Hachuabsh
Socialist Commonwealth of Hachuabsh 云阿寸烏阿包世 以烏花阿微乙 Xacuabš Yuhaw̓ | |
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Anthem: "ʔuPílab" The Tide Rises | |
 Location of Hachuabsh in dark green | |
| Capital | Túlq |
| Official languages | Xʷəlšucid |
| Ethnic groups (2010) |
List of ethnicities
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| Demonym(s) | Hachuabshi |
| Government | Socialist and syndicalist republic |
• Premier of the People's Assembly | Dxʷčudičup |
• Chairwoman of the All Unions Congress | Šoliča |
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| 12 Yuwol 1944 | |
| Population | |
• 2019 estimate | 181,034,423 |
| GDP (PPP) | 2019 estimate |
• Total | $5.735 trillion |
• Per capita | $31,681 |
| GDP (nominal) | 2019 estimate |
• Total | $5.401 trillion |
• Per capita | $29,838 |
| Inequality (2015) |
 29.7low |
| HDI |
 .860very high |
| Currency | Swuq'ʷalx (KZT) |
| Date format | yyyy年mm月dd天 |
| Driving side | left |
| Calling code | 222 |
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Hachuabsh, officially the Socialist Commonwealth of Hachuabsh (Xʷəlšucid: Xacuabš Yuhaw̓, 云阿寸烏阿包世 以烏花阿微乙) is a sovereign state in northern Yeongju. It faces Thunderbird Bay to the east and borders South Tlakwaan to the north, Yudeok, Atfalati and Muwon to the west, Iyuaschi to the east, as well as Yakaleikin, Aibapatikket and Yelamu to the south. With an estimated 181 million inhabitants, it is the second most populous country in Yeongju.
Since antiquity, the modern territory of Hachuabsh has been at the center of various regional empires. An abundance of salmon in the country's rich waters along with the cultivation of cereal crops introduced from south Yeongju and Jungju was conducive to the development of early civilizations in Hachuabsh.
Following the Sqíxʷabši Revolution in 1865, an unprecedented modernization and Centerization campaign was carried out by Hachuabshi 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 colonial empire throughout Thunderbird Bay and West Yeongju.
During the Great Eulhae War, Hachuabsh invaded Jeongmi's Yeongjuan colonies, Taniilux, and Jiyo. At the height of its conquests, Hachuabsh controlled territories stretching over 6,000 kilometers from Bangjuan Taniilux in the north to Yahuimilco's Cupareo Peninsula in the south. However, as the war dragged on and the Hachuabshi military found itself increasingly overstretched, the war effort became unpopular on the home front. In the last moments of the war, Hachuabsh experienced a socialist revolution led primarily by trade unions that resulted in the overthrow of the Sqíxʷabš, the dissolution of the Hachuabshi Empire, and an armistice with the Allied Powers. A bloody civil war ensued, leading to a socialist victory and the establishment of the Socialist Commonwealth. Throughout the latter half of the twentieth century Hachuabsh would support various communist insurgencies throughout Yeongju and Cheongju.
Today, Hachuabsh is a major power that exerts considerable political, economic, and cultural influence globally. Hachuabsh is the third largest economy in the world and the largest economy in Yeongju by nominal GDP. Hachuabshi industrial unions and worker cooperatives are important players in the export of automobiles and electronic goods. Hachuabsh is one of the most highly ranked socialist nations in measures of per capita GDP and human development. The geography of Hachuabsh is characterized by numerous ocean inlets, fjords, and island chains carved by glaciers. Temperate rainforests blanket much of the outer shore, while the eastern interior is largely arid due to a volcanic mountain chain running from north to south along the coast. Hachuabsh is a member of the Congress of Nations and a founding member of both the OSDMA. It is one of the original signatories of the Pukaq'asa Accords, in which its large and modern armed forces play an important role.
Etymology[edit]
Hachuabsh is written in Yeongja as 云阿寸烏阿包世 and in Hachuabshi is pronounced as Xacuabš (Hah-chooh-ab-sh). The name Hachuabsh (lit. people living by the large lake) is most likely derived from the term adopted by a group of Pudilabš living around Lake Laklak (Hachuabshi: ɬaʔɬaʔ) to refer to themselves. Both Xacuabš and Pudilabš (lit. drifted up people) were common names for the people living in the first centralized Hachuabshi Kingdom that existed between the 6th and 11th centuries CE; however Hachuabsh is thought to have emerged as the more common ethonym, as the name came to encompass all the peoples living along the eastern shores of Thunderbird Bay.
Early Fusenese records-- influenced by the accounts of traders and monks returning from Hachuabsh-- reference the area as the "inlets with many whales" (鯨澳, Fusense: Gyōjū, Jeongmian: Gyeongo).
History[edit]
Prehistory[edit]
Early hominids likely inhabited Hachuabsh as early as 125,000 years ago. Homo sapiens were present in the area by 10,000 BCE after the end of the last glacial period. Although archeological records from before 4000 BCE are scant, it is believed that the earliest inhabitants of the Hachuabshi coastal plain sustained themselves from hunting game, such as elk and deer, as well as foraging of plants. It was not until 5,000 years ago that fishing; primarily of salmon from rivers and the ocean, become the main source of sustenance for hunter gatherer populations in the region, coinciding with a shift toward semi-sedentary lifestyles. Mussels, clams and other marine invertebrates gathered from rich intertidal zones were important supplements to the fish-heavy diet of these groups. Controlled burns during late summer and early autumn were also a commonplace practice, as they were essential to maintaining lowland prairies and grassland for harvesting sustenance plants; especially camas, blackberries, and bunchgrass.
The earliest discovered Paleolithic Hachuabshi dwellings are characteristic of shell middens.
Antiquity[edit]
Modern Hachuabshi people can trace their origins back to the S'abš cultural complex, which first emerged around 3500 BCE in the lowlands around the Sduhubš river estuary, before disseminating into the rest of the lower Imall watershed in northern Hachuabsh, Illabi, and Atfalati. The adoption of wheat and maize agriculture during this period, as well as indigenous developments in systematic camas cultivation, profoundly changed societal organization in the region. Seasonal patterns of movement between winter villages and temporary camps used in the summer for fishing, hunting, and berrying became less pronounced, as permanent, year-round settlements, usually near estuaries, became common. These changes, along with the invention of stukwalukw, fishing weirs designed to exploit the fall salmon runs, catalyzed a marked population increase in northern Hachuabsh that lasted over the span of several hundred years.
The Proto-Athabaskan[placeholder name] and Tumkalan migrations of the third and second millennium BCE from modern day Taniilux and Iyuaschi forced the S'abš out of Illabi and most of Atfalati, resulting in the peopling of central and southern coastal Hachuabsh, as well as the western reaches of the Imall River plateau. Evidence of bronze metallurgy can be found in Hachuabsh as far back as 2600 BCE, likely introduced from the Proto-Athabaskans[placeholder name] and Proto-Tumkalans. The emergence of the ancient Yeongjuan overland trade network brought both new crops and agricultural technologies to Hachuabsh.
By around 1100 BCE the S'kayuq civilization had established a large, centralized empire of settlements throughout the inland waterways and islands of coastal Hachuabsh, as well as Muwon and southern Illabi. Widespread usage of ocean-going dugout canoes built from western red cedar allowed for the development of sea-based trade and warfare. The S'kayuq were a distinctly raiding society, with expeditions reaching as far south as Kwiiamak, as far east as Chauchu and as far inland as Minoaking. S'kayuq settlements were established in commonly raided regions, most notably the colony of X including Hekatsut and others[placeholder name]. Many Bangjuan, central, and north Yeongjuan languages contain a Hachuabshi substrate, attesting to the breadth of the S'kayuq's conquests.
The S'kayuq period in Hachuabsh was characterized by increasing movement toward a complex and hierarchical society, fueled by innovations in agriculture and metallurgy. Slaves were initially acquired through war with the upriver Interior Hachuabshis and Nimipu, internal wars between the Hachuabshi clans, and later on from raids in Thunderbird Bay and the central Yeongju coast. Wealthy S'kayuq noblemen built large, ceremonial long houses with intricate designs on their facades that are the earliest examples of an indigenous Hachuabshi artistic tradition.
Writings from the later P'udilabš and archeological evidence indicate that the coastal lowlands of Hachuabsh experienced a large population decline in the 7th and 8th century BCE for unknown reasons, with most hypotheses suggesting internecine conflicts between S'kayuq nobles, pressures from nomadic proto-Yakaleikins and changes to the global climate as major contributing factors.
Medieval Hachuabsh[edit]
During the Great X Expansion[placeholder name] between the 1st and 8th centuries CE, large swathes of northern Hachuabsh were settled by Tlakwaanic and later on Gitsanic raiders. As Buddhism arrived in Thunderbird Bay in the 600s, the Gitsanic Kings of the north were instrumental to establishing the religion's presence in the north of the country.
The 8th and 9th centuries CE saw the emergence of several powerful clans in central and northern Hachuabsh. The most prominent of these clans, the Buddhist P'udilabš, went on to establish a large kingdom in northern Hachuabsh centered around the Stulekʷamiš river watershed, conquering their former Gistanic masters. During this period, ʔəcəladiʔ (Učaladi), the capital of the P'udilabš, arose as the principal cultural and economic center of the region. Yeongja arrived from Gitsan potentially as early as 881 CE, and was formally adopted by P'udilabš in 1012 CE. The P'udilabš Kingdom reached its height in 1040 CE, when it ruled over a territory stretching from the western Yudeok Peninsula to Duxʷlilap Sound, exacting tribute from peoples as far to the south as Yelamu.
A megathrust earthquake and tsunami along the northern section of the Thunderbird Bay subduction zone in 1126 CE almost entirely destroyed the P'udilabš capital in Učuladi, and wiped out other population centers in the region. This event was the death-knell for the P'udilabš civilization which was already struggling to recover from several failed invasions of the city state trade confederacies in eastern Yudeok. The growing frequency of Hadalan pirate raids and Nimiipu nomadic invasions from Yakaleikin exacerbated this crisis, leading to further political and economic fragmentation throughout the Hachuabshi lowlands.
Early Modern Hachuabsh[edit]
Beginning in the early 15th century, the Hachuabshi heartlands were once again united by a confederacy of clans known as the Gwuqíl Clique who established their capital at Gwuqíl, near the modern city of Túlq at the mouth of the Hibulb river. The fertile volcanic soil of the Hibulb river delta as well as the city's access to natural deepwater harbors in Duxlilap Sound allowed for more intensive agricultural practices and greater influence over the trade from empires in South Yeongju into Thunderbird Bay, respectively. During this time, the Gwuqíl developed a complex system of dikes and canals throughout the Hibulb Delta, many of which remain operational in the modern day.
The Gwuqíl's expansion was facilitated by developments in maritime technology, allowing them to consolidate their control over Hachuabsh's inland waterways and the river valleys of the central Hachuabshi plateau. This period saw the incorporation of the Western Imall plateau peoples into greater Hachuabsh, and cemented the status of Northern Coastal Hachuabshi as a regional lingua franca.
The stability provided by the Gwuqíl clan's military hegemony coupled with growing trade with the empires of South Yeongju and Bangju laid the foundation for drastic changes in the organization of Hachuabshi politics and society. The rise of global maritime trading powers in Sinju further intensified these trends. While limited contact with Sinju, primarily the petty Aeyunic kingdoms of eastern Bangju, had existed since antiquity, an explosion in the demand for furs saw greater numbers of traders from Sinju arriving on the shores of Thunderbird Bay. Hachuabshi coastal centers and the Gwuqíl-controlled river valleys traversing X plateau became crucial to accessing the interior fur trade in Iyuaschi and the X region of Taniilux, and as a result, became tremendously prosperous.
The Gwuqíl used this newfound wealth to purchase gunpowder weapons from Sinju, allowing the confederacy to expand its territory to the western coast of Thunderbird Bay and parts of the Illabi Peninsula. This period also spawned a renaissance in Hachuabshi art, literature, and science powered by urbanization and accumulation of riches among Hachuabshi clans. The world-renowned k̓ʷik̓ʷaac̓əb (Kwikwačeb) cedar panels -- a series of complex carvings recounting the ancient epic Thunderbird and Whale commissioned by the affluent k̓ʷik̓ʷaac̓əb clan in 1684 -- is an example of the elaborate style that characterized art during 17th and 18th century Hachuabsh. Potlatch ceremonies grew increasingly opulent, spawning a ballroom culture unique in Yeongju.
Heightened commercial and economic activity had major demographic impacts on Hachuabsh. For a millennia, Hachuabshi clans along the central coast had granted special privileges to the Wawa Tillikum, a minority ethnic group originally from Yuluil who served as intermediaries of commerce in the region. Thus, as with the rest of Thunderbird Bay, small communities of Wawa-speaking merchants were common throughout Hachuabsh, especially in Duxlilap Sound. The advent of the modern fur trade turbocharged the growth of the Wawa Tilikum community. By 1815, around 2 million Wawa Tilikum were living in territories controlled by the Gwuqíl, occupying central districts in many important Hachuabshi cities such as Učuladi and Túlq.
The profits of the small group of ruling houses in the central clique of the Gwuqíl confederacy grew immensely from trade; however, the effects of a commercializing society, the formation of a powerful merchant class and the growth of cities upended traditional clan hierarchies and tutelage systems. The inability of the Gwuqíl to adapt a largely inflexible, heavily stratified Hachuabshi society to these new realities and leverage profits from commercial activities into forming effective state institutions left them vulnerable to dissatisfied rival clans in the confederacy. This resulted in several costly revolts to Gwuqíl rule between 1790 and 1830.
Imperial Hachuabsh[edit]
Sqíxʷabši Revolution[edit]
Sinjuan trading communities had long existed in harbor cities such as 'A'acap in Dxʷqʷtaycədəb Bay, however they were heavily regulated by both local houses and Gwuqíl authorities. In 1853, a Meisaani gunboat expedition arrived off the coast near Ćhaya'átal, the provincial capital of Muwon island, which had been subject to Gwuqíl rule for over three centuries and was at that time a relatively well integrated province in the confederacy. Meisaan wished to force the Gwuqíl to open Hachuabsh and its territories to trade on Meisaani terms, and desired to expand upon its colonial holdings in Hadala in order to gain greater access to the region's rich whaling waters.
The confrontation quickly escalated, resulting in the week long Potsosakalay War. The short conflict saw the almost total annihilation of the Gwuqíl's numerically superior fleet by a much smaller Meisaani force. The quick nature of their defeat shocked the Gwuqíl and underscored the growing military superiority of the industrialized Sinju powers. Muwon was lost to the Meisaanis, and several unequal treaties were forced upon the Gwuqíl; opening up the country to exports of consumer goods from the Sinju countries and devastating local cottage industries.
The political and economic crisis that developed in the immediate aftermath of the war severely challenged the Gwuqíl's legitimacy and laid bare Hachuabsh's vulnerability to the imperial Sinju powers. A rival group of clans led by the Sqíxʷabš House, reformist and bent on Centerizing Hachuabsh, capitalized upon this unrest and quickly gained support among both the proto-bourgeoisie in the emerging cities and aristocratic clan houses dissatisfied with Gwuqíl rule.
During the course of a civil war from 1865 to 1867, the Sqíxʷabš consolidated their rule over Hachuabsh. The civil war resulted in the formation of a centralized army, which would be the first iteration of the National Hachuabshi Armed Forces. In the ensuing years, dramatic institutional reforms were undertaken, beginning with the abolition of slavery and the gradual transition from a clan-based, shared land ownership system to a Sinju model of private land ownership.
The reformists abandoned Hachuabsh's byzantine political system built upon clan relations and houses, establishing a centralized state organized along the lines of the modern Sinju empires. What remained of the old Hachuabshi clans and their lands were dissolved in 1878, and Hachuabsh was reorganized into 35 provinces. The Sqíxʷabš Constitution - largely based off the Jeongmi Heonbeob and Fusen's imperial court structure - was adopted in 1881. This constitution carried over very few Gwuqíl period political structures, with the major exception of the executive position of Great Si'al - traditionally a ruler elected by the clan nobility - which was made hereditary. In practice, the newly created parliament was a rubber-stamp legislature, with the Sqíxʷabš and their allies ruling the country as oligarchs through the Great Si'al's state council.
The Sqíxʷabš sent a newly ascendant elite to universities and colleges in Sinju, who brought technical know-how and other "Centerist ways" back home. The Hachuabshi language was formally standardized according to the Túlq dialect, with many loan-words appearing from Jeongmian, Fusenese and Meisaani in Hachuabshi. Attempts were even made to adopt Hangul over Yeongja as a written script for Hachuabshi, although these efforts were eventually abandoned. Civil-service exams for the new bureaucracy were introduced from Sinju in 1885, as the state attempted to introduce a standardized system of public education.
The establishment of a centralized state also created a favorable financial and political environment for investment and development. While the government was initially responsible for most early investments into industries such as textiles along with the construction of a railway network through the central Hachuabshi coastal corridor, these projects were prohibitively expensive to maintain. Many of these holdings were sold to newly formed corporations called ‘I’ábál’al (力阿么力阿包阿么伊么) that were heavily intertwined with the families of Sqíxʷabš state advisors as well as former clan nobility. The ‘I’ábál’al would evolve into large, cartel-like financial and manufacturing conglomerates; controlling large cross sections of the Hachuabshi economy up until the Eulhae War. Their close symbiosis with the state was instrumental to Hachuabshi industrialization as the country struggled to catch up with the established Sinjuan industrial economies.
Hachuabshi society, predominantly agrarian and still in the midst of a commercial revolution during the mid 19th century, experienced enormous changes as a result of this political and economic transformation. While the simultaneous growth of cities and a bourgeois class in the early modern period had already begun to weaken the dominance of clan aristocracies and customarily powerful houses, the Sqíxʷabš' eradication of the clans as political and land-holding entities suddenly freed millions of peasants to migrate en-masse into the cities to work in factories. The vertically integrated supply chains of the ‘I’ábál’al facilitated the heavy concentration of manufacturing and industry in geographically compact areas; later on creating the conditions for the parallel development of an urban proletariat susceptible to left-wing radicalization.
Colonial Expansion[edit]
As the Sinjuan imperial project reached its height in the late 19th century, the Hachuabshis increasingly viewed building a colonial empire and modern military as crucial to remaining a sovereign state. Formal conscription laws were introduced in 1870, and foreign military advisors were recruited from Sinju, especially Mincang and Fusen.
In Chirwol 1875, the Imperial Army launched a punitive expedition against the Atfalatians, former vassals of the Gwuqíl, and subsequently annexed the territory. However, Hachuabsh's main security concerns during this period were centered in Illabi and Yelamu. The former of the two soon emerged as a major source of tensions with Taniilux, which had historically held sway over the western peninsula. After the 1890 Chalaitglit Incident, these tensions boiled over into the Taniilux-Hachuabsh war; with Meisaan supporting Taniilux, and Jeongmi, seizing the opportunity to limit a rival power's influence in West Yeongju, supporting Hachuabsh. The war was a major success for Hachuabsh, whose recently modernized navy and army routed the Taniiluxians. Following the resolution of the war, Yudeok was made a protectorate and territories in Hekatsut were expanded to include modern day Yuluil and Wuyala.
The growing rivalry between Hachuabsh and Meisaan, resulting from the former's rapid expansion at the expense of Meisaani interests in Thunderbird Bay, erupted into open conflict in 1901. While Meisaan had handily vanquished the Hachuabshis earlier in the century, their overconfidence in fighting a perceived racially inferior enemy proved misfounded. The Meisaani Eastern Ocean Fleet suffered several debilitating losses, most notably at the Battle of Učuladi Bay. Fierce land battles were fought on both Muwon as well as X in Hadala, featuring Hachuabshi mass infantry assaults on defensive positions that would be emulated in the Meisaan-Mincang Wars and Bangju War. The Hachuabshi victory marked the first time a non-Sinjuan country had defeated a Central power in military conflict. The Treaty of Dosön that followed the war saw Meisaan lose both Muwon and Hadala to Hachuabsh, in effect establishing Hachuabsh as as a major power on par with the Central countries.
Antebellum Hachuabsh[edit]
The first two decades of the 20th century in Hachuabsh were defined by growing labor unrest and a push toward bourgeois democracy. The wars with Taniilux and Meisaan had created a budding military industrial complex. This development occurred amid the backdrop of the second industrial revolution's arrival in Hachuabsh, the beginnings of a shift away from primary commodity production as access to markets in new colonial possessions opened up, and the growth of middle class political power.
The Sqíxʷabš' attempted to manage the economic instability of the era through maintaining high levels of military spending and forcing open access to colonial markets in order to maintain Hachuabsh's protectionist import substitution industrialization strategy, both necessitating military adventurism abroad. Atfalati and Illabi were fully annexed between 1905 and 1908, as well as Yelamu in 1912. Population pressures in the metropole were major concerns for the state, which expropriated large swathes of land in the colonies for Hachuabshi settlers.
Hachuabsh experienced its first large scale industrial actions during the 1910s. The establishment of the Hachuabshi General Union (HGU) in 1911, which brought together both the burgeoning industrial and more established craft union movements-- the former much more radical and influenced by socialist ideology-- marked a watershed moment in the expansion of Hachuabshi labor's power and organization, hastening the pillarisation of Hachuabshi society. Working class organization and radicalism opened the door for the middle class to demand political enfranchisement; which at the beginning of the century only included land-owners who comprised 2% of the population. The next few decades saw the gradual expansion of the suffrage until universal male suffrage was granted by the Súyqid government in 1915.
The liberal reforms of the antebellum period allowed space for the formation of social movements across Hachuabsh. Women's suffrage became a major social flash point throughout the 1910s and 1920s, with some feminist organizations developing militant wings. The early 20th century also saw the emergence of a Wawa Tilikum national identity and social justice movements; most prominently the Wawa Tillikum Hy-iu. These movements were often influenced by socialist thought, and were bolstered by the migration of hundreds of thousands of corvee laborers from Illabi and Atfalati-- who shared similar cultural and ethnic traits with the Wawa Tilikum and were thus racialized into the same castes.
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Bangju and Eulhae Wars[edit]
Hachuabsh entered the Bangju War (1920-1923) as a co-belligerent alongside Fusen. Hachuabshi leaders viewed the war as an opportunity to expand colonial territories in the Eastern Bangju Colony[placeholder name], as well as cement Hachuabshi influence among the independent southern Bangjuan states, such as Hamenkin. Initial advances were eventually bogged down as the war progressed, with particularly fierce trench warfare in Taniiluxan Chauchu and Tlakwaan. Hachuabsh carried out the world's first successful air-raids launched from a seaplane carrier in X (Chauchu capital) on 1921 Chirwol 12.
The resolution of the Bangju War following the Treaty of Guokging in 1923 Owol 5 resulted in very few gains for the Hachuabshis, sparking anger at home. During the course of the war, Hachuabsh's Wawa Tilikum minority had also come under increasing scrutiny as a potential fifth column. The Great Depression arrived in Hachuabsh in late 1925, further enflaming social tensions and leading to four major riots across Hachuabsh in late 1926, with an estimated twenty thousand Wawa Tilikum murdered in the Túlq, Sduhubš, and Učuladi pogroms of Sibiwol alone.
Social turmoil pushed Hachuabsh's conservative elites and ‘I’ábál’al industrial leaders to embrace far right paramilitaries as a means to rein in the growing popularity of socialism. Parliamentary elections in 1930 put the militarist, conservative Hachuabshi Fatherland Party and their far right New Dadadut Party coalition partners into power by a slim majority, with allegations of meddling from the Si'ahl and his ministers, who were staunchly opposed to socialism. The new government, led by Shweabe, would rule until the Waq̓waq̓us revolution in 1942. Shweabe's rise to power ushered in an era of open confrontation with the socialists and a turn toward hyper-militaristic nationalism.
Pan-Yeongjuism, an ideology promoting cross-ethnic unity of Yeongjuans against Sinjuan imperialism, had been popular among both left and right wing intellectuals in Hachuabsh since the late 1890s. During the 1920s and 1930s, the military and conservative government co-opted the ideology, with Hachuabshi Yeongjuism arising as a particularly nationalist and militaristic strain of Pan-Yeongjuism centering Hachuabshi paternalism.
Hachuabsh embarked on a major military build up in the late 1920s, and by 1932 fielded the world's second largest aircraft carrier fleet. This period also saw rapprochement with Fusen, with whom relations had been tense since the conclusion of the Bangju War. Hachuabsh signed the Chukyo Pact in 1935, formally joining the Contingent Powers. On 1936 Sawol 10, the Hachuabshi military carried out a bombing raid over the Taniiluxan city of Kangasinaq, an attack on the Jeongmian colonial fleet anchored at Shisholop in A'hwaimuwu, and the occupation of the non-Contingent foreign concessions in Petlenuk; thus declaring war on the Allies and Taniilux simultaneously and entering the greater Eulhae War. The war in Yeongju, while vast in scope, is largely categorized by military historians as two separate fronts-- a northern front, encompassing Hachuabsh's invasions of Taniilux, Taniilux-aligned Iyuaschi, and allied Bangju (Chauchu), along with a southern front including Hachuabsh's invasions of Jeongmian colonies along the Central Yeongju coast and Yahuimilco.
The Hachuabshi military saw dramatic gains in the earliest stages of the war, easily defeating Jeongmian colonial forces in Central Yeongju. By 1937 Siwol Hachuabshi forces had landed on Yahuimilcan shores in the Cupareo peninsula and Nuusavia, capturing the major port city of Tlaxcallan on 1937 Sibiwol 25. In the north, the Hachuabshi army had secured much of Tlakwaan and was pushing deep into both Taniilux proper and Iyuaschi.
While outwardly paying tribute to the principles of Pan-Yeongjuism, during the course of the war, numerous atrocities were committed by the Imperial Hachuabshi Army, especially in occupied areas with high levels of resistance activity, such as Taniilux and Yahuimilco. Domestically, the entire Wawa Tillikum population of Hachuabsh and its colonies were led on death marches to camps in Yakaleikin in the Wawa Tilikum Genocide. Hundreds of thousands of Wawa Tilikum perished both on the march as well as from disease and mistreatment in the camps themselves, with an estimated 2 million Wawa Tilikum killed between late 1939 and early 1940.
By late 1938, stiffening resistance from Yahuimilican guerrillas and the Taniiluxan military, as well as harsh environmental conditions varying from arctic tundra in the north to tropical rainforest in the south had slowed the pace of Hachuabshi conquests. Additionally, the logistics of maintaining supply lines stretching over 6,000 kilometers proved extremely difficult, and was eventually made virtually impossible by harassment from Jeongmian submarines.
Socialist Commonwealth of Hachuabsh[edit]
Waq̓waq̓us revolution and Civil War (1940-1944)[edit]
Imperial Hachuabshi forces suffered several major losses in 1939, most notably at the Battle of Agayusik in Bangjuan Taniilux. The battle over the city— on the road to the Taniiluxan capital, Chalukax— lasted over the course of an entire year, ending in the deaths of over 90,000 Hachuabshis and the capture of most of the remaining 2nd army in 1939 Sibirwol. Hachuabsh's defeat to Taniilux at Agayusik marked a sharp turning point in both the home front and its war efforts abroad. Food shortages, intensifying allied air raids, growing casualties, and defeatism had already begun to weaken public support for the war, but popular backlash unleashed by the sheer scale of the defeat proved insurmountable for Shweabe and his government. The Hachuabshi labor and socialist movements, which had faced escalating repression since Shweabe's rise to power and in the very early days of the Eulhae War, capitalized on the government's weakness, with over 250 wild cat strikes in war-related industries during 1939 Sibiwol alone.
Jeongmian marines emerged victorious after the 34-day Battle of Muwon on the 1940 Iwol 26. This success enabled Jeongmi to establish a strategic foothold merely 300 kilometers away from mainland Hachuabsh. While a direct Jeongmian amphibious assault on Hachuabsh remained impractical during this stage of the conflict, fears of an invasion of Hachuabsh proper intensified the urgency surrounding Shweabe's intransigent refusal to consider a conditional surrender to the allied forces.
On 1940 Samwol 4 a clique of generals known as the Xibx̌ib group, hoping to make peace with the Sinjuan allies and focus efforts on fighting Taniilux, launched a coup against Shweabe. Troops loyal to the group quickly occupied Hachuabsh's primary organs of state on Čučesuli island during the first day of the coup. Nonetheless, Shweabe and some of his core circle managed to escape by boat to Gitsan. Thousands of political prisoners, including many important socialist figures, were freed in the immediate aftermath of the Shweabe government's collapse. The Xibx̌ib generals, acting under the blessing of the Si'ahl, opened ceasefire talks with the Central Allies. However, negotiations quickly stalled over the Hachuabshi's demands for the Central Allies to leave Taniilux out of the eventual armistice deal.
The new government's inability to achieve peace further damaged its legitimacy as anti-war sentiment swept the war-weary nation. A large-scale sailor's mutiny in Učuladi on 1940 Sawol 12 galvanized workers and other residents of Učuladi, who joined the sailors in mass demonstrations across Hachuabsh's second largest city. During the protests, workers councils occupied large portions of the city and declared the Učuladi Commune on 1940 Sawol 14. The S'utix̌dxʷ and Military Police response was harsh, with hundreds of protestors killed. However, unrest still spread rapidly beyond Učuladi, with protests and riots breaking out across Túlq, Sbi'bəda, Á'leleng and other major cities. On 1940 Sawol 22, in response to the Učuladi Massacre, the Sqʼʷuʔ Swátixʷtəd Dxʷsyáyus (SDS)— Hachuabsh's largest national workers union— declared a general strike. Contemporary historians often refer to this moment as the opening salvo of the Waq̓waq̓us revolution.
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Climate[edit]
The climate of Hachuabsh is very diverse, due to the country's varied topography. The Sxʷət̕ mountain range running north-south through central Hachuabsh divides the country into two main climatic zones; the western, windward side of the mountains, making up the Hachuabshi Coastal Lowlands (HCL), is predominantly temperate, while the eastern, leeward side of the mountains on the Yakaleikin Plateau is semi arid. Western Hachuabsh generally experiences mild winters and warm summers, while inland Hachuabsh sees much more extreme seasonal variations in temperature. A rain shadow effect from the Coast Range[placeholder name] makes the northern section of the HCL much drier than areas to the south. Insular Hachuabsh, consisting of the Dxʷšišəlč̓əb archipelago and the Southern Hachuabshi Islands[placeholder name], is subject to an oceanic climate, with high levels of rainfall throughout all seasons and little variation in temperature. Some of Yeongju's wettest temperate rainforests are located on the outer Dxʷšišəlč̓əb archipelago and Muwon.
Anthropogenic climate change is disrupting climatic patterns in the region. Unprecedentedly hot and dry summers in 2022 and 2021 led to Hachuabsh's worst wildfire seasons in recorded history.
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Government and Politics[edit]
The Socialist Commonwealth of Habchuash is a socialist republic with elements of syndicalism and a political structure built upon unions and worker councils. At the national level, the People's Assembly and All Unions Congress are the two main governing entities of Hachuabsh, along with the largely ceremonial Worker's Party of Hachuabsh. These governing bodies hold both legislative and executive powers; however, the People's Assembly has a broader jurisdiction than the All Unions Congress, which is relegated to managing the economy and trade.
Hachuabsh is divided into several thousand qw'sú', which are ruled by directly elected workers councils that perform legislative and executive functions. These councils handle the day to day affairs of local governance. The swátixten are organized into larger councils called swátixten that coordinate between the local swátixten on a regional scale, and often encompass entire cities and metropolitan areas such as Túlq, Učuladi, and Dugwu'al'al. The People's Assembly is made up of spokespersons elected by each swátixten. The People's Assembly meets to legislate once a year, usually for a two month period. The Standing Council of the People's Assembly, elected by the general body of the People's Assembly once every two years, handles all affairs of state when the People's Assembly is out of session.
While the composition of swátixten delegations are theoretically decided directly by the people, in actuality almost all candidates are selected in advance through a process that involves both the Worker's Party and various committees of the Standing Council. Delegates for the All Unions Congress are picked in a similar fashion. Hachuabsh has faced criticism from the Congress of Nations and other communist countries, such as Hokan, for this practice.
Since the political and economic turmoil of the 1980s, political power has become increasingly concentrated in the hands of the Premier and the Standing Council of the People's Assembly, at the expense of the All Unions Congress. The Worker's Party has also become a much more influential force in Hachuabshi politics, which, counterintuitively, often acts as a mechanism for the Premier and their government to exercise greater control over the makeup of the People's Assembly.
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Foreign Relations[edit]
Hachuabsh is a founding member of the Organization for Socialist Development and Mutual Assistance (OSDMA).
Hachuabsh maintains close relations with Yahuimilco, Mennefer, and other communist states.
Economy[edit]
Hachuabsh is officially a decentralized planned economy adhering to the principles of socialism, with the means of production publicly owned. However, in practice, Hachuabsh's economy is often characterized as market socialist and even described as a mixed economy by some experts. Private enterprise was legalized at limited levels in the late 1980s. The Hachuabshi economy, in terms of nominal GDP worth approximately $5.401 trillion in 2022, is the fourth largest economy in the world, the largest economy in Yeongju, and the largest economy among OSDMA member states. However, in terms of GDP by purchasing power parity, Hachuabsh's economy has been eclipsed by emerging economies such as Yahuimilco and Matobo within the past decade.
Following the Waq̓waq̓us revolution and the subsequent Hachuabshi Civil War, the Hachuabshi economy violently transitioned from a capitalist market economy to an economy structured according to socialist doctrine. Hachuabshi revolutionaries were heavily influenced by council-communism THINKER X[placeholder name] and De Leonism THINKER X[placeholder name]. The revolution saw mass expropriation and collectivization of private property, especially in Hachuabsh's urban centers. As their owners fled to territories still under the control of the Imperial Army or abandoned Hachuabsh entirely, the assets of Hachuabsh's major industrial conglomerates, the ‘I’ábál’al, were confiscated by the Sqʼʷuʔ Swátixʷtəd Dxʷsyáyus (SDS). The management of these seized industries were delegated to the SDS's various constituent unions. Although a diverse set of economic actors organized in non-hierarchal horizontal, bottom-up industrial collectives were present in the earliest stages of the revolution, the SDS came to dominate the new economy as the revolution progressed. The SDS's role as representing the worker's interests in managing the means of production would be confirmed by the Worker's Party of Hachuabsh at the First Constitutional Congress in 1945 Sawol, thus cementing its supreme authority over industrial and economic matters until the early 1990s.
In the countryside some agricultural cooperatives were formed spontaneously during the early stages of the revolution, although these cases were rare as rural areas remained largely within the stranglehold of the powerful large-landholding Séq Si'ab noble class. Immediately after the socialist victory, most Séq Si'ab landowners were either killed or fled overseas, with their holdings distributed to individual tenants. These actions helped the standing of the socialists among rural Hachuabhs's large population of tenant farmers. However, in the late 1940s most of these large estates were once again re-organized into large-scale agricultural collectives. By 1948, even smallholding and mediumholding farmers were encouraged – and in many cases forced – to join the collectives.
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Demographics[edit]
As of 2020, Hachuabsh is the second most populous country in Yeongju and the 8th most populous country worldwide with over 181 million people. Hachuabsh, like most other developed countries, is experiencing a demographic crisis due to falling birth rates. However, the situation in Hachuabsh is much more severe than in comparably wealthy states. In 2022, Hachuabsh experienced a net decline in population for the first time in 79 years since the conclusion of the Hachuabshi Civil War. The depth of Hachuabsh's demographic woes can be attributed to the economic instability of the late 1980s and 1990s, when the Socialist Commonwealth of Jiyo collapsed, plunging Hachuabsh's economy into a deep recession. The extreme loss in personal wealth among Hachuabshi families period during this period, coupled with subsequent economic liberalization and trade with the Center entrenching inequality, have contributed to poor population health outcomes. Hachuabsh had the highest rate of suicide in the world from 1987 to 1995, and has the highest number of intravenous drug users among developed countries. Hachuabsh has the worst mortality rate of countries in the Thunderbird Bay region, with 14.6 deaths per 1,000 people in 2020.
Religion[edit]
Qaw̓qsism comprises the traditional shamanistic and animistic beliefs of the Hachuabshis. Many aspects of Qaw̓qsism are derivative of Thunderbird Bay Ravenism, a complex of shared religious practices and beliefs spanning the northern shore of Thunderbird Bay from Gitsan to southern Hachuabsh. Unlike in the shamanistic customs of Bangju, Jungju and Yoju, Qaw̓qsism allowed for lay people to access supernatural power, rather than limiting interactions with the spirit world to members of the shamanistic class. Thus, responsibilities assigned only to shamans in other cultures were more widely shared in the Qaw̓qsist world. The guardian spirit quest, an elaborate coming of age ceremony for adolescents— involving dancing and ritualized bathing— is one of the more famous Qaw̓qsist customs, with some forms still practiced by many Hachuabshis today. Important deities in the Qaw̓qsist pantheon include Raven, the creator of the universe, as well as Thunderbird, a benevolent god responsible for generating thunder, and Whale, who governs the oceans.
The Taniiluxic and Gitsansic invasions of the first millennium CE brought Mahayana Buddhism to northern Hachuabsh. The Gitsanized-Hǝn̓q̓ǝmin̓ǝm̓ state[placeholder name] was the first of the lower Imall kingdoms to adopt Buddhism in 841 CE; with other northern Hachuabshi kings following suit over the next hundred years. Pudilabš, a Hachuabshi Buddhist kingdom based around the mouth of the Stulekʷamiš river unified Hachuabsh in 931 CE, firmly cementing Buddhist influence in the region. In most areas of Hachuabsh, Buddhism syncretized with local Qaw̓qsism beliefs. Many deities in the Qaw̓qsist pantheon were transformed as buddhas and bodhisattvas. Important Hachuabshi Buddhist monastic orders and schools with roots in the Pudilabš period include X, X, and X[placeholder name].
From the late 19th century onwards, Imperial Hachuabsh elevated and co-opted certain Qaw̓qsism rituals in its campaign to foster a sense of nationalism among Hachuabshis. During this period many Qaw̓qsist practices and ritual took on a distinctly martial character. Growing racism toward the Wawa Tilikum minority in the 1920s and 1930s damaged the popularity of Buddhist rituals in Hachuabsh, as they were increasingly associated with the unpopular minority.
Since the Waq̓waq̓us revolution in 1940, Hachuabsh has officially been an atheist state. In the late stages of the Hachuabshi Civil War, many Qaw̓qsist and Buddhist sites were destroyed by socialist militias, who also carried out mass killings of priests, monks, and other religious figures. Most Qaw̓qsist and Buddhist orders, fleeing the violence, relocated overseas, forming the backbone of the Hachuabshi diaspora in countries such as Namju and Gitsan, the latter of which hosts the largest population of Hachuabshi Buddhists outside of Hachuabsh in the world.
Religious expression and ritual were strictly limited until the Swátixʷtəducid period of reform and opening under the Taqʷšəblu government during the late 1980s, which saw the establishment of explicitly state-sanctioned Buddhist orders and the loosening of restrictions on the practice of Qaw̓qsism. Today, traditional beliefs are experiencing a resurgence in popularity throughout Hachuabsh, especially among wealthier urban populations and the young.
Language[edit]
Xʷəlšucid, also known simply as Hachuabshi, is the official language of Hachuabsh. All functions of state are conducted in Xʷəlšucid, which is also the language of instruction in schools across the country. Xʷəlšucid is written using Yeongja, a kana-influenced script developed by Gitsanese intellectuals in the 10th century and brought to Hachuabsh around 1000 CE. Potsokosakalayan is the only other recognized language in Hachuabsh, which claims Jeongmian-ruled Muwon as its 14th swátixten. Due to its historical ties with the communist states of Yeongju as well as the recent increase in economic migrants from poorer countries, Yakaleikini, Yahuimilcan, Bulbanchan and Iyuaschan are widely spoken both in cities as well as agricultural areas across Hachuabsh.
Northern Hachuabsh is the homeland of the Hachuabshic languages, which are spoken across northern Thunderbird Bay, most notably in Hachuabsh proper as well as Hekatsut. The Hachuabshic languages display a high degree of linguistic variety-- especially the northern Hǝn̓q̓ǝmin̓ǝm̓ dialect, which is largely unintelligible with standard Xʷəlšucid. Hǝn̓q̓ǝmin̓ǝm̓ is notable for the Taniiluxic and Gitsanic substrates in its vocabulary, rooted in invasions from Taniilux, Gitsan, and Bangju during the 3rd and 4th centuries CE.
Following the Sqíxʷabši revolution in the late 19th century, efforts were made to standardize the Hachuabshi language around the Xʷəlšucid dialect. Hachuabshi linguists during this period, working from earlier surveys carried out by their Sinjuan counterparts and influenced by political concerns over regionalism, divided the Hachuabshic languages of Hachuabsh into four main dialects- Xʷəlšucid, Hǝn̓q̓ǝmin̓ǝm̓, Šeq Hachuabshi, and Insular Hachuabshi. The socialist government has largely maintained the same categorizations, a policy which has become controversial among some members of the Hachuabshi linguistic community who consider certain dialects-- especially Hǝn̓q̓ǝmin̓ǝm̓ and Šeq Hachuabshi-- as constituting their own languages.
Due to both government restrictions and the dominance of Xʷəlšucid media through Hachuabsh, the three main non-Xʷəlšucid dialects have seen a precipitous decline in their numbers of fluent speakers over the past two hundred years, with many sub-dialects facing extinction.
| Dialect | Variations | Yeongja | Region Where Spoken |
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| Hǝn̓q̓ǝmin̓ǝm̓ | Including both island and mainland variants. | 花於禰乙去゛乙於毛伊禰乙於毛乙 | Northern Hachuabsh, spoken in both Hǝn̓q̓ǝmin̓ǝm̓ and Sq’éwlets swátixtens. |
| Xʷəlšucid | Xʷəlšucid (southern dialect) | 戶於力世烏寸伊丁 | South-central Hachuabshi coastal plain, from Klohkh-Klohkh Bay in S't̕č̓as swátixten to Túlq in Hibulb swátixten. |
| Dxʷləšucid (northern dialect) | 丁戶力於世烏寸伊丁 | North-central Hachuabshi coastal plain, from the Sduhubš river in Sduhubš swátixten to Učuladi in Stulekʷmiš swátixten. | |
| Insular Hachuabshi | Dxʷšišəlč̓əb Hachuabshi, including Tuwaduq and Klallam[placeholder name]. | 丁戶世伊世於力尺於包 | Islands of the Sea of Dxʷšišəlč̓əb in northern Hachuabsh, mainly in Dxʷšišəlč̓əb swátixten. |
| Southern Islands Hachuabshi[placeholder name]. | X islands[placeholder name] of X swátixten[placeholder name] in southern Hachuabsh. | ||
| Šǝq Hachuabshi | Includes both northern and southern sub-variants. | 世於去゛ 云阿寸烏阿包世寸伊丁 | Qaxʷúlgwedxʷ swátixten in eastern Hachuabsh, on X plateau[placeholder name]. |
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