Huenarnoan Import Company

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 * location = Bitnirak
 * location_city = Scrá
 * location_country = Salia
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The Huenarnoan Import Company (HIC), previously named the Salian Huenarno Import Company before its nationalization by the first Salian Republic, was a company founded by Giolla mac Airde under the name Mac Airde Imports in Scrá, Salia. The HIC was the first Private Colonial State Company and the only nationalized state company overseen by Salia. The HIC primarily concerned itself with maintaining trade control over a large amount of Salian Huenarno, a territory that would eventually become the Imperial Coalition of Huenarno after gaining its independence from the company in the mid-1900's.

Origins
In 1535, a rich Cídeach tradesman by the name of Giolla mac Airde commissioned the first major Salian mission to the newly-reached country of Huenarno, and his sailors, under the helm of the Lledoweg chief captain and business partner of mac Airde named Brin ap Nydd, claimed the beach where they landed in the name of the clan of their employer. Mac Airde Imports quickly bought and sent other ships to the country. As the Salians ventured inland, the traders encountered the native Ralph’s people. The Salians were peaceful at first, setting up a small village on the northern coast of the territory, but as the Huenarnoans became more hostile to the expansion of the company's work, violence was used by the company to enforce trade deals that the Huenarnoans wished to pull out of. The multiethnic confederation of Huenarnoan ethnic groups, unable to unite, came under the increasing influence of the colonial company. Its name was changed to the Huenarnoan Import Company in 1547.

Administration
Clan Airde solidified their hold on the territory with the company's economic advantage over the Huenarnoans who lived there. After the foundation of similar Private Colonial State Companies in Nanmaunaktuk and Gemurtrak, the Salian state passed laws limiting such countries ability to trade with one another, and with other colonial governments.

Leadup to the Revolution
In 1907, the head of clan Airde and also a great grandson of Giolla mac Airde by the name of Bríon mac Sraing ó Airde, realized the HIC was losing profit by having to send goods indirectly to Gemurtrak by way of Salia, where they were taxed and redistributed. The colonial chief started sending ships directly to the Southern Import Company in Gemurtrak. When the Salian government realized his exploitation, the Salian high parliament declared trading between colonies fully illegal, and personally forced mac Sraing to pay a hefty fine, as well as demanding the same of the HIC. In response, mac Sraing began paying Eduran traders to smuggle goods to Gemurtrak and Nanmaunaktuk, often off the books. These Eduran traders were the Eduran Expeditionary Company, the Eduran monarchy’s official trading organization, and they charged a fee much lower than Salian taxes. In December of 1608, rival Salian merchants discovered the illegitimacy of the HIC's activities, and the details of the company's actions were carried to Scrá, which immediately deployed the Salian navy to Bitnirak, where the HIC was headquartered, attempting to arrest mac Sraing. The colonial chief was warned, however, and fled inland. He decided, along with his clan, allied Huenarnoans, and the other allies of the HIC to declare the Independent Huenarno of mac Airde to be independent from the Salian government.

Results
The war lasted a few years, and eventually the Independent Huenarno of mac Airde was promptly destroyed. Mac Sraing and the conspirators were imprisoned by the Salian state, and the country acquired/nationalized what remained of the HIC. The Eduran Expeditionary Company approached Salia at the behest of the Eduran monarchy and offered to continue their business with the HIC, as well as all other Salian colonial companies, in order to ensure that Salian colonies could never get such economic leverage again, and so Salia outsourced the EEC to manage all trade for the colonial companies of Salia from then on.