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:
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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".
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)
Makiling Hegemonic Era (1105 - 1655CE)
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)
War of Sovereignty (1800-1820)
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, Capampangan, Bicolano, and Batangan States. Mindanao and Sulu 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.
Cordilleran War (1971-1977)
Communists attempt to break into Royal Confederacy-held Cordilleras. Royal Confederacy drives the Palmyrian People's Republic back after a bloody war.
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 (1979-1986)
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, whose seat of power is located at the Royal Citadel, and who gains power via absolute primogeniture; natural-born children have first order of precedence, followed by adopted children (with order of adoptions dictating position in the royal line). 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 House of Representatives, and an upper house, the Chamber of Senators. The House of Representatives 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, with 40 Provincial Circuit Courts overseeing their respective provinces' Administrative Circuit Courts. 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 Western Pact (a pact for western Greater Dienstadi nations), 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. It is also a member-state of the Romani-Mar'si Union, a superstate consisting prominently of Holy Marsh, Romandeos, and Palmyrion. Strategic partners include Holy Marsh and Romandeos, while Allanea and fellow Northwest Mutual Assistance Agreement member-states Eitoan, Relica, and the Timocratic Republic are considered major (but not strategic) allies of the Royal Commonwealth. Its ties with other Greater Dienstadi nations and powers are relatively positive and normal, though its relations with the Ordenite Reich and the Ralkovian Empire are considered by many to be negative beyond normalisation at worst and totally nonexistent at best.
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) | |||
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| 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 Subject | Federal capital | Provinces | Provincial Capital |
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| 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 |