General information (Pre-Great war):
Demonym: Ornazian
Capital: Exulatrix Ardentis
Key cities: Tenebrix and Ruinath
Official language: Penumbrac
Total population: 95,737,336
Total land area: 654,832 km² (252 832.049 sq mi)
Currency: Numen
First-level administrative division: Orbiz
Government: Unitary Unicameral Internal-Elective Republic
The Presidential Relic (LOST): In the years [REDACTED], a delegation of ███████ met with Ornazian diplomats. The primary representative, name [ERASED], presented Ornazia with the skull of an unidentified individual as a ceremonial gift. Purpose of the exchange: [CLASSIFIED]
Ontological status (Post-Great war): The continued existence of the state is unconfirmed, with no indications of survival within its recognized territory.
Addendum 1: Initial evidence of human presence has been identified within the area.
Addendum 2: The first rescue operation was conducted successfully. Current estimates indicate that over 20,000 individuals remain dispersed across the region. Further rescue and recovery operations are under development and pending deployment.
Overview:
Ornazia, officially known as the Custodial Republic of Ornazia, is located in the Oruwali region of Eldervale, bordering Tavrikon to the north, Hleidisland to the south, Raginheim to the east, and Bellatorum to the west. During the Post-Catastrophe Era, from the 700s to the 1000s, she stood among the most powerful nations in the world. Her territory stretched from the Apanal Sea in the far north to the shores of Kondobay in the far south, placing nearly all of western Eldervale under her rule.
At the height of her power, she grew supercilious, conceited, hubristic, and condescending toward other nations. But it was that very arrogance that led to her bloody and humiliating downfall. Broken by defeat, she became far more humble, no longer seeking to dominate the world but instead pursuing peace and stability. Yet her old dream has never truly faded. It merely lies dormant, waiting for the day she can restore the glory of her past - and finally eliminate her greatest enemy, Bellatorum.
About Ornazia:
𔓘 Ornazia - once the most feared conqueror of Western Eldervale. Its golden age (700s-1000s) lasted over 300 years, expanding across the entire west and deep into the central lands of Eldervale. Legendary campaigns like After the Flags, A Wider Map, and New Ground defined its dominance.
𔓘 One of the most sensitive topics in Ornazia is the question of whether the nation was once part of Bellatorum. The matter remains fiercely disputed, and public discussion of it is often considered taboo.
𔓘 Citizens can legally own weapons under strict licensing and constant oversight - combat readiness is part of daily life.
𔓘 The land itself is strange: Ornazian soil is unusually dense, sometimes hard as stone.
𔓘 According to Ornazian belief, Ornazia traces its origins to a legendary figure known only as the Conqueror, a mysterious founder said to have united thousands of rival regimes across the land of Ornazia over many thousand years ago. Despite the central role this figure plays in Ornazian tradition, the Conqueror's true identity has never been discovered.
𔓘 Beneath the nation lies the Marrow Pit - vast catacombs lined with the skulls of defeated enemies. A chilling reminder of its history.
𔓘 Even sport reflects its culture: gun duels and combat simulations are the national pastime - using safe rounds, but very real skill.
Brief modern history:
I. ANNEXATION AND THE ONE PEOPLE POLICY (1219–1255)
Following the Battle of Viriolium (Ornazia) (29 April, 1218 – 10 May, 1219), Ornazia capitulated unconditionally to Bellatorum, bringing the Bellum Fratrum War to its conclusion and resulting in the complete incorporation of the territory into the Bellatorum mainland. Under the One People Policy, the central government systematically pursued forced assimilation, ethnocide, and cultural imperialism as instruments of state consolidation. Throughout this period, numerous independence movements emerged. Many individuals from this era would later be transformed into legendary figures within Ornazian art and folklore, although nearly every movement was dismantled through comprehensive military repression and political persecution.
II. THE GREY FALL MOVEMENT AND INDEPENDENCE (1255–1256)
By the mid-1250s, Bellatorum had entered a period of institutional decline brought about by prolonged internal political conflict. The Prexa ad Nacion Renovatio Partis (PNRP), led by Aigonzis Panzorium, remained the most organised and influential secessionist organisation operating within Ornazia. On 3 September 1255, its supporters assembled outside a Bellatorum administrative complex in Viriolium to demand national independence. The demonstration escalated into a violent confrontation after security forces opened fire on the crowd, resulting in hundreds of fatalities and marking the beginning of what became known as the Grey Fall Movement.
On 5 September, the PNRP issued a nationwide broadcast calling for a general insurrection across the Ornazian mainland. Within days, coordinated uprisings erupted throughout the country, engaging Bellatorum garrisons and the Ascal, the principal pro-Bellatorum Ornazian auxiliary forces. As governmental authority deteriorated beyond effective control, Bellatorum formally declared war against the insurgency on 10 September. The uprising secured Zunonoch on 26 September, followed by the capture of Luminischa on 12 October. Confronted by mounting domestic instability and an increasingly unsustainable military situation, Bellatorum formally recognised Ornazian independence in December 1256. After forty years of annexation, Ornazia re-emerged as a sovereign state.
III. EARLY INDEPENDENCE AND FAILED PEACE (1256–1267)
Following independence, Ornazia entered a period known as the Lean Years, characterized by severe economic contraction, fiscal instability, widespread infrastructural devastation, chronic shortages, and administrative paralysis during the transition from Bellatorum occupation to sovereign governance. These conditions were primarily attributed to the immense costs of liberation, the withdrawal of Bellatorum administrative institutions, and the collapse of established trade networks.
Ornazia initially initiated a comprehensive programme of cultural restoration, reversing decades of deliberate erasure imposed under Bellatorum occupation. In 1258, the Gralvondach Tower, a national shrine commemorating those who perished during the Bellum Fratrum War, was completed.
On 14 October 1260, following extensive internal deliberations and a comprehensive selection process conducted within the PNRP, Sorzia Livina was formally elected as the Head of State of the newly established nation of Ornazia.
In 1263, Ornazia officially entered the Age of Renewal, marking the end of the Lean Years. The government launched extensive investments in national infrastructure, prioritized strategic economic sectors, reformed the education system, and implemented policies that significantly reduced poverty and unemployment. During this period, the nation also adopted a comprehensive One Hundred-Year Development Roadmap, which served as the cornerstone of Ornazia's economic strategy for the century that followed.
In 1265, Ornazia pursued diplomatic negotiations with Bellatorum in an attempt to establish a lasting peace; the initiative ended in complete failure. From that point onward, Ornazia permanently abandoned all diplomatic efforts toward reconciliation with Bellatorum.
Between 14 September and 21 October, 1267, the most severe border confrontation occurred at Calmiz Hill. In its aftermath, Bellatorum deliberately instigated additional incidents along multiple sectors of the frontier, prompting both states to undertake extensive military reinforcement and border fortification. In December 1267, Ornazian authorities reported the detection of an apparent infiltrator, concluding that the individual was a Bellatorum soldier. Subsequent investigations, however, found no evidence of either an armed intruder or an actual border incursion.
IV. THE CRESCENT LINE WAR AND THE FIRST GREAT WAR (1270–1273)
Between 10 November and 20 December 1270, a series of coordinated explosive sabotage incidents occurred along the Bellatorum–Ornaia border. The most severe attack was the Zuuen Town Bombing, which deliberately targeted a civilian settlement, resulting in significant casualties and widespread destruction. In response, the Government of Ornaia formally demanded that Bellatorum issue an official apology, accept responsibility for the attacks, and provide appropriate reparations. Bellatorum, however, categorically denied any involvement, rejected all allegations of state responsibility, and declined to engage in subsequent diplomatic initiatives proposed by Ornaia regarding the incidents.
On 23 December, 1270, Ornazia formally declared war upon Bellatorum, initiating the Crescent Line War, which simultaneously marked the opening phase of the First Great War of Eldervale. Two months later, Hleidisland entered the conflict on Bellatorum's behalf, launching an offensive against Ornazia from the south. While operations along the Bellatorum front deteriorated into prolonged strategic deadlock, Ornazian forces encountered substantially greater difficulties resisting the Hleidisland advance.
The Morsiziz – the Battles of Abigailz and Oriszia (Ornazia), April–September 1271: Widely regarded as the most devastating engagements of the entire campaign. Casualty rates approached annihilation, leaving only a handful of survivors. Over time, the battles became deeply embedded within Ornazian national memory as enduring symbols of uncompromising resilience and collective sacrifice.
Throughout 1272, Ornazia largely maintained a defensive strategic posture.
Battle of Ouanimonsiz (Ornazia), 12 April – 23 June 1272: Ornazian forces successfully defended a mountainous stronghold by exploiting the naturally precipitous terrain. Concurrently, counteroffensives in the northwestern theatre gradually forced Bellatorum formations into retreat, enabling Ornazia to assume an increasingly proactive operational posture along the Bellatorum front.
Following the protracted campaigns at Pont Avalon (Bellatorum) and the Eighty Days at Draumfell (Ornazia) during 1272–1273, the Ornazian state approached institutional exhaustion. Amid mounting attrition, extensive conscription became fiercely contested as the government mobilised children as young as eleven and individuals with disabilities for frontline service. By May 1273, escalating domestic unrest had begun to threaten governmental continuity. Ornazia subsequently proposed the Caer Dunath Peace Treaty, which was ratified by all belligerents on 16 July 1273, in the neutral state of Acludion. The settlement restored all international frontiers to their pre-war configuration.
V. THE PHAZURIZ DICTATORSHIP AND ZEAL-STATISM (1273–1288)
In the aftermath of the First Great War, Ornazia descended into persistent civil unrest, widespread poverty, and the near-collapse of domestic supply networks. Exploiting the national emergency, Aigonz Phazuriz established a provisional administration known as Orbis Medicalis, assuming its supreme leadership under the pretext of restoring stability. As conditions gradually improved, the emergency government refused to relinquish its extraordinary powers. By 1275, Phazuriz had consolidated absolute authority, transforming the republic into a personal dictatorship. His governing doctrine, Zeal-Statism, proclaimed the State to be a literal divine entity, with citizenship redefined as an act of perpetual devotion and obedience.
In 1276, the regime initiated the Caldem Ormen Project, an ambitious nationwide programme to construct interconnected defensive fortification systems. The largest of these, the Luzma Kaldor Line, formed a vast concentric defensive perimeter encircling the capital, reflecting the regime's conviction that national survival depended upon permanent militarisation.
In August 1277, the Statue of Ornaziandis, commemorating the foundation of the Ornazian state and its national mythology, was completed following extensive restoration of wartime damage.
Considering that the populace had become adulterated and deracinated, Pazuriz hereby officially declares the Nation to be a Sacred Deity, abandoned by its people since 1279. To restore its sanctity, the State shall institute a comprehensive program of National Purification, recognizing the native language as the literal voice of the Nation-Deity. The State shall enforce a mandatory, state-administered spiritual purge upon any individual exhibiting deracinated, cosmopolitan, or foreign-influenced conduct. All foreign art, literature, and cultural influences shall be systematically confiscated and destroyed. Civic education shall be superseded by theological devotion to the Nation-Deity, requiring every citizen to swear that their body, mind, and spirit belong exclusively to the Nation. Accordingly, all doctrines of universal human rights are hereby declared legally obsolete.
In 1280, Ornazia and Acludion formalised a strategic bloc dedicated to comprehensive political, economic, and military cooperation against shared external threats.
In March 1282, Phazuriz ruthlessly enforced the Rubianz Linschiol, decreeing that any denizen profoundly deracinated by exogenous cultures suffered an irrevocable miasma within their genetic ancestry. To safeguard the sacrosanct corpus of the Nation-Deity, this desecrated flesh required absolute excision from the populace via public, state-sanctioned exsanguination. However, propelled by virulent paranoia, the mandate expanded this ritualistic bloodletting across two entire generational bloodlines to completely extirpate the "taint" from the genome, plunging the nation into a cataclysmic slaughter in a fanatical crusade for absolute purity.
In February 1283, archaeologists uncovered a mass grave containing approximately 300 human remains, which were subsequently identified as fallen Ornazian soldiers from the Bellum Fratrum War, reinforcing the conflict's enduring presence within the nation's historical consciousness.
VI. FACTIO JURIS, SOCIETAS PHISGULAE, AND THE PHONSC INCIDENT (1284–1288)
From 1284 to 1288, profound ideological schisms regarding Phazuriz fractured the governing echelon. Dissident authorities forged autonomous factions, most prominently Factio Juris (FJ) under Jur Zunzial, and Societas Phisgulae (SP) spearheaded by Sonziz Airiz. (Both coalitions espoused a fundamental Zeal-Statist orthodoxy, yet transmuted the doctrine to suit their patriarchs' idiosyncratic dogmas.)
The animosity climaxed during the infamous Phonsc Incident on 2 April 1287. FJ and SP partisans converged in a shared civic plaza, plunging into a grueling seven-hour melee before state security forcibly quelled the skirmish. In the aftermath, Phazuriz ruthlessly subjugated both syndicates, systematically neutralizing their political hegemony.
Nevertheless, subterranean discord festered, its ferocity escalating with each passing day. By 1289, the political apparatus was profoundly fractured, awash in labyrinthine conspiracies orchestrated to subvert bitter rivals. Consequently, the once-absolute power of Phazuriz began to steadily decline.
VII. THE SECOND GREAT WAR OF ELDERVALE – ORNAZIA THEATRE (1289–1294)
In August 1289, Bellatorum experienced a catastrophic mass poisoning in the Zuanz region after unstable subterranean geological formations contaminated the local water supply, producing one of the country's most severe peacetime public health crises.
As the Second Great War of Eldervale escalated, Ornazia was drawn into open hostilities against Hleidisland's expansionism on 9 March 1291. The Ornazian Army initially faltered against the southern onslaught, ceding vast swathes of territory before finally stemming the tide during the Battle of Orfaniuz Valley (Ornazia), 13 June – 8 July, 1291, where Hleidisland's relentless momentum was decisively shattered against the unyielding Zuuenz Halzor.
Bellatorum formally declared war upon Ornazia on 14 March 1291, transforming the conflict into a full-scale two-front war.
The Battle of Venereus (Bellatorum), 18 December, 1291 – 3 February, 1292: The engagement enabled Ornazian forces to penetrate Bellatorum territory for the first time during the campaign. Nevertheless, the offensive rapidly culminated in operational stagnation before successive Bellatorum counteroffensives compelled an organised withdrawal.
In May 1292, Ornazia launched Operation Ater Latorium, a comprehensive campaign of strategic aerial bombardment and coordinated sabotage directed against enemy military infrastructure. Although the operation partially disrupted enemy offensives and imposed a temporary operational deadlock, it failed to alter the broader strategic balance. Three months later, Operation Ignid Deiectio commenced, initiating a sustained strategic bombing offensive across northern Hleidisland and southern Bellatorum. More than 150,000 tonnes (330,693,393 lbs) of aerial ordnance were deployed within only three months - the highest concentration of aircraft-delivered explosives recorded during the entire war. Despite the unprecedented scale of destruction, Ornazia remained incapable of mounting a decisive breakthrough.
The Calmiz Offensive (Ornazia), 5 January – 20 April, 1293: Ornazia sought to recover the northwestern territories lost during the 1291 campaign but succeeded in reclaiming only approximately half of the occupied region. Two months later, the Sonziz Campaign attempted to restore control over the southwestern front. Although its principal objective proved strategically unattainable, the operation inflicted significant attritional losses upon Bellatorum's armed forces. Along the Hleidisland front, however, the conflict remained entrenched in prolonged positional warfare, with neither belligerent achieving a meaningful operational breakthrough.
The Battle of Zelamiz (Ornazia), 18 April – 9 June, 1293: The failed attempt to recapture the city from Hleidisland resulted in exceptionally heavy casualties while yielding no territorial gains. The defeat severely undermined public confidence in the government and catalysed the expansion of anti-government movements, most notably the FJ and SP.
The Battle of Korschuziz (Ornazia), 4 March – 13 May, 1294: A second unsuccessful effort to liberate the occupied city exposed profound deficiencies in Ornazia's operational coordination and strategic planning. The failure extinguished hopes for a decisive military breakthrough and further intensified domestic opposition against the Phazuriz regime.
Following the proclamation of the Pax of Seraphic, Ornazia formally acceded to the peace settlement on 5 July, 1294. Under the terms of the agreement, all Ornazian territory was restored to its pre-First Great War boundaries, bringing an end to nearly four years of sustained warfare while leaving the nation politically fractured and economically exhausted.
VIII. THE LUCENTIS SQUARE MASSACRE AND THE FALL OF PHAZURIZ (1294)
Amid escalating sociopolitical volatility, public consensus demanded Premier Phazuriz's immediate capitulation, scapegoating his administration for the state's disastrous military failures. On 28 August, an estimated twenty thousand dissidents converged upon Lucentis Square. Following a tense three-day standoff, Phazuriz authorized lethal force, deploying heavy armored suppression vehicles into the throng - an event cataloged as the Lucentis Square Massacre. Casualties reached roughly one thousand, systematically dismantling the assembly within two hours.
Rather than pacifying the population, the atrocity catalyzed widespread outrage, rapidly inflating the political capital of opposition factions, namely the SP and FJ. Observing the shifting tides, opportunistic state functionaries defected en masse to secure their own survival. Concurrently, throughout October and November, fractured armed rebellions metastasized from the northern territories down to the south, chanting the populist slogan, "Down with the waste, up with the soil" - a chant later sanitized and integrated into mainstream Ornazian heritage.
Capitalizing on the hollowed-out state apparatus, Jur Zunzial (FJ) orchestrated a decisive coup d'état on the night of 6 September. Following violent skirmishes, Zunzial captured the Premier, whose botched suicide attempt in a subterranean bunker marked the ignominious dissolution of his regime. Following a two-month internment, Phazuriz was executed by firing squad - a grim piece of televised political theater broadcast live across all media networks to definitively legitimize the incoming authority.
IX. THE IMISCHA SCHISM CIVIL WAR (1294–1297)
The successor administration proved inherently unstable, paralyzed by friction with the SP. A legislative election on 20 November ended in a political deadlock. On 29 November 1294, Jur Zunzial suffered a suspiciously convenient demise when struck by falling masonry during an unescorted promenade. The FJ promptly branded the incident a targeted assassination by the SP, while the SP dismissed it as sheer misadventure. Escalating hostilities erupted into open civil war in December 1294 after the FJ issued a unilateral decree outlawing and dissolving the SP, marking the inception of the Imischa Schism.
The conflict rapidly devolved into a proxy theater for opportunistic foreign actors. Bellatorum clandestinely underwrote FJ forces in the northwest, while Hleidisland quietly subsidized the SP - both calculating that a protracted conflict served their regional interests. Conversely, Acludion, Tavrikon, and Peyi Mil-Koule committed material support to the SP, balanced by Toutanglom and Draviskas aiding the FJ, each backing their preferred faction in anticipation of a swift, exploitative victory. Despite foreign interventions, the primary theater stagnated into attritional warfare along the Rubianzol mountain range.
Battle of Scenildis, 17 April – 11 June 1295: SP forces breached defensive lines to secure the strategic Flamiziol orbiz.
Battle of Cluveniz, 1 March – 9 May 1296: Inability by either belligerent to capture this vital logistical node resulted in its bilateral partition.
Battle of Glanschirilz, 6 October – 12 November 1296: Direct coalition support from Acludion, Tavrikon, and Peyi Mil-Koule yielded a decisive SP victory, initiating an unbroken string of operational advances.
Battle of Viliscon, 9 February – 28 April 1297: A protracted, high-casualty engagement culminated in total victory for the SP, formally terminating the Schism and establishing a consolidated regime under Scenilus Crizantus.
X. THE COMMONWEALTH BLOC AND THE END OF ZEAL-STATISM (1300–1333)
In 1300, Ornazia formalized the Commonwealth Bloc alongside Acludion, subsequently expanding this regional alliance to incorporate Tavrikon (1301) and Peyi Mil-Koule (1303).
On 3 September 1305, state authorities deployed a fleet of aerial apparatuses to disperse vast quantities of confectionery nationwide, a grandstanding spectacle engineered to commemorate the semicentennial of Ornazian independence.
Between March and July 1308, a sequence of low-intensity seismic anomalies manifested across the northwestern region - marking the first recorded geological activity in over a century. Although these minor events induced negligible structural displacement, the unexpected subterranean activity stoked widespread public apprehension regarding an impending cataclysmic natural disaster.
Geopolitical friction flared in March 1311 when Ornazia heavily militarized its border with Bellatorum following alleged unauthorized border incursions, bringing both nations to the precipice of armed conflict. Only after Lesmont and Acludion intervened in the dispute did both sides withdraw, prompting Ornazia to redeploy its forces to more secure positions across the border.
In 1314, Ornazian state engineers successfully engineered the "Terrain Stitcher" - an industrial apparatus capable of mechanically binding high-density lithic strata and solid rock formations. Though originally conceptualized as a specialized geological mitigation instrument to address seismic damage, the state rapidly repurposed the technology for commercial resource extraction and heavy infrastructure repair.
This technological advancement was put to an immediate, grim test on 14 July 1317, when the northwestern regions experienced The Quassira - the most catastrophic seismic event recorded in Ornazian history. Striking the Erthovin, Ilvenor, and Ossaviel orbiz, the quake caused widespread destruction across civil and industrial installations. Although government-mandated emergency evacuations preemptively mitigated civilian casualties, the violent tectonic rupture fractured the landscape, leaving massive chasms in its wake - including a primary fissure spanning over 20 km (12.43 mi) across the affected sector.
Between 1315 and 1320, state prospectors discovered extensive subterranean deposits of high-value raw materials - a windfall inadvertently facilitated by the tectonic fracturing of the Quassira cataclysm. Leveraging these extracted reserves, Ornazia aggressively expanded export channels toward Brigalisc and key allied trade partners, sparking an immediate, unprecedented economic surge across the nation.
Capitalizing on this economic momentum, the state executed a sweeping administrative overhaul in August 1319 - cataloged as the most comprehensive governance restructuring in Ornazian history. To maximize state efficiency and streamline legislative processing, central authorities consolidated redundant agencies, drastically truncated bureaucratic turnaround times, simplified regulatory frameworks, and overhauled budgetary and fiscal allocation mechanisms under the guise of heightened public transparency.
Culminating by 1322 in what state historiography designated as the Pangaea-Flourish state - an idealized zenith where every vector of national development reached peak optimization.
In September 1326, an extraordinary pyro-atmospheric event - a colossal vortex of fire - descended directly over the Auta Serraa orbiz before gradually migrating southward across adjacent territorial sectors. State meteorologists struggled to provide a coherent empirical explanation, leaving a vacuum rapidly exploited by popular superstition. Local populace and fringe commentators co-opted the disaster, interpreting the swirling inferno as a divine portent or supernatural harbinger sent by Arnaut Primier - the legendary founder-conqueror of Ornazian mythos.
In 1330, the Ornazian military apparatus undertook a comprehensive overhaul of multiple internal defensive sectors, liquidating legacy fortification lines that had rendered themselves operationally obsolete and tactically invalid. These reconstructed defensive networks were also deliberately engineered with dual-use capabilities: functioning as hardened tactical barriers while concurrently serving as subterranean civilian containment bunkers designed to safeguard the populace in the event of a worst-case catastrophic scenario.
This institutional peak quickly dissolved into grotesque moral and systemic decay. In April 1331, the ruling SP faction faced severe allegations of pay-to-play legislative bribery. Party elite Aparil Vunon was subsequently exposed for coercing four subordinates into extramarital liaisons, alongside emerging allegations of sexual assault. The scandal reached a surreal climax in February 1332 when leaked footage surfaced depicting party speaker Vangris Dregos engaged in sexual acts with five distinct individuals while sporadically twerking on an office floor. Further investigations unveiled pervasive networks of cronyism, nepotism, and executive interference to shield political relatives from prosecution. A persistent trickle of leaked media featuring high-ranking cadres delivering overtly bigoted, misogynistic, and discriminatory tirades continued through 1333, spearheaded by an unidentified whistleblower.
Unwilling to tolerate such a toxic convergence of kakistocracy, institutional degeneracy, and pornocracy, sustained mass demonstrations crippled the state from March to August 1333. Seeking to restore constitutional equilibrium before total institutional collapse, the Magiscoliz - the supreme judicial oversight body - exercised its authority to summarily depose the entire SP apparatus. The subsequent elevation of Auripert Ganz as head of state formally terminated the Zeal-Statism regime after nearly six decades of uninterrupted dominance.
XI. THE CALEMNIS LINE AND CRIMSON ABSOLUTISM (1336–1379)
In 1336, state leadership under Ganz authorized the construction of the Calemnis Line - a highly sophisticated, deeply layered system of border fortifications encircling the national perimeter, with heavy structural density concentrated along the contentious frontiers with Bellatorum and Hleidisland. To solidify regional deterrence, Ornazia spearheaded the ratification of Article 12 within the Commonwealth Bloc in 1340, establishing an uncompromising mutual defense pact that mandated immediate collective military intervention should any signatory nation face external aggression.
In 1344, state authorities formally sanctioned the first national dueling and mock-combat tournament utilizing live, lethal-grade weaponry - albeit under strict safety protocols - replacing the decades-old tradition of wooden substitutes. The bloody spectacle quickly captured the public imagination, evolving into an eagerly anticipated annual festival running continuously from 5 May to 5 July.
The exorbitant material demands of the Calemnis Line were unexpectedly offset on 10 February 1347, following the discovery of a vast subterranean cache of rare industrial materials in the central Marizol orbiz, which was immediately requisitioned for military construction. Recognizing the immense cathartic and nationalistic appeal of these blood sports, the government escalated the concept shortly thereafter by decreeing an official national holiday on the first day of August. Under this institutionalized martial free-for-all, civilians were legally permitted to open-carry weapons and engage in controlled street brawls and tactical skirmishes nationwide.
In 1352, an extraordinary geological fissure opened abruptly in the remote northern reaches of Ornazia, manifesting without any detectable seismic or acoustic signatures prior to its emergence. The anomaly quickly drew intense academic and military scrutiny due to subterranean acoustic emissions resembling human agonized vocalizations, alongside a deep, bioluminescent crimson hue visible within its depths. Subsequent exploratory and diagnostic missions yielded zero actionable data, as specialized physical probes and optical apparatuses failed to reach the structural floor or determine its absolute depth. Predictably, the state's inability to empirically account for the phenomenon created an information void, rapidly populated by fringe conspiratorial theories asserting the abyss represented a subterranean gateway to an alternate reality.
The regime concurrently projected industrial dominance through ambitious urban engineering: in May 1355, authorities unveiled Calisvair, the nation's first polycentric "ultropolis," followed shortly by the grand scale developments of Sciorzund and Exulatrix Ardentis.
On 12 March 1359, Head of State Nolzena Sciviel abruptly vanished from the executive office without a trace, creating an instantaneous power vacuum at the apex of government. Sciviel, who had long functioned as a reluctant and weary leader approaching retirement age, left behind an administrative crisis that forced central authorities to declare an immediate state of national emergency. To maintain continuity, Zorven Aigor was rapidly elevated to serve as temporary chief executive despite being of retirement age. State security apparatuses launched an exhaustive, five-month nationwide manhunt to determine Sciviel's fate; however, all investigative avenues yielded precisely zero actionable results.
Ornazia's political landscape shifted drastically on 18 March 1361 with the election of Lucien Mourne as Head of State - an election widely regarded by contemporary observers as outright rigged. Mourne immediately codified "Crimson Absolutism," an aggressive state ideology centered on the sanctification of militarized violence and a revanchist nostalgia for historical Ornazian supremacy (and the ideology is similarly associated with Zeal-Statism).
In 1365, following several years of aggressive ideological indoctrination under Crimson Absolutism, the regime formally proclaimed Ornazia as a "True Sacred Being". Through this totalitarian theological shift, citizenship was stripped of its traditional legal framing and reinvented as an absolute religious imperative. Devotion to the apparatus became synonymous with holy duty.
Between 1366 and 1371, the government initiated continuous urban barricading and interior fortification in preparation for total war, resulting in severe domestic logistical collapse and prolonged civilian transit paralysis. and also during this years, the nation was also build and enhance dozens of shrines across the nation, workshiping the father of Ornazia.
In 1376, Mourne delivered his infamous address, De Vita Inimicos et Vanix, a fiery tirade engineered to incite ultranationalist zeal while leveling blatant provocations against Hleidisland and Bellatorum. By 1379, the Commonwealth Bloc formally activated Article 13, obligating all member states to enter full war mobilization - setting Ornazia on an irreversible trajectory toward the outbreak of the Third Great War of Eldervale.
Ideology: Crimson Absolutism
Crimson Absolutism is a political ideology that redefines violence not as a failure of diplomacy or a breakdown of order, but as the purest form of dialogue - the only interaction where two parties cannot lie to one another. Rooted in the belief that all life consumes other life to survive, society is organized not by wealth, birth, or intelligence, but by proven capacity for violence and the scars borne in its execution. Beauty itself is defined as the moment of impact: the split second when flesh yields, when armor fractures, when the old form is destroyed to make way for the new. Prolonged peace is considered societal cancer, breeding complacency, weakness, and the slow death of the spirit, while violence is elevated to a form of worship - the act of striking another being is an acknowledgment of their reality, for one cannot truly strike a phantom. Crimson Absolutism despises nations that wage war while pretending to wage peace, and it values enemies more than allies; the state never declares war over resources or land, but over ideological insults. Every citizen is born as raw ore, and life is the process of being heated, hammered, and quenched until one becomes a finished blade - to face violence, endure it, and wield it with precision is to become art. Injury is not viewed as tragedy but as sacred instruction, with the healing process treated as active meditation. And if the state ever faces an enemy it cannot defeat, with total annihilation certain, the final generation is instructed not to surrender, but to charge into the fire with such ferocity that their extinction becomes a legend that scars the enemy's psyche for a thousand years.