Aguaria Major Liberates Lavendoria

Lavendoria is a relatively small, land-based nation with a plentiful coastline, and, for comparison, is about the size of Texas or France, given these 2 are around the same size. It is located on the eastern shores of Africa, and thus borders the Indian Ocean. Their native population is relatively primitive, being of moderate levels of development and scientific advancement, and they are extremely pacifistic, which is ironic given that the national animal they chose for themselves used to be a rhinoceros. This creature is plentiful here, and is sacred to the natives, which shall be explained shortly. In fact, they worship them as gods, as these same people are very religious as well. They were never colonized by Europeans, and were thus untouched for most of their history. This is why the nation’s many lush jungles and parched, though pristine savannas, both being devoid of any water other than small streams and rivers that fed its creatures, making for a unique ecology and many endemics, were as such. Their old government was one that had been around for thousands of years, and for a small band of relatively few sparsely populated tribes, it was surprisingly democratic and modern. They entered the 21st century as a moderately socialistic regime, and were a moderately clean, safe nation, though their allowance of capitalism leaves a lot to be desired, as well as their allowance, and even fostering, of religion, but this was to be suspected given how faithful the natives were. Some of their social policies, such as the suspension of voting rights for any convicted felon, are also a bit backwards as well, and, given the rest of their liberal views, also didn't really make sense. They are also strange among civilizations in that the natives are a highly matriarchal people, with women holding most leading roles, and the highest paying jobs, almost in a reversal of the way it is in most of the rest of the world, a wage gap included. The socialistic structure of their recent government, rather corruptly, only applied to females in the nation, so men were still subject to discrimination. Their culture holds men inferior for a reason that is fiercely debated by anthropologists, geneticists, and archaeologists. The most common is that the pacifist religion that dominates their society is what is responsible for their belief in pacifism, this type of society being geared a lot more towards the behaviors of women than those of men. Another is that there is a genetic mutation on the gene that regulates testosterone that is only present on the X chromosome in all native Lavendorians, and in a weird twist of how most types of these sex-chromosome mutations work, it only comes to a phenotype if one chromosome doesn't have it, and the other does. This means that only women can have it, and what does this mutation do? It boosts testosterone levels through the roof, making for extremely aggressive, dominant women. However, this is also difficult to prove because the region of DNA on which this mutation resides, is believed to be a switching region, meaning that it doesn't actually code protein, but somehow blocks the coding. These are a lot more difficult to pin down and examine, and this fact is made worse in this particular situation because Lavendorians share a lot less DNA than most humans, with 5% being new to science, suggesting they might actually be another subspecies of Homo sapiens. A third is that millennia ago, a hunting party of men in a Lavendorian tribe went out on a hunting party, only to be killed by a stampede of rhinoceroses. The women figured this out, and were forced to carry on the building of a new temple, which the tribe had been constructing for years, themselves. The skeletons found at the ruins of this temple, only unearthed in 2014 (which is where this theory originates), back this part of the theory up, as they were all found to be female, and the glyphs carved into it show the men being killed by a rhinoceros. The glyphs also tell the story of the fact that a stampede of rhinos also appears to have killed an invading enemy tribe before anyone was killed in battle, and that the rhino in the lead appeared to have, still stick to its horn, the faded garment of the former male chief of the tribe, suggesting they were the same ones that killed them. This happened right before the female army was about to meet their invaders, likely to lose due to the fact that the enemy tribe outnumbered them 100:1. This event convinced them, religious as they were, that the rhinos didn't like battles, in addition to somehow being sentient, and also were their sacred protectors. This new religion, Rhinoism, and its harrowing tale of origin, spread throughout the land, rather strangely, like wildfire, and has since dominated Lavendorian culture, making it fiercely pacifistic, and dominated in most aspects by women (Rhinoism is actually greatly responsible for their former flag, which contained the image of a purple rhino, is a black circle, in the middle of 5 stripes of mint green, white, and purple. The lead rhino in the stampede, thought to have gained its coloration from an over-presence of copper in its diet, possessed purple skin, and the garment of the former chief, having being faded from shades of brilliant violet and emerald, the symbols of power in the tribe's old customs, appeared lavender (this word is the origin of the country's name), mint green, and white). Due to the reversal of this latter aspect that dominates most of the world, the people of Lavendoria have grown quite disdainful of it. Also surprising is that they hate nations like Aguaria Major, where socialism communism have, for millennia (as the whole story of how this nation came to fruition is the ancient overthrow of a capitalist warlord, before Jesus' birth around the dawn of what is technically the modern age, thus ensuring inherent communism and socialism in the natives, and the introduction to the modern world of this island nation being done by socialist refugees of a right-wing purge of liberals in the US after a failed socialist uprising), made sure that everyone is monetarily equal, and that no one may be, in the characteristic fashion of capitalistic employers, or governments influenced by them and thus driven by money, discriminated against, even more than ones where men rule. No one has been able to explain this yet. This comparison to Aguaria Major leads to the next phase in the, until now, relatively uninteresting, disgusting history of Lavendoria.

In April 2016, Lavendorians elected Gwyn James, a charismatic, emotional (though idiotic) speaker, as well as a fundamental, evangelical Rhinoist, to be their president. At WA meetings she and Solitarius Unenlagia, prime minister of Aguaria Major, whom she despised more than any other for believing in the equality of genders, and being a smart-as-a-whip atheist that leads a nation with a rather large military, while being personally repulsed by rhinos and, above all, a man, would engage in ferocious debates which, all being started by her, though he would win according to everyone present in the meetings (as James wasn't actually that bright, but was great at pushing people's buttons), made Unenlagia's blood boil as no matter how right he was, she wouldn't listen, to the point where in one altercation he actually went so far as to get into a fist fight with James on the WA floor, giving her a solemn beating that, while it only resulted in a few bruises for him, ended with her hospitalization. Because the tribunal at the WA at the time (a woman, and thus being sympathetic to Lavendoria's female bourgeois) was friends with James, and had close financial ties to a company who did most of its business in Lavendoria, she condemned Aguaria Major and Unenlagia despite the fact that most delegates present concluded that he was right in the dispute, and provoked into violence by James, and made this case clear to her several times. After this happened, Unenlagia took Aguaria Major out of the WA, while at the same time commending those that fought for his case, until the tribunal was removed, which he threatened he would personally see to, by, "one method or another". He also swore personal revenge on this tribunal, whose name was Karen Maseej. Though Lavendoria still wasn't finished. Humiliated and in pain, as well as being bitter about losing a debate and fight, quite badly, to someone she believed to be inferior in every way, she swore revenge on Unenlagia and everyone in Aguaria Major. She then, in Lavendoria, and outside of it, embarked on a massive propaganda mission to make Aguaria Major, and Unenlagia, public enemy No. 1 across the globe, and in her nation. Some of these messages, especially those broadcast in her own nation, went so far as to suggest that Lavendorians, as a service to their country, should go so far as to commit terrorist attacks on Aguaria Majorian cities. And in December of that same year, on James' Birthday, December 6th, a Lavendorian, "tourist", to Aguaria Major let of a suicide bomb in the middle of downtown Aguarbanapolis, capital of the nation. 2,000 people were killed, and another 2,000 more were injured. A brand-new, sleek, shiny skyscraper was so badly damaged that, even though everyone inside was evacuated safely, and it never fell, it had to be condemned and demolished (The Aguaria Major Space Elevator, a skyscraper so tall that the International Space Station can regularly be seen flying by, 1,000 feet BELOW the top floor, now stands on the site of this building as an F.U. to all Lavendorians). Given the very large magnitude of the attack, and its proximity to the James-Unenlagia fight and James' declaration of revenge, as well as the most obvious sign of the propaganda campaign which contained the above ad, the Aguaria Major Intelligence and Espionage Agency quickly suspected that this, "tourist", was secretly being backed by the Lavendorian government, while said government insisted they had no connection to him. The agency immediately, given their superior tech, which they used to hack the entire computer system of Lavendoria before placing a malicious virus inside it to cripple the Lavendorian economy (which it did), found damning evidence, among it the above propaganda ad (which, through really digging deep, they found the terrorist had watched just 3 days prior to her attack, after which she went to the government to ask for help fulfilling its mission) only shown in Lavendoria, that the Lavendorian government, with the operation being personally overseen by James, had not only backed the terrorist, but actually paid her flight bill, designed the extra-potent explosives from scratch to fit in a briefcase, and hugely compensated her family (as women are the primary breadwinners there) for death. They also made these results public across the world in the hacking, and, as a WA meeting was taking place at the time of the hack, even hacked THEIR computer network so as to put them on display on every TV and computer in the place. Maseej was giving a speech at this time in defiance of Aguaria Major, as a puppet of Lavendoria's propaganda's campaign, as Aguaria Major's spies also found this out during the investigation, and the unauthorized appearance of the story of the bombing and the evidence which proved Lavendoria was behind it (this investigation by the AMIEA had taken less than 10 hours, amazingly, so the story was still on world news when the evidence was released) on the jumbo-tron normally used for the presentation of graphs and such, prompted such disgust at her and her actions that she was voted permanently out of the WA and condemned for life as a war criminal all in the same meeting (her life at an all-time low, she was eventually found, a few weeks later, drunk at a seedy bar in one of Lavendoria's most remote villages, where she was stabbed by an AMIEA agent who had been sent to deliver the coup de grace of her revenge, on direct orders by Unenlagia). With the whole world knowing, the AMIEA's work was done. Aguaria Major now had several reasons to go to war with Lavendoria.

War with Lavendoria is exactly what happened. 25 hours from the start of the actual bombing, and 4 from the unanimous Congressional decision in Aguaria Major to go to war, and the subsequent record military registration numbers in the country, hypersonic, delta-winged Insignis stealth bombers were already raining fire and destruction on every single one of Lavendoria's settlements. The Space Force also used its orbital weapons and star-cruisers to scorch and upturn the entire landscape of the country from space. These tactics, the rotation of Insignis squadrons being used to handle the bombings, were continuously employed through the war, to add up to the most advanced bombing and use of orbital weapons and star-cruisers in world history. The first waves, Lavendoria not being well acquainted with the concept of war, killed almost 1/4 of its population. But Lavendopolis, the capital, was built on a citadel 2,000 feet underground, for exactly this purpose. And while leaving every square inch of the country in scorched, laser-blasted embers, there were some survivors that the use of broad, non-precise weapons like carpet-bombing and enormous lasers, even spuersonic missiles fired from space, couldn't destroy. Both of these matters meant a land invasion of Lavendoria was needed. No one on the Aguaria Majorian side had been killed yet (this was still only 2 days after the bombings and space-blasts had started), and while the fires and lasers raged from above, huge Aguaria Majorian landing squadrons, being so because so many Aguaria Majorians were fed up with Lavendoria that 1/8 of the country enlisted after the AMIEA's exposure of Lavendoria, landed on beaches in every sector of Lavendoria's coast within a day, due to the direct route from Aguaria Major's location in the Pacific to Lavendoria's Indian coast. With high-speed laser tanks and multi-million Inagua battle-suits that give a normal human the ability to run at 50 mph at their disposal, they swept through the country and wiped out anything - and anyone - they could find that was still standing, before closing in, from all directions, on the citadel of Lavendopolis. When they found a way to enter, using a tunnel that it took them 2 months to dig, a massive battle took place. Lavendorian guerillas, armed with anything they could use as weapons (Lavendoria didn't actually have a military due to their pacifistic nature, which is why no fighter aircraft or naval weaponry was needed in this war, as these are all used to counter enemy craft) waged a vicious attack on the Aguaria Majorians. Even with their protective battle-suits, some 350 Aguaria Majorian soldiers were killed. On the Lavendorian side? Almost all the population of the city was wiped out. In order to avoid the fury of Aguaria Major and its lasers, the last 1000 people in the city offered up Gwyn James as a peace offering. Unenlagia, so furious at the actions of James and Lavendoria that he led the military, due to his role as commander-in-chief, from the battlefield, actually having one of the highest Lavendorian kill totals of any Aguaria Majorian soldier during the war, believing this to be the only, "non-cowardly", way, a national leader could act in times of war, gladly accepted. In front of the entire Aguaria Majorian army, he, using, rather brutally, a dagger, ferociously dismembered James, killing her. The remaining Lavendorians surrendered, and the Lavender War was now over, in one of the swiftest, most decisive, and brutally exacted victories in military history, taking just over a month. Remember that Lavendoria, whose Rhinoistic national motto had once been, "Everything for Peace" (again ironic given James's militant actions at Aguaria Major), had no military. Aguaria Major now had a new colony, and the greatest hero of the Lavender War, an infantryman named Typo Rhincodonius, who, in the battle of Lavendopolis, in the event of an ambush by the guerillas, greatly outnumbering his unit, resulted in the death of his commander, and 200 others, making up the majority of Aguaria Majorian casualties in the war, bravely led his chaotic, confused unit to victory in haste, being in the middle of the action, and killing over 300 Lavendorians while simultaneously being wounded by a stab at close range, was made governor of the new colony. With his rule, all the policies of Aguaria Major were instated, most notably communism and socialism, ensuring monetary equality, and the outlawing of, and brutal punishment for the practice of religion. Gender discrimination was also outlawed, and was also, this practice not being needed in Aguaria Major, as the anti-gender-discrimination policies of this nation was overwhelmingly popularly supported, brutally punishable. Symbolic things were changed, too. On the flag, the purple rhino was replaced with a violet sabrewing, a close relative of the fiery-throated hummingbird, Aguaria Major's national animal, that not only matched, somewhat, the colors on the rest of Lavendoria's flag, but was introduced to the country in the method about to be discussed, and this was made Lavendoria's new national animal. The colors were also changed to darker hues, and the white stripes removed, to represent a return to a more egalitarian time, before the event that sparked the birth of Rhinoism, as the faded colors of the chief's brilliant purple-and-emerald garment on the horn of his killer were what inspired the colors of the old flag (these colors also, coincidentally, are more like the colors of the violet sabrewing as well, though Rhincodonius didn't plan it this way). Thus, any influence of Rhinoism on the flag was extinguished. The Aguaria Majorian flag was also added in the upper-left, for obvious reasons (it has since been taken off for vexillological reasons). The capital of Lavendopolis was renamed, in honor of the Aguarbanapolis bombing, New Aguarbanapolis. Governor Rhincodonius, already having visions of a new-age, futuristic, communistic Lavendoria, and embracing his new home in the country, exemplified by the use of, "we", in it, changed the national motto, which can be seen on this nation's overview. Given Aguaria Major's commitment to environmental protection, every square inch of the country being obliterated by the bombings and laser-blastings, and the fact that the ability to resurrect extinct species was well within the reach of Aguaria Majorian scientists, using detailed maps, earth-moving equipment, accounts of all the species that occurred here, and a very expensive genetic engineering campaign, reconstructed Lavendoria's pristine environment, and every single one of its species, within a few years, almost exactly as it was before the war started. The 'almost' is due to the fact that they genetically engineered all of the species, in an extensive act of symbolism, to be ecologically compatible with violet sabrewings, which come from Central America and are thus not native to Africa, so that introducing them to the country wouldn't devastate the state of the environment as many invasive species do. Today, Lavendoria is much like Aguaria Major was in its early days: pristine environment, small population, lots of social programs, though small, poor economy, and poor people. Many people have moved here from the main archipelago of Aguaria Major to encourage the growth into a society like that of Aguaria Major as quickly as possible, many of them having government jobs. Thus, the long-stagnant economy is burgeoning quickly under the greatness of non-corrupted communism, and industry, and government-funded infrastructural projects are slowly turning every town in Lavendoria into gleaming, sparkling, scientifically advanced settlements like those in Aguaria Major. The native Lavendorian population, being almost completely wiped out during the war, to the point where accusations of war crimes for their victory in the Lavender War still plague Aguaria Major today, has rebounded surprisingly quickly from the 1000 survivors of the battle of Lavendopolis (who were actually, under the anger of the Aguaria Majorian soldiers, very close to all being massacred after their offering of Gwyn James and surrender, only to be saved by the bitter Unenlagia, who proclaimed to his soldiers that while they were the scum of the earth, the Lavendorians had surrendered, and renounced the leader who made them hate Aguaria Major in doing so, so under the international rules of war, and morally, as well as symbolically, Aguaria Major was obligated to spare them), to a population of almost 200 million. They have almost all but forgotten the pre-war era, and the Lavender war, as well as the practices of the pre-Lavender War society, and they live as comrades and equals to their Aguaria Majorian counterparts. Lavendoria has since grown so much like Aguaria Major, a lifestyle that the natives embrace more than the Aguaria Majorians living there, again surprisingly, both to the point where a campaign, spearheaded by native Lavendorians, was led to make Lavendoria a province of Aguaria Major. And it succeeded. Thus, Lavendoria is now the 10,001st, and largest, land-wise, province (the other 10000 being the many islands of Aguaria Major's main archipelago) of Aguaria Major.