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aka SKNES I: The IOT

The year, according to the Christian calendar at least, is 800. The old empires have collapsed, and in the chaotic years since then, new realms have risen to take their place. A bright future awaits you. Will you seize it?

Joining the Game

Fill out this form.

Country Name: Duh.
Government: Describe your form of government here, do keep in mind the year is 800 so the vast majority are likely to be hereditary monarchies of some kind.
Religion: Which is the main religion of your state? It can be historical or something else, but please make it make sense.
Points: The number of points you have is (number of provinces)/2, rounded up (so you can have up to 15). You can put your points into either Army (each point gives you 1 company), Navy (each point gives you 1 squadron), Economy, Learning, or Culture.
History: Provide a brief history of your state up to the year 800.
Neighbors: Optional; I'll be filling the start with NPCs so if you want to provide any ideas for possible NPCs please do.
Claims: Please select up to 30 provinces on the map. Your stability will depend on how many provinces you select: 1-5 gives you +3, 6-10 gives you +2, et cetera down to 26-30 giving you -2. Island chains count as a single province unless otherwise shown on the map. Claims must be contiguous or separated by only a narrow body of water, and in places that make sense (i.e. not Australia)

I reserve the right to reject anyone's submissions. This is an at least marginally serious NES IOT so please no Batmanistan or (as much as it hurts to say it) Equestria.

Also I will only fill out the Americas if someone starts there. Anyone who starts in the Americas will be at a big disadvantage, but it's not as if that's going to matter all that much.

The Rules

Coming soon!

Spoiler Map :
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(I love Bair forever)
 
Country Name: The Hanseatic League of Merchants (The Hansa).
Government: Merchant republic of some sort.
Religion: Protestant
Points: 4 economy 1 army.
History: Provide a brief history of your state up to the year 800.
Neighbors: Brandenburg, Denmark, etc.
Claims:
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Country Name: Basileia Rhōmaiōn
Government: Autocratic Imperial Monarchy
Religion: Eastern Orthodoxy
Points:
2 Army
2 Navy
4 Economy
3 Learning
4 Culture
History: Will do.
Neighbors: Up to you.
Claims: 30

Spoiler :
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25 for Taman.

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Country Name: Grand Duchy of Taman
Government: Electoral Monarchy
Capital: Tamatarkhan
Religion: Kavkaz Orthodoxy
Points:
0 Army
2 Navy
8 Economy
2 Learning
1 Culture
Neighbours:
-Poland
-Novgorod
-Transoxiana
-Abbasid Caliphate
-Other SKNES I nations
History:
The Duchy of Taman was founded as a loose confederation of Khazar tribes in 674 AD.
 
Obvious interest achived
 
Country Name: Éire
Government: High Kingdom
Religion: Catholic
Points: 10 (2 in each category)
History: I'll add these
Neighbors: When the rules are posted
Claims:
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Country Name: Kingdom of Venice

Government: Hereditary Monarchy

Religion: Catholic

Points:
  • Army: 1
  • Navy: 4
  • Economy: 2
  • Learning: 1
  • Culture: 1


History: soon

Neighbors: Da Pope is a must. Wouldn't mind seeing Aquitania or any other SKNES nations in unclaimed areas either ;)

Claims: 18 (should be this color-ish)
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Country Name: Northumbria
Government: Theocracy
Religion: Lindisfarne-Catholic. The result of the Synod of Whitby choosing Iona over Rome to base its calendar on.
Points:
3 Culture
1 Learning
History: Following the Synod of Whitby it was decided that the Kingdom of Northumbria would follow Iona instead of Rome in matters of calendar. As this continued matters became more and more dictated from Lindisfarne and the monastic traditions of Celtic Christianity spread throughout the land. Honouring St Bede and St Cuthbert a Cathedral was constructed on the banks of the river Wear on a high promontory. This place was to be called Durham and became the new capital of a religious Northumbria.
Neighbors: Various Scottish peoples and some southern rabble.


More to Come
 
expressing interest, will do something soon (TM) trying to decide where to go, europe is pretty full though, it might be wise to go somewhere else.
 
Claiming Castille


Country Name: Kingdom of Castille
Government: Absolute Monarchy headed by the King.
Religion: Catholicism
Points: The number of points you have is (number of provinces)/2, rounded up (so you can have up to 15). You can put your points into either Army (each point gives you 1 company), Navy (each point gives you 1 squadron), Economy, Learning, or Culture.
History: Provide a brief history of your state up to the year 800.
Neighbors: Optional; I'll be filling the start with NPCs so if you want to provide any ideas for possible NPCs please do.
Claims: Please select up to 30 provinces on the map. Your stability will depend on how many provinces you select: 1-5 gives you +3, 6-10 gives you +2, et cetera down to 26-30 giving you -2. Island chains count as a single province unless otherwise shown on the map. Claims must be contiguous or separated by only a narrow body of water, and in places that make sense (i.e. not Australia)
 
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Claims
 
Currently laying my claims.

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Kingdom of Sweden

King of Sweden and Fylkir of the Norse: Orvar Jørgensen

Heir: Gandalf

Religion: New Norse

History: ...Jørgen then proclaimed himself king but not for long...

Will give my detailing later on.
 
Abbasid Caliphate
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Government: whadaya think
1 army
3 econ
3 learning
1 culture
 
Country Name: Dorgardr
Government: a Norse kingdom - hereditary with gavelkind. The Fylkir rules from Dorgardr (Dorestad), but allows other Viking nobles (Dróttinn) to rule beyond the city. Very few native Dutchmen have positions of power, although one is an adviser to the Fylkir.
Religion: Norse minority ruling class with catholic majority subjects
Points: 4
2 Navy
2 Economy
History: Basically the history of Rorik of Dorestad but 43 years earlier, A Dane, Arngrimr af Ribe, was exiled from Denmark and proceeded to take an army, which included his brothers Ingjald and Ale, and swiftly established a new kingdom based in Dorestad.
Neighbors: Flanders
Claims:
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Country Name: Caliphate of Qurduba

Government: Despotic Monarchy

Religion: Muslim

Points:
Number of Points : 7 (14 provinces)
Army : 3
Navy: 2
Economy: 1
Learning: 1

History: The Iberian Peninsula had been in Muslim hands for the last 100 years. Yet, strangely, the control of these lands where the old caliphs sitting in their thatched desert huts in the Arabian Peninsula.
Its time that these lands be under the control of the "sons of the soil".

Neighbors: Morocco, Algiers (North Africa) Galicia, Leon, Barcelona, Navarra, Alava (Iberia)

Claims: 14 provinces.
Stability : +1

Spoiler :
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