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Eternal Mandate

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{{Infobox country
| conventional_long_name = The Eternal Mandate of Heaven on Earth
| common_name = Eternal Mandate
| native_name = ''འཛམ་གླིང་ཐོག་ལྷ་ཡུལ་གྱི་བརྟན་བཞུགས་བཀའ་རྒྱ།''
| image_flag = Flag of the Eternal Mandate - 1963.png
| motto = "Gold lies deep in the earth, yet its light shines bright in the sky."
| anthem = Light the Path for the Lost
| capital = [[Lhamo]]
| largest_city = [[Gondra]]
| official_languages = Thekchen
| regional_languages = Lhaam
Sangpo
Dhargye
| ethnic_groups = Thekchen (72%)
Lune (11%)
Ketzelep (7%)
Others (10%)
| religion = Eternalism
| demonym = Faithful (official), Mandate, Mandater (colloq.)
| government_type = Absolute monarchy
| leader_title1 = Great Guide
| leader_name1 = Khetsun Khay
| leader_title2 = Mayor of the Palace
| leader_name2 = Sambhota Fudang
| legislature = Consultative Assembly
| area_km2 = 66,980
| population_estimate = 14,869,560 (1970 estimate)
| currency = Lum Nim (ꭝ)
| currency_code = LUM
| event_start = Settling of the Eleven Thekchen Gyaktsen
| date_start = circa 630
| event1 = Golden Years of Gondra
| date_event1 = 1134-1198
| event2 = Defeat of the Heavenly Banner Army
| date_event2 = 1623
| event3 = Imperial Araradian conquest
| date_event3 = 1665-1821
| event4 = Declaration of Independence
| date_event4 = 1936
}}

The '''Eternal Mandate''', officially the '''Eternal Mandate of Heaven on Earth''' (Thekchen: འཛམ་གླིང་ཐོག་ལྷ་ཡུལ་གྱི་བརྟན་བཞུགས་བཀའ་རྒྱ།) is a country in Northen [[Vijar]], in the Eastern [[Silithia]] Major mountain range, landlocked between [[Ocristan]] to the north, [[Kipolovski]] and [[Képzelet]] to the east, [[Ararad]] to the south and [[Zaponiteli]], [[Volki]] and [[Ordevita]] to the west. The country, with a population exceeding 14.8 million, spans 66,980 square kilometers (25,860 sq mi), divided into 6 province-level administrative divisions. The Eternal Mandate is an unitary Eternalist absolute monarchy ruled by a priest-king known as the Great Guide (Thekchen: དབུ་ཁྲིད་ཆེན་པོ།) as head of state and a secular prime minister as the head of government. A secular Consultative Assembly provides counsel in most profane matters and is rarely permitted to edict laws. Lhamo is the country's capital, while Gondra and its extended urban area is the most populous city and largest financial and industrial center.

Considered as one of the cradles of civilization, the territory occupied by the Eternal Mandate saw its first human inhabitants arrive during the Paleolithic. Pastoralists of the Thekchen people (Thekchen : ཐེག་ཆེན།) elected to settle in the Chu river basin under pressure from southerner rival nomads in the 7th century, forming religious dynastic states under the claimed guidance of a terrestrial messenger of God. By the late 12th century, the Zangs Pel dynasty had unified the fort-monasteries of the Gondra basin and found wealth in coppersmithing, ushering a Golden Age lasting around three-quarters of a century. In the second half of the 17th century, the newly formed [[Ararad|Araradian Empire]] seeking to expand northwards invaded the Eternal Mandate in a series of campaigns, culminating in the complete annexation of Mandate royal possessions in 1821. Ethnic, religious and national sentiment remained strong in the occupied territory, leading to a series of revolts during the Araradian War of National Liberation : with the breakdown of imperial authority on Mandate territory, it declared its independence in 1936 while fights were still ongoing. The ''de facto'' liberation only occurred years later, in 1937, when the last Araradian troops withdrew from Yangdon.

== Etymology ==
The name "Eternal Mandate of Heaven on Earth" is the literal translation of the Thekchen language endonym, attested in the 12th century ''Book of Celestial Law''. It derives from the fundamental Eternalist belief in the sacred duty of stewardship conferred to the Thekchen people over the worldly domain. As this belief emerged in a time before borders in the modern sense, this was understood as an obligation of protection, benevolence and benefaction to subjects of the Mandate. This later evolved to include all practitioners of the Eternalist Faith, with no ethnic distinction : the resulting overlapping demonym "Faithful" is therefore used both to refer to citizens of the Eternal Mandate and to followers of Eternalism. To resolve potential confusions, the terms "Eternalist" (adherent to Eternalism) or "Mandater" (denizen of the Mandate) are sometimes used in common language, but never in official Mandate literature or language.

== History ==
Archaeological evidence suggests that early hominids inhabited the territory of the Mandate more than 2 million years ago. Numerous fossils of archaic humans were found in the northern mountain ranges, were limestone caves offered valuable protection to hunter-gatherers. A number of Bronze Age cultures emerged in the fertile valley of the Gondra basin in the form of dynastic city-states, domesticating rice and developing proto-writing on clay pottery. Trade of bronzeware and terracotta was a staple of the valley, and a number of wars were waged to seize control of commerce, with no single entity ever to unify the valley.

In the early 7th century, conflict over resource access in the southern steppes caused a massive migration northwards, displacing the Thekchen Roving Kingdom which progressively established itself in Northen Vijar. The Thekchen integrated part of the Gondra valley culture into their own and settled down, leaving their nomad way of life. With no practical way of reigning over the fragmented and nascent settlements, traditional clannish structures subsequently broke down and were replaced by local scholar-officials, decentralizing power. Eternalism, the practice of which was brought by the Thekchen, greatly influenced the political and social structure of these new settlements, with a considerable overlap between religious and administrative titles, offering political power to an emerging priestly ruling class. The central piece of these budding communities was the fort-monastery, a fortified place of worship and contemplation, the administrative center of the city, and also a social meeting place for debates housing public libraries and sometimes even thermal baths. The largest of these fort-monasteries, the Lhamo Dzepang, could easily dwarf provincial cities and was the result of decades of successive extensions.

By the 9th century, the municipal power of monastic city-states exceeded that of the king whose domain had been dilapidated over generations of maladministration. Kingship gradually lost all executive and legislative power to other titles held by trusted advisors, mostly senior ranking priests. The authority of the monarch, proclaimed through achieved status, was diminished by clergymen who asserted a better understanding of divine law. Relegated to a purely ceremonial and representational duties, the king was finally overthrown and replaced by a monarch by divine right, the Great Guide, in the wake of the Zangs Pel unification of the Mandate holdings.

Morjung Dranpak Khay, originating from Khando, established the Zangs Pel dynasty after fighting a three years war of conquest against the Gondra valley city alliance. Over the next ten years, his reforms saw the Mandate transform from a loose selection of co-dependent cities to an impressively administrated kingdom. Outgoing exports, trade and agriculture reached new highs, leading to what is known in Mandate historiography as the Golden Years of Gondra, lasting a total of sixty-four years. A permanent standing army was created to defend the southern border against recurrent nomad attacks, with both secular soldiers and armed monks (Vadray) in its ranks. The "divinely ordained" Zangs Pel dynasty reigned uncontested until 1623, when [[Ararad|Imperial Araradian]] invaders routed the Heavenly Banner Army at the gates of Gondra. The concessions of the Great Guide to the Araradian proved devastating and set the stage for progressive and systematic annexation over the following centuries.

By 1821, the whole of the Eternal Mandate was under Araradian occupation and governance, with limited freedom of cult practice. Ethnic Mandate Faithfuls, called "Fremder" (Araradian : פרעמדער lit. "foreigner) are made to work, either in servitude or as indentured servants in colonial workshops or manufactures, or join a colonial army corps. New techniques and industries are made known to Mandate scholars as the Industrial Revolution develops in Ararad. The features of the Mandate, where metals are readily accessed and labor cheap and plenty, make it a prime location for the installation of a number of production centers, mainly in the Gondra basin. The Mandate becomes for the second half of the 19th century a target for Araradian development and integration. Under this new regime, many artifacts and works of ancient literature are destroyed or lost and temples razed. It is still contested by historians whether or not there was a deliberate intention of erasing Mandate culture in the actions of the Araradian colonial administration. Resistance to the new plan is put down severely and a part of the population elects to live in the uncharted mountain highlands, for fear of persecution, becoming effectively stateless. The occupation of Eternal Mandate holdings by the Empire of All Ararads came to be known as the Smiling Autumn.

Organized rebellion efforts start to emerge in the early 20th century, as Ararad is shook by a series of international incidents, interventions and wars. With less imperial scrutiny, some Mandate exiles are able to fund their own fort-monasteries out of reach of the local garrison and openly practice the Faith. Meanwhile, many Ethnic Mandate Faithfuls volunteer or are drafted to fight the Hextuple Alliance or [[Osterrecht]] on behalf of the Empire of All Ararads. In 1936, as a communist rebellion sweeps the Empire, and tensions with Osterrecht reach a boiling point, the Eternal Mandate of Heaven on Earth claims its independence. Benefiting from a short-lived but valuable alliance of circumstance with the Communist Party of Ararad (KPA), Mandate militants overthrow colonial structures after a protracted conflict. The newly formed Socialist Peoples' Republic of Ararad did not choose to try and reclaim the lost territory by force, although a communique from the State Council of Araradia on September 7th 1950 nearly sparked a border conflict.

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* Much of the Mandate's visual and cultural identity was inspired by real-world Bhutan, Tibet and Sikkim.

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{{Infobox country
| conventional_long_name = The Eternal Mandate of Heaven on Earth
| common_name = Eternal Mandate
| native_name = ''འཛམ་གླིང་ཐོག་ལྷ་ཡུལ་གྱི་བརྟན་བཞུགས་བཀའ་རྒྱ།''
| image_flag = Flag of the Eternal Mandate - 1963.png
| capital = [[Lhamo]]
| largest_city = [[Gondra]]
| official_languages = Thekchen
| regional_languages = Lhaam, Sangpo, Dhargye
| religion = Eternalism
| demonym = Faithful
| government_type = Absolute monarchy
| leader_title1 = Great Guide
| leader_name1 = Khetsun Khay
| leader_title2 = Mayor of the Palace
| leader_name2 = Sambhota Fudang
| legislature = Consultative Assembly
| area_km2 = 66,980
| currency = Lum Nim (ꭝ)
| currency_code = LUM
| event_start = Settling of the Eleven Thekchen Gyaktsen
| date_start = circa 630
| event1 = Golden Years of Gondra
| date_event1 = 1134-1198
| event2 = Defeat of the Heavenly Banner Army
| date_event2 = 1623
| event3 = Imperial Araradian conquest
| date_event3 = 1665-1821
| event4 = Declaration of Independence
| date_event4 = 1936
}}

The '''Eternal Mandate''', officially the '''Eternal Mandate of Heaven on Earth''' (Thekchen: འཛམ་གླིང་ཐོག་ལྷ་ཡུལ་གྱི་བརྟན་བཞུགས་བཀའ་རྒྱ།) is a country in Northen Vijar, in the Eastern Silithia Major mountain range, landlocked between [[Ocristan]] to the north, [[Kipolovski]] and [[Képzelet]] to the east, [[Ararad]] to the south and [[Zaponiteli]], [[Volki]] and [[Ordevita]] to the west. The Eternal Mandate is an unitary Eternalist absolute monarchy ruled by a priest-king known as the Great Guide (Thekchen: དབུ་ཁྲིད་ཆེན་པོ།) as head of state and a secular prime minister as the head of government.

== Etymology ==
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== History ==
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== Geography ==
x

== Government and politics ==
x

== Economy ==
x

== Demographics ==
x

== Culture ==
x

== Trivia ==

* Much of the Mandate's visual and cultural identity was inspired by real-world Bhutan, Tibet and Sikkim.

Eternal Mandate

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{{Infobox country
| conventional_long_name = Eternal Mandate of Heaven on Earth
| common_name = Eternal Mandate
| native_name = ''འཛམ་གླིང་ཐོག་ལྷ་ཡུལ་གྱི་བརྟན་བཞུགས་བཀའ་རྒྱ།''
| image_flag = Flag of the Eternal Mandate - 1963.png
| capital = [[Lhamo]]
| largest_city = [[Lhamo]]
| official_languages = Thekchen
| regional_languages = Lhaam, Sangpo, Dhargye
| religion = Eternalism
| demonym = Faithful
| leader_title1 = Great Guide
| leader_name1 = Khetsun Khay
| leader_title2 = Mayor of the Summer Palace
| leader_name2 = Sambhota Fudang
| legislature = Khyim Sbom
| area_km2 = 66,980
| currency = Lum Nim (ꭝ)
| currency_code = LUM
| event_start = Settling of the Eleven Thekchen Gyaktsen
| date_start = 636
| event1 = Golden Years of Gondra
| date_event1 = 1134-1198
| event2 = Defeat of the Heavenly Banner Army
| date_event2 = 1623
| event3 = Imperial Araradian conquest
| date_event3 = 1665-1821
| event4 = Declaration of Independence
| date_event4 = 1936
}}

The '''Eternal Mandate''', officially the '''Eternal Mandate of Heaven on Earth''' (Thekchen : འཛམ་གླིང་ཐོག་ལྷ་ཡུལ་གྱི་བརྟན་བཞུགས་བཀའ་རྒྱ།) is a country in Northen Vijar, in the Eastern Silithia Major mountain range, landlocked between [[Ocristan]] to the north, [[Kipolovski]] and [[Képzelet]] to the east, [[Ararad]] to the south and [[Zaponiteli]], [[Volki]] and [[Ordevita]] to the west. The Eternal Mandate is an unitary Eternalist absolute monarchy with a religious Great Guide as head of state and a secular prime minister as the head of government.

File:Flag of the Eternal Mandate - 1963.png

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Saven: This is the official flag of the Eternal Mandate of Heaven on Earth under the leadership of Great Guide Khetsun Khay. It consists of the national colors, yellow and orange, in an alternating tricolor horizontal style. The personal emblem of Khetsun Kay, the snow leopard is emblazoned as is tradition.

== Summary ==
This is the official flag of the Eternal Mandate of Heaven on Earth under the leadership of Great Guide Khetsun Khay. It consists of the national colors, yellow and orange, in an alternating tricolor horizontal style. The personal emblem of Khetsun Kay, the snow leopard is emblazoned as is tradition.
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