Federated Parishes of Sicameon

The flag of Sicameon features a tricolour and a trident, recognizing its republican and seafaring heritage.

### Government

Democratic, Decentralized, Federation of Parishes

### Head of State

Alexis de Sicameon

The Parishes of Sicameon are a long standing unique anomaly within
Griffonia, a proto-Syndicalist, federal republic that has never truly
been subjugated by the Griffonian Empire nor its splinter kingdoms.
Sicameon sits nestled snugly on the Makomo Peninsula and guarded by the
Arahno and Snowtop Mountains, a geography that has lent itself to the
individualistic minded nation’s defense.

The country itself is named for the Griffonian sea goddess
Sycaecia, and thusly Sicameon boasts a great seafaring culture, greatly
valuing sea bound commerce and maintaining a strong navy, but as a
consequence of its relatively laissez-faire economic policy, pirates
such as the homegrown Freeholders’ Syndicate have managed to take root
in the cracks.

## Sicameon Pre-978

### Formation Of The Federated Parishes

Before it was unified as federated parishes, Sicameon was a region
filled with squabbling, independent parishes, which each had
surprisingly democratic traditions. This all changed when the aging
Emperor of the  Griffonian Empire,
 Grover I, led a small task force into the parishes. The decentralized
parishes united under the common banner of the Federated Parishes of
Sicameon, and adopted guerrilla, defensive tactics to continue to drive
back Grover's scouting forces.

### Grover's War

26 years after Grover I first attacked Sicameon, the Griffonian
Empire once again attacked the Federated Parishes, but this time,
instead of small scouting forces, they brought a vast army under command
 of the new, warlike emperor, Grover II. Grover II, desiring eastern
supply routes to Cyanolisia and Minotauria, crushed the parishes and
established a new Grand Duchy in its place. The democratic traditions of
 the parishes were crushed by Griffonian might, and the first republic
created on the Griffonian continent was ended. Did this mean the end of
the democratic dream for the Sicameonese people?

### Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare

The people of Sicameon were not welcoming to their Griffonian
invaders. For decades, they launched revolutions in cities, destroyed
Griffonian armories, and assassinated powerful generals and
administrators. Even the Grand Dukes themselves were not safe, and when a
 particularly violent revolution began in Sicameon, Grover III, who had
just been crowned months earlier, knew his father's mistake had to be
corrected. Just as the Sicameonese were about to take the capital and
proclaim the Federated Parishes once more, Grover III announced that the
 Grand Duchy was officially abolished, and the parishes would be
restored. Democracy had come again to Sicameon, but the democracy Grover
 III had in mind for Sicameon was much more militant. The commander in
chief had striking executive powers, and the country was much less
decentralized.

## The Declaration of Independence

When the Republicans revolted in 978, Sicameonese independence was quickly declared. So much autonomy had been given to the Sicameonese people during the days of Grover III and Grover IV that many citizens hardly realized any change in their day to day life, but the legislature hailed it as a great struggle against the forces monarchy. With its Republican principles in accordance with those of the Griffonian Republic, the government of Alexander Kemerskai was given Sicameonese volunteers and airplanes as a gesture of goodwill.

In 979 ALB, the Republic of Asterion, a coalition of Minotaurs devoted to democracy and determined to free themselves from the Imperial yoke, revolted against Imperial rule. Sicameon's legislature, in the spirit of Republican internationalism and with the failure of the revolution weighing on their minds, voted near-unanimously to support the Minotaurs against Cyanolisia and the Imperial monarchy. While the Asterionese Restoration War did result in the overthrowing of Imperials on the island itself, Cyanolisia was not taken, and the fierce mountain terrain between it and Sicameon led to no further Sicamonese gains on the front.

## Current State

While Sicameon is comparatively very stable, prosperous, and educated
 as compared to its neighbors, not suffering from economic crisis,
famine, brain drain, or a high degree of illiteracy, the Doge and the
federal legislature is at a tumultuous crossroads.

With the rest of the continent falling into chaos and wars
already beginning to ignite, the rather politically weak government of
the peasant republic must reach for new power it has never handled
before, while managing the legislature’s two main factions: the
peaceful, defensive, and harmonic traditionalists; and the more radical
elements demanding revenge on their monarchist neighbors, moving into
the future.