Federal subjects abroad

[Imeriata]

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I must ask if I understood the situation here; You have made claims on lands held by Imerian noblemen, and made the whole matter worse by not treating them with the respect they do deserve?
That would indeed be highly outrageous

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How would they be able to act as proper and gentlemanly federal subjects if they wheren't concerned about linage and class?

OOC: Thanks for bolding each question.

Of course, after all it bothers me myself to no small degree when you have to do that yourself.

[Lykosia]

How would they be able to act as proper and gentlemanly federal subjects if they wheren't concerned about linage and class?

we have our own ways

[Helghast empire]

a little brain-washing propaganda will change that....

No it would still be ungentlemanly.

who said it wouldn't?

[Imeriata]

who said it wouldn't?

You did!

we have our own ways

Which apparently are neither gentlemanly nor proper behaviour

[The Batorys]

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I must ask if I understood the situation here; You have made claims on lands held by Imerian noblemen, and made the whole matter worse by not treating them with the respect they do deserve?
That would indeed be highly outrageous

Not at all.

You see, usually, when the Batory Empire conquers new lands, any local nobility not deemed useful are culled, usually enslaved. The Empress does not tolerate competing claims upon her property, you see.

However, fortunately for the Imerian nobles, the lands they claim are not within the Empire, and so are irrelevant to the Empress, thus making them safe, if a novelty. Apologies for the lack of clarity.

[Imeriata]

Not at all.

You see, usually, when the Batory Empire conquers new lands, any local nobility not deemed useful are culled, usually enslaved. The Empress does not tolerate competing claims upon her property, you see.

However, fortunately for the Imerian nobles, the lands they claim are not within the Empire, and so are irrelevant to the Empress, thus making them safe, if a novelty. Apologies for the lack of clarity.

I see... I do hope you understand me asking as we would need to protect federal interests, especially against the undead hordes.

[The Batorys]

Not at all.

You see, usually, when the Batory Empire conquers new lands, any local nobility not deemed useful are culled, usually enslaved. The Empress does not tolerate competing claims upon her property, you see.

However, fortunately for the Imerian nobles, the lands they claim are not within the Empire, and so are irrelevant to the Empress, thus making them safe, if a novelty. Apologies for the lack of clarity.

I see... I do hope you understand me asking as we would need to protect federal interests, especially against the undead hordes.

The Empress has no claims upon the lands of your puzzling nobles. As for undead hordes... er... we don't have any zombies... ah, well, just never mind.

[Imeriata]

The Empress has no claims upon the lands of your puzzling nobles. As for undead hordes... er... we don't have any zombies... ah, well, just never mind.

Well it is good to hear that our noble brothers and sisters and their subjects would not be in the need of rescuing and as for the undead hordes so do the old saying goes; "if it sound like a vampire, smells like a vampire, looks like a vampire chances is that it is a vampire so feel free to put a stake into its heart!"

[Roodswood]

1. How many Imerians live in your nation?
85

2. How many of them can say that they do have a noble linage?
4

3. How much contact do the Imerians in your nation have with their brothers and sisters back home
They have a great deal of contact.

4.Do those people still speak proper Imerian?
Yes

5. Do the Imerians inhabit enclaves where the greater Imerian high culture can shine above your own?
. . . All Imerians in Roodswood work for Imeriata's diplomatic mission to Roodswood. They tend to either live in the embassy or close to it. So . . . yes?

6. How many of them are still followers of the holy chronicles?
99%

7.Is there active discriminations against the Imerian population for whatever reasons?
None whatsoever, they are accorded the highest respect as diplomats from a foreign nation.

8. How is the Imerian population in your nation looked at by the general population and what kind of trades do the federal subjects often work in?
Most Roodswoodians have no contact with any Imerians. Those who work with them in the Royal Court are alternatively exasperated at their arrogance and admiring of their patriotism and etiquette. All Imerians in the country are involved somehow in a diplomatic mission.

9. How long have there been an active Imerian population living in your nation?
Perhaps 30-40 years

10. Do they still maintain the proper and gentlemanly behaviour that can be expected from proper federal subjects?
Of course.

11. Are the Imerians living in your lands still concerned about such important things as titles, social class and linage?
Yes.

12. Are they still loyal and respectful against their true king despite the distance and separation by national borders?
They would probably lose their jobs if they were not.

14. Do your government take active oppressive actions that targets specifically the Imerian population living in your nation? and if so for what reasons?
Imerians are prohibited from attempting to convert people to, or spread information about, their native religion, or, indeed, any religion other than Catholicism. Those who would attempt to do so are declared persona non grata and are returned to Imeriata. To date this has never happened.

15. Do anyone of Imerian heritage currently serve as part of your government or have there at any time been someone from the federation in your government?
No

[Imeriata]

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While I am sure that our diplomats would have more intelligence and are more professional than to preach when they are forbidden to do so, so must I however express outrage over the fact that we may not preach the words of the holy chronicles.

[The Batorys]

The Empress has no claims upon the lands of your puzzling nobles. As for undead hordes... er... we don't have any zombies... ah, well, just never mind.

Well it is good to hear that our noble brothers and sisters and their subjects would not be in the need of rescuing and as for the undead hordes so do the old saying goes; "if it sound like a vampire, smells like a vampire, looks like a vampire chances is that it is a vampire so feel free to put a stake into its heart!"

[Vinanua]

1. How many Imerians live in your nation?
3,004,600
2. How many of them can say that they do have a noble linage?
n/a
3. How much contact do the Imerians in your nation have with their brothers and sisters back home
n/a
4.Do those people still speak proper Imerian?
15%
5. Do the Imerians inhabit enclaves where the greater Imerian high culture can shine above your own?
no
6. How many of them are still followers of the holy chronicles?
n/a
7.Is there active discriminations against the Imerian population for whatever reasons?
no
8. How is the Imerian population in your nation looked at by the general population and what kind of trades do the federal subjects often work in?
The populace is looked at as normal Vinanuans. We don't keep track of trade worker nationalities.
9. How long have there been an active Imerian population living in your nation?
175 years
10. Do they still maintain the proper and gentlemanly behaviour that can be expected from proper federal subjects?
n/a
11. Are the Imerians living in your lands still concerned about such important things as titles, social class and linage?
n/a
12. Are they still loyal and respectful against their true king despite the distance and separation by national borders?
n/a officially; unofficially Anti-Royal Factions rumored
14. Do your government take active oppressive actions that targets specifically the Imerian population living in your nation? and if so for what reasons?
no
15. Do anyone of Imerian heritage currently serve as part of your government or have there at any time been someone from the federation in your government?
The current President is a quarter Imerian

[Imeriata]

OOC: Said strictly IC of course as I always liked the way you played vampires.

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Imerians make up half the population of your nation? While I must say that the idea that any of brödrafolken have risen to such power in any nation is something that I would celebrate so is the idea that they are forced to do so in a mere republic and a anti-royal one of those as well a much troubling one and we will keep a close eye on your nation as we cannot have our brothers and sisters live in barbarism even if they are the rulers of a nation.

[Tergnitz]

1. How many Imerians live in your nation?

As of the 2011 Census undertaken by the Imperial Government, approximately twenty-two million individuals have declared their nationally to be Imerian or of Imerian-descendent. These individuals are all free citizens as slavery is fully outlawed within the borders of the Dominion.

2. How many of them can say that they do have a noble linage?

Research by the Joint Tergnitzian-Imerian Institute for Social Relations has indicated that of the twenty-two million Imerian residents currently living within both the Fatherland and the Dominion’s overseas territories; around three-hundred and thirty thousand identify themselves as having noble linage. These claims were naturally investigated by the Institute and it was discovered that ninety-two percent of the individual claims to noble linage were in fact, true.

3. How much contact do the Imerians in your nation have with their brothers and sisters back home?

As much as they desire.

4. Do those people still speak proper Imerian?

The 2011 Census revealed that Imerian is spoken in less than one percent of all households in the Dominion. Despite this fact, several Imerian Noble Houses within the Dominion have made vocal calls for Imerian to be considered one of the recognized regional languages of Tergnitz.

5. Do the Imerians inhabit enclaves where the greater Imerian high culture can shine above your own?

Imerian citizens and immigrants living within the Dominion’s cities have managed to intermingle with Tergnitz’s domestic population quite well. However, the same is not true of Imerian citizens and immigrants living in the country. Large, exclusive estates have been purchased by Imerian Nobles in an effort to recreate s small part of their home country within the Dominion. Within these estates, roughly ninety-eight percent of the residents either claim Imerian citizenship or Imerian descent.

6. How many of them are still followers of the holy chronicles?

The 2011 Census showed that the number of individuals following the Imerian ‘Holy Chronicles’ within the Dominion was less than one percent of the total population.

7.Is there active discriminations against the Imerian population for whatever reasons?

The ‘2009 Imperial Government Inquiry into Religious Violence within the Dominion’ revealed that Imerian citizens and immigrants were frequently faced with discrimination and religious persecution in both public life and the workplace due to their foreign religious beliefs. However, due to the close political and social ties between of the Dominion and the Royal Federation, this discrimination very rarely took the form of violent acts.

8. How is the Imerian population in your nation looked at by the general population and what kind of trades do the federal subjects often work in?

The Imerian population within the Dominion is generally seen as socially and economically conservative. Some view them as technologically backward barbarians, while others see them as vile heretics for their heathen beliefs. On the whole however, they are seen as a valuable addition to Tergnitzian society by the average citizen.

The Imerian Nobles within the Dominion have organized a number of domestic Noble Houses over the past two centuries. These political institutions aim to influence both the decisions of the Imperial Government as well as the Imerian Court in the homeland. Non-noble Imerian immigrants are typically employed by Imerian Nobles or are famers.

9. How long have there been an active Imerian population living in your nation?

Imperial Records suggest that the firm Imerian immigrants to the Dominion arrived at the turn of the 19th century. This first wave of working-class migrants was soon followed by a rush of lesser nobility from the Royal Federation, eager to purchase large landed estates that were no longer available within the Federation proper. During the early stages of the 20th century, the Imperial Government, in a bid to control rampant immigration, began to heavily restrict the number of non-noble Imerian immigrants to the Dominion. Furthermore, heavy land taxes were levied against new noble immigrants in an effort to discourage these nobles from purchases large landed estates as previous nobles had done. Both the immigration laws and land taxes were rescinded in the late 1960's.

10. Do they still maintain the proper and gentlemanly behaviour that can be expected from proper federal subjects?

One can only assume so; no available data exists to answer this question further.

11. Are the Imerians living in your lands still concerned about such important things as titles, social class and linage?

The average Imerian immigrant in the Dominion is typically working-class, yet despite this fact, the average Imerian immigrant in the Dominion is also employed by Imerian Nobles living within the Fatherland. Therefore, all socio-economic levels of Imerian immigrants are theorized by the Imperial Government to have at the very least, a rudimentary understanding of the Imerian concepts of noble title, social class and noble linage.

12. Are they still loyal and respectful against their true king despite the distance and separation by national borders?

Refer to question 10.

14. Do your government take active oppressive actions that targets specifically the Imerian population living in your nation? And if so for what reasons?

The theocratic nature of the Dominion’s government means that while not maliciously; Imerian immigrants who do not conform to the dominant Christian theology of the Dominion are routinely, passively discriminated against by both the Imperial Government and Government officials. However, this passive nature has sometimes yielded to the zealous nature of religious fundamentalists within the Imperial Government. To date, four Imerian residents have been condemned as heretics and burnt for their crimes over the past two hundred years.

15. Does anyone of Imerian heritage currently serve as part of your government or have there at any time been someone from the federation in your government?

The 2004 report by the Imperial Government, titled, ‘Ethnic Minorities and Nationalities within the Dominion’s Body Politic’ revealed that over the past two hundred years, approximately thirty-two percent of Imerian immigrants have participated in the governing of the Dominion at some level. Furthermore, there has been an Imerian Senator representing the domestic Imerian Noble Houses and the conservative district of Aukland in the Imperial Senate every year for the past one-hundred and forty years.

[Dagnia]

1. How many Imerians live in your nation? Probably a few million.

2. How many of them can say that they do have a noble linage? None. Dagnia is culturally egalitarian (though we are anything but that way economically) and laugh at inherited noble titles, valuing personal achievement above things like what you are born to. Many of them are probably from the lower classes who immigrated to Dagnia because they were intelligent and your class system was keeping them from getting what their intelligence and work ethic could get them in a freer country. If there are any nobility, they keep quiet about it.

3. How much contact do the Imerians in your nation have with their brothers and sisters back home Probably some. We don't keep tabs on these kinds of things.

4.Do those people still speak proper Imerian? A few. Many Dagnians are interested in the languages spoken all over the galaxy, so many Dagnians may know it without having a drop of Imerian blood.

5. Do the Imerians inhabit enclaves where the greater Imerian high culture can shine above your own? There are some enclaves, but they quickly adopt our culture.

6. How many of them are still followers of the holy chronicles? None. The religion is usually the first thing to go. We are mostly atheists and LaVeyan Satanists.

7.Is there active discriminations against the Imerian population for whatever reasons? No

8. How is the Imerian population in your nation looked at by the general population and what kind of trades do the federal subjects often work in? Like all newcomers, they are looked on with initial disgust until they prove they have what it takes to be among us. They are found in all walks of life upon becoming Dagnian.

9. How long have there been an active Imerian population living in your nation? Probably since the beginning of our nation, depending on how old yours is.

10. Do they still maintain the proper and gentlemanly behaviour that can be expected from proper federal subjects? No. They quickly adopt the Dagnian brashness and directness tempered by a little tact.

11. Are the Imerians living in your lands still concerned about such important things as titles, social class and linage? See number 2.

12. Are they still loyal and respectful against their true king despite the distance and separation by national borders? No.

14. Do your government take active oppressive actions that targets specifically the Imerian population living in your nation? and if so for what reasons? No

15. Do anyone of Imerian heritage currently serve as part of your government or have there at any time been someone from the federation in your government? Probably a few. We are such mutts ethnically that there have probably been some people with Imerian roots.

[Vinanua]

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Imerians make up half the population of your nation? While I must say that the idea that any of brödrafolken have risen to such power in any nation is something that I would celebrate so is the idea that they are forced to do so in a mere republic and a anti-royal one of those as well a much troubling one and we will keep a close eye on your nation as we cannot have our brothers and sisters live in barbarism even if they are the rulers of a nation.

OOC:RP population of 33,333,333. Imerians are not half the population.

[Imeriata]

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While some of those things made me raise an eyebrow, especially coming from such a good friend and ally of the federation, so is it good to hear that we have sisters and brothers that lives a proper life far from our shores.

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How barbaric of them

OOC:RP population of 33,333,333. Imerians are not half the population.

OOC: Ahh I see....

[Rastynhaven]

1. How many Imerians live in your nation?
Close to 3,500
2. How many of them can say that they do have a noble linage?
Currently 417, the rest left Imeriata because of the unfair system. Most of the nobles were eloping couples and now have families.
3. How much contact do the Imerians in your nation have with their brothers and sisters back home
They are usually disowned, but if not, they will be able to communicate through the postal system and the interweb.
4.Do those people still speak proper Imerian?
Yes, preservation of culture is very important in Rastynian sociëty, especially for minority groups.
5. Do the Imerians inhabit enclaves where the greater Imerian high culture can shine above your own?
Not exactly, many Imerians do live in Imerian-majority neighborhoods, but most live amongst non-Imerians
6. How many of them are still followers of the holy chronicles?
Very little, but that is through choice
7.Is there active discriminations against the Imerian population for whatever reasons?
Yes, but it is illegal, and since the embassy established between Rastynhaven and Imeriata, it has stopped for the most part.
8. How is the Imerian population in your nation looked at by the general population and what kind of trades do the federal subjects often work in?
Imerians were once seen as uneducated, savage, and barbarian, but the outlook is starting to change as people realize that not all Imerians are bad. They are scholars, educators, and artists for the most part.
9. How long have there been an active Imerian population living in your nation?
for about 1,500 years
10. Do they still maintain the proper and gentlemanly behaviour that can be expected from proper federal subjects?
No, not by Imerian Standards. Imerian women serve in the military and there are openly gay and lesbian Homosexual Imerians.
11. Are the Imerians living in your lands still concerned about such important things as titles, social class and linage?
No, they are seen as unimportant. Merit, intelligence, and tolerance is the most important to them.
12. Are they still loyal and respectful against their true king despite the distance and separation by national borders?
Yes for the older generations, but they are loyal to the Princesses also. The younger generations are either loyal only to the Rastynian Royal Family, or not loyal to any government at all.
14. Do your government take active oppressive actions that targets specifically the Imerian population living in your nation? and if so for what reasons?
No, we never have.
15. Do anyone of Imerian heritage currently serve as part of your government or have there at any time been someone from the federation in your government?
Yes, there was once an Imerian man who ran for a seat in Parliament and won. He was the candidate for the New Capitalist Party.
300 years ago, Princess Sadia married an Imerian woman, as did her great-uncle Prince Maralk and her great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather King Ladenis also married an Imerian woman.

[Tergnitz]

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While some of those things made me raise an eyebrow, especially coming from such a good friend and ally of the federation, so is it good to hear that we have sisters and brothers that lives a proper life far from our shores.
The Federation government can rest easy knowing that Imerian citizens living within the Dominion have a very high standard of life and are generally very well respected by the populace. The incident which resulted in the execution by burning of four Imerian immigrants occurred in 1883.

OOC: Edited question 9 as I forgot to write something at midnight last night.

[Imeriata]

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What is so wrong with gay Imerians? I can actually admit that we are gay all the time, after all why wouldn't we be as we control the most civilized state upon this earth and are the destined rulers of the world?

OOC: Edited question 9 as I forgot to write something at midnight last night.

Well it is all forgotten and buried, or incinerated in this instance!

[Rastynhaven]

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What is so wrong with gay Imerians? I can actually admit that we are gay all the time, after all why wouldn't we be as we control the most civilized state upon this earth and are the destined rulers of the world?

Edit: gay and lesbian homosexual

[Machina Haruspex]

1. How many Imerians live in your nation? At the moment, the border directive suggest that less then twenty are currently in Tezri, the border city before actual entry into the greater Imperium's territory.

2. How many of them can say that they do have a noble linage? At least four.

3. How much contact do the Imerians in your nation have with their brothers and sisters back home? The intelligence directive monitors daily contact.

4.Do those people still speak proper Imerian? Yes.

5. Do the Imerians inhabit enclaves where the greater Imerian high culture can shine above your own? No.

6. How many of them are still followers of the holy chronicles? More then likely all of them.

7.Is there active discriminations against the Imerian population for whatever reasons? There are discriminations against all non Imperium citizenry regardless of stature or heritage-blood line.

8. How is the Imerian population in your nation looked at by the general population and what kind of trades do the federal subjects often work in? At the moment, the nation is unaware of the Imerian presence. As they are awaiting verification and processing to be allowed before a Directive court to be judged for entry or removal.

9. How long have there been an active Imerian population living in your nation? No more then a few weeks.

10. Do they still maintain the proper and gentlemanly behaviour that can be expected from proper federal subjects? It would seem so.

11. Are the Imerians living in your lands still concerned about such important things as titles, social class and linage? Yes. They seem to be under the illusion that because the Imperium has houses and titles of a similiar nature that we are very similiar. It has led to an interesting conversation or two.

12. Are they still loyal and respectful against their true king despite the distance and separation by national borders? Yes.

14. Do your government take active oppressive actions that targets specifically the Imerian population living in your nation? and if so for what reasons? No.

15. Do anyone of Imerian heritage currently serve as part of your government or have there at any time been someone from the federation in your government? No and it's not likely to ever happen.

[Rastynhaven]

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What is so wrong with gay Imerians? I can actually admit that we are gay all the time, after all why wouldn't we be as we control the most civilized state upon this earth and are the destined rulers of the world?

gay and lesbian Homosexual

[Darmen]

1. How many Imerians live in your nation?
7
2. How many of them can say that they do have a noble linage?
0
3. How much contact do the Imerians in your nation have with their brothers and sisters back home
none
4.Do those people still speak proper Imerian?
no
5. Do the Imerians inhabit enclaves where the greater Imerian high culture can shine above your own?
no
6. How many of them are still followers of the holy chronicles?
none
7.Is there active discriminations against the Imerian population for whatever reasons?
nope
8. How is the Imerian population in your nation looked at by the general population and what kind of trades do the federal subjects often work in?
They dont really consider themselves Imerians anymore and they work in agriculture
9. How long have there been an active Imerian population living in your nation?
3weeks
10. Do they still maintain the proper and gentlemanly behaviour that can be expected from proper federal subjects?
somewhat
11. Are the Imerians living in your lands still concerned about such important things as titles, social class and linage?
possibly, though you'll have to ask them
12. Are they still loyal and respectful against their true king despite the distance and separation by national borders?
no, they left because of the King
14. Do your government take active oppressive actions that targets specifically the Imerian population living in your nation? and if so for what reasons?
no
15. Do anyone of Imerian heritage currently serve as part of your government or have there at any time been someone from the federation in your government?
no

[Imeriata]

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Only seven of them? I do feel a deep sorrow for your poor and sad nation!

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how you treat foreigners in general is not my concern but discriminating against Imerians is outrageous!

Edit: gay and lesbian homosexual

Homo what now?
OOC: Homosexuality is all but unheard of in the federation and most people don't even know it exists.