Tubica'i

The Tubica'i, officially the People's State of the Tubica'i, is a in western Tiridinia.

Prehistory (before 10th century BCE)
The people group called the Dineto (“water people”), native to central Tiridinia, migrated northeast into a fertile valley on the eastern coast from the midwestern mountain ranges, called Pooh Atsii' (River's Head, from the language Danihizaad).. The Tubica'i is so named by these people of the Tubica'i Empire. The Word Tubica’i is derived from tooh bikáá’ii’which means “Place/city upon the river” in the same language The fertile ground and mild climate situated around the river delta to which they migrated allowed the Dineto people to enjoy wealth and prosperity that the people groups to its immediate west and south, living mostly in desert, coniferous forests, and mountains, did not. The Dineto came to be known as the people of the Tubica’i, or simply, the Tubica’i, by their neighbors.

The Dineto ousted/assimilated the native hunter-gatherer ethnic group already living in the valley. First on the eastern half of the continent to invent agriculture– this allowed the civilization to develop rapidly. The Dineto farmed rice, corn, and sweet potatoes in the fertile soil, and also domesticated llamas and partially domesticated elephants. Meat crops that developed included vicuñas, turkey, and large capybara.

War with the Southern Confederacy (1st century CE)
To the south of the Tubica’i, seven nations composed of five ethnic groups formed a confederacy to protect against incursion from invasion by warlike groups native to the south coast and west and to maintain power in the region. The Southern Confederacy felt threatened by the Tubicai's rising wealth and population, and invaded the Tubica’i. In times of war, the Tubica'i would elect a man to lead them temporarily, called a "Throwing Spear". As the Southern Confederacy invaded, a man named Bidziil was appointed Throwing Spear of the Tubica’i. The Southern Confederacy was repulsed, though with notable losses taken-- Bidziil invaded Southern Confederacy in retaliation/deterrent, and by 1000AD, Bidziil had led his people to conquering and controlling three of the seven Southern Confederacy nations, the peoples directly to the southwest and south of them, most notably the nation of Tohuehuetlal.

Enlightenment
The people of the Tubica’i began to settle these areas, and built an extensive network of bridges and roads to link their growing Empire. Bidziil was the first King, known still as the first Throwing Spear.

In 1092 Tiny John the Little Lawgiver convinces the king of the Tubica’i to declare him Throwing Spear to invade what is left of the Southern Confederacy.

Through war and diplomacy, Tiny John united the eight nations, with a government based in the main city of Sidetabigan. This conquest brought the Tubica’i to the height of its empire, known as the “Eight Headed Serpent” in reference to the other nations under Dineto control. Tiny John declared that he would not step down as Throwing Spear after the war, declaring himself Throwing Spear for life, arguing that, as long as the Tubica'i planned to expand, he would be needed. Tiny John wrote the first legal document dictating the rights common to all citizens of the new federation. The country also established trade links with the Second Kingdom of Énqusqó.

Tubica'ian Empire
The Empire held great power in the region, and when Alutrans first reached Tiridinia in the 1500’s, the Tubica'i Empire seemed impenetrable. Myrish traders, as well as Salian traders from Huenarno and ships from Riyata found frequent refuge in the capital of Sidetabigan. The Dineto of the Tubica’i were generally hostile to Vidinans and Alutrans, and entry into the empire past the capitol, as well as the spread of other religions such as h'Ejrad was harshly discouraged. As a regional power, the Tubica’i repelled regional Vidinan imperialism, Harad proselytization, and Alutran colonialism among its vassalized nations and within its territory.

The Tubica’i went through a period of enlightenment in the middle ages, believing themselves to be the chosen rulers of Tiridinia, and began to vassalize/tributize surrounding nations, who were forced to recognize the Tubica’i crown as the superior ruler of Tiridinia. Foreign conquered tribes were expected to pay heavy taxes to the Tubica’i, who would enforce their imperialism through military might and by conscripting men from conquered tribes into their military. The largest among these tribes was the Po’ajatl, comprising two of the eight nations of the former Southern Confederacy. Polities within the tributary system were virtually independent, despite forced displays of deference to the king of the Tubica’i. The Tubica’i vassalized nations as far north as Higher Tar-dinuu, and made many island nations in the Sea of the Kidal into vassals in the wake of the fall of the Second Kingdom of Énqusqó.

The Dineto, because of the wealth of resources in their native delta and copper deposits that were mined from the hills surrounding it and within the former-Confederacy nations to the south, formed a territorial empire stretching from the western fringes of mountains to the middle peninsula.

After the War for the Kidal, The Kingdom of Tar Dinuu began to launch itself into several more minor conflicts, including attacking polities vassalized by the Tubica’i in the Kidal and Lower Tar-dinuu, starting a war against the Tubica’i. The Tubica’i mobilized to defend their vassalized tributaries until Edmuralit Ridar, the leader of Higher Tar-dinuu, was assassinated by a servant believed to have been employed by !Country during one of the military campaigns in 1380. His husband, Muradaran the Stoic, became regent until their heir could take the throne. Muradaran was able to negotiate a favorable peace treaty with the Tubica’i, declaring loyalty to the Tubica’i and allowing the Kingdom to unite Lower and Higher Tar-dinuu, though was forced to renounce some land claimed from the Tubica’i in the Kidal.

The Empire held great power in the region, and when Alutrans first reached Tiridinia in the 1500’s, the Tubica'i Empire seemed impenetrable. Myrish traders, as well Salian traders from Huenarno and ships from Riyata found frequent refuge in the capital of Sidetabigan. The Dineto of the Tubica’i were generally hostile to Vidinans and Alutrans, and entry into the empire past the capitol, as well as the spread of other religions such as h’Ejrad was harshly discouraged. As a regional power, the Tubica’i repelled regional Vidinan imperialism, Harad proselytization, and Alutran colonialism among its vassalized nations and within its territory.

By the 1550s, the Alutrans began to grow bolder. Alutran settlements were created on several islands, all held by Higher Tar-dinuu, and Alutran merchants grew more influential in the regions they were established. The Tubica’i did not allow settlements of any kind from foreign nations and restricted Alutran cultural practices in public spaces. Islands held by the largest players in the region, Ordrey and Gladomyr, began to declare independence from the kingdom. They were supported by their respective militaries, which had begun gathering in the Kidal under the pretext of defending their settlers from pirates. Many nations of the Kidal were promised better treatment under the Alutrans than they had under the Tiridinians. The Kingdom of Higher Tar-dinuu called upon the Tubica’i for military aid, which it provided, beginning the Second War for the Kidal. Eventually, the war ends in a stalemate. Higher Tar-dinuu was forced to sign a peace treaty that ceded much of the eastern Kidal Sea to the Myrs and Ordrish, and the Tubica’i increased its military presence in the Kidal Sea. In order to avert more conflict, Higher Tar-dinuu agreed to be generally subservient to the Tubica’i as a vassal.

Southern Rebellion and Colonialism (1880's)
In 1887, general and a magistrate by the names of Agwain Du’a and Ahiga Dêmasaveki (from the Tubica'ian kingdoms of Kwinsigaman and Ênga Datasivant respectively) led a revolution in those two Kingdoms inspired by Dêmasaveki’s studies of Noyonism, Urbocentrism, and Gekezikism. They, along with co-conspirators, overthrew Liit’o-aligned governments in the two southeastern nations of Ênga Datasivant and Kwinsikaman and declared the independence and unity of both nations. Liit’o fought to keep the kingdom united, and the revolutionary government declared sovereignty, beginning a secessionist civil war.

In order to take advantage of the civil war happening within the country, and in order to compete with an upsurge of Alutran trade, as well as acquire much-needed resources in the otherwise unexplored Tiridinia, Salia invaded the Tubica'i shortly after the outbreak of the civil war, in 1888. The Agar, bringing greater weaponry and naval prowess, forced the Tubica’ians entangled in a secessionist civil war on the defensive. The Salians conquered the seaside city of Kinlani Toohdi (Town-upon-River) in which their main port was located, just downriver from the capitol, and renamed it !Agarville. truck a deal with the king Liit’o. An unstable political period ensued, as King Liit’o was unable to coherently control what remained of the country while waging war on two fronts. Tubica’ian resistance stopped the Salian from advancing beyond this city. and it took 2 years for the Salians to capture the adjacent provinces of the Empire.

In 1890, the Tubica’i Throwing Spear by the name of Shilah signed a treaty ceding control of a portion of the northern provinces to the Salians, and agreed to the demands of the secessionist states. Agwain Du’a became the first president of the Nemeneen Nase Ma’ogi Davê Ro’ênêt (People’s Assembly of the East) Comprised of the two nations that took part in the rebellion (Ênga Datasivant and Kwinsikaman). Liit’o continued to remain on the throne, while Salianheld a swath of territory in the coastal regions near the capital, and Shilah stepped down, being noted as the last traditional Throwing Spear of the Tubica’i. This nation became a major trading partner of Velorenkya, a partnership created out of Velorenkya’s need after being cut off from certain products such as coffee, oil, and gold by Haksarad during conflicts over Esharat, as well as the Assembly’s need for international recognition. The capital of Nase Ma’ogi, Ba’ang Kwiwene, became a major Velorenkan port within the Tubica’i.

Meanwhile, in 1890, another successful rebellion began, and the nation to the south of Sidetabigan, known as Tohuehuetlal, split and entered a period of civil war between the independence–seeking throne of Tohuehuetlal and a coalition of loyalist leaders of the military. This war partly spread into the neighboring Kingdom of Sé’iva’, with loyalist troops supported by the Liit’o monarchy, and the rebels supported by the Ahiga administration of the People’s Assembly.

Great Civil War and first republic
In 1903, a Tubica’i general by the name of Tł'éhonaa'éí Łigaii, also known as “The Butcher,” became disillusioned with what he saw as a submission to foreign powers and the chaos of the realm. He and his compatriots snuck onto a Myrish ship docked at Sidetabigan, and slaughtered every foreigner on board; this marked the beginning of a coup against the king, formed from an organized coalition of the Royal Army and citizens who shared his sentiments; the civil war ended months later, however, as King Liit’o declared The Butcher a traitor and appointed a Throwing Spear by the name of Łizhiní to combat the threat; a Throwing Spear who had the king promptly smothered in his sleep and aligned the government with Tł'éhonaa'éí Łigaii’s rebellion, due to his own sympathies with the coalition. He announced that the king’s body had been thrown into a fire; “cast into flames like the Salian child’s plaything that he is.” Gladomyr, disturbed by the massacre of the Myrish in Sidetabigan, condemned the new monarchy and declared an embargo on the Tubica’i, an embargo which did not end until the end of WWII.

Salia’s colonial government, led by a decorated admiral, was sidelined by the quick revolt and subsequent connection with the capitol cut off, and in a retaliatory gesture, the admiral ordered the massacre of 44 civilians near the Salian port under “suspicion of subterfuge of the Colony” starting a war in the nation between the new Ahiga administration and the colonial government, resulting in the general breakdown of the empire of the Tubica’i, including not only the loss of territories held in the Kidal and northern Tiridinia, but also in the withdrawal of Salia shortly before its destructive losses during World War I.

After the end of the rebellion, the self-declared king of Tubica’i, Łigaii, ordered that Łizhiní be assassinated via poisoning so that his claim to the throne would be uncontested. Łizhiní survived, however, and made his way to the secessionist government of Tohuehuetlal, where he was welcomed as a political refugee.

Tł'éhonaa'éí Łigaii, wanting to reunite the Tubica’i empire again, declared himself Throwing Spear and in 1914, invaded Tohuehuetlal, only to be repulsed by both Tohuehuetlal and the Naseneen Ma’ogi Davê Ro’ênêt, in the east, the latter of which was led by general Agwain Du’a. His strategic prowess, along with an anti-monarchist coalition of civilians and political groups within the empire, allowed them to defend the nation of Tohuehuetlal by simultaneously invading the Kingdom of Sé’iva’ and subsequently the city of Sidetabigan. This civil war is known as the Great Civil War. Du’a was successful in capturing Sidetabigan, and declared the 8 nations united again– only this time as a federation. Ahiga declared himself president of the new democracy, and in speeches to his followers, Ahiga argued passionately for democratic decentralization of the Tubica’i, and that the Empire was a relic of the past, stating historically “The Throwing Spear is forever shattered in three.” With this, the People's State of Tubica'i was born under Ahiga’s leadership, inspired by blue ideologies of the time such as Gemurtrakian Gekezikism, Riyatan Hemisphere Isolationism, and Ordrish Noyonism, who introduced the idea of The Tubica’i as a “centralized union of decentralized republics,” quoting !GekezikistPhilosopher.

The constitution of the new Federation of the Socialist Republics of Tubica’i was written in Sidetabigan in 1915, January 1st. The city’s name was changed to Halatobica, in order to erase the old city’s association with the old monarchy.

Great Revival
Reactionary movements began to pop up across the former empire; a royalist revolt in Cuaxochtli in 1916; two more reactionary revolts in Vikunh in 1917; independence was declared by the people of the Nation of Sé’iva’ in 1920, but was quickly put down. In the later 1920’s, reactionist thought took the form of new political ideas such as Velorenkan Revivalism and the writings of Passionarnost by the Velorenkan author Bazhel K. Aldetir and  gaining traction among many members of the academic and political elite of the Tubica’i. Suih’yu Du'a, the son of Agwain Du’a and now a general himself, had attended a military academy in Velorenkya and was involved in Revivalist circles, personally meeting Raes Khosravi, the current leader of Velorenkya, on more than one occasion during her peers’ political speeches. He believed that the charismatic and politically powerful Ahiga Dêmaseveki was letting the country slip through his fingers, all in the name of his brand of federalism, which Suih’yu believed to be too chaotic, and weak, as well as being opaque and foreign to the people of the country who were not used to holding such ambiguity themselves without a guiding hand; he believed that the people of the Tubica’i neither understood, nor wanted such autonomy, and were lost without a leader to represent them, and in his letters to his closest confidante, Seli Karebit: “The people of the Tubica’i are either masters or slaves; to themselves, or to each other– but never both. As repugnant as the Empire was, it understood the heart of its people.” He argued that the political upheaval was a direct result of the weak and decentralized executive government, and that “decentralization” meant either “anarchy” or “independence” to the mind of the average citizen of the Tubica’i; left unchecked, the Republics would tear themselves apart.

Inspired by the Velorenkan Revolution of 1921, Suih’yu Du'a secretly sent a telegram to the Arekh of Velorenkya outlining his plans for a revivalist revolution from his office in Kwinsigaman. The Arekh communicated their support for Du’a’s plan, as tensions were growing again in Alutra, and a blue Revivalist ally could act as a bulwark against economic strikes by Haksarad. Khosravi herself replied that the Arekh would help “in every possible capacity.” Du’a, along with co-conspirators in the Tubicayan military as well as the promise of support from the new government of Velorenkya, instituted a military coup against the current president in 1935, running roughshod over the 1915 constitution. A public outcry was quickly silenced by the military, and Ahiga himself, after writing an open letter entitled “The Monster Within” decrying the unconstitutional actions by Suih’yu, attempted to use his massive influence within the political sphere against the new dictator. Contrary to his aging father’s request, Suih’yu and his military arrested Ahiga, and exiled him from the Tubica’i. He died a few years later in Grana, Riyata, never seeing the Tubica’i again.

Suih’yu assumed the power of the executive branch and moved the executive capitol to the city of Ba’ang Kwiwene in Kwinsigaman, his native nation, effectively creating two capitals in the Tubica’i; there, the new regime rewrote the 1915 constitution as the new Party Vanguard, and the People’s Federal Republic was enshrined into law; he instituted a centralized economy somewhat influenced by Syndicalist, Revivalist, and Noyonist models, to varying degrees, at both the political and economical levels in order to achieve economic equality, spur modernism, and reach some level of autarky; the necessity of a strong leader to guide the moral and political movements of the nation, a role held by the Head of the Party Vanguard, who holds both the position of Head of State and the Head of Government.

Contemporary period (1957-present)
The Head of the Party Vanguard is elected by the nine members of the Head Vanguard Party Council; the members of the Council are appointed by the Head of the Party Vanguard in his duties as head of government, at the approval of the democratically elected People’s Vanguard Congress, which is the major lawmaking body of government based in Halatobica. He appointed Hilio Wecij to be his Chief Governor, and declared himself Head of the Party Vanguard and Supreme Leader of the Tubica’i, and its Final Rejuvenation.

Any Tubica’i over the age of 19 can register to vote directly once for any candidate for Congress.

In the modern age, the Tubica’i has a collectivized economy influenced by these ideas already in place in countries such as Revivalist Velorenkya, but also by syndicalist countries such as Ordrey, characterized by its stated support for hardline blue concepts such as workplace democracy, council democracy or Party Vanguardism. As a deep blue republic the state routinely enforces crack downs or investigations on what it perceives as sub-passionary or reactionary politics that threaten the revivalist state. To this end, it has also retained buffist qualities such as a militarized society and emphasizing the importance of a strongman leader.