Grandkhan
Telvanni Master Wizard
Are capitals fixed or can we move them? I kinda wanted to base a state out of Samarkand.
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Omega124
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Two questions:
1. Is it intentional that a landlocked Tibet owns Australia and New Zealand? Or is that just a map error?
2. How crazy is this game going to get? GITOG's tech tree got... silly at the end what with cloning and giant people lawnmowers. Would you encourage steam/dieselpunk shenanigans or ban it or?
1. Is it intentional that a landlocked Tibet owns Australia and New Zealand? Or is that just a map error?
2. How crazy is this game going to get? GITOG's tech tree got... silly at the end what with cloning and giant people lawnmowers. Would you encourage steam/dieselpunk shenanigans or ban it or?
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1. Those two should be different colors, Australia and New Zealand are both part of the same polity (that is not Tibet)
2. No steam/dieselpunk shenanigans. Only punk rock and war.
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
In this case, can I declare the Fourth Reich in California?
Kidding, as Megs has already taken it.
Grandkhan
Telvanni Master Wizard
The Khwarezmid Empire
The Khwarazmid Empire begins in 1077, when the region of Khwarezm in Transoxania was granted to Anushtegin Garchai by the Seljuk sultan. After the defeat of the Seljuks by the Kara-khitai in the 1140s, the Khwarezmid Shahs became vassals of the Kara-khitai. As the Seljuk empire began to collapse, Shah Tekish moved south from Transoxania and subjugated Khorasan and western Persia. Tekish's son and grandson subjugated much of Persia and the Khorasan, and broke free from Kara-Khitai rule, moving the capital to Samarkand to secure Transoxania into his realm.
With the continuing defeats of the Ayyubids and Seljuk Rum[1] at the hands of the expanding power of the Roman Empire[2], The Khwarezmid Shahs were able to expand further into the middle east. The Abbasid Caliphate was forced into functional vassalage, and northern Mesopotamia was seized in 1240. The Khwarezmids also expanded into the Caucusus over the late 1200s, and in the 1300 secured the vassalage of the Tartar clans along the Volga, who enjoyed the Khwarezmid support in subjutaging the cities of what is now Russia[3].
The Khwarezmids heavily Persicised over much of the Middle Ages, though they enjoyed the support and vassalage of many Turkic tribes and confederacies. These tribes were settled over the Syr Dara river as frontiers against other Turkic confederacies, and under the Khwarezmids began to expand north into Sibir and Yakut. The Khwarezmids established trade with China, and with the growth of the fur trade began seizing much of the far north of Asia, with Khwarezmid explorers pushing towards the Pacific.
Despite the growth of Khwarezmid Power into the Far North and the Steppe, in the late 15th century the Khwarezmids began to stagnate. Kalmyuk mercenaries in the Caucasus seized much of the region, as well as the mouth of the Volga, and Khwarezmid vassal Tartars in the Volga were driven out (a great many were settled in the Urals, and form the "Tartar Fronteir" today). With Roman backing, Mesopotamia and Kurdistan were lost, and parts of Persia and Azerbaijan were lost to rebel uprisings. By 1600, the Khwarezmid Empire was in poor shape.
Despite clashes with the Romans, the Russians, and the Chinese over the next 200 years, the Khwarezmid Empire was able to more or less remain stable and keep a lock on its ethnic minorities. Expansion into Siberia and Yakut continued, despite clashes with China, and the colonies were able to bring large amounts of money in to the Empire's coffers. By 1800, however, the Khwarezmids were becoming stagnant and were lagging behind much of Europe and the Americas.
It was under the reign of Shah Faizal in 1823 that the Empire began to modernise. Faizal began to modernise the army, recruiting Western military advisors and forging the Khwarezmid army into an effective force. The autonomy of the Turkic clans was curbed, and the Khan's positions became ceremonial and beholden to appointed governors from Samarkand. Over the 51 years that Faizal ruled, calls for democratisation were curbed brutally, though industrial growth exploded and the Empire's small but growing capitalist class grew richer. Railroads were constructed connecting much of the Empire, from the bustling port at Bandar-e-Abbas in the south to the furthest reaches of the Empire into Siberia, Yakutia, and Chukotka.
When Faizal died in 1874, his grandson Mozaffar Shah inherited a much stronger Empire. Mozaffar continued to modernise and strengthen the Khwarezmid army and the economic development of the Far North. With the discovery of oil and precious minerals in the region, Mozaffar was able to fund a grand expansion of the military. Despite diplomatic clashes with the Angevins in India, however, Mozaffar was unable to subjugate [BLUE THING IN NORTH INDIA] and despite clashes in Pashtunistan, was never able to gain any headway in the region before his death in 1888.
Jahar Shah, Mozaffar's son, was more successful. In 1890, with China in crisis[4], Jahar seized Mongolia and attempted to cross the Amur in 1892 to seize Manchuria, though he was forestalled by the Japanese and unable to dislodge them, deciding against outright war. In 1910, Jahan Shah leads a vast Empire, one of the largest in the world, with a strong, large army and large sources of mineral wealth. However, outside of the core of cities in Transoxania and Persia, much of the Empire is backwards and unmodernised, and poverty is rampant. Education is still not widespread, with only the wealthy and the small middle class having received one, and the Empire is still a reactionary absolute monarchy despite the nascent democratic movements in its cities and in its heartlands. Though its army is large and modern, the Khwarezmid fleet is limited only to coastal patrols near Persia, and without a warm-water port in the far north its navy has little capacity to project force.
Despite this, Jahar looks onwards to a century where Khwarezmid Empire continues to modernise, and secures its power.
OOC: basically, the premise is no Mongol invasion (or at least, none towards Persia and Europe) so the Khwarezmid Empire gets huge.
[1]: I don't know whats happening in Anatolia and when the Byzantines spread into Anatolia, so this can be changed.
[2]: Let's face it guys, that thing is the ERE. We all know exactly what its going to be.
[3]: I'm willing to work with the Russian player here. My premise is basically Tartars get Khwarezmid backing and subjugate Russia much the same way as the Mongols did OTL, Russian principalities get their act together and unite to drive them out. Willing to change this too.
[4]: I dunno whatsd happening in China and where the two Chinas come from. I'm willing to work/change this with the Chinese players as well.
The Khwarazmid Empire begins in 1077, when the region of Khwarezm in Transoxania was granted to Anushtegin Garchai by the Seljuk sultan. After the defeat of the Seljuks by the Kara-khitai in the 1140s, the Khwarezmid Shahs became vassals of the Kara-khitai. As the Seljuk empire began to collapse, Shah Tekish moved south from Transoxania and subjugated Khorasan and western Persia. Tekish's son and grandson subjugated much of Persia and the Khorasan, and broke free from Kara-Khitai rule, moving the capital to Samarkand to secure Transoxania into his realm.
With the continuing defeats of the Ayyubids and Seljuk Rum[1] at the hands of the expanding power of the Roman Empire[2], The Khwarezmid Shahs were able to expand further into the middle east. The Abbasid Caliphate was forced into functional vassalage, and northern Mesopotamia was seized in 1240. The Khwarezmids also expanded into the Caucusus over the late 1200s, and in the 1300 secured the vassalage of the Tartar clans along the Volga, who enjoyed the Khwarezmid support in subjutaging the cities of what is now Russia[3].
The Khwarezmids heavily Persicised over much of the Middle Ages, though they enjoyed the support and vassalage of many Turkic tribes and confederacies. These tribes were settled over the Syr Dara river as frontiers against other Turkic confederacies, and under the Khwarezmids began to expand north into Sibir and Yakut. The Khwarezmids established trade with China, and with the growth of the fur trade began seizing much of the far north of Asia, with Khwarezmid explorers pushing towards the Pacific.
Despite the growth of Khwarezmid Power into the Far North and the Steppe, in the late 15th century the Khwarezmids began to stagnate. Kalmyuk mercenaries in the Caucasus seized much of the region, as well as the mouth of the Volga, and Khwarezmid vassal Tartars in the Volga were driven out (a great many were settled in the Urals, and form the "Tartar Fronteir" today). With Roman backing, Mesopotamia and Kurdistan were lost, and parts of Persia and Azerbaijan were lost to rebel uprisings. By 1600, the Khwarezmid Empire was in poor shape.
Despite clashes with the Romans, the Russians, and the Chinese over the next 200 years, the Khwarezmid Empire was able to more or less remain stable and keep a lock on its ethnic minorities. Expansion into Siberia and Yakut continued, despite clashes with China, and the colonies were able to bring large amounts of money in to the Empire's coffers. By 1800, however, the Khwarezmids were becoming stagnant and were lagging behind much of Europe and the Americas.
It was under the reign of Shah Faizal in 1823 that the Empire began to modernise. Faizal began to modernise the army, recruiting Western military advisors and forging the Khwarezmid army into an effective force. The autonomy of the Turkic clans was curbed, and the Khan's positions became ceremonial and beholden to appointed governors from Samarkand. Over the 51 years that Faizal ruled, calls for democratisation were curbed brutally, though industrial growth exploded and the Empire's small but growing capitalist class grew richer. Railroads were constructed connecting much of the Empire, from the bustling port at Bandar-e-Abbas in the south to the furthest reaches of the Empire into Siberia, Yakutia, and Chukotka.
When Faizal died in 1874, his grandson Mozaffar Shah inherited a much stronger Empire. Mozaffar continued to modernise and strengthen the Khwarezmid army and the economic development of the Far North. With the discovery of oil and precious minerals in the region, Mozaffar was able to fund a grand expansion of the military. Despite diplomatic clashes with the Angevins in India, however, Mozaffar was unable to subjugate [BLUE THING IN NORTH INDIA] and despite clashes in Pashtunistan, was never able to gain any headway in the region before his death in 1888.
Jahar Shah, Mozaffar's son, was more successful. In 1890, with China in crisis[4], Jahar seized Mongolia and attempted to cross the Amur in 1892 to seize Manchuria, though he was forestalled by the Japanese and unable to dislodge them, deciding against outright war. In 1910, Jahan Shah leads a vast Empire, one of the largest in the world, with a strong, large army and large sources of mineral wealth. However, outside of the core of cities in Transoxania and Persia, much of the Empire is backwards and unmodernised, and poverty is rampant. Education is still not widespread, with only the wealthy and the small middle class having received one, and the Empire is still a reactionary absolute monarchy despite the nascent democratic movements in its cities and in its heartlands. Though its army is large and modern, the Khwarezmid fleet is limited only to coastal patrols near Persia, and without a warm-water port in the far north its navy has little capacity to project force.
Despite this, Jahar looks onwards to a century where Khwarezmid Empire continues to modernise, and secures its power.
OOC: basically, the premise is no Mongol invasion (or at least, none towards Persia and Europe) so the Khwarezmid Empire gets huge.
[1]: I don't know whats happening in Anatolia and when the Byzantines spread into Anatolia, so this can be changed.
[2]: Let's face it guys, that thing is the ERE. We all know exactly what its going to be.
[3]: I'm willing to work with the Russian player here. My premise is basically Tartars get Khwarezmid backing and subjugate Russia much the same way as the Mongols did OTL, Russian principalities get their act together and unite to drive them out. Willing to change this too.
[4]: I dunno whatsd happening in China and where the two Chinas come from. I'm willing to work/change this with the Chinese players as well.
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@Tolni, everyone, nothing's guaranteed to anyone ~yet~
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Nah, I wouldn't want to cockblock (ha!) her idea, which would be way cooler.
Omega124
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vagblock? :^)
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The United Kingdom of Iberia
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Following the unification of Aragon and Castile, and the re-conquest of the Emirate of Granada, Spain was born. Spain, an early pre-cursor to the United Kingdom of Iberia, soon became the pre-eminent colonial and military power in the world. The nation enriched itself by exploring, and colonizing much of the Central, and South America.
Their status as Europe's preeminent power in the 16th and 17th century was reinforced by their trade networks, which was enabled by their vast colonial empire in the New World. In roughly 1580, a personal union with neighboring Portugal was signed, uniting the two nations into the United Kingdom of Iberia. The Union never fell apart. Despite this increased power within Europe, their New World colonial empire began to fall apart at the seams in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Coming under attack from all sides, Iberia left the New World to its own devices, and focused on improving their situation within Europe.
When European colonization of African began, Iberia struck fast and hard. They were able to negotiate and gain large parts of north and west Africa, the most important colonies being Algeria and Morocco.
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I am sorry I am on vacation, and can only write so little.
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Following the unification of Aragon and Castile, and the re-conquest of the Emirate of Granada, Spain was born. Spain, an early pre-cursor to the United Kingdom of Iberia, soon became the pre-eminent colonial and military power in the world. The nation enriched itself by exploring, and colonizing much of the Central, and South America.
Their status as Europe's preeminent power in the 16th and 17th century was reinforced by their trade networks, which was enabled by their vast colonial empire in the New World. In roughly 1580, a personal union with neighboring Portugal was signed, uniting the two nations into the United Kingdom of Iberia. The Union never fell apart. Despite this increased power within Europe, their New World colonial empire began to fall apart at the seams in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Coming under attack from all sides, Iberia left the New World to its own devices, and focused on improving their situation within Europe.
When European colonization of African began, Iberia struck fast and hard. They were able to negotiate and gain large parts of north and west Africa, the most important colonies being Algeria and Morocco.
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I am sorry I am on vacation, and can only write so little.
The Frontier Republic of the Nueces ["The New Oasis", "La Frontera"]
Capital: Findley
Ruler: His Majesty King Alfred I; President T.C. Tully
Background: A small polity of smallholders and slavers until the cataclysmic event that historians call "the Aztlan Revolution" but Republicanistas liken to the greatest temporal manifestation of the Antichrist since Mohammed. The Revolution quickly transformed the politics of the nascent border state, forcing into the open conflicts of class and ethnicity that required wrenching compromise (and lots of blood) to solve. Factions that had tried to warily control the swift changes of "modernity" in the 19th century were swept aside as fear mobilized reactionary forces in ways the old order had been unprepared for.
The only thing tying together the disparate interests of "native" landholders & commercial farmers in the plains where powerful chiefs (in the literal and political boss sense) still controlled much of the local politics, cotton lords, oil & industry magnates near the Gulf coast, rancheros, and others was fear. "Tradition & Commerce" became the tagline of a new order. All of the factions listed above had its reactionary element in charge, and was scared poopless of ending up like their counterparts in Tenochtitlan. Petty nobles who had fled old Aztlan or colonial Spain were wooed, and industry literally wedded tradition in holy matrimony in a celebration that closed the capital for a full week. Men like T.C. Tully became President, forged in the fires of war against labor. Literal ones. Democracy was a concession too, a way to get everyone what they wanted, no longer the holy grail of ultimate self sufficiency and utopianism imagined by the first settlers to probe the land in the name of the FRN so many years ago.
But to describe the ornate and carefully pieced together compromises that characterize the FRN is to underline with a big fat red marker the contradictions that seeth underneath the surface. How long can imperialism & progress suffocate the ambitions of the dispossessed?
FAST FACTS: loosely representative democracy, oligarchy, the monarch's actual power is hazy and varies with the monarch, votes mostly mobilized by ethnic blocs except in the major cities, "unorganized" native tribes especially in the plains who still possess title from Findley to their lands are major thorn in the side of the expected complainers.
economy reliant on oil, cotton, food crops and smuggling of illegal goods from "America" to Aztlan and vice versa. Government has tried to subsidize a meat packing in Findlay to compete with the the major centers in "America", to marginal success.
ideology is "Tradition & Commerce", some white supremacy though officially and academically superseded by belief in the superiority of the "cosmic race" of hardy frontier people; a mix of natives unspoiled by the Aztlan Revolution, old mestizo elites, and white settlers.
Capital: Findley
Ruler: His Majesty King Alfred I; President T.C. Tully
Background: A small polity of smallholders and slavers until the cataclysmic event that historians call "the Aztlan Revolution" but Republicanistas liken to the greatest temporal manifestation of the Antichrist since Mohammed. The Revolution quickly transformed the politics of the nascent border state, forcing into the open conflicts of class and ethnicity that required wrenching compromise (and lots of blood) to solve. Factions that had tried to warily control the swift changes of "modernity" in the 19th century were swept aside as fear mobilized reactionary forces in ways the old order had been unprepared for.
The only thing tying together the disparate interests of "native" landholders & commercial farmers in the plains where powerful chiefs (in the literal and political boss sense) still controlled much of the local politics, cotton lords, oil & industry magnates near the Gulf coast, rancheros, and others was fear. "Tradition & Commerce" became the tagline of a new order. All of the factions listed above had its reactionary element in charge, and was scared poopless of ending up like their counterparts in Tenochtitlan. Petty nobles who had fled old Aztlan or colonial Spain were wooed, and industry literally wedded tradition in holy matrimony in a celebration that closed the capital for a full week. Men like T.C. Tully became President, forged in the fires of war against labor. Literal ones. Democracy was a concession too, a way to get everyone what they wanted, no longer the holy grail of ultimate self sufficiency and utopianism imagined by the first settlers to probe the land in the name of the FRN so many years ago.
But to describe the ornate and carefully pieced together compromises that characterize the FRN is to underline with a big fat red marker the contradictions that seeth underneath the surface. How long can imperialism & progress suffocate the ambitions of the dispossessed?
FAST FACTS: loosely representative democracy, oligarchy, the monarch's actual power is hazy and varies with the monarch, votes mostly mobilized by ethnic blocs except in the major cities, "unorganized" native tribes especially in the plains who still possess title from Findley to their lands are major thorn in the side of the expected complainers.
economy reliant on oil, cotton, food crops and smuggling of illegal goods from "America" to Aztlan and vice versa. Government has tried to subsidize a meat packing in Findlay to compete with the the major centers in "America", to marginal success.
ideology is "Tradition & Commerce", some white supremacy though officially and academically superseded by belief in the superiority of the "cosmic race" of hardy frontier people; a mix of natives unspoiled by the Aztlan Revolution, old mestizo elites, and white settlers.
Terran Empress
Hornet
Rhom-sahr
Shahankesar: Khosrow XX
Capital: Konstantinoupolis
Dynasty: House of Sasan
Succession Law: Agnatic-Cognatic Primogeniture
Government: Absolute Theocratic Monarchy
History: In 591 AD the Roman Emperor Maruice aided Khosrow II the Victorious in reclaiming his rightful place as the the Shahanshah of Eran. Because of this Khosrow was grateful and generous, ceeding Armenia and ending Roman tribute to Persia. However in 602 the traitorous Balkan General, Phocus, raised his arms in rebellion against Maruice, and slew the Emperor, taking the title for himself.
Khosrow II, in defense of his deceased friend declared war on Rome, Khosrow was able to conquer Egypt, The Levant, and Anatolia before another rebellion attempted to overthrow Phocus. Heraclius, the Exarch of Africa, failed to gather enough support to defeat Phocus, and was executed for treason. However, because of this rebellion, Khosrow was able to sweep over the remaining Roman lands, eventually taking Constantinople, A city rivaled by only Ctesiphon in Mesopotamia, with his Avar allies. By now the Roman Empire was finished, the Avars and Slavs had conquered the Balkans, and Khosrow the Victorious restored the great empire of the Achaemenids, and then some, finally subjugating the Greeks that had for so long been a thorn in the side of Eran. Naming himself Shahankesar (King of Caesars) to represent his dominion over Empires and the Romans, Khosrow continued to conquer the Roman lands, conquering Africa, and turning on his former Avar allies to conquer the Balkans. By 622 Persia was the undisputed Master of Antiquity.
However a growing power to the south, the Muhammadans had united the Arabian peninsula, and by 632 the Arabs were ready to continue their conquests, and marched into Mesopotamia. While this invasion caught Khosrow by surprise taking territory for the arabs, it was ultimately unsuccessful, with the combined armies of Eran and Rhom crushing the disorganized tribal army.
Content in their conquests, the Sassanids continued to administer and rule over Eran and Rhom for the next 400 years, with no major threats to their rule from any direction, and no reason to expand with their only neighbors being backwards barbarians, whether in Europe, Arabia or Asia, consolidating their power, and unifying the two divergent cultures, the new empire emerged as something completely separate and distinct from the previous Roman or Persian polities, and settling many of their own people in Anatolia, as the land and climate there was similar to their homeland in the Iranian Plateau. Incorporating some distinctly Iranian elements into Roman society, and taking some Roman elements into their own the two cultures unified and thrived, while still remaining relatively distinct from one another. There were dissenters, and rebellions, like in all empires, with the majority of them coming from disheartened nobles, attempted usurpers, and many coming from the Christian priesthood, until Christian and Zoroastrian traditions were united. The Empire was indestructible, and impenetrable, or so it was thought, this attitude eventually lead to stagnation, and weakening, and in 985 AD, a threat completely new to the Empire shocked the whole system. Seljuk.
In 985 AD, Seljuk, lead his army of Turks into Iran, overrunning the Sassanid defensives, and expelling the dynasty from their historic homeland. Over the following years Eran would continue to lose city after city to the Turks, eventually until the entirety of Eran was lost. Rhom however, was still strong, and when the Seljuks attempted to invade Rhom, they failed time after time. Despite the loss of Ctesiphon, the Sassanids just moved their capital once again, this time to the capital of their former Rival, Constantinople, and for Centuries the Turks and the Persians would fight, neither able to gain the upper hand over the other. Sometimes the Turks would have the upper hand, other times Rhom would. The Turks even conquered parts of Anatolia for a few years, but that was quickly ended. This back and forth continued through history, with each side gaining new enemies and allies.
For Rhom it was the growing power of the west, never able to challenge them one to one, the formation of the so called "Holy Roman Empire" by a group of Slavs not loyal to the Empire, was the first punch to the gut of the Persian dynasty since the loss of Eran proper. This was the first time that Rhom had to put a focus on the west after the conquest of Constantinople, and the west would only continue to grow in strength from here. As they began to gain colonies, and empires of their own the west began to rival the east in strength and wealth, and with the enlightenment and the industrial revolution, the constant conflicts with her neighbors was dragging Rhom behind, and by the 1800s were desperately behind the west in technology and production capabilities, and despite its almost perpetual war with the Turks, new buffer states have emerged in the conflict, taking support from the West to gain their independence.
By now the Shahankesars have realized their position, once the largest, strongest, and wealthiest empire on the face of the planet, it is now what many call the "Sick Empire" and its age and fatigue are showing. While Rhom has in the past half century begun to modernize and industrialize at a rapid rate it is still not up to par with the giants of the west, and with many many different peoples within her borders many wonder if the world's oldest empire can last. However, despite everything, Rhom continues to live, and to thrive, but only time can tell if this will continue, and if it fails to modernize and bring its own industrial and military capacity up to the giants of europe, it will surely fall.
-WiP-
Civ'ed
I ain't gotta explain a thing
Federal Republic of Batavia
Foederale Republik Betuwia
République Federale des Bataves
Feyderaelen Republyck fan Bataefia
Republik Batawa
สาธารณรัฐเนเธอร์แลนด์
Capital: Amsterdam
History:
The Republic of Batavia was formed on the blood, sweat, and tears of the minor Germanic-Angevin noble Guillaume von Nassau-Orange, or as he became known in the Low Countries, Willem van Oranje. A quiet man, Willem gave his life to the revolution and the maintenance of the Low Countries against her neighbors. Achieving a master stroke against the Southern Netherlands, the fledgling nation known as the Dutch Republic formalized her independence against her neighbors, and through sheer luck, managed to survive until 1800. In 1800, however, the Dutch East India company' Board of Directors effectively performed a coup, and established the Batavian Republic. The First Grand Pensionary, Jacobus Coen, quickly established a new foreign policy. It was Batavia's duty to expand her control of Asia. Batavian control rapidly advanced from Java into Indochina. This resulted in a curious situation where "Inlanders" were subject to harsher rules and laws than "Bataviers", despite there being more of the former. Rapidly ungrowing unrest in Batavia and Frisia (nowadays known as Krungthep or Bangkok) led to a serious debate within Amsterdam. It was resolved when a member of the Holland Grand Board, Eduard Douwes Dekker, became de facto Minister for Inlander affairs. Under a program he called "Multatuli", he reformed the colonial system in Indochina, creating a different ruling class of both the Batavian colonials and the Inlander populace, and effectiely outlawing debt slavery. Dekker's policies worked, but upset fledgling Batavian colonization across the Torres Strait, leaving Australia to eventually declare her independence ((maybe please?)). Dekker was elected Grand pensionary in 1875.
Dekker's death in 1887 sparked a minor crisis. With the entire Batavian government and populace having rallied around the "Father of their Fatherland", it was unsure how the government should continue if at all. Throughout the 19th century various new ideologies had been created, and some argued that the best way to honor Dekker's legacy was with a dictatorship of the people. A minor rebellion in Friesland in 1890 marked the end of Dekker's "Compromise politics", and the radicalization of the Board of Batavia. Gijsbert van Tienhoven, an ostensibly minor Populist Board Member, was eventually appointed to solve the crisis, and as a result the Second Era of Compromise began in 1891.
Van Tienhoven's administration has so far been rather quiet. Reelected as Grand Pensionary in 1895, 1899, 1904 and 1909, he has proven popular, but his health is starting to fail him.
The way the Batavian government works is complex. Each province or territory of the Republic has its own Board of Management, which sends two councillors to the general Board of Directors. This board elects the Grand Pensionary on a 4 year basis. In theory, there is a term limit of 5 terms, but in practice, most Grand Pensionaries rule for life. Due to the organization of government, the Board of Directors can choose whether they want to humour the Grand Pensionary or not; more oft en than not they elect to do so.
Foederale Republik Betuwia
République Federale des Bataves
Feyderaelen Republyck fan Bataefia
Republik Batawa
สาธารณรัฐเนเธอร์แลนด์
Capital: Amsterdam
History:
The Republic of Batavia was formed on the blood, sweat, and tears of the minor Germanic-Angevin noble Guillaume von Nassau-Orange, or as he became known in the Low Countries, Willem van Oranje. A quiet man, Willem gave his life to the revolution and the maintenance of the Low Countries against her neighbors. Achieving a master stroke against the Southern Netherlands, the fledgling nation known as the Dutch Republic formalized her independence against her neighbors, and through sheer luck, managed to survive until 1800. In 1800, however, the Dutch East India company' Board of Directors effectively performed a coup, and established the Batavian Republic. The First Grand Pensionary, Jacobus Coen, quickly established a new foreign policy. It was Batavia's duty to expand her control of Asia. Batavian control rapidly advanced from Java into Indochina. This resulted in a curious situation where "Inlanders" were subject to harsher rules and laws than "Bataviers", despite there being more of the former. Rapidly ungrowing unrest in Batavia and Frisia (nowadays known as Krungthep or Bangkok) led to a serious debate within Amsterdam. It was resolved when a member of the Holland Grand Board, Eduard Douwes Dekker, became de facto Minister for Inlander affairs. Under a program he called "Multatuli", he reformed the colonial system in Indochina, creating a different ruling class of both the Batavian colonials and the Inlander populace, and effectiely outlawing debt slavery. Dekker's policies worked, but upset fledgling Batavian colonization across the Torres Strait, leaving Australia to eventually declare her independence ((maybe please?)). Dekker was elected Grand pensionary in 1875.
Dekker's death in 1887 sparked a minor crisis. With the entire Batavian government and populace having rallied around the "Father of their Fatherland", it was unsure how the government should continue if at all. Throughout the 19th century various new ideologies had been created, and some argued that the best way to honor Dekker's legacy was with a dictatorship of the people. A minor rebellion in Friesland in 1890 marked the end of Dekker's "Compromise politics", and the radicalization of the Board of Batavia. Gijsbert van Tienhoven, an ostensibly minor Populist Board Member, was eventually appointed to solve the crisis, and as a result the Second Era of Compromise began in 1891.
Van Tienhoven's administration has so far been rather quiet. Reelected as Grand Pensionary in 1895, 1899, 1904 and 1909, he has proven popular, but his health is starting to fail him.
The way the Batavian government works is complex. Each province or territory of the Republic has its own Board of Management, which sends two councillors to the general Board of Directors. This board elects the Grand Pensionary on a 4 year basis. In theory, there is a term limit of 5 terms, but in practice, most Grand Pensionaries rule for life. Due to the organization of government, the Board of Directors can choose whether they want to humour the Grand Pensionary or not; more oft en than not they elect to do so.
Lord of Elves
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Alright, I'm turbo stoked guys
Here's a claims map. Countries that are taken have been whitewashed. I kinda regret that because it makes it hard to distinguish Angevin territory in Arabia from lawless nomad barrens, but look at the OP map if you get confused. We could get started where we are, but I'm holding out hope that someone will come along for Green North American Blob and something in South America.
EDIT: I'm posting from Starbucks because my Internet is down so I got cocky and forgot to CONFIRM you
Immaculate is the Empire of Japan
<nuke> is the Angevin Empire
Terrance888 is the Sacred Slavic Empire
Omega124 is the People's Republic of Aztlan
Grandkhan is the Khwarezmid Empire
ZeletDude is the United Kingdom of Iberia
Azale is the Frontier Republic of the Nueces
Terran Empress is Rhom-Sahr
Civ'ed is the Federal Republic of Batavia
Here's a claims map. Countries that are taken have been whitewashed. I kinda regret that because it makes it hard to distinguish Angevin territory in Arabia from lawless nomad barrens, but look at the OP map if you get confused. We could get started where we are, but I'm holding out hope that someone will come along for Green North American Blob and something in South America.
Spoiler :
EDIT: I'm posting from Starbucks because my Internet is down so I got cocky and forgot to CONFIRM you
Immaculate is the Empire of Japan
<nuke> is the Angevin Empire
Terrance888 is the Sacred Slavic Empire
Omega124 is the People's Republic of Aztlan
Grandkhan is the Khwarezmid Empire
ZeletDude is the United Kingdom of Iberia
Azale is the Frontier Republic of the Nueces
Terran Empress is Rhom-Sahr
Civ'ed is the Federal Republic of Batavia
SouthernKing
crickety cricket
Daksindwipa Rajya
(Southern Island Kingdom - Aus/NZ)
Capital: Nagpur (Brisbane)
Parliamentary Monarchy:
The islands to the south of Nusantara were first discovered by wayward Tamil sailors trying to reach Java in about the 11th century, though it is likely they were known to the inhabitants of Maluku before then. But it was not until the rise of Singhasari in the 13th century that colonisation of, especially by largely Hindu and Buddhist Javanese, began. At first, since the north coast was not especially fertile, this was limited to just a few trading posts; but by the latter half of the century, Singhasari settlements had begun spreading down the more lucrative east coast.
The conquest of Java by Kublai Khan would be the main factor in rapidly accelerating the settlement, as many Javanese were pushed out and into new settlements along the east coast of Daksindwipa. It was around 1450 when the port city of Yerkota (Sydney) came to prominence, establishing what effectively amounted to a thassalocratic empire across most of eastern Daksindwipa. Autara (New Zealand) was brought under Yerkota's rule in the 16th century. The indigenous Mauri people of the islands largely adopted Hinduism and Buddhism, and by the time Yerkota began declining in the latter half of the 16th century, Autara had broken off as independent kingdom. It would not be reincorporated for another two centuries.
Yerkota collapsed entirely in the early 17th century, by which time the entire country had largely been Indianised - Daksindwipa entered an interregnum, where the land was divided between about a dozen and a half petty states, which especially fought over the River Yasodhara (Murray), the effective breadbasket of Daksindwipa. In the interior, pioneers intermarried with the indigenous peoples, giving rise to a unique desert culture. The southwest became an independent kingdom in itself, ruled from the city of Dandaka (Perth).
The rise of Nagpur began in the late 17th century, when the city-state came to predominance over a loose alliance of coastal city-states, which included Yerkota and Panduranga (Melbourne). The alliance solidified into a theoretically confederal state under Nagpur's leadership, which expanded rapidly into the southwest and the Yasodhara valley. Autara was diplomatically annexed following a civil war there in the early 19th century, when Nagpur managed to use coercion to place a friendly king on the Auataran throne.
By 1850, the entirety of Daksindwipa - except for the north coast, which would be conquered from some puny ethnic Batavian independentists in the 1880s - had been brought under Nagpur's leadership. The late 19th century saw a wave of industrialisation, as the east coastal cities became the country's industrial heartland. Political reforms, under pressure from a politically active working class, in the start of the 20th century have transformed Daksindwipa, which had already had confederal elements to start with, into a completely parliamentary monarchy, with universal suffrage. This experiment in democracy has been relatively successful thus far.
Though the caste system had been destroyed by colonisation, a new one had begun to emerge in the late pre-industrial era, with large landowners at the top and a large new untouchable class at the bottom, though it was still quite fluid the middle had not solidified by the time of industrialisation. Though industrialisation did a lot to change this, the untouchables are still in poor conditions. Combined with the coastal cities' urban proletariat class, this means there is a heavy leftist presence in Daksindwipan politics.
(Southern Island Kingdom - Aus/NZ)
Capital: Nagpur (Brisbane)
Parliamentary Monarchy:
The islands to the south of Nusantara were first discovered by wayward Tamil sailors trying to reach Java in about the 11th century, though it is likely they were known to the inhabitants of Maluku before then. But it was not until the rise of Singhasari in the 13th century that colonisation of, especially by largely Hindu and Buddhist Javanese, began. At first, since the north coast was not especially fertile, this was limited to just a few trading posts; but by the latter half of the century, Singhasari settlements had begun spreading down the more lucrative east coast.
The conquest of Java by Kublai Khan would be the main factor in rapidly accelerating the settlement, as many Javanese were pushed out and into new settlements along the east coast of Daksindwipa. It was around 1450 when the port city of Yerkota (Sydney) came to prominence, establishing what effectively amounted to a thassalocratic empire across most of eastern Daksindwipa. Autara (New Zealand) was brought under Yerkota's rule in the 16th century. The indigenous Mauri people of the islands largely adopted Hinduism and Buddhism, and by the time Yerkota began declining in the latter half of the 16th century, Autara had broken off as independent kingdom. It would not be reincorporated for another two centuries.
Yerkota collapsed entirely in the early 17th century, by which time the entire country had largely been Indianised - Daksindwipa entered an interregnum, where the land was divided between about a dozen and a half petty states, which especially fought over the River Yasodhara (Murray), the effective breadbasket of Daksindwipa. In the interior, pioneers intermarried with the indigenous peoples, giving rise to a unique desert culture. The southwest became an independent kingdom in itself, ruled from the city of Dandaka (Perth).
The rise of Nagpur began in the late 17th century, when the city-state came to predominance over a loose alliance of coastal city-states, which included Yerkota and Panduranga (Melbourne). The alliance solidified into a theoretically confederal state under Nagpur's leadership, which expanded rapidly into the southwest and the Yasodhara valley. Autara was diplomatically annexed following a civil war there in the early 19th century, when Nagpur managed to use coercion to place a friendly king on the Auataran throne.
By 1850, the entirety of Daksindwipa - except for the north coast, which would be conquered from some puny ethnic Batavian independentists in the 1880s - had been brought under Nagpur's leadership. The late 19th century saw a wave of industrialisation, as the east coastal cities became the country's industrial heartland. Political reforms, under pressure from a politically active working class, in the start of the 20th century have transformed Daksindwipa, which had already had confederal elements to start with, into a completely parliamentary monarchy, with universal suffrage. This experiment in democracy has been relatively successful thus far.
Though the caste system had been destroyed by colonisation, a new one had begun to emerge in the late pre-industrial era, with large landowners at the top and a large new untouchable class at the bottom, though it was still quite fluid the middle had not solidified by the time of industrialisation. Though industrialisation did a lot to change this, the untouchables are still in poor conditions. Combined with the coastal cities' urban proletariat class, this means there is a heavy leftist presence in Daksindwipan politics.
Lord of Elves
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Southern_King is confirmed as Daksindwipa Rajya, because Hindu Australia 
we're so close now~
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we're so close now~
Shadowbound
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United Empire of America
Monarch: George IV, age 11
Dynasty: de Quebec
Succession Law: Elective
Languages Spoken: Angevin, with great regional variation and numerous loan words from Spanish, Mexica, and Dutch.
Government: Federal Parliamentary Monarchy. The American Parliament is separated into two bodies: the Imperial Senate, appointed to represent the provinces by the monarch, and the House of Deputies, elected by the enfranchised population. An electoral college exists that elects the new monarch, as well as a state church with the monarch as its head. A High Court, appointed for life by the Imperial Senate, settles important judicial issues.
The dominant faction in Parliament are the Optimates, “the best”, who champion the cause of the upper-classes. They are threatened by the Populists, who draw their support from small land-holders in the west and south and have a much stronger showing in the House than the Senate. The current prime minister is an Optimate, Charles Hopkins.
History: The United Empire has its origins in the Quebec Congress of 1776, when the Angevin Empire’s policy of increased taxation of its American colonies provoked a crisis (the First War of Independence). The Imperial Compromise saw the self-governance of the American colonies assured, with the establishment of a personal union between itself and the Angevin Kingdom and an appropriate contribution toward the joint defence (and the title of Emperor for the Angevin ruler).
It separated in 1812, forty years later, when the American Electoral College disapproved of the Metropole’s choice of successor and appointed its own candidate from a junior branch, sparking the War of 1812 (also called the Second War of Independence or the American Revolution). Victory for the United Empire came from denying the British any concrete gains, despite nominal control of Quebec City and other coastal areas, and the Angevin Monarchy was forced to concede its hold on North America.
A civil war in the 1850s would centralize the state, legitimize the monarchy and erect the dominance of the north-east over the south. The "Reconstruction" of the south would create great social upheaval but thoroughly break the back of the southern nobility, at the cost of a long-running insurgency and continued secessionist movements. Further wars with Aztlan, Spain, and Batavia over the course of the 19th century would establish American dominance in North America, incorporating European colonies into itself as new provinces. The popular George III, who reclaimed Texas and Oregon from Aztlan, would be succeeded by his grandson, as part of a bid by the upper-classes in Parliament and the Electoral College to promote their own authority.
Economy: Large, if not the largest in the world, and diversified, the American economy takes advantage of the vast natural resources and population available to its dominance in the North American continent. American industry, while not as labor efficient as its European competitors, is able to draw on cheap labor from its poor white and colored population and low transportation costs for raw inputs. Aggressive corporate espionage by American industrialists has consistently allowed them to keep pace with European innovations and even make many of their own, though the competitiveness of American industry is largely untested behind high tariffs.
Military: Frequent internal and external conflict, with rival colonial powers and its neighbors in Aztlan, has produced a large and capable, if not quite modern, military force. The fleet is formidable, and regularly refitted and upgraded in order to defend the Empire’s overseas interests in Asia and Latin America. The standing army is small and confined to Imperial Guard units and border troops, but with millions of reservists ready to be called up and even more well-armed militiamen. While the quality of these troops is questionable, and much of their equipment is out of date, quantity has a quality all of its own.
Monarch: George IV, age 11
Dynasty: de Quebec
Succession Law: Elective
Languages Spoken: Angevin, with great regional variation and numerous loan words from Spanish, Mexica, and Dutch.
Government: Federal Parliamentary Monarchy. The American Parliament is separated into two bodies: the Imperial Senate, appointed to represent the provinces by the monarch, and the House of Deputies, elected by the enfranchised population. An electoral college exists that elects the new monarch, as well as a state church with the monarch as its head. A High Court, appointed for life by the Imperial Senate, settles important judicial issues.
The dominant faction in Parliament are the Optimates, “the best”, who champion the cause of the upper-classes. They are threatened by the Populists, who draw their support from small land-holders in the west and south and have a much stronger showing in the House than the Senate. The current prime minister is an Optimate, Charles Hopkins.
History: The United Empire has its origins in the Quebec Congress of 1776, when the Angevin Empire’s policy of increased taxation of its American colonies provoked a crisis (the First War of Independence). The Imperial Compromise saw the self-governance of the American colonies assured, with the establishment of a personal union between itself and the Angevin Kingdom and an appropriate contribution toward the joint defence (and the title of Emperor for the Angevin ruler).
It separated in 1812, forty years later, when the American Electoral College disapproved of the Metropole’s choice of successor and appointed its own candidate from a junior branch, sparking the War of 1812 (also called the Second War of Independence or the American Revolution). Victory for the United Empire came from denying the British any concrete gains, despite nominal control of Quebec City and other coastal areas, and the Angevin Monarchy was forced to concede its hold on North America.
A civil war in the 1850s would centralize the state, legitimize the monarchy and erect the dominance of the north-east over the south. The "Reconstruction" of the south would create great social upheaval but thoroughly break the back of the southern nobility, at the cost of a long-running insurgency and continued secessionist movements. Further wars with Aztlan, Spain, and Batavia over the course of the 19th century would establish American dominance in North America, incorporating European colonies into itself as new provinces. The popular George III, who reclaimed Texas and Oregon from Aztlan, would be succeeded by his grandson, as part of a bid by the upper-classes in Parliament and the Electoral College to promote their own authority.
Economy: Large, if not the largest in the world, and diversified, the American economy takes advantage of the vast natural resources and population available to its dominance in the North American continent. American industry, while not as labor efficient as its European competitors, is able to draw on cheap labor from its poor white and colored population and low transportation costs for raw inputs. Aggressive corporate espionage by American industrialists has consistently allowed them to keep pace with European innovations and even make many of their own, though the competitiveness of American industry is largely untested behind high tariffs.
Military: Frequent internal and external conflict, with rival colonial powers and its neighbors in Aztlan, has produced a large and capable, if not quite modern, military force. The fleet is formidable, and regularly refitted and upgraded in order to defend the Empire’s overseas interests in Asia and Latin America. The standing army is small and confined to Imperial Guard units and border troops, but with millions of reservists ready to be called up and even more well-armed militiamen. While the quality of these troops is questionable, and much of their equipment is out of date, quantity has a quality all of its own.
Lord of Elves
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@Shadowbound, you are the United Empire of America.
Work has begun on Update Zero. Theoretically I am still accepting applications but I reserve the right to tell you to wait if I've written important NPC events for your nation.
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Work has begun on Update Zero. Theoretically I am still accepting applications but I reserve the right to tell you to wait if I've written important NPC events for your nation.
Robert Can't
Éponine
The Kingdom of Guyane and the United Principalities of New France
Monarch: Queen Charlotte II
Government: Monarchy. The governing body of the Kingdom is formed of a host of appointed ministers chosen from the House of Lords, a body meeting in Saint Valery, the capital of the kingdom. The Ministers are supplemented with the eighteen princes of the United Principalities of New France, the fourteen dukes representing the natives and the 4 Colonial Governors for those areas yet to achieve full status as a Principality. The rights of the principalities are cemented in the Charter of Princes, a document written shortly after the secession of the Kingdom from the Angevin Empire. It protects rights such as a Principality's right to set its own taxation and trade laws as well as the establishment of a high court in each principality.
Culture: Speaking Angevin, or colonial dialects thereof the people of the kingdom have many similarities to those of the Empire, in the years since secession though much has changed. Unlike their European brethren the people of the Kingdom never placed as much importance on the commercial and individualistic pursuits that have come to define Paris and London. Instead with a stiff upper lip colonial attitude is common in society. Deference to the aristocracy is much more common and birth and education is of more importance than money.
A large proportion of the population is ethnically native to the Americas holding the same rights as Europeans as stipulated in the Declaration of Inheritance and Succession. Small amounts of migration to the Americas has occurred since independence but the country has steadily grown to fill its lands with prosperous boroughs and sprawling estates. Slavery was made illegal in 1822 but several enclaves especially amongst the Native Dukes still allow it and consider it to be a right under the terms of the Charter of Princes.
The religion of the nation is predominantly Reformed Catholicism an episcopal church that is highly organised. Parish divisions still form the basis for all census data and local government.
Social mobility is near non-existent. Since independence a general distrust of plutocrats meant that a middle class was slow to form and capitalists are reviled meaning that industrialisation was an even slower process. In terms of economy and industry the kingdom is heavily backwards however the education system for the aristocracy is world class and the nobility of Guyane has produced many of the worlds finest philosophers, theologians and scientists.
Independence:
In 1720 the massive sprawling colonial possessions of the Angevin Empire found themselves a new protector in the form of Charles, Duke of Upnor brother to the current Emperor. As the emerging aristocratic class of the colonies became increasingly powerful so to the grip on the colonies was tightened. Upnor took it upon himself to represent this nobility at court and soon found he had massive popular support in the colonies.
Fearing the influence of his brother the Emperor and Parliament made a new law on the rights of succession in colonial lands. This law stripped much of the nobility of the colonies of their power. This led to a large backlash against the rule of Emperor and the nobility created a document called the Declaration of Inheritance and Succession in which they demanded that the Emperor allowed the creation of a new kingdom to be ruled by his brother where the rights of the nobility would be upheld.
After a brief war the strife of Europe ended up meaning that the Empire had to turn its attention homewards and so signed a treaty accepting the Declaration and creating the Kingdom of Guyane.
The nobility, fearing that once again the plutocrats might rise to prominence over them in court then demanded the division of the kingdom into several semi-autonomous principalities. The king agreed to the measures and the eighteen principalities were formed with the Charter of Princes.
Over the following centuries the dominance of the Kingdom spread across the Americas into territory ruled by the natives. A policy of ennobling the leaders of the natives led to the further fragmentation of the nation as the land was dividend between the principalities, colonial regions and the native Dukedoms.
On the whole the Kingdom has been peaceful and isolationist. Relations healed between the Guyanese and European branches of the de Anjou dynasty and with the natural resources held in the vast territory of the kingdom it has slowly through trade made itself once more a presence on the international stage.
Monarch: Queen Charlotte II
Government: Monarchy. The governing body of the Kingdom is formed of a host of appointed ministers chosen from the House of Lords, a body meeting in Saint Valery, the capital of the kingdom. The Ministers are supplemented with the eighteen princes of the United Principalities of New France, the fourteen dukes representing the natives and the 4 Colonial Governors for those areas yet to achieve full status as a Principality. The rights of the principalities are cemented in the Charter of Princes, a document written shortly after the secession of the Kingdom from the Angevin Empire. It protects rights such as a Principality's right to set its own taxation and trade laws as well as the establishment of a high court in each principality.
Culture: Speaking Angevin, or colonial dialects thereof the people of the kingdom have many similarities to those of the Empire, in the years since secession though much has changed. Unlike their European brethren the people of the Kingdom never placed as much importance on the commercial and individualistic pursuits that have come to define Paris and London. Instead with a stiff upper lip colonial attitude is common in society. Deference to the aristocracy is much more common and birth and education is of more importance than money.
A large proportion of the population is ethnically native to the Americas holding the same rights as Europeans as stipulated in the Declaration of Inheritance and Succession. Small amounts of migration to the Americas has occurred since independence but the country has steadily grown to fill its lands with prosperous boroughs and sprawling estates. Slavery was made illegal in 1822 but several enclaves especially amongst the Native Dukes still allow it and consider it to be a right under the terms of the Charter of Princes.
The religion of the nation is predominantly Reformed Catholicism an episcopal church that is highly organised. Parish divisions still form the basis for all census data and local government.
Social mobility is near non-existent. Since independence a general distrust of plutocrats meant that a middle class was slow to form and capitalists are reviled meaning that industrialisation was an even slower process. In terms of economy and industry the kingdom is heavily backwards however the education system for the aristocracy is world class and the nobility of Guyane has produced many of the worlds finest philosophers, theologians and scientists.
Independence:
In 1720 the massive sprawling colonial possessions of the Angevin Empire found themselves a new protector in the form of Charles, Duke of Upnor brother to the current Emperor. As the emerging aristocratic class of the colonies became increasingly powerful so to the grip on the colonies was tightened. Upnor took it upon himself to represent this nobility at court and soon found he had massive popular support in the colonies.
Fearing the influence of his brother the Emperor and Parliament made a new law on the rights of succession in colonial lands. This law stripped much of the nobility of the colonies of their power. This led to a large backlash against the rule of Emperor and the nobility created a document called the Declaration of Inheritance and Succession in which they demanded that the Emperor allowed the creation of a new kingdom to be ruled by his brother where the rights of the nobility would be upheld.
After a brief war the strife of Europe ended up meaning that the Empire had to turn its attention homewards and so signed a treaty accepting the Declaration and creating the Kingdom of Guyane.
The nobility, fearing that once again the plutocrats might rise to prominence over them in court then demanded the division of the kingdom into several semi-autonomous principalities. The king agreed to the measures and the eighteen principalities were formed with the Charter of Princes.
Over the following centuries the dominance of the Kingdom spread across the Americas into territory ruled by the natives. A policy of ennobling the leaders of the natives led to the further fragmentation of the nation as the land was dividend between the principalities, colonial regions and the native Dukedoms.
On the whole the Kingdom has been peaceful and isolationist. Relations healed between the Guyanese and European branches of the de Anjou dynasty and with the natural resources held in the vast territory of the kingdom it has slowly through trade made itself once more a presence on the international stage.
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