Kusheen Empire

The Kusheen Empire are an interstellar empire who are the client state of the The Remusian Republic. In the past their former government led them as a military dictatorship, effectively declaring war on anything that moves. After the Remusian led Kusheen Campaign and the Kusheen Coup, the government has become more akin to a stratocracy, with supervision from the Republic.

Despite their cute appearance, they are very aggressive and militaristic, which lead to them starting the Kusheen Conflict with the Republic. Seeking an oppertunity to claim a newly established race, the Kusheens thought the conflict would be an easy win. Despite initial success in Remusian Space, the Kusheens suffered a loss that ultimatly resulted in the vassalization of thier small empire to the Republic after the creation of the Military Codex.

= General Information =

The Kusheen Empire is a race of large, grey bipedal space cats that neighbor the Remusian Republic. Despite their cute appearance, they are very aggressive and militaristic, which lead to them starting the Kusheen Conflict with the Republic. More recently, they have begun to become less aggressive as per the reformation of their former government.

Culture
The Kusheens Empire is more or less a large warrior clan. Combat and battle has remained an important aspect of their culture for generations, but has led to them being prone to aggressive tendencies and behaviors. In practise the Kusheens have always focused on melee and CQC related combat, but after their defeat in the Kusheen Campaign they have shifted their focus to be of a more mixed approach.

= Government =

For much of the Kusheen's early civilized and spacefaring days, they were predominantly run my a military dictatorship, who ran the Empire in a very strict manner. Propaganda to support the government and oppose opponents was a key part of the government, as well as censoring things the government did not want their populace to see. Unless they were at war with that particular race, the existence of other empires was often suppressed or censored as well.

In the past there has always been some form of resistance to the overcontrolling government, riots are very commonplace but were dealt with by their Kusheen Government Police force, often resulted in heavy casualties and fatalities. With the presentation of a war against another large space power, the resistance leader, Gorge Von Khat, launched a full scale coup d'état against High Command, and was successful. Some of this success is leant to conspiring with the Republic to Jointly take down and eliminate High Command. Von Khat would become to new High Councillor for the Kusheens, and start leaving behind the old path of continuous bloodshed.

Vassalization
After the Kusheen Campaign and the the successful coup d'état, The new High councillor Gorge Von Khat has reformed the government to be more like a stratocracy, keeping true to the Kusheen's military focus. However, an Vassal state agreement was signed between him and Vithem Templesmith to allow the Republic to monitor them, while also assisting them monetarily and militarily upon request. The republic has allowed the Kusheen's to mostly operate independently provided they tone down their previous aggressiveness they demonstrated in the past.

= Present day =

Currently the Kusheens are recovering from the long war with The Collection, and continue to aid the Republic as Vassals. Citizens of the two empires are very amicable with each other, but there remains a general distrust between the two governments.