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Roma Centrum | Central Roman Empire

 * Government: Imperial Monarchy
 * Emperors:
 * Justinian II (r. 720-) (b. 700)
 * Military: 170,000 in total. Tactics and experience from the Byzantine-Shapurid War had greatly changed the Central Roman army permanently. After the century-long war that lasted for almost 125 years, the Central Roman Empire's loss in the war has marked a symbolic decline of the Roman Empire. The only way to keep the Empire alive as long as possible is to protect all sides at all costs and to bribe nobles into a sense of security.
 * Economy: Currency exists in the Central Roman Empire and is minted with riches like silver and gold, although it is slightly crude by modern standards, it bears the Emperor still on every coin when it was minted, of course. Trading by Central Roman merchants, especially Constantinople itself now spreads across Europe and the Arabian peninsula after changing opinions over the decades of "barbaric nations" that were coined a century ago. As the century of peace came back, eastern trading has been maximised as much as possible, although tensions with the Iranian Empire (or whatever the new dynasty is) continues to be persistent that trading through the northern steppes or through the south is a more "safer" method for a typical Central Roman merchant.
 * Demographics: (Does not include Nabatea and Orientia)
 * Population: 22,500,000 (approximate)
 * Constantinople: 700,000
 * Large cities: 1,700,000
 * Small settlements: 5,200,000
 * Rural areas: 14,900,000
 * Religion: 88% Christian, 3% Zoroastrian, 4% Neo-Hellenism (around the boundaries of Atlas), 1% Judaism, 4% Other
 * Culture: 40% Greek, 10% Armenian, 10% Illyrian, 16% Thracian, 8% Assyrian, 1% Jewish/Israelite, 15% Other
 * Diplomacy:
 * N/A
 * Events:
 * The Century of Peace (this will be repeated few turns until this is over): With the war with the (Iranian) Empire and what's left of it being finally over, the Central Roman Empire enters a century of stability, although not one with flaws. Emperor Justinian II's Justinian Proposal has proven (for now) that peace truly stands, thus despite being in an age of stagnancy and decline for the most part for Romans, it has been the time where art based on the war had truly flourished, with mosaics being built across churches of war terrorising many of the subjects and 'brave' soldiers fighting against the evil (the Iranian Empire in particular) and literature related to the war and the Alagadda event had also flourished, in the case of the Alagadda event, where proto science fiction was born in the ex-Iranian Empire - there's no proto science fiction meaning within these works, rather it was religious omens that predominate what was the Alagadda event. As a result, prophecies of "an end to the world" was popular after the war among philosophers and writers, citing the fear of Constantinople "might be here 600 years' time".
 * Mount Athos: The church that was built in Mount Athos two centuries ago was razed by a neo-Hellenist from the city of Gaza on 737 AD, which led to him being burnt in the city of Thessalonica. The religious ban by now was relaxed significantly by Justinian II after the war (seeing that the supposed threat of a neo-Hellenist was nil) and often gone unenforced.
 * Decentralisation, Part Two: Justinian II made surprising reforms from the 720s to 730s by further decentralising the empire, giving themes slightly more autonomy than they have before, allowing them to formulate few laws as long they have the approval from the Emperor and to have local forces protecting them instead. Still, his reforms were popular, but it also led to some of these writers as said before as the potential "end to the Roman Empire". Some modern scholars believe that Byzantium might be heading towards feudalism, although one can't be sure if that's certain.