The Armed State Of Verkimlund

The Armed State Of Verkimlund Die Gewapende Staat Verkimlund
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Motto: "Vir die goeie van al" "For the good of all"
Anthem:  Verkimlund Stands Royal anthem:  Royal Anthem Of The Verkimlund Crown March:  March of the Verkimlund Regiment
Location	Verkimlund makes up much of the south western coast of Cancodia.
Capital and largest city	Salisbury
Official languages	Verkim Kettali Nutota
Recognised regional languages	Tetlebele Xbuntu Pig Dolphik Voxota
Ethnic groups	Verkim Kettalli Tetlebele Xbuntu Nutota Voxota
Religion	100% No Data
Demonym(s)	Verkimlunder
Government	Parliamentary Democracy
• Prime Minister	Peiter Koch
• Minister Of The House	Ian Holder
Legislature	Housevaaler
• Upper house	Kings Court
• Lower house	Tribal Council
Establishing Events
• Dolphik Colonisation	1792
• Signing of the Charter Of Self Rule	1893
• End of the Confederation	1920
Area
• Total	100,000 km2 (39,000 sq mi) (N/A)
• Water (%)	5.7
Population
• April 2021 estimate	5,000,000 (5th)
• 2011 census	4,545,425
• Density	45.45/km2 (117.7/sq mi) (3rd)
GDP (PPP)	2021 estimate
• Total	$1.000 trillion (N/A)
• Per capita	$220,001.43 (N/A)
GDP (nominal)	2021 estimate
• Total	$500 billion (N/A)
• Per capita	$110,000.715 (N/A)
Gini (2021)	24.0 low · N/A
HDI (2020)	0.901 very high · N/A
Currency	Rand (VRD)
Date format	dd/mm/yyyy
Driving side	left
Calling code	+800

The Armed State Of Verkimlund, formerly The Confederated Dominion Of Verkimlund And Teleland, commonly known as Verkimlund, is a sovereign nation in south west Cancodia. The nation includes the States of Kettalli, Transvaal, Nurt Cape, Tetlebele, and The Cape. The nation shares a land border with Traestan on its north western face and a land border with Nostrapais on its eastern side, to its south is the Vozun Ocean. The union of Verkimlund and Teleland (The greater collection of Kettali and Telebele) was signed into law in 1893 with the Colonial Communion Act of the same year. The small nation boosts a reasonable military for its size and wealth due to a long running tradition of National Service particularly among minority groups. Verkimlund is a signed Member of the International Trade Sphere aswell as International Space Cooperation Program. Exports from the nation are largely Raw Minerals and Small arms sold to private individuals.

Etymology

The Name "Verkimlund" Roughly translates from Verkim To "New Land" but older texts of Verkim settlers actually translate it to "Our Land" Taken litterally the name translates to "Land of Verkim" which has led to some controversy among non Verkim Speaking Populations of the nation

History

Arrival of Dolphik Settlers(1752)

Traveling aboard the HMS New Hope, Captain Thomas Seafourth, a captain of the Royal Navy, Originally sighted The coast of Verkimlund in 1750 while mapping the Vozun Ocean for Royal Navy Charts, Originally thought of only as farmland and gazing grounds exploration groups set out to evaluate the land for the growing of crops in demand in Dolphikland at the time, these groups eventually reached what would later be named the Nurt cape where they found an abundance of Gold and other Raw Minerals. Six years after the first group landed in 1758 an authorised effort led by Paul Valber landed on The Cape establishing a Colony at Wekeland, in the south west of the Verkimland Plain's work began to build the necessary infrastructure to allow mining and feeding of the mining population, To allow this to happen without needing to use local, illiterate and non dolfik speaking labour, prisoners from the mainland were utilised as labourers, these labourers coming from industrial canters and criminal backgrounds began using Local Theives Cants from around Dolifkland to communicate without the knowledge of their Dolphik guards, this would evolve and soon became what would be recognised as Verkim.

Establishment of the State Capitals (1755)

Across 1755 Multiple Attempts were made to establish additional Colonial Settlements in order to find and exploit further natural resources within the nation, the most successful of these being the settlement of Salisbury which utilised Existing Verkim Labourers from Wekeland and Estvel that was the first endeavour in the nation to use largely native Manpower from the local population compensating the Local Kraals for their effort with food and resources taken from the Wekeland Mining endeavours.

Kettali Range Skirmish (1759)

In late 1759 Miners on the Kettali Range, Fired on Kettali Tribesmen killing 3 when they attempted to move the miners away from a nearby kraal that the miners did not have knowledge of at the time, it was believed at the time that the Tribesmen, who numbered between 50 and 60 from sources from the period were mounting an attack, after a single volley the skirmish ended with the Kettali retreating from the field, the kraal similarly was abandoned at some point shortly after.

The Dolphik-Kettali War(1760-1765)

In early 1960 under the command of Paul Valber, the Wekeland Garrison, comprising of 1 company of Verkim Milita marched to their mining interests in Kettali under the flag of the Dolphik Crown to address concerns of Native Retribution for the earlier Kettali Range Skirmish, The force made Camp at Seleko before marching on towards the New Adnburg Mining Purchase the next morning, during that night on the 3rd of January 1760 Kettali Braves attempted to ambush the column in camp, killing Paul Valber and 17 Men under his command before being repulsed by the remaining force now under the command of an acting Lieutenant. The resulting war, being fought largely by Verkim Volunteers and Dolfik Officers lasted a little under 5 years and resulting in the Kettali Nation being severely cut down in size aswell as the increase of prison population to afford replacement labourers for those who had volunteered to fight.

The resulting logistical situation saw rise to the first generation of Verkim Rangers, Prison labourers given bond to build a home along well worn supply lines and mining routes, to patrol and secure the route from both wildlife and Kettali raids, Outside of the Parliament building in Salisbury one such ranger is immortalised looking over the square from horseback in the form of the ranger monument. While no official record was kept of the numbers of such Rangers, the houses built along such routes still exist and suggest numbers from between 1,000 and 3,000 during the period of the Kettali War.

The Verkim Rebellion (1795-1799)

In 1795 the decision was made to reduce the numbers of Verkim Prisoners working in the colony and to bring several of the originally transported groups back to prisons in Dolfikland, including many of the prisoners who now made up the Verkim Rangers, an organisation that had expanded to not only protecting the routes of commerce and mining tracks, but now also served as impromptu rural police and mail carriers, having been given bond to establish homes and communities by the authorities of the Verkimlund colony, many of these rangers openly rejected the call back to port, gathering many others both rangers and otherwise to their cause numbering nearly 6,000 men at arms at the rebellions height in 1793. in 1795, they marched on Salisbury, the then declared capital of the colony, with a force numbering around 300 men led by a ranger known as Ian Vestergild the garrison, made up mostly of verkim quickly turned to their cause and took up arms alongside them bringing there numbers in the then township upwards of 500 men. Vestergild, realising correctly that such a position could not be held against a superior force left the captured territory, taking its stores of shot and powder and led his force into the nurt cape where they fought a guerrilla campaign for the next 4 years, After the rebellion ended with the battle of Seleto Ridge, Vestergild was put to death as a traitor. His force of 3,422 Rangers however were allowed to remain in the nation with an extension to their sentences, most choosing to join the Company Militia in the coming years on a deal for veterans of the rebellion to gain commision as officers.

The rebellion ended the practise of bonding rangers for good in the nation until the advent of the kettali rangers in 1937, the rebellion also put an end to the practice of using prison labour in the colony due to concerns of additional popular uprisings even larger than that of the rangers, should the larger mining population choose to rebel it was reasoned that a far larger and more costly guerrilla campaign could be fought on the same ground for far longer.

Foreign Policy

The Foreign Fighter Act (1978)

In April 1978 The Tribal Council approved the Foreign Fighter Act. Entering into Verkimlund Legislation in december of the same year. The act serves to raise Sentences and add additional offenses specifically for fighters who travel from foreign nations to further the cause of Terrorist groups operating in Verkimlund, This is not exclusive to Fighters holding foreign citizenship, and includes several offenses designed specifically to be applied to native fighters travelling out of the nation in order to carry weapons and supplies such offences falling under the purview of those "Traveling from a foreign nation to further the cause of terrorist groups". The act faced criticism in Housevaaler for being to all encompassing, and many suggestions were made to split the act into two separate acts, one for Fighters holding foreign citizenship and another for fighters native to the nation smuggling arms. however it achieved the needed majority despite this and so far has 6 successful prosecutions Of Verkimland nationals for offences contained within the Act.

The Independence Convention

Parliament itself follows to a huge extent the Independence Convention. The uncodified agreement that Parliament shall take no action that limits, in any regard the Independence of the nation, and in particular its military, as such parliament has actively rejected Military aid, and Military Contracts that would make the nation reliant upon any other, taking only licensed home production and donated surplus equipment, rejecting all forms of lend lease and government contract to foreign entities. This has caused conflict, both outside of and inside of parliament. Within parliament the Convention caused conflict over the Reinstatement Act of 1956 whereby there was considerable concern that allowing the public referendum result to reinstate the Dolfik Governor as head of state would be in direct violation of the convention. this also caused Conflict in the Tribal Council when Acquisitions of Serrian arms in a direct sale were drawn under question by several seats as being in violation of the convention, this led to the Serrian Exception, that is nationally recognised.

The Serrian Exception

Due to sales of Serrian Weapons to Tribal Militias through private corporations, an effort by the Tribal council to consolidate supply and establish a standard across the Kraals was made with a bulk purchase of Serrian weaponry and ammunition, This was later Replaced by the SR1 in service as production caught up with the Army's demand allowing supply to reach the Tribal Councils armoury in Seketo, but prior to the arrival of the newly adopted SR1, there was serious debate in the Tribal Council about this clear violation of the Independence Convention, Debate on this issue spread to parliament and then housevaaler, with radicals on both sides advocating for the abandonment of the Serrian weapons and the abandonment of the convention retrospectively. It was eventually decided, that in the case of Serria, who had previously lent arms and ammunition to offset shortages in the early stages of the bush war, that lend lease and Government contract could be considered and accepted but only if meeting the criteria that the equipment, upon completion of the agreed contract, could be serviced, replaced, and modified within verkimlund. This result was proposed by then Minister of defence Peiter Yato