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Empire of Nova Roma

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The Empire of Nova Roma is a political and economic union and the successor state of the Roman Empire. Made up of 13 constituent states in the historic territory of the Roman Empire at its height, the Empire covers 4,400,000 square kilometres and is home to 520,000,000 people. The Empire has a single currency, an internal market, a shared official language, and maintains common policies on trade, defense, fisheries, and regional development.

Although the Empire is formally a monarchy, it is a de facto federation, with its member states having significant autonomy.

Geography

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The Empire of Nova Roma occupies 4,400,000 square kilometres in Europe and Africa, all of which was formerly occupied by the Roman Empire at its height. Although each member state maintains their own governments and national capitals, the imperial capital is in Rome, in central Eotheood. The Empire controls the entirety of the Mediterranean Sea and borders the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, and has a vast land border through central Europe and northern Africa. The Empire's highest point is Mont Blanc, in the Alps, and most of the Empire lies within a maritime climate or a Mediterranean climate. The Empire's population is highly urbanised, with over 50% of the citizenry living in cities.

The Empire is made up of the following states:

- Die likers 2
- Dhu al-qarnayn
- Eotheood (capital)
- First Inheritance
- Honeybee and beehive
- Novaya ukraina
- Soap tips
- Soap tipsian puppet 1
- Soap tipsian puppet 2
- The nusanatara isles
- Thunderbolt Legion
- Tysoania

History

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The disintegration of the Roman Empire by 530 CE allowed the former territories of the Empire to develop separate and distinct cultural identities and led to the creation of distinct nations in those areas. However, these nations retained some elements of their former identities as parts of the Roman Empire that would later facilitate the establishment of the Empire of Nova Roma. The Empire first came into existence with the formation of Tysoania in 1499 and the unification of the Iberian Peninsula for the first time since the collapse of the Roman Empire. As a self-proclaimed successor state to the Roman province of Hispania, Tysoania opened the door for Hispania to be reintegrated into a reformed Roman Empire.

Although France had been home to a significant Roman population and had been an integral part of the Empire, the French monarchy that had emerged in France in the centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire refused to acknowledge this connection or allow those territories and populations to be reintegrated into a renewed empire. As a result, the Tysoanian invasion and annexation of southern France during the Great Northern War meant that southern France could be reintegrated into the Empire.

By the 1910s, decades of informal cooperation between cultural authorities to preserve and promote Roman heritage and history throughout the Mediterranean had created very close ties between the governments of the region, and in 1912, this resulted in the establishment of the Pact of Rome. This document united its member nations with its pledge to protect the member states' uniquely intertwined histories through the creation of a single, international Ministry of Roman Affairs, which was invested with control over Roman archeological and tourist sites as a means of creating the first international standard for the preservation of Roman history and culture. Although originally just an amalgamation of parts of member nations' cultural departments, it quickly began expanding as it began to cover gaps in existing protections, and in 1918, the Council of Leaders was established to provide oversight and control of the Minister of Roman Affairs. Although designed with the oversight of the Ministry in mind, the usefulness of the Council of Leaders as a forum for national leaders in the Mediterranean to cooperate as a power bloc on the world stage proved to be extremely valuable, and 1931, the Pact of Rome was formally revised to organize its signatories into a united political federation, with a common policy of defense of members if they were attacked. Although initially run completely by the Council of Leaders, a political crisis in 1943 led to the closer political integration of the Pact, with the organization adopting a figurehead emperor for crisis resolution and renaming itself the Emperium of Nova Roma as a nod to the region's strong Roman ties.

By 1950, the Empire of Nova Roma had conquered its historic territories in Europe and North Africa. During the resulting Imperial Conference in July 1950, the Council of Leaders agreed to establish a postal union as the first step towards fuller economic integration. Completed in February 1951, the Imperial Postal Service eliminated all postal controls and tariffs between member states and served as both a demonstration of effective economic integration and a celebration of the reunification of the Roman Empire, over a millenium after its original disintegration. This was followed with the establishment of a customs union in 1961 that eliminated trade barriers and tariffs and, in 1977, the establishment of the aureus as the official currency of the Empire. Because the member states already had well-established currencies, it was originally mandated only for use in payments between the states and by the Imperial government. However, on 1 January 1995, the Council of Leaders signed into law the Imperial Market Law, establishing a single market throughout the Empire with the aureus as the official currency of the Empire, with national currencies phased out by 2000. In 2005, the Council of Leaders also formally allowed the establishment of a standing army for the use of the Imperial government that would replace the multinational coalitions previously used. However, due to the complexity of this reorganization, this army is not slated to be created until 2030.

Government

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The Empire of Nova Roma is a federal republic made up of 13 constituent states. Although the Empire has its own federal government, most administration is devolved to the member states and the Imperial government only has powers in a few areas: currency controls, trade and defense policies, fisheries, and regional development. The Imperial head of state is the Emperor, who occupies a largely ceremonial role and is responsible for internal crisis resolution and representation of the Empire abroad. The Imperial head of government is the Council of Leaders, a 13-member body made up of the leader of each member state that authorizes or vetoes bills, depending on the effect on their nation and the Empire as a whole. The legislature is a directly-elected, majoritarian body called the Imperial Senate that is elected by the citizens of the Empire and is responsible for creating and debating bills.

Economy

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The Empire of Nova Roma has an incredibly diverse economy, thanks to the varying states that make up the Empire and its massive combined population base. The Empire has an internal single market, meaning that there are no trade barriers between member states. Each state has implemented common economic regulations and laws and uses the aureus as an official currency.

The Empire exercises a form of central planning for strategic resources that are critical to the economies of the member states. Each state's largest industry receives significant subsidies from the Imperial government to ensure that that state's sector retains its dominant position in the Empire. As a result, economies of scale ensure that the produced goods or resources are cheaper across the Empire and the nearly-guaranteed profits encourage increased investment in that industry and increased output as a result. The industrial sectors are currently included in this plan:

- Arms manufacturing (Soap tips)
- Automobile manufacturing (Dhu al-qarnayn)
- Chemical production (The nusanatara isles)
- Dairy production (Eotheood)
- Fishing (First Inheritance)
- Food processing (Puppeted hell)
- Fruit production (Thunderbolt Legion)
- Household goods manufacturing (Die likers 2)
- Wind turbine production (Tysoania)
- Police equipment manufacturing (Novaya ukraina)
- Shipping (Soap tipsian puppet 1)

Although not a nationalized sector, the Empire's fishing industries have become informally integrated as a result of Imperial control over fisheries policies that standardized these sectors, and as a result, they have been noted for their productivity and sustainability.

The Empire also has a very strong tourism sector, due to stringent protections for Roman ruins that promote cultural tourism to those sites, strong marine environmental laws to protect shared fisheries that keep the Mediterranean Ocean and its beaches clean, and the shared currency that enables easy travel throughout the Empire's member states.