Tissandra
Tissandra is a country in the middle of Yasteria Major continent. The area extended from the Hikaru's Gulf, to the West into the Yasterian Range. To the north, it borders Hama, and to the east lies the huge Packilvania territories. Though small, it once held the entirety of Yasteria wastelands and interiors. The core area of Tissandra consisted of two major cities; Annuriel and Eranorth, with population of around 92 million people.
Constitutional Monarchy of Tissandra Monarchum Tissandrium (Hellenic) | |
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Motto: Dei Momenti Negligantur God can't be neglected | |
Anthem: Defender of Our Land | |
| Capital | Eranorth |
| Largest city | Annuriel |
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| Demonym(s) | Tissandran |
| Government | Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy |
• Monarch | Paverel III von Wittelsbach |
| Johannah Trevors (acting) | |
| Legislature | Parliament |
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| Unification | |
• from Kingdom of Tissandra and Republic of Tissandra | 11 November 1918 |
| Area | |
• Total | 25,345,545 km2 (9,785,970 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Estimate | 92,725,632 |
• Density | 4.2/km2 (10.9/sq mi) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2018 estimate |
• Total | ₣219,125,324,200 |
• Per capita | ₣2,363 |
| GDP (nominal) | 2018 estimate |
• Total | ₣200,131,312,201 |
• Per capita | ₣2158 |
| Gini (2010) | 28.5 low |
| SDI (2018) |  0.891very high |
| Currency | New Guldens (₣) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (Middle Yasteria) |
| Driving side | left |
| Calling code | +650 |
| Internet TLD | .ts |
The history of Tissandra began with the rise of the Hellenistic Civilization around 700 bc. The divided tribes united under the Eranorth Tribe and began the Pax Hellenica around the year 500 bc. The Hellenic Empire occupied much of Yasteria Major for 5 century, before the Great Revolt, led by Vinitius Clint in 1 bc overthrew the despotic hierarchy, and founded the Clintinian Republic. The Republic downfall in 527 led to the Hundred States era that lasted until 1865, when the First Civil War ended in a stalemate and divided the realm into the East West Divides that persisted well into the 20th century. The two state then clashed on the devastating Second Civil War that broke out in 1914. The unified modern nation today is the result of the Angelas Treaty signed in 1918 t end the war.
Modern Tissandra is commonly described as decadent and corrupt, although life expectancy and quality of living are high. This attributes are seemingly derived from Native Yasterian who felt the nation occupies their territory unlawfully. This description is also held by the Tissandran Liberal Rebels which rebelled in 2019, and engulfed the nation into the Third Civil War that still continue to this day.
Etymology
The name "Tissandra" first derived from the ancient Eranorth Tribe. No one actually clearly knows about the real meaning of the name for the Eranorthians. But for the Hellenistic cultures that succeed it the name came from the Legend of Hellen, where supposedly, Tissa the God of Earth was Helen, Goddess of The Skies' first true love. And so, universally accepted by the Hellenist, that the entirety of Tissandran people are descendants of Tissa and Hellen.
The first official use of the name came after the First Civil War where the two halves of the country claimed the name as their own. Today, the name Tissandra is codified in the section 2 paragraph 1 of the 1918 Constitution and stands as the official name for the Constitutional Monarchy.
History
Historical Intellects and scientist agreed that the History of Tissandra mainly consisted of six stages; Tribal Era, Hellenistic Civilization, Clintinian Republic, The Hundred States Period, The East-West Divides, and the contemporary history.
Pre-Historical Era
Around 1000 bc, Middle Yasteria was occupied by both Yasterian Natives and Coasts Tribes. The origin of these Coast Tribes are unknown, although there are lot of its remnants around the caves in Packilvania's coasts.
The tribes was peacefully living together. Some evident showed that Native Yasterian received Iron pots and potteries from the Coast Tribes. Some remnants of Ibex bones was found around a former Coast Tribe villages near Annuriel, although Ibexs are only found Around inner Yasterian, suggesting that trading was flourishing at that time.
Around 800 bc, a Coast Tribe called the Ærath moved near Lake Tiberion. The exact date were unknown, but according to Aelita Tablet King Æthélfled was the one who led his tribe to conquer most of inner Yasterian, and subjugated most of Yasterian Natives.
The founding date of Eranorth seems correlates with Æthélfled's conquest, of around 800 bc. Æthélfled died on Yasterian Range when he led his tribal men across during a hurricane. Legend often stated that the hurricane was unnatural, and was started by Æthélfled's brother, Æron. The conquest was continued under Æron, until he was deposed by Æthélfled's heir, Eleana.
It was under Eleana, when the first Hellenic Temple was founded in Creçoré.
Hellenic Era
Eleana Æçara became the first Shallah of the Hellenic Civilization on 24th of August 624 bc, and gone to rule almost for 72 years. During her reign, Hellenist began to preached across Yasteria, while roads are built to connect the major villages and tribes of Yasteria Major.
Eleana's direct five descendants was acknowledged as the Phillosopher Shallas, whom ruled over the realm for almost 400 years. Under their leadership, Hellenist occupied much of Yasteria. Their times were colloquially known as the First Golden Ages. Wealth did accumulate on this era, and the borders of the realm became opened, allowing ideas and trades to flourish inside the realm. Some historians argues that the all of the prosperities of these times as mainly attributed to the strong but wise hands of the Philosopher Shallas, and the sophisticated bureaucratic state of the Hellenic people. Others suggested that the long ages of the Philosopher Shallas was the main reason, as it contains resentment and prevents political upheaval inside the realm to happens. Either way, the Hellenic Civilization made its greatest success and impact in this era.
Around 446 bc, Æthura led the Hellenist once more across the Yasteria Range, and managed to surpass the deadly passes. He would gone to conquer most of the tribes west of the ranges. He and his son, Conquitara moves eastward and won another victory against the interior tribesmen. Then, in 314 bc, Bastierra build the Grand Acqueducts, series of Acqueducts and irrigation across core lands of the Hellenist.
The Golden Days
In Bastierra's time, the Hellenist had transformed from a tribal despotism, into a bureaucratic empire. The nation now had an established political bodies. Life became more complicated, as social norms and national laws were flourishing. The realm expands and stabilized its borders, ensuring a long time of peace and prosperity.
Although elected counselors and advisors already existed during Eleana's rules, the embodiment of the Senate and Congress of the Shallah are ratified inside Æthura's Book of The Century. The Senate was a freely elected body of 300 people. Though everyone principally can be a Senator, only the rich are able to fund campaigns (Prætoras) across the nation. The Congress on the other hand, was elected by the Senate. Both Congress and Senate serve for a 6 years term and can be reelected multiple times. The realm also owned national institutions, with its own branches regionally. The two institutions that were the main procurers of the government are the Magisterone and Milatireire.
The Dæstan
After the death of Bastierra on 292 bc, Eleana's line ended. The Succescion Wars that followed his death rampage the country for three years, until Carmac Dæstan won the siege of Creçoré. He was crowned Shallah in Eranorth, as the Emerald Palace in Creçoré has been destroyed during the brutal siege.
The reign of the Dæstans were filled with hardship, as Common Taxes was implemented to quickly rebuilt the burgeoning realm. But conquest continues, and during these times, Annuriel was founded. With the sovereign gone out on expeditions, there are no oversight for the collection of the Common Taxes. Soon, corruption ensues.
During the expedition eastward in 75 bc, Galantir Dæstan died. His son, Ærica was still 7 year old. Although the law explicitly said that a Shallah can be of any age, the Senate overulled it, and set up an Interregnum for Ærica. The times was often described in historical texts as a the Times of Troubles. Rich Senators often accept bribes or easement to disrupt the bureaucratic processes of the realm.
Taxes were levied twice as many as during the time of Galantir. This caused poverty soar, and the bureaucratic offices to be burdened. As such, the realm expansion halted; though its just reached its peak size.
The Prophecy of Angelas
Arround 64 bc, a new faith began to be established surrounding Creçore. Some historian argues about the truth behind the exhibition and expansion of this new faith, but its generally agreed that it was brought by Abraham son of Lucca. Abraham began his preaching around that year, and soon enough there were huge number of masses hearing him. Most people argues that Abraham's doctrine of sharing and equalities were very popular among the growing masses of poor across the country. And it is also agreed that Abraham's popularity derived the corrupt senators to act against him.
It was told that Abraham moved from Creçore to Eranorth on the year 62 bc. He met with Ærica, and began to teach the young King his teaching. The most notorious senator at that time, Duræni 'The Bloated' reportedly began to deliver some lies and accusations against Abraham, finalizing in the Senate's order to catch him. The Senate sent the city bailiffs to arrest him in Eranorth's market, but unbeknownst to them, Abraham was with Ærica at that time. The bailiffs, possibly didn't know that the you disciple of Abraham was the king himself, knocked out the young man with a club, and arrested Abraham. Its possible that this act was the mortal blow to the king, as he died just a week later.
The Senate ordered Abraham to be hanged, but during the execution process, he made a great speech called The Prophecy of Angelas (possibly referring to the Temple of Angelas near his execution ground). The executioner hanged him just right after his speech finished. The crowd suddenly lifted in uproar, and Eranorth was engulfed in rebellion for the entire year of 61 bc. The rebellion soon retreated outside the city, and began The Kinstrive. In the end of the year, the senators fled the city to Anuriel and called for mobilization.
The Kinstrive
The Kinstrive was a series of peasant and religious dissent that followed the execution of Abraham son of Lucca on 61 bc, all the way to 1 ac. The rebellion that had started in Eranorth quickly spread across the realm. These dissent were not as large as wars, and its mostly consisted of skirmishes and ambushes between disorganised peasant armies, and the Senators private retinues, until the advent of the Great Revolt. During The Kinstrive, the Senators achieved their ultimate power, as the realm is leaderless. A kind of an oligarchy formed as they consolidated more powers to defeat the dissent.
Historians agreed that the advent of The Kinstrive did a lot to change the Hellenistic beliefs of the realm into the monotheistic Childrens of Abraham. The former disciples of Abraham spreads quickly into the realm's periphery to spread this faith. Even though it has a lasting effects, the chronology of the strives itself was not properly documented, and there are generally less historical evidence from this period, possibly due to the strives itself.
The Kinstrive ended when The Great Revolt broke out across the nation, led by a former General, Vinitius Clint in 5 bc.
The Great Revolt
The unstable times of the strives, and the amassing of powers on the hands of the senators led into growing dissatisfaction among the people. There were growing inequality between the elites and the commoner, as trades and commerce bean to halt. Around this time, the eponymous semi-mythical general, Vinitius Clint led his Bands of Traitors into the first act of open rebellion against the senators. Clint led his bands into a series of successful raids against senatorial possession during the strives, until the people of Creçoré requested him to protect their city from tax collectors. The refusal of Creçoré to give their annual taxes was followed by an entire army marching toward the city around 5 bc. Clint and his men rallied the population of the city, and managed to defend it for five days before evacuating the entire city into the countryside.
The Siege of Creçore marks the beginning of the Great Revolt. Clint then started an extensive guerilla wars and skirmishes. The former militants of the strives joined his growing army, and on around 4 bc, Clint already in possession of 20,000 men. The senate declared Clint as outlaw, and that anyone following him will be regarded as traitors, but there were some senators that were giving support and monetary aids for Clint's army, the so called Golden Sphere senators. One of them, Jacques Marie le-Brun, openly opposed the senate after Clint's victory at the Battle of Anuriel. His campaigns across the nation inspired many people, and Clint's humble background began to culminate into the people's support for a Republic.
Vinitius Clint's campaigns culminated into the Battle of Anuriel, and the subsequent Siege of Anuriel. During the twenty days of the siege, the senators continues to debate on what action should be taken. On the twenty first day of the siege, the Carniol of Anuriel was on fire and immediately destroyed by the flames. The senate withhold anymore meetings, and on the thirtieth day of the siege, they surrenders.
Clintinian Republic Era
After the fall of the Hellenic Realm, Vinitius Clint and the former senators who were part of the Golden Sphere formed the Clintinian Republic. The Republic was modeled after the Hellenic Empire, but with some reforms, codified into the historic Anuriel Testament. The Golden Sphere quickly formed the new Congress of The Republic, and drawn up constituencies across the realm, while Vinitius Clint was appointed as its first Consul. One of the Congress' first legislation was to extend Clint's terms to unspecified amount of time, making Clint consul for live. But Clint didn't live pretty long after the Republic was founded. He died on 12 ac, and the Congress reconstituted terms limit for Consulate after that. After Clint's death, the Republic began the annual celebration of the Siege of Creçore, on the 27th of March. This celebration persisted to this day, as the Democracy Day.
The Republic era showed little to no expansion of borders whatsoever. The Republic seemingly prefers for an isolationist view in diplomatic terms; The Republic released all vassal states of the former Hellenic Empire, leaving it with only half of the Empire's territory. The main endeavor of The Republic was trade, as there were many legislation surrounding trades and wealth management during the duration of The Republic. During the early part of The Republic (before 250 ac), many public works and infrastructures were initiated, resulting in the irrigation system for the once barren Yasterian Range and the western plains. Coastal cities grows in prominence too, such as the construction of the Great Port of Anuriel. The next phase of The Republic (250 ac - 526 ac) saw the realm began to sent trade expeditions across Urth. These trade expeditions open The Republic's market to other nations, mainly with the coastal cities that is now Packilvania, and the lands that now constituted Peregrinia. Around 300 ac, the Great Road between Eranorth and Anuriel was built, around the same time with the Giant Aqueducts. This huge endeavor was done with labor forces so large, that the realm gone into deficit for the first time. The deficit initiated the founding of the first bank of The Republic, The Merchant's Guild Bank. The Bank began to exerts certain influence over The Republic, but mostly beneficial in nature, even though it clearly show the lack of transparency and accountability of The Republic's bureaucrats.
The Republic enters a period of stagnation around 400 ac, resulting in a bloated bureaucracy, and more red tapes. The main contributor of this stagnation was the unreformed Constitution of The Republic, which in turn made the nation helpless to made any innovation or efficiency on its bureaucrats. The bodies of The Republic increased in size, making decisions harder to formulate. This all happens all the while the Congress and the Consulate continues to debate over jurisdiction and responsibilities. These factors ultimately culminates into the 492 Election, on which the nation are splitted into right and left politics. The heated political situation of the year 492 and 493 was further abated by Consul Hannah Marigold and the left's constant attacks to the Congress in general, and to the right in particular. The debates increase the national militancy, and upheavals began to soar in number. Around the year 500, new Monarchist ideas began to emerge, preferring a strong hereditary ruler over a republic of red tapes. The idea gain tractions predominantly in the east side of the nations, around the city of Eranorth. The ideas was fiercely debated by the left, and Consul Adrian Malachus began to prosecute anyone with such idea.
The continuous political upheaval and constant prosecution raids led to the republic bankrupted in 504 ac. The bankruptcy resulted in The Merchant's Guild Bank intervention on the Congress. The Bank received three permanent seats and even some veto powers over financial issues. This sudden takeover upsetted the people and outraged the right, which began to fell out with the Congress, and began to militarised the people. Tension was high between 505 to 510, but constant debate and an end to prosecution stopped the nation falling into civil war. The right continuously debates the left, while protecting the Monarchist who supported the right. While the left, wishes for a weak Congress and strong Consulate. continue to give more power for The Bank, intending to lessen the power of the Congress. When The Bank was finally given a share for the writing of budget in 524, the right finally left the Congress in protest, and their supporters rallies into military groups surrounding their constituencies. The next two year saw negotiations failed, and the nation plunged into crises. Unable to find common ground, while also trying to stop any large scale war to occurs, Consul Sedgwick Alleyton decided to terminates both offices for undecided periods. Local constituencies saw it as the end of the central government, and began to rule themselves locally. The republic was in essence already died by 527 ac. The three groups, the right, left, and Monarchist disintegrated into smaller groups and created their own domains.
The Hundred States Period
The Dark Ages
The earlier times of the hundred states period were not properly documented. There were fragments of information, suggesting continuous small warfare and skirmishes between smaller states as the three factions of the Republic disintegrated even more. Architectures of these times were also scarce, as the people of this time seemingly maintains to use the buildings from the Republican era. There were reports of hunger, disease, and even some major plague outbreak between 600 to 800 ac. After 800, there were more gaps of information, but a lot of foreign artifacts and battlefield remains, suggesting foreign raiders, or outright invaders from other place. Historian seemingly couldn't conclude on any matter regarding what really happened between 800 to 1000 ac.
After 1000 ac, information became plenty once more. The years between 1000 to 1300 ac were filled with local expansion and increase in population. Cities like Anuriel, Eranorth, and Creçore began to regain its status as centers of the realm, while bigger states start to annexs the smaller one. Few people were mentioned, but those who were mentioned had commited great deeds, or crimes. Such story, like the story of DTissandrae Hamilton of Amber that manages to expand into a quarter of the realm, before splitting it up for his sons in his death bed. Other less glorious, such as the story of the Miracle Bandits, led by Adam Darian, who stupidly tries to steals Eranorth's coffer in the midnight of the Democracy Day (at that time called Clintinian Day) ended up jailed for good.
The Renaissance
The hundred states period encompasses the time of the spread of renaissance ideals throughout Urth in the 14th century. Even though the nation is disunited, and there were dozens of wars between the small states, art, culture, and scientific discovery were in abundance. Many lords or consulates built magnificence palaces to rival each other, while artistic patronage was at large. Scientific improvements of this time were primarily military in nature, but eventually the knowledge spreads to other parts of live. The peasants in particular raised into new level as then, there were no more citizenship laws; anyone living inside any territory is essentially a subjects to the local's law. This further increase connection for trade and commerce, even rivaling the rates during the Republic times.
There were actually less than a hundred of states in any given time. But, spanning for more than 12 centuries, there were indeed more than hundred states rising and falling in today's territory of Tissandra. Many of these states eventually coalesced into bigger one, most notably the Duchy of Ethring and the Republic of Anuriel which almost unifies the entire realm at some point of their existence. Some areas began to be more specialised than other; the eastern lands was predominantly agricultural, until marble quarries were founded during the 13th century and many farmer decided to mines for marble. Other places, such as Ethring, began to produce huge number of textiles and clothing due to their cotton farmlands. By the 17th century, gunpowder was used extensively, and many modern products began to be produced, such as book printing, ink pen, well pumps, and huge wooden sail ships.
The Industrial Revolution
The 18th century saw the First Industrial Revolution, as the discovery of well pumps led to the discovery of machine pumps. The machine pumps were used to pums out water from coal and ore mines, boosting production more than double the times, and making prices for fuel to drop. Many cotraptions were made at this time; the Spinning Harry (a string threading machine built by Harry Jennings), and the steam powered factories which sprung out across the realm. Some older institutions, like banks and universities transforms into the modern structure we see now. While locals began to build free schools as education became more important. This era also marked by massive urbanization, as cities swelled in size. Arround 1772, railway network began to extends across the nation, and in 1781 the first steam boat canal was opened. Roads also widened, and the first kind of toll ways was opened between Anuriel and Creçore in 1765.
Although education and income began to increase, the quality of live were actually decreasing, as people working inside factories were lacking protection. Many accident happens, while coal and iron soot began to affect worker's health. Child labour was extensive to, and they were also exposed with lacks of protection to. There were no regulations, and many profiteers try to use this lack of government intervention to amass wealth as much as possible, culminating into the return of the Oligarchy as these people began to assert political influence over financial ones.
The Late 18th Century
Neverthelles, the disparates states finally decrease in number, as duchies and republics increase in power and size. The Duchy of Eranorh started a ferocious conquest and diplomatic annexations throughout the 15th and 16th century. They aggressively marries off their members of Dynasty, the House of Chalois, to form alliances, and to annex far away lands. The shrewd practice managed to bring half of the realm into the Duchy's command. By the year 1701, The nation was half unified under Eranorth. During this time, the Palace of Glass was built in the suburbs of Eranorth to showcase the might of the DTissandrae. When the Palace is finished in 1714 ac, during the time of DTissandrae Charles XXVI, he coronated himself inside the palace as the first King of the descendants of Tissa; forming the Kingdom of Tissandra. The lords, mayors, consuls and locals already under Eranorth's sway subsequently approves his coronation. But the southwestern part of the realm denies the coronation, and declares Charles' claim unfounded. They gathers to form the Coalition for Tissandra, headed by the President of Anuriel (formerly Consul of Anuriel). The two factions maintain their cohesion throughout the rest of the 18th century, until the middle of the 19th century, with each claiming to be the rightful government for Tissandra. But only after Anuriel formally annexed all of the Coalition's members and forms the Republic of Tissandra in 1864, hostilities between the two nation escalated into all out war.
The First Civil War
The First Civil War lasted for more than 3 years between 1865 to 1868, resulting in 500,000 casualties, and almost 150,000 deaths. The war was primarily fought among the borders, with each side trying to invade the others. There were four stages of the war, according to historian. The stages are : The Gulf Campaign, The Massif Central Campaign, The Highland Campaign, and The Greenfields Campaign.
The Gulf Campaign was the attempt of the Kingdom to invade the Republic and to besiege Anuriel. The campaign was a defeat, as waves after waves of Royalist Army were defeated along the coasts of Hikaru Gulf. The largest battle of this campaign was the Battle of Dren Bridge on 21st of September 1865, where 75,000 Royalist attempted to cross a bridge near Dren Village. The Royalist were forced to retreats and stops the invasion. The Massif Central Campaign was the second attempts of the Royalist to invade the Republican. This campaign was more succesful, and led to the Siege of Aminore, a strategic fortress that supplies Anuriel, on the 9th of April 1866. The siege were called off when the Republican invade the Kingdom in the Highland Campaign. The Highland Campaign was the longest of the other campaigns, leading to the evacuation of Eranorth on 7th of December 1866, and the Battle of Carrack on 16th of February 1867. The Republican was defeated at that battle and had to retreats back to Eranorth. They were once again defeated at the Battle of Marygold on 2nd of April 1867, and forced to withdraw back to the Republican territory in the Long Retreat that lasted until November 1867.
The winter of 1867 saw only small skirmishes with no major battles, as both sides are preparing for a last attempt to invade the other. The last phase of the war, The Greenfields Campaign, was a series of intelligence confusion and miss information that led into both army march into one another route. The Battle of Greenfields lasted for five days (4th to 9th of March 1868), resulted in almost 10,000 casualties. The battle ended in a draw, as both troops agreed into a cease-fire. A truce of 50 years was signed on the 11th of March 1868.
The East-West Divides and The Second Industrial Revolution
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The fifty years of truce between the Kingdom and the Republic of Tissandra were colloquially known as the East-West Divides. The period saw the Reconstruction Era between 1868 to 1888 on both nations, and also the advents of the Second Industrial Revolution. The Reconstruction Era brought the people of the Kingdom and of the Republic more closer than ever as both crossed the border regularly, but seemingly divides the political entity of both nations even more. There were now staunch movement for unification, and political parties on both sides began to coordinate joint events between the two halves. This distressed both the absolutist King of Tissandra, as well as the fanatic egalitarian of the Republic of Tissandra, who began to broadcast propaganda through the newly invented radios and newspapers.
The Second Industrial Revolution saw gas lights, radio signal, and cable telephones invented. These inventions allows factories to run 24 hours a day, and also increased the productivity and the livelihood of the markets with the advent of real time stock exchange. New regulations were put on both nations, to protect the safety and health if the workers. But laws regarding minimal wages and social benefits were still non-existent. Around this time the socialist ideals were brought to Tissandra from abroad. This, and the following Communist Manifesto, brought far left politics to the nation, opposing both Conservatives of the Kingdom, and the Liberals of the Republic. Many urban workers joined these ideals, and form joint parties, such as the Socialists for a United Tissandra Movement Party, the Commune of Tissandra, and the United Worker's Front. This angers the Conservative and the Liberals alike, who began to legislate laws against worker union and socialist dogma.
The Second Civil War
In 16th of April 1914, negotiations started in Varreylaigh, a village in the border, to determines the outcomes of the 50 years truce that will ends in 1918. The negotiations ended in failure when both the Kingdom and the Republic demanded each other subjugation. The subsequent failure culminated into a heated debate between the two leaders of the delegations, Prince Maximilian VII, King Ludwig XXII's cousin, and Minister of Foreign Affairs for The Republic of Tissandra, Retired Major General Richard Heather. The problem became personal when a duel challenge was proposed, and both men agreed. The duels, took place on 18th of April 1914 and resulted in both men died. The Prince's bullets hit the Minister's chest rather quickly. But when the Prince turned his back, the Minister, whom already laying in the floor, shoot his pistol directly to the prince's head. The duels became a diplomatic crises between the two nations. The Royal Family quickly distributes propaganda, demanding justice over the Prince's live, while in the Republic, the family of the minister, and the cabinet members started touring the nation demanding an action. After tensions and diplomatic back and forth, on 28th of July 1914, rifle shots began on the borders.
The war started with the Kingdom advances toward the Fortress of Aminore. The advances was stopped along River La Girona, culminating into the 1st Battle of La Girona that happens for two weeks (4th - 18th of August 1914). The Republican managed to pushed back the Royalist into the borders. But, when the Republican pushed back the Royalist, the Royalist already dug up trenches and fortified positions along the borders. The Republican troops follows suit, and the rest of the war became a Trench Warfare, except on the highlands where there were massive guerilla skirmishes, and at the sea where both nation's navies collide. The stalemate continue for the rest of the year, as only cannons shots were heard on the trenches and both armies still figuring out how to fight on such terrains.
On 15th of February 1915, the Republican started an advance to try to break through the Royalist trenches. The offensive, known as the February Campaign, succeed on breaking through the Royalist defenses, but got bogged down. The Republican occupies the western trenches of the Royalist for the next three months, before the Royalist decided to outflanked the Republican and pushed them out of their trenches. The Royalist, galvanizing on this momentum, pushed forward toward the Republican line, culminating in the 2nd Battle of La Girona on 20th of May 1915. This battle were once again a loss, and the Royalist retreated back to their trenches. In the west highlands and arround Yasteria Range, General David Janisson of the Royal Army conducted series of successful guerilla warfare, and even going as far as to attack the Fort of Camille, the westernmost fortification of the Republican that guarded the flank of the trenches, in 20th of October 1915. His attack was crucial for the outset of the 3rd Battle of La Girona on 22nd of October 1915, where some Royalist units manages to cross the river, and even bombarded Anuriel itself on 30th of October, before retreating back to the river line, and then to their trenches. During the winter, on the sea, both navies of the two nations clashed on small skirmishes, trying to cut of each other's supply lines. There were three large scale skirmishes that occurs between October to December; Battle of Lain's Reef (30th of October 1915), the Battle of Port August (13th of November 1915), and the Battle of Merrimack Stream (2nd of December 1915). All of them ended in stalemate, except with the Battle of Port August, where the Royalist Navy managed to sink three cruisers of the Republican Navy; RNS Abreuve, RNS Dogma, and RNS Carrie.
The situation in 1916 for the Republican seemingly worsened. Their troops were being pushed back on the highland front, while Anuriel is still in shock after the three days of bombardment by the Royalist from 30th of October 1915 to the 33rd of October 1915. Their navy didn't fare well as much, especially after the Battle of Port August. The President, Fisher Croydon, decided to started the bloodiest campaign of the entire war, the Summer Campaign of 1916. The campaign started on 16th of May 1916, and on the 3rd of June 1916, the Royalist army were forced to ditch their trenches all along the border. The great success of the campaign was not without losses; 200,000 casualties was reported across the lines by the end of June, and the reports soon comes to the citizens. Massive outcry ensues across the Republics, and the power of the neutralist and unity parties began to increase. Worker unions across the Republic decided to strikes, and on the 1st of August 1916, the day now known as the Massacre of Anuriel, the workers protested near the Parliament at Anuriel during a session. After a sereis of miscomunication between the protesters and the police, shots were fired and soon there were 664 men and women died on the Central Square. The act started the Sacking of Anuriel, filling the city with destruction, looting, protest, and eventually fires that engulfed a quarter of the city for the next two months. The news of what happened in Anuriel stopped the commanders on the front, while the troops refused to move forward once more. Nevertheless, by the time the Sacking of Anuriel happens, the Republican army's artilleries were already at a fire range to Eranorth. Eranorth was shelled throughout theremainder of the year.
The fate of the Royalist army were as bleak as well. After getting pushed back on all fronts, casualties ammounted to between 80,000 to 100,000. The state of their supply began to waver, as the entire trade lines of the Kingdom were forced into choke points. on the 3rd of August, King Ludwig XXII died after a stroke few days before, persumably after learning of the numbers of the casualties. After the king's death, the government found out that the Crown Prince, Prince Charles XXVII who was serving as a captain on the front, has been missing in action for almost a weak. An exstensive search was started, but no one could find the Prince. No bodies ever being reported to this day. An interregnum was declared, as there were no more members of the House of Chalois in Tissandra. Morales across the Kingdom were at all time low, while the Councellor of the Kingdom began the long process of electing a new dynasty for the Kingdom. The rest of 1916 saw no combat whatsoever, as both sides were terribly scarred.
By February of 1917, dissidents and strikes that plagued the Republic after the Massacre of Anuriel began to mobilize into one group, centered around the United Tissandra Movement led by Abraham Cornellius. on 1st of March 1916, Cornellius demanded the resignation of the cabinet, and a referendum to stop the civil war. Fisher Croydon didn't give any answers, while some members of his cabinet were already fleeing the country. After the news of the Minister of Interior, Amelia Downton's flight to Packilvania on 3rd of March was known, the United Tissandra Movement took arms across the nation and started the March Revolution. The revolution managed to capture cities across the Republic, while the troops in the front and the garrisons in the countryside refused any commands to vanquish the revolutionary forces. The police department were disbanded on 6th of August under protest, as President Croydon ordered them to kill fellow citizens, and soon the National Guard; the last reserve and the defenders of Anuriel, mutinied on the 13th of April. By the 15th of April, Croydon reliquished his title. He was quickly imprisoned, on the charges of incompetence and irresponsibility for the Summer Campaign of 1916. The next two weaks saw politician and people ascociated with the President and his cabinet captured, and some even executed. Some, like Minister of Defense, Harry Boughton, was shot death when he tried to cross the border toward the Royalist army. Croydon and his cabinet members that hasn't been executed already, were shot death at the Anuriel Central Square, on the exact spot where the Massacre of Anuriel had happened.
By the end of 1917, the Republic's fare only getting worst, as supplies are dwindling while strikes hasn't stopped yet. Abraham Cornellius was declared Acting President, and quickly realized that the nation is doomed to annihilation. He then made contact with the Councellor of the Kingdom, to begin some negotiations. The request was denied, as across the Kingdom, people demanded glorious victory, or at least a glorious defeat (Manifestation of Chivalry, signed by King Ludwig XXII before the war started). Cornellius, seeing the nation became increasingly militant while also increasingly hopeless, agrees to allows the Royalist Army to march into Anuriel and other cities of the Republic, and to occupies it, on the ground that the government of the Kingdom dissolves itself to give way for a new unified government from both sides. The term was again rejected, and on 15th March 1918, hostilities errupts again across the front. The Kingdom forces managed to push the Republican back to their initial position after the Battle of Andiers that lasted into 2nd of June. But on 16th of June 1918, a silent Coup happened inside the Councellor of the Kingdom by United Tissandra Movement's members inside the Kingdom, led by General Mallaby Courier. The Councellors were reportedly imprisoned for elongating the war. The people of the Kingdom was reportedly unmoved by the coup, and veign ignorance in general as they were too tired by the time. Food stocks were so low, that rationing had gone to a single meal per day.
On the 17th of June 1918, truce was finally signed between the two nations, and all armed forces inside both country, troops, militias, and policeman disbanded themselves to prevents another armed conflict. The following 5 moths is entirely dedicated to disbands the former governmental institutions of both nations, relinquished all titles and returning normality toward the economy. The new Constitution of Tissandra was formulated (7th of August 1918), new currency was acknowledged and the National Bank of Tissandra was founded (12th of September 1918), redrawing of regional division was conducted (21st of September 1918), and the redistribution of land for the people, especially for those who have fought in the war was also agreed (16th of October 1918). Reconstruction were already on their way when the Treaty of Angelas was signed on 11th of November 1918, in front of the Old Temple of Angelas, where Abraham was executed 18 centuries ago. The treaty unites both nations under a mixed government; a Constitutional Monarchy of Tissandra, to allows the stability of the Kingdom of Tissandra to coalesce with the freedom and democracy of the Republic of Tissandra. Abraham Cornellius was declared was declared as the First Prime Minister of the Constitutional Monarchy, why the family of von Wittelsbach, the family that lived on both sides of the borders and remains staunchly neutral for the entirety of the war, was selected as the new Royal Family of Tissandra. King Gustav I was crowned on the 1st of December 1918 in the Palace of Eranoth. As at the time, Anuriel was badly damaged and the memory of the Massacre of Anuriel was still close, the government had chosen Eranorth as the capital city. 11th of November is now celebrated as the Day of Unification.
Contemporary Tissandra
Early Contemporary
Post Civil War Tissandra was predominantly dominated by the Second Reconstruction. The Second Reconstruction was one of the most ambitious public program in histories, as it saw the complete revitalization of Anuriel, the rebuilding of roads, bridges, and other public facilities. The Second Reconstruction also saw the rebuilding and rejuvenation of old classical buildings from the Clintinian Era, all the way to the Hellenic era. Around this time, the massive Anuriel Skyscrapers began to sprung out, as workforce was in abundance. the 1920s's and 1930's was considered a golden time, the so called the Polished Era, many Tissandran family rose into wealth and and social gaps began to decrease, as ordinary workers can afford more and more things to buy. The 1930's saw the Third Industrial Revolution sprung out, as the discovery of Assembly Line and new labour regulations pressed prices to all time low, that there were disputably no homeless people in Tissandra by the year 1935. In 1935, the Tissandra Broadcasting Company was founded, making radio debutes and newspaper at the same time. During these times, ordinary people finally can afford to buy transportations while commercial flights was also gaining prominence among the rich. Around this year, oil was discovered on the western areas, and the nation soon built refineries across the land. Oil became the largest exports for Tissandra for the remainder of the century.
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The years of 1940's saw the House Boom, as properties were built and bought all across the nation. Around this time, commercial apartments began to be advertised, while the first commercial television station was founded; the Anuriel Post. The television station was soon rivaled by TBC new branch, the Tissandra Television Station. Commercial advertising began to increase in activity, leading to massive commercialization of the economy. The Eranorth Stock Exchange was founded in 1948 to help sustains the increasing competitiveness of commerec inside the nation. It was soon followed by the Hikaru reclamation, a gigantic project to enlarge Port August into a huge trading port. The 50s and the 60s saw a lot of technological advancement across Urth, and saw the Bretton Woods System implemented, the system that finally frees trade from threats and lower the cost of shipping. Commercial telephone companies was gaining traction in the 60s, leading the so called Cable SkiesYears because of so many telephone cables above Tissandra's roads. This led to the Road and Cable Act of 1968, that managed to burry the majority of the cables with the water and the gas pipes under the roads by the year 1971.
70's, 80's, and 90's
The 70's was known as the Jeannette Era, as the 16th Prime Minister, Marge Jeannette managed to stay in office and her party, the win three consecutive elections. Marge Jeannette most notable decision was the founding of the Reserves for Native Yasterian. Even though her time in office was surrounded by corruption scandals, the scandals has been disproven by the Supreme Court. The time was known for the first Tissandra mission to outer space, in 12th of July 1973 when the sattelite, Abraham Cornellius Geocom was put into orbit by a native Tissandra shuttle. It was also known for the increase on youth rebelliousness, and the so called 'punk era'. Many expressionist art appears at this times, while the jazz musics is being sidelined by a more expressionist kind of musics. The time also saw the building of the Home Blocks, the high rise bland apartments that was built to accomodate the increasing number of homeless workers. The construction of toll ways was prevalent, with the completion of the 6th, 7th, 9th, and 12th. leading the projects.
The 80's and the 90's saw the digitalization sweeping the nation. Tech giants like Pears and SmallWare rise into prominence and producing large amount of computers. The use of Internet is introduced and many commercial Internet providers began to appears. These internet provider companies was bought by bigger companies like Tissandra Telecom, Exist, and CellOne. The digitalization also improves the real-time Stock Exchange, making a lot of business gaining capital on shorter amount of time. The year saw the University Loan Act of 1987, where College Students were given allowances to help pays of their college. This act saw huge number of diploma graduated in the 90's, and became the back story for today's No Comission University Act of 2016.
The booming times was over when the loan market fails in early 1998 due to the ever increasing interest rates and the ever heavier stock price. The nation was plunged into recession for the next entire 1998 and 1999. Prime Minister Holy Atwell was forced to resigned after her cabinet failed to pass the Recession Act of 1998. On November 21st 1999, the new Prime Minister, John Bolsoir, managed to past the New Deal Act of 1999, that included heavier regulations for stock price tag, and an indexed national interest rate to prevent another loan market crash. The cabinet also finally surrenders all monetary powers and the decission to print money to the National Bank of Tissandra through the First Amendment of The Constitution. The amendment also shifted the exports from oil dominated, into manufactured goods orientation.
The 21st Century
The nation revived quickly after the passing of the New Deal Act of 1999, but unemployment had already soars and many businesses had already bankrupt. Throughout the 2000 to 2005, the nation passed welfare acts to reduce the unemployment and rebuilt the economy. The most revolutionazing acts were the Free School Act of 2002, Medical Benefits Act of 2004, and the House Mortgage Act of 2005. The nation thightened the budget even more, and pays the welfare policies predominantly form oil revenue. These welfare policies led to the eradication of illiteracy and the high quality of life standard in Tissandra. But the welfare policies had made alot of money must channels through the government, and many corruption scandals appears. To this day, Tissandra was still considered as having a high level of corruption. The Anti Corruption Comission which was founded on 2006 to battle the corruptions was pretty successful on exposing many scandals, albeit with a still limited powers and slightly lower budget than any similar department on Urth. The media also plays its role well on exposing corruption scandals. The No Comission University Act of 2016 was feared for giving the Ministry of Education and Culture too much power and was much debated on the media. But it has been declared that the money is not under the Ministry's direct responsibility, but is under the National Bank of Tissandra and the Anti Corruption Comission scrutinies.
The Constitutional Monarchy of Tissandra is now a member of The East Pacific, and has been in contact with its member states.
Geography
Politics
Government
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| Johannah Trevors, acting Prime
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King Paverel III von Wittelsbach
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The Constitutional Monarchy of Tissandra is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentarian system and a strong democratic traditions. The Constitution of Tissandra was approved by negotiations on 7th of August 1918, and since has been amended for one time. The nation is nominally headed by the head of state, the Monarch of Tissandra who wields limited power according to the Royal Prerogatives Act of 1919. The current monarch is King Paverel III von Wittelsbach, coronated on 27th of September 2020. The executive branch consisted of the office of the Prime Minister, which is curretly vacant, and the Ministries of The Crown. Current role of Prime Minister is held by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Johannah Trevors since 20th of September 2020.
The Tissandran Parliament is a bicameral legislature comprising the House of Commons (Asemblourge Nacional) and the House of Lords (Asemblourge Roiale). The House of Commons MPs represent local constituencies and are directly elected for 5-year terms. The Commons has the power to dismiss the government, and thus the majority in the House determines the choice of government. Lords are chosen by an electoral college of intellects, and direct designation from the monarch for 6-year terms (originally 9-year terms). Two third of the Lords are elected by the electoral college, and the rest are appointed by the monarch, with the Prime Minister's suggestion.
The Lord's legislative powers are limited; in the event of disagreement between the two chambers, the House of Commons has the final say. The Government has a strong influence in shaping the agenda of Parliament.
After the Second Civil War, there were three main factions in the parliament; the Conservatives, the Liberals, and the Socialits. The Conservatives led by the General Party has subsided in strength and now only controls 16 seats in the commons. The Conservatives joins the Government Coalition led by the socialist National Party of Tissandra and the Socialist Party of Tissandra which controls 189 and 52 seats respectively. The liberals are in the Opposition Coalition, led by Tissandra Liberal Party with 141 seats, People's Freedom Party with 71 seats, and the Liberal Cry Party with 31 seats.
As of 2017, voter turnout was 81percent during recent elections and are considered pretty high among the members of The East Pacific.
Laws
Tissandra uses a civil legal system, wherein law arises primarily from written statutes; judges are not to make law, but merely to interpret it (though the amount of judicial interpretation in certain areas makes it equivalent to case law in a common law system). Basic principles of the rule of law were laid in the Human Rights Act of 1919 (which was, in turn, largely based on the laws of the Republic of Tissandra). In agreement with the principles of the act, law should only prohibit actions detrimental to society. As Bourdierre Mryland, one of the first seven Judges of the Supreme Court wrote about the management of prisons: Freedom is the rule, and its restriction is the exception; any restriction of Freedom must be provided for by Law and must follow the principles of necessity and proportionality. That is, Law should lay out prohibitions only if they are needed, and if the inconveniences caused by this restriction do not exceed the inconveniences that the prohibition is supposed to remedy. The basic principles that Tissandra must respect are found in the Human Rights Act of 1919, and the 1918 Treaty of Angelas.
Tissandran law is divided into two principal areas: private law and public law. Private law includes, in particular, civil law and criminal law. Public law includes, in particular, administrative law and constitutional law. However, in practical terms, Tissandran law comprises three principal areas of law: civil law, criminal law, and administrative law. Criminal laws can only address the future and not the past (criminal ex post facto laws are prohibited). While administrative law is often a subcategory of civil law in many countries, it is completely separated in Tissandra and each body of law is headed by a specific supreme court: ordinary cases (which handle criminal and civil litigation) are headed by the Supreme Court of Tissandra and administrative cases are headed by the Constitutional Court of Tissandra. Both ordinary and administrative courts are hierarchical in nature. On regency/municipality level there are the Regional Court for the ordinary cases and the Regional Secretariat Court for the administrative cases. In provincial level, there are Intermediary Court for ordinary cases and Provincial Secretariat Court for administrative cases.
To be applicable, every law must be officially published in the Journal of the Secretary of the State.
Tissandra does not recognise religious law as a motivation for the enactment of prohibitions. Instead, the laws concerning religions are those who are meant to preserves the freedom of religions inside Tissandra. There are laws for racism and segregation too. Freedom of religion is constitutionally guaranteed by the Human Rights Act of 1919.
Foreign Relations
Postwar Tissandran foreign policy has been largely shaped by membership of The East Pacific. Since the 2000's, Tissandra has developed close ties with member states although were frequently interrupted by times of isolation because of the constant changes in the administration. It maintain friendly connection with its neighboors, particularly Packilvania as it is the closest neighbor of Tissandra. Tissandra maintain an open-close relations with other nations, preferring economic and scientific agreements over military and political ones. The Government maintain a strong neutral sense, and refused to pick sides during times of crises as its own politics are woryingly divided already. The foreign policy of Tissandra is determined by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with suggestions from the Parliament and the Monarch. The current Minister for Foreign Affairs is Hon. Johannah Trevors MP. The Ministry comprised of the Foreign Office, Trade and Agreements Bureau, International Organizational Management, Geopolitical Watcher Office, and Tissandra Representatives to The East Pacific.
Military
Army
For a nation as large as Tissandra, the army didn't have a standing military in large number. Tissandra maintains a force of around 150,000 active duty soldiers, and an additional 200,000 national reserve. Albeit small, Tissandra adopted conscription policy. So, in case of ultimate danger, Tissandra can mobilize up to a quarter of its male population. Tissandra also boast a huge arms manufacturing industry and state of the art military technologies. Tissandra primary arms manufacturer is the government owned Gustav Armament, named after King Gustav II whom still reigning when the company was founded. There are other private arms manufacturers, such as Goldilocks (specializing on hand held armament like pistols and rifles), and BriarPatch (primarily producing armored uniform and upgrading military vehicles). Tissandra Royal Army is organized into the Eastern Theatre, and Western Theatre. Each theatre will be headed by a General. The theatres then will be divided into corps, each headed by a Lieutenant General. The theatre also comprised of some armored units and artilleries. Although further information are classified, It is a general knowledge for Tissandran that there are more forces in the western theatre where they borders the Packilvanian Caliphate. The army is headed by the office of the Chief of Staff of The Army, currently belongs to Gen. Harry Harrison.
The Royal Navy of Tissandra comprised of 40 ships, and hundreds of civilian-converted ships. The navy boasts 5 cruisers, 10 destroyers, 18 corvettes, 5 submarines and 2 nuclear submarines. The navy is organized into two fleets, each headed by an admiral. The navy serves limited purposes as Tissandra didn't have a long coastline, and mainly deployed in the west to escort incoming trade vessels and defending generally. The cruisers, especially the Hampton-class is the most advanced naval vessels in the nation, owing to its super sensitive radar system, semi-automatic targetting computers, and the large number of automatic and guided missiles silos aboard. All cruisers of The Royal Navy own at least two helipads, with a military hellicopters capable of carying ordinance and for rescue mission. The coast guard boasted hundreds of boats and are also considered part of the royal navy ships. The two nuclear submarines, dubbed the Gold-class were developed during the watchful year of 1979. They were designed by Albert Chardelier, and constructed on Port August. Today, the nuclear submarines only comes out into view during celebrations, as it spends much of the year beneath the sea.
The navy is headed by the Chief of Staff of The Navy, Rear Admiral Jane Allen, the first woman to hold the post.
Air Force
The Royal Air Force today consisting of 53 military aircraft. It is divided into theatres following the army. The air force is headed by the Air Marshall and the Air Chief of Staff.
Economy
Tisssandra has a partially regulated market economy. Based on market exchange rates, Tissandra has an upper level economic power on Urth. Ministry of Finance, led by the Minister for Finance, is responsible for developing and executing the government's public finance policy and economic policy. The National Bank of Tissandra is Tissandra's central bank and is responsible for issuing notes and coins in the nation's currency, the New Gulden. The New Gulden is one of the biggest reserve currency on Urth. Since 1999 the National Bank's Monetary Policy Committee, headed by the Governor of the National Bank of Tissandra, has been responsible for setting interest rates at the level necessary to achieve the overall inflation target for the economy that is set by the Minister for Finance each year.
Tissandra service sector makes up most of the GDP. Anuriel is one of Urth's largest financial centres and also has the largest regional GDP in Tissandra. Eranorth ranks is just behind Anuriel in terms of economic importance and size. Tourism is very important to the Tissandran economy; with over 27 million tourists arriving in 2004, Tissandra is considered as one of the major tourist destination in Urth and Creçore has the most international visitors of any city in the country. The creative industries in Tissandra is growing at a pretty fast pace, and now constituted about 5% of the GDP.
The First Industrial Revolution started in Tissandra with an initial concentration on the textile industry, followed by other heavy industries such as shipbuilding, coal mining and steelmaking. Tissandran merchants, shippers and bankers developed overwhelming advantage over those of other nations allowing Tissandra to participate in international trade in the 19th century. As other nations industrialised, Tissandra began to lose its competitive advantage and heavy industry declined, by degrees, throughout the 20th century. Manufacturing remains a significant part of the economy but accounted for only 19% of national output in 2003.
The automotive industry employs around 1,500,000 people, generating ₣34.6 billion of exports (11.8 % of Tissandra's total export goods). In 2015, Tissandra produced around 1.6 million passenger vehicles and 94,500 commercial vehicles. Tissandra is a major centre for engine manufacturing: in 2015 around 2.4 million engines were produced. Tissandra motorsport industry employs around 41,000 people, comprises around 4,500 companies and has an annual turnover of around ₣6 billion.
The aerospace industry of Tissandra is one of the biggest on Urth and has an annual turnover of around ₣30 billion. The wings for the Airlift A380 and the A350 XWB are designed and manufactured at Airlift Tissandra's Almiere facility, whilst over a quarter of the value of the Airlift 787 comes from Tissandra manufacturers including Meaton, Merry-Burgress-Delli and Le-Joyce. Tissandra space industry was worth ₣9.1bn in 2011 and employed 29,000 people. It is growing at a rate of 7.5 % annually, according to its umbrella organisation, Tissandra Space Agency. In 2013, the Tissandran Government pledged ₣60 m to the Skynorth project: this investment will provide support at a "crucial stage" to allow a full-scale prototype of the LSC (Life Supporting Compartments) engine to be built.
Agriculture is intensive, highly mechanised and efficient by Urthian standards, producing about 60 % of food needs with less than 1.6 % of the labour force (1,400,000 workers). Around two-thirds of production is devoted to arable corps, one-third to livestock. The majority of irigation were an upgraded form of the older irrigation system dating back to the Clintinian era. Farmers are subsidised by the Ministry of Industry and Agriculture's Policy. Tissandra retains a significant, though much reduced fishing industry. It is also rich in a number of natural resources including coal, petroleum, natural gas, tin, limestone, iron ore, salt, clay, chalk, gypsum, lead, silica and an abundance of arable land.
Tissandra biggest export after manufactured goods is refined oil. Oil made up about 16% of the total exports, and generating almost ₣46 billion for the economy. The government owned Cornellius Oil Company produced 46% of the national oil outlift in 2019. Other major oil mining companies are Teltex, Urmina Mining, and Bless Drill. The revenue from oil and oil related income are primarily used for Tissandra's wellfare programs.
In the final quarter of 1998 to 1999, Tissandra economy officially entered recession for the first time. Tissandra lost its top AAA credit rating for the first time with the International Credit Agency, but retained its triple A rating with Yasteria International Credits. By the end of 2014, Tissandra growth was the fastest in history, and by 2015, the unemployment rate was down to a seven-year low of 7.3 %. In 2020, political instability and the vacant position of the Prime Minister creates uncertainty, resulting in the economy to suffer its biggest slump since 1999, shrinking by 5.3% to push it officially into recession for the first time in 21 years.
Since the 1970s, Tissandra economic inequality has grown faster than in other developed countries. The poverty line in Tissandra is commonly defined as being 60 % of the median household income. The Office for National Statistics has estimated that in 2011, 14 million people were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, and that one person in 20 (5.1 %) was experiencing "severe material depression", up from 3 million people in 1977. Although Tissandra does not have an official poverty measure, the Cromby Jamestree Foundation and the Social Metrics Commission estimate, based on government data, that there are 14 million people in poverty in Tissandra. 1.5 million people experienced destitution in 2017.
Tissandra has an external debt of ₣9.6 trillion dollars, which is pretty high on Urthian scale.