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		The Imperial, Empirical State of Germanalasia
		Map Currently Unavailable
		Region	Anarchy Camp
		Motto	"Never be mediocre."
		Anthem	William Tell Overture (finale)
		Language(s)   - Official   - Unofficial	English Nalasic English
		Capital	Beranostra
		Largest City	Beranostra
		Government   - Alpha Minister   - Minister of Defence	M. B. Findlaich Undisclosed
		Population	Approx 1,200,000,000
		Colours	Maroon, Black
		National Animal	Highland Cow
		National Dog Breed	Saluki
		GDP (PPP)   - Total (USD)   - Per Capita (USD)	Approx $35,000,000,000,000 Approx $30,000
		Currency	Diadem Mark (DiM)
		Tech Level	Modern
		Stats: NS NSEconomy NSTracker Sunset XML

Germanalasia, or fully, The Imperial, Empirical State of Germanalasia, is a totalitarian, militaristic nation notable for being one of the most dominant exporters in the Anarchy Camp region. An industrialised corporate police state which has, in recent times, attracted attention for its highly pervasive policing techniques and its former membership of the Royal Anarchy Collaboration.

History

Prehistory

While there has been little archaeological research in the more long-standing and built up areas of Germanalasia due to tight laws prohibiting any unauthorised digs in certain areas, specifically the Germanalasia Land Misuse Act, archaeological work on various cliff faces and some coastal areas have produced evidence suggesting early man inhabited the area as far 600,000 years ago. The evidence suggests that the majority of these were part of nomadic tribes, possibly traders for surrounding areas.

Founding of Germanalasia

Prior to 542 CE, what is now Germanalasia was three separate and highly contrasting states, in addition to a further two large city-states: Kolnadda, Gerandara, Dyattica; and city-states Myln and Penzenes.

Myln was a prominent sea port, and traded a variety of goods, primarily selling canvas and rigging for sea fairing vessels and importing food and silks. In the early autumn of 542, a Myln ship - The Seafairer - was spotted floating, apparently hit heavily by a storm. On investigation, it became apparent that the ship was perfectly intact, apart from the shredded main sail that appeared to have been slashed into pieces not by the weather, but by knives. The first boarders thought she was deserted, until they found in the cabins five crewmen, all dead, covered in welts and buboes. This ruled out attack by pirates, and on investigation of the cargo, it was found that the ship had returned from its destination with a large amount of corn and fabrics.

The cargo was raided by the crew of the investigating ship - Whisperer - and the abandoned vessel scuppered.

Shortly after they returned and sold the corn and fabrics, the first reports of dying rats and animals came in, and days later, reports were coming in around the city of people dying, and coming down with welts and buboes. People fled into the large, adjacent state of Kolnadda, and Kolnadda too was infected. Kolnadda was in the middle of a military campaign against Dyattica, and their reinforcements brought the sickness with them.

Historians understand this to be the Bubonic Plague, carried by fleas which were present in the blankets salvaged from The Seafairer. There is also some evidence that the fleas were present in the corn - it is likely that they were stored in rat-infested granaries in their country of origin. Where the plague originated from is not known, as the ships logs were lost when it was sunk, however it is true that at this time there were plague outbreaks in other areas at this time.

The plague was aided by the fact the area was just coming out of a long drought - the very reason Kolnadda was at war, in fact - which had weakened the population's immune system.

When the plague eventually burnt out in late 544 CE, the entire city of Myln was deserted and Kolnadda had lost three quarters of its population to the plague and approximately an eighth to the war in Dyattica. The plague had also devastated the majority of Dyattica's peripheral regions and almost their total armed forces. The core of the state only survived due to strict quarantining that had been put into place at the last minute.

In all this, Gerandara, the second largest state in the area, after Kolnadda, was left almost untouched. A massive civil war was being waged at the time, and all trade was cut off. In 547, when government was re-established, Gerandara was by far the largest state by population despite heavy casualties during the civil war. The government seized the opportunity to offer "aid" to it's neighbour Kolnadda in the form of taking cities under Gerandara's military control and repopulating them with the survivors. In the course of this, Gerandara's government declared them Gerandara's territory until the Kolnadda government was able of taking control again - a possibility Gerandara's taking of the capital and disposing of the parliament eliminated.

Myln was also taken by Gerandara, and the abandoned regions of Dyattica. At the start of the the seventh century CE, a marriage of the King of Penzenes into the Gerandara's Royal Family, which was independent of the government following the civil war half a century earlier but still had considerable political weight merged the highly defended city-state into Gerandara, and at the King of Penzenes' encouragement, the nation was renamed, Germanalasia.

End of the Germanalasian Monarchy

King Alexander III died in 1871, without an heir. He had lost public favour due to his suspected insanity and blatant flaunting of the law. Biographers note that he suffered from paranoia, and it is widely believed that it was he who had his siblings' and his siblings' families assassinated, and he regularly visited brothels and had many high-status consorts. However, it is believed none of these encounters lead to any illegitimate children and that King Alexander was infertile, a trait shown by his uncle Prince Tobias.

After his death, he was not succeeded by any of the distantly related families that were left with some Royal blood, primarily because public opinion of the Royal Family had reached a point where they might be exiled in a revolt should the thrown be filled. The closest potential heirs would have been Rhys Sailbury, the last surviving member of an offshoot of the Royal Family, where King Alexander III's great aunt Princess Odessa I lost her title by marrying a commoner, or Bartholomew Porter, who's great grandfather was accepted to be the illegitimate child of Queen Anne IV.

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Anarchy Camp

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Germanalasia Aerospace

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