Type of Government: Meritocratic Enlightened Absolutism
Leader title: Imperator Lord C
Official religion: The Path of Enlightenment
Main Ethnicity: Tybrans though after pulling a lever furry kittens now also overflow the nation.
Capital: Libra
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Geography details:
The Holy Empire of Tybra is an island nation consisting out of one large island and several small islands. Its geographical position gives a warm sea current heating up the islands creating a near tropical situation with no know tornado and little earthquake dangers. Weather is in general warm and dry. The average temperature is 27 degrees on all islands with but few exceptions.
The main island northern lands are flat and fertile making it ideal for farmlands. Monsoons are occasional and take place rather late in fall allowing natural irrigation.
The south east lands are more arid yet many useful minerals are found including uranium, gold, silver and copper. The south west is also arid yet many industries have developed there. Due to tybra's lack of environmental rules this is one of the most polluted regions yet the surrounding islands and mountains create a natural barrier causing the pollution to barely spread. The central area is a natural forest the large woods contain many ruins of an early civilization before the Tybran culture came to existence.
The islands south from the main island are rocky and have little real beaches, and consist out of a large amount of sharp cliffs. This same applies for almost the entire southern and western beaches of the main island, while the eastern part is rich of beaches and the north is a relatively mixture mainly due to Tybra's defensive network carefully camouflaged as rocks.
The minor island of Est on the east of the land is a rather flat land with several mountains and tropical forests yet the deep waters around it make it the home of one of Tybra's naval bases.
Due to the northern cold sea currents colliding with the warm sea currents coming the south the Tybran Sea north of Tybra is considered, by Tybrans, the most dangerous sea in the world. It is notorious for its unpredictable weather with ferocious storms and strong
Government
Tybra uses the trias politica as a lay-out plan for it's main structure yet all three powers are ordered by the imperator lord C. Also the government divides itself into knighthoods: knights of the first round (legislative) knights of the second round (administrative) and knights of the third round (judicial). There are also knights of the 4th and 5th round, yet these are only honorary titles with no real power attached to it often given to soldier who died in battle or people who achieved a university degree.
Imperator Lord C
Officially there has always been only one Imperator. His head has always been covered by a full head covered mask making it near to impossible to know who he truly is. A more common tale of late is that he chooses his own successor in secret. Although without any official notice of this it is still unknown how many imperators there were before the current one. Another myth is that he himself is of a dynasty of the lost civilization known only as the An'ahk of which many things are still unknown.
The Imperator powers are unlimited as in that he stand above the government and can both legislate, administrate and judge without anyone to further object.
The imperator is also the highest commander of the army and exclusively command the imperial guard.
The Council
The knights of the first round of Tybra. The council often consists of between 5 to 7 members creating laws, yet need to be approved by the imperator before a law goes into effect. They also give advice to the imperator which is often carried out.
Council members are chosen by the imperator out of knights of the second round and remain at their position until they retire at the at the age of 70.
Secretaries, police chiefs , generals, minor administrative powers
Also known as knight of the second round, depending on their rank they are appointed their posistion by the power above them, secretaries and generals are appointed by the imperator himself.
Once every 5 years a branch of the administrative powers are being evaluated and regarding their achievements, knights are fired, demoted or promoted.
Legislative power
Legislative power is divided on 2 dimension.
The Judical power is divided among the type of dispute. When there's a dispute between 2 people or companies it goes to civil court. When there's a law broken which is considered a criminal law it goes to criminal court. If there's a dispute between government and people and the people object it goes to administrative court.
there's a distinct hierarchy yet the same for each division.
First there are the common judges, depending on the size of the case there are either 1 or 3 judges ruling.
If a party object it goes to the higher court that makes a final decisions.
If a party yet again objects regarding the interpretation of a law it goes to the high court.
If a party once more objects due to probable cause of an unfair trial or misconduct by the court the imperator makes a final decision.
Tybra Military
Due to tybra's position as an island nation it lays the emphasis on naval and air forces, leaving only a small elite group of soldiers as the offical army aside from the mobile armoured forces.
Divisions can be made by the following:
Tybra Naval Fleets
Named the Imperial Currents due to the strong sea currents the fleet had to cross in Tybra history.
Tybra naval fleets rely heavily on the aegis combat system allowing one ship to command an entire fleet with ease. Though there are officially only 4 fleets of tybra, the small mountain islands in the south east often masquerade several smaller fleets used for defences.
The official fleets however are
Tybra's 1st fleet (nicknamed the Western Wind)
Tybra's 2nd fleet (nicknamed the Northern Wind)
Tybra's 3rd fleet (nicknamed the Eastern Wind)
Tybra's 4th fleet (nicknamed the Southern wind)
Though the nicknames are a bit off at first sight tybra's reliance on missile systems has created these nicknames by it's people because of the fleets assaults by missile and little by cannons.
Tybra Naval Fleets currently only use 4 types of ships:
Muta Class Aegis Destroyers
Aegis class aegis cruisers
Avalon class super carriers
Virginia class submarines
Tybra Air force
The Tybran Air Force is a myth. Rather then having an airforce the military aircraft are divided by land or naval role. It is considered a more effiecient manner of dividing the military minimising communication and communication errors and increasing the efficiency.
Tybra Land army
Due to tybra's island position, the government preferred naval and air forces above land forces creating a relatively small army. Yet out of fear there would actually be a invasion tybra soldiers were harshly trained and are one of the most elite soldiers.
Also trying to gain speed above numbers, tybra's land army divisions are mainly heavy tanks relying on the islands infrastructure to move but are also excellent in all terrains. The exact number of division are unknown due to their hiding in tybra's central forest region.
A large defence network does exists with many old and new tunnels like a tree's roots extending from tybra's central forest towards each edge.
At each end lay formidable defensive structures constantly updated, though as old as the colonial ages.
Tybra Research facilities
A large portion of tybra's defense budget is spend on research effectively creating more efficient ships and weapons. Many research facilities are hidden on the southern islands or in the central forest regions.
Tybra Research Facilities often produces mainly blue prints for elite weapons yet only few are actually produced out of fear of invasion due to superior military might.
Tybra's Imperial Guards
The most elite soldiers often used in special assassination missions and guards of the imperial palace. They are commanded exclusively by Tybra's Imperator, and are often called "knights above all rounds".
They have a highly developed intelligence network and have secret operatives in a multitude of nations mostly gathering information.
The so-called Phantom Squads, are also part of Tybra's Imperial Guards. They are used for missions that are highly sensitive for tybra's relations and status in the world. They often create fake ties with local terrorist cells to cover up ties to the Holy Empire of Tybra
Education
Education has always been greatly valued within the Holy Empire since ancient times. The first structure of the Tybran government required a large bureaucracy and a handwriting. This early need of knowledge quickly spread to merchants and even citizens of cities. The Holy City of Libra first came with an obligation of each child to be able to read. Education is oriented toward the needs and background of the pupil. Education is divided over schools for different age groups some of these in turn divided in streams for different educational levels.
Children can go to school as early as they want though children are obliged to go to school at the age of 4. At that time they go to elementary school where they receive an intense curriculum including language skills, mathematics and meditation.
Depending on the achievement in elementary school children go directly to 3 separate high schools based on their merits achieved in elementary school. The higher the merits the more difficult the curriculum offered.
Tybra Economy
Tybra knows no real borders against foreign companies or it's own companies. Especially the environment takes a secondary role when it comes to economy. A main slogan of Tybra's economical enterprises is "none can stop our movement on the road of progression"
The main focus of Tybra is to create a knowledge economy which supplies information and knowledge as well as high-tech equipment to the world. The mining industry however takes a large secondary role within Tybra.
Tybra's main services are focused on international law and accountancy making accountancy one of the major export products. Consultant agency's also take a large but secondary portion in Tybra's economy, as does banking
Due to it's location Tybra's often used as a trade station due to it's nature of lying in between several larger but fractured continents. This created a strong merchant marine allowing fast transport and superb storage in tybra's docks. This mainly resides in Tybra's Island to the East which are also a main tourist attraction due to their tropical environment and rich amount of luxurious and affordable hotels.
An overall R&D also exist but due to it's government controlled nature not a lot is known about it.
A large amount of natural Gas reserves and Oil reserves in the south-eastern seas, are almost completely in hands of The Southern Dragon Mining Corporation together with the Holy Empire of Tybra as part of a lease program.
Several of Tybra's main companies are:
Angel wings airline company,
Est Hotel&Spa inc.
Kaiser accountancy firm.
The Southern Dragon Mining Corporation
Tybra History
Earlier Civilizations (5000-1000 BC)
Due to tybra's island status it has been isolated for a long time due to the harsh sea, yet this also created Tybra's unique political system. Yet despite Tybra's unique architectural styles and art, tybra was not the original civilization. Below the holy city of Libra, lies the ruins of an ancient city of the race of A'nkh Toth. This civilization seems to have many similarities with the lost civilization of Atlantis yet because of it's still unknown language lot's of it's knowledge it's gone. Yet they were assumed to be masters of Mathematics and designed an earlier concept of the solar systems, shockingly similar to ours. Many of that knowledge is know lost.
Due to a disaster of unknown origin (a volcanic eruption has been considered the most logical one) The civilization has ceased to exist. Yet many of its ruins still stand and were even used 2000 years after the civilization was lost during the age of kings.
Early Tybra history (1000BC -266 AD)
The early ages of tybra can be considered dark. Art and Knowledge were lost and tribes roamed the lands. During this era of chaos one tribe obtained knowledge of the ancients through metal forging and created the first army. Tybra's northern tribes were untited by force of this one tribe under the rule of the Father of Kings.
Southern Tribes in the east or desert tribes were united by religion, as they were surrounding themselves around the ruins of the ancient A'nkh civilization. They strongly believed that the gods lived in these ruins. Later on it was discovered they were worshipping a mere mechanism yet this had impact in later history and tybra's fascination in technology.
The Eastern island tribes were feared fishermen and dared to fish in some of the most dangerous seas at that time.
During the rule of the Father of the kings he began a massive expansion south and west yet failed to expand and control the eastern tribes.
Dominating now both the northern tribes and southern tribes after a fierce war the Father of Kings died leaving the land in the hands of his sons. though there were 5 sons the land was only split in 4 kingdoms, leaving the youngest in anger he left towards the eastern tribes and founded his own kingdom through diplomacy.
The era of kings (267 AD- 990 AD)
During the era of kings, about 500 years after the rule of the Father of Kings, the kings had lost their historical bloodline. Rather they warred against each other surrounding themselves with nobility which leeched of their ancestors.
It was a time where there was still little focus on science and there was an extreme emphasis on weapon development considering this was often the part that gave the additional weight to win combat.
The coming of Lord C and the birth of the Empire (1166 AD- 1186 AD)
As time passed the land was disrupted by wars between its king and progress was at a stand still. The people or rather the peasants and common folk desired a hero that would end these almost a millennia long wars.
During a raid in one of the border villages they obtained what they desired, a masked man whose mask was engraved with what is now the coat of arms of tybra.
It was a start of a peasant rebellion which quickly engulfed the western kingdom . At his height, the people turned against the king and he was dethroned and contained in his dungeon. Lord C proclaimed a new kingdom one above all in which man can live in peace all having an equal chance in life for he was the reflection of their desires. Thus the Empire was born created by a politician who was a military genius swiftly taken out the armies of the Western kingdom taken them down.
Side note: The Empire Western, Northern Eastern and Southern Kingdoms were their original names. The official names in Tybra language for north east south west were the names of these kingdoms.
Unification of Tybra and the path of enlightenment (1186-1588 AD)
The moment the Empire was founded the remaining kings, under the pressure of their supporting nobility, declared war upon the Empire. Their official reason was the proclamation of an empire which stands above on the same place as the gods which was heresy. As an empire's response they began an invasion of the Southern kingdom which was the capital of Tybra's main religion.
The Empire's forces became the first professional army in Tybra giving soldiers the capability to rise in rank, this due to the fact that the Empire did not have any nobility, creating an effective command.
While the army defended the Empire on choke points between Tybra's mountain ranges, several division used fisherman boats to gather up in the southern kingdom, there they moved to it's capital and attacked it from within conquering the capital and the temple which was the capital of Tybra's main religion. Legend has it that Lord C himself had conquered the temple.
With the southern kingdom fallen, Lord C crowned himself Imperator, The Empire gained the title Holy Empire due to the control of the Temple. Following the teachings of the Temple, the northern kingdom was in shatters with it's people revolting against the king who was now going against an Holy Empire. This revolt made the king forced to negotiate terms, yet he was forced to fully surrender and his kingdom was absorbed by the Holy Empire. Why the king would surrender his kingdom like that is still unknown to this day.
All that was left now was the Eastern Kingdom consisting out of islands it was less religious and refused to join the empire, yet it's reliance on trade made it difficult to not ignore the Holy Empire. Not long After the King died without leaving an heir it was decided by the people to join the holy empire. Now whole of Tybra was unified and the Holy Empire of Tybra was born.
Due to it's isolated position and Tybra now unified science and art flourished. Making Tybra now enter the enlightenment age as one of the very first nations.
1588-1699
This could be called the golden age of Tybra, science and arts became advanced with every day passing by. Universities spawned in major cities, together with the invention of paper and book publishing , it created the first actual public library in tybra in the Holy City of Libra.
It was also know that there came one national architecture first introduced in the design of the first expansion of a small castle now known as the Holy Palace. This form of architecture can be best described as a mixture of an Gothic exterior with a simple Roman styled interior with a blend of Asian, Japanese orientated motives.
It was also during this time that knowledge became highly appreciated and a necessity within the path of Enlightenment creating, the first draft of Tybran laws. Though be sure there were laws before but there was no real set of laws the entire nation would be obliged to know. Only in 1605 the first official Tybra Law book was published. Together with this came the way courts should be organized and the obligation for every child between 7-10 to go to school.
This was indeed a peaceful time, the military became smaller consisting out of but small expedition forces, law enforcement and a proud fleet.
