Saint Salvation

Republic of Saint Salvation República de San Salvación
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Motto Aqua mortem vincit (mv) "Water conquers death"
Anthem "Song of the Salvation"
Location of Saint Salvation Saint Salvation at the Attera Gap on the Rodinia River
Capital	Saint Salvation
Language(s)	Istvanistani, Martino
Religion	Melusinianism 79.8% Church of Alexandria 11.2% Irreligious 6.7% Other 2.3%
Government	Republic
Captain-Regent
- 1724 (first)	Leroy Cartwright
Legislature	Assembly of Selectmen
History
- Collapse of Caputia	30.XV.1668
- Republic organized	8.I 1724
- Admitted to the Micras Cartography Society	1.XV.1725
- Incorporation into Nouvelle Alexandrie	1.I 1746
Area
- 1724	2,485 km2 (959 sq mi)
Population
- 1724 est.	267,646
Density	107.7 /km2  (279 /sq mi)
Currency	Amnis (Ⱥ) (to 1746; replaced by the New Alexandrian écu)
1724 GDP (PPP): ₢10.1 billion total, ₢37,900 per capita. Demonyms: Salvatiner (noun), Salvatine (adjective). Time zone CMT+6; internet TLD .sv; abbreviation SSV.

Saint Salvation is a city at the Attera Gap on the Rodinia River in central Keltia, the largest city of the Qhapaqsuyu in the Wechua Nation region of the Federation of Nouvelle Alexandrie. As the Republic of Saint Salvation (Martino: República de San Salvación), it was an independent ministate and city-state that governed the Attera Gap from 1724 AN until its incorporation into Nouvelle Alexandrie on 1.I.1746 AN. The city lies within an arid desertscape fueled by the waters of the river and the lifesaving aquifers of the region. The local economy is limited by the arid environment, with spice and cereal grain agriculture along the riverbanks, desert tourism, and commercial fees from the crossing on the Rodinia River being the cornerstones.

The city is a melting pot of the region, combining numerous ethnic groups escaping The Green. The culture of Saint Salvation is particularly a blend of Istvanistani- and Martino-speaking influences of numerous ethnicities descendant from the Union of Caputia and refugees from The Green. The largest groups of Salvatiners are the Caputians, San Luisians, Haifans and Atterans, also descendants from former nations along the Rodinia River.

As a republic, Saint Salvation's political structure was characterized by democratic principles. Its government comprised an elected Assembly of Selectmen, which held the legislative power of the republic; the executive was held in committee by a Board of Regents, elected in turn by the Assembly. Citizens were entitled to submit ballot measures and constitutional referendums at semi-annual elections, and to veto legislation.

Etymology

Saint Salvation was given its name as the home of "Salvation" for refugees and wanderers of The Green. The city of Saint Salvation, lying on the narrowest point of the Rodinia River, served as an oasis with a high aquifer and access to life-saving water along the Rodinia River in the arid region.

History

West Bank
	The Free Republic	2.0.0	Antiquity
	Baracão	4.0.0
	Treesia	5.0.0
	The Green	6.7.0	ca. 1490 AN
	Lyrican Republic	6.7.1	1490s AN
	The Green	6.7.9
	Regnum Atteralis	6.8.2
	Attera	6.8.5	ca. 1500 AN
	The Green	7.0.6	ca. 1510 AN
	Hamland	13.6.5	1545 AN
	Union of Caputia	16.0.0	1651 AN
	The Green	16.3.6	1668 AN

Rise of empires (antiquity–1545 AN)

The riverbanks of the Attera Gap have been home to multiple kingdoms and empires for hundreds of years since time immemorial. One of Micras' oldest empires, Attera, ruled the region off-and-on for 100 years, particularly on the East Bank of the Rodinia River. Other lasting governments included The Free Republic, Baracão and Treesia, inhabiting primarily the West Bank of the river through the 1490s AN.

The East Bank of the Rodinia River at the Attera Gap has long been the least developed of Saint Salvation. The region was then abandoned for around 45 years until 1545 AN after the final fall of Attera in the 1510s AN. The final loss of Attera entered the region into its second-longest dark time in history, over three decades.

Hamland and Caputia (1545–1668 AN)

The rise of the Kingdom of Hamland in 1545 AN on the West Bank of the Rodinia River began the second great empire in Saint Salvation's protohistory. Hamland, later Caputia, would control the region for over 120 years, the longest in history. Hamland then expanded to the East Bank of the river off and on from 1555 AN.

In 1651 AN, Hamland became the Kingdom of the Union of Caputia during the Hammish Civil War. At the start of the war, modern Saint Salvation was controlled by the National Salvation Front, which controlled southern Hamland. The end of the civil war would see the region reunited under the crown of Caputia.

Modern Saint Salvation lies in the former Caputian states of Wakefield and San Luis. However, the same year Caputia was proclaimed, the Alexandrian Flu attacked, released by opposing forces during the civil war, leaving alive only 2% of Caputians. The end of the civil war still brought about a new government under Queen Elizabeth I. But the dramatic decline of Caputia to disease would nonetheless haunt the nation. In 1668 AN, Caputia suddenly and dramatically collapsed due to the White Plague.

East Bank
	Attera-Macusia'a	2.0.0	Antiquity
	The Green	6.3.0	1481 AN
	Baracão	6.6.0	1480s AN
	The Green	6.6.2
	Jiangshan	6.7.6	1490s AN
	The Green	6.7.9
	Regnum Atteralis	6.8.2
	Attera	6.8.5	ca. 1500 AN
	The Green	7.0.6	ca. 1510 AN
	Hamland	13.9.5	1555 AN
	The Green	14.1.9	1565 AN
	Hamland	14.3.3	1571 AN
	Union of Caputia	16.0.0	1651 AN
	The Green	16.3.6	1668 AN

Era of disorder (1669–1724 AN)

Gathering of Salvatiners in 1723 AN

No nation in the region had held a hegemony as long as Caputia. Its fall dispersed the peoples of the country into The Green, a harsh, warlord-ruled land with few provisions and no bonds of organized society. In this long dark time, a trading post at the Attera Gap provided refuge to those displaced by the challenges of The Green.

Saint Salvation's reputation as a safe haven came from its stable water supply and strategic location on the hills overlooking the Rodinia River. As decades passed, this town, now known as Saint Salvation, grew from a trading stop into its own civilization. The city sheltered numerous peoples seeking a chance for them to rebuild their lives away from the harsh conditions of The Green.

By 1700 AN, the one-time trading post had become a de-facto city, reaching 200,000 people in population. Services were provided by volunteer fire departments, water delivered by community acequias, and the community courts. In 1698 AN, The Attera Gap Ferry had been opened to replace the numerous small, private boats that had provided transportation for centuries. While the city continued to grow, it nonetheless remained an informal society with minimal modern infrastructure.

The new republic (1724–1746 AN)

In 1723 AN, the city government announced the need for a meeting of the population of the city. The largest gathering of Salvatiners in history was held, over 50,000 people strong. In a near-unanimous voice vote of support, then Mayor Leroy Cartwright asked for the creation of a new republic on the banks of the Attera River Gap. The Republic of Saint Salvation was thus created that day.

A constitutional convention was subsequently organized for 8.I.1724 AN, where the new republic organized a system that avoided any one person holding all power. Accordingly, the executive of the new nation was given to a Board of Regents, while an Assembly of Selectmen would create the laws, and the people would retain almost unlimited veto and referendum authority.

Incorporation into Nouvelle Alexandrie (1745–1746 AN)

By the 1740 ANs the whole of the Rodinia country lay within reach of the Confederacy of the Dispossessed, a coalition of warbands that held bases across northern Keltia and raided along the frontier of Nouvelle Alexandrie. The Federation moved on the basin in 1745 AN. Operation Northern Vanguard, conducted between 15.VI and 23.VIII.1745 AN by X Corps of the Federal Forces of Nouvelle Alexandrie under General Carlos Mendoza, secured Lake Rodinia and the headwaters of the Rodinia River to the north of the Attera Gap, the largest territorial expansion undertaken by the Federation since the incorporation of New Caputia in 1722 AN. The operation was directed at the emptied lake district rather than the Attera Gap, and Saint Salvation, which had never been depopulated, was not itself a theater of the fighting.

The territories secured in the north, together with the self-governing south, were brought into the Federation by the Northern Keltian Territorial Integration Act, 1745. Introduced in the 11th Cortes Federales by Deputy Amauta Quispe Huanca on 2.IX.1745 AN, the Act passed the Federal Assembly on 12.XI.1745 AN and the Chamber of Peers on 15.XI.1745 AN, received Royal Assent on 18.XI.1745 AN, and took effect on 1.I.1746 AN. It established the Qhapaqsuyu, the Noble Royal Suyu, as the sixth suyu of the Wechua Nation, and its Article 5 as amended named the territory of the former republic of Saint Salvation as lying within the new suyu, granting the Caputian sites and monuments of the Attera Gap the same protected status as those of the lake district. The republic had held the Attera Gap since 1724 AN; the Act ended it, and the whole of the Rodinia corridor from the headwaters to the narrows passed into the Wechua Nation together.

Integration proceeded differently at the Attera Gap than in the ruined north, because there was nothing at Saint Salvation to rebuild. The city had never been dispersed, and its courts, its schools and its university were working when the Act took effect. Federal law applied from the date of enactment and the regional law of the Wechua Nation within six months, and the Amnis gave way to the New Alexandrian écu over three years. The city's four quarters, the administrative divisions of the old republic, survived the transition intact, and the Melusinian institutions of the gap, among them the Cathedral of the Seraphine Waters, were scheduled for protection under the heritage provisions of the founding Act.

Saint Salvation is today the largest city of the Qhapaqsuyu and the seat of its Attera Gap district, the only one of the suyu's four districts that was never depopulated and that stands outside the federal reconstruction program. The suyu is administered from Forburgh, the former Caputian center of Wakefield in the lake district to the north, and Saint Salvation returns Royal Councillors to the Council of the Wechua Nation on the same basis as the rest of the Region. Its municipal politics, non-partisan by statute under the republic, remain only weakly partisan, and turn on questions of local autonomy and the allocation of water and development funds rather than on federal alignment.

Government and politics

First Board of Regents of Saint Salvation in 1724 AN. The Captain Regent, Leroy Cartwright, is center.

Legislature

The legislative power of Saint Salvation was placed in the Assembly of Selectmen (Asamblea de Ediles), a unicameral 64-person body. The Assembly had three primary functions: drafting the laws of the republic, arranging the funding of the city, and electing the Board of Regents, the national executive. Votes in the Assembly of Selectmen had to pass by a 60% majority.

The Assembly was elected in a non-partisan contest every two years by popular vote. No individual could serve a consecutive term. The franchise was held by all residents aged 16 and older. Each Selectman was elected in one of Saint Salvation's 64 wards, each with almost 4,200 residents. As the republic had no formal citizenship, a Salvatine national, or resident, was an individual continuously domiciled in the city for more than six months. The presiding officer of the Assembly was its Speaker, an office held by Caridad Paredes.

Executive

Saint Salvation had a functional joint head of state and government, held in executive committee. The executive was filled by the five-member Board of Regents (Consejo de Regentes), the chairman of which was the Captain Regent (Capitán Regente), who served as the nation's head of state for ceremonial purposes. Leroy Cartwright, the mayor who had called for the republic's creation in 1723 AN, was its first Captain Regent. The Assembly of Selectmen voted every six months for a new Regent of the Board. Each seat was elected on a rotating basis, so that a term was two and a half years. An individual could not be reelected for another two years after their term.

The Board of Regents was responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of Saint Salvation, and operated on a majority vote. Each Regent was likewise the head of one of the five governmental departments of the republic: the Board was therefore the cabinet. As a collective, the Board of Regents was also the collective commander-in-chief.

Judiciary

Justice Court in Embudito, circa 1689 AN

As a small city-state, Saint Salvation likewise had a small judiciary. The trial court, or court of general jurisdiction, was the Superior Court. Eight judges sat on the court, with one Chief Judge responsible for administering the Superior Court. The Superior Court heard all felony and full misdemeanor crimes, those where a trial by jury was constitutionally required. It also heard all civil cases valued in excess of Ⱥ10,000, or claims made against the Republic of Saint Salvation itself.

A party to a case with an appeal was entitled by constitutional right to review of the Superior Court en banc by a panel of at least three Superior Court judges. If a party did not prevail on en banc review, discretionary review could be petitioned to the three judges of the Court of Appeals, who chose to hear only a minority of cases petitioned. The Court of Appeals was headed by its Chief Judge, an office held by Auguste Deighton.

Justices of the Peace were magistrates who sat in each of Saint Salvation's four quarters. The Justice Courts relieved pressure on the Superior Court by hearing small claims in civil matters, as well as citations and petty misdemeanors. Appeals from the Justice Courts could be made to the Superior Court.

Court	Judges	Function	Types of cases heard
Court of Appeals	3	Court of last resort	Discretionary appeals
Superior Court	8	Court of general jurisdiction	All cases not delegated to the Justice Courts, e.g. felonies, appeals en banc
Justice Courts	5	Courts of limited jurisdiction	Small claims, traffic violations, citations and petty misdemeanors

Military

Soldiers of the Republican Guard on the city border

The city identified itself as having two military branches: the Public Force and the Republican Guard. The post of commander in chief was formally held in commission by the Board of Regents, with a seniority in case of death or disability. The functional commander of each unit was the Commandant-General.

The Force Public was the city's fire, rescue and emergency medical services department, responsible for issues ranging from civil defense to medical transport. Each member was trained in the use of small firearms, as well as emergency medical services. It operated out of thirteen stations throughout the city and comprised 925 personnel: 69 officers, 178 non-commissioned officers and 678 other ranks, with 171 civilian employees.

The Republican Guard was the militia and external defense force of Saint Salvation. As the city was a small republic in the Green, incursions from warlords were sometimes attempted. Members were trained in the use of small and light arms. The Republican Guard operated out of one barracks in each quarter of the city. It comprised 849 personnel: 21 officers, 164 non-commissioned officers and 664 other ranks, with 96 civilian employees.

Rank and insignia

	General Officer	Senior Officers			Junior Officers			Cadet
Saint Salvation
	Captain-General	Colonel	Lieutenant-Colonel	Major	Captain	Lieutenant	Sub Lieutenant	Cadet
	Capitán general	Coronel	Teniente coronel	Mayor	Capitán	Teniente	Subteniente	Cadete

	Warrant Officers		Senior NCOs			Junior NCO	Enlisted
Saint Salvation
	Adjutant-Major	Adjutant	Seargent-Major	1st Seargent	2nd Seargent	Corporal	Guard 1st Class	Guard 2nd Class
	Ayudante mayor	Ayudante	Sargento mayor	Sargento primero	Sargento segundo	Cabo	Guardia de 1a clase	Guardia de 2a clase

Equipment

Interceptor-class patrol boat

Brightworks UH-76 Dromosker

Type	Role	No.	Origin	Weight	Speed	Capacity	Introduced
Armored personnel carriers
Pod Armoured Personnel Carrier	Armored personnel carrier	30	Sanama				1724 AN
Utility vehicles
Snatch Land Rover	Protected patrol vehicle	15	Sanama	2 t		4	1723 AN
SAI Light Truck	Transport utility vehicle	10	Sanama				1724 AN

River Flotilla

Class	Type	No.	Origin	Displ.	Speed	Comp.	Introduced
Patrol boats
Interceptor-class	Patrol boat	1	Sanama	205 t	43 kn	20	1725 AN
Melusine II-class	Fast attack boat	3	Sanama	95 t	44 kn	18	1724 AN

Air Wing

Type	Role	No.	Origin	Weight	Speed	Aircrew	Introduced
Helicopters
Brightworks HH-76 Dromosker	MEDEVAC	2	Sanama	6,400 kg	155 kn	2	1723 AN
Brightworks UH-76 Dromosker	Utility	2	Sanama	6,400 kg	155 kn	2	1724 AN
Stratus H-1 Kennarar	Trainer	1	Meckelnburgh	1,220 kg	135 kn	2	1724 AN

Geography

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Saint Salvation lies on the Attera Gap, the narrowest point on the Rodinia River and the only point it narrows more than 12 km between Lake Rodinia and the Captive Sea. At the Attera Gap, the river is only 10.62 km wide. The city is split into four Quarters, one on the east and three on the west sides of the gap. The eastern quarter, Embudito, consists of a majority of the Martino-speaking peoples. The western quarters, Ridgeview, Downtown and Neverwood, are likewise primarily Istvanistani speaking.

Climate

The city is in a cool semi-arid region on the north edge of the "hot" region of southern Keltia, the desert and tropical half of the continent. The city experiences warm summers and slight snowy winters. As a trading post on the watering hole of the Attera Gap, Saint Salvation became one of the only communities to lie on the central Rodinia River's banks north of the former Craitish territority of New Vaduz.

Demographics

Field of desert tulips

The peoples of Saint Salvation come from a diaspora of people who have long inhabited the region, many relegated to The Green during Keltia's long untamed wilderness in the continent's interior. Atterans, Caputians, Haifans, Israati, Lyricans, Pallisicans and San Luisians, who have inhabited the region of central Keltia for three hundred years, are major ethnic groups. At the 1724 AN census the population was 49.4% Caputian, 26.8% San Luisian, 9.2% Haifan, 5.7% Atteran, 2.9% Pallisican, 2.5% Lyrican and 1.2% Israati, with the remaining 2.3% of other origins.

Religion

Melusinianism is the majority faith in the city, and the people of Saint Salvation are descendants of followers of the Church of Caputia. As believers in the holiness of water, the Attera Gap is a sacred site and affirmation of its life-giving power. The largest religious structure in Saint Salvation is the Cathedral of the Seraphine Waters. While not an official religion, Melusinianism receives special preference through funding for religious facilities, staff and ceremonies.

Remnants of the Autocephalous Nazarene Church of Alexandria also retain a minority of followers. A small community of irreligious Salvatiners, to the opposite, oppose the entanglements of religion due to disbelief particularly spurred by the ungodly harshness from living in The Green.

Language

The peoples of Saint Salvation come from two of the major language demographics of the former Caputian region. These are speakers of Common Tongue (Istvanistani) from former Caputian Wakefield, and speakers of the Martino language from former Caputian San Luis. Accordingly, these are the republic's official languages.

Education

Post-secondary education in the republic is available at Saint Salvation University, with 4,855 students. Its main campus in the Downtown Quarter, though there is an undergraduate branch in Embudito, focusing on Martino-language instruction. Entry-level credentials and trades training can also be completed at the City College of Saint Salvation, with 8,189 students.

Economy

Transport

Saint Salvation maintains limited transportation options outside of its borders. Few roads, and only unimproved ones, connect the city with communities in the Green or other nations on Keltia. There are no rail links. Thus, the Rodinia River is the city's primary, and crucial, transport link. Via the river, merchant and passenger vessels can reach Nouvelle Alexandrie and out into the Captive Sea. Saint Salvation International Airport offers an alternative transport option, but is home to no scheduled flight services.

Culture

Alameda National Stadium

Balloons at Paradise Bluff Park

Sports

The largest contact sport in Saint Salvation is football, administered by the Saint Salvation Football Association. The most attended competitive events, however, are hot air ballooning and helium blimps, held every XII and XII of the year, respectively. The launch site of the hot air balloon competitions may showcase up to 150 balloons launching from Paradise Bluff Park, and be attended by 31,000 people daily over two weekends. The helium blimp competitions launch from Alameda National Stadium, capacity 27,500, and showcase the fastest flights from Saint Salvation to Lake Rodinia, across The Green.

San Salvation football pyramid

Tier	Leagues / Divisions
1	Premier League (Liga Premier) 10 clubs
	↓↑ 2 clubs
2	1. Division (1a División) 10 clubs
	↓↑ 2 clubs
3	2. Division (2a División) 21 clubs (3 series)
	↓↑ 2 clubs
4	3. Division (3a División) 24 clubs (4 series)