Third Spore Republic

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The Republic of Sporia, or the Third Spore/Sporian Republic (Trei'sre'dv Rc'aroton't'w Alerotv'akos, or Rc'votw'alleis Alerotv'akos), is a country located in Northern Europe, and the third most populous in the continent behind Albíon and Luiskra. It is the 2nd most populous, wealthy and powerful Spore state, behind the Arian Federation. Being Spore, they are very diverse ethnically and linguistically, however not very much religiously, and the Universal Spore Language is simply a constructed language to allow Spores of different languages, regions and dialects to communicate with each other. The Third Republic of Sporia, despite its very turbulent history, is a developed, highly populous and powerful state, maintaining one of the world's only blue-water navies and, from 1980 to 1988 (before it disarmed), possessing nuclear weaponry. As such, while not considered universally to be one, due to Sporia's non-interventionist and pacifistic foreign policy following the Second Coalition War and the 2nd Great Northern War, many scholars such as Theo Schwarzkopf and Lazzaro Blanco consider the Spore Republic to be an emerging, if not currently a great power. The Spore economy and population is rapidly rising due to extremely efficient policies by the Sporian Market Party, and it is widely considered to have one of the best militaries in the entire world, a far cry from the shambling peasant armies of the II. Great Northern War. Sporia is considered, however, to be both a cultural and technological superpower alongside the likes of Albion, Aria, Francia, Luiskra and Saneatsu, especially in the technological end; the Spores are neck-and-neck pioneers with the Albionese and Siberians in terms of civilian technology, and just behind those two in military technology. Culturally, the Spores are considered a cultural superpower due to the extensiveness (Spores can be found worldwide) and resilience of their culture and race; despite significant genocides and massacres against them in Europe throughout the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries against them their race continues to persist, which is compounded by the fact that they are often lumped together with the Arians to make the Aro-Sporian cultural group, having the same exact race. The Spores even managed to land on the Moon in 2018.

Spore history is incredibly long and turbulent; Spores have been in Scandinavia for millions of years and gained sentience rather early in comparison to other races, as Mainland Spore structures have been seen dating back to 8 million years ago. It is likely that the Spores were influenced by Genesian colonization of Earth in some way throughout their Stone Age, as correlation exists between improvements in Spore architecture and the presence of the Genesis Empire on the Arian continent. The Spore bronze age led to the emergence of the earliest states within the region, but they couldn't expand further east due to the presence of the Anti-Spores. Throughout the Iron Age and Classical Age, these minor Spore polities grew in power and began to influence other lands while the Anti-Spore empire was invaded and destroyed by the Algodoos. This led to the creations of countries such as the Backbender Al'difatas, the North Sea Empires and later during the Medieval period the Sunglow Empire. The Sunglow Empire would conquer or influence over half of Europe to become one of the strongest and most influential states ever created in its history. Khagan Astvaldur 'the Great' went almost completely undefeated in warfare for his entire lifespan, and is universally considered to be one of the greatest generals in world history. The aftermath of the Sunglow Empire was the utter peak of Spore power; nations such as Nishimaria, the Inaters and the Eyelactic Republic were more powerful than some entire countries unified, and the Spore military was widely feared. However, this led to decadence and the Spores eventually started to stagnate in relative to its neighbors; when the Funtime invasion of Algodonia began this turned into outright relative decline. With this decline, the Spores turned to Grystallicism, resulting in the explosive rises of the two Kingdoms of Tolldernia under emperors Karl Anderberg and Ingemar Branoey respectively, which would later result in the Thirty Years' War and Great Northern War. After the collapse of both Tolldernias as independent countries, This would in turn result in the Sporophobic Fever, and the extraction of concessions from the Spores throughout the 19th century, primarily by the emergent and highly imperialist Funtime Empire. The 1848 Revolutions resulted in a need to reform, leading to the rise of the Ostravikura Council and unification into the Federation of Spore Creatures. With the Spores growing increasingly angry of foreign power intolerance against them, they elected the authoritarian Sondre Gunderson into power, who eventually led them to war with the Funtimes and the Coalition starting the First Coalition War. The Spores lost and were taken over by the Ants for about a decade, before Omega Spore and his legion conquered it again, formed the Redian Swarm, and once again expanded throughout Europe. The resulting 2nd Coalition War was once again a defeat, and the Spores entered into a civil war after the end of the foreign occupation and degredolification, the east winning and organizing the nation into the National Mudbloodist Republic of Sporia. This lasted until they were sorely destroyed in the 2nd Great Northern War against Luiskra, leading to the Spore Revolution of 1964 and establishment of the modern Third Republic who promised to remain non-interventionist. Besides minor action in the Prisarian Wars, the Spores have not been directly involved in any conflict (however have sent peacekeepers to various wars in accordance with the ICN).

The Spores are the leader of the Confederation of Spore States, a council member of the Non-Aligned League, and a member of the International Council of Nations. They maintain great relations with the Voronian-Arian Spore states, Vaipura Queendom and Arian Federation, and good relations with the European Noob nations of Albion, Francia and Luiskra, as well as with the United Kingdoms of Erwinia. However, the Spores notably have no relations with Gammeria (broken off when Gammeria declared war on Aria) due to the Spore meat trade, Glacier Crystal trade protectionism, oppression of Greenlandic Spores, and Gammerian aggression towards a fellow Spore country. The Spores have on multiple occasions accused Gammeria of encouraging and propping up Spore trafficking throughout Europe. Tensions are incredibly high between Gammeria and Sporia, with Gammeria (falsely) accusing Sporia of stripping away rights to Gammerians in their own land.

The Spores are massive leading exporters (95% of the share, the other 5% are nations that still have such gems and minerals such as Erwinia, Snowbrines, Luiskra and Albion) of Sporian minerals, unique materials only able to grow within Sporia and its minibiomes. They are also significant exporters of electronics and various forms of weaponry, primarily with Parreetown-based company Ty'rena Avylis which is a leading company for small arms worldwide (and especially within the Spore world) and Ty'rena Sorylis, a partner company (both under the Ty'rena conglomerate) which primarily engineers tanks, drones and military aircraft. In the immediate aftermath of the 2nd Great Northern War, Sporia found itself demilitarized by Luiskra however they were allowed to remilitarize (but not start any offensive wars) when the Prisarian Wars began in order to defend themselves. After this, Sporia became a primary creator and exporter of military technology, owing to their past as a military great power (1st in the world for much of the duration of the First Coalition War until 1919 when it started to collapse). However, they do still have issues. Western-Eastern wealth inequality is still pronounced within the nation, dividing it into two regions known as Greater Tolldernia and Greater Ostravikura, Ostravikura being poorer (though still decently wealthy and developed). This is especially apparent in the HDI, bringing Sporia down a tad (most eastern states have between 0.840 to 0.860 in HDI, except for the Erishes and Inaters who have 0.888 and 0.912 respectively, while the west tends to vary from 0.890 all the way to 0.930 [Eyeruscant] hence the average being so low. Brainera is also noticeably poorer than Pytonia, having an HDI of 0.832 which is among the lowest in the country.)

1. ↑ To be fair Karl Anderberg was possessed by the Bishop
2. ↑ Gammeria's Spore trafficking industry also goes against the Sayrin Hunting Association's rules which state that no Spore with human-level intelligence, and no Spore that is endangered, critically endangered or extinct in the wild, can be hunted or forcefully moved (except to a SHA-approved preservation for the latter case) in any way, shape or form.

It was forcibly abolished by the Arian Federation after the Second Arian-Gammerian War, but still continues underground to this day.

## Etymology

The etymology for the Third Republic comes from the Spore race, which is named after what is widely known as a misnomer; throughout medieval times Spores were thought to reproduce with, well, spores, which brought them the name. The Spores themselves, calling themselves just 'Creatures' would adopt the name for themselves (Alerotav'nos) which persists until this day.