Norightsia
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| Motto: "Progress at any cost, no matter what." | |
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| Region | Asian Continent |
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| Capital | Velorya |
| Official Language(s) | Norightsian |
| Leader | Cardinal Emperor Salvatius I |
| Population | 3 Billion |
| Currency | Denar |
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Norightsia is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."
It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Commerce. The average income tax rate is 100%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Uranium Mining industry, followed by Arms Manufacturing and Automobile Manufacturing.
Being the most powerful Catholic nation in Asia, Norightsia is a very important player on the world stage.
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Ancient History
The original Empire of Norightsia began in AD 327, when Roman mariners, sailing from Carthage to Britannia, were blown off course by a freak storm. Thinking they were still traveling north, they sailed west to Canada. They believed that they had landed upon a resurrected Atlantis, but were afraid to stay lest it sink again.The Romans immediately attempted to resupply the ship, but did not recognize the indigenous foliage. During the delay, Native Americans found and destroyed their ship. The Romans were stuck. They decided to found a colony, hoping eventually Rome would find them. Luckily, the ship's cargo had been wives, daughters, and female slaves of noblemen newly arrived from Rome to act as officials, so they were able to reproduce. The settlers decided to elect the ship's captain, Vicius Hilaris, as the new Emperor of "The Lost Empire", their new kingdom. He named this new dynasty after Constantine, the current Roman Emperor. The Constantinian Dynasty of Norightsia lasted for about 670 years with little interbreeding with natives, who were subjugated and used as slaves.
Around AD 815, a city, named Vicus Maritimus, had developed in the Roman fashion. It had become apparent that Rome would never find them, so they established their own Empire, with Vicus Maritimus as the capital city. There was a relatively large temple of Demeter downtown, but most citizens were Christians by that time.They also attempted to convert the Natives, but they resisted and a serious of wars broke out. The Amerindians lost, and the persecution under the hands of Emperor Tilurius III were so bad that a chief protested them publicly in broken Latin, calling the Empire roughly "Not Right Land". Popular poltical figures began calling the Empire "Notrightsland" after that.
In AD 1000,Leif Ericson and his minions arrived from Greenland. One of his captains, Tyrkir, a German, was sent out to scout the area. He and his men came upon Vicus Maritimus with help from angry natives. He was astounded that the Norightsians spoke Latin, had galdiatorial combat, went to public baths, and lived in villas. Upon their being spotted, the Norightsian Emperor, Constanian IV, jumped to conclusions and guessed that they were German auxiliares here to rescue them. The German, who had learned Latin from pillaging Irish monasteries, played the ruse and entered Vicus Maritimus. He then immediately went into the Imperial Compound, murdered the Imperial family, and declared himself Lord of Notrightsland. Not wanting to go back to Greenland, he sent an envoy to Leif Ericson with some of the grapes that the Norightsians had brought from Rome and cultivated. He declared the grapes grew wild and wanted to stay. Ericson agreed, and named the area Vinland after the grapes. He left, never to gaze uopn Notrightsland.
The so-called German Dynasty under the Vikings lasted for about as long as the earlier Constantinian. The Empire became up to date because of the Vikings' knowledge, and the people had no end of mourning over the Fall of the West, and very many refused to believe it. However, those who did were comforted by the fact that East lived on, although they were concerned about Islam. The German Dynasty was characterized by an overall feeling of impotence not fealt during the Constantinian when they thought that Rome would keep on keeping on without them. The art and politics clearly showed it. During the German Dynasty, the Empire's name also metamorphosed into Norightsia, which continues to this day.
The German Dynasty also came to an abrubt end in the 1600s. French and English explorers spotted Norightsia. They were ashamed that they were beaten, but more afraid that it was each other in the settlements. Both factions, using firearms, ravaged Norightsia searching for traces of the other side. This is known as the Twofold War. The current Emperor, Germanicus XXI, feared for the life of his people, and gathered the whole population of Vicus Maritimus into a fleet of ships and sailed south. The eventually reached Florida and safety with loyal Papists. They were allowed to stay in Florida to defend the colonists in return for freedom. They joined the famous Black Seminoles in this role. They established a city near modern day Orlando called Veloridamus. This is known as the Floridian Period.
However, Britain eventually gained Florida, and the Norightsians were forced to flee. They called themselves the Exiled Peoples of Norightsia. They wandered all throughout the Mediterranean and Caribbean, settling everywhere from Jamaica to Malta for short periods before being forced out. They eventually settled in Southern Italy at the beginning of the 1800s. They spoke Latin still, and never fully assimilated into Italian society.
The Great Migration
Beginning during World War II, Norightsians began to migrate from Southern Italy all over the world. The majority went to Sub-Saharan Africa and Argentina, where they could create small niches for themselves away from European influence. This migration largely stopped when Catholic Europe arose, as many Norightsians left to fight the War of Succession, including Galerius Quintilianus, later Emperor Galerius I. After the war, many Catholic European Norightsians were dead, and the rest greatly desired to leave.
In Africa, a man named Gaius Trechatus was beginning to call the other diasporatic Norightsians to himself. He saw that the economically poor but relatively ecologically rich region of SouthEast Asia was largely ungoverned. He called all Norightsians to join him in a "Great Migration" to the area. Many Argentinian and Catholic European Norightsians flocked to him, but quite a few West African Norightsians refused to leave. These people were cast out of Norightsian society, and would later come into conflict with the new Norightsian Empire. They were widely known as the Norightsians of Edom.
The Norightsians managed to gather a rather large fleet of ships, and slowly made their way to South East Asia, under Trechatus's banner. Despite hardships, they eventually made the journey with about 40,000 people. They landed on the Cambodian Coast, and called their settlement New Hope, conspicuously in English. The Cambodian government didn't know what to think, but adopted a generally hostile view of the Norightsians. Thus began the Wars of Territory.
The Wars of Territory
The Cambodian Government decided that the Norightsians were a threat to their national security rather quickly. They sent 1,000 soldiers to New Hope to demand the Norightsians' surrender. But Trechatus wasn't about to give in. He declared that if the Cambodian Government desired the New Hope territory back, they would have to pry it out of Norightsia's grasp. The soldiers entered the city shortly thereafter, and the Battle of New Hope was on. The Norightsians managed to force the Cambodians out, and Trechatus gathered an Army some 10,000 strong to march on Phnom Penh.
The march was difficult, but the Norightsians finally encircled Phnom Penh after a week's march. In the Battle of Phnom Penh that followed, the Cambodian Government was toppled, and Norightsia came to occupy the whole of Cambodia. The Norightsians renamed the city Velorya, and it became the capital of the new nation they declared. However, the wars were not over.
Thailand, under pressure from the Americans, unilaterally went on the offensive, using its and Burma's territory on the Malay peninsula to strike at the Norightsians. This resulted in the Battle of Songkhla, where the Norightsians staged an amphibious invasion of the city. Trechatus lead troops staight up Malaya and hit Mergui, in "neutral" Burmese territory. The Battle of Mergui was a crushing defeat for Thai forces, which were put on the defensive.
Meanwhile, another army marched up from Cambodia and besieged Bangkok. The climactic Battle of Bangkok was the most ferocius battle in the area since Vietnam, perhaps ever, and tens of thousands of Thais lost their lives. However, there was one more battle for the Norightsians to win. The Thai government had fled to Chang Mai in the north. The Battle of Chang Mai was short and almost bloodless, and Thailand and Burmese Malaya became Norightsian territory as well. The Wars of Territory were over.
The PRN
After the Battle of Chang Mai, Norightsia was in complete control of its slice of Asia and had time to develop policy and government. Gaius Trechatus was without doubt the most popular choice to lead Norightsia, so he rose to power without need for elections. During the early years of his reign, the Norightsian population grew meteorically, swelling to 400 million by the advent of the Great Revolution. Norightsia was a mainly Libertarian state at the time, with little governmental control.
However, Trechatus was not satisfied with his minimal power. He saw how powerful China was, and greatly desired to ally with them. So he started a "Cultural Revolution", and started the People's Republic of Norightsia. However, popular support for Trechatus plummeted as the Revolution began. The deeply spiritual Norightsians, who had converted to Roman Catholicism during the Twofold War, refused to accept communnism's atheism. The champion of the dissention movement was Galerius Quintilianus, one of Trechatus's generals and a celebrated war hero.
Trechatus denounced Quintilianus, stripped him of his command, and ordered him executed. But the people stormed the jail where he was held and freed him. Shortly thereafter, Quintilianus accepted the title of "Grand Marshal of the Norightsian Army", the first of the Quintilianii titles. In what was later called the Great Revolution, Quintilianus raised and lead a large band of peasant conscripts, many of them "natives" (Asians) against Trechatus's Communist forces. Unlike the communist oligarch had predicted, China did not step in to help him. The Battle of Velorya ended the PRN.
Quintilianus's Initial Reforms
Quintilianus was a visionary in several ways, but his politicking was by far his greatest skill. Early on in his rule, it was aparent that people wanted Western Democratic government. Quintilianus invented himself to be a great proponent of Democracy. He was "offered" the chancee to become King, but declined, demanding to be elected before he took power. Of course, there were no other candidates, so Quintilianus won his first election with 99% of the vote, leading to the short lived Democratic Republic of Norightsia.
Of course, Quintilianus was not interested in deriving his power from the people. He foresaw a day where Norightsia would oncee again be a mighty Empire. His agents provacateur mingled with the populace, spreading the propaganda of Latinism. Norightsians began to yearn for the days of old, where Rome was the dominate force in the world. That entailed an Emperor and of course Quintilianus was there to fill the gap. Quintilianus's term was very emotionally charged indeed.
In this tense atmosphere, Quintilianus unleashed his coupe de gras, the National Unity Movement--NUM. The most controversial of his reforms, the NUM was the death blow to Americanism. It was essentially an effort to fuse Norightsia's ethnic groups: "Norightsian Latins", Chinese, Indian Sub-Continental, Vietnamese, Thai, etc.; into one, Norightsian culture. "One People, One Banner, One Faith" was its motto. Basically, it created a new language (Norightsian) which replaced all others, united everyone under the Genesian Catholic Church, and found excuses within these to dismantle all freedoms Norightsians once enjoyed. But national zeal for the NUM couldn't have been greater. The People signed a massive petition, ordering Galerius Quintilianus to become Emperor. Coincidently, the day of his ascension was January 1. This year became year one of the New Era, Norightsia's new calendar. The Holy Empire of Norightsia was born.
The Political Climate of NE 1
The Holy Empire under Quintilianus emerged into a hostile atmosphere. Burma was very resentful that its Malayan territory had been swallowed up by Norightsia. Estonia, to the east in former Laos, was a great critic of the NUM, and offered fleeing Americanists asylum, much to the vexation of the Emperor. The Conqueror Worm, a republic comprised of Vietnam and the Phillipines, was also a critic of the NUM, despite being Catholic like Norightsia. Its president, Premier Nhan Bo Trung, outright called Quintilianus a despot. Synar, a confederacy of former Sumatran provinces centered around Aceh, considered military action for a time. And of course China was never a fan of Norightsia.
It is perhaps poetical justice that Norightsians caused the downfall of all of them. The former four were eventually absorbed into Norightsia. And China was toppled by Mafia boss Guiseppe Sarto, in coaltion with Trilateral Commission boss Boris Berezhovsky in an epic counter-fitting scheme that rendered the Yen worthless and destroyed the economies of China and America by consequence.
Norightsia also had allies. Sarawakh offered to defend Norightsia from Synar in the event of an invasion. Armenon was also a staunch critic of Synar's proposed unilateral invasion. Perhaps Norightsia's greatest ally were the Ganosians. Kiru Tao also preached peace. The Asian communnity was against meaningless war as a whole, but they were not necessarily for Norightsia. It would take a series of wars to change their mind.
The Burmese War
In NE3, just a few years after his defeat, Trechatus surfaced. He had made his way to Burma, and had quickly seized control of its government, playing on the common man's sympathy to his anti-Norightsian message. Trechatus wasted no time in mobilising the Burmese Army in order to combat Quintilianus's Legions. Norightsia, meanwhile, was blissfully ignorant of what was going on.
However, it wasn't long until Norightsia caught wind of Trechatus and what he was doing. In NE4, Norightsia declared war on Burma. The Legions were fully mobilized, and a million men were sent pouring into Burma. The largest battle occured at Englishman's Bluff, a small trade town. The Norightsian forces actually performed rather poorly in the war, not yet being a truly cohesive fighting force. The forces at Englishman's Bluff never actually captured the city. The war ended when the Arcani, with help from the old Burmese Parliament, assassinated Trechatus. Burma surrendered and was absorbed into the Empire.
