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The Commonwealth of Aggregate Aylathiya is a federal monarchy occupying all of Aggregate Aylathiya. The Suvaren Federative Republic is the center of the Commonwealth, its core territory around Vossen and its various territories comprise nearly half of the population. The other states within the Commonwealth, ranging in size from single worlds to entire star systems, are as diverse as the dozen species residing in the Commonwealth. States have the right to self-governance, but the provinces answer to Suvaren. The Commonwealth occupies all of Aggregate Aylathiya, boarding Martial Space to galactic west and Zalanthium to galactic south.

The youngest major power in Aylathiya, the Commonwealth is the latest iteration of the Commonwealth Project, a sacrosanct ideal found within Novel Aeternalism. Several Commonwealths have existed in the past, dating all the way back to Sedrua some five thousand years ago.

The Commonwealth of Aggregate Aylathiya began its life as a political party called the Aeternal Common Party. It slowly gained power as nobles, corporations, and republics throughout Aggregate Aylathiya put their weight behind the party. After only a century, they had over a third of economy of the Greater Martial Consilium. Its centralization only continued until Vurilia Jutopati, the party's founder and eternal leader, sat next to the Imperator on their left side. After the devastating Aylathiya's Ignominy, Jutopati took the chance to broker an independence deal. After a century of de facto independence, the Commonwealth emerged, uniting territory both within and without the Consilium.

Government and Politics

The Commonwealth of Aggregate Aylathiya is a Federacy made up of five states, four provinces, and a capital state. The federal government derives its power from the senate, which controls the budget, military, and taxation. The head of both state and government, the True Shamaya is Vurilia Jutopati who is officially a part of the founding document, the widely venerated Aylathiya's Treaty. Accompanying Jutopati is a president, Laj Praxis, who is appointed by a popular vote of senators and state leaders. The president exercises most executive authority, while Jutopati maintains the right to appoint government officials, promote generals, and acts as the chief diplomat.

Constituent Territories

NAME

CLASS

RULER

CAPITAL

Amalga

PROVINCE

Provincial Congress
Governor: Atakaya Muuz

Thanatos, Arlioux

Arkholst

STATE

Parliament of Arkholst
Duke: Goh Opuntia

Bellataine, Matoehdahn

Avolast

PROVINCE

Provincial Congress
Governor: Zin Yamadt

Xadio, Angreifer

Celathiya

STATE

Council of States
Governor: Vesta Lovett

Kajupto, Argothiya

Eqeyuana

STATE

Constitutional Elective Monarchy
Lord President: Evo M'Dravka

Occalia, Argothiya

Border Hivollyos

PROVINCE

Provincial Congress
Governor: Lance Brier

Poratus, Hearts

Lowyzol

STATE

Senate of Lowyzol
President: West Gumeau

Lokira, Sakase

Nallanthiya

PROVINCE

Provincial Congress
Governor: Malachi Awve

R'Velt, Angreifer

Vaspujian

STATE

Senate of Vaspujian
Chairman: Bronze Hayez

Ivathiya, Angreifer

History

End of the First Commonwealth

Naturally, Sedrua did attempt to silence opposition. Humiliating defeat after defeat made its few remaining oligarchs grew worried. In response, commonfolk began to rally behind the ideas of independence and self-governance. Vurilia Jutopati took power then; the immortal was confident he could rule the nation. Infrastructure was modernized, local corruption was curbed, and travel was streamlined. In a sense, Vurilia became the most powerful man in Aylathiya, single-handedly sculpting the lives of countless people. When Vurilia began disempowering his fellow oligarchs, known as Sydiah's Architects, the resulting coup forced him to flee.

External powers took advantage of the instability. Backed by a Quintet Payotari Association, countless rebels, including Jutopati, began tearing the nation apart. However, not a single nation thought of this as the end of Sedrua. Despite the local rule, all nations saw themselves as a part of this empire. Each leader vowed to restore The Commonwealth as soon as possible, and so, Aggregate Aylathiya began its long modern era.

Post-Collapse

Various nations split off from Sedrua, but only a handful of Sydiah's Architects remained. In the past, the various territories of Sedrua were held together by the threat of unmatachable violence. Any revolution would be met by the wrath of the universe's greatest magi. With most of them becoming corpses on far flung planets and Sydiah unable to produce more, the region became quite unstable. Foreign powers took the chance to take entire stars for themselves. The people of Aggregate Aylathiya needed to learn how to properly govern themselves, especially with foreign powers breathing down their necks.

Sedrua was at its most dissonant in 6100 CE. While most of the major players had already formed, much of Sedrua had become ever-finer states until single planets held dozens if not hundreds of warring fiefs. One thousand years later and only two people were alive who saw Sedrua, Vurilia Jutopati and Thonde Yutira. The former headed the Diunity and the latter the Golomian Confederacy. The vision of the Commonwealth would have long fallen out of the public consciousness, but these two managed to keep it relevant in circles of power. Whether it was in academic circles, religious conferences, military strategy, or propaganda, these two were both adamant that "The Commonwealth" would emerge under their respective rules.

For three thousand years, the two immortals exchanged geopolitical blows, both waiting for the other to hurry up and die like all the other architects had. Even The Three had all died or went into hiding, the QPA was long replaced, and the last remnants of Sydiah's legacy had long faded. While much of this change was organic, one entity caused much of the change—Mars. This great and ancient spirit, channeled by the Imperator of Gran Rubedo, hated beings like Jutopati and Yutira who came to be known as Overlords. Gran Rubedo, a Human church-turned-state, easily bested Sedrua's old enemies. Both leaders knew that they could not face Mars or Mars' worshipers. Shielded with nothing but distance, the other players in Aylathiya sensed the danger as well. Both leaders had their respective nations join the Core Worlds Alliance to protect themselves from Mars; they decided that molding the Alliance into their Commonwealth would do. The so-called spirit-worshiping barbarians had grown too powerful for infighting to keep Aylathiya disunited.

The Core Worlds Alliance

It was the closest attempt yet at a proper take on the Commonwealth. Even for immortal beings with the mythological strength, closely controlling the actions of vast interest groups, kings, political parties, companies, and religious movements was difficult. Taken aback by how easily their Commonwealth project suddenly arose, the two architects worked tirelessly to maintain the Alliance. At its height, the alliance had over a dozen stars represented within it, including ones never under Sedrua's control.

At first it was simply a military alliance, then an economic zone, then free travel was permitted, and then the lines between its nations blurred. Surviving the Great Empyreal Crusade, Un'oit Ascension, War of the Last Alliance, and rise of Kalliolel, the alliance seemed it would last. Then, the worst diplomatic incident in history happened. Tensions were manageable, however, the interests keeping the alliance together slowly diverged. Desperate for more territory to pay its top officials with, Sagittarium invaded the Sakase system, home of Lowyzol. Lowyzol, while not part of the Core Worlds Alliance, was a close partner and demanded the entire inner system for itself.

Tensions liked this pitted the nations against one another, and Yutira made a critical error—forgetting that her nation was not a nation of computers. The ruling class of the Golomian Confederacy was scared of Sagittarian expansion. That and pressure from The Accompaniment further strained their faith in their leader. Yutira, desperate to keep the Alliance safe, refused to escalate tensions. Top ranking officials began working behind the scenes for their own gain. In 8912 CE, Sagittarium left the alliance and declared war, it could gain more territory through violence than through peace. The Commonwealth disappeared once more.

The resulting chaos shattered the Core World Alliances and many of its members. The resulting catastrophe, combined with the unrelated War of the Last Alliance in Florathel, crippled galactic trade.

Aurothiya

Aeternalism holds that six people throughout history were holy emanations of nature, avatars of the most divine called Angels. Both Sydiah and Kalliolel attempted to resurrect them, ending in catastrophic failure. Once again the galactic landscape was fundamentally different. The Dominion of Astraeus very much dominated Aylathiya. Indomitable in both military and economic might, there was little to be done against it. The nations of Aggregate Aylathiya became vassals one after the other. The last nation to hold out was the planet of Zushilo, maintaining its pride as the ancient center of Sedrua.

Over three billion lived on Zushilo, most of which being Bahattes. With Dominion ships constantly looming in the outer system, the planet spent most of its budget on its military. Yutira waited for the inevitable economic downturn that would come from being isolated from the Dominion's trade networks. When it came, Yutira entered politics. She supported a party that blamed the downturn not on corrupt officials or on economic isolation, but on the Zythyn and Viphian minorities. Most of the planet's high-ranking officials quickly adopted the story. Seeing this pattern countless times before, Yutira knew how to speed it up. She had Zythyn radicals armed and, despite the obvious financial connections, simply had the media tell hundreds of conflicting narratives to obfuscate the truth.

It took a decade for Zushilo's entire political apparatus to change. The paranoia brought about by the constant threat of terrorism on top of external threats demanded release. Yutira had finally gotten an edge on Jutopati, all she needed to do was push a little further. A mythology of national inheritance from Sedrua formed, primarily a grass roots mythos. It promoted worship of the angels, so when Yutira suggested the government resurrect them, the government had no choice but to comply. It would be expensive, but getting loans was never difficult with the Dominion so eager to trap its neighbors in debt. Yutira emptied her coffers she accumulated over thousands of years, in hundreds of currencies, and stockpiles of resources she only remembered when she sifted through archives.

Zushilo's new government, Aurothiya, solidified around a figure named Octarch Eleleth. An exceptionally talented and ancient magus. While young and weak compared to Yutira, she set her pride aside and claimed Eleleth was the next angel. Being the eighth angel, hence the 'Octarch' title, Eleleth lead the reconstruction of the Eye of Aylathiya. This ancient megastructure, capable of resurrection, was so expensive to refurbish that doing so would be economic suicide in almost all situations. It was suicidal for Sedrua to build even all that time ago when resources were far more plentiful. Eleleth, just another tool in Yutira's endless rivalry with Jutopati, proved a dangerous one. Competent beyond Yutira's estimation, Eleleth hahd Jutopati's schemes on the other side of the universe foiled within the year. Jutopati had no choice but to flee to Zushilo, fearing execution warrants in many places and powerlessness everywhere else.

Jutopati, reduced to a servant, lost because another person entered what was supposed to be a two-player game. Yutira hardly had time to gloat before the Eye of Aylathiya was repaired and all the angels resurrected. The angels were magi of unparalleled power, capable of ruling multiple star systems by themselves, and they were thrust into an unfamiliar environment with jumbled memories. Jutopati and Yutira rushed to Sydiah's side, seeing who could influence this most legendary angel. The others got a grand tour of the universe, filtered through Eleleth's state doctrine of course. Already, the Eye of Aylathiya was preparing to resurrect other powerful magi, such as Sydiah's Architects.

Commonwealth of Post-Sedruan States

Zaphenim's status as creator of humanity, which included the Bahattes, gradually took the spotlight from Sydiah. His raw power and deific status spawned entire religious movements such as Lux Father, Our Lord. Zaphenim used this influence to great effect, recruiting the various nations once part of Sedrua and beyond into a new nation. At the request of Yutira, it was to be named the Commonwealth of Post-Sedruan States.

It took a great deal of courage for every state in the Commonwealth to simultaneously reject vassalage. At the behest of Eleleth, they began rapidly arming. The narrative of an ancient deity coming to save the people of Sedrua proved compelling. Trillions began to think of themselves as "Sedruan."

The last hurdle to independence, getting rid of the socialists. The Confederacy of Borealis is a peculiar entity in history, the wealthiest privately-owned entity in history and somehow controlled by six hundred billion voting members. The vast majority of socialist movements ended up some way or another a part of Borealis, hence its title as a "Confederacy." This equally applied to the worker coops and unions found throughout the Commonwealth. Eleleth had an elaborate plan meant for the Commonwealth to adopt similar aesthetics to encourage its large cooperative sector to abandon the international union. The plan was well underway when Zaphenim simply vaporized a protest with such force that the area remains radioactive to this day.

The Confederacy of Borealis immediately demanded the execution of Zaphenim as a "class enemy" which caused a significant rift in the group as many of its members held Zaphenim as a holy figure. Eleleth ran with it, using this call for execution as a wedge against "Universal Martialism," a phrase meant to denounce anything that originated in Martial Space as degenerate, which happened to include most of the socialists. Eleleth forbade Zaphenim from killing any more protestors, which, unbeknownst to Eleleth, permanently ruined their relationship. Strategic arrests and a purge of government officials and military officers with "Martial" beliefs commenced. They did not care that this also permanently alienated the Dominion of Astraeus, Mars' primary worshipers.

War of the Ancients

Neither Jutopati nor Yutira had much control over the situation anymore. However, their goal had been reached. Now, to get Sydiah to prevent the Commonwealth from tearing itself apart. Once again the two were on the same side. Zaphenim had Ohko venture to Martial Space since she was a major figure in Martial Civil Religion. Sydiah, slowly gaining enough confidence to make her own decisions, ordered Jutopati and Yutira to help her negotiate with similar nations. War was inevitable, she reasoned, so it was good to recruit as much support as possible. What other nations could justify a massive conflict on ideological grounds? Ones whose leaders are demonized in Martial Civil Religion.

POLIKY of the Civese Great Cities was a great choice, Leviathan had been harassed by Mars itself before, the Nisrine Collective had faced devastation without reparation from Mars, DELYATU seemed to side with them without giving a reason, and Aztaya agreed for the chance to tear down its rivals. Sydiah tried to keep the peace for as long as possible, but war inevitably began in 9730 CE.

The Confederacy of Borealis pressured Imperator Tange Gen to declare war, giving them the support of all ten duchies of the Dominion. Mobilizing the entire massive military took tremendous political capital. Motivating the content lords and ladies of the Dominion to spend trillions fighting a war over the Confederacy's grievances was difficult. Most sent a mere fraction of their soldiers, leaving the Confederacy to bear the brunt of the war effort. It would have been a quick conflict with the Confederacy buckling from taking on a coalition of six powerful nations. Then, Sachitel made a move. Of course she would make a move, she was used to acting without the need for permission. Despite Eleleth's best efforts to keep the angels in line, Sachitel wanted her home world of Eosphoros for herself. She gathered whoever was willing to listen to her and flew to this world, directly next to the Dominion homeworld of Eos.

This got the Ursa Duchy to mobilize to protect its world. One by one the duchies began full mobilization, terrified of the threat that the angels posed. This spurred the Commonwealth's allies to action, bringing the war to a new bloody height. The horrifying scale, new Magi-based tactics, and planetary devastation, made both sides desperate. Sagittarium ended up involved as POLIKY's bioweapons made their way toward its worlds. Gen Tange ended up killed by POLIKY shortly thereafter. Leading to a series of short-lived monarchs until Jezebel Drusus took power. Zaphenim, rusty from millennia without combat, had to personally face the Imperatrix as she lead elite magi on rampages deep behind the front lines. This only earned her the respect her subjects as they became more willing to fight behind her.

Imperatrix Jezebel was an important figure in the fight, both as a hero for the Dominion and the ultimate villain. Yutira had been captured and taken to the capital. There, she filmed her violent disassembly of Yutira, somehow making the execution of a machine more gory than anything than bled. She personally scattered the shards, made of precious metals, in poor areas, a disrespectful end as she ended up bought and sold. This only further radicalized both populations, but the gap in production capabilities slowly ground down the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth's allies broke away one by one, usually surrendering or falling to internal coups.

With the Commonwealth standing alone, Eleleth could not end the conflict. The pride of his nation was at stake. He had all the angels contribute as much as possible to the conflict as they were highly effective weapons. However, only Rinayo and Isayo complied. Ohko hadn't returned, Sachitel already brokered peace in exchange for Eosphoros, and Sydiah disappeared for months at a time on a diplomatic campaign with the various dukes. Eleleth stood alone, not a true deity like the angels he had summoned, but far too proud to admit it. Zaphenim calmly reminded Eleleth of this fact one day during an international broadcast in which Eleleth attempted to get the angels to act. Zaphenim crushed Eleleth's head on the stage and declared, "This man gave me one too many orders." The terrifying power to single-handedly topple nations, to direct history, was the power of an Overlord, of which Zaphenim has become emblematic.

Conquest of Aggregate Aylathiya

With the Commonwealth's army in ruins, generals and aristocrats throughout the Dominion rushed toward it to take as much territory as they could. Imperatrix Jezebel personally delineated who would get to control which territory, increasing the number of duchies by two times. While this certainly caused political instability, the creation of the Greater Martial Consilium assuaged the fears that Jezebel was getting too strong. Everyone with a noble title could vote in this assembly, creating the means for the various duchies to override unilateral imperial decrees. Offhandedly, Jezebel gave each of the angels a title to keep them content.

Years went by and Jezebel's War ended with most of the nobility destroyed and power centralized among a much smaller aristocracy. The angels stayed neutral, which demoted most of them to vassals of the duke Zaphenim, who had grown increasingly confident in his right to rule. Zaphenim grew increasingly frustrated with the system of formalities, rituals, and restrictions placed on him by his title.

A banquet, where every high-ranking noble was invited to celebrate the crowning of Wren Drusus. Zaphenim made a big show of how little he liked this event, including mocking the Imperatrix herself. His hatred for the Consilium began when he was not invited to the next one. In his place, Ohko joined the group despite not even having a title.

Vurilia had known every single person in that room. By the third official banquet, Vurilia secured a seat at the table. By recognizing the desires of Aggregate Aylathiya's rulers, it was simple to organize a new political party. The Aeternal Common Party was a religious order, quite common at the time, that represented the interest of Aggregate Aylathiya. It accumulated tremendous amounts of property and influence. Aggregate Aylathiya would have always tried for independence, but Vurilia played every card he had to make sure it would work. Yutira did not die in vain. Sydiah spent most of her time helping Vurilia, despite having forgotten her creations, she believed in their work.

Aylathiya's Ignominy & Independence

With the appointment of Ohko as crowned princess mere weeks before Wren's death, Zaphenim grew enraged. He had used his sheer strength to ensure no slights ever happened against him, but against another angel his threats were far less effective. The other nobles knew this and unanimously agreed with the appointment. As Zaphenim lost influence over Ohko, he conspired with the other angels to stage a coup. He would get his most devout followers, which were essentially his worshipers at this point, and simply walk into the capitol, grab the crown, the declare himself Imperator. No one could stop him if the other angels took down Ohko and Mars would not be a problem.

The coup was a disaster. Ohko, strengthened by Mars, could match Zaphenim. Furthermore, motivating the other angels proved difficult. This civilization was nothing like the one he ruled in the past. Where he was a deity. That is what the history books said, that Zaphenim ruled with such authority people thanked him for every breath. The coup failed, the angels fled, and Zaphenim lost most of his body.