Princedom RPG

Past the lands of Poland-Ukraine to the Urals are dozens of small kingdoms- roughly evenly split between Cossacks in the south and Nordics-decended peoples in the north.

the Balkan Federation is an economic and military union of the

• Kingdom of Bulgaria
• Kingdom of Romania
• Kingdom of Hungary
• Kingdom of Croatia

Bulgaria Controls

• Bulgaria
• Macedonia
• southern Serbia

Romania controls

• Moldova
• Transylvania
• Walachia

Hungary controls

• Hungary
• Slovakia
• Northern Serbia

Croatia Contols

• Croatia
• Slovenia
• Bosnia
• Albania
• Montenegro
• Kosovo

The 4 kingdoms that make up the federation are led by a council of nobles from the kingdoms. each kingdom is fairly agaraian though the cities are quite industrialized and the armies of the federation are very experienced as the officers normally spend time in Greece gaining experience.

the Ottoman Empire is an absolute monarchic theocracy with the sultan at its head. it directly rules

• Anatolia
• Syria
• Iraq
• Jordan
• Kuwait
• Lebanon
• Israel
• All of the Arabian Peninsula
• Greece
• Crete
• Cyprus

Greece is an active war zone as rebels/insurgents backed by European powers (notably the Balkans and Rome) battle the Ottomans in an all out war for 60 years

it has client states in

• Egypt
• Libya
• Tunisia
• Algeria
• Morocco

comprising central and southern Italy along with Sicilia, Malta and Sardinia it is a loose union of small kingdoms, principalities, duchies, and city-states and is a Vassel state of Rome with strictly enforced Catholicism

directly ruling the area of the city of Rome and the immediate surroundings it is a catholic theocracy that runs Iberia and Italy with Vassel States

The Iberian Union is a loose confederation of kingdoms, Principaities, and city states that’s a vassal entity of Rome. contols

• Portugal
• Spain
  strictly enforced Catholicism

The polish-Ukrainian Kingdom is a dual absolute monarchy with general Religious Freedoms meaning it has Christian, Pagen, and significant Jewish populations. it controls

• Poland
• Ukraine
• Southern Lithuania
• Belarus
• Crimea
• The Caucuses
• The Don region
• Galicia

it’s a highly culturally diverse kingdom that has little to no industry outside of the major cities of Poland and Ukraine and a largely Cossack- Based military along with hiring mercenaries from the various Russian kingdoms.

The Swedish Empire is a constitutional Monarchy comprised of a legislative body of Nobles and a king as a political Figurehead that does control the military and is an elected position with terms of 10 years- often being a prominent general. it controls

• Sweden
• Finland
• Norway
• Iceland
• Greenland
• Karelia
• Kola Peninsula
• north of Estonia

the empire is mostly Pagen but has some Christian populations in the south and a large Indigenous minority in the far north. it has desires in Denmark, the baltics, and northern Germany

the German empire is a semi-constitutional monarchy comprising of dozens of tiny princedoms United under a King elected by the Nobility at the death of the previous king. it is a mix of Prodestantism and Catholicism and a 3rd state religion that acts as a blend of the two, it contols

• Germany
• Prussia
• parts of Northern Italy
• Denmark
• Holland
• Switzerland
• Austria
• Czechia
• some parts of the baltics directly and the rest under a Client State that controls Latvia, Northern Lithuania, and southern Estonia

The German Empire has desires on Its northern Neighbor and the Eastern and Southern regions of France

The French Empire is the largest of all the European kingdoms. it controls the territories of

• France
• Belgium
• Greater Britain (England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall)
• northern Spain
• parts of northern Italy

it is a catholic absolute monarchy. with a long lasting monarchy and a mostly agrarian economy though Britain and northern France are quickly industrializing through local liberalization and establishment of a noble merchant and business classes.

Ireland and scotland are embroiled in a violent insurgency as Socialist Nationalists are trying to secure independence for greater Britain, the welsh and english chapters of the- so dubbed- “Commonwealth Party” are marginally less violent and are in a weaker position as those two regions have seen the majority of the repression by the french government. The french government has attempted to keep Britania under its control due to the vast ammount of resources necessary for industrialisation.

on top of the turmoil in Britain france has entered an era of unbridled luxury and decadence for the nobility and upper classes of france- which is reflected in the hedonistic behaviour of the middle children of king Louis 8th.

Due to the King’s failing health France has been being run by a privy council for the past 9 years.

The technical level of the world is roughly equivalent to that of the late 1800s.

In this world the Industrial Revolution was not accompanied by a social and societal upheaval, instead the working class was sucessfully repressed with nobility taking the role of the businessman, merchant class, and industrial magnates.

The king- Louis 8th is 87 and on his deathbed

his 30 year old son Louis is next in line- he is a cruel and sometimes violent man, but he’s calculating, restrained when he needs to be, and has crafted a careful image as a warrior prince.

his 25 year old son and daughter twins (Philippe and Marie) are known for their Hedonistic tendencies and proclivity for lavish parties as well as a revulsion of the lower classes, they care little for anything but their parties and debauchery.

and his youngest 24 year old son Alexandre is in Exile in Britain, officially he is there as governer-general of Britain and ireland to quell the rebellions but it is an open secret he was sent to Ireland because of his percived homosexual tendencies and femininity (hes just Asexual and Androgynous) and has little actual power with the actual power being held by a brutal Deputy Governor.

While The family is very divided with Prince Louis and the twins revereing their father but hating eachother and the king being apathetic towards the three oldest siblings, everyone hates Alexandre. King Louis 8th hates him because he views him as weak and effeminate. Prince louis hates him for the same reason, and the twins hate him because they view him as sub-human for his association with the peasantry and as a brute for his unvarnished military proclivities. the twins themselves however are inseparable.