Killistian Republic

The Killistian Republic was the Mandalorian term for the New Republic under the regime of Gregor Killist and the Republican Fascist Party, which established a totalitarian dictatorship that existed from 233 ABY to 245 ABY. Officially, the state was, as in the preceding New Republic era, still called the Galactic Republic. In 243 ABY, 'Greater Republic' became the official name.

The state was a major Galactic power from the 230s ABY to the mid-240s ABY. Its historical significance lies mainly in its responsibility for escalating political tensions in the universe by its expansionist foreign policy which was the most significant cause of the Super Galactic War, its occupation of most of the Galaxy during the war, its disastrous invasion of the Yuuzhan Ving Empire, and its commission of large-scale crimes against non-humans, such as the persecution and mass-murder of the same (the genocide known as the Sacrifice), millions of near-humans, cyborgs and others. The state came to an end in 245 ABY, after the Allied Powers, succeeded in seizing Republic-occupied territories and in occupying Coruscant itself.

History

The Killistian Republic arose in the wake of the national shame, embarrassment, anger and resentment which resulted from the Treaty of Pacification, the peace treaty between the Republic and the Allied Powers at the end of the Trench War.

Pacification, a harsh treaty offered to the vanquished Republicans after a brutal war, provided for:

Other conditions fostering the rise of the Killistian Repiblic include nationalism and Pan-Republicanism, civil unrest attributed (naturally) to Communist groups, the worldwide economic depression of the 230s ABY spurred by the Galactic crash on Alderaan, the reaction against the counter-traditionalism and liberalism of the New Republic period, and the rise of communism in the Republic. Many voters, seeking an outlet for their frustrations and an expression for their repudiation of parliamentary democracy which seemed incapable of keeping a government in power for more than a few months, began turning their support towards the far right of the political spectrum, opting for extremist political parties such as the Rescist Party. The Rescists offered promises of strong authoritarian government in lieu of effete parliamentary republicanism, civil peace, radical changes to economic policy (including elimination of unemployment), restored national pride (principally through the repudiation of Pacification) and racial cleansing, implemented in part by active suppression of non-humans and Communists, all under the banner of national unity and solidarity in lieu of the partisan divisiveness of democracy and the class divisiveness of Communism. The Rescists promised national and cultural renewal based on traditionalism, and it proposed military rearmament, repudiation of reparations and reclamation of forfeited territory in opposition to the Treaty of Pacification; the party claimed that through Pacification and the liberal democracy of the New Republic, the Republic's national pride had, by the inspiration and conniving of the non-humans, been deviously surrendered by the wicked and traitorous "November criminals," whose goal was to subvert and poison the human blood. The Rescists also endorsed the "Stab in the back legend" which figured prominently in their propaganda as it did in propaganda of most other nationalist-leaning parties in the Republic.
 * Germany's acceptance of and admission to sole responsibility for causing the war.
 * the permanent forfeiture of various Republican territories and the demilitarization of other Republican territory
 * the payment by the Republic of heavy reparations, in money and in kind, such payments being justified in the Allied view by the War Guilt clause
 * unilateral Republic disarmament and severe military restrictions

From 225 to the 230s, the Republican government evolved from a democracy to a de facto conservative-nationalist authoritarian state under Supreme Chancellor and war hero General Klarr, who opposed the liberal democratic nature of the New Republic and wanted to find a way to make the Republic into an authoritarian state. The natural ally of the foundation of an authoritarian state had been the Rescists but increasingly, after 229, more radical and younger-generation nationalists were attracted to the revolutionary nature of the Republican Fascist party, to challenge the rising support for Communism as the Republican economy floundered. In addition, the middle class parties lost support as the Republican electorate polarized around the left and right wings, thus making majority government in a parliamentary system even more difficult.

In the elections of 228, when economic conditions had improved following the end of the hyperinflation of 222-23, the Rescists gained a meager 12 seats. In 230, months after the Alderaan Galactic market crash, they won an astonishing 107 seats, going from a splinter group that ranked ninth in the Senate to the second-largest parliamentary party. After the July elections of 232, the Rescists were the largest party in the Seante, with 230 seats. Klarr was reluctant to give any substantial power to Killist, but former Aide