Rumilnia

## History

The Rumilnians have been traced back to the Dasian people which used to populate the entire Danuba valley. The Dacian nation was eventually founded but fell to the Bulgars. After wards the Rumilnians got their independence after the Bulgar collapse to then fall to Byzantium. And after the Byzantine collapse was independent for a few years and fell to Thestrilia. were left many years in servitude to the Thestrilians and New Equestrians and after the Great Southern war reclaimed their independence.

### Ancient History

The people of the Danuba river valley are known to have been the ancient Rumilnians but then were known as the Dasian peoples.

### Revolution

#### Setup to Revolution

During The Great Southern War as the Thestrilians lost ground and territory to the Byzantines and Bulgars the government ordered that the industrial workers of Rumilnia be put into full force. The Rumilnians were forced to work for 14 hours a day instead of their usual 11 hours. To add insult to injury their pay was cut in half and the conditions they worked in were worse than before. In Alba-Iulia a small workers strike demanding better pay and shorter hours. The strikers were ordered to get back to work or suffer the consequences. The Patriarch of Alba-Iulia joined the protestors in their strike and demanded better working conditions for all Rumilnians. While they were out protesting the Patriarch was attacked and captured by Thestral police. He was not seen for 2 months until as the war for Thestrilia began to turn against them he was found hanging from a rope in Alba-Iulia outside of the Orthodox church. A sign around his neck reading "Comply or die." This was the spark that would light the mass stocks of gunpowder in the room.

#### The Fire is Lit

News of the Patriarch's death spread quickly through resistance groups and the common populace. The resistance movements raised him as a saint and defender of the Rumilnian people to be as important as Michael the brave and Steven the liberator. The Rumilnians began to protest more outside of industrial buildings in other majors cities including Constantin and Bucharestie. To which the Thestrilian 7th division was sent to the three major cities and opened fire upon the strikers. The occurrence spread around the world and held massive condemnation from all Human nations excluding Velvetia and the Western State, both of which were Breadian breakaways. The Thestrilian 7th had to be moved to the front to prevent the Byzantine-Bulgar breakthrough and as such their was little to no military presence in the Rumilnian lands except for the local guards and police. It was quiet the first week after the strikers were shot dead until a single man angered by his people's persecution marched into the streets of Bucharestie waving the Rumilnian flag and singing Long Live Rumilnia.

#### Protests and Revolt

That single man was not a threat on his own but it was the idea he held in his heart for a free Rumilnia. As he marched down the street more people began to march with him. It went form one man, to a small group, to a crowd, to a full blown protest. By the time they had reached the town hall they had turned into a riot. Mass protests all over Bucharestie had broken out and the city was out of control. When the police tried to put them down they were overwhelmed by rioters. Many of the Thestrilians were killed or fled from the city. After two days of riots the city was taken over by the Rumilnian revolutionaries. After the city was taken the new city council proclaimed that the Rumilnian revolution had begun and called for all their brethren to take up arms against the oppressors'. After this call the cities of Alba-Iulia and Constantin went into full revolution.

#### War of Liberation

With revolutionaries taking control of three of the four major cities the Liberation army was formed of all able bodied Rumilnian men and women who could fight for liberation. Militia units were risen up all around the nation with men taking whatever they could to destroy the Thestral menace. At the start the Rumilnians went up against little opposition as the Thestrilians and Equestrians were busy fighting Byzantium, Bulgar, and Grifstin. But the first units that they went up against were not Pony or Thestral they were human. The Velvetian volunteer division had been sent to fight for Thestrilia by order of the RVCP and their leader Redbread, they were ordered to deal with a violent revolution that had killed many innocent bats. When they encountered the Rumilnians they attacked them and many of the peasants some not even with rifles were killed. The commander saying that if they wish to slaughter the innocent bats they would be slaughtered as well. After they destroyed this minor militia they were told to stop a Bulgar advancement that hoped to meet up with the Rumilnians.

The revolutionaries in Ardeal had a much harder time taking the city as it had a much larger Thestral population compared to the others. Once the militia units came in to reinforce the rioters they were able to take the city and with doing so massacred the local Thestral population. They discriminated not weather they were old or young, male or female, for them it was revenge of the finest class. As the revolutionaries began to storm southwards down the Danuba towards Lunaville and with the New Equestrians dealing with the Gronlandic revolution and their armies falling apart the Thestrilians sued for peace. The Rumilnians were given their independence along with the Gronlanders.

## Governance

The Kingdom of Rumilnia is legally ruled by Queen Margareta but in the practical sense is ruled by the Prime minister and the legislative chambers. Rumilnia is a Bicameral system of legislation with the upper house of The Senate and the lower house being The Chamber of Deputies. Laws are passed via both houses with a simple majority vote. Members of both of these houses are elected through regional elections that take place every five years or unless a new election is scheduled by the monarch. The current ruling party of Rumilnia is the National Peasants Party which has 53% of all seats in the house of deputies but only 41% of seats in the senate.

Nonhumans are barred from public office and are not allowed to vote either. Rumilnia is one of the few nations that still implements segregation with nonhumans and humans being segregated in the nation. Some criticize the Rumilnians for still practicing such things but the government in Bucharestie refutes these claims as being anti-humanist.

## International Relations

Rumilnia has relations with most of their neighbors. The only exception being Alifornia in which the two have a neutral attitude to each other not disliking or liking each other. They are a member of the Southern Defense Front with Byzantium. They have good relations with all other human nations including the Enclave which they recognize as the legitimate successor to the USA. They have moderately good relations with Griffonia, Grifistin, and Mareland but they have poor relations with Thestrilia even thought they are both in the SDF. Their relations with the SSRS and NES are neutral to poor depending on the events transpiring.

Their relationship with Breadia has been a rocky one. The Emperor of Breadia is a distant relative of the Rumilnian monarchy and they both trace their routes to the same line. But when it came to the North and their leading party of the Red Velvet Cake Party things weren't so good. The Rumilnian government has denounced them as being a cultish group lead by a single corrupt and anti-humanity man who cares more for devilish bats then he those good Humans.

## Demographics

Rumilnia is a majority human nation with small amounts of Thestral and Pony minorities which live in the south and north of the country respectively. The humans are split into two different cultural groups the majority Rumilnians and the minority Bulgars. The Bulgars occupy the far eastern portion of the Kingdom in the territories that were controlled by the Tsardom of Bulgar, until Byzantium and Rumilnia split them between the two of them.

The nation's population is culturally and specialty split: 73% Rumilnian, 8% Bulgar, 15% Thestrals, and 4% Ponies

Rumilnia is majority Orthodoxy nation. Around 83% of the nation is Orthodox, with 12% Lunarism, 4% Atheism, and 1% others