The Mandalorian Confederation (Mando Bu'canaragir) was the government of the Mandalore sector established by Mand'alor Fenn Shysa in 3 ABY after Mandalore was liberated from an Imperial occupation following the Supercommando War, which lasted over two decades. The Confederation was ruled by Fenn Shysa (and later, Boba Fett) as Mand'alor as well as a council of chieftains and warlords known as the akaa'gi. During the period in which the Confederation went without a Mand'alor, the Mandalore sector was overseen by an elected Prime Minister (erei salyr) and the Assembly of Mandalore (Tsad droten be Manda'yaim).
Territories[]
Their inhabited territories included the Mandalore, Concord Dawn, Gargon, Draboon, Breshig, Vorpa'ya, Cheravh, Harswee, Hrthging, Jakelia, Ordo, and Zanbar systems with a total population of around 4.5 million sentients, around 97% of which being Humans. They also briefly laid claim to some foreign territories such as during the occupation of the Vergesso asteroids, though these claims were often disputed by the Imperial states and New Republic.
Individual settlements or regions were governed by the clans that ruled them, however the Protectors also directly administrated numerous areas in which the clans were deemed unfit for self-rule.
Military[]
On a local level, each clan maintained their own warriors that enforced law and provided military defense for their own territories, though were very limited in their jurisdiction to prevent revolt. These limitations included the prohibition of starfighters or any other armed starships by individual clans for uses other than transportation and highly-destructive weapons such as disruptors or turbolasers.
The Journeyman Protectors, who had been independently defending the Mandalore sector from invaders and criminals since their formation nearly a millennia earlier, were absorbed into the Confederation as the government's sector-level military and police force. As of 10 ABY, the Protectors boasted over 50,000 infantry and a large fleet comprising Z-95 starfighters, M3-A Scyk starfighters, G1-M4-C Dunelizard starfighters, Cabur-class starfighters, Alpha-3 Nimbus-class starfighters, Kom'rk-class heavy starfighters, M12-L Kimogila heavy starfighters, M22-T Krayt gunships, Pursuer-class enforcement ships, Firespray-31-class attack and patrol crafts, Akajor-class shuttles, Meteor-class Q-Carriers, Crusader-class corvettes, and at least five Keldabe-class battleships. Only three Protector enlistment centers existed, which were located in the cities of Keldabe and Enceri on Mandalore, and Kra'keppa on Concord Dawn.
Many Supercommando units also operated independently of the clans and the Protectors, and were often called upon to function collectively as special forces, performing tasks including espionage, sabotage, interdiction, and assassination.
Interspecies relations[]
Non-Human sentients in the Mandalore sector were granted the right to work and to purchase land, however most clans did not permit non-Human membership, and thus non-Humans were not allowed to legally inhabit clan territories (though were given the right to travel through clan territories and purchase goods while traveling). Instead, they inhabited unincorporated communities that were directly administrated by the Confederation. Most of these alien communities were located on Draboon, Vorpa'ya, and Breshig, where nearly all non-Human citizens worked as farmers, miners, or metalworkers. These humanocentric policies led many sentients' rights activists, particularly supporters of the Rights of Sentience League (and its political representation, the Rights of Sentience Party), to frequently question the legitimacy of the Confederation's laws in the media. Activism within Mandalorian borders was rare thanks both to propaganda, media censorship, and a government-enforced work ethic. A terrorist attack on a mining station above Draboon in 7 ABY was believed to have been carried out by the Nebula Front, who was likely driven by an anti-speciesist motive.
History[]
Two days after Fenn Shysa's pivotal raid at the City of Bone, the Declaration of the Confederation of the Mandalorians was issued to all major cities on Mandalore. Fenn Shysa had great success in his rise to power, with only a few instances of armed insurgency in isolated settlements. Shysa's main opposition were rogue elements of the Journeyman Protectors as well as the recently reformed Akaan'ade. He spent nearly all of his reign expanding the Confederation into the surrounding Mandalore sector, attacking Imperial splinter cells and forming a loose alliance with the New Republic in the process. Shysa was later succeeded by Boba Fett in 21 ABY, who continued to lead the Mandalorian clans throughout the Yuuzhan Vong War, the Swarm War, and the Second Galactic Civil War. Following the natural death of Boba Fett, the Confederation underwent an interregnum in which no Mand'alor ruled (and all executive, judicial, and legislative powers were invested in a council of around thirty clan chieftains) until the election of Chernan Ordo in 121 ABY. Chernan ruled for 6 years before he was betrayed during a battle with Imperials on Botajef, after which he was usurped by Yaga Auchs, whose clan continued to rule Mandalore as dynastic kings for nearly a century onwards in a constant state of cold war with the Galactic Federation. While the Confederation remained intact in name during the reign of the Auchs dynasty, its government gradually evolved into an autocratic dictatorship that granted no rights to its clans.