Onawean State

The Onawean State was the government which was installed in Onaway in 1961 that presided over the period of harsh political repression and intermittent partisan violence known in Onaway as the Years of the Vulture. It emerged from the dismantling of the Third Kingdom of Onaway by the National Privy Council of then-King Tikhusue, which in turn followed the 1954 Onawean coup d'etat against the embattled government of the Second Kingdom under Chancellor Hugo Dwyer. Tikhusue, alongside Chancellor Bagwunagijik Laust, who presided over the Diet from 1961 until his death in 1975 developed a political philosophy known as Truism ( Gwayakwadizimikana, lit. "path of honesty") based around, , , and some right-wing Revivalist theories.

The Onawean State was generally considered one of the most robust authoritarian states in Vidina in the latter 20th Century. Opposed to nearly all leftist political theories, especially Noyonism, as well as and  the regime was authoritarian, conservative, corporatist, fiercely nationalistic, and defended traditionalist interpretation of the nation's Medicinist faith. Under Truism, the nation was envisioned as a entity with a unifying religious and historical basis for cohesion which sought to compete with ideological blocs which sought ethnic self-determination, largely among the, Jinal, Huenarnoan, and [TBA HAUDENOSAUNEE] populations of the country. It attempted to uphold the centuries-old monarchical traditions of the country in the name of preserving Onawean culture in defiance to the major power blocs outside Vidina. As a result of its right-wing nationalism, it was closely tied to the political developments in Ta'aroha and Nanmaunaktuk, which were under similar governments at the time.

From 1961 to Laust's death in 1975, the country saw its GDP per capita increase at an annual average rate of around 4.6 percent. Likewise, economic growth, formation of capital and industrial production, consumption increased immensely, but trade was highly restricted, and internal economic development and inter-regional commerce was prioritized. Under the succeeding Chancellors, especially under Tuluwak Pajakok, outward-facing commerce took up a higher share of the nation's economy, seeing the nation's GDP per capita compared to other Vidinan economies rise from 49 percent of the continental average to 71 percent. Since the reestablishment of the Onawean nation, the national economy expanded until the chaos of 1954 and recovered slightly before hitting another economic slump in 1961 before entering a period of isolationism, which shielded it from the Panic of 1964 and allowed it to continue to recover, hitting pre-1954 economic levels and surpassing it by the time of Laust's death in 1975, in which it began to converge with the growth in other economies on the continent and the wave of that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Despite the remarkable growth the nation experienced economically, standards of living still lagged behind many peer nations - by the time of Tikhusue's death in 1987, a survey of the nation's population showed that the country had the highest rate of preventable deaths and infant mortality in Northern Vidina, and calls for sweeping reforms to improve the nation's welfare, health, and infrastructural systems under Tikhusue's successor, Sugmuk, led to a brief conflict between factions of the armed forces and government in 1988 that attempted to halt the end of Truist ideological dominance. In 1991, the Onawean State was dissolved following the Port Cheasaning Conference, reforming the nation under the democratic Plurinational Federative Republics of Onaway.

Prelude
The Second Kingdom of Onaway after its restoration as an independent state in 1914 through the Treaty of Fort MacTeague was a highly militarized society, having often been engaged on a mass scale in guerrilla warfare against the Jinal Empire directed from New Gladomyr by a leadership in exile. By the outbreak of the First World War in 1905, when the war expanded into a full-scale invasion of the Jinal Empire, it is estimated that nearly half of all non-Jinal indigenous persons in the country was either a member or an active supporter of one of the reformed Onawean Army or its associated paramilitaries, the Free Irregulars. In the following decade, these two elements of the Onawean military became increasingly politicized, with the Armed Forces becoming more closely tied to the nobility, and the Free Irregulars either being dissolved through legislation or reforming into armed wings of nascent political parties as the nonpartisan Rearden era came to a close in 1924. While the country was politically divided, Onaweans saw increasing prosperity and standards of living owing to the nation's robust commercial and political ties with Gladomyr and its Vidinan colonies.

The end of the military's political unity coincided with the growth of the political and social prominence of labor unions in the country, who unlike the parties which emerged out of the Free Irregulars' dissolution, tended not to have a dedicated armed wing and was far more active in local politics rather than on a national scale. Most of these unions were apolitical in nature, but the controversial policy of enclosure and recognition of private property that was enforced as part of the Treaty of Fort MacTeague engendered a growth in radical, but not always socialist thought among these groups. In 1925, the majority of these unions in the nation's cities, inspired by the success of the Democratic Laborer's Party in Lathadu, joined in support of the new Populist Party, which would grow highly competitive with the two establishment parties by the end of the decade as it was the sole major political entity that was taking a leftward shift.

The period of relative stability that followed would be short-lived, as in 1927 the attempts at demilitarizing the region failed with the outbreak of the Bansemonian War with anti-integration insurgents in the former Bansemonian Republic and their Huenarnoan allies. Up through the 1930s, the country would be fraught with increasing partisanship that only intensified as the country's reindustrialization efforts continued, and ethno-nationalist groups would rise in prominence both with influence from and in opposition to Ubiratist Ta'aroha, whom Onaway held warm relations with since the country assisted them during the Bansemonian War against Huenarno. Meanwhile, leaders of the Armed Forces, the nobility, and the nation's emergent business class grew wary of this growing political divide. However, they were even more wary of the growing influence of the Populists, who became the largest anti-war faction in the country and began growing outside of their traditional urban enclaves and incorporating figures from more radical and traditionalist groups which wanted an end to rural enclosure and a shift towards a cooperative-centric economy overall. They gained a powerful voice in Joe Purcell, a famous radio personality and humorist who would take the party to a national scale and later see Purcell take the Chancellorship. Purcell became the longest-serving Chancellor of the country, and presided over a period of economic isolationism and a non-interventionist stance in world affairs.

Much to the disdain of the military leadership and conservatives in the Diet, Purcell refused to enter the Summer War on the side of Ubiratist Ta'aroha, worked to repair the nation's relationship with Huenarno, and likewise would avoid the Second World War to continue a program of internal development. This provided the background for a nascent arms industry, and Onawean weaponry composed a sizable contingent of the arsenal of the [AXIS] by the end of the war. Ubirata's ouster in 1945 by members of the Ta'arohan General Staff caused the Populists and their government to look warily at their own military leadership, concerned with the widening gulf between the top brass and the now well-entrenched governing coalition. In response, General Odawas MacRae, already a major figure in national politics and the most well-received critic of Purcell's policies, would become a favorite among the Conservative-led opposition.