The Key War was a major conflict in the Second Age of Pulasia. By 398 AB, tensions were rising between the four factions with the highest Dominance: the Perissodactyl Place, the Rodent-Rabbit Republic, the Afrotherian Anarchy and the Turtle Tyranny. The former two took on the latter two in a war. The theoretical reason was an accusation by the Republic of the Anarchy of trade protectionism; this was so silly (because the Anarchy did not have nearly enough powers to execute protectionism) that everyone took this as a sign of wanting war. The Anarchy evaded the accusations by claiming they had killed the senator responsible for the protectionism (although execution had been outlawed in the Anarchy in 253 AB) and the crisis went nowhere until three years later, in 401 AB, when the Republic at