## Overview
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![[flag_TPR.png]]
The ***Transelman People's Republic***, also known as the People's Republic of Transelmany (or simply Transelmany) is a country in the south central regions of [[Kedavaara]]. It is almost equal in size to its northern neighbor [[Ciselmany|Ciselmany]], but still the smallest country on the continent, being only very slightly smaller. It has a wide range of climates, from dense jungles in the northern mountain regions, to desert in the eastern border it shares with the [[Velsh Union|Velsh Union]]. It is unique in the fact that all of its borders are natural, the Voromir Rivers make up the entirety of its western border with [[Ankylosante|Ankylosante]], the Haqimi Desert delineates its eastern border, and the Elman Mountains are its northern border with Ciselmany. It was once part of the [[Old Elmany|Kingdom of Elmany]], but a [[History of Transelmany — Foundation & Protracted Rebellion (648-658 AL)|seven year-long rebellion]] led by Yemisi Fayowa against the Royal Elman Church in the southern half of the kingdom resulted in the Treaty of Haal, signed pre-emptively to avoid a Civil War. The treaty redefined the former province of South Elmany as the People's Republic of Transelmany, with the rest of the kingdom in the north renamed as the Kingdom of Ciselmany.
| Common Name | Transelmany |
| ------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Capital | Sylens |
| Largest city | Port Mera |
| Official languages | Elman, [[The Green\|Verdani]] |
| Demonym | Transelman, Greenian |
| Government | Unitary [[Hagioism\|Hagioist-Fayowaist]] one-party socialist republic |
| Foundation | 12 Sasanka 651 AL |
| Area | 207,000 sq km |
| Population | 7,500,000 (4th) |
| Currency | Transelman Karat *(TKR)* |
## History
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*see also: [[Old Elmany]], [[Ciselmany|Ciselmany]]*
### Early History (0―170 AL)
Elmany is the oldest continuously inhabited society on Kedavaara. It can trace its history back to the year 0 AL (Anno Lumens, the year Lumen appears) when the first Saint, Lumen, is said to have been visited by the Lord of Light, and bestowed the power of Lumination, a connection to the flux that manifests as the ability to generate, refract and emit light waves and particles. Lumen was a nomad about whom little is known. But he created the [[Royal Elman Church|First Church of Light]], and gained numerous followers. His visitation is said to have occurred at the peak of the Elman Mountains, and as such it is sacred ground for Elmans. Lumens made a pilgrimage from the peak, following the River Elin down until he arrived at an inland lake. He found a small village close by, and joined them. He amazed them with his miraculous Lumination, and this village became his first followers. Lumen organized and grew the village, and it would eventually become the city of Øfa. Lumen's Church was not a kingdom, and he was not a King. Øfa practiced collective leadership, and were able to subsist on agriculture and fishing. As time passed, the descendants of Lumen and his followers would come to adopt the practices of their neighbors in order to defend themselves from aggression, creating armies and commodifying land and the crops that were grown on it in order to participate in regional trade (to afford those armies). By 140 AL, the North fell into regional war. It would last for twelve years until Rodrick, the king of a city called Haal, was able to defeat the other armies and bring them under his charge. When Rodrick's army arrived at Øfa, they surrendered and were incorporated into his new kingdom. Lumen was long dead by this point, but his descendants had all inherited his Lumination. One of them was Amina, who would fall in love with Rodrick. He would take her back to the capital of his new Kingdom, Haal, and marry her there on 1 Gamuti 162 AL, establishing the peaceful union of Øfa and Haal as the Elman Kingdom. As Queen, Amina would make the Church of Light the seat of Rodrick's power, and convert the majority of the Kingdom's subjects to what became known as Lumenity.
### Foundation of Royal Elman Kingdom (170—236 AL)
Their son Kevin would inherit the same powers as Amina, but an especially powerful variation of it. When Rodrick died in 170 AL, Kevin would become King. He would begin the campaign to expand the kingdom, southwards from the Elman Mountains down to the Kylan Ocean. It would take him twenty years, but in 230 AL he succeeded in conquering the entirety of North and South Elmany, with the exception of [[The Green|the Green]]: a dense jungle inhabited by followers of an ancient spiritual religion also known as the Green. They wielded a connection to the flux that manifested as the ability to control plant life, and natural toxins. Rodrick tried to invade the Green twice in 232 and 233 AL, but his expeditionary forces were completely destroyed both times. In spite of this, Rodrick had more soldiers, and the ability to dam the Voromir River that was vital to the Green's sustenance. In 236 AL they agreed to become vassals of Elmany, paying tributes and relinquishing control of their borders in exchange for Elmany promising not to dam the river. At this point Elmany had become by far the largest country on the continent, and was able to develop rapidly thanks to its abundance of both natural resources and arable farmland. It was also able to achieve a prolonged period of peace thanks to its natural, highly defensible borders. Other countries would eventually achieve unity and stability, but Elmany was almost two centuries early.
### Internal Crises (640—648 AL)
By 640 AL, Elmany under King William had entered into an advanced stage of the societal decay that Hagios of the West Plateau had written about centuries earlier. The monarchy was wasteful and the country had experienced extremely uneven development, as future monarchs after Rodrick had neglected the even-handed approach he brought to policy, focusing on wealth accumulation and extravagance in the capital at the expense of the rest of the country, especially South Elmany. The Green at this point were a notable exception, being de facto independent once again, as the agreement allowing Elman Royal Deacons to be stationed within their territory had been allowed to expire a century ago because Elmany did not bother to enforce it. Their new leader Qa'ri loathed the monarchy, but was keen on avoiding an armed confrontation with the Kingdom. The rest of South Elmany was badly mismanaged, and rife with corruption. Royal authority in the region was weak, and several parts had fallen under the control of wealthy nobles, such as the Lake Lords in the southwestern Riverlands province. This situation was clear even to members of the Royal Elman Church, as Lumen's once humble following was now known. The King ruled Elmany in the Church's name, and it employed a vast network of agents known as disciples, who served as the country's primary security apparatus. The elite force was maintained by conscripting youths with powerful connections to the flux, varied in rank from Disciple at the bottom to Archbishop at the top, and the most powerful flux users in the Church were Bishops or higher. However, its large size meant that it was very prone to factionalism and subversion, with numerous scandals relating to both corruption and attempted treason. Accountability was hard to come by, and the people of Elmany were often the victims of brutal repressions and abuses of authority at their hands. The Royal Deacons were a special company of disciples in the Church who had special administrative authority, serving as vassals for the King. The majority of territories outside the capital province were governed by Royal Deacons, who commanded their own detachments of Church disciples.
### Advent of Orthodox Hagioism (648—650 AL)
But not all royal disciples were as ruthless. Yemisi Fayowa was a Bishop in the Royal Elman Church, serving in the capital. Already bitterly resentful of her society, that resentment turned into total disillusionment when a series of very harsh discriminatory measures against users of 'dark' flux by King William was enacted later that year. She would spend the next eight years researching the history of anti-monarchist activity all over the continent: research that would lead her to Hagios of the West Plateau and his seminal work On Monarchy. By the end of the decade, she would publish her first book, *[[Deadline]]*. It detailed the decay brought about by the monarchy and predicted a hard deadline of 10 years before Elmany would collapse unless a full-scale revolution abolished royal authority nationwide and replaced it with a people's government directed by the workers and peasants of the country, through a vanguard in the form of a New Elman Church which would rule according to a set of principles she would describe as *[[Hagioism|hagioism]]*. Despite the fact that most of Elmany's population was not literate, it still managed to spread far and wide; eventually reaching even beyond Elmany's borders and being translated into other languages. This was an act of open treason by a sitting Royal Bishop, and King William put a warrant out for her immediate arrest after banning the book from legal circulation. By 650 AL, Fayowa had recruited fellow Bishop Gordon Alastair to her side, laying out a plan for what she called a Protracted Rebellion in South Elmany that could establish dual power alongside the Royal Authority before eventually smashing it with mass uprisings of radicalized workers, students and peasants in a deliberately slow process that would avoid a full-scale war that would undoubtedly destroy them. As they were about to leave Haal for the mountain, they saw that a Deacon, Zainab Garba, had been arrested for distributing copies of Deadline in the capital. They returned to free her from prison, before escaping together to South Elmany. They were also joined by nine-year-old Princess [[Marie Adonai]], heir to the Elman throne, who had read Deadline in secret and followed her friend Gordon in the hopes of joining the Protracted Rebellion. She could not follow them that night, but Garba arranged for her to be smuggled to them once they established a base of operations in the South.
### Foundation of Transelmany (651—658 AL)
*see also: [[History of Transelmany — Foundation & Protracted Rebellion (648-658 AL)|Protracted Rebellion]]*
On 20 Gamusi 650 AL, inside a small encampment on the south face of the Elman Mountains, Yemisi Fayowa, Gordon Alastair and Zainab Garba created the [[Transelman Church of Saints]] and promoted Zainab to the rank of Bishop within it. Just one year later, now with a network of several hundred new apostles, and thousands of students & workers in their vanguard, the Hagioists would liberate the nearby city of Muntbatten in the northeastern Altus province of South Elmany: which was home to the Royal Academy and a literate student body already familiar with Deadline, since censorship was much harder to enforce in the South. On 12 Sasanka 651 AL the Muntbatten Hagioists successfully defeated the Royal Bishops stationed there, capturing their Royal Deacon. The Hagioists immediately begin the work of occupying Muntbatten, seizing authority from all former nobility and royalist sympathizers, handing it over to the allied peasantry. Fayowa declared the foundation of the Transelman People's Republic later that day from the provost outlook of the Academy, with her Church as its central governing body. In line with the Hagioist theories described in Deadline, several new organs of power are created to establish dual power with existing royal institutions: the Council of Bishops; functioning as the highest level of central authority, and workers' councils called basilicas that would inhabit regional power, and give confidence to the Council of Bishops. As a result of the highly successful Protracted Rebellion (a seven-year guerilla campaign to establish dual power by subverting all Royal Authority, as envisioned by Fayowa in her book *What Comes Next?*) that followed, by 658 AL the entirety of South Elmany had come under the control of the Transelman Church of Saints, and more than a third of its cities and towns had established governing basilicas. Transelmany would also gain formal recognition from its northern neighbor later that year when the Treaty of Haal was signed by Sofie Adonai, the younger sister of Marie Adonai who had inherited the throne in her stead after King William's death.
### Transelman Civil War (659—663 AL)
*see also: [[Transelman Civil War]], [[History of Transelmany — Civil War (658-663 AL)]]*
The young nation would be plunged into [[Transelman Civil War|war]] only one year later, due to factionalism in the Council that resulted from the protracted approach the rebellion took. At that time, the TCS temporarily split into three camps who disagreed over how the new nation should be administered: the Sofiaraka, led by Victoria Windsor, wanted a mode of decentralized federal government that would give more ideological flexibity to local authority; the [[Voromiraka]], led by Yemisi Fayowa, preferred a unitary system that concentrated authority in a single body as described in Deadline; the Lumenists, led by Leona Lumenosa, did not believe that organized government was possible in the prairie region. The Lumenists took a defensive non-aggressive stance, so most fighting was between the Voromiraka and Sofiaraka. The Green did not participate but Qa'ri had made an agreement with Fayowa to restrict entry to Sofiaraka apostles while allowing the free movement of her Voromiraka apostles through her domain, a massive logistical advantage for the mountain-based troops. By the summer of 661 AL fighting had reached a stalemate along the prairie-mountain transition line, but several key urban centers in the coastal region established Voromiraka control and opened new fronts in the Sofiaraka rear. After the Velsh Union intervened in the war from the east to aid the Voromiraka (repaying the favor her apostles had done the VLB years earlier when they offered training and soldiers in the revolution against the Velsh Kingdom) the war came to a swift conclusion on the battlefield. The war officially ended on the second day of the year in 663 AL after Qa'ri agreed to incorporate the Green into the Transelman People's Republic as a special autonomous diocese that would maintain its existing internal political structure while sending delegates to the newly-created Transelman Basilica (made up of delegates from the regional basilicas). Residence would remain invite-only, but all Transelman citizens would be allowed to visit. The country's capital was moved from the wartime seat of voromiraka power, Karasili (renamed after the war as Yemisiilu after Fayowa), to the coastal city of Sylens, a Hagioist stronghold that had liberated itself without TCS intervention during the Protracted Rebellion and maintained a heavy Voromiraka presence ever since. All the new facilities for the Transelman Basilica and the People's Commissariats (departmental agencies staffed by Transelman Basilica appointees, responsible for specific areas of national importance such as labor, agriculture, information and education) were built there, but to avoid internal disruption and with the historically uneven development of South Elmany in mind, the city's population was strictly controlled.
The country entered into a prolonged period of stable development after that. Its official ideology was reclassified as Hagioism-Fayowaism in the time after the Civil War ended and [[Rebel Bishops|the newly renamed Council of Saints]] (with all its Rebel Archbishops— as they had become during the war— now promoted to the rank of [[Saints of Transelmany|Saint]]) & Transelman Basilica successfully implemented a series of successive five-year plans for the country that greatly accelerated its development.
### Modern Era (663 AL— present)
Transelmany now remains peaceful and prosperous, but like the UVHE still faces occasional violence and terrorism from groups that oppose hagioism. Transelmany outperforms the Kingdom of Ciselmany in several key metrics, and every single population center now has a higher population than it did before the Protracted Rebellion. Yemisi Fayowa died in 678 AL, six years after an assassination attempt left her critically wounded and unable to work in the field as she once had. Her old friends Zainab Garba and Gordon Alastair led the council jointly in her stead until she died, at which point Garba ceded sole responsibility to Alastair. Alastair became the de facto leader of the now twelve-person Council of Saints for a relatively short transition period before ceding the leadership role to a now fully-grown Marie Adonai in 683 AL. At her initiative, Transelmany has seen several notable changes to longstanding policies, a gradual shift that has led to the characterization of her leadership by outside observers as embodying a new Hagioist ideology known as Marie Adonai Thought, largely defined in contributions to Hagioist theory she made as a Bishop between 676 and 680 AL.
## Administrative Divisions
*see also: [[Dioceses of Transelmany]]*
![[Transelmany.png]]
*Map of Transelmany showing its administrative divisions.*
The [[Dioceses of Transelmany|dioceses]] of Transelmany are the primary territorial divisions of the country. Similar in nature to the provinces of a kingdom, Transelmany's dioceses are designed to allow regional authorities take administrative policy decisions specific to their area. Yemisi Fayowa, Gordon Alastair and Zainab Garba formulated the administrative structure of the Transelman People's Republic in 658 AL after the Treaty of Haal.
The country was originally divided into 10 dioceses (not counting the autonomous Green) within three national subregions roughly corresponding to the local geography and prevalence of flux alterations:
- Gravity, Time & Space in the Mountain region
- Poles, Lightning, Stone & Wind in the Prairie region
- Water, Light & Fire in the south Coast region.
This structure was updated in 677 AL with the addition of the new Church of Darkness carved out from the Church of Space.
Each diocese contains enough parishes to encompass each of its major population centers. Workplaces and collective farms within each parish are governed by councils of local workers, known as basilicas. Each local basilica sends delegates to to their city/town basilica, which in turn sends delegates to their diocese basilica. Each diocese basilica works within their respective Church, holding regional authority alongside Church apostles. The Transelman Basilica is the national-level worker council, made up of delegates from the diocese basilicas, who will work with [[Transelman Church of Saints|the Saints]] and [[People's Commissariats of Transelmany|Council of People’s Commissars]] (the second-highest authority in Transelmany after the Council of Saints, made up of the leaders of the People’s Commissariats) to enact national policy and represent their regional basilicas.
In times when the Saints are in their dioceses or on field assignments, the Council of People’s Commissars carries out administrative duties.
## Geography
![[Transelmany_climate.jpg]]
*Map of Transelmany showing its various climates.*
#### Area
Transelmany is about 200,000 sq km in area, making it the smallest country on Kedavaara by size-- although it is roughly equivalent to Ciselmany in this regard.
#### Population
Transelmany has an estimated 7,000,000 people, spread relatively evenly across its territory thanks to a high level of planning. Its most populous city is Port Mera, which hosts about 850,000 people; closely followed by Yola and Sylens at 700,000 and 650,000 respectively. Despite this, the most populated diocese is still the Church of Light, which has about 1,200,000 people living in cities and town inside the capital region.
##### DIOCESES OF TRANSELMANY
| Diocese | Population | Capital/Largest city |
| ----------------------- | --------------- | -------------------- |
| Water | 1,000,000 | Port Mera |
| Light | 1,200,000 | Sylens |
| Fire | 1,100,000 | Yola |
| ***South Coast Total*** | *3,300,000* | ***Port Mera*** |
| Wind | 700,000 | Vanadis |
| Stone | 900,000 | Arcadia |
| Lightning | 400,000 | The Point |
| Green | 300,000 | Verdant Levin |
| ***Prairie Total*** | ***2,300,000*** | ***Arcadia*** |
| Poles | 400,000 | Polaris |
| Gravity | 1,000,000 | Yemisiilu |
| Time | 200,000 | Gregoria |
| Space | 300,000 | Muntbatten |
| Darkness | 100,000 | Goma Summit |
| ***Mountain Total*** | ***2,000,000*** | ***Yemisiilu*** |
| ***TOTAL*** | ***7,500,000*** | ***PORT MERA*** |
#### Climate
The southeastern and central regions have warm weather and infreqeunt rainfall thanks to the Haqimi Desert the border. The south coast is made up of tropical rainforest and has cooler weather towards the west. The northern half of the country is covered in thick jungle, and sees both the most rainfall and the coolest weather thanks to its high altitude. Rainfall overall in Transelmany is higher than the continental average.