Proclamation of new Tsaran

Purpose

The purpose of the proclamation was to make public the ideals of the new Tsaranese government and enshrine them as national values as the tide of the Celestial independence war turned to favour the republic. It was to solidify the republican goal of total national reform from, forever ending the ways of the old empire.

Historical Details

Background

For centuries Tsaran had been ruled by the Imperial feudal system. After centuries of unchanged imperial rule Tsaranese society was dominated by many Archaic factors such as its caste system which divided the populace into many different societal roles. The worse off were serfs and the enslaved who laboured for the ruling classes in near medieval conditions. Those who could call themselves citizens were free but were heavily restricted from education and were even limited on how much money they could own. This is the system that the Unionists upon separating from the republic wanted to install only with the difference of the Supremacy of the Magically high sensitive races over none magically sensitive. The republicans wanted to completely reform the nation for the benefit of the people and provide no foundation for the ideologies supporting the old ruling systems to be able to legitimately take power again. They wanted it in writing and enshrined in law.

History

Though the republic wanted to enact the principles of the proclamation earlier, they knew that without the support of the powerful Celestian class that had ruled in the emperor's name they would not last very long and so held off on enacting they're vision for the nation in favour of compromise. Compromise kept the peace for a short while but as more and more support came to the republicans they began to get more and more sway in parliament. They began to implement the gradual erosion of serfdom as well as the abolition of nobility and the cast system which brought tensions between the two groups to bursting point. However when the republic announced that it would begin the process of allowing Tsarans many domains and colonies to hold referendums for their independence and ratified the gradual compensated emancipation of all people enslaved in Tsaran the opposition factions had had enough. In 1472 they separated every member nation south of the songjin river from the republic and formed their own nation, The union of Celestian kingdoms. Finally six years later the republic had turned the tide in their favour. Now they had no compromises to make, no more powerful opposition from within to appease. Now was the time to do what the revolutionaries of old had sought from the beginning. With legal experts from Aurora they drafted the document that would relegate the Tsaran of old to the pages of history and imagine the nation forever. President Shin Taina himself read it to a massive crowd in Junara blossom square. One of the iconic chapters of the Celestial independence war

Public Reaction

Domestic reaction

Throughout pro republic Tsaran the proclamation was met with jubilation. The former serf and enslaved classes especially saw it as the long awaited end to the source of they're ills as they were oficcially recognised as citizens. Republicans throughout the nation saw the culmination of decades of hard work. They finally realised the realisation of the ideals they and they're predecessors had spent decades fighting to realise. In the unionist camp however there was only outrage. They had belleived that the republic was always going to ennact this into law and saw it as the very thing they had declared independence to avoid. Immedeately they moved to attack and discredit the proclomation but they knew now that a whole new stake had came into play. They knew that the way of life they fought for could not survive in such a system and were prepared to fight even harder.

International reaction

Throughout the world of kings and emperors the document was received with shock. Publicised and announced in newspapers and filmspells the world over a growing hysteria seemed to grip the nobility of the world. This was not the first proclomation of its kind as the Auroran commonwelth and Anotari had similar docrines. This was however the first time a powerfull nation, one concidered to be one of the seven great empires had compleately thrown off the system of monarchy in favour of a totally democratic system.

Legacy

By most in modern Tsaran the document is a source of great national pride seeing its implementation as the birthplace of modern Tsaran. It is also seen internationally as a revolutionary challenge to the old ways of monarchy and feudalism inspiring many such revolutionary and political movements throughout the world. It is however looked at by some with great distance especially among factions and nations in support of the status quo of governance. Seeing it as the document that upset the traditional balance of power throughout the world. To this day many political and revolutionary groups take its words to heart basing them as their cause for fighting or challenging authority. It is also used as a basis of laws for emerging nations with long histories of oppression seeking ideological kinship with Tsaran and a foundation for ideological modernity.

Read the Document

Proclamation of new Tsaran

People of mother Tsaran!
To every man, every woman and every child of our most noble and ancient nation. Before you, whose blood has shed for her liberty and the liberty of generations to come, and before our heavenly father who's grace we envoke we make solid the rebirth of Tsaran. In the face of adversity from those who would rather tear our homeland apart than live in harmony with their own and have plunged her into a terrible civil war, her people stand couragious and unmoving. And resolute in the trust they placed us with the hope of our nations betterment in spite of comprosise in the hope of peacefull unity the time has come for them to realise the dream of the new Tsaran. And with the support of our Ideological bretheren of the noble Commonwealth of Aurora, the nations of the coalition helping us to reunite our homeland and with the support of freedom loving people throughout the world we now proclame our rebirth for all the world to hear.
We hereby declare the soverign and etarnal ruler of Tsaran to be the people of Tsaran. And the indefeasability of the supremacy of her people ensuring that never again may rule be decided by bloodline and birthright but intrusted to the wisdom of her citizens through their sufferage and voices. From this basic principle that is the very heart of our dream we make perminant abolition of monarchy and feudalism, and we declare officially the Republic of Tsaran as a soverign and independent state. Concistant with past Tsaranese nationhood and yet unique in the annals of her history. It's concept we owe to her political revolutionary orginisations the Alliance for the Tsaranese republic and Tsaranese workers asociation. And her survival to the gllantry and heroism of the Tsaranese revolutionary army, the Tsaranese citezens army and the countless others who have gathered to the banner and fallen in the cause of our freedom.
The Republic dedicates itself to the welfare and prosperity of her people, the enshrinement of their rights, the justness of her laws, the happieness and contentment of her children and to shelter her from missfortune and the misery of war. The republic garuntees an end to the cast system, the right to display oposition to the government without fear of harm or imprisonment, the equal rights and oppertunities of all citizens, civil and religious freedom, ideological liberty and the right to engage in democratic process and the rights of all our countrymen and women to chart the course of their own destinies. The many people for centuries robbed of the right to citizenship be it through the poverty of serfdome or the slave's collar shall find themselves downtrodden no more. For the bonds of serfdome are hereby severed forever and we declare that all those held in the bondage of slavery from this moment on may consider themselves free. These blights never again to plague our land. All those held in bondage and serfodome, or otherwise kept from citizenship by other means may now call themselves Tsaranese and consider themselves citizens of a nation in which the baracades of class, faith, sex, species and race which had for centuries put them under the boot of the powerfull minority are rendured illigetemate. From the time of the Lihan dynisty our empire has been a great disturber of the peace of the world. Under the guise of calling ouselves civilizers and with the vile manipulation and distortion of our holy texts and scripturs we have ruled our many domains be they close or across the sea and stars as an alien usurper and profited immensly from their pain. Even now those who seek to end our republic seek to keep and expand the wider empire under the guise of their own freedom. But what they seek is a freedom to opress and plunder with impunity. Having fought closely together to dismantle this insurrection abroad, our valiant allies of the independence movements throughout the empire have made abundently clear their wish to be unshackled and live in liberty themselves. And so we declare that uppon the end of the current conflict and with or administrative asistance, all overseas domains, and domestic domains unjustly or agressivly annext shall be given full independence. We set our borders perminently to Tsaran proper. Never again shall we raise our weapons in a war of conquest nor tyrannise other nations but to only defend the freedom and independence of our worldly neighbours. We put our trust in the etearnal father, whose grace has given us the land that we hold dear that his grace may further embolden the dream of Tsaran and fire courage in those who would make it so. And we pray that none who would carry out that dream would lead the cause astray or dilute it with selfishness, greed, trechery or opression Now is the time for the children of Tsaran prove themselves worthy of the destiny they have set. To summon their selflessnes and courage to go forth into the days to come and make Tsaran a light among the nations. By the will of the people and the people alone Tsaran of old is gone and has been born anew. Sighned President Shin Taina, Sao Dongmei, Ashan Kojeq, Hong Phan, Jessica Rothman, Naiwan kemeri, Sechele Kovesa, Dr Sheng Hao, Timothy Laurey, Valent Kohan, Yun Peng

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Type

Decree, Governmental

Medium

Paper

Authoring Date

1474

Ratification Date

1478

Location

Republic of Tsaran

Authors

• Jan Winters Kellesrsberg
• Sao Dongmei
• Timothy Laurey

Signatories (Characters)

• Ashan Kojeq
• Hong Phan
• Jessica Rothman
• Naiwan kemeri
• Sao Dongmei
• Sechele Kovesa
• Sheng Hao
• Shin Taina
• Timothy Laurey
• Valent Kohan
• Yun Peng

Signatories (Organizations)

• Abolitionist league of Tsaran
• Alliance for the Tsaranese Republic
• Anti Imperial society
• Commonwealth of free Auroran territories
• Democratic citizens army
• Feihan national congress
• Ivory circle liberty alliance
• League of Kainare nations
• Tsaranese Revolutionary army
• Tsaranese workers association