Palmyrion (Levanora)
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Royal Palmyrian Commonwealth Maharlikang Mankomunidad ng Palmyria | |
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| Motto: Hiraya Manawari (May our wishes be fulfilled) Other traditional mottos:
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| Anthem: Palmyria Kong Minumutya (My Revered Palmyrion) | |
| Capital | Alexandria |
| Largest | Quezon City |
| Official languages | Palmyrian and English |
| Recognised national languages | Palmyrian |
| Recognised regional languages | Various other languages in the Palmyrian language family |
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| Demonym(s) | Palmyrian |
| Government | Federal semi-constitutional monarchy |
• Monarch | Lakambini Elizabeth |
• Chancellor | Ricardo Duterte |
• Chief Justice | Raniag Aglipay |
• Senate President | Harold Dimaculangan |
• House Speaker | Angela Foster-Yulo |
| Legislature | Commonwealth Assembly |
| Independence from the Holy Empire of Stevid | |
• Declaration | 1800 |
• Recognized | 1820 |
• Royal Confederacy | 1820-1935 |
• Disunion Era | 1935-2000 |
• Current constitution | 2000 |
| Population | |
• 2023 estimate | 1.5 billion |
• 2020 census | 1,440,336,970 |
| GDP (PPP) | 2023 estimate |
• Total | $59,505,326,936,145 |
• Per capita | $39,501 |
| GDP (nominal) | 2023 estimate |
• Total | $47,532,501,221,989 |
• Per capita | $31,533 |
| Gini (2023) | 0.495 low |
| HDI (2023) | 0.750 high |
| Currency | Palmyrian Sterling Peso (PSP) |
| Time zone | Palmyrian Standard Time |
| Date format | DD MMM YYYY |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +97 |
| ISO 3166 code | RPC |
| Internet TLD | .rpc |
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This page refers to Palmyrion in the Levanora Vastness. To visit Palmyrion in Kali Yuga, click here. Palmyrion (Palmyrian: Palmyria), officially the Royal Palmyrian Commonwealth (Palmyrian: Maharlikang Mankomunidad ng Palmyria), and commonly referred to as the Royal Commonwealth, is a sovereign archipelagic country in the Levanora region. The Royal Commonwealth is composed of its 40 constituent provinces and its overseas territories, and controls a vast swath of sea around its archipelago, with an economic exclusion zone reaching out 300km from its insular shores. To the east lies the Alfar Isles, a protectorate of Amador, a country with which the Royal Commonwealth has strong ties.
The Royal Commonwealth is a federation ruled by a semi-parliamentary monarchy. The monarch is Lakambini Elizabeth, who has reigned since 2019. Its capital is Alexandria, with Quezon being the largest; both cities are global cities and major financial centers. Other major urban centers in the Royal Commonwealth are the cities of Naga, Bacolod, Patikul, Cebu, Davao, Batangas, Vigan, and Port Elizabeth. It has 40 provinces, each with their own unique ethnic and sociocultural identities; these ethnicities and sociocultural identities have undergone a vast extent of cultural and genetic intermingling, and this intermingling has resulted into a high degree of ethnic, social, cultural, and political homogeneity and unity among the native Palmyrian populace.
The Royal Commonwealth is a developed, high-income nation. It also has a high Human Development Index, the result of many ongoing social welfare, sanitation, and healthcare policies of the government, combined with a financially and academically literate populace, a free, robust, well-regulated, and highly-productive market, and a well-paid, highly skilled, and highly productive labor force. In its existence as the Royal Confederacy, it has been one of the latecomers to the regional wave of industrialization, but quickly caught up with the use of groundbreaking scientific and technological advances, discoveries, and inventions in its industrial pursuits despite having to begin from a small capital base during its early days as a sovereign state that had just broken free from Spanish colonial rule. The Royal Commonwealth is touted as an emerging great power with an increasingly-improving military and economic capability to pursue a stronger and more visible place in worldwide geopolitics. It is currently a member of a select number of influential diplomatic coalitions, ranging from the International Freedom Coalition, to the Romani-Mar'si Union.
Etymology
The name Palmyria is not a native invention, but rather the result of a combination of Stevidian colonial rule and significant Macabeean merchant activity. Macabeean merchants paid homage to the coconut plant's importance as a versatile plant to the various kingdoms, sultanates, and fiefdoms that inhabited present-day Palmyrion, especially during the Makiling Hegemonic Era. The lands encompassed by present-day Palmyrion were referred to in Macabeean correspondence and publication as Tierra de los Palmeras, or land of the palms, with the Stevidians following suit and calling it the Palmerian Domain. With the formation of the Governorate-General of the Palmerian Dominion, under Lord Governor Isaac Palmer, the etymology of Palmyrion was sealed.
Eventually, linguistic corruption would transform "Palmeria" into "Palmyria", leading into the present-day endonym Palmyria. Palmyrion is essentially a portmanteau of "Palmyrian Dominion".
History
Prehistory
Recent discoveries of stone tools and fossils of butchered animal remains in Kalinga, Iloilo, and Naga has pushed back evidence of early hominins in present-day Palmyrion to as early as 800,000 years. However, the metatarsal of the Macahambus Man, reliably dated by both carbon-14 dating and uranium-series dating to about 70,000 years ago remains the oldest human remnant found in the Royal Commonwealth to date. Aetas and Negritos were among the first inhabitants of modern-day Palmyrion, but reliably dated remnants of permanent settlements date back only to the arrival of the Founder Clans back in 400CE. Some of these settlements still exist today and have become parts of modern-day cities, towns, and villages, which have since then become heavily modernized by the pace of technology.
Precolonial Epoch
Pre-Hegemonic Era (2000 BC - 1105)
Makiling Hegemonic Era (1105 - 1655CE)
The Hegemony of Makiling was signed in 1105, forming the Makiling League.
Colonial era (1655-1800)
Palmyrion was colonised by the Stevidians.
The Royal Confederate Era (1800-1935)
War of Sovereignty (1800-1820)
The Partition of 1935
The Royal Confederacy splits into three: the communists form the Palmyrian People's Republic in the Cagayan Valley State, the Christofalangists are driven away to Visayas. Royal Confederacy is split in two, with the Tagalog, Bicolano, Pampanga-Zambal, and the Batangan States serving as its "mainland" and the Cordillera and Ilocano States forming a united exclave loyal to the Royal Confederacy.
Disunion Era (1935-2000)
First Pan-Archipelagic War (1940-1947)
Four-way between the PPR, the CFR, the Royal Confederacy, and the Islamic Alliance. Status quo ante bellum, but with the designation of Metro Alexandria as a neutral freeport hosting the administrative centers of the Communists, Christofalangists, and the Royal Confederacy. Muslim Republics of Sulu and Mindanao declare independence.
Salvation War (1951-1955)
The CFR invades and annexes the Muslim Republics of Sulu and Mindanao.
Ber War (September-December 1968)
The People's Freeport of Tuguegarao, situated at the mouth of the Cagayan River, was using its People's Freeport status too freely for the commies to be comfortable with, forming good relations with both the Royal Confederacy and the Christofalangists. The city becomes a proxy battleground as militias sponsored by the three factions vie for control of the city in a three-way proxy war amidst the heavy monsoon flooding and a dengue outbreak. Ceasefire is reached by December 1968. Tuguegarao's freeport status is revoked.
Cordilleran War (1970-1977)
Communists attempt to break into Royal Confederacy-held Cordilleras. Royal Confederacy drives the Palmyrian People's Republic back after a bloody war.
The Bangsamoro (1977-1988)
In 1975, the Islamic People's Party win elections in CFR-held Mindanao and Sulu. Two years later, an IPP-led union of Mindanao and Sulu declares independence, forming the Bangsamoro, and ban other political parties and religions on their turf. The CFR invades them in 1978, then withdraws in 1988.
Second Pan-Archipelagic War (1979-1989)
Another three-way meat grinder affair between the PPR, the CFR, and the RPC, centered around the Palawan and Mindoro.
Reunion Crisis (1990s)
The CFR and the PPR buckle under the weight of their repression and isolation. Liberal parties win in both the PPR and CFR. Reunification talks with the Royal Confederacy begin.
The Royal Commonwealth (2000-present)
The present-day Royal Commonwealth is formed through the reunification of Palmyrion as "a federation of peoples governed by a parliamentary monarchy" with the adoption of the 2000 Royal Commonwealth Charter.
Politics
Governance
According to Art. II, Sec. 1 of the 2000 Royal Commonwealth Charter, Palmyrion is a "democratic federation governed by a parliamentary monarchy". The present-day constitution of the Royal Commonwealth is the 2000 Royal Commonwealth Charter. According to the constitution, Palmyrion's head of state is the Sovereign, who, according to the Article of Monarchy, has the title of Lakan if they are male, Lakambini if they are female, or according to 2017 amendments, Eminencia if they prefer a gender-neutral title; their respective manners of address are "His Majesty", "Her Majesty", and "Their Majesty", respectively. The Sovereign holds executive powers on par with that of a president in a semi-presidential republic.
The following are the branches of the Royal Commonwealth's government.
- Executive - Palmyrion is a parliamentary monarchy, and its head of state is the Monarch, whose seat of power is located at the Royal Citadel, and who gains power via absolute primogeniture. The Sovereign holds powers and responsibilities equivalent to that of a president in a semi-presidential republic, as delineated in the Commonwealth Charter. The head of government is the Chancellor, and must maintain the confidence of the Assembly to remain in power, lest they be voted out of power by a no-confidence consensus from the Assembly. The Chancellor supervises the Commonwealth Council, a cabinet of Vice-Chancellors each leading a department or a cabinet-level agency.
- Legislative - The Commonwealth Assembly is the main legislative branch of Palmyrion, and consists of a lower house, the House of Representatives, and an upper house, the Chamber of Senators. The House of Representatives has 400 seats, with each province given 10 representatives. The Chamber of Senators has 100 seats, with each Federal Republic allotted 10 senators.
- Judiciary - Palmyrion's highest court is the Supreme Court, with 40 Provincial Circuit Courts overseeing their respective provinces' Administrative Circuit Courts. It also has other adjoining courts, like the Court of Appeals, which cater to appeals, and the Sandiganbayan, a court specially for cases related to graft and corruption.
Foreign Relations
Palmyrion maintains its foreign relations with the rest of the world mostly via multilateral trade and sociocultural exchange. While its relations with prominently capitalist nations are warm, it views socialist countries with suspicion, taking care not to enter into military commitments or close, if not intimate, economic relations with such nations. As a signatory to the Amistad Declaration, it has also adopted a policy of bellum aeternum, or "eternal war", against states whose governments espouse slavery of any form, and provides military and law enforcement aid to countries who de jure have abolished and banned slavery but are otherwise facing problems in stamping out slavery.
Palmyrion is a member of, notably, the International Freedom Coalition, and the Capitalist Internationale; additionally, it is also a member of the Greater Prussian Alliance by virtue of its membership in the Capitalist Internationale. Strategic partners include Holy Marsh, Romandeos, Allanea, and the Alfar Isles. Its ties with other Levanora nations and powers are relatively positive and normal, though its relations with the Ordenite Reich and the Ralkovian Empire are considered by many to be negative beyond normalization at worst and totally nonexistent at best.
Military
The Armed Forces of Palmyrion (Pal. Sandatahang Lakas ng Palmyria) serves as the armed military force of the Royal Commonwealth, responsible for the armed defense of Palmyrian interests both domestic and foreign. It is composed of the following branches:
- Palmyrian Army - The Palmyrian Army (Pal. Hukbong Katihan ng Palmyria) is the land-based branch of the Armed Forces of Palmyrion, focusing on land-based missions alongside the other branches of the military. Its missions include conventional and asymmetric mechanized, airborne, and air assault warfare, and ground-based air and maritime defense roles.
- Palmyrian Navy - The Palmyrian Navy (Pal. Hukbong Pandagat ng Palmyria) is the maritime component of the Armed Forces of Palmyrion, focusing on maritime-based missions alongside the other branches of the military. Its missions include naval-based maritime warfare and air defense roles, and amphibious warfare through its sub-branch the Marine Corps (Pal. Hukbong Katihang Pandagat ng Palmyria).
- Palmyrian Air Force - The Palmyrian Aerospace Forces (Pal. Hukbong Himpapawid ng Palmyria) is the air component of the Armed Forces of Palmyrion, focusing on air-based missions alongside other branches of the military. Its primary mission is to help obtain and secure air supremacy and security for the Royal Commonwealth.
- Palmyrian Gendarmerie - The Palmyrian Gendarmerie (Pal. Hukbong Pamayapa ng Palmyria) is one of the two national police forces, along with the Palmyrian National Police, and is a gendarmerie-type branch of the Armed Forces of Palmyrion. Formed on 2018 from the split of the Constabulary, it specializes on military internal security and coast guard duties, while filling a niche role in Palmyrian law enforcement. It can also be deployed overseas to support military units in internal security roles.
Palmyrian military doctrine is primarily rooted in hybrid warfare. Kinetically, its strategic, operational, and tactical outlook is based on combined arms warfare, with the aim of achieving comprehensive dominance over any military adversary. As an expansive nation of rough tropical jungle terrain, a premium is placed on highly-mobile formations such as light infantry, strategically supported by air power. This outlook is paired with the need for a blue-water navy tasked with guarding its expansive trade routes. At the non-kinetic level, the military coordinates with other bodies of government to execute a spectrum of operations including psychological warfare, political warfare, and economic warfare.
The AFP maintains a two-year conscription policy. Upon exit from the Palmyrian basic education curriculum as high school graduates, conscripts are enlisted into basic training (which takes four months), followed by advanced individual training in their chosen military occupational specialty (which takes another four months); upon completion of both basic and advanced training, conscripts are to serve for two years in the branch of their own choosing. Once they complete their term of service, they are given a choice between joining the professional active force as NCOs, relegation into the reserve force, or leaving the military altogether.
| Armed Forces of Palmyrion (2018) | |||
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| Branch | Active | Reserve | Total |
| Palmyrian Army | 1,200,000 | 400,000 | 1,200,000 |
| Palmyrian Navy | 1,600,000 | 800,000 | 2,100,000 |
| Palmyrian Marine Corps | 200,000 | 100,000 | 300,000 |
| Palmyrian Air Force | 1,200,000 | 400,000 | 1,200,000 |
| Palmyrian Civil Defence Force | 1,600,000 | 400,000 | 1,600,000 |
| GRAND TOTAL | 5,800,000 | 2,200,000 | 8,000,000 |
Administrative Divisions
Palmyrion is subdivided into 40 provinces among 10 federal subjects. Each province is further subdivided into counties, themselves containing cities, towns, and village
| Federal Subject | Federal capital | Provinces | Provincial Capital |
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| Tagalog Federal Republic | Imus, Cavite | Cavite | Imus |
| Quezon | Lucena | ||
| Makiling | Calamba | ||
| Bulacan | St. Joseph | ||
| Bicolano Federal Republic | St. Dominic, Albay | Albay | St. Dominic |
| Camarines | Naga | ||
| Sorsogon | St. Magdalene | ||
| Catanduanes | Pandan | ||
| Pampanga-Zambal Federal Republic | St. Ferdinand, Pampanga | Pampanga | St. Ferdinand |
| Zambales | Olongapo | ||
| Tarlac | Bamban | ||
| Aurora | Baler | ||
| Batangan Federal Republic | Batangas City, Batangas | Batangas | Batangas City |
| Lipa | Talltree | ||
| Nasugbu | St. Therese | ||
| Talisay | St. Nicholas | ||
| Cagayan Valley Federal Republic | Tuguegarao, Cagayan | Cagayan | Tuguegarao |
| St. Elizabeth | Ilagan | ||
| Quirinus | Saguday | ||
| New Monadh | St. Margaret | ||
| Cordilleran Federal Republic | Baguio City, Benguet | Benguet | Baguio City |
| Kalinga | Tabuk | ||
| Abra | St. Quentin | ||
| Apayao | St. Marcella | ||
| Ilocano Federal Republic | Vigan City, Ilocos | Ilocos | Vigan City |
| Laoag | Pagudpud | ||
| St. Gabriel | Santol | ||
| Pangasinan | St. Charles | ||
| Visayan Federal Republic | Bacolod City, Talisay | Talisay | Bacolod City |
| Panay | Panay City | ||
| Cebu | Cebu City | ||
| Samar | Tacloban | ||
| Islamic Republic of Sulu | Jolo City, Jolo | Jolo | Jolo City |
| Patikul | Patikul City | ||
| Maimbung | Kandang | ||
| Indanan | Malimbaya | ||
| Islamic Republic of Mindanao | Marawi City, Maguindanao | Maguindanao | Marawi City |
| Davao | Davao City | ||
| Zamboanga | Pagadian | ||
| Caraga | Butuan |