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The Ounna Confederation is a federal entity comprising some twenty odd districts that independently manage their own affairs via their own respective Kurultais. Internal trade, population transfers, and life in general goes on, in a way that would not be seen as strange anywhere else. The uniqueness of their institutions lies in the Alghu, a word that would literally translate to as 'taken' but refers more specifically to the Siberian Tsardom era practice of recruiting military slaves for the personal use of the Tsar as a counterweight to the old nobility. Like other Middle Eastern states, the Tsar favored ethnically distinct slaves, which were predominantly Tibetan diaspora that clung on to life after Tibet became a Dead Zone.
In time, the Alghu would become like their historical antecedents, glutted with power and prestige, becoming another staid and ossified institution of state. It would take the waves of the Pacific Revolution to unlock the Alghu's revolutionary potential. Discontented young officers, struck with the romanticism and potential of the new Pacific Federation, sought to imitate that potential in the Tsardom. This was done out of love for the Tsardom. Of course, it was denied flatly, because it included several pro-serf and nomad proposals. With more and more of the ringleaders for the proposals jailed, the Alghu officers could see no way out but to seize the powers of state for themselves.
From their fortresses and garrisons they fought, killing their masters and brothers alike, growning more and more radical by the day. Reform became abolition became revolution, and by the end the rebel Alghu declared the Siberian Tsardom over, its subject nations free, and the entire structure to be protected and served by the Alghu, who after the war had taken on the attributes of federal government and army alike. The Ounna Kurultai, gathering representatives from all nations within, is almost synonymous with the Alghu, who hold a solid minority of seats as well as staffing all federal level government positions with Alghu members. The Alghu also directly administer the Ounna commandries, owing to their closeness with several hostile entities. In this way, the Alghu has an invisible power over the Ounna state.
Entrance to the Alghu is strictly restricted. After the age of majority, it is impossible to be conscripted, and the Alghu refers to entrance within itself as conscription and membership as slavery, to impress upon members the enormity of their task. Members are not permitted to hold wealth, having instead expense accounts to be disbursed as needed, and hardliners regularly lobby that the Alghu ban marriages for members. It is however, possible to earn an ancillary membership, which largely gives you the ability to apply for some government posts and most non-commanding officer billets.
In time, the Alghu would become like their historical antecedents, glutted with power and prestige, becoming another staid and ossified institution of state. It would take the waves of the Pacific Revolution to unlock the Alghu's revolutionary potential. Discontented young officers, struck with the romanticism and potential of the new Pacific Federation, sought to imitate that potential in the Tsardom. This was done out of love for the Tsardom. Of course, it was denied flatly, because it included several pro-serf and nomad proposals. With more and more of the ringleaders for the proposals jailed, the Alghu officers could see no way out but to seize the powers of state for themselves.
From their fortresses and garrisons they fought, killing their masters and brothers alike, growning more and more radical by the day. Reform became abolition became revolution, and by the end the rebel Alghu declared the Siberian Tsardom over, its subject nations free, and the entire structure to be protected and served by the Alghu, who after the war had taken on the attributes of federal government and army alike. The Ounna Kurultai, gathering representatives from all nations within, is almost synonymous with the Alghu, who hold a solid minority of seats as well as staffing all federal level government positions with Alghu members. The Alghu also directly administer the Ounna commandries, owing to their closeness with several hostile entities. In this way, the Alghu has an invisible power over the Ounna state.
Entrance to the Alghu is strictly restricted. After the age of majority, it is impossible to be conscripted, and the Alghu refers to entrance within itself as conscription and membership as slavery, to impress upon members the enormity of their task. Members are not permitted to hold wealth, having instead expense accounts to be disbursed as needed, and hardliners regularly lobby that the Alghu ban marriages for members. It is however, possible to earn an ancillary membership, which largely gives you the ability to apply for some government posts and most non-commanding officer billets.