Summary

The Commonwealth of Ionysia is a modern day noocracy and former colony of the Federated Empire of Helladria. Its government is composed of the social intelligentsia and technocrats and is tightly insulated from the populace, which has yielded mixed results over the years. Emperor Svenge Barnet dår Valkyrjur of the Helladric Empire still acts as Ionysia's head of state.

The Ionydia are a people who were once colonized by Helladrian seafarers in classical antiquity. Over time, the Helladrians married into the broader population and began to integrate themselves, but as the golden age of the League of Corsyd ended and Helladrian power and influence waned, most full blooded Helladrians returned to their respective metropoleis, leaving behind a people of mixed heritage, who had been thrust in only a few generations from the neolithic to the iron age. The departure of the ruling Helladrians left the Ionydia to their devices and they steadily slid back into barbarism.

When next the Helladrians returned to Ionysia in force as a colonial power, a thousand years had passed. Some of their Helladrian legacy had remained - the Ionyd language was a creole version of Helladrian, and the Ionydia were still crafting arms and fashioning instruments much in the style of the long departed Helladrians, and the legacy of Helladrian intermarriage had produced a thoroughly skewed sex ratio. Ionysia was soon treated as a long lost sibling nation in Helladrian romantic discourse - a closely related people lost in the the wilds who needed to be caught up to the present, and who, like their Helladrian brethren were destined to be a great and influential civilization.

The Helladrian Senate soon resolved to create a colonial governing body that would gradually integrate the native Ionydia who were most fit to rule. The methods used however, split the population of Ionysia between the educated elite, and the masses who were by and large left out from the cultural reawakening. The government slowly transitioned to include a more active role for the Ionydia who showed interest and aptitude in administrative matters, as the Helladrians took a progressively smaller role.

The zeitgeist among the Ionydia included a strong penchant for benevolent autocracy which pervaded the establishment and legitimized the non-democratic government in the eyes of the people who were largely left to their devices. The quasi-libertarian policies of the Ionyd government led to rapid growth and economic development under the first two centuries of Helladrian colonial rule. The growth and vibrancy of Ionyd life began to stall out however, as the government became progressively more outmoded and disconnected from the people, who themselves never lost their enchantment with spending all they made. As the government became less able and willing to look out for the interest of the people, the people by and large paid little heed to the signs that they would need to take responsibility for their own economic and social wellbeing.

Today the same problems still persist. The economy is largely stalled, as saving and investment have remained unpopular, and the orthodoxy of the Ionyd government still prevents any attempt at creating a sense of unified national direction. The Commonwealth of Ionysia remains politically, economically, and militarily close to the Federated Empire of Helladria, but mutual shirking by both the private and public sectors have produced a far less developed country.