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Morovian-Patrovia

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Morovian-Patrovia
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Motto: Persistent, We Endure
Capital Mobile Command Centre
Largest Cities Resettlement Camp A (Freedom City)
Resettlement Camp B (New Johntown)
Resettlement Camp C (New Monoviaville)
Official Languages Istvanistani, Praeta,
Alexandrian Fransch, Haifan
Alpazkigz
Demonym Morovian-Patrovian, Patrovian
Government Resettlement Administration
Head of State Elizabeth I
Head of Government Augustus Strong
Legislature Representative Council
Population 2,409,842 (1662)

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History

Morovian-Patrovia, established 1661, was a Caputian state created as an ambitious project to resettle overseas Caputians (from Cibola and Apollonia respectively) in an advantageous position in the Morovian Rift Valley adjoining the central stretch of the Strait of Haifa, itself formed from a continental rift which bisects the Keltian continent.

Settlers were drawn from Neo-Patrovia in northern Apollonia, and Monoviaville, a landlocked statelet in southern Cibola, both of which were untenable for the Union of Caputia to sustain as overseas territories. In spite of a considerable and understandable reluctance to be uprooted, the push factors, notably disease, poverty, banditry, and in the case of Neo-Patrovia the looming prospect of Jingdaoese occupation, encouraged the majority of the population in both territories to accept relocation to the Strait of Haifa.

The origins of the settlement can be traced back to the decision of Prime Minister Merrick, announced to Parliament on 18.II.1661, to secure an exclusive economic zone and territorial waters for Caputia on Lake Morovia. This interest in the region built upon earlier proposals mooted but not acted upon during the preceding administration of Prime Minister Landry.

Caputia, depopulated and recovering from war and pestilence during the 1640s and 1650s agreed in 1659 to accept seven million displaced persons from Krasnarus in an attempt to bolster the population and productivity of the Union during its Reconstruction Period. The Landry administration, in deliberating upon how to allocate scarce resources agreed upon a programme of territorial consolidation in Central Keltia at the expense of the former Hammish overseas empire. This policy was subsequently picked up by the coalition government formed by the victorious National Salvation Party in 1661.

As a precursor to that move the government utilised the helicopter gunships of the Riverine Army, attached to VI Combined Arms Corps, to begin harassment operations against vessels of various Haifan pirate groups, hitherto targeting communities in the ungoverned territories bordering the lake. Caputia continued to assert an increasing stranglehold over Lake Morovia by further anti-shipping strikes on Lake Morovia and the dispatch of a reconnaissance mission into the Morovian rift valley.

On 08.VII.1661 the Caputian government lodged claims with the cartographer's guild, formally notifying the international community of its intent – immediately drawing protests from the Bassarid Federation, which had established itself amongst a confederation of ports along the Strait of Haifa. The real challenge encountered by the reconnaissance mission, led by Major Augustus Strong, was not the Bassarids nor a separate group of piratically inclined dissidents, but rather a strange multitude of indigent natives, termed derisively as “mimic-vampires” on account of their affinity with and appetite for the consumption of blood. Known by their endonym as the Alperkin, these sub-Bassarid tribal groups ranged over the lands assigned by the Caputian government for settlement.

In the meantime the evacuation of Neo Patrovia and Monoviaville began regardless. A resettlement committee, reporting to the Council of Internal Affairs, was established to begin earmarking future settlements. Relocated colonists were initially housed in transit camps in San Luis State to await the conclusion of the reconnaissance. The Territory of Morovian-Patrovia was formally proclaimed by Order-in-Council on 24.IX.1661.

At the conclusion of the Caputian Reconnaissance of Lake Morovia on 08.X.1662, responsibility for the territory of the State of Morovian-Patrovia was taken up by the Resettlement Administration to which Augustus Srong was appointed as Director. Concurrently the VII Combined Arms Corps was deployed into the territory in order to support operations to secure and fortify the newly defined frontier. The expansion of Caputia into the areas surrounding Lake Morovia obliged planners on the Border Fence Project to revise and lengthen their programme of works in order to compensate for the changes to the plans necessary to enclose the newly added Caputian lands under its protection.

The project, initially slated to end next year in 1662, was revised by the Ministry of Defense and the various construction contractors and government engineers received an extension of another four years. The project being now scheduled for completion in 1665.

Geography

As far as environmental conditions are concerned Morovian-Patrovia has a humid continental climate, typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with humid summers and cold severely cold winters.

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Political divisions of Caputia Flag of Caputia
States: Anglia & Israat | Bridgemoor | Haifa | Hamland | Isles of Caputia | Monovia | Morovian-Patrovia | Northpass | San Luis | San Pedro | Wakefield
Royal District: Zalae
Dependencies: Elizabeth Isle | Santa Melusina