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- Pronouns
- he/his
- TNP Nation
- Alsatian Island
Eutavian Community (EC)
Atlish: Etavenish Fellowship (EF)
Älvdalsk: Etavniskt Samhälle (ES)
Beiran: Comunitat Eutaviana (CE)
Cumbric: Cymuned Eutafiaidd (CE)
Rosalian: Comunidade Eutaviana (CE)
Tyrrish: Coimhearsnachd Eòtmhialteach (CE)
Atlish: Etavenish Fellowship (EF)
Älvdalsk: Etavniskt Samhälle (ES)
Beiran: Comunitat Eutaviana (CE)
Cumbric: Cymuned Eutafiaidd (CE)
Rosalian: Comunidade Eutaviana (CE)
Tyrrish: Coimhearsnachd Eòtmhialteach (CE)
Motto: Strength in unity
Member states: The Federated States of Lyvenntia, the Commonwealth of Great Sutherland
The forging of the EC
First meeting of the Eutavian Committee of Humanity in 1926 (right)
Eutavia rose from the ruin left by Godfred Roscow and his far-right, tyrannical style of government known internationally as Richeism in 1925. The URLS had splintered in its wake, while the classical democratic institutions which had sought to claim that their jurisdiction alone would protect individuals, and that there was no scope for individuals to hold the state to account on this benevolent basis, were left in total ruin.
The EC therefore began not on a whim, but out of an urgent, universally-accepted need to rebuild Eutavia stronger for future generations than those at the time had found it to be. While the Roscow era blatantly marked an abhorrent low point for human rights and democracy in what is now the EC, it would undo centuries-old precedent that had held the countries back, and usher in a radical reformation of the region.
Unsurprisingly, the first institutions to rise out of the ashes were those aimed at retributive and restorative justice in the wake of Richeist rule; the Eutavian Committee of Humanity sat for its first meeting on 2 January, 1926, and began the arduous task of not only determining what crimes had been committed over the past decade, but setting the precedent that crimes against humanity should be punished in the first place, especially in relation to the arbitrary punishment of Cumbric peoples and political prisoners.
After having tried the initial sixty defendants, of whom fifty-five were put to death, the Sutherlander government took the step forward to apply these new "crimes against humanity" and "crimes of aggression" against lower-to-mid level offenders in twenty comprehensive rounds of retributive justice, with the equally important decision by President Raynard Armstrong to defer to the ECH's judgments giving the EC its first real introduction into the political sphere. The foundations of the EC were now in place: a heavy focus on fundamental rights, and an apolitical yet radical approach to real justice.
The politicians of the age, however, knew that merely doling out retributive justice would not be enough to prevent another splintering and reactionary insurgence. Politicians from across the EC therefore gathered at Highhouse, south Týr, to discuss how further to interconnect the nations and regions that made up Sutherland and Lyvenntia.
The man who would go on to become the first EC Fortreader, Algar Mærson, told of a need to "shackle the two nations' productive capacities and futures to one another," such that an attempt to leverage one nation over another or to go to war internally would be "total folly." Preparations were therefore soon drawn up for the Eutavian Industrial and Manufacturing Community (EIMC), which was finalised with the Treaty of Yarkhill on 28 February, 1927. 28 February, as a result, is commemorated as Eutavia Day.
Highhouse was set up along with four other parallel institutions; the High Council (now the Great Council of Eutavia, or GCE), the Highmoot (which would become the union's elected legislature on EC matters), the High Court (HCEC) and the Eutavian Chancellery.
Within a few years of the EIMC being founded, the leaders of Sutherland and Lyvenntia met once again to sign the Treaty of Sunhaven on 8 June, 1929, which set up the South Calidian Treaty Organisation (SCTO). SCTO set out the establishment of a mutual defensive pact between Lyvenntia and Sutherland, as well as obligations to "maintain international and regional peace, security and fundamental, universal human dignities."
Eutavia in an unstable world
The aftermath of TNRA bombings in the province of Franklin, mid-east Sutherland (right)
Inevitably, the rise of various forms of fascism throughout the world, as well as the bubbling over of tensions in Auroria to the north, as well as conflicts within Marais and Týr, intensified the movement for a united Eutavia.
The first move during the 1930s, following the establishment of the SCTO, was the establishment of a Eutavian Peacekeeping Command Organisation (EPCO), more often called the Peacekeepers, known often for the blue helmets and uniforms that Lyvenntian delegations used. EPCO was swiftly deployed in both Marais and Týr during the early 1930s to prevent insurgencies from advancing. While the decision to deploy active troops in Týr was controversial, it likely stabilised the region's conflict in the long-run, and EPCO played a key part in the détente which has since formed during the 1980s.
The Triviere Accords, which took place in 1933, expanded EPCO, as well as marking the start of a research and development boom in the region. Historians also have looked back at the Triviere Accords as the moment at which Eutavia's rearmament began, sparking the start of its arms production boom, during which it exported and granted large amounts of arms through a land lease programme to the Allies in Auroria.
The Treaty of Blencathra, signed on 1 March, 1945, concurrently established four separate pillars of what would later become the Eutavian Community:
- The Union of Eutavian Economies (UEE)
- The Eutavian Social and Justice Council (ESJC)
- The Eutavian Guardian Council (EGC)
- The Eutavian Atomic Council (EAC), colloquially "Eutatom" (added 1952)
This established a common market (now a single market known as the Eutavian One Market, or E1M), as well as the fundamentals of freedom of movement for citizens, workers, goods, establishment and services, and the establishment of a common law system which de jure takes precedence over member states' law, supplemented by laws written by the Great Council and then amended by the Highmoot and approved by the Chancellery.
The founding of the Community
The Highmoot, where democratically-elected representatives from the member states amend and debate legislation to be put to the Chancellor of Eutavia (right)
In 1963, the High Minister of the Highmoot, Winston Albany, held a speech in which he called for a unity of the pillars into one Community:
"Our nations have countless institutions, countless co-operations, and possibly the most comprehensive continental framework for a sociopolitical and economic confederation that exists today. Yet, we have a bridge between our nations that lacks its keystone. I propose that we place the keystone at last, so we can connect our two nations in solidarity in perpetuity. That keystone, lords and ladies, is a Community."
With both national governments on board rapidly, incumbent Sutherlander President Archibald Fyles and his Lyvenntian counterpart signed the Treaty of Eamont on 6 April, 1964, which established that the continuity of the four pillars was in the form of a united Eutavian Community. As well as this, it transitioned the common market into a single market, established the EC Charter on the governance, rights and obligations of those within the Community, and set out the previously ad-hoc functions of the Community in explicit wording. Furthermore, the EC Charter has proven to be one of the world's most paramount and comprehensive human rights charters.
Facts and figures on the EC:
(left) The EC's largest city, and the Sutherlander capital, Eamont
- Area: 1,375,572.6km²
- Population: 243,910,295 (2023)
- GDP (nominal): ~14-15trn IBU
- Main authoritative bodies:
- Eutavian Chancellery (EC)
- Great Council of Eutavia (GCE)
- Highmoot of Eutavia (HE)
- High Court of the Eutavian Community (HCEC)
- All-Eutavian Defence Agency (AEDA)
- Eutavian Space Agency (ESA)
- Currencies: Lyvenntian dollar (LYD, $), Sutheran shilling (SSH, ʃ)
"A continent divided is no continent at all." - Oswald Morgan, Chancellor of Sutherland, 1977
Aims and principles of the Community within
The EC Charter, which contains the fundamental rights, aims and functions of the Community (right)
The Community, as part of the EC Charter and a number of subsequent treaties, has numerous stated aims and principles that underpin its institutions, member states' actions, and military and scientific endeavours.
Internally, the EC's aims are as follows.
- Preserve peace in its fullest form, mitigating all forms of conflict between its citizens and authorities to whatever extent is realistically possible,
- Facilitate an open, free market, which can exploit economies of scale and leverage a far stronger hand in the global economy for the equitable benefit of all of its citizens,
- Offer its citizens the freedoms uncovered by proportionate security under the accountable rule of fair law,
- Not merely promote scientific and technological progress for humanity and the good of fair, democratic societies, but to fiercely lead it,
- Protect, preserve and respect the environments endowed on the member states and their folks by the good of Eras,
- Eliminate discrimination based on any protected characteristic, and constrain socioeconomic inequity to ensure equality of opportunity and equity of outcome,
- Guard the rights of groups historically marginalised, persecuted and failed by the state, society and culture, by recognising the free equality of religion and race under secular, representative law, preservation of the rights and autonomies of the child, and active equality of man and woman in all spheres of public and private society...
- Achieve and maintain sustainable growth for all nations, regions and citizens to access based upon a fairly regulated, productive economy of full employment, promoting the principles of equity of outcome, high-quality accessible education, and the rights of workers to move freely within the Community and collectively assemble,
- Deepen our social, cultural, economic and political connections inclusively within and without individual localities, regions and member states to enrich our lives, cultures and economies for the better,
- Take appropriate and proportionate measures at the external borders of the Community to balance the needs of those seeking entrance, refuge or establishment within, the abilities of those within to provide, and the preservation and proliferation of Community values.
Aims and principles of the Community beyond
(left) The logo for the webpage pillarsofeutavia.ec
The Community maintains a number of aims and principles with regard to the world.
- Uphold, promote and proliferate its values and interests for the common good of both the world and the Community citizens,
- Act in the interest of humanitarianism, and contribute to protecting the interest of world citizens, as well as their freedom from fundamental wrongs and insecurities,
- Actively promote solidarity and mutual respect among peoples, free and fair trade, eradication of poverty and gross inequality, and the protection of human rights,
- Collaborate in good faith with our partners and counterparts across the world,
- Maintain the Community's endeavours of discovery towards what is above the sky, beneath the oceans, beneath the surface of earth and at the smallest scales,
- Safeguard the vulnerable and universally enforce universal, irrevocable duties to prevent genocide, slavery, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, extermination, rape and sexual slavery, or forced prostitution, or forced pregnancy, unjust deportation or displacement or transfer of a population, forced abortion or sterilisation, targeted group persecution, enforced disappearance, and other acts constituting great unjustifiable suffering.
Key persons of the Community
Armand Galcerán, Chancellor of Eutavia (2019-present) with Chancellor Allister Ramsay of Sutherland (right)
Chancellor of Eutavia: Armand Galcerán (Sutherland, 2021-present, term limited to 27.02.2029)
High Councillor of Eutavia: Jennifer Adams (Lyvenntia, 2025-2026)
High Minister of Eutavia: Dagny Rickardson (Sutherland, 2022-present, Highmoot term ends 07.11.2025)
Foredeemer of the High Court of Eutavia: Godwin Redbridge (Sutherland, age limit reached 06.06.2036)
Heads of the Eutavian Security Council: Elsith Griffiths and Mackenzie Bradshaw (Sutherland and Lyvenntia, both 2024-2027)
High Representative for Foreign Affairs in Eutavia: Zachary West (Lyvenntia, 2021-2026)
High Representative for International Trade Affairs in Eutavia: Everett Morgan (Sutherland, 2021-2026)
High Representative for Scientific and Astronomical Affairs in Eutavia: Harley Richards (Lyvenntia, 2021-2026)
List of Councilmen: TBC
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