Arboros

Republic of Arboros

**Legislature:** Arborosi Parliament

**Government:** *Status quo*
**Taxation:** *Tax cuts*
**Spending:** *Domestic Economy*
**Debt:** *None for Now*
**Military:** *Border security*
**Economy:** *Deregulation*
**Trade:** *Domestic focus*
**Foreign:** *Maintain security through alliance*
**Alliance:** *GCTO*

 Overview Population Military organization
The **Republic of Arboros**, often referred to as simply **Arboros**, is a nation located in the eastern Concourse region of the Aoshtai Galaxy, bordering the Concourse Commonwealth, Aoshanti Empire, and Republic of Naer'si. Formerly a subject of the Ascendancy of the Broken Ring, it gained independence following the Ascendancy's dissolution at the end of the Third Concourse War. It is a multicultural nation, containing significant Lirana, Human, Aoshanti, and other populations. Its capital is the planet Daam'sar.

While nominally a republic, since shortly after its reestablishment is has fallen into a dominant-party system, under which the Technocratic Party holds a slim majority by virtue of its relative competence and a lack of unifying priorities among the opposition. However, in the absence of significant non-Ascendancy talent in the postwar era, many Arborosi political leaders have corporate backgrounds, and run the state with a heavy growth-focused mindset. However, this has come at the expense of runaway inflation and the devaluation of the Arborosi Tacita.

Arboros is an associate member of the Grand Concourse Treaty Organization, and typically shadows Naer'si in its foreign policy and military organization. While its civilian leadership are content to focus on merely securing its borders, it is beginning to feel pressure from both its military brass and allies to take a more active role in the Concourse.

## Stats

* STATS
* TRADE

### Army Complexes

* Daam'sar - 2 army points
* Lamedh - 1 army point

### Operatives

* Agent Arboros
* Agent Sweep

## Government

### Chancellor

The **Chancellor of Arboros** is the head of state and executive leader of Arboros. Serving as both the *de jure* head of Parliament and the Cabinet, they are voted in by the governing coalition in Parliament to 4-year terms, and are vested with appointing and directing Cabinet members and related offices.

The incumbent Chancellor is R'deli Trrega. A prominent member of the Technocratic party, and a former member of an organizational firm, TogetherWorks Advisory Firm, much of his campaign was grounded in the purported portability of said skills to office. As head of state, Trrega is expected to be responsible for serving as a focal point of leadership for the country during his term. His proponents laud the aforementioned purported organization, citing the latest parliamentary victories, while his fierce enemies in the opposition parties label such rhetoric as snake oil.

### Parliament

The supreme legislative body of Arboros, the unicameral **Arborosi Parliament** is composed of 85 seats, with MPs elected through a national proportional representation system. Most legislation is passed by absolute majority rule.

The noteworthy parties of Arboros all hold at least a small proportion of seats, though the Rhyan Cooperative Party and Secular Liberation Front often work together in the presence of a Technocrat majority in order to combat its dominance. However, when not in the presence of a common enemy, the RCP and SLF fight one another fiercely.

## Astrography

The territories of Arboros within the larger Aoshanti Concourse. Prishtil is located where Delta Doricha is currently listed.
Arboros occupies a patch of space on the southeastern edge of the Concourse, sharing borders with Naer'si, the Kingdom of Brestovik, and Pomaria. Its population centers are spread unevenly between four Etheric clusters in the northwest, southwest, southeast, and northeast, with a much heavier concentration in the western clusters.

The country has gained an unfortunate reputation as a battleground for its larger neighbors, having been the site of several engagements between Naer'si and the Ascendancy during the Concourse Wars. This has continued somewhat into the present, as Lamedh and Lucolia become staging grounds for a larger GCTO offensive against the Empire.

## Military

Presently in the grip of an economic crisis as the result of inflation caused by poor initial provisional leadership following the country's reestablishment, Arboros is economically unable to muster the military strength required to effectively wage war, being limited to the defense of its own borders at best.

### Astronavy

With limited military-industrial capacity of its own, Arboros is largely reliant on imported foreign designs and purchased vessels from the likes of Naer'si, Karstedt, and the Phero Ecumene. However, the Arborosi Astronavy has made modifications to many of the vessels in it's service to suit its own needs, and to preserve the combat effectiveness of older ship classes.

In regards to fleet composition and strategy, Arboros attempts marries the successes of two popular anti-Orbitritan naval doctrines: Extensive use of fleet carriers and smaller missile ships fielding enormous amounts of ordinance and fighter/dronecraft, an approach popular within Concourse itself, and broadside-oriented CQB ships capable of outmanuevering forward-firing Ascendancy ship designs and striking their weak rear sections, a design philosophy pioneered by the ships of the Phero Ecumene.

### Army

The Army of Arboros, like its astronavy, is mostly reliant on foreign acquisitions from neighboring and allied states, and implements a mixture of tactics and equipment which were found to be effective against Ascendancy army and marine units.

However, the Arborosi army is not without some key quirks and unique traits. Most elite Arborosi units follow pre-Ascendancy traditions, such as the Lamedhite Templarii and Arborosi Spectres. Also of note are the Free Limitanei, a group of reservist units inherited from the Ascendancy who voluntarily chose to retain their enlistment under the returned Arborosian government.

## Demographics

### Major Species

*Concoursian Federalists*

* **Creator:** *MadamLava*
* **Homeworld:** *Neocraea*
* **Spacefaring:** *after 0 AR*
* **Cultural Characteristics:** *Various*

*The Ubiquitous and Resilient*

* **Creator:** *Community*
* **Homeworld:** *Unknown*
* **Spacefaring:** *before 15 000 AR*
* **Cultural Characteristics:** *Various*

The **Prishtians** are the dominant group of Humans in Arboros, ethnically related to the Brestovers and primarily located in eastern Arboros, around their homeworld of Prishtil.

*The Throneborne*

* **Creator:** *Community*
* **Homeworld:** *Lessos*
* **Spacefaring:** *assumed 40,000's AR*
* **Cultural Characteristics:** *Mystical · Disciplined · Ambitious*

The Aoshanti population of Arboros consists of two major groups. The native **Lamedhite Aoshanti** make up the bulk of Arborosian Aoshanti, originating from the world of Lamedh in northwest Arboros. While historically Lessoan Rhyanists, the spread of the Reformed Church both before and under the Ascendancy has sharply divided the population along religious lines. A smaller, but wealthier and more religiously homogenous population of **Orbitritan Aoshanti** is also prevalent in northwestern Arboros, an entrenched aristocracy left behind by the Ascendancy.

* **Creator:** *Community*
* **Homeworld:** *Unknown*
* **Spacefaring:** *Unknown*
* **Cultural Characteristics:** *Individualistic · Materialistic · Honorable*

In addition to the four major species, smaller communities of Saviki, Lorem, and Prandac-descended Drodo can be found in various parts of Arboros.

### Major Planets

*National Capital**Lirana population center*
*Rapacious capitalism*
*Lax morals*
*Indolence*
*Aristocratic Tradition**Aoshanti population center**Reformist religious center*
*Ascendancy-era Capital**Ties to Vigila*
*Military Tradition**Human population center**Simple manners*