Holy Imperium of Vyrodia

The Holy Imperium of Meskheti (Georgian: წმინდა კონტროლის მესხეთის) was a sovereign state that existed between 1888 and 1944 that covered much of modern day Meskheti and. Throughout its existence it mainly functioned as a  under the Imperial Patriarch of Meskheti who also served as the head of the Meskhetian Orthodox Church.

Formed after the collapse of the first republic of Meskheti following the end of the Meskhetian civil war the Holy Imperium was at first governed as a largely. During the reign of the second Imperial Patriarch Ivane III Meskheti saw modernisation in the form of democratic reforms, and  with Alexsandre Iosava serving as the first and only chancellor of the imperium. In 1915 Meskheti joined the in, where its mainly fought on two fronts against  and. It was occupied by the former at the end of the war, where fighting soon broke out in the northern Slavic dominated regions following the withdrawal of Romanian troops. The uprising was quelled in 1923 where the Imperial Patriarch Simoni I led the Meskhetian National Fascist Party into power, ruling Meskheti as a. Simoni had political and religious opponents killed, tortured and imprisoned including, , , , , , and those deemed to be biological criminals as well as tightly control citizens lives whilst monopolising power to the Church's and the fascist party's hands. The outbreak of saw Meskheti ally with the  with Meskheti invading the  after the initiation of  in 1943. In 1944 a military coup led by General Gurgen Svanidze saw the fascist party disbanded and the church's power diminished with the military forming a. However in April Soviet troops successfully took the capital of Pashvillak ending imperial rule and placing Meskheti under a temporary Soviet military administration. A few months later the People's Democratic Republic of Meskheti was formed in lieu of the Imperium.