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{{Infobox country
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|established_event1 = Altalandian Empire established <!--First key event in history of country/territory's status or formation-->
|established_date1 = c. 2000 BCE <!--Date of first key event-->
|established_event2 = First
|established_date2 = c. 1150 BCE <!--Date of second key event-->
|established_event3 = United States of Mexregiona established <!--Second key event-->
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The '''United States of Mexregiona''', commonly referred to as '''Mexregiona''' ({{IPAc-en|m|ɛ|k|s|.|'|r|iː|.|dʒ|i|.|'|oʊ|.|n|ə}}), is an island country located off the northwestern coast of [[Novaris]], to the north of Infinite Loop. Approximately half of the country lies above the Rotantic Circle. The country was a founding member of the [[League of Novaris]] in 2017, and is home to the headquarters of the [[Rotantic Congress]], which was established in Dropdatderp in 2000. In 2021, Mexregiona was elected to serve on the [[International Forum]] Security Council.
Sapient inhabitation of what is now Mexregiona is dated to as early as 25,000 years BP (Before Present). Scholars debate whether the ailurine or nekomimi species reached the island first, as both appear to have been present very early after the end of the Last Glacial Maximum and the Rotantic ice sheet receded. Ursines began migrating to the area approximately 3,000 years BP, though most continued on to mainland Novaris. Mexregiona has long been an important trading port and travel destination between Novaris and Yasteria. The etymology of the name “Mexregiona” is unknown, and is recorded as early as 1150 BCE. The [[Rodoka|Native Rodokans
[[File:Mex parishes.png|thumb|left|300px|The parishes of Mexregiona and their capitals. (Click to expand.)]]
Modern Mexregiona is a federation consisting of five states which, despite the name of the country, are officially called parishes. The parishes enjoy significant control over their internal affairs, with the federal government primarily responsible for international relations and defense. The President of Mexregiona enjoys broad power in international affairs, is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, and has the authority to veto laws passed by the Federal Diet. According to a tradition in the country, as well as a clause of the Constitution since a 2004 amendment, the President must assume the name “Mister Leader” upon election to office. As such, Presidents are often referred to by number: Mister Leader I, Mister Leader II, and so on.
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==History==
===Bronze Age and Early History===
[[File:Rodokan migration.png|thumb|left|300px|A diagram showing the Rodokan Migration, beginning in Mexregiona near 1150 BCE, reaching such places as [[Benesuolo]] and [[Vesienväl]] before reaching [[Rodoka]] around 900 CE.]]
The first written records in what is now Mexregiona date to approximately 2000 BCE and were left by a semi-urban, literate human society that immigrated from northern [[Novaris]]. This society is commonly known as the Altalandian Empire, but the exact nature of its governance is unknown except for the presence of a King who may have served as an important religious figure. The name "Altalandian" is a 19th century invention meant to poetically indicate "people of the highest land;" no endonym used by people at the time is recorded. The Altalandian humans displaced earlier populations of semi-nomadic ailurines and nekomimi, who were forced northward by human expansion as the Rotantic Ice Sheet receded. Archeological evidence indicates that the human population rather quickly came to dominate the island, likely within less than a decade. The written records that survive from the Altalandian Empire era are predominately inventory lists and ledgers of mercantile transactions, and they indicate that a cycle of recurring famines was a regular part of life at the time. Due to the land being suitable for very few crops, the primary food source for the Altalandians was seafood. Though evidence is scant, some religious iconography discovered appears to indicate the leading deity in the Altalandian pantheon to be a whale god who may have been considered to control the harvests of food from the sea according to whether or not he held the people in high favor.
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By several accounts, the early years of Mekksrigena, commonly called the “first Kingdom of Mexregiona,” were marked by brutal political and martial rule under King Mekki and his descendants. A marked increase in religious written records in the era indicate that Mekki claimed divine descent and ordered the pantheon be altered to place him, as a living god, at its center. Despite having depended on them for his conquests, Mekki turned on the ailurines and nekomimi, declaring them “beast-kindred” and ordering that they be expelled from the kingdom. His opposition to these beast-kindred is believed to have been caused in part due to a sharp increase in maritime raids from ursines, who were in the process of migrating from Yasteria to Novaris. While these ursines did not stay in the kingdom, Mekki is said to have believed they were summoned or created by the ailurines and nekomimi to double-cross and usurp him.
Mekki also ordered the exile of another group, which records refer to as “carrion-kindred.” These “carrion-kindred” (in the Regic language:
The dög-rokon were recorded to have been centered in the southwest of Marpa, with King Mekki declaring that region as “infested with a great evil” that he said exceeded even that of the ailurines and nekomimi, who he at least permitted to return to the far northern tundra wastes on Marpa. Most scholars agree that the dög-rokon, who were noted for their clinging to the old, whale god-centric faith and centering most of their lives on boats, are the group of maritime raiders in northern Novaris who were the progenitors of the [[Benesuolo#Rokoch
Descendants of King Mekki continued to reign with largely the same repressive and martial attitude. However, the cycle of famines appears to have significantly lessened, if not almost ceased, and urbanization of the population increased significantly, especially on the islands of Insulmin and Insulmag.
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===Second Dark Ages===
The longest recorded period of peace and stability in Mexregiona ended in 1484, more than 1200 years after the establishment of the Second Kingdom. King Zoltán XII, known as Zoltán the Mad, decided in 1484 to launch an invasion of
Mexregiona was occupied by
The occupation by
However, Mexregiona was largely in shambles, and seeing this instability,
In 1711—a year selected as auspicious because it fell 1,500 years after King Gejza seized Dropdatderp and began unifying the Second Kingdom—a resistance movement built up first in Insulmag, spreading from there to Insulmin and Polgarimagna primarily through clandestine, coded correspondence, began targeting
===The Republic and Romanticism===
[[File:"Jonah and the Whale", Folio from a Jami al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) MET DP247599.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Art like this was purported in the time of the Republic to date to the era of the First Kingdom but was actually a contemporary creation. The angel-like winged figure depicted here has no corollary in First Kingdom-era iconography.]]
The Republic of Mexregiona was the first true democracy in Mexregiona, with an elected Parliament of 50 members—ten each from five parishes with the same names and borders as modern Mexregiona—that named a Prime Minister.
The primary goals of the early republic were to rebuild the country’s major cities and to restore the Regic language, which was estimated in 1715 to have only 40 remaining native speakers, of whom ten were younger than fifty years old. The Parliament established Dropdatderp University in 1714 and placed in its charter a mandate that it work to record, standardize, and restore the Regic language. By 1720, a Standardized Grammar and Phonology of the Regic Language had been drafted, and in 1730, Parliament required that all universities require Regic fluency as a condition for graduation. While signage in public was required to include Regic, in acknowledgement of the fact that even among the population that was literate most did not know Regic, Staynish and Asendavian were also commonly included, and the Parliament copied all acts and formal registers in all three languages. Volscine was notably not chosen, despite having been in use for more than a century under Volscine administration, as leaders in Parliament decided that Asendavian was easier to learn than Volscine, and Staynish was chosen for its use across the whole world in trade and diplomacy.
With the elite class of Mexregiona focused on restoring Regic came a desire to restore what was viewed as all of “classical Mexregional culture” to the country. While by the mid 18th century, Insulmin City was by far the largest urban area in the country, the capital was declared by law to be Dropdatderp as in the Second Kingdom—despite the fact that, after centuries of disregard and neglect, it was a fraction of its former size and had no buildings capable of seating the entire Parliament at once. Interest in the indigenous Mexregional pagan religion ballooned, and it became typical for nobles to claim adherence to what was called “the Cult of the Whale God.” (However, as no liturgy and very few myths of the faith remained, the so-called cult was almost entirely a modern invention.) The Monsuu was restored as the currency of Mexregiona, and while the Parliament initially insisted on the coins being silver coins of the same exact purity as the historic version, such coins were initially too expensive for the country to mint and for a time in the early 18th century, the value of the currency was so high relative to the nascent economy that ten Monsuu could buy a house.
After the Regic language restoration had made enough progress that Parliament no longer feared for the language’s ability to survive, the focus for successive governments in the late 18th and early 19th centuries was equality between the species. A significant portion of the human population of Mexregiona had left the country after the end of
Toward the end of the Republic era, focus turned to the question of Mexregional defense. After two consecutive foreign invasions had wiped out their self-governance and their culture, Mexregionans were highly concerned that the progress they made might again be destroyed. By the turn of the 19th century, the economic position of the Republic was stable and wealthy enough to begin establishing a modern armed forces, including a standing navy. While ships and military equipment had to be bought rather than built domestically, it became a strict priority of governments of all political parties to ensure the establishment of a military that could reasonably defend the country, even despite the country’s small size. The Republic took out significant loans from various banks to finance the military expansion, particularly in the financial sectors of South Ethalria (later [[Asilica]]) and [[Reijia]], forming economic partnerships that would become very valuable in the future.
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In April of 1852, the Bank of Zalica threatened to collect on a loan the Republic had taken out by seizing the state’s assets held in the bank—which would have rendered the government literally destitute. The governments of Insulmin and Insulmag parishes offered, through their own separate treasuries (along with significant offered contributions from wealthy business people in those parishes), pay off the debt and agree to a higher rate of taxation—but only if the Constitution were amended to give each parish seats in the Parliament based on population. The other parishes, faced with the financial ruin of the entire country and the end of the Noble Project, relented. After the debt was paid in 1852, a series of Constitutional Conventions led to the replacement of the entire Republic government with a federal system, the United States of Mexregiona, on July 15th, 1854.
[[File:Michigan-Hall-Of-Justice.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Csongor Kovács Federal Building in Insulmin City, Insulmin, the de facto capitol building of the United States of Mexregiona. Insulmin City has been the seat of most government agencies for the entire United States era.]]
The United States Constitution made each of the five parishes sovereign over their own people and territory in almost all respects. Taxation was to be entirely handled by the parishes, with each parish required to remit a certain percentage to the federal government. A finite list of responsibilities was granted to the federal government—defense, international relations, railroads, the post, coinage and currency, and weights and measures—with all other matters reserved to the parishes, who were free to establish their internal governments as they saw fit. From 1854 until 1951, Lúisnaja was led by a hereditary Duke that faced a confirmation election when they inherited the office but then reigned for life. The executive of Ingenlääp is still known as the Executive Magistrate.
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====General Assembly====
[[File:MXR General Assembly.svg|thumb|left|300px|The General Assembly as of 2021. The Social Progressive Party, in red, is in the majority with 20 seats. In opposition are the Republican Democrat Party, in blue with 14 seats, and 1 independent Assembly Member.]]
The General Assembly consists of 35 seats. Each parish can determine how its representatives are chosen so long as they are elected by popular vote of the citizenry, though
====Assembly of States====
[[File:MXR Ass of States.svg|thumb|right|300px|The Assembly of States as of 2021. The Republican Democrat Party is in majority with 9 Delegates, with the Social Progressive Party in opposition with 6.]]
The Assembly of States has a total of 15 seats, with three Delegates per parish. The Constitution gives parishes the choice of either appointing their Delegates by vote of the parish legislature or allowing for direct election of Delegates. Since 2004, all parishes have used direct election; the last parish to switch was Ferterra. Under the original Constitution, the Assembly of States was largely a ceremonial, consultative body that held little concrete political power. It could only delay the passage of a bill passed by the General Assembly by referring a bill back to the General Assembly up to two times in one legislative session. The only concrete authorities the Assembly of States was originally given were the requirement that it approve a proposed Constitutional amendment along with the General Assembly to place it before the parishes for ratification, and the requirement that the Assembly of States approve the appointments of Supreme Court magistrates and the Chiefs of Staff of each branch of the Armed Forces, a power it held alone and a power which it still holds today. However, the Assembly of States can now directly reject proposed legislation since a 1982 amendment.
===Judiciary===
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The United States of Mexregiona has never used conscription, maintaining an all-volunteer defense force since 1854. Conscription was considered during the [[Great War]] out of concerns that the country would be caught unprepared if invaded, but the Chiefs of Staff decided that the risk of invasion could actually be increased by a dramatic uptick in the number of persons in the Armed Forces. Mexregionans of all species and all genders serve in the Armed Forces, with women being granted the ability to serve in combat positions in 2011.
Culturally, great emphasis has traditionally been placed on the Armed Forces by Mexregionans since the end of the Second Dark Ages and the dawn of the Republic era. After two centuries of outside rule, much of it brutal, due to military defeats, Mexregionans have considered a military capable of repelling outside attack to be a top priority. Even in the modern era, after more than three centuries of peace, “a strong military” continues to rank at the top when the public is surveyed about political policy preferences. In the 20th century into the 21st, it became recognized that Mexregiona had reached the limit of what military infrastructure it could reasonably sustain itself, and it began to reach out to global powers to form military relationships. As of 2021, three foreign countries maintain military bases in Mexregiona: [[Asendavia]], [[Great Morstaybishlia]], and [[Kuthernburg]]. These countries maintain personnel and equipment in Mexregiona for the defense of Mexregiona as well as for the advancement of their own interests in the High Rotantic region.
Partnership with Asendavia was controversial, with many questioning why the country would turn to a former occupying power for defense aid. When the Asendavian-Mexregional military cooperation agreement began in the 1980s, Mexregional authorities justified it by noting that the occupation had been over for more than four centuries and that Asendavia was a major military power and economy whose assistance could benefit Mexregiona. The Scrivener of Defense at the time, Allen Mixon, Sr., said "The Dark Ages are over, and Mexregiona and Asendavia are entering into this agreement as states of equal standing and dignity to jointly advance our interests. Part of repairing the damage done in the past is agreeing to move beyond the past."
In the 21st century, Mexregiona’s primary strategic focuses have been on ensuring reliable access for trade in the High Rotantic and in intelligence gathering. Both of these aims are furthered by Mexregiona’s membership in the [[Conference for Amity and Cooperation]], a pact of four Novaran countries designed for military cooperation, intelligence sharing, and the mutual furtherance of other shared goals.
The Mexregionan intelligence service, MF, (''Meksrídzeionai Felderítés'', “Mexregionan Reconnaissance”) is legally organized as a sector of the Army, but for all intents and purposes is administered separately. The Director of Intelligence reports directly to the President, not to the Chief of Staff of the Army, though in times of declared war the Army Chief of Staff can legally override the Director of Intelligence in some matters. MF enjoys broad latitude under the law to act clandestinely overseas, though is significantly tempered in what it can do within the borders of the country. In 2020, the last year statistics are available, the top-line amount of funds allocated to MF was SHD $446,880,110 compared to a total budget for the entire federal government of SHD $24.8 billion—about 1.8% of the entire budget. Under the National Security Act of 2001, MF is exempt from nearly all budgetary reporting requirements except for the top-line figure of total allocation for the entire agency. Since
==Culture==
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The currency of Mexregiona is the Monsuu, abbreviated “(K)Mu.” The Monsuu remained legally backed by silver until 1994, notably late compared to other currencies worldwide. It is generally valued higher than the Standard Hawking Dollar, with an average exchange rate of 1.21 (K)Mu to the SHD across 2021. The Federal Reserve Bank of Mexregiona manages the country’s monetary policy.
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