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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.

Royal Anarchy

In the early 1980s, Germanalasians became increasingly suspicious of the military dealings of the large, nearby communist nation of Transcarpathian Lovkia. While neither government acknowledged it, an arms race ensued, and intelligence programmes from both states escalated. It was during the course of this that Germanalasia became more of a police state, and the media was heavily restricted.

The island nation of Bockeklasia, a commercial paradise and mutual ally of the vying countries, worried about the impact to its economy if its two main trading partners went to war. It also did not wish to choose between its two allies who to support. It's leader, the Supreme Lord Protector, sought to hold peace conferences, but the leaders of the other two countries refused to acknowledge their status of cold war. In secret, the Bockeklasian leader contacted the deputy leaders in their respective governments, and managed to hold a meeting in utter secrecy to discuss the fate of the nations.

Partly because of their uncertainty of the other's armed forces, and partly because both of the deputy leaders aspired to govern their countries, after several such meetings an agreement was made to create, with Bockeklasia acting as initial administrator, a union to unite the three nations and help settle their disputes. The collaboration was to be called Royal Anarchy.

No press releases were filed, nor any information made available to the public until 1984, when the Germanalasia Alpha Minister of the time, Michael Ruaidri, resigned "for medical reasons", often believed to have been encouraged by Deputy-Alpha Minister Duncan Friedike, on the 10 April. The Transcarpathian Lovkian ruler Karlyon Centurii died of suspected food poisoning two days earlier - the events may have been related.

The relevant successors of each leader ascended to their relevant positions, and immediately backed Bockeklasia's proposition of the union that had all, in fact, decided upon earlier, and offered the had of friendship to each other. Both nations contributed greatly to the creation of Royal Anarchy, RA, as "a sign of good faith".

Bockeklasia's leader had been contacted four weeks before anything about the union became public by a young, former general in Royal Anarchy's military, with the knowledge of a considerable amount of the RA project, heavily classified material. The Supreme Lord Protector dared not have the man imprisoned as he refused to reveal his sources. The man, a Mr M B Findlaich, was appointed to be the head of the RA to prevent him leaking any information.

Findlaich proved to be a capable, if behind-the-scenes leader. Several RA departments were set up, and a standing armed section of the Royal Anarchy was recruited. Special levels of diplomatic immunity were given to the employees of the Royal Anarchy group, and, coinciding with the slip into greater levels of totalitarianism for Germanalasia, RA personal became above the governments of the constituent nations, a law to themselves holding the entire collaboration in a stranglehold.

Resistance efforts began by several terrorist organisations, and several speculated incidents of a supposed Royal Anarchy Secret Police department intervening with what was believed to be terrorist traffic.

The RA Ministry of Government Propaganda had public speaker systems installed in numerous cities of constituent nations to broadcast nationalistic messages, pro-government posters displayed throughout the states and installed The Five-Edged Star, a regional newspaper, to promote RA policy.

The Loss of Royal Anarchy Control

The increasingly totalitarian and oppressive style of Royal Anarchy came to a head in mid-2006. The terrorist organisation The Home Guard, stationed in Germanalasia's capital of Beranostra, lead an operation to assassinate several high-status members of RA on their way to The Government Building. While the convey was intercepted, it was revealed to be a decoy, and The Home Guard tried to fall back on their back-up plan, to storm the government building via its loading bay in an articulated lorry, supposedly carrying food stocks for the banquet held in honour of the RA ministers that evening.

Royal Anarchy had intended to use the arrival of the RA personnel in the government building as a decoy itself, and stormed The Home Guards primary weaponry storage area, the location of which they had established by tracking conveys of weapons they had deliberately let through. In the ensuing battle, the team which had attempted to intercept the RA ministers seized the opportunity and went to their second, reserve store, and broke into The Government Building themselves.

The battle at the first store spilled out onto the street, and a great amount of damage was inflicted on nearby buildings. When Alpha Minister Friedike was told of the conflict between Royal Anarchy forces and the unidentified men, he confronted his guests, requiring to know why he hadn't been informed of this operation, and why he his permission wasn't required. The RA personnel, one believed to be a General of some description, realised that the operation to put down the section of the terrorist unit was not going to plan, and declared a state of Marshall Law. When they resisted, they shot the Alpha Minister and several of his Sub-Ministers.

The order was given for the regular Germanalasia standing army to converge in the capital, but The Home Guard members who infiltrated the building prevent the message being sent. Further reinforcements from Royal Anarchy HQ were successfully called, however.

During the battle outside of the HQ, a Home Guard member was killed in a stolen SAM truck, and as he died accidentally fired the entire battery into The Government Building. The massive central tower, which made it one of the tallest buildings in Germanalasia, the tallest in the capital, crashed down in an avalanche of steel and glass. The RA personnel died almost instantly, and only a few of The Home Guard recovered. Few government personnel were in the building at the time.

As RA forces converged on Germanalasia, the Administrative Centre in Transcarpathian Lovkia of the RA was attacked by the local branch of The Home Guard. The entirety of the communist nation fell into civil war a few days later.

When the RA troops arrived, the majority of The Home Guard had gone into hiding. Smuggled in equipment was confiscated, but before the government could be full reinstated, all available units were called to Bockeklasia in emergency, for another terrorist organisation had taken control of one of their nuclear missile silos.

Although the nuclear weapons were never fired, Bockeklasia too fell into civil war. Germanalasia, the only of the three constituent nations to maintain a large army outside of the Royal Anarchy were left to re-establish their government on their own, RA completely dissolved.

Post-Royal Anarchy

Anarchy Camp

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Germanalasia Aerospace

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