Rongyo

Kingdom of Rongyo Rong'yo Kwêbwi Rongyo
Flag Royal Seal
Anthem: Royal Anthem of Rongyo
Capital	Pêho
Largest city	Rihansan
Official languages	Ru
Recognised regional languages	Karduvic, Kwang
Religion	Hanctheism
Demonym(s)	Rongyoissan (people), Rongyoi (country)
Leaders
• King	Irowa

Rongyo, officially the Kingdom of Rongyo, is a nation in Southern Tammuz.

History

Former Rongyo (24-444)

The first attested Ruic kingdom was documented in the Chronicles of Yain.

Choyo (444-607)

General X of the X Army overthrew Former Rongyo after a lengthy six-year campaign. Choyo saw a limited amount of cultural exchange between it and the Shèin Dynasty, The state produced the Records of Choyo, which documented its indigenous history in Classical Kwang.

Okro (607-946)

Okroi royalty officially adopted Haomism as a state religion, merging it with indigenous shamanistic practices. During this period, a large amount of Kwang vocabulary entered the language. Okro introduced a caste system that clearly defined a separation between royalty, nobility, commoners, and slaves. Okro also officially entered into tributary relations with Qonklaks during this time.

War Between Three Tigers (946-1088)

At the end of Okroi rule, the state was plagued with internal division and corruption, leading to two breakaway states forming: Samsiru and Masip.

Unified Samsiru (1088-1345)

Unified Samsiru loosened the rigid Okroi caste system and introduced the Qonklese lhehi royal examinations in an attempt to combat nepotism within the royal bureaucracy, a crucial factor that lead to incompetent governance that contributed to the downfall of Okro.

Samsiru became a vassal under the Horde of Heaven's Wrath in 1213, after surrendering to the Öörzic forces in Êchongchê.

Unified Samsiru was freed from the yoke of the Horde in 1293 after the Treaty of X, where the Horde was pushed back into the northern steppes. It enjoyed a brief period of self-determination as the fledgling Byàn Dynasty was still weakened from a century of warfare with other Qonklese kingdoms and driving the Horde northwards.

The Byàn dynasty sent an envoy to the Samsiru court in 1334 demanding it be returned under Qonklese vassalage and re-enter into tributary relations. Subsequently, the demand was rejected and the envoy was asked to leave. Later that year, Byàn forces entered Samsirui territory.

Rongyo (1345-)

Rongyo was founded in 1345 by King X with the support of the Byàn Ever-Victorious Army, after the total defeat of Samsirui forces. King X converted to Hanctheism during his coronation, and subsequently, the nation underwent several centuries of slow conversion to Hanctheism.

During the Qonklese Warlord Era, seizing the chaos, Rongyo officially halted all tributary missions and declared its vassalage to Qonklaks illegitimate. There were attempts to declare Rongyo as an Empire to signal its position to be equal to that of Qonklese emperors, but it was feared that it may trigger unwanted military attention from neighbouring Karduv or regional warlords along the Rongyoi border.

Nevertheless, Karduv's new government headed by Va Bung launched a surprise invasion of Rongyo on 3 June 1928, its primary object to reach the capital Pêho within thirty days to force the government to capitulate. However, supply issues, unexpected local resistance, and two tropical cyclones hitting the region on 16 June and 2 August that year led to Karduv losing their element of surprise as mass waves of Rongyoissan volunteers joined the Royal Army to defend the nation against the foreign invaders. By early 1929, the war had become a stalemate, with Karduvic troops failing to reach within 150 kilometers of Pêho.

The Qonklese Empire joins the conflict on the side on Rongyo on 2 February, 1930, sending 500,000 freshly trained soldiers across the border from the Northeast to drive the Karduvic armies from their captured territories. Some divisions were sent to the Qonklese-Karduvic border to conduct border raids in an attempt to divert military attention away from Rongyo. Initially, the Qonklese were welcomed as liberators, as propaganda efforts in Qonklaks and Rongyo painted a picture of a comradeship that had lasted for a millennium. Karduvic forces were completely driven out of Rongyo by late May that year. Despite Karduv accepting a Qonklese offer of peace on 3 June, Qonklese troops garrisoned in Rongyo were ordered to stay put instead of returning to Qonklaks as initially agreed upon when Qonklaks joined the war, while the Qonklese government persuaded the Rongyoi government to allow them to remain in the country, using the pretext of a potential future Karduvic invasion as a justification. As the Rongyoi military strength had taken a drastic hit during the invasion, the Rongyoi government relunctantly agreed. Over the course of the next five years, the Qonklese established a parallel government to the royal bureacracy of Rongyo, further increasing its own power while diminishing the native government. By 1936, the royal government was virtually powerless, though it was allowed to remain in a rubber-stamping role to present a façade of legitimacy.

After the formal surrender of the Qonklese Empire in 10 May 1950, The Rongyo royal government proclaimed independence and ordered the Qonklese parallel government be dissolved in 2 June, 1950. However, fanatical elements within the Imperial garrisons currently still stationed in Rongyo defied the order of surrender, and attempted to seize total control of the country. The Rongyo Royal Army, no longer subject to imperial rule, directly engaged the fanatical Qonklese rogue units in a bloody eight-month conflict, which was the first time in centuries that warfare has broken out on Rongyo territory.

Unlike its neighbours, cenonism did not become mainstream enough for Rongyo to change regimes like Qonklaks and Karduv in the Golden Spring of 1950. The Rongyoi Liberation Front (RFL), based and operating in Northern Rongyo and allied with the Northern Ru Cenonist Party, was designated a terrorist group by the government in 1951 after it attempted to violently take over the provincial government in Twotanjik, Wiyu Province. This event almost triggered a direct confrontation between the Royal Army and the Qonklese Grand Revoltionary Army, but was resolved in 15 January, 1951 via an armistice where RFL members were promised freedom from prosecution if they left the country within 45 days.