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Revision as of 01:47, 24 September 2017
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| The United Empire of Platacia | |||
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| Motto: Potenza a Patria! | |||
| Anthem: Ever Vigilant | |||
| Capital | Gravida | ||
| Official languages | Platacian | ||
| Recognised national languages | English | ||
| Ethnic groups (2028) | Platacian, Mallow, Seabersian. | ||
| Demonym | Platacian | ||
| Government | Unitarya parliamentary constitutional monarchy | ||
| - | Emperor | Espodito Siciliano | |
| - | Prime Minister | Vikoren | |
| Legislature | Senate | ||
| Unification | |||
| - | First Empire | 321 | |
| - | Second Empire | 931 | |
| - | Third Empire | 2026 | |
| Area | |||
| - | 978,256 km2 377,707 sq mi |
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| Population | |||
| - | 2028 estimate | 132,247,756 | |
| Currency | Moneta (MNT) |
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| Time zone | EMST | ||
| Date format | dd-mm-yyyy | ||
| Drives on the | right | ||
| Calling code | +43 | ||
| Internet TLD | .pla | ||
| a. | Tenebris and Osthyem operate under a federal system. | ||
The United Empire of Platacia is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Emperor Espodito Siciliano and Prime Minster Vikøren, and notable for its moralism, parental licensing program, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, zealous population of 132 million Platacians are ruled by a highly nationalistic government, that seeks to expand Platacian influence and unite the Platacian people, without compromising the country's newfound democracy in the process.
The medium-sized, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gravida. Citizens pay an average income tax of 17.3%.
Contents
- 1 History
- 1.1 Prehistory and Ancient History
- 1.2 Late Antiquity and the First Empire
- 1.3 Viking Age
- 1.4 Christianisation
- 1.5 Founding of the Second Empire
- 1.6 Medieval Age
- 1.7 Early Modern Age
- 1.8 Industrial Revolution
- 1.9 Collapse of the Second Empire
- 1.10 20th and 21st Centuries
- 1.11 Reunification and Recent History
- 2 Military
- 3 Domestic Information
- 4 International Relations
- 5 Culture and Technology
History
Prehistory and Ancient History
It is widely accepted by historians that the Platacian peninsula was first inhabited by humans as early as 200,000BC, with the first recognisable state being formed in circa 3,000BC. The name of this state has been lost to history, so it is often simply called the Peninsula Civilisation. By 1,000BC, this organised state had collapsed, and in its place had risen many semi-organised tribes that later evolved into what are known as the Platacian Kingdoms.
Late Antiquity and the First Empire
In AD 321, the first Platacian Empire was formed by the Tribe of Tenebrisia under Emperor Thargston. This Empire spanned virtually all of modern-day Tenebris and most of Ritalgia. This empire collapsed in 347 with the death of Thargston, and subsequent civil war that tore the nation apart. The peninsula would not see another organised society for over six hundred more years.
Viking Age
In the winter of 789, a small fleet of longboats set sail from the Platacian Peninsula, planning to raid and loot the nearby Lucklondish Tribes and petty Moorals of the Mallow Region. It was the beginning of the Platacian Viking Age. For nearly 200 years, countries as far as the Simon Isles were raided by Vikings of the Platacian peninsula. This severely weakened those near Platacia, and strengthened the Vikings greatly. There was also significant cultural influence from the Vikings throughout the region, due to their common settling of colonies from which to gather resources and pillage neighbors.
Christianisation
In 918, a new king came to power in the tribal kingdom of Ritalgia, Ragnar the Oathbreaker. This king was a devout follower of the Norse faith, and wished to remove all influence of Christianity within his realm. He raised an army of Vikings, tribesmen and mercenaries numbering between twenty and fifty thousand strong, and set out to forcefully convert or kill all adherents of any religion other than Norse. His rampage continued for several months until his forces reached the Tribal Duchy of Fjellret. The Duke there, Thorvald the Great, refused the army access to his lands, and as a result the king laid siege to his stronghold. Ragnar was unaware, however, that Thorvald had secretly fled the fortress the night before the siege began, and twelve days later, he returned with an army numbering between five and eleven thousand. The Duke had ordered his men to paint crosses on their shields the night before the battle, and when King Ragnar saw this at the opening of hostilities, he was sent into a blind rage. He ordered his entire centre to charge Thorvald's lines, with no planning whatsoever, resulting in the near complete destruction of the king's force. The remaining troops either fled or were killed or captured once the besieged garrison sallied out from their stronghold. This battle marked the beginning of what is known as the Grand Civil War of Ritalgia, in which Duke Thorvald seized the throne from Ragnar in 921, famously ordering him to not be killed after he was captured. Still more famous was Thorvald's open conversion to Roman Catholicism upon his seizing of power. This ascension of the first Christian King in the Platacian Peninsula marked the beginning of the end of the Viking Age, as well as the start of the Second Platacian Empire.
Founding of the Second Empire
On Christmas Day of 923, the recently coronated King Thorvald the Great announced his ambitions to unite all of Platacia, famously saying, "If our people are to survive, they must be united under one banner. One bearing a cross." It was mere weeks afterwards that he gathered his army and began the Peninsular Crusade in which all of the Peninsula was united in a series of wars and diplomatic maneuvers spanning nine years. Despite some unrest caused by mass conversions to Christianity under Thorvald, the stability of the empire was ensured when Thorvald oversaw his own succession in 962, after abdicating from the throne at the age of eighty two. As Thorvald left the throne for a monastery, his successors cemented feudal Christian rule over the peninsula and expanded Platacian rule into Osthjem and Kysten.
Medieval Age
The Medieval Age saw Platacia emerge as a regional power, becoming the main rival of Organeuit and the main defense against the eastern hordes. It also saw a continuation of the hostility between Sibaria and Platacia that began in the Viking Age despite the large distance between the two empires. The elective monarchy established by Thorvald in 962 continued until 1257 when Emperor Torbjørn II Næss reformed the succession laws, instituting agnatic gavelkind succession within the empire. This prompted an invasion from the claimant Haakon Cavalcante, styling himself Haakon I Cavalcante. Haakon had been in exile in Organeuit-controlled Mallowmooral since being accused of treason by the previous emperor Johannes I Næss. Organeuit supported Haakon's claim in exchange for the return of land lost to Platacia two decades prior in the modern-day Platacian Mooral. This began what is known as the War of the Platacian Succession after Scuro announced support for the reigning Torbjørn II. The war ended with Haakon claiming victory shortly after the sudden death of Torbjørn and subsequent collapse of the Næss dynasty. Scuro, however, managed to defeat the Organeuitish navy and forced them to sign a treaty of war reparations two months after the official end of the war.Haakon re-instituted the elective succession after his coronation in May of 1265, which was maintained in various forms until the collapse of the Second Empire in 1919.
Platacia formed a temporary alliance with Organeuit and Lucklond in 1302 when the Grey Horde invaded eastern Moneylania from their newly united homeland in the Great Wastes. This alliance halted the Horde's expansion and reclaimed some land lost by Organeuit in the years prior, as well as cementing cultural and political divisions in the east for more than three centuries.
In 1322, Platacia declared a holy war against the Lothinese Caliphate that lasted for two years, in which they conquered modern day Scuro. This is the first example of Platacian Proto-Imperialism that also saw failed attempts at conquering the Mallow tribes and Horde-controlled Seabersia. Volunteers from the Ironian city states who joined the Scuroian Crusade brought long-lost knowledge from Lothinese-controlled lands back to southern Moneylania, beginning the Moneylanian Renaissance.
Early Modern Age
[Placeholder for before the Great Crusade]
In 1761, Ironcastle, Organeuit and Scuro formed a coalition opposing slavery in Platacia, and began intercepting Platacian vessels suspected to be transporting slaves. This led to a growth of tensions that led to war in 1763, when the Platacian navy began raiding the ports of Ironcastle and Organeuit. This war was proclaimed "The Great Crusade" by the leaders of the coalition, who proceeded to launch an invasion of Platacia. The war dragged on for eight years, being one of the bloodiest wars in Moneylanian history, particularly when insurrectionist movements in Platacia began to rise up and side with the Grand Alliance. These insurrectionists were comprised mainly of abolitionists, rebellious slaves and nobles, and those loyal to the clergy, who still held significant influence in Platacian politics. The war ended with Platacian defeat when Ironian and Scuroian forces captured Gravida through a naval assault, capturing Emperor Robert I Ostberg and forcing him to surrender. In the terms of peace, Platacia was made to outlaw slavery, cede territory in modern-day Mallowmooral to Organeuit, pay war reparations and grant their Lucklondish holdings autonomy. Shortly after the war, Robert I was killed in a hunting accident, leading to a succession struggle that saw the legally elected successor, Emperor Torkild IV Ostberg, maintain power, as well as seeing more religious influence in the Platacian government.
