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====== Kingdom of Albion ====== | ====== Kingdom of Albion ====== | ||
- | |"For Kingdom and Albion!"\\ -Common warcry.| | + | |"For Kingdom and Cluster!"\\ -Common warcry.| |
- | The Kingdom of Albion is a society in the [[territories/ | + | The Kingdom of Albion is a society in the [[territories:aleph_null|Aleph Cluster]], currently in control of [[planet/ |
===== Appearance and Symbols ===== | ===== Appearance and Symbols ===== | ||
- | The Kingdom' | + | | {{: |
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+ | The Kingdom' | ||
===== Living in the Kingdom ===== | ===== Living in the Kingdom ===== | ||
+ | The Kingdom operates as a constitutional monarchy, currently ruled by the monarch Charles Lysander II. The monarch oversees the lot of nine city states and sectors of Albion, the capital sector Regum, and Orbital Object Null through a series of democratically elected governors from each area. Each governor is responsible for their sector' | ||
+ | The average person born or living in Albion lives a life of confidence. Their pride in reclaiming [[territories: | ||
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+ | Albion' | ||
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+ | ==== The Ten City States ==== | ||
+ | The people who live on Albion live in one of ten sectors. Each sector is named after their major city and given a colour for quick identification. Nine of the city states are scattered across three Albion' | ||
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+ | * **Capital Sector - Regum** - Where the rulership and staff of the Kingdom resides, and where the Governors of the nine sectors are summoned to meetings. This sector is considered to be where the military might of Albion is focussed, alongside governmental and monarchical power, with many living within Regum laying a claim to a noble title. | ||
+ | * **Continent of Wace** - Northeastern continent, with a chilly island chain stretching to the north pole, a grasslands host to the canyon cutting Wace in two, and a rainforest hugging the coast and facing Regum. | ||
+ | * **White Sector - Poyning** - Located in a hollowed mountain amidst a rocky set of frozen islands, Poyning is a high-technology city, built to harness geothermal power under the icy sea to power a controlled habitat built throughout the mountain. Poyning is renowned for its scientific research and development thanks to generous governor funding, and is home to many renowned technical colleges. | ||
+ | * **Red Sector - Myrddin** - On the banks of the wide Granger river, the city state of Myrddin flourishes in the dusty grasslands and petrified forests. The harsh lands outside the city is slowly being terraformed to create a canal which runs from the eastern side of Wace to the west, effectively splitting it in two. Life has been changing constantly here, but slowly Myrddin will become a better place to live. | ||
+ | * **Purple Sector - Vulgate** - This cosmopolitan city is the closest City State to Regum, visible from the forested coast. Vulgate serves as the key to Wace, with a majority of the continent' | ||
+ | * **Continent of Nalbin** - A curved continent to the south-west of the central ocean, host to an inland sea which is encapsulated by the continent. Kissed by beautiful sunny weather, a sandy desert, and scenic boreal plains, Nalbin is a land of opportunities. | ||
+ | * **Grey Sector - [[location/ | ||
+ | * **Gold Sector - Pendragon** - Albion' | ||
+ | * **Orange Sector - Iwerddon** - Rising from the ashes of an old city glassed during the old wars is the new Iwerddon. The old city along with the rest of the state was made an example of in the past, smote into a desert, and has been slowly recovering since Albion got its independence. The new Iwerddon has only been around since [[calendar/ | ||
+ | * **Continent of Appolyn** - Due south of Regum and broken into three distinct masses separated by ocean straits, Appolyn' | ||
+ | * **Green Sector - Caledonia** - For generations, | ||
+ | * **Blue Sector - Insulae** - Scattered amongst hundreds of islands connected naturally and artificially, | ||
+ | * **Black Sector - Longuyon** - A couple hundred miles off-centre from Albion' | ||
==== Responsibilities and Obligations ==== | ==== Responsibilities and Obligations ==== | ||
As a subject of The Ruler of Albion, citizens are held to the following laws: | As a subject of The Ruler of Albion, citizens are held to the following laws: | ||
- | * A law-abiding citizen of Albion is entitled to move freely between the city states of Albion, and space territories and stations. | + | * A law-abiding citizen of Albion is entitled to move freely between the city states of Albion, and space territories and stations. They are also entitled to, within those territories: |
- | * A citizen of Albion living within a city-state must comply with the wishes and customs of the Governor. The Governor' | + | * Be protected from external aggression from lawless elements or hostiles. |
- | * As a Governor of Albion, you are elected by your constituents to represent their interests and keep your sector healthy, happy, and productive. | + | * A citizen of Albion living within a city-state must comply with the wishes and customs of the Governor |
+ | * As a Governor of Albion | ||
+ | * Elections for Governor occur every four years, with Parliamentarian elections happening both concurrently, | ||
==== Currency ==== | ==== Currency ==== | ||
- | The Kingdom of Albion mints, circulates, and manages the **Aleph Currency** (AC). It is a decimal currency used and widely accepted throughout the Aleph Cluster, and considered the standard for negotiating trade and services. | + | The Kingdom of Albion mints, circulates, and manages the **Aleph Currency** (AC). It is a decimal currency used and widely accepted throughout the Aleph Cluster, and considered the standard for negotiating trade and services. |
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+ | The physical currency of coins and notes may appear inflated to onlookers, but the banknotes were made for the needs of trade with alien species who could not accept wired transfers, and do not appear often in circulation. | ||
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+ | ^Type^Value^Description| | ||
+ | |Coin| AC 0.01 - AC 0.20 | Currency within this range comes in copper-alloy coins of varying diameters. They are sorted into denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20. The seal of Albion is on the head face alongside a year of minting, while the opposite face has a local creature with the number of pence on it. | | ||
+ | | ::: | AC 0.50 | A round copper-alloy piece 1.05 inches in diameter with " | ||
+ | | ::: | AC 1.00 | A octagonal silver-alloy coin with the seal of Albion on the header, and AC1 written on the opposite face - with a honey badger embracing the 1. | | ||
+ | | ::: | AC 2.00 | A silver-alloy coin with a seal of Albion on the main face, and AC2 written on two edges of the tails - an image of Gavin the Younger' | ||
+ | | ::: | AC 5.00 | An electrum-alloy, | ||
+ | | ::: | AC 10.00 | A round gold-alloy coin, and the most regal. Every new Monarch has their face stamped on the head, while the Seal of Albion adorns the tails. It isn't uncommon to eventually collect a whole group of Monarchs from throughout Albion' | ||
+ | |Banknote| AC 50.00 | A pink and white banknote with an image of the latest Monarch, and the number 50. A band of the polymer banknote is transparent, | ||
+ | | ::: | AC 100.00 | A green banknote with white accents, an image of the latest Monarch, and the number 100. A band inside the polymer banknote is a deep blue colour, often catching the light. | | ||
+ | | ::: | AC 250.00 | A red banknote with white accents, an image of the latest Monarch, and the number 250. A band inside the banknote appears to be a bronze colour. | | ||
+ | | ::: | AC 500.00 | A yellow banknote with silvery accents, an image of the latest Monarch, and the number 500. A band inside the banknote has a silver foil embedded in it somehow. | | ||
+ | | ::: | AC 1000.00 | An orange banknote with gold accents, an image of the latest Monarch, and the number 1000. This is the rarest of the banknotes made, with limited runs made every decade instead of yearly. Many machines and automated services do not recognise them as valid tender. | | ||
===== Relationship with Others ===== | ===== Relationship with Others ===== | ||
- | The Kingdom of Albion shares positive relations with the [[society/ | + | Being host to the [[planet/albion# |
- | ==== The King' | + | The Kingdom of Albion shares positive relations with the [[society/ |
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+ | ==== The Monarch and Albion' | ||
+ | The powers of the Monarch themselves are limited in scope, as to Governors and Parliaments handle the day-to-day running of Albion, and are required to be more in touch with their constituents. The Monarch of Albion, and the royal family have the power to do the following: | ||
+ | * Bestow Knighthood | ||
+ | * Issue a pardon | ||
+ | * Issue a bounty | ||
+ | * Issue commendations | ||
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+ | If a civic or city-state issue such as a coup, an invasion, a disaster, or other calamity cannot be resolved or contained by a governor, it can be elevated by a vote from the city-state parliament to allow the Monarch to intervene. In this instance, the Monarch can send assistance and/or fire from Regum or [[planet/ | ||
===== Defence and Judiciary ===== | ===== Defence and Judiciary ===== | ||
+ | To guard its towns and cities, individual city-states employ their own police forces to ensure the safety of the civilisation at the most local level. The reputation of the various police forces boil down to being shaped by their surroundings and the threats they most often face, but they generally project a helpful image first towards citizens. These police forces may coordinate with each other internationally to work on particularly heinous or far-reaching cases, such as roving bandits or criminals from outside of Aleph Cluster. | ||
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+ | The Kingdom maintains a planetary force called the **Royal Planetary Defence Force**((Composed of army, navy, air, and royal marines.)), and a space navy called the **Royal Aerospace Flotilla**. In addition, Albion employs exceptional and highly skilled individuals referred to as **Knights and Dames**. With their fealty to Regum and the monarch' | ||
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+ | For coordinating against political and internal threats like coups, treason, and direct threats to the Crown, the intelligence and spy network **R-AIR**((Royal Albion Intelligence & Reconnaissance)) and their Special Operations Branch step in to watch the watchmen. The venerable spy network has had a reputation for bastardry and ' | ||
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+ | In addition to this force, Albion is also in control of a strange superweapon, | ||
===== Quotes ===== | ===== Quotes ===== | ||
+ | |"We have finally reclaimed this corner of the galaxy from the cruel whims of the Greater Cluster and are able to stand on our own two feet for the first time in centuries. Our defiance and ingenuity has seen us through, and for our efforts and sacrifices together, we no longer suffer alien tyrants and their power-hungry servitors.\\ \\ "We now live in a future where people are free to live their life as they see fit. They can pursue business without an unknowable bureaucracy holding them back. People can rest assured their children, legacies, and lives aren't cheapened by mass cloning, slavery, and serial intrusion on the individual. The Greater Cluster kept telling us to give up, trying to starve, plague, subvert, and otherwise destroy us. Their sycophants in the state media kept lying about their management of the 'slave colony uprising' |