Euleos
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| Motto: Ad astra | |
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| Region | Grey Sea States |
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| Capital | Metralio |
| Official Language(s) | English |
| Leader | President Michael Czan |
| Population | 250 million |
| Currency | neothaler |
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The Academic Republic of Euleos is a moderately-sized nation in the Grey Sea States.
History
Origins
The territory of Euleos is believed to have first been occupied by multiple groups of people several thousand years ago. The Gridedo River, the Dori Range, and its long border on the ocean led many different tribes into Euleos, and they lived mainly on the edges of the modern border. These people were originally nomads and much more time was to pass before they permanently settled in Euleos. City-states started to appear around 500 B.C.E. The city-states were long the dominant form of political organization. Many areas of Euleos were part of various ancient empires and kingdoms. This prevented larger states from developing in Euleos for centuries, and is the source of Euleos’ rich and diverse culture. During the classical age, Euleos’ polities housed unique cultures. Philosopher-scientists on the Gridedo River were regularly exposed to foreign cultures and peoples. They quickly took their experience and believed in a universe much larger than they could see. Cosmologies varied though, and Earth was thought of as a plethora of shapes depending on which school of thought a person followed.
Euleos Emerges
Euleos didn’t really become culturally unified until the mid 500s C.E. or so, when one of the last classical empires that had control over most of Dorias collapsed. It was at this point, when the city-states were free of constant outside interference, that the individual cultures of the city-states started to blend together.
Political unification was to take much longer. The first areas to become unified were in the southeast. As Kaldei gradually became stronger, local rulers feared foreign takeover. Some expansionist monarchs capitalized on this fear, promising to protect other city-states in return for loyalty and money. Although these kingdoms and other states were quite small, they were an important step in government in Euleos. This trend gradually spread to other areas. As the first millennium came to a close, many of the modern-day provinces of Euleos existed as sovereign states. This unique collection of regional kingdoms and city-states, etc gave Euleos its somewhat odd hierarchy of government when these became provinces after the signing of the Unity Charter.
The Unity Charter placed all the territory of what is now the Republic of Euleos under one ruler (the Grand King or Grand Queen) and one legislature (the Noble Assembly). The Grand King of Euleos was determined among the monarchies of the former states by examining the bloodlines of all royal families to determine who had the most royal blood from an ancient imperial family (chosen because they were the last to rule over an empire covering much of Dorias, and most later monarchs in Euleos were descendants of the various branches of this family). Coincidentally, the family most involved in pushing for the Unity Charter was the "most royal". The areas united under the Charter hosted many different forms of government, and the charter allowed for each area to maintain its own local government (including local monarch) so long as all citizens pledged loyalty to the Grand King of Euleos first. Representatives to the Noble Assembly were chosen as their districts saw fit. The great degree of freedom granted to each locale in choosing its own government led to a variety of governmental systems developing within Euleos.
Euleos ended up becoming a republic more out of default than design. In 1846, Princess Catherine III was forced to become Grand Queen when her father and mother died at sea. Though Catherine could rule as Queen, tradition dictated that she must be married to legitimize her power. Her new advisors suggested she marry Henry I, the prince of the Sarbi region in Euleos, who had the most royal blood after Catherine. Their marriage was hastily arranged. Unfortunately, before Catherine could even be coronated, an outbreak of cholera swept across the southern half of the country. Catherine and Henry both caught the disease and ended up dying the morning of the coronation. The Noble Assembly was left with the bizarre job of determining the next in line to rule Euleos. However, the circumstances of Catherine’s death complicated the matter. She never officially had been Queen, so her advisors (really, a combination of her parents’ surviving advisors and her royal consort) had no power. She had no children, and neither did her husband. Both Catherine and Henry were the only surviving children in their families. To search for a new Grand Monarch, the Assembly would need to trace all the royal genealogies again. The sudden death of Catherine encouraged rebellion by radical democrats. At the same time, local royal families were ready to take the throne and were prepared to fight for it if necessary. The Assembly decided an easy way to preserve order was to choose no heir. Having been influenced by various ideologies from their own regions, the members of the Noble Assembly laid out a new government for Euleos.
