Minor Nation States

A Brief Bite-sized Brochure

The galaxy is replete with countless polities, nation-states, and countries that come in all shapes, forms and sizes, in many masses, varying volumes and even differing densities. Some may come as great powers, empires that span across several sectors and encompass many worlds, but these do not, by any means, compose the majority of the star nations in known space. More frequent are the polities that consist of a mere handful of worlds in but a few star systems, or sometimes even just one solar system. Even more common are those governments bound to a single planet, or many governments sharing one world, though some would say that these do not qualify as star nations as they do not match the definition of that term - but such semantics are prone to be differed by some, and much consternation and smarm may ensue in the resulting contention. Amirite?

Small Nations for Small People

Aurore

Capital: Noveau Versailles

Government type: Oligarchy

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Territories: the planet Aurore

Location: Sector W-5

Aurore is a single system polity notable for its location on the Stairway hyperlane between Tianguo and Umeria, and the fairly high amount of corruption in the government.

Belkan Empire

Capital: Dinsmark, Greater Belka

Government type: Military dictatorship, nominally constitutional monarchy

Head of State: HRH Erich I, Emperor of Belka

Head of Government: Sky Marshal Vladimir Rald, Imperial Belkan Aerospace Force

Territories: Planets Greater Belka, Usea, Verusea, Anea, Valahia, Mid-Childa, Vaizen, Alzas, Fedikia, Ruwella, Supools, Carnaaji, and Al-Hazred

Location: Sectors O-25 and P-24, parts of Sectors O-26 and P-25

The Belkan Empire is a multi-system polity most notable for its mercenary ESPers and starfighter pilots, who are a highly sought-after asset for anyone who can afford them.

Chimera Subsector

Main article: Chimera Subsector

Elysium

Capital: Elysium

Government type: Pantheon

Head of State: The Elysian Pantheon

Head of Government: The Senatorium

Territories: Several worlds, including planets Elysium, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Metallia, Krydonialopolis, New Orleas, Athea, and others

Location: Within Sectors S-6, S-7 and T-7

Elysium is a strange anachronistic nation tidally locked within the shoals of the Grand Coreward Trunk. Its relative isolation from the rest of the galaxy has spawned a bizarre culture and way of life based on Greco-Roman aesthetics with prominent paganic practices and exaggerated hedonistic homoerotic overtones. One of the stranger aspects in this already strange civilization is in its highly distorted paleohistory, which blends reality with epic legendary mythology featuring such things such as great heroes, gods, and monsters. This facet permeates the entire nation, to the point where their leadership is comprised of nobles said to embody the patron gods of the worlds they hail from. Elysium is also believed to be the source of the Legends of Heracules, space mythologies popular in places such as Wild Space. Another aspect of Elysian society is its martial nature, due to prevalent raids by a barbarian horde known as the Connoltians, as every few decades the warriors of Elysium have to beat back the savages in protracted wars. Elysians are regarded as master navigators of their surrounding shoal spaces, with knowledge of secret routes through hyperspace. Also, they believe themselves to be surrounded by the strange eastern-oriental nations called "Persia" and "Sumeria."

Estella Real de España

Capital: Nueva Cordoba

Government type: Constitutional Absolute Monarchy

Head of State: Her Majesty Queen Isabel XXVII

Head of Government: Presidente del Gobierno Cristobal Delgado

Location: Between the United Star Kingdom of New Anglia and the Fourth French Empire

The Estella Real de España was one of the first post-Diaspora interstellar states that came to be, or at so it claims. As in many colonies in the immediate post-Diaspora, the colonists who would become the Españan people's ancestors lost many of their historical records and due to the rigors of mastering their world, hardly had time to record their own histories. Due to this, what little there was of the preserved past became blended with half-truths and outright fictions, giving birth to a pseudomythological account of España's past. What is known is that España underwent a period called La Conquista where conqueror-explorers like Magelleon and Cortez traveled the heavens and claimed many worlds for the Crown - even going so far as colonizing distant worlds like the Feelipeens. However, the modest empire España had carved for itself proved to be a short-lived one, as the kingdom gradually lost its territorial acquisitions to the likes of the haughty Anglians and the perfidious French. After a long series of conflicts, virtually all of España's distant colonial holdings had been lost, either absorbed by the kingdom's rivals or broken away by the treachery of the ungrateful native indios, leaving only a handful of worlds flying the Españan flag and paying fealty to the Crown. The culmination of this was in the Españish-Shepistanimerican War where even faraway Feelipeens was forfeited to the gringos for a measly payment of twenty million dollars in the Treaty of New Paris.

Today, the kingdom of España pines for its bygone glory days and misses the stature it once had, that the other nations had robbed it of. It is a shadow of its former glory, and because of this the kingdom jealously clings on to the grandiose exploits of its shining past, while rigidly preserving every aspect of its proud culture down to the tiniest details in an attempt to stave off foreign influences from eroding the heritage of the Estella Real's noble Españan identity. Thus, it should not come as a surprise to see that fashions and aesthetics in the kingdom are somewhat different from the galaxy's norms, even anachronistic to a degree, with Españan soldiers - Conquistadores - donning gear reminiscent of plate armor whilst riding sky-chariots, and starships adorned with solar sails on their masts and wood-covered hulls to give them the likeness of spacefaring galleons. The social attitudes and cultures of España are likewise conservative, dating back to centuries, and while such traditions have all but vanished in the rest of the outside galaxy, they live on vibrantly in España, giving a glimpse of not only the kingdom's proud past - but also that of humanity's.

The Feelipeens

Capital: Maynilad, Planet Luz

Government type: Democratic Republic, currently under Martian Law

A map of the Feelipeens.

Head of State: President Ferdinand Shroomarcos (and First Lady Imelda Shroomarcos) Head of Government: President Ferdinand Shroomarcos (and First Lady Imelda Shroomarcos)

Territories: One solar system composed of two habitable worlds named Planet Luz and Planet Bizminda, one brown dwarf named Bisdak with a number of inhabited natural and artificial satellites collectively known as the Bisdak Moons

Location: Sector Z-6

The Feelipeen system is a minute star nation occupying a single star system known as the Feelipeeni Archipelago. The system has two inhabitable worlds called Luz and Bizminda. On Luz, fairest of the worlds, sits the lofty capital of Maynilad and the upper class rulers and monied men of the Feelipeens. On Bizminda, the world is halved into two pseudo-Pangean continents, Bizayahs and Meandanaw, and on them are rural provincial lands with farms and unending fields of rice paddies, the world as a whole is considerably less developed than Maynilad - which itself is little better than a third world planet. Beyond both worlds is a gas giant-turned-brown dwarf named Bisdak, which is orbited by countless hundreds of natural and artificial inhabited satellites, the largest and most important being called Sebuu.

Poverty is at an all time high in the Feelipeens, and government corruption is widespread and near omni-present. Illiteracy, the widening gap between rich and poor further enforced by rigid social structures, and often violent social upheavals stalks the land like big... stalking things. Yet the Feelipeens was a hopeful country. Under the beneviolent rule of well-meaning President Shroomarcos and his beloved vain and superficial wife Imelda, plus with their regime being propped up by the Shepistani Republic, the country may yet still have a bright future ahead of it. Mabuhay Feelipeenis!

Fynn Sector Statelets

Main article: Fynn Sector Statelets

Halkeginia Statelets

Territories: Planet Halkeginia

Location: Upper left quadrant of Sector P-24

Halkeginia is an Earth-like planet located on the periphery of the Belkan Empire and Holy Empire of Haruhi Suzumiya, home to a number of minor nations.

Emirate of Qumar

Capital: Qumar City

Government type: Military dictatorship, nominally constitutional monarchy

Head of State: HM Yasir al-Assad, Emir of Qumar

Head of Government: General Khaled al-Saachez, Royal Qumari Army

Federal Republic of Liberion

Capital: New Coventry

Government type: Federal republic

Head of State: President Nicholas Fitzhugh

Head of Government: President Nicholas Fitzhugh

Gallian Imperial Alliance (East Gallia)

Capital: Amiens

Government type: Military dictatorship, nominally constitutional monarchy

Head of State: HRH Field Marshal Maximilian Gaius von Reginrave, Emperor of Gallia

Head of Government: Field Marshal Berthold Gregor, Imperial Gallian Army

Islamic Empire of Azadistan

Capital: Ghazvin

Government type: Constitutional monarchy

Head of State: HM Hossein Khatami, Shah of Azadistan

Head of Government: Prime Minister Marina Ismail

Principality of Gallia (West Gallia)

Capital: Randgriz

Government type: Constitutional monarchy

Head of State: HG Cordelia van Randgriz, Princess of Gallia

Head of Government: Prime Minister Maurits van Borg

Principality of Tristain

Capital: Tristania

Government type: Constitutional monarchy

Head of State: HG Henrietta de Tristain, Princess of Tristain

Head of Government: President Charles Cromwell

New Aden

Location: Sector I-29

The New Aden system is a single-system nation notable only for its ownership of a Warp Gate to serve as a major local trade hub, and the system of alliances that help keep this expensive piece of infrastructure relatively safe.

Reef Star Republic

Capital: Coraline

Government type: Puppet Republic

Head of state: The Doctor

Territories: One solar system

Location: Sector AA-25

Formerly the Reef Star Realm, a nation founded in the shoal sector of AA-25 near the Outlander Commissions by Angmarid expats seeking solace from the intrigue and infighting of their home nations. Secluded in the shoals, and connected to the outside galaxy by only a few minor hyperlanes, the Reef Star Realm prospered as a modest well-to-do nation centered on its beach-world capital Coraline. However, fortunes changed with the sudden disintegration of the Outlander Commissions and the even more sudden arrival of the Refuge, as former Outlanders fleeing from the region's rampant piracy took shelter in the Reef Star Realm, thinking it as a safe haven. Likewise, pirates fleeing from the region's rampant Refugees also took shelter in the Reef Star Realm, thinking it as a safe haven for their ilk too. As these pirates were primarily composed of former Outlander military members, with former Outlander navy warships. the leader of the Reef Star, King Krab, had no other choice but to bend over backwards in appeasement. Dissatisfied by this, the Reef Star military staged a coup, deposed King Krab, and installed a new republican government. The new Reef Star Republic has abandoned the former policy of appeasement, and has taken a harder line against their unwanted guests.

The Reef Star is noted for its pleasant climate and the overall relaxed demeanor of its populace, comprised mostly of crab-like Angmarids. One of the system's primary sources of income is tourism.

United Corsair Confederation

Capital: Unknown
Primary Sector: Unknown
Head of State: Unknown
Government Type: Confederation
Pirates have plagued the northern reaches that the Humanist Union occupied long before there even was a Union. Pirate alliances grew fat in years of recession, crumbling governmental authority, and poverty, but it took the collapse of the Interstellar Cooperative Republic's navy to give the pirates a recognizable shape. The United Corsair Confederation's core was made up of ragged republican warships who, following their retreat over Elysion, soon found themselves to be the only representatives of the ICR's "legitimate" government left. Rather than surrender or flee to another state, their commander - Admiral Janus Fredrikson - established alliances with various pirate bands, granting them letters of marque to attack the "enemy state" that was the CCP. The United Corsair Confederation was held together in its early days largely by the tremendous firepower true warships could bring to the pirates' raids, and soon almost all pirate outfits either belonged to the confederation or had been destroyed by it. In modern times, the confederation is believed to be slowly rotting as the core of military ships that held it together dwindle.

Voyageur Republic

Capital: Findevoy, Nouveau Quebec

Government Type: Republic

Head of state: President Alain Dupont

Territories: Desoto Star System

Location: Sector CC-12

A one-system state controlling numerous space stations as well as two planets, Nouveau Quebec and Nouveau Montreal, the Voyageur Republic is the result of an impressively lost colony fleet from the French Republic on Earth, launched shortly before the Great Upheaval. No one knows how or why it ended up in CC-12, fully twenty sectors awat frm its original destination, but the Voyageurs have been there ever since, using the impressive material stocks on their ships to construct substantial space infrastructure and the ships to defend it. Vast numbers of pirates, as well as the distance between them and any other inhabited space, kept them isolated until stumbled across by vessels of the Federated Ascendancy Starfleet.