State of Tomorrow

The State of Tomorrow (Neo-Dalkic: Wennaesiolux) is a country located near the center of the continent of Vikressia. Clockwise from its metropole, the State of Tomorrow borders Marebanni to the north, Hagevrin in the west, the Keldary Demarcation to the south, and PLACEHOLDER. Hy-Kancogne is the country's capital and largest city.

Historically existing as a series of city-states in the southern Eleabric region under Marebannian suzerainty, the Ceymese city-states had suffered from a long period of economic decline resulting from the severing of the Waryngian Way - a vital trade artery going through the region - as part of the Eastern Madiyyan Succession Wars and subsequent Three Wars of Keldary. During the Revolutionary Ages, local intelligentsia with inspiration from humanist literature on democracy rose in rebellion against the governing aristocracy, successfully staging the Cerulean Plaza Putsch with militarist and nationalist elements in the intelligentsia, forming the Ceymese Progressive Government. Any reform that could be made would be interrupted by the impending threat of a full Marebannian military intervention, one which nearly arrived when the Vermilion Decade, yet did not come to actual fruition due to Marebanni's preoccupation with its war with humanist powers in the Transeleabric Steppe.

Existing in a state of limbo with rampant militarization but few real conflicts in sight - except during the brief Skirmish of Birecees - Ceyme survived the Vermilion Decade with next to no scratches from war. In spite of that, the economy had suffered from the government's efforts of military buildup, Ceyme's reliance on imported food from Marebanni creating a minor famine only abated by a massive reorganization of the urban industrial workforce towards agriculture. This perilous situation would stabilize for some decades when Ceyme formally accepted the protectorship of the neighboring Hagevrin in exchange for modifying the constitution to proclaim Ceyme as an accelerationist country in 3051 hæ, which allowed for the importing of Hagevite foodstuffs and the gradual normalization of the Ceymese economy. When the Great Hagevite Famine broke out however, a complete ban on food exports by Hagevite authorities sent Ceyme into a second famine of greater scale, spiraling it into a simultaneous period of chaos and unrest.

The repeated declaration of economic reorganization and the suppression of the press through martial law would raise questions of the government's competence and true commitments towards humanist progressivism, creating an underground dissident movement which ran concurrent under the guise of a modern art movement. Many of this era's visionary artists rose to prominence at this time, espousing a romantic portrayal of accelerationist progress that the ruling government failed to achieve. When the military government launched a mass crackdown, dissidents countered by organizing a mass rally - both sides clashing in the Sanguine Midnight, with armed rioters routing military police and burning down government offices and the residences of important government officials. A mass lynching of officials perceived to be affiliated with the military government followed, reaching a crescendo when the mob declared the demagogue artist Évrard Sinclair as the nation's new leader and patron of the Ceymese accelerationist movement. The Sinclairist reign was marked by radical reforms which used the crazed fervor of the contemporary Ceymese political climate to address the national famine with policies under the guise of modernist artistic and accelerationist movements (see Sinclairist agrarianism). As Ceyme was transformed by Sinclairist rule into a nation wildly unorthodox for its time and Hagevite politics stabilized after the Conductorate Revision, Sinclair would proclaim the nation as the State of Tomorrow, proceeding with various reformist campaigns which would shape the novel philosophy of Futurism which survives even after Sinclair's death and the country's transition into a Conductorate model espoused by the reformed Hagevite government.

Today, the State of Tomorrow is the heart of the Futurist movement as well as wider accelerationist culture. Under precepts of Futurism laid by the country's first patron, the country and its citizens considers the overarching role of the State of Tomorrow to be the vanguard of Accelerationist culture, creating the "masterpiece" that is a new Vikressian society unbound by the constraints of tradition that shall be imitated in time by the rest of Humanist world - it can be viewed that concurrent to mainstream accelerationism's goal of technological acceleration is the State's goal of sociocultural acceleration. While theoretically self-sufficient, the State of Tomorrow retains its prosperity through channels of foreign aid from its larger accelerationist partners (especially Hagevrin).