian Civil War	2010-2019
• The Antitheist Proscriptions	2019-2020
Population
• Estimate	15 million
GDP (PPP)	estimate
• Per capita	420.7 billion
GDP (nominal)	estimate
• Per capita	9.5k
Currency	Phoenixes (PHX)

Meagharia officially The Secular Republic of Meagharia is a Unitary Strocratic Democracy in Novaris. The country has a population of 15 million and a dry summer climate. The nation is currently working to recover from its long civil war.

History

Discovery

The landmass that now contains Meagharia was originally settled by the followers of a religious movement known as the Milofites in Sokala. This movement was largely composed of Durdneelians. They beleived in the God Milof, who they saw as being the supreme being who they needed to structure their entire society on rejecting the world to worship him. Because of this attitude the Milofites were expelled from the region and decided to begin travelling. Hopping from colony to colony the Milofites eventually found their way to Novaris where the non-milofite hired captain made first landfall. Upon arrival the Milofite leaders formed a religious council and established a practically feudal system where different religious authorities would control different parts of the occupied territory. In the south of the island there were several native city states. Using their superior technology the Milofites managed to convince the city states to accept the new nation of Holy Milofia. The nation is estimated to have been founded in 1634.

Meagharite Revolt

In the 1767 the Abbot-General of Gier, the ruler most densely populated agricultural region of Milofia died and was replaced with a young priest by the name of Fienin Meaghar. From that day forward he would be known as Father Meaghar. For the first 20 years of his reign Father Meaghar was a standard priest running the affairs of the province competently and balancing the religious and secular affairs of the province. However Father Meaghar spent a large amount of his time thinking about theology and theorizing on the way that the machinations of Milof functioned. Eventually while comparing lines in the Milofite Holy Text he realized that it was full of contradictions that seemingly were only there to benefit the priestly caste. This alone tested his faith but he managed to justify it to himself at least. This all changed when he was forced to take his group of Warrior Monks to put down a peasant revolt. He was inspired by their tenaciousness in fighting but he did finish off those peasants that were revolting. This moment would still change the priests life forever.

Father Meaghar began writing philosophy divorced from the Milofite religious principles. He came to theorize that society had been artificially been divided into two groups, Civilians and Soldiers. In his philosophy, The Soldier was naturally the group of people who collectively were most suited to run society as they had attained the discipline to be able to ascertain the best way society should run. Civilians on the other hand while they have the potential for discipline from the labor that they have to undergo they have not gained the proper wisdom to lead. He also theorized that this artificial divide is created by a priestly caste to allow them to provide their own answers for how society should be run independent of the human mind. Over the course of several years he managed to spread his philosophy throughout first his Order of Warrior Monks and then to the local priesthood he was in charge of. Eventually the peasantry had begun to embrace this ideology and Father Meaghar began training them into an army under his command.