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Mauakijani does not have an official currency, but is managed with all international currencies, whether it is the Consortieor, the Zaid, the Malvekian shilling, the Romanoddlian dollar, the Pangasinan peso or the Kampfian mark. This has facilitated tourism and the economy of Mauakijani, where people use the strongest currency or the one that is most convenient on the market.

The Lafarian Zaid is the strongest currency due to its 1:1 parity with the USD, and is therefore the most used in Mauakijani. Some also pay in more or less stable currencies, such as the Romanoddlian dollar and the Maneiran quatra. But how to apply the conversion rules in a chaotic currency system?

The National Bank of Mauakijani (NBM) is in charge of updating the Universal Monetary Value (UMVA), an estimate of the value of currencies with respect to the USD, and which criteria apply to the entire Mauakijani economy. UMVA bills are bills issued based on the value of foreign currencies that are deposited in the bank. If a person deposits 10 Quatras, and its UMVA value is 13.80 USD, the person will be given one 10 UMVA bill, three 1 UMVA bills, one 50 UMVA cent coin, and three 10 UMVA cent coins. All of these notes and coins are backed by the 10 Quatras, and their value is updated every week. If a week passes, and the holder of an UMVA note goes to the bank when the note expires, the bank updates the UMVA value with respect to the market value: if the Quatra went up, its UMVA value goes up, if the Quatra goes down, its value goes down UMVA.

Banknotes and cents (minted of copper and nickel) that no longer have the same UMVA value as before do not have their validity postponed, they remain out of circulation and are reused. The paper is used to create other banknotes, and the metal of the coins is recast. Each UMVA banknote and coin has the signature of the President of the Bank, the Minister of Finance, the Territorial Manager of Finance and a Monetary Supervisor. They are given a QR Code and a digital identifier to ensure their true issuance.

This has proliferated the business of conversion houses in every corner of Mauakijani, of lenders and of banks, turning the country's banking sector into one of the most dynamic in Valsora. People are as aware of the movement of the stock market as if it were the weather, results of soccer games or the lottery.

People prefer hard currencies, such as the Quatra, the Consortieor and the Zaid, as they are safer. The Zaid practically does not support UMVAs due to its peg status, and people pay without problems in that currency. Any holder of UMVAs can withdraw the currencies that back those bills or coins.

Yes, but it's more complex than that. Mauakijani has three Armed Forces: the Mauakijani National Armed Forces, which have a Commander-in-Chief who obeys the orders of the Executive and the Legislative; His Majesty's Royal Forces, the army at the King's disposal as commander of the same, and with functions more of rescue than defence, until necessary; and the Territorial Defence Forces, military corps serving the states, domains and territories of Mauakijani.

Mauakijani's National Armed Forces are traditionally responsible for the defense of the country, divided into Army, Navy, and Air Force. Each force has a Commander, who is subordinate to the Commander-in-Chief of the National Armed Forces, who is in charge of the General Staff Board.

His Majesty's Royal Forces were once in charge of defence, until various reforms relegated the role of the King's armies to a more civil and regular army. Currently, the Royal Forces are responsible for the protection of the King, the Queen Consort, the Prince Palatine, the Prime Minister and Parliament, so it functions as an institutional guard. Traditionally, the Royal Forces also take on the roles of disaster rescue and national park guards.

The Territorial Defence Forces are the bodies at the disposal of each State, Domain or Territory of Mauakijani. These report to the Commander-in-Chief, who is almost always the chief executive of the territorial jurisdiction or the Legislative Council of the territorial jurisdiction. On paper, they serve to defend territorial entities from attacks by foreigners, coups, or even an affront from the central government or other jurisdiction if they violate the laws. However, in recent years they have been engaged in rescue work and helping the police in crime-busting operations.

In addition to these forces, there are the Militias, assigned in their own right to each noble in the realm. Militias are the personal army of nobles, although there are currently several limitations so that they do not become counterproductive. Dukes and princes are entitled to a militia of not more than 250 persons. Counts, viscounts and marquises are entitled to a militia of not more than 100 persons. Barons and Tribal Chiefs and Sheikhs are entitled to a Militia of 25 persons. The Lords of Territory they have no right to possess Militia.

The functions of the Militia vary over time, but they are almost always responsible for the protection of the noble, the noble's family, and the noble's possessions. In modern times they also help in rescue work, assistance to the police and the Territorial Defense Forces.

The history of these institutions is based primarily on the history of Mauakijani itself. The great local lords of the nation before Unification had their own armies willing to lay down their lives for their lord. The Unistaners, Germanic settlers of Mauakijani, also formed their own army (Die Beschützer), to defend themselves against the natives and the Kalaistani.

After Unification, the King formed his own national army to defend himself against foreign threats, but also against the militias of the rebelling lords. When Mauakijani entered the Great Reformation, civilians and bourgeois with no noble affiliation but with political control of several cities and provinces, they decided on their own forces to defend themselves against the possible tyranny of the King and the nobles. The Great Reformation brought with it the republican civilian government parallel to the weakening monarchy, so civilian politicians proposed to create an army at the service of the nation-state ruled by the Parliament and not by the King, thus giving birth to the National Armed Forces.

This coexistence of several armed forces brought with it a problem of loyalties for the citizens of Mauakijani, who converged in the Ithabindi War, Mauakijani's first civil war that pitted the liberal national army and militias of enlightened nobles against the armies of the King. The defeat of the King was key to the establishment of the figure of the elected and non-hereditary king, this in the mid-nineteenth century.

However, after decades of stability and democracy, there is no real threat among the country's various armed forces, and Mauakijani has experienced great internal peace, thanks also to reforms to the militias and the impartiality of the military high command. Military service is not compulsory, but if taken it lasts from 1 year (Territorial Defense Forces) to 2 1/2 years (National Armed Forces). There are many young people who decide to go to military service because it also serves as a training center, and when they leave the service they have a degree of Expertise in Manual, Industrial and Defense Arts, which is useful to get a part-time job and thus finance the university.

It is a monarchy... but not the typical one.

In 1773, the Wakulima king, Mshale Wasumu, subdued the Onesi Ona of the Iletutu Valley, defeating one of the strongest tribes in the region and obtaining the riches of Iletutu, which contains the source of the Kiniun River, and he decided to break with the status quo of the kingdoms, tribes and republics[1] of Mauakijani, and unify them under a single entity. Mshale had a white minister [2], Johannes Wülfburgen, a Unistaner from the Republic of Unterkiniun, who, instructed by the ideas of Germanic thinkers, suggested to Mshale that he unify the entire Horn region under his rule.

Wakulima was the richest kingdom in Mauakijani, owning most of the country's arable land, but it was still in conflict over the spices produced by the Kalaistan Sultanate, the gold of the Kinta, the metallurgy of the Mafarauta, and the skins of the Nesibindi. It was also envied that the Soromo had entire libraries of Nonscian, Arasean, and Levantine works, making the capital of the Soromo kingdom, Kidusi Bota, the main center of Mauakijani knowledge. The Eleyeti and the Onesi ona were always on the lookout for the harvests of the larger kingdoms, and the Jihad waged by Kalaistan against its southern neighbors had been stagnant for centuries, with Islamic market privileges restricted to the Arabs and the Kinta.[3] The Unistaners, known to be the most modern in the region, produced the best weaponry that warlords could acquire.

The Wakulima were the "most uncultured race among the infidels of the Horn", according to the Kalaistani vizier Ahmad bin Yussuf. However, Mshale, being raised by his father by the wisest (enslaved) of all Mauakijani, had an intellect superior to even the other kings. He is fluent in Notun Zaban, Soromo, Mafarauta, Eleyeti, Germanic, Rouentalois, Sanctish and Chaldean. He had read the Yukkiran work "The Art of War", and the ideas of the Nonscian Enlightenment. He abandoned animist beliefs and converted to the Germanic Reform Church, and believed that Jesus was using him for the redemption of the people of Mauakijani. Therefore, he started the Great Unification War.

In two years he subdued all the armies of the Mauakijani tribes and kingdoms, except the Nesibindi and the Kalastani. Of the Unistaners, only the Free State of Handelsposten remained sovereign, due to their financing of Mshale. With this, Mshale Wasumu was crowned king of Mauakijani in 1775, as an absolute monarchy, with control of most of the wealth of the Horn and with 12 million subjects. Mshale reigned with an iron fist, subduing any local lord who revolted against him with his new royal army. Despite everything, he entrusted the education of his son, Ndege Mzuri, to the Soromo bishop Theodros Shalomon and the minister Wülfburgen, so that he would become a "virtuous ruler."

Ndege Mzuri assumed, at the age of 19, the throne of Mauakijani in 1788, following the death of his father at the hands of the armies of the Sultan of Kalaistan. Ndege immediately signed an armistice with Vizier Ahmad, because, according to him in a speech he gave before the council of elders of Lambede, "peace is more beneficial than war." Ndege was seen as a weak leader in a country accustomed to warmongering.

In 1790, Ndege Mzuri decided to make the Great Reform: less power to the nobles, more power to the people. It led to the creation of a Parliament, with three estates: the First Estate (representatives of the provinces of the kingdom and high nobility), the Second Estate (the lower nobility, the clergy and the military), and the Third Estate (the bourgeoisie, the peasantry and the slaves). The reforms brought a radical change to Mauakijani society, the great noble lords were increasingly irrelevant in the transition to a national, capitalist, Christian and literate state as Ndege desired.

These reforms welcomed the 19th century with societies: the monarchical (the king, his family, the nobility, the vassal chiefs, and the King's soldiers) and the republican [4] (the bourgeoisie, merchants, peasants, intellectuals), who competed with each other to see who was right to govern. The "Republic" with affairs of the people and commerce and gathered in the Third Estate came into conflict with the "Monarchy" based in the palace and gathered in the First and Second Estate.

The Wembe wa Wema dynasty, which ruled Mauakijani, had its third ruler, Mtembezi, after the long reign of Ndege Mzumi that ended in 1835. Mtembezi, seeing how civilians were taking more importance in political affairs, decided to slow it down a bit by trying to give more voting power to the nobles. The parliamentarians of the Third Estate protested, decided to leave the Parliament Palace, decided to form their "Assembly" and create a national army that was not commanded by the King.

This republican attitude was almost repressed by Mtembezi, if it were not for the intervention of his prime minister, the Duke of Koredutse, of the Mafarauta ethnic group, who prevented the execution of the parliamentarians, legitimizing the Assembly and the National Armed Forces. The Duke of Koredutse however warned that "Mtembezi remains the King, and the will of His Majesty is law, until the people rise..."

In 1839 Mtembezi attempted to annex the Izhihlala Plain, a prosperous and rich plain southwest of Mauakijani, and the site of the Nesibindi kingdom. However, King Nesibindi called on liberal politicians and nobles to attack the king for this "action against the people." The subsequent Ithabindi War, the first civil war of modern unified Mauakijani, defeated Mtembezi, who had to concede in 1840 to the Kleindorf Compromise, a document that liberal parliamentarians forced the King to sign in the Unistaner coastal town of Kleindorf . The hereditary monarchy was abolished, and the elected monarchy was instituted.

The mechanics are as follows: each Duke, Prince or Count of the Nation can apply to be King. They must be endorsed by five members of the lower nobility and ten members of the high nobility. After that, Electors are nominated in each State, Dominion and Territory of Mauakijani, electors who each decide to support the candidate for King. Electors are chosen by popular election. Then, if the Electors who support a candidate are a majority, that candidate becomes King.

Thus, in 1842, the first election of the new King was held. Jarumi dan Kasuwa, Viscount of Dan Kasuwa and Mafarauta tribal chief, was elected and crowned Jarumi of Mauakijani. Thus, the Wembe wa Wema dynasty fell and Mtembezi retired to live on a personal estate.

The Kings are elected every 7 years. The first-born son of the King, when he comes of age in the middle of his father's reign, is invested as Prince Palatine, and is in charge of the affairs of the foundations and the management of the Royal Treasury before Parliament. The King performs ceremonial functions, although he promotes various programs in his name and his fortune is tightly controlled. The king's other sons have no titles. When a King is relieved, he has the option of becoming a Prince and being a member of Parliament.

The democratic spirit within the monarchy, and the legal parallels, where Parliament and civilians manage public affairs, and the Monarchy and nobility the national spirit and relief works, is what has dubbed Mauakijani a "Monarchical Republic".

1: The Unistaner republics are a general name for the states and colonies of the Germanic settlers of Mauakijani.
2: A white minister, in Mauakijani history, is a Nonscian or Arasean who was placed in a high rank by some Mauakijani chief or sheikh. Germanic settlers almost always obtained this position.
3: The Kinta were allies of the Kalaistani after converting to Islam in 1067. The Kalaistani did not enslave them after that.
4: A person without noble rank or relationship with the monarchy who manages to rise in social position and enters public affairs, the "Republic", is called a republican.

In 1918, the elections were won by the Conservative Party, led by Hendrik Venlön. For many years, the white Unistaners had dominated national politics, at the expense of King Victor, elected in 1913. The Unistaners had control of several companies, conglomerates and businesses in Mauakijani, mainly due to the racism of the Nonscian and Araseos companies, which did not trust to their holdings in the country to the blacks. Due to their economic control, they managed to bribe several black leaders so that the whites had power. Although well, there was no racist system per se, because although the prime minister was white, most of the cabinet and Parliament were black and Kalaistani.

Venlön's victory was supported by the "Green Vizier", the nickname for the MP and later governor of Al-Anhar, Faruq Al-Najaar, who pulled the strings of the Monarchist Party; and he also had the support of the Duchess of Zazibu'maji, who had great sympathy from the Wakulima population. Venlön was a republican, owner of a food processing company in the north of the country, and who entered politics by inheriting his father's pocket borough of Handelsposten-am-Kiniun. His government, however, became highly unpopular due to the increase in foreign imports compared to national production and the failure to improve the situation of the fadaka, the then national currency, and people began to use the Zaid more.

In May 1920, Evnan Lipska, whose father was Almozian and whose mother was Unistaner, was Brigadier General and High Aide of the Fourth Military Region, and this last position entitled him to a seat in Parliament, since the army also has representation. Lipska, a nationalist, initiated a coup d'état against Velnön's cabinet, storming the prime minister's residence and Parliament. Later he arrived at King Victor, who approved him to be the next head of government. Lipska then dissolved Parliament, and started a cabinet co-led by Colonel Dawid Cikakke. He initiated and directed a campaign to nationalize the properties of nobles and to purchase shares in foreign companies by the State. This, however, led to a series of mass layoffs that increased poverty and the economic crisis only worsened.

As Lipska's measures affected the nobles, in the province of Keyemereti (one of the richest provinces in terms of agriculture), the liberal nobles were increasingly worried and the governor tried to slow down the dictator's decrees as much as possible. Among them, Johannes Ye'imineti Temwagachi, IV Duke of Mamlü, of the Soromo ethnic group, known for being the benefactor of the city of Mamlü and a good speaker in Parliament. The duke was quite tired of the nationalist measures, and eagerly sought power but stooped to acting behind the scenes influencing the Keyemereti MPs.

And in October 1921, in the manor of Adaguneye, baroness of Yebirihani Ketema-Kalso, marquisate of Yebirihani Ketema, county of Asiribetoch, duchy of Mamlü; Lipska and his generals settled in a hotel. His objective was the financing of the Lord of Adaguneye, a sympathizer of the nationalists, for the construction of a telephone spying center, to spy on the opponents in the cities. However, news reached the liberal Marquis of Yebirihani Ketema, who notified the duke. Johannes mobilized his personal militia immediately, and arranged for two other counts and three barons to also give their militias to the duke's command.

On October 22, 1921, the Duke of Mamlü stormed the hotel in Adaguneye, and bombed it, an act excessive to put Lipska under arrest. Once he captured him, he took him to the capital of the province, Kidusi Bota, before the governor and local politicians to notify his arrest and achieve the submission of the National Armed Forces to the duke. Then, the duke, who was riding a horse, tied Lipska's hands and led him like a dog, across the 458 kilometers that separated Kidusi Bota from the capital, Lambede. He crossed several states and dominions, and the people saw the white dictator dragged along the ground under the command of the duke. The news spread like wildfire and within 6 days the duke and his rebel convoy triumphantly entered the capital.

Instead of taking Lipska to Parliament and presenting him as a traitor to overthrow his government, the Duke of Mamlü made an unexpected move and informed the Grand Duke of Mauakijani that he would go to the Royal Palace first. In the middle of a cloudy day, in the courtyard of the Palace, the Duke, dressed in his best nobleman's clothes, appeared before the King and Queen Consort with Lipska severely emaciated. This scene remained in the memory of the curious citizens who watched the scene. A duke had arrested a minister of the King.

Victor restrained his manners, and when the Duke asked for his approval to form a government, the King granted it, recognizing the "errors in appointing a bad premier." The scene crumbled the credibility of the king, elected in April last year. Parliament met three days later and invested the Duke of Mamlü as prime minister.

There is a legend that when the Duke of Mamlü left the courtyard of the Royal Palace towards Parliament, a citizen insulted him saying that he had disrespected the monarch, and Johannes replied "Ich bin der Konig": Now I am the King.

The attitude of the Duke's coup was impregnated in the social psyche, and for many historians it meant the beginning of the Revolutionary Twenty, twenty years of Mauakijani's history where instability marked daily life. The rule of rich white people was over. Revolts and parallel governments began. The Duke of Mamlü, although he returned democracy, did nothing to improve the lives of the people and increased the profits of the nobles. Later, a man from the Eleyeti ethnic group, inspired by Plajian and Yaestrovakian ideas, began to preach revolutionary ideology, and the Revolution was served...

Lipska died in 1922 and after a workers' revolution took over Parliament, the Duke of Mamlü was assassinated while on vacation in Zuq Khamil, on the country's northern coast, a few months after forcibly leaving the position of prime minister. The Duke of Mamlü is considered the spawn of the "monarchists", the one who tried to do a political feat to obtain power, and thus take over the throne in the future, and ended up empowering the people to carry out constant coups d'état and unseen violence since the third Mauakijani civil war in 1882. Historiography agrees that the Duke is one of the most controversial figures in Mauakijani history.

All the kings of the earth had gathered: the King of Stones and Metals, the Queen of Water and Fruits, the King of the Desert, and the King of the Mountain. All the kings camped on the edge of the Fakari Desert and the Massif. In front of the rocks at the edge of the Izhihlala Plain, there they gathered to see how much they should hunt and how much they should eat, to leave each Kingdom with just the right amount to survive.

Among the servants of the Desert King was a teenager, set apart from the others by his strange way of speaking, for he made clicking sentences. The teenager intruded into the tent of the Queen of Water and Fruits, and saw her half-naked. The Queen's guards surprised him and brought him before the Desert King for reprimand. The young man claimed that a snake was coming to the Queen's tent, and he tried to stop it. The King of the Desert spared his life.

The servant went the other day to the tent of the King of the Mountains, and dressed himself in the king's best clothes. The guards discovered him and brought him before the Desert King. The young man said the skins were full of bugs and he was pulling them out. The King of the Desert spared his life.

Another day, the servant went to the tent of the King of Stones and Metals, and marveled at the treasure found there. He grabbed a jar and began to put all the treasure he could find in the tent. The guards caught him and brought him before the Desert King. The young man tried to justify himself by claiming that he wanted to weigh the treasures, but the Desert King considered this his last fault, and forced him to wander in the desert until he died.

The boy, however, as soon as he was out of sight, took a path to return to the point of the four kings. The young servant went to every shop to steal every single thing that made him look like a king. One night of partying, the servant introduced himself as King Khoi-Khoi, an envoy from the Desert, who claims that an army of catmen will invade the place and plunder the land. King Khoi-Khoi asked for a great request, which was to reach out to the catmen so that they would not attack: 100 gold coins, 200 silver coins, 5 boxes full of fruit and vegetables, 15 barrels of purer water, 10 fox fur clothes and 5 camels. The rulers agreed, and gave him three other men to company.

No sooner had they moved out of sight than King Khoi-Khoi and his three new men feasted on everything they had managed to swindle. A few days later, King Khoi-Khoi arrived at the place of the kings, where he asked for a beautiful maiden for sacrifice as a great drought was approaching.

The Queen of Water and Fruits gave her most beautiful daughter as a sacrifice, and the other most beautiful daughters of the three kings were also, as her court of consolation As soon as they disappeared from sight, King Khoi-Khoi took the girl as his wife, and his three men also chose their wives.

King Khoi-Khoi then went another day, with great sorrow and sorrow, already with sons and daughters, before the kings of the earth. The king said that there was nothing to eat in their nation, and they could not defend themselves well against the cat-men. The kings gave them plenty of food, weapons, and skins, as well as 20 new servants, but one of them was hired by the King of Stones and Metals to spy on King Khoi-Khoi's nation.

The spy returned with the news that the king was a swindler and took advantage of the kindness of the kings of the earth. Furious, they called for King Khoi-Khoi to be brought into their presence. King Khoi-Khoi was cursed by the kings, who imposed on their sons, and the sons of the sons of Khoi-Khoi, that they should be slaves of all the tribes of the earth.

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The Jasan are believed to have arrived at their present place in southwestern Mauakijani, between the 9th and 10th centuries. The Jasan have a characteristic way of speaking: speaking in clicks. Historically, the Jasan were used by the Nesibindi and Tchuana tribes as slave labor and as inferiors since they did not know how to farm.

The Jasan were the first ethnic groups to be sold into slavery on Mauakijani. They've never had a stable official group or government, so it adds to their reputation for being "unfit." The Unistaners nicknamed them the "Allenhotten".

The Jasan have been recovering from their current situation... but during their time of slavery and servitude, the Jasan surrounded them with immediate legends, which were constructed by the tribes, seeking a justification for what they did.

After the abolition of slavery, the Jasan were relegated to the hardest jobs. Little by little, they have gained their rights and political opportunities, but the stigma of the ever-enslaved ethnicity, such as the Jasan, still remains.

Mauakijani is divided into 13 federated states, 4 domains and 2 territories. Each division has a reason.

Before the Great Unification War launched by King Mshale Wasumu, Mauakijani was divided into various tribal and ethnic states. In the northwest, there was the Sultanate of Kalaistan, a predominantly Levantine and Dabiristani state, with Islam as its official religion and in a state of perpetual Jihad with the rest of the kingdoms of Mauakijani.

In the northeast, there were the Kinta. The Kinta were tribes dedicated to the export of minerals, and there were two main kingdoms: Domboktu and Makhar. Domboktu was the cultural center of the Kinta, as well as being very rich, and having a library full of Islamic knowledge. Domboktu was ruled by a king, who was called Mansa. Makhar, on the other hand, was led by a warlord, the Kelekuntigi, who ruled all the tribes, and they were more involved in agriculture.

In the centre of the Horn of Unistan, the Great Valley of the Kiniun River was home to the greatest civilisations. Born from the Iletutu Mountain Range, the Kiniun River runs through the most populous and richest towns of Mauakijani: Kidusi Bota, Sethunya, Gidamakami, Lambede and Handelsposten.

Iletutu and its surroundings were home to the Eleyeti and Onesi ona tribes and clans. The Eleyeti were more organised, and governed themselves under a general council, the Ijo Awon Olori. The Onesi ona were more anarchistic, with no central government, although they did help each other. Further down the valley, the great Soromo kingdom, with its capital at Kidusi Bota, was the cultural capital of Mauakijani, with extensive libraries, cobbled roads, churches with the finest architecture. The Soromo were one of the first Christianized ethnic groups of Mauakijani, and their king, the Nigusi, claimed to be descended from the Dynasty of King David, of ancient Chaldea.

Further down the valley, the Tchuana kingdom, with its capital at Sethunya, boasted the exploitation of precious jewels, its fine clothes and a monarchy where the Queen Mother played a very important role. The Mafarauta kingdom, whose borders had extended a little further south, into what was the Amalal Plains, and whose glorious capital was Gidamakami, exhibited refined metals, and the art of war of its nobles. Finally, the principality of Lambede, whose kingdom was formed by an exiled Wakulima, had the advantage of trading the products of the Great Kiniun River Valley abroad.

And we come to the last stop of the river, at its mouth: Handelsposten. Founded by Unistaners around 1717, Handelsposten established itself as a center of trade in the Horn of Unistan, managing to export the products and treasures of the Mauakijani kingdoms and tribes to Araseos and Nonscio. The Unistaners and their republics had dominated the export trade, and with it, their influence on all the Mauakijani kingdoms.

On the western edge of the Great Kiniun River Valley, the small but very wealthy kingdom of the Wakulima, home of the Wembe wa Wema dynasty, struggled to keep up with its neighbors.

Then there are the Amalal Plains, and the small Ben Mountains and the Nasara Range, where the Huolofi have run three kingdoms, three kingdoms devoted to trade, mainly with the Turks in the south. The Huolofi live off import and export, but also off salt and dates. As you pass the Nasara Range, the imposing Izhihlala Plain looms over the horizon.

The Izhihlala Plain is the border between the Great Desert and the greenery of Mauakijani in the southwest of the country. The home of the Nesibindi kingdom, ruled by a strong royal family and their loyal subjects, rich in all the land could give. And within all these kingdoms and republics, there were divisions of their own that might or might not have differences with the regional political power.

This is how Mauakijani found itself when Mshale Wasumu took on the task of uniting it all. And this is how Mauakijani is divided now.

The 13 federated states of Mauakijani are:

• Western Kalaistan, with its capital at Mahasr. Its majority population is Kalaistani, and Sunni Islam is the majority religion. The Conservative Party of Mauakijani governs.

• Eastern Kalaistan, with its capital at El-Eser. Its majority population is Kalaistani, and Sunni Islam is the majority religion. The Liberal Party of Mauakijani governs.

• Domboktu, with its capital at Irkelen. Its majority population is Kinta, and Sunni Islam is the majority religion. The Social Democratic Party of Mauakijani governs.

• Makhar, with its capital at Yelendugu. Its majority population is Kinta, and Sunni Islam is the majority religion. The Socialist Party of Mauakijani governs.

• Tunu, with its capital at Ibi Odo. Its majority population is Eleyeti, and Kahlerist Christianity is the majority religion. The Conservative Party of Mauakijani governs.

• Agbara, with capital in Igboya. Its majority population is Onesi ona, and Kahlerist Christianity is the majority religion. The Christian Democratic Party of Mauakijani governs.

• Mesiki, with its capital at Kidusi Bota. Its majority population is Soromo, and the majority religion is the Mauakijanian Orthodox Church. The Mauakijani Christian Democratic Party governs.

• Mamlü, with its capital at Keyemereti. Its majority population is Soromo, and the majority religion is the Mauakijanian Orthodox Church. The National Movement governs.

• Kiniun Central, with its capital at Sethunya. Its majority population is Tchuana, and the majority religion is Kahlerist Christianity. The National Movement governs.

• Kogin Nizare, with its capital at Gidamakami. Its majority population is Mafarauta, and the majority religion is the Mafarauta Coptic Church. The Mauakijani Liberal Party governs.

• Verbundhäfen, with its capital at Handelsposten. Its majority population is Unistaner, and the majority religion is Kahlerist Christianity. The Conservative Party of Mauakijani governs.

• Nyuma Saba, with its capital at Ndege. Its majority population is Wakulima, and the majority religion is Kahlerist Christianity. The Socialist Party of Mauakijani governs.

• Izhihlala, with its capital at Amakamelo. Its majority population is Nesibindi, and the majority religion is Kahlerist Christianity. The Christian Democratic Party of Mauakijani governs.
  

These are the four Mauakijani Domains:

• Alaafia Dominion: made up of the Eleyeti and Onesi ona ethnic groups, between the states of Tunu and Abgara.

• Kummo-ya-Bomme Dominion: made up of the Tchuana ethnic group, south of the state of Kiniun Central.

• Seestaat Dominion: made up of the Unistaner ethnic group, on the coast south of the state of Verbundhäfen.

• Reewmi Dominion: made up of the Huolofi ethnic group, in the south of the country.

The Mauakijani Dominions are special legal territories with the status of Crown Dominions, with their own constitution, self-government, defence and elections. The difference is that they are not designed to be multicultural, but for one ethnic group or group of ethnic groups to reside there. If a Mauakijani citizen who does not belong to any of the authorised ethnic groups wants to live in a Dominion, he or she must apply for a Residence Regime from the Dominion's registration authority. If the Dominion rejects this, an appeal can be made to the Constitutional Court, which can either side with the authority or decide the matter. In the Dominion, the Executive is generally non-partisan, but the Legislative is. Because the Dominions respect the way of life and ethnic identity, they are often fertile ground for the right. For example, the National Movement in Seestaat garnered 34% of the vote in 2021, but in Verbundhäfen it received only 6.2%.

There are two territories in Mauakijani:

• Izimayini Territory: a sparsely populated national territory, under shared control between the Mauakijani National Government and the Izhihlala State.

• South Kiniun Territory: a fairly populated, ethnically diverse territory surrounding the federal city of Lambede, between the states of Kogin Nizare and Verbundhäfen. Directly administered by the Mauakijani National Government.

Territories are areas that have not become Dominions or states because they are not intended to be part of the national political scheme. The territories are under direct administration of the Mauakijani National Government, one of the few areas where it can fully apply its authority. In the case of Izimayini, it is a fairly rich mining territory where 35% of the profits go to King Nesibindi. In the case of South Kiniun, it is the area immediately around Lambede, where the National Government maintains its control to avoid total decentralization. Territories have self-government, but cannot adopt additional codes or a Constitution, like Dominions or States.

The federal city of Lambede has the same powers as a state, as it is the capital of the country. It is by far the most ethnically diverse administrative unit in the country, and the most populous. Here, Mauakijani's Social Democratic Party rules comfortably. Lambede is the centre of politics and where powers collide; it is the residence of Parliament, the King and the Prime Minister.

It was the year 1882, and the old Sultan Ahminadab III was deathly ill. His official wife, Sultana Mahpeyker, daughter of a prominent Dabiristani merchant, held the official government in her power. Mahpeyker was severely influenced by the Minister of the Interior, Qarim Al-Nazri, to stop the 1,189-year-long Jihad and open up to the rest of the Mauakijani kingdoms. However, the princes and the old guard, whose faction was led by the Grand Vizier, Farzad Al-Mouthani, refused to bend the sword of Islam before the infidel kingdoms.

It suited the ruling political class at the El-Eser Palace that nothing should change. The Jihad had lost its meaning, but it had laid the groundwork for contracts conveniently inclined to favor the Kalaistani lords and sheikhs, with respect to the Mauakijani diplomats. In 1852, Domboktu, Kalaistan's Islamic ally and Kinta ethnostate, was united with Mauakijani after its last king, Mansa Sewanen, had become heavily indebted to the Lambede treasury. In Kalaistan, the Illuminated Porte government kept repeating that one day they would cross the Kiniun and be masters of Mauakijani. But all Kalaistanis had become distrustful of this millennia-old promise.

The sultana mother, Fatimah, was a supporter of Farzad, and was not prepared to let her daughter-in-law change the state of affairs much. Mahpekyer, however, had the support of the people and the army. Thus, on November 14, 1882, Mahpeyker and the Maukijani chancellor, Iyasu Anatsi, Count of Yondar, signed a treaty authorizing trade between the two nations, with two crucial points: the border crossing at Thabriz, and the port of Haba. Count Yondar returned with joyful news to the Mauakijani Parliament, and the concessions in Haba were given to the master of trade: Dietrich von Zommer.

Von Zommer was an expert navigator, Unistaner of the city of Schwarzerde. But he was also an excellent politician, who managed to reach El-Eser with fascinating ideas. Ideas that excited the opening faction of Minister Al-Nazri. But the death of Sultan Ahminadab III in January 1883 was the greatest opportunity of all.

Dawid, the son of Ahminadab and Mahpeyker, only 17 years old, ascended the throne. Mahpeyker acted quickly and expelled all the concubines' children and her husband's harem. She tried to get rid of her mother-in-law, but the protection of the Grand Vizier was stronger. Mahpeyker spent many days plotting how to get Fatimah out of the Palace. Only a bullet from one of Von Zommer's lackeys managed to end the life of the sultan's mother, and Mahpeyker positioned herself as the absolute mistress of the Illuminated Gate.

Dawid, however, is not as liberal as Mahpeyker would wish, and orders the execution of the minister Al-Nazri for proposing a treaty with the Chaldeans. Farzad becomes the young man's main influence, perhaps motivated by the fact that Dawid had an absent father: Ahminadab stayed with his concubines in different parts of Kalaistan, or participated in campaigns against the infidels. This infuriates Mahpeyker, who plots again with Von Zommer the murder of the Grand Vizier. But Farzad steps in and orders a night ambush against the Mauakijani legation in Haba, and Von Zommer is killed.

Farzad says that the Unistaners provoked a revolt, and Sultan Dawid abrogates the treaty with Mauakijani. However, King Irawo, elected in 1877 and of the Eleyeti ethnic group, does not let Von Zommer's death go unnoticed, and declares open war against the Sultanate of Kalaistan, 32 years after the last one. For the politicians of the Sultan's Divan, this was worrying: the last century of Kalaistan against Mauakijani had only caused territorial losses. But Farzad convinces Dawid to respond. Mahpeyker then tries to favor a son of a concubine, Said, to come to the throne, but a hired assassin kills her before the plot is executed.

Dawid begins to form his harem, filled with women from various parts of Valsora captured by pirates and sold to the Sultan, among them Noor, a native of Shaamistan. Noor becomes Dawid's favorite concubine, and quickly becomes his authority vis-a-vis the Grand Vizier. Dawid then has two voices, which influence him in how to decide the fate of the Sultanate.

His Majesty's Royal Forces, commanded by General Fedha Nyuma Mkarimu, 3rd Baron of Mkarimu, and the 2nd National Army, led by Colonel Obhalayo Mnene, marched towards the borders of Kalaistan on March 20, 1883, just days before the breaking of the Muslim fast, razing the fortress of Thabriz and conquering small villages in the south of the Sultanate. The Kinta, Onesi Ona and Tchuana lent their militia and men to wage war against the Kalaistanis.

General Amar Ghali had gathered the Sultan's army on the banks of the Khosmar River, a boundary between eastern and western Kalaistan. Ghali thought he could secure the most important city in the east, Mahasr, by sending the troops a little further before the entrance to the city, in the valley of Qadar, where the Khosmar flowed. Since Mauakijani's invasion had started from the east, many imams in the villages said that it was a divine punishment for the government's corruption.

However, King Irawo had also commanded an invasion by sea, led by Admiral Friedrich Holz, who directed the Royal Navy towards the ports of Haba and El-Eser. Holz, a master of the sea, known for his explorations in the south and highly esteemed in Araseos and Nonscio, had no difficulty in bombarding the poor Kalaistani navy, and taking several coastal cities in the name of Mauakijani.

Farzad had been driven mad by the news that the Mauakijani had breached the Barid Mountains, and had subjugated the towns of Hajar Al-Ebid and Rahmatallah. Dawid, on Farzad's advice, ordered all males over the age of 10 to be drafted into the military and sent to the eastern front. This buildup of troops would have succeeded in halting the advance of the Baron of Mkarimu and his men, but weeks later the Mauakijani forces were storming the remaining fortress towns in force, and they were only a few miles from the Qadar Valley. Colonel Mnene had succeeded in getting the sheikhs in the conquered lands to swear allegiance to Mauakijani, and that only infuriated the Grand Vizier.

Although Holz attacked El-Eser in force (and thereby attacked the capital of the Sultanate), the Kalaistani navy, together with its allies and mercenaries, managed to repel the conquest in the First Battle of El-Eser, where Holz lost one of his sons who was serving in the Royal Navy. Dawid realized that he could not stay in the capital any longer, and the court fled inland to the city of Al-Riyah. Meanwhile, the Sheikh of Mahasr, Mohamed bin Khalil, seriously considered renouncing allegiance to the Sultan and swearing an oath before the King of Mauakijani, in order to avoid bloodshed.

Farzad began issuing decrees in the name of the Sultan, and madness overtook him. Thousands of peasants and children were brought to the front lines of the war, and perished due to their inexperience. He raised taxes, and this infuriated the sheikhs of the northeast, who rebelled. And so it was that the Second Battle of El-Eser occurred in May 1884, when Admiral Holz unleashed his fury and thirst for revenge against the city, the murderer of his son. Kampfian and Ostarian artillery was able to destroy the medieval fortresses, and El-Eser fell in five days.

The Sultan's court, protected in Al-Riyah, was still to be destroyed. Noor, Dawid's favorite concubine, watched in horror as the people of Kalaistan died because of the Grand Vizier's paranoia, and her lover, the Sultan and Defender of the Faith, was a weakling lacking in affection. A Kinta eunuch from Dawid's harem, who was actually a spy for the Mauakijani government, managed to get Noor to hatch a plot to get rid of Farzad and the princely class who were fighting against the power of King Irawo.

One cold night on August 3, 1884, Farzad had finished his prayers and was heading to his chambers, when Noor pounced on him with a dagger, piercing his heart and killing him. When the Sultan's generals saw the scene, they applauded Noor and worshipped her. But Noor appeared before Dawid's chambers, visibly upset by the murder of her favourite. But the Sultan's generals were behind her, and so were the politicians of the Divan, and so were the few sheikhs who swore loyalty to the Sultan. Seeing themselves overwhelmed, Dawid calmed his fury and granted Noor a pardon. The war had changed.

The new Grand Vizier, Yusuf bin Abbas, ordered a ceasefire on all fronts, and the beginning of negotiations with Mauakijani's troops in Al-Riyah. However, the order did not reach Mahasr, where troops from both countries met. The Baron of Mkarimu succeeded in penetrating the city's fortress, and there was a fierce encounter between the inexperienced Kalaistani army and the armed and trained Mauakijani army. General Ghali defended Mahasr to the end, and burned a large part of the city so that the infidels would not obtain a joyous victory. The battle came to an end when Ghali was impaled by the tribal spear of the Baron of Mkarimu.

The surrender was signed on September 10, 1884, at the town of Al-Riyah, and was the final annexation of Kalaistan to Mauakijani. A new order was beginning. Sultan Dawid was imprisoned, and Noor, the murderous concubine, was given several plots of land in the Barid Mountains, and was appointed Sheikha of Intisar by King Irawo. The conquest of the Sultanate was news of glowing excitement. Baron Mkarimu and Colonel Mnene returned victorious, and Parliament permitted Admiral Friedrich Holz to make a triumphal parade along the Kiniun River.

And the inhabitants of the Great Valley, those of Handelsposten, Lambede, Gidamakami, Sethunya and Kidusi Bota saw the triumpf where Sultan Dawid, his close politicians and some of his generals were humiliated, and the body of Farzad Al-Mouthani, Grand Vizier of Kalaistan, in a dissected skeleton. The treasures and jewels, the purple and the illuminated Korans were seen by the population of all the tribes and villages of Mauakijani.