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What is known today as the nation of Khazaron actually began around 250 years ago as a conglomeration of “fiefdoms” run by cruel landlords who had settled in the region to try and make a profit by initially setting up mining operations and lumber mills. However, much to the chagrin of those landlords, Khazaronian lumber was found to be of sub-par quality and the minerals found in the region where not very impressive either. Still, having bought all this land, the landlords wanted to make some kind of a profit out of it and decided to set up port cities across the area. The idea was to have these multiple port cities serve as halfway points for ships on their way to trade with other nations.
In having these ships stop in their lands the landlords hoped to give a huge boost to their coffers and begin building a power base for themselves. The major problem was that each individual landlord wanted his fief, and his fief only, to be the sole recipient of these trading ships. Greed began to consume the leaders of the various fiefdoms and they went to war with each other, fighting for the right to control all commerce in the region. These trade wars where devastating and cost hundreds of thousands of Khazaronian lives over the decades. Often the landlords would conscript the peasants working their land to fight in their armies, whenever their standing army would run low due to attrition and desertion. This period of Khazaronian history is known as the Century of Blood, the Thousand Fief Reign, and the Trade Wars.
As famine, disease and bloodshed pock-marked the countryside, many of the peasants began to become fed up with the landlords and their constant squabbling over trade rights and the increasingly limited resources of the land. Eventually partisan bands began to spring up all over the countryside, in an effort to tear down the governments of the corrupt landlords. Initially the partisan groups met with little success as they operated independently of each other and focused mostly on just harassing the landlords. However, 112 years ago, about 3 years after the partisan bands began their guerilla tactics, a charismatic leader by the name of Marcus Carain managed to begin uniting the partisan bands together in an effort to mount a serious offensive.
Marcus began leading the partisan fighters on raids against the supply lines of the landlords and using their own equipment against them. He also began a regimented training of their troops, making them much more disciplined and willing to stand up against the personal armies of the landlords. The first big victory came three years after Marcus revamped the partisan bands, when they managed to capture the city of Sairion, which had been one of the most sought after cities in the Trade Wars, due to its central location and easily defendable position on a plateau.
The fall of Sairion gave a boost to the morale of the partisan army under Marcus and lead to the liberation of several more cities over the following five years. In each of these liberated cities a provisional council of leading citizens was established to help run the city until the war was over.
Finally, 106 years ago, the last strongholds of the landlords fell. With the landlords gone, the former partisan army began to re-work themselves back into civilian life and rebuilding their beautiful cities. It was during this time that the idea of forming a single national identity came up, so as to prevent any infighting or civil wars from happening again. To that end, the 12 major cities of the country sent representatives to the city of Sairion to meet with each other to discuss plans for unifying their previously divided lands.
The main problem for the delegates to the meeting was how to ensure freedom, while still having enough strength in a national government to prevent in-fighting from breaking out. The assembled delegates decided on a representative form of democracy would work out the best for their needs. Over the following year the delegates worked on the Declaration of Laws and Rights, the set or rules that their new nation would go by. Upon finishing them they each signed the document and made official their announcement the next day, declaring the founding of the Republic of Khazaron. The name of Khazaron had been taken from the amalgam language of their colonial forefathers, meaning Peace and Power.
The nation would be split up into 12 separate districts, 13 counting the capital district. Each district was overseen by a Democratic Council which was elected by the citizens of the district. Each Democratic Council would then send a representative to the National Council in Sairion. This National Council would act as an advisor to the office of the President, as well as be where the next President would be chosen from should the current one fall ill or be killed or otherwise unable to perform his duties. To deal with matters of national legislation, a Senate was established, with each district getting to send a number of Senators equal to their population to the Senate.
Marcus Carain was elected by a landslide to be the first President of the Republic of Khazaron. In his inaugural address he pledged to bring about a new age of progress and prosperity. For seven and a half decades, peace and commerce did become the norm for the Khazaronian people. Ships from foreign lands docked and brought much needed revenue, and the Democratic Councils of the provinces would oversee these transactions and ensure that laws where obeyed.
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