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Shireroth's modern founding was in 1443 (the beginning of the Third Era). Foreign recognition of the Kaisership occurred later, in approximately 1462, with Erik Mortis becoming Kaiser Metzler I. The accurate record keeping in the Imperial Household began with Gaelen II in 1465, and all [[shire:List of Kaisrs|accession dates]] after that are taken to be authentic. | |||
====The modern era==== | |||
The Wars of the Dark Orchid were a series of interconnected conflicts beginning in 1635 AN and finally coming to a conclusion in the year 1644 with the entry of Kaiseress Noor into Shirekeep. The prime cause of the conflict was the unbalanced relationship between a weakened Imperial Government and the over-mighty [[shire:Imperial States|imperial states]], of which [[Elwynn]] was the prime offender. | The Wars of the Dark Orchid were a series of interconnected conflicts beginning in 1635 AN and finally coming to a conclusion in the year 1644 with the entry of Kaiseress Noor into Shirekeep. The prime cause of the conflict was the unbalanced relationship between a weakened Imperial Government and the over-mighty [[shire:Imperial States|imperial states]], of which [[Elwynn]] was the prime offender. | ||
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It was the scale of this slaughter which convinced Kaiser Dominus to initiate war-crimes trials against the guilty parties of both sides in the civil war. A matter of some embarrassment considering the support that the Imperial Government and the ESB Group had lavished on Queen Noor's private army. By the end of the war however the Jaysh was a broken force, discredited both morally and militarily. | It was the scale of this slaughter which convinced Kaiser Dominus to initiate war-crimes trials against the guilty parties of both sides in the civil war. A matter of some embarrassment considering the support that the Imperial Government and the ESB Group had lavished on Queen Noor's private army. By the end of the war however the Jaysh was a broken force, discredited both morally and militarily. | ||
1644, the Year of the Four Kaisers, was a tumultuous moment in Shirerithian History which saw the deposition and murder of Kaiser Dominus, and the emergence of three claimants to the Golden Mango Throne. | |||
The | The next cycle of wars that began with the Struggle for the South (1649–1651), a series of inter-related disputes and conflicts following the Elwynnese confiscation of Mishalan and the collapse, demotion and or dissolution of the Lich Realms of Lichbrook and Minarboria, ending the dominion of the dead over the lands of southern Benacia. The disputes saw an increase in anti-Elwynnese sentiment and the first semblance of opposition to the Ayreon-Kalirion dynastic succession to the Mango Throne. | ||
The Struggle ended with the restoration of Mishalan, the establishment of the Domain of Malarboria and finally the [[shire:Auspicious Occasion|Auspicious Occasion of 1651]]. This decree marked the beginning of a systemic purge of [[Stormark|Storrish]] influence in the Imperial Republic. | |||
Debate continues as to whether the establishment of a new period of dynastic rule constitutes a fourth era. In the past, using a discredited historiography and calendar, as many as seven eras were postulated. However, following the Auspicious Occasion, a more rational approach to historical research has taken hold and the process of investigating and verifying the reigns of the Kaisers of the early era, and indeed the nature of their rule, is ongoing. | Debate continues as to whether the establishment of a new period of dynastic rule constitutes a fourth era. In the past, using a discredited historiography and calendar, as many as seven eras were postulated. However, following the Auspicious Occasion, a more rational approach to historical research has taken hold and the process of investigating and verifying the reigns of the Kaisers of the early era, and indeed the nature of their rule, is ongoing. | ||
Legitimacy rested upon descent from Kaiser Raynor I. After seventeen centuries, much of Western and Central Benacia, as well as a fair smattering of Babkhi and Kildari can claim this boon. Nonetheless the frequently rotating succession remained within the clutches of a dozen or so noble houses who jealously guarded their notoriously intermarried bloodlines. In spite of the the vigilance of the Imperial Republic's noble oligarchs there have been several "sanglorian" Kaisers in the modern era, alongside a half dozen inhuman Kaisers (whether revenants or aliens). As the Third Era wore on, things became progressively stranger, until a measure of sanity was restored by the confirmation of the dynastic succession in the hands of the House of Ayreon-Kalirion, itself being however troubled by some of its dynastic associations. | Legitimacy rested upon descent from Kaiser Raynor I. After seventeen centuries, much of Western and Central Benacia, as well as a fair smattering of Babkhi and Kildari can claim this boon. Nonetheless the frequently rotating succession remained within the clutches of a dozen or so noble houses who jealously guarded their notoriously intermarried bloodlines. In spite of the the vigilance of the Imperial Republic's noble oligarchs there have been several "sanglorian" Kaisers in the modern era, alongside a half dozen inhuman Kaisers (whether revenants or aliens). As the Third Era wore on, things became progressively stranger, until a measure of sanity was restored by the confirmation of the dynastic succession in the hands of the House of Ayreon-Kalirion, itself being however troubled by some of its dynastic associations. |
Revision as of 21:12, 2 January 2018
Imperial Republic of Shireroth Sxiroþ | |||
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Motto: Shireroth sumus. Tempus in parte nostrum est. | |||
Anthem: Land of the nifty | |||
Map versions | All | ||
Capital | Shirekeep | ||
Largest city | Shirekeep, Ardashirshahr Allswell, Araxion, Citadel, Cortallia, Demonsfall, Echo, Glenfiddich, Mesior, Nee | ||
Official language(s) | Præta Sxiröþes (official), Shirerithian English (administrative), Elw, Yardistani | ||
Official religion(s) | Cedrism | ||
Demonym | Shirerithian, Shirithian | ||
- Adjective | Shirerithian, Shirithian | ||
Government | Federative Constitutional Monarchy | ||
- Kaiser of Shireroth | Kaiser Ayreon IV | ||
- Steward | Waldemar Zinkgraven | ||
- Legislature | Landsraad | ||
Establishment | 1442 AN | ||
Area | NA | ||
Population | 540,217,921 | ||
Active population | n/a | ||
Currency | Erb (€) | ||
Calendar | |||
Time zone(s) | |||
Mains electricity | |||
Driving side | |||
Track gauge | |||
National website | ShireWiki | ||
National forum | Shirithian Forum | ||
National animal | Blue Moose | ||
National food | Mango | ||
National drink | Antyan wine | ||
National tree | Malarbor | ||
Abbreviation | IRS |
The Imperial Republic of Shireroth, or simply Shireroth (Istvanistani: ['ʃaɪɻ.ɻɑθ]; Yardistani: Širo ['ʃi.rɔ]; Praeta Sxirothes: Sxiro) is a neo-feudal empire that has dominated the Benacian continent, as well as vast swathes of the globe at various intervals, for more than two hundred and fourteen years under the Norton calendar. It is, not withstanding its largely mythical history, by any reasonable standard the most ancient of the surviving states on Micras.
History
For a more in depth treatment of the various (mutually contradictory) histories of Shireroth, please peruse the Shirewiki.
The general tradition is that Shireroth was founded as a successor state to the enlightened and technologically advanced Empire of Khaz Modan (-1211bN to -0bN) which was brought to an end by a sudden and violent cataclysm brought on by dabbling in inter-dimensional research, which seldom ends well. In this instance the experimentation of the so-called mages established a connection between Micras and a pocket hell-dimension which allowed hostile entities to enter this plane of existence, whilst concurrently releasing a pulse of energy which destroyed the Empire's home island and plunged the western hemisphere into a dark age that was, not coincidentally, the First Era (circa 0 AN to circa 880 AN).
Second Era: 878 – 1442
Third Era
Shireroth's modern founding was in 1443 (the beginning of the Third Era). Foreign recognition of the Kaisership occurred later, in approximately 1462, with Erik Mortis becoming Kaiser Metzler I. The accurate record keeping in the Imperial Household began with Gaelen II in 1465, and all accession dates after that are taken to be authentic.
The modern era
The Wars of the Dark Orchid were a series of interconnected conflicts beginning in 1635 AN and finally coming to a conclusion in the year 1644 with the entry of Kaiseress Noor into Shirekeep. The prime cause of the conflict was the unbalanced relationship between a weakened Imperial Government and the over-mighty imperial states, of which Elwynn was the prime offender.
The wars began with the so-called River War (1635), an unsuccessful attempt by hard-line Cedrists and Elwynnese ultra-nationalists to mount a quick decapitation strike on the Monarchy of Elwynn which was led by Princess Margana, the daughter of Kaiser Brrapa VII and sponsored by the patricians of Shirekeep and the Court within Raynor's Keep.
In spite of being well resourced and brutally executed, the attempted takeover of Elwynn by a combination of a coup and 'hybrid warfare' failed spectacularly and rebounded upon the heads of the plotters. Not only were they unsuccessful in their efforts to exterminate the Royal Family of Elwynn but the war ended with the King's father entering Shirekeep as a conqueror.
It was said by some that Brrapa VII was conveniently ill at the start of the war and conveniently dead at its end.
One of the notable aspects of the war, which effectively lasted for two months at most, was the rate at which stockpiles of modern hi-tech guided munitions and missiles were rapidly depleted. The Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces (ISAF) had expended its reserves of cruise missiles within the first week of the conflict and was still trying to acquire and adapt ship launched missiles from the Imperial Shirerithian Navy (which had remained neutral in the conflict) by the time the war ended. Similarly the UDF had been caught short and taken by surprise by the war and was still trying to reactivate the Southron Barrage programme by the war's end. The UDF had also run its stockpiles of medium-range anti-aircraft missiles down to the point of exhaustion during the Battle of Echo. The decision of the Imperialists to hold back their remaining air assets, particularly the UCAVs, after the shocking losses of that engagement proved to be the hinge point that turned what might have been a mere setback into the decisive victory that ensured the survival of the Elwynnese Union and its eventual victory.
By the final weeks of the war even the supplies of unguided 'dumb' bombs were being run down to the point that the Arandur of Alalehzamin and Utasia was obliged to establish workshops to produce crude unguided rockets in order to keep up the rate of fire on the defenders of Shirekeep and the ISAF was giving serious consideration to adapting its remaining UCAV force to drop re-purposed canisters packed with high-explosives.
This experience subsequently informed the strategic and operational doctrines of both the UDF and the reformed (i.e. purged) Imperial Forces in that the technologically sophisticated weapons systems began to be viewed as an exquisitely crafted and expensive blade of tremendous penetrating power that nonetheless blunted quickly through frequent use. For this reason it began to be felt that what was required was a second line of sufficient mass and firepower that would be less sophisticated, and for therefore more affordable, that could get the job done - through blunt object trauma if need be - once the enemy's own, exquisitely wrought, first line of defences had been sufficiently burnt through to provide an opening.
The desire to test this new theory against a representation of an avowedly unconventional opposing force gave rise to the series of military exercises known as Operation Long Haul and all the attendant controversies that ensued when neighbouring Minarboria became thoroughly alarmed.
The Anarchy of Angularis (1635-1640) was a five year period of disorder in which Elw ultra-nationalists and other separatist, anti-monarchist and anti-imperialist groups waged a low level insurgency, gradually extending their influence throughout the Vale of Angularis. These forces were violently suppressed by Elwynnese and Imperial Forces under the overall direction of the Arandur of Alalehzamin and Utasia in the Campaign of 1639, considered by some to be amongst one of the bloodiest episodes in modern Benacian history, second only to the Green Mortality of 1605 in the reign of Kaiser Aiomide, although this record was subsequently overtaken the calamities of the 1650s.
Martial Law in Goldshire (1639) was declared after the assassination of the Goldshirean and Elwynnese Princes Arn and Rostam Ayreon-Kalirion by parties unknown in the year 1639. This being the third such attempt on a member of the Ayreon-Kalirion bloodline in which poison was administered in a secure environment, suspicion quickly turned to the Leonid Guard whose duty was to protect the family of the Emira of Sathrati. This latest failing proved to be final straw and the Royal Government of Goldshire, administered by the ESB-Jörmungandr Group, declared martial law and instigated a purge of suspect individuals and organisations within the Kingdom. That this poisoning was part of a wider conspiracy was proved when the secretive Assayers successfully, albeit temporarily, countermanded the martial law decree.
After two days of confusion, Queen Noor was able to reassert her authority and reinstated the martial law decree - adding to it the proscription of the now openly treacherous Assayers. The Assayers, more formally the Chamber of Assay of the Avakair Mint and Bullion Depository, had a fearsome reputation for being able to instil psychological terror and also a capacity for actual acts of terror, including abduction, torture and assassination, in pursuit of its relentless drive to try and maintain standards of purity in the 'gold standard' Erb and a ruthless determination to destroy any threats to that self same purity. This put them on an inevitable collision course with the ESB-Jörmungandr Group which has, no less ruthlessly, sought to promote its fiat currency - the Teldrin Thaler - throughout the river ports of the the Red Elwynn and beyond.
Faced by such a dangerous and unpredictable foe, and concerned about wavering morale amongst the Goldshire Regulars, the Royal Government, on the 11th of Araroqpinu 1639, invoked its right under the Martial Code of Shireroth to seek the assistance of Imperial Forces. The Imperial Government had already taken steps to order Leonid Guards based overseas to return to ESB run rendition facilities in Goldshire and Zy-Rodun. Now, with an official invitation, it could act with full force. The situation led inevitably to full blown civil war (1639-1643).
The civil war ended with the Armistice of Airle (Reire the 15th of Nomeziooqu, 1643), the terms of which surprisingly generous, by Shirerithian standards. Rebel leaders were castrated and sent to monasteries. Golems, alchemical artefacts and Gnostic grimoires meanwhile were be destroyed. Beyond this there was a prohibition on reprisals. Imperial Constabulary assumed responsibility for peacekeeping in Goldshire while the crimes of the rebels, as well as of pro-government militias were to be investigated equally by judicially appointed inquisitors.
The civil war saw a revival in the ancient Cedrist religion as well as the reintroduction of various practices such as gladiatorial combat, human sacrifice and the mass enslavement of displaced persons. The various factions on both sides sought to make the war pay for itself by resorting to the plunder of the opposing sides territory. Criminality also dramatically increased with the Mercaja side especially resorting to drugs smuggling, extortion, racketeering and the fraudulent transmutation of base metals into gold and silver in order to fund its operations.
Officially the Royal Government of Goldshire acknowledged 43,770 fatalities as a consequence of the civil war. It has however been suggested that these figures were deliberately underplayed to avoid causing embarrassment to the Alexandrian government during the negotiations leading up to the formation of the Sxiro-Alexandrian-Natopian Entente.
An estimate contained in a report by the ESB Group suggested a death-toll of 8,431,770, several orders of magnitude greater than the official tally. The reason for the disparity laid in the omission from official statistics of the victims of chemical weapons attacks carried out by the Imperial Forces and the death-toll from clean-up operations in Lunaris after the collapse of the organised rebellion. The report and its authors were suppressed and pulped by the Jaysh al-Sathrati on the orders of Queen Noor.
Holwinn and Lunaris felt the effects of the war disproportionately, with advance and retreat of first the Jaysh al-Sathrati and then the Army of the Golden Dawn which caught the civilian populations of those two counties in a desperate maelstrom of violent reprisal, where civilians were targeted as much as, if not more often than, the opposing combatants. 25% of the Lunatic population was killed or died of communicable diseases during the conflict whilst a staggering 41% of the population of the County of Holwinn perished as collateral damage after the Technomaezji unleashed its full arsenal of chemical and biological munitions in an attempt to halt the rebel advance towards Cabbagefall.
It was the scale of this slaughter which convinced Kaiser Dominus to initiate war-crimes trials against the guilty parties of both sides in the civil war. A matter of some embarrassment considering the support that the Imperial Government and the ESB Group had lavished on Queen Noor's private army. By the end of the war however the Jaysh was a broken force, discredited both morally and militarily.
1644, the Year of the Four Kaisers, was a tumultuous moment in Shirerithian History which saw the deposition and murder of Kaiser Dominus, and the emergence of three claimants to the Golden Mango Throne.
The next cycle of wars that began with the Struggle for the South (1649–1651), a series of inter-related disputes and conflicts following the Elwynnese confiscation of Mishalan and the collapse, demotion and or dissolution of the Lich Realms of Lichbrook and Minarboria, ending the dominion of the dead over the lands of southern Benacia. The disputes saw an increase in anti-Elwynnese sentiment and the first semblance of opposition to the Ayreon-Kalirion dynastic succession to the Mango Throne.
The Struggle ended with the restoration of Mishalan, the establishment of the Domain of Malarboria and finally the Auspicious Occasion of 1651. This decree marked the beginning of a systemic purge of Storrish influence in the Imperial Republic.
Debate continues as to whether the establishment of a new period of dynastic rule constitutes a fourth era. In the past, using a discredited historiography and calendar, as many as seven eras were postulated. However, following the Auspicious Occasion, a more rational approach to historical research has taken hold and the process of investigating and verifying the reigns of the Kaisers of the early era, and indeed the nature of their rule, is ongoing.
Legitimacy rested upon descent from Kaiser Raynor I. After seventeen centuries, much of Western and Central Benacia, as well as a fair smattering of Babkhi and Kildari can claim this boon. Nonetheless the frequently rotating succession remained within the clutches of a dozen or so noble houses who jealously guarded their notoriously intermarried bloodlines. In spite of the the vigilance of the Imperial Republic's noble oligarchs there have been several "sanglorian" Kaisers in the modern era, alongside a half dozen inhuman Kaisers (whether revenants or aliens). As the Third Era wore on, things became progressively stranger, until a measure of sanity was restored by the confirmation of the dynastic succession in the hands of the House of Ayreon-Kalirion, itself being however troubled by some of its dynastic associations.
Between 1636 and 1655, between the Wars of the Dark Orchid, the Auspicious Occasion, the Alexandrian Flu, famine, emigration, and the War of Lost Brothers the population of Shireroth fell by 21% to 540 million.
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Demographics
The Shirerithian population is distributed unevenly into the following categories: 1% citizens, 82% denizens, 9% in loyal subjecthood, and 11% in community servitude.
By subdivision these are distributed as follows:
Subdivision | Jurisdiction | Citizens | Denizens | Loyal Subjects | Community Servitors | TOTAL |
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Agnesia | ELW | 182,712 | 18,513,458 | 0 | 0 | 18,696,170 |
Alalehzamin | ELW | 482,247 | 40,111,222 | 0 | 0 | 40,593,469 |
Amarr | MAL | 57,044 | 5,932,854 | 601,046 | 710,023 | 7,300,967 |
Amity | JKM | 125,013 | 13,500,000 | 2,105,661 | 3,017,236 | 18,747,910 |
Angularis | MAL | 16,050 | 2,210,113 | 221,012 | 902,175 | 3,349,350 |
Araxion | ELW | 97,153 | 10,192,888 | 0 | 0 | 10,290,041 |
Automatica | ELW | 83,290 | 8,199,991 | 0 | 0 | 8,283,281 |
Batavia | BAT | 8,017 | 582,972 | 443,917 | 5,108,063 | 6,142,969 |
Benacia–Iridia | MAL | 3,107 | 503,134 | 32,046 | 41,428 | 579,715 |
Cape Farewell | ELW | 105,808 | 9,846,340 | 0 | 0 | 9,952,148 |
Caverden | BRK | 162,066 | 15,871,071 | 816,186 | 708,363 | 17,557,686 |
Cimmeria with Illumination | ELW | 76,863 | 9,877,991 | 0 | 0 | 9,954,854 |
Crowsilver | GLD | 20,027 | 2,770,000 | 180,073 | 210,032 | 3,180,132 |
Dietsland | CPS | 5,024 | 600,199 | 60,774 | 85,752 | 751,749 |
Eliria | ELW | 304,104 | 9,188,991 | 0 | 0 | 9,493,095 |
Elsyran | GLD | 203,886 | 20,346,856 | 2,019,007 | 719,771 | 23,289,520 |
Fiorecittà | TEL | 5,049 | 512,000 | 0 | 0 | 517,049 |
Florencia | MAL | 102,992 | 1,477,911 | 138,141 | 111,192 | 1,830,236 |
Froyalan NR | FNR | 2,138 | 198,186 | 115,607 | 6,101,880 | 6,417,811 |
Hawshire–Dura | HSD | 43,761 | 3,220,240 | 0 | 0 | 3,264,001 |
Highpass | MAL | 3,977 | 148,530 | 320,142 | 103,573 | 576,222 |
Holwinn | GLD | 67,663 | 8,936,977 | 618,575 | 210,057 | 9,833,272 |
Iserdia | ELW | 270,057 | 25,888,199 | 0 | 0 | 26,158,256 |
Kezan | KZN | 264,407 | 1,762,714 | 0 | 0 | 2,027,121 |
Kralizec | BRK | 110,018 | 11,056,432 | 654,991 | 430,124 | 12,251,565 |
Lachmeren | MAL | 80,631 | 7,932,854 | 486,062 | 7,001,662 | 15,501,209 |
Lachmodan | MAL | 150,013 | 15,451,711 | 1,981,162 | 651,555 | 18,234,441 |
Lunaris | GLD | 70,084 | 7,220,283 | 4,531,019 | 2,162,614 | 13,984,000 |
Lywall | LYP | 3,483 | 354,211 | 914,610 | 813,103 | 2,085,407 |
Lywind | MAL | 94,103 | 9,715,777 | 971,016 | 204,356 | 10,985,252 |
Mar-Sara | MSR | 220,701 | 2,305,263 | 110,076 | 942 | 2,636,982 |
Mil Gov Oleslaad | MGO | 2,167 | 336,137 | 17,280 | 5,291,074 | 5,646,658 |
Mil Gov Westpoint | MGW | 9,037 | 981,238 | 51,842 | 4,718,037 | 5,760,154 |
Mirioth | JKM | 78,535 | 7,440,305 | 817,353 | 510,916 | 8,847,109 |
Mishalan | MSH | 173,524 | 17,000,111 | 2,018,571 | 3,052,055 | 22,244,261 |
Monty Crisco | BRK | 148,826 | 13,816,992 | 1,001,874 | 651,047 | 15,618,739 |
Musica with Delta | BRK | 88,242 | 8,019,187 | 817,010 | 1,402,026 | 10,326,465 |
New Blackstone | NBL | 810 | 75,865 | 46,807 | 15,682 | 139,164 |
Puritania | CPS | 4,237 | 430,039 | 102,025 | 100,017 | 636,318 |
Raikoth | ELW | 30,176 | 2,001,002 | 0 | 0 | 2,031,178 |
Romero | TEL | 8,534 | 700,100 | 0 | 0 | 708,634 |
Rossavro | TEL | 5,199 | 510,100 | 0 | 0 | 515,299 |
Savona | TEL | 4,412 | 400,300 | 0 | 0 | 404,712 |
Scoglitto | TEL | 2,103 | 234,500 | 0 | 0 | 236,603 |
Shimmerspring | MAL | 2,981 | 105,045 | 201,050 | 623,991 | 933,067 |
Shirekeep | SHK | 427,166 | 21,791,866 | 6,018,917 | 1,819,582 | 30,057,531 |
Skyla | BRK | 7,816 | 420,991 | 433,173 | 318,917 | 1,180,897 |
So-Sara | JKM | 102,881 | 12,170,024 | 8,001,766 | 3,916,532 | 24,191,203 |
Suthergold | GLD | 208,882 | 19,728,215 | 1,187,913 | 210,491 | 21,335,501 |
Talenore | TNR | 5,131 | 3,524,094 | 0 | 0 | 3,529,225 |
Transamarr | TEL | 9,117 | 819,199 | 0 | 0 | 828,316 |
Utasia | ELW | 189,155 | 18,991,001 | 0 | 0 | 1,918,156 |
Vattnaland | ELW | 60,328 | 6,406,145 | 0 | 0 | 7,506,665 |
Voltrue | CPS | 8,175 | 1,065,332 | 435,750 | 67,186 | 1,576,443 |
Wintergleam | GLD | 29,129 | 3,050,702 | 2,100,201 | 2,018,881 | 7,198,913 |
Yardistan | JKM | 298,186 | 38,560,730 | 6,791,771 | 4,306,660 | 49,975,347 |
Z and Azarea | BRK | 4,017 | 340,999 | 610,100 | 410,175 | 1,365,291 |
Zy-Rodun | ZYR | 1,607 | 140,468 | 415,100 | 483,017 | 1,040,192 |
TOTAL | IRS | 5,331,861 | 443,490,055 | 48389626 | 59210187 | 540,217,921 |