Renesia

Renesia, officially known as the Principality of Renesia, is located in the northeast part of Alutra continent. To the west of Renesia lies Ecoralia, to the east of Renesia lies Velorenkya and to the north of it lies [OCEAN]. As of 2019, Renesia's population is estimated to be almost 5.9 million people where 5.2 million are Renesian whilst the rest are foreign nationalists. The capital city is Renes. Renesia is a Principality with an autocratic semi-feudal political system. The head of state and government is the Prince from the Tyriol family. Renesia's Official religion is Isolate Stroomism. Renesian economy is focused on manufacturing weapons and military vehicles or equipment to sell it abroad, although Renesia has a respectable jewellery and gemstone market share and recently there is a surge in electronic equipment manufacturing. Renesia is divided into 9 sections, 1 Prince holdings, 4 Noble Houses and 4 District Governships; each is allowed a certain degree of autonomy and a private army, although they need to seek the approval of their appointed Overseer before making drastic changes. Recently Renesia has been under diplomatic fire from RIGID agents activities across Alutra from several nations.

Before 1150
Renes was a flourishing city under [NATION]'s rule, its main strength was the location of the city that helps it facilitate trade between [NATION] and Ecoraland. There were three prominent families that govern and influence Renes political and economic situation; Tyriol, Ragner and Altmark.

Renes is belived to be built by [PEOPLE] and estimated to have been around since 100s. Renes was conquered and exchanged hands by various nations throughout the ages, although the Tyriol and Ragner families always held power in the city with Altmark rising in prominence in the 800s. In the end it was under [NATION] that they flourished which lasted between 897 to 1148 before Renes gained its independence.

Renes was an important trade city that connected Ecoraland and eastern Alutra by land. However, the relationship between Ecoralanders and [NATION] reached a breaking point in the mid-1100s prompting an invasion by the ruler of [NATION] on Ecoraland taking away most of the countries resources and armies to guarantee a decisive victory on Ecoraland. Most of [NATION] nobles supported the invasion although a small part of the northern [NATION] did not support it, including Renes. As such, the ruler garrisoned these cities with a small army to prevent rebellions from flaring up while the ruler is campaigning against Ecoraland.

The army of [NATION] got destroyed by Kees the Great killing the ruler and most of his supporters, this lead to a succession crisis in [NATION] plunging it to a civil war, many cities and nobles took this opportunity to secede and become independent including Renes.

The Republic 1150-1187
With [NATION] economy and military in shambles the three noble houses in Renes came to an agreement to combine their strengths and kick out the garrison army so they can declare their independence. Frederick Tyriol, after 2 years of preparation with his allies put their plan in motion, Kauss Ragner and Rosa Ragner would lead an attack from outside the city whilst Fredrick Tyriol will lead a small regiment of mercenaries from inside the city to open the gates and cause havoc and while Reinhart Altmark would pretend to be working with the garrison to prevent vital information from reaching them.

The Ragners managed to field 1100 soldiers, but only 200 of these soldiers were knights, and 70 were mercenaries from "Weisse Ritters", the rest were peasant levies that were gathered from different towns and villages. Although the Ragners knew they cannot take Renes in a siege since they do not have enough men, the garrison was 960 men strong they were all trained to some degree they have to depend on Fredrick Tyriol to open the gate for them to have a chance. And so, the siege of Renes started on 2nd March 1150.

Frederick Tyriol and his unit of 30 men managed to sneak into Renes on the 1st of March thanks to Reinhart Altmark. Frederick Tyriol and his unit remained hidden until the night of the 3rd of March where they got the signal to initiate their plan. Frederick managed to get 2 gates opened out of 5 in Renes. The smaller northern gate "Weisse Rose", and the western gate "Schwarzer Stahl". Each then sent a signal to the Ragner's army to move in.

But to everyone's surprise, a fight is already happening in the city, lead by Reinhart Altmark, he managed to convince 150 men from the garrison to switch sides and riled up the people in Renes to fight for him, this has lead to massive confusion and lets the Ragner's army and Frederick's unit to kill and capture the rest of the garrison easily without incurring major losses, Rosa managed to kill more than 100 soldiers including the commander. By the dawn of the next day, Frederick and his allies were able to claim victory.

With Renes occupied the three families went on ahead to create a republic like on what they have agreed upon beforehand, although, with a slight modification to include some of Renes population to thank them for their help and to keep them happy, however, it was obvious where the majority of power lied with. Each of the family head votes are considered to weigh 10 votes while the 5 elected Beraters get 1 vote each.

Frederick Tyriol and Rosa Ragner got married on the 7th of March cementing Tyriol-Ragner relationship which helped in the election on the 10th of March. This lead Kuass Ragner to vote for Frederick Tyriol guaranteeing Frederick's victory, the results were 20 votes for Frederick and 15 votes for Reinhart. The results angered the people of Renes, since it was obvious who the people wanted to rule Renes but Reinhart Altmark stepped in and persuaded the people to calm down and accept it, even though he is upset at the results too he did not want to risk ruining Renes any further.

Frederick Tyriol launched many campaigns against Renes immediate neighbours at the behest of Kuass Ragner and Reinhart Altmark, known now as Frederick's Wars. Many cities either fell at the hand of Kuass's army or surrendered to Reinhart's term, Frederick did not actively participate in these conquests as the name imply, he was too busy managing Renes or other recently conquered cities to participate. After 10 years Renes became a formidable force that some cities decided to join Renes of their own free will, instead of being conquered by other minor states. The Frederick's Wars would continue until 1163 after that there was a long period of peace until 1177 which helped the realm prosper and heal its wounds. On the 10th of March 1177, Frederick Tyriol abdicated stating that he is too sickly to continue in his position as Lord-Protector.

Frederick Tyriol managed to convince Kauss Ragner and Reinhart Altmark to vote for his eldest son, Loren Tyriol. Both Kuass and Reinhart were impressed by Loren's administrative and martial skills and the people liked his personality which helped him win by a landslide, 35 votes. Loren Tyriol was sworn in as the Lord-Protector of the Renesian Republic on the 12th of March 1177. Once he got the position he immediately started conquering and vassalizing neighbouring states while weakening the Ragner's and Altmark's position in the republic. The Ragners and Altmarks blocked Loren's attempts to centralise all the power in the republic, at the time Loren could not do anything about it since he was busy on the battlefield, these collections of wars became known as "Loren's Assaults" since they were all related to each other in some way. As such, Loren's Assaults helped expand Renesia northeast rapidly until they reached [CITY]. Loren Tyriol gained new allies through his vassalization namely the Ulmun family which will become a major player in the later years of Renesia.

After Loren's Assaults were over, Loren focused his full attention on centralising the republic which angered both the Ragner and Altmark families and demanded Frederick and Rosa intervene. Both Frederick and Rosa said they do not condone his actions and would like Loren to stop but he did not listen, instead on the 1st of July 1187, he brought an army loyal to him from the northern vassals to Renes and occupied it, which led the Ragner and Altmark families to flee south to gather their supporters namely Midledon and Raithaslach. The next day Loren Tyriol named himself King and demanded the Ragners and Altmarks to come to Renes or they would be considered rebels. Both sent a reply stating that they do not recognize him as a king which started the thirteen days war.

Whilst the tensions were rising Frederick asked his daughter Velvet to intervene in his stead and find a middle ground, he did not want to see his son and friend fighting each other.

The first few days of the wars only had minor skirmishes that resulted in victories on both sides of the war. Although, on the 8th of July Loren Tyriol managed to score a decisive victory on the combined army of Ragner and Altmark in the Battle of Midledon Fields forcing the combined army to retreat to Ragner Fortress and cede Midledon to Loren.

Velvet arrived at Loren's camp on the 12th of July whilst he was sieging Ragner Fortress. Velvet managed to convince her brother to negotiate with the Ragner and Altmark families and volunteered to be the mediator. The next day Velvet Tyriol would go inside Ragner Fortress to discuss with the Ragner and Altmark families, and she manages to convince both to negotiate a deal with Loren. And on the 14th of July, the Ragner and Altmark family heads went to Loren's camp to discuss each other's terms while Velvet acted as a mediator to stop each side from flaring up, as such the treaty was named after her the "Velvet treaty" since she was instrumental in creating the treaty. This treaty established the Principality of Renesia by handing power to Tyriol family, although it still gave some powers to the Beraters, the Ragner family and the Altmark family

The Principality between 1200-1400
Loren Tyriol had 3 legitimate sons and daughter, all as ambitious as their father. Which after Loren's death in 1226 caused a long series of succession wars which lasted until 1348 when Prince Edward II Tyriol managed to put an end to it and establish "Gewalter Erbe" system that is still used in modern-day Renesia. Prince Edward II attempted to move the Principality toward democracy or at least give more power to the people, although it was met with heavy opposition from the nobility, as such Prince Edward II only managed minor reforms such as creating "Prince's Court", the Overseer Position, codified laws and granted the " The Common Right" to all Renesian citizen, which limited the noble's abuse of power against their subjects. Prince Edward II also help fund the first university in Renesia, namely the Edward University.

After Prince Edward II death in 1372, Prince Henry Tyriol took the throne and maintained the status quo. [more later]

Military
Private Military + Main Military. Weak navy, moderate airforce and strong land army.

Finance
the International Renesian Bank (IRB) and Renesian Princely Bank (RPB) are the biggest two banks in Renesia.

Science and technology
Mostly Military Advances

Education
Edward University

Transport
Ecolarian trains

Languages
Mix of !German and !French

Media
The main news network in Renesia is the state-owned Renesian Chronicles (RC) which has some international audience, although there are other privately owned news networks such as Ragners News, Laagburg News Network (LNN), START Broadcasting Channel (SBC), Renes 24/7 and Volksnachrichten.

RC is entirely funded by the Renesian government but it operates independently. RC operates in Renesian and its main aim is to spread information and educate people living in Renesia and as such viewing RC requires no subscription, although RC newspapers are sold at market prices to make it fair for other news channels. The International Renesian Chronicles (IRC) is a subsidiary of RC, it operates in Interspeech with staff from all over the globe, and it focuses on spreading Renesian culture than actual news in comparison to RC. Both RC and IRC launched in the same year (19XX) 6 months apart.

Ragners News is a news network that is owned by the Ragner family and it is the second news network to lunch after RC. Ragners news used to focus mostly on its noble audience with little care for commoners with every step needing the approval of the head of the Ragner family, however, in recent years it became more liberal and pride itself on its quality control. Ragners News usually collaborates with RC with their shows and video footage.

LNN operates mostly in Laagburg and Loriace districts and focuses more on news related to local and international economies with economists from various backgrounds appearing almost daily to discuss various aspects of the economy.

SBC headquarters is in Fern district. The SBC has more of an international audience comparing to other news channels in Renesia, although the SBC struggles with maintaining a sizable local audience. The SBC was shut down briefly when Renesia conquered Staatsburg for one month in (date), and it was again shut down for another month in (date) for criticizing the Prince and the Renesian government.

Renes 24/7 is a new news channel with a focus on local activities and traditions, it has mostly conservative views and its main rival is Volksnachrichten.

Volksnachrichten started up at around the same time as Renes 24/7, it has mostly liberal views a striking contrast to Renes 24/7.

Museums
Stolen artifacts across the globe.