Fiction:Imperial Siranian Directorate

Pre-Independence
Before the Directorate was a directorate it was under control of two other factions: the Alliance of the Mashriq and then the French Republic. It was under Mashriqi control from 2230-2270 and French control from 2270-2305. They couldn't become independent until they won the Siranian War of Independence in 2305. However, in the aftermath of the war, the Siranians were in chaos. Order was restored around the year 2322 and the Directorate began rebuild a new empire.

25th-27th Century
The Siranians began to grow in peace, gradually growing their military. They also began to make pieces of art and their relations with France began to improve. They soon became a minor power and they were accepted into the Orion League at the time. However, during the years 2535 to 2623 a time known as the Eighty-Eight Year Darkness, a civil war in which another man known as Paul Thom, a man from France who thought that the Siranians should be a protectorate of the French again and tried to start a revolution. In the end, he was stopped though he inflicted heavy damage on the the government. Several people began to follow him, and protests started. They eventually died out, and the Siranians began to regrow.

28th Century to Present
In July of 2802, with the formation of the Human Superstate, the ISD, being a member of the now defunct Orion League, became a member, though not as willingly as the unificationist Director at the time, Mahmut İsmet Atatürk, had hoped for. The ISD then began to demilitarize, though most of the armed forces remained due to the failure of the Atatürk administration to enforce the demilitarization and the increase of government corruption and military-government officials. Private donors and uncooperative planets also began to train more military personnel, though this went unnoticed by the government. This buildup of military along with public disdain of Atatürk's unificationist and liberal policies resulted in the 2804 - 2805 Siranian political crisis. That culminated in the 2805 Siranian coup d'état, when the National Council for Security took over and forced the resignation of Atatürk. The former Director was assassinated in 2809 by Abdullah Hollande, the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Siranian Army. This led to an unofficial increase in military personnel in Siranian space, while Recep Rauf Çakmak, the new Prime Minister, maintained the official state fo demilitarization.

While the ISD was now a directorate in name, its government was more of a military junta, with the power resting in the National Council for Security, a council of admirals and generals who exercised absolute power, with a puppet dictator put as the head of state. Until the rule of Abdullah Hollande, the highest figure in the hierarchy of command was the Prime Minister, in this case Recep Rauf Çakmak. Çakmak was also the Leader of the Council and the Commander-in-Chief of the Siranian Stellar Forces. However, upon the appointment of underestimated Hollande to the dictatorship, he quickly used his charisma to attract many supporters amongst the members of the National Council. He used this power to pass a new set of laws, further increasing the power of the dictator while lessening the power of the Prime Minister and the Council. These laws were enforced by Hollande's position as Deputy Leader of the Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Siranian Army.

By 2809, the ISD was almost a pure dictatorship, with Hollande on the verge of absolute power. However, he was resisted by most of the National Council. In 2809, while Hollande was leading an extermination force on the outskirts of the capital, Çakmak had taken control of the capital city. He had locked down the National Council, detaining all suspected "Hollandists". With his subordinate Recep Yildirim, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the SSF (Siranian Stellar Forces) and Secretary-General of the National Council, he brought the Stellar Forces to the capital for a military takeover. He had publicly broadcasted the executions of the suspected Hollandists and all in the Imperial Siranian Army stationed in the capital with significant ties to Hollande all over the directorate. He also proclaimed himself Grand Marshal and supreme leader until the situation had returned to normal. Upon hearing the news, Hollande launched an attack on the capital, despite the fact that he had only ground forces. Despite this, a mass defection in the National Council and Stellar Forces, along with tactical genius led to victory for the Hollandists, who then had all resistance executed by firing squad. Hollande then disbanded the National Council for Security as the ruling body and used the support of the ISA (Imperial Siranian Army) to support his rule as Grand Marshal of the Imperial Siranian Directorate. He then placed his own military personnel in charge of the SSF. He then imposed martial law and began to turn the directorate into a police state. The rule of Grand Marshal Abdullah Hollande has irrevocably changed the course of the Imperial Siranian Directorate.

Politics and Government
The Imperial Siranian Dictatorship is a unitary state, with the central government being in absolute control, the sectorial governments exercising only the powers granted to them by the central government. However, these powers are almost non-existent. Sectors cannot pass their own laws and any degree of autonomy is unheard of. Prior to the 2809 coup, some sectors had degrees of autonomous devolved power, but these powers were delegated by the National Council for Security and could be taken away at any time. Once the ISD gained independence, it was an absolute monarchy, but after the 2632 Rebellion a constitutional monarchy was enacted, but that was replaced by a parlimentary republic.

From then on, there have brief intervals of oligarchies and military juntas, such as the 2707 - 2714 Council for National Peace and Order Government, the chaotic years of 2727 to 2768 which were dominated by dictatorships and oligarchies, militaristic or not, and the May 19, 2806 coup d'état, when the NCS (National Council for Security) took over in response to the political crisis at the time. This rule lasted until the Hollandist coup d'état in June 2, 2809. Since 2809, the Hollandists began to repeal the 2807 constitution, they declared martial law and nationwide curfew, arrested opposing politicians and anti-coup activists, imposed information censorship and took control of all media.

Grand Marshalate and Executive
The Grand Marshal of Siran, Grand Marshal Abdullah Hollande has ruled from June 2, 2809 to the present day. The Law of the Army, passed on June 20, 2809, states that the grand marshal shall have unquestioned authority which is to be enforced by the three branches of government and the army (in all cases these overlap). Prior to the 2809 coup, the Director (the former title) was little more than a figurehead and a symbol of the Siranian nation and military. After the coup, the Grand Marshal became the head of the Siranian Armed Forces (SAF) and the Field Marshal of the Army and the Marshal of the Siranian Stellar Forces. Another power of the Grand Marshal listed in the Law of the Army is the Grand Marshal has the power to appoint his own heir, thus making the office of Grand Marshal somewhat hereditary. However, the heir must have at least two of the following qualities: a decade of experience in the SAF, having fought in at least three major battles or being at the military rank of Lieutenant General in the Army and Stellar Marshal in the Stellar Forces or higher. Hollande has two sons, Mustafa and Abdülhalik, both having served fifteen years in the SAF, with Mustafa also having the rank of General in the Imperial Siranian Army. Mustafa therefore qualifies as an appointable heir, and he was made heir on July 3, 2809. The Grand Marshal's body of aides is the National Council of Assistance (NCA), the Hollandist successor to the National Council for Security. The Grand Marshal and his family's official home is the Grand Palace, a renovated version of the NCS building in the capital. On October 3, 2811, Abdullah further solidified the imperial position and duties of the Grand Marshal by officially making his title His Excellency, Abdullah I, by the Grace of the Armed forces and the Will of the Grand Marshal, Grand Marshal of the Imperial Siranian Dictatorship, Lord of Siran, and Grandmaster of the Siranian Armed Forces.

Abdullah I is known for being pressured by the National Council of Assistance to encourage anti-French sentiment, and while it is apparent that he is privately a Francophobe, publicly it appears that the Grand Marshal is willing to work with the French if it is in the interests of Siran and himself.

Allies

 * "We are bound to do good things together."

Friends
"Hmmmm? Oh, yes, good people, we think."
 * Yellow face.png French Republic