Lokelian-Alekan Relations

The diplomatic relations between the Lokelian and Alekan nations date all the way back to the initial creation of the Lokelian Sonae, when the Lokelians sought allies among the Raetathian trading republics. The Intermediary Economic Alignment Resolution was a treaty signed by the Lokelians and a majority of the Raetathian nations to funnel trade through Lokel in the hopes that it would result in greater profit. Although controversial, the Alekans enjoyed a surge of revenue as promised, but they were the only ones. The War of Six Sėguls soon followed, with the Alekans sending many firearms to the Lokelians. A unique bond between the two nations grew quickly, built off the idea that the two could benefit each other greatly.

History
All the way up until the Age of Expansion, the Alekans supplied the money needed for the Lokelian war machine, while the Lokelians forcefully removed competition from Raetath allowing for the Alekans to make more money to give to the Lokelians. A stable system of annual subsidies was reached.

Relations quickly turned in the Age of Expansion when the Lokelian Empire expanded its horizons to space, and subsequently the remaining lands in Lokeli. The Alekans allied themselves with the Silonians and Thesolians, and ultimately fought with them in the Lokelian War of Unification against the Lokelian Empire. The war did result in the Lokelian annexation of the Alekan Republic, but through a historical bond between the two, relations never really became negative.

During the Lokelian Revolution, the Alekans did declare independence from the empire to form the First Alekan Republic. This state soon fell to civil war, as the disconcerting cordial attitude between the government and the Imperial Lokelian government upset the revolutionaries. When the war ended with the Second Alekan Republic being created, the revolutionary socialist fervor decreased as time went on. As the Lokelian Revolutionary State was made, the Alekans were mostly left to their own devices until the Dissolution Treaty, where they became a solidified successor state. After the Lokelian Revolution, diplomacy between the Lokelians and Alekans flourished with the establishment of new protocols for peace, such as the founding of the Grand Council and Four United National.

The Third Alekan Republic was created by referendum in 2745, and a democratic republican government was formed. Despite initial small scale protest from the revolutionary socialist LPR and SDR, the Alekan market economy became yet again a great asset to the Lokelian and Silonian economies. With greater cooperation through the Four United National, the Alekan-Lokelian relations seem to be at an all time high, probably never to really dissipate.

Disputes
Really the only large conflict between the two nations was in the Lokelian War of Unification.