Cention

Cention, officially the Federation of Cention Populars is a country located on the east of the continent of Vikressia, with a coastline bordering the Viridian Sea in the east. Clockwise from its metropole, Cention borders Anglecia to its west. Sherrington is the capital and largest city in Cention, additionally one of the major nodes in the Vikressian portion of the Chain of Pearls maritime trade route.

Originally comprising the Anglecian Empire's eastern territories bordering the Viridian Sea (known as the Viridian Strand). Endemic piracy in the Viridian Sea, coupled with the royal government's tellurocratic domestic foreign policy most prominent in its multigenerational efforts to expand and develop its southern overland holdings in Ba'ekka had led to a multigenerational neglect of the Strand - where the economic potential from its strategic location was contrasted by neglect by the ruling authorities. The development of the Sherrington Naval Arsenal and port facilities and the namesake Sherrington Fleet as part of the Eastern Madiyyan Sucession Wars saw a momentary improvement in this situation, yet the sudden boost in prosperity had attracted aristocratic policymakers from the royal government to the Strand, who despite their inexperience with maritime-related affairs overrode local authorities on the governance of the Strand, in addition involving the Strand into the contemporary aristocratic power struggles in Anglecia. The outbreak of the Three Wars of Keldary as an effort by the Anglecian Empire and similar clerical powers to crush the secular and humanist Free Republic of Greater Waryngia worsened the situation further, as the mounting economic and humanitarian costs of the war began to push the Strand into the throngs of radicalism.

By the end of the Keldary Wars, the aftermath of economic depression and social unrest grew beyond the government's ability to suppress. Inspired by these factors alongside large cuts in the funding of the Fleet in favor of the Royal Anglecian Army, the Sherrington Fleet went rogue under the command of Lord-Admiral Fabien Aratier. First emerging as a protest against royal policy, the branding of the mutineers as treasonous would incite a full-scale rebellion. In an attempt to gain public support and legitimacy from the Strand's increasingly dissenting and radical population, the concept of a country governed under humanist ideals independent from the meddling of Anglecia was proposed by the military rebels, sparking the Amber Revolution as rebel warships seized coastal cities on the Strand and instigated existing dissidents both in the citizenry and military to launch uprisings under their banner and form the country of Cention. The ensuing Anglecian Civil War would end in a victory for Cention, with Anglecia ceding the Strand and numerous revolutionary cities and their surrounding territories. Anglecia, aligned with other clerical powers under the Luminary Compact, restarted hostilities with Cention as part of the Vermilion Decade, fighting to an overall stalemate until peace was re-established with the signing of the Treaty of Keldary, establishing the modern geopolitical status quo of the Vikressian continent - with Anglecia and Cention as rival powers in the Anglian cultural sphere.

Cention in the Vikressian Detente would be governed by a military dictatorship under a council of commandants of the Sherrington Fleet, led by Lord-Admiral Fabien Aratier, now styled Lord Overseer. Aratier oversaw a decades-long dismantling of remaining aristocratic and royal influences in Cention, enforcing a gradual transition from the clerical and absolutist government structure inherited from Anglecia to a humanist representary model now recognized as Neo-Republicanism. A transfer of power between the military government and a civilian-elected parliamentary government would occur in 3053 hæ, where all members of the Commandant Council would resign and retire in luxury and fame, Aratier himself abolishing the position of Lord Overseer and leaving the political sphere - though he retained his position as the supreme commander of the Cention Popular Defense Forces. This state of affairs was maintained even during an attempted coup by a retired member of the Commandant Council, during which Aratier wielded his control of the military to crush the putschists and restore power to the civilian government. All former members of the Commandant Council would reportedly pass away by natural causes or accident within two years of this attempted coup, although suspicions of assassination have been raised - Aratier himself would pass away from reported complications of illness.

Since the dissolution of the military government and deaths of key military leaders in the country's revolutionary history, Cention has remained relatively free from autocracy, maintaining the status quo of Neo-Republican parliamental representary democracy till modern day. With the announcement of the Open Door Policy in 3117 hæ, Cention has reached rapprochement with multiple clerical states in Vikressia, even with the Knadian ecclesiarchy despite its own secularist policies, earning it the reputation as a moderate bridge between the clerical and humanist powers that now dominate Vikressian geopolitics.