Hagevrin

Hagevrin, officially the Illuminated Technate of Hagevrin (Hisag: Tarŋa Ydnin Agäfren) is a country located on the east of the continent of Vikressia, with a relatively small coastline bordering the Viridian Sea through the Habrih Corridor. Clockwise from its metropole, Hagevrin borders the Keldary Demarcation in the southwest, and the State of Tomorrow and Marebanni in the west. Hav Teganat is considered the capital of Hagevrin and birthplace of the political movement of accelerationism, but Kahivi is the largest city and economic heart of the nation - de-facto the dual capital of Hagevrin. Hagevrin comprises six combines, nominally ethnicity-based technocracies of Hagevrin with capacity for self-management, although in reality serve as nothing more than administrative units due to Hagevrin's highly centralized nature. In addition, Hagevrin too further comprises four direct administrative districts, areas of land considered by the Hagevite government as important to Hagevrin's continued functions and thus necessitates direct rule by the government.

Hagevrin was spawned from the Dunadelea, which was plagued by rampant corruption and debauchery at the end of its history, directly resulting in its overthrowing and replacement by the short-lived Popular Republic of Adelea in the Pantheon Uprisings in the contemporary Revolutionary Ages. Initially neo-republican, the Popular Republic was usurped by militarist elements of the Tarŋaki Club under the leadership of Aval Çrnopah after the events of the Academician's Conspiracy, denouncing the neo-republican system as flawed and proposing an alternative interpretation on humanism now known as accelerationism. The reign of Aval Çrnopah was marked by a rapid industrialization and militarization of the country due to Çrnopah's belief in an "inevitable final war against the entropic powers", an effort that would turn the backwater yet resource rich country into a contemporary military powerhouse. In contrast however, Çrnopah's reign was marked by mass purges of perceived counter-revolutionary elements in the ruling bureaucracy, as well as the introduction of the practice of Transfiguration in response to peasant rebellions. The period of her reign now known in modern times as the Sanguine Reign.

By the time of the Vermilion Decade, Hagevrin had been transformed both economically and socially into a country geared for total war, making Hagevrin a primary contributor to the war cause on the side of the Humanity Vanguard. This period of unprecedented warfare would leave Hagevrin a prestigious military power capable of matching contemporary traditionalist empires on the battlefield and would see the expansion of Hagevrin out of the Adelean Basin, although at a heavy humanitarian price. As part of the war effort, scorched earth policies taken by the Hagevite military compounded with mass destruction of population centers and killings of their associated populations on both sides of the war had significantly lowered public opinion of the reigning government, resulting in the outbreak of the Hagevite Civil War in xdate soon after peace was established through the ratification of the Treaty of Keldary. The largest revolting factions comprised loosely aligned armies of disillusioned peasantry collectively known as the Six Banners Army, a schismatic faction of accelerationists under the contemporarily disgraced and exiled theorist Kohs Elmer, as well as separatists in territories seized by Hagevrin during the Vermilion Decade. The civil war would leave much of the Hagevite countryside ravaged and the credibility of accelerationism severely damaged in the eyes of both Hagevrin's foreign partners and rivals, leading to the Ten Thousand's Putsch and Aval Çrnopah's replacement by war hero & general Tyoper Kronau by the end of the civil war.

Kronau's reign was characterized by the formation of a cult of personality around Kronau, alongside the organization of an inner circle of putschists closest to Kronau dedicated to their own self-preservation and to facilitate their hold on power whether through legal or corrupt means. In response to Kronau's purges of anyone deemed to be "detrimental to the continued progress of the country", growing pressure from the top down would prompt officials to forge overly optimistic reports regarding their fields of responsibility so as to preserve themselves and appease their superiors. The passing of the disastrous Ascendancy Protocols by Kronau based off these false figures would only exacerbate the problem, resulting in a large-scale mismanagement of resources that would cause the three-year long Great Hagevite Famine. As Kronau entered a coma during this great famine, revisionist elements in the Hagevite government would launch the Quiet Revolution, purging Kronau's inner circle and reversing the disastrous policies that caused the widespread resource mismanagement prevalent during Kronau's reign. Kronau's death in 3075 hæ would mark a transition of Hagevrin's previously dictatorial government to the oligarchy of the Conductorate system, a system that has persisted even till modern times.

Hagevrin is currently an accelerationist unitary technate nominally under the absolute rule of the Conductorate and administrated by the Ensemblary. Participation in government is restricted to those determined to be fit intellectually through standardized examination, limiting formal power in government to an aristocracy of "technologists". While the Quiet Revolution has rid the country of much of its more arbitrary elements, the higher echelons of Hagevite bureaucracy remain shrouded in secrecy and red tape alike, the social responsibility of the citizenry limited to carrying out the policies and objectives of the government, in accordance to accelerationist principles that starkly contrast other humanist countries. Since the announcement of the Great Star Plan, Hagevrin has proclaimed itself as the premier accelerationist nation worldwide, establishing a sphere of influence over the numerous accelerationist states in Vikressia.

Government and politics
As defined in the Constitution of Hagevrin, the Blueprint for Erudition Eternal, the Illuminated Technate of Hagevrin is an accelerationist unitary technate, directed by the ideology of mainstream accelerationism (Çachpaism) - being the interpretation of accelerationism pioneered by Hagevrin. Its current system of governance is described by the Hagevite government as an "enlightened people's dictatorship", "conductor to the great Humanist transcension, and "the means to the end", among many.

As is standard for a technate, Hagevrin does not follow the neo-republican representary system where the government is split into the three legislative, executive, and judicial branches. Instead, the Hagevite government under the accelerationist technocracy system is split into the two executive and administrative branches.


 * Executive: The seven-person Conductorate, which nominally holds ultimate power and authority over the state and government, as well as the carrying out of developmental acceleration. In practice, the Conductorate shares power with and is advised by the administrative branch.
 * Administrative: The Ensemblary, the formal bureaucracy of the government. Nominally in charge of administrating Hagevrin in accordance with policy passed by the executive branch. In practice, it also advises and elects members to the executive branch.

The process for membership in the government is not democratic. Members of government are defined by the Constitution as "technologists", the government itself a "technocratic bureaucracy" that selects its members based off their mental acuity as determined through standardized examinations. According to mainstream accelerationism, initial membership in the Ensemblary depends on one's grade in standardized examination and their merit. Standardized examinations are more of a formality than a requirement for membership in senior positions of the Ensemblary, instead relying on one's merit, alongside recommendations by both peers and superiors alike. Membership in such a senior position requires the direct appointment from an office higher in rank than the desired position.

While not formally recognized to exist, the highest echelons of the Ensemblary is known as the Directorate, membership requiring a complex process of determining a candidate's merit, recommendations by peers, further advocation by existing members of the Directorate, and ritualized standard examinations. For membership in the highest Conductorate, the Directorate elects one of their own members to the position.

The Conductorate nominally has absolute authority over the government and therefore could appoint and remove members of government at will. However, precedent set ever since the Quiet Revolution prevents this from occurring, any who breach this precedent generally removed from their position through coercion or outright force. Despite the nominal absolute power wielded by the Conductorate, de facto power lies in the Directorate which elects its members. The nature of this relationship between the Conductorate and Directorate is kept secret from the public and even the lower echelons of the Ensemblary, forming the foundations of a deep state where power over the state is wielded by secretive cliques in the Directorate. Investigations by the TRIMIRDI indicates that the Conductorate is less a superior body to the Directorate and more the public face of the Directorate, the actions of the Conductorate more or less decided by the Directorate itself. With the Hagevite government's self-preserving policy of secrecy and diversion under the Masquerade (Il-Särŋgram), the deeper inner workings of the Hagevite government is uncertain to the TRIMIRDI, much less the Hagevite public.