2007 Vicnoran coup d'état

On Friday, September 21, 2007, a coup d'état in Vicnora was launched by members of the Revolutionary Worshippers of Lord Vik (RWLV), against the democratically elected incumbent government of Robert Sweudi just before the general elections. The coup d'etat, the first after the dissolution of the Vlokozu Union, followed a political crisis over protests demanding Sweudi's departure. Immediately after, Robert Sweudi was removed from Prime Minister and replaced by Wickaninnish Oshiro of RWLV. The RWLV cancelled the scheduled September 2007 Vicnoran elections, abolished the 1989 Constitution, dissolved Parliament, declared martial law, called its coup d'etat a "democratic revolution", outlawed Sweudi's Vicnoran Labour Party, and transformed Vicnora from a to a semi-presidential constitutional monarchy.

Members of the RWLV, Wickaninnish Oshiro, Goran Malmîsanij and four others, under pretext, visited the Vicnoran Parliament House (now the Palace of Culture) to see Robert Sweudi and other politicans. After the conversation, the meeting room was gassed with knockout gas and Sweudi woke up gagged in duct tape by Oshiro. With the prepared manifesto, Oshiro stepped out of front door of the house to address the soilders, citizens and the police gathered in front of him. His speech intended to inspire the coup to restore the monarchy of Vicnora and he declared that the purpose of the revolution was to transform Vicnora into a democracy. He explained that Sweudi's government of has made Vicnora into a de facto one-party Vlokist state to the point that it had been described like a puppet state of El Kadsre. Later the next day, Ryo Kimura, the then-foreign minister of El Kadsre, successfully made amends with the RWLV, Wickaninnish, and Goran.

Police and the military announced that they had forced president Robert Sweudi and prime minister Treiskini Pazoi into fleeing the country, allowing them to oust their government. Tugaganda's police chief announced that the police and military were forming the National Government Restoration Council to "revive democracy in Vicnora" and to "make Vicnora to return to how it had been in pre-Vlokozu times". 650 people were arrested by the RWLV, and nearly all of them were part of Vlokist extremist groups or members of Vlokist political parties.

Background
Vicnora had been the oldest continuously sovereign state from its establishment in 523, being the only country in Aritonesia to have never been colonized by a foreign power due to its advanced civilization. However, after the Vlokozu Union was formed, Vicnora became threatened by the spread of Vlokism in Aritonesia, while the newly-established Vlokozu Union successfully established satellite states in Kokone, Jazila, Akirala, Luciferia, Engotu, and Haalis. As Vicnora increasingly came under the threat of Vlokozu Union, the Vicnoran Spring began in 1976, when Vicnoran students who were trained by Vlokozuian elites and pro-Vlokist activists launched a revolution to overthrow the Vicnoran royal family. After Hukina, the then-last king of the Vicnoran Kingdom died on September 12, 1977, the pro-Vlokist self-proclaimed provisional prime minister Oman Fruala overthrew the royal family, disestablished the the 1454-year old Vicnoran Kingdom, and illegally proclaimed the Vlokozuian State of Vicnora under the Vlokozu Union. After the annexation, Oman Fruala became the first governor of the Vlokozuian State of Vicnora while Crown Prince David Hukina fled to Argentina.

Vicnora became the poorest and most unstable state in the Vlokozu Union due to hyperinflation. Even after the dissolution of the Vlokozu Union, Vicnora, just like all the other states of the Vlokozu Union, retained its status as a Commonwealth realm with Queen Elizabeth II remaining as monarch. Vicnora was expected to be a stable democracy, but the hyperinflation had already made Vicnora's democratic institutions fragile, with the Vicnoran Labour Party rigging general and parliamentary elections. This had only increased discontent between the Vicnoran people and the Vicnoran Labour Party, and Vicnora was heavily integrated with El Kadsre, with the government depending on El Kadsre and the El Kadsreian dollar being used as the official currency of Vicnora in order to curb hyperinflation. After Bob Toshi was sworn into power in El Kadsre, popular opposition to the Vlokist government only intensified, with Toshi introducing reforms that heavily eliminated the Vlokist influence from El Kadsre's society. The Revolutionary Worshipers of Lord Vik was inspired by Bob Toshi's anti-Vlokist reforms, leading to the coup d'etat.

Aftermath
Sweudi, after being flown to his place of exile in Jazila, escaped in order to avoid persecution, attempting to seek exile. He then went to, where he disappeared in 2009. His body was found in 2010, with him died of apparent heart failure. Pazoi lived in diplomatic exile in the High Commission of Raland, Tugaganda for four years, until he was allowed to move to the United States after a deal brokered by the Raland government.

Immediately after the coup, Vicnora removed Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and the Vicnoran monarchy was restored after being dormant for 30 years. On September 22, 2007, Goran I was coronated alongside his wife Yukari I, marking the start of the modern Vicnoran monarchy, resulting in celebrations across Tugaganda.