The Ploopy Republic

The Totally Real Republic of Ploopy, often shorted to the Ploopy Republic or in some cases Ploopia, and sometimes informally called by it's citizens the Replublic, was a northwestern European country that existed between 1630 and 8623. The country was known for being the home place of the Ploops, a religious group who follows Ploopy Ploopyism, who started the country after escaping England due to religious prosecution.
As of its fall, it had a population of 78,327,631, and it covered 74,657 km² (28,825 mi²), containing the regions of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. The capital of the Ploopy Republic was Ploopville, also nicknamed Brussels, which was in southern Ploopia. The country was a democratic republic, where people would vote on the leader of the country every 7 years.
==History ==
===Beginning (1604-1614)===
In 1604, a small group of about 40 people had formed in southeastern England. They believed of a god named Manny Heffley, who they thought was the leader of a place called Ploo, a place where people who followed the religion went after dying. They also believed of a god named Danny Jeffery, who they thought was the leader of a place called Light, where people who didn’t follow the religion went to be punished after dying. Named after “Ploo”, they made a religion called the “Religion of Ploopy”, also called “Ploopyism” for short, and called members of the religion “Ploops”.
In the religion, the Ploops would pray to Manny Heffley at least once every day, which they did in secret for 8 years. One day, in 1612, an English officer went into a Ploop's home while they were praying to Manny. Because of that, the village the Ploops lived in now knew about the religion, to which the other village members tried to have them kicked out of the village. This led to a small battle between the Ploops and the other village members, which became known as the English-Ploop Battle of 1612 later on. The battle lasted for 7 days between April 14th and 21st 1612, and ended up with the Ploops escaping the village.
The Ploops went on several small boats sailing off the east coast of England, going in different directions. They landed in the regions of the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark, in really uninhabited parts of the land. They claimed the land around them as their own, including part of England, without anyone knowing about them, and they lived in secret for about 2 years.
===Before The Great Ploopy War (1614)===
After living for 2 years in secret, they wanted to take more land for themselves, and declare to the world that they are their own country, but the Ploop population was very small, and so they wouldn’t be able to run a country or go to full-on war to gain the land. So one day, in 1614, a Ploop in the Netherlands region left where they were staying to find other people. The Ploops' purpose was to recruit people to convert to Ploopyism, and to participate in an uprising of a Ploopyism nation.
The Ploop was able to find about 200 people, to where they converted either by choice or by force. The people who were converted then went and found more people, and after 6 months, there was about 25,000 Ploops that were converted. The Ploops then made weapons, including the Ploopknife, which was a knife that was simply rebranded. The Ploops found out where a nearby town was, being Rotterdam, by a converted Ploop, and the Ploops were making a plan to invade it.
==== Influencing of Prussia ====
Around 2 month before The Great Ploopy War, they sent a delegate to the Teutonic Knights (Prussia), were they showed Heinrich Matthias (the Grand Master at the time) the Ploopknife, when he saw it, he was so amazed that he started making speeches about how great the Ploopy Republic.
===The Great Ploopy War (1614-1630)===
====Battle of Rotterdam (1614)====
On October 4th 1614, all 25,000 Ploops from every region invaded the town of Rotterdam. The people living in Rotterdam fought back, leading in the death of 2,750 Ploops. The Ploops, however, fought harder, and eventually was able to make the people in Rotterdam surrender, leading to the annexation of Rotterdam to the Ploops. At the end of the battle, 3,250 Ploops had been killed or wounded, and Rotterdam has had 5,600 killed or wounded. This battle would be considered the first one in the Great Ploopy War.
==== The Spanish Invasion (1614-1615) ====
A messenger from Rotterdam would then leave by a boat and a month later, Spain would join the war. The Ploops didn’t know that Spain joined and they celebrated until a fleet of Spanish ships came by and wrecked the city that they called “Ploopville”. The president, Flag000 as he has been nicknamed, would move the capital to Brussels, which they just conquered. People were mixed, until the people who were mad about it suddenly disappeared. The Spanish would keep on sending fleets of ships, until a man by the name of Federick Von Sir Fazingbearingtan came over. Although coming from Bavaria, he knew how to build ships, and the Ploops hired him to build some. Federick Von Sir Fazingbearingtan first ship was called “The Plooperizer”, and the boat was made to attack and run. The Ploops made a fleet of 20 ships and battled the Spanish ships. The Ploops won, mostly due to how fast it went. After the defeat, the French would join the Ploops side because of their hatred for the Habsburgs. Only 80 Ploops were killed or wounded in the invasion, and 270 Spanish were killed or wounded.
==== Prussia Joins (1615) ====
Heinrich Matthias, after learning of the Spanish-Ploopy war (as it was called at the time), decided to join in, this made the Pope mad because he HATED the Ploops, so he was excommunicated, and also made the Polish mad (which the Teutonic Knights were subjugated to) due to the Polish being Christians, so they declared war on the Teutonic Knights. All this made Heinrich Matthias make Ploopyism the state religion, declare the Duchy of Prussia, and join in on the Ploops side.
==== Ploops Invasion on Denmark and England (1615-1617) ====
Not short after the defeat of the Spanish, the Ploops focused on their claims in Denmark and England. At this point, both Denmark and England didn't know about their claims in their land, which caused the countries to be surprised when they were invaded by the Ploops. The Ploops sent 70% of their soldiers to England and the other 30% to Denmark, trying to gain control of their claims. The French would help the Ploops by giving soldiers, but France only gave 1,000 of them. Right after the start of the invasions, the Ploops were struggling in both of the regions. They were starting to lose their claims in the regions, but gained some of it back due to Fazingbearingtan's suggestions and strategies on invading them. Despite Fazingbearingtan's and the Ploops' efforts, the Ploops had to surrender their claim in England. The soldiers fighting for the Ploops that were in England who were still able to fight were sent to Denmark to help invade, which helped the Ploops in the region, but not by much. Shortly after the Ploops gave up their claim in England, the Ploops had to surrender their claim in Denmark too. 8,700 Ploops were killed or wounded in their invasions, or about 40% of all the Ploops who fought in the invasions. After the invasions, though, Federick Von Sir Fazingbearingtan would be considered the leader of the Ploop army.
==== The Surprise English Attack (TBD) ====
TBD
==Geography ==
As of the country's demise, the Ploopy Republic's mainland was in the northwest of Europe, covering 74,657 km² (28,825 mi²). The country is often split into 4 different regions: The Netherlands Region, The Flemish Region, The Walloon Region, and The Luxembourg Region. Inside the 4 regions, there are 7 provinces and 1 special subdivision: North Ploopia, Getrennt, Langweileg, and Central Ploopia in the Netherlands Region, Baussent and Ploopville in the Flemish Region, South Ploopia in the Walloon Region, and Luxembourg in the Luxembourg Region.
The country also had colonial territories in TBD, mainly TBD.
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==Politics and Government==
=== Legislative ===
TBD
=== Executive ===
TBD During the first 7 years of the Ploopy Republic’s existence, Flag001, the first leader of the Ploopy Republic, declared the Ploopy Republic to be an absolute monarchy, despite the country’s name. 
==Economy ==
The currency of the Ploopy Republic was the Paper Slip (symbol being ß). The currency was deemed as the worst currency of the world at that time, due to it being easy to counterfeit and the currency experiencing hyperinflation. A counterfeit was made simply by writing a number onto any sort of paper, to where the paper will then become legal tender. Because of this, inflation boomed into the ducentillions (10603), but then settled down, when the government required Paper Slips to be on blue construction paper.
As of the Ploopy Republic’s demise, the GDP of the Ploopy Republic was ß469.965786 octillion (ß469,965,786,000,000,000,000,000,000,000).
==Demographics==
=== Ethnicity ===
The Ploopy Republic was a monoethnic country, meaning that it mainly had just 1 ethnicity. As of 8623, 96.8% of people in the Ploopy Republic's main ethnicity was English, followed by 1.3% being Dutch, 0.9% being Belgian, 0.8% being German, and 0.2% with other ethnicities. The large number of English people was due to the Ploopy Republic's banning of anyone with an ethnicity other then English in 2246 signed into law by Flag089, shortly after their rise to power. The Ploopy Republic eventually overturned the ban in 2299, but the damage was already done. Nearly none of the people originally kicked out came back, and since the Ploopy Republic has low immigration, the population has remained predominantly English since.
=== Religion ===
TBD
==Culture==
TBD
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