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1761–1762 MTO secretary-general election

2026-11-05T18:50:34Z

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{{MTO Article}}

The '''1761 MTO secretary-general election''' began upon the resignation of incumbent secretary-general of the [[Micras Treaty Organization]], [[Túpac Mendoza]], on 13.XIII.{{AN|1761}}.

Deputy Secretary-General [[Aabraham Jahanbani]] of the [[Order of the Holy Lakes]] became acting secretary-general on Mendoza's resignation and opened the election, calling on member states to submit nominations.

[[Natopia]] nominated Jahanbani to succeed Mendoza for a full term, but Jahanbani declined the nomination. [[Zeed]] nominated [[Eleni Markou]] of [[Constancia]], and [[Nouvelle Alexandrie]] and [[Aerla]] seconded her nomination. [[Anglien]] nominated [[Rachael Halpburg]] of [[Floria]], but Halpburg declined the nomination, citing her campaign for [[President of Floria]]. Natopia nominated [[Koda Heizo]] of [[Sanpantul]], who accepted the nomination, and Anglien, [[Talenore]], and [[Sanama]] seconded it.

==Nominations==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Nominee !! Nominated by !! Seconded by !! Status
|-
|align=left| {{team flag|Order of the Holy Lakes|name=Aabraham Jahanbani}} || '''{{team flag|Natopia}}''' || || Declined
|-
|align=left| {{team flag|Constancia|name=Eleni Markou}} || '''{{team flag|Zeed}}''' || {{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie}} {{team flag|Aerla}} || Nominated
|-
|align=left| {{team flag|Floria|name=Rachael Halpburg}} || '''{{team flag|Anglien}}''' || || Declined
|-
|align=left| {{team flag|Sanpantul|name=Koda Heizo}} || '''{{team flag|Natopia}}''' || {{team flag|Anglien}} {{team flag|Talenore}} {{team flag|Sanama}} || Nominated
|}

== Voting ==

Voting began on 9.II.1762 and has not yet concluded.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Member State !! Vote
|-
|align=left|'''{{team flag|Aemilia}}''' || ''abstained''
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|Aerla}}''' || [[Eleni Markou]]
|-
|align=left|'''{{team flag|Anglien}}''' || [[Koda Heizo]]
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|Çakaristan}}''' || [[Koda Heizo]]
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|Constancia}}''' || [[Eleni Markou]]
|-
|align=left|'''{{team flag|Daau}}''' ||
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|Floria}}''' || ''abstained''
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|Imperial Federation}}''' || [[Eleni Markou]]
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|International Mandate}}''' ||
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|Ioanna}}''' || [[Eleni Markou]]
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|Kalgachia}}''' ||
|-
|align=left| '''{{Team flag|Kurum Ash-Sharqia}}''' ||
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|Meckelnburgh}}''' ||
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|Mercury}}''' || [[Koda Heizo]]
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|Natopia}}''' || [[Koda Heizo]]
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|New Batavia}}''' ||
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie}}''' || [[Eleni Markou]]
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|Order of the Holy Lakes}} (Hurmu)''' || [[Eleni Markou]]
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|Sanama}}''' || [[Koda Heizo]]
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|Sanpantul}}''' || [[Koda Heizo]]
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|Shireroth}}''' || [[Koda Heizo]]
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|Talenore}}''' || [[Koda Heizo]]
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|Uppmanland}}''' || [[Eleni Markou]]
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|Vegno}}''' ||
|-
|align=left| '''{{team flag|Zeed}}''' || [[Eleni Markou]]
|}

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Kaspar Particle Accelerator

2026-10-31T14:14:44Z

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{{Moorland article}}
The '''Kaspar Particle Accelerator''', also called '''KPAL''' (''Kaspar Particle Accelerator Laboratory''), is an extremely large hadron collider type particle accelerator, currently owned and operated by the Kingdom of [[Moorland]] within the special government region known as [[Kasperia]], south of [[Beelandia]]. It was originally constructed by [[Riponia]] to help provide power to [[Hypernostria|Liiansaari]] in the city of Dyvelsten. It was found in semi-ruinous state by scientists from the [[Kasperian Expedition]] in 1731. Once secured, the site became a laboratory for work to be conducted in particle acceleration research. It is a synchrotron type accelerator, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed closed-loop path. The magnetic field which bends the particle beam into its closed path increases with time during the accelerating process, being synchronized to the increasing kinetic energy of the particles. Although most details have been kept from the public due to security concerns, the KPAL accelerator measures some 17mi in diameter and was purported to generate enough power to provide radiant heat to Riponia's colonies on Hypernostria - a long-term yet ill-fated plan to try and terraform the island. Currently Moorland is conducting research and restoration efforts on KPAL and hopes to bring the unit back online within the next few years; albeit at a fraction of its generating power.

==Capabilities==
The original KPAL plant was powered by four small modular reactors (SMRs) that each produced 300MW of electricity. Two of the SMRs were dedicated to exclusively providing power for the particle accelerator, which used about 200MW when running. The other two were dedicated to the environmental functioning of the city, primarily [[Riponia|Riponia's]] terraforming machinery. This included heat pumps and geothermal tubes that were used to warm the bedrock and melt glacial ice. Upon discovery by Moorland in 1731, none of the reactors or accelerator were functioning. Three of the reactors had sustained damage from years of neglect, but this damage did not compromise containment so that radioactivity was kept shielded. By 1737, staff had installed two diesel generators to supply power and had managed to restore one of the SMRs to functionality. Long-term plans are to get all four reactors back online and power up the accelerator. Unlike Riponia, Moorland does not intend to use the systems for terraforming. Instead, it plans to use these systems for nuclear research, hoping to further develop modular nuclear power plants, naval ships, and, eventually, fusion reactors.

By 1755, two SMRs had been restored to functionality and a permanent road constructed connecting Dyvelsten to [[Bee Haven]], thereby allowing heavy construction equipment to be brought to the site and providing adequate power for much of the base's needs. Debris had been cleared away and a protective shell for the base repaired, granting the lab and base a controlled environment powered by the reactors. This allowed staff to better attend to repairs and begin the long process of overhauling the Riponian particle accelerator. It also allowed for a permanent year-round staffing of the base, which heretofore had been on a rotational basis given the hostile climate.

==Laboratory==
Besides research into particle accelerators, the lab at KPAL researches nuclear propulsion and generation. At present, two prototype reactors are at the site and function to test capabilities for both aspects. The SPR (Submerged Propulsion Reactor) is specifically designed for use in naval vessels as a means of electric generation for engine propulsion. The MARF (Modifications and Additions to a Reactor Facility) reactor is another test reactor for trialing new innovations in generation for power plants. Research is ongoing with both prototype reactors, and both have an expected 50 year lifespan before requiring shutdown and defueling, whereupon they will be dismantled and remediated.

==Security==
KPAL is a heavily regulated high-security base, considered to hold ultra-sensitive materials with a potential for terrorism should they fall into the wrong hands. As such, a strict background check process is used to document and verify employees and staff, including military personnel, before they can be assigned to the lab. Security clearances are granted on 5-year terms and can be renewed, but staff are required to go through the background check again (mostly to update information). Most staff are expected to either live at the base or nearby in [[Bee Haven]]. The perimeter of the base is fenced with razor wire and protected by several guard towers. Gated access allows enter and exit through a single point on one road leading to Bee Haven. No other access points are allowed. A guard unit is also stationed at Bee Haven. The base is otherwise supplied with its own electricity, water and emergency response team.

In addition to personnel security, KPAL has a 50-mile Emergency Planning Zone in the event of a radiation incident. The EPZ is broken down into four zones; 2 miles, 5 miles, 10 miles and 50 miles. Emergency Response Teams are in constant training and readiness to respond should such an incident occur so that people and wildlife face minimal impacts; and also to insure a timely shutdown of the reactors to reduce exposure and plume pathways. A 100 mile evacuation zone is also defined as a security protocol. While a plume rarely extends beyond this area, the 100 mile limit is a precautionary measure to eliminate the potential for public uptake. In most cases, the 50-to-100 mile zone would only require a shelter-in-place order.

[[File:KPAL-EPZ.png|thumb|left|100 mile EPZ]]

==Research Projects==
* MARF (Modifications and Additions to a Reactor Facility)
An advanced naval nuclear test platform and training unit, the MARF prototype is used to train Navy nuclear propulsion plant operators and to test reactors, steam systems, and electrical components.
* SPR (Surface Plasmon Resonance)
SPR assay is a label-free, real-time, optical biosensor technique used to quantify the affinity and kinetics of biomolecular interactions.
* KPA (Kaspar Power Authority)
The KPA is a state-owned and operated public utility provider that supplies energy to [[Hypernostria]]. The end goal of the KPAL project being to return all four SMR's to functionality and export power not only to [[Beelandia]], but the rest of the island as well.
* SMR (4 Small Modular Reactors)
A compact nuclear fission reactor that generates up to 300 megawatts of electricity per module.

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Ioanna

2026-10-30T16:12:57Z

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{{Infobox Nation Comprehensive
|fullname = Lordship of Ioanna
|commonname = Ioanna
|flag = File:Flag of ioanna.png
|coa = File:Ioanna coa.png
|motto = Go forward bravely
|anthem = The Maiden of Ioanna
|map = File:Ioanna mcs map.png
|mapversions = 18.1.3 - Present
|capital = [[Yew]]
|largecity = Yew, Baudricourt
|lang = English, Old English, Gaelic
|religion = [[Church of the Holy Lance]]
|demnoun = Ioannan
|demadj = Ioannan
|govtype = Feudal Lordship
|headofstatetitle = Lord
|headofstate = Sir [[John Morgan]]
|headofgovernmenttitle = High Knight
|headofgovernment = [[Tristan Valient]]
|legislature = [[Council of Knights]]
|estdate = {{AN|1750}}
|area = 9,624 sq km
|pop = 32,684 ({{AN|1750}})
|activepop = 1
|currency = [[Rosen]] (R)
|calendar = [[AN]]
|timezone = CMT+9
|electricity = 220V
|drives_on = Left
|gauge = Standard
|site =
|forum =
|animal = [[Ioannan Ox]]
|food = [[Monastery Bread]]
|drink = [[Highland Ale]]
|tree = [[Arctic Willow]]
|abbrev = IOA
}}

The '''Lordship of Ioanna''', or simply '''Ioanna''' (eye-OH-nah), is a tiny Arctic state located north of [[Mercury]], along the shores of [[Keltia]]. It was established by a group of [[Bosworth|Bosworthian]] knights as a chivalric outpost in the northern wilderness.

==History==

===Early History===

The earliest inhabitants of Ioanna were [[Syrah]], who were responsible for the initial migration of [[Britannics|Britannic]] people onto the mainland around 1400 [[AN]]. Originally knights from the early Brettish kingdoms such as [[Willow]] and Rommenashire, they had been hired as mercenaries by [[Attera]] to help with the conquest of the north. During this time, Attera controlled a vast empire over most of Keltia, extending from [[Los Bananos]], all the way to the [[Skerry Isles]]. Attera held a fragile grip over the land and needed aid along its eastern frontiers. Thus Ras Diga made a pact with the Britannics to supply them with gold and weapons in exchange for their aid in conquering Keltia. Like Attera, these roving mercenaries established vast kingdoms over stretches of virtually empty land, meeting only small bands of nomadic tribes such as the [[Reindeer Herders]], who quickly exited the region to avoid conflict, leaving the Britannics unchallenged. But settlement was minimal due to the harsh climate, and like Attera, the mercenary kingdoms struggled to control their overextended reach. Around 1500, the small villages were pushed aside during the [[Sino-Keltian]] conquests that would befall the land, and the Britannic population was either displaced or relegated to being vassals. For about two decades, the land lay in a disorganized state, with many small villages fending for themselves with complete autonomy. The Sino-Keltian age was transient, and soon their population migrated west into [[Jingdao]], leaving little trace of their time etched into the land. This only changed when the Britannics once again ventured forth from their islands and began to re-settle Keltia. First were [[New Britannia]] and [[Nova England]], who by 1520 had established their own kingdoms along the eastern shores of Keltia. But it wasn't until King Edward unified [[Bosworth]] at Shrewsbury around 1530 that a centralized government began to appear in the region again.

===The Chronicle of Saint Joan===

In 1531, King Edward I of [[Bosworth]] began expanding his kingdom west of the [[Strait of Haifa]]. At the time, the northwest corner of [[Keltia]] was ruled by petty warlords of Britannic descent; Vimy, Finistere and Fleur being the three primary states. By 1533 the royal line had consolidated power over Vimy and rivalries ran strong with King Charles of Finistere. This eventually boiled over into open conflict and the two sides clashed in battle that would be chronicled later in the [[Chronicle of Finistere]]. With Charles' defeat, Finistere passed to Edward and the throne of Bosworth. Fleur, as one of the last strongholds, found it better to capitulate rather than face annihilation at Edward's hands. By 1535 all of the northeast was under the banner of Bosworth save for Ioanna. Those who had refused to bow to Edward fled to the island and fortified themselves there.

In 1536, King Edward charged a young female knight - a rarity in itself – with marching on the island. At this time, the island was unnamed, and was referred to by the name of the strongest of the enemy strongholds; the castle of Yew. The knight's name was Lady [[Joan Darcy]]. She had been raised a peasant girl, but had risen through the ranks after the battle of Frejus to be named a knight of Bosworth. Edward had already deployed much of his forces over Finistere and even further afield in Fleur, thus he needed a new army to take Yew. He looked to the young Joan, aged a mere 23, who had shown herself to be a tactical leader in the field and had the support of the masses behind her, to command this army. Thus in February of 1536 he proclaimed her a general and granted her a force of some fifteen-thousand soldiers to take the island.

Joan gathered her forces in Auxerre, obtaining food, weapons and other supplies, before heading north to the port at Frejus. Here the King's ships were awaiting their arrival to ferry them across to the island. It took a month to traverse the landscape, held back by a late spring, mud and slow artillery that kept sinking in the muck. By the time they were preparing to ship out, the weather of March had not improved much, with snow still on the ground and ice clogging the sea between the mainland and Yew. Harsh conditions alone accounted for over one-thousand deaths even before they set sail, thereby taking a toll on the strength and morale of Joan's army.

Morale among troops was already low. Although Edward had hoped the appointment of someone who had risen from peasantry to prominence would inspire people, the mostly-male composition of the army found taking commands from a woman doubtful at best, downright hostile at worst. The loss of men to weather and then the woes encountered during crossing to Yew made things even worse for the young general. Dangerous ice floes, spring storms, and choppy waters made the passage extremely difficult. By the time they landed in the village of Baudricourt on the southern shore, the fleet had lost three of nine ships, further reducing Joan's forces down to nine-thousand soldiers. Fully a quarter of her forces had been lost even before joining battle with the enemy.

Thus it was a sad situation when the soaked and freezing army from Bosworth made landfall. But Joan rallied her forces and bade them take the small village as a base camp. As a collection of crofts and hovels, Baudricourt offered little opposition to the attackers. Enemy forces had retreated inland to the castle of Yew and other strongholds. Therefore Joan was able to secure some makeshift housing for her troops, some food from the locals, and a slight but nonetheless important boost to morale.

By April, warmer weather was moving in, but with it also came more dangerous mud season. A horse could easily break a leg sinking in the soft peat. Just as easily an artillery piece could become mired in place, stretching a short journey into a sometimes multiple-days trek, costing troops valuable time. This forced Joan's troops to stick strictly to the roads. While the packed soils provided quicker movement, it also limited their maneuverability. Time was not on Joan's side, so she did not dawdle in Baudricourt but opted to move north towards Yew with all haste.

Enemy forces had amassed around the castle of Yew. They were long expecting an assault from the mainland, knowing that Edward would not countenance rebellion. The castle itself was located centrally on the island, in the upper hills. This gave it the advantage of the high ground, and since they were aware the attack was coming, deprived Joan of the element of surprise. Yew lay at the boundary between the arable lands of the south and the rocky ice of the north, with its back essentially against a wall. And like an animal, the enemy was cornered with no option for retreat to another safe haven.

To reach Yew, Joan had to cross the southern half of the island. While she had been able to stave off further casualties since arriving at Baudricourt, the army was now faced with crossing inhospitable lands and a narrow corridor path to the castle. She set off near the end of April, facing ground that was thawing and soggy with spring snow melt. The journey was slow going. Horses struggled in the mud and the roads were little more than dirt paths through the marshes. To make matters worse, Lord Pierre, the enemy commander, was constantly harrying Joan's forces with small attacks. His hope was to decrease morale, delay progress, and pick away at the army before it reached Yew. Even with these constant setbacks, Joan pushed ever forward. Finally she reached a small abbey that sat near the island's narrow neck. Here she paused her army to take much needed rest.

The [[Abbey Chinon|Abbey of Chinon]] was a small stone church that served the people of the island. Besides the rector, only a few poor farms sat nearby. The nearest settlement was Diseart, several miles to the east. The only thing the rector could offer was some loves of bread and the shelter of a few musty stables; hardly adequate for a force that had dwindled to less than ten-thousand soldiers. Some of the men were facing scurvy from the lack of adequate diet, others had the consumption and were mere skeletons. Dismayed, Joan entered the abbey alone one evening and beseeched the lord for guidance.

She emerged the next morning from the church a changed woman. Joan quickly mounted her horse and called her commanders to her. Claiming she had received a vision of victory from God, she rallied the flagging morale of the soldiers and charged them with renewed energy. That very morning they left the abbey and headed north to march on the gates of Yew.

Lord Pierre had entrenched his forces at the castle, flanking the parapets with archers intended to rain death down upon the approaching Bosworthians. Joan knew what to expect, claiming that in her vision she had seen her forces caught in a violent storm outside the castle, with lightning that looked like arrows. So she brought her shield corps to the forefront, followed by her own archers. The move was a wise decision, as the enemy chose to hide behind the castle walls in a defensive position. Once these forward forces engaged each other, the slow-moving artillery was brought up from the rear and began to lob volleys at the front gates. Pierre had not anticipated this, and his few trebuchets from behind the walls had difficulty in reaching the artillery, failing to stop them before the front gates were shattered by the barrage.

Archers fell from the walls like flakes of ash drifting down from the sky. Joan took charge of her knights and ordered a cavalry charge directly through the smashed gates. Leading the knights herself, she was the first through the splintered wood and engaging the enemy soldiers in hand-to-hand combat. The rest of her knights followed, and she signaled the infantry to advance behind her. Soon the knights were forced to dismount and join close combat with the enemy soldiers. The flagstones ran red with blood, but inch-by-inch Joan's forces gained ground.

Pierre and a few of his loyal knights retreated to the rear of the castle, while the bulk of the rebel forces remained fighting in the courtyard. After a few hours of fighting it was clear that Joan's forces were winning the battle, causing Pierre to panic. Gathering a small force they made a desperate charge that caught the Bosworthians by surprise. Instead of attacking however, Pierre and his men rode straight through the conflagration and rushed out through the gates. To the shock of his remaining forces, Pierre had fled like a coward. But being too preoccupied with the present battle, Joan could not disengage to pursue him just yet.

With the cowardly retreat of their commander, the enemy forces who remained lost their momentum to continue fighting very quickly. Within a couple more hours, the last of the enemy had surrendered and Joan had successfully taken the castle of Yew. It took several more hours, however, for her to mop up the mess, make sure the enemy soldiers were secure in irons, and attend to her own wounded forces. Despite the victory, nearly three-thousand lay dead on the ground, with many others sustaining injuries ranging from superficial wounds to severed limbs. It was a ghastly sight, and a sobering moment for both sides to see the conflict ended.

But the loss of time was an advantage for Lord Pierre. Unwilling to accept defeat, he had fled north into the snow and ice. Scouts reported he was headed for Dunain, a granite outpost set in an area of jagged rocks that were too windswept to remain frozen in the ice. Joan, determined to see the enemy vanquished once and for all, set her second-in-command in charge of the castle while she gathered some of the remaining uninjured knights to her side. With extra furs and provisions, they quickly set off in pursuit of Pierre.

Joan's small force rode out of Yew and quickly crossed onto the ice sheet. It was even more treacherous than the mud fields that they had crossed in the south. Collapsing shelves of ice, drifting snow, and hidden crevasses all presented their own challenges. But she refused to yield to the elements and pressed ever onward to the north. Dunain lay a days journey from Yew, and she was unsure if Pierre would remain there or seek to circle back and escape via one of the small fishing ports in the south. Thus she pressed her knights to travel as quickly as possible across the ice.

Dunain itself had been built years prior as an outpost. It was a roughshod keep of hand-hewn stones built into the wall of a granite outcropping. It had no permanent population or groundskeeper; it was simply there as shelter for the poor souls that may have to cross the frozen north. Pierre knew this and had only the provisions he carried to feed himself and his men while they camped in the cold. What he did not count on was Joan following him onto the ice. Pierre had assumed, wrongly, that she would be preoccupied with securing Yew and leave him for dead in the inhospitable north. In this he was soon to be proven wrong.

Unfortunately for Joan, Pierre may have been unsuspecting of her following him, but he wasn't completely at ease. He had been wise enough to post a lookout on the top of the keep who spotted the Bosworthian knights moving across the ice. His forces were too weak to face another confrontation, so he opted again to flee. Hoping to lose Joan in the blustering snow and ice, he made a dead man's gamble and decided to head even further north. Joan was close enough to Dunain at this point to see him exiting the keep, and so spurred her men move faster in pursuit.

For the next three days, through sometimes blinding snow, Joan kept at the heels of Lord Pierre. But with death at his heels, he refused to surrender and pushed north. Some of his men dropped from hunger or exhaustion, sometimes both. A few of Joan's entourage did the same, and she wisely sent them back to Dunain to rest and to await her return. As they reached the far northern tip of the island, Pierre and his four remaining men holed up the last known shelter on the island, a minuscule keep known as Montford. They barely had time to bolt the doors before Joan and her knights were there battering at them.

The rickety old wood of the fort, probably original to the keep from the days of Syrah, did not last against the onslaught for very long. Within minutes the doors shattered and Joan was slashing at Pierre with her sword. While her knights engaged the other four enemy soldiers, Joan herself fought Pierre across the keep at Montford. The two fought intensely, with Pierre retreating up the steps of the tower as Joan pushed forward. As they fought on the stairs, Pierre caught her in the shoulder, causing a deep wound and forcing her to switch sword arms. Nonetheless she persisted. Pierre retreated further, eventually ascending to the top of the tower.

Here Joan closed in on Pierre, and the fight became more intense. Pierre landed another blow with a sharp stab to Joan's side. But she took this in grace as well and pressed on. With his back pressed against the stone rail of the tower's top, Pierre was like a rabid animal, cutting and slashing with abandon. But Joan did not let her own sword falter, and kept pushing him back. Eventually she landed a blow of her own with a sharp stab just below the heart. Pierre dropped his sword, gripping his chest. As he did so, he slipped on a patch of the icy stone, sending him tumbling backwards. Hitting the stone railing with such force he toppled back over the top of it, falling to his demise on the rocks below. Gripping her own wounds and leaning on her sword, she descended the stairs to find the rest of Pierre's men dead and her forces victorious.

But Joan was grievously wounded, and it was a hard three-day journey just to get back to Dunain. Unable to ride, her knights bound her wounds as best they could and wrapped her in furs. Placing her on the back of one of the horses, they began the trek back south. Sadly, Joan's condition continued to deteriorate. While the blood had been staunched, the cuts were deep, and it was likely she had internal bleeding that went unseen. By the time they arrived in Dunain, she was deep in the throes of fever. Gathering the waiting and wounded knights, they made off at a quick pace for Yew.

By the time they arrived at the castle, Joan had slipped into semi-delirious state, still gripped by pain and fever. Four days had passed since her fight with Pierre, and it was the first time she had been able to be seen by a physician. In dismay he announced that too much time had passed, and the only thing they could do was to try and alleviate her pain. Her last words were to order an envoy back to Shrewsbury to let King Edward know of their victory. Soon after she slipped into a coma from which she would never wake.

By the time news reached Edward, Joan had passed away. Having heard the tales of her heroics, the King himself decided he should travel to Yew personally. He arrived at the castle to find Joan being held in state on a bier of willow and Alpine flowers. Seeing the wounded state of the knights, their sheer loyalty to their King, and thew harsh conditions under which they fought, the King knelt at Joan's side and proclaimed her a Saint. Henceforth, he said, Yew would be known as the Isle of Saint Joan. That day, the King attended the funeral pyre of Saint Joan, before installing one of her loyal lieutenants as Lord of the Isle. In reward for their service, the King granted lands to Joan's knights, and they soon established their own order on the island. Thereafter, Edward returned to Shrewsbury as uncontested King of all the northlands.

===Bosworth and Beyond===

Bosworth's rule over the island would only last a mere decade, but in that time the knights who settled there would become a permanent part of the land and its people. King Edward appointed Aidan Lorne as Grand Master of the Order of Saint Joan, which had been given charge of the island. Around this time the long form, Isle of St Joan, became shortened to the Latin version of Ioanna. Soon after the old name quickly fell out of use. Lorne rebuilt the castle of Yew as a stronghold for the knights, and also restored the Abbey of Chinon. At Montford, a small shrine was built to honor Joan's final battle. Being such a barren land, the population on Ioanna did not thrive, but remained relatively stable. The Grand Master did his best to improve conditions, but was often called away to fight in Edward's war along the Strait of Haifa.

When Edward died and was replaced by King Wentworth, Lorne continued to fight until he was killed in the field of battle around 1547. Without clear leadership Bosworth was forced to retreat from the eastern lands, focusing its remaining power on retaining control of [[Haifa]] and [[Gascony]]. Wentworth appointed Gabriel Morgan as the new Grand Master, who immediately set out to the island. But just two years later, in 1549, Wentworth was killed in battle during the Gascon War, along with much of the Bosworthian nobility. Soon after Bosworth collapsed completely and faded into history. The Order of St Joan was on its own. For the next fifteen years, the Order would function in a nominal fashion, mostly as a hospital service, striving to keep the people of Ioanna healthy. It was mostly an introspective period, which helped to build Ioanna's fierce independence and self-sustainability.

As 1565 rolled around, it brought a new visitor to Ioanna: [[Ashkenatza]]. The Ashkenatzis came as part of an Arctic expedition, mostly scientific, but also part of their large intelligence network. They paid little heed to the inhabitants and took the old fort at Montford as their outpost. Intrigued by the large number of oxen grazing the machair, they renamed the castle to Ayzstantsye Gnu, or Ice Station Wildebeest, as they called oxen wildebeest in their tongue. They would occupy the castle for forty years, trading with the locals and conducting research. The trade was welcome with the otherwise isolated Order, as it helped keep the locals abreast of modern innovations, even if the primary industries remained farming and fishing. But by 1605, internal strife in Ashkenatza caused them too to collapse, leaving the island on its own again for another for another seventy-six years until the arrival of [[Free Elwynn|Elwynn]] in 1681.

Elwynn would make some investment in the island, but due to the distance from [[Vanaheim]] they had little long-lasting influence on Ioanna. By 1704 Elwynn had been replaced by [[Normark]], whose nationalist state repressed the Order in favor of [[Humanist]] factions that were vying for control. During this time the Order moved underground, essentially hiding their garments and opting to live as simple farmers on the island. But the ruse worked to keep Ioanna from being targeted. Gnu was repurposed as a [[Nordhaer]] base, but due to its isolation had little interaction with the Ioannans living in the south. So preoccupied was Normark with its own constant conflicts, that Ioanna was left mostly unscathed until Normark's [[East Keltian Collapse|collapse]] in 1737.

===Modern History===

Following the [[East Keltian Collapse]], the Nordhaer evacuated Gnu/Montford and over half of the [[Norse]] on the island fled back to the mainland in the [[Norse diaspora]]. John Morgan, a descendant of Gabriel Morgan, was named the new Grand Master of the Order. He quickly set about repairing damage to the island from the Norse occupation and restructuring the Order into a modern feudal government. In 1740 he was named Lord of Ioanna, with the Sovereign Military Order of Ioanna segueing into the exclusive role of defense. At some of the first sessions of the Council of Knights, Lord Morgan divided the island into six fiefs, granting an estate to each of the six members of the council who would then manage the estates therein. Early efforts were to secure the island from any further external threats, establish a stable government, and gain international recognition.

The rushed abandonment of Gnu resulted in the Nordhaer leaving behind a considerable cache of weaponry, which Morgan seized for the Order. While Montford was kept with a skeleton crew as a research base, all the defense materials were moved south to Yew for safekeeping and the protection of the population, which is clustered in the southern third of the island. Trade was established with [[Moorland]], especially after their expansion into the neighboring [[Ford Islands]], and with [[Mercury]], which controls much of former Bosworth. Morgan's primary focus for the past decade has been in rebuilding the island's infrastructure, improving living conditions, and working to modernize the Order's military as a force capable of defending Ioanna properly while actively pursuing friendly relations with nearby countries. In 1755, Ioanna formally joined the [[Xaiville Convention]], emphasizing its commitment to global peace. Continuing to pursue a robust foreign policy, Ioanna began dispatching diplomatic missions abroad and signed the General Membership treaty of the [[Micras Treaty Organization]] in 1757, aiming to sign on to the other MTO conventions within the next year or so. In 1758 Ioanna became the first country to sign all seven of the MTO's ancillary treaties, upholding its commitment to international peace and cooperation.

==Geography==

Ioanna is located along the far northeastern shores of [[Keltia]]. Two-thirds of the island are locked in permanent ice. The northern two-thirds of the island are under a permanent glacier whose southern advance is halted by the [[Gàrradh]], a series of sharp granite peaks that have held the ice back for thousands of years. This natural barrier has kept the glacier from advancing further south. The southern portion in the ice-free zone is mostly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machair machair], a fertile low-lying dune pastureland. The shore is deeply indented by arms of the sea. The coast is mostly sandy beaches backed by dunes and machair on west coast, giving way to an expansive peat-covered plateau in the center of the island. The eastern coastline is markedly more rugged and is mostly rocky cliffs broken by small coves and beaches. The highest point of the island only reaches around 2,000 feet above sea level (609.6m). The landscape is punctuated by a large number of freshwater lochs. In the 1500s, monks living at the [[Abbey Chinon]] started planting tree seedlings brought over from the mainland in the hopes of establishing a domestic source of lumber. This consisted mostly of [[Moor Pine]], as it was fast-growing, hardy, and produced a few useful byproducts such as resin and pine tar. Most of the plantings were done along the northeastern wall of the [[Fhiona Mountains]] in the southern tier of the island. While the plantings were successful, the forests never became productive enough for large-scale lumber needed for construction, and the original stand is now protected as the [[National Forest of Ioanna]]. Thanks in part to these initial plantings, several other stands of forest have become established to the south and west of the mountains, and these are managed on a small scale for lumber.

==Economy==

The economy of Ioanna is heavily reliant on tourism. Traditional industries are crofting, fishing and weaving. Peat is still cut as a fuel in many areas. Some industrial manufacturing exists in the southern area of the island, but most manufactured goods need to be imported from nearby countries such as [[Moorland]] and [[Mercury]]. Ioanna continues to use the former currency of Bosworth, the Rosen (R), and maintains a small mint that produces its own coinage. Nonetheless, due to the frailty of the small independent Ioannan market, the [[Rosen]] is currently pegged to Moorland's Redoubt Crown (RDC), which is considered regionally stable.

==Infrastructure==

Ioanna prides itself on being as self-sustaining as possible, and acquires all its power supply domestically. As of 1755, 90% of the power supply is renewable energy, with only one coal plant still remaining in operation. This last coal plant is slated to be decommissioned within the next five years as the construction of a new Small Modular reactor (SMR) is completed. The main source of energy for the island is supplied through a combination of large wind and solar farms, and an [[Diseart Tidal Generator|innovative tidal energy project]] in Diseart Bay.

Waste management is handled at the [[Ban Landfill and Incinerator Plant]] (BLIP). Given the small size of the island, most residents bring their trash to the landfill and there is no municipal pick up of waste. The incinerator is a waste-to-energy plant and provides some power for the island. Recyclable goods are separated at the landfill by waste operators and shipped back to mainland [[Keltia]] for processing. Waste that can be neither recycled or incinerated is sent to the landfill. Hazardous waste, such as radioactive material, is shipped overseas at considerable cost; thus this is kept to a minimum and strictly regulated.

Transportation around the island is accessible by paved roads. A paved circuit road serves most of the island and also provides an emergency route for EMS crews, evacuations and other such events. Several paved crossroads exist connecting the circuit road to other communities and to provide shorter routes in-between these locations. The island has no rail service yet. Baudricourt serves as the main travel port, serving as the main port for ferries traveling to and from the mainland, and also as the main hub for imports/exports. The city also has Ioanna's [[Baudricourt International Airport|only international airport]]. A smaller domestic airport is located in [[Yew]].

See also: [[Economy of Ioanna]]

==Government and politics==

Ioanna is governed as a feudal monarchy with elements derived from its early days as a chivalric order. The Lord essentially owns all of Ioanna, granting fiefs to vassals who then manage their estates or manors. Before the lord can grant land (a fief) to someone, he has to make that person a vassal. This is done at a commendation ceremony comprising an act of homage and an oath of fealty. During homage, the lord and vassal enter into a contract in which the vassal promised to fight for the lord at his command, whilst the lord agrees to protect the vassal from external forces. The vassal's principal obligation to the lord is to provide aid or military service. Using whatever equipment the vassal can obtain by virtue of the revenues from the fief, the vassal has to answer calls to military service by the lord. Exceptionally large estates are usually referred to as manors, who are granted the title ''Knight of the Court''. A Knight's manor often included a large, sometimes fortified manor house or castle in which the lord of the manor and his dependents lived and administered a rural estate, and a population of laborers or serfs who worked the surrounding land to support themselves and the lord. At times the Lord of Ioanna will call a council of these Knights to session for executive matters and consult, referred to as the [[Council of Knights]]. These sessions are moderated by a High Knight, chosen as a neutral arbiter by popular vote among the Council to serve in that role. Currently, Ioanna is divided into six fiefs. The Council of Knights therefore has six seats, with the Lord serving as a tie-breaker in the absence of quorum.

[[File:Ioanna big map fiefs.png|thumb|left|Fiefs of Ioanna]]

Council of Knights - as of 1750 AN
{| class="wikitable"
! Title !! Name !! Fief
|-
| Lord of Ioanna || Sir [[John Morgan]] || [[Yew]]
|-
| High Knight || Sir [[Tristan Valient]] || [[Staonaig]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir [[Nigel MacPherson]] || [[Ceann Tsear]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Lady [[Elizabeth Jordain]] || [[Liana]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir [[Frances Neville]] || [[Ghairdean]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir [[Joris Collins]] || [[Diseart]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Lady [[Saoirse Xander]] || [[Machar]]
|}

=== Ethnic Demographics (c. 1750) ===

* '''Bosworthian:''' 11,202
* '''Nova English:''' 8,911
* '''Moorlander:''' 5,179
* '''Brettish:''' 2,297
* '''Norse:''' 2,093
* '''Mercurian:''' 1,534
* '''Other:''' ~1,468

See also: [[Foreign relations of Ioanna]]

==Culture==

Ioannan culture strongly reflects its roots in the [[Britannics|Britannic]] people. Like many locations in the northeast corner of [[Keltia]], Ioanna's population is descended mostly from people originally from [[Bosworth]], [[Nova England]]/[[Moorland]], and the [[Brettish Isles]]. The locals consider themselves to be the closest descendants of Bosworth, and proudly carry on traditions from that country to this day. Saint Joan is the patron saint of the island, and the locals remain a deeply religious people, with nearly 70% of families attending church regularly. The [[Abbey Chinon|Abbey of Chinon]] remains an active church to this day, and many festivities and folklore are centered around Joan and her exploits. Ionnan literature is also well-regarded, such as the poem of [[Fáelchú Bán]].

Other traditions include raising oxen; a major staple on the island and one which locals are very proud of. A local version of haggis is made from ox, and considered a delicacy that has since been named the national dish.

==Defence==

The military of Ioanna is a continuation of the original chivalric order that followed Saint Joan to the island from Bosworth. Called the [[Sovereign Military Order of Ioanna]], they are a modern continuation of the original mounted knights. While rank and title continue to reflect the original hierarchy of the order, traditional armored knights on horseback are today only a ceremonial contingent of the modern army. The SMOI stands as possibly the smallest standing military on Micras, with a total active personnel of 250.

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Moorland Nuclear Authority

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The '''Moorland Nuclear Authority''' is a public utility power provider that operates three nuclear power plants in [[Moorland]]. Following the development of nuclear energy as a result of research done at the [[Kaspar Particle Accelerator]], Moorland began construction of three new reactors. Two are pressurized water reactors (PWR), while one is a boiling water reactor (BWR). The largest is the [[Port Neil]] PWR, which produces 2.4 GW of energy that is distributed directly to the grid for Moorland's most populous regions. Construction of the plant began in 1755 and took two years to complete, coming online in 1757. It was the first operational nuclear plant for the kingdom to come online continentally (SMRs for [[Kasperia]] came online several year prior). With the success of the PNPWR, feasibility studies opted to conclude that BWRs may be more economical for the remaining power needs of Moorland. Thus, in 1759, two new BWRs were constructed: one at [[Kells]], and one at [[Newhaven]]. All three plants utilize local water sources for reactor cooling. By 1761, these other two reactors had come online, supplying Moorland with an additional 3 MW of electricity. While not supplying all of Moorland's energy needs, the three plants have greatly reduced the kingdom's reliance on fossil fuels, helping it attain its longterm sustainability goals.

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Ioanna

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|headofgovernment = [[Tristan Valient]]
|legislature = [[Council of Knights]]
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|area = 9,624 sq km
|pop = 32,684 ({{AN|1750}})
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|calendar = [[AN]]
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|food = [[Monastery Bread]]
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}}

The '''Lordship of Ioanna''', or simply '''Ioanna''' (eye-OH-nah), is a tiny Arctic state located north of [[Mercury]], along the shores of [[Keltia]]. It was established by a group of [[Bosworth|Bosworthian]] knights as a chivalric outpost in the northern wilderness.

==History==

===Early History===

The earliest inhabitants of Ioanna were [[Syrah]], who were responsible for the initial migration of [[Britannics|Britannic]] people onto the mainland around 1400 [[AN]]. Originally knights from the early Brettish kingdoms such as [[Willow]] and Rommenashire, they had been hired as mercenaries by [[Attera]] to help with the conquest of the north. During this time, Attera controlled a vast empire over most of Keltia, extending from [[Los Bananos]], all the way to the [[Skerry Isles]]. Attera held a fragile grip over the land and needed aid along its eastern frontiers. Thus Ras Diga made a pact with the Britannics to supply them with gold and weapons in exchange for their aid in conquering Keltia. Like Attera, these roving mercenaries established vast kingdoms over stretches of virtually empty land, meeting only small bands of nomadic tribes such as the [[Reindeer Herders]], who quickly exited the region to avoid conflict, leaving the Britannics unchallenged. But settlement was minimal due to the harsh climate, and like Attera, the mercenary kingdoms struggled to control their overextended reach. Around 1500, the small villages were pushed aside during the [[Sino-Keltian]] conquests that would befall the land, and the Britannic population was either displaced or relegated to being vassals. For about two decades, the land lay in a disorganized state, with many small villages fending for themselves with complete autonomy. The Sino-Keltian age was transient, and soon their population migrated west into [[Jingdao]], leaving little trace of their time etched into the land. This only changed when the Britannics once again ventured forth from their islands and began to re-settle Keltia. First were [[New Britannia]] and [[Nova England]], who by 1520 had established their own kingdoms along the eastern shores of Keltia. But it wasn't until King Edward unified [[Bosworth]] at Shrewsbury around 1530 that a centralized government began to appear in the region again.

===The Chronicle of Saint Joan===

In 1531, King Edward I of [[Bosworth]] began expanding his kingdom west of the [[Strait of Haifa]]. At the time, the northwest corner of [[Keltia]] was ruled by petty warlords of Britannic descent; Vimy, Finistere and Fleur being the three primary states. By 1533 the royal line had consolidated power over Vimy and rivalries ran strong with King Charles of Finistere. This eventually boiled over into open conflict and the two sides clashed in battle that would be chronicled later in the [[Chronicle of Finistere]]. With Charles' defeat, Finistere passed to Edward and the throne of Bosworth. Fleur, as one of the last strongholds, found it better to capitulate rather than face annihilation at Edward's hands. By 1535 all of the northeast was under the banner of Bosworth save for Ioanna. Those who had refused to bow to Edward fled to the island and fortified themselves there.

In 1536, King Edward charged a young female knight - a rarity in itself – with marching on the island. At this time, the island was unnamed, and was referred to by the name of the strongest of the enemy strongholds; the castle of Yew. The knight's name was Lady [[Joan Darcy]]. She had been raised a peasant girl, but had risen through the ranks after the battle of Frejus to be named a knight of Bosworth. Edward had already deployed much of his forces over Finistere and even further afield in Fleur, thus he needed a new army to take Yew. He looked to the young Joan, aged a mere 23, who had shown herself to be a tactical leader in the field and had the support of the masses behind her, to command this army. Thus in February of 1536 he proclaimed her a general and granted her a force of some fifteen-thousand soldiers to take the island.

Joan gathered her forces in Auxerre, obtaining food, weapons and other supplies, before heading north to the port at Frejus. Here the King's ships were awaiting their arrival to ferry them across to the island. It took a month to traverse the landscape, held back by a late spring, mud and slow artillery that kept sinking in the muck. By the time they were preparing to ship out, the weather of March had not improved much, with snow still on the ground and ice clogging the sea between the mainland and Yew. Harsh conditions alone accounted for over one-thousand deaths even before they set sail, thereby taking a toll on the strength and morale of Joan's army.

Morale among troops was already low. Although Edward had hoped the appointment of someone who had risen from peasantry to prominence would inspire people, the mostly-male composition of the army found taking commands from a woman doubtful at best, downright hostile at worst. The loss of men to weather and then the woes encountered during crossing to Yew made things even worse for the young general. Dangerous ice floes, spring storms, and choppy waters made the passage extremely difficult. By the time they landed in the village of Baudricourt on the southern shore, the fleet had lost three of nine ships, further reducing Joan's forces down to nine-thousand soldiers. Fully a quarter of her forces had been lost even before joining battle with the enemy.

Thus it was a sad situation when the soaked and freezing army from Bosworth made landfall. But Joan rallied her forces and bade them take the small village as a base camp. As a collection of crofts and hovels, Baudricourt offered little opposition to the attackers. Enemy forces had retreated inland to the castle of Yew and other strongholds. Therefore Joan was able to secure some makeshift housing for her troops, some food from the locals, and a slight but nonetheless important boost to morale.

By April, warmer weather was moving in, but with it also came more dangerous mud season. A horse could easily break a leg sinking in the soft peat. Just as easily an artillery piece could become mired in place, stretching a short journey into a sometimes multiple-days trek, costing troops valuable time. This forced Joan's troops to stick strictly to the roads. While the packed soils provided quicker movement, it also limited their maneuverability. Time was not on Joan's side, so she did not dawdle in Baudricourt but opted to move north towards Yew with all haste.

Enemy forces had amassed around the castle of Yew. They were long expecting an assault from the mainland, knowing that Edward would not countenance rebellion. The castle itself was located centrally on the island, in the upper hills. This gave it the advantage of the high ground, and since they were aware the attack was coming, deprived Joan of the element of surprise. Yew lay at the boundary between the arable lands of the south and the rocky ice of the north, with its back essentially against a wall. And like an animal, the enemy was cornered with no option for retreat to another safe haven.

To reach Yew, Joan had to cross the southern half of the island. While she had been able to stave off further casualties since arriving at Baudricourt, the army was now faced with crossing inhospitable lands and a narrow corridor path to the castle. She set off near the end of April, facing ground that was thawing and soggy with spring snow melt. The journey was slow going. Horses struggled in the mud and the roads were little more than dirt paths through the marshes. To make matters worse, Lord Pierre, the enemy commander, was constantly harrying Joan's forces with small attacks. His hope was to decrease morale, delay progress, and pick away at the army before it reached Yew. Even with these constant setbacks, Joan pushed ever forward. Finally she reached a small abbey that sat near the island's narrow neck. Here she paused her army to take much needed rest.

The [[Abbey Chinon|Abbey of Chinon]] was a small stone church that served the people of the island. Besides the rector, only a few poor farms sat nearby. The nearest settlement was Diseart, several miles to the east. The only thing the rector could offer was some loves of bread and the shelter of a few musty stables; hardly adequate for a force that had dwindled to less than ten-thousand soldiers. Some of the men were facing scurvy from the lack of adequate diet, others had the consumption and were mere skeletons. Dismayed, Joan entered the abbey alone one evening and beseeched the lord for guidance.

She emerged the next morning from the church a changed woman. Joan quickly mounted her horse and called her commanders to her. Claiming she had received a vision of victory from God, she rallied the flagging morale of the soldiers and charged them with renewed energy. That very morning they left the abbey and headed north to march on the gates of Yew.

Lord Pierre had entrenched his forces at the castle, flanking the parapets with archers intended to rain death down upon the approaching Bosworthians. Joan knew what to expect, claiming that in her vision she had seen her forces caught in a violent storm outside the castle, with lightning that looked like arrows. So she brought her shield corps to the forefront, followed by her own archers. The move was a wise decision, as the enemy chose to hide behind the castle walls in a defensive position. Once these forward forces engaged each other, the slow-moving artillery was brought up from the rear and began to lob volleys at the front gates. Pierre had not anticipated this, and his few trebuchets from behind the walls had difficulty in reaching the artillery, failing to stop them before the front gates were shattered by the barrage.

Archers fell from the walls like flakes of ash drifting down from the sky. Joan took charge of her knights and ordered a cavalry charge directly through the smashed gates. Leading the knights herself, she was the first through the splintered wood and engaging the enemy soldiers in hand-to-hand combat. The rest of her knights followed, and she signaled the infantry to advance behind her. Soon the knights were forced to dismount and join close combat with the enemy soldiers. The flagstones ran red with blood, but inch-by-inch Joan's forces gained ground.

Pierre and a few of his loyal knights retreated to the rear of the castle, while the bulk of the rebel forces remained fighting in the courtyard. After a few hours of fighting it was clear that Joan's forces were winning the battle, causing Pierre to panic. Gathering a small force they made a desperate charge that caught the Bosworthians by surprise. Instead of attacking however, Pierre and his men rode straight through the conflagration and rushed out through the gates. To the shock of his remaining forces, Pierre had fled like a coward. But being too preoccupied with the present battle, Joan could not disengage to pursue him just yet.

With the cowardly retreat of their commander, the enemy forces who remained lost their momentum to continue fighting very quickly. Within a couple more hours, the last of the enemy had surrendered and Joan had successfully taken the castle of Yew. It took several more hours, however, for her to mop up the mess, make sure the enemy soldiers were secure in irons, and attend to her own wounded forces. Despite the victory, nearly three-thousand lay dead on the ground, with many others sustaining injuries ranging from superficial wounds to severed limbs. It was a ghastly sight, and a sobering moment for both sides to see the conflict ended.

But the loss of time was an advantage for Lord Pierre. Unwilling to accept defeat, he had fled north into the snow and ice. Scouts reported he was headed for Dunain, a granite outpost set in an area of jagged rocks that were too windswept to remain frozen in the ice. Joan, determined to see the enemy vanquished once and for all, set her second-in-command in charge of the castle while she gathered some of the remaining uninjured knights to her side. With extra furs and provisions, they quickly set off in pursuit of Pierre.

Joan's small force rode out of Yew and quickly crossed onto the ice sheet. It was even more treacherous than the mud fields that they had crossed in the south. Collapsing shelves of ice, drifting snow, and hidden crevasses all presented their own challenges. But she refused to yield to the elements and pressed ever onward to the north. Dunain lay a days journey from Yew, and she was unsure if Pierre would remain there or seek to circle back and escape via one of the small fishing ports in the south. Thus she pressed her knights to travel as quickly as possible across the ice.

Dunain itself had been built years prior as an outpost. It was a roughshod keep of hand-hewn stones built into the wall of a granite outcropping. It had no permanent population or groundskeeper; it was simply there as shelter for the poor souls that may have to cross the frozen north. Pierre knew this and had only the provisions he carried to feed himself and his men while they camped in the cold. What he did not count on was Joan following him onto the ice. Pierre had assumed, wrongly, that she would be preoccupied with securing Yew and leave him for dead in the inhospitable north. In this he was soon to be proven wrong.

Unfortunately for Joan, Pierre may have been unsuspecting of her following him, but he wasn't completely at ease. He had been wise enough to post a lookout on the top of the keep who spotted the Bosworthian knights moving across the ice. His forces were too weak to face another confrontation, so he opted again to flee. Hoping to lose Joan in the blustering snow and ice, he made a dead man's gamble and decided to head even further north. Joan was close enough to Dunain at this point to see him exiting the keep, and so spurred her men move faster in pursuit.

For the next three days, through sometimes blinding snow, Joan kept at the heels of Lord Pierre. But with death at his heels, he refused to surrender and pushed north. Some of his men dropped from hunger or exhaustion, sometimes both. A few of Joan's entourage did the same, and she wisely sent them back to Dunain to rest and to await her return. As they reached the far northern tip of the island, Pierre and his four remaining men holed up the last known shelter on the island, a minuscule keep known as Montford. They barely had time to bolt the doors before Joan and her knights were there battering at them.

The rickety old wood of the fort, probably original to the keep from the days of Syrah, did not last against the onslaught for very long. Within minutes the doors shattered and Joan was slashing at Pierre with her sword. While her knights engaged the other four enemy soldiers, Joan herself fought Pierre across the keep at Montford. The two fought intensely, with Pierre retreating up the steps of the tower as Joan pushed forward. As they fought on the stairs, Pierre caught her in the shoulder, causing a deep wound and forcing her to switch sword arms. Nonetheless she persisted. Pierre retreated further, eventually ascending to the top of the tower.

Here Joan closed in on Pierre, and the fight became more intense. Pierre landed another blow with a sharp stab to Joan's side. But she took this in grace as well and pressed on. With his back pressed against the stone rail of the tower's top, Pierre was like a rabid animal, cutting and slashing with abandon. But Joan did not let her own sword falter, and kept pushing him back. Eventually she landed a blow of her own with a sharp stab just below the heart. Pierre dropped his sword, gripping his chest. As he did so, he slipped on a patch of the icy stone, sending him tumbling backwards. Hitting the stone railing with such force he toppled back over the top of it, falling to his demise on the rocks below. Gripping her own wounds and leaning on her sword, she descended the stairs to find the rest of Pierre's men dead and her forces victorious.

But Joan was grievously wounded, and it was a hard three-day journey just to get back to Dunain. Unable to ride, her knights bound her wounds as best they could and wrapped her in furs. Placing her on the back of one of the horses, they began the trek back south. Sadly, Joan's condition continued to deteriorate. While the blood had been staunched, the cuts were deep, and it was likely she had internal bleeding that went unseen. By the time they arrived in Dunain, she was deep in the throes of fever. Gathering the waiting and wounded knights, they made off at a quick pace for Yew.

By the time they arrived at the castle, Joan had slipped into semi-delirious state, still gripped by pain and fever. Four days had passed since her fight with Pierre, and it was the first time she had been able to be seen by a physician. In dismay he announced that too much time had passed, and the only thing they could do was to try and alleviate her pain. Her last words were to order an envoy back to Shrewsbury to let King Edward know of their victory. Soon after she slipped into a coma from which she would never wake.

By the time news reached Edward, Joan had passed away. Having heard the tales of her heroics, the King himself decided he should travel to Yew personally. He arrived at the castle to find Joan being held in state on a bier of willow and Alpine flowers. Seeing the wounded state of the knights, their sheer loyalty to their King, and thew harsh conditions under which they fought, the King knelt at Joan's side and proclaimed her a Saint. Henceforth, he said, Yew would be known as the Isle of Saint Joan. That day, the King attended the funeral pyre of Saint Joan, before installing one of her loyal lieutenants as Lord of the Isle. In reward for their service, the King granted lands to Joan's knights, and they soon established their own order on the island. Thereafter, Edward returned to Shrewsbury as uncontested King of all the northlands.

===Bosworth and Beyond===

Bosworth's rule over the island would only last a mere decade, but in that time the knights who settled there would become a permanent part of the land and its people. King Edward appointed Aidan Lorne as Grand Master of the Order of Saint Joan, which had been given charge of the island. Around this time the long form, Isle of St Joan, became shortened to the Latin version of Ioanna. Soon after the old name quickly fell out of use. Lorne rebuilt the castle of Yew as a stronghold for the knights, and also restored the Abbey of Chinon. At Montford, a small shrine was built to honor Joan's final battle. Being such a barren land, the population on Ioanna did not thrive, but remained relatively stable. The Grand Master did his best to improve conditions, but was often called away to fight in Edward's war along the Strait of Haifa.

When Edward died and was replaced by King Wentworth, Lorne continued to fight until he was killed in the field of battle around 1547. Without clear leadership Bosworth was forced to retreat from the eastern lands, focusing its remaining power on retaining control of [[Haifa]] and [[Gascony]]. Wentworth appointed Gabriel Morgan as the new Grand Master, who immediately set out to the island. But just two years later, in 1549, Wentworth was killed in battle during the Gascon War, along with much of the Bosworthian nobility. Soon after Bosworth collapsed completely and faded into history. The Order of St Joan was on its own. For the next fifteen years, the Order would function in a nominal fashion, mostly as a hospital service, striving to keep the people of Ioanna healthy. It was mostly an introspective period, which helped to build Ioanna's fierce independence and self-sustainability.

As 1565 rolled around, it brought a new visitor to Ioanna: [[Ashkenatza]]. The Ashkenatzis came as part of an Arctic expedition, mostly scientific, but also part of their large intelligence network. They paid little heed to the inhabitants and took the old fort at Montford as their outpost. Intrigued by the large number of oxen grazing the machair, they renamed the castle to Ayzstantsye Gnu, or Ice Station Wildebeest, as they called oxen wildebeest in their tongue. They would occupy the castle for forty years, trading with the locals and conducting research. The trade was welcome with the otherwise isolated Order, as it helped keep the locals abreast of modern innovations, even if the primary industries remained farming and fishing. But by 1605, internal strife in Ashkenatza caused them too to collapse, leaving the island on its own again for another for another seventy-six years until the arrival of [[Free Elwynn|Elwynn]] in 1681.

Elwynn would make some investment in the island, but due to the distance from [[Vanaheim]] they had little long-lasting influence on Ioanna. By 1704 Elwynn had been replaced by [[Normark]], whose nationalist state repressed the Order in favor of [[Humanist]] factions that were vying for control. During this time the Order moved underground, essentially hiding their garments and opting to live as simple farmers on the island. But the ruse worked to keep Ioanna from being targeted. Gnu was repurposed as a [[Nordhaer]] base, but due to its isolation had little interaction with the Ioannans living in the south. So preoccupied was Normark with its own constant conflicts, that Ioanna was left mostly unscathed until Normark's [[East Keltian Collapse|collapse]] in 1737.

===Modern History===

Following the [[East Keltian Collapse]], the Nordhaer evacuated Gnu/Montford and over half of the [[Norse]] on the island fled back to the mainland in the [[Norse diaspora]]. John Morgan, a descendant of Gabriel Morgan, was named the new Grand Master of the Order. He quickly set about repairing damage to the island from the Norse occupation and restructuring the Order into a modern feudal government. In 1740 he was named Lord of Ioanna, with the Sovereign Military Order of Ioanna segueing into the exclusive role of defense. At some of the first sessions of the Council of Knights, Lord Morgan divided the island into six fiefs, granting an estate to each of the six members of the council who would then manage the estates therein. Early efforts were to secure the island from any further external threats, establish a stable government, and gain international recognition.

The rushed abandonment of Gnu resulted in the Nordhaer leaving behind a considerable cache of weaponry, which Morgan seized for the Order. While Montford was kept with a skeleton crew as a research base, all the defense materials were moved south to Yew for safekeeping and the protection of the population, which is clustered in the southern third of the island. Trade was established with [[Moorland]], especially after their expansion into the neighboring [[Ford Islands]], and with [[Mercury]], which controls much of former Bosworth. Morgan's primary focus for the past decade has been in rebuilding the island's infrastructure, improving living conditions, and working to modernize the Order's military as a force capable of defending Ioanna properly while actively pursuing friendly relations with nearby countries. In 1755, Ioanna formally joined the [[Xaiville Convention]], emphasizing its commitment to global peace. Continuing to pursue a robust foreign policy, Ioanna began dispatching diplomatic missions abroad and signed the General Membership treaty of the [[Micras Treaty Organization]] in 1757, aiming to sign on to the other MTO conventions within the next year or so. In 1758 Ioanna became the first country to sign all seven of the MTO's ancillary treaties, upholding its commitment to international peace and cooperation.

==Geography==

Ioanna is located along the far northeastern shores of [[Keltia]]. Two-thirds of the island are locked in permanent ice. The northern two-thirds of the island are under a permanent glacier whose southern advance is halted by the [[Gàrradh]], a series of sharp granite peaks that have held the ice back for thousands of years. This natural barrier has kept the glacier from advancing further south. The southern portion in the ice-free zone is mostly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machair machair], a fertile low-lying dune pastureland. The shore is deeply indented by arms of the sea. The coast is mostly sandy beaches backed by dunes and machair on west coast, giving way to an expansive peat-covered plateau in the center of the island. The eastern coastline is markedly more rugged and is mostly rocky cliffs broken by small coves and beaches. The highest point of the island only reaches around 2,000 feet above sea level (609.6m). The landscape is punctuated by a large number of freshwater lochs. In the 1500s, monks living at the [[Abbey Chinon]] started planting tree seedlings brought over from the mainland in the hopes of establishing a domestic source of lumber. This consisted mostly of [[Moor Pine]], as it was fast-growing, hardy, and produced a few useful byproducts such as resin and pine tar. Most of the plantings were done along the northeastern wall of the [[Fhiona Mountains]] in the southern tier of the island. While the plantings were successful, the forests never became productive enough for large-scale lumber needed for construction, and the original stand is now protected as the [[National Forest of Ioanna]]. Thanks in part to these initial plantings, several other stands of forest have become established to the south and west of the mountains, and these are managed on a small scale for lumber.

==Economy==

The economy of Ioanna is heavily reliant on tourism. Traditional industries are crofting, fishing and weaving. Peat is still cut as a fuel in many areas. Some industrial manufacturing exists in the southern area of the island, but most manufactured goods need to be imported from nearby countries such as [[Moorland]] and [[Mercury]]. Ioanna continues to use the former currency of Bosworth, the Rosen (R), and maintains a small mint that produces its own coinage. Nonetheless, due to the frailty of the small independent Ioannan market, the [[Rosen]] is currently pegged to Moorland's Redoubt Crown (RDC), which is considered regionally stable.

==Infrastructure==

Ioanna prides itself on being as self-sustaining as possible, and acquires all its power supply domestically. As of 1755, 90% of the power supply is renewable energy, with only one coal plant still remaining in operation. This last coal plant is slated to be decommissioned within the next five years as the construction of a new Small Modular reactor (SMR) is completed. The main source of energy for the island is supplied through a combination of large wind and solar farms, and an [[Diseart Tidal Generator|innovative tidal energy project]] in Diseart Bay.

Waste management is handled at the Ban Landfill and Incinerator Plant (BLIP). Given the small size of the island, most residents bring their trash to the landfill and there is no municipal pick up of waste. The incinerator is a waste-to-energy plant and provides some power for the island. Recyclable goods are separated at the landfill by waste operators and shipped back to mainland [[Keltia]] for processing. Waste that can be neither recycled or incinerated is sent to the landfill. Hazardous waste, such as radioactive material, is shipped overseas at considerable cost; thus this is kept to a minimum and strictly regulated.

Transportation around the island is accessible by paved roads. A paved circuit road serves most of the island and also provides an emergency route for EMS crews, evacuations and other such events. Several paved crossroads exist connecting the circuit road to other communities and to provide shorter routes in-between these locations. The island has no rail service yet. Baudricourt serves as the main travel port, serving as the main port for ferries traveling to and from the mainland, and also as the main hub for imports/exports. The city also has Ioanna's [[Baudricourt International Airport|only international airport]]. A smaller domestic airport is located in [[Yew]].

See also: [[Economy of Ioanna]]

==Government and politics==

Ioanna is governed as a feudal monarchy with elements derived from its early days as a chivalric order. The Lord essentially owns all of Ioanna, granting fiefs to vassals who then manage their estates or manors. Before the lord can grant land (a fief) to someone, he has to make that person a vassal. This is done at a commendation ceremony comprising an act of homage and an oath of fealty. During homage, the lord and vassal enter into a contract in which the vassal promised to fight for the lord at his command, whilst the lord agrees to protect the vassal from external forces. The vassal's principal obligation to the lord is to provide aid or military service. Using whatever equipment the vassal can obtain by virtue of the revenues from the fief, the vassal has to answer calls to military service by the lord. Exceptionally large estates are usually referred to as manors, who are granted the title ''Knight of the Court''. A Knight's manor often included a large, sometimes fortified manor house or castle in which the lord of the manor and his dependents lived and administered a rural estate, and a population of laborers or serfs who worked the surrounding land to support themselves and the lord. At times the Lord of Ioanna will call a council of these Knights to session for executive matters and consult, referred to as the [[Council of Knights]]. These sessions are moderated by a High Knight, chosen as a neutral arbiter by popular vote among the Council to serve in that role. Currently, Ioanna is divided into six fiefs. The Council of Knights therefore has six seats, with the Lord serving as a tie-breaker in the absence of quorum.

[[File:Ioanna big map fiefs.png|thumb|left|Fiefs of Ioanna]]

Council of Knights - as of 1750 AN
{| class="wikitable"
! Title !! Name !! Fief
|-
| Lord of Ioanna || Sir [[John Morgan]] || [[Yew]]
|-
| High Knight || Sir [[Tristan Valient]] || [[Staonaig]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir [[Nigel MacPherson]] || [[Ceann Tsear]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Lady [[Elizabeth Jordain]] || [[Liana]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir [[Frances Neville]] || [[Ghairdean]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir [[Joris Collins]] || [[Diseart]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Lady [[Saoirse Xander]] || [[Machar]]
|}

=== Ethnic Demographics (c. 1750) ===

* '''Bosworthian:''' 11,202
* '''Nova English:''' 8,911
* '''Moorlander:''' 5,179
* '''Brettish:''' 2,297
* '''Norse:''' 2,093
* '''Mercurian:''' 1,534
* '''Other:''' ~1,468

See also: [[Foreign relations of Ioanna]]

==Culture==

Ioannan culture strongly reflects its roots in the [[Britannics|Britannic]] people. Like many locations in the northeast corner of [[Keltia]], Ioanna's population is descended mostly from people originally from [[Bosworth]], [[Nova England]]/[[Moorland]], and the [[Brettish Isles]]. The locals consider themselves to be the closest descendants of Bosworth, and proudly carry on traditions from that country to this day. Saint Joan is the patron saint of the island, and the locals remain a deeply religious people, with nearly 70% of families attending church regularly. The [[Abbey Chinon|Abbey of Chinon]] remains an active church to this day, and many festivities and folklore are centered around Joan and her exploits. Ionnan literature is also well-regarded, such as the poem of [[Fáelchú Bán]].

Other traditions include raising oxen; a major staple on the island and one which locals are very proud of. A local version of haggis is made from ox, and considered a delicacy that has since been named the national dish.

==Defence==

The military of Ioanna is a continuation of the original chivalric order that followed Saint Joan to the island from Bosworth. Called the [[Sovereign Military Order of Ioanna]], they are a modern continuation of the original mounted knights. While rank and title continue to reflect the original hierarchy of the order, traditional armored knights on horseback are today only a ceremonial contingent of the modern army. The SMOI stands as possibly the smallest standing military on Micras, with a total active personnel of 250.

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Fortria

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{{subdivision |
image_flag = Flag of Fortria.png|
subdivision = Fortria |
status = Council |
capital = [[Revby]] |
population = 104,610 |
largecity = Revby, Dominique, Joseph Rex |
title = Exarch |
leader = Eadmund MacDunn |
government = Witan |
language = East Moorlandic |
religion = ''Church of the Holy Lance'' |
}}

'''Fortria''' is a council territory of the [[Kingdom of Moorland]]. The region is the most northwestern territory of the kingdom, centered around the city of Revby that sits on the banks of the [[Strait of Haifa]]. The council is bordered in the southwest by [[Kells]] and in the east by [[Nevermoor]]. It was conquered as part of [[The Rail Wars]] in order to quell hostile tribes of [[Fuath]] and restore key portions of the [[Trans-Keltian Express]]. Following a series of long and drawn-out engagements, the territory was annexed by Moorland in late 1748. The territory is primarily rural with nearly 30% of the population located in Revby. It also holds the largest concentration of indigenous Fuath and [[Norse]] in the kingdom.

== History ==

The earliest inhabitants of Fortria were the Brittanic crusaders who founded the Kingdom of [[Syrah]] who founded the settlement of Joseph Rex mid-way between Revby and Hagbard. Closely aligned with [[Attera]], the Syrans fell with the collapse of the Solomonic Empire and were replaced by the [[Sino-Keltian]] states. These minor states vacillated over the area until the Kingdom of [[Bosworth]] established a foothold around the delta of the straits, founding the settlement of Dominique a bit southeast of Joseph Rex. After Bosworth dissipated the area became a far-flung colony of [[Juclandia]] until that too was eventually consumed by [[the Green]]. Real development did not begin until [[Norse]] settlement began in the region in the mid-1600s. [[Normark]] began pouring significant resources into the area, including laying track for the [[Trans-Keltian Express]]. This greatly motivated industrialization of the region, but also put Norse settlers into conflict with indigenous [[Fuath]].

In the decade following annexation, Fortria has seen significant development and made great strides in reconciling multicultural differences. Unexpectedly, there has also been a large amount of assimilation between cultures near the internal boundaries of these groups. Since these boundaries are purely cultural, having no political power, there has been little to keep these areas monocultural besides the inhabitants choosing to remain in those places. As such there has been gradual shifts in population and the free movement of people has seen a gradual mixing of cultures, especially in the outskirts of these areas. The most resistant to this change have been with the [[Fuath]], some of which who feel they are being pressured out of their ancestral lands by the influx of migrants from elsewhere. But this has shown cracks around the edges as well; interracial mixing has become less stigmatized and even prevalent in certain areas. The [[Qeltois]] nomads have also had difficulty in transitioning from their migratory lifestyle to permanent residences. But the government has allayed most of this by granting most Qeltois settlers large tracts of land in the south to ranch.

== Geography ==

Fortria's distinct boot shape lends it a unique geography. The eastern flank wraps around the western borders of [[Mercury]], while the west is bounded by the [[Strait of Haifa]], [[Kells]], and the south by [[the Green]].

== Government ==

Although Fortia is a Council, just as other regions of Moorland, it is unique for having one of the most diverse set of representatives in the kingdom. The Fortrian council represents the ethnic Moorlanders, Fuath people, Qeltois nomads, Syran communities, and several other minority groups. This has caused both internal tensions and created difficulties in moving legislation forward as getting these many groups to agree has proven a challenge for Council Chair MacDunn. On the flip side, it has also been heralded as an example of cooperation and proof that a cooperative government can indeed work.

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Yew

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'''Yew''', is the capital and largest city of [[Ioanna]]. It is one of the northernmost national capitals in the world. The town is eponymously named for Castle Yew, an ancient stronghold dating back to the Kingdom of [[Syrah]] and itself named for the ancient yew tree that sits in the castle's courtyard. The tree is thought to be somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 years old. Originally the name Yew applied to the whole island of Ioanna, but after [[Bosworth]] annexed the island after the death of [[Joan Darcy]], the name Yew became applied to only the city while the island became referred to as Ioanna.

The castle of Yew is situated in the upper highlands of the village and built into the walls of the cliffs, the ''[[Gàrradh]]'', a series of high rocky crags that curve along the ice sheet and act as a barrier to the southern advance of the glacier. Over the years, as locals sought the protection of the castle, the village of Yew developed at the base of the mountain among the fertile pasture below. While the castle still serves as the home of the Lord of Ioanna, the village below has become a more modern town with amenities, such as a church, hotel and many shops. The local economy still relies heavily on farming, crofting and mining. In recent years tourism has become a large source of revenue.

[[File:Yew village.png|thumb|left|Yew village in summer]]

==Yew Fief==

Yew Fief refers to the lands under vassalage to the Lord of Yew, a title typically held simultaneously with that of the Lord of Ioanna as the hereditary seat of the lordship. Although the largest fief by land area and population, the fief holds vassalage over the vast glacier north of The Wall, the vast mountain range that holds the glacier from extending further south. The fief also includes the [[Abbey Chinon]]. Numerous small villages dot the landscape surrounding the larger town of Yew itself. Being adjacent to the mountain with meltwater coming down the south face into the valley, it is known for being a richly fertile region and the breadbasket of the island with many farms.

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Yew

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'''Yew''', is the capital and largest city of [[Ioanna]]. It is one of the northernmost national capitals in the world. The town is eponymously named for Castle Yew, an ancient stronghold dating back to the Kingdom of [[Syrah]] and itself named for the ancient yew tree that sits in the castle's courtyard. The tree is thought to be somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 years old. Originally the name Yew applied to the whole island of Ioanna, but after [[Bosworth]] annexed the island after the death of [[Joan Darcy]], the name Yew became applied to only the city while the island became referred to as Ioanna.

The castle of Yew is situated in the upper highlands of the village and built into the walls of the cliffs, the [[''Gàrradh'']], a series of high rocky crags that curve along the ice sheet and act as a barrier to the southern advance of the glacier. Over the years, as locals sought the protection of the castle, the village of Yew developed at the base of the mountain among the fertile pasture below. While the castle still serves as the home of the Lord of Ioanna, the village below has become a more modern town with amenities, such as a church, hotel and many shops. The local economy still relies heavily on farming, crofting and mining. In recent years tourism has become a large source of revenue.

[[File:Yew village.png|thumb|left|Yew village in summer]]

==Yew Fief==

Yew Fief refers to the lands under vassalage to the Lord of Yew, a title typically held simultaneously with that of the Lord of Ioanna as the hereditary seat of the lordship. Although the largest fief by land area and population, the fief holds vassalage over the vast glacier north of The Wall, the vast mountain range that holds the glacier from extending further south. The fief also includes the [[Abbey Chinon]]. Numerous small villages dot the landscape surrounding the larger town of Yew itself. Being adjacent to the mountain with meltwater coming down the south face into the valley, it is known for being a richly fertile region and the breadbasket of the island with many farms.

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Gàrradh

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The '''Gàrradh''' (Ioannan: ''Creag Gàrradh'', lit. ''The Wall'' or ''Rock Wall'') is a mountain range in northern [[Ioanna]], running east-west by northeast across the island, directly north of [[Yew]]. The range was created by a combination of glacial deposits and tectonic plate movement. Lying along a fault line between two plates, the mountains formed a natural dam of sorts which the glacier's southern advance pushed further rock against, creating a tall pinnacle that rises abruptly from the surrounding landscape in sheer cliffs. The glacier essentially dammed itself against the wall, preventing the further advance of the ice and allowing southern Ioanna to remain habitable. The Gàrradh is the tallest peak on the island. It is also an important source of fresh water for the island, with glacial melt accounting for 80% of all potable water. The other 20% comes from underground springs and snowmelt in the [[Fhiona Mountains]].

In Ioannan folklore, the wall was reared by primordial giants who built it to stop the glaciers from overrunning their homes. Although this belief has fallen by the wayside, Yew holds a popular Giant's Festival each autumn that carries elements of the mythology mixed with modern harvest celebrations.

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Gàrradh

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|'''Countries''' || [[Ioanna]]
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The '''Gàrradh''' (Ioannan: ''Creag Gàrradh'', lit. ''The Wall'' or ''Rock Wall'') is a mountain range in northern [[Ioanna]], running east-west by northeast across the island, directly north of [[Yew]]. The range was created by a combination of glacial deposits and tectonic plate movement. Lying along a fault line between two plates, the mountains formed a natural dam of sorts which the glacier's southern advance pushed further rock against, creating a tall pinnacle that rises abruptly from the surrounding landscape in sheer cliffs. The glacier essentially dammed itself against the wall, preventing the further advance of the glacier and allowing southern Ioanna to remain habitable. The Gàrradh is the tallest peak on the island.

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Gàrradh

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The '''Gàrradh''' (Ioannan: ''Creag Gàrradh'', lit. ''The Wall'') is a mountain range in northern [[Ioanna]], running east-west by northeast across the island, directly north of [[Yew]]. The range was created by a combination of glacial deposits and tectonic plate movement. Lying along a fault line between two plates, the mountains formed a natural dam of sorts which the glacier's southern advance pushed further rock against, creating a tall pinnacle that rises abruptly from the surrounding landscape in sheer cliffs. The glacier essentially dammed itself against the wall, preventing the further advance of the glacier and allowing southern Ioanna to remain habitable. The Gàrradh is the tallest peak on the island.

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File:Gàrradh.jpg

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Fhiona Mountains

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Ioanna

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{{Infobox Nation Comprehensive
|fullname = Lordship of Ioanna
|commonname = Ioanna
|flag = File:Flag of ioanna.png
|coa = File:Ioanna coa.png
|motto = Go forward bravely
|anthem = The Maiden of Ioanna
|map = File:Ioanna mcs map.png
|mapversions = 18.1.3 - Present
|capital = [[Yew]]
|largecity = Yew, Baudricourt
|lang = English, Old English, Gaelic
|religion = [[Church of the Holy Lance]]
|demnoun = Ioannan
|demadj = Ioannan
|govtype = Feudal Lordship
|headofstatetitle = Lord
|headofstate = Sir [[John Morgan]]
|headofgovernmenttitle = High Knight
|headofgovernment = [[Tristan Valient]]
|legislature = [[Council of Knights]]
|estdate = {{AN|1750}}
|area = 9,624 sq km
|pop = 32,684 ({{AN|1750}})
|activepop = 1
|currency = [[Rosen]] (R)
|calendar = [[AN]]
|timezone = CMT+9
|electricity = 220V
|drives_on = Left
|gauge = Standard
|site =
|forum =
|animal = [[Ioannan Ox]]
|food = [[Monastery Bread]]
|drink = [[Highland Ale]]
|tree = [[Arctic Willow]]
|abbrev = IOA
}}

The '''Lordship of Ioanna''', or simply '''Ioanna''' (eye-OH-nah), is a tiny Arctic state located north of [[Mercury]], along the shores of [[Keltia]]. It was established by a group of [[Bosworth|Bosworthian]] knights as a chivalric outpost in the northern wilderness.

==History==

===Early History===

The earliest inhabitants of Ioanna were [[Syrah]], who were responsible for the initial migration of [[Britannics|Britannic]] people onto the mainland around 1400 [[AN]]. Originally knights from the early Brettish kingdoms such as [[Willow]] and Rommenashire, they had been hired as mercenaries by [[Attera]] to help with the conquest of the north. During this time, Attera controlled a vast empire over most of Keltia, extending from [[Los Bananos]], all the way to the [[Skerry Isles]]. Attera held a fragile grip over the land and needed aid along its eastern frontiers. Thus Ras Diga made a pact with the Britannics to supply them with gold and weapons in exchange for their aid in conquering Keltia. Like Attera, these roving mercenaries established vast kingdoms over stretches of virtually empty land, meeting only small bands of nomadic tribes such as the [[Reindeer Herders]], who quickly exited the region to avoid conflict, leaving the Britannics unchallenged. But settlement was minimal due to the harsh climate, and like Attera, the mercenary kingdoms struggled to control their overextended reach. Around 1500, the small villages were pushed aside during the [[Sino-Keltian]] conquests that would befall the land, and the Britannic population was either displaced or relegated to being vassals. For about two decades, the land lay in a disorganized state, with many small villages fending for themselves with complete autonomy. The Sino-Keltian age was transient, and soon their population migrated west into [[Jingdao]], leaving little trace of their time etched into the land. This only changed when the Britannics once again ventured forth from their islands and began to re-settle Keltia. First were [[New Britannia]] and [[Nova England]], who by 1520 had established their own kingdoms along the eastern shores of Keltia. But it wasn't until King Edward unified [[Bosworth]] at Shrewsbury around 1530 that a centralized government began to appear in the region again.

===The Chronicle of Saint Joan===

In 1531, King Edward I of [[Bosworth]] began expanding his kingdom west of the [[Strait of Haifa]]. At the time, the northwest corner of [[Keltia]] was ruled by petty warlords of Britannic descent; Vimy, Finistere and Fleur being the three primary states. By 1533 the royal line had consolidated power over Vimy and rivalries ran strong with King Charles of Finistere. This eventually boiled over into open conflict and the two sides clashed in battle that would be chronicled later in the [[Chronicle of Finistere]]. With Charles' defeat, Finistere passed to Edward and the throne of Bosworth. Fleur, as one of the last strongholds, found it better to capitulate rather than face annihilation at Edward's hands. By 1535 all of the northeast was under the banner of Bosworth save for Ioanna. Those who had refused to bow to Edward fled to the island and fortified themselves there.

In 1536, King Edward charged a young female knight - a rarity in itself – with marching on the island. At this time, the island was unnamed, and was referred to by the name of the strongest of the enemy strongholds; the castle of Yew. The knight's name was Lady [[Joan Darcy]]. She had been raised a peasant girl, but had risen through the ranks after the battle of Frejus to be named a knight of Bosworth. Edward had already deployed much of his forces over Finistere and even further afield in Fleur, thus he needed a new army to take Yew. He looked to the young Joan, aged a mere 23, who had shown herself to be a tactical leader in the field and had the support of the masses behind her, to command this army. Thus in February of 1536 he proclaimed her a general and granted her a force of some fifteen-thousand soldiers to take the island.

Joan gathered her forces in Auxerre, obtaining food, weapons and other supplies, before heading north to the port at Frejus. Here the King's ships were awaiting their arrival to ferry them across to the island. It took a month to traverse the landscape, held back by a late spring, mud and slow artillery that kept sinking in the muck. By the time they were preparing to ship out, the weather of March had not improved much, with snow still on the ground and ice clogging the sea between the mainland and Yew. Harsh conditions alone accounted for over one-thousand deaths even before they set sail, thereby taking a toll on the strength and morale of Joan's army.

Morale among troops was already low. Although Edward had hoped the appointment of someone who had risen from peasantry to prominence would inspire people, the mostly-male composition of the army found taking commands from a woman doubtful at best, downright hostile at worst. The loss of men to weather and then the woes encountered during crossing to Yew made things even worse for the young general. Dangerous ice floes, spring storms, and choppy waters made the passage extremely difficult. By the time they landed in the village of Baudricourt on the southern shore, the fleet had lost three of nine ships, further reducing Joan's forces down to nine-thousand soldiers. Fully a quarter of her forces had been lost even before joining battle with the enemy.

Thus it was a sad situation when the soaked and freezing army from Bosworth made landfall. But Joan rallied her forces and bade them take the small village as a base camp. As a collection of crofts and hovels, Baudricourt offered little opposition to the attackers. Enemy forces had retreated inland to the castle of Yew and other strongholds. Therefore Joan was able to secure some makeshift housing for her troops, some food from the locals, and a slight but nonetheless important boost to morale.

By April, warmer weather was moving in, but with it also came more dangerous mud season. A horse could easily break a leg sinking in the soft peat. Just as easily an artillery piece could become mired in place, stretching a short journey into a sometimes multiple-days trek, costing troops valuable time. This forced Joan's troops to stick strictly to the roads. While the packed soils provided quicker movement, it also limited their maneuverability. Time was not on Joan's side, so she did not dawdle in Baudricourt but opted to move north towards Yew with all haste.

Enemy forces had amassed around the castle of Yew. They were long expecting an assault from the mainland, knowing that Edward would not countenance rebellion. The castle itself was located centrally on the island, in the upper hills. This gave it the advantage of the high ground, and since they were aware the attack was coming, deprived Joan of the element of surprise. Yew lay at the boundary between the arable lands of the south and the rocky ice of the north, with its back essentially against a wall. And like an animal, the enemy was cornered with no option for retreat to another safe haven.

To reach Yew, Joan had to cross the southern half of the island. While she had been able to stave off further casualties since arriving at Baudricourt, the army was now faced with crossing inhospitable lands and a narrow corridor path to the castle. She set off near the end of April, facing ground that was thawing and soggy with spring snow melt. The journey was slow going. Horses struggled in the mud and the roads were little more than dirt paths through the marshes. To make matters worse, Lord Pierre, the enemy commander, was constantly harrying Joan's forces with small attacks. His hope was to decrease morale, delay progress, and pick away at the army before it reached Yew. Even with these constant setbacks, Joan pushed ever forward. Finally she reached a small abbey that sat near the island's narrow neck. Here she paused her army to take much needed rest.

The [[Abbey Chinon|Abbey of Chinon]] was a small stone church that served the people of the island. Besides the rector, only a few poor farms sat nearby. The nearest settlement was Diseart, several miles to the east. The only thing the rector could offer was some loves of bread and the shelter of a few musty stables; hardly adequate for a force that had dwindled to less than ten-thousand soldiers. Some of the men were facing scurvy from the lack of adequate diet, others had the consumption and were mere skeletons. Dismayed, Joan entered the abbey alone one evening and beseeched the lord for guidance.

She emerged the next morning from the church a changed woman. Joan quickly mounted her horse and called her commanders to her. Claiming she had received a vision of victory from God, she rallied the flagging morale of the soldiers and charged them with renewed energy. That very morning they left the abbey and headed north to march on the gates of Yew.

Lord Pierre had entrenched his forces at the castle, flanking the parapets with archers intended to rain death down upon the approaching Bosworthians. Joan knew what to expect, claiming that in her vision she had seen her forces caught in a violent storm outside the castle, with lightning that looked like arrows. So she brought her shield corps to the forefront, followed by her own archers. The move was a wise decision, as the enemy chose to hide behind the castle walls in a defensive position. Once these forward forces engaged each other, the slow-moving artillery was brought up from the rear and began to lob volleys at the front gates. Pierre had not anticipated this, and his few trebuchets from behind the walls had difficulty in reaching the artillery, failing to stop them before the front gates were shattered by the barrage.

Archers fell from the walls like flakes of ash drifting down from the sky. Joan took charge of her knights and ordered a cavalry charge directly through the smashed gates. Leading the knights herself, she was the first through the splintered wood and engaging the enemy soldiers in hand-to-hand combat. The rest of her knights followed, and she signaled the infantry to advance behind her. Soon the knights were forced to dismount and join close combat with the enemy soldiers. The flagstones ran red with blood, but inch-by-inch Joan's forces gained ground.

Pierre and a few of his loyal knights retreated to the rear of the castle, while the bulk of the rebel forces remained fighting in the courtyard. After a few hours of fighting it was clear that Joan's forces were winning the battle, causing Pierre to panic. Gathering a small force they made a desperate charge that caught the Bosworthians by surprise. Instead of attacking however, Pierre and his men rode straight through the conflagration and rushed out through the gates. To the shock of his remaining forces, Pierre had fled like a coward. But being too preoccupied with the present battle, Joan could not disengage to pursue him just yet.

With the cowardly retreat of their commander, the enemy forces who remained lost their momentum to continue fighting very quickly. Within a couple more hours, the last of the enemy had surrendered and Joan had successfully taken the castle of Yew. It took several more hours, however, for her to mop up the mess, make sure the enemy soldiers were secure in irons, and attend to her own wounded forces. Despite the victory, nearly three-thousand lay dead on the ground, with many others sustaining injuries ranging from superficial wounds to severed limbs. It was a ghastly sight, and a sobering moment for both sides to see the conflict ended.

But the loss of time was an advantage for Lord Pierre. Unwilling to accept defeat, he had fled north into the snow and ice. Scouts reported he was headed for Dunain, a granite outpost set in an area of jagged rocks that were too windswept to remain frozen in the ice. Joan, determined to see the enemy vanquished once and for all, set her second-in-command in charge of the castle while she gathered some of the remaining uninjured knights to her side. With extra furs and provisions, they quickly set off in pursuit of Pierre.

Joan's small force rode out of Yew and quickly crossed onto the ice sheet. It was even more treacherous than the mud fields that they had crossed in the south. Collapsing shelves of ice, drifting snow, and hidden crevasses all presented their own challenges. But she refused to yield to the elements and pressed ever onward to the north. Dunain lay a days journey from Yew, and she was unsure if Pierre would remain there or seek to circle back and escape via one of the small fishing ports in the south. Thus she pressed her knights to travel as quickly as possible across the ice.

Dunain itself had been built years prior as an outpost. It was a roughshod keep of hand-hewn stones built into the wall of a granite outcropping. It had no permanent population or groundskeeper; it was simply there as shelter for the poor souls that may have to cross the frozen north. Pierre knew this and had only the provisions he carried to feed himself and his men while they camped in the cold. What he did not count on was Joan following him onto the ice. Pierre had assumed, wrongly, that she would be preoccupied with securing Yew and leave him for dead in the inhospitable north. In this he was soon to be proven wrong.

Unfortunately for Joan, Pierre may have been unsuspecting of her following him, but he wasn't completely at ease. He had been wise enough to post a lookout on the top of the keep who spotted the Bosworthian knights moving across the ice. His forces were too weak to face another confrontation, so he opted again to flee. Hoping to lose Joan in the blustering snow and ice, he made a dead man's gamble and decided to head even further north. Joan was close enough to Dunain at this point to see him exiting the keep, and so spurred her men move faster in pursuit.

For the next three days, through sometimes blinding snow, Joan kept at the heels of Lord Pierre. But with death at his heels, he refused to surrender and pushed north. Some of his men dropped from hunger or exhaustion, sometimes both. A few of Joan's entourage did the same, and she wisely sent them back to Dunain to rest and to await her return. As they reached the far northern tip of the island, Pierre and his four remaining men holed up the last known shelter on the island, a minuscule keep known as Montford. They barely had time to bolt the doors before Joan and her knights were there battering at them.

The rickety old wood of the fort, probably original to the keep from the days of Syrah, did not last against the onslaught for very long. Within minutes the doors shattered and Joan was slashing at Pierre with her sword. While her knights engaged the other four enemy soldiers, Joan herself fought Pierre across the keep at Montford. The two fought intensely, with Pierre retreating up the steps of the tower as Joan pushed forward. As they fought on the stairs, Pierre caught her in the shoulder, causing a deep wound and forcing her to switch sword arms. Nonetheless she persisted. Pierre retreated further, eventually ascending to the top of the tower.

Here Joan closed in on Pierre, and the fight became more intense. Pierre landed another blow with a sharp stab to Joan's side. But she took this in grace as well and pressed on. With his back pressed against the stone rail of the tower's top, Pierre was like a rabid animal, cutting and slashing with abandon. But Joan did not let her own sword falter, and kept pushing him back. Eventually she landed a blow of her own with a sharp stab just below the heart. Pierre dropped his sword, gripping his chest. As he did so, he slipped on a patch of the icy stone, sending him tumbling backwards. Hitting the stone railing with such force he toppled back over the top of it, falling to his demise on the rocks below. Gripping her own wounds and leaning on her sword, she descended the stairs to find the rest of Pierre's men dead and her forces victorious.

But Joan was grievously wounded, and it was a hard three-day journey just to get back to Dunain. Unable to ride, her knights bound her wounds as best they could and wrapped her in furs. Placing her on the back of one of the horses, they began the trek back south. Sadly, Joan's condition continued to deteriorate. While the blood had been staunched, the cuts were deep, and it was likely she had internal bleeding that went unseen. By the time they arrived in Dunain, she was deep in the throes of fever. Gathering the waiting and wounded knights, they made off at a quick pace for Yew.

By the time they arrived at the castle, Joan had slipped into semi-delirious state, still gripped by pain and fever. Four days had passed since her fight with Pierre, and it was the first time she had been able to be seen by a physician. In dismay he announced that too much time had passed, and the only thing they could do was to try and alleviate her pain. Her last words were to order an envoy back to Shrewsbury to let King Edward know of their victory. Soon after she slipped into a coma from which she would never wake.

By the time news reached Edward, Joan had passed away. Having heard the tales of her heroics, the King himself decided he should travel to Yew personally. He arrived at the castle to find Joan being held in state on a bier of willow and Alpine flowers. Seeing the wounded state of the knights, their sheer loyalty to their King, and thew harsh conditions under which they fought, the King knelt at Joan's side and proclaimed her a Saint. Henceforth, he said, Yew would be known as the Isle of Saint Joan. That day, the King attended the funeral pyre of Saint Joan, before installing one of her loyal lieutenants as Lord of the Isle. In reward for their service, the King granted lands to Joan's knights, and they soon established their own order on the island. Thereafter, Edward returned to Shrewsbury as uncontested King of all the northlands.

===Bosworth and Beyond===

Bosworth's rule over the island would only last a mere decade, but in that time the knights who settled there would become a permanent part of the land and its people. King Edward appointed Aidan Lorne as Grand Master of the Order of Saint Joan, which had been given charge of the island. Around this time the long form, Isle of St Joan, became shortened to the Latin version of Ioanna. Soon after the old name quickly fell out of use. Lorne rebuilt the castle of Yew as a stronghold for the knights, and also restored the Abbey of Chinon. At Montford, a small shrine was built to honor Joan's final battle. Being such a barren land, the population on Ioanna did not thrive, but remained relatively stable. The Grand Master did his best to improve conditions, but was often called away to fight in Edward's war along the Strait of Haifa.

When Edward died and was replaced by King Wentworth, Lorne continued to fight until he was killed in the field of battle around 1547. Without clear leadership Bosworth was forced to retreat from the eastern lands, focusing its remaining power on retaining control of [[Haifa]] and [[Gascony]]. Wentworth appointed Gabriel Morgan as the new Grand Master, who immediately set out to the island. But just two years later, in 1549, Wentworth was killed in battle during the Gascon War, along with much of the Bosworthian nobility. Soon after Bosworth collapsed completely and faded into history. The Order of St Joan was on its own. For the next fifteen years, the Order would function in a nominal fashion, mostly as a hospital service, striving to keep the people of Ioanna healthy. It was mostly an introspective period, which helped to build Ioanna's fierce independence and self-sustainability.

As 1565 rolled around, it brought a new visitor to Ioanna: [[Ashkenatza]]. The Ashkenatzis came as part of an Arctic expedition, mostly scientific, but also part of their large intelligence network. They paid little heed to the inhabitants and took the old fort at Montford as their outpost. Intrigued by the large number of oxen grazing the machair, they renamed the castle to Ayzstantsye Gnu, or Ice Station Wildebeest, as they called oxen wildebeest in their tongue. They would occupy the castle for forty years, trading with the locals and conducting research. The trade was welcome with the otherwise isolated Order, as it helped keep the locals abreast of modern innovations, even if the primary industries remained farming and fishing. But by 1605, internal strife in Ashkenatza caused them too to collapse, leaving the island on its own again for another for another seventy-six years until the arrival of [[Free Elwynn|Elwynn]] in 1681.

Elwynn would make some investment in the island, but due to the distance from [[Vanaheim]] they had little long-lasting influence on Ioanna. By 1704 Elwynn had been replaced by [[Normark]], whose nationalist state repressed the Order in favor of [[Humanist]] factions that were vying for control. During this time the Order moved underground, essentially hiding their garments and opting to live as simple farmers on the island. But the ruse worked to keep Ioanna from being targeted. Gnu was repurposed as a [[Nordhaer]] base, but due to its isolation had little interaction with the Ioannans living in the south. So preoccupied was Normark with its own constant conflicts, that Ioanna was left mostly unscathed until Normark's [[East Keltian Collapse|collapse]] in 1737.

===Modern History===

Following the [[East Keltian Collapse]], the Nordhaer evacuated Gnu/Montford and over half of the [[Norse]] on the island fled back to the mainland in the [[Norse diaspora]]. John Morgan, a descendant of Gabriel Morgan, was named the new Grand Master of the Order. He quickly set about repairing damage to the island from the Norse occupation and restructuring the Order into a modern feudal government. In 1740 he was named Lord of Ioanna, with the Sovereign Military Order of Ioanna segueing into the exclusive role of defense. At some of the first sessions of the Council of Knights, Lord Morgan divided the island into six fiefs, granting an estate to each of the six members of the council who would then manage the estates therein. Early efforts were to secure the island from any further external threats, establish a stable government, and gain international recognition.

The rushed abandonment of Gnu resulted in the Nordhaer leaving behind a considerable cache of weaponry, which Morgan seized for the Order. While Montford was kept with a skeleton crew as a research base, all the defense materials were moved south to Yew for safekeeping and the protection of the population, which is clustered in the southern third of the island. Trade was established with [[Moorland]], especially after their expansion into the neighboring [[Ford Islands]], and with [[Mercury]], which controls much of former Bosworth. Morgan's primary focus for the past decade has been in rebuilding the island's infrastructure, improving living conditions, and working to modernize the Order's military as a force capable of defending Ioanna properly while actively pursuing friendly relations with nearby countries. In 1755, Ioanna formally joined the [[Xaiville Convention]], emphasizing its commitment to global peace. Continuing to pursue a robust foreign policy, Ioanna began dispatching diplomatic missions abroad and signed the General Membership treaty of the [[Micras Treaty Organization]] in 1757, aiming to sign on to the other MTO conventions within the next year or so. In 1758 Ioanna became the first country to sign all seven of the MTO's ancillary treaties, upholding its commitment to international peace and cooperation.

==Geography==

Ioanna is located along the far northeastern shores of [[Keltia]]. Two-thirds of the island are locked in permanent ice. The northern two-thirds of the island are under a permanent glacier whose southern advance is halted by the [[Gàrradh]], a series of sharp granite peaks that have held the ice back for thousands of years. This natural barrier has kept the glacier from advancing further south. The southern portion in the ice-free zone is mostly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machair machair], a fertile low-lying dune pastureland. The shore is deeply indented by arms of the sea. The coast is mostly sandy beaches backed by dunes and machair on west coast, giving way to an expansive peat-covered plateau in the center of the island. The eastern coastline is markedly more rugged and is mostly rocky cliffs broken by small coves and beaches. The highest point of the island only reaches around 2,000 feet above sea level (609.6m). The landscape is punctuated by a large number of freshwater lochs. In the 1500s, monks living at the [[Abbey Chinon]] started planting tree seedlings brought over from the mainland in the hopes of establishing a domestic source of lumber. This consisted mostly of [[Moor Pine]], as it was fast-growing, hardy, and produced a few useful byproducts such as resin and pine tar. Most of the plantings were done along the northeastern wall of the [[Fhiona Mountains]] in the southern tier of the island. While the plantings were successful, the forests never became productive enough for large-scale lumber needed for construction, and the original stand is now protected as the [[National Forest of Ioanna]]. Thanks in part to these initial plantings, several other stands of forest have become established to the south and west of the mountains, and these are managed on a small scale for lumber.

==Economy==

The economy of Ioanna is heavily reliant on tourism. Traditional industries are crofting, fishing and weaving. Peat is still cut as a fuel in many areas. Some industrial manufacturing exists in the southern area of the island, but most manufactured goods need to be imported from nearby countries such as [[Moorland]] and [[Mercury]]. Ioanna continues to use the former currency of Bosworth, the Rosen (R), and maintains a small mint that produces its own coinage. Nonetheless, due to the frailty of the small independent Ioannan market, the [[Rosen]] is currently pegged to Moorland's Redoubt Crown (RDC), which is considered regionally stable.

==Infrastructure==

Ioanna prides itself on being as self-sustaining as possible, and acquires all its power supply domestically. As of 1755, 90% of the power supply is renewable energy, with only one coal plant still remaining in operation. This last coal plant is slated to be decommissioned within the next five years as the construction of a new Small Modular reactor (SMR) is completed. The main source of energy for the island is supplied through a combination of large wind and solar farms, and an innovative tidal energy project in Diseart Bay.

Waste management is handled at the Ban Landfill and Incinerator Plant (BLIP). Given the small size of the island, most residents bring their trash to the landfill and there is no municipal pick up of waste. The incinerator is a waste-to-energy plant and provides some power for the island. Recyclable goods are separated at the landfill by waste operators and shipped back to mainland [[Keltia]] for processing. Waste that can be neither recycled or incinerated is sent to the landfill. Hazardous waste, such as radioactive material, is shipped overseas at considerable cost; thus this is kept to a minimum and strictly regulated.

Transportation around the island is accessible by paved roads. A paved circuit road serves most of the island and also provides an emergency route for EMS crews, evacuations and other such events. Several paved crossroads exist connecting the circuit road to other communities and to provide shorter routes in-between these locations. The island has no rail service yet. Baudricourt serves as the main travel port, serving as the main port for ferries traveling to and from the mainland, and also as the main hub for imports/exports. The city also has Ioanna's [[Baudricourt International Airport|only international airport]]. A smaller domestic airport is located in [[Yew]].

See also: [[Economy of Ioanna]]

==Government and politics==

Ioanna is governed as a feudal monarchy with elements derived from its early days as a chivalric order. The Lord essentially owns all of Ioanna, granting fiefs to vassals who then manage their estates or manors. Before the lord can grant land (a fief) to someone, he has to make that person a vassal. This is done at a commendation ceremony comprising an act of homage and an oath of fealty. During homage, the lord and vassal enter into a contract in which the vassal promised to fight for the lord at his command, whilst the lord agrees to protect the vassal from external forces. The vassal's principal obligation to the lord is to provide aid or military service. Using whatever equipment the vassal can obtain by virtue of the revenues from the fief, the vassal has to answer calls to military service by the lord. Exceptionally large estates are usually referred to as manors, who are granted the title ''Knight of the Court''. A Knight's manor often included a large, sometimes fortified manor house or castle in which the lord of the manor and his dependents lived and administered a rural estate, and a population of laborers or serfs who worked the surrounding land to support themselves and the lord. At times the Lord of Ioanna will call a council of these Knights to session for executive matters and consult, referred to as the [[Council of Knights]]. These sessions are moderated by a High Knight, chosen as a neutral arbiter by popular vote among the Council to serve in that role. Currently, Ioanna is divided into six fiefs. The Council of Knights therefore has six seats, with the Lord serving as a tie-breaker in the absence of quorum.

[[File:Ioanna big map fiefs.png|thumb|left|Fiefs of Ioanna]]

Council of Knights - as of 1750 AN
{| class="wikitable"
! Title !! Name !! Fief
|-
| Lord of Ioanna || Sir [[John Morgan]] || [[Yew]]
|-
| High Knight || Sir [[Tristan Valient]] || [[Staonaig]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir [[Nigel MacPherson]] || [[Ceann Tsear]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Lady [[Elizabeth Jordain]] || [[Liana]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir [[Frances Neville]] || [[Ghairdean]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir [[Joris Collins]] || [[Diseart]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Lady [[Saoirse Xander]] || [[Machar]]
|}

=== Ethnic Demographics (c. 1750) ===

* '''Bosworthian:''' 11,202
* '''Nova English:''' 8,911
* '''Moorlander:''' 5,179
* '''Brettish:''' 2,297
* '''Norse:''' 2,093
* '''Mercurian:''' 1,534
* '''Other:''' ~1,468

See also: [[Foreign relations of Ioanna]]

==Culture==

Ioannan culture strongly reflects its roots in the [[Britannics|Britannic]] people. Like many locations in the northeast corner of [[Keltia]], Ioanna's population is descended mostly from people originally from [[Bosworth]], [[Nova England]]/[[Moorland]], and the [[Brettish Isles]]. The locals consider themselves to be the closest descendants of Bosworth, and proudly carry on traditions from that country to this day. Saint Joan is the patron saint of the island, and the locals remain a deeply religious people, with nearly 70% of families attending church regularly. The [[Abbey Chinon|Abbey of Chinon]] remains an active church to this day, and many festivities and folklore are centered around Joan and her exploits. Ionnan literature is also well-regarded, such as the poem of [[Fáelchú Bán]].

Other traditions include raising oxen; a major staple on the island and one which locals are very proud of. A local version of haggis is made from ox, and considered a delicacy that has since been named the national dish.

==Defence==

The military of Ioanna is a continuation of the original chivalric order that followed Saint Joan to the island from Bosworth. Called the [[Sovereign Military Order of Ioanna]], they are a modern continuation of the original mounted knights. While rank and title continue to reflect the original hierarchy of the order, traditional armored knights on horseback are today only a ceremonial contingent of the modern army. The SMOI stands as possibly the smallest standing military on Micras, with a total active personnel of 250.

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Yew

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'''Yew''', is the capital and largest city of [[Ioanna]]. It is one of the northernmost national capitals in the world. The town is eponymously named for Castle Yew, an ancient stronghold dating back to the Kingdom of [[Syrah]] and itself named for the ancient yew tree that sits in the castle's courtyard. The tree is thought to be somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 years old. Originally the name Yew applied to the whole island of Ioanna, but after [[Bosworth]] annexed the island after the death of [[Joan Darcy]], the name Yew became applied to only the city while the island became referred to as Ioanna.

The castle of Yew is situated in the upper highlands of the village and built into the walls of the cliffs, the ''Gàrradh'', a series of high rocky crags that curve along the ice sheet and act as a barrier to the southern advance of the glacier. Over the years, as locals sought the protection of the castle, the village of Yew developed at the base of the mountain among the fertile pasture below. While the castle still serves as the home of the Lord of Ioanna, the village below has become a more modern town with amenities, such as a church, hotel and many shops. The local economy still relies heavily on farming, crofting and mining. In recent years tourism has become a large source of revenue.

[[File:Yew village.png|thumb|left|Yew village in summer]]

==Yew Fief==

Yew Fief refers to the lands under vassalage to the Lord of Yew, a title typically held simultaneously with that of the Lord of Ioanna as the hereditary seat of the lordship. Although the largest fief by land area and population, the fief holds vassalage over the vast glacier north of The Wall, the vast mountain range that holds the glacier from extending further south. The fief also includes the [[Abbey Chinon]]. Numerous small villages dot the landscape surrounding the larger town of Yew itself. Being adjacent to the mountain with meltwater coming down the south face into the valley, it is known for being a richly fertile region and the breadbasket of the island with many farms.

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Fhiona Mountains

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Fhiona Mountains

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Fhiona Mountains

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Fhiona Mountains

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The '''Fhiona Mountains''' (Ioannan: ''Fhionns'' or ''Creag Fhiona'') is a small mountain range in southern [[Ioanna]], running along the borders between the fiefs of [[Machar]], [[Diseart]], [[Staonaig]] and [[Ceann Tsear]], acting as a natural boundary. It rises sharply to prominence from the surrounding low-lying machair (peat fields).

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Ioanna

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|commonname = Ioanna
|flag = File:Flag of ioanna.png
|coa = File:Ioanna coa.png
|motto = Go forward bravely
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|demadj = Ioannan
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|headofstatetitle = Lord
|headofstate = Sir [[John Morgan]]
|headofgovernmenttitle = High Knight
|headofgovernment = [[Tristan Valient]]
|legislature = [[Council of Knights]]
|estdate = {{AN|1750}}
|area = 9,624 sq km
|pop = 32,684 ({{AN|1750}})
|activepop = 1
|currency = [[Rosen]] (R)
|calendar = [[AN]]
|timezone = CMT+9
|electricity = 220V
|drives_on = Left
|gauge = Standard
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|animal = [[Ioannan Ox]]
|food = [[Monastery Bread]]
|drink = [[Highland Ale]]
|tree = [[Arctic Willow]]
|abbrev = IOA
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The '''Lordship of Ioanna''', or simply '''Ioanna''' (eye-OH-nah), is a tiny Arctic state located north of [[Mercury]], along the shores of [[Keltia]]. It was established by a group of [[Bosworth|Bosworthian]] knights as a chivalric outpost in the northern wilderness.

==History==

===Early History===

The earliest inhabitants of Ioanna were [[Syrah]], who were responsible for the initial migration of [[Britannics|Britannic]] people onto the mainland around 1400 [[AN]]. Originally knights from the early Brettish kingdoms such as [[Willow]] and Rommenashire, they had been hired as mercenaries by [[Attera]] to help with the conquest of the north. During this time, Attera controlled a vast empire over most of Keltia, extending from [[Los Bananos]], all the way to the [[Skerry Isles]]. Attera held a fragile grip over the land and needed aid along its eastern frontiers. Thus Ras Diga made a pact with the Britannics to supply them with gold and weapons in exchange for their aid in conquering Keltia. Like Attera, these roving mercenaries established vast kingdoms over stretches of virtually empty land, meeting only small bands of nomadic tribes such as the [[Reindeer Herders]], who quickly exited the region to avoid conflict, leaving the Britannics unchallenged. But settlement was minimal due to the harsh climate, and like Attera, the mercenary kingdoms struggled to control their overextended reach. Around 1500, the small villages were pushed aside during the [[Sino-Keltian]] conquests that would befall the land, and the Britannic population was either displaced or relegated to being vassals. For about two decades, the land lay in a disorganized state, with many small villages fending for themselves with complete autonomy. The Sino-Keltian age was transient, and soon their population migrated west into [[Jingdao]], leaving little trace of their time etched into the land. This only changed when the Britannics once again ventured forth from their islands and began to re-settle Keltia. First were [[New Britannia]] and [[Nova England]], who by 1520 had established their own kingdoms along the eastern shores of Keltia. But it wasn't until King Edward unified [[Bosworth]] at Shrewsbury around 1530 that a centralized government began to appear in the region again.

===The Chronicle of Saint Joan===

In 1531, King Edward I of [[Bosworth]] began expanding his kingdom west of the [[Strait of Haifa]]. At the time, the northwest corner of [[Keltia]] was ruled by petty warlords of Britannic descent; Vimy, Finistere and Fleur being the three primary states. By 1533 the royal line had consolidated power over Vimy and rivalries ran strong with King Charles of Finistere. This eventually boiled over into open conflict and the two sides clashed in battle that would be chronicled later in the [[Chronicle of Finistere]]. With Charles' defeat, Finistere passed to Edward and the throne of Bosworth. Fleur, as one of the last strongholds, found it better to capitulate rather than face annihilation at Edward's hands. By 1535 all of the northeast was under the banner of Bosworth save for Ioanna. Those who had refused to bow to Edward fled to the island and fortified themselves there.

In 1536, King Edward charged a young female knight - a rarity in itself – with marching on the island. At this time, the island was unnamed, and was referred to by the name of the strongest of the enemy strongholds; the castle of Yew. The knight's name was Lady [[Joan Darcy]]. She had been raised a peasant girl, but had risen through the ranks after the battle of Frejus to be named a knight of Bosworth. Edward had already deployed much of his forces over Finistere and even further afield in Fleur, thus he needed a new army to take Yew. He looked to the young Joan, aged a mere 23, who had shown herself to be a tactical leader in the field and had the support of the masses behind her, to command this army. Thus in February of 1536 he proclaimed her a general and granted her a force of some fifteen-thousand soldiers to take the island.

Joan gathered her forces in Auxerre, obtaining food, weapons and other supplies, before heading north to the port at Frejus. Here the King's ships were awaiting their arrival to ferry them across to the island. It took a month to traverse the landscape, held back by a late spring, mud and slow artillery that kept sinking in the muck. By the time they were preparing to ship out, the weather of March had not improved much, with snow still on the ground and ice clogging the sea between the mainland and Yew. Harsh conditions alone accounted for over one-thousand deaths even before they set sail, thereby taking a toll on the strength and morale of Joan's army.

Morale among troops was already low. Although Edward had hoped the appointment of someone who had risen from peasantry to prominence would inspire people, the mostly-male composition of the army found taking commands from a woman doubtful at best, downright hostile at worst. The loss of men to weather and then the woes encountered during crossing to Yew made things even worse for the young general. Dangerous ice floes, spring storms, and choppy waters made the passage extremely difficult. By the time they landed in the village of Baudricourt on the southern shore, the fleet had lost three of nine ships, further reducing Joan's forces down to nine-thousand soldiers. Fully a quarter of her forces had been lost even before joining battle with the enemy.

Thus it was a sad situation when the soaked and freezing army from Bosworth made landfall. But Joan rallied her forces and bade them take the small village as a base camp. As a collection of crofts and hovels, Baudricourt offered little opposition to the attackers. Enemy forces had retreated inland to the castle of Yew and other strongholds. Therefore Joan was able to secure some makeshift housing for her troops, some food from the locals, and a slight but nonetheless important boost to morale.

By April, warmer weather was moving in, but with it also came more dangerous mud season. A horse could easily break a leg sinking in the soft peat. Just as easily an artillery piece could become mired in place, stretching a short journey into a sometimes multiple-days trek, costing troops valuable time. This forced Joan's troops to stick strictly to the roads. While the packed soils provided quicker movement, it also limited their maneuverability. Time was not on Joan's side, so she did not dawdle in Baudricourt but opted to move north towards Yew with all haste.

Enemy forces had amassed around the castle of Yew. They were long expecting an assault from the mainland, knowing that Edward would not countenance rebellion. The castle itself was located centrally on the island, in the upper hills. This gave it the advantage of the high ground, and since they were aware the attack was coming, deprived Joan of the element of surprise. Yew lay at the boundary between the arable lands of the south and the rocky ice of the north, with its back essentially against a wall. And like an animal, the enemy was cornered with no option for retreat to another safe haven.

To reach Yew, Joan had to cross the southern half of the island. While she had been able to stave off further casualties since arriving at Baudricourt, the army was now faced with crossing inhospitable lands and a narrow corridor path to the castle. She set off near the end of April, facing ground that was thawing and soggy with spring snow melt. The journey was slow going. Horses struggled in the mud and the roads were little more than dirt paths through the marshes. To make matters worse, Lord Pierre, the enemy commander, was constantly harrying Joan's forces with small attacks. His hope was to decrease morale, delay progress, and pick away at the army before it reached Yew. Even with these constant setbacks, Joan pushed ever forward. Finally she reached a small abbey that sat near the island's narrow neck. Here she paused her army to take much needed rest.

The [[Abbey Chinon|Abbey of Chinon]] was a small stone church that served the people of the island. Besides the rector, only a few poor farms sat nearby. The nearest settlement was Diseart, several miles to the east. The only thing the rector could offer was some loves of bread and the shelter of a few musty stables; hardly adequate for a force that had dwindled to less than ten-thousand soldiers. Some of the men were facing scurvy from the lack of adequate diet, others had the consumption and were mere skeletons. Dismayed, Joan entered the abbey alone one evening and beseeched the lord for guidance.

She emerged the next morning from the church a changed woman. Joan quickly mounted her horse and called her commanders to her. Claiming she had received a vision of victory from God, she rallied the flagging morale of the soldiers and charged them with renewed energy. That very morning they left the abbey and headed north to march on the gates of Yew.

Lord Pierre had entrenched his forces at the castle, flanking the parapets with archers intended to rain death down upon the approaching Bosworthians. Joan knew what to expect, claiming that in her vision she had seen her forces caught in a violent storm outside the castle, with lightning that looked like arrows. So she brought her shield corps to the forefront, followed by her own archers. The move was a wise decision, as the enemy chose to hide behind the castle walls in a defensive position. Once these forward forces engaged each other, the slow-moving artillery was brought up from the rear and began to lob volleys at the front gates. Pierre had not anticipated this, and his few trebuchets from behind the walls had difficulty in reaching the artillery, failing to stop them before the front gates were shattered by the barrage.

Archers fell from the walls like flakes of ash drifting down from the sky. Joan took charge of her knights and ordered a cavalry charge directly through the smashed gates. Leading the knights herself, she was the first through the splintered wood and engaging the enemy soldiers in hand-to-hand combat. The rest of her knights followed, and she signaled the infantry to advance behind her. Soon the knights were forced to dismount and join close combat with the enemy soldiers. The flagstones ran red with blood, but inch-by-inch Joan's forces gained ground.

Pierre and a few of his loyal knights retreated to the rear of the castle, while the bulk of the rebel forces remained fighting in the courtyard. After a few hours of fighting it was clear that Joan's forces were winning the battle, causing Pierre to panic. Gathering a small force they made a desperate charge that caught the Bosworthians by surprise. Instead of attacking however, Pierre and his men rode straight through the conflagration and rushed out through the gates. To the shock of his remaining forces, Pierre had fled like a coward. But being too preoccupied with the present battle, Joan could not disengage to pursue him just yet.

With the cowardly retreat of their commander, the enemy forces who remained lost their momentum to continue fighting very quickly. Within a couple more hours, the last of the enemy had surrendered and Joan had successfully taken the castle of Yew. It took several more hours, however, for her to mop up the mess, make sure the enemy soldiers were secure in irons, and attend to her own wounded forces. Despite the victory, nearly three-thousand lay dead on the ground, with many others sustaining injuries ranging from superficial wounds to severed limbs. It was a ghastly sight, and a sobering moment for both sides to see the conflict ended.

But the loss of time was an advantage for Lord Pierre. Unwilling to accept defeat, he had fled north into the snow and ice. Scouts reported he was headed for Dunain, a granite outpost set in an area of jagged rocks that were too windswept to remain frozen in the ice. Joan, determined to see the enemy vanquished once and for all, set her second-in-command in charge of the castle while she gathered some of the remaining uninjured knights to her side. With extra furs and provisions, they quickly set off in pursuit of Pierre.

Joan's small force rode out of Yew and quickly crossed onto the ice sheet. It was even more treacherous than the mud fields that they had crossed in the south. Collapsing shelves of ice, drifting snow, and hidden crevasses all presented their own challenges. But she refused to yield to the elements and pressed ever onward to the north. Dunain lay a days journey from Yew, and she was unsure if Pierre would remain there or seek to circle back and escape via one of the small fishing ports in the south. Thus she pressed her knights to travel as quickly as possible across the ice.

Dunain itself had been built years prior as an outpost. It was a roughshod keep of hand-hewn stones built into the wall of a granite outcropping. It had no permanent population or groundskeeper; it was simply there as shelter for the poor souls that may have to cross the frozen north. Pierre knew this and had only the provisions he carried to feed himself and his men while they camped in the cold. What he did not count on was Joan following him onto the ice. Pierre had assumed, wrongly, that she would be preoccupied with securing Yew and leave him for dead in the inhospitable north. In this he was soon to be proven wrong.

Unfortunately for Joan, Pierre may have been unsuspecting of her following him, but he wasn't completely at ease. He had been wise enough to post a lookout on the top of the keep who spotted the Bosworthian knights moving across the ice. His forces were too weak to face another confrontation, so he opted again to flee. Hoping to lose Joan in the blustering snow and ice, he made a dead man's gamble and decided to head even further north. Joan was close enough to Dunain at this point to see him exiting the keep, and so spurred her men move faster in pursuit.

For the next three days, through sometimes blinding snow, Joan kept at the heels of Lord Pierre. But with death at his heels, he refused to surrender and pushed north. Some of his men dropped from hunger or exhaustion, sometimes both. A few of Joan's entourage did the same, and she wisely sent them back to Dunain to rest and to await her return. As they reached the far northern tip of the island, Pierre and his four remaining men holed up the last known shelter on the island, a minuscule keep known as Montford. They barely had time to bolt the doors before Joan and her knights were there battering at them.

The rickety old wood of the fort, probably original to the keep from the days of Syrah, did not last against the onslaught for very long. Within minutes the doors shattered and Joan was slashing at Pierre with her sword. While her knights engaged the other four enemy soldiers, Joan herself fought Pierre across the keep at Montford. The two fought intensely, with Pierre retreating up the steps of the tower as Joan pushed forward. As they fought on the stairs, Pierre caught her in the shoulder, causing a deep wound and forcing her to switch sword arms. Nonetheless she persisted. Pierre retreated further, eventually ascending to the top of the tower.

Here Joan closed in on Pierre, and the fight became more intense. Pierre landed another blow with a sharp stab to Joan's side. But she took this in grace as well and pressed on. With his back pressed against the stone rail of the tower's top, Pierre was like a rabid animal, cutting and slashing with abandon. But Joan did not let her own sword falter, and kept pushing him back. Eventually she landed a blow of her own with a sharp stab just below the heart. Pierre dropped his sword, gripping his chest. As he did so, he slipped on a patch of the icy stone, sending him tumbling backwards. Hitting the stone railing with such force he toppled back over the top of it, falling to his demise on the rocks below. Gripping her own wounds and leaning on her sword, she descended the stairs to find the rest of Pierre's men dead and her forces victorious.

But Joan was grievously wounded, and it was a hard three-day journey just to get back to Dunain. Unable to ride, her knights bound her wounds as best they could and wrapped her in furs. Placing her on the back of one of the horses, they began the trek back south. Sadly, Joan's condition continued to deteriorate. While the blood had been staunched, the cuts were deep, and it was likely she had internal bleeding that went unseen. By the time they arrived in Dunain, she was deep in the throes of fever. Gathering the waiting and wounded knights, they made off at a quick pace for Yew.

By the time they arrived at the castle, Joan had slipped into semi-delirious state, still gripped by pain and fever. Four days had passed since her fight with Pierre, and it was the first time she had been able to be seen by a physician. In dismay he announced that too much time had passed, and the only thing they could do was to try and alleviate her pain. Her last words were to order an envoy back to Shrewsbury to let King Edward know of their victory. Soon after she slipped into a coma from which she would never wake.

By the time news reached Edward, Joan had passed away. Having heard the tales of her heroics, the King himself decided he should travel to Yew personally. He arrived at the castle to find Joan being held in state on a bier of willow and Alpine flowers. Seeing the wounded state of the knights, their sheer loyalty to their King, and thew harsh conditions under which they fought, the King knelt at Joan's side and proclaimed her a Saint. Henceforth, he said, Yew would be known as the Isle of Saint Joan. That day, the King attended the funeral pyre of Saint Joan, before installing one of her loyal lieutenants as Lord of the Isle. In reward for their service, the King granted lands to Joan's knights, and they soon established their own order on the island. Thereafter, Edward returned to Shrewsbury as uncontested King of all the northlands.

===Bosworth and Beyond===

Bosworth's rule over the island would only last a mere decade, but in that time the knights who settled there would become a permanent part of the land and its people. King Edward appointed Aidan Lorne as Grand Master of the Order of Saint Joan, which had been given charge of the island. Around this time the long form, Isle of St Joan, became shortened to the Latin version of Ioanna. Soon after the old name quickly fell out of use. Lorne rebuilt the castle of Yew as a stronghold for the knights, and also restored the Abbey of Chinon. At Montford, a small shrine was built to honor Joan's final battle. Being such a barren land, the population on Ioanna did not thrive, but remained relatively stable. The Grand Master did his best to improve conditions, but was often called away to fight in Edward's war along the Strait of Haifa.

When Edward died and was replaced by King Wentworth, Lorne continued to fight until he was killed in the field of battle around 1547. Without clear leadership Bosworth was forced to retreat from the eastern lands, focusing its remaining power on retaining control of [[Haifa]] and [[Gascony]]. Wentworth appointed Gabriel Morgan as the new Grand Master, who immediately set out to the island. But just two years later, in 1549, Wentworth was killed in battle during the Gascon War, along with much of the Bosworthian nobility. Soon after Bosworth collapsed completely and faded into history. The Order of St Joan was on its own. For the next fifteen years, the Order would function in a nominal fashion, mostly as a hospital service, striving to keep the people of Ioanna healthy. It was mostly an introspective period, which helped to build Ioanna's fierce independence and self-sustainability.

As 1565 rolled around, it brought a new visitor to Ioanna: [[Ashkenatza]]. The Ashkenatzis came as part of an Arctic expedition, mostly scientific, but also part of their large intelligence network. They paid little heed to the inhabitants and took the old fort at Montford as their outpost. Intrigued by the large number of oxen grazing the machair, they renamed the castle to Ayzstantsye Gnu, or Ice Station Wildebeest, as they called oxen wildebeest in their tongue. They would occupy the castle for forty years, trading with the locals and conducting research. The trade was welcome with the otherwise isolated Order, as it helped keep the locals abreast of modern innovations, even if the primary industries remained farming and fishing. But by 1605, internal strife in Ashkenatza caused them too to collapse, leaving the island on its own again for another for another seventy-six years until the arrival of [[Free Elwynn|Elwynn]] in 1681.

Elwynn would make some investment in the island, but due to the distance from [[Vanaheim]] they had little long-lasting influence on Ioanna. By 1704 Elwynn had been replaced by [[Normark]], whose nationalist state repressed the Order in favor of [[Humanist]] factions that were vying for control. During this time the Order moved underground, essentially hiding their garments and opting to live as simple farmers on the island. But the ruse worked to keep Ioanna from being targeted. Gnu was repurposed as a [[Nordhaer]] base, but due to its isolation had little interaction with the Ioannans living in the south. So preoccupied was Normark with its own constant conflicts, that Ioanna was left mostly unscathed until Normark's [[East Keltian Collapse|collapse]] in 1737.

===Modern History===

Following the [[East Keltian Collapse]], the Nordhaer evacuated Gnu/Montford and over half of the [[Norse]] on the island fled back to the mainland in the [[Norse diaspora]]. John Morgan, a descendant of Gabriel Morgan, was named the new Grand Master of the Order. He quickly set about repairing damage to the island from the Norse occupation and restructuring the Order into a modern feudal government. In 1740 he was named Lord of Ioanna, with the Sovereign Military Order of Ioanna segueing into the exclusive role of defense. At some of the first sessions of the Council of Knights, Lord Morgan divided the island into six fiefs, granting an estate to each of the six members of the council who would then manage the estates therein. Early efforts were to secure the island from any further external threats, establish a stable government, and gain international recognition.

The rushed abandonment of Gnu resulted in the Nordhaer leaving behind a considerable cache of weaponry, which Morgan seized for the Order. While Montford was kept with a skeleton crew as a research base, all the defense materials were moved south to Yew for safekeeping and the protection of the population, which is clustered in the southern third of the island. Trade was established with [[Moorland]], especially after their expansion into the neighboring [[Ford Islands]], and with [[Mercury]], which controls much of former Bosworth. Morgan's primary focus for the past decade has been in rebuilding the island's infrastructure, improving living conditions, and working to modernize the Order's military as a force capable of defending Ioanna properly while actively pursuing friendly relations with nearby countries. In 1755, Ioanna formally joined the [[Xaiville Convention]], emphasizing its commitment to global peace. Continuing to pursue a robust foreign policy, Ioanna began dispatching diplomatic missions abroad and signed the General Membership treaty of the [[Micras Treaty Organization]] in 1757, aiming to sign on to the other MTO conventions within the next year or so. In 1758 Ioanna became the first country to sign all seven of the MTO's ancillary treaties, upholding its commitment to international peace and cooperation.

==Geography==

Ioanna is located along the far northeastern shores of [[Keltia]]. Two-thirds of the island are locked in permanent ice. The southern portion in the ice-free zone is mostly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machair machair], a fertile low-lying dune pastureland. The shore is deeply indented by arms of the sea. The coast is mostly sandy beaches backed by dunes and machair on west coast, giving way to an expansive peat-covered plateau in the center of the island. The eastern coastline is markedly more rugged and is mostly rocky cliffs broken by small coves and beaches. The highest point of the island only reaches around 2,000 feet above sea level (609.6m). The landscape is punctuated by a large number of freshwater lochs. In the 1500s, monks living at the [[Abbey Chinon]] started planting tree seedlings brought over from the mainland in the hopes of establishing a domestic source of lumber. This consisted mostly of [[Moor Pine]], as it was fast-growing, hardy, and produced a few useful byproducts such as resin and pine tar. Most of the plantings were done along the northeastern wall of the [[Fhiona Mountains]] in the southern tier of the island. While the plantings were successful, the forests never became productive enough for large-scale lumber needed for construction, and the original stand is now protected as the [[National Forest of Ioanna]]. Thanks in part to these initial plantings, several other stands of forest have become established to the south and west of the mountains, and these are managed on a small scale for lumber.

==Economy==

The economy of Ioanna is heavily reliant on tourism. Traditional industries are crofting, fishing and weaving. Peat is still cut as a fuel in many areas. Some industrial manufacturing exists in the southern area of the island, but most manufactured goods need to be imported from nearby countries such as [[Moorland]] and [[Mercury]]. Ioanna continues to use the former currency of Bosworth, the Rosen (R), and maintains a small mint that produces its own coinage. Nonetheless, due to the frailty of the small independent Ioannan market, the [[Rosen]] is currently pegged to Moorland's Redoubt Crown (RDC), which is considered regionally stable.

==Infrastructure==

Ioanna prides itself on being as self-sustaining as possible, and acquires all its power supply domestically. As of 1755, 90% of the power supply is renewable energy, with only one coal plant still remaining in operation. This last coal plant is slated to be decommissioned within the next five years as the construction of a new Small Modular reactor (SMR) is completed. The main source of energy for the island is supplied through a combination of large wind and solar farms, and an innovative tidal energy project in Diseart Bay.

Waste management is handled at the Ban Landfill and Incinerator Plant (BLIP). Given the small size of the island, most residents bring their trash to the landfill and there is no municipal pick up of waste. The incinerator is a waste-to-energy plant and provides some power for the island. Recyclable goods are separated at the landfill by waste operators and shipped back to mainland [[Keltia]] for processing. Waste that can be neither recycled or incinerated is sent to the landfill. Hazardous waste, such as radioactive material, is shipped overseas at considerable cost; thus this is kept to a minimum and strictly regulated.

Transportation around the island is accessible by paved roads. A paved circuit road serves most of the island and also provides an emergency route for EMS crews, evacuations and other such events. Several paved crossroads exist connecting the circuit road to other communities and to provide shorter routes in-between these locations. The island has no rail service yet. Baudricourt serves as the main travel port, serving as the main port for ferries traveling to and from the mainland, and also as the main hub for imports/exports. The city also has Ioanna's [[Baudricourt International Airport|only international airport]]. A smaller domestic airport is located in [[Yew]].

See also: [[Economy of Ioanna]]

==Government and politics==

Ioanna is governed as a feudal monarchy with elements derived from its early days as a chivalric order. The Lord essentially owns all of Ioanna, granting fiefs to vassals who then manage their estates or manors. Before the lord can grant land (a fief) to someone, he has to make that person a vassal. This is done at a commendation ceremony comprising an act of homage and an oath of fealty. During homage, the lord and vassal enter into a contract in which the vassal promised to fight for the lord at his command, whilst the lord agrees to protect the vassal from external forces. The vassal's principal obligation to the lord is to provide aid or military service. Using whatever equipment the vassal can obtain by virtue of the revenues from the fief, the vassal has to answer calls to military service by the lord. Exceptionally large estates are usually referred to as manors, who are granted the title ''Knight of the Court''. A Knight's manor often included a large, sometimes fortified manor house or castle in which the lord of the manor and his dependents lived and administered a rural estate, and a population of laborers or serfs who worked the surrounding land to support themselves and the lord. At times the Lord of Ioanna will call a council of these Knights to session for executive matters and consult, referred to as the [[Council of Knights]]. These sessions are moderated by a High Knight, chosen as a neutral arbiter by popular vote among the Council to serve in that role. Currently, Ioanna is divided into six fiefs. The Council of Knights therefore has six seats, with the Lord serving as a tie-breaker in the absence of quorum.

[[File:Ioanna big map fiefs.png|thumb|left|Fiefs of Ioanna]]

Council of Knights - as of 1750 AN
{| class="wikitable"
! Title !! Name !! Fief
|-
| Lord of Ioanna || Sir [[John Morgan]] || [[Yew]]
|-
| High Knight || Sir [[Tristan Valient]] || [[Staonaig]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir [[Nigel MacPherson]] || [[Ceann Tsear]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Lady [[Elizabeth Jordain]] || [[Liana]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir [[Frances Neville]] || [[Ghairdean]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir [[Joris Collins]] || [[Diseart]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Lady [[Saoirse Xander]] || [[Machar]]
|}

=== Ethnic Demographics (c. 1750) ===

* '''Bosworthian:''' 11,202
* '''Nova English:''' 8,911
* '''Moorlander:''' 5,179
* '''Brettish:''' 2,297
* '''Norse:''' 2,093
* '''Mercurian:''' 1,534
* '''Other:''' ~1,468

See also: [[Foreign relations of Ioanna]]

==Culture==

Ioannan culture strongly reflects its roots in the [[Britannics|Britannic]] people. Like many locations in the northeast corner of [[Keltia]], Ioanna's population is descended mostly from people originally from [[Bosworth]], [[Nova England]]/[[Moorland]], and the [[Brettish Isles]]. The locals consider themselves to be the closest descendants of Bosworth, and proudly carry on traditions from that country to this day. Saint Joan is the patron saint of the island, and the locals remain a deeply religious people, with nearly 70% of families attending church regularly. The [[Abbey Chinon|Abbey of Chinon]] remains an active church to this day, and many festivities and folklore are centered around Joan and her exploits. Ionnan literature is also well-regarded, such as the poem of [[Fáelchú Bán]].

Other traditions include raising oxen; a major staple on the island and one which locals are very proud of. A local version of haggis is made from ox, and considered a delicacy that has since been named the national dish.

==Defence==

The military of Ioanna is a continuation of the original chivalric order that followed Saint Joan to the island from Bosworth. Called the [[Sovereign Military Order of Ioanna]], they are a modern continuation of the original mounted knights. While rank and title continue to reflect the original hierarchy of the order, traditional armored knights on horseback are today only a ceremonial contingent of the modern army. The SMOI stands as possibly the smallest standing military on Micras, with a total active personnel of 250.

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Nigel MacPherson

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Lord '''Nigel John MacPherson''' is Knight of the Realm of [[Ioanna]], currently acting as the Lord of [[Ceann Tsear]], one of the seven fiefs of Ioanna and the fourth most populous fiefdom on the island. As a member of the [[Council of Knights]], he serves as a Commander within the [[Sovereign Military Order of Ioanna]] and often leads training. A skilled martial artist, MacPherson is renowned for his skills in hand-to-hand combat and has led numerous training courses for members of Ioanna's military.

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2026-09-17T16:38:31Z

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Kaspar Particle Accelerator

2026-09-01T15:18:24Z

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{{Moorland article}}
The '''Kaspar Particle Accelerator''', also called '''KPAL''' (''Kaspar Particle Accelerator Laboratory''), is an extremely large hadron collider type particle accelerator, currently owned and operated by the Kingdom of [[Moorland]]. It was originally constructed by [[Riponia]] to help provide power to [[Hypernostria|Liiansaari]] in the city of Dyvelsten. It was found in semi-ruinous state by scientists from the [[Kasperian Expedition]] in 1731. Once secured, the site became a laboratory for work to be conducted in particle acceleration research. It is a synchrotron type accelerator, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed closed-loop path. The magnetic field which bends the particle beam into its closed path increases with time during the accelerating process, being synchronized to the increasing kinetic energy of the particles. Although most details have been kept from the public due to security concerns, the KPAL accelerator measures some 17mi in diameter and was purported to generate enough power to provide radiant heat to Riponia's colonies on Hypernostria - a long-term yet ill-fated plan to try and terraform the island. Currently Moorland is conducting research and restoration efforts on KPAL and hopes to bring the unit back online within the next few years; albeit at a fraction of its generating power.

==Capabilities==
The original KPAL plant was powered by four small modular reactors (SMRs) that each produced 300MW of electricity. Two of the SMRs were dedicated to exclusively providing power for the particle accelerator, which used about 200MW when running. The other two were dedicated to the environmental functioning of the city, primarily [[Riponia|Riponia's]] terraforming machinery. This included heat pumps and geothermal tubes that were used to warm the bedrock and melt glacial ice. Upon discovery by Moorland in 1731, none of the reactors or accelerator were functioning. Three of the reactors had sustained damage from years of neglect, but this damage did not compromise containment so that radioactivity was kept shielded. By 1737, staff had installed two diesel generators to supply power and had managed to restore one of the SMRs to functionality. Long-term plans are to get all four reactors back online and power up the accelerator. Unlike Riponia, Moorland does not intend to use the systems for terraforming. Instead, it plans to use these systems for nuclear research, hoping to further develop modular nuclear power plants, naval ships, and, eventually, fusion reactors.

By 1755, two SMRs had been restored to functionality and a permanent road constructed connecting Dyvelsten to [[Bee Haven]], thereby allowing heavy construction equipment to be brought to the site and providing adequate power for much of the base's needs. Debris had been cleared away and a protective shell for the base repaired, granting the lab and base a controlled environment powered by the reactors. This allowed staff to better attend to repairs and begin the long process of overhauling the Riponian particle accelerator. It also allowed for a permanent year-round staffing of the base, which heretofore had been on a rotational basis given the hostile climate.

==Laboratory==
Besides research into particle accelerators, the lab at KPAL researches nuclear propulsion and generation. At present, two prototype reactors are at the site and function to test capabilities for both aspects. The SPR (Submerged Propulsion Reactor) is specifically designed for use in naval vessels as a means of electric generation for engine propulsion. The MARF (Modifications and Additions to a Reactor Facility) reactor is another test reactor for trialing new innovations in generation for power plants. Research is ongoing with both prototype reactors, and both have an expected 50 year lifespan before requiring shutdown and defueling, whereupon they will be dismantled and remediated.

==Security==
KPAL is a heavily regulated high-security base, considered to hold ultra-sensitive materials with a potential for terrorism should they fall into the wrong hands. As such, a strict background check process is used to document and verify employees and staff, including military personnel, before they can be assigned to the lab. Security clearances are granted on 5-year terms and can be renewed, but staff are required to go through the background check again (mostly to update information). Most staff are expected to either live at the base or nearby in [[Bee Haven]]. The perimeter of the base is fenced with razor wire and protected by several guard towers. Gated access allows enter and exit through a single point on one road leading to Bee Haven. No other access points are allowed. A guard unit is also stationed at Bee Haven. The base is otherwise supplied with its own electricity, water and emergency response team.

In addition to personnel security, KPAL has a 50-mile Emergency Planning Zone in the event of a radiation incident. The EPZ is broken down into four zones; 2 miles, 5 miles, 10 miles and 50 miles. Emergency Response Teams are in constant training and readiness to respond should such an incident occur so that people and wildlife face minimal impacts; and also to insure a timely shutdown of the reactors to reduce exposure and plume pathways. A 100 mile evacuation zone is also defined as a security protocol. While a plume rarely extends beyond this area, the 100 mile limit is a precautionary measure to eliminate the potential for public uptake. In most cases, the 50-to-100 mile zone would only require a shelter-in-place order.

[[File:KPAL-EPZ.png|thumb|left|100 mile EPZ]]

==Research Projects==
* MARF (Modifications and Additions to a Reactor Facility)
An advanced naval nuclear test platform and training unit, the MARF prototype is used to train Navy nuclear propulsion plant operators and to test reactors, steam systems, and electrical components.
* SPR (Surface Plasmon Resonance)
SPR assay is a label-free, real-time, optical biosensor technique used to quantify the affinity and kinetics of biomolecular interactions.
* KPA (Kaspar Power Authority)
The KPA is a state-owned and operated public utility provider that supplies energy to [[Hypernostria]]. The end goal of the KPAL project being to return all four SMR's to functionality and export power not only to [[Beelandia]], but the rest of the island as well.
* SMR (4 Small Modular Reactors)
A compact nuclear fission reactor that generates up to 300 megawatts of electricity per module.

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Kaspar Particle Accelerator

2026-09-01T15:09:19Z

Orion: /* Capabilities */

{{Moorland article}}
The '''Kaspar Particle Accelerator''', also called '''KPAL''' (''Kaspar Particle Accelerator Laboratory''), is an extremely large hadron collider type particle accelerator, currently owned and operated by the Kingdom of [[Moorland]]. It was originally constructed by [[Riponia]] to help provide power to [[Hypernostria|Liiansaari]] in the city of Dyvelsten. It was found in semi-ruinous state by scientists from the [[Kasperian Expedition]] in 1731. Once secured, the site became a laboratory for work to be conducted in particle acceleration research. It is a synchrotron type accelerator, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed closed-loop path. The magnetic field which bends the particle beam into its closed path increases with time during the accelerating process, being synchronized to the increasing kinetic energy of the particles. Although most details have been kept from the public due to security concerns, the KPAL accelerator measures some 17mi in diameter and was purported to generate enough power to provide radiant heat to Riponia's colonies on Hypernostria - a long-term yet ill-fated plan to try and terraform the island. Currently Moorland is conducting research and restoration efforts on KPAL and hopes to bring the unit back online within the next few years; albeit at a fraction of its generating power.

==Capabilities==
The original KPAL plant was powered by four small modular reactors (SMRs) that each produced 300MW of electricity. Two of the SMRs were dedicated to exclusively providing power for the particle accelerator, which used about 200MW when running. The other two were dedicated to the environmental functioning of the city, primarily [[Riponia|Riponia's]] terraforming machinery. This included heat pumps and geothermal tubes that were used to warm the bedrock and melt glacial ice. Upon discovery by Moorland in 1731, none of the reactors or accelerator were functioning. Three of the reactors had sustained damage from years of neglect, but this damage did not compromise containment so that radioactivity was kept shielded. By 1737, staff had installed two diesel generators to supply power and had managed to restore one of the SMRs to functionality. Long-term plans are to get all four reactors back online and power up the accelerator. Unlike Riponia, Moorland does not intend to use the systems for terraforming. Instead, it plans to use these systems for nuclear research, hoping to further develop modular nuclear power plants, naval ships, and, eventually, fusion reactors.

By 1755, two SMRs had been restored to functionality and a permanent road constructed connecting Dyvelsten to [[Bee Haven]], thereby allowing heavy construction equipment to be brought to the site and providing adequate power for much of the base's needs. Debris had been cleared away and a protective shell for the base repaired, granting the lab and base a controlled environment powered by the reactors. This allowed staff to better attend to repairs and begin the long process of overhauling the Riponian particle accelerator. It also allowed for a permanent year-round staffing of the base, which heretofore had been on a rotational basis given the hostile climate.

==Laboratory==
Besides research into particle accelerators, the lab at KPAL researches nuclear propulsion and generation. At present, two prototype reactors are at the site and function to test capabilities for both aspects. The SPR (Submerged Propulsion Reactor) is specifically designed for use in naval vessels as a means of electric generation for engine propulsion. The MARF (Modifications and Additions to a Reactor Facility) reactor is another test reactor for trialing new innovations in generation for power plants. Research is ongoing with both prototype reactors, and both have an expected 50 year lifespan before requiring shutdown and defueling, whereupon they will be dismantled and remediated.

==Security==
KPAL is a heavily regulated high-security base, considered to hold ultra-sensitive materials with a potential for terrorism should they fall into the wrong hands. As such, a strict background check process is used to document and verify employees and staff, including military personnel, before they can be assigned to the lab. Security clearances are granted on 5-year terms and can be renewed, but staff are required to go through the background check again (mostly to update information). Most staff are expected to either live at the base or nearby in [[Bee Haven]]. The perimeter of the base is fenced with razor wire and protected by several guard towers. Gated access allows enter and exit through a single point on one road leading to Bee Haven. No other access points are allowed. A guard unit is also stationed at Bee Haven. The base is otherwise supplied with its own electricity, water and emergency response team.

In addition to personnel security, KPAL has a 50-mile Emergency Planning Zone in the event of a radiation incident. The EPZ is broken down into four zones; 2 miles, 5 miles, 10 miles and 50 miles. Emergency Response Teams are in constant training and readiness to respond should such an incident occur so that people and wildlife face minimal impacts; and also to insure a timely shutdown of the reactors to reduce exposure and plume pathways. A 100 mile evacuation zone is also defined as a security protocol. While a plume rarely extends beyond this area, the 100 mile limit is a precautionary measure to eliminate the potential for public uptake. In most cases, the 50-to-100 mile zone would only require a shelter-in-place order.

[[File:KPAL-EPZ.png|thumb|left|100 mile EPZ]]

==Research Projects==
* MARF
* SPR
* KPA
* SMR (4)

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Kaspar Particle Accelerator

2026-09-01T15:08:14Z

Orion: /* Capabilities */

{{Moorland article}}
The '''Kaspar Particle Accelerator''', also called '''KPAL''' (''Kaspar Particle Accelerator Laboratory''), is an extremely large hadron collider type particle accelerator, currently owned and operated by the Kingdom of [[Moorland]]. It was originally constructed by [[Riponia]] to help provide power to [[Hypernostria|Liiansaari]] in the city of Dyvelsten. It was found in semi-ruinous state by scientists from the [[Kasperian Expedition]] in 1731. Once secured, the site became a laboratory for work to be conducted in particle acceleration research. It is a synchrotron type accelerator, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed closed-loop path. The magnetic field which bends the particle beam into its closed path increases with time during the accelerating process, being synchronized to the increasing kinetic energy of the particles. Although most details have been kept from the public due to security concerns, the KPAL accelerator measures some 17mi in diameter and was purported to generate enough power to provide radiant heat to Riponia's colonies on Hypernostria - a long-term yet ill-fated plan to try and terraform the island. Currently Moorland is conducting research and restoration efforts on KPAL and hopes to bring the unit back online within the next few years; albeit at a fraction of its generating power.

==Capabilities==
The original KPAL plant was powered by four small modular reactors (SMRs) that each produced 300MW of electricity. Two of the SMRs were dedicated to exclusively providing power for the particle accelerator, which used about 200MW when running. The other two were dedicated to the environmental functioning of the city, primarily [[Riponia|Riponia's]] terraforming machinery. This included heat pumps and geothermal tubes that were used to warm the bedrock and melt glacial ice. Upon discovery by Moorland in 1731, none of the reactors or accelerator were functioning. Three of the reactors had sustained damage from years of neglect, but this damage did not compromise containment so that radioactivity was kept shielded. By 1737, staff had installed two diesel generators to supply power and had managed to restore one of the SMRs to functionality. Long-term plans are to get all four reactors back online and power up the accelerator. Unlike Riponia, Moorland does not intend to use the systems for terraforming. Instead, it plans to use these systems for nuclear research, hoping to further develop modular nuclear power plants, naval ships, and, eventually, fusion reactors.

By 1755, both SMRs had been restored to functionality and a permanent road constructed connecting Dyvelsten to [[Bee Haven]], thereby allowing heavy construction equipment to be brought to the site. Debris had been cleared away and a protective shell for the base repaired, granting the lab and base a controlled environment powered by the reactors. This allowed staff to better attend to repairs and begin the long process of overhauling the Riponian particle accelerator. It also allowed for a permanent year-round staffing of the base, which heretofore had been on a rotational basis given the hostile climate.

==Laboratory==
Besides research into particle accelerators, the lab at KPAL researches nuclear propulsion and generation. At present, two prototype reactors are at the site and function to test capabilities for both aspects. The SPR (Submerged Propulsion Reactor) is specifically designed for use in naval vessels as a means of electric generation for engine propulsion. The MARF (Modifications and Additions to a Reactor Facility) reactor is another test reactor for trialing new innovations in generation for power plants. Research is ongoing with both prototype reactors, and both have an expected 50 year lifespan before requiring shutdown and defueling, whereupon they will be dismantled and remediated.

==Security==
KPAL is a heavily regulated high-security base, considered to hold ultra-sensitive materials with a potential for terrorism should they fall into the wrong hands. As such, a strict background check process is used to document and verify employees and staff, including military personnel, before they can be assigned to the lab. Security clearances are granted on 5-year terms and can be renewed, but staff are required to go through the background check again (mostly to update information). Most staff are expected to either live at the base or nearby in [[Bee Haven]]. The perimeter of the base is fenced with razor wire and protected by several guard towers. Gated access allows enter and exit through a single point on one road leading to Bee Haven. No other access points are allowed. A guard unit is also stationed at Bee Haven. The base is otherwise supplied with its own electricity, water and emergency response team.

In addition to personnel security, KPAL has a 50-mile Emergency Planning Zone in the event of a radiation incident. The EPZ is broken down into four zones; 2 miles, 5 miles, 10 miles and 50 miles. Emergency Response Teams are in constant training and readiness to respond should such an incident occur so that people and wildlife face minimal impacts; and also to insure a timely shutdown of the reactors to reduce exposure and plume pathways. A 100 mile evacuation zone is also defined as a security protocol. While a plume rarely extends beyond this area, the 100 mile limit is a precautionary measure to eliminate the potential for public uptake. In most cases, the 50-to-100 mile zone would only require a shelter-in-place order.

[[File:KPAL-EPZ.png|thumb|left|100 mile EPZ]]

==Research Projects==
* MARF
* SPR
* KPA
* SMR (4)

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Ioanna

2026-08-22T02:16:48Z

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The '''Lordship of Ioanna''', or simply '''Ioanna''' (eye-OH-nah), is a tiny Arctic state located north of [[Mercury]], along the shores of [[Keltia]]. It was established by a group of [[Bosworth|Bosworthian]] knights as a chivalric outpost in the northern wilderness.

==History==

===Early History===

The earliest inhabitants of Ioanna were [[Syrah]], who were responsible for the initial migration of [[Britannics|Britannic]] people onto the mainland around 1400 [[AN]]. Originally knights from the early Brettish kingdoms such as [[Willow]] and Rommenashire, they had been hired as mercenaries by [[Attera]] to help with the conquest of the north. During this time, Attera controlled a vast empire over most of Keltia, extending from [[Los Bananos]], all the way to the [[Skerry Isles]]. Attera held a fragile grip over the land and needed aid along its eastern frontiers. Thus Ras Diga made a pact with the Britannics to supply them with gold and weapons in exchange for their aid in conquering Keltia. Like Attera, these roving mercenaries established vast kingdoms over stretches of virtually empty land, meeting only small bands of nomadic tribes such as the [[Reindeer Herders]], who quickly exited the region to avoid conflict, leaving the Britannics unchallenged. But settlement was minimal due to the harsh climate, and like Attera, the mercenary kingdoms struggled to control their overextended reach. Around 1500, the small villages were pushed aside during the [[Sino-Keltian]] conquests that would befall the land, and the Britannic population was either displaced or relegated to being vassals. For about two decades, the land lay in a disorganized state, with many small villages fending for themselves with complete autonomy. The Sino-Keltian age was transient, and soon their population migrated west into [[Jingdao]], leaving little trace of their time etched into the land. This only changed when the Britannics once again ventured forth from their islands and began to re-settle Keltia. First were [[New Britannia]] and [[Nova England]], who by 1520 had established their own kingdoms along the eastern shores of Keltia. But it wasn't until King Edward unified [[Bosworth]] at Shrewsbury around 1530 that a centralized government began to appear in the region again.

===The Chronicle of Saint Joan===

In 1531, King Edward I of [[Bosworth]] began expanding his kingdom west of the [[Strait of Haifa]]. At the time, the northwest corner of [[Keltia]] was ruled by petty warlords of Britannic descent; Vimy, Finistere and Fleur being the three primary states. By 1533 the royal line had consolidated power over Vimy and rivalries ran strong with King Charles of Finistere. This eventually boiled over into open conflict and the two sides clashed in battle that would be chronicled later in the [[Chronicle of Finistere]]. With Charles' defeat, Finistere passed to Edward and the throne of Bosworth. Fleur, as one of the last strongholds, found it better to capitulate rather than face annihilation at Edward's hands. By 1535 all of the northeast was under the banner of Bosworth save for Ioanna. Those who had refused to bow to Edward fled to the island and fortified themselves there.

In 1536, King Edward charged a young female knight - a rarity in itself – with marching on the island. At this time, the island was unnamed, and was referred to by the name of the strongest of the enemy strongholds; the castle of Yew. The knight's name was Lady [[Joan Darcy]]. She had been raised a peasant girl, but had risen through the ranks after the battle of Frejus to be named a knight of Bosworth. Edward had already deployed much of his forces over Finistere and even further afield in Fleur, thus he needed a new army to take Yew. He looked to the young Joan, aged a mere 23, who had shown herself to be a tactical leader in the field and had the support of the masses behind her, to command this army. Thus in February of 1536 he proclaimed her a general and granted her a force of some fifteen-thousand soldiers to take the island.

Joan gathered her forces in Auxerre, obtaining food, weapons and other supplies, before heading north to the port at Frejus. Here the King's ships were awaiting their arrival to ferry them across to the island. It took a month to traverse the landscape, held back by a late spring, mud and slow artillery that kept sinking in the muck. By the time they were preparing to ship out, the weather of March had not improved much, with snow still on the ground and ice clogging the sea between the mainland and Yew. Harsh conditions alone accounted for over one-thousand deaths even before they set sail, thereby taking a toll on the strength and morale of Joan's army.

Morale among troops was already low. Although Edward had hoped the appointment of someone who had risen from peasantry to prominence would inspire people, the mostly-male composition of the army found taking commands from a woman doubtful at best, downright hostile at worst. The loss of men to weather and then the woes encountered during crossing to Yew made things even worse for the young general. Dangerous ice floes, spring storms, and choppy waters made the passage extremely difficult. By the time they landed in the village of Baudricourt on the southern shore, the fleet had lost three of nine ships, further reducing Joan's forces down to nine-thousand soldiers. Fully a quarter of her forces had been lost even before joining battle with the enemy.

Thus it was a sad situation when the soaked and freezing army from Bosworth made landfall. But Joan rallied her forces and bade them take the small village as a base camp. As a collection of crofts and hovels, Baudricourt offered little opposition to the attackers. Enemy forces had retreated inland to the castle of Yew and other strongholds. Therefore Joan was able to secure some makeshift housing for her troops, some food from the locals, and a slight but nonetheless important boost to morale.

By April, warmer weather was moving in, but with it also came more dangerous mud season. A horse could easily break a leg sinking in the soft peat. Just as easily an artillery piece could become mired in place, stretching a short journey into a sometimes multiple-days trek, costing troops valuable time. This forced Joan's troops to stick strictly to the roads. While the packed soils provided quicker movement, it also limited their maneuverability. Time was not on Joan's side, so she did not dawdle in Baudricourt but opted to move north towards Yew with all haste.

Enemy forces had amassed around the castle of Yew. They were long expecting an assault from the mainland, knowing that Edward would not countenance rebellion. The castle itself was located centrally on the island, in the upper hills. This gave it the advantage of the high ground, and since they were aware the attack was coming, deprived Joan of the element of surprise. Yew lay at the boundary between the arable lands of the south and the rocky ice of the north, with its back essentially against a wall. And like an animal, the enemy was cornered with no option for retreat to another safe haven.

To reach Yew, Joan had to cross the southern half of the island. While she had been able to stave off further casualties since arriving at Baudricourt, the army was now faced with crossing inhospitable lands and a narrow corridor path to the castle. She set off near the end of April, facing ground that was thawing and soggy with spring snow melt. The journey was slow going. Horses struggled in the mud and the roads were little more than dirt paths through the marshes. To make matters worse, Lord Pierre, the enemy commander, was constantly harrying Joan's forces with small attacks. His hope was to decrease morale, delay progress, and pick away at the army before it reached Yew. Even with these constant setbacks, Joan pushed ever forward. Finally she reached a small abbey that sat near the island's narrow neck. Here she paused her army to take much needed rest.

The [[Abbey Chinon|Abbey of Chinon]] was a small stone church that served the people of the island. Besides the rector, only a few poor farms sat nearby. The nearest settlement was Diseart, several miles to the east. The only thing the rector could offer was some loves of bread and the shelter of a few musty stables; hardly adequate for a force that had dwindled to less than ten-thousand soldiers. Some of the men were facing scurvy from the lack of adequate diet, others had the consumption and were mere skeletons. Dismayed, Joan entered the abbey alone one evening and beseeched the lord for guidance.

She emerged the next morning from the church a changed woman. Joan quickly mounted her horse and called her commanders to her. Claiming she had received a vision of victory from God, she rallied the flagging morale of the soldiers and charged them with renewed energy. That very morning they left the abbey and headed north to march on the gates of Yew.

Lord Pierre had entrenched his forces at the castle, flanking the parapets with archers intended to rain death down upon the approaching Bosworthians. Joan knew what to expect, claiming that in her vision she had seen her forces caught in a violent storm outside the castle, with lightning that looked like arrows. So she brought her shield corps to the forefront, followed by her own archers. The move was a wise decision, as the enemy chose to hide behind the castle walls in a defensive position. Once these forward forces engaged each other, the slow-moving artillery was brought up from the rear and began to lob volleys at the front gates. Pierre had not anticipated this, and his few trebuchets from behind the walls had difficulty in reaching the artillery, failing to stop them before the front gates were shattered by the barrage.

Archers fell from the walls like flakes of ash drifting down from the sky. Joan took charge of her knights and ordered a cavalry charge directly through the smashed gates. Leading the knights herself, she was the first through the splintered wood and engaging the enemy soldiers in hand-to-hand combat. The rest of her knights followed, and she signaled the infantry to advance behind her. Soon the knights were forced to dismount and join close combat with the enemy soldiers. The flagstones ran red with blood, but inch-by-inch Joan's forces gained ground.

Pierre and a few of his loyal knights retreated to the rear of the castle, while the bulk of the rebel forces remained fighting in the courtyard. After a few hours of fighting it was clear that Joan's forces were winning the battle, causing Pierre to panic. Gathering a small force they made a desperate charge that caught the Bosworthians by surprise. Instead of attacking however, Pierre and his men rode straight through the conflagration and rushed out through the gates. To the shock of his remaining forces, Pierre had fled like a coward. But being too preoccupied with the present battle, Joan could not disengage to pursue him just yet.

With the cowardly retreat of their commander, the enemy forces who remained lost their momentum to continue fighting very quickly. Within a couple more hours, the last of the enemy had surrendered and Joan had successfully taken the castle of Yew. It took several more hours, however, for her to mop up the mess, make sure the enemy soldiers were secure in irons, and attend to her own wounded forces. Despite the victory, nearly three-thousand lay dead on the ground, with many others sustaining injuries ranging from superficial wounds to severed limbs. It was a ghastly sight, and a sobering moment for both sides to see the conflict ended.

But the loss of time was an advantage for Lord Pierre. Unwilling to accept defeat, he had fled north into the snow and ice. Scouts reported he was headed for Dunain, a granite outpost set in an area of jagged rocks that were too windswept to remain frozen in the ice. Joan, determined to see the enemy vanquished once and for all, set her second-in-command in charge of the castle while she gathered some of the remaining uninjured knights to her side. With extra furs and provisions, they quickly set off in pursuit of Pierre.

Joan's small force rode out of Yew and quickly crossed onto the ice sheet. It was even more treacherous than the mud fields that they had crossed in the south. Collapsing shelves of ice, drifting snow, and hidden crevasses all presented their own challenges. But she refused to yield to the elements and pressed ever onward to the north. Dunain lay a days journey from Yew, and she was unsure if Pierre would remain there or seek to circle back and escape via one of the small fishing ports in the south. Thus she pressed her knights to travel as quickly as possible across the ice.

Dunain itself had been built years prior as an outpost. It was a roughshod keep of hand-hewn stones built into the wall of a granite outcropping. It had no permanent population or groundskeeper; it was simply there as shelter for the poor souls that may have to cross the frozen north. Pierre knew this and had only the provisions he carried to feed himself and his men while they camped in the cold. What he did not count on was Joan following him onto the ice. Pierre had assumed, wrongly, that she would be preoccupied with securing Yew and leave him for dead in the inhospitable north. In this he was soon to be proven wrong.

Unfortunately for Joan, Pierre may have been unsuspecting of her following him, but he wasn't completely at ease. He had been wise enough to post a lookout on the top of the keep who spotted the Bosworthian knights moving across the ice. His forces were too weak to face another confrontation, so he opted again to flee. Hoping to lose Joan in the blustering snow and ice, he made a dead man's gamble and decided to head even further north. Joan was close enough to Dunain at this point to see him exiting the keep, and so spurred her men move faster in pursuit.

For the next three days, through sometimes blinding snow, Joan kept at the heels of Lord Pierre. But with death at his heels, he refused to surrender and pushed north. Some of his men dropped from hunger or exhaustion, sometimes both. A few of Joan's entourage did the same, and she wisely sent them back to Dunain to rest and to await her return. As they reached the far northern tip of the island, Pierre and his four remaining men holed up the last known shelter on the island, a minuscule keep known as Montford. They barely had time to bolt the doors before Joan and her knights were there battering at them.

The rickety old wood of the fort, probably original to the keep from the days of Syrah, did not last against the onslaught for very long. Within minutes the doors shattered and Joan was slashing at Pierre with her sword. While her knights engaged the other four enemy soldiers, Joan herself fought Pierre across the keep at Montford. The two fought intensely, with Pierre retreating up the steps of the tower as Joan pushed forward. As they fought on the stairs, Pierre caught her in the shoulder, causing a deep wound and forcing her to switch sword arms. Nonetheless she persisted. Pierre retreated further, eventually ascending to the top of the tower.

Here Joan closed in on Pierre, and the fight became more intense. Pierre landed another blow with a sharp stab to Joan's side. But she took this in grace as well and pressed on. With his back pressed against the stone rail of the tower's top, Pierre was like a rabid animal, cutting and slashing with abandon. But Joan did not let her own sword falter, and kept pushing him back. Eventually she landed a blow of her own with a sharp stab just below the heart. Pierre dropped his sword, gripping his chest. As he did so, he slipped on a patch of the icy stone, sending him tumbling backwards. Hitting the stone railing with such force he toppled back over the top of it, falling to his demise on the rocks below. Gripping her own wounds and leaning on her sword, she descended the stairs to find the rest of Pierre's men dead and her forces victorious.

But Joan was grievously wounded, and it was a hard three-day journey just to get back to Dunain. Unable to ride, her knights bound her wounds as best they could and wrapped her in furs. Placing her on the back of one of the horses, they began the trek back south. Sadly, Joan's condition continued to deteriorate. While the blood had been staunched, the cuts were deep, and it was likely she had internal bleeding that went unseen. By the time they arrived in Dunain, she was deep in the throes of fever. Gathering the waiting and wounded knights, they made off at a quick pace for Yew.

By the time they arrived at the castle, Joan had slipped into semi-delirious state, still gripped by pain and fever. Four days had passed since her fight with Pierre, and it was the first time she had been able to be seen by a physician. In dismay he announced that too much time had passed, and the only thing they could do was to try and alleviate her pain. Her last words were to order an envoy back to Shrewsbury to let King Edward know of their victory. Soon after she slipped into a coma from which she would never wake.

By the time news reached Edward, Joan had passed away. Having heard the tales of her heroics, the King himself decided he should travel to Yew personally. He arrived at the castle to find Joan being held in state on a bier of willow and Alpine flowers. Seeing the wounded state of the knights, their sheer loyalty to their King, and thew harsh conditions under which they fought, the King knelt at Joan's side and proclaimed her a Saint. Henceforth, he said, Yew would be known as the Isle of Saint Joan. That day, the King attended the funeral pyre of Saint Joan, before installing one of her loyal lieutenants as Lord of the Isle. In reward for their service, the King granted lands to Joan's knights, and they soon established their own order on the island. Thereafter, Edward returned to Shrewsbury as uncontested King of all the northlands.

===Bosworth and Beyond===

Bosworth's rule over the island would only last a mere decade, but in that time the knights who settled there would become a permanent part of the land and its people. King Edward appointed Aidan Lorne as Grand Master of the Order of Saint Joan, which had been given charge of the island. Around this time the long form, Isle of St Joan, became shortened to the Latin version of Ioanna. Soon after the old name quickly fell out of use. Lorne rebuilt the castle of Yew as a stronghold for the knights, and also restored the Abbey of Chinon. At Montford, a small shrine was built to honor Joan's final battle. Being such a barren land, the population on Ioanna did not thrive, but remained relatively stable. The Grand Master did his best to improve conditions, but was often called away to fight in Edward's war along the Strait of Haifa.

When Edward died and was replaced by King Wentworth, Lorne continued to fight until he was killed in the field of battle around 1547. Without clear leadership Bosworth was forced to retreat from the eastern lands, focusing its remaining power on retaining control of [[Haifa]] and [[Gascony]]. Wentworth appointed Gabriel Morgan as the new Grand Master, who immediately set out to the island. But just two years later, in 1549, Wentworth was killed in battle during the Gascon War, along with much of the Bosworthian nobility. Soon after Bosworth collapsed completely and faded into history. The Order of St Joan was on its own. For the next fifteen years, the Order would function in a nominal fashion, mostly as a hospital service, striving to keep the people of Ioanna healthy. It was mostly an introspective period, which helped to build Ioanna's fierce independence and self-sustainability.

As 1565 rolled around, it brought a new visitor to Ioanna: [[Ashkenatza]]. The Ashkenatzis came as part of an Arctic expedition, mostly scientific, but also part of their large intelligence network. They paid little heed to the inhabitants and took the old fort at Montford as their outpost. Intrigued by the large number of oxen grazing the machair, they renamed the castle to Ayzstantsye Gnu, or Ice Station Wildebeest, as they called oxen wildebeest in their tongue. They would occupy the castle for forty years, trading with the locals and conducting research. The trade was welcome with the otherwise isolated Order, as it helped keep the locals abreast of modern innovations, even if the primary industries remained farming and fishing. But by 1605, internal strife in Ashkenatza caused them too to collapse, leaving the island on its own again for another for another seventy-six years until the arrival of [[Free Elwynn|Elwynn]] in 1681.

Elwynn would make some investment in the island, but due to the distance from [[Vanaheim]] they had little long-lasting influence on Ioanna. By 1704 Elwynn had been replaced by [[Normark]], whose nationalist state repressed the Order in favor of [[Humanist]] factions that were vying for control. During this time the Order moved underground, essentially hiding their garments and opting to live as simple farmers on the island. But the ruse worked to keep Ioanna from being targeted. Gnu was repurposed as a [[Nordhaer]] base, but due to its isolation had little interaction with the Ioannans living in the south. So preoccupied was Normark with its own constant conflicts, that Ioanna was left mostly unscathed until Normark's [[East Keltian Collapse|collapse]] in 1737.

===Modern History===

Following the [[East Keltian Collapse]], the Nordhaer evacuated Gnu/Montford and over half of the [[Norse]] on the island fled back to the mainland in the [[Norse diaspora]]. John Morgan, a descendant of Gabriel Morgan, was named the new Grand Master of the Order. He quickly set about repairing damage to the island from the Norse occupation and restructuring the Order into a modern feudal government. In 1740 he was named Lord of Ioanna, with the Sovereign Military Order of Ioanna segueing into the exclusive role of defense. At some of the first sessions of the Council of Knights, Lord Morgan divided the island into six fiefs, granting an estate to each of the six members of the council who would then manage the estates therein. Early efforts were to secure the island from any further external threats, establish a stable government, and gain international recognition.

The rushed abandonment of Gnu resulted in the Nordhaer leaving behind a considerable cache of weaponry, which Morgan seized for the Order. While Montford was kept with a skeleton crew as a research base, all the defense materials were moved south to Yew for safekeeping and the protection of the population, which is clustered in the southern third of the island. Trade was established with [[Moorland]], especially after their expansion into the neighboring [[Ford Islands]], and with [[Mercury]], which controls much of former Bosworth. Morgan's primary focus for the past decade has been in rebuilding the island's infrastructure, improving living conditions, and working to modernize the Order's military as a force capable of defending Ioanna properly while actively pursuing friendly relations with nearby countries. In 1755, Ioanna formally joined the [[Xaiville Convention]], emphasizing its commitment to global peace. Continuing to pursue a robust foreign policy, Ioanna began dispatching diplomatic missions abroad and signed the General Membership treaty of the [[Micras Treaty Organization]] in 1757, aiming to sign on to the other MTO conventions within the next year or so. In 1758 Ioanna became the first country to sign all seven of the MTO's ancillary treaties, upholding its commitment to international peace and cooperation.

==Geography==

Ioanna is located along the far northeastern shores of [[Keltia]]. Two-thirds of the island are locked in permanent ice. The southern portion in the ice-free zone is mostly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machair machair], a fertile low-lying dune pastureland. The shore is deeply indented by arms of the sea. The coast is mostly sandy beaches backed by dunes and machair on west coast, giving way to an expansive peat-covered plateau in the center of the island. The eastern coastline is markedly more rugged and is mostly rocky cliffs broken by small coves and beaches. The highest point of the island only reaches around 2,000 feet above sea level (609.6m). The landscape is punctuated by a large number of freshwater lochs.

==Economy==

The economy of Ioanna is heavily reliant on tourism. Traditional industries are crofting, fishing and weaving. Peat is still cut as a fuel in many areas. Some industrial manufacturing exists in the southern area of the island, but most manufactured goods need to be imported from nearby countries such as [[Moorland]] and [[Mercury]]. Ioanna continues to use the former currency of Bosworth, the Rosen (R), and maintains a small mint that produces its own coinage. Nonetheless, due to the frailty of the small independent Ioannan market, the [[Rosen]] is currently pegged to Moorland's Redoubt Crown (RDC), which is considered regionally stable.

==Infrastructure==

Ioanna prides itself on being as self-sustaining as possible, and acquires all its power supply domestically. As of 1755, 90% of the power supply is renewable energy, with only one coal plant still remaining in operation. This last coal plant is slated to be decommissioned within the next five years as the construction of a new Small Modular reactor (SMR) is completed. The main source of energy for the island is supplied through a combination of large wind and solar farms, and an innovative tidal energy project in Diseart Bay.

Waste management is handled at the Ban Landfill and Incinerator Plant (BLIP). Given the small size of the island, most residents bring their trash to the landfill and there is no municipal pick up of waste. The incinerator is a waste-to-energy plant and provides some power for the island. Recyclable goods are separated at the landfill by waste operators and shipped back to mainland [[Keltia]] for processing. Waste that can be neither recycled or incinerated is sent to the landfill. Hazardous waste, such as radioactive material, is shipped overseas at considerable cost; thus this is kept to a minimum and strictly regulated.

Transportation around the island is accessible by paved roads. A paved circuit road serves most of the island and also provides an emergency route for EMS crews, evacuations and other such events. Several paved crossroads exist connecting the circuit road to other communities and to provide shorter routes in-between these locations. The island has no rail service yet. Baudricourt serves as the main travel port, serving as the main port for ferries traveling to and from the mainland, and also as the main hub for imports/exports. The city also has Ioanna's [[Baudricourt International Airport|only international airport]]. A smaller domestic airport is located in [[Yew]].

See also: [[Economy of Ioanna]]

==Government and politics==

Ioanna is governed as a feudal monarchy with elements derived from its early days as a chivalric order. The Lord essentially owns all of Ioanna, granting fiefs to vassals who then manage their estates or manors. Before the lord can grant land (a fief) to someone, he has to make that person a vassal. This is done at a commendation ceremony comprising an act of homage and an oath of fealty. During homage, the lord and vassal enter into a contract in which the vassal promised to fight for the lord at his command, whilst the lord agrees to protect the vassal from external forces. The vassal's principal obligation to the lord is to provide aid or military service. Using whatever equipment the vassal can obtain by virtue of the revenues from the fief, the vassal has to answer calls to military service by the lord. Exceptionally large estates are usually referred to as manors, who are granted the title ''Knight of the Court''. A Knight's manor often included a large, sometimes fortified manor house or castle in which the lord of the manor and his dependents lived and administered a rural estate, and a population of laborers or serfs who worked the surrounding land to support themselves and the lord. At times the Lord of Ioanna will call a council of these Knights to session for executive matters and consult, referred to as the [[Council of Knights]]. These sessions are moderated by a High Knight, chosen as a neutral arbiter by popular vote among the Council to serve in that role. Currently, Ioanna is divided into six fiefs. The Council of Knights therefore has six seats, with the Lord serving as a tie-breaker in the absence of quorum.

[[File:Ioanna big map fiefs.png|thumb|left|Fiefs of Ioanna]]

Council of Knights - as of 1750 AN
{| class="wikitable"
! Title !! Name !! Fief
|-
| Lord of Ioanna || Sir [[John Morgan]] || [[Yew]]
|-
| High Knight || Sir [[Tristan Valient]] || [[Staonaig]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir [[Nigel MacPherson]] || [[Ceann Tsear]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Lady [[Elizabeth Jordain]] || [[Liana]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir [[Frances Neville]] || [[Ghairdean]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir [[Joris Collins]] || [[Diseart]]
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Lady [[Saoirse Xander]] || [[Machar]]
|}

=== Ethnic Demographics (c. 1750) ===

* '''Bosworthian:''' 11,202
* '''Nova English:''' 8,911
* '''Moorlander:''' 5,179
* '''Brettish:''' 2,297
* '''Norse:''' 2,093
* '''Mercurian:''' 1,534
* '''Other:''' ~1,468

See also: [[Foreign relations of Ioanna]]

==Culture==

Ioannan culture strongly reflects its roots in the [[Britannics|Britannic]] people. Like many locations in the northeast corner of [[Keltia]], Ioanna's population is descended mostly from people originally from [[Bosworth]], [[Nova England]]/[[Moorland]], and the [[Brettish Isles]]. The locals consider themselves to be the closest descendants of Bosworth, and proudly carry on traditions from that country to this day. Saint Joan is the patron saint of the island, and the locals remain a deeply religious people, with nearly 70% of families attending church regularly. The [[Abbey Chinon|Abbey of Chinon]] remains an active church to this day, and many festivities and folklore are centered around Joan and her exploits. Ionnan literature is also well-regarded, such as the poem of [[Fáelchú Bán]].

Other traditions include raising oxen; a major staple on the island and one which locals are very proud of. A local version of haggis is made from ox, and considered a delicacy that has since been named the national dish.

==Defence==

The military of Ioanna is a continuation of the original chivalric order that followed Saint Joan to the island from Bosworth. Called the [[Sovereign Military Order of Ioanna]], they are a modern continuation of the original mounted knights. While rank and title continue to reflect the original hierarchy of the order, traditional armored knights on horseback are today only a ceremonial contingent of the modern army. The SMOI stands as possibly the smallest standing military on Micras, with a total active personnel of 250.

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Yew

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'''Yew''', is the capital and largest city of [[Ioanna]]. It is one of the northernmost national capitals in the world. The town is eponymously named for Castle Yew, an ancient stronghold dating back to the Kingdom of [[Syrah]] and itself named for the ancient yew tree that sits in the castle's courtyard. The tree is thought to be somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 years old. Originally the name Yew applied to the whole island of Ioanna, but after [[Bosworth]] annexed the island after the death of [[Joan Darcy]], the name Yew became applied to only the city while the island became referred to as Ioanna.

The castle of Yew is situated in the upper highlands of the village and built into the walls of the cliffs, the ''Ardwall'', a series of high rocky crags that curve along the ice sheet and act as a barrier to the southern advance of the glacier. Over the years, as locals sought the protection of the castle, the village of Yew developed at the base of the mountain among the fertile pasture below. While the castle still serves as the home of the Lord of Ioanna, the village below has become a more modern town with amenities, such as a church, hotel and many shops. The local economy still relies heavily on farming, crofting and mining. In recent years tourism has become a large source of revenue.

[[File:Yew village.png|thumb|left|Yew village in summer]]

==Yew Fief==

Yew Fief refers to the lands under vassalage to the Lord of Yew, a title typically held simultaneously with that of the Lord of Ioanna as the hereditary seat of the lordship. Although the largest fief by land area and population, the fief holds vassalage over the vast glacier north of The Wall, the vast mountain range that holds the glacier from extending further south. The fief also includes the [[Abbey Chinon]]. Numerous small villages dot the landscape surrounding the larger town of Yew itself. Being adjacent to the mountain with meltwater coming down the south face into the valley, it is known for being a richly fertile region and the breadbasket of the island with many farms.

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Elizabeth Jordain

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Lady '''Elizabeth Jordain''' is Knight of the Realm of [[Ioanna]], currently acting as the Lord of Liana, one of the seven fiefs of Ioanna and the third most populous fiefdom on the island. As a member of the [[Council of Knights]], she often acts as an ambassador on missions abroad, helping to negotiate treaties with foreign powers and international bodies.

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Tristan Valient

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Sir '''Tristan Valient''' is the current High Knight of [[Ioanna]], acting as chair of the [[Council of Knights]] and Seneschal of the [[Sovereign Military Order of Ioanna]]. He is the Lord of Staonaig, one of the seven fiefs of Ioanna and the second most populous fiefdom on the island (behind [[Yew]]).

Honoured as [[Commander of the Order of Ash and Elm]] in 1758 ([[Hurmu]])

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Highland elk

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The '''Highland elk''', also called the '''Moorland elk''', is a species of large deer of the Cervidae family native to the northeastern quarter of [[Keltia]]. Originally a small population centered in [[Nova England]], the species was bred for hunting purposes by the Nova English and spread across the highlands. They have now become naturalized over most of [[Moorland]] along with parts of [[Mercury]] and [[Ioanna]]. They eventually became a strong symbol of the highlands and the people there, popularized by hunting lodges in the 1500s. Now a protected species with Moorland, it is recognized as the national animal of that kingdom.

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Highland elk

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The '''Highland elk''', also called the '''Moorland elk''', is a species of large deer of the Cervidae family native to the northeastern quarter of [[Keltia]]. Originally a small population centered in [[Nova England]], the species was bred for hunting purposes by the Nova English and spread across the highlands. They have now become naturalized over most of [[Moorland]] along with parts of [[Mercury]] and [[Ioanna]]. They eventually became a strong symbol of the highlands and the people there, popularized by hunting lodges in the 1500s. Now a protected species with Moorland, it is recognized as the national animal of that kingdom.

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File:Highland elk.png

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Moorland

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The '''Kingdom of Moorland''', or simply '''Moorland''', is a small state located in northeastern [[Keltia]], bounded on the north by [[Mercury]] and in the east by the [[Benacian Union]], which owns the [[Warring Islands]], and by the [[Three Kingdoms]] on [[Celebarad]]'s [[Krufnspire Island]]. It considers itself to be a cultural successor to the Kingdom of [[Nova England]], though it does not claim direct descent from the royal line of [[Josephus I]].

==History==

''For Moorland's history prior to 1718, see: [[History of Nova England on Micras]] and [[Novarian era]]''

Moorland was originally a region of [[Nova England]], though the kingdom is only a recent development, having been declared in 1718. Following the Nova English diaspora, and the departure of the royal family to the [[South Sea Islands]], those who remained behind found themselves at the mercy of various [[the Green|hostile tribes]]. New populations moved in from the west, especially the [[Normark|Norse]]. [[Bassarids]] had also begun to enter the area, moving north from [[Haifa]]. While the [[Warring Islands]] were secured by the benevolent forces of the [[Benacian Union]], the mainland was not so fortunate. Although the Norse were not openly hostile to the locals, they nonetheless subjugated them during the formation of [[Ostland]]. [[Hurmu]], in an attempt to bring peace and stability to the region, established its own presence in the form of the [[District of Moorland]] to the south. But the corridor to the north, outside of Ostland's control and south of [[Mercury]], controlled by the [[Clans of Moorland]], refused to be brought to heel and resisted all attempts at colonization. Over time the Clans, facing continued external pressure, united under Chief MacMartin to form the Kingdom of Moorland.

In X.1718, the kingdom officially petitioned the [[Raspur Pact]] for [[Accession of the Kingdom of Moorland to the Raspur Pact|accession to the alliance]], seeking military aid in routing the continued incursions of the [[Confederacy of the Dispossessed]]. By the end of the year the members of the Raspur Pact had unanimously approved Moorland's entrance to the alliance at the same time as its membership within the [[Micronational Cartography Society]] was approved, formally bringing the kingdom onto the international stage.

By early 1719 Moorland's intelligence arm had gathered enough evidence of [[Bassarid]] influence in [[Ostland]] to publish [[The Dispossession of King Nikolaus]], a dossier secret documents providing evidence that the [[Confederacy of the Dispossessed]] had secretly assassinated the King of Ostland, along with most of his officials and family, and replaced them with imposters. Following these revelations Moorland officially declared war on Ostland and invaded with the commencement of [[Operation Lefthand Punch]]. Following the capture of the poster King Nikolaus and his extradition to the Raspur Pact Joint Command, Moorland withdrew MAF units to within the boundaries of the former National Redoubt territory - essentially from Port Neil east and north. Moorland currently occupies this territory, which has a majority Nova English-Moorlander population. King MacMartin and the Witan have not yet recognized Ostland's self-appointed monarch, Lord Protector Eisenmann, whose relationship to the former royal family is questionable at best given documents obtained during Operation Phantom indicating the line had been extinguished by the Bassarids. Thus for the time being Moorland will remain in occupation of the northeast quadrant until such time as terms can be negotiated and the authenticity of Ostland's new government verified by independent and unbiased sources.

Following a series of intense negotiations, Moorland and Ostland eventually signed the [[Treaty of Port Moorland]] in 15.XII.1720. As per the terms of the treaty, the city of Port Moorland was ceded to the kingdom as reparations for the war. In return, King MacMartin officially recognized the government of [[Otto Eisenmann]]. The two have since begun working together to repair relations between the two kingdoms and root out any remaining influences from the Confederacy of the Dispossessed. The incorporation of Port Moorland into Moorland was seen as a significant victory, as it granted both an important commercial port and is viewed as a significant cultural heritage site. Also in 1720, [[Hurmu]] formally ceded [[South Moorland]] to the kingdom, graciously allowing both northern and southern Moorlanders to unite under one banner. In the ongoing efforts to protect the region from elements of Disinherited rebels operating in [[the Green]], the kingdom launched [[Operation Southpaw]] in spring 1725, pushing west and expanding South Moorland's western frontier by nearly double.

With peace secured along its southern border with Ostland, Moorland's military strength was turned back towards raiders continually attacking the frontier in [[Nevermoor]]. Presently there are plans to connect the frontier with [[Normark]] in order to create an access corridor for the [[Trans-Keltian Express]] to build a southern route. These plans were initiated with the commencement of [[Operation Northway]], which saw gains until grinding to a halt as resources were redirected south with the outbreak of the [[Burwood Wildfires]] in 1727 and collapse of government in Ostland. By V.1728 the King had authorized the assumption of government authority over the remnants of Ostland and formally annexed their territories, viewing this as the logical step towards restoring order to the area and continuing to battle the ongoing wildfires. Boundaries were kept essentially the same, with the minor expansion of [[East Moorland]] to its former terminus, and the remainder of Ostland re-organized as the Council of [[Burwood]]. The previous month had also seen Operation Northway come to a close after a bloody yet decisive victory at River's Edge brought the local Dispossessed to heel and allowed for the safe construction of a connector rail around the [[Dunn Mountains]] to the TKE.

By 1730, reconstruction of Burwood was well underway, with a strong conservation management plan in place and remediation ongoing. To assist with the efforts in the former Ostlandic territories, the government launched the [[Moorland Antarctic Expedition]] to [[Beelandia]]. The project will also give Moorland an additional source of natural resources; mainly in metallurgical ores. Studies into ecology and soils will help with the ongoing efforts to restore local ecosystems from the wildfires. The [[Trans-Keltian Express]] had been extended with the completion of the Dunn Mountains Viaduct, connecting as far as Ostkirk, with plans to continue south to the [[Ports of Newhaven]] and on to [[Anahuaco]].

The successes of the Moorland Antarctic Expedition led the kingdom to lay claim to the region of [[Hypernostria]] known as Kasperia. The discovery and subsequent research/restoration of the [[Kaspar Particle Accelerator]] in the ruins of Dyvelsten became a matter of national importance, with many resources dedicated to studying the machine. Another success was the completion of the Trans-Keltian Express as far as the [[Ports of Newhaven]], opening an important freight and passenger route across the country. This will allow goods from the inland cities to be quickly transported to the shore for export abroad. These successes were somewhat dampened by renewed raids on the western frontier by bands of [[Fuath]]; hostile tribes whose only objective was to raze and loot Moorlander villages. In response, the MAF has stepped up patrols along the frontier. King MacMartin has made it clear that the Moorland has no desire for further westward expansion, but excursions into [[the Green]] may be necessary to extinguish the continued raids by the Fuath.

In 1735, [[Operation Straight Arrow]] was launched to break the back of the Fuath and aid the friendly indigenous [[Qeltois]] tribes that live in [[the Green]] west of [[Burwood]]. The operation last much longer than anticipated, extending into 1737, but eventually ended in victory and the establishment of the [[Kells]] trading port on the [[Strait of Haifa]]. The unexpected collapse of [[Normark]] and [[Anahuaco]] caught Moorland by surprise and brought the operation to an abrupt halt. Couple with emergency aid to the [[South Sea Islands]] after the outbreak of [[Southern Scurvy]], Moorland was forced to re-evaluate its ongoing fight against the [[Confederacy of the Dispossessed|Dispossessed]] and temporarily scale back operations to focus on domestic issues. As such, portions of the original claim to [[Kasperia]] were abandoned while Trinity Island was made a protectorate. Coupled with an emerging refugee crisis in [[Huntsland]] due to the [[East Keltian Collapse]] and subsequent [[Recession of 1737]], the monarchy is doubling down on its defensive strategies for the realm and re-tooling the economy. In the three years following the recession (1737-1740), Moorland doubled down on internal investments and carefully limited overseas expenditures unless absolutely necessary to the wellbeing of its citizens. This helped to forestall further damage from the recession and bring inflation back down. While the northwestern trade routes were lost, Mercury was able to stabilize the [[Strait of Haifa]] delta sector and preserve important shipping ports. Smart infrastructure investments, such as expanding Moorland's internal train routes, has helped to keep the economy from crashing and supply a milieu of jobs for the influx of immigrants.

1741 saw the launch of the [[Ford Islands Taskforce]] which was deployed to secure the [[Ford Islands]] along the north coast of [[Keltia]]. Formerly colonized by [[Bosworth]], the local population had reached out to Moorland for protection following [[Bassarid]] expansion into the former territories of [[Normark]]. By the end of the year the islands had been secured and incorporated as an additional overseas territory, with the MAF taking over operations of Normark's two military bases at [[Gråheim]] and [[Nattsbyen]]. Since the local population is predominantly Bosworthian, they share a common heritage with Nova England and the Brittanic people from which Moorlanders also share descent. As a result of this expansion, Moorland has encouraged more commerce along the northern passage and [[Strait of Haifa]], connecting the Fordneys to the [[Kells]] via sea trade and the [[Trans-Keltian Express]].

Beginning in 1743, Moorland launched [[Operation Greenpoint]] to secure the former [[Anahuaco|Anahuacan]] port of Aldama and the Greenpoint (Punta Verde) Peninsula. The objective of the operation is to both secure the shipping lanes for Moorlander vessels exiting [[Taylor Bay]] along with a strategic refueling port at Aldama. In addition the operation aims to alleviate some of the poverty from the [[Anahuacan diaspora]] by taking ownership of the region and allowing refugees into the area. Along the same lines, the government negotiated right-of-access to ports within the [[Imperial Federation]] and [[Sangun]] to allow vessels to make stops for repairs and refueling on the frequent trips between Keltian Moorland and [[Hypernostria]]. These ports include [[Blore Heath]], [[Nixtorm]] and [[Kurouzu]]. These agreements will greatly enhance Moorland's ability to project its fleet over long distances.

The following year, Moorland launched [[The Rail Wars]] after continued attacks by rogue [[Fuath]] on the [[Trans-Keltian Express]] and pleas from the [[Qeltois]] nomadic tribes living in the area. What was expected to be a quick operation against unorganized barbarians turned into a drawn-out campaign that lasted four years and caused significant attrition on both sides. The Fuath tribes were the most heavily decimated, both by starvation and disease. While Moorland emerged victorious from the campaign, establishing the Council of [[Fortria]] over the annexed territory, the drain on the kingdom's resources severely dampened the populace's taste for continued conflict. The deprivations of war experienced by the Fuath also took a toll on their people. The remaining population, reduced to less than a third of its original numbers, was sequestered into holding camps, with the Moorlander government unsure as to how best to treat them. The Fuath had, after all, spent years with a deep-seated hatred towards all other people. It was simply too much of a security risk to release them back to freedom; yet imprisoning a whole population was both unrealistic and inhumane. Thus the government passed the Fuath Repatriation Expedited Entreaty (FREE Act). The act provided funding and governance for the Fuath wherein new settlements would be established under the kingdom's jurisdiction which would seek to integrate the Fuath into civilized society. While opponents have argued that the action is cultural genocide, proponents argue that the Fuath are developing a respectable community within Moorland, breaking years of animosity allowing them to overcome years of barbarism. So far a tenuous peace holds between the government, the Fuath settlements, and the other populations living in Fortria. In the meantime, Moorland has reactivated the TKE, allowing the lifeblood of the railroad to flow through the region again.

The [[Gracious Edict of 1752]] would see aspects of the government, economy, and society reorganised.

==Geography==

Moorland occupies a narrow band of territory running west from the border with [[Mercury]] and a small 12km stretch of oceanfront that comprises the kingdom's only sea access. The climate is temperate and oceanic, and tends to be very changeable. It has mild winters, but cooler, wetter summers. Winters average 6 °C (43 °F), with summer averaging 18 °C (64 °F). In prehistoric times the entire region was covered by ice sheets, and as such has been greatly affected by glaciation. The scars of retreating glaciers resulted in the many hills and lochs now present across the country. As the name would suggest, many moors also exist as a result of bogs left behind in low-lying areas carved out by the glacial retreat.

The country is divided into five regions: [[East Moorland]], stretching from the coast to Newcastle-Upon-Eastmoor. [[West Moorland]], from just west of Newcastle-Upon-Eastmoor to near Borova. And [[Nevermoor]], which extends ambiguously into the western frontier. Following the signing of a treaty with [[Hurmu]], the [[District of Moorland]] was annexed to the kingdom as a fourth region and formally organized as [[Huntsland]]. In 1728 the remnants of Ostland were annexed and incorporated into East Moorland and [[Burwood]], creating a fifth council region. In 1737 the [[Kells]] were added as a sixth council territory; Moorland's smallest. In 1748 the council of [[Fortria]] was added as Moorland's seventh council, connecting the kingdom from the sea to the [[Strait of Haifa]].

In 1737, the Moorland Overseas Territories (MOT) were established comprising [[Beelandia]], [[Kasperia]] and the [[South Sea Islands]]. In 1741 this was extended to include the [[Ford Islands]].

==Economy==

The currency of Moorland is the Redoubt Crown ([[MOS]]: RDC) which is derived from the former currency circulated by [[Nova England]], the National Redoubt Denarii. As a relatively new currency that lacks widespread circulation in the global economy, it is pegged to the [[Mercurian Crown]] for stability.

Moorland's economy is driven by a strong industrial sector that is bolstered by armaments manufacturing and steel refining. The mountainous interior of [[Burwood]] is home to a number of mining communities that produce raw ore that is then smelted into steel, iron, copper and tin. Other metals require importing but can be smelted domestically. Other major industries include agriculture, timber, and fishing. About six-percent of the kingdom's gross GDP is contributed by tourism. Additionally, Moorland has a growing technology sector that is thriving in the larger cities.

The kingdom supports several far-flung colonies, in part because of their relatively small populations, through extensive trade agreements and port treaties with neighboring nations, such as the [[Imperial Federation]]. This allows shipping lanes to remain open and vessels to re-fuel en route on the long journey to [[Hypernostria]].

==Government and politics==

Moorland is a constitutional monarchy with a hereditary royal family who acts as head-of-state and a freely elected Prime Minister who acts as head-of-government. King Alpin MacMartin is the current head-of-state (as of 1718 AN). Moorland has a parliamentary government with the [[Moorland Witan|Witan]] forming the legislative body. All bills passed are given Royal Assent before becoming law. Elected representatives within the Witan are known as 'Members of Witan' (MW), with the head of the Witan being known as the Witan Chief. The position of Witan Chief is the head of the Moorlander government and is typically the leader of the political party or coalition of parties that hold the majority of seats within the Witan. Following an election the candidate for Witan Chief has their appointment confirmed by the monarch.

See also: [[Foreign relations of Moorland]]

===The Social Order of Moorland===

In the Kingdom of Moorland, society is organised into three distinct classes, Working, Middle, and Upper, whose roles, privileges, and daily lives interlock with remarkable stability. The system is widely regarded as harmonious because each class occupies a clearly defined sphere that provides security, purpose, and a sense of belonging in exchange for acceptance of its place in the whole. Social mobility is rare and generally discouraged; most citizens inherit their class and remain within it, viewing the arrangement as natural and just.

====The Working Class====
The largest class lives in vast, orderly residential districts of identical multi-storey apartment blocks arranged around courtyards and communal green spaces. Housing, utilities, basic foodstuffs, clothing, and healthcare are provided by the state at little or no direct cost. Consumer goods are functional and standardised, radios, simple refrigerators, sturdy furniture, bicycles, and public transport passes are common. Private car ownership is almost unknown; reliable trams and buses connect homes to workplaces.

Work is organised in large state enterprises, factories, construction sites, mines, and agricultural collectives, where full employment is guaranteed. Shifts are regular, wages modest but sufficient for allotted needs, and generous holidays (often spent at state-run resorts) are standard. Leisure revolves around community: trade-union clubs, choral societies, sports teams, and neighbourhood festivals. Family life is traditional; extended families often share blocks, and deference to authority, foremen, party officials, elders, is ingrained. Dress is practical and uniform; public behaviour is orderly and respectful. The working class takes pride in being the foundation of society, the providers of its material base, and feels protected by the state's comprehensive safety net.

====The Middle Class====
The middle tier enjoys a markedly higher standard of living while maintaining formal, hierarchical social norms. They live in detached or semi-detached houses with small gardens in leafy suburbs or provincial towns. Household appliances, washing machines, televisions, telephones, are commonplace, and modest family cars are normal. Food is varied and plentiful; weekends often feature Sunday roasts and trips to the countryside. Education is rigorous and classical, emphasising discipline, literature, and civic duty; most middle-class children attend single-sex grammar schools or boarding preparatory schools.

Occupations are professional or administrative: civil servants, engineers, doctors, teachers, bank managers, and small business owners operating under state licences. Workplaces observe strict etiquette, titles are used, seniority respected, and dress codes formal. Social life centres on clubs, churches, voluntary associations, and seasonal rituals: garden parties, charity balls, and hunts. Marriage is typically within class, arranged with parental approval, and domestic life relies on a dwindling but still present supply of live-in or daily domestic help drawn from the working class. The middle class sees itself as the guardian of culture, morality, and orderly administration, mediating between the productive base below and the governing elite above.

====The Upper Class====
The smallest and most privileged class lives in grand country estates, historic townhouses, or luxurious city apartments. Material abundance is taken for granted: multiple cars, extensive wardrobes, foreign travel, private schooling abroad or at elite academies, and households staffed by butlers, cooks, nannies, and gardeners. Technology – personal computers, satellite television, and the latest entertainment systems – arrives first here. Dining is elaborate; seasons are marked by shooting parties, debutante presentations, and attendance at opera or race meetings.

Authority is exercised through high office in government, diplomacy, the military, and corporate boards, often inherited alongside titles and land. Social life is governed by intricate rules of precedence, invitation lists, and courtly manners. Philanthropy and patronage, of arts, universities, and selected charities, are expected duties. The upper class regards itself as the natural leadership, responsible for the nation's destiny and for maintaining civilised standards. Relations with the other classes are paternalistic: they fund scholarships, employ large staffs, and dispense favours.

Membership of the Upper Class is regulated through the Peerage and the Gentry, with only those families at the heads of clans or the great surnames being truly eligible for consideration.

====The Bonds of Kinship and Affinity under Hierarchy====
What holds the system together is a shared conviction that each class receives what is appropriate to its role. The working class gains security and dignity in collective labour; the middle class gains comfort and cultural authority; the upper class gains power and refinement. Cross-class contact follows established channels, domestic service, professional advice, philanthropic events, always within clear boundaries of deference and obligation. Public culture celebrates hierarchy: national ceremonies emphasise loyalty to crown and country, school textbooks portray the system as timeless, and media (state-influenced but varied by class) reinforce pride in one's station.

Dissent is rare and mild, usually expressed as calls for minor reforms within the existing framework. Most citizens feel that the alternative, disruption of the careful balance, would bring chaos and loss for all. Thus [name] endures as a society where material provision, social order, and inherited duty combine to produce a profound, if stratified, sense of harmony.

== Demographics (Revised 1738–1752) ==
Following the census of 1738, Moorland experienced a period of sustained demographic expansion. This era was characterised by social stability, modest economic growth, and limited access to birth control, resulting in a consistent natural increase supplemented by strategic territorial integrations.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Revised Population Estimates (1738–1752)
! Year
! Total Population
! Growth Rate
! Net Change
! Notes
|-
| '''1738''' || '''15,325,000''' || — || — || '''Census Baseline'''
|-
| 1739 || 15,570,000 || +1.60% || +245,000 || High immigration from Huntsland/East Keltia.
|-
| 1740 || 15,820,000 || +1.60% || +250,000 || Continued immigration influx; post-recession stabilization.
|-
| 1741 || 16,150,000 || +1.30%* || +330,000 || ''*Includes ~120,000 from Ford Islands annexation.''
|-
| 1742 || 16,360,000 || +1.30% || +210,000 || Natural growth; economic integration of northern territories.
|-
| 1743 || 16,825,000 || +1.30%* || +465,000 || ''*Includes ~250,000 from Greenpoint/Aldama & refugee intake.''
|-
| 1744 || 17,045,000 || +1.30% || +220,000 || Start of Rail Wars; core demographics remain stable.
|-
| 1745 || 17,265,000 || +1.30% || +220,000 ||
|-
| 1746 || 17,490,000 || +1.30% || +225,000 ||
|-
| 1747 || 17,720,000 || +1.30% || +230,000 ||
|-
| 1748 || 18,010,000 || +1.30%* || +290,000 || ''*Includes ~60,000 from Fortria annexation/settlement.''
|-
| 1749 || 18,245,000 || +1.30% || +235,000 || Post-war stabilization; TKE reactivation boosts local economies.
|-
| 1750 || 18,485,000 || +1.30% || +240,000 || '''Mid-Century Milestone.'''
|-
| 1751 || 18,725,000 || +1.30% || +240,000 ||
|-
| 1752 || '''18,970,000''' || +1.30% || +245,000 ||
|}

=== Ethnic Demographics (c. 1752) ===

* '''Moorlandic:''' 9,450,000
* '''Nova English:''' 2,750,000
* '''Anahuacan:''' 2,100,000 (Significant increase due to 1743 Greenpoint integration)
* '''[[Norse diaspora|Norse]]:''' 1,750,000
* '''Brettish:''' 1,320,000
* '''Mercurian:''' 1,150,000
* '''Other ([[Hurmudan]], Bosworthian, etc.):''' ~450,000

==Culture==

Moorlandic language and culture is the result of successive generations of [[Nova England|Nova English]] culture fusing with an influx of neighboring cultures from either surrounding countries, such as [[Mercury]] and [[New Brittania]], and those of integrated cultures, such as [[Normark|Norse]], [[Hurmudan]] and to a lesser extent the [[Calbion|Calbain]]. While Nova English and New Brittanic were used by the upper castes of society, the interbreeding of neighboring language groups resulted in a rural and more vulgar language developing in the form of the [[wikipedia:Scots language|East Moorland Dialect]]. This dialect surpassed Nova English in common usage when Nova England collapsed and most of the elite fled the country.

A staunchly independent people noted for making their homes amongst the harsh highland terrain of northeastern [[Keltia]], they have developed a strong clan-based hierarchy that centers around interlinked families known as the [[Clans of Moorland]].

''See also: [[Public holidays in Moorland]]''

===Religion===

Like Nova England before it, most Moorlanders are adherents of the [[Church of the Holy Lance]]. Sizable populations do still adhere to other faiths. The second-largest faith group belongs to the [[Castrum Nazarene|Church of St. George]]. The third-largest faith group exists mostly within rural and isolate pockets, and those are adherents to the old pagan faiths.

===Sports===

Moorlanders engage in a wide variety of sports, including rugby and golf. But one of the most popular events is the annual [[Moorland Games]], wherein a number of traditional athletic events are held, such as the caber toss. These games highlight Moorlandic culture and are very popular gatherings, attracting thousands of spectators.

===Cuisine===

Moorlandic cuisine revolves around plates utilizing local game, reflecting the harsh climate and scarcity of food available. Venison stew remains an ever-popular dish; although venison is also prepared in many other ways, such as jerky. Other dishes include sheepshead, haggis, pheasant, potatoes and turnips - all reflecting the need to utilize every scrap of food during the harsh winter months. Most dishes are accompanied by the acclaimed [[Moorlander Ale]], a rich, dark brown stout.

==Defence==

With the collapse of the Nova English National Redoubt and Faedertellus, the people of Moorland found themselves defenseless against [[the Green|hostiles]]. Thankfully many reservists from the [[People's Militia]] were still residing in the area and helped organize a new, local defence force. Like during the events of the Great Disaster and Evacuation, the People's Militia became a lifeline for protecting local communities. As power became centralised under King MacMartin, the various militias gradually coalesced into the present [[Moorland Armed Forces]]. The MAF is, in turn, directed by the Ministry of Defence.

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Coastalis

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|commonname = Coastalis
|flag = File: Coastalis flag.png
|coa= File: Coastalis coa.png
|motto = ''"Prudence, Force, Équité"''
|anthem = ''I Vow to Thee, my Country''
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|capital = Lighthouse
|largecity = Lighthouse
|lang = Brittanic English
|demnoun = Coastal
|demadj = Coastal
|govtype = Constitutional Monarchy
|headofstatetitle = Grand Admiral
|headofstate = Alexis
|headofgovernmenttitle = Quartermaster
|headofgovernment = Morgan Read
|legislature = Captaincy-General
|estdate = February 5, 2018
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|currency = Coastal Pound
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|food = Mincemeat
|drink = Rum
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'''Coastalis''', also known as the ''Confederacy of the Coast'', is a small equatorial country located in the [[Skerry Isles]]. It occupies the largest islands of the archipelgao, including Skerryvore, Duras, and Taras. The confederacy is a collection of semi-autonomous city-states known as captaincies, centered at the ancient pirate haven known as the [[Lighthouse City State|Lighthouse]].

== Etymology ==

== History ==

== Geography ==

== Government ==

== Culture ==

== Economy ==

== Military ==

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Ioanna

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{{Infobox Nation Comprehensive
|fullname = Lordship of Ioanna
|commonname = Ioanna
|flag = File:Flag of ioanna.png
|coa = File:Ioanna coa.png
|motto = Go forward bravely
|anthem = The Maiden of Ioanna
|map = File:Ioanna mcs map.png
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|capital = [[Yew]]
|largecity = Yew, Baudricourt
|lang = English, Old English, Gaelic
|religion = [[Church of the Holy Lance]]
|demnoun = Ioannan
|demadj = Ioannan
|govtype = Feudal Lordship
|headofstatetitle = Lord
|headofstate = Sir [[John Morgan]]
|headofgovernmenttitle = High Knight
|headofgovernment = [[Tristan Valient]]
|legislature = [[Council of Knights]]
|estdate = {{AN|1750}}
|area = 9,624 sq km
|pop = 32,684 ({{AN|1750}})
|activepop = 1
|currency = [[Rosen]] (R)
|calendar = [[AN]]
|timezone = CMT+9
|electricity = 220V
|drives_on = Left
|gauge = Standard
|site =
|forum =
|animal = [[Ioannan Ox]]
|food = [[Monastery Bread]]
|drink = [[Highland Ale]]
|tree = [[Arctic Willow]]
|abbrev = IOA
}}

The '''Lordship of Ioanna''', or simply '''Ioanna''' (eye-OH-nah), is a tiny Arctic state located north of [[Mercury]], along the shores of [[Keltia]]. It was established by a group of [[Bosworth|Bosworthian]] knights as a chivalric outpost in the northern wilderness.

==History==

===Early History===

The earliest inhabitants of Ioanna were [[Syrah]], who were responsible for the initial migration of [[Britannics|Britannic]] people onto the mainland around 1400 [[AN]]. Originally knights from the early Brettish kingdoms such as [[Willow]] and Rommenashire, they had been hired as mercenaries by [[Attera]] to help with the conquest of the north. During this time, Attera controlled a vast empire over most of Keltia, extending from [[Los Bananos]], all the way to the [[Skerry Isles]]. Attera held a fragile grip over the land and needed aid along its eastern frontiers. Thus Ras Diga made a pact with the Britannics to supply them with gold and weapons in exchange for their aid in conquering Keltia. Like Attera, these roving mercenaries established vast kingdoms over stretches of virtually empty land, meeting only small bands of nomadic tribes such as the [[Reindeer Herders]], who quickly exited the region to avoid conflict, leaving the Britannics unchallenged. But settlement was minimal due to the harsh climate, and like Attera, the mercenary kingdoms struggled to control their overextended reach. Around 1500, the small villages were pushed aside during the [[Sino-Keltian]] conquests that would befall the land, and the Britannic population was either displaced or relegated to being vassals. For about two decades, the land lay in a disorganized state, with many small villages fending for themselves with complete autonomy. The Sino-Keltian age was transient, and soon their population migrated west into [[Jingdao]], leaving little trace of their time etched into the land. This only changed when the Britannics once again ventured forth from their islands and began to re-settle Keltia. First were [[New Britannia]] and [[Nova England]], who by 1520 had established their own kingdoms along the eastern shores of Keltia. But it wasn't until King Edward unified [[Bosworth]] at Shrewsbury around 1530 that a centralized government began to appear in the region again.

===The Chronicle of Saint Joan===

In 1531, King Edward I of [[Bosworth]] began expanding his kingdom west of the [[Strait of Haifa]]. At the time, the northwest corner of [[Keltia]] was ruled by petty warlords of Britannic descent; Vimy, Finistere and Fleur being the three primary states. By 1533 the royal line had consolidated power over Vimy and rivalries ran strong with King Charles of Finistere. This eventually boiled over into open conflict and the two sides clashed in battle that would be chronicled later in the [[Chronicle of Finistere]]. With Charles' defeat, Finistere passed to Edward and the throne of Bosworth. Fleur, as one of the last strongholds, found it better to capitulate rather than face annihilation at Edward's hands. By 1535 all of the northeast was under the banner of Bosworth save for Ioanna. Those who had refused to bow to Edward fled to the island and fortified themselves there.

In 1536, King Edward charged a young female knight - a rarity in itself – with marching on the island. At this time, the island was unnamed, and was referred to by the name of the strongest of the enemy strongholds; the castle of Yew. The knight's name was Lady [[Joan Darcy]]. She had been raised a peasant girl, but had risen through the ranks after the battle of Frejus to be named a knight of Bosworth. Edward had already deployed much of his forces over Finistere and even further afield in Fleur, thus he needed a new army to take Yew. He looked to the young Joan, aged a mere 23, who had shown herself to be a tactical leader in the field and had the support of the masses behind her, to command this army. Thus in February of 1536 he proclaimed her a general and granted her a force of some fifteen-thousand soldiers to take the island.

Joan gathered her forces in Auxerre, obtaining food, weapons and other supplies, before heading north to the port at Frejus. Here the King's ships were awaiting their arrival to ferry them across to the island. It took a month to traverse the landscape, held back by a late spring, mud and slow artillery that kept sinking in the muck. By the time they were preparing to ship out, the weather of March had not improved much, with snow still on the ground and ice clogging the sea between the mainland and Yew. Harsh conditions alone accounted for over one-thousand deaths even before they set sail, thereby taking a toll on the strength and morale of Joan's army.

Morale among troops was already low. Although Edward had hoped the appointment of someone who had risen from peasantry to prominence would inspire people, the mostly-male composition of the army found taking commands from a woman doubtful at best, downright hostile at worst. The loss of men to weather and then the woes encountered during crossing to Yew made things even worse for the young general. Dangerous ice floes, spring storms, and choppy waters made the passage extremely difficult. By the time they landed in the village of Baudricourt on the southern shore, the fleet had lost three of nine ships, further reducing Joan's forces down to nine-thousand soldiers. Fully a quarter of her forces had been lost even before joining battle with the enemy.

Thus it was a sad situation when the soaked and freezing army from Bosworth made landfall. But Joan rallied her forces and bade them take the small village as a base camp. As a collection of crofts and hovels, Baudricourt offered little opposition to the attackers. Enemy forces had retreated inland to the castle of Yew and other strongholds. Therefore Joan was able to secure some makeshift housing for her troops, some food from the locals, and a slight but nonetheless important boost to morale.

By April, warmer weather was moving in, but with it also came more dangerous mud season. A horse could easily break a leg sinking in the soft peat. Just as easily an artillery piece could become mired in place, stretching a short journey into a sometimes multiple-days trek, costing troops valuable time. This forced Joan's troops to stick strictly to the roads. While the packed soils provided quicker movement, it also limited their maneuverability. Time was not on Joan's side, so she did not dawdle in Baudricourt but opted to move north towards Yew with all haste.

Enemy forces had amassed around the castle of Yew. They were long expecting an assault from the mainland, knowing that Edward would not countenance rebellion. The castle itself was located centrally on the island, in the upper hills. This gave it the advantage of the high ground, and since they were aware the attack was coming, deprived Joan of the element of surprise. Yew lay at the boundary between the arable lands of the south and the rocky ice of the north, with its back essentially against a wall. And like an animal, the enemy was cornered with no option for retreat to another safe haven.

To reach Yew, Joan had to cross the southern half of the island. While she had been able to stave off further casualties since arriving at Baudricourt, the army was now faced with crossing inhospitable lands and a narrow corridor path to the castle. She set off near the end of April, facing ground that was thawing and soggy with spring snow melt. The journey was slow going. Horses struggled in the mud and the roads were little more than dirt paths through the marshes. To make matters worse, Lord Pierre, the enemy commander, was constantly harrying Joan's forces with small attacks. His hope was to decrease morale, delay progress, and pick away at the army before it reached Yew. Even with these constant setbacks, Joan pushed ever forward. Finally she reached a small abbey that sat near the island's narrow neck. Here she paused her army to take much needed rest.

The [[Abbey Chinon|Abbey of Chinon]] was a small stone church that served the people of the island. Besides the rector, only a few poor farms sat nearby. The nearest settlement was Diseart, several miles to the east. The only thing the rector could offer was some loves of bread and the shelter of a few musty stables; hardly adequate for a force that had dwindled to less than ten-thousand soldiers. Some of the men were facing scurvy from the lack of adequate diet, others had the consumption and were mere skeletons. Dismayed, Joan entered the abbey alone one evening and beseeched the lord for guidance.

She emerged the next morning from the church a changed woman. Joan quickly mounted her horse and called her commanders to her. Claiming she had received a vision of victory from God, she rallied the flagging morale of the soldiers and charged them with renewed energy. That very morning they left the abbey and headed north to march on the gates of Yew.

Lord Pierre had entrenched his forces at the castle, flanking the parapets with archers intended to rain death down upon the approaching Bosworthians. Joan knew what to expect, claiming that in her vision she had seen her forces caught in a violent storm outside the castle, with lightning that looked like arrows. So she brought her shield corps to the forefront, followed by her own archers. The move was a wise decision, as the enemy chose to hide behind the castle walls in a defensive position. Once these forward forces engaged each other, the slow-moving artillery was brought up from the rear and began to lob volleys at the front gates. Pierre had not anticipated this, and his few trebuchets from behind the walls had difficulty in reaching the artillery, failing to stop them before the front gates were shattered by the barrage.

Archers fell from the walls like flakes of ash drifting down from the sky. Joan took charge of her knights and ordered a cavalry charge directly through the smashed gates. Leading the knights herself, she was the first through the splintered wood and engaging the enemy soldiers in hand-to-hand combat. The rest of her knights followed, and she signaled the infantry to advance behind her. Soon the knights were forced to dismount and join close combat with the enemy soldiers. The flagstones ran red with blood, but inch-by-inch Joan's forces gained ground.

Pierre and a few of his loyal knights retreated to the rear of the castle, while the bulk of the rebel forces remained fighting in the courtyard. After a few hours of fighting it was clear that Joan's forces were winning the battle, causing Pierre to panic. Gathering a small force they made a desperate charge that caught the Bosworthians by surprise. Instead of attacking however, Pierre and his men rode straight through the conflagration and rushed out through the gates. To the shock of his remaining forces, Pierre had fled like a coward. But being too preoccupied with the present battle, Joan could not disengage to pursue him just yet.

With the cowardly retreat of their commander, the enemy forces who remained lost their momentum to continue fighting very quickly. Within a couple more hours, the last of the enemy had surrendered and Joan had successfully taken the castle of Yew. It took several more hours, however, for her to mop up the mess, make sure the enemy soldiers were secure in irons, and attend to her own wounded forces. Despite the victory, nearly three-thousand lay dead on the ground, with many others sustaining injuries ranging from superficial wounds to severed limbs. It was a ghastly sight, and a sobering moment for both sides to see the conflict ended.

But the loss of time was an advantage for Lord Pierre. Unwilling to accept defeat, he had fled north into the snow and ice. Scouts reported he was headed for Dunain, a granite outpost set in an area of jagged rocks that were too windswept to remain frozen in the ice. Joan, determined to see the enemy vanquished once and for all, set her second-in-command in charge of the castle while she gathered some of the remaining uninjured knights to her side. With extra furs and provisions, they quickly set off in pursuit of Pierre.

Joan's small force rode out of Yew and quickly crossed onto the ice sheet. It was even more treacherous than the mud fields that they had crossed in the south. Collapsing shelves of ice, drifting snow, and hidden crevasses all presented their own challenges. But she refused to yield to the elements and pressed ever onward to the north. Dunain lay a days journey from Yew, and she was unsure if Pierre would remain there or seek to circle back and escape via one of the small fishing ports in the south. Thus she pressed her knights to travel as quickly as possible across the ice.

Dunain itself had been built years prior as an outpost. It was a roughshod keep of hand-hewn stones built into the wall of a granite outcropping. It had no permanent population or groundskeeper; it was simply there as shelter for the poor souls that may have to cross the frozen north. Pierre knew this and had only the provisions he carried to feed himself and his men while they camped in the cold. What he did not count on was Joan following him onto the ice. Pierre had assumed, wrongly, that she would be preoccupied with securing Yew and leave him for dead in the inhospitable north. In this he was soon to be proven wrong.

Unfortunately for Joan, Pierre may have been unsuspecting of her following him, but he wasn't completely at ease. He had been wise enough to post a lookout on the top of the keep who spotted the Bosworthian knights moving across the ice. His forces were too weak to face another confrontation, so he opted again to flee. Hoping to lose Joan in the blustering snow and ice, he made a dead man's gamble and decided to head even further north. Joan was close enough to Dunain at this point to see him exiting the keep, and so spurred her men move faster in pursuit.

For the next three days, through sometimes blinding snow, Joan kept at the heels of Lord Pierre. But with death at his heels, he refused to surrender and pushed north. Some of his men dropped from hunger or exhaustion, sometimes both. A few of Joan's entourage did the same, and she wisely sent them back to Dunain to rest and to await her return. As they reached the far northern tip of the island, Pierre and his four remaining men holed up the last known shelter on the island, a minuscule keep known as Montford. They barely had time to bolt the doors before Joan and her knights were there battering at them.

The rickety old wood of the fort, probably original to the keep from the days of Syrah, did not last against the onslaught for very long. Within minutes the doors shattered and Joan was slashing at Pierre with her sword. While her knights engaged the other four enemy soldiers, Joan herself fought Pierre across the keep at Montford. The two fought intensely, with Pierre retreating up the steps of the tower as Joan pushed forward. As they fought on the stairs, Pierre caught her in the shoulder, causing a deep wound and forcing her to switch sword arms. Nonetheless she persisted. Pierre retreated further, eventually ascending to the top of the tower.

Here Joan closed in on Pierre, and the fight became more intense. Pierre landed another blow with a sharp stab to Joan's side. But she took this in grace as well and pressed on. With his back pressed against the stone rail of the tower's top, Pierre was like a rabid animal, cutting and slashing with abandon. But Joan did not let her own sword falter, and kept pushing him back. Eventually she landed a blow of her own with a sharp stab just below the heart. Pierre dropped his sword, gripping his chest. As he did so, he slipped on a patch of the icy stone, sending him tumbling backwards. Hitting the stone railing with such force he toppled back over the top of it, falling to his demise on the rocks below. Gripping her own wounds and leaning on her sword, she descended the stairs to find the rest of Pierre's men dead and her forces victorious.

But Joan was grievously wounded, and it was a hard three-day journey just to get back to Dunain. Unable to ride, her knights bound her wounds as best they could and wrapped her in furs. Placing her on the back of one of the horses, they began the trek back south. Sadly, Joan's condition continued to deteriorate. While the blood had been staunched, the cuts were deep, and it was likely she had internal bleeding that went unseen. By the time they arrived in Dunain, she was deep in the throes of fever. Gathering the waiting and wounded knights, they made off at a quick pace for Yew.

By the time they arrived at the castle, Joan had slipped into semi-delirious state, still gripped by pain and fever. Four days had passed since her fight with Pierre, and it was the first time she had been able to be seen by a physician. In dismay he announced that too much time had passed, and the only thing they could do was to try and alleviate her pain. Her last words were to order an envoy back to Shrewsbury to let King Edward know of their victory. Soon after she slipped into a coma from which she would never wake.

By the time news reached Edward, Joan had passed away. Having heard the tales of her heroics, the King himself decided he should travel to Yew personally. He arrived at the castle to find Joan being held in state on a bier of willow and Alpine flowers. Seeing the wounded state of the knights, their sheer loyalty to their King, and thew harsh conditions under which they fought, the King knelt at Joan's side and proclaimed her a Saint. Henceforth, he said, Yew would be known as the Isle of Saint Joan. That day, the King attended the funeral pyre of Saint Joan, before installing one of her loyal lieutenants as Lord of the Isle. In reward for their service, the King granted lands to Joan's knights, and they soon established their own order on the island. Thereafter, Edward returned to Shrewsbury as uncontested King of all the northlands.

===Bosworth and Beyond===

Bosworth's rule over the island would only last a mere decade, but in that time the knights who settled there would become a permanent part of the land and its people. King Edward appointed Aidan Lorne as Grand Master of the Order of Saint Joan, which had been given charge of the island. Around this time the long form, Isle of St Joan, became shortened to the Latin version of Ioanna. Soon after the old name quickly fell out of use. Lorne rebuilt the castle of Yew as a stronghold for the knights, and also restored the Abbey of Chinon. At Montford, a small shrine was built to honor Joan's final battle. Being such a barren land, the population on Ioanna did not thrive, but remained relatively stable. The Grand Master did his best to improve conditions, but was often called away to fight in Edward's war along the Strait of Haifa.

When Edward died and was replaced by King Wentworth, Lorne continued to fight until he was killed in the field of battle around 1547. Without clear leadership Bosworth was forced to retreat from the eastern lands, focusing its remaining power on retaining control of [[Haifa]] and [[Gascony]]. Wentworth appointed Gabriel Morgan as the new Grand Master, who immediately set out to the island. But just two years later, in 1549, Wentworth was killed in battle during the Gascon War, along with much of the Bosworthian nobility. Soon after Bosworth collapsed completely and faded into history. The Order of St Joan was on its own. For the next fifteen years, the Order would function in a nominal fashion, mostly as a hospital service, striving to keep the people of Ioanna healthy. It was mostly an introspective period, which helped to build Ioanna's fierce independence and self-sustainability.

As 1565 rolled around, it brought a new visitor to Ioanna: [[Ashkenatza]]. The Ashkenatzis came as part of an Arctic expedition, mostly scientific, but also part of their large intelligence network. They paid little heed to the inhabitants and took the old fort at Montford as their outpost. Intrigued by the large number of oxen grazing the machair, they renamed the castle to Ayzstantsye Gnu, or Ice Station Wildebeest, as they called oxen wildebeest in their tongue. They would occupy the castle for forty years, trading with the locals and conducting research. The trade was welcome with the otherwise isolated Order, as it helped keep the locals abreast of modern innovations, even if the primary industries remained farming and fishing. But by 1605, internal strife in Ashkenatza caused them too to collapse, leaving the island on its own again for another for another seventy-six years until the arrival of [[Free Elwynn|Elwynn]] in 1681.

Elwynn would make some investment in the island, but due to the distance from [[Vanaheim]] they had little long-lasting influence on Ioanna. By 1704 Elwynn had been replaced by [[Normark]], whose nationalist state repressed the Order in favor of [[Humanist]] factions that were vying for control. During this time the Order moved underground, essentially hiding their garments and opting to live as simple farmers on the island. But the ruse worked to keep Ioanna from being targeted. Gnu was repurposed as a [[Nordhaer]] base, but due to its isolation had little interaction with the Ioannans living in the south. So preoccupied was Normark with its own constant conflicts, that Ioanna was left mostly unscathed until Normark's [[East Keltian Collapse|collapse]] in 1737.

===Modern History===

Following the [[East Keltian Collapse]], the Nordhaer evacuated Gnu/Montford and over half of the [[Norse]] on the island fled back to the mainland in the [[Norse diaspora]]. John Morgan, a descendant of Gabriel Morgan, was named the new Grand Master of the Order. He quickly set about repairing damage to the island from the Norse occupation and restructuring the Order into a modern feudal government. In 1740 he was named Lord of Ioanna, with the Sovereign Military Order of Ioanna segueing into the exclusive role of defense. At some of the first sessions of the Council of Knights, Lord Morgan divided the island into six fiefs, granting an estate to each of the six members of the council who would then manage the estates therein. Early efforts were to secure the island from any further external threats, establish a stable government, and gain international recognition.

The rushed abandonment of Gnu resulted in the Nordhaer leaving behind a considerable cache of weaponry, which Morgan seized for the Order. While Montford was kept with a skeleton crew as a research base, all the defense materials were moved south to Yew for safekeeping and the protection of the population, which is clustered in the southern third of the island. Trade was established with [[Moorland]], especially after their expansion into the neighboring [[Ford Islands]], and with [[Mercury]], which controls much of former Bosworth. Morgan's primary focus for the past decade has been in rebuilding the island's infrastructure, improving living conditions, and working to modernize the Order's military as a force capable of defending Ioanna properly while actively pursuing friendly relations with nearby countries. In 1755, Ioanna formally joined the [[Xaiville Convention]], emphasizing its commitment to global peace. Continuing to pursue a robust foreign policy, Ioanna began dispatching diplomatic missions abroad and signed the General Membership treaty of the [[Micras Treaty Organization]] in 1757, aiming to sign on to the other MTO conventions within the next year or so. In 1758 Ioanna became the first country to sign all seven of the MTO's ancillary treaties, upholding its commitment to international peace and cooperation.

==Geography==

Ioanna is located along the far northeastern shores of [[Keltia]]. Two-thirds of the island are locked in permanent ice. The southern portion in the ice-free zone is mostly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machair machair], a fertile low-lying dune pastureland. The shore is deeply indented by arms of the sea. The coast is mostly sandy beaches backed by dunes and machair on west coast, giving way to an expansive peat-covered plateau in the center of the island. The eastern coastline is markedly more rugged and is mostly rocky cliffs broken by small coves and beaches. The highest point of the island only reaches around 2,000 feet above sea level (609.6m). The landscape is punctuated by a large number of freshwater lochs.

==Economy==

The economy of Ioanna is heavily reliant on tourism. Traditional industries are crofting, fishing and weaving. Peat is still cut as a fuel in many areas. Some industrial manufacturing exists in the southern area of the island, but most manufactured goods need to be imported from nearby countries such as [[Moorland]] and [[Mercury]]. Ioanna continues to use the former currency of Bosworth, the Rosen (R), and maintains a small mint that produces its own coinage. Nonetheless, due to the frailty of the small independent Ioannan market, the [[Rosen]] is currently pegged to Moorland's Redoubt Crown (RDC), which is considered regionally stable.

==Infrastructure==

Ioanna prides itself on being as self-sustaining as possible, and acquires all its power supply domestically. As of 1755, 90% of the power supply is renewable energy, with only one coal plant still remaining in operation. This last coal plant is slated to be decommissioned within the next five years as the construction of a new Small Modular reactor (SMR) is completed. The main source of energy for the island is supplied through a combination of large wind and solar farms, and an innovative tidal energy project in Diseart Bay.

Waste management is handled at the Ban Landfill and Incinerator Plant (BLIP). Given the small size of the island, most residents bring their trash to the landfill and there is no municipal pick up of waste. The incinerator is a waste-to-energy plant and provides some power for the island. Recyclable goods are separated at the landfill by waste operators and shipped back to mainland [[Keltia]] for processing. Waste that can be neither recycled or incinerated is sent to the landfill. Hazardous waste, such as radioactive material, is shipped overseas at considerable cost; thus this is kept to a minimum and strictly regulated.

Transportation around the island is accessible by paved roads. A paved circuit road serves most of the island and also provides an emergency route for EMS crews, evacuations and other such events. Several paved crossroads exist connecting the circuit road to other communities and to provide shorter routes in-between these locations. The island has no rail service yet. Baudricourt serves as the main travel port, serving as the main port for ferries traveling to and from the mainland, and also as the main hub for imports/exports. The city also has Ioanna's [[Baudricourt International Airport|only international airport]]. A smaller domestic airport is located in [[Yew]].

See also: [[Economy of Ioanna]]

==Government and politics==

Ioanna is governed as a feudal monarchy with elements derived from its early days as a chivalric order. The Lord essentially owns all of Ioanna, granting fiefs to vassals who then manage their estates or manors. Before the lord can grant land (a fief) to someone, he has to make that person a vassal. This is done at a commendation ceremony comprising an act of homage and an oath of fealty. During homage, the lord and vassal enter into a contract in which the vassal promised to fight for the lord at his command, whilst the lord agrees to protect the vassal from external forces. The vassal's principal obligation to the lord is to provide aid or military service. Using whatever equipment the vassal can obtain by virtue of the revenues from the fief, the vassal has to answer calls to military service by the lord. Exceptionally large estates are usually referred to as manors, who are granted the title ''Knight of the Court''. A Knight's manor often included a large, sometimes fortified manor house or castle in which the lord of the manor and his dependents lived and administered a rural estate, and a population of laborers or serfs who worked the surrounding land to support themselves and the lord. At times the Lord of Ioanna will call a council of these Knights to session for executive matters and consult, referred to as the [[Council of Knights]]. These sessions are moderated by a High Knight, chosen as a neutral arbiter by popular vote among the Council to serve in that role. Currently, Ioanna is divided into six fiefs. The Council of Knights therefore has six seats, with the Lord serving as a tie-breaker in the absence of quorum.

[[File:Ioanna big map fiefs.png|thumb|left|Fiefs of Ioanna]]

Council of Knights - as of 1750 AN
{| class="wikitable"
! Title !! Name !! Fief
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| Lord of Ioanna || Sir [[John Morgan]] || [[Yew]]
|-
| High Knight || Sir [[Tristan Valient]] || Staonaig
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir Nigel MacPherson || Ceann Tsear
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Lady Elizabeth Jordain || Liana
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir Frances Neville || Ghairdean
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir Joris Collins || Diseart
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Lady Saoirse Xander || Machar
|}

=== Ethnic Demographics (c. 1750) ===

* '''Bosworthian:''' 11,202
* '''Nova English:''' 8,911
* '''Moorlander:''' 5,179
* '''Brettish:''' 2,297
* '''Norse:''' 2,093
* '''Mercurian:''' 1,534
* '''Other:''' ~1,468

See also: [[Foreign relations of Ioanna]]

==Culture==

Ioannan culture strongly reflects its roots in the [[Britannics|Britannic]] people. Like many locations in the northeast corner of [[Keltia]], Ioanna's population is descended mostly from people originally from [[Bosworth]], [[Nova England]]/[[Moorland]], and the [[Brettish Isles]]. The locals consider themselves to be the closest descendants of Bosworth, and proudly carry on traditions from that country to this day. Saint Joan is the patron saint of the island, and the locals remain a deeply religious people, with nearly 70% of families attending church regularly. The [[Abbey Chinon|Abbey of Chinon]] remains an active church to this day, and many festivities and folklore are centered around Joan and her exploits. Ionnan literature is also well-regarded, such as the poem of [[Fáelchú Bán]].

Other traditions include raising oxen; a major staple on the island and one which locals are very proud of. A local version of haggis is made from ox, and considered a delicacy that has since been named the national dish.

==Defence==

The military of Ioanna is a continuation of the original chivalric order that followed Saint Joan to the island from Bosworth. Called the [[Sovereign Military Order of Ioanna]], they are a modern continuation of the original mounted knights. While rank and title continue to reflect the original hierarchy of the order, traditional armored knights on horseback are today only a ceremonial contingent of the modern army. The SMOI stands as possibly the smallest standing military on Micras, with a total active personnel of 250.

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The Council of Knights is the legislative chamber of the Lordship of [[Ioanna]]. Ioanna is governed as a feudal monarchy with elements derived from its early days as a chivalric order. The Lord essentially owns all of Ioanna, granting fiefs to vassals who then manage their estates or manors. Before the lord can grant land (a fief) to someone, he has to make that person a vassal. This is done at a commendation ceremony comprising an act of homage and an oath of fealty. During homage, the lord and vassal enter into a contract in which the vassal promised to fight for the lord at his command, whilst the lord agrees to protect the vassal from external forces. The vassal's principal obligation to the lord is to provide aid or military service. Using whatever equipment the vassal can obtain by virtue of the revenues from the fief, the vassal has to answer calls to military service by the lord. Exceptionally large estates are usually referred to as manors, who are granted the title Knight of the Court. A Knight's manor often included a large, sometimes fortified manor house or castle in which the lord of the manor and his dependents lived and administered a rural estate, and a population of laborers or serfs who worked the surrounding land to support themselves and the lord. At times the Lord of Ioanna will call a council of these Knights to session for executive matters and consult, referred to as the Council of Knights. These sessions are moderated by a High Knight, chosen as a neutral arbiter by popular vote among the Council to serve in that role. Currently, Ioanna is divided into six fiefs. The Council of Knights therefore has six seats, with the Lord serving as a tie-breaker in the absence of quorum.

Council of Knights - as of 1750 AN
{| class="wikitable"
! Title !! Name !! Fief
|-
| Lord of Ioanna || Sir [[John Morgan]] || [[Yew]]
|-
| High Knight || Sir [[Tristan Valient]] || Staonaig
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir [[Nigel MacPherson]] || Ceann Tsear
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Lady [[Elizabeth Jordain]] || Liana
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir [[Frances Neville]] || Ghairdean
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir [[Joris Collins]] || Diseart
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Lady [[Saoirse Xander]] || Machar
|}

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Foreign relations of Ioanna

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The Lordship of [[Ioanna]] maintains relations with various nations across [[Micras]].

In the table below, relations are summarized.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Country !! Relations !! Comment
|-
| {{Team flag|Aerla}} || Formal || [[Treaty between Ioanna and Aerla]] signed 1758
|-
| {{Team flag|Anglien}} || Informal || Ambassador dispatched 1758
|-
| {{Team flag|Bassaridia Vaeringheim}} || Informal || Ambassador dispatched 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Batavia}} || Informal || Covered under 1757 treaty with [[Shireroth]]
|-
| {{Team flag|Benacian Union}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Çakaristan}} || Formal || [[Treaty between Çakaristan and Ioanna]] signed 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Calbion}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Constancia}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Craitland}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Drak-Modan}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Floria}} || None||
|-
| {{Team flag|The Hexarchy}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Order of the Holy Lakes|flag}} [[Hurmu]] ([[Order of the Holy Lakes]]) || [[Ioanna–Order of the Holy Lakes relations|Formal]] || [[Treaty between Ioanna and Hurmu]] signed 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Kalgachia}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Lanzerwald}} || Formal || [[Treaty between Ioanna and the Lanzerwald]] signed 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Meckelnburgh}} || Informal || [[Treaty between Ioanna and Meckelnburgh]] signed 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Mercury}} || Informal || Ambassador dispatched 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Mondosphere}} || Informal || Ambassador dispatched 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Moorland}} || Formal || [[Treaty between Ioanna and Moorland]] signed 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Natopia}} || Informal || [[Treaty between Ioanna and Natopia]] signed 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|New Batavia}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie}} || Formal || [[Treaty between Ioanna and Nouvelle Alexandrie]] signed 1758
|-
| {{Team flag|Phinbella}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Ralgon}} || Informal || Ambassador dispatched 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Sanama}} || Informal || Ambassador dispatched 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Sanpantul}} || Informal || Ambassador dispatched 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Senya}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Shireroth}} || Formal || [[Treaty between Ioanna and Shireroth]] signed 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Tellia}} || Informal || Covered under relations with [[Sanama]]
|-
| {{Team flag|Vegno}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Zeed}} || None ||
|}

In addition to the above relations, Ioanna maintains membership in international organizations as follows:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Organization !! Status !! Comment
|-
| [[Xaiville Convention]] || Member || Joined 1755 AN
|-
| [[Micras Treaty Organization]] || Member || Joined 1757 AN
|}

In addition to membership in the MTO, Ioanna has signed all seven [https://micras.org/mwiki/Micras_Treaty_Organization#Ancillary_Treaties| ancillary treaties] along with the [[Convention on the Laws of the Seas]].

It is also signatory to the [[Micras Trade Organisation]] and [[Micras Organisation for Standardisation]].

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[[Category:Diplomacy]]

Foreign relations of Ioanna

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The Lordship of [[Ioanna]] maintains relations with various nations across [[Micras]].

In the table below, relations are summarized.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Country !! Relations !! Comment
|-
| {{Team flag|Aerla}} || Formal || [[Treaty between Ioanna and Aerla]] signed 1758
|-
| {{Team flag|Anglien}} || Informal || Ambassador dispatched 1758
|-
| {{Team flag|Bassaridia Vaeringheim}} || Informal || Ambassador dispatched 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Batavia}} || Informal || Covered under 1757 treaty with [[Shireroth]]
|-
| {{Team flag|Benacian Union}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Çakaristan}} || Formal || [[Treaty between Çakaristan and Ioanna]] signed 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Calbion}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Constancia}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Craitland}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Drak-Modan}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Floria}} || None||
|-
| {{Team flag|The Hexarchy}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Order of the Holy Lakes|flag}} [[Hurmu]] ([[Order of the Holy Lakes]]) || [[Ioanna–Order of the Holy Lakes relations|Formal]] || [[Treaty between Ioanna and Hurmu]] signed 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Kalgachia}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Lanzerwald}} || Formal || [[Treaty between Ioanna and the Lanzerwald]] signed 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Meckelnburgh}} || Informal || [[Treaty between Ioanna and Meckelnburgh]] signed 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Mercury}} || Informal || Ambassador dispatched 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Mondosphere}} || Informal || Ambassador dispatched 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Moorland}} || Formal || [[Treaty between Ioanna and Moorland]] signed 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Natopia}} || Informal || [[Treaty between Ioanna and Natopia]] signed 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|New Batavia}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie}} || Formal || [[Treaty between Ioanna and Nouvelle Alexandrie]] signed 1758
|-
| {{Team flag|Phinbella}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Ralgon}} || Informal || Ambassador dispatched 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Sanama}} || Informal || Ambassador dispatched 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Sanpantul}} || Informal || Ambassador dispatched 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Senya}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Shireroth}} || Formal || [[Treaty between Ioanna and Shireroth]] signed 1757
|-
| {{Team flag|Tellia}} || Informal || Covered under relations with [[Sanama]]
|-
| {{Team flag|Vegno}} || None ||
|-
| {{Team flag|Zeed}} || None ||
|}

In addition to the above relations, Ioanna maintains membership in international organizations as follows:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Organization !! Status !! Comment
|-
| [[Xaiville Convention]] || Member || Joined 1755 AN
|-
| [[Micras Treaty Organization]] || Member || Joined 1757 AN
|}

In addition to membership in the MTO, Ioanna has signed all seven [https://micras.org/mwiki/Micras_Treaty_Organization#Ancillary_Treaties| ancillary treaties] along with the [[Convention on the Laws of the Seas]].
It is also signatory to the [[Micras Trade Organization]] and [[Micras Organisation for Standardisation]].

[[Category:Ioanna]]
[[Category:Diplomacy]]

Micras Trade Organisation

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{{Infobox Organisation
|fullname = Micras Trade Organisation
|commonname = MTrO
|flag = File:MTrO flag.png
|emblem =
|hymn =
|map =
|HQ= TBD
|lang = [[Common Tongue]]
|type = Intergovernmental organisation
|headoforganisationtitle = Secretary-General
|deputyheadtitle = Deputy Secretary-General
|headoforganisation = {{team flag|Sanama|name=Malliki Kasha Tolito}} (interim)
|deputyhead = {{team flag|Cisamarra|name=Angelica Gironi}} (interim)
|legislature = General Assembly
|establishment = {{AN|1711}}
|members = TBD
|site = mtro.mic
|forum = N/A
}}

The '''{{PAGENAME}}''' ('''MTrO''') is an international organisation formed in 1711. The mission of the organisation is to facilitate international trade by lowering trade barriers, to provide a framework for bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, currency trade, tariffs, econometrics and import and export statistics. Membership in the organisation does not require a nation to act in any specific manner towards another member, instead, membership is to support the nations in making trade agreements and provide other sorts of benefits.

== Leadership ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Nation !! Name !! Appointed
|-
| Secretary-General || {{team flag|Sanama}} || Malliki Kasha Tolito (interim) || 1711
|-
| Deputy Secretary-General || {{team flag|Cisamarra}} || Angelica Gironi (interim) || 1711
|}

== Members ==
Membership in the MTrO is restricted to members of the [[Micras Cartography Society]]. Dependent territories and similar can become members, provided they have legal competence to enter into international agreements.

{| class="wikitable"
! Nation !! Joined
|-
| {{team flag|Benacian Union}}|| 1711
|-
| {{team flag|Calbion}} || 1711
|-
| {{team flag|Etzeland}} || 1711
|-
| {{team flag|Floria}} || 1711
|-
| {{team flag|Ioanna}} || 1758
|-
| {{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie}} || 1716
|-
| {{team flag|Order of the Holy Lakes}} || 1711
|-
| {{team flag|Meckelnburgh}} || 1711
|-
| {{team flag|Sanama}} || 1711
|-
| {{team flag|Shireroth}} || 1716
|-
| {{team flag|Uppmanland}} || 1758
|}

== Bilateral and Multilateral Trade Agreements ==
The MTrO provides a framework for its members to negotiate bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, with the support of the organisation in maintaining and updating agreements as needed.

=== Currency Trade Agreement ===
The '''Currency Trade Agreement''' aims to provide a framework for the trade and exchange of currencies. The organisation maintains a table of exchange rates, as well as a table of currency pegs.

=== Trade Tariffs Agreement ===
The '''Trade Tariffs Agreement''' provides a list various goods categories with example tariffs, free for members to use as-are, or modify for their bilateral or multilateral agreements. It also contains a template for trade agreements.

==== Standardised Trade Goods Nomenclature ====
Used for bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, as well as import and export information. Can be further subdivided by adding a dash and an ordinal number.

{| class="wikitable"
! No !! Category
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''I'''
| '''Live Animals and Animal Products'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|I-1 Live Animals|I-2 Meat and Edible Meat Offal|I-3 Fish and Crustaceans, Molluscs and other Aquatic Invertebrates|I-4 Dairy Produce; Birds' Eggs; Natural Honey; Edible Products of Animal Origin, not elsewhere Specified or Included|I-5 Products of Animal Origin, not elsewhere Specified or Included}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''II'''
| '''Vegetable Products'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|II-1 Live Trees and other Plants; Bulbs, Roots and the Like; Cut Flowers and Ornamental Foliage|II-2 Edible Vegetables and certain Roots and Tubers|II-3 Edible Fruit and Nuts; Peel of Citrus Fruit or Melons|II-4 Coffee, Tea, Maté and Spices|II-5 Cereals|II-6 Products of the Milling Industry; Malt; Starches; Inulin; Wheat Gluten|II-7 Oil Seeds and Oleaginous Fruits; Miscellaneous Grains, Seeds and Fruit; Industrial or Medicinal Plants; Straw and Fodder|II-8 Lac, Gums, Resins and other Vegetable Saps and Extracts|II-9 Vegetable Plaiting Materials; Vegetable Products not elsewhere Specified or Included}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''III'''
| '''Animal, Vegetable or Microbial Fats and Oils; Prepared Edible Fats; Animal or Vegetable Waxes'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|III-1 Animal, Vegetable or Microbial Fats and Oils and their Cleavage Products; Prepared Edible Fats; Animal or Vegetable Waxes}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''IV'''
| '''Prepared Foodstuffs, Beverages, Spirits, Vinegar, Tobacco Products'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|IV-1 Preparations of Meat, of Fish, of Crustaceans, Molluscs or other Aquatic Invertebrates, or of Insects|IV-2 Sugars and Sugar Confectionery|IV-3 Cocoa and Cocoa Preparations|IV-4 Preparations of Cereals, Flour, Starch or Milk; Pastrycooks' Products|IV-5 Preparations of Vegetables, Fruit, Nuts or other Parts of Plants|IV-6 Miscellaneous Edible Preparations|IV-7 Beverages, Spirits and Vinegar|IV-8 Residues and Waste from the Food Industries; Prepared Animal Fodder|IV-9 Tobacco and Manufactured Tobacco Substitutes; Other Inhaled Products; Other Products Containing Nicotine}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''V'''
| '''Mineral Products'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|V-1 Salt; Sulphur; Earths and Stone; Plastering Materials, Lime and Cement|V-2 Ores, Slag and Ash|V-3 Mineral Fuels, Mineral Oils and Products of their Distillation; Bituminous Substances; Mineral Waxes}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''VI'''
| '''Products of the Chemical or Related Industries'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|VI-1 Inorganic Chemicals; Organic or Inorganic Compounds of Precious Metals, of Rare-Earth Metals, of Radioactive Elements or of Isotopes|VI-2 Organic Chemicals|VI-3 Pharmaceutical Products|VI-4 Fertilisers|VI-5 Tanning or Dyeing Extracts; Tannins and their Derivatives; Dyes, Pigments and other Colouring Matter; Paints and Varnishes; Putty and other Mastics; Inks|VI-6 Essential Oils and Resinoids; Perfumery, Cosmetic or Toilet Preparations|VI-7 Soap, Organic Surface-Active Agents, Washing Preparations, Lubricating Preparations, Artificial Waxes, Prepared Waxes, Polishing or Scouring Preparations, Candles and Similar Articles, Modelling Pastes, Dental Waxes and Dental Preparations with a Basis of Plaster|VI-8 Albuminoidal Substances; Modified Starches; Glues; Enzymes|VI-9 Explosives; Pyrotechnic Products; Matches; Pyrophoric Alloys; Certain Combustible Preparations|VI-10 Photographic or Cinematographic Goods|VI-11 Miscellaneous Chemical Products}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''VII'''
| '''Plastics, Rubber, and Articles thereof'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|VII-1 Plastics and Articles thereof|VII-2 Rubber and Articles thereof}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''VIII'''
| '''Raw Hides and Skins, Leather, Furskins, Saddles and Articles thereof; Travel Goods, Handbags and Similar Containers'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|VIII-1 Raw Hides and Skins (other than Furskins) and Leather|VIII-2 Articles of Leather; Saddlery and Harness; Travel Goods, Handbags and similar Containers; Articles of Animal Gut (other than Silkworm Gut)|VIII-3 Furskins and Artificial Fur; Manufactures thereof}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''IX'''
| '''Wood and Articles of Wood; Wood Charcoal; Cork; Manufactures of Straw; Basketware and Wickerwork'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|IX-1 Wood and Articles of Wood; Wood Charcoal|IX-2 Cork and Articles of Cork|IX-3 Manufactures of Straw, of Esparto or of other Plaiting Materials; Basketware and Wickerwork}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''X'''
| '''Pulp of Wood or of other Fibrous Cellulosic Material; Recovered Paper or Paperboard; Paper and Paperboard and Articles thereof'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|X-1 Pulp of Wood or of other Fibrous Cellulosic Material; Recovered (Waste and Scrap) Paper or Paperboard|X-2 Paper and Paperboard; Articles of Paper Pulp, of Paper or of Paperboard|X-3 Printed Books, Newspapers, Pictures and other Products of the Printing Industry; Manuscripts, Typescripts and Plans}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''XI'''
| '''Textiles and Textile Articles'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|XI-1 Silk|XI-2 Wool, Fine or Coarse Animal Hair; Horsehair Yarn and Woven Fabric|XI-3 Cotton|XI-4 Other Vegetable Textile Fibres; Paper Yarn and Woven Fabrics of Paper Yarn|XI-5 Man-Made Filaments; Strip and the Like of Man-Made Textile Materials|XI-6 Man-Made Staple Fibres|XI-7 Wadding, Felt and Nonwovens; Special Yarns; Twine, Cordage, Ropes and Cables and Articles thereof|XI-8 Carpets and other Textile Floor Coverings|XI-9 Special Woven Fabrics; Tufted Textile Fabrics; Lace; Tapestries; Trimmings; Embroidery|XI-10 Impregnated, Coated, Covered or Laminated Textile Fabrics; Textile Articles of a kind Suitable for Industrial Use|XI-11 Knitted or Crocheted Fabrics|XI-12 Articles of Apparel and Clothing Accessories, Knitted or Crocheted|XI-13 Articles of Appare and Clothing Accessories, Not Knitted or Crocheted|XI-14 Other Made-Up Textile Articles; Sets; Worn Clothing and Worn Textile Articles; Rags}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''XII'''
| '''Footwear, Headgear, Umbrellas, Sun Umbrellas, Walking Sticks, Seat-Sticks, Whips, Riding-Crops; Prepared Feathers and Articles thereof; Artificial Flowers; Articles of Human Hair'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|XII-1 Footwear, Gaiters and the Like; Parts of such Articles|XII-2 Headgear and Parts thereof|XII-3 Umbrellas, Sun Umbrellas, Walking Sticks, Seat-Sticks, Whips, Riding-Crops and Parts thereof|XII-4 Prepared Feathers and Down and Articles made of Feathers or of Down; Artificial Flowers; Articles of Human Hair}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''XIII'''
| '''Articles of Stone, Plaster, Cement, Asbestos, Mica or Similar Materials; Ceramic Products; Glass and Glassware'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|XIII-1 Articles of Stone, Plaster, Cement, Asbestos, Mica or Similar Materials|XIII-2 Ceramic Products|XIII-3 Glass and Glassware}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''XIV'''
| '''Natural or Cultured Pearls, Precious or Semi-Prescious Stones, Precious Metals, Metals Clad with Precious Metal, and Articles thereof; Imitation Jewellery; Coin'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|XIV-1 Natural or Cultured Pearls, Precious or Semi-Prescious Stones, Precious Metals, Metals Clad with Precious Metal, and Articles thereof; Imitation Jewellery; Coin}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''XV'''
| '''Base Metals and Articles of Base Metal'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|XV-1 Iron and Steel|XV-2 Articles of Iron and Steel|XV-3 Copper and Articles thereof|XV-4 Nickel and Articles thereof|XV-5 Aluminium and Articles thereof|XV-6 Lead and Articles thereof|XV-7 Zinc and Articles thereof|XV-8 Tin and Articles thereof|XV-9 Other Base Metals; Cermets; Articles thereof|XV-10 Tools, Implements, Cutlery, of Base Metal; Parts thereof of Base Metal|XV-11 Miscellaneous Articles of Base Metal}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''XVI'''
| '''Machinery and Mechanical Appliances; Electrical Equipment; Parts thereof; Sound Recorders and Reproducers, Television Image and Sound Recorders and Reproducers, and Parts and Accessories of such Articles'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|XVI-1 Nuclear Reactors, Boilers, Machinery and Mechanical Appliances; Parts thereof|XVI-2 Electrical Machinery and Equipment and Parts thereof; Sound Recorders and Reproducers, Television Image and Sound Recorders and Reproducers, and Parts and Accessories of Such Articles}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''XVII'''
| '''Vehicles, Aircraft, Vessels and Associated Transport Equipment'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|XVII-1 Railway or Tramway Locomotives, Rolling Stock and Parts thereof; Railway or Tramway Track Fixtures and Fittings and Parts thereof; Mechanical (Including Electromechanical) Traffic Signalling Equipment of All Kinds|XVII-2 Vehicles other than Railway or Tramway Rolling Stock, and Parts and Accessories thereof|XVII-3 Aircraft, Spacecraft, and Parts thereof|XVII-4 Ships, Boats and Floating Structures}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''XVIII'''
| '''Optical, Photographic, Cinematographic, Measuring, Checking, Precision, Medical or Surgical Instruments and Apparatus; Clocks and Watches; Musical Instruments; Parts and Accessories thereof'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|XVIII-1 Optical, Photographic, Cinematographic, Measuring, Checking, Precision, Medical or Surgical Instruments and Apparatus; Parts and Accessories thereof|XVIII-2 Clocks and Watches and Parts thereof|XVIII-3 Musical Instruments; Parts and Accessories of Such Articles}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''XIX'''
| '''Arms and Ammunition; Parts and Accessories thereof'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|XIX-1 Arms and Ammunition; Parts and Accessories thereof}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''XX'''
| '''Miscellaneous Manufactured Articles'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|XX-1 Furniture; Bedding, Mattresses, Mattress Supports, Cushions and Similar Stuffed Furnishings; Luminaries and Lighting Fittings, not elsewhere Specified or Included; Illuminated Signs, Illuminated Nameplates and the Like; Prefabricated Buildings|XX-2 Toys, Games and Sports Requisites; Parts and Accessories thereof|XX-3 Miscellaneous Manufactured Articles}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | '''XXI'''
| '''Works of Art, Collectors' Pieces and Antiques'''
|-
| {{unbulleted list|XXI-1 Works of Art, Collectors' Pieces and Antiques|XXI-2 Complete Industrial Plant|XXI-3 Special Codes}}
|}

=== Imports and Exports Agreement ===
The '''Imports and Exports Agreement''' provide for the collection and maintenance of lists of the main imports and exports of the member nations. Each member submits its list to the General Assembly for review.

==== Imports and Exports per nation ====
The list is not exhaustive, it only lists the main exports and imports per nation.

{| class="wikitable"
! Nation !! Exports !! Imports
|-
| {{team flag|Benacian Union}}
|{{unbulleted list|I-1 Live Animals
|I-2 Meat and Edible Meat Offal
|I-4 Dairy Produce; Birds' Eggs; Natural Honey; Edible Products of Animal Origin, not elsewhere Specified or Included
|I-5 Products of Animal Origin, not elsewhere Specified or Included
|II-5 Cereals
|II-6 Products of the Milling Industry; Malt; Starches; Inulin; Wheat Gluten
|II-7 Oil Seeds and Oleaginous Fruits; Miscellaneous Grains, Seeds and Fruit; Industrial or Medicinal Plants; Straw and Fodder
|III-1 Animal, Vegetable or Microbial Fats and Oils and their Cleavage Products; Prepared Edible Fats; Animal or Vegetable Waxes
|IV-7 Beverages, Spirits and Vinegar
|V-1 Salt; Sulphur; Earths and Stone; Plastering Materials, Lime and Cement
|V-2 Ores, Slag and Ash
|V-3 Mineral Fuels, Mineral Oils and Products of their Distillation; Bituminous Substances; Mineral Waxes
|VI-2 Organic Chemicals
|VI-3 Pharmaceutical Products
|VI-4 Fertilisers
|VI-9 Explosives; Pyrotechnic Products; Matches; Pyrophoric Alloys; Certain Combustible Preparations
|VIII-1 Raw Hides and Skins (other than Furskins) and Leather
|XV-1 Iron and Steel
|XV-2 Articles of Iron and Steel
|XVII-2 Vehicles other than Railway or Tramway Rolling Stock, and Parts and Accessories thereof
|XVII-3 Aircraft, Spacecraft, and Parts thereof
|XVII-4 Ships, Boats and Floating Structures
|XIX-1 Arms and Ammunition; Parts and Accessories thereof}}
|{{unbulleted list|I-3 Fish and Crustaceans, Molluscs and other Aquatic Invertebrates
|II-4 Coffee, Tea, Maté and Spices
|II-5 Cereals
|IV-1 Preparations of Meat, of Fish, of Crustaceans, Molluscs or other Aquatic Invertebrates, or of Insects
|IV-2 Sugars and Sugar Confectionery
|IV-3 Cocoa and Cocoa Preparations
|IV-4 Preparations of Cereals, Flour, Starch or Milk; Pastrycooks' Products
|IV-5 Preparations of Vegetables, Fruit, Nuts or other Parts of Plants
|IV-6 Miscellaneous Edible Preparations
|IV-9 Tobacco and Manufactured Tobacco Substitutes; Other Inhaled Products; Other Products Containing Nicotine
|V-3 Mineral Fuels, Mineral Oils and Products of their Distillation; Bituminous Substances; Mineral Waxes
|VI-1 Inorganic Chemicals; Organic or Inorganic Compounds of Precious Metals, of Rare-Earth Metals, of Radioactive Elements or of Isotopes
|VII-2 Rubber and Articles thereof
|XI-1 Silk
|XVI-1 Nuclear Reactors, Boilers, Machinery and Mechanical Appliances; Parts thereof
|XVI-2 Electrical Machinery and Equipment and Parts thereof; Sound Recorders and Reproducers, Television Image and Sound Recorders and Reproducers, and Parts and Accessories of Such Articles
|XVII-1 Railway or Tramway Locomotives, Rolling Stock and Parts thereof; Railway or Tramway Track Fixtures and Fittings and Parts thereof; Mechanical (Including Electromechanical) Traffic Signalling Equipment of All Kinds
|XVII-2 Vehicles other than Railway or Tramway Rolling Stock, and Parts and Accessories thereof
|XVII-3 Aircraft, Spacecraft, and Parts thereof
|XVII-4 Ships, Boats and Floating Structures}}
|-
| {{team flag|Calbion}}
|
*I-2 Meat and Edible Meat Offal
*I-3 Fish and Crustaceans, Molluscs and other Aquatic Invertebrates
*I-4 Dairy Produce; Birds' Eggs; Natural Honey; Edible Products of Animal Origin, not elsewhere Specified or Included
*II-2 Edible Vegetables and certain Roots and Tubers
*II-4 Coffee, Tea, Maté and Spices
*II-6 Products of the Milling Industry; Malt; Starches; Inulin; Wheat Gluten
*III-1 Animal, Vegetable or Microbial Fats and Oils and their Cleavage Products; Prepared Edible Fats; Animal or Vegetable Waxes
*IV-1 Preparations of Meat, of Fish, of Crustaceans, Molluscs or other Aquatic Invertebrates, or of Insects
*IV-4 Preparations of Cereals, Flour, Starch or Milk; Pastrycooks' Products
*IV-7 Beverages, Spirits and Vinegar
*IV-8 Residues and Waste from the Food Industries; Prepared Animal Fodder
*IV-9 Tobacco and Manufactured Tobacco Substitutes; Other Inhaled Products; Other Products Containing Nicotine
*V-1 Salt; Sulphur; Earths and Stone; Plastering Materials, Lime and Cement
*V-2 Ores, Slag and Ash
*VI-1 Inorganic Chemicals; Organic or Inorganic Compounds of Precious Metals, of Rare-Earth Metals, of Radioactive Elements or of Isotopes
*VI-2 Organic Chemicals
*VI-9 Explosives; Pyrotechnic Products; Matches; Pyrophoric Alloys; Certain Combustible Preparations
*VIII-1 Raw Hides and Skins (other than Furskins) and Leather
*VIII-2 Articles of Leather; Saddlery and Harness; Travel Goods, Handbags and similar Containers; Articles of Animal Gut (other than Silkworm Gut)
*VIII-3 Furskins and Artificial Fur; Manufactures thereof
*IX-1 Wood and Articles of Wood; Wood Charcoal
*IX-2 Cork and Articles of Cork
*X-1 Pulp of Wood or of other Fibrous Cellulosic Material; Recovered (Waste and Scrap) Paper or Paperboard
*X-2 Paper and Paperboard; Articles of Paper Pulp, of Paper or of Paperboard
*X-3 Printed Books, Newspapers, Pictures and other Products of the Printing Industry; Manuscripts, Typescripts and Plans
*XI-2 Wool, Fine or Coarse Animal Hair; Horsehair Yarn and Woven Fabric
*XI-3 Cotton
*XI-9 Special Woven Fabrics; Tufted Textile Fabrics; Lace; Tapestries; Trimmings; Embroidery
*XI-11 Knitted or Crocheted Fabrics
*XI-12 Articles of Apparel and Clothing Accessories, Knitted or Crocheted
*XII-2 Headgear and Parts thereof
XIII-2 Ceramic Products
*XIII-3 Glass and Glassware
*XIV-1 Natural or Cultured Pearls, Precious or Semi-Prescious Stones, Precious Metals, Metals Clad with Precious Metal, and Articles thereof; Imitation Jewellery; Coin
*XV-1 Iron and Steel
*XV-2 Articles of Iron and Steel
*XV-4 Nickel and Articles thereof
*XV-5 Aluminium and Articles thereof
*XV-6 Lead and Articles thereof
*XV-8 Tin and Articles thereof
*XV-9 Other Base Metals; Cermets; Articles thereof
*XV-10 Tools, Implements, Cutlery, of Base Metal; Parts thereof of Base Metal
*XV-11 Miscellaneous Articles of Base Metal
*XVI-1 Nuclear Reactors, Boilers, Machinery and Mechanical Appliances; Parts thereof
*XVII-2 Vehicles other than Railway or Tramway Rolling Stock, and Parts and Accessories thereof
*XVII-3 Aircraft, Spacecraft, and Parts thereof
*XVII-4 Ships, Boats and Floating Structures
*XVIII-2 Clocks and Watches and Parts thereof
*XVIII-3 Musical Instruments; Parts and Accessories of Such Articles
*XIX-1 Arms and Ammunition; Parts and Accessories thereof
*XXI-1 Works of Art, Collectors' Pieces and Antiques
|
*I-1 Live Animals
*I-5 Products of Animal Origin, not elsewhere Specified or Included
*II-1 Live Trees and other Plants; Bulbs, Roots and the Like; Cut Flowers and Ornamental Foliage
*II-3 Edible Fruit and Nuts; Peel of Citrus Fruit or Melons
*II-5 Cereals
*II-7 Oil Seeds and Oleaginous Fruits; Miscellaneous Grains, Seeds and Fruit; Industrial or Medicinal Plants; Straw and Fodder
*II-8 Lac, Gums, Resins and other Vegetable Saps and Extracts
*II-9 Vegetable Plaiting Materials; Vegetable Products not elsewhere Specified or Included
*IV-2 Sugars and Sugar Confectionery
*IV-3 Cocoa and Cocoa Preparations
*IV-5 Preparations of Vegetables, Fruit, Nuts or other Parts of Plants
*IV-6 Miscellaneous Edible Preparations
*V-3 Mineral Fuels, Mineral Oils and Products of their Distillation; Bituminous Substances; Mineral Waxes
*VI-3 Pharmaceutical Products
*VI-4 Fertilisers
*VI-5 Tanning or Dyeing Extracts; Tannins and their Derivatives; Dyes, Pigments and other Colouring Matter; Paints and Varnishes; Putty and other Mastics; Inks
*VI-6 Essential Oils and Resinoids; Perfumery, Cosmetic or Toilet Preparations
*VI-7 Soap, Organic Surface-Active Agents, Washing Preparations, Lubricating Preparations, Artificial Waxes, Prepared Waxes, Polishing or Scouring Preparations, Candles and Similar Articles, Modelling Pastes, Dental Waxes and Dental Preparations with a Basis of Plaster
*VI-8 Albuminoidal Substances; Modified Starches; Glues; Enzymes
*VI-10 Photographic or Cinematographic Goods
*VI-11 Miscellaneous Chemical Products
*VII-1 Plastics and Articles thereof
*VII-2 Rubber and Articles thereof
*IX-3 Manufactures of Straw, of Esparto or of other Plaiting Materials; Basketware and Wickerwork
*XI-1 Silk
*XI-4 Other Vegetable Textile Fibres; Paper Yarn and Woven Fabrics of Paper Yarn
*XI-7 Wadding, Felt and Nonwovens; Special Yarns; Twine, Cordage, Ropes and Cables and Articles thereof
*XI-8 Carpets and other Textile Floor Coverings
*XI-10 Impregnated, Coated, Covered or Laminated Textile Fabrics; Textile Articles of a kind Suitable for Industrial Use
*XI-13 Articles of Appare and Clothing Accessories, Not Knitted or Crochetet
*XII-1 Footwear, Gaiters and the Like; Parts of such Articles
*XII-3 Umbrellas, Sun Umbrellas, Walking Sticks, Seat-Sticks, Whips, Riding-Crops and Parts thereof
*XII-4 Prepared Feathers and Down and Articles made of Feathers or of Down; Artificial Flowers; Articles of Human Hair
*XIII-1 Articles of Stone, Plaster, Cement, Asbestos, Mica or Similar Materials
*XV-3 Copper and Articles thereof
*XV-5 Aluminium and Articles thereof
*XV-7 Zinc and Articles thereof
*XVI-2 Electrical Machinery and Equipment and Parts thereof; Sound Recorders and Reproducers, Television Image and Sound Recorders and Reproducers, and Parts and Accessories of Such Articles
*XVII-1 Railway or Tramway Locomotives, Rolling Stock and Parts thereof; Railway or Tramway Track Fixtures and Fittings and Parts thereof; Mechanical (Including Electromechanical) Traffic Signalling Equipment of All Kinds
*XVIII-1 Optical, Photographic, Cinematographic, Measuring, Checking, Precision, Medical or Surgical Instruments and Apparatus; Parts and Accessories thereof
*XX-1 Furniture; Bedding, Mattresses, Mattress Supports, Cushions and Similar Stuffed Furnishings; Luminaries and Lighting Fittings, not elsewhere Specified or Included; Illuminated Signs, Illuminated Nameplates and the Like; Prefabricated Buildings
*XX-2 Toys, Games and Sports Requisites; Parts and Accessories thereof
*XX-3 Miscellaneous Manufactured Articles
*XXI-2 Complete Industrial Plant
*XXI-3 Special Codes
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| {{team flag|Cisamarra}}
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* I-3 Frozen fish
* IV-7 Wine
* V-1 Salt
* IX-1 Wood
* X-2 Articles of paper and paperboard
* XVII-2 Automobiles, trucks
* XX-1 Furniture
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* I-4 Dairy products
* II-2 Vegetables
* II-3 Fruit
* II-4 Coffee
* V-3 Fuels and oil
* VI-1 Chemicals
* VII-1 Plastics
* VII-2 Rubber
* XI-13 Articles of apparel and clothing accessories
* XV Articles of base metals
* XVI-2 Electrical machinery and equipment
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| {{team flag|Etzeland}}
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* IV-3 Chocolate
* IV-4 Cake
* VI-3 Pharmaceutical products
* XIV-1 Gold
* XVI-2 Electrical equipment
* XVII-2 Vehicle tires
* XVII-3 Gravimetric vehicles
* XIX-1 Arms and Ammunition
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| {{team flag|Floria}}
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* V-3 Oil, natural gas, petroleum
* VII-1 Plastics
* X-2 Paper
* XV-2 Processed steel products
* XV-9 Silver
* XVII-2 Automobiles and trucks
* XIX-1 Arms and ammunition
*IV-9 Tobacco and Manufactured Tobacco Substitutes; Other Inhaled Products; Other Products Containing Nicotine
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| {{team flag|Highpass}}
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* I-2 Beef
* I-4 Dairy produce
* II-2 Vegetables
* III-1 Animal fats and oils
* IV-1 Preparations of meat
* V-1 Stone and cement
* VI-4 Fertiliser
* VIII-1 Leather and articles made from leather
* XI-2 Wool
* XI-3 Cotton
* XIII-3 Glassware
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* II-3 Fruits
* II-5 Cereals
* IV-1 Preparations of fish
* IV-2 Confectionery
* IV-6 Miscellaneous edible preparations
* IV-7 Beverages
* V-3 Fuels and oil
* VI-1 Inorganic chemicals
* VI-2 Organic chemicals
* VI-3 Pharmaceutical products
* VII-1 Plastics
* VII-2 Rubbers
* XV Base metals and articles thereof
* XVI-2 Electrical machinery and equipment
* XVII Vehicles, aircraft
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| {{team flag|Hurmu}}
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*II-4 Coffee, Tea, Maté and Spices
*IV-3 Cocoa and Cocoa Preparations
*V-1 Salt; Sulphur; Earths and Stone; Plastering Materials, Lime and Cement
*VI-1 Inorganic Chemicals; Organic or Inorganic Compounds of Precious Metals, of Rare-Earth Metals, of Radioactive Elements or of Isotopes
*VI-3 Pharmaceutical Products
*VI-6 Essential Oils and Resinoids; Perfumery, Cosmetic or Toilet Preparations
*VI-7 Soap, Organic Surface-Active Agents, Washing Preparations, Lubricating Preparations, Artificial Waxes, Prepared Waxes, Polishing or Scouring Preparations, Candles and Similar Articles, Modelling Pastes, Dental Waxes and Dental Preparations with a Basis of Plaster
*VI-8 Albuminoidal Substances; Modified Starches; Glues; Enzymes
*IX-1 Wood and Articles of Wood; Wood Charcoal
*X-1 Pulp of Wood or of other Fibrous Cellulosic Material; Recovered (Waste and Scrap) Paper or Paperboard
*X-2 Paper and Paperboard; Articles of Paper Pulp, of Paper or of Paperboard
*X-3 Printed Books, Newspapers, Pictures and other Products of the Printing Industry; Manuscripts, Typescripts and Plans
*XI-4 Other Vegetable Textile Fibres; Paper Yarn and Woven Fabrics of Paper Yarn
*XI-7 Wadding, Felt and Nonwovens; Special Yarns; Twine, Cordage, Ropes and Cables and Articles thereof
*XI-8 Carpets and other Textile Floor Coverings
*XI-10 Impregnated, Coated, Covered or Laminated Textile Fabrics; Textile Articles of a kind Suitable for Industrial Use
*XI-11 Knitted or Crocheted Fabrics
*XI-12 Articles of Apparel and Clothing Accessories, Knitted or Crocheted
*XI-13 Articles of Appare and Clothing Accessories, Not Knitted or Crocheted
*XII-1 Footwear, Gaiters and the Like; Parts of such Articles
*XIII-1 Articles of Stone, Plaster, Cement, Asbestos, Mica or Similar Materials
*XVI-1 Nuclear Reactors, Boilers, Machinery and Mechanical Appliances; Parts thereof
*XVII-1 Railway or Tramway Locomotives, Rolling Stock and Parts thereof; Railway or Tramway Track Fixtures and Fittings and Parts thereof; Mechanical (Including Electromechanical) Traffic Signalling Equipment of All Kinds
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*IV-2 Sugars and Sugar Confectionery
*IV-7 Beverages, Spirits and Vinegar
*V-1 Salt; Sulphur; Earths and Stone; Plastering Materials, Lime and Cement
*V-3 Mineral Fuels, Mineral Oils and Products of their Distillation; Bituminous Substances; Mineral Waxes
*VI-2 Organic Chemicals
*VI-3 Pharmaceutical Products
*VI-6 Essential Oils and Resinoids; Perfumery, Cosmetic or Toilet Preparations
*VI-10 Photographic or Cinematographic Goods
*XV-2 Articles of Iron and Steel
*XV-5 Aluminium and Articles thereof
*XV-9 Other Base Metals; Cermets; Articles thereof
*XVII-2 Vehicles other than Railway or Tramway Rolling Stock, and Parts and Accessories thereof
*XVII-3 Aircraft, Spacecraft, and Parts thereof
*XVII-4 Ships, Boats and Floating Structures
*XVIII-1 Optical, Photographic, Cinematographic, Measuring, Checking, Precision, Medical or Surgical Instruments and Apparatus; Parts and Accessories thereof
*XIX-1 Arms and Ammunition; Parts and Accessories thereof
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| {{team flag|Lanzerwald}}
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| {{team flag|Meckelnburgh}}
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* IV-1 Processed, canned fishes, crustaceans
* IV-7 Cereal, grain alcohols
* VIII-3 Furskins, manufactures thereof
* X-1 Pulp of wood, paper
* XI-2 Wool, woven fabrics
* XII-2 Personal automobiles, light-duty trucks
* XV-1 Raw iron ores
* XX-2 Construction toy sets
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* V-3 Mineral oil fuels
* VI-4 Fertilizers
* VII-1 Plastics, articles thereof
* XV-5 Aluminum, articles thereof
* XVI-1 Nuclear reactors, machinery
|-
| {{team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie}}
|{{unbulleted list|I-2 Meat and Edible Meat Offal|I-3 Fish and Crustaceans, Molluscs and other Aquatic Invertebrates|II-2 Edible Vegetables and certain Roots and Tubers|II-3 Edible Fruit and Nuts; Peel of Citrus Fruit or Melons|II-4 Coffee, Tea, Maté and Spices|II-5 Cereals|III-1 Animal, Vegetable or Microbial Fats and Oils and their Cleavage Products; Prepared Edible Fats; Animal or Vegetable Waxes|IV-3 Cocoa and Cocoa Preparations|IV-7 Beverages, Spirits and Vinegar|V-3 Mineral Fuels, Mineral Oils and Products of their Distillation; Bituminous Substances; Mineral Waxes|VI-3 Pharmaceutical Products|VI-4 Fertilisers|XI-3 Cotton|XI-12 Articles of Apparel and Clothing Accessories, Knitted or Crocheted|XI-13 Articles of Apparel and Clothing Accessories, Not Knitted or Crocheted|XV-1 Iron and Steel|XV-2 Articles of Iron and Steel|XVI-1 Nuclear Reactors, Boilers, Machinery and Mechanical Appliances; Parts thereof|XVI-2 Electrical Machinery and Equipment and Parts thereof; Sound Recorders and Reproducers, Television Image and Sound Recorders and Reproducers, and Parts and Accessories of Such Articles|XVII-2 Vehicles other than Railway or Tramway Rolling Stock, and Parts and Accessories thereof|XVII-3 Aircraft, Spacecraft, and Parts thereof
|XVII-4 Ships, Boats and Floating Structures|XVIII-1 Optical, Photographic, Cinematographic, Measuring, Checking, Precision, Medical or Surgical Instruments and Apparatus; Parts and Accessories thereof|XIX-1 Arms and Ammunition; Parts and Accessories thereof}}
|{{unbulleted list|I-1 Live Animals
|IV-2 Sugars and Sugar Confectionery
|IV-6 Miscellaneous Edible Preparations
|V-1 Salt; Sulphur; Earths and Stone; Plastering Materials, Lime and Cement
|V-2 Ores, Slag and Ash
|VI-1 Inorganic Chemicals; Organic or Inorganic Compounds of Precious Metals, of Rare-Earth Metals, of Radioactive Elements or of Isotopes
|VI-2 Organic Chemicals
|VI-6 Essential Oils and Resinoids; Perfumery, Cosmetic or Toilet Preparations
|VII-1 Plastics and Articles thereof
|VII-2 Rubber and Articles thereof
|XI-1 Silk
|XIV-1 Natural or Cultured Pearls, Precious or Semi-Precious Stones, Precious Metals, Metals Clad with Precious Metal, and Articles thereof; Imitation Jewellery; Coin
|XV-3 Copper and Articles thereof
|XV-4 Nickel and Articles thereof
|XV-5 Aluminium and Articles thereof
|XV-9 Other Base Metals; Cermets; Articles thereof
|XX-3 Miscellaneous Manufactured Articles}}
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| {{team flag|Sanama}}
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* I-2 Pork and chicken
* I-3 Frozen fish
* I-4 Milk
* II-2 Vegetables
* II-3 Citrus fruits, bananas, pineapples, mangos
* II-5 Rice, wheat
* IV-1 Preparations of fish, pork and chicken
* IV-4 Preparations of rice
* IV-5 Preparations of fruit
* IV-7 Wine
* V-3 Oil, natural gas, petroleum
* VI-1 Inorganic chemicals
* VI-3 Pharmaceutical products
* VII-1 Plastics
* X-2 Paper
* XIII-2 Ceramic products
* XV-2 Processed steel products
* XV-9 Silver
* XV-11 Miscellaneous articles of base metal
* XVII-2 Automobiles and trucks
* XIX-1 Arms and ammunition
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* I-4 Natural honey
* II-4 Coffee and tea
* II-7 Oil seeds
* IV-2 Sugars and sugar confectionery
* IV-6 Miscellaneous edible preparations
* V-1 Salt
* VII-2 Rubber
* XI-1 Silk
* XI-3 Cotton
* XIII-3 Glass and glassware
* XV-10 Tools
* XVI-1 Machinery and mechanical appliances
* XVI-2 Electrical machinery
* XVII-1 Railway and tramway equipment
|}

== Economic Statistics ==
The MTrO collects and maintains economic statistics on its members, including import and export statistics, providing valuable information for members to use in their trade negotiations.

== See also ==
* [https://discord.gg/SvafxgXgmd| Discord server]

[[Category:Organisations]]

Micras Organisation for Standardisation

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Orion:

{{Infobox Organisation
|fullname = Micras Organisation for Standardisation
|commonname = MOS
|flag = File:MOS flag.png
|emblem =
|hymn =
|map =
|HQ= [[Brigham]], [[Sanama]]
|lang = [[Istvanistani]]
|type = Intergovernmental organization
|headoforganisationtitle = Secretary-General
|deputyheadtitle = Deputy Secretary-General
|headoforganisation = Benebatch Cumberdict
|deputyhead = Jill Yong
|legislature = General Committee
|establishment = {{AN|1680}}
|members = 20 member states
|site = mos.mic
|forum = N/A
}}

The '''{{PAGENAME}}''' is an international organisation founded in [[Acquecalde]], [[Sanama]] in 1680. Its stated goal is to promote worldwide proprietary, industrial and commercial standards. Adoption of its proposed standards is strictly voluntary. The organisation is incorporated as a non-profit under Sanaman law. Following the [[Sanaman Civil War]] and the secession of [[Cisamarra]], the organisation relocated to Brigham outside [[Niyi]].

==Members ==
* {{team flag|Aemilia}}: [[Lanzerwaldinstitut für Normung]] (?)
* {{team flag|Aerla}}: Office of Standards, Department of Weights and Measures, Ministry of the Interior
* {{team flag|Benacian Union}}: [[Benacian Academy]]
* {{team flag|Çakaristan}}: University of Akbarabad
* {{team flag|Calbion}}: [[Princely University of Pentyre]]
* {{team flag|Constancia}}: [[Primokratía|Office of National Standards, Imperial Chancellery, Office of the Autokrator]]
* {{team flag|Ioanna}}: Weights and Measures, Royal College of Yew
* {{team flag|Meckelnburgh}}: Department of Standardization, Ministry of Commerce
* {{team flag|Mercury}}: National Institute for Standardisation and Harmonisation, [[Ministry of Science and Research (Mercury)|Ministry of Science and Research]]
* {{team flag|Mondosphere}}: Ermingander Village Library
* {{team flag|Natopia}}: Natopian Independent Committee for Standardization, [[Imperial Chancellery of Natopia]]
* {{Team flag|Nouvelle Alexandrie}}: Bureau of Federal Standardization, [[Department of Interior (Alduria-Wechua)|Department of Interior]]
* {{team flag|Order of the Holy Lakes}}: [[Secretary of State for the Bank, Mint and Press of Hurmu|Secretariat for the Bank, Mint and Press]]
* {{team flag|Sanama}}: Standards, Weights and Measurements Directorate
* {{team flag|Sanpantul}}: Royal Bureau of Standards
* {{team flag|Senya}}: National Institute of Industrial and Practical Standards
* {{team flag|Shireroth}}: Commission for Rites and Citizenship
* {{team flag|Uppmanland}}: Standards and Measurements Institute, University of Amsel
* {{team flag|Zeed}}: Committee for All-Union Standards in the Union of the Republics of Zeed

=== Former members ===
* {{team flag|Ashinthael}}: Weights and Measures
* {{team flag|Batavia}}: [[Royal Julius Civilis University]]
* {{team flag|Dark Berry Islands}}: DBI Standardisation Authority
* {{team flag|Great Apollonian Empire}}: [[Ministry of Truth]], [[Ecclesiastical Academy of Pentapolis]]
* {{team flag|Highpass}}: Office of Conformity
* {{team flag|Lac Glacei}}: Royal Mint
* {{team flag|Port Balaine}}: Office of Weight & Measurements, Ministry of Development
* {{team flag|Ransenar}}: Bureau of Standards and Measurements, Ministry of State
* {{team flag|South Sea Islands}}: [[Government of the South Sea Islands]]
* {{team flag|Theogiorick}}: [[Eli]]
* {{team flag|United Principalities}}: Royal Office for Measures and Standards

==Standards==
===MOS–1: Two-letter country codes===

See [[List of two-letter country codes]]

===MOS–2: Three-letter country codes===

See [[List of FMF three-letter codes]]

===MOS–3: Internet country top-level domains===

* Option 1: Nijima system (e.g. @@nat/edu/usf/bagelston) - benefit: reuses FMF codes, detriment: not as secure as Option 2
* Option 2: Panopticon-monitoring data carrying network (e.g. ''merensk_node/kernel65/adjunct9/SEG.ugb'') - benefit: data security, detriment: access hierarchical and data heavily partitioned
* Option 3: "Terran" system (e.g. bagelston.edu.na) - benefit: ubiquity, detriment: insecure by default

===MOS–4: Currency codes ===

See [[List of circulating currencies]]

===MOS–5: Dates ===

[[Norton calendar]], notation DD.MM.YYYY, with months written in Roman numerals, all other in Arabic numerals. Names of months not used for international purposes. Each real month is one Norton year, written '''AN'''. Norton and Gregorian calendars should not be mixed. Use of the Norton calendar does not conflict with use of the Gregorian calendar for sports.

=== MOS–6: Time ===

[[Coordinated Micras Time]]: Time zones. Time using a 24-hour clock of 60 minutes (each minute 60 seconds long).

=== MOS–7: Narrative ===
Work in progress.

=== MOS–8: Wikification ===
Work in progress.

=== MOS–9: Languages ===
The Micras equivalents of many Terran languages can be found here: [[Micras Linguistic Society/Language_families]]. If a language isn't listed, link to Wikipedia with a different display language, for example: <code><nowiki>[[wikipedia:Sorbian language|Nerlidian language]]</nowiki></code>.

=== MOS–10 Recwar Regulation ===
Work in progress.

=== MOS–11 Economy ===
A common framework for in character economy simulation. Work in progress. 

=== MOS–12 Airport codes ===
See [[List of airport codes]]

=== MOS–13 Measurements ===
See [[wikipedia:International System of Units|Micras System of Units]]. Does not preclude local customary units.

=== MOS–14 Road Signs, Signals & Markings ===
Based on [https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/conventn/Conv_road_signs_2006v_EN.pdf|Vienna Convention on road signs] and [[wikipedia:Vienna_Convention_on_Road_Signs_and_Signals|Summary of convention]]. Does not preclude local adaptations or customary designs.

=== MOS–15 Telecommunication callsigns ===
See [[List of telecommunication stations by callsign]]

[[Category:Organisations]]
[[Category:Micras Organisation for Standardisation]]

Ioanna

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{{Infobox Nation Comprehensive
|fullname = Lordship of Ioanna
|commonname = Ioanna
|flag = File:Flag of ioanna.png
|coa = File:Ioanna coa.png
|motto = Go forward bravely
|anthem = The Maiden of Ioanna
|map = File:Ioanna mcs map.png
|mapversions = 18.1.3 - Present
|capital = [[Yew]]
|largecity = Yew, Baudricourt
|lang = English, Old English, Gaelic
|religion = [[Church of the Holy Lance]]
|demnoun = Ioannan
|demadj = Ioannan
|govtype = Feudal Lordship
|headofstatetitle = Lord
|headofstate = Sir [[John Morgan]]
|headofgovernmenttitle = High Knight
|headofgovernment = [[Tristan Valient]]
|legislature = [[Council of Knights]]
|estdate = {{AN|1750}}
|area = 9,624 sq km
|pop = 32,684 ({{AN|1750}})
|activepop = 1
|currency = [[Rosen]] (R)
|calendar = [[AN]]
|timezone = CMT+9
|electricity = 220V
|drives_on = Left
|gauge = Standard
|site =
|forum =
|animal = [[Ioannan Ox]]
|food = [[Monastery Bread]]
|drink = [[Highland Ale]]
|tree = [[Arctic Willow]]
|abbrev = IOA
}}

The '''Lordship of Ioanna''', or simply '''Ioanna''' (eye-OH-nah), is a tiny Arctic state located north of [[Mercury]], along the shores of [[Keltia]]. It was established by a group of [[Bosworth|Bosworthian]] knights as a chivalric outpost in the northern wilderness.

==History==

===Early History===

The earliest inhabitants of Ioanna were [[Syrah]], who were responsible for the initial migration of [[Britannics|Britannic]] people onto the mainland around 1400 [[AN]]. Originally knights from the early Brettish kingdoms such as [[Willow]] and Rommenashire, they had been hired as mercenaries by [[Attera]] to help with the conquest of the north. During this time, Attera controlled a vast empire over most of Keltia, extending from [[Los Bananos]], all the way to the [[Skerry Isles]]. Attera held a fragile grip over the land and needed aid along its eastern frontiers. Thus Ras Diga made a pact with the Britannics to supply them with gold and weapons in exchange for their aid in conquering Keltia. Like Attera, these roving mercenaries established vast kingdoms over stretches of virtually empty land, meeting only small bands of nomadic tribes such as the [[Reindeer Herders]], who quickly exited the region to avoid conflict, leaving the Britannics unchallenged. But settlement was minimal due to the harsh climate, and like Attera, the mercenary kingdoms struggled to control their overextended reach. Around 1500, the small villages were pushed aside during the [[Sino-Keltian]] conquests that would befall the land, and the Britannic population was either displaced or relegated to being vassals. For about two decades, the land lay in a disorganized state, with many small villages fending for themselves with complete autonomy. The Sino-Keltian age was transient, and soon their population migrated west into [[Jingdao]], leaving little trace of their time etched into the land. This only changed when the Britannics once again ventured forth from their islands and began to re-settle Keltia. First were [[New Britannia]] and [[Nova England]], who by 1520 had established their own kingdoms along the eastern shores of Keltia. But it wasn't until King Edward unified [[Bosworth]] at Shrewsbury around 1530 that a centralized government began to appear in the region again.

===The Chronicle of Saint Joan===

In 1531, King Edward I of [[Bosworth]] began expanding his kingdom west of the [[Strait of Haifa]]. At the time, the northwest corner of [[Keltia]] was ruled by petty warlords of Britannic descent; Vimy, Finistere and Fleur being the three primary states. By 1533 the royal line had consolidated power over Vimy and rivalries ran strong with King Charles of Finistere. This eventually boiled over into open conflict and the two sides clashed in battle that would be chronicled later in the [[Chronicle of Finistere]]. With Charles' defeat, Finistere passed to Edward and the throne of Bosworth. Fleur, as one of the last strongholds, found it better to capitulate rather than face annihilation at Edward's hands. By 1535 all of the northeast was under the banner of Bosworth save for Ioanna. Those who had refused to bow to Edward fled to the island and fortified themselves there.

In 1536, King Edward charged a young female knight - a rarity in itself – with marching on the island. At this time, the island was unnamed, and was referred to by the name of the strongest of the enemy strongholds; the castle of Yew. The knight's name was Lady [[Joan Darcy]]. She had been raised a peasant girl, but had risen through the ranks after the battle of Frejus to be named a knight of Bosworth. Edward had already deployed much of his forces over Finistere and even further afield in Fleur, thus he needed a new army to take Yew. He looked to the young Joan, aged a mere 23, who had shown herself to be a tactical leader in the field and had the support of the masses behind her, to command this army. Thus in February of 1536 he proclaimed her a general and granted her a force of some fifteen-thousand soldiers to take the island.

Joan gathered her forces in Auxerre, obtaining food, weapons and other supplies, before heading north to the port at Frejus. Here the King's ships were awaiting their arrival to ferry them across to the island. It took a month to traverse the landscape, held back by a late spring, mud and slow artillery that kept sinking in the muck. By the time they were preparing to ship out, the weather of March had not improved much, with snow still on the ground and ice clogging the sea between the mainland and Yew. Harsh conditions alone accounted for over one-thousand deaths even before they set sail, thereby taking a toll on the strength and morale of Joan's army.

Morale among troops was already low. Although Edward had hoped the appointment of someone who had risen from peasantry to prominence would inspire people, the mostly-male composition of the army found taking commands from a woman doubtful at best, downright hostile at worst. The loss of men to weather and then the woes encountered during crossing to Yew made things even worse for the young general. Dangerous ice floes, spring storms, and choppy waters made the passage extremely difficult. By the time they landed in the village of Baudricourt on the southern shore, the fleet had lost three of nine ships, further reducing Joan's forces down to nine-thousand soldiers. Fully a quarter of her forces had been lost even before joining battle with the enemy.

Thus it was a sad situation when the soaked and freezing army from Bosworth made landfall. But Joan rallied her forces and bade them take the small village as a base camp. As a collection of crofts and hovels, Baudricourt offered little opposition to the attackers. Enemy forces had retreated inland to the castle of Yew and other strongholds. Therefore Joan was able to secure some makeshift housing for her troops, some food from the locals, and a slight but nonetheless important boost to morale.

By April, warmer weather was moving in, but with it also came more dangerous mud season. A horse could easily break a leg sinking in the soft peat. Just as easily an artillery piece could become mired in place, stretching a short journey into a sometimes multiple-days trek, costing troops valuable time. This forced Joan's troops to stick strictly to the roads. While the packed soils provided quicker movement, it also limited their maneuverability. Time was not on Joan's side, so she did not dawdle in Baudricourt but opted to move north towards Yew with all haste.

Enemy forces had amassed around the castle of Yew. They were long expecting an assault from the mainland, knowing that Edward would not countenance rebellion. The castle itself was located centrally on the island, in the upper hills. This gave it the advantage of the high ground, and since they were aware the attack was coming, deprived Joan of the element of surprise. Yew lay at the boundary between the arable lands of the south and the rocky ice of the north, with its back essentially against a wall. And like an animal, the enemy was cornered with no option for retreat to another safe haven.

To reach Yew, Joan had to cross the southern half of the island. While she had been able to stave off further casualties since arriving at Baudricourt, the army was now faced with crossing inhospitable lands and a narrow corridor path to the castle. She set off near the end of April, facing ground that was thawing and soggy with spring snow melt. The journey was slow going. Horses struggled in the mud and the roads were little more than dirt paths through the marshes. To make matters worse, Lord Pierre, the enemy commander, was constantly harrying Joan's forces with small attacks. His hope was to decrease morale, delay progress, and pick away at the army before it reached Yew. Even with these constant setbacks, Joan pushed ever forward. Finally she reached a small abbey that sat near the island's narrow neck. Here she paused her army to take much needed rest.

The [[Abbey Chinon|Abbey of Chinon]] was a small stone church that served the people of the island. Besides the rector, only a few poor farms sat nearby. The nearest settlement was Diseart, several miles to the east. The only thing the rector could offer was some loves of bread and the shelter of a few musty stables; hardly adequate for a force that had dwindled to less than ten-thousand soldiers. Some of the men were facing scurvy from the lack of adequate diet, others had the consumption and were mere skeletons. Dismayed, Joan entered the abbey alone one evening and beseeched the lord for guidance.

She emerged the next morning from the church a changed woman. Joan quickly mounted her horse and called her commanders to her. Claiming she had received a vision of victory from God, she rallied the flagging morale of the soldiers and charged them with renewed energy. That very morning they left the abbey and headed north to march on the gates of Yew.

Lord Pierre had entrenched his forces at the castle, flanking the parapets with archers intended to rain death down upon the approaching Bosworthians. Joan knew what to expect, claiming that in her vision she had seen her forces caught in a violent storm outside the castle, with lightning that looked like arrows. So she brought her shield corps to the forefront, followed by her own archers. The move was a wise decision, as the enemy chose to hide behind the castle walls in a defensive position. Once these forward forces engaged each other, the slow-moving artillery was brought up from the rear and began to lob volleys at the front gates. Pierre had not anticipated this, and his few trebuchets from behind the walls had difficulty in reaching the artillery, failing to stop them before the front gates were shattered by the barrage.

Archers fell from the walls like flakes of ash drifting down from the sky. Joan took charge of her knights and ordered a cavalry charge directly through the smashed gates. Leading the knights herself, she was the first through the splintered wood and engaging the enemy soldiers in hand-to-hand combat. The rest of her knights followed, and she signaled the infantry to advance behind her. Soon the knights were forced to dismount and join close combat with the enemy soldiers. The flagstones ran red with blood, but inch-by-inch Joan's forces gained ground.

Pierre and a few of his loyal knights retreated to the rear of the castle, while the bulk of the rebel forces remained fighting in the courtyard. After a few hours of fighting it was clear that Joan's forces were winning the battle, causing Pierre to panic. Gathering a small force they made a desperate charge that caught the Bosworthians by surprise. Instead of attacking however, Pierre and his men rode straight through the conflagration and rushed out through the gates. To the shock of his remaining forces, Pierre had fled like a coward. But being too preoccupied with the present battle, Joan could not disengage to pursue him just yet.

With the cowardly retreat of their commander, the enemy forces who remained lost their momentum to continue fighting very quickly. Within a couple more hours, the last of the enemy had surrendered and Joan had successfully taken the castle of Yew. It took several more hours, however, for her to mop up the mess, make sure the enemy soldiers were secure in irons, and attend to her own wounded forces. Despite the victory, nearly three-thousand lay dead on the ground, with many others sustaining injuries ranging from superficial wounds to severed limbs. It was a ghastly sight, and a sobering moment for both sides to see the conflict ended.

But the loss of time was an advantage for Lord Pierre. Unwilling to accept defeat, he had fled north into the snow and ice. Scouts reported he was headed for Dunain, a granite outpost set in an area of jagged rocks that were too windswept to remain frozen in the ice. Joan, determined to see the enemy vanquished once and for all, set her second-in-command in charge of the castle while she gathered some of the remaining uninjured knights to her side. With extra furs and provisions, they quickly set off in pursuit of Pierre.

Joan's small force rode out of Yew and quickly crossed onto the ice sheet. It was even more treacherous than the mud fields that they had crossed in the south. Collapsing shelves of ice, drifting snow, and hidden crevasses all presented their own challenges. But she refused to yield to the elements and pressed ever onward to the north. Dunain lay a days journey from Yew, and she was unsure if Pierre would remain there or seek to circle back and escape via one of the small fishing ports in the south. Thus she pressed her knights to travel as quickly as possible across the ice.

Dunain itself had been built years prior as an outpost. It was a roughshod keep of hand-hewn stones built into the wall of a granite outcropping. It had no permanent population or groundskeeper; it was simply there as shelter for the poor souls that may have to cross the frozen north. Pierre knew this and had only the provisions he carried to feed himself and his men while they camped in the cold. What he did not count on was Joan following him onto the ice. Pierre had assumed, wrongly, that she would be preoccupied with securing Yew and leave him for dead in the inhospitable north. In this he was soon to be proven wrong.

Unfortunately for Joan, Pierre may have been unsuspecting of her following him, but he wasn't completely at ease. He had been wise enough to post a lookout on the top of the keep who spotted the Bosworthian knights moving across the ice. His forces were too weak to face another confrontation, so he opted again to flee. Hoping to lose Joan in the blustering snow and ice, he made a dead man's gamble and decided to head even further north. Joan was close enough to Dunain at this point to see him exiting the keep, and so spurred her men move faster in pursuit.

For the next three days, through sometimes blinding snow, Joan kept at the heels of Lord Pierre. But with death at his heels, he refused to surrender and pushed north. Some of his men dropped from hunger or exhaustion, sometimes both. A few of Joan's entourage did the same, and she wisely sent them back to Dunain to rest and to await her return. As they reached the far northern tip of the island, Pierre and his four remaining men holed up the last known shelter on the island, a minuscule keep known as Montford. They barely had time to bolt the doors before Joan and her knights were there battering at them.

The rickety old wood of the fort, probably original to the keep from the days of Syrah, did not last against the onslaught for very long. Within minutes the doors shattered and Joan was slashing at Pierre with her sword. While her knights engaged the other four enemy soldiers, Joan herself fought Pierre across the keep at Montford. The two fought intensely, with Pierre retreating up the steps of the tower as Joan pushed forward. As they fought on the stairs, Pierre caught her in the shoulder, causing a deep wound and forcing her to switch sword arms. Nonetheless she persisted. Pierre retreated further, eventually ascending to the top of the tower.

Here Joan closed in on Pierre, and the fight became more intense. Pierre landed another blow with a sharp stab to Joan's side. But she took this in grace as well and pressed on. With his back pressed against the stone rail of the tower's top, Pierre was like a rabid animal, cutting and slashing with abandon. But Joan did not let her own sword falter, and kept pushing him back. Eventually she landed a blow of her own with a sharp stab just below the heart. Pierre dropped his sword, gripping his chest. As he did so, he slipped on a patch of the icy stone, sending him tumbling backwards. Hitting the stone railing with such force he toppled back over the top of it, falling to his demise on the rocks below. Gripping her own wounds and leaning on her sword, she descended the stairs to find the rest of Pierre's men dead and her forces victorious.

But Joan was grievously wounded, and it was a hard three-day journey just to get back to Dunain. Unable to ride, her knights bound her wounds as best they could and wrapped her in furs. Placing her on the back of one of the horses, they began the trek back south. Sadly, Joan's condition continued to deteriorate. While the blood had been staunched, the cuts were deep, and it was likely she had internal bleeding that went unseen. By the time they arrived in Dunain, she was deep in the throes of fever. Gathering the waiting and wounded knights, they made off at a quick pace for Yew.

By the time they arrived at the castle, Joan had slipped into semi-delirious state, still gripped by pain and fever. Four days had passed since her fight with Pierre, and it was the first time she had been able to be seen by a physician. In dismay he announced that too much time had passed, and the only thing they could do was to try and alleviate her pain. Her last words were to order an envoy back to Shrewsbury to let King Edward know of their victory. Soon after she slipped into a coma from which she would never wake.

By the time news reached Edward, Joan had passed away. Having heard the tales of her heroics, the King himself decided he should travel to Yew personally. He arrived at the castle to find Joan being held in state on a bier of willow and Alpine flowers. Seeing the wounded state of the knights, their sheer loyalty to their King, and thew harsh conditions under which they fought, the King knelt at Joan's side and proclaimed her a Saint. Henceforth, he said, Yew would be known as the Isle of Saint Joan. That day, the King attended the funeral pyre of Saint Joan, before installing one of her loyal lieutenants as Lord of the Isle. In reward for their service, the King granted lands to Joan's knights, and they soon established their own order on the island. Thereafter, Edward returned to Shrewsbury as uncontested King of all the northlands.

===Bosworth and Beyond===

Bosworth's rule over the island would only last a mere decade, but in that time the knights who settled there would become a permanent part of the land and its people. King Edward appointed Aidan Lorne as Grand Master of the Order of Saint Joan, which had been given charge of the island. Around this time the long form, Isle of St Joan, became shortened to the Latin version of Ioanna. Soon after the old name quickly fell out of use. Lorne rebuilt the castle of Yew as a stronghold for the knights, and also restored the Abbey of Chinon. At Montford, a small shrine was built to honor Joan's final battle. Being such a barren land, the population on Ioanna did not thrive, but remained relatively stable. The Grand Master did his best to improve conditions, but was often called away to fight in Edward's war along the Strait of Haifa.

When Edward died and was replaced by King Wentworth, Lorne continued to fight until he was killed in the field of battle around 1547. Without clear leadership Bosworth was forced to retreat from the eastern lands, focusing its remaining power on retaining control of [[Haifa]] and [[Gascony]]. Wentworth appointed Gabriel Morgan as the new Grand Master, who immediately set out to the island. But just two years later, in 1549, Wentworth was killed in battle during the Gascon War, along with much of the Bosworthian nobility. Soon after Bosworth collapsed completely and faded into history. The Order of St Joan was on its own. For the next fifteen years, the Order would function in a nominal fashion, mostly as a hospital service, striving to keep the people of Ioanna healthy. It was mostly an introspective period, which helped to build Ioanna's fierce independence and self-sustainability.

As 1565 rolled around, it brought a new visitor to Ioanna: [[Ashkenatza]]. The Ashkenatzis came as part of an Arctic expedition, mostly scientific, but also part of their large intelligence network. They paid little heed to the inhabitants and took the old fort at Montford as their outpost. Intrigued by the large number of oxen grazing the machair, they renamed the castle to Ayzstantsye Gnu, or Ice Station Wildebeest, as they called oxen wildebeest in their tongue. They would occupy the castle for forty years, trading with the locals and conducting research. The trade was welcome with the otherwise isolated Order, as it helped keep the locals abreast of modern innovations, even if the primary industries remained farming and fishing. But by 1605, internal strife in Ashkenatza caused them too to collapse, leaving the island on its own again for another for another seventy-six years until the arrival of [[Free Elwynn|Elwynn]] in 1681.

Elwynn would make some investment in the island, but due to the distance from [[Vanaheim]] they had little long-lasting influence on Ioanna. By 1704 Elwynn had been replaced by [[Normark]], whose nationalist state repressed the Order in favor of [[Humanist]] factions that were vying for control. During this time the Order moved underground, essentially hiding their garments and opting to live as simple farmers on the island. But the ruse worked to keep Ioanna from being targeted. Gnu was repurposed as a [[Nordhaer]] base, but due to its isolation had little interaction with the Ioannans living in the south. So preoccupied was Normark with its own constant conflicts, that Ioanna was left mostly unscathed until Normark's [[East Keltian Collapse|collapse]] in 1737.

===Modern History===

Following the [[East Keltian Collapse]], the Nordhaer evacuated Gnu/Montford and over half of the [[Norse]] on the island fled back to the mainland in the [[Norse diaspora]]. John Morgan, a descendant of Gabriel Morgan, was named the new Grand Master of the Order. He quickly set about repairing damage to the island from the Norse occupation and restructuring the Order into a modern feudal government. In 1740 he was named Lord of Ioanna, with the Sovereign Military Order of Ioanna segueing into the exclusive role of defense. At some of the first sessions of the Council of Knights, Lord Morgan divided the island into six fiefs, granting an estate to each of the six members of the council who would then manage the estates therein. Early efforts were to secure the island from any further external threats, establish a stable government, and gain international recognition.

The rushed abandonment of Gnu resulted in the Nordhaer leaving behind a considerable cache of weaponry, which Morgan seized for the Order. While Montford was kept with a skeleton crew as a research base, all the defense materials were moved south to Yew for safekeeping and the protection of the population, which is clustered in the southern third of the island. Trade was established with [[Moorland]], especially after their expansion into the neighboring [[Ford Islands]], and with [[Mercury]], which controls much of former Bosworth. Morgan's primary focus for the past decade has been in rebuilding the island's infrastructure, improving living conditions, and working to modernize the Order's military as a force capable of defending Ioanna properly while actively pursuing friendly relations with nearby countries. In 1755, Ioanna formally joined the [[Xaiville Convention]], emphasizing its commitment to global peace. Continuing to pursue a robust foreign policy, Ioanna began dispatching diplomatic missions abroad and signed the General Membership treaty of the [[Micras Treaty Organization]] in 1757, aiming to sign on to the other MTO conventions within the next year or so. In 1758 Ioanna became the first country to sign all seven of the MTO's ancillary treaties, upholding its commitment to international peace and cooperation.

==Geography==

Ioanna is located along the far northeastern shores of [[Keltia]]. Two-thirds of the island are locked in permanent ice. The southern portion in the ice-free zone is mostly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machair machair], a fertile low-lying dune pastureland. The shore is deeply indented by arms of the sea. The coast is mostly sandy beaches backed by dunes and machair on west coast, giving way to an expansive peat-covered plateau in the center of the island. The eastern coastline is markedly more rugged and is mostly rocky cliffs broken by small coves and beaches. The highest point of the island only reaches around 2,000 feet above sea level (609.6m). The landscape is punctuated by a large number of freshwater lochs.

==Economy==

The economy of Ioanna is heavily reliant on tourism. Traditional industries are crofting, fishing and weaving. Peat is still cut as a fuel in many areas. Some industrial manufacturing exists in the southern area of the island, but most manufactured goods need to be imported from nearby countries such as [[Moorland]] and [[Mercury]]. Ioanna continues to use the former currency of Bosworth, the Rosen (R), and maintains a small mint that produces its own coinage. Nonetheless, due to the frailty of the small independent Ioannan market, the [[Rosen]] is currently pegged to Moorland's Redoubt Crown (RDC), which is considered regionally stable.

==Infrastructure==

Ioanna prides itself on being as self-sustaining as possible, and acquires all its power supply domestically. As of 1755, 90% of the power supply is renewable energy, with only one coal plant still remaining in operation. This last coal plant is slated to be decommissioned within the next five years as the construction of a new Small Modular reactor (SMR) is completed. The main source of energy for the island is supplied through a combination of large wind and solar farms, and an innovative tidal energy project in Diseart Bay.

Waste management is handled at the Ban Landfill and Incinerator Plant (BLIP). Given the small size of the island, most residents bring their trash to the landfill and there is no municipal pick up of waste. The incinerator is a waste-to-energy plant and provides some power for the island. Recyclable goods are separated at the landfill by waste operators and shipped back to mainland [[Keltia]] for processing. Waste that can be neither recycled or incinerated is sent to the landfill. Hazardous waste, such as radioactive material, is shipped overseas at considerable cost; thus this is kept to a minimum and strictly regulated.

Transportation around the island is accessible by paved roads. A paved circuit road serves most of the island and also provides an emergency route for EMS crews, evacuations and other such events. Several paved crossroads exist connecting the circuit road to other communities and to provide shorter routes in-between these locations. The island has no rail service yet. Baudricourt serves as the main travel port, serving as the main port for ferries traveling to and from the mainland, and also as the main hub for imports/exports. The city also has Ioanna's [[Baudricourt International Airport|only international airport]]. A smaller domestic airport is located in [[Yew]].

See also: [[Economy of Ioanna]]

==Government and politics==

Ioanna is governed as a feudal monarchy with elements derived from its early days as a chivalric order. The Lord essentially owns all of Ioanna, granting fiefs to vassals who then manage their estates or manors. Before the lord can grant land (a fief) to someone, he has to make that person a vassal. This is done at a commendation ceremony comprising an act of homage and an oath of fealty. During homage, the lord and vassal enter into a contract in which the vassal promised to fight for the lord at his command, whilst the lord agrees to protect the vassal from external forces. The vassal's principal obligation to the lord is to provide aid or military service. Using whatever equipment the vassal can obtain by virtue of the revenues from the fief, the vassal has to answer calls to military service by the lord. Exceptionally large estates are usually referred to as manors, who are granted the title ''Knight of the Court''. A Knight's manor often included a large, sometimes fortified manor house or castle in which the lord of the manor and his dependents lived and administered a rural estate, and a population of laborers or serfs who worked the surrounding land to support themselves and the lord. At times the Lord of Ioanna will call a council of these Knights to session for executive matters and consult, referred to as the Council of Knights. These sessions are moderated by a High Knight, chosen as a neutral arbiter by popular vote among the Council to serve in that role. Currently, Ioanna is divided into six fiefs. The Council of Knights therefore has six seats, with the Lord serving as a tie-breaker in the absence of quorum.

[[File:Ioanna big map fiefs.png|thumb|left|Fiefs of Ioanna]]

Council of Knights - as of 1750 AN
{| class="wikitable"
! Title !! Name !! Fief
|-
| Lord of Ioanna || Sir [[John Morgan]] || [[Yew]]
|-
| High Knight || Sir [[Tristan Valient]] || Staonaig
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir Nigel MacPherson || Ceann Tsear
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Lady Elizabeth Jordain || Liana
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir Frances Neville || Ghairdean
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Sir Joris Collins || Diseart
|-
| Knight of the Realm || Lady Saoirse Xander || Machar
|}

=== Ethnic Demographics (c. 1750) ===

* '''Bosworthian:''' 11,202
* '''Nova English:''' 8,911
* '''Moorlander:''' 5,179
* '''Brettish:''' 2,297
* '''Norse:''' 2,093
* '''Mercurian:''' 1,534
* '''Other:''' ~1,468

See also: [[Foreign relations of Ioanna]]

==Culture==

Ioannan culture strongly reflects its roots in the [[Britannics|Britannic]] people. Like many locations in the northeast corner of [[Keltia]], Ioanna's population is descended mostly from people originally from [[Bosworth]], [[Nova England]]/[[Moorland]], and the [[Brettish Isles]]. The locals consider themselves to be the closest descendants of Bosworth, and proudly carry on traditions from that country to this day. Saint Joan is the patron saint of the island, and the locals remain a deeply religious people, with nearly 70% of families attending church regularly. The [[Abbey Chinon|Abbey of Chinon]] remains an active church to this day, and many festivities and folklore are centered around Joan and her exploits. Ionnan literature is also well-regarded, such as the poem of [[Fáelchú Bán]].

Other traditions include raising oxen; a major staple on the island and one which locals are very proud of. A local version of haggis is made from ox, and considered a delicacy that has since been named the national dish.

==Defence==

The military of Ioanna is a continuation of the original chivalric order that followed Saint Joan to the island from Bosworth. Called the [[Sovereign Military Order of Ioanna]], they are a modern continuation of the original mounted knights. While rank and title continue to reflect the original hierarchy of the order, traditional armored knights on horseback are today only a ceremonial contingent of the modern army. The SMOI stands as possibly the smallest standing military on Micras, with a total active personnel of 250.

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Venison stew

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[[File:425-venison-stew.jpg|thumb|Traditional stew and ale]]
'''Venison stew''' is a traditional dish and the national food of the Kingdom of [[Moorland]]. It was first popularized by the people of [[Nova England]] who preceded the modern Moorlander population. It is traditionally made with the meat of [[Highland elk]], although in modern times where the elk population is now greatly diminished, beef or ox is often substituted. In Nova English society, it was popular in the Faedertellus as Ale & Venison stew, which was often served alongside a pint of [[Moorlander Ale|Dark Ale]]. Elk venison is nowadays elk venison is only used for holiday meals and/or special occasions. Most often the recipe combines venison, stock and red wine. It also features root vegetables like carrots and potatoes cooked slowly until tender, making for a rich and hearty stew.

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Venison stew

2026-07-28T17:31:59Z

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'''Venison stew''' is a traditional dish and the national food of the Kingdom of [[Moorland]]. It was first popularized by the people of [[Nova England]] who preceded the modern Moorlander population. It is traditionally made with the meat of [[Highland elk]], although in modern times where the elk population is now greatly diminished, beef or ox is often substituted. In Nova English society, it was popular in the Faedertellus as Ale & Venison stew, which was often served alongside a pint of [[Moorlander Ale|Dark Ale]]. Elk venison is nowadays elk venison is only used for holiday meals and/or special occasions. Most often the recipe combines venison, stock and red wine. It also features root vegetables like carrots and potatoes cooked slowly until tender, making for a rich and hearty stew.

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Monastery bread

2026-07-28T17:03:53Z

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[[File:Monastery bread.jpeg|thumb|Traditional loaf of Monastery Bread]]
'''Monastery Bread''' is a traditional bread produced in [[Ioanna]] that is revered as the national dish there. It is a wholemeal loaf, enriched with a handful of porridge oats. A traditional bread that was first produced by the monks of the [[Abbey Chinon]], it became popularized across the island and is now considered a local delicacy. It is bread for breakfast or late afternoon, whether toasted or not, and delicious spread with the best of butter and a good jam or honey. Although the recipe is not kept secret, the bread produced on Ioanna itself is considered to have a distinct flavor profile due to local ingredients, and is therefore popular as an export; though not nearly as much as [[Highland Ale]].

{| class="wikitable"
! Ingredients
|-
|250 gms wholemeal or whole wheat bread flour
|-
|125 gms of strong white bread flour
|-
|125 gms porridge oats (or oatmeal, if that's how you know it)
|-
|1½ teaspoon of crushed sea salt
|-
|1 teaspoon runny honey
|-
|25 gms unsalted butter
|-
|350 gms of tepid water
|}

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2026-07-28T17:02:57Z

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