Kingdom of Soissons

The Kingdom of Soissons, also known as the Regnum Romanorum Suessionum or Regnum Suessionum and simply Soissons, was a country located in Western Europe. It is bordered to the south by France (which includes Paris, also known to Soissonians as Lutetia), to the east by the Benelux countries and the German Empire, to the west by the State of Brittany, and to the north by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Kingdom of Logres and the English Channel. Soissons is a unitary absolute monarchy with its capital in Augusta Suessionum.
Inhabited by archaic humans since the Paleolithic era, the territory of Metropolitan France was settled during the Iron Age by Celtic tribes known as Gauls. Rome annexed the area in 51 BC, leading to a distinct Gallo-Roman culture that would influence the formation of the French language. After the Western Roman Empire was reduced territorially to Italia, the kingdom of Soissons was established by a soldier-priestess known as Artoria Equitia Irenaea Laterana (it is unknown if she is the same or is the first to have that name, but was thought to be reused by her female descendants) and Aegidius Flavius Afrianus, the latter of whom held the position of magister militum; the latter would be succeeded by his son Syagrius (it is suspected that Syagrius was actually a young woman named Syagria, or Syagrius had a daughter named Syagria). The Miracle of Soissons during the battle of Soissons was critical to the survival of the kingdom itself and its status as one of the remnants of the Roman Empire. In 867 the Consolidation of Soissons saw its authority strengthened under the Irenaea Lateranaian dynasty, which incorporated elements of Western European feudal principles into the Roman imperial bureaucracy, focusing on military service and the distribution of land to senators, legates, centurions and legionaries. In the High Middle Ages, Soissons was a strong but highly decentralized feudal kingdom which despite all odds remain isolated.
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Soissons retained its centuries-long status as a center of art, philosophy and agriculture. In spite of its isolation, Soissons is an emerging market and a newly-industrialized country, as it transitions from agriculture to goods and services; despite this, agriculture remains its most lucrative economy. Due to its legacy as a remnant of the Roman Empire, it maintains a modernized military structured after the Roman legions and serving as the centerpiece of the imperial government and a large reserve force, though this is due to its armed neutrality policy which supported a majority of its citizens being equipped with weapons to defend their home, dating back to 467. Because of this, both Soissons and Switzerland were two of few nations to maintain a sort of armed neutrality.
==History==
==Government and politics==
===Government===
Soissons is a kingdom organized as a unitary absolute monarchy. It was ruled by the Irenaea Lateranaian dynasty, whose kings were always known to be females barring a few male members of its dynasty; it is unclear where and when the line of each female being named Artoria Equitia ends, and rumors and conspiracy theories abound that they may have been one and the same, and have been thought to be the immortal descendant of the wise centaur Chiron. A senate, similar to the Roman senate, was known to have existed and served as a unicameral legislature of sorts, where it is convened by the king of Soissons to pass laws and policies.
===Foreign relations===
As a result of its isolation, Soissons is sometimes known as a "hermit kingdom", a term used to describe nations which walled itself off either literally or metaphorically from the rest of the world; historically, both Soissons and Palmyra were described as the first two hermit kingdoms. Initially, Soissons only engage in trade and nothing else, aside allowing the movement of foreign troops through its territories in a few times. By the 10th or 11th century, it eventually began trading with the Western and Eastern Roman Empires, known respectively as the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire, as well as the Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Logres, and Kingdom of France.
===Military===
The Soissonian Armed Forces was the principal military and law enforcement force of the kingdom, under the king of Soissons as its supreme commander and the magister militum as the other supreme commander. They consist of the Soissonian Army, the Soissonian Navy, and the Soissonian Air Force - the last of which consisted of merely helicopters and light aircraft tasked only with firefighting and rescue operations as well as fighter jets for patrols.
==Economy==
===Overview===
Soissons' economy is diversified, but agriculture is an important sector. While having access to capital, goods, services, and skilled labour, protectionist policies over certain industries and agriculture was due to how predatory a number of corporate entities really were, though this was offset by the presence of vegetable gardens and the fact each family were given a small farm to support themselves and either sell or store surplus food; this would be used and adapted by the Swedish king Charles IX as the Indelningsverket, or allotment system.
Outside of agriculture, services and goods were prominent in urban cities and towns and even villages. Due to protectionist policies preventing foreign or domestic corporate entities or even nations from actively seeking monopolies over the economy, a number of state-owned companies and privately-owned companies were created and subject to daily visits by tax collectors. A number of shops were owned as small-scale businesses, though there exists a number of chains present throughout. A number of red light districts also exist.