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.