Dreiton Exchange Mandate

**Purpose** | -Securities and real estate management
-Lobbyism
-Settlement and occupational colonialism
-Extraction and transportation of transnational resources
-Paramilitary policing of the Commonwealth realms
 **Headquarters** | FC Dreiton, Commonwealth of Dreiton (executive and financial)
 **The Board** | -Julian Ivanesse (PR Director, public CEO)
 **Holdings** | ε79.3 billion↑

The **National Exchange Mandate of the Commonwealth in Dreiton** (shortened to Dreiton Exchange Mandate, itself abbreviated **DEM**) is a multinational joint-stock company headquartered in the Free City of Dreiton, in which it is a powerful political entity as well as a veritable financial behemoth and monopoly. Founded in Dreiton in 4713 by the wealthy Occan explorer, financier and baron Francisco Fletcher after the legendary voyage of his conquistador brother, Humberto Fletcher, the birth of the Mandate marked both the end of the dogmatic religious pseudo-feudal Dreiton era of eld and the beginning of a new national identity based on business, exploration and greed. At first serving as an exploratory real estate company focused primarily on the westward expansion of the Dreitonese city-state, the exponentially growing corporation came to adapt the goals of a nascent Dreitonese nationalism, including settler continent-based colonialism accomplished through paramilitary might and real estate funds.

Additionally, and with massive popular support, the Mandate began to set sail and establish presences and ventures in small and sizeable islands in the South Dreitonese Straits, handing most over to the government in the Silver House (known colloquially as the Dreichstag) to establish naval bases, but reserving some from which to extract resources from colonies and peoples pacified by the Minutemen, the notoriously brutal and well-trained Mandate paramilitary. Perhaps most well known is one of their first ventures, the Animus Isles, on which they brutally repressed opposition while encouraging and rewarding compliance and allowing the survival of the cultures of Sareem and Okkares. They followed much the same model throughout the Straits on other sparsely-populated islands like Ramshackle, Tortoise, and Castout; to build Dreitonese morale, the latter was turned into a nature reserve, as the Mandate opted to use the resource-poor isle instead for tourism.

At some point, the DEM became an active and respected participant in the slave trade, even possessing a headquarters in old Ancbold. Small numbers of Oceanics would be bought to work in the settler colonies, both mainland and on islands, and would only be liberated after the capture and expropriation of DEM assets in Voshe by rebels of the Nascent Revolution. The captive Oceanics were returned home under immense pressure by the Sultanate of Dashari, the Dreitonese government, and the Oceanic Republic of Voshe, in what would become a major political victory for the latter and a well-publicized humiliation of the Mandate. In the same standoff, the newborn Oceanic Republic became the second country - after Dashari - to permanently prohibited Voshi imports of Mandate-processed goods and services.

Shortly after, in a move to cater to nationalist fervor, the Mandate was purged of foreign investors in an agreement by the Dreitonese Council and the Board of Directors, although they were nonetheless repaid in full, and the Mandate still employs foreign contractors in relative silence. A few days after, the Silver House proclaimed the birth of the Commonwealth of Dreiton, a fearsome collection of far-off prosperous conquered land operating under the economic sphere of the Free City itself. As they continue with their brand of settler colonialism and the implanting of Dreitonese culture and power worldwide - accomplished via the conquest of islands and archipelagos all around Aquila and the export of opportunistic Dreitonese families and technocrats thereto- the Mandate continues to grow at an astounding pace in holdings, both economic and political.

Today, the Dreiton Exchange Mandate's headquarters stands tall as an architectural wonder near the famous Sidon Square, its proximity to the Silver House a dual testament to both its integral role in the Dreitonese spirit and to its continuous absorption of governmental power, a dichotomy the implications of which loom over the people of Dreiton.

## Holdings and Administration

### Territories

#### South Dreitonese Straits

* Animus Isles
	+ Sareem
	+ Okkares

* Ramshacle: *A small settler colony specializing in grain-based agriculture and alcohol distillation and exports.*
* Milfuegos: *A small settler colony specializing in coal and saltpeter mining and gunpowder production.*
* Sentinel Atoll: *A minor operations base and port.*
* Watchdog Isle: *A far-out operations base used as a naval port to deter piracy from the nearby Rift. Shared with the Dreitonese government.*
* Castout Isle: *An environmental reserve and tourist destination.*
* Marbrillantes **(formerly)**: *A sizeable settler colony, holding its own college and seen as a center of the arts and education outside of Dreiton. Now administered directly by the Commonwealth.*

#### Aetherial Sea

* Haggstorm: *A large settler colony, home to a diverse transplant of Dreitonese citizen of varying walks of life and professions. Hosts its own farms, basic necessities and education and health facilities, among many others. Often seen as a shining example of the Mandate's settler colonialism. Hosts a large naval base, solidifying Dreitonese naval presence in the area. Jointly administered by the DEM and government.*
* Moog

Map of the Straits.