Gran Protectorate

The Gran Protectorate was a government established on the planet Malastare by Gran colonists c. 1,000 BBY. It was established after a series of conflicts between the Gran and the native Dugs; after the Republic sided in favor of the Gran, the Protectorate was established and resettled the Dugs to the western continent of their homeworld.

The Gran Protectorate operated under a much looser set of moral codes than those that governed the Gran on their homeworld, Kinyen. Partially because of this, corruption was extremely high.

The Protectorate soon became the most influential and powerful of all Gran settlements. In the time of the Old Republic, all of Malastare's senators (such as Aks Moe, Ainlee Teem, Baskol Yeesrim, and Ask Aak) came from the Protectorate.

The Protectorate was presumably weakened, or possibly even abolished, under first the Galactic Empire (where the planet was ruled by humans) and the New Republic (where dugs appeared to have equal rights). In any event, the Protectorate was certainly destroyed when Malastare was conquered by the Yuuzhan Vong during the Yuuzhan Vong War.