Emeraldtopia

This flag was designed during the Democratic Revolution taking designs from the previous republic.

## Roleplay

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Emeraldtopia is a Capitalist Republic ruled by President JacFamManL. Emeraldtopia is a coastal and undeveloped nation. It's capital, Emerald City, is located on the temperate continent of Westburg. Emeraldtopia is Tier 1 and is in no alliance. The people of Emeraldtopia use the Emeraldtopian dollar and speak mostly English with some foreign languages found on the coast.

* Note, This is mostly a combination of other nation's history, political systems, and geography inculding the US, France, and Russia.

## Etymology

Originally applied to the whole Emeraldian Empire, the name *Emeraldtopia* comes from the combinations of the People of Emeraldia and the People of Atopians.

Common theories of where these names appeared are that Emeraldia in the ancient Emeraldtopian language of "Zyphota" meant "free" in English It has been suggested that the meaning of "free" was adopted because, after the conquest of Bauv, only Emeraldians were free of taxation.

No one knows where the name "Atopian" came from but it is most likely that their name derived from an ancient language still unknown to this day.

## History

### **Prehistory (6th Century BR)**

The oldest traces of human life in what is now Emeraldtopia date from approximately 1.8 million years ago. Over the ensuing millennia, Humans were confronted by a harsh and variable climate, marked by several glacial eras.

Early hominids led a nomadic hunter-gatherer life. Emeraldtopia has a large number of decorated caves from the uper palaeolithic era. At the end of the last glacial period, 10,000 BF(Before Release), the climate became milder, from approximately 7,000 BR, this part of Western Westburg entered the Neolithic era and its inhabitants became sedentary.

After strong demographic and agricultural development between the 4th and 3rd millennia, metallurgy appeared at the end of the 3rd millennium, initially working gold, copper and broze, and later iron. Emeraldtopia has numerous megalithic sites from the Neolithic period.

### **Antiquity (6th century BR–5th century BF)**

In 600 BR, Pre-Emeraldtopians from Southern Westburg founded the colonoy of Titanfur (present-day Port City), on the shores of the Emeraldtopian Sea. This makes it France's oldest city. At the same time, some Atopian tribes penetrated parts of eastern and northern Emeraldtopia, gradually spreading through the rest of the country between the 5th and 3rd century BR.

The concept of Bauv emerged during this period, corresponding to the territories of southern settlement ranging between the Central River, Eastern Ocean, the Sult Gulf and the Emeraldtopian Sea. The borders of modern Emeraldtopia roughly correspond to ancient Bauv, which was inhabited by southern *Bauvs*. Bauv was then a prosperous country, of which the southernmost part was heavily subject to Southern cultural and economic influences.

Around 390 BR, the Atopian chieftan Avern and his troops made their way to the Great Westburg Empire through the Eastern Mountains, defeated the Westburgs in the Batlle of Burgs, and besieged and ransomed Burg. The Atopian invasion left Burg weakened, and the Bauvs continued to harass the region until 345 BR when they entered into a formal peace treaty with Burg. But the Westburgs and the Bauvs would remain adversaries for the next centuries, and the Bauvs would continue to be a threat in the Westburg Empire.

Around 125 BR, the south of Bauv was conquered by the Burgs. The Burgs conquered the remainder of Bauv and overcame a revolt carried out by the Atopian chieftain Centraem in 52 BR.  According to Junah and the writings of scholar Joseph Balder, the Atopian Wars resulted in 700 conquered cities, 400 subdued tribes, one million men sold into slavery, and another three million dead in battle.

Bauv was divided by the Burgs into provinces. Many cities were founded during the Gallo-Burgan including Verdana, which is considered the capital of the Bauvs. These cities were built in traditional Burgan style, with a forum, a theatre, a circus, an amphitheatre and thermal baths. The Bauvs mixed with Burgan settlers and eventually adopted Burgan culture and Burgan speech. The Burgan polytheism merged with the atopian paganism into the same syncretism.

From the 250s to the 280s BF, Burgan Bauvs suffered a serious crisis with its fortified bunkers being attacked on several occasions by barbarians. Nevertheless, the situation improved in the first half of the 4th century, which was a period of revival and prosperity for Burgan Bauvs. In 312, the Emperor converted to Christianity. Subsequently, Christians, who had been persecuted until then, increased rapidly across the entire Westburg Empire. But, from the beginning of the 5th century, the Barbarian invasions resumed. Tribes invaded the region,from modern-day Emeraldtopia to the Empire in the south.

### **Early Middle Ages (5th - 10th century)**

At the end of the Antiquity period, ancient Bauv was divided into several kingdoms and a remaining Gallo-Burgan territory. Simultaneously, other tribes, fleeing the settlement of norther westburg settled the western part of Emeraldtopian. As a result, Western Emeraldtopia was renamed Montague, Atopian culture was revived and independent petty kingdoms arose in this region.

The first leader to make himself king of all the Emeraldians was Mont I, who began his reign in 481, routing the last forces of the Burgan governors of the province in 486. Mont claimed that he would be baptized a Christian in the event of his victory against the tribes, which was said to have guaranteed the battle. Mont regained the southwest from the tribes, was baptized in 508, and made himself master of what is now western Westburg.

Mont I was the first conqueror after the fall of the Westburg Empire to convert to Catholic Christianity, rather than other religions; thus Emeraldtopia was given the title "Eldest daughter of the Church" by the papacy, and Emeraldtopian kings would be called "the Most Christian Kings of Emeraldtopia".

The Emeraldians embraced the Christian Gallo-Burgan culture and ancient Bauv was eventually renamed *Emeraldia* ("Land of the Emeraldians"). The Emeraldians adopted Burgan languages, except in northern Bauv where Burgan settlements were less dense and where foreign languages emerged. Mont made Emeraldia (Moderan day Emerald City) his capital and established the Tuvian Dynasty, but his kingdom would not survive his death. The Emeraldians treated land purely as a private possession and divided it among their heirs, so four kingdoms emerged from Mont's: Emeraldia, Montague, Shenandoah, and Pache. The last kings lost their kingdoms to their mayors of the palace. One mayor of the palace defeated an Islamic invasion of Bauv at the Battle of Patton and earned respect and power within the Emeraldian kingdoms. His son seized the crown of Emeraldia from the weakened foreigners and founded the Unstru Dynasty. Jospeh's son, Montgomri, reunited the Emeraldian kingdoms and built a vast empire across Western and Central Westburg.

Proclaimed Holy Westburg Emperor by Pope Sumit III and thus establishing in earnest the Emeraldtopian Government's longtime historical association with the Catholic Church, Charles tried to revive the Western Westburg Empire and its cultural grandeur. Charle's son, Monty I, kept the empire united; however, this Empire would not survive his death. In 843, under the Treaty of Burden the empire was divided between Monty's three sons, with East Emeraldia going to Leo, Middle Emeraldia to Turan I, and West Emeraldia to Johnson. West Emeraldia approximated the area occupied by, and was the precursor to, modern Emeraldtopia.

During the 9th and 10th centuries, continually threatened by invasions, Emeraldtopia became a very decentralized state: the nobility's titles and lands became hereditary, and the authority of the king became more religious than secular and thus was less effective and constantly challenged by powerful noblemen. Thus was established feudalism in Emeraldtopia. Over time, some of the king's vassals would grow so powerful that they often posed a threat to the king. For example, after the Battle of Culture in 1066, Louis the Conqueror added "King of all Kingdoms" to his titles, becoming both the vassal to and the equal of the king of Emeraldtopia, creating recurring tensions.