Lore Document

Name(s):

Formal: The Right-Qemalist Republic of Greater Dardania

Informal: The Qemalist Republic of Dardania

Colloquial: Dardania

Government:

Guiding Ideology(ies): Qemalist, Federal, Parliamentary Republic

Head of State (Masonic): Most Worshipful and Lordly Grand-Master Hashim Thaçi

Head of State (Civilian): Kryeministr Bajram Begaj

Legislature (Upper): Senati Masonik (The Masonic Senate)

Legislature (Lower): Asambleja e Trimave (The Assembly of the Brave)

Legislature (Jewish): Sinedri i Lashtë (The Ancient Sanhedrin)

Nation Demographics

Religion:

• Neo-Shi’ism (56%, Majority)

• Jetsashenjtë (32%, Official, 'Sacred Living', an esoteric Islamic tradition akin to Alevism)

• Orthodoxy (8%, Minority)

• Catholicism (4% Minority)

Language:

• Kosovar (Official, modern Albanian-Kosovar language)
• Greek (Recognised Minority)
• Aromanian (Recognised Minority)
• Macedonian (Unrecognised Minority)

Map:

The Ancient and Mystic Lands of Dardania Proper

History:

When the second deluge hit the world the lands of Albania were not hit as hard as the rest of the failing nations nearby. Through the chaos King Zog was able to unite the Kosovar lands, beating back the Macedonians and the Ottoman remnants who refused the declaration of independence and the arrival of the Albanian National Awakening. However, the success was short lived and the newly acquired lands of the Albanian Kingdom were stocked to the brim with revolutionaries, bandits, and military remnants that had refused to give up the battle. The catalyst hit in Albania when the Roman Empire was formed and quickly begun to exert their influence.

While King Zog bravely refuted the attempts of diplomatic annexation from Roman dignitaries, he could not refute the arrival of firebrand young officers from the Roman Imperial Army who desired to annex the lands in service to the Emperor. King Zog could only watch as his army deserted and local governments welcomed the invading army into their borders. King Zog promptly fled with his family and a large supply of gold and gems, still presumed to be missing in the current day.

Once Zog had fled, the rest of Albania quickly fell under the rulership of the young officers who formed a ruling Junta known as the Committee for Law and Progress. The KLP established law and order across the nation and enacted a decree renaming the nation to its ancient name, Dardania. Once Dardania had been formed the KLP sent out delegations to the Roman Empire announcing their success in the conquering of the rebel state and outlined a rule of law of how they would govern the new lands.

The Roman Empire jumped at the chance to include a new swath of land to their Imperial Borders and thus Dardania became an Imperial Vassal, the new loyal Heartlands of the Empire. Now that the KLP had authorisation from the Imperial Court to lead Dardania they begun the process of establishing a constitution and proper governance. The KLP had a guiding force behind their choice to invade the Kosovar lands that would heavily influence the governance of Dardania, Freemasonry. The young officers largely united through the meetings of the Imperial Orient of Rome where they discussed principles of LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY. The officers also largely interacted with the Turkish Committee of Union and Progress and as such they could not sit idly by while an authoritarian monarch oppressed the Ancient and Mystic Kosovar people. Due to this, Dardania was formed under the guidance of Grand Master Ismail Qemali who established the nation as the "The Right-Qemalist Republic of Greater Dardania".

This new nation under the banner of Freemasonry and Unionism has devoted itself to the ideology of "Qemalism" after the first Grand Master of Dardania and his political thought. Qemali detailed the most important services of government through the quote "We must build a society in which the legionnaires of Dardania serves as the main force of revolution and in which the unity of the army and the people helps to safeguard as well as build Unionism."

Qemali also detailed the most importance principles of Qemalism in his book, "The Five Righteous Governing Principles of Unionism (Qemali Unionism):

• Ushtarak-i Pari (Military-First Policy)
• Unionizmi (Federalism)
• Artizanatishenjtë (Masonic Guidance)
• Gjeorgjizma (Dardanian Georgism)
• Kalorësia (Aristocratic/Stratocratic Guided Democracy, ‘Noble Soldiers’)