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| - The Holy Imperium of Vyrodia (Vyrodian: Свыетв Імпeрiв Виродсіиа; Svyety Imperiy Vyrodsiya) was a sovereign state that existed between 1888 and 1944 that covered much of modern day Vyrodia and Ukraine. Throughout its existence it mainly functioned as a theocratic dictatorship under the Tsar of Vyrodia. Formed after the collapse of the first republic of Vyrodia following the end of the Vyrodian civil war under the House of Klubanvych the Holy Imperium was at first governed as a largely agrarian society. During the reign of the second Tsar Nikolai II Vyrodia saw modernisation in the form of democratic reforms, industrialisation and militarisation with Mikhail Orlov serving as the first and only chancellor of the imperium. In 1915 Vyrodia joined the central powers in World War One, where its mainly fought on two fronts against Kingdom of Romania and Russia. It was occupied by the former at the end of the war, where fighting soon broke out in the northern regions following the withdrawal of Romanian troops as communist tried to stage a revolution in Vyrodia. The uprising was quelled in 1920 where the Tsar Zakarija I led the Vyrodian Imperial League into power, ruling Vyrodia as a single party authoritarian theocracy. Zakarija I had political and religious opponents killed, tortured and imprisoned including Romanians, communists, Muslims, homosexuals, Catholics, socialists, Jews and those deemed to be biological criminals as well as tightly control citizens lives whilst monopolising power to the Church's and the Crzǰoqi's hands. The outbreak of World War Two saw Vyrodia ally with the Axis powers with Vyrodia invading the Soviet Union after the initiation of Operation Barbarossa in 1941. In 1944 a military coup led by General Ksawery Romanovich saw the fascist party disbanded and the imperial families power diminished with the military forming a caretaker government. However in April Soviet troops successfully took the capital of Odessa ending imperial rule and placing Vyrodia under a temporary Soviet military administration. A few months later the Vyrodian Democratic Republic was formed in lieu of the Imperium. During its existence the Holy Imperium went through several forms of government, starting as an oligarchy before being reformed into a democratic republic. The rule of Zakarija I saw Vyrodia become a totalitarian theocratic absolute monarchy that was eventually overthrown in the short lived military junta of Vyrodia. As well as this living standards and cultural attitudes both evolved and stagnated in Vyrodia, with the most consistent entity being the orthodox church. The legacy of the Holy Imperium is still heavily debated among Vyrodian historians. Many regard the Imperium especially under Zakarija I as one of the darkest chapters in Vyrodian history thanks to the brutality, inequality, and oppression seen in his regime. Some opponents of the later communist regime however see the Imperium as a time where Vyrodia retained its religious traditions and culture, some of which was banned during the first Cold War. Historians credit the technological and cultural advances during the era that saw Vyrodia develop from a vassal of the Ottoman Empire into a much more modern state, although some more cynical historians state that Vyrodia was still underdeveloped by 1944.
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