Civitas Americae
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| Motto: "Tertius vicis lepor lepos" | |
| Region | The Kingdom of Burgundy |
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| Capital | Neuhausburg |
| Official Language(s) | Latin and German |
| Leader | Emperor Paul VII |
| Population | 900 million |
| Currency | Dollar |
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History
Civitas Americae was founded as a colony of the Holy Roman Empire shortly after its discovery in the mid-15th century. A large, rich, and fertile land, it was devoid of native inhabitants. Younger noble sons quickly seized the opportunity presented them, and petitioned the Emperor for landholdings in the new land, which had been named Amerika. Rather shrewdly, the Emperor portioned out the holdings in such a manner as to ensure their loyalty to the Empire. It was thanks to this that when the fatal Protestant Schism arose a half-century later that the princes of this new land remained loyal to the Empire and hence to Rome.
The land that would become Civitas Americae was not populated solely by subjects of the Holy Roman Empire however. Many commoners from across Europe immigrated to the Imperial colonies. In addition, following the loss of Constantinople, many survivors of Byzantium settled in the New World. Unlike their counterparts who returned to schism under Turkish oppression, these remained faithful to Rome and the reunification at the Council of Florence. It is because of these that today, 30% of Civitas Americae’s population is Byzantine Catholic. All of these immigrants are the reason why the official language of Civitas Americae is Latin rather than German.
On September 28th, 1784, the Feast of King St. Wenceslas, Karl IX, the Holy Roman Emperor, recognizing that Civitas Americae had grown too large for him to govern, granted it its independence. The Habsburg prince Paul, nephew of the Emperor, was crowned as the first emperor of the new Empire, united to its parent in the desire to preserve Christendom. Alas, Christendom was destroyed in Europe, with the exception of the Papal States, which have been continuously preserved (and administered, on the Pope’s behalf), by Civitas Americae. Because Civitas Americae’s independence was granted on the feast of King St. Wenceslas, he has been adopted as the patron of the Empire.
