Aquitaine - Capital of the Commonwealth
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Aquitaine - Capital of the Commonwealth
By: Michael Bailey [email removed]Part 1 (Part 2).
Aquitaine
Aquitaine: A887977-C N
Aquitaine was settled, along with the rest of the cluster, in the early days of the Rule of Man. The original colony program was mounted by the European Union, under the auspices of the Terran Confederation (later Rule of Man) Resettlement Agency. Almost all of the original colonists were of western and north-western European heritage, and the world has retained many traits of these original settlers, including language and culture.
Almost all of Aquitaine's 2.7 billion inhabitants speak Anglic (as the former
'official' language of the Imperium and Solomani Confederation), in most parts
of the world this is spoken as a second language. About 52% of the population
are French speakers (although the language has evolved substantially over
3700 years), 26% speak German and 11% are Polish-speakers, with the remainder
divided up amongst a variety of languages (including Anglic, Greek and
Afrikaans -
a legacy of subsequent colonisation programs).
Government:
Aquitaine's old government (a charismatic dictatorship under 'Admiral' Julius
Getier) died with the onset of Virus. Aquitaine is now a balkanised world,
consisting of 24 seperate nation-states. A very weak central authority,
the Estates d'Aquitaine handles disputes between nations, and serves mainly
to develop a policy front to the rest of the Commonwealth. The Estates d'
Aquitaine is dominated by a handful of states: Provence, the Huguenot
Republique,
the Medoc Commonwealth and the Essenbruken Republik.
The Nations of Aquitaine:
NAME POP (m) GOV CORR. TALENT CRUEL. AGG. XEN. LANG
Kingdom of Provence 420 9 High Mod. Low High Low Fr Huguenot Republique 280 9 Mod. Mod. Low Low High Fr Medoc Commonwealth 240 4 Mod. High Low Low Low Fr Loire 200 5 Mod. Low High Low Mod Fr/An Essenbruken Republik 190 A High High Low High Low Ge Camarque Union 160 8 High Low Mod. Mod. Low Fr/Ge Mittelnacht Bundesrep. 150 4 Mod. Mod. Mod. Low. Mod. Ge/Fr Mielowska 140 A High Low Low Low Mod. Po Bretagne Republic 140 A High High Mod. High Low Fr Caledonian Principality 130 5 Mod. High Low Mod. Mod. Fr/An Meliot Federation 90 6 Mod. Mod. Mod. Mod. Low Fr Medea Demos 85 8 Low High Mod. Low Mod. Gr/Fr Andries Union 65 3 High Low High Low High Af/Ge St. Mere-Eglise 60 4 Mod High Mod. Mod. Mod. Fr Kiel 50 8 Low High Low Mod High Fr/Ge Ostrowa 45 6 Mod. Low Mod. Low High Po/Ge Warswasa Socialist Rep. 35 C Mod. High Mod. High High Po/Ge Republique de Marseilles 30 A Low Mod. Low Mod. Mod. Fr Republique de Givenchy 30 C Mod Low Mod. High Mod. Fr Trans-Givenchy 25 6 Mod Low High Low Low Fr/Ge Archangel Polity 25 5 Low Low Mod High High An Lote 10 6 High Low Low Low Low An Spitsbergen 5 4 Mod Low High Low Mod. An Neu Seine Republique 5 4 High Low High Low Low Fr
Languages: Fr - French, Ge - German, Po - Polish, Ge - Greek, An - Anglic, Af - Afrikaans
Part 2