Greater Prussia

History

Greater Prussia is a region that was created upon the separation of Reichskamphen from the Reich due to religious and political conflict.

To this day, though, the Greater Prussian Empire continues to proclaim itself the only Protestant region on Nationstates. Supporters believe that Greater Prussia is indeed the heart of Protestantism on Nationstates.

Organizational Structure

The Greater Prussian Empire is organized into two sections:

The region of Greater Prussia The Free Cities Alliance

The Region of Greater Prussia

The region of Greater Prussia is the heart of the Greater Prussian empire. In it contains most of the nations with power, including the nation with the capital of the Empire (Reichsburg) and the home of the Emperor (Napoleon IV), Reichskamphen, as well as the nation of the Arch-Chancellor (Alexei Andropov), Derscon.

When King Marcus Antonius II effected the split between his Kingdom and the Reich, he opted to found a new region. The Reichskamphian occupied Esamopia and other occupied territories along with a few other allies that the King had made formed the region. Of the original members, only Reichskamphen remains. Many of the other nations have simply faded into obscurity.

Shortly thereafter, Reichskamphen was embroiled in a Civil War called the Second Scottan War in which factions from the northern Triune Kingdom of Scotta sought to replace Reichskamphen as the head Kingdom. Reichsburg was shelled and the Royal Palace was destroyed before the victorious Scottans marched through the City. Upon their victory, the leader of the Scottans, Viktor Leipzig I, was crowned the King of Reichskamphen and the Triune Kingdom.

Once Viktor ascended the throne, he began to organize the region of Greater Prussia under a Consulate system of government where he was made the First Consul. As the region continued to grow, Viktor assembled the sometime legislative body of the region, the Estates General, for its first meeting to decide the fate of the regional government...whether it would become a semi-democratic Consulship, or an Empire. The decision was unanimous and King Viktor Leipzig I was Crowned Emperor Leipzig I of Greater Prussia. This was perhaps the only substantive action that has come from the Estates general despite constant assemblies and prodding from the various Emperors.

It was during the start of the Greater Prussian Empire that Greater Prussia joined METUS. During it's time in METUS, Prussia was -- while the largest of the METUS triumverate of alliances -- still not an active participating member within Melkor's domain.

Upon the death of Viktor I, it was decided by the Imperial Family that the Religious Advisor to the Crown, Dr. Ian Paisley, should become the Emperor of Greater Prussia. The Paisley years were years of sincere devotion to God and austerity during which time Greater Prussia cultivated its reputation as the heart of Protestantism in Nationstates. As the Emperor aged, he decided to Abdicate in favour of the Arch Duke Andre Allistaire von Katrineburg. As an apparant closeted Catholic, he sought to suppress the free Practice of Religion. His Militia Unit known as the Pax Maria was the scourge of the Empire as it burned Protestant Churches and sought to suppress by force what could not be done through the study of the word.

Soon, the Greater Prussian Imperial Guard revolted against the Catholic Emperor who was captured and executed on the orders of the Arch Chancellor. Afterwards, there was a very large shakedown in the recently created Kingdom of Burgundy where top officials of a few nations were arrested by the Imperial Guard for treason against the Crown by helping the fugitive Pax Maria units.

It was at this time that Former Emperor Paisley along with the Imperial Family opted to make Napoleon Francois Charles Joseph de Sanglant, the Reichskamphian King of Allanea, the Emperor of Greater Prussia, whereupon he was crowned Napoleon IV as a nod to the fact that Reichskamphen saw its foundations in the Napoleonic Empire, saw itself as the reincarnation of this Empire, and therefore recognized Napoleon I and Napoleon III as past Emperors.

It was during this time that Napoleon IV realized the Paisley Governments Aggressive anti-Metus policies by announcing his withdrawal from Metus to the world at the same time as the current Arch-Chancellor, at that time Czar Ivan Rekjyavich Andropov the Second of Derscon, announced Greater Prussia's withdraw to METUS itself.

For some time afterwards, Greater Prussia dropped the face of the earth, laying low and preparing for the Ardan counterattack that never came, due to the inability of Melkor to effectively control the superalliance because of his own turmoils within his homeland, Melkor Unchained.

Now, with Napoleon IV still as its head, Greater Prussia has sought to emerge from its isolation and somewhat less than sterling international reputation. Recently, the Emperor solidified his dynasty's claim to the throne by consecrating the House of Bonaparte as the Imperial Family of Greater Prussia to the exclusion of all others. Symbols of Napoleonic Glory abound in what the Emperor has dubbed "The Third Empire". Accompanying this facelift to the Empire are reforms which allow for unprecedented liberty throughout the Empire.

Recently, the Emperor slipped into a two year long Coma, during which time, the Czar of Derscon took over as acting Emperor. However, the Emperor very recently awoke from his Coma and has reassumed control of the Empire.

The Free Cities Alliance

Since the dramatic liberalization of the Greater Prussian admittance codes, The Free Cities Alliance was created. The only admittance requirement is that the nation must honour capitalist ideals and not actively or passively oppose the Christian Religion.

Headed at first by the Confederate States of Allanea, it is now headed by Arizona Nova.

Nations within the Free Cities Alliance are officially members of the Empire and entitled to all the priveleges allowed to Greater Prussia Majour and the Kindom of Burgundy, yet they are allowed to be in any region that they will. Each nation must agree to the FCA Constitution in full before admittance as well as apply for membership through a form.