===Trondheim, Capital of the Viking Empire===
Walking through the halls of my magnificent Palace, one can not help but see opulence which I have lived in all my life, and as such it has blinded me to the plight of my people, all my life.
My father forbade me to ever leave the Palace, or any of the Imperial estates, and like any obidient child i obeyed him...well except once...
Flashback, Into the Memories of Emperor Cunobelin Tarsis
It had been a cold winter back in 1980, we had been visiting our Pictish estate in Dalraidia(Scotland) for that Christmas and I was only 7 years old at that time.
I had always been curious to what lay beyond the tall walls of the Palace, any of them, and this day I had been determined to see.
The Balmoral Estate is in the middle of the country side, nestled in a beautiful and well cared for forest.
I was successful in escaping from the Palace but it did not take long before anyone noticed I was gone.
I remember clear as day what i saw in th nearby village. Squalor. Utter squalor. What they lived in! It was filth, the village had a population of several hundred and I dont think even one of them had enough money to get through that winter, and there we were in our huge Palace with many servants to wait on us hand and foot.
I remember being horrified. And I remember crying in my fathers arms, later when he found me, about how I saw those people, I asked how they could live like that? Why they lived like that?
My father said, "Country villages of Dalraida are often poor, it is the way it is..."
"But why?" Came my tearful response
"Because they are lazy and do not wish to work for what they need, they expect the state to pick up after them..." He replies, "But if it bothers you so...I will send them enough supplies and money to get them through this winter?"
I nodded and huddled into my fathers arms, believing every word of it.
End Memory
Total and utter crap.
Now that my father was dead, my mother and the household could no longer prevent me for seeing with my own eyes. What my people were like and what my father was really like.
When I was a child I believed my people were all happy and lived almost as well as I, and believed my father was a hero.
Now I see the truth, at 27, I finally was able to escape the Palace and see, really see, on m father death was when I was able to see.
My father was a horrible, greedy, manipulative dictator. He ruled with a total Iron fist of my people. And forbade them, he actually forbade them from gather wealth over a certain level if they were not of the Imperial Nobility.
Everywhere was like that village. The economy was in tatters because of my father greed and short sightedness. Education was non existant, the people were ignorant and stupid.
I was determined to change all that and the first step. I had my entire household sacked, because they kept it all from me. And hired a new household staff from people who needed and wanted the job, and gave them a much higher wage than my father did.
The wealth of the nation broke down like this. 40% belonged to the Imperial House. 30% to the Imperial nobility. 20% to the Government(IE, Civil Departments). And only 10 per cent to everyone, everyone else.
Diplomacy=
To: Baltic Union
From: Emperor Cunobelin of the Vikings
Greetings friends. We of the Viking Empire would like to sign an alliance with your fine nations.
Our nation is in an extremely bad state and we would like to create a close frienship with you in the hopes that you would be able to help us help ourselves.
To: Russia and Rome
From: Emperor Cunobelin of Vikings
Greetings, the Viking Empire would like to open trade with your fine nations. And we would like to sign a NAP with you both.
Orders By Priority=
-Repair Economy using funds from the nobility.
-Begin a comprehensive education program using personal imperial funds.
-Increase allocation of tax funds to domestic departments.
-Increase Army.
-Increase Navy.
-Build more Churches.
world country. But, in this game i made it that there are 5 ways of living standard. It is the way the country is judges on their science. 
