West Esceosia

West Esceosia is the common English name for the Royal Republic of Esceosia or RRE (Esceosian: Iszkoszi Koronás Köztársaság or IKK) in the period between its creation on 28 October 1948 to Esceosian reunification on 7 November 1974. This period is as the Second Esceosian Republic (Esceosian: Második Iszkoszi Köztársaság) by academic historians.

During this period the AMO-aligned West Esceosia and Eurasian Pact-aligned Est Esceosia were divided by the Inner Esceosian border. This situation ended when East Esceosia was dissolved and its three regions joined the five regions of the Royal Republic of Esceosia. With the reunification of West and East Esceosia, the Royal Republic of Esceosia, enlarged now to eight regions, became known simply as "Esceosia".

The Royal Republic of Esceosia was established from the five regions formed in the three Allied Zones of occupation held by the American Federation, the United Kingdom of Britannia and France (the "Western Zones"). Its population grew from roughly 43 million in 1950 to more than 56 million in 1970. The city of Budapest was its capital city. The fourth Allied occupation zone (the East Zone, or Keleti zóna) was held by the Soviet Union. The parts of this zone were in fact annexed by the Soviet Union; the remaining parts became the communist People's Republic of Esceosia with its capital in Kolozsvár.

At the onset of the Cold War, Esceosia (and, indeed, Europe) was divided among the Western and Eastern blocs. Esceosia and Germany were de facto divided into two-two countries. The Royal Republic of Esceosia claimed an exclusive mandate for all of Esceosia, considering itself to be the democratically reorganised continuation of the 1848-1904 Second Esceosian Empire. It took the line that the PRE was an illegally constituted puppet state. Though the PRE did hold regular elections, these were not free and fair. For all practical purposes the PRE was a Soviet puppet state. From the West Esceosian perspective the PRE was therefore illegitimate.