Old Families

The Old Families, also known as the Royals or the Great Lords, were a collection of rich and powerful families who controlled the Germanican Republic and dominated the rest of the upper class through political and economic influence. Since the Republic's founding, they created an oligarchial regime that control the economy and form alliances with capitalist countries such as the Grand Republic of Francia. By the time of the Terran Wars, however, about 87 percent of the Royals were executed and accused of betrayal, except for the House of Hamtinburg. The remaining families had either fled and fell into poverty or became subject to the Germanican Empire and the People's Imperial Party of Germamicus, creating a totalitarian, military-state.
==History==
==Politics==
==Houses==
===Current===
*House of Hamtinburg
*House of Grimmheim
*House of Strumm
*House of Legini
*House of Orthoberg
===Former===
*House of Bonachin
*House of Maximus
*House of Jerhag
*House of Thindin
*House of Schineruck
*House of Sturumburg
==Trivia==
*The Old Families were modeled after aristocratic families within 18th century Europe and Feudal Japan.
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