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Most Serene Republic of Venice

 * Government: Thalassocracy / Venetian merchant republic.​​​​​
 * Doge: Francesco Foscari
 * Military:
 * Army: 25,000 troops, infantry & cavalry combined.
 * Navy: At least 3,000 merchant ships doubling as warships. (Wikipedia has me backed up on this one). The Venetian Arsenal constructs ships at a pace of one merchant/warship approximately every two days. (wiki says some time in the 1600s they pump out one every day so i scaled that down a bit).
 * Demographics:
 * Population: approximately 2,5 million.
 * Venice: ~180,000
 * Economy: With extensive control of Mediterranean trade by Venetian merchant fleets, the Venetian economy is bolstered by trade routes over Southern Europe and North Africa.
 * Wars: 
 * Venetian-Ottoman War: Several Venetian vessels were sunk as a result of a natural occurence near the Ottoman port of Smyrna. Aiming to establish naval dominance against the Turks, Venetian conspirators drew up a scene to make it look as though the Ottomans have sunk aformentioned Venetian ships, and used it as a declaration of war. 'Venetian merchant ships are fitted with cannons to make into warships and sent out to surround and blockade the Turkish coastline and the Ionian Sea. Orders are given to attack any 'Ottoman vessel if they attempt to break the blockade, and assist Byzantine vessels in their doings. The aim of the war is to take over Ionian islands owned by the Ottomans to be used as supply stops for Venice's fleets.''
 * Events:
 * A Most Disturbing Discovery: Venetian merchant vessels conducting trade around the Ionian Sea, Adriatic Sea and the Levantine coastline discovered Albanian, Byzantine and (presumably) Jewish personnels with ungodly weapons, sounding like thunder, capable of quick deaths. Emissaries have been sent to Albania, Byzantium and the strange sleeve of land suddenly not occupied by the Mamluk Sultanate in order to inquire information of those weapons and their sources.
 * Ragusan Election Shenaningans: Venetian spies were sent to work on building a spy network, working on rigging the elections of Ragusa to bring in a Rector (title of ruler of the Republic of Ragusa) who would be willing to hand over the Republic into part of La Serenissima.
 * Diplomacy: 
 * ​​​​​​​Albania, Byzantium, the piece of land suddenly not occupied by the Mamluks (Israel): read "A Most Disturbing Discovery".
 * Papal States: Please receive this small gift of 50,000 ducats as a token of gratitude from the Venetian nobility.