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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 MexregionalKingdom polityof Mexregiona <!--Second key event-->
|established_date2 = c. 1150 BCE <!--Date of second key event-->
|established_event3 = United States of Mexregiona established <!--Second key event-->
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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: “dög“''dög-rokon”rokon''”) were humans remaining loyal to their previous petty kings and were exiled for being political opponents of King Mekki. Royal scribes recorded that the dög-rokon subsisted on the corpses of their own dead and used the bones for dark magic rituals, but even contemporary records cast doubt on the literal truth of this claim, indicating it was likely political invective or propaganda.
 
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 peoplespeople|Rokoch people]] of northeast Volscinia[[Volscina]], dating to approximately 500 BCE, and the [[Rodoka|Rodokans]] who first appeared in the historical record around the turn of the first century CE.
 
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 TBDnorthern [[Asendavia]]. While Zoltán proclaimed that after twelve centuries of civilization, Mexregiona had ascended to the highest tier of vaunted nations, the Kingdom was sorely outmatched by TBDAsendavia, who had a population and armed forces several times larger.
 
Mexregiona was occupied by TBDAsendavia for more than a century, from 1485 until 1599. During this era, usage of the Regic language was suppressed and adherence to the TBD[[Ademarism|Ademarist]] religion was made mandatory. The nekomimi and ailurine Duchies of Ingenlääp were explicitly voided, the first time the positions did not remain even nominally filled since they were established. This was unpopular in Mexregiona, but the TBDAsendavian authorities enforced the decree with violence, and by the end of the occupation, virtually all traces of the indigenous Mexregionan religion—extant in some form for 3500 years—were erased. The human proportion of the population also vastly increased, due in large part from immigration from TBDAsendavia, and the ursine population expanded to some degree as well. The name “Dark Ages” refers largely to political and cultural repression rather than a dearth of written records, though the Regic language was almost lost during the period, with the only remaining unhindered native speakers of the tongue living in distant Vlöcivil, which due to its extreme climate and distance from other population centers remained somewhat independent. During the occupation, the seat of governance in Mexregiona was moved from Dropdatderp to Insulmin.
 
The occupation by TBDAsendavia was finally ended through armed revolt by Mexregionans in a campaign from 1595 until 1599. In an echo of the first unification by King Mekki, the revolt began in the north, buffeted by non-human support, and moved southward to eventually retake Dropdatderp and then Insulmin and Insulmag. The effort was costly; virtually all of the city of Dropdatderp burned to the ground. However, in 1599, TBDAsendavia agreed to withdraw from Mexregiona, and a nominal Third Kingdom of Mexregiona under King Béla VI was established soon thereafter.
 
However, Mexregiona was largely in shambles, and seeing this instability, TBD2[[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 TBD2Volscina also lasted approximately a century, from 1610 until 1713. The occupation by TBD2Volscina was less socially oppressive, with restrictions on language use and religion partially lessened (though the indigenous Mexregionan versions of both were still discouraged) and, in later decades, with some degree of Mexregional self-rule in the form of a Title TBD Viceregal Person™ appointed by TBD2 Leader 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 TBD2Volscine government, though the imperial government held a complete veto over any decisions they might make.
 
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 TBD2Volscine officials and, in 1712, the TBD2Volscine naval facilities in Insulmin and Polgarimagna. Outright war flared in 1712, but was relatively short lived, as TBD2Volscina agreed to withdraw from Mexregiona the next year. While Mexregiona’s north was rich in minerals, there were less extreme places elsewhere in the world to find them, and plans of dominating trade between Yasteria and Novaris had not achieved the success that was originally envisioned. The Diet of Dropdatderp, an assemblage of delegates from the major regions of the country, gathered and ratified a Constitution that established the Republic of Mexregiona on October 10th, 1713.
 
===The Republic and Romanticism===
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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 TBD2Volscine rule, and by 1800, the country was majority ailurine. The Equal Dignity Act of 1805 enshrined in the Constitution the doctrine that all species were equal before the law, and various laws passed in the early 19th century—very unusual internationally in that era—mandated certain percentages of judges, peace officers, and even university professors be filled by certain species. The Republic became known as “the Noble Project,” and the era is remembered as being a time of particularly high public feeling and faith in government, a so-called “romantic era.”
 
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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