Caputia

The Kingdom of the Union of Caputia
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Motto: Fier Et Combattant
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Capital	Zalae
Largest city	Zalae
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Demonym	Caputian
- Adjective	Caputian
Government	Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
- Queen	Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth I
- Prime Minister	Christophe Landry
- Legislature	Parliament of Caputia
Establishment	25 October 2017
Area	Unmeasured
Population	15,817,299 (2017)
Active population	3 active citizens
Currency	Caputian Solar ($)
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National website	Caputian Website
National forum	Caputian Forums
National animal	Unicorn
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Abbreviation	CAP

Caputia, officially the Kingdom of the Union of Caputia, is a sovereign country in the continent of Keltia, with overseas possessions in Apollonia, Eura and Cibola. On Keltia, Caputia shares a border with the High Realm of Stormark and with the Greater Pallisican Trade Association. On Apollonia, Caputia shares a border with Jingdao. On Cibola, it shares a border with Treisenberg and Natopia. Caputia is the official successor state of the now defunct Commonwealth of Hamland.

Caputia is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy. The monarch is Queen Elizabeth I, who has reigned since the founding of the nation after the end of the Hammish Civil War. The capital of the Caputia is Zalae, now the largest and most populous city in the country. Other major urban areas include San Luis, Petrynsk, Keybir-Aviv, Gotfriedplatz, and Monoviaville. Caputia is composed of ten states - Hamland, Bridgemoor (formerly Skjargorod), Wakefield (formerly Scottania and Petrynsk), Northpass (formerly Schoenland), Anglia and Israat, the Isles of Caputia (formerly the Lordship of the Isles), Haifa, San Luis, Monovia, and Neo Patrova. It also has a Royal District for its capital city, the Royal District of Zalae. The largely uninhabited Elizabeth Isle in Eura is a Crown dependency with the Caputian Government directly responsible for its defense and international representation. Elizabeth Isle was ceded to Hamland, Caputia's previous incarnation, by Passio-Corum.

Before the Hammish Civil War, the country experienced a period of relative calm and renowned prosperity, driven by tourism, agriculture, commerce, and banking, with a population of 76,817,299. At the end of the war, Hamland was dissolved and Caputia was created to succeed it, with the new Queen beginning to work on reviving the economy and rebuilding the extensively damaged national infrastructure. In all, it is estimated that over 28 million people people were killed during the war, and another 1,746,000 permanently handicapped by injuries. Approximately 29,190,573 people, representing 38% of the pre-war population, were displaced from their homes, with at least 50% of the displaced resettling permanently elsewhere. The civil war left Monovia and Elizabeth Isle largely unaffected as none of the fighting was conducted in those areas, but it did see some deaths due to disease and famine.

Etymology

The name of Caputia originates from its distant past, as the land it occupies was once part of an ancient nation called Caput Popularis. Use of the term "Caputia" rose from the many rebel groups during the Hammish Civil War, in an effort to differentiate themselves from the National Provisional Authority and the Council of State for the Salvation of Hamland which governed the country during the war.

Occurrences of the name have been found in different ancient texts prior to the founding of Hamland but after the collapse of Caput Popularis, when tribes of the Green continued referring to the area as "Caputia" in general.

History

For the history of Caputia prior to the Hammish Civil War, please see Hamland.

Hamland had entered a period of chaos and instability with the disappearance of the Seneschal Juan Teaodir and Prime Minister Lewis. The disappearance of key national and regional leaders around the country led to a immense power vacuum, with several factions beginning to form around the country in the absence of a staffed central government. At the behest of all the political parties in Hamland, the military, and regional governments, the sole surviving member of the Hammish Government, the Minister of the Homeland Donat Ravaillac, issued a state of emergency across Hamland and suspended the Constitution. While there was some armed opposition over what some groups believed to be a coup d’état, Ravaillac’s state of emergency was generally welcomed.

A new Government was established under the name of the Council of State for the Salvation of Hamland, but later on, changes to the new government structure led to the Council being folded into the National Provisional Authority, which became Hamland's new government with Ravaillac as its Interim Prime Minister.

After a series of assassinations of key aides and civilian leaders of the National Provisional Authority, Ravaillac was left as the unwilling face of what had become a military dictatorship as clashes between government forces and opposition groups began to escalate, in particular in Haifa and Anglia and Israat. Ravaillac was later assassinated by a sniper at a military review held in New Kirrie to commemorate the pacification of Haifa.

With Ravaillac's assassination, a savage behind-the-scenes purge of the National Provisional Authority saw Ravaillac's loyalists and aides removed from all of their posts and arrested. They were replaced by military officials and other civilian politicians who were loyal to Ravaillac's military-installed successor, General Augustus Eliphas. The ensuing crackdown to cement power by Eliphas sparked defections and revolts through out the country that sparked a new and more vicious civil conflict that pitted opposition groups (some receiving support from abroad) against the National Provisional Authority.

Use of chemical and biological weapons during the war was rampant and documented by the Hammish Humanitarian Council during the civil war. However, the real culprit was the crushing collapse of Hammish agriculture. The national ability to recover from national crop failures and extreme weather alerts was deeply hurt as key infrastructure in many parts of the country was heavily damaged during the civil war. Weather trends that are directly attributable to global climate change and effects of the fallout from the many detonations of atomic bombs in the last two decades on Micras.

The Alexandrian Flu

Despite being called the Alexandrian Flu, an extremely deadly viral disease was released by the National Provisional Authority from a biological and chemical weapons facility in Porapa for use against the National Salvation Front, the Hammish Republican Army, and anyone else who was being targeted by the Eliphas regime.

During transport to the Eastern Front against the National Salvation Front, a massive accident unleashed the dreaded disease through out Hamland, infecting Hammish and foreigners alike throughout the land. Many of the Alexandrian peacekeepers infected with the disease were brought to Cibola and other Alexandrian lands for treatment. This was to be a huge mistake - the disease spread quickly and viciously, bringing down Alexandria in a matter of months.

The Alexandrian flu ravaged the country, but where it hit hardest was the east of the country, held by the National Salvation Front. Travelling all the way up to Haifa, the disease's death toll is still too high to count, with some estimates sitting between 30–60% of Eastern Hamland. In desperation, local authorities were known to have dug many mass graves to house the remains of those who died in the deadly rampage of the disease.

There are no exact figures for the death toll nationally; the rate varied widely by locality. In urban centers, the greater the population before the outbreak, the longer the duration of the period of abnormal mortality.

• The Hammish Civil War - massive famine, disease, Alexandrian flu, heavy casualties of war due to regular use of chemical and biological weapons by most sides.
• Geneva Peace Conference - results, rise of Regina Ravaillac, international support coalesces around her to lead Hamland.
• NPA begins to collapse, decimated by Alexandrian flu and the HRA offensive with support of Natopia and SANE.
• Collapse of CoFN peacekeeping mission leads to final thrust to eliminate the NPA, ceasefire comes right on time.
• Negotiations continue, Constitutional Convention called by rebels offers crown to Regina Ravaillac. She accepts the crown, but with a few conditions.
• Vision of Zalae, fast spread of a Bovinist cult centered around the Prophetess Melusine.
• Death of Gen. Eliphas, Declaration of Zalae, founding of the Kingdom of the Union of Caputia, the Queen's March.
• Rise of the Caputian technocratic elite, led by Alexandrian emigree Christophe Landry.
• New government begins to form, neutrality policy, clashes with Treisenberg in Cibola,