| Kushite Consulate | |
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| Flag of the Kushite Consulate | |
| General | |
| Name | Kushite Consulate |
| Capital and Largest City | Hussan |
| Government | |
| Government Type | Democratic Confederated Consulate |
| Heads of State | Consul Ashkir, Consul Canab, Consul Samatar |
| National Council | 361 chairs |
| Demographics | |
| Demonym | Kushite |
| Population | 3.4 Million |
| Spoken Language(s) | Arabic, Somali, Amharic, Oromo, Sidamo |
| Ethnic Groups | Somalis, Arabs, Oromos, Amharans, Tigrayans, Tigrinyas, Afars |
| Major Religions | Islam, Christianity |
The Kushite Consulate is a confederation of territories along the northern coast of the Horn of Africa, the Red Sea, and the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is a multiethnic and multilingual assortment of typically independent and self-reliant autonomous communities under three nominal administrative regions, each governed by a consul which together make up the highest administrative body of the Kushite Consulate. The Kushite Consulate is a relatively recent state, having been officially borne into being by the Treaty of Artyash in October 17th, 2135. The Kushite Consulate is not bordered by any developed state, although it maintains and is often making new contact with a number yet-unincorporated communities and peoples. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east and is divided by the Red Sea. On the western side of the Red Sea lie the Eritrean Subconsulate and the Somali Subconsulate, bordered in the west by savannas, grasslands, and the Eritrean and Ethiopian Highlands, which eventually recede into regular plains and jungles. To the south lie the Somalian plateaus, plains, and grasslands which transition as one moves south and west into wetter and greener pastures. On the eastern side of the Red Sea in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula there lies the Himyarite Subconsulate. It is bordered on land by green fields and semi-tropical coastline, transitioning into dryer plains and eventually becoming the Arabian Desert. The capital is at Hussan, a port-city in the Eritrean Subonsulate and the largest city in the Kushite Consulate. The modern history of the Kushite Consulate has its beginnings in the 2190s, when the quality of life and a number of societal problems left over from the Flood began to stabilize thanks to the standardization of weather patterns and a decade of good growing seasons which affected the whole region. The subsequent improvement and rapid development led to inter-societal contact on a much larger scale by the 2110s. By the 2120s, a loose network of connected tribes and villages had come into being. In 2135, the Treaty of Artyash was signed in Artyash, the capital of what would become the Himyarite Subconsulate, formalizing the establishment of the Kushite Consulate. The following decades saw the development and refinement of laws and customs and a number of social experiments were passed through before the current confederalist form was agreed upon. Today, the Kushite Consulate remains a deeply diverse and multicultural society with a variety of prominent ethnic groups, religions, and languages spread across its territory.
History[edit | edit source]
Much of the early post-flood history of the regions now comprising the Kushite Consulate is unknown. What is known tends to be fragmented and vague. It is known that the old states in the region, places like Somalia, Ethiopia, and Yemen, were among the first of the old nations to fall. The states dissolved and they fell into chaos. Millions died from starvation and violence. Many fled, some deeper inland to escape the overwhelming floods, others to those states which still persisted and in doing so unknowingly contributing to their downfall. Years passed. Those left in the original territories struggled for food, for shelter, for land. Some sought to come together for their own furtherance; alliances were forged and shattered as one, without any clear distinction as to when either had occurred. Permanence was a word forgotten in those days. In a word -- things were chaotic. It is no surprise that it is this time which we know least about.
History begins to come back into focus as the decades go by and we enter the 70s and 80s. It is during these decades that things took a general upturn as permanently established groups and alliances were finally formed and permanent settlements came back into being on a large scale. These decades saw the rebirth of ethnic ties, tribal identities, and group dynamics. Society came back into its infancy. The following years, as a result of these developments, saw increased self-sufficiency and productivity. Agricultural infrastructure was built, labour divided, organized community
Government[edit | edit source]
Economy[edit | edit source]
The Kushite Consulate uses a cooperative and equitable approach to economics. Workplaces are democratically owned and operated by their workers, who receive in proportion to their contribution. Workplace democracy is central to the larger conederalist form at work across all of the Consulate. Workers effectively comprise the great majority of the various councils, which ascend from the smallest, in the individual workplace, to the highest, at the national level. Workers' councils at various levels interact and cooperate between each other to ensure efficiency between workplaces.
The primary industries in the Consulate are agriculture, aquaculture, wild fishing, textiles, and carpentry.
Subsistence farming, though it scarcely enters into national trade, is very widespread, with most families outside of large cities either owning and working a private share of crops or contributing and receiving from public fields. Excess is usually stored instead of traded. Fishing or aquatic cultivation are also both very common, and most people along the coast enjoy a healthy mix of plants from the surrounding fertile soil and fish from the Red Sea or Arabian Sea.
Most clothing is hand-sewn, either by its users or by a local seamstress. Most clothing is made out of dried and spun plant fibers like cotton and flax or from wool from sheep or goats. Fibrous plants and herd animals for use in textiles are often grown and reared alongside communal subsistence crops in agricultural villages and traded to the spinners and seamstresses in return for their service to society. It is a mutually beneficial relationship; the farmers give their raw product and return receive the finished product to put on their backs.
Carpentry is an important industry and has been seeing especially high growth in recent years as the demand for new houses and certain luxuries has increased. While the bulk of this industry entails hard labour and utilitarian construction, there is a smaller but growing aspect of wood art and fine construction which is closely tied to the larger industry.
While optimally products are distributed according to need and use, many products, like clothing, are still hard to produce rapidly and in bulk. Because of this, a type of unit of exchange is put to use for scarce items. Abundant goods are freely available and distributed according to use, but in order to reconcile scarcity with demand, many other items will be exchangeable for labour vouchers, which represent one's contribution in labour time and value.
Since production in the Kushite Consulate is for use and not for profit, it's hard to measure the value of its economy in terms of figures like GDP. Production in the Consulate escapes the fundamentally illogical and unsustainable model of the societies that came before the Flood. Surplus is distributed according to need and use, goods are produced on a basis of social utility and demand, and false scarcity is not maintained as it was before in order to maximize profits. GDP becomes an arbitrary number in relation to the economics of the Kushite Consulate because the mode of production therein is fundamentally different from capitalism. However, for the sake of communication with foreign powers, the Kushite National Economics Council is responsible for expressing the Consulate economy in monetary terms.