Union State of Konakia

Union State of Konakia
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: Wænskerdaļroļm eļpe inkandoroļm (Margalian) "Unwavering and omnipotent"
Anthem: none
Capital	Zimbertangart
Official languages	Russian, Margalian
Recognised national languages	Commarenthian
Demonym(s)	Konakian
Government	Federal parliamentary republic
• President	Pavel Korčagin
• Chancellor	Aino Luxembourg
• Speaker of the State Assembly	Ivan Ivanov
Legislature	State Assembly
Establishment
• Foundation of Commarenthia	18 June 2009
• Proclamation of Konakia	5 November 2014
• National Reformation	11 August 2018
• Restoration of democracy	15 April 2019
Membership	57
Currency	firenz, փ (superseded by Baltic shilling)
Time zone	UTC+3 to +5 (MSK to YEKT)
Date format	dd-mm-yyyy
Driving side	right

The Union State of Konakia is a micronation in the Russian Federation founded in November 2014 by Ivan Ivanov, who came to the community five months earlier as a head of semi-virtual state called Commarenthia (existing in various forms since 2009). Being one of the oldest currently active Russian micronations, Konakia is the key member of the VK sector.

History

The history of Konakian statehood can be traced back to 2009, when a number of virtual "villages" were founded on the territory of one of the schools in Tver Oblast, Russia. These villages (considered too small to be called cities until early 2011) later formed the virtual state of Commarenthia. By 2014, it had transformed into a fantasy nation having no geographical connection with the real world. Continuity of "government" institutions was also lost, and Ivan Ivanov, the founder of Commarenthia, was the only one responsible for future development. In 2014 he joined the Russian Microwiki on Wikia, which experienced an influx of new members at the time. Establishing diplomatic ties with some developing nations Ivanov soon decided to rebrand his micronation to Konakia in honor of the town in which Commarenthia was once located.

In January 2015, a parliament was introduced, the People's Assembly, which served mainly as a meeting point for other micronationsl leaders and a testground for their legislative projects aimed at their respective micronations. From January to September 2015, Konakia was involved into the "First Micronational War", a series of conflicts around People's Assembly speaker and Russian Microwiki key admin Georgy Volkov, whose staunch pro-Western Euro-Atlanticist views caused many to join the opposition to his regime. As a result, the form of government in Konakia changed about a dozen times (from republic to monarchy and from monarchy to republic), and in September of the same year Konakia for a short period of time joined of Volkov's Archizealandic Federation as a federal state.

After the restoration of independence in November 2015 Konakia fell into long period of stagnation. Once prominent micronationalists felt irritated to involve in politics on an equal basis with a wave of newcomers replacing those who "fell" in "WW1", while newcomers themselves had little interest in stagnant nations. In mid-2017, Konakia turned to be one of the few "old" VK micronations to establish contact with the now-dominant force in the community, the @_@, a group of far-right micronationalists of Belarusian-Ukrainian origin. In fall of 2017, an internal conflict in the @_@ brought some "free space" for a new generation of politicians, centered around ex-@_@'s Alexey Inshakov. His informal group, later known as Cobra, launched a "culture war" against smaller developing nations using elements of Commarenthian culture as a method of subjugation.

Though Cobrist wars did not benefit Konakia, they served as an excuse for Ivanov to initiate process of "re-Commarenthising" the country, latter dubbed as the National Reformation. In August 2018, a new constitution was passed, establishing the State of Konakia (historically known as the 13th Republic), which was to be a presidential regime with symmetric federalism, unlike its predecessor, the Konakian Democratic Federal Republic. Critical to the reform, @_@ walked out of the newly elected parliament, and Ivanov's attempt to prevent this caused Cobrists to formally impeach him as traitor to his own ideas and launch a rump government. On 25 September 2018, the Reunification Act was signed by Ivanov and Inshakov. Since then, the 14th Konakian Republic, or the Union State, exists as a democratic parliamentary republic.

See also: Timeline of Konakian history

Politics

Government

According to the current constitution (the 8th General Charter), Konakia is a federal parliamentary republic.

The head of state in the USC is the President who is elected by parliament (State Assembly) for 4 months. President has mostly representative functions. The executive branch is the Cabinet headed by Chancellor, which includes three National Commitees (ministries): of foreign policy, security and cultural heritage. The legislative body of Konakia is the State Assembly, elected by popular vote every 4 months. At its the first meeting State Assembly usually elects a new president (in most cases, from among the MPs).

The 9th State Assembly of Konakia was elected on 12 December 2020. On the same day Sergej Bubnov was elected and sworn in as the 27th President. Vitoljd Čaban's Cabinet was approved by the Assembly on 22 October 2020. Its composition does not differ from the previous cabinets of Alexander Kuzjmin, Konstantin Tolstoj and Benedict Atojan: since 4 November 2019 Aleksej Inšakov is the head of National commitee of Foreign Policy, Benedict Atojan is holding the post of the head of Security Commitee, and the first president of Konakia Evgenij Alekseev is supervising cultural heritage.

The "eternal cabinet" and its national committees were abolished in February 2022 with their responsibilities transferred to the Crown offices of the West, East and North.

Constituent states

Konakia comprises 12 federal states, 9 of which are known as "daughter lands" and three are "sister lands". Only three of daughter lands (autonomous governorates of Dense Forests and New Commarenthia and the Republic of Baltia) have elected governors, the rest of them are monarchies. Sister lands were introduced in July 2021 by annexing three long-forgotten micronational communities once having political and cultural ties with Konakia.

Culture

Languages

There are three official languages in Konakia: Russian, Commarenthian and Margalian. Commarenthian language has developed in 2010-2011 and is actually Russian with the replacement of some Cyrillic letters with Latin ones and re-adopting some rules from pre-1918 Russian Orthography. Despite its unoriginality Commarenthian has the official status due to its role as the main part of historical Commarenthian identity. Margalian language is also can be seen as a legacy of the Commarenthian era, but its current version actually is very different from 2011-2014 linguistic experiments.

National holidays

• Ursgirbetuļzen 1. (1 January) ― New Year
• Ursgirbetuļzen 7. (7 January) ― Eastern Orthodox Christmas
• Ursgirbetuļzen 18 (18 January) ― Margalian Culture Day (Margalian language reform, 2018)
• Beleruļzen 18. (18 June) ― Foundation Day (foundation of Commarenthia, 2009)
• Runaduļzen 1. (1 July) ― Commarenthian New Year (beginning of the year in Commarenthian Republican Era)
• Majdeguļzen 11. (11 August) ― Day of the National Reformation (proclamation of the Union State regime, 2018)
• Cilaņduļzen 25. (25 September) ― Reunification Day (signing of the Reunification Act between two rivaling governments, 2018)
• Ajgaruļzen 5. (5 November) ― Konakia Day (dissolution of the Federal Republic of Commarenthia, 2014)

Foreign policy

Diplomatic relations with other micronations

Name	Location	Treaty signed
Laugrasian Empire	Novosil, Russia/Kyiv, Ukraine	19 May 2019
Romanian Republic	Romany, Belarus	7 August 2019
Republic of Svetlorussia	St. Petersburg, Russia	20 September 2019
Republic of Daugavpivia (now Tewerian Principality)	Pushkino, Russia	3 June 2020
Republic of Esgeldia (now the Holy Esgeldian Tsardom)	Pskov, Russia/Riga, Latvia	7 June 2020
Republic of New Christiania	Lugansk, Ukraine/Russia	20 August 2020
Republic of Witoldia (Fesalion)	Dnipro, Ukraine	24 August 2020
Rovdino Empire (democratic government)	Rovdino, Russia	25 August 2020
Kingdom of Levedia	Kharkiv, Ukraine	30 December 2020
Great Sidorian Empire	Kyiv, Ukraine	28 January 2021
Republic of Avinea	Antarctica	28 January 2021
Waldrian Empire	Riga, Latvia	28 December 2021
Gergenzedian Tsardom	Balashov, Russia	27 October 2022

Membership in micronational organisations

Name	Period
Organisation of Independent States	6 June — 16 June 2014
Organisation of Independent Nations	14 March — 15 March 2015
Congress of Independent Nations	March? — 21 May 2015
Organisation of Monarchist States	14 May — 21? May 2015
League of Free States	10 December 2017 — 29 September 2018
League of Independent States	since 31 December 2020
Organization for the Security and Cooperation of Micronations	27 May — 23 December 2021
Dmitrov League	since 7 March 2022