Governorate of Siyachia
| Governorate of Siyachia | |||
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| Motto: Besser tsu shtarben shtai’endik aider tsu leben oif di kni. | |||
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| Capital | |||
| Largest city | Litkov | ||
| Official language(s) | Yehudi | ||
| Official religion(s) | Siyachism, Qara'ut | ||
| Demonym | Siyachi | ||
| - Adjective | Siyachim | ||
| Government | Theocracy | ||
| - Nāśī (Prince) | Adin ben Shmuel | ||
| - 'ha'kohen ha'gadol (High Priest) | Adin ben Shmuel | ||
| - Legislature | Sanhedrin | ||
| Establishment | 1660 | ||
| Area | – | ||
| Population | 464,030 | ||
| Currency | Natopo (₦) | ||
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| National website | – | ||
| National forum | TBE | ||
| National animal | Black Eagle (Yehudi) | ||
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| National tree | – | ||
| Abbreviation | SFS | ||
A dependency of the Imperial Republic (1660–1665) established during latter stages of the Benacian Reconquest, dispossessed of its lands in the years immediately prior to the Kalirion Fracture, and later restored as a client-kingdom of the Black Legions and Benacia Command (1672–1679). Reorganised as a governorate of the Unified Governorates of Benacia in 1679.
Government
The Prince and the High Priest of the Free State, whose roles are presently combined, administer Siyacha in accordance with the halakha, a collective body of religious law that comprises the practical application of the 613 mitzvot or commandments derived from the Torah and codified in the Mishnah, of which there are six order - these being:
- Zeraim ("Seeds"), dealing with prayer and blessings, tithes and agricultural laws (11 tractates)
- Moed ("Festival"), pertaining to the laws of the Sabbath and the Festivals (12 tractates)
- Nashim ("Women"), concerning marriage and divorce, some forms of oaths and the laws of the nazirite (7 tractates)
- Nezikin ("Damages"), dealing with civil and criminal law, the functioning of the courts and oaths (10 tractates)
- Kodashim ("Holy things"), regarding sacrificial rites, the Temple, and the dietary laws (11 tractates) and
- Tohorot ("Purities"), pertaining to the laws of purity and impurity, including the impurity of the dead, the laws of food purity and bodily purity (12 tractates).
In spite of being a small, backwards and sparsely populated territory, the Free State has attracted an appreciable contingent of meforshim and parshanim (commentaries & commentators) on the holy law - known collectively as the rabanim or "Great Ones", many of whom have have expressed what they deem to be a spiritual calling to combat the minim (heretics) of the neighbouring jurisdiction who have rejected the celestial power in favour of its infernal counterpart whilst maintaining the outward form of the faith.
Although suffering from association with the - in Siyacha eyes - pagan rulers of Shireroth, the Prince provides the semikhah (ordained authority) through which the Sanhedrin, an assembly of twenty-three or seventy-one rabbis appointed to as a tribunal, is convoked in Nackholm. Presently the Sanhedrin occupies the Kibitzer Hall, in succession to the "All-Siyacha Council of Kohanim".
The Prince / High Priest has City Hall and the Beth Siyacha synagogue reserved for his use whilst the Ruzhin Palace has been appropriated for use by the Shirerithian High Commission, which exercises a dominant influence over the Free State as its protecting power.
Defence & security
Garrison
The territory of the Siyachia, and of the adjoining protectorates of Lepidopterum and the Upland Confederation, is garrisoned by the Siyacher Hohm of the Benacian Union Defence Force, consisting of a single reinforced corps. This corps, the I Uihmanz "Siyacher" in turn comprises of two legions, the Salb III and the Salb IV Aurangzeb and the locally raised 3 Kossarfördelningen "Siyachia". Of these the Salb III is garrisoned at Litkov and the 3 Kossarfördelningen "Siyachia" at Daschau. Accordingly the force assigned to garrisoning the Governorate of Siyachia is as follows:
- I Uihmanz "Siyacher"
- Salb III (Litkov Cantonment)
- 4 Command & Control Regiment
- 4 Motorised Infantry Regiment
- 24 Motorised Infantry Regiment
- 44 Motorised Infantry Regiment
- 4 Area Defence Regiment
- 4 Inspectorate Regiment
- 3 Kossarfördelningen "Siyachia"
- 57 Taktiska Kommando Regemente
- 20 Grenadjärregemente
- 37 Infanteriregementet
- 73 Infanteriregementet
- 37 Ingenjörregemente
- 37 Artilleriregemente
- 37 Luftvärnsregemente
- 37 Signalregemente
- 37 Trängregemente
- 37 Sanitetsregemente
- 37 Garnisonsregementet
- 71 Inspektionsregementet
- Salb III (Litkov Cantonment)
This therefore provides for the following theoretical manpower establishment for the garrison:
| Regiment Type | Quantity | General Officers | Staff Officers | Regimental Officers | Squadron Officers | NCOs | Other Ranks |
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| Command & Control | 2 | 12 | 96 | 12 | 80 | 380 | 2,400 |
| Motorised Infantry | 3 | 2 | 16 | 19 | 120 | 570 | 3,600 |
| Light Infantry | 3 | 2 | 16 | 19 | 120 | 570 | 3,600 |
| Artillery/Air Defence | 3 | 2 | 16 | 19 | 120 | 570 | 3,600 |
| Combat Support | 7 | 5 | 40 | 44 | 280 | 1,330 | 8,400 |
| TOTAL | 18 | 23 | 184 | 113 | 720 | 3,420 | 21,600 |
- CV-56 Horjin – 136
- M1701 158mm MLRS – 16
- M1681 105 mm howitzer – 18
- HK-III M1675 155 mm mobile gun (wheeled)| – 35
- Light Trucks – 1,017
- Snatch Land Rovers – 5,508
Auxiliaries
The Governorate itself maintains the Volhyrian Kossar Brigade, which in spite of its name is a regimental formation, that serves as a gendarmerie and scouting force. Comprised of 847 kossar light-cavalrymen, the VKB is miserably equipped with weaponry and vehicles abandoned by the Imperial Forces in Siyachia prior to the Kalirion Fracture.
Law enforcement & internal security
Worshipful Guild of the Sacred Carnifices
Corps of the Gentlemen-at-Cudgels
Other forces present in the region
The Siyachia, owing to the hardiness of its folk and their relative cultural estrangement from the other ethnicities of the Unified Governorates and the Benacian Union provides a disproportionate of the manpower for the Land Forces of the Benacian Union. As such recruiting parties from the following formations are routinely to be encountered in the Siyachia:
- Salb VII Sikarikim, garrisoned in Highbloom;
- Salb IX Kokhba, garrisoned in Selfoss;
- Salb X Kana'im, garrisoned in Servopolis;
- 5th Manoeuvre Brigade, garrisoned in the Governorate of Litel;
- 12th Manoeuvre Brigade, garrisoned on Florencia.
Additionally seven independent regiments of kossars were raised by the BUDF in 1708 AN for various frontier duties and it is to be anticipated that they will also dispatch recruiting parties back to Siyachia as and when the need for fresh intakes of recruits and replacements will arise.
