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Republic of Lorbank | |
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Motto: "For God and my Country" | |
Anthem: "Oh, Lorbank! Oh, Lorbank!". | |
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| Capital and largest city | Lisledo |
| Official languages | Mercanti |
| Demonym(s) | Lorbankian |
| Government | Unitary dominant-party semi-presidential republic |
| Leslie Burves | |
| Charles Taylor | |
| Daniel Hale | |
| Alyce Maxwell | |
| Legislature | National Assembly |
| Establishment | |
• Foundation of the Kingdom of Lorthea | 1362 |
• First session of the National Assembly | 1762 |
• Proclamation of the Republic | 1865 |
• Current constitution | 1998 |
| Area | |
• Total land area | 269,788 km2 (104,166 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• 2020 estimate | 22,570,200 |
• 2012 census | 22,122,346 |
• Density | 101/km2 (261.6/sq mi) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2020 estimate |
• Total | 765 billion (IBU) |
• Per capita | 33950 (IBU) |
| HDI (2020) |  0.815very high |
| Currency | Aydinian/Lorbankian Imparatorluk Not (ITN (₺)) |
| Time zone | SET +4 |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +36 |
| Internet TLD | .lr |
The Republic of Lorbank, shortly called Lorbank is a semi-presidential Republic in East-Iteria. Spanning 93,030 square kilometres, it borders Haven to the Northwest, the United Federation to the Nouthwest and Alnaria to the Southeast. The Shupka Sea is located to the Northeast. With about 22.5 million inhabitants, it is a medium-sized country in Eras. Lorbank joined the Iterian League on the 4th of March 2021. The official language is Mercanti. The capital city is Lisledo which lies in the Northeastern-central part of the country, across the Shupka Sea.
The country is led by President Leslie Burves who is one of the most acknowledged Head of State in the region. His work is helped by Prime Minister Charles Taylor (since 2004), who is the first black officer of the country and the new Vice Presient, Daniel Hale (2018). The country is a New York Times Democracy, therefore there is a great mixture of economy, political rights and civil rights too. The government's budget spent on infrastructure, eductaion, sports and industry. The all-consuming Lorbankian economy, worth 765 billion IBU a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by tourism, car manufacturing, building industry combined with food industry and telecommunication.
Etymology
The name of the country is believed to come from the foundation of the state. Before the country was officially founded in 1362, for centuries there were three small kingdoms in this area; Micentis, Leghes and Radorea. In 1362, Leghes managed to conquer these lands, and a new kingdom, Lorthea was born. The population of the three countries were started to be mixed, this is the genezis of the Lorbankians. People started to use a new language, the Tagapa, which is originated from South, where Leghesians came from (today's United Federation).
In this language, the inhabitants' name was Lorua, the nation's was Lorzua, the land where they lived was Lorthea. Later, when Mercanti language started to be spoken here in the 19th century (due to missionaries from Midir), Lorthea became too hard to pronounce in the new language. Therefore it has changed slowly; in the same historical ages, a lot of financial institution was founded, and the foreigners recognized this land for these institutions. Finally, they named Lorbank, and it became widespread in Lorbank too.
Geography
Lorbank is a coastal country in East Iteria with a land area of 93,030 square km. It measures about 620 km from North to South and 850 km from East to West. It shares borders with Haven to the Northwest, United Federation to the Southwest and Alnaria to the Southeast.
The major rivers in the country are the Chamas and Sió. The Chamas has two branches; the White and the Black Chamas. Both of them stem from Adrian Mountains. River Chamas is navigable within the country for 442 kilometers. The Sió River is navigable for 287 km in the country (stems from Alnaria). Less important rivers include the Larma along the Haven border, the Sapary and the Benkhard.
Lorbank has three major geographic regions (which are subdivided to seven smaller ones):
• the Coastal Plain, lying along the Shupka Sea (subdivisions: Amarillo Peninsula, East-Zalan Plains, Lisledo-Klouis Plains, Central Riviera and Hollad Plains)
• the Great Lorbankian Plains, located in the central area of Lorbank (subdivisions: West-Zalan Plains, Chamas Nook, Chamas-Larma Lowlands, Gotshej and the Moson Lowlands)
• the Pukaranras Foothills a hilly region, which can be found in the Southern parts of the country, at the Border with the United Federation (subdivisions: Yoshi Plateau, Ikva Hills and Adrian Mountains)
The country's best natural resource is fertile land, although soil quality varies greatly. About 70% of the country's total territory is suitable for agriculture; of this portion, 72% is arable land. Lorbank lacks extensive domestic sources of energy and raw materials needed for industrial development.
Most of the country has an elevation of less than 300 m. Although Lorbank has several moderately high ranges of mountains, those reaching heights of 500 m or more cover less than 5% of the country. The highest point in the country is Kippon (1,624 m) in the Adrian Mountains in Southern Lorbank.
Lorbank has a mainly continental climate, with cold winters and warm to hot summers. The average annual temperature is about 10 °C (50 °F), in summer 27 to 35 °C (81 to 95 °F), and in winter 5 to −15 °C (37 to 5 °F), with extremes ranging from about 42 °C (108 °F) in summer to −25 °C (−21 °F) in winter. Average yearly rainfall is about 600 mm (23.6 in). Distribution and frequency of rainfall are unpredictable.
There are some anomalies in connection with climate. The souther part of the country usually receives more rain (800-900 mm) than the northern part due to the closeness of the Adrian Mountains, on the other hand, weather conditions in the Central Riviera and the Hollad Plain can be especially harsh, with hot summers, mild winters, and scant rainfall, the climate there is mediterranean.
History
This area was inhabited in 3000 BC. The fossils record that the cavemen who lived there could communitace by basic language and their hands were very skillful. Probably, these cavemen were homo erectus, because they didn't have a permanent home, but they changed their place of living frequently. Around 1000 BC, the era of glaciation came and every creature died out. Therefore, this area was underpopulated until the ice melted and the weather became warmer.
The era of glaciation was until the end of the AD 4th century. At this time, interglacials took place and the weather got back to normal. And slowly, tribes moved in to this area. The immigration had three directions.
• Micentians from West
• Leghesians from South
• Radoreans from East
Each tribes did something else than the others; Micentians were merchant nation. In their capital, Kusil even the farest condiments could be found. Every week on the main street of the city, there was a market, where merchants from every nation could sell their products. Leghesians owned a lot of mountain, which contained gold, iron and silver. Their mining was very developed and the a consequence of this was that they had very effective armours and swords. Radoreans took the advantage of rivers; they started irrigation management. They never had food shortage.
After they moved here, they settled down and founded their own kingdoms (Micentis, Leghes, Radorea). These three kingdoms existed in relative peace for 7 centuries.
In 1195, some problems occured in Micentis; due to expansions to the Northwest, the treasury become empty. Therefore the taxes were risen which the Micentian peasants couldn't pay. After the tax increase, riots began. The rebellion was successful, they killed King Batkin II and then they opted a principal for the country. The first leader of the country was Accay, who was the principal of Micentis for 31 years and managed to create peace.
After his death, the tribal chiefs chose a new principal, Josiah in 1226. But during this time a pretender, Walganus turned up. He was the distant relative of the Radorean royal family, so he asked for help from his second cousin, Berolf I. Later, Walganus was captured by the soldiers of the principality and sentenced to death.
This was the casus belli of the War of the Lorthean Succession, which had five periods. First chapter was the Radorean - Micentian war. The two leaders who warred with each other were Principal Josiah and King Berolf I. The first period of the war was pointless, because none of the battles were won by anyone, the two army were equal both in quantity and in quality too. This period started in 1226 and ended in 1258.
The second period of the war (1258 - 1272) was far faster and bloodier than the first used to be. This was because Radorea had more money therefore they could recruit more units. Leghes and Micentis made the Deal of Prukner and defeated Radorea in a coalition. Radoreans surrounded after the attackers occupied the Radorean capital Gehkar in 1307. According to the deal, Leghes got four-fifths of Radorea, Micentis the one-fifth. This was the third part.
The fourth period was peace. This capter was between 1307 and 1318. Both Leghes and Radorea wanted to rebuild their countries and re-produce their army. According to sources, the two countries had 30,000 soldiers in all after the war finished. Due to Leghes was bigger than Micentis (because of the deal) had bigger population and therefore they could produce more units faster than the Principality (for example in 1317 Leghes had 230,000 soldiers opposite to Micentis which had 65,000).
As part of the fifth period, Leghes declared war on Micentis in 1318. The council of the principality knew that they wouldn't have chance if their army attacked the main army of Leghes. So they decided to start guerilla war, and this was quite successful; they hunted 73,000 men with this method. But they couldn't avoid their doom; the Leghesian army occupied the Micentian capital, Amaralla (which was the progenitor of today Amarillis) in 1362. The Leghesian king, Kalman II died after they captured Amaralla, because a plague epidemic broke out and the king was infected too, and he died some days later. His son, Pierre I the Great inherited the Leghesian throne.
Pierre I (1362 - 1398) was a peaceful man, he didn't organised genocide or try to make Micentians and Radoreans assimilate to the Leghesian Kingdom. Instead of this, he united the three countries. The process has a special method; he gave up the superiority of Leghes and created a new country in which every "provinces" (the former kingdoms) had equal rights. Pierre I the Great united the three countries into one, the Kingdom of Lorthea. He established the Arava Dynasty. He made the Tagapa language official in the whole country. Former nations' families got married with each other, so the integration started. This is how Lorbankian identity was born.
In the next 200 years, strong kings and queens led the united Lorthea. This period was about the blooming of the ecomomy, society and politics. Nothing special happened; only some laws, pacts had been published:
• 1363 Law of Fellowship (Lex Communitas) by Pierre I: ensures integration of the three nation into one; the person has to be punished who has intensions of instigating hostility among the ethnical groups.
• 1381 Law of Capital City (Lex Caput Urbis) by Pierre I: foundation of capital Lilledo (today Lisledo)
• 1431 Land Law (Lex Iugerum) by John I: gives the right to everyone to be freeholder
• 1477 Law of Officers (Lex Magistratus) by John II: the person who attempt to buy state office will be exiled from Lorthea
• 1516 Law of Power (Lex potestas) by Adrian I: provides autonomy for bigger cities
• 1579 Tax Law (Lex Subsidium) - Tax law by Adrian III: the peasants have to pay twice as much tax than the previous year to upkeep the army
This tax law was not accepted by a general, Abdimilki and started to organise rebel forces in Isti (today Kistin). Their target was to make Adrian III withdraw the Tax law. That time, the Lorthean army was strong so they couldn't battle with the main forces of the Lorthean army but accomplish guerilla actions. They controlled Isti for 4 years, the Lorthean army captured it in 1583.
In the same year, the rest of the rebels moved to the Adrian mountains and stayed here for 3 years. This was a good place to hide, because the Lorthean army didn't know this place enough. Abdimilki's army had to leave the mountains in December of 1586, because the weather was so cold, therefore they moved norther. They reached Gehkar, the former capital of Radorea. Here they incited the population; they said that everything would change if they gained their independence again. This campaign was relatively successful; they recruited 30 thousand soldiers.
After this act, they confronted with the Lorthean army again, this was the Battle of Chamas in 1587. During this battle, the weather was very bad; the river near there was flooding, moreover it was raining. The soldiers had to tackle with the cold temperature too. With these circumstances the two army fought; 150 thousand soldiers died from the two sides. The outcome of the war was draw. Both of them withdrew to gather strength.
Gathering strenght was until 1590. Then, Abdimilki started to move towards the Lorthean capital city, Lilledo. Until they marched to the city, King Adrian ordered his army to prepare for the battle. The royal forces included 50 thousand swordsmen and 30 thousand arrowmen.
The final battle, the Battle of Lilledo was in April 18 1591.
It was dominated by the rebels who were three times more than the royal army. The slaves started the battle really well; they conquered the battlefield, then the walls too. King Adrian remained in the castle with five thousand soldiers and determined themselves to do the last attack against the rebels. Miraculously, their rush was successful. During the fight, the two generals; King Adrian and Abdimilki saw each other and started to fight. Finally, King Adrian won this fight, but he didn't kill Abdimilki, but chained him. After the rebels saw that their leaders was chained they started to flee, and finally the royal army fenced them in.
After the fight, King Adrian ordered the prisoners to work one year for free and then they must left the country. After this, King Adrian reduced the rate of the tax. That's why he's called King Adrian III the Lionheart. (King Adrian was the longest serving king in the history of Lorbank; he got the throne in 1570 and died in 1624).
After the civil war ended, Adrian could start an active foreign policy too. In the 1610's, Adrian expanded the country; westbound to the River Larma, eastbound to the River Sió. The result was a huge territorry expansion.
Adrian's only son was Richard II (1624 - 1655). When he became the king of Lorthea, he was 34 years old and has 2 sons. His dominion had one important element: a lot of salt mines started to operate and therefore a lot of money was gained.
There was a famous prophecy about the future of the country after Richard dies. According to this prophecy the heirs, Pierre and James can't share the power and will war with each other. This is the Prophecy of Ascelyn. That's why Pierre and James agreed to change the person of the ruler annually. And because of Pierre was the older brother, he started the ruling after their father's death.
After Richard died, Pierre III started his one-year-dominion on 23rd March 1655. One year later, James demanded the throne, but Pierre didn't give it to him. Therefore James organized his army and attacked the capital. This was a long, bloody war in which both of the two heirs died in 1667, and the war has ended in 1659. After this war, period of interregnum started. This was during 1659 and 1663 and the country officially was lead by the council of elders which has 5 members, but this committee didn't have so much power. In the same time, skirmish for the throne began. There were three people who claimed the throne:
• Ebett, daughter of James
• Michel, who represented the interest of the peasants
• Harry, the leader of the aristocracy
Lorthea was split up to 3 territorries, because the pretenders' support was divided by areas: Ebett dominated the West, Michel the North, Harry the South. Ebett learnt from the history (War of the Lorthean Succession) and allied with Michel who was weaker than Harry. Together, they defeated Harry in the Battle of Krizrond. After this, Ebett attacked Michel and hammered his army in the Battle of Tzubond. This was a battle in which Ebett's army lost only 450 soldiers and killed 23,000.
Ebett's (1663 - 1687) coronation was held on 1st March 1663 and she became the first queen of Lorthea. Due to she was a queen, a new dynasty was born. This was the Arava-Soegen Dynasty, named after her husband Joseph Soegen. Her first decree was the law of coronation. This law declared that the official coronation has 3 conditions:
• The coronation has to be in Lilledo
• The crown has to be the same as Pierre I's
• The prince or princess has to have a partner
She brang prosperity to the inhabitants with a new, strict tax system: every goods could came across the border which couldn't be manufactured in Lorthea. Those products which could be made in the country, levied taxes was very high on them. Consequently Lorthea turned to self-supporting.
She was a supporter of research. She helped the work of the researchers with big amount of donations. This assistance helped the development of astronomy (discovery of planets) and architecture (restauration of castles, new methods of urbanistics) too.
In 1687, some of her enemies committed a murder. We still don't know who were they. They bribed the cook and poisoned her dinner. After she ate her food, she became ill and died within 30 minutes. She had enough time only for publishing her last will: her only son, Josh inherits the throne.
Josh (1687 - 1703) was the first king who was coronated by the new rules. The most important thing which can be connected to his dominion is the religional changes. In the 1680's Courantist missionaries appeared at the coasts of Lorthea from Midir and their target was to convert the people's religion. The missionaries went to Lilledo and asked for permission from Josh I to evangelise. Josh sympathized with the new vision, and gave the permission to convert people and their mission was quite successful; they converted the 80% of the population to Courantist to the 1730's.
Josh, just to emphasize his commitment to Courantism, published the Edict of Kerepesh in 1702. In this document, Courantism was recorded as a national religion (until 1887).
The other consequence of the missionaries' activities, their mother tongue, the Mercanti started to spread, but much slower than the religion (it became dominant only in the 19th century).
After Josh I died, his son, John III (1703 - 1721) inherited the throne. His first order (Act of Church) was to build churches in every cities and villages. The nation didn't have enough money to finance these constructions and therefore loans must had been taken out. Lorthea was in a big trouble this time and there was nobody to help. Later, an alliance of some oligarchs appeared and they offered to pay the loans out, but they demanded a lot of lands in exchange for it, this was the Order of the Crane. John III didn't have any options, so he agreed these offers. Later, the Order started to impose its own taxes and tariffs. Furthermore, they governed their land.
John created the title of governor. This title is used while the hier is a child (this case, his only daughter, Linet) and the holder is in the office until the hier reaches the age of 18. Until this doesn't not occurs, the governor has omnipotence. Moreover, the appointment of the governor is valid only if it is appointed by the king. The first governor of Lorthea was Gilbert Gerbod. His priority was to reduce debt and the power of the oligarchs. He established the ministry of finance and minted a new currency, the Koling.
In 1731, Linet reached the age of 18 and her coronation was in the same year. She published the Silver Bull in 1742, which target was to reduce the oligarchs' power. This document announced that nobody can hold more than one office and they have to pay raised taxes. The power of the queen included only the capital and some villages near the capital. The other parts of the country were dominated by the Order of the Crane.
Linet was followed by his son, James (1747 - 1760). He established the first court in the country. With the assist of this court, he killed his opponents and jailed those who resisted to his will, therefore, Order of the Crane has been abandoned in 1757. After this, he lured his opponents' army into his.
His economic policy was mercantilist; he published all of his measurements in the Bridgeport Statute. In this document he established the city which were one of the most frequent trade center in Lorthea, furthermore established customs frontier at the borders of Lorthea, where imports could come with low duties, exports with very hard ones. New salt and silver mines very explored and the current ones were expanded, the production of them very increased 3 times as it was 100 years ago.
Until the 1760's absolute monarchy was very stable for centuries, this was the first time it has become insecured. This had three main reasons:
• Political crisis: the subjects were unrest because of a non-Lorthean king's reign.
• Economic crisis: due to the mercantilist economic policy, the agricultural sector was abandoned. Every investment were put into industry (guilds, manufactures). The other fact was that tax evasion became frequent.
• Food crisis: for 5 years, the crop was very bad due to insufficient weather conditions. A part of the population was suffering from starvation, the other (who had enough money) spent their all money for food.
From 1758 protests became daily in the streets of the cities in Lorthea. Naturally the biggest ones were in Lilledo, but thousands of people gathered in Bridgeport, Vomance and Phaistos too. The leader of the protests was Marc Achim, who demanded the immediate elimination of the kingdom and the proclaimation of the republic. With his skillful agitations and speeches, he provoked the crowd further and further. The situation was tensed mostly in 1760, when the royal regime was couped by the protestors.
After this, Achim seized his power, but he didn't proclaimed the republic but the Protectorate of Lorthea, in which he was the number-one-leader as a Lord Protector. Although the republic was not proclaimed, the first assembly of the parliament was convened and it was unicameral (like every assembly later in the history). The members of the parliament was assorted by Achim. He sent invitation to every representatives of the society pyramid; the Lord Protector, aristocrats, priesthood, bourgeoisie, workpeople and peasantry. Except the Lord Protector, all of them had 50 representatives, but a group formed only one vote in the final voting (so they had to find a common agreement).
The first assembly was held between 1762 and 1766. The results were impressive; the orders found the same wavelength in a lot of issue.
• recognition of the new state form
• peasants' urbarium had been abolished (like socage, gift, court-baron).
• in the issue of national language, Mercanti has been recorded as the national language
• the Act of Church had been confirmed
• freedom of speech declared to be human right
The public mood became more peaceful for some years. The second assembly was between 1769 and 1772 in Phaistos. One of the major magnates, Karl Rhedey, who was motivated by patriotism, offered his one-year-income to build some iconic buildings to the nation, including Parliament, National Library and National Academy of Sciences.
Achim convened the next assembly to 1779 and 1781. The reason was that the 73-year-old Protector wanted to hand the power to his nephew, Patrick Achim. However the orders have a lot of arguements and discussion, finally voted the proposal. The duo have reigned a year (1783) together, then Patrick became the only leader in 1784.
After Patrick took the power, he built up his very own dominion, which was based on his famous law system, the Codex Patrick. Under his 40-year-long-dominance he has never left the capital (Lilledo) and its surroundings. He knew that it is the heart of the country and it wouldn't be benefitial for him to leave it even for a moment.
He divided the country to 15 counties, which had their each leaders, the counts. Each count was visited by the protector's envoy every month. Furthermore, he dismantled the power of the parliament, he summoned it rarelier and rarelier and discussed less and less important issues.
During his rule, he took some effective economic-social political measures too. Abolished serfdom in 1792, so serfs could move freely within the country. Minted new coin in 1801, the Dukat, which was made of gold, so it worthed more. He introduced his unique land law in 1816, which one's most recognised sentence is "who farms the land, that owns the land". In 1824, died in office, but in his last regulation, he decreed that his son, Isak Achim inherits the power.
After Isak came to power, he removed the prestigious leaders from the apparatus and replaced with his closest friends. Due to his paranoia, he didn't trust anybody who was not his family relative or closest friend. His target was to get common people's support; the way to this were demagogues, what he did well in his speeches. The influential people who were left out from the power made plans how to overthrow Achim's regime. They know that the commons people have to be persuaded about Achim's inadequacy. The final resolution was to "import" plague from each part of Iteria by slaves.
This resulted that plague came in, but too much extent, more than 2,5 million people died. However, the group which erupted this catastrophie could finally overthrow Achim due to the folk's riots in 1829, the ruler has been executed. They formed the Directory of Molnar (named after its leader name, Edmund Molnar).
The Directory which came to power, have published the 40 Thesis of Governance, which contained there vision about how to head the country into a democratic way:
• statarium in introduced for a year
• elections take place in 1839
• every branches of power is kept by the directory (no parliament and government)
• pluralism does not exist
• strict censorship in terms of freedom of speech
The composition of this body was small; 10 aristocrats procreated it, its leader was elected every year. The target of this directory was to form a transition to democracy, but in long-distance, because in their view, the political vibes were very heated. The budget was balanced, riots slowly ended. Everything seemed to go pretty well until 1839, when elections took place.
The problem with the mentioned election was that the folk didn't have previous experiences with elections, they were not clear about how this process goes. Also, the widest supported movement, the Courantist foundamentalists worked out a tactics before the elections: they reproduced the ballot papers, and on the day of the election, each of their fanatics voted in more settlement at once. Therefore, their party the Courantist People's League won the election by 73%.
The leader of the Lorthean Royal Army (Mauricio Sabo) announced the takeover of the power from the Directory directly, by annulling the elections result. Sabo's plan was to concentrate all power in his hands, he was the head of legislative (parliament was abolished), executive (government was dissolved) and judicial (martial law introduced), however his previous subordinates within the leadership of the army were involved in the governance.
The first measure of the military junta was to reestablish kingdom on a constitutional level, however Sabo was never crowned as the King of Lorthea. Until 1860, this was the Kingdom without a King era, since Sabo reigned as a regent.
This period was succesful in the view of economy; the opportunity for serfs (who became free in 1792) to become freeholder was created by inviting foreign banks to invest in Lorthea and build bank branches in the country. Banks were established mainly in the 1850's in the country, their home state was the Grand Sultanate of Aydin. The institutions gave long-term bonds for the serfs to buy their lands from the landlord.
Sabo's intensions were to restore the kingdom, so he summoned the exiled members of the Arava-Soegen Dynasty, therefore Adrian IV (great-grandson of James) took the power by coronation in 1860. Building up of the absolute monarchy has started: continuation of the negligation of the parliament, imprisonment without court judgement and governance with royal decrees.
This lead to Adrian's assassination in 1865 by republican extremists. Due to the royal laws, his younger brother Louis II inherited the power, but the day after his inauguration, he convened the parliament in 31th August 1865. This was the famous (One-day Deliberation), which after the state was annected as a republic. The compromise's essence in terms of the country's name was that Louis didn't want to change the country's name, not as the republican representatives (they wanted to represent the country's economical blooming). Therefore they reached the agreement that "Lor" will remain in the name, and the new posterior constituent will be "bank", so a new country, the Republic of Lorbank was born.
Another important item of this compromise was that Louis (II) Teleki will govern the country as the first president of the country with the assistance of the parliament until the election in 1866.
On 5th April 1866 the elections took place within the country. Only 10% of the total population had the right to vote (due to very high property census) in order to avoid misuse of promises to the folk. There were 4 candidates, and Teleki won it by a massive 77%. As the winner of the election, he formed the first government of the Republic.
On the 6th July 1866, new constitution was accepted. According to this, the country is a semi-presidential republic, which means that both of the president and prime minister have strong rights. The president's and governments mandate are 5 years but the president is reneweble only once. When elections are held, voters can vote for a presidential candidate and a party. The treshold for a party to be in the parliament was 10%.
Teleki remained independent, Martin Pressler (political ally of Teleki), Lorbank's first PM founded the first party, the Reformist Party (RP).
The first 10-year-rule of Teleki can be summarized with money saving (serious army disbanding, cutting needless expenditures) and building the base structures of the new system (building of ministries, parliament). During this decade, opposition parties were formed; Independence Party of '65, National Party of Work, National Constitution Party.
Teleki's re-election didn't cause any problem for him (84% for him, 73% for Reformist Party) in 1771, but not in 1776, since running for the 3rd mandate was prohibited due to the constitution. On the day he reached the fifth year in office, the parliament proposed his removal from the presidential office.
Teleki called the leaders of the parties for an immediate summit. This happened in secret, that's why Lorbank's historicians call this summit the Last Minute Secret Deal. The content of this agreement was that MPs withdraw their proposal (therefore Teleki can sworn in as President for a third term) and Teleki supports the MPs main promise to their supporters: approve the extension of voting right (down to the age of 20 for both for men and women with a narrow census of fortune).
This deal was agreed from both sides, so Teleki could remain in power until 1881. However, in this five year, both the government and the president got many critics from some politicians. Some of them made legislation process impossible by serious obstruction activities (making noise, long speeches, massive amount of law proposal). Therefore the 1876-81 period was quite unsuccessful.
In 1881 the 68-year-old Teleki resigned, new elections came. The winner party was the RP again (56%), which candidate (former PM, Martin Pressler) won by 52% on the presidential election (RP).
Pressler started his dominion with intensive reforms with the cooperation of the government:
• reinstalled the 2-term-restriction on the Pesident's mandate
• introduced the constructive vote of no confidence
• extended the MPs number from 150 to 250 (also the constituencies)
• based the rights of the workers: maximum working hours in a shift were 12, minimal wage)
However the regime didn't aid the proletars intensions about land distribution (protests were scattered by fusillade) so new class of aristocrats (which were dominated by Pressler's friends) could invest a lot into buying new and new lands in the agricultural sector.
Lorbank's society was dominated by different kind of peasants (either proletarians, smallholders, ranchers). Thus due to a lot of effort have done to make a civic state, Pressler and the Reformist Party lost the elections in 1886 by a margin of 7% (both Presidential and general elections) against the Independence Party of '65. This radical party was famous from its anti-Courantist and anti-aristocratic appearances (incited against the Church and blamed them about Lorbank's poverty).
Its leader, Blase Domonkos sworn in as President on 5th of August 1886. After the new government was formed:
• latifundiums from the aristocrats were expropriated on a violent way (and without compensation).
• peasanst were given land, but these had negative consequences too (fragmented lands, barrenness)
• the privilege of register a birth was took away from the Church and introduction of the civil registration
• press was repressed (liquidation of a lot of daily newspapers)
• discrimination of the growing Alnarian diaspora was started at the eastern parts of the country (in Siófok, Hollad, Pendle).
Therefore it was not a miracle, that Domonkos and his squad totally failed on the next elections in 1891 (even not reached the 10% treshold).
The new Head of State was SOMEONE [COORDINATION WITH LOZ], who was a child of an Alnarian refugee family that came to Lorbank 40 years before, in 1851. His career has risen brightly and fast, since he was far talented than his party companions in the Reformist Party.
SOMEONE won the presidential elections by 60% and could recall the Reformist Party for governance (55% for them on general elections). SOMEONE appealed Pressler to become the PM, because he trusted him the most.
The ruling of SOMEONE is usually called as the "happy peace era". Between 1891-1896, bilateral relations were set up (mostly establishment of embassies and trade agreements) with Alnaria, Aydin, Makopa. With the assistance of the Aydinian banks, basic infrastructure was built countrywide (roads from Lisledo towards regional centers and alongside the Lorbankian Riviera, the Bagamer – Tessar – Kerepesh – Licork railway ring, and main harbor of Lisledo). Besides this, a giant development took place in respect of urbanism; 2 large towns (Haen, Martonfa) were united with Lisledo, political (town and county halls) and cultural (National Museum, National Theatre) buildings came to be.
At the end of 1895 a scandal of some members of the cabinet occured. This was the notorious Liberty Road blasting, which meant that hired assassins killed 36 MPs of the National Constitution Party (NaCP) at a café, where they had a conference. It turned out that a lot of RP Ministers were the think tank of this plan. Despite PM Pressler dismissed and jailed the hirers, couldn't clean RP's name about this scandal. Therefore a significant change happened on the elections in 1896. A NaCP was entrusted with forming a new government, which they achieved with the help of a new party, the Civil Democratic Party (CIV). But, the President remained SOMEONE with a convincing result of 73%. Therefore it happened for the first time that the Cabinet and the President were from different parties.
From 1896, a political give-and-take game started to be played between President SOMEONE and the Cabinet. Until 1900, nothing progression happened in Lorbank's public life; the two sides made impossible each other's proposals. At the treshold of the centenary, on the 31th of December 1899, Night of Miracles came to happen, when thousands of protesters marched to the Parliament and demanded more respect from the Cabinet towards SOMEONE, and more communication between the sides.
Prime Minister Adam Majoros gave ground, and in his New Year Program Speech he promised the support of SOMEONE'S proposals and that NaCP won't campaign at the Presidential elections a year later (only general elections), but will support next RP's candidate.
A year later, in 1901, elections were held in Lorbank. Denis Firtko (RP-NaCP) won the presidential one by 45%, and Reformist Party could form a new cabinet (42%) with the coalition (+11%) of a new political party, the National Smallholders and Agricultural Labourers Party (AGRO). Political palette has changed a little bit since the 1870's: parties which were regular members of the parliament were the Reformist Party (RP), the Anarchist Movement (AM!) the Civil Democratic Party (CIV), the National Party of Work (NPW), the National Constitution Party (NaCP) and the AGRO.
Firtko and the RP were campaigning with modernisation. They managed to achieve these goals:
• regulation of River Chamas (crop yield growth)
• building of bridges
• active commitment in terms of industrialization (subventions, duty discount)
• compulsory schooling until the age of 14 and building elementary schools
• building leisure facilities like theatres, football grounds, cinemas
But the government didn't have enough money to finance these expenditures from their own budget, but took a lot of loans from foreign bank networks. Public debt has risen to 130% of GDP, therefore spendings had to be cut, which affected the social aids, public utilities or salaries. At the end of 1905, there were huge protests about the Cabinet's resignation.
However the RP won the elections in 1906 and 1911, from that year to 1916 the state had 4 Presidents and Cabinets. Corruption scandals just came and came.
• Matthew Drotosh (1906–1908): blackmailed the RP members in exchange for money
• Oliver Banka (1908–1909): had offshore accounts in Aydinian banks
• Mark Kolcza (1909–1912): his family's members won tenders
• Adam Fodor (1912–1916): bribed all newspapers' editors in chief in order to show the people that everything goes well in the country
The journey to the elections in 1916 was not violentless. Sympathists of each parties had clash many times. Most people were disappointed of the traditional parties (like RP, NaCP) and wanted to choose a very new alternative, which can offer solution for economic and moral regression and societic division.
That's why most people voted for a very unique party, the Anarchist Movement (AM!) and its presidential candidate, Benedek Deresh (68-68% for AM!).
After they got to power on the 5th July in 1916, radical changes has started.
• abolished the presidential office, the Cabinet and the elections
• created the Leader of the Nation title for himself (unlimited power)
• the assistant body was the Council of State, which contained 15 of his most reliable party companions
• the parliament have been suspended
Deresh had a very reckless plan about how to solve the problem of indebtedness, this lead to the notorious Kupec Counterfeiting Scandal in 1924. The master plan was to print as much bank note as it is possible, to make the valuta inflated and give back the same debt on a lower price rate. In the central bank of Lorbank, massive Kupec (currency) printing has been started. This caused hyperinflation, at the peak of this process the highest bank note was the 100 Trillion Kupec (which worthed 500 a year before). The inflation spire had negative effects on economy as well as every day life too. Workers lost their salary's value (bank notes were swept on the roads, or they were used to make fire in the fireplace), bartering has reappeared.
So Deresh paid back the debt, but foreign bank networks refused this, since it didn't worth as much as it used to be. As a reaction, the army was given the order the occupy the banks. Therefore relations with Aydin became hostile.
This was the point when Aydinian leadership didn't let this go and intervened. On the 2nd of May in 1924, the Aydinian army disembarked at Zamardi and Amarillis, and marched towards Lisledo. The Lorbankian army were waiting for the wing which disembarked at Zamardi. The two armies battled at Hercegmen/Denizli (Aydinian name), where none of the armies could won. The other wing which disembarked at Amarillis could enter into Lisledo and overthrow Deresh's dominion.
The Field Marshall/Mushir of the Aydinian army was Tolga Gönül Pasha, who became an interim president from the 4th of September in 1924. He announced that he would stay the leader of the country until elections can't be held in the country.
This government stabilized the country in respect of public safety, politically but mainly economically. Reestablished the Constitution of 1866 and introduced a new currency, the Imparatorluk Not in 1925, which became one of the strongest currencies in Iteria (and used until today common with Aydin). The Minister of Economy who prepared the economic boom in Lorbank was Baler Gulden.
Finally elections took place in early 1928. Some of older parties had been refounded like National Party of Work, Reformist Party, National Smallholders and Agricultural Labourers Party, Civil Democratic Party and some new parties like Lorbankian People's Congress and Party of Lorbankian Life.
National Party of Work (NPW) won the presidential elections (Kalman Fischer) by 40%, and the general elections by 39%, therefore they had to look for a party to have coalition together. Since NPW was a moderate left-wing party, they got together with the stronger left-winged Lorbankian People's Congress (LPC), they had got 56% together. After the elections, Aydinian forces left the country.
During the 3 years, period of "Pepper tactics" began. Within the coalition, the whole LPC and radical NPW members formed the Left Front to offset the dominance of moderate NPW members. During one of the summits of Left Front, the two platforms' leaders agreed about that the two party will accuse NPW MPs to make their dominance lost. This tactics succeed, because and the amount NPW's MPs was halved by arrests, mysterious deaths. The base of this tactics was that the LPC got the control of Minsitry of Internal Affairs, the Secret Service and the Police. This 5-years-era was not about building the country rather than political intrigues.
Therefore NPW lost its majority within the parliament, and they splitted up. A half left the party and continued as independent, the other half joined the LPC.
Elections came in 1933. This year was a turning point and an era boundary in Lorbank's history. LPC was the winner (~52%) both presidential (Arpi Szakashitsch) and general, thus could form government alone.
LPC made a very tactical law at the beginning; they extended the parliaments' seats by 100, which were all contained the representatives of the Army and Marine. The senior management of the Lorbankian Army and Marine were the devotee of LPC's communist ideology, so the target of this law was to practically heighten the LPC's majority within the parliament to reach 66% (to be able to amend the constitution).
To 1934 the communist takeover ended by the amendment of the constitution (1st of August). This new constitution abolished the office of President and PM (instead of that the Chairman of the Presidential Council and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers). Practically the ruler of the country became the General Secretary of the LPC, who was Silard Bekesi (until 1939). The name of the country changed to People's Republic of Lorbank.
The first period of the communist regime was a total dictatorship.
• other parties were banned
• pluralism was repressed and governmental propaganda controlled the press
• cult of personality of Bekesi (giant sculpture)
• planned economy
• collectivization of private property and organisation to collective farms. Compulsory surrender of the crops
• contrained heavy industrialization (lack of minerals, too much production)
• internment camp at Gherhuta (political opponents and national minorities)
To 1939 people had enough of this system and organised protests in Phaistos, Klouis and Vomance. The crowd was about 50,000. On the X. Congress of LPC, Bekesi was deposed from Generaly Secretary, and opted for Gabor Mezey, whose worldview was far more realistic.
From 1940 to 1944 a mikro-era started, which was about revenge of the revolution. Show trials, abductions were daily against the population and the old leadership as well (show trial of Bekesi). Workers' Militia was organised, which got free hands in order to maintain the order. The system transformed to authoritarianism from dictatorship; everyday life was not repressed that much.
From 1944 a new direction formulated within the leaders of the LPC: a symbolic deal have to be made with the Lorbankians in order to avoid further revolutions. The motto of this direction was the "those who are not against us are with us". This meant that anybody who didn't join the party or were not interested in politics those people were not harrassed.
In 1953, from the view of economy and every day life, a serious change happened. The New Economic Mechanism was announced.
• fixed prices on consumer goods (food and drinks, basic furnitures, gas)
• little liberalisation on private holdings (maximum 5 square kilometres)
• launching enterprises
• self-employmen opportunity after normal shift
From the late '50s, social political changes befallen in Lorbank. The first hotels were built alongside the Shupka Sea, and vacation programmes has started mainly for poorer children. From 1961 childcare fee, from 1964 childcare allowance was introduced for families. 1962 was the starting year of Modern Household Program: firstly concrete detached houses ("Mezey cubes") were built in rural areas, then 8-10 floored panel flats in bigger cities.
Until 1965, travelling to foreign countries were prohibited, but in this year temporary passport was introduced; every third year it was legal to leave the country for a maximum of 2 weeks.
From the late 1960s, infrastructural developments started. Main routes of the country (all first and second class roads) got asphalt layer, underline system in Lisledo and Vomance were built, electrfication on railways has been finished.
But of course this modernisation had serious price. The budget was in massive deficit, almost 20 million Notlar per year, the household deficit was 25%. 40% of the income were made of loans. Most of the credits came from Aydin (again), but the Aydinian Ministry of Economy/the whole Aydinian bank sector were more tactical than they used to be in 1924. The reason why historicians say this, is because besides that banks borrowed money with higher interests, they required share in the Lorbankian bank sector (that used to be nationalized). From 1967-68 the final period of the communist regime, the crisis has started.
Public debt has grown to 94% of GDP, thus state bankruptcy threatened the government. Due to inflation, real wages has decreased. More and more overtime had to be made by the population in order to maintain the same standard of living. That's why Lorbank was among the top of alcohol consumpting and suicide countries. Onto 1972, living conditions' growing had been stopped.
From the beginning of the 1970s, the first opposition movements were organised. The Radical Civic Firm (RCF) and Lorbankian Democratic Forum (LDF) had meetings in secret and were communicating in samizdat (political pamphlet). Within the LPC an interior opposition was formed they called themselves the "reformcommunists". The opposition platforms got together at some occasions. The most famous was the Hollad meeting in 1973, where all platforms were present, and they reached an agreement about condemning the communist regime.
Some months later, in 1974, LDF was announced as the first party which was not persecuted by the LPC. In the summer of the same year, Secretary General Gabor Mezey died at the age of 84, this was a symbolic moment.
In 1975 after the XLVI. Congress of the LPC, there was an announcement about the disbandment of the former party and establishing a new one, the Lorbankian Socialdemocratic Party (LSDP).
LCP/LSDP negotiated with the United Round Table about the continue. The deal was made: in the beginning of 1977, elections will be held, any parties can compete. In exchange for this, the old regime's figures will not be punished.
On 1st of April in 1976 Chairman of the Presidential Council, Thomas Sereges proclaimed the republic from the stairs of the parliament and the reestablishment of the 1866 Constitution. At the end of the day Sereges went to the Alnarian border and cut through the barbed wire together with the Alnarian TITLE AND NAME. From this day, we time the beginning of the 2nd Republic.
In February 1977, elections were held after 44 years. 23 parties ran on these elections, but 6 of the got the 5% treshold (reduced from 10%) and could enter to the parliament. These were the:
• Lorbankian Democratic Forum (LDF) by 32%
• Radical Civic Firm/Civic Radical Party (RCF/CRP) by 21%
• Lorbankian Socialdemocratic Party (LSDP) by 19%
• Justice Platform (JUST) by 13%
• Party of Youngsters and Entrepreneurs (Y&E) by 8%
• Agrarian Alliance (AA) by 7%
LDF as the winner of the elections entered to a coalition with JUST and AA, the 3 parties had 52% within the parliament. The head of the government, the PM became Mate Hornak. On the Presidential elections, LDF's candidate, José Kiss won by 41%.
A the new government had to tackle two major problems: firstly building the funds of a democratic Lorbank (institutional system, new laws), secondly tackling the huge economical problems (12% unemployment, 35% inflation, 11% GDP loss per year). The governmnemnt had to subserve the privatization of huge national companies.
On the 5th of August in 1979, the government suddenly raised the price of fuels by 30%. In the coming days taxi drivers blockaded the cities' main roads. Some parties supported the demonstrations, but LDF handled it by a deal, the raising will be only 15%.
In 1981 JUST left the coalition, because there was an affair withing the coalition about foreign diasporas. LDF and Y&E wanted extension of rights of minorities, JUST didn't. Therefore for a year minority governance ran in the country. That's why Mate Hornak said that his government was the Kamikaze-cabinet.
Next elections occured in 1982. LSDP got back to governance by getting 53%. Despite the fact that they could have form a cabinet alone, they allied with a new party, the WE - The Libertarians' Union (WEUNI), which got 15%. The rest 32% were splitted among LDF (17%), NRP (10%) and Y&E (5%). The Presidential elections were won by Adam Fetter (LSDP) by 48%.
The most notable measurement of this Cabinet was the Guba-package in 1983 (named after Michael Guba, Minister of Economy).
• gradual devaluation of the Imparatorluk Not
• limitation of social benefits
• introduction of tuition fee
• nominal wages in the public service were to increase from that time on only by 6–15%, which meant in the conditions of an inflation rate of 20% a significant reduction of real wages
• raising customs fee by 8%
• raising retirement age from 60 to 65
Huge demonstrations followed the announcement of this stint. Besides the Guba-package, the Cabinet encouraged the process of privatisation. During their governance, the whole energetic sector and waste management were given to foreign companies. The Constitutional Court expressed its concern about the legitimacy of the Guba-package, but the government was relentless.
Dysentery epidemic raised its head in 1987, when elections should have been held. The pandemic was so long that elections had to delayed by a year, which didn't increased the coalition's prospects.
Next elections were held in late 1988. LSDP was changed by the Civic Radical Party (CRP) which got 50% of the votes. Patrick Tiber became the president from the CRP as well. The party could win the elections with the promise of stopping privatisation, job creation, raising of bank taxes and agricultural subventions.
However, they managed to stabilize the economy and withdrawn some elements of the Guba-package, the topic of tax rate divided the CRP. PM Alexander Kaulitsch and President Patrick Tiber handed in a bill-proposal (Lex Kaulitsch) to the parliament, which would have limitted how much money a person could earn, plus introduction of progressive taxation. The major part of the CRP said that progressive taxation is required and maximum wage is neccessary to be able to handle the inflation and to cut expenditures, but some representatives didn't support this.
There were some conciliation among the two sides, but there was no agreement. Therefore the minor platform of CRP splitted, and with the leadership of Leslie Burves, formed a conservative party, the National Resistance Party (NRP). This situation caused serious parliamentary crisis, because CRP didn't have the absolute majority within the parliament to make laws.
CRP gave up governing Lorbank in 1991, so snap elections had to be held. Referring to the constitution made in 1865, when snap elections takes place in the country, the winning Cabinet is aim to govern the country the rest years from the remaining term plus the whole next term.
CRP won the elections again by 36% and formed a coalition with WEUNI, together they had 62%. The president remained Patrick Tiber, but the main opposition party became the NRP getting 27% of the votes.
The CRP - WEUNI became a very labile coalition. A lot of conciliation was needed to finalize this alliance since CRP was a far-right conservative party and WEUNI was a liberal one.
In 1992, CRP handed in a law proposal package which contained serious reforms:
• maximum wage is 30,000 Imparatorluk Nots
• introduction of progressive taxation: 3 levels; a normal 10% for everyone, 5% between 10,000 és 25,000 and further 10% between 25,000 and the maximum wage
• creation of Ministry of Cults: the function of this institution was to take care of the Lorbankian culture
• introduction of national public holidays, such as 2nd of March (Foundation of the Kingdom of Lorthea in 1362), 31th of August (Proclaimation of the First Republic in 1865), 2nd of May (Tolga Gönül Pasha's disembarkment in 1924), 1st of April (Proclaimation of the Second Republic in 1976).
• Green Crane Action: protection and privilege of the Lorbankian goods
Compared to the coalition's lability, governing was relatively successful. GDP has grown by 4% annually, unemployment rate has decreased to 9%, some big investments could have been started like the reconstruction of the Parliament, the "watering system program", which provided every holders the install of irrigation system for free.
The reason why this government failed in 1998 is the Zoltsa-speech. This speech was made by PM Alexander Kaulitsch in a confidential party congress of the CRP in 1997 (Zoltsa is a small resort town in the Lorbankian Riviera), a year before the elections. It was recorded-published by a CRP-member, who is anonymous until today.
PM blamed the government's measurement progress and the others' behaviour within the Cabinet. This was probably because he was not satisfied with his Cabinet. Some key quotes:
Obviously, we were lying in the last 3 years, it was clear for everybody that what we are saying that is not true
Divine providence, the abundance of cash in the world economy, and hundreds of tricks, which you obviously don't need to know about, helped us survive this situation
I almost perished because I had to pretend for 18 months that we were governing. Instead, we lied morning, noon and night.
— Alexander Kaulitsch
After the speech came out in late 1997 huge protests started in the whole country. Hundred thousands of demonstrators demanded the resignation of the PM, but PM didn't do it.
On 4th of February 1998, elections came in Lorbank. This was a huge break-through for both the governing parties and the opposition. The winning party was NRP by getting 55%, but because their candidates won the 4/5 of the constituencies, they had got 69% of the parliament seats. WEUNI didn't reach the 5% treshold, CRP got 12%. New parties got into the parliament: Politics Can Be Different (PD) 15%, Movement for a Better Lorbank (MoBeL) 8% and LSDP 10%. Presidential elections were won by NRP's chairman, Leslie Burves (61%).
Good evening ladies and gentlemen! Lorbankians inside Lorbank and outside Lorbank! I greet you in this wonderful night. We thank you so much! Never in the past so many Lorbankians worked for, root for a change than in this election campaign. I would like to congratulate you to achieve a historical result which is a clear declaration of intense.
— Leslie Burves
After the inauguration of the conservative cabinet, its spokesman, Roland Czibulka announced that Lorbank is not far away from state bankruptcy. This caused some uncertainty at the financial market and the stock exchange as well. A week later, the Minister of Economy, Peter Khej told that the government will soon do steps to avoid bankruptcy, thus vibes were normalised.
In late 1998, a new constitution was released. Expanded the government's and president's term from 5 years to 6, and abolished term limits.
In 2000, the government advertized the Baler Gulden-program, which was intended to modernise Lorbank's economy until 2010. Within this framework, public works programme has started (like street sweepers, security guards), raisen the bank taxes by 20%, abolished progressive taxes and introduced a flat tax rate of 15%. Infrastructural investments started: Lisledo underground system, completing the road system and railway electrification.
After the Baler Gulden-program has ended and elections took place (decisive NRP victory) at the same time, a new direction came in Lorbank's politics in 2010. The government started to dominate some sectors, but at the same time, downsize those ones, in which they didn't see any prospect. In 2012, the unprofitable Lorbankian National Airlines ceased to exist (other airlines gained space), but the government monopolised public lighting (Elios Ltd.), garbage management (Ecomissio PLC), and infrastructure-building company (Strabag Corp.).
Until today three well-worked-out and comprehensive laws were passed by the parliament which determined Lorbank's political life in the last 7 years.
The first was the Labor Law in 2014, which was marked Slave Law by the opposition.
• maximalized the amount of overtime (400 a year from 250)
• maximum hours of a shift daily was risen to 14 from 12
• employer could call in the employee on Sunday too
• risen the bonus allowance of overtime from 50% to 150%, the Sunday-bonus from 100% to 200%
The second important law was the Land Law in 2017. According to this document minimum 2/3 of Lorbank's arable lands have to be owned by Lorbankians (either the state, companies or private person). After somebody buys land, it have to be kept for at least 5 years and do agricultural activity. When land is under process of sales the state will investigate the circumstances.
The third law which divided Lorbank's society was the Anti-homosexuality Bill in 2020. The law is toughening penalties for gay people but without a clause criminalising those who do not report them. It includes life sentences for gay sex and same-sex marriage, but a proposed sentence of up to 14 years for first-time offenders has been removed.
NRP and Leslie Burves won all the elections comfortably after 1998 (2004, 2010, 2016). All of them won by more than 50%.
Transport
Transport in Lorbank relies on several main modes, including transport by road, rail, air and water. The country has a good geographical location, thus some important routes of the Iterian continent goes across the country. Passenger transportation is dominated by a network of over 200,000 kilometres of roads. It is dominated by passenger vehicles (cars, buses and motorcycles), which account for 60% of passenger-kilometres traveled. The remaining 40% is handled by trains, ships and cycles. However, Lorbank has dense transport network, but in rimlands and higher territorries it is rarer. A large amount of investment in the transport infrastructure has been made by the government since the 2000's, with aid from the other nation, for example with Mansani, Syrixia but the leadership of the North Pacific helps too.
Roads
Road network of Lorbank is based on centralised main roads. All of their starting point can be found in Lisledo (at 0 kilometre stone), and they go towards bigger cities and the. Half of transported goods come on these roads. This results that the transport system has to deal with transit traffic besides the domestic traffic, and this can cause strains. There are no motorways in the country, all other tracks are simply routes which have 1 lane on each side. However, the quality of these roads are unobjectionable. Routes' signs are symbolised with a sign, coloured green background and white number written into it. Route 1 is going to northwestbound, other premier roads run towards the country's borders counterclockwise.
The most important advantages of road transportation are their speed and the fact that goods can be delivered from house to house. Transportation with trucks are benefitial on short and medium distances. The number of cars has been rising increasingly for 25 years.
There is right-hand traffic in the country. Driving for people unaccompanied allowed once they reach the age of twenty. Drunk driving is punished severely in the country. There is zero tolerance in connection with drunk driving. Speed limit is 50 km/h within towns, 90 km/h on open roads, and 110 km/h on expressways (where roads extended to 2x2 lanes).
| Sign | Length (km) | Affected cities | Ends at | Image |
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118 | Lisledo – Komarom – Topocapi – Amarillis | Amarillis .svg){kind=small} – |
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164 | Lisledo – Veroce – Bridgeport | Hont – |
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293 | Lisledo – Dabash – Cegled – Yatin – Bagamer – Vomance – Galambs | Kirald – |
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344 | Lisledo – Dabash – Cegled – Yatin – Bagamer – Vomance – Polgar – Phaistos | Lichtur – United Federation (towards Aqhamama) |
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256 | Lisledo – Dabash – Licork – Tapolca – Dupnitsa | Albatross – United Federation (towards Lopan) |
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290 | Lisledo – Tolna – Kerepesh – Adrianville – Pendle | Udvar – Alnaria (towards Ondorme) |
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249 | Lisledo – Zamardi – Sepetnek – Klouis – Hollad – Siófok | Letinja – Alnaria (towards Valda) |
Route 1 heading to border at Amarillis
Route 2 between Torontal and Veroce
Route 3 after leaving Vomance
Route 4 meandering in the Adrian Mountains
Route 5
Route 6 just after entering from Alnaria
Road 7 in Lisledo
0 kilometre stone in the center of Lisledo
New Savoya Bridge over River Chamas (Route 21)
Lorbank-Alnaria border on Route 7
Railways
Railway transport in Lorbank is mainly owned by the national rail company, Lorbankian State Railways (LSR). The railway network consists of 3,893 km and 1,860 km are electrified. The railways' gauge are standard. The paths of railways were built in paralell with the routes. Rail is the most economical way of public transport and transportation of heavy goods. It's extremely benefitial that its energy demand is relatively low.
In Lisledo, the three main railway stations are the Southern, Eastern and Western. The Eastern and Southern are the most modern but the Southern is more decorative and architecturally interesting. Other important railway stations countrywide include Licork (the most important railway intersection outside Lisledo), Vomance, Klouis, Yatin, Kerepesh and Pendle.
There are two cities which have an underground system, Lisledo and Vomance. In the capital, there are 6 lines, the lines' names start with "L" and then the line's number comes. In Vomance, there are half as many lines than the capital. The naming system is the same, the only difference is that their names start with "V".
In the capital there is also a suburban rail service in and around the city. This is a facility for people who live in towns (outskirts of the capital) to get to their workplace earlier and not pollute the air with their cars.
Airports
Lorbank hasn't got own airline. The dominant airlines in the country are: AIRcantotska, Prydanian Airlines and Aydin Airlines. The country has an international airport near to Lisledo at Agard, serving several international destinations. In the last few years, the Lorbankian government set up flights between a lot of country.
Other 23 airports are including smaller or unpaved airports. These airports don't handle serious turnover, because they are used for two targets: some of them (4) owned by the army, the others (19) are used for sightseeing flights.
| Country | City | Airport | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Federation | Salurong | Daily | |
| Mansani | Mansa | Ishmael International Airport | Daily |
| Saintonge | 4 days | ||
| Prydania | Býkonsviði Keris |
Býkonsviði International Airport Keris International Airport |
Weekly 3 weeks |
| Predice | Nuova Antofagosta | Antofagosta San Marco International | Weekly |
| Gwladcan | Adria | Maes Awyr Brenin | 2 days |
| Mondari | Sudo | Nork International Airport | Weekly |
| Osynstry | Athersbury | Athersbury International Airport | Weekly |