I would like to lay my claim and WIP nationsheet. I would like to claim 40, 39, 38, 37, that space that doesn't seem to have a number, 54, 36, 35, 4 and 3.
What the hell is this?
Theme's include:
-Carpathian Basin nations (Romania, historical Wallachia, historical Transylvania, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria), Dracula Lore, Occultism, Russian Empire (WW1), The Black Plague, Dark Fantasy and Gothic Horror, etc.
The Empire of Panacealsia
Nation's History: The Empire of Panacealsia was formed during the Jarkata Flu five centuries ago when the Panaceanian people migrated south from the Shadow Downs (See Species information). The Panaceanian People had fought numerous genocidal wars as the nomadic people moved through the continent, their collective immunity to the disease seen as proof that they were carriers or even creators of the plague. When they eventually arrived in the broken principalities and states of the Twilight Vale, they found a dying Osralandish people fading away with the rest of the world’s population.
For the first years the nomadic people fought with the natives as usual, attempting to pass through the land. This changed when one of the Panceanian’s priestesses decided to drastically change their method of survival. Knowing that their numbers could not survive another century of this, the priestess Panceania Vaeliel (Named after their people’s deity, the Goddess of Health and Medicine, Panceaniel) attempted to turn this land into a settlement for their people.
She negotiated, preached and manipulated her way into the native’s society and then used her races extreme resilience to diseases and immunity to the Jarkata Flu as a means to work miracles. After a number of years she was considered a messiah to the local people, only the local temples of the natives Goddess of Darkness and Death Stiguosi attempting to stop her influence.
Over time and working through aristocratic connections Panceania was able to eventually gain political power through marrying one of the locals most powerful princes. Quickly bending him to her will she was able to use his army to conquer neighbouring lands, making openings for her people to move and settle as she divided up old states into new ones. After achieving total control of her region, the declared Healer-Queen Panceania began a policy of quarantine and crowd control, setting up some of the oldest hospitals in known history. The priestesses became plague-doctors and she would go down in history as the eradicator of the Jarkata Flu long before the rest of the world recovered from the plague.
Eventually the Healer-Queen had become a divine figure in the Twilight Vale a powerful cult of personality eventually transforming her into a goddess figure. This goddess figure would eventually become the current Empire’s official deity and fusion of both the Goddess Panceaniel and Stiguosi as the living goddess of Life, Death, Health, Medicine (And later Darkness, Osralander religious imperial reformers bringing back more aspects of the Stiguosi Goddess). Panaceania eventually founded the Empire of the Vaeliaslia, which was later renamed to the Empire of Pancealsia after her daughter took the thrown where the native and nomadic people eventually fused into a single state and while divided racially were united culturally.
The Empire of Pancealsia continued to expand aggressively throughout the last years of the plague, some people celebrating their arrival as they gradually cured the people while others fighting violently as they remember the tales and stories of the plague-bringers from the north. As the plague era ended, the Osralander people begun picking up genetic traits of the Panceanians as they interbred, including resistance to diseases. Despite this the faith and hierarchy remained (Though the Panceanians increased vitality and immunity to diseases through interbreeding helped this) strong.
The Empire continued from then to today as a theocratic autocratic regime supported by a fanatical populace. An empire of holy wars and harshness, the Empire was (And still is) a disliked nation to foreigners, only in the last century has real attempts been made to set up embassies and diplomacy, the Empire’s culture so alien to others they are almost incompatible with the rest of the world and took great enlightened tolerance to even talk with them. This incompatibility comes from the process of the Empire’s two cultures fusing together more seamlessly; the cultural norms became alien and strange to everyone else. Death worship; occultism, strict social castes, female-favouring primogeniture in feudalism, matriarchal faith dominated by priestesses, God-Empresses/Emperors holding both secular and sectarian power, suicidal soldiers followed by the bizarre religious fused traditions ranging from the drinking of blood, human sacrifice and selective incest.
By the current days, the Empire’s two cultures have completed its demented and warped fusion, becoming a single united grouping detested by all others. Its wars are becoming harder to fight as the world industrializes, its strict societal castes being forced to bend so to survive a cultural war against the rest of the world. The Empire stands as a juggernaut of the north, its people however band together for what they see as a final war to defend their culture, religion and belief’s against an alien world.
Form of Government: Theocratic Autocratic Monarchy
Political Status: The Panacealsian Empire is mostly stable due to the religion and government being mostly the same entity. Due to the Empire’s highly dogmatic and widely supported platform of faith among the people, revolutionaries and foreign nations are having a hard time breaking the ancient regime. Externally, the Panacealsian’s position is less stable, with the population while loyal are also fanatically jingoist and want to see the faith and people remaining strong.
Political Overview: The Panacealsian Empire is a theocratic empire ruled by the Panceavilov dynasty, the Osralandish translated version of “Panceania”, the name of the Empire’s original founder (Note: The Dynasty was once the Vaeliel, however during the culture fusion the languages fused, and the Osralandish term became the more commonly recognized name). The Head of State holds both secular and sectarian power as a God-Empress/Emperor (The religion favouring female succession first), with the empire’s management dominated by a proto-technocratic-theocratic caste of “Doctor-Priestesses”, originating from the original plague-doctor priestesses of the Empire’s founding during the Plague Era. Aristocrats compete with this caste of priestesses, however their power is mostly restricted to the military and outer provinces, though this power is becoming dramatically more important as the Empire enters into the industrial era and being surrounded by rival military powers.
Society is divided into strict religious/societal castes of “Absolute Divines” (The ruling family holds a mandate of heaven), “Loving Healers” (The Technocratic-Theocratic magistrates), “Great Regals” (Warrior-Aristocrats), “Venerable Harvesters” (Peasants and farmers, considered strangely valuable in society and a respectable position), “Venerable Seers” (Scientists and industrialists), “Diligent Hands” (Labourers and workers), “Diligent Legs” (Merchants and traders). Below these official castes are the Sub-castes of “Loyal Flock” (Indentured servants) and “Glorious Chosen” (Technically speaking the Glorious chosen are the lowest level of caste functionally however are the second highest caste culturally as they are volunteers who wish to commit ritual suicide in the faiths annual harvest rebirth festival)
Head of State: Panacean-Emperor and Supreme Potentate of All The People’s of the North, Vael Osraliv Panceavilov IX (Age: 77 and currently infirm and in his last days)
Notable Figures
- (Soon to be Dowager) Empress Cizisi Zaraliva Panceavilov (Age: 37, Emperor’s Second Wife)
- (Soon to be Empress) Crown Imperial Princess Anastaszia “Drasculina” Cizisi-Vaeliva Panceavilov (Age: 14)
-Imperial Prince Vael Vaeliv Panceavilov (Age: 32, Born of first wife and is Anastaszia’s half-brother)
-Imperial Prince Yuriv Vaeliv Panceavilov (Age: 26 born of first wife and is Anastaszia’s half-brother)
-Imperial Grand Vicar (Chancellor and Representative of the Aristocrats): Igorvis Vael Rusin (Age: 68)
-Imperial Grand Healer (Representative of the Techno-Theocrats): Tassanliva Asadorov (Age: 53)
-Imperial Grand High-Marshal & Grand Prince Vlaed Drasculin Panceavilov (Age: 61, younger brother of the Emperor, Grand Prince of the Principality of Warschulvia)
Total Population: 125,320,600 (By last year’s imperial total caste census)
Employed Population 119,054,570 (5% Unemployment roughly)
Military Population
-Standing Army: 4,200,000
-Reserve Army: 7,200,000
-Total War Conscription Manpower: 20,000,000
The Species Information:
-Humans (Osralanders): The strong and resilient people of the north, the native Osralanders have lived in these lands for millennium undisturbed until the plague five centuries ago. Unlike their distant Kurskan cousins to the south, the Osralandish people were once pale and now sickly pale after interbreeding with the Panceanians. They have black hair like their Kurskan cousins (Though interbreeding with Panceanians has also made albinism common among them) and are stoutly built. Due to interbreeding with the Panceanians, sickness and illness are far less severe among the Osralandish, hospitals in the Empire far more easily run than anywhere else in the world. Osralanders make up the significant majority of the population.
-Humans (Panceanians): The Panceanian people are the ruling caste and semi-divine chosen people of the Empire. Originally from the extreme north of the world (The Shadow downs), the Panceanian people were extremely isolated from the rest of the world for most of history. They are ghostly pale in colouration and have numerous genetic defects running from common albinism through recessive gene’s and haemophilic problems. Despite their genetic problems and isolation, their bodies are incredibly unique in that they are immune to most diseases. Why this is so is still unknown to scientists, however some believe the Panceanian people millennium ago survived an earlier global plague that lasted many generations, causing their bodies to adapt to extreme pathogen resistance.
Approximately five centuries ago, the Panceanian people made a mass migration south through the Nymph Woods and other directions like the Highlands and Great Forest. Coincidently (Or some believe not so) this was during the infamous Jarkarta Flu, since the mass of nomadic people immune to the disease were passing through, many people blamed them for the diseases spread and so the Panceanians fought numerous genocidal wars throughout the era. When the Panceanians finally settled down in the (eventually) friendly Twilight Vale, they interbred with the native Osralanders, mixing the bloodlines. While the Osralanders became paler and picked up genetic defects, the Panceanians picked up black hair and an even stronger immune system. As the first ruler of the Empire demonstrated, the Panceanians collected a messianic mystique to them as they performed miraculous feats such as walking unaffected through plagued hospitals or regularly touching lepers.
The Panceanians today hold many of their original genetic traits now due to the fact that most of the Osralanders hold the same recessive gene’s as them and their tendency towards inbreeding, meaning the traits are constantly recurring.
-Humans (Kurskan): The distant southern cousins of the Osralanders and people originally of the Hellspire Ranges. A small minority of Kurskans live in the southern regions of the Empire, however their heathen faith makes them ostracized by the Osralander and Panceanian neighbours. The Iron Federation to the south also makes racial issues problematic as the Empire suspects the Federation may attempt to use the minority as an excuse to invade.
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Nation's Location: 40, 39, 38, 37, 54, 36, 35, 4, 3. Centred on the Twilight Vale.
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-Exports: Agricultural Produce (Beef, Pork, Chicken, Wheat, Corn, Cabbage, Potatoes, etc etc), Minerals (Copper, Iron Ore, Coal, Precious Metals, Potash, Nickel, Zinc, etc), Timber, Furs, Venison, Steel, Medical Technology, Chemicals, World-class Literature (Particularly Horror and Drama), Classical Music... Fear.
-Imports: Industrial Machinery, Finished Goods, Various Machine Parts, Construction Materials, Automobiles, Airships (Commercial and War), Airship Parts, Exotic Tropical Goods, Luxury Goods (Dyes, Wine, Perfume, spices, etc), Blood(Not a joke) , Engineers and Technological Specialists.
