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Nation Name Safirian Empire
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Leader HIM Maia, Safir Empress
Race/s Safir (Racial Abilities: Telepathy, Teleportation) (Residual Ability: Keen Senses)
The Safir are a naturally psionic, blue-blooded and -skinned race whose average female stands at about 6'4", and whose average male stands at about 5'4". They are humanoid — some would say elfinoid — in form, able to have hair and eyes of any colour (although shades of blue are rare in those without albinism). Female Safir come into heat in the dead of winter, and at this time they usually drop everything else and find somebody to mate with, male or female, thus continuing the species. Most Safir are capable of telepathy, minor telekinesis, and short-range teleportation, although some are capable of such things as mind control, seeing into the future, energy healing, or even manipulation of the elements. These powers do have their drawback, though, and stories of Safir committing suicide in spectacular ways, often making use (or indeed abuse) of their psionics, are sadly not uncommon.
Safir Racial Ability #1: Telepathy
The Safir are a naturally telepathic race, and it is not unheard of for one to learn to speak with her mind before she speaks with her voice, indeed if she learns to use her voice at all. Safir telepathy is said to be much richer and more nuanced than normal speech, and Safir tend to 'send" more smoothly than they can speak.
Safir Racial Ability #2: Telekinesis
Most Safir, untrained, are capable of teleporting about 100 feet at a time, and can teleport five or six times before tiring.
Safir Residual Ability: Keen Senses
Perhaps owing to their psionic abilities, a Safir's senses are rather sharp compared to a human's, and as such she can see, hear, etc. things long before you or I could.
Form of Government Federal parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy
Safiria is a federal state in which each state and province is autonomous in many matters, a parliamentary democracy in which rule is exercised by the people either directly or through their elected representatives, and a constitutional monarchy in which all power flows from the Crown.
Important Officials Empress Maia, Interim Prime Minister Aina Tsivas, Minister of the Exterior Siari Łina (available for play), Minister of Defence Aþame Meiao (available), Supreme Ardian Asari Aštara (available)
The Safir Empress is Safiria's head of state, the Prime Minister its head of government. The Minister of Defence is the cabinet official in charge of Safiria's military and federal police. The Supreme Ardian is the highest-ranking officer in the Safirian Air Force.
Economic System Free market
The Safirian Empire has a modern, free market economy, with prices and availability of goods controlled by the law of supply and demand, and with a rather wide-reaching safety net in place to protect the consumer and employee.
Economic Tier
Decided by moderator.
Currency Lire (SFL) (£). One lire is equal to 2.5 g of silver.
Nation Bonus
1 custom bonus that allows your people to stand out from all the others.
History
Thousand Kingdoms period (2508 BCE — 462 CE)
The Thousand Kingdoms period began when the Grand Duchy of Qalani was founded in 2508 BCE. Despite its name, there were never more than a hundred or so states occupying the Safirian sphere of influence. The lingua franca of Safiria at the time was Old Sylphic, which had evolved from and gradually displaced Proto-Sylphic in the preceding centuries. In 33 BCE, Grand Duchess Rei IV initiated the Great Reform, which, among other things, transformed Old Sylphic into modern Xylphika.
First Empire (462 — 802)
The First Empire was created with the unification of the various lesser states in the Treaty of Seven Hills. During the period of the First Empire, the Diamond Nation's marches were constantly in flux as warlords on its periphery submitted to and broke away from the Safir Empress at the drop of a hat. It was in the First Empire that paper and printing were first invented, along with the crossbow. The First Empire fell when Rei XVI died without issue, sparking the War of the Safirian Succession.
Second Empire (826 — 1557)
The brutal war would not end until 24 years later, when Amane the Great of the House of Ashura seized the city of Aňira and proclaimed herself Queen of the Safir, creating the Second Empire. The following six centuries were a period of peace and prosperity, seeing the introduction of parliamentary democracy and industrial mass production, along with the inventions of movable type, the vacuum tube, and the radio; however, by 1555, monarchical apathy and governmental mismanagement had left the country all but in ruin. In response, the people elected Ywtaka Amǔra of the Safirian Independence Party, who promised that she would save Safiria from collapse and restore the prosperity that had been known years ago.
Safirian State (1557 — 1900)
However, the people who elected Amǔra would not until it was too late learn of the hell to which they had damned themselves. On 11 October 1555, Aňira Liberal Congress member Amane Þelaqi burned down Empire House; three days later, Parliament, in a session swarming with Safirian Army soldiers under Amǔra's thumb, passed the Enabling Act by a vote of 938 to 3. The Act would take effect two years later, abolishing the monarchy and creating a dictatorship. Agriculture and industry were immediately and brutally collectivised, resulting in the death or forced disappearance of 268 million people — 80% of the Second Empire's population — and the remaining 20% were no better off, being constantly under surveillance on suspicion, real or imagined, of breaking laws that became exponentially more strict with the passage of time. Amǔra would die of a combination of methamphetamine overdose and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) in 1676; her successor, Hqari Mneni, would, in the ensuing century, make the government more transparent, end surveillance of private citizens, restore democracy to a certain extent, and partially reverse collectivisation, creating, gradually, a state not dissimilar to the Soviet Union in the 1980s. This process of democratisation would result in many technological and infrastructural innovations, including automobiles, television, space travel, the computer, and the motorway system. However, after Mneni's death in 1780, her successors would fall victim to the same apathy that ended the Second Empire 230 years earlier.
Third Empire (1900 — )
After nearly two and a half centuries of complete neglect by the State, the people of Safiria would take arms in what is now known as the Imperial Reconquista, storming the Commune, executing Generalissima Iþei Łai, and installing Amane VII as Safir Empress. A near-instantaneous revitalisation of Safiria followed, with the abolition of collectivised labor, the creation of an all-volunteer military, the banning of the Independence Party, and, most importantly, the first free and fair elections — indeed, the first elections of any sort — in almost 350 years, sweeping the German Helmut Mauer and the conservative National Party into office. A period of great prosperity followed and still follows, seeing the invention of faster-than-light travel, the increased use of nonlethal and less-lethal weaponry by the police, and a sharp decrease in crime rates. Safiria is now arguably the greatest nation on the planet that, after its original name was erased in the destruction of Second Empire records by the State, would come to be named after it.
Culture
Safirian culture probably would not shock you or I were we to wake up there tomorrow, but it does have its unique quirks.
Nation Goals
Give us what you think your country's immediate goal will be based around everything you're written. In the end your nation goal is written by the Moderator, but we'll consider any thoughts you might have.
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Leader HIM Maia, Safir Empress
Race/s Safir (Racial Abilities: Telepathy, Teleportation) (Residual Ability: Keen Senses)
The Safir are a naturally psionic, blue-blooded and -skinned race whose average female stands at about 6'4", and whose average male stands at about 5'4". They are humanoid — some would say elfinoid — in form, able to have hair and eyes of any colour (although shades of blue are rare in those without albinism). Female Safir come into heat in the dead of winter, and at this time they usually drop everything else and find somebody to mate with, male or female, thus continuing the species. Most Safir are capable of telepathy, minor telekinesis, and short-range teleportation, although some are capable of such things as mind control, seeing into the future, energy healing, or even manipulation of the elements. These powers do have their drawback, though, and stories of Safir committing suicide in spectacular ways, often making use (or indeed abuse) of their psionics, are sadly not uncommon.
Safir Racial Ability #1: Telepathy
The Safir are a naturally telepathic race, and it is not unheard of for one to learn to speak with her mind before she speaks with her voice, indeed if she learns to use her voice at all. Safir telepathy is said to be much richer and more nuanced than normal speech, and Safir tend to 'send" more smoothly than they can speak.
Safir Racial Ability #2: Telekinesis
Most Safir, untrained, are capable of teleporting about 100 feet at a time, and can teleport five or six times before tiring.
Safir Residual Ability: Keen Senses
Perhaps owing to their psionic abilities, a Safir's senses are rather sharp compared to a human's, and as such she can see, hear, etc. things long before you or I could.
Form of Government Federal parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy
Safiria is a federal state in which each state and province is autonomous in many matters, a parliamentary democracy in which rule is exercised by the people either directly or through their elected representatives, and a constitutional monarchy in which all power flows from the Crown.
Important Officials Empress Maia, Interim Prime Minister Aina Tsivas, Minister of the Exterior Siari Łina (available for play), Minister of Defence Aþame Meiao (available), Supreme Ardian Asari Aštara (available)
The Safir Empress is Safiria's head of state, the Prime Minister its head of government. The Minister of Defence is the cabinet official in charge of Safiria's military and federal police. The Supreme Ardian is the highest-ranking officer in the Safirian Air Force.
Economic System Free market
The Safirian Empire has a modern, free market economy, with prices and availability of goods controlled by the law of supply and demand, and with a rather wide-reaching safety net in place to protect the consumer and employee.
Economic Tier
Decided by moderator.
Currency Lire (SFL) (£). One lire is equal to 2.5 g of silver.
Nation Bonus
1 custom bonus that allows your people to stand out from all the others.
History
Thousand Kingdoms period (2508 BCE — 462 CE)
The Thousand Kingdoms period began when the Grand Duchy of Qalani was founded in 2508 BCE. Despite its name, there were never more than a hundred or so states occupying the Safirian sphere of influence. The lingua franca of Safiria at the time was Old Sylphic, which had evolved from and gradually displaced Proto-Sylphic in the preceding centuries. In 33 BCE, Grand Duchess Rei IV initiated the Great Reform, which, among other things, transformed Old Sylphic into modern Xylphika.
First Empire (462 — 802)
The First Empire was created with the unification of the various lesser states in the Treaty of Seven Hills. During the period of the First Empire, the Diamond Nation's marches were constantly in flux as warlords on its periphery submitted to and broke away from the Safir Empress at the drop of a hat. It was in the First Empire that paper and printing were first invented, along with the crossbow. The First Empire fell when Rei XVI died without issue, sparking the War of the Safirian Succession.
Second Empire (826 — 1557)
The brutal war would not end until 24 years later, when Amane the Great of the House of Ashura seized the city of Aňira and proclaimed herself Queen of the Safir, creating the Second Empire. The following six centuries were a period of peace and prosperity, seeing the introduction of parliamentary democracy and industrial mass production, along with the inventions of movable type, the vacuum tube, and the radio; however, by 1555, monarchical apathy and governmental mismanagement had left the country all but in ruin. In response, the people elected Ywtaka Amǔra of the Safirian Independence Party, who promised that she would save Safiria from collapse and restore the prosperity that had been known years ago.
Safirian State (1557 — 1900)
However, the people who elected Amǔra would not until it was too late learn of the hell to which they had damned themselves. On 11 October 1555, Aňira Liberal Congress member Amane Þelaqi burned down Empire House; three days later, Parliament, in a session swarming with Safirian Army soldiers under Amǔra's thumb, passed the Enabling Act by a vote of 938 to 3. The Act would take effect two years later, abolishing the monarchy and creating a dictatorship. Agriculture and industry were immediately and brutally collectivised, resulting in the death or forced disappearance of 268 million people — 80% of the Second Empire's population — and the remaining 20% were no better off, being constantly under surveillance on suspicion, real or imagined, of breaking laws that became exponentially more strict with the passage of time. Amǔra would die of a combination of methamphetamine overdose and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) in 1676; her successor, Hqari Mneni, would, in the ensuing century, make the government more transparent, end surveillance of private citizens, restore democracy to a certain extent, and partially reverse collectivisation, creating, gradually, a state not dissimilar to the Soviet Union in the 1980s. This process of democratisation would result in many technological and infrastructural innovations, including automobiles, television, space travel, the computer, and the motorway system. However, after Mneni's death in 1780, her successors would fall victim to the same apathy that ended the Second Empire 230 years earlier.
Third Empire (1900 — )
After nearly two and a half centuries of complete neglect by the State, the people of Safiria would take arms in what is now known as the Imperial Reconquista, storming the Commune, executing Generalissima Iþei Łai, and installing Amane VII as Safir Empress. A near-instantaneous revitalisation of Safiria followed, with the abolition of collectivised labor, the creation of an all-volunteer military, the banning of the Independence Party, and, most importantly, the first free and fair elections — indeed, the first elections of any sort — in almost 350 years, sweeping the German Helmut Mauer and the conservative National Party into office. A period of great prosperity followed and still follows, seeing the invention of faster-than-light travel, the increased use of nonlethal and less-lethal weaponry by the police, and a sharp decrease in crime rates. Safiria is now arguably the greatest nation on the planet that, after its original name was erased in the destruction of Second Empire records by the State, would come to be named after it.
Culture
Safirian culture probably would not shock you or I were we to wake up there tomorrow, but it does have its unique quirks.
Nation Goals
Give us what you think your country's immediate goal will be based around everything you're written. In the end your nation goal is written by the Moderator, but we'll consider any thoughts you might have.