Valhunnia

Valhunnia is a large nation in Nortellia, bordered by Bensonia.

It is a Constitutional Monarchy and Parliamentary Democracy. The present monarch is Leelou I, who has reigned 2014. The capital is Kyro, which is also the largest city. Valhunnia is split into 7 provinces: Aurora, Carkiv, Chatang'ga, Eastern Valhunnia, Hayha, Norilsk and Viipuri. Valhunnia also includes the vast and sparsely populated Northeastern Territories.

Valhunnia was created out of the rebellion of Airedalian colonies in Western Nortellia at the time of the Second Airedo-Santobrillan War, during which the Santobrillans backed the revolutionaries led by John Earl Smithson who emerged victorious in 1771, when their independence was recognized. From Valhunnia's independence up until the 1840s, the nation embarked on a rapid eastward expansion. By the 1840s, the country, under the likely threat of war with the neighbouring Sabaronnian settlements, began to fall into disarray. President Acasius Yag used the Sabaronnian menace as a pretext for oppressing his political rivals, and sparked an uprising which ultimately saw an Airedalandian-style canine monarchy installed, with Kyro I becoming first King of the Empire of Valhunnia.By 1857, Valhunnia had recovered from its Civil War, and waged a successful three-year campaign that threw the Sabaronnians out of Nortellia. This brought Valhunnia to its current territorial size, and afterwards a large campaign of industrialization was launched by Prime Minister Leikvard Raike, which in mere decades brought Valhunnia on par with Centralian powers. In the Great Colonial War (1902-1908), which Valhunnia initially desired to stay out of, Valhunnia emerged successful in its baptism by fire in an overseas conflict after a Giranian submarine triggered war by torpedoing a Valhunnian ship. By the end of the conflict, Valhunnia had become a world power in its own right, and neither side provoked them in the Great War (1942-1949). During the First Cold War, (1949-1990), Valhunnia became increasingly close with Airedalandia and the capitalist bloc, in an alliance which continues to this day.