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After the War of the Three Empires, the most powerful members of the [Boeren Unie] came out weaker than they had been during their prime. Battles with the [Noardwurden Ryk] had significantly weakened their fighting capabilities as the war drained resources and manpower unsuited for warfare. The union tried to recover from the losses by concluding several promising business ventures that allowed them to generate a considerable amount of profit momentarily. However, despite the short-term benefits, the ventures began to see failure or closure due to incompetency and corruption. The amount of profits lost during this period led the confederacy to desperately seek ways out of their increasing poverty as more and more ventures began to turn out losses for many smaller members who were rapidly heading into bankruptcy.
After the War of the Three Empires, the most powerful members of the {Boeren Unie} came out weaker than they had been during their prime. Battles with the {Noardwurden Ryk} had significantly weakened their fighting capabilities as the war drained resources and manpower unsuited for warfare. The union tried to recover from the losses by concluding several promising business ventures that allowed them to generate a considerable amount of profit momentarily. However, despite the short-term benefits, the ventures began to see failure or closure due to incompetency and corruption. The amount of profits lost during this period led the confederacy to desperately seek ways out of their increasing poverty as more and more ventures began to turn out losses for many smaller members who were rapidly heading into bankruptcy.


Seeing the opportunity, the [Normen Empire] lent its financial assistance to the smaller states that had been ruined by the private ventures enacted by the union. In turn, those helped by the [Normen Empire] increasingly began to defect from the [Boeren Unie] to the growing eastern empire which seemed to be constantly meddling in their affairs. In 1106 AD, the [Boeren Unie] held a vote after the sovereign of the [Normen Empire] offered the union a buyout for all their financial troubles in exchange for their incorporation into their empire. Many who faced backlash from their citizens and native merchants due to the rapid decline of their economy, opted to accept the offer arguing that the union had outlived its original purpose and that they should accept the new order despite the pride of their previous traditions. However, there were also many skeptics like the principality of Zauberwald who argued that the integration of the union into the empire could lead to deep cultural division and a potential that their language could be at threat if they agreed to anything on the proposal. Both sides exchanged their opinions and possibilities but no one could agree about the future of the [Boeren Unie]. So another vote was called for the split and dissolution of the [Boeren Unie] which saw a historical landslide of 30 in favour, 10 abstained and 10 against.  
Seeing the opportunity, the {Normen Empire} lent its financial assistance to the smaller states that had been ruined by the private ventures enacted by the union. In turn, those helped by the Normen Empire increasingly began to defect from the Boeren Unie to the growing eastern empire which seemed to be constantly meddling in their affairs. In 1106 AD, the Boeren Unie held a vote after the sovereign of the Normen Empire offered the union a buyout for all their financial troubles in exchange for their incorporation into their empire. Many who faced backlash from their citizens and native merchants due to the rapid decline of their economy, opted to accept the offer arguing that the union had outlived its original purpose and that they should accept the new order despite the pride of their previous traditions. However, there were also many skeptics like the principality of Zauberwald who argued that the integration of the union into the empire could lead to deep cultural division and a potential that their language could be at threat if they agreed to anything on the proposal. Both sides exchanged their opinions and possibilities but no one could agree about the future of the Boeren Unie. So another vote was called for the split and dissolution of the Boeren Unie which saw a historical landslide of 30 in favour, 10 abstained and 10 against.  


This vote marked the end of the [Boeren Unie] as the 30 members of the union who voted to split, defected to the [Normen Empire] and were incorporated into the empire as agreed upon in the proposal. The empire enforced upon their new subjects the agreement outlined in the Treaty of Freundschaft between the [Südlichewörter Reich] and the [Noardwurden Ryk] where Eerstetaal was allowed but not recognized as a language for business nor diplomacy. This left merchants and professionals in those states discontent due to the inconvenience the language barrier caused as they had to learn new languages just to perform their jobs. But for citizens of these new cities who had lived under neglect from their rich overlords, it was a refreshing new start under a new sovereign who was both economically prosperous and caring for their subjects’ well-being and social progression. On the other side of the resolution, those who chose to remain within the union reconvened to form the [Koninhetvesten]. This newly formed entity would soon become a young empire as nearby western kingdoms expanded east by joining the opposition against the [Normen Empire].  
This vote marked the end of the Boeren Unie as the 30 members of the union who voted to split, defected to the Normen Empire and were incorporated into the empire as agreed upon in the proposal. The empire enforced upon their new subjects the agreement outlined in the Treaty of Freundschaft between the [Südlichewörter Reich] and the Noardwurden Ryk where Eerstetaal was allowed but not recognized as a language for business nor diplomacy. This left merchants and professionals in those states discontent due to the inconvenience the language barrier caused as they had to learn new languages just to perform their jobs. But for citizens of these new cities who had lived under neglect from their rich overlords, it was a refreshing new start under a new sovereign who was both economically prosperous and caring for their subjects’ well-being and social progression. On the other side of the resolution, those who chose to remain within the union reconvened to form the Koninhetvesten. This newly formed entity would soon become a young empire as nearby western kingdoms expanded east by joining the opposition against the Normen Empire.  


With the combined efforts of these new members, the [Koninhetvesten] began new foreign investments and ventures north. These northern ventures grew to be massive successes as the previous inefficiencies and corruption issues began to be uprooted through new reforms spearheaded by the principality of Zauberwald. As their economic wealth grew once more, the [Normen Empire] became increasingly concerned with their western neighbour. Sending a diplomatic delegation to inquire about a mutual agreement between it and the growing empire to cooperate in their expansions north. At this point, the [Koninhetvesten] began to become more centralized as the members realized that a strong monarch would be required in-order to face other powerful empires. So they had opted to elect one amongst themselves, creating an elective monarchy system that last to this very day. When the Normen delegation arrived, they were greeted by the elected monarch King Arlo Casicas Leones. Accompanying the monarch were representatives of the other powerful states within the [Koninhetvesten] who would helpe the elected monarch govern and manage the empire. The delegation sent to the [Koninhetvesten] were unable to gain cooperation with the empire but was allowed to set up an embassy within its capital for diplomatic purposes.  
With the combined efforts of these new members, the [Koninhetvesten] began new foreign investments and ventures north. These northern ventures grew to be massive successes as the previous inefficiencies and corruption issues began to be uprooted through new reforms spearheaded by the principality of Zauberwald. As their economic wealth grew once more, the Normen Empire became increasingly concerned with their western neighbour. Sending a diplomatic delegation to inquire about a mutual agreement between it and the growing empire to cooperate in their expansions north. At this point, the Koninhetvesten began to become more centralized as the members realized that a strong monarch would be required in-order to face other powerful empires. So they had opted to elect one amongst themselves, creating an elective monarchy system that last to this very day. When the Normen delegation arrived, they were greeted by the elected monarch King Arlo Casicas Leones. Accompanying the monarch were representatives of the other powerful states within the Koninhetvesten who would helpe the elected monarch govern and manage the empire. The delegation sent to the Koninhetvesten were unable to gain cooperation with the empire but was allowed to set up an embassy within its capital for diplomatic purposes.  


In 1302 AD, the [Koninhetvesten] formed the [Nordenderngil] which was assigned the task of overseeing all northern territories under the empire and furthering the export of goods from the region. The method of which [Nordenderngil] used to accomplish this goal has been questioned, it’s without a doubt that it was effective and satisfactory. However, exploitation and extortion of their labour force in the north did leave many who suffered brew with anger and resentment against their overlords. This resentment led to the formation of dangerous secret societies which aimed to liberate themselves from the [Nordenderngil]. These societies began as small groups, mostly conducting banditary and small-scale raids upon lightly defended outposts. However, the continued mistreatment and injustice committed by the [Nordenderngil] allowed the societies to recruit more members and gain more foreign supporters who helped supply them or applied pressure on the company by addressing the elected monarch about their working conditions. Things came to a head when a new exploitive policy created by the [Nordenderngil] sparked a major rebellion against the company. Imperial troops were sent into the rebelling regions to quash the dissent, prompting states both in the north and south to rise up against the empire and declaring a collective succession from the [Koninhetvesten]. This event is known as the [Westerbroorlog] or “Western Civil War” which saw the empire of [Koninhetvesten] erupted into civil conflict as imperial forces and rebels fought over the issues of the north.  
In 1302 AD, the Koninhetvesten formed the [Nordenderngil] which was assigned the task of overseeing all northern territories under the empire and furthering the export of goods from the region. The method of which Nordenderngil used to accomplish this goal has been questioned, it’s without a doubt that it was effective and satisfactory. However, exploitation and extortion of their labour force in the north did leave many who suffered brew with anger and resentment against their overlords. This resentment led to the formation of dangerous secret societies which aimed to liberate themselves from the Nordenderngil. These societies began as small groups, mostly conducting banditary and small-scale raids upon lightly defended outposts. However, the continued mistreatment and injustice committed by the Nordenderngil allowed the societies to recruit more members and gain more foreign supporters who helped supply them or applied pressure on the company by addressing the elected monarch about their working conditions. Things came to a head when a new exploitive policy created by the Nordenderngil sparked a major rebellion against the company. Imperial troops were sent into the rebelling regions to quash the dissent, prompting states both in the north and south to rise up against the empire and declaring a collective succession from the Koninhetvesten. This event is known as the [Westerbroorlog] or “Western Civil War” which saw the empire of Koninhetvesten erupted into civil conflict as imperial forces and rebels fought over the issues of the north.  


After the beginning of the civil war, the rebels in the north led a successful campaign against the empire, pushing imperial soldiers back to the border and forcing them to go on the defensive. Lords and princes sympathetic to the rebel cause also rise up against the empire, either refusing the call to arms to quell the uprising or raising their troops against the [Koninhetvesten]. Those who chose to actively rebel against the empire had their troops fight to secure their cities before marching towards the imperial capital to force the abdication of the elected monarch. The tide of war changed multiple times throughout the war as both sides found each other equally mached against each other. The war dragged on for so long, that the [Normen Empire] threatened to intervene in the conflict if the two sides didn’t conclude a peaceful resolution. There were several reasons why the [Normen Empire] wanted peace between the two parties, but the driving factor was it’s influence on the [Normen Empire]’s internal stability which was being threatened by a successful rebellion within another empire who were seen as near equals with the eastern empire. Due to this external pressure, the empire and rebels decided, with little option, to have a cease-fire in order to work on an agreement that would end the civil war. The agreement took two years to finalize before the empire agreed to concede on the rebels' demands as the rebels agreed to disband and disarm in exchange for the agreement.  
After the beginning of the civil war, the rebels in the north led a successful campaign against the empire, pushing imperial soldiers back to the border and forcing them to go on the defensive. Lords and princes sympathetic to the rebel cause also rise up against the empire, either refusing the call to arms to quell the uprising or raising their troops against the Koninhetvesten. Those who chose to actively rebel against the empire had their troops fight to secure their cities before marching towards the imperial capital to force the abdication of the elected monarch. The tide of war changed multiple times throughout the war as both sides found each other equally mached against each other. The war dragged on for so long, that the Normen Empire threatened to intervene in the conflict if the two sides didn’t conclude a peaceful resolution. There were several reasons why the Normen Empire wanted peace between the two parties, but the driving factor was it’s influence on the Normen Empire’s internal stability which was being threatened by a successful rebellion within another empire who were seen as near equals with the eastern empire. Due to this external pressure, the empire and rebels decided, with little option, to have a cease-fire in order to work on an agreement that would end the civil war. The agreement took two years to finalize before the empire agreed to concede on the rebels' demands as the rebels agreed to disband and disarm in exchange for the agreement.  


As the world progressed towards the 1500s, the regions within the two empires saw an economic decline due to crop failures amongst many prominent farm owners. Between the two, the empire of [Koninhetvesten] was hit the hardest by this economic downturn as it hadn’t prioritized social reforms as it’s eastern counterpart had. This inability to implement reforms didn’t allow the western empire to prepare their citizens in the event of a shortage, causing food prices to shoot up and eventual depletion of the food the cities did store. Citizens who did prepare supplies found themselves to be the victims of looting as theft and black markets arose during the panic. Reforms that did go through were either ineffective or too late to have made a difference causing citizens within [Koninhetvesten] to become travelling scavenagers or move from their homes towards the west, which saw faster harvest recovery along with better conditions for impoverished citizens seeking for a more stable life than the one they had under the [Koninhetvesten]. This massive exodus from the western empire worried the east, as news of a new terrifying disease known as the Yellow Wasting had recently ravaged southern [Koninhetvesten] leaving it a husk of what it used to be. At first, these worries seemed correct as cases sprung up amongst many of the border towns and cities who saw immigrants intermingle with the regular populace which caused small outbreaks that saw several dozen fall ill due to the Yellow Wasting. Surprisingly, the [Normen Empire] was rather advanced in their understanding for epidemiology and had already established medical reforms such as the establishment of communal hospitals and quarantines as social norms wherever diseases popped up in the empire. By the end of 1564, most of the disease had been isolated on the border between the two empires with talks to allow the possibility for the [Koninhetvesten] to slowly integrate itself into the [Normen Empire]. These talks didn’t go far until 1580, when the [Normen Empire] agreed to allow the [Koninhetvesten] states to have some rights to govern themselves by allowing them to become a region of the [Normen Empire] that could decide their own local laws and how they would select their regional representative in the imperial court. However, the western empire demanded that they had to follow the imperial decrees made by the Normen monarch as well as participate and maintain reforms made by the western empire. [Koninhetvesten]’s elected monarch agreed to those terms as the southern empire was racked with depopulation and economic depression after the crop failure and disease caused poverty and mass migration persisted. This agreement between the two empires became known as the Eenmakingsdecreet and would later be part of the foundation for the Dreierfreundschaft after the Revolution of 1812.
As the world progressed towards the 1500s, the regions within the two empires saw an economic decline due to crop failures amongst many prominent farm owners. Between the two, the empire of Koninhetvesten was hit the hardest by this economic downturn as it hadn’t prioritized social reforms as it’s eastern counterpart had. This inability to implement reforms didn’t allow the western empire to prepare their citizens in the event of a shortage, causing food prices to shoot up and eventual depletion of the food the cities did store. Citizens who did prepare supplies found themselves to be the victims of looting as theft and black markets arose during the panic. Reforms that did go through were either ineffective or too late to have made a difference causing citizens within Koninhetvesten to become travelling scavenagers or move from their homes towards the west, which saw faster harvest recovery along with better conditions for impoverished citizens seeking for a more stable life than the one they had under the Koninhetvesten. This massive exodus from the Western empire worried the east, as news of a new terrifying disease known as the Yellow Wasting had recently ravaged southern Koninhetvesten leaving it a husk of what it used to be. At first, these worries seemed correct as cases sprung up amongst many of the border towns and cities who saw immigrants intermingle with the regular populace which caused small outbreaks that saw several dozen fall ill due to the Yellow Wasting. Surprisingly, the Normen Empire] was rather advanced in their understanding for epidemiology and had already established medical reforms such as the establishment of communal hospitals and quarantines as social norms wherever diseases popped up in the empire. By the end of 1564, most of the disease had been isolated on the border between the two empires with talks to allow the possibility for the Koninhetvesten to integrate itself into the Normen Empire slowly. These talks didn’t go far until 1580, when the Normen Empire agreed to allow the Koninhetvesten states to have some rights to govern themselves by allowing them to become a region of the Normen Empire that could decide their own local laws and how they would select their regional representative in the imperial court. However, the western empire demanded that they had to follow the imperial decrees made by the Normen monarch as well as participate and maintain reforms made by the western empire. Koninhetvesten’s elected monarch agreed to those terms as the southern empire was racked with depopulation and economic depression after the crop failure and disease caused poverty and mass migration persisted. This agreement between the two empires became known as the Eenmakingsdecreet and would later be part of the foundation for the Dreierfreundschaft after the Revolution of 1812.


In 1560 AD both the Koninhetvesten and Normen Empire began a fierce race against each other on the matter of sea expedition, with explorers and settlers from both entities compelled to sail beyond their homes on the mainland in search of more habitable land for their empires. The Nordenderngil were among the many who sailed south in search of promising land for the Koninhetvesten. Exploiting their immense wealth and influence over the empire, they were able to learn of previous discoveries from past voyagers who sailed the seas before them. Amongst these discoveries was an entry from a captain named Pili Sagolsh who reported a small island not far off the coasts of Dorestate. When the company sent sailors to investigate, they discovered that the island housed numerous nests and breeding grounds for a variety of shellfish and other aquatic luxuries alike. The total estimated value of this discovery has been estimated to be worth a king’s ransom back in the 1500s. But the island itself was quite far from the mainland with little to no natural supplies to sustain a sustainable settlement. The company considered this potential venture to be quite shaky, so they established a temporary outpost on the island to determine the matter in the future. While the Earsteminsken-led Nordenderngil was exploring the option of establishing a colony on this island, the Forodegifoken-led [New County Company] had sailed further east in hopes of finding better land than their rivals. This expedition would see the New County Company sail further south, where they would discover the coasts of southern Meredonne by 1567. The New County Company would establish ports and outposts across the northern shore of the island, beginning to openly explore the interior after 1568. As they charted out the land, they came into contact with natives and engaged with them by trading luxuries for local commodities that were sent back to the Norman Empire to be examined and sold in Olivicia. This interaction between the NCC and natives continued even after 1866 when the New County Company arrived in modern-day Hylia.  
In 1560 AD both the Koninhetvesten and Normen Empire began a fierce race against each other on the matter of sea expedition, with explorers and settlers from both entities compelled to sail beyond their homes on the mainland in search of more habitable land for their empires. The Nordenderngil were among the many who sailed south in search of promising land for the Koninhetvesten. Exploiting their immense wealth and influence over the empire, they were able to learn of previous discoveries from past voyagers who sailed the seas before them. Amongst these discoveries was an entry from a captain named Pili Sagolsh who reported a small island not far off the coasts of Dorestate. When the company sent sailors to investigate, they discovered that the island housed numerous nests and breeding grounds for a variety of shellfish and other aquatic luxuries alike. The total estimated value of this discovery has been estimated to be worth a king’s ransom back in the 1500s. But the island itself was quite far from the mainland with little to no natural supplies to sustain a sustainable settlement. The company considered this potential venture to be quite shaky, so they established a temporary outpost on the island to determine the matter in the future. While the Earsteminsken-led Nordenderngil was exploring the option of establishing a colony on this island, the Forodegifoken-led [New County Company] had sailed further east in hopes of finding better land than their rivals. This expedition would see the New County Company sail further south, where they would discover the coasts of southern Meredonne by 1567. The New County Company would establish ports and outposts across the northern shore of the island, beginning to openly explore the interior after 1568. As they charted out the land, they came into contact with natives and engaged with them by trading luxuries for local commodities that were sent back to the Norman Empire to be examined and sold in Olivicia. This interaction between the NCC and natives continued even after 1866 when the New County Company arrived in modern-day Hylia.  
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After the Eenmakingsdecreet in 1580 AD, members of the Nordenderngil and New County Company came together and agreed upon a settlement on the lone island the Nordenderngil had discovered during their first expedition. The two companies worked in conjunction to help bring settlers onto the island as the Nordenderngil enticed impoverished craftsmen to settle on a new prosperous land while the NCC managed the logistics of providing the island with necessities and transportation. The effort to accomplish this task was monumental as hundreds of settlers began to pile into ports for their journey to the island while the NCC had to scramble to accommodate the increasing population. However, with good coordination between the two companies and the New County Company’s experience with long voyages between Olivicia and Meredonne, they were able to build a decent settlement for the arriving settlers who found their new home to be adequate for their survival. They also managed to establish a temporary port on the island which allowed the companies to transport goods to and from the mainland. After a sufficient amount of settlers began to live on the island, the companies went to the crown to inform them of their accomplishment. The queen honoured the leading figures for their settlement, allowing them to name their village along with recognition of the settlement under the empire. The companies convened together to celebrate and name their new settlement, agreeing to honour the first voyager to discover the island, Captain Sagolsh, by naming the city and island after him.
After the Eenmakingsdecreet in 1580 AD, members of the Nordenderngil and New County Company came together and agreed upon a settlement on the lone island the Nordenderngil had discovered during their first expedition. The two companies worked in conjunction to help bring settlers onto the island as the Nordenderngil enticed impoverished craftsmen to settle on a new prosperous land while the NCC managed the logistics of providing the island with necessities and transportation. The effort to accomplish this task was monumental as hundreds of settlers began to pile into ports for their journey to the island while the NCC had to scramble to accommodate the increasing population. However, with good coordination between the two companies and the New County Company’s experience with long voyages between Olivicia and Meredonne, they were able to build a decent settlement for the arriving settlers who found their new home to be adequate for their survival. They also managed to establish a temporary port on the island which allowed the companies to transport goods to and from the mainland. After a sufficient amount of settlers began to live on the island, the companies went to the crown to inform them of their accomplishment. The queen honoured the leading figures for their settlement, allowing them to name their village along with recognition of the settlement under the empire. The companies convened together to celebrate and name their new settlement, agreeing to honour the first voyager to discover the island, Captain Sagolsh, by naming the city and island after him.


In 1530 AD ships of [[Neuewland|Nyal]] landed on the shores of the Normen Empire looking for new land to settle in, the lords of the region gave them land on the shore to establish ports and make their living in the empire. Though the land given was considered harsh the Nyal managed to build settlements on the coast growing and expanding as they traded with the locals, integrated with local customs and made friends around the region. By the time of 1595 AD, the Nyals had established several major settlements and through careful consolidation of power, some of the Nyals became powerful figures in their cities or towns. In 1630 AD a bunch of Nyal miners traveled west and hit a large salt reserve near modern-day Fort Antara causing merchants to scramble to the local area with their own miners to exploit this new discovery in the caves, there had been other salt mines that have been discovered throughout the north-eastern region of the Normen Empire but this particular vein has been measured to stretch from the Großerteich to the Festgewässer and though the miners who discovered it had no problem selling off the reserve to the highest bidder there was heavy opposition from both the local peasants and lords who argued that the reserve should be handed over to the locals since they owned the land, this led to bloody skirmishes between local levies and merchant mercenaries which wouldn’t end until 1663 AD when the Dharskrsfanitlân declared that the merchants were allowed to purchase the land and export it’s resources in exchange that the merchants pay a small export tax that would be split between the Dharskrsfanitlân and the local lord, the merchants agreed and in 1665 the mine was officially sold off by the Nyals to a powerful merchant guild who began construction of a town for their workers and supervisors to live in, the local population nearby protested against this but could do nothing but watch as the construction was guarded by mercenaries who would attack them if they got too close to the site. When the town was complete workers were summoned around the region to mine for salt but they didn’t receive as many miners as they hoped so the merchants decided to entice locals into supporting the operation by appealing to their local religious figures to try to convince their followers to work as miners for the guild, after campaigning for a year the mine was producing tons of salts and it was exported around Olivicia and Meredonne with some Nyal merchants exporting it back to Nyalan itself.
In 1530 AD ships of [[Neuewland|Nyal]] landed on the shores of the Normen Empire looking for new land to settle in, the lords of the region gave them land on the shore to establish ports and make their living in the empire. Though the land given was harsh, the Nyal managed to build settlements on the coast growing and expanding as they traded with the locals, integrated with local customs, and made friends around the region. By the time of 1595 AD, the Nyals had established several major settlements and through careful consolidation of power, some of the Nyals became powerful figures in their cities or towns. In 1630 AD a bunch of Nyal miners traveled west and hit a large salt reserve near modern-day Fort Antara causing merchants to scramble to the local area with their own miners to exploit this new discovery in the caves, there had been other salt mines that have been discovered throughout the north-eastern region of the Normen Empire but this particular vein has been measured to stretch from the Großerteich to the Festgewässer and though the miners who discovered it had no problem selling off the reserve to the highest bidder there was heavy opposition from both the local peasants and lords who argued that the reserve should be handed over to the locals since they owned the land, this led to bloody skirmishes between local levies and merchant mercenaries which wouldn’t end until 1663 AD when the Dharskrsfanitlân declared that the merchants were allowed to purchase the land and export it’s resources in exchange that the merchants pay a small export tax that would be split between the Dharskrsfanitlân and the local lord, the merchants agreed and in 1665 the mine was officially sold off by the Nyals to a powerful merchant guild who began construction of a town for their workers and supervisors to live in, the local population nearby protested against this but could do nothing but watch as the construction was guarded by mercenaries who would attack them if they got too close to the site. When the town was complete workers were summoned around the region to mine for salt but they didn’t receive as many miners as they hoped so the merchants decided to entice locals into supporting the operation by appealing to their local religious figures to try to convince their followers to work as miners for the guild, after campaigning for a year the mine was producing tons of salts and it was exported around Olivicia and Meredonne with some Nyal merchants exporting it back to Nyalan itself.


The surge of naval travel saw a sharp increase in piracy between 1670 to 1730. This sudden surge of pirates marked a shift in the seas as bandits started becoming more powerful both numerically and in ingenuity. This also made sea voyages more dangerous as the Royal Fresian Navy continously failed to protect merchant vessels from being plundering. The emerging threat saw the crown invest more of it’s fortune into the navy along with introducing new reforms that saw a slight decrease in piracy activity. However, it didn’t take long for the pirates to adapt to the navy’s new tactics which saw them developing their own creative ways to counter the navy’s strategies along with ways to lure armed fleets into carefully developed traps in-order to destroy their heavy escorts. This wave of ingenuity saw a good chunk of the royal navy;s warships sunk to the bottom of the sea while the pirates became increasingly bolder in looting even the royal navy’s most armed transports. Having enough of the headache that the crown called sea criminals, a royal decree in 1690 allowed naval captains to issue contracts to pirate fleets to work with/under the Royal Fresian Navy which would enable them to plunder their enemies with proper immunity for their crimes under the Normen Empire as long as they didn’t plunder the empire’s vessels. This policy saw a great deal of success in decreasing piracy against the empire’s vessels as pirates turned into privateers under the empire, raiding vessels from rival entities of the Normen Empire and splitting the spoils within Normen Empire ports.  There, their loot would be evaluated and split 65/10/25 where the empire took 25% of the stolen goods, 10% was put into a collective fund for privateers to use on repairs and resupply, while the other 65% was left for the pirates to split amongst themselves. This agreement would propel the royal navy’s efforts in studying the pirates’ tactics along with making allies within their underworld as they contracted many to sail out into the new world where they could settle and establish posts which would be protected under the empire.
The surge of naval travel saw a sharp increase in piracy between 1670 to 1730. This sudden surge of pirates marked a shift in the seas as bandits started becoming more powerful both numerically and in ingenuity. This also made sea voyages more dangerous as the Royal Fresian Navy continously failed to protect merchant vessels from being plundering. The emerging threat saw the crown invest more of it’s fortune into the navy along with introducing new reforms that saw a slight decrease in piracy activity. However, it didn’t take long for the pirates to adapt to the navy’s new tactics which saw them developing their own creative ways to counter the navy’s strategies along with ways to lure armed fleets into carefully developed traps in-order to destroy their heavy escorts. This wave of ingenuity saw a good chunk of the royal navy;s warships sunk to the bottom of the sea while the pirates became increasingly bolder in looting even the royal navy’s most armed transports. Having enough of the headache that the crown called sea criminals, a royal decree in 1690 allowed naval captains to issue contracts to pirate fleets to work with/under the Royal Fresian Navy which would enable them to plunder their enemies with proper immunity for their crimes under the Normen Empire as long as they didn’t plunder the empire’s vessels. This policy saw a great deal of success in decreasing piracy against the empire’s vessels as pirates turned into privateers under the empire, raiding vessels from rival entities of the Normen Empire and splitting the spoils within Normen Empire ports.  There, their loot would be evaluated and split 65/10/25 where the empire took 25% of the stolen goods, 10% was put into a collective fund for privateers to use on repairs and resupply, while the other 65% was left for the pirates to split amongst themselves. This agreement would propel the royal navy’s efforts in studying the pirates’ tactics along with making allies within their underworld as they contracted many to sail out into the new world where they could settle and establish posts which would be protected under the empire.

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The Confederation of Fresia
Current National Flag of the FC
Flag
Current Coat of Arms of the FC
Coat of arms
Motto: "They’ll be peace without end, every neighbour a friend. Every man, a king."
Anthem: Every Man A King MediaPlayer.png
Royal anthem: God Save The Queen MediaPlayer.png
Fresian Confederacy Cities
Fresian Confederacy Cities
Fresian Confederacy
Fresian Confederacy
LocationEastern Olivacia
CapitalSeafort (National)
Kenigineferbliu (Royal)
Largest citySeafort
Recognised national languagesAnglish, Südlichewörter
Noardwurden
Eerstetaal
Hylian
Hoterallian
Religion
(2022)
(30%)Christian
(70%) Atheist
Demonym(s)Fresian
GovernmentParliamentary Constitutional Monarchy
• König
Erwin Pichler
• Prime Minister
George Clinton
• Chief of Staff
Nate Webley
LegislatureParliament
• Upper house
Chamber of Ministers
• Lower house
House of Representatives
Hall of Governors
Establishment
• Krieg der drei Reiche
750 AD
• Südlichewörter Reich is formed
825 AD
• The Revolution of 1812
1812 AD
Area
• Total
1,309,635 km2 (505,653 sq mi)
Population
• 2024 estimate
83,094,460
• 2023 census
82,681,055
• Density
64/km2 (165.8/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)2022 estimate
• Total
2,980,220,100,000 ACU
• Per capita
36,225 ACU
GDP (nominal)2022 estimate
• Total
2,782,651,975,500 ACU
• Per capita
34,500 ACU
Gini (2022)33.3
medium
HDI (2022)Increase 0.88666
very high
CurrencyFreiheitsgold (ƒ)
Time zoneUTC+7 & +8 (WST)
Driving sideright
Calling code+50
Internet TLD.fc

The Fresian Confederacy is located in Eastern Olivacia, Anteria and is 1,309,635.219 km2 (Mainland: 1,309,148.278 | Islands: 486.941) with the terrain being mostly open plain, tropical savannas and only a few tropical forests exist near the north with the climate being tropical and shares a border with Antara and Viriditasia. The national capital of the Fresian Confederacy is Seafort, with the royal capital being in Kenigineferbliu where the Royal family has been residing since 1325. Other metropolitan areas in the Fresian Confederacy include but are not limited to; Nardmarste, Viriwacht, Fort Antera, Weststêd, Lânbougrûn, Kaatjeboerderij, Hermannstadt, Gedachtenis, Nij Dorestate, Sagolsh

The Fresian Confederacy is a formidable power on the east side of Olivacia with both a strong military and many trade networks internationally. After the Red Revolt, the private sector had experienced slow growth in the economy as lighter restrictions were passed for businesses and international trade. The Fresian Confederacy is one of the biggest providers of commodity goods and electronics making moderate contributions to science and technology with major prioritization of creating trading networks to set the Fresian Confederacy as one of the leading trading partners in the world. Fresian Confederacy's Human Development Index is considered very high with an average life expectancy of 80 years old.

Internationally the Fresian Confederacy’s citizens are known as Fresians, the reasoning behind this is that anti-monarch revolutionaries in 1810 were looking for a name to separate themself from the Nördlichemänner Reich which ultimately came to combining the Anglish words Free and Frisian to make Fresian. When the revolutionaries won The Revolution of 1812, they all came together to form a centralized government and declared themselves the Fresian Confederacy.

History

Westgermanischer Horizont

The first signs of humans related to the Fresian Confederacy can be traced back to 3100 BC when Nördlichemänners moved to South-Eastern Olivacia, one could assume they built tribes and chiefdoms as nothing was recorded until around 500 BC to 1249 AD where the first principalities and kingdoms were written in to account with these Nördlichemänners principalities speaking many different languages like Südlichewörter, Eerstetaal, or Anglish, and many who ruled over the land being small and weak with some exceptions like the Desúdlikesee Kingdom, Kingdom of Handel, and the Rysfjild Kingdom. By 500 BC there were many different states in the region with their own cultures and language, they existed happily for years with minor hiccups like some of smaller principalities starting to merge their cultures with others due to either diplomatic reasons or powerful neighbor on their doorstep, this tenuous peace came crashing down in 25 BC when prominent Nije Noardlikeminsken states came together and pressed for Noardwurden and Anglish to be official languages for the region by pressuring other kingdoms and principalities to only speak in Noardwurden and Anglish during trade and diplomatic visits, leading to the formation of a union of Eerstetaal states called the Boeren Unie, and a Südlichemänner coalition called the Südlichewörter Reich, who all formed due to Nije Noardlikeminsken aggression but didn't assist each other in defeating them ultminatly dividing the region into three linguistic spheres and starting the War of the Three Empires over which language should be spoken in the region, marking both an acceleration in cultural integration and years of bloodshed due to more principalities and smaller kingdoms being pushed to either integrate with more powerful kingdoms thus becoming vassals or face annihilation and possibly have their tradition wiped out, which many states chose the former leading to the empowerment of the Boeren Unie, Noardwurden Ryk, and the Südlichewörter Reich due to this war-of-influence. In 140 AD a deadly disease known as the Yellow Wasting had wiped out 15% of the population causing disruptions in the war effort on all sides and trade staggered as the three empires looked to bear more control over their land to prevent the further spread of the Yellow Wasting within their own lands while also using this to sabotage other states by exiling infected members to enemy territory, by 800 AD many battles were fought like the Battle of Offenes Feld, Battle of Königsfluss, and the Battle of Oerwinning Heuvel with the three kingdoms fighting for nearly 775 years. During 780 AD sailors from the Noardwurden Ryk sailed southward searching for places to settle in when they came across an island not far from the mainland itself that looked uninhabited but unsuitable for a settlement due to the limitations at the time so the captain marked it down in an entry and proceeded to sail back to report his discovery. In 810 AD the Boeren Unie negotiated peace with the Noardwurden Ryk settling on an agreement on neutrality but not total cease in future hostiles, and then in 825 AD the Südlichewörter Reich and the Noardwurden Ryk signed the Treaty of Freundschaft to unify under one empire under the condition that Noardwurden is spoken as the official language for trade and Südlichewörter was the official language for governance thus ending 75 years of war and the creation of the Normen Empire. Though peace was made between the Noardwurden Ryk and the Südlichewörter Reich they had to find a figurehead for the empire who the majority of the states chose Handeliedster Fuskje to fill, Fuskje was an interesting woman as she had accomplished many things in her life that made her the Handeliedster of Kingdom of Handel so while she had many different achievements in her life her greatest one was raising her hometown from a poor settlement to a strategically important trade hub between the Südlichewörter Reich and Noardwurden Ryk making her the perfect monarch for times of peace and a capable diplomat/spy due to her manipulative nature.

Opkomst Fanit Noarden

After the War of the Three Empires, the most powerful members of the {Boeren Unie} came out weaker than they had been during their prime. Battles with the {Noardwurden Ryk} had significantly weakened their fighting capabilities as the war drained resources and manpower unsuited for warfare. The union tried to recover from the losses by concluding several promising business ventures that allowed them to generate a considerable amount of profit momentarily. However, despite the short-term benefits, the ventures began to see failure or closure due to incompetency and corruption. The amount of profits lost during this period led the confederacy to desperately seek ways out of their increasing poverty as more and more ventures began to turn out losses for many smaller members who were rapidly heading into bankruptcy.

Seeing the opportunity, the {Normen Empire} lent its financial assistance to the smaller states that had been ruined by the private ventures enacted by the union. In turn, those helped by the Normen Empire increasingly began to defect from the Boeren Unie to the growing eastern empire which seemed to be constantly meddling in their affairs. In 1106 AD, the Boeren Unie held a vote after the sovereign of the Normen Empire offered the union a buyout for all their financial troubles in exchange for their incorporation into their empire. Many who faced backlash from their citizens and native merchants due to the rapid decline of their economy, opted to accept the offer arguing that the union had outlived its original purpose and that they should accept the new order despite the pride of their previous traditions. However, there were also many skeptics like the principality of Zauberwald who argued that the integration of the union into the empire could lead to deep cultural division and a potential that their language could be at threat if they agreed to anything on the proposal. Both sides exchanged their opinions and possibilities but no one could agree about the future of the Boeren Unie. So another vote was called for the split and dissolution of the Boeren Unie which saw a historical landslide of 30 in favour, 10 abstained and 10 against.

This vote marked the end of the Boeren Unie as the 30 members of the union who voted to split, defected to the Normen Empire and were incorporated into the empire as agreed upon in the proposal. The empire enforced upon their new subjects the agreement outlined in the Treaty of Freundschaft between the [Südlichewörter Reich] and the Noardwurden Ryk where Eerstetaal was allowed but not recognized as a language for business nor diplomacy. This left merchants and professionals in those states discontent due to the inconvenience the language barrier caused as they had to learn new languages just to perform their jobs. But for citizens of these new cities who had lived under neglect from their rich overlords, it was a refreshing new start under a new sovereign who was both economically prosperous and caring for their subjects’ well-being and social progression. On the other side of the resolution, those who chose to remain within the union reconvened to form the Koninhetvesten. This newly formed entity would soon become a young empire as nearby western kingdoms expanded east by joining the opposition against the Normen Empire.

With the combined efforts of these new members, the [Koninhetvesten] began new foreign investments and ventures north. These northern ventures grew to be massive successes as the previous inefficiencies and corruption issues began to be uprooted through new reforms spearheaded by the principality of Zauberwald. As their economic wealth grew once more, the Normen Empire became increasingly concerned with their western neighbour. Sending a diplomatic delegation to inquire about a mutual agreement between it and the growing empire to cooperate in their expansions north. At this point, the Koninhetvesten began to become more centralized as the members realized that a strong monarch would be required in-order to face other powerful empires. So they had opted to elect one amongst themselves, creating an elective monarchy system that last to this very day. When the Normen delegation arrived, they were greeted by the elected monarch King Arlo Casicas Leones. Accompanying the monarch were representatives of the other powerful states within the Koninhetvesten who would helpe the elected monarch govern and manage the empire. The delegation sent to the Koninhetvesten were unable to gain cooperation with the empire but was allowed to set up an embassy within its capital for diplomatic purposes.

In 1302 AD, the Koninhetvesten formed the [Nordenderngil] which was assigned the task of overseeing all northern territories under the empire and furthering the export of goods from the region. The method of which Nordenderngil used to accomplish this goal has been questioned, it’s without a doubt that it was effective and satisfactory. However, exploitation and extortion of their labour force in the north did leave many who suffered brew with anger and resentment against their overlords. This resentment led to the formation of dangerous secret societies which aimed to liberate themselves from the Nordenderngil. These societies began as small groups, mostly conducting banditary and small-scale raids upon lightly defended outposts. However, the continued mistreatment and injustice committed by the Nordenderngil allowed the societies to recruit more members and gain more foreign supporters who helped supply them or applied pressure on the company by addressing the elected monarch about their working conditions. Things came to a head when a new exploitive policy created by the Nordenderngil sparked a major rebellion against the company. Imperial troops were sent into the rebelling regions to quash the dissent, prompting states both in the north and south to rise up against the empire and declaring a collective succession from the Koninhetvesten. This event is known as the [Westerbroorlog] or “Western Civil War” which saw the empire of Koninhetvesten erupted into civil conflict as imperial forces and rebels fought over the issues of the north.

After the beginning of the civil war, the rebels in the north led a successful campaign against the empire, pushing imperial soldiers back to the border and forcing them to go on the defensive. Lords and princes sympathetic to the rebel cause also rise up against the empire, either refusing the call to arms to quell the uprising or raising their troops against the Koninhetvesten. Those who chose to actively rebel against the empire had their troops fight to secure their cities before marching towards the imperial capital to force the abdication of the elected monarch. The tide of war changed multiple times throughout the war as both sides found each other equally mached against each other. The war dragged on for so long, that the Normen Empire threatened to intervene in the conflict if the two sides didn’t conclude a peaceful resolution. There were several reasons why the Normen Empire wanted peace between the two parties, but the driving factor was it’s influence on the Normen Empire’s internal stability which was being threatened by a successful rebellion within another empire who were seen as near equals with the eastern empire. Due to this external pressure, the empire and rebels decided, with little option, to have a cease-fire in order to work on an agreement that would end the civil war. The agreement took two years to finalize before the empire agreed to concede on the rebels' demands as the rebels agreed to disband and disarm in exchange for the agreement.

As the world progressed towards the 1500s, the regions within the two empires saw an economic decline due to crop failures amongst many prominent farm owners. Between the two, the empire of Koninhetvesten was hit the hardest by this economic downturn as it hadn’t prioritized social reforms as it’s eastern counterpart had. This inability to implement reforms didn’t allow the western empire to prepare their citizens in the event of a shortage, causing food prices to shoot up and eventual depletion of the food the cities did store. Citizens who did prepare supplies found themselves to be the victims of looting as theft and black markets arose during the panic. Reforms that did go through were either ineffective or too late to have made a difference causing citizens within Koninhetvesten to become travelling scavenagers or move from their homes towards the west, which saw faster harvest recovery along with better conditions for impoverished citizens seeking for a more stable life than the one they had under the Koninhetvesten. This massive exodus from the Western empire worried the east, as news of a new terrifying disease known as the Yellow Wasting had recently ravaged southern Koninhetvesten leaving it a husk of what it used to be. At first, these worries seemed correct as cases sprung up amongst many of the border towns and cities who saw immigrants intermingle with the regular populace which caused small outbreaks that saw several dozen fall ill due to the Yellow Wasting. Surprisingly, the Normen Empire] was rather advanced in their understanding for epidemiology and had already established medical reforms such as the establishment of communal hospitals and quarantines as social norms wherever diseases popped up in the empire. By the end of 1564, most of the disease had been isolated on the border between the two empires with talks to allow the possibility for the Koninhetvesten to integrate itself into the Normen Empire slowly. These talks didn’t go far until 1580, when the Normen Empire agreed to allow the Koninhetvesten states to have some rights to govern themselves by allowing them to become a region of the Normen Empire that could decide their own local laws and how they would select their regional representative in the imperial court. However, the western empire demanded that they had to follow the imperial decrees made by the Normen monarch as well as participate and maintain reforms made by the western empire. Koninhetvesten’s elected monarch agreed to those terms as the southern empire was racked with depopulation and economic depression after the crop failure and disease caused poverty and mass migration persisted. This agreement between the two empires became known as the Eenmakingsdecreet and would later be part of the foundation for the Dreierfreundschaft after the Revolution of 1812.

In 1560 AD both the Koninhetvesten and Normen Empire began a fierce race against each other on the matter of sea expedition, with explorers and settlers from both entities compelled to sail beyond their homes on the mainland in search of more habitable land for their empires. The Nordenderngil were among the many who sailed south in search of promising land for the Koninhetvesten. Exploiting their immense wealth and influence over the empire, they were able to learn of previous discoveries from past voyagers who sailed the seas before them. Amongst these discoveries was an entry from a captain named Pili Sagolsh who reported a small island not far off the coasts of Dorestate. When the company sent sailors to investigate, they discovered that the island housed numerous nests and breeding grounds for a variety of shellfish and other aquatic luxuries alike. The total estimated value of this discovery has been estimated to be worth a king’s ransom back in the 1500s. But the island itself was quite far from the mainland with little to no natural supplies to sustain a sustainable settlement. The company considered this potential venture to be quite shaky, so they established a temporary outpost on the island to determine the matter in the future. While the Earsteminsken-led Nordenderngil was exploring the option of establishing a colony on this island, the Forodegifoken-led [New County Company] had sailed further east in hopes of finding better land than their rivals. This expedition would see the New County Company sail further south, where they would discover the coasts of southern Meredonne by 1567. The New County Company would establish ports and outposts across the northern shore of the island, beginning to openly explore the interior after 1568. As they charted out the land, they came into contact with natives and engaged with them by trading luxuries for local commodities that were sent back to the Norman Empire to be examined and sold in Olivicia. This interaction between the NCC and natives continued even after 1866 when the New County Company arrived in modern-day Hylia.

As both the New County Company and Nordenderngil competed for supremacy in the south, the Tapfurvölk-led [Erforshung Gruppierung] sailed their expedition north due to the high competitiveness that had become synonymous with the southern sea. In 1570 AD, some sailors came upon the northern coast of modern-day Soltenia, and established an outpost for future reinforcements. A couple of sailors were left behind to man the outpost while the rest sailed back to their base to request reinforcements. During this time, some locals came upon the outpost and were intrigued about the foreigners upon their shore. They would approach and greet the two sailors, showing interest in their arrival and goods that lay within crates on the makeshift dockyard. The two parties would engage in trade soon after and formed a relationship for the incoming expedition force who would befriend nearby villages to get guides for the surrounding region. This friendly interaction wasn’t without its troubles as the Tapfurvölk weren’t able to communicate with the natives in their language, resorting to pictures which limited their conversations with the natives solely to business and diplomacy. This language barrier would prove to be detrimental to their future relationship as the [Gilbert Incident] would spark a war between the Erforshung Gruppierung and a major tribe due to an unauthorized murder of a local farmer by an EG hunting party. Diplomatic attempts to calm the situation were clumsy at best as no translators were ready to take on the task and the pictures drawn by the Tapfurvölk delegation were seen as an offence by their leaders. By the end of the whole affair, the tribe was forced to capitulate to the Tapfurvölk soldiers who decided against subjugation and only asked for their relationship amended along with access to their village scholars in order to better understand the culture and language of their fellow native partners. Similar events between other tribes and EG would begin to form an image of clumsy yet chivalrous foreigners amongst the natives.

After the Eenmakingsdecreet in 1580 AD, members of the Nordenderngil and New County Company came together and agreed upon a settlement on the lone island the Nordenderngil had discovered during their first expedition. The two companies worked in conjunction to help bring settlers onto the island as the Nordenderngil enticed impoverished craftsmen to settle on a new prosperous land while the NCC managed the logistics of providing the island with necessities and transportation. The effort to accomplish this task was monumental as hundreds of settlers began to pile into ports for their journey to the island while the NCC had to scramble to accommodate the increasing population. However, with good coordination between the two companies and the New County Company’s experience with long voyages between Olivicia and Meredonne, they were able to build a decent settlement for the arriving settlers who found their new home to be adequate for their survival. They also managed to establish a temporary port on the island which allowed the companies to transport goods to and from the mainland. After a sufficient amount of settlers began to live on the island, the companies went to the crown to inform them of their accomplishment. The queen honoured the leading figures for their settlement, allowing them to name their village along with recognition of the settlement under the empire. The companies convened together to celebrate and name their new settlement, agreeing to honour the first voyager to discover the island, Captain Sagolsh, by naming the city and island after him.

In 1530 AD ships of Nyal landed on the shores of the Normen Empire looking for new land to settle in, the lords of the region gave them land on the shore to establish ports and make their living in the empire. Though the land given was harsh, the Nyal managed to build settlements on the coast growing and expanding as they traded with the locals, integrated with local customs, and made friends around the region. By the time of 1595 AD, the Nyals had established several major settlements and through careful consolidation of power, some of the Nyals became powerful figures in their cities or towns. In 1630 AD a bunch of Nyal miners traveled west and hit a large salt reserve near modern-day Fort Antara causing merchants to scramble to the local area with their own miners to exploit this new discovery in the caves, there had been other salt mines that have been discovered throughout the north-eastern region of the Normen Empire but this particular vein has been measured to stretch from the Großerteich to the Festgewässer and though the miners who discovered it had no problem selling off the reserve to the highest bidder there was heavy opposition from both the local peasants and lords who argued that the reserve should be handed over to the locals since they owned the land, this led to bloody skirmishes between local levies and merchant mercenaries which wouldn’t end until 1663 AD when the Dharskrsfanitlân declared that the merchants were allowed to purchase the land and export it’s resources in exchange that the merchants pay a small export tax that would be split between the Dharskrsfanitlân and the local lord, the merchants agreed and in 1665 the mine was officially sold off by the Nyals to a powerful merchant guild who began construction of a town for their workers and supervisors to live in, the local population nearby protested against this but could do nothing but watch as the construction was guarded by mercenaries who would attack them if they got too close to the site. When the town was complete workers were summoned around the region to mine for salt but they didn’t receive as many miners as they hoped so the merchants decided to entice locals into supporting the operation by appealing to their local religious figures to try to convince their followers to work as miners for the guild, after campaigning for a year the mine was producing tons of salts and it was exported around Olivicia and Meredonne with some Nyal merchants exporting it back to Nyalan itself.

The surge of naval travel saw a sharp increase in piracy between 1670 to 1730. This sudden surge of pirates marked a shift in the seas as bandits started becoming more powerful both numerically and in ingenuity. This also made sea voyages more dangerous as the Royal Fresian Navy continously failed to protect merchant vessels from being plundering. The emerging threat saw the crown invest more of it’s fortune into the navy along with introducing new reforms that saw a slight decrease in piracy activity. However, it didn’t take long for the pirates to adapt to the navy’s new tactics which saw them developing their own creative ways to counter the navy’s strategies along with ways to lure armed fleets into carefully developed traps in-order to destroy their heavy escorts. This wave of ingenuity saw a good chunk of the royal navy;s warships sunk to the bottom of the sea while the pirates became increasingly bolder in looting even the royal navy’s most armed transports. Having enough of the headache that the crown called sea criminals, a royal decree in 1690 allowed naval captains to issue contracts to pirate fleets to work with/under the Royal Fresian Navy which would enable them to plunder their enemies with proper immunity for their crimes under the Normen Empire as long as they didn’t plunder the empire’s vessels. This policy saw a great deal of success in decreasing piracy against the empire’s vessels as pirates turned into privateers under the empire, raiding vessels from rival entities of the Normen Empire and splitting the spoils within Normen Empire ports. There, their loot would be evaluated and split 65/10/25 where the empire took 25% of the stolen goods, 10% was put into a collective fund for privateers to use on repairs and resupply, while the other 65% was left for the pirates to split amongst themselves. This agreement would propel the royal navy’s efforts in studying the pirates’ tactics along with making allies within their underworld as they contracted many to sail out into the new world where they could settle and establish posts which would be protected under the empire.

Dawn of the Blues & Reds

By 1810 a movement called the Fresian Democracy had begun to pick up steam as more people began to become educated, develop a sense of national unity, and were actively calling for more freedom & rights causing the empire to roll back many progressive acts and actively suppressed any royalist opposition in an attempt to hold onto their power, but the fire of revolution had already been kindled and their persistent suppression of the movement would lead to the Revolution of 1812 where revolutionaries known as the Free Frisian Army rose against the monarchy along with rebels calling themselves the Free Antara Milita in the North-Eastern states who wanted complete independence from the Normen Empire. The Royalists and Fresians fought hard until 1815 when both loyalists and revolutionaries decided to call a ceasefire and negotiate terms, both sides met on January 1st, 1816 and laid out their terms which after some haggling from revolutionaries resulted in the Treaty of Kenigineferbliu which the empire will make a new constitution which will allow a civilian parliament turning the absolute monarch into a constitution one but the treaty left out the North-Eastern portion of the Empire who wanted complete independence from the Empire which the FFA refused which resulted in the Siege of Fort Grienheuvel between Free Frisian Army and Free Antaran Militia which resulted in heavy losses on the FFA leading into the Treaty of Grienheuvel in September resulting in the formation of the Free States of Antara. After the civil wars most of the mines were under Antaran control with only the Großerteich mine being under Fresia’s which made some in parliament agitated considering how much profit was lost with the treaty while others believing that they would regain their mines through other means than occupation as many experts point out that it would be highly impractical and costly to suppress local riots and insurrections if the Antarans were completely annexed and occupied. The Free Fresian Army proceeded to split themselves into three nations each with a different amount of states between them like the Deutscherbezirk which split itself into 3 states, Wetterside Territoaria had 4 states within their district, and the Nederlands-Vlaamse Gebieden split into 10 different states who eventual had to recognize one of it’s city Rykdom Paradys as the independent state of Elanderfestelan. With these newly founded nations came the problem of governance almost splitting the regions into civil war almost instantaneously until the creation of the Dreierfreundschaft in 1821, it was an agreement between the states to cooperate in a council made up of representatives from all states who would discuss, debate, and pass decisions. The agreement also made a military alliance between the three regions to assist in the defence of the whole region but were not obligated to assist each other in foreign invasions. Even though the region was split into three nations there still existed political parties which often banded together across the border, this is evident with the creation of the Fresian Democratic Party, Republican Conservatives Party, and many other parties in the coming years with members often being in different states within different nations within the region which was later named Fresia after the signing of the Dreierfreundschaft.

The town of Sagolsh established in 1561 was incorporated as an official Nederlands-Vlaamse Gebieden settlement in 1817 as it’s population grew from 12 citizens to 122 inhabitants due to their large fishing industry luring many fishermen near the coasts to sail over to fish and eventually decide to settle on the land once they had applied and been allowed to have a place of residence on the island, the island’s main export was fish and shellfish which was used to improve their food and water situation as they made distillation stations & farms near the shoreline to help alleviate their shortages and dependence on imports, the Nederlands-Vlaams established a government office within the island in 1818 and months later a small military force was deployed on the island marking a shift in self-governance within the small city and centuries of monitored growth as the government tried to centralize control over Sagolsh and exploit the natural resources around the city by establishing further supply lines to increase reliance on trade, advertisement for new settlers to further develop the land, and imposing an export law that the settlers could only sell to government owned business so the government can export the goods themselves for their own profits, under these constraints the people on the island didn’t take long to start setting up their own illegal stores within their homes, rallying in protest against the new government, and forming secret resistance groups in an effort to push the military presence off the island.

During 1860 the Free States of Antara reformed into the United States of Antara which caused quite a stir in the populace at the time, parliament never seriously considered Antara as a viable ally in the future due to their fractured state but now the house was debating whether a delegation should be sent to the new nation to re-foster relations between the two after past grievances, in the end, a team was sent to secure an embassy and ambassadors on both sides to open basic diplomatic channels between to two nations when the delegation arrived they were greeted neutrally by the border guards and shifted into a meeting with an Antaran representative to discuss if they should both open an embassy in their countries and whether they should have an ambassador on both sides, at the end the Antarans agreed on both terms and the delegations was sent on their way to deliver the news. During the next few decades, the Fresian Confederacy and the United States of Antara both opened their borders towards each other meaning that Fort Antara along with its nearby outposts was decommissioned turning it into a national monument and its surrounding expanded for residential use, 1901 both nations met within Fort Antara and brokered a trade agreement between each other in 1902 marking Antara as the first nation to have gained tariff-free trade with the Fresian Confederacy. During the 1914 Antara Civil War, the Fresian government debated on whether they should support their allies in the civil war and whether it would come in the form of sanctions, food & medical aid, weapons shipment, or military intervention. After a year the Fresian government sent food & medical supplies to their allies in Antara before deliberating on sending in the Fresian Confederate Army to support them or sending a small squadron to provide reconnaissance and air support, the House of Representatives agreed with overwhelming support to assist their allies militarily with the news being sent to the Chamber of Ministers for final approval, the Fresian Confederate Army was deployed in Antara during 1916 and helped reinforce military operations and defence positions. After the 1914 Antara Civil War, the Fresian government laid out the 1922 Military Cooperation Program between the Fresian Confederacy and the United States of Antar which detailed that the Fresian government would station the 2nd Mechanized Brigade and the 1st Fighter Squadron in Fort Antara while the United States of Antara would send military units to be trained in new tactics and equipment occasionally switching those units out with others that desperately needed training, new equipment was both used to train troops from both nations in Fort Antara and sending thousands to Antara to equip their troops with, there was a clause for both navies in the program which allowed Antara’s navy to combine both their funds with the Royal Fresian Navy’s to help construct more warships for coastal defence while working together on new naval projects. After four years the Fresians offered to renew their Joint Training Program and sign a formal alliance between Fresia and Antara to protect each other from both domestic and foreign enemies, beneficially conduct future business, and build friendlier ties, after discussing the terms for a little over three years the Antarans agreed to sign both a renewal of the Joint Training Program in 1929 which would come into effect in 1930 and a formal alliance between the two nations in 1932 to solidify their ties towards each other. After the 1932 Red Revolt, the Fresian Confederacy asked Antara to assist in garrisoning their forts and major cities, the deal wasn’t finished by the time of the 1937 Purple Revolt which saw the replacement of the Republican-led government with a Democrat-led government that didn’t see the need for Antaran garrisons in Fresian cities but still agreed that they should jointly garrison forts and oversea bases of each other’s.

In the late months of 1939 the Fresian Confederacy was in political turmoil after the 1938 Purple Revolt due to the Democrats repeatedly failing to meet their promises to the members of the Proletariat Union of Fresia which saw new waves of demonstrations against the government led by many prominent representatives in parliament who demanded the NDPF for economic equality, these new sets of demonstrations split the house into three with reformists pushing to accept the protesters demands that they had argued for weeks to pass while war-hawks debated to send in the military to assist the police in cracking down on these new rebels proclaiming them to be a threat to national security as well as accusing the republicans for this whole ordeal. The centralist on the other hand tried to make compromises in their dealings to try and get something together to either peacefully settle down the protest or violently suppress it but the reformists and war-hawks had dug themselves so deep that any compromises on either side were instantly rejected by either side, the centralists turned to the Antarans during this whole turmoil requesting assistance to control the ongoing situation within Fresia which they complied by sending a division of light infantry to help reinforce cities whose police forces were stretched thin, many in the public questioned whether such responses were necessary but the Antarans did their job and overall lessened the total amount of demonstrations that were happening per month, this bought parliament some time to figure out how to proceed with the protesters demands with many supporting the idea of meeting their demands but were told that neither the treasury had any funds to support large programs nor did they have the support of corporate CEOs to help implement reforms. Faced with such opposition the Fresian government decided to turn to their brother-nation Antara for assistance who gladly accepted talks for a mutual alliance that could help strengthen their bond together during the negotiations both sides talked respectively with each other often going into local pubs or restaurants during breaks to party or discuss life in their nation, after 6 months of discussion the two parties emerged with a new alliance that would allow both nations to further cooperation with each other in military projects, training, and operations across all branches as well as allow both businesses and citizens to have a reduced tax rate as well as ease the process of applying for residence in either country, the alliance was officially signed on July 1941 and given the Normen Cooperation Pact after the two nation’s shared history under the Normen Empire.

1870 marked the start of The Industrial Bloom where the Fresian Confederacy rapidly modernized and privatized businesses flourished during this period of unprecedented growth with many modern-day corporations forming from this age like Berland Signal, Birkeland Construction, Clarke & Miller, and Folksauto are few who are still prominent in the Fresian Confederacy, this is both a beneficial and harmful to the confederacy as the boost in privatization was extremely good for the well-being of its economy but the corporations moved too fast for regulations to be set in place and thus corruption ran rampant within the nation as parliament’s integrity and stability was pulled into question by the Seafort News in 1920 setting off a chain reaction that lead to the creation of the Miller Act named after Henry Miller who was the main composer of the new Anti-Trust Bill which set minimal prices for products and fees, opened the Ministry of Domestic Defence and gave more power to the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Domestic Affairs to investigate and hold a Corrupgeprof for any official assisting a monopoly or is holding personal benefits over the country. In 1930 a recession hit the Seafort Stock Exchange and the market lost 10% of its value during February and another 30% during March. Many big business investors lost their money resulting in cut wages and massive layoffs causing workers to protest against the corporations demanding the government to step in who did nothing and even started accusing the workers of being the cause of the economic issues by blaming them for not saving their money for such an occasion, not trying to find another job despite the lack of work and labelled them socialist which angered the protestors and caused them to protest even more against both the corporations and the government with the famous slogan "Stop your lies, improve our lives", this led to the military being called in to disperse the crowds despite the Chief of Law Enforcement's objections which angered most of the police force and workers for having military involvement in a civil matter, this all led to the 1932 Socialist revolution known as The Red Revolt and then later The Purple Revolt. After The Purple Revolt, the government stepped in and passed bills aimed at lowering poverty and raising employment by forcing companies to pay their workers a minimum wage set by the government and increase or decreased based on the inflation rate, in exchange the government would open up contracts for companies to be evenly distributed by the Ministry of Commerce and enforced by the Ministry of Domestic Defence.

In 1940 the Fresian government realized that they were severely lacking in air support so they started contracting for new planes that could be used for air support and bombing to support the Fresian Confederate Army hoping that these new designs would be able to replace artillery support altogether due to its exposure to enemy fire once located and its limited range on the field, the civilian government started Project Falcon in an effort to design and build new prototypes that would satisfy the military’s need which would hopefully secure them a contract for a company to purchase so a few big corporations were contacted to submit their designs which turned into a civilian competition which took them four years ultimately they designed and built the CAS-1, B-1, and the CFM-2 which was tested by the military meeting their criteria and allowed the Fresian government to start issuing contracts to companies for mass production. Project Seabiscuit was a joint naval research experiment in 1996 between Antara and Fresia to develop a naval missile platform that can be launched remotely, the initial objective was to design a chassis for the vessel and determine how many missiles were reasonably allowed on this vessel without hindering other factors like speed and range, after discussing and debating for around four years they came up with a design which then went into production in Fresia before its parts were shipped to Antara for construction, testing began in 2004 where a makeshift control system was set up on the “FCS Mother” where engineers and researchers lined behind the control panel alongside monitors that showed footage on the missile platform, the staff on the “FCS Mother” contacted the Ship Commander of the missile platform if all missiles were operational after a few minutes the Ship Commander confirmed that all missiles were operational except for a singular missile box which was malfunctioning meaning that the researchers had to shut the lid for four missiles due to this malfunction which left only 92 medium-ranged missiles in working order, the test was conducted on a converted Antaran tanker “USAS Jasmine Bay” and a leftover Nation-Class Heavy Cruiser named “FCS Glory” where twenty missiles were fired on the two ships before the scientists concluded that the design wasn’t impractical and was really useful if the nations were protecting their terroritoirlal waters from active threat but the designs were pretty useless for patrolling and expensive to keep around during long terms of peace. The report drew silence on both side as both nations didn’t want to keep such an expensive ship in their arsenal but also didn’t want to scrap it after all the money they spent to get it operational so both governments came to an agreement that they would split the payment 50/50 while exchanging the ship’s usage between each other every decade. Project Panther was a Antara-Fresia-funded research for a light and mobile infantry fighting vehicle to replace their armoured forces to adept to the modern battlefield is is increasing turning away from old tanks with big cannons to fast armoured vehicles that can transport troops and stick around to provide infantry support, planning started in 1984 which was conducted by a team of Fresian engineers overseen by a few other Antaran engineers who were there to observe the project to give input and observe the progress for the Antaran army, in 1988 the final designs were drawn up and sent to high command to be inspected who approved of the designs sending it into productions in Antara for prototypes which was used for testing in 1990 demonstrating it’s prowess by meeting the minimal expectations for the Fresian army who dubbed it the Rooikat and went into mass production in both nations with Fresia producing less of the IFV than Antara.

The 1972 Shadoveil Crisis saw the rise of an international oil crisis in 1970s that saw oil prices skyrocket as Shadoveil oil fields were locked inside the country causing many nations who relied on Shadoveil oil to scramble to find an alternative supplier who in turn raised their prices to stabilize their oil export and make a nifty profit for themselves in the process, Fresia wasn’t as oil-reliant as their counterparts in Thuadia who were reeling from this economic disaster with many seeking Olivacian nations as alternative suppliers, many in the Fresian oil industry saw a potential to get rich and secure many buyers from a land who previously shunned from buying from foreigners far away causing them to perform a huge lobbying effort to lessen restriction on oil producers which had previously been implemented to blunt anti-competitive practices and protect independent drillers around the Fresian Confederacy, corporations from both Fresia and Antara sallied out into the Nederlands-Vlaamse Gebieden where oil expeditions had been progressing slowly due to inexperience and lack of funds, in 1974 a joint expedition by a Fresian-Antaran company managed to strike a gusher south of Hermannstadt causing the “Tar rush of 1974” and discovering a huge oil reservoir estimated to stretch from Hermannstadt to Viriwacht and Gedachtenis, After the Tar rush of 1974 the Peoples Republic of Shalo requested to discuss possible oil expeditions and drillings in the sea shared between the PRS and the Fresian Confederacy. The PRS wanted to reach into Fresian territorial water in order for this drilling venture to occur, and the two governments would profit from this venture. For 2 weeks, the Fresians rejected all forms of an agreement in regard to the drilling, however, a compromise was agreed upon. The Fresians would fund the expeditions and constructions for the drilling and necessary infrastructure; the PRS would manage and employ workers for the project, and both would collect revenue and tax on the oil exports within their sea. While all this was happening the oil corporation’s lobbying bore fruit as parliament passed legislation that retracted some laws restaining oil production allowing government to collect a special tax on exported petroleum at the cost of leaving the independent oil drillers vulnerable to anti-competitive practices not seen since the Industrial Bloom causing many workers and independents to protest against the government and threatening to riot until the laws were repealed, the government responded by sending in the National Guard to enforce peace while passing another piece of legislation that allowed the Ministry of Domestic Affairs to ignore the previous legislation and break up monopolies if they had significant evidence and public testimonies that a corporation was breaking the William Act, though the outcry calmed over the years the New Democracy Party of Fresia lost a significant amount of working class support who shifted to the Proletariat Union of Fresia creating a political alliance in 1975 between the two which demanded the NDPF to support the PUF in their efforts in parliament inexchange for the PUF to support NDPF candidates in elections.

Modern Times

During the 2022 Zurmavan Civil War refugees east of the border ran to the Fresian Confederacy for refugee status which caused a backlog of applicants who waited outside the Zurmavan-Fresian border to be granted entrance with many building small tent towns near the border as a way to keep themselves sheltered until they were processed, the border guards expressed distress as they tried to hold the border from any illegal immigrants from passing through their checkpoints and into the Fresian Confederacy, the Fresian government in response started passing a few smaller bills to allow Zurmavans to apply for refugee status faster while also sending the 1st National Guard Brigade to assist the Fresian Border Security Agency in their effort to keep stability in the region while Parliament discussed whether to pass the newly proposed Qubim Act that would allow faster application processing, after the fall of Qubim the Fresian government allowed the Department of Foreign Aid to conduct humanitarian efforts to assists those near the border sending both medical & food with military personnel extended to protect the temporary towns near the border.

In 2022, the Fresian Confederacy signed an agreement to partake in the Eastern Anterian Commonwealth economic union after UEA officials and Fresian Representatives negotiated for Fresia’s membership to partake in decision-making exemption from policies affecting the economic union if they have a strong reason to do so. On April 3rd of the same year, the Fresian Confederacy renounced its association with the alliance, debates still occur about whether this hindered Fresia’s economic prosperity by not committing itself towards either the Saltstil Pact or the Eastern Anterian Commonwealth considering the two’s rivalry. On November 11th, 2023, the Fresian Confederacy renewed their alliance with Antara accompanied by the Republic of Adrinian who all formed the Aestes Defense Treaty, a military agreement between the three nations as a defence pact and military cooperation through co-op training and shared R&D programs.

The March Plot was a failed coup by the Republican Conservatives Party in 2022 which saw the banning of the RCP along with any politicians in office. The whole fiasco started after Layfet declared Executive Order 2022-1567 which saw the ban of any government officials affiliated with the UEA from the Special Administrative District of Layfet. In response to this order, the government began to debate for higher tariffs on the region along with many scathing attacks from several news publications which accused the Layfetians of targetting Fresia in an attempt to hinder their economic mobility. Many Fresian business in Layfet also decided to pull out as the news came in about the executive order, many Fresian business owners began to distrust the region with one reportedly calling it a breeding ground for disaster. Major boycotts against Layfet businesses ensued as managers were ordered to instruct their workers to actively avoid or disrupt Layfet businesses in an act of defiance against Saltstil Pact. Among this chaos was the Minister of Foreign Affairs, John Taylor, as he tried to carefully navigate his nation’s politics with the retention of Layfet-Fresian relations. However, mere days after a private meeting with the Layfetian Ambassador to Fresia. The Minister was openly accused of treason as a Corrupgeprof was held to determine whether John was actually indictable for the offence or not. John along with many of the Layfetian embassy would board planes back to the region to escape from the ensuing chaos that would unfold as protest erupts in the capital in support of raising higher tariffs against Layfet. During this entire event, the MIA conducted numerous missions in uncovering the whole aggressiveness of the situation. While doing so, they discovered a massive conspiracy ring between the RCP and prominent business owners who planned to completely take over the government. They uncovered public records which showed large sums of money being transferred into RCP politicans’ account aligned with both the Economic Conference vote and the sudden shift in RCP attitude towards Layfet. Another Corrupgeprof was called on many RCP members who were found in possession of illicit montary asset and connection to the conspiracy with many being found guilty of their charges. CEOs linked to the plot were also arrested by federal officers as John Taylor was recalled back to the capital so they could give him an official apology for his mistreatment during the ordeal. After the March Plot, the RCP was suspended from running in elections until further notice as a new election was called to fill in the gap left behind by the RCP’s absence.

GSummit (WIP)

Politics

The Fresian Confederacy is a Constitutional Monarchy where the monarch was reduced to a figurehead until in 1990 replaced the role of the Kenigineferbliu mayor, given special privileges in the federal government, and still retained the status of a monarch. Elected Prime Minister George Clinton is the current leader of the Fresian Confederacy with Chief of Staff Nate Webley. The Fresian Confederacy government follows a democratic voting system called Trigstinepas which requires any federal law or legislation to be passed through the House of Representatives, Hall of Governors, and the Chamber of Ministers in that order and pass with 51% of the members voting for it. The Fresian Confederacy’s legislative body is a Tricameral Parliamentary system which consists of the House of Representatives that has 251 seats and is elected by popular vote using a single transferable vote system every 4 years. The Hall of Governors consists of all the mayors and governors that is recognized by the Fresian Confederacy and is elected through popular vote using a single transferable vote system every 2 years. The Chamber of Ministers consists of all the ministers of different departments of state and also includes the royal family and Chief of Staff. The office of Prime Minister holds executive power over the whole country and is elected through federal elections by popular vote using a Two-Round vote system where the top two candidates of the first election get to move on to the second election while everyone else is eliminated from the election. There is also a system called Corrupgeprof that can remove anyone from office if the one in question does something unconstitutional.

The König/Königin have been the title of feudal rulers in the Fresian Confederacy since the days of the Normen Empire but after the Revolution of 1812 the monarchy was reduced to a figurehead for the new democratic nation after the signing of the Treaty of Kenigineferbliu, the Pichler bloodline had been the royal bloodline of the throne since 1590 AD and were allowed to stay as one as long as they gave their powers over to the Fresians to form a representative government which König Erik Pichler signed after 3 weeks of consideration thus the monarch and his family was placed under house arrest in their castle where for the next 350 years the monarch would only be allowed to attend public ceremonies and parliament sessions in exchange for a place of residence and protection, in 1940 the House of Representatives debated whether they should increase the power of the monarch and allow them to participate in politics with the nationalists arguing that they would be throwing away their core principles if they allowed the monarch to participate in parliament while the democrats argued that allowing the monarch to participate in politics would allow opinions from the monarchists on policies relating to the crown enabling them to still be humble within the Fresian Confederacy while acting strong and able to control it’s own destiny to the international community, the amendment was debated and reworked for a month straight before parliament passed it allowing the monarch to have a vote in the Chamber of Ministers and hold the powers of a mayor in Kenigineferbliu which was shared with the city mayor.

There are many political factions in the Fresian Confederacy, but the major political powerhouses are the Fresian Democratic Party and the Republican Conservatives Party from 1812 to 2022. Though these powerhouses are big on their own, coalitions and back-door deals have been happening ever since the 1900s, some of the parties recognized by Fresians are:

Color Name of the Political Factions Representative Political Ideology # of HoR Seats # of HoG Seats
New Democracy Party of Fresia Roy Demetre Representative democracy
Radical Democracy
95 / 251
7 / 23
Centerlist Front Carl Devins Centrism
Left-wing populism
70 / 251
7 / 23
Proletariat Union of Fresia Alli Lahti Anti-capitalism
Proletarian internationalism
63 / 251
9 / 23
Fresian Nationalist Party Poldi Rudolf Imperialism
Nationalism
23 / 251
0 / 23
Republican Conservatives Party Bradley Herald Republican Democracy
Democratic Capitalism
0 / 251
0 / 23

Ministries

There are multiple ministries that maintaining and improving the life of all Fresians. Ministers in charge of these ministries serve for life which means that if a minister was to be removed or retire then the Prime Minister will choose a new minister or be recommended as a replacement by a previous minister and go through an election process that needs to see a 2/3 majority by the House of Representatives and a 51% majority in the Chamber of Ministers.

Here are some of the main ministries in charge of the Fresian Confederacy:

Ministry's Name Minister Number of years Description
Ministry of Civil Defence Muhammad Burton 8 The Ministry of Civil Defence is responsible for anything related to the security of the Fresian Confederacy.
Ministry of War Günter Schäfer 10 The Ministry of War is responsible for the maintenance and actions of the Fresian Armed Forces.
Ministry of Domestic Defence Mikhail Orlov 3 The Ministry of Domestic Defence is responsible for any hands-on actions of anything related to the Ministry of Domestic Affairs.
Ministry of Domestic Affairs Harry Armstrong 20 The Ministry of Domestic Affairs is responsible for anything relating to any domestic political activities, events, and situations within the Fresian Confederacy.
Ministry of Justice Larry Wokemen 40 The Ministry of Justice is responsible for anything relating to the enforcement and ruling of law
Ministry of Commerce George Bailey 25 The Ministry of Commerce is responsible for anything economically related to the Fresian Confederacy.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs John Taylor 30 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for anything related to foreign situations and activities that are related or is interested by the Fresian Confederacy.

National Security Agency

Domestic security in the Fresian Confederacy is under the Ministry of Civil Defence's jurisdiction and is run by the National Security Agency which acts as a central agency for police departments on all levels of government. There are two law enforcement organizations in the NSA such as the National Police Force and the Fresian Border Security Agency. The National Security Agency works in collaboration with the Military Intelligence Agency to identify foreign spies or politically radical citizens with the surveillance network built by the MIA and if they become a threat to national security they will be arrested by NPF and secretly sent to an MIA Detention Centre for interrogation with those found guilty either being executed or given life imprisonment depending on the threat severity followed by a wipe of all of their public records from Fresia's database and an agent either sent in as a body double to facilitate a breakup or as a Civil Servant informing the family of a made-up story about the suspect's death.

National Police Force

The National Police Force is the conventional force employed across the country with the sole duty of protecting the average Fresians on the streets by patrolling their assigned stations and providing surveillance in large densely populated areas, the National Police Force isn't allowed to provide their officers with firearms due to the Gedachtenis Act and thus the police are usually equipped with a baton, taser and a pepper spray with only a few officers equipped with kevlar and replaced their tasers with a pistol meant to act as Rapid Response Unit until the better equipped Special Firearms Enforcement Team arrive.

The National Police Force doesn't permit ordinary officers to handle firearms with only the Special Firearms Enforcement Team, Military Intelligence Agency and the Fresian Border Security Agency, the reason for this lack of armaments for local officers is due to the Massacre of Gedachtenis in which 100 potential revolutionaries were killed in retribution after several socialist revolutionaries killed 4 officers in a patrol, this singular event sparked public outcry against armed law enforcement prompting the Fresian Government to pass the Gedachtenis Act in 1938 which limited local law enforcements to disarm and the creation of the Special Firearms Enforcement Team.

The Special Firearms Enforcement Team is a detachment of the National Police Force who are meant to back the NPF when they need firearms for any dangerous situation that required heavier firepower, they consist of Riot Police, Special Weapons And Tactics operatives and police officers who equipped with Assualt Rifles and SMGs.

Fresian Border Security Agency

The Fresian Border Security Agency is the main force deployed around the border, checkpoints, ports and maritime border to ensure that no unauthorized personnel cross the border and that illegal merchandise is kept away from the Fresian Confederacy. The FBSA is under the direct control of the Ministry of Domestic Defence instead of the Ministery of Civil Defence and all cases relating to smugglers. Illegal immigrants are passed down to the Ministry of Domestic Affairs to be reviewed if the MDA has rejected them, their case will be handed back to the MDD which will review their case to determine their punishment.

Military Intelligence Agency

The Military Intelligence Agency was formed in 1930 and is the main espionage force under the Fresian Confederacy, their main Headquarter is located in the city of Kenigineferbliu and they work alongside the Ministry of Civil Defence and Ministry of Domestic Defence but is under no Ministry's jurisdiction. When the MIA first formed the force mostly consisted of police officers, civilians and criminals willing to work for the government where they would be trained by Special Operations Command operatives and former spies the reason behind this was because of the Red Scare which saw a considerable amount of fear against communism leading to a need of a force that can conduct surveillance secretly and feed the National Police Force and Fresian Border Security Agency of "Illegal Personnel" which would eventually lead to their discovery after Operation Red Storm which saw several hundred suspected communist to be executed many of which were civilians. After the Stêdandegutar Act, the MIA was now publically accountable for their actions and were now able to be sentenced if they were to be found guilty of a crime.

Military

The Fresian Armed Forces is the main military force in the Fresian Confederacy and was formed in 1818 after the disbandment of the Free Fresian Army due to the need for a professional force on the sea rather than just on land. The FAF started with the two most basic branches with were the Fresian Confederate Army and the Royal Fresian Navy, then the Special Operations Command in 1915 before the National Frisian Air Force and the Military Intelligence Agency were formed in 1930 due to the outbreak of the Red Revolt. The Fresian Armed Forces are moderately funded taking up 1.5% of the national GDP (41.75 Billion Dollars) and is a decent-size military force on the continent acting as a peace-keeping force to all hostile forces in Southern Olivacia, the constitution allows the deployment of the FAF within the country whenever the administration deems a situation is too dangerous for conventional police forces but a military deployment into foreign lands must be in direct response to a threat against Democracy, approved by a 2/3 majority in the House of Representatives and a 3/4 majority by the Chamber of Ministers. The military is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War which controls the three branches of the military; Fresian Confederate Army, Royal Fresian Navy and the National Frisian Air Force. The Fresian Armed Forces works off an all-volunteer military system with 764,097 personnel on reservation records and 68,600 in active service (as of 2023). The constitution allows the government to gather military registeration for men and women from the age of 24 to 28 and enact mandatory conscription if the nation was ever fighting a defensive war in the Fresian Confederacy, volunteers in the military are given health and economic benefits if they serve within the military for 4 years and military promotions and honours will be allowed for anyone wishing to continue to serve after 4 years.

Economy & Demographic

The Fresian Confederacy holds one of the largest economies in the world, having a nominal GDP of 2.78 Trillion. A 2021 Census revealed that Fresia has currently has 70.75 million citizens in the workforce with 4% of them being unemployed and below the poverty line, the Fresian Confederacy also has proud history of having one of the world's most prestigious education system with a 96% secondary education attainment.

The Fresian Confederacy is a large international trade partner mainly exporting PC components, Crude Petroleum, Aeroplanes, Vehicles, Medicine, Alcohol, Weapons, Coffee, Chocolate, Fruits, Textiles, Tobacco, and Sugar to countries all over the world Abjekistan, Neuewland, New Sebronia, Frarstizk, and Gassasinia. Fresia’s largest imports are Vehicle parts and instruments, Refined Petroleum, Broadcasting Equipment, Machinery, Chemicals, Refined Metals, and Tea from countries like Bakyern, Frarstizk, Gassasinia, Hatstheput, Neuewland, and Kistolia.

Education

Education has a long and important part in shaping the Fresian Confederacy from the establishment of schools of philosophy in the 400s BC which would eventually influence future revoltuions like the 1812 Revolution and the early stages of tutoring and tutors in 100s BC who were older merchants teaching their younger generations in their merchant practices and trade so their family trade could carry on and evolve, leading to future merchants who travelled to other lands from their hometowns and sometimes tutored outsiders to pass on the trade, this tutoring system eventually led to the establishment of private educational institutions like universities and merchant schools in the 1300s as a centralized institution for nobles and merchants.

In the 1600s the Royal Navy introduced the Skipyntelliginsje Decree which required naval officers and admirals to graduate from naval academies certified by the Royal Navy and enforced standards and inspections for naval academies to keep up with or else they would be shut down, this would eventually expand to the army in 1819 setting the same standards set out by the Royal Navy in the 1600s while the Navy had extensive research in training practices and ethics and had been updating their policy consistently since the Skipyntelliginsje Decree was introduced.

Notable Campuses

Winston University (Espionage)

Winston University is a campus exclusively used as a training ground for future Military Intelligence Agency operatives that would soon be deployed wherever the MIA wants them to be. Undergraduates normally have to have a bachelor's degree in their respective field and would need to apply to the MIA which could take up to 6-7 months to be reviewed, if the application is acceptable they would be asked into a formal interview with the headmaster who will determine whether or not the applicant would be accepted into Winston University based on your formality and validity of your application, the courses given to students may vary and there aren’t many sources about their schedule but it’s commonly rumoured that there is a close-quarter-combat course and firearms safety course included in every undergraduates’ tutelage.

Fort Antara (Military)

Fort Antara is a military training ground for cadets from both Antara and Fresia to train for their future military duties, it is also a civilian campus for both nations where it isn’t required for students of either nation to apply for a visa to be able to study within the campus. Undergraduates going to Fort Antara must have enlisted in their nation’s respective armies and have at least graduated high school in order to be able to enroll into the Youth Military Education Initiative (YMEI), YMEI applicants must also be below the age of 28 as well as have a clear criminal record of the last 10 years of their life before Fort Antara can begin the reviewing process, the review process is simple for many as they are required to fill out an application sent from the Department of Education before sending it back, the application will become invalid after 14 business days since the day it was sent from the DoE, once the application has been delivered an inspector from the DoE will verify the applicant’s academic records before sending it to the Ministry of Justice to check whether the cadet had previously committed any crimes in the last 10 years, once it’s verified it will be sent back to the Department of Education where the inspector will approve of the applicant sending both a letter of acceptance to the cadet and a 7 day notice to the headmaster of Fort Antara to make preparations for the new students, the whole process of a YMEI applicant usually takes around 5-15 business days depending on when the application is sent and most students are accepted into the program to help rehabilitate them after their service and back into their civilian lives. The courses offered to YMEI students vary but the most renowned subjects that the campus is known for are Mechanical Engineering, Architecture, Mathematics, and Psychology.

Welfare

The Fresian Confederacy’s welfare system is managed by multiple private organizations that have collectively earned high amounts of praise from the Fresians through their programs and benefits and while many out there provide varies amounts of benefits to certain groups, there are several organizations who contribute to the welfare system but the two most renowned groups are the Alliance of Agricultural Advancement and National Proletariate Organization who's continentally known for their contributions to the quality of life of their members.

Industry

The Industrial Escalation greatly improved the industrial sector of the Fresian Confederacy and after the Augmentation of Industrialism, the country had fully transitioned into an industrial society, though agriculture was mostly neglected during the Industrial Escalation which nearly became a deadly mistake the Augmentation of Industrialism ushered in some new reforms and policies to help incentives people without unemployment within the urban sectors to work on allocated farmland in rural areas reserved for agriculture goods. Due to scientific innovation and achievements during the Industrial Escalation the consumer services, material, technology and manufacturing industries had begun taking off, and as the Augmentation of Industrialism neared the Ministry of Domestic Affairs created the Department of Agricultural Logistics & Strategies which worked with the Department of Agriculture. Together they created multiple programs and passed a few policies that incentivized the unemployed and people unable to pay bills to move from an urban city to a rural farm. As the Gewoan Maitiid Age neared its end, the technology sector of the economy had take off as computers and telecom had researched and innovatived at a rate unseen before leading to The Technological Ascension which revolutionized the service industry by creating the telecom industry and entertainment industry while also creating the electronics industry within Fresia.

Agriculture

Agriculture had always been a major part of a Fresian's life from the early years of the Handel Age to the present day, this is usually the reason why Fresians are hard-working and kind to others because it's believed that back then when crop failures happened, Fresian farmers often stockpiled food in case of such events so that they can share it to those in need and in return the community respected farmers and provided them with money and tools if they were to fall on hard times. Fresia grows a variety of crops and trees but the largest have been Bananas, Cocoa and Coffee beans since the early 20th century. During the Industrial Escalation in the 1800 farmland was collectivized by the Fresian government causing massive protests against the government who rolled out the Green Act in 1805 and started evenly redistributing the land back to farmers and gave some land to unemployed who were encouraged to move to those lands and make a living from farming on their newly given plot, under the Green Act the government confiscated unclaimed or untended to land suitable for farming and formed the Alliance of Agricultural Advancement to help with farmer's quality of life, needs and representation, they also got the right to distribute the government land to private individuals if they were proven to be unemployed and in poverty.

Culture

The Fresian tradition often values local communities and family as the core of Fresian society, however this doesn't mean that Fresians were necessarily hostile to foreign influence in fact they welcomed foreign culture to be integrated into theirs as long as it didn't threaten the fundamental principles of Fresian culture, this is often thought as the main reason why Fresian culture eventually grew to value trade and prosperity as much as they valued family and their country. The Anglo-Frisian are a wealthy and well-mannered ethnicity with many being either politicians or well-off entrepreneurs in the continued development of everyday trade and prosperity that the Fresian Confederacy has to offer. Their principles lay square in “Capitalism” which teaches believers that the world is driven by competitive private entities and that those who wish to succeed needs to practice cunningness and hard-work, increasingly a new breed of Anglo-Frisians have been taught that good will drives profitability and that good possitivity drives productivity which is contrary to the belief held by older generations who believed that exploitation was the most cost efficient way to becoming wealthy. While the Anglo-Frisians are usually the driving force behind Fresian economics, the German ethnicity in the Fresian Confederacy would be often described as the military powerhouse in the nation as they are often said to be tough and determined with a majority being either in active military service or police since it’s commonly believed that the greatest thing a German could do for themselves is to enlist in the military or civil protection to earn prestige and achievements for their bloodline. They follow a strict code of honour in their society where it is frowned upon for being “uncivilized” and “reckless”, there’s been a small but growing contingent of Germans in the Fresian Confederacy who have turned towards what is more “feminine occupation” such as being a Docter, Culinary Expert, Scientist, etc. The main workforce of the Fresian Confederacy are the Dutch who are commonly described as a polite and religiously devote, the Dutch prefer an earnest life seeing as the majority are either farmers or factory workers and are observed to be hard-workers by many employers and are commonly deeply Christian or Derpadeskriegis with recent reports of other religions popping up in small mixed communities often seen carrying religious text of their choice around everywhere they go. There are several different national symbols that represent the Fresian Confederacy like the national animal Harpy Eagle, the national tree the Cornus, and the national flower the Pink Rose.

Arts & Traditions

Fresian long has intellectuals who created many kinds of arts and crafts like literature, painting, architecture, and music creating many historical pieces that are still preserved today. Fresians are also great historians with a particular liking for keeping personal history through oral or written stories, this is the reason behind a famous Fresian tradition dating back to 100 BC where newborns are gifted personal journals so that their history may be recorded from their date of birth to their date of death, these were normally kept in personal storage or given to a local lord but in 1922 all citizens were instructed to give all transcribable text of their family’s origin to a local government-owned office where they would then be given to the Ministry of Domestic Affairs for copying before they are given back to the family of origin.

The Fresian Media is a mix of foreign influence and native culture, often it's known as one of the world's biggest cultural hub in the 20th century with the priority of diversity in every law concerning media being passed being considered from the biggest concern to the smallest problems the Fresian Government of today aimed to protect the freedom of speech from places around the world where it may have restricted, Fresian media platforms is one of the loosest in the entire world with only copyright claims being monitored by the Ministry of Justice to protect everyone's intellectual property.

The Fresian Confederacy recognizes the Freedom of Religion so all holidays are recognized within the nation but only certain religious and symbolic holidays are “Federal Holidays”, these include Christmas on December 30st and Christmas eve which is on December 19th. New Year's Day which is on January 1st and is to celebrate the New Year. Liberation Day is celebrated on January 3rd and is symbolic to the day when the Treaty of Kenakû officially came into effect. Family Week is celebrated on the week of February 21st and is to give parents time to spend some time with their children. Halloween is celebrated on October 31st and was created to increase agriculture sales as an appreciation to farmers in the Wall Street Republic for their service.

Armistice Day (February 2nd) Union Day (February 18th) Day of a New Dawn (Liberation Day) (January 3rd) Christmas Eve (December 29th) Christmas (December 30th) New Year's Day (January 1st) Halloween (October 31st)

Traditional Dishes & Drinks

Traditionally the Fresian cuisine is made of many different ethnic groups within the region before the Age of colonization, most of the dishes are made up of beef, pork, and fish which is generally served with potatoes, rice, or grain with other vegetables thrown into the mix, with some examples like:

Fish Chips

Fish Chips are fishes that have been chopped into small sticks and dipped in batter to be fried for 10 minutes before it’s allowed to be cooled for a few minutes, wrapped in newspaper to keep warm on the journey home which is why it’s one of the Fresian Confederacy’s most popular traditional dishes due to its easy mobility and heat-preservation.

“The Worker’s Meal”

As the Federation of Fresia industrialized in The Industrial Bloom a restaurant from Seafort started making “The Worker’s Meal” which included a healthy scoop of baked beans on a slice of Kartoffelbrot, or mushrooms and tomatoes mixed in mashed potatoes, with a side of bacon and eggs, or cuts of black pudding along with a side of Tuzhu pudding or cookies, this was a huge hit with local factory workers as this mean was sold cheap, was delicious, and provided enough nutrition for workers to work their daily shift without malnutrition, this recipe soon spread around the nation and soon attracted many entrepreneurs to invest in the dish to keep the price at its cheap price for their worker’s morale with even the Fresian government coming in to fund and make it the national dish until 1931.

Schnelles Schweinefleisch

Schnelles Schweinefleisch is a traditional German dish dating back to 20 BC in an effort to feed the increased military of Südlichewörter Reich by producing a fast and delicious meal for their armies on the move, there are debates about the dish’s origins but the majority of people agree that it was created after the Battle of the Strom when Südlichewörter army had nothing but captured pork from the retreating Boeren Unie army, Grüneheißeder Teig (wasabi), and Schwarze Kochflüssigkeit (soya sauce) but no resources to start a fire, this caused a field cook in the Südlichewörter army to experiment with sliced raw pork dipped in Schwarzeflüssigkeitmitgrün (wasabi and soya sauce) which allowed the army to quickly prepare a meal and feed themselves without starting a fire, thus Schnelles Schweinefleisch was born and wasn’t really popular in the civilian population as the dish was only used during emergencies in the military.

Gelukkigochtendmaal

Gelukkigochtendmaal is a traditional meal of the Dutch believed to date back to the discovery of basic culinary skills as the dish consists of Stukje Varkensvlees and a grilled egg with modern versions providing optional sides of mashed potatoes and gravy along with replacing the Stukje Varkensvlees with a piece of Biefstuk.

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