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The Golden Empire Of Shakal
National flag
Motto	"In the absence of orders or myself, find something and kill it."
Region	Royal German Empire
Capital and largest city	Shakal City
Official Language	Shakal
Leader -	Francis Weldheimer, Head Of Government
Population  - Total (March 2007)	1.01 Billion
National animal	Klaka
Currency	Imperial Dollar
International abbreviations	Shakal, SE
Naval craft classification	SIN-Shakal Imperial Navy

Shakal, more commonly recognized as the Shakal Empire, is an ancient and powerful nation. Over the couse of its history the leaders proved competant and willing to service the people. In the past two hundred years it has taken part in over a dozen wars.

History

Early History 1200 B.C - 832 B.C

The Shakal Empire has its roots in the Trojan War in about 1200 B.C. When Aeneas fled to Italy with some survivors he fought several wars with the natives leaving after twenty years, contrary to popular belief. In 1000 B.C what remianed of the Trojan people returned home rebuilding the city and refounding the Trojan Empire. For the next hundred years they expanded and conquered defeating the Aegean fleet off the coast of modern Thessaly. In 872 B.C Thessaly and most of the Anatolian coast was in their hands after the conclusion of the two year war with the Aegean's.

Reign Of Emperor Zalord 866 B.C - 842 B.C

In the middle half of the 9th century B.C. On March 11th of 866 B.C the Prince Zalord came to the throne and immediatly led an expidition of 20 000 men into central Anatolia and won several battles with the tribesman reaching the Black Sea by 860 B.C. For the next ten years he consolidated the Empire by crossing the Sea of Mamarra and laying seige to Byzantium. In 857 Byzantium fell leading the Trojans to become the most powerful kingdom on the eastern Mederainean. On July 22nd 842 B.C Zalord was killed while putting down a Thesselian rebellion.

Time Of Reformation 842 B.C - 627 B.C

After Zalord's death the Trojans fell into a civil war. With his years of war he had no children and left the throne open. For thirty years the war continued to dwindle the resources of the Empire allowing the Greeks to invade and almost totally recapture Thessaly. In 800 B.C a winner finally emerged in the form of Arkemedek Heriduclius. A long time general that led the new reformation. He gave up Thessaly and the newly conquered lands on the other side of the Bosphourus. The Empire's economy began to blossom.

Persian Occupation 627 B.C

Considered the darkest years of the kingdom. The mighty Perians invaded and crushed the Trojans leading to an occupation that would last until the conquests of Alexander The Great. During this time the Trojan culture all but dissappeared and was warped and changed.

Hellenic Dominance 332 B.C - 265 B.C

After Alexander took these territories from the Persians they were eager for independance. With Alexander's death in 323 B.C they declared independence under a new tribe that had slowly taken control of the lands, the Shakal. They were immigrants from Germania and numbered at over 50 000. A colossal amount. By 300 B.C they were independent and the new capital was Instanbul (Renamed Shakal City in 288 B.C.) They prospered slowly reclaiming their ancient lands up to Izmir and as far inland as Afyon in central Anatolia.

Rise Of The Empire 265 B.C - 1261 A.D

For the next two hundred years the Shakal remained relativly immobile. When the Romans conquered Greece in 122 B.C the Shakal saw their chance and sent an army into Bulgaria and after a hard fought 12 years secured the Danube River as a frontier. They managed to keep peace with Rome and most of the Shakal resources and attentions went into the conquest of the Persians that had moved back into Anatolia.

In 13 A.D the Shakal general Yosef Beltram led the Shakal Imperial Army into the central Anatolia. After the decisive victory at Adana in 18 A.D and the battle at Trabazon in 26 A.D the Shakal gained control of most of Anatolia, only Gaziantep and the areas east were in Persian control.

The a period of concern spread in 222 A.D when Rome conquered Jerusalem and led men into Aleppo. The peace was maintained thanks to the statesman Vladmir Corpelstein. He delegated a peace treaty between Persia and Rome in 245 A.D allowing Rome to send extra men into what is now known as Scottland. By 300 A.D the Germanic population in the Empire had risen to over 200 000 from immigrations to escape the Huns from the east and the Romans from the West. The Rhine was held a sthe Roman border until 438 A.D when they attempted to cross it again with 8 legions. The Shakal population was furious as a good percentage of its population was of Germanic decent. In late 438 the Shakal Empire declared war on Rome sending 40 000 men down into Syria and a number now estimated at just over one hundred thousand into Greece and Illyria. After the war's end in 445 A.D the Shakal troops reached Belegrade in Europe and down to the Sea Of Galalie in the Middle East.

After an entire generation of relative peace the Shakal were attacked by the Huns. A long struggle ensued in which the Huns eventually lost and turned towards Rome instead. The war left the Shakal hurt with the four year seige of Shakal City and the sacking of Athens. This made the Emperor reform the army making it stronger and better supplied. The only reason victory over the Romans was possible before was strategy and bluff.

Sometime in early 800 A.D the Shakal Empire sent men into Sarajevo and a strong fleet with men to secure Crete and Cyprus. Both plans suceeded with little to no bloodshed, a rare occurence in those times. The first major setback for the Empire in its history was the invasions of Malta and Sicily. Both campaigns were failures with losses of over 5000 men each. Considering Gregory Helesmioc was given only twenty thousand men to do this, these losses were catastrophic.

The second attempt in 915 A.D was not ill fated. In under 2 months both islands were sontrolled thanks to superior tactics and training. In 934 A.D Shakal declared war on the small kingdoms of Sardinia and Corsica. Both were in ruins by 935 A.D. At home the people were content with the massive amounts of wealth coming in thanks to the Silk Road. By the turn of the millenium the Shakal were matched only by the Chinese in wealth and power.

In 1123 A.D an inventor named Julius Von Bresslov began to experiment with gunpowder in military weapons. By 1160 A.D he just managed to create a cannon a day before he died in a freak watermelon cart accident that cost his life along with that of seven others. The weapon was named the Bresslov Cannon in his honour. The first practical model was tested in 1212 A.D during the war with the rebelling Sicilians. It fired a hundred pund shot with enough force to break a gatehouse down in only a few hits.

The Quiet Era 1261 A.D - 1589 A.D

This era is named "The Quiet Era" becuase with amount of death during this time the land was always quiet. The first signal was the Mongols. They were repelled and held at Lake Van by a joint Shakal/Persian force of 150 000. For thirty years the Shakal were forced to play hide and seek games with Mongol raiders that pillaged frontier villages and in 1274 even attempted to seige Trabazon.

Then came the Crusades. They were geerally peaceful, but Christians in the Empire were for the Shakal joining in. The Emperor was forced to send a small contingent of men or face a great rebellion. This in turen angered the Arabs so he recalled it. In 1301 the Christians called for the nations of Europe to help overthrow the Shakal. What followed was a hundred years of mass genocide and war.

In 1305 A.D the Frankish army was crushed at Sofia. In under three months the Shakal changed direction and defeated the Mongolians at the frontier again. In 1320 A.D the Persians attacked the Sarecans that had sprung up between them and the Medeterainean coast. The Shakal army helped the Sarecens win at Amman even as a massive English, French, and Spanish army of almost 200 000 was heading towards Shakal City. In 1323 A.D the Battle Of Adrianople ended in another crushing defeat for the Crusaders. Only thirty thousand men went home in 1325 A.D out of the 200 000 sent to conquer. The victory was due to the greatest general of the age Kristina Schraepl I, at the time she was only 22. She was the Emperor's daughter, but she disguised herself as a man. She led the Shakal army back into the Middle East in 1330 A.D razing Ctestiphon to the ground and securing the areas between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. At 29 she was discovered as a woman and the world went into utter chaos. Reforms happened violently very quickly all over the known world. Except in the Shakal Empire. She used the time to lead an expidition that conquered the lands south of the Cacusus in 1334. By 1340 the Shakal were almost worn out, thankfully Persia was even more so.

A third misfourtune was the final Mongolian attack in 1360 A.D. Kristina was in the Balkans pushing back the Lombards as the 75 000 Mongolians advanced on Manzikert. They won three swift victories before Kristina came with her vetrans and won a victory at the Battle Of Manzikert. She eventually pushed them back into Persia in 1362 A.D.

In 1371 A.D Kristina passed away from age ending an era. After her death the Empire was immediatly attacked by the native tribes of Arabia. For the next 30 years they fought an attrition war just holding the Euphrates against the Arabs. In 1402 a unstable peace was achieved.

The Quiet Era remained true to its name with the world renowned 1408 Crusade. All the nations of Europe, except the Swedes and Russians gathered men to assult the empire. The first to reach the border where the Papal troops. 50 000 hired mercinaries and even some 25 000 more professional soldiers layed seige to Sarajevo. In 1409 they were joined by the Austrians. A month later a joint Hungarian and Romainian force began to cross the Danube. The Romanians and Hungarians were defeated and slaughtered when trying to recross the Danube in 1410. The French and British armies ofover 100 000 men came and reached Zagreb to resupply in 1411. Three months later the Papal troops were cast aside with the arrival of the Armored Legion, a force of well trained men using arbequois. The Spanards and Protugese came by sea and landed in Sardinia in 1412 and Corsica a month later. By 1414 over 300 000 men were pushing the Shakal borders.

In 1419 the Shakal Empire managed to outmanuver defeat the Crusaders several times. For two years the Shakal threatened to overrun Italy as they held the siege of Vienna. In 1421 the Polish army was truned back along with the Romanians and Hungarians. They left the crusade permanently.

On June 1st 1430 the Shakal lost Crete and Cyprus to the Europeans. By years end they had turned the tide and retaken the islands pushing the Iberian forces back to Carthage. Sicily witch managed to remain in Shakal hands became the new goal of the Iberians. The next year ended with the loss of Vienna to the Shakal forces. After this most nations went for peace and this effectivly ended the Crusade although clashes against French and Spanish, most notably in the Baelric Islands, continued until 1470.

At the turn of the sixteenth ceuntury the Empire was back on its feet. The Era truly became quiet. Until the new world was discovered by Columbus in 1492. This led to attentions changed for the west Europeans. The Shakal focused on science and made a few breakthorughs like Muskets in 1560 A.D and the discovery of the concept we now know as Socialism.

Reformation 1589 A.D - 1700 A.D

After so many years of war the people were content with holding what they had. The Emperor agreed. He focused all of his energies into the people. As the other European nations were trying their hands at Imperialism the Shakal remained passive. The extent of the borders now reached to the Danube and followed it to Belegrade where they came down at an almost perfect 45 degree angle to the Adriatic sea. In the east the Shakal controlled all of Modern Turkey, the fertile crecent and stopped at the border with the Mamulukes in Egypt. Persia was weak. The north was held by Shakal forces. The Shakal border hit the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. By 1688 no other nation on the planet save China, could boast of cities with over 2 million inhabitants. By now the population of the Shakal Empire was at over 300 million.

Preperation 1700 A.D - 1791 A.D

In the year 1700 A.D a new Emperor came to power. Unlike his predacessors he was eager for more lands to add to the Empire. This began with the call for a new and rebuilt navy to be created. The Shakal had always held little sway on the seas. By 1741 A.D 4 Ship Of the Line were finished along with over 50 smaller ships.

With the death of the Emperor in 1749 the new heir completed the goals set by his father. By the middle of the eighteenth century the Shakal navy was among the largest on the planet, second to only France and Britain.

When this great project was completed in 1755 the Empire began to modernize the army. The country was preparing for war, and its neigbors noticed. The newest memeber of Europe, Russia, had sent men to claim Crimea in 1754. With this it began to be a major worry to the Shakal that wished for Romania to remain in their own sphere of influence.

By 1780 the country had some of the best drilled and trained soldiers in the world, but the true pride of the Empire was the Armored Legion. It was an elite division of horseman that only used them to reach the battle area (Much like cavalry in the US Civil War).

The Four Years War 1791 A.D - 1795 A.D

The Shakal were again isolated from any friendly European nation, save Prussia. In March of 1791 the Shakal forces launched the invasion into Mameluke Egypt. Persia joined the Mamelukes and attacked Mesopetamia. In respone the Shakal cut off the silk road in Persia diverting it north towards the Shakal. This angered the Europeans who, led by Spain and Portugal, declared war by June.

It wasnt until the joint Spanish and Portugese defeat at the Baelric Islands that France and the Italian Co-alition joined the struggle in the favor of the Europeans. By the end of 1791 the Shakal were being attack from the South, West and East. The situtaion got worse when in January of 1792 the Russians sided with the Europeans.

The next year was one of great manuver, but no great battle. The Shakal continually outmanuvered the Persians and allies threatening their supplies forcing them to retreat countless times. It wasnt until December that a major engagement was fought, even so, it had no great victor.

In 1793 the Shakal luanched three sucessive campaigns into Persia, Egypt and deeper into Europe. The Persain Campaign was deemed acceptable even with the loss at Tehran. In Egypt the Shakal fared muc better, by April 3rd General Klaka had reached the port city of Benghazi. In Europe General Von Vorsaca made a name for himself that would last hundred of years longer than his body. He won a great victory in the Battle Of Zagreb where a Shakal army of two army corps, roughly fifty thousand men, beat the superior forces of the combined allies armies, estimated at over three hundred thousand.

By the end of the year Persia had surrendered and Mameluke Egypt was no longer in existence. Only in Europe did the Shakal fail to gain significant ground. Von Vorsaca may have won at Zagreb, but numbers had worn him down. The men were tired and supplies were running short. The Emperor appealed for peace, but was rejected.

The fourth year or war led too numerous smaller clashes at sea in which the Shakal were mostly sucessful. The combined Iberian navies were beaten in the Adriatic while the French were hit three months later in the Straight of Gibralter. The war came to a close on November 25th 1795 with the signing of the peace of Vienna.

Imperialism & Industrialization 1795 A.D - 1891 A.D

Immediatly after the four years war the Shakal rebuilt the army and pushed south along the coasts of Arabia. By 1802 they had gained control of the coasts of both the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. For two years the Emperor refitted the military and waited for a good time to strike.

In 1822 that chance came. Spain went to war with Portugual. The Shakal used this as a reason to send men farther into Lybia and managed to conquer all the war to Casablanca by 1827. This was a stepping stone for the "Protection Campaign" of 1830 against both Spain and Portugaul. This was essentially an invasion against both countries at once. Bu 1832 they were almost totally occupied and defeated.

Expanision came again in 1836. Romania, Aurtria and Italy joined forces and attacked the Shakal. In three months Romania was crushed. Russia joined the remaining allies in June and was defeated by years end. Romania was totally engulfed, Crimea and part of the Ukraine were given up along with some land on the other side of the Caspian. Italy was totally taken excpet for some lands aorund Torino and Savoy. Austria was almost lost and by 1838 Hungary was also engulfed. The expansion was so fast that most European countries couldnt even reace when the Shakal pushed south along the Nile and took Eritea in 1841.

The Shakal Empire then pushed and crushed Yemen and Oman by 1843. In 1844 the Army pushed into Somalia and Abysinnia fighting in a long attrition war that lasted 6 years. In 1852 the Shakal pushed into Kenya and were defeated by the Portugese and British. This didnt stop Shakal Imperialism. They sent dozens of newly built Ironclads to the far east and secures Siam and much of south China in 1860.

After this the Civil War brought about great change. The army adopted newly built breechloading cannons built by Wolke Industries, which would become the Empire's greatest supplier of military goods. The new value of these cannon were proved in 1877 with the victory over France. This led to the occupation of Marsailles and several other French port cities on thew Mediteranian.

In 1882 the Shakal fought a war with the Dutch, Belgians, and Chinese. This led to the occupation of Macao, the entire east indes and Belgian congo. The Germans and Japanese had god relations with the Shakal becuase of the equal rights they surrported for all races below them.

The last expanision to the Shakal Empire took place in 1890 in the war with most of South America. The Shakal's superior weapons and training won an easy victory that secured Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Uraguay, and Venezuala. On May 1st 1891 the Empire was at its greatest extent.

Modern History 1891 A.D - Present

After the extent limit was reached the rise of Empress Melak the Empire fell into turmoil. The Shakal Civil war erupted in 1893 nd ended in the crushing of the rebel armies in 1900. The turn of the century hurt the Shakal. The colonies so hardly fought for in SOuth Amrica were lost along with those in the Pacific to the British in exchange for compensation. By 1910 it was fully recovered with the giving up of its colonies in Africa. The next fourty years passed with the total industrialization of the Empire. Even the more isolated provinces such as in Arabia and Morocco held some industrial capacity. In 1956 the peace was disrupted with the outbreak of the Kenyan War. It was during this war that George Von Hindel set the universally held record for the longest overland supply line to an armored legion, over 7000 km from Shakal City to over 200 km past Nairobi.

With the wars end in 1962 a new era of industrial expansion came on. Thirty years of unrestrained development led to the strong and powerful economy the country has now.

Government

The Shakal Government is divided into two seperate sections. The Imperial Wing which handles all foriegn and domestic affairs related to the economy or Emperor itself, and the Peoples Wing which handles all internal matters relating to the people themselves.

Current notables among the country are listed as followes, Francis Weldheimer the current Head Of Government, Empress Kristina Schraepl II, Fredrick Mannstein the Chief Of The General Staff, Derrick Braun the Head of the Imperial Godess Guards, and Vladmir Corpelstein the Foreign Minister.

Imperial Wing

Made up of officals set into power by the Emperor. This includes the ministers of all aspects of any government. It usually consists of 12 Memembers:

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Imperial Palace

• 1 Government Head
• 1 Foreign Minister
• 1 Domestic Overseer
• 1 Minister of Eductaion
• 1 Minister of Healthcare
• 1 Minister of Economics
• 1 Minister of Justice
• 1 Head Of The Army
• 1 Head Of The Imperial Godess Guards
• 1 Head Of The Navy
• 1 Head Of The Airforce
• 1 Chief Of The General Staff

These twelve are subject to the Emperor's will. They make up his closest friends and allies in any case.

Peoples Wing

The Peoples Wing is far more complex than the Imperial Wing. Each province of the Empire has its own elected representative that holds a seat in the Hall Of Representitives. A total of 100 seats exist in the HOR and the number of representitives is based on percentile votage. Example:34% of the votes means 34 seats for the party.

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The House Of Representitives

The HOR is followed by the House Of Wills[1]. These are the local representitives that the people elected to voice for them in government. It containes roughly 430 seats at the moment, one for every 2 million residents (Under upcoming Law 321 Section G the number would be set at a 1:3 Million ratio) They vote on issues and create the laws that must pass through the HOR to become the law. After this they require the signitue of the Emperor to officially be a law. If the Emperor dissapproves they can hand down the bill for amendment or cancellation. This is an approximate outline of the provincial distrubution in the HOW:

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The House Of Wills

The Emperor is the supreme power in government. They can veto any bill or law that wants to be passed with the support of two members of the Imperial Wing. If they dont have the support of these people they can still cancell the motion but this is greatly frowned upon by the people. It has happened only once in the entire history of the Shakal Empire, when the people wanted to make the army non-existent during the years after the wars of Imperialism.

Foreign Relations

Allies

• Scandinavians
• Wanderjar
• The World Soviet Party
• The Peoples Freedom

Neutrals

• Momo Monkey
• Hungarian Riech

Enemies

• Árbiters
• Mt Baker

Economy

The Shakal Empire is almost very resource rich and has a strong ecnomic base to support it in the case of war. Such as the last 12 weeks war with The Extreme Dictatorship Of Mt. Baker,& The Most Serene Republic Of Momo Monkey. It was the economy that allowed the Shakal to revitalize Blitzkrieg and crush the Momo army in just a under a month. Before moving on the Mt. Baker in under two months.

The economy is based primarily on resources and manufacturing, especially weapons. The Empire had four distinct economical sectors, central Anatolia which holds the main sources of distrubtion, Balkania which is the major production center of the Empire, Caucasia which supplies all the basic resources for the Shakal Empire to produce, and the Agriculture is centered mostly around the fertile cresent, the Nile river valley, and Arabia (animals).

In time sof war the production of consumer goods falls very little. The highest recorded margin ever was 12%. Most of the production is primarily based around the military already. This allows the government to shift the effort of the workers into military works without a hefty penealy in the actual production of Consumer goods.

• Production From Internal Sources
• Consumer Goods:65.43%
• Military Godds Produced Internally:96.61%

Military

Main Article:Shakal Military

The Shakal Empire's defence is the best in its region. It is based on the doctraine of Decisive Mobility this means that all three distinct sectors of the military, the Army, Navy, and Airforce, work closly with one another to give the troops maximum speed and firepower while retaining a strong capability to react to enemy moves.

Culture

Shakal culture is one that is totally unique. It has some elements from both German, Turkish, and Middle Eastern influence. The most notable form of German influence is the House Of Representitives. A good example of of this unique culture is the way that the Shakal approach religion. Everyone is free to join any religion they wish and are allowed to follow some of the practices even if they break minor laws.

Sports

Sports arent a very large part of the Shakal culture. They are not held in as high a regard as those of the modern west by any standards. Soccer is fairly popular but only 5 million people view games over the television. The least popular is a close tie between Football and Baseball, followed closly by any form of wrestling or fighting, then these are followed by Rugby and Basketball.

Anthem

The Shakal national anthem is a perfect expression of the country, loud, dangerous, and modern.

Shakal National Anthem

Music

Most music in the Empire is of two contrasting genres. One is the genre of Classical music relating to the masters, Bach, Mozart, and Bethoveen. The second genre is that of Hard Rock. This latter genre includes such bands as ACDC, Van Halen, and many others.