Empherias

the Kingdom of Empherias, commonly known as Empherias, is a nation in southeast Alaxia. It is a province of the greater High Kingdoms of Alaxia since 1948. It is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, but the monarchy plays little to no part to politics in Empherias, living in Kiavar. It is often cited as one of the most democratic and peaceful nations in the world, and has been consistently Social-Democrat or Centre-Left since 1895. The capital city of the nation is Wynnoa, located in the south central region on the river Ewynn. The second largest city is Esthullen, followed by Rommes. Vreimer acts as an important trading hub with the rest of the High Kingdoms, Rhequons is a seat of many company institutions and both Gateshaven and Nieuwbourg are large port cities on the coast.

Since 1988, the nation has been ruled by Prime Minister Lucy King as leader of the People's Socialist Party, which runs as a subsidiary of the larger Red Bloq party that runs nationally in High Kingdoms' elections. Empherias, along with a lot of the rest of the High Kingdoms, use a calendar system exactly 500 years behind the regular calendar (meaning dates such as 2500 will be written as 2000).

=History=

Brekenreidkegt Brekepaine
Following decades of out of touch politicians continuously winning in Parliament, due to the bad representation system, having dukes and high titled men and women being allowed to vote, many people are angry. The most angry are the middle class in the suburbs of the largest cities: Wynnoa, Esthullen and Rommes, who are upset that the gap between them and the upper class were increasing. the "Brekenreidkegt Brekepaine" (English: Breaking Point at Brekenreidkegt) was a novel written by poet Lewis Rhommel in late 1894 criticising the institution of pointless suppression of voting by the lower and middle classes. The Brekenreidkegt being the local name for a town hall in southwest Esthullen which had been notorious for often comical voting margins and gerrymandering. The building was seized in the early morning at around half past four by around five hundred middle class civilians, with hundreds of lit torches and common weapons such as cricket bats, fencing swords and cooking knives. However, the pure amount of people forced the doors to break under pressure and the people to swarm through the front gates. One of the leaders of this protest was Edgard Morrison, an avid populist, who wanted to convince the corrupt Duke in the area to free up voting regulations and allow people to vote and elect a new representative of the people. This was important as a new tax law, which would've raised taxes, was about to be passed by the government of the nation. Windows smashed, royal guards stabbed and killed, and the Duke fled the scene and declared an emergency to King James VIII of Empherias.

A local populist man named Felix D'laminet was chosen by the local mass of people among popular opinion to replace the current duke in hiding. The overthrown Duke self-declared his exile, being rich enough to support himself elsewhere in the countryside and fearing a return. Felix had previously worked as an adviser to the Duke, trying to promote new and radical reforms and ideas. He was fired after not blending well and then started work at a local outspoken newspaper, the "Real People's Work" where he gained popularity amongst the classes.

Provincial Prosperity
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