For 11 years, the nation of Syana was under the control of a ruthless dictator named Daakas Gonsaa. This was a period of very little rights and an oppressive ban on freedom of speech and political opinion. The dictatorship ended with a violent civil war between the Syan army and rebel groups who wished to return to a democratic society as opposed to the totalitarian regime they lived in.
Aran Salilan, the Jaar of Syana at the time, was voted out of his position as monarch and succeeded by the Jaar Isala, Daakas Gonsaa. Once Gonsaa became Jaar he set about removing the Baa Di-Syana and the Baa Di-Jamasaa which gave him absolute power over the government. This gave him the ability to ban anything that he deemed as threatening to his political career.
Gonsaa had formed a new system of government to replace the councils he had abolished named the Baa Di-Gonsaa. This new council was in control of everything in Syana and was under the direct instruction and influence of Gonsaa, meaning he now had totalitarian power over the nation and its people.
The resistance group known as O'an-kakasa Di-kan (fighters of the free), also known as the O.A.K.D.K, were formed as a peaceful gathering of people. Founded by Gasaan Midaasolan, their aim was to bring awareness to the injustice and hman rights violations that were prevelant under Gonsaa's rule.
As the O'an-kakasa Di-kan begin to stage peaceful protests demanding the return of democracy, all protests and many aspects of freedom of speech are made illegal. This results in the leader of the resistance group Gasaan Midaasolan being publicly executed by being shot in the head by Gonsaa himself. This led to mass rioting from the unhappy citizens of Syana.
The largest of these riots, called the Naal-anis Di-bia-o'di-'maa (night of much blood), saw the death of 112 people, both rioters and police. The "night of much blood" took place on the 12th of December 1983 in the city of Ola-so, which had been hit by both the hyperinflation and the Baa Di-Gonsaa's neglect of coastal infrastructure, causing port cities to become financially crippled.
As the riots continued, Gonsaa began a military crackdown on anyone suspected of treason. This military aggression caused the riots to evolve into a full revolution, with the O.A.K.D.K forming its own small army. Many senior members of the resistance group willingly handed themselves in to the police, armed with suicice explosives, in a string of terrorist attacks against Gonsaa and the Baa Di-Gonsaa. These attacks took many civilian lives as collateral damage in their goal of killing as many authority figures as possible. Towards the end of 1984, these attacks also began to occur in municiple buildings such as town halls or large transit hubs (the worst attack being the bombing of the station Bia-laas Lokomodisa-loma Di-balisaa, which took 237 lives).
On February the 24th, Daakas Gonsaa was assassinated by a sniper when he visited a school in the town of Alodaa-Kamisaal. Following his death, the O.A.K.D.K announced that their leader Raado Dijaaso would become jaar of the new nation which they named Kaan Syana, which comprised of the four islands west of Minil-adaala Island, since that island was still under the control of the Baa Di-Gonsaa. Over the next few months the Baa Di-Gonsaa attempted to form their own independent nation known as Gonsaa-so. This small nation crowned Daakas Gonsaa's sucessor Gimansaara Daakaso as their jaar, being meant to rule temporarily until the young princess Analy Gonsaa was an adult. The "government" of Kaan Syana, consisitng of high-ranking leaders of the former terrorist group, neglected all of their duties of running the country and instead focused on an invasion of breakaway nation of Gonsaa-so. This created a devastating famine across all of Kaan Syana, with many citizens fleeing to America in hopes of a better life.
To prevent further bloodhsed, the USA (backed by the United Nations) threatened to invade Syana and forcibly intervene if the O.A.K.D.K did not formally disband and allow the people to vote for a new jaar. As punishment for the bloodshed and hardship faced by the Syan people, the leaders of the O.A.K.D.K and all senior chancellors of the Baa Di-Gonsaa were sentenced to life in prison. During this time, Gonsaa’s only child- his 9 year old daughter Analy- was exiled under a new identity to prevent her becoming a figurehead for any remaining Baa Di-Gonsaa sympathisers and to protect her from any attempts on her life by remaining members of the O.A.K.D.K.
After over a year of lingering conflict on Minil-adaala Island, the civil war came to a close and Sydaa So was elected by the people of Syana to become the next Jaar. Sydaa implemented many laws regarding the Gonsaa dictatorship such as “the name Daakas Gonsaa is an illegal phrase unless under educational circumstances” and “anyone found to be a sympathiser of the Baa Di-Gonsaa or a member of any neo-Gonsaa resurgence groups will be sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in prison”. As well as this, Sydaa So also renamed the city that was the capital of Syana during the dictatorship from Gonsaa-Daal to Saansan, named after the mountain that the city is situated at the base of.