Krystallum

The Democratic Republic of Krystallum
Established 1503
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Official languages	Common Standard Ursha
Government
• President	Jon Toast
• Vice President	Missy Reinhold
History
• First Confederacy of Krystallum	1503
• First Krystallic Civil War	1539-1542
• New Krystallic Confederacy	1543
• Second Krystallic Civil War	1558-1559
• Second Confederacy of Krystallic	1560
• Border changes with USG	1611
• Federal Republic of Krystallum	1676
• Third Krystallic Civil War	1731-1736
• Democratic Republic of Krystallum	1736
• Marlanglass independence	1763
• The Great Bjorland War	1999-2015
Population
• Estimate	194,915,627
Currency	Marl
Preceded by The Krystallic Empire

The Democratic Republic of Krystallum, commonly known as Krystallum is a country located in southwestern Glaskarn. It consists of 5 states and a federal district. Its states are Pasovia, Redwheat, Lekslater, Villavaunt and Shadleshore. It's the 25th largest nation by population in the world and 7th largest in Glaskarn. It's _th the largest nation by land area in the world and _th largest in Glaskarn. Krystallum shares borders with Marlanglass to the northeast, Schweinlandia to the north, and St Margaret and Gowcester to the northeast. Krystallum's entire southern border is Polonic Sea coastline. The national capital is Astoria, and its most populous city is Astoria. Krystallum was born out of the fall of the Krystallic Empire in 1503 and has undergone three border changes; one in 1611 as a result of negotiations with the United States of Germaeia, and one in 1763 after the independence of the state of Marlanglass. The most recent border changes were a result of the Treaty of Reunification after the Great War in 2015.

History

In 1503, the Provincial system of the Empire had fallen due to the secessions of Baltinic-Saegalia and Ljilislovia. The Empire became under control of a Consulate in 1415 and they established a District system, similar to the Provinces. In 1503, the Wester Semi-Autonomous District only had the state of Germaeia remaining. Glaskarnan Nationalism and Glaskoskepticism was emerging in Germaeia and the Elkton Society was controlling much of the internal politics. The Eastern Semi-Autonomous District only had bits of the state of Lauvakia remaining which later was remained the Krstallic state of Pasovia. Over the years internal Consulate squabbles left them ineffective at leading the largely centralized government. With Germaeia seeking to prepare for a secession, the Consulate declared the Western Semi-Autonomous District independent, absorbed the Eastern Semi-Autonomous District and the Empire defunct.

The Confederacy of Krystallum (1503-1543)

The Krystallic Empire officially fell in 1503 when Chief Consul and Consul of the Capital Governing District, Edmund Reece, declared the Empire defunct and proclaimed a new Confederacy of Krystallum after the United States of Germaeia were formed. Reece became the first Governor-General of the Confederacy and drafted the National Accords. Within the Confederacy there were five states and one federal district; the same system that is in place today. The Governor-General gave states free reign, yet they were beholden to directives from him. The Confederalists emerged as an ideological social group that supported the Governor-General due to the freedom the system offered gave to the states. The Governor-General controlled the military and a central economic system. The Governor-General managed all international affairs as well. Governor-General Reece appointed the initial First Chairs of each state and from there each state established their own system for succession in their state charters. The National Accords were the governing system of the national government. The National Accords allowed for the outgoing Governor-General to promote a First Chair to replace them. Governor-General Reece appointed Taylor Zacharias, First Chair of Villavaunt in 1530, to take over the role when he died in 1532. In 1535, Governor-General Zacharias established a special council to advise him on inter-state relations, that included more representatives from the states. Many representatives wanted to expand the democratic system they’d put in place in their states to the Governor-General. Zacharias realized his council was attempting to take his own power, and he abolished the council. In 1536, the Federalist Convention was form as interstate forum for representatives to discuss their hopes for centralizing their democratic efforts. Governor-General loyalists formed the Confederate Convention in 1536 as well, with the Governor-General as its chairman. In 1537, Thomas Scott, the External Affairs Advisor to the First Chair of Villavaunt, was elected Chairman of the Federalist Convention. That same year, both conventions held a national meeting. The Federalist Convention broke out in riots, and Chairman Scott called on states to send defense representatives to protect their further meetings. The convention passed a reserve force ordinance establishing the Federal High Command, for members to encourage their local communities to form small units of militiamen in case they needed to be called-up by High Command. The Confederate Convention saw this as an act of aggression and the Governor-General called up the Krystallic National Army to prepare to defend the capital, Astoria.

First Krystallic Civil War (1539-1542)

In 1539, the Federalist Convention was denied the right to hold their conference in Astoria. Chairman Scott ignored the denial and called the militiamen via High Command to defend a march on the capital. The first shots were fired on August 18, 1539 as a Krystallic National Army infantryman fired upon a High Command militiaman. After several soldiers engaged in the firefight, the crowd dispersed mostly. The Governor-General declared was not eager to declare war, and instead called his soldiers to put down the terror group. Chairman Scott urged his convention to elect him as High Chancellor of the High Command and the Federalist Democratic Convention and formally declared war against the Confederacy. The emerging war was known as the First Krystallic Civil War, or the War for Krystallic Democracy. In October, 1542, as the winter was upcoming, the National Army was in shambles and the Federalist Democratic Convention had recruited most capable men away from Army service. The High Command Militiamen were piling for an invasion of the Astoria capital district and the National Army General ____ knew they wouldn’t be able to hold them off from overrunning the city and likely destroying it. Governor-General Zacharias and Chancellor Scott met for peace talks. Zacharias hoped for a peaceful transition of power in order for Astoria to be kept from destruction. The peace talks lasted four days and the Krystallic Federal Decree was written. Zacharias would step down as Governor-General and hand power over to the Federalist Convention.

The New Krystallic Confederacy (1543-1560)

Chancellor Scott named the leader of the New Krystallic Confederacy, the High Chancellor to be elected by the convention. The convention unanimously elected Scott to be the High Chancellor of the New Krystallic Confederacy. In the new system, democracy at every level was not secured as some had hoped. There were elections held every six years for the High Chancellor and for New Confederacy Administrators; advisers who served the High Chancellor. The High Chancellory election was also rife with fraud and corruption. The Federalist Convention, still fighting Confederate ideology, established a tiered system. The first tier was for the elite, landowning, males. They were selected into the tier specifically by the High Chancellor. Only first tiered convention members could vote in High Chancellor elections, serve as candidates for High Chancellor, Advisor, or First Chair of a state. The second tier was non-landowning males. They had more rights and could vote in state-level elections. Second tiered men could be elected as representatives, but not as First Chairs of a state. The third tier had convention voting rights only, no general election voting rights and was made up of women and minority men. Third tier votes counted as Super-Electors, and their votes held more sway than any other tier’s votes. High Chancellor Scott jailed former Governor-General Zacharias as soon as he was in power. Zacharias secretly published The Confederate Manifesto, including 16 writings on the tenets of confederacy and the confederate cause. Zacharias died in prison in ____.

High Chancellor Scott and his Federal Convention were known as the Super-Federalists, as their solution to democratizing the nation was centralizing almost everything and putting it under state control and “protection”. The process was difficult due to the time and was not efficiently put in place. Scott was reelected in 1549 for a second term. In 1555, Scott called off the election due to security concerns. There had been riots in Astoria against the Super-Federalists and an organized revolt was brewing.

The Confederate Convention had gone dormant for a while, learning the tenets of Confederacy from Zacharias in prison and building a strong base in agrarian and non-educated communities. Tobias Stanislau was a student of Confederate thought, yet held it quite secret during his adult life. His association with the Confederate Convention was mostly kept secret, as he was the son of a first-tiered Advisor to the High Chancellor. Stanislau was silently maneuvering the Confederate Convention into a strategic position to overthrow the High Chancellor.

In 1555, his Confederate Convention leaders were being jailed frequently and protests and riots were occurring. Stanislau's puppet leader, young Atticus Lyric, began adopting a policy of nonviolence to their calls for a decentralized government, pacifism, and above all else, demolition of the tiered system and secured democratic elections for all representatives. His ideas were deemed radical by many, and many in the Confederate Convention still only wanted white men to vote.

In 1556, Stanislau’s father got Tobias a candidacy spot to be a state representative. Tobias was elected as the ___ representative from state. He began assessing the acceptance of his confederate ideals among his colleagues.

Second Krystallic Civil War (1558-1559)

Meanwhile, the Liberation Army of the New Confederate Alliance (LANCA) was formed in Lekslater, outside of Stanislau’s control. The army was growing to a large militia, equipped with foreign support from Wimbourne, who wished to enter into trade agreements with individual states and would benefit from a decentralized Krystallum. By 1558, LANCA was ___,___ men strong.

In 1558, Stanislau’s pro-confederate rhetoric was strengthening and gaining attention. He gave an opening address to the entire legislature advocating for free and fair elections. High Chancellor Scott heard about the treasonous words Stanislau was speaking, and threw him in jail. Tobias maintained his dedication to peace and nonviolence in prison.

Stanislau’s arrest vulcanized Atticus Lyric, who formed an alliance with LANCA. LANCA launched a full-scale attack on Astoria, burning and pillaging the entire city for three days. High Chancellor Scott swiftly ended the short rebellion in a brutal massacre and mass incarceration and execution by High Command. LANCA lived on and began pillaging smaller cities within the states to put pressure on the High Chancellor.

LANCA formed the the Army’s Coordinated Effort to Remove the High Chancellor (ACERTCH) and began developing covert plans to free Stanislau from prison and kidnap the High Chancellor and force him to abicate. Over the next year, plans were developed that essentially abandoned Stanislau and focused more on kidnapping and executing the High Chancellor. In 1559, High Chancellor Scott was covertly removed from Astoria and executed in LANCA’s headquarter city of Ellseston, in the state of Lekslater.

For the next year, LANCA ruled the nation in a loose anarchy. There were high level New Confederacy officials that refused to release Stanislau from prison. LANCA’s top General ___, was unimpressed with Stanislau and wished to take leadership for himself. Atticus Lyric faced trial in the meantime for fanning the flames of the revolt. Eventually, the court overturned Stanislau’s charges on the basis they were solely political.

The Second Confederacy of Krystallum (1560-1676)

Once Stanislau was released, he coordinated for the Confederate Convention to draft the First Constitution of the Confederacy of Krystallum which established defense, finances, and international affairs as the primary roles of national government and everything else left to the state governments. They established a unicameral legislative/advisory branch at the national level, known as the Confederate Council. The only executive leader of the state was the President of the Confederate Council and much control was given to the states. Stanislau was elected as President of the Confederate Council in the first ever nation-wide general election. The tiered system was abolished, but only white men could vote. The President served a four year term with no limits on how many terms they could serve.

A period of peace existed in the Confederacy with various things.

In the 1601 elections, the first political factions emerged. The Confederalists were traditionalist and wanted to maintain the status quo. From the Confederalists emerged the Democrats, who above all else wished to expand voting rights. Their bloc was small and very little action occurred on behalf of their cause. There were also the Federal Republicans. The Federal Republicans wanted to strengthen the central government and lay out more centralized regulations for what could and couldn’t be permitted by the states.

In the 1630s, a financial depression hit Glaskarn and Krystallum's system of government made them particularly vulnerable to a 13 year depression. An increasingly integrated Glaskarnan economy, Glaskarnan internal conflict and external colonial conflict; the Confederacy struggled with maintaining a singular response to the various crises eventually leading to the collapse of the order they'd enjoyed for decades.

The Federal Republicans cause for a centralized government; specifically a centralized economic system, was strengthened during this time, even amongst traditional supporters of confederalism.

From the mid 1640s to the 1670s, unity amongst the states was poor and the economies were attempting to rebuild - falling back to individual isolation the modernity of the 1600s was attempting to pursue.

In the 1670s, the Confederate Council’s authority over the states had diminished and the council’s functioning was minimal. The Federal Republicans, led by Thaddeus Bourregard attempted multiple times to restructure and amend the constitution to no avail. The Council, and its President McKinley Roberts weren’t interested in change.

The Federal Republicans drafted a Constitution of the Federal Republic and in 1676, forced it through to a vote in the Confederate Council. It was voted down and turned over to the states. The states passed the constitution and the Confederate Council was deemed null and void. The nation became a Federal Republic.

The Federal Republic of Krystallum (1676-1736)

In the first election, Thaddeus Bourregard was elected and due to constitutional limits, could only be elected to two consecutive four year terms. The Federal Republic held various elections but allowed the President action over many governing authorities in the nation. Through Presidential Ordinances, the President could overrule a state's authority over a matter and hand it to the President. Under the Constitution of the Federal Republic, there was a national unicameral legislature with representatives from each state. State Charters were held in subordination to the Constitution and their individual legislatures were outlawed. Political conventions were permitted, however the Federal Republicans began receiving funding from the national legislature based on number of voters in an election; therefore disenfranchising other parties. There were taxes to be paid to register to vote and to register as a candidate or as a member of a political convention. Often they were so high, only wealthy and educated men could pay them. The Democrats stayed their course and began heavily advocating universal suffrage on a national level. The Federal Republicans expanded right to vote to minority men, but many other national and state systems often disenfranchised minority men and therefore they couldn't attain the funds to vote in elections, let alone run as candidates or register for a political convention. The Democratic Republicans emerged out of the Democrats as a third political convention, seeking to not only expand suffrage to all, but bring governance back closer to home. They wanted to reinstate the legitimacy of state charters and reestablish state legislatures.

The three convention system was prevalent for some time yet the systemic injustice and political oppression kept the conventions from gaining ground on their causes.

In the early 1690s, President Harper Stenhouse was elected and sought to dismantle the minority voting rights oppression. In 1696, Stenhouse passed a Presidential Ordinance banning the use of fees to vote. He upheld the fees to join a convention or run in an election, but the Democratic and the Democratic Republicans praised Stenhouse for his actions. The Federal Republicans saw Stenhouse as a traitor to their party and highly influential individuals within the convention formed the Federal Front which began as a union of like minded individuals against minority voters (with close ties to the Elkton Society, and the ideologies of Glaskoskepticism, Falja, and Denialism). The Federal Front, with support and funding from abroad in the United States of Germaeia were able to win the 1700 presidential election in a landslide. Newly elected President Ansel Shepard, who also acted as the Chief Justice of the nation, attempted to bring criminal charges of treason against Stenhouse for "bastardly infringements on the sacred Constitution", however, Stenhouse fled to Ljilislovia shortly after his election loss.

From 1700-1701 the Federal Front's racist ideology took the form of violence and over 200 murders occurred. This caused many of the nation's minorities to flee the country to south USG (where racial violence was less common), and on to South Mirvania.

Civil and political rights were minimal in Ljlislovia at the time and Harper Stenhouse returned in 1701. He maintained his innocence and found allies within the Federal Republican convention who were opposed to the Federal Front's more extremist ideology. President Shepard was unable to bring charges against Stenhouse due to his allies and in 1704, Stenhouse was reelected to the presidency, a position he held for 8 more years.

After Stenhouse's tenure as president, the following presidents continued to weaken to the other political conventions wants. The Federal Front remained a highly influential faction and often committed violence when they didn't get what they wanted politically.

After a series of supposed crime and destruction caused by minorities, the Federal Front mobilized a massive campaign for the 1720 Presidential election. They'd often remained out of the organized and civilized political arena, not running many candidates of their own, but during the 1720 election, the Federal Front's Secretary-General, Colton Vaughn announced his candidacy for President. He was elected in an overwhelming majority, in fact, artifacts from the day reflect voter turnout was highly improbable based on voting population and voting ability statistics of the day.

Colton Vaughn as President permanently banned the Democrat and Democratic Republican conventions and promised treason charges or even execution for those caught convening. He made sweeping reforms to the Constitution, passing Presidential Ordinances unilaterally amending the Constitution. He indefinitely halted the meetings of the Federal Convocation (FC) (the unicameral legislature). The FC didn't meet as a body for six years from 1722-1728.

The Democrats and the Democratic Republicans were secretly meeting and forming a plan to regain their rights. The 1724 Presidential election came and went without a single vote cast, nor coordination of an election effort.

Wells Family and the Rebellion

In the early 1700s, the Federal Front began training a quasi-military militia to be in charge of the "Justice Marches" they'd hold in which they'd commit violence against political rivals. One of their top leaders, a Grand Advocatus, Rian Wells, had transition out of the Republican Army into the Federal Front's military system. He was well-liked and attended the Premier Krystallic military university. He gained high esteem in the Republican Army before transitioning. In 1722, he was given permission by President Vaughn to enter into politics, becoming one of his chief advisors and advocates, traveling from state to state speaking on the initiatives of the President to gain favor. Wells' cousin, Chapman, was a writer, pacifist, and philosopher. Coming from a wealthy family, Chapman often spent his years traveling abroad and was rarely at his home in Krystallum. This lifestyle lent itself to maintaining Chapman's covert affiliation with the Democrats. The Wells family had been supporters of the Federalist cause since the fall of the Empire, so it was a secret he kept well.

Chapman Wells was one of the most prolific speakers, thinkers and leaders of the Democratic movement in Krystallum, all out of the public eye. He drafted the Manifesto of a Democratic Nation, the guide to which the Democratic Republican Party was founded.

Rian Wells knew of his cousin's political activity and wasn't pleased, but during his military career had seen the dark sides of the Federal Republic and knew his cousin's democratic ambitions valid. Rian was not sympathetic to the calls for expanded democracy, he himself preferred centralization and the limited voting system. He, however, believed the Federal Republic and the Federal Front has brought down almost all institutions for freedom and democracy and decency.

Rian Wells left the military and entered politics to become a trusted advisor for the President to gain himself recognition as a statesman. He wanted to represent the nation, he wanted to lead it. Out of his own selfish ambitions, he coordinated with his brother and became one of the leaders of the Secret Convention Society, which was an organization dedicated to hosting the underground political conventions directly in defiance of the Presidential Ordinance.

Rian Wells convinced President Vaughn the nation would be pleased with a leader with a military background and urged him to abide by the Constitutional term restrictions. Wells also convinced Vaughn that the Federal Front's legitimacy would be bolstered if he were elected via a national election. Wells was elected president in 1728.

Presidency of Rian Wells

With the Republican Army at his control and friendship with its leadership, he convinced several of his former colleagues to place the Republican Army in the hands of the Democratic movement. Wells promoted several officers he knew were sympathetic to the cause.

The Federal Front quickly became aware of Wells' actions and mobilized against him. While the infrastructure supported the Republican Army, they were neglected and lacked the training the Federal Front had received. By 1730, the Federal Front was controlling the streets and cities, instituting martial law and a soft-coup of the Presidency. They did not remove Wells from his role, but control of the nation was clearly in the hands of the Front.

Rian Wells was not overtly coordinating with the Democratic movement and the Republican Army, but he was ensuring the Army had what they needed. Chapman Wells became a vocal leader of the opposition and alongside several Republican Army leaders, declared the military force the Democratic Republican Army (DRA); fighting for freedom and democracy.

The Federal Front found it difficult to launch wide scale attacks on the DRA, as they were covert and their locations were unknown. The entire rebellion was seemingly operating from the shadows. From the DRA declaration in 1730 until 1731, the war between the two armies was cold.

Third Krystallic Civil War (1731-1736)

The Federal Front launched an attack on a town they believed to be a covert base location for the Democratic Republican Army. The DRA used the town as bait to capture several top FF leaders and completely surround the FF, winning the first battle of the Third Krystallic Civil War. Chapman Wells authored the Declaration of Sovereignty for the Democratic Republic of Krystallum, signed by many leaders in the Democratic movement (DM). The declaration indicated the DM's intention to form a new government assisted by the DRA. While the DRA won the first battle of the war, they faced many devastating losses over the next three years. In 1734, the Tycuscian plague hit Krystallum heavily and 50-70% of both armies had died. From 1734-1735, the war was ongoing but there were only three official battles.

In 1735, the Democratic movement was gaining traction, citizens were tired of the war, tired of the sickness and death, and tired of the economic depression the war was causing. The DRA gained many troops and supporters and for the next year won considerable advantages against the Federal Front.

In 1736, the Federal Front's top general (and last remaining) was captured in the Federal Front's capital of Fulcrom. The general was forced into peace talks and Rian Wells accepted the surrender of the Federal Front.

The Democratic Republic of Krystallum (1736-Present)

Hoping to sustain peace, Wells called for a Constitutional Convention and the authoring of a new national constitution with his cousin, Chapman, as its chairman.

Chapman and his Convention went on to sign a new Constitution and Chapman Wells was elected President via the first general election.

Early Days of the Democratic Republic

There was much public dismay at those who maintained federal ideals during the early days of the DR. Chapman Wells signed a Resolution that banned the Federal Republic Convention or any groups that maintained similar motives.

After two years, Chapman Wells lifted the FRC ban, however, it was not reestablished.

The Democratic Republican Convention and the Democrat Convention had to reorganized once they won the Civil War. There were talks of a merger as a unified democratic movement, but at a joint-convention in 1737, the two conventions could not agree on a platform.

The Democratic Republican Convention had become the party of the common man, wishing to give more legitimacy to the state governments and avoid centralization. They stood against the business and intellectual elites they viewed were the cause of centralization of power.

The Democrats, renamed the New Democratic Union after the 1737 joint-convention, argued for a voting age of 18 while the DRC supported the age of 25.

During the 1740 election, a measure was passed via public voting, to stagger the First Chair elections so that the national and state executive branches weren't getting completely overhauled every four years.

Government and politics

Government structure

The Krystallic government is divided into three levels of government. The executive, the legislative, and the judicial, all providing checks and balances for each other as assigned in the Constitution. The government is also divided into the National Government and the State Government. There are certain powers designated to each defined in the Constitution.

National Government

The powers of the national government include:

Executive Branch of the National Government

The chief executive of Krystallum is the President. The President is elected to a four year term and may only be elected to 2 consecutive terms. The President is elected through the Krystallic Election Assembly in which delegates are chosen via popular votes in each state based on the outcome of the general election. The president approves Resolutions passed by the legislative branch and turns them into laws. The Krystallic Election Assembly is composed of 56 members, reflecting the 10 State Councilors, 45 Ward Representatives, and the 1 Capital District Special Representative. Each state, ward and district's popular vote determines how their KE Assembly representative will cast their vote in the presidential election.

The President was granted more powers within the #th Amendment to the Krystallic Constitution. The amendment granted the president the ability to sign Presidential Interpretation Directives.

Ward Room

The Ward Room is the president's senior advisors each with defines areas of government executing laws passed by the legislative branch and signed by the president. The Ward Room is composed of the Department of National Security, Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Finance, Department of Justice, Department of Labor and Health, the Department of Education, Department of Environment, and the Department of National Development. The Ward Room secretaries are nominated by the president and confirmed by the upper house of the legislative branch.

Legislative Branch of the National Government

The legislative branch is known as the Dual Chamber. One member, typically a representative from the largest convention (or coalition convention) is elected by the Dual Chamber to serve as its General Secretary.

Chambers of States

The Chamber of States is composed of 10 members. There are two State Councilors per State. They serve a 5 year term and are limited to 3 consecutive terms.

Chamber of Wards

Each state has a distinctive number of wards depending on its population. Currently, there is one Ward Representative per approximately every 750,000 people. Shadleshore and Lekslater currently have 14 representatives, Redwheat with 8, Villavaunt with 6, and Pasovia the smallest, with 3. They serve a 3 year term and are limited to 5 consecutive terms.

State Government

Main articles about the State Governments will be included in their state pages The powers of the State Government include:

Exeuctive Branch of the State Governments

Each state is led by the First Chair. Elected to a four year term. Unlike President, Ward Representatives, and State Councilors, First Chairs may serve an unlimited amount of terms if elected.

Legislative Branch of the State Governments

Legislative bodies, two houses.

Domestic politics

Democratic Republican era of dominance (1736-1746)

After the Democratic movement prevailed in 1736, the Democratic Republican convention dominated domestic politics. The Democrats, renamed the New Democratic Union, became the centralization force that counteracted the DRC's decentralization. The DRC came to an agreement with the NDU to pass laws for universal suffrage. The DRC battled hard to remove fees for voter registration and fees for joining a convention. They upheld, with much support from the NDU the fees for entering into a political race.

The NDU fought hard for a platform of centralized economy and military, but President Chapman Wells would not budge and neither would his convention's Dual Chamber leadership.

Once Niles Harding was elected President, the NDU was given more concessions. Harding favored centralized policies on issues of national security and economics, but had to remain loyal to his convention to earn a second term. The DRC's control over local offices waivered under Harding, as many believed his leadership of the convention cheapened the ideals they stood for.

The NDU campaigned heavily against the hypocrisy of the DRC leadership, claiming while they preached against elitism, both of their presidents were from wealthy, influential, educated people.

Within the NDU, there was an internal struggle between free enterprise and controlled. Forces within the NDU were still in favor of agrarian policies, or a planned economy with nationalized institutions of banking. NDU officials argued if they were to maintain a strong centralized economy, free reign of enterprise couldn't be allowed.

The DRC's dominance over politics ended with the NDU's landslide victories in the 1746 First Chair and State Councilor elections. The Dual Chamber's control switched to NDU and Newman Jones was chosen as General Secretary of the chamber. Jones' priority was on bolstering centralized economic policies of trade and currency regulation by passing resolutions dictating guidance for the Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of National Security and Department of Finance.

DRC - universal suffrage, fighting for the local man, boosting the state legislatures and power to the states (business and intellectual elite) NDU - universal suffrage, centralized economy, centralized military, believed Chapman was hypocrite, as he was wealthy family intellectual)

Krystallic Pioneers Convention, became the convention of industry, of the Krystallic industrial work-ethic, driving the nation into the future.

The major differences in the specific platforms of the two conventions within the Democratic movement were too stark to form a unified convention.

The Democratic Republicans were led by President Chapman Wells and the nation rallied around him. The Democratic Republicans in the Dual Chamber were able to pass resolutions to abolish

Pioneers era of dominance (1742-1784)

The emergence of the Krystallic Pioneers Convention in 1742 as the protector of liberty and government nourishment of enterprise, the people began to see the roots of the democratic movement fully embraced by the pioneers. The people saw their new nation ahead of them, a government system that was moving toward representation of all, and the stomping out of authoritarian federalism for good. The horizons of their nation were bright, and thus the Democratic Republican Convention's ideals of status quo, tradition, and in some ways, traditional elitism were only going to stifle progression of the nation.

President Niles Harding succeeded Chapman Wells. He was himself a Democratic Republican, but pivoted his entire platform around giving concessions to the Pioneers and developing the national economy.

Fowler Pioneerism

Hayes Fowler was an intellect and professor, an uncommon background than his counterparts who had spent most of their careers in law or public office. He was a less experienced Ward Representative but his ideals were well documented in his public writings. As a leader within the Pioneer movement, his views shifted toward harmony and community values, one that he wrote bolstered the Pioneers belief in representation of all and free thinking and free enterprise. His method of Pioneerism was less focused on financial profit and more on communal profit thru enterprise and innovation. He distanced himself from the greed that he felt some Pioneers represented.

Rise of the Freedom Convention

Elijah Hubbard founded a new convention as a counter to Pioneer Industrialism. He saw the rise of modernization, elitist, and centralization dominance. With business and industry came elitism. Hubbard was known as "the Great Freeholder" founded the freedom party from agrarian ideals. A strong and devout Jursan, he believed business and industry corrupted man beyond their moral ability to recover. He saw modernization as the greatest plague to hit the nation. He was the president for the commoner. The freedom convention was dubbed the Convention of the Common Man.

Economy

The oil and automobile industry both largely began in Krystallum. Abbott Motors and Ipsarbor Transport Corporation were the dominant leaders in vehicle manufacturing and distribution industry for decades.

Demographics

Languages

The official language of Krystallum is Common Standard Ursha, which was adopted by the nation's predecessor, the Krystallic Empire, as its official language in the 1200s. Ursha (CS) is spoken by 70% of the population, Ormska by 20% and Wiabor by 10%.

Culture and society

Mass Media

The four major broadcasters are Nationwide Commercial Programming (NCP), Central Glaskarn Broadcasting (CGB), Krystallic Broadcasting, Inc (KBI), and Eros Broadcasting Company (Eros).

Film and Television

International popularity of film and television entertainment was founded in Krystallum, specifically in Stockview, Redwheat. Stockview between 1939 and 1951 international center for film production, known as Stockview's golden age. Developed films during this era set the tone for the industry. In 1951, President Jarrett Nichols signed what became known as the media morality laws, which governed what could and could not be produced, heavily restricting the creative freedom of the Stockview film industry. Between 1951-1955 major industry strikes began what became the major creative exodus of Krystallum. By 1960, 75% of major film producers, directors, and talent had left the country for Torisinia, which became their new haven and exists as the film capital of the world, specializing in Krystallic film methods and Ursha-language films.

In 1975, a court case began claiming the laws unconstitutional. In 1977, 26 years after their inception, the media morality laws were deemed unconstitutional. The damage, however, was already done to their film industry. The overturning of the laws was seen by some religious citizens as the end of decency in the country and emigrated to the newly independent neighboring theocratic nation of St Margaret.