Nation Descriptions thread

[Black Robed One]

Please post the direct links to your nations’ descriptions at NationStates into this thread, and add whatever other descriptions you feel are necessary (at least a brief desciption of your nation’s military and the ruler’s name and title are necessary; but the other details, such as religion, technology level, enviroment, natural resorces, important figures, and such are definately welcome). There is no need to give all the secondary information immediately, however, you may add it piece by piece.

[Jerick Oth'Mortis]

The Dominion of Terra DeMortis

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Currently ruled by: His Superiority, Jerick Oth’Mortis, the Lord-General of the Armies

Population: 8 milion

Government: Terra DeMortis is ruled by a military dictaror, but many government positions are achived through elections (and the voting is currently compulsory).

Military: for a small nation, Terra DeMortis has an impressive military, both well-trained and equiped with Terra DeMortis’ latest technological archivements. At least a fourth of Terra DeMortis’ military consists of religious fanatics (see Religion entry bellow), who don’t serve standard duty, but eagerly take up arms when the nation calls to them.

Terra DeMortis has no navy, but its armored and infantry forces are currently believed to be the best in the region.

Terra DeMortis’ regualr infantry forces are known for using wide array of weapons, most notably: “Thunderbolt” heavy semi-automatic pistol, “Storm” assault rife, “Firestorm” flamethrower, and “Lord’s Fury” machine gun.

Terra DeMortis’ inqusition usually uses either "Lightbringer" sub-machine gun, or "Angelfire" (Terra DeMortis' latest technological archivement) heavy sub-machine gun with a small under-barrel flamethrower.

Terra DeMortis’ armored forces primary use “Lord” medium tank, “Dreadnought” heavy tank, and “Angel” armroed recon car.

Terra DeMortis’ air forces consist of a several huge airships, which are heavily armored, somewhat worse armed, and extremely expensive. These airships have large storage bays, which can carry either invasion force or good for trade; and Terra DeMortis is known for using them for both purposes. Only several of these ships are known to exist, their exact number is unknown; unproved rumors claim that Lord Jerick has an advanced personal airship of his own. Terra DeMortis’ air force is known for fight with mixed effetiveness, for while individually each airship is rather powerful, Terra DeMortis’ air force usually cannot hold its own against a larger air force, although it usually makes the enemy pay dearly for his victory.

Religion: the religion of Terra DeMortis is called simply the True Faith by its priests. Many subjects of Terra DeMortis are religious, and churches can be found in every city or town. Priests of the True Faith teach the people to aways be ready to stand against evil and corruption, and always ready to do so themselves. This radical and agressive religion, which never fails to find corruption in Terra DeMortis’ enemies, is generally disliked by the followers of others, more mild religions.

Enviroment: Terra DeMortis mostly consists of mountains and barren plains, with relatively small amount of forest and fertile ground. Because of this, Terra DeMortis have some troubles with feeding its population; although the large amount of fish and wild animals help greatly in this regard. Terra DeMortis currently don't have the shores of seas or ocans within its borders, but two of its rivers lead into the ocean.

Natural resources: Terra DeMortis is rather rich when it comes to mineral resources, oil and natural gas. It has few noble metals, mostly silver and very little gold; but it has a lot of copper and iron. It also has a lot of oil and smaller amount of natural gas. Finally, the mountains of Terra DeMortis ensure that Terra DeMortis never had shortage of stone. However, Terra DeMortis has great shortage of wood.

Industry: Terra DeMortis has a strong industry, mostly in heavy industry and mining areas. Currently, all heavy industry and mining is government-owned, i.e. it is owned by Lord-General Jerick.

Technological progress: While Terra DeMortis’ industry and economy are rather strong, its technological progress is in worse shape. Most scientific research are made in military-related areas, although recently aproved organ-transplantation program may indicate that the goverment started to take other research ares into consideration, although it is too early to say anything.

Underworld: Marijuana is outlawed; but those who are willing to risk the wrath of Lord-General Jerick and inquisition, ocassionally attempt smuggling it into Terra DeMortis with mixed successs.

Recently, the gambling was outlawed by Lord-General Jerick and proclaimed to be ungodly by the priests of the True Faith.

Trade: all international trade is done on government level, and is stictly regulated by Lord Jerick himself.

The Minister of Trade is elective office, but he has little real power, and he is forced to constantly report to Lord Jerick about any his decisions. When Terra DeMortis makes trade deals with corporations, the Minister of Trade is the one to lead negotiations, but he always instructed about what kind of deal he should make, and essentially decides very little.

By the order of Lord-General Jerick, all tarrifs on Wood, Grain and Bread imported from Earl Shilton are reduced by 50 percent.

Terra DeMortis’ national animal is: darkstalker, a very dangerous feline predator that lives in the nation’s many mountains. Physically, dakrstalker resembles a larger and more powerful panther; and it uses its powerful foreclaws and sharp teeth to tear apart smaller prey or to qucikly kill larger prey. It normally sleeps during the day and hunts at nights, when it can stealthly approach and then attack its prey. It is not afraid to attack men, although it won’t attack groups of more then three unless it hungers greatly. Darkstalkers almost always hunt alone, although during the mating periods they are known for hunting in pairs. Very rarely, when darkstalker hungers greatly, it will hunt during the day, but at such times it is far less dangerous both because it is easier to spot in daylight and because such darkstalkers are usually slowed and weakened by the hunger. Darkstalkers almost never wander close to cities or large settlements.

Important figures:

His Superiority, Jerick Oth’Mortis, the Lord-General of the Armies

His Holiness, Anthony O’Kir, the Church Patriarch

His Lordship, Matthew Stonner, the Minister of Trade

[nonameapparent]

Fiefdom of Seylinfell

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Currently ruled by: officially Prince Shevardenzen, though its a well known secret, that he is just a marionette. But for whom, that is the question..


Government: Seylinfell has a pseudo parliament, who are effectively hand-picked by the prince.

Military:
The military is more of a paramilitaristic militia, contracted men who take up weapons when it is needed. And there lain a great weight on infantry,
while other army forces are nurtured but not really that large.

Religion: In Seylinfell, religion isn`t exactly favoured, mainly because it is believed there are no difference between religion and narcotics.

Enviroment:
Seylinfell is, with a few exceptions, a rocky and highland country; not unlike Scotland.

Natural resources: mainly uranium, oil and iron with fish and lumber as minor but solid resources.
Being a pretty rocky and barren land, Seylinfell lacks wheat and other farming products. Other

Industry: unscathed by progress, Seylinfellic industry is mostly public but a little private sector is flourishing.


Technological progress:
As a country deeply bound in tradition, it can be said that Seylinfell is perhaps not the most advanced country.
The Prince, however, does recognise the potential of technology and seeks to improve it in the near forture.

Seylinfell’s national animal is: The Marou, a strange animal, who have always been considering sacred or untouchable. Nearly never seen, as it is very shy,
People tend to disagree on what it looks like. Currently, no revelation has been offered in this case.

Important figures:
Prince Shevardenzen

GM's Note: the Feifdom of Seylinfell’s politics is currently very passive, and moreover it focuses inwards, i.e. Seylinfell won't have any wars or alliances for now. Seylinfell currently allows very little international trade, and only on private level. Seylinfell leads no scientific research at the moment, and Seylinfell’s industrious and military growth also seems to stop for now.

[Challenger]

Consitutional Monarcy of Earl Shilton

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Government: The Parliament of Earl Shilton consists of two parts, the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

The House of Commons is where democratically elected representivies meet to decide the fate of the country. It is here the true power of the government resides

The House of Lords is comprised entirely of titled land owners. More or less an obsolete relic with no power to create laws and bills it can however block them acting as an effective stop to governments elected with large majorities who seek to abuse their power.

The head of state is currently King Samuel I though his actual power is limited his influence on government affairs is surprisingly large. He remains head of the armed forces.

Military
Consisting of three arms and Army, Royal Airforce and Royal Navy the military has just received a large increase to its budget and an expansion program is soon to be implemented

As an island the largest of the armed forces is the Royal Navy, the pride of the fleet the HMS Warspite is an elderly light cruiser, her crew along with the rest of the navy are highly trained but with little sea time due to the low budget. A new class of modern destroyers have been proposed. The Tiger class is expected to far surpass previous designs with 8 of the new 4.5'' guns along with several 24'' Long Lance torpedoes designed and built in Seylinfell. They will sport almost as much firepower as the 30 year old Warspite. A growing lobby in Parliament is calling for a dramatic increase in Navy power. Rallying to the call, "We want eight and we won't wait," the plan proposed would resulting in a building program accounting for 8 heavy and 12 light cruisers along with a number of destroyers to be completed over a period of 8 years. In addition there has been call for 2 aircraft carriers however there is as little support for this as there is for the suggestion of 2 Battleships so they are unlikely to appear any time soon. A class of submarines have been preposed though there is oppossition to such an aggressize weapon system being developed

The first two Tiger class destroyers have been launched and are nearing complettion. (HMS Tiger and HMS Lion) 10 more of the class are either ordered or underconstruction.

The airforce is unfortunately stuck with old biplanes currently. In recent news two new monoplane fighters and a light bomber are under development. It is expected that the bomber will be able to carry a 21'' torpedo. A heavy bomber has been proposed but turned down due to the fact it couldn't actually reach any targets.

The Long range maritime patrol seaplane has been accepted for service. Called the Sunderland it is notable for its heavy anti aircraft defences and size rather than speed and nimbleness. It does carry bomb and depth charge racks though none are carried in peacetime due to budget constrants.

The army is both too small and lacking many modern weapons with not a single modern tanks to its name. The Infantry's primary weapon is the 303 bolt action rifle which most are highly proficient with. Other weapons from effective artillery to submachine guns are few and far between. Development projects are now underway for 4 new designs of armoured vehicles. A light tank, medium tank, APC and mobile artillery. Given the newness of the concept to Earl Shilton it is likely this project has a long way to go before bearing fruit.

Religion: The state sponsors no religion though nor does it condom it. Within reason you are free to worship who ever or what ever you please. While the right to worship whoever you please without fear is upheld by the government there has been worrying signs of unrest from those worshiping the Terra DeMortis state religion who seem to preach about the corrupt nature of Earl Shiltons Government as much as about spiritual maters.

Environment: An island state with allot of land given over to agriculture, in particular cattle and managed woodlands. Rolling hillscapes are a common sight in Earl Shilton.

Industry: Currently most industry are primarily based, however a ship building industry is growing. Private ownership is almost a given with next to no government owned companies. The Post Office a notable exception. The fishing fleet is experiencing a boom and is expanding.

Trade: All nationalities are free to dock and trade at Earl Shilton's ports. Tariffs have been lowered dramatically on Stone and Iron Ore from Terra DeMortis.

Technological progress: Earl Shilton has a rather poor reputation as far as inventors go. Government funding is hard to come by and most inventors take their ideas else were. Sometimes it seems the only things Earl Shilton can create well are guns, ships, planes and trains a situation a country that considers itself peaceful is not happy with. Asside from military development most research is brought in from abroad.

Earl Shilton's national animal is the Bulldog

Current

Trade Companies
Red Star Shipping Company
SS Tera on the Tera De Morta to Earl Shilton route.
1 Ship under construction
Cunard
SS Cumberland and Long Ireland, tramp steamers which run a route between Earl Shilton, Terra DeMortis and then Seylinfell.
11 Independent Traders operate under the Earl Shilton flag.

Population: 8 million

Recent government news.
Aside from the usual arguments over military expenditure a new agenda has been brought into focus by the recent trade deals. A powerful lobby group has grown up among the merchant class asking for the abolition of trade tariffs in the name of free trade. The government is taking this radical idea under consideration.

Currently debate has been raging over the reintroduction of the death penilty. Many high ranking officials are against it but public opinion is for its reintroduction.

Challenger

[Jaime Lannister]

The Protectorate of Castelry Rock

Basic description:

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Map:

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NOTE: Only the main roads, hills, rivers and forests were marked on this map. Also, most villages and some smaller towns weren’t marked on this map.


Currently ruled by: His Majesty, King-Protector Jaime Lannister, the First of His Name, Lion of Lannister, Lord of Castelry Rock, Shield of Lannisport

Population: 6 milion

Government: the government consists of noble lords with King-Protector as an absolute authority over them. All titles are hereditary, and thus elections are non-existing.

Lannister line endured as Castelry Rock’s royal family throughout the nation’s existence; and most of its kings proved themselves intelligent, but somewhat cruel rulers. Lannisters are known for their conservatism and occasional incestuous behavior; in case with latter, the current King-Protector is not an exception, for he took his twin sister as his wife.

Military: for a nation of its size, Castelry Rock has a moderately large army; although its training is bellow average, and equipment is even on the worse level.

Castelry Rock’s infantry forces are numerous and trained better then any other branches of its army, but poor equipment still puts their combat performance bellow average level. They are currently using pistols and non-automatic rifles; and don’t have any heavy weapons in their disposal.

Castelry Rock’s navy slightly supress Castelry Rock’s infantry forces in strength; it consists of a moderately small fleet of patrol frigates and a single “Sea Lion” medium cruiser. The vessels’ design is on average level, but their crews lack both training and actual experience. Some experienced sailors from Earl Shilton and their sons have been recruited into Castelry Rock’s navy and sworn into service of Lord Leo Lefford of Lannisport.

Castelry Rock’s armored forces use “Lion” medium-heavy tank and “Leopard” armored recon car. Despite the proud names, both vehicles are poorly designed, losing to other vehicles of their class in armor and weaponry; their speed and maneuverability are average for the vehicles of their class. Currently, Castelry Rock’s armored forces get significantely less financing comparing to the other branches of Castelry Rock’s military.

Castelry Rock’s air forces are in poor shape, as they as Castelry Rock’s airplanes are few, and they would have been hopelessly outdated by the ones of almost any other nation, if only most other nation's air forces weren't in similary poor shape. However, due to the constant drills, Castelry Rock’s pilots are gaining skill, though somewhat slowly, as they lack skilled teachers. Landing accidents are still not unheard of, though they are not as frequent as they used to be.

Religion: the religion is all but outlawed in the Protectorate of Castelry Rock. The bad relations between the old religion and the royal family date centuries past, when the church openly declared the royal family’s incestuous habits ungodly. In response, the royal family outlawed the religion.

Those few priests who survived the following slaughter, escaped to the Constitutional Monarchy of Earl Shilton, seeking the refuge against their former king. Their beliefs are only slightly differ from Catholic, and their religion is currently known as Castelry Christianity.

Now, when centuries have passed, it is no longer a crime to be a priest or religious man in the Protectorate of Castelry Rock. However, few religious remain there; for they are still looked down upon by both nobles and commoners, and moreover most religions still find the royal family’s incestuous habits ungodly.

Environment: Castelry Rock’s environment is rich and mostly untouched by industry and technological progress, perhaps because neither is highly developed in Castelry Rock. Castelry Rock is situated on an ocean shore; and its lands range from mountains and hills to the north to forests and fertile plains to the south. Agriculture and fishing are thriving, and Castelry Rock’s many sorts of cheese are renowned throughout the neighboring nations. The forests are many, and Castelry Rock never had shortage of wood.

The Protectorate's enviroment, especially its woods, are currently in process of being ruined by mining industries.

Natural resources: the mountains in the north of Castelry Rock, in which the city-fortress of Castelry Rock itself is built, are very rich with gold. But the other metals, such as iron or copper are few, and Castelry Rock is forced to buy them from neighboring nations. Castelry Rock also has small deposits of oil and natural gas.

Recently, a large deposit of Uranium ore was discovered in the forest to the north from a large town of Green Heart, and that part of the forest is currently beign bulldozed by the mining industry in order to allow to begin the mining of Uranium ore.

Trade: Castelry Rock has trade relations with most, if not all, neighboring nations. King-Protectors rarely concern themselves with the matters of trade, preferring to allow the lords to handle the trade for their regions themselves. So far, Castelry Rock’s lords are known for doing their job well enough. Tariffs are moderately high, but Castelry Rock’s riches still attract many traders, both governmental and independent.

By the recent order of King-Protector Jaime Lannister the First, tarrifs on civilian automobile imports into the Protectorate of the Castelry Rock were increased by 25 percent.

Industry: while Castelry Rock’s economy and trade are well-above average level, its industry in much poorer shape. Castelry Rock solves part of their industrious problems by buying resources from neighboring nations, but its industrious technologies are even in worse shape then the military ones.

Technological progress: while the kings and lords of Castelry Rock always were expert traders, they have reputation of being quite conservative when it comes to new technologies. As the result, Castelry Rock is currently behind most other nations in respect of technological advancements.

There are rumors that the current King-Protector has been trying to fix this problem for years now, but the decades of looking down upon new inventions takes it toll, and Castelry Rock currently has almost no capable scientists.

Recently, there were some minor scientific breakthroughs in medicine field, but other then that, Castlery Rock made no significant scientific progress recently.

Castelry Rock's royal family:

His Majesty, King-Protector Jaime Lannister, the First of His Name, Lion of Lannister, Lord of Castelry Rock, Shield of Crag and Lannisport (thirty-one year old)

Her Majesty, Queen Cersei Lannister, the Jewel of Castelry Rock (twin sister and wife of Jaime; thirty-one year old)

His Highness, Prince Joffrey Lannister, the Crown Prince of Castelry Rock (son of Jaime and Cersei, thirteen years old)

Her Highness, Princess Myrcella Lannister (daughter of Jaime and Cersei, eight years old)

His Highness, Prince Tanin Lannister (son of Jaime and Cersei, five years old)

Castelry Rock's lords, bannermen and other sworn men:

Leo Lefford, Lord of Lannisport (thirty-one year old)

Willem Lefford, Admiral of the Royal Fleet, Captain of "Sea Lion" (Leo Lefford's younger brother; twenty-nine years old)

Amory Lorch, Lord of Crag (thirty-seven year old)

Robert Brax, Commander of Eastfort, Shield of Eastfield (thirty-three years old)

Flement Brax, Sub-commander of Eastfort (Robert’s younger brother, thirty-one year old)

Antario Jast, Lord of Eastfield (twenty-seven years old)

Lewys Lydden, Lord of Deep Den (twenty-six years old)

Harys Swyft, Commander of Waterfront, Shield of Hilltown (fourty-eight years old)

Lancel Swyft, heir to Waterfront (Harys’ first son, twenty-four years old)

Martyn Swyft, captain of “Windrunner” specialized frigate (Harys’ second son, twenty-one year old)

Janei Swyft, a maid (Harys’ daughter, seventeen years old)

Damon Marbrand, Lord of Ashemark (fourty-two years old)

Addam Marbrand, heir to Ashemark (Damon’s son, twenty-one years old)

Selmond Stackspear, Commander of Ashenfort, Shield of Ashemark (fourty-six years old)

Steffon Stackspear, heir to Ashenfort (Selmond’s first son, twenty-three years old)

Alyn Stackspear (Selmond’s second son, eighteen years old)

Regenard Eastern, Lord of Wyndhall (thirty-nine years old)

Roland Creakhall, Lord of Creakhall (fourty-seven years old)

Tybolt Creakhall, captain of “Black Bolt” advanced frigate, heir to Creakhall (Roland’s first son, twenty-six years old)

Ser Lyle “Strongboar” Creakhall (Roland’s second son, twenty-three years old)

Merlon Creakhall (Roland’s third son, eighteen years old)

Terrence Keening, Lord of Kayce (thirty-five years old)

Kennos Keening, heir to Kayce (sixteen years old)

Lymond Vikary, Lord of Hillstar (twenty-nine years old)

Forley Prester, Lord of Green Heart (thirty-two years old)

Maester Creylen, the Royal Counselor (sixty-three years old)

Major cities:

Castelry Rock – a capital city of the Protectorate; a mighty city-fortress rumored to be never taken by the enemies.

Lannisport – the largest city and the main port of the Protectorate; they say that while Castelry Rock is the heart of Protectorate, Lannisport is the head that regulates most of its international trade.

Crag - the largest mining city of the Protectorate.

[Agent Regina]

The Queendom of Devine Athena.

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"Our gracious Queen, select one for the Goddess' work."

Currently Ruled by: Prime Minister Regina Preater. (f, 27 years old.) "Lady of the Queen."

However, the Prime Minister does report all major decisions to their Queen: Queen Angelina Pallas Illleaud, also known as "Twin of her Devine Goddess Athena."

Government: Ruled by Regina Preater who is elected by the people of this nation, however there are other Ministers who competed in the main election who now serve as her advisors and participate greatly in the main affairs of the nation, given seats of power and in all cases these are VERY important to the welfare and security of the nation. Even though their opinions differ on some little and/or key events, which are used to try and secure their votes from the public during elections; these are put aside to allow the Prime Minister to rule in peace and to concentrate on their progression and maintanence of this nation, rather than worry about being thrown out of power. A system which has worked for hundreds of years, and allowed the Queendom of Devine Athena to grow and mature.

Military: Due to their lacking in technological advancement, the military is somewhat crude. The General of the military Leon Cervanes "Enforcer of the Queen and Devine Athena." does this nation proud by being able to inspire and command the land and sea faring troops.

Military recruitement is voluntary, but even though it is a choice, the military is still in very large numbers. The ground troops are in 3 catagories;

1. Foot soldiers, armed with swords, shields and excellent armor. Also trained to fight mounted.
2. Archers, whom are similarily equiped and also trained for mounted combat.
3. Catapult manners, who deal out their "Athenian Fire." (A top secret and lethal weapon. Think along the lines of "Greek Fire.", basically, where you cannot put the fire out using water, which only makes it's spread more.)

The naval troops consist of:

1. Ship engineers and manners.
2. "Athenian Fire" Archers.

There are 3 main battle ships:

1. Patchouli.
2. Indigo.
3. Orange Blossom.

(N.B. They are 3 scents which serve as symbols of Athena.)

However, even though their military is strong and victorious in the past the Queendom of Devine Athena is a peaceful nation; acting in the image of their Goddess by joining war only to serve justice and/or protect their allies. Yet a chance to solve a dispute democratically before resorting to violence is always taken first, as of the excellent negotiators of this nation.

Religion: The Queendom of Devine Athena was originally a section of a larger community where all of the Greek Gods were worshipped together. However, as many of the other cities began to grow in technological advancement they forgot their spiritual side and enraged their Gods.

Legends spanning back thousands of years say that Zeus called together the Olympain Gods and Goddesses to destroy their land, yet Athena opposed her fathers plans and saved one small City which was protected mainly and watched over by their savour Goddess. Zeus understood her decision as this City was the least advanced, and was cautious of their power as the mighty "Athenian Fire" they had created had it's price to pay; an entire University was destroyed and the land forever scorched infertile due to an accident. The High Priest at that time preached how it was a sign from the Gods that to know power costs lives and so they must wait for such power to be given to them from their Gods.

This nations overwhelming loyalty to Athena allowed them to remain in their cultural state of peace and thus prosper within these boundaries. All the people of this nation are devoted to their Goddess Athena, and there are many temples and priets who keep their patron pleased in befitting manors.

This is obvious due to the Queen herself; whom is always blessed with the middle name - Pallas - which Athena herself has, in honour of her childhood friend whom feel gravely ill when struck by Athena's sword when the two were practicing their swordfighting skills.

Also the monarchy is always a woman (Hence Queendom.) whom cannot marry, as Athena herself never had a spouse. Yet, the Queen can have children unlike Athena who had no children, this is because the royal line must continue; and so the Queen can have as many children as she likes, until a girl is born, then no more are allowed. The children of the Queen also must not have her last name, instead they must take the last name of the father (As the Queen cannot marry.).

(More explanation in the History section.)

Environment: The Queendom of Devine Athena is and environmentally stunning island, lush forests, fertile soils, rare and exotic plants, beautiful waters surrounding the Isle. The port situated in the Town of TePehelas, is not just for exportation it is also the fishing wharf which provides plentiful fish from their waters. Even though the nation is a formidable building people, they take great pride and respect of their environment and construct accordingly making certain to conserve as they expand.

Natural Resources: This nation has plenty of wood, but will not needlessly sacrifice woodland areas, and any coppicing is done to produce sustainable forestry - i.e. Rotaional Coppicing, replanting felled areas, to sustain not only the forest but also the species living within those areas. This can actually increase species diversity, which explains their wide range of organisms. (Gyah,.....that was influenced by actual coppicing ideas which are inforced today, which is sort of imprinted along with all other biology modules into my brain.) Alot of valuable stone and minerals - gems - are another resource but they are mainly used for buildings, statues, and/or beautification of their nation. This nation does not have the ability to see if they have oil or natural gas resources used by more advanced nations. However their knowledge and understanding of what they do have, especially the minerals, can come in more use,.....as you may see.

Industry: A substancial private sector for the Arms Manufacturing means their progress in creating new and stronger equipment is always increasing, along with the research into the great "Athenian Fire" to make it as safe and secure as can be, to allow it to be used in abundance. Ship building for the military, fishing and new to their orders exportation ships is an age old industry and well funded, equiped and manned. Other industries are agriculture, sculture and architecture.

Technological Progress: Very slow, due to their overwhelming devotion to their religion, but besides this; health, prosperity, and standard of living for all the masses are of the highest quality. This nation is prosperous and balanced but is ruled by it's culture, a thing which is not a bad option - it creates harmony and peace which the leaders try to radiate to allies and enemies alike.

Underworld: NON-EXISTANT, crime is very rarely heard of thanks to a well funded and succesful police force. However, one of Pime Minister Regina Preater's ministers is head of the "Athenian Intelligence Section." that person is Minister Ethan Caliban, who organises the small but effective spy network. This is needed for when the government suspects any ill manor towards their nation.

Minister Ethan Caliban however does not execute any missions and/or actions without first consulting Prime Minister Regina Preater,...or a punishment befitting treason will be sentenced to him whether or not his judgement was right or wrong. This is because he would have jepordised the Queen (Even if his actions didn't do so.) therefore his job is a very "red-tape" swamped area, but still beyond this his work is of great importance and highly respected.

Only a select few of the Government knows of this, and to allies and enemies, this information is yet to be discovered according to their intel.

Trade: As the Queendom of Devine Athena is just branching out to other nations, trade is yet to be established but is a welcomes scheme. All decisions will be made via the Prime Minister and the two secondary Ministers but final ideas will be put forwards to Queen Angelina Palla Illeaud, to be given the go ahead.

National Animal: The Owl, a great symbol of their Goddess, signifying watchfulness and wisdom.

Important Figures:

Queen Angelina Pallas Illeuad. "Twin of her Devine Athena." F, 40 years old, and came to rule at the age of 20.

Prime Minister Regina Preater. "Lady of the Queen." F, 27 years old. This is her 4th year in power, a feat only a few have managed.

Minister Ethan Caliban. "Athenian Intelligence Director." M, 29 years old.

Minister Cassandra Furness. "Head of ASC (Athenian Security Council)." F, 32 years old.

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High Priest Hal Jolie. "Attendant of her Devine Goddess." M, 42 years old.

Priestess Natasha Karyo. F, 19 years old.

Priest Oliver Ruvlet. M, 27 years ols.

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General Cervanes. "Enforcer of the Queen and Devine Goddess." M, 35 years old.

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Lord Henri Berman. "Beloved of Pallas." "Lord of TePehelas." M, 40 years old.

Princess Dana Berman. "Lady of Sunmarvun, the Golden Temple." "Illeaud, Berman Freparvun." F, 17 years old.

(N.B. Freparvun means: "Child of love.")

(Umm,.....my description is over the word limit, thus I shall post the history section afterwards. I am sorry for the trouble.)

[Agent Regina]

Continuation:..................

History: The Goddess Athena is known for her strengths in rationality, intelligence, being a powerful defender in war but also a potent peace maker. These are attributes to be mirrored in their Queen and therefore Athena's weaknesses must also be mirrored, these are; Athena is ruled by her reason, and is not usually emotional or compassionate.

As Athena had no spouse or children the Queen is not allowed to marry but can have a partner with whom the next Queen is produced with. Many of the previous monarchs chose their partner for strategic and/or advantageous qualities to produce a great heir. However some Queens do fall fault of their mortal ways and are swayed by the God's power of love, and have a beloved soul, with whom a Freparvun is created - a Child of love - born through a mortals weakness.

This is not frowned upon, but is rather praised by the priesthood when this event occurs, as it reminds the nation that they are mortals unlike their Devine Goddess, giving further strength to their belief in Athena's great wonder.

The rules of not marrying and to have children in an indirect connected way (i.e. not being a fully fledged family.) only applies to the Queen, and the normal public is allowed to do what they wish in those respects.

(Once again, I'm sorry for the trouble with the extended word count,......I said it would be long didn't I?! Well, I hope that was somewhat pleasing if not time-consuming to read,....I guess, being analytical by nature I have to have a reason and history behind something that I create. A very large flaw of mine, I'm afraid.)

GM’s Note: unfortunately, the description of the Queendom of Devine Athena has been deleted from NationStates due to Agent Regina’s long period of inactivity in there. However, this won’t prevent Agent Regina from playing the Queendom of Devine Athena here, in the Shadow of the Dragon. To keep the Queendom of Devine Athena’s basic description avaliable for viewing, I’ve made a backup copy of it and uploaded it online, here is the direct link to it:
www.angelfire.com/anime6/bro/Queendom_of_Devine_Athena.html

[Edmure Tully]

The Community of Rivverrun

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Currently ruled by: His Lordship, Edmure Tully, the First of His Name, Lord of Rivverrun

Government: each city and town has its own elective ruler, who rules his or her city or town and surrounding villages and farms. Although these rulers are actually elected by the people, they are traditionally titled Lords or Ladies, as it during the days when Rivverrun was still a fiefdom. Lord or Lady of Rivverrun, a capital city of the Community of Rivverrun traditionally has an authority over the other Lords and Ladies, but only when it comes to the affairs of the Community of Rivverrun as whole; Lords and Ladies manage the affairs of their own lands, and even Lord or Lady of Rivverrun cannot challenge those of their decisions that concern only their own lands. Each Lord or Lady, including Lord or Lady of Rivverrun, is elected for eight years long rule, and can be elected up to four times.

In case with current Lord of Rivverrun, he was elected a year ago, when his father, Hoster Tully died of hart attack before his reign was over. The people of Rivverrun has not yet regretted their choice, for Edmure Tully proved himself to be an intelligent ruler, who truly cares about his people.

Population: 5 million

Military: the Community of Rivverrun has a very weak military; each Lord or Lady has his or her own small army, but Lord or Lady of Rivverrun can call all of them to his or her side.

Infantry is the largest part of Rivverrun’s military, but even so, it lacks numbers, training, and high-tech weapons. The cities’ infantry garrisons are equipped with primitive flint-lock pistols and muskets; but the garrisons of most towns and villages are equipped only with swords, spears, bows and crossbows.

In addition to infantry, Rivverrun has moderately large cavalry forces. Its cavalry forces are currently divided into three branches: knights – excellently trained and heavily armored cavalry forces, but they are few in numbers and traditionally armed with swords and lances; freeriders – more numerous then knights, but have worse training and lighter armor, they are armed with various melee weapons, like swords, axes and maces, but rarely carry lances, and never firearms; and mounted pistolers – a newly made force that consists of lightly armored riders armed with flint-lock pistols, although they are only cavalry unit in Rivverrun that is currently using firearms, they lack both numbers and training.

Although Rivverrun has a medium-sized fleet, few of its ships are actually military; most of them are fishing and trade ships. Most of Rivverrun’s fleet is made of medieval sailers, but it has a few of recently built paddle-steamers, though none of the later are designed for military purposes. Rivverrun’s military ships are armed with cannons, and most of them usually carry squads of bowmen or musketeers.

Rivverrun does not have any armored or air forces at all. Although Rivverrun has a very small number of civilian cars, outdated by those of virtually every other nation, it has never conducted any research in the area of armored military vehicles. And although Rivverrun’s scientists currently conduct some research in airplanes area, most likely for civilian purposes, they haven’t produced a working airplane yet.

Religion: Rivverrun’s religion is called the Faith of Seven, for it worships seven gods. Most people of Rivverrun are religious; but they usually don’t mind the members of other religions.

Environment: Rivverrun is environmentally rich nation, with many rivers, forests and fertile plains. It is situated in the middle of the continent, but one of its borders is on a seashore (the city of Seagard dominates that region), which grants Rivverrun access to an ocean through a large river.

Natural resources: Rivverrun is rather poor when it comes to resources, with notable exception of wood and food, which Rivverrun has in plenty. Rivverrun has small deposits of iron and copper, and only slightly larger deposits of uranium ore and sulfur. Rivverrun also has small deposits of oil and natural gas, but it began mining them only recently, and in very small amounts. However, Rivverrun has almost no gems and noble metals, and amounts of rock it has are very limited.

Industry: aside from fishing, farming and trout farming industries, Rivverrun’s industry is developed rather poorly.

In case with mining industry, Rivverrun used to mine iron, copper and uranium ore, but lately the lords and ladies decided to slow down mining metal ores in order to protect their natural resources and enviroment. Now only iron and copper are being mined, and in much smaller amounts then before. Oil and natural gas are being mined as slowly as they were used to.

Rivverrun has a large amount of smithies, and its military never lack medieval weapons and armor, but flint-lock pistols and muskets are produced only in the capital city of Rivverrun itself.

Technological progress: on a very low level, lower then that of virtually any other nation. Some scientific researches currently take place, mostly in the areas of ships and airplanes, but they have little success because of lack of financing and ever greater lack of scientists.

Important figures:

His Lordship, Edmure Tully, Lord of Rivverrun (twenty-one year old)

Robin Ryger, Captain of Rivverrun’s Guard (twenty-eight years old)

Jason Mallister, Lord of Seagard (fourty-four years old; the was already re-elected as Lord of Seagard three times; recently began to his last eight years of ruling)

Patrek Mallister, Captain of caravel “Crystania” (twenty-two years old; the only son of Jason Mallister)

Karyl Vance, Captain of battleship “Honourable”, Admiral of Seagard’s Fleet (thirty-five years old)