Revitallia

The Empire of Revitallia
Motto: “Long Live the Empire”
Anthem: Cancrest March
Political Map of Revitallia
Region		The Democratic Union of Republics
Capital and largest city		Clarendon
Official languages		English, Revan
Recognised national languages		English, Revan, Latin, Romanian
Demonym		Revitallian
Government		Senatorial Empire
-	Emperor of Revitallia	Connor Bogdon
-	Empress of Revitallia	Anna Sapio
Legislature		Imperial Senate of Revitallia
Establishment
-	Maxson-Wright Pact	264 A.D.
-	Conversion to Kingdom	1115 A.D.
-	Revitallian Revolution	2010-11 A.D.
-	Revitallian Civil War	2014-2015 A.D.
Area
-	Total	6,142,087.13 km2 3,816,516 sq mi
-	Water (%)	6.51%
Population
-	2010 Census estimate	365,789
-	Density	16.8/km2 43.5/sq mi
HDI		69.31 Error: Invalid HDI value
Currency		DUR Dollar (DUR)
Date format		mm ˘ dd ˘ yyyy
Drives on the		right

The Empire of Revitallia commonly called Revitallia or The Empire, is a Senatorial Empire in Southern and Central Africa, with territories in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. It is bordered on the north by Remnant Inabaand the Songlai Kingdom. The Empire covers 3,816,516 square miles (6,142,087.13 km²) and has has an estimated population of 356,789,387. The Empire comprises of 3 Domains, 8 States, and 17 island territories. It is a very developed country, and a major player in the global economy.

Originally, the Grand Empire of Revitallia was the largest Empire the world has ever seen. However, complications resulting from such a massive territory led to its almost complete collapse by the year 1880. Following this, the ruling monarchs became increasingly oppressive until the Revitallian Revolution (2010-11) overthrew the monarch at the time, King Jack Bogden, who has been recaptured and is awaiting trial. For the next few years, a man by the name of Keven Adlai, who was the political leader of the revolution, became the new dictator and instituted communist rule until the Revitallian Civil War (2014-15) which nearly tore the country in apart, killing 120-150 million people. To rebuild, Emperor Connor Bogden instituted the policy of Isolationism, and in 2016 the reformed Empire of Revitallia was a new global power, leading advances in technology, military, medicine, and space flight. Currently, though it has a large military, the Empire still mostly keeps to itself, but has a blue water navy and can project power globally if necessary. It has the largest Arms Manufacturing Industry in the world, with Imperial Skies Aviation and Garfield Firearms the leaders in this industry.

History

First settled by colonists from the Roman Empire in 153 AD, the colonists rapidly became self-sustaining and self-governing and were forgotten by what is now Italy sometime around 250 AD. The colonists established a type of republic that governed the areas the young nation had assimilated. With the signing of the Maxson-Wright Pact in 264 AD, the Empire of Revitallia was officially born. This new Empire possessed around 400,000 sq miles, a little more than what is modern-day South Africa. The capital established was Clarendon, located on one of the rivers leading into the ocean. The Imperial Army was built up and quickly pushed the tribal natives out of the area and within another 200 years, subjugated what was left of them. However, they did not prosecute them, and allowed the native population full citizenship rights and allowed them access back to the south.

A map of the Empire of Revitallia at its earliest in 300, highlighted in blue.

Naval Expansion

Following a lengthy and bloody invasion of bordering Nambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique, that lasted for 78 years and nearly wiped out the native tribes, the Imperial Senate authorized the construction of a large navy. This marked a pivotal moment for Revitallia, and within 25 years the Imperial Revitallian Navy was one of the most formidable of the time. From then on Revitallia was constantly annexing islands and territories across the near-African Atlantic and Indian Oceans, most notable the island of Madagascar. By the year 560 AD, all of southern-central and eastern Africa was under Revitallian authority. The following year, the navy attempted an invasion of Persia. Persian forces dealt a devastating blow to the Imperial Navy, and were able to repel another attempted invasion of the mainland in 576. Even stretching across Arabia, the current Emperor, Daries Fay, launched an invasion of Southwest Asia. The invasion was successful, and the last Persian/Afghan holdout fell in 647. Having conquered the region, the only reasonable way to expand further was to invade India. As tensions mounted, war eventually broke out with an Indian incursion onto Revitallian soil. The resulting war succeeded in bringing Revitallia into contact with China and Eastern Asia, and also had quite a bit of territory gain.

Political Change

The Empire saw its peak in 1115, with territory encompassing India, Central Asia, the Middle East, and central-southern and east Africa. It was the largest empire the world had ever seen, encompassing 13 million square miles. The Emperor at the time, in order to feel more like Europe, declared himself King instead of Emperor. This saw Revitallia's change from a Senatorial Empire to an Absolute Monarchy.

A map of the Empire of Revitallia at its peak in 1115.

Most people were fine with this, but it also introduced new customs for the queen, especially how many children she was to bear. The shift caused some ripples across the outer reaches of the Kingdom, namely in Japan and Vietnam.

Wars of Preservation

The Wars of Preservation, as they are now called, was a long series of wars (1200-1879) which intended to preserve the size of the Kingdom. Terrible civil strife and rampant crime resulted in the first war, the Somalian-Revitallian War of 1200. Somalian Liberation forces defeated the Royal Army in from Kenya to Egypt, forcing the forfeit of the Kingdom's holdings. This initial revolution inspired similar wars throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. The most notable of these was the Persian Revolt.

The Persian Revolt (1339-1373) was the most devastating of all of the Wars of Preservation. By the time it had concluded, over 5 million lay dead and the Kingdom had lost 3.5 million square miles. Starting with the Battle of Jeddah, in which a Royal Garrison gunned down 49 protesters before being killed by a mob, and ending with the Treaty of Mumbai, the war led to the formation of the Persian-Somalian Empire, which would come back to bite Revitallia.

During the wars, an aristocratic family, the Bogdens, held a coup against the ruling family, the Dovnenos. This shift of power contributed to the First Bagri War, and the capital of Clarendon was renamed Bogdonpolis.

Industrial Revolution and World War I

The Industrial Revolution arrived late to Revitallia, which contributed to its final defeat in Central Africa. The Industrial Revolution evolved rapidly in Revitallia, supporting military and civil development. King George used this to turn the nation into a communist-like state, which resulted in the rich much, much richer than the poor. At the same time, a baby boom resulted in huge population growth.

By the year 1880, Revitallia comprised of even less than it does today. Revitallia was a fairly formidable threat to any nation at the onset of The Great War (1914-1918), and assisted the British in knocking out the Ottoman Empire by invading the Suez Canal, Sinai Peninsula, and Arabian Peninsula. After the war concluded, Revitallia played a major part in the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, and while one of the major players of the war, was unable to continue world power status due to economic problems.

Interwar Period and World War II

Revitallia suffered a major economic depression that crippled the anyone in the nation who was not an aristocrat. During this time, with severe poverty, more and more women tried to be surrogates, by mating with the husband and after giving birth acting as a nurser for the wife's sake. For the most part, it was the only way women could get money. This resulted in the Second Baby Boom. The Kingdom barely ever recovered from this depression, and was forced to sit out of World War II (1939-1945) because of it. This depression also became the largest reason for the Revolution in the early 2000s.

Revolution

The Great Depression, coupled with the ruling class, specifically the King's family, flaunting themselves even more led to tensions throughout the populace. The Second Baby Boom was still going, but beginning to slow down. Police brutality became a major issue, and poverty remained one. The massive defeat of King Darren II's army in Vietnam was also cause for humiliation and upset tempers among the common people. Darren II had begun to grab people using the secret police and send them to the snowy mountains in camps more than any of his predecessors. He also began a program to experiment on Revitallian women to try and determine the cause of their fertility, sometimes leading to adverse results.

With his Inflation Sentence of his second wife, Queen Amy III, it had become a serious problem among the people. Darren's obsession with glorifying himself and the Royal Family resulted in the largest Revitallian military disaster since 1570 during the Second Tibetan War. The Revitallian Royal Forces were deployed to Vietnam to regain control of the old land. He deployed an invasion force numbering 300,000, but only 116,000 ever returned back to Revitallia. A year after, he administered the Inflation Sentence to Queen Amy III, and began enforcing his own rules even more harshly, using excessive force.

A Royal Army artillery position in Vietnam, May 1982.

His son, Jack I, was coronated on April 18, 1998. He did not handle the situation any better. His wife, Queen Heather, was flaunted even more than Amy. He continued the trend of prisons that his father had, along with the testing on women. Jack built up the military, using older, but cheaper, technology to try and bring Revitallia on par with the rest of the world's powers. The country tested its first nuclear weapon, a 2-megaton bomb named Fat Amy (a joke at the expense of the former Queen Amy III), on November 11, 2003. A large arsenal was rapidly built up, once again at the expense of the common people.

Jack's oppressive policies and wasteful spending reached a critical point. On July 18, 2010, rebels took up arms against the government in the province of Dedrahun, attacking a military convoy carrying two of the women who were involved in the testing. A military force was sent to crush the rebels, but disbanded itself shortly after leaving, and most members supported the cause of the revolution. The rebels were led by the King's cousin, Connor Bogdon as General, Lindsay Stone in charge of the limited espionage, and Keven Adlai as their figurehead. After a quick campaign, King Jack, his pregnant wife, and their children fled the country, suspected to be in the Caribbean. The rebels stormed Bogdonpolis on February 29, 2011, ripping nobles and their wives and children from their homes.

In the following weeks, many noblewomen were raped and impregnated, with a few sold as breeders. Adlai only took control a month after the storming of Bogdonpolis. On the steps of the old palace, Adlai gave a victory speech;

My fellow Revitallians, Many months ago, a brave group of men and women started the fight against the previous, tyrannical government of Revitallia, who oppressed us in everyday imaginable. Few civil rights, and no political rights, we slaved under their iron fist. We worked hard, when we could find jobs, to provide for our families which the government did nothing to help. They did the opposite. We had among the highest tax rates in the world, with 80% of our meager accounts going to the government. They sat upon luxuries while we were happy to have a bit of rotten dog flesh to eat. But no more. Thanks to my cause, our cause, that old dictatorship is gone! Revitallia has been reborn anew democratically!

As a side effect of their taxes and economic policy, the value of the Revut has tanked. The economy is a mess, and we inherited that mess. We need to hand together, to stay united, if we are to be a leader of trade in the World.

We are left in a bad place, and I will be honest with you. There are those who will seek power in the absence of government. We may descend into chaos, but it will not stay that way, I promise. Revitallia's brightest days are still to come!"

Adlai's popularity soared, and after elections were held for Prime Minister in the new Provisional Government, Adlai became the first Prime Minister of the United Socialist States of Revitallia. The capital was moved from Bogdonpolis to Veliva.

The USSR

Under Adlai's rule, the nation had a slow rebuilding process. The military was completely restructured, with whatever officers had joined the revolution being promoted to the highest ranks. The police was non-existent, and there were a couple thousand displaced nobles. The cultural gems of Revitallia such as the Castle Boltem and Parnethon were ransacked and vandalized. Many nobles were killed on the street, and many noblewomen were raped and/or impregnated and displayed around Bogdonpolis to humiliate them.

The common people also called for the release of the other women who had been captured for testing. Adlai released roughly 100 of the 150, keeping the 50 most promising subjects to continue the experiments. Most of these women were normal, but a few gained weight easier, others had permanent pregnant bodies, and still others became ridiculously fertile. To keep the tests going and solve the problem of the nobility, Adlai had the secret police round up those women who had given birth to the most children to submit them for testing.

As a year passed, and nearly no progress had been made in rebuilding the country, the people became restless. Adlai promised that to stop crime, he would need a larger military. So the military got larger and better equipped.

A few noblewomen, such as Heather Maher, had been divorced shortly before the revolution broke out, and were thus safe from the masses, along with their families. A massive manhunt was still in place to search for Jack I and his family.

During this time, relations with other nations began to fall apart. Things were not hostile, but international relations was no longer important for the USSR's Provisional Government.

Revitallian Civil War

On October 10th, 2014, General Connor Bogdon fled the new capital of Veliva for Bogdonpolis. From there, he exposed Adlai's rigging of the election, continuation of the tests, the secret police, and purposefully not rebuilding the country, along with drafts of proposals to Solbger and Revutlia, two small nations that had been absorbed in the early days of the first Empire. They had wanted independence as they saw the monarchy collapsing. This combination pushed Adlai's standing over the edge. Upon hearing this, the people across the nation began to revolt against the central government, allowing Bogdon to build up his force to assault the capital to replace Adlai as leader and stop the negotiations going on with Solbger and Revutlia. Many of Bogdon's men had joined him in the east, picking up plenty of civilians who wanted to fight as well.

In response to this, Adlai told his forces that anyone attempting to leave would be shot, and their family would be enslaved. This ensured most of their loyalty, and Adlai began to sweep towards Bogden's rumored base of operations, punishing any family whose members had joined Bogdon. The children were beaten, the women raped, and houses burned. The USSRAF launched small, weak airstrikes against suspected Bogdon targets, but the first skirmish took place on November 5, 2014.

Adlai's government forces marched east, laying waste to all in their path. The most famous of these attacks was the Rape of Pordo Landing, in which Government forces burned and destroyed homes, executed any male over the age of 10, and killed and enslaved the rest of the surviving population. In a defenseless city of 99,768, nearly 74,000 people were killed and the rest enslaved.

Following this event, a few external nations became involved in the war. The Former CFP of Tigerus and the Dominion of Vultro began to launch airstrikes and paratrooper squads against Government Forces. Bogdon's Free Army continued its march west.

During all of this, both the Free Army and Government Forces were searching for Lindsay Stone, who had left Veliva in 2012 after being refused a government position by Adlai.

The two armies clashed in the first major battle on December 28, 2014, beginning the Battle of Pryslm. Adlai's forces stormed the city first, continuing their genocidal campaign of destruction. Thanks to the efforts of a 16-year-old named John Salvo and a small resistance he organized, it allowed the Free Army to properly secure positions for artillery bombardment and then to move in. The battle also marked the entrance of the United States of Araluen and Eyreland into the war, and the involvement of a handful of other nations.

By the time the Battle of Pryslm had concluded on January 6, 2015, the Government Army was all but defeated. The began to retreat to the sea, continuing their destruction. The Free Army and supporting nations chased them, ultimately defeating them in the Battle of Veliva and the Battle of Dorham Heights. Adlai had managed to escape, taking a boat out to Vietnam, where he is currently being sheltered by the Viet Cong. It is believed that he may have moved to Africa, at this point.

Today

The Revitallian Civil War is the nation's, and one of the world's, bloodiest wars, with 120-150 million people dead and trillions of dollars worth in damage. Connor Bogdon immediately switched the capital back to Bogdonpolis, and instituted a Senatorial Empire, nearly exactly like the old one. The people strongly supported this, and immediately the nation began to improve. Cities were repaired, families reunited, civil rights became more widespread and the military now has a solid foundation.

Emperor Bogdon's approval ratings have never been higher, and the nation continues to be on the rise. The wage gap is slowly decreasing and the nation is getting wealthier. Once most of the war's damage has been repaired it is predicted that Revitallia will become a major political and military power.

n October of 2016, the Imperial Government of Revitallia and the Royal Government of Remnant Inaba signed Imperial-Remnant Inaba Sub-Sarahan Deal of 2016 which divided the Imperial-held territory of Tanzania into North and South Tanzania along the 8th Parallel South. Remnant Inaba turned over the territories of Cameroon and Gabon. Remnant Inaba kept the territory of Equatorial Guinea, and North Tanzania was turned over in an exchange.

In November of 2016, the Imperial Government of Revitallia purchased the island of Crete from the government of North Libya, to establish a trading a military foothold in the region.

What the political landscape of the Aegean Sea looks like now.

The same month, the Imperial economy dropped the largest amount that it had since before the Revitallian Revolution. Confidence in Emperor Bogden dropped slightly, but not to a massive degree.

As of March 2017, the economy had mostly recovered. However, in a terrorist attack, two train stations in Clarendon and Regina were attacked with truck bombs, killing 59. Later that day, a plane slammed into the Liberty Tower in Pryslm, bringing the skyscraper down and killing an estimated 6,745.

Leaders

In its many iterations, Revitallia has seen a number of leaders. This is a list of the most influential leaders, starting from the Maxson-Wright Pact.

The Empire of Revitallia (264-1115)

The Revitallian Kingdom (1115-2011)

USSR (2011-2015)

The Empire of Revitallia (2015-)

Demographics