History of Niš
Niš was established on the 9th of November, 1979. Originally, it was composed of the former territories of the FSS Nišavia and the FSS Blitkentia, both former parts of the FSUR Severrusavia, which dissolved on the 7th of November, 1979. Though a Republic in its earliest days, a referendum held voted to establish a Monarchy, so the Royal Family of Nišavia was invited to be crowned. Despite initial hopes that the family would surrender direct power to a constitutional assembly by the Niš's founders, careful navigation of the state apparatus lead to this never coming to fruition. The new Kingdom was stated to be a direct continuation of Nišavia, and so absorbed its church and other functions.
The Royal Family, continuing to hold claims to Basnio, now an independent Republic, due to their 1902 inheritance of the Kingdom of Basnio demanded Basnio join under Niš. Basnio refused, the nation's Sunni faith clashing with that of the Nicholasist (Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality) views of the then-King, Alexander VII. In response to the refusal, Niš declared war upon Basnio, and invaded and conquered the nation over the course of two years, the war ending in 1981. However, failure to keep captured land in check and growing ethno-nationalism in the soldiers of Niš lead to an impromptu genocide, which gradually picked up support from the state, continuing on for almost a decade after the war started, even after all forms of rebellion had stopped. In the ensuing genocide, around 3.5 million Basnions lay dead, with official modern estimates by the state of Niš putting it around only around a hundred thousand, claiming that most of the victims were killed aiding or attempting to aid rebels against the legitimate government with an intent to cause sabotage and death, and so cannot be considered victims of genocide. Most unbiased historians estimate from around 1 million to 5.3 million. The genocide mainly focused on Sunni Basnions, however also included small amounts of other ethnic minorities, including Jews and Roma.
In 1982, following the Nišlijka invasion of Basnio, Niš pressured the governments of Ilirijia, Visina and Aleka into holding national referendums on whether they wanted to be absorbed into Niš. The referendums were hugely problematic, and a few eyebrows are still being raised today, but by a slim majority each of the nations voted to be assimilated into Niš. A year later, Niš launched an invasion into Tralkija, their Casus Belli being that it remained a Soviet aligned dictatorship, despite losing its communist flavouring in the 1980 Trački Revolution. Conquering it in 1985. In 1991, the national assembly of Slovenija, with Niš winning by a great majority (likely due to Slovenija already being a puppet state in all but name due to increasing economic reliance on Niš), formally absorbing Slovenija into it.
Throughout the rest of the 20th century, and the 21st century, Niš set about modernising and liberalising its economy, slashing taxes on the rich during the reign of King Basil III, until he died in a car crash less than a year into his reign, making his younger brother, Vladmir III, King in 1998. Vladmir would successfully revolutionise Niš' economy, bringing it up to par and above its neighbours. After his tragic and premature death to testicular cancer in late 2016.
Basil IV was born in 2004, and become King in 2016 after watching his father die in a hospital bed. Being only 12 at the time of his ascension, the Queen-mother acted as regent on his behalf until he took official and de facto control at the age of 16.
History of the Federal Socialist United Republic of Severrusavia
Formed from two Socialist Republics agreeing to merge in 1940 to combat attempted Rodinian and liberal influence in both nations, Severslavia was formed as a union between the US Blitkentia and the SR Nišavia-Basnia. It was heavily federal, with initially three very autonomous democratic governments under a single dictatorial central government, lead by Jacob Tito. As Severslavia grew, more federal governments under it were created.
Sverrusavia stayed neutral and isolationist for most of its lifetime, fearing liberal influence and influence of the USR, however eventually absorbed its neighbouring nations of the SSR Aleka, the Republic of Visinia and the SSR Ilirija. This policy of isolationism was criticised and likened to an ostrich sticking its head in the stand, ignoring the danger of not having any international friends, and was thus christened by dissenters as the ostrich policy. The failures of the ostrich policy began to rear its head when it was abandoned by Tito in 1978 that the economy of Sverrusavia was vastly outmatched by that of the rest of the world, and that a lack of friends, warned off by the ostrich policy, resulted in no partner to pick up the slack to improve the economy, resulting in Sverrusavia becoming a backwater nation economically. The baptism by fire of Sverrusavia into the global economy resulted in an economic backlash, the internal economy crumbling. The growth of poverty also lead to the growth of ethno-nationalism, tensions growing higher and higher, but mainly kept in check.
This all fell apart once Tito died less than a year later in 1979, his successor, Dragan Nevsky, failing to keep tensions under control, resulting in ethnic-inspired violence bursting out disastrously. Seeing the failing state of the union, the local governments mainly refusing to work with each other and the growth in anti-socialist rhetoric even amongst the government, Nevsky formally disbanded the central government, releasing each local government as their own independent republic in 1979 and causing chaos. Several wars between the newly independent nations broke out, with partisan and guerrilla ethnic terrorism erupting along the borders.
History of Nišavia
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History of Basnio
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History of Blitkentia
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History of Aleka
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History of Visina
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History of Slovenija
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History of Trakija
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History of Ilirija
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Historical MapsSverrusavia-era borders
1979, Union of Nišava and Blitkentia to form Niš
1981, Nišlijka conquest of Basnio
1982, Nišlijka annexation of Ilirijia, Visina and Aleka.
1985, Nišlijka conquest of Trakija
1991, Nišlijka annexation of Slovenija
Modern Borders
Modern Internal Borders
