God and Delaware
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The Armed Republic of God and Delaware:
Culture and Government
The Armed Republic of God and Delaware is a loosely organized confederation of clans united by the fierceness of their antinomimnial Catholicism, their love of civil freedoms, and their militancy. Within the apparent contradiction of these three pillars lies the very soul of Delaware, religious but scorning asthecitism, supportive of national freedom but sworn to subjugate the rest of the world, bbasically friendly but armed to the teeth.
History
As early as 1300 C.E., a caravan of devout Christians moved across the central plain of Mater Te, settling in the lush coastal plains along the Magnus Mare (great sea), modern day Mother's Bay. They named the area Del-Maria, "Land of Mary" or "Land of the Mother" in their own Anglo-Celtic dialect, Brythonish. Though agriculturally rich, the region was subject to constant attacks from roving pagan warlords, and the Christian community quickly became militaristic. Making use of vast strains of iron ore, they crafted exquisite weaponry and a fast, well-coordinated cavalry that, in the space of less than a century, led to Del-Maria's triumph as the supreme military force in the region. A complex bureaucracy developed around a pontifex maximus, the high priest and emperor, based on the Roman model, but of the Christian faith. All other religions were outlawed. The pontifex maximus commanded the army, and, as each emperor handpicked his successor, the rulers were often drawn from the military.
In 1467, a young Italian writer returned from a pilgrammage, during which he had spent many months in Del-Maria as a scribe for one of the many cathedrals that the Del-Marians had constructed, always in the European Gothic style. Obtaining a patronage in Florence, the writer, Viotto de Mazzipucci, recorded his memoirs in a series of volumes entitled Among the Del-Marians: A Successful Search for God. This massive work (over three thousand pages, preserved in a number of manuscripts of Italian, German and Norman descent, a testament to both the eloquence of the writer and the time period's fascination with Del-Marian civilization) provides the only surviving window into early Del-Marian culture. His book is believed to have inspired numerous pilgrammages of a similar type, partly on account of de Mazzipucci's claim that the Cathedral of St. Maria, in Del-Maria's capital, Shiloch, housed the remains of many important Biblical figures, including the two criminals who were crucified beside Jesus on Calvary. These pilgrammages were not very successful, unfortuneately, as the route through Papal Italy, which was often openly hostile to the Del-Marians, and likewise to any pilgrims found voyaging there, and then through Islamic Asia Minor, Mongol dominated India and the harsh Mongolian desert, and then the unfriendly kingdoms of China and Japan were too much for most pilgrims. A few pilgrims, notably Leon de Ponceville, of Poitiers, made it all the way to present day North Korea. However, on his voyage across the Pacific he was never seen again, as were the majority of the pilgrims. Because of this, Del-Maria took on mythic, Eden-like qualities in the minds and arts of Renaissance Europe. Their perceptions, however, were far from the truth. The Del-Maria that de Mazzipucci had visited was then at the height of its power. Their longtime rival in the region, Massapoggipularia, had been decisively defeated twenty years earlier at the Battle of Cair Cobwebblgah. Revenue that had previously been used for war could be put instead to leisure and arts.
