Tagmatium

Greater Holy Empire of Tagmatium Ahromaneia
Flag Coat of arms
Capital	Tagmatika
Official languages	Tagmatine, Occidental Arhoman
Demonym(s)	Tagmatine
Government	Theocracy
• Holy Emperor	Kommodos III
Establishment
• Formation	1234
Population
• 2019 census	253,491,524
GDP (nominal)	2021 estimate
• Total	$4.995 trillion
• Per capita	$19,548
Currency	Hyperpyron Nomisma
Driving side	left
Internet TLD	.tg
Preceded by Aroman Empire

(General introduction goes here. 1st sentence: short name, long name, location. 2nd: government, rules from capital city. 3rd: special partner nations and general interactions with Eurth.)

Etymology

(Where does the name come from? How is it pronounced? What is the name in local language?)

Geography

Landscape of Komítis (Κομήτης).

(Location on Eurth: in NW Occident. Neighbouring nations. Where do most people live? Where is the heartland? Some islands? What are the different climates? Any former colonies?)

History

Remains of the Basilica of $City (Aroman era)

(Connect with Adaptus and Aroman Empire. Post-Aroman world. Relationship with Amutia. Opposition to Burania. Transition into Christianity. What happens during Medieval times? How about colonialism? What changed when entering the modern era? Any recent events we should know about?)

Medieval

The idea behind Tagmatium was that it was a !Roman/Byzantine outpost and became a haven for Iconoclasts fleeing the !Byzantine Empire in the 700s and 800s. The garrison commander decided that he’d like to rule it as his own personal domain, and seceded. The weak, nascent state then allied with a number of small tribes and set about carving out larger territories, leading to the Greater Holy Empire of Tagmatium. It remained a strong, powerful state with a professional army until Tagmatium’s own version of That Terrible Day, when a nomadic people who’d be slowly moving into Tagmatine territory smashed the Imperial Army and killed the Holy Emperor in 1304. Large portions of Tagmatium were lost, only being reunited in the early 2000s. The rest of the medieval period and early modern saw Tagmatium slowly pull itself back.

Modern period

By the 1900s, it was once again a powerful nation. A long war against a communist insurrection in an allied nation (known as the Long War, from 1932 to 1956) ruined Tagmatium economically and caused massive social upheaval, including the execution of the reigning Holy Emperor, Konstantine VIII (“the Mad”). A military coup ended Tagmatium’s involvement in the war, and the general who had been installed as monarch set about introducing democracy into the hidebound Greater Holy Empire. When he stepped down (the only Holy Emperor to do so) and called a general election, a socialist was elected. This ended in a second military coup, in 1969, which saw the Republic of Tagmatium (now known within Tagmatium as “the Old Republic”), essentially a militaristic dictatorship along the lines of the various South American ones of the mid-to-late 1900s. The Imperial Government fled and formed the Empire-in-Exile. This was toppled in 1995 by the Empire-in-Exile, which then set about piecing things back together. In 2005, another military coup attempt was made, but ultimately crushed, although the Holy Emperor was assassinated in the opening moves. The war ended with the election of the current Holy Emperor, Kommodos Mikael James.

Politics

(How kind of government? Who is the head of state/government? When was the last election or change of government? Which political parties are there? How are the foreign relations? What is the military like?)

Military

The military is also very strong within Tagmatium. Participation within the armed forces is greatly respected, although soldiers stand somewhat apart from the rest of society, due to the idea that whilst what they do is certainly for the good of Tagmatium and its people, they are still perceived as killers by definition. This often manifests amongst members of the armed forces as either a flippancy towards the idea of sinning, or acts of penance to absolve the soldiers of actions.

The navy is not the biggest of the Tagmatine armed forces branches - that will probably be the army - but it has been used as a force-projection... force within my home region. Tagmatium does have a handful of somewhat overseas bits and pieces it needs to protect. On top of that, I doubt the Imperial Government is above indulging in a bit of gunboat diplomacy.

On top of that, the Greater Holy Empire was surrounded by enemies who also possessed significant navies - Suverina, Vanarambaion, Machina Haruspex. The primarily role of the Holy Imperial Navy in the late 2000s and early 2010s would have been to protect Tagmatine interests across the region, keep trade lanes open, prevent any seaborne landing on Tagmatine territory and possessions, attack enemy assets and allow seaborne attacks on enemy territories and possessions.

This has a bit of a basis in Tagmatine history, as in the 1880s Tagmatium had heard about all this colonisation going on, and wanted a slice of the colony pie. So it conquered a nation in Europa, and then built up its navy to protect its interests. The colony gained independence in the 1960s after a guerilla war. This was actually going to be RPed, but the other nation CTE'd before it could go that far. Well, the end of the colony was going to be RPed.

At the moment, the focus of the navy is really on electronic warfare, as well as the missile dreadnoughts and aircraft carriers.

Economy

The economy of Tagmatium is a developed mixed economy, with a reliance on heavy heavy industry and agriculture, a growing biofuels and alternative energy sector, a well-established armaments sector, with tourism playing a large role. Whilst Tagmatium does have a leading regional manufacturing sector, with an element of automation, it lags behind this when compared to the wurld's other leading economies. Tagmatium holds the wurld's largest share in the biofuel market, being both one of the largest grower of the raw material and the largest producer of the biofuel itself. The manufacture of textiles is the leading Tagmatine light industry, using wool or plant fibres often grown within the Greater Holy Empire's borders. This sector, as well as agriculture and construction, tend to provide low-skill, low-paying jobs for much of the Tagmatine workforce.

Natural Sector

Within the farming sector, staple crops such as wheat and maize are predominant, with Tagmatium being the largest exporters of grain on Eurth. Much of this is exported to other Europan countries. This goes hand-in-hand with Tagmatium's booming biofuels industry. The problem this has begun to pose is that there is competition for arable land between crops such as wheat or maize and crops used for seed oil. Farming sees a high degree of automation, although this is often seen in the large farming combines that dominate the growing of these staples for exports – smaller, family owned farms often cannot afford the newer generation of machinery.

Besides arable farming, sheep and cattle are raised, both for meat, dairy produce and wool. Seed oil is the biggest growing sector within the Tagmatine agricultural sector, aided by subsidies and the fact that the government is actively seeking foreign markets for it. This sector also provides much of the luxuries that Tagmatium exports – Tagmatine wine, brandy and whisky are amongst the most famous, as well as more niche products such as garos.

Forestry is often tightly controlled by the Ministry of the Environment, the body that also covers agriculture in general. Much of this comes from the historic need to supply wood for weaponry and charcoal for metalworking, long since redundant, but also part of the drive of Kommodos III's government towards a sustainable future. Logging and the utilisation of forests and woodlands for commercial uses is strictly licensed and monitored.

Industrial Sector

The industrial sector is helped by a good supply and variety of natural resources, including abundent deposits of iron, copper, coal, zinc and even some rarer ores, such as bauxite, tungsten and uranium. A well-developed infrastructure – famously, metaphorically so – aids extraction and use of these resources, but international competition means that much of this is limited to central and northern Europa. Shipbuilding, farming machinery and locomotive construction are the largest parts of the industrial sector, whilst the automotive industry tends to lag behind foreign examples.

The arms industry supplies the needs of the Exkerkitos Arhomanos, with everything from small arms to armoured vehicles and most ship types domestically produced, with some export to allied or at least friendly nations. Whilst this means that it is a relatively large domestic employer, there is little international demand for Tagmatine arms and armaments.

Its commercial electronics and software development is good for northern Europa but cannot be described as wurld-beating – at times, the indigenous companies do little more than play keep-up with foreign competitors. This has become somewhat reinforced by recent trade deals struck by the Agios Basilikon Kounsistorion with Salvia and Iverica, which reduced the tariffs for foreign imports in this sector. It was hoped that this would spur the domestic manufacturers and developers, although this has yet come to pass.

Due to Tagmatium's booming agricultural sector, the production of industrial chemicals for fertiliser and pesticide has seen a similar upswing, at least within the internal market. It is hoped that it will become a key part of international trade as well.

Service Sector

The service sector remains a bit more rudimentary than other comparable national economies, more focussed on the internal market than the international one. This is partially due to the nascent state of the Tagmatine electronics sector but it is also hindered by other factors. These include a language and culture that doesn't spread much beyond the Occident and north-eastern Amutia, despite increasing interest in the projection of soft power by the Tagmatine government.

Healthcare is provided by a mixture of the state and the Church, with most hospitals, hospices and residential care being run administratively and funded by a diocese but staffed by employees of the Ministry of Health. Private healthcare exists but is rare and is usually only accessed by the wealthy.

Hospitality is a major part of the service sector, providing a wide range of low-paying jobs. Food service is split between restaurants, which includes everything from the high end to fast food, to bars, taverns and pubs. Hotels can be much more varied, from luxurious ones that cater to foreign and domestic tourists to those that cater almost exclusively towards pilgrims travelling between the various shrines and religious sites in Tagmatium, often as part of a pilgrimage route, which are usually Spartan. In between lie ones that cater business travellers.

The Tagmatine merchant fleet has been able to take advantage of the continental economic downturn and step into the void formed by other countries no longer being able to maintain extensive merchant fleets of their own. This has been aided by the favourable rates the Agios Basilikon Kounsistorion offers on transit through the Isthmus Canal to shipping firms registered within Tagmatium. It has meant that the Tagmatine merchant fleet has come to become the leading freight service within the Raga and the Central Europan seas.

Tourism

Tourism remains a steady sector – the ancient sites and sights of the Aroman Empire draw tourists from across Eurth, whether to see such storied sites as the Walls of Konstantios which dominate Europatorion and various ancient Christian sites that dot the country. The continental economic downturn has seen a reduction in tourists from Europa but increasing contact with the New Wurld means that much of this has been replaced by tourists from Marenesia and Argis.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure remains nationalised – the railways are all state-controlled, apart from rail lines that operate within large mines, quarries or industrial sites. The road network is maintained by the state, as are ferries and air carriers. Whilst this has benefit for times of emergency, it does mean that it can lean towards the inefficient at other times. It is administered by the Ministry for Transport.

Similarly, utilities are owned and maintained by the state, although administered by separate ministries, namely the Ministries of Aqueducts and Power, with the Ministry of Information covering telecommunications.

Previously, energy was mainly generated by coal-burning power stations, as well as several nuclear power stations, recent drives during the reign of Kommodos III has seen the power grid transition to renewable sources. In November 2018, the country was able to fulfil all of its energy needs for a week through renewable and nuclear sources, and this became more the norm throughout 2020.

Demographics

Dome interior of the Cathedral of Saint $Name in $city

(Ethnic groups. Language. Religion. Health. Education)

Culture

(Literature. Visual arts. Music. Cuisine. Sport.)

Tagmatium regards itself as the successor to both !Rome and !Byzantium. All other nations are nothing but semi-civilised savages and barbarians, albeit ones that Tagmatium is often forced to regard as equals, begrudgingly. Other nations are always lesser when compared to the glorious history of the Greater Holy Empire. If another nation is older or also claims to be a successor of the Romans, Tagmatium will often indulge in its own “No True Scotsman” fallacy.

The Greater Holy Empire is also very conservative and traditionalist. Many inhabitants, no matter their station in society, can draw thousand-year lineages, and great store is often set by them. The nation is also very class-ridden, although this has begun to weaken. Until relatively recently, many jobs were hereditary (at least in practice) and only the Great and the Good were allowed to vote in the election of the Holy Emperor. The Imperial Court played a large role, keeping the balance between the military and the bureaucracy by elaborate proceedings. The economic crisis caused by the Long War and the turmoil afterwards eroded this as an aspect of the government of Tagmatium, and it is regarded by the current Holy Emperor as a waste of time. The Imperial Court views the current Holy Emperor as an upstart

External links

• The Greater Holy Empire of Tagmatium (2005-2008)
• http://archive.nswiki.org/index.php?title=Tagmatium
• http://nswiki.org/index.php?title=Tagmatium