Federal Republic of Giad

> "***Strive to be the justice the world prides itself on.***"
> ― Federacy's National Policy
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The **Federal Republic of Giad** (共和制ギアーデ連邦,, *Kyouwasei Giа̄de Renpou*?), shortened to the **Federacy**, is the setting for Run Through the Battlefront (Start) and Run Through the Battlefront (Finish).

The Federacy is a country that was created after downfall of the Giadian Empire and the country which gave the Spearhead Squadron asylum after their escape from the Republic. Its capital city is Sankt Jeder.

## Culture and Demographics

### Flag

The national symbol of Giad is a two-headed eagle, which can be found on the nation's flag and coat of arms. "Glory to the two-headed eagle" is a common salute amongst the Federacy's military.

The flag itself has changed from black and red to green, with the two-headed eagle in the corner surrounded by eight golden stars. Although because the flag was raised on the 177th Armored Division's HQ, it is likely the war flag.

### Cuisine

The Federacy prefers coffee over tea as their hot beverage of choice.

The minimum drinking age of the Federacy is sixteen.

### Ethnicities

The Federal Republic of Giad is ethnically and racially diverse. While the groups that dominate the region are the Rubela and the Aquila, many other ethnic groups also live in the country, including both fellow Vespertina and diasporas from elsewhere. Marriage across races and ethnicities is socially acceptable. For the traditionalist Onyx and Pyrope nobility, however, marrying people outside their races is still a taboo, and discrimination against the mixed-blood persons still persists among the noble clans.

### Society

In general, the Federacy strives to maintain the tolerance and cultural diversity it inherited from the Empire. As the founders envisioned their new Giad to be a country of justice and equality, every citizen is equal under the law. Nonetheless, the Federacy isn't perfect, with many underlying issues yet to be resolved due to the rough transition of power.

A notable example is the tension between the former nobles and the common folk. Because of their past monopoly on all political power, wealth, higher education, and work opportunities, regular citizens tend to loathe former aristocrats. Moreover, they are legitimately wary of former nobles subverting the government and overturning the Federacy.

The former aristocrats, in turn, disdain commoners. According to the Nordlicht Squadron's members, who once served the Onyx nobles, these former imperial nobles did not see anyone other than their fellow nobles as human. Be their former subjects or animals, they were equally unworthy to even be looked upon by a noble, much less spoken to. As such, the number of commoners that die on the battlefield is just a fluctuating statistic for the nobles. No different than sending livestock to slaughter.

This class conflict severely disadvantages people who came from minor nobilities. Unlike the former high-ranking nobles, their meagre assets are not enough to support themselves. They are also shunned by regular citizens, and thus struggle to find work or enter school. As a result, many former low-ranking nobles are left destitute and forced to make their way in life without any of their former privileges.

Another example is the Vargus, who were denied citizenship into the new nation due to their stigma as untamed savages. Yet, the Vargus still readily join the armies of the Federacy. While they do not mind upholding the same agreement they had made with the Empire, it is hypocritical of the Federacy to deny them citizenship while speaking of justice all the same.

### Language

Giad's national language is what would be considered modern English (although it is unknown if they call the language by that name), much like the rest of the continent. Due to the diversity present in the nation, other languages and writing scripts are used along side the official language by certain minorities, such as a Japanese-like script seen in the borderlands of the old Imperial territories. While they speak the same language as San Magnolia, Roa Gracia, and Wald, there are dialectal differences between the nations. These dialectal differences can be seen in Giadian pejoratives, such as:

* Weißhaare, meaning white hair. It referred to the Alba and specifically to those of the Republic.
* Rotegig, meaning Red eye. It is used by the pureblood Onyxes of noble descent to refer to children mixed with Pyrope blood.

Since the Giadian Empire had been a nation with more noble vassal states than any other on the continent, there were multiple noble dialects as well.

## Chronology

### Founding

After the Empire's declaration of war against its neighboring nations, a revolution against the Empire's government broke out. Defeating the Empire and deposing the royal family, the revolutionaries created a new republic that incorporated all the former states of the Empire. The new government was led by the revolutionary leader Ernst Zimmerman, who became interim president. Despite the victory, the newly founded Federacy was forced to continue facing the Legion due to the refusal of the Empire's military to surrender. The stubborn imperial defense resulted in no officer alive that was of high enough rank to call off the Legion assaults.

Since the end of the revolution, the Federacy has been slowly retaking the territory lost to the Legion, though at a terrible cost in lives and material. Up until the arrival of several soldiers of the Spearhead Squadron from the Republic of San Magnolia, the Federacy had had little contact with neighboring nations, though the destruction of the Empire had already been detected by at least the Republic. A later offensive would allow for communications to be opened with the United Kingdom of Roa Gracia and the Alliance of Wald.

### Elimination of the Morpho

The Federacy's Western Front was its largest and most contested battlefield due to the wide, open terrain that forced the Federacy to face the Legion head on. In the other fronts, the Federacy held a defensive advantage due to the mountainous terrain that favored ambushes and chokepoints. The Western Front was dealt a large blow by the destruction of several forward operating bases (FOB) by the Legion's railgun unit called the Morpho. The loss of approximately twenty thousand soldiers severely weakened the Federacy and forced a combined all-out offensive to drive back the Legion and destroy the Morpho. Several hundred thousand lives were lost, over sixty percent of Federacy forces, but the Legion were also dealt enormous losses and forced to give up large amounts of territory.

Upon the success of the operation, the Federacy established contact with the Republic of San Magnolia. Appalled by the atrocities of the Republic against the Eighty-Six, the Federacy occupied the Republic and sheltered the surviving Eighty-Six. However, the willing Eighty-Six were recruited into the Eighty-Sixth Strike Package after Eighty-Six from the Nordlicht Squadron displayed exceptional performance as part of the 177th Armored Division and because of the major losses the Federacy suffered in the previous offensive. The Strike Package was assigned to clear out Legion remnants in the Republic's second capital of Charité before being sent north to the United Kingdom for a joint operation.

## Military

### Overview

In stark contrast to the miserable state of the Republic's military, The Federacy still retain fully-functional armed forces. Its soldiers are well-trained, well-equipped, and motivated to protect their homeland. In fact, The Legion have regarded the Federacy as the greatest threat and concentrated most of its forces against the Federacy.

### Structure

The supreme commander of the armed forces is the president of the Federal Republic of Giad.

Since the Federacy is a landlocked country and traditional war planes are useless due to the effectiveness of Legion's Anti-aircraft system, they no longer have separated branches for the navy and air force.

The primary force in the war against the Legion is the Western Army. Known organizations within the Western Army are the 5th Infantry Corps and the 8th Army Corps, of which the 177th Armored Division belongs to. Based on the structure of 177th Armored Division, each division has three brigade combat teams (BCT), one artillery regiment, and one sustainment brigade.

Due to the political circumstances, many high-ranking nobles were able to retain their private armies which had never been organized into the Federacy’s army until recently. The majority of Federacy citizens rejected organizing the private armies into the official armed forces in order to prevent them from gaining more influence. The direness of the situation against the Legion, however, had forced the Federacy's hand to finally call upon the nobility's free regiments. The nobility eagerly complied, hoping to earn legitimacy and supplant the current government.

##### List of Formations

###### Western Army

* 5th Infantry Corps
* 8th Army Corps
	+ 177th Armored Division
		- 1028th Trial Unit

###### Northern Army

* 37th Armored Division
	+ Lady Bluebird Regiment
* 92nd Support Regiment

###### Independent Formations

* Crazy Bones Division
* Federacy Expedition Brigade
	+ Myrmecoleo Free Armored Regiment
	+ Eighty-Sixth Strike Package

### Personnel

The Federacy's military does not enforce conscription; instead, several incentive programs ensure they are constantly supplied with new personnel during the war with the Legion. One such program is Special Officer Academy. Unlike the traditional officer academy, which requires applicants to complete secondary education, Special Officer Academy has a lower educational requirement. The student will receive secondary education along with military training. Upon graduation, they are commissioned as a second lieutenant and gradually complete higher education during their military career.

The Federacy eventually began to experience manpower shortages after the decade-long war due to the high casualty rate among the enlists and officers. It has to partially compromise the quality of soldiers to compensate for the seemingly never-ending demand for new troops. For instance, the Officer Academy allows cadets to finish their training prematurely and accept uneducated former serfs into the ranks.

### Culture

The Federacy retains most of its military cultures from the days of the Empire. The senior commissioned officers are mostly former aristocrats , while JCOs and enlisted troops typically come from the middle and lower classes. Officers of noble descent tend to receive preferential treatment, such as promotion and career opportunities. Nonetheless, it is not always the case for soldiers who descend from low-ranking nobilities. Generally, only the most promising ones are treated preferentially, while the rest are considered expendable tools.

The difference between regular and noble descent soldiers has been clearly defined since enlistment. For example, descendants of former nobilities usually go through the traditional officer academy and start their careers as commissioned officers. By contrast, most children of middle-class and lower-class families will begin military life with enlisted ranks. Though the recently-established Special Officer Academy does allow children of middle-class families to become officers, the applicants are primarily people who have no other choices, such as children sent off by their families to reduce the extra mouths to feed.  Nonetheless, some noble descendants have joined Special Officer Academy due to circumstances.

Another example is the case of Grethe Wenzel and Willem Ehrenfried, two officers of the same age. By the time of Legion's Large-scale Offensive, Willem already became the Western Army's Chief of Staff, holding the rank of Brigadier General. In comparison, Grethe remained Lieutenant Colonel and a field officer. Partly, this was because Willem was the heir of a powerful noble family while Grethe was only the daughter of a family owning a military-industrial complex.

This informal social hierarchy the Federacy Military inherited from the Imperial Army proved problematic in many ways. Discrimination against personnel from lower social ladders is not unusual, both openly and subtly. For example, the former serfs are discriminated against by junior officers from the knight households. These officers, in turn, are also treated as disposable pawns by the high-ranking officers from prominent noble families.

Because of the entrenched classism and general resentment toward former imperial aristocrats, non-noble soldiers are often prejudiced against noble-descent officers. In the case of Shin, his mixed Pyrope and Onyx heritage, as well as his surname, caused him to be provoked into fights at the start of his career in the Federacy Military.

As per tradition, officers have to pay for some uniforms, such as formalwear, by themselves while the army will provide those uniforms to enlisted troops and NCOs. This tradition is done to highlight the difference between classes; the nobles who are in command, and the commoners who must follow orders.

### List of Operations

* Joint operation with the United Kingdom and Republic in retaking the Republic's Northern and Western Sectors (Western Front)

### Equipment

* **M4A3 Vánagandr:**

*Main Article: M4A3 Vánagandr*

* **XM2 Reginleif:**

*Main Article: XM2 Reginleif*

* **XC-1 Nachzehrer:**

*Main Article: XC-1 Nachzehrer*

* **C-5 Hræsvelgr:**

*Main Article: C-5 Hræsvelgr*

* **Vanadis:**

*Main Article: Vanadis*

* **Trauerschwan:**

*Main Article: Trauerschwan*

* **Úlfheðinn:**

*Main Article: Úlfheðinn*

* **Para-RAID:**

*Main Article: Para-RAID*

## Government

The Giad Federacy is a federal republic with the president as a head of state. However, because of the ongoing war against the Legion, it has not established a proper legislative branch yet.

### Factions

While relatively calm, the internal political situation of the Federacy is not truly stable. There is an ongoing power struggle between several political groups happening behind the scenes. There are two main factions at play: the pro-democracy faction who seeks to maintain the Federacy led by Ernst, and the faction led by Archduchess Brantolote who has ambitions to reestablish the Giadian Empire with herself as the Empress.

Fueling the fire of the factions' infighting is the longstanding rivalry between the Onyx and Pyrope nobles. While some—such as the Maika and Nouzen Marquisates—have made peace with their old conflicts, others continue to perpetuate a struggle for power. The previously mentioned Brantolote Archduchy is a Pyrope faction, while the current government—although not headed by an Onyx noble directly—is primarily Onyx sponsored. It is assumed that should the Brantolotes make a bid for power, the Nouzens would act as the Onyx faction's leader in the struggle.

## Locations

### Sankt Jeder

Sankt Jeder is the capital city of the Federacy, located at 200 kilometers from the first ward of Republic's eastern front.

* **Zimmerman Residence:** The home of Ernst Zimmerman, occupied by himself, Frederica, Teresa, and the survivors of Spearhead.
* **Presidential Residence:** Also known as Adler Holst (Eagle's Nest). It used to be the Imperial Grand Palace during the Age of the Empire. Its assembly hall now serves as a meeting room of National Defense Council.
* **Imperial Capital Central Library:** The library Shin and Eugene frequented.
* **Republic Square:** A plaza located in front of the Republic's embassy. The embassy itself is currently in disrepair.
* **Special Officer Academy:** The alma mater of Shin, Eugene, and Marcel.

### Wolfsland

The territories of the Vargus on the Federacy's Western Front.

* **Sankt Glycine Base:** The base the survivors of Spearhead were quarantined in.
* **Rüstkammer Base:** The headquarters of the Eighty-Sixth Strike Package.
* **Fortrapide:** The city neighboring Rüstkammer Base.
* **Processor Memorial**: A glass encased gravesite on the old border between San Magnolia and Giad erected by the Federacy. There lay silently four Juggernauts and one Scavenger, along with 576 Juggernaut fragments with their Processor's names etched onto them.

### Shemno

A production territory in northern Giad bordering the Wolfsland.

* **Marylazulia:** Formerly named Rashi, a special municipality governed by House Mialona and protected by House Rohi. It used to be an agricultural community before the installation of the Rashi Power Plant. Each block in the city had either it's own park, or a small forest area built over dried rivers in the outskirts and each block of buildings was constructed and colored in a uniform manner. They were located near the Regicide Fleet Countries and Leviathans were said to have swam up the region's Roginia River before it dried up.
* **Kowa Region:**
* **Lukh Village:**
* **Sul Village:**

## Trivia

* Giad is heavily inspired by Germany in various stages of its history, the Empire being inspired by Germany's many empires (the Holy Roman Empire, German Empire, and to an extent the Austro-Hungarian Empire) while the Federal Republic was inspired by the Federal Republic of Germany. The two-headed eagle may be a reference to the Reichsadler, a prominent symbol of Germany and Austria-Hungary. The symbol is still used to this day by Germany under the name of the Bundesadler.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Volume 2 Chapter 1
2. ↑ Volume 7 Chapter 1
3. ↑ Dengeki 61 Side Story
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Volume 9 Chapter 2
5. ↑ Volume 2 Chapter 3
6. ↑ Episode 11
7. ↑ https://twitter.com/TheZackZeal/status/1406970432973062150
8. ↑ https://twitter.com/TheZackZeal/status/1406971052098469888
9. ↑ Volume 5 Chapter 1
10. ↑ Volume 4 Chapter 2
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Volume 7 Chapter 2
12. ↑ Volume 2 Chapter 4
13. ↑ Episode 15
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Volume 9 Interlude 1
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Volume 12 Chapter 2
16. ↑ Volume 2 Chapter 5
17. ↑ Volume 7 Chapter 4
18. ↑ Volume 3 Chapter 6
19. ↑ https://twitter.com/asakura\_toru/status/1446502937685991426