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@Authoria and Cattonian Republic: Would you two like to make a trade agreement with Al Amarja? Also Cattonia I wouldn't make a trade deal with you because the distance between us was to far but with borders now so close I believe a trade agreement is now possible for us.

After I get this whole war thing sorted out, I'd love to start trading.

@Cattonian Republic
Well, if you would be so kind, I'd like to kind of work this out peacefully. I'll try to do whatever it takes to resolve this, as I'm not really in the best shape to fight right now, and I have a feeling the Madom Khanate is going to be causing trouble for me pretty soon.

I got ask are you interested in a trade agreement?

@
I would be very interested in a trade agreement with Al Amarja as I am not in the best situation economically at the moment.

I changed my turn to add our trade arrangement.

No point. Sachielia is way too far for you to make any route, not to mention the whole "my only center of commerce has been under siege for 20 years".

I think we can negotiate something via PM.

Then forget about that deal then sorry Sachielia.

Trade agreement or just a trade route?

Both really. Also if you agree to the this then put it down on your turn cause I don't want to edit spam Cale again.

@Cattonia
I'll let you acquire land near sea, I'll PM you details.

What happened to that little island off the coast of Atlantis? And are those the actual borders of Africa? We only have half of it?

To the first question; stuff.

THINGS.

To the second, what you see is what you get.

Yes.

@Moklaezia: Comrade how would you feel if both our engineers were to team up to make more engineering wonders?

@Cale

I see you’ve been following. There are still slots open, no longer bound by the Culture rule.

Because I know you like New Zealand.

I'm thinking of just spectating, this time. As much as I have enjoyed participating in NatRP, I want to focus on other projects at the moment.

Though if I wasn't so busy, I'd make either Obristan or United Federation. Just to give the immigration officers in Arstotska more work to deal with

That too would work.

Arstotzka agrees to your trade proposition, hopefully we can make a bit of an earner out of this.

Turn 13, 1110 AD

Map of the World

Events:

Astora
Captain Douglas J Falcon
Sedentary Slavs
Feudal Theocracy
Heirs of the Sun
-Military;
Army: xxxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxxx
Treasury: xxx
- Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class, Small Economic Elite
Technology: Superior Metallurgy

- Astoran forces continue to drive through Maldania, as many of their troops are directed north towards the capital.
- Bloom forges emerge in Astora, allowing large amounts of steel to be produced.
- Astora already has a currency of coins.
- Open donation towards the needy proves… small. Peasants can give little, and the wealthy aren't very much towards giving freely. The Bright Book says "jolly cooperation", not "free hand-outs".
- A national bank is chartered and established. This novel business of holding money for others smooths the transition of currency among Astorans of wealth, and small "fees" for this service quickly add up to benefit the Theocracy.

Kolechia
MrStalker
Sedentary Slavs
Autocracy
Old Pagan Worship
-Military;
Army: xxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xx
Treasury: xx
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class
Technology: Primitive Explosives

- Quick burning powders are discovered by Kolechians. What wonders this could mean.
- Law is invented. Apparently Kolechians lived without laws for thousands of years. That is a lie, law has always existed and law is not invented as a result.

Al Amarja
CrowTheMagician
Sedentary Germans
Shadow Hegemony
New Pagan Worship
-Military;
Army: xxxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxx
Treasury: xxxx
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class
Technology: Primitive Supernatural Physics, Primitive Printing

- A rudimentary printing press is developed, though fairly crude and difficult to work with, in the long run it cuts the time and effort of producing a single volume to as little as a fourth.
- More schools are built to teach more folk. It isn't a matter of not enough buildings though. Attendance is low because it is simply not within the financial means of the majority to go off and learn instead of work constantly to survive.
- More cults or similar appear. Maybe. No one really knows. In fact, no one really knows who runs the country. All anyone knows is that every now and again, some one knocks at the door demanding the monthly tax.
- New efforts to investigate about the supernatural, as well as more secular knowledge, leads to the conclusion that any new information to be found is certainly beyond the Amarjan borders.

Kalos
Fridge Logic
Sedentary Germans
Feudal Monarchy
Catholic Christian
-Military;
Army: xxxxx
Navy: xxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxxxx
Treasury: xxx
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class, Small Economic Elite
Technology: Primitive Explosives

- Work continues on "Fire Powder", in hopes of making the blast more substantial.
- Use for explosives is few and far between, simply being too impotent to perform practically.
- The Knights of Shalour reject royal orders to play sneak-thief. No one becomes a Knight to skulk among peasants, and a Knight answers to God before his Lord.
- Instead, the usual groups of unsavory characters are sent out to fish out information. Denmark, of its own, is on par with Kalos in all but size, while France is head and shoulders above Kalos and Denmark put together, assuming they are fighting the English at the time.
- Caravans bearing trebuchet-shaped cargo travel from Moklaezia to Authoria. It is insisted that they are cows.

Authoria
Spider-byte
Sedentary Germans
Feudal Monarchy
Heirs of The Sun
-Military;
Army: xxxxx
Navy: xxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxxx
Treasury: xx
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class, Small Economic Elite
Technology: Superior Metallurgy, Superior Siege Gear

- Large bloom forges are developed, and allow Authoria to produce large amounts of raw steel, rather than iron that must be secondarily made to steel.
- "Cows" fall into the hands of Authoria from Moklaezia. By which I mean, sophisticated Moklaezian engines.

Sachielia
CrouchingSloth
Fleeing Steppe Peoples
Republic in Exile
Heirs of The Sun
-Military;
Army: xxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xx
Treasury: xx
- Vast Running-Away Class
Technology: Primitive Explosives, Primitive Medicine

- Mass Exodus is the word, as Sachielian forces gather as many as are willing to go and form a train going east. Many stay, however, as the nomad lifestyle has been lost for centuries, and surely the conquerors can't be that bad?
- Sachielians should find somewhere to settle quickly, if survival is the objective.
- A gift for the Cattonians, however, sees the capital burn to the ground. Pyrrhic? Perhaps.

Arstotzka
LaikaOS
Sedentary Slavs
Oligarchy
Athiest
-Military;
Army: xxxxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxx
Treasury: x
- Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class
Technology:

Cattonian Republic
madcat
Sedentary Steppe Peoples
Representative Republic
Heirs of The Sun
-Military;
Army: xxxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxxxx
Treasury: xxxx
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class, Small Economic Elite
Technology: Superior Archery

- Lighter armors of metal prove a futile search, as the iron scales of Lamellar and Laminar armors are as sophisticated as can be.
- A product of the east, with a little ingenuity, comes into Cattonian hands: the repeating crossbow. Though by demand of its design it is far weaker and much more difficult to aim than the pedestrian bow or ordinary crossbow, it does have an unprecedented rate of fire and is much easier to handle.
- A Maldanian counter-attack is successfully repelled, and the capital falls into Cattoninan hands. Ambushes become common place as forces progress.
- Nationally sponsored delivery systems come into place, merely groups of horsemen to send and carry packages or messages.
- Sachielia falls entirely, as the natives flee into the east. Sore losers, perhaps, as fire and explosives are set across the capital, causing it to burn to rubble.

Maldania
unusedusername
Sedentary Steppe Peoples
Representative Republic
Heirs of The Sun
-Military;
Army: xx
-Economy;
Revenue:
Treasury: xxx
-Small Peasant Class, Small Working Class
Technology: Primitive Medicine

- Counter-attacks led north fail horrifically, as substantial Cattonian forces surround and deal horrific casualties to Maldanian troops.
- Spies have discovered that Cattonia and Astora are planning to invade Maldania.
- What little working men remain are set upon producing a large number of arms and armor.
- Reduced to a holding in the east, forces begin setting up extensive ambushes against Cattonian forces, slowing their progress.

Moklaezia
RichterVonZelmisburg
Sedentary Germans
Plutocracy
Orthodox Christian
-Military;
Army: xxxxxx
Navy: xxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxxx
Treasury: xxxx
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class, Small Economic Elite
Technology: Superior Siege Gear, Superior Ships

- Moklaezian Shipwrights develop the Carrack, entirely powered by sail, providing much larger cargo space, as well as a more stable frame.
- Special exports of "Cows" are directed to Authoria. "Cows".
- Not much is gleamed by spies in the east. Though they can clearly see the devices of foreigners, their designs are much more difficult to ascertain.
- Missionaries make slow progress in the Novgorod lands. Respectably adherent to the Heirs, as well as fairly substantial economic status, gives little for Moklazeians to work with.

Foznia
SlappyTheFish
Sedentary Steppe Peoples
Tribal Republic
Islam
-Military;
Army: xxx
Navy: x
-Economy;
Revenue: xxx
Treasury:
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class
Technology: Primitive Genetics

Madom Khanate
Syndic
Semi-Nomadic Turko-Mongols
Absolute Monarchy
Islam
-Military;
Army: xxxxxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxxx
Treasury: xxxxx
-Small Peasant Class, Vast Hunter-Warrior Class
Technology: Superior Armor, Superior Infrastructure

- New techniques of cutting softer stones and paving wider paths with them produces extensive "highways" that provide caravans with an extremely stable route.
- New ideas regarding the bow and arrow are few and far between, but many focus on improving the arrowhead.
- Extensive work is put into the guest houses of foreign advisers and diplomats, providing lavish treatment one would see for a (lesser) Khan.
- Horlves are hunted down by the score, and soon the southern herds of the creatures are sparse, to say the least. They cannot even be eaten, for they are certainly not Halal. Even under extreme punishment, it is sometimes heard of the creatures being smuggled east.
- Forces are retracted from Persia more open areas where the extensive Horsemen of Madom have the advantage. The Persians do not take the bait, however, and instead head through the eastern mountains, where horsemen are unable to effectively deal with Persian Archers and infantry.
- The Madomi armies push deeper into Foznia, as organized resistance is no where to be found.

Zonkers
theclassicrock1969
Semi-Nomadic Steppe Peoples
Tribal Confederation
Islam
-Military;
Army: xxxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xx
Treasury: xx
-Small Peasant Class, Large Hunter-Warrior Class
Technology: Superior Agriculture

Plan run like little bitches is in full effect. Sachielia will rise again.
@Zonkers and Madom Khanate
Sachielia would like to establish trade as quickly as possible.

To the Nation of Cattonia
I am willing to share my secrets of superior metallurgy for your secrets of superior archery.
-Astora

To the Madom Khanate:
Please don't kill us.
-Astora

@Sachelia

Your nation's perseverance is well accepted. As a nation of similar attacks, we would like to engage in trade with as well. May your Nation Rise up to its Former glory.
-Maldanian Senate.

Okay, that was actually super surprising and hilarious.

@Al Amarja,

The Oligarchies collective ears perked when they heard of these new "printing presses" being developed by your nation. They request that you share this knowledge with Arstotzka, in return we will provide you with our own technology.

I will gladly accept this deal. Maybe your people can also help us on our research into supernatural.

The Zonkerites will gladly accept trade with the Sachielians

This turn isn't of a very high quality for reasons.

Turn 14, 1120 AD

Map of the World

Events:

New Icons: Perforated Green and Red lines represent those who are Allies and Enemies, respectively. These only appear between NPCs or an NPC and a player. Player alliances are still "invisible".

Astora
Captain Douglas J Falcon
Sedentary Slavs
Feudal Theocracy
Heirs of the Sun
-Military;
Army: xxxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxxx
Treasury: xxx
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class, Small Economic Elite
Technology: Superior Metallurgy, Primitive Medicine, Superior Archery

- Astoran forces discontinue their advances into Maldania, and instead consolidate claims.
- Advanced tools sees no progress. Unless there is a way to make a hammer do its job by itself, there's no where to go with this.
- Cattonian designs are imported, and Metallurgy processes exported.
- New medical methods are devised, based on practical knowledge than folklore.
- A tax system based on leveled income is devised and implemented.

Kolechia
MrStalker
Sedentary Slavs
Autocracy
Old Pagan Worship
-Military;
Army: xxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xx
Treasury: xx
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class
Technology: Primitive Explosives

Al Amarja
CrowTheMagician
Sedentary Germans
Shadow Hegemony
New Pagan Worship
-Military;
Army: xxxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxx
Treasury: xxxx
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class
Technology: Primitive Supernatural Physics, Primitive Printing, Superior Metallurgy, Superior Archery

- The designs for the printing press are handed over to Arstotzka.
- The bloom forge is created, and put into service producing large amounts of raw steel.
- The repeating crossbow, a questionable weapon, is made manifest.
- Calls for Heretics and Witches from beyond Amarja are met with few, but only for lack of individuals: beyond the border, such peoples are poached for their thoughts.
- Tourism is not a thing. The few who have the means to spend a month or two without working tend to embellish their own homes, not to mention Amarja is widely considered a no-man's land.

Kalos
Fridge Logic
Sedentary Germans
Feudal Monarchy
Catholic Christian
-Military;
Army: xxxxx
Navy: xxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxxxx
Treasury: xxxxx
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class, Small Economic Elite
Technology: Basic Gunpowder, Superior Siege Gear, Superior Ships

- Additional ingredients prove Fire Powder into true Black Powder, explosive stuff with significant lethality.
- The newly designed Cog enters service for the Kalos navies, both military and commercial.
- "Cows" are imported from Authoria. "Cows".

Authoria
Spider-byte
Sedentary Germans
Feudal Monarchy
Heirs of The Sun
-Military;
Army: xxxxxx
Navy: xxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxxx
Treasury: xx
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class, Small Economic Elite
Technology: Superior Metallurgy, Superior Siege Gear, Superior Armor, Superior Infrastructure

- Large harnesses of plate armor are created, using surface-hardened steel plates and bits, providing unrivaled protection against all but the most determined of arms.
- Scores of bears are bought up and domesticated. Why? Who knows.
- Pavement becomes the norm between large settlements, as stone slabs overtake the dirt paths of old.

Sachielia
CrouchingSloth
Sedentary Steppe Peoples
Representative Republic
Heirs of The Sun
-Military;
Army: xxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxx
Treasury:
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class
Technology: Primitive Explosives, Primitive Medicine, Superior Agriculture

- New methods of planting crops to preserve soil raise productivity on the newly founded estates.
- A new capital is founded, and the Sachielian people begin to resettle.
- Northern herds of Horlves are adopted by Sachielians, and domesticated in number for whatever purpose they may suit.

Arstotzka
LaikaOS
Sedentary Slavs
Oligarchy
Athiest
-Military;
Army: xxxxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxx
Treasury:
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class
Technology: Primitive Printing, Superior Infrastructure, Superior Metallurgy

- Cobblestone pavement is developed and made commonplace between settlements.
- Extensive forges of extreme temperature allow for the production of steel in bulk.
- In an attempt to lower military costs, members are exempted from taxes and given a pay grade after a time. Which makes the expense of the army go up.
- An ambitious project begins in which an extensive palisade is designed to surround the nation. The expense and labor of such a project is ungodly. Much like Asrstotzka itself.

Cattonian Republic
madcat
Sedentary Steppe Peoples
Representative Republic
Heirs of The Sun
-Military;
Army: xxxxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxxxx
Treasury: xxxx
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class, Small Economic Elite
Technology: Superior Archery, Superior Metallurgy, Superior Armor

- Astoran Metallurgy is imported, and Archery exported.
- Hardened steel plates form into harnesses, providing Cattonia with the unrivaled protection of Plate Armor.
- The Maldanian Campaign is abandoned, and forces move into Foznian lands, quickly reaching the capital and setting siege.
- A census provides Cattonia with the knowledge that it has ~850,000 people in its borders.

Maldania
unusedusername
Sedentary Steppe Peoples
Representative Republic
Heirs of The Sun
-Military;
Army: xx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxx
Treasury: x
-Small Peasant Class, Small Working Class
Technology: Primitive Medicine

- The invasion ends, and a new capital is established in the south.
- A memorial is established to commemorate the brutal defeat.
- A national bank is established, promoting the growth of a mercantile class.

Moklaezia
RichterVonZelmisburg
Sedentary Germans
Plutocracy
Orthodox Christian
-Military;
Army: xxxxxx
Navy: xxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxx
Treasury: xx
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class, Small Economic Elite
Technology: Superior Siege Gear, Superior Ships

- Spies are sent to scout out Cattonian and Madom forces and to take not of their methods; Cattonian forces are dominated by heavily armored cavalry and foot archers, usually forming a line of repeating crossbows to drown the enemy in bolts before cavalry sweeps the enemy. The Khanate operates much differently, using extensive skirmish tactics and traditional mounted archers, feigning retreats and surrounding the enemy.
- Prospects in the Caucasus reveal mineral rich regions of copper, gold, coal, iron, and other materials.

Foznia
SlappyTheFish
Sedentary Steppe Peoples
Tribal Republic
Islam
-Military;
Army: xxx
Navy: x
-Economy;
Revenue: xxx
Treasury:
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class
Technology: Primitive Genetics, Primitive Physics, Primitive Explosives

- Newly captured territory is extensively fortified against incursion.
- Foznian forces widely adopt armored skirts for their steeds, giving them a bit more of a chance to survive.
- Fire Powder emerges from the works of several Foznian alchemists.
- The Horlves remaining in Foznia are domesticated and raised.

Madom Khanate
Syndic
Semi-Nomadic Turko-Mongols
Absolute Monarchy
Islam
-Military;
Army: xxxxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxxxx
Treasury: xxxxx
-Small Peasant Class, Vast Hunter-Warrior Class, Small Economic Elite
Technology: Superior Armor, Superior Infrastructure

- A banking system emerges in the Khanate, by which banknotes dictating the exchange of money between stations allows faster and safer transit of cash.
- Mainland Foznia finally crumples, as Cattonian forces push the remaining organized resistance into the Horde.
- The Horde puts all of its weight on Persia, making strides into the heartland of the Sultan's realm. Initial success slows, however, as Persians take great advantage of the hot climate and rocky terrain, where massed foot-archers have the complete advantage over the Khanate's mounted archers, the majority of the Horde.

Zonkers
theclassicrock1969
Semi-Nomadic Steppe Peoples
Tribal Confederation
Islam
-Military;
Army: xxxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xx
Treasury: xx
-Small Peasant Class, Large Hunter-Warrior Class
Technology: Superior Agriculture

Just a quick question.

What does this dotted line represent between Arstotzka and Astora, is it that wall I'm building, or?

Apologies in advanced if I've overlooked the answer somewhere.

Yeah that's the wall.

Turn 15, 1130 AD

Map of the World

Events:

- The Kolechian peoples disperse from lack of leadership, diffusing into the stone-age hunters north. MrStalker has quit

- An extensive cross-Atlantic empire of Nordic-Inuit descent makes contact with Kalos. See Kalos for details.

- Across Europe and North Africa, children gone missing are reported in scores, mostly young boys, but the occasional girl or babe is gone too. Such would not be any real notice, except that a common trend is observed: every other member of the household with a missing child is found covered in horrific burns.

Astora
Captain Douglas J Falcon
Sedentary Slavs
Feudal Theocracy
Heirs of the Sun
-Military;
Army: xxxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxxx
Treasury: xxx
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class, Small Economic Elite
Technology: Superior Metallurgy, Basic Medicine, Superior Archery, Primitive Explosives

- Greater understanding of the human body has outmoded such beliefs as the four humors and foul vapors.
- Astoran forces mount an assault on vassal lands of the Novgorod Republic. The attack completely catches the Republic's forces off-guard, and siege is set to a major trading post. However, an offer is extended to the Astorans; to end their attack and instead move against the Authorians, extending an offer of trade and a large cash sum.

Al Amarja
CrowTheMagician
Sedentary Germans
Shadow Hegemony
New Pagan Worship
-Military;
Army: xxxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxxx
Treasury: xxxxx
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class, Small Economic Elite
Technology: Basic Supernatural Physics, Printing, Superior Metallurgy, Superior Archery

- More sophisticated machinery produces more refined presses, capable of making a significant amount of information manifest in a short amount of time.
- Groups of scholars set out to gather more knowledge about the world, or any world for that matter. Outside of Amarja they are often poached, but the ones that return bring back useful information.
- A banking system emerges, producing a wealthy class of bankers and the growth of Amarja's economy.
- The first rule of fight club.

Kalos
Fridge Logic
Sedentary Germans
Feudal Monarchy
Catholic Christian
-Military;
Army: xxxxx
Navy: xxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxxxx
Treasury: xxxxx
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class, Small Economic Elite
Technology: Basic Gunpowder, Superior Siege Gear, Superior Ships, Primitive Cannonade

- The bloom forge is developed, allowing for the production of large amounts of raw steel.
- A three piece item: an iron tube, a stone ball, and a charge of gunpowder, creating what amounts to a crude cannon. Such items begin to replace the artillery pieces formerly mounted on ships.
- A token force of ships is sent far west to explore the waters beyond the Emerald Isles, long thought to lead to the edge of the world. However, an interesting turn of fate occurs; foreign ships surround the commercial boats of Kalos and force their course north, where they are led to make port on new shores. Their hosts, a people with strange features, though speaking a distinctly Norse language, introduce themselves as members of the Court of Kaldrvan, and say that the fleet was heading for extremely dangerous waters, home to nigh-unstoppable monsters. After a few weeks, the Kalos fleet returns, no worse for wear.
- Kaldrvan extends an offer; extensive maps of many coasts in the west, in exchange for the knowledge of gunpowder and cannonade.
- A fleet of warships departs for Finland, bent on retaking the area. steep losses are suffered as Swedish ships commit extensive raids on the flotilla.

Authoria
Spider-byte
Sedentary Germans
Feudal Monarchy
Heirs of The Sun
-Military;
Army: xxxxxx
Navy: xxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxxx
Treasury: xx
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class, Small Economic Elite
Technology: Superior Metallurgy, Superior Siege Gear, Superior Armor, Superior Infrastructure, Primitive Explosives, Superior Archery

- Fire powder is developed, as well as the Arbalest, one of the more dangerous ranged weapons.
- A two-pronged invasion of the Novgorod Republic sees siege set to one of the major vassals of the Republic, as well as the most important harbor in the nation.

Sachielia
CrouchingSloth
Sedentary Steppe Peoples
Representative Republic
Heirs of The Sun
-Military;
Army: xxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxx
Treasury:
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class
Technology: Primitive Explosives, Primitive Medicine, Superior Agriculture

- Small ditches are dug as a means to protect the new "border". No money means little can be done however. Everyone is mega-jealous of those asshats on the Silk Road.

Arstotzka
LaikaOS
Sedentary Slavs
Oligarchy
Athiest
-Military;
Army: xxxxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxxx
Treasury: xxx
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class, Small Economic Elite
Technology: Primitive Printing, Superior Infrastructure, Superior Metallurgy, Superior Agriculture

- New methods of preserving the strength of soil promote greater harvests in Astotzka.
- A national bank. Bankers. Cash flow.
- Obscene numbers of Ideology books are printed and spread around. Some even end up outside the border, where peasants use them as insulation.
- Excess military engines are marketed. Few are bought, however. Most people just build such items when they are needed.

Cattonian Republic
madcat
Sedentary Steppe Peoples
Representative Republic
Heirs of The Sun
-Military;
Army: xxxxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxxxx
Treasury: xxxxxx
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class, Average Economic Elite
Technology: Superior Archery, Superior Metallurgy, Superior Armor, Primitive Medicine

- Doctors decide that knowing how to fix their patients would be a great help, and begin looking into medicinal methods.
- A national bank promotes the further growth of the elite class, which is becoming almost dangerously powerful…
- The Novgorod Republic is substantially powerful, though caught off-guard at the moment. Rich off of fur-trades, the city can afford extensive armies built of Mercenary Crossbowmen, as well as drafted peasants in score.

Maldania
unusedusername
Sedentary Steppe Peoples
Representative Republic
Heirs of The Sun
-Military;
Army: xx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxx
Treasury: xx
-Small Peasant Class, Average Working Class
Technology: Basic Medicine, Superior Metallurgy

- New understandings of the human body bring about more sophisticated medicinal understanding.
- The bloom forge enters Maldanian service. We all know what it does by now.
- A donation drive sees a tiny bit of metal and large amounts of scrap chunks of wood given to military forces. Why.

Moklaezia
RichterVonZelmisburg
Sedentary Germans
Plutocracy
Orthodox Christian
-Military;
Army: xxxxxx
Navy: xxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxxx
Treasury: xxx
-Average Peasant Class, Average Working Class, Small Economic Elite
Technology: Superior Siege Gear, Superior Ships, Primitive Medicine, Superior Infastructure

- A Message from Novgorod demands that Mokleazia move against Kalos and Authoria, claiming that since Moklaezia enticed the Republic to take Kalosi Finland, they are obligated to assist.
- An assault is led on the last major settlement in Foznian hands, and in a few months a siege is set and finished.
- Doctors and Apothecaries work together to provide actual solutions to the ailments of the people.
- Pavements on major roads do much to improve the commerce of Moklaezia.

Foznia
SlappyTheFish
Sedentary Steppe Peoples
Tribal Republic
Islam
-Military;
Army: xxx
Navy: x
-Economy;
Revenue: xx
Treasury:
-Small Peasant Class, Small Working Class
Technology: Primitive Genetics, Primitive Physics, Primitive Explosives, Superior Metallurgy, Primitive Medicine

- The last major settlement of Foznia falls to Moklaezian invaders, driving many Foznians south.
- The bloom forge is developed, which means Foznians now have access to large amounts of steel.
- So many people dying spurs the need for developing true medical practices.
- The Sultanate extends an offer; that they be relocated by the Sultan and gain the protection of a vassal, in exchange for an annual tribute.

Madom Khanate
Syndic
Semi-Nomadic Turko-Mongols
Absolute Monarchy
Islam
-Military;
Army: xxxxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxxxxx
Treasury: xxxxxx
-Small Peasant Class, Vast Hunter-Warrior Class, Small Economic Elite
Technology: Superior Armor, Superior Infrastructure

Zonkers
theclassicrock1969
Semi-Nomadic Steppe Peoples
Aristocracy
Islam
-Military;
Army: xxxxx
-Economy;
Revenue: xxx
Treasury: xxx
-Small Peasant Class, Large Hunter-Warrior Class
Technology: Superior Agriculture, Primitive Explosives, Primitive Printing

- The Zonker people finally produce an acceptable mimic of Greek Fire, near unquenchable flames produced by a thin liquid.
- Printing becomes a reality as movable type and ink-blocks appear in Zonker hands.
- A classical Aristocracy is instituted: rule by the best and most talented individuals.
- Expansion over areas of the Silk Road have the Zonkers profit from taxation on goods passing through.

@Madom Khanate
Goddammit trade with me.

So I'm currently trying to find a means of expressing how I'm feeling about the Moklaezian's actions, something along the lines of 'why' and 'could you not do that'

I'm getting nowhere in that regard.

Would anyone mind helping me properly articulate my emotion towards this situation?

cash flow $$$$$

You know, I seem to remember that all my current problems are the result of one nation's very rude invasion. I wonder who it was……OH YEAH.

Note: This is in no way a formal declaration of war. Please do not invade me and attack with pointy things again.
On another note, would the Cattonian Republic care to trade with poor old Sachielia?

You can have all the manure that our beautiful, well-fed cows produce, to use as fertilizer.

I feel like I should be offended by that, but my country is in such poor shape I can't refuse your offer. I await your manure.

I have noticed that none of the Heirs of the Sun have access to mass printing. If you feel like controlling your people enlightening your people with the truth of your religion, the Zonkerites would be happy to mass produce your holy book for export.

Wouldn't it make more sense if I was to trade the secrets of printing to them then having their books exported from across the map? Plus my printing machines are updated. So if the nations of the sun are interested in trading with Al Amarja for the designs of the print machine just put it down on your next turn.

Just forget this post please I wrote this one while I was still half asleep so I wasn't thinking straight. instead I'm offering the same deal as Classic Rock, but only to Astora, Authoria, and Cattonian. Sachielia to far away for me to even make any sort of deal with.

Also sorry for the doublepost but I felt that I needed to clear up that mistake.

Moklaezia enticed the Republic to take Kalosi Finland

It is at this moment, that a very awkward silence befell the Kalos/Moklaezian border

>"A Message from Novgorod demands that Mokleazia move against Kalos and Authoria, claiming that since Moklaezia enticed the Republic to take Kalosi Finland, they are obligated to assist."

Saying "the shit hit the fan" would be a huge understatement for what just happened.

I've had two opposing parties approach me, either one asking me to attack the other. Saying this is getting fun would also be an understatement.

The outcome to this situation could go either way depending on which choice benefits Arstotzka the most, I know saying this has probably damaged my trustworthy reputation but then again…trusting Arstotzka is a risky move in itself

Just a comparison.

500 AD
1130 AD

I like how we all conveniently ignored the fact that pyromancer pedophiles are probably stealing children.

In response to the pyro-pedo's. I can only imagine that Al Amarja is cooking up some nasty shit.

@Al Amarja,

I've been meaning to pay you back for the printing tech from earlier, unfortunately I don't have the tech you requested right now so this one will have to do.

I'm sending you Superior Infrastructure, hopefully you can put this to some good use. Expect further techs to arrive in the future, Arstotzka does not forget it's dear Al Amarja

Haha. Some pryomanic pedos shows up and right out the bat everyone thinks that the small nation of heretics, outsiders, and general weirdos is responsible. Well ever considered that just maybe we're about as stumped about that as the rest of you. But I will admit that's one mystery most Al Amarjians would most likely try to investigate.

@Arstotzka

Thank you for that and in good timing too since we are planing to boost our defenses since World War 1 is pretty much inevitable.