Nova Rome

Nova Rome, also known as the Nova Roman Empire (Italian: Nova Impero Romano, Latin: Nova Roma Imperium) is an empire in Southern Europe. It has a population of 85,395,602.The Capital of this nation is Rome, however the city of Carthage (Present Day Tunis) is also an important city, along with Naples, Accaiopolis and Taranto. The state was formed when leader of the populist "Revive Rome" movement, Manfredo Galtem Acciaio was elected into office during the 2018 Italian general election. Acciaio sought to take back the old glory of Italy by reviving the Roman Empire. For the glory to come back to Rome, he would have to conquer other nations and develop his military into one of the best in the world, this also had to be achieved by turning Nova Rome into an economic powerhouse. It is the official nation of Nationalist from Canada.

History before Nova Rome
Nova Rome was settled by early Humans about 850,000 years ago. About 45,000 years ago, modern Humans would arrive into the Italian peninsula.The Bronze Age in Italy would start around 1500 BC. Over the course of the centuries, new city-states and civilizations would be founded such as the Etruscans. The Greeks form colonies in the south of Italy. The city-state of Rome would be founded in 753 BC by Romulus, the dynasty would last another two and a half centuries until being overthrown in 509 BC. This tiny city-state's expansion lead to conflict with many of its fellow Latin neighbors. The wars with the Latins finally end in 338 BC, when the rest of the Latins fell under Roman control.

War breaks out between Rome and Epirus in 280 BC, by 275 BC, the war ends in Epiriot defeat. This defeat leads to the Greek colonies in Italy falling to Rome. Tensions build with Carthage, and a rivalry forms. The Punic Wars start in 264 BC and they end in 146 BC with the annexation of Carthaginian lands into Rome. Greece is annexed in 149 BC.

Over the course of the next two and a half centuries, Rome expands into barbarian lands to the north, they defeat Persia multiple times and reach their maximum height in 117 AD.

Pax Romana ends in 206 AD. This event foreshadows the Romans decline in power and the crisis of the Third Century.

The Huns migrate into Europe and establish a short lived empire, their migration leads to the Germanic tribes own migration in 406 AD. Over the next 70 years, the Romans rapidly decline, eventually leading to their fall in 476 AD.

Italy after the fall of the Ostrogothic Kingdom would be split between many kingdoms. Many of these would be influenced by later powers.

In 1861, the Italians would finally be reunited and would pursue a colonial empire. Despite their best attempts, they would lose during the first Italo-Ethiopian War.

Italy would then join the Triple Alliance. However, the Entente would convince the Italians to declare war on her former allies. After the war, Italy would feel betrayed by the Entente since she didn't get most of her claims. This leads to Benito Mussolini rising exploiting the socialist violence after the war. The Italians would join the Germans in World War 2. They perform quite badly compared to their ally.

In 1945, the war finally ends and Italy joins NATO in 1949. Despite these influences, the Communists still hold a huge influence in Italy. It is during 1979, the leader of Nova Rome, Manfredo Accaio is born.

During Manfredo's teenage years, he starts becoming interested in politics and starts researching the Old Roman Empire. He joins the Italian Army in the late 1990s. Manfredo would rise through the ranks and become a Brigadier General. It was during the height of the Global Recession in Italy that Manfredo would start to become radicalized. Manfredo would then pursue his political career in late 2017 and rapidly gains support due to his populist stance. Manfredo wins the 2018 Italian General Election, changing the name of Italy to Nova Rome. Later that year, Manfredo declares himself "Grand Caesar" and Nova Rome becomes a hereditary monarchy.

Government of Nova Rome
Italy's constitution would be rewritten on June 24th, 2018, with it going into action on July 10th. The new constitution states that Italy would become a hereditary empire, however with "Grand Caesar replacing the position of emperor. Manfredo Accaio's coronation would happen on August 1st.

The Nova Roman government would crack down on opponents to the regime, often sending them to reeducation camps, with a smaller portion being executed.

The government in theory is a democracy, with a monarchy. However, this is not the case. In practice, Nova Rome is an autocratic kingdom with a pseudo democratic system. The Grand Caesar assigns people friendly to the regime to the elections. If an independent candidate runs for office or a puppet of the Caesar starts acting independent, they are executed. All of this combined with heavy propaganda gives the population the illusion the Nova Roman government values freedom by allowing elections and that it cares about its people by executing threats to the state.

After September 8th 2018, Nova Rome would change, becoming anti-leftist after the banning of the Socialist and Communist parties. This marks Romes change into a Capitalist Autocracy.

Society of Nova Rome
After the Fourth Roman Act was signed on September 8th, 2018, the society of Nova Rome would change from a Liberal one into a Conservative one. The government would be allowed to add propaganda into the curiculum, although subtly. This amount of propaganda would gradually increase over time.

The propaganda at first would include small praises of Nova Rome, over time these would increase to being coerced into saying chants about Rome. One of the more popular ones would go like this:

"Our precious Rome shall live on! We shall triumph over our enemies! We shall bathe in the blood of those who are inferior! Our precious Rome will live forever! The glorious legacy of the Caesars will live in the hearts of men and women alike a million years from now! Our precious Rome shall live on!"

What the propaganda would be used for is to create an ultra conservative society, alongside a sense of superiority in the Nova Roman population, who would think they are superior to the Russians and even their allies, the Libyans. This ideal society the Romans strive for is one where women are expected to be homemakers and men are supposed to be workers. Women are expected by the Nova Roman society to have at least 4 kids and men are expected to put in all their effort to create the highest quality items in the world.

In Nova Roman society, LGBTQ is strictly outlawed in some aspects, such as Transsexuality being banned. However the movement on the whole is still alive, but declining as more and more citizens accept the new changes to the society. The movement as a whole is projected to be dead by 2040.

As for immigrants and newly conquered peoples, they are not seen as truly Roman. They are seen as Roman if they speak the official language, Latin or Italian and their ancestors lived in the country for at least 3 generations. Immigration is allowed, however heavily restricted. The reasoning behind this is to "keep Rome pure from migrants". This choice was based off the old mistake of the empire to allow foreigners to settle in the empire, as the Nova Roman government would want Rome to remain strong to keep up with new threats.

The new society change would mix with local cultures, forming a unique Nova Roman culture with a new, distinct form of Latin forming, new architecture and a new set of traditions forming.

Beginnings of the Roman-Tripolitanian Alliance
After Accaios coronation, he would seek to expand his newfound empire. This was to boost popularity of the the regime after the ultimatum 3 weeks prior by the Americans, which was to release Padania, South Tirol and Venice as independent nations. This was to make Nova Rome stronger, after losing several major cities to the north. After several weeks of negotiations with the fledgling Libyan State to the south, an alliance would be formed.

The Libyans and Nova Romans would decide to declare war on Tunisia, as they were a weak power and it would be an easy victory. After 2 weeks of planning, war would begin on October 10th.

Roman-Libyan Invasion of Tunisia
The Romans in the early hours of October 10th would land in several major cities in Northern Tunisia, with the most important of those cities being Bizerte and Nabeul. Later on in the day, the Libyans declare war, however unlike the Nova Romans they have far less success. This was partly to due to the fact that a huge portion of the Tunisian Army was still stationed in West Tripolitania, which they had took a year prior. The Libyans were also exhausted, having fought a civil war, and having fought a two and a half month long war with Chad.

After 5 days of battle, the Libyans would finally manage to break the stalemate and capture Tataouine by the 15th. Meanwhile to the north, the Nova Romans would besiege Tunis. Tunis would fall on the 22nd. There were 2451 Nova Roman casualties and 6392 Tunisian casualties, of which 1209 were civilians.

Towards the end of October, the situation for the Tunisians would deteriorate rapidly, the Libyans would destroy a huge portion of the Tunisians southern army at the battle of Medenine on Halloween. The remains of the Tunisian army in the north would retreat to Kasserine in which they would defeated at on November 6th.

The Tunisian armies would make their final retreat to Gabes, where their total army size would be 34,592, where about 90% of the total Tunisian army would be stationed. The Libyans would come with about 17,000 soldiers and the Nova Romans 28,392. The final major battle of the war would begin on November 11th. For the first 3 days of battle, both sides would engage in skirmishes along the north and south fronts. On the 4th day of battle, the Nova Roman and Libyan fleets would blockade the coast, later on in the day, both forces cut off Gabes to the rest of Tunisia. The Tunisians would run out of resources on November 17th, the Nova Romans and Libyans sensing their foes weakness go into the actual city of Gabes. For the next 2 days, heavy fighting would occur, the battle ultimately ended in a victory for the 2 nations.

With only 3000 Tunisian soldiers left, the Nova Romans and Libyans would advance quickly, taking Kebili on November 21st with few casualties.

On November 27th, the remaining Tunisians surrender.

In the Treaty of Tunis on December 1st, Tunisia would cease to exist as a nation. Most of the nation would go to Nova Rome, with a smaller portion going to Libya. This war marks an era of aggressive expansion into the neighbors of Nova Rome and Libya.

Interwar period and early World War 3
For the next five and a half years, Nova Rome would rapidly build up its army. This was largely in part to conscription. The army size of Nova Rome would increase from 356,902 to 956,994 with 2,392,104 in reserves.

Meanwhile with the addition of Tunisia, Nova Rome would see its population grow by eight million.

In the meantime, Nova Romes population would increase from 46,336,871 to 50,830,303.

Alliances in Mapperdonia
Allied with:

Katkaris: Since February 21st, 2017.

Enemies with:

No one

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