History of Deltaria

Ancient to Feudal History (400bce-600)
The ancient Deltarians were once a group of nomadic alpine tribes, who travelled most of Terra before settling in the modern-day Republic of Deltaria, in Majatra. Their original homelands were thought to be a series of mountains within the borders of modern-day Dundorf, but even that is just conjecture.

It is known they weaved their way from Artania through most of Terra, retaining a fierce protectionist attitude towards their own culture, but appropriating the technological advancements of other civilisations for themselves, before settling in the desert climes of Majatra. Despite encountering so many foreign peoples and cultures, and slowly travelling south over thousands of years, they remained much unchanged physically or culturally from the beginning of their recorded history, due to fierce religiously instilled xenophobia. Although a strong theme to their primative religion was 'The Great Journey', several tribes broke off to settle unpopulated lands during the travels, most notably the Zargunia tribe who wreaked havoc apon the neighbouring Hobratz tribe for two-hundred years during The Land Wars, long before the two fledgling nations merged into one.



The Landing (600-900)
When the Deltarian people arrived in Majatra, their religious fervor was waning. Many clerics and shamans argued that they had reached the ends of the earth, and the Great Journey was over. For whatever reason, all remaining Deltarian tribes chose to settle, with only several hundred individuals continuing the Great Journey by themselves. The natives at the time were nomadic and of a stone-age culture, and after several minor skirmishes learned to keep well away from the superior weaponry of the Deltarian tribes. As Deltarian expansion continued, however, enemy tribes found themselves being forced further and further into the territories of their own Majatran enemies. Skirmishes broke out, some between Deltarian and natives, some between different tribes of natives as their desperation to find refuge from the new and terrifying culture drove them against each other. Widespread rumours reached almost the ends of Majatra about terrifying demonic warriors with sunburned skin and painted faces, weilding clubs that fired spikes through the air, axes of shiny rock that was impossibly hard and sharp, and who released savage monster dogs into battle before them, with jaws so large they could crush the head of a man, and skulls so thick a fully swung battle-club could not shatter them.



By this stage there were six major Deltarian tribes left, the Darali, Ushalande, Doron Akigo, Alazinder, Dissuwa and the dominant Tokundi. Their massive expansion changed the lives and cultures of the natives forever, and turned sworn enemies into cautious allies, and the Majatran natives were beginning to band together to launch effective raids and attacks on Deltarian settlements. The reprisal was horrific in magnitude. Thousands of Deltarian soldiers marched from their lands in every direction except the ocean, slaughtering everything in their path. All forms of native life and settlement were extinguished for over one hundred kilometres in every direction from the edges of the Deltarians expansion. It was at this time the Deltarian tribes fell into a prolonged civil war, permanently halting outward expansion. For centuries later, even as the native civilisations began to flourish, they were always loathe to venture towards Deltarian lands, from fears and superstitions carried to them from oral history, speaking of a long-forgotten demonic enemy.

The Feudal Wars and Tokundi Dominance (900-1200)
The six tribes had by then evolved into fiefs, with a Thane controlling each region. Hundreds of years of constant warfare and treachery turned the people fearful and cynical, and always ready to drop their farming implements to pick up axes and crossbows, but loathe to beat them into a ploughblade once the immediate fighting was over. Fiefs changed alliances quickly, and Thanes even quicker. Brothers would poison brothers, sons would poison fathers. Amongst the Darali, Alizander and Dissuwa tribes, the title of Thane was transferrable to the killer of the old Thane, and so bodyguards would become assassins to become kings, only to be slain by their former comrades several days later.



During this period the Tokundi tribe came to dominate their fellow Thanes. Their army had been strengthend with the creation of the Huscarle's, permanant bodyguards for nobles of Tokundi. Under the ledership of Thane Štefan IV, they skillfully used the art of diplomacy to undermine the other tribes, forging alliance with renegades and pacts with the weaker tribes they were successfully able to destroy their opponents in a series of battles. Victory was followed by great slaughters of other tribes folk, settlements were raised to the ground, women were raped and enslaved, men were brutally executed, the Tokundi soldiers would often take fathers and sons, or brothers, and make them fight one another to the death, before turning the fearsome Tokundi Hounds onto the 'victor'. Thane Štefan used his victory to create a Tokundian Ríša, an Empire, proclaiming himself Cisár Štefan I, Král' of the Delta's, thus launching Deltaria into a new era of Ríšsky rule

Downfall of the Ríša and Civil War (1200-1800)


The Tokundian Ríša continued amost unopposed for the next two hundred years. Under the rules of the Cisár's Deltarian art and culture flourished, the administration of the empire was stabalized, sound finance was introduced and the Cisár's decrees led to the creation of a judicial infrastructure, bringing about the end of trial by ordeal and reducing the arbitary powers of the Thanes. Cisár Štefan I was followed by eight other Cisár's, all bearing the name Štefan. With the Huscarle's unchallenged, the other tribes pacified and the natives retreating further into the jungles of Majatra, the Ríša seemed secure and was able to push Deltaria through a century of relative peace and prosperity.

However brutality towards the other Deltarian tribes, forcing them into a status little better than that of the native tribes that circled the empire, continued unabated. Gradually as the Cisár's rule became increasingly centralised Cisár Štefan VIII began to interfere with the minor nobles independence. His son's, Cisár Štefan IX, rule became untenable upon his succession to the throne. The power of the Tokundian huscarle's was overwhelmed as regional nobles aligned themselves with the oppressed tribes. At the Battle of Sagfred, the Huscarle's were beaten, Cisár Štefan IX, his wife, and his three sons were cut down after the battle, their bodies mutilated. Several prominiant Tokundian Thanes attempted to restore the power of the Cisár, but with the Ríšsky line extinguished, their efforts proved futile. Royal garrisons were reduced one by one, vengeance carried out upon any Tokundians unlucky enough to be captured. Tortured and horrifically mutilated bodies hung from the walls of most towns, wild animals fought for the scraps of rotting Tokundian flesh, pregnant relatives of the last Cisár had their babies ripped out in the great public square of the former Ríšsky capital as the former followers and servants of Cisár Štefan IX were hacked to death. The attacks upon Tokundian tribesmen continued unabated for a decade. A few thousand Tokundian survivors fled south forming a Kingdom in what is now the Republic of Cobura, however they left behind them several hundred thousand corpses. With the collapse of the Ríša the remaining five tribes once again formed their old Thanes, destroying the changes to governance brought about by the infamous Cisár's.





In the next four hundred years, there were several short lengths of peace between all the states, none more than six years. Most of the time one or more states were at war with each other, and in sometime during the constant battles the secrets of gunpowder and firearms were discovered, leading the rivalling clans to expend much in science and technology, and the arms race drove them quickly into the development of rifles, revolvers, grenades and cannons. Still, the battles did not cease.

The Native Wars (1800-2000)
In the constant atmosphere of only open warfare and expected warfare, a blind eye was turned to the events happening outside the Deltarian states, and the Majatran natives grew stronger with every passing day. By the time they began to make records their people no longer realised their ancestors fought humans, but supernatural entities, and were beginning to plan a concerted military expedition into Deltarian lands, in a noble attempt to vanquish the Devil in Hell, as many of them now believed to be located in uncharted and unknown Deltarian territory.

The Deltarians found the natives to be a far stronger adversary the second time around, and although they maintained a technological edge they found themselves badly outnumbered. Deltarian rifles, bayonets and cannon cut massive swathes through advancing ranks, who fought with scimitar and muskets. Despite this, the outer fringes of Deltarian settlements were quickly overrun. The Warlords of Deltaria made desperate and hurried treaties of peace with each other, and turned their attention to the native attacks.

Now realising their enemies weren't demons, but human beings, the natives were unsure of what to do next. They were acutely aware they had stumbled into the wrong war, and when faced with advanced Deltarian firepower and tactics morale lowered even further. When the legions of the Deltarians arrived in earnest, most attempted to flee or establish communications with the Deltarians to argue for peace, but a large contingent marched forth into the heart of the Dalari region. After several minor massacres, relations were finally established between the natives and the Deltarians, and peace was declared, the remaining four Deltarian tribes eager to destroy the natives lingering in Dalari and claim as much rich territory as they could for themselves.



Civil Strife (2000-2087)
The native tribes were beginning to form entire nations, with elected officials and central government. The notion of elected leadership was brought back by diplomats and transferred to the populace. It gained exceptional popularity within the soldiers, who were weary of the neverending war and bitter against the Thanes who would order such carnage. Scholars developed a system of democratic government and revolutionaries began inciting insurrections. The popular Darali Thane-in-exile supported these efforts, thinking he would regain his throne back, while the remaining Thanes attempted to curb them by forming groups of secret police and counterrevolutionary militias. Landlords were chased from their lands, towns and farms were claimed by their serf inhabitants. When demonstrations and riots started, the armies often refused to fight, and many divisions openly deserted to join the revolutionaries. The time of the Thanes was over.

The Republican Revolution
In the February of 2087, the old Fuedal system was overthrown when a horde of Deltarian revolutionaries stormed the Dissuwa Thane's castle, with help from the Thane's own Honour Guard, and tortured the royal family to death over several hours. Other Thanes quickly surrendered official power to avoid that grisly fate. With the call of arms to defend the "Natural Rights of Man" a coalition of Liberal and anti-Establishment forces were able to declare the First Deltarian Republic.

The problem before the revolution was largely one of Nepotism. The former Aristocratic elements of society still found ways to largely control the electoral system. The foreign policy, especially with regards to trade, was highly protectionist, with high tariffs and arguments in Parliament whether or not to ban all imports.

The February Revolution proved to be succesful, although it was several months before the Libertarian Guard was able to finally break the power of the Conservative and Monarchist forces in the outlands of Deltaria. With this concern dealt with elections were held, and mostly pacifist, anti-violence parties like the Democratic Greens, Liberal Democrats, and Democratic Republican Centrists were elected in, with promises of defending the Deltarian Economy, and not stealing through taxes.

The Terror
The period following the election, is what Deltarians refer to as "The Terror." The Democratic Alliance that was elected in, believed in protecting what they defined as the "Natural Rights of Man."



In the beginning they believed that the State's only responsibility was that of security to the people. Because of this there was a form of State-funded security, a paramilitary combination of army and police. However, not long after, they decided that it would be a wise decision to privatize security, and use different organizations so as to create a Perfect Competition Market in the field of security.

However, the only private security forces in the country at the time were very close to what other nations would refer to as "mercenaries." The broken-spirited Honor Guard of the Thanes, now roaming the lands as criminal and mercenary gangs. What was left of the ancient traditions of the Thanes guard during the Revolution had been thoroughly destroyed by their failure to comply with the tradition of ending ones life after military disgrace. Those left were ruthless, uncaring and cruel, scavenging from village to village in search of money and food to extort or kill for.

The Parliament passed a bill offering equal funding to rival Security Agencies, which were largely made up of the Honor Guard of the Thanes, thinking that their well-known interregional hatred for each other would provide for better market competition. The remaining Honor Guards were given government sanction to keep order throughout the lands.



Now that the rival Security forces were being forced to compete, there was a problem. The Captains of the Guards were soldiers and tacticians, and considered a foreign firm winning a contract in their region as an invasion. Their natural response was that of soldiers, to launch military attacks on their rivals. The following years proved to be one of the bloodiest in Deltarian history. Many lives were lost in battle, and due to tribally-segregated squadrons patrolling the regions of rival tribes, massacres of entire towns and villages were carried out as a form of scorched earth tactics, with little evidence left behind. Wealth disappeared, there were no market restrictions so it funnelled directly into the highest echelons of the security forces as poor villages paying them for protection were caught between two bidding firms and destroyed in the negotiations.

Due to the strong tribal patriotism of the Honor Guards, the country was heading towards civil war. The only thing that stopped this was the formation of new Security Firms to fight against the Thane Guards. Gangs of bandits and criminals, farmers militias, even entire small villages formed their own Security Firms, ostensibly for defending themselves. Politicals parties were formed, although the Parliament no longer had control over the nation. Although the Thanes Guard were routinely victorious over the untrained and badly-armed forces who opposed them, the distraction kept the country from open civil war, which many historians believe would be a step above the violent and lawless anarchy it remained in.

This lasted until 2102, when several new and exiting parties were founded and struggling for support amongst the community. It was, however, the Communist Party who found most popularity amongst the people, and their insurgants managed to draft a peoples army capable of fighting the rogue mercenery groups. Control over the nation was now in sight.

Establishment of a New Government
The Communist Party of Deltaria, however, was made up of uneducated farmers and labourers, most eager to get back to their families. They had no intention to rule, and were still loyal to the various Democratic parties, who they saw as being held hostage to the security forces. Once they had stopped the in-fighting of the Security Forces in 2102, the Communists tried to get the former Government Parties to regulate the nation once again.



However, it became evident that some of these parties had devolved into something as decadent and nespotic as what they had once claimed to fight, while others intended to try privatised security a second time. The Communist Red Army was forced to drive the parliament out, at gun-point and Establish a Second Republic.

The Communist Regime
The Second Republic was established by the Communist Party of Deltaria with their militant wing, the Communist Red Army. It was a 4 year period, from 2104 to 2108 in which a violent class struggle was waged against the former aristocratic class and the worst human rights violators of the Bourgeois Class.

Since it was largely a peasant population at the time, with a 25% minority of Workers in the Red Army, a lot of the fighting was aimed against the security forces, that had violated the villages. The entire former security apparatus was completely dismantled.

Factory owners, and CEOs were replaced by Democratic Workers Councils. Democratic Workers Councils remained the Administrative authority until the next elections, where they were banned up until the Red, White and Black Coalition. This was one of few Communist contributions whilst in power. The country was still reeling from the dark days of the terror, and although the Communists had control of parliament, they did not have sufficient control over some regions. The damage done to the nation prevented the Communist Party from fulfilling all they promised their supporters, and people were beginning to get angry again. The Communist Party conscienciously stepped down from total power to allow the voice of the people to be heard.

Elections were held in Deltaria again, by 2108. The Executive Committee of the Communist Party decided not to participate in the Head of State elections, for fear of skewing the democratic process. The result was a huge victory for the Marchioness Party. The Communist Party recieved 0% of the parlimentary seats, but would later rise in popularity.

The Marchioness Reign
The Marchioness Party was only in power for 2 short years. It was a coalition of Former members of the Communist Party, and general Leftists of the Deltarian population. The power of the Marchioness Party helped concrete the social programs started by the Communists and National Socialists, and further Deltaria's participation in World Politics. The Marchioness herself was a popular figurehead with the common people, but not particularly loved.

The National Socialist Party gained a hefty 32% in the election of 2108. An increasing dissatisfaction with Communist Policies, with a relatively strong history in Xenophobia, Isolationism, and general lack of educational standards created this minor victory for the NSPD.

The Utilolibertarian Reign
The Utiloliberatarian Party achieved a major political victory, but not an outright majority, when it entered elections for the 3rd time, in 2111. The Utilolibertarian Party had been present in the Marchioness' former cabinet but had never held a seat in parliament.



There was a shift in attitudes, during these years in Deltaria. The end of the Civil War, and stability had created an artificial feeling of wealth and stability among the people. And the rhetoric of the Utilolibertarian was able to suade the people into voting for them.

The harsh, anti-human, social-darwinist economics of the ULP however, had increased poverty in Deltaria, to the largest it had ever been in a time of peace. By 2113, attitudes once again started shifting. And as a protectionist action, the ULP tried to secure their voter majority by takig Suffrage from Welfare Recipients. This was the last straw for many people in Deltaria. The Totalitarians, National Socialists, and Communists began to take matters into their own hands. The Communist Party's Red Army has disbanded after the fall of the regime, and although it would never again have the strength it once did, many previous members were ready to rise up again if needed in the countryside. The Nazis and Totalitarians immediately started Youth Politics groups, recruiting throughout the nation for young, urban, politically zealous thugs, known as the Nazi Red Shirts (now known as the White Shirts), and the Totalitarian Black Shirts.



There was always parliamentary problems for the Utilolibertarian Party. Their Cabinet of Unity, which incleaded seats for all parties, was able to offend all parties that had parliamentary representation. The Cabinet was never approved of, and thus never changed from the former cabinet, during the ULP's reign. Most of their parliamentary actions were rejected, by a coalition of minority Parties, the Communists, Marchioness, National Socialists, and Totalitarians.

The complete inability to action that faced the ULP, coupled with the rising economic problems, and large social injustice, caused a small-scale civil war. Totalitarian Blackshirts and National Socialist Redshirts would intimidate, harass and assault ULP supporters and politicians. Occasionally they were suspected by the media of recruiting for low-level extremist gangs responsible for countless assalts and several murders. The Communist Red Army led a resistance in rural Doron Alkigo, violently taking over all the factories and corporations they could for themselves. Along the way they performed Citizen's Arrests of all local members of the ULP, for crimes against the Working Class, a crime which was not then, or is now, in any Deltarian lawbook, but all captives were summarily lynched before proper authorities arrived to take over the proceedings. In the absence of the ULP, the Totalitarians and Nazis managed to take a shared majority of the seats.





Totalitarian/Nazi Reign


In wake of the exodus of the remaining ULP supporters, the remaining cabinet fell under the power of the Totalitarian and National Socialist parties working in concert. Relations with Quanzar darkened, bills were passed supplying foreign terrorists with weapons of mass destruction, the slave trade was instituted. Exploiting the Quanzari Cold War situation, bill after bill was passed to turn the nation into a fully-fledged police state, clamping down on civil liberties and militarising at every possible turn. Friendly relations were formed with other militaristic nations, Cobura, Kanjor, Kalistan, whilst most of Terra denounced the actions of Deltaria. War was avoided by a hairs breadth on several occasions.

The end of the Totalitarian/Nazi coalition came with the next elections, which gave a Democratic Party and Marchioness Party majority. Much work was done reversing the bills of the Nazi/Totalitarian regime, but only a small fraction of the work was done before the next election put the Nazis and Totalitarians back into power.

Red, White and Black Coalition Reign
The 2119 elections forced the former Totalitarian/Fascist Coalition to accept the Communist Party into their ranks. This led to a severe easing of civil rights and freedoms in relation to the Nazi/Totalitarians old policies. Among the reforms made were abolition of the slave trade, institution of a minimum wage, abolition of the death penalty for capital crimes, the first strike policy was revoked, and many restrictions were made on police abilities. The Totalitarians and Nazis traded favours with the Communists, and made several compromises each.

The Red/White/Black Coalition proved to be a popular coalition in the eyes of the Deltaran people, despite the popular foreign depiction of the Deltarian people hating their leaders, and peasant rumours of vampires in the Nazi and Totalitarian parties. Deltarian culture was still rapidly changing under the controlling hand of this coalition, as the time of the Thanes was being wiped from collective memory. The ancient tribal territories of the Deltarians were changed to numerically named zones, their Prime Minister's title became Administrator #1, and instead of the Supreme Monarch came the Absolver, an awe-inspiring and ominous figure who is always hidden in a robe of his party's colour, and says almost nothing in public. The Absolver quickly became massively successful in instilling equal parts of fear, awe and love into the peasant population.

The Red, White, and Black Coalition ended with the elections of 2121 in which all 3 parties faced parliamentary losses.

Dynastic Oligarchy
In more recent years, the country was lead by several parties considered facist. The country was the leading Axis Power in Terra War I and was offten called out on their "Racist" tendancies. The country was lead, for the most part, by the Bátory-Nádašdy Dynastia durring this period.

Peace Coalition
After the elctions in 2160 a new government took over. The peace coalition intends to work for a more democratic Deltaria with more freedom to the people. It's early years are being hampered by the threat of invasion by the axis powers who support the old regime.



The new government has now settled into it's role and lots of changes have taken place. The nation has been opened up to foreign investment and it's people have been given more rights and freedom of speach.