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| − | |nation = Laveska |
+ | | nation = Laveska |
| + | | localized_name = Лавесканский Электорат |
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| − | |localized_name = Федеративнаыа Республика Лавескаыа (Federativnaya Respublika Laveskaya) |
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| + | (Laveskanskiy Elektorat) |
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| − | |full_name = Federal Republic of Laveska |
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| + | | full_name = Laveskan Electorate |
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| − | + | | flag = LaveskanFederacy.png |
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+ | | flagdesc = Sigil of the Asimovtsy (a two-headed phoenix) over a blue field above the orange-white ribbon of the medal "For six decades' service in the Civil War" |
| − | |motto = |
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| − | |anthem = Дороги ( |
+ | | anthem = Дороги (Roads) |
| − | |map = |
+ | | map = Laveska_Globe.png |
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| − | |denonym = Laveskan |
+ | | denonym = Laveskan |
| − | |capital = Lavesk |
+ | | capital = Lavesk |
| − | |languages = Aesori, Zeroan, Zokesian, Strelkan |
+ | | languages = Aesori, Zeroan, Zokesian, Strelkan |
| − | |government = |
+ | | government = State within the United Imperial Federation |
| − | |foundation = |
+ | | foundation = 2157 |
| + | | predecessor = State Union of Laveska, Zeroa, Nautilus, and Fortmil |
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| − | |current_constitution = 2140 |
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| + | | leader_title = Elector |
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| − | |predecessor = Laveskan Seafarer's Republic |
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| + | | leader = Isabella Vikus-Ward |
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| − | |leader_title = Consul |
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| + | | pm_title = Prime Minister |
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| − | |leader = Khristianskiy Asimov |
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| + | | pm_name = Genvik Karlovich Nemits |
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| − | |pm_title = Consul |
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| + | | ethnicity = Aeserian, Strelkan, Zokesian |
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| − | |pm_name = Anatoliy Reva |
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| + | | population = 5,253,774 |
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| − | |ethnicity = Laveskan, Zeroan, Strelkan, Zokesian |
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+ | | area = 61,215 |
| + | | main_cities = Lavesk, Fallenhout |
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| − | |area = 61,215 km² |
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| + | | currency = Imperial nenarius |
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| − | |main_cities = Lavesk, Vulkan, Zaror |
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| + | '''Laveska''', officially the '''Laveskan Electorate''', is a federal subject of the United Imperial Federation. It lies on the Wakirian coast and is the easternmost continental Imperial territory. It borders Zeroa to the west, an international border with Belaeseria to the north, and international borders with the Combined Provinces of Doren as well as the Republic of Taiala to the south. As a national subject of the Imperial Federation, the head of state of Laveska is also an Imperial elector in addition to domestic duties. |
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| − | }}Laveska, officially the Federal Republic of Laveska, is a prosperous nation of farms, ports, and mountains located in the western Wakir. Bordered by Tizca to the north, Maryurt to the west, Doren to the south, and Noland in the east, Laveska is a gateway to many cultures, nations, and resources. She consists of six Federal States, one self-governing colony, and one unincorporated territory under military administration. Mainland Laveska extends from the Larkuno Mountains to the Wakir Ocean and from the Feniks River to the Tizcan Mountains, while Overseas Laveska includes the Free City of Fortmil. The territories held by the Maryurti Emirate of Larkuno are under direct military occupation as of 2143. |
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| + | Prior to Aeserian colonization, the area of Laveska was the central point of a historical region known today as the Reciprocity, a culturally and linguistically diverse area plagued with conflict. The arrival of Aeserian mercenaries at the end of the first millennium led to the collapse of the old order and the region's reconstitution as a unified polity called the Freehold of the Eastern Laveskan Host, before being formally annexed into the Arcadian Tsardom as a governorate and later reconstituted into a Socialist Republic under the UASR. |
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| − | == Etymology == |
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| − | The name Laveska originates from the Eastern Aesori word ''Lavesk'ani'', meaning "Eternal Fountain," referring to the Wakir Ocean. Though Eastern Aesori is a largely dead language now, due to the fact that the language was a brute-force combination of Old Aesori, Reciprocan, and Feguan, the name stuck and when a group of merchants established a major settlement on a peninsula bordering the Wakir Sea, they named the city Laveska, a shortening of her original name. As time went on and Laveska became less of a city and more of a state, the name became attached to the whole region north-west of Algiza. |
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| + | A decade prior to the collapse of the UASR in 1984, a progressive cultural revival known as the Reciprocian Awakening swept the Laveskan SSR and ensured its reformation post-collapse into the Lake Periphery States of the Spice Reciprocity. The new government sought to tear down vestiges of its Ravnine past, elevating Reciprocian cultures and delineating interstate borders along ancient ethnic lines. The Reciprocity reformed the internal troops units they inherited into a new military-civil organization devoted to the furtherance of the cultural revolution: the Blue Coats. |
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| − | == Government == |
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| − | The Laveskan Federal Government consists of a tricameral legislature, the Senate which is voted in by the people every four years, and a Presidium of which half of its representatives are voted in by the people and the other half by state governments. There are not many parties but a variety does exist, and coalitions are necessary to maintain any reliable grasp on power. The third house is the Grand Syndicate, where trade unions send their representatives to the government. The Syndicate is independent of the Senate and Presidium, but has little power and can be overruled by a vote in either the Senate or Presidium. The executive consists of a pair of Consuls, one for internal affairs, and the second for foreign. The current IntAf Consul is Anatoliy Reva of the Union half of the Union-Mercantilist party, and the current ExtAf Consul is Khristianskiy Asimov of the Mercantile half of the Union-Mercantilist party. The High Court handles judicial matters, and the military is led by the Laveskan High Command, with the ExtAf consul at its head. |
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| + | The Blue Coats governed the Spice Reciprocity as a confederation of the reconstituted ethnostates, limiting federal power and ensuring state primacy throughout their rule. Rife with corruption, the Coatists frequently ran afoul of scandal and was wholly unprepared for war when the Red Horde appeared on the Reciprocity's southern border. The ensuing conflict ended in victory for the Reciprocian side, but the destruction caused by the conflict combined with preexisting corruption led to the collapse of the government and the First Reciprocian Civil War. between loyalists and Dust Harvest, a rebel faction. |
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| − | Each Outlying State gets 5 Presidents that it can send to the Presidium, with Lavesk getting 10 due to its central status in the Federation's creation. Presidents are elected by popular district, lending a total of 200 Senators and 70 Presidents as of 2144. |
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| + | Dust Harvest prevailed in the conflict and reformed the country into the Dust Harvest States Upon the Lake’s Periphery. Almost immediately following the cessation of hostilities, the leader of the Northern Mercantile Collective, an omnicidal artificial intelligence called the Overlord, began covertly assassinating Dust Harvest's leadership and replacing them with robot impostors subordinate to it. The NMC also similarly compromised the leadership of the legitimist organization "Underground Reciprocity Liberation Organization." The discovery of the Overlord's subterfuge set off a chain of events that culminated in the Second Reciprocian Civil War. |
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| − | == States == |
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| − | Laveska's current constitution grants its States a high level of autonomy, but strictly enforces the absolute nature of the rights granted to its people under the Constitution. Policing is done at the local level through federally-deputized people's militias, which themselves are organized into a union of militias, the ''Federatsiya Militsii'', that can be rapidly mobilized in cases of war or national emergency. This allows the federal government to protect the rights of its citizens without having to micromanage each of its component areas. |
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| + | The compromised leadership of the Underground Reciprocity Liberation Organization gained control of the States' ballistic missile systems and turned them on Dust Harvest-controlled cities, causing widespread destruction. A prominent member of Dust Harvest's leadership, Housen, saw the writing on the wall and broke off from Dust Harvest to form his own organization, the Reciprocian Reclamation Army, which through popular support and Zokesian arms supply prevailed over DH and URLO, bringing the conflict to an end and reforming the country yet again into the Lake Periphery States of the Phosphorous Reciprocity. In addition to the ballistic missile strikes, a biological warfare campaign conducted by Dust Harvest rendered vast swathes of Reciprocian farmland infertile. |
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| − | ==Economy and Infrastructure== |
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| − | Laveska's economy depends almost entirely on its access to the sea. A network of so-called "transport highways," four-lane roads explicitly dedicated to shipping agencies and their transport vehicles were built by the naval junta in the 2040s, quickening the pace of global trade. |
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| + | In response to the dire situation the country faced, Housen enacted a series of policies known as the Economic Reconstruction Plan. The discovery of Phosphorous, a material that could be turned into a light source when diluted in water and agitated, ignited the Clockwork Revolution, a nationwide transition from electrical to clockwork-based infrastructure. Phosphorous mining operations were heavily funded by the central government as part of the Economic Reconstruction Plan. The surplus material mined would be turned into concrete and used to rebuild cities all over the broken country. |
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| − | Northern Laveska, and to a lesser extent Southern Laveska, are known for their farming operations, providing food for the more mountainous regions of Laveska as well as some neighboring countries. Small farming communes are still very common in Laveska, often appearing near transport highways but not civilian ones. Food is exported en masse to the various Doren states south of Laveska, as well as the more barren Tizca to the north. |
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| + | Also included in the Economic Reconstruction Plan were the funds and orders to create a massive underwater complex housing the central clockwork computer, which controlled the national Reciprocian grid. Such a system was impervious to cyberattack, but its vulnerability to physical attack convinced the government to weaponize asteroids and place them in orbit of Kerbin. These weaponized asteroids were tasked with destroying the Submachine in the event of an invasion of the country, while also causing enough destruction that no reasonable world power would risk war with the Reciprocity. |
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| + | Following the Kroman Crusade, Housen secured a spot for the Reciprocity in the recently-formed international organization "New Extranational Organized Council Of Nations," a mutual defense pact. Unfortunately for Housen's calculus, the Combined Provinces of Doren were not a reasonable world power and their invasion of Konig triggered NEOCON's mutual defense clause. Military failures during the ensuing conflict led to the Shattering, the Wovian betrayal, and the downfall of the Reciprocian state in 2081. |
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| + | The collapse of state institutions, mass catastrophe, and the presence of the Wovians brought to birth a nationwide armed rebellion against both the occupying power and each other. For the next sixty years warlords fought in the Laveskan Civil War, either attempting to secure an independent future for their land or a reunification of the country. The country as a whole remained severely impoverished and at war's conclusion over 80% of the country lived below the poverty line. The old Reciprocan identities, with the exception of the breakaway Secateans and Siumites, withered away, and the alliance between the Aeserians under General Asimov and Senyavin and the Zeroans under Generals Petrayev, Aslambek, Arsanov, Maskhadov, and Gelayev emerged unquestionably victorious, forming the State Union of Laveska and Zeroa. |
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| + | Initially, the victorious generals ruled as a junta, reconstruction being the primary priority of the state. In 2142, General Asimov embarked on a diplomatic mission to Nautilus with a formal request to unify the two countries. First Minister Cromwell and his government accepted the request, and thus brought to birth the Nautilane-Laveskan-Zeroan Commonwealth. A colonial expedition the same year exploiting the weakness of Surnish overseas holdings amidst the Burr War brought the island of Fortmil, a former UIF territory, under Commonwealth control, as well as two puppet states in southern Kafrica which soon fell to local Stahl Sieg units. |
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| + | Asimov declared the colonial expeditions in Kafrica a failure, and shifted national resources not already invested in the reconstruction of the Laveskan mainland to his and Cromwell's ultimate project: the restoration of the United Imperial Federation on the Aeserian half of the continent. With the Amberite Civil War drawing to a close, and the Imperial Continuity Army victorious, Asimov and Cromwell sent envoys to the new government to plan the Imperial Reclamation. |
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| + | In 2148, Nautilus-Laveska, the Systems Commonwealth, Amber, Konig, Union, and Arkeria signed acts of union and as members of the Imperial United Front transferred governmental and military power to Starmarshal Jordock before issuing a joint declaration of war on Ultranationalist Arcadia. Amassing a coalition amounting to most of the countries on the planet, the military campaign to liberate Aeseria was concluded victoriously in less than a year. Aeseria was ruled as a joint reconstruction authority by the Imperial United Front until the official Reconstitution of the United Imperial Federation in 2157. |
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| + | As part of the Reconstitution, institutions across the Imperial Federation were reformed and restored, as were internal borders and governance hierarchies. Initially Laveska formed part of the temporary State Union of Laveska, Zeroa, Nautilus, and Fortmil. The Reconstitution partitioned Nautilus and Zeroa from the union and Fortmil was reconstituted as an imperial city. Laveska was given an Imperial Elector and was reconstituted for the final time into the Laveskan Electorate, a sub-national state within the United Imperial Federation. |
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| + | == Etymology == |
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| + | The name Laveska originates from the Eastern Aesori word ''Lavesk'ani'', meaning "Eternal Fountain," referring to the Wakir Ocean. |
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| + | Though Laveska used to rely largely on maritime trade for its economic survival, union with the rest of the UIF has granted Laveska access to the wider Aenosphere, which has since massively boosted and diversified Laveska's economy. Shipyards and the supporting infrastructure for them still dominate eastern Laveska's economy, while mining, farming and lake transport dominate the west. |
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The urban areas of Laveska are notable for their employment of "Sotsgorod," the Arcadian Communist style of architecture. Due to the abject failure of the Communist system in Arcadia however, Laveskan Sotsgorod architecture was of far higher quality than its Arcadian counterpart. These cities eliminated the need for the suburbs, freeing up massive amounts of land for farming operations. |
The urban areas of Laveska are notable for their employment of "Sotsgorod," the Arcadian Communist style of architecture. Due to the abject failure of the Communist system in Arcadia however, Laveskan Sotsgorod architecture was of far higher quality than its Arcadian counterpart. These cities eliminated the need for the suburbs, freeing up massive amounts of land for farming operations. |
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| − | The coastal areas of Laveska are renowned for their industrial prowess, with shipbuilding at the forefront. Metals from western Laveska are shipped to the east using trains |
+ | The coastal areas of Laveska are renowned for their industrial prowess, with shipbuilding at the forefront. Metals from western Laveska are shipped to the east using trains or lake freighters. Many of these metals, those that cannot be used by the manufacturing industry or those that are simply not needed, are shipped overseas. Laveskan ports are also important hubs of trade, with their vast facilities allowing for even the largest ships to be attended to in record time. |
== History == |
== History == |
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+ | === Pre-unification times === |
| − | Laveska was originally inhabited by the Reciprocan peoples, |
+ | Laveska was originally inhabited by the Reciprocan peoples, split into twelve nations, almost constantly fighting each other. Starting in the 12th century, the Great Belasrii Empire began expanding eastward, scattering droves of ethnic Aenian settlers into western present-day Laveska. As Doren nomads drove the Maryurti peoples to the region known as Maryurt today, trade routes shifted, and Maryurti raiders began crossing the Larkuno Mountains. As such the eastern part of modern Laveska is populated by a mix of Laveskan and Maryurti peoples, known as the Zarorans, due to the Maryurti city of Zaror established during this time. Also a result of Maryurti raids was the formation of a "Military Frontier" along the eastern Belasrii border, and a massive boom in the market for mercenaries. These mercenaries would also often go further eastwards and avail themselves to the warring Reciprocan kings. |
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+ | === The Laveskan Awakening === |
[[File:Feniks-Laveska.png.png|thumb|Flag of the Feniks-Laveskan Kingdom]] |
[[File:Feniks-Laveska.png.png|thumb|Flag of the Feniks-Laveskan Kingdom]] |
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| + | For three centuries ethnic Aeserian and Belasrian mercenaries formed companies and would be paid to fight each other at the whim of rich Reciprocan kings with lacking native militaries. Since the various Reciprocan ethnicities and states were extremely xenophobic, the Aeserians and Belarsians were forbidden from marrying local Reciprocan woman, leading many prospective mercenaries who made the trek to marry before departure, bringing their wives to the frontier. Such xenophobic policies ironically had the adverse effect of creating a large, largely ethnically "pure" Aesero-Belasrian minority within these lands, of whose main employment was in the soldiery of the warring states. Tensions would slowly begin boiling as these settlers began to find more connections with their ethnic brethren and began resenting fighting each other, no matter how great the pay. Generations of Aeserians and Belasrians had bled and bled each other for the gold and favor of their Reciprocan rulers who did not even permit them to marry Reciprocan women. Within the Aesero-Belasrian fort towns poets and writers began making clear their dissatisfaction with the status quo. Among these thinkers was a man named Arkady Aleksandrovich Navarinov, also a mercenary commander and mayor-captain of the Aesero-Belasrian settlement at Belogore, just east of the major port city of Lavesk and across the strait from Hout, the then crown jewel of eastern Doren. He became ever more involved in this new movement, using his unique position among the poets as a military commander to orchestrate the first victory for a unified Laveskan nation at the 1444 battle of Pegan, wherein through adept use of messengers convinced the opposing army's Aeserian contingent and its commander to join forces with Navarinov's army, both turning on their Reciprocan masters. Following a bloody victory, Navarinov's Aesero-Belasrians and the opposing army's Aesero-Belasrians, led by one Captain Roman Odesovich, joined forces and marched on Pegan. Initially granting the inhabitants of the city mercy, tensions rose as news of a second Reciprocan army returning home to Pegan began to spread. The peasants of Pegan rose up in anticipation of liberation and were swiftly cut down and the city razed. The Aesero-Belasrian population of the nearby fort-towns were invited to repopulate the sacked Pegan, where Navarinov delivered a speech christening these Aesero-Belasrians as "Laveskans." Throughout the following decade, Navarinov, Odesovich, and other Laveskan generals who joined his cause swept across the Reciprocans' lands, exploiting the eternal infighting amongst the Reciprocan lords to divide and then conquer them. By the year 1460 Navarinov's army had reached as far as the Zaror River, and Odesovich's army had secured the entire Reciprocan North after a surprise amphibious landing on Hout. Navarinov proclaimed himself Supreme Ruler (''Verkhovniy Pravitel'') of all Laveska. Still believing himself to be a subject of the . He thus established a precedent that most future hegemons of Laveska would follow - a humble refusal to add royal title or style to their name. |
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| − | In 1702, the new king of Laveska, Alexandr Korshunov, and the queen of Feniks, Elena II, married and established the personal union of Feniks-Laveska, with the full intention of unifying all lands of the former Reciprocity. The issue the Feniks-Laveskan throne faced was that their combined army only amounted to 45,000 kerbs, and their navy, though powerful, could not be moved overland. Thus, an unlikely alliance was formed between Feniks-Laveska and the northern Dorvic nation of Sarconia. Sarconian cavalrymen formed the flanks of the Feniks-Laveskan army for most of the early 1700s. The scattered nations that populated the areas west of the Feniks River were unified through peaceful annexation or force (often known as the Brother Wars) and for a while administered under a republican form of government, known as the Free State of Novoarkadiiya. In 1741, Laveskan soldiers drank from Lake Zaror, and the Free State was partitioned into the full federal state (with a monarch) of Novoarkadiiya and the unincorporated Free State. In 1742, the King died, leaving his son Alexandr II the throne. Alexandr II had refined his military talent during his father's campaigns, and would put this knowledge to good use when the Zarorans declared war on him in 1748. Though the Laveskan advances were bloody and slow at first, Alexandr II crossed the Zaror in 1757, and by 1759 the Laveskan flag flew over the Larkuno Mountains. In 1760 Alexandr II proclaimed the Laveskan Regal Federacy, splitting Zaror into its two primary duchies, the Grand Duchy of Zaror and the Grand Duchy of Tryos-Salis, now the Electorate of Zaror and the Electorate of Tryos-Salis. Aside from minor conflicts against Dorvic tribes, Laveska would remain at peace for the rest of the century, steadily growing its naval ambitions. Things would change however when Alexandr II died in 1789, and it fell upon the Electorates to elect the next King. The Zaroran electorates wished to elect one of their own and would not cooperate with the Laveskan electorates. Feniks also wished to gain its independence once more and as such the Federacy collapsed into civil war. Having heard of the new citizen democracies appearing elsewhere on the planet, a group of Laveskan intellectuals known as "the Consuls" began distributing pamphlets containing republican propaganda. Through the chaos of it all, the Consuls agreed to form an alliance with Alexandr II's nephew, Alexandr Vasilovich I, on the condition that the people establish a Senate to balance the actions of the king, and that a Constitution be adopted. Thus, on the 11th of November, 1814, the Laveskan Federal State was established, and once again, it would attempt to unify the former realms of the Federacy under its banner. The destruction the First Civil War wrought caused famine and disease to spread, putting the new nation through significant adversity in its formative years. |
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| + | === First Warlord Era === |
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| + | The unified state of Laveska, officially known as the Freehold of the Eastern Laveskan Host, was split into several military districts, each corresponding to a large Laveskan fort-town or area of responsibility of an important general. The captains-general of these districts would be tasked with suppressing native Reciprocan resistance and keeping the population in line. Due to centuries of strife the Reciprocan population remained at a relatively static size, and ethnic Aesero-Belasrians would soon overtake them, already being the majority population in several districts. The military districts would also, in time of Navarinov's death, be tasked with convening at Lavesk and choosing the next ruler. |
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| + | Cracks in this system began to show when Odesovich was sacked as captain-general of Hout and arrested due to Navarinov taking personal offense to the lavish lifestyle Odesovich had adopted following his conquests, plunging the former prosperous port city into economic decline due to his careless spending. Odesovich was also accused of adultery, domestic abuse, solicitation, exploiting the general populace, and robbing the treasury, and was initially set to be executed, but was spared by Navarinov granting him mercy. Odesovich would spend the rest of his life as a laborer in the reconstruction crew in Pegan. |
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| + | Fearing the ease at which Odesovich was stripped of his power, the other captains-general in Laveska conspired to overthrow Navarinov and install a tribunal of military governors to administer the country. During this time, Navarinov had begun retiring from political affairs, choosing to spend more of his time at his farm with his wife and two children. Such an action would normally be an innocuous move, but the captains-general were even more offended due to Navarinov's wife being Odesovich's former wife, and moved the coup date further forward. |
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| + | Some of the captains-general initially on board with the coup backed out when they learned that the ringleaders intended to kill Navarinov's entire family, believing this punishment to be too extreme, especially as Navarinov had granted Odesovich mercy. They moved to inform Navarinov, which forced the revolutionaries' hands. In the early morning hours of 4 October 1481, bribed guards and military units loyal to the usurpers invaded Navarinov's farm, only to discover that he had moved to the palace in anticipation of the revolutionaries' imminent action. Now discovered, the usurpers instead began to wreak havoc in the areas they controlled, plunging Laveska into a civil war. |
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| + | Navarinov was able to consolidate most of his territory west of the Meridonalis Isthmus but died of old age before he could reunify all of his territory. Considering that the captains-general were at war, Navarinov made the emergency decision to appoint his son Herman Arkadovich Navarinov as Supreme Ruler before dying. The younger Navarinov would prove a competent military leader, ending the strife within the following year, but proved to be a lacking statesman, lacking the skill in statecraft to forge strong bonds with the Laveskan political elite, and would be forced out of power near the end of his life. Though the state would not collapse in such a manner again for another six hundred years, the halls of Laveskan power would be filled with intrigue and assassinations, with the country ebbing and flowing at the whim of the competency of the Supreme Ruler. |
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| + | === Freehold of the Eastern Laveskan Host === |
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| + | === Annexation === |
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| + | [[File:LaveskanSeafarersRep.png|thumb|Flag of the Laveskan Seafarer's Republic]] |
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| + | === Union of Arcadian Socialist Republics === |
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| + | [[File:Republic of Zeroa.png|thumb|Flag of the Republic of Zeroa]] |
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| + | [[File:Grand Duchy of Tryos-Salis.png|thumb|Flag of the Grand Duchy of Tryos-Salis]] |
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| + | === Reciprocian Awakening === |
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| + | === Reciprocity Reborn === |
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| + | === The Shattering === |
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| + | === Civil War === |
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| + | === Reunification === |
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| − | By the time Laveska escaped from its economic and environmental troubles, the Industrial Revolution was in full swing. Laveska was in luck for it had access to the vast metal deposits past the Zaror River. As the original Consuls were still alive, they helped to lead the initial push for worker's rights. As per precedent set by the Consuls, Laveska's people maintained a pro-union tradition. Though Laveska remained rather isolationist during this time, its military grew, and internal strife was high, and labor uprisings were common, although such problems died down by the end of the century, just in time for Sanctum in 1900 to invade Alecton in a bid to control the Nautilane Straits. Laveska rallied to defend its ally, controlling a small portion of the island of Korfu known as the Laveskan Quarter. In a hasty defensive scheme, Laveska and Alecton were able to cobble together a task force of cruisers and merchant raiders to hold off the Sovies until a proper task force could be assembled. For fifty-five days the Laveskans and Alectonese launched counterattack after counterattack, eventually driving the Sovie invasion force back into the sea. Following this war Laveska retreated back to its own borders and entered a period known as the Golden Age, where Laveska, unburdened by war, did not progress at a rapid rate, but did provide a comfortable and peaceful life for its citizenry. |
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| − | As the new millennium approached, Laveska found itself in a dire situation. Its infrastructure was old, outdated, its people were poorer than ever, the country had stagnated and corruption began to take hold. In a last-ditch attempt, Laveska's government attempted to revive the economy through a series of spending programs and infrastructure projects. Though these programs failed at fixing the economy, they conveniently helped the nation prepare for war. The military-industrial complex in Laveska realized the opportunity and in 2015, the Laveskan Senate voted to declare war on Fegeland. With no handle on the situation, the destitute Laveskan forces failed miserably, with any advance matched by a counterattack of equal or greater force. Though morale was low, the Laveskans fought on, knowing they had no alternative in their dying nation. In 2019, several Laveskan admirals, known as the "Freemen," knowing the situation was dire, and that their nation was on the brink of collapse, started planning to overthrow the government, or simply to go rogue and surrender to a third party. The Freemen decided to inform their officers of their intentions, and instructed them to pass on the knowledge to their sailors when the time came. No date was set in advance, and everyone with knowledge of the coup attempt understood that the opportunity would one day present itself naturally. |
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| + | === Reconstitution of 2157 === |
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| − | On the 11th of November, 2019, Constitution Day, the Laveskan Navy was ordered to sortie for the Feguan island of Huturoa. Instead of carrying out this order, the Laveskan ships trained their guns on Lavesk's government buildings and opened fire. National Guard units almost instantly turned on their former masters, followed by the Army and later the Air Force. The Freemen, having spent months devising a method of "Responsible Government," established a transitionary state, the Laveskan Mercantile Collective, an oligarchy under their command, for six months, ending the war with Fegeland, rooting out most of the corruption and fixing up most of Laveska's infrastructure. After this six-month reconstruction period, the Collective became the Laveskan Seafarer's Republic, a constitutional republic that only allowed sailors to vote, and captains to run for elective office. |
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Laveskan Electorate
Лавесканский Электорат
(Laveskanskiy Elektorat)
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| Sigil of the Asimovtsy (a two-headed phoenix) over a blue field above the orange-white ribbon of the medal "For six decades' service in the Civil War" | |||||
| Common Name | Laveska | ||||
| Anthem | Дороги (Roads) | ||||
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| Demonym | Laveskan | ||||
| Official languages | Aesori, Zeroan, Zokesian, Strelkan | ||||
| Currency | Imperial nenarius | ||||
| Politics | |||||
| Capital | Lavesk | ||||
| Government | State within the United Imperial Federation | ||||
| Foundation | 2157 | ||||
| Elector | Isabella Vikus-Ward | ||||
| Preceded by | State Union of Laveska, Zeroa, Nautilus, and Fortmil | ||||
| Demography | |||||
| Ethnicities | Aeserian, Strelkan, Zokesian | ||||
| Population | 5,253,774 | ||||
| Area | 61,215 km² | ||||
Laveska, officially the Laveskan Electorate, is a federal subject of the United Imperial Federation. It lies on the Wakirian coast and is the easternmost continental Imperial territory. It borders Zeroa to the west, an international border with Belaeseria to the north, and international borders with the Combined Provinces of Doren as well as the Republic of Taiala to the south. As a national subject of the Imperial Federation, the head of state of Laveska is also an Imperial elector in addition to domestic duties.
Prior to Aeserian colonization, the area of Laveska was the central point of a historical region known today as the Reciprocity, a culturally and linguistically diverse area plagued with conflict. The arrival of Aeserian mercenaries at the end of the first millennium led to the collapse of the old order and the region's reconstitution as a unified polity called the Freehold of the Eastern Laveskan Host, before being formally annexed into the Arcadian Tsardom as a governorate and later reconstituted into a Socialist Republic under the UASR.
A decade prior to the collapse of the UASR in 1984, a progressive cultural revival known as the Reciprocian Awakening swept the Laveskan SSR and ensured its reformation post-collapse into the Lake Periphery States of the Spice Reciprocity. The new government sought to tear down vestiges of its Ravnine past, elevating Reciprocian cultures and delineating interstate borders along ancient ethnic lines. The Reciprocity reformed the internal troops units they inherited into a new military-civil organization devoted to the furtherance of the cultural revolution: the Blue Coats.
The Blue Coats governed the Spice Reciprocity as a confederation of the reconstituted ethnostates, limiting federal power and ensuring state primacy throughout their rule. Rife with corruption, the Coatists frequently ran afoul of scandal and was wholly unprepared for war when the Red Horde appeared on the Reciprocity's southern border. The ensuing conflict ended in victory for the Reciprocian side, but the destruction caused by the conflict combined with preexisting corruption led to the collapse of the government and the First Reciprocian Civil War. between loyalists and Dust Harvest, a rebel faction.
Dust Harvest prevailed in the conflict and reformed the country into the Dust Harvest States Upon the Lake’s Periphery. Almost immediately following the cessation of hostilities, the leader of the Northern Mercantile Collective, an omnicidal artificial intelligence called the Overlord, began covertly assassinating Dust Harvest's leadership and replacing them with robot impostors subordinate to it. The NMC also similarly compromised the leadership of the legitimist organization "Underground Reciprocity Liberation Organization." The discovery of the Overlord's subterfuge set off a chain of events that culminated in the Second Reciprocian Civil War.
The compromised leadership of the Underground Reciprocity Liberation Organization gained control of the States' ballistic missile systems and turned them on Dust Harvest-controlled cities, causing widespread destruction. A prominent member of Dust Harvest's leadership, Housen, saw the writing on the wall and broke off from Dust Harvest to form his own organization, the Reciprocian Reclamation Army, which through popular support and Zokesian arms supply prevailed over DH and URLO, bringing the conflict to an end and reforming the country yet again into the Lake Periphery States of the Phosphorous Reciprocity. In addition to the ballistic missile strikes, a biological warfare campaign conducted by Dust Harvest rendered vast swathes of Reciprocian farmland infertile.
In response to the dire situation the country faced, Housen enacted a series of policies known as the Economic Reconstruction Plan. The discovery of Phosphorous, a material that could be turned into a light source when diluted in water and agitated, ignited the Clockwork Revolution, a nationwide transition from electrical to clockwork-based infrastructure. Phosphorous mining operations were heavily funded by the central government as part of the Economic Reconstruction Plan. The surplus material mined would be turned into concrete and used to rebuild cities all over the broken country.
Also included in the Economic Reconstruction Plan were the funds and orders to create a massive underwater complex housing the central clockwork computer, which controlled the national Reciprocian grid. Such a system was impervious to cyberattack, but its vulnerability to physical attack convinced the government to weaponize asteroids and place them in orbit of Kerbin. These weaponized asteroids were tasked with destroying the Submachine in the event of an invasion of the country, while also causing enough destruction that no reasonable world power would risk war with the Reciprocity.
Following the Kroman Crusade, Housen secured a spot for the Reciprocity in the recently-formed international organization "New Extranational Organized Council Of Nations," a mutual defense pact. Unfortunately for Housen's calculus, the Combined Provinces of Doren were not a reasonable world power and their invasion of Konig triggered NEOCON's mutual defense clause. Military failures during the ensuing conflict led to the Shattering, the Wovian betrayal, and the downfall of the Reciprocian state in 2081.
The collapse of state institutions, mass catastrophe, and the presence of the Wovians brought to birth a nationwide armed rebellion against both the occupying power and each other. For the next sixty years warlords fought in the Laveskan Civil War, either attempting to secure an independent future for their land or a reunification of the country. The country as a whole remained severely impoverished and at war's conclusion over 80% of the country lived below the poverty line. The old Reciprocan identities, with the exception of the breakaway Secateans and Siumites, withered away, and the alliance between the Aeserians under General Asimov and Senyavin and the Zeroans under Generals Petrayev, Aslambek, Arsanov, Maskhadov, and Gelayev emerged unquestionably victorious, forming the State Union of Laveska and Zeroa.
Initially, the victorious generals ruled as a junta, reconstruction being the primary priority of the state. In 2142, General Asimov embarked on a diplomatic mission to Nautilus with a formal request to unify the two countries. First Minister Cromwell and his government accepted the request, and thus brought to birth the Nautilane-Laveskan-Zeroan Commonwealth. A colonial expedition the same year exploiting the weakness of Surnish overseas holdings amidst the Burr War brought the island of Fortmil, a former UIF territory, under Commonwealth control, as well as two puppet states in southern Kafrica which soon fell to local Stahl Sieg units.
Asimov declared the colonial expeditions in Kafrica a failure, and shifted national resources not already invested in the reconstruction of the Laveskan mainland to his and Cromwell's ultimate project: the restoration of the United Imperial Federation on the Aeserian half of the continent. With the Amberite Civil War drawing to a close, and the Imperial Continuity Army victorious, Asimov and Cromwell sent envoys to the new government to plan the Imperial Reclamation.
In 2148, Nautilus-Laveska, the Systems Commonwealth, Amber, Konig, Union, and Arkeria signed acts of union and as members of the Imperial United Front transferred governmental and military power to Starmarshal Jordock before issuing a joint declaration of war on Ultranationalist Arcadia. Amassing a coalition amounting to most of the countries on the planet, the military campaign to liberate Aeseria was concluded victoriously in less than a year. Aeseria was ruled as a joint reconstruction authority by the Imperial United Front until the official Reconstitution of the United Imperial Federation in 2157.
As part of the Reconstitution, institutions across the Imperial Federation were reformed and restored, as were internal borders and governance hierarchies. Initially Laveska formed part of the temporary State Union of Laveska, Zeroa, Nautilus, and Fortmil. The Reconstitution partitioned Nautilus and Zeroa from the union and Fortmil was reconstituted as an imperial city. Laveska was given an Imperial Elector and was reconstituted for the final time into the Laveskan Electorate, a sub-national state within the United Imperial Federation.
Etymology
The name Laveska originates from the Eastern Aesori word Lavesk'ani, meaning "Eternal Fountain," referring to the Wakir Ocean.
Government
Economy and Infrastructure
Though Laveska used to rely largely on maritime trade for its economic survival, union with the rest of the UIF has granted Laveska access to the wider Aenosphere, which has since massively boosted and diversified Laveska's economy. Shipyards and the supporting infrastructure for them still dominate eastern Laveska's economy, while mining, farming and lake transport dominate the west.
The urban areas of Laveska are notable for their employment of "Sotsgorod," the Arcadian Communist style of architecture. Due to the abject failure of the Communist system in Arcadia however, Laveskan Sotsgorod architecture was of far higher quality than its Arcadian counterpart. These cities eliminated the need for the suburbs, freeing up massive amounts of land for farming operations.
The coastal areas of Laveska are renowned for their industrial prowess, with shipbuilding at the forefront. Metals from western Laveska are shipped to the east using trains or lake freighters. Many of these metals, those that cannot be used by the manufacturing industry or those that are simply not needed, are shipped overseas. Laveskan ports are also important hubs of trade, with their vast facilities allowing for even the largest ships to be attended to in record time.
History
Pre-unification times
Laveska was originally inhabited by the Reciprocan peoples, split into twelve nations, almost constantly fighting each other. Starting in the 12th century, the Great Belasrii Empire began expanding eastward, scattering droves of ethnic Aenian settlers into western present-day Laveska. As Doren nomads drove the Maryurti peoples to the region known as Maryurt today, trade routes shifted, and Maryurti raiders began crossing the Larkuno Mountains. As such the eastern part of modern Laveska is populated by a mix of Laveskan and Maryurti peoples, known as the Zarorans, due to the Maryurti city of Zaror established during this time. Also a result of Maryurti raids was the formation of a "Military Frontier" along the eastern Belasrii border, and a massive boom in the market for mercenaries. These mercenaries would also often go further eastwards and avail themselves to the warring Reciprocan kings.
The Laveskan Awakening
For three centuries ethnic Aeserian and Belasrian mercenaries formed companies and would be paid to fight each other at the whim of rich Reciprocan kings with lacking native militaries. Since the various Reciprocan ethnicities and states were extremely xenophobic, the Aeserians and Belarsians were forbidden from marrying local Reciprocan woman, leading many prospective mercenaries who made the trek to marry before departure, bringing their wives to the frontier. Such xenophobic policies ironically had the adverse effect of creating a large, largely ethnically "pure" Aesero-Belasrian minority within these lands, of whose main employment was in the soldiery of the warring states. Tensions would slowly begin boiling as these settlers began to find more connections with their ethnic brethren and began resenting fighting each other, no matter how great the pay. Generations of Aeserians and Belasrians had bled and bled each other for the gold and favor of their Reciprocan rulers who did not even permit them to marry Reciprocan women. Within the Aesero-Belasrian fort towns poets and writers began making clear their dissatisfaction with the status quo. Among these thinkers was a man named Arkady Aleksandrovich Navarinov, also a mercenary commander and mayor-captain of the Aesero-Belasrian settlement at Belogore, just east of the major port city of Lavesk and across the strait from Hout, the then crown jewel of eastern Doren. He became ever more involved in this new movement, using his unique position among the poets as a military commander to orchestrate the first victory for a unified Laveskan nation at the 1444 battle of Pegan, wherein through adept use of messengers convinced the opposing army's Aeserian contingent and its commander to join forces with Navarinov's army, both turning on their Reciprocan masters. Following a bloody victory, Navarinov's Aesero-Belasrians and the opposing army's Aesero-Belasrians, led by one Captain Roman Odesovich, joined forces and marched on Pegan. Initially granting the inhabitants of the city mercy, tensions rose as news of a second Reciprocan army returning home to Pegan began to spread. The peasants of Pegan rose up in anticipation of liberation and were swiftly cut down and the city razed. The Aesero-Belasrian population of the nearby fort-towns were invited to repopulate the sacked Pegan, where Navarinov delivered a speech christening these Aesero-Belasrians as "Laveskans." Throughout the following decade, Navarinov, Odesovich, and other Laveskan generals who joined his cause swept across the Reciprocans' lands, exploiting the eternal infighting amongst the Reciprocan lords to divide and then conquer them. By the year 1460 Navarinov's army had reached as far as the Zaror River, and Odesovich's army had secured the entire Reciprocan North after a surprise amphibious landing on Hout. Navarinov proclaimed himself Supreme Ruler (Verkhovniy Pravitel) of all Laveska. Still believing himself to be a subject of the . He thus established a precedent that most future hegemons of Laveska would follow - a humble refusal to add royal title or style to their name.
First Warlord Era
The unified state of Laveska, officially known as the Freehold of the Eastern Laveskan Host, was split into several military districts, each corresponding to a large Laveskan fort-town or area of responsibility of an important general. The captains-general of these districts would be tasked with suppressing native Reciprocan resistance and keeping the population in line. Due to centuries of strife the Reciprocan population remained at a relatively static size, and ethnic Aesero-Belasrians would soon overtake them, already being the majority population in several districts. The military districts would also, in time of Navarinov's death, be tasked with convening at Lavesk and choosing the next ruler.
Cracks in this system began to show when Odesovich was sacked as captain-general of Hout and arrested due to Navarinov taking personal offense to the lavish lifestyle Odesovich had adopted following his conquests, plunging the former prosperous port city into economic decline due to his careless spending. Odesovich was also accused of adultery, domestic abuse, solicitation, exploiting the general populace, and robbing the treasury, and was initially set to be executed, but was spared by Navarinov granting him mercy. Odesovich would spend the rest of his life as a laborer in the reconstruction crew in Pegan.
Fearing the ease at which Odesovich was stripped of his power, the other captains-general in Laveska conspired to overthrow Navarinov and install a tribunal of military governors to administer the country. During this time, Navarinov had begun retiring from political affairs, choosing to spend more of his time at his farm with his wife and two children. Such an action would normally be an innocuous move, but the captains-general were even more offended due to Navarinov's wife being Odesovich's former wife, and moved the coup date further forward.
Some of the captains-general initially on board with the coup backed out when they learned that the ringleaders intended to kill Navarinov's entire family, believing this punishment to be too extreme, especially as Navarinov had granted Odesovich mercy. They moved to inform Navarinov, which forced the revolutionaries' hands. In the early morning hours of 4 October 1481, bribed guards and military units loyal to the usurpers invaded Navarinov's farm, only to discover that he had moved to the palace in anticipation of the revolutionaries' imminent action. Now discovered, the usurpers instead began to wreak havoc in the areas they controlled, plunging Laveska into a civil war.
Navarinov was able to consolidate most of his territory west of the Meridonalis Isthmus but died of old age before he could reunify all of his territory. Considering that the captains-general were at war, Navarinov made the emergency decision to appoint his son Herman Arkadovich Navarinov as Supreme Ruler before dying. The younger Navarinov would prove a competent military leader, ending the strife within the following year, but proved to be a lacking statesman, lacking the skill in statecraft to forge strong bonds with the Laveskan political elite, and would be forced out of power near the end of his life. Though the state would not collapse in such a manner again for another six hundred years, the halls of Laveskan power would be filled with intrigue and assassinations, with the country ebbing and flowing at the whim of the competency of the Supreme Ruler.
