Eleutheria

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Eleutheria is a Capitalist, Libertarian Republic located in Mediterrae, and is a state of the Great Universal Empire. Eleutheria was established in 1893. It has low taxes and highly values freedom. It started off as a relatively weak nation, but became a more powerful nation overtime. Its capital city is Libertas. It owns a colony on the continent of Basza Nova, called the Isle of Flightless Birds.

Founding
Eleutheria was established in 1893, after a revolution against the Global Defense Council (which became the People's Republic of Amurrhine) a few years prior. It was a relatively weak nation, but had plenty of valuable resources such as sulphur, nitroglycerin, timber, coal, and oil. It made non-aggression pacts with Haluria and Deltasraki.

Socii Mundial
In 1894, Eleutheria joined the alliance Socii Mundial, as the founding nation of the alliance was the Solis Federation, one of its allies. Haluria was also in the alliance, which Eleutheria had previously made a non-aggression pact with. Eleutheria has still remained in Socii Mundial to this day, and doesn't seem to be leaving anytime soon.

Land Purchase and War
In 1897, Eleutheria sold large portions of its land to the expansive People's Republic of Amurrhine. Its alliance, Socii Mundial went to war with the P.R.A. in 1902, and the land purchase was reverted in the same year as part of a peace deal.

Taxation
When taxes were introduced to the roleplay, Eleutheria set taxes to 100 nocks per person. Eleutheria encouraged all those of those who didn't like high taxes to come to the country, and said that it might lower the tax rate as their population grows.

Scourge
When the Scourge plague started, Eleutheria locked down its borders. This made it one of the few nations that didn't have any cases of it. The government was working on a plan to use airships to spray hot, salty water vapor over infected nations, but this plan was never put into action.

Militarization
In the early 1900s, after receiving large amounts of iron from the RCM and striking a yearly deal, Eleutheria began to expand its military. Its navy received significant upgrades, including a Dreadnought that was a gift from RCM. It also built 45 airships after receiving some hydrogen from Fictia and RCM, in exchange for making Fictia 5 airships and RCM 10 airships.

Surplus
At the same time as Eleutheria's Militarization was happening, Eleutheria began having a surplus of food. While it had previously been a famine-stricken nation, Eleutheria recieved 100,000 tons of fish from the WCC. Combined with their pre-existing fish and wheat resources, this allowed Eleutheria to have several years of surplus. When the surplus ended, Eleutheria built 10 farms, which made its wheat production increase by 100,000 tons.

PRA and COSS
In 1908, before Eleutheria was able to send support to them, the Monarchist-Nationalist Coalition won the PRA Civil War. Eleutheria was expecting to have good relations with the new regime, interested in possibly even having a union, but then the PRA dammed the Ammurhine river, which supplies water to Eleutheria. Eleutheria was looking to collaborate to find a solution, but then the anti-Socii organization known as COSS (Confederacy of Separate States) began working with the PRA, which caused their relations to decline.

Colonization
At the end of 1908, it colonized some land east of Australis, bordering a colony of Friesland. In 1909, the colony was named the Isle of Flightless Birds, as flightless birds inhabit the island.

Second Militarization
In 1909, Eleutheria researched flamethrowers, sniper rifles, shotguns, and maxim guns, and then recruited troops to use those weapons. It also bought Dreadnought research from Fictia. In 1910, Eleutheria built 9 Dreadnoughts, increasing its amount of Dreadnoughts to 10. The same year, Eleutheria became the first nation to make concrete. Then after, Eleutheria built 190 submarines, 14 torpedo boats, 11 destroyers, 8 gunboats, and 6 coast defense vessels.

Reconciling with the Homaric Alliance
In 1909, due to the threat of the PRA and COSS, Eleutheria began wanting to have better relations with Humerland and the Homaric Alliance. Eleutheria made an alliance with Humerland at the beginning of 1910, and then made an alliance with Borogravia in the same year. It also ceded Port Archibald to Humerland for it to build a naval base on.

World War 1
In 1910, after Solis turned against Socii Mundial, Eleutheria decided to join the side of Socii in World War 1. It sent half of its fleet to help in the Battle Of Solis. On day 2 of the war, Eleutheria built concrete and timber defense lines on its border with the PRA, due to the threat of them invading. Eleutheria was less worried after it found out that RCM would not allow the PRA to invade Eleutheria. Eleutheria recruited 285,600 of it's reserves, and 2,714,400 men, equipping them with 3,000,000 rifles. It then sent some of them to help in Operation Decorated Cake. Eleutheria then recruited 11,345,400 people to join the military. They also received rifles for those troops from Universia. These troops were intended to be used to invade the PRA, but the breakthrough was not necessary due to the end of the conflict.

Post War
In 1911, Eleutheria moved the 11,345,400 people it recruited to reserves. Eleutheria allied with Empyrea in the same year.

EIA/JUMPSUIT
In 1912, Eleutheria formed the Eleutherian Intelligence Agency/EIA. EIA agents were then dispatched to 7 secret locations. The Isle of Flightless Birds then proposed the name Justice Unitary Moral Protectional Service of Underground Intelligence and Tactics, or JUMPSUIT for short. This name was then made official.

Government
Eleutheria is a Capitalist Republic, with the Libertarian Party having been the ruling party since 1893.

Tax Rate
Eleutheria has a tax rate of 50 nocks per person, one of the lowest in the world, and will decrease the tax rate as its population grows. The reasoning behind this is that Eleutheria doesn't want to hurt businesses or make its population unhappy, and low taxes encourage more businesses and people to join the country. If more people join the country, the tax revenue increases, so Eleutheria can lower the tax rate while still getting the same amount of revenue as before.

Political Parties
The largest political party is the Libertarian Party, which has been in power since 1893. The second largest is the Conservative Party, which is smaller than the Libertarian Party but has been steadily gaining votes over the past few years. The 3rd largest party is the Monarchist Party, some of whose voters are affiliated with the Monarchist-Nationalist Coalition of the nearby PRA. The 4th largest party, much smaller than the other three, is the Northern Communist Party, whose voters are primarily Amurrhinians. Many other smaller parties exist in Eleutheria, such as the Homarist Party.

Geography
Eleutheria is located in south-central Mediterrae. It borders the PRA to the north, Westlar to the northwest, and has a short border on the east with Universia. To the west is Teppican Bight, to the northwest is the Aliturian Gulf, and to the southeast is the Gulf of Eleutheria.

Isle of Flightless Birds
Its colony, the Isle of Flightless Birds, is located in the continent of Basza Nova. It borders a colony of Friesland to the south, a colony of Borogravia to the northeast, and Empyrea to the north. The colony is surrounded by Ocean Occidentalis to the west and north.

Climate
Southern Eleutheria is warm and humid, while northern Eleutheria is slightly more moderate. Isle Libertas is the hottest part of Eleutheria, practically being a desert. The coldest part of Eleutheria is the eastern landbridge that leads to Alituria/Universia.

Isle of Flightless Birds
The Isle of Flightless Birds has roughly the same climate as main land Eleutheria, with the northern being slightly more moderate than the warm south.

Natural Resources
Eleutheria produces coal, timber, sulphur, nitroglycerin, lead, oil, wheat, fish, sand, tar, animal products, and precious metals, all but animal products and precious metals are produced on the mainland. Precious metals, animal products, timber, and rubber are produced on the Isle of Flightless Birds.

Foreign Resources
Eleutheria has production city that gives it 20,000 tons of iron a year in Fictia. Eleutheria also receives 20,000,000 nocks a year from Haluria, in exchange for giving Haluria 1,000 tons of sulphur, 1,000 tons of nitroglycerin, and 5,000 tons of lead a year.

Foreign Relations
Eleutheria is a member of Socii Mundial and has been since around its creation in 1894. Its allies include Borogravia, Humerland , and Empyrea. It also has non-aggression pacts with Deltasraki and Haluria, which it has had since 1893. In 1909, a relations table was added.