Amestria

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The **Dominion of Amestria** is a Karian aristocratic republic, a former crown colony of the Kingdom of Karstedt, and a minor power in the Concourse Region of the Aoshtai Galaxy. It is an agrarian society founded on the division between its highly stratified aristocratic class and a large population of poor laborers, machinists, service workers, and land tenants. Its primary exports are foodstuffs, hydrocarbons, small frontier vessels, and small arms. Its economy and society are characterized by a strong entrepreneurial and business ethic which rewards the discovery, creation, and extraction of resources.

## Stats

* HOME NATION
* INCOME
* ESPIONAGE

CUBITS

**Aresen, 23 NE -** +𝔛1.4 quadrillion from surplus
**Murrius, 23 NE -** +𝔛1.4 quadrillion from surplus
**Aulus, 23 NE -** +𝔛1.4 quadrillion from surplus
**Aulus, 23 NE -** -𝔛100 trillion from commerce raid by the Aoshanti Empire
**Lars, 23 NE -** +𝔛2.3 quadrillion from surplus
**Lars, 23 NE -** -𝔛100 trillion from commerce raid by the Basur Pirates
**Lars, 23 NE -** -𝔛2 quadrillion towards Shipyards Effort
**Lars, 23 NE -** -𝔛400 trillion to buy 6 Kylnrifter Galliots
**Lars, 23 NE -** -𝔛1.8 quadrillion to purchase 4 NP and 2 AP
**Lars, 23 NE -** +𝔛800 trillion in military assistance from the Atasarid Kingdom
**Lars, 23 NE -** +𝔛400 trillion in military assistance from Verisan
**Lars, 23 NE -** +𝔛400 trillion in military assistance from Seniborcia
**Lars, 23 NE -** -𝔛2 quadrillion to purchase an additional operative slot
**Lars, 23 NE -** +𝔛2.5 quadrillion from surplus

ACTIVE (2/2)

* Spotter 1  ***Army Cypher  1***
* Spotter 2  ***Army Cypher***

BENCH

* Konrad Beckert  ***Marine Guards Assassin***

## History

### Origins

Founded 188 years before the current era, Amestria was one among a few concerted attempts by Karian colonists to settle a territory outside of the Karian system of regions and provinces. The project was undertaken first by a private company, which succeeded in attracting colonists and building a space elevator, but found itself increasingly taxed by the difficult task of defending the colony from opportunistic pirates and raiders. After a particularly devastating raid, the Amestria Company filed for bankruptcy in 164 BNE.

In response, the colony was appropriated by the crown for a token sum and granted as a titular holding to Justus von Meinhardt, who became Lord Paramount of Amestria. Under Meinhardt's stewardship, the colony became an aristocratic paradise, a place to where the second and third sons of the nobility could emigrate to found their own estates and territories far from the claustrophobia of concentrated aristocratic empires and the overweening control of the monarchy.

### Karian Revolution

In 18 BNE, the Karian Revolution occurred, causing the total abolition of the privileges of the aristocracy in Karstedt. Fearing for their lives, many aristocrats fled to Amestria, where many attempted to reestablish their estates and fortunes. The abolished House of Lords of the Karstag reformed on Eganor, claiming to be a continuation of the one which the Karian Revolution usurped. They welcomed Eduard III, the deposed Karian monarch, as their King.

### Interwar period

Formal relations between Karstedt and Amestria were cold for much of the rest of the rest of the decade as the Karian Republic continued to appropriate private holdings belonging to the nobility, often without compensation. During that period, there was much talk of turning Amestria into a proper nation with a government, army, astronavy, and system of taxation – things which the colony lacked. Such debates dragged on well into the following decade without resolution.

Amestria suffered from several minor raids during the interwar period, highlighting the necessity for a standing force to defend the colony. The first of such raids, taking place in 16 BNE, saw the grandees of the Amestrian nobility, many of them former generals and officers in the armed forces of the Kingdom of Karstedt, organize themselves into the Amestrian Territorial Guard (ATG) and Amesmarine, with many regiments, shuttles, and combat ships being provided out-of-pocket by landholders themselves as noblemen competed with each other for the glory of saving the territory.

Though this initial militia force was successful, it suffered from several problems which would only get worse with time.

First, it had too many high-ranking and experienced officers and too few experienced enlisted men and officers to support them and for them to command.

Second, aristocratic and local forces tended to resist any form of centralized direction from the House of Lords or the Lord High Marshal. Instead, they tended to carry out their own operations, strike their own targets, defend their own installations, and implement their own ideas.

Third, when relations between Amestria and Karstedt began to thaw starting in 9 NE, many Amestrians began returning to Karstedt to serve in the Karstmarine and Karstwehr, leading to a brain drain among Amestria's elites and officers and chronic absenteeism among Amestria's landlords. This resulted in general neglect of Amestria as a territory, even though it had become home to around 200 million souls, the vast majority of them commoners on Eganor, around 30 million of them spacers working in various orbital works in the Egan system.

### Concourse Wars

During the Second Concourse War, Amestria was invaded by the Republic of Varadinia, then allied with the Ascendancy of the Broken Ring. This was the result of many decades of frontier tensions and disputes over terraforming candidates in the nullsec region between Amestria and Varadinia, and the Concourse Wars gave Varadinia an opportunity to attack Amestria while other powers were busy fighting the Ascendancy.

The Varadinian attack, which took the Amestrian forces by surprised, overwhelmed the ability of the armed services to defend all of Amestria's far-flung possessions, both within and outside of the Egan system. Undermanned, under-equipped, and poorly led formations on the Amestrian periphery were surprised and annihilated in the opening acts of the war, though holdouts persisted. The Dominion at first rallied and attempted to fight the war on its own, but insufficient manpower and materiel was mobilized, and the recruits were poorly trained and disciplined, and struggled mightily against a numerically, technologically, and qualitatively superior foe.

The Varadianians pushed all the way into the territory and successfully seized many of its stations; the station above Eganor, defended by Major General Hans Jurgen von Maus, held out despite being placed under extreme pressure by Varadinia's elite troops. Proud, in disarray, and refusing to consider the Varadinians a credible threat which could defeat them, the Amestrian leadership delayed on calling upon Karstedt or the other GCTO nations for help. A Karian battlegroup composed of several battleships, a carrier, and several divisions of the Karian Marine Corps, intervened in the conflict unilaterally, preventing Amestria from falling entirely.

With assistance from the Karian battlegroup and military aid from Karstedt, Varadinia was repelled from Eganor and forced to withdraw from several of the stations they had seized. What ensued was a two-year process involving agonizing negotiations to repatriate Amestrian war prisoners and complete the handover of stations in Amestria remaining in Varadinian hands, which Karian and Amestrian marines found themselves forced to take in several lightning offensives because Varadinia was attempting to hold onto them. The process of fully evicting Varadinia from Amestria was completed in 3 NE, though most of Amestria's outlying nullsec holdings and terraforming candidates were lost.

## Economics and Trade

Amestria is a small predominantly rural country to the north of Karstedt. It is a free market dominated by a tightly-knit class of aristocratic planters which own most of the land and productive assets.

The Amestrian system is generally very free, with little central regulation of trade or transit. Individual planets and stations tend to manage their own trade with little standardization or homogenization from the central government.

The Amestrians impose few tariffs on foreign trade and import much of their finished goods from other markets to make up for their lack of industry. The Amestrian market specializes in exporting agricultural products and hydrocarbons. The hydrocarbon business brings lucrative profits to those who control hyrdocarbon-producing planets.

## Trivia

* The Dominion of Amestria is inspired by the Colony of Virginia and derives its name from Amestris, the setting of the Fullmetal Alchemist series.