Polabian Republic

Polabia is the secondary nation of PRF (PolishRapidFire-Mapping) and considering official. I made a video of its history from 1078-2016

Polabia is a nation located in central Europe, bordering Germany, Czech and Poland next to the Baltic sea up to the north. It is the 15th biggest country by area in Europe and 94th in the world With a population of 18.6 million people which is the 11th most populous country in Europe and 61st in the World. It is split into 8 subdivisions(Voivodeships). The establishment of Polabia dates back to 1078 by king Boleslav and covered present North-east Germany.It converted into Christianity in 1102.The kingdom of Polabia was founded in 1108, and in 1492 it became a West-Slavic empire with its union with Poland and strong ally of Hungary and other nations. The west Slavic empire ceased to exist in 1742 when Prussia invaded it and annexed it all until 1830 when it declared independance and fought for 19 days and it was given independance. It vanished again in 1914 in WW1 until 1920 once again. It was invaded in 1938 by Hitler as he thought most of Polabia is German and annexed it all.Through out WW2 Polabia had a strong paritsan force which helped the allies loads and had an uprising in 1945 4 months after Poland's Warsaw uprising but failed.

It had massive casualties as loads of the Population was decreased by the Nazi's killing loads of people(9 million died since 1938) because the Slavic were considered as a threat. In 1945 mid spring, the USSR came charging in to beat the nazis and the Allies came from the west trying to capture Hanover(Germans capital city), and Polabia was liberated by USSR. After WW2 in the Frankfurt conference Polabia became a communist satellite state part of the Warsaw pact behind "the iron curtain".It stayed a satellite state until 1989 as one of the first independant countries from the Warsaw pact after years of protests and crisis.

Emytology
The origins of the name of Polabia and Polabians come from as early as 516 BC and considered as a west Slavic tribe.

Połabianie is one meaning: People who living up to Elbe river.

Po- (after /behind /up) + Labe ( the Elba river in Germany ) + i-anie (ian /an).

The upbringing of Polabia(1078-1102)
Polabia was made into a nation in 1078 by king Boleslav the first in north east present day Germany. At first it was a small nation with its capital of Radgoszcz like it is present. Its many people and villages were Slavic (Religion) at first and build many castle and fortreses. It was at peace in its first upbringing.

The kingdom of Polabia(1108-1492)
After the christianisation in 1102 AD, 8 years after it became a kingdom with castles around the country and many soldiers. Its resources were very good and valuable and the kingdom made loads of money from trading to Pomeranians and Poland. The biggest castle was in Radgoszcz in which the king was in.

In 1161 Polabia faced it first war against a powerful nation of The Holy Roman empire and fought for 6 years before Polabia was fully annexed. 4,200 Polabians vs 20,100 Germanics was very unfair for Polabia but still fought for a long time. In 1230 Polabia declared independance from The Holy Roman empire and succeded taking Pomerania as well.

In 1325 The Holy Roman empire declared war against Polabia once more to annex it but this time Polabia has 18,400 soldiers vs 16,700 Germanics and won annexing Sorbian region with Slavic minorities there and built many fortresses and villages for people. Germanic people started moving and migrating after some years because they were badly treated and Slavics dominated the area after 40 years of annexation.

As of Pomerania, teotonic knights declared war and took the area but it was mostly populated with Polish and Polabians, they fought for 1 year but Polabia retreated from it bordering near Sczecin.

West Slavic Empire( 1492-1742)
In 1492 Polabia became a Empire and changed it name to West-Slavic empire making a union with Poland and invading the nation of Silesia and splitting it between Polabia and Poland. Since Poland was strongly allied with Hungary, Polabia made good relations with them with loads of military trades and ally proposal.

In 1579 Poland had a union with Lithuania but still accepted the West Slavic name in the union and it now became a union of 3 nations becoming one of the most populous countries.

The highest extent the union came to was in 1605 after many wars and it started colonizing Africa and America. The territory in Dark green are Polabia and the territory in light green are the members in the West Slavic union along with Polabia. In black its unimportant territory and not shown borders.

The partitions and disappearance of the West Slavic union(1742-1830)
In 1742 Russia and Western Prussia invaded West Slavic union and in the first partitions they took Northern-west Polabia and Koningsberg.

The second partition was to split the union for good. First Lithuania was taken and then Sorbia was taken from Polabia.

The third and last partition was meant to disable the existance of The West Slavic union. Every bit of land was taken.By Prussia, Russia and Austrian Empire.

The 1830 uprising of Polabia
In 1830 Polabia wanted independance and organized an uprising with 89,000 soldiers in the Cavalary in Radgoszcz against 621,000 soldiers and Polabia succeeded after 4 months of fighting and took Northern modern day Polabia. After the war ended Polabia signed a peace treaty for 2 years and got more soldiers into the cavalry.

The second uprising happened in 1832. Polabia now had 210,000 soldiers and declares war on Prussia and fought for Sorbia and Pomerania. After a year of fighting, Prussia surrendered the land and gave it to Polabia but still had control of Poland.

WW1 and after(1914-1925)
WW1 started off from Serbians assassinating emperor Franz-Joseph and Austria-Hungary declared war on them and became a chain reaction. For Germany(Prussia) to get through to Russia they had to annex Polabia. They fought for 2 and a half months, it was a victory for Germany and the war carried on for another 4 years. After the war the countries waited for a conference in which the allied powers decided who owns which land.Poland became independance with wars against the soviet Union and Germany and Polabia helped them with artillery and weaponry.

In 1920 in the Versailles conference the allies decided to give independance to Polabia, but didn't even get Sorbian lands but got Pomerania. Polabians were furious and in 1924 they declared war on Germany winning the war and annexing Sorbia and Silesia. But after a year Polabia gave Silesia independance as they promised in they would in 1923 before the war happened.

Before and during WW2(1937-1945)
Before WW2 actually started, Nazi Germany(Ruled by Hitler) started threatening Polabia, claiming its largely populated with German even though only 27% of it was German. Polabia wasn't that strong after WW1 because of its economic problems and was weakened in 1925 but it got better after 1936.The declaration of war actually happened in 1938 and Polabia was annexed in 1 month of fighting.

When Nazi Germany invaded Poland, Both West Slavic countries made partisans in forests and traded with each other. Most Polabians would move out into forests because in cities they would sometimes get murdered for no reason or for being an intelligent person and or being an opposition of the Nazi. Until 1944 there were numbers of clashes between partisans and German soldiers but the biggest one was the Warsaw uprising. Polabian partisans started cutting trade routes and made traps when German forces wanted to drive into Poland and help. But even when that happened anything hardly changed/helped and the Polish partisans in Poland lost with massive number of casualties.

After the fail of the Warsaw uprising, USSR where sweeping closer to Frankfurt and Polabians with expected help from USSR, started their own uprising in 1945 3 months before the end of the war. It was 42,000 partisans vs 260,000 German forces in Radgoszcz and Polabia has small chances with no help and after 19 days of fighting out in the streets, they lost. Literally 2 months after that, USSR liberated the whole of Polabia but stilled caused chaos in many ways but some people went back into cities after spending loads of tim in forests.

Communism and the aftermath of WW2(1945-81)
After WW2 in the Frankfurt conference, Polabia became a communistic satellite state of the USSR in the Warsaw pact. Germany was split between East and West. East was a communistic state and West was a capitalistic state. The west started complaining about the USSR and its dominance in Eastern Europe and it became a Cold war which lasted for long. In 1968 Polabia and Poland were ordered to attack Czech Republic because of the protests again the Soviets there, the forces had to arrive but civilians helped Czech.

The EU was created and consisted of western countries and capitalism, many countries joined throughout this, due to fear of communism.

Crisis of Poland and fall of communism(1982-1992)
After protests started rising, there was a crisis in Poland with little in shops and businesses shutting down, it was a hard time for civilians. Protests year after year started developing highly and numbers grew along with violence.

In 1989 protests were at their peaks, most people wanted capitalism(solidarity movement) and independant Polabia and the rest of Eastern countries. The first country to be independant was Polabia, then Czech,Slovakia and so on... The first businesses came present in Polabia and much more people were happy. After that in 1992 the USSR vanished.

Polabia Republic(1992-present)
The same party in Polabia has won every election and hasn't changed since people are happy with it. People standards grew and got better, military got modern and new buildings built in cities and houses.

In 2000 Polabia became a member of he EU, new rules came in and borders were open.

Migration Era/Crisis(2013-present)
After many wars in the middle east and Ukraine, migration started. Polish people also migrated to the UK, Polabia, Germany and France because of its government selling their country but in 2015 it has changed its government and it might be getting better. In the mean time, the wars in the middle east cause the refugees to come to the European countries. Many theories say that they might be ISIS members(which is a terrorist group)since 70% of them are male, which is the opinion of Polabians government. The European union wants countries to take the refugees in but Polabia rejects but still accepts 4,500 refugees but no more.

Regions



 * 1) Radgoszczowskij(Capital city)
 * 2) Germanskij Pomorskje
 * 3) Zachodnaj Pomorskje
 * 4) Bardynbork
 * 5) Gornach Łuźyczej
 * 6) Dolnasz Łuźyczej
 * 7) Maglenbork
 * 8) Veletja

Population
After WW2 the population of Polabia has fallen majorly but nearly catching up now. It is estimated that the population of Polabia will hit 19 million in 2018. And to hit 20 million in 2020. The amount of jews before 1937 was 301,000 and after it was 19,000 and many even migrated away after that due to fear of the another possible rising facism. The German population in Polabia also got smaller. Before WW2 the percentage of Germans in Polabia was 21.56% and after the fall of communism it has fallen to 10.26%.

Ethnic groups
Most of southern Polabia is Sorbian, the language is similar to Czechian and Slovakian and comes from the Slavic family. It never had its own country, but its ethnic group got used to being part of Polabia and have their own Region name. The east is kind of mixed between Germans and Polabians. Few groups in Germany and a few German groups in Polabia. Pomerania is mostly Polabian but also largly populated by the Poles as it used to be their territory.

Polabian language
The Polabian language is mostly similar to Polish. At least 68% of the words are nearly the same. It comes from the Western slavic family which also is Sorbian, Czech, Polish and Slovakia.The Polabian language has 9 added letters to the Latin script which is the same as Polish. ( ę ó ą ś ł ż ź ń ć). The language shows in minorities in countries like Germany, Poland and Czech. It has 19 million native speakers.

Religion
Polabia is dominated by Catholicism, but some tra ces of slavism is still left and numbers show.


 * 1) 81% Roman Catholics
 * 2) 09% Slavism
 * 3) 06% Protestant
 * 4) 01% Orthodox
 * 5) 03% other

Cities
Top 10 major cities

The percentage of peoplewho live in the rural area is 28% which is over 1/4 of the population.

Main Laws

 * No beating children in school
 * Healthier schools(Physical education and healthy lunches)
 * Free education
 * Single mothers get benefits if they have 2 children or over
 * If a single doesn't work and has 1 child, the government will help her find a job(With her qualifications)
 * No benefits(Unless physically or mentally unable)
 * Jobless people who have the ability to work, get offered to go to the army or minimum wage job(For the time being)
 * Foreign businesses get taxed higher.
 * You only get your wage taxed(No tax when buying) unless its a foreign store(Because they get taxed)
 * Council houses built for homeless and single mothers with minimum wage.
 * Immigrants can get Polabian passport after 10-12 years being in the country(Or straight away if 2nd generation)