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title: "Seignid"
nativeTitle: "塞尼德王國"
romaji: "Sàinídé Wángguó"
type: "overview"
nation: "seignid"
infobox: (29 rows)
---
**Seignid**, officially the Seignidian Kingdom, is a country situated in Northern [[valtheria]], anchored on the east of Furan and west of Tonkin. It is the host to a population of 246 million, with its 21 provinces and other miscellaneous territorial holdings, governed by an Oligarchal Constitutional Monarchy under the helm of Neit Tsao, in conjunction with the Queen, Lieau Wei, and their many advisors, confidants, and kin. Culturally, it remains a splinter amongst its Hezhouan contemporaries and has appropriately absorbed practices foreign to the sinosphere.
Etymology
The term Sàinídéwángguó is first attributed to the works of High Yalakawan Period polymaths, coined to refer to a hypothetical superstate that would supersede the geopolitical niches once occupied by the Ai-kan and Fuigyai before them. This mode of intellectualism, involving the creation of alternative history scenarios to supplant political and ideological thinking through simulation, was commonplace throughout the period.
Accordingly, values extrapolated from this line of thinking would be ingrained in the term Sàinídé. 塞 is the Hezhouan character for ‘divine offering’; this is further supplanted by the characters 尼 and 德, which have come to mean ‘nun’ and ‘morality’.
## History
Archaeological findings indicating the establishment of sedentary societies remain sparse, with the oldest such example attributed to the 7th Millennium BCE site of Rui, a decrepit circular stone palisade ornamented with carved animal symbols. It is generally hypothesized that this was a communal space or a site of worship. Neolithic settlements of substantial size along the Zhujiang and Wujiang rivers were first attested during the 3rd and 2nd Millennium BCE, and with it, the progenitors of modern rice terraces. Over the millennia, continued advancements would birth the Luoi Culture, encompassing modern-day Atanina, Eirosen, Alei, and Maia-Kalais. Existing simultaneously with the Luoi were the many militaristic petty states of the southern Zhujiang and Wujiang rivers, which greeted their northern neighbors with strife and war.
The 11th century BCE saw the Luoi would attain its zenith in influence, stability and military dominance with Luoi artistry at its height and invasions from its southern neighbors repelled and what followed was the drastic expansion of the Fuigyai - formerly a Luoi petty kingdom located right within the melting point of war brought on by the south; this ample exposure to war has earned it a distinguished advantage from its contemporaries; the syncretization and understanding of the southern Zhujiang art of war. With time, the Fuigyai would come to conquer the majority of the Zhujiang River by the 4th century, and its audacious expansion only drew to a crawl when what was left was the powerful Ai-kan Empire adjacent to the Wujiang River and the states of Hezhou to the west. Should the Empire of Ai-kan undergo a state of fragility and regression, it would prove itself too great an existential peril to the Fuigyai.
Given this, the region’s tradition of mutual dependency would be upheld well into the 1st and 2nd centuries CE. Although cultural regression caused by plague and famine has substantially weakened the competency of the existing administration, and thus, the inheritors of this now castrated Fuigyai would be under immense pressure to rejuvenate it. And ultimately by the 3rd century CE, this spell of peace is to be irrevocably broken in lieu of a fallacious glory sought by the hubris of many ambitious Fuigyai kings. Who were often compelled to invade Ai-Kan in the times of the latter’s upheaval and in reciprocation as Fuigyai itself. Fuigyai provinces along the border would be won over by astutely conducted warfare, conceived through the ardent and virtuosic nature of Ai-Kan’s army and government at the time, one which would never be replicated henceforth.
This entanglement into a seemingly endless feedback loop of warfare soon petrified into a powder keg, kicking off 5 whole centuries of unrest and decline. After finding needed respite in the closing years of the 4th century CE, large swathes of Ai-Kan territory would be mangled out of their possession by the seemingly indefatigable Hiangau host. This gave way for Fuigyai’s other contemporaries to gradually nibble away territory from the declining Kingdom over the course of centuries. A coup d'etat in 721 would continue to perpetuate such internal and external strife with the traditional domains of the Fuigyai and Ai-kan largely fragmented - now split amongst a multitude of petty lords and nobles.
The subsequent centuries following the protracted and erroneous decline of Fuigyai and Ai-kan would see the interweaving of the culture upheld for millennia by the Zhujiang and Wujiang peoples with the Hezhouans of the east, bringing in new modes of governance which would define the successive era beset by the errors of the past and defined through the lack of any sizeable regional powers. The clergy, traditionally entrusted with apolitical or secondary administrative matters, would carve out independent monasteries, serving as beacons of power over surrounding settlements and, at times, influencing secular rulers and statelets. This is further exacerbated by the emergence of more eschatological literature and systems of belief that overtly deny the divine privilege of the aristocracy, products of an epoch still registering the weight of near-societal decline.
- 11th – 15th centuries: The High Yalakawan Period
- 15th – 18th centuries: Period of the Fuigyai Restoration
- 18th – 20th centuries: The Age of Recollection
## Military
The Seignidian Military is composed of formal state-recognized armed forces and private levies, financed by powerful political entities or individuals. Accordingly, such an ensemble is prone to discord and infighting, given the sponsors’ conflicting political intrigues. Contrastingly, this behavior is all but absent should the Kingdom be threatened by external militaries.
Its primary instrument is the Regal Wei Armed Forces under the direct wing of the Monarchy itself. It can be further subdivided into the Regal Wei Army, Regal Wei Navy, and Regal Wei Air Force, with the Regal Wei Auxiliary Guard serving as its armed police branch. Its proprietors and stakeholders, excluding the Wei Monarchy itself, account for members of the Tsao Family and other subsidiary families aligned with the Monarchy. Paramilitary entities of secondary importance include the Jiaofuan Boxers and the Yalakawan Combatant Front.
Government
The Kingdom of Seignid is described as a constitutional monarchy. The reigning Weiian Dynasty, in accordance with tradition, sustains a symbiotic relationship with the many oligarchal cliques that erect the scaffolding for Seignid’s bureaucracy. Most often, they are seated through informal, non-legally binding means. Overall structural integrity is limited to a Cabinet of Ministers and a bicameral system involving the Executive Commission and Legislative Assembly. Judicial matters are heard by the Seignidian Supreme Court. The aforementioned organizations’ seats form the mold for the aforementioned oligarchs. Who’re oftentimes, seated for their sectoral influence and dynastical ties. The Executive Commission meets biannually to ratify major decisions compiled by the Legislative Assembly beforehand. Such legislations are sourced from political dynasties with proxies in the government. Selections serving to fill in vacant seats in the Legislative Assembly are decided upon by the Executive Commission. This serves as the Council’s primary gateway and where systematic exploitations, especially those involving cronyism, are most prevalent
The executive position of Chancellor is a recent insertion fulfilled by the Oligarch Neit Tsao. Itself, a provisional position holding the power to directly issue executive orders without prior approval from the bicameral system.
