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The Armed State Of Verkimlund (view source)
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===Company Rule (1799-1852)===
===Company Rule (1799-1852)===
In 1799 Operation of Verkim mining interests was handed over to the Chartered South Coast Company. At the time it being believed in dolfik mining circles that the creation of a relationship similar to mining communities at home was preferable to the continued use of unwilling prison labour prone to rebellion. As such control not only of the import and export of the colonial holding, but also daily administration of the land was handed to the company. This included administration of the nations Prison workforce. These prisoners had their sentences redefined, no longer preforming hard labour as part of their sentence but instead where merely confined to the nation itself, free to work as they saw fit within the nation. The company not only offering wages for the work they had previously done uncompensated but providing housing and limited medical services. While the wages were low and the housing of poor quality, the comparable luxury afforded them by the company compared to the hard lives lived under His Majesties Prison Service led to a period of mostly peaceful profit for the dolfik crown.
In 1799 Operation of Verkim mining interests was handed over to the Chartered South Coast Company. A Chartered Company formed of selected Merchant Navy officers. At the time it being believed in dolfik mining circles that the creation of a relationship similar to mining communities at home was preferable to the continued use of unwilling prison labour prone to rebellion. As such control not only of the import and export of the colonial holding, but also daily administration of the land was handed to the company. This included administration of the nations Prison workforce. These prisoners had their sentences redefined, no longer preforming hard labour as part of their sentence but instead where merely confined to the nation itself, free to work as they saw fit within the nation. The company not only offering wages for the work they had previously done uncompensated but providing housing and limited medical services. While the wages were low and the housing of poor quality, the comparable luxury afforded them by the company compared to the hard lives lived under His Majesties Prison Service led to a period of mostly peaceful profit for the dolfik crown.
Initially The duty for defending the holding fell to the normal authorities for such work, but as the working population of the holding grew under the company and townships expanded in size, hostilities with native populations grew. On multiple occasions open warfare was narrowly avoided however skirmishes and raids quickly became concerning, with the established network of mounted colonial police being unable to guarantee the safety of the citizenry let alone the mining interests the authority to raise a Militia was afforded to the company, raised mostly of Verkim transportees with an officer corp of ex-dolfik army and old Verkim Rebels, a militia was raised for each major settlement, with Conscription being uncommon but necessary in certain locations, namely Estvel where the population simply was not big enough to raise a volunteer force of company strength.
Initially The duty for defending the holding fell to the normal authorities for such work, but as the working population of the holding grew under the company and townships expanded in size, hostilities with native populations grew. On multiple occasions open warfare was narrowly avoided however skirmishes and raids quickly became concerning, with the established network of mounted colonial police being unable to guarantee the safety of the citizenry let alone the mining interests the authority to raise a Militia was afforded to the company, raised mostly of Verkim transportees with an officer corp of ex-dolfik army and old Verkim Rebels, a militia was raised for each major settlement, with Conscription being uncommon but necessary in certain locations, namely Estvel where the population simply was not big enough to raise a volunteer force of company strength.
===Direct Rule (1752-1893)===
===Direct Rule (1752-1893)===
In 1752 Dolphik Parliament passed the "Chartered Companies Act 1752" Taking direct responsibility for the responsibilities, debts, wages, and authority of the company. In effect taking ownership of all the assets of the collective company at the time of the acts passing, with officers of the Merchant Navy returning to their posts. almost immediately the crown formed a local authority for the holding, creating the Verkimlund Colonial Office, recognising for the first time the name given to the land by its inhabitants who by now were largely immigrants from Dolfikland or the descendants of those sent before them. This Colonial office set to work an immense campaign of investment, Expanding large townships like Salisbury into city's, building hospitals and Facilities using the income that now went directly to the running of the state rather than to the shipping of resources.
This direct rule government saw a period of immigration from Native regions of the nation, this prompted a period of rapid and largely military exploration of the Kettali land, largly by Scout elements of the newly formed Kaisers Verkim Legion, this exploration saw a new period of diplomacy between Verkim and Kettali populations, with the Colonial Office paying for multiple diplomatic missions including intervention in Tribal warfare within the Kettali lands, such intervention normally featured petty arbitration, but in 1801 a campaign of direct military involvement brought much of the Kettali land into Verkim control. This control was largely a hands off approach but the promise of hefty investment and the training of Kettali kraal militia brought a number of eastern kraals under the control of the Colonial Office, by 1820 the Kettali region was considered as part of the main nation, and the Colonial Office completed the construction of a network of routes through the bush to interconnect the Cape-Kettali Region
This period also saw the Signing of the Tetlebele Agreement in 1821, joining the small nation of Tetlebeleland to the larger state as a sovereign state. Period documents show that this agreement was signed under the threat of invasion by Neighbouring Kettali Kraal Militas armed and Trained by the Colonial Office as part of a separate agreement with the Cape-Kettali to aid in the defence of the Kraals from one another. While the Cape-Kettali Expansions Progressed Quickly and allowed far more lucrative Mining interests to be opened using local workforces and defended by local militias however the combined expansion of mining efforts and Verkim military forces led to accusations of profetering by elements of the Kettali in the region that became known as The Main. Expansion into The Main was A slow and diplomatically painful endeavour involving numerous kraal wars backed by Verkim Allied Kraals in the region by the end of 1880 The Main fell in line with the rest of the nation and made up most of the population, however, seeing opportunities for wealth and education in the Cape, the population centers of Verkimlund would shift to the Cape and Cape-Kettali by the turn of the century. Legally the status of the Kettali was the same as any other verkim citizen at the time, with a landed voting system. At the time no legal or institutional ruling preventing Kettali from taking part in the administration of the nation, however by the time of Self Rule in 1893 no Kettali national sat in any position of power, and short of the Kaisers Kettali Legion, Established in 1882 no Kettali sat in command of troops within the military forces of the Colonial Office. In 1884 Ian Dokval Rose to the position of Colonial Governor replacing his Dolfik Predecessor, seeing the lack of Kettali Involvement in the administration of the nation as a waste of valuable resources, with Kettali and Cape Kettali being organised by Dolfik Officials he set out to create a council of Large Kraals that could administrate the Kettali Regions without needing Dolfik Supervision, this this end the Tribal Council was created from the largest contributors to security in the Kettali and Cape-Kettali Regions, by the end of the Direct rule Period the Colony, Under Ian Dokval was almost entirely Self Sufficient, With only Token Dolfik involvement in the form of Liasons and Customs officials, The Colonial Military had expanded to be more than able to defend itself, volunteering for foreign service with the Greater Dolfik Army of the day. and numerous institutions had arising from the Dokval Leadership, Localised Fire Departments, and A national Colonial Police Service had replaced the Militia system of old. This new Self Sufficent Structure would led itself well to the continued prosperity of the colony and unintentionally laid the groundship for future reforms to legislation and policy.
===Self Rule (1893)===
===Self Rule (1893)===
===The Nurt cape===
===The Nurt cape===
===Trannsvaalia===
===Trannsvaalia===
===Kettalli===
===The Main/Kettalli===
===Cape-Kettalli===
===Tetlebele===
===Tetlebele===
===The Cape===
===The Cape===