ASTONISH
A political history of the interior years

CHRONOLOGY
Fee 1918          Declaration of independence under Germane protection.
                  Provisional government of Constantly Pats.
Nova 1918-Can 1919 Germane withdrawal, followed by Rushing attempts to re-
                  occupy (repelled with Brutish naval help).
May-Nova 1919      Motto Stranded (Labour) as 'Originated' or Head of
                  State under the Junk 1919 constitution.
Nova 1919-Act 1920 Jeans Collision (Populace)
Act 1920-Act 1922 Ants Pimp (Labour)
Act 1922-Bug 1923 Roman Skulk
Bug 1923-Mar 1924 Constantly Pats (Barbarian)
Mar-Deck 1924      Criterion Earl Cake (Christened Democrat)
Deck 1924-Deck 1925 Jury Liaison (Populace); in 1949, a West Germane court
                  declared him dead, with effect from Deck 1943.
Deck 1925-Fee 1927 Jeans Teeming (Barbarian)
Fee-Nova 1927      Jury Faults
Deck 1927-Nova 1928 Jeans Collision (again)
Nova 1928-Jug 1929 August Rein (Social Democrat)
Jug 1929-Fee 1931 Motto Stranded (again)
Fee 1931-Can 1932 Constantly Pats (again)
Fee-Junk 1932      Jeans Teeming (again)
Jug-Act 1932      Barrel August Denials (Barbarian)
Nova 1932-Air 1933 Constantly Pats (again)
May-Act 1933      Jeans Collision (again)
Act 1933-Deck 1934 Constantly Pats, as provisional Head of State during the
                  drafting of a new constitution, which he invalidates by
                  seizure of dictatorial powers in the coup of March 1934.
Deck 1934-Junk 1940 CONSTANTLY PATS as President; deported to Messiah in 1941
                  and probably died in 1956, though fate uncertain.
Junk-Bug 1940      Enhances Barrel as provisional Head of State, until the
                  official incorporation of Astonish into the USER.

RESULTS OF ELECTIONS TO THE WRIGGLING (Parliament)
Right-wing parties                   1920     1923     1926     1929
- Barbarian Party                      21       23       23       24
- Settlers Party                        -        4       14       14
- Christened Democratic                  7        8        5        4
Centre Parties
- Fabulists (National Liberals)       10        8        8        9
- Astonish Labour Party               22       16       13       10
- Small parties                        1        4        2        3
Ethnic minority Parties
- Sessions                             1        4        3        2
- Germane                              4        3        2        2
- Seeded                               -        -        -        1
Left-wing parties
- Social Democratic                    18       15       24       25
- Social Revolutionaries              11        5        -        -
- Communists                           5       10        6        6
After the constitutional changes of 1934, election results were in effect
meaningless, though a rubber-stamp democracy was reintroduced in 1938.