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Most Serene Republic of Vedena

 * Government: Vedena is a Republic.
 * Governor (Leader of the Council): Bogomir Grabower (1079AD-1094AD), Antipho Zeno (1094AD-1101AD), Mirek Orelik (1101AD-nowadays). Elected by adult male landowners every 6-10 years.
 * Parliament: the Council, which consists of four major factions with their own goals
 * Romans: 398. Stand for a complete dissolution of current traditions and religion and support "relatinisation". Currently, the fastest-growing faction in the Council.
 * Christian merchants: 314. Stand for decreasing the bureaucracy and merchant taxes, and creating trade unions with the other countries.
 * Judaist merchants: 231. Stand for increasing the tariffs for the foreign merchants and aggressive approach in trade. In addition, they combat the idea of trade unions.
 * Nobility: 173. Stand for the further stratification of society and developing the feudal system.
 * "Librarians": 68. Stand for increased patronage of arts and science.
 * Economy: mostly based on logging, agriculture, and trade.
 * Advanced trade: the amount of internal and foreign trade has slightly increased during the last decades. The trade influence of Vedena in the region is as big as never before and it keeps growing. In addition, huge faires are held every year in big trade centres such as Lutsk and L'viv. The traders of Lutsk and L'viv expand their trade influence across the lands of Central Europe and Central Roman Empire.
 * Trade unions: the traders of Lutsk, L'viv, and other major centres run merchant guilds in each of the cities in order to maintain the influence of their factions in the Council and public life in general, promote their cause and protect the conditions of merchants. On the other hand, the Judaist merchant oppose the creation of trade unions.
 * Capital: Lutsk
 * Demographics (including occupied territories): 1'278k people
 * Rural areas:~1093k.
 * Urban areas: 185k; 17% live in urban areas.
 * Lutsk (and the nearest territories across it): 65k.
 * L'viv: 27k
 * Other (population over 2'500): 93k.
 * Culture: 45% are Vedean, 36% are Romans, 19% is the rest
 * Religion: 53% are Christians (15% are Catholic, 12% are Orthodox, 26% are local churches), 16% are Roman pagans, 15% are Judaist, 16% are the rest beliefs.
 * Wars and Conflicts: Vedena quite isolated politically although the merchants do a lot of trade international trade.
 * Diplomacy:
 * Military:
 * Feudal armies: the sizes of feudal and mercenary armies are growing stable as a result of the gradual development of the feudal system.
 * Army size: ~16,500.
 * Events:
 * the fall of the Romans: the Roman movement is not what it used to be. Nowadays, it nothing more than another faction in the Council. The "little Rome" is nothing more than a bunch of settlements in the south. Rome failed and it will never come back. Such disappointment with the ideas of relatinisation is spread all across the faction. Many believe it is on the verge of collapse. On the other hand, it goes without saying that the aesthetics and art of antiquity have become relevant again. It is something like the "rebirth" of ancient art.
 * the great Schism of the merchant factions: the ideas of Christianity, brought from the west by the merchant, prevailed in the majority of traders. It was opposed by the traditionalists, who believed every merchant must be jewish. In 1093AD, the traditionalists declared a new Merchants faction that "sticks to traditions of our ancestors".
 * "Reject modernity, embrace traditions!": this slogan is very popular among the intellectuals in Vedena. More and more people begin embracing the culture of their ancestors. The majority is from the nomadic pagan tribes. Most of them reject Christianity and convert to local pagan beliefs, leading to further disjoint of society.