Talk:Konig des Menschen Chapter V (Map Game)/@comment-26044830-20191122234108

Kingdom of Prussia (Old Prussia)
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. 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. After incidents and rumours of Prussian merchants being harassed, King Sigmar III ordered merchants to decrease their activity in Avaland and move their trade routes to skip Avaland. Embargoes are not enforced, but they are encouraged to decrease activity, even though other nations would still trade with Avaland as the centre of the Catholic-Orthodox world anyway. Demographics: (Census is based on the 1186 Census, then is estimated by modern historians to fill the gaps) Population: 3 095 000 Königsberg: 95 000 Danzig: 42 000 Allenstein: 11 000 Lustenbruck: 21 000 Drusselstein: 50 000 Posen: 28 000 Breslau: 15 000 Plytzk: 10 000 Warsaw (Warschau/Varsava): 50 000 Memel: 7 000 Laibech: 12 000 Rural areas (anything not included above): 2 754 000 Culture: 71% Germanic (63% Prussian, 7% Vesnian), 26% Avar, 3% Other Religion: 86% Eastern Orthodox, 10% Catholic, 4% Other Diplomacy: N/A Events: (italics is top secret!!!) Merchants: Prussian merchants are ordered to divert their course to go around Avaland and minimise trade under a decree by the King on 1183. This in turn would make the Prussians impoverished in the long-term as they do not have the luxury to access any goods that Avaland has from east and west. However, there's no embargo enforced on it, so a Prussian merchant may be allowed to cross over to Avaland to stop raising suspicion, but that might be too late if the King discourages them to trade. With rumours of murders of merchants, the numbers that were given to the King were highly variable in number, due to the lack of intelligence and knowledge of Avaland's own system. The lowest case for the number of merchants killed was 23 while the highest was around 578. However, the King chose the highest and thus he would order the execution of ~1 740 Avars in whatever village they are in. Treatment Against Avars and Top Secret Things: Violence continues between the Prussians and Avars with no sign of stopping out of sight. Demographics haven't changed a lot as Avars were now effectively unable to become assimilated, yet the demographics according to the 1186 Census that was partially filled in, said that there were ~1% less Avars than the reported 1155 Census with the reason of 'utilisation' of rebelling Avars when submitted to the King. The population had also went down too, due to violence and terrorising Avars being expelled from their villages and homes forcibly, although so far, there is no word for oppression. The policies set up by King Sigmar III remained the same, no change at all. The phrase "a Prussian is worth three Avars" is still used, so for any rumour or report being handed back from Avaland, which is very patchy and unreliable to say at least, which led to thousands being killed instead because the number of merchants killed or murdered was not very accurate. 'The Poems of Terror': A set of poems written by an anonymous Prussian Avar poet under the name Ozyris Zalezhyi (honestly I don't know about Avar names) was written on 1187 and was secretly smuggled into Avaland to be published so that there could be justification to war before being killed off for treason after being found few weeks later and thus effectively been "utilised" by the Prussians. He was a frequent visitor to Avaland until violence came. He wrote down his experiences of persecution. This will probably ignite war and tensions further, with parts of the operations potentially exposed. (response needed)
 * 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