Nation Name: Grand Duchy of Rosenkreuse-Leuchtenberg
Population: 1,980,000
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Form of Government: Absolute Monarchy supported by a patrician council, a clergy one as well as a noble council.
Head of State:
Grand Duke Victor Rosenkreuse (31)
Heir to State:
Count Siegel Rosenkreuse (55)
Important Political Characters: (A list and basic description is fine here.)
Count Pierro di Constanza (45)
Condottieri Giovanni di Constanza (21)
Mistress & Bodyguard Veronika Cornikova Tolstoy (28)
Captain of the Life Guard Etienne Lambert (38)
Duchess Eleanor Leuchtenberg (17)
Patrician Humbert Glauchau (42)
Patrician Ezekiel Robervale (36)
Baron & Grand Captain of the Knights Izak Munstein (26)
Admiral Andrei Glasgow (41)
Archbishop Richard Erbach (68)
Cardinal Wilhelm Rosenkreuse (27)
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Capital: Rosenberg
Capital Population: 280,000
Capital Description: HQ of the Morning Star Company and largest port of the continent, this city is filled with merchants and mercenaries all selling their services and spending their pay, it is a hub for trade and spies around the world and the word is 'If you can't find it in Rosenberg, then it doesn't exist'. Still, travelers quickly learn that paying mercenaries for escort isn't optional as much as it is a need, anyone that doesn't know its way will land in an alley and be mugged and any unguarded warehouse is certain to see its content stolen as it as much it is the capital of legitimate business, it is the capital of illegal affairs, smuggling and so forth. People however learn to bribe the duke and his guards, otherwise 'Random inspections' may immobilize your goods for quite some times. All that matters to the duke is that the money of the foreigners keeps moving up to him.
Location of Capital:
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Other Major Towns :
-Leuchtenberg, Industrial Capital
-Jonesdam, Renown for its university of engineering.
-Veluca, Farmland & Wine production
-Praven, Iron mines, canal going down to Lauchtenberg
-Castle Sulern, Contanza county, largest mercenary training fields of the duchy.
Location of Major Towns:
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Traits Chosen:
-Small Army +2
-Outdated Army +2
-Ambitious Generals +1
-Never been out the village +1
-Landlubbers +1
-Rotting Hulls +2
-New age ship construction +-0
-Trading Hub -3
-Strong Industry -2
-Fertile Fields -2
-Free Market -1
-Empowered Company (Mercenaries) +-0
-Natural Great Men -3
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Social Dynamics:
-Citizens: To please the patricians, the duke as given many rights for the peasantry which are not bound to any nobles anymore for example, the constant lack of manpower in the industry of the duchy as also given them the choice of work and as such, have higher revenues to spend than others. Notably, most people in the cities tend to rent as land as become too expensive to afford.
-Patricians: Land owners who have the right to be part of the patrician council, a body that doesn't have much real power but which has the ear of the duke. Many employ mercenaries for protection as assassination have become quite frequent.
-Clergymen: With the population with so many coins, many of these find themselves in the church, as such the church almost likes the priests of Rosenkreuse as they hate them due to their tendency to sin and abuse their resources. The higher the position, the richer as patricians tend to constantly make 'Generous Donations' to be named as a charitable person or have their enemies receive a public accusation of being unchristian-like.
-Condottieri: Mercenary lords who control sizable amount of armed men, they are people not to anger as they and their men both bring good coins to spend as well as have a tendency to arson or ambush people they don't like.
-Noblemen: Depending on their business smarts, the nobility either became extremely rich based not on military might but stewardship or they have been left behind by the economy, selling their lands and be forced to become 'Knights' for the Duke, mainly an honorary position to keep nobles quiet.
-Duke & his retinue: The duke is easily the richest man of his duchy, gaining coins through taxes on one side, the bribes on another and the tariffs on the last, all of these numbers making most kings red of jealousy. The duke however doesn't put much importance of family and many of his cousins and uncles cursing his name for it, he however is considered an important patron of the arts and sciences, someone falling in his good favors often having access to nearly limitless wealth to achieve their projects.
Religion: Christian
Important Events or Holidays:
-Basic Christian
-Topsy Turvy (Summer Carnival, people may go around in disguise and trick their boss should they have been cruel during the year without legal consequence)
-Champion of Champions Tournament (Jousting and fighting competitions where birth sex, religion or nobility doesn't matter, massive price for the winners & visibly for recruitment in elite mercenary companies)
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Industry: A clergyman once said 'If I had to describe Eden I'd describe Rosenkreuse' as indeed this place seems to have been blessed by god with fertile lands that can be cultivated for many months per year, its soil is rich with minerals and its location is at the crossroad of the world. All it took was the University of Jonesdam to attract and train the best minds of the world to make the duchy the treasury of Christianity. Lately with the annexation of Leuchtenberg who was the only thing contesting the monopolies of Rosenkreuse, the area as been saturated by craftsmen and specialists offering their services. The sheer demand for manpower as raised the life quality of the peasants to something much more superior to those of other countries.
Agriculturally, free market determines the balance of things, only the most expensive and profitable crops being risen, said crops often being owned by patricians involved in alcohol brewing, having distilled their techniques to a science each vineyard and brewery producing something unique.
Industrially the goods move freely through an elaborate system of canals and like the crops, workspace being dedicated to only what profits the most, competition being high, anything that can't live up to the unquestionable of something being from Rosenkreuse being superior automatically being swept aside for a better product to be made. Due to a rise in the price of wood, the furniture has made more place a few years back for metal instruments, especially armors and weapons to equip the mass of mercenaries present in Rosenkreuse.
As Rosenkreuse is the terminus for the mercenaries of the world to wait for new contracts, especially after Constanza was made a count and his armies being hired as needed by the Duke to cover what the city guard can't do (Victor diminishes upkeep and maintenance to a minimum when troops aren't needed, making the standing army a joke). Not only mercenaries however are willing to sell their skills, doctors, engineers, architects and others, formed in the University of Jonesdam, await to give the benefits of the most modern techniques available.
Main problem of this system however is the constent lack of people to keep this machine going and while this benefits the peasants heavily, the patricians are always ready to get more people to work for them, for a salary or in slavery.
Main Exports:
-Quality Armament & Armor
-Quality Wine & Liquor
-Specialists (Mercenaries, engineers, doctors & so forth)
Main Imports:
-Manpower
-Salt
-Horses & Livestock
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