Hachuabsh

Hachuabsh, officially the Socialist Commonwealth of Hachuabsh (: Hachuabsh Lyumang,  합추아쓰륜망) is a sovereign state in northern Yeongju. It faces the Great Eastern Ocean to the east and borders Tlakwaan to the north, Illahee to the west, and Tepodalia to the southeast. With an estimated 101 million inhabitants, it is the second most populous country in Yeongju. Its capital city has been Túlq since the Great Revolutionary War in 1924. Hachuabsh is a, with a political structure centered around  and other forms of.

Since antiquity, the modern territory of Hachuabsh has been continuously inhabited by several major ethnic groups, including the along the central coast as well as the  and  in the interior. Civilization began in Hachuabsh due to an abundance of salmon and other resources from the ocean, along with root crops introduced from south Yeongju. Traditionally, Hachuabsh has been an important trading crossroads between eastern Sinju and the rest of Yeongju.

Due to a variety of factors- including luck, relative political unity, location, and a lack of desired commodities in comparison to other areas of Yeongju such as Nochtlico- Hachuabsh managed to avoid colonization by the Sinju powers. Beginning in the 1860s, a massive modernization and Centerization campaign was carried out by elites that dramatically restructured the politics, economy, and society of Hachuabsh; transforming the country into an industrialized great power. Hachuabsh went on to establish a throughout West Yeongju.

However, a brutal war over the island of Hweshed with Meisaan and Jeongmi from 1915 to 1918 resulted in a socialist revolution that once again drastically upended Hachuabshi society.

Hachuabsh is a founding member of the Congress of Nations and the OSDMA.

Prehistory
Hachuabsh is likely to have been inhabited by early as early as 125,000 years ago. Evidence suggests that were present in the area by 14,000 CE.

Qwa Confederacy
From the 13th century until the early 19th century coastal Hachuabsh was slowly consolidated under a tight-knit confederacy of clans known as the “Qwa clique” centered around the modern city of Túlq at the Hibulb river estuary. The Qwa’s expansion throughout this period drew it into multiple conflicts with its rich neighbor(s) to the northwest (Illahee) whom were eventually conquered and incorporated into the budding empire. This resulted in the spread of Hwulshucid (North & South Puget Sound Lushootseed) from the central coast of Hachuabsh, which became the informal lingua franca of the region.

Modern Era


In 1864 Hokan invaded Hweshed off the southern Hachuabshi coast in order to gain direct control over the island’s rich whaling waters. The quick nature of their defeat shocked Qwa elites and underscored the growing military superiority of the industrialized Sinju powers. Several unequal treaties were forced upon the Qwa at the end of the war, opening up the country to exports from the Sinju countries and devastating local cottage industries and the wider Habchuaschi economy.

The chaotic and revolutionary environment following the war allowed reformist factions to gain control over the ruling clique of clans in Túlq. In the ensuing years massive institutional reforms were undertaken, beginning with the abolition of slavery and the gradual transition from a lineage and clan-based land ownership system to a Sinju model of private ownership.

By 1867 the reformists had achieved a major coup by completely abolishing the clan/confederacy political structure, establishing a centralized state which was to be organized largely along the lines of the modern Sinju empires (and which would the reformists would rule as oligarchs). This drastic move sparked discontent among the rich and powerful clans of modern-day Illahee, where a rebellion was defeated in 1868 by a newly established central army.