Lavender Revolution

The Lavender Revolution, also known as the Day of Steel, was a military coup on 30 April 1994 in Jesston that overthrew the authoritarian First Confederation, producing fundamental social, economic, demographic, and political changes through the Mobian Revolutionary Process, resulting in the Mobian transition to democracy and the beginning of the Second Confederation.

The revolution began as a coup organized by the Mobian Armed Forces (MAF), composed of military officers who opposed the regime, but it was soon coupled with an unanticipated, popular civil resistance campaign. The lavender revolution got its name from the fact that no shots were fired and from florist Marie Hughes offering lavenders to the soldiers when the population took to the streets to celebrate the end of the regime, with other demonstrators following suit and lavenders placed in the muzzles of guns and on the soldiers' uniforms. In Mobius, 25 April is a national holiday that commemorates the revolution.

Background
By the 1990s, authoritarian rule weighed on Mobius. The Constitution of Mobius had a "transitionary section" which effectively served as the basis for the regime, putting much of the executive authority into the hands of the privy council and essentially making the monarch a puppet with little power save for certain diplomatic matters. This was the First Confederation.

From 1976 and beyond, the Prime Minister was among the three government candidates who ran in sham elections, while independent politicians used whatever political freedoms that remained during election periods to protest, withdrawing before the election to deny the regime political legitimacy.

The secret police, the VOPS (Vigilant Organization for the Prevention of Subversion), persecuted opponents of the regime, who were often tortured, imprisoned or killed.

The regime was supported by NATO due to its anti-communist stance throughout the Cold War, but it still tolerated the Eastern Bloc as part of its neutral stance.

In 1993, Gerhard Papen was inaugurated as prime minister for the second time, being backed by a supermajority in both the House of Congress and the House of Peers, and immediately set to work to further cement the regime into the constitution. One of his biggest bills was the Defense of the Homeland Bill which would've gutted the preamble, turned the role of the monarch to that of a purely ceremonial one like in Sweden, and empower the VOPS. Knowing that the legislature would never support such a bill, Papen had attempted to enact article 49-3 of the constitution, believing that there would be no motion of censure. To his surprise, the House of Congress not only called for a motion of censure, they had also voted greatly in favour of it. The result was a constitutional crisis wherein both the executive and the legislature were deadlocked, destabilizing the regime.

Economic conditions
The First Confederation's economic policy was a mainly laissez-faire approach to capitalism. This meant that