Miranian independence from New Holland

Mirani gained Independence from New Holland on the 25th March 1966, due to rising tension between the Miranian people and New Hollanders over several years due to unequal rights between natives in Mirani and New Holland. Protests ravaged across several large cities after World War Two, demanding equal rights for all native peoples in New Holland and Mirani. Miranions were greatly discriminated against due to mainly not being of European ancestry. There was a movement before the second World War but lost ground during the war when the nation had to be one to overcome the Japanese invasion, which had completely devastated Crestview. After the war had ended, the protests began to gain ground once more, and were spread all across Mirani and some parts of New Holland. They were increasingly violent which lead to riots in Crestview, Seatown and other large Miranian cities. The New Holland Government dealt with this violence by officially granting independence to Mirani on the 25th of March, 1966. The Miranian Government spent a large amount of money to rebuild Crestview's CBD to make it a symbol of Mirani's economic growth and to bring in more money from the growing tourism market. The Government then encouraged all native Miranions still living in New Holland with the promise of better equal rights and government built housing in the capital. Before independence, Mirani was one of New Holland's provinces, named Mirani Province. While Mirani was part of New Holland, it raised the average life expectancy, literacy and education levels. This raised Mirani's HDI to that of New Holland's. Today, the HDI is still one of the highest in the world, but slightly slower than that of New Holland's.