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The occupation by Asendavia 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, Asendavia 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, [[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
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 Volscine officials and, in 1712, the Volscine naval facilities in Insulmin and Polgarimagna. Outright war flared in 1712, but was relatively short lived, as Volscina 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.
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===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.
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