Holy Milishial Empire (JARS)

*"**FIVE PEOPLES UNDER ONE UNION**"*
―National motto of the Holy Milishial Empire[src]
The **Holy Milishial Empire** is a country that occupies the southern part of the Central Continent in an area known as the Middle Lands and boasts one of the highest levels of urbanization, industrialization and technological and magical progress in the entire known world. The most powerful country of the First Civilization Area, the Holy Milishial Empire made its fortune by studying and reverse engineering the remnants of magical technology preserved in the many ruins of the vanished Ravernal Empire scattered throughout its territory. Thanks to the great military strength accumulated over the millennia, the Empire has long been recognized by the international community to be the first superpower and the main protector of the known world.

## Technology

The Holy Milishial Empire is considered the most technologically advanced country in the known world, achieved by analyzing and reverse-engineering the ancient technologies left behind by the Ravernal Empire to create machines that run on magical energy, like jets, automobiles, ships, or high-speed electric train.

The Empire's advancement in technology is spearheaded by the Ministry of Ancient Sorcerous Empire Countermeasures, a government organization with jurisdiction over the excavation of the Ravernal Empire's relics. Since the advancement of technology in Milishial depends on what Ravernal artifact they can find, their technology becomes very distorted, with one field can become so advanced to the point it is considered futuristic while other fields can remain backward until related Ravernal relics are found.

This also shows that they depend entirely on analyzing the relics of Ravernal Empire to develop technology, unlike Mu who can develop technology on their own. Since the analysis often results in imitation of surface effects of the Ravernal Empire's technology with difficulty understanding the principles behind it, the Holy Milishial Empire's technology development is marked by a series of trials and errors, hardships, setbacks, and compromises. The Empire's tendency to blindly imitate any relic they can find and their reluctance to explore alternative ways of developing technology is proven to be a severe demerit to their performance since the Ravernal Empire's technology is made to be suited for the Light-Winged People with their immense magic power, not necessarily able to be used by humans and other sentient beings that inhabited the known world.

However, while innovation seems to be not one of the Holy Milishial Empire's strong suits at first, the Empire is shown to be able to make a considerable leap in technology once they understand the principles behind technology and combined it with their knowledge of magic, abusing its properties to their advantage and maintain an edge over their hypothetical adversaries. These can be shown in both military and civilian fields: the Empire managed to mass-produce Ravernal Empire's conductive magnetic radar and by applying their knowledge of Tears of the Wind God's power to the concept of an underwater weapon, they managed to invent the world's first magic torpedo with performance equal to that of World War II-era oxygen torpedoes and unmatched by Mu's version of the weapon. Meanwhile, on the civilian side, the latest development of smaller magic circuits and computers enabled the Empire to produce a smaller magic communication device (manacom) that can be held by the palm of the hand similar to a real-life cell phone called a "grimoire". All of these advancements are produced within less than a year and started nearly at the same time.

## Government and Politics

The Holy Milishial Empire is a monarchy under Emperor Milishial VIII as the head of state and head of government. In running the empire, the Emperor is assisted by the Council of Imperial Ministers which is consisted of ten departments: Internal Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Military Affairs, Education, Economy, Agriculture, Treasury, Justice, Health, and the Ancient Sorcerous Empire Countermeasures. The holders of these posts serve at the Emperor's discretion unlike the members of the Senate and the regional government offices (with the exception of the Capital government), who are beholden to the popular will.

### Law

In the Holy Milishial Empire, public usage of magic is restricted by law except in cases of emergency or self-defense. However, the Holy Milishial Empire also recognizes magic as people's birthright that should not be infringed and provided designated places called 'Training Grounds' where citizens can perform magical arts and hone their skills under supervision.

## Military

Although the Holy Milishial Empire's military is not shown in detail yet, it is an undisputable fact that the Empire's military is acclaimed as the strongest in the known world thanks to the presence of military hardware based on the reverse-engineered Ravernal Empire technology.

The Holy Milishial Empire's military is divided into three branches: Army, Navy, and Air Force. Among the three branches, the Navy enjoyed the most advanced technology due to the more successful effort in analysis and mass-producing the reverse-engineered Ravernal Empire technology albeit with defects here and there. The Navy is followed by the Air Force with the Army being the least advanced of the three.

It is noted that while the Holy Milishial Empire's Army is said to be the technologically and doctrinally backward than the country's other military branches, the presence of mages within its ranks has managed to keep it superior than its closest rival, the Muish Royal Army.

## Demographics

### Society

It is mentioned that the Empire greatly values any citizen that can contribute to the development of the Ravernal Empire's relic. It is also one of the career paths that the Milishian citizen who had gone through social advancement looked up to. Meteos Roguerider and Walman Falkenhausen, two young boys who continued to produce inventions, are even offered entry to the most prestigious educational institution in the entire Holy Milishial Empire and then recruited by the Ministry of Ancient Sorcerous Empire Countermeasures, the spearhead of humanity's protection itself.

Unlike its neighbors and other civilized and outside civilization countries that ranked their magical practitioners according to the amount of mana or the rank of magic they could use, the Holy Milishial Empire follows its own system as stipulated in its constitution, which divides mages into five ranks: *Student Mage*, *Apprentice Mage*, *Mage*, *Advanced Mage*, and *Grand Mage*. This classification is less about their ability to use magic, but rather closely tied to their level of education and achievements. This odd system which is only used in the Holy Milishial Empire is referred to as the 'Milishian Model' by the other countries' mage communities.

In addition, unlike other countries which sometimes rigidly view magic as something sacred, the Holy Milishial Empire's centuries of technological development and integration of magic into society, its people have a much more liberal view of it, to the point that the government will automatically grant the Student Mage rank to any citizens who enroll in the elementary school. Since the Holy Milishial Empire classified guns as offensive-oriented magic tools, there's also a jargon within the country that "every soldier is a mage."

### Education

Despite the Holy Milishial Empire's very stunted technological development, the country is a modern nation with an excellent education system in the known world's standards where both commoners and nobles received the same quality in education.

## Culture

### National Symbol

The national symbol of Milishial is called "August Star", depicting a blue comet with a white core and a tail, with eight rays emanating from it, surrounded by a yellow circle. This symbol can be found on the country's sky blue flag as well as the coat of arms.

It is said that its design is inspired by the falling star that banished the Ravernal Empire and implies the Holy Milishial Empire's position as the center of the world and its role as the protector of mankind.

The "August Star of Heaven" is also known as the Holy Milishial Empire's nickname and is spoken with both an air of reverence and dread.

### Cultural Group

Within the Holy Milishial Empire, there is a concept known as "cultural group", which seems to be the country's way to generally categorize its diverse population which is consisted of multiple sapient species. Currently it is unknown whether this term is exclusive to the Holy Milishial Empire or other countries also uses it.

Known cultural groups are:

* **Enysfalian** - The group to which Meteos Roguerider belongs to. Native to the Enysfal Province in the western Milishial region. This group speaks a native tongue similar to Irish language.
* **Herzlander** - It is unique in that this group is not native to the First Civilization Area, rather came as a result of immigration from the southern Mu and Magicaraich regions in the Second Civilization Area. *Herzlander*, meaning "people of the Heartlands", is a Milishian term. At present, there are 8 million of people with Herzlander cultural groups scattered across the country. This is the group to which the Falkenhausen family belongs to. This group speaks a language similar to Germanic languages.
* **Carthinian** - The group to which Robin Calvello belongs to. The native language of this group is similar to the real-world Italian.
* **Zaftran** - Native to the eastern Milishial, a known member of this group is Nadia Smirnova.
* **Valiantein** - This group speaks a native tongue similar to the Spanish language.
* **Sheban** - This group speaks a unique language with currently unrevealed vocabulary and grammar, but it's noticeably distinct than the other known cultural groups.