Triancia
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| Motto: "Liberty and Human Rights, defended by the Rule of Law" | |
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| Region | The North Atlantic |
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| Capital | Joseph II Federal District |
| Official Language(s) | English |
| Leader | Roger Stanton |
| Population | 1.738 billion |
| Currency | Triancian Dollar |
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The Federal Kingdom of Triancia is a large nation, both economically and militarily powerful, and, some say, one that has attained the status of a global power. Triancia consists of 18 provinces, 17 on one land mass, and one island province off the north coast. These provinces, true to the Federal name, share power with the national government, which, in turn, is split into three branches: The Office of The Presidency, the Parliament, and the Judiciary.
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History
Triancia has a long, storied history, showing its people to be courageous, progressive, and patriotic, and chronicling its advance from unconnected group of nomadic tribes to the modern Federal Kingdom.
Pre-Triancia
(Unknown-247 C.E.):
The area making up modern day Triancia was, until roughly 300 B.C.E, primarily inhabited by nomadic tribes, which moved from place to place hunting animals for sustenance. A few, though not many, villages did exist, primarily at the northern and southern coasts, and a number of the large lakes, where groups could fish and make a living. With the lands late Agricultural Revolution, combined with advances in domestication, more and more of the nomadic tribes gathered together to form various city-states. Those in fertile regions expanded quite fast as food sources grew. Mountainous civilizations flourished as well, off-setting arable land by valuable ores and goods produced.
The most noted political activity in this era was that of the Regiylas Empire (147 B.C.E-53 C.E.) Regiylas was one of the city-states originally formed on the northern coast, and therefore already well-established by the time the new city-states begin to flourish. Although recorded and historical evidence is lacking, it is supposed that high technology, a large military, and an imperialistic leadership saw Regiylas move over a period of seventy to eighty years to conquer surrounding city-states and territory. The Empire reached its peek around 43 B.C.E., and seemingly remained quite stable, until, it is theorized, internal political division and the increasingly strong and technologically advanced militaries of neighboring city-states brought its fall through the years 23-53 C.E. Regiylas was Triancia’s first nation-state, and some consider it to be an antecedent of the current Federal Kingdom.
From 53 C.E. until roughly 200 C.E, nothing else of such political importance took place. Any alliance of city-states that would have destroyed the Regiylas Empire either broke up shortly after the Empire’s downfall, or the warring city-states brought down the Empire without collaboration between themselves. The city-states continued to grow, expand, and advance in territory, technology, and most importantly, trade.
Around 200 C.E., the city-state of Raziria, located on the western end of the northern coast, and nearly 1000 kilometers from the old city-state of Regiylas, showed a sudden increase in military power, technology, and tactics, according to the records from a scribe in the army of Dia’thuna, a local warlord. An attack on Raziria around this time was met with a highly organized, well-equipped defense force from the city, rendering it seemingly ineffective afterward, as there is no mention of the warlord attacking organized settlements again. It seems that Raziria expanded afterward, taken control the land of the city-state of Cerzana, on the coast, and what was left of Regiylas, as well as dozens of settlements and villages in-between.
The self-appointed King of Cerzana, Justin the Second, laid claim to these land, calling his new Kingdom ‘Triaceria’, meaning, roughly, ‘the three keen’ or, ‘the three fierce’. Some referred to the kingdom as ‘Trinacria’, as on most maps of the time, its territory appeared in a triangular shape, and Trinacria describes ‘a triangular land’. Documents of the time period show both of these names being distorted, and twisted together. The one document where the most attention is payed to by scholars is a printed order of Justin the Second, around 247 C.E., where the Kingdom itself is referred to as ‘Triancia’. Weather this was a deliberate entry by Justin the Second, or weather an erroneous scribe wrote it as such, forcing the government to adopt it or save face, is still being debated. However, what is certain is that all Cerzanaian documents, as well as most literature after that, uses the word ‘Triancia’ to describe the Kingdom. It is that year, consequently, that most historians consider the Kingdom of Triancia to have formed.
The Kingdom of Triancia
The Kingdom under Constitutional Monarchy
The Federal Kingdom of Triancia
Triancia Today
Geography
Triancia is a good-sized nation nation, around
Governmental Structure
As stated before, the power in Triancia can be divided into four categories: The Presidency, the Parliament, the Judiciary, and the Provinces.
The Office of the President
Main Powers
The President of Triancia is a direct predecessor to the Triancian Monarchy, and still maintains remnants of the power and prestige as afforded the King or Queen. In strict constitutional terms, however, the President's power is limited to "the creation, and enforcement of laws and policy as applied to the nation's relationship with the other peoples of the world." The President currently maintains control over several areas of government. They are classified as Departments, run by Secretaries, and Deputy Secretaries. The leaders of these Department’s are collectively known as the Presidential Council.
Office of the President
- Maintains control of the Departments under the Presidency.
- President Roger Stanton
Department of Defense
- Deals with all issues pertaining to the defense of Triancia from hostile nations and/or organizations.
- Secretary Robert Wernick
Department of State
- Deals with Triancia's relationship to the world at large, and with the establishment of Embassies and special Envoys out-of-country.
- Secretary Timothy Garner
Department of Commerce
- Deals with the issues of international economics as they pertain to Triancian interests, including the ownership of stock by the Triancian Government, and diplomatic relations with multinational corporations that maintain extraterritoriality.
- Secretary Albert Washlyn
The National Labratories of Triancia
- Deals with the sciences considered to be 'for the benefit of the scientific community and mankind as a whole', primarily physics and chemistry, as well as the Directorate of Aerospace Research, which houses Triancia's space program.
- Director Eric Nolan
Succession
Unlike other governments of similar structure, the President is not obligated to select a successor in case of temporary or permanent disablement, or death. The president can select a President-Regent, to serve in his absence, or when he is unable to discharge his duties. The President-Regent has no power unless the President cannot discharge his duties. The President-Regency is not a full time job, and, indeed, most President-Regents fulfill other duties in an Administration. The President-Regent is usual a Secretary of a Department, though, in a few cases, the PR is a member of Parliament, or the Judiciary, and, a rare cases, the PR is not a member of the Government at all.
If, however, a President does not select a President-Regent, the Presidential Council shall administer the Office until the President can once again discharge his duties. If the President dies, either the President-Regent or the Presidential Council, whoever is in control, will administer the office only until new elections can be held, as soon as possible.
Other Powers
The President also can, at his leisure, appoint a Royal Governor to each of the 18 provinces, who can in turn appoint Lord Mayor's to each city. However, as the constitution stipulates, the Royal Governors and Lord Mayors only have the power granted to them by the provinces, and most (but not all) provinces have laws in place that render the Royal appointees to figure heads. As a result, the appointees are mainly just the President's official supporters in the provinces, and usual campaign supporters being rewarded for their help. An exception to the rule would be the province controlled by the Royalist Party, which has given the Royal Governor executive power in the province, but even they work behind the scenes to make sure that only an acceptable appointee is selected.
The President can veto a Parliamentarian law, if a majority of the Person’s Holding Executive Power in the Provinces presents him with a petition.
