Greater Dienstad

Greater Dienstad is a shared-world region founded by The Macabees in 2005.

Name

Dienstad refers to a cultural and political entity focused around the northermost peninsula of the mainland territory of The Macabees, canonically known as the Golden Throne. The name was applied to the wider region after the 2005 refounding of Imperial Armies, renamed to Greater Dienstad.

In Common, Dienstad does not contain an accent mark over the i. The accent mark is native to the Dienstadi language.

Countries

Country	Primary Player	Continent	Type	Language
Adaptes Astrates	Stevid	Xipil	Puppet, Historical	Stevidian (Common)?
AHSCA	AHSCA	???	Primary	???
Arcaenia	The Technocratic Syndicalists	???	Primary	???
Barjaanistan	Potthan	???	Puppet	???
Castille	Castille de Italia	???	Primary	???
Chernova	State of Ordena	???	NPC	???
Communist Oldwitch	The Ice States	Makria	Puppet	Stevidian (Common)?
Czaslyudia	Czaslyudian Peoples	???	Primary	???
Deamonopolis	Deamonopolis	???	Primary	???
Eitoan	Eitoan	???	Primary	Dienstadi
Federal Ralkovia	Eitoan	???	Puppet	Ralkovian
Fustera	State of Ordena	???	Puppet, Originally: NPC	Istoloan, Creoloso
Imbrinium	Imbrinium	???	Primary	Stevidian (Common)?
Haishan	Haishan	???	Primary	Stevidian (Common)?
Kolechia	Free Kolechia	???	Primary	???
Holy Marsh	Holy Marsh	???	Primary	???
Independent Hitmen	Stevid	???	Puppet, Historical	Stevidian (Common)
Irat	The Macabees	???	NPC	Istoloan
Istoloa	The Macabees	???	NPC	Istoloan
Kassaran	Kassaran	???	Player	???
Killia	The Macabees	Schonhiet	NPC, Historical	Dienstadi, Stevidian (Common)
Ladero	The Macabees	???	NPC	Istoloan
Lamoni	Lamoni	???	Primary	Stevidian (Common)?
Lyras	Lyras	???	Primary	Stevidian (Common)?
McNernia	McNernia	???	Primary	???
Merica	Patrick O'Connor	???	Primary	Stevidian (Common)
Mokastana	Mokastana	???	Primary	Zarbian-Mokan
Mordent	Morrdh	???	Puppet	Mordentish, Díenstadi, Stevidian (Common)
Morrdh	Morrdh	???	Primary	Mordentish, Díenstadi, Stevidian (Common)
Nova Orontes	The Macabees	Hugen	NPC	Dienstadi
Ordena	State of Ordena	Schonhiet	Primary	Ordenite
Ordenstaat Fernostland	State of Ordena	???	Puppet, Historical	Ordenite, Krasnovan
Palmyrion	Palmyrion	???	Primary	???
Pennslyvannia	Pennslyvannia	???	Historical	Stevidian (Common)
Phibeta	Cartoonia	Phitannian Isles	Primary	Phibetan
Philotas Islands	Imbrinium	Makria	Puppet	Stevidian (Common)
Potthan	Potthan	???	Primary	???
(Regime) Ralkovia	Ralkovia	???	Primary	Ralkovian
Romandeos	Holy Marsh	Makria	Puppet, Originally: Primary	???
Safehaven	The Macabees	Hugen	Puppet, Historical	Zarbian-Mokan
Samarasta	The Macabees	???	Puppet, Originally: NPC	Creoloso, Istoloan, Dienstadi
Solisian Union	Solisian Union	???	Primary	???
Sorofi	The Macabees	???	NPC	Istoloan
Stevid	Stevid	???	Primary	Stevidian (Common)
Tarn	The Macabees	Xipil	Puppet, Originally: Owned	Dienstadi, Stevidian (Common)
The Eternal Union	The Ice States	Makria	Primary	???
The Golden Throne	The Macabees	Hugen	Primary	Dienstadi
Tnemrot	Tnemrot	???	Primary	???
Tupenga	Holy Marsh	???	Puppet, Originally: NPC	Istoloan, Creoloso
United Gordonopia	United Gordonopia	Parana	Historical	Stevidian (Common)
Wanderjar	State of Ordena	???	Puppet, Historical	Knootossian

Notable Past Countries of Greater Dienstad

Past members of Greater Dienstad include Malgrave, Santheres, and Sumer.

History

See Canonical History of Greater Dienstad

A region's history can be seen in different ways. One way is to see as a sandbox for lore through all of the individual contributions made by its active worldbuilders. This would be a long history. A frequently changing, and oftentime conflicting, one, as well. But the history of Greater Dienstad is not just its lore, it's also a history of the contribution to that lore. This is the way this history is told. It is one that tells the story of significant regional events as the region grew between 2005 and present day.

Of course, the history of Greater Dienstad is best told through its wars.

The bombing and destruction of Aurillac was a defining moment of early Greater Dienstadi history.

The Early Years, RL 2005–08

If Greater Dienstad's predecessor's history was dominated by the Panooly wars, then the war to define the first generation of Greater Dienstad was the War of Golden Succession. Fought between The Macabees, Stevid, Safehaven, Killia, and at one point or another involving almost everyone in the region, the War of Golden Succession is somewhat unique in that it was roleplayed over the Jolt forums. The war ended with large parts of northern Safehaven occupied by the The Macabees, Guffingford partitioned by The Macabees and Stevid, and the onset of a cold war between these two states.

In the immediate aftermath of the war, a number of governments that had fought in the War of Golden Succession had extended great resources to do so. Those defeated suffered the agonies of their sacrifices, including their financial debts, the anger over the war dead, and the weakness of their armies. Zarbia, Safehaven, and Monzark all whithered into institutional decay soon after the end of the war, followed soon after by New Empire, Indras, and others. Although a victorious The Macabees followed up with an invasion of Theohuanacu and the occupation of Tarn, these wars combined with the accumulated costs of the great war it had just emerged from were soon sufficient to put the nascent and mended empire into a long period of slumber. War, though, war was still very much alive.

A new power emerged further to the east, Lyras. The ascent of Lyras begins from the ashes of Dukopolious, which had conquered large parts of former New Empire. Although a significant portion of New Empire remained independent under the guise of a multi-national peacekeping force involving Stevid, Imbrinium, and Morrdh, much of the rest of the northern half of that continent was soon occupied by a rapidly expanding Lyras.