Head of State: His Majesty King Sverre IV, King of Aontas, Grand Duke of Folamsiar. Aged 36.

Capital: Kienne.

City Names
Torrik
Kardal
Ligested
Kriger
Mariasby
Handelby
Sjonn
Austurby
Arungrun
Langthide
Solvporr

Province Names
Aonthall
West Folamsiar
East Folamsiar
Chatara
Herdalia
Kongeligdal

Emphasis
Economy & Education

Brief History

The Kingdom of Aontas fought on both sides during the Great War. At first, led by the staunchly conservative Queen Maria II, the Aontan Royal Army aided the war's reactionary forces, fighting tooth and nail alongside Oslad and the rest of the Tsardom against the forces of the revolution. Internal unrest by liberal factions within Aontan Parliament eventually forced the Queen to withdraw the army back to Aontas, however, resulting in her assassination by ultra-conservatives. This sparked revolution in Aontas, causing the now openly rebellious liberals to demand that a new monarch not be crowned, and that the kingdom instead be reformed into a republic. Subdued by parliament, the Aontan Royal Army submitted mostly without resistance to a subsequent invasion of Aontas by foreign revolutionary forces, who granted absolute authority to parliament. Parliament then proceeded to reform itself into the senate of the newly created Republic of Aontas, and sent what was now the Aontan Republican Army back to battle—this time against the Tsardom.

This new, second period of involvement in the war did not go well for Aontas. The leadership of the military were mostly loyalists of the deposed monarchy, and the men on the ground were not pleased to have been sent abroad again in the first place. Aontas' participation among the revolutionary forces was largely nominal, its generals avoiding areas of direct conflict and even sabotaging revolutionary efforts at times. This caused outrage among the leaders of the main revolutionary nations, and the Aontan Republican Army was eventually put under the direct control of foreign military officials, most of its forces absorbed into more loyal revolutionary armies as auxiliaries. Many soldiers, and nearly all officers, deserted, fleeing either to reactionary nations (to continue their efforts on the other side), or finding refuge in conservative circles in Aontas.

When it became clear that reactionary forces would prevail, the Aontan Senate was quick to surrender. As the armies of the reactionaries marched into the republic's borders, a second revolt beset the streets of the Aontan capital, Kienne, spurred on by the efforts of the deserted generals of the Aontan Royal Army. Hard-line republicans and other liberals were executed in a public procession, the first and last President of Aontas among them. Moderates in the senate, joined by a new group of decidedly conservative peers in military uniforms, announced the senate's immediate dissolution. Liberals, denounced by the returning Aontan Royal Army as republican traitors, were purged all throughout the kingdom in summary executions. The nephew of the late Maria II, who would soon become King Sverre IV, formally ascended to the throne soon after peace had been achieved in the continent. The newly crowned King emphasised in his ascension speech a desire to rein in monarchist excesses and heal Aontan society. He then reconvened parliament, initiating a new election in which the moderate liberals were soundly defeated by the conservative-leaning monarchists. The age of nationalism in Aontas had begun.