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'''The Kingdom of Ludovicia''' (or simply '''Ludovicia'''), is an absolute monarchy, last baluard of the great [[Wikipedia:Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV of France]]'s government in modern times. | '''The Kingdom of Ludovicia''' (or simply '''Ludovicia'''), is an absolute monarchy, last baluard of the great [[Wikipedia:Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV of France]]'s government in modern times. | ||
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Kingdom of Ludovicia
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| Motto: "L'état, c'est moi" "I'm the nation" |
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| Anthem: "Royal March" | |||
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| Capital | Ludovicia | ||
| Largest city | Ludovicia | ||
| Official languages | Latin, french, italian | ||
| Demonym | Ludovician | ||
| Government | Absolute Monarchy | ||
| - | King of Ludovicia | Louis XX | |
| - | Crown Prince | Louis of Ludovicia | |
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| - | Founding | 1668 AC | |
| GDP (nominal) | 2015 estimate | ||
| - | Total | NS$81,11 luiginis (A63,10 trillion) |
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| - | Per capita | NS$21,875.57 (A22,502.69) |
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| Currency | Luigini ( LVD) (L) |
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| Time zone | European Continental Timef (UTC+1) | ||
| Date format | dd ˘ mm ˘ yyyy | ||
| Drives on the | right | ||
| Calling code | 010 | ||
| ISO 3166 code | KOL | ||
| Internet TLD | .lvd | ||
| a. | Ludovicia Website | ||
The Kingdom of Ludovicia (or simply Ludovicia), is an absolute monarchy, last baluard of the great Louis XIV of France's government in modern times.
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Etymology
The land of Ludovicia take his name from king Louis XIV of France. The first settlers arrived here in 1668 and decided to give the king's name to this new land.
History
Before colonization
The land of Ludovicia ha probably first settlement of humans during the 3000-5000 BC. The theory was based on recent discoveries that have been made in the inner part of the hinterland and that have led scholars to believe that the first settlements have sprung up along the forested areas a short distance from the coast. In confirmation of this fact, some have been found stone axes from the Neolithic period, in addition to some tombs and traces of holy places of worship probably related to a primitive religion of animistic nature.
The first colonization at Port Royale
Early French settlers arrived in the land of Ludovicia in 1668, led by Count Henry de La Tour. Their coming to this island was the result of an expedition commissioned by Louis XIV of France to expand the French colonial empire and expand the boundaries of great kingdom of France. The first settlers landed in the south of the Isle of Port Royale which soon became the site of a trading post with its indigenous people, who inhabited the largest island in the east. The foundation of the city of Port Royale also formed the first administrative center of the colony to the point that still today you can admire the primitive structures including the governor's palace and the church of Saint Marie de la Santé.
The foundation of Ludovicia
The settlers continued the expansion of the French domains in the colony with the purchase of several lands within a few years and the establishment of the outpost of Nancy, named in memory of the homonymous french city from where great part of settlers where from. The first settlers began to specialize in the cultivation of sugar cane to be sent home, getting to these important governmental grants projects that allowed the purchase of more and more land and funding from a shipment that arrived in the hinterland in the early years of the XVIII century.
In 1715, when Louis XIV of France died, the settlers had recently formed an outpost in a protected area on two sides by two rivers and a third by a large natural forest, which is why the rapidly took hold settlement as it placed in an area particularly suitable for cultivation, linked to the sea and at the same time sufficiently protected by a military outpost to continue exploration in the interior of the island. The city was named in honor of the sovereign recently dead, Ludovicia (from latin language Ludovicus) and to commemorate the accession to the throne of his nephew, the new king, Louis XV. This city, due to the favorable location and the increasing number of inhabitants, started to become home to several government institutions and detachments offices until in 1730 was established as the new capital in place of Port Royale. That same year was begun the construction of the new governor of the building that in 1738 hosted for a brief time Jean Philippe d'Orléans, king's cousin, and special envoy on behalf of the government in Paris.
Indipendence proclamation
When in 1789 the French Revolution broke, the Ludovicia colony remained faithful to the cause of the royalists, though not lacking also on site of clashes between the population as a result of events that occurred at home. In 1792, when the French monarchy was finally abolished and in its place was proclaimed a republic, the ruled was so caught up in clashes between revolutionary France and the rest of Europe to forget almost completely the colonial possession of Ludovicia that, in a short time, it became a safe haven for the realists who were fleeing from the motherland.
Among those who arrived here on board ships that departed almost daily from the French coast, also came Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince of Conde, who was proclaimed by popular acclaim as the new ruler of the colony, which became now completely independent from the former kingdom of France and ready to proclaim himself a sovereign state in the hands of the Bourbon dynasty. In accordance with the French tradition, Louis de Bourbon was proclaimed king in 1792 under the name of Louis I of Ludovicia, but was soon forced to return home where in the meantime the revolutionary government had declared him a traitor of the state. She then brought to Germany to reorganize the armies of royalists, always remaining in touch with the administration of the island that gave the Earl of Castelvolpato during his absence. At the end of the revolutionary wars and the Napoleonic ones before then, with the French restoration and restitution of their property, Louis I was able to return on the island for a short period of two years from 1815 to 1817 before returning again to France where he died in 1818.
At his death he was succeeded by his son Louis Henry who was proclaimed the new king by the name of Louis II of Ludovicia. He came to the island in 1820 to swear allegiance to the crown, but left for France already the following year to take part in the suppression of the new revolutionary uprisings broke out in Europe. Louis II, after the death of his son Luigi Antonio, duke of Anghien, shot by order of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804, was left without an heir for his own substances and for this reason he appointed his successor to the crown Ludovicia in the person of Louis-Etiénne de Bourbon-Orléans, half-nepew of his wife Batilde. Louis-Etiénne was the natural son of Louis-Philippe d'Orleans (d. 1829), former abbot of Saint-Albin, who had left forcibly ecclesiastical orders after the outbreak of the French Revolution.
Louis-Etiénne was proclaimed the new king by the name of Louis III of Ludovicia at the death of his predecessor, in 1830. This was the first monarch to reside permanently on the island and to establish at the governor's palace (which then became known as the Royal Palace) its headquarters.
The consolidation of power
With the government of Louis III greatly strengthened the power of the kingdom, being able to finally announce the first constitution of state while maintaining it as a major guideline of the kingdom and without pretensions of trying to convert the status of a constitutional monarchy. The state was divided for the first time in homogeneous regions and counties as yet not possible to note today.
At his death in 1844, he was succeeded by his young heir Louis IV of Ludovicia, second son of the deceased monarch, who reigned until 1883, and was then succeeded by the son Louis V of Ludovicia who reigned until 1894. The latter was the first king of Ludovicia to make an official visit to France, and was received by president Mac Mahon, obtaining also formal recognition of the renunciation of any claim of the French state on the sovereignty of Ludovicia in exchange for a large sum of money heavily indebted country and plunged the local economy into a deep crisis from which the ludoviciana crown could recover only by the marriage of crown Prince Louis Philippe and Marquise Juliette De La Roche, rich heiress of the island, only daughter of Alexandre De La Roche, who had particular luck becoming the first owner of a dealership electricity (ADC), the state which subsequently became the property passing to the crown after the death of the owner.
Louis V died in 1926 and was succeeded by his eldest son Louis Philippe which was crowned with the name of Louis VI who held the fate of the state until 1936. Louis VI was the first monarch to open the admissibility of even women and administrative governance, provided solely by nomination of the king or on the basis of a proposal made by a member of the royal family and then brought before the monarch.
The Rohan-Lefevre Crisis
Louis VI was succeeded by his third son, Louis VII, who ruled the state for 57 years, dying in 1993. While distancing himself from the events of the Second World War that affected the status of Ludovicia only at the diplomatic level since 1939, he decided not to take sides with France maintaining a substantial neutrality in the conflict which earned him wide recognition on the part of the population that bestowed the nickname the Wise . After the war, in 1946, he devoted himself to the reconstruction of diplomatic relations, in particular by implementing the trade with France, expanding exports of sugar cane and jewelry products and silverware products from Ludovicia, allowing for the first time to private investors to buy part of the shares of the national silver mines.
With the sudden death of the eldest son Louis Antoine in 1973, Louis VII fell into a deep depression that led him first to think of abdicating to the second son, Louis Francis, and then to take decisions which proved deeply unpopular: in fact he put himself to the bishop Port Royale, monsieur Louis Rohan-Lefevre, which since 1976 appointed him as his personal advisor. Under the influence of the bishop Rohan-Lefevre, who was determined to consolidate the influence of the local church in the state administration, Louis VII inaugurated 42 new churches and intensified the role of catholicism as the state religion, entrusting the management of schools solely in the hands of the church, going so far as to appoint the bishop of Port Royale where Minister of Education of his government. This and other facts, led to the popular revolts that imposed to the king to dismiss the new minister pain of dethronement and it was so. The popular support of Louis VII, however, was never the same and at the same time there arose a deep anti-Catholic sentiment that led to the destruction of some places of worship and the looting of property of some monasteries. After the resignation of Rohan-Lefevre in 1978 (he was also forced to leave the position of bishop of Port Royale and sentenced to exile), the government remained mostly in the hands of the prime minister Karl Kirchbach who strove to hold fast to the crown since the same position that Louis VII, after another coup, had decided to retire from public life mostly leaving the reins of government to his ministers.
Last years
After the death of Louis XII, he came to power his second son, Louis Francis, who was solemnly crowned with the name of Louis VIII. These, unlike his father, in the years of the crisis, had harbored a deep hatred of lax administration of the father and why he devoted himself immediately to the consolidation of personal power of the king at the expense of government personalities and influence reached the main characters who had governed the fate of the government in previous years. Since 1994, therefore, he decided to fully renew the Government Cabinet by appointing conservative count to Prime Minister Leopold von Altbishofen. Since 1996 he ushered in a series of reforms with the aim of promoting the freedom of religion on national soil, removing the influence of the Catholic Church accumulated before and during the period of the Rohan-Lefevre crisis, reopening local brothels (including those in the capital), partially legalizing the use of drugs, but while strengthening the status of the police and the secret police of the whole state. also he intensified the army and the national navy.
Quirky character, invested considerable money for the construction of a new personal residence about 30 kilometers away from the capital, impiantandovi a complex system of channels to bring huge amounts of water from the river Ludovicia to create spectacular water features and beautiful fountains, same time decided to open the gardens to all in order to improve domestic tourism, and to allow all his subjects to enjoy the renewed peace under his rule.
