The Union of Yuktobanian Republics, also known as just Yuktobania, is one of Strangereal’s
superpowers alongside the Osean Federation.
This nation occupies most of the continent of Verusa and it is bordered by the countries
of Verusa, Kaluga and Romny (which aren't depicted in the map), and by some other unknown nations.
Yuktobania was one of the key countries in the game Ace Combat 5, when they fought against
Osea during the Circum-Pacific War, and was a secondary nation in Ace Combat Zero and
Ace Combat 3D.
Like many other Strangereal nations, Yuktobania’s history is shrouded in mysteries, but here's
what we know about Yuktobania:
The earliest mention about Yuktobania is in the 1980s when both Yuktobania and Osea were
in an arms race as part of the Strangereal Cold War.
In order to prevail during this conflict both countries had different strategies: Yuktobania
focused on the development of submarines and missiles while Osea focused on spacecraft.
It was during the 1980s that Yuktobanian Navy Admiral Leonov proposed the “Arsenal Ship
Project”, the project that later gave birth to the Scinfaxi-class submarine.
In the year of 1985 there were tensions between Yuktobania and one of its neighbouring countries
over some territorial disputes.
This was also the same year that Dominic Zubov, who was actually Yuktobanian but later went
to Belka and became the leader of the Schwarze Squadron, joined the Yuktobanian Air Force
as a mercenary.
On the following year 1986, Yuktobania went to war against the country of Kaluga due to
disputes over the control of the Kalugan region of Tyumen.
While Yuktobania did manage to win the conflict, its armed forces suffered extremely heavy
casualties especially during the battle of Zhytomyr.
We know that Yuktobania's pilots, with the exception of Zubov, suffered from PTSD because of this war.
In 1987, Yuktobania entered in another war when they helped
quelling a coup d’état on the neighbouring Republic of Romny.
Dominic Zubov is also known to have fought in this conflict before leaving and going
to the Belkan Air Force.
Time went by and the next thing we know about Yuktobania is the official announcement regarding
the development of the Scinfaxi-class submarine that took place in conference in the Yuktobanian
capital of Cinigrad in 1991.
Osea quickly reacted to the Yuktobanian announcement and accused Yuktobania of copying the Dragonet-class
design, a class of submarines that had been developed by the Federation of Central Usea.
Tensions between Yuktobania and Osea continued to exist as part of the Strangereal Cold War
but the relationship between the two countries drastically changed in 1995 when Yuktobania
joined the Allied Forces during the Belkan War.
The reasons for Yuktobania joining the war are still unknown and details on its contributions
to the allied war effort are scarce, what we do know however is that Yuktobania did
send some squadrons and reconnaissance officers to the front lines.
One of those recon officers was the Major who Captain Bartlett fell in love with, and
who broke his heart.
Some Yuktobanian pilots also joined A World With No Boundaries.
The year after the war, 1996, Yuktobania and Osea signed the Yuktobanian peace treaty which
finally brought the Strangereal cold war to an end.
In the year of 1998 several Usean nations were working together on the construction
of the Stonehenge Turret Network in order to shoot down the incoming Ulysses asteroid.
While both Osea and Yuktobania did show interest in helping out with the project, they actually
were unable due to their commitment of rebuilding the regions that were destroyed during the Belkan War.
1998 was also the same year when the Belkan Ofnir Squadron joined the Yuktobanian Air
Force as an aggressor squadron with the goal of apparently improving Belkan-Yuktobanian relations.
In the next year, 1999, we had the Cinigrad art festival where a painting made by a former
Belkan Air Force pilot called “Demon Lord” was put on display and received much praise
for showing the “wretchedness of war and the venerability of peace”.
From 1999 to 2010 Yuktobania worked together with Osea in space development and more specifically
helped Osea with the Arkbird to remove Ulysses fragments stuck in orbit, meanwhile sometime
between 2006 and 2010, Yuktobania struck a deal with Erusea for purchasing at least one
model of its advanced multirole aircraft X-02 Wyvern.
With that deal, Erusea would sell the X-02s to Yuktobania via the formerly South Belkan
and now North Osean Gründer Industries.
With Gründer as the middleman in this operation, Gründer would submit the planes to its cost-reducing
manufacturing process in which the number of parts of the aircraft would be reduced
without sacrificing the plane’s strength or performance.
In the year of 2008, Yuktobania participated in the Strangereal G7 summit that was hosted
by Osea aboard the Arkbird and the countries there agreed to several pacifist policies
including bans on the use of nuclear weapons.
Coming now to the events that are directly related to Ace Combat 5, in early 2010 the
pacifist Yuktobanian prime minister was secretly removed from power by the Grey Men and secret
Belkan operations soon escalated tensions between Yuktobania and Osea culminating on
the start of the Circum-Pacific War on September 27 of 2010.
What happens after are the events covered in Ace Combat 5 and despite the whole conflict,
both Osea and Yuktobania came together by the end of the year after the Osean president
and the Yuktobanian prime minister met in Oured.
This concludes most of what we know about Yuktobania because after 2010 we only know
that the relationship between the two countries improved in terms of international cooperation.
One last detail about Yuktobania is that in the year of 2015, Yuktobanian spy satellites
managed to detect a giant unknown aircraft around southeast Estovakia, an aircraft that
was later identified as the P-1112 Aigaion heavy command cruiser.
This was the history of Yuktobania and what country should be the next one?
Please let me know in the comments which countries you want to be featured in the next Ace Combat documentary.
I’d also like to send my huge thanks to Acepedia for helping me with the information
and references needed for the making of this video.
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