HOLY EMPIRE OF DENZGRAADName of Nation:
Holy Empire of DenzgraadFlag: See above.
Demonym of Nation: The Denz, Denz.
Race Description: Humans
Nation Location: See map below.
Description of Nation: Steeped in tradition, the Holy Empire of Denzgraad is a large and monarchistic nation that comprises over six former kingdoms on the Denzgraadic subcontinent. The nation, though considered one of the
Great Powers along with the
Qalimeqi Empire, it is quickly falling behind and the Qalimeqi threaten to usurp their influence in the region. The Holy Crown fears change and has taken on the recent clockwork and steamwork inventions of the new world with a cautious hand, for fear that the oppressed serfs of the land might find new tools from which to rise. The Denzgraad utilize clockwork technology only within the royal circles and as a display of modernism has added it to their flag, but the majority of the people within the nation are still woefully unaware of these new inventions existence.
While the power of it's neighbor, the Qalimeqi Empire has risen and waned, Denzgraad has steadily increased in power as the centuries of feudalism has ended and turned to the industrial era. With the last great downfall of the Qalimeqi Empire and Denzgraad has announced it's recent superiority as a Great Power, but this is largely in name only, with the greatest thinkers of astronomy, medicine and clockwork still reside in Qalimeqi, Denzgraad instead remains home to an abundance of untapped natural resources and a huge manpower pool.
Government of Nation: Empire --
Absolute Monarchy.
Capital of Nation: Varcia, Population, 12,500,000.
Population of Nation: 105,000,000 (92,000,000 are serfs living in rural areas).
Economy of Nation: The vast land of Denzgraad have turned it into a huge agrarian breadbasket, the likes of which uses to feed it's immense population. The three mountain ranges
Karvalov, Kuzechenko's and the
Darlov all provided precious metals that are often exported across the Small Sea to the Qalimeqi Empire and neighboring states. The Denzgraad Empire is a centralized, mercantile based economy that seeks to establish dominance of it's monopolies while minimizing it's imports.
Nation's Major Exports: Iron, Steel, Gold, Silver, Grain, Wood.
Nation's Major Imports: Machine Parts, Firearms, Sugar, Exotic Goods.
Nation's Military Description: The Empire's military is split into three sections:
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White Army: The largest in the world, numbering in at over three and a half million soldiers, the White Army is a proverbial paper tiger. Officers are given commission based on their wealth instead of their skill, and soldiers are trained relatively haphazardly. Steamtanks number at less than 5,000 and the Denzgraad still see their horse driven cavalry as the corps d'espirit within the army. However, few would readily invade Denzgraad at seeing how large their standing army is.
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White Navy: The White Navy is no paper tiger, and Denzgraad prides itself on it's seaborne fleets, of which there are five -- totaling over two hundred fourty ships, with over sixteen dreadnoughts as the pride of the White Navy. Steam filled harbors keep the destroyers, cruisers and dreadnoughts at top notch quality year round, even at the expense of Imperial coinage.
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White Air Corps: The White Air Corps remains in it's infancy, with only ten airships of a very basic design and a handful of observation dirigibles also in active service. These designs are purchased Qalimeqi designs, as the Denzgraad engineers themselves could not quite master the art of flight themselves.
NOTE: I'd like to make up most of the small subcontinent across from the inlet sea of the Qalimeqi Empire. I'll try and get a picture up but my Photobucket is being obstinate.
