Silver Wars

The Silver Wars are an ongoing dispute between Republica des Canciones Molestas and Inutilia, its origins stretching back to over a millennium ago. A large fraction of the wars occurred during the reign of Juliet II of Inutilia, who is infamous for declaring a ridiculous number of wars in the twenty-one years she was on the throne.

Origins
The Silver Wars began in 810. The previous year, RCM had discovered an abundance of silver in the Inutilian-Cancionish Range, and Horatio IV of Inutilia sent a mining party to the ranges to find out how much was on their side of the border. He died before the news came back that there wasn't any. His son, Pteppicymon LXVIII, blamed the nonexistence of the silver on his father's supposedly invalid will; as a result, the Inutilian population blamed the RCM for their king's highly suspicious way of dealing with the will.

The RCM didn't think much of the sudden hostility on the other side of the mountains until 887, when Queen Ahna II declared war on them- the first of the Silver Wars, which lasted for four years. Although Ahna died in the battle, Inutilia still won the Silver War by outnumbering Cancionish forces eleven to one.

Effect
The upshot of the situation was that the countries declared one Silver War after another on each other, and the most detailed records from the early silver wars concerned legal debates about rightful ownership of the silver. Despite humiliating defeat in the Battle of Slowlings Inutilia had the decided military and legal advantage right up until Juliet II, also known as Black Julie, who ruled between 1399 and 1420, whose stupid military campaigns against the RCM only led to depleting the country's entire army without making any positive difference to the situation at all; since then the RCM has dominated the disagreement.

The disagreement ran so deep that one Inutilian Patrician, Lord James Mud, was deposed almost immediately for making an alliance with the RCM. Another Patrician, Lord Norbetine Langoster, experienced a drop in popularity when it was revealed after his death that he was on Cancionish descent.

Present-Day Continuation
Until the Great Transaction Uncertainty, the Silver Wars (in their slightly milder form as the Silver Disagreement) were continued by both countries. Although the two countries have not declared war on each other since the creation date of the RP, they would have eventually had they not changed hands. The author does not know whether the disagreement has been perpetuated or not.

Alternate Outcome in Previous Iteration
In the previous iteration of CCRP, the RCM and Inutilia were forced to swallow their differences as they both wished to join the Homaric Alliance. Although the two countries remained on less than friendly terms, and the RCM still refused to sell Inutilia any silver, they were prevented from declaring any more wars on each other and even backed each other up in various wars involving the H.A.

It is likely that a similar outcome would have occurred in the current iteration had the two nations remained under control of their original owners; in fact, Inutilia was a de facto member of the Homaric Alliance before it was officially formed.