Novogaardian Pro-Democracy Movement

The Novogaardian Pro-Democracy Movement, sometimes just simply referred to as the White Ribbon Movement, is a collection of private individuals, companies, and political parties and organizations which advocate for the implementation of a completely fair and democratic government in Novogaard, and the constitutional reform to make the Emperor a figurehead monarch.

Protests began following the 1916 elections, in which, despite independent polling and mass public discontent with the ruling Novogaardian Front Party, they were given a supermajority in the Federal Synod. Mass public discontent with the government boiled over when unpopular Prime Minister Eaghan Kaighin was reelected. The protests were small at first, until opposition leaders agreed to form a united front against Kaighin's government, uniting behind Opposition Leader Adaue Sayle, though still adamantly not forming a single political party.

Following the 1917 Economic Crisis, sanctions on the country began to have a negative impact on the working poor, whose unemployment rose to 18% in the final quarter of 1917. Workers gathered in the streets, entering Ughain Square in the capital, Novogaard. Federal Guard authorities were sent to disperse the protestors, and eventually shot and killed 19 year old Ùisdean MacNeacail - leading to even more backlash against the government.

In the Summer of 1918, workers organized one of the largest protests against government officials, calling for democracy and economic reform. Protests culminated on the third day of the Summer Festival in Novogaard, when Federal Guard officers utilized military vehicles and opened fire on crowds in Novogaard, killing nearly 618 people in the protests. Since this date, the Novogaardian state has been suspended from its participation in several world organizations, and has had sanctioned levied against it by the Union of Nations and the Avanor Union.