Before when my book takes place, the country where it starts is an oligarchy with seven leaders. By the time the book starts, the oligarchy has been torn apart by political differences and the country has been divided into six parts (the seventh oligarch died). Can you think of a political way that the country would be torn like this? Thank you so much
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There are a variety of ways a previously unified country may be divided into separate countries. It is not all that unusual for countries to break down into smaller countries. The divide may occur due to conflicting ethnic, cultural, or linguistic groups. If the 7 oligarchs each represented specific cultural groups of their country, it would be conceivable that they would dissolve into their own states where each of the former oligarchs rules over their own cultural group (and the 7th group being absorbed into their geographic neighbors). Alternatively, if there was conflict between the oligarchs, they may opt to divide the country into 6 pieces amongst themselves without regard to ethnic or cultural lines. This would almost certainly result in civil unrest and potentially violent conflict both within the new countries and between the new countries.
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