Gordic Federation

"'It seems hard to conceive: that a nation of peoples at each others' throats no less than two centuries before is now wholly united towards the cause of mutual survival and endurance in the face of outstanding odds. Together they are a people of unmatched spirit and will. Give me ten thousand Netels, and I will conquer all Erania.' —General Solomon Clark, Estrian Forces Gordia; Enterprise City Post Interview - 'Demosian Fury: The War in Eastern Heosia', June 6th, 1987"The Gordic Federation is a federal presidential republic in southern Heosia. Bounded by Oscia to its west, Erania to its north and Auronea to its southeast, the Federation is among the most potent and functional remaining polities in the Heosian continent. Its capital and largest city is Dubočica, which is renowned for its history and culture.

Established in 1876 in the aftermath of the Peninsular War, the Federation was established as a compromise between the victorious Oscians and their Eranian and Oguz opponents. A multiethnic union, the Federation spanned a diverse amount of peoples inhabiting the Demosian peninsula, with each constituent state enjoying a decent amount of autonomy over internal affairs, with defense and foreign affairs the responsibility of a multiethnic central government, with quotas ensuring that no particular group gained majority over the nation's offices and institutions. The Gordic Federation would remain neutral in the Great War, which lasted from 1924 to 1933. The rise of Communism in eastern and central Heosia in the 1940s, particularly the Vestan Revolution and the Varangian Civil War, would ultimately see the rise of the iron curtain. The Pink Revolution in 1945 saw the Social Democratic Party of Gordia rise to power in the country by an electoral landslide, defeating communist and reactionary elements in the ensuing civil unrest. President Petar Friščić would be credited for this restoration of order in the country, defanging the traditionally-dominant landowning elite and making significant leaps in the cause of worker's rights. His subsequent program of industrialization sought to establish the Gordic Federation as an industrially autarkic state, with interconnected supply lines enforcing economic and political unity.

Under his leadership, with the country threatened by the rise of the Warza Strategic Concordat, the Gordic Federation joined the Hyperian Common Security Initiative in 1949 as an associated state. As such, it would remain largely neutral in alliance affairs and trade with both the WSC and the HCSI states. Though his term would end in 1963, his stance of neutrality would live on in his successors, maintaining the Gordic Federation's official policy of non-intervention in the cold war. Despite this policy, however, the Gordic Federation hosted Estrian troops, along with three airbases in the country.

The Gordic Federation remained neutral at the start of Operation Eurysian Storm, albeit quartering Coalition troops. This neutrality was interrupted when a preemptive attack by Erania targeting the constituent republic of Vicirutia would see the nation officially involve itself in the conflict. Due to its minor role, along with its heavy investment into nuclear preparation and defense, the Gordic Federation was largely spared the horrors of the nuclear war, only suffering minor usages of tactical nuclear weapons by Concordat forces.

In the current Long War, the Gordic Federation is largely focused in its current invasion of Erania, along with the defense of its constituent state of Vicirutia. A variety of paramilitary forces have been mobilized to combat the communists, although accountability remains a problem as war crimes are all too commonly perpetrated by these units. Domestically, authority has largely been centralized around the president, the central government, and the Federal Congress, as the nation is both committed and united towards the cause of beating back the Eranians. Furthermore, some pan-Gordic causes even pursue the unification of the Federation with non-Eranian Gords in the western lands of the People's Directorate of Erania.