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The United Commonwealth
Kraviteras Samæna Hemænebestr, Krawiterska, Obyedinyonnaya Domospolita Kravitera, Severoszlavia, The Commonwealth


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Aerial view of the Imperial Castle with Cesarskie Miasto skyline

The United Commonwealth is at a geographic crossroads. It links the fertile lowland plains of East Craviter and the sea lanes of the Argent Sea and the Auburn Channel to the mountainous highlands of Central Craviter. Now bounded by six nations, the Commonwealth has waxed and waned over the centuries, buffeted by the forces of regional history. In 43 AD, the Argent conquest of Krawiterska began. In 863, Lech the Szlav liberated much of Krawiterska, made governor by Dominar Andronikas I, and when the Argent Imperium ended in 1137, the wiecze, an assembly of landlords and merchants, elected their own dominarz to lead the First Commonwealth. In the Partitions of the Commonwealth (1659-1678), the lowlands became known as Nordic Krawiterska, a collection of possessions held by the United Kingdom of Goyanes and Andrenne in personal union, and its highland territories were parceled out to Callise and Khastenia. Arrandali and Essalanean principalities were carved out of the Commonwealth's southern regions. Syrixia took over Krawiterska after the 1st Nordic-Imperial War. In the Wars of the Callisean Republic (1814-1819), the General Wiecze of Nordic Krawiterska voted to oust Samprati III in 1815, declared itself a sister republic of Callise, and marked the beginning of the short-lived Second Commonwealth. The Army of Lechia, the standing forces tasked to defend Syrixian Krawiterska, was bogged down by the Army of the Wiecze until the arrival of Syrixian-Nordic Coalition forces in 1819.

Even at times of national crisis, however, the cultures of the United Commonwealth remained strong; indeed, it even flourished. Intellectuals, musicians, filmmakers, and writers came from Krawiterskan Alemaners, Arrandalis, Calliseans, Essaleneans, and Lechites. Callisean revolutionary ideals were carried by Regent Kazimierz Pułaski, a Lechite, and Speaker Jarl Herman Bohuslæn, an Alemaner-Prydanian; both founding fathers of the modern Commonwealth. They led the national effort behind the Krawiterskan Constitution of 1821. The name "Krawiterska" was first mentioned in the document. The new Third Commonwealth incorporated ideals of the Callisean Republic, the Supreme Law of Goyanes, and the Santonian Revolution, and created a parliamentary federation. The elective monarchy that existed since the First Commonwealth was replaced by a hereditary dynasty. Astrid Severyn-Loðbrók of Prydania became its first monarch in 1827.

In the 1930s the exploitation of oil and natural gas became the major industry, with the Commonwealth emerging in the 1940s as one of the world’s leading petroleum exporters. Andrenne, Maloria, and Syrixia were the main benefactors of the oil concessions. The Fascist War was particularly damaging. The Third Commonwealth was ended by the Covenant, a group of radical Gotic officers that sought to join the Dominion alliance. They committed the coup that established the Fourth Commonwealth. It imposed forced Gotification policies on the Krawiterskan Szlavic population. In both the Commonwealth and Krawiterskan-occupied Khastenia, the Courantist and Zmeyist religions were banned. Andrenske became the sole official language. The use of the Arrandi, Lechite, and Szlavonic languages were prohibited. The Alemaner and Callisean languages gained legal protections. With the defeat of the Dominion in 1951, the Third Commonwealth was restored.

Yuri I's ill-fated plans for political and economic reforms and bribery from Andrenne led to the 1979 coup, sponsored by Maloria, replaced the Third Commonwealth with the Fifth Commonwealth. 14 years of totalitarian rule under the Solidarist Party followed, though not without strong challenges on the part of Krawiterskan workers, who, supported by a dissident Laurenist Church, called the economic failures of the Solidarist system into question. In the late 1980s, beginning in the shipyards of Gdańsk, Krawiterskan workers formed a nationwide movement called Konfederacja (Confederation). Despite the arrest of Konfederacja's leadership, its newspapers kept publishing, spreading its values and agenda throughout the country. In May 1993 the Solidarist Party, under the new leadership of Konfederacja leader Prince Włodokus Bolkonsky, announced a general amnesty, regular party elections, and an end to political oppression, planting the seeds of the Commonwealth's return to more democratic practices.

Although the demise of central economic planning and totalitarian rule brought profound political and economic changes, including the beginnings of the formation of a large middle class, for much of the post-totalitarian era the Krawiterskans had to endure a generally weak economy, high inflation, and a complex of social ills that served to lower life expectancy significantly. The Bolkonsky Government was unable to prevent the Interconfessional War (1993-1996). Hundreds of Laurenist and Courantist churches were destroyed and the faithful persecuted in both Szlavic and Gotic-dominated states. As a result, 3 million people were displaced. 2 million left for Saintonge and Oklusia. Allegations of collusion with the Andrennian, Malorian, and Syrixian governments plagued each successive government since the post-1993 parliamentary elections in 1995.

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Flag of Krawiterska
Anthem: Mazurka Craviteru
Head Of State:
Krawiterskan Dominarz: Mateusz II
Head Of Government:
Grand Consul: Ritter Wilhelm von Städtler III
Capital: Cesarskie Miasto
Population:
(2024 est.) 62,775,198
Currency exchange:
1 IBU equals D25,405.02
Total Area (Sq Km):
589,392
Form of Government:
Federal Solidarist constitutional monarchy
with two legislative houses
(Senate [801]; Council of Craviter [460])
Official Languages:
Andrenske; Szlavonic
Official Religion:
None
Official Name:
Andrenske:
Kraviteras Samæna Hemænebestr
Szlavonic:
Obyedinyonnaya
Domospolita Kravitera
(United Commonwealth
of Krawiterska)
Total Area (Sq Km):
589,392
Total Area (Sq Mi):
227,565
Monetary unit:
Krawiterskan draak (D)
Density: Persons Per Sq Km: (2024)
106.5
Density: Persons Per Sq Km: (2024)
275.8
Literacy: Percentage Of Population
Age 15 And Over Literate:

Male: (2021) 92% Female: (2021) 85%​
 
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The full name of the Commonwealth is the United Commonwealth of Krawiterska. "Krawiterska", the Lechite name, is the preferred spelling in Mercanti. Prior to 1992, "Craviter" was also used, particularly by Gotic speakers. "Krawiterska" has become popular with the Gotic peoples of the Commonwealth. "Severoszlavia" is the name preferred by the Szlavic peoples, first coined by Szlavic nationalist Baron Wawrzyniec Cezari. Alternatively, it can be simplify referred to as "The Commonwealth" or "Domospolita." It is a compound of the terms "domos" from "dominium", the official name of the Argent Imperium, and "pospolita" or "common."
Andrennian and Khastenian are the official languages of the Commonwealth. The two other predominant languages are Alemaner and Lechite. There are four other languages, including dialects from three language families—Gotic, Kylian, and Szlavic—that are commonly spoken.
The United Commonwealth is a federation of 2 kingdoms, 4 grand principalities, 1 archduchy, 3 grand duchies, and 3 Ganzianer cities:
  • Kingdoms: Lechia, Tristain
  • Grand Principalities: Mindaǔzem, Taǔragorsca, Volhynia, Turov
  • Archduchy of Mittelreich
  • Grand Duchies: Brunswick, Drusselstein, Silesia
  • Margraviates: Grefanland, Klænsland, Tannenburg
  • Ganzianer Cities: Nowogród, Gdańsk, Hintzenhaven
Michal Pucilowski was the first Solidarist leader in the Third Commonwealth. He was elected as head of government from 1917 until his dismissal in 1924 after his nationalization of the oil industry failed due to international pressure. Grand Duke Leopold IV of Brunswick, founder of the Covenanter Party, defeated the Solidarist Democratic Party (SDP) in the 1924 election before he suspended future elections and banned opposition parties. The Covenanter Party became the sole ruling party. This ended the Third Commonwealth. Leopold and his son and successor, Ernst from 1949, led the new Fourth Commonwealth under a totalitarian, Gotic supremacist regime until Ernst's capture by Allied forces in 1951. Elections held in 1952 were won by Yuliy Kopsov of the Conservative Party of Craviter (CPC), leading from 1953 to 1957 for a term and a half, known for his secularization program.

Wilhelm Städtler I was another prominent leader, serving from 1957 to 1960. His tenure was marked by the creation of the National Krawiterskan Oil Company, a multinational consortium invested by Maloria and Syrixia, led by the Andrennian National Energy Company. The CPC and the SDP alternated in governing the country in an ineffective two-party system, formed 11 different ministries, the last 3 collapsed within a year, before the 1979 coup. General Eugeni Bazhenov forced Emperor Henryk II to appoint him as prime minister. Another totalitarian one-party state was established under the Solidarist Party. After Bazhenov, he was succeeded by Yuriy Zhurov, Matvey Rayt, Prince Gilbert Lodewiyg, Baron Izydor Dembe, Panteley Dimitry, and Vladiszlav Yanayev. In 1993, Prince Włodokus Bolkonsky introduced political, civil rights, and economic reforms. It made the Solidarist Party more democratic, the government less oppressive, and the economy more open.
 
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Szlavonic bulletin at United Commonwealth referendum, 1993

On November 23, 1992, the Declaration and Treaty on the Formation of the United Commonwealth of Krawiterska was adopted by the Conference of Plenipotentiary Delegations from the Prinsverbund (Gotic) and the Soviet Argentskikh Knyazey (Szlavic) countries of Krawiterska and the Solidarist Kingdom of Tristain. The Declaration and Treaty were confirmed by the 316th General Wiecze on March 6, 1993, and signed by heads of the delegations, including Krawiterskan Dominarz Henryk III, the guarantor of the original Union Treaty of 1979, David von Städtler, the de facto leader of the Gotic countries, and Prince Włodokus Bolkonsky, the de facto leader of the Szlavic countries. The divisive debates in the conference extended reactionary and separatist violence to the individual referenda to approve a new treaty and constitution in each Krawiterskan state. In the end, they agreed to a confederation of independent countries with a common head of state, foreign policy, and military. However, after the events of the 1994 Krawiterskan constitutional crisis, the 1995 Constitution of the United Commonwealth restored almost all of the aspects of the previous centralized federation. Plans to create a new declaration for the New Union Treaty were abandoned and the original declaration from the 1979 Union Treaty was re-adopted.

LAW ON THE RATIFICATION OF THE NEW UNION TREATY
We, Henryk the Third, by the Will of the High and Mighty Lords of the General Wiecze, Krawiterskan Dominarz, King of Lechia and Tristain, Archduke of Mittelreich, Duke of Lesser Lechia, Moravia, and Gothia, Jarl of Hołmogród and Wiepsia, Count of Kraków, Cieszyn, Racibórz, Bytom, Colonhac, Mervelha, Rieselfeld, and Uttingen-am-Kiel, and Thane of Nowogród, Ruzia, Białojeziero, Cichwin, and Wielkie Łuki, and Sovereign of the Mountain Princes,

hereby decree in the name of the United Solidarist Commonwealth of Krawiterska, after the consent of the Senate and the Council of Craviter, the following:

Section 1.
In place of the Constitution of the United Solidarist Commonwealth of Krawiterska agreed between the USCK and the Kingdoms of Lechia and Tristain on accession to the attached

Text of the Constitution of the United Commonwealth of Krawiterska.

Section 2.
The laws enacted in the United Solidarist Commonwealth of Krawiterska referred to by special federal law shall be declared to be laws of the United Commonwealth of Krawiterska, and as such shall be introduced into the whole territory of the United Commonwealth, with the effect that, where these laws refer to the United Solidarist Commonwealth of Krawiterska, its constitution, territory, members or states, indigenous persons, constitutional organs, relatives, officials, flag, etc., these are to be understood to refer to the United Solidarist Commonwealth of Krawiterska and its corresponding relations. The laws designated there are imperial laws.

Section 3.
The agreements in the Treaty of Landereau on February 15, 1993, and the Pacta Conventa of Krawiterskan Dominarza Astrid on May 28, 1827, are not affected by this Act.

Certified under Our Signature and the affixed Imperial Seal.

Given at Cesarkie Miasto, March 17, 1993.

DECLARATION ON THE FORMATION OF THE UNITED SOLIDARIST COMMONWEALTH OF KRAWITERSKA
Prior to the formation of the Solidarist states, the states of the world were split into two camps: the camp of capitalism and the camp of communism.

There, in the camp of capitalism, there is national inequality, colonial slavery, pogroms, and imperialist atrocities.

There, in the camp of communism, there is national enmity, chauvinism, national oppression, and wars.

Here, in the camp of Solidarism, there is mutual trust and peace, national freedom and equality, peaceful coexistence and fraternal co-operation of the peoples.

The attempts of the capitalist world for decades to resolve the question of nationality by combining the free development of the peoples with the system of exploitation of man by elite men and the attempts of the communist world to resolve it by suppressing the free development with the system of exploitation of labor by elite labor proved fruitless. On the contrary, the tangle of national contradictions is becoming more and more entangled, threatening the very existence of capitalism and communism. The disunited peasants, workers, capitalists, and gentry proved powerless to establish cooperation among the peoples.

Only in the camp of Solidarism, under the conditions of Craviterian nationalism, syndicalism, class collaboration, and corporatism, led by the gentry, which rallied around itself the capitalist, worker, and peasant classes, was it possible to abolish national inequality and national oppression at their roots, to create an atmosphere of mutual confidence and to lay the foundations of fraternal co-operation among the peoples. It was only thanks to these circumstances that the Solidarist states were able to repel the attacks of the imperialists of the whole world, internal and external. Only thanks to these circumstances did they manage to successfully prevent total war, ensure their existence and begin peaceful economic construction and political reform.

But the years of civil unrest did not pass without a trace. Exhausted economic resources inherited from the brief insurgencies and riots make the individual efforts of individual states for economic construction insufficient.

The very structure of Solidarist power, national syndicalism, harnesses the irremediable, fruitful, and beneficent inequality of men to push the classes of the Solidarist states to the path of unification into one family, to ensure the success of the Solidarist Revolution.

All these circumstances imperatively demand the unification of the Solidarist states into one commonwealth state, capable of ensuring both external security and internal economic prosperity, and the freedom of the national development of the peoples.

The will of the peoples of the Solidarist states, who have recently gathered at their wiecze and have unanimously adopted the decision to form a union of Craviterian nations, serves as a reliable guarantee that this Commonwealth is a voluntary association of equal peoples, that the right of free secession from the Commonwealth is guaranteed to each states, that access to the Commonwealth is open to all Solidarist states, both existing and those that will arise in the future, that the new commonwealth state is a worthy crowning of the foundations of peaceful coexistence and fraternal co-operation of the peoples, laid back in February 1979, that it will serve as a true bulwark against capitalist and communist worlds.

Declaring all this before the whole world and solemnly proclaiming the inviolability of the foundations of Solidarist power, which have found expression in the constitutions of the Solidarist States which have authorized us, we, the delegates of these states, on the basis of the powers vested in us, decide to sign a treaty on the formation of the "United Solidarist Commonwealth of Krawiterska."

TEXT OF THE TREATY
I. Basic Principles

1. Each country that is a party to the Treaty is a state of the United Commonwealth of Krawiterska (abbreviated as the KSH in Andrenske or ODK in Szlavonic). The ODK is a sovereign federal democratic state formed as a result of the unification of equal states and exercising federal power that the parties to the Treaty voluntarily grant it.
2. The states forming the Commonwealth reserve the right to independently resolve all issues of their development, guaranteeing equal political rights and opportunities for socio-economic and cultural development to all peoples living on their territory. The parties to the Treaty will proceed from a combination of universal and national values, resolutely oppose racism, chauvinism, and any restriction to the rights of the Krawiterskan states.
3. The states that form the Commonwealth see the most important condition for the freedom and well-being of the people and each person in the formation of civil society. They will strive to meet the needs of the people on the basis of a free choice of forms of ownership and methods of management, the development of the all-Commonwealth market, the implementation of the principles of social justice and security.
4. The states that form the Commonwealth have full political power, independently determine their national-state and administrative-territorial structure, and the system of authorities and administration. They may delegate part of their powers to other Krawiterskan states. Each Krawiterskan state recognizes democracy based on a representative expression of the will of the peoples as a common fundamental principle and strive to create a federation based on the rule of law, which would serve as a guarantor against any tendencies towards totalitarianism and arbitrariness.
5. The United Commonwealth of Krawiterska acts in international relations as a single sovereign state, a subject of international law, the successor of the United Solidarist Commonwealth of Krawiterska. Its main goals in the international arena are lasting peace, cooperation among other sovereign states, and solidarity of the peoples in solving the global problems of mankind.

II. Structure of the Commonwealth
Article 1: Membership of the Commonwealth
Membership of states in the Commonwealth is voluntary.

Relations between the Krawiterskan states are regulated by treaties between them, the Constitution of the states in question and the Constitution of the ODK In the case of the Solidarist Kingdom of Lechia, by a federal treaty or the Constitution of the United Commonwealth.

Membership in the Commonwealth is open to all the sovereign states of Craviter that recognize the Treaty.

The states forming the Commonwealth retain the right to freely withdraw from it in accordance with the procedure established by the parties to the Treaty and enshrined in the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth.

Article 2: Citizenship of the Commonwealth
A citizen of a Krawiterskan state is at the same time a citizen of the Commonwealth.

Citizens of the United Commonwealth have equal rights, freedoms and obligations enshrined in the Constitution, laws and international treaties of the Commonwealth.

Article 3. Territory of the Commonwealth
The territory of the Commonwealth consists of the territories of all states that form it.

The Parties to the Treaty recognize the boundaries existing between them at the time of signing the Treaty.

The borders between the states forming the Commonwealth may be changed only by agreement between them that does not violate the interests of the other parties to the Treaty.

Article 4: Relations between the states forming the Commonwealth
Relations between the states forming the Commonwealth shall be regulated by the present Treaty, the Constitution of the ODK, and treaties and agreements that do not contradict them.

The parties to the Treaty build their relations within the Commonwealth on the basis of equality and respect for territorial integrity, non-interference in internal affairs, settlement of disputes by peaceful means, cooperation, mutual assistance, conscientious fulfillment of obligations under the Union Treaty and agreements between several Krawiterskan states.

The states forming the Commonwealth undertake: not to resort to force and the threat of force in their relations with each other; not to encroach on the territorial integrity of each other; not to conclude agreements contrary to the objectives of the Commonwealth or directed against the states forming it.

The use of troops of the Ministry of Defense of the O.D.K. within the country is not allowed, except for their participation in the solution of urgent national economic problems in exceptional cases, in the management of natural and environmental disasters, as well as in cases provided for by the special federal law on the state of emergency.

Article 5. Sphere of competence of the Commonwealth
The parties to the Treaty vest the O.D.K. with the following powers:

– Protection of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Commonwealth and its subjects; declaration of war and conclusion of peace; ensuring the defense and management of the Armed Forces, border, special (government communications, engineering and other), internal, railway troops of the Commonwealth; organization of the development and production of weapons and military equipment.

– Ensuring the federal state security of the Commonwealth; establishment of the regime and protection of the federal border, economic zone, sea and airspace of the Commonwealth; management and coordination of the activities of the security bodies of the Krawiterskan states.

– Implementation of the foreign policy of the Commonwealth and coordination of the external policy of the Krawiterskan states; representation of the Commonwealth in relations with foreign states and international organizations; conclusion of international treaties of the Commonwealth.

– Implementation of foreign economic activity of the Commonwealth and coordination of foreign economic activity of the Krawiterskan states; representation of the Commonwealth in international economic and financial organizations, conclusion of foreign economic agreements of the Commonwealth.

– Approval and execution of the Commonwealth budget, implementation of monetary emission; storage of gold reserves, diamond and currency funds of the Commonwealth; management of space research; air traffic control, all-Commonwealth communication and information systems, geodesy and cartography, metrology, standardization, meteorology; nuclear energy management.

– Adoption of the Constitution of the Commonwealth, amendments and additions to it; adoption of laws within the powers of the Commonwealth and regulation of any special federal law on issues agreed with the Krawiterskan states; supreme constitutional control.

– Management of the activities of federal law enforcement agencies and coordination of the activities of law enforcement agencies of the Commonwealth and the states in the fight against crime.

Article 6. Sphere of Joint Competence of the ODK and the Krawiterskan States
The bodies of federal state power and administration of the Commonwealth and the Krawiterskan states jointly exercise the following powers:

- Protection of the constitutional system of the Commonwealth based on the present Treaty and the Constitution of the ODK; ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens of the ODK.

– Determination of the military policy of the Commonwealth, implementation of measures for the organization and provision of defense; establishment of a unified procedure for conscription and military service; establishment of the border zone regime; resolving issues related to the activities of troops and the deployment of military facilities on the territory of the Krawiterskan states; organization of mobilization preparation of the national economy; management of defense enterprises.

- Determination of the strategy of the federal state security of the Commonwealth and ensuring the local state security of the Krawiterskan states; change of the federal state borders of the Commonwealth with the consent of the relevant party to the Treaty; protection of state secrets; determination of the list of strategic resources and products that are not subject to export outside the Commonwealth, establishment of general principles and standards in the field of environmental safety; establishment of procedures for the receipt, storage and use of fissile and radioactive materials.

- Determination of the foreign policy of the ODK and control over its implementation; protection of the rights and interests of citizens of the ODK, the rights and interests of the Krawiterskan states in international relations; establishment of the foundations of foreign economic activity; conclusion of agreements on international loans and credits, regulation of the external public debt of the Commonwealth; unified customs business; protection and rational use of the natural resources of the economic zone and the continental shelf of the Commonwealth.

– Determination of the strategy for the socio-economic development of the Commonwealth and the creation of conditions for the formation of the all-Commonwealth market; implementation of a single financial, credit, monetary, tax, insurance and pricing policy based on a common currency; creation and use of gold reserves, Diamond and Currency funds of the Commonwealth; development and implementation of all-Commonwealth programs; control over the execution of the Commonwealth budget and the agreed monetary issue; creation of all-Commonwealth funds for regional development and elimination of consequences of natural disasters and catastrophes; creation of strategic reserves; maintenance of unified all-Commonwealth statistics.

– Development of a unified policy and balance in the field of fuel and energy resources, management of the country's energy system, main gas and oil pipelines, all-Commonwealth railway, air and sea transport; establishment of the foundations of nature management and environmental protection, veterinary medicine, epizootics and plant quarantine; coordination of actions in the field of water management and inter-Krawiterskan-state resources.

– Determination of the foundations of social policy on employment, migration, working conditions, remuneration and protection, social security and insurance, public education, health care, physical culture and sports; establishment of the basis for pension provision and the preservation of other social guarantees, including when citizens move from one Krawiterskan state to another; the establishment of a unified procedure for indexation of incomes and the guaranteed subsistence minimum.

– Control over compliance with the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth, decrees of the Krawiterskan Dominarz, decisions taken within the framework of the Commonwealth competence; creation of an all-Commonwealth criminalistic accounting and information system; organization of the fight against crimes committed on the territory of several Krawiterskan states; determination of a unified regime for the organization of correctional institutions.

Article 7. Procedure for exercising the powers of the State Bodies of the Commonwealth and Joint Powers of the State Bodies of the Commonwealth and the Krawiterskan States
Issues related to joint competence are resolved by the authorities and administration bodies of the Commonwealth and the Krawiterskan states through coordination, special agreements, adoption of the Fundamentals of Legislation of the Commonwealth and the Krawiterskan states and the corresponding local state laws. Questions referred to the competence of the Commonwealth bodies shall be resolved by them directly.

Powers not directly attributed by Articles 5 and 6 to the exclusive competence of the bodies of power and administration of the Commonwealth or to the sphere of joint competence of the bodies of the Commonwealth and the Krawiterskan states, remain under the jurisdiction of the Krawiterskan states and are exercised by them independently or on the basis of bilateral and multilateral agreements between them. After the signing of the Treaty, a corresponding change in the powers of the governing bodies of the Commonwealth and the Krawiterskan states is made.

The parties to the Treaty proceed from the fact that with the formation of the all-Commonwealth market, the sphere of direct state management of the economy is shrinking. The necessary redistribution or change in the scope of powers of the governing bodies will be carried out with the consent of the states forming the Commonwealth.

Disputes on the exercise of the powers of the Commonwealth bodies or the exercise of rights and the performance of obligations in the field of joint powers of the bodies of the Commonwealth and the Krawiterskan states shall be resolved by means of conciliation procedures. In case of failure to reach an agreement, disputes shall be submitted for consideration by the Constitutional Court of the Commonwealth.

The states forming the Commonwealth participate in the implementation of the powers of the Commonwealth bodies through the joint formation of the latter, as well as special procedures for coordinating decisions and their implementation.

Each Krawiterskan state may, by concluding an agreement with the Commonwealth, additionally delegate to it the exercise of its individual powers, and the Commonwealth, with the consent of all the Krawiterskan states, transfer to one or more of them the exercise of certain of its powers on their territory.

Article 8. Commonwealth property
The Commonwealth and the states forming it ensure free development, protection of all forms of ownership and create conditions for the functioning of enterprises and economic organizations in the markets of the single all-Commonwealth market.

The land, its subsoil, waters, other natural resources, flora and fauna are the property of the Krawiterskan states and the inalienable property of their peoples. The procedure for their possession, use and disposal (the right of ownership) is established by the local state laws of the Krawiterskan states. The right of ownership in relation to resources located on the territory of several Krawiterskan states is established by the federal state laws of the Commonwealth.

The states forming the Commonwealth assign to it the objects of state property necessary for the exercise of the powers vested in the Commonwealth bodies of power and administration.

The property owned by the Commonwealth is used in the common interests of its constituent states, including in the interests of accelerated development of lagging regions.

The states forming the Commonwealth shall have the right to their share in the gold reserves, the diamond and currency funds of the Commonwealth available at the time of the conclusion of this Treaty. Their participation in the further accumulation and use of treasures is determined by special agreements.

Article 9. Commonwealth taxes and fees
In order to finance the expenditures of the Commonwealth budget related to the implementation of the powers delegated to the Commonwealth, uniform Commonwealth taxes and fees shall be established at fixed interest rates, determined in agreement with the Krawiterskan states, on the basis of expenditure items submitted by the Commonwealth. Control over the expenditures of the Commonwealth budget is carried out by the parties to the Treaty.

All-Commonwealth programs are financed at the expense of share deductions of the interested Krawiterskan states and the Commonwealth budget. The scope and purpose of all-Commonwealth programs are regulated by agreements between the Commonwealth and the Krawiterskan states, taking into account the indicators of their socio-economic development.

Article 10. Constitution of the Commonwealth
The Constitution of the Commonwealth shall be based on this Treaty and shall not contradict it.

Article 11. Laws of the Commonwealth
The laws of the Commonwealth, the constitutions and laws of the Krawiterskan states forming it shall not contradict the provisions of this Treaty.

The federal laws of the Commonwealth on issues of its jurisdiction have supremacy and are binding on the territory of the Krawiterskan states.

The local laws of a Krawiterskan state have supremacy on its territory in all matters, with the exception of those that fall within the competence of the Commonwealth.

The Commonwealth shall have the right to suspend the application of a law of the Commonwealth on its territory and to protest against it if it violates the present Treaty or contradicts the Constitution or the laws of a Krawiterskan state adopted within the limits of its powers.

The Commonwealth shall have the right to protest and suspend the operation of a law of a Krawiterskan state if it violates the present Treaty, contradicts the Constitution or the laws of the Commonwealth adopted within the limits of its powers.

Disputes are referred to the Constitutional Court of the Commonwealth, which makes a final decision within one month.

III. Bodies of the Commonwealth
Article 12. Formation of Commonwealth Organs
Commonwealth bodies of power and administration are formed on the basis of the free expression of the will of the peoples and the representation of the states forming the Commonwealth. They shall act in strict accordance with the provisions of this Treaty and the Constitution of the Commonwealth.

Article 13. General Wiecze
The legislative power of the Commonwealth is exercised by the General Wiecze of the ODK, consisting of two chambers: the Senate and the Council of Craviter.

The Senate consists of representatives of the Krawiterskan states delegated by their supreme bodies of power. The Krawiterskan states and national-territorial formations in the Senate retain a number of seats no less than the number of seats in the Council of Craviter at the time of signing the Treaty.

All deputies of the Senate directly included in the Commonwealth have one common vote in resolving issues. The procedure for electing representatives and their quotas shall be determined in a special agreement of the legislature of a Krawiterskan state and the electoral law of the ODK.

The Council of Craviter is elected by the members of all federal syndicates. At the same time, representation in the Council of Craviter of all Krawiterskan states participating in the Treaty is guaranteed.

The Chambers of the General Wiecze jointly introduce amendments to the Constitution of the ODK; accept new states into the ODK; determine the foundations of Commonwealth domestic and foreign policy; approve the Commonwealth budget and the report on its implementation; declare war and conclude peace; approve changes in the borders of the Commonwealth.

The Senate adopts special federal state laws on the organization and procedure for the activities of the Commonwealth bodies; considers issues of relations between the Krawiterskan states; ratifies international treaties of the ODK; gives consent to the appointment of the Presidium of the ODK.

The Council of Craviter considers questions of ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens of the ODK and adopts laws on all issues except those that fall within the competence of the Senate. Federal laws adopted by the Council of Craviter shall enter into force after approval by the Senate.

Article 14. Krawiterskan Dominarz
The Krawiterskan Dominarz is the head of the Commonwealth, who has the highest executive and administrative power.

The Krawiterskan Dominarz acts as a guarantor of the observance of the Union Treaty, the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth; is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Commonwealth; represents the Commonwealth in relations with foreign countries; exercises control over the implementation of international obligations of the Commonwealth.

The Krawiterskan Dominarz is hereditary in the House of Severyn-Loðbrók-Mavoia. It passes by absolute primogeniture.

Article 15. Grand Consul of the ODK
The Grand Consul of the ODK shall be appointed by the Krawiterskan Dominarz with the consent of the General Wiecze. The Grand Consul exercises individual functions of the Krawiterskan Dominarz as empowered by him, and deputizes for the Krawiterskan Dominarz in the event of his absence or inability to perform his duties.

Article 16. Presidium of the ODK
The Presidium of the Commonwealth is the executive body of the Commonwealth, subordinate to the Krawiterskan Dominarz and responsible to the General Wiecze.

The Cabinet of Ministers is formed by the Krawiterskan Dominarz in coordination with the Council of Senate of the General Wiecze of the United Commonwealth.

The heads of state of the Krawiterskan states participate in the work of the Presidium of the Commonwealth with the right of decisive vote.

Article 17. Constitutional Court of the ODK
The Constitutional Court of the ODK shall be formed on an equal basis by the Krawiterskan Dominarz and each of the chambers of the General Wiecze.

The Constitutional Court of the ODK considers issues of conformity of the legislative acts of the Commonwealth and the Krawiterskan states, decrees of the Krawiterskan Dominarz and the heads of state of the Krawiterskan states, normative acts of the Presidium of the Commonwealth with the Union Treaty and the Constitution of the Commonwealth, and also resolves disputes between the Commonwealth and the Krawiterskan states, and between several Krawiterskan states.

Article 18. Commonwealth Courts
Commonwealth (federal) courts are the Supreme Court of the United Commonwealth of Krawiterska, the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Commonwealth, and courts in the Armed Forces of the Commonwealth.

The Supreme Court of the Commonwealth and the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Commonwealth exercise judicial power within the powers of the Commonwealth. The chairmen of the highest judicial and arbitration bodies of the Krawiterskan states are ex officio members of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth and the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Commonwealth, respectively.

Article 19. Prosecutor's Office of the ODK
Supervision over the implementation of legislative acts of the Commonwealth is carried out by the Prosecutor General of the Commonwealth, prosecutors general (prosecutors) of the Krawiterskan states and prosecutors subordinate to them.

The Prosecutor General of the Commonwealth is appointed by the General Wiecze and is accountable to it.

The Procurators General (Procurators) of the Krawiterskan states are appointed by their supreme legislative bodies and are ex officio members of the Collegium of the Prosecutor's Office of the Commonwealth. In their activities to supervise the implementation of Commonwealth laws, they are accountable both to the supreme legislative bodies of their states and to the Prosecutor General of the Commonwealth.

III. Final Provisions
Article 20. Languages of Interethnic Communication in the ODK
The Krawiterskan state independently determine their state languages. The parties to the Treaty recognize the Andrenske and Szlavonic languages as the languages of interethnic communication in the ODK.

Article 21. Capital of the Commonwealth
The capital of the ODK is the city of Cesarskie Miasto.

Article 22. State Symbols of the Commonwealth

The ODK has a state coat of arms, a flag and an anthem.

Article 23. Entry into force of the Treaty
This Treaty shall be approved by the supreme bodies of state power of the states forming the Commonwealth, and shall enter into force from the moment of their signing by plenipotentiary delegations.

For the Commonwealth that signed it, the Treaty on the Formation of the OSDK of 1979 is considered invalid from the same date.

With the entry into force of the Treaty, the most-favored-nation regime applies to the Krawiterskan states that have signed it.

Relations between the United Commonwealth of Krawiterska and the Krawiterskan states that are part of the United Commonwealth of Krawiterska but have not signed the present Treaty shall be regulated on the basis of the legislation of the ODK and mutual obligations and agreements.

Article 24. Liability under the Contract
The Commonwealth and the Krawiterskan states forming it shall bear mutual responsibility for the fulfillment of the obligations assumed and compensate for the damage caused by violations of this Treaty.

Article 25. Procedure for amending and supplementing the Agreement
This Treaty or its individual provisions may be canceled, amended or supplemented only with the consent of all states forming the Commonwealth.

If the need arises, appendixes to the treaty may be adopted by agreement between the Krawiterskan states which have signed it.

If necessary, annexes to the Treaty may be adopted by agreement between the signatory States.

Article 26. Succession of the supreme bodies of the Commonwealth
In order to ensure the continuity of the exercise of state power and administration, the supreme legislative, executive and judicial organs of the United Solidarist Commonwealth of Krawiterska shall retain their powers until the formation of the supreme state organs of the United Commonwealth of Krawiterska in accordance with the present Treaty and the new Constitution of the ODK.
 
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Flag of the United Commonwealth of Krawiterska
Kraviterianskiy Trikolor, Kraviterískr Tréklidr, Craviterian Tricolor


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A horizontally striped white-red-purple tricolor with a red and yellow star. Ratio is 2:3.

Prior to 1821, Krawiterska did not have a national flag. Since Argent rule, it had various flags under the different rulers and dynasties that ruled it, often personal or representative of the dynastic house. The House of Lech, the founding dynasty of the First Commonwealth, had a coat of arms, a black eagle on a red shield. It is called the Orzeł Dominarskiej (Lechite for "Imperial Eagle"). After Sigric I of Kippernoch was elected dominarz, they kept the Orzeł Dominarskiej by putting their white dynastic shield on the breast of the eagle. The imperial banners of the 17th and 18th centuries were usually divided into two or three horizontal stripes, often swallow-tailed, of red and white.

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Imperial banner of Dominarz Frederick IV Augustenburg

In the Wars of the Callisean Republic, the Second Commonwealth was established as a constituent republic of the planned Grand Republic of Craviter. In solidarity, the General Wiecze adopted the Callisean Tricolor but reordered, top to bottom, to white-red-purple instead of red-white-purple. It is locally referred to as the Craviterian Tricolor. In 1821, two years after the defeat of Jacques Chevalier, Consul Otto III Augustenburg led the effort to establish a constitutional monarchy to appease the victorious Nordic Coalition. The tricolor fell into disuse due to its association with Chevalier. Either the personal banner of arms of the Krawiterskan dominarz and the Krawiterskan Naval Jack were typically used to represent the country in embassies, books, and ships until 1867, when the Craviterian Tricolor was formally re-adopted.

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The Craviterian Tricolor in the Third Commonwealth

The tricolor remained the sole national flag, even under the Gotic supremacist Covenanter Party and when they led the country in the Fascist War. In 1979, the Solidarist Party established the Fourth Commonwealth, a fascist dictatorship that claimed its ideology to be a branch of Social Feudalism with "Syndicalist characteristics." They imposed a re-designed Craviterian Tricolor with their official symbol, a hammer, sword, and sickle in a red five-pointed star on a five-spoked cogwheel. This version served as the national flag of Krawiterska until 1993, when the symbol was reduced to a red star in the tricolor of the current Fifth Commonwealth.

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The Craviterian Tricolor in the Fourth Commonwealth
 
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Dominarz's and Dominarzas of Krawiterska

The fascist United Commonwealth, at its center, is a monarchy, in which the monarch shares power with a supposedly constitutional government. The reigning dominarz or dominarza is the country’s head of state. They share political power with the Grand Consul and the cabinet.

The following table provides a chronological list of the sovereigns of Krawiterska.

name
dynasty or house
reign
claim
relationship with predecessor(s)
other title(s)
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Lech I​
Lechia​
863-875​
founder of the First Commonwealth​

founder of the House of Lechia​
none​
King of the Argents​
Grand Prince of Kraków​
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Krak I​
Lechia​
875-888​
son​
son of Lech I​
King of the Argents​
Grand Prince of Kraków​
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Krak II​
Lechia​
888-905​
inherited​
son of Krak I​
King of the Argents​
Grand Prince of Kraków​
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Lech II​
Lechia​
905-924​
inherited​
deposed as a result of the Pagan Rebellion​
son of Krak II​
King of the Argents​
Grand Prince of Kraków​
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Sigric I​
Kippenberg​
924-973​
usurped Lech II​

elected​
none​
King of the Alemaners​
Duke of Megenland​
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Matthew I "The Red"​
Kippenberg​
973-992​
inherited​
son of Sigric I​
King of the Alemaners​
Duke of Megenland​
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Matthew II​
Kippenberg​
992-1025​
inherited​
son of Matthew I​
King of the Alemaners​
Duke of Megenland​
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Henry I​
Kippenberg​
1025-1031​
elected​
cousin of Matthew II​
King of the Alemaners​
Duke of Megenland​
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Conrad I​
Lieserburg​
1031-1039​
inherited​
2nd Great-grandson of Matthew I​
King of the Alemaners​
Duke of Lieserburg​
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Henry II "The Black"​
Lieserburg​
1039-1046​
inherited​
son of Conrad I​
King of the Alemaners​
Duke of Lieserburg​
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Casimir I​
Piast​
1046-1058​
elected​
none​
King of the Argents​
Duke of Silesia​
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Bolesław I "The Wrymouth"​
Piast​
1058-1079​
inherited​
son of Casimir I​
King of the Argents​
Duke of Silesia​
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Władysław I "The Fair"​
Piast​
1079-1102​
inherited​
son of Casimir I​
King of the Argents​
Duke of Silesia​
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Henry III​
Kesterburg​
1102-1106​
inherited​
deposed as a result of Heinrich's Rebellion​
none​
King of the Alemaners​
Duke of Kesterburg​
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Frederick I​
Kesterburg​
1106-1125​
elected​
son of Henry III​
King of the Alemaners​
Duke of Kesterburg​
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WIP1​
WIP1​
1125-1137​
elected​
none​
King of Alemriche (WIP1)​
King of Tristain​
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WIP2​
WIP2​
1137-1190​
inherited​
son of WIP1​
King of Alemriche (WIP2)​
King of Tristain​
Grand Prince of Kraków​
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WIP3​
WIP3​
1190-1197​
inherited​
abdicated​
son of WIP2​
King of Alemriche (WIP3)​
King of Tristain​
Grand Prince of Kraków​
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Mieszko​
Piast​
1197-1209​
elected​

deposed by the Peasant Revolt of Kraków​
none​
King of the Argents​
King of Tristain​
Grand Prince of Kraków​
Duke of Silesia​
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Władysław II "Spindleshanks"​
Piast​
1209-1215​
usurped Mieszko​

deposed by the Alemaner Revolt​
son of Mieszko​
King of the Argents​
King of Tristain​
Grand Prince of Kraków​
Duke of Silesia​
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Matthew III​
Hohenreislingen​
1215-1250​
elected​
descendant of Henry I​
King of the Alemaners​
King of Tristain​
Grand Prince of Kraków​
Count of Reislingen​
Piast​
 
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