Reintegration Sessions

The “Reintegration Sessions” were a series of votes held by the Xarslasja Legislature beginning on October 29th, 2025.

Context

Multiple events occurred during the two weeks leading up to the Legislature’s biweekly meeting. In April, the legislature voted 12-1 to allow the formerly rebellious Coconino County and La Paz County to have new representatives chosen to “reintegrate” them into the federal government structure and end the military occupation following the Gu Sabah Insurgency.

At the October 1st session (see List of Sessions of the Xarslasja Legislature), the legislature voted against a measure to create new legislature seats to account for the increased population of certain counties. It was decided that a census would need to take place in order to confirm the proposed increase of seats in Yuma County, Carefree Isles County, and Yavapai County.

The census-taking began shortly after. In response to this, multiple local leaders desperately requested new construction permits from the Bezuv. All of these permits were granted, including a controversial one that allowed a contraction of the South Mountain Ecological Preserve in exchange for expanding the territory of the city of Tempe. This construction move also created the grounds for the town of Laughlin in Yuma County, a huge expansion of Quartzsite (also in Yuma County), a massive expansion of the town of Gila Bend in Gila County, and the creation of the new town of Page (also in Gila County). The so-called “Representation Boom” was in full swing, with plans in mind to expand counties’ representation for better representation after future censes.

Before any of this could come to fruitions, the anarchic territories of the former Þunan Qumreá were declared by their former leader Hilja to be open to annexation by existing neighboring countries, as no new stable states had emerged in the region for over 5 months. The Bezuv had (half-jokingly) proposed a massive land grab of much of the country’s territory back in March or April, but this request was denied. However, now this offer was reconsidered, and Xarslasja was given a massive swath of Thunan Qumrea, including the population center of Ashton. Suddenly, the creation of one or two new counties needed to be approved by the Legislature, pushing the Reintegration Issue and the concept of adding new legislative seats to true urgency in the process.

October 29th, 2025

The first vote, on whether to allow the annexation of the new former Thunan Qumrea territory, passed 12-1. The only dissenting vote was the representative from Yavapai County, who didn’t want Sedona’s burgeoning economy to be superceded by the highly resource-rich areas to the north.

The second vote, on whether to create the new counties of Mohave County and Cochise County, failed to pass in a vote of 6-7. The representatives from Santa Cruz County, Gila County, Graham County, Greenlee County, and Yavapai County voted against the measure. They did this not because they didn’t want the new territory (other than Yavapai County), but because they wanted the issues of reintegration and new representation to be settled first before allowing the dilution of their own per-capita influence on the national stage.

The Legislature then voted 13-0 to send in the Xarslasja Terrestrial Army to bring control to the new areas, declaring the temporary Tunnan Military District. Passions were running high, and, determined not to allow this issue to persist for long, the Legislature agreed to remain convened and continue voting until the issue was resolved.