Palmyrion (Levanora)

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Royal Palmyrian Commonwealth Maharlikang Mankomunidad ng Palmyria
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Motto: Hiraya Manawari (May our wishes be fulfilled) Other traditional mottos: Libertad, Tenacidad, Justicia (Liberty, Tenacity, Justice) Providence, Country, Nature, and Community
Anthem: Palmyria Kong Minumutya (My Revered Palmyrion)
Capital	Alexandria
Largest	Quezon City
Official languages	Palmyrian and English
Recognised national languages	Palmyrian
Recognised regional languages	Various other languages in the Palmyrian language family
Ethnic groups (2023)	By ethnolinguistic group: 90.2% Palmyriana 5.6% Indigentb 4.2% others By phylogenetic species: 89.2% Human 6.2% Alfar 3.1% Salfar 1.5% others
Religion (2023)	51% Bathalan faith 33% Marshism 10% Christianity 4% Islam 2% Minor faiths
Demonym(s)	Palmyrian
Government	Federal semi-constitutional monarchy
• Monarch	Lakambini Elizabeth
• Chancellor	Ricardo Duterte
• Chief Justice	Raniag Aglipay
• Senate President	Harold Dimaculangan
• House Speaker	Angela Foster-Yulo
Legislature	Commonwealth Assembly
Independence  from the Holy Empire of Stevid
• Declaration	1800
• Recognized	1820
• Royal Confederacy	1820-1935
• Disunion Era	1935-2000
• Current constitution	2000
Population
• 2023 estimate	est. 1.5 billion
• 2020 census	1,440,336,970
GDP (PPP)	2023 estimate
• Total	$60 trillion
• Per capita	$40,000
GDP (nominal)	2023 estimate
• Total	$48 trillion
• Per capita	$32,000
Gini (2023)	0.495 low
HDI (2023)	0.750 high
Currency	Palmyrian Sterling Peso (PSP)
Time zone	Palmyrian Standard Time
Date format	DD MMM YYYY
Driving side	right
Calling code	+97
ISO 3166 code	RPC
Internet TLD	.rpc
Encompasses all of the Palmyrian ethnolinguistic nations descended from the Proto-Palmyrians, alongside those absorbed by Stevidian colonization during the colonial era. It should be noted that multi-ethnic relations are ubiquitous. Any of the indigent groups that were not absorbed by the Proto-Palmyrian descendant civilisations and two centuries of Stevidian colonization, and in the process retaining a large portion of their their customs and traditions.

Palmyrion (Palmyrian: Palmyria), officially the Royal Palmyrian Commonwealth (Palmyrian: Maharlikang Mankomunidad ng Palmyria), is a sovereign archipelagic country in the Levanora region. The Royal Commonwealth is composed of its 40 constituent provinces, divided among federal republics that serve as subjects to the Sovereign. To the east lies the Alfar Isles, an extra-regional state under the jurisdiction of the Alfar Imperium. The Royal Commonwealth controls a vast swath of sea around its archipelago, with an economic exclusion zone reaching out nearly 300 kilometers from its shores. The Royal Commonwealth is a federation ruled by a semi-parliamentary monarchy. The monarch is Lakambini Elizabeth, who has reigned since 2019. Its capital is Alexandria, with Quezon being the largest; both cities are global cities and major financial centers. Other major urban centers in the Royal Commonwealth are the cities of Naga, Bacolod, Patikul, Cebu, Davao, Batangas, and Vigan, and the vassal city-state of Port Elizabeth on Palawan. It has 40 provinces, each with their own unique ethnic and sociocultural identities; these ethnicities and sociocultural identities have undergone a vast extent of cultural and genetic intermingling, and this intermingling has resulted into a high degree of ethnic, social, cultural, and political homogeneity and unity among the native Palmyrian populace.

The Royal Commonwealth is a developed, high-income nation. It also has a high Human Development Index, the result of many ongoing social welfare, sanitation, and healthcare policies of the government, combined with a financially and academically literate populace, a free, robust, well-regulated, and highly-productive market, and a well-paid, highly skilled, and highly productive labor force. In its post-colonial existence as the Royal Confederacy, it has been one of the latecomers to the regional wave of industrialization, but quickly caught up with the use of groundbreaking scientific and technological advances, discoveries, and inventions in its industrial pursuits despite having to begin from a small capital base during its early days as a sovereign state that had just broken free from Stevidian colonial rule. The Royal Commonwealth is touted as an emerging great power with an increasingly-improving military and economic capability to pursue a stronger and more visible place in worldwide geopolitics. It is currently a member of a select number of influential diplomatic coalitions.

Etymology

The name Palmyria is not a native invention, but rather the result of a combination of Stevidian colonial rule and significant Macabeean merchant activity. Macabeean merchants paid homage to the coconut plant's importance as a versatile plant to the various kingdoms, sultanates, and fiefdoms that inhabited present-day Palmyrion, especially during the Makiling Hegemonic Era. The lands encompassed by present-day Palmyrion were referred to in Macabeean correspondence and publication as Tierra de los Palmeras, or land of the palms, with the Stevidians following suit and calling it the Palmerian Domain. With the formation of the Governorate-General of the Palmerian Dominion, under Lord Governor Isaac Palmer, the etymology of Palmyrion was sealed.

Eventually, linguistic corruption would transform "Palmeria" into "Palmyria", leading into the present-day endonym Palmyria. Palmyrion is essentially a portmanteau of "Palmyrian Dominion" and is generally accepted to be an exonym

History

Prehistory

Recent discoveries of stone tools and fossils of butchered animal remains in Kalinga, Iloilo, and Naga has pushed back evidence of early hominins in present-day Palmyrion to as early as 800,000 years. However, the metatarsal of the Macahambus Man, reliably dated by both carbon-14 dating and uranium-series dating to about 70,000 years ago remains the oldest human remnant found in the Royal Commonwealth to date. Aetas and Negritos were among the first inhabitants of modern-day Palmyrion, but reliably dated remnants of permanent settlements date back only to the arrival of the Founder Clans back in 400CE. Some of these settlements still exist today and have become parts of modern-day cities, towns, and villages, which have since then become heavily modernized by the pace of technology.

Precolonial Epoch

Pre-Hegemonic Era (2000 BC - 1105)

The start of recorded history in Palmyrion is dated by consensus to be around the 20th Century BC. Among the first recorded writings from this era were the first scriptures of what is now the Bathalan faith, a panentheistic faith whose roots lie in Palmyrian animism undergoing evolution into an organized panentheistic religion. These scriptures, still standing in theological practice to this day, detail the theological underpinnings and rituals of the Bathalan faith. Non-religious writings include the first written laws and contracts, as well as philosophical writings from Pre-Hegemonic thinkers.

Pre-Hegemonic Palmyrion was a collection of barangay-states ruled by chieftains, now commonly referred to as datus. Many of these datus brought their loyalty groups, referred to as barangays or dulohan, into compact settlements that allowed for greater diplomatic cooperation, economic specialization, cultural exchange, and military coordination, resulting into the formation of large coastal polities that became Palmyrion's first towns and, eventually, cities. These barangays were, in a way, run as elective monarchies, wherein the datus of these collected barangays selected the most respected among them to be the paramount datu. This paramount datu held titles such as Lakan, Rajah, or simply Datu. It is from this titling of such a paramount datu that Lakan, the modern-day title for the Royal Commonwealth's Sovereign-of-State, originates, with Lakambini as its female counterpart.

During the pre-Hegemonic era, many hereditary families of military aristocracy rose to the status of ruling royalty through military victory, political maneuvering, social legitimacy, and religious support. Among them stands the current Palmyrian royal family, House Roseguard in its current form, as the most prominent example.

Makiling Hegemonic Era (1105 - 1655)

The Hegemony of Makiling was signed in 1105, forming the Makiling League.

Colonial era (1655-1800)

Palmyrion was colonised by the Stevidians.

The Royal Confederate Era (1800-1935)

Refounding Era (1800-1821)

With the capture of modern-day Alexandria in early June 1800, King Maximillian would discharge his first duty as King by signing into effect the Constitution of Royal Confederacy on the 1st of July, 10 years to the day that Sovereignty was declared. He would be crowned in a humble and solemn ceremony on August 12, 1800.

Thus, the Royal Palmyrian Confederacy was born, and a resurgent Roseguard dynasty installed as the ruling royal house. King Maximillian would lead the resurgent country for the next 21 years as its first king, as other vassal-provinces rose up in arms and, upon successful takeover of their provincial administrative centers, swore fealty to Royal House Roseguard. The Tagalog, Batangan, Pampangan, and Bicolano vassal-provinces become the founding provinces of Palmyrion resurgent. His reign saw the formation of a monarcho-democratic government with the tripartite division of state power now familiar today: the Executive, with the Monarchy its basis, the Monarch being the Sovereign-of-State and the Chancellor being the Sovereign's Aide-de-Camp of Government; the Legislature, with the Chamber of Lords, selected from among the lords of the Confederacy, as its upper house, and the Chamber of Burghers, with its constituents selected from among the more common folk as their representatives, as its lower house; and the Judiciary, with His Majesty’s Supreme Court as the highest court of the Royal Confederacy, and lower courts attending to the subject provinces of the Royal Confederacy.

From 1811 to 1819, he would lead the Royal Confederacy through the Second War of Sovereignty, launched by the Stevidian Empire in an effort to reconquer Palmyrion. His reign would see the Royal Confederacy defend its hard-fought sovereignty, and making the Stevidian Empire recognize Palmyrian sovereignty in 1820, before abdicating due to illness in 1821.

King Maximillian the Refounder died in 1824 at the age of 80, having secured Palmyrion’s sovereignty from foreign colonial rule.

Alexandrian Era (1821-1840)

King Alexander, a military officer who fought under his father’s banner in both the First and Second Wars of Sovereignty, rose to the throne in 1821, at the age of 50.

His 19-year reign would see Palmyrion welcome the Industrial Revolution, welcoming industrial magnates and entrepreneurs, and encouraging them to establish factories, mines, and other key infrastructure. Factories and mines would open across the Royal Confederacy as the Industrial Revolution steadily absorbed its way into Palmyrion’s way of life and transformed the fledgeling nation into an industrial powerhouse.

This industrial revolution was also coupled with an agricultural one, with the King also helping support the innovation and proliferation of agricultural techniques and technologies during his reign. These advances helped improve crop yields and improve agricultural efficiency, ensuring that the Royal Confederacy could sustain its growing population while supporting industrial growth.

Unfortunately, illness, now believed by consensus to be metastasized lung cancer (which medical historians attribute to his exposure to industrial pollutants as a patron of the Industrial Revolution), forced him to abdicate to make way for his only daughter, Theodora, on 1840.

King-Emeritus Alexander would live for 12 more years to see his daughter carry on his work of industrializing the Royal Confederacy and carry out what is now known as the Theodoran Reclamation. He died in 1852, at the age of 81.

Theodoran Era (1840-1894)

Theodora was born in 1811 to Alexis and Catherine, Princess of Cavite, as his only daughter. Her juvenile life was shaped by the fire of the Second War of Sovereignty; it was common to see the child close to her mother, who contributed to the war effort as a nurse and herbalist tending to the sick and wounded of the Royal Confederate Forces at Arms, with little Theodora helping her mother tend to the wounded in their family estate.

She married Prince Bernard of Naga (1810-1870) in 1834, a marriage that would last until her husband's death in 1870 at the age of 59. The couple had 9 children: four boys and five girls, of whom the eldest was Albert.

One would think that such a grisly exposure to the bloody side of statecraft at a young age would steer the girl away from war, or statecraft altogether – but she would prove both wrong, as she rose to the throne in 1840 at the age of 29, after her father’s abdication, and initiate the Theodoran Reclamation.

The Theodoran Reclamation was instrumental in helping shape modern-day Palmyrion, with its present borders secured during the Reclamation, be through military conquest or political maneuvering. The first years of her reign would see her not just continue the industrial and agricultural innovations her father helped foster, but also use it to fuel the Royal Confederacy’s expansion. The Visayan, Cagayan Valley, Ifugao, and Ilocano dukedoms, corresponding respectively to the modern-day Federal Republics of Visayas, the Cagayan Valley, the Cordilleras, and Ilocos, would be absorbed into the Royal Confederacy through both political maneuvering and a series of military conquests.

Many modern historians call her method “gold or gore” to highlight the dual methods of diplomacy and force that she employed. Peaceful ascension to the Royal Confederacy was facilitated with promises of economic development, industrial innovation, agricultural advancement, representation in the Confederate Assembly, and a degree of autonomy as subject dukedoms enjoying devolution of state power under a confederacy, with the prospect – and realization – of military conquest being an alternative.

Naturally, all three chose the first alternative; the dukedoms, now swearing loyal subjection to the Royal Confederacy, then saw resistance eradicated in the military conquests that would follow as nations and tribes, refusing to swear subjection and fealty to the Royal Confederacy, seceded from the dukedoms which they perceived to have betrayed them. After military conquest brought to heel the seceding nations and tribes, the Royal Confederacy then consolidated their rule through economic power by fostering industrial and agricultural innovation and development in the newly conquered lands, coupled with the political legitimization of rule by giving the nations representation in the Assembly.

The first reclamations resulted in the Visayan, Cagayan Valley, Ilocano, and Ifugao dukedoms joining the Confederacy in 1849, 1856, 1863, and 1871, respectively.

First Moro-Palmyrian War (1869-1877)

The Sultanates of Mindanao and Sulu, having secured their continued independence from Stevidian colonization through a series of bloody defensive conflicts over the past three centuries, saw the rapidly expanding Royal Confederacy as a fast-growing threat, and sought to act proactively. When Visayas became a subject dukedom of the Royal Confederacy, the Sultanates started a series of limited naval and amphibious campaigns defined by skirmishes and raids along its southern coast as early as the early 1850s, all the while the Royal Confederacy was in the last leg of reclaiming the Cagayan Valley dukedom and was starting to reclaim the Ilocano and Ifugao dukedoms.

The Dukedom of Visayas, with the express support of Her Majesty, fortified the southern coasts to better defend against the Sultanates’ raids and skirmishes, and built agile flotillas to help counter the Sultanates’ raider-skirmisher parties. The 1862 completion of the Canal of Bacolod, under construction since 1851, and crossing the width of the Talisay Isthmus, provided a boon for the Navy, allowing ships to cross from the Bay of Alexandria to the Moro-Visayan Sea, the biggest flashpoint of the Moro-Visayan skirmishes, the sea marking a maritime intersection where the islands of Visayas, Mindanao, and Sulu converged.

The Moro-Palmyrian War started with the Battles of Hamtic and Cebu in 1869, as the Sultanates launched a full-scale invasion of the Dukedom of Visayas on two fronts, establishing beachheads from where the Sultanates could further invade the island of Visayas. A declaration of war easily passed through the halls of the Assembly, and the Queen sent her forces to help defend the Visayan Dukedom. The Moro-Visayan Sea and the Visayas-Mindanao and Visayas-Sulu Straits were tinted red with blood and festooned by the charred wrecks of defeated ships as the Her Majesty’s Naval Service fought tooth-and-nail with the Sultans’ navies for naval supremacy. On land, the Army and the Corps of Marines fought with their Sultanate adversaries, the lands watered red with the blood of soldiers and marines.

The decisive Battle of the Moro-Visayan Sea in 1874 cemented Royal Confederate naval supremacy for the remainder of the war, as the Royal Confederacy resoundingly defeated a colossal, amassed armada launched by the Sultanates against the Talisay Isthmus in a bid to invade and secure the Canal of Bacolod. A series of retaliatory raids along the northern shores of Mindanao and Sulu destroyed the Sultanates’ military-industrial capability as the Navy laid waste upon the Sultanate’s naval bases and shipyards, with the Royal Confederacy forcing a surrender by 1877.

Late Theodoran Era (1877-1894)

The Late Theodoran Era, encompassing the last 17 years of Queen Theodora's reign as queen, saw the Theodoran Monarchy consolidate its territorial and economic achievements and usher in a more modern age for the Royal Palmyrian Confederacy. The last 17 years of the Theodoran Monarchy saw the integration and development of newly acquired territories, and the ushering of technological advancements that would shape the Palmyrian nation's future.

Queen Theodora prioritized the reconstruction of the devastation left by the Moro-Palmyrian War, particularly in the Dukedom of Visayas, which bore the brunt of the conflict. The island became the focal point of reconstruction efforts to restore its industrial prowess and agricultural productivity in a push to restore the Visayan Dukedom's economic prosperity and mend the wounds of war.

The Queen also chartered naval settlement expeditions to the Mindoro-Palawan island group starting in 1880, three years after the end of the Moro-Palmyrian War. These naval settlement expeditions established settlements, industries, fortifications, and infrastructure along the islands to welcome them into the Royal Confederacy's fold and integrate them into its realms. The Mindoro-Palawan Dukedom was created in 1889 as a subject of the Royal Confederacy, almost 9 years after their initial settlement, marking the last major territorial expansion under Theodora's reign and solidifying her legacy as the consolidator of the Palmyrian nation's realms.

The late Theodoran Era also saw the Royal Confederacy expand the adoption of electricity across its realms, and the creation of a nationwide archipelagic telegraphy network. The expansion of the adoption of electricity transformed the way that Palmyrians lived and worked across her realms. A sense of modern progress was created as both urban centers and rural communities welcomed nationwide electrification and reaped its benefits. Both of these efforts laid the foundation of the Royal Confederacy's electrical and telecommunications grids, since then modernized with the pace of technology's march.

Queen Theodora lived to the grand old age of 83, having helped cement the destiny of the Palmyrian nation during the era now named the Theodoran Era after her; due to her reign's achievements, she would be given the nicknames Reclaimer and Consolidator. She would be succeeded by her eldest Albert upon her death, a king who inherited a prosperous realm consolidated by his mother's illustrious reign.

The Partition of 1935

The Royal Confederacy splits into three: the communists form the Palmyrian People's Republic in the Cagayan Valley State, the Christofalangists are driven off to the island-state of Visayas, and the Royal Confederacy retains hold on the Tagalog, Pampangan, Bicolano, and Batangan States. The Federation of Ilocos and the Cordilleras swear fealty to the Royal Confederacy. Mindanao and Sulu declare independence and form the Islamic Alliance.

Disunion Era (1935-2000)

First Pan-Archipelagic War (1940-1947)

Four-way between the PPR, the CFR, the Royal Confederacy, and the Islamic Alliance. Status quo ante bellum, but with the designation of Alexandria as a neutral freeport hosting the administrative centers of the Communists, Christofalangists, and the Royal Confederacy, while being situated deep in Royal Confederate territory. Islamic Republics of Sulu and Mindanao declare independence. The Mindoro-Palawan Union declares sovereignty, but remains aligned for the most part with the Royal Confederacy. The Federation of Ilocos and the Cordilleras becomes an exclave of the Royal Confederacy.

Salvation War (1951-1955)

The CFR invades and annexes the Muslim Republics of Sulu and Mindanao.

Ber War (September-December 1968)

The People's Freeport of Tuguegarao, situated at the mouth of the Cagayan River, was using its People's Freeport status too freely for the commies to be comfortable with, forming good relations with the Christofalangists and the Royal Confederacy. The city becomes a proxy battleground as militias sponsored by the three major factions vie for control of the city in a three-way proxy war amidst typhoon and monsoon season, compounded by a dengue outbreak. Ceasefire is reached by December 1968. Tuguegarao's freeport status is revoked.

The Bangsamoro (1977-1988)

In 1975, Islamic People's Party win elections in CFR-held Mindanao and Sulu. In 1977, the IPP-led Mindanao and Sulu declare independence as one state, forming the Bangsamoro, and ban other political parties and religions on their turf. The CFR invades them in 1978, leading to the 1977-1988 Bangsamoro-Christofalangist War.

Second Pan-Archipelagic War (1979-1984)

The Second Pan-Archipelagic War becomes yet another four-way meatgrinder affair between the CFR, the PPR, and the RPC. The Second Pan-Archipelagic War was sparked primarily by the Mindoro-Palawan Crisis, with the Battle of Port Elizabeth seeing the first shots fired during the war.

Reunion Crisis (1990s)

The CFR and the PPR buckle under the weight of their repression and isolation. Liberal parties win in both the PPR and CFR. Reunification talks with the Royal Confederacy begin.

The Royal Commonwealth (2000-present)

The present-day Royal Commonwealth is formed through the reunification of Palmyrion as a "democratic federation governed by a parliamentary monarchy" with the adoption of the 2000 Royal Commonwealth Charter.

Politics

Governance

According to Art. II, Sec. 1 of the 2000 Royal Commonwealth Charter, Palmyrion is a "democratic federation governed by a parliamentary monarchy". The present-day constitution of the Royal Commonwealth is the 2000 Royal Commonwealth Charter. According to the constitution, Palmyrion's head of state is the Sovereign, who, according to the Article of Monarchy, has the title of Lakan if they are male, Lakambini if they are female, or according to 2017 amendments, Eminencia if they prefer a gender-neutral title; their respective manners of address are "His Majesty", "Her Majesty", and "Their Majesty", respectively. The Sovereign holds executive powers on par with that of a president in a semi-presidential republic.

The following are the branches of the Royal Commonwealth's government.

• Executive - Palmyrion is a monarchy, and its head of state is the Monarch, with succession based upon absolute primogeniture. The head of government is the Chancellor, and must maintain the confidence of the Assembly to remain in power, lest they be voted out of power by a no-confidence consensus from the Assembly. The Chancellor supervises the Commonwealth Council, a cabinet of Vice-Chancellors each leading a department or a cabinet-level agency.
• Legislative - The Commonwealth Assembly is the main legislative branch of Palmyrion, and consists of a lower house, the Chamber of Councillors, and an upper house, the Chamber of Senators. The Chamber of Councillors has 400 seats, with each province given 10 representatives. The Chamber of Senators has 100 seats, with each Federal Republic allotted 10 senators.
• Judiciary - Palmyrion's highest court is the Supreme Court. Each Federal Republic also maintains its state court, to which the provincial trial courts of its constituent provinces are subordinate. It also has other adjoining courts, like the Court of Appeals, which cater to appeals, and the Sandiganbayan, a court specially for cases related to graft and corruption.

Foreign Relations

Palmyrion maintains its foreign relations with the rest of the world mostly via multilateral trade and sociocultural exchange. While its relations with prominently capitalist nations are warm, it views socialist countries with suspicion, taking care not to enter into military commitments or close, if not intimate, economic relations with such nations. As a signatory to the Amistad Declaration, it has also adopted a policy of bellum aeternum, or "eternal war", against states whose governments espouse slavery of any form, and provides military and law enforcement aid to countries who de jure have abolished and banned slavery but are otherwise facing problems in stamping out slavery.

Palmyrion is a member of, notably, the International Freedom Coalition, and the Capitalist Internationale; additionally, it is also a member of the Greater Prussian Alliance by virtue of its membership in the Capitalist Internationale. Ilethlean stands as a strategic partner, while Allanea is considered a major ally of the Royal Commonwealth.

Military

The Armed Forces of Palmyrion (Pal. Sandatahang Lakas ng Palmyria) serves as the armed military force of the Royal Commonwealth, responsible for the armed defense of Palmyrian interests both domestic and foreign. It is composed of the following branches:

• Palmyrian Army - The Palmyrian Army (Pal. Hukbong Katihan ng Palmyria) is the land-based branch of the Armed Forces of Palmyrion, focusing on land-based missions alongside the other branches of the military. Its missions include conventional and asymmetric mechanized, airborne, and air assault warfare, and ground-based air and maritime defence roles.
• Palmyrian Navy - The Palmyrian Navy (Pal. Hukbong Pandagat ng Palmyria) is the maritime component of the Armed Forces of Palmyrion, focusing on maritime-based missions alongside the other branches of the military. Its missions include naval-based maritime warfare and air defence roles, and amphibious warfare through its sub-branch the Marine Corps (Pal. Hukbong Katihang Pandagat ng Palmyria).
• Palmyrian Aerospace Forces - The Palmyrian Aerospace Forces (Pal. Hukbong Himpapawid ng Palmyria) is the air and space component of the Armed Forces of Palmyrion, focusing on aerospace-based missions alongside other branches of the military. Its primary mission is to help obtain and secure aerospatial supremacy and security for Palmyrian forces and allies thereof.
• Palmyrian Gendarmerie - The Palmyrian Gendarmerie (Pal. Hukbong Pamayapa ng Palmyria) is one of the two national police forces, along with the Palmyrian National Police, and is a gendarmerie-type branch of the Armed Forces of Palmyrion. Formed on 2018 from the split of the Constabulary, it specializes on military internal security and coast guard duties, while filling a niche role in Palmyrian law enforcement. It can also be deployed overseas to support military units in internal security roles.

Palmyrian military doctrine is primarily rooted in hybrid warfare. Kinetically, its strategic, operational, and tactical outlook is based on combined arms warfare, with the aim of achieving comprehensive dominance over any military adversary. As an expansive nation of rough tropical jungle terrain, a premium is placed on highly-mobile formations such as light infantry, strategically supported by air power. This outlook is paired with the need for a blue-water navy tasked with guarding its expansive trade routes. At the non-kinetic level, the military coordinates with other bodies of government to execute a spectrum of operations including psychological warfare, political warfare, and economic warfare.

The AFP maintains a two-year conscription policy. Upon exit from the Palmyrian basic education curriculum as high school graduates, conscripts are enlisted into basic training (which takes four months), followed by advanced individual training in their chosen military occupational specialty (which takes another four months); upon completion of both basic and advanced training, conscripts are to serve for two years in the branch of their own choosing. Once they complete their term of service, they are given a choice between joining the professional active force as NCOs, relegation into the reserve force, or leaving the military altogether.

Armed Forces of Palmyrion (2018)
Branch	Active	Reserve	Total
Palmyrian Army	1,200,000	400,000	1,200,000
Palmyrian Navy	1,600,000	800,000	2,100,000
Palmyrian Marine Corps	200,000	100,000	300,000
Palmyrian Air Force	1,200,000	400,000	1,200,000
Palmyrian Civil Defence Force	1,600,000	400,000	1,600,000
GRAND TOTAL	5,800,000	2,200,000	8,000,000

Administrative Divisions

Palmyrion is subdivided into 40 provinces among 10 federal subjects. Each province is further subdivided into counties, themselves containing cities, towns, and village

Federal subjects and provinces of the Royal Commonwealth

Federal Subject	Federal capital	Provinces	Provincial Capital
Tagalog Federal Republic	Imus, Cavite	Cavite	Imus
		Quezon	Lucena
		Makiling	Calamba
		Bulacan	St. Joseph
Bicolano Federal Republic	St. Dominic, Albay	Albay	St. Dominic
		Camarines	Naga
		Sorsogon	St. Magdalene
		Catanduanes	Pandan
Pampanga-Zambal Federal Republic	St. Ferdinand, Pampanga	Pampanga	St. Ferdinand
		Zambales	Olongapo
		Tarlac	Bamban
		Aurora	Baler
Batangan Federal Republic	Batangas City, Batangas	Batangas	Batangas City
		Lipa	Talltree
		Nasugbu	St. Therese
		Talisay	St. Nicholas
Cagayan Valley Federal Republic	Tuguegarao, Cagayan	Cagayan	Tuguegarao
		St. Elizabeth	Ilagan
		Quirinus	Saguday
		New Monadh	St. Margaret
Cordilleran Federal Republic	Baguio City, Benguet	Benguet	Baguio City
		Kalinga	Tabuk
		Abra	St. Quentin
		Apayao	St. Marcella
Ilocano Federal Republic	Vigan City, Ilocos	Ilocos	Vigan City
		Laoag	Pagudpud
		St. Gabriel	Santol
		Pangasinan	St. Charles
Visayan Federal Republic	Bacolod City, Talisay	Talisay	Bacolod City
		Panay	Panay City
		Cebu	Cebu City
		Samar	Tacloban
Islamic Republic of Sulu	Jolo City, Jolo	Sulu	Jolo City
		Patikul	Patikul City
		Maimbung	Kandang
		Indanan	Malimbaya
Islamic Republic of Mindanao	Marawi City, Maguindanao	Maguindanao	Marawi City
		Davao	Davao City
		Zamboanga	Pagadian
		Caraga	Butuan