Union of the Seven Crowns

Union of the Seven Crowns of Sexland Union van de Sieben Kronen van Saxland (West Burgwieser)
1676–1916
Union Flag Union Emblem
Capital	Fort Hope (1676-1792) St. Botolph (1792-1812) Maanstelle (1812-42) Beatrixburg (1842-72) Fort Hope (1872-1902) St. Botolph (1902-16)
Common languages	West Burgwieser Sexish (official union languages) Regional Aurspresh Cummese Fermden Fluvan Limirish Natlander Onslander Reizgerish Robrumaran Sexish West Burgwieser Zandish
Religion	Catholicism Protestantism Nephism Irreligion
Government	Confederal constitutional elective monarchy
Primate
• 1676-1694	Erik the Great (first)
• 1909-1916	Oliver II (last)
Legislature	Parliament
Historical era	Early Modern Era
• Act of Union	30 December 1676
• Dissolution	7 June 1916
Population
• 1776	16,700,000
• 1905	55,702,492
Currency	Union Pound (£)
Preceded by Succeeded by Duchy Alleenhof Greater Natland Ketha-Trewince Flusstadt and Marktdarp First Onslander Kingdom Kingdom of Suder Duchy of Trepentoon Alleenhof Flusstadt Greater Natland Ketha-Trewince Marktdarp Second Onslander Kingdom Suder Trepentoon
Today part of	Alleenhof Flusstadt Ketha Marktdarp Natland Onsland Suder Trepentoon Trewince Zandigland

Sexland, sometimes known as the Sexish Union and formally known as the Union of the Seven Crowns of Sexland, was a confederation of monarchies in the Sexish Countries that existed for 140 years from 1776 to 1916. Consisting of the kingdoms of Onsland, Suder, Greater Natland, Ketha-Trewince, and Flusstadt and Marktdarp along with the duchies of Trepentoon and Alleenhof. The Sexish Union formed when Erik the Great became, through treaty, conquest, and strategic marriage, the monarch of a personal union of the Sexish states. Erik believed that all of the Sexish languages and peoples had originated from Sexish and were properly Sexish territory. Erik declared the personal union to be a real union in 1776, uniting much of his ideas of Sexland (exlcuding Fluvannia and Zwölfspitzer) under his rule.

The new country became a superpower fairly rapidly, exploiting its reserves of iron and coal to become an early industrialized country. The country established colonies in multiple places around the globe, including Alaoyi, The Furbish Islands, and Los Angeles. While neither a large colonial power like Greater Niagara or Fluvannia, the country still established a respectable empire with a highly competent merchant fleet. The Sexish navy was considered relatively powerful as well, and parts of the fleet were leased out to other states as government-sponsored mercenaries or used to maintain trade routes and governance in the far flung colonies of the Sexish Union. Sexland was relatively socially progressive for its time, adopting many of Great Awakening ideals, such as free press. Conflicts over religion became relatively muted as the union government became officially secular and the constituent monarchies became required to respect the rights of religious and ethnic minorities. Sexland at this time was considered a pioneer in constitutional monarchism and the right to vote was well established by the 1860s.

Sexland made a clear distinction between the Union government and the Constituent governments. In the earlier days, the kingdom was ruled by a primate, a king appointed by a council of nobles for a seven year term. Overtime, the business of running the state grew too great and a parliament was created and given considerable legislative power By the 1860s, the parliament was wholly elected by male voters (though some kingdoms would allow women's suffrage beginning in the 1880s) and more and more executive power became invested in elected leadership, which were usually known as chancellors, though not always. The ruling class at this point in time primarily considered of railroad and mines owners or those who owned stakes in the merchant fleets. Sexland's strong trade and financial sectors were considered paramount to the development of modern capitalism from mercantilism.

Sexland was one of the most diverse countries on the planet with over 12 major languages spoken within its borders. The most common languages were Onslander, Sexish, West Burgwieser, Aurspresh, and Natlander. Of these languages, West Burgwieser and Sexish were the two union languages, relatively understandable by the vast majority of people in the country. Despite Sexland's early successes in maintaining a state the tensions between religious, ethnic, and national groups began to boil over in the 1900s and became far worse with the outbreak of the First Great War in 1916. Despite sending troops to fight on several fronts, tensions between the more rural and poorer kingdoms, which were primarily anti-war and more pro-monarchist, and the coastal kingdoms, which were pro-war and pro-republicanism, flared and brief battles and mutinies began to be fought between the various kingdoms and groups. In an effort to halt the fighting, Oliver II of Ketha, the great great grandson of Erik the Great, abdicated the throne of Sexland and declared the union to be dissolved.