Kyrossia

Kyrossia (Κυροσσία), officially the Kyrossic Federation (Κυροσσική Ομοσπονδία), known also by its two other official names, the Kyrossic Empire (Κυροσσικό Βασίλειο) or the Kyrossic Republic (Κυροσσική Δημοκρατία), is a in western Amphia. It is bordered to the west by Arshavat, to the north by Valourium and Zusea, to the south by Sarethan, and to the east by Redon and the Amphian Sea. The country is an extremely diverse  of seven  and dozens of so-called independent zones, military frontiers, and free cities. Kyrossia has a population of 44 million, of which just over half identify as exclusively Kyrossic. The central government resides in the federal capital of Lousikon, though the coastal city of Dhafni is the nation's largest city and cultural and financial center.

Kyrossia was the heartland of the ancient Kyrossic Empire, which stretched across the continent and shaped the development of nearly all Amphian cultures. However, the ancient empire shrank to a shadow of its former self by the nineteenth century, with a bloated and corrupt bureaucracy, a decadent imperial line, and pervasive. The tottering autocracy, often called the “sick man of Amphia,” finally collapsed in the aftermath of the Amphian War, after which the Kyrossic Communist Party (K3) took power and transformed the nation into a “proletarian dictatorship” not unlike those in Ossintoria and Lakaria. While the Kyrossic People’s Republic industrialized at an impressive pace, disastrous attempts at collectivized agriculture led to more than a million deaths.

Zusea invaded Kyrossia during the Endwar, ousted the K3 and invited the Kyrossic Imperial Government-in-exile to retake power. After the tide of war turned, the Vahrmacht withdrew in late 1937, leaving the imperial government (and some remnant Zusian militias) to defend itself against an Arshavati invasion. By the end of the war, collectivist forces had taken control of the country, and the K3 was reorganized into an Arshavati regime. In 1969, the Second Kyrossic War began when a broad anti-collectivist uprising created chaos across the country, backed by Zusea and Redon. Arshavati intervention ended the open fighting within weeks, but a low-intensity persisted for much of the next decade. Following the outbreak of the Kuijuan War in 1977, Arshavati forces withdrew from Kyrossia, and the K3 regime subsequently collapsed. A combined Zusian-Redonian intervention sparked the Third Kyrossic War between the intervening powers, various Kyrossic factions, and Arshavat, which soon became the first direct conflict between great powers in Amphia since the Endwar. The war lasted for several years, fueled by ethnic rivalries and conflicting political visions.

The current dual-system constitutional monarchy in Kyrossia is the consequence of a compromise brokered by Zusea and Redon to unify the anti-collectivist factions. The Third War officially ended in 1984, but was soon followed by the Fourth Kyrossic War in 1991 as various ethnic militias took up arms against the government. The Treaty of Aven in 2000 modified the constitution again and awarded many groups extensive autonomy. This in turn precipitated the Fifth Kyrossic War in 2014, after Kyrossic nationalists took control of several major cities. Another Zusso-Redonian intervention in 2016 brought a measure of peace; however, tens of thousands of peacekeepers remain scattered throughout the country.

Military
The Kyrossic Federal Armed Forces include the Kyrossic Army, the Kyrossic Navy, the Kyrossic Air Force and the Imperial Guard. The latter is a paramilitary and military police force. Historically split down political lines, sweeping reforms in the 90s created a relatively integrated, unified national military. The Federal Forces play a significant role in Kyrossic politics; many foreign observers regard the military as the primary (or even the only) impediment to another civil war.

The KFF is primarily supplied by Redon and Zusea, but retains a large stockpile of Arshavati equipment left over from the collectivist era. The military contains 175,944 active personnel, of which roughly 130,000 comprise the Army and 10,000 the Imperial Guard. The Kyrossic navy and air force are fairly barebones.