Ertia
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| Official language | English |
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| Capital | Technograd |
| Largest cities | Technograd |
| Date founded | 1200 AN |
| Government | Technocracy |
| Current leader | Advisor Joon Wong |
The Instrumentality of Ertia, or simply Ertia, is a quasi-independent state located in northwestern Keltia near Red Lake and bordering the Country of Liberty directly to its south.
History
Ertia began its life as a scientific outpost of the United Soviet States of Col around 2789 ASC. The Soviets wanted to establish an isolated research facility both for security and in order to conduct research completely uninhibited. Col poured all its academia into Ertia, meanwhile delving deep into the mountains to build a network of tunnels and compounds within the safety of the bedrock. Its name was chosen as a direct opposite to the word inertia, which means slow or slothful; therefore meaning fast or driven. And indeed that was what Ertia was; a bustle of workers ever striving to achieve the latest in scientific breakthroughs. As time wore on, more and more scientists and workers came to Ertia and it developed into an entity of its own. Even after the Central Soviet in Benkerngrad collapsed, Ertia had by that time become a city hidden away in the mountains, impervious to the world around it. Undaunted, the society continued on its own, with the scientists eventually taking over where the politicians left off. This eventually metamorphosed into the polity known as the Instrumentality, a technocratic state ruled by scientific advisors. With a strong fear of the outside world they utterly isolated themselves in the mountains and were completely unknown until immigrants from neighboring Liberty began encroaching upon their lands.
