Qhapaqsuyu

Qhapaqsuyu Qhapaq Suyu
State of Wechua Nation
Geography
Status	Suyu
Region	Wechua Nation
Seat	Forburgh
Largest city	Saint Salvation
Other cities	Port Eylan Corazon de Aquino Port Augustus Duleek
Borders	Antisuyu Chinchasuyu The Green
Area	187,400 km²
• Ranked	1st in the Wechua Nation
Elevation	1,150 m at Lake Rodinia
• Highest point	Beinn Ruadh (3,120 m)
• Lowest point	Attera Gap (240 m)
Demographics
Population (1757 AN)	1,906,438
• Ranked	6th in the Wechua Nation
• Density	10.2/km²
Demonym	Qhapaqsuyan
Ethnic groups	Caputian 43.8% Wechua 32.6% Alexandrian 11.9% San Luisian 6.4% Other 5.3%
Languages	Wechua Common Tongue Martino
Religion	Melusinian Faith 47.9% Faith of Inti 30.8% Church of Alexandria 8.6% Other or none 12.7%
Government
Apu	Sayri Amaru Ccoyllur
Legislature	Council of the Wechua Nation
Court	Court of the Qhapaqsuyu
Economy
GDP (1757 AN)	NAX€28.1 billion
• Ranked	6th in the Wechua Nation
• Per capita	NAX€14,740
Main industries	Reconstruction Hydroelectric power Agriculture Freshwater fisheries Tourism
History and other
Established	1.I.1746 AN
Establishing act	Northern Keltian Territorial Integration Act, 1745
Preceded by	Saint Salvation The Green
Abbreviation	QHP
Time zone	CMT+6

The Qhapaqsuyu (Wechua: Qhapaq Suyu, "Noble Royal Suyu") is a state of the Wechua Nation, a Region of the Federation of Nouvelle Alexandrie. It is the northernmost of the six suyu and the largest of them by area, occupying the basin of Lake Rodinia and the upper and middle course of the Rodinia River as far south as the Attera Gap. Its seat is at Forburgh and its largest city is Saint Salvation.

The suyu was established by the Northern Keltian Territorial Integration Act, 1745, which brought under federal sovereignty the territories secured during Operation Northern Vanguard and took effect on 1.I.1746 AN. The northern territories had lain outside the control of any recognized state since the collapse of Caputia in 1668 AN, and the upper basin was held from 1717 AN by the Confederacy of the Dispossessed. The south had governed itself as the republic of Saint Salvation from 1724 AN, and the Act integrated its territory along with the rest. The Act defined the suyu as representing "the prosperous integration of Caputian and Wechuan peoples" and made the return of the region's dispersed inhabitants a statutory obligation of the Federation, discharged through a Property Restoration Tribunal and a Cultural Heritage Commission.

Qhapaqsuyu is composed of two territories with almost nothing in common. The north is a temperate upland of ruined burghs around Lake Rodinia, emptied during the Green years and rebuilt since 1746 AN under a program administered by the Keltian Frontier Development Corporation. The south is the arid river country of the Attera Gap, where the city-state of Saint Salvation governed itself as a republic from 1724 AN until the integration, and where the population was never dispersed at all. The suyu contains both the poorest districts of the Wechua Nation and one of its oldest continuous municipal governments.

With 1,906,438 inhabitants at the census of 1757 AN, Qhapaqsuyu is the least populous suyu by a wide margin and the least densely settled subdivision of Nouvelle Alexandrie. The Lake Rodinia basin is a Protected Federal Watershed, and the constraints attaching to that status govern most economic activity in the north of the territory.

Name

The Act as introduced by Deputy Amauta Quispe Huanca on 2.IX.1745 AN would have named the new suyu the Kaputiankuna Allpankuna Suyu, the Land of the Caputians Suyu, a formation coined from the Wechua for "Caputians" and "lands." The name appeared throughout the bill as printed and gave its title to Part II. It was criticized in committee as fixing the territory permanently to one of the several peoples living in it, and as describing a population that had at that date largely not yet returned.

An amendment moved by Premier Juan Pablo Jimenez and carried by unanimous consent replaced it with Qhapaqsuyu, glossed in the amended definitions clause as the Noble Royal Suyu and defined as "encompassing the northern territories and representing the prosperous integration of Caputian and Wechuan peoples." The same amendment added the clause positioning the suyu as "the Federation's northern gateway." The older name survives in the legislative record and is still used by the Caputian Development Consortium in its own publications, which treat it as a statement of who the territory was recovered for.

Beneath the Wechua name the toponymy of the north is almost entirely Scotannian, drawn from the Gaelic and Brythonic roots carried by the settlers of the lake kingdom that held the basin before the Hammish period. Forburgh, Duleek, Port Augustus, Macsen and Beinn Ruadh are all names of that layer, and they survived four changes of sovereignty and eighty years of abandonment without being replaced. The Martino names of the middle river, of which Corazon de Aquino is the largest, belong to a later and much smaller San Luisian settlement.

History

The two halves of the suyu have separate histories until 1745 AN, and the difference between them is the central fact of the territory.

Before the Federation

The Rodinia basin was first organized as a state under Scotannia, a small lake monarchy established by King Donald Anderson I with its capital at Forburgh and its shipping concentrated in the lake ports of Port Augustus, Port Clafin and Port Eylan. Scotannia was annexed to the United Commonwealth shortly after its founding and, on that union's dissolution, was administered by Hamland as the Region of Alba under the Standarization of subdivision of Hammish lands. The burghal form of municipal government introduced in this period is still the basis of local administration in the lake towns.

When Hamland became the Kingdom of the Union of Caputia in 1651 AN during the Hammish Civil War, the basin passed with it, and the district was governed from Forburgh as part of the Caputian state of Wakefield. The Melusinian Faith, proclaimed after the visions granted to Queen Elizabeth I at Zalae, spread quickly through the lake districts in these years and remains the largest religion of the suyu.

The collapse of Caputia in 1668 AN removed organized government from the whole of the Rodinia country at once, and the two halves of the future suyu answered it very differently. In the north the lake towns emptied. Their inhabitants dispersed into the wider Caputian diaspora, the quays fell derelict, and from 1717 AN the basin lay within the reach of the Confederacy of the Dispossessed, which maintained bases across northern Keltia and was not suppressed until 1750 AN. In the south, a trading post at the narrows of the Attera Gap took in the displaced and grew through what its own historians call the era of disorder into a city of some two hundred thousand people by 1700 AN, governing itself through community courts and the water associations of the acequias. That settlement was constituted as the republic of Saint Salvation on 8.I.1724 AN and was admitted to the Micras Cartography Society the following year.

Operation Northern Vanguard

Nouvelle Alexandrie moved on the basin in 1745 AN. Operation Northern Vanguard, conducted between 15.VI and 23.VIII.1745 AN by X Corps of the Federal Forces of Nouvelle Alexandrie under General Carlos Mendoza, was launched in response to raiding along the northern Keltian frontier and directed at securing Lake Rodinia and the headwaters of the Rodinia River. Around 85,000 personnel were committed against an estimated 15,000 irregulars. New Alexandrian losses were 47 killed, 156 wounded and 12 missing. The operation dispersed the militia formations holding the lake, established federal control over the whole of the basin, and was the largest territorial expansion undertaken by the Federation since the incorporation of New Caputia in 1722 AN.

The operation did not end the Confederacy. Its strength in 1747 AN exceeded its previous peak, and it survived until 1750 AN. Its surviving warbands went to ground rather than surrendering, and the security of the upper basin remained a federal responsibility for several years after the suyu was constituted.

Establishment

Deputy Amauta Quispe Huanca introduced the Northern Keltian Territorial Integration Act in the 11th Cortes Federales on 2.IX.1745 AN, ten days after the operation closed. It passed the Federal Assembly on 12.XI.1745 AN by 447 votes to 32 with 20 abstentions and the Chamber of Peers on 15.XI by 96 to 4 with 5 abstentions, received Royal Assent on 18.XI.1745 AN, and took effect on 1.I.1746 AN.

The Act established the suyu with the same legal status and governmental powers as the others, directed that its local government follow traditional Wechua administrative practice while recognizing Caputian tradition, and gave protected status to every site and monument of Caputian origin within it. It required the Regional Governor of the Wechua Nation to establish a Cultural Heritage Commission for the territory. It gave those who had fled the occupation a right of return and of restitution, and created a Property Restoration Tribunal to adjudicate their claims. It designated the Lake Rodinia basin a Protected Federal Watershed under federal environmental oversight. A boundary survey was required within eighteen months and a natural resource survey within two years, and a Territorial Integration Commissioner, Tupaq Anta Willka, held the administration until the ordinary offices could be filled.

Its definitions clause described the Former Caputian Territories as those held under Caputian claim "prior to the East Keltian Collapse," a formula that misdates the loss by more than sixty years. The Caputian state ceased to exist in 1668 AN; the East Keltian Collapse belongs to the 1730 ANs and touched other parts of the continent. Federal practice has treated the intended reference as the collapse of Caputia, and the boundary survey proceeded on that basis.

Article 5 as amended named the territory of the former republic of Saint Salvation as lying within the suyu, and gave its Caputian sites and monuments the same protected status as those of the lake district. The republic had held the Attera Gap since 1724 AN. The Act ended it, and the whole of the Rodinia country from the headwaters to the narrows passed into the Wechua Nation together.

The most consequential change to the bill was the infrastructure amendment moved by Premier Juan Pablo Jimenez, which added NAX€45 billion over seven years for development within the new suyu, the largest single territorial investment in the history of the Wechua Nation.

Since 1746 AN

The first decade was given over to the return. The Property Restoration Tribunal sat at Port Eylan for most of it, working through registries kept in succession by Scotannian, Hammish and Caputian authorities and finding, for rather more than half the lots it heard, no surviving claimant at all. Those lots were vested in the burghs and released for redevelopment. The Cultural Heritage Commission, chaired from 1747 AN by the returnee scholar Margaret Ruthven, scheduled the surviving fabric of the Caputian period and supervised the reconsecration of the churches.

Integration in the south took a different form, because there was nothing there to rebuild. Saint Salvation had never been depopulated, and its courts, its schools and its university were working when the Act took effect. Federal law applied from the date of enactment and Wechua regional law within six months, and the Amnis gave way to the New Alexandrian écu over three years. The four ward divisions of the old republic survive as the quarters of the modern city. The Melusinian institutions of the Attera Gap, among them the Cathedral of the Seraphine Waters, were scheduled under the same heritage provisions that covered the ruined chapels of the lake.

The boundary survey was completed in 1747 AN and the resource survey in 1748 AN. Neither found workable mineral deposits, and the suyu's development case rested thereafter on water and on the transit value of the corridor. Reconstruction has continued since under the Keltian Frontier Development Corporation.

Geography

Qhapaqsuyu is a corridor rather than a compact territory. It runs some 900 kilometers from the uplands at the head of Lake Rodinia south along the Rodinia River to the Attera Gap, and at 187,400 square kilometers it is the largest suyu of the Wechua Nation by area while holding the fewest people. It borders Antisuyu and Chinchasuyu to the south and The Green on every other side.

The north is entrenched valley country in the Lacara-Rodinia uplands, rising to Beinn Ruadh at 3,120 meters. Lake Rodinia itself stands at 1,150 meters and is the source of the Rodinia River. The arid conditions of the lower river do not reach the headwaters: the lake district is temperate highland, with cool summers and long hard winters that close the sailing season for roughly half the year. Below the confluences the valley opens and dries, and by the middle river the country is steppe. At the Attera Gap, where the river narrows to 10.62 kilometers at the only crossing between the lake and the Captive Sea, the setting is cool semi-arid desert supporting irrigated agriculture along the banks.

Land use in the north is governed by the Protected Federal Watershed designation, which covers the lake and the headwaters and subjects any change of use within it to federal environmental assessment and permit. The designation keeps the suyu's water and sanitation spending high in proportion to the population served. The fishery of Lake Rodinia, which failed entirely during the Green years, has been restocked under the same management.

Government and politics

The suyu is administered from Forburgh by an Apu, the office held in the other suyu of the Wechua Nation as well. The office was filled by appointment during the transitional period under the Territorial Integration Commissioner and has been elective since 1750 AN. The present Apu is Sayri Amaru Ccoyllur. Legislative authority over the territory rests with the Council of the Wechua Nation, in which the suyu returns Royal Councillors on the same basis as the rest of the Region, and with the Cortes Federales in federal matters. The Court of the Qhapaqsuyu sits at Forburgh.

Two bodies created by the founding Act sit outside the ordinary structure. The Cultural Heritage Commission for the Qhapaqsuyu, established under Article 5, schedules and protects sites of Caputian origin and administers the cultural programs attached to the return. It reports to the Regional Governor rather than to the Apu. The Property Restoration Tribunal, established under Article 6, adjudicates claims to property abandoned during the occupation. The Tribunal was deliberately kept separate from the Keltian Frontier Development Corporation, which surveys and redevelops the same districts, so that no commercial interest in redevelopment would touch the adjudication of title.

Politics in the suyu divides less on party lines than on the two halves of the territory. The northern burghs, whose electorates are largely returnees and workers recruited to the reconstruction, have returned the parties of the federal government that carried out the return at every election since 1750 AN. Saint Salvation, whose republican assembly had been non-partisan by statute and whose municipal politics are still only weakly partisan, divides on questions of local autonomy and water allocation rather than on federal alignment. Disputes over the distribution of the development funds between the reconstructed north and the intact south have been the recurring theme of every election since 1750 AN.

Administrative divisions

The suyu is divided into four districts, three of which correspond to the territorial divisions through which the Keltian Frontier Development Corporation carries out the development program.

Districts of the Qhapaqsuyu, census of 1757 AN

District	Principal town	Population	Character
Forburgh	Forburgh	486,200	The suyu seat, and the largest of the reconstruction districts by expenditure. Its town was the Caputian administrative center of Wakefield.
Lake Rodinia	Port Eylan	371,400	The lake shore and the burghs upon it, among them Port Augustus, Port Clafin, Duleek and Macsen. It lies wholly within the Protected Federal Watershed.
Middle Rodinia	Corazon de Aquino	298,700	Steppe country along the middle river, thinly held. This is the youngest settlement layer in the suyu and the only substantially Martino-speaking one.
Attera Gap	Saint Salvation	750,138	The former republic, its four quarters and its irrigated hinterland. Alone of the four districts it was never depopulated, and it stands outside the reconstruction program.

Economy

Qhapaqsuyu has the smallest economy of the six suyu, with a gross domestic product of NAX€28.1 billion in 1757 AN and NAX€14,740 per head, the lowest figure recorded for any subdivision of Nouvelle Alexandrie. Reconstruction and the works attached to it generate rather more than a fifth of it.

The Keltian Frontier Development Corporation, a public-private settlement company incorporated on 15.IX.1745 AN and owned 45 percent by the federal government, 35 percent by the Caputian Development Consortium and 20 percent by private investors, executes the development program and is the largest single employer in the basin, with 14,200 employees and revenue of NAX€3.1 billion in 1757 AN. It operates three territorial divisions and one functional division for water, power and telecommunications.

The NAX€45 billion authorized by the founding Act over seven years was allocated NAX€18 billion to railways, NAX€12 billion to highways, NAX€8 billion to aviation, NAX€4 billion to telecommunications and NAX€3 billion to power generation, the last drawing on the hydroelectric potential of the Rodinia headwaters. The program remains the dominant fact of the suyu's economy.

Outside the reconstruction, the economy rests on water and on what the corridor carries. Hydroelectric generation on the headwaters supplies the suyu and exports to the Wechua grid. Irrigated agriculture at the Attera Gap produces spice and cereal grain along the riverbanks, as it did under the republic, and the crossing at the narrows still yields transit revenue. The restocked lake fishery and a small, sharply seasonal tourist trade centered on the restored quays of Port Eylan make up most of the remainder. The resource survey of 1748 AN found no mineral deposits of a scale to justify extraction under the watershed regime, and none has been attempted since.

Demographics

The census of 1757 AN recorded 1,906,438 inhabitants, giving a density of 10.2 to the square kilometer, the lowest of any New Alexandrian subdivision. The population is weighted to the two ends of the corridor. The Attera Gap district holds 750,138, of whom something over four hundred thousand live in Saint Salvation itself and the remainder on the irrigated banks above and below the narrows. The Forburgh district holds 486,200, a little over two hundred thousand of them in the town. Port Eylan accounts for 148,000 of the 371,400 in the lake district. The middle river, at 298,700 across the largest of the four districts by area, is the most thinly settled, and the uplands away from the lake are nearly empty.

Caputians are the largest group at 43.8 percent, a proportion that reflects both the returnee population of the north and the long-established Caputian plurality of the Attera Gap. Wechua at 32.6 percent are chiefly settlers who came north with the reconstruction after 1746 AN, and are the majority in none of the four districts. Alexandrians make up 11.9 percent and San Luisians, concentrated on the east bank at the Attera Gap and in the middle river towns, 6.4 percent.

Three languages are in daily use. Wechua came north with the settlement and the administration, and the Common Tongue was inherited from the Hammish and Caputian centuries. Both are current throughout. Martino is spoken in the San Luisian districts of the south. Literacy and school provision in the north lagged the Wechua Nation as a whole for the first decade after the return and have since converged.

Religion

The Melusinian Faith is the largest religion of the suyu at 47.9 percent and is overwhelmingly the faith of the south, where it is professed by nearly four in five inhabitants and centered on the Cathedral of the Seraphine Waters at Saint Salvation. The Attera Gap itself is revered in the faith for the life-giving power of its waters. In the north the Melusinian institutions are older but far smaller: the Chapel of the Waters on the Old Quay at Port Eylan, reconsecrated after the return, is the oldest surviving building of the Caputian period in that city and the northernmost Melusinian foundation of the period.

The Faith of Inti accounts for 30.8 percent and arrived with the Wechua settlement rather than preceding it, which makes Qhapaqsuyu the only suyu in which the national faith of the Wechua is not the religion of the plurality. The Church of Alexandria accounts for 8.6 percent.

Infrastructure

The suyu's transport was built almost entirely under the 1745 AN program. The Qhapaq Ñan Highway system, extended north under the highway allocation, connects the districts to each other and to the Wechua road network, with a spur serving the lake shore at Port Eylan. The Northern Wechua Railway links the suyu to Parap and the southern population centers, with branch lines to the larger settlements. Two Interurbanos services operated by Nouvelle Alexandrie Railways, the Antisuyu by way of Judah and Wayrainti and the Inti Chikpi from Mayuriti and Forburgh, terminate at Port Eylan, which is an end-of-line rather than a through station. Qhapaqsuyu Regional Airport was built under the aviation allocation with international capability, together with secondary airfields for cargo and emergency service.

The Rodinia River remains the principal artery of the south, as it was under the republic, and lake shipping the usual means of reaching the shore settlements that have no road. Electrical supply is drawn from the headwater hydroelectric stations built under the power allocation and from the extension of the national grid; telecommunications coverage was completed across the inhabited districts under the 1745 AN program.

Culture

The suyu's public culture is organized around the return. The scheduling work of the Cultural Heritage Commission has made the restored fabric of the Caputian period the principal visible inheritance of the north, and civic identity in the lake burghs is built on descent from the four successive states that governed them. The arms of Port Eylan are wholly geographic, in a city whose people trace themselves to Scotannia, Hamland, Caputia and the Federation in turn.

Two frontier baronies were created in the Nobility of Nouvelle Alexandrie on the settlement of the territory, those of Forburgh and of Port Eylan, the latter held by Rosa Delgado. The annual blessing of the boats at Port Eylan, which opens the sailing season, is the principal festival of the north. The observances of the Attera Gap belong to the older Melusinian calendar of the south. Association football, introduced under the Hammish administration, was reestablished with the return of the lake towns, and the Rangers, a founding member of the Regional League Championship under the Alba banner before its dissolution in the Green years, plays again.

See also

• Administrative divisions of the Wechua Nation
• Wars of the Disinherited
• Wechua Constitution of 1663