The United Monarchy of Scandine, Polanthia, and Litan
(Commonwealth of Scandinine-Polanthia)
Scandinavia, Greenland, Newfoundland
Description of Government:The Commonwealth is ran by the Grand King of Polanthian who is also the Grand Duke of Scandine and the Count of Litan making his official title the Grand King of the Scandine-Polanthian Commonwealth. The Grand King is voted upon by all of the living members of the head dynasty, meaning that 9 times out of 10 the Grand King is a member of that dynasty. Once elected, the Grand King rules for life unless he abdicates the thrown. If this scenario happens, the normal voting process for the new Grand King begins and the Commonwealth gets a new ruler. The Grand King himself is the head of Internal Affairs and War, with him appointing advisors (typically close relatives) to help with Diplomacy and Colonisation.
Under the Grand King are the Governears, people appointed by the Grand King to rule certain areas of the Empire. The strongest Governear is Stanimund August, Governear of the Colonies of Północna Zjednoczone. Stanimund is in control of all of the Northern States (Not-Norway, Not-Iceland, Not-Greenland, and Not-Vinland) and he is also the overall colonial advisor of the Empire. Other notable Governears are Ivankof Vladimivich, Governear of Saint Ruthetersberg and Rurikia Alfanivich, Governear of Swinled.
Another high ranking position under the Grand King is the Kruszon, the religious leader in the Empire and ruler of the Chrześcijanin faith. The Kruszon is the person who crowns the Grand King after he is voted upon. The Kruszon lives inside the holiest Katedra in the whole Empire, The Grand Katedra of Ziemia Boga.
Description of Economy:The Commonwealth itself is an advanced nation for standards around the world, with large blue coal mines in the colonies of the New World and and around the city of Ziemia Boga. The Scandine region of the Empire (Not-Scandinavia) is a mix of Agricultural and Urban areas, with a large factory base lying around the city of Holmstock. The Islands of Fieland (Not-Iceland) and Volcland (Not-Greenland) both have large Blue Coal composites, but these are difficult to mine because of the cold climate of the two islands. The Polanthia Region (Not Poland) of the Commonwealth is a very urbanized area with factories and mines dotting the region. The large cities of Ziemia Boga, Waraxe, and Kowack. The counties that surround Litan are mostly agricultural, with Litan itself being a decently industrialized city. Typically, the factories of the Empire work on making steel or utilizing Blue Coal.
In the New World, the city of New Kowack holds one of the largest blue steel mines on Earth, making it one of the most densely populated areas in all of the New World. Other large settlements in the New World include Północna City, Litterbasch, and Vladisaw, with majority of those cities also focusing on the Blue Coal mining industry.
Description of Culture:The Commonwealth is an area ripe with different cultures, with different ethnic groups all around the nation. The main cultural group are the Polanthians, the founders of the commonwealth, and the higher class of the Empire. Scandines and Litans are also larger ethnic groups, and the New World is still partly inhabited by the native tribes that have lived there for thousands of years. The main language of the Empire is Polanthian, a language that has its roots from Slavian migrants who moved to the region two thousand years ago. The main and state religion of the Empire is the Chrześcijanin faith. It is a monotheistic religion founded around the levantine coast of what is now the Sublime Devalt (Not-Holy Land). The religion is based on teachings of Chrześ, who was eventually martyred by the early Empire of God before they eventually adopted the religion. Once they adopted it, it moved into where the Proto-Polanthians lived. Once the Sublime Devalt took the founding place of the religion, the head of it moved to Ziemia Boga, making the Kingdom of Polanthia (And eventually the Commonwealth) the defender of the faith, which meant that they had to defend Chrześcijanin's all around the world.
Other religions in the region are the Zydowski, a Chrześcijanin heresy, Pogański, a small minority pagan group in the New World Colonies, and a Tawhid minority in some provinces in the southern part of the Commonwealth.
The currency of the Empire is the Polanthian Franc, a gold coin with the face of Jianis Sobeska (Not-John Sobieski, the greatest Grand King in the Commonwealth's history who is renowned for his victory at the battle of Ziemia Boga against the Sublime Develt (Not-Battle of Vienna).
Description of Military:The military of the Commonwealth is typically ground based with a small focus on naval and aerial combat. The commonwealth patrol the seas with Statki, blue coal advanced ships. They are packed with small cannons and the blue coal is typically used to make the ship go faster. If worst comes to worst the ship will ram an enemy ship with the captain igniting a fuse blowing up the blue coal on the Statki, taking down both ships with the explosion.
The commonwealth use Parowa Powietrza as the typical aerial vehicle for combat. They are large blimp shaped metal hulls with two wings on each side. Inside the Parowa is the large engine that houses the blue coal. The Parowa is equipped with blue coal-powered machine guns on the front and back and two cannons on the left and right sides, used for blowing enemy aerial vehicles out of the sky.
On the ground the Commonwealth divides the military into Infanti, Przodu, and Hussars. The infanti are equipped with typical military-grade outfits and rifles, with some of them also stationed on cannons. They are used as front line troops and are high in number.
The Przodu are the other non-horsed based troops. They are equipped with large Blue Coal-powered machine guns and military grade gear. At there sides lie a sabre that is used for closed in combat with the enemy in case of a charge.
The Hussars are a large part Commonwealth's army. They are equipped with military grade gear and they ride the steam horses. Robotic horses that are powered by blue coal. At their sides the Hussars have the Extendable Sabres. These sabres are swords with machinery powered by Blue coal that can push out the blade more for longer ranged sword combat. The hussars are also equipped with blue coal-powered machine guns.
The final, but most important part of the military are the Winged Hussars, the special forces of the Commonwealth's military. They are equipped with Extendable Sabres and compact pistols that can be fired. On their backs are Blue coal-powered human-aerial flying machines (Fancy names for jetpacks) that they can use to drop in on enemies if they need in battle.
History:The modern Polanthians are decedents of the Slavian who migrated from the Swamperian areas into the areas surrounding Waraxe 2000 years ago. Eventually, the Slavians and Gerians interbred to create the Proto-Polanthian who eventually became the modern Polanthian. In 870, the Kingdom of Polanthia was established in the Waraxe and Ziemia Boga area. The Kingdom began to rival other surrounding states including the Empire of God, leading to conflicts and the eventual conquering of some of the territory in that Empire. The acquisition of the territory eventually led to the Sublime Devalt and the Kingdom of Polanthia to nearly border each other, with weak counties in between them. No conflict broke out between the two for a good amount of time, but that would eventually end as nearly all peace does. The two juggernauts of the world eventually broke out into war about a conflict with some of the counts in the border states between the two Empires. This original war only consisted of a few skirmishes and an eventual white peace between the two nations, but this would only be a sign of what was to come for the two nations.
Eventually a full on war broke out between the Holy League of Chrześcijanin and the Sublime Devalt with its vassal states. The Holy League was led by Jianis Sobeska, the man who would defeat the Sublime Devalt at the battle of Ziemia Boga and the founder of the Commonwealth. Small border skirmishes between the two Nations where frequent in the early part of the War until Gyen Sobeska attempted a siege of Ikonya by sending troops across the rivers and into the sea. The siege was close for a good amount of time, with the 100 thousand Polanthian troops nearly capturing the city until Devaltian reinforcements came in and they massacred the troops and publically hung Gyen. Morale all across the Commonwealth dropped which led the Devalt to push through all the way to Ziemia Boga. Jianis led 20,000 Hussars with him along with 120,000 regular troops against the huge advancing Devaltian Army beginning the Battle of Ziemia Boga. At first the battle was a stalemate until Jianis's hussars where able to push through one of the Devaltian lines of defense and they began one of the largest calvary charges in history, slaughtering Devlatian troops as they went. The Devaltian loss at Ziemia Boga led to both sides forging a white peace, with no side gaining anything in the war.
Jianis was hailed a hero, but his conquests where not finished. He set his eyes on Scandine, the jewel of the North. He began to march his troops and he quickly conquered the Scandine Territory until winter came, in which the First Hell March began. Tens of Thousands of Polanthian troops died in the March of Scandine territory, but eventually they sieged down and took Holmstock, officially conquering all of Scandine and leading to the creation of the Commonwealth of Scandine-Polanthia. After that, Polanthia took Litan in a conquest and Jianis proclaimed himself the Grand King. Jianis died at the age of 75, ruling for 65 years, and in his reign the Commonwealth expanded to be one of the greatest nations on the planet. Jianis's grandson Basil was crowned Grand King after his death. Basil would begin Pax Polanthia, an age of peace with the Commonwealth that would last throughout all of Basil's reign as High King. Basil also constructed huge monuments across the commonwealth to show his power over the populace. Basil's reign as Grand King was uneventful but it was important to the overall history of the Commonwealth. He reformed and gave equal rights to majority of the citizens despite sex, race, or religion.
The death of Basil led to the crowning of Jianis the Second. His reign would bring upon the colonisation of Fieland and Volcland and the victory of the Scandine Independence Revolt. The Scandine Independence Revolt was a large scale revolt against the Commonwealth that would result in the death of 250,000 people and the burning of Holmstock. The victory against the revolters led to Jianis being remembered as the High King that kept the Commonwealth together. He died in his sleep at the age of 70, ending his 50 year reign as High King of the Commonwealth. After his death a succession crisis began between his Eldest, but illegitimate son Basil and his youngest but true son Jianis the Third. This crisis would eventually go into a full blown civil war that would result in Jianis the Third being crowned High King.
Jianis the Third was the first to discovery the Northern Territories of the New World and his colonisation of the area was violent and mostly genocidal. When his troops first landed on the coast of the Northern New World they say that they shot down majority of the natives that where there. He continued to march his troops through native territory, slaying majority of the native tribes that he found, and the ones that he spared he put into slavery. The brutality of this led to Jianis the Third gaining the title of the Impaler, because he impaled majority of the slaves that where unruly under his rule. By his death at the age of 50, he killed a total of 100,000 people in cold blood. Soon after the crowning of his son Basil the Second blue coal was discovered. Once it was eventually founded in the colonies he began to put the slaves to work as miners until they eventually invented something more effective with mining and the slaves where freed, being sent of to be tribal in the plains of the New World colonies. After that, Basil the 2nds reign was uneventful and his death just came and went in a small blip of the Commonwealths history. The same went for the reign of his son, Basil the 3rd, who did nothing but create more blue coal mines all across the Commonwealth. Currently the 18 year old grandson of Basil the 3rd is ruling named Jianis the Fourth. He plans on expanding the Empire farther then what has ever been imagined and with the recent opening of Hadricia for colonisation means that he has a chance to be the greatest Grand King in the history of the Commonwealth.
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