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Kingdom of Prussia (Old Prussia)

 * Government: Feudal kingdom
 * King: Sigmar II (b. 1043 - d. 1102, r. 1076 - 1102), Wolfhard (b. 1079, r. 1102 - 1144), Rudolf (b. 1126-1178, r. 1144-1178), Sigmar III (b. 1150, r. 1168)
 * Dynasty: Pregel
 * Military: As the failure of the Prussians in the Second Crusade had gone by, the morale of the Prussians have gone down quite a lot. Things are quite bad now, the Avars are getting more resentful against the Prussians, because they sought to reap the benefits and are experiencing some wealth growths within their own towns too, which makes the nobles of Old Prussia even more envious. The military is now being used to suppress any form of dissident and any form of peasant uprising, but some modern historians argue that they are being used to promote the Prussian culture itself even more, especially in Warsaw, where there has been violence in the city quite lately.
 * Land forces: (Courland not included; finally updated it in like 6 turns)
 * 24 000 levies (95% of the levies are raised)
 * 8 500 spearmen
 * 3 500 swordsmen
 * 6 000 archers (incl. crossbow archers)
 * 6 000 melee cavalry
 * 3 000 pikemen and anti-cavalry
 * Equipment included are catapults, battering rams and siege towers
 * 2 700 knights (largely swordsmen and spearmen that are trained harder than normal and honoured by the King)
 * 2 000 King's Guards (guards that have a sword and a shield that goes with them, wears a lot of armour; there's a disadvantage and that's the speed and agility of them)
 * Navy: (Courland not included)
 * 18 transport ships (they carry only like a hundred once)
 * 9 galleys
 * Economy: Prussia is a rural kingdom, although it has some manufacturing capacity but they're concentrated in major cities, which would occasionally be traded with neighbouring realms by Prussian merchants. Königsberg is a city that is the centre of trade for Prussia. In a post-Wolfhard reign, the retention for the city has declined, but the symbolic Vesnian and Old Prussian alliance remains as his standing legacy. Since the mid-12th century, Avaland, a neighbouring realm of the Prussian Kingdom is wealthy and is the boundary to the Orthodox-Catholic world, some Avars within Prussia who locally travel there are becoming wealthy, this has led to some division among the Old Prussian Germans and the Avars.
 * Demographics: (Census is based on the 1155 Census that is finalised, adjusted for an 1160 estimate after a famine)
 * Population: 3 112 000
 * Königsberg: 95 000
 * Danzig: 42 000
 * Allenstein: 11 000
 * Lustenbruck: 21 000
 * Drusselstein: 50 000
 * Posen: 30 000
 * Breslau: 20 000
 * Plytzk: 10 000
 * Warsaw (Warschau/Varsava): 52 000
 * Memel: 7 000
 * Laibech: 12 000
 * Rural areas (anything not included above): 2 710 000
 * Culture: 70% Germanic (62% Prussian, 7% Vesnian), 27% Avar, 3% Other
 * Religion: 86% Eastern Orthodox, 10% Catholic, 4% Other
 * Diplomacy:
 * Avaland: Our handling of the Avars is an internal matter of the Prussian Kingdom and must not be interfered. Anyone who dares to wage war on Prussia will be set upon the wrath of the King being sent as a general to crack down any form of your support of the rebellions.
 * Vesnia: We support their diplomatic measures for Prussia, for acknowledging to not interfere in internal matters of Prussia.
 * Anyone else: Our handling of the Avars is an internal matter. No realm outside of the Prussian Kingdom is allowed to interfere our way of handling the Avars of Prussia.
 * Events: (italics is top secret!!!)
 * Violence Escalates! Scorched Earth Policy Activated!: With violent peasant uprisings culminating in Avar-majority towns and villages, hundreds, if not thousands of Prussians were killed at the same time too. Organised attacks by Avars are increasing every year. This led to many of the Prussian levies and knights becoming ever more violent, even leading them to their deaths. King Sigmar III secretly called for scorched earth policy, by harvesting and burning Avar farmland as much as possible, in a deliberate move to 'forcibly assimilate' or let them die. This is done slowly and not rapid, as it could lead to people noticing. They also plundered the riches of Avars living in Prussia and transferred them bit by bit to the north, for Sigmar III as part of the scorched earth policy.
 * Decadence and Censorship: As King Sigmar III continues to bring about his delusions and anger over the uprising, he started to live his life even more lavish. Some of the wealth of the Avars living near Avaland were seized and are spent to lowly Prussian peasants by the decision of Sigmar III, believing that he could convince them with money to buy plots of land from the Avars living in southern Prussia and encourage them to migrate there with a 'higher ground'. There's also a bit of censorship too, with Prussian knights and levies being ordered to silence people from getting the message out in southern Prussia by killing those or torturing those who try to get the message out of the violence hellscape.
 * "A Prussian is worth 3 Avars" (top secret!!!): King Sigmar III, in the plight of peasant uprisings and the massacre, has declared a shocking statement to his own King's Guards. He said the following: "From the light of the money-loving Avars, I have come to make a decree. From now on, any Avar subjects belonging to the Prussian Kingdom will be worth 1/3rd of their lives to a Prussian. They are not worthy. Unless they prove themselves they can be a Prussian through acceptance and tolerance, they will not be worth living." In other words, he literally said "a Prussian is worth 3 Avars." This message is dispatched to levies, knights and all other KIng's Guards and that they must stop violence. But if an Avar has tried to kill a Prussian settler or a soldier, then their lives will be tossed away without mercy. The term 'kill' is not to be used, rather the euphemism 'utilise' (or 'dispose of') would be favoured over that. The only acceptable use of the words 'kill', 'die' or 'massacre' is if the Avars targeted Prussians deliberately.
 * Ossat: Newly raised levies and part of the King's Guard (the most loyal soldiers within the Prussian army yet) are ordered to retake Ossat from the seemingly unstoppable uprising. Over ~300 knights and 120 settlers are thought to be killed in Ossat, a town of 7 200. Under the directive of King Sigmar III, because he decreed that a Prussian killed is worth three Avars being killed (1 260 are to be 'utilised' under his verbal command), they are ordered to massacre and not allow anyone escape through. Message has already come through to the King that the Avar peasants have killed knights and settlers there. If anyone escaped through, there will be extra levies from the raised levy to track down and execute them near Ossat when they're occupying the town and villages nearby. No message is to be spread to nearby towns and settlements and any villager who tells them will be tortured with a hundred lashes. Prussian settlers there will be introduced slowly after the assault (should it be successful) as to fill the gaps.