Editing Yauhmi (section)

===Yauhmi's reign and the Second Xiomeran Civil War===

In order to win the Obsidian Throne, Yauhmi had promised the Xiomeran military, business community, indigenous religious leaders and conservatives that she would rule much as her husband had. Previous Xiomeran rulers, including Topilpopoca, had governed Xiomera in close cooperation with the wealthy, Xiomeran corporations, and conservative political and social figures as a highly conservative, hyper-capitalist state.

Upon taking office, however, Yauhmi immediately began making decisions that would prove highly controversial to the people who had helped her take power. She instituted media reforms, ending the censorship and government review of Xiomeran journalists and media. She also ended the government program of communications monitoring and censorship known as "Happy Society" to the public and ''Project Tilmahcoatl'' to the government. Yauhmi also vastly scaled back the controversial Manauia Island Project, in a shock decision. The scaling-back of the project pleased environmentalists alarmed by Xiomeran disregard for the planet and climate change, but angered some Xiomeran officials and the business community.

Yauhmi would follow this by instituting a series of new taxes on the wealthy, and on the Xiomeran corporate and business community, to fund further planned reforms, including the institution of a social welfare program. Xiomera had previously had no social safety net whatsoever, as the general attitude among Xiomeran elites was that if people were poor or struggling, it was due solely to their own failure or lack of work ethic. The longstanding philosophy of [[Xiomeran Meritocracy]] was also a critical issue between Yauhmi and the Xiomeran elites. Xiomeran Meritocracy was seen as a fundamental foundational belief of the society, and one that Yauhmi was challenging.

On 10 April 2020, as the Empress was opening the first session of a new Huenyan Assembly designed to give the other ethnic groups in Xiomera more political power and to open the Xiomeran political process, a military coup was launched by the Xiomeran General Staff and the Security Secretariat. Yauhmi was detained by the military, and removed from power. The military declared a Provisional Government that charged Yauhmi with treason, conspiracy, corruption and anti-Xiomeran activities. Her whereabouts remained unknown, but the Provisional Government later claimed that the Empress had abdicated her throne. On 16 May 2020, the military staged a new Great Selection, and chose [[Xochiuhue]], the son of former Emperor Xolōtl, as the new Emperor.

On 1 August 2020, Empress Yauhmi re-emerged from hiding at the city of Chuaztlapoc, having been freed from ASI custody by loyalist Xiomeran soldiers. In a speech widely disseminated throughout Xiomera and the rest of the IDU, the Empress denied having abdicated the Obsidian Throne, declared that she was still in charge of Xiomera, and declared further that any mandates from Xochiuhue and his government were null and void. The declaration, and Xochiuhue's response, would lead to the siege of Chuaztlapoc. The unexpected victory by Yauhmi's forces at Chuaztlapoc would prove to be a major turning point in the war.