Trotzia

The Trotzia (ᛨᛡᚬᛏᛉᛁᚨ), officially the National Axiarchist Defiant Action Coalition (ᛀᚨᛏᛁᚬᚾᚨᛚᚨᛪᛁᚨᛡᚭᛁᛊᛏᛚᛮᚨ ᛨᛡᚬᛏᛉᛁᚷᚨ  ᚩᚦᛏᛁᚬᚾᛊᚦᚬᚨᛚᛁᛏᛁᚬᚾ Nationalaxiarchistischa Trotziga Aktionskoalition), is the ruling  of Zusea. Originating in the Free Zusian Axiarchist Party (FTAP), the coalition was founded in 1926 by the FTAP's two main offshoots, the Koliak and Formiak parties, with the aim of reviving Zusian through a mixture of  and Zusian. The coalition's creation was spearheaded by the Koliak leaders Sindolph von Armin and Raphael Bessen, and the Formiak leader Hansel Mincker. Under the leadership of its fourth founder, Valamir Stavicker, the Trotzia took control of the Zusian government in 1930 and established an axiarchist two-party state. The Trotzia has governed Zusea ever since, and maintains two paramilitary wings, the VIV and Volksspeer, as well as an intelligence service called the Spartai. As of 2020, the coalition has more than 20 million members.

The FTAP emerged from the right-wing Freya-Korps paramilitary culture in the aftermath of the collectivist Tarmish Uprising and the Black Springtime of 1917. The party sought to draw workers and veterans away from the extremes of both left and right, advocating a revival of liberal society through renewed militarism and nationalism. Politically the party called for the establishment of an "earned franchise," in which the right to vote would be tied to some form of patriotic ; aesthetically it advocated revivalism and cultural chauvinism. Conflicts with the fascist Iron Hand led to the expulsion of the wing of the party in 1921, and further conflicts between right- and left-axiarchists led to the splintering of the FTAP into the conservative Koliak and leftist Formiak successor parties. The onset of the Grand Depression provoked the creation of a unified front of the two splinters in 1926, which came to be known as the Trotzia.

The coalition became the largest faction in the Räichstag in 1928, and monopolized power in the country in 1930 after a bloody political and electoral struggle with the Collectivist Party of Zusea and the Iron Hand. The passage of the Fortification act and the Six Amendments cemented the new two-party system by 1932, after which the Trotzia primaries assumed the importance of national elections and the Räichstag became merely a forum for debate, and a for Trotziak legislation. The right to vote became tied to the performance of national service, and the Trotzia implemented a program of so-called "popular rearmament" (Zusian: Volksaufrüstung), under which the military was expanded, the coalition paramilitaries absorbed hundreds of thousands of new members, and Zusian youth underwent survival and weapons training as part of the Golden Youth. Another program, "popular awakening" (Volkserwachen), energized a neopagan revival across the nation and provoked a conflict with the Vordic Church called the Kulturkampf.

Under its first and longest-serving Premier, Valamir Stavicker, the Trotzia helped provoke the Endwar in Amphia through its ardent demands for the reincorporation of Ossintoria and Lakaria into the Zusian Empire, and the destruction of collectivist Arshavat. The Trotziak paramilitaries played a major role in the fighting, and though Zusea regained its lost territories, the war ultimately ended in a stalemate. In the ensuing decades the Trotzia sought to normalize relations with neighboring countries, and the wing of the coalition was marginalized. Stavicker was replaced briefly by the Formiak Mincker and then Zeno Lubotzky in 1950, who lost power to the Koliak Markus von Tschessenau in 1956. Koliak government persisted until 1971, after which David Scholtzer took power and enacted a policy of Liberalization (Liberalisierung), which included tightening labor laws, loosening state control of the economy, and social reformism. Koliak government resumed in 2004 under the premiership of Anna Rakoszalya, who successfully maintained a series of administrations including both parties.

The Trotzia is organized as an Arminist united front, entailing democratic leadership and a strong coalition bureaucracy. At the top of the Trotzia is the Polikom, or "Political Committee" (Politisches Komitee), which drafts policy and oversees the Trotziak apparatus. The Polikom is a forty-one-person council of Trotzia leaders, elected by the Coalition's sitting Räichstag members after the primaries. The Polikom in turn elects the Premier, the leader of the Trotzia, who is also normally elected Chancellor of Zusea by the Räichstag. The Polikom appoints subcommittees to handle legislative and administrative work, including the Standing Committee ("Ewikom") and various General Committees, Leading Committees, and Special Committees, which either draft policy or govern Trotziak bureaucracies. Together, the Premier and Standing Committee constitute the leadership of the Trotzia. To administer the Coalition's local affairs, including the primaries, the Premier appoints cadres (Stammmannschaften), which also handle various other small-scale matters. The current Premier is Anna Rakoszalya, who was first elected by the 27th Polikom in 2004, and who was reelected for a fifth time by the 32nd Polikom in 2019.