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Greater Gothic Empire Großgotisches Urweltreich (High Gothic) Magnum Imperium Gothicum (Latin) Michelgothish Urworldriche (Anglish)
Flag Lesser coat of arms
Motto:  Carpe Noctem (Seize the Night)
Anthem:  Hymn of the Greater Gothic Empire Royal anthem:  Song to His Majesty the Emperor March:  Imperius Unitada Ober Totallex "Imperium united above all"
Greater coat of arms: Imperial Seal:
Location of the Greater Gothic Empire in the 21st millennium, covering only the world
Capital and largest city	World Capital Gothica — New Rome 55°45′21″N 37°37′2″E
Official languages	Gothic Latin Anglish
Recognized languages	Albian Anglish Brenish Bœtian Cogspeak Crottish Dúnnan Highland Gothic Lowland Gothic Meadows Gothic Moorland Gothic Northern Gothic Palatinate Gothic Saragornian Thammaran Underspeke Vendelo-Maloran Waldland Gothic
Official script	Fraktur
Ethnic groups	96% Goths 4% others
Religion	69.22% Imperial Cult (official) 5.77% Heterodoxy 1.29% Dul'qarnism 0.98% Madzakism 0.63% Zen-sufism 0.51% Neopaganism 21.6% other
Demonym(s)	Gothic Goth Goff (colloquial)
Government	Unitary absolute monarchy
• Monarch	Theobald XXVII
• Grand Chancellor	The Countess Bartley-Wolff
• Grand Magister	The Duke of Nachtschatten
• Grand Procurator	The Marquess d'Éplenbourg
Formation  after World War III and the Global Reset of M3
• Grimhilde's Realm	c. 3rd millennium
• Gothic Kingdom	2405
• Time of Troubles	4304—4414
• Old Dominion	5510
• Empire proclaimed	22 May 6616
• Lavender Uprising	8209—8409
• January Manifesto	30 January 16707
• Unification of Terra	20 April 20069
• Urweltreich formed	25 December 20069
• Current Basic Laws	19 February 20214
• Luna annexed	6 November 20230
• Mars annexed	10 February 20420
• Succession crisis	March 21068—April 21069
• Great Mediation	18 December 21366
Area
• Total	314,257,690 km2 (121,335,570 sq mi)
• Water (%)	54 (including wetlands)
Population
• 21240 estimate	18,637,530,231 (1st)
• 21258 census	18,637,525,329 (1st)
• Density	59/km2 (152.8/sq mi) (1st)
GDP (PPP)	21305 estimate
• Total	$636.410 septillion (1st)
• Per capita	$581.422 sextillion (1st)
GDP (nominal)	21305 estimate
• Total	$551.191 septillion (1st)
• Per capita	$380.240 sextillion (1st)
Gini (21306)	33.48 medium
HDI (21306)	0.866 very high
Currency	Gothic pound (𝒢£) (GTP)
Time zone	UTC+2 to +12
Date format	Short formats: (CE) dd:mm:yyy.мy dd/mm/yyy.мy dd-mm-yyy.мy
Driving side	left
Calling code	+613
ISO 3166 code	GTH
Internet TLD	.gth
Website www.gothica.gth

Gothica (Gothic pronunciation: /ˈɡɒθɪkə/), officially the Greater Gothic Empire (Gothic: Großgotisches Urweltreich; Latin: Magnum Imperium Gothicum; Anglish: Michelgothish Urworldriche) and formally styled as the Greater Gothic Empire of the Goth Realm (Großgotisches Urweltreich der Gotenreich, Michelgothish Urworldriche of the Gothenrealm, Magnum Imperium Gothicum Regnum Gothae)

Remnants of what was once the human population that was reduced to drastically less than 100 million, following the global thermonuclear ctaclysm in the third decade of the second millennium AD, re-emerged after a few millennia after resettling themselves in nearly post-contaminated soil following their confrontations with the harsh wasteland environment. These settlements, followed by a slow and steady reconstruction of what was left of their civilization before the outburst, were met with attacks from wasteland peoples more often than usual, among them being the tribes that later make up the Goths that will soon emerge as a significant people since the arrival of the semi-mythical Witch-Queen Basina (ca. 2716? to 4015?) and are to persist to this day. One of the post-thermonuclear wasteland states to rise in the early fourth millennium per the era of the Radioactive Ice Age was a loose confederation of Gothic tribal kingdoms under the nominal suzerainty of Great Oium, followed by several other states that developed across the Old World. Shifting from neo-paganism and chthonic nature worship since the days of its High King Ottokar, Great Oium in 4855 ultimately embraced Heterodoxy when High King Valamir the Great, converted from neo-paganism in response to a threat from the Northern States led by Nodengard where he forcibly subdued the 'greykin' witches as the cause and profiteers of internal division. At an unknown time, Great Oium has seen a general revival, most especially of Gothic culture as well as aesthetic derived from the subculture, starting with the re-emergence of types such as Fairy Goth, Tribal Goth, and Medieval Goth, to say the least, and a profound interest in music and the arts, thus beginning the synthesis of pre- and post-cataclysmic wasteland dark alternative scene cultures/subcultures that defined the kind of 'Gothic' culture for the following millennia. Since the fifth millennium, Great Oium disintegrated into smaller warring cliques, shortly prior to the Finngolian-Hwan Yoke during the hazardous Great Radioactive Winter of 128.M4-883.M5, until they were liberated and finally reunified by the Crown of Eisenheim under another loose confederation called the Old Dominion as of the early sixth millennium. in 22nd May 6420, Armand crowned himself Emperor of All Gothica and established the Greater Gothic Empire from the defeated rival Gothic states and the territories released by the declining empires of Finngolia and Hwan, and under his successors the country had significantly expanded through wasteland reclamation, conquest and direct annexation to become what the country is now, stretching across the entire Eastern Hemisphere from one end of the North Merican continent on the west to the other one of the East. By the start of the First Pax Gothica, it had grown to include all of the territories almost corresponding to pre-Cataclysmic Afro-Eurasia and thereabouts, but not limited to most of West Antarctica, pre-Cataclysmic Greenland, several islands in the shrinking Pacific Ocean, and what was then the Pacific Northwest. The Empire played a significant and more decisive role in the Great Inter-Hemispheric War, and emerged victorious as an unparalleled dominant hyperpower as well as arch-rival to both the Merican Commonwealth and the Oceanic Union since the beginning of a cold war. The eras preceding that of Empresses Victoria I and Victoria II, respectively, saw the most spectacular technological breakthroughs of the unusually distant future ever imagined, such as the Webway and pico-technology, and also saw the settlement and terraformation of the Moon, Mars and Venus by the Empire itself. Since the reign of the former, it embarked on a massive-scale reconstruction program, part of her vision for its future and the upcoming Second Pax Gothica, starting with the renewal and expansion of its capital Necropolis into a supermassive mega-city and the construction of a multi-dimensional city axis between the Pacific and Atlantic seas.