Ajax

Ajax

Demonym	Global Worldwide International
Countries	47 (several disputed)

The world is the combination of the planet and all the life on it. In the context of humanity, the world references the entire collective of human civilization, including all nations, peoples, and societies. It is made up of 7 continents and 5 oceans, containing at least 47 nations.

Continents

A continental map of the world, in 2-dimension.

Belisaria

Belisaria is a continent located on the Northern Hemisphere, northeast of the Global Center. It is surrounded, clockwise from the North, by the Boreios Sea, the fellow continent Ochran by land, the Periclean Sea, the North Thalassan Ocean, and the Sea of Ghant. It is the western part of the Belisario-Ochrani supercontinent. It is divided from Ochran through the TBD Mountains in its east, and through continuous waterways from the TBA Sea by Thraysia, flowing into the Periclean Sea through to the North Thalassan Ocean. Although not completely its own landmass, Belisaria is accorded its status as a distinct continent given its sprawling size and the important human civilizations that originated and developed there.

It is the fourth largest continent, eclipsed in size by Ochran, Norumbia, and Oxidentale. Its political geography is divided between 18 sovereign nations, of which Cynereth, a historically isolationist and insular country, is the largest. Several other large states include North Ottonia, Latium, Lihnidos, and Arthurista. Collectively, the Belisarian nations have a population of approximately 850 million people. The Belisarian climate, given much of the continent is in the higher latitudes and due to North Thalassan oceanic wind currents is colder and drier, especially in the northwest and north/far north. It is more temperate and cool-to-warm in the central, inland regions of the continent. In the far south along the Periclean coast, it is warm-to-hot, with mild, rainy winters and hot, semi-humid summers.

Belisaria is the birthplace of Hellenic and Latin civilizations in antiquity. Well into ancient history, it had trade and documented ties to Scipia, western Ochran, Ghant, and disputably Norumbia. During the medieval period, the Christianization of Belisaria from former Latinic lands in the south of the continent north and eastward introduced new social values and economic development, while the continental states slowly centralized over the centuries from fractured fiefdoms and small kingdoms into larger empires and trans-continental powers. By the early modern period, exploration, art, and scientific revolutions led to blossoming political ties and trade networks abroad, including the Jade Road in Ochran, the Northern Scipian coastal states, and religious and exploratory expeditions into Norumbia and beyond.

The Industrial Revolution emerged in western Belisaria, and alongside it new economic, political, and social ideas came about from the Arthuristan Illumination, which spread to Scipia, Norumbia, Ochran, and further. The Age of Discovery saw Latin, Arthuristan, and other explorers and traders "fill in the map" to contact to other advanced civilizations in East Ochran and Oxidentale. The 18th, 19th, and early 20th century was characterized by rising nationalism, modernization, and industrialization, including a number of revolutions and wars. In late modernity, Belisaria saw an emerging geopolitical status quo of peace and restraint of use of arms. Currently, the continent enjoys an era of prosperity and stronger intrastate relations.

Ghant

Main article: Ghant

The continent of Ghant is comprised solely of the nation of Ghant, just west of the Global Center of the Northern Hemisphere. It's surrounded, clockwise from the North, by the northern polar ice regions, the Borleis Sea, the Sea of Ghant, and the Northern Thalassan Ocean. It is approximately equidistant between Norumbia and Belisaria. It is the smallest continent, narrowly smaller than Malaio.

The continent-nation of Ghant has a population of approximately 55.5 million. Ghant has a subarctic climate, with long, usually very cold winters, and short, cool to mild summers. Temperatures vary greatly from north to south, with the southern areas having more balanced, temperate seasons then the north.

Ghant is home to the Ghantish culture, a unique and remote society unlike any other, despite later religious and social ties to Belisaria and parts of Norumbia. It is one of the so-called "cradles of civilizations," with a written and oral history dating back perhaps up to 12,000 years old. The continent has folklore and customs dating to antiquity that discuss early kingdoms and alleged supernatural elements in Ghantish prehistory. The historical record suggests the first Ghantish civilization originated in the far south and developed northward over thousands of years. Cold weather, rugged terrain, and uneven crop-growing soil fractured early Ghantish petty states and fiefdoms. By the middle of the medieval period, the first Ghantish state of some power, Kingdom of Low Ghant, in southern Ghant emerged, and developed extensive ties to other fiefdoms to its north and to both Belisaria and Norumbia. Low Ghant's throne was inherited by a Belisarian Ottonian dynasty, which caused political and social tumult. Alongside this, the Black Death hit the continent, causing great population loss and social upheaval.

The continent suffered next under a series of religious wars in the late medieval and early modern era, with conflicting local pagans, Fabrian Catholics, and Protestant Christians all trying to lay claim to Ghantish society. King Samuel V of Low Ghant in the 17th century was crowned the first "King of Ghant" and reconciled the religious divide, as well as pressing north (continued by his descendants) to absorb more independent kingdoms under Low Ghant's rule, which comprised most of the 18th century. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Ghant underwent the Industrial Revolution, aided by the unification of the whole continent in 1800 under Nathan I, who took the title Emperor. The century and a half from the dawn of the 19th century until the middle of the 20th century was characterized by numerous civil wars and conflicts between the centralizing monarchy in the south and local "Great Lords" in the center and north of the country.

In the later years of the 20th century and into the 21st century, Ghant has become a settled nation, increasingly looking outwards. Despite its more recent domestic calm and prosperity, it still maintains uneven development by modern standards, with the north in many places still reflecting an almost medieval state of being while the south and coasts are modern and urbanized. It has developed extensive oil deposits inside its borders, becoming a petrostate. Its recent elected leaders have emphasized human rights and self-determination. It is considered by many in the Western Monarchies as a "Great Power."

List of Nations in Ajax

Main article: List of countries in Ajax by system of government

Short and formal names	Capital	Population	Notes
Aretias – Kingdom of Mysia	Evros	865,577	Unitary absolute monarchy
Arthurista – Arthuristan Commonwealth	Loweport	87,565,046	Parliamentary democracy
Ascalzar – Principality of Ascalzar	Ascalzar	852,407	Unitary parliamentary dual monarchy
Ayeli – Imperial State of Ayeli	Gadu	381,366	Imperial republic
Ayvana – Princely States of Ayvana	Sargenari	165,787,757	Confederation
Belfras – Belfrasian Federation	Thessalona	110,000,000	Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Besmenia - Federal Republic of Besmenia	Lait City	35,179,857	Federal parliamentary democracy
Cynereth – Concordance of Cynereth	Laeleath	69,243,525	Theocratic monarchy with limited local democracy
Drevstran – Republic of Drevstran	Angrast	42,132,445	Unitary parliamentary constitutional republic
Elatia – Blessed Republic of Elatia	Engelhavn	142,856,836	Totalitarian socialist theocracy
Enyama – Federal States of Enyama	Karasuna	68,783,232	Federal presidential republic
Fabria – Holy See of Fabria	Fabria City	1,000	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Fahran – Second Gheirav Republic of Fahran	Haqara	35,084,331	Unitary presidential constitutional republic
Garima – Kingdom of Garima	Hauptburg	60,232,383	Parliamentary constitutional federal monarchy
Garza – Kingdom of Garza	Ciudad Garza	7,903,138	Parliamentary constitutional federal monarchy
Ghant – Ghant	Ghish	55,482,192	Parliamentary constitutional federal monarchy
Gelonia – Kingdom of Gelonia	Oxonia	10,431,981	Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Gran Aligonia – United Republic of Gran Aligonia	Villa Romera	689,242	Unitary presidential republic
Gristol-Serkonos – United Kingdom and Constitutional Union of Gristol and Serkonos	Pontiac-Bernadotte	64,834,000	Federal parliamentary constitutional diarchy
Iskail – August and Illustrious Union of Iskail	Kllaiakjè	7,698,419	Federal parliamentary republic
Template:Country data Juwari – Clan-State of Juwari	Aisin Gemun	85,690,420	Federal technocratic 'Juwari socialist' monarchy
Keuland – Kingdom of Keuland	Kalda	4,957,361	Unitary absolute monarchy
Latium – Latin Empire	Castellum ab Alba	87,216,912	Unitary parliamentary executive monarchy
Lihnidos – Lihnidosi Empire	Arcadia	72,420,744	Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Lion's Rock – Dominion of Lion's Rock	Lion's Rock	5,469,700	Parliamentary republic
Lyncanestria – Empire of Lyncanestria	Villeneuve	64,854,527	Federal constitutional parliamentary democracy
Messidor Union	Vaux	52,314,445	Syndicalist federation
Mutul – Divine Kingdom of Mutul	Kalak'Muul	119,899,702	Absolute monarchy
Onekawa-Nukanoa – Ngāti Onekawa-Nukanoa	Takutaiwhero	62,010,060	Federal absolute monarchy
Ostrozava – Primární Republika Ostrozavská	Karsko	77,204,940	Socialist federal constitutional republic
North Ottonia – Ottonian Federal Republic	Innsboro	96,768,590	Federal presidential democratic republic
South Ottonia - Union of Ottonia	St. Mikel	33,612,849	Federal Constitutional monarchy
Pulau Keramat – The Confederate League of Pulau Keramat	Kopiona Poi	83,452,600	Confederated constitutional republic
Sante Reze – Most Eminently Serene Noble Republic of Sante Reze	San Gianpiero	105,430,000	Noble republic
Skaldafen Confederation – Skaldafen Confederation	Kæp Jriak	91,479,732	Confederated martial oligarchy
Template:Country data Sudmark – Kingdom of Sudmark	Soddenburg	9,731,816	Parliamentary constitutional federal monarchy
Sydalon – Kingdom of Sydalon	Sydalon	14,695,000	Unitary absolute monarchy
Talakh – Emirate of Talakh	Nashifah	11,676,115	Unitary semi-constitutional monarchy
Tikal – Free State of Tikal	Tikal City	248,660	Parliamentary republic
Tsensurii – Kritarchy of Tsensurii	Magghlessi	4,563,913	Technocratic kritarchy
Tsurushima – Daitoa Enlightened Republic	Asahina	126,672,000	Directorial technocratic socialist federal republic
Tulura – Federation of Tulura	Arimal	151,852,865	Igomlaku federation
Uluujol – Khaganate of Uluujol	Osh	101,564,393	Semi-federal absolute monarchy
Vardana – Republic of Vardana	Hrazdan	51,202,572	Federal directorial republic
Yisrael – Kingdom of Yisrael	Yerushalayim	20,204,951	Federal presidential constitutional monarchy