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=== Revolutionary period ===
{{main|Revolutionary period of Empherias}}{{See also|2395 Revolution of Empherias}}
The Revolutionary period is characterised by the 2395{{En dash}}2397 revolution. The revolution saw a shift away from the archaic political parties of the Liberals and Conservatives into an expanded array of left-wing parties such as the Populists and Socialists. This was brought alongside an expansion of the voting franchise allowed everyone over the age of 18 to vote without land-owning and nobility restrictions. Furthermore, the revolution itself saw an immediate change in wealth from the upper to lower classes, but this would continue with the introduction of a welfare state to provide healthcare, housing, and education for the first time. However, this did mean higher and higher taxes for all classes.
Felix D'laminet was the figurehead of the Populist movement once it reached government, however other figures such as successive Prime Ministers Henry Watford and Robert Webber, the Minister of War Henry Alark, and activists Edgard Morrison and Lewis Rhommel, played a huge part in reforms in the early 2400s. Briefly in 2411, and then in a majority government from 2415 onwards, the Socialists ruled under Elizabeth Rose, Alice Rettels, and finally Edward Broedesmore, expanding the reforms done by the Populists. The Liberals, who had been one of the two major parties pre-revolution, came back to power after 50 years in 2435 under Skylar Lawrence, however she was unable to enact many major reforms and lost out to Socialists Katelyn Roberts and Sofia Hopkins from 2441 to 2448.
The period also saw Empheri neutrality militarily and isolationism that ended with a renewal of the Empheri-Hveden Alliance, and then the Ewynnia Security Alliance (ESA) being founded with Hvede and Karkuss as members to allow for economic integration and military access. A border war with Palakkinen in 2418 triggered by their invasion of Hveden southern lands saw Palakkinen join the ESA and mediators Ahitereira-Koresa entering an economic treaty with Empherias. This period saw both the Treaty of Nieuwbourg and Treaty of Grensalbourg signed which saw a small exclave in Koresa be ceded to Empherias for their first warm water port, and the creation of the state of Grensalbourg in the east to be heavily dominated economically by Empherias, and ruled as a diarchy by one Empheri and one Palakkine person.
This period also saw the expansion of Empheri borders to the largest extension ever. Empherias annexed the neighbouring countries of Weskynn and Norsair in 2414 and 2415 respectively, integrated the Tbekien territories, bought the Gates territory from the Kingdom of Karkuss, and bought a large amount of mountainous southern land from the Hveden Federation. By 2428, they had lost land to the Treaty of Grensalbourg in a compromise, but maintained their modern day borders since.
=== Alaxian period ===
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