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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]] of [[Tavaris]] were indigenous to Mexregiona, but their entire population emigrated away beginning shortly after the first Mexregional polity was formed.

However, Mexregiona was largely in shambles, and seeing this instability, [[Volscina]] launched an invasion of Mexregiona in 1610, seeking to capitalize on the country’s weakness to gain territory and international prestige, as well as to gain access to the country’s mineral wealth and trade routes between [[Yasteria]] and [[Novaris]]. Having had little time to rebuild, Mexregiona quickly fell once more, with King Béla VI fleeing by ship and dying at sea of scurvy. Béla VI would be the last King of Mexregiona, and is known as Béla the Last. The occupation by Volscina also lasted approximately a century, from 1610 until 1713. The occupation by Volscina was less socially oppressive, with restrictions on language use and religion partially lessened (thoughlessened—though the indigenous Mexregionan versions of both were still discouraged). and, inIn later decades, with some degree of Mexregional self-rule was established in the form of a TitleDuke—the TBDDuke Viceregalof Person™ appointedMeccireggia—appointed by TBD2the Emperor of LeaderVolscina from among the human population of Insulmin, which remained the seat of governance. The nekomimi and ailurine Duchies of Ingenlääp were also nominally recognized by the Volscine government in 1674, though the imperial governmentEmperor held a complete veto over any decisions they might make.

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. NameAleramo UnknownCozzo, the last TitleDuke TBD Viceregalof Person™Meccireggia, was elected by the first Parliament to serve as a figurehead President of Mexregiona who was to serve for ten years. However, the PresidentCozzo died after 7 years into his term, and because the Parliament could not settle on a new candidate it eventually agreed to leave the office vacant and transfer the scant, entirely ceremonial powers of the office to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, which would then be known as the Executive Magistrate and Acting President for the remainder of the republic.

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.

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 sinceall 2004of theythem have allalways used the same method: rankedof choicefirst-past-the-post voting in whichsingle-member eachdistricts parishof is treated as a singleroughly electoralequal districtpopulation. The 35 seats are required to be distributed to the parishes proportionally, with each parish granted a minimum of one Assembly Member. The seats are reapportioned each decennial census, but the number of seats given to each parish has remained unchanged since 1981 due to the proportion of populations remaining largely the same: 10 for Insulmin, 9 for Insulmag, 8 for Ferterra, 5 for Lúisnaja, and 3 for Ingenlääp. The Constitution requires all legislation that imposes a tax and all proposed Constitutional amendments to be initiated in the General Assembly.

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.

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 20042001, the ratio of intelligence spending to the total budget has remained within 1.75% and 1.9%, peaking in 2004. The federal government does not comment on what its intelligence gathering priorities are, nor does it confirm or deny any alleged MF actions overseas.