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With Alkari military assistance—leveraging their significantly more advanced military technology, not least of all firearms—Zullabora easily defeated the eastern coalition of Produonu within months of having signed the treaty, and a war of less than four months in 1745 conquered the ancient Kingdom of Esidu in the north. While there were a number of smaller petty-states or tribes in the far northwest of the country, and would always be significant resistance from the tribes of the rainforest interior, Zullaboran (and thus Alkari) domination over the Viquelle River basin was solidified by 1747. However, it was difficult to maintain control in the country for the sole reason that, with hardly any roads anywhere in the country, it was difficult and slow to get from one place to another. The first major Alkari project was to expand the city of Zullabora and make it a "proper, modern burgh," and then to build a network of roads between the major cities. For this, they undertook a massive campaign of forced labor from prisoners—both Alkari and Viquellan convicts—to build both projects.
Zullabora quickly expanded and industrialized. The Alkari had a policy of paying more for infrastructure projects in the realms of the local leaders they liked better, which meant that early industrialization spread in the Viquelle River basin through a system of [[wikipedia:patronage|patronage]]. While this policy did lead to some cities seeing significant development, it was done unequally across the region and pitted local leaders against each other. There began to be conflict among the various chiefdoms, tribes, and petty kingdoms that still de facto existed within what the Alkari called Viquelle. In 1801, a group of leaders rebelled against Zullaboran administration, which caused Alksearia to have to answer its obligations and come to Zullabora's defense. Over the course of five years, several rebellions broke out among various groups within Viquelle, and eventually the costs of defending it became too high. Alksearia agreed to grant independence to Viquelle on the condition that it assume the vast majority of Alkari debt incurred in the territory in the Treaty of Alcarbora in 1806.
===First Republic===
From its outset, the First Republic was highly opposed to Alksearia in general. Among its first priorities was removing all Alkari soldiers and government officials from the country, and it refused to exchange representatives with Alksearia in any capacity. The political class of the First Republic tended to be dominated by three major factions: the nobility of the former Kingdom of Esidu, in the north, who held the most military power; merchant and business interests from the east, who had the cash flow to pay the Republic's debts; and the ethnic Alkari royalists, who still lived all across the country (especially in the west) and who sought a return to friendly relations with Alksearia or even a return to vassal status. The Republic's government was frequently hamstrung by an inability to form consensus among the factions. While the drafters of the Treaty of Alcarbora had envisioned the Parliamentarians to serve in a collegial, fraternal manner, the factions quickly crystallized into entrenched interests and then opposing forces. Modern military equipment had made its way to most of the river basin by the First Republic era, meaning that the historically wealthy regions had less of an advantage.
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