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Central Roman Empire (official) | Roma Centrum (unofficial) | Byzantium (contemporary name)

 * Government: Semi-decentralised Imperial Monarchy
 * Emperors:
 * Saul (r. 906-) (b. 890)
 * Military: 400,000 in total. Again, the numbers have been raised in stakes (though many are unsure if the Mesopotamian front would hold), maintenance has started to take a grip for the first time with more people being in the army to work on multiple fronts. When the Hassanids came, it could bring huge alleviation to the huge army that the Central Roman Empire has bought. Of course, the Central Romans are still confident at the time that they could beat the Hassanids in the Mesopotamian front, but they are more likely to be defeated than the fierce battle for Alagadda, which had led to multiple stalemates.
 * Economy: By the start of the 10th century, with the Varangians coming down from their huge raids (except in few occasions), trade with the north has been largely restored. But with the non-aggression pact with the Hassanids expiring, the conflict with the east would come and that the Silk Road would once again become jeopardised by conflict, one that the Central Roman Empire could never recover.
 * Demographics: (Does not include Nabatea, Naples, Svertheim and Orientia)
 * Population: 25,400,000 (approximate)
 * Constantinople: 600,000
 * Large cities: 2,500,000
 * Small settlements: 5,800,000
 * Rural areas: 16,500,000
 * Religion: 73% Christian (50% Eastern Orthodox, 13% Roman Catholic, 10% Folk Christian and Coptic), 1% Zoroastrian, 13% Neo-Hellenism, 0.5% Judaism, 12.5% Other
 * Culture: 34% Greek, 7.5% Armenian, 7% Illyrian, 2% Thracian, 5.5% Assyrian, 0.5% Jewish/Israelite, 21% Egyptian, 6% Escosian, 1.5% Persian, 15% Other
 * Diplomacy:
 * Hassanids: You shall never pass Mesopotamia.
 * Orientia and Nabatea: Raise your levies and fight against the Arzhamites! As your overlord, we have a common goal and that is to help send your own forces to help the Roman Empire.
 * Svartheim: The Central Roman Emperor requests that raiding should continue and if possible, levies to be raised to fight against the Hassanids, if it is not possible, a bribe will be offered as a fallback choice so that they could join in exchange to get more out of them. If neither is accepted, then they are to be left alone. There is also a contingency plan if all three fail, but this is not known to Svartheim.
 * Events:
 * The Holy War (April 924-present): With the Hassanids beginning to pour into invasion against ex-Muscat-Oman and Assyria, the fight for supremacy against two powers begin, again. This time, there is no comparability. The Central Roman civilians have already romanticised the Greco-Iranian War as a "beautiful" masterpiece and that war between both sides will eventually dissipate over a century like that and yet they have seen the delusions still, especially the Emperor (see Saul the General). The Emperor and all of the people grew up to read a lot of translated works from the Jaghatai Khaganate (from some vague translators) and their own Central Roman works, which means that their mind on war is something along these lines. Once the true faces of war begin to reveal itself, this romanticised expectation would fade and the Central Roman Empire is heading towards a decline unlike anyone has ever seen before.
 * Mesopotamian Front: The Central Roman Empire goes into "WAAAAAGH" mode again. 250,000 men stationed in the area or are recently sent into the area are now fighting against potentially hundreds of thousands of Hassanids. It proves to be a big blow to the negotiations that Grane tries to pull in order to stall any further invasion. No more of this distraction. It has become the catalyst of this great war on Muscat-Oman and the impatience of these invaders that the Romans think it happened. The Romans soon called this war as the Holy War (or Ιερός Πόλεμος [Ieros Polemos]) as it was the fight for the so-called old religions like Christianity and Zoroastrianism to be defended by the attacking Arzhamites. In Mesopotamia, the main goal is to lure the Hassanid invaders into the city of Ur, hoping for a second Alagadda outcome in which both sides stagnate (of course this will go wrong). By luring it into Ur, this would draw out into a years' worth of siege, according to Roman generals. This would be done by 150,000 men. The remainder of 100,000 would be divided into the 50,000 defending Assyria, Grane and Sumer while the 50,000 move onto defending the city of Kerman from capitulating and push a counteroffensive.
 * Home: The Isis sect (which is one large sect of neo-Hellenism) is a potential threat to the integrity of the Central Roman Empire. If the Levant was to be cut off, that means that they would weaken and lose a lot of manpower. Despite the fears that it'll be another religious ban repeat, there was no ban involved. Instead, 50,000 men were ordered to be stationed around Egypt, so that any potential dissident could be overwhelmed with. The 100,000 troops are distributed across the remainder, with more concentration at the eastern front, in the case that the 250,000 troops sent to Mesopotamia quickly backfires. Fortifications and defence lines are to stop being built in Assyria, Nabatea and the Caucasus, pulling back to the mountains of Asia Minor to fortify the area to create a "line" up until Antioch.
 * Saul the General: Emperor Saul decided to raise his own force of 8,000 (including few of the Varangian volunteers, ehhhh) and enter the battle against the Hassanids in the Mesopotamian Front. Like Emperor Leo before he became Emperor, he wanted to fight and dream of it being like the fight against the Iranian Empire, of course that is not true at all and that this is a wholly different story. Believing that he could win with the morale being in favour of the Central Roman Empire and their allies, he directed his way to Ur so to lure the Hassanids into the city, hoping for an Alagadda-like battle so that they could stall the conflict as much as possible. (make Saul mentioned in the mod events for a battle please)