Aelia (The II is just because it was the second Republic)
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(All uninhabited islands within this picture)
Cities: (I couldn’t think of a good way to get pictures of where I want the cities to be so I’ll let you decide but with some criteria of mine.)
Helia: On the coast of the largest continent
Tanoä: On the coast of the second largest continent
Starfall Shores: On the coast of the third largest continent
Origins
The Island Republic of Aelia has quite a long history. Aelia started off as unified Native tribes that traded with each-other from other islands. The Aelians were often called the pathfinders as they explored most of the oceanic parts of the modern-day East Pacific however due to their isolation and lack of means to getting to the large continents of Aelia II, these journeys were not recognized by other Nation-states of the region.
Failed Colonization
During the “Age of Exploration” of the East-Pacific, Aelian natives had to fend off Colonization waves during the 1700’s from Nation-states within the main-land continent that is above Aelia. However, due to the Aelians knowledge of their land, the easily defensible amphibious landing locations, and East-Pacific allies supplying a quarter of the Aelian army with modern arms to spite the invading forces that they often battled for land. These series of battles lasting two years was called by historians “The East Pacific version of The Battle of Adwa”. The defeated Colonolism Nation-state was forced to recognize Aelia as an independent country, after they were first recognized, Aelia’s allies who supplied her with modern-arms recognized Aelia as a free country and other nation-states soon followed.
The First Republic of Aelia
Following the World Congress Resolution in 1789 to recognize Aelia as an independent state, the people became more than just “Natives”. Banding together, they formed their capital, Helia, created one new unified language and many other things that made them into a civilization. This period was known as the “Era of Construction” within Aelia as new infrastructure was popping up within all islands and the first few democratic elections occuring. With the President of Aelia having control all of islands and each island voting in their own representative to speak for their people’s needs at weekly hearings. Overall, this system was deemed inefficient and thought to helped Aelia’s downfall spiral.
Imperialism’s Effect on Aelia
The 1800’s was a hot time-era for imperialism within the East Pacific and Aelia was definitely not excluded. On the year of 1854, the great “War of the Shores” took place between the defending Aelia and the conquering armies of an Nation-state from the continent in the top left. The Aelians were taken for surprise, having their defending small navy completely destroyed within the first few weeks of the war, most of the battle took to lands. However, the Nation-state obviously studied their history by looking into how the last Nation-state trying to conquer Aelia, they brought waves and waves of ships and men. The Aelians were outnumbered 1 to 30. Another reason why Aelia failed was the government system. Some islands vowed to be at peace with all factions and since their island wasn’t being invaded at that time, they kept to that vow and refused to supply their own country with armies from their islands, instead, putting them on the defensive for when their islands were being invaded. After Helia and the other very important islands, those islands quickly fell. The war ended in 1855 and caused Aelia to be the newest colony of that conquering Nation-state. This era was called the “Hewa a’ela paha nä hökü o ka lani” (Translates to: “The Stars mistakenly aligned” in the Aelian language)
The Great East Pacific War
During the 1920’s, a Cold War broke out between two sides. The Allies and the Axis. The Allies believed in a free world while the Axis believed in a controlled world filled with production and industrialism. A hot war begun in 1935 with the unwarranted attack from an axis country to an allied Nation-state, prompting all of the non-neutral Nation-states to wage war on the opposite side. Aelia, being controlled by an Axis country due to “The War of the Shores” was forced to send colonial troops to Allied continents for battle. However since the start of 1936, the puppet President, "Alexa 'Ānita Lao’iä, begun secretly planning with the Allied Nation-states of a betrayal of the Axis nation-states in return for war-ships and armies to help her liberate Aelia from the Axis-Nationstate who conquered them 81 years ago. The Allied Nation-states agreed. On the star-filled night of December 7th 1936, the current puppet President who was raised by once-free Aeilians evacuated to an war-ship of an warship of a Nation-state of the Allies and broadcast-ed an executive order that the Aelian rebellion has begun. She told all Colonial troops to swap sides but not before shooting down all Axis soldiers in their sights and that the liberation of Aelia has begun. The Aelian Colonial troops did just what they were told and shot down their new enemies, Axis troops. There were high injuries but low deaths of the Colonial troop legions however they were looked after by Allied MAS*H facilities.
The Battle of the Free
Starting on December 7th 1936, the invasion of Aelia under controlled by the Axis Nation-state begun. Similar to the attack that got Aelia in this situation in the first place, the allies and the “Free Aelia” forced struct the capital of Helia first. Being a coastal capital, it was heavily succeptiable by artillery fire from warships and amphibious landings. Small ships big enough to fit in the canals of Helia entitled “Aelian Attack Cruisers” were often along the front-line. Swiftly sailing through the canals of Helia and excellent at taking out enemy artillery on the ground and land-forces. The Axis nation-state had quite a large defending army on the islands of Aelia however not large enough, the Allies beat back the Nation-state and forced them to retreat off Helia. The Aelian civilians celebrated as Alexa 'Ānita Lao’iä stood and waved at her people ontop of an Aelian Attack cruiser as it sailed through one of the main canals of the city and she created “The First Republic of Helia” as a temporary country . As the offensives were about to begin on liberating the other islands of the old Aelian republic, a massive Axis blockade sailed up to the Northern part of Helian island. The Allied war-ships and whatever was left of Aelia’s outdated navy stormed up to try to break the blockade and a future invasion. After 6 months of Naval-warfare and air-raids on both Helia and the Axis Warships, the Allies broke through, ensuring Helia’s safety. The war ended in 1941 with a stalemate with the Allies having to give back homeland territory of the Axis countries and with the Axis having to officially recognize the Allies liberation of some of their island colonies, protectorates or spheres of Influence. Despite this meaning Aelia was once again, a free country, Aelia one of the few nations to not declare peace with all Axis Nation-states. The Aelians has yet to reconquer their islands that was once theres and Alexa was not gonna stop until all of her people were liberated. These wars took 14 years to finish with the Helian Armies and “Free Aelia” forces vs the Nation-state’s holdouts who conquered them in “The Battle of the Shores”. The Aelians took back each island, one by one. Most battles were naval with amphibious landings featuring Aelia’s offensive and the defending Nation-state holdout’s last stand. The war was a long fought one but by 1956, all of Aelia’s original land was liberated.
The Second Republic of Aelia and Modern-day Aelia
Following Aelia’s victory in 1956, Alexa 'Ānita Lao’iä re branded “The Republic of Helia” into “The Second Republic of Aelia” and stopped their "bread-basket economy fiasco. Alexa 'Ānita Lao’iä took to office as the first elected President of the Second Republic of Aelia. Under her reforms and policies, she beckoned in the second Golden-Age of Aelia. Huge factories brought in by the Axis Nation-state were torn down, nature-preserves were built, nature started regrowing, and huge Oprah houses were constructed. Today in 2015, not much has changed. Aelia is still a free country who as the Aelians say “Are Sailing in the Free-world” with a now efficient government and a culture that has spread the world. Very few Nation-states do not feature Aelian music, Aelian clothing brands, or see the Aelian language as one of the main languages of the East Pacific internet. Aelia has constructed a very large peacetime Navy ensuring their independance however this does not make them a war-mongering, militaristic super-power. Aelia however can be classified as an “Eco-friendly Culture Superpower of the World”.
Phew, that took an hour to write! While this story is definitely not canon in the East Pacific as I made up events without looking into the history of the nation, it’s definitely canon to Aelia. I hope you enjoyed![edit_reason]Spacing[/edit_reason]
