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[@Theodorable]

What is the Imperial Tsardom anyway? Are we a part of that nation - how would that be possible?

Or is it just, one of the top dogs, of the world? Great Powers...
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The Imperial Tsardom is multi-ethnic complex of politically linked territories in the center of the Continent.  The office of Imperial Tsar is traditionally elective, although frequently controlled by dynasties. The prince-electors, the highest-ranking noblemen of the empire, usually elected one of their peers as "Tsar of the Empire," and he would later be crowned emperor by the aristocracy; the tradition of aristocratic coronations was discontinued in the 16th century. The empire never achieved the extent of political unification formed in countries like Gilbadia, evolving instead into a decentralized, limited elective monarchy composed of hundreds of sub-units, principalities, duchies, counties, Free Imperial Cities, and other domains. The power of the emperor was limited, and while the various princes, lords, bishops and cities of the empire were vassals who owed the emperor their allegiance, they also possessed an extent of privileges that gave them de facto independence within their territories.